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November 21, 2025 36 mins

In the first hour, Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain look ahead to the Seahawks game Sunday against the Titans, discuss the latest carriage dispute between a TV network and streaming partner, share a Fact or Fiction pick, and get Lee Sterling’s best bets.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 4 (01:37):
I don't carry a radio with me in my pocket,
but I do carry a cell phone.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
How many people actually do that?

Speaker 5 (01:43):
Now?

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By the way, carry like a transistor radio around with him?
Thousand still does.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yesterday, we were sitting at the five point twenty bar
and Grail and there are a couple of guys, a
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on KJAR And so I see the guy sitting next
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and so I just elbow and say, look, we have

(02:10):
an app for that.

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Speaker 3 (02:13):
You know what, I'm kind of curious, uh, people tuning
in right now this very second, three oh six on
a Friday.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
How are you listening right now?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
You're listening in your car, You're listening on a transistor
radio like Dick Fane's dad, you're listening on the herd app,
or you're listening on Amazon, Google, whatever. When I'm at
home and I want to hear this radio station, it's Alexa.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Every damn time.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Every time, I just go to Alexa play ninety three
three KJRFM and Seattle, and she very nicely, with that
soothing voice, brings it.

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Up for me.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
She does whatever I tell her to do. It's incredible. Okay,
totally the opposite of my wife. If there's a female
out there that I want to actually listen to me,
I have to talk to Alexa.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Do you have conversations with her now? Because I hear
you can do that all that, you can actually have
conversations with.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
South Park did an entire episode on what you're talking about?

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Rest?

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, right, yes, Joaquin Phoenix. Remember the movie Her, Yeah,
remember that where he falls in love with the computer. Yes, yes,
I mean I'm like, I don't know if I keep
talking to Alexa like that. Where's this going?

Speaker 2 (03:11):
This is an entire plot of the South Park going.
All right, well, we got a lot going on.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Teresa Walker from the AP will join us and talk
about how much the Titans suck.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
And they suck.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
Man, God, they are absolutely an awful, putrid football team.
Do you kind of wish the Hawks were playing somebody
better this weekend? Or is it time to just kind
of get some wins and start stacking them? Well, because
I want to see how good this team really is.
I think they're really good. After the Ram game a
week ago, you and I both thought they had a

(03:43):
better chance. We kind of feel better about them now
after the way they played down there.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
But if it's like the Prudue game, if.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
They go to Tennessee and they beat the Titans by
what is it, thirteen and a half? Yes, they beat
him by twenty, Well they're supposed to beat him by twenty.
But if they were playing a better team this week,
better competition, and they won, then all of a sudden,
we're like Hey, man, all of our intuitions about the
Ram game, we're all confirmed, this team's really good.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, if you could guarantee me they were going to
actually win that game.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Let's say they were going to Detroit, right and we
won the game, then yeah, hey, it was better to
play Detroit than Tennessee. But since we don't know the outcome.
But what the Rams game convinced me of is that
I don't hold any team in the NFL in really
highest team.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
So I agree.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
I mean, I think the Seahawks are as good as
any team in the NFL. Not because I think the
Seahawks are this elite, one of the best teams in
the last five years, and no, they're one of the
best teams this year because every team in the NFL
has not just minor issues.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Look at the Eagles, for God's sake.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
They can't move the football and they're eight and two
and they're a Super Bowl exactly.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
So every team has got problems, and the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Have some problems, no question. And I just think again,
for me this game tomorrow. Look, I mean the Titans.
I was just looking at up. They are number thirty
two in the NFL and passing touchdowns. They have six
passing touchdowns, and that is incredible. It's Thanksgiving week and
they have six passing touchdowns. There are what I say

(05:14):
the other day, there are twenty four, thirty, twenty nine,
twenty four of the thirty two teams in the NFL
have more than double the passing touchdowns the Tennessee Titans have.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
I mean, this should be a field day for the defense. Dick,
without question.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
I don't see how Tennessee. I feel exactly the same
way about Tennessee's offense that I did going into the
Wisconsin game for the Huskies. I said before the Wisconsin game,
I don't see how they score unless you give them points. Well,
guess what the Mount Williams decided to, right, we decided
to give them points. And if you just don't give
them points and Sam Darnold doesn't throw any interceptions and

(05:51):
Ken Walker doesn't fumble on his own twenty seven yard
line to give him a short field, I don't see
how they score a touchdown longer than forty fifty yards
in this football.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Well, I'm just looking it up. They've got they've got
six passing touchdowns. You know how many rushing touchdowns they
have three. They have three. Yeah, they have three rushing touchdowns. Okay,
so the Tennessee Titans as a team have scored nine touchdowns,
oh my total?

Speaker 6 (06:16):
Nine?

Speaker 3 (06:16):
What on the ear? In ten games the Seahawks have
twenty nine twenty nine to nine.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I mean that is just nine nine times, nine times.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
And don't forget Calvin Ridley, probably their best offensive player,
just now out for the season last week. Ye they've
hit the injuries here and there and everywhere, right, I mean, guys, like,
I think I think ten points wins this game. Am
I am I crazy to think if we have the
if the Seahogs scored two touchdowns, I am comfortably saying
we have the game in hand.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
Two touchdowns absolutely gets it done, absolutely gets it done.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
And I just think crazy. This is this is like
what you've got seen.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Points is possible in the NFL that the team is
this bad? Yeah, that poorly run.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Now, hunch them in the mouth right away and they
will quit.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
This is one of those Titans drive touchdown. How many wins,
how many wins at home they have this year? I
mean zero they have won a home game this year.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
So if you punch them in the mouth right away
and do what you did to the Saints in like
the first five minutes of the game where it's fourteen
to nothing.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Forget about well, I'm looking.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Uh, let's do the old Softian Nick special and see
how much tickets are going for it. Four dollars for
this game, you say, four four dollars. What's your bet?
What's your bet for the Seahawks and Titans? Because I
guarantee you there's going to be you might notice a
lot more Seahawks fans in the stands on Sunday than
than Titan fans.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
I mean, this is one of those destination trips.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Whatever you go down there, you enjoy Nashville for a weekend,
have some fun.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Actually, here's some music. Whatever. Twenty bucks to get in
the door. Twenty bucks.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
There were preseason games in Seattle that were more expensive
than that, I mean dollars.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
So what are the flight places on Delta right now?

Speaker 4 (07:53):
My cousin hears North Carolina from Tennessee is a great
which part of North Carolina?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's western North carol come as a state by the way, Yes, well, anyway,
we'll talk to Teresa Walker about all that. I just
think it is so predictable. What's going to happen this week,
all the Geno Whites. Sam Donald comes out and lights
up the Tennessee defense and bounces back and goes twenty
one for thirty for two to eighty and three touchdowns.

(08:20):
Whatever it is, well he should have done that. Tennessee's
fricking terrible. They're awful. This change is nothing. You know that, right, Yeah,
that's exactly the conversation that you're gonna hear. And you know, look,
there's a part of me that agrees with that that
Sam Donald was not brought to Seattle. Let's be honest.
You didn't replace the guy that was ten and seven.
You didn't fire a head coach that went to the

(08:42):
playoffs and Pete Carroll to replace him with a guy
that can beat Tennessee. That's not why you're doing this.
You're you're bringing in Sam Donald to beat the Niners,
to beat the Rams, to.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Go far into the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
I mean, I'm not saying that Sam Donald is the
next Super Bowl champion quarterback in Seattle, but in two thousand,
two twenty five, he's got a pretty good shot to
be that guy. Because I'm with you, I'm not in
love with anybody in the NFL either. I mean, hell,
the Bills just look putrid. They are falling apart. They
may get their coach fired. This may be it. He
may be done right. I mean, he's been pretty damn

(09:14):
good overall, and for the most part, I think he's
just had really bad timing. He's running into a buzz
saw named Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and Kansas City.
But the way they're playing right now, that guy might
be on the hot seat.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
You can't have Josh Allen for as many years as
you've had Josh Allen and not even have made a
super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (09:30):
You just can't. I've never been a big Sean McDermott fan.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
I don't think he necessarily should have been fired at
you know, prior to this year. But this year, absolutely,
they go ten and seven and lose in the first round,
you got.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
To get rid of him.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Man.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Josh Allen doesn't have that many more years in his
prime left, especially the way he takes a meeting. How
many years did Josh Allen lose to Kansas City or
Baltimore in the playoffs four or live? Pretty much every year, right,
every year they've lost, it's pretty much been Kansas City
or Baltimore. So he got sacked eight times last night,
which was a career high in that game with the
Texans last night, and he wasn't really that great. I

(10:05):
mean again, that was one of those games where you
thought maybe Josh Allen's gonna go out there and put
up some big numbers. He was twenty four, thirty four,
two fifty three and threw a couple of interceptions.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
I got sacked eight times, right, I mean it was
a bad night for him too.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
Now, I would say we need to give some credit
and give the roses to Houston, because Houston's defense has
been amazing all year. Josh Allen, no, I know, But
the fact of the matter is Houston's defense is legit
against the pass and the run, and outside of a
forty five yard touchdown by James Cook, they pretty much
held the entire offense.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's a credit to Houston. They're very good.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
But I think that Josh Allen is supposed to be gooder, right,
He's supposed to be a guy that didn't go out.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, yeah, he is, he really is, unless he's lost it.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
I just think I think Houston is that good. I mean,
you lost the game to Davis Mills last night. Dude,
if I told you over the offseason, we got a
particular game and one team's got a good defense, but
the other team's playing Davis Mills and you got Josh Allen,
you say, where do I sign?

Speaker 7 (11:00):
You?

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Kidd me, I'm not going to lose a game with
Josh Allen versus Davis Mills.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
And that's what they did last night.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
So I think we're just kind of circling back to
Sam Darnold for a second. I think he still has
a real good shot to be one of the better
quarterbacks in the NFC. I still think he is one
of the better quarterbacks in the NFC. But I think
that the longer this thing goes on with him where
he's not able to pull it together against the better
teams on the Seahawks schedule, the louder the echoes are

(11:27):
going to get. And I think it's only human nature
that he hears that stuff. I wonder how it affects him.
I wonder how the Ernest Jones thing affects him. When
he came out and said, you can f off if
you want to blame my quarterback, that would be a positive.
He's obviously lifting his teammates spirits up tremendously.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
We'll talk to Hugh Mellon about that.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
But I do wonder, though, when a guy's got seven
turnovers guys in the last couple of games, is his confidence.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Rattled at all? Like at all?

Speaker 3 (11:54):
If it was one hundred before the last couple of
games when it came to throwing picks and fumbles. Is
it in a ninety five now? Is it in a
ninety four now? Does it not have any effect on
him whatsoever? Has he been around long enough for this
stuff doesn't even impact him at all? I mean, there's
gotta be a little bit of doubt, just slight amount
of doubt, don't you think after seven turnovers in eight corners?

Speaker 4 (12:15):
I think, and I hope it's more of he knows
I need to change some things. Not necessarily I'm doubting
my ability to be a great quarterback. I just need
to change some things. And one of those things I
need to change is I can't trade an interception for
a sack.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
If I got to take a sack, I got to
take a sack.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Because most of his interceptions, particularly the ones in the
last game, were thrown because oh crap, I just have
to get rid of this because I'm gonna get pounded
right now, Well, get pounded, take a loss of seven
instead of a loss of the football.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Well, look, he's been only sacked ten times the entire year,
which is the least in the NFS. You guys know
that heovers in the end the most turnovers in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Let's trade some turnovers for sack. Well, how about just
get rid of the ball. How about neither one? How
about that?

Speaker 7 (13:06):
Right?

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Like, I'm not going to go to a quarterback and say,
you know what, if it comes to a pick or
a sack, I'd rather have you take the sack, obviously.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
But can we avoid both? Is it possible to avoid
both of them?

Speaker 3 (13:16):
And I realize you're trying to hang in there as
long as you can and have something develop, and then
right before you get to that point, you're just rushing
it and getting rid of whatever, just getting whatever you
can get.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
But you've been around long enough.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
You're almost twenty eight years old, and this is your
what seventheiths during the NFL, I thinking is just get
rid of the damn ball? Right Like, you're not Russell
Wilson in his prime. You don't have that kind of
wheels that Russell Wilson had. You know, I mean, you're mobile,
but he's not like that.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
He's not mobile.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
He's not a potted plant. But he's also not Michael
Vick or Randall Country.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Most in the middle of the field, right, So I
know that he's supposed to throw the ball, get rid
of the ball, go through your progression and get rid
of the ball.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
I mean, there's no way that the coach can tell
him the idea here is a pick or a sack.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
No, there's no way. The idea is. The idea is.

Speaker 4 (14:06):
The worst case scenario is take the sack versus being
unsure of where you're going.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Oh, I understand that, but he should be at a
point where neither one are acceptable. That's my point. He's
getting good enough protection. I mean the ten sacks allowed
is a good thing. Like I said that, and you're like, oh,
you know, take more sacks. No, just get rid of
the damn ball, right, don't throw picks. Don't take sacks
or picks. Get rid of the ball, like that's the goal.

(14:33):
And again, if yes, if you do have to take
a sack versus shoving the ball into a window where
there's ten defenders in your face.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Obviously you'd rather have what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
I'm just asking where what do you mean by just
get rid of the ball If you're not throwing at
someplace where there's defenders.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Thrown out of bounds, dirt it whatever. There's a million
things you can do with the ball.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
I mean, yeah, you can also take a grounding too,
if you're gonna.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Get well yeah, But Dick, I just I feel like
you are literally tell me that on any certain play
you're saying that you'd rather have a sack than a pick.
Clearly all of us agree with that. But why can't
it be neither? Why can't it be neither? Why can't
that be the goal? Because I've heard other people say
that too. I heard me to come say that on
ESPN like two days ago, that he just needs to

(15:16):
take more sacks instead of throwing an interception, And my
reaction watching mena no disrespect to her, was well, no kidding.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
I mean, clearly everybody agrees that if we're.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Choosing between a sack and an interception, we'd all rather
have this.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Let's ask you. We'll ask you when he comes on today.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Is it just as easy as what you're saying, just
I don't think it's I don't think it's that easy.
But I think that's why he's making thirty five million
dollars a year, because he's he's got the ability and
the intuition to do that. I mean, this is an
offensive line that I think is way better than it
was a year ago, way better. I think it's incredible
the job that John Schnider's done with this offensive line. Now,

(15:53):
a lot of that's due to Gray's abel and if
he's not healthy and knock on wood, who knows, right,
And I do think that there are if there are
opportun tunities where instead of just shoving the ball into
a tight window, you just dirt it, or you keep
it and you go down and you live this scene. Okay, great,
but I think the goal here is to avoid all
of that, Right, that's the goal.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Well, maybe that's maybe that's on Clint Kubiak where he
needs to have a release valve that if let's say
it's Ken Walker in the flat, where Sam can just
throw it at Ken's feet, Yeah, and then it's not
a grounding come well.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
I also think that this really was not a real
problem from him up until the last couple of games.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
I mean, he's been pretty good.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Yeah, there's moments like the Niner game, like the Buccaneer game,
but for the most part, this guy has been pretty
damn good. He had two picks against Pittsburgh, did not
have more than one in any game the rest of
the way until the game with the Rams last Sunday,
did not have more than one fumble lost in any
game until he had two against Arizona. I don't want

(16:54):
to act like this is who he is. This has
just been a rough eight quarters for him in the
last cup of games, and they're lucky to be one
and one, honestly, and they're lucky to even have a
chance to be two and oher in those two games.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
It shows you how good this team is.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
I think, all right, we're gonna break factor fiction brought
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Speaker 1 (17:16):
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Speaker 3 (17:28):
All right, Lee Sterling, our handicapper, will join us in
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radio show, final pick of the week for us, Just
two more weeks, right, guys in the contest, as I
read Jackson next week and one more three?

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Do I have that right now? This one and two more?

Speaker 7 (17:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Week thirteen, Week fourteen, we're done, yeah, week twelve. So
we are clinging to a percentage points lead, which is
amazing considering that we have the twentieth best every single week.
By the way, on this radio station, I have to
wait until the end. I got a bunch of morons.
Almos said something else, by the way, texting what you

(18:09):
think I was gonna say, just for giggles to four nine,
four to five one. But it's amazing that we are
in the position that we're in, given the millstone that
we have around our neck, that we have to wear,
the unbelievable disadvantage that we play from on this radio show.
You kidd me, if we had the morning shows advantage
every single week, we'd be kicking everybody's ass in this contest.

(18:30):
So we'll get to our pick coming up in a
minute here, But if you have Fubo, you might want
to make other plans to watch the Husky game tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
By the way, seven point thirty NBC.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
I got an email this afternoon guys from our friends
over at Fubo who say that they have been trying
to here we go with another carriage dispute. By the way, Dick,
they have been trying to negotiate, in good faith negotiations
with NBC Universal to renew their long standing content agreement
to distribute their networks to consumers. Unfortunately, we believe NBCU

(19:04):
has offered terms regarding pricing and packaging that are egregiously
above those offered to other distributors. So as a result, NBC,
as of two o'clock Pacific time today, is no longer
available on Fubo. How about that, Here we go with
another stupid carriage dispute, just like YouTube had last week

(19:24):
with the Disney people, and now it's happening with Fubo.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
And dude, here's the thing about it.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
I went on Twitter and I said, look, if Oregon
loses the game to usc tomorrow, the Oregon udub game
probably is going to be a four to thirty on
NBC next Saturday. I didn't even realize or didn't even
process it that tomorrow's game is on NBC.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Like, what are we worried about next week? Tomorrow's on NBC.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
This is the exact reason the three of us left
Comcasts to go to Fubo because the Husky football game
was not offered on Comcast because the Big twelve network
the peacock right right, So we went to Fubo, and
Fubo has.

Speaker 7 (20:02):
Been very nice.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
I've been very pleased with And you said this.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
I was like, well, no, my guide says right here,
I've got NBC and you said click on it. Yeah,
so I did, and instead of a picture showing up,
it says we're working hard to bring this channel back.
We're currently negotiating with NBC Universal and hopeful we'll be
able to bring this channel back. You shoit it better
be like within twenty four hours or here comes YouTube TV.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Well, typically what happens is they get to games like
that and you know, enough people complain and they fix it.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
But I don't know, man.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
I mean, if you've got Fubo and you're hoping to
watch the Husky game tomorrow, the cool thing about this
new world order, if you will, is.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
That, Okay, I'm not happy boom.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
I go into Fubo, I hit cancel, I go over
to YouTube TV and I sign up.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Takes me a minute and I'm done.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
There's no returning boxes, there's no bringing remotes back, there's
no calling the cable company. I can log on, I
can make a change with one click, and I'm done.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
I think this is kind of just the ultimate ultimate
solution to what we have been really frustrated with with
the going way back to cable right where you pay
for a thousand different channels that you don't need. Okay,
well we're going to condense that into Fubo YouTube TV.
There's going to be the carrier's disputes no matter what
you use. And I kind of don't think that there

(21:17):
is a perfect solution. This is the ultimate solution that
we have, and I think we're kind of just gonna
have to go over and over and over no matter
what you have.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
And the payoff is that again, you can switch easily, right,
It's it's easy to switch. You know, if if everybody
only had Comcast or they only had streaming, and they
had to get to Comcast and get the equipment to
that'd be a much different animal.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Like, this is so easy, And I'll be totally honest
with you, man.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
You know, I've given buddies my Fubo password and they've
borrowed or I've borrowed their YouTube password if I needed,
and it's no problem, no problem at all. So outside
of it being a little bit of I mean, it
is a pain in the ass. It is something you
got to think about. But it's actually from a consumer's perspective,
you can fight back pretty easy.

Speaker 6 (22:05):
It's just the reality of our current situation. We're gonna
deal with it for a long time. I think I
would love to ask.

Speaker 4 (22:11):
The Texters at four nine four or five to one,
if you are still hand hanging on to Infinity Cable, why.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
They have NBC. True, but I mean so is YouTube
TV though, right, But they're paying.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
They're paying twelve bucks for this cable box and three
bucks for that cable box, and four bucks a month
for that cable box and five bucks a month for
that one.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
It's easy. It's easy.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
It's easy to not have to worry about it and
take all your wires and cables apart and take everything
back to a Comcast store.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Hey, I get it.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
I mean, if you're happy and you're content, and you
feel like you're getting everything you need and maybe you
don't really worry about your bill and you got the
money and you know whatever, just life goes on. But
I mean, I tell them Jackson. When I made the move,
I felt like I would beat in the man like
I want.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
God, how much money do you? How much money did
you say?

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Saving overall when it comes to internet, and then we
have to go here in a second, when it comes
to internet, my television program which is everything, and then
my cell phone.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
I'm saving over two hundred dollars a month. Incredible.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
After I made the switch, I got rid of Verizon Welcome,
and I got rid of Comcast Jackson, and I'm saving
a couple hundred bucks a month, which again I just
feel like, you know, hey, man, that's.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Real power that I control.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
H beating mobile baby Factor fiction right now, go where's
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Speaker 2 (23:21):
Glad you're with us?

Speaker 1 (23:21):
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Speaker 2 (23:27):
It's Factor fiction.

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Speaker 3 (23:40):
Film All Right, here we go Factor fiction brought to
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head to head against our buddy Ian Ferness, which is
a great idea because Ian has generally stunk with his
picks this year.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
I didn't going again.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Sam is probably just a good idea in theory, just
in practice is a great idea. But on Monday, he
took the Rams minus the points. They're back home. The
Rams are against Tampa Bay, Okay on Sunday Night Football.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Here's the thing. That game's also an NBC.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
Okay, so that's twenty million viewers. That are about five
million they have full we'll probably text.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
Never mind never mind the Husky game. But the Rams
and Bucks on Sunday. So the Rams are flying high
after their big win over the Seahawks. They've won five
in a row. They're due for a loss. Tampa Bay's
lost two in a row. They're not gonna lose three
in a row. And if they do, they're gonna keep

(24:44):
it tight. They're getting seven, we're getting even more value
right than we would have gotten on Monday.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Ian got the Rams minus six and a half.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
We're taking the Bucks now plus the seven in LA
on Sunday night, as the red hot Rams will look
to keep their going. I think the Rams probably win
the game, but I also think it's gonna be a
really tight game.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
I like the points.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Give me Baker Mayfield and Tampa Bay on Sunday night,
and Baker's.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Got to warm up.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
He has not been the same Baker Mayfield he was
in September. In October, only one hundred and fifty two
to two seventy three and one seventy three in the
last three games, two of the three losses. But I'm
totally with you. I love this pick right now. Chris
Godwin's supposed to be back to back in Mayfield this week,
so that should have proved the passing game. This should
be a down to the wire. Yeah, the Rams may win,
but this should be a three or four point game

(25:30):
either way.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
And if you got Foodboa, you won't watch it whatever,
You'll watch it at a bar somewhere. So anyway, Tampa
Bay plus the seven is the pick in Factor Fiction.
I brought to you by our friends at the Lucky
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(25:51):
and twenty seven. We are twenty six and twenty five,
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Speaker 2 (26:05):
End of the year.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
We're gonna break our handicapper, Lease Starling gonna join from
Paramount Sports next on ninety three three. By the way,
real quick, the talk back or the uh sorry bounce back?
Is that still not fixed? Correct?

Speaker 6 (26:17):
I'm seeing we sent texts in the two pm hour.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
It might be fixedkaated. But in case it isn't, we
got your we got your picks correct, and somebody can confirm. Hey,
is anybody out there getting a bounce back? Let us
know at a four nine, four to five one. But if
you're not getting a bounced back text, we're getting to
your picks.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
It's fine.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
We're gonna break Lee Sterling our handicapper. Next on ninety
three three KJRFM, It's.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
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the Paramount Sports brought to you by bail Breaker Brewing,
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(26:59):
with Lee, here's Suffy and Die.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
All right, Well, this son of a bitch was four
and one last week on the radio show, but it
was not the four and one we were looking for.
If he just could have gotten me through Sunday morning,
we could have hedged and we could have made a
couple of bucks. Instead, he blows the USC game and
the hedge dream fizzled out.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Dick on Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah, but a good weekend nevertheless, very good four and
one on the week thirty four, twenty five and one overall,
and he joins us again from Paramount Sports in South Florida.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
How are you pel?

Speaker 5 (27:37):
I'm all right, another Friday, three fridays in a row.
My website got hacked, my bank account got hacked, and
this weekend Twitter got hacked. Wow are you behind it? Ah?

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Well, maybe if you'd changed your password every decade, you'd
stop getting your stuff hacked. And by the way, next
time you want to go four and one, can you
go in the proper order? By the way, this weekend hedge,
For God's sakes.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
I'll try so I should change my password. It shouldn't
be Canes two thousand and one best team ever.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, no bar mits for boy eighty five doesn't work
anymore either, by right, yamaka face.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Gino Tarretta for Heisman. Get rid of this stuff.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
Well, let's go to the games this week thirty four
to twenty five and one overall. After a four and
one week Oregon at home against USC the Ducks are
given nine and a half. And I agree with what
Rick new Heiseel said yesterday on the radio show. This
is essentially a playoff game for both these teams. If
either team has any aspiration of being in the postseason,
they better plan on winning tomorrow.

Speaker 7 (28:42):
I would agree with that.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
So here here's what I see in USC.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
I mean, the conditions last.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
Conducive to great football.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
But now we got to put them back on hold. Lee,
I got to cut you off. Your phone's breaking up.
You're selling like a Jiffy pop machine or something like that.
So why don't we get him figured out? Find out
what the hell's going on there?

Speaker 2 (29:00):
We don't typically have this problem with Lee.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
By the way, do we do we like give the
phone company just like do we pay and trade the
phone company?

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Do they get a gift cards? Like gift cards?

Speaker 3 (29:13):
And there's only so far the phone company will go like, hey,
if you go past Oklahoma or you go past Dallas,
you got to give us a couple extra bucks.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
Man, This stuff drives me freaking nuts.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Are we sure that Oregon loses and they're out? That's
why I'm not positive. But with their schedule, it's so lame.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
I've played nobody, Dave.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
They're not going to have a real great resume if
they lose two games, they're not going to have a
real great you know case to make the final to
make the playoff.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
Man.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
So that's the point that Rick new Heisl made yesterday,
and I totally agree. I think, look, clearly USC is
out because all three losses, and if Oregon's out, they'll
have two losses.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
I'm not a great resume.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
So I think if you're the Oregon Ducks, you better
damn will playing on winning tomorrow. All right, Lee's back
with us. We got his phone fixed. We're all did
to go Ducks. Minus the nine and a a half
against USC, go.

Speaker 7 (30:02):
So USC last couple of years.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Charmansoft on defense this year against five pretty tough teams
in the trenches Iowa, Notre Dame, Michigan, Nebraska, Northwestern won
four of the five games. I think the difference here
for this Oregon team is three of the top four
receivers they projected coming into camp are not playing right now,

(30:25):
and they just can't take the top off the defense.
Get those your easy scores. They used to score in
two three plays, get up fourteen twenty one to zing
game over, but now they're having to drive eight to
twelve fourteen plays, more chances for penalties, more chances for turnovers.

Speaker 7 (30:43):
I think Oregon finds a way to win.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
I think they hold on here twenty eight to twenty five.
But I think nine and a half points is way
too much.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Got a good game, Well, Washington should be better than UCLA,
should beat UCLA. But Lee, we've seen a lot of
better Washington teams go to the Rose Bowl and lose
to lesser UCLA teams. Washington's given ten and a half.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
Well, at least they're not traveling east here, and I
like the fact getting some young kids on the field.
Jordan Washington look really good. Dave and I were texting
about him. I'd even put the kid in a slot.
I mean, he's a guy that he can you know,
he can score in one play. You need guys like that.

(31:26):
Even some young receivers starting to work their way in here.
Ucla the turnovers here and they can't hit on big
plays here. Even special teams haven't been great.

Speaker 7 (31:38):
I like the Dolts here. I think they win and
cover here thirty eight to seventeen, all.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
Right, that would be big, and they haven't done something
like that against UCLA.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Down there in a long long time.

Speaker 7 (31:47):
Man.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
How about the NFL Niners minus seven back at home
against Carolina, I believe on Monday night football San Francisco,
right there in the seventh seed. I mean, hell, they
haven't played real well and not a lot of people
were talking about them. But if they win this one,
they're an eight and four football team.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Man.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
So how about the Niners given points against Carolina Monday?

Speaker 5 (32:08):
Yeah, so brock Perty obviously's back. Bryce Young, I mean
he got banged up in that game last week, but
still through for four forty eight. His receivers are making
plays here finally, and their defense, I mean they were
dead last last year, middle of the pack this year.
I think this line's too high. I mean, so many

(32:29):
games are you know, end on three, four, six and seven.
Winning by more than one touchdown is tough here, even
against the team that hasn't traveled well historically. I think
the forty nine Ers win the game here twenty four
to twenty one, but their pass rush doesn't scare them anymore.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
Panthers cover the Rams coming off the win. Despite being
really outplayed by Seattle. The Rams get the victory, and
they've been as impressive as anybody, but they are given
a lot of points at home to the Bucks a
full touchdown of seven yep.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
And another game here the Bucks. You know, they they
play well, they travel well, I mean thirteen and five
until last week. I think that they got an easy
road after this game, maybe the easiest schedule. So guys
are starting to get healthy. We saw three more players
including Higby, get injured here. They're not going to be

(33:19):
playing for a while for the Rams. That was one
of their safety valves here for Stafford Baker Mayfield hadn't
done anything in a while. He finally takes him down
to the wire, and it's about time he pulls the
upset here. Okay, Baker, Baker, the touchdown maker Tampa Bay
pulls off the shucker here twenty five to twenty three.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
I love it well. If that happens and the Hawks
are in position.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
To get right back in it in the NFC West,
they would tie the Rams at that point. The Rams
would still have the tiebreaker with the win last week,
but they could tie him in the win column if
they can do the impossible. And let's go to Nashville
and beat the low league Tennessee Titans. And we looked
at up Lee have nine nine total touchdowns on the
entire year.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
At nine times nine times.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Nine, thirteen and a half's a big number on the road, though, Lee, what.

Speaker 7 (34:10):
Do you think it is?

Speaker 5 (34:12):
Cam Warred only six touchdown passes, no games with more
than one touchdown pass here Seattle, I mean Sam Donald
plays average. They win the game by double digits last week.

Speaker 7 (34:24):
We all know that.

Speaker 5 (34:25):
Titans fewest points in the league fourteen point three. They
shouldn't have a win I think Seattle's going to lay
it on him. Sometimes you gotta lay it if you
want to play it. Seahawks forty one to ten.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Wow, all right, game of the week, Bear's Pittsburgh. That's
a good one. And you got something up your sleeve
as always, don't you, big boy.

Speaker 7 (34:45):
Something up both sleeves here. I love this game. Here.
You want to get Bears surprising seven to three, Steelers
looking to play spoilers and maybe getting the playoffs. Two.
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Speaker 5 (35:01):
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Speaker 3 (35:16):
All right, you're the man, and then picking the locks
with MJ on Friday at seven o'clock coming up tonight, Lee,
You're the man, great stuff, and.

Speaker 7 (35:22):
We'll talk somebody all right, thanks guys.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
All right, Lie Sterling.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
He likes usc to cover against Oregon, Huskies to cover
against UCLA. He likes Carolina plus the seven against the Niners.
Tampa to win outright against the Rams and cover and
the Hawks given the thirteen and a half against the Titans,
I know we gotta break real quick. Teresa Walker, AP
and Nashville will join next segment. Have you guys see
the next four games for the Niners, by the way,
our next three games Carolina, the Browns, and Tennessee. That's

(35:49):
who they play in their next three games, and they're
seven and four.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
You gotta hold them off.

Speaker 7 (35:53):
We do.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
We're gonna break. There is so Walker the ap in Nashville.
She may have more touchdowns herself than the Titan is
due next on ninety three three k j R N

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