Chris Plank & Arnie Spanier Talk NFL Preseason "Free-Season", Olympics Conclusion, NFL Preseason HOF, and Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Yeah, let's go, Oh big boy, let's go. You're doing
You're doing. Okay, I'm doing good.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
You sure.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, I mean this season? No? No, no, why is
that a thing again? Now? I don't call the preseason
the free.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
So you couldn't wait? That started not even three seconds
until the show you're starting in with me.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
I kind of think it's the biggest story in sports
right now. To be honest with.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
You, ohs were horrible.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I've got it.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
I've got a plan for you, and I know it's
going to be hard for you to do. I think
I know how to fix this for you.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I went one to nine in the last ten, picks.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
One and nine.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Well, actually you're oh for your last nine? You started
out in your three and oh two? Yeah, three and
oh right exactly, so you're oh for your last nine?
That's correct. Oh a night, which is very hard? Oh
for ten?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Is what are the odds of going? Uh A ten
and ozero on apart?

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Speaker 2 (01:14):
It is the way tire buying should be seven hundred
to one.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
So you're telling me in the first preseason game, I'm
already gonna hit seven hundred to one, is what you're
gonna tell me?

Speaker 2 (01:26):
How are you hitting it? You're going over Well.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
I'm gonna try to get the tenth one wrong and
that way, and I went tenth to ten.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Here's I've got a way to fix this for you,
and I know you won't do it, but here's my idea.
I think you need to renounce taking those first two
games as wins.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
They were paid off. They were paid off as winners.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
They canceled all the bats.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
No, no, no, not true at all. A lot of
people just said we're paying them off where they were winners.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Everything that I saw said that they canceled all.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
The bat No, no, no no. I spoke to Bernie.
He said a lot of the casinos and a lot
of offshore just just cast them if they were winners
and refunded them if they were not winners.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
So you so you're gonna go ahead and stick with that.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I'm gonna go Why you're saying that I'm some type
of chicks. Let me tell you that the Pauses have
been have been texting me like crazy. They want to
fire me over this start. They're like, how can you
go over nine? I go, what that seven hundred to one?
That's incredible? That incredible, It's terrible. I mean, only you
can take stuff. I don't even answer them. I don't

(02:31):
even text them back. I'm like, no, I blay glass,
wrong number, wrong number.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
I was wondering how you were gonna spin this because
it is not the free season, and I do think
that there is an opportunity to actually make some money
this year by fading you.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Look, everybody knows I'm the college guy. Okay, everybody everybody
knows that you and I.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Don't know the name of your head coaching area.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
You Brennan. But that's besides the point that I want
to go ahead. And I wanted to crush it this preseason,
I guess because last year in the NFL regular season,
I absolutely crushed it. Remember, absolutely crushed. I think it
was like fifty eight to sixty percent. I don't think
it was Is anybody keeping track of my bad?

Speaker 5 (03:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:16):
I just say whatever, you want. The only reason I
kept track is and the only reason.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Second you're rooting against me because every game I lost,
you decided to text me another loss, another loss.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
I think.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
I waited until you had actually lost five in row,
and I was like, are you gonna win a pick again?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
And then they started coming in like two and three
at a time. Oh and five, and eighth and nine?
What happened to owen? Six and seven? They It was horrible.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I couldn't, couldn't.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
I could have done better by just throwing darts at
a dartboard.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I kind of think that's what you do. Anyway, If
I don't picking fifty five percent this year, the bosses
will fire me.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I'm telling you that, first of all, you've you've you're
not gonna get fired because you've already bet your job
many times and have lost it. And I think as
long as you still answer that phone, I think that
you'll be fine to keep your job.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
But I got it.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I gotta have a big year. That this is my
big year. This I'm putting it on this year. It's
got to be a big year.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
I only texted you whenever you were trying to claim
a three and oh start and I said one, oh
and two. Now I didn't know that, Bernie, and I
hadn't heard anyone say that they were paying off bets.
But if anyone would know, Bernie Fratto would know. So
if you want to keep holding on to that, fine,
I texted you, what do you want me to go?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh and nine?

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Is it what you ever to start the year? Oh
at nine?

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Or what in nine?

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
I just think that maybe you might have angered the
gambling gods right away by trying to claim that a win.
I only pointed out when you had lost five straight,
And to be honest with you, it didn't even register
with me until I saw the Baltimore sco and I
was like, oh, yeah, Arnie always picks Baltimore. And then
I looked down, like, oh geez, he also picked Pittsburgh.
Did you see how they lost? Did you see how

(04:57):
Baltimore lost their lost their game?

Speaker 2 (05:00):
No? I did not see. I saw the game. But
they put it round for the end.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
They put in some guy I don't even know who
it was. For one play was tied at thirteen at
the last play of the game, and he fumbled the
ball and the other team recovered and kicked the field goal. Really, yeah,
I'm like that. I'm totally cursed now. I mean, I've
just fallen apart. I can't I can't understand. Really, I'm
not going to give out winners anymore. I'm just going

(05:25):
to give out losers.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Maybe.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
Well, JP Hunkle does want to correct you here, says
the odds of Arnie's free season zero for nine is
really five hundred and twelve to one. Right, one hundred
dollars bet on that is fifty one, two hundred dollars.
If you would let me know what next week's picks
will be, Arnie, please.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yeah, let me tell you something. If you would have
picked against every one of my picks one hundred dollars, yeah,
you would have won fifty one thousand. It was oh
and ten is seven hundred to one. Let me Yeah,
that's the Vegas payout. I haven't heard of me. The
actual odds of going oh for ten is one twenty
seven to one. So you're telling me I'm already picking

(06:06):
one thousand to one clip how about that?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, I mean that's not in the positive.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Certainly you should. I mean, if my picks are so valuable,
now I'm not going to give out winners. I'm just
gonna go ahead and give out losers or does that
kind of kind of change the whole karma of the
thing and then reverse versus then I'll start winning. It's
like George Costanza, I don't It's like I'm I'm thinking
too much. Now, I'm in my own head. I'm not

(06:33):
to make pigs anymore. I don't know what to do. Well.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
I mean, I'm glad that you've been able to humble
yourself a little bit here, but maybe nine.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
I dare anybody, Chris, I'll give you between now in
the next decade to go oh for nine. I don't
think you can do it.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Well, give me your picks. Oh, tell me what you're
going I will say this much. I do think, and
I don't mean to anyone, but I think if you're
wagering massive dollars on the preseason, I think you might
need to pull back a little bit.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
No, it's the free season, obviously.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Not.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
No.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
There was a lot of people that actually tweeted me
that said, great, now I'm just gonna go against you. Seriously,
one guy that kept saying that if he went against me,
he just is fifty one thousand dollars richer. Suppose you're best. Uh,
if it's supposed he been one thousand dollars, he'd be
over half a million dollars richer.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
So now, if I'm understanding this correctly, Yeah, a man
who beats his chest about how great his picks are
calls himself the stinking genius. Yes, is trying to flip
this to say, all you need to do is pick
against me.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
No, I don't know what else to do. I mean,
I guess I'm gonna continue to give out winners.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
You.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
We have Todd Furman coming back.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
He's back.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Yeah, only because I started off oh to nine. If
I start off nine, No, he never would have come back.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I would.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
I want to know what he says. I want to
know he must think, like, I'm the worst gambler in
the history of gamblers out there.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
When did that flip, by the way, that they actually
paid off those Thursday night games, Because remember that, whenever
it happened, you had everyone who had a Twitter account
that is in the gambling world say sorry, guys, all
tickets are canceled. You know, you get your money back,
and that's it. They won't pay any winners because it
had to be the full length.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
Game five minutes.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes, was the handle just that low where they were like,
oh bleep, and what I think so off the winner.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah. I don't think a lot of people bet the
Hall of Fame.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Okay, I bet that because to me, anytime you hear
like the dot the betting dot ag s or whatever,
they are like, oh, we're just gonna pay it all out.
I don't think they're trying to help the gamblers out.
I just don't think there's a lot of.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
People that actually exactly exactly, I lost another game at
the last minute with Arizona. I believe I'm the last
player of the game. I was like three games on
the last play of the game.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
My picks.

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Seriously, maybe you should pick against me that everybody's gonna
be waiting around until the last the segment now, just
to go ahead and get my pigs and averse to them.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Well, we'll do our best to fill the next Let's see,
it's ten ten Central time.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
The boss.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
He's texting me now saying I want to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
No, I can't.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
I'm picking in twenty five I'm not even picking in
twenty five percent. I'm picking at ten percent. If you
take away my first two wins.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Two hours and thirty five minutes from now, we'll do
our best to fill what everyone is waiting for in
our final segment tonight.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
So but I feel good and still feel good about
I don't know why you showed something wrong with me.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
I mean, I know that you still think that the
preseason is the free season, but I think it might
be time to retire that. I think that's one of
those where you can stand back and say.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Oh, one bad week, and now it's more than one.
Bet Oh, one bad week, Okay, boy, just one.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, I'm gonna say.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Oh, is that our producer we haven't heard from in
like three months?

Speaker 4 (09:53):
How about the high Yeah? Cotrics back tonight? Patrick Sweekins
is our producer. Mary's running the show. We've had to
play a little musical chair. So gosh, we had a
little bit of everyone. Uh, Rob was in. Oh, I
didn't know Patrick was gone.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I didn't know that.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
But Patrick, I think has been deputized with keeping track
of all your numbers. And see, I'm old enough. We've
done this show together for a while. I do remember
when this happened two years ago and you actually quit
picking preseason games because it was so bad.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
It's the first week. I've been waiting like half a
year to do my PA. I can't quit after the
first week. I want to quit after the first week.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Now, I want you to power through. I want you
to power through on this. You got this, Arnie. You're
just thinking genius twenty.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
The odds of me going to nine again.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
I don't Well, you'll have to talk to Todd about that.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
That's beginning.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
I whiz yeah or something like that.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
Hey, the Olympics wrapped up, and as we continue to lamit,
what was a terrible week pick wise for Arnie. One
thing we did discover on Saturday, for as much talk
as we had leading up to the men's gold medal game,
and what's wrong with Team USA? Why are they playing
close games?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Boy?

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Everyone sure was invested because I gotta be honest when
I saw the Richard Dice tweet this morning that the
men's basketball game against France averaged nineteen point five million.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Viewers, that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
It was the most watched gold medal game since the
nineteen ninety six Atlanta Olympics and peaked at twenty two
point seven million viewers.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Twenty Arnie. That's incredible. Now.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
It helps when you got a tight game, you got
the star power and everyone that was involved in it.
But I gotta tell you something, I was invested in
the Olympics, and I sure as hell was invested in
the basketball. I loved every minute of it. I was
even watching the bronze medal game. I was watching Joekitch play.
It was crazy, it was I would have gambled on

(11:55):
it if I could have, probably, but Team USA one
steve and they got big, big numbers, ratings twice for it.

Speaker 6 (12:02):
In fact, that second half of the Thursday comeback in
the Semis against Serbia, that second half because NBC put
it on, it wasn't just on cable anymore. That was
thirteen and a half million viewers. Wow, which is more
than any NBA Finals game the last couple of years.
In fact, I looked it up the last five NBA Finals.
The highest average for the series was about twelve and

(12:22):
a half million when Golden State beat Boston in twenty
twenty two, and the clincher of that series was fourteen
million viewers. This was over nineteen million yesterday, which makes
it the largest TV audience in this country for basketball
since before COVID, since March Madness Final went to overtime.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
You don't have like.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Numbers for like like with France thrown in and everybody
like that watching though. You don't have anything like that.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
Like worldwide numbers. Yeah, it looks like overseas.

Speaker 7 (12:52):
No, I do not.

Speaker 6 (12:53):
No, that's crazy, but it is higher than the you know,
the women's March Madness Final this year, which was put
on two channels with IOWA sout the CAUs Carolina, and
that was just under nineteen million.

Speaker 7 (13:03):
This was nineteen point five yesterday.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Wow. So with that in mind, everyone was watching, were
you entertained? Arnie? Who won?

Speaker 4 (13:11):
And Steve Kerr fired? I thought Joe Allen Beech should
retire on the spot.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
All he said this a little bit too.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
Was probably fanboy and for Tatum trying to get him
in there. I don't really truly know. But what'd you
take away from him?

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Man?

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Another gold in both men's and women's hoops. I was
all invested. I loved it. It was tremendous.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
I was all into the USA fan with a men's
game first steph just a shooting thing like that. And
actually I sent you, I think I sent you the
stats about Steph hitting four three pointers like that, like
in his whole NBA career, has only done it once
in a game, and in like the last two minutes,

(13:53):
and now we did it, you know, in the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
He was just tremendous. Chris made no mistake about it.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
We were up by four, four points when Steph Curry
hit that last three pointer. Yeah that was Yeah, what
did you say.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
You didn't send it to me because I was looking
for it because it sounds that sounds wrong to me.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Okay, I'll find them for you. But he put up
that last three pointer. He misses that and we lose
that game. We're talking about how it will advise, hold on.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
Hold on, hold on, even if he misses it. I
don't think they're going to lose the game.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Well, even four points at that point, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
That was a four point game. Was still a two
possession game. So I think that they were in a
pretty good shape. I think they were in pretty good shape.
They just they got the dagger when they needed it,
and it'll advise.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Don't get me.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Wrong, right, I found that, says Steph Curry. Has played
in one thy one hundred and three NBA games in
his career, and he's made four three pointers in the
last two minutes and forty seven seconds of an NBA
game only one time, Game three of the twenty fifteen
NBA Final.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
How many total people have ever made four threes in
the history of in during that stretch.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
Maybe Reggie Miller's the other one. Yeah, it could be Reggie.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
I mean, look, look, look, I mean the ridiculous someone
actually took the time to die. I mean it's crazy.
You don't get me wrong. But then you're like, well,
I mean that's that's a lot of threes.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
I reposted that.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
That seems like a lot for one person to do
in the final four minutes. But I get the point.
It's something he had.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
Oh, I guess it's a big deal. Then no, no,
don't get me wrong. It's a big freaking deal.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Dudeeah.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
It just to me.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
I'm like, well, I don't think a lot of people
have made for I could be wrong. I could be
way off on this. I thought it was amazing. I
thought it was amazing because every single game it seemed
like there was another player who kind of stepped up.
Anthony Davis had his moment early, Lebron was just amazing.
Kevin Durant was incredible, obviously, Steph.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
You know everybody talks about how the other countries have
closed the gap on us, closed the gap on us,
And I'll give it to you to college football analogy here, Oklahoma,
if you were seventeen to twenty point favorites in three
games and you won by a few goals each game,
would you say the other teams closed the gap or
maybe you just didn't play well because you were seventeen

(16:07):
point favorite each game and the United States were seventeen
point favorites in that last game in both games one sixteen,
one seventeen, and you know, Vegas isn't given away money.
There's a reason why you're that big of a favorite.
So I'm just wondering, maybe the United States didn't play
all that great, or the other teams were just hot,
or maybe they did close the gap and the line

(16:28):
was absolutely completely wrong by Vegas. I'm not sure which
it is.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Okay, So are you of the mindset that you needed
to see a bigger win? You're not in that group
like I am where it's a man.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Two major NBA dudes that were on that team, Rland
Reyphrase and maybe the future of the NBA and win
Ben Yama right, obviously Fournier, it did pretty well, had
a cup of coffee, and the Serbs had an incredible
amount of NBA talent on their team. I look at
it and say, I still think that the betting market
is catching up to how close everyone into Team USA.

(17:01):
I still feel like that world of sixteen point spreads
and things like I never thought that number should have
been that high.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
No, I see, if you.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
Ludicris Tim, you could bet against the USA and all
those with the last three four games and yeah, you win.
I made a load of money, right.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
So my thought is I and again maybe this is
a Todd Furman question. Maybe Bernie would be much smarter
than I am. I still feel like that there is
this certain sense of a people are gonna bet on
Team USA regardless. Let's make that number so big where
it will question.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
I have no idea, Arnie, because I thought some of
those numbers were ridiculous that they had out there. Because
I'm happy that they won, Dude, I don't care that
they had to come back to beat Jokich. I don't
care that it was tight with France. I thought it
was awesome.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
It was awesome. The women's game kind of bothered me
because I felt they were so much better than France.
And by the way, I got to give all the
credit of the world to no Eagle. I'm watching that
game live. She makes the shot I had. I mean,
he made it known that it was a two point.
I had no idea. I couldn't actually see the foot.
He must have a great look at it. I didn't

(18:05):
see it until the replay, which took about what twenty
seconds to get back up there, and then you could
see her foot obviously on the line. But he had
a great call. And usually I don't get wrapped up
in the play by play, but he was on it.
He did a fantastic job.

Speaker 4 (18:20):
You get wrapped up in it if they they nail
it or if they screw it up. So you're telling
me he did better than the guy that called the
what two hundred meter dash or the one hundred meter dash?

Speaker 2 (18:29):
When he even mentioned the guy who won.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Exactly, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
He didn't mention the guy who won. But I thought
it was fun.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Well, listen simmer on it for a bit, give us
your thoughts on we debated. I think it was Saturday morning,
I was in for the fellas and Kathing and I
were debating, you know, you get set for this game
against France, do you look at the performance so far
as Hey, this is Team USA. We're moving on, that's
all the matters. Or are they still in that spot

(18:56):
where they're not winning enough? I was, I was joking
that I was diving around and I was shocked after
the men's win on Thursday. How many people say, Oh,
this is an embarrassment. How dare they be that close?
And I'm like, they won, let's go. It's the Olympics.
It's crazy. This is what makes it fun. So I'm
curious to see now that the mission was accomplished, Arnie,

(19:16):
to see where people fall. And I'm curious to get
your takes overall on what you thought of the Paris Games.
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Speaker 2 (20:14):
Bowl, if you include the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
I think they want to be fired. They want me
to have bad picks back in the studio. I mean,
you've never had good picks, so I will stop it.
That's that's what I'm known for. That's why they've hired me.
You're a Fox Sports. That's my picks.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
That's a lie.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Do you know what we need is we need like
a Maury Sounder for every single time Arnie says something
like that, Mary, we're able to play chite.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
That is a lie. I got you.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
Team USA is women Team Women's team won gold on
a last well we're saved from overtime on the last
second three that Brick banked in and then the player's
foot was on the line. Of course, Team USA thanks
to Steph Curry shutting things down was fantastic yesterday, but
it got Arnie thinking. It got us thinking here on

(21:04):
Fox Sports Radio, Roman Numeral lymics checking this right.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
What number six?

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Yes, Roman, number six. Would you rather have an Olympic
Gold medal but no NBA championship or have NBA championships
but no Olympic Gold medal?

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Who's well, I mean, there's obviously a ton of examples
of guys who have NBA championships but don't have an
Olympic medal.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I don't feel like there's a lot.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
Of guys that don't have an Olympic medal, or then
have an Olympic medal and don't have a champion Well.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Barkley or Patrick Ewing at Barkley gets a lot of
grief for that too, and it still bothers him that
he's ever won an NBA championship, but he certainly has
an Olympic gold medal. I'd rather have the Olympic gold medal.
To me, that's ten times more important than an NBA championships.
If so, b itff to be like Ewing and Barkley
and not have an NBA championship. I'm fine with it

(21:54):
as long as I had an Olympic gold medal to have.

Speaker 4 (21:58):
I think I'd take the gold medal too, But again
there's all these little nuances to it. I've obviously made
enough money the NBA where cash doesn't matter to me,
and the ends are meeting like a mother, So I mean,
you're not gonna I don't think for the most part
that the person that won the Golden Kayaking is set
for life, right, I mean someone went through. I think

(22:20):
it was Mike Tarico that had a list during NBC's
coverage of the amount of money or what they get
for winning a gold medal. Like in certain places there's
a guy that has like rent for life that's paid for.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
He's got guys I saw, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
So you saw. You know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
I don't know if you get that same guarantee whenever
we're talking about anything in the.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
US thirty seven to five for gold medal and shed
and sharp we read this yesterday, offered fifty thousand to
any American that's that said a Olympic record or world record.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
I'm not sure he was just gonna give him fifty
grand for the hell of it.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah, him and Ocho Sinko pledged to get fifty thousands
each other. Yeah, American athlete.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
My point in bringing that up is a lot of
the decisions I make in my life are driven by
how much money is that.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
Going to make me?

Speaker 4 (23:08):
And in that sense, we're kind of pulling that away,
right We're saying, would you rather have an NBA ring
or would you rather have a gold medal? To me,
I take the gold medal in basketball because it means
I'm one of the elite. I'm one of what's considered
Derek White concluded, one of the best basketball players in
my country because I've been chosen to serve them and
then I go and win the gold. So I don't know,

(23:29):
is that a bad way of looking at Oh?

Speaker 3 (23:31):
No, and look at the emotion, especially like when Bayama's
crying after the game and the France players, the women
players were crying after the game. It's so emotional. Even
Giannis was crying when they first went ahead and qualified
for the Olympics. It's just so emotional to play for
your country. You could see it on their faces and

(23:51):
look how they played, and I mean a lot of
the South Sudan team there were forty three point other
dogs are lost by a point.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Well that was in an exhibition game, I know.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
But it was just a lot of fun. It was
a lot of fun to watch. And I mean, my goodness, man,
they stepped up on the United States in a lot
of games. We were lucky to walk away with a gold.
But I would rather have the gold medal than any
NBA championship, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
He called him lucky. They walked away with the gold.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, that come back in against Serbia, it's down thirteen
undering the fourth was that was a little bit.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
That was lucky. That's what you're that's what you're going
with here. You're calling that lucky. This is why you're
gonna get fired.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Wow, you're just talking about how the greatest played the
Olympics and it's the greatest thing ever. And it's like, yeah,
we got kind of lucky. No, they went out they
beat them, They made shots they didn't make all game long.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
And we got saved by Steph Curry though. I mean,
let's let's see that's lucky with Steph.

Speaker 4 (24:48):
Oh my gosh, all right, listen, we put the poll
up because Arnie wouldn't be able to figure it out.
But thankfully, thankfully Arman Patrick did see he did something.
Who from the deep thoughts of Arnie Hi himself a
question of would you rather win the gold and no chip?
Win chip slash chips and no goal. Now, to be clear,

(25:09):
I'm sure some smart looks could be like, I don't
want chips championships. Okay, smart, let's just all right, wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
You literally type everything all out?

Speaker 4 (25:17):
I was words where we're through our first handful of
votes and in your behind right now.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
But it's early in the process, very early.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
I guess a lot of people not as patriotic.

Speaker 4 (25:29):
As right, You're the most patriotic in the biggest All right,
when we come back to the Tirack dot com studios,
we'll hit your early tweets to the show. But first,
let's get caught up on everything going on in the
world of sports with Steve de Saga.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
What's going on? Steve?

Speaker 3 (25:41):
I gave the Saga the night off yesterday.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
Not actually true, but while you were talking to were
yes US men's basketball it was the veterans that were
so impressive late in the game. Those last two games
just stunning to see, and Steph Curry included. He had
thirty six points in that semi final comeback and they
were down seventeen at one point to Serbia. The US
led for less than three and a half minutes.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
In that game.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
Curry from three point range was nine for fourteen and
then in Saturday's final eight for twelve from long distance
twenty four points, including the four in a row that
he made late. So the US won the gold medal
game in Paris against France. France had made the final
remember three years ago in the Olympics in Tokyo, and
lost to the US after beating the Americans in the

(26:25):
opener of that tournament. So then we get to the
women's final today in Paris. It's France against the US,
and the US women win at sixty seven sixty six
the American had They had trailed by ten points in
the third quarter and the score was thirty five twenty
five at the time. The US women, who almost never

(26:45):
forget losing an opponent, never gets within double digits of him.
Mostly they only had twenty five points scored by this
point in the third quarter, but late in the game,
the US made thirteen to fourteen free throws in about
the last five minutes. And here the AMASID had fifteen
turnovers first half, nineteen for the game. But that France
last second shot that banked in. You mentioned the shooter's

(27:07):
foot was clearly on the three point line. France loses
by one, eight straight. Gold medal for US Women's basketball.
Austin Dillon won the NASCAR Race at Richmond with some
late contact. I guess that's all you have to do
to win a NASCAR race, Just bump the guy ahead
of you out of the way and then pass him
and win.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Aaron ri took Golf two.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
That's right, he did two.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
That was incredible.

Speaker 7 (27:29):
But man, if you're Logano, how do you? I mean, seriously?

Speaker 6 (27:33):
Aaron Rai took Golf's Windham Championship by two strokes with
a final round sixty four. Due to earlier reign, the
final two rounds were played today. This ends the PGA's
regular season. There were two NFL exhibitions today. The Rams,
on a late TD pass from Stetson Bennett, beat Dallas
thirteen to twelve. Of course, Bennett had thrown four interceptions
before that. Denver won at Indianapolis thirty four to thirty,

(27:55):
a total of five turnovers and thirteen penalties in that exhibition.
Colts lose at home by four. They had missed a
fifty four yard field goal attempt in the first half,
missed a two point pass late in the game. Chiefs
wide receiver Hollywood Brown returned to Kansas City after last
night's injury. He had landed awkwardly on his shoulder in
Major League Baseball. Another win for Seattle tonight, ripped the

(28:15):
Mets twelve to one. The Mariners had won four in
a row. Cal Roley hit two homers. Julia Rodriguez off
the il did play. He was zero for five with
five strikeouts. Winning pitcher Luis Castillo six innings, nine strikeouts recorded.
So in this weekend series, the Mariners allowed the Mets
exactly one run.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, we're out of it now.

Speaker 6 (28:36):
That is tied for the fewest runs allow in a
Mariners series in franchise history. Of course, they're not quite
out of it. There is a third wild card you
remember these days? Yeah, yeah, and the Braves are just
in full dive mode at that.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
They were like a half game out behind the.

Speaker 6 (28:53):
Still a half game back of Atlanta for the final
NL wild card spot. The Atlanta Braves gave up seven
runs in the bottom of the eighth to lose nine
to eight at Colorado. The Dodgers scored two in the
bottom of the tenth to beat Pittsburgh sixt' five Pirates
have lost seven in a row. Houston won its fifth
straight game ten two at Boston. Houston and Seattle still
tied for first in the AL West, and the Orioles

(29:15):
fell into a tie for first with the Yankees in
the AL East. Baltimore lost two to one at Tampa Bay.
The lost to closer Craig Kimbrel, while the Yankees held
on eight to seven over Texas. Aaron Judge with his
forty second home run back to.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
You, all right, thanks Steve.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Some instant reaction to your poll question, Arnie, Mister Nobody writes,
this is going to sound like Olympic eighting, but I'd
rather have the NBA title. Even with the analytics. The
NBA and international basketball are so different. I maintain NBA
players are better than most international So to me, when
you win an NBA title, you're beating the best and

(29:50):
then happy for live rights. An NBA championship is so
much better than Olympic goald eighty two games, four rounds
of playoffs against the best in the world, not with
the best on your own team, as with the US
Olympic team, not even close on this NBA Championship is
so much harder.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
It might be harder to win, but it's not really.
That's not the that's not what it's about. It's it's
about the end. It's about winning for your country or
winning for yourself, right, you winning for the city that
you're in. I'd rather win for my country. I can't
believe that so many people are so selfish that they
want to go ahead just to just give me the
NBA Championship. I want the I want the trophy. Who

(30:29):
cares about winning for the United States?

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Basically, he's calling you non American, un American.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
But I did it on n Wait but I did
it a nice way, though, didn't I.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
I don't think so. But I think you tried. I
think you were one. I think your heart was in
the right place. Here's here's a few thoughts. Sooner.

Speaker 4 (30:48):
Lisa may have given us our new hashtag for the show,
hashtag fade Arnie.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Oh wow, I like that. I like that.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
So in other words, you give your picks and you
give the win, and then we'll go on the other
side and fade you Patrick and I will come.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
You know, this would kill me if I started giving
my picks and I went like, oh for nine, oh
for ten, and you guys started going against me and
everybody started getting rich and making fifty thousand and one
hundred thousand dollars every weekend. And I'm just sitting here
like some type of schmow losing money. That's gonna that
would make me throw up. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
I say, you keep going, then let's see if we
can't make that happen.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Do you understand this is never gonna happen again going
oh for nine? Never in my life? Well, this happened
to me again.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
You want to be Yeah, Scottie writes, when is someone
gonna tell our feelers, our fearless show Steelers slash drailer
that we always fade him always, paj Arnie, So you would.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Have been losing for a decade now, only this year
you'd be winning. One week, you'd be winning.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
Geez, I gotta start keeping track of just the winning weeks, right,
because this was you started out great, He started out great,
three and oh three and oh, I was thinking I
could possibly go twelve, and oh, I can't wait to
have Todd ferberanhon and see how many people go twelve?

Speaker 3 (32:11):
And oh, and then I lost the next nine games.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Do you know one thing that did?

Speaker 4 (32:15):
I got really angry with Twitter this week watching all
the exhibit. I watched a lot of preseason football, a lot,
and it's almost as if we don't learn any lessons.
And I feel like Arnie, part of it is because
we just don't have football for so long. And I
think there is at the very least like five or
six Roman numerals that are dedicated to the preseason in

(32:35):
some way, shape or format. I got my season hall
of Fame too, right, right, Well, your preseason Hall of
Fame is fun. You're not trying to tell us that
bo Nicks is gonna go out and take over the league.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
I mean, we did.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
People forget that a majority of these guys are playing
against third stringers.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
But you would have thought JJ M.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
J McCarthy, who he was one of three against the
first stringers.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Right, but he threw a pick. He threw a pick
right to Jack Jones.

Speaker 4 (33:06):
And then finally the Raiders bringing their backups and he
throws of you a nice Ballter was like.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Oh my gosh, this guy is amazing. I'm like, no,
he's finally playing against the backups.

Speaker 4 (33:17):
I mean when he's out there against the starters, and
it wasn't even all the starters for the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Uh he was. He was terrible.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
And that's I saw. I saw Brendan, by the way,
and I'll get to your list later, Brennan. He's like,
I think Rattler can compete for the starting job.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
No he can't. No, he's not.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
He's got to beat out Jake Hayner for the backup
job first. Quit getting drunk off these late game runs.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
It's just but.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Again, we haven't had football in a long time, Artie,
We're gonna lose our minds.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
I will say this, I think that game by JJ
McCarthy as meaningless as you wanted to make it out
to be. I think the coaches are saying to themselves,
that's gonna earn him another shot to maybe sure started
this started for the season.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Meanwhile, Sam Darnold against the first team Raiders defense, drove
the ball right down the field, right right. They went
forward on fourth down and through the terrible bats of
the end zone. But I'm just I don't know, Man,
I forgot how enraging this can be. But in the
same time, it's football. We haven't had it in a while.
We love it, so knee jerk away, I guess is

(34:22):
the best way to look at.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
It, right, Knee jerk away, Yeah, I have to.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
So when we come back to the ti rack dot
Com studios, there's like twelve Roman numerals dedicated to knee
jerk reactions in this season.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
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Speaker 2 (35:39):
Right? You were on last night?

Speaker 3 (35:41):
I was on last night with Jason Martin, so well
to go and obviously, oh good, good live you. We
were on right after the whole slew of late of
those Week one preseason games, so plenty to talk about,
and I'd gee, a lot more recognizable quarterbacks played than
I thought it was gonna play, be honest.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Same. So let's see what I have here year.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
I have Roman numerals seven, eight, nine, ten, looks like eleven,
some fourteen. I don't know what's seventeen. No anthem is about.
But my point is there's a lot of football here.
So let's just let's pickle. Let's play a little back
and forth on some big storylines to clutch. Are some

(36:23):
things that stood out to you from every team playing
in the NFL this week and what really caught your eye?

Speaker 3 (36:28):
What you mean like individual performances are team performances there.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
You don't have to be specific anyway you want, Arnie,
it's yours show.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Well, you know I did have my preseason Hall of Fame,
but you brought up JJ McCarthy. I did like the
way he looked. I mean, I know it just said
that they did it against second and thirdteamers out there,
But again, you have to understand the guy's coming in.
Here's a rookie. You want to see if there's any
nerves out there. And as I mentioned to you, I
think what it does now it gives him another chance
to become the starter. I don't know if I'll go

(36:56):
ahead and earn the starting job. They may want him
to go ahead and be on the online for the
first couple of games. But I will tell you I
was impressed. It's not so much about what he's done
against second and third stringers. You know, how is he
in the pocket? Is he poised? Does he get rattled?
What happens when he gets hit the first time? He
do an interception, did he bounce back? I think that
all that has a factor. Minnesota might not be in

(37:19):
such dire straits like I thought they would be. Yeh, Look,
I know it's just one game, but I kind of
like JJ McCarthy and I think he's gonna go ahead
and make a run for the starting jobbing And be
honest with you, I'd probably give it to him. If
you're gonna go ahead and you know work off that,
why not go ahead and do it with a rookie quarterback.
I came and let him get his reps in now.

Speaker 4 (37:40):
Two years ago, I felt like we were heading down
a road where we just were never gonna see starters
playing the preseason Arnie. A general takeaway that I had
is just how split the NFL truly is on if
it matters and if it does. I mean, I'm watching
I'm watching the Niners and the Titans play, and I
don't know any of.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
These dudes that are playing for the Niners, not a one.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
I think the remember Joshua Dobbs, the greatest quarterback that's
etaly played by about Week five last year, He's.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Out there running around.

Speaker 4 (38:11):
Meanwhile, on the other side, the Titans are playing all
their starters, right, Will Levis is out there and he's
slinging it around. I'm watching the Chiefs and the Jaguars,
we got the local broadcast of that, and I'm watching
all of the starters play. Then I try to watch
the rams and I try to watch the rams of
the couch. There was nobody between either one of those teams,

(38:32):
so I don't And Trey Lance, bless his heart, is
just terrible.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
So not as bad as Bett it was in that game.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
Well, Benet at least through the game when he touchdown,
passed and complete, completed a higher percentage of his passes.
But again, you're right, he wasn't as bad as that'sn't
been it. My point is, are we ever going to
get universal on this, because it is just crazy to
me how you have so many The Saints played their
starters for a while, they didn't do it last year.

(39:00):
Are we gonna see people finally come to the conclusion
that hey, we do need to get our starters out
there for a while. And it works at Kansas City. Sure,
there's an injury risk where there's injury risks all year long,
and again it's not like dudes play two and three
quarters really got your starters out there?

Speaker 2 (39:16):
What one series for Mahomes, one.

Speaker 4 (39:19):
Series for Jordan Love, one series for Trevor Lawrence, one
series for Sam Darnold. But do you ever think we're
gonna get universally where we will see more starters across
the board?

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Player?

Speaker 3 (39:30):
I think once we go to eighteen games, I'm starting
to wonder if we'll see them at all in the preseason.
There's only going to be what three preseason games at
that point. I don't even know if they'll knock it
down the two Who knows if they don't go ahead
and bargain and only have two preseason games, and then
at that point you won't see any of the starters.
Then they'll go by the wayside. Remember, like I said,
when I was younger, there used to be sixth preseason games.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
How about that? Remember that?

Speaker 3 (39:53):
What do you talk about after the third preseason game,
the fourth one, the fifth one, the sixth one, the
o fourteen games and six preseason games. That was just murder.
That was horrible.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
I was blown away.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
I was watching old highlights because I'm a loser, and
it showed it showed a Raiders game that was being
played in like Japan and it was a preseason game
and all the starters were out there, like what are
we even doing right now? But again, different time in
the NFL, different era, and everyone's going to have their
own approach, Like I know it's going back to Thursday.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
But Aren'tie the Panthers. I mean, I don't even know.
I don't even know how those dudes that.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Were out there Jack Plumber, And I know I get
it that it's it's not Jake Plumber, It's it's Jack.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
But there was a moment where I was like, still, well,
you'll know.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Them when they delivered the packages to your house the
next week.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Yeah, I'll know whenever they ring my doorbell and my
dogs go nuts because they left the prime on my
front door.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
But I just I find it interesting how.

Speaker 4 (40:52):
It's it's really split and and you're either all in
or you're all out and playing your starters. We'll get
into the nuts and bolts of what we learned, including
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Speaker 2 (41:23):
By the way I go. I've started back tonight, by
the way that's right.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
And guess who I saw the last couple of days,
the one.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
The only big Ben Maller.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
He came up to Vermont to see me. So that
was exciting to see him.

Speaker 4 (41:37):
He came up to Vermont just to see you, all
the way from Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Wow. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
And to think you made him wash cars one time
because we went bad?

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Bet you mad? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:49):
I think he had the Fox Sports Radio American Express card.
One he stayed at the most day, he stated, at
a very expensive hotel in town, right down there in downtown.
It was like a former r So he decided to
do that and even paid for lunch, so I know
it wasn't his Wow. Once I knew was it it
wasn't his card, I upgraded to onion rings and a

(42:11):
large shake.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
I was gonna say, if he's buying lunch, come down
to Norman anytime that he wants.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
What you guys do, did you get the club? Do
you guys get wasted. What was it like?

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Huh, let's go part of No, he was he was
with his wife. So I just showed him around, drove
him around town. You know, I have a jeep, so
I took him in the jeep, went through like the
hills and you know, just took him down by the water.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
And he said, there's nothing around you. Do you see
the bear?

Speaker 3 (42:37):
No that we have not seen the bear yet. My nuts.
We somebody saw it by the bed bathroom beyond uh
that went out of business. But otherwise, no, I have
not seen it near my house. It used to be
right near my house, so you know, I used to
have bear spray for that or adult butter knife, so
whichever one was gonna go ahead and take care of.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
That big fan of the dull butter knife being the
way to chase them.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
But anyway, yeah, no, big Bed. It was great to
see him. Went out to launch and went around the area,
showed in the town, so it was it was good
to go and see Big Ben. I haven't seen that
guy in years. At first I thought it was his
grandfather because he looks so old. But I'm like, no,
that's bad. I can't believe that Wow, So what what's wrong?

Speaker 2 (43:21):
What's leaving up to Arnie to lay with?

Speaker 1 (43:24):
No?

Speaker 3 (43:24):
At first I said, wait a minute, that's Ben's grandfather.
Then as I got closer, I'm like, no, that's actually Ben.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
So did you actually meet up at your house? Do
you meet him somewhere?

Speaker 3 (43:34):
I went out to his hotel, went out to his
swanky hotel and must have been like five hundred bucks
a night, maybe more? What?

Speaker 4 (43:42):
Just out of curiosity? Maybe this is a big Ben question,
not really an Arnie question.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
But was it?

Speaker 4 (43:48):
Were they just wanting to visit Vermont? Is that a
touristy area? Like, in my mind, the only thing I've
ever known about Vermont is that it's capital capital is
Mott Peelier because it was Vermont and Mont Peeley, and
that you and Beth live there.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
That's all I know.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
We don't live in Mount Pillier. We live a little
bit north of Mount Pilier. But yeah, Joey State capital
doesn't have a McDonald's. No, they just wanted to really
pretty much just visit me.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
So they came out to Wow So just to go
see the stinking genius man.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
And then flew all the way back to Los Angeles
he's gonna be on tonight. That's a long flight. That's great.
He must be flying privately or.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Something just to see you. Man. Man?

Speaker 3 (44:30):
Is that is that shocking or what?

Speaker 2 (44:32):
I would make zero trips with my wife to go
see my friends.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Wow, Pertye Frado's playing a trip to see me next summer.

Speaker 4 (44:41):
Again, that's big time. I can go in anywhere unless
I'm gonna be able to go have some fun. I
don't want to ride around in your jeep and have
you tell me about all your terrible.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Port Wenday night.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
We live in a vacation destination here in Vermont, so
a lot of people come in from out of town
and we get a lot of Canadians and a lot
of people from Rhode Iowa, in New York, Massachusetts. You
know what we call. Though I don't know if I
could say this on the air.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
Sorry, well, don't risk us getting canceled.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
Mister Nobody did send a tweet in that I thought
we needed to talk about here real quick before we
talked about the new Hall of Fame inductees in the
preseason Hall of Fame, which I think what Dak's a
member of the preseason Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Yes, see a zecher. We got a two time member
that's going to be reinducted in the preseason.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
All.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
Oh, so you're okay, okay, real quick, mister Nobody does
bring up a great point, because for those that missed
the first hour, Arnie has started three to nine in
his NFL picks. But what's even more impressive is he's
lost nine straight, right, nobody, right.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
One odds against that.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
To be honest, Back in the day, there was a
weekly radio segment in the South called Leonard's Losers. He
picked a loser of both college and pro football games.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
I was a fan. I beat him a few times.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
Maybe Arnie should revive the concept how his picking winners
is met at best. Did you ever hear of Lenyard's losers?

Speaker 3 (45:59):
Never heard of one?

Speaker 2 (46:01):
We had it Leonards loss ole miss minus three Leonards losers.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
There, you know, so he was giving you the loser, right, Okay,
Well that's just too much for my braid the handle.
Right now, I'm trying to give you the winners that
turned out to be the loser. So I just have
gonna keep up the same bath right.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
Now and then, real quick from Brendan, he writes takeaways
from Week one of the preseason. Caleb Williams is for real.
Gardner Minshew should be QB one in Vegas. The Cowboys
are going nowhere fast. The Chargers and need Herbert. Spencer
Rattler can compete for the starting gig in New Orleans.
Offenses league wide need improvement.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Oh there's a lot of Spencer Rattler, you know, talk
about him playing today. King love him, well, yeah, you
do early on, and yeah.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
Then people start realizing how they can defend him. And
I like Spencer. I think he's going to be a
good backup quarterback in the NFL for a long time.
But that hasn't stopped you, Arnie Spanier from putting him
in your preseason Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Yeah, the preseason Hall of Fame. Of course, we do
this every year, usually right after the first or second week,
when you have some of these guys put him some big,
big numbers that you even never heard of or you're
never gonna see again. Though some of these guys are
actually gonna gohead and play a lot. Like JJ McCarthy
had to put him in my preseason Hall of Fame.
Eleven out of seventeen, one hundred and eighty eight yards,

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two touchdowns, one interception. That's some serious numbers when you
don't close to two hundred yards in the preseason. Chris,
And like you mentioned, he did look good even though
it was against second and third stringers out there. I
do think it's gonna go ahead and give him a
chance to earn the starting job before the Week one
comes around. What do you think of JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 4 (47:47):
I thought he looked good whenever the Raiders brought in
their second team. I mean again, he looked like a
rookie quarterback playing against a first team defense, like most
of these guys doing. They play early, but I like them,
and everyone who is small harder than me in the
analytic world thinks he is pretty amazing.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
You know, they've got some dudes now.

Speaker 4 (48:05):
I think you brought this up earlier that you feel
like Minnesota might be a little bit better than you've given.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Him credit for.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
Right, But I even kind of felt that way with
Donald out there. And I'm not following for Sam Darnold
for the third straight year. I'm not gonna do it,
not gonna do it well. I like the way McCarthy looked.
I'll be it against some really, really bad defensive players.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
I thought he looked really good.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
My second guy in the preseason Hall of Fame. How
about Kyle Allen? Did you see him from seventeen to
twenty three one hundred and ninety three yards, one touchdown,
one interception. But he's been around for a couple of years.
But he had a pretty big game, So I had
to put him in my preseason Hall of Fame.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
If I were to tell you Kyle Allen five and
without looking, you had to guess the five teams he's
played for, or even the two college teams he played for.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Could you do it?

Speaker 3 (48:57):
I know he played for the University of Houston, that's
right where we finished. That's all I know.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
He started with A and M. He was in the
same recruiting Oh, I didn't know what I did know that.
I didn't know A and M.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
I did know that Carolina, w Washington, Houston, Buffalo, and
now of course the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Wow. Wow, he's hanging in there. Thanks didn't put Caleb Williams.
He just missed out Game four for seven ninety five
yards zero and zero. Had he don't a touchdown, maybe
we would have gotten him in there, because he's not
going to go ahead and see a lot of preseason action.
Dorian Thompson Robinson. I think he's been in before. This
is a second time induction for him. Fourteen of eighteen,

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one hundred and thirty four yards, no touchdowns, no picks.
But he also had a big game before in the
preseason and we inducted him in. So he's a two
time inductee there. Griz very impressive, how about it?

Speaker 2 (49:50):
It's that ty praise, by the way, that's big time honors.
That is.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
I don't know how many two time inductees there are
in the preseason Hall of Fame. Clayton tu did just him?
Fifteen to twenty four, one sixty three. Kid, he look terrible.
What the hell are you talking about? Well, I mean
there's still good numbers touched out, no winner.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
Wait wit, hold on, let's let's pause in it. How
many of these did you actually watch? How many of
these did you see a box score?

Speaker 3 (50:15):
Uh? No, I've seen either watched or saw the highlights
of them. Why you didn't like Clayton doing that? He
looked terrible, Yeah, but he put up some pretty decent
numbers and you think it was too early to put
him in the pre.

Speaker 4 (50:25):
Whow listen, I am not I am not on the
selection committee, so I don't have a say here.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
You don't you really don't.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
I just I guess I'll sit back.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
I think you're not gonna like my next one, then, Boex,
I mean fifteen to twenty one, but one twenty five only,
not a whole bunch of yards, one touchdown, no interception.
You know that they're gonna be clamoring for him to
be the starter right off the bat after those type
of numbers there, do you think?

Speaker 2 (50:50):
So?

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Are you keep saying those you keep saying those types
of numbers? Actually, I watched bo Nick's I thought he
looked good. I thought he was one of the few
guys even though it was against scrub you that he
was going against it was. It was one of those
moments where I was like, damn, this guy looks like
he belongs. He's gonna make a lot of people like
me look kind of crazy. I think he's gonna start
week one. I think you're right, Oh, we're right off

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the bat. I think Arnie's stat watching I think watching.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
These two, Yeah, WHOA.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
I don't have the pay the seven dollars for all
the preseason games. I tried to look into that, but
I can't figure out how to do that.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Yeah, you just got to set up an account.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
And so you've got just so we're clear the newest
inductees to the Preseason Hall of Fame JJ McCarthy, Kyle Allen.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
Right, you do have a Caleb on here, but you're
saying he just missed.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
I wrote just words as to the right, just missed. Yes,
by the way, I'm inductee.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
Well, what I was gonna say the reason you held
out Caleb Williams. Now you're putting Dorian Thompson Robinson in
when he didn't have a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
Right, right, but he did have fourteen of eighteen is impressive.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
I feel like it's a sliding scale here.

Speaker 4 (52:01):
I feel like this is very much statistical and whether
or not you feel like they were better than they were.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Were you trying to discredit the Preseason Hall of Fame?

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Con I might have some issues with the selection process.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
I don't think. I don't think I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Is on this list, and so is bo Nicks.

Speaker 4 (52:18):
I would I was surprised you didn't have Spencer Rattler
on there, but.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Looked into that, we saw that that way, I will love,
I will say the I'm.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Sure he's very disappointed. I would imagine this is a
tough time for him right now. I don't know if
there was any individual efforts that I figured you would
be more gaga over than what these are all quarterbacks. Yes, no,
Jalen Right from the Miami Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
No, I didn't put it. I didn't put him in there.
I didn't go ahead and have him in there at all.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Do you have any idea how good he was? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (52:53):
Ted catches over fiftifteen rushes. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
And he scored a touchdown too. Yeah. I mean this
is a fourth round pick, Harney.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
If you would have had over one hundred yards rushing,
then maybe has.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
A preseason running back ever had over one hundred yards.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
We're talking about the preseason Hall of Fame, not this
is not the Hall of good, my friend.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Now, I don't know you're putting Clayton Tune in there,
or Peyton Tune or whatever the hell is name you
love Caleb Williams. I know, but what I got listen,
it's your hall of fame. I'm not here to question
my hall of fame. I'm saying there's not you guys.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
There's only one position that's in this Hall of Fame,
and that's quarterback. I don't think you've ever put a
running back or a wide receiver in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
Do I have any coaches in the Hall of Fame?
I don't think I have any.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Yeah, well you have one.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
You got John Harbaugh, and you were thinking about kicking
him out whenever he lost two games.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
So that's right, that's true.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
I was just I was quick. I was going through
the scores. And it is kind of funny because either
you overreacting. You need jerk, not you the royal, the
royal either will you or you're just excited about what
the quarterbacks are doing. I mean you talk about a
linebacker or safety depth or the the corner play.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
If you're a fan of that team.

Speaker 4 (54:04):
I think because for the most part, you're waiting to see,
all right, how did our fourth round pick that we
got from Rutgers?

Speaker 2 (54:09):
How he's looking out there? Yeah? Exactly, you want to
see that. Do you would you go to preseason games?

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Are you you know? Or is that just too much
of a waste of your time out?

Speaker 9 (54:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (54:19):
I'd go, I mean absolutely, i'd go. Why not. I mean,
it's better than not watching football. I'd go and watch it.

Speaker 4 (54:26):
They in fact, gosh, this is really going back, they
played preseason games in Oklahoma. They played a game I
want to say, it's like ninety nine, two thousand, something
like that. But they would take some college games or
some some NFL games and they would play them other places.
Now I wish they would do that more, but I
guess it's the NFL is not necessarily worried about expanding

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its brand in the in the States, they're fine here. Suddenly, hey,
we're gonna go play a game for that ell of
it up in Vermont, now would they're good?

Speaker 3 (54:58):
I would go to the how Boys Rams preseason game
every year was sponsored by the La Times, and all
you have to do is like bring in two Coca
Cola or Pepsi cans and that would get you the
admission into the game. And that's how I'd be able
to go to the game.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Really, yeah, now I could do that. I can give
me two pepsis.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
And again, remember read there was six preseason games back then,
so you know they had a tough time getting attendance,
so it wasn't too bad. We should check the attendance
back then. I wonder how many people went to those
type of games.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
I did want to make a case for one other
player before you grab a break.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
Yeah, yeah, Sam, howe? Oh did I miss him? Did I?

Speaker 2 (55:36):
Yes? Dude? Yes, great? He was great, not only a good.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Stat patch you missed him in your Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Well, and he's a quarterback. I'm a fan fan. He
looked really good.

Speaker 4 (55:50):
He was sixteen of twenty seven for a hundred thirty
yards tough, and he looked He's all shaved now, so
I don't even know who he is. But and they
beat up on the Bolts who didn't play it damn
soul in that game on.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Well, I feel good for my picks. By the way,
I know exactly. I'm definitely picking against San Francisco forty
nine ers. So let's mark thatt the But I don't
even know who they play, but I'm picking against the
forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
All right, Well, we'll try to get the reason why next.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
When Todd Ferman joins us, he's back from the Tireck
dot Com studios. It's Arnie in Plank on a Fox
Sports Sunday. He's back, Baby, Todd Furman is in the House.
Bet the Board podcast missed him. He joined us here
with Arnie and Plank on a Fox Sports Sunday. What'd
you think, Todd? Was it a good weekend for the books?
Was it as unpredictable as the preseason can be? How

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was the full week one?

Speaker 5 (56:38):
I mean, these preseason games, no matter what the sportsbooks'll
tell you, really don't move the needle in terms of
creating a lot of liability. We're talking about relatively low
limits for most of the more sophisticated players that are
out there. So this kind of becomes the appetizer for
the football season that'll kick off at Ernest on the
professional side about a month from now, and of course
Week zero in college football, when we get treated at

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Georgia Tech and Florida State on August twenty fourth, for
some meaningful games that actually have lasting ramifications other than
what we've seen unfold since Thursday.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
In the NFL, Todd, I don't.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
Know if you've heard. I'm already in mid season form.
What are the odds? I guess the odds are five
hundred to one that you can go nine and oh.
I gave out nine picks. I went oh and nine Todd,
can you.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Go oh to nine?

Speaker 3 (57:23):
If I gave you all year to go oh to nine?
I don't think you could do it.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Guy's bragging about it.

Speaker 4 (57:28):
After bragging about how greatest picks are now Todd, it
becomes bragging about how no one can miss nine in
a row.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
Likely still five hundred. Make it makes sense.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
The bottom line and all of it is as difficult
to go in nine and oh as it is to
go oh and nine, Arnie, so you deserve credit for
taking things to the next level. Typically, when it comes
to managing your bank roll, it's a lot more profitable
to pick nine winners in a row than to lose
nine straight. So the mathematical probability of either event occurring
remains to be the exact same. But with you involved, Arnie,

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I think oh to nine always a much more likely
scenario than going nine and Todd.

Speaker 3 (58:00):
If somebody would have called you up and said, you're
not going to believe this, but somebody did their picks
and they went oh to nine. Who would have been
your first cast, Todd?

Speaker 5 (58:08):
I mean you would have been up there, but it
might have been Clay Travis right alongside get one B.
So Arnie Spanier one A, Clay Travis one B.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
Why do you feel like I want to go back
a little bit to the Hall of Fame game when
because the rules are games not concluded bets, you know
they're canceled out. Everyone gets their money back. What you said, like,
the handles aren't all that big, you don't lose a lot.
Is that why some places decided to go ahead and
pay out the winners?

Speaker 3 (58:35):
Well?

Speaker 5 (58:35):
Normally, well, I shouldn't say normally. All books should have
house rules that are out there in black and white
so they don't operate in shades of gray.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
Now.

Speaker 5 (58:42):
I know the times they are changing and things are
a little bit different from a dynamic standpoint, But traditionally,
sportsbooks out here in Nevada, and I don't want to
speak out of turn for other jurisdictions, treat a football game,
whether it's as the pro or the college variety, being
complete after fifty five minutes, so sides and totals all
pay out that way. Props on top of that, Now,

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there are some books that have some different language now
that I find a little bit problematic myself. I can
understand why people feel if a game has gone over
the total and you haven't even needed to go fifty
five minutes that they should get paid. But at the
same time, if a game is three to nothing and
the game goes fifty minutes and the totals forty four
and a half, they don't under betters have the exact
same gripes to try and be made. So I know

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the sports betting space is changing. I'm beginning to feel
more and more like a dinosaur than I would have, say,
ten years ago. And I think a lot of people
love to try and create a conundrum for a variety
of reasons, where I feel like every situation should be
treated the same and there's no reason to operate in
ambiguity when we're talking about people risking money, whether it's
five dollars or five hundred on some of these outcomes, todd.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
Are people now gearing up for a week one making
their bets now, or they're betting the over others for
the season as they see the preseason goes along they
don't want to make their bets too early, or are
they going to wait till the end of the preseason?

Speaker 5 (01:00:00):
Are betting into these numbers, aren't you from the moment
they get put up. Whether we're talking about NFL win totals,
odds to win the division, Week one numbers, or anything
else there in between. Now, limits will typically increase for
the NFL as we get closer to the start of
the regular season. You're not going to see the same
ability to move substantial sums of money if you're betting
a Week one game tomorrow as you will be, say

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seventy two hours before these games kick off. But the
numbers will move. They'll react to some of the preseason
results that are out there. The regular season win totals
that you mentioned, Some of those prices have been beat
up for a while, but professional betters that get out
ahead are not afraid to kind of flip their stands,
look to try and create some middles, maybe more on
the college side than what we'll see in the NFL,
because with a lot of the teams in the transfer portal,

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you can see substantially more volatility, especially as it pertains
to some of the G five programs that are out
there that odds makers don't quite necessarily have the same
grasp on as some of the pros that live and
breathe one sport three hundred and sixty five days yere As.

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
Your summer, Ben, did you get to do anything fun?
Were you all in on putting a little wager on
the Olympics or what was the what's the last few
months been like for you?

Speaker 5 (01:01:04):
You know, nothing too crazy. It's all about prepping and
making sure that you do the homework now so you
can get yourself ready for the football season that's starting
in earnest I actually didn't bet a single Olympic outcome,
whether all the men's are women's variety, No golf, nothing
along those lines. Unfortunately, Plank I didn't have any money
on either the twenty two car of Joey Logano or

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the eleven car of Denny Hamlin to win the race
earlier today at Richmond, given the ridiculous nature of that
finish and Austin Dillon going far and away, above and
beyond some of the unspoken rules that we see all
the time in our beloved.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
NASCAR, Really, Todd, I mean, we should be buying our
own private plane after what happened in the Olympics. I mean,
my goodness, we saw that one game where South sud
Dan was a forty three point underdog and they lost
by a point. Ever since then, I'm like, take the points.
Take the points. USA was a sixteen and seventeen point
favorite yesterday in the women's game and the seventeen board

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favorite in the men's game. But most of them they
even come close. You could have made a fortune, I
mean a boatload of money just going against the US there.

Speaker 5 (01:02:06):
Todd, I'm not sure you can make a boatload when
you're risking eleven dollars to win ten and an underdog
happens to cover. It's a different story if a seventeen
point dog wins outright. But you know, when you talk
about your personal jets, Arny, I think the only ones
that you're able to get yourself get some your hands
on are the ones you can buy in a hobby shop. Chris,
and I just want to make sure that you're not
getting too close to that airplane glue. You know it

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can kill a few brain cells, even in a Man
of your advanced game.

Speaker 3 (01:02:30):
Oh geez. I mean you had to go against them, though,
Todd was they never came close to covering the spreads
like that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:36):
My friend, Team USA from the men's side was definitely
a little bit overvalued when you look at some of
their games, but they did cover the quarterfinal game against Brazil,
we saw money against them, and then you look at
the other games against Serbia for the third time, they
of course didn't come anywhere close to covering and even
against the French side. So we know that if you
want to back the team that is clearly better on paper,

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you oftentimes have to pay a little bit of a tax.
But when you're talking about favorites in those markets, odds
makers are a little bit more in tune with the
men's and women's basketball because they have power ratings on
a lot of these players. They try and put them
together more so than what they can do on the
fly when it pertains to some of the track and
field events or the swimming events, where we know our
American women far outperformed the men when it came to

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exceeding odds makers expectations.

Speaker 4 (01:03:21):
Hey Todd, final question for me, just looking back on
the week that was in the NFL, anything really catch
your eye, anything kind of change your opinion on the
team or you're trying to avoid the knee jerk reactions
from these first games.

Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
I think it's always important to kind of contextualize a
lot of what's going on, and I know most fan
bases and rightfully so want to pay attention to those
quarterbacks that are drafted in the first round to try
to engage their performance. But as we know, it's a
much more vanila defense. Teams aren't trying to tip their
hand as far as schemes and the way that they're
looking to go out and confuse some of the younger quarterbacks. So,

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you know, JJ McCarthy, KAYLEB Williams, no doubt showed poise,
looked a little bit of the part, a little bit
surprised that the Patriots didn't give dra May a few
more reps knowing that Kobe Brisett will most likely be
their Day one starter. And I think maybe one of
the more surprising results is that we saw Trey Lanton
Stetson Bennett combined for a thirteen to twelve football game.
But it wasn't the final score. That caught my eye
was that the two quarterbacks through seventy nine passes between them,

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and credit to Stetson, Bennett leads the game winning touchdown
drive for the Rams, despite throwing four interceptions that all
looked early similar, with an inability at least early on
to read NFL defense even as vanilla as you get
from the second and third teamers.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
By the way, Todd, what are the odds I go
to nine again? So start off eighteen?

Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
They were the same as your ability to go oh
to nine the first time around, Arnie so and you're
looking at the math on that about three hundred and
fifty to one thereabouts. Remember each game that you pick,
the new factor does not apply, the same likelihood of
you picking the ATS winner or loser remains that eleven
to ten built in. So if you're going to rattle
off nine more losses in a row, it's the same

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probability of you doing it the first time, but it
will be a quite impressive achievement, still fall short of
what the Chicago White Sox accomplished earlier this season with
their prolonged losing streak in Major League Baseball.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
Man, Todd, So, glad you're back, man, Have a great week,
and we'll talk to again next weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:05:11):
Always a pleasure, gentlemen, looking forward to it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
I missed that guy. Glad he's back. That's Dodd Furman.
This Steve de Seger with everything that's trending. What's going on?

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
Steve, Well, hello guys, And a reminder that next Sunday
night on Fox TV. There's an NFL preseason game, San
Francisco hosting New Orleans. Often you see these.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
Days that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
I love them.

Speaker 6 (01:05:32):
We didn't ask, but okay, yeah, yeah, Usually there's these
joint practices between the two teams. I shouldn't say usually,
but often, and then they'll play their starters in that
and go full bore and then sit the people in
the actual televised games. But New Orleans San Francisco, those
two will not have joint practices now this week because
the forty nine ers are already low on players.

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
That's exactly why I'm picking against them.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
Bingo.

Speaker 3 (01:05:55):
Nobody's like coaling, it's like stealing. I'm gonna be hot
this weekend. I think we've talked about this enough so
I'll just move on. But preseason week number two starts Thursday.
There were the two exhibitions in the NFL today, Rams
and Denver, each winning. And by the way, Arnie, you
were talking about there's no way to find out preseason
attendance from years past, at least without further I mean, deeper,

(01:06:18):
deeper research. But I know at the Coliseum it used
to seat ninety thousand as a comparison. Now, USC has
done a lot of renovations inside and the seating now
is down about seventy seven thousand. But I just randomly
picked the nineteen seventy eight Rams and their home opener
at the Coliseum attendance was forty six thousand. Oh boy,
god jeez.

Speaker 6 (01:06:37):
A lackluster apparently nothing win against the Falcons in nineteen
seventy eight. I remember the Raiders last year in LA
and I looked at their home opener. It was only
forty seven thousand. I went to a Raiders game that year,
and I remember distinctly there were only forty thousand people
in a ninety thousand seat stadium for an NFL game
when the Raiders beat the Houston Oilers. The strange thing

(01:07:01):
is literally just a few weeks later in the same building,
the Arizona Wildcats played USC and it was over sixty.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Thousand fast because we love our Wildcats.

Speaker 6 (01:07:11):
And then when it was Notre Dame at USC, of course,
then there's ninety thousand fans. We have got to discuss
what happened at the end of this NASCAR race at Richmond.
Austin wheel the winner with some late contact. He's the
thirteenth different winner of twenty twenty four clinch the spot
and the Cup Series playoffs, so Denny Hamlin and Tyler
Reddick were runners up. The four hundred tonight went four

(01:07:32):
hundred and eight laps thanks to overtime. Cup Series was
off last two weekends with the Olympics, and here Joey
Logano's apparently going to win tonight, and Dylan crashes his
car into the barrier right before the finish and then
goes low and hits Denny Hamlin's car as well as
he was driving by. So Dylan gets the checkered flag,
gets into the playoffs now, and he gets this win

(01:07:54):
right before the yellow caution was displayed. It's his first
win in his last sixty eight so I can understand
how he's happy, and I can understand how he's really
pressing at the end. I love the fact that the
announcer asking the winner the questions at the end actually
said was this a fair move for your victory? And

(01:08:16):
his immediate response was, I don't know, man, but it's
been two years since I want to raise Hey.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
I had to tell you I thought the most brilliant
move that Austin Dillon had was as soon as he
got out of his car. He grabbed his baby daughter
and was holding holding a baby, so if anyone is
going to come after him.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
It's like he's got his baby in his hand.

Speaker 1 (01:08:36):
That kid.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
Played the sound bite from Logano. He had some choice
words to say.

Speaker 6 (01:08:42):
Yeah, we couldn't. Actually he said bleep, and there it
was bleep. There's no doubt about it. I was four
car lengths ahead. He was not even close. And then
he rerexed any Hammel along with it. Logano said, I
mean bump and run. I get it, I've done that,
but he just drove through me. This is ridiculous. And

(01:09:02):
Logano's crew chief said, it's just a joke to call
that racing. Something like that is not racing. We all
put too much into this. That is not professional.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
What happened to Wow, I did not pick of a
problem with it.

Speaker 6 (01:09:15):
And then Hamlin said, there are no penalties for rough driving,
so it opens up an opportunity for Austin to do
whatever he wants. He said, I got hooked in the
right rear of my car again. I'm minding my own business.
He puts me in the fence.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:09:27):
The record book won't care what happened he's going to
get credited with a win tonight, but obviously he's not
going to go far in the playoffs because you got
to pay your dues back on stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
By the way, the best line I saw tonight on it,
Steve was someone that tweeted, it's aggressively southern to put
two guys in the wall, then thank God and then
dedicate your wind to your newborn daughter.

Speaker 6 (01:09:46):
Yes, I love it, he said, gotta thank the good
Lord above.

Speaker 2 (01:09:50):
But it's wait what it's two years man? We had
but preaches, what are you talking about there?

Speaker 6 (01:09:55):
Austin noly Care, USA women's basketball won the Olympic. That
was kind of the same thing with the thanking God
and then the whatever. In the Age of Rolde interview
sixty seven, sixty six. The Americans beat France in Paris.
Wilson was named MVP of the Olympic tournament. She started
two for ten shooting from the floor today but wound
up with twenty one points, thirteen rebounds, four blocks. Of course,

(01:10:16):
the US men beat France in their final yesterday. Anson
Dorrance retired as North Carolina women's soccer coach after twenty
two national titles in his forty five seasons, and their
new season starts this week. He was the tar Heels
first coach in nineteen seventy nine. His career record nine
thirty four and only eighty eight losses plus about fifty times.

(01:10:40):
His program was ranked for over five hundred weeks in
a row like up until now. That's the current streak
and he's retiring. He coached numerous National Player of the
Year winners, including the legendary Mia Hamm and also Cindy Parlow,
who is now President of US Soccer NFL exhibition wins
for them and Denver and the Sunday night ballgame went

(01:11:02):
to Seattle twelve one over the Mats.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
Back to you, thanks Steve.

Speaker 4 (01:11:05):
A couple of quick tweets before we get to a
full breakdown of everything everything that's going on in the
world of sports nature boy rights on Twitter at Stinking
Genius one at playing show.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
I missed the first part of your show.

Speaker 4 (01:11:18):
Guys, have you started to get ready to have Tua
fitted for his gold jacket?

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Let yet? Well, this is a preseason. This is regular
season for them, right.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
Yeah, that was He's not going to be doing a
whole heck of a lot. They don't want to get
him in harm's way. You won't see any of the
Dolphins big time names out there. They're gonna go and
be sitting them, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:11:36):
We have some reaction to someone bringing up Leonard's Losers.
Randy Wrights. I remember listening to Leonard's Losers every Friday afternoon.
I think this was early eighties. He sounded like a
good old Southern boy. Really yeah, this is there was
the idea that Scotty Oates sentis It's like, why don't
you just go with that bit now since you've lost
nine straight. Travis writes, Leonard's Losers was classic growing up

(01:12:00):
in the South.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Yeah, I remember, man, we had it that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:02):
Yeah, we're on fourteen thirty back in Tulsa now, so
what's up?

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
What's up? KTBZ.

Speaker 4 (01:12:09):
And whenever I first started there, like back in ninety seven,
we had we had that on and it was I
had to go there and get a tape and I'd
play the stupid tape and I'd laugh my backside off,
thinking this guy's doing this and people are listening because
there was no rhyme or reason too. He just some
good old boy do let his lose us. I'm going
with oh miss to lose a Mississippis State and that

(01:12:30):
they would just run through the games. There you go on,
it's a new philosophy for you. If you've lost nine straight,
just ride it, go forward. Why they you can't do
that again?

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
Like I said, if I gave you all year, college, pro,
whatever sport, you could not lose nine games in a row.

Speaker 4 (01:12:47):
You just can't do it, Gunn. He wants to know,
how do you do on the ponies, Arnie? If it's
as good as preseason football, I'll at least know who not.

Speaker 3 (01:12:55):
I'm really good on the horses. I'm really good, really
really good.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
Are you as good as you are in the preseason?

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
Maybe even better?

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
Wow? I know, what was the last time you bet
on a horse race?

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
Oh? I mean, I'll go ahead and pick the uh,
you know, like the Derby.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
But I meant, you know, sit down, look at the
racing form, like go to the track or something. It's
been a couple of years, a couple of years. I
don't think you've ever got a Kentucky Derby winner. Right
on the show either, I.

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
Went ahead and I'm very I I picked a winner
like every other year.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
I'm so good at that griddles blackout rights.

Speaker 4 (01:13:36):
Not a Bears fan, not overreacting, just saying watching Kayleb Williams,
he looked like he belonged.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
You know, that's a really good point. That's a really
good point, uh Bo Nicks, Jane Daniels, JJ McCarthy, say
what you want about them playing against backups, even Drake
May as much as he's getting crapped on, they all
look like they belong.

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
When I said to you about j. J. McCarthy, he
just looked like he was poised. I'm ready to be
a leader. He didn't get rattled even after the interception.
That's exactly what I said. They do like they feel
like they belong.

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
All right, when we come back, let's dive into everything
we've missed. Everything we need to get to, everything going on,
plus more of your tweets. They've been really good tonight.
Keep them coming at Stinking Genius one at Plank Show
at Fox Sports Radio, and make sure you go vote
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would you rather have a gold and no championship if

(01:14:33):
you're an NBA player, or a championship and no gold?
Right now, they're anti us Arnie seventy four percent say
they'd rather have a championship and no gold medal. Oh,
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been doing this segment is basically we all started doing
a show together.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
We got to come up with a name for it.
It's got to be like the dial We call them
the segment.

Speaker 7 (01:15:39):
On Saturdays.

Speaker 10 (01:15:40):
Yeah, I feel like it's all should work to good.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
I mean, listen, Arnie's into hers segments. Yeah, and Arnie.
You do picks.

Speaker 4 (01:15:50):
It's not like you're the only person that does picks
in radios. This is an industry of copycat.

Speaker 7 (01:15:54):
He does pick losers as it turns out.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
So time for the segment or the dish with the saga.
What's going on, Steve?

Speaker 6 (01:16:04):
Well, we did have the closing ceremony in Paris today.
The next Olympics will be in Italy, the Winter Games
in a year and a half in twenty twenty six,
but the next Summer Olympics will be in Los Angeles
in twenty twenty eight and then Brisbane, Australia in twenty
thirty two.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
Good look to that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
What in LA you can't have? You're not going to
be able to drive to the events.

Speaker 6 (01:16:22):
I saw the mayor of La who was in the
closing ceremony tonight, has said and said this week again
people will have to take public transportation to get to
all the venues.

Speaker 7 (01:16:32):
In four years now.

Speaker 6 (01:16:33):
The actual organizing committee has only said we're emphasizing public
transit first. But some venues will have parking, like if
they use Rose Bowl for soccer, maybe so, but some
will not. If you have track and field tickets for
the Olympics in four years, do not expect to be
able to park at the LA Coliseum. I remember, as
one who was alive in LA in the nineteen eighties,

(01:16:56):
that before the Olympics began, people said, this is going
to be two weeks of the worst traffic even Los
Angeles has ever had, and it turned about to be
the best traffic that LA's ever had for those two weeks,
I think because people scared away, or they took their
vacations or whatever. So for four years from now, the
mayor plans to meet with some of the major employers

(01:17:16):
and discuss the possibility of staggering the work hours for
a couple of weeks. And of course, now unlike the eighties,
you got laptops, you got Wi Fi. And as she said,
the mayor, businesses learned from COVID that yes, we have
essential workers, people that have to come to work, but
there might be some employers that can say, can you
just be remote for seventeen days and see if that

(01:17:38):
helps things out. Are you guys aware that the LA Coliseum,
where USC has played football for many decades, that there
is a swimming pool right next door. It's essentially right
behind the press box. It's right by the entrance there
on that side of the coliseum. It was while Babe
Diedrichsen was running in the Olympics of nineteen thirty two.
Inside the coliseum, that swimming pool was used for the

(01:18:00):
Olympic swimming in nineteen thirty two. It still exists, and
they're going to use that pool next to the coliseum
for the diving as a venue. Officially at the LA Well,
they're going to have to have stands to be able
to sell tickets and so forth, but the actual pool
will be in use.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
Also.

Speaker 6 (01:18:18):
Are you aware that there we might know Staple Center
is where the Lakers have played or whatever the new
sponsor is. There are no sponsorship names allowed for the
Olympics during those two weeks. So this week, for example,
in Los Angeles, the Clippers new Arena is opening with
a concert. Of course, the Clippers will start play there
this season. It's going to be hosting the Olympic Basketball

(01:18:41):
in four years, it will simply be known as Arena Inglewood,
and the Lakers Place, which will have gymnastics, will be
known as Arena Downtown Los Angeles, and they'll use the
Long Beach Arena for events as well. But at the
Lakers facility at the Lakers Arena. Next door is the
LA Convention Center that will host at four Olympic sports

(01:19:01):
including judo. And then as I say, you've got gymnastics
inside the Lakers Place. And then on the other side
of that building is the Microsoft Theater. They're gonna have
Olympic weightlifting inside that theater on the stage and then
the fans can just seat be seated in the theater seats.
Are you aware that when the LA Chargers came up

(01:19:21):
to LA that for three seasons, Remember they played in
the LA Galaxy soccer stadium. That stadium twenty five thousand
seats supposed to be used for rugby. There are all
sorts of fields right behind that soccer stadium. Those are
supposed to be turned into the field hockey venue. There's
also a tennis stadium attached to that LA Galaxy Stadium.

(01:19:41):
They'll use that for tennis and also in the Olympics
some of the boxing as well. The LA Coliseum certainly
will be in use for track and field. Again, however,
look at a USC game between now and four years
from now. The track doesn't exist. There is no track
around the football field. They're going to have to put
it back in for twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
There is like a nightmare already.

Speaker 6 (01:20:05):
They're not going to have to build a single new
permanent venue. All the stuff is there now. There is
Olympic golf, unlike back in the nineteen eighty it's they're
going to use the famed Riviera Country Club. Oh is
in Arnie's old haunts where the rich people live near
the Pacific Ocean. Yeah, on the other side of the
freeway from UCLA. We mentioned it before. Oklahoma City will

(01:20:27):
have the Olympic Softball in four years where when it's
College World Series. Also the Whitewater Center Oklahoma City will
be in use. The USC basketball Arena is going to
have the badminton, and I was at the Ram Stadium
this weekend. They're going to put a swimming pool on
top of the football field and have Olympic swimming.

Speaker 2 (01:20:48):
And then real quick, are they doing the opening ceremonies
in the coliseum. They're supposed to include the Rams Stadium.
Now I don't know if they're going to use both.
That has been talked about. Interesting, Thanks Steve. All Right,
there we go. We're a little learned up on what
it's gonna look like in Los Angeles in twenty twenty eight.
When we come back, can Arnie break his O for
nine slump? We'll find out next.

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Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
What I was gonna say, by the way, I felt
kind of bad. I had some visitors over the house
over the weekend. Didn't you have, ben Well, I had bed, yes,
but when they left, we had uh just was at
you last night?

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Okay, we had uh.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
These two people over, friends of my sons. He goes
to college at Indiana, and he's a cheerleader for the
football team.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
And wait, wait, hold it, stop, stop your second.

Speaker 4 (01:21:55):
Your son's a cheerleader at Indian Oh no, the fred
his friend was okay, all right, he really jumped in
what he did.

Speaker 3 (01:22:01):
Yeah, he's a cheerleader for the football team and his
girlfriend's a cheerleader, and you know, obviously they I always
thought cheerleaders were strong to be able to throw and
lift all those girls up in the air. You know
what I mean. Yeah, he didn't look very big, didn't
look very tough. To be honest with you. She was
like the size of Simone Bile. So maybe they're the

(01:22:22):
girls are a lot smaller, so it's a lot easier
to throw them in the air. Because I thought he
was going to be pretty buff and all that, but
he but he wasn't. But I thought I was being funny,
and you know, I started talking with my hands like
the wolf Farrell's skin on Saturday Night Live. You know
what I'm talking about, Chris.

Speaker 2 (01:22:40):
The Will Ferrell. You mean that he did with Ricky Bobby, No.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
That he did like twenty years ago when he was
a cheerleader.

Speaker 4 (01:22:47):
Oh oh oh yeah yeah, okay, right, So I started
doing that, and I mean, when Arnie's bringing up something
from TV, we got to go back like fifteen twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
Well, I I started doing that, and they had no
idea what I was talking about. So I played in
the clip on YouTube and they didn't think it was funny.
They weren't like laughing and all that. They they maybe
it was just who the audience was. I guess they did.
I thought they'd be hysterical laughing because I guess not

(01:23:15):
a lot of.

Speaker 4 (01:23:15):
People don't like to be made fun of, Arnie. I
think we're kind of unique in that we we we
don't care too much. There's a lot of people that
don't like to have their profession made fun of.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
Well I was.

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
I just said to him, I go, I expected you
to be a lot bigger. You don't really looked at
there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
There's there's a one bad way to start.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
No, I just I just said to him, I go,
you look a lot what's another word for puny?

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
Puny is.

Speaker 4 (01:23:44):
By the way, I do want to file this under
things that didn't happen. I don't think there's any way
you would tell. And by the id's the sneaky ones too.
You're like, oh, he doesn't look very big. I putzel no, no.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
I put it on Twitter too, So he was having
dinner here yet, but yeah, he probably Yeah, he didn't
look that strong, Chris, to be honest, he didn't have
like bulgie muscles or anything like that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
So where's the picture of this dude. I'll put it up.
I'll put the picture to do that was wrong with you? Man, Arnie.

Speaker 9 (01:24:16):
I don't you know, like I don't believe him either,
because The first thing is I showed him a YouTube video.

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
Use YouTube, Arnie.

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
I put up a thing on Twitter yesterday's speaking about it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
So oh okay, I thought you put a picture. I apologize.

Speaker 4 (01:24:32):
I don't want your Kamala Harris Loving telling me that
I'm bullying you again.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
No one's softer than she is.

Speaker 4 (01:24:40):
You know, I wanted to I wanted to address this
real quick because Ralph Ralph right off the top, right
off the top of the show, Ralph texted and said,
Arnie got a chance to drive the car last night.
He got the Aaron Torres driver's seat, much to Aeron's displeasure,
leaving the seat all the way back. The rare time
Arnie got to drive the car. I tell Arnie every

(01:25:00):
Sunday night, almost every Sunday night, dude, you can drive
a few wants.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
No, you don't like that. It's your show.

Speaker 4 (01:25:07):
Here's what happens. It doesn't matter what I want to
talk about. I could send you a Roman numeral rundown.
It doesn't matter, No, it does. You were going to
start this hour telling this terrible story about some dorky kid.

Speaker 3 (01:25:18):
I thought that was a good story, all right, Well yeah, no, no.

Speaker 4 (01:25:21):
No, Hold on again. Don't want to get people mad
at me. You were going to tell this story that
never happened about this kid that was over at your house.
And even if even if I had, I don't know
who's your favorite. Even if I had Skip Bayless kicking
off the final hour with this, you're like, oh, before
we go to the eat, Skip, So I always tell
you you drive any time you want. I don't care,

(01:25:42):
it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
To me, but you never want to.

Speaker 3 (01:25:44):
I do have a good question for you, kind of
off the coffy. We get to it now, since we're
not doing anything really, I asked. I asked Jason Martin
about it yesterday. I didn't really like his answer, so
I'll ask you. You know who Craig Carton is, right,
of course, he has a TV show on Fox Sports
Monday through Friday this weekend. I don't know if you're
aware of this. He called to New York Yankee baseball games.

Speaker 2 (01:26:07):
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:26:08):
Yeah, I was just wondering if you could do anything,
what would I mean? Am I going to guess Oklahoma
football play by play or Dodgers baseball play by play?
As that? Would you'd like to do?

Speaker 4 (01:26:21):
I'd want to do it Dodgers are a Raiders game,
That's what I would want to do. I would want
to call a Dodgers or a Raiders game. Absolutely. I
find with doing what I'm doing with Oklahom. I love
being on the sidelines and work with Toby. I don't
need to call an o U game. I'd rather call
a Raiders or a Dodgers game. So it would be
to me, I'm outside the box. I wouldn't even want
it to be sports or a play by play or

(01:26:42):
anything like that. I mean, yeah, you'd probably think, oh,
you want to call the Knicks or the Mets or Arizona.
I mean the play by play thing that that's not
like the thing I strived for all these years. If
I would go outside the box, I could do one thing.
I'd want to be like a game show hosts, like
for the Price is Right or I don't know if

(01:27:02):
that's too far out the box.

Speaker 2 (01:27:04):
To me, that's fun, Chris. I'd like to do that
a couple of times and have fun with being a
game show host. That's in the show.

Speaker 3 (01:27:11):
I think Price is Right would be my thing.

Speaker 2 (01:27:13):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:27:14):
Okay, you get all down here, your old bag not
coming I don't really think that's the way that you
should go about it. But I understand, and and it's
not a lot of work. From what I understand, you
tape all your shows in like a couple of weeks.
You would up getting the rest of it off and
you get a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (01:27:30):
It is, and it's all pre screen before you even
get into the into the audience, into into the filming.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
So that was Roman numeral seventeen.

Speaker 3 (01:27:41):
No, that was Roman numeral fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
I was close. I was close.

Speaker 4 (01:27:45):
So I do I do have one, two, three, four
random Roman numerals here that I guess we can go
ahead and hit what you're gonna get to Roman numeral twenty. Also,
don't forget that I didn't. I didn't have Roman numeral twenty.
I was disinterested in Roman numeral twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
Why that's a big story that was breaking on Twitter?
Roman numeral twenty will.

Speaker 4 (01:28:04):
Go ahead then, Like I said, it doesn't matter. I
don't really have any control over this show.

Speaker 2 (01:28:08):
But what was breaking?

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
Why did you take that Roman numeral twenty is not
a big deal?

Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
Well, because I thought twenty one was a little better.

Speaker 4 (01:28:18):
Well that's college football. Yeah, of course you like that
there's nineteen seventeen. But to me, it's like, here's what
Roman Numeral said. Lebron and kid encounter, big deal brod
was going into it wasn't a big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
So I'm like, this is stupid. I'm moving on.

Speaker 3 (01:28:32):
Well, it did make a big deal on Twitter. Lebron
was going into it. I guess a club is that
what it was? Chris And as he was walking around
the limo or the car whatever, a young kid came,
I don't know if it was running up kind of
rushed up to him, you know, to do a selfie
or a picture or something to that effect. And Lebron
kind of shot him down a little bit, say, hey,

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don't do that. Don't come running up on me like that.

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
Yeah, don't. What do you do one leah alone?

Speaker 3 (01:29:02):
Yeah, you think people are making a big deal about
that because a lot of people are ripping Lebron over that.

Speaker 4 (01:29:07):
Well, yes, because people will rip Lebron over anything. I mean,
come on, what are we even doing right now? There's uh,
there's what thirty or forty kids around him. This kid
just jumps right in front of him while he's trying
to walk and he's got security around him. He says, hey,
don't do that, and he goes on, he gets in
his car, don't do that. Don't be an idiot.

Speaker 3 (01:29:26):
Some people said, oh, come on, you're gonna take it
a picture with the kid. It's not that big of
a deal. He can't take a picture with everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
I do agree with you on that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:32):
He'd be outside for like hours if he had to
try to do that, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
And the other thing is, how dare he not talk
to that kid?

Speaker 4 (01:29:39):
The man's given like a billion dollars to freaking schools
in Ohio. I mean, I think I think he's doing
okay and giving back to the kids. And you know what,
I don't know if Lebron drinks or not. I'm going
to go out on a limb and guess that he does.
I'm gonna say he was probably feeling pretty good on
something after winning a gold medal.

Speaker 3 (01:29:56):
So something he does drink. Don't you remember, oh the
red wine? The red wine when he was coming in,
when he was coming into the game and he wasn't playing.

Speaker 4 (01:30:04):
See, I didn't think that was as big of a
story as whatever seventeen was, because I have no idea
what you're talking about with the no anthem on Roman
numeral seventeen. I want you you didn't send me this.
I didn't send you this one, though you keep saying
I was joking about this with a couple of friends
last night. Partie will send me like tweets and he'll
just send the full tweet to me and there'll be

(01:30:25):
no explanation of it, so I'll hold on to it.
Then he'll tell me he sent me something that you've
never sent me before, and this was one of them.
Because I didn't hear this story at all, but it
seemed like it was very much in the wheelhouse of
our politically. Ten times is something to get fired up about,
all right, know why I sent it to you right now?
But it was my wife found that and sent it
to me.

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
There was an announcer at a baseball game who all
of a sudden, on his own, I think god, his own, decided, well,
we will not be the NA anthem, so playball, and
the umpires just started to get everybody ready to play ball.
Everybody and the audience are you know, the spectators were
upset about this, so they started to sing the national

(01:31:06):
anthem on their own before the first pitch was thrown.
Shame on the umpires for just going ahead and saying, okay, yeah,
you know, we're not going to play the anthem.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
Let's move on.

Speaker 3 (01:31:17):
Who made that decision though, the announcer or what. I
don't think you have the right to make that type
of decision.

Speaker 4 (01:31:22):
So I have a couple of questions. Number One, this
looks like it was from like ten years ago?

Speaker 3 (01:31:30):
Did I get fooled again?

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
As No, I'm just saying the video that you sent
it looks like it's from ten years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
Yeah, No, it's recent though.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 4 (01:31:40):
Number two, I've been a part of those events to
where I don't think he's just saying we're not playing
the anthem.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:31:46):
I just sometimes they don't play the anthem because either
they already played it earlier in the day or it's
just not part of the pregame protocol. I mean, I've
done a lot of doubleheaders, a lot of softball games
where they'll play they'll play the anthem for the very
first game today, and we might be the third or
fourth game than Arnie, we won't get the anthem.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
So really, yeah, I don't know what the but he
said it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:07):
Though we're not playing the ads on playballs.

Speaker 4 (01:32:10):
Don't know, but that seemed a little bit in these
challenging political times. Something tells me a store like that
Arnie might get a little bit of traction. Someone tells
you that's one of those that Travis kick is gonna
be all over that one.

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
See.

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
I liked Roman numeral number fourteen. That was my personal
favorite because I think the wide receiver drama that's going
on in the NFL right now is fantastic. Davante Adams
finally got back to Raiders scamp. But again for those
that somehow feel like that he's not showing up or
that he's about to get traded, remember, his son was born,
so he was off with his wife.

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
The Brandon Aiyuk deal is just weird as all get out.

Speaker 4 (01:32:46):
You had the situation where he showed up at camp
right and he was hugging everyone, and then like two
days later there was a report, Oh he's mad, Mike
Shanahan's mad. I'm sorry, Kyle Shanahan's mad because he was
hugging people and he didn't like it. And then he
was traded to the Browns until he wasn't and he
was straighting to the Patriots until he was, Now he
might end up getting resigned. You got Ceedee Lamb where

(01:33:06):
Jerry Jones is trying to say that there's no sense
of urgency, then trying to take it back but kind
of reaffirming it. Then there's no sense of urgency. Never done, squad,
they have done anything. So I'm I'm intrigued. I think
I'm curious about these two receivers stories with Ceedee Lamb
and more specifically Brandon Ayuk, because I still get the

(01:33:28):
feeling that he's going to be traded before this is
all said and done.

Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
Was just about to say I got to yeah, well,
now that they went ahead and said let's go ahead
and re you know, you know, start to redo the
contract and figure this thing out, I thought it would
have been done by now, once they decided to get
together at the table again. But still still nothing. It's
the kind of weirdest thing I've ever seen in my
life that they're still trying to figure this whole thing out.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
Well, I hope. I don't think Pittsburgh's a better fit
for him.

Speaker 4 (01:33:57):
I think that of all the of all the fits
for Brandon Ayuk, San Francisco's prettydamn good right now, and
I exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
Especially when they'll make him the premier receiver if they
get rid of Samuel.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
So I mean, well, why would they get rid of
Samuel him?

Speaker 3 (01:34:13):
No, I mean after like a year or two, because
they said that they can't afford everybody, sooner or later,
somebody's gonna have to go. I mean, then they're gonna
have to give Black Party money when his contract's up.

Speaker 4 (01:34:22):
Also, I mean, why would Samuel be the first one
you think they would get rid of. They just they
gave him the deal last year.

Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
Right right, Well, he's gonna make a lot of money,
and he's you know, a guy that's hurt, has been hurt.
Would I would?

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
But they also were infinitely better with him on the
field when they weren't good is when he was out,
and they gave him a three year deal, So three year,
seventy two mil, like seventy one point five to be exact.
So I don't think this is a situation where it's
like sign out, you get debo out of here. I
think they're trying to find a way to make it
all work, and I don't know if you can. If
the salary cap is as real as we think it is.

(01:35:00):
I'm imagining too, Arnie. They're probably trying to talk their
quarterback and it taken a little lesser money as well.
Right if you're probably, hey, we took a chance on
you in the seventh round. We're gonna make sure you
get paid and get taken care of.

Speaker 3 (01:35:13):
So you think I'm wrong when I say Devo's not
getting another contract from San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
You just know you said that he'd be out of
there next year.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
Yeah, no, well yeah, and yeah at the end, Robbie,
the end of next year, it's.

Speaker 4 (01:35:26):
A three year maybe maybe not. But he signed with
them through twenty twenty six, so I mean they can
avoid that. He can become an unrestricted free agent. But
I mean he's not gone next year. I think he's
gonna be right. I think he's important to the Niners attack.
He can do things that other people can't. You can
give him the football. He can run it and he
doesn't fumble it, and he runs it like a running back.

(01:35:48):
He's good at that. He's he's what you want in
your offense. So yeah, I don't think he's going anywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:35:55):
So they'll give him the money they'll give ius.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
He's already got the money.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
Yeah, I mean right, and then they'll have to pay
probably party. So he's gonna get the money that that's
a lot of money to be dished. The Dolphins just
did it. Why Why is it just because Miami is
the only team that can do it? Tua got the money.

Speaker 2 (01:36:11):
Tyreek and Tua Tyreek Jalen Waddell.

Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
Okay, let's look on the defensive side too, because the
Niners have done this with Bosa. They've paid him, they're
gonna pay they pay McCaffrey as well.

Speaker 3 (01:36:23):
I mean, yeah, I forgot a mucaffrey gook get the
money that he's gonna get.

Speaker 4 (01:36:26):
Also, so one other note on the receivers. The sports
betting dot ag side has done it to me again.
They've come up with a list of odds for CD
Lamb's next to team, because even though Cede Lamb isn't
getting traded, I think this is one of those situations
where they're trying to generate a little bit of traction,

(01:36:46):
a little bit of buzz. Best odds for Cede Lamb's
next team. You want to take a guess, best odds
for CD Lamb's next team. According to Sports Betting Dot Age,
it's not Dallas and listen on here. Good guess New
England is actually the third choice at seven to one

(01:37:07):
with the Green Bay Packers, so they're right there at
seven to one. The Steelers and the Lions are noted
up as the second choice at six to one, and
according to sports betting dot ag the best odds, which
I don't know how much money is out on this
or not, the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (01:37:22):
At five oh geez, the Chiefs, what was it?

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
Five to one? Bills at twenty to one would be
quite interesting. I don't think.

Speaker 4 (01:37:32):
I don't think they're gonna move on from Ceedee Lamb
is as confident as I am. Let me rephrase that
as little confidence that as I have in understanding the
Brandon Ayuk situation.

Speaker 2 (01:37:44):
I don't think any of us really know what's truly
going on there. It changes every day. And like I
said last week, I thought he got traded twice. I
thought he was a Steeler, I thought he was a Brown,
thought he was a Patriot. Guess what, He's still a Niner.
I don't think Ceede Lamb's going anywhere. I don't think
Jerry can afford to move on from a guy like that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:59):
Who else do they have well, it's not going to
be Dyk Prescott because he's gone after this year. I
can promise you that, Chris.

Speaker 4 (01:38:06):
Well, okay, you can promise, but you also promised me
you wouldn't lose nine straight games.

Speaker 3 (01:38:10):
I know that, so I gotta get one right sooner
or later. But you can't keep get everything wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:38:15):
But when I say who else do they have? I
just mean it receiver too, Like where are you going
if you're the Dallas Cowboys in the receiver position. If
it's not ceedee lamb, you're doomed.

Speaker 3 (01:38:25):
Some of they're all in, though, so slow down.

Speaker 4 (01:38:28):
They are all in and making moves like a team
that's all in. And then one other of the Roman
numerals that I wrote down before we give you guys
the next segment with your tweets and Arnie's picks are
right around the corner Roman numeral twenty one. We've got
the coaches pull already out of his release last week
and tomorrow at eleven am Central noon Eastern is the

(01:38:49):
ap top twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
You're excited.

Speaker 2 (01:38:52):
This is like Christmas for you, is it not? Or no,
it's not like Christmas for me. I don't care about
the ape pole but I'll play along. I think.

Speaker 4 (01:39:00):
I appreciate the Associated press and it's voters, but you
guys know you're irrelevant, you don't matter, you haven't mattered.

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
It's a publicity thing, and that's fine. I'm here for it.
I'm here for it.

Speaker 4 (01:39:10):
George is going to be one, right. Is there anything
that you're expecting to surprise you in this? I think
it's going to be very similar to the coaches poll.
I want to see what they do with Michigan. I
want to see what they do with Alabama. Alabama was five.
Michigan I'm doing this off the top of my head,
was eight in the coaches poll. I want to see
if vod Tech gets ranked. I want to see if
they have that same love in the middle part of

(01:39:31):
the rankings for the Big twelve that the coaches did.

Speaker 2 (01:39:33):
I want to see how many SCC teams make the
top twenty five. Howdy they're going to cram in there.

Speaker 4 (01:39:37):
Well they I mean just I think you look at
the eighth at the coaches poll and it's going to
be very similar to that.

Speaker 3 (01:39:43):
I really do you what do you think your Okoma
sooners are going to be out.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
That where they were in the coaches Poll. They were
sixteenth in the coaches pool.

Speaker 4 (01:39:51):
I would guess probably fifteenth, sixteenth or seventeenth in the
In the APCE, I.

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
Think by wild Cots were like twenty one or something
to that, or maybe.

Speaker 4 (01:39:58):
They were twenty first, twenty first, So I would assume
right around there, and just for a refresher, Georgia one,
Ohio State two, followed by Oregon, Texas, and Alabama. That
was the top five. Then it was Ole Miss Notre
Dame there I was right. Michigan was eight. Michigan was eight,
followed by Penn State and Florida State. Listen, I really
like this Alabama team, but I think preseason five is

(01:40:20):
a little overrated right now. I think Texas is wildly
overrated at four. I think Florida State it's a little
overrated at ten, you know, I mean, Texas is the
big story. I can't believe they're as good as everybody's
making them out to be. In the SEC well, I
don't know if they're just as good as people are
making them out to be.

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
Period.

Speaker 4 (01:40:38):
No one is bringing up what they lost. Ask Patrick
about the preseason game for the Seahawks. One of the
best players of Byron Murphy in the interior. He was
a star for Texas last year along with another big
time defensive tackle and Sweaters off to the NFL. I
know they went to the portal and brought in dudes,
but they didn't bring in dudes that were putting up
big numbers or playing a lot. I just I don't

(01:41:00):
think there is good I think you have teams that
brought back quarterbacks and everyone thinks because they have starting
quarterback back, they're good.

Speaker 2 (01:41:07):
I don't think Texas is following in that category.

Speaker 3 (01:41:09):
I was just I was just looking at some of
the odds for the first week too, so I'm ready
to go. Just before the show, I was looking at
the college football odds.

Speaker 4 (01:41:18):
I can't wait tomorrow. Top twenty five ap will come
out at noon Eastern. All right, when we come back,
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(01:41:39):
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off the air. You don't care about the A people.
I know you put that on the rundown for me,
and I'm sorry. I just I reached this strictly for you.

Speaker 3 (01:41:57):
I thought you'd be excited about that.

Speaker 4 (01:42:00):
It's like for me personally, I just play it on
the boogie, Arnie. Uh, I gotta I gotta tell you.
I have so lost interest in preseason rankings and polls.

Speaker 2 (01:42:10):
I just let's go. Let's play the season. Then, I
get it. It's for us, it's for us right, for
the show, it's for the fans. But for me, I
just I don't. I don't care. They're usually wrong, they're
usually not even close. So let's just go play.

Speaker 3 (01:42:26):
Did I misread an article that said it was important
to be inside the top twenty in the top twenty
five wasn't good enough? Or that that doesn't really make
a difference.

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
Well, you mentioned that you also felt like you had
been fooled by a Tom Brady tweet that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:39):
I had did that that should be the biggest story.
Did I get fooled by that Tom Brady tweet?

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
Or what? Which one was that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:46):
I said that one to you? Did I not?

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
Or what you didn't send that one to me either?

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:42:51):
I did send that. I know I said that one.
Go back to your tweets right now and exactly what
I'm doing. I didn't see that. I saw Tom Brady
walk out Morgan Waller and he had a Raiders hat on,
but that was about it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:05):
No, I guess I didn't send the three.

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
You might need to turn the producing of this show
back over to Patrick. I love that. I did no idea,
so what was it because I didn't see it.

Speaker 3 (01:43:18):
Well, there was a tweet that said that you would
be open the coming back if the right situation became available,
And I'm saying to myself, Wow, I was not not
a big story. Everybody should be talking about that. I
would love to see Dob Brady to come back. Heck
if you if it wasn't a true story, I'd love
for him to come back.

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
But let's not let facts get in the way. Don't
not get in the way. But if you, if you
go back, I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:43:43):
He said that in like April, so he had hinted
on something called the Deep Cuts podcast that he wasn't
opposed to it. Quote, I don't know if they're gonna
let me if I become an owner, But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:43:59):
I don't know. I've always been in good shape. I'll
always be able to throw the bowl.

Speaker 4 (01:44:04):
So to come in for a little bit like MJ
coming back, I don't know if they'd let me, but
I wouldn't be opposed to it.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
But again, that's okay, there you go. But that's from April. Dude,
noahs from that.

Speaker 3 (01:44:14):
For at least it was real. At least I got
that part right. At least it was real.

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
Oh man, I really believe he misses it. I believe
he if he if he can come back for like
six games, I really believe he would see.

Speaker 4 (01:44:26):
I thought the Tom Brady thing that you were talking
about was that he was at the Las Vegas Morgan
Wallen concert. No No, So he comes out, Morgan Wallen
is wearing a Max Crosby jersey, he's wearing ninety eight.

Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
He's got Mike Tyson on his right, and he's got.

Speaker 4 (01:44:43):
Tom Brady on his left, and apparently Brady's wearing a
Raiders hat.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
So everyone was kind of loose. That's what I thought
you were referring to on the Brady News.

Speaker 3 (01:44:52):
No, No, I thought I want him to come back. Man,
I'm still like giving on hope that he wants to
play play like half a season or something to.

Speaker 2 (01:44:59):
Like I told you my dream scenario. My dream scenario.

Speaker 4 (01:45:04):
The Raiders through five games or like four and one
or three and two, and their defense is amazing, but
they can't get anything done offensively. And suddenly Mark Davis
makes the call Tom Brady, it's time, baby, you want
to be an owner of this team. It's kind of
stalling out. Nothing's really happened. Come play for us, Oh
my co guys and saves the Raiders.

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
Oh, you'd be prime time just about every game. If
he was the quarterback, I'd be the happiest man on
the planet.

Speaker 2 (01:45:29):
Probably.

Speaker 4 (01:45:30):
I'd be just happy that we're like three and two
or four and one, which is going to be impossible
with that schedule. All right, let's roll through some of
these tweets, because they've all been really good. Matt cracked
me up. He writes, Did I just hear ceedee Lamb
to the Packers?

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
No, you didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:45:43):
You heard another one of the odds sites aggregating odds
for what could be the next home of Ceedee Lamb.
Don't get into it too much, Jason B. Diamond, Why
did coach Prime refuse to talk to the reporter, saying
he loves him, but he won't talk to him. Really,
he went three and nine last year, so shot up buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:46:02):
Which is true. He was a little out of line.
I'm surprised he's already gonna start that. I played that
clip yesterday on the show. He's he's if he's already
getting frustrated, now, let's wait till he starts to losing,
then it's really gonna get bad.

Speaker 4 (01:46:15):
I've never seen any and I'm not trying to be
He got to be buddy buddy with the media, but
I've never seen Arnie, any coach start the plan of
let's get combative with the media, let's make the media
our enemy.

Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
I've never seen that work. He's never said stive.

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
Did anybody remember back in the day athletes and coaches.
I don't read anything. I don't care what is said.
And now not only you got Dion Sanders who was upset.
I mean there was a story about what was it?
Chris Carter wanted to go ahead and punch Skip Baby.
Surprised you didn't have that in the rundown. We had
it yesterday. Skip Bagis was also worried that Gil Brandt

(01:46:54):
was going to put a hit on him.

Speaker 4 (01:46:57):
Well, Skip listen, Skip knows this. He said some dumb
stuff whenever he was in Dallas. I love you, Skin,
but you said some dumb stuff when you were in Dallas.
Donovan Mitchell, you know, has to say that. It was
the criticism from Steven A. Smith was one of the
reasons why he got so much better. So, I mean,
now they listen to it like crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
Kevin Durant was tweeting at five o'clock in the morning
about something you didn't like. So it's gotten o a
hand now with the with the listening to the media.

Speaker 4 (01:47:26):
I think the funny thing about the whole Dion explosion.
We still don't even know why he's mad at CBS Sports.
There's like no reason whatsoever.

Speaker 3 (01:47:34):
I thought it was because of the voting.

Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
The voting for what, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:47:38):
He said that CBS put him the second of the
last coach worst coach in the Big twelve, in the
Big Viage.

Speaker 4 (01:47:45):
But it had nothing to do with the TV station.
That's the funny part. I didn't have anything to do
with CBS. Okay, why because they ranked you. A dude
that covers the Big twelve for CBS Sports dot Com
that probably's never been on your campus, is going to
rank tied out of twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:48:00):
So you're gonna take it out in the local CBS.

Speaker 3 (01:48:02):
Guy, right, right, Oh, I didn't know what you're saying
about that, Right, that's the.

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
Dumbest thing ever, right, ths Dianz got to be better,
But that's why he did it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:10):
That's that's why it was all been out of shape.

Speaker 4 (01:48:11):
And then one more quick one here before we get
Steve in here, Brandon right to my man b Jacks
the Olympics four by one hundred meter women big win,
and the four by four hundred women win was so
dominant it was fun to watch that much speed. But
remember in hoops, number one they will never duplicate the
ninety two Dream Team for basketball and number two NBA

(01:48:33):
caliber talent has spread across the world now, so not
an easy gold. I mean, coming out of this everyone's
hot take, I'm sure tomorrow is going to be well,
you know, we're not gonna win gold in twenty eight.
She's not gonna happen. The rest of the world is
caught up. They've been caught it for a while, right,
We've we've battled.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
We lost the game in the twenty twenty Olympics already.

Speaker 4 (01:48:53):
You and I did a show after they lost one
of their pool games, and we thought they're doomed, they're
not gonna win anything. Lebron's got to come save them,
and lo and behold what happened? They still won gold.
They nearly lost in an exhibition to Mary's South shut
Ann squad, and lo and behold what happened? They still
won a gold medal.

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
They did.

Speaker 3 (01:49:11):
But you know again though, to say, everybody's caught up.
But yet you're still a seventeen point favorite in the finals.

Speaker 2 (01:49:18):
Why are you still caught up on the number favorite?

Speaker 3 (01:49:22):
Yeah, well, the number is a strong indication on which
way the game's going to go.

Speaker 2 (01:49:27):
Right. But if you still win and you don't cover Chris.

Speaker 3 (01:49:31):
If Oklahoma was a forty point favorite over in nai
school he won twenty, that would completely.

Speaker 4 (01:49:38):
Irrelevant situation today of conversation, because we're talking about the Olympics.
We're talking about a situation where Team USA is playing
team France. If Oklahoma was a seventeen point favorite and
they won by three against a bad football team, I
don't care they won, period. They're not forty point favorites.
We're talking about in this situation. Is seventeen point favorite

(01:50:00):
in a gold medal game. You can't compare that to
a team playing an nai A school.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
No, but seventeen is still pretty high in a finals.
They're too high. I think the numbers are off. Yeah,
I think they're definitely we're off.

Speaker 2 (01:50:12):
The odds makers are not doing a good job on
these numbers. They're living in nineteen ninety six.

Speaker 4 (01:50:17):
All right, listen, we got more of your text coming
up in a bit, but first and tweets Steve de
Seger here to wrap it up on the updates for
us tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:50:24):
What's going on, Steve, Well.

Speaker 7 (01:50:25):
You mentioned Tom Brady.

Speaker 6 (01:50:27):
I'd heard he was at the Seahawks Chargers exhibition on
Saturday night doing a practice game. He is owing to
be the Fox analyst for this season with Kevin Burkert.

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
For sure.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
Surprised they didn't ask me.

Speaker 7 (01:50:40):
It always comes back to Arnie exactly.

Speaker 6 (01:50:43):
Just accept that his first game as a broadcaster on
the air will be the opening weekend when Fox has
the Cowboys at the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 7 (01:50:52):
Nice would that be September eighth?

Speaker 6 (01:50:54):
But as far as the Fox lineups, Greg Olsen is
on the number two team with Joe Davis. This year,
Brady's on the one team with Kevin Burkhardt, Jonathan ville
was back with Kenny Albert, Mark Sanchez with Adam Amin,
Mark schlarethon Fox with Chris Myers, and Daryl Johnston with
Kevin Coogler, and Yes. Fox next Sunday night has an
NFL game New Orleans at San Francisco. As we mentioned

(01:51:17):
much earlier, the two teams will not hold joint practices
this week because the forty nine ers are low on players.
Chiefs wide receiver Hollywood Brown returned to Kansas City after
last night's injury when he landed awkwardly on his shoulder.
Brown's quarterback DeShawn Watson will get the majority of the
reps in this week's joint practices with the Vikings, but
he will not play in Saturday's game. Giants quarterback Drew Locke,
with the sore hip, will miss a few practices this week.

(01:51:39):
The Raiders say they hope to name a starting quarterback
after this weekend's game. Steelers first round tackle Troy Foutanu
will miss next week at least next weekend's game with
the spray knee. Now, Jacksonville signed safety to Sean Gibson,
who will start the season with a six game suspension,
though for the first six game performance an answer, but
I'm sure he'll be additioned back in Jacksonville. Preseason Week

(01:52:02):
two starts Thursday with one game, New England hosting Philadelphia.
No games on Friday this week. Most of the teams
are going to play Saturday. There were two NFL exhibitions today,
Here are the details. In LA, the Rams thirteen to
twelve over Dallas on a late touchdown pass by Stetson Bennett,
who had thrown four interceptions in the game, so the
only TD of this contest came with four seconds left.

(01:52:23):
Kicker Brandon Aubrey of the Cowboys four for five on
field goals. He hit a fifty two yarder with under
three minutes to go. They never used their punter today,
clearly on purpose. They had no touchdowns in the game,
but they never even punted. They even attempted a sixty
five yard field goal at one point that was no
good quarterback. Dak Prescott says he will return to Dallas
practice on Tuesday after the sore ankle. Cowboys quarterback today

(01:52:47):
mostly the whole game he came in after the first series,
Trey Lance had six carries forty four yards passing. He
was twenty five of forty one forty one pass attempts
in an exhibition. All of that for only one hundred
eighty eight years.

Speaker 3 (01:53:00):
Let me trade up early so I get him in
the first round though, on the quarterback with birth.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
Meanwhile, their team was playing in the Super Bowl last year.

Speaker 3 (01:53:07):
Let me tell you, I love this guy. He's so
damn good.

Speaker 2 (01:53:10):
Well, they knew enough to get rid of him. But
if that was in the Super Bowl last year where
they trade up, what did you say the Dolphs again, Well,
the team that you're making was in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 6 (01:53:21):
By the way, the Dolphins on that game that nobody
saw because it was only streaming when they got eliminated
in January. You're aware that the Prime Video has that
playoff game. Now this year it's it's uh, there is
one streaming only playoff game in January, and they're gonna
have two games on Christmas, but both are on Netflix,

(01:53:41):
so there's no channel that's gonna have NFL on the
Christmas But you know, Christmas is a Wednesday, by the way.
But the NFL says, who cares, We're in the NFL.
We can get rating somehow, So they have every separately.
This is just you know, And they've got that Brazil
game that's only on one streaming, and then it's completely
separate streaming for one of the Chargers Monday night game,

(01:54:03):
and it's the Netflix for Christmas, and the Prime Video
for the Black Friday Raiders game, and on and on
and on. It just the money never ends. Austin Dillon
won the NASCAR race at Richmond with some late contact.
US women's basketball took the Olympic Finals sixty seven sixty
six in Paris, beating France. The closing ceremony was today. Oh,
by the way, details on the Denver Broncos game. I

(01:54:24):
mentioned the Rams, one didn't mention Denver thirty four to
thirty in Indianapolis and for the Colts, five players wore
the Guardian caps over their helmets for extra protection against concussions,
not in practice during the game. Today, players can now
wear them in the regular season if they choose.

Speaker 2 (01:54:39):
I'm not gonna lie. I was surprised Steve that Arnie
wasn't more angry about this. I thought this would be
numeral twenty three.

Speaker 5 (01:54:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:54:46):
Sure, what about the new kickoff rules in this game
at Indy? Thirteen total kickoffs, two went into the end zone.
No touchbacks at all. We used to get thirteen kickoffs
twelve touchbacks last year in most games. And they're I mean,
I'm it's still a work in progress, but at least
we're sure some sort of play.

Speaker 3 (01:55:06):
I'm not sure if I like it or don't. Why
it's so far it's been nothing done.

Speaker 2 (01:55:10):
Say look at that. I'm the same way with you.
I don't know how to feel about it.

Speaker 6 (01:55:15):
By the way, it was an exhibition, so we had
five turnovers in Indy. But Denver Broncos thirty two first
downs and they won at thirty four to thirty. Seattle
Mariners have won four straight. They beat the Mets twelve
to one. Back to you, thanks, Steve, have a great week,
but Rave, we got a break. Arnie's picks are coming
up next.

Speaker 3 (01:55:33):
Oh boy, this is very important.

Speaker 4 (01:55:35):
But I will say for this, it's kind of funny
because you make these picks but you're truly not going
to like decide them until Friday. You gotta wait together
our Thursday. Well, there's not a lot of games on Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:55:47):
But Eric did right. You were bragging you were impressed
with the with the call of the women's basketball.

Speaker 4 (01:55:52):
Right, you have the job that Ian Eagle did, or
no Eagle or no eglor Eric right, Arnie, that is
why you send people to cover the games. If Eagle
wasn't there, you'd still be wondering. If it was a
two or three, I might be the thing. It might
be the only thing to watch any of the Olympics.
It does absolutely nothing for me, But I don't watch

(01:56:13):
any sports now. I want people to be there. There
you go, you dogging on those poor Minnesota reporters that
couldn't go cover them. Watch it from home, broadcasters, watch
it from home. See your boy, No Eagle was there.
It made all the difference in the world.

Speaker 3 (01:56:27):
Yes it did.

Speaker 2 (01:56:27):
He was right on it.

Speaker 4 (01:56:29):
How the Eagle eye going, that's for sure. When we
come back, Arnie spicks he's lost nine in a row.

Speaker 2 (01:56:34):
Can he keep it up?

Speaker 3 (01:56:35):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (01:56:35):
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Thanks. Don't forget.

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it away. What do you have on the picks this weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:57:46):
I'm three and nine, but I've lost my last nine
picks over to nine on my last life picks. I'm ridled.
I'm I'm ridled.

Speaker 2 (01:57:55):
I don't know which way.

Speaker 3 (01:57:55):
I'm nervous. Am I gonna go ahead and go? Oh?
If I go old nine again, I am going to
quit job. I promise you I will not show my
face ever again. The Eagles are taking on the Patriots.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
The light detector determined that was a lie.

Speaker 3 (01:58:09):
I got Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (01:58:10):
You'll go zero to nine and you'll still show up,
And no, I.

Speaker 3 (01:58:13):
Wont I'm never going to I think I like Philadelphia
and I'm gonna take the Patriots. No what I would
take Philadelphia. I'm gonna give you Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (01:58:20):
What's the number? Minus two and a half? Minus two
and a half?

Speaker 3 (01:58:27):
Love Baltimore. Remember the official picks will be on my
Twitter site see this on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
This is such a waste of time right now, because
you're gonna make these pictures, is what I said last segment,
And you told me no, No, change your mind by Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:58:39):
No, I'm gonna give you the same teams, but the
lines will change a little bit. I like Baltimore plus
the one and a half. I think they trounce Atlanta.
I'm gonna take Chicago, lay the three points there. Give
me used to over the Giants, and I'll lay the
four and a half. That's not really that bad. I'm
gonna take Minnesota plus the two and a half. Hopefully

(01:59:00):
they played more of JJ McCarthy on the road a Cleveland.
I'll take Tennessee laying the three against Seattle. Notice I'm
taking a lot of home teams. Give me Indianapolis minus
to two and a half against Arizona. So there you
have my picks, two of them, as you please. No
longer strictly fred entertaind purposes. Only if I go oh

(01:59:21):
to nine, I will quit my job and and Patrick
will quit with me. That's he's a walk out.

Speaker 2 (01:59:28):
I don't think so on that one. Also, it's hit
a couple of tweeks before we get out of here.
LJ rites. The AFC will be interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:59:38):
Kansas City is the favorite, but who's number two to
has a noodle arm, can't win in bad weather, and
never did anything without weapons.

Speaker 2 (01:59:45):
He sucked before those weapons. He is average.

Speaker 4 (01:59:48):
The Ravens bluted home last year, and Buffalo remains lost
erne it is.

Speaker 3 (01:59:55):
It is white Arney, no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (01:59:59):
I had news right.

Speaker 4 (02:00:00):
Basketball is a young man and woman's game, not forty
two year old. And lets you are cream appdul jabbar.
Shame that the great Nownic Rockey sure had to go
out like that in a warm up uniform. It's been
imploding the program right now.

Speaker 3 (02:00:14):
Or I think you're dreaming that.

Speaker 10 (02:00:16):
I was just saying on hey that now's go. Oh
my god, I'm looking for houses right now, Arnie. Yeah, yeah,
you're ready to move out in your you know it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
Could be your neighbor. Well, my god, I.

Speaker 3 (02:00:30):
Appreciate your paying for lunch and you must use the
Fox Sports American.

Speaker 9 (02:00:33):
That's why I'm here. I had to get back to
it to ear You know, you eat a lot of food, Arnie.
You like to consume massive amounts of food. So I
had to come back to work here so you can
pay for your your bill a private jet. There's no
way to get to Hermond. Arnie lives literally off the grid.
If there was like a nuclear bomb, he would be fine.
There's no one there.

Speaker 3 (02:00:53):
When I first saw you, I like, is that Ben's grandfather?
And they're like, no, that's bad.

Speaker 2 (02:00:57):
Oh how dare you the little old? But you are old?
What are you? You're ten years old than me? How
dare you? How dare you?

Speaker 9 (02:01:05):
I think older than that, Arnie, older than that. He
showed me all of Vermont in three hours, all of it.
I saw everything in the state of Vermont in three hours.
I never need to go back now, Arnie, I've seen
literally everything.

Speaker 2 (02:01:17):
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