The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz

Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz preview a huge weekend in college football, look ahead to NFL Week 6, their thoughts on the MLB Playoffs, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:41):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
First of all, incredible theater last night at Dodger Stadium
as the Dodgers he cout Man.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
They just over the last it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Over the last two games, just completely distinguished the Padres bats.
The Padres looked like they were just unstoppable freight train.
And then the last two games they can't get anything
going offensively. It's the beauty of playoff baseball. October baseball.

(01:14):
We have a game five in the American League between
the Guardians and Tigers. Love these Tigers and the unbeatable,
unmatchable Tarika's school Ball gets to go for Detroit. It's
been such a great story against Matthew Boyd. So that'll
be for the American League see foods you want to

(01:36):
face the Yankees. The Subway Series is still alive, which
is uh, which actually would be kind of cool to see.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
My friends, Can I blow your mind? Can I Can
I paint a picture? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I mean this morning?

Speaker 1 (01:53):
All right? So so here I am. I'm up in Connecticut,
right here. I am last night with my buddy, Geo,
Geo's lifelong die Dodgers fan. What did I do last night?

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Me?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Of all people, I sat happy It's a little dive
bar in East Hartford. Sat there with my buddy, a
group of friends, watched every single pitch of a riveting
matchup between it like when you talk about extinguishing bats.
I was stunned last night in a game, in a
in a clinching game that meant everything for the Dodgers,

(02:23):
where show hey couldn't hit like they The pitching in
this thing was incredible. Give Fox a ton of credit,
Toude for the broadcast where they kept showing, you know
the fact that from the same angle the pitches were
going to so many different places. Guys were chasing all
night long. The drama in LA I me not the
semen on this show was riveted in every pitch. I

(02:44):
just like we were cheering and the whole bar was
going nuts, like it was a late night that was
worth every single ounce of the lack of sleep that
I have gotten because I watched a just it felt
like every it felt like this is such a weird
analogy for a lot of people listening. It felt like
playoff hoigh, And what I love about the NHL in
the playoffs is that every single time the puck is

(03:04):
in scoring position, it could be the absolute end of
a series. And it felt like we were watching last
night that man, if anybody could connect, if anybody could
just somehow get their bat on to make a little
bit of contact, it was gonna be the just earth
shattering moment, the drama in that thing. Damn Like, I mean,
just inject that in my veins. I was salivating over it.

(03:26):
I was cheering with everybody. You knowdos kudos to the
Dodgers for winning an epic that crowd, Oh God, injected
in my veins. I know you are stunned hearing me
say this, but my god, every single pitch of that
last night was just That's some of the best theater
in sports God, was great.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
I'm not surprised. You know why.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I'm not surprised because it was great and you're a sportsman.
I mean no, I wasn't surprised. In fact, if you
did not have the this reaction today, I would be
upset and disappointed.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
I am.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
I am just anxious.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I Mean.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
The funny thing is, I don't know what it is
this year. It's just hitting different. And I wanted to
say well, and I wanted to say it was just
show hey, right, like, but like I because I think
there's a lot of people that maybe like me, are
at best casual baseball fans, and you're sitting there saying, well,
show hey in the playoffs sounds interesting, But the fact

(04:29):
that is showhy in the playoffs really hasn't been that
interesting so far. Like that we all know this, Like
like I said that, he is not the reason that
they won this series. Right, But just when you when
you felt like every time you got to the meat
of the lineup for both teams, you were sitting there saying, well,
this is where the damn is gonna break. This is it,
and my god, just that just the the ability for

(04:50):
for both teams frankly like to think that if you're
the Padres, you gave up two runs and that was
just suffocating two.

Speaker 5 (04:56):
Runs off, which was they put up ten right like,
they put up six, five, right like they put up
crooked numbers going you know, all series long. And then
the next thing you know, they don't score the last

(05:17):
two games, and the lineup is ridiculous. It's unbelievable that
they didn't score for the last two games. And by
the way, they didn't score against just a bullpen. Game
four was a Dodgers bullpen game. Game five, Yamamoto was good.
He goes five innings, and it turns it back to
the bullpen. And the reason why you equate it to hockey,

(05:38):
which is a good analogy, is that every rush up
ice is a potential goal, which is a potential series changer,
which means everything. And in baseball it's every pitch, it's
pitch by pitch, and and then there is a chriscendo.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
It happens constantly. One run can be a difference, just
like one goal can be the difference. It's just unbelievable.
I'm so gread listen again. I'm not surprised because I
gain I'm serious, I would have been disappointed. I'm like,
I know what kind of sportsman you are, and I'm
I'm thrilled that you're into talking about it.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
I mean, they showed the graphic last night, so this
isn't revolutionary, but sixteen of the twenty four runs scored
in this series by the Dodgers were scored by home runs.
And I saw when I saw that at the end
of the game last night, my first thought was in
this game particular, particularly, they weren't fat pitches. Like I
wasn't looking at this sort of saying, well, you know,

(06:43):
the guy screwed up, and that's just the difference in it. No,
Like there was just a couple of times that he
made contact and he was just like, wow, that was great.
Like this was nasty. Everything series nasty, Like just the
pitching was just nasty. The superstardom on both sides, like
it's just, man, it's gonna be It's gonna be wild

(07:03):
now when you get Dodgers Mets, because there's just so
you're right, the fact that a subway series is still
alive in this thing. But now, if you're major League Baseball,
I mean, what a win one way or the other
you're either gonna get the Dodgers or the Mets in
the World Series, and either way that is gonna be
absolute fire for everybody paying attention. Like it's just, man,

(07:24):
it feels like this is we've said it. I've said
for years, I've been doing I've been in radio full
time professionally now for I think eight years, right, So
in that amount of time in my life, the number
of times we've had the conversations about how to fix
baseball and how Baseball needs to market at stars. I
just sat there last night and the funniest part to
me is I got home, you know, probably around Eastern time,

(07:47):
probably around midnight twelve twelve fifteen. I got home and
I sat down, and the first thought I happen when
I got home was, oh my god, I got to
check the score in the football games. What happened tonight?
And like that in my second thought was up Baseball's
marketing their stars like we were all sucked into it.
And you know, it's it's so funny just to think
about the difference on a Friday night of I'm not

(08:08):
sitting there as I usually would watching UNLV. I'm sitting
there saying, man, there's plenty of un LV games. There
aren't gonna be a lot of these clinching, epic, incredible,
just every single pitch matters with star power on the
field and star power in the stands, and just the
way they painted the picture on the broadcast, got Chef's kiss.
It was just that's a perfect night for sports.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
It was, it was in everything you said. The I mean,
the whole playoffs have been that way. Like I've watched
every game. It's been an incredible theater all around it.
I mean, the Mets are a great story. How they
got hot, you know, took out my Phillies, you know,

(08:55):
just dramatic, you know, dramatic fashion Phillies bats go quiet.
Team that had been built on big offense, they just go,
they just go silent.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
I mean they can't hit the.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Mets Crafty left of the lefties who pitched with Gile right,
It's it was uh and the Mets were clutched Lindor
with the Grand Slam. I mean, you know, like you know,
to the point where like I'm dissecting that, I'm living
and dying that whole series. It was four excruciating games

(09:27):
on both sides in that series, and it ends with
you know, uh, the clothes there for the Phillies instead
of is throwing four straight fastballs to Lindor who hits
the Grand Slam. It was incredible. It was just it
was amazing. And then that Padre's Dodgers series was awesome.

Speaker 6 (09:48):
You know, it had bad blood and Manny throwing the
ball that he opposing Duga out like it just was
you know, it was it was just incredible.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
It was so such great stuff on both sides. And
I'll be honest with you, I thought Padres were gonna
we're rolling in that series early, Like the way they
got off to you know, when they take the lead
to one, I'm like, there's no way they're not gonna win.
They're gonna close this thing out. It was great. And
then look, if you go with Detroit, Detroit is what

(10:23):
a great baseball town Sportstown period, but what a great
baseball town Detroit is, and what's going on there with
this Tigers revolution, Like you go around town. I was
talking to a buddy in my covering that series and
he's like, dude, it's so cool. We go there's Tiger hats. Everywhere.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Everywhere you look.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Is a Tiger hat and dude, they have one pitcher.
What's amazing about it is they had they just roll
bullpen games and then they roll with this Terik school.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Ball who I don't think you'll get this reference.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Uh Steve Carlton that do anything for you. No, No,
he was this great lefty years and years ago, big
power lefty. He's not Randy Johnson power, but just a
smooth delivery who throws hard, gets great bite on his
breaking pitch. Like it's just a great pitcher, just just

(11:19):
a stud. And they ride him and he's pitching today
and if he wins, and then you get Tigers Yankees,
which is a great story, or even you know, Cleveland,
who has never you know, I won it forever, you
get Cleveland Yankees. That's another good story. So either way,
I don't think baseball could lose because it's New York, Detroit,

(11:41):
New York, Cleveland and then La New York.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
And and by the way, you know you mentioned the
flow of these series. The fact that two to one
seems to mean nothing like it is amazing to me.
The Guardians getting the felt like drama, all the drama
in a Game four, it felt like they were just
they were done Guardians felt like they were done and
then all of a sudden they find a way to
turn it around. Like same thing you mentioned, you know

(12:06):
the fact that the Padres went twenty four innings without
without scoring a run. I mean the Tigers, the Guardians
couldn't do anything for a couple of games, so you
just thought, Okay, this thing is gonna be great. And
then when the Tigers absolutely had the chance to close
it out, they couldn't get it done. So now you
get this game five, and it is It is wild
to me because I mean, I think most people listening
and you both know that I'm a longtime supporter of

(12:28):
the w in in many ways, like I've watched a
lot of WNBA over the years and have covered that
league at different times for ESPN when I was working there.
And what's funny to me is I've sat there and
watched some of these best of five series in the
w and I've been like, I don't know, Like they've
just announced that the conference finals are going to go
to best to seven and all of these things, and

(12:49):
the finals are going to go to best to seven,
and I sat there and thought, Yeah, that's that's the
right thing to do. Because best of five just doesn't
feel right. And then I'm sitting here watching baseball and
best of five in this series, and I'm thinking, my god,
I love this round being best of five because it
just means every game just has more drama. To me,
it just has more meaning, more impact. There's if you

(13:09):
feel like in the best of five, anything can happen.
And you know, you look at this Tigers series, and
I think the Tigers it's not exaggerated to say they're
kind of America's team on this Everybody loves the fact that,
oh my god, look at the Tigers being here. So yeah,
the chance for the team that America has galvanized around
taking on, you know, the bad guys and the Yankees.
For God, give that to me. Give that to me

(13:31):
all day long, and frankly, give that to baseball, you know,
because Baseball gets a win win out of that. If
they get Tigers Yankees, no matter what the outcome is,
it's going to give you a classic World Series story.
So it's just there is something about this year. Usually
in the first round of the playoffs, you and I
can come together and we have a quick, pretty quick

(13:51):
idea of Okay, here's here's who's good, here's who's not good.
But more importantly, here's who's hot. Here's who's not hot,
And that's going to be something that matters the rest
of the way. This this round, particularly, hot never mattered.
Hot didn't seem sustainable in most of these series. It's
just everything is so game to game. It just it
makes it hit different.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, it really does. You know, it's funny. I don't
know how I feel about the Best of Five. I
don't like it. I mean, yeah, I think it added
it always adds urgency, but it adds also adds randomness,
and which I don't like. After one hundred and sixty

(14:32):
two game season, like baseball, really like the baseball. If
you're gonna be honest, right, you got to choose who
you are right now.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Now.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
I love October baseball, right, I just I love it.
It's the best theater. And so where baseball runs into
trouble is when it's it gets monotonous, right, you know,
it's also it's the beauty of it, but it's also
excuse me, the monotony of it. And either you are

(15:03):
what you are, which is truly the sport, which is
you You're it's about you know, over a long period
of time, which in this case, you can't have five
games series and you really shouldn't even have division series,
or you cut their regular season games down and you
go all in and you go all in on this,

(15:23):
you know, incredible tournament, and you know you expand the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
So everything you're saying is so smart for people that
love baseball, And I think this is one thing I
love about the show, like we never sort of hide
what we love, what we don't love, what we're into,
what we're not into. But it creates a very real
dynamic in this conversation because Baseball has I think made
a decision in the way they've pattern their playoffs that frankly,

(15:53):
they want to make sure they get through as many
casuals as possible, and so randomness is disrespectful to sport
more often and then not, but randomness is the very
thing that really truly causes people to absolutely flock to
so many sports. And I will always use the one
glaring example of an undefeated Patriots team that most of
the world that hadn't watched even any football was rooting

(16:15):
against in a Super Bowl. Because you don't want the
best champion you want the outcome that's going to be historic.
And sometimes in these situations, what you're saying is is
smart and it's right for baseball, and it's respectful to
the entire process of the season that got them to
where they are. But for me, it comes in that's
far less of a baseball fan, and I just want
to see absolute, you know, hair standing up on your neck.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
I can't believe you get that. Yeah, like you get
here's my only my only, My only.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Thing with that is you can't have chaos every year
or else there is chaos doesn't mean anything, right, like
the Patriots sometimes have to win. When you're looking at
the script, it's like a film, right, like you you
can't Sometimes the obvious has to happen so everything else

(17:04):
is believable. Also to protect the future, because otherwise you go,
I don't know, You're like the NFL is close to
being at now.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Where you go, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Week the week is insane, like you who knows who
could win? And some of it's good, but some it's like,
well what am I really seeing? What am I really
looking at? Where is true greatness? That's why dynasties are good.
That's why the NBA. You know why the NBA is
so popular, Partly it's because of the dynasty effect, because

(17:39):
there is such greatness that we've seen in that league.
And it's all about knocking Lebron James off of perch, right,
whether it's it's dynastic or whether it's superstar driven, right,
you know, knocking the Warriors off, knocking off the Bulls
like those and those things mattered.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Yea. Heroes and villains are easily defined when you have
that sustained. And I definitely agree with what you're saying
that that is an interesting counterpoint to all of it,
because you know, I think you're right. I'm living totally
only in the moment of right now, you know. And
the fact is that randomness in the moment of right

(18:20):
now feels really good. But if you want that randomness,
if you want that feeling, I should say to maintain
for years to come. There is some there's value to
what you're saying, Like, you're absolutely right. I hadn't thought
of it that way, but you are absolutely right.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
We got lots to get to. We will talk football. Obviously,
big day college football. There's some big games today. Headliner
Ohio State, Oregon duck Eyes. That's right, Ducks and buck
Eyes class tonight. That's gonna be great, and lots of

(18:56):
good stuff to get to, of course, all the NFL
will get to. But I do love this baseball discussion.
I mean, I'm thrilled. Shout out to my man David Saghee.
Who is you know, David. He's a dear friend of mine.
He's driving back from the Padres game now. He played
what Daved played thirteen years in the Biggs. I don't

(19:17):
play upa he played with played with the Mets. In fact,
when I was covering the Mets years ago, David and
I became really good friends. He played for gez Orioles
in the Indians Blue Jays expos. I mean, he's had
a he's had a great career, great hitter. And he's

(19:38):
driving back and he's like, is that you on the
air right now? I'm like, yeah, it's me and FITZI
right here. Every week fellas on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2 (19:59):
All right, Well up the back, Fellas, Jason fitz Anthony
Gargano after a thrilling night in Los Angeles one. They
look at it like it's a thrilling evening as Fitzy
and I look at it and go wow.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Then it was like white knuckle hitting right.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
White knuckle hitting is when you grip the bat, you're
so tight that you're gripped the bat and you go
to the you go to the plate and you're tight.
And that was clearly the Padres. The Dodgers used thirteen
pictures in two games against San Diego, thirteen pictures. There

(20:42):
were bats where they were gripping it. Man, there's an
old saying about getting about turning the bat into saw
dust because the moment was so big that you're gripping
the bat so tight that you're turning into sawdust.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
And that's what the Padres did.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Man.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Two games could not score. And again, that's a great lineup.
It's a lineup that a Rise who just always got hits,
and Tatise who was on fire for the first couple
of games, and Machado and Jackson Merrill the young wonder kid,
it was incredible, and Profar who had the big year

(21:25):
coronin Worth.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
I mean you just go on and on and on.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I mean, they have a really good lineup, FITZI saying
they just went cold.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
Stick there for a second though, because you know, we
got a good question from Thomas on Twitter X who
was asking basically why all the love for this series
and every name you just mentioned, you know, Tatis, Machado,
all these things, these stories that have been told about
these guys for years make them stars, right, there's no
doubt about it. I think what really hit different about

(21:56):
this entire series, especially for me. All I can speak
to is that when you have a draw like show
Hey related to a movie, you have like the biggest
actor in the history of actors that it's going to
be in this movie, and so you're flocking to it,
and then all of these other A listers in the
minds of baseball fans, you know, all of the names
you just mentioned, plus you add on Mooki and the

(22:18):
rest of the Dodgers, right, Like Dodgers have so many
big names, there's there's very little time in them a
game like we saw last night where somebody is at
bat that if you're not a massive fan, you don't
know them, you don't know about them. You don't know
who they are. That's the level of star power they
hit in the series, and I think that's part of
why it hits so differently. It's not just star power

(22:40):
on the Dodgers side and star power on the Padres side,
and the fact that we've been telling these stories about
the Padres for the last few years while we sort
of amp up for the money they've spent and the
team that they've tried to become, right, So it just
part of why it hit different was not just that
they were turning the bats into sawdust, which I love
and I'm gonna steal. I'm gonna say all the time
in a sports bar now. It's also just that these
are big name, oh my god, guys that we hear

(23:02):
about all the even casual fans know these names over
and over and over again. So when the biggest start
in the world in your sport is why people are
flocking to this these games many times. But also everybody
else happens to just be a you know, a relative
household name in that sport. I just think that's part
of why this entire thing hit differently. It wasn't watching

(23:24):
I don't want to say the implosion because that doesn't
give credit, but watching the padres not be able to
deliver is one thing. Watching stars on the padres just
not be able to figure out. The pitching of the
Dodgers was electric, right, because you really do believe at
any point that one of these guys is going to
break through, because you know, at a very core level,
even if you don't know baseball, you've heard of some

(23:46):
of these guys. You're like, I know that guy is
he's going to get a hit here, No he isn't,
Like over and over and over again. That just it
felt like it was the adrenaline was backing up and
up and up of whether or not somebody was going
to be able to get, you know, a hit. That
eighth run, I think he was eight run home run
eight thing, I should say home running for the Dodgers
was such a release of energy because you've just been

(24:07):
waiting for somebody to make contact with the ball on
either side. So I think that's just a big part
of why this one hit differ.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
But you know, we were gonna to our friend it
was a Thomas on X, so to our buddy Thomas,
you know, like we're gonna hit the other series too,
like I I mean, I think they were all pretty good.
I mean, the Mets were a great story. There were
a great story to Mets, and you know how they

(24:36):
just you know, they were laid for dead. I mean,
nobody thought that the Mets would make a run, let
alone beat the Phillies, who had the second best record
in baseball, who were just this unstoppable force for much
of the year. And then you know, baseball is a
game where you get hot and the whole thing. Hey,

(24:57):
let's uh, let's get the update and and we'll we'll continue.
But like to your point, you're right, like show hey,
and it's La, it's San Diego, like it was a
holy war right between San Diego and La. That's a
big deal. So of course it was also last night.
All right, let's get to the to the update, the

(25:17):
quick update.

Speaker 7 (25:20):
Yeah, major League Baseball. It was Game five of the
NLDS and for the second consecutive game, the Dodgers shutting
out the Padres.

Speaker 8 (25:28):
Here's the pitch Tanti swings chopping a third backhead picked
by her Nona.

Speaker 9 (25:33):
There's the that do in promo. Fireworks go off and
straight away center field as the Dodgers shut out the Padres.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Hitting back to that.

Speaker 7 (25:46):
Game, Steven Nelson on FSR affiliate KLAC and the Dodgers
radio network as LA beat San Diego two to nothing
to win the NLDS three games to two, and the
Padres were held scoreless for the last l twenty four
innings of that series. The Dodters getting a solo home
run each from Key k and ti Oscar Hernandez give

(26:08):
him all the offense and needed it back their strong pitching,
so they'll advance to the NLCS to face the New
York Mets. Game one set for Sunday in Los Angeles
with a first pitch at eight o'clock Eastern time. And
in college football, we did have a ranked team in
action on Friday night, Number sixteen. Utah falls to Arizona
State twenty seven nineteen. So the Sun Devils now five

(26:30):
and one on the season and two and one in
Big Twelve play. For Utah, it's their second defeat both
overall and in conference play. Northwestern on the road a
thirty seven to ten win at Maryland and unlva blow
out win at Utah State fifty to thirty four.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Back you guys, all.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Right, buddy, thank you Fellas Live from the Tiraq dot
Com Studios. Jason Fitz Anthony Garganel, Yeah, it's you know,
I get excited sometimes, becall and you're right about this
FITSI it is a little different.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
It feels a little different this year than in years past.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
And it probably has to do with show Hay And
you know, the fact that you had two great matchups
like the Holy War of La San Diego and New
York Philadelphia on the other coasts add something to it, right,
And then in the Midwest you had it with the
Tigers and Cleveland, right, Detroit Cleveland is fantastic, and in

(27:27):
the Kansas City was a really good story. So you
had all the teams that made it were really really
kind of cool stories, each in their own. I mean,
the Mets, I can't say enough about it as much
as like the long term, we're like a long time rival, right,
Phillies and Mets and all, and we joke around and all.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
But that that whole that team is a great story.
What they did.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
I mean, they were about to be eliminated by Milwaukee
when Alonso saves them, right, like the guy that was
had his foot out the door save them.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
I mean you can't make it up.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
And then he had a couple of big home runs
in the in the in the series, they are looking
at Zach Wheeler, a former Met who is seven innings
of one hit ball, eleven strikeouts. They can't touch them.
And then they get to the Phillies bullpen and they
steal a game one. They lose Game two, and then

(28:27):
they go to city Field and protect home field in
front of uh, you know, a stadium field of grimaces.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Right.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
They're able to They're able to be all kinds of theater.
They they lead the bases loaded twice in Game four,
which usually when you squander those opportunities always bite you.
And the last time the bases loaded, there's Lynn Door
who has been like who's had a renaissance to his

(28:56):
self what he was at Cleveland. And they they are
they're able to pull it out. It's a great it's
a great story. And the Dodgers Mets is like a
great historic rival.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
You know, there's a movie FITSI.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Where Dodgers Mets are are the in the in the background.
They're actually a subplot of the movie. It's called Bad Lieutenant.
Did you ever see it?

Speaker 1 (29:21):
God, I haven't seen Bad Lieutenant in years. You know,
I definitely I definitely saw Bad Lieutenant Harvey Kayitel Yep, yep, yep.
That was like back in the nineties, right.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, So it was like a little
it was like an indie film. Harvey kytell Is is
a dirty cop, like a dirty detective, nasty, right, and
it's like a few days in his life and he's
one of these dudes who's a bad, dirty cop and

(29:53):
and thus bad detective, bad lieutenant. And he's betting on
the Mets Dodgers series, and so you the whole bag.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
He's losing like huge subs of money and.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Like you see Strawberry and all the stuff, it's and
he's he's like dying and he's you know, it's a
it's a great story. It's like dirty, it's a it's
a muck story. But it's uh, it's like really gritty
and all but the Dodgers Mets. Because of that nineteen
eighty eight season when Strawberry goes from you know to

(30:32):
in La and it's Mets.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
I think sometimes when you start talking about what we've
had so far and why it's resonated, I'm a big
believer that it's better to be lucky than good. And
when you look at what we've had through the DS
in general. All Right, you're talking about Phillies Mets, you're
talking about a rivalry, you're talking about regionality, but you're
also talking about national understanding of the regional rivalries. So

(31:00):
that's like easy. I believe in being able to quickly
explain why something is important or quickly, like, if you
can sum it up in one sentence, then you've got
you've got gold. I don't care if we're talking about
a music act. I've said this for years about country music, right,
Like one of the things about country music is you
can say he's the beach country guy, and it's like, oh,
that's Kenny Chesney, He's the eighties rock country guy. That's

(31:20):
Jason Aldean, he's the guitar playing country guy. That's Brad
Paisley or Keith Thurmant Like, just if you can say
it in one sentence, you've hit gold. Right, And so
you can sum up why Phillies Mets matter in one sentence.
You can sum up why Dodgers Padres matter regionally and
nationally in one sentence. Right. You you mentioned earlier, the
Guardians and the Tigers. It's it's not hard to sit

(31:41):
there and think about the lovable losers, not said harshly,
but that we perceive the city of Cleveland to be
as a sports city, and then Detroit captures the the
you know, the love of everybody. Two Midwest towns that
really care about baseball that are getting this moment, Like,
it's just easy to look at it and me like, Okay,
if you and I would just implore super fans sometimes

(32:03):
just take your hat off and ask your super fan
hat off and ask if you don't care about your sport,
if you didn't care about baseball, why would you care
about this series. Baseball gets that every once in a while,
usually in the playoffs. To me, this year, it's pretty
easy to see why they've had it in every series, right,
Like the Yankees are the Yankees, so the Yankees are
always going to be the Yankees. But Dodgers, Padres, Phillies, Mets, Guardians, Tigers,

(32:28):
each of those three series have such easy storylines to
look at you like, ye hit a home run with
that one like, and this is one of those rare
moments for all the conspiracy theorists that think that every
sport is fixed. This is one of those rare moments
where baseball just got lucky. The storylines on every one
of these are really good, and the baseball's been really good.
And if you can get into this situation where it's like, yeah,

(32:51):
teams backs up against the wall and somehow they survive
and now we're getting a dramatic game Game five, Like
my god, that's just to be lucky with the storyline
and then to get meaningful games from both sides where
stars have shown out and pitching has been great, but
you've also had these dramatic late ending moments. Just that
you're getting a Disney movie in every one of these things,

(33:11):
and that's just man. Capitalize on it and love it
and appreciate the wave.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
I mean, look, you gotta you gotta Disney. You got
a Disney movie this afternoon. I mean, how about a
one aweight start in Cleveland? I mean, are you kidding me?
First of all day after Saturday afternoon baseball in the
era of prime time, right, you got a game five,

(33:39):
And I got news for you. This game today is
going to be incredible. You got the Guardians at home, right,
which is you know with that lineup. Ramirez has come
to life now against the best young pitcher in baseball
Intreak Schoolball. I mean, that's a that's that's incredible.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Man.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
That goes back to your point of you know, even
if you're not, if you're a casual, you got to
go well all the college football today. That's got to
be your click rotation and you make click and stick.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
I mean, my god, also doesn't hurt that by starting
at one o'clock they're not I mean, what do we
have ranked matchups, so that'll be going on. We have
Alabama versus South Carolina, Clemson versus Wake Forest, Like it's
pretty easy to find multiple screens when the college football
slate doesn't really get rolling until mostly either mid afternoon.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
I mean, you got the Red River rava. That's a
great day, right Texas Oho, so you know those are
pretty good, and uh that those are and then tonight
it's ridiculous, right because you know, Ohio State and Oregon
and Old Miss and LSU is fantastic. But you're right, like,
you don't you could sit and all these these new

(35:00):
games they're all right, there's nothing they're not, you know, gripping,
So you can sit and watch and enjoy, you know,
that game, and then go right into college football.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Here.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
We're gonna take quick t o.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
We'll come right back where the fella is hanging out
right here on Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back, fellas from
the ti raq dot com studios. Well, you're at the
bar last night watching the game, which is great. So, uh,
there's nothing better than the communal aspect. You and I
were talking about this off air, which is the communal

(35:36):
aspect of the sports bar, right like where everybody can
get together and whether it's you know, your local corner bar,
like your your local right your local joint.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
You see a place where everybody get to get together
and watch the games.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
There's something about the energy, and you're right communal is
So I go through this debate every years of football
fanatic because I buy the Sunday ticket on YouTube TV
every year and every year, you know, because I'm the
first to admit I probably shouldn't be in public when
I watch the Raiders game. My mouth is pretty offensive.
You know. I'm teaching kids new words every every single
drive because my team's no good and frankly, even when

(36:16):
they are good, I'm still you know, dropping f bombs
at my television because I'm excited. So either way, I'm
the first to admit that, you know, sometimes maybe I
shouldn't be in public, but there is something about sitting,
you know, and watching in that group with everybody and
you know, shout out to by the way, Dave and
Busters like that. So down in Nashville, where you know,

(36:38):
as you know and many people know I live for
a long time in Nashville, there's a huge Dave and Busters.
And I learned when I moved to Connecticut not all
Dave and Busters and moved them or made the same
like the one in Connecticut much smaller. It's not as
close to my house. All these things. But Dave and
Busters used to have the little speakers that you could
put on every single booth, so when you came in,

(36:59):
you could anywhere and they'd have, you know, these huge
monstrous TVs in this gigantic open era, and then you
just tell the server to you, ask the server for
one of the little speakers, put it on your table,
and then you could tune it to any TV so
you could be in a communal atmosphere and you could
actually listen to your game while it's happening. So you
could still hear the audio. That is like the closest

(37:22):
to you know, sex and watching sports I've ever experienced.
That is perfect, That is absolute, Like that is it,
my friend? Like when you can hear your game but
you can still be around people that are cheering and
yelling for their game constantly. I think that is one
of the most beautiful things you could ever ever have
as a sports fan. And the vibe just HiT's different.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
It does.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
It does so without further ado, I need to find
out what you what you did the sports bar right.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
This journey update.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Update update, Yeah, I love that. It makes me feel
so good. Yeah, no, the sports bar. Last night I
had soda waters. I did have a Heineken zer rope
because you know, no no alcohol since mouth, I haven't
had a Heineken zero. Because it makes you feel a
little bit like you're part of the community, tracted with
my macros. You will be proud to understand. You'll understand

(38:12):
this more than most people for anyone listening. Yes, I
lost a lot of weight and I'm on this like
I'm in the gym six days a week. I've changed
my entire body. I look like a new human being.
I will say this. In the last two and a
half weeks, I've put on six pounds of muscle, six
pounds by a little frame like six pounds because like
my waist is measuring out the same, my body fat's
measuring out the same. I'm starting to yoke up, brother,

(38:34):
like this is the best thing. I shaved my head
In case anyone hasn't seen it on social media, I
just decided I was done with the faux hawk thing,
so I just shaved it off about a week and
a half ago, walking through the store, walking through the
stopping shop after I worked out, I'm been a tank
top because I swept through my hoodie, so I took
it off. Walked in. I had to get myself a
core power a little protein shap right after, because I
want to make sure I put something in my body.

(38:54):
Walking through with my tat's all sweated out, my head shaved,
looking yoke. Somebody bumped into me to the grocery store.
For the first time in my life, I got a
genuine apology. They looked at me and they're like, this
guy looks like he could shift me. I look like
an inmated this week. I look I'm getting I'm getting jacked,
my head shaved. Come on like this is the transformation
continues twenty twenty fours. I'm tough, man, I'm tough as nails.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
Good for you to play safety, buddy.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
I mean five to nine Now I'm up to a
glorious bucks sixty one. So like five nine bucks sixty one,
a pure power twelve percent body fact. Come on now,
my apps is gonna have abs by January February. I
got it. I gotta cut though. We start the weight cut,
you know, in a few weeks, so through the holidays,
while everybody else is having fun, I'm gonna be cutting
down just to see how lean I can get.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yeah, that's impressive. That is impressive, My man, God bless you.
All right, we'll come back in just a moment where
the fella is hanging out right here.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Well, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, buddy,
Happy abby, Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
It's a big one, fellas.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
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(40:30):
about baseball, man, because Baseball's forefront October. You know, weird
things happen in October. It's the month of mystery, and
it certainly has been that way in the playoffs so
far as the the I didn't expect the Padres lineup
to just fizzle like that was the thing that surprised

(40:52):
me the most was that, you know, we thought this
October would be Otani and Judge, right, but it's really
been an ode to small ball and scratch it out
and runs. It's uh, it's been a real sea change.
It's very interesting.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
Do you think that sustains though, for the rest of
the playoffs? Like, because because you're right, But the question is,
is that what this playoff is going to be?

Speaker 2 (41:19):
No, I mean I think that changes series. The series
I mean, Mets Dodgers is going to be amazing. I mean,
I think that's that's going to be a great series.
It's it's a really good match with the Mets are hot,
they're they're you know, almost playing blessed uh in a way,
and listen, they deserve to beat the Phillies.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
They they were the better team.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
And you know, I mean looking at it, you know,
completely objective. I mean they were the better team. They
they got timely hitting. They're then lineup right now, that's
seeing the ball. Well, if you look at the Mets,
you know, you start with Lindor. They have a kid
named Vientos who is their third baseman, who's.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Really good, really good.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
He's almost under the radar, which is odd for a
player in New York, who is just a hell of
a ballplayer. Man, he had two home runs in Game one.
I guess it was in Game two. He's just locked
into play. These terrific Nemo Alonzo Iglesias. I mean they
come at you man, they're they're pesky, and they're good,

(42:27):
and they got some decent pitching. So they're gonna give
the Dodgers every bit of you know, as regal as
the Dodgers are. And we saw Bets who had a
slow start to the series and then he got hot
with a couple of home runs. And you know, the
Dodgers had those huge bats with Otani and Betts and
thee Oscar who hit one last night right and will

(42:51):
Smith and and Freeman, so like they had that major
you know, major major lineup.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
But Mets pitching too, is they pitch with.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
A lot of guyle, with a lot of with a
lot of uh uh misdirection. Like they have a kid,
this shaulman I who reworked himself. It's a great story, dude,
listen to this. In July, he changed his whole motion,
his delivery. Now that's unheard off for a picture. He

(43:27):
used to throw more over the top, all right. He
dropped his arm angle really pretty dramatically. So by dropping
his arm angle, he changed everything. He got his stuff
got better, he got a little more velocity. And not
to get all see me on you, but he throws

(43:52):
uh you know, like a fastball. You have a four
seam fastball, two seamed fastball right the plant. Depending on
your glip and your grip and his two you've seen fastball.
The two seam will make it run. It moves right,
four seems straight. You could throw it with harder velocity.
The two seam has a lot of run in it.
And by dropping his angle, his two seamer got a

(44:16):
lot of movement. He's really hard to hit, and he
was he really shut down the Phillies. Really, Dan, I'm
acxious to see how he'll do against Otani and the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
It's wild when you think about making that sort of
a change in a season.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Right, they've never had it.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Just think about, you know, for everybody that's used to
tuning in and hearing us talk mostly football, just think
about a quarterback completely changing their footwork and their arm
delivery in the middle of you know, practices that are
going the way that they usually go in the middle
of a season where you know, frankly, whenever you're in
a game, things go back to what you like. Your
habits become part of what makes change difficult. You know,

(44:54):
it's you're in a game, you're in a tight situation.
You need to do what you do right. So I
just that's of a change, transformation is absolutely wild to
think of somebody doing it in season, and then to
think of what a difference it makes for the team.
It's this is crazy. And you know you talk about
the pitching. I for one, found myself as the game
was wrapping up last night for the Dodgers, thinking, man,

(45:17):
what a just a you know, lucky moment, what a
absolutely like the sporting God smiling on this team that
as many pitchers as they've used that they only they
get to keep in rhythm. The fact that the series
starts on Sunday. They don't have a massive six seven
game or six seven day rest anything like that. You know,
the fact that they get to keep in rhythm, I

(45:38):
think is important because frankly, they're hot right now. I
want to capitalize whenever, my if, my entire rotation, my
entire bullpend is that hot. I want to keep those
guys going at that pace. So I think a big
advantage for them that they don't have a big layoff
coming in before Sunday.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Yeah, I'm with you, man, I'm completely with you. I mean,
you know, it's it's it's pretty cool, man, have a
whole thing. And you know, I don't know why stuff
changes year to year. Like I mean, I could tell you,
as someone who watches the playoffs every year that it's

(46:16):
always really good. I could see that this year, and
I don't know if it's just because we're going through
it in the recency bias of it, but this year
feels a little more special. But I mean, I think
it's like that every year. I'll be honest with you, Like,
I love it. I mean, I love October. I mean,

(46:38):
quite frankly, if it's up to me, if I was
the baseball zar, I would pair off. I would play
one hundred and thirty six games, and I would then
I would start the playoffs in the middle of September.
If not that, you know, second, you know, a little earlier,
like around September tenth would run seven game series through

(47:02):
in the end of October.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
I mean, I'm the dying on the hill that I do.
I like the five game you know me, but I
love your idea of give me playoffs right out of
the gate as soon as we're as soon as possible
when you're competing against college football in the NFL. I
do love that, Like, you know, I don't.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Want to rush through it too, Like there's a degree
of rushing through it, Like a five game series feels
like a rush right, like they used to do and
it was. I mean, think about the wild card, dude,
the wild Cards. Best of three.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Yeah, I don't like best of three. Best of five
feels to me like it's the perfect sort of split
on it for these, you know, for the early rounds.
Best of three is just so freaking arbitrary, Like that's
that's too much.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
You know, that's the line I mean stupid, and that's
why you got to pair down. You know, you peer
down this season so you don't make it, you know, ridiculous.
And you also need time to run your playoff format.
And then you run your playoff format and you know,

(48:10):
like September and October, and that's that's even way better
because that's the greatest part of the game. When the
game slows down and the game is pitch by pitch,
that's what it's fun to watch. Nobody cares about, like
in July and August. Right, you're going, oh my god,

(48:30):
you know, the games could go on forever or nobody's
playing with urgency right now, you got urgency. So why
would you Why do you why do you not want to?
Why do you want to rush through that? Like to me,
if I was a Zara baseball, the rhythm works great.
I start in April. People are excited, Right, I got

(48:52):
the whole spring spring baseball. Right, I do my July
fourth and right, I'm in August. By the time August
rolls around and I'm in the dog days. Next thing,
you know, I got the playoffs start in September.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
No, I do like that and you know it's one
of those things right now. It hit me last week
as we've now watched the opening of the NHL season,
and I genuinely laugh out loud at it. Like the
concept of trying to compete, like I do, think every
sport should look at it and say, Okay, what serves
our fans the most and also helps us continue to grow.

(49:28):
Not the NFL, because the NFL can do whatever the
hell they want to, like it doesn't really matter. The
NFL can do whatever they want to and it's always
going to win. And I think college football is almost
to that point too, Like we've seen mass change in
college football and it really doesn't matter that the numbers
are huge on it because college football is wild and
unprecedented this year also, and so people are gonna flock
to it. I think for everybody else, you gotta look

(49:50):
in the mirror. You gotta be honest with yourself, and
you got to figure out what then helps growth but
also still serves your fan base. Like you mentioned shortening
the season, I'm long since as hockey guy. By the way,
before anybody blows me up on social media, I have
long since believed that you know, hockey would benefit from
cutting the season in about half and starting the playoffs

(50:10):
at a time where you know, maybe they can wow
really yeah, yeah, I'm I'm yeah, there's just there's too
many games. Really, you can't start hockey in October and
end in you know, June and have it really matter
to most people. And the fact is is the regular
season has become so meaningless because the playoff season is
so long, like it is the second season of hockey.

(50:33):
And I'm like, yeah, I don't necessarily think that's a
great thing. I don't think it's a great thing that
your playoffs.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Yeah, I mean, like if you think about it, right,
the NBA, you know, I mean.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
I cut the NBA season and half to personally.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Yeah, I about half. You know, I think you could
lop you know, you know, I don't know. I mean
where they play now eighty there's eighty games in a
hockey eighty two games.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
Forty four in hockey.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
You could take used to be eighty eighty four four
used to be eight, It used to be eighty. If
the NBA is always eighty two, you can lop off,
you know, you want to make it, you know, sixty eight,
you know something like that.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
I mean I get that.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
The only thing is, you know, like you need you
need the TV contract, the local TV contracts matter, right, like.

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Oh yeah, you know all the business of it.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Like I get what you were saying about the randomness,
randomness of it, and it gets lost. Both the NBA
and the NHL get lost in October. I mean, hockey
should start in October, Basketball should start Christmas Day or
you know, I mean, or I would start you know what,
I would start it because we talked about Christmas Day before.

(51:51):
I would start it h MLK day, right, like it's
a it's a Monday, January, and because football's taking over
Christmas in New Year's right, So I would go, MLK,
make it a Monday. You own the whole thing from
you own the whole day, and you run it from that.

(52:15):
And I would run it again. I would push it
back and run through the summer when there's when there's
nothing you know, going on other than baseball. You got
NBA playoffs, and it takes you right into the start
a football season.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
Yeah. And one thing that I think is interesting about
your point with with summer baseball, It's like, look, summer
baseball to me is like bar rescue and Law and Order.
I've seen almost every episode. I've seen every episode of
Bar Rescue for sure, and probably almost every episode of
the original Law and Order. Yet if I'm just sitting
around the house and I got nothing going on, and
I'm you know, peddling around cleaning or whatever, I turn

(52:49):
one of those shows on because I don't really have
to listen to it, don't really have to pay attention
to it. It's just background noise. That's what summer baseball is.
It makes us feel good that there's sport's going on,
but it's just background noise, like most people are not
sitting down, you know, gravitating towards hearing about every single
pitch of a you know, mid July matchup between the
Brewers and Cups. It's just not happening. So, you know,
I don't know that for me personally, I don't know

(53:11):
that what I love I would ever want to just
be background noise. Like I don't want I don't want
my sport to be John Taffer. I love, I love you, John,
but I don't want I don't want sports to be
John Taffer.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
That's a great analogy, Yeah, it really is. It's a
great analogy, all right, well, we're gonna turn our attention
to football, and we got a couple of big games.
I mean, you know, Ohio State and Oregon. This is
gonna be fun. Dude, this is a great game.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
And look, I picked Oregon to go to win the
Natty early before the season started. Thought with the explosive
play makers, and you know, I believe in Dan Landing,
their head coach. And you know you've got a transfer
quarterback that's supposed to be Heisman helpful. I really I
thought this guy was the limit for Oregon. They just
haven't put it together yet this year. And I would
beg people to look past just the completion percentage for

(54:06):
Dylan Gabriel, the quarterback of Oregon. I know, the completion
percentage looks good, the throats don't like just accuracy issues
in the red zone in the first half against Michigan
State sort of echoes some of what we've seen throughout
the course of the year. I just Dylan Gabriel is
not playing smart enough football when it matters the most.
So I'm really interested because look, I think Oregon could

(54:28):
beat the pants off at anybody if they put it together.
But I think it's also fair to say, they haven't
put it together all year long, So is this the
moment where they finally play like we thought they were
gonna play, Because, man, you better Like Ohio State used
last week against Iowa's like a run game practice. They're like,
we're just gonna cram the ball down their throats over
and over and over again to make sure that we're
ready for what we're gonna be able to do the

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rest of the season. And Ohio State has men amongst
boys at the wide receiver position. So man, you got
to see we're gonna have to see a much better
version of Oregon if they want to win this football game.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Man, it's funny. A lot of people love Oregon. In fact,
Brad can't join us today, but I will give you
his picks. He's in Vegas. Yeah, he's in Fitziland, and
uh he loves Oregon. In the game, I'm on defense,
I think I like Ohio State.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Yeah, I'm I'm picking Ohio State to win the game.
I think it's also fair to say, hey, we haven't
seen much from Ohio State that we really you know,
can transfer forward, Like they haven't played a juggernaut of
a schedule. I will agree with that. We talk about
that every week, like when do we start to make
a big deal of it? For me, last week was
that like Ohio State just absolutely controlled the line of scrimmage,

(55:45):
and you know, frankly, I think Ohio State was also
ramping their running game up to see if they can
run against Oregon. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Point, that's a great point. I think you're spot on
with that. Yeah, I think you're spot on with that.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Yeah, I'm taking Ohio State in that game. I would love,
for the sake of my preseason pick for Oregon to
win it and then suddenly become a juggernaut. But man,
there's just not a lot of proof of concept there.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
All right, let's uh, let's take a quick tear.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
We'll come right back, all right and kind of go
through the college slate, and then we have a big
NFL hour and we got some you know, we're gonna
go through all the games, the whole.

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All right, So let's get it started. It's a college
football Saturday, all right. Coming up, here's your big games today.
We had mentioned it, red River rivalry today Texas Oklahoma

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number one Texas. You know, Oklahoma's defense is good, all right,
So you know, obviously I like, I mean, obviously you
should like Texas in a game, but Oklahoma's defense is legit.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Yeah. I don't disagree with that at all. I mean,
hasn't really shown a ton of weaknesses at this point.
And this is the first time I thought this was
pretty alarming. The first time Texas goes into this game
ranked number one since nineteen eighty four. I mean, that
just feels absolutely wild to me. But frankly, you know,
let's see where Quinn Viewers is at this point. Let's

(58:19):
see if he's if he's healthy and great, But the
quarterbacks are gonna have. Whichever quarterback ends up finishing this game,
it's gonna have to play really well. Oklahoma took a
minute to figure out what their quarterback situation looks like.
And you know, I was pretty harsh on Dylan Gabriel's
play earlier for Oregon, but let's remember Oklahoma was comfortable
letting him walk out the door. They thought they had

(58:39):
their quarterback and they don't. Now they've got a fresh
but Michael Hawkins coming in, and Hawkins has run the
ball well for them too. He absolutely is a dual
threat type quarterback. He's gonna have to play really well
against that Texas defense.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Yeah, I mean our Texas, I'm with you. They don't
have a lot of that. They don't have a lot
of soft spots.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
Battle squad.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
They're nasty, man, They're really good, And you're right, like
Viewers gets back after missing the last couple of weeks
and and where Arch played. Now it's uh, heres back
at the helme. I mean, you know, I mean Texas is.
I mean, they're their defense, they can run it, they
just do everything. I mean, they were. They're just a
great team.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Man.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
I I love watching them Horns Horns. It's funny, man.
There were a couple of times where we we all
kept saying, is Texas back?

Speaker 3 (59:30):
Is the are the Horns back?

Speaker 2 (59:32):
And there was always like one part of the squad
was just just not up to it, right, like you know,
whether it was their defense usually was their defense and
and their past game. But you know, they're I think
on both sides of the football, they're just legit.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Man.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
They're really good. And I and again I like Allahoma's defense.
I think they're I think their defense is good.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
Brent Venables is going to have to have that defense
have the game of their life in this one. That
being said, I think all of us are just sort
of out on Oklahoma. I don't think I think frankly
Texas wins this game. And Texas was favored by I
think fourteen and a half. I think I like Texas
to cover. I think they win this game pretty handily.
If they don't, if Oklahoma pulls off the let's just

(01:00:23):
remember Oklahoma right now, kind of surprising the most other
four and one we're talking about Oklahoma, like their season
is just man, because they don't look like a great
football They're better than they get credit for. Like they
could change the entire perception of their program for the
next few years with a big win in this game.

Speaker 3 (01:00:40):
Yeah, now, you're right, it's funny, my man.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
Chris Chill listening to us right now, he's his horns.
Lay it, College Chill. He's College Chill, says, lay it later,
lay their points. I agree with you and college Chill
to late points.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
Fourteen and a half is beefy two for the Red
River rivalry. I just wanted to prove that I could
say red River rivalry quickly. I believe it was the
only catalyst there. But fourteen and a half is a
lot of points. I think that just speaks to how
good Texas is right now. By the way, I don't
think that that means that this guy's falling for Oklahoma.
Oklahoma's one of several programs this year that are in
the category of yeah, they're okay, they're fine, They're pretty good,

(01:01:23):
you know, and that that's not the end of the
world to be that. It's just it feels like the
end of the world if you're an Oklahoma fan and
you're watching Texas not be in that category.

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Yeah, no, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
We'll also talk a little Penn State Southern Cow. We'll
get to that in just a moment, but first let's
find out what's trending.

Speaker 7 (01:01:45):
Yeah, Major League Baseball. We had Game five of the
NLDS on Friday night between the Dodgers and the Padres,
winner take all, as LA advancing to the NLCS.

Speaker 8 (01:01:58):
Here's the pitch, Tanti swings chopping a third backhad pick
by Hernandez.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
There's the throw the tow In brother.

Speaker 9 (01:02:09):
Fireworks go off and straight away center field as the
Dodgers shut out the Padres getten. Back to that game.

Speaker 7 (01:02:17):
That was Stephen Nelson on FSR affiliate KLC and the
Dodgers radio network.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
As LA beat.

Speaker 7 (01:02:23):
San Diego two nothing, the second consecutive shutout buy the
Dodgers over the Padres, and they held San Diego scoreless
for the last twenty four innings of this series. Inning
Game nor five, LA getting all the offense off of
two solo home runs won each by Key k Hernandez
and ti Oscar Hernandez, and they will face the Mets

(01:02:43):
on Sunday in the NLCS Game one out in Los Angeles.
First pitch set for eight o'clock Eastern time. On Saturday,
we will have Game five with the Alds, Guardians and Tigers,
and that game has been moved up to one o'clock
Eastern time because of inclement weather. In at college football,
we did have a ranked team in Action number sixteen,

(01:03:04):
Utah falling to Arizona State twenty seven to nineteen, and
in a couple of other games, both blowouts. Northwestern demolishes
Maryland thirty seven to ten, UNLV over Utah State fifty
to thirty four.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Back over the fellas, all right, Bardy, thank you. We
are the fellas.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Jason Fitz Anthony Gargano hanging out on this Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
Yeah, that's a good game, man.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
School Ball. I like school bll. I love school Ball.
I don't like it, I love it. I think school
Bull wins today. That's a great one, and they moved
it up because of the weather. But I love the fact.
At two o'clock we were talking about it. Penn State.
USC fits e Penn State if there's ever a game

(01:03:55):
that they need because look, I don't think they could
lose twice. They need to. They should make the playoffs,
but they need to beat USC. If they beat USC,
doesn't matter what happens against Ohio State, they should be in.
But they have to beat USC today.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Yeah, actually, I agree with you, and I think they're
built to beat USC. USC's defense will always think it's
going to get better, and it just typically doesn't. It hasn't.
And the interesting thing is that for anyone that hasn't
watched Penn State this year, it's a different Penn State
than last year. Drew Aller their quarterback pushing the ball downfield.
Their depth to target is way up. He's certainly shown
he's more accurate. Penn State has had big explosive plays.

(01:04:36):
I would like to see Penn State be able to
just sustain more in a football game. It feels like
they have flashes. Like here's the thing. When they were
ninth and tenth, I thought they were a little undervalued
at fourth. Like I don't watch Penn State and think, yeah,
that's the number four team in the country right there,
So they're gonna have to show something going all the
way across the USC and playing the USC team that

(01:04:57):
should be playing with their backs up against. I think
USC season is done obviously, but we're gonna find out
what they've got. You know, Lincoln Riley LA wasn't really
LA wasn't banking on this USC team being a four
loss football team, right and so for USC to be
sitting where they are right now, man, they've got They've
got to get some things figured out quick, and we're

(01:05:19):
gonna find out how much fight they have for their coach. So,
you know, realistically, I think both of these coaches have
earned the reputation of at times being disappointing in some
big games. I think Lincoln has earned that this year,
and I think James Franklin has earned that throughout the
course of his career. Like just he he struggles in
some big games. So I want to see Drew Aller
come out push the football. I want to see Penn

(01:05:40):
State sustained drives Penn State favor by four and a half.
I like Benn State to win and cover they better
Like I just am curious to see what USC looks
like if they play like they give a damn when
everything is in theory on the line for them.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Dude, spot on, man, listen, Franklin. To win this game,
it has to win this game. That's been their issue.
You know, they have not been able. They've been good,
they've been real good, but they're not They've they were
never in Ohio state or Michigan's class. They were always

(01:06:17):
I mean, they were barely in Wisconsin's class, you know,
or even Iowa. I mean, this is a game they
gotta win. And I agree with you. They don't smell.
They don't feel like the fourth best team in the country.
I think they're good, uh and they should make the
playoffs and they should beat USC. But you know, let's

(01:06:38):
see it. You know, let's let's see what. Let's see
if they can do. I think you're I think you're
spot all with that. It's very I think there's a
very This is kind of a telltale kind of game
for Franklin in his Listen, he's a hell of a recruiter.
He gets great talent. They've always fall they've fallen short

(01:06:59):
in this kind of moment. So I'm anxious to see.
That's a good game. Notre Dame Stanford obviously their big
favorite twenty two and a half for the Irish.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
We're y at with Notre Dame right now.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
I mean, they'll go as far as Riley Leonard takes them,
right like it's they had delusions of grandeur for this team.
And you know, certainly I disagree with some of my
coworkers at Yahoo that believe that, you know, Notre Dame's
basically a lock for the playoffs. Man, I don't know.
This offensive line at times has been inconsistent. Riley Leonard's

(01:07:35):
been good, not great. I Notre Dame you just mentioned.
We were just talking about teams that just have to
get wins. Notre Dame has no wiggle room left. They're
going to have to continue to win, and I think
win with some conviction along the way, because they aren't
guaranteed anything in the college football playoff and because they've got,
you know what will turn out to be a really

(01:07:56):
bad loss on the resume, So they just don't have
a lot of traction left to get big wins. So
I think Notre Dame wins.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
But just hang on one second, because they have a
chance for two I think important wins, and they're gonna
be tough games and that's the Service academies.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
Now, that is fair.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
You're right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
Actually, I need to recalibrate the way I think about
the Service academies. You are right about that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
They're good. Both those teams are good. Both those teams
are really good, man, And all of a sudden, those
two teams are dicey like you like, you're right. It's
an inexcusable loss to Miami, Ohio. And you know, they're
sitting at four and one, and it just turns out.
And usually I can't get on Notre Dame because usually

(01:08:46):
the Irish had play a really tough schedule. It just
so happens that the schedule isn't as tough. But with
Army Navy being so good this year, all of a sudden,
those games are testers.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Yeah, Army and Navy are both. I mean, both those
teams are undefeated. But they're both playing really, really well
right now. But you're right. I'll give them a little
credit for that, and we'll see what happens with USC,
because obviously Notre Dame USC gives them some opportunity. Also,
we'll see how much chaos happens in front of them too.
You know, that's a weird thing. About the rest of
this college football season and the super conferences that are

(01:09:22):
essentially aligning. Realistically, there's plenty of room for everybody ahead
of them to fall, but there's also plenty of room
for everybody ahead of them to pick up a lot
of traction. You know, that's the the interest. Like Ole Miss,
we were ready to write off ole Miss as a
huge game. Today it Almoss has huge games in front
of them. You know. Ole Miss is the type of
team that as much as everybody one loss, we feel

(01:09:44):
like we want to write teams off because that's the
old way of college football. Now it's just like, Okay,
everybody's gonna pick one up. So once you pick that
one up, then what happens? You know, So maybe maybe
we will recalibrate the way we think about Notre Dame,
you know, depending on what happens moving forward. For a second,
every nobody wanted to give Northern Illinois a bunch of
street credit and be like, wow, this is a really
good Northern Illinois team, and you know, maybe that loss

(01:10:06):
doesn't look as bad. I think some of that has
calmed down after NC State beat them, you know, so,
and after Buffalo beat them. So now we can just
sort of calm the Northern Illinois love down. But yeah,
I think Notre Dame is in the category of meh.

Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
To me, their offense feels yeah, I said, I think,
I said Miami Northern almost excuse me, they feel like
Matt because their offense is Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
Their offense. I mean they have no playmakers. That's what
they're missing.

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
They have. They have no playmakers. They don't make plays
on schedule easily. Like I said earlier, their offensive line
has Riley running around a little bit. So now you've
got a quarterback that's running around a little bit. And
once he's running around a little bit, what does that mean?
You know? I just I'll continue to say that the
best passers, whether we're talking about college football or NFL,
the best quarterbacks that are mobile are quarterbacks first and

(01:11:06):
mobile second, you know, and Riley is not. Riley is
mobile first and quarterback second. The process, like this is
the great the great test for me on a of
is this team good, especially in college football is third
and five, third and six? What is their go to?
What's their bread and butter? Can they get themselves out
of that situation? And good teams can good dude, Like

(01:11:27):
you look at Alabama and even coming off of obviously
the loss, which was inexcusable, I think you can look
at Alabama and say, okay, third and five, third and six,
they got a lot of ways they can beat you.
You look at Texas, third and five, third and six,
they got a lot of ways that can beat you.
Ohio State go up and down the list, even teams
like you know, like I said, Ole Miss is an example,
Penn State is an example. I think third and five,

(01:11:48):
third and six, you have a pretty good idea of
what they're trying to accomplish. Third and six. Notre Dame.
I have no idea how they get you out of that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
Pind No, No, that's fair.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
But again I attribute that to more lack of playmakers. Man,
I'd like to see Ridley Leonard with some better guys
on the outside and make plays.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
Yeah, that's probably fair. I mean, the athleticism of young
wide receivers is a huge storyline in current college football
that you know, saves a lot of quarterbacks. This is
this is the interesting thing. It's almost like you want
a veteran quarterback that's seen a ton of football, that
knows the right time to throw up the fifty to
fifty ball, but you also need a young phenom to

(01:12:34):
go up and get it. So it's it's like this
weird combination of free agency essentially, if we want to
call that the transfer portal and recruiting all.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
At once, spottle my man. All right, let's take quick
time out. We'll come back. We'll go through the continue
to go through the college card. We'll look to the
NFL next hour and dive into a.

Speaker 10 (01:12:57):
Little Niners Seahawks from the other night in a Big
day tomorrow where the fellas Jason Fitz Anthony Gargotti hanging
out right here Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
From the Tyraq dot com studios. All right, I need
to take a quick second because we're now in due October,
and where do we got October twelfth today? So we're
smack dab in the Halloween season.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
Who and I.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Gotta find out because I still't thinking about Boy, the
kids play every weekend, right, we have games every weekend
or else? Like, man, I'd like to take a ride
up to see the house. So tell everybody about the
house and where you're at with your Halloween dollar, Like,
are you up and running full throttle?

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
I am in the house up and running full throttle
for sure, Like I got all the zombies up in
the house, got the levitating body on the wall. I've got,
you know, like in the house is fully creep a fight.
I'll send you some pictures, my friend. You know, it's
it's it's all. It's all coming together now. Like I
waited a little longer this year, I'm changing some things up,

(01:14:16):
you know. I'm waiting a little longer to get things
rolling so that I can I can. I don't know,
like I'm trying to condense the seasons. This is a
change for me this year. I'm consolidating Halloween into instead
of starting in like August, I'm making it really like
a big month of October. Oh my god. And then
this is the big change usually for me, the day

(01:14:37):
after October, Like every year, the day after Halloween, I'm
that guy and they always stare at me. I'm at
spirit Halloween, get my stuff fifty percent off, because you know,
this stuff ain't cheap, and some get my stuff fifty
percent off. The day after Halloween, while I'm listening to
Maria Carri's Christmas records. Usually I go straight into Christmas.
November first and start putting up to Christmas stuff like
within days. I know, usually it's a whole blast. This year,

(01:14:59):
I've decided I'm going to give the month of November
it's due. I'm gonna try this whole Thanksgiving fall thing
before I flipped the script over to Christmas after Thanksgiving.
So I'll let you know how that goes.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
But yes, I like I like that strategy because don't
get lost. Like to me, you start Christmas stuff Thanksgiving weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
I've always I've always looked at it this way, and
this is this is I've used this analogy with you before.
But what do you do at halftime of a game.
You sit down, you catch up with some friends, you
talk to everybody, you eat some food, you have a
couple of drinks. You're good halftime, then you recharge, You're
ready for the second half. I've always said Thanksgiving is
the halftime of Christmas season. So like I'm a month in,

(01:15:44):
I get a break for a couple of days and
I get back to it. But this year trying trying
a different you know, I'm like, I'm gonna wait to
put all the stuff up until the very end of
November and and then see if that maybe makes it
feel a little bit more special. I did go to
a cool thing the other day. I don't know if
you've ever seen these. There are cities everywhere, but they
like they usually are in churches where they happened. But

(01:16:08):
they do like these candlelight string quartet things, you know,
where it's like they fill the whole place with candles
and then they do like a string quartet tribute to
Queen or to Taylor Swift or whatever. They had one
the other night that was a string quartet tribute to Halloween.
So it was all music. Oh, it's so cool, Like
I'm just sitting in like sitting in a pew and
amazing that, you know. I made it in and out

(01:16:29):
of church and and nothing, nothing happened, but my skin
didn't burn anything. But I made it in and out
of church. And I watched this kind of weirdow. Yeah,
I know, Like tell me though, it isn't weird to
be hearing the Exorcist theme while you're sitting in a
pew at a church. But it was beautiful because the
candles were lit everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
The quartet was rocket nothing like the occult to go
with you go with church.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
I'm getting the full but also, you know, because because
I'm that you can't have the displays I have without
you know, you know, budgeting for this in advance. But
I got lucky that I found out a costco had
a big old deal on full sized candy bars. So
you know, the full sized candy bars are ready for Halloween.
Like it's it's you can't, you can't.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
You know you can't. That's strong.

Speaker 1 (01:17:17):
Yeah, he can't fund.

Speaker 3 (01:17:18):
Something that's strong.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Going full sized candy bar is is It's a good thing?

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
Yeah, well you know, but again, I'm frugal and I'm
budget conscious, so I usually start acquiring the full sized
candy bars. Like the easiest way to do that is
to just start buying them every time you see them
on stales, starting in like Midsummer, and then you just
stalk them off to the side. The only problem I
have this year is that I'm on this fitness journey
and I don't want to be fitting this three cspecies

(01:17:45):
in my mouth every night. And I know, particularly like,
let's be honest, we all know that I love to
dabble in my edibles, and by dabble, I mean take
a lot of them. And so like what I don't
want is a whole box full of you know, full
sized candy bars sitting around and you know, when I've
had a couple.

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
Of that's dangerous.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
Yeah. So this year, you know, budget be damned, I
had to go. I had to go budget versus waistline.
But Costco saved me at the last second with the
you know, so I have not I got him the
other day. I have not yet opened them. So I
feel pretty proud that, you know, I've managed to. I
feel like I'm staring at them at two in the
morning most nights and I'm like, don't have the candy bar.
But so far I'm underfeeding.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
Don't have the candy bar? Come to me.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
Oh, I'm looking at I'm talking to talking to the
lady that's floating on my wall, and I'm like, should
I have a candy bar?

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
But this is what happens when you have give me
the You got to give me the movies that you
have in your house.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
I mean all of them. This I think some of
the weirdest. There's a reference to Halloween three. I like
to make sure that, like Halloween three, which is an
underrated movie, Season of the Witch should just be called
Season of the Witch. But yeah, you got to make
sure that you got some things in that only the
Halloween junkies absolutely love that's that's one of the keys.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
You have a what's the scariest thing? You have.

Speaker 1 (01:19:14):
A gutted body that's like the inerts are falling out
of from scream. It's fine, love it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
Fellas. Fox Sports Radio, Good morning, good morning, go morning,
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Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Happy Happy Fox Sports Saturday to all. We're the Fellas,
Jason Fitz, Anthony Gargantam seven am in the East, four
A M and O West on this October the early eleventh,
I think October twelfth. Excuse me as we hang out

(01:19:51):
lots to get to. We talked a lot of baseball
in the first hour. We'll get back to that coming
up next. Did a lot of college football. We'll be
doing that as well.

Speaker 3 (01:20:00):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
We're gonna start with them with some NFL stuff though
this hour we'll get knee deep into that one. We
also saw all the start of the NHL this past week,
and my man is a big puckhead, which we love.
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the NFL baseball playoffs, Hockey has just started, NBA is
already playing preseason games.

Speaker 3 (01:20:51):
Did you watch any hockey this week?

Speaker 1 (01:20:53):
I watched a lot of the Golden Knights. I mean,
very little of the Golden Knights, but it feels good
just put it on. Like I'm as you said, like
definitely a huge fan. The Golden Knights and the Preds
are both to teams and cities that mean the world
to me. I find even when I was working for
the flagship of the National Predators, my first gig was
one O two five of the game in Nashville doing

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the morning show the year of the Stanley Cup final run,
and even covering it, I always found that it was
difficult to really be genuine in front of a microphone
in October and tell everybody how meaningful a game in
October or November is. So to me, hockey this time
of year is just it's almost like playing the video
game version of NHL. Like it's just fun to sit back.
There's no pressure. You watch it like a fast start,

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slow start, doesn't matter, right, Like I'm just sitting back
watching it. It's almost like preseason football, where you're just
sitting there saying, hey, this is fun. I feel good
that hockey's on. But I also don't have to deal
with any sort of consequence to that action. So yeah,
I watched it a little of it, but it didn't
move my soul. It was just fun to have it on.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
Yeah, I always look at it, and anytime a new
season starts, like you get excited. So my team, the Flyers,
had their opener last night, and they got this kid
who's really good, this kid Meetskough, matt Vey Meetchkoff, who
is a Russian and he's She's nineteen years old and
he made his debut last They opened the season, which

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I hated, on the West coast. They opened with a
west coast trip, so they're all they're playing Vancouver, so
of course we're on at five eastern. The game started
at ten eastern, and I of course watched it because
I'm a loser idiot, and I watched the baseball game

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and they went right into a little Flyers, Canucks and
the kid was unbelievable, like just moved the pock.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
I mean it was it was cool.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
But yeah, you know, I mean this is just you know,
it's more of an appetizer, right, like you watch these
stuff like the beginning of the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:22:57):
You watched It's an appetizer.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
We were all kind of gripped with Dodgers padres last
night and then uh, full data, full slate of games
coming up, and I want to get to you with
the NFL, we saw the Niners. Let's look at the
balance of power in the NFL, in the NFC because
we saw San Francisco and like, I don't know, I

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think we judged them too harshly.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
I think the I think they're really good.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
I mean, obviously they're bagged up at running back, but
and then you saw Mason get hurt with the shoulder.

Speaker 3 (01:23:36):
But they're they're legit, man, They're a good team.

Speaker 1 (01:23:40):
They're surviving the gauntlet of injuries that so many teams
are faced with this year. And I do believe that
this is this is one of those rare years where
if you're listening right now and your your answer about
your favorite team is yeah, but look at all the injuries.
Kindly shut up because every single team is just being
lasted with injury issues. It feels like, week in week out,

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like this is not the year to have any excuses
for Yeah, but we were missing these six guys, or
we were missing these four guys, because that's the case
for everybody, right. So the forty nine ers have managed
to get themselves through this first six weeks of the season.
They sit at three and three, even though they've been
absolutely decimated, and in the process, I think what they've

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shown you is that, hey, they can play competitive with
absolutely anybody any week, no matter what they have. Brock
Party has continued to show what I think Brock Party
needs to show to end the conversation of whether or
not brock Party is really that guy for them. I
think he is for the next ten years. I think
They've got stability at coach, stability at quarterback, and they

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have so much talent that even when their depth is tested,
they can still test anybody any given week. Do they
need to close games better, Yeah, one hundred percent they do.
Do they seem to have a little less fire in
their belly this year? Maybe a Super Bowl hangover, maybe
a little bit of that. Am I willing to bet
against them the rest of the season. No, especially in
an NFC that, frankly other than Minnesota and unbelievably, we

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need to say loudly Washington. I don't know that there's
been a lot that we can look around and say, yes,
that is a team you can bank on. There's been
inconsistency everywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:25:16):
Yeah, I do think you can bank on the lines.

Speaker 1 (01:25:19):
Yeah, of the lines. I should have included the lines.
You're right, that's a missed by me.

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
Yeah, but I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
I mean, you look at that NFC everywhere else, I
mean and even Washington. I think they're a great story,
but I don't know how sustainable they are only because
of their defense. I mean, I believe in jayde Daniels
all day long. I just don't believe in their defense.

Speaker 1 (01:25:48):
I agree with you one hundred percent, and I do
think we need to calm down a little bit. And
this is the moment here my logic brain will take
over for everybody when you hear these big arguments about
Jade and Daniels could be the NFL MVP. A rookie
has only won the NFL MVP once. That was Jim Brown, right, like,
so let's calm it all down a little bit. Like inevitably,

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voters don't make rookies the MVP. It's kind of like,
we can say what we want about the Heisman, but
we know how the Heisman usually ends up. So, I mean,
Jayden Daniels could could have a CJ. Stroud plus ten
percent season and still not be the MVP. I don't
know who is right now. I think it's way too
early to know that. But that'll separate itself. It's just

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I'm just reminding everybody to calm down. And then the
other part of it is in the NFC. If you
look just as sort of the way the league is
built this year, one of the things that I think
is absolutely amazing is that eleven teams out of sixteen,
eleven teams are within one game of five hundred. They're
either three and two, two and three, or you know,

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because of San Francisco they're three and three. Eleven out
of sixteen teams are separated by one game like this
this year is just I'm not sure any of these
teams are great. That's just the NFC. The AFC is
virtually the same, by the way, So you know, if
you just probably.

Speaker 2 (01:27:07):
The lesser, like I think there's more talent in the NFC,
you know, like it's it's bizarre, like let let's go
through it. Like you tell me, I want to give
you teams and then you tell me if you believe
in that team?

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
All right, I like this, yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:27:25):
Let's start off. We'll go, We'll start Niners. And I say, yes,
you say I believe in that, yes, Seattle.

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
Loudly. No, I don't believe in Seattle. And I think
Seattle is kind of interesting to me because they got
more credit to college football logic for a good loss
when they lost to the Lions and they put up
so many yards passing, and it's like, no, no, no,
the Seattle team is good, man. They are. They are
at times one dimensional, and I still think that we
need to understand that. You know, as much as I love,

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you know, my McDonald's as a head coach, Mike McDonald,
I always want to make him the Doobie brother, as
much as I love what he will eventually be. For
their defense, I constantly remind people that Ravens players told
you it took two years to learn that defense. I
think Seattle is an okay football team. They might make
the playoffs, but I don't believe.

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
In them A spot on. I agree with everything you
just said.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
The Rams no two injured. It's just there's too much
to overcome this year. There's just not enough that they
got no juice left in the tank, and I don't
know how they turn it around, honestly. Plus the Rams
still have tough games left on their schedule.

Speaker 3 (01:28:39):
Arizona.

Speaker 1 (01:28:42):
I want, I want. I want to believe in Arizona, right,
I really do. I just I can't. I mean, I
believe in Kyler. I believe in what they're building long term.
I believe in Kyler Murray. I think he's really proven
me wrong. I think that's all fair. I just and
they have. It's funny their three losses right now are
the Bills, who are a good football team, the Lions,

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who are a good football team, and the Commanders, who
have started off the season looking at times like a
good football team. So their losses are all excusable. I'm
but I'm still luke warm on whether or not I
trust that defense.

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
Yeah, I don't trust their defense. I do think, I mean,
I think you and I kind of see the similar
I like their offense. I don't trust their defense, you know,
I like to see the connection more with Marvin Junior.
But yeah, I like I like how they run the ball.

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I like their offense. I think they have I like
their approach on offense. And you're right about Kyler, you know.
I mean I think we all kind of left him
for uh you know that he was headed down that
path and he's turned it around.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
I'm with you, all right, let's go south.

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
Obviously, No, Carolina, do you believe in the Falcons?

Speaker 1 (01:30:08):
Uh? So the question is, what you know? Any time
we got Kirk Cousins throwing more passes than you know,
years he's been on Earth, I don't think that that's
necessarily the way they want that offense to go. But
the artist was great and the result was great. But
the Falcons are also one or two plays away from
being a total disaster right now. So I trust the pieces,

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and I think right now they get a little bit
of it. I'll lean, yes, but I'm not I'm not
sturdy on that leaning. I think the Falcons could end
up being a bit of a you know, house of cards.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
Well compared to the rest of the division.

Speaker 2 (01:30:46):
Like you kinda like look at You're right, like, you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
Know, first on the same side of the Panthers, right.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
So you're out on those two, and you know, losing
car was was it? And then you look at Tampa
and you go, it's so funny because Baker and Cousins,
who squared off, you know, last week and put up
a lot of yards and a lot of offense. They're
you know, they're both very similar type of teams. I

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probably like Tampa's defense a little bit better, uh, and
I like Atlanta's offense a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
Better one hundred per So, if I have to lean
which one of those I trust more? Also, I will
say this, I trust that Baker at this point in
his career is not as likely to make the stupid
throat in a big game. So I would say that
I trust Tampa more than I trust Atlanta. But like
that's a real neck and neck you know, photo finish

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for me.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
Yeah, I think they're both to I, you know, I
kind of both. I kind of like them both in
that sense, you know, like you like Tampa's receivers, you
like Atlanta's run game with you know, Beijon and Algiers.
I do, like you know, Drake London and Mooney's helped.
So I think I just give the Falcons a little

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slight nod because of the run game, but I think
they're very similar. I give the Buccaneers defense a little
the little tag, but clearly that's a two hourst race
in the South in the North.

Speaker 3 (01:32:24):
Obviously, the Lions are you know all that, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
They just they just to me feel elite. They're one
of the few teams that feels elite.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
Yeah, I agree, And they're one of the few teams
that can carve you up. I think their defense has
some questions to answer. Still, they put up some yards,
They've allowed yards to be put upon them, I should say,
I think their defense has some questions in the playoffs,
but also I think that the playoffs like the Lions
clearly inevitably. If we're power ranking the NFC, the Lions

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are are gonna be top two all throughout the course
of this season. And it's no longer just a cute
story that the Lions are who they are. The Lions
look like a legitimate Super Bowl team. I mean, I
think if you're in Detroit, you're looking around saying this,
this might be the best era of Lions football.

Speaker 11 (01:33:16):
We will ever see Oh yeah, oh yeah five and
oh is five and oh legit like you feel like
the five and.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
Oh you know, and they're coming off the London game. Uh,
you gotta you gotta buy this week and then uh
you got the Lions.

Speaker 3 (01:33:39):
That's gonna set up for an amazing game.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
I can't believe it's a one o'clock game Lions and
Vikings in two weeks a week wall a week from tomorrow,
which sets up to be an amazing game.

Speaker 1 (01:33:54):
Dude, if I told everybody coming into the season that
the line that the Vikings would be five and oh
with wins over the Texans, Packers, forty nine Ers and Jets,
as much as those teams were getting love coming into
the season, my god. And yeah are they legit? Hell, yes,
they're legit. And this has nothing to do with Sam Darnald.
I mean, I think the Sam Darnald thing is it's great,

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it's fine, you know, but this has everything to do
with Kevin O'Connell the head coach, and Brian Flora is
the defensive coordinator, who at this point is just he's minnesota'spags,
like he is that guy that is he is putting
every single quarterback in a blender, and I just think
we have to acknowledge that, Like part of why Aaron
Rodgers looked bad against Minnesota is because Minnesota makes everybody

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look bad. CJ. Stroud is supposed to essentially be Jesus right,
like we were just talking about it, Like he walks
our water, he can do anything. He looked bad against Minnesota.
Brian Flores is the hottest coordinator in the NFL right now,
and I just think flow has got them going. I
believe in their defense, I believe in their coaching, I
believe in their talent, and they're getting enough out of

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their quarterback. Even in again, you know, against the Jets
where Sam Darnold wasn't great, they still won that game.
And they won that game pretty convincingly, more convincingly than
the final score indicated. So yeah, I'm a big believer
in Minnesota. Why not Minnesota at this point to be
a Super Bowl contender?

Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
How about then they're in London this week? How about
the three and two Bears?

Speaker 1 (01:35:22):
No, I think the Bears. They're getting better and it's
getting better quickly, or truly, Caleb is getting better quickly.
This offense is getting more explosive quickly. I think they're
going to have a really good game tomorrow morning. But
it's just a little early in the progression for me
to sit there and say, yes, everything is clicked and
I believe in them. I think they're a fun team

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to watch. But do I believe that they're like a
legitimately good football team.

Speaker 3 (01:35:46):
Not yet.

Speaker 2 (01:35:48):
I would agree with that summation. How about the Packers.

Speaker 1 (01:35:54):
I mean, you know how I feel about Jordan Love.
I'm tough on Jordan Love. I know I think the
Packers the pack The success for the Packers to me
throughout the course of the season is going to continue
to be can you get Josh Jacobs more involved in
every single game? Just let Josh Jacobs take over and
take some of this off of a quarterback that I

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do believe is a little inconsistent. So I thought the Packers.
Maybe expectation changes a little bit for me because I
thought the Packers Packers would be a pretty good football team,
and instead they kind of look like an okay and
inconsistent football team. So if Lafleur goes back to calling
the offense the way he did when he was calling
the offense in Tennessee. I would have a lot more

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faith in them. I just think they gotta they just
got to power the rock. More so for me, I'm
sort of mid on the Packers. I don't not believe
in them, but I'm not sitting here doing cartwheels for them.

Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
Yeah, I like him more than you do. I do.

Speaker 2 (01:36:49):
I think they're better and I think they're going to
get better as time goes on too, as the season
on falls.

Speaker 1 (01:36:55):
I think I'd like pretty true. By the way, Yeah,
I think I think you have a better chance of
being right about the Packers by the end of the year.
You know, if I'm just looking at the book report
right now, but I think you're right by the end
of this. You know, Jordan love knocks a little. Whatever
this is off gets hot. At the end of the year,
they can do exactly what well.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
I mean, it was hurt. I mean that was legit
came back, buses come back early. So you know, I
like them, you know, I always do. So I do
think they're better. I will come back. We'll go through
the East and then take a look at the AFC.
As we hang out on this Saturday Fox Sports Saturday,

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Jason fits, I'm Anthony Guard got a mighty mark producing
and engineering. Wearing both hats this morning, as we send
our love to Brianna, our producer who lost a friend,
so we want to make sure she's doing well, send
her our wishes. We're the fellows hanging out right here
Fox Sports Radio. You know every morning, Mark and I

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every Saturday morning when we when you know, I'll tap
in right for my system and uh, you know, connect
into the show, into the station and uh, Mark will go,
you know, we'll do Good Fellows lines.

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
So that's where that song's from. It's from the movie Goodfellas.
How about it?

Speaker 2 (01:38:23):
Mark, Yeah, I took care of that thing for you.

Speaker 1 (01:38:30):
I didn't even know that song was from Goodfellas. Like
that's like Tony Bennett right, like that Rags for Rich
is like that, Yes I know the song, but like
I didn't know it was from Goodfellas show. I'm the
worst with movies, man, Like movies. I've seen a thousand
times that like I always call tour bus movies like
you walk coming down the tour bus. It's on. Nobody
changes the station right, and I still can't quote them.

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I still have no idea, Like.

Speaker 3 (01:38:53):
I was call clicking stick.

Speaker 1 (01:38:55):
Oh, that's better click and stick. I'm gonna keep that
from you. But like, I'm, you know, hanging out with
buddies at the sports bar last night watching the Dodgers game,
and everybody's quoting Dumb and Dumber, which I've seen, I know,
just more times than I can count, and I have
no idea what what scenes are even referencing. I'm just like,
is that from the movie? I don't know, Like I
in one ear out the other. With movies, I love them.

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I am a movie fanatic, but none of it sticks,
none of it retains. I've seen Goodfellows more times than
I can count, and I didn't even know that's why
I was in it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
That's funny, Yeah, I mean, how about it. You're a
real funny guy, Mark fun Now funny. How well you
think I'm a clown.

Speaker 1 (01:39:43):
I'm here to use you, Okay, Okay, that that I
do recognize. I recognize that. That's that's that. I'll give
you that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:49):
Like I'll go to your lines like, yeah, I do obscure.

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
You know, I'm the commandant, I'm the men my date man.

Speaker 2 (01:39:59):
Like we like, I'll sit with my buddy too, chick,
we'll go through movie it doesn't matter what it is
could be. In fact, this week, my kids we watch
Gladiator right because Gladiator Too's coming out and they had
never seen Gladiator the boys, and so you know, I.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
Go, dude, this is the greatest.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
Like, you guys gotta see this. And so we watch
the movie Gladiator because I can't wait Denzel's and Gladiator too,
Like I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:40:31):
Wait for that.

Speaker 1 (01:40:32):
Well, I also can't wait for Gladiator Too. It looks amazing,
but I will, I will tell you. Like you know,
Michael Junior like a brother to me, one of my
best friends. He always talks about how offensive lineman, especially
offensive lineman, but any big big guys in general. But
offensive lineman can quote movies like that's just the skill.
Every offensive line group just sits around and watches movies

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say quote movies all the time. Drives him crazy that
I'm the master of the close quote, Like I'm not
really getting it. I'm just giving you the sort of
the same meaning as the quote, and I'm saying it
confidently like I have no idea. Again, dumb and dumbers,
So like I don't know it. So you're telling me
there's a chancer. So you're saying there's a chance, or
it might be a chance. I don't know. I just
know the basic principle of it. So I'm going to

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quote it in a way that just makes everybody in
the room mad when I try and make it. But
like any movie quote that I give you is going
to be just close enough to piss the whole room off.

Speaker 3 (01:41:24):
Yes, like you can't go not get it right?

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
Like you're yes, I Like, I'm with Junior there, like
you gotta get it right?

Speaker 3 (01:41:34):
You come on, man, come on, Fitzy got everybody?

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
Can I try one more of Fitzy?

Speaker 4 (01:41:41):
Yeah, leave the gun, take the Cannelli.

Speaker 1 (01:41:46):
Nothing I got that?

Speaker 3 (01:41:47):
Oh my god, are you serious?

Speaker 1 (01:41:50):
I got nothing on that.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
But this is oh Paul, you ain't gonna see him
right here no more. The funny thing is it's same
guy said it. Let's see you, Michael. You're not going
to tell that girl you love her? Oh you with
all of my heart.

Speaker 3 (01:42:06):
If I don't see you, Mom'm gonna die.

Speaker 1 (01:42:09):
Yeah, this is what I did, just so everybody understands
exactly how I cheat this, because you would think as
a musician, then I google that an oral learner, No, Like,
I googled the phrase and it brought up the YouTube
on YouTube and brought up the scene. I pull it
up and I'm like, oh, I do remember that, Yes,
I know that scene. That's but yeah, my god, yeah
that's you sausage and peppers.

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
Ah man, think you trailing a little wine? Clemenza is
the is the is the character in the Good and
uh Mighty. Mark's talking about the Godfather, the god take
the canoleys.

Speaker 1 (01:42:49):
Okay, you've done the thing.

Speaker 4 (01:42:50):
Now, now what do you do?

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
Well, I sit down and finish my dinner. Here's no
way he's going to know that.

Speaker 1 (01:42:55):
No nothing, no, no no idea, no no idea. And
here I was thinking that my demarkman is playing like
a little old school because I love me some Sinatra,
like at this time of years, when it starts to
like really ramp up that that style of music, I
thought you were just playing like Neil little Rags to riches.
And I was like I like this, Like I like,
you know, we could, we could, we could mess with
this vibe. And it turns out it's from a movie.

Speaker 3 (01:43:17):
Who knew, Yeah, from yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:43:20):
A movie? Just like like it's a movie, I know,
you know, Like look right now, if it's not from
terrifire three. I don't know. Okay, that's just what happens.
And even then, I still don't know what am I
talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
No, I respect that coming up. I got a little
I gotta. I got a Halloween move. I have a
buddy of mine who was in UH film and television,
and he thought, we do a segment on my local
show each week and UH for movie and TV. So
he came up with his five, his top five vampire movies.

Speaker 1 (01:43:54):
Oh so give me yours, all right, I'll think on that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:58):
Yeah, okay, right, think thick on that. But first, let's
get the update.

Speaker 7 (01:44:05):
Major League Baseball. The NLDS Game five, winner take all
on Friday, Dodgers and Padres, and it's LA advancing to
the NLCS.

Speaker 8 (01:44:16):
Here's the pitch, Tanti swings chopping a third back head
pick by her.

Speaker 1 (01:44:21):
No, there's the dow the dole In brother.

Speaker 9 (01:44:27):
Fireworks go off and straight away center field as the Dodgers.

Speaker 1 (01:44:32):
Shut out the Padres. Hitting back to that game.

Speaker 7 (01:44:36):
That was Steven Nelson on FSR affiliate KLAC and the
Dodgers radio network LA getting both of their runs off
of solo home runs from Key k and Ti Oscar Hernandez,
helping back five scoreless innings by Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the bullpen
adding four more scoreless innings to get LA their second
shutout in a row, and they have the Padres scoreless

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for the final twenty four innings of this series. As
the Dodgers advance to play the New York Mets in
the NLCS, Game one set for Sunday evening, first pitch
at eight o'clock Eastern time. The American League Division Series
still going on. We got a game five on Saturday,
Tigers and Guardians. As that game has been pushed up

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to one o'clock Eastern time, so early afternoon start time
there because of inclement weather. They're trying to get the
game in before the rain comes in. In college football,
we did have a ranked team playing on Friday, number sixteen.
Utah falls to Arizona State twenty seven to nineteen. Northwestern
a blowout win against Maryland thirty seven to ten, and

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the Running Rebels run away with it against Utah State
UNLV fifty to thirty four winners against the Aggies.

Speaker 2 (01:45:49):
Back to you guys, al right, buddy, we are the
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We're going through teams that we believe in in the league, right,
going to division by division. We're almost through the NFC.
Let's go to back to the NFC East. Giants win

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last week in Seattle, No eleak neighbors, right, so you're
out the best player and they go in and they win.
And you know again, I know that Seattle was lining
up for a game winning field goal. Giants block it,
take it the other way, score a touchdown, win twenty
nine to twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:46:32):
But the Giants defense playing.

Speaker 2 (01:46:36):
Well, and the Giants offensive line right down at their
third string running back and Tracy guys one hundred and
twenty nine yards because that line was blocking.

Speaker 3 (01:46:47):
I'll ask you, do you believe in the Giants?

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
No? No, But that's also because I have a bias
of not believing in Daniel Jones still at this point,
like I, I, you're right everything you just said, but man,
I got one game. I don't trust Ao Jones. So no,
I don't believe in them, but they are better than
I thought they would be, like substantially better than I
thought they would be.

Speaker 2 (01:47:09):
Now we talk about we'll say them for last. We
talk about the Cowboys a lot. No, Michael, last week
they win. Now it was kind of an ugly, ugly
win for sure, against a pretty anemic offense in Pittsburgh.

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The Cowboys flaws are still the same, but I just
don't know that they have enough firepower and I don't
know how good their defense is. So I'll ask you,
if you believe them, you believe that they were a
big win team or a twelve win team before the season,
where are you at with him now?

Speaker 1 (01:47:51):
I would like Jerry Jones to write me a check
for all of the money I have lost because I've
given up on the Cowboys this season. I do not
believe in them at all. And I can't explain why
because everything that you have said all summer about the
one dimensional offense, my answer to that has been one
dimensional has never held them back. It has always been fine.

(01:48:13):
This year, it is not fine. So you know, I
think it is fair to say that the absolute everything
looks disjointed this year. It doesn't look like I thought
it would. I stand by the math and the logic
of why I thought it would be fine. It isn't.
I don't trust right now that their offense can sustain anything.
I don't trust right now that they're going to be

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able to score on great teams. And I don't trust that.
I don't care about one game. I don't trust that
they're suddenly going to figure out how to stop the
run consistently against a good team. I think if you
want to beat the Cowboys, all you got to do
in January is line up and run the ball on
him fifty times. And a good team is going to
do that and be able to execute it. So no,
I do not trust the Cowboys at all.

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
I agree with you. I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
And maybe my argument was that they were substantially worse
and their skill people this year that you know, Tony
Polter might not have been Tony Dorsett, but he's a
lot better than than Dowble and a lot better than
you know what they got down.

Speaker 3 (01:49:14):
The hunt year old Zeke.

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
I mean, you know, he was way better than that,
and they were and Cooks was younger, and they just
had a little it to scoch More. I'm still shocked
that they came in with this group. I just don't
even know what they're all thinking about Eagles. Do you
buy the Eagles? Two and two? They had to buy
last week. They're healthy. Now this will be a big

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test for him because they kind of languished offensively. They've
had a couple of bad losses when they were healthy.
They finally have aj Brown, DeVante Smith, and right tackle
Lane Johnson back in the fold.

Speaker 3 (01:49:52):
So their offense should be really good.

Speaker 2 (01:49:55):
And this is the offensive put that got you in
the thirties in the Week one against the Packers Brazil.
They're playing a good defense in the Browns, but the
Browns offense is just trash juice led by Deshaun Watson,
who right now is clueless at the position.

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
Where do you feel about the Eagles? Do you buy
the Eagles?

Speaker 1 (01:50:21):
So, by the way, I'll give you my thoughts on
Deshaun in a little bit when we get to the Browns. No.
So here's where I am with the Eagles. I want
to buy the Eagles, but I also think that this
is one of those moments where I just you're right,
they should be healthy and they should kick butt and
they should all look great, and I just want to
see it because we haven't, you know, And I think
It's fair to turn around and say, if the Eagles

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play really well this weekend, healthy and we see the
version of the Eagles we think we can see, then yes,
I'm buying the Eagles. If not, they've just been the injuries,
and I just said earlier, don't miss me with any
injury conversation. The injuries they have have been so significant
to their identity. I hate that word, but it has
been so significant to the way that they play football.

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I just don't know how we can have much of
a sensehet on where they are.

Speaker 3 (01:51:06):
So, you know, including the AJ Brown is one of
the best.

Speaker 2 (01:51:12):
However, in fairness to you, I don't believe in the
defense at all. Their defense has been bad. Their front
seven has been non existent. They can't get any pressure
on the quarterback. I don't know how you're a true
contender if you can't get pressure from your front and

(01:51:34):
I think they got major issue on their front. Even
if they get the offense fix. The offense, no doubt,
can be dynamic when you got Barkley and you got
AJ Brown and Devonte Smith and if and Jalen who could.

Speaker 3 (01:51:48):
Still be really good.

Speaker 2 (01:51:51):
I mean, he's his issue is he's been late at times,
and he's been turnover prone, but like that offense still
has a chance to be really, really good. How about Washington.
We talked about Washington now. The offense feels legit. The offense,
I mean, Jane Daniels is terrific. Do you believe in

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in the complete of Washington? Is Washington now your favorite
to win that division?

Speaker 1 (01:52:21):
They are not my favorite to win the divisions, but
I do believe in the way that they are. I
believe in in the football that they're playing. So I
don't believe in them defensively. Let me say it this way,
and this may feel like a cop out, but I
think you'll buy me here. Belief is different for a
team that had huge expectations. So when I say I

(01:52:43):
don't believe in the Cowboys, it's because I thought the
Cowboys would win twelve games. So what do I trust now?
The Commanders are in so many ways just like the
Texans were, right, like the Commanders are that team that
at this point is like, well, part of why I
believe them is because my expectations were so low, and
the Commander's winning nine or ten games would be a

(01:53:05):
huge win for Washington. So you know, I believe in
their ability to do that. So I think that they've
shown that they are a far better team than I
thought they would be. I believe that Washington is a
playoff team this year, and I don't think the wheels
are going to fall off on that as long as
Jayden Daniels stays healthy. It's just the way that the turnaround.
And this is maybe the most stunning part to me

(01:53:26):
is that all we talk about now for the first
time in years with Washington is football. Like we're not
talking about ownership, we're not talking about the coach, we're
not talking about any We're just talking about the team
on the field. And like the fact that we've gotten
there so fast, which Aiden Daniels just shows you how
for every fan base right now that since there it
says my favorite team sucks, you got to require my

(01:53:48):
team's never gonna win the game until my owner has
to sell. I hear that all the time from people.
It's like, until this Paul mask to sell this football team,
they're never gonna win games, exactly the same thing they
said about the Texans. They're fine, you know, and I
know Washington was sold, but like, let's get it real here.
You get your quarterback, you get your coach, you can
be just fine. And that second straight year we have

(01:54:09):
an indication of that. It's wild to me.

Speaker 2 (01:54:11):
Yeah, yeah, now I feel you on that. All right,
let's take time out, we'll come back. We'll go to
the AFC as we continue real or for Gayzy FITZI,
because hanging right here in Fox Sports Radio, take it away, FITZI.

Speaker 1 (01:54:28):
Let me tell you something. If this doesn't make you
want to run out and buy a record player, like
some things just were meant to be played on vinyl,
I'm not snob with this. You give me that little
hiss of an album being played on vinyl and it's
got that Sinatra vi. Oh. By the way, this is
also a reminder my our buddy El Duncan. A long

(01:54:49):
time ago, I was sitting at this place called the Butterfly.
It's karaoke place in Hartford, and there was a guy
standing up singing my Way, and I remember Elle looking
at me saying, why do you guys always sing this?
Because I was the only white guy in the room
other than the guy singing my Way, I was like,
why do you guys always sing this? And my answer
was because it's awesome. You know, there's just something about

(01:55:10):
Sinatra that just works. Karaoke. Get me my way, I'll
go in, I'll crush it, and then I'll walk out
of the room. It's just oh so good, so good. Look,
Mighty Mark's got me in my feels this morning, like
toe tapping, just smiling, ear to ear. God, this is
the way to start a football Saturday. Oh Frank it is.

Speaker 3 (01:55:28):
Yeah, Mighty Mark is the best.

Speaker 2 (01:55:30):
We love them all right, Let's go to the AFC
the reel of for gays or we believe it. In
these teams, you kind of crystallize after this period. Right
as we enter a week six, we kind of get
an idea now of who's who. I can't believe her?
A week six already slow with them and bleeped down. Man,

(01:55:50):
this is what I hate. It goes by too fast.
Let's start with in the East. Well, can THEAYFC East
right off the Patriot It's right off to Dolphins, I mean,
the Jets in Sala and the news.

Speaker 3 (01:56:07):
I mean, can that thing get fixed? No?

Speaker 1 (01:56:12):
It just can't. And I think it's funny that everybody thinks, oh, well,
firing Nathaniel Hacketts. Look, I understand that bringing in an
interim coach has worked for even my beloved Raiders. Rich
Pasacia and then Antonio Pierce both managed to turn them
around the way those teams felt. Those were bad football
teams that were making a run to the playoffs. If

(01:56:32):
your expectation is a super Bowl, if you truly believe
you are in a super Bowl window, like this is
your year right now? When is an interim coach ever
delivered that result? And now eve an interim coach with
a new play caller, everything is changing. You're basically handing
it all over to Aaron Rodgers. You're begging Aaron to
be happy because if he leaves after this year, boy,

(01:56:54):
the salary cap ramifications are significant. You're trying to figure
this thing out right now. I hear it, everybody say DeVante, DeVante, DeVante. Okay,
maybe figure out how to make the most out of
Garrett Wilson first thirteen catches last week where they're forcing
him the ball at depth the target of like eight
nine yards, Like what are we doing? Like so you
think bringing in another receiver when you're not using the

(01:57:15):
one you have is the way to fix this?

Speaker 3 (01:57:16):
Come on, I agree, Bills, I.

Speaker 1 (01:57:23):
Think real, I think we're all a little uncomfortable with
you know, who is that guy that he can force
the ball to to get that third and six I
talked about earlier. I think we're all a little bit
uncomfortable with that. But I think the Bills are real,
don't you.

Speaker 2 (01:57:36):
Yeah, I like Buffalo. I believe in the run game,
and I believe that. Listen because I believe in Alan
and you know, I like their tight ends. I'm fine
with Bills. I think the Bills are fine. Let's go
to South Man. The South is really interesting. It looks

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like Jacksonville, looks like Doug is Doug Peterson's the next
one to go.

Speaker 1 (01:58:05):
Yeah, and then the question is how many coaches will
Trevor Lawrence get fired before people start to look at
Trevor Lawrence. I don't nobody wants to ask questions about Trevor.
But let's be real culture pretender. The Titans are for
gay Zy that and then obviously I think the Jags
are The Jags are a joke at.

Speaker 2 (01:58:22):
This point, I know, I know, I actually think the
Jag The Titans beat the Colts tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (01:58:31):
Even with Will Levis injured, Like Will Levis is still
the Titans quarterback and I think they win that game.
That is crazy. I mean, he's objectively terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:58:41):
Where the fellas will come back. We'll continue the conversation
next right here. Fox Sports Radio. Well, good morning, good morning,
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It is October to twelfth. Right here, Jason Fitz, Anthony

(01:59:02):
garg great stuff. Last night in baseball, Dodgers out last
to Pods.

Speaker 3 (01:59:08):
Oh my god, what a series.

Speaker 2 (01:59:12):
Pods come out raking and then the Dodgers thirteen pitchers
of the last two games, both shutouts to take the
series and have a showdown Mets and Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (01:59:26):
We're gonna go through it all.

Speaker 2 (01:59:28):
We got lots to get through all hour today Yankees
of course, await the winner of Guardians Tigers Schoolbull on
the mound for the Tigers in Cleveland. That game moved
up on to one o'clock because of weather. That should
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one popping up as soon as we're done. All right, buddy,
lots to do. We're just talking about it, just to
restart it. The Dodgers and Padres last night just incredible theater, right,
and you could just smell it, smell the desperation with
the Padres.

Speaker 1 (02:00:49):
Yeah, and the ability for the calm to sort of
come over the Dodgers in that same situation. Just I
continued to think back to how much tension there was
in that game, and not just in night. I think
we're used to ninth inning tension. It felt like that
game was tense by the middle of the fourth, right,

(02:01:11):
like everybody was just everybody started to breathe a little
more shallow. I loved what you said earlier, turned the
bats into sawdust. It just it felt like there were
so many moments here, and frankly, those were the moments
that if I'm being real, I'm watching and I'm thinking,
you know what, we're about to have show hey, moment,
show Hey, He's about to go out there and do
something incredible, and he didn't, you know, and they hit

(02:01:32):
the meat of that lineup repeatedly where it was like, Okay,
you know what, everything's gonna be fine because you got
show Hey and Mookie, they're gonna they're gonna get something
going here, and they didn't. And I thought it was
just such a back and forth, heavyweight bout of big
punches being landed by both pitching staffs. I just that
was really the beautiful art in that matchup. Was that

(02:01:53):
that everything about that game just felt like the chess
match between pitchers and hitters was being won by the
pitchers repeatedly and the hitters had no answer. I'm I'm
still stunned by how much we saw great pitching take
out great superstars in one game.

Speaker 2 (02:02:09):
Yeah, I mean, I'll be honest with you too, Like,
especially after the way the series began, you know, the
series began, I mean San Diego was.

Speaker 3 (02:02:18):
Raking. I mean they have a terrific lineup.

Speaker 2 (02:02:21):
Our eyes Tatis who was hot early, right Profar Machado.
I mean they come at Jackson Merrill, who's one of
the great young stars of the game, who's had some
great moments in the postseason in the Wildcard round against
Atlanta and then early on against the Dodgers.

Speaker 3 (02:02:41):
Certainly in Game two when.

Speaker 2 (02:02:43):
I'm shocked when they're up to one, I thought it
was a rap man, And I'll be honest with me.

Speaker 3 (02:02:50):
We talked about this. I know you're a five game
series guy.

Speaker 2 (02:02:52):
This is where I want to see a seven game series,
like I want to see this game because chances are
that game that series goes set.

Speaker 3 (02:03:00):
I like to see these teams keep going at it.

Speaker 2 (02:03:02):
But it was, uh, it really was shocking how the
Padres and I just think they grew tight.

Speaker 10 (02:03:08):
Man.

Speaker 2 (02:03:09):
It's you're right, like you could start to feel it.
The pressure becomes palpable right around the third fourth inning
early and it's like one run feels like five. I mean,
pitching is so ahead of hitting right now.

Speaker 3 (02:03:30):
It was funny.

Speaker 2 (02:03:31):
I brought my friend of mine earlier to you, David Segee,
who played thirteen years in the major leagues.

Speaker 3 (02:03:36):
He is he's a great hitting guy.

Speaker 2 (02:03:39):
And we were talking about, you know, some of these
series and you saw Baltimore go out early, you saw
the Phillies go out, and it's their approach just not
not good approach, Like the idea of just trying to
hit home runs and launch agles. That just doesn't work
in the playoffs and not against these pitch these this pitching.

(02:04:01):
I mean, look at the Mets. One of the great
story of the Mets is they are a pesky squad man,
like they'll manufacture runs. The Tigers are on the brick
of beating the Guardians because they manufacture runs, move runners
over right, less than two outs, a runner on third,

(02:04:22):
they get the run home.

Speaker 1 (02:04:24):
It's interesting the way you say that with the Tigers,
because that's it's funny that simple advancer runners. Baseball has
become plucky, you know what I mean, Like that's become
this is a gritty team and it's like all they're
doing is just advancing runners. And it's so simple when
you hear it said that way, it's so difficult to
do though, I mean, how often do we see and.

Speaker 2 (02:04:44):
It's really not it's not if you sure, if you
have a correct approach it's not as difficult, but if
you're trying to do that with a launch angle, it's difficult,
Like you can't. Like, here's the difference mod in the
last five to seven years. They don't shorten your swing

(02:05:06):
on with two strikes. There's no two strike approach. It's
because strikeouts were deemed okay by the analytics. They don't
shorten their structure. Taught not to shorten their strokes, which
is ridiculous because we all know that you need to
put the ball in play. Like in the playoffs, it's
amplified like you got to put the ball in play.

Speaker 1 (02:05:29):
It's funny you mentioned the analytics, and you know, I
wonder at what point, because that's part of your identity.
You can't just change going from regular season baseball to
playoff baseball. You're not suddenly changing the way you approach
every at bat. Like it's just not realistically. You're not
changing your you know, to your point lounch angles and
swing approach. It is going to be interesting over time

(02:05:49):
if the analytics bear out that, hey, maybe there's a
different way to do this, Maybe there's a better way
to do this that actually leads to you know, sustained
playoff success because you're right, and in a copycat league,
let's face it, how many teams are looking at it
and saying, okay, well what did the Dodgers do? What
are the Mets doing that's getting them where they are
right now? How many teams that are looking at it

(02:06:09):
and saying, hey, this might be our path to success.
It does become interesting.

Speaker 2 (02:06:14):
It's all the analytics is pushed everything toward the home
run right right right, So it's like, well, you know,
just go for home runs. So that's why launch angle
was pushed because you were trying to hit home runs.
And because you were trying to hit home runs, the
analytics where well, it doesn't matter if you strike out,

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because if you hit a home run one out of.

Speaker 3 (02:06:39):
Every six at bats, I don't know, I'm just making
up a number. It'll prove worth it.

Speaker 2 (02:06:45):
But the problem that thinking is in the playhoffs that
doesn't that's not the case, man, Like you got it. Like,
there's some basic tenets of every sport we're talking about
baseball now that works, which is move a runner over,
go from first to third, right, hit behind, if you
got if you got two one, then nobody out hit

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the ball on the right side and get to get
them the second and third and they hit a ground ball,
don't strike out, give me ground ball and I got
a run. I mean, that's what the Tigers are doing
that the Mets. The Mets approach at the plate was
really good.

Speaker 3 (02:07:24):
They're really I mean, they're they're approach. They're tough outs.

Speaker 2 (02:07:28):
The big home runs, but they've been they've been, they've
been burned down. They grind out of bats, the Mets.

Speaker 1 (02:07:35):
But then you balance that with the Dodgers, who produced
the majority of their runs from home runs, right, Like,
that's just so, which, yeah, I guess it's just however
you're bilt to be able to handle it. But the
Dodgers walls.

Speaker 2 (02:07:46):
You had the Dodgers payroll, you can do that, right,
I mean, but but that said, the Phillies have the
same payroll and they didn't didn't work out for them.

Speaker 1 (02:07:58):
There's that's every bat, every at bat is risk reward
if you're going for that strategy, right, which means every
playoff series becomes risk reward. You know, the reward is
the Dodgers. The risk is the Phillies in this situation,
and you know, if you're comfortable living and dying on
that hill. I guess it works, but man, I do

(02:08:18):
like seeing another way to get it done. And again
we'll relate it to every sport. You know, the fact
is we live in a spread offense society that wants
to turn everything into a passing down in every situation
at every level of football. Which is why I think
there's power in seeing teams like Baltimore come in and say,
from these spreads, we're gonna run, and we're going to
run effectively and hard, and people aren't going to be

(02:08:38):
prepared to stop it. Like you got to have more
than one way to skin a cat, right, So you know,
maybe maybe at least the Dodgers and Mets give hope
to a different way to skin a cat. The question
is just what happens next. Like, let's presume I should
say thet the Tigers and the Mets, not the Dodgers
in the Mets. So you presume this moves forward. You know,
if you have a team that patiently in the playoffs

(02:09:00):
turns around and just advances the runner like you said,
and wins a World Series, then everybody's gonna turn around
and say that's the way you do it. If the
Dodgers turned around and win a World Series. And the
answer is gonna be, let's just keep hitting the long
ball whenever and however we can.

Speaker 2 (02:09:12):
Because yeah, but I don't know that that's I don't
know that that's the case, right, Like, honestly, I don't
really know that that's the case. The Dodgers out last
to the Padres. I mean, I can't tell you how
they did it using thirteen pitchers. I mean, and I
think it's more of a case of the Padres growing tight,

(02:09:33):
like they they were tight. Their bats weren't good. They
didn't have a good approach last night. The last two games.
They're not jumping, they're not You got to think your
way through things when you're looking at the mount, like
what's he thrown?

Speaker 3 (02:09:48):
When? What's my approach? You know?

Speaker 2 (02:09:51):
I mean, And and everybody, here's the thing, especially when
you're using that many pictures. And I'll get a little
inside baseball, and I promise I'll get out of it.
But everybody's taught to hit off the fastball, right like
you hit off the you like you're gonna hunt fastball.
But now pitchers are smart pictures. Go, I'm not giving in,

(02:10:16):
So you gotta hit. You gotta start looking the better
depending on who's on the mound looking breaking we're looking
off speed or looking change up right, looking breaking pitch
or looking change up like you you you can't just
hunt fastballs because you're not going to get them.

Speaker 1 (02:10:35):
I mean we saw that last night, just repeatedly. The
amount of time that it was eighty three, eighty two,
eighty one. Like, there were a lot of speed stuff,
which which I thought, you know, frankly.

Speaker 3 (02:10:47):
Would you throw Maddie Machado a fastball?

Speaker 1 (02:10:49):
And no, God, no, no, never, right, were you gonna.

Speaker 3 (02:10:52):
Throw tatis one? No?

Speaker 2 (02:10:54):
Right, You're not doing that. So you're you're gonna live
on the tightrope and you're gonna try to catch. I've
been using this all week, pitched with Guile. That's how
the Mets won the Mets one with Guile, Menaya and
Quintana and Peterson out of a bullpen.

Speaker 3 (02:11:11):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:11:12):
They won by you know, keeping the Phillies hitters off
balance and not giving them fastballs so they could drive them.
Look at the biggest hit in that series was Lindor right,
and you know what happened in that and that at
that the Phillies had their closer in bases loaded, he
throws fire. He threw Lindor four straight fastballs, four straight gassers.

(02:11:38):
Now he throws one hundred God bless them. But a
guy like Lindor, Francisco Lindor will be able to catch
up to one hundred and one mile an hour fastball
when you give it to him for the fourth time
in a row.

Speaker 3 (02:11:53):
He's a great hitter.

Speaker 2 (02:11:55):
He'll adapt, he'll catch up to it, and then he'll
deposit it like he did.

Speaker 1 (02:11:59):
That makes sense to you, yeah, one hundred percent. But
what you're part of, what you're talking about here that
I think is really interesting is a patient approach. You know,
we started this out talking about a patient approach to
the at bat. It also feels like you need to
have a patient approach as a pitcher too, Like you know, hey,
we're just gonna see this thing out. Like there there
is a level of the natural instinct is I'm gonna

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throw my hardest and you're not going to be able
to hit it. Like that's that's just a never level
of natural instinct. But what you're talking about is much
more of a hey, we're gonna take this really super
patient approach. I'm going to extend this at bet, I'm
not going to give you what you want. I'm going
to figure out a way to force you to be
off the entire time. Like that just takes the different
It's almost counterintuitive, but if you can get somebody to

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do that, you can have a ton of success.

Speaker 2 (02:12:43):
It's called pitching backwards. But that's what And again it's
funny because my man Nikki just checked chimes in and
says analytics is a hindrance for postseason success success because
in the playoffs, every pitch is purposely thrown to neutralize
the batter. And he's right, like that, that's why you

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have to You can't just hit off the fastball because
you're not gonna get a fastball. So you have to
lock in. You gotta what you gotta do. And it
was funny because I was having this conversation with Sagi
and another great baseball guy, Charlie Manuel, which is you
got to cut off half the plate, like you gotta
spit on anything that comes at any other part of

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the play Like you got to pick your pick, your's
part of the plate that you want to attack and
anything that's like, so if it's the inside the middle
end you're gonna stay there, or if it's on the
outside of the plate, you're gonna stay there and you're
gonna spit on everything else.

Speaker 3 (02:13:43):
So you gotta look for that. Like that's the mindset
going in.

Speaker 1 (02:13:48):
It's it's funny the way you say that, because again,
I'll go back to what we saw in the broadcast
last night, where you saw they were breaking on the
pitches and they were stopping to show you that the
motion was the exact same, but then we were getting
pitches of wildly different location and speed from that exact
same spot, which was making it incredibly difficult for the
batters to figure out what was coming and how it

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was coming. To all of that, it speaks to if
you're going to if you can accomplish that level of
knowing exactly where you're throwing or what you're hitting for,
it hits differently. I don't even think, and I keep
going back to show Hey, it felt like there were
times there were at bats last night where Showhy was impatient.
It just felt like they were at bats where he
was swinging and stuff that didn't any sense, And you know,

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it is just there's this moment in that and I
don't know if it's tight as you say, for either side,
but they're definitely in last night's matchup, felt like there
were times where there just suddenly weren't. They weren't doing
what made sense, And like, I don't know if that's
tight in the moment.

Speaker 2 (02:14:48):
Or that's what That's what happens when you grip the bat.
That's what happens when you grip the bat, and that's
what happens. Also, like again, you're not getting if you're
Madda Chado or your tat Tea or your show a
no pitcher is gonna give you fastballs. You think you're
getting cookies. This isn't July, right, Like the guys are

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gonna be every pitch is carefully procured, right, Like that's
what it is, like, you're not getting that stuff. I'm
not going to gamble and try to sneak a first
pitch fastball by it.

Speaker 1 (02:15:21):
That's it's it's just wild to me when you're seeing
this many pitchers and you're seeing this many pitches in
this like just the amount of absolutely in a world,
in a world where we've done everything we possibly can
to speed up baseball. I kept thinking last night how
difficult it has to be for everybody involved that we've

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sped up this game and now like we're asking everybody
to slow it down internally while we're speeding up what
they're seeing and just the rotation of pitchers that they're
seeing in the process of doing it. I'm telling you
it's it's pretty mind blowing. It's not as simple as
just step up to the plate and hit a ball,
and it's I think so often in society we make
it about that, especially casuals like me make it buch,
just get up there, need to get a hit. The

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chess match of all of this was pretty wild.

Speaker 2 (02:16:05):
Well, that's the thing that I truly I love about
the sport is the chess match of it, right, like
the pitcher versus the hitter. There was a great I
highly recommend you google Greg Maddox. It was Maddox and Bigio. Yeah,

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I think it was Craig Bigio. Anyway, the story is
it is the Braves are winning eight nothing right, and
he has a meeting with Hobvey Lopez catcher and he's like,
you're talking about how they pitch each guy, and I

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want to say it's Bugio. I think it was Busio
or Kevin Edti, one of the power guys, and he's
like he likes the ball up all right, like up
and up and inside, and Maddox serves it up. He
serves up a home run. It was a meaningless home

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run because there were a winning eight one and Habby
Lopez goes, dude, why did you do that? Why you
like why because maddixs Andy hit his spots no matter what.
So Maddix goes, yeah, there's gonna be a time when
I it's a two.

Speaker 3 (02:17:27):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:17:27):
It was like an one to two pitch. I forget
the account, but the count was like one two or
whatever it was. He's like, he's going to be expecting
that same pitch because we're gonna see him again in
the playoffs. So in other words, he set him up
from a regular season game in August to the playoffs
and the same thing happened, and he struck him out

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on the pitch. It was it's unbelievable. You gotta watch it.
It's it's talks. It's it's really about the chess match,
about each guy. It's what I it's what I think
is the most interesting part of the game itself is
that in that you know back and forth. Yeah, and

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we saw I'm sorry if I went down this base I.

Speaker 1 (02:18:11):
Love every answer to this because, like for the world,
it might be listening to us the first time you're
a seam head, I'm not. And for me, last night was,
you know, as as fun as some of the baseball
has been, last night was eye opening in the way.
It's just it captured it captured the sport. It captured
me better, captured me more. I find myself today juiced
for baseball in the way that I haven't been in years.

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So you know, I love every answer to this.

Speaker 2 (02:18:35):
Yeah, it's fun, and I'm late like the teams like
the Tigers and Cleveland. I mean, that's a good game.
Five in Cleveland. I love this kid school b man,
He's terrific. And then Matts Dodgers is classic. Right, so
you're gonna have two classic matchups in both the NLCS
and the a l c S.

Speaker 3 (02:18:52):
All right, we'll come back and we'll go through. Let's
go through the NFL card for tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:18:58):
And then we got to couple of the big college
games that we already talked about. The will touch one again.
Ohio State and Oregon is the big one. Oh Miss
LSU also Big Penn State USC and the Red River rivalry.
That's right, Texas viewers, back at the Helm for the Horns.

Speaker 3 (02:19:19):
We'll get into that as well.

Speaker 2 (02:19:20):
Where the fellas hanging out with you every week right
here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, fellas.
Let's do a quick update and then we'll get to
all the games.

Speaker 3 (02:19:34):
Go through the card. Give you some picks where we
got my man.

Speaker 1 (02:19:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (02:19:39):
Major League Baseball NLDS Game five on Friday saw the
Dodgers beat the Padres two nothing for the second straight
shutout win for Los Angeles. Actually held the Padres scoreless
for the final twenty four innings of that series, as
the Dodgers claim at three games to two. They advanced
to the National League Championship Series, where they will face

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the New York Mets beginning Sunday. Game one in Los
Angeles set for eight o'clock Eastern time. The American League
Division Series gonna take place later this afternoon. Game five
between the Guardians and Tigers set to get going at
one o'clock Eastern time. That game had been moved up
because of possible inclement weather in the area, So they're

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gonna try to get that game in before the game
could possibly be affected. And in college football, we did
have a ranked team in action on Friday, number sixteen,
Utah losing Arizona State twenty seven to nineteen. So the
Sun Devil is now five and one on the season.
Two in one in a Big twelve play, Northwestern a

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blot win at Maryland thirty seven to ten, and UNLV
bouncing back from their loss to improve to six and
one on the season a fifty to thirty four win
against Utah State.

Speaker 2 (02:20:59):
Back to you guys, all right, buddy, here it is
as we get ready. Don't forget, by the way, after
us count down the kickoff brought to you by bet MGM.
As the guys will get ready take a look at
the game from a betting standpoint, we'll do the same

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right now.

Speaker 3 (02:21:22):
Let's go for it.

Speaker 2 (02:21:24):
Let's start with the college card today, FITZI, we got
a couple of good ones.

Speaker 1 (02:21:31):
Man.

Speaker 3 (02:21:32):
Let's start with the Red River rivalry.

Speaker 2 (02:21:34):
So it's Texas Oklahoma and Texas fifteen.

Speaker 3 (02:21:39):
I think we both like the Longhorns, right yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:21:42):
I like the Longhorse and I like the Longhorns cover here.
It's just there's just too many ways they can beat
you quin Youewers comes back, Let's see how he looks
in this game. Oklahoma's defense is good, as we've talked about,
but Texas is good everywhere. And I just man, it's
asking a lot of a freshman quarterback for Oklahoma to
come in and really be a difference maker in this game.
So I think Texas wins, Texas roles and continues to

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be the number one team in the country.

Speaker 2 (02:22:05):
Yeah, Penn State in a game that they need desperately,
and I like them today. I think they match up
against USC and Penn State needs it. They're the fourth
ranked team in the country. We both said, they don't
smell like number four in the country. This is good
a chance for them, I think, to solidify a playoff spot.

Speaker 3 (02:22:24):
So we'll see if Franklin and Aler can get it done.

Speaker 1 (02:22:28):
Also, let's remind everybody that while they're the fourth ranked
team in the country, the way the College Football Playoff
Committee is going to do things, this is important. Remember
that the playoffs, the top four conference champions get automatic
first round bys and home games, and then the fifth
seed goes to the next highest ranked conference champion from
the group of five. So Penn State right now, even

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though they're number four, every game matters for them because,
let's face it, if they don't win their conference, and
right now, I think it's pretty fair to say that
both Ohio State and Oregon would be favored over them.
Everything is about playoff seating. So even the number four
team right now, best case scenario as it stands right
now is probably a seven or eight seed in the playoffs.
So you want to get the better seating in the

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home game. Penn State's got to win games like this.
We don't talk yet about why there's consequence to some
of these wins and losses regular season, but playoff seating
at the end of this, considering how many good teams
there are in the SEC, how many good teams there
are in the Big Ten, playoff seating is gonna matter.
I don't think you can take a loss to a
USC team that frankly as they're back against their wall.
But you know, USC team that's already lost two conference games.

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I mean, Penn State needs come up and keep up
with what the rest of the conference is doing. To USC.
They need a West Coast win here.

Speaker 2 (02:23:37):
Yeah, yeah, I'm hunder percent with you, man, and you
got a little bit Tennight's Great Man.

Speaker 3 (02:23:45):
Tonight is some good stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:23:47):
Florida Tennessee at seven Eastern, four Pacific, Tennessee fourteen and
a half against the Gators.

Speaker 1 (02:23:56):
I take Tennessee and I take the over on this.
I think Tennessee is going to try and get the
stink of what Nico Yamlava did last week. Nico is
a is a kid playing quarterback. He's a freshman. You
could see that he's a kid playing quarterback right like
if anyone didn't see the last play of the game,
He's running around, tried to make a play, doesn't even

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throw the ball to the end zone, just runs out
of pounds. It's like he didn't realize there was zero
seconds left on the clock. Didn't even give us team
a chance to win the game. He had a forgettable game.
I think that they try and use this Florida matchup
to get a little bit of his confidence back. He
puts up some big yards. I still believe in Nico
ilama Java.

Speaker 2 (02:24:32):
Yeah, I was just gonna say thing. I think this
is one of real volves. Get ready because next week's
a big week. So I think they I think they
this is a primer form Ohio State Oregon. We talked
a lot about that game. That is a great, great,
great game. Ohio State minus three. Brad likes Oregon in

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a game you and I are going to buck the brain.

Speaker 3 (02:24:56):
We both like Ohio State.

Speaker 1 (02:25:00):
Yeah, and look, I'd love for Dylan Gabriel to come
in and play really smart, good football. But you know,
I keep telling people, don't just read the stat line
on Dylan Gabriel, go back and watch. He's made some
dangerous throws, some bad throws last week in the red zone,
two stupid throws against Michigan State. And that's not the
first time. Like every week, I feel like we're sitting

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there saying, this is gonna be the week that Oregon
shows us exactly who they are. And I don't know
that we've seen four great quarters of football against a
valuable opponent yet this year for Oregon. So you know,
the fact is Ohio State also beat up on Michigan State.
So if we want transit of property, there it is.
And Ohio State went in and used Iowa, which is
not the Iowa the last few years, but still good.
They used Iowa like they were tackling dummies and it

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was a running game practice. So you know, I think
Ohio State's gonna come in and just they're going to
try and force Oregon to stop the run, and then
they're gonna throw to the outside in good matchup. So
I wish I had a different outcome here because I
picked Oregon to win the Natty in the preseason. But
right now, as we sit today, I think Ohio State
wins this game, and frankly three points to something I'm
pretty comfortable with.

Speaker 2 (02:26:02):
Yeah, yeah on one network, two versus three on another,
nine versus thirteen, Old Miss Lsu baton rouge ole Miss.
I love this Old Miss too. I think the Old Miss.
I think the ReBs bounce back. I love them tonight
this look.

Speaker 1 (02:26:23):
I don't think anybody right now can make the playoffs,
but I do think teams right now can miss out
on the playoffs, And the loser of this game will
have so much ahead of them to try and even
make noise in the SEC especially given some of the
teams that they both have left on the schedule. Like
that's the biggest part. This is truly the desperation Bowl

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of the week, because if you're Old Missed, for example, Okay,
you have LSU, then you have Oklahoma You've got Georgia
a few weeks after that. All of that, I mean,
that's just and then you're you're hoping to God somehow
that this is you can make your way through that gauntlet.
And if you do your ward with then SEC Championship
game that is likely going to be against also a

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brutal opponent, you know. And if you're LSU, you got
All Miss right now, then you got Texas A and
M in a couple of weeks, who we rode off
too early in the season. Then the week after that
you have Bama, then you have Oklahoma. Like there's just
nothing easy left for either of these two teams. So
I think, frankly, the loser of this game stick a
fork in them. Their season is going to be done.
And all of the pressure, all of the pressure sits

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squarely on Lane Kiffin and Jackson Dark like you, you
cannot lose the way they lost it. It cannot happen
with knowing what's ahead of them. To lose the way
they lost to Kentucky a few weeks ago has just, man,
it has put such a dagger in the heart of
what this season is going to be. I think Old
Miss needs to come up that desperately need a win here.

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It's just winning and winning in baton rouge at night.

Speaker 2 (02:27:48):
Man, I there's something that I don't trust with this
LSU team.

Speaker 1 (02:27:53):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (02:27:54):
But going down there at night, Saturday night, tall feet,
I like them.

Speaker 3 (02:28:03):
I like as that think they get it done.

Speaker 1 (02:28:05):
It's a three and a half point spread too, that's
just golly. That makes me nervous. That being said, LSU
hasn't beaten really anybody.

Speaker 3 (02:28:13):
I don't know. I don't trust this team. I don't think.

Speaker 1 (02:28:15):
Yeah, so I think I'm gonna go. I'm leaning ole miss.
But if I'm honest with everybody listening, I would be
scared to put a single dollar on this game because
it just feels like I might as well just walk
up to a roulette wheel and put all of it
on thirty one in Hope.

Speaker 3 (02:28:28):
Yeah. Well, Fox is a good one too.

Speaker 2 (02:28:31):
Unbeaten Iowa State rock O becked some of Anthony Becked
and goes against his dad's old alma mater, West Virginia.
Brad likes West Virginia tonight, by the way, plus three,
that's a good game.

Speaker 1 (02:28:49):
This is a big game for Iowa State too, because
you know what conference we never really talk about the
Big twelve. Why do we never really talk about the
Big twelve? Because the Big twelve is maddeningly inconsistent. I mean,
trying to figure out who's actually great in the Big
twelve is just difficult. And then all of a sudden,
we say that and you turn around and you're like, well,
wait a minute. I mean, Iowa State sitting at five

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and oh, right, they're sitting at They're sitting at five
and o two and oh in the conference, Like not
for nothing, Iowa State has a real shot and making
the college Football Playoff, Like think about it right now,
BYU Texas Tech, Iowa State, and Colorado all have very
real shots at the college football Playoff. And that's I guess. Frankly.
So there's West Virginia, but I think Iowa State's got

(02:29:31):
a lot on the line. I like him in this game.

Speaker 3 (02:29:32):
Actually, are you like Iowa State?

Speaker 1 (02:29:35):
Yeah? I like Iowa State.

Speaker 3 (02:29:36):
Wow, Okay on the road. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:29:39):
The Brad likes the uh are betting expert. He likes
West Virginia, uh the other the other one and l
late night K State Colorado battle for to one teams.
That's a good gat. That's a good game. Too, some
good some good football today.

Speaker 1 (02:29:57):
Yeah, that's a good game. It's a late game, and
I I mean you mentioned it, but ten to fifteen
Eastern start time. I say that would disdain and disgust
in my voice. The one thing I am confident on
this one is the over both of these offenses can score.
I'm not sure either of these defenses can do anything.
And you know, as much as we sit here and
talk about the circus show that is Colorado, Travis Hunter

(02:30:20):
is worth just he's gonna have a huge game on
both sides. He's gonna have a huge game. I really
like Travis Hunter in this game. So you know, it's
funny because Shador has been much more explosive this year
than I think he gets credit for it. I just
looked it back up. Fourteen touchdowns, three picks, and yeah,
they've asked him to do a lot. I still don't
love the fact that he runs around and tries to

(02:30:40):
make so many home run plays. But man, that's the
question here is just can Colorado stop the run? Because
I think the Case State's just gonna come in and
try and run the ball down their throats.

Speaker 2 (02:30:49):
Yeah, I like you over, I'm with you all right,
we'll come back. We'll take a look at the rapid Fire.
We'll go rapid Fire.

Speaker 3 (02:30:56):
On the NFL for tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:30:58):
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Speaker 3 (02:31:03):
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Speaker 1 (02:31:06):
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because now the end is near.

Speaker 2 (02:31:10):
Oh yeah yeah, all right, uh give.

Speaker 1 (02:31:15):
Me uh you may heay you my fundraiser I want
to do someday. I want to do like this one.
Maybe you can help me do this. I want to
get a bunch of like quasi famous people together in
a room and I want to do cherioke. It's karaoke
for charity, where we all have to sing whatever people
submit that we have to sing. They just pay to
sing it and it goes to the charity of our choice.
That would be my that would be my opening song.

Speaker 3 (02:31:36):
That's a great one.

Speaker 1 (02:31:37):
Cherokee, there we go. Somebody that won't make that happen.

Speaker 2 (02:31:40):
Yeah, that's really good. Yeah we could do that. All right,
let's go rapid Fire. I want to get this card in.
This is tomorrow. We start early London, nine thirty Eastern,
six thirty Pacific. We go to London. Jaguars Bears. The
Bears a one point favorite over Jacksonville. Jacksonville again is

(02:32:01):
a desperate team. I don't know, call me a sucker,
but I think they're gonna make it to in a row.

Speaker 1 (02:32:09):
Oh no, I'm in on the Bears on this one.
I just I do not trust the Jags defense, and
I think that defense thanks right because there's been so
many difficulties moving the football. I think we're overlooking how
bad their defense is. Caleb's hot right now, so I
like Caleb to continue to be hot. This Bears offense,
I think is going to continue to click. They're getting
better as a team. So I think the Bears win

(02:32:30):
this game.

Speaker 3 (02:32:32):
All right, Let's go to.

Speaker 2 (02:32:36):
Texans Patriots Houston six and a half.

Speaker 1 (02:32:41):
Yeah, Houston with the points. I think this one's pretty
simple and Patriots have been plucky, but the Texans are
actually good. So I don't you know, this one isn't
rocket science.

Speaker 2 (02:32:48):
I know, I don't see anything weird there. Washington Baltimore,
this will be the great tests. This is a great game, man.
It's the Battle of the Beltway. It's a great game.
And this is where Jayden against the tough Baltimore team.
Lamar Jaden. That's gonna be fun. That's that's must see TV.

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Baltimore six and a half.

Speaker 1 (02:33:14):
Yeah, I think that line feels fat for right now,
for where the Ravens defense isn't as hot as Jayden
is at quarterback. I still think the Ravens win this game.
The one thing I'm really confident in is hammer the
over fifty one and a half. I think the Ravens
are just gonna just absolutely pound the rock down the
commander's throats. But the Commanders are explosive, it gets We'll
score from anywhere. So I think both offenses win. This

(02:33:35):
feels like much closer though, to me than six and
a half.

Speaker 3 (02:33:38):
Yeah, I agree, I think both.

Speaker 2 (02:33:40):
I love you over there Eagles Browns Eagles nine and
a half. That's a huge number over Deshawned Distincts.

Speaker 1 (02:33:52):
Yeah, I think the number is too big, but I
think the Browns are that bad and Browns fans. I
said this on YAHOU Sports since I coveraged week, I
won't use the word because it would get me kicked
off radio. Your team is ft, you did they just are.
There's no solution to this. There is no way to
get out of it. There is no way to stop
the bleeding. Deshaun is going. I would go back.

Speaker 3 (02:34:12):
I would go to James, I'll be honest with you.
I mean I would have went well.

Speaker 1 (02:34:16):
I would make the change too, But the insiders I've
talked to have made it clear that ownership is not
willing to do that.

Speaker 2 (02:34:21):
So I know you're right. You know, a cat shape,
good coach, and he's saddled with the guy. Listen, the
guy can't play anymore. He's watched, he's got a horrible attitude,
he's and you can't win with that.

Speaker 1 (02:34:36):
Yeah, Unfortunately, there's just no changing it. So you're right.
They should go to Jamis. They should just take the
financial consequence, whatever it is, spread it out over two years,
get rid of de Sean, get him out of there.
But they're not going to And I think, honestly, Browns fans,
you're you're f for two more years. Sorry.

Speaker 3 (02:34:53):
Green Bay five and a half against Arizona.

Speaker 1 (02:34:58):
Uh, the number feels a little big me. But also
I think Josh Jacobs is gonna get going. I think
Jordan Love can can eat against this defense. So I
like green Bay, but the number man number feels a
little heavy to me. I'm nervous with that number.

Speaker 2 (02:35:12):
Yeah, it might play would be over Packers team to
Oh yes, yeah yeah. Uh Saints Buccaneers Tampa three and
a half on the road. Saints of course, Uh no
car in this one. So, uh you're gonna you'll you'll
see the Tyler.

Speaker 1 (02:35:33):
Yeah, Spencer, We're just we're enamored for Spencer Rattler. I'm
not so you know, Look, I think this is an
unfortunate spot for the Saints to be in, But I mean,
I thought the number was staggeringly low. I love Tampa Colts.

Speaker 2 (02:35:47):
Titans Tennessee two and a half against the Colts.

Speaker 3 (02:35:52):
Uh uh and that Joe Flacco.

Speaker 1 (02:35:56):
Yeah, I cannot believe that I'm picking Will Levis in
the game because well, the good is he's going to
complete passes. We just don't know to who. Will Levis
is just hot garbage at the quarterback position. I can't say,
like molten lava of garbage at the quarterback position. But
despite that, I still think the Titans have enough to
beat this Colts team as they're currently constructed.

Speaker 3 (02:36:14):
Right now, let's keep going. Chargers Broncos. Chargers three point
favorite on the road in.

Speaker 1 (02:36:23):
Denver, Man Denver's offense is awful but it doesn't matter.
They keep winning football game. It's their defense. I underestimated,
I undervalue their defense. Their defense is really good. This
just feels to me like a thirteen to ten game
that we're bummed we had to watch when it's all
said and done. But I do like the Chargers to
win this football game. But cus to the Broncos, who

(02:36:43):
find a way to make everything look ugly every week.

Speaker 2 (02:36:46):
Yeah, right there, it's thirty five and a half. It's
a low. It's low, but I still like I'd still
go under that thing. Yeahs Denver's defense legit and hardball
likes to slow it down. Still, there's Raiders Steelers three
point favorites over your boys.

Speaker 1 (02:37:05):
Yeah, Steelers are in far better shape too. I mean
the Raiders already we weren't very good, and now they've
lost some key pieces to injury like everybody in the league,
and they're not very deep. So you look at that
defensive line without Christian Wilkins is going to be a
massive difference in this game. They're just estimated. They've got
nobody left other than Max that's playing on the d line,
and their offensive line is trash right now. So I

(02:37:25):
think the Steelers are gonna eat I would take sack
totals on anybody. I could take sack totals on. I
think Aidan O'Connell in the quarterbacks probably gonna eat six
or seven sacks in this game. I think Steelers went
pretty easily.

Speaker 2 (02:37:37):
Lions Cowboys my pick of the week. I love the Lions.
I'd like three and a half and I would like
ten for a pizza bet.

Speaker 1 (02:37:46):
Yeah, you're right one hundred percent. The Lions are gonna
absolutely exploit the backhead of this defense. So I think
fantasy football wise, a lot of points for a lot
of people, But man, I like the Lions big in
this one.

Speaker 3 (02:37:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:37:57):
Bengals Giants Bengals three and a half on the road,
Sunday Night Football.

Speaker 1 (02:38:03):
I don't think the Giants are any good, but neither
of the Bengals right now. I might lean Giants on this.

Speaker 2 (02:38:08):
Yeah, I think the Giants will actually move the ball hear.
I think they're live. I think they're live. And then
Monday Night Bills Jets Bills two and a half.

Speaker 3 (02:38:19):
I love the Bills Monday Night.

Speaker 1 (02:38:21):
Yeah, I feel like everybody's on the Jets, not me.
I love the Bills in this one. The jets are
done cook.

Speaker 2 (02:38:26):
Yeah, all right, that's going to do it for us,
all right, everybody, thanks for hanging. We love you guys.
Thanks Mark, great job. We'll see everybody next Saturday. Fellas
are out.