November 21, 2025 • 60 mins
Cold streaks make the best audits. We opened the books on a rough run, admitted the dog is beating most of our crew, and then got to the real work: finding small edges with oversized impact. From college hoops pricing to NFL coaching heat, this one moves fast and hits where the lines are soft.
We dig into Purdue’s rank whiplash, Houston’s steady covers, and why neutral-site tournaments twist perception. Then it’s Stay Frosty time: Brian Daboll is out, the Bengals’ defense needs a reset, and Jonathan Gannon lands on the hot seat as Arizona slides. If you bet futures or weekly sides, this is where coaching, context, and personnel combine into a cleaner read.
The NFL landscape is pure chaos: Denver dethrones its boogeyman, Kansas City flirts with desperation, the Colts’ record hides a brutal stretch ahead, and Chicago’s surprising push shakes up the NFC North. We also take a real-world detour through Cincinnati’s sports weekend—from high school playoffs in an NFL stadium to college hoops and MLS—and why venue design and crowd flow can tilt live-betting moments.
Our best value play comes with a simple operational fix: Jaguars -3 at Arizona. Trevor Lawrence finally embraced the play-call wristband, shaving precious seconds, reducing penalties, and boosting tempo. Books price star returns; they’re slower to price process upgrades. Pair that with a Cardinals team underperforming expectations, and the mismatch emerges.
If you’re here for sharp angles without the fluff, you’ll leave with a tighter card, a better read on market narratives, and a lock we’re willing to stamp. Follow and subscribe for weekly edges, share with a friend who needs sharper bets, and drop your take: does the dog get the trophy if he wins?
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SPEAKER_00 (00:03):
Hey everybody, today is Friday, November 21st, and
this is another edition of theSportsbook Sharps.
As always, I am your host Andy,and I am back in the studio.
After taking a week off, I wentand uh visited in Indiana my
mother for her birthday.
I took my brother Matt with me,so we drove over to Indiana, and
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uh guess we should have justbrought the podcast equipment on
the road.
We could have, it's a couplethree-hour road trip.
We could have done a podcast inthe car, but I didn't think
about bringing the equipmentwith me.
And uh that's fine.
We'll take a week off here andthere, and uh we'll come back.
It's not like we're on fire oranything anyway, and you need to
hear my picks.
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Um, I didn't even do the AIgenerated ones.
We got back so late uh that Ididn't even bother doing those
by the time all the locks camein.
So but we'll be back to normalthis week.
Uh we'll have the we had thedogs.
Stanley got his right.
Lady missed hers.
Lady, the cowboys, our cowboys.
How about them cowboys?
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We're playing Monday night, andthe lady went against the
cowboys.
Very rude of her.
She is new to the household.
We got her this June.
Uh, so she obviously doesn'tunderstand that this is a
cowboys house and that sheshould never go against the
family.
Uh it's a good thing I didn'thave to whack her like uh
Michael Corleone.
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But uh yeah, we'll keep her.
Uh we'll have her out thereagain for this Monday.
Big Sunday and Monday games thisweek.
Uh, but let's get into someupdates here.
Let's do a little house cleaninghere.
Gambling update.
Oh, good heavens.
Three and five on the week.
We cannot catch a break.
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We are terrible this year.
We have not had, and I hopeyou're sitting down to hear
this.
We have not had a winning weeksince September 22nd that
weekend.
That was the last winningweekend the gambling group had.
A reminder today is November21st.
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Um, we went 7-1 that week, andwe have been 4 4, or worse,
every single week since UncleJohn and I are tied for first.
We are both 8-4.
We are proudly carrying theentire gambling group.
Uh, we are the only two above500.
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Second place is currentlysitting uh at 6-6.
There's two people at 6-6, andthen everybody else, the other
four, are under 500, with Steve,my cousin Steve, inheriting the
MacDaddy crown for most fatablewith a record of 2 and 8 on the
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year.
Uh, for the whole season, we are44 and 49 44 and 49 on the year.
And if you remember, the entirereason I started these dog picks
when we, you know, had Breezefour years ago, uh, was I I told
some of these people in thegambling group the dog could
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pick better than you.
Okay, so just a reminder uh I ameight and four, Uncle John eight
and four, everybody else six andsix or worse.
Stanley Poochie right now,because he only does the NFL, he
didn't do week one, which wasonly college, so he only does
NFL.
He has picked 11 games, he isseven and four.
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The dog is better at makingpicks than six out of the eight
gambling group people.
And the only reason Uncle Johnand I are better is we've picked
one more game.
We may maybe not.
We have the same number ofmisses, though.
So when Poochie picks thisSunday night football game, he
maybe go to eight and four,maybe tie us, or if if we both
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miss, maybe we'll be eight andfive, and Stanley Poochie will
be leading at eight and four.
I don't know.
I'll have to ask the gamblinggroup if the dog finishes in
first place, does he get thetrophy?
I don't know.
We have a trophy, I'm thecurrent owner of said trophy.
Um, I don't know.
I'll have to get a rulingclarification.
If the dog finishes in firstplace, does he get a trophy?
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So it should be interesting too.
It looks like I'm on pace.
So our tiebreaker, this shouldUncle John and I tie, are the uh
season-long locks.
We've both well, I haven't hitmine yet, but San Francisco very
much looks like they're on paceto hit their season-long lock.
He has already hit his, hepicked like Southwest Missouri
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State or something over fourwins.
I forget what it was, but healready hit his.
I am on pace to hit mine, soit'll be interesting if we both
tie and we both hit the seasonlong lock, it'll have to come
down to a different tiebreaker.
So stay tuned for that.
Uh college basketball update,just a quick one.
We had a little bouncy bouncyaround in the top uh Purdue
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preseason number one.
They have not been doing sogreat.
They've been winning, but theyhaven't been covering the big
spreads that they're getting.
You're you know, some of thesegames are supposed to blow
people out 25-30 points,whatever.
They're not covering the 25-30points, and Houston has been
covering.
Houston has been playing well.
Uh, so about a week ago, weekand a half ago, they they
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flip-flopped them, put Purduetwo, put Houston number one in
college basketball.
Now they've flipped them backagain because uh Purdue had a
big win at Alabama last week.
Uh, I think they were number 12or 15 or something like that.
I can't remember.
They bounced around now thatthey've lost a game, but Purdue
beat them at Alabama last week,so that flip-flopped them back
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around.
And then a big game tonight, theBahamas Championship game,
Purdue at Texas Tech.
Uh, well, at Texas Tech, it's inthe Bahamas.
Uh, but Texas Tech is the hometeam on record here.
Not sure why that is exactly.
But anyway, Purdue, three and ahalf point favorite.
I I like that.
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I Purdue will cover the threeand a half.
Purdue will win this game.
They did not shoot well lastnight, but they Memphis was a
game all they could.
Uh, they fought back.
Memphis was up late.
Um, it was a really good game.
Uh, not if you're a Purdue fan,you were screaming at the TV,
but just not enough uh oomph toput Purdue up.
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You know, I think they were 14.5point favorites.
I think they won by nine oreleven, but they just they let
them hang around too long tobeat them by the 14 uh and a
half.
I think they'll have no problemwith Texas Tech tonight getting
over three and a half.
I do think it will be close.
It's not like I don't thinkPurdue's gonna win by 10, but
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they took care of business.
Alabama was a favorite atAlabama, and Purdue took care of
business and won the gameoutright.
Well, that doesn't sound right.
Is that right?
I'd have to look at the gameagain.
Well, they said Alabama wasnumber eight.
Yeah, Alabama, two and a halfpoint favorite.
I thought, okay, I thought, allright.
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Uh, I guess because it was atAlabama.
I don't know.
Alabama's had some good winsthis year, too.
Remember, I talked about Bama uma couple of weeks ago.
I mentioned how they need to getsome early wins because their
schedule is absolutely brutal.
Um, they did get some of thosewins, so they won at St.
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John's.
Um, I told you to pick them tobeat St.
John's because I thought theycould win.
Um they did not beat Purdue, butthen they beat number eight
Illinois the other day by fourpoints.
And then they have Gonzagacoming up.
So four straight games.
They play five.
Technically, Purdue was two,Illinois is eight, Gonzaga's 13.
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Um, and I think that's one ofthose tournaments, so they
might.
No, that's not a tournament.
What is that then?
I don't know what they'replaying Gonzaga in on Monday.
It's just the it just says it'sa game on TNT.
I'm not really sure.
And then it says they play UNLVon Wednesday, so it must not be
a tournament if they alreadyhave a game on Wednesday
scheduled.
Uh, but then remember, Imentioned they play in December,
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number four Arizona.
Arizona and Gonzaga look reallygood this year.
If Alabama splits that, I mean,that's really good.
Um I look out for Alabama inMarch Madness.
If they if they split or eventake both of those games against
Gonzaga and Arizona, I mean, ifthey take them both, they won't
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be a surprise.
But if they split, they'll be alittle lower seed.
Uh, you should definitely watchout for Bama because they are a
very, very tough school.
Um yeah.
So that's it.
Um, there's not too many goodgames.
Uh BYU and Wisconsin are bothranked.
They play this weekend.
Um, but not too many good ones.
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The the big games are next weekuh during the week of
Thanksgiving.
They have a bunch of thosetournaments, the battle for
Atlantis, all that stuff, ormaybe that's a Christmas.
That might be a I don't know.
There's some tournaments goingon Maui's next week, so maybe
that's the one I'm thinking of.
But yeah, so check it out.
Uh bunch of college footballbasketball coming up.
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Oh, and we got ESPN back.
They finally, uh ESPN andYouTube were like, huh, we
should probably land this littledo-do-do that we have going on
here.
And uh they ended their TIFF.
I have ESPN back, and boy, letme tell you, I I whatever,
college football on Saturdays.
If you're busy, uh if you're notin front of your TV on Saturday,
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whatever, without the ESPN,there's other games on.
There's Big Ten on on Peacock,on NBC, on Fox, there's uh Big
12s on TNT and True TV and allthese other channels.
Like, there's other ways to findthings.
I was hunting around early lastweek without ESPN back, and the
college basketball thing was awasteland.
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There were women's games on FS1and CBS Sports on certain
nights.
Without ESPN and their family ofchannels, you really, really are
missing out on collegebasketball.
As much as I despise ESPN, ifyou want to watch men's college
basketball, you have to haveESPN.
So I am very grateful and happythat they've signed the
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agreement and they are backtogether.
So uh, but yeah, we'll keepdoing more college basketball as
uh we're getting close to thecollege football season winding
down here.
We'll have all the bowl gamescoming up soon and talk about
those on here, but uh yeah.
Um let's update uh Stay Frostyhere.
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While we were off last week,there was some movement in the
NFL.
And uh uh New York Giants headcoach Brian Dayball was fired.
Now, if you've been listening tothis podcast since its
inception, you will know Dayballhad been on Stay Frosty before.
He was on there two seasons agoin season two of the Sportsbook
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Sharps.
Um so this was no surprise.
Uh somebody we had put up awhile ago, I reread his uh
thing, and I mean it was justhilarious reading it back from
two years ago.
He still made some of thosebasic mistakes when he's
coaching.
He he just he doesn't make theright play calls and execute
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well on game day.
It was time for the Giants topart with him.
I think they have two or threewins on the season.
Like, it's it's just it's timeto go.
That the Giants are just apoorly run organization.
They've done this thing wherethey fired the coach and kept
the GM, and then they fired theGM and then kept the coach.
I think that was last year.
They fired their GM and kept DayBull.
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Now they have the new GM and thecoach is fired.
So it's just like sometimes youjust need a clean house, purge
it all, reboot, and just startover.
They're not heading in the rightdirection.
Uh they've had some injuriesthis year, but everybody in the
NFL has injuries.
That's not an excuse.
Um, yeah, I just yeah.
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I also don't understand anupdate that didn't happen.
The Bengals, the CincinnatiBengals, the local team here at
uh Liberty Township.
Uh we're home, uh we're a suburbof Cincinnati here.
Uh, the number one sportsgambling podcast in Liberty
Township, by the way.
Uh I don't understand how theBengals didn't fire at least
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their defensive coordinator orthe head coach.
It just makes no sense.
Their defense is one of theworst, if not the worst,
30-second defense in the league.
They the the NFC North is stillup for grabs.
The Steelers look not so good,even though they're six and
four.
That Aaron Rodgers just doesn'tlook right in that uniform.
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It doesn't, he's not playingwell.
They're not playing well.
Like they are not a very goodteam, even though they're
somehow six and four.
Um the Baltimore Ravens arelooking a little better now that
Lamar's back, but they're stillunder 500 or at 500.
There's room that and the Brownsjust, I think the Browns have
one win.
Like, oof, stinky.
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Um, yeah.
So they stink.
Like they've this is very muchopen for them to grab.
They should have fired thedefensive coordinator.
You could pick anybody off thestreets of Cincinnati in
downtown, and they could be justas efficient.
Um, and if you hired somebodythat has even an iota of
coaching experience at defense,they would be an improvement.
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I mean, it's just embarrassing.
I the guys are laying down onthe field, they're missing every
tackle.
I you know what?
I'll do it on the cheap.
Bring me in, I'll have thoseguys cracking helmets,
practicing tackles.
It would be over.
They would win this weekendagainst Baltimore if I was the
defensive coordinator.
I'll go out there on a limb andsay that.
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Uh, that's how bad he is.
And I have zero coachingexperience.
Uh I've resurrected max schoolson college football.
Uh, so that's my experience isplaying NCAA football and
Madden.
Uh, that's my that's my resume.
I would still be better thantheir defensive coordinator.
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Anyway, back to this week here.
This week on Stay Frosty, I amputting up Arizona Cardinals
head coach Jonathan Gannon up onthe Frosty throne.
The Cardinals are dead last inthe hyper competitive NSC West.
Four games behind third place.
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They are three and seven on theyear.
And while they weren't expectedto make the playoffs, I don't
think anybody preseason waslike, oh, you know what?
My Super Bowl Dark Horse wouldbe is the Arizona Cardinals.
Nobody thought that.
But I think people expected themto win about seven to nine
games.
Like that was the sweet spot.
Go about 500.
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Um, that was kind of theexpectation, maybe even a little
less than that, but they are notgoing to do that at all.
Um, they went eight and ninelast year.
This is a major step back atsitting at three and seven.
Uh Gannon in his three years atArizona, this is his third year,
so not full three years.
15 and 29.
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He was a defensive coordinatorfor only two seasons before
getting the head coach job.
And this is one of those cases,I think, of being promoted way
too early before you're ready.
Some of these guys are in such ahurry anymore in the NFL to
promote the hot coordinator.
Oh, this guy's been good for ayear.
This guy's been good for twoyears.
You know what?
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He was the coordinator on theEagles.
The Eagles have really gooddefensive players.
Like, I'm not trying to belittlehis defensive uh prowess, uh,
his ability to set up and have agood defense, but when you have
really good players, you benefitby looking like a really good
coach.
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Um I mean, yeah, sometimes itjust works out that way.
Like, it's it's I could thinkit's like the Phil Jackson
effect.
Like, who was the better?
Was it Michael Jordan and Phil?
Or was it Phil because Phil thenwent and did it with Shaq and
Kobe?
But Shaq and Kobe are two Hallof Fame players, too.
So like it begs the questionsometimes in sports, is it more
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a product of the coach, or is itmore a product of the players?
And I think with this Gannon, Ithink it's absolutely a product
of the players.
So what'd they do after he left?
They only won a Super Bowl andwent to another one uh since he
departed.
They've been to two Super Bowlsand won one in three years, and
he and he's been over uhflopping around in the desert uh
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for three years.
Uh I put their old coach CliffKingsbury up, who after four
seasons had a better percentage.
So I've had the Cardinals onhere before.
Um, the Cardinals just seem tobe one of those franchises that
is consistently mediocre or bad.
And I don't think Gannon is theguy to course correct that.
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So for that reason, I almostsaid Rich Gannon, Jonathan
Gannon, you need to stay Frosty.
Uh, just another quick update onStave Frosty here.
No new college coaches fired.
I don't know if we'll have anymore before the end of the
season, but uh, we have ourfirst big hire.
Virginia Tech has hired formerPenn State head coach James
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Franklin.
I think this is a great hire.
Uh there's often only one or tworanked teams in the ACC.
Virginia Tech plays in the ACC.
So big game choker JamesFranklin is a great hire for
this mediocre conference.
There's not that many big gamesto lose.
So that's like that's a win-win.
Franklin gets the coach again.
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He gets the coach at a verymid-conference.
Um, and he he there won't be biggames because uh he'll play like
the 20th ranked Louisville or uh5-5 Clemson.
Like, whoo! Uh yeah, so no biggames to choke.
Good job, good hire.
All right, let's do a quickrecap here from previous weeks.
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Uh speaking of the ACC,Louisville, who was ranked
number 20, lost to 5-5 Clemsonlast Friday night, ending any
hope they had at getting intothe ACC championship game.
Now, it was a long shot.
They already had uh a lot twolosses.
Now they have three.
They're seventh in the ACC withthe three losses, and there are
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four teams tied for first withone loss.
There's only one game to go.
Well, two games, I guess, to gofor them, but uh, they can't
make up enough ground.
Um, the ACC currently looks likea one-bid team.
Whoever wins that ACCchampionship, they'll get the
automatic bid, and they'relikely the only team that's
getting into the collegefootball playoff.
We've got to make room, youknow, the SEC's got five in
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right now.
They're trying to talk everybodyinto Texas and squeeze a sixth
team in.
Um, yeah.
So uh let's speaking of the uhhighly overrated SEC, Texas AM,
their number one school, theteam leading it, needed a
miracle second half win to winat home against South Carolina.
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Now, you're probably thinking,South Carolina, I haven't heard
much about them this year.
Are they ranked or something?
Because everything in the SEC isranked.
No! They are not ranked.
Do you know why they're notranked?
Because their record on theseason after this game was 3-7.
Typically, 3-7 teams don't getranked.
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Typically, one of the greatestteams to ever take the field,
Texas AM, should have blown outa 3-7 team at home.
But no.
In this game, Texas AM, one ofthe greatest teams ever
assembled, probably one of thegreatest teams in SEC history,
as the Twitter people like togo.
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They were down 30-3 at halftime.
Now they did have a great secondhalf.
They shut South Carolina out inthe second half.
They won the game 31 to 30.
But did you hear anybody talkthis week?
Think back to all thediscussion, college football
discussion.
Did anybody really talk abouthow bad of a win that was?
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No.
No.
Anytime a non-SEC school doesexactly what they did, barely
winning a game, or being down 30to 3 at halftime, or and only
winning against a three-win teamby one point, uh, the conference
is weak.
The discussion is always, oh,this conference is so bad.
The conference is weak.
Even their top teams can't beatthe bad teams.
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But if it's an SEC school down27 to a three-win team at home,
it's no big deal.
We're just the business, we'lljust move on.
We aren't even going to talkabout it.
This just strengths.
This just speaks to the strengthof the SEC, blah, blah, blah.
That's what they say on TV.
I am so sick of college footballand their SEC bias.
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It's ruining everything.
They everybody's ranked in theSEC in the top eight.
Uh, and then they beat up oneach other, and then they talk
about how tough they are.
Well, if they were so tough, whydid Tennessee get shellaced last
year when they played Ohio Stateso tough?
Huh?
Why did they lose some of theirnon-conference games before
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their conference started, huh?
I yeah, just get out of herewith this SEC strength nonsense.
They can't pay the playersanymore on their own.
They don't have the advantagelike they used to in the 2000s
when they were making paymentsunder the table.
So uh speaking of uh strength inthe SEC, I guess they'll call
this.
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Uh Oklahoma upsets Alabama23-21.
And the college football playoffdid drop Bama some in their
ranking.
They'll still be in theplayoffs, but they're they did
take a hit in their positioningon it.
But uh yeah, that was a that waskind of a shocking loss the
other day.
And then uh speaking of, I toldyou they want to still try to
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get Texas in there.
Uh Georgia 35, Texas 10.
Uh, I think Arch Manning stinks,right?
Like that's the consensus afterthis season that is almost over
here.
Uh Texas is not back, and ArchManning stinks.
Uh, there's a reason he rode thepine all last year.
He he's he's not very good.
He stinks.
Uh, can we be done with Texasnow?
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They dropped to 17th in thecollege football playoff
ranking.
They have three losses.
They aren't very good.
They have like no signaturewins.
I think maybe one signature win.
But uh my they don't pass myeyeball test.
Like, if I'm watching them andthey just got drummed by Georgia
and they lost to Ohio State,like, okay, so we put them in
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there, we put them in as thesixth team from the SEC in the
college football playoff,they're gonna lose.
What's the point of putting ateam in we know is going to lose
that has no shot at winning?
They've lost to Georgia, they'velost to Bama.
Uh, they did beat Oklahoma, Iguess that's their signature
win.
Um, so if they get matched up, Iguess, against Oklahoma in the
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playoffs, they could maybe beatthem again.
I don't know if they would beatthem again if they played a
second time.
They're not a top 12 team.
They don't deserve to be in.
Speaking of teams from the SEC,Ole Miss.
Gotta talk about them.
Interesting week.
Allegedly, this is what therumors are on the interwebs.
They gave head coach Lane Kiffinan ultimatum.
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Agree to stay here before theEgg Bowl is played next week, or
else.
Allegedly, the you know, this Iwill say one thing about the
college football that's in thepositive.
They have the best detectives inall the land.
The people doing the flighttracker, tracking analysis, and
all that stuff, it's incredible.
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They know where every planeflies during football season and
you know, before footballseason, at the end of football
season, when coaches are goingaround talking to teams.
Somebody reported that there waslike a private plane that went
from Oxford to Baton Rouge, andthen it also went over to
Florida and back or something,and his family was on there, and
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he there was somebody that wascamping out in Gainesville at
the Florida airport or somethingthat was taking pictures at the
airport, and apparently therewas even a rumor that Lane
Kiffin was wearing a disguise.
I kid you not, I do love thatabout college football and the
SEC in particular.
Incredible that somebody's justcamping out taking photos or
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whatever.
There was like a grainy photoposted online.
I it may not even bend the rightairport or any, I don't know.
I love to buy into all thatstuff, so I'm buying all in that
it is.
But this is such an odd thing totell the coach, and then it
sounds like the coach's agentflipped it on him and made that
information public.
It just seems really messy thisweek.
Um, but they want Lane to make adecision if he's gonna stay or
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go before the egg bowl, and thenif he's gonna go, they're just
gonna be done with him, I guess.
Um, which is very strange.
They're currently sitting firmlyin the college football playoff,
so it'll be interesting to seeif they kick him out uh or if he
announces that he's going toFlorida or LSU or whatever.
Will they keep him in the top12?
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Will they give him one of thoseat-large bids?
I I don't know.
We've never, I mean, this isonly the second year of the
college football playoff of the12 team expanded one.
We've never had when it was fourteams and stuff that they were
picking, we've never had a coachget pushed out or asked to
leave.
So I don't know.
They may hold this against them.
So I don't know.
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But that's it for the collegefootball update.
Now we're gonna pivot and go tothe NFL.
Pivot! Uh, since I've been offuh a week, I'm just gonna do
kind of a state of the uh unionupdate here for col for NFL.
Um first let me start by sayingthe Denver Broncos, my wife's
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team, had a huge win last weekagainst Kansas City.
Kansas City is their Baba Yeaga,their boogeyman.
Uh uh they defeated theboogeyman.
They are 9-2, and they sit asone of the best teams in the
NFL.
And actually, right now, theyhaven't taken their bye yet.
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They're on bye this week.
They are actually the number oneseed in the AFC, and they would
get the bye.
Now the Colts are 8-2, and theColts have the tiebreaker with
Denver since they won thehead-to-head game.
As my wife will be quick to letyou know, they won the game on a
bonus lever uh bogus leveragecall that gave Indy a second
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chance at a game-winning fieldgoal as time expired.
Uh, my wife loves to remind meof this every single Sunday.
Anytime there's a field goalattempt and somebody puts their
hand down on the defensive line,she'll scream leverage at the
TV.
Uh I think that was in week two.
Not that she's bitter about it.
We're in week 12, and I stillhear that every time there's uh
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NFL football on and there's afield goal attempt.
Leverage! Leverage! That'sleverage! How come they didn't
call leverage?
They called leverage against theBroncos.
The Broncos would only have oneloss if they didn't call that
leverage, um, which she's notwrong.
I they you could call thatleverage thing on anything, but
anyway, I've talked about thaton here before, I think.
Um it's just funny that that uhgets brought up.
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But the Colts, I was looking atit, they have a lot of tough
games left, so she may not needto worry about that loss to the
Colts and the tiebreaker becausethis weekend the Colts are at
the Chiefs, they still have toplay the Texans twice, they play
at the Seahawks, they host the49ers, and they play the Jags
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twice.
Uh there's a world where even ifthey're though they're right now
sitting the Colts at 8-2, youcould be looking at a team that
finishes uh with three or fourmore losses and ends up uh with
you know five, six, sevenlosses, uh, and doesn't even win
the AFC South.
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That's a very real possibilitybecause the Texans are looking
really good right now.
They just beat the Bills.
They murdered Josh Allen.
Um my boy, my poor boy.
Josh Allen, oh, he was gettinghit.
I think he got sacked nine timeslast night, they said on the
broadcast.
He he was getting hit hard.
Um but anyway, uh the Texans,they're looking very good.
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Uh I could see him beating theColts twice.
They seem to the Colts and theTexans, even when Manning was
there, the Texans always gavethem uh some problems and stuff.
So uh also this game thisweekend against the Colts is a
must-win for Kansas City.
Kansas City's currently 5-5, andthey are in ninth place in the
AFC, sitting out of theplayoffs.
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The team that's been to amillion Super Bowls in the last
six seasons is sitting out ofthe playoffs.
What a weird playoff pictureright now.
Kansas City and Baltimore areout, two of the preseason
favorites to win the Super Bowl,and the Jags, or at least get
there from the AFC.
And the Jags, Colts, and NewEngland.
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Huh?
New England?
Yes, are in.
How about New England?
If you haven't been payingattention, Drake may be for
real.
Uh, they have a really easyschedule left, too.
I was looking at the schedule.
Their only tough games left areagainst the Bills and the
Ravens.
And the Bills have looked shaky.
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And the Ravens, I don't knowwhat to make of the Ravens.
Uh, you know, they went so long.
Without Lamar, it's hard to saywhat's going to happen with
them.
But yeah, just a wild uh youknow, New England could end up
with that one spot with theirschedule left because I think
they play like the Jets again.
They I mean, just they have somereally easy games left.
Um then, as far as the NFC goes,I don't think that anybody's
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surprised.
Uh, the defending champs, theEagles, are 8-2 in the one seed.
I mean, I nobody nobody'ssurprised by that.
Uh, as much as I hate it as aCowboys fan, uh, they look like
the team to beat in the toughNFC.
Um, however, I do think it wouldsurprise you if you knew, and
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maybe you do know, maybe you'rea fan of the NFC North and you
know this, but the ChicagoBears, duh Bears, lead the NFC
North and are the current threeseed in the NFC playoffs.
It's just, I I didn't realize, Iguess I just thought Green Bay
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was still ahead of them.
Um, but no, Green Bay is now awild card team, and the Bears,
duh Bears, are leading thedivision.
Unbelievable.
The NFC West also has threeteams in with the Rams, the
Seahawks, and the 49ers.
Surprising preseason favoriteslike Detroit and Washington are
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sitting out of the playoffsright now.
Although Detroit is only onegame back, they still have a
really good shot to get in.
They still have games leftagainst the Bears and the
Packers, so they can they canmake some noise and knock off
one of those two teams and stealtheir spot, or they can still
make some noise.
Washington looks cooked, though.
They are 3-8, they look verybad.
Uh Jaden Daniels is hurt andout.
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I think he's out for the season.
I'm pretty sure he's out for theseason.
Uh, so they're they're done.
It's draft time thinking abouttheir draft positioning.
Um and the NFC West, they stillhave a lot of games against each
other.
I was looking at theirschedules.
So that could shake it up, andmaybe one of those will get
knocked out, and Detroit couldgrab one of those spots.
So there's still opportunitiesuh for shakeups in in all the
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areas, um, but just a wildcurrent state.
So yeah, that's it for updatesfor those.
Um let's do I I have a verybrief uh quick old man yells at
cloud here, and uh it's a localone, so if you're not a local
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person, this doesn't apply.
But uh, for the local listenerout there, I got something to
complain about.
Uh and this is in the newsbecause there's a game there
tonight.
Uh Heritage Bank Arena, alsoknown as US Bank Arena.
It was that for a very longtime.
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I went to many concerts andstuff when it was US Bank Arena,
but it is now called HeritageBank Arena.
But if you Google it and type USBank Arena, it still shows up.
Uh this is a venue that's rightnext to the Red Stadium
downtown.
So if you're if you're lookinguh east to west, it goes
Heritage Bank Arena, RedStadium, those two are almost
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touching.
And then there's the developmentand the banks and the parking
garage and all that stuff there,and then the Bengals Stadium on
the westmost side of all that.
This arena is an absolute dump.
And I'm bringing it up becausethe Louisville and UC basketball
play in it tonight, uh Fridaynight, and it's got a lot of
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people talking online about howbad of a venue it is, how they
picked one of the worst neutralsites they could have possibly
picked, uh, because this arenais an absolute dump.
Um, the number one complaint Ihave about it though, uh, is uh
I was there just this pastweekend.
Uh we went to see the TransSiberian Orchestra.
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Side note on that.
If you've never seen, andthey're coming to the Schuster
Center in Dayton December 6th orsomething like that, check me on
that date.
But if you're in the greaterCincinnati area or in the Dayton
area, this is a must-see show.
If you like Christmas music, ifyou like rock and roll, if you
like fun uh pyrotechnics andlaser lights and scaffolding
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that goes up and down and liftsand just a all-around cool
concert, Transsiberian Orchestrais a must-attend event.
It I've been a few times now.
It never ever leaves youdisappointed.
There, they're so much fun.
The guys up on stage and theladies and the whole band and
the orchestra and everythingjust have so much fun with it
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and everything.
It looks like they really enjoydoing it, and it's just
tremendous.
Uh it's it's just a lot of fun.
I got a lot of pictures andvideos and stuff, and they drop
snow, they drop you know fakesnow, they have flames, the most
flames you'll ever see at aChristmas concert.
It's just it's awesome.
It's a lot of fun.
Anyway, uh that aside, it hadbeen a minute since I'd been
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there.
Uh I think I saw Nate Bargazzithere maybe two years ago.
Maybe four years ago.
It was right after COVID.
It may have been three yearsago, maybe it was in 2022, I
think.
Anyway, maybe 21, 22,post-COVID.
I don't remember if I wore amask or not.
That's not the point.
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The point is, it'd been a fewyears.
I forgot how big of a dump thisplace is.
They only serve RC Cola at thisplace.
I went up, Darby doesn't drink,I got me a beer, got Darby in a
uh, I was like, oh, you got Cokeor Pepsi?
And the guy looks at me andgoes, Oh, we don't have Coke or
Pepsi, we got uh RC Cola andDiet RC Cola.
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And I was confused because Ithought maybe I had stepped in a
time machine accidentally andwas transported back to like
1975.
I who sells RC Cola?
What I there I have family thatare in their 20s that has
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probably never even had an RCCola.
And they're in their 20s.
Like how long ago it blew mymind.
I haven't seen an RC Cola in thewild.
I don't even know.
Do they still sell it?
I meant to check that.
We did I don't think I went toKroger.
I haven't been to Kroger yet.
We're going to Kroger thisweekend.
I'm gonna check if they evencarry RC Cola in a Kroger.
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I don't I it and of course ittasted awful.
Now, I'm not a big Diet sodafan, I'm more of a zero, I'm a
Coke Zero drinker or whatever.
But I don't like Diet Pepsi, Idon't really care for Diet Coke
either.
But it's drinkable.
Uh I tried this Diet R.C.
cola.
I it it is a weird flavor.
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Like, it doesn't taste likePepsi or Coke.
It's its own thing.
It it certainly is its own cola.
Um I couldn't believe it.
But anyway, it's just a dump ofan arena.
Uh the thing should bedemolished.
Years and years ago, they talkedabout demolishing it and they
never did.
I don't know why they haven'tdone it yet.
It's a blight on the entiredowntown area.
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They've built the banks up andmade it beautiful.
There's tons of fun there.
It's a Dora between the twostadiums, the baseball and the
football.
You can walk around.
They have events and stuff therewhen there's games and stuff
that people do and bigtailgating things, and you can
walk right up to a building andthey'll hand you a beer and you
walk around and just sip yourbeer and enjoy that you're out
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in the nice environment when itis that nice time of year.
Bunch of nice restaurants andbars and stuff down there.
They put buildings uh likemixed-use developments where
people live above it and stuffand hang out there, and then you
see this place that's like arelic from the 50s, and it's
terrible.
They they only have a few doorsthat let people in, so it takes
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forever.
We we almost missed.
If they weren't running behind,we would have missed, we would
not have got to our seats intime.
Um, like scanning in, it lookslike the metal detectors are
from 20, 30 years ago.
Uh it just takes forever to getin there, and then when you do
get in there, it's one of thesmallest concourses you'll ever
be on.
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And now, luckily, we went tolike a three in the afternoon
show, so there weren't like alot of people queued up to go to
the bathroom to get drinks,whatever.
So we were able to actuallymaneuver around it pretty well.
Um, now it wasn't sold outeither.
Um, but I've been there before,like I've been to Garth Brooks
concert there.
Like I said, I we went to NateBargazzi, and that was sold out.
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Um, and if the venue is packed,it can take you 20 plus minutes
to get out of your seat, get toa bathroom, or get to a drink
thing, and get back because thelines, like when they built it a
million years ago, they didn'tthink about how lines work and
cue up and stuff.
The bathroom line crosses overthe concessions lines because
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they like face into each other,like the bathroom.
You'll it's like you're lookinginto the arena in the center of
the arena, and the food is onthe outer part of the arena, and
so the two lines mix in andcross over, which then blocks
the entire concourse.
So if people are trying to move,you have two lines that
intersect with each other andcross into each other, going in
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opposite directions.
You have people that don't knowwhere the line begins and ends
trying to line up.
You have people trying to pushtheir way through to get to
their back to their section.
It is a disaster.
It should be raised to theground and never spoken of
again, and they should put in anarena.
The Reds they have one of thebest concourses ever.
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They need to just go next doorto figure it out.
You can the Reds have shiftedwhere they sell a lot of their
beer and stuff, where you canstill look out and see the
field, so you don't miss any ofthe game.
The bathrooms at the Red Stadiumfor the men's room.
I've obviously I've never beenin the women's room.
The men's room, there are 70, 80urinals.
It is like a bunch of toilets,like boom, you were in and out.
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You're never waiting in line.
Such a better experience goingto Reds game versus Heritage
Bank Arena, um, the RC Colathing, just everything about it.
Oh, and then my last piece, andthen I'm done.
This has been a long old manyells at cloud.
I said it was gonna be a shortone.
They have no handrails at U.S.
Bank Arena.
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So we had floor seats, we had towalk all the way down to the
floor, no handrails whatsoever.
So you're just going down thestairs, down past the little
arena thing, onto the floor, nota single handrail in sight.
Uh, so if you have shaky footingor it's super dark because
you're going to a concert and itthey turn the lights off at
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concerts, and so if you getthere late or whatever, you're
on your own.
They don't have lights.
Obviously, they don't havelights on the stairs.
A lot of places uh we went to arock concert at uh Taft Theater
the other day.
They had lights on the stairs.
It's an older theater, butthey've retrofit some lighting
on stairs and stuff so you canmove around and stuff.
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That was much easier to navigateand move.
Now it's a smaller venue.
Anyway, my point is what a dump.
Tear this thing down, buildsomething in its place, get rid
of it, uh, and I will gladlystart going to concerts there.
I avoid going to concerts thereif I can.
Like I we we had talked aboutgoing up to the Schuster Center
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because it's a much nicer placefor Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Um, but yeah, that's uh that'smy old man yells at cloud.
That place is a dump.
Alright, big college games thisweek.
Not too many.
Uh, and the reason there's nottoo many is because it's SEC Bye
Week.
Happy SEC Bye Week to all whocelebrate.
Uh, let me be the first to wishyou a happy SEC Bye Week.
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Um, here's some of the games.
Here's some of the teams and thepoint spread that the best
conference in football, the SEC,is playing this week.
Now keep in mind, this is thesecond to last weekend.
There's only one weekend ofcollege football left.
Cherish it.
Um these are some of the teamsthat the mighty SEC is playing.
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They are playing Samford.
Samford.
54 and a half point spread.
Charlotte, they're playingCharlotte, 43.5 point spread.
Eastern Illinois, 50.5 pointspread.
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The Mighty Mercer, 27.5 spread.
Coastal Carolina, 24.
Western Kentucky, 21.5.
Now, most conferences, they'replaying conference games this
week.
But the SEC always does this theweek before Thanksgiving,
because they only play an eightconference schedule of games
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instead of nine, like everyother conference does.
This is an absolute joke, andthis needs to end.
I cannot believe there are55-point spreads on the board
this weekend for majoruniversities.
Just a disgrace to football.
Uh, we got number 15 USC atnumber seven, Oregon.
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Oregon minus 10.
I love the Ducks here.
I think the Ducks roll.
We got Ducks on the pond.
Uh, they need to win this tostay in the college football
playoff.
If they lose this, they'llprobably push them right out.
Um, they have to win this game.
I think they win it.
I think they cover the 10.
Uh, Oregon's look very good thisyear.
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Number 11, BYU at UC plus twoand a half.
Uh, honestly, not a lot of game,great games this week, but uh
this is one of the closerspreads, so I wanted to talk
about it.
I think BYU covers here.
Uh UC has faltered a little bitthe last couple of weeks.
Um, but really the reason Iwanted to talk about it is to
tie it back to my old man Yellsat Cloud moment.
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Uh, and I already talked aboutthe one game.
Uh Cincinnati's having a bigsports weekend.
We got this game, uh Fox's bignoon kickoff is coming into town
for this game on uh Saturday, sothat's very cool.
They're coming to Cincinnati,not a place they often go to,
but uh number 11 BYUs travel inthere, so they're coming in.
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Uh, so that's cool.
Uh Friday night, we've got theLouisville at UC at Heritage
Bank Arena.
I mentioned that already.
Also, Friday Night Lights, thethe playoffs are going on for a
high school, and they actuallyflexed one of the bigger games
out of the city of Mason andinto Cincinnati at Pacor Arena,
the Bengals Arena.
Um, last I saw they've sold20,000 tickets for this game.
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That's why they moved it.
They moved it out of Mason.
Obviously, Mason's high schoolvenue was not nearly uh 20,000.
I think the Bengals, they'reonly opening the bottom section
of the arena, but I think theysaid they could accommodate
27,000 fans in the bottom partof the arena.
That's very cool that they movedthe game and got it there.
I think that's gonna be awesome.
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Uh it's Elder at St.
Xavier.
Uh, like I said, almost 20,000tickets sold last I saw, and
maybe more walk-ups and stufftonight.
Um, and then Sunday, two bigevents.
We got uh Bengals hosting the9-2 New England Patriots, and
there's a little discussion thatuh a little guy named Joe
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Burroughs has been practicingthis week.
So that could be a huge game ifBurroughs actually back and
plays, and they're they end updefeating the Patriots somehow.
That would be huge forCincinnati.
They really need wins if they'regonna think about the playoffs.
They still have hope, uh, butthey need to not lose again.
Um very slim hopes, but stillhope.
Uh, and then there's a playoffMLS game between FCC and uh
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Miami.
So just a huge weekend uhCincinnati.
Big Cincinnati Sports weekendhere.
So, yeah, that's gonna do it forthe college football look.
Let's do NFL here.
Uh the team's on by, I alreadymentioned the Broncos, but the
Chargers, Commanders, andDolphins are also on by this
week.
Uh, first game I want to talkabout a little bit.
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I just talked about it.
New England at Cincinnati.
Uh, if Joe Burrow plays, I likeCincinnati here, plus six and a
half.
Um if not, then uh I'm not sobig on uh Cincinnati.
The Bengals defense, I've talkedabout it a lot on this podcast.
It's an absolute joke.
It's the worst in the NFL, butit's on a historic level.
I put stats in other podcastepisodes, but they are
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historically one of the worstteams.
Not just the worst this season,but in all of the NFL history,
they're one of the worst.
Uh New England's probably gonnahang 45 on them.
So if they don't have JoeBurrow, I don't really like
their odds here.
Um Pittsburgh at Chicago,Chicago two and a half point
favorite.
Pittsburgh struggled recently.
Rogers, he looks lost, he looksdefeated.
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Uh, but worst of all, he looksangry.
He looks angry all the time.
Uh I would take Chicago here.
They've looked very good.
Caleb Williams doesn't lookterrible this year.
Uh, both teams really need thiswin for the playoffs.
I think Chicago gets it, and Ithink they cover the two and a
half.
It's at home.
I think you bear down.
I think Chicago wins it.
They they have looked very toughthis year.
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Um, like I said, they're they'rewinning their division.
So I think they win this one.
Uh Indy at Kansas City, KansasCity minus three and a half.
Um, I don't really get whyKansas City's favored here.
Some were saying that uh DanielJones, Indiana Jones, has a
little bit of an injury.
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He's a little banged up.
Uh so I guess if he doesn'tplay, three and a half makes
sense, but um I I I don't I'msurprised the Indy's not
favored.
I mean, Indy's, I think they'reeight and two, I said.
Um Kansas City's very mediocrethis year.
They're not, they're ninth inthe AFC.
Um but what's crazy is I I dothink they'll win this game,
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even if Daniel Jones plays.
And I'll tell you why.
Because the history in the lastsix, seven years of Kansas City
is they always win this game.
When their back is against thewall, and you're like, oh,
you're counting them out.
Kansas City isn't the team thatwe thought they would be.
All of a sudden they go on thishuge run.
Like, I could see this being theone, like the Broncos beat them
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last week.
I could see Mahomes gatheringeverybody together and Andy
Reid, and like, oh, nobodybelieves in us, or oh, they
think we're gonna lose.
Oh, oh, we're all uh that's nota very good Mahomes voice.
But anyway, my point is I thinkthat maybe Denver beating them
will be kind of their rallycall, and they're gonna rip off
like six wins in a row.
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So even if Daniel Jones plays, II think Kansas City wins this
one.
It seems to always happen.
I I don't know.
Until it doesn't happen, I'mgonna think that it will happen.
So I'm gonna bet Kansas Cityminus three and a half here.
Um I think they just they get itdone.
They they always do get it done.
As much as people don't want tosee that happen, it happens.
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Uh Tampa Bay at the Rams, Ramsminus six and a half.
Uh, I don't know what to thinkhere.
Uh, probably the Rams, but man,uh if Tampa loses here, that
could tie them up with Carolina.
So they Tampa really needs a winhere.
Um their defense has been shaky,though.
I don't I don't know what'sgoing on with the Buccaneers,
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but uh I I I don't know.
Um it could go.
I think this one, I'm this isgonna be my stay away game
because I don't know who's gonnashow up.
Uh I think the Rams could win bydouble digits.
I think Tampa Bay could win thegame.
Like, I don't know what to dowith this game on the schedule.
Um maybe, maybe I don't know,because the Rams are very good
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on offense.
Like, if they get it going, Imean this could this could
balloon quickly.
You could be sitting there andit could be you know 21 to 3,
and you're sitting there holdinga ticket for Tampa Bay plus six
and a half, and you'll beripping it up at halftime.
Like, I I don't know what totell.
I I don't know what to do onthis game, so uh, this is my
stay away game of the week.
I don't I don't know which teamsare gonna show up.
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I think the Rams they strugglesometimes, but then other times
they win by 20.
I so I don't know.
I think Tampa Bay really needsthis one, so it could be Tampa,
but I'm just gonna stay awayfrom this one.
Um, and then the last game Iwant to talk about, uh Carolina
at San Francisco minus seven.
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Brock is back again.
Uh funny that these four teams,Tampa Bay, Rams, Carolina, and
San Francisco, are playing theSunday night and Monday night
football.
They did a good job with thescheduling on this because they
all four need a win to bestaying in the playoff hunt.
Uh, you know, Rams and San Frana little less than Tampa and
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Carolina.
Uh Tampa and Carolina reallyneed that win to either Tampa to
stay ahead of Carolina orCarolina needs it to get in.
And uh and but San Fran and theRams can't lose too many because
right there is Seattle.
Uh, you know, Seattle, SanFrancisco, and the Rams are all
fighting for their division.
So uh if they want to win theirdivision, they can't lose too
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many games.
So but yeah, uh let's go oversome of the locks this week.
We got uh Greg giving usMissouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
minus seven and a half.
Uh I believe his exact quotewhen he made this pick was
Missouri's beat nobody.
Why are they ranked?
Um yeah, I'll go with that.
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Uh yeah, I agree with that.
I think Oklahoma's a pretty goodteam.
I think they'll cover the sevenand a half here.
I like that lock, Greg.
Uh, Missouri has not beatanybody.
Um, Ethan is giving us an NFLpick this week.
He's given oh, he already, thisis Thursday night football.
He gave us Buffalo minus threeand a half.
I would have said I agreed withthat.
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I made that my pick in my uhwife and I's uh weekly picks
where we pick all the gamesagainst the spread.
I pick Buffalo minus, I got itfor five and a half on the app.
Um, so I didn't even come closeto covering, and and neither did
Ethan.
So the gambling group starts offat 0-1 on the week.
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Uncle Mike's given us uh theColts Chiefs.
He's given us Chiefs minus 3.5.
You know, I talked about itearlier.
That's good luck.
That's uh I think I think thisis that game that Kansas City
wins.
I already talked about it, souh, I'm not gonna belabor it
anymore.
That I like that, Uncle Mike.
Uh Steve giving us Atlanta plusone and a half at New Orleans.
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New Orleans has won like one ortwo games all year.
I I it's at New Orleans, butlike I like Atlanta to win here.
I would take them, I'd take amoney line.
I think Steve gets his third winof the season.
I'm not gonna fade Steve thisweek.
Every week, that's the thingwith Steve this year.
It's never been games that Ilook at and I'm like, oh, that's
a terrible pick.
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Like, why did he pick that?
And I totally disagree with it.
I if I'm looking at this and Iand I did fill it out because I
again I pick my wife and I inher work league thing, we pick
every game against the spreadevery week.
I had Atlanta plus one and ahalf here.
New Orleans stinks.
I I know it's at the dome in NewOrleans, but like they stink.
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I no, I I like Atlanta here.
I yeah, I good good luck, Steve.
I think you get your third win.
We'll get you we'll get youcloser to 500 here.
Uh, and then no locks uh fromUncle John, Matt, or Scott this
week yet.
So uh look for those.
I'll put them on uh TikTok, I'llput them on Twitter, X, whatever
it's called now.
I'll get those out to thepeople.
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Uh when I get them, I'll do thelittle AI picks this week.
But uh but yeah, I got one lockleft, and it's my own lock.
We're down to the end of theshow here, and I'm giving you a
stone cold lead pipe lock of theweek here.
I love this one on the board.
I couldn't grab it fast enoughand bet it.
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Uh Jacksonville minus three atArizona.
The Cactus Wrens are terrible.
I just told you earlier theyshould fire their coach.
I put him up on the FrostyThrone.
3-7 on the year, andJacksonville's coming off their
biggest win in the season, 35-6over the playoff bound LA
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Chargers.
But them being uh coming off ahuge win, uh their team they're
playing being 3-7 and justabsolutely dreadful this year.
That's not why I'm picking this.
I have a legit reason that youshould pick Jacksonville, and I
don't think the sports booksadjusted their formula based on
this.
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This is on an article I read, aninterview with Trevor Lawrence
after the game last week whenthey rolled up the Chargers.
Somebody, a reporter, asked him,What was the difference in this
game?
Why did you guys look so sharptoday?
And he said, I have one word foryou.
Huh?
Now you're sitting there, you'resaying, Well, wristband?
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What how did a wristband 35-6?
How's a wristband?
What?
How's a wristband the key here?
Trevor Lawrence wore a wristbandwith all the plays on his arm.
You've seen it a million times.
You've watched football, you'veseen the quarterbacks always
have these things on.
Trevor Lawrence did not want onethis year, one of those
wristbands.
He went the entire season upuntil last week without the
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wristband on his arm.
And for the first time allseason, they put the wristband
on him and they won by amillion.
In the interview after the game,he said it made play calling
faster and more efficient.
Uh duh.
You think, Trevor?
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There's a reason almost everyquarterback out there wears one,
especially in the NFL, but evenin college, you'll see it.
Turn a game on tonight.
Turn a game on tonight.
The quarterback has one of thosewristbands on.
There's a reason.
The play calls are long as allget out.
This is a sample.
I I brought up a sample.
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This is a play.
Here it is.
This is what so Trevor wassaying, oh, I just I don't want
to have to look at a wristband,just have the coach read this to
me, and then I'll read it backto the team or whatever.
So I have to hear it in my ear,and then I have to read it back
to the huddle.
So this is what they have beendoing, Jacksonville, all season.
So this is a sample play call.
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Green left, twin nasty, Z peelright, past 37, Buster Bluff, X
post, Y bite, kill 53, Titanleft.
Now, you have the advantage ofseeing this on a on a podcast
app or whatever or something.
You can time how long that wasthere.
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That was like five, six secondsto read that all out.
I'm gonna read it again.
I'm gonna read it pretty quicktoo this time.
So so track it here.
This is what the head coachwould read to him, and then he'd
have to read it again.
Green left, twin nasty, Z peelright, pass 37, Buster Bluff, X
post, Y bite, kill 53, Titanleft.
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That is so long.
I I even when I read it fast, itfelt like four four or so
seconds.
And remember, the play clock is40 seconds in the NFL.
The plays over, the whistle'sblown, 40 seconds starts to
tick.
So that's four seconds there.
I'm sure they read it faster.
They're pros.
Uh, but it may take them aminute or two.
Uh maybe they don't read itfaster because they're trying to
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think of all the stuff.
I don't know.
Um, but that's crazy that allthat that includes uh the
formation, green left, twinnasty, the receiver motion, Z
peel right, or I'm sorry, Z peeltight, the protection scheme, 37
Buster Bluff, and the routes forthe specific players.
X post, Y bite, and then thefinal instruction kill 53 Titan
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left.
That's to potentially audibleout of the play.
Uh the reason they wear thosewrist pads is because the coach
replaces that with just anumber.
So instead of reading all that,which I told you took four to
six seconds, the coach says 52.
And then the player lifts thewristband as the coach is saying
that, finds what 52 is, and thenreads that to the huddle real
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quick.
52.
How boom?
Less than half a second, 52,boom.
That's so much faster.
I I can't even imagine with thecrowd being loud and everything.
If he says 52, there's very it'svery unlikely that you won't
hear part of it.
With the crowds and everythingon the road and stuff, I can't
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even imagine trying to listen tofour seconds of them saying that
stuff and then trying to relaythat back with fans screaming
and and the play shaking andstuff.
I I can't believe they thoughtthis was okay to play without
the wristband for 10 weeks.
Just incredibly stupid on theirpart, but they've remedied that.
And he said they're gonna wearthe wristband the rest of the
season.
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Uh yeah, yeah, you should wearthe wristband.
And because of the wristband andgetting the plays in quicker,
they only had one penalty lastweek uh for uh delay a game or
whatever, where they've beenstruggling getting the right
play calls in and running up tothe line with the clock and
stuff.
So for that reason alone, I amgiving you my lock of the week
of Jacksonville minus three.
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They are gonna cover Bigley.
That is my lock of the week.
Thank you all for listening tothe podcast this week.
It's always a lot of fun pullingall this stuff together for all
the listeners out there.
We do have the dog picks coming,they'll be on TikTok for Sunday
night football, Monday nightfootball, big games this week.
Uh, you know, I said Tampa Bayuh Rams might be my stay away
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game, but I don't know, StanleyPoochie's a little hot.
Uh so if whatever Poochie picks,I'll probably bet it.
I usually do.
Uh so that's gonna do it forthis week's show.
At TSS Gambling is where you canfind us on X, formerly Twitter
and TikTok.
Good luck gambling, everybody.
Hey everybody, today is Friday, November 21st, and
this is another edition of theSportsbook Sharps.
As always, I am your host Andy,and I am back in the studio.
After taking a week off, I wentand uh visited in Indiana my
mother for her birthday.
I took my brother Matt with me,so we drove over to Indiana, and
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uh guess we should have justbrought the podcast equipment on
the road.
We could have, it's a couplethree-hour road trip.
We could have done a podcast inthe car, but I didn't think
about bringing the equipmentwith me.
And uh that's fine.
We'll take a week off here andthere, and uh we'll come back.
It's not like we're on fire oranything anyway, and you need to
hear my picks.
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Um, I didn't even do the AIgenerated ones.
We got back so late uh that Ididn't even bother doing those
by the time all the locks camein.
So but we'll be back to normalthis week.
Uh we'll have the we had thedogs.
Stanley got his right.
Lady missed hers.
Lady, the cowboys, our cowboys.
How about them cowboys?
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We're playing Monday night, andthe lady went against the
cowboys.
Very rude of her.
She is new to the household.
We got her this June.
Uh, so she obviously doesn'tunderstand that this is a
cowboys house and that sheshould never go against the
family.
Uh it's a good thing I didn'thave to whack her like uh
Michael Corleone.
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But uh yeah, we'll keep her.
Uh we'll have her out thereagain for this Monday.
Big Sunday and Monday games thisweek.
Uh, but let's get into someupdates here.
Let's do a little house cleaninghere.
Gambling update.
Oh, good heavens.
Three and five on the week.
We cannot catch a break.
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We are terrible this year.
We have not had, and I hopeyou're sitting down to hear
this.
We have not had a winning weeksince September 22nd that
weekend.
That was the last winningweekend the gambling group had.
A reminder today is November21st.
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Um, we went 7-1 that week, andwe have been 4 4, or worse,
every single week since UncleJohn and I are tied for first.
We are both 8-4.
We are proudly carrying theentire gambling group.
Uh, we are the only two above500.
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Second place is currentlysitting uh at 6-6.
There's two people at 6-6, andthen everybody else, the other
four, are under 500, with Steve,my cousin Steve, inheriting the
MacDaddy crown for most fatablewith a record of 2 and 8 on the
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year.
Uh, for the whole season, we are44 and 49 44 and 49 on the year.
And if you remember, the entirereason I started these dog picks
when we, you know, had Breezefour years ago, uh, was I I told
some of these people in thegambling group the dog could
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pick better than you.
Okay, so just a reminder uh I ameight and four, Uncle John eight
and four, everybody else six andsix or worse.
Stanley Poochie right now,because he only does the NFL, he
didn't do week one, which wasonly college, so he only does
NFL.
He has picked 11 games, he isseven and four.
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The dog is better at makingpicks than six out of the eight
gambling group people.
And the only reason Uncle Johnand I are better is we've picked
one more game.
We may maybe not.
We have the same number ofmisses, though.
So when Poochie picks thisSunday night football game, he
maybe go to eight and four,maybe tie us, or if if we both
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miss, maybe we'll be eight andfive, and Stanley Poochie will
be leading at eight and four.
I don't know.
I'll have to ask the gamblinggroup if the dog finishes in
first place, does he get thetrophy?
I don't know.
We have a trophy, I'm thecurrent owner of said trophy.
Um, I don't know.
I'll have to get a rulingclarification.
If the dog finishes in firstplace, does he get a trophy?
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So it should be interesting too.
It looks like I'm on pace.
So our tiebreaker, this shouldUncle John and I tie, are the uh
season-long locks.
We've both well, I haven't hitmine yet, but San Francisco very
much looks like they're on paceto hit their season-long lock.
He has already hit his, hepicked like Southwest Missouri
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State or something over fourwins.
I forget what it was, but healready hit his.
I am on pace to hit mine, soit'll be interesting if we both
tie and we both hit the seasonlong lock, it'll have to come
down to a different tiebreaker.
So stay tuned for that.
Uh college basketball update,just a quick one.
We had a little bouncy bouncyaround in the top uh Purdue
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preseason number one.
They have not been doing sogreat.
They've been winning, but theyhaven't been covering the big
spreads that they're getting.
You're you know, some of thesegames are supposed to blow
people out 25-30 points,whatever.
They're not covering the 25-30points, and Houston has been
covering.
Houston has been playing well.
Uh, so about a week ago, weekand a half ago, they they
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flip-flopped them, put Purduetwo, put Houston number one in
college basketball.
Now they've flipped them backagain because uh Purdue had a
big win at Alabama last week.
Uh, I think they were number 12or 15 or something like that.
I can't remember.
They bounced around now thatthey've lost a game, but Purdue
beat them at Alabama last week,so that flip-flopped them back
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around.
And then a big game tonight, theBahamas Championship game,
Purdue at Texas Tech.
Uh, well, at Texas Tech, it's inthe Bahamas.
Uh, but Texas Tech is the hometeam on record here.
Not sure why that is exactly.
But anyway, Purdue, three and ahalf point favorite.
I I like that.
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I Purdue will cover the threeand a half.
Purdue will win this game.
They did not shoot well lastnight, but they Memphis was a
game all they could.
Uh, they fought back.
Memphis was up late.
Um, it was a really good game.
Uh, not if you're a Purdue fan,you were screaming at the TV,
but just not enough uh oomph toput Purdue up.
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You know, I think they were 14.5point favorites.
I think they won by nine oreleven, but they just they let
them hang around too long tobeat them by the 14 uh and a
half.
I think they'll have no problemwith Texas Tech tonight getting
over three and a half.
I do think it will be close.
It's not like I don't thinkPurdue's gonna win by 10, but
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they took care of business.
Alabama was a favorite atAlabama, and Purdue took care of
business and won the gameoutright.
Well, that doesn't sound right.
Is that right?
I'd have to look at the gameagain.
Well, they said Alabama wasnumber eight.
Yeah, Alabama, two and a halfpoint favorite.
I thought, okay, I thought, allright.
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Uh, I guess because it was atAlabama.
I don't know.
Alabama's had some good winsthis year, too.
Remember, I talked about Bama uma couple of weeks ago.
I mentioned how they need to getsome early wins because their
schedule is absolutely brutal.
Um, they did get some of thosewins, so they won at St.
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John's.
Um, I told you to pick them tobeat St.
John's because I thought theycould win.
Um they did not beat Purdue, butthen they beat number eight
Illinois the other day by fourpoints.
And then they have Gonzagacoming up.
So four straight games.
They play five.
Technically, Purdue was two,Illinois is eight, Gonzaga's 13.
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Um, and I think that's one ofthose tournaments, so they
might.
No, that's not a tournament.
What is that then?
I don't know what they'replaying Gonzaga in on Monday.
It's just the it just says it'sa game on TNT.
I'm not really sure.
And then it says they play UNLVon Wednesday, so it must not be
a tournament if they alreadyhave a game on Wednesday
scheduled.
Uh, but then remember, Imentioned they play in December,
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number four Arizona.
Arizona and Gonzaga look reallygood this year.
If Alabama splits that, I mean,that's really good.
Um I look out for Alabama inMarch Madness.
If they if they split or eventake both of those games against
Gonzaga and Arizona, I mean, ifthey take them both, they won't
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be a surprise.
But if they split, they'll be alittle lower seed.
Uh, you should definitely watchout for Bama because they are a
very, very tough school.
Um yeah.
So that's it.
Um, there's not too many goodgames.
Uh BYU and Wisconsin are bothranked.
They play this weekend.
Um, but not too many good ones.
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The the big games are next weekuh during the week of
Thanksgiving.
They have a bunch of thosetournaments, the battle for
Atlantis, all that stuff, ormaybe that's a Christmas.
That might be a I don't know.
There's some tournaments goingon Maui's next week, so maybe
that's the one I'm thinking of.
But yeah, so check it out.
Uh bunch of college footballbasketball coming up.
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Oh, and we got ESPN back.
They finally, uh ESPN andYouTube were like, huh, we
should probably land this littledo-do-do that we have going on
here.
And uh they ended their TIFF.
I have ESPN back, and boy, letme tell you, I I whatever,
college football on Saturdays.
If you're busy, uh if you're notin front of your TV on Saturday,
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whatever, without the ESPN,there's other games on.
There's Big Ten on on Peacock,on NBC, on Fox, there's uh Big
12s on TNT and True TV and allthese other channels.
Like, there's other ways to findthings.
I was hunting around early lastweek without ESPN back, and the
college basketball thing was awasteland.
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There were women's games on FS1and CBS Sports on certain
nights.
Without ESPN and their family ofchannels, you really, really are
missing out on collegebasketball.
As much as I despise ESPN, ifyou want to watch men's college
basketball, you have to haveESPN.
So I am very grateful and happythat they've signed the
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agreement and they are backtogether.
So uh, but yeah, we'll keepdoing more college basketball as
uh we're getting close to thecollege football season winding
down here.
We'll have all the bowl gamescoming up soon and talk about
those on here, but uh yeah.
Um let's update uh Stay Frostyhere.
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While we were off last week,there was some movement in the
NFL.
And uh uh New York Giants headcoach Brian Dayball was fired.
Now, if you've been listening tothis podcast since its
inception, you will know Dayballhad been on Stay Frosty before.
He was on there two seasons agoin season two of the Sportsbook
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Sharps.
Um so this was no surprise.
Uh somebody we had put up awhile ago, I reread his uh
thing, and I mean it was justhilarious reading it back from
two years ago.
He still made some of thosebasic mistakes when he's
coaching.
He he just he doesn't make theright play calls and execute
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well on game day.
It was time for the Giants topart with him.
I think they have two or threewins on the season.
Like, it's it's just it's timeto go.
That the Giants are just apoorly run organization.
They've done this thing wherethey fired the coach and kept
the GM, and then they fired theGM and then kept the coach.
I think that was last year.
They fired their GM and kept DayBull.
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Now they have the new GM and thecoach is fired.
So it's just like sometimes youjust need a clean house, purge
it all, reboot, and just startover.
They're not heading in the rightdirection.
Uh they've had some injuriesthis year, but everybody in the
NFL has injuries.
That's not an excuse.
Um, yeah, I just yeah.
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I also don't understand anupdate that didn't happen.
The Bengals, the CincinnatiBengals, the local team here at
uh Liberty Township.
Uh we're home, uh we're a suburbof Cincinnati here.
Uh, the number one sportsgambling podcast in Liberty
Township, by the way.
Uh I don't understand how theBengals didn't fire at least
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their defensive coordinator orthe head coach.
It just makes no sense.
Their defense is one of theworst, if not the worst,
30-second defense in the league.
They the the NFC North is stillup for grabs.
The Steelers look not so good,even though they're six and
four.
That Aaron Rodgers just doesn'tlook right in that uniform.
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It doesn't, he's not playingwell.
They're not playing well.
Like they are not a very goodteam, even though they're
somehow six and four.
Um the Baltimore Ravens arelooking a little better now that
Lamar's back, but they're stillunder 500 or at 500.
There's room that and the Brownsjust, I think the Browns have
one win.
Like, oof, stinky.
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Um, yeah.
So they stink.
Like they've this is very muchopen for them to grab.
They should have fired thedefensive coordinator.
You could pick anybody off thestreets of Cincinnati in
downtown, and they could be justas efficient.
Um, and if you hired somebodythat has even an iota of
coaching experience at defense,they would be an improvement.
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I mean, it's just embarrassing.
I the guys are laying down onthe field, they're missing every
tackle.
I you know what?
I'll do it on the cheap.
Bring me in, I'll have thoseguys cracking helmets,
practicing tackles.
It would be over.
They would win this weekendagainst Baltimore if I was the
defensive coordinator.
I'll go out there on a limb andsay that.
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Uh, that's how bad he is.
And I have zero coachingexperience.
Uh I've resurrected max schoolson college football.
Uh, so that's my experience isplaying NCAA football and
Madden.
Uh, that's my that's my resume.
I would still be better thantheir defensive coordinator.
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Anyway, back to this week here.
This week on Stay Frosty, I amputting up Arizona Cardinals
head coach Jonathan Gannon up onthe Frosty throne.
The Cardinals are dead last inthe hyper competitive NSC West.
Four games behind third place.
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They are three and seven on theyear.
And while they weren't expectedto make the playoffs, I don't
think anybody preseason waslike, oh, you know what?
My Super Bowl Dark Horse wouldbe is the Arizona Cardinals.
Nobody thought that.
But I think people expected themto win about seven to nine
games.
Like that was the sweet spot.
Go about 500.
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Um, that was kind of theexpectation, maybe even a little
less than that, but they are notgoing to do that at all.
Um, they went eight and ninelast year.
This is a major step back atsitting at three and seven.
Uh Gannon in his three years atArizona, this is his third year,
so not full three years.
15 and 29.
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He was a defensive coordinatorfor only two seasons before
getting the head coach job.
And this is one of those cases,I think, of being promoted way
too early before you're ready.
Some of these guys are in such ahurry anymore in the NFL to
promote the hot coordinator.
Oh, this guy's been good for ayear.
This guy's been good for twoyears.
You know what?
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He was the coordinator on theEagles.
The Eagles have really gooddefensive players.
Like, I'm not trying to belittlehis defensive uh prowess, uh,
his ability to set up and have agood defense, but when you have
really good players, you benefitby looking like a really good
coach.
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Um I mean, yeah, sometimes itjust works out that way.
Like, it's it's I could thinkit's like the Phil Jackson
effect.
Like, who was the better?
Was it Michael Jordan and Phil?
Or was it Phil because Phil thenwent and did it with Shaq and
Kobe?
But Shaq and Kobe are two Hallof Fame players, too.
So like it begs the questionsometimes in sports, is it more
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a product of the coach, or is itmore a product of the players?
And I think with this Gannon, Ithink it's absolutely a product
of the players.
So what'd they do after he left?
They only won a Super Bowl andwent to another one uh since he
departed.
They've been to two Super Bowlsand won one in three years, and
he and he's been over uhflopping around in the desert uh
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for three years.
Uh I put their old coach CliffKingsbury up, who after four
seasons had a better percentage.
So I've had the Cardinals onhere before.
Um, the Cardinals just seem tobe one of those franchises that
is consistently mediocre or bad.
And I don't think Gannon is theguy to course correct that.
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So for that reason, I almostsaid Rich Gannon, Jonathan
Gannon, you need to stay Frosty.
Uh, just another quick update onStave Frosty here.
No new college coaches fired.
I don't know if we'll have anymore before the end of the
season, but uh, we have ourfirst big hire.
Virginia Tech has hired formerPenn State head coach James
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Franklin.
I think this is a great hire.
Uh there's often only one or tworanked teams in the ACC.
Virginia Tech plays in the ACC.
So big game choker JamesFranklin is a great hire for
this mediocre conference.
There's not that many big gamesto lose.
So that's like that's a win-win.
Franklin gets the coach again.
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He gets the coach at a verymid-conference.
Um, and he he there won't be biggames because uh he'll play like
the 20th ranked Louisville or uh5-5 Clemson.
Like, whoo! Uh yeah, so no biggames to choke.
Good job, good hire.
All right, let's do a quickrecap here from previous weeks.
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Uh speaking of the ACC,Louisville, who was ranked
number 20, lost to 5-5 Clemsonlast Friday night, ending any
hope they had at getting intothe ACC championship game.
Now, it was a long shot.
They already had uh a lot twolosses.
Now they have three.
They're seventh in the ACC withthe three losses, and there are
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four teams tied for first withone loss.
There's only one game to go.
Well, two games, I guess, to gofor them, but uh, they can't
make up enough ground.
Um, the ACC currently looks likea one-bid team.
Whoever wins that ACCchampionship, they'll get the
automatic bid, and they'relikely the only team that's
getting into the collegefootball playoff.
We've got to make room, youknow, the SEC's got five in
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right now.
They're trying to talk everybodyinto Texas and squeeze a sixth
team in.
Um, yeah.
So uh let's speaking of the uhhighly overrated SEC, Texas AM,
their number one school, theteam leading it, needed a
miracle second half win to winat home against South Carolina.
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Now, you're probably thinking,South Carolina, I haven't heard
much about them this year.
Are they ranked or something?
Because everything in the SEC isranked.
No! They are not ranked.
Do you know why they're notranked?
Because their record on theseason after this game was 3-7.
Typically, 3-7 teams don't getranked.
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Typically, one of the greatestteams to ever take the field,
Texas AM, should have blown outa 3-7 team at home.
But no.
In this game, Texas AM, one ofthe greatest teams ever
assembled, probably one of thegreatest teams in SEC history,
as the Twitter people like togo.
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They were down 30-3 at halftime.
Now they did have a great secondhalf.
They shut South Carolina out inthe second half.
They won the game 31 to 30.
But did you hear anybody talkthis week?
Think back to all thediscussion, college football
discussion.
Did anybody really talk abouthow bad of a win that was?
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No.
No.
Anytime a non-SEC school doesexactly what they did, barely
winning a game, or being down 30to 3 at halftime, or and only
winning against a three-win teamby one point, uh, the conference
is weak.
The discussion is always, oh,this conference is so bad.
The conference is weak.
Even their top teams can't beatthe bad teams.
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But if it's an SEC school down27 to a three-win team at home,
it's no big deal.
We're just the business, we'lljust move on.
We aren't even going to talkabout it.
This just strengths.
This just speaks to the strengthof the SEC, blah, blah, blah.
That's what they say on TV.
I am so sick of college footballand their SEC bias.
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It's ruining everything.
They everybody's ranked in theSEC in the top eight.
Uh, and then they beat up oneach other, and then they talk
about how tough they are.
Well, if they were so tough, whydid Tennessee get shellaced last
year when they played Ohio Stateso tough?
Huh?
Why did they lose some of theirnon-conference games before
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their conference started, huh?
I yeah, just get out of herewith this SEC strength nonsense.
They can't pay the playersanymore on their own.
They don't have the advantagelike they used to in the 2000s
when they were making paymentsunder the table.
So uh speaking of uh strength inthe SEC, I guess they'll call
this.
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Uh Oklahoma upsets Alabama23-21.
And the college football playoffdid drop Bama some in their
ranking.
They'll still be in theplayoffs, but they're they did
take a hit in their positioningon it.
But uh yeah, that was a that waskind of a shocking loss the
other day.
And then uh speaking of, I toldyou they want to still try to
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get Texas in there.
Uh Georgia 35, Texas 10.
Uh, I think Arch Manning stinks,right?
Like that's the consensus afterthis season that is almost over
here.
Uh Texas is not back, and ArchManning stinks.
Uh, there's a reason he rode thepine all last year.
He he's he's not very good.
He stinks.
Uh, can we be done with Texasnow?
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They dropped to 17th in thecollege football playoff
ranking.
They have three losses.
They aren't very good.
They have like no signaturewins.
I think maybe one signature win.
But uh my they don't pass myeyeball test.
Like, if I'm watching them andthey just got drummed by Georgia
and they lost to Ohio State,like, okay, so we put them in
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there, we put them in as thesixth team from the SEC in the
college football playoff,they're gonna lose.
What's the point of putting ateam in we know is going to lose
that has no shot at winning?
They've lost to Georgia, they'velost to Bama.
Uh, they did beat Oklahoma, Iguess that's their signature
win.
Um, so if they get matched up, Iguess, against Oklahoma in the
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playoffs, they could maybe beatthem again.
I don't know if they would beatthem again if they played a
second time.
They're not a top 12 team.
They don't deserve to be in.
Speaking of teams from the SEC,Ole Miss.
Gotta talk about them.
Interesting week.
Allegedly, this is what therumors are on the interwebs.
They gave head coach Lane Kiffinan ultimatum.
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Agree to stay here before theEgg Bowl is played next week, or
else.
Allegedly, the you know, this Iwill say one thing about the
college football that's in thepositive.
They have the best detectives inall the land.
The people doing the flighttracker, tracking analysis, and
all that stuff, it's incredible.
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They know where every planeflies during football season and
you know, before footballseason, at the end of football
season, when coaches are goingaround talking to teams.
Somebody reported that there waslike a private plane that went
from Oxford to Baton Rouge, andthen it also went over to
Florida and back or something,and his family was on there, and
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he there was somebody that wascamping out in Gainesville at
the Florida airport or somethingthat was taking pictures at the
airport, and apparently therewas even a rumor that Lane
Kiffin was wearing a disguise.
I kid you not, I do love thatabout college football and the
SEC in particular.
Incredible that somebody's justcamping out taking photos or
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whatever.
There was like a grainy photoposted online.
I it may not even bend the rightairport or any, I don't know.
I love to buy into all thatstuff, so I'm buying all in that
it is.
But this is such an odd thing totell the coach, and then it
sounds like the coach's agentflipped it on him and made that
information public.
It just seems really messy thisweek.
Um, but they want Lane to make adecision if he's gonna stay or
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go before the egg bowl, and thenif he's gonna go, they're just
gonna be done with him, I guess.
Um, which is very strange.
They're currently sitting firmlyin the college football playoff,
so it'll be interesting to seeif they kick him out uh or if he
announces that he's going toFlorida or LSU or whatever.
Will they keep him in the top12?
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Will they give him one of thoseat-large bids?
I I don't know.
We've never, I mean, this isonly the second year of the
college football playoff of the12 team expanded one.
We've never had when it was fourteams and stuff that they were
picking, we've never had a coachget pushed out or asked to
leave.
So I don't know.
They may hold this against them.
So I don't know.
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But that's it for the collegefootball update.
Now we're gonna pivot and go tothe NFL.
Pivot! Uh, since I've been offuh a week, I'm just gonna do
kind of a state of the uh unionupdate here for col for NFL.
Um first let me start by sayingthe Denver Broncos, my wife's
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team, had a huge win last weekagainst Kansas City.
Kansas City is their Baba Yeaga,their boogeyman.
Uh uh they defeated theboogeyman.
They are 9-2, and they sit asone of the best teams in the
NFL.
And actually, right now, theyhaven't taken their bye yet.
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They're on bye this week.
They are actually the number oneseed in the AFC, and they would
get the bye.
Now the Colts are 8-2, and theColts have the tiebreaker with
Denver since they won thehead-to-head game.
As my wife will be quick to letyou know, they won the game on a
bonus lever uh bogus leveragecall that gave Indy a second
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chance at a game-winning fieldgoal as time expired.
Uh, my wife loves to remind meof this every single Sunday.
Anytime there's a field goalattempt and somebody puts their
hand down on the defensive line,she'll scream leverage at the
TV.
Uh I think that was in week two.
Not that she's bitter about it.
We're in week 12, and I stillhear that every time there's uh
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NFL football on and there's afield goal attempt.
Leverage! Leverage! That'sleverage! How come they didn't
call leverage?
They called leverage against theBroncos.
The Broncos would only have oneloss if they didn't call that
leverage, um, which she's notwrong.
I they you could call thatleverage thing on anything, but
anyway, I've talked about thaton here before, I think.
Um it's just funny that that uhgets brought up.
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But the Colts, I was looking atit, they have a lot of tough
games left, so she may not needto worry about that loss to the
Colts and the tiebreaker becausethis weekend the Colts are at
the Chiefs, they still have toplay the Texans twice, they play
at the Seahawks, they host the49ers, and they play the Jags
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twice.
Uh there's a world where even ifthey're though they're right now
sitting the Colts at 8-2, youcould be looking at a team that
finishes uh with three or fourmore losses and ends up uh with
you know five, six, sevenlosses, uh, and doesn't even win
the AFC South.
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That's a very real possibilitybecause the Texans are looking
really good right now.
They just beat the Bills.
They murdered Josh Allen.
Um my boy, my poor boy.
Josh Allen, oh, he was gettinghit.
I think he got sacked nine timeslast night, they said on the
broadcast.
He he was getting hit hard.
Um but anyway, uh the Texans,they're looking very good.
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Uh I could see him beating theColts twice.
They seem to the Colts and theTexans, even when Manning was
there, the Texans always gavethem uh some problems and stuff.
So uh also this game thisweekend against the Colts is a
must-win for Kansas City.
Kansas City's currently 5-5, andthey are in ninth place in the
AFC, sitting out of theplayoffs.
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The team that's been to amillion Super Bowls in the last
six seasons is sitting out ofthe playoffs.
What a weird playoff pictureright now.
Kansas City and Baltimore areout, two of the preseason
favorites to win the Super Bowl,and the Jags, or at least get
there from the AFC.
And the Jags, Colts, and NewEngland.
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Huh?
New England?
Yes, are in.
How about New England?
If you haven't been payingattention, Drake may be for
real.
Uh, they have a really easyschedule left, too.
I was looking at the schedule.
Their only tough games left areagainst the Bills and the
Ravens.
And the Bills have looked shaky.
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And the Ravens, I don't knowwhat to make of the Ravens.
Uh, you know, they went so long.
Without Lamar, it's hard to saywhat's going to happen with
them.
But yeah, just a wild uh youknow, New England could end up
with that one spot with theirschedule left because I think
they play like the Jets again.
They I mean, just they have somereally easy games left.
Um then, as far as the NFC goes,I don't think that anybody's
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surprised.
Uh, the defending champs, theEagles, are 8-2 in the one seed.
I mean, I nobody nobody'ssurprised by that.
Uh, as much as I hate it as aCowboys fan, uh, they look like
the team to beat in the toughNFC.
Um, however, I do think it wouldsurprise you if you knew, and
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maybe you do know, maybe you'rea fan of the NFC North and you
know this, but the ChicagoBears, duh Bears, lead the NFC
North and are the current threeseed in the NFC playoffs.
It's just, I I didn't realize, Iguess I just thought Green Bay
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was still ahead of them.
Um, but no, Green Bay is now awild card team, and the Bears,
duh Bears, are leading thedivision.
Unbelievable.
The NFC West also has threeteams in with the Rams, the
Seahawks, and the 49ers.
Surprising preseason favoriteslike Detroit and Washington are
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sitting out of the playoffsright now.
Although Detroit is only onegame back, they still have a
really good shot to get in.
They still have games leftagainst the Bears and the
Packers, so they can they canmake some noise and knock off
one of those two teams and stealtheir spot, or they can still
make some noise.
Washington looks cooked, though.
They are 3-8, they look verybad.
Uh Jaden Daniels is hurt andout.
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I think he's out for the season.
I'm pretty sure he's out for theseason.
Uh, so they're they're done.
It's draft time thinking abouttheir draft positioning.
Um and the NFC West, they stillhave a lot of games against each
other.
I was looking at theirschedules.
So that could shake it up, andmaybe one of those will get
knocked out, and Detroit couldgrab one of those spots.
So there's still opportunitiesuh for shakeups in in all the
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areas, um, but just a wildcurrent state.
So yeah, that's it for updatesfor those.
Um let's do I I have a verybrief uh quick old man yells at
cloud here, and uh it's a localone, so if you're not a local
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person, this doesn't apply.
But uh, for the local listenerout there, I got something to
complain about.
Uh and this is in the newsbecause there's a game there
tonight.
Uh Heritage Bank Arena, alsoknown as US Bank Arena.
It was that for a very longtime.
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I went to many concerts andstuff when it was US Bank Arena,
but it is now called HeritageBank Arena.
But if you Google it and type USBank Arena, it still shows up.
Uh this is a venue that's rightnext to the Red Stadium
downtown.
So if you're if you're lookinguh east to west, it goes
Heritage Bank Arena, RedStadium, those two are almost
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touching.
And then there's the developmentand the banks and the parking
garage and all that stuff there,and then the Bengals Stadium on
the westmost side of all that.
This arena is an absolute dump.
And I'm bringing it up becausethe Louisville and UC basketball
play in it tonight, uh Fridaynight, and it's got a lot of
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people talking online about howbad of a venue it is, how they
picked one of the worst neutralsites they could have possibly
picked, uh, because this arenais an absolute dump.
Um, the number one complaint Ihave about it though, uh, is uh
I was there just this pastweekend.
Uh we went to see the TransSiberian Orchestra.
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Side note on that.
If you've never seen, andthey're coming to the Schuster
Center in Dayton December 6th orsomething like that, check me on
that date.
But if you're in the greaterCincinnati area or in the Dayton
area, this is a must-see show.
If you like Christmas music, ifyou like rock and roll, if you
like fun uh pyrotechnics andlaser lights and scaffolding
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that goes up and down and liftsand just a all-around cool
concert, Transsiberian Orchestrais a must-attend event.
It I've been a few times now.
It never ever leaves youdisappointed.
There, they're so much fun.
The guys up on stage and theladies and the whole band and
the orchestra and everythingjust have so much fun with it
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and everything.
It looks like they really enjoydoing it, and it's just
tremendous.
Uh it's it's just a lot of fun.
I got a lot of pictures andvideos and stuff, and they drop
snow, they drop you know fakesnow, they have flames, the most
flames you'll ever see at aChristmas concert.
It's just it's awesome.
It's a lot of fun.
Anyway, uh that aside, it hadbeen a minute since I'd been
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there.
Uh I think I saw Nate Bargazzithere maybe two years ago.
Maybe four years ago.
It was right after COVID.
It may have been three yearsago, maybe it was in 2022, I
think.
Anyway, maybe 21, 22,post-COVID.
I don't remember if I wore amask or not.
That's not the point.
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The point is, it'd been a fewyears.
I forgot how big of a dump thisplace is.
They only serve RC Cola at thisplace.
I went up, Darby doesn't drink,I got me a beer, got Darby in a
uh, I was like, oh, you got Cokeor Pepsi?
And the guy looks at me andgoes, Oh, we don't have Coke or
Pepsi, we got uh RC Cola andDiet RC Cola.
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And I was confused because Ithought maybe I had stepped in a
time machine accidentally andwas transported back to like
1975.
I who sells RC Cola?
What I there I have family thatare in their 20s that has
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probably never even had an RCCola.
And they're in their 20s.
Like how long ago it blew mymind.
I haven't seen an RC Cola in thewild.
I don't even know.
Do they still sell it?
I meant to check that.
We did I don't think I went toKroger.
I haven't been to Kroger yet.
We're going to Kroger thisweekend.
I'm gonna check if they evencarry RC Cola in a Kroger.
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I don't I it and of course ittasted awful.
Now, I'm not a big Diet sodafan, I'm more of a zero, I'm a
Coke Zero drinker or whatever.
But I don't like Diet Pepsi, Idon't really care for Diet Coke
either.
But it's drinkable.
Uh I tried this Diet R.C.
cola.
I it it is a weird flavor.
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Like, it doesn't taste likePepsi or Coke.
It's its own thing.
It it certainly is its own cola.
Um I couldn't believe it.
But anyway, it's just a dump ofan arena.
Uh the thing should bedemolished.
Years and years ago, they talkedabout demolishing it and they
never did.
I don't know why they haven'tdone it yet.
It's a blight on the entiredowntown area.
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They've built the banks up andmade it beautiful.
There's tons of fun there.
It's a Dora between the twostadiums, the baseball and the
football.
You can walk around.
They have events and stuff therewhen there's games and stuff
that people do and bigtailgating things, and you can
walk right up to a building andthey'll hand you a beer and you
walk around and just sip yourbeer and enjoy that you're out
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in the nice environment when itis that nice time of year.
Bunch of nice restaurants andbars and stuff down there.
They put buildings uh likemixed-use developments where
people live above it and stuffand hang out there, and then you
see this place that's like arelic from the 50s, and it's
terrible.
They they only have a few doorsthat let people in, so it takes
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forever.
We we almost missed.
If they weren't running behind,we would have missed, we would
not have got to our seats intime.
Um, like scanning in, it lookslike the metal detectors are
from 20, 30 years ago.
Uh it just takes forever to getin there, and then when you do
get in there, it's one of thesmallest concourses you'll ever
be on.
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And now, luckily, we went tolike a three in the afternoon
show, so there weren't like alot of people queued up to go to
the bathroom to get drinks,whatever.
So we were able to actuallymaneuver around it pretty well.
Um, now it wasn't sold outeither.
Um, but I've been there before,like I've been to Garth Brooks
concert there.
Like I said, I we went to NateBargazzi, and that was sold out.
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Um, and if the venue is packed,it can take you 20 plus minutes
to get out of your seat, get toa bathroom, or get to a drink
thing, and get back because thelines, like when they built it a
million years ago, they didn'tthink about how lines work and
cue up and stuff.
The bathroom line crosses overthe concessions lines because
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they like face into each other,like the bathroom.
You'll it's like you're lookinginto the arena in the center of
the arena, and the food is onthe outer part of the arena, and
so the two lines mix in andcross over, which then blocks
the entire concourse.
So if people are trying to move,you have two lines that
intersect with each other andcross into each other, going in
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opposite directions.
You have people that don't knowwhere the line begins and ends
trying to line up.
You have people trying to pushtheir way through to get to
their back to their section.
It is a disaster.
It should be raised to theground and never spoken of
again, and they should put in anarena.
The Reds they have one of thebest concourses ever.
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They need to just go next doorto figure it out.
You can the Reds have shiftedwhere they sell a lot of their
beer and stuff, where you canstill look out and see the
field, so you don't miss any ofthe game.
The bathrooms at the Red Stadiumfor the men's room.
I've obviously I've never beenin the women's room.
The men's room, there are 70, 80urinals.
It is like a bunch of toilets,like boom, you were in and out.
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You're never waiting in line.
Such a better experience goingto Reds game versus Heritage
Bank Arena, um, the RC Colathing, just everything about it.
Oh, and then my last piece, andthen I'm done.
This has been a long old manyells at cloud.
I said it was gonna be a shortone.
They have no handrails at U.S.
Bank Arena.
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So we had floor seats, we had towalk all the way down to the
floor, no handrails whatsoever.
So you're just going down thestairs, down past the little
arena thing, onto the floor, nota single handrail in sight.
Uh, so if you have shaky footingor it's super dark because
you're going to a concert and itthey turn the lights off at
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concerts, and so if you getthere late or whatever, you're
on your own.
They don't have lights.
Obviously, they don't havelights on the stairs.
A lot of places uh we went to arock concert at uh Taft Theater
the other day.
They had lights on the stairs.
It's an older theater, butthey've retrofit some lighting
on stairs and stuff so you canmove around and stuff.
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That was much easier to navigateand move.
Now it's a smaller venue.
Anyway, my point is what a dump.
Tear this thing down, buildsomething in its place, get rid
of it, uh, and I will gladlystart going to concerts there.
I avoid going to concerts thereif I can.
Like I we we had talked aboutgoing up to the Schuster Center
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because it's a much nicer placefor Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Um, but yeah, that's uh that'smy old man yells at cloud.
That place is a dump.
Alright, big college games thisweek.
Not too many.
Uh, and the reason there's nottoo many is because it's SEC Bye
Week.
Happy SEC Bye Week to all whocelebrate.
Uh, let me be the first to wishyou a happy SEC Bye Week.
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Um, here's some of the games.
Here's some of the teams and thepoint spread that the best
conference in football, the SEC,is playing this week.
Now keep in mind, this is thesecond to last weekend.
There's only one weekend ofcollege football left.
Cherish it.
Um these are some of the teamsthat the mighty SEC is playing.
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They are playing Samford.
Samford.
54 and a half point spread.
Charlotte, they're playingCharlotte, 43.5 point spread.
Eastern Illinois, 50.5 pointspread.
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The Mighty Mercer, 27.5 spread.
Coastal Carolina, 24.
Western Kentucky, 21.5.
Now, most conferences, they'replaying conference games this
week.
But the SEC always does this theweek before Thanksgiving,
because they only play an eightconference schedule of games
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instead of nine, like everyother conference does.
This is an absolute joke, andthis needs to end.
I cannot believe there are55-point spreads on the board
this weekend for majoruniversities.
Just a disgrace to football.
Uh, we got number 15 USC atnumber seven, Oregon.
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Oregon minus 10.
I love the Ducks here.
I think the Ducks roll.
We got Ducks on the pond.
Uh, they need to win this tostay in the college football
playoff.
If they lose this, they'llprobably push them right out.
Um, they have to win this game.
I think they win it.
I think they cover the 10.
Uh, Oregon's look very good thisyear.
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Number 11, BYU at UC plus twoand a half.
Uh, honestly, not a lot of game,great games this week, but uh
this is one of the closerspreads, so I wanted to talk
about it.
I think BYU covers here.
Uh UC has faltered a little bitthe last couple of weeks.
Um, but really the reason Iwanted to talk about it is to
tie it back to my old man Yellsat Cloud moment.
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Uh, and I already talked aboutthe one game.
Uh Cincinnati's having a bigsports weekend.
We got this game, uh Fox's bignoon kickoff is coming into town
for this game on uh Saturday, sothat's very cool.
They're coming to Cincinnati,not a place they often go to,
but uh number 11 BYUs travel inthere, so they're coming in.
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Uh, so that's cool.
Uh Friday night, we've got theLouisville at UC at Heritage
Bank Arena.
I mentioned that already.
Also, Friday Night Lights, thethe playoffs are going on for a
high school, and they actuallyflexed one of the bigger games
out of the city of Mason andinto Cincinnati at Pacor Arena,
the Bengals Arena.
Um, last I saw they've sold20,000 tickets for this game.
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That's why they moved it.
They moved it out of Mason.
Obviously, Mason's high schoolvenue was not nearly uh 20,000.
I think the Bengals, they'reonly opening the bottom section
of the arena, but I think theysaid they could accommodate
27,000 fans in the bottom partof the arena.
That's very cool that they movedthe game and got it there.
I think that's gonna be awesome.
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Uh it's Elder at St.
Xavier.
Uh, like I said, almost 20,000tickets sold last I saw, and
maybe more walk-ups and stufftonight.
Um, and then Sunday, two bigevents.
We got uh Bengals hosting the9-2 New England Patriots, and
there's a little discussion thatuh a little guy named Joe
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Burroughs has been practicingthis week.
So that could be a huge game ifBurroughs actually back and
plays, and they're they end updefeating the Patriots somehow.
That would be huge forCincinnati.
They really need wins if they'regonna think about the playoffs.
They still have hope, uh, butthey need to not lose again.
Um very slim hopes, but stillhope.
Uh, and then there's a playoffMLS game between FCC and uh
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Miami.
So just a huge weekend uhCincinnati.
Big Cincinnati Sports weekendhere.
So, yeah, that's gonna do it forthe college football look.
Let's do NFL here.
Uh the team's on by, I alreadymentioned the Broncos, but the
Chargers, Commanders, andDolphins are also on by this
week.
Uh, first game I want to talkabout a little bit.
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I just talked about it.
New England at Cincinnati.
Uh, if Joe Burrow plays, I likeCincinnati here, plus six and a
half.
Um if not, then uh I'm not sobig on uh Cincinnati.
The Bengals defense, I've talkedabout it a lot on this podcast.
It's an absolute joke.
It's the worst in the NFL, butit's on a historic level.
I put stats in other podcastepisodes, but they are
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historically one of the worstteams.
Not just the worst this season,but in all of the NFL history,
they're one of the worst.
Uh New England's probably gonnahang 45 on them.
So if they don't have JoeBurrow, I don't really like
their odds here.
Um Pittsburgh at Chicago,Chicago two and a half point
favorite.
Pittsburgh struggled recently.
Rogers, he looks lost, he looksdefeated.
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Uh, but worst of all, he looksangry.
He looks angry all the time.
Uh I would take Chicago here.
They've looked very good.
Caleb Williams doesn't lookterrible this year.
Uh, both teams really need thiswin for the playoffs.
I think Chicago gets it, and Ithink they cover the two and a
half.
It's at home.
I think you bear down.
I think Chicago wins it.
They they have looked very toughthis year.
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Um, like I said, they're they'rewinning their division.
So I think they win this one.
Uh Indy at Kansas City, KansasCity minus three and a half.
Um, I don't really get whyKansas City's favored here.
Some were saying that uh DanielJones, Indiana Jones, has a
little bit of an injury.
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He's a little banged up.
Uh so I guess if he doesn'tplay, three and a half makes
sense, but um I I I don't I'msurprised the Indy's not
favored.
I mean, Indy's, I think they'reeight and two, I said.
Um Kansas City's very mediocrethis year.
They're not, they're ninth inthe AFC.
Um but what's crazy is I I dothink they'll win this game,
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even if Daniel Jones plays.
And I'll tell you why.
Because the history in the lastsix, seven years of Kansas City
is they always win this game.
When their back is against thewall, and you're like, oh,
you're counting them out.
Kansas City isn't the team thatwe thought they would be.
All of a sudden they go on thishuge run.
Like, I could see this being theone, like the Broncos beat them
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last week.
I could see Mahomes gatheringeverybody together and Andy
Reid, and like, oh, nobodybelieves in us, or oh, they
think we're gonna lose.
Oh, oh, we're all uh that's nota very good Mahomes voice.
But anyway, my point is I thinkthat maybe Denver beating them
will be kind of their rallycall, and they're gonna rip off
like six wins in a row.
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So even if Daniel Jones plays, II think Kansas City wins this
one.
It seems to always happen.
I I don't know.
Until it doesn't happen, I'mgonna think that it will happen.
So I'm gonna bet Kansas Cityminus three and a half here.
Um I think they just they get itdone.
They they always do get it done.
As much as people don't want tosee that happen, it happens.
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Uh Tampa Bay at the Rams, Ramsminus six and a half.
Uh, I don't know what to thinkhere.
Uh, probably the Rams, but man,uh if Tampa loses here, that
could tie them up with Carolina.
So they Tampa really needs a winhere.
Um their defense has been shaky,though.
I don't I don't know what'sgoing on with the Buccaneers,
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but uh I I I don't know.
Um it could go.
I think this one, I'm this isgonna be my stay away game
because I don't know who's gonnashow up.
Uh I think the Rams could win bydouble digits.
I think Tampa Bay could win thegame.
Like, I don't know what to dowith this game on the schedule.
Um maybe, maybe I don't know,because the Rams are very good
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on offense.
Like, if they get it going, Imean this could this could
balloon quickly.
You could be sitting there andit could be you know 21 to 3,
and you're sitting there holdinga ticket for Tampa Bay plus six
and a half, and you'll beripping it up at halftime.
Like, I I don't know what totell.
I I don't know what to do onthis game, so uh, this is my
stay away game of the week.
I don't I don't know which teamsare gonna show up.
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I think the Rams they strugglesometimes, but then other times
they win by 20.
I so I don't know.
I think Tampa Bay really needsthis one, so it could be Tampa,
but I'm just gonna stay awayfrom this one.
Um, and then the last game Iwant to talk about, uh Carolina
at San Francisco minus seven.
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Brock is back again.
Uh funny that these four teams,Tampa Bay, Rams, Carolina, and
San Francisco, are playing theSunday night and Monday night
football.
They did a good job with thescheduling on this because they
all four need a win to bestaying in the playoff hunt.
Uh, you know, Rams and San Frana little less than Tampa and
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Carolina.
Uh Tampa and Carolina reallyneed that win to either Tampa to
stay ahead of Carolina orCarolina needs it to get in.
And uh and but San Fran and theRams can't lose too many because
right there is Seattle.
Uh, you know, Seattle, SanFrancisco, and the Rams are all
fighting for their division.
So uh if they want to win theirdivision, they can't lose too
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many games.
So but yeah, uh let's go oversome of the locks this week.
We got uh Greg giving usMissouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
minus seven and a half.
Uh I believe his exact quotewhen he made this pick was
Missouri's beat nobody.
Why are they ranked?
Um yeah, I'll go with that.
(51:52):
Uh yeah, I agree with that.
I think Oklahoma's a pretty goodteam.
I think they'll cover the sevenand a half here.
I like that lock, Greg.
Uh, Missouri has not beatanybody.
Um, Ethan is giving us an NFLpick this week.
He's given oh, he already, thisis Thursday night football.
He gave us Buffalo minus threeand a half.
I would have said I agreed withthat.
(52:12):
I made that my pick in my uhwife and I's uh weekly picks
where we pick all the gamesagainst the spread.
I pick Buffalo minus, I got itfor five and a half on the app.
Um, so I didn't even come closeto covering, and and neither did
Ethan.
So the gambling group starts offat 0-1 on the week.
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Uncle Mike's given us uh theColts Chiefs.
He's given us Chiefs minus 3.5.
You know, I talked about itearlier.
That's good luck.
That's uh I think I think thisis that game that Kansas City
wins.
I already talked about it, souh, I'm not gonna belabor it
anymore.
That I like that, Uncle Mike.
Uh Steve giving us Atlanta plusone and a half at New Orleans.
(52:58):
New Orleans has won like one ortwo games all year.
I I it's at New Orleans, butlike I like Atlanta to win here.
I would take them, I'd take amoney line.
I think Steve gets his third winof the season.
I'm not gonna fade Steve thisweek.
Every week, that's the thingwith Steve this year.
It's never been games that Ilook at and I'm like, oh, that's
a terrible pick.
(53:18):
Like, why did he pick that?
And I totally disagree with it.
I if I'm looking at this and Iand I did fill it out because I
again I pick my wife and I inher work league thing, we pick
every game against the spreadevery week.
I had Atlanta plus one and ahalf here.
New Orleans stinks.
I I know it's at the dome in NewOrleans, but like they stink.
(53:39):
I no, I I like Atlanta here.
I yeah, I good good luck, Steve.
I think you get your third win.
We'll get you we'll get youcloser to 500 here.
Uh, and then no locks uh fromUncle John, Matt, or Scott this
week yet.
So uh look for those.
I'll put them on uh TikTok, I'llput them on Twitter, X, whatever
it's called now.
I'll get those out to thepeople.
(54:00):
Uh when I get them, I'll do thelittle AI picks this week.
But uh but yeah, I got one lockleft, and it's my own lock.
We're down to the end of theshow here, and I'm giving you a
stone cold lead pipe lock of theweek here.
I love this one on the board.
I couldn't grab it fast enoughand bet it.
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Uh Jacksonville minus three atArizona.
The Cactus Wrens are terrible.
I just told you earlier theyshould fire their coach.
I put him up on the FrostyThrone.
3-7 on the year, andJacksonville's coming off their
biggest win in the season, 35-6over the playoff bound LA
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Chargers.
But them being uh coming off ahuge win, uh their team they're
playing being 3-7 and justabsolutely dreadful this year.
That's not why I'm picking this.
I have a legit reason that youshould pick Jacksonville, and I
don't think the sports booksadjusted their formula based on
this.
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This is on an article I read, aninterview with Trevor Lawrence
after the game last week whenthey rolled up the Chargers.
Somebody, a reporter, asked him,What was the difference in this
game?
Why did you guys look so sharptoday?
And he said, I have one word foryou.
Huh?
Now you're sitting there, you'resaying, Well, wristband?
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What how did a wristband 35-6?
How's a wristband?
What?
How's a wristband the key here?
Trevor Lawrence wore a wristbandwith all the plays on his arm.
You've seen it a million times.
You've watched football, you'veseen the quarterbacks always
have these things on.
Trevor Lawrence did not want onethis year, one of those
wristbands.
He went the entire season upuntil last week without the
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wristband on his arm.
And for the first time allseason, they put the wristband
on him and they won by amillion.
In the interview after the game,he said it made play calling
faster and more efficient.
Uh duh.
You think, Trevor?
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There's a reason almost everyquarterback out there wears one,
especially in the NFL, but evenin college, you'll see it.
Turn a game on tonight.
Turn a game on tonight.
The quarterback has one of thosewristbands on.
There's a reason.
The play calls are long as allget out.
This is a sample.
I I brought up a sample.
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This is a play.
Here it is.
This is what so Trevor wassaying, oh, I just I don't want
to have to look at a wristband,just have the coach read this to
me, and then I'll read it backto the team or whatever.
So I have to hear it in my ear,and then I have to read it back
to the huddle.
So this is what they have beendoing, Jacksonville, all season.
So this is a sample play call.
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Green left, twin nasty, Z peelright, past 37, Buster Bluff, X
post, Y bite, kill 53, Titanleft.
Now, you have the advantage ofseeing this on a on a podcast
app or whatever or something.
You can time how long that wasthere.
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That was like five, six secondsto read that all out.
I'm gonna read it again.
I'm gonna read it pretty quicktoo this time.
So so track it here.
This is what the head coachwould read to him, and then he'd
have to read it again.
Green left, twin nasty, Z peelright, pass 37, Buster Bluff, X
post, Y bite, kill 53, Titanleft.
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That is so long.
I I even when I read it fast, itfelt like four four or so
seconds.
And remember, the play clock is40 seconds in the NFL.
The plays over, the whistle'sblown, 40 seconds starts to
tick.
So that's four seconds there.
I'm sure they read it faster.
They're pros.
Uh, but it may take them aminute or two.
Uh maybe they don't read itfaster because they're trying to
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think of all the stuff.
I don't know.
Um, but that's crazy that allthat that includes uh the
formation, green left, twinnasty, the receiver motion, Z
peel right, or I'm sorry, Z peeltight, the protection scheme, 37
Buster Bluff, and the routes forthe specific players.
X post, Y bite, and then thefinal instruction kill 53 Titan
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left.
That's to potentially audibleout of the play.
Uh the reason they wear thosewrist pads is because the coach
replaces that with just anumber.
So instead of reading all that,which I told you took four to
six seconds, the coach says 52.
And then the player lifts thewristband as the coach is saying
that, finds what 52 is, and thenreads that to the huddle real
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quick.
52.
How boom?
Less than half a second, 52,boom.
That's so much faster.
I I can't even imagine with thecrowd being loud and everything.
If he says 52, there's very it'svery unlikely that you won't
hear part of it.
With the crowds and everythingon the road and stuff, I can't
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even imagine trying to listen tofour seconds of them saying that
stuff and then trying to relaythat back with fans screaming
and and the play shaking andstuff.
I I can't believe they thoughtthis was okay to play without
the wristband for 10 weeks.
Just incredibly stupid on theirpart, but they've remedied that.
And he said they're gonna wearthe wristband the rest of the
season.
(59:21):
Uh yeah, yeah, you should wearthe wristband.
And because of the wristband andgetting the plays in quicker,
they only had one penalty lastweek uh for uh delay a game or
whatever, where they've beenstruggling getting the right
play calls in and running up tothe line with the clock and
stuff.
So for that reason alone, I amgiving you my lock of the week
of Jacksonville minus three.
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They are gonna cover Bigley.
That is my lock of the week.
Thank you all for listening tothe podcast this week.
It's always a lot of fun pullingall this stuff together for all
the listeners out there.
We do have the dog picks coming,they'll be on TikTok for Sunday
night football, Monday nightfootball, big games this week.
Uh, you know, I said Tampa Bayuh Rams might be my stay away
(01:00:04):
game, but I don't know, StanleyPoochie's a little hot.
Uh so if whatever Poochie picks,I'll probably bet it.
I usually do.
Uh so that's gonna do it forthis week's show.
At TSS Gambling is where you canfind us on X, formerly Twitter
and TikTok.
Good luck gambling, everybody.
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