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Episode Date: February 1, 2021

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Two tweets back to back were National Doctor says COVID hurricane coming because of variants. And the next tweet was like, Nassau County, Long Island, 22 inches of snow through Tuesday night. I think everything will be shut down. Don't leave your house will be dangerous. It's like, well, on a positive note. Let me go find the bottle of Xanax and have one ready to go just in case. Happy Monday afternoon, everybody. This is your host is I guess what you would call me.

I'm fried talking about football. talking about football for like two weeks and there have many games so admittedly there wasn't much to talk about today I could talk about the Stafford golf trade okay in like 30 seconds or less

I think the Rams had to do what they had to do I actually think Detroit could take a look at a quarterback relatively early and you know use the capital you got by way of Jared golf to keep your team relevant

and bring the young quarterback along because Jared Goff's a good dude, man. Like you give an opportunity to prove himself in a new situation. It can be pretty tiresome to be in a situation where you kind of know the head coach I'm like you anymore, you don't like the head coach. Like that seems to be as you peel back the onion,

what's been going on there. And listen, Sean McVeigh is an offensive genius that doesn't mean everybody's going to work in his scheme. So maybe Jared needs a fresh start. I mean, the guy's won playoff games, guys been to Super Bowl, and there have been times where he's looked very good. The turnovers are the thing he's going to have to cut way down on.

And Detroit's not going to have the weapons he had in L.A. But the situation he's walking into, it feels like, you know, he was the thing you just had to grin and bear when it came to absorbing, you know, his number and getting something for Matt Stafford.

Detroit kind of did right by him from what I hear And they should have because he was getting a lot of offers I'm sure there was something that would have been better For the Lions maybe marginally better But they ended up shipping him to L.A. That's good for Matt Stafford I think they're contenders next year I think some people have said they're the number one contender in the NFC

Listen we're doing a thing where we assume that And I did this last year with the Steelers I assume that because Big Ben Hall of Famers coming back that defense is going to replicate what it did the year before in their Super Bowl favorites. And that's even though when people thought maybe they don't even win the division, I picked them win division, win the Super Bowl. Obviously things change.

One of the biggest things that changed besides like Ben Rothesberger not being back to Ben Rathesberger form and the offense changing as far as like the way they got the ball out quick and the run game got worse, the defense took a step back. and they had injuries. So, you know, you saw that defense look very different in the 32 to 18 loss to the Packers. A lot of that might have had to do with Aaron Donald being hurt,

but there's so many unknowns. You're going to lose people in free agency. You lost your D-coordinator. I do think that L.A. is a contender team now. And I am rooting for Matt Stafford. Guys, tough SOB, well-respected. He's going to get that bump of popularity because people just know what he's been through

for the better part of a decade. And as a guy who played for bad teams for a long time, you get out on the other side, and people start liking you. They start liking you a lot because they root for you. And I think quarterback, and certainly he's more well known than I was, but he's in a similar situation

as far as being in losing environments for a long time. He's going to get the goodwill of America when it comes to rooting interests. I think people are going to be pulling for him, and they should. On the other end of it, as I said, Jared Goff, he could bring along a young quarterback while trying to prove himself. He is a good dude.

Like I said, before they went into that playoff game against the Packers and it was unknown who was going to be the quarterback. Walford and him were the options. They went with Walford, but they also dressed golf and made him number two and he ended up taking a bunch of snaps, right, after Walford got hurt in the Seahawks game. all that said to me was that they were kind of done with Jared Gough and that's been confirmed, right? You know, because they knew he was healthy enough

to be at least competent. Objectively, he played well considering he had his thumb operated on a week or two before. So tough kid, definitely like mentally tough to take the field in those situations. I don't think we had any idea how much that kind of whole, that whole franchise that kind of turned on him at that point.

It's hard to go out and do your job in that situation, but he did the best he could. And I think a fresh start for him will be great, even though it's cold as fucking Detroit. Does that outweigh the fact, knowing that you're going somewhere and being wanted, does that fact outweigh the fact that you're moving from Laguna Beach to Auburn Hills

or wherever they had malice at the palace? Greater Detroit, I have no idea where you live when you play in Detroit. That's the only suburb I can think of. I'll put it this way. he's not going to live somewhere as nice as where he was before. And I think people assume he's probably going to be miserable, but I think he might also be energized by a new opportunity.

And we can't automatically assume that because McVeigh is a really good offensive football coach, that every player is going to be better in his system than elsewhere. We'll see. I think to a degree both teams win. I hate to not have like a blazing hot take, but those are the things you have to consider. if the defense carries over,

they're going to be really good in L.A. And I'm rooting for Matt Stafford, along with the rest of America. Today, we've got prop bets. Listen, that's what I want to talk about. We talk about the national anthem a lot. Jimmy Train on,

betting the anthem is tricky now. All these prop bets are tricky. We take it through our favorites for the weekend, and here's what we settled on. We do well over 10. We're going to put out a graphic this week with our prop bets. at the odds that we put them out at,

at the totals that we put them out at, and you guys are going to have a chance to, through social media, stay tuned, we'll give you the opportunity to try to beat us. In fact, if you get over 10, you're going to have a chance to win a trip to Disney World. That's right. We're giving away.

We're trying to give this trip to Disney World away. Remember we were doing that thing where we were trying to, if you guessed the intro music, by the way, I've gotten a bunch of, messages from listeners. They love the muddy waters at the front of the pod. Everybody's asked me what the song's called. Isn't there like a Shazam app or something like that?

I guess it doesn't work because everybody's asking me. It's called Tom Cat is the name of the song. We did that whole contest. And the dude who won it seems like a fine individual, Buffaloco from up there in Buffalo, New York. He doesn't want to go to Disney World. He's got a newborn. a newborn and I understand why he might not want to go to Disney World.

Congrats on getting a trip to Disney World and then doing the right thing by your newborn and not going. So we're actually going to donate something to Jim Kelly's Foundation for you and get you some sign gear. So you're taking care of Buffalo. Appreciate you. Now, if you get over 10 of these prop bets right off the graphic that's going to come out tomorrow, you're going to have a chance to go to Disney World. If you tie with somebody, include the total of the game. Just one number.

If you think there's going to be 60 points scored, include that. 61, include that. Tiebreaker is going to be total points. So pay attention. We're going to go through these prop bets. Do your homework and then look for the graphic this week. Tail end of the pod. I've got Lane Johnson stopping by.

He could only stop by for a few minutes. He is on his way. He was on his way to physical. therapy getting that ankle right. And we just bullshit for a couple minutes, checking on my guy and have him answer some of your submitted questions. So without further ado, let's get to the props and then stick around for Lane Johnson. So as promised, Jimmy joins us. And how many inches of snow are you supposed to get up there now? It's crazy. They're saying it was like, you know, six to 12, 12 to 18. Now they're like 12 to 22 depending on where you are, where I am on

Long Island, Nassau County, there's two counties, Long Island, Suffolk and Nassau. Suffolk is out east with the Hamptons and all that for people listening. And Nassau, where I am, closer to the city, we're supposed to get like 22 inches of snow. It's not good. And that, and that, and that drives the anxiety quotient up, you were telling me. Yeah. When, when they start, when the news is just bad, like, just don't ever watch. Why are you watching the news?

I'm not, but because of my job. Here's what I'll tell you a true story. This is exactly what happened to me yesterday. I'm scrolling through Twitter, which you know this. You have to do that when you're in sports media. You just can't avoid it. Can't wait to the end of the season for that reason. Right.

And I knew I had to write a column today. So I'm like, and on the weekends, I try to tune it out a lot. But it was like Sunday night. I'm like, let me see what I missed over the weekend, see if there's anything in my head to write about. And like two tweets back to back were, you know, national doctor says COVID hurricane coming because of variants. And the next tweet was like, Nassau County, Long Island, 22 inches of snow through Tuesday night. thing everything will be shut down don't leave your house will be dangerous it's like well on a positive note let me go find the bottle of zanics you have one ready to go just in case you might miss

the covid hurricane because you can't go anywhere with 22 inches on the ground well well well that was the thing covid hurricanes like a shark nato covid hurricane is not a phrase i ever want to hear on my life just just put it just yeah it's shark nato level we don't need those two things combining Even the term like variance scares the fuck out. Yeah, dude, I just, I mean, like, listen, I, on the other hand, I was telling you this, snow actually anxiety goes down for me. I'm fascinated. Yes, it's an interesting concept. And by the way, I just had like, I've had revelation on top of revelation when it comes to screen time and Twitter uses.

Like, I've been battling that intentionally for two, three years now. Yeah, we've talked about that many times. Because I have ADHD, okay? and doing some reading, ADHD, and screen time, it's like a multiplier. So what I have to do is during the season, it's tough because, and there's all types of literature on this, but like, if I spend the time that I need to spend to do my job during the season on that doom scrolling, the sky is falling, nobody can agree on anything, nobody reads anything, website, my anxiety goes up and my ADHD, similar to,

symptoms increase. So this weekend I said I had a talk with the man of the mirror and I said, I'm doing something to fix this shit. Okay. As an update. I've said this before, but I really have this time. I've had enough. I can't wait to hear this. But the, but well, generally screen time. Like for me, was getting way too high, dude. I know it's the season. I do a lot of work on my phone, but like I feel much better if I just switch to my laptop to do my work. Right. I don't know why that is because I think phones are designed so we can easily be like A, B, C, D, E, that you go from now you know what I mean you just bounce around like a pinball on the computer you have to work with more intention at least I hope yeah I was up at like 10 12 hours a couple days last week on the phone

yeah well I will say this in your defense it is Super Bowl week and you're an NFL media star now so you might want to wait till like Monday to start but if you can do it now during Super Bowl week like are you doing like a ton of interviews this week and stuff yeah I am doing a bunch of interviews I think I'm doing five. We have three pods of our own, well, not including a gambling show. You know before that I was doing two Amazon shows on top of that.

So yeah, I'm on my phone too much and it drives you nuts. So yesterday I was very proud of myself. I set a goal for under eight hours, which sounds nuts to some people on a Sunday. But I was down under five. Yeah. And that was very good for me.

That was very good for me. The snow for me, I love the snow more than anything in the world. When I wake up and there's snow on the ground, it's like it just gives me an energy burst and I feel like a kid again. I don't know if it's like the fact that the whole world shut down and there's no pressure to do anything.

There's no, I'm not missing anything. Everybody's doing exactly what I'm doing. But I feel better. I like that too. And I agree with you that. My only thing in my head is I just, I got to know that I can,

like you said, you're not going anywhere. But I got to know that I can get in my car and pull out of my driveway and go drive down the street. As long as I can do that, I just got to know I can do that. You know, the plows come.

They ply in. not shoveled out and you know then I feel like I'm trapped the plow's coming they just keep coming yeah they just keep coming I hear that that sound like somebody's dragging their trash can down the road all night long yep I'm like is somebody in my yard no it's just another snow plow um I love snow so yeah no it's you know and you have kids so like it's you know you throw them out in the snow and it's fun and all that tires them out exactly it's good stuff so so the Sunday coincidentally we got snowed in this weekend you got 22 inches we got five inches um this was the first sunday without football yeah and what i learned in the little bit of scrolling i did was that everybody has to act like they hate it with all

the fibers in their body because there's no football they have to act like they're going to withdrawals i fucking loved it i cannot wait till every sunday is like this why are people acting this way. I'm so glad you brought this up because it ties into something I wanted to tell you. So I tweeted something about this. And I didn't say I hate it. I said it's weird. It's just it's weird when you had that first Sunday where you think you have to be in front of the TV at a time at a certain time and you don't. I don't hate it. I actually, I'm with you. I love it. I just think it's a weird feeling that first one. But here's what's funny. So there was no football yesterday. And I needed to get these headphones here from the Apple store. And I haven't got out much with the pandemic. But I'm like,

It was early in the morning. I'm like, I'm going to, I'll take it right to the mall, go to the Apple store, walk around a little bit, try to move because I know I'm going to be stuck in the house. And so I get in the mall walker. No, I'm not. But yesterday, you were a mall walker. Because I knew I was going to be snowed in for three days. So I figured let me get out of the house as much as I can since you can't really even go anywhere.

Yeah, I understood. I'm in the mall, I'm walking to the Apple store and I passed the sketches store. And there is a monster, howie. No. I was a monster. And I was going to take a picture and text it to you. And I'm like, well, that would be kind of dushy. His son knows he's like the sponsors.

No, but also I love to see cardboard cutouts in my dad, especially in a sketchy. Was it a cardboard cut out? No, no, no. It was a big poster in the window. Oh, good for him. Bigger than Lifesite. I didn't know sketches had their own stores. In the mall.

You know what it would have been dochy was like somebody would have been like, this guy's taking a picture of a Howie Long Skechers poster. There was no one. And I could definitely see you two hands like fumbling to get your phone. Like, you know. Yeah, but I could have been like, I'm texting it to his son. Give me a break, you know. name drop.

And Howie was like bent over like tying the black sketches. He was a good pose for Howard. It's like first class for your feet. Yeah. He really rocks those things. He was over last night dropping off some chili. Yeah. And well, actually I went over there for a second.

He had his sketches on. He's he's not a fraud in that department. So yeah, I don't. I think it's one of those things that people are, they take the shield thing a little too far. Some people, you know, like we have to act like we have withdrawals like football is a drug. Football is not a drunk dude. Listen,

I'm exhausted on Sunday nights from watching football, betting football, losing money on football. That's why I love Championship Sunday so much as a media member because there's only two games left. As a fan, I used to love the volume

of Wild Card Weekend, and I still do. But there's something about, you know, Super Bowl Sunday, it's like, okay, it's pretty much over. And as a fan, that kind of sucks. That's why as a fan, Super Bowl Sunday was one of my least favorite weekends because you're like, it's over. It's like the final four in March madness.

See, to me, the NFL season's over now. To me, Super Bowl Sunday is a fake. Now, listen, you're a player. You wonder Super Bowl. It's real. Yeah. For the real hardcore fan, this is what I always say to people, because people get annoyed. The Super Bowl is not for the legitimate NFL fan. Now, think about this. The most watched NFL game this season, got like 30, 31, 32, 33 million viewers in that range. That's a lot of Antifa guys watching that game. I thought nobody was going to watch the NFL. The boycotts didn't work.

You're going to have 100 million plus watch the Super Bowl. Those 70 million people had no interest in the NFL the whole season. Now they come in because they want to see the commercials. They want to see the weekend. They want to see the national anthem. And they want to be part of pop culture Americana. And the networks cater those games to those people. They don't cater it to the football fan.

So to me, the real football season is over now. Like that's a spectacle and a show on Sunday. But if you're like to die hard like us, in and out every Sunday from one to when the Sunday night game ends at, you know, 1130, watch every game, digest it all. Like that's the last day of school. When I see my dad come home after he, because they did their last show last weekend and he got home and he looked exhausted and he was like, oh, I'm done. like I was so I almost forgot that he's done because like he just does football

so he's done done right you know like that relief it's like last day of school energy you know what I mean and that's kind of the way I'm going to be feeling this weekend I think we're going to do a live watch maybe we're talking about it here but like it's pretty much over so I'm pretty

happy as and I've sure enjoyed my first Sunday without it I sure did um how about this crew are you excited about the crew yeah I mean Tony's always good to listen to. Nance will give you a broadcast. This is the first time.

I shouldn't say the, this is, I'm very excited for the game because of Brady and the homes. Like, how can you not, I think this is going to do a monster rating, um, because Brady's going to bring in the fringe fan.

The person doesn't care about football is going to watch the game. Because Tom Brady has elevated himself beyond just a football player. He's a, he's a pop culture person. And, um, you know, everyone knows seven rings,

43 years old. I, and, you know, my homes, I don't think there's a better player to watch more enjoyable, more fun player and likable too, right?

Yeah, better like that. Well, that's going to be put to the test because I think there's a good chance that within a week here, we're all going to hate the Chiefs. Like the Chiefs, I've made this point over and over again, they're the most likable, like, team that's probably going to win five championships,

but they're going to test everybody's threshold for, you know. Loverage. Yeah, exactly. What is the thing overrated about the market? getting into Super Bowl Sunday, like those are two big market teams that's better for league. Like it helps, but you just mentioned it's 70 million coming in or coming in whether or not. Well, and also KC is a monster market. They do monster local numbers, Casey.

Do they really? Maybe, yeah, monster local numbers. I think they set a record for the AFC title game. I'd have to go back and check it. But Casey's a great market to have. What was the worst one in recent memory? Was it like, I don't, I'm not. Seattle, Denver was a terrible game.

Well, the Patriot Ram game was a terrible game. Was it a terrible, yeah, it was a terrible game, but you had Brady, you had Belichick, and you had the L.A. emerging market and football scenes. I'm trying to think for markets. I'm going to pull them up. You know, it's like you said, listen, markets are not going to hurt the Super Bowl. They can only help it. So it's a little bit, it's a little bit on the, on the, it's a bonus.

It's a bonus. It's not a big negative if Jacksonville plays Cincinnati, which would never. which would never happen, of course, because they're in the same conference, but I'm just picking too shitty. Yeah, like, if you did Jacksonville against. No offense to Jacksonville market. We have some Jacksonville. I had a guy DM me like really hurt and I'm sorry because one time I made a comment alluding to that like when you're in the locker room in Jacksonville after loss, nobody cares. I don't mean the fans. I mean the reporters. And here's another thing about the markets. It's also tricky and I don't want to offend you as a former ram. Like Los Angeles is the top market, New York and L.A. of the top two markets.

But the LA number is always bad because nobody in LA cares about the NFL. Right. I had a player tell me that went to L.A. That he was fucking bombed because when he went to restaurants, nobody looked at him. I was like, well, did you think it through

to its logical end? Like, you're the fifth biggest sports show in town. Like, I think they like the Galaxy more than... No, again, like these fans, I'm not trying to... But it's a fan. It's not the biggest show in town. Go look at the TV ratings, and L.A. as a market does not bring in anything close

to what other local markets bring in. You were going to say something about St. Louis. Like, no, listen, like St. Louis. No, no, it was L.A. It was L.A. Yeah, but you were like, I don't want to offend you because of St. Louis. Like, I played in a,

that wasn't a huge national market when it came to football. The fans who were there were rabid, but it just wasn't like one of those big poppy markets. So I can definitely see the difference there. And the Rams are in much better shape than the charges. I mean, look at the charges. They don't play home games because anyone who's there is rooting for the other team.

I know. I know. I always tell people when we went there when they were at that stub hub center, they went on the silent count at home. I mean, it was bad. So I'm looking at recent matchups. New England, Philly was a big one. That was a huge one.

New England, Atlanta was a big one. Denver, Carolina was kind of a funny one, wasn't it? Yeah, that's not a great one. And it wasn't the most exciting game of all time either. New England, Seattle was a good one. Seattle, Denver. They've really dodged the bullet on just a total stinker of a Super Bowl when it comes to market. Well, I've had Tom Brady in the game nine times too, which helps.

Like Indianapolis, New Orleans, if it wasn't Peyton Drew Brees, that's a tough one, right? Right. They get lucky a lot. Let's do props. Are you a big prop back guy, Super Bowl Sunday? For Super Bowl Sunday, I am. And I was thinking about this. I think your Super Bowl where you guys beat the Patriots was like my best betting Super Bowl ever.

Oh, yeah? Was there a extra point or a field goal in that game that hit the upright? I don't know, but we've got that on the list right now. I bet that one year and won it. And I think it was that Super Bowl. It could have been. You know what it could have been? I feel like maybe we missed an extra point before the half.

I think Jake Elliott missed an extra point before the half. It was that. That was my best betting. I should go find the tweet because I listed all my props that I ended up winning. And I did, Willa kick hit the upright. I got that. And there was another weird one that I got. I liked that one.

Yeah, no, yeah, during Super Bowl, L-I-I-52, for those of you guys who aren't Roman. February 4th, 2018, Elliot missed his first two extra point attempts. Yeah, he made me a lot of money. But made all three of his field goal attempts, including 40. That was, I remember, actually remember now his face just like, holy shit. That's a terrifying prospect. To be a kicker in the NFL, it's the greatest job in the world for the longest time, but it's the worst job in the world for a really short time.

Gistowski also hit the left upright. Wow. It was a doink fest in Minneapolis. I remember that being one of my best betting days of all time. I'm going to try to find it on Twitter. All I remember about that Super Bowl, well, I remember a lot about that Super Bowl. It's funny. We're about to do national anthem in a few.

you. And we'll probably talk about that at length because I went down a rabbit hole earlier. But it was so funny. I was like, yeah, I'd like to see Pink do the National Anthem, YouTube. And then it was like, I was like, what Super Bowl was this? And it was panning out. And it was like, oh, it looks like our Super Bowl. And it was our Super Bowl. I don't remember the National Anthem. Luke Bryan evidently did the National Anthem. Were you on the field? Yeah, I was on the field. It's a blur, dude. The first Super Bowl, all I remember were like, like generally an emotion of your adrenaline just being maxed out. Like just varsity blues montage is, you know, like when they did the ACDC montage and varsity blues,

like that was fitting for that game, but like that's how my brain remembers that memory. There's no specifics. There's no, you know, like you just smells, sounds, that's it. It's a fucking frenzy. I found my prop bets from your Super Bowl. Oh, what were they? Will a two-point conversion be attempted? Yes.

That was a win. And the under, for the anthem, I don't remember what that was. You should have won more money if you bet on the two-point conversion. They should have just boosted it because it was the most famous two-point conversion of all time. Plus 145 on that one. Yeah. So I got juice. over one and a half times

Giselle was shown on camera sure that one's that one's this year too it's a layup dude run to the book I remember losing I bet will Al Michaels or Chris Collinsworth say brotherly love I lost that they didn't say it can say it

will a PAT or field goal hit the goal post yes plus 400 yeah you got that winner flea flicker attempted yes plus 180 yeah how about the biggest flea flicker of all time basically. Yeah. So during the season I just bet sides and totals and then

the Super Bowl I bet all the stupid shit like that. I think I'm going to bet all the stupid shit and probably the bucks. So let's do coin toss right off the bat. Uh, heads is minus 106. Tails is minus 106. So tails never fails. That's right. That's the slogan. It's funny. The longest streak that either side of the coin ever had was five and that was heads. Yeah. But heads is HEDs is 25 times all time, Tails is 29. In the non-pandemic world,

do you like to go to casinos? I don't play like, I don't gamble like cards or chips. Because like when I go to a casino and you know how they have the roulette, like they show you the last, you know, 20 numbers or 40 numbers,

whatever it is. Like if I see like seven reds in a row, yeah, I go up there and I boom, I put my money on black. Right, probably. So like if I know that heads came out five years in a row,

I would keep betting tails till. but is it not is it aren't we just tricking ourselves into thinking that coin toss has anything to do with anything other than that coin toss absolutely so i mean like yeah i mean i'm sure somebody's like well yeah but every flip is it's in its own individual occurrence and i just want to say this being out there at the coin toss as a captain is sketchy it is because i don't know if anybody else has this feeling when they meet somebody or they're introducing somebody that they or for sure they know their name. And you second guess yourself so hard

because I'm afraid of getting names wrong that you almost stumble over your words or you fuck it up. Like it's that feeling magnified times a million. Your coach could tell you we're deferring 15 times. You can go out there and be like, oh, we want to kick.

And there's a big difference now. You know, like, so you have to be, you have to be of strong mind before you go out there and call the coin toss. Heads and tails, anybody can do that.

But what do you want to? to do with the ball when you win. It's not that automatic, dude. It's sketchy. I can remember hearing what the coach said, but you're so fucking juiced. This is like you, you guys listening are probably like you guys are all meatballs,

but I'm telling you the adrenaline running through your head and all the things on your brain before you go out to play a football game. They should literally have a designated spokesperson, not a player. But don't you get a kid, like listen, obviously there's something for tradition. I don't want to ruin traditions,

but there is something about the NFL where like some things are just so archaic. For instance, like you need to, to challenge and you're throwing out a red flag. Like the coach should be able to text the ref. We're going to defer. Just like a shock collar. Yeah.

Like a shock collar like on a dot. Use some technology here. Yeah, I agree with you there. The only thing that I don't want and I've said this before on this show is like people are like the chain should go away. There should be a laser on the football. I agree there should be like a some sort of a space age tip amplifier on the ball. But I think the chain gang should never go away.

something that's part of like the fabric of the game. That's something that will always make us nostalgic. And 30 years from now, there'll be like heart rate monitors on players. You'll be able to see their vitals during the game. You'll be able to feel like you're in the stadium sitting at home, but you should still have the chain gang because it's too nostalgic. And it's every sport.

It's not just football. Like baseball, the managers still use a landline to call to the bullpen. Yeah. And do you ever see what these poor bastards have to do when there's a rindoleon? They have to roll out the tarp? Like this 50 guys. in a hurricane trying to roll out talk

and the top's blowing in their face they're falling down like there's got to be like a button you could hit and it could roll the shit out. It's got to be a machine there's got to be a machine dude but as far as the chains are considered never never go away from it so I'll go tails too so we both called tails here good job we did a good job

now what do you just wanted to toss you defer because I'm telling you Tampa like God forbid they get the ball first it is so ugly when they get the ball in the first quarter except for the Green Bay game I have such a level of respect for the cheeses of the homes. Like I don't even think that, you know, defer, give them the ball.

They're going to score like, you know. Yeah, just make them drive 80 yards to do it, I guess is my point. You know, kick the ball off into the end zone. It's funny, I told this last week and I butchered it. I bet the anthem before I was ready to give Callias Campbell his Walter Payton Man of the Year award. So like the year after you win it, you're down there in a suit on the sideline with all the other guys. I was standing next to Toronto Armstead. And he's like, what are you doing on my phone?

And I'm like, I'm just betting the anthem. But I told it bad. I said before I was going up there to get my award and people were like, you weren't retired yet. Are you okay? Like was that okay? I was like, no, just for the record, anybody heard that last week? It was not 2019.

It was 2020. One of the things I've been surprised about thanks to being in this business and getting to no athletes over the years like yourself i can't like like do you know many baseball players bet on nfl games every sunday it's oh probably a lot more than a lot but i used to bet on other sports but that's the thing it's hard for me to believe then they just don't dabble in their own sport i know it's just such a it's there's so many options like why would you even have to like i could see a guy being like well what's the point like let me bet on a game uh you know in the other conference that's going on and we have but it's you know more than the average fans so they don't want you doing that and

nobody ever really thought about it and if they did they kept it themselves because i never heard people we we bet college football all day long you know what i mean like you bet 50 dollars 100 with a dude you know a michigan state northwestern but right right you know and you'd be i'd look for people what i'd do on saturday is i would walk around and look for people with shitty alma and most guys and most guys don't actually know this is case and point here most guys don't know what a spread is they like most guys brandon graham he knows what the spread is but he was a guy that just would if michigan was a if michigan was a dog you didn't even need to give him the points he was just like yeah straight up i was like okay great i'll take ohio state all day long

telfering your teammates oh yeah i was walking around that motherfucker are looking for the dukes of the world, but before they were good. Duke's now respectable. Okay, so Anthem. This is funny, because I did a little research this year. One of the first articles I read started, and it was one of these gambling sites.

Francis Scott Key was a lawyer from Maryland who would have been a Ravens fan with complete faith in Lamar Jackson. I was like, I'm not so sure. You know who Francis Scott Key was. I don't think he'd be a big Lamar Jackson fan, but I digress. Yeah, that's a big digress right there.

Yeah, I got a hot take for you, though. God bless America, big Pac-Man symbol, national anthem. Yeah, I mean, listen, I've written columns where I get death threats basically where I say. Like, I don't understand why the national anthem is played before a sporting event. So I'm not a national anthem guy. No, I know. But God bless America, though. I get chills every time.

I sat here and watched 15 national anthems, and I was plus, but I wasn't like. I don't understand why we need a song. before a sporting event? Well, for many years. That's what I don't understand. For many years, if the answer is tradition, okay, but if you take about the answer,

tradition, why do we need a song before a sporting event? There was no tradition, though. I mean, there was no tradition, like, I guess this is a better question. What's the funniest thing you've ever been to

that they played the National Anthem before? Like, they'll play some office shit, like some Michael Scott type, why are we playing the National Anthem on a tape recorder right now? Like before a banquet or something like that, a high school banquet. God bless America to me gives me chills, bro. Yeah, it doesn't

give me chills. So I went back and watched Whitney Houston because a lot of people say that's the best national anthem of all time. Yeah. And Whitney Houston, you could see one of the first things jumped out at you was they were panning around the stadium on YouTube. Well, not on YouTube, obviously, it's on you. But they're panning around the stadium. That was a Michael Scott line. Yeah, they're panning around the stadium on YouTube. Hey, I catch myself saying all the time, Hey, let me MapQuest that. When Michael... When Michael...

When Michael Scott wanted to have the roast of Michael Scott, and he goes, let's get YouTube down here to film it. That was basically what you just did. I did have a Michael Scott moment. I have a lot of those here. But I was watching the YouTube, and it's panning around the stadium, and there's no players.

You know, like all the ones I've been watching through the 2000s, in the late 90s, you know, whether it was Luther Vandross, Green Bay, New England, like, whatever, even a couple years after, there were players on the sidelines. there were not players on the sideline there. So there was a long period of time

where you didn't have to be out there. We weren't even on the field for quite some time during the National Anthem. I want to say it started like around the time I came in a league. So, you know, it's not, there's no true, there's no true tradition in the NFL because if it was a true tradition, we would have never taken a break from it.

And also, there couldn't be anything less related you know yeah i don't again if i go to a concert yeah you know know they don't play the national anthem before the show starts if i go to a broadway show they don't play the national anthem before the show starts if i go to dinner they don't play the national anthem before they bring me my meal i don't if you go to the movies they don't play the national anthem before i don't understand why it has to be played i think it be sick if they played the National Anthem before they brought you to your meal like what why it is sporting everybody in the restaurant has to stand up with their hand on their heart every time

somebody gets their meal yeah I mean it makes just as much sense as doing it before a sporting event I think we could get something going here I I'm just saying that I like God bless America more and by the way I mentioned I went down this rabbit hole um watched the Luther Vandross National Anthem I just mentioned dude had a crew neck sweater

crew neck sweatshirt actually a leather jacket and jeans on before Super Bowl 31 he was like ultimate uncle doing national anthem

like somebody's uncle with pipes just came in and burnt the place down and it was such a good period kind of national anthem same thing with Whitney Houston it just it screamed 90s

and guess what I saw so I'm YouTubeing this national anthem i'm just i'm i'm kind of i'm kind of going through it in my head evaluating it they're paning through you've got uh reggie white he loves it i would assume he was a big luther fan it just seems like you know that would be on reggie's pregame um you know you see brett farv and they're panning they're panning Doug peterson my man doug e p for like two seconds with a big mullet looking strapping back in the day and and and uh and he got some air time during the anthem Super Bowl 31, so I was blown away by that.

I don't remember the Luther Rangers one. I have to look that up. Yeah. I do like Luther Vangra's. I want to. That was the New Orleans Super Bowl with the, the jester hat logo with the bells on top of the hat. You know what I'm talking about,

the purple green and whatever logo. That was the Brett Farr of running down the field. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. With his hands in the air. See, that was pre-internet world. So, like, you didn't pay attention to the anthem as much as you pay attention to it now with the heading and the, you know. Right.

me ask you this question now i'm an old fuck so that you know i have no idea who this person is singing the anthem at the super ball no okay so i knew who i know who eric church is uh and i i've heard of jasmine sullivan yes yeah so like so just to to bring it back to square one here um the over under is a minute 59 seconds i'm going under i'm going under as well and and and the under is uh i want to say the under is minus one 140. Is that right? Cowboy Reed? Sounds right. I did read, though, that, you know,

it's a little bit in flux, though, because it's a duet now. It feels fishy. It feels fishy to me because... Yeah, for sure. Be careful. It feels fishy to me because the average is 155. Anybody can look that up, like, in the last 20 years, the average is 155. And now how do they grade it? Because let's say, you know, he finishes the anthem,

and then she tries to drag out some note. Well, she could drag out a note, but it has to be... You can't say, bray... brave brave you can't do that it'd be the says you can't know the end of the first brave i'd be careful there they can start trying to riff off each other the clock yeah but you can't do the third like once your brave is over it's over i see what you're saying okay like i think there's precedent for that um yeah yeah and the last duet went long so you know people are gonna they're everybody's going to google erin neville and aretha franklin um the last duet 208 had it go over

yeah it was 208 and um and people who are digging deeper might look and see the jasmine sullivan who did a tremendous job in 2016 at one of these outdoor hockey gigs um 138 wow yeah 135 and i do know if i'm doing a little research three of the past four Super Bowls it's been under. Yeah, I know because I lost the bat the time I was standing on the field waiting to give the Horde to Kaleas. Well, you know, you want to hear a quick funny story. I'll tell you, I had Brent Musburger on my podcast once, and he told me he, when he did

the NFL games, he would have like inside moles who would be at the rehearsals. And with time the length of the anthem that they sung during the rehearsal, call them up, tell them how long it was. and then he'd go bet accordingly. And is that legal? I don't think it's... Does it matter? Well, he said it.

He said, no, but that's what... There's a question I have for you because, like, fuck, there's some of these bets I could call a buddy and find out what's going on without that. Like, you know what I mean? Well, that's the thing. There's a prop bet out there, like the over under on Jim Nance and Tony Ramos saying Bellichick.

Exactly. Like, if you're one of those guys... To text Jim Nance and be like, Jim. Jim, I have 500. thousand dollars on this you like by children like i feel like i feel like almost like making a social and being like i'm betting ex prop bet and a picture of my kids you know like like just put it on the social like a fade in and at and at tony romo and be like get it done man like get it done how adorable are my kids get it done they can't help it you know we have to be professional though

yeah you're right you're right but all he has to do is see that he he acts like he doesn't see it And then the first sentence he's like, well, all you're hearing about this week is Belichick, Belichick, Belichick. And everyone's like, oh, fuck, dude. That's how it could go. Well, yeah, like, I thought about it. Like, I could text Jim Nancebe. Listen, all I need you to do is mention Belichick once in the first half, once in the second half. You don't have to make it obvious.

Just slip it in. There you go. That's so. I will say this country artists generally go under. That's good to know. It's good to know. And Luke Brian went over. he's the Luke Bryant

Luke Bryant right Brian Brian Brian I don't listen to me uh Brian uh singular Brian

um Luke Brian went over uh Eric church has never done it I like Eric Church by the way so um and you could get a sunglasses prop bet on him it's plus 900

he wears sunglasses all the time is it bad formed away it's great value I might jump on that one great value

I would definitely take a flyer on that what about lip syncing or is that something that you think happens more than we know? I think it's all lip synced. You think it's all? Every half time. Because they can't have.

I'm talking about the anthem. I think they're all lip synced too. But when he used them all was lip synced. You think you think all of them are lip synced? Yeah. They have to. They can't have a glitch. But they have glitches.

Like Fergie wasn't lip syncing at the All-Star game. That's the All-Star game. This isn't the Super Bowl. Okay. It's a big difference. It's a big difference between the NBA All-Star game and the Super Bowl. No, I understand. Okay.

but you're saying all Super Bowls are probably... It says here... Whitney Houston's saying a pre-recorded version of the Star Spangled Banner. Okay, well, I believe that. Maybe it's a case-by-case basis. It's probably case-by-case is what I'm thinking. Yeah.

And the Shaka Khan one was also a legendary... I mean, let's first... When it comes to bad ones, what's the worst one you remember besides Fergie? Oh, God. Well, you know there was an Ashley Simpson at the orange ball, I think it was. If you've never watched that YouTube, that, that was a hot mess.

Oh, really? Yeah, I think she forgot all her words and the track was playing and she wasn't singing. It's hard. There's another one of those, like, if you don't remember somebody's name, you almost like mumble it out. Like, imagine having to remember the entire national anthem. Like, you can't mess up a single word without people just skewering. The most famous one is probably Carl Lewis at a Nets game from the 80s. Yeah.

You got to know what your limitations are. you know what i mean he's listen you've got an amazing life you're like you just got to know when to say but again this goes back to my point do the at that point do the new jersey nets in a random regular season game that about four people are paying attention they need to play the national anthem before the game like well that's where that's where you do you're trying some shit you try some shit at the nets game you try some shit at the nets game right hell somebody could somebody could sing the national anthem at an NBA game this weekend on Sunday and we would like they could bomb it I mean it could be the worst one of all time we wouldn't know it

oh we would know shock yeah the internet knows everything now shocka con was bad shocka con wasn't bad it was just at the the all-star game it was just yeah it was bad she has an amazing voice like like fergie's voice was like what are you doing fergie Chaka Khan was like somebody who's such a great singer they were just fucking around in the shower with the national anthem. You know what I mean? So it was like a different fail.

And I love seeing the players eyes and like they're trying to hold the laughter in until like Fergie got halfway through it. And then LeBron's face was the first one where his face went like he tried so hard to keep it like his mouth parallel to his bottom of his chin and it just kept creeping up. And then everybody started laughing.

Yeah, I think J.R. Smith was cracking up. You know what I love about that Fergie one too? Like her husband who they're now divorced, Josh Dumel, like came out on Twitter like weeks later like bashing everyone for making fun of his wife. Like dude, well, I mean, you get up there and you do, then you go you get up there and you make shit up during the national anthem. People aren't going to be happy, dude. They're just not going to be happy. Rosam Barr was. But that was like a planned. Yeah, I know. But it was you talking about just I actually watch Scott Stapp today from creed do the nascar fort 400 oh my god it's amazing it is really are in a good mood from the snow yeah dude i'm watching creed do uh national anthem but they those people were eating it up

um anyways so you're gonna bet under i'm gonna bet uh i think i'm gonna bet the under because of everything we just we just talked about i will say i want to shout out aretha franklin which is something I haven't done on this podcast before, so I know this is very important. She's towards the top for me. I know that we've talked about a bunch of anthems. Her doing that four and a half minute anthem, and you might have a different opinion than me,

I fucking loved it. And it was Detroit, Minnesota, Thanksgiving. They actually put up a time of possession thing at one point in the game, and it was like Lions X amount of time. Vikings, Aretha Franklin 435. When you're Aretha Franklin and you can sing like that, you just, I don't care if we have to sit seven minutes,

the piano, the organ. Oh, she's amazing. I know you said you're a big God bless America fan. Where do you stand on America the Beautiful? I'm lukewarm on it, dude. If you want to see something good, go on the old YouTuber. She's saying, Aritha Franklin saying, God, America the Beautiful at, I think it was like Russellmania 3,

which is just mind-blowing because how does a reef, frankly, get involved with Vince McMahon and the WW. That is so below her, but I, that's why she was such a, such a queen. Yeah. Check that out. You'll, you'll enjoy that. She's just unbelievable. And we got a shout out our Chicago Blackhawks guy, the opera singer that does the, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I actually really like that.

another one that I saw today was Marvin Gay oh the all-star game which was that's the most famous one of all time it's phenomenal yeah but he also sounded like you wanted to fuck America yeah he was trying to seduce America he absolutely was and you know what I'm not mad at him bro no he was a legend

he had your shirt off halfway through the song yeah exactly like oh man got one too many buttons here I'm like yeah he turned that into like an unbelievable R&B like yeah it was different it was as different as you can be with with with with still walking away and being revered and appreciated for your rendition um so yeah take your liberties but you better nail it let's go uh

and are you going under as well yeah okay under during the anthem uh who's shown first uh mahomes or brady my homes is plus 115 brady's minus 15 yeah i got i got to i got to go with brady right he seniority legend it's his game even though mohomes is better um respect factor it's listen and again like i said all those people tuning in who haven't watched the NFL all year they're tuning in for him so right there's people in japan like tom brady like you know mohomes is getting there where they they're got mahomes jerseys in in asia but i mean tom brady's been crushing the international game for years absolutely in Brazil he's he's Jaze's husband right people are tuning in for that so um yeah i'm with you there i'll go brady uh and by the way can tv truck guys bet

anybody can open an online account but i mean if if a tv truck guy was like let's go to brady you know like i mean i would do that in a heartbeat if i'm the camera guy if you put a quarter mill if you hated your job and you were ready to walk off and they were like go to my homes and you were like let's go to brady and you just cashed in and walked out of the tv truck be sick you need a whole pot on how you could fix bets that's the it's amazing you know it's good thing i'm not a tv truck guy would have done it a long time ago those guys are like the guards at buckingham palace they're just they're just so dedicated it's not the truck it's the director yeah the director whatever i'm oversimplifying it I mean, he can easily, easily, easily manipulate that.

Those guys took a, those guys took an oath. And I'll tell you this, the director, he knows now who he's showing first. Like, he knows. He has that all planned out. Let's look up the director. How many songs will be played during the halftime show? I don't care.

I can't tell you a single halftime show I've watched since, since that, the one. Prince? No, the one. What's the one? Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson. I don't remember anything after that.

You didn't watch Prince? No, dude. Some people are going to get mad at me. I don't care about halftime shows. You can't you can't will me to watch a halftime show. It's barely real music. I agree. I'm not into the halftime show either,

but let me ask you this first. How many weekend songs do you know? Because I only know one. Is that the one you know? No, I know. the one they play in the commercial. I liked, I was more into the weekend, um, let me tell you the,

the weekend songs I have played same. And does it bother you that he can't put an E in his name for Christ's sake? Oh, is this WK and D? No, W.E.E.K. N.D. I think. Yeah, what was it about three E's? I don't know.

You know what I mean? But just spell your name. I would have, if I was him, I would have just made it WKND. Yeah, I don't have, I searched weekend in my like song. and I have out on the weekend by Neil Young. Yeah, I don't have any songs from him and I only know one song. I know a few. Like I used to really jam out to some weekend, but I guess I never saved the song.

So I'm going to go under supposedly he's not going to be on more than 12, 13 minutes is what I heard. Well, that's every year. They get every year, every performer gets 12, 12 minutes. Yeah, see, as you can tell, I don't watch these shits. Yeah. So I said something like I had inside info and I just read. at something. Like every year they go 12, 13 minutes.

I'm like from what I hear. But see, this is one of the reasons why I like you. I like that you're anti-half-time where everyone else is like half-time. It's the dumbest shit in the world. Do you know what guys are in the locker room and their rigor mortis is setting in?

Like you're just, you're ready to explode your hamstring off the bone. Yeah. With that 30 minute break. Yeah, it's another reason why I always say I don't like the Super Bowl. Like every year you play all these games and you have a 15 minute halftime.

Then for this game, which is the most important one in the season, they give you 30 minutes. Like I hate that they change everything. But there was a prop that we're not going to bet that has this is what you tune in for. The gaffs, right? Right. Will the weekend fall down off the stage? I think it was. I don't like, but that's the thing.

Has anyone ever fallen down off a stage during a Super Bowl halftime? And I don't think so. So this could be the year, dude. This could be the year. Well, yeah, you'll probably get like plus 5,000 or something. No, it's not. This is why I think it's the year, dude. It's plus 1,200.

Terrible value. I think they already planned it out. He's going to fall off stage. Plus 1,200, I cash in. It's the only way to bet it because not falling off stage is like minus 3,000. Again, it's another one of the, you could, again, if you have a contact where you can get to the weekend and say, do you mind falling off the stage? That guy's so rich. What would make it worth his time to fall off stage?

You'd have to buy him like a country. Yeah. guys in a Pepsi commercial yeah okay how many songs yeah I'll go I'll go under that's plus 155 over is minus 220 what are you on

give those odds one more time over over eight minus 220 under eight plus 155 I would say under just because one does he have eight songs he has a lot of songs now he has blinding lights and that's it I don't know what else.

No, I'm going up right now. There's a really good few songs that I can't remember. Well, I'm going under for the value of it. And I'm sorry, he doesn't have like a catalog. Like he's not like Prince of Bruce Springsteen with some catalog. Although Prince, when he did his, he was doing covers mostly. So I guess the weekend could do that. But I say under eight songs.

Man, trilogy was the shit. That was 2012, though. I was really into trilogy. Yeah, trilogy was a good, good album. But suffice to say, the last eight, eight years have gone by quickly. because yeah he's got some jams back in the day go check out trilogy jimmy i like the value on that though you're getting plus i'll go under yeah exactly i'll go under as well uh how many players will have a passing attempt over two and a half plus 120 under two and a half minus 160 i'm gonna go over

what what's the value on over again plus 120 love it yeah dude it's trick play there's gonna be one trick play. Does got, well, well, wait, let me think this out, though. I mean, you are talking about. I don't see the chiefs running a lot of trick plays. Like a lot of wide receiver passes. Like, I don't know, am I missing this? Do they have a guy that?

I know they've lined up Kelsey to take snaps once in place, but he runs it. He runs it for like a yard or two into the end zone. Maybe what we'll get is a Tebow type jump pass. Yeah, out of Wildcat in the red zone from Kelsey. I would bet, yes. Here's that this is my other, when you asked me before. about like betting the Super Bowl. This is my other theory. It's the last game of the season. You're you're done now for nine months. Have some fun and live a little. So like that bet for me,

like that's a shits and giggles bet. Like I'll bet yes just for the shits and giggles of it and hope that even, you know, maybe Brady goes down for a play and they bring in, uh, who's their backup? Gabbert. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think I think I, I think more like, you know, Holmes got a toe reverse pass I think I think Kelsey in the wildcat Red zone

that could happen How many times will Belichick be mentioned This is the one we mentioned earlier Over one Minus 280 Under 1 plus 185 I'm going over one

Listen you have Listen Whenever you bet minus 280 You're an asshole I'm going to do it anyway I'm doing it Yeah me too I'm an asshole constantly

It's it's there's no way The name, the word Belichick is only going to get said once in a three and a half hours. If they win for sure it's going three. Because, you know, they'll mention it. But if they lose, you know, I keep imagining Chris is doing this game. Tony and Jim are going to be like, we have to wonder if Belichick is saying, see, I told you, that doesn't play as well. Right.

As I think deep down Belichick's happy for him. Does that ask? But also, it could be mentioned in such a casual way. Like just like here's Tom Brady Without Bill Belichick, yeah Going to his 10th Super Bowl As you know, the first nine were with Bill Belichick and the Patriots, boom There was actually there was actually a terrific prop for what's going to be mentioned first

His age or Or going for his 10th Super Bowl Yeah, I saw that, I saw that. I think the age is the It's so like the way It's the sentence is using us right when they're when Chris Collins would be sliding in that portion. What do they call that in the industry?

You so want Chris Collinsworth to be doing this game. I don't, I don't really. I really do like this crew a lot, okay? So please, no, I don't, it's not that I want Chris Collinsworth, it's that I just imagine, I don't know why, I just kind of imagine it. I'm stuck in NBC brain. Yeah, you really are.

Yeah, no, no. So I think that it's, I think it's more likely the sentence starts he's 43 years old he's going for his 10th Super Bowl that's how they'll probably set that up it's really that simple it's either 10th Super Bowl at 43 or he's 43 years old he's going for his 10th Super Bowl that's going to be it you're going to know fast i'll give you some inside info CBS had a conference call well a conference zoom with nance and romo last week that i was on yeah and jim nance told a very long story about how they did nancy romo did the patriot Ram game two years ago that Super Bowl. And he talked a lot about how they all expected that that

was going to be Brady's last Super Bowl, last game basically. It was over for him after that. Right. So that's why I think you're going to get the age reference first. Right. I'm with the I'm on you with the age. I didn't check the odds for that one. But yeah, I'll give you one more quick thing on the NAN's thing on that call. I don't know if this is offered on your sheets there. But you know how Tony always Tony Romo always loves to say here we go. yeah here we go jam yeah nance said if he was setting the line in Vegas for how many times romos is here we go to during the game it would be three and a half he thinks because of brady mahomes being awesome players close game close teams nan said over on there's would be three and a half

on the here we goes so i don't know what it is on the sheet if they offer it i don't know if it's offered i didn't see that one yet and i think nance probably yeah yeah your eye out for it i here we go, Jim. And by the way, Brady's 10th Super Bowl is minus 170. Brady's age is plus 130. So we're going to be... Love it. Take the value. Swimming and juice, man. That's my lesson. It's just, I mean, it's going to be a great Sunday. How many times will Giselle be shown over one and a half is minus 2.30? I like these odds more than mentioning Bill. To me, they're going to show a once early and once late. That's the formula. Once early, once late. Under is plus 160. Do you know for sure?

or if she's even going to be there, though, with the COVID situation. That would be the homework we have to do. And she could be there, but is she going to be in a place where the cameras can get her? That's the homework we have to do. Be careful. I know a guy. Will any scoring drive take less than the national anthem? I don't like that one.

I'm staying away. Yes is minus 270. No, it's plus 160. I don't like bets like that way. You got to go, you got to then go back to what the anthem is and check. That's too intricate. It's just too much thinking. Give me heads or tails and that's... What will happen for a sack plus 110 or touchdown minus 150?

I think a sack happens first. Plus 110. Chiefs are two offensive lineman could get that sack there. You know, Brady doesn't move around. Brady's good to get hit once early in the game and everybody go, oh no. Brady's getting hit.

I can also see Mahomes throwing an 80-yard touchdown to Tyree kill on the first play. I don't think they're going to leave Carlton Banks on an island like they did the first time early. I think they'd rather not play from behind multiple scores so I'm hoping that they at least make them earn shit color of liquid poured on winning coach

yeah they offer that one every year it's funny I don't even look at this stuff year to year orange is the one that that's in the forefront of my mind and that's for a reason because that's plus 160 on the opposite of the spectrum you got purple at plus

1100 purple ain't happening orange is what I see but that's boring So you got lime green and yellow plus 275 clear water plus 700 blue plus 800 and red plus 200. I love the value on blue. Yeah, I'd have to go back and see like what it was last year. I'm not sure. I love the value on blue.

They should have a prop bet on what Andy Reid's coming out with in terms of like the shield, the mass. So we have we have one a green light prop that we're, you know, like nobody can bet it. But will Andy Reid use face shield or the half braw? I love that. I love that. The odds for half bra are like minus 320 because he's into that and it's hot down there. Yeah. I'm trying to think if there's any reason why he'd go. I mean, you know, Flaar is a mess with Corona. You can't even see out of that riot shield if it's fogged up. I mean, it's going to be humid there.

Yeah. Curious to me why he did. But does he change up the way he wears the half braud? As he go maybe just the surgical mask, maybe you want to look a little neater for the Super Bowl. I don't know, but that legitimately looks like some woman's swimsuit that wears a Kansas City Chief swimsuit, which is kind of trashy as hell. But I was like, so I'll go,

I'll go blue Gatorade or whatever liquid they're doing at plus 800. Red is plus 200, as I said. Orange is the most likely in lime and, you know, green, yellow is plus 275. What do you got there? I never bet that.

They offered every year. I know it's a big one. I'd go red because of the value and I don't know, the chiefs are red. Yeah. You're right about that. Fruit punch is still the best flavor. Will a fan run on the field plus 700 minus 1600? No, it's not.

No way. Yes, it's plus 700. This is a, you want to put a tiny bit on this? Like, go ahead and do it because this is not the year, bro. Right. I feel like this year they put you down. You run on the field. Doink, here's your doink.

Plus 330. Yes. No is minus 560. I'm all over plus 330. It's one of the ones I like the most. Love it. Doink City. Yep.

And then that's all the props that we had. I'd like to, we'd like to put an entry who would trend first, Romo or Nance. It's going to be, I think I would set the odds that Romo minus 170. Without a doubt. Without a doubt. plus 220. Without a doubt. That's a good prop bet to offer.

Yeah, right, we should do that. If we were a good one. Yeah, maybe I'll talk to draft kings. Times they say the word tip unnecessarily, which is something they've been doing a lot lately. Oh yeah, because Tony had a thing where he said,

just the tip is in or something. And people are so immature and they have to like, you know. Yeah. Will the broadcast actually mention the death count of COVID? I'm going to say no. Absolutely not. chance so it's like yes would be plus 1400 they will mention COVID because they're going to have the healthcare workers in the stands which would be nice the question is the word what word are they using

that's i saw a prop that was like do they say COVID or pandemic first they're going to say COVID I think yeah i'll say COVID 19 um there's no chance they're going to mention the number of deaths you know this prop it's out there too are they going to mention Biden or trump there's no chance of either those things happening no chance um If it was Al Michaels, I think they say pandemic. You want Alan Chris doing this game? I just want to hear how Michael's. I mean, listen, I just, I picture him saying that.

One I like, there should be a Ryan Jensen personal foul over under 0.5. Same with Chris Jones. I think they'll get offsetting at one point. Will they mention 256, the magic number of game? I think so probably they were obsessed with that for like a solid week after the last game and then one that I don't know why they don't have is over under on owner speech that should be like what how long yeah that's yeah didn't the Dodgers guy go way over this pandemic I don't remember because all I remember is everyone flipping out because there were players on

the field without a man I remember just Justin Turner had COVID and then he came out without his mask because he had caught. That was, you know. That was peak 2020. Yeah. That was. Play on. Interesting move.

You got any props you wanted to input? No, I mean, you hit on all the ones I like. I usually will bet, you know, over sacks, over field. I like to bet a lot of overs, get some value and just have action throughout the whole game because it is the last game. So you got to have a little fun with it. Um, you know, whatever like my home's completions are, I'm going to bet the over. Yeah. Whatever the Kelsey catches are, I'm going to bet the over.

Um, the bucks. I don't know about that, you know, Mike Evans, maybe I'll bet his over receptions. I don't see a lot. I see this being a high scoring game. Do you? I do, but I'm kind of leaning under. Well, it depends on where you get the number. I think the number is is down from where it was.

If you, if you got it at 57, I like the under. if you got a 56 and a half I might like the under but I'll probably stay away from the total until Sunday at 8.45 p.m. Well, at 8.45, oh, you mean in game? No, sorry, right before the game starts.

745 p.m. You're still going to miss the whole game. What time is the game start? 6.40. Fuck, dude. Get your act together. See, who cares about the Super Bowl? I don't even know what time it is.

The season's over, man. I love that you got it wrong the second time. Yeah, 845, 745. Let's try, let's try 2 p.m. Like, what time is this game? I was actually wrong. It's 6.30, not 6.40. But by the time they kick up.

Why don't I always feel like it was like a prime time game? Either way, you're drunk. You're on that football player schedule. Either way you're drunk. Yeah, for me, it was like an 820 when it happened. So I feel like you're waiting all day. How about the fact that I took massive naps before both of them? I mean, I'm not surprised by that.

Like a three. hour joint. You should. Yeah. So go out in the parking lot, hit the vape pen for about 30 minutes and then go back to sleep. Get breakfast. Wake and bake, wake up and oh my God, it's the Super Bowl. All right. Well, as promised, you got Lane Johnson coming up in a minute with a mailbag. Jimmy Trina, S-I-Media podcast is legitimate. I don't listen to a lot of podcasts. Like people think I listen to a part my take and Ryan's podcast and like all this stuff like rarely do I have time to listen to another dude's stuff when I do listen to Jimmy's stuff it is an awesome pot so great guess I don't believe

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Top 10 in their hearts. No, I don't know, man. Like, now you're the elder statesman in Philly. God, what year is this going to be for you? Nine. Holy shit, dude. You're old. Yeah, but really eight from all the games that I've been suspended. So,

on my eighth season, Chris. So you're actually younger. First off, how's the ankle? Today is my first day. I can, I don't have to have the scooter anymore. So I've been in the scooter for about a month. And even though it's pretty fun in the airports, I'm able to walk them on there.

But you feel good. Feeling good. Feeling good. I want to start this mailbag off before we get into the Super Bowl coming up this week. Somebody sent in a question, who's a young player or coach you're excited to see develop? O-line. I like Worf out of Tampa Bay for young players, young coach.

I'm like a Nick Siriani, baby. You want to see? Yeah. I mean, what is he, 39? He's about 39. 39. He's on the fringe of 40. You'll be there.

I know. That's what I'm saying. If I'd have just stuck around, I would have really had clout in that locker room. I'd have been looking the coach eye to eye. It was 1985, baby. What year were you born in? 82?

No big deal. Yeah, you'd have had some more pull. You'd have some more leeway up in that. I guess so. I guess so. Somebody said thoughts on Stout returning and Jordan Milata's progress. I was so happy with Stout returning.

This is Jeff Stoutland for people not out. I understand not everybody's from Philly. He's one of the best offensive line coaches in the game, period. Yeah, but Alabama has been wanting him back for years, just waiting for him to come back home to, you know, nice golf courses, nice steak dinners. But he's, man, he's staying steady with us. So I'm excited about that.

Hey, Jordan Malata, I told him. him before the seasons, I said, son, after you whoop somebody's ass out there on the field, they should be coming over here and living with you. Hey, just doing stuff for you. About 380 pounds, you're 6 foot 8. My God, son, get your hands on somebody. And, you know, after a few games, he started putting them hands on people, and people started rolling. And yeah, he's like a baby rhinoceros right now. And he's just getting his coordination. He's just getting everything rolled up. He's going to be a monster. What's the key? You know, when you see, like, there's a DeMar Dotson, who's six foot like nine, you know, you've got Villanueva, who's really tall in Pittsburgh,

you've got your guy that we were just talking about Jordan, like, what's the key for a big player that fans might not realize is going to be important to their success at tackle, like a really long, tall player. I mean, everybody knows they have to be able to bend, and that's hard for these guys, but what else? You got to play big, so you got to utilize that reach. Like Trent Brown sometimes when he throws his hands, he's like so big and tall, and he throws his hands. It's like these people can't even see where they're going. Take up that space. If you ever watched Jonathan Noggin, man, he would just set on people and just put his paws on him and just made it look easy, like ridiculously easy. Hey, just cover that ground, put them big 19s on that field and cover some

turf and get ready to anchor. I don't want to say this in a weird, like, you're kind of a weirdo when it comes to prep. You try everything, and that's not a joke of it. But like, You try all types of modalities and different stretches, and you literally are a gym rat, but a weird gym rat. Somebody asks in the mailback, what's the most important exercise in O-Lyman can do? Man, it needs to be core, which I've been neglecting. When you get on one side, say if you're right tackle or left tackle, and you're pushing off that left quad all the time, and your body starts over time just starts getting out of whack. your core starts getting out of whack.

So for linemen, there's a thing called the McGill Big Three, the dude's name's Stuart McGill, Dr. Stewart McGill, out of the University of Waterloo. But anyway, he did all his studies on power lifters. And so it's all about core stability, not necessarily. I mean, it's strength, but it's more stability. So it's a lot about posture. He's big on bird dog side planks.

And the other one is the McGill set up. And we talked about this other day. So, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's not the huge powerlifting motions that people assume. Like, you do that stuff, but it's, I see you doing a lot of weird stuff. Like, I've walked in and been like, what the fuck are you doing, man? Are you okay? And it's just one of your routines.

I used to like the, you getting in the harness around your waist and distract your hips and hang upside down. Yeah. I was really, it looked like something. It looked like something you don't want to walk into, like in your parents' room or something. So just one of your exercise equipment things. Just one about that in Christmas. So this week coming up, you know, when you're going into Super Bowl and you have, and this is an interesting week because you got two backups playing for Kansas City

at tackle, you certainly have a lot of good rushers in these games. What's the scariest thing that you lay in bed and envision could happen, Super Bowl Sunday? Is it a sack? Is it a false start? it? Hey, it's not a false start. I guarantee you that's not it. I can think a lot of things worse than a false start, Chris, like a strip sack. That would be pretty bad. Yeah, it's just, you know, the O-line position, you got to be perfect because all it takes is one to ruin that game for you. And so, you know, you get tired, you get lazy, you get bent at the waist, he does a hop-out move.

He's holding the ball one more tick longer than what you may like, strip sack. I don't know, the opposite demons of him picks it up and scores. You're down to scores with two minutes left. Sounds like you thought about this very specifically going into the game. I'm just thinking like when I see guys or sacks on TV and you're like, God, I hate that for him.

People don't know what it feels like. It's pretty bad. All the rushers this week, you've got Shaq Barrett, JPP, Chris Jones, Frank Clark, A whole bunch of good players out in the field. Sue, who's the scariest? From a quickness standpoint, Shaq Barrett, he does, you know, he's probably 6-1, 6-2.

He's not very tall, so he's kind of like an Elmast-Thumerville, like Robert Mathis-type build. And so hard to get your hands on him because he has the ghost technique, or I guess, with a dip and rip. People that have played JPP, man, if you could watch him, like running at you, it's like an iguana going across water, his movements. he's all over the place. He's like he's cross-shopping when he runs. Chris Jones probably made me the most intimidating out of those just because he's 6-6, 3-10, and he's one of the best in the league.

Him Fletch, Aaron Donald, who Grady and Jared. Yeah, he's had a size. He's really good at utilizing his length, and then, yeah, he'll disembarrass you. Frank Clark, man, I remember playing against him in Seattle, or he was on the other side. And I just noticed that he had a full. ferocious, quick jab and go under.

Even in the run game, he would do it. And then he would, sometimes he would do it not like he was going to go under and go around and then go on there. And I thought he was, he looks like he'd be a funny individual to play with. Like I have a teammate. I bet he'd be a lot of fun, a wild man. I think, I think he rushes, he rushes sped up. You know what I mean?

Like everything's sped up with him. And he does have really good footwork on the end. into out stuff, which is something that people don't figure out. A lot of people go into out and they actually don't sell it. They just kind of chop. Like he somehow crosses your inside foot and makes you stop and then gets the edge. Yeah, a lot of time, yeah, exactly what you said. When he does those movements, it makes the tackle freeze up or stand up sometimes.

And then once they do that, you're liable to be being bull rushed too if you're not careful. That's why the shuffled, that's why the stutter bowl works. Yeah, you would do it a lot too Oh, I love the stutter ball No, you know what? Actually, Frank Clark When I was younger, his rush His style of rush reminded me of my style of rush

A little bit, but I had a little bit more power But he's all, I mean, he can definitely dip And get the edge if a guy's not super quick But all his edge stuff Is most effective off of stutter Inside, chop, and then out And then he's got a multitude of inside moves So, I mean, he's fun to watch.

I'd say the guy that scares me the most if I'm one of these two teams is probably going to be. Chris Jones, as a matchup, could really scare Tom Brady because of the inside push. And the batted balls and the windows. A lot of their passing game might be underneath. The guy that scares me on the edge on the other side is Shaq Barrett. I think Shaq Barrett could have a big, big game. So a lot of great rushes to watch. And if you like pass rush, I think a lot of,

a dude are going to get home this weekend i really do if you had to live in the antarctic for one month which former or current teammate or coach would you most want to live with and which one would you at least want to live with uh probably coach would be uh phip phip looks like you'd be fun to go uh he would be all about doing the nature of bear grills camping out for a week we he would do it So, Phipp, my favorite line that Fipp would ever say be like, pray that they bring their best and be disappointed when they don't. I love that. And now he's in Detroit, man. I was super excited for him.

Yeah, man, he's a guy. Teammate. I mean, for pure laughing purposes, probably JP. Yeah. Could you imagine the things that he'd be saying out there? He'd probably be talking about the cold a lot. Hey, yeah. There's some funny things going on.

I'd probably put Bo out there. I'd probably be fine with Bo. And then, you know, I've said this before. If me and Michael Bennett were stuck in the Antarctic, I'd end up eating him. Because after a week, I'd fucking kill him. And we, I love Mike and Mike loves me, but we always said, like, Mike used to tell, Mike used to be like, hey, we should go on. I told my agent, we should go on naked and afraid. We got to wear some shit over our stuff, but we could go on negative and afraid.

And I was like, no, dude, I would kill you. Like, you would irritate me by day eight, and you would be dead on a skewer. I think the problem is, could, you know, could you find any fig leaves out there in Antarctic to cover yourselves? That would suck. We wouldn't have some trouble there. Which four current NFL players would make it to the WWE? man that's a good one I'd say for pure

people would just want to see the free show I'd put Aaron Donald he'd be like a Ray Mysterio slash I don't know I mean he could pick you up too so for like a off brand

or not not off brand but kind of doing his own style I think I'd say Travis Kelsey would be funny yeah yeah he definitely would he'd have his own

you're right you'd have his own way about him let me give you one Ryan Jensen Yes The center of the Tampa Bay I can just see him stomping around and shit Like doing stompy things

Dude he plays angry Yeah he plays angry He's almost getting in the fight about 30% of boys Yeah like a real tantrum wrestler Like always fucking angry Like shaking his red hair around And probably like got the black tights Who would he have been?

He'd have been like a The lawnmower man He'd be the lawnmower man. I don't know why that works for me. He's the lawnmower man. Ronnie Stanley. Okay? Razor Ronnie.

Razor Ronnie. He just got the whole Razor Ramon vibe going. Yeah, but he's soft-spoken. He didn't say a whole lot. Which could work in his favor. Yeah, maybe he'd have to work on his stage persona. What about a Mackay-Becton just for pure size or tape? Taylor, Luan.

I've seen Taylor. I remember my second or third year in the league. I don't know if he jumped all sides or something, but all I remember is him picking up that damn ball and putting it about eight rows up in the stands. And I said, that's some funny shit. Oh, yeah, he's like a wrestler. I mean, the whole chugging beers at the games

and then the catfish stuff and just there's always some extra stuff going on. Yeah, he's got a big persona. George Kittle, we're not talking about, We haven't even talked about George Kittle. I didn't think that. Yeah, George Kittle would be like the ultimate warrior mixed with, he'd have that ultimate warrior energy and then have a fucking, you know,

the Xbox vibe to him. You know what I'm saying? He has, he has like promos just, I mean, he would be hemorrhaging great promos. He could do a promo right now. You could sign him today and he'd be good. He'd have one off the dome. And I want to know this. Why don't they have old wrestlers anymore?

Like, I feel like wrestlers are getting younger. You watch wrestling now more than me, probably. I don't watch wrestling. It is a crowd. I don't know if they're doing away from the, you know, upper 30s, low 40s, you know, just got that, you know, the dad strength, the old man strength. That was wrestling, man.

That's why I had Dan Campbell written down. The guy, the guy, people want to see a guy that looks like you just got off of work who's had a long work week piss, and now he's about to go wrestle it out. and put his frustrations out there for the world to see. Yeah, now everybody looks like an Instagram, like muscle guy. You know what I mean? That's the problem we were having last night, man. Everybody's brains is manipulated right now.

There's too much information. You have all the information in the world at your fingertips. Everybody's won't now do everybody. You know, the workload is only going faster until you just drive yourself nuts. Yeah, we were talking about giving up our phones last night. Probably not going to happen, but it's nice to do. think about. I'll tell you who would be the worst wrestler off the top of your head in the entire NFL. It might be Tom Brady. He might be the worst wrestler. Actually, he might be great because

he'd be such a heel. Everybody would be so mad at him. Well, I don't think you could tap him out because he's so damn pliable, Chris. Yes. You're right. You're right. I'm thinking about just how basic his whole ensemble would be. He'd just be like stock wrestler. He would just, you He would do a smile. No, you know what? He'd be like Ted DiBiase, but not as likable. They would lean into the money thing, the looks, you know, the, you know. Oh, he could definitely pull it off.

He can work it. He can make people not like him. Oh, yeah. Well, a lot of people already don't. It's crazy. All right, wildest shit you've ever had said to you during a game. The funniest shit was when we played, I think it's my second year, third year.

We were playing a preseason game in Greenfield. Bay and Clay Matthews is on my side. And this dude, every time I put my hands up to block him, get your hands off me, bum, don't touch me, bum, you suck, bum. Bum. Bum. He, I mean, he would say that phrase over and over and over. You're fucking, you're trash, bro. You're a bum.

Just malicious, just. Just good, clean insults. Yeah, probably the cleanest insults. And just to pay something, it was really, really every play. That was funny. And I was laughing at him. He wasn't laughing at all. He was dead ass serious. Do you think you could block Clay Matthews today? Yeah, today. I'd had more trouble with him back in his prime son. He was a monster. He was good, man. He was real good. He was real good. I mean, like, listen, I got a lot of respect for his game. I just, I don't think of you as much of a

bum compared to him at all. So he's a dog. He's a dog now. But he caught you as a rookie. Yeah, as you did that, my second year And I didn't go many plays against him Maybe a couple series, but every play Was some funny shit set A referee told me to shut the fuck up once I could not believe it I like just my jaw dropped

I was like Somebody asked me about the body issue Okay, let me ask you a question About this body issue You guys were walking around naked The entire time Or did they give you like a towel Oh we had a towel

But there was one guy that just, I don't know if he lost his towel. He was just act like he didn't have the towel. It was funny as hell. I'm not going to say no names, but he knows who he is. He can pick the one out of the group. Eagles want to bust the O-line body stigma, was the article. You guys did, you guys are doing a public service, I guess. Brandon Brooks, Jason, Kelsey, Isaac, Sam Malu, and Big V.

Oh, Kelsey was walking around. Kelsey was walking around There's no way Kelsey was wearing his towel I'm not saying a word So You guys are in front of an RV Oh I haven't seen this in years Thankfully

In a parking lot Was it cold that day? It could have been warmer It could always be warmer Oh Just imagine the camera crew was like You know Having Pat Dolan

And a few of the guys in there And it's like, this is a good sitting. All right, let's go. They were pretty smooth with it. But it was, yeah, it could have been warmer. Could have been a lot warmer. So essentially, the camera people don't see your units if they can help it. Yeah, you're supposed to have your robe on.

Oh, good. That's nice. I was always not, you know, I was always like, that looked like the scariest thing in the world. But if they didn't have to see you, that's good. All right, buddy. Well, that should do it. I'm going to let you get you your physical therapy. keep up the good work man i look forward to seeing you back out there soon thanks for stopping in

and hitting this mailbag with me hey man i've been in the last place the past couple weeks with the grandparents on their scooters with the medicine balls on them or with the tennis balls on them oh really hey i'm walking in there and i'm going to be the best best athlete in there i bet you will man you look good you look good from the waist up i can't even tell anything's wrong with you i'll see you soon see you bud