Anything Better? - NFL Picks & Preview | Week 5

Episode Date: October 3, 2024

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What's up everybody and welcome back to the Anything Better podcast show NFL edition for week number five. With your host me Paul Verzi over here, Bilber over there. Got the Greek freak out in Beverly Hills over there and you know this ain't a show without Jake the Snake with the injury reports. Bill, I just got, oh, you know what? Before we do that, let's just shout out our sponsor.

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If the bet does lose, oh, don't you worry, because bonus bets will be available once your initial wager is settled. We also have the first touchdown offer here, which is always fun. You simply place a prop bet on who the player you think is gonna score the first touchdown in any NFL game if your player doesn't score but instead scores the second touchdown you'll get your stack back in cash. Bill I just got good news. week I went three and one and somebody goes no I think you went four and oh and I go I don't know

if the packers covered and I just found out that I did get that and I went four and oh which fuck did I need so it felt better to hear that that's good you're back Paul Verzi in October no not back but I'll take it um dude this has been the most miserable fucking year gambling Dude, this has been the most miserable fucking year. Gambling. This fucking year, I don't know who the fuck anybody is. It's so weird. It's like the Bills kicked the shit out of whoever the fuck they kicked the shit out of and then they play the Ravens and it's like they can't even play football.

Oh my God. I just, I fuck this year, dude. Fuck this year. Dude, Cincinnati, I don't give a fuck. All I know is my pats suck. That's the only bet I fucking hit last week. Everybody like who the fuck is anybody right now, Paul? Who the fuck can you look at the team and be like, this team is this, this team is that. I'm telling you, dude, I am getting NBA in the 2000s vibes. And my prediction is the fucking Chiefs are

going to play the Ravens in the AFC championship game and the Chiefs are going to play the Ravens in the AFC Championship game and the refs are going to fuck the Ravens because the Chiefs are their fucking cash cow. That's their story. Patrick Mahomes, is he the next Tom Brady? Can they fucking three-peat? Oh my God, Taylor Swift. That's their cash cow. So the level that you're going to have to beat those guys, you're going to be up by like fucking 17, 18 points in the fourth fucking quarter. We should do a side bet. Me and you should do a side bet because I think somebody takes the chiefs out this year. I don't think the chiefs are going to three-peat this year. So if you want to do a side bet, we should do that. What is giving you that indication, Paul? That's like the level of fucking holding that those fucking guys do is just, it's fucking insane.

On both sides of the ball, on both sides of the fucking line and the refs are just standing there. Yeah, no, I mean, listen, there's definitely favoritism, but I think a team's gonna just already be- Dude, they're literally like, he goes like this to huddle up, he does his stupid thing,

and they fucking zoom in on his fucking hand. It's a fucking movie, dude. It's a fucking movie, dude. It's a fucking, what am I watching? Where's this fucking lethal weapon? Where the fuck's my camera? Where's the camera? They zoomed in on it. Yeah. Yeah. No. Let me answer this question. You've been watching NFL longer than me. When was the last year that the NFL was this weird and unpredictable with 15-15-10? Why is the commander all of a sudden fucking great last week? Dude, two weeks in a row. And then this week I'm supposed to be like, oh, they fucking turned it around.

And now the Ravens kicked the shit out of the Bills. I'm supposed to say, oh, that's who the fucking Ravens are. They're going to lose this week to the Bengals. Listen, Paul, every year I fucking lose to the book like most people, but not like this year. This year is just like this is it's like every team is fucking bipolar. Yeah, no, it's weird. I'm over it, dude. I don't give a fuck. I just picked four fucking teams that I don't give a shit. I'm like a housewife at this point. Speaking of that, you go first. All right. I'm going to take the the past minus one playing the Dolphins

they're fucking they're a chicken without a fucking head they don't have a quarterback. And I feel like we have a good coach we played good enough on the first two games that we can beat a team that's as banged up as the Dolphins are. That's

minus one now watch will lose by forty and next week will win by 40. I'm gonna take, I like that. I think that unfortunately the dolphin season is horribly because of that injury. I hope that tour guy's gonna be all right, man. I know, man.

He's a young kid, he's got his whole career ahead of him. I'm gonna take Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets getting two and a half. Everybody thinks the Vikings, this and that, and I keep saying Sam Donald's gonna lose and he hasn't yet, but if the Jets lose this one, I just think the Jets are gonna figure something out and I think Sam Donald is due for a bad game.

I know I said that two weeks in a row. I'm just going to take the Jets getting two and a half in Minnesota. I'm going to take the Chiefs getting five and a half, laying five and a half Monday night. I like that officiating crew. I think they like Taylor Swift. You know, I think the Kelsey brothers should do some more commercials. And you know, I think we should just gas these guys up, just make them as big as they can as we wait for the next Brady, Elway, Peyton Manning to fucking show up in the league. In the meantime, we'll just keep propping these guys up.

I'm going to take them minus five and a half against Derek Carr and the Saints. How funny is that if you were like this? I gotta tell you, I looked at the report of the officials. These guys don't like barbecue. They don't like vinegar based. They like molasses based, so I'm going to take the

chiefs over the Panthers. Alright, um. I like that pick. Let's see here. You know what? I'm going to take the commanders. I'm going to take the commanders. The Browns have had so many opportunities. They just, you know, I think this Jade and Daniels kid, this rookie is really kind of good. We'll see what happens.

I could be wrong, but I think that they're going to hit a stride this year right now, and I'm going to take them minus three and a half. I don't love to have a point, to be honest, but I think that they're a better team than the Browns. So I'm gonna take the command of the moment. I agree with all of that, Paul, and that's why I'm taking the Browns, because it makes no fucking sense

that they're gonna show up and win. Oh, a little head-to-head? Nice. I got two head-to-head. I got another one coming for you. Oh, I like it. All right. Nice I got two heads ahead. I got another one coming for you. Oh Like it all right, I don't give a fuck I'm like the angry voter right now Wait for some guy with the two by four this tell me that he's gonna turn the country around and I'll vote for him Even though he can't complete a sentence All right. Um, oh

man Dude I'm gonna go. I'm gonna take the Packers again. I'm gonna take the Packers minus three against the Rams. I don't know who the Rams are. One week the Rams win, the next week, I don't know. I'm gonna just fucking stick with the Packers because their backup quarterback is good and their first and their first string quarterback is good Minus three is love playing

Jake oh, yeah, Jake. We need a little Jake the snake appearance. Hey Thank you for the ladies. What do we got? Jordan love is expected to play this week. Yeah Yeah, he's he's back. He was back last week, you know, they're limiting him in um, because he yeah, he's he's back he was back last week You know they're limiting him in practice, but he's gonna he's gonna play again Um, so so you like him against Vince Farragamo? Yeah, I do effort Tough as nails getting it done with his two top receivers out

Um, yeah, all right. He's a great player. Well, guess what? I like Sam Darnal. After saying I don't like the quarterback with Darn in his last name, I'm gonna go with the Vikings. I just think, uh, I don't fucking know. The Jets allegedly have a good defense. Where the fuck has that been the last few weeks? Yeah. Um, Um, dude, I watched this fucking video on Moses Malone. Yeah. Moses Malone, dude, like, you never saw it like a guy back then. He moved like a fucking point guard. He could handle the ball. He'd go under the trees, go up and under him, and do a fucking layup and pick his seven foot legs up. He could dunk on anybody in the league.

Was he seven foot? Yeah. Wow. He was a man child. He came right out of high school, went right to the, I think he went to the ABA. I think the Houston Rockets were ABA. I can't remember. But I'm listening to people talking about him and God bless Bill Walton, rest his soul.

But he goes, no, he wasn't the most skilled player. It's like, what are you talking about, dude? Yeah. What are you talking about with your banged up feet? Your fucking headband. He wasn't the most skilled player. The guy was fucking unbelievable. He took the 76ers to the promised land.

Yeah, I didn't even know Moses come first. I think people can't give it up for somebody's fucking great. This is, I shit on the promised land. Yeah, I didn't even know most people can't give it up for somebody's fucking greatness is I shit on the chiefs. Old Billy hypocrite here. No, no, no, no, you're right. They did, come on man, they know. All right, here we go.

My fourth and final pick. This is the one that I- I do like that Rishi Rice and I also liked that defense and I like. The. Holding. Rashi rice is out. Rashi rice is out Rashi rice is out his knee is ripped he's gone for a year.

Oh fuck me. But now they still got what's his name. I'm probably gonna lose that one. Well can I punt this week. Is that all right. Can I just take a knee? Can I Jeff George and turn around and throw the ball out of the fucking end zone? I mean, I don't know who the Raiders or Broncos are.

I haven't gone three and one in like a fucking year. I go two and two every week and then once in a while I get a one and three and then I fucking lose four games to the book every fucking year. Your Billy Winsome looser. Not Billy Winsome looser. I'm goingome loose on them. Fucking I'm going under. Lifeguard is fucking talking to some hot chick on the beach. I'm going under for the third time over here, Paul. Oh, I hate this Falcons Bucks game.

It's a division game. It's I hate it. What the fucking years last week. I know. Where the fuck did that come from? What's going on? The Eagles are the Eagles not playing. Oh, fuck did that come from? What's going on? Oh, the Eagles are the Eagles not playing. Oh, the Eagles played, right?

What's going on? Why are the Eagles not on here? Is that a biweek? The Biden's still president. The second he said he wasn't running, I haven't seen him since. Oh dude, I did a joke about that on stage in Tampa. I go, get in the basement and shut up.

I go, shut up. I wanna hear it. I just had him on the back porch on a. I go, shut up. I want to hear it from you. I just had him on the back porch on a fucking rocking chair with a blanket on his legs. This Bill Texans game is literally a pick-em. It's a literal pick-em in Houston. The Bills are coming off a bad loss. I'm not going to touch it.

They're coming off a great win. And then a bad loss. And then you got the fucking Arizona Cardinals. Look at them every other fucking week. In all the years I've watched NFL football, this is the first time I feel like I'm throwing a dart at a board. I don't know. I mean, there's a couple I like, but I don't know. You know what I'm gonna do?

Paul, usually by this time of the year, you're kind of fucking starting to figure out who people are. At least I like to think. I'm gonna take, this is what I'm gonna do. Cause if they lose now, if they lose now, the season is over. They just gave this kid fucking $200 million and they're 0 and 4.

I'm gonna take the Jacksonville Jaguars at home, minus two and a half against the Colts, who I believe, Richardson is out, right Jake? We don't know for certain. He's questionable, but he could, yeah, he's banged up, but he could play in that game. I'm going to take, I'm going to take Trevor Lawrence. Uh, he seemed like a nice kid when I see him, when I saw him eating a buffalo

chicken sandwich at a golf course in Vegas. He's 0-4. He's 0-4, dude. If they go 0-5, I mean, his chances are already out. I don't like the way he's looking at his offensive coordinator. Dude, he's looking mad at everybody. He's looking at us like we have any fucking answers. Like, what are we doing here? That's the thing. The problem is not Trevor Lawrence. Somebody with a clipboard isn't giving them the right shit Yeah, I'm just gonna take them at home because it's under a field goal a field goal wins it and they need their o and 4 They're desperate in front of a home crowd. There you go. My fourth and final pick and I'm sticking to it

Well, I would have a better chance of picking a Korean baseball game right now than I could pick a fucking NFL game. Yeah. If anybody is out there, whatever I picked, go the opposite. You're going to go with- Is anybody out there? Okay, you're going to go at least fucking three and one. Who sang that song? Is that Van Halen? That was Def Leppard.

Def Leppard. Yeah. What is it? Photograph? Which album, Bill? Is anybody out there? I think that's the Pyromaniac album. Def Leppard, yeah. What is it, Photograph? Which album, Bill? Anybody? Day out there. I think that's the Pyromania album.

Does anybody care? Is that what they say? Anybody wonder? Dude, by the way, Def Leppard, underrated, I think. So good. Pyromania, it was Pyromania. Pyromania. What year, Andrew?

Pyromaniac high and dry. Those, those, those are the, those are the. 1983 pyromaniac dude. I'm going to start downloading it. You know what? I'm flying out to Washington to hang out with my buddies this weekend. Oh, the Jordans are packed. The Jordans are in the fuck it. The Jordans are in the luggage with the crease beast. I'm coming out there and I may put some deaf leopard

in the ears on the fucking. Wait, what's the crease piece? Do you have shoes? Do you have shoe trees for your sneakers? I, there's a new invention, Bill. You see, he's laughing. He's so excited. I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You see, he's laughing. He's so excited. I am.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bill, you know me. Wait a minute. Do you have shoe trees for your gym shoes? No, listen to me. Yeah, yeah, Bill, you know when I get excited. Bill knows me well. So the sneakers crease.

So they tried doing these. The old invention was like this ugly plastic thing, but a sneaker head came up with it. Oh, Bill, there's gotta be a better way. Here's what- I swear to God, sneaker heads are the gayest straight people in America right now. But this guy knew what he was doing.

He came up with a cushy thing that goes in. Oh, did he? And I'll show you. Do they look crisp and fresh? Oh, dude, they're really comfortable. Oh, wow. I'm gonna show them to you. Oh, dude, they're really comfortable. Oh, wow. I'm gonna show them to you. That's amazing, Paul.

Maybe you can fucking laminate them and walk around. They could be shiny and new your whole fucking life. No, they're inside the shoe and cushy. Paul, I can't even, isn't anything more fucking boring than listening to two sneakerheads talking about which Jordans they like the best. And they're always like 50 year old guys. Yeah, I don't like that.

The men's with the flying Jordan guy in teal. Over. Dude, I got a matching bathrobe. You like chicks with their fucking shoes in the closet. They're sneakers. No, no, listen, I'm not like that. Look at these fucking things. Worn. Jordan 1s. Those are classics. Yeah, smokes. I didn't fucking walk around and put fucking shoes in them. What's a shoe tree? A shoe tree is what a salesman puts in those wooden things you put inside your fucking

wing tips. Oh, oh, like when they're off. Yeah, so you don't look like Willie Loman when they look down at your feet going, should I buy something off of this guy and your fucking shoes are collapsing like your dreams? My dad had those big wooden blocks that he had put in his shoes. Yeah. I don't know what you meant. I know he was barefoot and his shoes had tassels on them.

Garin fucking teed and he had shorts, Larry Bird shorts on. Yes, there we go. That's a shoe true. Yeah, my dad had the wooden ones that were like shiny. It's hysterical. The amount of brand new Jordans that are thrown out because they get a crease in them and floating in the ocean that some sea turtles fucking floating around.

This 45 year old men have to walk out of the house looking like it's the first day of school and eighth grade every day of life. I don't know why people don't donate them to people that need sneakers. There's a whole fucking thing for that. Homeless people and shit. Like why would you throw them out? I don't know what you guys do with them. And then I don't know.

Paul, I mean, I literally watched you walk on your heels for a quarter of a mile. Yeah, those were- Where were we? In Minneapolis, you walked on your fucking heels with your toes up. That's one of the greatest laughs me and Bartnik ever had. I almost went over and took your hand. I was gonna take off my North face

and put it over a puddle. I remember that. Trying to think which one those were. I think those were... When are you gonna stop dressing like Jay-Z in 2002, Paul? No, I don't got jeans like that. You made the album, how crazy is that? Look what I got on now. I got these. Oh, oh my God. Yeah, these are $30 Marshalls. Caitlyn Jenner threes.

These are the dad twos. Were those Reeboks? It was a Reeboks. Yeah. I'm just, fuck, dude, I'm just, listen, I don't give a fuck about your sneakers. I just fucking, you know, You went one and three. Just this fucking betting this year for me, it's just been a bad relationship.

Dude, you're doing better than I am. Shit. Dude, what about me? I was down eight games I was ready to fucking people were going. Hey verzi. I lost my house on you Have going for you is this delusion? Yeah, like when I lose I'm like I suck when you lose you're like, this isn't me. Yeah, this is It's the funniest shit. I can't see it. I can't see it. I'm not seeing it.

It's like everybody who gambles fucking loses. Not me. But dude, you're on you. Paul, the only thing I have going for me this fucking season is watching you for Pete. I don't want to put pressure on you, but if you fucking let me down. Bill, the officials are against me. I'm like the Chiefs. I'm glad you won this week

because I didn't want to listen to you whining about another bet you lost by half a point. Half a point. Well yeah I mean if you took the other team you would have won by half a point. I'm just here to say that I can't pick I can't fucking throw it in the ocean at this point. Have you been watching any of the October baseball? No. I gotta get off the phone. I could give a fuck. Really? Yeah, I mean, yeah. That's Brewer's game? That 20 year old kid went yard like fucking Andrew Jones back in 96? Two times call. Opposite field. Tied it up in the bottom of the ninth and then they went ahead to tie the series up one to one. I love October baseball. Bill,

we won the Monday night special. Yes, we did. I have I have another fucking zoom call. Let's let's do the Monday night special real quick. Yep. Yep. I got to hit the airport. And I know all the fans are bringing the negativity, but there's somebody out there that is feeling my pain. All right. We got the Saints and the Chiefs, uh, Chiefs minus five.

You already picked them, so we'll go with that. I didn't even know Rasheed Rice was out. What a shame, dude. That kid is a fucking superstar, man. No, I like them at home. You're failing the Chiefs out more than the offensive line, holding every play. Is Rasheed Rice getting open?

Oh, that kid worthy too. That fast kid rookie is doing really good for them. All right, and what's going on? Pacheco's hurt? Jake, what's going on Pacheco? Is he hurt? Yeah, he broke his leg, so he's gonna be out for a while. But he's coming back later.

Mahomes to throw one, Kelsey to catch one. I know, Kelsey's been quiet this year, dude. I don't know what's going on. I think prime time under the lights, he's gonna do it on a Monday night game. Yeah, I believe in that guy. He's got, you know what, he's gotta be due. All right, so let's do this then.

We'll do the Chiefs to win by six, Kelsey to catch one. It touches because that Rice kid was killing it so much and that worthy guy you're bringing up maybe, I don't know. So now that that guy's hurt. I know they're stacked dude. They got a lot of talent too. I like that bet. Mahomes to throw one, Travis Kelsey to catch one.

Mahomes to go like this. Mahomes to go like this. How many, what's the under over? What's the under over on that? Mahomes to do his shadow puppets. All right. To say, Oh my God. Yeah, I got to get to the airport.

There you go. This is our picks. The Chiefs to win by six. Mahomes to throw one. Travis Kelsey to catch one. There you go. We're going to get the Monday night special two weeks in a row for you guys. There you go. Somebody's winning. All right. I got to go dude. There you go guys. I'll see you later. Next week. Bye bye, Paulie. Bye buddy. I'll see you later. Bye. All right, guys, you know what to do too. All you guys have to do is go to the Bet MGM app,

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If they don't get the first touchdown, but they get the second touchdown, you'll get your stack back in cash. It's that easy. Look, the Anything Better Show is coming. I know Bill is pissed off that he went one and three, but you know what? He's still right there. I was down eight games. Guys, I was down eight games. Look, I still have to come back because this week who knows what could happen, but now I am down four. Okay, we'll see what happens this week. We got to hope we got to hope guys, but we hit the Monday night special for you guys. Hopefully you guys stick with me. Stick with me at least for a little bit.

If I get really bad, then you don't have to. But I, you know, hey, look, I would go with the guy that did it three times. Andrew, Jake, do you guys have anything else before I get out of here? I got about five minutes here. Um, no, I mean, I'm licking my wounds after another oh, and four weeks. So I'm trying to bounce back here and, uh, catch up to you, Paul. The one thing that Bill said is right. Like this is the first year. I just don't know who anybody is. I don't know what's going on with the Cincinnati Bengals.

I think that's a team. I obviously don't know what's going on with teams like the Raiders and the Broncos. I don't know what's going on with the Jaguars. Uh, Sam Donald is all of a sudden Joe Montana and the Minnesota Vikings are the best team in football. Nobody saw that coming. Aaron Rodgers is staring at staring at the press conference reporters pissed off because he doesn't know what the fuck is going on. It's a wild, wild time. But but like everything else, Andrew, like everything else, the universe finds a way to fix itself, right? That Jets game, they're in London, Roger's knees a little, you know?

So I mean, he's on a plane, like that's not gonna be great for him. But as far as the thesis of this week goes is not knowing the teams, if you bet against the public so far this year, you're anywhere between, it depends on where you are, where you're booking, but like, you know, probably anywhere between 65, 75%. Wow. Yeah, it's crazy. So I mean, you have to look at these public games like

the Ravens and the Bills last week, right? I mean, everybody was all over the Bills because of the way the Ravens have been. So you got to look at those games and go what's up so now this week with the bills I mean that's a huge bounce back spot to a Texans team that's underperforming you know so I like I liked yeah I like the bills um I like your Jaguars pick I like your Jaguars pick. I like your Jaguars pick. By the way, Anthony Richardson is practicing, but he's only taken a few snaps. The rumor is, is that it's gonna end up being Flacco.

So we'll see. I heard that this morning. Yeah, I mean, you never know. Flacco could come in and I mean, God forbid, but I just feel like, yeah. That's a good pick. You know, look, I feel like, yeah, I, you know, look, I feel like, you know, to review my picks real quick. Um, I feel like Jayden Daniels as real. Yeah. We got our picks here. We go.

Yeah. So I got the jets. Uh, like I said, I just, and Aaron Rogers is leg is going to be in a fucking thermal chamber on that airplane. I'm not worried about that. I think, um, I think that the commanders, dude, Jayden Daniels figured something out and you know what? In week two against the giants, I saw him starting to turn a corner. And even though they won the game, they did not look good. The giants could have won that game. And since that game, he's really been good and he's starting to get chemistry. So again, I don't like the half a point, but I do like them. The Jaguars have to win. I mean, you have to win. And listen,

the Packers have been, uh, the Packers and the Lions are the two, I think the Packers and the Lions are the two teams in the NFC. Um, no disrespect to the 49ers and no disrespect to even the Vikings, but I don't think it's going to be sustained. And I think that I think the Packers showing a young quarterback can do it too. So the Vikings, I think the Vikings can be any of those teams. They've shown that they can, but as far as the Niners go, I heard this this morning, shout out Sean Green, Sports Canada Podcasts, he was saying that he had heard that this potentially could be the last season for McCaffrey because his injury did not, the treatment, which is fairly widely reported in Germany that he went didn't, perhaps didn't take because they didn't come out

and say there was any real good news And as far as anybody who's looking at the screen you see like Jake and my pick like Jake's only got one pick in and then Mine I just because I'm filling this out I just kind of put in some soft picks and then before the Thursday night game I send it off to these guys. So yeah, Jake's with you on the Packers game there. I kind of like that too Yeah, the Rams are just a lot of injuries, not a lot of consistency. I'm with you on Packers and Commanders, Paulie, so hopefully we split them. Ideally the Packers. Yeah.

Do I punch you in, Jake? Yeah. I mean, I'm not officially, but I'm leaning that way. Yeah. It's weird, but it's also like some things need to now you're getting to week five. So you're going to start to see teams. Not tank, but it's getting to the point where if you're an NFL team, if you're an NFL team and you're oh, and five or one and seven or one and six or something like that, then they really start to figure in next year.

I hate to say this to 49er fans, cause I do like the 49ers and I have a lot of friends who like the 49ers and I performed in front of the owner and the GM and the president of the 49ers and they couldn't have been cooler and I really liked them, um, so I don't mean any disrespect, but I did hear a sports analyst say it, I forgot who it was, but they said at the beginning of the season, they go, I was watching the 49ers and they just look exhausted. What they've gone through to go to the Superbowl two years in a row, I don't think people understand really what that takes. A long season beat up, you go to the Superbowl or two out

of three years, whatever it was, you go to the Super Bowl multiple times in the last few years, I should say. And to get back and do it again, and to keep everybody healthy and to keep everybody on the same page and to pay everybody, it's a lot. So I just don't know what they could sustain. And if McCaffrey is as bad as what you're saying, if McCaffrey is like, they're going, dude, this guy's leg is really screwed up. I mean, they're, they're, they're back up running back is good though. That injury report at the beginning of the year was really soft on McCaffrey. That was like, eh, he's going to be okay.

Like it's not as bad. And then it's just like, clearly it was worse. Clearly it was worse just based on preseason based on, you know, first, like it was just clearly it was worse. So I just think that's the direction that it's worse. Clearly it was worse just based on preseason, based on, you know, first, like it was just clearly it was worse. So I just think that's the direction that it's going. I think there's a little, I think they're protecting maybe him. I don't know. But, um, well Burrow had the same thing last year. So that's how I kind of knew. I was like, oh, McCaffrey's probably not going to play for the first few weeks because that's what happened to Burrow. But this is obviously a lot worse than what Burrow was going through. Yeah. Yeah.

Also Paul, you had mentioned you liked the Bengals in that. Do I? Let me see that game. I know you're not taking them. No, Bill took them. That was Bill. Bill took them. All right.

Bill took them. I do kind of like the Bengals in that spot. Kind of do like them in that spot. I don't know why. I mean, dude, their back is against the wall. I mean, look, this is like, you're playing for your life at home. I mean, you're playing for your life at home.

You can't, if they lose that game, they're one and five. If they lose that game- The Ravens' corners, yeah, the Ravens' corners are trash. And that's literally what the Bengals have is they've got T. Higgins, they they got Jamar chase. They're both healthy. They were both healthy last week, but like, I mean, chase has been, but, but Higgins was there, but yeah, it still didn't happen. And, and, uh, it's division. I mean, it's a lot. It's a good spot for the Bengals.

Uh, all right guys. Well, listen, enjoy the week. I have to go catch an airplane. I'm getting picked up here in like 20 minutes. You have the picks. You guys know the offer. Guys, bet responsibly. Enjoy it. Don't get crazy. Look, I was down eight. Now I'm down four. We'll see what happens. We're going to try to keep fighting up this battle. We're going to try to keep clawing up this mountain to see if I can do this. This is like the like this is one where I'm just like, I'm like the Niners. I'm exhausted, but I'm going to do it.

Yeah. I'll see you guys. I'll talk to you guys next week. Thanks for watching!