Chris Plank and Arnie Spanier talk the World Series and Week 7 in the NFL!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio. Let's go stick and genious.
But let's go, let's go. My sports anxiety is through
the roof right now? Should be? Should be? The hell
is this second half that we've been forced to watch.
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As we hit the air, Harrison Bader a little yard
work to give the Yankees a little hope and a

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little life. We headed the seventh New York leads Houston
in an elimination game five to four to try to
force a game five in this series. Can they hold on, Arnie?
I think so. I'm not ready to give up on them.
If anybody can pull it off, it's the New York Yankees.
They've been disappointing so far, especially last game. But um,

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it's what you've done for me lately. There up five
four right now, we'll see if they can hang on
the last three innings. Last night, I was gonna go
to the game. I was in New York. I was
gonna go to the Yankees and Astros game. Tickets well,
and again I was the last second dude, right, Literally,
my son is like, let's go. I'm like, let's go. Uh.
And I tried to buy tickets and listen, I'm used
to going to events free, Arny. You know me, I'm

(01:27):
a chief skate. Whenever I saw how much tickets were,
I was like, man, what kind of jobs do you
people have? So so I punted. And then of course
that big tweet today that went virals. You could get
like twenty tickets. Where was that last night? Yankees fan?
But New York given the Yankee faith full of hope,
they leaded as we head to the seventh five to

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four and earlier tonight, for the first time in a minute,
the Philadelphia Phillies are back in the World Series and
it sounded like this fires right fields, So girls casteanos
Phillies series? How how how did we get here? Where

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the Philadelphia Phillies, a team that fired their manager, squeaked
into the playoffs? How are the Phillies going to the
World Series? First time they've been in the World Series?
Since two thousand and nine when they lost to the Yankees.
Of course they went you know eight and one. It
both years they eliminated the Dodgers. Bow and I were
Bob Benson, our producer, and I were talking before we

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went on the air. I loved both of those Dodger teams.
Those were Joe Tory managed Dodger teams. They were gritty,
but uh, the Phillies were a little grittier. Can I
say that? Is that? Where is it looking up for me? Boy?
I want to be exact tonight, but the Phillies are
back in the World Series. Probably don't talk enough about
the bounce back for this team. We've always playoffs are
more like the NHL playoffs, where you never know what's

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gonna happen when that comes around, You know what I mean? Oh,
you're absolutely right, You're absolutely right. But they make the
move they can their manager Joe Girardi mid season and
lo and Beholder off to the World Series. So the
Sager's all over it, right, He's keeping tabs on it
for us. Tonight we'll see if the Yankees can hold
on and as the evening progresses will take you to

(03:21):
the locker rooms, not just from the winning team tonight. Well,
if it's the Astros, it'll be a party. But also
from the party in the Phillies locker room earlier this evening.
Congratulations Philadelphia, and real quick before we segue to the game,
you've got your eye on, Arnie, how about that scene
in Philadelphia? How about what Philly fans did over the
last What a time to be a Philadelphia sports fan, right,

(03:43):
I was just thinking about that too. You know the
Eagles are perfect, Um, the Sixers will turn it around
and you know that's going to happen then of course, uh,
you know, not too shabby with the Phillies. So there
you go. Shout out to the only dude I know
from Philly, Big Jay Oakerson. All right, Arnie, as we
come to you Live to night from the tire rack
dot Com studios. You like to pretend to be a

(04:03):
baseball guy, but since your Mets are out, I know
where all your attention is. You're on Sunday Night Football,
where when Mike Dreko isn't trying to be yeah but
guy when it comes to concussions and Chris Collins, where
there's in cramming next gen stats down our throat you're
watching your Miami Dolphins go basically mute offensively in this
second half. What's going on here? First of all, the

(04:26):
coach needs to be fired immediately for going forward on fourth.
Let's run the same play on third and two as
we on fourth and two as we did on third
and two, and pick up nothing, the same result. And
now they're gonna lose to a team, Um, who's the
worst team in the NFL. I mean we seriously, we
should have a twenty What nothing we did? It's amazing. Well,
I know you shouldn't. You should have thrown about three
pick sixes in this game. What the hell are you

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talking about? Our whole season is on the line right now.
You lose the you lose the Pittsburgh You deserve not
to make the playoffs for three and three. We can't
afford to go to three and four. The season's to
be ov e r for us. Um. If they score
a touchdown to get the extra point, I I I
will just mentally break down and have a you know,

(05:08):
a meltdown right right on the air. If the Dolphins
lose this game, Well, you said you were gonna quit.
I think you wrote that in there. I don't know
if that's my handwritings, that is your handwriting. Man. There's
a lot of things you can try to claim on
this show, but I don't think anyone can take your handwriting.
So let's let's drill a little deeper. First of all, again,

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just cramming down these analytics down our throat, right, And
you know how I feel about win percentages. There's certain
things that I dig, but my treco and I guess
maybe I've missed this right. I'm not gonna sit here
and be labor bad announcers. And he's done ten thousand
times more things in his career than I've done. But
whenever you try to tell us in that situation that

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it would only change the outcome of the game by
one percent, well, you know, it's like a one percent
difference if you go for it or you don't go
for it. I'm like, that's what they honestly I mean.
And in no offense to Kenny Pickett and I, I
don't know if they're gonna end up scoring here, aren't you?
Obviously your feet is ahead of mind. But I've got
three fifteen to go in the fourth quarter with Miami

(06:12):
up sixteen to ten, and on a third and one.
We just had a flag. But I'm sorry if you're
gonna try to tell me that the opportunity to go
up by three scores all right, ex give me the
dummy two scores with a field goal on fourth down
and two two and a half from your opponent's fourteen

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yard line. Right, you're right there. It's a chip shot.
It makes it nineteen to ten. At that point, Pittsburgh
can't move the football. Whatever stat you're using that tells
you it's only a one percent difference, Man, throw that
s out the window. That's the dumbest thing I've ever
heard in my life. And the fact that they keep
shoveling it down our throats, aren'tie is ridiculous. Chris, Has

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anybody ever got ahold of that book? By the way?
I serious? And can your printed for you know, like
we got ahold of the Wonderwick Examined and stuff like that.
I'd like to see this book. I'd like to see
the when the go for two when well go for
it on fourth down book, just so I know for
my own edification, I could have it in front of
me when I'm watching games and I get thumb through it.
When the go for it because I don't think it's

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written well. When when I'm hearing stuff like that, that's
for sure. Listen, I like Michae McDaniel a lot. He's cool, right,
and and I I saw it Ted Wins tweet from earlier,
which was Tom Brady watching this Miami Dolfin's offense, you know,
with what that misery he's going through in Tampa right now.
I thought that was funny as hell. But you've got
to be smart. I mean, you've got to be smart.

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Everyone loves the Cohona's right, everyone's talking about and when
we use a college football analogy real quick, Arney Pack twelve.
Even what happened yesterday in the Oregon u c l
A game, whenever Oregon started to take control, they kicked
it on side, kicked they recovered it, they go score, right, amazing.
Scott Frost tried to do the same thing. Uh, it
was never the same and he got fired, right. I mean,

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there there's a moment for that. And sometimes you get
lucky and it works, sometimes it works against you. This
moment in this game, it's raining two in Miami. I
guess it's let up a little bit. Now. I'm not
trying to be labor this point. And and I'm not
trying to pick on NBC. I'm not trying to pick
on Mike McDaniel. But that might have been one of

(08:19):
the dumbest things I've ever seen in a game, from
not just a coaching perspective, but from announcers trying to
sell me that it would only make a one percent
difference in the game. Are a one percent better chance
of winning or losing to go up two scores against
an anemic offense like Pittsburgh? You know, Chris, I don't
even mind. All right, you went forward on third, Well

(08:40):
you got third and two. You didn't pick up anything.
But I know what's by the way. There's going the
third quarter here, So there's still a lot of time
in the game whenever that happened, whenever that had that happened.
So are you happy now? Are you happy? Now? Well?
I was happy about three minutes ago when the interception happened.
But but but I watched all right, so it's third
and two. I know the on this, and then let's

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see what we can get. If it's gonna be fourth
and nitches, we're gonna go for it. Well, they got
stopped immediately so it's still fourth and two, and I
immediately say to myself, I call it off. Kicked the
field goal. Let's go up by nine, right, you want
to go for it. I'm not even really that much
against going for it, But don't call the same damn
play that just got stopped right there. It didn't even
come to. The last two plays called were the same place,
and it didn't even come close to pick it up

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a yard yet along in the two yards that they
needed for the first down. It's like Mike McDaniels as
somebody's nephew that just kind of walked out onto the
field has a good, uh you know, a good view
of the game, and it shouldn't be sitting there. He
should be sitting in the stand somewhere or anything like that.
I mean, that guy shows no emotion. You get did
you even get me interviewed at halftime? Well, you know, well, okay,

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let's let's have a conversation about the halftime interview too. Uh.
That was the dumbest question ever asked of a of
a coach, and you could even see his reactions. What
was the question? What was she she said? Um? With
two of being back and seeing his emotion on the
sidelines was that about him being back. It's like I

(10:03):
literally had to rewind at me, like what what do way?
And again I know here come to people? Oh how
dare you know? It was a dumb question. It happens.
NBC has been terrible tonight, and I don't know if
it's just because I never get to listen because I'm
always in here prepping. But tonight I just happen to
have the audio up while I was watching baseball. It's terrible.
You guys should be blessed to have this show on

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so you don't have to listen to this dog crap
that's taken place right now on NBC. So I'll give
Mike McDaniel a pass on that. And it looks like
Arnie the Um just inability of the Pittsburgh Steeler offense
to do anything is gonna bail him out tonight. But
you're there. It's not over yet, still to forty one left.
It's it's third and three. Pittsburgh has no time out. Stuff.

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They got the two minute warning. If the if the Dolphins,
they'll pick it up here and they'll have to punt.
Pittsburgh will still have a good like to twe no,
they'll love about it doesn't matter over two minute, it
doesn't matter. Don't say that to me. I will because
if it was the Raiders, you'd be losing your it
was it was it was last year, Week eighteen. You
made my life miserable during that Chargers Raiders game because

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you refuse to sync up your TV with everyone else, which,
as we've learned, you have the ability to. You're just
kind of an a hole about it and you won't
do it, so you have to be ahead of us.
But I'm sure you'll celebrate here if they pick up
this third, right? Do you almost two and just almost
do an interception? For crying out loud about do you
trying to give them the game? Do uh you trying
to say here take away the season from us? Here?

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Why don't you just take the season for eight threw
the ball on third and three. I'm gonna add one
more thing to this right now. And I know he's
your guy, and I know you love him. That's my quarterback.
He's terrible. I mean, he's terrible. I don't I watched
Davis Mills today and he had more touch than two
of does and and Davis Mills got beat by fifty

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by the Raiders toa is awful. And I don't know. Yes,
I know, I'm gonna send you clips of three balls
and if the stealer then is an out of context,
mark that one done. But I'm gonna send you a
clip of three shots from this game where he easily
should have been picked for the one tack before the half.
I mean that was That's four near interceptions for the

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Steelers tonight. Why are you throwing on third down in
three with two thirty five to go in the game.
Run it, get it down to the two minute warning.
You've been more affect. I'm sorry. I don't know how
you do this weekend and week out with the Dolphins.
You're getting me emotionally invested because I don't want you
to quit your job. I don't want to have I
don't want to have to learn how to create this

(12:33):
this chemistry that we've had for almost a decade with
someone else, Right, I don't need someone else. You warn't
in here with me. I can't, I I can't. My
sports anxiety is like an eleven out of ten, and
I can't believe that the whole season is coming down
to a home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers with a
rookie quarterback that we should be winning this game minimum
nineteen ten yet al and probably fifty to nothing. It's embarrassing.

(12:56):
I'm embarrassing. I still don't know where you're getting these
numbers up about how big of a blowout it should be.
But you've got my anxiety lifted even higher. And I
couldn't care less about either one of these teams. But
here we are. You know what I would do if
I was Pittsburgh bench Kinny Pickett, I'd say, you know what,
here we go. I mean, our quarterback play has been

(13:18):
terrible tonight, Mitch get in there. And I don't I
don't think m R. Whisky is terrible. We're seeing some
awful quarterbacking here. This I'm afraid of that. I was
gonna say, there goes Robisky with a seventh yard run.
About that? I mean? And again, we you and I
we try to d a little deeper than the numbers,
but some sometimes, I mean, let's be honest, a sports fans,

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it's hard not to look at the numbers and kind
of gauge what you've seen. But Kenny Pickett is twenty
six thirty five for a hundred and ninety five yards
and two picks. His most effective work has been on
the ground, and I don't think a single one of
them have been cold runs. So yeah, not not good tonight,

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but we'll see what the Steelers can do. So what's
the official clock where they get the football back? Arnie? Yeah,
they well know it was like two right now with
the clock is running, it's coming upon two twenty and
then second down and and about five. So they got
plenty of time. Even though they have no top bounce left,
They've got all the time in the world. Well, the

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good news is if you were an under better, I
think you're in pretty good shape right now. Gosh um.
But also you're right, we're starting to see and I'm
trying not to get too caught up in anything playoff related.
You know, six games into the season, but in seven
games into the season, I guess six in some cases
seven and others. But I mean, you're starting to see that,

(14:44):
all right, Cincinnati starting put started to put things together.
New York, the Jets, they might be okay, the Chargers
are terrible, but the Raiders could be on the com
Listen to me. Bottom line, you you can't be sitting
at like three and four or even I guess in
the case of what Pittsburgh could be two and five

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after tonight. You can't be feeling good going forward, right,
especially with what both of these teams have coming up
schedule watchings of a very easy schedule. But make no
mistake about it, they lose this game, to drop the
three and four, the season's over r for them. You
can't rebound after a while. Was like this at home
to Pittsburgh where you're a touchdown favorite two minute warning,

(15:26):
sixteen to tan the Dolphins lead the Steelers, but Pittsburgh
trying amount to drive. Arnie said, the soft schedule coming
up for Miami here it is at Detroit, at Chicago,
home to Cleveland, and then home versus Houston after their
bye week. Meanwhile, for Pittsburgh, you've got four wins after this,

(15:46):
so I don't know why you're freaking out. Meanwhile, for Pittsburgh,
they go to Philadelphia next week, then they've got there
by home for New Orleans. You know that team that's
gonna be the number one in the NFC and playing
the NFC Championship game. Then Arnie home to the Bengals,
so you know Pittsburgh is going to be an underdog
and at least two of their next three games, if

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not all three, depending on what the Saints do next weekend.
So yeah, not not good times for the Steelers going forward.
But when we come back, when we come back, we
will have the exciting conclusion of Sunday Night football. Will
keep tabs on the American League Championship Series Game four,
Yankees leaded, but as we speak, the Astros are mounting
rally to on for the Astros and the top of

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give me the hell, Yeah, it's all happening. Yeah, already
done enough the show. Yes, I don't have to be

(17:36):
teamed with someone else on Sunday nights. And I've never
heard of before. Let's go this season to say I'm
going to Arizona the super Bowl. Let's not get too
carried away too. Is your quarterback? Yes? If I put
truth serum in you right now, you would not believe
that I was going to take you anywhere. But maybe

(17:58):
the first round to the play plays no Gino Smith,
But hey, you know, you gotta do what you gotta do.
And what's funny is if you had Geno's quarterback lock,
like by the way, like nine point nine percent of us,
then you would think that your team was doomed um
in the end, in the end. Uh Pete Carroll is
apparently smarter than all of us, but most importantly, but

(18:21):
ofphense one tonight sixteen to ten, which again is the
magnification of horrific coaching, because had they kicked the field
goal and gone up nineteen to ten. The only thing
dumber than that is Pete still trying to tell us
on Twitter that Kenney Pike hat played a good game.
Ken Ore, Pete, your idea of a good game is

(18:42):
well off what a good game truly is. You can't
throw three picks and be that terrible and be like, yeah,
he was great. No, No, that's just dumb. Stop. Be smart,
you're smart. You're a smart sports fan. Mike McDaniel's a
smart football guy. Arnie, Why why, why why do we
overthink these things? After you said should they put Robinsky
into the game, they showed a close up of Drabinsky

(19:04):
on the sideline just itching to get in. I think
I would have done the same thing. I think I
would have would have had said, you know what, let's
let's make a change for this uh final run. Um,
I mean the Clemson did it yesterday on Saturday. Well, yeah,
you know, why wouldn't you make it here for crying
out Clemson did it. But I don't get me off
in college football because I was you know, it was Alardie.

(19:28):
It's a massive story, right. You go with this dude
in DJ we unglelay through a couple of weeks, you think,
oh my gosh, he's back. And then they bring in
this much balllyhood freshman out of Austin named Kate Klubnick,
whom a lot of people have been bullish on. And
he threw three passes and everyone acted like he was

(19:48):
He got like thirty yards for like hitting the quarterback Glade,
Yeah it was. It was one horrible roughing the passer call,
well he was, he was running out of bounds. Then
what's the first thing that Dabbo says after the game, Well,
DJs their guys. Steph Curry goes to for I don't
think Steph Curry has ever gone to But Dabo is

(20:09):
a genius man. He'll figure this out. I was thinking
something similar could happen with Pittsburgh, but this was the
Steeler's first round draft pick. Uh, this is gonna be
their guy. He'll have better days. He was terrible tonight.
And most importantly, Arnie doesn't have to quit the show,
so welcome to Uh have no idea how I was
sweating this out. I I mean, it's a difference between

(20:31):
being in a good mood and just being miserable knowing
that you have no football season the head and as
you mentioned, the Dobbin's got an easy schedule the rest
of the you know, the rest of the way. It
was supposed to be the next four games. So it
I just can't believe it got to this pointed. It
was horrible, Arnie. You start thinking about getting that win tonight,
it breaks a three game losing skids. You're four and three.

(20:53):
If you don't win your next four games, something is
terribly wrong. You're gonna know. Just think about this for
a moment. And I know that you're pieing the sky
super fan, and you think that they should be seventeen
and no by the end of the season. But eight
and three, right, and and again, this isn't being overly optimistic.
It's the Lions, whom y'all watched Dan Campbell say bite

(21:15):
knee caps and you thought he was still a good coach.
And and I don't know, maybe maybe I listened to
Prefect too much in the overnight. They're terrible the Bears.
Maybe I listened to Jonas too much. They're terrible. The Browns,
I don't know. If I don't think the Shawn's back
by then he's back in it. But I don't think
it matters. He was terrible in the preseason. Now, I'll
tell you what I watched Houston today. Houston isn't terrible. Yeah,

(21:38):
I know, Houston's not terrible, Arnie, And they got a
running back whom you gotta seem to have a few
issues stopping the run, and team in the league. I promised,
I'll tell you this. They're the best one four and
one team the history of the NFL. I don't know
how any one, but let's just be you'll you'll win
that game, right that's eight and three with a trip
to San Francisco, who's looked very beatable, and a trip

(22:01):
to Los Angeles and the Chargers, who who knows what
mode they'll be in by that point the game too,
because we have the tiebreaker over the Charges right now?
What are you looking at wild Cards already? Yes? Because
I want to know if I have to ask our
bosses for time off so I can go to the
Super Bowl to watch Miami. First of all, you barely

(22:23):
leave your house, so I don't think you're going to
the super Bowl Miami. It's like you you have to
wait for your mail band to come around twice a
week to bring in your mail. But so I'm being
I'm feeding into Arnie here, Dolphin fans, you should embrace this.
You look at this stretch of the next six games
coming up. You know what? It leads into the Bills game. Yes,

(22:46):
it leads into the Bills game on December eighteen. Now
we're sitting here on October three, and I hate thinking
that far ahead because I would have already eaten my
Thanksgiving turkey, and who knows where the Raiders are by then.
But it's gotta make it pretty good about not just
finding a way to win this game tonight, but doing
so whenever two wasn't very good. And I mean, let's

(23:09):
face it, you made a ton of mistakes and still
found a way to win this game. You got coaching
mistakes and on the field mistakes that came against the
Bills will be for the divisional titles. So yeah, of
course you I'm feeling pretty damn good. You're wondering why
I'm trying to get that weekend off of the supermot
goes in. The Dolphins play, well, you gotta. You don't
have the tiebreaker with the Jets, so I don't know
if i'd start raising that division. Believe me, they're not

(23:33):
going to keep this up the rest of the way
that they've been very lucky. Also, some might say that
about you guys. As we come to you live from
the tire rack dot Com studios. It's an incredibly busy night.
We've got your tweets coming up next. What we learned
in the NFL this week. I've got a ton of
college football notes from yesterday I want to get to.
But listen, We've also got drama building in the Bronx.

(23:54):
Steve the Seger is in tonight. With everything going on
in the world of sports. What's going on? Steve? You
may ask, are they still playing at eleven thirty at
night in New York? While there was a rain delay
about an hour and a half's worth at the start
of Game four of the a LCS Yankees, trying to
save their season. They're down three games to none in
the series to top seed at Houston, and they're at

(24:15):
the seventh inning stretch and the Astros have just taken
the lead. When last we left you, the Yankees had
gone ahead five four on the Harrison Bader home run
bottom of the six, but two runs in the top
of the seventh for the Stros. You're Don Alvarez an
RBI single and Alex Bregman and RBI single for the lead.
The starting pitcher for New York tonight, Nestor Cortez, went

(24:35):
just two plus innings, three runs allowed, three walks, left
with a groin injury. By the way, Lance mccullar's Jr.
Five innings, three earned runs for Houston, six strikeouts. They're
about to start the bottom of the seventh in New
York Houston six five. We could have each series clinched tonight.
The two pennants haven't been clinched on the same day

(24:57):
in thirty years. Just for the Landelphia clinched this afternoon,
taking Game five over the Padres four three is. Bryce
Harper had a two run homer in the bottom of
the eighth. NASCAR win for Kyle Larson, golf victory for
Rory McElroy, and yes, a win tonight in Miami for
the Dolphins ending. I believe it was a three game
losing streak correct. So four and three, now six, sixteen

(25:19):
to ten the final against Pittsburgh Steelers rookie quarterback can't
he pick it? With one touchdown, three interceptions. I hear
Arnie saying, I gotta know when to ask for time off.
All he does year after year is tell everybody else
on the air when they can and can't have time off,
as if he has in these hallways. This this proves

(25:39):
it once and for all, ladies and gentle nothing wait
till I take wait till I take a week off.
When the Knicks win the championship. Yeah, I mean you,
you work one show weeks that'll happen on both couchs
with one touchdown past two hundred sixty one yards passing
a sixteen ten Dolphins victory tonight. And then there was

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Kansas City. They were up at San Francisco twenty three,
early fourth quarter, forty four twenty three the final embarrassed
Jimmy g was sacked five times. Meanwhile, Pat Frank Mahomes
had over four hundred twenty yards passing three scores. Las
Vegas got three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to win
thirty eight to twenty over Houston. Josh Jacobs three t

(26:20):
D runs in the second half hundred forty three yards rushing.
Seattle pretty much dominated the Chargers in l A thirty
seven to twenty three. Kenneth Walker hundred sixty eight yards
rushing and two scores, including a seventy four yard or.
The Chargers as a team had fifty three yards rushing,
so more on that one play than the opponent had
the entire afternoon, and the Jets are five and two

(26:43):
after winning at Denverse sixteen to nine. It was ten
to nine at the half. Rookie running back Breefe Hall
of the Jets was carted off with a possible torn
a c l. He had an early sixty two yard
t D run. Giants or six and one after winning
at Jacksonville twenty three to seventeen, Tack linked the Jags
at the one. At the end Tennessee and Baltimore with

(27:03):
home wins. Carolina as well. Washington came back to beat
Green Bay. At Dallas. Cowboys were trailing Detroit six three
at a half six Dallas the final and Cincinnati over
Atlanta thirty five seventeen is Joe Burrow had four hundred
eighty one yards passing and four total touchdowns all four

(27:24):
and well just about well for the offense. I guess
act three times in the game at thirty five seven.
You know, he was what over three fifty in the
first half, So that's almost disappointing to the ind throw
for five hundred in this game. Nonetheless, w for the
home team. Back to you, thanks Steve. By the way,

(27:45):
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and getting that win. Now, I know, I know y'all

(28:06):
came here tonight for the breakdown of the Bears Patriots game,
and don't worry, we'll get to it coming up here
and we'll get we'll get to how good are looking
to listen anyone talking about the NBA? What are you
doing right now? I've got to do that. I'd alright,
bye week for me. So my Sooners didn't lose, Raiders one,
Lakers are oh and three, and people game, Well, it's

(28:29):
funny because here's the thing I wrote this down. I
was sitting, I was in. It was in a meeting tonight,
and in during the meeting didn't even ask me to
be in the meeting. Well, I don't think it was
a meeting you would want to be an art It
was a budgeting meeting with my wife. And so while
she was talking, I was taking notes and I was
coming up with a list of things. Because Arnie every

(28:50):
single Sunday, sometimes like at five am in the morning, right, bo,
We'll send this yellow this this screenshot of his yellow
legal ad with with with with this incredible penmanship and
everything for the show laid out. So I thought I
would do my part. So I've got I got a
thing here is is Brady watched? Is Aaron Rodgers done?

(29:12):
Does it show that you do need weapons? What's going
on right now? Um? Which you know Smith? Why is
Brandon Staley still hired? And then I wrote here, very
very very very very very very low on anyone sports
depth chart should be the Lakers start in the NBA.
And I bring that up because you're gonna turn on

(29:33):
all these debate shows that we have on Fox Sports one,
and you're gonna turn on all these shows in ESPN
and they're gonna spin. I'm not trying to be smartass.
I don't know who's on my know, Skip and Shannon
and that's it. Um and and obviously for the ESPN
shows always seem to be on in the background. I
don't know if that's appointment viewing for anyone, But they're

(29:53):
gonna waste countless hours talking about a team three games
into like an eighty two game season. What are we doing?
We've got the NBA, we got the NFL going on,
we got a college football going on. Aren't we got
the World Series that could be set here tonight after
the Phillies clinched the spot and the Astros now lead
the Yankees. Why the hell would we spend even a

(30:13):
nano second on a league that's three games into an
eighty two game season, and said except to say, hey,
that team one last night, pretty fun to see how
they're gonna come together. So they're defence. They may be
mathematically out of it by Thanksgiving, so you want to
get a little bit of talking. Well, and they're still relevance,
you know what. I'm not trying to be smart, look,
but it's just I want to see the numbers. I

(30:36):
want somebody to show me the numbers that people need
that much talk about the NBA. Three games into the season,
four games into the season. It just doesn't It doesn't compare.
I was gonna go to the game tomorrow, which one
the Knicks? Who are they playing Orlando? I think I'm
not even sure. Paulo Carroll's fun, man, you should go, well,
my god, then I gotta drive five hours. You never

(30:57):
leave your house. You see her talking about going to
all of these games, and then at the end you
sit down in your man cave and watch them on
your big screen TV. So you can't get in the
basketball yet. I got you know. There You go like,
I'm finally just watching baseball. Very very very very very
very very very low on my sports depth chart is
anything with the NBA. With that said, we had tonight

(31:21):
what really caught your eye today? What kind of stood out?
You know, we'll get to after week seven of the
NFL season. I know this. I'm gonna sprinkle in some
college football thoughts when we do that later in the program.
But I mean, I I thought for the Kansas City
Chiefs after what happened last week and kind of how
it started. I'm not just trying to pander to like
Roger the engineer or anyone, but I thought they looked

(31:42):
incredible in the second half of that game. They they
now again, you know, we can talk about guys that
struggled and brock Purty ended up spending some time. They
came for the Niners today. But obviously the kick Christian
McCaffrey trade was one that shook the sports world on
Sunday night. I don't think you expect immediate returns, like
three days after the trade was made, but man, they

(32:04):
got smoked in the second half of that game, outscored
thirty to ten in the second half. Uh and Mahomes
hold Mahomes man four hundred twenty yards, three touchdowns. They
touched him once. It was incredible. No, No, I actually
agree with you on that. You know, I don't know
what I was expected from McCaffrey, um, but I didn't
expect the Kansas City Chiefs to go ahead, and you know,
to win by that type of margin. I thought maybe

(32:25):
it was gonna be a close game, maybe like a
field goal, and we'd be talking about it a lot
and saying, Wow, how Mahomes got lucky? To go and
pull this one out. But once again he was tremendous.
Day had a great game, UM, and they looked dominant.
I'm not so sure that even make the playoffs, but
to me, uh, the first thing that stood out and
it was loud and clear. UM. Tom Brady perhaps had

(32:47):
one of his worst losses in how many years, grizz,
I have no idea. He played one of his worst
games I've seen in a real long time. There are
three and four. I think the Buccaneers are the first
Super Bowl team to be official actually eliminated. UM. We
all talked about how Tampa Bay was one of the
what top three teams from the NFC to go to them?

(33:08):
I think we could cross them off the list right now.
Everything went wrong with Tampa and I go back and
forth with what to say about tom Brady. Is this
gonna force him in the retirement immediately? Is he gonna
go to the retirement after the season. Is this the
type of thing that he says, you know what, I
can't go out like this. I gotta come back for
one more year to show that I can't go out
like this. I don't know what the hell he's gonna

(33:28):
do when it's all said and done. Yeah, let's dive
into that a little deeper when we come back, because
I didn't just think that there was a knock on
the door from Father time. And maybe, uh, some general
managers who may be resting on their laurels a little bit,
maybe got a little bit too caught up in reading
their press clippings on how incredible they are and the
great job they've done. Yeah, listen, we've got three g

(33:49):
m s and I think are very guilty of that
right now. One in the a f C South, one
in the NFC South, and one in the NFC North.
And we'll put them on blast next. But I mean,
I get it, Mike, Uh, Mike Evans dropped a wide
open touchdown ball. Right. Maybe it's a different game, but
still you shouldn't be scratching and clawn for yards against

(34:12):
a Panther's team who aren't. Just a little side note,
I flew out of Charlotte this morning, so I flew
from LaGuardia to Charlotte. When we flew and I was
so excited because we flew over the stadium and it
was it was about I think I landed about ten
a m. Eastern time. You couldn't even tell there was
a game there like there was from the air. And

(34:32):
now again I'm a couple thousand feet up. I'm sure
it's more than a couple, but like there's nothing in
the stadium. There's not that really seemed to be like
there is zero ambiance around this stadium and I could clear,
you can see and it's like it looks awesome flying
right over Panther stadium. Are they on the road or something.
I literally looked when I saw there at home, I
was like, what I mean? There was no buzz, There
was nothing around this game. And the Buccaneers didn't just

(34:55):
lose to the Panthers, Arenie, they got kicked so and
by the way, Peach Walker beat him and he looked
better than a p J. I don't know it was
p J J. He's gone type of initials. I didn't
know what it was to be it's it's it's PJJ,
but it was it's PJ. And he did a really
nice job today and running that offense pot But again,

(35:16):
let's talk about some really really poor choices in Tampa,
in Indy and in Green Bay that are costing these
teams long term and maybe leading to an early exit
for Tom Terrific and Aaron Rodgers. We'll get it to
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He's here for you to say free home delivery, Big
green Egg dot Com. Arnie. How did it get to
this for Tampa and Green Bay? I understand both have injuries,
right Every team in the NFL has injuries. If I
could pull back to college again, Uh, Mike Gundy in
Oklahoma State won a game with like eight guys out,
so I don't need to hear your bs about injuries.

(36:20):
But still Carolina has no business beating Tampa Bay and
the Commanders, who, for some reason I constantly want to
call the Commandos, have no business beating Green Bay. What
what in the world is going on here with both
of these teams. Can you imagine if I would have
told you they were going to lose to the Giants,
to Jets and Washington, um three games in a row,

(36:43):
you would have given me one odds on Oh, I
want to give you some massive numbers. I mean, the
Packers have lost three straight games. They're they're almost I
mean ed, let's not forget their opening season loss. But
they're going to Buffalo next week. Green Bay is going
to buff Flow next week. That game, but they're gonna

(37:04):
lose their game. Um. I mean, they get Detroit the
following week, which is kind of a get right game
before their home stretch. But I mean there's a very
good chance that they're gonna have a four game losing streak.
And I mean, I don't know what's going on. Have
they I don't think Aaron Rodgers is telling anyone to

(37:25):
saying that he's not doing that. I thought, oh, that
was a couple of years ago. My bad, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. Here's my question that I came away with
for the show tonight. And I know we only got
a couple of minutes here an hour number one, your
tweets coming up to kick off, hour to Todd Ferman
is back after hanging out with his buddies, as we
come to live from the tire Rack dot Com studios.
But who should be in bigger panic mode right now?

(37:48):
The Buccaneers are the Packers. Specifically, Tampa fans are Green
Bay fans who should be more panicky about either a
not making the playoffs or be just watching the bottom
fall out. Well, Tampa is still in first place or
tied of Atlanta. Who would have thought that those two
teams would be tied from first to three and four.
By the way, it makes that stupid Saints prediction even

(38:08):
more dreadful when it's like one of the worst divisions
and the Saints are last in the worst division and
you thought they were the best team in the NFC. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Mr Peter King, Peter uh So, I would probably say
Green Bay is probably in a worst position because Minutesoa
looks like they'll win that division, though green Bay still

(38:30):
I think it's better than Chicago and Detroit when it's
all said and done, But at least Tampa is tied
for first in their division. By the way, I did
that thing that you constantly do, which is I started
looking at the playoffs standings right now. I probably shouldn't
have done it, but uh, you got a five team

(38:51):
right now in the playoffs in the NFC, right, I
mean three and three. Now. I know it's not much
better in the a f C because you have a
bunch of four and three teamsactly, but I mean, it's
just it's hard to count out either one of them,
right because it just doesn't seem like anyone is running away,
all right, I guess, And yeah that's right, No, no,

(39:12):
no seven, the Rams at three and three. So I
would say to me, to me, I would be a
little bit more concerned if I was the Buccaneers. But
you're saved by a bad division, right, so someone's got
to win that division, And after watching Atlanta today, I
just don't know how it could be Atlanta. Now watch
the Falcons will probably go out next week and just

(39:34):
be bawlers, right and play incredible football because the NFL
makes no sense. So Atlanta will probably go and put
fifty on Carolina next week. But I would be a
little bit more concerned if I was if I was
Green Bay right now, because I just feel like Minnesota
is pretty good and it just doesn't they don't have
any chemistry. Nothing's like clicking for green Bay right now.

(39:54):
And they're both having um, It's not like they're having
defensive problems. It's all the the offense, that's right. That's
the crazy part of the whole thing. Tom and and
Aaron having big problems out there, you know. So yeah,
it's it's quarterback execution. And some could argue, well, at
least green Bay put themselves in a position to where,
you know, they had a chance to maybe come back

(40:16):
and win it. I'm sorry, you shouldn't be in that
position to begin with, whenever you're playing Washington and you're
the past too. So yeah, And in fact, like I said,
I was flying today and I saw they had that
early lead, and Night had kind of lost track of
the game for a bit, and when it pop back
up and the Commanders are up by two scores, literally, like,
what the hell just happened in this game? So we'll

(40:37):
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before we go all in here on Week seven National
Football League reaction, I got some college football takes for you.
I think we're at college football has such a weird
schedule because right you had the zero weeks. So some

(41:18):
people are like, well, you know, actually this is week nine,
but I consider it after week eight of the college
football season. So we'll we'll touch on the pig skin.
But here we go, bottom of the ninth inning, Aaron
Judge do up third, Harrison Bader's second to lineup in
the bottom of the ninth Yankee season on the line.

(41:38):
They're gonna get it done. They're gonna force the game
five in this or we absolutely absolutely they're gonna tie
this up if we're gonna go to the extra innings. Uh,
gutsy play was out at two of that rounded second
to go to third, considering you didn't know if the
runner was gonna be safe for first or not because
that was kind of a late throw and could you
imagine making an out at third if the guy would

(41:59):
have been saying a first but um, you know they
said you don't make the first or third out at third?
That was the second out. Well, I don't care what
out it is, you know, making a third base. That
was a bad based running played by him. Yeah, Well
it's It's been a fun night tonight because Arnie's Dolphins
were playing when the show started, so we've been and
they gotta win, right and we we watched his bat

(42:21):
or hit a home run and then the Astros rallied back.
So we're following the American League Championship Series and earlier tonight,
in an absolutely electric scene, Bryce Harper the NLCS m
v P hits a two run, go ahead home run
that helped launch of Philadelphia back to the World Series.
He was safe. He touched the bag first. Are they

(42:42):
reviewing it? They can't because he slid past the bag,
But I don't think he was. He wasn't tagged when
he slid past the bag. He was safe on that. Well,
the runner was out at third regardless, right because he
slid past the bag at third everybody wasn't tagged after
he slid past the bag. But I see what you're saying.
I'm sorry again, this is where your feet is a

(43:02):
little bit ahead of mind. I thought you were talking
about to play at first base. I thought you were
talking about to play at first base. Okay, yeah, no,
the guts he played dumb play. Regardless, they're they're not
reviewing it. So here we go to the bottom the
night you go forget about it. But can you imagine
how if the Yankees come back and that becomes like
a critical moment. It's almost like going It's almost like

(43:24):
going forward on fourth down when you could have made
it a to score game by kicking a short field goal.
But sometimes you get bailed out by the wonderful It
was early in the third, so that's my only He's
probably thinking, and I know you said there wasn't a
lot of offense, but he's probably thinking, there was so
much time left in the game, let's go for it anyway.
You just you don't call the same play back to
back when it didn't work on third down, you go

(43:45):
with something different on fourth down. You want to go
through some tweets. Yeah, so we get a lot of
tweets today. It's the best way to stay in touch
with the show. Artie is at Stinking Genius Swan, I'm
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You can also follow us at Fox Sports Radio, where
you should follow us NonStop. Marty McFly was first in

(44:07):
tonight and he asks a very good question. Arnie America
wants the Steakingingenius to explain why the hell the a
f C Championship game between Pittsburgh and Miami was played
in October. Seems a bit early for the Finns to
win that Super Bowl. Birth Yeah, I don't think that
Pittsburgh is gonna make it that far. Pittsburgh is uh

(44:29):
definitely dustined for last in their division. I'm curious to
see what they'll do after this year. And how much
are you watching Cleveland? Well, I expect Cleveland if you
better once they get their quarterbacks. So maybe that's an
assumption by me, but um, Pittsburgh has got a lot
of you know, thought of what they're gonna have to
do with quarterback after this year, if they're gonna give
picking another chance, or if they're gonna go in another direction.

(44:51):
I like the calm, cool response tonight. For some Steeler
fans of that game, like our man Chris who checked
in Mike Tomlin is too five without Big Ben Roethlisberger
and his own quarterbacks. Hashtag fire Tomlin? What yeah? I
mean really, I have a better chance of getting Colin
slot Um then then Tomlin getting fired. I promise you that.

(45:15):
Casey Sly asks a very good question, and maybe for
Casey Sly there was a little bit of jealousy because
there were rumors that the Chiefs were one of those
teams in on Christian McCaffrey, especially especially Arnie, since all
I heard about this morning and listening to everyone that
was about all this Isaiah Pacheco guy for the UH
for the Chiefs. He's the running back. He's gonna get

(45:35):
the start. He cared about like eight times. I mean
he was okay, But I mean, let's let's calm down
and I gotta I gotta ge him aut fight bandage,
right right, You might want to get rid of him.
He if he's available, pick him up. He didn't do
s I mean, what are you people doing? Stop it? Um?
But Kcy Sly asks a very good question. This is
kind of a carryover from the big trade and watching

(45:56):
San Francisco gets smoked at home today by Casey. He writes,
why did San Francisco sell the farm for Christian McCaffrey,
the forts and in the kings of having no name
running backs be productive over under four games on CMC
before getting a season ending injury. What's selling the farm?

(46:17):
I thought they got a steal. To be honest with you,
I didn't have to give up any first round picks. Correct,
it was. It was all second day, second and third rounders,
second and third rounders. I mean, you know what I
think about draft picks there, reach into the hat and
take whatever you want for grand loud, even if it's
a first rounder, if you're gonna give me somebody like
my Christian McCaffrey. So I thought they got a pretty

(46:37):
good bargain. I'm that was a good one. His points
a good one. It's not as if he's in his
second or third year, right, and every year he is.
I'm not gonna say, like an NFL darling, he's kind
of a fantasy creation, right. Fantasy football loves Christian McCaffrey.
They do. And uh, and I'm not like and not

(47:00):
Mike necessarily, but you listen to a lot of the
fantasy gurus, but I mean, he is the greatest thing
we've ever seen, and he never ends up really getting
it done. But if if he can be healthy and
give you a production, yeah look out. But for the
most part, he's had what two yard rushing games this year?
He got hurt the last couple of seasons, so I mean,

(47:22):
what did he end up even playing last year? Seven games?
So yeah, it's it's a risk. You're giving up a
lot of second round are a lot of drafts capital.
But I think they have kind of taken that bleep
them picks mindset whenever it comes to trying to do
the right thing to get someone in there to make
a difference. All Right, Aaron Judge is the last hope
for the Yankees. We're in the bottom of the ninth inning.

(47:45):
It's six to five Astros. Do we do? We have
breaking news yet not yet to their last strike. So
right now it's the bottom of the ninth nobody on
wanted to count, and out of all people, Aaron Judges up,
who could Who's gonna be better than that? So let's
see what I wouldn't that be great if you just

(48:06):
put one on and tied this game up and then
we're gonna go to extra things or what. I know,
it's not like a popular take, but I probably would
walk him. It's too little, too light. Breaking news, Steve
the Seger. Give the people what they want. We got
breaking news. The World Series sets from Fox Sports Groundball,
back to the mound and to first. It's over Houston,

(48:29):
six five winners at Yankee Stadium here after midnight in
New York. A four game sweep is completed by the
top seeds in the American League. The Houston Astros are
going to the World Series. They were already in the
a LCS for a sixth straight year. Four games to none.
They take care of the Yankees, still going in this
late hour because there was a rain delay in New

(48:51):
York of about an hour and a half at the
start of this game. So Houston, with a hundred six
wins in the regular season, is onto the World Series,
which will start Friday nights on Fox TV against Philadelphia,
which eliminated San Diego today. So they win the ALCS
last this year one at last year in six um

(49:12):
and then lost in the World Series. Of the Braves
lost in the ALCS to the Rays in of course
one in the ALCS in twenty nineteen over the Yankees
lost to the Red Sox ineen beat the Yankees. Now
full circle, they end up beating the Yankees again. Here
I'm curious to see how the average fan is going

(49:34):
to review this World Series, especially you know, if you're
a baseball fan and your team is eliminated, Are you
gonna root for the Astros, who of course have the
cheating thing, uh from a couple of years ago? Are
you gonna root for Philadelphia? Who nobody roots for Philadelphia
if you're a neutral fan, these are not small towns. Also,
just for the record, the Astros and Phillies may not
have been garnering a lot of attention and you know fandom,

(49:58):
shall we say, nationally and recent years, but if you're
not small places, Houston Philadelphia in the final so a
one seed against a six seed, which obviously has never
happened because the only reason the Phillies even made the
playoffs this year this is the year they added one
extra wild Because so who do you root for? You
you can't root against both of them, So who do

(50:19):
you root for for? Crying out loud. Well, Dodger and
Yankee fans, as long as people like Altuve are still
on the team. I mean, Karay, isn't that on there?
But they still remember five years ago. Yeah, but it's
all it's all about just the name, the Houston Astros.
You understand that, don't It's all about the name. Doesn't
make it. It could be ten years from now, twenty
years from now. Anybody's wearing an Astro. If you're wearing

(50:41):
an Astro uniform, we're thinking about that. But I don't
even know what you guys are talking about. I've completely
forgot about it. It was, of course Major League Baseball
that found that Houston cheated is the word in. They've
been great this year, they've been great every since. It
didn't slow him down, Steve, That's the amazing part in
all of it. Repeating six straight years in the a LC. Yes,

(51:02):
so they eliminate the Yankees two and don't forget they
had a wild card game win. This is just near
historic of one team eliminating another. And this is four
of the last eight years. How the Yankees get bounced
almost what the Yankees used to do to the Twins.
Why are they not wearing those nineteen seventy eight jerseys,

(51:23):
you know, with the bright orange. Yeah, with the stripes
and stuff. They've got to get those back. That well,
first of all, we uh, we need to have Billy
Dorn playing. Second, you've got to have Glenn Davis at first,
maybe Alan Ashby in, Kevin Alan Ashby behind the plate,
Kevin Bass maybe out in right field, or a little
Billy Hatcher Jose Cruz and that big leg lift. That's

(51:45):
why you can't have those jerseys, aren't he? Is it
fair to maybe say, as we watch the Astros celebrate
on the field right now and Yankee Stadium, that maybe
the team that gave the Astros the most problems in
the postseason was the Mariners. They I mean, and that
was sweep. Yeah, I mean they had to score five
runs in the eighth and ninth innings in Game one

(52:05):
to beat Seattle and minute may park Um they trailed well,
actually yeah, they trailed two to one heading into the
bottom of the sixth inning. And then of course you
had that eighteen inning game that was scoreless going to
the eighteenth inning and they swept run and the guy
that got that home run I think was Jeremy Paine
who had the three run homer tonight and that, by

(52:26):
the way, tied the major league record for longest playoff game.
And we can't skip over that playoff opener for Houston
that has started their seven and oh run this postseason.
That first game they were down seven three in the eighth,
still beat Seattle with the two run homer in the
eighth and not quite a Kirk Gibson, but in Houston history,
that's there, Kurt Gibson moment. You're don alvat is that

(52:47):
game winning was unbelievable. That that that started the momentum
from there on in Houston in its postseason history, had
been oh and forty eight when trailing by more than
one run for eight innings until that swing. Wait a minute,
wait wait, wait, will give you give me that again
Houston's postseason history when trailing by more than one running

(53:08):
after eight innings, because remember it wasn't a game winning
solo shot. It gave him the win. You're done it
so funny. I can think of certain times they've choked
away two and three runs. Remember against the Mets, they
blew a three run lead and what the eighth or ninth, Yeah,
remember that, of course. Yeah, and remember how bad Justin
Berlander was in that opener against Seattle. That was six runs,

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ten hits in only four innings, a guy who might
be winning the Cy Young this year. He went eighteen
and four, but he won the opener against the Yankees.
It's a four game sweep. And by the way, with
it not starting till Friday night, each team can set
up pitching. Now they're off all week until Friday? Can
I can I just be blue here for a moment,
for a moment As a Dodgers fan, this absolutely pisces

(53:50):
me off that the Astros can do this. Meanwhile the
Dodgers are piddling around getting beat by the stinking Padres.
I mean, how in the world is Houston a two
gut up in the postseason and when every times it
comes time for the Dodgers to find that next level,
they throw off. That's right, because Houston also had the
awful start from Verlander and still got a sweep of

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the Mariners. They've had wholesale too fa until a double
last night, starting oh for twenty five at the play
in the playoffs, and yet they continue to dominate the Yankees.
They've played each other eleven times this year, Houston beat
them nine of the eleven. In fact, going into there
was a great stat from Bob Costas on post game
last night they had played each other about ninety innings total.

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Through last night, the Yankees had only lead in two
of the ninety one innings head to head with Houston
this year, domination concluding with a four game sweep. Alright, So,
Dodger fandom aside, let's do um for those of you
who aren't still loathing the Astros for the cheating scandal
and seventeen. It's still incredible to think they won eleven

(54:54):
years and one one playoff series and it wasn't even
a series. It was the wild card game against the
Yankees in two thousand and fifteen. They had three consecutive
years of a hundred or more losses and a fourth
season when they lost nine two games, And now they're
making They made their sixth the straight trip to the
a LCS, and they're going back to the World Series

(55:17):
for the second straight year, in the third time in
four years, fourth time and six Maybe the first person
in the United States, maybe the whole planet um to
have ordered a Judge Med's jersey already so you got
that already, Abdy on sale, I think so. Um you
got a little bit of traction here real quick with
your question about who everyone would root for. That's a

(55:40):
tough one. It is a kind of a tough one.
I hadn't even thought about it. Roger the Engineer rights.
Until Altoba is gone, the Astros will be loathed. Just
saying um at the Weeds Smoker sounds like my kind
of guy. The cheating Astros playoff win should be vacated.
But phony bad guy rob Manfred works for them. Uh
our man, Jason B Diamond rights. I'm honestly torn. I

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hate Houston, but I love Dusty Baker. Like Dusty Baker too,
I am rooting for a month or two of snow
storms in Philadelphia so they can play the World Series
starting in Christmas. This is his chance, right, long career
in his seventies never won the World Series? Right, Dusty Baker,
he never won since he had like great Giants teams.

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For example, wasn't he the Cubs manager twenty years ago
when they gagged and won as a player, Right, he
has to ring as a player. He won two with him.
I'm talking about like this long managerial career, what thirty
forty years? How about this already? Here's some trivia for you.
What year was the first year that are Dusty Baker
was a manager? And who was it for? I wouldn't

(56:45):
have figured this out unless I looked mm hmmm. I
don't know. I really wouldn't know off the top of
my hand. Three with the San Francisco That was one
of his best teams. I would have said San Francisco,
but I wouldn't have guessed. There was no wild card
it back then they want a hundred in three games
and on the final day didn't make the playoffs. Did
he win a World Yeah? Yeah? Yeah he? Uh he

(57:08):
won a World Series? I don't know. Did he want
a World Series with the Dodger as a manager? I don't,
I don't. I know he has, dude, I don't know
if Dusty Baker has ever won a World Series? Yeah,
there it is the Giants, remember, Yeah, he won one
as a player in eightie one, thank you, right? And
they had lost to the Yankees twice before. This is
a manager? You remember the Giants gagging the World Series

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against the Angels in Anaheim. That was another of his
very good teams. You know, By the way, when Dusty
Baker used to go to the outfield, the kids would
throw a bubblegum adam just so he could chew it,
or he keeping his back pocket and stuff like that.
I mean it would come from like the he got
so bad it was like the whole outfield was thrown
it out for For the record, it's twenty five years

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as a manager, because he didn't manage consecutively something that's true.
Good point, because he took that time off. Remember, and
in fact, whenever he was named the Astros manager, he
had been out of baseball for almost two three full seasons.
He was out of baseball for three years between the
Reds and the Nationals um and then a Cup. He
hadn't and he didn't really have a great run with

(58:11):
the Reds. But Vesty Baker. There you go. I'm rooting
for Dusty Baker. But then again, why not? But Houston
infield is still there from five years ago. Can I
can I pose one thing real quick before we move
on Yankees out Houston onto the World Series, which we
will finally get underway on Friday, Is that right to Sager? Ye? Oh,

(58:32):
my gosh, baseball is gonna get so lost in the mix.
No one's gonna talk about this damn thing. And by
the time Friday gets here, when the Phillies are playing
the Astros, every like baseball still happening Friday Saturday in
Houston Sunday off. Is it fair to say, aren't you
you brought up? Hey, everyone that is is a baseball

(58:52):
fan roots against Philadelphia or if you're not a Philadelphia fan,
your route against him? Can this team be viewed a
little different because Schwarberg's kind of a and favorite across
the board. Bryce Harper is a guy that we all like,
think think about that, we'll talk about it. Nex It's
Arnie and Plank on Fox Sports Radio. It's Arni and
Plank on Fox Sports Radio. Come to you live from
the tire Rock dot Com studios. All right. Running a

(59:13):
little bit behind, the Astros clinched the World Series bid
with their sweep of the Yankees, winning tonight six. They
won the whole thing already. I'm watching them celebrate at
the trophy. I I thought you guys made a mistake
when you said it starts Friday. I think it's over
now they they're celebrating. I can see that. Well, it's
Todd Ferman is going to join us right now from Vegas,

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and he can attest that it's not over yet. But Todd,
I missed you last week, buddy, hope you had a
great trip. Um, what what do we what do we
make of the early odds. Are the Astros the betting
favorite in your opinion going into Friday? Yes, they'll be
the betting favorite, christ and you're looking at a price
of upwards of a dollars given the pedigree from this team,
the fact they'll be able to set that rotation. But

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unlike Arnie, I'm not running off the Phillies for dead
just yet. It's a team that's shown a ton of perseverance.
You look at them playing their best ball at the
right time of year. They have two starters and Aaron
Nolan Zack Wheeler that are gonna be very difficult outs
and a slugger in the middle of the line of
em Bryce Harper, who I'm sure I would love to
atone for the World Series that got away when he
left Washington a year before they were able to be
World Series champions. Todd the person that doesn't have a

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fight in this one. Uh, the average money will be
coming in because Um, you know, people hate Philadelphia just
the city in general. You know what it is with
the sports fans out there and the Astrols with the
cheating allegations from a couple of years ago. Well, the
average sports fan even bet this or will there be
less money coming in this year? I don't anticipate it's
going to be a series that really moves the needle

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when you look at the two teams involved here. It's
no knock on the Astros or Phillies fan bases, but
it's not quite the same as if you had the Yankees,
the Dodgers, or the Red Sox in the mix. I've
been wrong before and I'll be wrong again. So maybe
the betting handle far exceeds that. But oftentimes, when you're
talking about franchises that aren't some of the marquis in
the sport going ahead to head with some of the
biggest games in football ball to the college and pro variety,

(01:01:01):
the betting handle normally doesn't overwhelm sports books. We'll see
if that changes the dynamic here, though. Obviously, the Phillies
haven't experienced a lot of postseason success over the last
ten plus years, and the Astros more or less old
hats going back to the World Series for Rights to
Believe the fourth time in the last six seasons Todd
Firm and on Twitter at Todd Firm and the Bet
the Board podcast. All Right, where should we be more
concerned as we quickly turn our focus to the NFL

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and Week seven? Green Bay or Tampa Bay. Obviously the
NFC South kind of stinks. But who should be more
worried right now about the long term viability of where
they're heading? I think both of these teams have created
major red flags. And you look at Tampa today's performance
against Carolina Panthers. You hit rock bottom when you're a
two touchdown favorite or thereabouts, you must do a grand

(01:01:45):
total of three points against the division rival that essentially
has been going through a fire sale over the last
seven to ten days. Meanwhile, Green Bay, we thought the
strength of this team could be the defense and it
would bail out the offense until they were able to
figure things out. That's been anything but the case. That
run defense has been in to kill heel. You saw
Washington able to establish a ground game with both Brian
Robinson and Antonio Gibson today, and the offense remains a

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consistent work in progress. The problem for the Packers is
things don't get any easier on Sunday Night football, where
they're more than a eleven point underdog on the road
in Western New York. Take on the Buffalo Bills, Washington
Carolina two team money line parlay it must do in
what fifteen the one or something like that. Well, Carolina
in and of themselves would have paid quite handsomely when
you were looking at the Panthers at more than a

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five to one underdog, the biggest dog in the NFL
season to cash thus far, Washington much more modest, only
in that plus one seventy plus one seventy five range.
So when you're trying to identify, you know, some of
the bigger dogs that were out there, I mean the
Seahawks were a bigger underdog on the money line than
what you would have got back from the Washington commanders
of the Seahawks. Man, what the hell? I mean, how's
you know Smith doing this right now? And is it sustainable?

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Because I mean, listen, no one's really running away with
that NFC West right now. They're writing that mix. Yeah,
I mean, the forty Niners look like they were going
to get a big win they started off extremely against
the Kansas City Chiefs and the offense bogged down. The
Chief's reminded us why the road to the a f
C will either go through Arrowhead or Orchard Park, one
of those two destinations you mentioned the NFC West and
some of the uncertainty there. I mean amazing that this

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was the best division of football last year and now
you have four teams that are trying to figure out
that their way. To your point on the Seattle Seahawks,
I mean they're playing with a bit of house money
at four and three through seven games. The team who's
over under coming into the season was only five and
a half. They look fast, they look athletic, and I
think the weight with bated breath to figure out the
severity of dk metcast knee injury. How many people took
the Dolphins minus six and a half, They win by

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six and McDaniel doesn't kick that field goal early in
the third screaming bloody murder right now, Yeah, the majority
of folks that would have bet this game would have
come in on Miami and at seven seven and a
half range. But I think at the same time to
claim that they would have covered that number Pittsburgh probably
handles their play calling very differently in the final ninety
seconds the two minutes, most likely electing to kick a
field goal, and it's still probably fall six. But I

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think when you're looking at the Dolphins performance, clearly the
offense started out with a strong game plan, weren't able
to execute it throughout the course of four quarters, hung
on for a win. The biggest question that Miami will
have to answer is what does that defensive backfield look
like as they're dealing with a rash of injuries until
the offense can really start to hum on all cylinders
and a surprisingly tricky game for them next week on
the road into try it against the lines. So I

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gotta know, I've been there, I know what it's like,
but never in an atmosphere like you were. How is Knoxville? Yeah,
absolutely insane. I mean I haven't been to as many
big time sporting events as I'm sure the two of
you have. I've been to a game between the Hedges
and Georgia and Auburn. I've been to Bedroom before, I've
been to fog Allen to see Kansas play Kansas State,
but nothing in my life World Series College Football Playoff

(01:04:40):
anything along those lines surpassed the level of energy, not
just inside Neeland Stadium when the game kicked off, but
being in Knoxville for the tailgate starting at nine thirty
ten o'clock, you could feel that nervous energy. I wasn't
quite sure Tennessee was gonna be up for the task,
but clearly they were the team that didn't shoot themselves
and the foot came up with timely plays. Uh and
obviously one of the biggest games of the season, not

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just for them as a program, but in terms of
the entire college football national landscape. One thing I will
admit those guys, it's a young man's game out there.
I did not partake in tossing those gold posts into
the Tennessee River. So it took me about two and
a half hours to get down from my seats on
the party deck before I was able to get on Neiland.
You know what, I love that, I tell you, I
love that type of atmosphere. I've been to a lot
of Florida Georgia games, you know, for the neutral sites,

(01:05:24):
and I argue with Chris about the Texas Oklahoma I
hate neutral site games. I prefer so much better. You
don't have him on the on the home site. You know, yeah,
I think that makes a ton of sense, Arnie. I mean,
I've had a chance to be at the Texas State
Fair as well for the Red River rivalry game, and
while it creates a very unique experience when you have
the stadium split right down the middle and you have
the backdrop of the Texas State Fair, it's definitely a

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different energy when you're on campus. Because I'm sure going
forward for years to come, every one of that Tennessee
undergrad student body or even some of their grad students,
will say they were in attendance and it wasn't just
the celebration in the stadium. It carried on and honest guys,
it took me an inordinate amount of time to walk
to two and a half miles to get out of
that town. And I'm sure the partying still hasn't stopped

(01:06:06):
in the wake of their dominant performance against you T.
Martin on Saturday, A one more quick one and will
let you go? Is it sustainable? I mean, they got
Georgia in two weeks, got Kentucky this Saturday. Hind and
Hooker is like forty two years old out there running
this offense is it sustainable going forward for Tennessee? Could
they be in the playoffs? I think it's going to
be an uphill battle for them. There'll be a big
time underdog against the Georgia Bulldogs when they go down

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to Athens. And I really believe this week will be
an interesting task because you're playing with expectations. They exceeded
them against Florida, but they hung on for jear life,
winning that game by the narrowest of margins. Kentucky can
short in the game. They should be able to run
the football and if they were able to play keep
away from Hendon Hooker. We've seen this Josh Hypel offense
and how teams like to go fast. Once they get
out of a rhythm, it can be hard to get

(01:06:48):
it back. Looking no further than what old Miss and Doug,
they got out to a nice early lead against l
s U, couldn't get on track and things kind of
created for them. I'm not sure I'm gonna call for
the outright upset yet. I want to dig into a
little bit more, but think this is going to be
a game deep into the fourth quarter for Tennessee. Fans
will be sitting on pins and needles with Will Levison
Company coming into town. I agree. I think it's a
good upset pick Todd, You're the man. Always appreciate your time.

(01:07:10):
Thanks for hanging with us. They always a pleasure. Guys,
have a great week at top Ferman on Twitter. Running
a little bit behind because the Astros are in the
World Series. And just like everyone picked Steve de Sagers,
it's the Astros and the Phillies. What's going on in
the world right, just like everyone picked Padres Phillies for
the National exactly, we really have a matchup and starts

(01:07:32):
Friday night on Fox TV of a World Series with
a lot of wins against surprisingly not that many wins.
But you know, baseball postseason continues to prove whoever's hot,
it could be yours. I mean last year when the
Dodgers lost the NL title to the Braves, Atlanta had
eighteen fewer wins. This year when the Dodgers lost to
the Padres in that series, Padres had twenty two fewer

(01:07:53):
wins this year. And now we go to this World
Series matchup where the Phillies have nineteen fewer wins from
the regular seas and compared to Houston, and yet the
Phillies are there, Bryce Harper Series m v P. It's
a two run homer bottom of the eighth to eliminate
San Diego four to three in Game five of the NLCS. Meanwhile, tonight,
it was a four game sweep for Houston to eliminate

(01:08:14):
the Yankee six five. Tonight's final score thanks to two
runs top of the seventh to take the lead. Series
m v P rookie Jeremy Pain He had a three
run homer in the third. The starting picture tonight was
Lance mccullar's jr. He was due to start yesterday, It
was pushed back a day because he was hit on
the elbow by a champagne bottle in the division celebration.
Nestor Cortes was tonight's Yankee starter. He had started gone

(01:08:37):
five innings of their clincher the previous round. He only
got in that game because the previous night had been
a rainout. Well, they had a rain delay here and
by the time he got in eventually no fastball velocity.
Growing injury caused him to leave after two plus innings
tonight three runs allowed, three walks. Yankees after nine wins
are done. You know the Yankees record as of early

(01:08:57):
July was sixty one and three unbelievable. The rest of
the way, the Yankees record forty one and forty six
since early July, a sub five hundred record for the Yankees.
That plenty plenty, I mean plenty of teams that we're

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contending for postseason did in the American League regular season,
it was Houston and the Yankees that are in the
first round. Buys. They were the top two seeds, They
were the two in this a LCS. But the Yankees
had the power regular season, not just Aaron Judge the
team over two or fifty Homer's best in major leagues.
Of course, Houston was the team that allowed the fewest
home runs in the American League, and Houston the one

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seed goes to the World Series. NASCAR went at Miami
for Kyle Arson, golf victory in South Carolina for Rory McElroy,
and tonight, the Miami Dolphins ended a three game losing
streak with a sixteen ten win over Pittsburgh Steelers. Rookie
quarterback Kenny Pickett one touchdown, three interceptions for Las Vegas
Josh Jacobs three touchdown in the second after beat Houston

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thirty twenty Kansas City pulled away forty four twenty three
at San Francisco Jets. Rookie running back Breecee Hall was
carted off at Denver with a possible torn a c
L Jets or five and two after a victory on
the road sixteen to nine, and Seattle lead in l
A seventeen nothing over the Chargers after the first quarter
thirty seven twenty three. The final. You know, in just

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a few weeks the Seahawks will be playing a game
in Munich, Germany against Tampa Bay That will be one
of those Sunday morning games. And they will have their
bye week after that Europe trip. But then when they
resume after Thanksgiving, Seahawks will be playing the Raiders and
Rams back to back. I mentioned Tampa Bay boy that offense.
They lost at Carolina twenty one to three. The Bucks

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are three and four. They're tied for first in the
NFC Cell. The Giants are six and one after a
victory at Jacksonville seventeen thanks to ten points in the
last five and a half minutes. Home wins for Baltimore
and Tennessee for Washington and Dallas, and since and Attie
beat Atlanta thirty five seventeen. Joe Burrow fo one yards
passing four total touchdowns, Joe Mixon had a one yard

(01:11:07):
t d run, and the top six remained the same
in the new AP College Football Poll. T see you
up to number seven then Oregon, Oklahoma State and number
ten USC this Thursday night on FS one. Number fourteen
Utah is at Washington State. The big noon kickoff neon
next Saturday Eastern time on Fox TV will be number two.
Ohio State at number thirteen Penn State. Back to you,

(01:11:29):
thanks Steve. What's once again no Watertown Wolves update from
the Federal Hockey with my kids? What's wrong with you? Sorry,
but we didn't get it over the wire. Sorry, she's unbelievable.
We come to you live from the tire Rock dot
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(01:11:49):
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It's Arnie and Plank on a Fox Football Sunday, but
some baseball talk has taken over because the World Series
is set. So a couple of quick tweets on this,

(01:12:11):
then we'll get back to what we learned in Week seven.
Got all the post game sound coming up from the
National Football League. Sharon is very mad at us Arnie
and she uh, She writes, I'm I'm going to tell
Scott Shapiro that's our boss. On that it's her boss, right,
you think you're the boss rooting. Rooting for an Astros

(01:12:32):
World Series will be a huge black mark on your
record for years. Take it back. She's right about that.
I think I'm going to have the root for the
for the Phillies. I I have. I have no choice
unless I can root for a tie. I'm gonna have
to root for the Phillies to go ahead and one
this night. I mean, I'm sitting here trying to imagine
Arnie like applying for a job and like, well, you know,

(01:12:52):
you were national talk show host for years one on
one sports success in Dallas and Phoenix and says he
and Astros. Did you root for the Astros in Mr Spaniards,
I had no choice. It was either that or Philadelphia. Yeah,
Roys sorry, but we're gonna go in another direction with
this job. That's why I'm gonna go ahead and root

(01:13:14):
for Philadelphia that for that reason alone. At Mallard Prop Rights,
you asked the question, how can the Astros pull out
clutch wins? The Dodgers can't easy, Arnie Spaniard didn't claim
the Astros as his team. You did say, my Dodgers,
and since that point the season tanked. Just that's the
reality of it. It's just amazing. Year in and year out. Um,

(01:13:38):
the Dodgers just go ahead and just fall by the wayside,
except for the short time I mean, and the Yankee
fans they get they lost to the Astros, and as
you mentioned and nineteen and seventeen and that they lost
to the Tigers. It's just been a horrible run for them.
To give um nature boy rights. Dodger fans should have
thanked the Padres from sparing them the embarrassment of losing
to the Phillies. See. I think the other way, the

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Philly should thank the Padres for beating the Dodgers, because
I think the Dodgers would have swept the Phillies. I
think their problem was they didn't they they got no marvels.
They got no waves, they got no heart. Arnie. I
need to go in that locker room and talk to
this Dodger team and get filed up for next what what?
How else can you put it your regular season phenomenon's

(01:14:20):
get it done in the postseason, then we'll talk about it. Hey,
I'm excited that we wanted twenty. We listen to me.
I'm excited that the Dodgers won in It was the
first time that had happened since I was a wheel
little one. But everyone's still ssen all over it. Right, Well,
you didn't have to go on the road, and so,
I mean, you had an opportunity, you were loaded this year,

(01:14:40):
and you couldn't get it done. So yeah, I'm I'm
I'm not bitter or anything here tonight. I'm giving credit
where credit is due. But the Dodgers would have swept
the Phillies. All right, Um, when we come back, speaking
of the World Series, Steve de Sager's got much more
on Dusty Baker and some details from Week seven of
the NFL next on Fox Sports. Right, l all right,

(01:15:01):
it's already in Plank on a World Series Sunday. It's set.
Astro's Phillies will get underway on Friday. Steve de Seger
is in the house from the entire rack dot com
studios to give us all the fun details. What's going on, Steve, So,
the Yankees the last five alcs as they've been in
they've lost him going back over a decade, their last

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five in a row. That is the longest streak since
the round existed since it was created over fifty years ago,
and we mentioned earlier in the show. In any postseason round,
the Yankees have been eliminated by Houston four times in
the last eight years. So Dusty Baker, at age seventy three,
onto the World Series, which he has never won as

(01:15:43):
a skipper. He's the oldest manager, by the way, to
reach a World Series. That is a new record. He's
had over two thousand wins in the regular season in
his career, top ten all time. That's the most without
winning a World Series. Over ninety playoff games, most by
anyone never to win a World Series. And kudos to

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the Yankees in this aspect. They found Harrison Bader acquired
and eventually did play for them, and in nine playoff
games he had five home runs for them this year,
but the Yankees got swept four games to non. Houston
wins tonight six five, a late evening in New York
after the rain delay at the start, two runs top
of the seventh to take the lead. Houston eliminates the Yanks.

(01:16:23):
Earlier Philadelphia eliminated the Padres, and yes, Friday night on
Fox TV, the World Series begin. Fox will have all
the games. Could they not move it up? Well, it's
kind of setting stone. Yeah, what's wrong with you with
programming as well? What time is that first pitched? You
know it works. I don't think they had at wrong
with me. Sunday night. You're gonna take five days off

(01:16:46):
for the World Series for everyone to forget about it.
Play on Wednesday. Let's go get this thing going. I
need to get baseball out of our headlines, so I'm
gonna talk more. Football is what it's all about. You
wanted on the weekends. That's why they're waiting. Yeah, because
everyone watches TV like a c on the weekends when
it's not football Saturday. All have it set up for
the Friday night Saturday night. We assume that everything is

(01:17:07):
going to be a night game and then off on Sunday.
But no to answer, your question, earity, they have not
announced that. I'm assuming it's college football will get better
ratings in the World Series. Standing by on that one
Saturday night. Uh, when we have on Saturday night in
college football? What games they put on Saturday night. Let's look,
if it's USC Arizona, then everyone's going to be watching that,

(01:17:28):
that's true. I think Michigan, Michigan State, it's going to
be Saturday. There you go, here's your prime time games
on Saturday. I just I'm sorry to say it real quick.
You've got Old miss A and m Man Michigan State
in Michigan. Okay, So that's that's something. They put USC
Arizona in the PAC twelve network. So nobody's watching Vermont
and the Kentucky Tennessee. Well there, I take it back.
There's crap games right anyway, go ahead to SAG but

(01:17:50):
we expect something like eight p m. Eastern. But no,
they have not announced the times. As for the NFL, Yes,
Gino Smith wins again two touchdown passes. The Marquis Goodwin
Seattle beats the Chargers thirty twenty three. Now justin Herbert,
for what it's worth, did have a touchdown pass. That's
eighty already in his young career. It's a short list
of guys who've had eighty touchdown passes in their first

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forty games in the NFL, Dan Marino, Kurt Warner, Patrick Mahomes,
and now Justin Herbert. But he is since the rib
injury and especially in recent weeks, he is just not
throwing the deep bowl and they can't run and they
certainly can't stop the run, just like last year. So
this offense is nothing like the entertainment it was last year.
So far, it's I mean, the bye week is here

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and could not have come soon enough. They were down
seventeen nothing at home after the first quarter and lost
to Seattle today. Meanwhile, you had Patrick Mahomes well being
Patrick Mahomes again because remember Kansas City was down at
San Francisco ten nothing early and still won by double digits.
In fact, it was forty four to twenty three in
the Bay Area. Patrick Mahomes these last three plus years,

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he has the highest winning percentage of any quarterback. He's
won almost eighty percent of his games. Did you know
when he falls behind by double digits he still won
seventy percent of his games? That is ridiculous. It just
means nothing. I mean the Chiefs on third down conversions
today they were six for seven. It's almost like whatever down,
it just doesn't doesn't mean anything. We're the Chiefs, will

(01:19:19):
move the ball. Kansas City is five and two. Jimmy
Garoppolo was sacked five times. Meanwhile, the Raiders did get
a win at home over Houston thirty eight to twenty
late pick six. It was fact it was three touchdowns
in the fourth quarter total Josh Jacobs three touchdown runs
in the second half. He had a hundred forty three
yards on the ground. You mentioned Damian Pierce for the
Texans earlier, ninety two yards rushing. Houston though one four

(01:19:43):
and one, and the Jets are five and two. They
won at Denverse sixteen to nine, but rookie running back
Breece Hall was carted off with a possible torn a
c l. Let's not forget the Jets only had ten
first downs in this game. I'm not saying it's like
watching Iowa, but they're not the usual five and two
t and the Jets had eleven penalties as well. Against
We've seen Denver, we know what they are. The Jets

(01:20:06):
lead was only ten to nine. At the half. Cincinnati
beat Atlanta thirty seventeen. Joe Burrow was seeming like he
was gonna throw for six hundred yards today. It was
a mirror four eight one. That's it. Yeah, after that start, oh,
I will say it did seem like he was are
yours today? But when you have thread the yards to
the half, lookout? Great stuff. Thanks to Sag. We got

(01:20:28):
more updates coming up here in a bit. In fact,
we're hitting Twitter in the locker room and what we
learned after weeks seven in the National Football League. Next
final hour coming up Arnie and Plank on Fox Sports Radio.
It is a final. Yes, the World Series is set.
It'll be Dolphins. I'm getting there. I'm getting there. It'll

(01:20:48):
be the Sager just told you, it'll be the Astros
and the Phillies. On Friday, the Yankees become the first
team in MLB history to lose five straight league championships
series appearances. What was the Sagers note for four times
that the Astros six times? Oh my gosh, sending him

(01:21:10):
back to the nationally lost to the Tigers and to
the Rangers. I believe to the Rangers. How about that
we're going away back to eleven. How about that? And
oh no, I'm sorry that was fifteen, wasn't it? With
the Rangers? Um, I know years they all run together.
And I think what we've learned is outside of say

(01:21:31):
Justin and Cincinnati, most people are rooting for Dusty Baker,
not necessarily the Astros, but a rather large percentage of
people still angry at the Astros for the cheating scandal.
So it's like split. I think it's to pick a

(01:21:51):
team the root for when you have to root for
the manager because you hate both teams that are involved.
That's so funny. Yeah, that two thousand and twelve of
Cincinnati Reds team. That team was a wagon that lost
to the Phillies. No, they lost to the Giants. Excuse me,
in the n L d s. And you were talking
about the the Yankees frustrations in the postseason. You also, okay,

(01:22:15):
so let's compound it a little bit here. We don't
need a historical perspective on this, but you know, the
Yankees are always gonna spend, right, they'll go out and
they'll try to get players. But now you've got a
big decision to make on Aaron Judge, Right, what do
you do because I'm willing to bet that just across town,
Steve Cohen will do whatever it takes to get him

(01:22:35):
to New York. You'll take him with the Mets. Yeah,
I don't room for him. No, Carlos crab I couldn't
care less about Aaron Judge. I can't win with them,
don't want him. By the two ten was the Yankees
lost to the Rangers. I was only off by one year,
and then I tried to use the over the top grip,

(01:22:56):
and then I was off by five years. I played myself.
So there's the baseball for tonight. If you guys want
to jump in, hit us up. It's stinking genius one.
I'm at Plank Show, aren't He always loves to hear
who you're rooting for. By the way, the reason you
wait till Friday is that way nobody gets a an advantage.
That way, you could pitch anybody you want, because if
if there's a picture you like today, you can get

(01:23:17):
four days rest out of him. Now, I actually will
buy that. I think that's a damn good excuse, aren't you.
They don't do that every year, do they? No? No,
Because I mean, if you think about this, if if
this would have gone seven, So I might need to
say here to help me out. You would have had
an off day tomorrow? Would they have played tomorrow? Um,

(01:23:40):
so you probably did. The series wouldn't have been over
until Thursday. So what you would have turned around and
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the NFL kind of took a back back seat that hour, understandably.
So the World Series is set, So Arnie, let's let's
go with one of our tried and trude traditions. The
NFL has, I guess you could say, officially entered. Well

(01:24:25):
the week eight talk, but week seven is a rap
after Monday night football, So you start. I've got about
three or four here for you after week seven, Arnie Spanier,
I know this. After week seven, I know this. The
New York Giants are for real. They're going to make
the playoffs. There's not gonna be any stumbling this year. Yes,
I know it's a hard division. Dallas will still be there,
Philadelphia will be there, but I think they'll beat out

(01:24:46):
Dallas because the one they're They're um regular season schedule
is easiest. Remember Bertie Fred told when we're doing the worst,
the first you might want to get sider the Giants
because of their schedule. Um, this team is for real
six of one right now, so um, we'll see how
they finished out. But I I really believe they're in
the playoffs. Is much better team than the game. You know,

(01:25:06):
I'm buying them a lot too right now, I really,
But there's like five teams who are playing really well
and I keep waiting for their quarterback to come back
to Earth so and and the Giants are not necessarily
doing it with all just brilliance from Daniel Jones, right.
They know, no Kwon Barkley, Kwan Barkley has had a
career resurrection. The defense has been an outstanding It's while

(01:25:30):
Patrick Graham left to go to the Raiders, Art wasn't
retained by the previous staff, however, you want to look
at it, and they get Wink Martindale. Meanwhile, Patrick Graham,
they Raiders had better down the stretch, but they've struggled
to find their footing this year as a defense. Meanwhile,
Wink Martindale, who was moved on from in Baltimore. It
is like having a career resurrection as a defensive coordinator
with the Giants. But Arnie, I know you don't care

(01:25:52):
about coordinators, so let's move on. After week seven. I
know this, the Dallas Cowboys are gonna be fine, just
fine with Dak Prescott back. I know it didn't start.
I know, I know Mr wanting to give Cooper Rush
a lifetime contract to make him the highest paid quarterback
after forever. There I don't know. He scored a couple

(01:26:13):
of light touch ons all of a sudden. You think
it was a blow out, But go ahead, how many
weeks has been since he played? What? Four? Five? Five weeks?
Stop playing? Aren't He takes you some time to get
your footing back, get your timing back. You know this
isn't like riding a bike and say, oh, hey, I
got this thing figured out. No, you've got freaks coming
at you. The Lions default three weeks, got right in
there and let him the three scores on their first

(01:26:34):
three possessions. Arnie I'm sending you the clips of every
interception that he should have thrown that was dropped by
stealer receivers, so you can stop hurting yourself patting him
on the back. You Andrew Burner account, who is back
at pack twelve. So you and I might disagree with this,
but I think Dallas is good. Um, they've I feel

(01:26:56):
like they're starting to lean more towards Pollard in the back.
Feel old. They've got a very you talk about the
Giants favorable schedule. They've got the Bears and the Packers
in the next two weeks. And I know everyone's gonna
drool over that Packers matchup. But we'll get to the
Packers here in a bit. They're gonna beat Chicago next week,
another get right game for Dark Prescott. They're gonna be
six and two heading into that Packers game. I think

(01:27:19):
they're fine. I think they're good to go. I think
the NFC East might be the best division in the
NFL right now, all right after Week seven, I know this,
the Raven fans were a couple of minutes away from
losing their marbles. Could you imagine of the Ravens choked
away in this lead to the Cleveland Browns and dropped
the three and four, Especially when the team you can
make a kids with them for being like seven and old.

(01:27:40):
It's embarrassing. I mean, you you got the wonder what's
going through the They almost one slip away against the
Browns um and almost dropped the three and four. I
bet to their fan base would have gone bullets think
if that would happen, you know, And it's not just
the Browns, Arnie, it's the Browns with Jacobe Brissette, who
looked like an all star on that first to dry
I've but you know, Gus Edwards was back, had a

(01:28:02):
couple of big touchdown runs. And again this is just
a personality fault. I guess I have. I fall into
this trap of really getting carried away looking ahead on schedules. Right,
I'm not trying to pick games or tell you anything,
but listen to the next four weeks for the Baltimore Ravens.
They go to Tampa next week, who's a disaster. They

(01:28:24):
go to New Orleans the following week from Monday Night
football in fact, Tampa and Baltimore Sunday Night football next week,
so we'll have to sit through that next week. Great,
but New Orleans and then they played Caroline in Jacksonville.
So if they stumble it all through that stretch, then
I think we've got big time issues right now in Baltimore.
But they're they're maintaining their pace. No one's running away

(01:28:45):
with that division right now. Hell at two and five,
I don't know if you can count out Cleveland, especially
with DeShawn Watson's return looming. But yeah, I'm I'm I'm
with you on that. I I was. That was one
of those games that I kind of tapped out on
because it's like, oh, they're in control right now. Uh,
and then the next thing I know, it's it's like, oh,
let's take it a Baltimore. Where are Cleveland where the

(01:29:07):
Browns have a chance. You're like what it was in Baltimore? Alright,
So after Week seven of the National Football League season,
I know this. Y'all can make fun of the Raiders
struggling and that's this weekend, and you can talk about
how terrible TA is and and that's fine, or we
could sit here all day and lament how Tannehill was

(01:29:27):
able to win a game without a j Brown. But
I know this, Arnie. These receiver moves that were made
in the off season. I think they're missed now. Patrick
Mahomes did a good job of of just being nails
today after last week. Last week, I felt like it
was magnified that the Chiefs missed Tyree kill Right this
week it's like Tyree Coup. But through all of that,

(01:29:51):
no one, and I mean nobody is more missed by
his former quarterback then Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers, and
Aaron Rodgers knows it. That's why he's miserable. It's it's
crazy because the way they're talking about the Packers, you
would think they're like one in six on the season
right now, but then you look their game under five.

(01:30:12):
It's a long season, but this is a three game
losing streak, and you can pin a lot of this
on Aaron Rodgers. I mean again, like I said off
the top of the show, we don't try to get
too carried away with numbers, but two thirty five for one,
they don't have a running game, Arenie. This isn't just
an Aaron Rodgers problem, it's an offensive problem. What's the

(01:30:34):
stupid joke that everyone tries to tell you and make
like they sound funny. Their offense is just playing offensive
nothing nobody anyway. It's bad. So after week seven, I
know this, Aaron Rodgers, Mrs Davante Adams more than Patrick Mahomes,
Mrs Tyreek Kill, more than Tannehill, Mrs A. J. Brown.

(01:30:54):
Who am I leaving out on receivers that were moved
during this offseason? And I don't think there is divide
day Adams hadn't walking through that door. Greg Jennings isn't
walking through that door. Um, I can't give me another
old Packer receiver that was good. I think Randall Cobb
has walked through that door. No one's walking through that
door to save Aaron Rodgers and unless they make a move,

(01:31:15):
And I don't know what receiver could be on the
move right now, especially with DK Metcalf getting hurt today, Arnie,
I think the Packers are in big trouble. The rest
of the way, they are in big trouble. They just
look putrid. Their offense looks bad. Rogers hasn't looked this
bad in a long time. UM. I don't know if
they're as bad as that Tampa offense, but they didn't
look good by the way. I had quite the dilemma

(01:31:36):
today you know that. Don't you go ahead? Oh I
wanted to. I had my phone in front of me.
I'm getting ready to watch or I'm watching the afternoon games,
and imagine my surprise. Right here Derek cars out of
the game. I'm like, oh my god, he's heard season over.
I go. Do I text Plank and say season over?

(01:31:58):
I can go. You know what, don't worry about a
big guy. It's gonna be fine in five years from now.
Do I say, hey, Chris, at least Stidham's got some experience.
Or do I leave planned alone and let him suffer
in peace? And um, I didn't text show suffer. Well, literally,

(01:32:19):
I know that kind of ruined it for me. That well.
The funny thing about it is I was I was
watching the Red Zone on my flight and when I landed,
the Raiders game had just kicked off. So my ride
picked me up my wife and literally I had the
laptop opening the car and was watching the Raiders game,

(01:32:39):
and when he went down, I had this flashback. I'm
not trying to playoffs the exactly because in we were
it was my wife, my two daughters. We were driving
in the car when Derek Carr broke his leg and
I was watching the game in the car and I
literally whenever he went down, I looked back. I'm like,
I'm never riding with you guys again and watching the game.

(01:33:01):
You're gonna have to drop me off here. I'll get
an uber and let it take me home. But thankfully, no,
he came back in the game. I'll go one one
up on you know, and I'll say I know this
after week seven. I think the Texans aren't as bad
as their record indicates. Now I've sat and watched those
dudes today. They're gonna win some games. Here's here's some
things I know. I'm gonna give you three quick better

(01:33:24):
than their record, three quick worse than their record, real Quick,
three quick better than their record. The Houston Texans, I
think they're better than their record right now. Um, I
know this one is kind of controversial right now, but
Arizona with DeAndre Hopkins back is better than their three
and four record. And I'll throw one more in there.

(01:33:47):
I think the Jacksonville Jaguars are better than their two
and five record. Wow, well, calt you try to jump
on that Jacksonville bandwagon like I did last year. Here's
three teams that are worse than their winning record that
they have. The New York Jets, the New York Giants,
whom I like. I think they're really good, but I
don't know if they're that good, and the Seattle Seahawks,

(01:34:07):
because after Week seven I know this. There is no
way Gino Smith should be doing this. How is this
even happening right now? This is rich Gannon squ right.
Rich Gannon was in the league for ten years. Now.
Gannon won the m v P with the Raiders. I
don't think Gino Smith is winning the m v P.
But Arnie, how in the world is Geno Smith doing this? Right?
Seattle is one of the worst three teams in the

(01:34:27):
NFL coming into the season. Only reason I wouldn't have
had them the worst is I would probably would have
picked the Texans to be the worst team, but they
would have been in my top three, no doubt about that.
If I said Gino Smith four without cheating and looking
at the internet, could you name the four teams that
he's played for? Well, the Jets, right, Seattle? Right? Um?
I would think that, Oh in Denver, No, no, uh,

(01:34:51):
the Chargers, which I forgot he was their backup in
eighteen and the Giants because remember Bob McAdoo controversial, he
bitched Eli Manning and started Geno Smith against the Raiders. Unbelievable.
All right, you got any more arny um after week
seven and we've pretty much covered a lot of them.

(01:35:13):
But after week seven, I do know this. The Dolphins
saved their season today and you made me think I'm
I'm messing around. But if they lose today and dropped
the three and four, and I know they have an
easy party coming up, But if they lose today and
confidence is lost in two, uh oh my goodness, man,
I would have a terrible night's sleep. I'm telling you,
I was really nervous about today's game. I'm embarrassed that

(01:35:34):
the game was even as close to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Well you should be, and you should be even more
embarrassed that you came away with that greasy victory after
two should have thrown at least three. Pick six is
a couple of quick ones here. Then we'll get caught
up on a break dawn tomat at me because we
went really long last hour. After the Astros clinched their
spot in the World Series Astro's Phillies World Series on Friday,

(01:35:56):
the Saker has got more on that coming up at
the bottom the hour. Here's two quick ones one uh
and I say, I've got ESPN up right now in studio.
They're all over this. I think the Bengals are starting
to find their stride. Now. I don't know if that
means that they're suddenly gonna real off five wins, but
after starting going two, they won four their last five.
Their only loss was a fairly controversial one to Baltimore.

(01:36:17):
They go to Cleveland next week for Monday Night football.
Then it's Carolina, so I and when you throw for
three hundred yards and a half, that's kind of a
given a number two um Man. Denver is terrible. I mean,
I understand the Russell Wilson injury hurts them, but he's
been bad. Arnie's this bad coaching, is this bad roster construction?

(01:36:40):
I mean, what in the world is going on at
Denver where they've reached this point of suck this quickly?
You know, they say bad roster, but yet people, you know,
people are like, I'll take Judy if he's gonna be
made available. You know, like there's certain people on the
team that would if they were available, People would like
to have. You know, yeah, it's funny, but that's only

(01:37:01):
two guys that that are kind of being brought up.
I mean, there, you gotta have. You gotta have more
than one or two dudes. And I felt like the
Broncos did and don't again, I understand. Oh, they've had
injuries here. Patrick got hurt before the season started. The
running back situation has been a disaster. Yeah, you're right,
But when we spind an entire off season hurting our elbows,

(01:37:24):
letting Pattent pat himself on the back for all these
great moves that the Broncos have made and how incredible
this roster is. You should be able to survive a
couple of injuries. Guess what, they can't. They're doomed. It's embarrassing,
Bronco fans. You deserve better. And that Russell Wilson's I
need to get out of here. I need to be

(01:37:46):
traded immediately. Well here's how I think. Well he's stuck there.
I mean, no one's gonna trade for that contract. But
it's gonna be Hacky that goes first. And either that
or and that's the guy that Russell Wilson allegedly wanted.
Right whenever whenever he went there. Allegedly that was the
guy that he was all about. They brought in a
quarterback coach and he wanted to I I'm telling you

(01:38:06):
right now, the Broncos are cooked in less rust can
learn how to get it going again, and I don't
know if he can't. All right, when we come back,
we got a lot of what we learned on Twitter
already at Stinking Genius. Want at Plank Show plus post
game sound including a dejected Aaron Rodgers next right here
on Fox Sports Radio. All right, it's already in Plank
coming to you live from the tire rack dot Com

(01:38:27):
studios at Stinking Genius. Swan him at Plank Show. Every
time I go to Twitter, I'll find another stat that
blows my mind. I know there's Twitter is just a
but we're getting tons of tweet We're getting everything and
this all kinds of people tweeting stuff out and it's
crazy out there. It sounds like you just discovered Twitter.
Yeast time I want to listen to I heard Pedro

(01:38:50):
was just trolling Yankee fans. I want to hear that
later on too. Okay, so here's a question that I
have about that, because you know, I love Jared Krabs,
barstool guy now DraftKings, But are you really allowed, as
a fan of an opposing team to troll another team
when you didn't even make the playoffs? No, you're not.
You're not. Are you allowed to sit there and make

(01:39:12):
fun of them when you're not even in that position
to do anything about it? No? No, I can't do it.
Went with them. I don't know why that quote has
been stuck in my So here's two quick tweets and
we'll get to what you guys status wise for me,
what you guys have been hitting us with? Tonight, Nick
Cosmidor tweeted this about the Broncos. He covers the Broncos

(01:39:33):
for the Athletic. The Broncos have scored one points through
seven games. The only time they ever scored fewer through
that many games was a ninety one point output in
nineteen sixty six. So since the NFL merger in nineteen seventy,
the Broncos have never scored fewer points to this point

(01:39:55):
in the season than they have this year. Are you're
not thinking about the three amigos with this squad? I
promised you that hold on? Hold on, Mark Jackson? Oh,
are you going, ye, Mark Jackson, Vance Johnson, Who am
I leaving out? I don't know. I just remember Vance
Johnson was he went to the University of Arizona and
it was at Steve Swool maybe Oklahoma Gradum, Sammy Winder. Oh,

(01:40:19):
I mean listen, let's just be clear here. Those Broncos
were my nightmare. That's when I was a kid and
I was a Los Angeles Raiders fan, and John Elway
and Carl Mecklenburg were like dancing on our graves. So yeah,
that was. Uh, here's here's a and here's a good
one on the Seahawks. Um, because I cracked up when

(01:40:43):
I saw this from ESPN Stats and Info. It's the
next Gin stat that I can get down with. Kenneth
Walker the third reached a top speed of twenty two
point o nine mile UM on a seventy four yard run.
It's the fastest max speed by ball carrier this season,
according to next Gin statue, which I got, admit. Um,

(01:41:06):
you know, Kidneth Walk a little bit of a bigger
looking running back. Where's the single digit? Doesn't look as fast? Right?
I was like, you know, Michigan State guy haven't had
a famous Michigan State running back since lady On Bell. Right,
so it's been a minute, but he also becomes the
first Seahawk rookie with one hundred and fifty yards and

(01:41:26):
two rushing touchdowns in a game since Kurt Warner the
pin State Kurt Warner back in remember the quarterback, he
was a running back before he all right, so let's
hit Twitter up. Arnie's all about it. I'm all about it.
It's stinking genius one. I'm at Plank show. Um, Jamie Rights,
thank you, Arnie, you just sealed the Seahawks victory next weekend.

(01:41:51):
What did you did you say that they were terrible
or something that they were gonna lose? Who? Who? Who's
on those schedule? Who they played next weekend? Next weekend,
the Seattle Sea Hawks have the New York Giants. Oh yeah,
because I yeah, Well the Giants are gonna win that
one also, and there you go. Hey uh Brendan Rights,
congratulations to my Las Vegas Raiders for their biggest margin

(01:42:14):
of victory since the pandemic. I'm looking forward to a
nice playoff push in the second half of the sea
And I didn't think they were gonna pull that out.
I watched that game. Wasn't seventeen Houston for a while there,
and I'm like, oh, boy, Plank is gonna be Oh
is he even gonna show up today if they lose
this game. Unbelievable, never doubt, never doubt in my mind.

(01:42:36):
I knew they were gonna win that game. I was
listening to the radio broadcast and uh, Jason Horowitz, their
new radio play by play guy, was trying to plant
that seat. I love Jason. It's like, well, you know,
there's there was a lot of buzz around this game,
and you know they'd fallen behind early too, right, they
were down ten to three and then Derek carthrow's a
dime at the end of the first half and that

(01:42:57):
kind of set the tone for the rest of the game.
At thirty eight to twenty interception return that kind of
sealed the deal. And they've got a big one against
New Orleans next week. So did he give you the
third answer there? Did you see that on Twitter? I'm
I'm in my likes. What do he say? Was Ricky
a teal? The third? You put a question mark? So

(01:43:20):
do you want to do like we're doing with Packers
wide receivers earlier? Do you want to do old Denver
Bronco receivers. Are you sure? Because I could do it
because they've all pretty much moved my childhood rod Smith,
the Marius Thomas R I P. Shannon Sharp all right,
a few more tweets. Uh, this is good Bill, Right?

(01:43:41):
The Astros still have cheaters on that team from seventeen
that was dominated by Kershaw at Dodger Stadium in Game one,
then goes to Houston and miraculously doesn't swing at all.
Fifty one breaking balls he throws and beat him of
the Dodgers in Game five, Idger should have won in six.

(01:44:02):
Go Philadelphia. Yeah, I gotta think that the neutral fan
is going to root for Philadelphia, even though they've got
their hatred for the town of Philly. Sure much better
than trying to go for somebody like the Astros. I
I thought maybe people would have a tough time deciding,
but I get see Houston being kind of the sentimental favorite.
How could you hate Philly? Man, Charlie mac frank sweet

(01:44:26):
d no idea what I'm talking about? You, well, some
of them, but just it's just the whole town, you
know what I mean? Um? And I like this from
Pete A. Lot, he writes, the new head coach in
the NFL, and we're moving around here. It's like we're
juking and jive in between football and baseball. So hang
with us, Pete Rights, the new head coach in the

(01:44:46):
NFL are trying to outsmart the game and it's not
working out. McDaniel kept the Steelers in the game. Staley
of the Chargers is on the hot seat. The smart
guys are playing dumb football. Yeah, And I'm gonna crack
up because they gave that statistic right, NBC did that well,
not you know, not not kicking the field goal there

(01:45:08):
only it was a one percent chance, And I'm like,
wherever you got that from? Changing But Mike McDaniel afterwards
said it wasn't analytics, there's nothing of that nature. He
just had a gut feel. So I think we need
to start worrying about Mike McDaniel and his gut aren't
he going? Nobody gave him any analytics, the students they
stopped him on third and two, he was already calling
the play. Nobody got in his ear, going alright, nobody,

(01:45:30):
He was a already in his head. On third down,
he had said, we're gonna go for it on fourth DOWMB.
That's why we're running it on third down. It's already
in the plank. Come into your live from the TI
rack dot com A Studios. Let's let's get after it,
shall we, because we've got more on Twitter and I guess,
I guess. Peter King has responded tonight to his prediction

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about the New Orleans Saints. I saw something about that. Man,
he must be mad at you. When we come back,
we'll hit that. But first, let's get caught up on
everything in the world of sports with team to Seger,
what's going on? Steve al Houston seven and oh this postseason?
Onto the World Series. They swept the Yankees four straight
in the a LCS, winning tonight six to five series.
M v P rookie Jeremy Painia hit a three run

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homer in the third. In the NLCS, Philadelphia, the sixth
seed out of six playoff teams, in Game five eliminated
San Diego, the five seed. Bryce Harper two run homer
in the bottom of the eighth. He was named NLCS
MVP for three the final. The Padres were down to
nothing early today, had taken a three to lead on
a wild pitch in the seventh, but the Padre offense

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went five for thirty two twelve strikeouts today and it's
the Phillies who go to their first World Series since
two thousand nine. Philadelphia five and oh at home this postseason.
As for the NASCAR race in Miami, Kyle Larson not
only the winner, he led about two hundred of the
two hundred sixty seven laps. Ross chess staying finished second
season finale at Phoenix November six. Rory McElroy took the

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golf tournament in South Carolina and moved back up to
number one in the world rankings, was last there two
years ago. The top six in the AP College Football
Poll remained the same, t SEU up to number seven
This Saturday on Fox TV number two, Ohio States at
number thirteen, Penn State neon Eastern Time, and then Oklahoma
States at Kansas State. Right tonight was the Miami Dolphins

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hosting the NFL primetime game, beating Pittsburgh sixteen to ten.
Dolphins led thirteen nothing first quarter rookie quarterback of the
Steelers Kenny Pickett one touchdown, three interceptions. Kansas City pulled
away for a forty four twenty three win at San Francisco.
Christian McCaffrey by the way eight carries thirty eight yards
in the loss and two catches for twenty four yards.

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Las Vegas with three touchdowns in the fourth quarter, including
a late pick six Beach Houston thirty eight to twenty
Seattle one over the Chargers thirty seven twenty three. You
mentioned Kenneth Walker. He had two touchdowns, including the clinching
seventy four yard or hundred sixty eight yards rushing for him.
This Seattle tam granted there. Over the five mark, they

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were ranked thirty out of thirty two NFL teams in
giving up points per game twenty seven a game. In yards,
they gave up over four hundred yards per game average
six yards per play. They were next to last in penalties.
They had fifty penalties their first six games, and then
they pretty much dominated led seventeen nothing after the first
quarter today. At one point it was nine first downs

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to one advantage the Chargers. Their first three drives, none
of them went more than twenty yards, turnover on downs,
an interception, then fumble dug themselves a hole, and two
things not only the Walker second half touchdown, but the
other thing that clinched at a seventeen play Seattle drive
in the second half that went over ten minutes. By
the end of it, it didn't matter that they settled

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for a field goal. They took up ten minutes and
twenty seconds. And for the Chargers, they can't run, they
can't stop the run, and until one of those gets fixed,
it's hard to take them seriously. And wide receiver Mike
Williams left with an ankle injury, Joey Boss already out.
J C. Jackson was carted off the defensive back with
a reported dislocated kneecap, and the Chargers did not recover

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the on site kick attempt at the end. The Chargers
still have not recovered an on site kick in ten years, gentlemen,
So the Chargers after today, I would love to know
the number exactly uh more, of course when the rules
were different a few years ago for every team, I'm sure,
But the Chargers after today have exactly one home game
until mid December, just an oddity of the schedule. The

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Jets are five and two after winning at Denver sixteen
to nine. Jets rookie running back Breece Hall was carted
off with a possible torn a c L Joe Burrow
in Cincinnati four one yards passing four total touchdowns and
a win over Atlanta thirty seventeen. Falcons are one and
three on the road. Detroit was actually winning at Dallas
six three at the half. Dallas the final Lions with

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five turnovers, sacked five times, and wide receiver amend Ross
st Brown left early with a concussion. Washington was trailing
Green Bay fourteen three in the second quarter, but beat
the Packers one. The Packers have lost three in a
row there three and four Tampa Bay's three and four,
but tied for first in the NFC South. Tampa Bay
lost twenty one to three at Carolina Giants six and one.

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Gotta win at Jacksonville seventeen with ten points in the
last five and a half minutes. Giants have won four
straight and Jacksonville was stopped inside the twenty and the
final seconds, in fact tackled at the one at the end.
Tennessee beat Indianapolis nineteen to ten. Ryan Tannehill was in
a walking booth. The quarterback suffered an ankle injury. Baltimore
beat Cleveland Gus Edwards two touchdown runs and it was

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announced this week. Next season, the NFL will have one
game on the day after Thanksgiving. The Black Friday game
will only be on Prime video streaming. Totally gonna be
a Raiders game. You're the man, Steve to We can't
wait till next Sunday night. It's already in playing Sunday
coming to you live from the tire Rock dot Com studios.

(01:50:56):
Can I get the sponsory? Yeah? Yeah, all right. Ad
Well had a great idea. When they show the Tampa highlights,
especially when they show Mike Evans dropping the touchdown, they
should super impose the creamsicle uniforms from when they were
owing fourteen and stuff into that. There's still in first place,
which is what's funny about all of this. I mean,
they lost, they lost to Caroline and p J. Walker today,

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and yet they're still in first place. Tampa is right now,
though I don't know if that makes any of their
fans feel better. I'm gonna go out on a limb
and say that no one, and I mean nobody, the
roots for the Buccaneers is doing the Alonzo Morning Gift
where they're they're upset and Allison are like, well, you know,
I was still in first place. No nobody cares about that.

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If if if Tampa finished something like let's say seven
and ten, would that push Tom Brady in the retirement
or would that want to push some come back definitely
one more year to prove that you can't go out
like that. I bet it's not with Tampa. Oh, I
didn't even think of that. I mean, I just I
don't know if this is a Todd Bowles thing. And

(01:52:02):
again team that's in first place, but they're under five
hundred and just got smoked today by the Carolina Panthers,
so questions will be asked. I'm also someone that firmly
understands the NFL and college football out of times they
make no sense, zero, none, whatsoever. And you can go
anywhere he wants, well for the most part, because I
mean don't well, you don't have to worry about, you know,
bringing Gisella. It has to be a you know, like

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a warm place or anything like that. So I think
he'd like to play in a warm place. Again. This
is just one of those things that's always weird to me.
I mean, you're you have multiple homes. I mean, you
can live wherever you want. When you're making Tom Brady money.
Who would you rather have car or Brady? Car every day?
And twice on Sunday? Didn't hear me? Did you watch

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them today? I don't want that washed old man around. No,
I can't because I don't want that washed old man
who's lost four their last five games. And it's in
there about his get out of here your bomb. You
lost to Carolina only one to three? Will you want
him in Miami over to uh? Because that's what you're
gonna end up that's my quarterback. Well, here's the quarterback

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is Steven Ross is gonna get what he wants. He'll
end up with like Tom Brady in that offense next year.
And Arnie suddenly be like, yeah, two is terrible. You
gotta go veteran. We gotta go f them picks in Miami.
So what's gonna happen? I'm predicting the future? Bow right
this down mark the tape at this point. A couple
of other tweets that I wanted to get to before
we got out of here. We got your picks. The

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Peter King thing is interesting because um, no one's really
let him forget it. And it's funny going back to
preseason predictions. Right this everyone misses him right. It happens
all the time. I mean, I thought Carolina was going
to contend in the NFC South. Not very smart, but
I wasn't trying to tell you they're gonna be the
number one seed and they're gonna play the NFC Championship game.

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And Peter King literally with the opposite of what everyone
had said about the Saints this offseason. Everyone said, they
have had a terrible off season, they lost a Hall
of Fame head coach, their roster kind of stinks, and
you're you're running it back with Jamis Winston and he
puts him as as one overall and who said this
is Jason Diamond. Someone tweeted at him and said, how

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cool is your Saints picked? Because I think he was
probably tweeting about a dog or something. And Peter King
tweeted one of my greatest never the other one, that
he deserves to be fired. He not even work for us.
So I and I said that in the preseason, like
this is ridiculous that he had to stays at number one.
We we jumped on that pronto when we found that out.

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You're trying to fire guys that don't even work. That's alright,
couple of what I learned real quick. Then we'll get
to the break and get your picks and get been
in here. What I know? After weeks seven, Pete tweets
at us the new head coach. Oh wait, hold on,
hold on hold, I read that one. Uh, Emmon writes
what I know as a Seahawks fan who listened to
Russell play for ten seasons, I've heard this all the

(01:54:57):
time where Wressell will have like four or five games
in row that just aren't good. He usually picks it up.
This season, he hasn't. There's no excuses for Denver. Russell
won't get traded. He'll just start calling out his offensive
line or his coaches. And I'll add this, Arnie. He'll
start doing it through the press. He'll start doing it

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through you got you know who you are. You'll you'll
have his agent, our Russell call you and say, you
know there's problems in the locker room. Yeah, it's caught it.
And then you'll start telling us about the problems in Denver.
It's it's the reality of it. Uh. There was one
more here, and we've got so many tweets. Guys are
mad at me. You're unfortunately you're mad because we went

(01:55:38):
to the uh rooting for the Astros kind of in
this world series so far, so I'm not. Oh you
you're back to Philly now as a Mets fan, you're
rooting for the Phillies. Well, what do you want me
to do? I can't root for the Astros. Put me
in a bad psis. I still don't understand how you
can't watch a game without rooting for somebody. You literally

(01:55:59):
just can't sit there and enjoy a game. You can't
do it. All Right, here's here's the last one that
I wanted real quick, Mr Nobody, who's a pretty good
uh provider of content for this very radio program. Here right,
here's what I know after this week of the NFL.
The Steelers win tonight if they have a competent o C.
The Raiders are still alive for a playoff spot. Brandon

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Staley's sheet a seat should be warm, easy for me
to say. And the Bucks and Packers should be pushing
the panic button after those ugly losses. Well put Mr Nobody.
Arnie's picks are next on Fox Sports Radio. Alright, final segment,
which means Arnie's picks in moments. But let's make sure
we shout out the crew. Don Brown, great job as

(01:56:43):
our technical director. I cannot hear Don when he talks
to me like I'm gonna give you an impersonation of
a Don Brown time. Que you ready aren't here we go?
Did you hear that? I don't know if he just
hates the micro hates me, but good stuff. Don your
money tonight fifteen minutes. I'm like, dude, just ten seconds,

(01:57:04):
that's all. I don't need. I need to hit and
I need to hear. I have missed the airport on
two breaks tonight. Okay, I was flying us somewhere and
I landed in the wrong city. So if Don wants
to yell at me, we can do it. I blame
the Astros clinching their spot in the World Series and
your guys great tweets last segment. Also Bo Benson, who

(01:57:25):
has a great theory on why the Dodgers suck. Also
incredible job getting us Todd firm. It'll get Matt Verderan
back in next Sunday Night. Get Todd back in here,
and I'm sure we'll have a lot to talk about
a week eight. Steve de Seger one of, if not
the best update dudes. In the biz, and of course
the millions and tens of people behind the scenes working
to call and cut our audio that we played on

(01:57:47):
the show tonight, Arnie. It is that special time in
the program before we hand it off the big Ben
Mallard's time for Arnie's picks taken away, Stinking James do it? Does?
We give me a little music to put me in
the mood. Alright, World Series, I'm gonna take the philadelp
few Phillies and seven over the Astros just because I
got I can't vote for the ast You you literally
said during the trophy ceremony. It's already over there celebrating

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the world. You didn't get. You guys didn't get my joke. Okay,
I thought you were picking them and trying to come
because it looked like they were celebrating so much. I'm like,
there must not be a World Series. But I don't
know how many of these baseball guys can get around.
I mean, how are their liveris doing. All they've done
is party after every single win, especially the Phillies. That's
three champagne celebrations. Never give you some college I'm gonna

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take Penn State plus the points against Ohio State, way
too many. That's fifteen and a half. I like Syracuse
should have won that game against Clemson, big game against
Doltre Dame outlay the two against the Irish. I would
have take four to plus the twenty two against Georgia
and this rivalry. Too many points in that one. Love
my Arizona Wildcats plus the fifteen against USC Give me

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Michigan State plus the twenty two and a half against
Michigan in this rivalry. Way too many points there, And
I'm gonna take u c A minus the six and
a half against Stanford like the Bears tomorrow night plus
the eight against New England. I wouldna take Baltimore minus
one on the road against Tampa next week. I'm sticking
with my Dolphins minus three and a half at Detroit,
giving Minnesota the minus four against Arizona and Philadelphia minus

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ten and a half verse Pittsburgh. There you have my picks,
two of them, as you please. No longer strictly for
the Tavid purposes only. And once again I was right
last week when I told you that Benner would not
invite me to his UM Halloween party, and I did
not get the invitation, So you don't leave the house never.
You will give me an invitation. What do you want
an invitation to? Say? No? How are your pick last week? Oh? Um?

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I went night and four with the Bears plus eight waiting,
So I'm eighty five and eighty one back over he
went nine on the college picks that you put on Twitter.
Four and three in college, five and one in the NFL. Yeah,
your college. I was about detection. I thought you're gonna
have a two and five week in college. Alrighty bad
for a while. U have a great week, aren't you?
To my friend? You see guys back here next Sunday night,

(02:00:05):
we'll recap and talk about a Sunday night football game
that is kind of interesting. By the way, you got
the Bears tomorrow night. Yeah, plus t eight. I'm taking
the points you believing in justin fields about for Don
for Bow, for Steve to Seger, Chris Planks, stick around.
Big Ben Maller is coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

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