November 26, 2024 • 26 mins
00:00 - NFL Week 12 Review
14:15 - Fab 5
19:38 - Will the NBA drop the conference system?
20:53 - What to do with Joel Embiid?
22:47 - Franz Wagner is a superstar
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bag fly. Okay, why.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, I'll tell you what I think. The NFL is
officially intoxicated. It's drunk. Has to be, just dead set,
has to be. Week twelve of the NFL of the
National Football League was dead set drunk, dead set drunk.
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Now I've got to get a move on. I can't
linger because I've got three kids in bed, Mum's in teat,
so let's get stuck in. I didn't set the five
am alarm because of that very fact. I thought I'd
better get some sleep. But the body wants what the
body wants. And at five past five I was wide awake,
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and I'm glad I was, because boy was I rewarded.
Dallas and Washington on paper, looked like a game worth
skipping Cooper RuSHA backup versus a rookie who is potentially
in some kind of decline, Jaden Daniels, And for three
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quarters I was spot on. This was an awful game.
Even the first half of the fourth quarter was pretty average,
not much happening. The game was close, but there wasn't
much scoring. There weren't many chunk plays. There was nothing outstanding.
But then all hell broke loose, and I mean all hell,
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so I'll break it down for you to audio here
as well, just to jazz it up. Eight minutes remaining
in the last quarter, so almost three and a half
quarters down, Brandon Aubrey, the kicker for the Cowboys, their
best player, made a forty eight yard field goal, so
the Cowboys go up thirteen to nine. So through three
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quarters we'd had nineteen total points. With five minutes remaining,
Rush finds Luke Schoonmaker, the backup tight end, for a
twenty two yard touchdown strike twenty nine Dallas twenty Dallas nine. Washington.
You're thinking, well, Washington have got to score twelve to
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take the lead. They've scored nine er game less than
two minutes later, Jaden Daniels find zach Ertz for a
score twenty to seventeen. Washington have got life, You're thinking,
could they? Well, this is where things got absolutely crazy,
no more than thirteen seconds of game time later. This
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is what happened. Good morning. They can kick this thing
deep line drive to Terpin at a boun two scorers
lads here it comes to run to Turpin, screaming, fae,
here goes just.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Cut that day.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Turpin takes it on the way takes down Dallas unbelievable,
unbelievable ninety nine yard kick return to the crib. So
it's twenty six, sorry, twenty seven seventeen after the extra point,
and you're thinking, well, okay, that little comeback didn't last long.
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Twenty seven to seventeen. Surely it's game over. Washington play
it well. They go and pinch three, so the down ten.
Typically in that situation, you go and get your field
goal first, and then you go and get your touchdown
to tie up. So they do that. They kick a
fifty one yard field goal twenty seven to twenty. There's
a pulse. There's a pulse. They get the ball back
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quite quickly, and more more madness, more madness. Jade and Daniels,
who I've said might be in Decline, airs it out
from deep in his own territory, and Scary Terry, Scary
Terry catches it and takes this bad boy eighty six
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to the house. It's Daniels strolls down the Saine for Decline.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Ldon strikes twice.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
In Washington, lightning strikes twice. Well, it struck three times.
So McLaurin takes it eighty six yards to the crib.
Twenty seven twenty six, twenty seconds to go, and you're thinking,
my goodness, gracious, we're headed for overtime. But in more madness,
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more madness, we had to kick the extra point for
the Tiel snap. It is oh good, wow, wow, no good.
So finally Washington trying on sidekick head this time out.
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It's tipped up and I'll pick the nail in the
coffin and one Thomas. Thomas takes the on side kick
back to the crib. Thirty four twenty six. It was
an unbelievable five minutes, like truly unbelievable. If you weren't watching,
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you would think I'm lying. So with five minutes remaining,
we went from thirteen to nine to thirty four twenty six.
We should have been tied at twenty seven and we
should have been going to overtime. Unbelievable game of football.
The Cowboys get a much needed when they get to
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four and seven, and Washington just start to lose touch
with Philly in the NFC East. Now there were more
crazy games. Minnesota and Chicago played a dead set barn
burner as well. This one did go to overtime. It
took a brilliant kick in over time to get it done.
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But Caleb Williams certainly showed he's the real deal. Sam Darnald,
at what point do we just accept he he's the
real deal because he and the Vikings are absolutely balling
and there was pretty much nothing from Justin Jefferson. I
think that's the part in this game that Kevin O'Connor
will be most impressed with. Jefferson only had twenty seven
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yards on two catches, yet Donald threw for three hundred
and thirty and two touchdowns. Jordan Addison and TJ. Hockinson,
two guys we know can play, had two hundred and
seventy six yards and two touchdowns between them. But as
I said, we went to overtime, an NFC North showdown,
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as it starts begins to get a little colder. At
Soldier Field, it was John Parker Romo, I must say,
not familiar with the man, but it was John Parker
Romo JPR who kicked the walk off game winner in
overtime to send the Vikings to nine wins and only
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two losses.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Good haul, good kick, and the Minasorda Vakings win it
it all for time.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yes they do, Yes they do. Nine and two. If
you don't mind for the Vikings are they are just
doing their thing. They are simply doing their thing. Sam
Darnold's not that far from the MVP conversation, Let's be honest.
Speaking of winning squads, Detroit got to ten and one.
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They got the job done at Indianapolis. Jamia Gibbs ninety yards,
two touchdowns. He's got eleven scores on the season through
eleven games, ten on the ground, one through the air.
David Montgomery's got ten of his own, so twenty one
touchdowns from the running back position. Unbelievable. Miami. They've won
three straight since tour Tagova Lower has returned. They got
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the job done quite easily against New England. The Patriots
covered over some big cracks late in that game. We'll
talk about that too, because it was unfriendly to us.
The NFC West, what a mess. That is confusing. San
Francisco seemed to be on cliff's edge if you ask me.
They got Hamond in Green Bay. Yes, they didn't have
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brock Perty, they didn't have Trent Williams. But they've been
sent to below five hundred. They're five and six and
they've got a clash with I think it's in Buffalo.
Up next, they're in some bother. The Seahawks beat Arizona,
meaning those two teams are both six and five. So
the two teams at the top of the NFC West,
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the Seahawks and Arizona, are six and five. The teams
on the bottom the Rams and San fran A five
and six. So there's not much in it. Kansas City
did enough to escape Charlotte Downtown Charlotte with a win.
Patti Mahomes had two sixty nine yards and three touchdowns.
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Some gritty rallying from the Panthers, but in the end
Kansas City moved to ten and one, alongside the lines
for the best record in football. Tennessee went into Houston
and beat the Texans. How about that Probably the surprise
game of the weekend, well, the surprise outcome anyway. Tony Pollard,
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the former Cowboy, had one nineteen and a score on
the ground. Will Leavis threw a couple of big bons
two touchdowns and CJ. Stroud he's a mysterious case two picks.
He's got Nico Collins back. It hasn't seemed to have
improved his play at all. Denver, they got to seven
and five with a winning Vegas bo Nicks. He's got
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to be coming hard for the Offensive Rookie of the
Year award. Can't wait to check the markets and see
how much that's changed. Knicks has got twenty five hundred yards,
sixteen pass touchdowns and only six picks on the season
and now a winning record. Sunday Night football was a cracker.
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It had the potential to be outstanding. It was a
little slow early. The Rams did some things despite their
offensive line struggles. They put a couple of footballs on
the ground, but it was all about Saquon Barkley. He
went nuclear and he probably locked down offensive Player of
the Year status in the process. He ended the game
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with a top ten all time rushing performance. He had
two hundred and fifty five yards on twenty six carries
with two monster Crip calls two seventy plus yard touchdowns
if you don't mind, and for good measure now this
won't count when it comes to the rushing scores. He
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had forty seven yards through the air as well four
catches for forty seven in the passing game, so all
in all, three hundred and two total yards in a
game of football, two touchdowns and Saquon for Saquon fans,
Giant fans turn away six yard shov career high for
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rushing yards, and he's got more and he's gone. What
a season? What a player? What a player? Indeed, Mike
tar Rico, what a call? What a man? Twenty six?
And I'll tell you what. Every time I turn my
TikTok on, all I see is John Mayer, the owner
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of the Giants, saying to his front office, his personnel staff,
I'm gonna have a hard time sleeping seeing Saquorn in Philadelphia.
Where he's in Philadelphia, and he's dominating in Philadelphia. The
Giants just continue to be a laughing stock. And Monday
Night football was good too. The hard ball it's almost
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impossible for us. I was to say their name, their surname, Harball,
John and Jim. They went head to head for the
third time. Of course. John's Ravens defeated Jim's Niners in
the Super Bowl way back when well, it's three nil,
it's three nil, and the quarterbacks decided to take over
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when it comes to touchdown scoring. Early in this game,
Justin Herbert scored the first. He kept the rock in
the red zone and charged in for six before Lamar
Jackson matched him in the second quarter with a gorgeous,
evasive ten yard run. And all in all it was
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it was a good battle, It was a good contest.
It was closer than perhaps the game really was. But
Baltimore get to eight and four, LA dropped to seven
and four, thirty to twenty three. Jackson was close enough
to perfect in the game. Sixteen of twenty two, one
seventy seven, two touchdowns through the air, plus that touchdown
on the ground. Derrick Henry he had one hundred and
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forty yards on twenty four carries, no touchdowns for him,
and Mark Andrews and Rashad Bateman were the two touchdown receptionists.
If that's even a word for the Chargers. No touchdowns
for Herbert through the air, Say what, he needs a
couple of receivers in the offseason. We know they've lost
a couple. What they've got at the moment, despite the
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fact there're seven and four, is not going to get
it done. So that's the week of NFL action. Tell
you what, it was a lot. I'm only just recovering now.
Tuesday night. I'm sitting here AT's cord to eight and
I'm still had still spinning from Washington and from Dallas.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
You're within in DNFE.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Here here we go, alright, alright, alright, Week twelve of
the Fab five. Now, I guess more generally, I have
been having a run of sick beats in the NFL,
even yesterday Monday. For those who follow me on the
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sports bet feed, the same Gay MAULTI the seven dollar
Same Game multi. We get a little bit of junk
yardage late, we get Cooper Cup doing these thing, we
get the scores over, we get the yardage Stafford. All
we need for the successful same Game multi is Stafford
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plus two hundred and forty three point five yards. What
did he finish with two forty three a yard short?
A yard shy, of course he did any out back
to the Fab five. Week twelve was a two and
three week, so we lose on the week couple of
unlucky ones. We took Miami in New England under forty
six and a half. It looked like it was going
to go well under all day. Patriots scored a couple
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of touchdowns late in that contest. That was a bit frustrating,
so we go under there. We also, this was probably
the most unlucky Vegas plus six and a half at
home against Denver. I'm always going to lean into one
of these. We're available each and every week. It was
a close game for most of the morning. Denver skipped
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away late and it looked like we'd get the back
door cover. And that's the beauty of a six and
a half seven and a half point line, you're so
prone to the back door cover. We had the ball
where he being Vegas. We had it first in goal
from the one, so we get one yard, we score,
and we cover. The Vegas quarterback took a sack, no timeouts,
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clock runs out. We don't cover sickening the Packers minus
one at home against the Niners. Now this might be
one where some people say, well, hang on. The line
was four and a half in the end or five
and a half perhaps, but I did talk about this
early in the week. It was minus one and a
half when we mentioned it. Either way, we covered one
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and a half and five and a half for those
who may not have heard me say it. Philly and
the Rams plus forty eight and a half took its
time to come alive this game, but we got there
in the end, and then Finally, today I took Baltimore
and the Charges under fifty and a half, and in
a way we were lucky. Baltimore scored thirty points, so
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we probably would have stolen it, but the title was
forty six with about a minute to go, and the
Charger's got a couple of pass interference calls on third
and fourth down. One was in the end zone, so
the ball gets placed at the one yard line and
they basically walk it over and we bust. So two
and three for the week, thirty five and twenty five
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on the season, we're still looking the goods. A few
games I'm leaning toward, and make sure you check out
the socials, most notably Instagram for the final Fab five
Seattle and the Jets plus forty two and a half,
names like Metcalf, Kenneth Walker, bres Hall, Garrett Wilson, DeVante Adams.
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I'm probably getting sucked in here, but the Seahawks have
been able to put up points at different stages. The
Jets surely can contribute twenty one to twenty two points here,
and if they do, we should go over some thinking
about that one, whether dependent the Steelers plus two and
a half against my Bengals. It's in Cincinnati, but from
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top to tail, the Steelers are a much better football team.
The Bengals have got a way better quarterback. The Bengals
have easily got the best receiver on the field, but
basically every other position it's advantage Steelers and the Mike
Tomlin effect must come to the four. Here a bad
loss against a divisional opponent, I reckon he has these
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boys ready to rock our Washington minus five and a
half against Tennessee some false love for Tennessee. Perhaps Washington
really needs to get their skates on as well. Arizona
and Minnesota plus forty six and a half indoors Kyler
Murray's balling. The Vikings keep scoring, wake in and wake out.
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I like that. I don't mind Carolina as my weak
divisional underdog at home plus six and a half, so
getting almost touchdown against Tampa Bay. Their seasons really hit
the skids. The Bills minus six and a half against
San Francisco. Never thought I'd say this number, but I'm
worried the Niners are gone. Mentally, I'm worried they're starting
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to realize that their window has closed. And then finally
Denver minus five and a half against Cleveland. Who the
hell suggested this game should be Monday night football den
Van Cleveland. My goodness. So there's a few that I'm
thinking about as we get closer to week thirteen.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You're within indfair all.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Right, let's move across to the hardwood, the hoops, the NBA.
There's been talk of the NBA dropping conferences. So as
I sat down, well, when I did the numbers, I
think this was Monday night. I'm sitting here Tuesday night.
The Eastern Conference only had four teams above five hundred,
so four teams had had more wins than losses. In
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the West there were ten teams, and across the board,
the Western Conference teams are one to thirty four wins
and one to fifteen losses, whereas the East are one
six days and one thirty four. Of course, they play
each other a fair bit, so not sure how relevant
those numbers are, but four winning teams in the East
and ten in the West. In the NFL, I have
always had a bit of a hard time with the
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divisions and how that can lead to teams such as
Atlanta or Seattle this year hosting a playoff game against
the team who's got a far better record, which would
be Minnesota or Green Bay. So that's likely to happen
this year again. But all in all, I guess this
is a situation where you say swings and roundabouts is
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the correct answer. This season, the East seemingly stinks. Maybe
next season the tables turn. I don't think there's any
need to upend anything. Joe L embiid. What to do
with Joe L? What to do in Philly? The six
is are three and thirteen and the team have a
really already publicly committed to no back to backs. So
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how does the situation improve when he's already going to
miss ouver many games to go in the season because
they're back to back games? What movie yep? I would
actively look to move and be of course, he's an
all world talent. He's thirty and twelve a night. He's
the most skilled genuine big man. I don't count gyarnas well.
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I shouldn't say that. Let me walk that back. Jokich
is the most skilled big man by a long way.
Embiid in its purest sense and offensively focused, a scoring
focused big man. Maybe he is the second best behind Jokis,
but he's thirty and twelve a night, but the per
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night part is the issue, and it feels like the
temperatures turning on him in Philly as well. The city
turned on Ben Simmons viciously, and it had its reasons.
It's turned on others before him, It'll turn on others
after him. But I'll try and move him on. I'm
not sure there'd be takers. I'm not sure what you
get back for him. The knees have got to be
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a massive concern, the culture fit. But I think you
can if you get something back for him. You get
caps based for one, You'll get some assets, and you
can build around Tyrese Maxi and Jared McCain the TikTok Dancer.
Even if you end up with some draft picks. Maxie
and McCain in particular are young enough to allow those
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draft picks to grow into good players, and off you go.
I'd move Paul George as well. He's never seemed like
a fit in Philadelphia. So there you go. Sixteen games
in Blow it Up, George gone, Embiid gone, Franz Wagner man,
I love his game, man, I love his game. He
was amazing for Germany in the World Cup and the Olympics.
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I think he's scored the second most points in the
Olympics behind Jokich. In fact, he did, I know he did.
And ever since Polo Bancetto went down with that oblique issue,
he's morphed into a genuine superstar. And I'm not throwing
that turn around. He has morphed into a genuine superstar.
He's twenty three years of age. He went for thirty
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seven six and eleven against the Lake Show. And not
only did he go for thirty seven six and eleven,
he put the Lakers to bed. Let me find this
Twitter's playing. Uh, it's going so well. I've got the
Franz Wagner dagger here. This is France putting Lebron and
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the Lakers to bed.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Sad that Franz Fager will take the show. Good five
for the laejease, God, they've gone the lead one nineteen
or one eighteen? Can you bully?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I can believe it because he's a baller. There was
nothing special to it, just out top one on one,
little step back, nice deep three and it was nothing
but cotton, nothing but bottoms. And in that game thirty
seven six and eleven, he became the youngest forward. I
would argue he's a shooting guard, but he became the
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youngest forward since you know who Lebron to go for
thirty five or more points and ten or more assists
in a game. That's good company. And in November, Wagner's
numbers are all start and potentially all NBA worthy twenty
five point four points per game, six point two board,
six point three dimes, and one point eight steals. He's
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incredibly efficient, doesn't turn the ball over and makes the
right play more often than not. The Magic are exciting.
They're hardly on TV, but you've got to find a
way to watch him once they get Barcerio back lookout.
He was looking like an MVP candidate, certainly an MVP
of the future, and now Wagner is a genuine All
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Star as well. Orlando is a place to go these
days for more than just the kids theme parks, let
me tell you. And I've been there and I only
went there for the theme parks. If I go there again,
which is unlikely, I'll be going there to see Franz
Wagner and Polo Bunchetdo.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You're within indnfair all right?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Time to get out of here. The kids are in bed,
got no idea whether they're awake or asleep at twenty
five minutes, it's risky business. Make sure you check out
the Fab five for this week with thirty five and
twenty five. We've got to keep it moving. Loving what's
happening in the NBA. There is so much talent all
over the place looking forward to watching games each and
every single damn day. It's Thanksgiving football this week, so
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this Friday we've got back to back to back tripleheader.
I think we kick things off at four point thirty
am Easton, so Melbourne time, four thirty maybe eight thirty
and then lunchtime. To make sure you check those games out.
But thanks for listening, thanks for following along. Otherwise we'll
chat to you again soon
Bag fly. Okay, why.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, I'll tell you what I think. The NFL is
officially intoxicated. It's drunk. Has to be, just dead set,
has to be. Week twelve of the NFL of the
National Football League was dead set drunk, dead set drunk.
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Now I've got to get a move on. I can't
linger because I've got three kids in bed, Mum's in teat,
so let's get stuck in. I didn't set the five
am alarm because of that very fact. I thought I'd
better get some sleep. But the body wants what the
body wants. And at five past five I was wide awake,
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and I'm glad I was, because boy was I rewarded.
Dallas and Washington on paper, looked like a game worth
skipping Cooper RuSHA backup versus a rookie who is potentially
in some kind of decline, Jaden Daniels, And for three
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quarters I was spot on. This was an awful game.
Even the first half of the fourth quarter was pretty average,
not much happening. The game was close, but there wasn't
much scoring. There weren't many chunk plays. There was nothing outstanding.
But then all hell broke loose, and I mean all hell,
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so I'll break it down for you to audio here
as well, just to jazz it up. Eight minutes remaining
in the last quarter, so almost three and a half
quarters down, Brandon Aubrey, the kicker for the Cowboys, their
best player, made a forty eight yard field goal, so
the Cowboys go up thirteen to nine. So through three
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quarters we'd had nineteen total points. With five minutes remaining,
Rush finds Luke Schoonmaker, the backup tight end, for a
twenty two yard touchdown strike twenty nine Dallas twenty Dallas nine. Washington.
You're thinking, well, Washington have got to score twelve to
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take the lead. They've scored nine er game less than
two minutes later, Jaden Daniels find zach Ertz for a
score twenty to seventeen. Washington have got life, You're thinking,
could they? Well, this is where things got absolutely crazy,
no more than thirteen seconds of game time later. This
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is what happened. Good morning. They can kick this thing
deep line drive to Terpin at a boun two scorers
lads here it comes to run to Turpin, screaming, fae,
here goes just.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Cut that day.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Turpin takes it on the way takes down Dallas unbelievable,
unbelievable ninety nine yard kick return to the crib. So
it's twenty six, sorry, twenty seven seventeen after the extra point,
and you're thinking, well, okay, that little comeback didn't last long.
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Twenty seven to seventeen. Surely it's game over. Washington play
it well. They go and pinch three, so the down ten.
Typically in that situation, you go and get your field
goal first, and then you go and get your touchdown
to tie up. So they do that. They kick a
fifty one yard field goal twenty seven to twenty. There's
a pulse. There's a pulse. They get the ball back
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quite quickly, and more more madness, more madness. Jade and Daniels,
who I've said might be in Decline, airs it out
from deep in his own territory, and Scary Terry, Scary
Terry catches it and takes this bad boy eighty six
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to the house. It's Daniels strolls down the Saine for Decline.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Ldon strikes twice.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
In Washington, lightning strikes twice. Well, it struck three times.
So McLaurin takes it eighty six yards to the crib.
Twenty seven twenty six, twenty seconds to go, and you're thinking,
my goodness, gracious, we're headed for overtime. But in more madness,
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more madness, we had to kick the extra point for
the Tiel snap. It is oh good, wow, wow, no good.
So finally Washington trying on sidekick head this time out.
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It's tipped up and I'll pick the nail in the
coffin and one Thomas. Thomas takes the on side kick
back to the crib. Thirty four twenty six. It was
an unbelievable five minutes, like truly unbelievable. If you weren't watching,
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you would think I'm lying. So with five minutes remaining,
we went from thirteen to nine to thirty four twenty six.
We should have been tied at twenty seven and we
should have been going to overtime. Unbelievable game of football.
The Cowboys get a much needed when they get to
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four and seven, and Washington just start to lose touch
with Philly in the NFC East. Now there were more
crazy games. Minnesota and Chicago played a dead set barn
burner as well. This one did go to overtime. It
took a brilliant kick in over time to get it done.
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But Caleb Williams certainly showed he's the real deal. Sam Darnald,
at what point do we just accept he he's the
real deal because he and the Vikings are absolutely balling
and there was pretty much nothing from Justin Jefferson. I
think that's the part in this game that Kevin O'Connor
will be most impressed with. Jefferson only had twenty seven
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yards on two catches, yet Donald threw for three hundred
and thirty and two touchdowns. Jordan Addison and TJ. Hockinson,
two guys we know can play, had two hundred and
seventy six yards and two touchdowns between them. But as
I said, we went to overtime, an NFC North showdown,
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as it starts begins to get a little colder. At
Soldier Field, it was John Parker Romo, I must say,
not familiar with the man, but it was John Parker
Romo JPR who kicked the walk off game winner in
overtime to send the Vikings to nine wins and only
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two losses.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Good haul, good kick, and the Minasorda Vakings win it
it all for time.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yes they do, Yes they do. Nine and two. If
you don't mind for the Vikings are they are just
doing their thing. They are simply doing their thing. Sam
Darnold's not that far from the MVP conversation, Let's be honest.
Speaking of winning squads, Detroit got to ten and one.
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They got the job done at Indianapolis. Jamia Gibbs ninety yards,
two touchdowns. He's got eleven scores on the season through
eleven games, ten on the ground, one through the air.
David Montgomery's got ten of his own, so twenty one
touchdowns from the running back position. Unbelievable. Miami. They've won
three straight since tour Tagova Lower has returned. They got
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the job done quite easily against New England. The Patriots
covered over some big cracks late in that game. We'll
talk about that too, because it was unfriendly to us.
The NFC West, what a mess. That is confusing. San
Francisco seemed to be on cliff's edge if you ask me.
They got Hamond in Green Bay. Yes, they didn't have
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brock Perty, they didn't have Trent Williams. But they've been
sent to below five hundred. They're five and six and
they've got a clash with I think it's in Buffalo.
Up next, they're in some bother. The Seahawks beat Arizona,
meaning those two teams are both six and five. So
the two teams at the top of the NFC West,
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the Seahawks and Arizona, are six and five. The teams
on the bottom the Rams and San fran A five
and six. So there's not much in it. Kansas City
did enough to escape Charlotte Downtown Charlotte with a win.
Patti Mahomes had two sixty nine yards and three touchdowns.
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Some gritty rallying from the Panthers, but in the end
Kansas City moved to ten and one, alongside the lines
for the best record in football. Tennessee went into Houston
and beat the Texans. How about that Probably the surprise
game of the weekend, well, the surprise outcome anyway. Tony Pollard,
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the former Cowboy, had one nineteen and a score on
the ground. Will Leavis threw a couple of big bons
two touchdowns and CJ. Stroud he's a mysterious case two picks.
He's got Nico Collins back. It hasn't seemed to have
improved his play at all. Denver, they got to seven
and five with a winning Vegas bo Nicks. He's got
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to be coming hard for the Offensive Rookie of the
Year award. Can't wait to check the markets and see
how much that's changed. Knicks has got twenty five hundred yards,
sixteen pass touchdowns and only six picks on the season
and now a winning record. Sunday Night football was a cracker.
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It had the potential to be outstanding. It was a
little slow early. The Rams did some things despite their
offensive line struggles. They put a couple of footballs on
the ground, but it was all about Saquon Barkley. He
went nuclear and he probably locked down offensive Player of
the Year status in the process. He ended the game
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with a top ten all time rushing performance. He had
two hundred and fifty five yards on twenty six carries
with two monster Crip calls two seventy plus yard touchdowns
if you don't mind, and for good measure now this
won't count when it comes to the rushing scores. He
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had forty seven yards through the air as well four
catches for forty seven in the passing game, so all
in all, three hundred and two total yards in a
game of football, two touchdowns and Saquon for Saquon fans,
Giant fans turn away six yard shov career high for
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rushing yards, and he's got more and he's gone. What
a season? What a player? What a player? Indeed, Mike
tar Rico, what a call? What a man? Twenty six?
And I'll tell you what. Every time I turn my
TikTok on, all I see is John Mayer, the owner
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of the Giants, saying to his front office, his personnel staff,
I'm gonna have a hard time sleeping seeing Saquorn in Philadelphia.
Where he's in Philadelphia, and he's dominating in Philadelphia. The
Giants just continue to be a laughing stock. And Monday
Night football was good too. The hard ball it's almost
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impossible for us. I was to say their name, their surname, Harball,
John and Jim. They went head to head for the
third time. Of course. John's Ravens defeated Jim's Niners in
the Super Bowl way back when well, it's three nil,
it's three nil, and the quarterbacks decided to take over
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when it comes to touchdown scoring. Early in this game,
Justin Herbert scored the first. He kept the rock in
the red zone and charged in for six before Lamar
Jackson matched him in the second quarter with a gorgeous,
evasive ten yard run. And all in all it was
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it was a good battle, It was a good contest.
It was closer than perhaps the game really was. But
Baltimore get to eight and four, LA dropped to seven
and four, thirty to twenty three. Jackson was close enough
to perfect in the game. Sixteen of twenty two, one
seventy seven, two touchdowns through the air, plus that touchdown
on the ground. Derrick Henry he had one hundred and
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forty yards on twenty four carries, no touchdowns for him,
and Mark Andrews and Rashad Bateman were the two touchdown receptionists.
If that's even a word for the Chargers. No touchdowns
for Herbert through the air, Say what, he needs a
couple of receivers in the offseason. We know they've lost
a couple. What they've got at the moment, despite the
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fact there're seven and four, is not going to get
it done. So that's the week of NFL action. Tell
you what, it was a lot. I'm only just recovering now.
Tuesday night. I'm sitting here AT's cord to eight and
I'm still had still spinning from Washington and from Dallas.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
You're within in DNFE.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Here here we go, alright, alright, alright, Week twelve of
the Fab five. Now, I guess more generally, I have
been having a run of sick beats in the NFL,
even yesterday Monday. For those who follow me on the
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sports bet feed, the same Gay MAULTI the seven dollar
Same Game multi. We get a little bit of junk
yardage late, we get Cooper Cup doing these thing, we
get the scores over, we get the yardage Stafford. All
we need for the successful same Game multi is Stafford
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plus two hundred and forty three point five yards. What
did he finish with two forty three a yard short?
A yard shy, of course he did any out back
to the Fab five. Week twelve was a two and
three week, so we lose on the week couple of
unlucky ones. We took Miami in New England under forty
six and a half. It looked like it was going
to go well under all day. Patriots scored a couple
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of touchdowns late in that contest. That was a bit frustrating,
so we go under there. We also, this was probably
the most unlucky Vegas plus six and a half at
home against Denver. I'm always going to lean into one
of these. We're available each and every week. It was
a close game for most of the morning. Denver skipped
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away late and it looked like we'd get the back
door cover. And that's the beauty of a six and
a half seven and a half point line, you're so
prone to the back door cover. We had the ball
where he being Vegas. We had it first in goal
from the one, so we get one yard, we score,
and we cover. The Vegas quarterback took a sack, no timeouts,
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clock runs out. We don't cover sickening the Packers minus
one at home against the Niners. Now this might be
one where some people say, well, hang on. The line
was four and a half in the end or five
and a half perhaps, but I did talk about this
early in the week. It was minus one and a
half when we mentioned it. Either way, we covered one
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and a half and five and a half for those
who may not have heard me say it. Philly and
the Rams plus forty eight and a half took its
time to come alive this game, but we got there
in the end, and then Finally, today I took Baltimore
and the Charges under fifty and a half, and in
a way we were lucky. Baltimore scored thirty points, so
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we probably would have stolen it, but the title was
forty six with about a minute to go, and the
Charger's got a couple of pass interference calls on third
and fourth down. One was in the end zone, so
the ball gets placed at the one yard line and
they basically walk it over and we bust. So two
and three for the week, thirty five and twenty five
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on the season, we're still looking the goods. A few
games I'm leaning toward, and make sure you check out
the socials, most notably Instagram for the final Fab five
Seattle and the Jets plus forty two and a half,
names like Metcalf, Kenneth Walker, bres Hall, Garrett Wilson, DeVante Adams.
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I'm probably getting sucked in here, but the Seahawks have
been able to put up points at different stages. The
Jets surely can contribute twenty one to twenty two points here,
and if they do, we should go over some thinking
about that one, whether dependent the Steelers plus two and
a half against my Bengals. It's in Cincinnati, but from
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top to tail, the Steelers are a much better football team.
The Bengals have got a way better quarterback. The Bengals
have easily got the best receiver on the field, but
basically every other position it's advantage Steelers and the Mike
Tomlin effect must come to the four. Here a bad
loss against a divisional opponent, I reckon he has these
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boys ready to rock our Washington minus five and a
half against Tennessee some false love for Tennessee. Perhaps Washington
really needs to get their skates on as well. Arizona
and Minnesota plus forty six and a half indoors Kyler
Murray's balling. The Vikings keep scoring, wake in and wake out.
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I like that. I don't mind Carolina as my weak
divisional underdog at home plus six and a half, so
getting almost touchdown against Tampa Bay. Their seasons really hit
the skids. The Bills minus six and a half against
San Francisco. Never thought I'd say this number, but I'm
worried the Niners are gone. Mentally, I'm worried they're starting
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to realize that their window has closed. And then finally
Denver minus five and a half against Cleveland. Who the
hell suggested this game should be Monday night football den
Van Cleveland. My goodness. So there's a few that I'm
thinking about as we get closer to week thirteen.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
You're within indfair all.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Right, let's move across to the hardwood, the hoops, the NBA.
There's been talk of the NBA dropping conferences. So as
I sat down, well, when I did the numbers, I
think this was Monday night. I'm sitting here Tuesday night.
The Eastern Conference only had four teams above five hundred,
so four teams had had more wins than losses. In
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the West there were ten teams, and across the board,
the Western Conference teams are one to thirty four wins
and one to fifteen losses, whereas the East are one
six days and one thirty four. Of course, they play
each other a fair bit, so not sure how relevant
those numbers are, but four winning teams in the East
and ten in the West. In the NFL, I have
always had a bit of a hard time with the
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divisions and how that can lead to teams such as
Atlanta or Seattle this year hosting a playoff game against
the team who's got a far better record, which would
be Minnesota or Green Bay. So that's likely to happen
this year again. But all in all, I guess this
is a situation where you say swings and roundabouts is
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the correct answer. This season, the East seemingly stinks. Maybe
next season the tables turn. I don't think there's any
need to upend anything. Joe L embiid. What to do
with Joe L? What to do in Philly? The six
is are three and thirteen and the team have a
really already publicly committed to no back to backs. So
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how does the situation improve when he's already going to
miss ouver many games to go in the season because
they're back to back games? What movie yep? I would
actively look to move and be of course, he's an
all world talent. He's thirty and twelve a night. He's
the most skilled genuine big man. I don't count gyarnas well.
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I shouldn't say that. Let me walk that back. Jokich
is the most skilled big man by a long way.
Embiid in its purest sense and offensively focused, a scoring
focused big man. Maybe he is the second best behind Jokis,
but he's thirty and twelve a night, but the per
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night part is the issue, and it feels like the
temperatures turning on him in Philly as well. The city
turned on Ben Simmons viciously, and it had its reasons.
It's turned on others before him, It'll turn on others
after him. But I'll try and move him on. I'm
not sure there'd be takers. I'm not sure what you
get back for him. The knees have got to be
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a massive concern, the culture fit. But I think you
can if you get something back for him. You get
caps based for one, You'll get some assets, and you
can build around Tyrese Maxi and Jared McCain the TikTok Dancer.
Even if you end up with some draft picks. Maxie
and McCain in particular are young enough to allow those
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draft picks to grow into good players, and off you go.
I'd move Paul George as well. He's never seemed like
a fit in Philadelphia. So there you go. Sixteen games
in Blow it Up, George gone, Embiid gone, Franz Wagner man,
I love his game, man, I love his game. He
was amazing for Germany in the World Cup and the Olympics.
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I think he's scored the second most points in the
Olympics behind Jokich. In fact, he did, I know he did.
And ever since Polo Bancetto went down with that oblique issue,
he's morphed into a genuine superstar. And I'm not throwing
that turn around. He has morphed into a genuine superstar.
He's twenty three years of age. He went for thirty
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seven six and eleven against the Lake Show. And not
only did he go for thirty seven six and eleven,
he put the Lakers to bed. Let me find this
Twitter's playing. Uh, it's going so well. I've got the
Franz Wagner dagger here. This is France putting Lebron and
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the Lakers to bed.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Sad that Franz Fager will take the show. Good five
for the laejease, God, they've gone the lead one nineteen
or one eighteen? Can you bully?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I can believe it because he's a baller. There was
nothing special to it, just out top one on one,
little step back, nice deep three and it was nothing
but cotton, nothing but bottoms. And in that game thirty
seven six and eleven, he became the youngest forward. I
would argue he's a shooting guard, but he became the
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youngest forward since you know who Lebron to go for
thirty five or more points and ten or more assists
in a game. That's good company. And in November, Wagner's
numbers are all start and potentially all NBA worthy twenty
five point four points per game, six point two board,
six point three dimes, and one point eight steals. He's
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incredibly efficient, doesn't turn the ball over and makes the
right play more often than not. The Magic are exciting.
They're hardly on TV, but you've got to find a
way to watch him once they get Barcerio back lookout.
He was looking like an MVP candidate, certainly an MVP
of the future, and now Wagner is a genuine All
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Star as well. Orlando is a place to go these
days for more than just the kids theme parks, let
me tell you. And I've been there and I only
went there for the theme parks. If I go there again,
which is unlikely, I'll be going there to see Franz
Wagner and Polo Bunchetdo.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
You're within indnfair all right?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Time to get out of here. The kids are in bed,
got no idea whether they're awake or asleep at twenty
five minutes, it's risky business. Make sure you check out
the Fab five for this week with thirty five and
twenty five. We've got to keep it moving. Loving what's
happening in the NBA. There is so much talent all
over the place looking forward to watching games each and
every single damn day. It's Thanksgiving football this week, so
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this Friday we've got back to back to back tripleheader.
I think we kick things off at four point thirty
am Easton, so Melbourne time, four thirty maybe eight thirty
and then lunchtime. To make sure you check those games out.
But thanks for listening, thanks for following along. Otherwise we'll
chat to you again soon
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