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They haven't won a game by fortypoints or more since two thousand I haven't,
but they're due tonight in their summifinals of the in season tournament.
Whoa sun is shining out there,baby? And in Las Vegas as well
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as the in season tournament commissioners selver, you're genius. How many of you
people out there owe him in abig, bad apology talking all reckless?
Oh, I don't know who caresabout that nonsense. This isn't soccer.
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This is American sports, which Ialways found weird because as a soccer fan,
I'm not a big fan of theI don't like the the in season
tournaments for all the soccer. Youknow, it is nonsense. I don't
know. You know, those thepeople across the pond who are fans of
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these soccer teams, you know,at birth they're born into these sort of
things, so they know a littlebit more about the importance, of course,
in the grand scheme of things whenyou win these tournaments, whether it's
the europe A Cup or I meanChampions League above all, but you know,
it all is in the same bagfor this conversation, right right,
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and even with the soccer without gettingtoo much into the details because nobody cares.
Bottom line is this, the NBAin season tournament is giving you,
it's giving myself. It's giving showson on national television or radio programs something
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to talk about in the NBA,and that's all that matters. Folks.
You look down at your calendar rightnow, it's a beautiful Friday. It's
December the eighth. The old tirecliche about the USA Association for decades was
what talk to me at Christmas time? Well, guess what we're talking about
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the NBA. We're caring about.These results is a little bit you know,
too much for some sure, butthe majority of the people, if
you've been watching, you've been tunedin. It's been entertaining, and that's
all that matters. And oh,by the way, there's only one extra
game being added on to the equationfor all NBA teams out there that participate
in this thirty of them. Thatis between the Indiana Pacers and the Lakers
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tomorrow night. Oh by the way, DraftKings sports Book four point spread,
Lakers favorite in Vegas, eight thirtytip on six ABCS. So those teams
will play eighty three games this year. But guess what. There's a big
old five hundred thousand dollars check thatgoes to the winners, and I believe
something a little significant for the losersas well. And that's what it's all
about. And we got good competition, we got good games, we got
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good teams out there in Vegas.The court is electric, all the stars
are front row. Tomorrow's gonna beinsane, it's gonna be great to watch.
And Lebron James. As you heardDoc Rivers on the call, eh,
I'll buy. I mean, Docdoesn't do anything for me. Kevin
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Harlan does, which is tremendous.Always love Kevin Harlan. We talked to,
we waxed poetic about him a coupleof days ago. A matter of
fact, on this program break Tuesday, I want to say we were talking
about Kevin Harland because I was listeningto him called Monday Night Football. Now
I think everybody should that's the wayMonday Night Football is done. With Kevin
Harland in the call. Well,last night it was incredible, one thirty
three ninety nine final score. Lakerswon the night cap. The game before
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that. A little more as faras competition is concerned, a little bit
more competitive, tighter game and Halliburtonhit the the dagger and if you didn't
have an opportunity to listen to thator catch it, this out sounded driving
to his lap, scabs back worsewho the bench RUPs coming off the floor
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as one to embrace Tyrese Haliburton thatEddie Gill was cold blooded. In the
Nipatiers Radio Network, one nineteen wasyour final score. The Milwaukee Bucks were
five point favorites going into that.Haliburn pulled it out. Just magnificent performance.
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Kid is insane. We're gonna talkall about it more in detail and
Picks and Roll coming up at fouro'clock with Shaan Benard. But no turnovers
last night by Tyrese Haliburt. Andhe went off and was the leading charge
twenty seven points. He had sevenboards, fifteen assists and as I said,
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not one turnover. That dude isleading the way for the Indiana Pace.
And you're gonna find out that heis actually trying to get more people
to go to the Indiana to playwith him out there with the pacers.
But good luck on that one,because I think even the joke last night
was made on a little bit toomuch of the pregame coverage for my liking.
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I didn't know if it was anNBA finals or in season tournament or
what it was, but it wasridiculous. First of all, the game
started at five o'clock East Coast time. I'm not a big fan of that,
but oh well, and then thesecond game took forever to start,
and my thought processes, I actuallythink there's a way that you can fix
that. But you're gonna take alittle bit of a hit at the door.
The reason why is because they cleareverybody out and make you buy another
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ticket. Those are two tickets forboth of those games out there in Vegas.
But anyways, nobody cares about that. Again, just entertainment across the
board. And now we have anNBA or an in season tournament final,
our first one between the Lakers andthe Pacers. Both teams can win it.
Both teams are really good. Lebronwants this, you could tell.
I think he's leading the way forthe Lakers as far as mentality is concerned.
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And pull it up and just goingoff last night in that game,
Haliburton and the Pacers with the paceno pun intended that they have that they
push if they're able to force theirway on the Lakers, they can and
should win that game. But ifthey're not hitting their shots. And I'm
really cautious to say that because thatwas a team that wasn't all that precise
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from downtown last night, they stillthrew up one twenty eight. The Pacers
are gonna do what they want todo. And that's where the rub is
because as much as I want tosay Lakers are the better team, Lakers
want this more. Lebron James isthe best player on the floor. He
is. Don't laugh, he is. At thirty eight years old, He's
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still the best damn basketball player onthat floor. I don't care what Haliburton's
doing right now. You want onegame, Halibert, you taking Lebron.
Lebron is incredible. It's just it'snothing new, but it's insane to be
able to watch him play absolutely insaneposting up first possession down low in the
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paint, boom box out next toyou, Oh scores, bucket hits the
free throw, and one insane pullingup from downtown. I think you finished
with thirty best player in the fourlast night, thirty eight years old.
It's crazy, like DoD said,he's getting better, he's improving. I
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saw this last We saw this lastyear. I mean he was doing this
last year. He's not taking astep back though, Like is he still
explosive Lebron that could jump over fourdifferent guys And no, he definitely took
a little bit of a hit onthat one. Father Time took some lift
off lift away from him, butspeed, def shooting, it's still the
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same. And that's what's really crazyto me is that we know Father Time
is undefeated yet hasn't bothered Lebron tothe naked eye. It's incredible, really
is. And don't need to gotoo into detail about this, but you
know it, I know it.We got to appreciate these guys because snapping
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the fingers, they're gone, andthen we're replacing guys like Tom Brady with
I don't know who. For everyCJ. Stroud, I'll give you a
Mitch Trubisky, a Sam Howell whoall right from the in season tournament and
again, get involved the conversation atFox Pho Gambler. At Fox Pho Gambler,
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we'll have picks and roll full breakdownon both of those games last night
takeaways and of course We got thirteenNBA games on the hardwood tonight, including
the seventy six ers in the AtlantaHawks, and it looks like in Beide
will go, but we don't knowjust yet, still dealing with a little
bit of the sickness. Even thoughhe was dealing with the sickness, he
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dropped fifty against the Wizards. Hesaid his chest was hurting him, so
who knows. But this is ahome game against Atlantahawks. They're giving eight,
and I think this is a bigspot for the Sixers. I think
that they can go ahead and posta crooked number tonight and come away with
that dub and cover. Of course, thirteen games will break down the full
card. Coming your way up Picksand Roll at four o'clock Special day though
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Today, Special episode for all thingsPGA and Live Golf, Swinging and dig
It Moose Mays Danielle Coming your wayat five pm. Right here on the
Game, we were talking about AramboJohn Rahm signing with the Live Golf Tour
for an undisclosed amount somewhere close tofive hundred, four hundred and fifty million
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dollars five hundred euros, whatever itmay be. A piece of this a
piece of that, a deal thathe could not say no to. Right,
That's what it comes down to foryou, and I pretty simple that
type of money. Who cares.At the end of the day, you're
not signing your life way to theLive Tour. There was a crossover already.
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You're hoping that those two tours willcome and coexist together. I thought
that was the case, but apparentlythere's a big old hiccup. Who knows.
The question I have though, isthis, well two parts. One
is it's simple for all these golfersthat even think in the back of their
minds that oh, there is aprice tag, there is a number,
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Please don't get out of microphone andbeloviate to how about how it's not for
you and you know the three roundsisn't golf and you want to compete against
the best the PGA Tour is like, there's no need for that. If
there is even a sliver of like, hey, if I was off for
five hundred, if you like,again, we know if you're a golfer
on the PGA Tour, you're atop one hundred golfer. In the back
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of your mind, if there's aprice tag that Live could come knocking at
your door and offering you and thatnumber. Whether you reach that number or
not, Please don't get on amicrophone bloviating being the gas bag that you
are talking about how it's not foryou, you will never leave. And
the PGA Tour is the best ofthe best, so and so for because
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that's exactly what Rom did last yearand well this year actually when everything was
going on, and understand like,we get it, We're not dumb.
It's a big old price tag,man, go get that money. Nobody's
mad at you. But the frustratingpart is when these guys have been on
record and really flexing about how it'snot for them, when in the back
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of their mind there is a numberand they do accept it, and they
do go over and rom is squareBoom, I'm throwing the dart that hit
him into the bullseye. Second thingis this whole growing the game nonsense,
which is a talking point from LiveTour. You're gonna hear that all over
the place. It's sickening. Stopit. You're not growing the game.
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The game's taking a hit. ThePGA Tour is far and away better than
the Lift Tour. I watched afew events from the Lift Tour on the
CW network last year, some ofthose golf courses, I'm not gonna sit
here and say it was a goattrack, but man, not the prettiest
courses as far as rough around theedges. The crowds are about as minimum
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as it gets. And you gotextended family following you around, and that's
it. The PGA Tour is farand away superior to the Lift Tour.
Will it be five years from now, I don't know, But right here,
right now, what I just witnessed, Yes, last year and this
year. Come on, Man,it keeps saying last year, but you
know what I mean last season,which was this year or so, and
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so some of those hey, likeyou just look. It's like, man,
they got groundskeepers on the Oaks courses. There was one in Orlando and
it's probably one of the it's probablya nice course. But I don't know
what's one of the worst courses onthe PGA Tour. I don't know.
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Like they're all beautiful, they're allpristine, they're all just gorgeous. I'm
trying to think of the one inDetroit where they played a Rocket Mortgage Classic.
Right, there's no Burt Edges oryou know rough marks or you know
marks around you know the rough likewhere it looks like like I'm telling you,
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I watched a few rounds on thelib Tour last last season. It
was just like, what is goingon? But the price tag is too
much to turn around? Turned down. It's understood. We're not dummies.
Anyways, I'm not going to talktoo much about that. Swinging and niggall
take it over at five o'clock andhit on all the important pieces. Now.
One of the things that I'm havinga weird time wrapping my head around.
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And I texted Patrick McDonald from cbsportsdot com because I was like,
why is is John Rohm breaking thatnews? Look, it was already out
there. He made his first appearancelast night. Now he's done. He
was just on Pat McAfee that tookover the timeline because apparently he was just
very open as McAfee's probably gonna getthe best out of you, Right,
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You're gonna relax round mcmcafee. Atthe end of the day, guy's in
a tank top. You know,everybody's doing great. It's a five hundred
million dollar podcast there, which isnow on ESPN but I'm curious why Fox
News. Why did rom break thatto Fox News at eight o'clock last night?
And it took a second and patrimMcDonald's is clearly one hundred percent correct,
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and I was just laughing about this. It's the Ausy connection which Greg
Norman and murdochs have relationships. They'reboth assis. But without getting political here,
Fox News to America's network, right, isn't that what they say?
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Isn't that their tagline? Why arelike people that watch Fox News? Are
they cool with this? Because,like I said, you're taking away from
the PGA Tour, which is American. It's the American Tour, it's our
tour, So you're taking away thebest golfers in this country, making our
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game worse, and yet you're breakingthat on Foxes. I just I find
that odd. And Fox is allabout it. They're getting the big one.
That's that's fine. That's the informationor the interview that they want to
put out there. And I didn'treally watch it in great detail, so
I don't really you know, shouldhave, I guess if I'm gonna bring
it up here, of course,but I don't think any earth shattering questions
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were being asked, It's just oddto me that with that audience, who
is so supportive America, right,that's what they say, We're America's number
one news handle, bah bah bah. But yet this is making our tour
worse. This is promoting stuff fromthe global effort Australia. They're the ones
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put it out there. Just veryodd from the programming standpoint from people that
push the buttons up at Fox.That's all. I just I don't get
that from their perspective. But ifyou want to tie yourself to the Live
Golf tour, to the Saudis,to the people that are making the PGA
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worse off, then all right cool. I just didn't see it from that
perspective. But if you have atake on that, love to hear it
that Fox PHL gambler at Fox PHLgame. I guess it's again it has
nothing to do with Live. Thisis Fox News putting that out there from
their perspective, right, Like Iunderstand why Live would do it. Of
course, you got a lot ofeyeballs. John Ram's doing plenty of interviews
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out there. It's a number onetopic being discussed behind show Heo Todi at
this point in time, anyway,swinging and ding and coming away at five
o'clock. Plenty of PGA tour conversationcoming your way all right now over this
show, Heyo Toadi as he isthe number one story and how about this
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now, I'd love to sit hereand say that I knew how this is
going to work out, but Iwant to pitch something to you right now.
From the gambling standpoint, this isintriguing. So we know that the
offseason is not done just yet.Right hot stove just started. Names are
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gonna be moved, players are gonnabe signing, Trades are gonna happen,
and the big fish has got togo first. He's got to set the
market in that show, Hal Todi, I'm sure that there's probably four or
five teams that think they're in themix. I don't know if that's case,
but let's just play with it thatway. So the big one right
now is showy Otani, and Ialways love when I do these live shows.
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It's like it could be happening.I'm just gonna hit the refreshing my
timeline here on X and make surethat no we're still on Otani watch.
So here's what I have. ShowHey apparently is going to sign with the
Toronto Blue Jays. That's there's oneunconfirmed report out there. Just listening to
MLB network, come away in oneunconfirmed report out there that he is looking
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at signing with the Toronto Blue Jays, which is great. Now he's going
to be dealing with the rehabbing ofthe arm, all that and more.
We know how amazing show Hay is. It's not even a question on if
he wants to sign with your team, you sign him. But if you're
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honest with yourself and if you're honestwith the odds for next season in the
AL East standings, even if showHay signs with the Toronto Blue Jays,
they're not the favorite to win thatdivision right. That division is slocked.
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It is insane how good this divisionis. And you're gonna add show Hey
to the Knicks and the team thatgets him in the Toronto Blue Jays.
I don't know if they'll be evensecond as far as odds are concerned to
win the AL East wild Now,hear me out, Baltimore Orioles are not
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a fluke. They won one gamespitching yeah, bullpen. Well, they
brought Kimberly in That tells how desperatethey are. We talking about that yesterday.
There's issues there, I get it, But they have some young studs.
They just won one hundred one games. They're the real deal. They're
going to be, in my opinion, favored to win that division, as
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they just won the AL East,I would hope. So now DraftKings doesn't
have the odds up, they'll justhave the futures. And so let's just
take a peek at that. Seewhere the Blue Jays are right now,
because that's all right, league winner? Ha, Wow, that is crazy.
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So they are favored. They gotthem the favor to win the AL
at this point in time. See, this is this is the issue though,
right because we know that the publicis going to put that. But
so then that means there's value ontoOrioles. Right now, the Orioles are
nine to one to win the AL. They're behind the Yankees, behind the
Blue Jays. The Rays are elevento one. That's insane to me.
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Wow, to win the World Series, you got to brave seven to one
blue Jays seven to one on justthe standpoint of whether or not he will
sign with the Blue Jays. Insaneall right, again, I guess I'm
wrong. They will be favored towin the division, but they're not the
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best team. The Orioles are thebest team. You add show Hey to
that lineup. The Blue Jays arenot the best team. The Rays.
I would still make the case toput the Rays in front of the Blue
Jays. The Yanks. Really theYankees. I know it wasn't a good
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season, but they're adding one Sototo the mix, and if they hang
on the stand, they hang onthe judge. All of those players are
already having their lineup. You're notgonna take the Yankees over the Blue Jays.
Wow, that is insane. Well, I'm glad I stumbled into that.
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You know, hey, look theseare live odds. What are you
gonna do. You're gonna get somethingright, You're gonna get something wrong.
I was dead balls wrong on thatone. Baltimore won one hundred and one
games last year. Tampa Bay ninetynine, Toronto eighty nine, Yankees eighty
two. The Socks. Yeah,nobody cares about the Red Sox. Wow?
What is If you're a Red Soxfan, you gotta be questioning what's
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going on with your organization because Idon't see anything different this upcoming season.
Oh, by the way, asI said, everybody else getting better,
Yankees got better, Blue Jay's,if they Lando Tony, I get it,
they're going to be better better,But I'll still take the Ools to
win that division. Well, whenthose odds come out, be really curious
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to see what happens, because Iwill be all over again. I think
there's value to be our money tobe made, value on both of those
Orioles in the Rays. But itis exciting. I would love to see
show Hey go to Toronto. There'salready some popping that lineup. They do
need some pitching. He can helpthat out when he comes back. It's
a huge deal. It's a hugegap. It is intriguing. I want
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to hear more of why Toronto peopleare making the case of the rehabbing down
in Florida. They got a greatplace down there. I'm like, dude,
I build a you know, ifI was the Phillies, I'd build
a wing for him. I'll nameit after him if he wants to rehab
whatever he wants. It's shoho Tani. We're at every penny, all right,
Well, you learn something every day, and there it is that the
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Blue Jays will be favored, justfrom the standpoint of all the money coming
in, everybody being about that goodluck on that one. All right,
we gotta hit on Thursday night football, and how everybody was wrong on that
one. We actually had some pointslast night which was I don't know whatever.
That game sucked. It wasn't good, you know, it just it
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wasn't good. Now, the questionthat everybody's asking today is Mike Tomlin,
when's his time up with Pittsburgh.It's a bad loss to New England,
it's a bad loss to the ArizonaCardinals. And the amount of success.
Yes, he's never had a winningseason. It might happen this year,
or he never had a losing season, might happen this year. But since
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that Super Bowl success has not beenthere in the playoffs for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
A lot of the same things thatare being said starting to be a
little bit louder right here, rightnow, were the same things that were
being said about Andy Reid back intwenty twelve, twenty thirteen here in Philadelphia.
Oh, be careful what you wishfor, and everyone, Oh,
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he'll get picked up in a minute, yes, and that's fine. Good
for Mike Tomlin. He's probably earnedanother spot getting picked up by somebody else.
Absolutely, But guess what that doesnot mean, because he's going to
get another job immediately, that youshould not move on. There are a
great young, unbelievable offensive football mindsout there. You want so many defensive
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mind I'm sure there's somebody out therethat can help you in that department as
well. Plenty of great football mindsout there. There are men. I
love Mike Tomlin, but come on, it's not the end of the world
if you have to move on fromMike Tomlin and you're the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Can they draft better? Of course? Can they play better? I got
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you. But you know where itstarts. It ends with it's the head
coach and he's been there for along long time. All Right, we're
gonna keep it moving. Coming upon the other side, Sean Bernard,
he's gonna join us. We're gonnatalk a little Heisman, We'll talk about
rom a little bit, get histhoughts on that. Also mix in some
Army Navy conversation as the big onesgoing off tomorrow, like Army a big
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deal in that one. I thinkArmy is the one, uh one play
in that game. I know everybodywants to take the under. Knock yourself
out. Last year went to doubleovertime, bad beat took the over,
or it went to the over.I don't really have too much of an
opinion on now. It's such alow number that I think it's in play
to go over no matter what.But I do believe, I really do
believe that that army is the bettersquad here. Just take a look at
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some of the numbers, and Ithink they're gonna win by a touchdown or
more tomorrow. So that's my playon that one. We'll discuss that one.
All that and more coming up onthe other side with sham Bnard than
at four o'clock NBA Picks and Rollthirteen games in the Association. We hit
on every one of them, includingtwo gyms absolutely gyms from Player Props Intonight's
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game for the Sixers and Hawks,two plus money gyms from sham Minard.
You don't want to miss those fiveo'clock swinging and ding it, talking out
things. PGA Tour six o'clock TimO'Keeffe back at it, Balls, bats
and bets with the Great Tim O'Keeffeat six pm jam Peck daya program right
here on the Gambler. Back upfor this
They haven't won a game by fortypoints or more since two thousand I haven't,
but they're due tonight in their summifinals of the in season tournament.
Whoa sun is shining out there,baby? And in Las Vegas as well
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as the in season tournament commissioners selver, you're genius. How many of you
people out there owe him in abig, bad apology talking all reckless?
Oh, I don't know who caresabout that nonsense. This isn't soccer.
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This is American sports, which Ialways found weird because as a soccer fan,
I'm not a big fan of theI don't like the the in season
tournaments for all the soccer. Youknow, it is nonsense. I don't
know. You know, those thepeople across the pond who are fans of
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these soccer teams, you know,at birth they're born into these sort of
things, so they know a littlebit more about the importance, of course,
in the grand scheme of things whenyou win these tournaments, whether it's
the europe A Cup or I meanChampions League above all, but you know,
it all is in the same bagfor this conversation, right right,
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and even with the soccer without gettingtoo much into the details because nobody cares.
Bottom line is this, the NBAin season tournament is giving you,
it's giving myself. It's giving showson on national television or radio programs something
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to talk about in the NBA,and that's all that matters. Folks.
You look down at your calendar rightnow, it's a beautiful Friday. It's
December the eighth. The old tirecliche about the USA Association for decades was
what talk to me at Christmas time? Well, guess what we're talking about
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the NBA. We're caring about.These results is a little bit you know,
too much for some sure, butthe majority of the people, if
you've been watching, you've been tunedin. It's been entertaining, and that's
all that matters. And oh,by the way, there's only one extra
game being added on to the equationfor all NBA teams out there that participate
in this thirty of them. Thatis between the Indiana Pacers and the Lakers
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tomorrow night. Oh by the way, DraftKings sports Book four point spread,
Lakers favorite in Vegas, eight thirtytip on six ABCS. So those teams
will play eighty three games this year. But guess what. There's a big
old five hundred thousand dollars check thatgoes to the winners, and I believe
something a little significant for the losersas well. And that's what it's all
about. And we got good competition, we got good games, we got
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good teams out there in Vegas.The court is electric, all the stars
are front row. Tomorrow's gonna beinsane, it's gonna be great to watch.
And Lebron James. As you heardDoc Rivers on the call, eh,
I'll buy. I mean, Docdoesn't do anything for me. Kevin
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Harlan does, which is tremendous.Always love Kevin Harlan. We talked to,
we waxed poetic about him a coupleof days ago. A matter of
fact, on this program break Tuesday, I want to say we were talking
about Kevin Harland because I was listeningto him called Monday Night Football. Now
I think everybody should that's the wayMonday Night Football is done. With Kevin
Harland in the call. Well,last night it was incredible, one thirty
three ninety nine final score. Lakerswon the night cap. The game before
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that. A little more as faras competition is concerned, a little bit
more competitive, tighter game and Halliburtonhit the the dagger and if you didn't
have an opportunity to listen to thator catch it, this out sounded driving
to his lap, scabs back worsewho the bench RUPs coming off the floor
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as one to embrace Tyrese Haliburton thatEddie Gill was cold blooded. In the
Nipatiers Radio Network, one nineteen wasyour final score. The Milwaukee Bucks were
five point favorites going into that.Haliburn pulled it out. Just magnificent performance.
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Kid is insane. We're gonna talkall about it more in detail and
Picks and Roll coming up at fouro'clock with Shaan Benard. But no turnovers
last night by Tyrese Haliburt. Andhe went off and was the leading charge
twenty seven points. He had sevenboards, fifteen assists and as I said,
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not one turnover. That dude isleading the way for the Indiana Pace.
And you're gonna find out that heis actually trying to get more people
to go to the Indiana to playwith him out there with the pacers.
But good luck on that one,because I think even the joke last night
was made on a little bit toomuch of the pregame coverage for my liking.
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I didn't know if it was anNBA finals or in season tournament or
what it was, but it wasridiculous. First of all, the game
started at five o'clock East Coast time. I'm not a big fan of that,
but oh well, and then thesecond game took forever to start,
and my thought processes, I actuallythink there's a way that you can fix
that. But you're gonna take alittle bit of a hit at the door.
The reason why is because they cleareverybody out and make you buy another
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ticket. Those are two tickets forboth of those games out there in Vegas.
But anyways, nobody cares about that. Again, just entertainment across the
board. And now we have anNBA or an in season tournament final,
our first one between the Lakers andthe Pacers. Both teams can win it.
Both teams are really good. Lebronwants this, you could tell.
I think he's leading the way forthe Lakers as far as mentality is concerned.
(06:04):
And pull it up and just goingoff last night in that game,
Haliburton and the Pacers with the paceno pun intended that they have that they
push if they're able to force theirway on the Lakers, they can and
should win that game. But ifthey're not hitting their shots. And I'm
really cautious to say that because thatwas a team that wasn't all that precise
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from downtown last night, they stillthrew up one twenty eight. The Pacers
are gonna do what they want todo. And that's where the rub is
because as much as I want tosay Lakers are the better team, Lakers
want this more. Lebron James isthe best player on the floor. He
is. Don't laugh, he is. At thirty eight years old, He's
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still the best damn basketball player onthat floor. I don't care what Haliburton's
doing right now. You want onegame, Halibert, you taking Lebron.
Lebron is incredible. It's just it'snothing new, but it's insane to be
able to watch him play absolutely insaneposting up first possession down low in the
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paint, boom box out next toyou, Oh scores, bucket hits the
free throw, and one insane pullingup from downtown. I think you finished
with thirty best player in the fourlast night, thirty eight years old.
It's crazy, like DoD said,he's getting better, he's improving. I
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saw this last We saw this lastyear. I mean he was doing this
last year. He's not taking astep back though, Like is he still
explosive Lebron that could jump over fourdifferent guys And no, he definitely took
a little bit of a hit onthat one. Father Time took some lift
off lift away from him, butspeed, def shooting, it's still the
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same. And that's what's really crazyto me is that we know Father Time
is undefeated yet hasn't bothered Lebron tothe naked eye. It's incredible, really
is. And don't need to gotoo into detail about this, but you
know it, I know it.We got to appreciate these guys because snapping
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the fingers, they're gone, andthen we're replacing guys like Tom Brady with
I don't know who. For everyCJ. Stroud, I'll give you a
Mitch Trubisky, a Sam Howell whoall right from the in season tournament and
again, get involved the conversation atFox Pho Gambler. At Fox Pho Gambler,
(08:46):
we'll have picks and roll full breakdownon both of those games last night
takeaways and of course We got thirteenNBA games on the hardwood tonight, including
the seventy six ers in the AtlantaHawks, and it looks like in Beide
will go, but we don't knowjust yet, still dealing with a little
bit of the sickness. Even thoughhe was dealing with the sickness, he
(09:07):
dropped fifty against the Wizards. Hesaid his chest was hurting him, so
who knows. But this is ahome game against Atlantahawks. They're giving eight,
and I think this is a bigspot for the Sixers. I think
that they can go ahead and posta crooked number tonight and come away with
that dub and cover. Of course, thirteen games will break down the full
card. Coming your way up Picksand Roll at four o'clock Special day though
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Today, Special episode for all thingsPGA and Live Golf, Swinging and dig
It Moose Mays Danielle Coming your wayat five pm. Right here on the
Game, we were talking about AramboJohn Rahm signing with the Live Golf Tour
for an undisclosed amount somewhere close tofive hundred, four hundred and fifty million
(09:52):
dollars five hundred euros, whatever itmay be. A piece of this a
piece of that, a deal thathe could not say no to. Right,
That's what it comes down to foryou, and I pretty simple that
type of money. Who cares.At the end of the day, you're
not signing your life way to theLive Tour. There was a crossover already.
(10:13):
You're hoping that those two tours willcome and coexist together. I thought
that was the case, but apparentlythere's a big old hiccup. Who knows.
The question I have though, isthis, well two parts. One
is it's simple for all these golfersthat even think in the back of their
minds that oh, there is aprice tag, there is a number,
(10:33):
Please don't get out of microphone andbeloviate to how about how it's not for
you and you know the three roundsisn't golf and you want to compete against
the best the PGA Tour is like, there's no need for that. If
there is even a sliver of like, hey, if I was off for
five hundred, if you like,again, we know if you're a golfer
on the PGA Tour, you're atop one hundred golfer. In the back
(10:56):
of your mind, if there's aprice tag that Live could come knocking at
your door and offering you and thatnumber. Whether you reach that number or
not, Please don't get on amicrophone bloviating being the gas bag that you
are talking about how it's not foryou, you will never leave. And
the PGA Tour is the best ofthe best, so and so for because
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that's exactly what Rom did last yearand well this year actually when everything was
going on, and understand like,we get it, We're not dumb.
It's a big old price tag,man, go get that money. Nobody's
mad at you. But the frustratingpart is when these guys have been on
record and really flexing about how it'snot for them, when in the back
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of their mind there is a numberand they do accept it, and they
do go over and rom is squareBoom, I'm throwing the dart that hit
him into the bullseye. Second thingis this whole growing the game nonsense,
which is a talking point from LiveTour. You're gonna hear that all over
the place. It's sickening. Stopit. You're not growing the game.
(12:05):
The game's taking a hit. ThePGA Tour is far and away better than
the Lift Tour. I watched afew events from the Lift Tour on the
CW network last year, some ofthose golf courses, I'm not gonna sit
here and say it was a goattrack, but man, not the prettiest
courses as far as rough around theedges. The crowds are about as minimum
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as it gets. And you gotextended family following you around, and that's
it. The PGA Tour is farand away superior to the Lift Tour.
Will it be five years from now, I don't know, But right here,
right now, what I just witnessed, Yes, last year and this
year. Come on, Man,it keeps saying last year, but you
know what I mean last season,which was this year or so, and
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so some of those hey, likeyou just look. It's like, man,
they got groundskeepers on the Oaks courses. There was one in Orlando and
it's probably one of the it's probablya nice course. But I don't know
what's one of the worst courses onthe PGA Tour. I don't know.
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Like they're all beautiful, they're allpristine, they're all just gorgeous. I'm
trying to think of the one inDetroit where they played a Rocket Mortgage Classic.
Right, there's no Burt Edges oryou know rough marks or you know
marks around you know the rough likewhere it looks like like I'm telling you,
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I watched a few rounds on thelib Tour last last season. It
was just like, what is goingon? But the price tag is too
much to turn around? Turned down. It's understood. We're not dummies.
Anyways, I'm not going to talktoo much about that. Swinging and niggall
take it over at five o'clock andhit on all the important pieces. Now.
One of the things that I'm havinga weird time wrapping my head around.
(13:54):
And I texted Patrick McDonald from cbsportsdot com because I was like,
why is is John Rohm breaking thatnews? Look, it was already out
there. He made his first appearancelast night. Now he's done. He
was just on Pat McAfee that tookover the timeline because apparently he was just
very open as McAfee's probably gonna getthe best out of you, Right,
(14:15):
You're gonna relax round mcmcafee. Atthe end of the day, guy's in
a tank top. You know,everybody's doing great. It's a five hundred
million dollar podcast there, which isnow on ESPN but I'm curious why Fox
News. Why did rom break thatto Fox News at eight o'clock last night?
And it took a second and patrimMcDonald's is clearly one hundred percent correct,
(14:39):
and I was just laughing about this. It's the Ausy connection which Greg
Norman and murdochs have relationships. They'reboth assis. But without getting political here,
Fox News to America's network, right, isn't that what they say?
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Isn't that their tagline? Why arelike people that watch Fox News? Are
they cool with this? Because,like I said, you're taking away from
the PGA Tour, which is American. It's the American Tour, it's our
tour, So you're taking away thebest golfers in this country, making our
(15:28):
game worse, and yet you're breakingthat on Foxes. I just I find
that odd. And Fox is allabout it. They're getting the big one.
That's that's fine. That's the informationor the interview that they want to
put out there. And I didn'treally watch it in great detail, so
I don't really you know, shouldhave, I guess if I'm gonna bring
it up here, of course,but I don't think any earth shattering questions
(15:50):
were being asked, It's just oddto me that with that audience, who
is so supportive America, right,that's what they say, We're America's number
one news handle, bah bah bah. But yet this is making our tour
worse. This is promoting stuff fromthe global effort Australia. They're the ones
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put it out there. Just veryodd from the programming standpoint from people that
push the buttons up at Fox.That's all. I just I don't get
that from their perspective. But ifyou want to tie yourself to the Live
Golf tour, to the Saudis,to the people that are making the PGA
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worse off, then all right cool. I just didn't see it from that
perspective. But if you have atake on that, love to hear it
that Fox PHL gambler at Fox PHLgame. I guess it's again it has
nothing to do with Live. Thisis Fox News putting that out there from
their perspective, right, Like Iunderstand why Live would do it. Of
course, you got a lot ofeyeballs. John Ram's doing plenty of interviews
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out there. It's a number onetopic being discussed behind show Heo Todi at
this point in time, anyway,swinging and ding and coming away at five
o'clock. Plenty of PGA tour conversationcoming your way all right now over this
show, Heyo Toadi as he isthe number one story and how about this
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now, I'd love to sit hereand say that I knew how this is
going to work out, but Iwant to pitch something to you right now.
From the gambling standpoint, this isintriguing. So we know that the
offseason is not done just yet.Right hot stove just started. Names are
(17:45):
gonna be moved, players are gonnabe signing, Trades are gonna happen,
and the big fish has got togo first. He's got to set the
market in that show, Hal Todi, I'm sure that there's probably four or
five teams that think they're in themix. I don't know if that's case,
but let's just play with it thatway. So the big one right
now is showy Otani, and Ialways love when I do these live shows.
(18:08):
It's like it could be happening.I'm just gonna hit the refreshing my
timeline here on X and make surethat no we're still on Otani watch.
So here's what I have. ShowHey apparently is going to sign with the
Toronto Blue Jays. That's there's oneunconfirmed report out there. Just listening to
MLB network, come away in oneunconfirmed report out there that he is looking
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at signing with the Toronto Blue Jays, which is great. Now he's going
to be dealing with the rehabbing ofthe arm, all that and more.
We know how amazing show Hay is. It's not even a question on if
he wants to sign with your team, you sign him. But if you're
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honest with yourself and if you're honestwith the odds for next season in the
AL East standings, even if showHay signs with the Toronto Blue Jays,
they're not the favorite to win thatdivision right. That division is slocked.
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It is insane how good this divisionis. And you're gonna add show Hey
to the Knicks and the team thatgets him in the Toronto Blue Jays.
I don't know if they'll be evensecond as far as odds are concerned to
win the AL East wild Now,hear me out, Baltimore Orioles are not
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a fluke. They won one gamespitching yeah, bullpen. Well, they
brought Kimberly in That tells how desperatethey are. We talking about that yesterday.
There's issues there, I get it, But they have some young studs.
They just won one hundred one games. They're the real deal. They're
going to be, in my opinion, favored to win that division, as
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they just won the AL East,I would hope. So now DraftKings doesn't
have the odds up, they'll justhave the futures. And so let's just
take a peek at that. Seewhere the Blue Jays are right now,
because that's all right, league winner? Ha, Wow, that is crazy.
(20:30):
So they are favored. They gotthem the favor to win the AL
at this point in time. See, this is this is the issue though,
right because we know that the publicis going to put that. But
so then that means there's value ontoOrioles. Right now, the Orioles are
nine to one to win the AL. They're behind the Yankees, behind the
Blue Jays. The Rays are elevento one. That's insane to me.
(21:00):
Wow, to win the World Series, you got to brave seven to one
blue Jays seven to one on justthe standpoint of whether or not he will
sign with the Blue Jays. Insaneall right, again, I guess I'm
wrong. They will be favored towin the division, but they're not the
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best team. The Orioles are thebest team. You add show Hey to
that lineup. The Blue Jays arenot the best team. The Rays.
I would still make the case toput the Rays in front of the Blue
Jays. The Yanks. Really theYankees. I know it wasn't a good
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season, but they're adding one Sototo the mix, and if they hang
on the stand, they hang onthe judge. All of those players are
already having their lineup. You're notgonna take the Yankees over the Blue Jays.
Wow, that is insane. Well, I'm glad I stumbled into that.
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You know, hey, look theseare live odds. What are you
gonna do. You're gonna get somethingright, You're gonna get something wrong.
I was dead balls wrong on thatone. Baltimore won one hundred and one
games last year. Tampa Bay ninetynine, Toronto eighty nine, Yankees eighty
two. The Socks. Yeah,nobody cares about the Red Sox. Wow?
What is If you're a Red Soxfan, you gotta be questioning what's
(22:30):
going on with your organization because Idon't see anything different this upcoming season.
Oh, by the way, asI said, everybody else getting better,
Yankees got better, Blue Jay's,if they Lando Tony, I get it,
they're going to be better better,But I'll still take the Ools to
win that division. Well, whenthose odds come out, be really curious
(22:52):
to see what happens, because Iwill be all over again. I think
there's value to be our money tobe made, value on both of those
Orioles in the Rays. But itis exciting. I would love to see
show Hey go to Toronto. There'salready some popping that lineup. They do
need some pitching. He can helpthat out when he comes back. It's
a huge deal. It's a hugegap. It is intriguing. I want
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to hear more of why Toronto peopleare making the case of the rehabbing down
in Florida. They got a greatplace down there. I'm like, dude,
I build a you know, ifI was the Phillies, I'd build
a wing for him. I'll nameit after him if he wants to rehab
whatever he wants. It's shoho Tani. We're at every penny, all right,
Well, you learn something every day, and there it is that the
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Blue Jays will be favored, justfrom the standpoint of all the money coming
in, everybody being about that goodluck on that one. All right,
we gotta hit on Thursday night football, and how everybody was wrong on that
one. We actually had some pointslast night which was I don't know whatever.
That game sucked. It wasn't good, you know, it just it
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wasn't good. Now, the questionthat everybody's asking today is Mike Tomlin,
when's his time up with Pittsburgh.It's a bad loss to New England,
it's a bad loss to the ArizonaCardinals. And the amount of success.
Yes, he's never had a winningseason. It might happen this year,
or he never had a losing season, might happen this year. But since
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that Super Bowl success has not beenthere in the playoffs for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
A lot of the same things thatare being said starting to be a
little bit louder right here, rightnow, were the same things that were
being said about Andy Reid back intwenty twelve, twenty thirteen here in Philadelphia.
Oh, be careful what you wishfor, and everyone, Oh,
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he'll get picked up in a minute, yes, and that's fine. Good
for Mike Tomlin. He's probably earnedanother spot getting picked up by somebody else.
Absolutely, But guess what that doesnot mean, because he's going to
get another job immediately, that youshould not move on. There are a
great young, unbelievable offensive football mindsout there. You want so many defensive
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mind I'm sure there's somebody out therethat can help you in that department as
well. Plenty of great football mindsout there. There are men. I
love Mike Tomlin, but come on, it's not the end of the world
if you have to move on fromMike Tomlin and you're the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Can they draft better? Of course? Can they play better? I got
(25:22):
you. But you know where itstarts. It ends with it's the head
coach and he's been there for along long time. All Right, we're
gonna keep it moving. Coming upon the other side, Sean Bernard,
he's gonna join us. We're gonnatalk a little Heisman, We'll talk about
rom a little bit, get histhoughts on that. Also mix in some
Army Navy conversation as the big onesgoing off tomorrow, like Army a big
(25:44):
deal in that one. I thinkArmy is the one, uh one play
in that game. I know everybodywants to take the under. Knock yourself
out. Last year went to doubleovertime, bad beat took the over,
or it went to the over.I don't really have too much of an
opinion on now. It's such alow number that I think it's in play
to go over no matter what.But I do believe, I really do
believe that that army is the bettersquad here. Just take a look at
(26:04):
some of the numbers, and Ithink they're gonna win by a touchdown or
more tomorrow. So that's my playon that one. We'll discuss that one.
All that and more coming up onthe other side with sham Bnard than
at four o'clock NBA Picks and Rollthirteen games in the Association. We hit
on every one of them, includingtwo gyms absolutely gyms from Player Props Intonight's
(26:26):
game for the Sixers and Hawks,two plus money gyms from sham Minard.
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