05/15/2021 – The Fellas with Anthony Gargano - Fox Sports Radio

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Sports studios on a beautiful sports Saturday, winding down. This
is a great time of the year now because we
finally caught up with the NBA and NHL as we
got playoffs abound. Yeah, baby, the playoffs abound. The playing

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tournament begins on Tuesday. In the NBA, we're just trying
to finish up the seating. The East has been taken
care of with the one seed last night as the
Philipphice seventy Sixers mercifully clinch to one seed after a
couple tries. The one seed. It is for the Sixers

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and the process comes full circle. Now we'll see about
the West and Utah and Phoenix and the playing tournament.
Get tournament gets on the way on Tuesday. N h
L playoffs. It's weird because they have some games uh
tomorrow it starts, and the regular season the way that

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they had to fix kind of fill it in that
ends tomorrow concurrently, so we got lots to get to,
including some baseball. But of course, yes, we don't think
he here's what we're gonna do today. All the schedule
is out, so that means in depth analysts for all

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thirty two TV. I would tell Figgy that we will
do wins and losses for every game, but I think
he might leave what I I kind of felt this coming,
to be honest with you, Anthony, But I know you
well enough. So let's start week one for every single
team and go to week two. I already know what's

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takes to supply. Yeah, did you. You know. I had
a big debate over the schedule show itself. Okay, now
let's start here, which is always a good face. Did
you did you get in on it? Like? Were you
in on the schedule? I did not watch a single second.
It's one of those. And it's not that I wasn't

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excited for it. I think mostly fans are excited for
the schedule release because a lot of them play trips
around whether a team is going to be especially if
you're a fan of a team and you don't live
in that city and maybe they're coming to face a
team in the town you do live in, or a
city you do live in, or you want to make
a trip, and you also want to know how many
you know primetime games your favorite team is in. So
for that standpoint, yes, but I don't feel it needs

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to have to sit there for four hours and watch
every single week be released. I can easily wait until
the end of the night and just find it and
pull up what I want to see later on. So
I understand the hype around it in the NFL is
extremely smart to make an event out of it. Because
I haven't seen the ratings for it, but I probably
will outrate NBA playoff games. The schedule released for the NFL.
So I understand the business of it, but for me personally,

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I'm not gonna sit there and watch. You know, the
Bucks are taking on the Patriots in Week three. That's
gonna be great, isn't it? Like I'm sure it will be.
You know, you know what it is for me, And
if this makes any sense to you, it's an excuse
to talk football. And mate, like, we add the draft, right,
and so you got like your appetite was wet from

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the draft, Like all right, you know, now we're we're
starting to get a little quickly. You've moved further away
from the Super Bowl, that where you get to the
organic itch, like the football itch, and then you hit
the drafts. The draft really is a great excuse to
talk about football and to you know, look at how

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your team shapes up. You got free agency and then
the draft, so you're like, now my team's taken form,
and then after that there's that pure and you go
and I go for some more football, and there in
lies the schedule and listen, it's stupid. I'm not gonna admit,
I'm not gonna try to swear you otherwise I understand it.

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But in reality for me and I think this is
it for most people who like the schedule, it's just
you know, you're right, you get to playing trips. There's
something about a schedule. It means it's close. It means
it's like a right around the corner, you know, Like listen,
we're in May, in the middle of May, and we're
you know, we're a couple of few months out from

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training camp. But you know, I mean, let's let's fix it.
There was a story, and I want to get to
it a little bit about the NBA, and it was
in the Athletic. I don't know if you saw that thing,
but in the Athletic they did a piece about the
NBA supposed that how the NBA was supposed to take

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on the NFL and the the basically, baseball is becoming
a big challenge to the NBA and nobody's touching the NFL.
I had not seen this article first. They had nobody's
taking down the NFL at this point. That's that's not happening.
If you want to say the race is getting tighter
between baseball and basketball, I guess that remains to be seen. Two.

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But that that's a closer fight. The NFL is on
its own planet. The NFL has, like the twenties highest
rated TV shows every year are all NFL games. So
nobody's catching them anytime soon, I will say. And I
think it's intriguing the problem with talking about schedules too,
is you just don't know from a year and year
out basis what team is going to be good and

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who's not. You know, you have a three different division
winners every single year, so but people talk about, well,
their strength of schedule is this, and their strength of
schedule is at well, that's based on last year. You
have new quarterbacks, new faces in different places, new coaching staffs.
But one thing I did hear Michael Lombardi say earlier
this week, which I thought was really good. He said,
when looking at schedules, you really shouldn't look at the team.

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You should look at the quarterbacks that you have to face,
you know, and how that lines up, and who you
may have to face. I have to face Kyler Murray
one a week, and then Tom Brady the next week,
and then this guy the next weekend your strategies of
who you're facing when it comes to the signal caller
is more much of a bigger deal than the team
in and of itself, because you just don't know the
dynamics of every individual team. But for the most part,

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I know what I'm getting when I'm facing Lamar Jackson
or when I'm facing Tom Brady, when I'm facing Pat Mahomes.
And I thought that was an interesting way to look
at it. Yeah, No, I I appreciate. I think that's uh,
that spot on. I think that's spot on. How you
kind of look at it and listen, you're right, like,
you don't know, you can't foretell injuries, like like we
play this game, this WS and owls game, and it's

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the dumbinst thing in the world. Like, and I con
see it's stupid because it's impossible to foretell anything. All
those factors that come involved that you know makes for
WS and els. And you're right, there are teams that
a surprise. However, I do think at this juncture where

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you got a draft, you got kind of your free agency,
most teams are pretty much intact. Yeah, I think you
can actually tell, you know, you can give, you can
be you can give an educated guests on the teams
that are good mostly Yeah, and then you'll have a

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team that will jump up out of nowhere. You know,
you know, you can't account for Urban Meyer and Trevor
Lawrence light the world on fire and Jacksonville ends up
going on nine and seven or something something like that
that you really wouldn't expect. Who thought Miami will be
as good as they were last year, or that Josh
Allen will take the next step and b and have
Buffalo where they were last year. So these are certain
things that you can't necessarily anticipate. What if Green Bay

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does it? What if Aaron Rodgers does end up retiring
and they end up with Jordan's love as their starter,
and there, you know, a perennial you know, hall excuse me,
a perennial super Bowl team and all of a sudden
there five and eleven or something that shakes thing. So
there's a lot of factors that are unknown. But but
for for it's fun fadder, I will definitely say, yeah,
I think I'm glad that you agree with me that
it is kind of stupid. I never thought i'd hear

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you say that about anything involving the NFL. A lot
of stuff, Yeah, Like I joke her Rare with a
lot of stuff, and I exaggerate for fun to make
it a point. But no, I mean yeah, I mean,
you know, even even I can't construct an argument that
says that that is something that's a compelling exercise. I

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am not gonna title do it. I I do it.
Oh yeah, but you know it's just whatever. It's fun.
Like I got a guy I got, I got a
guy I work with, I buddy mind this guy John,
and he's like, dude, that's the laziest sports radio stuff ever. Right,
It's like, dude, relax man. All it is is just

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having fun here, right, like you know, like give me
a break. Like I'm a sports fan, I have a
commute to work. I just want to lose myself in
the schedule, isn't it right? Like you do dubs and else.
Doesn't mean anything, of course not, but it lets your
mind drift to the season. Everything doesn't have to be

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a macro, you know, narrative sports. It's like, all right
that there's room for that at times. Short, yes, but
let's you know, like I said, we're just trying to
let loose here on a Saturday morning and have some
fun a right exactly. You got it, You got it.
You got it, So we will go over you know,
somebody keep points in the schedule and take a look
at We will look at the week one Vegas lines

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that are out, to look at some of the the
wind totals, which I think the wind totals are interesting, Yes,
very much. I'm I'm very much into that, you know,
because I do think you can make some educating, some
good educated guesses on the wind totals, which I I like.
And I'm curious that your your take on a couple
of my own local issues, because there is uh, there's

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a chasm uh, and I think it's probably like to
add among other fan bases. But I want to get
into this notion today about what you guys consume media
wise and what you expect from media. And you guys

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wear dual hats in that you're in media and you
are true fans. Figure you're a great Raider fan. The
Psycho Chris is a Lions fan, all things Detroit, bow
stringent l A fan Rams. He's all all in all

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l A Dodgers, Lakers, the whole thing. But I want
to look at fandom and really from your guys perspective,
the younger perspective, which which is fandom versus media, because
I think there's a there's a weird dynamic going on
that I wanna explain to you. And I've seen the

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seismic shift over the last fifteen years and I want
to run it by you guys and get your take
on it. We got lots to get to. We're gonna
go through the n B A fig you know, all
popping bottles. Fig. Sure I saw your tweet one, two
or three, or four or five top seed for the
six I saw it. You know, I love it. I

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allowed myself to be like a fan with I love
Cubs today and you know what I mean, Like sometimes
I like to channel my inner twelve year old and
just enjoy it. That's the beautiful part about I know
we'll get into a deeper but I love the fact
that you broached that topics. That that's something I'm very
passionate about. I love that dynamic of media versus fandom
and now the two of them intertwined at times. Yes, yes,
it's it's. It really is an interesting conversation which we

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will begin on the other side. Lots of football to
get into and e a the resurgence of baseball, even
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Search f s R to listen live. All right, welcome back,
Fellas Saturday Morning hanging out. So all boys, I want

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all you guys to chime in here, Figgy, Psycho, Chris,
Bo Figure on the start. So here's the here's the deal.
I'm I want your opinion. So the Eagles schedule comes
out right and whatever. I look at this team and
I go, this is a rebuilding team. You have a
first year quarterback who is very young and very green.

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He has a very young and very green coaching staff.
His defensive coordinator is the first time defensive coordinator and
he's young. His quarterback, I don't even know if they
even believe he is this franchise quarterback because there's all
kinds of rumors about the Shawn Watson that is resurfaced,

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and uh, there has been a lot they won't even
name Jalen Hurts the starting quarterback even though he has
to be the starting quarterback. So there there's a lot
of uncertainty that's around this team, and let alone just
the town of the roster. Overall the roster is they

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have not one All Pro player on either first or
second team All Pro in the NFL. Through a through
a rebuilding team. I mean, I don't think there's a sin.
It's not a criticism. We know it. You know, it's
your times when you gotta rebuild. The look the poor Lions,

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the pork cycle. Chris has been in a perpetual state
of rebuild. But this team fake. You look at it
and I don't know how in your right mind you
could say that this team could win, you know, eight
nine games. I don't know how that could happen unless
everybody in the division gets hurt again or something. And

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even with that that that's I don't know what the
over under is on wins for the Eagles right now.
It's a half six and a half, and honestly, I'd
probably take the under. Yeah, I think the unders a lot.
I can't find I can't find really five maybe six,
you know, like like if you look at it, like,
look at their first and I'm using this is an example,

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so I'm not you know, this is not just like
an Eagles thing. I'm gonna I'm gonna use it as
a part of a larger picture. But look at their schedule, right,
They're gonna open up in Atlanta. Now, if you think
Nick Sirianni's gonna win his first game right on the
road against Matt Ryan and Kyle against that defense, Kyle
Pitts may they have torn in seventy five yards receiving, right,

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I mean, let's be real. So then they come back
home against the Niners, who are going to be a juggernaut.
Then they gotta go at Dallas, and Dallas is the
cream of the division. Right. The then you got the Chiefs,
right that could that could name that their score by halftime,
that game will be over by halftime. Then they go

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to week five, they go at Carolina and you see
what Matt's building. I told them I was back talking
the matter earlier this week that that that team is
a beast of a team. A Week six you got
Tampa Bay short week the champs. So that then week
seven you go at Raiders. That's seven the first seven weeks.

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I don't know if they can win a game. Yeah,
I mean that'd be tough. You're looking like, maybe they
can steal one at Carolina possibly and maybe you know,
a week is very very weird sometimes, so maybe they
can steal at Atlanta. But outside of that, you're right,
it's hard to find wins there. Yeah, and I think
Carolina destroys them because I think my man is waiting

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for that game, like there there, there's you know, listen,
when you're from a place and you worked in a
place and you know people there, you know you know.
And by the way, if you're really good like Carolina,
I think it's gonna be really good. Yeah, a lot
better than what people think. So anyway, so I know

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I'm on the air and I get my honest to
praise them, right, and you know, people get mad at
what do they want you to say? So they get
mad because they think it's criticism, and I'm like, listen,
it's not criticism, it's just a reality check, being honest. Yeah,

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I mean you look at the squad, you go, it's rebuild,
Like I didn't know that Rebuild was a rip job,
just an acknowledgement of reality. So it's hard to It's
hard to win and then restock the coffers as you
continue to win and cycle guys through, Especially in a
sport like football, it just doesn't happen that way. You know,

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you built, you build something up, it runs its course
and then you have to start over. That'll. Some rebuilds
take longer than others, but every team at a certain
point has to do it. Look the Patriots quote unquote
al ay quote unquote rebuilt now and they were what
seven and nine last year and possibly can find up
themselves back in the playoffs this this coming year. Does
anybody think they're gonna win the Super Bowl? No? But
part of a rebuilt for them is we are a

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Perennials Bowl contender for twenty years now. We kind of
have to go back to the drawing board a little
bit and keep ourselves afloat until we can get another
great run. It happens to every team, every single one,
you know, right, So you go, So then I start
to well, fans they expect they you know it's all
about especially now, fans just want to hear you know

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that their teams great, and then they I guess that
they want Disney World. You know, conversation, right, so they
get mad, right, so they you have that aspect of
the fan. And then you got these media dudes, right,
so now you got these sports radio some of the writers,
Like I talked to one writer who predicted I think

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it was eight wins, and I said, dude, I said,
and I really I respect the guy a lot, right,
And I go, dude, eight wins? You for real? You
think this team wins eight games? And what was his justification?
It was just a text, right, so it's just between us.
That's why my name is his name or anything. And
he said, nah, I'm just covering myself. So he's covering

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you know what he's doing it, he's covered himself against
the fans, right because if if he says like he
really believed five, then people go, oh my god. I
went and I just destroy his inbox, right, his feed,

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and he just doesn't want to deal with it. And
then he got all the guys that I mean, guys
said should know better, like real football media guys in town.
But you know, somehow we're goggles because either they're getting
fed information or you get guys that are little fan

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boys who never really understood the concept of journalism, h
and I just want to go on the air and
go you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, you b I Y
A E A G L E S and you know,
you're a little fanboy, and and you're you're gonna they're

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gonna win. We're gonna win ten games, which is like listen, yes, yes,
And that just goes through me because see, I was
raised in the business where I was a writer, right,
so when you're a journalist, like sometimes I even get squeamish.
I do to joke around, like with the Sixers, and

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I deal with all the four teams. Well, I'll go,
you know, I'll chat on my inner twelve year old,
Like listen, I love those teams that were my boyhood teams, right,
So I chat on my inner twelve year old, and
I genuinely hope, like you would hope your teams win. Right.
But there's a responsibility when you are a member of

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the media to not you know, go overboard and look
at it completely through the eyes of fandom, because you
lose credibility when you do something like that. That's my issue.
So the way I've always looked at it, and I
feel like my fandom, even before I got into the
media was always a little bit different because I wasn't

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a fanboy that said I love my team, everything they
do is right. I was always looking for something wrong.
I was overly critical of my favorite teams, even in
the midst of winning, whether it was the Shack and
Kobe Lakers, even the Raiders when they went through their
runs with Groot in the early two thousands where our
guy Link was on the team. I would try to
find reasons as to why they wouldn't win, as opposed
to praising them all the time for when they know

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when they did. But yeah, that's been one of the
things that's frustrated to me throughout this entire my entire existence,
as people who are just looking through rose clear glasses
and just want to say my team is great, they're
gonna win this championship, and I ask why, and they say,
I just have unwavering belief. And it's just things like
that when they can't actually give you concrete reasons, uh,
that that's a big issue for me. I would I

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would have much more respect for somebody like yourself who
would say, look, I love the Eagles to death, but
I don't like the way they're being run they're going
through a rebuild right now, and there's no way that
I can see them winning more than six games. Why
do you want me to pop on a microphone or
open up and start writing a column and lie to you? Why?
Why do I I don't win by doing something like that.
And quite honestly, if I'm the writer you're talking about

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earlier who says well, I projected eight wins just to
keep the fans off my back, then with all due respect,
you're not doing your job. Your job as a media
member is to be a conduit between the fans and
the players. So it's not to appease the fans and
just say, well, I want to keep them off my back,
so I'll tell them what I want them to hear. Now,
I'm telling you what I know. I'm telling you what

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I've researched, who I've talked to, or what I've seen,
my observations based on my knowledge of covering the sport.
And here's why I feel what I feel. You shouldn't
be influenced because you are afraid that Joe Philly Guy
three seven one is gonna send you an email saying
you're a hackey. You don't know what you're doing right,
you know, I just can't believe it. I just can't

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believe that that's what we want. That's sad. And look,
I understand certain fans who are again who are polly
anished about everything and love every think everything's gonna be positive,
and they have faith that their team is gonna win
every game that they play. And I appreciate the fandom
when it comes to that. And that's why I don't
criticize fans who call your show and maybe criticize you

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for being overly critical of the Eagles, if that's how
they feel that you're being overly critical, I just think
that you're being honest. They have a right to feel
the way that they want to feel, but you have
a right, or you have the obligation as a journalist
to be truthful and honest and not tell the fans
what they want to hear. If you're a team employee,
it's different. I understand that you work for the Eagles

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website or something like that, then they get the waters
get a little bit murky in your message that you
can convey publicly to the fan base. But if you're
working an independent radio station, television station, newspaper publication, and
you're saying these sorts of things that to appease the
fan base. That's that's a lack of credibility on your part. Yeah,

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you know that's exactly right. Like, you know, it's funny.
You know, think I'm glad you said that, because you know,
sometimes you feel like, oh, you don't want to be
out of touch and you know, and be that hard
to get off my long guy, But come on, there's
gotta be some standards in which we do our job
because you're not doing right by the public. Listen to

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fan is the fan? Now here's the question I have,
and I want you and we're gonna bring everybody into
the conversation, but I want to start with you, and
I want to even think about this. Does the fan
hand the fan, the true fan handle criticism of his
team without turning the channel, or does he have to

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hear everything's gonna be great, They're gonna win ten games,
they're going to make the playoffs. Even deep down Joe
fan recognizes she's got no chance to win the playoffs,
but you know there's always that little degree of hope.
I don't know what people want, well, it is what

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youre trending, and then I want you to answer the question.
All right, well, I'll start with your seventies six was
quinching the top seed in the East. There, Anthony, how
about that? Very objective about their dominance in the Eastern
Conference this year, and Joel and be one of the
favorites for m v P only at thirteen points, but
they didn't need much more than that. They blew out
Orlando once twenty two to one O nine, so they

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clinched the top seed in the East. If we head
out west, Utah does control their own destiny for the
top seed. They defeat Oklahoma City on Friday. All they
have to do is beat Sacramento on Sunday, they will
clinch the one seed. They can also back door there
we're in if Phoenix happens to lose one of their
two matchups against San Antonio tomorrow or should say, excuse
me tomorrow or today. As a matter of fact, Nuggets

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moved into the three seed in the Western Conference as well.
They defeated the Pistons Clippers losing to Houston, so they
fall to the four seed. Luca dodgeck with a triple
double leading Dallas over Toronto so Dallas cannot finish any
worse than six, which means they will not be in
the play in tournament, and the Wizards on that comeback
trail one, sixteen of the last twenty two games have
found themselves into the play and tournament. Clinched the spot

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in the playing tournament with the victory over the Cavaliers.
Shocker Russell Westbrook yet another triple double. Maybe it's unbelievable.
I know people are trying to downplay it, or I
was like guy Rob Parker would say pooh, pooh it.
But I mean, it's not like everybody's doing this on
a night and night out basis. It's still pretty incredible
what Russ is doing. Um the poop pool kids, thank you,
Rob uh In baseball, Mariner's top prospect, Jered Kellenic, struggled

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on his debut on Thursday, came through in a big
way on Friday Night, three hits, including his first big
league home run, Seattle beating Cleveland seven to three. Max
Munsey went deep for the Dodgers. They've won three straight,
nine to six to final score. He is he's been
amazing the last week and a half two weeks for them.
They have definitely needed it, Oakland getting four home runs
in a six to one victory over Minnesota. They have

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struggled a lot this year. The Twins, Jeez, Royals and
White Socks split a doubleheader wins for Boston, Houston and
Colorado and Tampa Baby the Mets. The Mets are previously
having that seven game win streak that was snapped by
Tampa getting a home run from Mike Zannino. All right,
back to the fellas, all right, that's it's we are
the fellas hanging out on a Saturday morning. Oh, everybody's

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joined themselves. You get up and once you'd have a
great day. It's a beautiful spring May the fifteen, all right,
So fig do you seek? Fans can handle just bad
news or just reality. Maybe not even bad news, but

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just the reality of the situation. UM, some can, UM.
I think the great majority of fans it's almost like
they know the truth, but they don't want to hear.
And I think you kind of alluded to that a
second ago, like you know, you know on a perfect
example of this, UM was the fail dot Com did
a write up on the Raiders um and how John

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Gruden has been less than stellar uh in his first
few years um with the Raiders, and basically that the
argument was Jack del Rio did a better job than
John Gruten has And a lot of Raider fans may
not want to hear that because they have all these
great memories of John and rebuilding them back in the
early two thousand's and they think he's still chucky and
he's still gonna win and give him time. But there

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was nothing that was written there that I felt as
a fan was inaccurate. Now I feel like I can
detach myself from being a fan that wants everything to
go well and also recognize reality when it's in front
of me. Things have not gone the way that I'm
pretty sure Gruden thought they have been. They have gone
to lad the first three years he's been there in
Oakland or with the Raiders, Oakland were you're gonna call
it Las Vegas at this point. But then there's another

(29:46):
sect of fans that think that everything he does is
gonna eventually turn to gold. They think Derek Carr is
gonna win the MVP this season, They're gonna win the
Super Bowl every single year. I think it's very difficult
for a lot of fans to take off that optim
those optimism glasses, those rose rose colored glasses and see
everything positive with their team. And I think there's a
smaller sector fan who can look at it more, look

(30:06):
at it more objectively, and say, no, this team is
really flawed, and I'd be surprised if they made it
to the playoffs, or be surprised if they made a
Super Bowl run. I think those fans are few and
far between. The majority of them are the ones you're
describing who want to look at everything in a positive light.
People want positivity more than anything else. I think, whether
it's true or not, they just wanted to be fed
positive information in a world that's you know, basically overrun

(30:30):
with a bunch of negativity, especially over the last year.
So I think that might be a factor to people
whose lives are inundated with negative things all the time
just want to have some some beat of positivity. And
they don't want some radio guy yelling about the one
thing that gives them joy in their life. That's it.
They don't want the guy yelling screaming, really, we're going

(30:56):
through a worldwide pandemic financial like a family, you know,
all that sort of thing. So yeah, I think you're
right about that. I think that's definitely a valid thing.
I hope it's right, but yeah, I agree, I think
it's I think that's what the reality is. Yeah, yeah, Chris,

(31:16):
what do you think, Psycho Chris? This one is an
odd one for me, just because you know, when I
you know, I do this Lions podcast, and when we
started it, we always heard from a lot of Lions
fans because they felt that even the radio, and I
get that. I think a lot of fans think that
everyone's too negative when it came to the Lions and Detroit.

(31:38):
There were some guys even on the radio who just
even when the Lions were good, would just dismiss them
out of hand. It's like, why should I bother with
learning about the Lions. They're the Lions. They will suck
and they will always suck. So we kind of benefited
having that space. But I think my working theory on
fans is that they react to the scoreboard, they to

(32:00):
your record, and yeah, when they're when your team is
one in fifteen or or four and twelve, they will
obviously think of that team in a negative light. But
when it's zero zero right now in the off season,
I think a lot of them do want to uh
we We would like to call it drinking the kool
aid for for a podcast, but it's definitely definitely a

(32:21):
lot of we want to just get psyched up. We
want to hype ourselves into a frenzy because it's the
only time of the year we can definitively say we're
not either winning or losing. We can just say, like,
you have hope, you have hope, So it I I
get it, and I definitely but at the end of
the day, I think all fans are kind of different,

(32:41):
especially for the Lions. I know some fans who are
pessimistic to an extreme. Some are optimistic to an extreme.
Especially this year. I think some people were are expecting
the Lions rebuild to come along a lot faster than
than it's going to especially when I see some fans
talking about, we should have taken a quarterback, but the

(33:01):
lines are gonna be good this year. It's just I
think at the end of the day, though, when it's
zero zero, it's it's easy to be optimistic, and I
think there's there's there's no there's no harm in that
fun as long as yeah, I don't think there's harmony.
There's any harmony only there's only harm if you don't,

(33:23):
if you're so provincial that you want to hear no
other dissenting opinion, like in other words, because now your borderline.
You know, when when Russia was under Soviet control, right,
it was it's news agency was tasks, right, T A S. S.

(33:47):
And you know it's like when you it's a government
news agency, what do you think it's being spun to
the masses A Right, It's about controlling the narrative. And
that's where it all stems from. So and and I.
I used to always joke about, well, if you want

(34:08):
to follow the Eagles and you got to fill up
eagles dot com, that's going that's a kin to going
to tasks, Like why would you want in house information
when you know you know that it's it's colored information.
It's not never, it will never make the organization. Look.
But now I'm not playing with the Eagles because the

(34:29):
Eagles and the Raiders and the Rams and every other
team has a website and it's a content platform, and
you should use all that platform to butcher it's yourself
and to do in house stuff and to grow your
own content brand. It just makes sense. But as a fan,

(34:49):
you need other opinions. That's my point. Fake. Yeah, I definitely,
I definitely get that too. But I mean, at the
end of the day, I always say it's sports, not politics.
So I'm more than willing to let you know. But
I will say, for for all those Lions fans, even
the ones who are hyper positive, we did run our
polls and most people still say Lions are gonna go

(35:10):
four and thirteen or five and twelve. So there is something,
there is some prevalence when you take a larger body.
I think what it is is that you when when
I think when we've been dealing with Lions fans, they
at least respect our opinion to dissent if we're just
not outright just being just nasty about the team sometimes
like there's a fine line like listen, but other Detroit people, yeah,

(35:36):
you don't want to listen. I think your podcast is great,
and I think if Rob Parker, who used to write
a Calm and the Detroit Free Press, you know, like
I want to hear what Rob has to say because
I trust that Rob is gonna tell me when they're
good and when they're bad without agenda, And and that's

(35:58):
what kind of calumnists Rob was and now he's a
calmiss on the radio. So you know, whether it's Robb
or whether it's Chris, they're going to tell you exactly
what they feel without any agenda. And to that point,
by the way, Anthony, since we're talking about you know,
and also have access to players and willing to talk
to them and have those tough conversations and not be

(36:20):
afraid of being shunned. And I think that's another factor
if we're talking just about the fandom. You know, in
media aspect of it, there's a lot of guys who
are unwilling to say anything overly critical about a team
or organization for fear of what that might do to
their access or to their contacts within an organization for
them to get information later. Um. Part of me, I

(36:42):
guess understands the business of it. But again, if you're
a writer, if you're a columnist, especially, your job is
not to try to go in and make nice. Your
job is to give your opinion and what you've been observing.
So I would, I would I respect the hell out
of a guy like Rob Parker, a friend of mine,
Bill Plashki, who's been writing for The l A Times.
Billy's my man, tell him I was asking for. We'll

(37:03):
do well. Bill is the best and he will go
after everybody and does not care if you were six
restricted access. He'll call you out for doing that too.
A team in town has not done that. You know.
Bill once gave me some of some amazing advice when
I'll share it with you on the other side, and
it made a lot of sense. It was brilliant advice.

(37:24):
Bill is a great dude. What did a great calumnist? Man?
I love that dude. Very talented. All right, we'll come back.
We got lots to get to. We are the Fellas.
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amazing our man this week. He's doing good. He's rested up,
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(37:48):
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(38:12):
made Simple dot Com save hundreds with local rebates. Tacles
made Simple dot Com. Uh yeah, think so, you know,
it's it's uh, it's such an interesting dynamic when we
think about where we get our information and who we
get it from, and who do we trust. It's cool

(38:34):
like you look at that. You know Bill Plaski, who
was one of the great people. Bill told me years ago,
he said, listen, he said, when it comes to your
job as a columnist, you always always look at it objectively.
He said. If you do an a side piece, this

(38:55):
a little freelance story, there's nothing wrong with you know,
making friends and writing a story you really like to write,
which is you know, like I used to love doing
these profiles, and profiles are by nature a positive. It's
very rare you're gonna do a profile because you're gonna
get a lot of time with the subject and then

(39:16):
rip the subject. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, derogatorially
it will be called a puff piece. But really, just
when you're doing a profile, you're talking about the stories
of someone who generally the general public wouldn't know about
some high school kid who overcame adversity and is doing
amazing at school, as in football, something like that. Yes, yeah,
Or you get to spend like I said, do this
a lot like I would spend the day. I once,

(39:37):
a long time ago, play golf with Michael Jordan's. Well,
I didn't play, I wrote in a cart with Mike.
I showed up this is the nineties with a tank
top one and he was looking at me like I
was had seven heads, because what's wrong with you? Man?
Didn't come? Didn't come dressed for the occasion, did we Now?
I was twenty three, I like four earrings. I didn't

(39:59):
tell you. I didn't understand it. So he goes, Joe, Dude,
you gotta go to go bid a shirt. I spent
three hundred dollars on a on a on a college
shirt at this at this course. I'm surprised they let
me on the course. I am too with the tanktop. Well,
I know they wouldn't let me on the for that,
but I'm just period. Yeah, it was like no good,

(40:23):
you know, but you know, but Bill was Bill is
right about that. It was it was he's a he's
a brilliant guy. One of these, one of these and
one of these guys above. Reproach many that you want
to listen to nothing. Ultimately, many organizations will end up
prospecting you more. If you're being honest. Because they know
they know how good they are, they can try to
put they'll spend whatever narrative they want to. That's right.

(40:47):
All right, we're the Fellas. We'll come back big out
we're at We'll get some wind totals right here on
Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome Mac Fellas on a
beautiful May the fifteen, happy Saturday morning to all across

(41:08):
the nation. All right, let's uh, let's dive into this.
So in case you're just joining us, we're talking a
lot about fandom and about embracing what you like and
what you want and what you want out of media,
and if it's all just agenda. Now we've seen the politics.

(41:28):
And Chris said something earlier while we were discussing this,
and he goes, well, it's not politics, so what does
it matter, which is actually a dangerous attitude because covering
sports and talking about sports sports is a multibillion dollar
industry that needs to be covered forth right, so the

(41:49):
public doesn't get gouged. They're in lies. What journalism is
all about to protect the public. Unfortunately, we live in
a time where we see it politicized and agenda ridden,
and we there is no really you can't figure out

(42:11):
what's mainstream, what's you can trust. I think trust is
a huge problem right now when we talk about media
fig Oh, it absolutely is that people don't know, you know,
who's a trust, who's in whose back pocket? And I
think that comes mainly from the political realm uh. A
lot of people right now don't necessarily trust government, whether

(42:33):
it's federal, local, state, you name it. And that that
trickles down to you know, to a certain degree with
with sports as well. So you know, a certain story
comes out and they say, well, this is some media
lap dog who's in the back pocket and just trying
to get the get the word out for the team.
You know, this guy's a and you know all that.
I won't name anybody by name, but we all know
of certain guys who we feel are or you know,

(42:54):
kind of the public voices for certain organizations. A certain
guy breaks a certain story, you don't have to go
too far or search you far to realize who we
got his information from. So I'm sure there's some there's
a certain sect in journalism where some guys say, look,
I'm just playing the game, I'm doing what I have
to do, and then I'm able to break stories because
I do you know, report do this sort of reporting,

(43:15):
and the others who say that's not what my job is.
My job is to be a conduit for the fans,
ask the questions that the fans want to be answered.
If that means that I don't get contacts or I
can't break stories, then it doesn't matter because that's not
what my job is. Yeah, it's funny because you know
these insiders, these like league insiders, the UH and listen.

(43:39):
I think they do a great job, like the Schefter's
and the j Glazers, Right, I love the Woes Woes
you go way back and like, I love these guys.
And but here's the thing. It's it's a difficult kind
of and I think Woes does it. Woldes might be

(43:59):
the rateist at it. I think he is easily even
more so than and Schefter is great and Glazer has
been great. But I mean Adrian Wardanowski literally every major
story that's broken in the NBA over the last decade,
he's been the guy that's broken it, with the exception
of maybe the Heatles with Stephen A. Smith, who said
it on these airways at Fox Sports Radio. By the way,

(44:22):
but other than that, if there is a big story
in the NBA, which has been the guy hands down
every single time. Yeah, and I think, and he does
it with great class, right, he does it without agenda.
You know. I really respect how he goes about his business. Yeah,
he says he doesn't have a Hall of Fame vote

(44:42):
or I guess he had one and he gave it up.
And he says, because I don't want stories players are there,
the narratives of players to be written by me, just
a media member. I report stories. That's all I do.
Whether a guy gets a contracting sensive or wins MVP
or a comeback Player of the Year, I don't want
that to be in my hands. That's not my job.
I respect him for evens for saying that, yes he's

(45:04):
the best, but yeah, let's see. But I also think
that that the lines are. It's a little bit different
when you're in a role like that, because you know,
if you're Jay Glazer, your job is to report, you know,
breaking news, is to have context, maybe to make nice

(45:25):
with agents and make nice with players. So when brick
stories do come out, you have the ability to do that.
Their job is different than the beat writer, for the Eagles,
which is different than a columnist for the New York Times.
All of those have different roles and responsibilities. So I
don't expect Adam Schefter to necessarily have to be objective
on certain things because generally he's not an opinion person anyway.

(45:48):
It's a news breaker, So his role is different if
you're an opinion person or you're a beat writer even
more specifically, and you're trying to, you know, put out
opinions and try to put out narratives to make the
team look better than they ad Actually, do you know
anybody that's an objective fan that actually watches the team
on a day in Dale basis can see that you're
fraud for lack of a better arm. Either that or

(46:08):
you're an idiot. You don't know what you're talking about. No,
I think you're you're you're dead right, brother, You're you're
dead right about that in a in a huge way,
in a huge way. Um, let me let me go
to bow for a second, because I'm curious, but what

(46:28):
do you like? What do you want out of your media?
Because you're young and you're the youngness of the crew,
and I'm curious that where you're at yeah, I was
gonna say earlier, UM, when you were talking like if
if fans can handle criticism of their teams or whatever, Um,
I think they can. I mean, if you know me,
you know that I'm harder on the Dodgers than like

(46:50):
most people are. UM. I think where the line kind
of gets blurred is when the criticism is like just
very lazy and or just not accurate at all. You
saw it a lot last year with the Lakers. Um,
if if you weren't a Lakers fan and weren't watching
the team night in a night out, you'd think that
they were the worst team ever put together. Yet there

(47:12):
they were, is the one seed in a Western conference
and pretty much in the entire year, but there was
always some new criteria being invented by people in the
media to try and downplay whatever success they had had.
So I think that's uh, you need to be able to, Like,
if you're going to criticize a team or present your

(47:33):
opinion on the team, I think you need to be
able to back it up. Um. And I think just
with so many sources of coverage available to people now,
you can't really get caught doing the lazy analysis on
a on a day in, day out, basisly I agreed
that I think you get exposed as a media member

(47:54):
if you are uh, if you're lazy about things, if
you're not diving deep. Yeah. The one thing I think
fans will respect even if they don't they don't really
care what you're saying, is that they go, well, these
two at least he knows what he's talking about, right,
Like I I'll respect this guy on a global wet

(48:16):
in a global way. Yeah. I think I think one
of the issues too is, um, the the two guys
yelling at each other format has like kind of taken
uh taken ahold of what I think younger people think
sports media is supposed to be, and it's kind of poisoned,
like the discourse. Like I almost I know you love

(48:38):
the NBA, I I almost can't watch it just because
the NBA has really embraced like the whole NBA Twitter thing,
But that's some of the worst discussion for sports you'll
find anywhere. Uh so I I and I think it's
just because you know, the the NBA got popularized by

(48:59):
by a certain media member screaming about Lebron James for
four hours every morning, and people decided to emulate him. Yes, yeah,
I think you're right about that. I think that's a
I think that is dangerous. I think there is a
lot of there is a lot of that stuff. I
would agree with that. I think people, I think that

(49:23):
changes you know, it's it may also makes people disingenuous,
like let me scream and let me create some point
to try to get drum up interest. And you know,
social media though, it is a huge element to this
whole thing, right, Like fig you can't deny the social
media mob. Like the reporter I bring up who says, well,

(49:47):
I just want to go I've discovered myself. He's only
covered himself because he doesn't want Eagles Twitter or all
those fans on the Eagles the hashtag. He's a cree
And like that's that comes with the job. You know,
in today's media. You know, that wasn't an issue, you know,
twenty years ago for someone like yourself. I mean maybe

(50:10):
because back then you have to put in an effort
to actually write a letter or dig deep into the
phone and try to call and get to your desk
extension to call it, you know, and and have give
somebody a piece of your mind. People weren't going to
go through that effort. Now you're just a tweet away.
But even with that, you know that comes with the job.
Your job is to be honest about the team that
you're covering, not to appease the fans and tell them

(50:31):
what you think they want to hear. And if you
can't handle the Twitter backlash that comes with it, then
just don't sign up for that gig. I'd rather not
take the job than to take it and just try to,
you know, try to appease the fan base and not
be honest. Yeah, I think there's a lot and I
think social media plays a huge role in that many
for sure, because it's so instant, instant access to anybody,

(50:54):
and I think it's, let's face it, I mean, it
can be intimidating too. Yeah, I can understand that. I
can understand that. But for someone who's entering into that
sort of job, but into this field these days, you
have to recognize that's something that that comes with the territory.
That's something that you're gonna have to be hardened against,
something you're gonna have to deal with. Yeah, yeah, it's true,

(51:17):
and you can't. You just can't back down all of
that I know. Yeah, and look, if somebody who comes
nasty or you can't block them if if need be,
I guess if you if you wanted to, if it
really got that bad. Right, But I think for you know,
for somebody like him, you know, I think he's just
like I don't want to deal with all these nuts, right,

(51:40):
like just tortured me. Like whatever you should, you should
you should always mute on Twitter instead of block. It's
way more fun. That means they don't know that they
can just sit there and scream into the void all
they want. You'll never see it. But uh, it's it's
way they don't get the satisfaction of getting blocked. Yeah, right,

(52:00):
that's a good point because now they know they got
to you. That's the case. Bo. Yeah, it's it's always mute.
There you go. That's good stuff. But all right, coming up,
we switch our conversation and I want to get into
some NFL wind totals. We'll get into some NBA long
range talk as well, and don't forget we got this

(52:21):
athletics story that I think it's really interesting and it
is the popularity of the three sports, so we'll discuss that.
Do be a favorite figure if you can dig that up,
I only need to read it. So we'll we'll discuss that.
We're the fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio. All right,

(52:41):
welcome back, fairless. Let's shift a little bit. Let's dive
into the fortunes of our teams. And we're gonna do
it through the wind totals. And I want to go
through the wind totals for the team, and we're gonna
take over or under the four of us. Each of

(53:05):
us will dive into the over under in the totals.
Are you guys ready for that? Let's do it? Are
you ready? Chris were good? Yeah? You sure about that?
About Bo? Yeah, let's do it. Figure. I might need

(53:28):
you to help you. You know what I'm saying. All right,
here we go. Give me some you know, give us
some music. Man, Come on, give me some football music.
Go miss a big shot sound engineer. Thank you. Let
us start with the Patriots. Fig. The number is nine,

(53:54):
the total is one. You're gonna if you bet over
it's minus one thirty for the Patriots over nine, under nine,
and I'm going to go under the Vegas total for
New England. I don't think they're ready to compete. I

(54:16):
don't think Belichick believes it, and I think he's another
year away, and then he turns it around figging what
you say, Well, based on all the money they spent
this offseason, I believe that Belichick does believe they're at
least good enough to compete for a playoff spot. So
I think, you know, nine, nine eleven wins is I

(54:37):
think they believe is within their reach. I'm also gonna
go under, but not very much under. I think they
can go eight and eight, and which means that they
can go eight and eight, they can easily go nine
and seven or I guess you have to at the
additional game. I guess you'd say nine and eight to
nine to ten wins. I think it's possible, but for
the sake of the bet, I would go under to
be safe. Right. That's yes, I agree with you. I

(54:58):
just think they fall short. I I think the quarterback,
he's very good, and I think it's in on their
spot for him. I also think Buffalo remains that the
key to that division. I think Miami's good better than
New England. So I we h, hy my go, I'm
going on there? Uh what do you got, psycho, Chris? Yeah,

(55:20):
I'm taking the under on this one, and neither of
their quarterbacks looked that good. And to be honest, as
much as they've spent, as much as they have tried
to improve this team, there's still some big questions on
offense beyond just quarterbacks. So I just don't see it happening.
I feel like this this total is kind of set
given public perception. The Patriots, Oh, they'll be back, but

(55:42):
I don't think they're back yet. I agree BO with
us are against us? No, I'll take the over. They
had a lot of opt outs last year that are
going to come back. Uh, they went what eight and
eight last year, right with Cam Newton playing awful after
he got of it. Um, they spent a ton of

(56:02):
money and I don't know. I'm just never gonna count
Bill Belichick out. So I think last night looked at
their schedule that it's not terrible. So I'll take you over.
I think they can get to ten or eleven. All right,
there he is. Bo goes over. I the a t
L Atlanta seven and a half for the Falcons. Figgy,

(56:30):
what do you say? I Am going to go with
the under. Quite honestly, I think they're going to be
someone improved, but I still don't know if they're going
to be good enough on both sides of the ball
so to be able to make a dent from an
eight nine win standpoint. So I think they're they're at best,
they're probably looking at six six seven wins, So I'll

(56:51):
take the UH. Psycho Chris, I'm on the fence here,
but I'm going to narrowly slide two over just just
because it's a seventeen game schedule this point. I think
the divisions they have pulled outside of the NFC South
UH look to be in their favor. However, I do

(57:12):
know we're going to see if they try if they're
gonna be trying to deal Julio Jones, and that's going
to make a big difference. However, I think I think
they're going to do that now that I think they
want to take one more shot at it, which is
why I'm on the over. Maybe, but they also have
Kyle Pitts now, so I think would be not bad,
not as bad as we think. Kyle Pitts is ready

(57:34):
to play right now and be a monster. Um. I
could see eight and nine easily for them, So I'm
just barely taking the over. Bo, I think I'll take
the under. They're gonna be like one of those uh
college teams that scores like fifty points a game, so
can't stop the other team from scoring, and they just
they're they're not going to find a lot of wins

(57:55):
I think in their own division. Um so I I
I don't think I can see them going going over
eight wins next year? All right, uh Niners? Ten and
a half for the Niners, FIGI at half point, I
always gets you all right, now, now with the extra game,

(58:17):
extra game, they go eleven and six is basically what
you want. Correct also acknowledging they're play in a very
tough Division two, very to the best division football. So
but you know they have an excellent defense when healthy.
They have an excellent team when healthy. Of course, their
quarterback is never healthy, which is why they drafted another
one in the draft. Um but you know what I'm

(58:38):
going to I'm gonna take the I'm gonna say the over.
I think they can get to eleven wins this year.
I think they're that good. I have that much love
for Kyle Shanhan and what he's doing over there, so
and I think they'll be able to get some of
their guys back on defense, and they'll be right back
to contending for the Super Bowl again. I agree, I
have the over as well, Psycho Chris I I I'm

(59:00):
gonna take the over. I almost feel like I want
to be spicy and say this almost feels like my
favorite in that division, even over the Rams. Right now,
it's gonna be between Rams or as you say, it's
a very tough division. Cardinals I think will be a
little improved this year too. But I think with the

(59:21):
schedule they play, with the defense they have, with the
offensive line they have, they'll go to trail ants probably
sooner rather than later. But again with that offensive line,
the weapons they have back. Yeah, I just I like.
I like what they're doing a lot, So I'm gonna
take the other bow. I'll take the under, but just barely. Um,

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there's still like as good as they are there, I
think there's a lot of questions there. I haven't seen
a lot of people acknowledge that they just lost Robert
Sale and who knows how that team is gonna react
to that. Um, they can never stay healthy, and I
I think it's kind of weird to count on Jimmy
Garoppolo staying healthy for an entire season when he's not

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been able to do that. So Trey Lance is gonna
get shoved in there sooner rather than later. And he
also hasn't really played uh competitive football more than once
over the last couple of years here. So I think
they'll still manage to win double digit games. But I
just apparently I think all right, bow of the underboat.
I disagree on every team so far, uh Rams, Biggie

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ten and f Stafford and the Rams, well, they have
not done anything to get worse in the off season,
that's for sure. Maybe you could argue the offensive line
as still a bit of an issue, but their defense
still dominant. They've been improved at the quarterback position. Uh
and even with that, look how well they played last

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year despite having Jared Golf in the mix. So I'm
actually gonna with it over with them as well at
ten and a half. It's funny because usually all have
to take two overs in the same division, same but
but I don't see it. I don't see how they
don't want at least to go eleven and six both

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these teams. I'm with you. I think I'm taking the over. Yeah,
I'm taking the over two, and I don't mind taking
over on two in the same division, just because I
think both Los Angeles and San Francisco are going to
separate themselves in the pack, do well out of division,
trade games with each other, and just both of them.
Especially with the extended schedule. I could see one team

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taking the division at probably thirteen and four and the
other maybe a wild card at twelve and five. It
feels like both teams are great. As you say, this
was the best one of the best defenses, if not
the best defense last year in the NFL. Now you've
added Matthew Stafford to to the mix here. Who I

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don't want to hear about Matthew staff for lack of
success in the play in the playoffs or whatever. I
don't want to hear about quarterback wins. He had a
lot of flaws with a lot of the teams that
he played with in Detroit. He's a weapon. We'll see
what happens within the playoffs. And you really want to
believe that quarterbacks go out there and act like boxers

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and they win or lose games on your own, I
can't help you. All I know is that Stafford makes
that offense immeasurably better. So I'm taking the off bo. Yeah,
I'll take the over to UM. Stafford is such a
Stafford is a massive improvement over Jared Goff, at least
the version of Goff that they got last year. But

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there's also so some of those questions to Brandon Staley
is not their defensive coordinator anymore. I literally have no
idea who's going to play center for the Rams next year. Um,
but Stafford should be enough to kind of keep them,
keep them or make them an even better team than
they were last year. Let's do one more and before

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we go to trending, let's go Jacksonville. And this will
be interesting. This is gonna be a lot of fun.
Sunshine six and a half for Urban Meyer and Sunshine Figgy. Yeah,
and they don't have and I know we talked about
this earlier in the show. It's very difficult to project,

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you know, strength of schedule and how a schedule stacks
up based on last year. But they don't have a
necessarily an easy road that they have to go through
this year. And you're indoctrinating a first year coach, which
could be a good thing, by the way, who knows
what Rban Meyer is going to present that the NFL
hadn't seen before, or maybe it take time to adjust to.
But you're the one to rookie in there without a

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whole heck of a lot to work with. At six
and a half, I'd be inclined to take the under.
They think they're probably closer to four or five wins
at best this year. Yeah, I'm with you, first year coach,
first year quarterback. I'm bullish on Jacksonville now, but this year,
I just think she's got to be the year of

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acclamation for Jacksonville. But I think it could be a
swift rise. Does that make sense? Yeah, this year, it
could be a six win team, six and eleven. Then
they can flop it next year. I could totally see
that happening. I would not be surprised if they won
six games or seven games, but I don't think that's likely. Chris,

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I'm going under, and I am not bullish on the
Jacksonville Jaguars because of their coach right now. I had
a little more faith at urban Meyer would adapt to
the pro system, and then I watched how he drafted
and Travis e Ten is a good back. But I
I'm take going up to twenty two whatever it wasn't

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taking him like, and then turning around and then Urban
Meyers saying he doesn't like free agency, he wants guys
who want to be there, and then turning around and
giving a nod and however, were small to Tim Tebow
to try at a tight end. It it feels like
he's acting like a college coach in the NFL ranks,
which isn't good. And it feels a little bit like

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he's gonna really realize real quick he might be a
little in over his head. I'm also not a huge
fan of who they have as our offensive coordinator. Daryl
Bevil's been middling at best, and you're doing a rookie
quarter Yeah. Yeah, a rookie quarterback, a rookie coach who's
never coached the professional level, guys who aren't used to

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lose it. I think this is gonna be a lot
of growing pains in Jacksonville. I've got the under bow, Yeah,
I'll take the under um. Preliminary little look at their
schedule here, I think there's only two games that I
would uh favor them in, and they're both against the Texans. UM.
So yeah, I think I'll hammer the under on their

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wind total. There, right, let's do this figgy pittance with
some trending and and we'll get back to the exercise.
All right, Well, we'll start with some Major League baseball
in Los Angeles, the Dodgers winning their third game in
a row. They defeat Miami by the score of nine
to six. Clayton Kershaw struck out eleven also drove in
a run for the Dodgers in the victory. Former Dodger

(01:06:14):
Manny Machado drove in a couple of runs for San Diego.
They held off a Cardinals rally for a five to
four victory. Aaron Judge to home runs, leaving the Yankees
over Baltimore. Max shows Are struck out seven and got
the victory, as the Nationals curb stomped Arizona, Oakland, Atlanta,
the Cubs in Seattle with victories, Red Sox getting home
runs from Buying down Back and Hunter Renfro in a

(01:06:34):
win over the Angels. In the NBA, the seventies Sixers
clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference after beating
Orlando at the bottom of the Eastern Conference, Washington clinching yes, yes,
I'm sorry I was celebrating the top seed in the East. Yeah,
I'm sorry. Are they Are they raising? Are they raising

(01:06:57):
a banner for that? Over in in Philadelphia? Just checking,
you know, still work to do the process and over yet,
still got work to do there. And but we'll discuss
that at the bottom of the Eastern Conference. The Wizards
at won sixteen of the last twenty two games after
getting off to a just terrible start, find their way
into the play and tournament. They have quinched a spot
into the playing tournament after beating Cleveland Russell Westbrook another

(01:07:20):
triple double, twelve boards and seventeen assists for US Denver
getting a triple double from Nicola Yokick. They defeated Detroit.
The Clippers lost a Houston, so that that means the
Nuggets find themselves in the three seat in the Western Conference,
while the Clippers fall to number four. For now. Dallas
defeated Toronto, clinching at least the top six finish. And
you saw what a victory over Oklahoma City. They can

(01:07:42):
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Kneelson Report. Limitases apply. Let's continue as we go through
all the wind totals, having some fun and look who's next. Oh,
how about this. We'll start with Psycho Chris calls Allions
are all on the clock, the Lions check in and
five can the Lions Eclipse five that went down the

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last night. Looks it was like six, but that was
like a few months ago. Looking at it, finn at
is that is almost right on the money, no hook either. Uh,
I'm gonna take the over, but slightly. I think they
they play all three of their road Division games before

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the first half before the second half of October, so
they're getting those out of the way. It's gonna be
a brutal start. I could see them starting one in four,
but they're going to have something they haven't had a
long time, which is a bye week in the middle
of the season at week nine. Usually for the Lions,
they get a bye week in like Week four and
then have to sweat out the rest of the season. Uh.

(01:09:35):
Some of the back end of the schedule is a
little more forgiving. There's road games against the Broncos and
Falcons which could be rough, but I could see them
maybe sweating out five is like right on the number.
If you let me, I would take this as a push.
But I think they'll pick up one more game in there,
and I'll take the over despair against the Eagles. That

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one a toss up. I'm not gonna lie that. That's
gonna really depend on how Jared Goff does with a
new new offense. Within with Anthony Lynn in in Detroit, Yeah,
I agree, Uh, figure Lions five. Yeah, I'm taking Deander
on this one too. I think I agree with Chris
that at best their five wins, to be honest with you,

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on top of the fact that they are in a
bit of a rebuilt themselves. Yeah, immittedly within the rebuild.
I like I do like Anthony Lynn, and I think
things didn't work out the way that many people would
have liked for him with the Chargers. But he's a good,
hard nose coach that wants to run the ball. And
we all know, anybody that watched Jared Golf knows the
running game is absolutely his best friend. And they do

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have They do have a decent line. Now, you know,
they take Sewol and they've locked up Ragnet right now,
Like I mean, right now, they've got both tackles said,
they've got a good guard. We'll see how Viti does.
Can they stop somebody? We'll we'll see, We'll see. But
I mean they've got DeAndre Swift and a lot of
people are expecting him taking I love Swift. I do
think they take strides offensively. That doesn't mean they'll be

(01:11:03):
great offensively, and I don't think they're that good defensively either.
Great receivers. Yeah, so I think five is a good number,
but I will take the under for the purposes of
the line, I'm gonna go over. I think they can
win six games. I think they're I think this coach
is going to get in the grind it out off. Yes,
I do. I think they're going to run the ball,

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play defense. I think that Detroit tough thing works. I'll
take over Psycho chrisbo What do you got? I think? Uh,
I think I'm gonna take the under, but just slightly. Um.
They are rebuilding. Defense wasn't very good, but they do

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have the pieces in place to actually let Jared Goffs succeed,
which is a good offensive line and a good running
back or two. Um. But we'll see about their wide
receivers out there in Detroit. So I I think I
think five is probably right on the money, but I'll
take the under, al right. How about the Saints Boys?

(01:12:09):
Saints coming in nine? Big? Um, I'm actually going to
take the under on this. Um. I think people are
discounting and look as good as of a program they've built.
And I love Sean Payton has done a great job there.
You know, not having Drew Brees is a is a
big deal. And whoever you try to replace him with
for a full seat, this isn't Teddy Bridgewater holding you know,

(01:12:30):
holding it holding it down for a month and a half.
If you have to go a full season with Jamis
Winston or Taysom Hill as your everyday starting quarterback, and
that scares me. So I love Alvin Kamara. I think
they're solid defensively, not as good as they like to be.
They've gotta still fix that defensive backfield some so I
don't know if their offense is gonna be good enough anymore.

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It's overshadows some of their defensive deficiencies they have at times.
So eight is a little high for me. So I'm
going under all right, and I'm definitely going on there.
I I think this is a stone on there Saints.
Uh So I go, Chris, what do you got? Can
I just read the start of their schedule here? Like
we always hear about how NFL teams once they're in

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a hole, it kind of changes their attitude. And you know,
I was talking with the Lions going one four to start.
This is the start of the Saints schedule home against
the Packers, which I don't know. Maybe if Aaron Rodgers
is there, that's I mean, if Rogers is gone, maybe
that's winnable. But at Panthers at Patriots, Giants, at Washington
at Seahawks, Buccaneers, that that takes you through to the

(01:13:33):
end of October. That's a brutal skit right there. I
I'm gonna go under. I think we're not giving Drew
Brees enough credit and how much that team is great
and I've made that team great, and I I can't
I can't endorse Jameis Winston as a quarterback in the NFL.
He's he's not good and he's been cashing in a

(01:13:54):
lot of checks for people who have thought otherwise but
have not has not proven it. All Right, what you
got my man bow? Yeah, I think I'm gonna take
the under. Um, I don't trust Jameis Winston. And as
as much as I want them to run out Taysom
Hill for the entire season and the starting quarterback, that

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would be very funny to watch. Um, I just don't
think they're Their defense is good, but I don't think
their offense is gonna be good enough to get them
over the hump theres I'll take the under. Kansas City
Chiefs twelve in halfing a big fat number, and I'll
go over. Man. Yeah, if you gave me fourteen, I
might take. No, I wouldn't take the over on that,

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but yeah, I'll take the over on twelve and a half.
There's no signs of slowing down. If anything, they got better.
They improve their offensive line after what happened in the
Super Bowl against them, Uh so they're not going anywhere.
They have all the tools in place, so there's no
drop off for Kansas City. And if there was any
change for them this offseason, they actually improved themselves. I'm

(01:14:57):
with you, over, over, over, who do you got psycho
over by a game and maybe two? I would not
take the over it was if it was still a
sixteen game schedule, but now that we're at seventeen, I
think it changes the math. And I like the over bow. Yeah,
pretty much everything uh fake said like they got better

(01:15:19):
in the off season and now we get to see
Patrick Mahomes go out and play in a response to
a loss in the Super Bowl. So I think they're
going to be very good again. FORTI five offensive line.
I'm with you. I love the over the Chiefs back
to prominence. They're good in any of these are great,
Coach h We'll come back and we'll continue our foray

(01:15:45):
around the league. I think you look at some winds
totals and some uh what we think these teams are
at very interesting stuff where the fellas right here on
Fox Sports Radio. Um, all right, let's stead take quick
break over the over unders. We only made it through

(01:16:10):
like a ten teams. We'll revisit that. We'll go a
little bit more rapid fire coming up next hour, because
it's fun to kind of go over these things because
what you're doing is you're taking a look at each
team and kind of where it stands. But let's shift
gears a little bit to the NBA boys, and I'm

(01:16:33):
curious at West, the balance of power. Utah Phoenix, we know,
are fighting for the one seed. Denver is going to
get the three, Clippers are going to get the four.
The team that you have to look out for is
the Lakers. Now that they're healthy. Dallas avoids the playing

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game that mournament by collecting the fifth seed. Gents, let's
take a look at the West. How do you size
him up? Fake? Well, I will say, if we're talking
about the Lakers in particular in that seven hole, they
might be better off actually being in the playing tournament
than they would be if they actually got up and

(01:17:20):
call out qualified for the sixth seed. I think I'd
rather face an underman and look, Steph Curry is having
a great year and he's playing great. But let's there's
make no bones about it. The Warriors are not a
good team. So they're they're they're in the playoffously have
under you know, there's a few games over Yeah, well yeah,
uh so the Lakers, I'm honestly get themselves right in

(01:17:42):
a you know, playing game or even two if maybe
they lose the first one, I have to play a
second one against Golden State or Memphis, by the way,
and they have a big game on Sunday to determine
who actually is going to be the Ape Seed. I
think it's actually more advantageous for a team like the
Lakers to be in the play in get warmed up
against a team like Golden State or Memphis instead of
having to jump right in and having to face Denver
or the Clippers, who, by the way, I think, well

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maybe maybe tougher outs, and the Clippers more so than
Denver because they don't have Jamal Murray, they might be
tougher house and say Utah or Phoenix teams that especially
Phoenix does not have a lot of playoff experience safe
for Chris Paul on their roster, and Utah doesn't have
Donovan Mitchell back healthy, and you know, there's they seem
to be one of those teams where the hole is
greater than some of its parts. They don't have like

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a great stand out individual outside of Donovan Mitchell to
really carry them, and he doesn't have a lot of
big postseason moments. So, uh, if you look at it
from that standpoint, for the Lakers, I think it's great
for them to be actually in the seven seed at
this point. And if your Phoenix, you want to get
as high as possible and get that home court advantage
if you can in for Utah one of the best
home court advantages in all of sports as we know,

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So if they can get the one seed, that would
be humongous having to potentially play a game seven in Utah,
regardless of who the opponent is. What's to deal with Mitchell.
I mean, he's been banged up for the last few
weeks and I feel like it's been one of those
if the it's the old adage, if the playoffs were
happening now, he could play. But these are still very
important games for them and seeding does matter. Another thing

(01:19:07):
is you don't know who your opponent necessarily is going
to be because of the playing at the bottom of
the Western Conference. So when you're at the top of
the conference, you can't really pick and choose. Well, I'd
rather be two or I'd rather be one, because you
have no idea who you're facing against. Yeah, it's it's
And I agree with what you say about the Lakers
because if I'm the Lakers, I know Lebron hates thee

(01:19:28):
a concept of the play in but you know what,
you get yourself right, get into a little bit of
a rhythm, it can't hurt you, like because they're not
gonna go out, They're gonna lose, so you know, I agree.
I think it actually makes them even more dangerous, especially
if they can come out of it like in the seven,

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if they can get you know what I mean, I'm
with you. You find you get ways to get you
have a game and possibly to it, to get yourself right,
to get healthy, to get chemistry against a team that
you know is is really inferior to you. So it's
different than if you're opening up against Utah or Phoenix,
or you know, if you move up a seat and
you have to face the Clippers or Denver. You're trying
to spend the first couple of games that are vitally

(01:20:10):
important in that series to try to get yourself right,
and that can be enough to lose the series for
you if you fall down into one No two hole.
I'm I'm what do you think? And I do think
the Jazz are dangerous and I would agree. I think
Mitchell play Phoenix so good young. Although I love Chris Paul,

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I still think if I you put a gun to
my head, then that West is really good and anybody
can get out of it. Why do I keep going
back to Clippers because you see the talent is there
for them, you know, and when they're when they're fully healthy,
we've seen how well they can play. And so they've
had a lot of moving parts. Patrick Beverly has been

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in and out. He's now back. Surgebaka returned to the
lineup on fry Day. He missed thirty games, came in
on Friday night, got fifteen points in seventeen minutes. He
looked just fine. So he's the guy that people have
even forgot about. They forgot that he was even on
the roster. He was their biggest offseason edition. So the
Clippers are are extremely dangerous, but just like every other
team in the West save for Phoenix. They've had health

(01:21:17):
issues all season long, and I think that's why they're
not sitting at the very top of the conference. And
even with that being said, there are four games back
at Utah. It's only they, you know, fell completely out
of the race. They just had a lot of adversity
this year. Yeah. Interesting, all right, we'll continue NBA discussion.
We'll get the all sports and back to the wind totals.
And he had NFL Fellas on Fox. Oh, welcome back

(01:21:42):
Fellas on a lovely Saturday morning. May the freak this day,
good sports day. We wind down the NHL regular season.
We're gonna start some Meniel playoffs and bat too far
away here Figgy talking about it Tuesday to playing tournament starts.

(01:22:05):
Looking forward to that in baseball and baseball has been uh,
a lot of fun. I think this early season. I
think baseball has enjoyed much higher ratings. I think there
is a buzz around baseball, which really kind of heartens
me as as a father, I'm a my little one,

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he's a big They loves it. He loves baseball. We're
I'm at a field, you know, four or five days
a week. He plays on two Leagues travel team and
his little uh wreck team and so he's eight prime
time and watching the kids. Man, it's it's been the

(01:22:49):
kids want to love with the sport. Is it's a
great age because they're during the stage of development and
they dig it, and they they're you know, they're kind
of talking about it, you know, talking about Trout and
and my neckt Woods Harper and of course Tatiss. So

(01:23:11):
it's been a lot of fun. I think baseball and
you said sit Figgy because you're a baseball man, you
said baseball on the uptick. Yeah, And it's kind of
kind of hard to put my finger on a little bit,
to be honest with you, I don't think anything has
been inherently different other than the feast or famine mentality
that we've kind of complained about over the years. I
think has been exacerbated even more this year. So with

(01:23:34):
the dead ending of the ball. So maybe there's slightly
fewer home runs, but now the strikeouts are way up,
so it's one it's still we're kind of still in
that conundrum where we've had four or five however you
want to count them, no hitters already this this at
this point in the season, um, and you have strikeouts
are going are happening at an historic rate, even more
so than usual than they have been the last couple

(01:23:56):
of years. Um. So yeah, there's been an upticking interest,
which I love. I think it's great. You know, baseball
has turned into more of a regional sport over the
last decade decade and a half or so, but there's
a lot more national attention, and I do think that
the league is embracing a little bit more of like
the exciting, the excitement part of it. That a lot
of the flair, you know, for Nando Tatis as you mentioned,
one of the young faces of baseball. Uh, you know,

(01:24:17):
Trevor Bauer, for all of his eccentricities, you know, brings
up a point. So you know, I love when guys
chirp at me when they give up a home run.
I shouldn't give it up if I don't want them
yelling at me. And Noah synder Guard doubled down on
that earlier this week. He said, I agree with Trevor Bauer.
We need to have some excitement and some flair in
Major League Baseball and that's only gonna help it, especially
when it comes to the appeal for younger generations, like

(01:24:38):
your son and like others. Aunt. Yeah, I'm with you,
and I don't know. I just you're right. It really
hasn't changed much except you use the word exacerbated, which
is a great word, and it's true. There are now
I won't say this stolen bases her up, which is good. Yeah,

(01:25:00):
because I think stolen back. I think swiping bags is
a great that's a great, you know, fun exciting play.
But I I'm with you. I don't know what it is,
but it feels like, you know, baseball. I don't want
to say all the way back, but it's it's there, man,
I'm excited about it. Well, well, I want to get

(01:25:21):
into this athletic story, his story in the Athletic about uh,
the three big sports and jockeying for supremacy and popularity
and uh, we'll discuss it. But let me throw this
at you real quick. You know, it's funny. I was
talking to one of the old timer baseball guys, right
who I don't want to say it is because I

(01:25:44):
want to quote him with something, and he um, he's
been in a game for fifty years. So he was
telling me. We were talking about the state of the game,
and he was talking about the internal battle. He's with
an organization and he was talking to out the internal
battle between analytics and baseball people. So there is uh

(01:26:08):
this he said, He tell me how one of these
guys came out and one of these tech guys, and
it's this thing where it reads facial expressions. So you're
you have the camera and it's like it's an app right,
and while they feel ground balls in practice, you'll see

(01:26:34):
them right if you're taking groundballs. It will read their
body language, but will read their facial expressions. And if
they show up angry, that means they should not play
that night because they will get sloppy in the fields.
And if they get sloppy the field, it means they

(01:26:56):
will also not take uh, they'll take it to the
play with them. Now, has this been tested? Reviewed at
the research behind being tested now as we speak. And
it was shown to to my friend who was like,
this is ridiculous, all right, you know, because he was like, dude,

(01:27:19):
I could just see now, he goes, I could just
see players faking like their maid so they get a
day off. Yeah, on its surface, that does sound ridiculous,
but if there's data behind it, and the data backs
that I won't. You know, I won't, And he said,
and he said listen. To his credit, he said, listen,
I'm got'm all ears to use it as a tool

(01:27:42):
because that the guy is in a bad way. Now,
theoretically you're not gonna be acting anyway. The players players
are players, right, They go in and take round balls,
take BP. But this thing reads their expressions to tell
you what kind of moved they're in. It almost is
a mood reader, like a mood ring. And by the

(01:28:03):
by the way, not to go backwards. But by the
time they're on the field warming up, the lineup is
already out generally, So yeah, well, I mean he was
talking to early like, you know, whether it's p P
or got you you know you're at home team I
who know its like I don't get to the yard
and line has changed to line ups can change too,
so yeah, and he was just but but I thought
it was fascinating thing like that. They're they're trying to

(01:28:26):
read your mood now and to discuss whether or not
you know, you should play that night, and that you're
in the right frame of mind to play. And you
base that off of my facial expression. You know, I
could have got a piece of grass in my eye
and it calls me to squint, and because because I
do that, that means that I'm angry, you know. The
he's the sort of thing that you have to be

(01:28:47):
to look out for you. So that's where it seems
a little over the top, can you really? I mean
some guys just have you know, they have like, you know,
the naturally angry looks on their faces, and they could
be totally fine. I knew a guy at this back
in the day I went to high school. If he
always looked like he was piste off right and you
you know, rashid a little bit. I've spoken more of

(01:29:08):
them once. Nice guy, but if you see him from
across the room, he looks like he has a scowl
on his face. Stephen Jackson is a perfect example of
that too. Stephen Jackson is one of the nicest guys
you'll ever meet. But I mean he just kind of
has like a natural like, oh, I don't want to
mess with a guy. I don't want to talk to
that guy. Does that mean he's angry? No? No, So
that's a that's a hard way to gauge. You can't
I can't look at a facial recognition feature to determine

(01:29:31):
whether or not a guy. First of all, I have
to determine every if he actually is angry, and if
he's angry, what is he about? What is it about?
Does that mean he can't tune it out? Every player
is different. Some guys can compartmentalize and have things going
on in their personal life and turn it off and
turn and actually be able to perform, and other guys can't.
That seems more of like a psychological I need to
talk to a team guy before a game, then let

(01:29:53):
me look at a video and determine how a guy's feeling.
That's the part that seems ridiculous to me. And it's
not like you're like base agually what's doing is it's
reading it for you? Yes, So it's just spitting out
all for facial you know, it's got the cameras and
whole thing. So it's basically it's a mood. That's what
you describe it is. It's an app that's really a

(01:30:15):
mood ring. So it just it really kind of puts
in perspective how that player is feeling at a certain time. Yeah, Yeah,
there's too many variables with individual people. When it comes
to that, it's one thing to say, Okay, this guy

(01:30:36):
doesn't hit lefties well enough or shift over this direction.
There's data, that's how he plays. That's what is set up.
Is that's easy. You start determined to somebody's mood and
how they're feeling and what's in their mind without actually
talking to them. That's dangerous. I don't know if i'd
allow something like that to influence whether or not I
play somebody. Now, if it's something that I look at,
his body language doesn't look good, and maybe it's something

(01:30:58):
I talked to him about where I put the lineup out.
If you use it in that way, maybe that makes sense.
But to just say I'm not going to put you
in the lineup because you are angry the entire time
you're out there for BP today or an less you
appeared angry during BP, that seems a little over the
top for me. Yeah, it does. I would keep her

(01:31:19):
bizarre though. It's but that's where we're at. You know
where that this is, and this is what you know
that my buddy, who is the baseball lifer. That was
his point was listening, I think I'm as a manager.
He used to manage back in the day, and he's like,
I know, he goes, I know how to read players.

(01:31:39):
You know, he reads players. He don't understands part of
job right, like you know. And he's a guy like
you know some guys. He knows that he's got a
past her and he's got to talk to all the
guys he leaves alone, like you know. Like that was
always a thing where I really wish would have happened.
And I don't know if if in today's world you
can keep this sort of thing under wraps. But major

(01:32:01):
League Baseball and maybe a select few clubs would have
kind of done blindly done a study where the players
weren't aware, but but the front offices were, and maybe
just do it over a three year period with his
facial recognition thing. Tell you, I don't know, you know why,
I don't know the whole story behind it. I don't
know if it's you know, I'm not sure they might

(01:32:23):
be doing that. I don't know, right because I think
that will be the best way to actually gage to
see if something like this would actually work, and if
it if it works, you know, seventy eight percent of
the time, and then it tells you they might be
onto something, you know, but the problem is to your point,
when it becomes public knowledge, who's to say guys like,
I'm just gonna look mad at the entire time? Warm
it up. I want to sit down today. Yeah, I

(01:32:44):
don't know that's the problem. Yeah, it's weird. You know,
you fade it whatever way you want it. I R.
Let's let's see this like take quick t O will
come back and we'll get back. Yeah, baby to the
wind totals And he had fl where the Fellas right

(01:33:05):
here on Fox Sports read all right, welcome back Fellas.
So how does that fig Zack Wilson? How does Zach
Wilson's mom play in New York? How does that work out?

(01:33:27):
Probably not that well, Oh my god. I mean I
don't know. I think worked in New York and all
the tabloids. I don't know how Zach Wilson's mom is
gonna there there man. Yeah, it's probably one of those
you know, like mom, maybe you want to calm it
down a little bit. Is that the time hasn't changed

(01:33:50):
a little bit. I'm not no longer the quarterback at
b y u H. The profile is a little bit higher.
Everything I do and that you do will be scrutinized
and everybody that knows me and is associated with me mostly,
So let's let's leave all that to the shut up
the old I don't want to say. You don't have
to be as aggressive as Lebron was when he used
choice worse to tell his mom to sit down and

(01:34:12):
shut up, and he actually used a choice word when
he told her to do that during a playoff game.
But I mean, there's the way to nicely put it
to the side and say, look, my everything that you say,
you know, cannon maybe used against me. So let's slow
that down a little bit. Yeah, I mean, you can't
be that stupid too, Like, yo, mom, you could have

(01:34:32):
ripped Disney World and we already know kind of polarizing,
you know place we live in, so you know, and
then you used you know, then your analogy is a
little off base. Yeah, wolf color he stopped, And then
you get into the mask thing, Oh dude, killer yo,

(01:34:53):
Ma shut up. May anyway, by the way, we're not
trying to muzzle her. She has the right to say
whatever she wants, but just realize it, you know, in
that situation, her words affect more than just her. She
should be muzzled. If I'm Zack Wilson, I mean, really,
if I'm Zack Wilson, why don't I need the headache? Yes,

(01:35:13):
and that's what it is. If I, if I, if
I was Zack Wilson real estate broker, and you're my mom,
you could say whatever you want, doesn't matter. But the
game's changed now, especially when you're in New York, is
my point. You know that's the last place you want
to go to touch start making, you know, big headlines.

(01:35:33):
It will be a sideshow. All right, we are, Let's
get back to our wind totals are NFL wind totals.
Last we left, we all agreed that Kansas City was
gonna win over twelve and a half games. Well, from
the best team to the worst team, the Texans. Let's
try to move quickly through these teams. The Jexans four

(01:35:57):
and a half. I gotta tell I think they're so bad.
I think it's in u there. And and what do
you make of the DeShawn Watson stuff. Uh? Diana rousin
Me from ESPN believes that Sean that she quotes says
the lawsuits will go away and he'll get moved, so

(01:36:20):
he'll still be traded at some point belief that's interesting,
which can change the balance of power and the over
underwin totals for somebody else, whoever potentially would acquire him.
I mean, I guess the question would be, and we've
discussed this the last couple of months, if the Houston
Texas don't trade him, I mean, is he gonna retire,

(01:36:41):
is he gonna hold out? Or is he gonna come
back and try to get as much money as he
can and continue to play, Because I think that will
affect the over under you know what happens with it now. Granted,
they won four games last year with him in the lineup, um,
but even still, when you have a player of his caliber,
you know, you can easily get five six wins with
someone that's talented as he is. But based on how
bad they were last year, you said quickly, I'll say

(01:37:03):
under as well, I think they're probably looking at three wins.
I mean that lawsuit, you know, it's a big deal. Yes,
I mean, those lawsuits are a big deal. And if
nothing else he could he could end up being suspended
by the league, even if he doesn't have any you know,
they're not criminal charges, they're civil. But that as to me,
the league can't take action against him that can affect
the win total. If he is going to play, he
can sit out up to four to six games. Uh,

(01:37:29):
I'm taking the under. I really don't like taking the
under on low wind totals, but I'm looking at their
schedule right now and I'm I'm struggling to maybe Bow
can speak to this. I can't find a single game
where I would favor them at all. Team. Uh, yeah,
I mean the under. They don't have a quarterback right now.

(01:37:51):
I think they had three total draft picks last last month.
And yeah, they just are a dumpster fire and every every,
every part of the words. So I'll take the under.
The Los Angeles Chargers sit at nine. I like the
over there. I think it's even close. Fig what you say.

(01:38:13):
My problem is I've been bitten by the Chargers multiple
times over the last four or five years, because every
time I think they're gonna turn the corner, somebody of
significance gets injured and they end up losing. Like of
the six or seven games they lose, they lose like
five of them by like three points. Yes, how many
closed games they have lost over the lad And this
goes back to like the Mike McCoy days, like seven,

(01:38:34):
eight years ago. Like it's unbelievable how many closed games
they have lost. Justin Herbert looks to be a bright spot.
He was someone who I thought was gonna be a
bust to be honest with you, and he surprised me
to be honest with you while he played. He's only
gonna get better. So at nine, is it nine or
nine and a half? You said nine, I'll still I'll
take the over. I think they can win ten games
for short. Yeah, I do too. I look the over

(01:38:56):
a lot, Chris Um. Yeah, it's it's a rough one
because they always seem to get hurt at some point.
It's a tough division they're gonna be playing with. I
think the Broncos will be pretty well improved this year.
I what was it again? Nine? And it's not a

(01:39:17):
ton but it's also again nine. Nine is basically about
the five hundred and a new seventeen games cycle. I
I'll take the over. I won't feel good about it,
you know, just hope they keep Justin Herbert healthy and
you know, give Rashawn Slater some time to figure things
out on the offensive line. Uh yeah, I'll take the over. Um. Yeah,

(01:39:40):
Brandon Staley is going to be an interesting uh first
year head coach. And then I'm not I'm not convinced
that Herbert's development will be lateral. I think her you know, uh,
I don't think he's just gonna keep on getting better.
I think there's probably gonna be a stumble here. His
teams have film, but I'm looking at their schedule. They're
there's there's plenty of winnable games here. Um, you know,

(01:40:02):
it's just avoiding the Charger's curse. But I think they
can get over over nine wins. Yeah, fake the Vikings.
The Vikings similarly are at nine. I mean they're weird,
hard to figure out. I'm gonna go there. Yeah, I

(01:40:23):
think I would go under two. I think that's the
safe conservative thing to do for them. You don't know
what's gonna get a weekend week out with Kirk Cousins,
and like some people are been arguing whether or not
Kirk Cousin is going to be the starter by the
end of the season, I think he will be. I
don't think Mond is ready yet, but that discussion has
already started happening. Yeah, I'm I'm with you. There too.
What do you think they're psycho? Chris kind of hate

(01:40:46):
this nine number just because it feels like, in a
really bad spot for me to pick, I'll go under.
I feel like this is the year the wheels kind
of fall off for the Vikings a little bit. I
know they improved their offensive line, but as you say,
we don't what is with Kirk Cousins. I don't think
the backup they I mean, the other quarterback they took
him the draft is exactly ready to come in. And

(01:41:08):
it's an old squad. It's a very old squad right now.
It's not you know, having to play against the Packers
and the Bears twice a year is just not gonna
be fun for them. And the liance lines to yes,
what do you think, bo Um, I'm gonna take the over. Uh.
They don't have a primetime game until Halloween, so that

(01:41:32):
should moode well for Cousins. The biggest concern is that
they end the season with like, uh three primetime games
in the last five, which isn't good for Kirk Cousins.
But uh, I still think they'll pick up enough wins
in the middle there to get get to nine, at
least in the e Uh Colts can Carson Wentz and

(01:41:54):
it'll be a Christmas with Carson Carson on Christmas Day.
Oh you should hear people here in Philly. Oh god, Uh,
they're just bitter, bitter. Are they better at him? Are
they better at the Eagles? For games? Hate them? They
hate him? Yeah, Well they also look they also go

(01:42:19):
overboard and they look at you know, he was talking
about being back and they made west and they took
it into defense. And you know, I agree with you,
which is listen, they messed it up. They mocked it up.
It wasn't Carson's fault. The fault all you ready? Can

(01:42:42):
I'm going over How about you? I think that culture good.
The cults are very good, and even independent of the
quarterback position, where they obviously upgrade at this I think so,
especially of course, and it's healthy. And he's back with
Frank Reich. Uh yeah, I feel safe. Weapons he's got
a great running back, he's got great receiver, Michael Pittman,

(01:43:05):
he's having the Dude's offensive line is really good. Uh.
Two great running backs are two really good running backs. Yeah,
I'll take the over on this one. This is a
pretty easy one. How about you? Psycho Chris, I actually
feel like I'm gonna take the under here. I I'm
not a big believer in the Colts. I'm not a
big believer in Carson Wentz. Either. Put the two together

(01:43:26):
and you're pulling the NFC North. I mean, excuse me.
The NFC West is one of your divisions this year.
I I'm not I'm not thrilled with the Colts. I'm
gonna take the under even taking on there. How about you, bo, Yeah,
I'll take the over. Um. I think wins should probably
he can only get better, uh playing with actual talent

(01:43:50):
around him, and maybe there's something there with Frank Raich.
But I I definitely think they're at least looking at
for free wins this season with Houston and jack Sinville
on the schedule. So I think they can find six
more are in Tennessee is nine. I think I like
go over Tennessee in that division Fig eight so White,

(01:44:14):
what was the number for Tennessee nine? Nine? I mean
they're off that, You're still good. They can they can
grind you on the ground. Tannehill solid. Uh, their defensive
line took a bit of a step back last year.
That was kind of their Achilles heel after being a
strength the year before. So have they done enough to
improve on that side of the ball, I guess is

(01:44:36):
the question, um, which I don't know that they have.
So if it's nine, I think I'm going to take
the uder on nine. To be honest with you got it,
You got it, Chris, I'll take the over. I think
they're gonna be the division champions down there in the
a f C South, And yeah, I am. I think

(01:44:58):
I think they've got a much more winnabed path by light.
I just like your team better. I like I like
good offensive lines. I feel like they'll be able to
get it back on great. Yeah, but they don't have
Derrick Henry Run Run run Titans, Dude, That I don't know.
I mean, the Colts have some really good, some great backs. Listen,

(01:45:19):
I had Colts fans trying to get me fired from
my espionation job. I'm never going to give the Cults
any kind of accolades because I say they wasted gender.
That's not objective. That's goes against what we were talking
about earlier. That's full circle right there. Yeah, So I
can't even if you think the Colts are good enough

(01:45:40):
to win, you won't pick them because you're upset at
some of the fans. I think they waste quarterback talent.
I said that straight up. Fans want to be fired
for it. So I don't know what to do there
other than say, like, no, I just don't believe in
them this year. Just just call it a gut feeling.
I just don't believe in them. Yeah, I think they
wasted a quarterback talent with Andrew. Look, but that was
Ryan grig In, the general manager. I don't know if

(01:46:01):
it's a chronic thing with the organization. I mean Peyton
Manning was okay, you know last not check. I think
you could have winned a lot more. Uh. I mean
Jonathan Taylor, I love you, love Jonavan Tayler. Yeah, the
way they're built now was spectacular. I think God Chris
Belly has done an amazing job. Yeah, but uh, I

(01:46:27):
think over um, I I don't think I am a
little concerned with the Titans about losing um Arthur Smith
to uh to the Falcons head coaching job. Um. But
you know, again, it's the same kind of thing with
with Indianapolis. There's there's four free wins against Houston and Jacksonville,

(01:46:47):
and I think there's schedules set up favorably enough to
get them at least six more there, so i'll take
the over all, right, we agree they're figgy. Take it
away with the trending baby, all right, Well, let's start
with the Let's start at the NBA talk about the
playoff picture because it's rounding into shape. You know what.
Let's start with your Philadelphia seventies sixers are it's not

(01:47:10):
Bury the lead? Yes, the one seed in the Eastern
Conference got themselves to blow out victory over the Orlando Magic,
so they are going to be officially the one seat
out East. Really only other others shake up in the
Eastern Conference was all the way at the bottom looking
for the play in and that is the Washington Wizards,
who go off to such a terrible start this season,
have been on a hot street for the last month

(01:47:31):
month and a half, and of course, of course, led
by Russell Westbrook, get another triple double and they have
now clinched a position in the play in tournament for sure.
If we go back out west, you had Dallas getting
a victory over Toronto. They got a triple double as well,
by the way, from Luca don Chick. So they guarantee
themselves at least a top six seed. They will not
have to participate in the play in tournament. Utah in

(01:47:53):
a fight for feedix for the top seed in the
Western Conference. Utah dig get a victory over Oklahoma City.
If they beat Sacramento tomorrow, they will be the one seed. Otherwise,
they can still get the one seed if Phoenix happens
to lose one of their final two matchups against San
Antonio over the next couple of days. Going to baseball,
the Dodgers scoring eight runs in the second any they
held on for a nine to six win over Miami.

(01:48:15):
That's three straight wins for the Dodgers. Washington was all
over Arizona, Seattle getting home runs from Mitch Hanniger and
Kyle Seger in a victory over Cleveland, Oakland, and the
Yankees with wins. Yankees getting a couple of home runs
from Aaron Judge against the Orioles Baltimore. I'm sure it's
tired of seeing Aaron Judge already this year hitting five
sixty two against It's ridiculous, and five home runs and

(01:48:36):
in four multiple home run games against them already this season.
You had to win for the Cubs over the Tigers,
Red Sox over the Angels, and Tampa Bay snapping the
Mets seven game win streak. Three to two was the
final score in Tampa. Back to the Fellas, Why thank you,
my man. It's the fig We are the Fellas, Psycho
Chris and Bow of course kevity figures fig m cause

(01:49:00):
Anthony Gargano and together we are the Fellas, and we're
looking at some winds totals, some NFL winsos going over
the season, kind of seasonal outlook on what we're looking at.
A lot of fun. I'm enjoining this. You mean we
cover a lot with each of these teams. We'll continue
try to get through some more lots to do, though,

(01:49:21):
I got lots of other stuff that we need to
get to including and I'm curious, figure, if you saw
the video of the little type playing football who gets
planted while they're doing Oklahoma drill, well, yeah, it's like
there was one of those running back drills where they're
trying to teach you to basically blow a guy up.

(01:49:42):
And it's it's a very interesting back and forth on
social media because a couple of guys like that's how
you hit, and most people are like, No, that's the
reason why you know, there's been such an emphasis on
concussions and getting kids to not play tackle football, because
that having a situation like that is agreed as children
should never be in a position to do that to

(01:50:03):
each other. That's unbelievable. And the fact that he might
will glorify that is ridiculous to me. I mean, look
a little oh my god, I just said, it's amazing.
We talked about youth sports a little bit early on,
but these some of these dudes are insane. Yeah, I
mean you're you're having you know, six seven year olds
possibly getting concussions and their brains aren't even fully developed yet.

(01:50:26):
I mean, you know, how what kind of what kind
of damage delatary, how delatarious that can beat to their development?
Forget as a football player, just as a person, as
a human cognitively, all of that. Yes, horrible, absolutely horrible. So,
uh well, we'll discuss that and when it's ramifications. But
uh let's go back to the big boys. Miami is

(01:50:48):
a nine wind total the Dolphins into it's all about
two because he's got a good defense, he's got good weapons.
I didn't like their draft, but he's too already to
lead them to a plus nine wind total. What you

(01:51:10):
say fake? No, I didn't like to it coming out
of Alabama. Didn't like what I saw a limited action
last year. I know he was a rookie and coming
off of an injury, but even still, no, and they
don't have again talking about the schedule and not knowing
how everybody's gonna shake out, but just based on how
it's stacked right now, I'm actually taking the under. I

(01:51:31):
don't trust too at all. Yeah, I don't. I don't
like to a little bit someth How about you, Chris?
Every time you give me nine, I just want to
push on it. Um, they're gonna have the Patriots twice.
I think they'll take one of those. They'll have the
Texans on their schedule, have the Jets twice. I I like.
I like the over slightly here. They did ten wins

(01:51:54):
last year, and I think that's easy enough to replicate.
If you know we have a healthy to up plus
more weapons for him. I think I think i'd like
there really all right? How about you, bo I, I
think I'll take the over. I'm I'm a slightly more believer.
I guess in two of than other people. Uh, he

(01:52:16):
was coming off an injury. Um, justin Herbert was the exception,
not the norm. And there was the whole pandemic thing
that really put a hamper on practicing and practice schedules
and stuff like that. So I don't think it's fair
to judge to a just off of last year. We'll
see how he does this year, but I think they
can get to a ten or eleven wins this year.

(01:52:38):
All right, Washington. I love Washington. Washington is eight with
Fitzpatrick one of the best defense at all of the NFL.
I love Washington fig over the posted total of eight

(01:52:59):
over eight. Uh man, that's hard because I do like
their defense, but will it be enough? And I also
believe their division is going to be better this year
with a little bit better health, especially specifically Dallas. Um,
so I'm gonna go with the under. I could see
them going seven and nine yet again, or seven and ten.
I guess they're given the extra game this year, how

(01:53:21):
about you, Chris. I this one's a rough one for me,
just because I'm not sure how to really consider their
quarterback situation right now. Um yeah, I don't. I might
have to take the under here. I'm looking at their scale.
It's not nice. I like their defense. I like their defense.

(01:53:48):
I just don't know what they're doing on offense. I mean,
New York and Dallas are gonna be better this year too,
and they have a rough schedule, and they just I
could see it crashing apart from them. Well, I mean, listen, Fitzpatrick,
I think he's upgrade to last year, and they got
good weapons. Fitz Patrick will get you some good wins

(01:54:08):
in uh September and October. Yeah, listen, I'm not saying
he's homes but he's an upgrade they had. I'm saying
he's an upgrade for September and October. After that, Fitzpatrick
starts to fall apart alright, uh uh yeah, what was it?

(01:54:29):
What was the number? Eight? Eight? I'll take the over. Um.
I think they can get to nine or ten. Their
defense is really good. Fitzpatrick is an upgrade over Tyler
Taylor henikey. Uh. It is just a very weird scheduling
quirk to have alternating games against the Cowboys and the Eagles,

(01:54:50):
uh to to end the season and then wrapping it
up with the Giants. That's a very uh brutal schedule
when you consider how difficult divisional games are, but I
think they can get some wins before that that five
week stretch. They have to play the Chiefs and the Bucks.
They have to play both Super Bowl contenders from last year.
They almost beat the Bucks last year. Yeah, I agree,

(01:55:12):
I'm with you. They pulled the Bills too. All right,
it's the quick TiO will come back analyzing the schedule
through wins and losses. Where the fellas right here on
Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, welcome, welcome back Fellas, Kevin Figures, Psycho,

(01:55:36):
Chris Bow. I'm Anthony Gargano Figgy because Bow and Chris
hanging out on a Saturday morning, middle of May. I'm
gonna be gorgeous around the country just looking at some
of the weather. It's gonna be nice. Um fake real quick.

(01:55:58):
I'm gonna hit you with this for a second. Uh curveball,
all right, let's go. Yeah, I want to get back
to um and I did want to get back to
the wind Tows in a second. But I'm just curious
the whole Tebow thing making his comeback and what is
it about him that drives people insane? Like, like, you know,

(01:56:25):
it's funny because Tebow coming into work as a tight
end for the Jaguars, and like you if you're if
you're admirer, you're like, you don't understand why you would
look at him, because he's the kind of guy you
would want to be in your locker room. He's the
kind of guy that you would want to have around,

(01:56:45):
you know, kind of uh for your own message, I
don't see why I don't. I don't, and I don't
get the tebow hat, Like what what is it about
the tebow hat? So I do think a big thing
when I comes to a lot of our stars, we
want to build you up and then tear you but
tear you down. And there's nothing to tear Tebo down for.

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And so a lot of people feel that he's the
you know, he comes off as he's very like perfect
has to be. It was a virgin til he got
married and was a great winner and great competitor, and
people thought that he wasn't a good quarterback at the
NFL level. But they say, well, he want a playoff
game all of us, you know, his supporters would say that.
So I think it's just he comes off as whether

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no fault of his own, by the way, I think
he's just kind of live in life, and I do
believe that he does eat up a lot of the
media attention. But that's totally fine. He doesn't necessarily ask
for it. It comes to him, um, but I do
think there's a certain air of infallibility that covers him,
and there's a certain amount of people that don't like that.
No one is that perfect, is what people will say.

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So that's the non football part of it. I think
the football part that people have an issue with is
why is this guy getting an opportunity to change positions?
And it's not that people change positions all the time,
that's not a problem. Guys get rafter. They asked to change.
You know, Kelvin Benjamin's coming out of retirement, but that
was only two years ago. He's asked to be moved
from both seaver to tight end. That's different than quarterback

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to tight end. Almost a decade removed from the last
time you played in the league. At thirty three thirty
four years old. It just seems unreasonable that he would
even be able to compete for that spot. So if
it's unreasonable that he can actually compete and make the
team at that position, then what's the real reason why
he's even there, how many guys in the locker room
and link what Lincoln Kennedy will be a great someone

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to ask about. This has been in the locker room before.
I can't have one of my loudest voices in the
locker room be a fourth string tight end that might
not even make the club, you know, And then what
is he allowed voice in the locker room? And and
you don't think they ask yourself is this? I guess
I'm on the other side of you know, if he
was going going from fourth string tight end the quarterback,

(01:58:51):
I gotta come on, this is stupid. But the fact
that he's going to go to back up tight end,
all right, you know that noise is gonna be there.
And if Trevor Lawrence doesn't play well for two or
three weeks, what you got to say, get Tebow and
there see this is this is something that's going to
That's something that especially where it is, you have to
if he was playing for if he was playing for

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the Giants, or if he was trying to do this
in Las Vegas, it'd be different. This is in Jacksonville,
this is Gator territory. And you know, we talked about
people who look with rose colored glasses. There are some
people who are Gator fans who think that Tim Tebow
literally can do no wrong. You've got a raw deal
in Denver and a raw deal everywhere else in the NFL,
and can be a starting quarterback and at the slightest

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sign of issues with Trevor Lawrence, I will guarantee you
if he's on the opening day roster and maintains a
spot with the team the first month two months of
the season, there's gonna be a clamoring from the play quarterback.
And that's gonna be a media distraction. You know, the
the excuse a lot of people use with Colin Kaepernick
as to why you couldn't get a job was we
don't care about his politics. Is just an unnecessary distraction.

(01:59:55):
You're telling me that Tim Tebow as a backup tight
end is not gonna get a lot of media attention
just based solely on who he is, and that that
can't or may not be a distraction for you. I
guess I never thought like, I can't imagine a ground
swell of people going having Tebow play quarterback. Oh, I

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absolutely can. And even even in the aspect of oh,
let's get him some wild Cards a Wildcats snap, so
let's get him involved in the offense a little. I
can guarantee you that sort of stuff is now, whether
or not urber mey or acquiesces to it or not,
is that I mean, I'd be like, that's I mean,
first of all, anybody would have that opinion would be stupid. Well,

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a lot of fans are fans, are fans, you know
what I mean? Yeah, I know. So it's not the
wrong with possibility for people to think this way, though,
am I am I incorrect that there's going to be
a sect of people that I just I don't know.
I find it so absurd, like that notion almost as
absurd as a guy that hasn't played into and years

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coming in to change positions and play a different position
at thirty or four years old, right, except he was
probably more of a natural tight end. He was like
he was like like to me, like that makes more
sense than him trying to play quarterback or go play baseball.
Nothing makes sense for me at this time when it
comes from Tim Tebow as a professional football player, we

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know he couldn't do it at the quarterback position consistently.
And now you're gonna play a position you've never played
once in your entire life. Completely different skill set, physicality,
all that. I know. He's running guys over and that's
really good. Good as a quarterback, it's totally different when
you're in the trenches play after play, and if you're
gonna be a third or four streen tight end, you
gotta play special teams. I don't know if they can

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do that either. You don't think, you don't think. To me,
he's he's a better grunt then he would be anything else.
He would have been eight years ago, not now. He
should have made that position. Change it with two thousand.
It's wellth not now. Alright, alright, that's just my opinion. Yeah,
now listen, I guess I just didn't understand the big

(02:02:08):
like hue and cry, you know. But anyway, it's interesting.
We'll go back to Winds totals at b A. We
have our betting analysts as well, coming on Fellas right
here on Fox. All right, welcome, welcome back, a good morning, everybody,

(02:02:29):
Happy Saturday with the Fellas. It's a Sports Saturday, and
on the Great Sports Saturday, winding down the NBA season.
It's playing on Tuesday. Give you a little NHL action
coming out. We'll dive into, uh, some of the betting
advice with our betting analyst Brad Feinberg will join us

(02:02:52):
coming up in about twenty minutes, so we'll do a
little bit of that. You set for this weekend, mccam
forward to it of good sports, but we got lots
of stuff. It's two fellas, um because and we got
Figgy and Bow and Psycho Chris and always on a
on a fun Saturday, the fellas like to hang out

(02:03:15):
and how is your week? They're fig pretty solid week,
pretty solid week inundated with lots of talk about the
the Dodgers and Lakers, who are going through some struggles
early on, but they both seem to have at least
turned the corner a little bit more importantly for the
Lakers in their current situation, so uh, a lot of
excitement in the city for what they potentially can be

(02:03:37):
when Lebron comes back. Nowhere as to whether or not
he'll play today against Indiana, but people are waiting with
bated breath. So the big debate in Los Angeles has
been should Lebron come back? Does he need to come
back for these regular season games to kind of get
a rhythm or is he good enough to just roll
back through when the playing games start. If the Lakers
happened to be in the playing games and just get
on to get his legs under him when that happened,

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So that was a big topic of discussion. We're is
the expectation out there when when it comes to the
Lakers and knowing what happened last year, and you know,
coming off the title, the whole thing, but what's you know,
this whole thing, what's it like for that for the Lakers?
And the expectation is this is the greatest seven seed
in the history of basketball, which if they're healthy and

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Lebron and Anthony Davis are as healthy as they can get,
you know, chemistry and everything else be damned, they should
be favored to win every series they play in knowing
that they have to start every series on the road
or potentially end every series on the road, because they're
just that deep and that talented, and they've only been
derailed by injuries this year. So the faith in the
Lakers is as high as it gets for many people.

(02:04:42):
There are some a minority from what I've gathered, that
I feel that they just haven't had enough time to
gain enough chemistry because on top of Lebron and a
D dealing with the industry injuries. You know, Dennis Shrewder
has been out for two weeks because of COVID protocols. Uh.
So every time they get a guy back who has
been healthy, something else happens and they have another setback,
and they just haven't had a lot of time to

(02:05:03):
build chemistry over the last three months. Um. But I
think the overwhelming consensus is if the Lakers are healthy,
and most notably, if Lebron James is as close to
as he can be, then uh, it's it's gonna be
smooth sailing to the Western Conference Finals when they play
I guess hopefully for them the Clippers, and then we'll
see what happens when we get there. Is it realistic

(02:05:24):
to think that this team can turn it on like
that and make a run. That's hard to say. I mean,
we've seen how good they can be at times. They've
had some dominant stretches when they've been fully healthy, but
then they've had stretches where chemistry has been off. Lebron
came back briefly for that two game stretch uh last

(02:05:44):
week or into the two weeks ago, I should say,
and didn't look good at all. The Lakers lost both games,
and he didn't look he wasn't moving well. Now they
said his ankle wasn't fully healthy and that he's better
now that he was even back then. I do think
that the NBA, mostly especially when you get to the postseason,
nine times out of ten, I think talent does win
out even more to even more so than teams that

(02:06:05):
have continuity. This is why I've been bullish on the
nets to a degree as well. Uh, And I know
the report is those guys all plan on playing together tonight,
so we'll see if if the big three for them,
so even though they've only played seven, Oh yeah, they
they're They're a sieve in the middle for sure. Uh.
The question is whether or not it matters. And I've
always maintained that you have those three guys and they're

(02:06:26):
all relatively healthy. Chemistry be damned. Just like the Lakers,
I think it doesn't matter talent in their situation. I
think it's gonna end up winning out, and even if
it doesn't, if you want to go back to when
the Heatles first got together, Lebron Wade in Bosch and
they got off to a slow start and still never
really figured each other out, but still were able to
ride their way all the way to the NBA Finals
when Lebron just disappeared for whatever reason against the Mavericks

(02:06:50):
in that series. But they were still able to get
there because the talent carried them through all the drama
the Lakers went through that year. They had Kobe and
Shack and Peyton them alone, talent one out and they
got to the NBA Finals before the chemistry issues finally
imploded on them. So talent can be good enough to
get you to where you need to go when it
comes to the NBA Finals of the conference finals. Uh,
and that that's a pretty deep enough, that's a pretty

(02:07:11):
deep run. So and maybe your whole your hope is
if you're a team like the Lakers or like the Nets,
you're able to build that chemistry through the early rounds
of the postseason so you can actually start clicking when
it matters most in the Conference finals, in the NBA Finals.
So I think that's kind of the similar trajectory that
both of those fan bases are looking at, because the
Nets and Lakers, I believe, at least as of earlier

(02:07:32):
this week. We're still the favorites, uh to win the championships. Yeah,
although when the Nets played the Sixers, the best player
or the floors. Yeah yeah. If this season, sure, I
would say, generally speaking to be Kevin Durant, but yeah,

(02:07:53):
jolanbis having a spectacular season, and I would not argue
if you want to, I'm sorry. I hate them, My god,
I hate the New Evil Empire. Oh yes, I hate
everything about them. You know what it is too, It's
less about the players because I mean you, or less
about the team itself and just the individual players because
there's something unlikable. But all of their stars it's hard

(02:08:16):
and forces the way out of Houston mal content. Kyrie
Irving is Kyrie Irving. You don't know what you're gonna
get from a day out. And Kevin duran who has
the biggest rabbit years of any pro athlete maybe in
the history of us of sports exactly. So like there's
almost none of their stars are likable to quite honest
with you, none of them, right, No, man, you're so right.
So they have that working against them. Oh, I'm so

(02:08:39):
with you, man, I'm so with you. Uh, let's get
to this because we have not dove into it, and
I want to dive into a little bit. But that
athletic story, you have a chance to see it. Yeah,
I was able to read it. Uh So the premise
of the story is that, uh, the NBA was supposed

(02:08:59):
to come in knock off the NFL, or at least
kind of you know, really you know, really compete with
the NFL for for popularity. But meanwhile it hasn't and
baseball has come up and it's really kind of compete
with the NBA a little bit. Yeah, it was like
the war. The football was going through a war with

(02:09:19):
the concussion situation and so many players of CT and
the cover up the movie about dr Amaleu that came out.
So people thought the NFL was losing momentum and the NBA.
It was Lebron versus Curry every year in the NBA
Finals and their ratings were spectacular, and people just assumed
that there was going to be this precipitous fall for
the NFL, and that hasn't really happened. So, yeah, there's

(02:09:40):
now more of a battle between NBA and MLB, which
people didn't think it was. The thing people thought MLB
was dead, was dying on a national level, and that
hasn't necessarily been the case, and it's been on an
uptick this year so far. So what what do you
make of it? I mean it well, the the because
I've had this conversation with people for a long time.

(02:10:01):
They are keep predicting the sky is falling for the NFL. No,
not yet. I mean my thing is I've always said
when if it keeps going this way, and they got
Thursday night football, which at the time I thought was
over the top, and Mark Cubans said that as well. Um,
I didn't think that that was too much. It's fine
though there was clearly an appetite for it. If you

(02:10:22):
start talking about having games Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
I think this is what actually ended up hurting the
NBA about twenty years ago when they jumped out of
the NBC contract when they were having double and tripleheaders
every weekend and decided to getting bed with t N
T and and ESPN. And basically you've had games on
every single solitary night and games were less events and

(02:10:44):
more of just like on a nightly basis. You can
watch whoever you want it, whenever you want. And I
understood why they did it. The TV money was spectacular,
but it's the oversaturation of a particular product. And anytime
something gets oversaturated, I think interest can wane. And that
was my fear for the NFL. If we keep talking
about more and more games on more and more nights,
that that might end up happening. You know what helps

(02:11:05):
the NFL unlike the NBA and MLB, and we've talked
about this over the years, is every game is an
event because there's so few of them. Um So I
think that's one thing that the NFL is always gonna
have in its favor over those other leagues. Yeah, I'm
with you. I guess I just go come on now,
I mean people are insane. They keep thinking about it's
the end of the league and the end of the league,

(02:11:27):
and you know it's gonna and then soccer is gonna. Listen.
I think people like soccer. I think they like bask
they love basketball, and like, like's like, you don't really
I view them more like my children the sports that
I do. You know, you know, I like there's I
love them all right, I just love them all differently. Yeah, definitely,

(02:11:50):
what people are so caught up on, like what catches
the national Latin national conscious, you know, and the leagues
themselves to what these TV deals are wondering about that too.
That's that's all they care about. That's where the money is.
Do you see the end? Do you see anything? You
know when it comes to the n B A disappointing
or you know, do you see it in a different way? Um?

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I think, especially during the regular season this year, there
have been a lot of lopsided games, and I think
that is a byproduct and we've talked about it a
little bit with baseball when feast or famine and the
equivalent of that in the NBA is the three point
line because its team, you know, comes out and hits
all their threes and they're up by twenty, and the
team that's down by twenty keeps shooting them to try
to get back in the game. If they make them cool,

(02:12:34):
they get back into it. If they don't make them,
now they're down by forty, you know. And and that happens,
maybe not on a nightly basis, will be over an exaggeration,
but more often than it ever has this year. How
many forty point fifty point blowouts? How we had in
the NBA more than I can remember. I know and
have that just the amount of guys who just don't

(02:12:55):
play from a night in, night out situation, and that
hurts it too. Now, I will say, and I think
we we've debated this before. I think this particular season
is carry over from last year, and I think that's
why we're seeing a rash of injuries and more guys
resting on back to back because there are just such
a short offseason. The idea that all these star players
load manage every single season and nobody plays back to back,

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the data doesn't show that in a general sense. The
data does not show that that happens. Uh, Chris, you
like to look at sport differently. What do your What
was your take on this athletic piece that looks at
the Big three and it's popularity in the NFL being untouched. Yeah,

(02:13:39):
I think it's no surprise that football is king. It's
it's always been that way, and it's it's just getting
bigger and bigger. It is an event, it is set
up perfectly on the calendar. People are busy in the
middle of the week. It comes as I mean, I
grew up with football in my life. It's it's what
is I didn't even like football that much growing up,
but I mean you had your weekends set up perfectly

(02:14:00):
their foot high school on Friday, College on Saturday, NFL
on Sunday, and that's just how it worked out. And look,
I mean a lot of it is the sports gambling
is set up for football. It's it's hard to challenge it.
It's it's gonna be real hard. It's I could see
a sea change, but it feels like that we want

(02:14:21):
our Look, we don't want to be in meshed totally,
like for baseball, like even just in the example of
like fantasy sports, just to think of that. We I
I know people I used to play fantasy baseball, wasn't
when I was in like middle middle school, and but
that is like you had to be paying attention to
baseball every day, fixing up your lineup every day, whereas

(02:14:45):
for fantasy football, you need to just check in and
make sure you get in some picks for the waiver
wire instead of roster before Thursday. That's that's that's all.
So it's a little more compact in that regard. It's
not there every day. A Um, I think I'm I'm
happy to see baseball make its resurgence though, just because

(02:15:06):
I like that on just having it on the TV.
It's comforting, and I think there is room for a
sport like that that has a lot of personality, that
has a lot of international flair, to really come back
and just find some balance and give us something to
talk about during the summer. But I don't know. Football
is just it's it's the way of things, and I

(02:15:27):
don't I just kind of I think there's a promo
right now asking why is it not bigger internationally? I
have nothing there except for the fact that they already
have their own sport that is an event, and that's right.
Soccer follows the same pattern as the NFL. It's just
the international tournaments pop up a lot more in the

(02:15:48):
middle of the week. So maybe if you're an outsider,
you're wondering why soccer is going on all the time,
But those are all very different tournaments. I know. I
think you're you're dead right about it. I think is
to put a bowl on it your week? Uh? Is
it all about the n B A No, I mean yes,

(02:16:09):
to be honest with you, Yes, at this point in time,
we're not We're still in the early stages of the
Major League Baseball season, as excited as we all are
for it. You know, you have certain teams that are
struggling out of the gates. You look at the team
like Minnesota, I don't know if they can recover or not,
but they have time. I think they're twelve and twenty
four or something like that. Something awful. I'm shocked, but

(02:16:31):
it's one of those. You know, you get off to
a slow start, like last year with the sixty game schedule,
you have a full one sixty two. There's time to
corral of crawl out of it. So from a fan
engagement standpoint, there's still time to kind of check back
in Major League Baseball a little later down the road,
but right now with the NBA, and look, there's been
debate over the play and tournament and whether the NBA
should or shouldn't do it, but we're talking about it.

(02:16:53):
You know, we got you know, the Memphis Grizzlies and
the Golden State Warriors got flexed into our to our
prime TV slot for a national televi on Sunday that
determine who's gonna make the ape seed and a lot
of general NBA fans are gonna watch that for the
general intrigue of it. On top of the fact that
you have one of the young faces of the NBA,
John Morant, and one of the I guess veteran faces
of the NBA now and Steph Curry going one on one.

(02:17:15):
So otherwise, what any of us really care when it
came to this, You know who's fighting for the ape
seed or the seventh seed. Now we're talking nine ten,
and that's gonna dominate all next week between the East
and the West. It's just more intriguing and meaningful games.
And we've had this discussion on the show before Anthony
about just wanting more meaningful games in these sports down
the stretch of the season, and that's what we're getting

(02:17:36):
from the NBA. So yeah, this week is going to
be all about the NBA and all about this play
and tournament. I'm with you all, I bro listen to
have a safe journey, safe week. We'll see you next Saturday.
Appreciate great hang. We love you, buddy. Likewise, we'll come
back and we'll take a look. We'll look at it
from a betting standpoint. Today, Brad Feinberg, our betting analysts

(02:17:59):
will join us. It up next. You got some winners.
We are the Fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio.
All right, welcome back, fell Loves. That's a great song.
I love it. All right, fellas. We can take a

(02:18:28):
look at the games from a betting standpoint now, And
Jordan Gots one of the really good insiders, one of
the great betting analysts who takes a look at the
sports from really a mathematical standpoint. And uh, I love
him because you know, there's no agenda, he doesn't have

(02:18:48):
any services. He just comes on and and we talked games,
and uh, we talked sports and inside numbers and all
that sort of thing. So let's bring them on. Brad
five Einberg checking in Bradley, Good morning, how are your brother?
My man? My man? So let's go big picture, because

(02:19:09):
the big news is, uh, the NBA to play in
tournament and of course the Sixers grabbing the one seed
in the East. Still off for grads between Utah and Phoenix.
Looks like the Clippers will be slotted into the four seed,
Nuggets into the three seed. How's this thing taken shape?

(02:19:30):
For you? From a betting standpoint? You know what's interesting?
The Western Conference? Anthony, I feel like I have a
much better grasp. In my opinion on the East the West,
I really believe so many teams can do it. I
really believe that the Clippers. Look last year, the Clippers
played uh Dallas and it was actually a tough serious

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Clippers beat him in six games with a lot of
close games in and Porzingis was hurt. Denver Portland. Again,
you want to look at a long shot team that
I think actually maybe make some headway, Portland Anthony would
be the team I see. I think you can get
around thirty five for one to win the West, and
I'm certainly not predicting that. But but here's my issue
in the West is I don't think any of these

(02:20:11):
teams jump out at me where I'm like, oh yeah,
this team can't lose, so to speak, Um, I think
all these teams Anthony had real words. Thing I do
like about Portland is they have multiple guys. Obviously with
that back court they can get hot. And even adding
someone like Norman Pale's another guy, underrated guy, they can
get hot. I've seen Nurkics on certain occasions look like
a dominant big Again, not predicting it, but if you

(02:20:35):
ask me just from pure value standpoint, I'm not looking
to take the Lakers at for to one or two
to one to win the West. I'm not looking to
take the Clippers of two to one to win the West. Phoenix,
I don't know if the Anthony they're gonna have that
second year. They remind me of the Knicks a little bit,
where they played so hard this regular season. Uh, you know,
I'm going to tell you. I think that Portland's with
the odds at thirty five to one to reach the finals,

(02:20:57):
but I think they have a puncher's chance. I don't
think any stand out. That's my own stanswer. You know what,
that's a fascinating look they the Blazers, and that's you
know that's not crazy, Well, Anthony, they are. They look
They're last game they lost, they lost. They blew the game.

(02:21:19):
And I actually lost this bet. I had Phoenix minus
three and I lost the game, the only one by one,
but they lost by one the Phoenix. In the game,
they were up by like four and the last thirty
seconds and they just they mangled it. But before that
they won I think seven in a row or something
like that. They're playing well again. When you're when I
always say this, Anthony, I bet numbers not teams. Okay,

(02:21:42):
numbers not teams, and the number on that team. In
my opinion, I just think the West is very much
more so than East in my opinion, much more wide open.
I think there's a lot of closeness in these teams,
and I think you're paying sticker prices for the Lakers
and Clipper just because of the jerseys versus how good
the teams are compared to the rest of these other teams. Wow,

(02:22:05):
that's a great way to look at it. How about Yeah,
it's funny because you're right, and I kind of like
the Clippers. But what about Phoenix? Yeah, I mean I
know you like you had a big Yeah, yeah, listen,
and I do Phoenix. I respect a lot and I
do have it. I do have a small play on
them at twenty to one to win the West, very small.
But they but that was before that. That number is

(02:22:27):
not there anymore. But they in my opinion, where I
don't like about Phoenix and it says I is it
that team has played through the seventy two game season afy.
All their players have more or less played every single
every starter is more or less has not missed the game. Okay,
they you know, in this whole new load management world, Anthony,
we're in where guys missed ten, twelve, fifteen games. Phoenix

(02:22:49):
has missed any No one has missed any time, Okay,
And they have played max effort every single game of
the year. They've really fought tooth and nail to get
their record. Give them a lot of credit. Same with
the Knicks in the East. Those are two teams that
have treated almost every game. I feel like it like
it's a playoff game. And they've been great teams to
bet on during the regular season because of that. But

(02:23:10):
the playoffs, Anthony, and you know this. You know the
sport as good as anyone. I know. There is that
second gear there is. It is a different sport as
much as you want to some people, Oh oh, it's
absolutely different. And my fear for those specific two teams, Anthony,
is because they played so hard all year. Yes, I
so much respect for both teams. But talking about the
Nicks also, but I don't know, while these other teams

(02:23:31):
go up at the level, I don't think these two
teams can. That's my gut. Um. I'm not saying that
Phoenix can't do it. I know New York won't. But
I'm not saying Phoenix can't do it. They certainly can, um,
but I'm not with with the odds again, like I
I think the Clippers are better than them. I think
the Jazz are better than them. Heck, I think Portland
would beat them in the series potentially so. And I

(02:23:52):
think obviously the Lakers have a healthy Lebron. I just
don't think they're gonna do it. All right, So let's
look at the East then, since I know the East
gives you a little pause, you know, and and have
you narrowed it down to those three teams, well, you know,
look the East to me at me, look we we

(02:24:12):
I don't know. I really don't think Milwaukee is going
to do it. Okay, Milwaukee, try the objective, but with
the odds again, Anthony, again, with the odds. You know, Anthony,
they're around three to one to win the U to
win the Eastern Conference title. I have no I had
no interest in that because, first of all, and I know,
I mean, you have spoke a few times about the

(02:24:34):
Brooklyn Nets, and I know we can have our friendly
little disagreement on this team. Um, if they are healthy,
which to me is a massive if which is why
I'm not advising to take them right now, because they're
the favorite to win the title, but I think they
deserved favorite. Anthony. I think if they do not get
an injury to one of their big three, I would
actually I use the word I'll be stunned that they
don't win the title. I think that their talent level

(02:24:57):
is drastically ahead of every other team. Um all, I
don't have any confidence that they're going to necessarily the
healthy when they have healthy all three all year. So um,
I think they're the most likely winner. But the team
that I think has the best betting odds, in my opinion,
would I would look at Philadelphia in the sense of Anthony.
I really believe they're going to get to the conference championship. Okay,

(02:25:19):
and if they get to the conference championship, you can
get philed off. Is still in a round three and
a half point odds to win the East. Um. I
really believe they will get to the conference title, and
even if they played healthy Brooklyn team, uh, they will
not be getting three and a half to one odds.
So I think there's some value in them. And if
you're looking for a long shot, look Mammy's playing pretty
good basketball right now, Anthony, they're around fifteen the one

(02:25:40):
to win the East. I don't think they're going to
win it, But to me, I think the most likely
winner is Brooklyn. I think the second most likely winner
is stilled Off. Anthony. Wow, you just love those mats
man them like putting a piece of pizza in front
of me. It's two tastes too good. I can't I
can't say no. Uh, that's switch gears for a second.

(02:26:02):
Because the NFL wind totals came out and the schedule
comes out, which allows you to really dive dive into
it and to look at it all the schedules. What
are some of the totals that kind of stick out
to you that you want a piece of? Well, and
the schedule for me, Um, for the Old Runners. I've

(02:26:25):
already done my work and I already bet my Old Runners.
The two that I liked the best, Um, we're Washington
over eight wins, uh and Minnesota. When those are the
two that I made my biggest wages on. Now. One
thing that uh, that did effect in sort of how
the schedule play out. A team that after the draft,
Anthony's I was looking at potentially been on was the

(02:26:46):
Atlanta Falcons. But what's interesting is with this. When I
saw the schedule came out there over under was seven
a half and I think they, you know, well, I
think that that division. I think that Newerleans is actually
gonna really come down and not be as good this year,
and I think Atlanta may have one last run in
the band, so to speak. By drafting Pits, I was like, okay,
but then when I saw that they played obviously the

(02:27:07):
extra road game being in the NFC. But then one
of their quote unquote home games is an England game
and they have to they have to travel abroad. So
they actually have ten and it's to me ken road
games and only seven home games. So what I did
was I then laid off that because they were a
team that I thought got a negative break with the schedule.

(02:27:29):
So but again I had actually really, truthfully, Anthony, I've
done most of my work um for season wins before this.
I'm looking more um for the schedule on a game
by game basis once the season starts. Okay, did the
team only get six days of rest or three days
arrested it the Thursday night game versus another team? How
much rest more so than a season wins. Bet, well,

(02:27:51):
let's kind of um, let's bracket them. Let's go a
f C first. What are some of the teams you
look and you like in the A f C. You know,
I think, look, the the the A s C. Uh.
You know, it's it's a lot of Look, I think
right now, in my opinion, well, I did that list
since any Bengals over six wins? Uh? And I say

(02:28:12):
that in the sense that, Um, I think at a
healthy Joe Burrows there, I think that's going to be
an improved team for sure. Obviously you know Kansas City
is is obviously going to be a good team. But
plus you know they're around five for one to win
the Super Bowl. I just don't have the interest. Next,
I think that's going to be a very tough division. Um. Look,
there's a lot of teams that potentially can do it.
I think Cleveland is actually a really well balanced team. Anthony, Um,

(02:28:35):
I think they've really improved their defense. Um. They obviously
have the great two headed monster at running back. Uh.
Is Baker good enough to get it done? Well, I
think he's good enough to get it done if you
surround them with everything else. That's really good. I think
they've really put it together, a really nice roster in Cleveland. Um,
that is a team that I could see making a leap.
You've still got around one members, so to win the

(02:28:56):
Super Bowl, that would be a team that I think
could make a leap. And then look, the question would
be at me. I know obviously you know felt obvious
sports bear nay when I know. But I look at Indianapolis, Um,
I'm not sure if they had a good enough free agency,
but this has always been a good team, and that
the vision to me is weak. Um, I think really weak.

(02:29:18):
We know Houston is gonna be bad. Jacksonville we know
is going to be improved for sure with Urban Meyer
Uh and Trevor Lawrence, but they're probably not going to
be a winning team. And I think that the Titans,
in my opinion, are also going to be on the
way down. They've lost a lot of good players and
they've been fortunate with no injuries to Derrick Henry with
all the carries he's gotten. I think Indianapolis is the
most likely one of that division allow US lost. It's

(02:29:39):
going to depend on Carson wins Uh and how much
he can be better in a new situation. If I
had to pick a couple of teams that are like
long shots, I would like the Browns Point Area called
Point Area would maybe two teams I'd be looking at. Yeah,
I loved I like the Cult Weapons of ton Man.
They fixed their line, man, and then you go, you

(02:30:02):
know you got Taylor and Pittman and man, that's a
good that's a nice team. Well, they I like their defense.
That's I think they're good. And it's an easy it's
an easier division. Actually it's the easiest division. Can't be
argued in the FC. No one could argue that I
don't care any and they the easiest division by far,

(02:30:22):
which is again a big part of these things at
me all right, uh an FC. Obviously all eyes are
on Rogers and if cream Bay decides to move Rogers.
And then the other aspect is that DeShawn Watson situation,
which uh following in the news. Uh, there's a lot
of people who believe that that stuff will get taken

(02:30:46):
care of and then he'll be moved by the Texans. Well,
and you know what you say, he'll be moved. I
mean that looked at the Shawn Watson thing at me,
and I'm not. Look, he's gonna be moved. It's that's
that's to me is a very tricky us, even a
delicate operation if you're a doctor, because first of all, like,

(02:31:07):
if you're getting him, how do you really know how
many games is he gonna miss? Is he gonna miss
one game, ten games? Und games? Like, I think it's
a toxic situation. And I think in today's society, Anthony,
if a team were to trade for the Shawn Watson,
do they want to take that pr hit? So they
may want to move him, but I'm sure his trade value,
let's say, before this whole thing tame, if me, let's

(02:31:28):
just say it would have been four or five first
round picks. Now I don't even know what the conversation
would be. And again, is a team really going to
be willing to take that black eye on taking a
person who again I'm not. I don't pretend to know
whether he did or didn't do it. And I'm sure
that'll pay out, uh in a due course of law.
But uh, look, I the Texans to me or in

(02:31:51):
a very tough situation there. Yeah, it's interesting, Diana RECEI
from n thought thinks it'll go away, and I was like, wow, look, yeah,
I would be Look when when we had a situation Anthony,
like when the whole thing happened with Colby or Ben Roethlisberger,
that was a one person ke versus she thing, right,

(02:32:12):
that was just a one you know, one off. This
is a pointy two up. So I think it's a
little different. I I do, But again I'm just a
s I hear you, I d five bar with us.
Are betting insider, are betting analysts, anybody in the in
the NFC that you like? I mean, obviously rams you

(02:32:34):
had the Niners coming back, a lot of good teams
like yeah, look and there's a lot of that's that
I let I made a couple of division bets and said,
you know, and and well that's so sometimes needle in
the haystack. I still don't. Don't get me wrong, if
there's real value, but usually the value gets sucked out
pretty quick. But I took the Vikings plus four fifty
to win the division. You could still get around plus
two fifty. I still like it even a plus two

(02:32:55):
fifty right now to me, Daddy Aaron Rodgerson looking at me.
I don't know Aaron Rodgers, but I do know this.
He's a principal person in the sense and if you
feel like if he's been wronged, but he went he
walked away from his family, so he obviously has it.
He's a very principal person where if he doesn't feel
like he's been treated right, you know, okay, he's willing

(02:33:17):
to dig his heels in. I like the Vikings team.
I actually think they have a really good offense, and
I think they've improved their defense in the off season. Uh.
And I think plus two fifty to win the division.
I actually think that the most likely winner in that division.
And we've talked about the Anthony. I like Washington. Uh,
someone in the NFC East. Um, I thought they had
the best defense in the division. Now you're actually adding,

(02:33:38):
in my opinion, a quite competent quarterback in Ryan Fitzpatrick. Um,
I think I'm with you. Yeah, I think it'll be
them or Dallas. But Dallas is around even money. Washington
is still around three to one to me a picking situation.
Give me the team getting three to one. Yeah, I'm
with you. Anything over the weekend that you like a

(02:34:00):
NHL playoffs Yeah, I do. I did. Actually, I bet
I bet the Capitals plus a dollar thirty five against
the Bruins. Do I think the Capitals are gonna win
the series? I don't know, but that's exactly my point, Anthony.
I don't know. Capital seventy seven points, uh this year,
Bruins seventy three. How both things played recently both eleven
and five of the last sixteen. Now that skin had

(02:34:21):
been hurt, but he's come back the last few games.
To me again, I made this series in my ratings
a dead peck. I thought it should be minus point
ten on both sides. You want to give me plus
one thirty onto me, flipping headger tails, Give it to
me all day long. I'll make It'll be a rich
man off those bets. Plus one thirty five to me
on a series, Anthony, great bet Washington. I think it's

(02:34:42):
just gonna be close. I don't know who's gonna win.
I don't pretend to know, but I do know that
the line shouldn't be that high. Yeah, now, I'm with anybody.
You like to take a flyer on to win the
whole thing, you know, Anthony, It's funny. Hockey is such
a tough sport in the sense that there's so many
teams that can win it. With my advice to you
and hockey, I would not take the short favorites. We again,

(02:35:03):
Colorado may be the most likely winner, but I think
so many teams can win it in hockey. Now, if
you asked me a team that I think if I
just to take a shot on have some fun with,
to me, would probably be Edmonton, which you can get
around area only because they actually have the dynamic score.

(02:35:23):
Of course, the amazing Connor McDavid so like to me.
If I had to take a shot on the team,
that would be the team I could see them getting hot.
I could see them having just those dynamic goal scores
and they get any kind of goaltending to play. That
would be a team if you wanted to have some
fun with, they would be my pick. Yeah, I like
them too, I think, uh, I think you're right about that.

(02:35:43):
I think that at Team man All, they're a blast
to lots their fun. Any baseball this weekend, you're looking
at Aaron. I did a couple of couple of games
in baseball my friends, Um look colors from done. The
of the White six has been absolutely dynamic. Anthony are

(02:36:04):
a zero point five eight. It's great and all six
of the starts. Now, what I did was going against
Mike Minor, who's a journeyman kind of guy, five point
seven five areas this year. But the White Sox have
just been great. I think that I think they're the
best team, uh in the American League. I think of
the second best team in baseball. I took the minus
a run in a half plus one fifteen instead of
laying minus one five with rundown um. I took them

(02:36:27):
to win by two runs or more. I switched the
odds instead of laying the most two to one, actually
getting a price with the way miners from pitching so poorly, UM,
I feel like the White Sets have a good chance
to score a lot of runs. So if I win,
I get in a fifteen pump. And if they lose
the game out right it's supposed to losing two units,
only lose one unit. I'm gonna take my chances to
White Sox. Don't uh lose that game, win that game

(02:36:48):
by exactly one run. And again that I thought this
line is just too high. Game dunning has been the
best picture for the Texas Rangers. Going in. We s Garcia,
who hasn't really had much experience of Houston. Now, I
know Houston's the better team, but I think Dunning is
the better picture. I made this line minus a dollar
five plus one fifty and my ratings I was able

(02:37:09):
to take Dane Dunning and the and the Rangers plus
a dollar fifty five. Just think the line is too high,
and I'll give you two others real quick. Anthony Ian
Anderson minus one talve against Bud Anderson. Look, the Brewers
are good team, Anthony. When Pearl the pitches, Uh, when
Corbyn Burns pitches, you know when Brandon Woodrow pitches. But

(02:37:30):
when those three don't pitch, they're not a good team.
The Braves Anderson's their best pitcher. They can sports. I
love Atlanta that game. Yeah yeah, I think that line
is too low, and I'll give you one last Warner brother,
Dylan Bundy was minus one twalve against Martin pres Bundie.
It bits really well into his last game. I think
he's the above average American League starter. Uh Anaheim can score.

(02:37:51):
The reason Boston's had a better record is because they're
pitching has been so much better than Anaheim. But Bundy
is the best pitcher on this team. I think Bundie
signamadly better of than prayers in a pick um spot. Basically,
give me doing Monday. I like it. Brad Feinberg giving
us some winners, great fun, a lot of fun conversation. Man.
I like the sports just to dive into geek out.

(02:38:14):
So thanks for thanks for bringing that. Weather's babe, how
do people follow you on Twitter? I'll give you two.
I'll give you two quick pops us. What kind of rebounds?
Sixty and thirty two is laft under LaMelo ball over
five and amphasis and seven is left twenty two? I
love it, Thank you, brother, appreciate it. There Brad Feinberg

(02:38:35):
checking in, giving us some some cool winners and suss
it out the games from a betting standpoint. He's our
in Houns betting analysts here on the fellas. We'll come
back and uh still lots to do it, but first
we gotta get a little halo action all ill the

(02:38:55):
lot of trendings. Oh, good morning, Anthony, what a night
it was on Friday night in the NBA we run
it down started with the Golden State Warriors went over
the New Orleans Pelicans. Jordan's pool a career high thirty eight.
The Warriors, on a five game winning streak, have a
showdown on Sunday with Memphis for the eighth seed in
the Western Conference. Elsewhere in the NBA Friday Night, Ah,

(02:39:19):
there he is. No. I actually thought we had deleted
this from the system. Everybody. I personally deleted this. Unfortunately,

(02:39:40):
I guess we have a recycling bin in our system. Well,
they clinched the top seed in the Eastern Conference for
the first time since two thousand and one with a
twenty five point victory over the Orlando Magic. Get out
of here. The Washington who needs a song and we
have Anthony who knows all the words life Washington a

(02:40:01):
fifteen point went over Cleveland, So the Wizards clinch a
spot in the play in a tournament. They eliminate the
Chicago Bulls in the process. Russell Westbrook a triple double,
Luca donchet to triple double, and Dallas is four point
whatever Toronto, so the Mavericks clinches spot in the top six,
avoiding the playing tournament. Baseball Friday Night Dodgers out of
the Marlins nine eleven strikeouts for Clayton Kershaw and in

(02:40:22):
the Mariners seventh three victory over Cleveland, Seattle's prized rookie
prospect Jared kelnic and just the second game of his career. Yeah,
to run, home run and two doubles last night against Cleveland.
Time for our jam master, Jam of the waste last
night Yankees in Baltimore, Orioles leading forward to two on
the bottom of the seventh inning, two men on and

(02:40:43):
Geo or Shella at the plate, and I'll just say this,
wait for it, swing on and hit in the year
the right center and bones back on the track at
the wall. Cheez Cone pinch a three run home run
to give the Yankees a lead. A Shella pounded one
a little bit right up dead center. G O Shella

(02:41:06):
the most happy fella. Oh, he's the most happy people.
Back to you, Anthony, I love it, fellas right here
on Fox Sports Radio. All right, welcome back, fellas. A
lot of fun. I'm Anthony Gargano, Ya, Figgy and Psycho,

(02:41:31):
Chris and Bo and lots of good geek out on
a Saturday morning. Hopefully everybody has a great weekend. Just
to put a couple of things out there that we
didn't get to. The Rogers and Packers dispute, I mean,
come on, I mean of course we're gonna take Aaron

(02:41:52):
Roger's side. I mean, you know, do we believe that
he was promised his free them? Yeah? I believe that.
Do I think that, you know, the Packers were this
packer way thing. I mean, come on, I mean, if

(02:42:12):
we're gonna are we really gonna take the side of
a soup of a Packers suit over Aaron Rodgers? I mean,
and that's where they're they're silly because they lose. They're
gonna lose ten times over by going to war with
the guy. I just never understood. And again this is

(02:42:35):
where the ego run runs a muck and boy does
it ever, because how in the world could you think
you would win a battle over Aaron Rodgers? And I
still don't understand it. And when you have that kind
of guy who was dug in like that, I don't
see anyway out. I don't see anyway no, no, no,

(02:42:56):
all right, Well anyway, that'll do it for us. Everybody,
have a great weekend. Thanks for hanging as always, Fellas
love you, We'll see you next Saturday. You have a
great week

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