The Line Change Podcast Episode 1 - Jeff Parles

The Line Change is back! Jon Jansen returns as he welcomes guest Jeff Parles of South Point to discuss:

-Russell Wilson released
-Where will Kirk Cousins end up?
-Why are the Steelers content with Kenny Pickett?
-What college teams to watch out for in March
-Are ballpark hot dogs overrated?

Episode Transcript

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We are back, episode number oneof the Line Change podcast version. It's
new, It's not all that new, of course, though, if I'm
gonna start the Line Change and I'mgonna get into more details of what this
is all going to be soon.But when I when I wanted to do
this, I want to do itwith guests. I want to talk to
people that I haven't talked to asmuch because I used to do a show

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by myself and I have all thesepeople to talk with and now I don't
have the time to do it untilnow. And one of the first people
I wanted to do it with JeffParls. Jeff, how are you doing?
It's dude, It's it's great totalk to you. Look, I
love I love I love you,I love brace. But it's there.
The nostalgia, the nostalgia going backin twenty. First time I came on

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with you was a week two ofthe twenty twenty NFL season. Oh my
God, Las Vegas Raiders and DerekCarr, John Grutin, a lot of
Stinsonse then Moorland Saints with Sean Payton, and feels like it was forty years
ago. At this point, Rover, you have gone through so many career
arcs. Now now you're you weren'teven with Vson at the time. You

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were with book It for a littlebit, then you go back to Vson
and now you're a south Point.It's been a long time. But Jeff
Parls, I cannot wait to talkwith you. And we got plenty of
talk about speaking of Sean Payton,by the way, we had some things
to talk about there, But Jeff, I do want it first. What
do you get because you're at southPoint right now? How are things going
with south Point? Everything looks good. Look, we're doing well. We're

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doing all you can ask for.At this point, we really uh,
we really were really was what's theright way to put this without getting myself
in trouble here. I don't wantto get myself into the podcast. But
it was put together quickly. That'sthe best way to put it. This
was put together quickly, and weour first show was the opening night of
the NFL season, myself and Mallueleone of the one of the best,

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uh that's ever done, and behindthe counter, I look, I'm very
lucky that Chris Andrews, Jimmy Vacaeroalso at the south Point Professional on a
weekly basis on Friday. It's reallyamazing. Our show, my show Sports
About the Book, is weekdays,East Coast time, six pm. So
right after you and Sean Brace aredone, you can come right over to

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the South Point Studio on YouTube watchus on the weekdays and on weekends or
at eleven thirty am right now EastCoast time on Saturday and Sunday. Schedule
could be subject to change in thenear future. We also have other shows
as well. Uh, John,I don't know. I don't know.
If you're a big NASCAR guy.I think you and I probably talked Nascar
a grand total of zero seconds.Yeah, I don't think so. I

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appreciate nask I'm not a NASCAR hater. I used to watch, you know,
I was a kid a lot,but I don't. I don't have
the time to fit out in mylife like that, and so I had
to cut off that far. Sowe now have gone racing back home.
Brendan Gaughan of course, the sonof the owner of because you know Michael
Gone. Brendan of course on aNASCAR series and sin of these theories whatever

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it was called beforehand, college teammateof Allan Iverson and Georgetown as well.
Mentioned Brendon in his All Fame speech. Uh when he went in in Springfield
a few years back. Uh,so there's your Philly connection there, him
and Jet Jeff Motley every Thursdays.Now, get you ready for the upcoming
NASCAR race. Frank mccato with alighter look at sports at three o'clock Eastern

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time on Monday through Friday and thenRace Day Las Vegas, which is a
horse racing show. So if ifa demographic that's older than you and I
happens to be listening today, youcould tune in Wednesday. My demographics,
Yeah, I don't. Let's havea demographic for this first. First,

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Let's let's get a demographic first.Uh ten ten ten am Eastern Time,
Wednesday through Sunday for a round.I got a I got a follow recently
on TikTok from South Point Studios.So are you are you going to be
a TikTok star? Now? Isthis? I have my own TikTok.
I think I've used it six times, Uh post videos. I understand why

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people like TikTok, But the amountI did, the more I use it,
people like it. I'm not sayingI like it. I understand why
some people like it. Uh,the amount of damage you scroll through video,
and that's what I feel like,I'm getting brain damage every time I
want TikTok city. The amount ofdamage between Twitter now X and TikTok,
the amount of damage that has doneto our society is really like and Facebook,

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like those three sites, and Idon't even include Instagram like those four
sites. Like the amount of damagethat it's done to our society is like,
we're never going to recover from it, and we're never going to recover.
But look, man, I meanit's I'm not saying that, it's
I'm part of it now, I'mI'm in it. Look, I'm guilt.
I'm guilty way too much. I'vebeen I've been noticing this pattern that

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I I do scroll through X waytoo much. Look, man, the
industry we're in, it's it's anecessity. On It's a it's a necessity
unfortunately. But look, man,I'm going I'm a radio host. Now,
IM going to start a podcast onvideo. What Look, the video
podcasts are great. I mean,look, you got the great logo,

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you got the logo, you gotthe banner on the bottom, you got
the logo on the top right.You're even wearing a Philadelphia shirt. Sean
Bracy daily ticket is in there.I love You're the med fan when Edwin
Diaz and the Apple behind me aswell. So that's honestly, absolutely perfect
to start it off. John,all right, so let's get into some
actual sports. I'm sure we'll ventureoff track multiple times, but the first

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one being how about Russell Wilson.Russell Wilson getting released? We thought he
wasn't gonna be there, but dowe think release? Oh okay, there
was no two that was going tobe willing to trade just so much dead
money, man Like, he justtoo much committed money, too much dead
money. I don't know why anyonewould have given up any assets for him

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in all. Honestly the fun oneand and now that I know that it
won't happen, I can at leastbring this to the forefront. I was
texting with a few friends of mine, like when it was a parent uh
that uh that things were going sidewaysin Denver. Uh, even when Denver
was winning games like they were doingit with smoking mirrors. Last year,
Russ's Russ's numbers were mirage like youwatch him play like they did not match

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the numbers that he was putting.He had a very good statistical season all
things considered after the debacle, uhthe year the year before when Nathaniel Hackett
and that brain trust he had aroundhim, but or lack thereof as we
know, but the Jets, that'sa discussion for problem maybe even later in

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this podcast. But look, RossRuss is what he is. He's clearly
a difficult human being to deal with. I don't think he's a bad guy,
but he's clearly clearly an oddball,uh, to say the least,
to put it a little politely,Uh, I think it's pretty clear looking
at it now that Sean Payton andhim did not get along. To put
it nicely, I know a twopersonalities that just they're complete opposite. Because

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so I don't know if I'm writingto say Russell seems kind of fake,
like not not a real person.He doesn't think in a very real way.
And Sean Payton's just I mean,he's not that he's very upfront,
because he's been upfront throughout this entireprocess that he he wanted to move on
for Russell. He didn't like Russelland like made it clear on the Ky

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Adams Show on multiple shows that yeah, we're getting another quarterback. They just
seem like two very opposite. Yeah. Look, Peyton's from the Parcels Trill
Tree. They are no nonsense,you know that. Uh look, I
think what it's all said and done, there's a few there's a few interesting
things with this, Denver screams tome. So there there's that that ten

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to twelve, ten to thirteen wherein the draft where Minnesota could very easily
be looking for a new quarterback ifKirk Cousins leaves the Raiders who need a
quarter I thought I thought it wasa four one conclusion to be back with
Minnesota, And now I don't thinkthat's conclusion. I think it would have
been. You know, it's it'sit's Cousins. One is the domino that

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will really set the tone for thisoffseason because of your vikings. I think
at this point, with all theass with the first pick, that the
that the Bears have and all thatmacap money and all that and the way
that they eat would fields even ifthey don't bring him back and bring him
Williams with a new offensive coordinator,Shane Waldron came in who quite Frankly,

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he's a good offensive coordinator. Wesaw it in Seattle. I mean,
I think he's a good big reasonGino was as good as he was the
last two years. I expect Chicagoto vastly improved. The Lions were a
choke job away from being in thesuper Bowl this year, and the Packers,
I think are gonna be a veryhot selection to win the NFC next

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year. So there's a legitimate argumentto be made for Minnesota where your fourth,
you're the worst team in that division. You have to pay justin Jefferson
soon, maybe it doesn't make senseto pay Kirk, even if it is
a short term deal. Look,he could get away with a two year
deal one plus one something in thatin that scenario with Cousins, if you

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think he can compete in twenty twentyfour while the Bears are still trying to
come up, and honestly, theNFC stinks other than a few teams,
and the race for the seventh seedis still well in play in that conference.
But he's the one that's interesting tome. He's obviously very happy in
Minneapolis. He likes playing there.I did. He works in the offense

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well, work great and Look,I know you' ragging on O'Connell at times,
but the guy's a really good coach. I really do think that the
fact that they were even in therace with Dobbs and Mullins and well,
the stupidity of putting Jaron Hall inthe New Year's Eve game was what sunk
him for good at the end.But what are you gonna do? Uh,

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desperation. You can do some stupidthings, as you know, John.
But oh yeah, I don't know. Atlanta makes so much sense for
Kirk though, because with that teamwith a quarterback last year would have won
the NFC South easily. They hadhorrible quarterback play. You know. My
thoughts on Desmond or he's not anNFL quarterback. All the red zone interceptions,
he didn't like that. Yeah,look the Falcon The Falcons are my

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kryptin were my NFL kryptonite last yearbetting wise. And Heiniky is dere heinick.
He's what he is. He's aHe's a perfectly fine backup where if
he's playing more than four or fivegames, your screwed. And he wasn't
even that good in the games thathe played this year. Uh, I
did not like the Rahie Morris Higher. I thought that was a little bit
nuts. I do think where hereally didn't like that Higher. No,

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I look, he deserved it.He deserved to have another head coaching job
at some point. But with thealready known commodities out there for the guys
who were out there for the Falcons, I mean, Mike frank Bull is
out there, Jim Harball was outthere, Bill Belichick was out there.

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Those are three guys who have Obviously, Belichick is arguably one of the arguably
the best coach of all time.The Chargers are going to be a playoff
team this year. I think withHarbaugh, who look, I know he's
a nut job. I know peopledon't like him personally, but the dude
is an amazing coach. I mean, he was in the Super Bowl,
Colin Kaepernick, he should have beenin the Super Bowl, and Alex Smith

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when Alex Smith wasn't good yet.So he only has a three four year
shelf life because everyone's gonna be drivencrazy by him. But I feel that
personality with Herbert that will fit.Yeah, it work great and I think,
look, I'm not saying it,anyone will catch the Chiefs in the
AFC because they were bad for sixweeks for a solid two months last year

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and still won the seat. Andit doesn't matter like the Chargers for them
get to the playoffs. When aplayoff game that's bored and good enough at
least at this point, and maybeby year two at Harvaugh you're competing with
Kansas City and making it actually hardfor them to win the AFCs for the
what seemingly is twenty fifth year ina row. I know it's not that
much, but uh yeah. Butfor Atlanta going back to that and why

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this goes with Cousins where they haveMike Rabel as their coach and you have
a guy who's a proven winner onewith Ryan Tannehill, who would when Tannehill
was when they were getting the oneseat getting the AFC title game as a
sixth seed, Tannehill was a worseversion of what Kirk Cousins is now with
a little more mobility. I justthink it would make no sense. And
even with a guy who I don'tthink again who knows maybe where heem ends

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up being the best coach in thatdivision, and you have a guy in
the New Orleans and Allen who's terrible, you have a guy in Bulls in
Tampa who I think is far.I don't think he's good, but he's
not as bad as I thought hewas. And can Nalis. We have
no idea what he is. Butthe problem with Carolina is I think Bryce
Young stinks and I don't know ifhe's able to be salvage. So yeah,

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I think for Cousins, just toput a ball on this and getting
it back to Russ. Cousins makesense. In Atlanta, Russ they if
Minnesota moved on from Cousins, Iwould not be shocked if Minnesota goes draft
quarterback bring Russ in to be theirstarter. I don't think I like that
now or Chicago, but I don'tthink that's impossible. But I think for

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Rouss, the Raiders are the onlyone that makes any modicum of sense at
this point where he can come instart, have Michael Pennix behind him,
have JJ McCarthy behind him. Ifthe Raiders trade up, which around here
in Vegas seems like there is interestin trading up to three for whoever happens
to be there of May and Daniels, that makes a lot of sense.

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The Broncos, they just don't havea lot of draft capital to do the
same sort of thing. Wouldn't shockme if they. If Peyton likes to
Drake may or Daniels and they tryto move up, but they just don't
have as much draft capital as theRaiders do. So complicated, complicated,
And again it's not a division youwant to be searching for your quarterback because
you have obviously number fifteen in KansasCity have justin Herbert, who I think

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he's gonna be good with Harball,he'll be I agree with that. I
think it probably saved Herbert was notgood this past year all things considered.
But Kellen Mooores again with Brandon stalelywas not a good Mixdelphia I think will
be better as we That was justa shame for Kellen Moore because I think
it was he was fine, butit was very clear that Brandon Staley needed

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to go and that that I thinkjust hindered their entire season. Yeah look,
Staley's now a defensive assistant in SanFrancisco, but yeah, no,
look it's uh for us. Aborderline Hall of Famer somehow never won an
MVP, even though very easily couldhave waned and it was a nineteen or
twenty. I guess it was twentybecause that was I think it was nineteen.

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Was a nice twenty. I thinkit was twenty, but I had
to double check it, but itwas. It was one of those years
where he had a big year andwas the MVP for a while and then
ended of not winning it. Butlook, I think at this point he's
not He's obviously not the same guy. He's a blow. He's a bottom
fier NFL starter at best, andif he's going to be in somewhere as

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a backup, I don't think youwant him around. So a whole lot
of complex city with him at thispoint. It's funny that you mentioned because
obviously wherever you just said with KirkCousins, you know the dominoes will fall
in place, and now we knowwhere teams will have to find quarterbacks,
and there does seem like there's gonnabe this quarterback carousel. There's plenty of
veteran quarterbacks available, and there areplenty of draft picks as well. JJ

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McCarthy's working himself up to be aprojected first round and maybe top ten to
fifteen draft pick, So there areso many options available at quarterback and for
some odd reason, a team likePittsburgh is looking at the entire landscape and
going, now, we got ourguy in Kenny Pickett. Still we got

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him. That's ridiculous. How canPittsburgh actually say when when the quarterback landscape,
as you just like painted this portrait, there are players available. I
know Russell probably isn't the best rightnow, but Russell's better. Anybody anything,
is better than Kenny Pickett. Andyet they're going, you know what,
we're good. Well, Justin Fieldsseems to make the most sense if

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Pittsburgh were to go out and geta new quarterback him and Comblin Commlin likes
Fields. That has been reported thatthat he's a fan of Justin Fields.
I think Justin Fields can still bea good NFL starting quarterback. There rumors
with him and the Raiders. Idon't know why the Raiders would do that
with gets he there now? Ithink if I'm Fields, I wouldn't watch

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oh again for for the Steelers.I mean, look a little bit of
a sunk costs at this point onKenny Pickett, and he's older than you,
Doug Old. For a thirty yearquarterback, he has not been particularly
good. Of course, They've managedthe back door their way to the back

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door, their way to the postseason. This year. They back door their
way to it over five hundred ayear before. Uh. But look,
they're kind of a no win situation. They're picking too far down in the
draft to realistically get someone who youwant. They're not going to trade up
for a quarterback. And again Ithink it's Fields that's the guy. But
look, I mean if if theyrun back with Rudolph and and pick it

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at some point, they can't keepgetting away with a mediocre roster and bad
quarterback play at some point for youuntil Mike Tomlin works his magic yet again
and somehow eleven, you would think, But I don't know, man,
I feel to that's a ranking pointfor them realize, hey, we might
actually need to get a good quarterbackhere. Well, I think they go

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six and eleven have missed the playoffs. I think Tomlin would probably finally be
out there. Uh. And yeah, look, I think Mike Rabil is
gonna be a want of commodity nextoffseason. I think people were going to
realize after it's been away from theleague for years, like, wait a
second, why why didn't Why didn'tno one hire him after he's fired by
Tennessee, and especially if the Titansaren't good this year with Brian Callahan and

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whatever court whatever again out of WillLevis, and that I think is just
dreadful. I I think people aregoing to realize their mistaken rable is going
to be the hottest name next offseason. I really do that'll be interesting.
So moving from uh, that's onemore NFL thing because Jason Kelsey retired,

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Obviously it's a big thing. You'rea Jets fan, you're from around
the Philadelphia area, though you havesomewhat of an outside perspective, What have
you seen? Because we definitely thecity loves Jason Kelcey and Jason Kelsey.
We love him as a Philadelphia Eagleand there's a great bond there between him
and fan base. What's it liketo see that from an outside perspective?

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Like is this what do people viewJason Kelcey in what way? Or it
does he just is he looked atit the same way that he embodies everything
Philly is. I mean, it'spretty hard to find as close to a
perfect athlete to play in that cityis and I mean it's crazy. Everybody
thinks that even people outside of Philly. I mean, I will say this

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though, I think if you putJason Kelcey in any city, I think
he'd find a way to to toacclimate to that city and be the quote
unquote perfect uh player for that city. I mean you saw him at the
tailgate in Buffalo. I mean hewould have been perfect up. It would
have been it would have been perfectin it. That would that be one
of the more fun what would bethe best quarterback center? Do? Like?

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What quarterback would you want to pairwith? Jason Kelcey? Sorry,
I mean both Kelsey brothers and Mahomes. I mean that's debate on I was
thinking josh All would be good.I think they'd be funny together. Yeah,
I can't you know, you knowmy thoughts on the bill. So
we're gonna not bother. Uh.But no, I look, I I

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I think for Kelsey, he mighthave to wait, but he will get
he'll he'll get into the hall.May take a little bit of time,
but he'll get there. Uh.Look, when you you get an extra
boost of being and look that offensiveline when the Eagles finally busted through and
won that Super Bowl. That linewas awesome. But he was the cornerstone

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still and you don't really say thatabout centers. It doesn't happen very often
in the history of the league.The cornerstone. And look, that's not
that not to be smirch anyone whowas on that line obviously, and that
line was amazing all the way through. Uh. But but he's still the
rock. He was the rock ofthat team. He's the rocket the team
that made the Super Bowl last yearand before the wheels came off this year,

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which was clearly not his doing.It was a lot of other bs
was going on around as we knowaround the team. But an amazing player
and amazing personality. I think forthe Eagle's sake, the fact that they
prepared for this and that Camp Jurgensis there and we'll be ready to go,
and I think we'll be in agreat replacement for Kelsey. I think

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the Eagles. As much as thishurts today, I think the Eagles will
be fine without him moving forward.As great of a player as he even
was to the final day in theleague, they have the pieces that should
be able to build out a reallygood offensive line, draft another interior guy
that can slide in or sign someonethis offseason. I think the Eagles will

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be fine despite it hurting a lottoday to lose a guy like Jason Kelcey.
Obviously we'll be in Camden the goingfrom NFL Sundays to Selection Sunday.
What's would be coming up in acouple of weeks, Jeff Parlos So,
I want to get into some collegebasketball, any team that y're digging right
now as we're getting into conference tournaments. We're getting the mid major ones this

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week, and we gets in whatsense, John, are we talking about?
There? Is there a team headingin the tournament time that you know,
It doesn't have to be a teamthat you think is going to win
the national championship, not best team, but a team that is now at
the end of the season we're gettinginto conference tournaments that you're starting to really
like. For me, it's Tennessee. Tennessee has caught my attention. I

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am all in on Tennessee. Ithink that is a great ronster. I
don't care about the Rick Barnes stuff. I don't care that he doesn't win
the postseason. Jay Wright had thesame thing that Rick Barnes did. Nobody
thought Jay Wright would win a biggame because he can't do it. He
gets bounced in the second round allthe time, and then guess what,
Jay Wright ends up winning two nationalchampionships. Not saying Rick Barnes is Jay
Wright, but Rick Barnes isn't thatbad, and this is a good team

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that could score, defend. Well. I'm in, I'm in on Tennessee.
I can't believe he just insulted Jayright like that. I can't believe
you just did this ill seriousness,though. The one thing that's different with
this Tennessee team as opposed to whatBarnes has had in the past, is
that this team's offense is significantly better. Uh, and it's all because of

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Dalton can have That's what it is. They finally have. And look tenn
See teams in the past, likewe're going back to Bruce Pearl days,
Like they had guys who could fillit out, like Chris Laughton was an
amazing college player, Like I'm almostgoing back fifteen years now, But but
they haven't really had that guy,all right, give him the ball and

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and look, Dave, they hadgreat they get Grant Williams, Admiral Scalfield.
They had really good players under Barnes, but They've never had a guy
who was like, all right,he's gonna give us twenty every single night
and his good night's gonna give usthirty. And that's the type of player
where you can go in a deeprun of March with a guy like Dalton
and connect as your best guy.I'm actually gonna look, the obvious choice

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is Ukon defending champs. They're dominantin the Big East. They're deep,
they're well coached, They're great onboth sides of the ball. They have
an elite big they have an eliteguard, and Tristan Newden your guy,
uh of course John and clinging inside. They are really, really good.
They are the best team to meat the moment. That's not the best

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merch Houston, who has succeeded allmy expectations going into the Big Twelve.
I thought there would be a littlebit rumpy road. There really hasn't been
for them. They've been great.They're clearly the best team in the best
conference in the country. They arewell earned. They one seed and could
very easily end up as the numberone overall seed if you can and Purdue
get bounced early in the Big Eastand Big Ten tournaments, respectively. Purdue,

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I know people will want to getafter them because of the three the
worst three year run ever of NCAAtournament losses. What they're on right now,
thirteen seed in the facto home gameto North Texas losing to a fifteen,
and the sweet sixteen in Saint Peter'sand then of course last year when
they was after you. Obviously theyjust can't play teams for New Jersey.

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So that's the New Jersey. I'ma way to avoid Princeton, who will
well on their way to go tothe dance again. Is the best team
out of the IVY if you're PurduePrincess. If Princeton makes a tournament,
princes should be a ten seed.But that's a different discussion for a different
time. But if we're not goingwith the one seeds, Tennessee right now,

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I think actually deserves that fourth oneseed. John, I think I'm
gonna go to the same league asyou, and I'm gonna go with Kentucky.
And I know people are gonna getscared by Kentucky. So you're so
whole. No, why why isthat? Because I guess to me,
I see you know, it's theinconsistency the bad loss is bad defense that
doesn't usually play in the tournament,or at least those are teams we usually

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don't pick right, especially bad.Yeah, but why is this, Why
is this the team that It doesn'tmean yes, and I'm not saying you're
wrong, it's just I feel likeeverybody is thinking this about Kentucky. That's
the thing, Like it's a marketinefficiency almost because their numbers defensively are just
so bad for a power five teamand a high end power five team that

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people get scared off of them.Look, they're I don't I know what.
The metrics don't have them one offensivelyin the country. Alabama has that.
I get why that is because Alabbaimonwhen they're wright is a bazooka.
But that's a team. Alabama isa team, and that I don't want
any part of. No, No, But Kentucky. I watch them,

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and they're so good on offense andand they the biggest thing with them is
they can beat you every single way. That's that's the way when you have
an elite offense that can beat youfrom the perimeter, from the inside,
from the dribble, kickout, movefrom three different guards. I mean,
ballhand are wise, Tillingham, Reeves, Shepard almost like many times in college

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you'll see an offense so wide open, like Kentucky is almost an NBA type
offense. There's a lot of greatfacing a lot of great shooters. They're
great, and Dillingham to me,is the best player prospect for the NBA
draft. I may not, you'renot gonna win an A's of the Award
because Edie's gonna win every award thatexists this year yet again, but Dillingham
is the type of player where youcan win with him as your best guy

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in March, and the fact thatKentucky has Shepherd and Reeves behind him,
so if Dillingham has an off night, one of those other two guards can
pick it up. They're good enoughinside when they've needed to during this streak
here where they have the loss toLSU mixed in, but since they're lost
the Gonzaga, their defense has beenmore than good enough in the situations where

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they've needed to be. Didn't needto be against Alabama because the offense in
that game put together probably the bestoffensive performance I've seen in the last five
years against a real opponent in collegehoops. In the Arkansas game, yes,
arket scorer Arkansas scored a hundred andtwo points, has a lot of
points. That game had eighty sixpossessions, so it's of course gonna have

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a ton of points when it's likethat in Arkansas at six minutes without a
field goal in the second half,so when they needed to get stopped and
bone up on defense, they didso. For me, the biggest thing
for Kentucky, it's actually gonna comedown to the bracketing. They're either going
They're more likely than not either goingto be a four or a three,
depending on what happens in the SECtournament and what happens this weekend against Tennessee.

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They go to Thompson Bowling, theycan pull the upset. They're gonna
move up the line if not,but probably stay static as a four.
If they get the four with Yukon, they're screwed. That is the one
team that I don't see them beingable to beat because Yukon will slow them
down on offense and Kentucky will haveno shot of slowing them down. And
even if Kentucky's offense is at theleade level, Yukon can beat them in

(28:52):
a game that is played in thehigh nineties. So that's the only matchup
that scares me perdue that game willbe like a two hundred point game,
because will be very happy to runwith them if they end up with that
in Kentucky, I think is actuallyjust better athlete wise, and we'll find
that we can find a way Houston'sbrain might explode in a game against Kentucky,
so and they wouldn't be I loveto see that that physical defense of

(29:17):
Houston up against Happy in that gamevery happily by Kentucky. It makes sense
because I think you are right whenI when I watch them play, it
is very NBA like these guys canget open. They're getting by defenders.
So the physicality is great for Houstonmost of the time. But I feel
like Kentucky's athleticism their talent is justgoing to be a little overwhelming if that

(29:41):
were to happen. John. Onething that I will have to say with
Kentucky though, is their variance ishigh, because what happens if they have
a bad offensive game and like asa four seed and they play well,
I don't know, play like India. Indiana State is not going to be
that low. But like let's saythey play like a College of Charleston who

(30:03):
is more than capable on offense,Like they could lose to a thirteen seed,
Like it's not out of the realmthat they could lose to a to
a team like that. They couldlose to a McNeice State, but again
it would It's also possible they theycan win a national championship. They are
variants. Is extraordinarily high. Itis I want to move over to There's

(30:27):
a big game this weekend, rivalrygame Duke North Carolina. I don't hear
a lot every time I ask aquestion about national championship or teams that could
win. I haven't heard a lotof North Carolina and Duke. Which one
would you actually trust more if youhad to pick one between the Tar Heels
and the Blue Devils. It's prettyfunny because Duke's actually ahead of North Carolina

(30:48):
on both ken Palm and Dorvik,which I would not have expected. But
that's because North Carolina's offense is theweakest unit between the two teams, which
is astounding, isn't it. Youwouldn't you have not thought that. I
think North Carolina there are enough guysstill on this team that were in the
national title game two years ago andthen flipped around and missed the NCAA tournament

(31:11):
last year after being in the titlegame as a as an AID seed a
year before. I just think they'rethe better team. They have better athletes.
The question with them is what itwas two years ago, was what
is Hubert Davis? Do we trust? Hubert Davis? And the talent ended
up winning out in that run tothe final four. Of course mixed in
there, and they had that obscenegame against Baylor where they put the twenty

(31:33):
six point lead and almost lost itall together. But look they are they
I think they are more apt tohave a bigger, a further run than
Duke. Not saying Duke can havea big run. I think Shire is
a pretty good coach. Actually,I don't think this team, even with
all the big time recruits, thisteam doesn't scream hey top five talent like

(31:56):
the recruiting classes would show. Ithink they're very good. I think they're
clearly a top fifteen team. Ithink they're clearly a team that with the
right draw coup very easily make itto Glendale and make the Final four.
But North Carolina, I don't thinkeither of them win it all, I'm
not even sure if either of themmake the final four. Yeah, teams
almost all year, they do havegood wins, they seem talented. But

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yeah, every time I hear thoseteams brought up, it's not talking about
them like I've heard about Tennessee recently, or I hear even Kentucky gets more
love than North Carolina and Duke.I just found it very odd. That
just seemed to be like left out. It's interesting. Look, I will
say this just to throw out afew more teams real quick. John,

(32:43):
I don't buy Mark can at all. I don't buy them at all.
No, looking at Big East teams, no, I think they look they'll
beat. They'll beat. They'll beatthe fifteen or the fourteen seed pretty handily
because those type of teams will justmelt. And we saw with Vermont last
year who Vermont by every account wasa very strong fifteen seed a year ago,

(33:04):
and they couldn't handle the defense andjust kept turning the ball over in
that game against Marquette. But goodseven seed, good sixth seed. I'll
be taking them against Marquette. Ilike Creighton. The one concerned Craighton is
they are very dependent on good shootinggames and a lot of those good shooting
games that come at home, whichscares me a little bit. They're gonna

(33:24):
be matchup dependent, but they areone of the teams that matches up as
well as anyone would Purdue, justbecause they have guards that can guard the
perimeter well at Kalk. Brenner's oneof the few big bodies that can match
up with Eadie, So they're dangerousif for keeping it in the Big East,
and it's so amazing. I'm usuallynot someone who's like, oh,
forget the defenses here Illinois another teamthat grades out poorly on defense. Illinois

(33:51):
is actually worse than Kentucky on defense, which is amazing. But every time
I watch Illinois, that's just anotherteam that can really fill it up,
and I'm okay with this year isa little bit different than in the past.
If you are elite at something,which Illinois is a leade on offense,

(34:13):
go try to beat the team.Go try to beat everyone one oh
five ninety five, go ahead anddo it. Make make the teams that
are not used to scoring the basketballat will make them beat you that in
your fashion. Control the temple.Hey, look that type of team.
Same deal with Kentucky can be aptto get bounced because they have a crappy

(34:34):
shooting night, and it can happen, for sure. But I'm totally opposite
of what I usually am here thisyear. Usually I like those teams that
both their top thirty on offense anddefense. They're as good as it gets
on both sides of the ball.But this year I do gravitate to the
teams that are elite on offense,and I'd rather be trying to outscore people
this year more so than ever incollege hoops. Yeah, I think what

(34:58):
you're saying is kind of true.There is looking for, you know,
the well rounded teams were usually lookfor a certain rating on Ken Pom rankings
of where they are offensively and defensively. There's only one or two teams that
I would consider that perfect one thatwe always look for. I think you're
right, and maybe we just switchour thinking and look at something elite and
elite offense could end up working ina well Right now, John, at

(35:21):
least historically speaking, if you're toptwenty in both offensive adjusted and defensive adjusted
on Ken Pom, you're one ofthe favorites, if not the favorite,
to win at all This year rightnow, Houston, Yukon, Arizona,
Tennessee, Auburn, who we haven'tmentioned at all allsover Duke and Marquette are
the teams that fit that billing.Purdue barely misses being twenty first on defense,

(35:46):
so in North Carolina barely misses withbeing twenty sixth on offense. So
it's a bigger group than usual.Auburn's an interesting team too. I just
I just don't think their talent's goodenough to win six straight. And that's
not to say they have weak talent. I just like teams better than them
this year, and then Arizona wehave met. Neither of us have mentioned

(36:08):
them. I think Tommy Lloyd's terriblepersonally. I think he's I think he's
I think he's a terrible in gamecoach. He's my favorite. About you,
Parls, you have no problem sayinga coach is terrible, terrible coaches,
no matter the sport. I loveit that terrible coaching and terrible officiating
or two of them. Your coach, Jeff Parls is your number one hater.

(36:29):
But but for Arizona, this isthe third year running where you could
argue they're the most talented team inthe country. You could argue that,
and two years ago they get theone seed. I had all sorts of
Arizona futures that year because I likeevery time you watch them play, like,
holy crap, this team is themost talented team in the country by

(36:51):
a wide margin. The only thingwith that team I didn't like was what
Kirk Cries had. Drove me crazy, and I actually thought his injury that
year actually kind of helped them alittle bit. Obviously, you don't want
a kid getting hurt, but Ithought the team was better without him on
the floor, and he didn't playmuch in a Nancy A tournament and didn't
really matter because Houston just broke theirbrains in that sweet and Arizona couldn't do

(37:15):
anything on offense. And that's coachingbecause Kelvin Sampson's an amazing coach and Tommy
Lloyd failed miserably in that game lastyear. You can't lose that game to
Princeton, like, under any circumstance. Can't lose that game, especially in
a year, a game where Princetoncouldn't make shots like you remember, Princeton
was awful from three point range inthat game, and Arizona still lost the

(37:36):
game. That's all coaching. Andthis year, just look at what they've
done this year, like you lookin the Pac twelve. Okay, yeah,
they got the great out of conferenceDave, the great win at Cammon
Indoor against Duke. I don't thinkDuke was the same team at that point.
They beat Alabama, which was notoverly shocking because Alabama didn't hit the
threes that game. So perfect timeyou're acting anything with this because I do

(38:00):
remember looking at at Arizona's schedule recentlyand the teams that they've beat, it's
not all that impressive. Well,well, the very early in the season
though, they much they have fourwins that would count as all right,
you can move. These are movingwins. Doud at Duke. Maybe it's

(38:22):
good of a win anyone has allyear period, Uh, that Alabama game
on a game that was in Phoenix. They beat Michigan State on a true
neutral I think that was in PalmSprings, and they destroyed Wisconsin. Who
Wisconsin at this point I think isan eight seed. I don't think Wisconsin's
anywhere near as good as they wereearlier in the year. They lost the
Purdue an the Central Road game inIndy. Nothing wrong with that. I

(38:45):
was at the FAU game. Uh, the FAU game. I mean Arizona
dominated them for the first twenty minutesand then coming out of the half,
FAU destroyed them. And I waslike, wait a second, the coming
would do anything in the locker roomhere, like dust may totally out coached
him. That was also And theother thing with Arizona the drives me crazy
is Caleb Bumps a really good player, but they are so reliant on him

(39:07):
hero balling at the end of thegame. And that also comes down to
coaching. And also if you lookat the way they played in the Pac
twelve, Look, they lost theStanford that was just a bad game,
just a bad game. It happensthey lost to Oregon State. They didn't
look ready to play that game becauseOregon State, Oregon State led that game
the whole way, and then Arizonahad the frantic comeback at them, and

(39:28):
then Lucas threw an ridiculous shot towin the game of the buzzer. Uh.
If that game went to overtime,Arizona would have won a game by
fifteen because Oregon State was just totallybounced totally done with their energy at that
point. But then the other thingsthat the losses that alarm you are the
two LASO losses. Yeah, that'sthe one. That's the one other reasonable

(39:49):
team clear and the only other clearAnta tournament team in that league is Washington
State, and they're very well coached. Kyle Smith has gone with the new
market inefficiency. You know what,We're just gonna be as huge as humanly
possible, which should, in allhonesty not bother Arizona because Arizona is big.
Arizona is a big basketball team,and that being huge and someone on

(40:15):
athletic like Wazoo is could not botherArizona. And why do you beat them
twice at double digit dogs in bothgames? And that's that's where I found
concerned. Sars me if I'm anArizona backer here, because the only other
good team that happens to be wellcoached beat you twice, that's I'm the
coach too. Again, Look,Arizona probably will win the Pac twelve tournament

(40:37):
here in Vegas. They very easilycould end up with that four number one
seed. But that's a team Iwant no part of to make a deep
run because they have a coach thatI Scott Drew is the guy I always
picked on in the past. I'vemoved off of that because at least for
Scott Drew, like Baylor's program wasa disaster when he inherited it, Like

(40:58):
we know the backstory and their ownteammates were murdered, murdered each other,
and that's in Baylor, that's whathe inherited. He inherited that big of
a mess. And now fifteen yearstwenty years later, like they're a consistent
bower with a national title in Waco, Texas. Uh, Tommy Lloyd,
Tommy Lloyd is one of the tome Arizona. I mean, if I

(41:22):
were if I were an eighteen nineteenyear old kid like Tucson, Arizona is
an amazing place to go to school. The weather's always great. It give
me too nice for a place togo to school, I would be very
distracted easily. Well, I mean, look, I was already distracted as
being by at East Carolina Greenville.I was distracted at Columbia, Missouri.
I mean Columbia Missouri was distracting.Look that what was there to do in

(41:45):
Columbia? I mean again, Greenville'slike Christ But look I will say Arizona.
There are very few programs in thecountry that are better than Arizona,
like on the surface and de Lloyd'scredit he is remember that was a little
that was messy when he got there. Now did Sean Miller had him all

(42:06):
on Nancy A problems all that stuff? But man Arizona at this point,
John, they should have more toshow for what they have in the amount
of talent that he's accumulated there inthe last three years. All right,
Jeff, last questions for you,And of course it's got to be food
related. So the Phillies took awaydollar dog night, so I want to

(42:28):
ask you some hot dog questions.First of all, ballpark hot dog overrated
or underrated? Depends on the ballpark. Ooh, here a specific ballpark that
you're talking about. I know it'sa cop out, but it depends on
the ballpark. It depends what thequality of hot dog you're getting. Am
I getting the one that's sat inthe water for fourteen hours and as gross?

(42:49):
Or am I getting or am Igetting or am I getting the one
that's a freshly off the griddle?Like if I'm getting a good one that's
freshly off the griddle. Hell yeah, awesome if I'm getting the one that's
been sitting in the water and come. Basically it's like a steam mystery meat.
No, it's not that good,So it all depends. It all
depends. I actually will say Ilove a good ballpark hot dog. I'm

(43:10):
going overrated because sausage and peppers arebetter the sausage. You know, I
can't argue with you on that becauseno, go get the sausage. It's
so much better, crisp, it'sawesome. So all right, overrated,
underrated hot dog, dollar dog night. Overrated or underrated. Uh Uh,

(43:31):
It depends on the rules. Ifthey don't, if they, if they,
if they, well had the longlines and it was you it was
taking a while to get hot dogs. So is that you order like enough
to sustain yourself for a few inningsso you can get back on the line
and wait another few innings to getmore great Uh. I will say those

(43:52):
lines are nuts. I know.I think it is disgraceful that the police
got rid of it. Only Ithink it's disgraceful. We need things in
this era of inflation that are pricedlike nineteen sixty two. I knew it
with that a dollar again, damnit. I will say though the Philly

(44:14):
is kind of the one thing thebogo things not bad, but they needed
to make it a bogo, makeit closer than the dollar dog, make
you like bogos for three. Soall right, it's yes, you're paying
more technically, but the consumers like, all right, you know what,
it's only fifty cents more hot dogwhen it's all said, and you think

(44:35):
it would be a five or threehot dogs for five dollars, is what
you're saying something like that, Yeah, or two for three or something like
that, like yeah, four forsix, Like I like, I'd have
no problem with that if you didthat job, all right. And last
hot dog related questions, how manycould you eat in nine innings? Oh?

(44:57):
Wow? So you want a funone here? Absolutely? Sean was
also as a as a weird hotdog story where he uh, he got
grossed down and I think ended uppuking because of too much hot dog consumption.
So gonop weird weird hot dogs toa story when everyone's mind raps at
that point, it all serious,is John. So we actually had this

(45:20):
sort of discussion in the studio recently, and two of our audio two of
our tech guys, Cayden and Sean. Cayden was talking just all sorts of
smack and he can eat three.So at the south Point we have the
v NA B hot dog cart.It's a dollar fifty. Oh right,
yeah right. For a dollar fifty, it's hard to beat. So Cayden

(45:42):
basically is like, I could eatone of these and fifteen seconds and three
of these in a minute. Ohno, chant, no chant. The
last week, you're gonna do it. He's gonna do it this upcoming Thursday
after doing a dry run last weekwhere he ate one and fifty four seconds,
So he has no chance of doingeither of them. Uh shock somebody

(46:05):
that overconfident in eating a hot dog. It was, it was, it
was. It was the most Itwas the most ridiculous oversell I've ever heard,
almost heavily failing. So if we'reokay, so is the question how
many can I eat without throwing up? Or how many can I eat with
usually without throwing up without throwing upin a name. So if we were

(46:34):
talking about in the past, John, when baseball games were interminable, I
would say that you could. Icould very easily in a nine inning game
assume three hours and fifteen minutes.Uh. For for something like that,
I got to do some math realquick. Uh why are you doing the
math on this? Yeah? Iwould say, what have just answered me?

(46:55):
Oh? I can maybe do five. No, it's important you're back
to figure this out. In theold school day of a regular sized hot
dog, I could do twelve.Now I think we're down to one per
inning at most, because the gameis a half hour, it'll least shorter.
I think one per inning. IfI were really trying to do it,

(47:19):
I could do one per inning.I think that's what we could do.
I don't know. I don't knowif I could do that. I
feel like I was not feel goodafterwards. John, I can tell you
Pece is way too strong that Ilove hot dogs well, after all of
them. That is a disgusting thingtoo. Here's the thing you have to
You have to vary your taste buds. So what you do? Yeah,

(47:42):
what kind of superpower do you taketo change your condiments? And I think
most importantly there most importantly though,let's say we're doing this at Citizens Bank.
Okay, Chicken and Pete still outthere? Yeah, still still an
Ashburn Alley all right, you goto Chicken and Pets, you make sure

(48:05):
that a few of you, atleast two of your dogs has the cheese
on it from Chicken and Pets thatyou get with the crab fries. No,
are you adding cheese into this changethe taste buds. You have to
have as many different toppings as humanlypossible, Like I would even consider cheese.

(48:27):
Cheese is another strong taste. Butyou do that, you time it
out. You time it out.You you at least start. You start
with the relish, you start withthe mustard. You're mixing the cheese later
on when you're feeling okay after alittle bit of time. Uh. But
I think, look realistically speaking,John, yeah, I think nine is
the number. I think if Ididn't want to feel in distress, I

(48:50):
think six is the number. Nineis the number in distress. Six is
the number where I feel like,okay, I can still be all right.
I think you're overshooting that way toomuch. I would you go five
or four? I could probably dofour. I've done three before and I
probably could have had another one.But again, I was younger then,
you know, I was. Iwas a growing boy. So man,

(49:14):
it's important. It's important now,you know, I gut health. You
know, I got to be consciousabout it. I'm turning thirty this year,
Jeff, So I gotta worry aboutthese kind of things. Yeah.
So, I don't know. Ithink three or four hot dogs for me
would be about it. Okay,fair enough, fair enough, John,
you're unreasonable, Jeff Parls, thankyou for I thought, by the way

(49:36):
happens all the time, I thoughtwe were going to do thirty minutes.
We have done close to fifty minutesof this. Thank you. This is
the reason why I needed you tobe the first guest on the on the
line change. We very easily couldhave done more. And look, John,
I know, I know we'll doit in the future. We got
March Madness coming up. We gota lot of fun stuff coming. But
it's a pleasure, man. Alwayslove chadding with you. And again,

(49:59):
where can they you and all theguys, all this stuff you're doing at
South Point with all the Jeff Carlson the tweets. Soapost studio LV on
Twitter for the studio. If you'renot a subscriber already on our YouTube page,
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(50:22):
and eleven thirty in the morning onSaturday and Sunday. Thanks again to the
great Jeff Parl's doing awesome things overthere at South Point Studios, So thanks
again to him for coming on.And this is the type of reason why
I wanted to do and bring backthe line change. So I'll be doing
a show with Sean Brace Daily TicketMonday through Friday. Every Monday through Friday

(50:44):
from three to six. The show'sbeen going very well and I love co
hosting it. I loved It's thefirst time I've ever had a co host,
so I love it and I'm havinga blast doing it. But there
are some some things that just Ilike doing with my show that won't work.
Because Brace and I are very gooddoing the show for three hours.
We have some guests, but Iused to have a lot of guests on.

(51:06):
I used to talk to a lotof different people. When you're doing
a show solo Monday through Friday,eight to eleven pm, you start to
get a bunch of people to comeon and help you out with the show.
And I had that and then itkind of went away and I haven't
talked to some people that it wouldreally like to talk to, talk some
sports with, talk movies with whateverthe case may be. So I started
it up for that reason, andI think that was just a great example

(51:29):
of why fifty minutes with the greatJeff Parls. Also the second one being
I want to talk movies and Idon't know if the Daily Ticket is the
platform to do so. At TheGambler, I do some movie stuff,
but I really want to dive moreinto that part of what I do.
It's something that I want to talkabout. I write letterbox reviews a lot,

(51:50):
I watch movies at least three orfour movies a week. I want
to talk about it, damn it. So I figured, hey, podcast
that is my own would be agreat place to do it. So We're
gonna talk more movies on this.It's gonna be a mix of sports,
mix of movies, still a lotof betting Philadelphia centric as well. It's
gonna be basically just me. It'sall of what I like, what I

(52:14):
like to talk about, and I'mdoing it all in one podcast. So
I'm very excited for that. Makesure to download wherever you get your podcasts,
download these episodes, rate review,subscribe. It is on Apple Podcasts.
We still have the line change upfrom when I was doing it daily
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(52:37):
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to all of those, and welcometo the line Change two point zero.

(52:58):
I don't know if I'm gonna callit that, just the line chain the
podcast version. So we talked alongwith Jeff Parls there. So I won't
go along on my movie segment.I'll get to the bets always at the
end of the show are bets forthe next day. So let me start
with my Dune two review. Everybodyloves this movie. It is now the
new Oppenheimer and Barbie were the twobig movie spectacles of the year in twenty

(53:20):
twenty three. It looks like thisone's gonna be I don't know if it's
gonna be as big of a hit, but it's already surpassed the Oppenheimer number
in the opening weekend for box office. So this is the big movie event
of the year. It's probably gonnabe the biggest of the year in terms
of spectacle, in terms of reach, in terms of how many people watch
it, and a lot of peoplelove it. I was not as boolish

(53:44):
on it as I thought I wasgoing to be the first Dune. It's
a very character driven human story thattakes place in this sci fi epic kind
of space odyssey film, and Iloved it, and I thought it was
something that, if done right,you know, it was going to be

(54:06):
something special. This could have beena really cool new trilogy that was going
to be made. We don't getmany great sci fi trilogies anymore, you
know. I like sci fi,but I thought the Creator, for example,
was going to be big. Itdidn't end up being that great,
and it was a disappointment. Sosci fi movies a been disappointing. Dune
Part one was not. I lovedthe first Dune. Here comes the second

(54:29):
one, which it is inherently goingto be bigger, it's going to be
more epic, it's going to bebigger battles because we're getting into more now
and I don't want to spoil anything, but for that to happen. And
this, this particular moment took placeat the end of Act two and we're
getting to a point with Timothy shallowMay's character Paul, that there is a

(54:50):
decision to be made. And Iwas anticipating something good because that's what Dune
Part one was to me, andthat's what I was hoping to get out
of Doune Part two, that althoughthe battles and the scale of it is
epic, that this can still maintaina very grounded type of storytelling and a
very character driven, one human oneand I don't think we got that.

(55:14):
Instead, it was a very brushedover reasoning for this big change to take
place that led into this giant epicAct three. And so I had that
problem from the beginning I watched it, and the entire third act, I'm
going, I don't know if thisis for me. I don't know if

(55:34):
this was for me. And Iwas loving everything up to that point,
and just I don't know if thisis exactly what I wanted, but it's
hard not to get captured by thescenes, how large they were, how
beautiful the cinematography was. The performancesfrom all of the actors were fun.
Austin Butler was fantastic, Zendea wasfantastic, Timothy Schallamey Florence. I mean,

(56:00):
these are some of the best actorsand actresses going in Hollywood right now,
and I thought they were doing incrediblework. Work you don't usually see
timoth Timothy Shallowy in the last movieI saw was Willy Wonka, and here
he is now, this charismatic leader. It's wild the shift that he makes
in the movie, and it's wildto see the range that he has,

(56:22):
and he nails it, and hedoes so well. It's hard not to
get caught up in the Hans Zimmer'sscore. Worms, these giant worms that
they're riding. Everything was done sowell, like a typical action movie.
But instead of what I thought wewere going to get a very I hate
to say mature, but just againmore grounded human story, it turned into

(56:47):
something different. I don't know ifit's all that bad. If you want
a recommendation, hell yeah, seethis in imax, see this on the
biggest damn screen you can find.This deserves to be seen. It is
a great popcorn cinematic movie that youshould see in theaters. But it turned
too much into something in too Iguess a Pirates of the Caribbean or whatever.

(57:14):
Not generic action movie, but somethingthat's a little bit more action oriented,
that is a little bit more notlighthearted, but just wasn't as deep
as I wanted it to be withthis narrative. It ended up being more
just like a theme park, almostwhat you get out of Marvel. But
Marvel done very well. That's fine, wasn't for me. I gave it

(57:37):
a four out of five on Letterboxagain. You can follow my letterbox at
Ja Jansen thirty four. It wasgood again. Go see it, see
it on the biggest green with thebiggest sound system you could find. It
is a great cinematic experience, justnot one that I thought we were going
to get, and that disappointed mea little bit. So we'll have more

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movies the oscars by the way ofthis weekend, so a great time to
start up a sports movie podcast whenwe have NCAA tournaments coming up. March
Madness, all of that, andthen also the Oscars as well, so
we'll get into some of that.My predictions or the Oscars. Speaking of
predictions, best bets for Tuesday,March fifth, I have three of them

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on the college hardwood. For rightnow, it's probably just going to be
mostly college basketball. First one,Providence and Georgetown. I like the Friars
here against Georgetown. Friars off ofa tough loss on the road against the
Villinova Wildcats. Villa have played anexcellent game, but Georgetown just isn't good.
Six and a half is not abig enough number. I think Providence
is going to have a bounce backhere, and Georgetown again just is not

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very good. So I think thisis too low of a number. Anytime
a team like Providence is playing Georgetown, heck, that should be triple digits.
I think the Wildcats Villanova were veryclose to triple digits on the road
in Georgetown. If I'm not mistaken, I just think it's too low.
So I'm taking the Providence Friars.So it's just the spot. I know
it's a little bit sticky, butNotre Dame has actually been covering a lot

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lately. They've been winning a lotlately. They are three to one against
ranked teams that are seven and threeon the road. They're not bad,
and they've been covering. I thinkthey covered their last five games. So
this is a team that's playing solidbasketball, probably the best basketball they've been
playing off season. Not a greatteam, and North Carolina is good,
but it's the spot. And NorthCarolina this weekend is playing Duke. It

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is always a spot to me totake. Try and take the opposite.
Now, it's not perfect all thetime. That is not always going to
hit the team that is playing UNCor Duke right before the rivalry game between
those two teams. The look aheaddoesn't always work. But this look ahead
spot, I think will Notre Dameis playing well, North Carolina's going to
be looking ahead to Duke. Fifteenand a half is a lot of points.

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I think this one could be alittle bit more slower. North Carolina
offensively may struggle a little bit.Fifteen and a half points I am taking
with the fighting irish last one.Now, this one's a little bit tricky
because Cincinnati has been playing well.But I think some of the numbers are
skewed here a little bit with Oklahoma. Oklahoma is the four point favorite against
Cincinnati. Numbers are a little skewedbecause Oklahoma has played a gauntlet of a

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schedule recently. The last five gamesfor Oklahoma have been squeezed in. There
is Oklahoma State, but it's beenagainst the top teams in the Big Twelve.
They had a loss on the roadagainst Baylor, they had a loss
against Kansas, they had a lossagainst Iowa State, they had lost against
Houston. Those are not just someof the top teams in the Big Twelve,

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those are some of the best teamsin college basketball. I think you
might be getting a discounted number here. I think Oklahoma is better than Cincinnati.
Oklahoma's better offensively, Cincinnati is alittle bit better defensively, and if
you look at the adjusted defensive efficiencynumbers over at kempum but still very close,
Oklahoma is better offensively. And again, numbers to me are a little
bit skewed because the last five theyhave played against some really of opponents.

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Cincinnati, to me, is notthat good. Their last five a close
win against UCF. UCF's not verygood. Oklahoma State. They lost to
TCU Houston obviously a very tough gameand then a short win against Kansas State.
They are struggling against the middle ofthe conference. This is a new
season for them in the Big Twelve. I think they may be fading out
a little bit here. I likeOklahoma in this spot. Again, there's

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not really too many numbers that wouldback it up because the Ken Palm rankings
are very close. Oklahoma doesn't looklike they're playing well. Again, I
feel like being at home and notagainst one of the big top Big twelve
opponents. This is going to bea bit of a get right spot for
Oklahoma, so I'm taking the Oklahomasooners laying the four as well. That

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Tuesday, a little bit shorter ofa podcast or Wednesday, excuse me,
a bit shorter of a podcast.So the schedule is going to be Tuesday
guest, Thursday guests. Those arethe longer podcast. Then we'll go a
little bit shorter fifteen twenty minute orso podcast where it's just me going through
whatever topic it is, and thenalso getting you the bets for today.
So it's Thursday or it's excuse me, Tuesday all the way to Friday that

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we're going to be doing it.And Tuesday Thursday shows are going to be
long form, and Wednesday Friday alittle bit short form, mostly just again
topic and bet. So thank youfor checking out The Line Change episode number
one. Hopefully the new venture thingswill be a little bit more smoother,
but for now I think episode numberone went very well. Episode number two

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coming up Wednesday on the Line Change