Ryan "BEEF" Coyle joins Mark Henry Jr. and Sam Oshtry to talk #CFBPlayoff, college hoops, #Eagles-#Packers, #NFL #WildCardWeekend, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Welcome back to the Tough Cover Radio Show right here
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frequent guest here on the Tough Cover Radio Show. We've
got my guy, Beef, Ryan Coyle or at Ryan Coil
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and check out all this stuff, including his stuff at
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Beef Upfront Beef.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
How are we doing, fellas.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It's been a real fun start to this weekend Thursday Friday.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
I think the game's delivered.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And hopefully these next three days deliver as well.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Looking forward to uh another great day of football ahead.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
I got Beef with Beef real quick for taking taken
against betting against my turps last night.
Speaker 7 (01:10):
He was all over u c.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
L A, oh yeah, what happened?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Maryland won and covered easily because mc cronan got thrown out.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Whoa.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
It was a system play. It was a bounce back
and it failed miserably.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Maybe call your kid's delusional isn't the best idea. In
twenty twenty five, the mick u c.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
L A run seems to be uh seems to be
souring a bit, right. They had a rough yer last
year once all the guys left. But yeah, wow, that's
surprising to see Maryland Willard's got him going, right.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Are they on the They're on the bubble.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Yeah, they're on the I mean they had a tough
West Coast roadchip against Washington Oregon. Two losses, but UCLA
was the first ranked win so twenty on Ken Pom.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
We'll see they should be in the tournament.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
That's pretty high. Yeah, kind of just dipping my toe
in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So I'm here and there looking at Ken Pom kind
of see where I can pick my spots.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I have a couple today. I'll just fire off and.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'll ask just a college basketball question to beef. To
start off, I've got the over in San Francisco Santa Clara.
Last time they played this year, it was like ninety
six to eighty something. You look at them, they're both
like way over teams. It's one fifty one and a half,
so it's pretty high. They're both pretty fast paced teams,
so I like that over one of the teams had
like a twenty point score. The other team had like
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four guys in double figures, so a little bit different
paths to scoring. I love Bama. I'm on Bama minus
three at A and M. I think that's like a
Final four team as sears. And I think Grant Nelson's
just a winner every time I watch them. He makes
big plays in big games. So I really like Bama
minus at three, and I like Indiana plus five and
a half. I'm seeing six now, so you can probably
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get a better number than I got, So Indiana plus
five and a half at Iowa. I think Indiana is
really good. They seem to put it together a bit
here late. They pummeled USC beat Penn State in the
Palestra as a seven and a half point dog, handle
Rutgers pretty easily at home, so I think Indiana's kind
of turning the corner.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Anything catching your eye today, beef.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Fading mcclay's cyclones, Texas Tech minus two and a half
at home, or excuse me, I have a state opened
up as a one point favorite. That one got all
the way up to three today. I'm in favor of
Texas Tech. So just one of those conference games, number
three team on the road. It's just kind of one
of those college basketball spots that we seem to see
time and time again early, similar to like Villanova the
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other night against Yukon.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Sam Anything for you today, Yeah, A couple first. I'm
on that Texas Tech play too. You guys, you and
McClay inspired me to go to go look at that
and it's, like you said, it's kind of one of
those Nova games where the line tells you what to
play place and O Iowa States, Iowa States really good,
but Texas Tech kind of feels like at home, going
to get that win. I'm on Arkansas plus five against Florida.
I'm just taking SEC home dogs, like the SEC is
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so deep. And Florida compete against Kentucky a week from
to a week ago that was on the road too.
They hung up one hundred on Kentucky on the road,
and I love this Florida team. And then Florida beat
the number one team in the country in Tennessee. But
Arkansas either owing to in the SEC. Yeah, but Arkansas's
owned to an SEC it's a really desperate spot for them.
They're at home, and then last one Villanova plus six
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and a half. Villainoh's playing a really good basketball. They're
at Saint John's. I believe it's at MSG actually, but
it's against Saint John's. And I love, I love Villanova
in the spot they're playing. They're playing top twenty basketball
in the nation. Eric Dixon's leading the score, leaving the
nation in scoring, and Woga Poplar has been awesome too.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Love Woga Poplar.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
If I had to ask you guys, one thing for
the casual college basketball fan that they're not and obviously
everyone knows Cooper Flag, Johnny Broom, Duke, Auburn top two probably,
I would say I think those are the top two.
But outside of those teams and those top top guys,
what's something that the casual college football or college basketball
fan needs to know about this upcoming next couple of months.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
The SEC's depth, Like there's a legit chance you get
like ten to eleven twelve teams from the SEC to
go to the tournament. Every single night in that conference
is going to be a war like LSU, South Carolina, Vandy.
Those are probably like your bottom Feeders, Miszoo maybe in
that mix, but like none of those games are going
to be easy this year.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
That that conference is deep from top to bottom, anybody
can win on any given night. So it's been pretty
crazy how SEC obviously has been.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
The football power forever, but it looks like they're becoming
the best basketball conference as well.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
I was going to say the exact same thing. The
SEC is the deepest conference we might ever see in
this sport.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
They should have twelve teams.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I believe on most bracketologies they have twelve teams in
the TOURNA right now. The record for most teams ever
to make the NCAA Tournament from a single conference is
eleven from the Big East back in twenty eleven. I
think the SEC is legitimately going to break that this year.
And I'm right there with Beef that this is the
deepest team. I just I'm taking home dogs whenever I can.
I'm really just home teams because it's so hard to
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win on the road at college basketball, but especially the SEC.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Am.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I I can't believe this turned into a college basketball,
say wild card weekend, But am I crazy for looking
at I already mentioned Bama sixteen to one I think
is a pretty good price on Bama to win the title.
I think I'm probably gonna lock that in today and
another one I'm definitely gonna lock in today. Illinoy at
thirty to one, I think, what's the guy's name?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Is it Cat Casparists or.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
What's the last drcocis or something like that.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, that guy's a beast. Tell me why that guy's
not Luka doncrihy. I watched you watched the highlights for
that guy.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And it's unbelievable. He looks like one of the best
players in the country. I feel like no one's talking
about him. And every time I watch Illinois they just
blow the doors off somebody. Yeah, it fels like so
I think Illinois thirty to one is worth a sniff,
and then one last one because I just I feel
like you have to bring it up. I know they
just lost to Nova is Yukon twenty five to one
at a point where it's getting disrespectful to Hurly or
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is this team just.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
They don't have it. They don't have it.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I don't see it this year, but like, at the
same time, you get them into a tournament. He's shown
the ability to to roll through that tournament twice now,
but I just don't.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
See it with them this year.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
They're also dealing with some injuries right now, Caravan missing
this free Thursday the other night. He hasn't had a
great season at all either, So this isn't This is
kind of reminds me of Georgia and football. It's like
it's not your You're Georgia of the old, Like it's
a watered down kind of version.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I think the same thing with Yukon. But it's just
so no one's ever done it three in a row,
and that's that I go.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I go kind of back to that three in a
row is impossible, and and I just I can't see it.
I can't see it happening, especially because this is the
worst team of those three that that Yukon's had, And
so I don't really want to go. I know you
want to get back into the wildcar Weeken stuff, but
I will just tell you I have a futures on
Illinois and Michigan, not to win the whole thing, but
to win the Big Ten. And I think those are
two best teams in the Big They've been incredible.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Dusty May, Yeah, Yeah, they're.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Guys stud let's get over to wildcard weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I know, I let the college basketball stickos lose off
le for a little bit. Let's let's you got to
get Beef's bracket here, so we're gonna go rapid fire
with Beef.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
If you got spread plays, drop them in as we go.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But let's just go out right through the whole bracket
here in the NFL playoff And we're gonna start off
with your boy who I'm laying I'm laying a lot
of units on today, justin Herbert Chargers at Texans.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I imagine you're going with your guy here.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Yeah, I am. And I just want to like dispel
like one thing.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
It's like everyone was righting off the Chargers at the
end of the year, like understandably so, and now that
they made the playoffs and people are like, oh, it's fine,
like that's.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
A great season, that's a successful season.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Like I hate that narrative, like you went eleven and six,
your favorite you should win this game. If you don't
win this game, that's a failure. And obviously it was
great for them to make the playoffs. And what I
think is definitely a bottom half of the league talent
roster wise, but you should win this game. You should
win this spot, and if you lose as a favorite
in this one, that is that is an indictment on
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Herbert for sure. I think they really open up the
passing game though the past few weeks. I think it's
four five straight games he's thrown at least two touchdowns.
Quick Johnson has came to life. Lad has been awesome
all year. But I like the Chargers in the spot
to move on. I'm not gonna lay the points just
because at the end of the day, I just want
them to win and move on.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I got it at two and a half.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Three.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I would still lay it, but I would not be
as comfortable. I would probably even pay a little bit
to get to that half point. In the playoffs, I
think I'm a little more willing to buy that half
point from three. But and then for the next game
at night, I know you're taking the points with the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Do you think they're a live dog in the game.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I don't think they're gonna win. I just think it's
it's just history. It's just I've seen this before. I
think I saw it too. Tomlin against divisional opponents in
the playoff is ten and two and nobody, nobody knows
they're each other each other's teams as good as these two.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
And I said it.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Will be the year three thousand and raven Steelers will
be twenty t seventeen. There's gonna need to be a
couple of funky things like a block pond, a strip sack,
something like that to really turn the tide, because that
Steelers offense over since that Eagles game pretty much has
been abysmal. I think it just finds a way to
be close, though, but it's never really in doubt that
the Ravens.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Are in that one.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And then we got Denver at Buffalo kicking off Sunday.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Where are you at on that one in terms of
spread play?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I like the Bills to win that uncomfortably.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'd say like thirty one seventeen somewhere in that ballpark.
Bronco's kind of in the same ship as the Chargers,
where not many people were expecting this from them, And
I think for the Broncos at least it's more of
a successful season even if they wind up losing this game,
because they're a big dog in this spot.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
But I like the Bills when comfortably.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I think it's just a talent mismatch, but Sean Payton
has proven to have some success against the Bills in
the past with Josh Allen, so it wouldn't surprise me
if it's close.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
But I think at the end of the day, it's
going to be like a two touchdown.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Victory Packers Eagles.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Are you kind of with me where you're picking the
Eagles and you're nervous you think it's gonna be a
close game. Are you with kind of the rest of
the Gambler crew that you think they're gonna win this
one handily?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I think at the end it'll be comfortable, but I
think the first half is going to be a sweat though.
The one thing that is making me nervous about this
game it's I think a few points to one Achilles
heel for this Eagles team throughout the year once they
got passed like the Jalen turnover. It's been the slow
starts in the first quarter. You look at that Packers
Cowboys game last year. That game was twenty one to
nothing in a blink of an eye, Like, you don't
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want to get behind on this team early, So that.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
That worries me a little bit. The Packers. I think
are kind of coming in here playing with house money.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
But I think at the end of the day, the
Eagles do what they do and dominate throughout the second half.
I'm gonna go to twenty seven to seventeen. I'm not
gonna bet the spread I have that. I had them
with Ohio State at plus one oh five on the
money line always.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I always loved doing those. I probably it would have
been nice.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I was looking at something to do with like Baltimore Buffalo,
I couldn't find the third thing to kind of throw
with it. Ohio State probably would have been what it
would have been a good call there. I'll say this,
and I know Sam's probably laying the points over there.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
That's Sika. I think you need help.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
If you're laying the points with the Eagles and you're
an Eagles fan this weekend.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Just just enjoy the game.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
I'm laying the points in every single playoff game, Mark,
I don't care.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
I don't care what every Eagle's playoff games.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I don't want to be thinking about the margins, but
just I.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Really don't want when you outline it, I really don't
need a financial investment when I have such an emotional
investment in attached.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
So you're really right, like it's stupid, but I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I did a Notre Dame Georgia.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I didn't bet on it. I was like, I'm just
I'm not confident. I'm just gonna with Penn State. I
was so confident that I ended up betting the six units,
which it's so funny.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The game I wasn't confident and they want handily. The
game that.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I I I was confident in was an absolute sweat
of all sweats. But let's get to the two games
that I think are going to be sweats here, because
I have no idea which way to go on either
of them. Maybe Beef can sway me Commy's Bucks. This
is especially the one. The other one, I think I
know where I'm headed. But this is the one. You
could lay out every outcome in this game.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'll buy it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I understand if the Commis win comfortably and Tampa is
a fraud all along.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Maybe it's a close game.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Commies win close game, Baker wins, Maybe the Bucks blow
them out, and we make fun of Washington for having
one win since in the playoffs since nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
But what how does this play out for you. Washington
Tampa Tampa a three point favorite.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I think the talk around this game is shootout. Obviously
a high score and a fair A lot of people
like the over. If you believe in the over for
this one. Here's my stat Washington this year seven to
zero when they score thirty or more, Tampa Bay zero
to four when they allow thirty or more. So I
think if you like a shootout, it kind of favors
the Commanders in that spot. So I like them plus
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a three. I think they're gonna win the football game
and move on as well. Other than the Eagles game,
this is the one I'm kind of looking forward to
the most. We'll see what condition we're in to remember
this game. Probably have a few beverages for in the
Eagles tomorrow, but looking forward to that.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Leagles lose, I'm not watching it. I'll tell you that
I'm not watching this.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
If the Eagles lose, yeah, eight.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Tho, I will say I've got eight bets on Wild
Card weekend. I've already given out. I've given out the Chargers,
given out Josh Allen obviously, Jalen Hurts. I don't even
know if I mentioned that, but that's a given, four
of them come in this game. Four of my eight
bets are in this game. Give me Mike Evan's touchdown
six of the last ten he scored. That's only a
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one unit play. But why not Jayden Daniels over forty
I think it's actually I think I got it at
forty six and a half. I think that's up to
like forty eight and a half, forty nine and a half.
I would still take it wherever it's at. If it's
under fifty, I think Jayden Daniels fifty plus rushing yards.
I think he's done that in ten or eleven of
the games he's played this year. And if you look
at the games he's didn't that middle stretch of the
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year where he had the rib injuries and against US,
like the first time he played US, he only.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Had thirty rushing yards.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Didn't really look to run.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I think now is the time, even if they were
saving him a bit and not running them, you run
him now. Now that you've got this moment, this is
where you kind of unleash them.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I'm going with the over.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Not a confident play, but I do think you look
at both defenses have really struggled as of late that
you look at the just the total staff for the
last six of cash. In terms of the over for Washington,
the last four games have all cashed for Tampa to
the over. Not I don't love the play since it's
you know, up there at fifty, but I am sprinkling
on that. My favorite play on the game. Jalen McMillan
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had stand up Jalen McMillan touchdown. I got it at
plus one eighty five. I don't know where it's at now,
but five straight games he scored with a touchdown seven
total in that stretch. Love Jalen McMillan to score a
touchdown in that game. But so you're going with the Commies.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I lean that way too.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's what I'm picking for our little bracket thing we're
doing on the show here.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But it's the game. It scares me more than any other.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I have no idea which way this one goes the
next one, just as much of a flip of a coin.
I'm talking myself into the Rams all week, a little
by little. So I'm going with the Rams, not confidently,
but Rams Vikings in Arizona.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Where you going.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, it's funny because when you think of the Rams
and McVeigh, you usually think of offense before last week
when they sat everyone against the Seahawks. The Rams held
their last three opponents to under ten points. Like the
defense has been falling out, and but when you look
at the Vikings last week, it wasn't a good performance
by Donald. I've always been a Sam Donald skeptic. But
they had the looks. They had the looks, they just
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didn't execute. And you got to think that they hit
a couple of these layups this time Stafford, and that
offense hasn't been playing that well recently. This game is
probably the one I'm most confused on. Don't have a
real confidence, But I'm gonna go with the Vikings. They
just throughout the year, they've had a track record of winning,
and I'm gonna battle them in a kind of a
bounce back spot.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Here.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
The one thing I'll say about the Vikings in that game,
and this goes against me picking the Rams. People are
loving to kind of crap on the Vikings. They were
in the red zone like seven times. Yeah, they had
all the looks, They moved the ball, they ran for
six point three yards per carry. You know, justin Jefferson
and probably get enough looks, but a couple of bad throws,
a drop or two here and there, they moved the
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ball like, It's not like they got dominated on the kind.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Of stat sheet there.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I think a lot of people are just not converting
anything at all there. So I think it's fair to
kind of look at that game and maybe say people
are overreacting to it. So that would line you up
for if we're running by the second round, Chiefs Chargers,
which I think we all have in the second round,
where would you Where do you go there?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I'll go with the Chiefs obviously at home there.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I do think the way that the Chargers have been
playing though, that could be a ball game, But I
do I probably say Chiefs, what five and a half?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Six and a half in that spot?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not playing against my homes at
home in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I agree with that. Ravens Bills, which will be the
game of the year.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Yeah, that'll be an awesome one.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I'm going to go with the Bills just because the
homefield advantage there. The Bills are kind of in that
what I was saying about the Chargers at the beginning,
like the Bills weren't expected to do much this year,
But all right, screw that, we're here like that was
kind of a roster flip that they had to go
into this next era.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
They dumped a bunch of contracts and whatnot. But you're
here now, like, no excuses.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Josh Allen deserves as much kind of criticism as Lamar
does in terms of the playoffs and not being able
to get past my homes. But I'm gonna go with
the home team in the spot with the Bills.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yeah, I'm alone.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'm on an island there on Baltimore Island. And then
in the NFC, you've got that would line up Washington
to go to Detroit.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with the Lions there at home.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Just feels like we're on a collision course for Philadelphia
Detroit and.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Then yeah, goes over Vikings obviously, Chiefs Bills. You already
kind of gave it away not picking against the Chiefs
in the AFC playoffs.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Nah. Yeah, I'm going with the Chiefs there until proven otherwise.
It's kind of back to the Patriots and Brady. Why
pick against him at this rate?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
And is it a rematch?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I do have a rematch. I think top to bottom.
The Eagles are the best team. And it's probably South
bias obviously coming from Philadelphia, but I think went healthy.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You said it earlier this week.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Eleven and zero when those guys, when those three all play,
I think they're the most physical team in the league.
And that would be an awesome game that that game
at four field. Probably a few heart attacks in that one.
But I do have the Eagles coming to the Super Bowl. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I don't think enough as being paid to that stat.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I feel like I tweeted out every day or every
other day, and no one really cares about it.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
But the fact that they're.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Eleven and zero when Jalen, Lane and aj all finished
the game, and they averaged twenty nine points per game
in those games and an eleven game stretch, I feel
like when the I remember when McCaffrey played for the
Niners and it was like, oh they're ten McCaffrey.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That was a big thing. But no one wants to
do this. You look at the Eagles there twelve Lane
this time this year?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Lane, No, yeah, did he missed, Yeah he missed the
Saints game or not the same the game before the
Saints game, the talks he missed the Tampa Yeah, I
think he went out in the New Orlin's game or no,
I'm getting my my NFC South teams mixed up. He
went out against Atlanta and then didn't play the the
Bucks game and then came back from the world.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Is there any concern about AJ's health?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yeah, engineered out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I'm not a doctor, so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
But if he's not healthy and not you know, AJ Brown,
then yeah, there's concerns for me.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm I'm with you where it's like,
with AJ Brown in the lineup, this is the best
team of football.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
It's not even close.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
And it's funny because they don't even like rely on
him that much as much as they had in previous years,
but he just the threat of him is what makes
them so elite and the completely changes the entire offensive dynamic.
So I'm with you that if Aj is out, like I'm,
I'd start getting concerned about maybe even the Packers. He's
not gonna be out, but even as we go through,
if something happens to him, god forbid, against the Lions,
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that I would be a little concerned because he is.
We talk about MVPs of this team, Jalen obviously one.
Let's not confuse it. Saquon allfensive line like AJ is
right there. As with these m vps of this team,
AJ is.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
More valuable to the team than.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
There's a reason he makes triple the amount that that's.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Because wide receivers are typically are typically more valuable just
because the running back market.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
But what is.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Is the best running back in football. He's probably the
fourth most valuable player on the offense.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I'd put Lane above him, and then i'd put I
think I put Saquon above AJ. I know what the
records are, but like I get, I'm with you. Where
the offensive line is is is the best offensive line
football and that's what makes Saquon go.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
But he's also the best running back in football.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
And like he gets he's I get no, he's getting four,
like four yards per car before he's even touched, some
ridiculous number like that. But he's also making so many
plays once he is touching, and he gets that extra
three four yards that puts you in these third, third
and shorts, fourth and shorts, Like I know, how.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Good when when AJ wasn't out there?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Say that again, how the offense look Saquon and AJ
wasn't out there.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
I'll say it was a different offense because I was
pre By.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It's terrible.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
It was bad. It was also pre Buy. They weren't
running the ball as much in those two games pre By.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I think it's obvious to me that Saquon's like far
and away for it, and then Jalen. It's not about
Jalen being like the best quarterback ever, just innate nature
of the court.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah, he's the most valuable that that conversation's done.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, that's just how it works.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
But yeah, I mean, I think you can make a
case Lane and AJ are just as valuable as Jalen,
But I would say Jalen's the most valuable guy on
the team.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
For me, it's those three guys.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You take any of those three guys away, I think
Green Bay beats us.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Same with Saquon.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
If Saquon was out for the game, I'd probably lean
Green Bay as well. So it's if you take AJ away,
I think it's absolutely one, one hundred thousand percent of concern.
So uh yeah, I I I definitely think it's I agree,
I have chiefs s eeaguals as well. I I am
very worried about what the outcome of that game would be.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Just just to be quite honest with you, But that's
to do.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It for our for our segment with Beef, we picked
our brackets.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Here. I got a little college basketball.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
You never got to pick much champion.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Oh wow, I thought you did? I play? You picked
the Eagles. Cheez Eagles? What's the super We were actually
gonna be a big banger there.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Yeah, I want to thank your Irish.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
The other night I hit them live a couple of
times and I rolled that money over to plus seven
hundred for the Eagles to win the Super Bowl, So
that a pretty large, pretty large wager for that. Probably
shouldn't have bet on them for this weekend because I'm
already invested with that ticket, but yeah, plus seven hundred.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I think is disrespectful.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Knock on board that everyone stays healthy and we don't
have any These injuries aren't lingering. But to have all
twenty two guys ready and available for tomorrow is obviously huge.
Excited to get it going and hopefully a very fun
month ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Love it, Love it, Beef. Who's the pick Who's winning
the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Eagles plus even plus seven Locke in put your money
right your mouth.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Is anyone with the station not going to pick the Eagles?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Is anyone at the station not going to pick the
Mark Mike? Okay, that's a tease.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I think they're gonna do it again. I hate myself
for it, but I do think that's what's gonna happen.
I think we're gonna lose. Like, what's what was the score?
Thirty eight thirty five?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yep, run it back thirty eight thirty five.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
You imagine that would be a hard break.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I can. I can. That's the sad part. But Beef,
I'm sure we're gonna have.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You on plenty during this Eagles playoff run. Hopefully, hopefully
this Eagles playoff run. Let's hope there is an Eagles
playoff run.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I'm scared. You know, if you're scared, get a dog.
My dog's not here right now.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
But I do have a dog.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Beef, thanks so much for coming on, man, Thanks for
believing in Notre Dame the whole year, so since the
NIU game, Beef people thought they were gonna make the
playoffs when I thought they were gonna go six and.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Six this year. So Beef, Beef believed all year long.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
All right, boys, I'll talk to you. Go birds.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Follow him at Ryan Coyle thirty five, check out everything
he's doing at Beef Upfront. That's gonna do it for
the first half of the second hour. Here, we're gonna
come back and Sam is gonna run through his bracket.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I think I've.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Pretty much given my picks, but I'll run through mine
for a final time as well and do a rundown
of the picks for the whole weekend back after this
on Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
The game spreads totals and all the prop that's in between.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
It's the Gambler.
If you can wager on it, we're talking about it.
It's the Gambler, the Fox Sports Radio The Gambler. Fox
Sports Radio in Philly is the Gambler, The Gambler, Philly's
home for all things sports gambling.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Welcome back to the Tough Cover Radio Show right here
on Fox Sports. The Gambler streaming on iHeartRadio as well
as Twitter and YouTube. And we've got maybe our most
frequent guest here on the Tough Cover Radio Show. We've
got my guy, Beef, Ryan Coyle or at Ryan Coil
thirty five on Twitter is where you can follow him
and check out all this stuff, including his stuff at
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Beef Upfront Beef.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
How are we doing, fellas.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
It's been a real fun start to this weekend Thursday Friday.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
I think the game's delivered.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And hopefully these next three days deliver as well.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Looking forward to uh another great day of football ahead.
Speaker 6 (01:05):
I got Beef with Beef real quick for taking taken
against betting against my turps last night.
Speaker 7 (01:10):
He was all over u c.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
L A, oh yeah, what happened?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
Maryland won and covered easily because mc cronan got thrown out.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Whoa.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
It was a system play. It was a bounce back
and it failed miserably.
Speaker 6 (01:24):
Maybe call your kid's delusional isn't the best idea. In
twenty twenty five, the mick u c.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
L A run seems to be uh seems to be
souring a bit, right. They had a rough yer last
year once all the guys left. But yeah, wow, that's
surprising to see Maryland Willard's got him going, right.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Are they on the They're on the bubble.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
Yeah, they're on the I mean they had a tough
West Coast roadchip against Washington Oregon. Two losses, but UCLA
was the first ranked win so twenty on Ken Pom.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
We'll see they should be in the tournament.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
That's pretty high. Yeah, kind of just dipping my toe
in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
So I'm here and there looking at Ken Pom kind
of see where I can pick my spots.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I have a couple today. I'll just fire off and.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'll ask just a college basketball question to beef. To
start off, I've got the over in San Francisco Santa Clara.
Last time they played this year, it was like ninety
six to eighty something. You look at them, they're both
like way over teams. It's one fifty one and a half,
so it's pretty high. They're both pretty fast paced teams,
so I like that over one of the teams had
like a twenty point score. The other team had like
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four guys in double figures, so a little bit different
paths to scoring. I love Bama. I'm on Bama minus
three at A and M. I think that's like a
Final four team as sears. And I think Grant Nelson's
just a winner every time I watch them. He makes
big plays in big games. So I really like Bama
minus at three, and I like Indiana plus five and
a half. I'm seeing six now, so you can probably
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get a better number than I got, So Indiana plus
five and a half at Iowa. I think Indiana is
really good. They seem to put it together a bit
here late. They pummeled USC beat Penn State in the
Palestra as a seven and a half point dog, handle
Rutgers pretty easily at home, so I think Indiana's kind
of turning the corner.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Anything catching your eye today, beef.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Fading mcclay's cyclones, Texas Tech minus two and a half
at home, or excuse me, I have a state opened
up as a one point favorite. That one got all
the way up to three today. I'm in favor of
Texas Tech. So just one of those conference games, number
three team on the road. It's just kind of one
of those college basketball spots that we seem to see
time and time again early, similar to like Villanova the
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other night against Yukon.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Sam Anything for you today, Yeah, A couple first. I'm
on that Texas Tech play too. You guys, you and
McClay inspired me to go to go look at that
and it's, like you said, it's kind of one of
those Nova games where the line tells you what to
play place and O Iowa States, Iowa States really good,
but Texas Tech kind of feels like at home, going
to get that win. I'm on Arkansas plus five against Florida.
I'm just taking SEC home dogs, like the SEC is
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so deep. And Florida compete against Kentucky a week from
to a week ago that was on the road too.
They hung up one hundred on Kentucky on the road,
and I love this Florida team. And then Florida beat
the number one team in the country in Tennessee. But
Arkansas either owing to in the SEC. Yeah, but Arkansas's
owned to an SEC it's a really desperate spot for them.
They're at home, and then last one Villanova plus six
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and a half. Villainoh's playing a really good basketball. They're
at Saint John's. I believe it's at MSG actually, but
it's against Saint John's. And I love, I love Villanova
in the spot they're playing. They're playing top twenty basketball
in the nation. Eric Dixon's leading the score, leaving the
nation in scoring, and Woga Poplar has been awesome too.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Love Woga Poplar.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
If I had to ask you guys, one thing for
the casual college basketball fan that they're not and obviously
everyone knows Cooper Flag, Johnny Broom, Duke, Auburn top two probably,
I would say I think those are the top two.
But outside of those teams and those top top guys,
what's something that the casual college football or college basketball
fan needs to know about this upcoming next couple of months.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
The SEC's depth, Like there's a legit chance you get
like ten to eleven twelve teams from the SEC to
go to the tournament. Every single night in that conference
is going to be a war like LSU, South Carolina, Vandy.
Those are probably like your bottom Feeders, Miszoo maybe in
that mix, but like none of those games are going
to be easy this year.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
That that conference is deep from top to bottom, anybody
can win on any given night. So it's been pretty
crazy how SEC obviously has been.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
The football power forever, but it looks like they're becoming
the best basketball conference as well.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
I was going to say the exact same thing. The
SEC is the deepest conference we might ever see in
this sport.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
They should have twelve teams.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I believe on most bracketologies they have twelve teams in
the TOURNA right now. The record for most teams ever
to make the NCAA Tournament from a single conference is
eleven from the Big East back in twenty eleven. I
think the SEC is legitimately going to break that this year.
And I'm right there with Beef that this is the
deepest team. I just I'm taking home dogs whenever I can.
I'm really just home teams because it's so hard to
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win on the road at college basketball, but especially the SEC.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Am.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I I can't believe this turned into a college basketball,
say wild card weekend, But am I crazy for looking
at I already mentioned Bama sixteen to one I think
is a pretty good price on Bama to win the title.
I think I'm probably gonna lock that in today and
another one I'm definitely gonna lock in today. Illinoy at
thirty to one, I think, what's the guy's name?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Is it Cat Casparists or.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
What's the last drcocis or something like that.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, that guy's a beast. Tell me why that guy's
not Luka doncrihy. I watched you watched the highlights for
that guy.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And it's unbelievable. He looks like one of the best
players in the country. I feel like no one's talking
about him. And every time I watch Illinois they just
blow the doors off somebody. Yeah, it fels like so
I think Illinois thirty to one is worth a sniff,
and then one last one because I just I feel
like you have to bring it up. I know they
just lost to Nova is Yukon twenty five to one
at a point where it's getting disrespectful to Hurly or
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is this team just.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
They don't have it. They don't have it.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
I don't see it this year, but like, at the
same time, you get them into a tournament. He's shown
the ability to to roll through that tournament twice now,
but I just don't.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
See it with them this year.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
They're also dealing with some injuries right now, Caravan missing
this free Thursday the other night. He hasn't had a
great season at all either, So this isn't This is
kind of reminds me of Georgia and football. It's like
it's not your You're Georgia of the old, Like it's
a watered down kind of version.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
I think the same thing with Yukon. But it's just
so no one's ever done it three in a row,
and that's that I go.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I go kind of back to that three in a
row is impossible, and and I just I can't see it.
I can't see it happening, especially because this is the
worst team of those three that that Yukon's had, And
so I don't really want to go. I know you
want to get back into the wildcar Weeken stuff, but
I will just tell you I have a futures on
Illinois and Michigan, not to win the whole thing, but
to win the Big Ten. And I think those are
two best teams in the Big They've been incredible.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
Dusty May, Yeah, Yeah, they're.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Guys stud let's get over to wildcard weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I know, I let the college basketball stickos lose off
le for a little bit. Let's let's you got to
get Beef's bracket here, so we're gonna go rapid fire
with Beef.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
If you got spread plays, drop them in as we go.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
But let's just go out right through the whole bracket
here in the NFL playoff And we're gonna start off
with your boy who I'm laying I'm laying a lot
of units on today, justin Herbert Chargers at Texans.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
I imagine you're going with your guy here.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Yeah, I am. And I just want to like dispel
like one thing.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
It's like everyone was righting off the Chargers at the
end of the year, like understandably so, and now that
they made the playoffs and people are like, oh, it's fine,
like that's.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
A great season, that's a successful season.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Like I hate that narrative, like you went eleven and six,
your favorite you should win this game. If you don't
win this game, that's a failure. And obviously it was
great for them to make the playoffs. And what I
think is definitely a bottom half of the league talent
roster wise, but you should win this game. You should
win this spot, and if you lose as a favorite
in this one, that is that is an indictment on
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Herbert for sure. I think they really open up the
passing game though the past few weeks. I think it's
four five straight games he's thrown at least two touchdowns.
Quick Johnson has came to life. Lad has been awesome
all year. But I like the Chargers in the spot
to move on. I'm not gonna lay the points just
because at the end of the day, I just want
them to win and move on.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I got it at two and a half.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Three.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I would still lay it, but I would not be
as comfortable. I would probably even pay a little bit
to get to that half point. In the playoffs, I
think I'm a little more willing to buy that half
point from three. But and then for the next game
at night, I know you're taking the points with the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Do you think they're a live dog in the game.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
I don't think they're gonna win. I just think it's
it's just history. It's just I've seen this before. I
think I saw it too. Tomlin against divisional opponents in
the playoff is ten and two and nobody, nobody knows
they're each other each other's teams as good as these two.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
And I said it.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Will be the year three thousand and raven Steelers will
be twenty t seventeen. There's gonna need to be a
couple of funky things like a block pond, a strip sack,
something like that to really turn the tide, because that
Steelers offense over since that Eagles game pretty much has
been abysmal. I think it just finds a way to
be close, though, but it's never really in doubt that
the Ravens.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Are in that one.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And then we got Denver at Buffalo kicking off Sunday.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Where are you at on that one in terms of
spread play?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
I like the Bills to win that uncomfortably.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'd say like thirty one seventeen somewhere in that ballpark.
Bronco's kind of in the same ship as the Chargers,
where not many people were expecting this from them, And
I think for the Broncos at least it's more of
a successful season even if they wind up losing this game,
because they're a big dog in this spot.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
But I like the Bills when comfortably.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I think it's just a talent mismatch, but Sean Payton
has proven to have some success against the Bills in
the past with Josh Allen, so it wouldn't surprise me
if it's close.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
But I think at the end of the day, it's
going to be like a two touchdown.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Victory Packers Eagles.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Are you kind of with me where you're picking the
Eagles and you're nervous you think it's gonna be a
close game. Are you with kind of the rest of
the Gambler crew that you think they're gonna win this
one handily?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
I think at the end it'll be comfortable, but I
think the first half is going to be a sweat though.
The one thing that is making me nervous about this
game it's I think a few points to one Achilles
heel for this Eagles team throughout the year once they
got passed like the Jalen turnover. It's been the slow
starts in the first quarter. You look at that Packers
Cowboys game last year. That game was twenty one to
nothing in a blink of an eye, Like, you don't
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want to get behind on this team early, So that.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
That worries me a little bit. The Packers. I think
are kind of coming in here playing with house money.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
But I think at the end of the day, the
Eagles do what they do and dominate throughout the second half.
I'm gonna go to twenty seven to seventeen. I'm not
gonna bet the spread I have that. I had them
with Ohio State at plus one oh five on the
money line always.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
I always loved doing those. I probably it would have
been nice.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
I was looking at something to do with like Baltimore Buffalo,
I couldn't find the third thing to kind of throw
with it. Ohio State probably would have been what it
would have been a good call there. I'll say this,
and I know Sam's probably laying the points over there.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
That's Sika. I think you need help.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
If you're laying the points with the Eagles and you're
an Eagles fan this weekend.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Just just enjoy the game.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
I'm laying the points in every single playoff game, Mark,
I don't care.
Speaker 7 (12:17):
I don't care what every Eagle's playoff games.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I don't want to be thinking about the margins, but
just I.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Really don't want when you outline it, I really don't
need a financial investment when I have such an emotional
investment in attached.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
So you're really right, like it's stupid, but I'm doing it.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
I did a Notre Dame Georgia.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I didn't bet on it. I was like, I'm just
I'm not confident. I'm just gonna with Penn State. I
was so confident that I ended up betting the six units,
which it's so funny.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
The game I wasn't confident and they want handily. The
game that.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
I I I was confident in was an absolute sweat
of all sweats. But let's get to the two games
that I think are going to be sweats here, because
I have no idea which way to go on either
of them. Maybe Beef can sway me Commy's Bucks. This
is especially the one. The other one, I think I
know where I'm headed. But this is the one. You
could lay out every outcome in this game.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'll buy it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I understand if the Commis win comfortably and Tampa is
a fraud all along.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Maybe it's a close game.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Commies win close game, Baker wins, Maybe the Bucks blow
them out, and we make fun of Washington for having
one win since in the playoffs since nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
But what how does this play out for you. Washington
Tampa Tampa a three point favorite.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
I think the talk around this game is shootout. Obviously
a high score and a fair A lot of people
like the over. If you believe in the over for
this one. Here's my stat Washington this year seven to
zero when they score thirty or more, Tampa Bay zero
to four when they allow thirty or more. So I
think if you like a shootout, it kind of favors
the Commanders in that spot. So I like them plus
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a three. I think they're gonna win the football game
and move on as well. Other than the Eagles game,
this is the one I'm kind of looking forward to
the most. We'll see what condition we're in to remember
this game. Probably have a few beverages for in the
Eagles tomorrow, but looking forward to that.
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Leagles lose, I'm not watching it. I'll tell you that
I'm not watching this.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
If the Eagles lose, yeah, eight.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Tho, I will say I've got eight bets on Wild
Card weekend. I've already given out. I've given out the Chargers,
given out Josh Allen obviously, Jalen Hurts. I don't even
know if I mentioned that, but that's a given, four
of them come in this game. Four of my eight
bets are in this game. Give me Mike Evan's touchdown
six of the last ten he scored. That's only a
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one unit play. But why not Jayden Daniels over forty
I think it's actually I think I got it at
forty six and a half. I think that's up to
like forty eight and a half, forty nine and a half.
I would still take it wherever it's at. If it's
under fifty, I think Jayden Daniels fifty plus rushing yards.
I think he's done that in ten or eleven of
the games he's played this year. And if you look
at the games he's didn't that middle stretch of the
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year where he had the rib injuries and against US,
like the first time he played US, he only.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Had thirty rushing yards.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Didn't really look to run.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I think now is the time, even if they were
saving him a bit and not running them, you run
him now. Now that you've got this moment, this is
where you kind of unleash them.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I'm going with the over.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Not a confident play, but I do think you look
at both defenses have really struggled as of late that
you look at the just the total staff for the
last six of cash. In terms of the over for Washington,
the last four games have all cashed for Tampa to
the over. Not I don't love the play since it's
you know, up there at fifty, but I am sprinkling
on that. My favorite play on the game. Jalen McMillan
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had stand up Jalen McMillan touchdown. I got it at
plus one eighty five. I don't know where it's at now,
but five straight games he scored with a touchdown seven
total in that stretch. Love Jalen McMillan to score a
touchdown in that game. But so you're going with the Commies.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
I lean that way too.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's what I'm picking for our little bracket thing we're
doing on the show here.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
But it's the game. It scares me more than any other.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
I have no idea which way this one goes the
next one, just as much of a flip of a coin.
I'm talking myself into the Rams all week, a little
by little. So I'm going with the Rams, not confidently,
but Rams Vikings in Arizona.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Where you going.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah, it's funny because when you think of the Rams
and McVeigh, you usually think of offense before last week
when they sat everyone against the Seahawks. The Rams held
their last three opponents to under ten points. Like the
defense has been falling out, and but when you look
at the Vikings last week, it wasn't a good performance
by Donald. I've always been a Sam Donald skeptic. But
they had the looks. They had the looks, they just
(16:21):
didn't execute. And you got to think that they hit
a couple of these layups this time Stafford, and that
offense hasn't been playing that well recently. This game is
probably the one I'm most confused on. Don't have a
real confidence, But I'm gonna go with the Vikings. They
just throughout the year, they've had a track record of winning,
and I'm gonna battle them in a kind of a
bounce back spot.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Here.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
The one thing I'll say about the Vikings in that game,
and this goes against me picking the Rams. People are
loving to kind of crap on the Vikings. They were
in the red zone like seven times. Yeah, they had
all the looks, They moved the ball, they ran for
six point three yards per carry. You know, justin Jefferson
and probably get enough looks, but a couple of bad throws,
a drop or two here and there, they moved the
(17:05):
ball like, It's not like they got dominated on the kind.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Of stat sheet there.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I think a lot of people are just not converting
anything at all there. So I think it's fair to
kind of look at that game and maybe say people
are overreacting to it. So that would line you up
for if we're running by the second round, Chiefs Chargers,
which I think we all have in the second round,
where would you Where do you go there?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I'll go with the Chiefs obviously at home there.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I do think the way that the Chargers have been
playing though, that could be a ball game, But I
do I probably say Chiefs, what five and a half?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Six and a half in that spot?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yeah, I mean, I'm not playing against my homes at
home in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I agree with that. Ravens Bills, which will be the
game of the year.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Yeah, that'll be an awesome one.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I'm going to go with the Bills just because the
homefield advantage there. The Bills are kind of in that
what I was saying about the Chargers at the beginning,
like the Bills weren't expected to do much this year,
But all right, screw that, we're here like that was
kind of a roster flip that they had to go
into this next era.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
They dumped a bunch of contracts and whatnot. But you're
here now, like, no excuses.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Josh Allen deserves as much kind of criticism as Lamar
does in terms of the playoffs and not being able
to get past my homes. But I'm gonna go with
the home team in the spot with the Bills.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Yeah, I'm alone.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
I'm on an island there on Baltimore Island. And then
in the NFC, you've got that would line up Washington
to go to Detroit.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with the Lions there at home.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Just feels like we're on a collision course for Philadelphia
Detroit and.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Then yeah, goes over Vikings obviously, Chiefs Bills. You already
kind of gave it away not picking against the Chiefs
in the AFC playoffs.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Nah. Yeah, I'm going with the Chiefs there until proven otherwise.
It's kind of back to the Patriots and Brady. Why
pick against him at this rate?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
And is it a rematch?
Speaker 4 (18:56):
I do have a rematch. I think top to bottom.
The Eagles are the best team. And it's probably South
bias obviously coming from Philadelphia, but I think went healthy.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
You said it earlier this week.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Eleven and zero when those guys, when those three all play,
I think they're the most physical team in the league.
And that would be an awesome game that that game
at four field. Probably a few heart attacks in that one.
But I do have the Eagles coming to the Super Bowl. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
I don't think enough as being paid to that stat.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I feel like I tweeted out every day or every
other day, and no one really cares about it.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
But the fact that they're.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Eleven and zero when Jalen, Lane and aj all finished
the game, and they averaged twenty nine points per game
in those games and an eleven game stretch, I feel
like when the I remember when McCaffrey played for the
Niners and it was like, oh they're ten McCaffrey.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
That was a big thing. But no one wants to
do this. You look at the Eagles there twelve Lane
this time this year?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Lane, No, yeah, did he missed, Yeah he missed the
Saints game or not the same the game before the
Saints game, the talks he missed the Tampa Yeah, I
think he went out in the New Orlin's game or no,
I'm getting my my NFC South teams mixed up. He
went out against Atlanta and then didn't play the the
Bucks game and then came back from the world.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
Is there any concern about AJ's health?
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yeah, engineered out of nowhere.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I'm not a doctor, so I don't know.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
But if he's not healthy and not you know, AJ Brown,
then yeah, there's concerns for me.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm I'm with you where it's like,
with AJ Brown in the lineup, this is the best
team of football.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
It's not even close.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
And it's funny because they don't even like rely on
him that much as much as they had in previous years,
but he just the threat of him is what makes
them so elite and the completely changes the entire offensive dynamic.
So I'm with you that if Aj is out, like I'm,
I'd start getting concerned about maybe even the Packers. He's
not gonna be out, but even as we go through,
if something happens to him, god forbid, against the Lions,
(20:53):
that I would be a little concerned because he is.
We talk about MVPs of this team, Jalen obviously one.
Let's not confuse it. Saquon allfensive line like AJ is
right there. As with these m vps of this team,
AJ is.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
More valuable to the team than.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
There's a reason he makes triple the amount that that's.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Because wide receivers are typically are typically more valuable just
because the running back market.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
But what is.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Is the best running back in football. He's probably the
fourth most valuable player on the offense.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I'd put Lane above him, and then i'd put I
think I put Saquon above AJ. I know what the
records are, but like I get, I'm with you. Where
the offensive line is is is the best offensive line
football and that's what makes Saquon go.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
But he's also the best running back in football.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
And like he gets he's I get no, he's getting four,
like four yards per car before he's even touched, some
ridiculous number like that. But he's also making so many
plays once he is touching, and he gets that extra
three four yards that puts you in these third, third
and shorts, fourth and shorts, Like I know, how.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Good when when AJ wasn't out there?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Say that again, how the offense look Saquon and AJ
wasn't out there.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
I'll say it was a different offense because I was
pre By.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It's terrible.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
It was bad. It was also pre Buy. They weren't
running the ball as much in those two games pre By.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I think it's obvious to me that Saquon's like far
and away for it, and then Jalen. It's not about
Jalen being like the best quarterback ever, just innate nature
of the court.
Speaker 7 (22:19):
Yeah, he's the most valuable that that conversation's done.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Yeah, that's just how it works.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
But yeah, I mean, I think you can make a
case Lane and AJ are just as valuable as Jalen,
But I would say Jalen's the most valuable guy on
the team.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
For me, it's those three guys.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
You take any of those three guys away, I think
Green Bay beats us.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Same with Saquon.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
If Saquon was out for the game, I'd probably lean
Green Bay as well. So it's if you take AJ away,
I think it's absolutely one, one hundred thousand percent of concern.
So uh yeah, I I I definitely think it's I agree,
I have chiefs s eeaguals as well. I I am
very worried about what the outcome of that game would be.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Just just to be quite honest with you, But that's
to do.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It for our for our segment with Beef, we picked
our brackets.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Here. I got a little college basketball.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
You never got to pick much champion.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Oh wow, I thought you did? I play? You picked
the Eagles. Cheez Eagles? What's the super We were actually
gonna be a big banger there.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Yeah, I want to thank your Irish.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
The other night I hit them live a couple of
times and I rolled that money over to plus seven
hundred for the Eagles to win the Super Bowl, So
that a pretty large, pretty large wager for that. Probably
shouldn't have bet on them for this weekend because I'm
already invested with that ticket, but yeah, plus seven hundred.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I think is disrespectful.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Knock on board that everyone stays healthy and we don't
have any These injuries aren't lingering. But to have all
twenty two guys ready and available for tomorrow is obviously huge.
Excited to get it going and hopefully a very fun
month ahead.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Love it, Love it, Beef. Who's the pick Who's winning
the Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Eagles plus even plus seven Locke in put your money
right your mouth.
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Is anyone with the station not going to pick the Eagles?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (23:58):
Is anyone at the station not going to pick the
Mark Mike? Okay, that's a tease.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I think they're gonna do it again. I hate myself
for it, but I do think that's what's gonna happen.
I think we're gonna lose. Like, what's what was the score?
Thirty eight thirty five?
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yep, run it back thirty eight thirty five.
Speaker 7 (24:12):
You imagine that would be a hard break.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I can. I can. That's the sad part. But Beef,
I'm sure we're gonna have.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You on plenty during this Eagles playoff run. Hopefully, hopefully
this Eagles playoff run. Let's hope there is an Eagles
playoff run.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
I'm scared. You know, if you're scared, get a dog.
My dog's not here right now.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
But I do have a dog.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Beef, thanks so much for coming on, man, Thanks for
believing in Notre Dame the whole year, so since the
NIU game, Beef people thought they were gonna make the
playoffs when I thought they were gonna go six and.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Six this year. So Beef, Beef believed all year long.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
All right, boys, I'll talk to you. Go birds.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Follow him at Ryan Coyle thirty five, check out everything
he's doing at Beef Upfront. That's gonna do it for
the first half of the second hour. Here, we're gonna
come back and Sam is gonna run through his bracket.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I think I've.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Pretty much given my picks, but I'll run through mine
for a final time as well and do a rundown
of the picks for the whole weekend back after this
on Fox Sports.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
The game spreads totals and all the prop that's in between.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
It's the Gambler.
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