December 17, 2021 • 39 mins
Chris and Rob react to Brandon Staley’s decisions last night and his justifications for it today, MGM Director of Race & Sports Lamarr Mitchell joins the show for all the latest Vegas insight, and the NFL Pigskin Pickoff for Week 15 in the NFL!
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. It is the r Couple.
I am Chris. Here is Rob. We're live from the
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number three. Here on a funky flashback Friday. We got
our man, Lamar Mitchell, the MGM Grand Director of Racing Sports,
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coming up at the bottom of the hour to get
you right for your betting weekend. Rob needs to listen
to Lamar. Maybe you need to call him before you do.
Sheckel city every day. Lamar got his own job. He
can't help me out every night. I'm winning to night, Chris,
call you kidding. I picked some winners tonight. Have you
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been following the scores? Yeah? I got the game zone
what you got. I'm just I'm just relaxing though until
it's over, because you know what I'm saying. I look
good for a little while yesterday too. Yeah, I was.
I was looking good and then I got my feelings hurt.
Speaking of looking good, your thoughts on Kyrie Irving coming back? Rob?
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Do you like it? We'll be quick yeah? Um no,
I just think you need to be all the way in.
I think chemistry could it could wind up biting them.
And the other thing too, was him not being available.
God forbid, he gets COVID and a bad you know,
in the playoffs or at some point you know, like
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there's a lot of stuff that can happen, and then
you say you did all that for what you don't
even have them. I just I just think you want
to make it when people make commitments to teams and whatnot.
You got everybody's kind of got to be committed in
this situation, and only because of where they are in
New York. If this was anywhere else, Chris, I'm fine.
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It's about play. Be able to play. Yeah, he was
somewhere else, he'd be playing, yeah right right, But but
but he's not. He's in New York and and nobody
else on the two New York teams not able to
play except for him. That's what I'm saying. The bottom
line is They're doing this to win. That's it. I'm
not buying. Do you buy Rob that we got so
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many players out, because why would you bring back somebody
that's not vaccinated? Right, he can't play and he can't
play at home, right, So you haven't sold anything. What
you've done is made me put him in harm's away.
Other players. I'm with you, like the look. I get it.
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They're trying to spend it. This is one reason and
one reason only. They don't think they look very good
without Kyrie and Rob. I'm I don't know how this
came to pass, but I wouldn't be surprised if Kevin
Durant might have went to somebody in authority and being like, hey,
you know, I think maybe we should look at bringing
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Kyrie in. I really wouldn't be surprised Rob, because we
know that they don't do this and rightly so without
k D and James Harden being on board, you don't.
Oh no, I agree. I agree with that one. So
I think that people have to be on board because absolutely,
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and again, let's just be fair, other guys are playing
in the NBA who are not vaccinated, so in the
NFL exactly, so it's not just kywee, and it's unfair
to just act as if it's just temp. Right. My
only thing is about he just happens to play in
New York City, the same way that Wiggins with the
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Warriors plays in San Franciscomber. He went and got vaccinated.
He got vaccinated. What we gotta do, right, He could
have set out and good for the Warriors because he's
playing well exactly that he made the commitment to the team, right,
That's all. And the other thing is this rob they
are paying Kyrie. They were paying him seventeen million plus
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to sit on his button post black history post on
I g all right, so they said, you know, look
there is an element too of you know what, man,
get your butt out here. We're paying you. You're gonna
earn this money, so we'll see how it works out.
I like it. I initially was against him playing just
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in road games, but I don't think the Nets have
looked all that great. I mean yet, they got the
first seed, but they haven't beat many good teams. So
I think it's all about winning the championship, and I
think their best chance to do that even within playing
part time. At this point, I think it's to go
get Kyrie. And they're doing it all right, Rob, let's
get to a store. We've alluded to several times. But
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last night Brandon Staley, head coach, first year head coach
of the LA Chargers went four on fourth down. Rob,
five times? Not that's just is that an NFL record? Chris? Seriously?
I like, I don't watching something. I haven't seen anything
like that. But you're right, you usually it just you
use five times like like it just doesn't happen that often.
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Like yeah, but anyway, and they converted two of them,
but in not converting the other three, they left nine
points on the board. I said earlier, Rob, it's not
maybe you feel this differently to me. It's not as
black and white. And saying they left nine points on
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the board. They lost by less than that. I don't
remember what the exact what was the exact score. Let's see,
they lost by six, They lost by six, right, right,
they lost by six, They left nine points on the board.
They would have won. I don't think it's as easy
as saying that, because I think circumstances impact the way
guys played, the way coaches called the game, so on
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and so forth. So I think it was so early,
things just would have happened differently, and who knows who
would have won. But I didn't agree with the moves, Rob,
and I'll say it because of it, and he made
you know, Steve the seger Our great update guy got
upset because a caller called him a computer gig. I
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thought the callers playing around, but you know he did
call him a computer gig. And here's the thing, Rob,
he made those move moves based on a computer. Don't
It wasn't feel it was a computer told you that
you have a better probability of getting the first down,
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so go for it. That's what it was. Because Rob,
the computer did say, the analytics said every time they
went for it, they should go for it. So but instant,
you are not listening to your football instincts. You're listening
to a computer or Chris, the pace or what the
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game is? There are games and I brought it up earlier.
Can you give me what was the officials the final
score that Rams I'm talking about. No, I'm talking about
the Rams Chiefs game when it was fifty when the
Rams beat them fifty four or whatever it was, Chris,
that was a game where feeling the game. You need
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to score. Like field goals weren't gonna help you in
that game. So you gotta you gotta have a feel
for what what what game is taking place? Right, That's
what I made were holding, they were holding my homes
had the first driver was great? And that was it?
And and and it wasn't scored thirteen points through the
three almost three quarters, Chris, like like, that wasn't the game?
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Like if you're if you're feeling it and going, wow,
they scored the first ten. We're up fourteen to ten.
Here's the last player to have let's kick the field goal.
We're up by three, I mean up by seven seven seven?
What would have been so terrible Chris on that last
play to do that and kick the field goal? That
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that's the one that bothered me. And right when did
three points become something to sneeze at? I know, I
just I mean, how many NFL games do we watch
and go three points? You say it all the time,
and there's truth to it. I mean you say it
with you know, a negative meaning, but still there's truth
to it. How many of the time Brady and Bill
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Belichick's first Super Bowl, really the first one was when
it was venetary. I think he had two field goals
and then one in the next two but still the
field goals were huge. Say it's huge. How about when
Bill Parcells. Bill Parcells won in Super Bowl, Chris, that's
when Scott Norwood missed the field goal. It was right,
he missed the field go for Buffalo. I mean, we
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could go on and on and on about this season. Rob.
How many times has there been two minutes left or
less and the team's got the football and you're like,
oh gosh, all they need to do is getting field
goal ranged right, And it seems like they do it
just about every time. Right. It's unbelievable how they kim
move the ball the whole game right, and then it
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comes out to them because the defense is you know, well,
and they're not prevent at that point. You know, they
know them from getting the field goal range, but they
moved to the point. Is Rob three points? I get it,
it's not seven, but it's valuable. It's valuable, And I'm sorry, Like,
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here's the what it boils down to, Rob Brandon Stately
And look, he's off to a nice start. I mean
they're eight and six. Let's not act like they've been
world beaters. Yeah they were seven, right, it ain't it
ain't that far away right from where they were. Let's
try so. I mean, he's viewed as one of the
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little boy geniuses, and maybe he is. But I tell
you what, Rob, when you do things like this, I mean,
in any circumstance, but this puts even more of a
target on you, you better win. But see, Chris, you
better win, better work. Here's my other thing too, And
I get with trying to have an identity, but but
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there's also about playing to the game situation. And let's
go to back to the Atlanta Patriots Super Bowl. Chris
Okay Shanahan and that Super Bowl. You remember, it's third down.
Julio Jones makes a great catch on the sidelines, you remember,
sets up Chris first and ten at the twenty two.
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At the twenty two yard line, you're already in field
goal range. Am I right or wrong? Okay? You're up
by eight. If you kick a field goal, you're up
by eleven. That means Tom Brady has to score two
touchdowns in the final two and a half minutes. Chris two,
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not one. One, He could score one. If you're up
by eleven, you get you gotta get the two you
know two, right, But I'm just saying, but right, you
gotta get a touchdowns to beat you in the field
goal posessions, right right, to beat you. He can't beat you, okay, right?
What are they doing instead of running the football is
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set up the field goal and eating clock? Right? You run, right, Chris,
You're absolutely right. He throws the ball, there's a hole,
fifty ten yard penalty, there's a sack. They lose twelve
fifteen yards. Guess what, they're out of field goal range.
I don't care if you through all year, Chris. That's
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not throwing downs. Those are not throwing down. Those are
winning downs, right, absolutely right, that's what I'm talking about.
A field for the game. Well, Rob and I agree
with you, but we can't throw this out. This is
a possibility that some of these young coaches who have
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this reputation Shanahan, now, Brandon Stage, I know what you're
gonna say, right, Kellen Moore, who's not the head coach,
but he's offensive coordinator in Dallas. They want to show off, right,
kicking field goals. Oh it looks great when you know
for a hundred years you kicked the field goal. When
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it was fourth and five, and now here comes a
little hot shot that played in coach Division three football, right,
doesn't have the stature of some of these other coaches
in the NFL, and he's outsmarting everybody because he's converting
on fourth and five, fourth and seven, fourth and nine,
and he did convert on fourth and nine last time
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they played the Chiefs. But it's I don't don't then
I don't know Brandon Stanley, so I don't know. It's
most I'm just saying I'm not taking it off the board, Rob,
that there's a little show off in that that. There's
a little eat. There's a lot of show off because
you're right kicking field goals Bill Belichick through three passes,
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Chris to win a game. Thank you. He analytically it
didn't you would like what this game is terrible? What
is he doing trying to win? He wants to win, Chris.
It don't matter how I don't get it. Thank you.
And Rob. Here's the other thing, because Brandon Staley defended
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himself last night after the game, and he defended himself
today as well. You're one thing, Yeah, he play the sound.
The real football people will understand that what I'm doing
is playing to the strength of our football team. And
what I'm doing is I'm trying to make the decisions
that I think are gonna win us the game, that
are gonna win us the game, and I'm ready to
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live with all that smoke that comes with it. I've
been very transparent about that. What makes football and competition
so great is that there aren't going to be perfect decisions,
but you need to be able to live with the decisions.
And um, your team needs to know why you're making
these decisions so that they can live with them too,
you know. I just I know the way that my
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mindset is. I know the way that our mindset is
around earlier real football, Thank you? Did you hear that?
That's what he could have stopped it right after? That's
real football. People know what I'm doing. You guys don't
know football, thank you. A hundred years. They've been playing football,
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and I get it. The game changes, you make new
discoveries and all that. But I bet you Rob Bill
Belichick is kicking a few of those field goals absolutely,
And I'm gonna give you here. I'm gonna cut right
to the chase. Is Andy read a real football guy? Right,
because Andy Reid yesterday right in Brandon Stately's face. Fourth
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and seven. Now, you might say, well, fourth and seven,
that's well. Staley went for it on fourth and five,
and then when they played the Chiefs in the early
in the season, he went for it on fourth and nine.
So this is within the range fourth and seven from
the Chargers eleven yard line. Rob what does Andy Reid do?
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Kicks a field goal? Yep, they go up ten. Oh,
but I guess he's not a real football person. Right
forth to day, he could have said, Chris, wait, we
already got seven, we got the lead. We could bludgeon
them right here in their home field. Let's just let's
go for it. Let's go for the juggular. No, Patrick Mahomes,
Travis Kelsey, Tyreek Hill. I'm aggressive. I'm aggressive. They can't
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beat us. It's the Chargers. They stink. Now, you could
do whatever we want. No, we walk the points and
then robbed early in the third quarter, fourth and eight,
they're down fourteen ten at the Charges fourteen. Okay, you're
right there in the red zone. Again, they kick a
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field goal. So I'm just robbed, and I mean again,
circumstances change, but I think it's fair to say they're
not tied at the end of the game. If they
don't get those two field goals, right, they wouldn't have been,
no doubt. And let me say this last thing about analytics,
rob because we've talked about it at nauseum in all
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types of sports, but analytics, like last night when I
said the numbers supported, right, supported the Stateley going for
it on fourth down, you know what those numbers don't do, Robbed.
Though they're not specific to the teams that are playing
their numbers from all over the league this year historically,
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so they don't care. They don't know the numbers, don't
know if the opposing quarterback is Patrick Mahomes or Daniel Jones,
exactly right. They don't know if the opposing defense is
great or paper thin. So you gotta, like you said,
feel for the game who were playing. And I guess
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he can say he took that into account because the
Chiefs can score, but like you said, they weren't scoring
last Chris, And that's like the nature of that game,
all right. We want to hear eight seven seven ninety
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nine on Fox. What do you think of Brandon Staley's
decisions not to kick field goals? All right, let's kick
it off with James and Oklahoma you're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up, James? Hey? What's
going on? Man? What's up? Good I'm not a Kansas
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City fans either. I'm our Patriot fans. But you got
to love Brady and you got to love my home.
I am sixty two years old. I have never saw
a game so embarrassing, never ever. And it's kind of
like a relationship with the girl. Okay, here here coming
to this guy with the rogue rosy new engine. And
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I got a little Volkswagon but in brand New. So
hey you take the Volkswagon. Why didn't they want to
three points? Good question? Right? I mean, I'm telling you
these coaches acting like nothing. Ask Adam Venetian god right
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for the painbelievable? All right, good car, Thanks for appreciate that.
Emmett in Olympia, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio? What up? Emmett? What's up? Robin? Chris? How
are you guys doing? On? Yes? You too? How are you?
I'm doing? Good? Man? My take on Brandon's Tilly is
this is last night. I was pretty bad for the Chargers.
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I mean, I like, you know, the University of Organs
like I like Justin Herbert. It's like, I'm I'm a
Seahawks fan, but you know, I'm cool with the Chargers too.
And now I was horrible. Like I saw a sat
on Twitter that said, if you kick one field goal
if you're the Chargers, you'd have won that game. And
I get the Chargers have had bad kickers in the past,
but Dustin Hawkins is doing pretty solid this year. Yes,
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and I get it too. You know, a fourth and one, okay, yeah,
well the dice, but it was more than one. And then,
like you guys said, the fourth and second. It's just
I don't get the logic. No. Look, no one said
he has to kick every single time Christ the circumstances.
I get it, but but it just didn't make like
like the one at that like like I said, I'm
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want to repeat myself, but the one at to have
I just could. I scratched mine. It just kept happening
in time and time. Yeah, no doubt. Andy in Seattle.
You're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up? Andy? Hey?
I was it going? Guys? Chris Chris are you usually
give you right now a big keep it? But you're
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an old man. Get off my lawn tonight. You're going
with Rob he's the old man. Oh yeah, I was
hoping we get somebody that was supports. My goodness, come
on now you've just gotten you just for twelve hours.
You don't you know what, I still have an old Android.
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I don't even know what an iPhone is anyhow, Hey guys, Hey,
how about this? How about this? Take what what if?
This is? You know, kind of a move towards change
in the game, the NFL game, similar to the way
the Warriors and Steph Curry change the NBA game. So
losing a big the biggest game since they've been in
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Los Angeles. No, no, no no, no, no, no no, no no.
Hear me out one thing. Maybe this is just you know,
bump along the road here, and this is developing into
something bigger over time. And here's the thing I hear
where you in ten years is everybody doing this, going
for it four downs instead of three? I know. Here's
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Herbert though, Herbert, here's what I'd say. You mentioned the Warriors.
The Warriors shoot a lot of mid range shots as well.
When they were winning those championships, they did the Warriors
had a lot of backdoor cuts and layups and things
like that too. Kevin Durant as great as he is,
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he's averaging four three point attempts a game, like he's
a mid range killer. Kawhi litter mid range? Last year?
How rob, how did Phoenix get to the finals? Mid range?
How did Milwaukee win the championship? They weren't hit? They
shot thirty five percent from three in the finals. Not
good that Yannis dominated inside. I'm just saying, like, there's
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a balance and we saw I mean, I'm talking basketball now.
But Mike D'Antoni rob twenty seven straight three pointers they
missed Game seven against the Warriors. How about a fifteen
footer here and there? How ridiculous was that? It just
was ridiculous? And Chris the other point is, yeah, Mike
D'Antoni changed the game the way he played with his
How many championships did he win? Right? That's the thing,
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and we've talked about it in baseball, football and basket
Billy Bean is the father of analytics with the Oakland A's.
I'll wait when you tell me what championships he's won.
There it is there, it is, it is. The I
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You can hit it while I read this. Uh this update?
Uh no, that is the update, all right, Lamar Mitchell
m Jim Grand director of Race and Sports. He is
the guru, he is the man. He can put money
in your pocket. It so listen up for the next
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eight minutes. What's up, brother? How are you? How are
you good? Good? Good? How are you guys doing tonight? Weird? Great?
Brandon Stanley, I'll tell you that we Lamar, I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know. I mean, obviously you deal with numbers
and likelihoods and all of that. What did you think
about Brandon Staley going for all those fourth downs and
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for going the field goals? I thought it was you
gotta put the points on the board. I mean, you
gotta put the points on the board. And in the
first half, you gotta put the points on the board,
whether you know, even if it's a three point you
just gotta put There's no other way to say. Answer Ludacris, Ludacris, ludacris,
not putting those points on the board. All right, you are,
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You're at a half, right there, the last player of
the half, get a field goal, walk off, feeling good,
right and do it right? All right, Lamar. The COVID postponements.
We've seen three game times changed, day has changed. How
do these all to the way that Vegas and betters
approached these games? Well, it's uh, let's take the Raiders Browns.
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I mean, we open that up. The Browns is a
six and a half points favored, and then once we
got all those uh COVID injuries for the Browns, the
Raiders became a one and a half point favorite, and
they bet that up all the way to four and
a half. But we have the game off right now.
So with all three games we've seen action like that.
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It's just been crazy because you get these injuries and
you've got to adjust on the fly because the sharp
fool they say, it's sharps with the information and they'll
be like, hey, well this guy's not playing and we
haven't received the information yet. So it has been a
topsy turfy with these games, you know, adjusting them to
putting them up, taking them down one side to favored,
the other side's favored, and they haven't you know, really
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shown anything as far as on the field. But it's
it's been crazy. Yeah, you don't want somebody to sneak
in there with a big bet no one, you know
what I mean like before or you know absolutely absolutely yeah?
All right, Patriots Colts, Um, let's talk about that game.
Just home field advantage for the Colts. Colts minus two
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and a half. Is that what that is? Or does
Vegas have some doubts about mac Jones after only three
passes against Buffalo? What is that? What? Joe Public doesn't
have any doubts on mac Jones. They're all over the
Patriots as far as Joe Public. But the sharps on
the Colts. They have been on the Colts steady. We
open it one and a half up to two and
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a half. That was due to sharp play, to believe
it or not, I mean, like I saving ticket account,
Joe Public's all over the Colts. Even even with the
sharp play. The money still is coming on excuse me,
ticket account. It's four to one in favor of the
Patriots from Joe Public and the money still even with
the sharp play, is still in the favor of the
Patriots about four to one. All right. The Cowboys ten
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and a half point favorites over the Giant at New York.
Does Vegas think the Cowboys offenses back to normal? As
they start to get their core guys back. I mean,
you know, they haven't looked great lately. That no, they
haven't looked great. But the public Cowboys, you know, it's
the Cowboys, and I hate to say it, you know
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they kind of like the Packers. When they win, people
are gonna bet um no matter what. You know, Rob
and I talked about the Chiefs. They were always betting
on the Chiefs. I mean, money on this game is
five to one in the favor of the Cowboys, and
ticket counter is about three to one in favor of
the Cowboys. But that's that's all public because it really
we haven't seen any sharp play, a significant sharp player
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in this game at all. I mean taking the ten
and a half or even laying the ten and a half.
So it's it's just all public. And until you know,
even with their offensive struggles, the defense has been playing
well and they're getting those seasonsive guys back, and the
public still on the Cowboys. I'm about Packers at the
Ravens and look, it's like that that's really the toughest
game the rest of the year. But there's uncertainty about
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Lamar jackson status and should the line be higher. I
know it's a road game, I know it's Baltimore given
some respect, but that seemed like the way Rogers has
been playing of late four touchdowns against the Bears. Is
that so that spread be higher or no, this might
be a trap game. I'm just gonna say the Sharps
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did lay the five and a half when we were
at We opened it six and a half and they
went back down to five to four and then laid
it back up to six and a half. So the
Sharps are on this game, but they also took it.
They also took the Ravens when it was plus seven.
But it's basically, like we discussed before, Packers are public
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money and tickets all over on the Packers. So I mean,
you could say without Jackson, it looks like it's gonna
be a walkover. But this might be one of those
games where you know, Baltimore I don't recall what the
number is how many they've wocked in the road, but
this is a crucial game for them, so they might
be a little bit more desperate in this situation, whether
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they go with Jackson or whether they go with the
backup quarterback from the running utes. All right, last thing
from us, Lamar, Vikings are six point favorites over the
Bears in Chicago. Are the Bears that bad that they're
gonna suthe the Betters? Doubts about the primetime kirk Cousins.
You know there's legends about primetime Kirk Cousins not getting
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it done. Yeah, it appears so because money is about
twelve to one in favor of the Vikings. We open
this at all, Yeah, nobody does. I mean ticket count
is about four to one in favor of the Vikings.
We open this up at three and a half. The
Sharps have just steadily pounded this all the way up
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a half now. But yeah, nobody's given the Bears any credit.
It's uh, it's the Joe public. The Sharps are all
over the Vikings on this game here, all right. That
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So last week you both went three and two. So
this week we'll start it off with the what's the
overall scores? I'm just don't have time for the running
total is Chris thirty two, twenty two and one and
Rob one? But there's time to turn around. What I
want to know? How I want to know what? I
want to know how closely? What is thirty one? But?
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Uh well, we'll start off this week with the Patriots
at the Colts. The Cults are favored by two and
a half points. Uh I'm going with the Colts. Yeah,
I believe in New England. I like them. I think
mac Jones is good. I think they don't make the
playoffs and maybe make some noise, But I think the
Colts are more desperate Rob. They're at home. They can
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run the football, which is an achilles heel of the
New England defense to some degree. Uh So, I think
Indie and this one like Unfortunately we agree on this.
I think the coach I like this. The Colt in
this game as well. Patriots have one what Chris uh seventeen. Yeah,
you know what I mean, like like they're not that
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good right, good bye exactly? So yeah, we shall see. Yeah,
I got the coat minus two and a half. All right.
The Bengals head to Denver to take on the Broncos,
who are favored by three points at home. Go ahead,
I'm gonna take every time I bet against Denver, they
do something to me, I'm gonna take the Bengals in
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this game. They win a big game on the road
against Denver with the three points, I'm going with the Bengals. Yeah,
I'm with you, man. Um. Cincinnati, obviously, it's coming off
a tough loss to San Francisco, and uh, if I'm
not mistaken, they lost the week before, so they look
their playoffs like that. They they're playing for their lives
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right right right, So the yeah, they've lost two straight,
so they got to come back with a good win.
So I do think they win Cincinnati, all right. The
Packers head to Baltimore to take on the Ravens. Packers
are favored by seven and there might be no Lamar
Jackson in this game. Yeah. Look, obviously, if Lamar doesn't play,
this is gonna screw me up. But I think Green
Bay wins, but but I think Baltimore keeps it close
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and I take I'm taking Baltimore and the points. I
think they lose, but I like them with the points,
and I give them a shot to win because they're
desperate to rob they need to go ahead and get
a win. Yeah, I'm with or without. I'm gonna take
the Packers. I know seven points is a lot. The
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way they've been playing and putting up points, I just
think that they'll roll. I got the Packers minus to seven.
I wish it was six and a half, but I'll
take the minus seven, all right. The Saints head to
Tampa Bay to take on Tom Brady the Buccaneers, who
are favored by eleven and a half points at home.
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Where you go, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm gonna take
the Saints in the eleven and a half only because
it's a divisional game, and I know I know their
coaches out right right. I don't think he's gonna be there,
so they're not gonna be there. I'm gonna take the
I'm gonna take the Saints plus the eleven. That's a
lot of point. Look, the Saints have given Tampa Bay trouble.
(36:27):
They beat them, right, Um, but I think that New
Orleans is worn down. Their quarterback play has been poor.
You mentioned Sean Payton's not there, and I think Tampa
wants to send a little message. I think it's time.
It's winning time, all right. The season's coming to an end.
They have to get ready for the playoffs. And I
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think Tampa look good last weekend. I think they're gonna
be playing their best football, So I do. That's a
lot of points, but I think they want to send
a message to a team that's giving them some problems.
So I'm going with Tampa Bay in this one, all right.
Last one, the Vikings take on the Bears, with the
Vikings being a six point favorite on the road. Yeah,
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we talked about it earlier. Um, I like Minnesota, I
mean Chicago, they just there's nothing really like this might
be a two hundred shekel bet, I'm serious. I don't
like the Bears at all. Yeah, so we both got
Minnesota in this one. All right? All right, there it is,
and bow one more time? What are the totals? I
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just I can't hear you? Why? Hello, Chris Chris thirty
two twenty two and one and then robbed twenty four
thirty and one Music to last two years and now
no one we're one in one. No, no, we never
finished last year. Remember lost lost in bow but I
was winning easily. Yeah, but he lost them in like
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week twelve or week or something. It was convenient. I
was gonna roll. You were winning earlier this year. But
then I heard it on it like I'm over. We
got to go. Oh, it's over, It's so, it's so.
But we'll have the postseason for you have a chance
to pass out a few Mastro's gift cards and things
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changed when you going by the way, have you have
you figured out who that special lated? This is gonna
be a date knife for sure? Now do you know?
Let me ask you. You don't have to say it,
but do you know the date? Or is it somebody
you haven't met yet? No? No, no, no no, no, no.
Um to have somebody in mind, but I'm also open
(38:36):
to somebody new. Oh I have somebody in mind. Okay, okay, okay,
care do it you get pictures with this? Not you know,
just the g rated dinner pictures. Okay, Look, don't get
us in trouble, man, don't don't get yourself in trouble,
all right, No, it's Friday night. Thirty seconds. I'm trying
to get out of here. Where are you headed? Are
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coming up at the bottom of the hour to get
you right for your betting weekend. Rob needs to listen
to Lamar. Maybe you need to call him before you do.
Sheckel city every day. Lamar got his own job. He
can't help me out every night. I'm winning to night, Chris,
call you kidding. I picked some winners tonight. Have you
(01:09):
been following the scores? Yeah? I got the game zone
what you got. I'm just I'm just relaxing though until
it's over, because you know what I'm saying. I look
good for a little while yesterday too. Yeah, I was.
I was looking good and then I got my feelings hurt.
Speaking of looking good, your thoughts on Kyrie Irving coming back? Rob?
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Do you like it? We'll be quick yeah? Um no,
I just think you need to be all the way in.
I think chemistry could it could wind up biting them.
And the other thing too, was him not being available.
God forbid, he gets COVID and a bad you know,
in the playoffs or at some point you know, like
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there's a lot of stuff that can happen, and then
you say you did all that for what you don't
even have them. I just I just think you want
to make it when people make commitments to teams and whatnot.
You got everybody's kind of got to be committed in
this situation, and only because of where they are in
New York. If this was anywhere else, Chris, I'm fine.
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It's about play. Be able to play. Yeah, he was
somewhere else, he'd be playing, yeah right right, But but
but he's not. He's in New York and and nobody
else on the two New York teams not able to
play except for him. That's what I'm saying. The bottom
line is They're doing this to win. That's it. I'm
not buying. Do you buy Rob that we got so
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many players out, because why would you bring back somebody
that's not vaccinated? Right, he can't play and he can't
play at home, right, So you haven't sold anything. What
you've done is made me put him in harm's away.
Other players. I'm with you, like the look. I get it.
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They're trying to spend it. This is one reason and
one reason only. They don't think they look very good
without Kyrie and Rob. I'm I don't know how this
came to pass, but I wouldn't be surprised if Kevin
Durant might have went to somebody in authority and being like, hey,
you know, I think maybe we should look at bringing
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Kyrie in. I really wouldn't be surprised Rob, because we
know that they don't do this and rightly so without
k D and James Harden being on board, you don't.
Oh no, I agree. I agree with that one. So
I think that people have to be on board because absolutely,
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and again, let's just be fair, other guys are playing
in the NBA who are not vaccinated, so in the
NFL exactly, so it's not just kywee, and it's unfair
to just act as if it's just temp. Right. My
only thing is about he just happens to play in
New York City, the same way that Wiggins with the
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Warriors plays in San Franciscomber. He went and got vaccinated.
He got vaccinated. What we gotta do, right, He could
have set out and good for the Warriors because he's
playing well exactly that he made the commitment to the team, right,
That's all. And the other thing is this rob they
are paying Kyrie. They were paying him seventeen million plus
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to sit on his button post black history post on
I g all right, so they said, you know, look
there is an element too of you know what, man,
get your butt out here. We're paying you. You're gonna
earn this money, so we'll see how it works out.
I like it. I initially was against him playing just
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in road games, but I don't think the Nets have
looked all that great. I mean yet, they got the
first seed, but they haven't beat many good teams. So
I think it's all about winning the championship, and I
think their best chance to do that even within playing
part time. At this point, I think it's to go
get Kyrie. And they're doing it all right, Rob, let's
get to a store. We've alluded to several times. But
(05:02):
last night Brandon Staley, head coach, first year head coach
of the LA Chargers went four on fourth down. Rob,
five times? Not that's just is that an NFL record? Chris? Seriously?
I like, I don't watching something. I haven't seen anything
like that. But you're right, you usually it just you
use five times like like it just doesn't happen that often.
(05:25):
Like yeah, but anyway, and they converted two of them,
but in not converting the other three, they left nine
points on the board. I said earlier, Rob, it's not
maybe you feel this differently to me. It's not as
black and white. And saying they left nine points on
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the board. They lost by less than that. I don't
remember what the exact what was the exact score. Let's see,
they lost by six, They lost by six, right, right,
they lost by six, They left nine points on the board.
They would have won. I don't think it's as easy
as saying that, because I think circumstances impact the way
guys played, the way coaches called the game, so on
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and so forth. So I think it was so early,
things just would have happened differently, and who knows who
would have won. But I didn't agree with the moves, Rob,
and I'll say it because of it, and he made
you know, Steve the seger Our great update guy got
upset because a caller called him a computer gig. I
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thought the callers playing around, but you know he did
call him a computer gig. And here's the thing, Rob,
he made those move moves based on a computer. Don't
It wasn't feel it was a computer told you that
you have a better probability of getting the first down,
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so go for it. That's what it was. Because Rob,
the computer did say, the analytics said every time they
went for it, they should go for it. So but instant,
you are not listening to your football instincts. You're listening
to a computer or Chris, the pace or what the
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game is? There are games and I brought it up earlier.
Can you give me what was the officials the final
score that Rams I'm talking about. No, I'm talking about
the Rams Chiefs game when it was fifty when the
Rams beat them fifty four or whatever it was, Chris,
that was a game where feeling the game. You need
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to score. Like field goals weren't gonna help you in
that game. So you gotta you gotta have a feel
for what what what game is taking place? Right, That's
what I made were holding, they were holding my homes
had the first driver was great? And that was it?
And and and it wasn't scored thirteen points through the
three almost three quarters, Chris, like like, that wasn't the game?
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Like if you're if you're feeling it and going, wow,
they scored the first ten. We're up fourteen to ten.
Here's the last player to have let's kick the field goal.
We're up by three, I mean up by seven seven seven?
What would have been so terrible Chris on that last
play to do that and kick the field goal? That
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that's the one that bothered me. And right when did
three points become something to sneeze at? I know, I
just I mean, how many NFL games do we watch
and go three points? You say it all the time,
and there's truth to it. I mean you say it
with you know, a negative meaning, but still there's truth
to it. How many of the time Brady and Bill
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Belichick's first Super Bowl, really the first one was when
it was venetary. I think he had two field goals
and then one in the next two but still the
field goals were huge. Say it's huge. How about when
Bill Parcells. Bill Parcells won in Super Bowl, Chris, that's
when Scott Norwood missed the field goal. It was right,
he missed the field go for Buffalo. I mean, we
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could go on and on and on about this season. Rob.
How many times has there been two minutes left or
less and the team's got the football and you're like,
oh gosh, all they need to do is getting field
goal ranged right, And it seems like they do it
just about every time. Right. It's unbelievable how they kim
move the ball the whole game right, and then it
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comes out to them because the defense is you know, well,
and they're not prevent at that point. You know, they
know them from getting the field goal range, but they
moved to the point. Is Rob three points? I get it,
it's not seven, but it's valuable. It's valuable, And I'm sorry, Like,
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here's the what it boils down to, Rob Brandon Stately
And look, he's off to a nice start. I mean
they're eight and six. Let's not act like they've been
world beaters. Yeah they were seven, right, it ain't it
ain't that far away right from where they were. Let's
try so. I mean, he's viewed as one of the
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little boy geniuses, and maybe he is. But I tell
you what, Rob, when you do things like this, I mean,
in any circumstance, but this puts even more of a
target on you, you better win. But see, Chris, you
better win, better work. Here's my other thing too, And
I get with trying to have an identity, but but
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there's also about playing to the game situation. And let's
go to back to the Atlanta Patriots Super Bowl. Chris
Okay Shanahan and that Super Bowl. You remember, it's third down.
Julio Jones makes a great catch on the sidelines, you remember,
sets up Chris first and ten at the twenty two.
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At the twenty two yard line, you're already in field
goal range. Am I right or wrong? Okay? You're up
by eight. If you kick a field goal, you're up
by eleven. That means Tom Brady has to score two
touchdowns in the final two and a half minutes. Chris two,
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not one. One, He could score one. If you're up
by eleven, you get you gotta get the two you
know two, right, But I'm just saying, but right, you
gotta get a touchdowns to beat you in the field
goal posessions, right right, to beat you. He can't beat you, okay, right?
What are they doing instead of running the football is
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set up the field goal and eating clock? Right? You run, right, Chris,
You're absolutely right. He throws the ball, there's a hole,
fifty ten yard penalty, there's a sack. They lose twelve
fifteen yards. Guess what, they're out of field goal range.
I don't care if you through all year, Chris. That's
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not throwing downs. Those are not throwing down. Those are
winning downs, right, absolutely right, that's what I'm talking about.
A field for the game. Well, Rob and I agree
with you, but we can't throw this out. This is
a possibility that some of these young coaches who have
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this reputation Shanahan, now, Brandon Stage, I know what you're
gonna say, right, Kellen Moore, who's not the head coach,
but he's offensive coordinator in Dallas. They want to show off, right,
kicking field goals. Oh it looks great when you know
for a hundred years you kicked the field goal. When
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it was fourth and five, and now here comes a
little hot shot that played in coach Division three football, right,
doesn't have the stature of some of these other coaches
in the NFL, and he's outsmarting everybody because he's converting
on fourth and five, fourth and seven, fourth and nine,
and he did convert on fourth and nine last time
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they played the Chiefs. But it's I don't don't then
I don't know Brandon Stanley, so I don't know. It's
most I'm just saying I'm not taking it off the board, Rob,
that there's a little show off in that that. There's
a little eat. There's a lot of show off because
you're right kicking field goals Bill Belichick through three passes,
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Chris to win a game. Thank you. He analytically it
didn't you would like what this game is terrible? What
is he doing trying to win? He wants to win, Chris.
It don't matter how I don't get it. Thank you.
And Rob. Here's the other thing, because Brandon Staley defended
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himself last night after the game, and he defended himself
today as well. You're one thing, Yeah, he play the sound.
The real football people will understand that what I'm doing
is playing to the strength of our football team. And
what I'm doing is I'm trying to make the decisions
that I think are gonna win us the game, that
are gonna win us the game, and I'm ready to
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live with all that smoke that comes with it. I've
been very transparent about that. What makes football and competition
so great is that there aren't going to be perfect decisions,
but you need to be able to live with the decisions.
And um, your team needs to know why you're making
these decisions so that they can live with them too,
you know. I just I know the way that my
(14:21):
mindset is. I know the way that our mindset is
around earlier real football, Thank you? Did you hear that?
That's what he could have stopped it right after? That's
real football. People know what I'm doing. You guys don't
know football, thank you. A hundred years. They've been playing football,
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and I get it. The game changes, you make new
discoveries and all that. But I bet you Rob Bill
Belichick is kicking a few of those field goals absolutely,
And I'm gonna give you here. I'm gonna cut right
to the chase. Is Andy read a real football guy? Right,
because Andy Reid yesterday right in Brandon Stately's face. Fourth
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and seven. Now, you might say, well, fourth and seven,
that's well. Staley went for it on fourth and five,
and then when they played the Chiefs in the early
in the season, he went for it on fourth and nine.
So this is within the range fourth and seven from
the Chargers eleven yard line. Rob what does Andy Reid do?
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Kicks a field goal? Yep, they go up ten. Oh,
but I guess he's not a real football person. Right
forth to day, he could have said, Chris, wait, we
already got seven, we got the lead. We could bludgeon
them right here in their home field. Let's just let's
go for it. Let's go for the juggular. No, Patrick Mahomes,
Travis Kelsey, Tyreek Hill. I'm aggressive. I'm aggressive. They can't
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beat us. It's the Chargers. They stink. Now, you could
do whatever we want. No, we walk the points and
then robbed early in the third quarter, fourth and eight,
they're down fourteen ten at the Charges fourteen. Okay, you're
right there in the red zone. Again, they kick a
(16:16):
field goal. So I'm just robbed, and I mean again,
circumstances change, but I think it's fair to say they're
not tied at the end of the game. If they
don't get those two field goals, right, they wouldn't have been,
no doubt. And let me say this last thing about analytics,
rob because we've talked about it at nauseum in all
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types of sports, but analytics, like last night when I
said the numbers supported, right, supported the Stateley going for
it on fourth down, you know what those numbers don't do, Robbed.
Though they're not specific to the teams that are playing
their numbers from all over the league this year historically,
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so they don't care. They don't know the numbers, don't
know if the opposing quarterback is Patrick Mahomes or Daniel Jones,
exactly right. They don't know if the opposing defense is
great or paper thin. So you gotta, like you said,
feel for the game who were playing. And I guess
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he can say he took that into account because the
Chiefs can score, but like you said, they weren't scoring
last Chris, And that's like the nature of that game,
all right. We want to hear eight seven seven ninety
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decisions not to kick field goals? All right, let's kick
it off with James and Oklahoma you're on the odd
couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up, James? Hey? What's
going on? Man? What's up? Good I'm not a Kansas
(18:53):
City fans either. I'm our Patriot fans. But you got
to love Brady and you got to love my home.
I am sixty two years old. I have never saw
a game so embarrassing, never ever. And it's kind of
like a relationship with the girl. Okay, here here coming
to this guy with the rogue rosy new engine. And
(19:15):
I got a little Volkswagon but in brand New. So
hey you take the Volkswagon. Why didn't they want to
three points? Good question? Right? I mean, I'm telling you
these coaches acting like nothing. Ask Adam Venetian god right
(19:36):
for the painbelievable? All right, good car, Thanks for appreciate that.
Emmett in Olympia, you're on the odd couple of Fox
Sports Radio? What up? Emmett? What's up? Robin? Chris? How
are you guys doing? On? Yes? You too? How are you?
I'm doing? Good? Man? My take on Brandon's Tilly is
this is last night. I was pretty bad for the Chargers.
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I mean, I like, you know, the University of Organs
like I like Justin Herbert. It's like, I'm I'm a
Seahawks fan, but you know, I'm cool with the Chargers too.
And now I was horrible. Like I saw a sat
on Twitter that said, if you kick one field goal
if you're the Chargers, you'd have won that game. And
I get the Chargers have had bad kickers in the past,
but Dustin Hawkins is doing pretty solid this year. Yes,
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and I get it too. You know, a fourth and one, okay, yeah,
well the dice, but it was more than one. And then,
like you guys said, the fourth and second. It's just
I don't get the logic. No. Look, no one said
he has to kick every single time Christ the circumstances.
I get it, but but it just didn't make like
like the one at that like like I said, I'm
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want to repeat myself, but the one at to have
I just could. I scratched mine. It just kept happening
in time and time. Yeah, no doubt. Andy in Seattle.
You're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio. What up? Andy? Hey?
I was it going? Guys? Chris Chris are you usually
give you right now a big keep it? But you're
(21:05):
an old man. Get off my lawn tonight. You're going
with Rob he's the old man. Oh yeah, I was
hoping we get somebody that was supports. My goodness, come
on now you've just gotten you just for twelve hours.
You don't you know what, I still have an old Android.
(21:26):
I don't even know what an iPhone is anyhow, Hey guys, Hey,
how about this? How about this? Take what what if?
This is? You know, kind of a move towards change
in the game, the NFL game, similar to the way
the Warriors and Steph Curry change the NBA game. So
losing a big the biggest game since they've been in
(21:48):
Los Angeles. No, no, no no, no, no, no no, no no.
Hear me out one thing. Maybe this is just you know,
bump along the road here, and this is developing into
something bigger over time. And here's the thing I hear
where you in ten years is everybody doing this, going
for it four downs instead of three? I know. Here's
(22:10):
Herbert though, Herbert, here's what I'd say. You mentioned the Warriors.
The Warriors shoot a lot of mid range shots as well.
When they were winning those championships, they did the Warriors
had a lot of backdoor cuts and layups and things
like that too. Kevin Durant as great as he is,
(22:34):
he's averaging four three point attempts a game, like he's
a mid range killer. Kawhi litter mid range? Last year?
How rob, how did Phoenix get to the finals? Mid range?
How did Milwaukee win the championship? They weren't hit? They
shot thirty five percent from three in the finals. Not
good that Yannis dominated inside. I'm just saying, like, there's
(22:58):
a balance and we saw I mean, I'm talking basketball now.
But Mike D'Antoni rob twenty seven straight three pointers they
missed Game seven against the Warriors. How about a fifteen
footer here and there? How ridiculous was that? It just
was ridiculous? And Chris the other point is, yeah, Mike
D'Antoni changed the game the way he played with his
How many championships did he win? Right? That's the thing,
(23:21):
and we've talked about it in baseball, football and basket
Billy Bean is the father of analytics with the Oakland A's.
I'll wait when you tell me what championships he's won.
There it is there, it is, it is. The I
couple live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Hit it.
(23:41):
You can hit it while I read this. Uh this update?
Uh no, that is the update, all right, Lamar Mitchell
m Jim Grand director of Race and Sports. He is
the guru, he is the man. He can put money
in your pocket. It so listen up for the next
(24:02):
eight minutes. What's up, brother? How are you? How are
you good? Good? Good? How are you guys doing tonight? Weird? Great?
Brandon Stanley, I'll tell you that we Lamar, I don't know. Yeah,
I don't know. I mean, obviously you deal with numbers
and likelihoods and all of that. What did you think
about Brandon Staley going for all those fourth downs and
(24:25):
for going the field goals? I thought it was you
gotta put the points on the board. I mean, you
gotta put the points on the board. And in the
first half, you gotta put the points on the board,
whether you know, even if it's a three point you
just gotta put There's no other way to say. Answer Ludacris, Ludacris, ludacris,
not putting those points on the board. All right, you are,
(24:46):
You're at a half, right there, the last player of
the half, get a field goal, walk off, feeling good,
right and do it right? All right, Lamar. The COVID postponements.
We've seen three game times changed, day has changed. How
do these all to the way that Vegas and betters
approached these games? Well, it's uh, let's take the Raiders Browns.
(25:08):
I mean, we open that up. The Browns is a
six and a half points favored, and then once we
got all those uh COVID injuries for the Browns, the
Raiders became a one and a half point favorite, and
they bet that up all the way to four and
a half. But we have the game off right now.
So with all three games we've seen action like that.
(25:29):
It's just been crazy because you get these injuries and
you've got to adjust on the fly because the sharp
fool they say, it's sharps with the information and they'll
be like, hey, well this guy's not playing and we
haven't received the information yet. So it has been a
topsy turfy with these games, you know, adjusting them to
putting them up, taking them down one side to favored,
the other side's favored, and they haven't you know, really
(25:51):
shown anything as far as on the field. But it's
it's been crazy. Yeah, you don't want somebody to sneak
in there with a big bet no one, you know
what I mean like before or you know absolutely absolutely yeah?
All right, Patriots Colts, Um, let's talk about that game.
Just home field advantage for the Colts. Colts minus two
(26:12):
and a half. Is that what that is? Or does
Vegas have some doubts about mac Jones after only three
passes against Buffalo? What is that? What? Joe Public doesn't
have any doubts on mac Jones. They're all over the
Patriots as far as Joe Public. But the sharps on
the Colts. They have been on the Colts steady. We
open it one and a half up to two and
(26:32):
a half. That was due to sharp play, to believe
it or not, I mean, like I saving ticket account,
Joe Public's all over the Colts. Even even with the
sharp play. The money still is coming on excuse me,
ticket account. It's four to one in favor of the
Patriots from Joe Public and the money still even with
the sharp play, is still in the favor of the
Patriots about four to one. All right. The Cowboys ten
(26:57):
and a half point favorites over the Giant at New York.
Does Vegas think the Cowboys offenses back to normal? As
they start to get their core guys back. I mean,
you know, they haven't looked great lately. That no, they
haven't looked great. But the public Cowboys, you know, it's
the Cowboys, and I hate to say it, you know
(27:20):
they kind of like the Packers. When they win, people
are gonna bet um no matter what. You know, Rob
and I talked about the Chiefs. They were always betting
on the Chiefs. I mean, money on this game is
five to one in the favor of the Cowboys, and
ticket counter is about three to one in favor of
the Cowboys. But that's that's all public because it really
we haven't seen any sharp play, a significant sharp player
(27:41):
in this game at all. I mean taking the ten
and a half or even laying the ten and a half.
So it's it's just all public. And until you know,
even with their offensive struggles, the defense has been playing
well and they're getting those seasonsive guys back, and the
public still on the Cowboys. I'm about Packers at the
Ravens and look, it's like that that's really the toughest
game the rest of the year. But there's uncertainty about
(28:04):
Lamar jackson status and should the line be higher. I
know it's a road game, I know it's Baltimore given
some respect, but that seemed like the way Rogers has
been playing of late four touchdowns against the Bears. Is
that so that spread be higher or no, this might
be a trap game. I'm just gonna say the Sharps
(28:26):
did lay the five and a half when we were
at We opened it six and a half and they
went back down to five to four and then laid
it back up to six and a half. So the
Sharps are on this game, but they also took it.
They also took the Ravens when it was plus seven.
But it's basically, like we discussed before, Packers are public
(28:49):
money and tickets all over on the Packers. So I mean,
you could say without Jackson, it looks like it's gonna
be a walkover. But this might be one of those
games where you know, Baltimore I don't recall what the
number is how many they've wocked in the road, but
this is a crucial game for them, so they might
be a little bit more desperate in this situation, whether
(29:10):
they go with Jackson or whether they go with the
backup quarterback from the running utes. All right, last thing
from us, Lamar, Vikings are six point favorites over the
Bears in Chicago. Are the Bears that bad that they're
gonna suthe the Betters? Doubts about the primetime kirk Cousins.
You know there's legends about primetime Kirk Cousins not getting
(29:32):
it done. Yeah, it appears so because money is about
twelve to one in favor of the Vikings. We open
this at all, Yeah, nobody does. I mean ticket count
is about four to one in favor of the Vikings.
We open this up at three and a half. The
Sharps have just steadily pounded this all the way up
(29:54):
to six and a half. It's down to five and
a half now. But yeah, nobody's given the Bears any credit.
It's uh, it's the Joe public. The Sharps are all
over the Vikings on this game here, all right. That
is our man, the MGM Grand Director of Racing Sports,
Lamar Mitchell. Have a great weekend, bro, have a great way.
(30:15):
You guys have a great weekend too. Thanks for next week.
Pigs getting pick off is next. The route continue to
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Last week was not a route overall, it's a season
long race. Whatever. And I'm smoking you bringing the music? Heavy?
(30:38):
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(32:05):
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(33:12):
So last week you both went three and two. So
this week we'll start it off with the what's the
overall scores? I'm just don't have time for the running
total is Chris thirty two, twenty two and one and
Rob one? But there's time to turn around. What I
want to know? How I want to know what? I
want to know how closely? What is thirty one? But?
(33:34):
Uh well, we'll start off this week with the Patriots
at the Colts. The Cults are favored by two and
a half points. Uh I'm going with the Colts. Yeah,
I believe in New England. I like them. I think
mac Jones is good. I think they don't make the
playoffs and maybe make some noise, But I think the
Colts are more desperate Rob. They're at home. They can
(33:54):
run the football, which is an achilles heel of the
New England defense to some degree. Uh So, I think
Indie and this one like Unfortunately we agree on this.
I think the coach I like this. The Colt in
this game as well. Patriots have one what Chris uh seventeen. Yeah,
you know what I mean, like like they're not that
(34:16):
good right, good bye exactly? So yeah, we shall see. Yeah,
I got the coat minus two and a half. All right.
The Bengals head to Denver to take on the Broncos,
who are favored by three points at home. Go ahead,
I'm gonna take every time I bet against Denver, they
do something to me, I'm gonna take the Bengals in
(34:37):
this game. They win a big game on the road
against Denver with the three points, I'm going with the Bengals. Yeah,
I'm with you, man. Um. Cincinnati, obviously, it's coming off
a tough loss to San Francisco, and uh, if I'm
not mistaken, they lost the week before, so they look
their playoffs like that. They they're playing for their lives
(34:58):
right right right, So the yeah, they've lost two straight,
so they got to come back with a good win.
So I do think they win Cincinnati, all right. The
Packers head to Baltimore to take on the Ravens. Packers
are favored by seven and there might be no Lamar
Jackson in this game. Yeah. Look, obviously, if Lamar doesn't play,
this is gonna screw me up. But I think Green
Bay wins, but but I think Baltimore keeps it close
(35:22):
and I take I'm taking Baltimore and the points. I
think they lose, but I like them with the points,
and I give them a shot to win because they're
desperate to rob they need to go ahead and get
a win. Yeah, I'm with or without. I'm gonna take
the Packers. I know seven points is a lot. The
(35:43):
way they've been playing and putting up points, I just
think that they'll roll. I got the Packers minus to seven.
I wish it was six and a half, but I'll
take the minus seven, all right. The Saints head to
Tampa Bay to take on Tom Brady the Buccaneers, who
are favored by eleven and a half points at home.
(36:03):
Where you go, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm gonna take
the Saints in the eleven and a half only because
it's a divisional game, and I know I know their
coaches out right right. I don't think he's gonna be there,
so they're not gonna be there. I'm gonna take the
I'm gonna take the Saints plus the eleven. That's a
lot of point. Look, the Saints have given Tampa Bay trouble.
(36:27):
They beat them, right, Um, but I think that New
Orleans is worn down. Their quarterback play has been poor.
You mentioned Sean Payton's not there, and I think Tampa
wants to send a little message. I think it's time.
It's winning time, all right. The season's coming to an end.
They have to get ready for the playoffs. And I
(36:48):
think Tampa look good last weekend. I think they're gonna
be playing their best football, So I do. That's a
lot of points, but I think they want to send
a message to a team that's giving them some problems.
So I'm going with Tampa Bay in this one, all right.
Last one, the Vikings take on the Bears, with the
Vikings being a six point favorite on the road. Yeah,
(37:08):
we talked about it earlier. Um, I like Minnesota, I
mean Chicago, they just there's nothing really like this might
be a two hundred shekel bet, I'm serious. I don't
like the Bears at all. Yeah, so we both got
Minnesota in this one. All right? All right, there it is,
and bow one more time? What are the totals? I
(37:31):
just I can't hear you? Why? Hello, Chris Chris thirty
two twenty two and one and then robbed twenty four
thirty and one Music to last two years and now
no one we're one in one. No, no, we never
finished last year. Remember lost lost in bow but I
was winning easily. Yeah, but he lost them in like
(37:52):
week twelve or week or something. It was convenient. I
was gonna roll. You were winning earlier this year. But
then I heard it on it like I'm over. We
got to go. Oh, it's over, It's so, it's so.
But we'll have the postseason for you have a chance
to pass out a few Mastro's gift cards and things
(38:14):
changed when you going by the way, have you have
you figured out who that special lated? This is gonna
be a date knife for sure? Now do you know?
Let me ask you. You don't have to say it,
but do you know the date? Or is it somebody
you haven't met yet? No? No, no, no no, no, no.
Um to have somebody in mind, but I'm also open
(38:36):
to somebody new. Oh I have somebody in mind. Okay, okay, okay,
care do it you get pictures with this? Not you know,
just the g rated dinner pictures. Okay, Look, don't get
us in trouble, man, don't don't get yourself in trouble,
all right, No, it's Friday night. Thirty seconds. I'm trying
to get out of here. Where are you headed? Are
(38:56):
you you staying in town? Are you out? Yeah? Going
out to dinner with Fronts tonight? Yep? Okay, all right,
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