August 23, 2023 • 36 mins
Arnie Spanier and Chris Plank, in for Jason and Mike, talk the latest headlines around the NFL, including some wild takes on Tua Tagovailoa and thoughts on if the Colts will actually trade Jonathan Taylor. Arnie expresses his disappointment in what he believes to be a weak Week 1 NFL schedule. Could the rise in sports betting hurt the popularity of fantasy football? Plus, it's Arnie's favorite segment: Where Arnie Was Right and Where Arnie Was Righter!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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fast laying Grandma.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The pole game is running to roll.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Let's go, baby. We're broadcasting live from the tirerac dot
Com studios tyreck dot Com. We'll help you get there
the way tire buying should be eas Chris Plank of
Art Spadner in for the.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Guys, Jason Smith and.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
His best Fred, Mike Carbon. How does it feel to
let me drive a little bit? We pulled that over.
We pulled the car run over, and we said, Plank,
get in the drive, get into the passage.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Little tipsy, gotta get myself a little sobered up, and then.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I'll have yourself a turkeys at which were provovoted. Mayo,
have your chips, your potato chips or pretzels or whatever
the hell you.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
We gotta go healthy, Arnie, it's carrots a little broccoli.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Come on, not on our road trip, not on our
road trip at all.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough, because this is nice.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
We got to get to the poll. Who do you
want to drive the rest of the show, Arnie or Chris?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I don't care drive in. I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
We're not in a competition mark each other. We're five
four hours.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
And sixty seven thousand, right, Chris with six? All right,
so keep the keep the voting coming. It's Scott's close.
That's that's more than Hey.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I want to talk about this for a moment because
there's a couple of tweets in a rolling it.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
This is really easy because you can like talk about
these things like I try to talk about you want
to go and I'll just take in a completely different
direction you so you can live your own life here
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It's so funny because we got a tweet that says
it's your turn to interrupt the stinking g and just
now play. Oh that's so funny. That is so funny
out there. By the way, I just want to tell
you we felt for something. I think that's not true
that we talked about it, I believe on Sunday Show
or one of the time we filled them before that
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that Taylor.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Swift thing, the restaurant thing that wasn't her. It was
a no.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I guess there's a there's an article about a Taylor
Swift look alike. You didn't see that there's a Taylor
Swift look alike. And let me tell you something, Chris. Yes,
she looks like on a scale of one to ten,
just based on looks alone, she looks like Taylor, like
an eight. And then you throw on the clothes with
the hat and stuff, and you know, you play it
(02:46):
up a little bit ted out of tad, Chris, I'm
saying ted out of ted Really, I mean she's taking
pictures with people, and I mean she's got to be
able to make a living off that. I'm telling you
matter of fact. I've always told I always told you
you like Tommy Lloyd, the uh the head coach at
the University of Arizona basketball.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I mean, you look exactly like you. You could get paid.
Then let's go.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
No, say you look and you people used to tell me.
I don't know if you remember this. Seeon I have
to go old school for for me to look like
an athlete.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
People used to tell me, I look like Jerry Cooney.
Do you remember what? Sure, yeah, the boxer.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Somebody that's good at this hit me up with a
Jerry Cooney Arnie Spanier side by side.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
They say, Jerry Cooney, Jay Leno type.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Look, now you do you do kind of look like
modern day Jerry Cooney, who is still with us.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Oh yes, I didn't know that still alive sixty seven
years old.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
This updated picture of him is like, yeah, it's got
a little steaking genius to it. But like my I mean,
whenever he was the boxer and in his prime, I
mean that dude was ripped. Yeah, dude, it was a
great shape.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I could see why people thought we looked alike that
I could. I could see that. So, I mean, you've
not had friends that there were like dead ringers for
for other people out there. Like we had a guy
in our high school who looked just like Kevin Costner.
I mean even when kens I guess when Kevin was
just kind of getting famous.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You know what I'm gonna say, what year did you
graduate from high school?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Wow, I did date myself on that. Geez, didn't you
graduate from high school in like the eighties eighty.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
One, was Kevin Costner even doing movies or as he
got older, did he got start?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
No, as he got older, because he was a he
was a Kevin Costner fill in in in some movies.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
So whenever he was in high school and like, man,
you look like Kevin Costner. As his career progressed, he
got those opportunities.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, you got he did. And he even
had lunch with Whitney Houston once.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
He told us, so, I and pretty cool. That's a
that's some pretty badass stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But anyway, anyway, enough for that. Look what you've done.
You I'm driving there, but then you're you're steering aust
You're steering us into the ditch while I'm.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Driving the floor the car. You do?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I mean, my goodness, all right, I do want to
get to that story that you sent me because I
know you couldn't get to it fast enough for me
to get And that was the story about Tua. Because
I anything there's bad about Tua, I won't hear.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Yes, what do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I won't hear from Plank for like what like weeks
and next thing, you know, like a bunch of tweets
come in. I'm like okay, or a text and I
go something with the bad having the Tua. ESPN antalyst
Ryan Clark said Dolphins quarterback Tua has been spending too
much time getting tattoos instead of working out and listening
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to a nutritionist during the off season.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Do you want to hear it? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Oh you got it there, Yeah, I got it right here.
This was during NFL Live Today. Shout outs to my
personal favorite aggregator at Underscore mL Football for this.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
This is Ryan Clark.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Hey five for seven sixty one yards and an inner aption.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So Rocky started the game for tour right there.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Art them and go. He did sleep because I've hurt.
I ain't tough.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Tell you.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Let me tell you what he wasn't doing. He wasn't
in the gym. He was with me.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
He might have spent a lot of time in the
tattoo parlor. He was not at the dinner table eating
with the nutritionist. Head advised, he looks happy.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, he's built like uh girl working onyx in Atlanta
right now on the bottom.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Now, this is analysis. Wow, this is analysis. I guess
so this is top level analysis. The hell are we
doing right now?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
ESPN? Does it look thick to you? Does it look
thick to me?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
For maybe maybe he should gain a little bit more muscle,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
ONYX, by the way, is a gentleman's club in Atlanta,
So I get it.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's it's not always x'es and o's. It can be fun.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
But that just seemed like, I mean, have opinions on guys,
that's what everyone wants.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But that seemed like a cheap shot to me. No,
you know, I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
The next thing, though, they should have said, and not
only does he look thick, because he's looking nice and fat,
he's gonna have a bad year. At least back it
up with a prediction. Tell me what he's going to do.
Don't just tell me that he's looking fat. And next thing,
you know, they come out and they're five and oero
or something like that, and they're like, well, I knew too.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
You know, if he was just gonna stay healthy, he
was gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
You know. If you told me he's looking fat, tell
me that he's not gonna do well.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You tell me how much weight did he gain?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I didn't see any gain weight. And by the way,
the tattoo thing, that's kind of a shot of if
you and I said that, we'd be fired for.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Oh, we'd be if they came on here.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
And my big take was that Tua had spent too
much time in the tattoo parlor and he needs to
get and watch game tape. Oh my goodness, Oh my geez.
I would be I'd get a call from the boss's office. Problem,
and so I'd be going to your office.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Right absolutely, I'd have to call you in.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
You can question Tua all you want, right, He's still
got a lot to prove.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He's got to stay healthy through an entire season.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
He's got to do a good job of, you know,
obviously continuing to learn to redefenses and things of that nature.
But I mean to say that he spent too much
time getting tats and to say that he's looking a
little bit tubby.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I didn't think that at all whenever I saw him.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I mean, he threw a pick on his first pass,
which I know you were very happy about.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Oh that killed I texted you immediately when I saw that.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
But I again, funny auha, everyone's just gifa and because
apparently that's the most hilarious thing anyone's ever seen. But
I guess I need to go back and work on
my film study because Arnie, I'm not I'm not seeing it.
I don't think it's I don't necessarily think that's fair.
Dolphin fans might be able to, Oh you're a Dolphin fan,
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but at stink and genius wanted plank show, don't.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I don't see that in Tua I. I don't see that.
I don't get that.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Now, you talk about quarterbacks that have a lot to
prove and a lot of pressure on them. Whatever category
you're going for to it leads probably leads in both
of those categories. I mean, how many years now this
is your number five or something. I mean, my goodness, man,
he better start putting up now. And he can't get
hurt either. And he's got to put up big numbers.
(09:22):
And they got people around them. That's why that was
to my next subject. I'm dying to go ahead and
get Jonathan Taylor. I'm willing to give up a number
one pick that's probably me. Oh yeah, oh please please,
You're gonna miss out on fifty percent of number one
picks anyway. Oh, yeah, you want my number one pick,
maybe I'll ship it to you. If I have to
put in the fax machine, it's a done deal if
(09:45):
I If I gotta go in and look, I don't
want to pay him the money like he's probably going
to demand, so we'll have to figure something out. But
you can have the number one pick. I could care less.
If I'm gonna go and keep a number one pick,
I'll take Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
So you're basically going with the Rams bleep them picks
mindset right, Yes.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Yes, absolutely, matter of fact that that's that's my thing.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I'm all for the RAMS thing.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
If you're going to tell me now that the Dolphins
could win a Super Bowl this year but will be
bad for the next three to five years and then
have to you know, and as we slowly rebuild, I'm
all for that. Give me a super Bowl now and
then we're bad for three to five years. I will
take that. Matter of fact, ninety percent of our listeners
would take that with their fan base, to be honest
with you, so Cowboy fans would take that right now.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Bill's fans would take that to find bad though, to
find bad bad.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Like like you know what what the Cowboys have been
every year five last year, but all those years that
when they were like five hundred or lower with Jason Garrett,
they were like that for like eight or nine straight years.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I mean, I'm a fan of a team that barely
gets to five let's say, let's say a sub five hundred,
let's say like eight to nine or seven and ten
for the next five years, and then you pop back
up and make a run it at it again.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I'm doing that.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And you know what, Like I said, so will Bills fans,
So will Cowboy fans. So with Dolphin fans out there,
so with a lot of Jet fans. Would if I
told you Jet fans right now you could win the
Super Bowl with Aaron Rodgers, but you go back to
your crappy ways for your for the next five years.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
They'll say, where do I sign up right now? Where
do I know?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Okay, we've done this in college. Would you say the
same thing in college? You would take a national championship
to maybe end up on probation or or be out
of the three to four years.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah? Please for you in Arizona.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, absolutely. I that's not even a tough question. I'm
I'm saying yes, before you could even get it out
of your mouth. And like I said, a lot of
our listeners would do the same, especially in the NFL.
There's just there's so much uncertainty from year to year.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I hear people say what is to take them win
a Super Bowl? Well, yeah, takes talent, takes the right
coaching staff, But more important, the number one thing is
staying healthy. And how many teams are lucky enough to
stay healthy? You better be lucky, even good, and that
that's what that's all about there, Chris So.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
But again, you know Miami doesn't have its third or
fourth round pick next year, right, so you're willing to
say that you give up your first round pick in
twenty twenty four, take it and all you'll have a second, sixth,
and seventh round pick.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Have I explained to you what I'm getting in return?
Maybe you're getting Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Oh so you knew that basically the rent I'm thinking
unless you're going to sign him to a long term deal.
And I don't think you can just give up a
first They're gonna want more.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Well, they can't have more. They can't have more than that.
You know what's so funny?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
As you er say, doesn't want to pay his running
back top running back money, right, but he wants top
running back value when it comes to a trade, right.
Oh now, now give me the best I need to,
like a couple of number ones or something like that.
But no, no, no, I'm I'm not going to pay
you because you're just a running back. I like.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I like the way that works, you know I do.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I think that's a very interesting point. Now, apparently you
can remove one team. So if you feel like you're
in competition for Jonathan Taylor right now, Jerry Jones is
not interested. He basically said that they like the running
backs that they have right now. Clarence Sale of the
Fort Worth Star Telegram, I guess, asked around the Jonathan
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Taylor question. Jerry Jones said, I look at every opportunity,
but the way our young backs are playing, I'm very
comfortable where we are with our backs right now. I
feel good about a running back position. If we didn't
add anybody solos, it looks like you could at least
remove them for now.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
No, you can't.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Matter of fact, I have Vegas put out the sportsbook
put out the team's most likely to trade for the
Jonathan Taylor. The Dolphins were the favorite at plus two fifty,
so two and a half to one. Then you want
to take who's the second favorite to go ahead and get.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Them, Well, let me guess, would it still be the Cowboys? No? No,
the Cowboys are actually fifth on that list. Okay, tied
for fourth.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Eagles, Chicago Bears. The Bears who are saying, we're all in.
We have a quarterback that we're you know, gonna have
a you know that we have locked up and don't
have to pay him big money for another couple of years.
We get ourselves a premium running back in this situation.
So their second the third are the Ravens at seven
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to one.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That would scare me. That'd be a good fit.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
That would scare the heck out of me. If Lamar
Jackson had Jonathan Taylor to give the ball to with
some of the receivers he has, that would all of
a sudden be a scary team all of a sudden.
The AFC, the Broncos, and the Cowboys are plus seven
to fifties, so seven and a half to one. They
are the fourth favorites to go ahead and get Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
That's interesting that's interesting the Bears because earlier today another
one of the aggregation sites are aggregation Twitter feeds, which,
by the way, NFL News aggregation is completely out of control.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Elon do something. This is insane.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
But there was a story that was making the rounds
that the Bears were willing to go all in for
Chris Jones and that they would be willing to basically
meet Kansas City's price to go get Chris Jones because
the same thing you brought up with Jonathan Taylor, and
they don't. I mean, Khalil Herbert had a great year
last year, the former Kansas and I think what Boston
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College running back, and they went and they signed yatda Foreman.
They drafted Roshawn Johnson out of Texas. So they got
three good backs, but none of them of Jonathan Taylor's
kind of ILK.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They're not even.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Close to Taylor to Chris Jones ILK with anything they
have on their defensive line right now. So that would
be a fascinating move. But I don't think Kansas City
can trade them onry. I think they need to do
what they can and to keep them around.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I agree, I don't think I think this is just
a bunch of talk. I could be wrong, but I'm
curious to see how that plays out. But they can't
get both Cab. They can't get Taylor and Jones, can they?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, I gotta remember the Bears.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
The Bears have a lot of draft capital, right and
they they made that move with the Carolina Panthers, so
they have two first round picks in twenty twenty four.
In addition to that, I think I think they also
have the Eagles fourth round pick, so they have gosh, one, two, three.
They have five picks in the first four rounds, so
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they might be in a position where they have a
little bit of capital where they can make a move
going forward. Oh and by the way, they also have
two second round picks next year because they got the
Panthers second round pick. So if I don't know how
it would work salary cap wise, and it would be
wild to see the Bears swing for the fences like that,
but it would take a lot to get both of
those dudes.
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Speaker 4 (17:03):
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Speaker 3 (17:13):
How do you like not driving there, Pike?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Enjoin yourself, got your feet up, shoes off, your socks.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Up there on the on the counter there or on
the boarded. I'm dialed in. I'm dialed in.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I'm digging into some uh, some exes, some tweets I'm
reading about, I don't know, some college football expansion stuff
to the playoffs. So I'm I'm staying dialed in, Arnie,
I don't mind being a passenger.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Keep all right on Twitter in case of anything we
want to get to, because I want to ask you this.
Let's say you're doing your fantasy football draft, right, so
you're together with all the boys. Twelve or fourteen, doesn't
make it different. You go to your favorite burger joint,
your favorite waitress isn't there, but that's okay. You're with
the boys, you're hooting your howering, you're laughing, you're having
(17:58):
a good time. You have a The beer's not the coldest,
but that's okay. No big deal here, doesn't even bother you.
You're throwing down a few beers and having a good
time doing your draft. Maybe the fries aren't the crispiest,
but big deal. You're with all the boys, right, you
got twelve fourteen boys out there, and maybe your burger's
(18:18):
a little bit undercooked, But it doesn't make a difference
because you got your fantasy football draft.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That's that's what it's all about. You're having a good time.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Look, I love football, and it really doesn't make a
difference because you know, I'm gonna consume it every which way.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
But Week one is about a four out of ten.
I want you to know that when it comes to
the matchups, I look, I'm gonna eat the burger and
the fries. I'm gonna drink the beer even though it's
not the coldest. But right off the bat with the
Lions and the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Lions are the talk of the town. Man, are gonna
be good?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Chris, you you could have done me better. You could
have done me better.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Who would you have rather had on the Chiefs schedule
that they're going to play at home?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I could I could pick anybody on the schedule. Doesn't
have to be like a rematch or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
No, No, here's their home schedule, just real quick, Lions, Bears.
I would have picked the Jets.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Denver Chargers, Miami, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Vegas, Bengals. They don't play
the Jets.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Kansas City plays the Jets. They play him in New York.
They got to be a home game. Oh, it's got
to be a home game. Yes, that's what I just said.
You never pay attention to me.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
That's too bad, because I think I would have liked
to see the Jets out there. Then I would have
had to pick I would have had to pick Miami.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Pick Miami, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
But that's a game that is one of the NFL
Network games on November fifth, that's one of.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
The see they that's why you know they made the
mistake there. So and that goes to show you they
must have add swim pickets. And then and then the
right off the bat I went to And then you
look at Sunday Panthers Falcons? Are you even going to
even look at the score that I can't forget about?
Watch if you had seven TVs, they're not even gonna
make your top seven TVs on that slot, Arnie.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Have you looked at what's on TV this Sunday?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Uh, this Sunday, what the preseason?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
This Sunday?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
No, No, No, I just mean in general, like what's on TV.
See what's on TV following Sunday?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Okay, see, but I understand, Like I said, I'm gonna
eat the burger, I'm gonna drink the BA.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I still don't know what this has to do with
the fantasy football draft and things of that nature. But
what why are you complaining when we get football back?
Does not everything to me?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
No, because like I said, in college football, you know,
I don't like Week one of college football, that's right,
And and I just wanted to know they could the
Bengals Browns.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
That's okay, I mean it's okay.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I mean yeah, you know, but it's Jaguars Colts. Does
that really you know, get you going? I mean there's
like I said, there's other great games out there. There's
about four good games, four or five good matchups out there.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Philadelphia and New England doesn't do anything for you. That's okay,
you got one, thank you for.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Okay, Miami Wait to Go doesn't Miami at Los Angeles
don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
For you this way? Wait wait wait wait that does
for me?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I don't know about everybody else out there, Cowboys, Giants,
another one in Bill's and Jets. That's about the four games, dicers.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
It bears no Jordan Love.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I mean you're suddenly, yeah, no one cares about this
and all the oh yeah, that might be pretty good. Hey,
I'll give you Arizona in Washington's a snoozer. But you're
trying to tell me San Francisco and Pittsburgh's gonna stink.
Come on now, it's a good matchup man Bingles and Browns.
Will Joe Burrow be ready to go? Versus Deshaan Watson.
I'm not trying to tell you that it's a ten
out of ten. No, but I were ranking the weekends
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one through seventeen. As far as a depth chart, I
don't know where it would ranker. I guess that'd be
one through eighteen. But I think there's really good matchups here.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
On the opening weekend, you're stuffing your face right now
with the burger and stuff. You don't care if it's
a little otherer cook, but you haven't eaten in two days,
So I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Like, hey, Chris, how's that Burger's great? It's a great way.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I can't wait to hear you complain about Week two
because have you looked at the week two schedule? No,
I'm not in your mind. Really, yeah, go look at
the week two schedule. You basically get equally as bad
matchups because well, you're going to have about four bangers
every week in the NFL and probably about eight so
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so games and four meg games.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
That's you see how it's gonna be every week.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I see Jets, Cowboys and Dolphins Patriots I think are
the only two games in week number two years.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So is this what we're gonna do every Sunday night? No, no, you.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Ask You're the one that told me to go to
a Week two. You just said go looking week Bring up.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
With my point is how in the world can we
wait and wait and wait? This is what I hate
about football fans and you're part of this.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
We wait and wait and wait, and we can't wait
for the season to start. And then as soon as
the season gets here, we grinch about the schedule, We
grinch about the matchups. We hate our team. We just
want the games to get over. If we go to games,
how quickly can we go home? I mean, wow, it's
the shortest season of any sport.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I'm not you know, I'm not rag and I just
whish we had better matchups. Don't You're so defensive when
it comes to the match.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Well, I am defensive because I don't think it's any
bad Sunday when you have football, Yeah, there cannot be
great matchups.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
What would you rather do? Though? You probably don't sit.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
And watch one game anyway. You probably watch the red zone.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
What's wrong with watching the red zone?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Not a thing, but that's exactly what I do. This
Carolina Atlanta game sucks great. You might have to see
two plays from it.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah, that's exactly how I watch my NFL.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Why you don't watch the red zone? I watch the
red zone.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
But you're sitting here complaining about these games like you're
being forced to sit through them. When you're gonna watch
the damn red zone, You're only gonna get the big
highlights from the game.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
What are you grinching and moaning about?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
That? Should be your primary channel is the red zone.
That's how you should I'm.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Sitting here telling you it's my primary channel for football
unless the Raiders are playing.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I don't understand you something.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Then it's gonna go ahead and make you miserable watching
the Raiders game.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I know, I'm sure it will.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I'll probably watch a few Saints in Giants games, just
to turn that knife a little bit.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I did have a fantasy football point. I'll get to
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Speaker 3 (24:34):
You like that?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Did you learn, Chris? Did you learn all of that
stunted by a professional?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Did you hear that? Or what learned? That's right? I
am learning here tonight. You better be learning.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I have to turn the card back over to you
a little bit, but first before I get to that
fantasy football thought.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
You like the way I'm teasing.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
That's called a tease in the business.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I'm learning a lot today. You're learning a lot tonight.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
For crid out loud, Chris Pike, CARDI spat you're right
here on Fox Sports Radio win for the guy's life
at the tire rech dot Com studios. You know, I
did want to bring up fantasy football, but real quick
on Twitter or ex whatever you want to call it.
Sooner Lisa said, why does fantasy football have to be
for the boys? Come on, Arnie, know you're right about that,
very very sexist.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yes, sooner on her name. That might be my destiny
right there. I I hear that you should be fired
for that. Why is that?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Well, because you should be able to point out my mistakes.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But now do my thing?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I saw somebody, hold on, I should what are you
even talking about?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Well, I don't want to get fired.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
So somebody should be fired for being sexist, and it
should be you probably, But the only.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
One that said it was only for the boys, not me.
I want to bring this up.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I saw an article that maybe fantasy football is losing
its steam because now we have so much gambling that
you could gamble on so much and on just about
everything and constantly with the you know, live betting going on.
Does that hurt fantasy football? Is that going to bring
out its popularity? Because again, it was at the height
of its popularity? I would say, what, like now or
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within the last couple of years, is it going to
start going down hill? Or no?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Chris, I think You're still gambling with fantasy in most instances, right,
So I don't think it's necessarily decreasing.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Who where was this story? Who was? I thought?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I said that to you. No, I have to have
to look for it. I'm sorry, I thought maybe I
said that.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Well, here's why I ask.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Because I don't play fantasy football, and not because I
don't want to or not because I'm not into it
or anything of that nature.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
But I had a really cool league, and uh, it.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Kind of broke apart, just be couple people past, and
then a few people weren't really into it. Then you
had people that didn't, you know, take part in certain
things that happened when you are successful or not successful.
So I I just don't have.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
A league to play in, but you knows, the time
I do. I love it.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I don't know how it could be losing popularity because
I feel like it's always crammed down my throat.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Well just with the gambling though, because I mean, like, yeah,
it's for gambling purposes, but now that you have so much,
you know, live betting and gambling, and it's so accessible
now to go ahead and gamble and it's almost legal.
And how many states over thirty. You know, some people
just say, yeah, the hell would fantasy football. I'm just
going to go ahead and just start betting away and
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stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Football arned player props and things of that nature kind
of part of the fantasy game. And with Gosh, I'm again,
I don't want to mention anyone that is illegal in
certain states, but with things like underdog and even draft Kings,
isn't there a fantasy.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Element to that where you can make money?
Speaker 5 (27:49):
So I know you're not just straight up gambling saying
I've got these two teams in a parlay, but I
almost feel like Arnie with some of the player props.
That's what I hear people making as far as their
biggest bets on.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah, making the most money.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Yes, I mean that's another reason why we actually make
my point. You could you could do player props, and
there's also you could actually gamble. But I could say
the Jets are playing the Dolphins. They'll come up with
a fictitious two teams and they'll pretend like they're playing
those two teams and take the stats.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
And you could bet on games like that.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
So I mean, really, fantasy football is gonna be outdated
and real see what all this gambling going on?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Interesting? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
There was a story I found from twenty twenty two
which said that twenty three percent of Americans aged to
thirteen and up said they were playing some kind of
fantasy football in twenty twenty one. A year later in
twenty twenty in twenty twenty one, that number was only
eighteen percent. So that's a five percent decline in just
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that demographic. But I mean, I'm going to tell you
right now, if I had a league and I had
people that I like playing with it, I don't have
anything against fantasy football.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I think, oh no, I love it. Oh yeah, I play. No,
I love it.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
But I also I don't know if gambling would be
taking away from it, because I feel like, if you're
playing fantasy and if you're in a state where it's legal,
you're probably gonna be gambling anyway, right, You're probably gonna
be having a pick or two.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
You gave me that stut. How many people gamble on
the NFL.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
I would imagine, especially now if it's legal in so
many places. I don't even want to try to come
up with that number. I mean, we're talking about that
se you know, well, I don't think it might be
that high. It's not legal in enough states yet.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Right, even even if it's some states or not, it's
only a click away, correct, So you could figure it
out or go to a nearby state or something to that.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
You encouraging people. No, no, not at all. No, no, not
at all.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
You can go cross state lines if it's not legal
in your state. Okay, I bet you. I bet it's
like sixty percent or maybe even more.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
This this as that, discording to props dot com that
nearly one in five US adults will place a wager
on NFL games this year. It say roughly twenty three
million betters. Roughly fifty percent of those betters will place
bets all online.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
That's s.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Again, that still seems like a ridiculously high number to me,
and you feel like it should be higher. They're saying
last year, forty six point six million people wagered on
the NFL, which was eighteen percent of American adults, and
they expect that number to go up this year.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
So there you go.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
It's it's a rather large number, But I don't necessarily
know if that's going to take away from fantasy football.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I guess to the point.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
I want to do one of those contests. I got it,
But there's so much money you gotta They're like a
couple of thousand dollars to get into some of those contests.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
You know.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Yeah, Firman taught that on Sunday Night. It's a little
bit more pricey than I think you realized.
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Speaker 4 (31:11):
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Speaker 3 (31:12):
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Speaker 3 (31:25):
The show, so I do it. Unreal. Look at the they're.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Just flying in like crazy.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
They should.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Unbelievable, proud of where Artie was right and Larti was writer.
Tried to tell you these streak was going to be over.
Ravens lose. Are you happy that Drake is probably ed?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
So we try to tell us the streak would be over?
You picked them?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
No, I told you suddenly that the streak was O
V E R.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Remember I remember you having picked them to continue.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
O no go back.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
It's been a long time, gosh, I said, the streak
was ovar.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Well, congratulations on finally getting a pick, right, happy, Yeah,
I was.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
My pick's have been awful.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
They've been I was eight and thirteen against the spread,
now nine and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I finished up the preseason nine and thirteen.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
That's why I can't get a week I'm not doing
any more preseason games.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Then quit calling it the free season. For the love
of God.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
You can't call something the free season and cram it
down our throats and then bail out when you have
one bad weekend.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
I'm arding up so soft. I'm resting up for the
for the regular season.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
When you're a gambler, you don't have to rest up
for picking game.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Whenever I have a bad preseason, I know I'm gonna
have a great regular season. I know I'm gonna do
doubly as good in college too. My job depends on it.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
You know that, don't you, right, I don't want you
to get fired. And I remember the last contract negotiation round.
Whenever the boss man came through, Scott said, hey, listen, Arnie,
I need you picking at a sixty percent seventy oh worse,
good luck?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, and I did. I did that last year.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
You did not pick it a seven? Pretty much? Clip
pretty much? Yeah, pretty much. You don't lie to the people. No,
that was awesome. Last year. You weren't picking at a seventy.
I think I picked it sixty percent. I think it
was sixty percent. So where was the other place where
you were right?
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Or if you will, Oh, come on, I sent it
to you immediately when I found out today, I came
on these airwaves and I said I had a conspiracy theory,
and you laughed at me, and.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
You can still laughed at you that you think what
you sent is some sort of justification, But go ahead.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Austin Reeves.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
The Spurs said they were going to pay him four year,
one hundred million dollars when the Lakers gave him what
four year fifty million.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
And I came on the air that day and said,
wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I thought he was supposed to get a four year
hundred million dollars. Some just doesn't sound right here, some
sounds fishy. We need an investigation because if that's true,
and I took fifteen instead of one hundred. I gotta
fire my agent. There looks like there was maybe shenanigans
or something. I may have to have an investigation into this.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
I want you to explain to me why you think
there were shenanigans in this, because I'm still not understanding it.
At the Dunk Central on Twitter said the Spurs considered
offering Austin Reeves a contract worth one hundred million over
four years before he resigned with the Lakers. Now, again,
he was a restricted free agent, so the Lakers pretty
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much made it clear.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
They were going to match whatever was out there.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
They weren't going they they said they were. I don't
know if they could have matched four year, one hundred
million dollars.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Okay, Well, they made it clear that they were going
to and the Spurs didn't offer him that. So where
is the tom foolery and the conspiracy. I don't even
know what you're talking. If the Spurs were.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Thinking about giving him one hundred million, okay, and then
the next best offer half douted fifty million dollars, that
doesn't seem right to me.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
That doesn't seem like that was right.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Talk to the NBA and they're stupid rules that they
have with they're restricted free agents. That's not an issue
where the Lakers somehow flannageled a deal.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I don't know, maybe le Bron's and I'll put you
in space JM eight or something like that.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
That's not what happened here, Arnie. There's there's levels to this.
There's stupid rules. And until someone offered him a contract
that was I think the max that the Lakers could
have paid him.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
That was the biggest deal he could get.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
George Reister put out on Twitter, said that he wants
to investigation. Also, I wrote to George, I said, George,
I said this a month ago.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Yeah, that's not what George said. He didn't say he
wants an investigation on.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
I think he did. I think that's exactly what he says.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
So weird to believe that Austin Rivers, who only who
has only made two point five millionaire career, turned down
four years, one hundred millions to sign a four year,
fifty three million dollar deal. Again, that's not even what
the original tweet says. Much love for George, but that's
they say they considered offering him that they didn't because
if they did, he would have taken the offer, and
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the Lakers would have tried to match. This is top
five one of the most ridiculous conspiracy theories.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
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Speaker 3 (00:44):
Guys, Jason Smith and.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
His best Fred, Mike Carbon. How does it feel to
let me drive a little bit? We pulled that over.
We pulled the car run over, and we said, Plank,
get in the drive, get into the passage.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Little tipsy, gotta get myself a little sobered up, and then.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I'll have yourself a turkeys at which were provovoted. Mayo,
have your chips, your potato chips or pretzels or whatever
the hell you.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
We gotta go healthy, Arnie, it's carrots a little broccoli.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Come on, not on our road trip, not on our
road trip at all.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough, because this is nice.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
We got to get to the poll. Who do you
want to drive the rest of the show, Arnie or Chris?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I don't care drive in. I don't.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
We're not in a competition mark each other. We're five
four hours.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
And sixty seven thousand, right, Chris with six? All right,
so keep the keep the voting coming. It's Scott's close.
That's that's more than Hey.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
I want to talk about this for a moment because
there's a couple of tweets in a rolling it.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
This is really easy because you can like talk about
these things like I try to talk about you want
to go and I'll just take in a completely different
direction you so you can live your own life here
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
It's so funny because we got a tweet that says
it's your turn to interrupt the stinking g and just
now play. Oh that's so funny. That is so funny
out there. By the way, I just want to tell
you we felt for something. I think that's not true
that we talked about it, I believe on Sunday Show
or one of the time we filled them before that
(02:16):
that Taylor.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Swift thing, the restaurant thing that wasn't her. It was
a no.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I guess there's a there's an article about a Taylor
Swift look alike. You didn't see that there's a Taylor
Swift look alike. And let me tell you something, Chris. Yes,
she looks like on a scale of one to ten,
just based on looks alone, she looks like Taylor, like
an eight. And then you throw on the clothes with
the hat and stuff, and you know, you play it
(02:46):
up a little bit ted out of tad, Chris, I'm
saying ted out of ted Really, I mean she's taking
pictures with people, and I mean she's got to be
able to make a living off that. I'm telling you
matter of fact. I've always told I always told you
you like Tommy Lloyd, the uh the head coach at
the University of Arizona basketball.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I mean, you look exactly like you. You could get paid.
Then let's go.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
No, say you look and you people used to tell me.
I don't know if you remember this. Seeon I have
to go old school for for me to look like
an athlete.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
People used to tell me, I look like Jerry Cooney.
Do you remember what? Sure, yeah, the boxer.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Somebody that's good at this hit me up with a
Jerry Cooney Arnie Spanier side by side.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
They say, Jerry Cooney, Jay Leno type.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Look, now you do you do kind of look like
modern day Jerry Cooney, who is still with us.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Oh yes, I didn't know that still alive sixty seven
years old.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
This updated picture of him is like, yeah, it's got
a little steaking genius to it. But like my I mean,
whenever he was the boxer and in his prime, I
mean that dude was ripped. Yeah, dude, it was a
great shape.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
I could see why people thought we looked alike that
I could. I could see that. So, I mean, you've
not had friends that there were like dead ringers for
for other people out there. Like we had a guy
in our high school who looked just like Kevin Costner.
I mean even when kens I guess when Kevin was
just kind of getting famous.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You know what I'm gonna say, what year did you
graduate from high school?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Wow, I did date myself on that. Geez, didn't you
graduate from high school in like the eighties eighty.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
One, was Kevin Costner even doing movies or as he
got older, did he got start?
Speaker 4 (04:34):
No, as he got older, because he was a he
was a Kevin Costner fill in in in some movies.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
So whenever he was in high school and like, man,
you look like Kevin Costner. As his career progressed, he
got those opportunities.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, you got he did. And he even
had lunch with Whitney Houston once.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
He told us, so, I and pretty cool. That's a
that's some pretty badass stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But anyway, anyway, enough for that. Look what you've done.
You I'm driving there, but then you're you're steering aust
You're steering us into the ditch while I'm.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Driving the floor the car. You do?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
I mean, my goodness, all right, I do want to
get to that story that you sent me because I
know you couldn't get to it fast enough for me
to get And that was the story about Tua. Because
I anything there's bad about Tua, I won't hear.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Yes, what do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Well?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
I won't hear from Plank for like what like weeks
and next thing, you know, like a bunch of tweets
come in. I'm like okay, or a text and I
go something with the bad having the Tua. ESPN antalyst
Ryan Clark said Dolphins quarterback Tua has been spending too
much time getting tattoos instead of working out and listening
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to a nutritionist during the off season.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Do you want to hear it? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Oh you got it there, Yeah, I got it right here.
This was during NFL Live Today. Shout outs to my
personal favorite aggregator at Underscore mL Football for this.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
This is Ryan Clark.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Hey five for seven sixty one yards and an inner aption.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So Rocky started the game for tour right there.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Art them and go. He did sleep because I've hurt.
I ain't tough.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Tell you.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Let me tell you what he wasn't doing. He wasn't
in the gym. He was with me.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
He might have spent a lot of time in the
tattoo parlor. He was not at the dinner table eating
with the nutritionist. Head advised, he looks happy.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, he's built like uh girl working onyx in Atlanta
right now on the bottom.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Now, this is analysis. Wow, this is analysis. I guess
so this is top level analysis. The hell are we
doing right now?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
ESPN? Does it look thick to you? Does it look
thick to me?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
For maybe maybe he should gain a little bit more muscle,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
ONYX, by the way, is a gentleman's club in Atlanta,
So I get it.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's it's not always x'es and o's. It can be fun.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
But that just seemed like, I mean, have opinions on guys,
that's what everyone wants.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
But that seemed like a cheap shot to me. No,
you know, I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
The next thing, though, they should have said, and not
only does he look thick, because he's looking nice and fat,
he's gonna have a bad year. At least back it
up with a prediction. Tell me what he's going to do.
Don't just tell me that he's looking fat. And next thing,
you know, they come out and they're five and oero
or something like that, and they're like, well, I knew too.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
You know, if he was just gonna stay healthy, he
was gonna be great.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
You know. If you told me he's looking fat, tell
me that he's not gonna do well.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
You tell me how much weight did he gain?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
I didn't see any gain weight. And by the way,
the tattoo thing, that's kind of a shot of if
you and I said that, we'd be fired for.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Oh, we'd be if they came on here.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
And my big take was that Tua had spent too
much time in the tattoo parlor and he needs to
get and watch game tape. Oh my goodness, Oh my geez.
I would be I'd get a call from the boss's office. Problem,
and so I'd be going to your office.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Right absolutely, I'd have to call you in.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
You can question Tua all you want, right, He's still
got a lot to prove.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He's got to stay healthy through an entire season.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
He's got to do a good job of, you know,
obviously continuing to learn to redefenses and things of that nature.
But I mean to say that he spent too much
time getting tats and to say that he's looking a
little bit tubby.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I didn't think that at all whenever I saw him.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I mean, he threw a pick on his first pass,
which I know you were very happy about.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Oh that killed I texted you immediately when I saw that.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
But I again, funny auha, everyone's just gifa and because
apparently that's the most hilarious thing anyone's ever seen. But
I guess I need to go back and work on
my film study because Arnie, I'm not I'm not seeing it.
I don't think it's I don't necessarily think that's fair.
Dolphin fans might be able to, Oh you're a Dolphin fan,
(08:53):
but at stink and genius wanted plank show, don't.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
I don't see that in Tua I. I don't see that.
I don't get that.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Now, you talk about quarterbacks that have a lot to
prove and a lot of pressure on them. Whatever category
you're going for to it leads probably leads in both
of those categories. I mean, how many years now this
is your number five or something. I mean, my goodness, man,
he better start putting up now. And he can't get
hurt either. And he's got to put up big numbers.
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And they got people around them. That's why that was
to my next subject. I'm dying to go ahead and
get Jonathan Taylor. I'm willing to give up a number
one pick that's probably me. Oh yeah, oh please please,
You're gonna miss out on fifty percent of number one
picks anyway. Oh, yeah, you want my number one pick,
maybe I'll ship it to you. If I have to
put in the fax machine, it's a done deal if
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I If I gotta go in and look, I don't
want to pay him the money like he's probably going
to demand, so we'll have to figure something out. But
you can have the number one pick. I could care less.
If I'm gonna go and keep a number one pick,
I'll take Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
So you're basically going with the Rams bleep them picks
mindset right, Yes.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Yes, absolutely, matter of fact that that's that's my thing.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I'm all for the RAMS thing.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
If you're going to tell me now that the Dolphins
could win a Super Bowl this year but will be
bad for the next three to five years and then
have to you know, and as we slowly rebuild, I'm
all for that. Give me a super Bowl now and
then we're bad for three to five years. I will
take that. Matter of fact, ninety percent of our listeners
would take that with their fan base, to be honest
with you, so Cowboy fans would take that right now.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Bill's fans would take that to find bad though, to
find bad bad.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Like like you know what what the Cowboys have been
every year five last year, but all those years that
when they were like five hundred or lower with Jason Garrett,
they were like that for like eight or nine straight years.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
I mean, I'm a fan of a team that barely
gets to five let's say, let's say a sub five hundred,
let's say like eight to nine or seven and ten
for the next five years, and then you pop back
up and make a run it at it again.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I'm doing that.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
And you know what, Like I said, so will Bills fans,
So will Cowboy fans. So with Dolphin fans out there,
so with a lot of Jet fans. Would if I
told you Jet fans right now you could win the
Super Bowl with Aaron Rodgers, but you go back to
your crappy ways for your for the next five years.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
They'll say, where do I sign up right now? Where
do I know?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
So?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Okay, we've done this in college. Would you say the
same thing in college? You would take a national championship
to maybe end up on probation or or be out
of the three to four years.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah? Please for you in Arizona.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, absolutely. I that's not even a tough question. I'm
I'm saying yes, before you could even get it out
of your mouth. And like I said, a lot of
our listeners would do the same, especially in the NFL.
There's just there's so much uncertainty from year to year.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I hear people say what is to take them win
a Super Bowl? Well, yeah, takes talent, takes the right
coaching staff, But more important, the number one thing is
staying healthy. And how many teams are lucky enough to
stay healthy? You better be lucky, even good, and that
that's what that's all about there, Chris So.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
But again, you know Miami doesn't have its third or
fourth round pick next year, right, so you're willing to
say that you give up your first round pick in
twenty twenty four, take it and all you'll have a second, sixth,
and seventh round pick.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Have I explained to you what I'm getting in return?
Maybe you're getting Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Oh so you knew that basically the rent I'm thinking
unless you're going to sign him to a long term deal.
And I don't think you can just give up a
first They're gonna want more.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Well, they can't have more. They can't have more than that.
You know what's so funny?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
As you er say, doesn't want to pay his running
back top running back money, right, but he wants top
running back value when it comes to a trade, right.
Oh now, now give me the best I need to,
like a couple of number ones or something like that.
But no, no, no, I'm I'm not going to pay
you because you're just a running back. I like.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
I like the way that works, you know I do.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
I think that's a very interesting point. Now, apparently you
can remove one team. So if you feel like you're
in competition for Jonathan Taylor right now, Jerry Jones is
not interested. He basically said that they like the running
backs that they have right now. Clarence Sale of the
Fort Worth Star Telegram, I guess, asked around the Jonathan
(13:27):
Taylor question. Jerry Jones said, I look at every opportunity,
but the way our young backs are playing, I'm very
comfortable where we are with our backs right now. I
feel good about a running back position. If we didn't
add anybody solos, it looks like you could at least
remove them for now.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
No, you can't.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Matter of fact, I have Vegas put out the sportsbook
put out the team's most likely to trade for the
Jonathan Taylor. The Dolphins were the favorite at plus two fifty,
so two and a half to one. Then you want
to take who's the second favorite to go ahead and get.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Them, Well, let me guess, would it still be the Cowboys? No? No,
the Cowboys are actually fifth on that list. Okay, tied
for fourth.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Eagles, Chicago Bears. The Bears who are saying, we're all in.
We have a quarterback that we're you know, gonna have
a you know that we have locked up and don't
have to pay him big money for another couple of years.
We get ourselves a premium running back in this situation.
So their second the third are the Ravens at seven
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to one.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
That would scare me. That'd be a good fit.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
That would scare the heck out of me. If Lamar
Jackson had Jonathan Taylor to give the ball to with
some of the receivers he has, that would all of
a sudden be a scary team all of a sudden.
The AFC, the Broncos, and the Cowboys are plus seven
to fifties, so seven and a half to one. They
are the fourth favorites to go ahead and get Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
That's interesting that's interesting the Bears because earlier today another
one of the aggregation sites are aggregation Twitter feeds, which,
by the way, NFL News aggregation is completely out of control.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Elon do something. This is insane.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
But there was a story that was making the rounds
that the Bears were willing to go all in for
Chris Jones and that they would be willing to basically
meet Kansas City's price to go get Chris Jones because
the same thing you brought up with Jonathan Taylor, and
they don't. I mean, Khalil Herbert had a great year
last year, the former Kansas and I think what Boston
(15:35):
College running back, and they went and they signed yatda Foreman.
They drafted Roshawn Johnson out of Texas. So they got
three good backs, but none of them of Jonathan Taylor's
kind of ILK.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
They're not even.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Close to Taylor to Chris Jones ILK with anything they
have on their defensive line right now. So that would
be a fascinating move. But I don't think Kansas City
can trade them onry. I think they need to do
what they can and to keep them around.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I agree, I don't think I think this is just
a bunch of talk. I could be wrong, but I'm
curious to see how that plays out. But they can't
get both Cab. They can't get Taylor and Jones, can they?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Well, I gotta remember the Bears.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
The Bears have a lot of draft capital, right and
they they made that move with the Carolina Panthers, so
they have two first round picks in twenty twenty four.
In addition to that, I think I think they also
have the Eagles fourth round pick, so they have gosh, one, two, three.
They have five picks in the first four rounds, so
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they might be in a position where they have a
little bit of capital where they can make a move
going forward. Oh and by the way, they also have
two second round picks next year because they got the
Panthers second round pick. So if I don't know how
it would work salary cap wise, and it would be
wild to see the Bears swing for the fences like that,
but it would take a lot to get both of
those dudes.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
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Speaker 4 (17:03):
All right, we are live from the tyreck dot Com
Studios Chris Pike, Arney Spanier in for the guys, Jason
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Speaker 3 (17:13):
How do you like not driving there, Pike?
Speaker 4 (17:15):
Enjoin yourself, got your feet up, shoes off, your socks.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Up there on the on the counter there or on
the boarded. I'm dialed in. I'm dialed in.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
I'm digging into some uh, some exes, some tweets I'm
reading about, I don't know, some college football expansion stuff
to the playoffs. So I'm I'm staying dialed in, Arnie,
I don't mind being a passenger.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Keep all right on Twitter in case of anything we
want to get to, because I want to ask you this.
Let's say you're doing your fantasy football draft, right, so
you're together with all the boys. Twelve or fourteen, doesn't
make it different. You go to your favorite burger joint,
your favorite waitress isn't there, but that's okay. You're with
the boys, you're hooting your howering, you're laughing, you're having
(17:58):
a good time. You have a The beer's not the coldest,
but that's okay. No big deal here, doesn't even bother you.
You're throwing down a few beers and having a good
time doing your draft. Maybe the fries aren't the crispiest,
but big deal. You're with all the boys, right, you
got twelve fourteen boys out there, and maybe your burger's
(18:18):
a little bit undercooked, But it doesn't make a difference
because you got your fantasy football draft.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That's that's what it's all about. You're having a good time.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Look, I love football, and it really doesn't make a
difference because you know, I'm gonna consume it every which way.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
M hm.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
But Week one is about a four out of ten.
I want you to know that when it comes to
the matchups, I look, I'm gonna eat the burger and
the fries. I'm gonna drink the beer even though it's
not the coldest. But right off the bat with the
Lions and the Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Lions are the talk of the town. Man, are gonna
be good?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Chris, you you could have done me better. You could
have done me better.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Who would you have rather had on the Chiefs schedule
that they're going to play at home?
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I could I could pick anybody on the schedule. Doesn't
have to be like a rematch or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
No, No, here's their home schedule, just real quick, Lions, Bears.
I would have picked the Jets.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
Denver Chargers, Miami, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Vegas, Bengals. They don't play
the Jets.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Kansas City plays the Jets. They play him in New York.
They got to be a home game. Oh, it's got
to be a home game. Yes, that's what I just said.
You never pay attention to me.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
That's too bad, because I think I would have liked
to see the Jets out there. Then I would have
had to pick I would have had to pick Miami.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Pick Miami, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
But that's a game that is one of the NFL
Network games on November fifth, that's one of.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
The see they that's why you know they made the
mistake there. So and that goes to show you they
must have add swim pickets. And then and then the
right off the bat I went to And then you
look at Sunday Panthers Falcons? Are you even going to
even look at the score that I can't forget about?
Watch if you had seven TVs, they're not even gonna
make your top seven TVs on that slot, Arnie.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Have you looked at what's on TV this Sunday?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Uh, this Sunday, what the preseason?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
This Sunday?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
No, No, No, I just mean in general, like what's on TV.
See what's on TV following Sunday?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Okay, see, but I understand, Like I said, I'm gonna
eat the burger, I'm gonna drink the BA.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
I still don't know what this has to do with
the fantasy football draft and things of that nature. But
what why are you complaining when we get football back?
Does not everything to me?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
No, because like I said, in college football, you know,
I don't like Week one of college football, that's right,
And and I just wanted to know they could the
Bengals Browns.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
That's okay, I mean it's okay.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
I mean yeah, you know, but it's Jaguars Colts. Does
that really you know, get you going? I mean there's
like I said, there's other great games out there. There's
about four good games, four or five good matchups out there.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Philadelphia and New England doesn't do anything for you. That's okay,
you got one, thank you for.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Okay, Miami Wait to Go doesn't Miami at Los Angeles
don't do anything.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
For you this way? Wait wait wait wait that does
for me?
Speaker 4 (21:13):
I don't know about everybody else out there, Cowboys, Giants,
another one in Bill's and Jets. That's about the four games, dicers.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
It bears no Jordan Love.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I mean you're suddenly, yeah, no one cares about this
and all the oh yeah, that might be pretty good. Hey,
I'll give you Arizona in Washington's a snoozer. But you're
trying to tell me San Francisco and Pittsburgh's gonna stink.
Come on now, it's a good matchup man Bingles and Browns.
Will Joe Burrow be ready to go? Versus Deshaan Watson.
I'm not trying to tell you that it's a ten
out of ten. No, but I were ranking the weekends
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one through seventeen. As far as a depth chart, I
don't know where it would ranker. I guess that'd be
one through eighteen. But I think there's really good matchups here.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
On the opening weekend, you're stuffing your face right now
with the burger and stuff. You don't care if it's
a little otherer cook, but you haven't eaten in two days,
So I'm.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Like, hey, Chris, how's that Burger's great? It's a great way.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
I can't wait to hear you complain about Week two
because have you looked at the week two schedule? No,
I'm not in your mind. Really, yeah, go look at
the week two schedule. You basically get equally as bad
matchups because well, you're going to have about four bangers
every week in the NFL and probably about eight so
(22:27):
so games and four meg games.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
That's you see how it's gonna be every week.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
I see Jets, Cowboys and Dolphins Patriots I think are
the only two games in week number two years.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
So is this what we're gonna do every Sunday night? No, no, you.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Ask You're the one that told me to go to
a Week two. You just said go looking week Bring up.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
With my point is how in the world can we
wait and wait and wait? This is what I hate
about football fans and you're part of this.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
We wait and wait and wait, and we can't wait
for the season to start. And then as soon as
the season gets here, we grinch about the schedule, We
grinch about the matchups. We hate our team. We just
want the games to get over. If we go to games,
how quickly can we go home? I mean, wow, it's
the shortest season of any sport.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
I'm not you know, I'm not rag and I just
whish we had better matchups. Don't You're so defensive when
it comes to the match.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Well, I am defensive because I don't think it's any
bad Sunday when you have football, Yeah, there cannot be
great matchups.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
What would you rather do? Though? You probably don't sit.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
And watch one game anyway. You probably watch the red zone.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
What's wrong with watching the red zone?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Not a thing, but that's exactly what I do. This
Carolina Atlanta game sucks great. You might have to see
two plays from it.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Yeah, that's exactly how I watch my NFL.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Why you don't watch the red zone? I watch the
red zone.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
But you're sitting here complaining about these games like you're
being forced to sit through them. When you're gonna watch
the damn red zone, You're only gonna get the big
highlights from the game.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
What are you grinching and moaning about?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
That? Should be your primary channel is the red zone.
That's how you should I'm.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Sitting here telling you it's my primary channel for football
unless the Raiders are playing.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
I don't understand you something.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Then it's gonna go ahead and make you miserable watching
the Raiders game.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
I know, I'm sure it will.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I'll probably watch a few Saints in Giants games, just
to turn that knife a little bit.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
I did have a fantasy football point. I'll get to
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Speaker 3 (24:34):
You like that?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Did you learn, Chris? Did you learn all of that
stunted by a professional?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Did you hear that? Or what learned? That's right? I
am learning here tonight. You better be learning.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I have to turn the card back over to you
a little bit, but first before I get to that
fantasy football thought.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
You like the way I'm teasing.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
That's called a tease in the business.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
I'm learning a lot today. You're learning a lot tonight.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
For crid out loud, Chris Pike, CARDI spat you're right
here on Fox Sports Radio win for the guy's life
at the tire rech dot Com studios. You know, I
did want to bring up fantasy football, but real quick
on Twitter or ex whatever you want to call it.
Sooner Lisa said, why does fantasy football have to be
for the boys? Come on, Arnie, know you're right about that,
very very sexist.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yes, sooner on her name. That might be my destiny
right there. I I hear that you should be fired
for that. Why is that?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Well, because you should be able to point out my mistakes.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But now do my thing?
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I saw somebody, hold on, I should what are you
even talking about?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Well, I don't want to get fired.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
So somebody should be fired for being sexist, and it
should be you probably, But the only.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
One that said it was only for the boys, not me.
I want to bring this up.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
I saw an article that maybe fantasy football is losing
its steam because now we have so much gambling that
you could gamble on so much and on just about
everything and constantly with the you know, live betting going on.
Does that hurt fantasy football? Is that going to bring
out its popularity? Because again, it was at the height
of its popularity? I would say, what, like now or
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within the last couple of years, is it going to
start going down hill? Or no?
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Chris, I think You're still gambling with fantasy in most instances, right,
So I don't think it's necessarily decreasing.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Who where was this story? Who was? I thought?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
I said that to you. No, I have to have
to look for it. I'm sorry, I thought maybe I
said that.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Well, here's why I ask.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Because I don't play fantasy football, and not because I
don't want to or not because I'm not into it
or anything of that nature.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
But I had a really cool league, and uh, it.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Kind of broke apart, just be couple people past, and
then a few people weren't really into it. Then you
had people that didn't, you know, take part in certain
things that happened when you are successful or not successful.
So I I just don't have.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
A league to play in, but you knows, the time
I do. I love it.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
I don't know how it could be losing popularity because
I feel like it's always crammed down my throat.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Well just with the gambling though, because I mean, like, yeah,
it's for gambling purposes, but now that you have so much,
you know, live betting and gambling, and it's so accessible
now to go ahead and gamble and it's almost legal.
And how many states over thirty. You know, some people
just say, yeah, the hell would fantasy football. I'm just
going to go ahead and just start betting away and
(27:29):
stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (27:30):
Football arned player props and things of that nature kind
of part of the fantasy game. And with Gosh, I'm again,
I don't want to mention anyone that is illegal in
certain states, but with things like underdog and even draft Kings,
isn't there a fantasy.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Element to that where you can make money?
Speaker 5 (27:49):
So I know you're not just straight up gambling saying
I've got these two teams in a parlay, but I
almost feel like Arnie with some of the player props.
That's what I hear people making as far as their
biggest bets on.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah, making the most money.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Yes, I mean that's another reason why we actually make
my point. You could you could do player props, and
there's also you could actually gamble. But I could say
the Jets are playing the Dolphins. They'll come up with
a fictitious two teams and they'll pretend like they're playing
those two teams and take the stats.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
And you could bet on games like that.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
So I mean, really, fantasy football is gonna be outdated
and real see what all this gambling going on?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Interesting? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
There was a story I found from twenty twenty two
which said that twenty three percent of Americans aged to
thirteen and up said they were playing some kind of
fantasy football in twenty twenty one. A year later in
twenty twenty in twenty twenty one, that number was only
eighteen percent. So that's a five percent decline in just
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that demographic. But I mean, I'm going to tell you
right now, if I had a league and I had
people that I like playing with it, I don't have
anything against fantasy football.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
I think, oh no, I love it. Oh yeah, I play. No,
I love it.
Speaker 5 (29:04):
But I also I don't know if gambling would be
taking away from it, because I feel like, if you're
playing fantasy and if you're in a state where it's legal,
you're probably gonna be gambling anyway, right, You're probably gonna
be having a pick or two.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
You gave me that stut. How many people gamble on
the NFL.
Speaker 5 (29:22):
I would imagine, especially now if it's legal in so
many places. I don't even want to try to come
up with that number. I mean, we're talking about that
se you know, well, I don't think it might be
that high. It's not legal in enough states yet.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
Right, even even if it's some states or not, it's
only a click away, correct, So you could figure it
out or go to a nearby state or something to that.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
You encouraging people. No, no, not at all. No, no, not
at all.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
You can go cross state lines if it's not legal
in your state. Okay, I bet you. I bet it's
like sixty percent or maybe even more.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
This this as that, discording to props dot com that
nearly one in five US adults will place a wager
on NFL games this year. It say roughly twenty three
million betters. Roughly fifty percent of those betters will place
bets all online.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
That's s.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Again, that still seems like a ridiculously high number to me,
and you feel like it should be higher. They're saying
last year, forty six point six million people wagered on
the NFL, which was eighteen percent of American adults, and
they expect that number to go up this year.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
So there you go.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
It's it's a rather large number, But I don't necessarily
know if that's going to take away from fantasy football.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I guess to the point.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
I want to do one of those contests. I got it,
But there's so much money you gotta They're like a
couple of thousand dollars to get into some of those contests.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
You know.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Yeah, Firman taught that on Sunday Night. It's a little
bit more pricey than I think you realized.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
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Speaker 4 (31:11):
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Speaker 3 (31:12):
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Speaker 4 (31:14):
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Speaker 3 (31:25):
The show, so I do it. Unreal. Look at the they're.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Just flying in like crazy.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
They should.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Unbelievable, proud of where Artie was right and Larti was writer.
Tried to tell you these streak was going to be over.
Ravens lose. Are you happy that Drake is probably ed?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
So we try to tell us the streak would be over?
You picked them?
Speaker 4 (31:48):
No, I told you suddenly that the streak was O
V E R.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
Remember I remember you having picked them to continue.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
O no go back.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
It's been a long time, gosh, I said, the streak
was ovar.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Well, congratulations on finally getting a pick, right, happy, Yeah,
I was.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
My pick's have been awful.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
They've been I was eight and thirteen against the spread,
now nine and thirteen.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
I finished up the preseason nine and thirteen.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
That's why I can't get a week I'm not doing
any more preseason games.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Then quit calling it the free season. For the love
of God.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
You can't call something the free season and cram it
down our throats and then bail out when you have
one bad weekend.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
I'm arding up so soft. I'm resting up for the
for the regular season.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
When you're a gambler, you don't have to rest up
for picking game.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Stop it.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
Whenever I have a bad preseason, I know I'm gonna
have a great regular season. I know I'm gonna do
doubly as good in college too. My job depends on it.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
You know that, don't you, right, I don't want you
to get fired. And I remember the last contract negotiation round.
Whenever the boss man came through, Scott said, hey, listen, Arnie,
I need you picking at a sixty percent seventy oh worse,
good luck?
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, and I did. I did that last year.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
You did not pick it a seven? Pretty much? Clip
pretty much? Yeah, pretty much. You don't lie to the people. No,
that was awesome. Last year. You weren't picking at a seventy.
I think I picked it sixty percent. I think it
was sixty percent. So where was the other place where
you were right?
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Or if you will, Oh, come on, I sent it
to you immediately when I found out today, I came
on these airwaves and I said I had a conspiracy theory,
and you laughed at me, and.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
You can still laughed at you that you think what
you sent is some sort of justification, But go ahead.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Austin Reeves.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
The Spurs said they were going to pay him four year,
one hundred million dollars when the Lakers gave him what
four year fifty million.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
And I came on the air that day and said,
wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (33:48):
I thought he was supposed to get a four year
hundred million dollars. Some just doesn't sound right here, some
sounds fishy. We need an investigation because if that's true,
and I took fifteen instead of one hundred. I gotta
fire my agent. There looks like there was maybe shenanigans
or something. I may have to have an investigation into this.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
I want you to explain to me why you think
there were shenanigans in this, because I'm still not understanding it.
At the Dunk Central on Twitter said the Spurs considered
offering Austin Reeves a contract worth one hundred million over
four years before he resigned with the Lakers. Now, again,
he was a restricted free agent, so the Lakers pretty
(34:35):
much made it clear.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
They were going to match whatever was out there.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
They weren't going they they said they were. I don't
know if they could have matched four year, one hundred
million dollars.
Speaker 5 (34:45):
Okay, Well, they made it clear that they were going
to and the Spurs didn't offer him that. So where
is the tom foolery and the conspiracy. I don't even
know what you're talking. If the Spurs were.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Thinking about giving him one hundred million, okay, and then
the next best offer half douted fifty million dollars, that
doesn't seem right to me.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
That doesn't seem like that was right.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Talk to the NBA and they're stupid rules that they
have with they're restricted free agents. That's not an issue
where the Lakers somehow flannageled a deal.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I don't know, maybe le Bron's and I'll put you
in space JM eight or something like that.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
That's not what happened here, Arnie. There's there's levels to this.
There's stupid rules. And until someone offered him a contract
that was I think the max that the Lakers could
have paid him.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
That was the biggest deal he could get.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
George Reister put out on Twitter, said that he wants
to investigation. Also, I wrote to George, I said, George,
I said this a month ago.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Yeah, that's not what George said. He didn't say he
wants an investigation on.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
I think he did. I think that's exactly what he says.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
So weird to believe that Austin Rivers, who only who
has only made two point five millionaire career, turned down
four years, one hundred millions to sign a four year,
fifty three million dollar deal. Again, that's not even what
the original tweet says. Much love for George, but that's
they say they considered offering him that they didn't because
if they did, he would have taken the offer, and
(36:11):
the Lakers would have tried to match. This is top
five one of the most ridiculous conspiracy theories.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
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