Best Of The Jason Smith Show

Arnie Spanier and Chris Plank talk shop on the NFL Preseason and the NFL top dogs in each division. Plus, the guys go into depth on the strength of schedule.

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Speaker 3 (00:30):
Oh, let's go, Stave, Genius, go, big boy, let's go.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Let's go. How is your Friday?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Kind of fun to talk here on a Friday where
we typically do Sunday nights.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Have good day.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
I was waiting for the show.

Speaker 6 (00:44):
I was working hard all day waiting for you to
return all my text I'm ready to go.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
Now, let's do it, my friend. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Even when I return your text? You screw it up?
I know, No, you screwed it up.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Okay, let's let's bring this up.

Speaker 6 (01:00):
Twelve years of doing the show and you think you
get it right by now right?

Speaker 4 (01:04):
But again, I don't know how many You're not my boss.

Speaker 6 (01:07):
You know what I want people to know between you
and the producers and the second producers we allegedly have,
and these alleged third producers guys, it's like I get
anything done for crying out loud.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Well, once we can read your handwriting and reach me
onto your text that are like, are you there?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
I want to take you back through this.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
I got to write an update real quick for the SEGA.

Speaker 6 (01:32):
I'm sorry, go ahead, what's your update you have to write?
I'm sure the SEGA wants my help too. I got
to do everything else around here.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Arnie, you have Roman numerals with one sentence of stories
you want to talk.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
About, twenty of them.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Twenty got worse to first on here for like the
eighth straight time.

Speaker 6 (01:50):
You have not done worse the first we do. We
do it every year. We've not done it this year.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
So I get a text from Marnie.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
The very first text that he sends me this morning
is is this simple? Right, very simple? Bernie, last hour?
My response works for me. You give me a thumbs
up now real quick. Before you say anything, Patrick, just
in any conversation, wouldn't you assume that means that person

(02:20):
has taken care of, say a Bernie frattle In this instance,
coming on the last hour. Don't you think in that
kind of verbiage, it seems pretty clear what's going on.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Oh yeah, cluckly clear right if you agree, sir, you
agree with that?

Speaker 5 (02:35):
I mean, I absolutely do.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
Bernie last Hour, I reply works for me.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I get a thumbs up the Sager this is as
cut and I mean, I don't feel like I have
any culpability here because that to me, you're over to
right now, Sager, which way.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Would you look at?

Speaker 6 (02:50):
That?

Speaker 7 (02:51):
Seems clear?

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Clear? Right?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
So I send the tweet out for who's on the show,
Tyler Dragon's coming on. We're going to be tight because
we got one of the bright young minds of the
nast Football League joining us as Arnie is about to
lose another bet. And I thought, you and Bernie that's
bothering the hell out of me too, and Bernie Froud
in the last hour, Arnie's first text to me, literally
seconds before we go on the ear is Bernie's coming on.

(03:15):
I thought you had this set up. And then you're like, well,
Todd Furman's a regular on Fridays.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Well, you said you.

Speaker 6 (03:20):
At Bertie Frado, You're you're totally not telling the truth.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
That's you I don't know how much more truthful that
could be. I'll screenshot the text message.

Speaker 6 (03:30):
You you you told me, Hey, I'm not true, but
I think Todd Furman's a regular on Fridays.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
I ever said that to you? You know what?

Speaker 5 (03:38):
So what am I'm making it up now.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I don't no office to Jason and Mike. I don't
listen to their show on Friday nights. I have no
idea who the regular is on their show on Friday nights.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
No offense, guys, I really.

Speaker 6 (03:49):
Want to be When I take it back, you didn't
tell me that. Bernie told me that.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Except your apologies, I'm.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
Not going to apologize. I told you. Somebody dull me that.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
So Bernie told me that the Spin that Todd is h.

Speaker 5 (04:06):
As a regular on Friday.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
So so I changed it and got Todd for us.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
This really seems as if you're trying to point a
finger at me and make me the bad guy when
I am not the.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
Bad I'm sorry, you know, I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (04:19):
I get I work harder than everybody else around it,
That's what That's what I apologize for. I'm sorry I
work harder than everybody else. As for my picks, whenever
I do bad in the preseason, that just means I
go crazy good.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
In the regular season. You know that by now come, I.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Don't know if that's true.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
In fact, the last you had a good preseason last year,
the preseason being the free season.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
You did pretty well last season.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
It's killing me. The Giants were up twenty one to three.
My goodness.

Speaker 4 (04:47):
The year before that, the free season.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
You wou didn't even pick games the last week of
the preseason because it was going so hard.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
I was so bad, Yeah, I was. I should have
been fired.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
I'm about to I started six seven and I'm about
to lose both games.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
For crying out loud.

Speaker 7 (05:03):
So let me get this straight, Arnie.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Oh, here comes the sag.

Speaker 7 (05:06):
I know the guys that you heard of were doing
well in the game, and then the rest of the night,
guys you'd never heard of were playing, and you're upset
that it didn't go.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well like you had picked it right whenever the good
players were in the game.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
Of you guys, do you guys understand that jobs are
decided Like dtr the quarterback for.

Speaker 7 (05:27):
I think he's got a job.

Speaker 6 (05:29):
I think he's why Why because he looks so good
in the game, right the sager.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
How about that?

Speaker 7 (05:33):
No, No, I'm talking about the Giants. Literally, guys we've
never heard of, were playing the bulk of the game tonight.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Do you turn this to another game, Arnie?

Speaker 6 (05:41):
Well, it goes to show you're you're like all the
other shows tonight, Arnie shows, not last night.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
I don't care about the preseason shows. Do you do
you guys even like football? Do you like sports?

Speaker 7 (05:53):
I love NFL football, which is why I don't like
the preseason. It's not NFL football.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
It's a little bit fresh.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
After you go six months of not having any football.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
You would take it, you know.

Speaker 6 (06:04):
It's like if you've been on a desert island and
you haven't eaten for six months, and then I give
you a burger, but I drop it in the sand first.
Still eat you brush the sand off, and you'll eat
it and you'll enjoy you too.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
How about that?

Speaker 7 (06:14):
I eat the burger just like I watch a quarter
of every game in the preseason.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Why are you so?

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Is this all about your picks? Which is why you're
starting so confrontational? You screw up the guests for the
show tonight, which, by the way, Patrick, nice, say Buddy
Todd Furman is coming on tonight, and I think Bernie,
we'll still join us as well.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Got it.

Speaker 4 (06:32):
Way to pick it up, big dogs.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Gee, way to go, mister producer, whatever your name is.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
And then there is this Atlanta Bingles pick that's about
to go against you too.

Speaker 7 (06:43):
Yeah, what are these based on, Arnie exactly? Good question
is you're picking one team over another based on what?

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Based on what.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
When someone says, hey, Patrick Mahomes is playing the entire
first half, I'm saying to myself, Hey, you know there's I.

Speaker 7 (07:00):
Can understand that. But like the Giants tonight, all the
players we knew stop playing after they were leading. Therefore
the other team came back.

Speaker 6 (07:08):
You know what kicks you when you're down. You weren't
talking like this when I was picking it. No, you
weren't talking like this when I was picking like eighty
correct every year one year out of.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
One year out of the last ten.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, it's you wish every year.

Speaker 7 (07:25):
The question remains, your picks in the preseason are based
on what?

Speaker 4 (07:29):
That's curious. Wait, hold on, hold, can I ask a
question understatement?

Speaker 6 (07:34):
This is like the one bad year I've had in
the preseason out of the last This is what Arnie
should do is I had a full out of hair
when I started doing this.

Speaker 7 (07:43):
Baseball picks, there's such a thing as you can pick
what's the score after five innings? They should have that.
For preseason football.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
You could do half time pats. Yeah, you could do that,
well first quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Look, let's go back and reset your record at halftime
with these.

Speaker 5 (07:58):
Oh so you mean I get to adjust my record
better than what it is.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Yet you'll do that?

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Yeah, No, you're not.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
I'm trying.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
You're in a good one.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
You love when my picks goes south, You like send
me text. It's like it's like it's like a like
finding a pot of gold for you or something like that.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
We can we be real clear for a moment.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
If I knew Arnie was picking real money or putting
real money out there on this, I'd be a little
bit more sympathetic. I love it that it's it's all
about his exciting it's about picking games.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Right.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
No, I do put real money on it. But just
don't tell my wife on that. How about that?

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Okay, Well that's fair enough, that's right.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
It's goodness she doesn't listen to the show.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
But I can get away with about anything because I
don't know if my wife has ever listened to me
on the air. It is a final, though, Arnie, as
we come to you live from the Tirack dot Com studios.
The Giants have beaten the care I almost said the
Pittsburgh Panthers of the us FL. The Giants have beaten
the Carolina Panthers twenty one to nineteen.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
It's a two point.

Speaker 7 (08:59):
Play in the four.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
And we should add we saw some starters for a
little bit tonight for the Giants.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
Shocking, which is what I've been telling you all this time.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Daniel Jones eight of nine for sixty nine yards.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
What does that mean? It means according to you, and
that means nothing.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, this is a good first quarter.

Speaker 7 (09:16):
No, it means the first series was very much worth washing.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
That's right, Darren.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
Darren Waller was all over the place. Oh did he
look good? That pretty good move there? Huh uh plank.

Speaker 4 (09:27):
I am not in a bad mood.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
I get so triggered. He look, here's the thing I'm
watching Derek Carr on Sunday. I'm watching Darren Waller tonight.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
Car looks like MVP, but go ahead.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
They just look so happy. It's like these two dudes.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
They look like they're having the time at Waller's wearing twelve.
He looks like a damn wide receiver out there. Derek
carr is his teammates. He's like telling things to the
young guys. He's waving to the fans. He's rooting for
you guys, are you watching? No, he's still rooting for Vegas.
He's still rooting for the Raiders.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
You know that. Well, that's awfully nice of him.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
I'm seeing that the Raiders just let him walk away
while Carson Wentz pulled a first round and a second
round pick, and so did Sam Darnold. But we let
him walk away for nothing. That's fine. Yeah, Darren Waller
did look really good tonight. Three catches, thirty yards. Do
we have any more concerns, Arnie? No, you had already
ended c J. Stroud's career. He was a bust after

(10:26):
his first quarter. Do the concerns ratchet up after another
less than stellar night from Bryce Young?

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Oh? Come on, you already know the answer to that.
Stop it. Don't play stupid. You know what's going on.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
And you're reading Twitter just like I do. He looks
horrible out there, horrible. Oh my goodness, man, we just
stopped that. I'm telling you this, I betting against Carolina
every game and pull the bus off over. I'm off
the bandwagon on that for a while.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I think they should start Matt Krouch. You see how
good he looked tonight. I'm just decided. I've got a
new philosophy on all you just going with you on
every hot take.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
You think Bryce Young has done great.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
Fire the GM, right, so I'm wrong that you you
have not obviously you not read.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
I'm agreeing with you one hundred percent.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Did you see how bad he looks?

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Well, if he's not gonna start, who's gonna play Matt.

Speaker 6 (11:18):
He's gonna start. He's gonna have a lot of growing pains.
That's why I'm telling everybody right now, bet against Carolina.
They're not winning their division, their their seasons already.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
O v e R.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
It's it's done all for them. They're not doing any
Bet the under every game against them.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Two.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
That could probably be some of the best news that
Panther fans have heard tonight.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
Now they'll be pretty upset. It's gonna be a long
year for them. You know what I'll go, I'm with
you on this, Arnie. He looked terrible.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
I would sit down and talk to the GM think
about going in another direction. Who thought he should be
the first pick in the draft?

Speaker 5 (11:52):
H Tubby, You like what you saw then, so you're I'm.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Agreeing with you.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Why do I need to see any more than hold
on twelve passes from the number one pick in the
draft in the preseason in the first quarter to know
that he's a freaking bus get rid of everyone.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
You got to start over after these two. I'm with you, dude, Like.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
Like the Seger said, this shows tonight, my f that's right.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
I'm not just now I agree with you when you're
getting mad at me. No, most being sarcastic, but let's
be honest. He doesn't look very good.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (12:23):
You could tell that this is going to be a problem.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
Wait, though he goes up against number one defenses that
are coming after him full speed ahead, It's not going
to be a pretty year for this guy.

Speaker 5 (12:33):
I promise you that.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Those teams playing half speed tonight and he still couldn't
get it done.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
Now, played against guy, you know what I was in
the lineup against tonight. He was played against people like me.

Speaker 4 (12:43):
The Giants did at least play their starters.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
We're waiting for a final and literally I think the
only concern here is for the gamblers because what was
the number in the Bengals Falcons game? Because it's ten
to six, Atlanta has the football back, yeah with eight?

Speaker 4 (12:58):
Wow, why is this game taking so long?

Speaker 2 (13:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (13:00):
Atlanta was favored by six and a half is what
it was. So they have to score a touchdown.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
So you need them to go down and score for you, right.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
Yeah, they got a score otherwise it's done.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
So for me, well, they have the football and it
doesn't look like they're trying to matriculate it down the
field too quickly.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
No, they're killing me. They're going to kill me.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
But if Atlanta can get down the field and score,
look out, you'll get a win tonight. Ten to six,
just over what five and a half left in that game,
So Giants win. We'll talk a little bit more about
how they look tonight. Daniel Jones had that first series,
more struggles for Bryce Young and as we mentioned, Atlanta,
I still don't.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
I mean Desmond rinderd or Desmond Rindard.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
The numbers looked okay, but that was a bit of
a bone crushing interception. So we'll get to that coming
up later on in the program. Plus there's a little
baseball in the docket tonight. Arnie wants to talk worse
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numeral four and five.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
Yeah, I'm surprised you want Roman numeral number four, which
is my picks. I was six and seven coming in
and one zero for two tonight in my picks.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Well, I guess I'm asking, are you going to change
your philosophy at all?

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Here? On the free season is there anything.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
That you've learned here that's going to make you change
the way that you're picking games to try to turn
this thing around.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
Okay, obviously, how dare you ask that? You know? I'm
glad your wife.

Speaker 6 (16:56):
Isn't listening tonight because you know, just because you reach
a rough patch in the marriage, you know it, which
you've been married twenty years and you've had a tough month,
you don't call it quits and say you're getting a divorced.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
No, no, no, this is just a rough patch.

Speaker 6 (17:10):
I was three and one. I've hit a rough patch.
I'm gonna get back on the straight and arrow.

Speaker 5 (17:15):
I feel good. I'm ready to roll on my next
eight picks.

Speaker 6 (17:19):
So we'll see what happens, but I'll get back on it.
It's gonna go. I mean, I just had the worst
luck tonight. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
I mean, go figure gambling involves luck whenever it comes
to a preseason football game.

Speaker 6 (17:32):
I was up twenty one to three at a half time.
Who who doesn't cover a game when you're up twenty
one to three at a halftime?

Speaker 4 (17:38):
A team that brings in its third and fourth team.

Speaker 6 (17:41):
Guys, even if I was playing, you still should cover
something like that.

Speaker 4 (17:44):
They didn't.

Speaker 5 (17:47):
At Bay. There's a lot of spreads.

Speaker 6 (17:49):
There's a lot of big spreads in the NFL in
preseason Week two, like seven, seven and a half, six
and a half, A lot of big numbers out there.

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Well, I can't wait to hear how you're going to
write the ship with eleven preseason games tomorrow. In fact,
we've got like an NFL schedule. Things start at noon
Central one Eastern. We've got games on the NFL network. Well,
that's the first game Jaguars lines. Tomorrow, You've got Dolphins
and Texans. I mean, I'm all over that.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
I heard.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
I'm over that.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
I mean with the way you're talking about How about CJ. Stroud? Look,
I mean is that a I mean, is that a
legacy game for him? Tomorrow? Arnie is his career on
the line.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
I took the Texans over the Dolphins tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Oh did you really?

Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (18:34):
The Dolphins look so bad at that first preseason game.
I until they show me any serious desire to win
a game, I'm just gonna go opposite of them. I'm
not thinking everybody, I'm I'm the.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Smart guy at the road noodle.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
I'm using my brain.

Speaker 6 (18:49):
Now my insight source called common sense now is telling
me which way to go.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
You know, this is our last weekend without quote unquote
real football. You know, we got college food and so
basically we are a week away from people complaining about
how bad the first weekend of college football schedule sucks.
When you've got Notre Dame and Navy and you've got
what San Jose State and USC or something like that.
I mean, I can't wait to get in next Sunday night,

(19:17):
and here you complain about how terrible that week zero
slate is.

Speaker 6 (19:21):
I can play last night about how terrible week zero.
It's not called week zero anymore, it's Week one.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Well, then you have two teams that are playing Week
one games, So I mean, what does that Does that
mean now that games that are being played that Thursday?
Or are they still week one?

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Now?

Speaker 3 (19:36):
If you stop it right now, I'm just asking a question.
I want to make sure I get it right.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
I know Week one ends like September fourth, from whatever
it is up to this, and then after that is
week two.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
So games that are any more question, games that are
played on Saturday, August twenty six. The team like Notre
Dame a team like USC, they're considered a week one game.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
Yeah, correct, that's week It used to be week zero,
but they're week one.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
So then when USC turns around and places in Nevada
on September ninth, that's also a week one game.

Speaker 5 (20:07):
No, September ninth is now week two?

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Uh did I say September ninth? I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I'm in September second. Would that still be a week
one game too? Yes, that's a week one game. Yes, okay,
So we're gonna have teams that played two Week one.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
Games, I guess because you welcome to the.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
Weirdness that is college football.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Not to day.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Even Navy have a by I think a lot of
teams that are playing on that first Saturday have buys
that next week. But you watch, I'll tell you what's
gonna happen. Nerd moment before we get to Roman numeral number.
I believe it's five here that I wanted to get
to Arnie total Nerd No moment, You're going to start
seeing more coaches push their administrators and athletic directors to
play in that early week. You know why, because you

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can start practices earlier and the sooner you can get
those guys on the practice field, you get a little
extra time. I think that college I think the TV
networks will want better matchups in that opening weekend, right
And when I say opening week, I.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Mean week zero slash week one.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
Now, I think you're gonna start seeing more people want
to do that because you're able to start practices soon.

Speaker 6 (21:06):
But like you said, is it going to be cream
puff opponents or are they going to have, you know,
a decent game.

Speaker 5 (21:11):
Look at the lines on some of these games.

Speaker 6 (21:13):
Thirty on the USC game, twenty one on the Notre
Dame game. There's some big thirty five on the Michigan game,
almost thirty or twenty eight on the Tennessee game.

Speaker 5 (21:24):
It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, no, you do not have good Week zero matchups.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
We had to try to create a good and I
know week one now we try to create one with
Northwestern and Nebraska.

Speaker 5 (21:34):
Oh yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
And who would have thought that that would be Nebraska's
in for Scott Frost essentially, and it would be the
last win for Pat Fitzgerald because Northwestern didn't win another
game that entire season. You know, a couple of years ago,
we had Miami in Florida. That was really fun in
the opening weekend. I don't know if coaches want to
crush themselves, Arenie. I think you're onto something there, but

(21:56):
I think you will see more people say yeah, we'll
take that first Friday or that first Saturday more specifically
and in the college football season. And okay, another sidebar,
another nerd note to this, How does the schedule change,
if at all, when we go to twelve in the
playoffs and we had extra games in the playoffs.

Speaker 6 (22:13):
Notre Dame does not don't play a second game in
that first week there you go, yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
But they don't have the buy they're gonna play again
on the second Yeah, though, gosh, that sucks traveling back
from Ireland.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Good luck.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
You got to turn around and play what Delaware state
or somebody.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
Tennessee state tennis.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
You're close, You're very close on that way to go,
closest Tennessee in Delaware.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
Couple of same school. I think now I'm gonna get
in trouble for that.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
No, no, no, you're fine. I don't think Scotti's the
diehard Tennessee I don't.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Be our bosses. I just met from the Alumnia Tennessee State.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
No, no, No, Scotty Oats.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Scotty Oats on Twitter is our big diehard Tennessee fan.
He's going to be the guy that'll come after you
for that. You see La Dodger Frank a couple of
quick tweets or exes and then we'll get to Arnie's
topic that has been on the rundown for couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (23:00):
Now that does deserve a conversation. That's worse.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
First, but you Cela Dodger Frank Right, I work at
Sofi Stadium and it rained pretty heavily during the Georgia
TCU National Championship game in January, rained sideways and heavily
all day. Okay, that's a little bit reassuring to see
if it can handle parcipitation. But Arnie, I think we're
looking with Hurricane Hillary. This seems to be a little

(23:24):
bit more historic than what we dealt with National Championship.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
Weekend right questions this how bad does it affect the
playing field? You know, I've not been in so far,
but as you know, the SEGA told you they had
a little bit of a delay with lightning Pators Chargers
game last year. And you know what, do you really
want to risk injury if the field is slippery, and
I don't know how slippery it could be. I have

(23:47):
no idea, but I'll put it this way. If I'm
a starter in the NFL, I think I'll pass on
that game.

Speaker 5 (23:53):
I think I'll go ahead and sait that one out.

Speaker 7 (23:55):
It was an artificial turf field, guys. They do have
the translucent roof covering just open up on the sides.
Although it is noticeable a day game, it is brighter
in the press box because the sun comes through the roof.
A night game, your notes are kind of obscured because
you noticeably have to find another source of light. It's
an odd stadium. I understand why they did that. They

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also had to because the planes fly to lax over it.
They had to dig essentially like ten stories down to
make a smaller footprint in the city of Englewood so
the planes could fly over. There are all these things
going into it. I still think the bottom line is
what we talked about last hour of how is it
for the people who live and work there in the

(24:40):
surrounding area, getting in, getting out the actual nuts and
bolts of an NFL event.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
Ingress egress Whenever you're dealing with what looks to be
a historic weather event.

Speaker 7 (24:52):
Yeah, and they thought the egress would be really bad
last weekend during the exhibition because there was a Drake
concert next door, and therefore nobody could park at the
Forum next door and Rams parking is sold out for
the season, and so, oh my goodness, we're gonna have
two things maybe getting out at the same time. Good
luck with that. And it turns out the concert went longer,
so everything was fine. This will be completely different again.

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Scheduled for seven pm Eastern Sunday in Englewood.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
So you were able to make the Drake concert. Then
whenever you were done, that was your Thomas Steve No.

Speaker 7 (25:22):
But that was a constant item of comedy with people
in the press box that they were hoping the game
would move along so they can walk over next door.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
As we come to Your Life from the tyrock dot
Com Studios. Not going well at Chavez Ravine update, top
of the fourth inning, Dodgers trailing the Marlins seven to one, Arnie,
if the Dodgers don't make it twelve straight tonight, do
you put Dave Roberts on the hot seat like Pelicheck?

Speaker 4 (25:47):
Exactly.

Speaker 7 (25:48):
It's not just seven to one already, it's four home
runs off starting pitcher Tony Gonsolin in three plus innings.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
That's not good.

Speaker 7 (25:56):
None of them cheapies, all of them four hundred feet
or more.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
That's not good.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Do I start panicking now about Gonsolin. I've been riding
the roller coaster of love with him. One moment, I'm
ready for him to go back to Oklahoma City and
try to fix things. The next moment, I'm giving him
the cy Young Award.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
How do you know it's between my Dodgers and the Braves.
Quit saying you're Dodger to get into the World Series.
So let's be honest.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
It's going to come down between those two teams.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
Your name is Shane, you can't say my Dodgers.

Speaker 7 (26:27):
If the Braves win, to the job as Atlanti's record
will be eighty and forty two this year. They had
just been ridiculously good.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Did you see this coming with the Dodgers though? And
I have a lot. I don't have a lot of
like baseball buddies. I have a handful. And their point
is s yeah, we'll look who they're playing. Well, Milwaukee's
a team that's battling for first place.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
Right now, and Miami could be in the playoffs. But
you're right before it was say we're playing the Royals
in Arizona slumping, and that's right Colorado and the A's exactly.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
That's been the most disappointing the division ever the last
couple of years. Padres thinking up to join this year.
That's just so horrible, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 7 (27:08):
Yeah, the Padres with that payroll fifty eight and sixty four.
You know, we talked last hour about the Angels being
seven games out in the wild card. Padres are five
games out in the National League wildcard chase.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
The Dodgers are in trouble right now.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Their run differential right now is plus one forty seven.
And by the way, that's not even the tops in
the National League because the Braves are ridiculous at two twelve.
So you've got those two teams on a collision course
though the Dodgers trail here tonight. All right, it's Arnie
and Plank sitting in for a Jason and Mike on
a Fox. Can I say Football Friday? Because we are

(27:43):
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you've been wanting to talk about it. I feel like
you've chosen your team. You have options. Every year somebody

(28:04):
makes that jump from first, are from worse to first.
You've got options like the Denver Broncos right when you
look back at the twenty twenty two season, but you
did also end Russell Wilson's career last week.

Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, it's stuns off.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
You've got the Cleveland Browns under Shaun Watson full year
now of being in the mix, the Texans from the
AFC South, and everybody's favorite worst to first pick so far,
the New York Jets. In the NFC, you've got the
Commander's Bears now the Falcons and the Saints finish in
a seven and ten tie, and then the Arizona Cardinals.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
So if you decided that you've got.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Your team that's going from worse to first in twenty
twenty three.

Speaker 6 (28:50):
Well it's a very easy one. Absolutely piece of cake.
New Orleans now are you on it right now? I mean,
I got nothing else planned for this second. Oh yeah,
it was the Saints. You know, I'm picking up to
go to the super Bowl, so of course I'm gonna
go ahead and pick for them to win the division.
Such a lousy division out there, and really there's not
gonna be much competition when you go ahead and look around.

(29:12):
I mean, they're gonna be the class of the division,
will probably run away with it, maybe get a number
one seed. They're really a better I think Cars just
going to have a super year. I think there's just
gonna be uh, you know, he'll play freely like probably
wasn't able to play with the Raiders. It's just gonna
be five, one year too early for Peter King and
that Saints pick. So I'm saying it's the Saints that

(29:34):
go from warts the first. If I was gonna go
with another team, I'm starting to like the Bears a lot.
I'm thinking, you know, maybe in that division of Minnesota
falters a little bit, maybe the Bears can go from
warts the first because their defense looks a lot better.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
This is that moment too, where you know, I love you,
but I have to point out both of these pigs
are based on one half and even one drive of
a preseason.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
No, I was gonna have the Dolphin and the Cowboys
in the Super Bowl, but I backed away from the Cowboys.
I'm like, what's wrong with you? Are the Cowboys really
gonna go Poward? Really gonna be a stud running back
after what happened to him?

Speaker 5 (30:12):
Do they really got enough offense?

Speaker 6 (30:13):
Do you want to put all your marbles into somebody
like Dak Prescott.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
I'm like, no, no, no, and no, I'm changing that pick.
I'm done with that one.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Okay, all right, listen, I'm not gonna doubt I believe
that you didn't watch that first drive with Derek Carr
and the Saints starters and sad I.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
Saw that one.

Speaker 6 (30:32):
Hey, come on, you know I'm the NFL expert here,
So I'm not here because I'm not a pretty face.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
I go ahead, and I'm here for these football picks.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
So yeah, they did look pretty good in the shows today,
and they look real damn good.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
What's wrong with that?

Speaker 3 (30:45):
I would No, I'm not disagreeing yet, but it's just
to me, that is you putting too much on one drive. Now,
if you set back, like you said, and you started
looking at the Cowboys and you thought that is kind
of Pollard's not one hundred percent. They didn't really upgrade.
Where did Dallas upgrade this offseason? I'm counting on them.

(31:08):
They kinda held serve a little bit with their roster,
and they're all in.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Now on on Dak Prescott.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
I would completely And they even drafted a guy that
they probably could have gotten the second round in Mazie Smith,
though everyone's kind of losing their mind about him. I
would completely understand if you really took that look at
the Cowboys and thought they're not a Super Bowl contender.
I tend to believe you lost your marbles over one
good drive.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
You know you keep saying one good drive. God drive.

Speaker 6 (31:37):
Chris. If I sent you on a date and you
were on a date for two hours, and for an
hour and a half, the date went well, but for
the other thirty minutes, it was the worst thirty minutes
of your life. I'm gonna say, you're gonna let thirty
minutes of your life dictate whether you liked this girl
or not. You canna say, yes, that's exactly what I am.
I'm never gonna date her again. That was the worst
thirty minutes of life. So that's the analogy I'm gonna

(31:59):
give you there.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
My friend, Okay, facts thirty an hour and thirty aren'ie?
They had one good drive. That's not an hour thirty
of two hours? How many times minutes of one?

Speaker 4 (32:14):
One drag?

Speaker 7 (32:15):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (32:15):
There you go to the backups and if you would
add two drives, who knows how many?

Speaker 4 (32:21):
You know? I just can't.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
I don't understand. Can't you kind of watch and and
kind of see what's going on? Do you have to,
like we see the whole game to figure out who's
good and who's bad.

Speaker 5 (32:35):
You know, when you.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
See somebody, you see a girl walking down the street,
do you.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
I should have to look?

Speaker 6 (32:40):
No? I just do you have to know her for
a year before if you decide yes pretty or not?
You can't decide in like thirty seconds or last what's
wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Well, I mean you're comparing a reactionary take on looks
to a seventeen game analysis of how you think a
football team is going to do base on one drive.
I'm just saying I think it's a little bit deeper
than that. I have a reactionary start.

Speaker 7 (33:06):
Tony Gonsolin should not get a start, and he's just
giving up his fifth home run of the night and
they finally pulled him. I think the precincts are in
and the Dodgers eleven game winning streak is ending tonight.
It's ten to one Miami. In the top of the fourth,
Gonsolin exits after ninety seven pitches in three and a third.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Wow, my Dodgers were coming back to win this game.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Mercy rolling baseball at all, and they missed or something.

Speaker 7 (33:33):
Yeah, I would take it because they have to play
too tomorrow. Remember there is no Sunday going That's why. Okay,
that's why they were having him wear it for so long.
All right, that makes sense. Yeah, they're bringing up a
triple A guy for one of the games tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
Last they should have let Fernando pitch.

Speaker 6 (33:49):
You know what was Fernando weekend, So should have let
him gone out there.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
And last weekend.

Speaker 7 (33:54):
By the way, the reference to all the rain when
TCU was getting killed by Georgia at the Rams Stadium,
there were videos out I remember that night of the
flooding at the plaza like at the south end of
the stadium because there's no wall at that set at
that end of the stadium, So good luck walking through that.
That's not the kind of thing that would cancel a game, though,
was the point the game itself? Like we said, it's

(34:17):
not like there's gonna be a soggy field like nineteen
seventies NFL films or something.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
You're not gonna be watching a game from the old
Chicago Bears stadium where it's just a mass and no
one can move at all. All Right, So the bad
Tony Goslin has shown up tonight. We'll go in depth
in his last few starts coming up in a bit,
but it's already brought up worse to first. In eighteen
to the last twenty seasons, at least one team went from.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
Worst to first.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Who you got this year, Arnie Spanier says, the Saints
and is taking them to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Yes, the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
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Speaker 3 (35:40):
We got a new starting quarterback, but I think it's
what we all expected in Washington, which leads to a
conversation based on what we saw tonight, could one of
the rookies already be in trouble? Also a walk off
in Cincinnati? Dodgers are in trouble. Welcome in to Fox
Sports Radio on the tire rack dot Com Studios with

(36:02):
the stinking genius Arnie Spanier Chris Plank.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
We got a lot to get to in these final
two hours, all right.

Speaker 6 (36:08):
We haven't even hit nearly as many Roman numerals. And
I was just I was looking at the date August eighteenth.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
We're here. Football is here.

Speaker 6 (36:18):
Just what two more weeks and we're done with August
and we don't talk anything other than football after that?

Speaker 5 (36:23):
It's go time. Well, NBA, what is what is hockey?

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Roman numeral nine.

Speaker 6 (36:30):
Hardened situations? Hardened situation, harden situation. Do you have heard
of James hard You may have heard of him.

Speaker 4 (36:38):
No, I've completely never heard of him. What's going on?

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yeah, well you're in an a hole to me, so
I'm kidding my gosh, Arnie.

Speaker 4 (36:47):
All right, so why do you even have that on?

Speaker 5 (36:49):
By the way, you didn't even get to roman numeral
number twelve? Yeah, I sht's see here roman numerals.

Speaker 6 (36:55):
That's on the whole other page. That's on the second
page either side.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Because roman numeral well eleven, which running back signing was.

Speaker 5 (37:02):
No, forget about that.

Speaker 6 (37:03):
No by by Robin numule twelve was It's not gonna
be a fun year because out of the eighth division,
six have already been decided.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
He said the same thing last year. I was pretty
much right last year. Yeah, so does that whokers who
wins the division? Man, it doesn't mean I'm not going
to watch football, No.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
I understand that.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
But we already know that Jacksonville, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Minnesota,
the Saints, and San Francisco won the division. Would that's
a give me right, that's a done due. I think
we can all agree on that. No, I think we
can what.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
I'll give you two of those, which two City in
Philadelphia and Kansas City on Philadelphia?

Speaker 5 (37:41):
Really yeah?

Speaker 3 (37:42):
I mean we've seen teams that go to the super
Bowl and lose when the quarterback's not Mahomes struggle to
get back to that point, right, And I don't see
any weaknesses in Philadelphia. I'm trying, man, Arnie, I am
trying to find the weakness with Philadelphia, but it's just
it's just not hal.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
San Francisco already won the NFC West. That's a done deal.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
Also, well, don't you base a lot of what you
see in the preseason?

Speaker 6 (38:07):
No, come on, we already know they won this, so
that's that's an automatic three. We know the Saints are
gonna win based on how crappy that the vision is.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
How are we so sure about sandlen don't no pause
for a second. How are you so sure about San Francisco?
What is it about San Francisco right now that says, oh,
they're gonna win that division?

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Their best defensive player, where's he right now? Well?

Speaker 6 (38:27):
I know that he's it's one of the quiet holdouts
out there. But there are four games. First of all,
they finished four games better than the Seattle. Is Seattle
four games better?

Speaker 5 (38:37):
I mean really, I mean.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Just about them being four games better, it's about San
Francisco being a little worse, playing a bit of a
tougher schedule.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
I don't know. I'm not ready to crown San Francisco.

Speaker 6 (38:47):
Let just really, really be honest. Gino Smith was a
great story for one year.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
Well you're just just in Seattle here, are you? Just
out on the rams?

Speaker 6 (38:56):
Just like pulling the Carlisle? That's a one hit wonder,
you know what I mean? So you know, our lips
are sealed, Move on out, Let's go next to it.

Speaker 5 (39:04):
Let's see him do it again.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
Wasn't our lips or sealed? Wasn't that the Go Gos?

Speaker 5 (39:08):
Yeah? That was in the car.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
But but I mean, if you're gonna use Blondy Carlisle,
you got to go with one of her solo acts.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
I mean, you've got to say it's the Go Goats.
You just can't make it. Steve Sax's girlfriend, aren't he?
Come on?

Speaker 5 (39:18):
Bet No?

Speaker 6 (39:19):
That was Marshall's girlfriend. Wasn't Mike Marshall's girlfriend. Mike Marshall's girlfriend?
What's wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (39:24):
I thought it was Steve Saxon, Mike girlfriend. Nobody gets
that anymore. That was fifty years ago now, is what's
crazy when you think about it. Yeah, but otherwise, administ
hold on a second, Hold a second, you're just basing
all of this on Seattle.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
Are you out on the Rams? Oh?

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Please come on.

Speaker 6 (39:43):
We know that the Rams and Arizona they're they're done.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
So they're already finished.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
I mean, Matt Stafford's supposed to be back and healthy.
Aaron Donald's got he came back after he was supposed
to retire.

Speaker 5 (39:57):
You say you should even have that in the update.

Speaker 6 (39:59):
That's be in the updad, And guess what it's a
it's a final Uh, that San Francisco's won the division.

Speaker 5 (40:06):
He should put that in the update.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
I'm just again, I don't think you've really sold me
on it. You've just basically talked about everyone around him.
Mike Shannahan, I've said that guy a lot. Kyle Shanahan's
done an incredible job with getting quarterbacks ready. But is
brock Purty gonna be healthy enough? You're telling me suddenly
Sam Darnold's gonna turn a corner if he's not ready.

Speaker 6 (40:25):
I mean, anybody but Trey Lance, which I've been telling yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
Everyone but Trey Lance. They've you know, will see if
they're able to stay healthy. You know, got a little
deemed up a time slash. I mean, I get it,
don't get me wrong, but I just think it's more
competitive than just sitting here and saying that's the Niners Division.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
That's one of those that I consider over you.

Speaker 6 (40:43):
Know, VJ bet a ten dollars parlay on who the
division winners were going to be. That pays eleven thousand dollars.
I think I should put I should do something like that.
Do those six division winners and see how much I get.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
For that one.

Speaker 5 (40:57):
I think that could be a pretty good bet.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Okay, Jacksonville in the AFC South, Yeah, that's a slam dunk.

Speaker 4 (41:04):
To you too.

Speaker 5 (41:05):
Oh absolutely, what are you kidding me? What it's gonna be?
The Texans?

Speaker 4 (41:08):
You just count down the Titans. Well, let's be Eric Henry.

Speaker 6 (41:12):
But Texans are done, so not least the Titans and
the Colts. I said, yeah, the Titans and the colt
So we crossed out the Texans.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Then why are you counting? Hold on, way back up
a little bit. Is this based on CJ. Stroud because
I think the Texans can hit their over this year.
I think they might be a bit of a problem now.
I don't know if they're gonna win their division, but
they're not. Okay, I'm here to tell you that right now.

Speaker 5 (41:32):
And CJ.

Speaker 6 (41:32):
Stroud doesn't scare anybody. These tight re passes Titans lost.
You know, between the other two teams, and the Titans
and the Colts both lost their last seven games, do
you want to stand that they're going in the wrong direction.
I'm not so sure that these are two teams that
you want to think are gonna have a By the way,
their plus minus last year was atrocious. I'm just not

(41:54):
sure they're really that much better though. The Titans have
gotten a little bit better. I think that's Jacksonville's division.
They're like best team in the division right now.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
That was and Jacksonville was at one point four and
eight last year.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
Yeah, they won the last five games.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Right, But I'm just I'm reminding you that when they
were four and eight, you thought Trevor Lawrence was done.

Speaker 5 (42:13):
No, no, no, come on, come on, I mean.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
That's I love that fight with you.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
You called him, you called him a flop and then
they won their next five games.

Speaker 6 (42:22):
I mean, I'm bombed that six of the eight divisions
already pretty much decided.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
I don't know if you've sold me on two of them.
And so Minnesota, the team that statistically was the luckiest
team in the National Football League last year, you're telling
me it's over. With the sudden resurgence of the Lions,
Jordan Love and Clifford and now only justin Fields is great.

Speaker 5 (42:44):
I mean, let's be honest.

Speaker 6 (42:46):
We know that Love is not going to lead the
package of the division titles.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
So we don't know that. Yeah, well, at least I do.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
That's why I do. But I don't think it's decided.
I don't think any I don't even think fifty percent
of the people, if you put a pull up would
pick the Vikings to beat to win that gear.

Speaker 5 (43:01):
Oh that's not true. They got to be the favorite
to win the division.

Speaker 6 (43:04):
Mathematically, they're the favorite, or at least according to Vegas.
The Bears are certainly not a team that's gonna be
the worst the first but they are a lot better. Look,
the Lions are, Okay, there's still a five hundred team.
Maybe they find the way to get into the playoffs,
But let's not get too crazy about them. That's Minnesota's
division that matter of fact. Have the Seger put that
in the update too, please, What.

Speaker 4 (43:25):
Is it about Minnesota that you like?

Speaker 6 (43:28):
Well, first of all, they were four games better than Detroit,
and you told me that Detroit made up four games
in that process.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
Asking you what you like about Minnesota, Well, I've always
thought that Cousins was, you know, a pretty good quarterback.

Speaker 6 (43:40):
I don't know why everybody thought he was bad and
that he was just horrible out there. I thought he
was pretty you know, better than a lot of other quarterbacks.
On the thing, I like Madison. I think he's gonna
be a great back out there, and now we're gonna
be the full time back. So and they've got great receivers.
Come on, now, we know that they've always had good receivers.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
Down how they do in the playoffs last year.

Speaker 6 (44:03):
Does that matter? Does that really matter right now? It
absolutely make it. Ever thought, if they're gonna win the
division this year, I think so.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
I think you're I think you're crowning in three teams
right there that absolutely can't be crowned. And I love
this sudden passion that you have for New Orleans just
because they had one good drive in the preseason. But
I don't even know if they're the betting favorite in
the South right now, and yet you're just giving them
that division. So I'm with you on KC and Philly.

(44:33):
Go ahead and raise the flag if you want. But
I will fight you on Jacksonville, San Francisco, Minnesota and
the Saints.

Speaker 5 (44:40):
It's the funny part.

Speaker 6 (44:41):
If you took a poll among America who they like
in each division, the majority of the people would agree
with me on all those six teams only because of
the favorite.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
According to Vegas, I don't think anyone would agree with
you on Minnesota as much as you think throw it
out the you know how to do a poll on
X No, I have no idea. Okay, I don't. I
love the fact that you're kissing up to the boss tonight,
I get it, But wow, I don't think. I don't
think year two there's teams figuring out more about what

(45:13):
they're doing. In Minnesota, I think that they're also kind
of one of those teams to where it's a contract
here for Kirk Cousins, and it just seems as if
they've been trying to move on from him and he'll
have a good season and he comes back. I don't know, dude,
I'm not buying them as much as you are. Definitely
not buying Jacksonville. I don't think you, I mean San Francisco.

(45:36):
You're putting them in there when we don't even know
where Nick Bosa is. The very first tweet to this
show with someone asking if the Nick Bosa holdout is
the quietest holdout that we currently have going on?

Speaker 5 (45:48):
And he's right, does they supposed to play quarterback? I
must have missed something.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
But again, this is where you completely and totally minimize
the importance of a team. Well, okay, then where's their
starting quarterback? Party's hurt, he's still dinged up, he's trying
to come back.

Speaker 6 (46:04):
He'll still be the starting quarterback, and he doesn't have
to be all that great.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
Look I think all this okay, okay, stop stop stop
right there, stop right there. Why doesn't have to be
all that great because of guys like Nick Bosa, who
you just said, it doesn't matter because he's not the quarterback.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
May a freaking mind here.

Speaker 5 (46:20):
Defensively, the best team in the league.

Speaker 4 (46:22):
Matter of fact, if they don't have.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Nick Bosa, they're not the best defensive team in the league.

Speaker 6 (46:27):
You want to bet that he's there for the first game,
You want to make any bet whatsoever.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Listen, have you been following movement on this? Have you
heard anything about it? This is just your blind homeros
this big No.

Speaker 6 (46:40):
No, I do have an inside source and his name
is common Sense and common sense Tasa that he'll be
there for the first game.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
I promise you again, what in the common sense have
you seen in this story?

Speaker 6 (46:51):
Can we get common sense to believe we should comment
be there? We should get common Sense to come on
the show. I think he'd be a pretty good guest.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Well, if it's anything like your division projections, then I'm
worried about common Sense coming on the show. To be
honest with you. Four No, I'm sorry, six of the
divisions you only have. What's funny, the AFC East and
the AFC North are the only two divisions you have
up for grabs, and you've basically spent this entire offseason

(47:20):
telling us that the Dolphins are going to the super
Bowl and how great the Dolphins. Doesn't now it's one
of the divisions it's up for grabs. Yeah, Well, it's
a tough division.

Speaker 6 (47:29):
Dolphins Bills now the Patriots would add and that got
Dolvin cooked are a little bit better. So it could
be a tight race out there in the AFC North.
I'm not sure what the hell is gonna happen there.
That's gonna be a tough one too. I don't think
it's gonna be the Ravens, though, I'm not gonna put
them in there.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
I don't agree with you on any of those, but
Kansas City and Philadelphia. I don't know how I laid
out my reasoning. You're just holds you all of my
reasonings there. I think, then listen, I would be right
in line with you. Put your record now and picking
the preseason six and nine season.

Speaker 6 (48:07):
I'm hitting hit a little pump in the road, one
of those speed bumps, and says slow down for the
speed bump.

Speaker 5 (48:12):
I just didn't slow down.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
It's like a ten year bump in the road on
your picks, I don't think at all. I don't think
Jacksonville is by any means a slam dunk to win
their division. I don't think Minnesota is. I think a
lot of people are starting to jump on the Jordan
Love train. I would love to believe that New Orleans
is nobody's jumping on the Jordan Love train. Who's jumping
on that train? Watch four weeks in when Arnie sees

(48:34):
Jordan Love has some good stats, he'll be the guy
that's like, oh, oh, look at Jordan Love. I told
you my guy, Jordan Love. And then I just San
Francisco has too many questions right now.

Speaker 4 (48:45):
I love them.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
I think they're a good football team, but there are
too many questions for that team right now to just
say slam dunk super Bowl pick. I get it, I
know where they are as far as the betting favorites
are concerned. But we've said it for a long time, Arnie,
I get this same. Instead, one of those favorites is
going to slide this year. And if you're telling me, oh, yeah,
San Francisco, it's all going to come together, you're counting

(49:07):
on quite a bit to come together with the way
things are right now.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
That's me. That's how I feel about the Niners.

Speaker 6 (49:13):
Yeah, but again, who unless as you're picking Seattle, because
we already know it's going to be a miserable year
for the for the Rams in Arizona, right, we could
all agree on that too or no, Yeah, I agree
with that. Okay, on two team race, and I'll take
San Francisco over Seattle eleven.

Speaker 5 (49:31):
Out of ten times, so you know they're much better team.

Speaker 3 (49:34):
I especially don't know why you're counting out the Rams here.
That's Sean McVay, that's your boy. I don't think that
they're suddenly going to entertank mode if things don't go well.
I get it that Matt Stafford got hurt last year,
but I still think that Cooper.

Speaker 4 (49:51):
Cup is back. I think that's still a good football team.

Speaker 6 (49:54):
I think Rob Parker was ahead of his time by
five years.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
Now.

Speaker 6 (49:57):
Matthew Stafford has hit the road, so he was. It's
five years too.

Speaker 5 (50:01):
Early on that one. So there you go.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
No, listen, that is being ahead of the game whatever.
And he has a Super Bowl ring and brought a
title to the Rams. That is ahead of the game.
All right, listen. We will debate and discuss this all
night long. But Arnie has already ended six of the
eight divisions in the NFL.

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