On today’s episode, Jason discusses how the Atlanta falcons incredibly odd injury report management screwed over tons of bettors and ultimately led to them getting shellacked at home by the Miami Dolphins, the Dallas Cowboys’ embarrassing defensive effort against the Denver Broncos, the underwhelming performance by Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears offense in their loss to Baltimore, why it’s more clear now than ever that Aaron Rodgers’ Pittsburgh Steelers and Jordan Love’s Green Bay Packers are headed in opposite directions, and what led to Brian Kellly getting the axe at LSU over the weekend. Finally, J-Mac closes the show with this Best Bets for the Monday Night Football clash between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Washington Commanders.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Straight Fire Fire, It's me Jason McIntyre,
Straight Foyer for Monday, October twenty seventh. Though you can
tell by my voice. It was a great weekend, a
phenomenal weekend. Oh my gosh, Halloween at Festivities got underway.
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My daughter played in the Beach Volleyball Tournament Nick Coxa
with a thrilling four to three win on Sunday. I
had a great weekend in the contest, the Gambling Contest
four and one. I'm back in the mix. I'm top
eight hundred out of fifty two hundred. We advanced in Survivor.
There's just so much happening. I'm gonna start with the
curveball only because rob G's not here, and it happened
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on Sunday night, and it was thrilling, and it was
Austin Reeves giving the Kings a fifty one p yes
with no Luca, no Lebron. Austin Reeves has a career
game fifty one eleven and nine, no cap folks. Austin
Reeves was phenomenal and he wasn't chucking fifty one on
twenty two shots. The Kings could not guard him. He
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took twenty two free throws, made twenty one of them.
Undrafted Austin Reeves arguably the best number three in the
league with a phenomenal performance, and the Lakers moved to
two and one, And that will conclude our NBA coverage.
I was just watching the end of it and it
was like, the Lakers really hold on and steal this.
Wemby and Spurs are undefeated. Here's my new thing, so
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I am. I got some good feedback from you guys
on what I talked about Friday with the website with
my picks, just so we can get him everywhere. Obviously,
I'll be mentioning the website here on the podcast. I'm
not gonna do a lot of promo and push it.
You know, people get weird about that. I'm not selling picks.
I would not do that. It was an up and
down weekend in NFL gambling college up and down as well.
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It's weird, man, I'm gonna go on a rant. Remind
me if I don't on the Atlanta Ful because it's
at the top of my notes. It's just what happened
was total garbage. But obviously Brian Kelly was fired by
Notre Dame. I'll get to that. I hope I can
remember to do it. But it was a wacky NFL weekend.
Obviously we'll start there, because you know, big picture, you
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just look at the top of the top of the
list here and you're like, oh, look into the games. Okay, okay,
Oh my gosh. Favorites went ten and two against the spread,
so we now know who's bad. So the bad teams
are getting thumped and the favorites are ruling, but not
totally because it was it was craziness. A lot of
wacky stuff happened. I thought I had a bead on
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like three or four teams, and then whacky nonsense happened,
and it's like, I don't understand this team, you know.
So I nailed the Texans. We got that. That was
pretty much a layup forty nine Ers just too beat up,
and the Texans win twenty six fifteen. I'm not gonna
make any sweeping conclusions. It's just a tired, physically beat
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up forty nine ers team. I don't know if they're gonna,
you know, make the playoffs, to make a deep run
because of the injuries. It's something in the water. In
San Fray. Everybody's fricking hurt. Right Philadelphia without AJ Brown,
I was a little nervous. They rolled the Giants in
the rematch. It didn't really matter that they didn't have
AJ Brown. Saquon goes off for a sixty five yeard
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touchdown run I think on the first or second play
of the game, and he finally tops one hundred yards.
Everything's fine with Saquon. Jalen hurts four touchdowns. What was
moderately interesting and it's not good, is that Cam Skataboo,
the fun, tough rookie running back for the Giants, broke
his ankle. It's a pretty gnarly injury if you haven't
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seen it online, one of those like oh my gosh,
that's not supposed to bend the right way, and it's
super sad his season's over. But like, you know, the
mood on the Giants after that was just disconsolate, like
that's that's Jackson Dart's guy. Dart's getting roughed up, got
sacked five times, he's running less. I think the coach realize, like, bro,
we need you to, you know, actually finish the season.
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And so the Eagles rule many other favorites. You know,
Tampa Bay just destroys New Orleans. One of the things
that got you gotta note it going forward, New Orleans.
Who was their center last week? McCoy. They couldn't do anything,
They couldn't block, they couldn't run nothing. It was a disaster.
What's his face? Rattler gets bench for Tyler Shuck and
Tampa's defense, which ain't even great. Okay, totally shuts down
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the Saints next week. I'm already given. Me and my
boy Nico talked about our Survivor pick. I think it's
got to be the Rams if you have them, I mean,
they're gonna be laying thirteen fifteen. I don't know what
the number is against. I'm pretty sure it's the Saints.
And if you haven't used the Rams and Survivor, you're
in good shape. There are there is another good Chargers
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is a good option for Survivor next week. This is
what happens, guys, when we win in Survivor, we get
all geeked and we're like, all right, what do we got?
What do we got? Next week? Okay? Rams? Yeah, Rams
are hosting at so FI the Saints. Maybe these things
make it interesting, but I doubt it. So Saints are
like an unbeedable team. They're bad. Now I thought, you know,
I thought I understood the Falcons right at home indoors
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man on the fast track, they're good. Miami, I thought
I understood them. They're not good. But I did make
the point, you know, Miami could do some things indoors.
Here's what this really pissed me off. So again, I
had a super busy weekend. We hit two Halloween parties.
On Saturday, my buddy jac and some of some of
his friends have an awesome Halloween party and they've upgraded
it every year. And so the wife and I were
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going to be a Wesley and Princess Buttercup from Princess Bride.
We ordered the outfits and everything, and then my wife
sees on TikTok or whatever that the louver was robbed.
And I'm sure you guys have heard of it. Obviously,
it was a big story internationally. And the way they
did it was they dressed up as construction workers in
the middle of the day, went into the louver, stole
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a bunch of jewels in like the middle of the day.
It's crazy, and so by WHI I said why don't
we just do that. That's like a low, low cost outfit.
It's pretty easy. We put on some jewels, some all
black outfits, some construction shirts, and it was easy. It
was a great and people loved it. And then me
and you guys, I play hoops with Dane the former
Notre Dame quarterback, so him and his wife took us
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to a party. Liner was there. It was a big
It was a great Saturday night. Right, But I'm not
locked in on the NFL like the night before, right,
I totally didn't see this. So I Drake London's having
an amazing season for the Falons. I didn't see him
on the practice report all week, nothing, nothing, nothing. Apparently
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Friday he had a light practice, but like, I didn't
see that because it was all his petic's gonna play
his pets. I'm just telling you, no mention at all,
Drake London. So Saturday morning, Sunday morning, you know, a
little hurt in there, had to wake up early. My
daughter as a beach volleyball tournament. You know, I'm hanging
out with the parents watching the games, and then I'm
watching Red Soot on my phone. I didn't even check
the injury report. I didn't. It's like an ass I started.
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Ricky Pearsall, who again is freaking out, you know, I
mean the longest knee injury I've ever seen. So I
didn't eve see Drake London was out. So I'm seeing
this Falcons go. I'm like, damn Cousins is washed. Okay,
So late Sunday, you know, I start to go through
the box scores and I'm like, wait, Drake London, Oh man,
somebody shut him down. Wait a minute, no way, he
didn't get a target. He didn't even freaking play. And listen,
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this is so the bonus of West Coast NFL is
you wake up, you maybe get in a quick workout,
play some hoops for like an hour or ninety minutes,
and then boom the game start. There's not like that
wake up at seven or eight o'clock. Wait five or
six hours. You know that kind of sucked on the
East Coast, especially when you have little kids. Well it
doesn't suck because the kids are awesome, but it's like, oh,
this game just can't happen soon enough. So there is
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that huge window you're not gonna get screwed on that
stuff with with with lineups. How does how does the
NFL rightfully not get called for this Drake London all
of a sudden like mystery injury doesn't play like that.
I'm an ass for betting the Falcons early in the
week and putting Falcons in teas early in the week. Guys.
I've said this several times this season. I'm freaking done
betting early in the week. It just keeps costing me.
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With the injuries. It's a killer and it blew up
some teasers. Now others hit, which was fine, but it
just sucks when that kind of crap goes down. So
Falcons get blasted, guys. B Jon Robinson had twenty five
yards rushing against the Dolphins, like Atlanta just they cannot
have good things for many reasons. And letting the Dolphins
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have three touchdown drives over seventy five yards. Did you
see what the Browns did to them? Like that's embarrassing stuff. Anyways,
I just talked too much about the Falcons. We know
the Patriots are good Patriots. With a smash the Browns,
it was tense for like a quarter, but that's what
the Patriots do. Listen, New England is good, guys, I
said a couple weeks ago in the Herd, they may
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get the number one seed and they just keep rolling
your division leaders after eight weeks, New England, Indianapolis, and Denver, Like,
just let that sink in for a moment. Okay, another
team that did well. And the AFC on the whole
this week did great against the NFC. They are currently
six and one. The lone Laws being Pittsburgh will definitely
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talk about those frauds in a minute. The Packers smashed
them on Sunday night, but interesting results. So the Bears
find out that Lamar Jackson is not playing. Friday line
plummets from six and a half to like one and
a half, two whatever it was. And I know some
guys who were like, oh, you got to take in
the contest. Remember the lines are frozen Thursday at like
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a noon or whatever it is. And the Ravens were
favored by six and a half because everybody assumed Lamar
was gonna play, So a lot of people in the
contest at all, I'm taking the Bears. So now I
did see that, and I'm like, I know everybody's gonna
take the Ravens getting six and a half, that feels
like Freebie. I'm just telling you, guys, the Bears are
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not that good. Smart thing that the Ravens did that
I would assume many other teams will do going forward.
Kyle Hamilton at safety played sixty one percent of the
snaps in the box. They just said we're gonna choke
off the run and let Caleb Williams beat us. And shocker,
Caleb Williams can't beat anyone. So, you know, Cowherd usually
calls me to check in Sunday or I call him,
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you know, and so we start talking and I'm like, listen,
I don't want to be too harsh on Caleb Williams.
It's only a season and a half. We don't have
a ton of ton of data. What I saw against
the Ravens was not good. I haven't seen it from him.
What's been working is the run Gamemember Ben Johnson's run
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game in Detroit set up the pass game. Well, the
run game had been working, the defense had been forcing turnovers,
and so as such, the scrutiny's not really on Caleb.
He looks better because a they're winning and b because
the run game's opening up holes. Well guess what the
Bears did not turn over. The Ravens zero turnovers. What
did the Ravens do? They got to the red zone
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six times, guys six times. Six visits to the red
zone with Snoop Huntley as quarterback. You almost wonder what
would have happened if they went to Snoop Puntley instead
of Cooper Rush. Cooper Rush was abysmal.
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The Ravens are two and five. Steelers just lost, Bengals
just lost to my Jets. We may touch on that
Brown's just lost. So it's like, oh, well, here's a
stat for you since nineteen ninety so we're going back
now thirty five years. Well, this would be year thirty five.
Eleven teams that were two and five made the playoffs.
If you were wise and you bet Ravens to make
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the playoffs, I think you're in good shape. Huntley gives
them the stay of execution. They I don't want to
say roll the Bears, but it wasn't close, easy cover,
and now they have the Miami Dolphins on Thursday night.
Did they save Lamar for that? I don't know. They're
going to be favored against the Dolphins. It might they
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might even be favored if Snoop Puntley is the quarterback.
I don't know. Then it's a tough road. Oh, three
straight road games? Uh? Actually wait, one of these may
be in uh overseas at the Vikings and at the Browns.
They're not sending the Browns back overseas. No, just three
straight road games? Interesting, followed by the Jets at least
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one matchup against Joe Flacco. So yeah, I think the
Ravens are are going to be fine. What were the
only other Oh? We got to talk about my Jets
for a moment. And honestly, this is when Coward called
me when the Jets were making this massive comeback, and
I'm like, you know, Colin, I don't want the Jets
to win. I know I sound like an asshole fan,
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but I didn't want to win. I want competitive fire,
maximum effort, and a close loss. To me, that's the
best case scenario. Right, you still maintain the lock on
the number one pick. You see some fight and and
you know, hey, congrats to everybody everybody in that scenario wins, except,
of course, the players and the head coach. So the
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Jets are down fourteen with eight forty one left. The
Bengals were on thirty eight points eight forty one left.
Jets could not stop anybody. They convert a fourth down.
They go on to score, and they line up to
go for two, and the announcers are like apoplectic.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
What they do?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
What is this call? Oh? My goodn't what is Aaron
Glenn's lost his mind? They're going for two? What if
they don't get it? And so j Justin Fields rolls
out and hits I think it's Ashton Ashlin or Ashton
Davis right near the goal line. Initially the rest are like, nope, nope,
doesn't count. Now he caught it for sure, but did
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the ball cross the plane? And by inches it may have?
On like the sixth review, so that now the Jets
are only down six. Well, the Bengals vomit all over
themselves as they are wont to do. Jets get the
ball back. They're cooking first in goal from the four.
And this was maybe the second best play call I
saw all weekend in football. Number one is the Alabama
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two point conversion against South Carolina to tie the game
in the fourth quarter. Alabama ended up winning. I'm just
telling you, Kaylin de Boor and Grubb are are just
dialing up the best. Shit. It is the best might
be the best playof've seen all college football season, and
both of them could belong to Dubour because the other
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was like a bubble scream to their left tackle, who's
an NFL prospect, probably a top ten pick Proctor. This
was some sort of like a tweaked version of a
Philly special. It was spectacular. Just look it up. Alabama
two point conversion versus South Carolina. It was like, oh my,
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oh my, oh wow, that was It was just sweet. Anyways,
the Jets dial up a pitch to Breese Hall and
you can tell instantly he's gonna throw it because he
slows down and then he realizes I've got nothing, and
you're like, oh, he's just gonna throw it away and
go and keeps going and then he just lobs it.
It looks like it's thrown away, and Mason Taylor, the
young tight end out of LSU, just mosses this defensive
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back who totally has his back to Breecee Hall. He
had no idea who the football was, and Taylor catches
it and it's like, oh my gosh. And then the
Jets get the two pointer and they end up winning
twenty three points in the fourth quarter on the road.
That's fight that is. You know. Remember they had that
great comeback against Tampa Bay and I know, well, you
need to come back as you were getting your ass kick. Yeah,
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they don't have a defense, but this is another fun
staff for you. So the Jets had a couple weeks
ago in London eighty two yards of offense, the lowest
output of the season. On Sunday in Cincinnati, they had
five hundred and two yards of offense seven point two
yards per play, and they cut down the penalties, no turnovers.
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I mean, it was an offensive orgy. The Jets get
the win. I need to check if they are still
mathematically the number one seed, and no, I guess it
goes to oh my gosh, wait a minute, so it
goes to strike the schedule maybe, so the Jets are
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gonna be battling the Saints. Jets, Saints and Tennessee are
all one and seven. The problem is the Saints. I mean,
if they start, if they decide, hey, we could go
for the number one pick. Let's just start Tyler Shuck.
I mean, Tyler Shuck is terrible. At least Justin Field's
has a pulse. Tennessee cam Ward there's video of him
taking off his helmet and getting really pissed at the coach.
I mean, Tennessee is trash. I did take the Colts
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in the contest. It was kind of a late pick.
We didn't talk about it here on the pod because
I'm like, I'm not talking double digits, and then I
look more into it. I'm like, dude, they whacked the
Titans last time. Jeffrey Simmons is out. It seems like
the lugerious Sneed is out. I got a whiff that
the Titans are gonna be basically holding guys out to
trade them.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I think Sneed's legit hurt, but it's like, oh, if
they're gonna do that, well, they're gonna get blasted, and
you know, Donathan Taylor breaks off big runs blah blah blah,
and they end up getting the victory. The Colts did culture.
They're good man. Now, I know they've beaten up some jokers,
but impressive. Nonetheless, let's see, I know Rob hates when
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I touch on every game, but I just I have
big opinions. Oh oh, Dallas, Denver. So the one loss
I took on the contest was on the Cowboys. That
was just asinine. And I mean the Dallas defense is
so bad. They made bo Nix look good. Bo Nicks
not sacked four touchdowns eight point five yards pert tempt JK.
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Dobbins with one hundred eleven on the ground. I mean,
it was like, what is Dallas even doing? They can't
stop anyone seven point five yards per play for the Broncos.
It's just embarrassing stuff from Dallas. And it's funny because
I was making the case that if you believe in Dallas,
bet them to win the division. If the Eagles slip
up with no AJ Brown will None of that happened,
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none of it. I mean it was Dak Prescott had
an awful game for my son in fantasy. Our son's pissed. Now.
Dallas does get back a dub next week because they
get to face Arizona, although Arizona off a bye, we'll see.
And then actually then they got Raiders, so those are
two winnable games. But Eagles, Chiefs Lions that is a
gauntlet for Dallas starting right around Thanksgiving. I do want
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to spend a couple of moments on the Sunday night
football game. And guys, I mean I talk about this
often that the Pittsburgh Steelers are gigantic frauds and if
you believe in these these suckers, that's on you. Now,
the Steelers have a very defensive fan base. Not just
defensive like the lover or defense, but they're just you
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can't say negative stuff about them. And then when they
were riding high at four and one, well, look Aaron Rodgers,
he just needed to change his scenery. That's all. They
go into halftime last night up sixteen to seven. Now
the Packers had missed two field goals. It was pretty clear.
I'm a dummy. I was locked in on you know,
family stuff, and I did not bet the Packers at halftime,
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but I knew one of the things that and I
don't post a lot of these, but in the NFL
is so crazy that if you if one team totally
dominates the first half and it's a mild surprise, bet
the other side to cover the second half. Now, this
does not apply to crap teams like the Tennessee Titans.
You can't do that. The New Orleans States, you cannot
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do that normally, the Jets, you cannot. It would have
worked because they were playing an equally crappy team in
the Bengals. But if, like someone has a hot half,
that's a that's a surprise against a good team. I
think the good team usually rebounds, and Green Bay rebound.
They peeled off a twenty eight to three run before
a garbage time touched down by the Steelers, and it
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was pretty easy. Like you're watching Lafleur in the first
half and you're like, why are you force feeding Josh Jacobs?
What what is going on? The Steelers have one of
the worst pass defenses in the league. It is abysmal.
Joe Flacco just roasted them. Everybody could see that. And
you're telling me you're gonna keep running the football into
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the line of scrummage. I mean they got near the
red zone late second quarter, they ran Josh Jacobs I'm
pretty sure three times, and I'm like, have these guys
lost their mind? What are they doing? Like, I just
don't understand this insistence to just run, run, run, run,
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Like at some point you've got to get creative, and
then after the three runs by Jacob they unlocked it.
They were like, all right, we gotta start passing the football,
and they did this nice creative thing to Tucker Craft.
Tucker Craft looks awesome, and they get the first and
I feel like from that moment they decided, screw it,
We're just going to the air. And Jordan Love at
one point peeled off twenty straight completions and they went
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up and down the field. And second half, folks, this
is not hard. If you play the Steelers, throw the football.
Here are the second half possessions for the Packers pass
heavy offense. Nine plays ninety yards touchdown, ten plays seventy
eight yards touchdown, four plays forty five yards touchdown, eight
forty seven field goal five to nineteen field goal. End
of game. They basically threw the ball. I mean, Jordan
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Love had an amazing game. If if you some people
don't like when I say this, but if you were
in a coma for the last five years and you
woke up right before Sunday night football and you just
turn on this game and you're like, oh my gosh, football,
that's crazy. Who is Jordan Love? Twenty nine of thirty
seven for three sixty not dink and dunk nine point
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seven yards per attempt, did not get sacked by the
most expensive defense in the league three touchdowns. Guys. I
know people want to say Aaron Rodgers as good. It's
not his fault. Aaron Rodgers is okay, you get pressure
on him as they did. Micah Parsons kept rushing up
the field, and if you're paying attention, like Rodgers kept
having to step into the middle of the pocket, well,
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guess what the way the Packers do their stunts. They
were just collapsing instantly on Rogers and he had to
throw a bunch away or he was eating sacks. I'm
looking at I don't know if this is accurate because
it just happened. Quarterback hits. They have Rashan Gary with
two Parsons, with one Parsons with a sack. They only
have them for three sacks and five quarterback hits. I
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felt like that's a little light. It felt like Rogers
was getting blasted. Anyways, Packers roll them. And oh, by
the way, I know they didn't cover against Arizona. I
know they didn't cover against the Bengals. I know they
didn't cover against the Cowboys the tie and they lost
to the Browns. Green Bay is quietly five one and one.
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They have the Carolina Panthers next week in Lambeau, followed
by a big one against the Eagles, then they get
the Giants. They're gonna win two of those three. I
can't say they're definitely gonna be the Eagles at home,
but I mean they might be favorite. It's a Monday
night game. Packers quietly are looking at the potential of
eight one and one. So remember they haven't been totally crisp.
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This is a team without currently Jaden Reed, who you
could argue that maybe their best wide receiver. So once
he gets back. Christian Watson was back last night. He
looked kind of good. Golden wasn't one hundred percent. I
had to start him in fantasy. That's how I know.
I think this is a dangerous If you're asking me
who are the who's going to be in the super Bowl,
and I much prefer that conversation and this silly MVP thing,
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But I would say for super Bowl right now to
me it again, this stuff changes all the time. I'm
back on Packers. I can definitely see Green Bay AFC
is a little tougher. I know everybody loves the Chiefs.
I'm not ready to go Broncos yet. I would. I
would go Chargers ahead of Broncos once the Chargers get healthy.
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I'm not done with Buffalo, and I don't think you
can be done with Baltimore. Also, some fun numb here
Jordan Love versus the vaunted Steelers Blitz and you know
they half the blitz because they're not getting pressure. Sorry,
tj Wat's overpaid. You should have traded him when I
told you to. Jordan Love versus Steelers Blitz twelve of
seventeen for two eleven and three tuties. I mean, guys,
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at some point you get you're gonna start to be like, oh,
this Steelers defense is garbage. It's hot garbage. And yeah,
I don't We're definitely seeing a line of demarcation between
good and bad. I remember there was a lot of
big spreads this week. Well guess what the favorites going
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ten and two against the spread two of them. Two
of the upsets were Jets six and a half outright
and Dolphins. I think I don't know what that closed
at because again I was watching, you know, thirteen middle
school volleyball outdoors on the beach anyways. Uh, what have
we got Monday night? Oh no, no, Well I'll talk
about Brian Kelly. Yeah, let me go Brian Kelly real quick.
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Never met Brian Kelly, don't I don't know him at all,
never spoken to him. Don't know whose agent is the
best Brian Kelly story I have that dates way back
to when he was at either Grand Valley I'll just
say Pre. I'll just say Pre Notre Dame. So a
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guy who's now a buddy of mine was a pretty
big time recruit in the Midwest, and you know he
had some schools looking at him. He did end up
going Division one i'll just say West of the Mississippi anyways,
and he was getting recruited by Brian Kelly. I'm not
going to say to what school. And you know, all
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these coaches are super friendly, and you know they're calling
and they get a big win and they're like, oh hey, whatever,
I'm not going to say the guy's name. Yeah, did
you see that? How about that? You know, we'd love
to have you both. Everybody's positive and upbeaten, and this
guy just repeatedly said Brian Kelly was an asshole, like
It's like during the recruiting process, which is insane, he
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would just show up and like just act arrogant. And
this was before he was at Notre Dame. So obviously
the Notre Dame stories are legendary. Even the fans didn't
like this guy. He's just an ornery prick. He doesn't
want to deal with a lot of stuff. Now, is
he a good football mind, Yes, that's undeniable. Is he
also a prick? Yeah? And by many accounts, he lost
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the boosters at LSU. He got combative, he got you know, ornery,
and that stuff don't work when you're not winning. If
you're winning, they'll put up with it because guess what,
you're winning and irrelevant you're in the mix for the
national championship. So when he was ten and four and
they were like a top twenty team, yeah, ten and three,
getting big time cruise, top fifteen. Sure, well last year
they slipped at nine and ford it was I don't know,
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but he did a good job of winning the ball
games to close out strong. So this year you go
five and three, I don't know, you want. You beat
Clemson early in the season opener, right, that's a huge win.
But then you look, and I'm gonna just tell you
right now. These are the ranked teams in the SEC.
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A and M is three, Alabama's four, Georgia's five, Ole,
miss seven, Vanderbilt nine. Five ranked teams in the top
ten from the SEC, Texas is twenty, Tennessee's fourteen, Missouri nineteen,
Oklahoma eighteen Folks. Nine teams in the SEC are ranked.
You're not one of them. That's bad with an NFL
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quarterback supposedly in Neussmeyer and you've lost three of four.
The worst part was so they were leading Texas A
and M at the half and I saw that score.
You know, I'm getting ready to go to this Halloween
party and you know, hanging out with the fam. Next thing,
I know, we eat dinner and I look up and
they're down thirty five eighteen. I was like, holy did
this team quit at halftime? And that's in Baton Rouge.
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They end up getting booed off the field. Humiliating loss.
I mean that Old Miss one was a tough one.
The Vanderbilt. Vanderbilts legit like the losses aren't terrible. They're losing.
A and M's very good. Vanderbilt's very good. Old miss
those are all top ten teams. But the way you're
losing A. Oh, by the way, you have a buye
before Alabama, Like when you lose the fan base, you
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can't keep your job, especially not as a jerk. His buyout,
let me just get it accurate. Fifty four I believe
fifty four million dollars fifty three point eight million. So
Jimbo Fisher got bought out at A and M. And oh,
by the way, they just played A and M. They
bought out Fisher and they've they're now like a top
ten team. So like they were close, they just didn't
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have the right guy, and now they're like gonna be
a playoff team. James Franklin and Penn State would not
shock you if next year they were really we'll give
them two years. Whoever they get, maybe they had a
really really good I would shock me. Now they're gonna
have to figure out quarterback run because they're gonna lose
to go a lot of guys to the NFL. LSU's
always gonna find talent. The Deep South is always loaded,
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so ultimately they're gonna land someone. Now, if you ask me,
which is the better job, Penn State or LSU I'll
just point out that, uh, it's really really difficult in
the SEC. I mean, let me look up LSU's twenty
twenty six schedule. I'll just tell you who's on it,
because I can tell you Penn States is not this hard.
LSU's twenty twenty six football schedule. So they host Clemson
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and then they have games let's see, Oh my gosh,
they have to go to Well, they get the Tide
at home, but they have to and they get Texas
at home. That's not bad. And they get a Texas
A and m at home. Wait, how's that possible? They
do have to go to Tennessee and they have to
go to Ole Miss. But a lot of good games
on the schedule at home. Damn. That add is a
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bitter pill to swallow that Kell couldn't get his act together.
I only see McNee state in the non conference. It's
just such a tough schedule. So, like you know, the
learning curve is, hey man, you gotta get your act
together quick. There's no screwing around. Let's see what Penn
State has on their schedule next year. Some of these
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stupid way all right, here we go and the non conference, Yeah,
Penn State has Marshall Temple and Buffalo. Whoever gets that
job is almost certainly starting three and zero. And then yes,
you have to go to ann Arbor. You do not
have Ohio State on the schedule. You have USC at home.
You gotta go to Washington, so you have one west
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coast trip oh Man next. Your schedule looks really good
for Penn State. So yeah, I mean again, you're gonna
get more, You're gonna get paid more. In the SEC
You're probably gonna have a higher profile. But like remember
Kaitlin de War lost to FSU and they were ready
to run him out of Alabama. He now is on
a heater. I think they're the second best team after
Ohio s date. I know Indiana we'll get there eventually.
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I'm just still not there. I did they did win
a good bet for me. Oklahoma did not on Saturday,
but a wacky fun weekend of football Halloween parties. Oh
World Series is uh one one three games at Dodger
Stadium this week. It's gonna sound bad. The schedule is
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just too daunting for for us. So I do not
think I will be going to any of the games,
but you never know. May call an audible late and
have some fomo. I got obviously a lot of friends
friends going to that.
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Yeah, let's see what we got for Monday night football
and wrap up the pod. Oh, it's Chiefs Commanders. I'm
seeing Deebo, Samuel In, Terry McLaurin in, Marcus Mariota in.
I guess I would say there's a world where I see, Oh,
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the Chiefs will now face the Buffalo Bills next week
in Buffalo. Is there a world where they go up
twenty to six, take their foot off the gas and
next thing you know, Washington scores a tuddy and a
two pointer and all that's a kind of game is
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could you see that scenario unfolding? Of course? I mean
we are talking about the Chiefs who tend to play
with their food. Now they occasionally will lock in and
then destroy it and I mean embarrassed like the Raiders
was thirty one nothing. The Raiders didn't get one hundred yards,
but the Raiders were kind of checked out heading into
their bye week. I am looking at analysis because I
mentioned this on the Herd. I didn't say it on
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the pod, but when I saw that Raiders' performance heading
into a bye I wondered, with the Cleveland Browns long
tough stretch, which included a London game heading into by
would they kind of kind of pack it in and
just be like, Eh, yeah, we're heading into the bye
I'm traveling. Let's just get out, you know. And I'm
not saying guys quit, but it's easy to lose your focus,
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for instance, And I know, Jason Gosh what men's league parallels.
So in the in the Thursday Men's League, we've got
a loaded team, we're by far the best team, and
we're undefeated. And then on Thursday, you know, one of
our guys and I hope he's listening, was like, hey,
I got I got a laid ask to the Chargers game. Sorry, guys,
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I can't make it. I'm like, oh, okay, I mean
this guy's good. He walked down at Oregon State. And
so we only have six and we're playing a team
that's highly motivated that we always beat them. But they
have a point guard who played at USC, a really
nice guy and a great player, and they got a
bunch of try hards. They got good guys, and so
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I could tell from the beginning we were not locked in.
We're leading them most of the way, leading all first half,
leading in the third quarter, and then our guys start
to get tired. We only had one sub me and
we did some rotation. We just got tired. In the
fourth they walked into a bunch of threes. They must
have had five threes in a row, and we were
just like, uh oh, well, end of the regular season.
We lost, and you just didn't have that fire. Knowing
(34:35):
we're the number one seed, the game didn't really matter.
Like I'm not bashing the Browns, but they were one
in six. Miles Harrett's playing his ass off. I think
he had five sacks. But the rest of the team, Oh,
I've got a trip to Hawaii next week on the
off way. Oh man, I cannot wait. Oh man, I'm
taking my girl pack like that. Stuff easily can get
(34:56):
in your head, especially when you're playing for nothing. So
that's one thing. So there's six teams on a bye
next week. Wait wait yeah, yeah, no, wait are there
only four? Maybe I'm losing my mind. Four teams on
a buy? So here are here are the four Browns
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who stink Jet stink, but they didn't pack it in.
They're fighting for their coach, that's clear. The Eagles, who
are an elite team. Elite teams tend to not pack
it in at the end of the NFL level, especially
with that revenge spot. And then the Buccaneers who were
coming bouncing back from a loss. So I didn't fade
any of those three, and in fact I had the
(35:36):
Bucks in the contest Browns gave up. Let's see who's
in the by in Week ten, Bengals, Cowboys, Titans, Chiefs.
So I think next Sunday, I think you've got to
look to fade the Titans and Bengals right heading into
their buy. They're bad teams going nowhere, and even with
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a veteran like Joe Flacco, I don't think you can
trust the Bengals. You could see that defense. So just
another again, one data point, nothing overwhelming, you know, bet
the house, nothing like that, but just something else to
consider with these bie weeks. Later in the season. Some
of these teams are done. It's over. Like, are the
Brown's gonna fight hard for Stefanski? I don't know. He
feels like he's still there, right, He's not going anywhere,
(36:22):
Aaron Glenn. He's got the guys fighting for him. You
could see that Justin Field's had a lot, you know,
he clearly. I mean it was to the point where
it was like, oh, it's Tyrod Taylor starting, that's a
win for the Jets. The owner blasting Justin Fields.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
He was highly motivated. I don't.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
I just I don't know what's motivating. Like the Tennessee Titans,
they fired their coach. The current guy ain't gonna be
the next head coach, so you're not like trying to
play for him. You got a rookie quarterback who's pissed.
He's used to winning at last year in Miami, won
a lot before that at Washington State, won a bunch,
and now he can't win anything. You got guys wondering
if they're gonna get traded. Your best player, Jeffrey Simmons
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was out, is injured. I mean, like there's really nothing
to play for, and they are a team. I don't
maybe they just continue to get blasted everywhere. I don't know,
so Monday Night football, I will lean Washington getting the points.
I definitely would not go Washington money line. Let's see
if this any chances gets to thirteen. I cannot imagine
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that I'm currently seeing. I think it was twelve and
a half. No, it's eleven. Yeah, I think you just
take the eleven for fun. Maybe you take a first
touchdown dart on like a on a Deebo Samuel. Let's
see what that would pay? Uh first TD score? Wait,
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is debo not even on here? Oh, Deebo's sixteen hundred,
let's go, let's go. Let's go, you know, twenty bucks
on Deebo Samuel plus sixteen ninety two first TV. Now,
obviously Washington would have to get the ball first, because
you know, if the Chiefs get it, they're probably scoring. Yeah,
so I'll take the eleven. Not nothing big, Take the
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eleven Deebo Samuel first touchdown back tomorrow
This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.
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What is up Straight Fire Fire, It's me Jason McIntyre,
Straight Foyer for Monday, October twenty seventh. Though you can
tell by my voice. It was a great weekend, a
phenomenal weekend. Oh my gosh, Halloween at Festivities got underway.
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My daughter played in the Beach Volleyball Tournament Nick Coxa
with a thrilling four to three win on Sunday. I
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There's just so much happening. I'm gonna start with the
curveball only because rob G's not here, and it happened
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on Sunday night, and it was thrilling, and it was
Austin Reeves giving the Kings a fifty one p yes
with no Luca, no Lebron. Austin Reeves has a career
game fifty one eleven and nine, no cap folks. Austin
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took twenty two free throws, made twenty one of them.
Undrafted Austin Reeves arguably the best number three in the
league with a phenomenal performance, and the Lakers moved to
two and one, And that will conclude our NBA coverage.
I was just watching the end of it and it
was like, the Lakers really hold on and steal this.
Wemby and Spurs are undefeated. Here's my new thing, so
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I am. I got some good feedback from you guys
on what I talked about Friday with the website with
my picks, just so we can get him everywhere. Obviously,
I'll be mentioning the website here on the podcast. I'm
not gonna do a lot of promo and push it.
You know, people get weird about that. I'm not selling picks.
I would not do that. It was an up and
down weekend in NFL gambling college up and down as well.
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It's weird, man, I'm gonna go on a rant. Remind
me if I don't on the Atlanta Ful because it's
at the top of my notes. It's just what happened
was total garbage. But obviously Brian Kelly was fired by
Notre Dame. I'll get to that. I hope I can
remember to do it. But it was a wacky NFL weekend.
Obviously we'll start there, because you know, big picture, you
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just look at the top of the top of the
list here and you're like, oh, look into the games. Okay, okay,
Oh my gosh. Favorites went ten and two against the spread,
so we now know who's bad. So the bad teams
are getting thumped and the favorites are ruling, but not
totally because it was it was craziness. A lot of
wacky stuff happened. I thought I had a bead on
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like three or four teams, and then whacky nonsense happened,
and it's like, I don't understand this team, you know.
So I nailed the Texans. We got that. That was
pretty much a layup forty nine Ers just too beat up,
and the Texans win twenty six fifteen. I'm not gonna
make any sweeping conclusions. It's just a tired, physically beat
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up forty nine ers team. I don't know if they're gonna,
you know, make the playoffs, to make a deep run
because of the injuries. It's something in the water. In
San Fray. Everybody's fricking hurt. Right Philadelphia without AJ Brown,
I was a little nervous. They rolled the Giants in
the rematch. It didn't really matter that they didn't have
AJ Brown. Saquon goes off for a sixty five yeard
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touchdown run I think on the first or second play
of the game, and he finally tops one hundred yards.
Everything's fine with Saquon. Jalen hurts four touchdowns. What was
moderately interesting and it's not good, is that Cam Skataboo,
the fun, tough rookie running back for the Giants, broke
his ankle. It's a pretty gnarly injury if you haven't
(03:41):
seen it online, one of those like oh my gosh,
that's not supposed to bend the right way, and it's
super sad his season's over. But like, you know, the
mood on the Giants after that was just disconsolate, like
that's that's Jackson Dart's guy. Dart's getting roughed up, got
sacked five times, he's running less. I think the coach realize, like, bro,
we need you to, you know, actually finish the season.
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And so the Eagles rule many other favorites. You know,
Tampa Bay just destroys New Orleans. One of the things
that got you gotta note it going forward, New Orleans.
Who was their center last week? McCoy. They couldn't do anything,
They couldn't block, they couldn't run nothing. It was a disaster.
What's his face? Rattler gets bench for Tyler Shuck and
Tampa's defense, which ain't even great. Okay, totally shuts down
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the Saints next week. I'm already given. Me and my
boy Nico talked about our Survivor pick. I think it's
got to be the Rams if you have them, I mean,
they're gonna be laying thirteen fifteen. I don't know what
the number is against. I'm pretty sure it's the Saints.
And if you haven't used the Rams and Survivor, you're
in good shape. There are there is another good Chargers
(04:47):
is a good option for Survivor next week. This is
what happens, guys, when we win in Survivor, we get
all geeked and we're like, all right, what do we got?
What do we got? Next week? Okay? Rams? Yeah, Rams
are hosting at so FI the Saints. Maybe these things
make it interesting, but I doubt it. So Saints are
like an unbeedable team. They're bad. Now I thought, you know,
I thought I understood the Falcons right at home indoors
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man on the fast track, they're good. Miami, I thought
I understood them. They're not good. But I did make
the point, you know, Miami could do some things indoors.
Here's what this really pissed me off. So again, I
had a super busy weekend. We hit two Halloween parties.
On Saturday, my buddy jac and some of some of
his friends have an awesome Halloween party and they've upgraded
it every year. And so the wife and I were
(05:31):
going to be a Wesley and Princess Buttercup from Princess Bride.
We ordered the outfits and everything, and then my wife
sees on TikTok or whatever that the louver was robbed.
And I'm sure you guys have heard of it. Obviously,
it was a big story internationally. And the way they
did it was they dressed up as construction workers in
the middle of the day, went into the louver, stole
(05:53):
a bunch of jewels in like the middle of the day.
It's crazy, and so by WHI I said why don't
we just do that. That's like a low, low cost outfit.
It's pretty easy. We put on some jewels, some all
black outfits, some construction shirts, and it was easy. It
was a great and people loved it. And then me
and you guys, I play hoops with Dane the former
Notre Dame quarterback, so him and his wife took us
(06:15):
to a party. Liner was there. It was a big
It was a great Saturday night. Right, But I'm not
locked in on the NFL like the night before, right,
I totally didn't see this. So I Drake London's having
an amazing season for the Falons. I didn't see him
on the practice report all week, nothing, nothing, nothing. Apparently
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Friday he had a light practice, but like, I didn't
see that because it was all his petic's gonna play
his pets. I'm just telling you, no mention at all,
Drake London. So Saturday morning, Sunday morning, you know, a
little hurt in there, had to wake up early. My
daughter as a beach volleyball tournament. You know, I'm hanging
out with the parents watching the games, and then I'm
watching Red Soot on my phone. I didn't even check
the injury report. I didn't. It's like an ass I started.
(06:58):
Ricky Pearsall, who again is freaking out, you know, I
mean the longest knee injury I've ever seen. So I
didn't eve see Drake London was out. So I'm seeing
this Falcons go. I'm like, damn Cousins is washed. Okay,
So late Sunday, you know, I start to go through
the box scores and I'm like, wait, Drake London, Oh man,
somebody shut him down. Wait a minute, no way, he
didn't get a target. He didn't even freaking play. And listen,
(07:21):
this is so the bonus of West Coast NFL is
you wake up, you maybe get in a quick workout,
play some hoops for like an hour or ninety minutes,
and then boom the game start. There's not like that
wake up at seven or eight o'clock. Wait five or
six hours. You know that kind of sucked on the
East Coast, especially when you have little kids. Well it
doesn't suck because the kids are awesome, but it's like, oh,
this game just can't happen soon enough. So there is
(07:44):
that huge window you're not gonna get screwed on that
stuff with with with lineups. How does how does the
NFL rightfully not get called for this Drake London all
of a sudden like mystery injury doesn't play like that.
I'm an ass for betting the Falcons early in the
week and putting Falcons in teas early in the week. Guys.
I've said this several times this season. I'm freaking done
betting early in the week. It just keeps costing me.
(08:06):
With the injuries. It's a killer and it blew up
some teasers. Now others hit, which was fine, but it
just sucks when that kind of crap goes down. So
Falcons get blasted, guys. B Jon Robinson had twenty five
yards rushing against the Dolphins, like Atlanta just they cannot
have good things for many reasons. And letting the Dolphins
(08:26):
have three touchdown drives over seventy five yards. Did you
see what the Browns did to them? Like that's embarrassing stuff. Anyways,
I just talked too much about the Falcons. We know
the Patriots are good Patriots. With a smash the Browns,
it was tense for like a quarter, but that's what
the Patriots do. Listen, New England is good, guys, I
said a couple weeks ago in the Herd, they may
(08:47):
get the number one seed and they just keep rolling
your division leaders after eight weeks, New England, Indianapolis, and Denver, Like,
just let that sink in for a moment. Okay, another
team that did well. And the AFC on the whole
this week did great against the NFC. They are currently
six and one. The lone Laws being Pittsburgh will definitely
(09:11):
talk about those frauds in a minute. The Packers smashed
them on Sunday night, but interesting results. So the Bears
find out that Lamar Jackson is not playing. Friday line
plummets from six and a half to like one and
a half, two whatever it was. And I know some
guys who were like, oh, you got to take in
the contest. Remember the lines are frozen Thursday at like
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a noon or whatever it is. And the Ravens were
favored by six and a half because everybody assumed Lamar
was gonna play, So a lot of people in the
contest at all, I'm taking the Bears. So now I
did see that, and I'm like, I know everybody's gonna
take the Ravens getting six and a half, that feels
like Freebie. I'm just telling you, guys, the Bears are
(09:53):
not that good. Smart thing that the Ravens did that
I would assume many other teams will do going forward.
Kyle Hamilton at safety played sixty one percent of the
snaps in the box. They just said we're gonna choke
off the run and let Caleb Williams beat us. And shocker,
Caleb Williams can't beat anyone. So, you know, Cowherd usually
calls me to check in Sunday or I call him,
(10:14):
you know, and so we start talking and I'm like, listen,
I don't want to be too harsh on Caleb Williams.
It's only a season and a half. We don't have
a ton of ton of data. What I saw against
the Ravens was not good. I haven't seen it from him.
What's been working is the run Gamemember Ben Johnson's run
(10:35):
game in Detroit set up the pass game. Well, the
run game had been working, the defense had been forcing turnovers,
and so as such, the scrutiny's not really on Caleb.
He looks better because a they're winning and b because
the run game's opening up holes. Well guess what the
Bears did not turn over. The Ravens zero turnovers. What
did the Ravens do? They got to the red zone
(10:56):
six times, guys six times. Six visits to the red
zone with Snoop Huntley as quarterback. You almost wonder what
would have happened if they went to Snoop Puntley instead
of Cooper Rush. Cooper Rush was abysmal.
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The Ravens are two and five. Steelers just lost, Bengals
just lost to my Jets. We may touch on that
Brown's just lost. So it's like, oh, well, here's a
stat for you since nineteen ninety so we're going back
now thirty five years. Well, this would be year thirty five.
Eleven teams that were two and five made the playoffs.
If you were wise and you bet Ravens to make
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the playoffs, I think you're in good shape. Huntley gives
them the stay of execution. They I don't want to
say roll the Bears, but it wasn't close, easy cover,
and now they have the Miami Dolphins on Thursday night.
Did they save Lamar for that? I don't know. They're
going to be favored against the Dolphins. It might they
(12:01):
might even be favored if Snoop Puntley is the quarterback.
I don't know. Then it's a tough road. Oh, three
straight road games? Uh? Actually wait, one of these may
be in uh overseas at the Vikings and at the Browns.
They're not sending the Browns back overseas. No, just three
straight road games? Interesting, followed by the Jets at least
(12:22):
one matchup against Joe Flacco. So yeah, I think the
Ravens are are going to be fine. What were the
only other Oh? We got to talk about my Jets
for a moment. And honestly, this is when Coward called
me when the Jets were making this massive comeback, and
I'm like, you know, Colin, I don't want the Jets
to win. I know I sound like an asshole fan,
(12:43):
but I didn't want to win. I want competitive fire,
maximum effort, and a close loss. To me, that's the
best case scenario. Right, you still maintain the lock on
the number one pick. You see some fight and and
you know, hey, congrats to everybody everybody in that scenario wins, except,
of course, the players and the head coach. So the
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Jets are down fourteen with eight forty one left. The
Bengals were on thirty eight points eight forty one left.
Jets could not stop anybody. They convert a fourth down.
They go on to score, and they line up to
go for two, and the announcers are like apoplectic.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
What they do?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
What is this call? Oh? My goodn't what is Aaron
Glenn's lost his mind? They're going for two? What if
they don't get it? And so j Justin Fields rolls
out and hits I think it's Ashton Ashlin or Ashton
Davis right near the goal line. Initially the rest are like, nope, nope,
doesn't count. Now he caught it for sure, but did
(13:42):
the ball cross the plane? And by inches it may have?
On like the sixth review, so that now the Jets
are only down six. Well, the Bengals vomit all over
themselves as they are wont to do. Jets get the
ball back. They're cooking first in goal from the four.
And this was maybe the second best play call I
saw all weekend in football. Number one is the Alabama
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two point conversion against South Carolina to tie the game
in the fourth quarter. Alabama ended up winning. I'm just
telling you, Kaylin de Boor and Grubb are are just
dialing up the best. Shit. It is the best might
be the best playof've seen all college football season, and
both of them could belong to Dubour because the other
(14:25):
was like a bubble scream to their left tackle, who's
an NFL prospect, probably a top ten pick Proctor. This
was some sort of like a tweaked version of a
Philly special. It was spectacular. Just look it up. Alabama
two point conversion versus South Carolina. It was like, oh my,
(14:45):
oh my, oh wow, that was It was just sweet. Anyways,
the Jets dial up a pitch to Breese Hall and
you can tell instantly he's gonna throw it because he
slows down and then he realizes I've got nothing, and
you're like, oh, he's just gonna throw it away and
go and keeps going and then he just lobs it.
It looks like it's thrown away, and Mason Taylor, the
young tight end out of LSU, just mosses this defensive
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back who totally has his back to Breecee Hall. He
had no idea who the football was, and Taylor catches
it and it's like, oh my gosh. And then the
Jets get the two pointer and they end up winning
twenty three points in the fourth quarter on the road.
That's fight that is. You know. Remember they had that
great comeback against Tampa Bay and I know, well, you
need to come back as you were getting your ass kick. Yeah,
(15:29):
they don't have a defense, but this is another fun
staff for you. So the Jets had a couple weeks
ago in London eighty two yards of offense, the lowest
output of the season. On Sunday in Cincinnati, they had
five hundred and two yards of offense seven point two
yards per play, and they cut down the penalties, no turnovers.
(15:51):
I mean, it was an offensive orgy. The Jets get
the win. I need to check if they are still
mathematically the number one seed, and no, I guess it
goes to oh my gosh, wait a minute, so it
goes to strike the schedule maybe, so the Jets are
(16:11):
gonna be battling the Saints. Jets, Saints and Tennessee are
all one and seven. The problem is the Saints. I mean,
if they start, if they decide, hey, we could go
for the number one pick. Let's just start Tyler Shuck.
I mean, Tyler Shuck is terrible. At least Justin Field's
has a pulse. Tennessee cam Ward there's video of him
taking off his helmet and getting really pissed at the coach.
I mean, Tennessee is trash. I did take the Colts
(16:33):
in the contest. It was kind of a late pick.
We didn't talk about it here on the pod because
I'm like, I'm not talking double digits, and then I
look more into it. I'm like, dude, they whacked the
Titans last time. Jeffrey Simmons is out. It seems like
the lugerious Sneed is out. I got a whiff that
the Titans are gonna be basically holding guys out to
trade them.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I think Sneed's legit hurt, but it's like, oh, if
they're gonna do that, well, they're gonna get blasted, and
you know, Donathan Taylor breaks off big runs blah blah blah,
and they end up getting the victory. The Colts did culture.
They're good man. Now, I know they've beaten up some jokers,
but impressive. Nonetheless, let's see, I know Rob hates when
(17:16):
I touch on every game, but I just I have
big opinions. Oh oh, Dallas, Denver. So the one loss
I took on the contest was on the Cowboys. That
was just asinine. And I mean the Dallas defense is
so bad. They made bo Nix look good. Bo Nicks
not sacked four touchdowns eight point five yards pert tempt JK.
(17:39):
Dobbins with one hundred eleven on the ground. I mean,
it was like, what is Dallas even doing? They can't
stop anyone seven point five yards per play for the Broncos.
It's just embarrassing stuff from Dallas. And it's funny because
I was making the case that if you believe in Dallas,
bet them to win the division. If the Eagles slip
up with no AJ Brown will None of that happened,
(18:01):
none of it. I mean it was Dak Prescott had
an awful game for my son in fantasy. Our son's pissed. Now.
Dallas does get back a dub next week because they
get to face Arizona, although Arizona off a bye, we'll see.
And then actually then they got Raiders, so those are
two winnable games. But Eagles, Chiefs Lions that is a
gauntlet for Dallas starting right around Thanksgiving. I do want
(18:25):
to spend a couple of moments on the Sunday night
football game. And guys, I mean I talk about this
often that the Pittsburgh Steelers are gigantic frauds and if
you believe in these these suckers, that's on you. Now,
the Steelers have a very defensive fan base. Not just
defensive like the lover or defense, but they're just you
(18:46):
can't say negative stuff about them. And then when they
were riding high at four and one, well, look Aaron Rodgers,
he just needed to change his scenery. That's all. They
go into halftime last night up sixteen to seven. Now
the Packers had missed two field goals. It was pretty clear.
I'm a dummy. I was locked in on you know,
family stuff, and I did not bet the Packers at halftime,
(19:08):
but I knew one of the things that and I
don't post a lot of these, but in the NFL
is so crazy that if you if one team totally
dominates the first half and it's a mild surprise, bet
the other side to cover the second half. Now, this
does not apply to crap teams like the Tennessee Titans.
You can't do that. The New Orleans States, you cannot
(19:29):
do that normally, the Jets, you cannot. It would have
worked because they were playing an equally crappy team in
the Bengals. But if, like someone has a hot half,
that's a that's a surprise against a good team. I
think the good team usually rebounds, and Green Bay rebound.
They peeled off a twenty eight to three run before
a garbage time touched down by the Steelers, and it
(19:52):
was pretty easy. Like you're watching Lafleur in the first
half and you're like, why are you force feeding Josh Jacobs?
What what is going on? The Steelers have one of
the worst pass defenses in the league. It is abysmal.
Joe Flacco just roasted them. Everybody could see that. And
you're telling me you're gonna keep running the football into
(20:13):
the line of scrummage. I mean they got near the
red zone late second quarter, they ran Josh Jacobs I'm
pretty sure three times, and I'm like, have these guys
lost their mind? What are they doing? Like, I just
don't understand this insistence to just run, run, run, run,
(20:36):
Like at some point you've got to get creative, and
then after the three runs by Jacob they unlocked it.
They were like, all right, we gotta start passing the football,
and they did this nice creative thing to Tucker Craft.
Tucker Craft looks awesome, and they get the first and
I feel like from that moment they decided, screw it,
We're just going to the air. And Jordan Love at
one point peeled off twenty straight completions and they went
(20:58):
up and down the field. And second half, folks, this
is not hard. If you play the Steelers, throw the football.
Here are the second half possessions for the Packers pass
heavy offense. Nine plays ninety yards touchdown, ten plays seventy
eight yards touchdown, four plays forty five yards touchdown, eight
forty seven field goal five to nineteen field goal. End
of game. They basically threw the ball. I mean, Jordan
(21:21):
Love had an amazing game. If if you some people
don't like when I say this, but if you were
in a coma for the last five years and you
woke up right before Sunday night football and you just
turn on this game and you're like, oh my gosh, football,
that's crazy. Who is Jordan Love? Twenty nine of thirty
seven for three sixty not dink and dunk nine point
(21:42):
seven yards per attempt, did not get sacked by the
most expensive defense in the league three touchdowns. Guys. I
know people want to say Aaron Rodgers as good. It's
not his fault. Aaron Rodgers is okay, you get pressure
on him as they did. Micah Parsons kept rushing up
the field, and if you're paying attention, like Rodgers kept
having to step into the middle of the pocket, well,
(22:03):
guess what the way the Packers do their stunts. They
were just collapsing instantly on Rogers and he had to
throw a bunch away or he was eating sacks. I'm
looking at I don't know if this is accurate because
it just happened. Quarterback hits. They have Rashan Gary with
two Parsons, with one Parsons with a sack. They only
have them for three sacks and five quarterback hits. I
(22:24):
felt like that's a little light. It felt like Rogers
was getting blasted. Anyways, Packers roll them. And oh, by
the way, I know they didn't cover against Arizona. I
know they didn't cover against the Bengals. I know they
didn't cover against the Cowboys the tie and they lost
to the Browns. Green Bay is quietly five one and one.
(22:47):
They have the Carolina Panthers next week in Lambeau, followed
by a big one against the Eagles, then they get
the Giants. They're gonna win two of those three. I
can't say they're definitely gonna be the Eagles at home,
but I mean they might be favorite. It's a Monday
night game. Packers quietly are looking at the potential of
eight one and one. So remember they haven't been totally crisp.
(23:10):
This is a team without currently Jaden Reed, who you
could argue that maybe their best wide receiver. So once
he gets back. Christian Watson was back last night. He
looked kind of good. Golden wasn't one hundred percent. I
had to start him in fantasy. That's how I know.
I think this is a dangerous If you're asking me
who are the who's going to be in the super Bowl,
and I much prefer that conversation and this silly MVP thing,
(23:32):
But I would say for super Bowl right now to
me it again, this stuff changes all the time. I'm
back on Packers. I can definitely see Green Bay AFC
is a little tougher. I know everybody loves the Chiefs.
I'm not ready to go Broncos yet. I would. I
would go Chargers ahead of Broncos once the Chargers get healthy.
(23:55):
I'm not done with Buffalo, and I don't think you
can be done with Baltimore. Also, some fun numb here
Jordan Love versus the vaunted Steelers Blitz and you know
they half the blitz because they're not getting pressure. Sorry,
tj Wat's overpaid. You should have traded him when I
told you to. Jordan Love versus Steelers Blitz twelve of
seventeen for two eleven and three tuties. I mean, guys,
(24:17):
at some point you get you're gonna start to be like, oh,
this Steelers defense is garbage. It's hot garbage. And yeah,
I don't We're definitely seeing a line of demarcation between
good and bad. I remember there was a lot of
big spreads this week. Well guess what the favorites going
(24:37):
ten and two against the spread two of them. Two
of the upsets were Jets six and a half outright
and Dolphins. I think I don't know what that closed
at because again I was watching, you know, thirteen middle
school volleyball outdoors on the beach anyways. Uh, what have
we got Monday night? Oh no, no, Well I'll talk
about Brian Kelly. Yeah, let me go Brian Kelly real quick.
(25:00):
Never met Brian Kelly, don't I don't know him at all,
never spoken to him. Don't know whose agent is the
best Brian Kelly story I have that dates way back
to when he was at either Grand Valley I'll just
say Pre. I'll just say Pre Notre Dame. So a
(25:22):
guy who's now a buddy of mine was a pretty
big time recruit in the Midwest, and you know he
had some schools looking at him. He did end up
going Division one i'll just say West of the Mississippi anyways,
and he was getting recruited by Brian Kelly. I'm not
going to say to what school. And you know, all
(25:43):
these coaches are super friendly, and you know they're calling
and they get a big win and they're like, oh hey, whatever,
I'm not going to say the guy's name. Yeah, did
you see that? How about that? You know, we'd love
to have you both. Everybody's positive and upbeaten, and this
guy just repeatedly said Brian Kelly was an asshole, like
It's like during the recruiting process, which is insane, he
(26:08):
would just show up and like just act arrogant. And
this was before he was at Notre Dame. So obviously
the Notre Dame stories are legendary. Even the fans didn't
like this guy. He's just an ornery prick. He doesn't
want to deal with a lot of stuff. Now, is
he a good football mind, Yes, that's undeniable. Is he
also a prick? Yeah? And by many accounts, he lost
(26:34):
the boosters at LSU. He got combative, he got you know, ornery,
and that stuff don't work when you're not winning. If
you're winning, they'll put up with it because guess what,
you're winning and irrelevant you're in the mix for the
national championship. So when he was ten and four and
they were like a top twenty team, yeah, ten and three,
getting big time cruise, top fifteen. Sure, well last year
they slipped at nine and ford it was I don't know,
(26:56):
but he did a good job of winning the ball
games to close out strong. So this year you go
five and three, I don't know, you want. You beat
Clemson early in the season opener, right, that's a huge win.
But then you look, and I'm gonna just tell you
right now. These are the ranked teams in the SEC.
(27:16):
A and M is three, Alabama's four, Georgia's five, Ole,
miss seven, Vanderbilt nine. Five ranked teams in the top
ten from the SEC, Texas is twenty, Tennessee's fourteen, Missouri nineteen,
Oklahoma eighteen Folks. Nine teams in the SEC are ranked.
You're not one of them. That's bad with an NFL
(27:38):
quarterback supposedly in Neussmeyer and you've lost three of four.
The worst part was so they were leading Texas A
and M at the half and I saw that score.
You know, I'm getting ready to go to this Halloween
party and you know, hanging out with the fam. Next thing,
I know, we eat dinner and I look up and
they're down thirty five eighteen. I was like, holy did
this team quit at halftime? And that's in Baton Rouge.
(28:04):
They end up getting booed off the field. Humiliating loss.
I mean that Old Miss one was a tough one.
The Vanderbilt. Vanderbilts legit like the losses aren't terrible. They're losing.
A and M's very good. Vanderbilt's very good. Old miss
those are all top ten teams. But the way you're
losing A. Oh, by the way, you have a buye
before Alabama, Like when you lose the fan base, you
(28:26):
can't keep your job, especially not as a jerk. His buyout,
let me just get it accurate. Fifty four I believe
fifty four million dollars fifty three point eight million. So
Jimbo Fisher got bought out at A and M. And oh,
by the way, they just played A and M. They
bought out Fisher and they've they're now like a top
ten team. So like they were close, they just didn't
(28:47):
have the right guy, and now they're like gonna be
a playoff team. James Franklin and Penn State would not
shock you if next year they were really we'll give
them two years. Whoever they get, maybe they had a
really really good I would shock me. Now they're gonna
have to figure out quarterback run because they're gonna lose
to go a lot of guys to the NFL. LSU's
always gonna find talent. The Deep South is always loaded,
(29:09):
so ultimately they're gonna land someone. Now, if you ask me,
which is the better job, Penn State or LSU I'll
just point out that, uh, it's really really difficult in
the SEC. I mean, let me look up LSU's twenty
twenty six schedule. I'll just tell you who's on it,
because I can tell you Penn States is not this hard.
LSU's twenty twenty six football schedule. So they host Clemson
(29:37):
and then they have games let's see, Oh my gosh,
they have to go to Well, they get the Tide
at home, but they have to and they get Texas
at home. That's not bad. And they get a Texas
A and m at home. Wait, how's that possible? They
do have to go to Tennessee and they have to
go to Ole Miss. But a lot of good games
on the schedule at home. Damn. That add is a
(29:58):
bitter pill to swallow that Kell couldn't get his act together.
I only see McNee state in the non conference. It's
just such a tough schedule. So, like you know, the
learning curve is, hey man, you gotta get your act
together quick. There's no screwing around. Let's see what Penn
State has on their schedule next year. Some of these
(30:21):
stupid way all right, here we go and the non conference, Yeah,
Penn State has Marshall Temple and Buffalo. Whoever gets that
job is almost certainly starting three and zero. And then yes,
you have to go to ann Arbor. You do not
have Ohio State on the schedule. You have USC at home.
You gotta go to Washington, so you have one west
(30:41):
coast trip oh Man next. Your schedule looks really good
for Penn State. So yeah, I mean again, you're gonna
get more, You're gonna get paid more. In the SEC
You're probably gonna have a higher profile. But like remember
Kaitlin de War lost to FSU and they were ready
to run him out of Alabama. He now is on
a heater. I think they're the second best team after
Ohio s date. I know Indiana we'll get there eventually.
(31:03):
I'm just still not there. I did they did win
a good bet for me. Oklahoma did not on Saturday,
but a wacky fun weekend of football Halloween parties. Oh
World Series is uh one one three games at Dodger
Stadium this week. It's gonna sound bad. The schedule is
(31:26):
just too daunting for for us. So I do not
think I will be going to any of the games,
but you never know. May call an audible late and
have some fomo. I got obviously a lot of friends
friends going to that.
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Yeah, let's see what we got for Monday night football
and wrap up the pod. Oh, it's Chiefs Commanders. I'm
seeing Deebo, Samuel In, Terry McLaurin in, Marcus Mariota in.
I guess I would say there's a world where I see, Oh,
(32:26):
the Chiefs will now face the Buffalo Bills next week
in Buffalo. Is there a world where they go up
twenty to six, take their foot off the gas and
next thing you know, Washington scores a tuddy and a
two pointer and all that's a kind of game is
(32:47):
could you see that scenario unfolding? Of course? I mean
we are talking about the Chiefs who tend to play
with their food. Now they occasionally will lock in and
then destroy it and I mean embarrassed like the Raiders
was thirty one nothing. The Raiders didn't get one hundred yards,
but the Raiders were kind of checked out heading into
their bye week. I am looking at analysis because I
mentioned this on the Herd. I didn't say it on
(33:08):
the pod, but when I saw that Raiders' performance heading
into a bye I wondered, with the Cleveland Browns long
tough stretch, which included a London game heading into by
would they kind of kind of pack it in and
just be like, Eh, yeah, we're heading into the bye
I'm traveling. Let's just get out, you know. And I'm
not saying guys quit, but it's easy to lose your focus,
(33:30):
for instance, And I know, Jason Gosh what men's league parallels.
So in the in the Thursday Men's League, we've got
a loaded team, we're by far the best team, and
we're undefeated. And then on Thursday, you know, one of
our guys and I hope he's listening, was like, hey,
I got I got a laid ask to the Chargers game. Sorry, guys,
(33:50):
I can't make it. I'm like, oh, okay, I mean
this guy's good. He walked down at Oregon State. And
so we only have six and we're playing a team
that's highly motivated that we always beat them. But they
have a point guard who played at USC, a really
nice guy and a great player, and they got a
bunch of try hards. They got good guys, and so
(34:12):
I could tell from the beginning we were not locked in.
We're leading them most of the way, leading all first half,
leading in the third quarter, and then our guys start
to get tired. We only had one sub me and
we did some rotation. We just got tired. In the
fourth they walked into a bunch of threes. They must
have had five threes in a row, and we were
just like, uh oh, well, end of the regular season.
We lost, and you just didn't have that fire. Knowing
(34:35):
we're the number one seed, the game didn't really matter.
Like I'm not bashing the Browns, but they were one
in six. Miles Harrett's playing his ass off. I think
he had five sacks. But the rest of the team, Oh,
I've got a trip to Hawaii next week on the
off way. Oh man, I cannot wait. Oh man, I'm
taking my girl pack like that. Stuff easily can get
(34:56):
in your head, especially when you're playing for nothing. So
that's one thing. So there's six teams on a bye
next week. Wait wait yeah, yeah, no, wait are there
only four? Maybe I'm losing my mind. Four teams on
a buy? So here are here are the four Browns
(35:16):
who stink Jet stink, but they didn't pack it in.
They're fighting for their coach, that's clear. The Eagles, who
are an elite team. Elite teams tend to not pack
it in at the end of the NFL level, especially
with that revenge spot. And then the Buccaneers who were
coming bouncing back from a loss. So I didn't fade
any of those three, and in fact I had the
(35:36):
Bucks in the contest Browns gave up. Let's see who's
in the by in Week ten, Bengals, Cowboys, Titans, Chiefs.
So I think next Sunday, I think you've got to
look to fade the Titans and Bengals right heading into
their buy. They're bad teams going nowhere, and even with
(36:00):
a veteran like Joe Flacco, I don't think you can
trust the Bengals. You could see that defense. So just
another again, one data point, nothing overwhelming, you know, bet
the house, nothing like that, but just something else to
consider with these bie weeks. Later in the season. Some
of these teams are done. It's over. Like, are the
Brown's gonna fight hard for Stefanski? I don't know. He
feels like he's still there, right, He's not going anywhere,
(36:22):
Aaron Glenn. He's got the guys fighting for him. You
could see that Justin Field's had a lot, you know,
he clearly. I mean it was to the point where
it was like, oh, it's Tyrod Taylor starting, that's a
win for the Jets. The owner blasting Justin Fields.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
He was highly motivated. I don't.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
I just I don't know what's motivating. Like the Tennessee Titans,
they fired their coach. The current guy ain't gonna be
the next head coach, so you're not like trying to
play for him. You got a rookie quarterback who's pissed.
He's used to winning at last year in Miami, won
a lot before that at Washington State, won a bunch,
and now he can't win anything. You got guys wondering
if they're gonna get traded. Your best player, Jeffrey Simmons
(36:59):
was out, is injured. I mean, like there's really nothing
to play for, and they are a team. I don't
maybe they just continue to get blasted everywhere. I don't know,
so Monday Night football, I will lean Washington getting the points.
I definitely would not go Washington money line. Let's see
if this any chances gets to thirteen. I cannot imagine
(37:21):
that I'm currently seeing. I think it was twelve and
a half. No, it's eleven. Yeah, I think you just
take the eleven for fun. Maybe you take a first
touchdown dart on like a on a Deebo Samuel. Let's
see what that would pay? Uh first TD score? Wait,
(37:44):
is debo not even on here? Oh, Deebo's sixteen hundred,
let's go, let's go. Let's go, you know, twenty bucks
on Deebo Samuel plus sixteen ninety two first TV. Now,
obviously Washington would have to get the ball first, because
you know, if the Chiefs get it, they're probably scoring. Yeah,
so I'll take the eleven. Not nothing big, Take the
(38:05):
eleven Deebo Samuel first touchdown back tomorrow
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