The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 11-1-24: Mavs bullied by Rockets, DeeZ Picks Week 9, and Brandon Aubrey back from jury duty

Episode Date: November 2, 2024

Hear the full episode by subscribing to The Dumb Zone at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneWe're joined by Cowboys All-Pro kicker, Brandon Aubrey, fresh off of jury duty, kids don't say trick or treat anymore, Mavs stunk it up last night, and DeeZ Picks Week 9 with Mike Sirois, Jasmine Sadry, Chappy, and Akaash Singh ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey now, what you are about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full, along with the full archive... Ah, shit. If you would like to hear this program in full, with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at dumbzone.com. Uh, jump up to Jasmine. We'll go back and forth between good pickers and bad. So, full disclosure, I completely forgot who the Cowboys were even playing this week

because I'm so checked out on them this year. And the mushrooms. And I still didn't care. Atlanta over Dallas to cover the minus three spread. They suck. Triple play. Thank you, Wake Forest Demon Deacons for the dub. Yeah, you went 5-0 last week. Triple play. Thank you, Wake Forest Demon Deacons for the dub.

Yeah, you went 5-0 last week. Oh my gosh, my Wake Forest Demon Deacons won. They covered B-3 spread as well. So that was over Stanford, but I'm going to leave the college football degenerate train. I'm going back to the NFL this week. So give me the zaddy hot fighting Dan Campbells to beat the Packers and cover the minus three spread for my triple play. Dan Campbell's so fucking hot now.

I never thought he was hot with the Cowboys, but there is something sexy about that man now. So anyway. He would just destroy you, you know? Oh my God, he would. It'd be great. Are we getting a glimpse into what Jasmine wants? I don't think he's a gentle lover. No, and that's great.

I'm not at a point in my life where I want to gentle. See? My knockout pick, I'm taking the Derrick Henrys over the Broncos in Baltimore. It's an eight and a half spread. They're obviously favoring Baltimore, but I'm going to take them as just my straight up knockout pick. They're white hot. They're the Ravens. They're awesome. So The Ravens are awesome.

So those are my picks. All right. I'll pick. Yeah, I think there's a bunch of good games. I'd like to sit and talk to you about it off the air, Chappy. I think Denver's getting a lot of points at Baltimore. They're getting nine, but I'm not going to go with that for my triple play. Oh, I'll give you my Cowboys one first.

Cowboys. Give me the Dallas Cowboys. Homer. They are getting three points. I feel like if Atlanta just runs, runs, runs the ball and doesn't give the ball back to the Cowboys, they might be able to win this game, but I do think it could be close the Cowboys, they might be able to win this game. But I do think it could be close.

But I like the Dallas Cowboys to win this game. This is what they do to you just when you think they are totally irrelevant. They're going to have a big game. I like the Colts because every game they've played this year has been within six points. They're getting five and a half at Minnesota, but I'm not going with that one. I was going to say, I thought you were going to roll with your Flacco. I'm not, I don't know, Flacco, no, I'm not going to go with that.

I like the Buccaneers getting nine on Monday night, just because Baker, just when you don't believe in Baker, he can at least not lose by nine. And I think also he has a huge chip on his shoulder playing against Patrick Mahomes even though Mahomes wasn't there until the next year, and that's why they kicked Baker Mayfield out of Texas Tech, right? Or, no, wait, actually he got hurt, and when they told him he'd have to win his job back, he left and said

that he was mad because they wouldn't give him a scholarship. Then he just showed up at Oklahoma, unbeknownst to Bob Stoops, as a walk-on, won a Heisman Trophy. And then, unbelievably as the first overall pick, continued to be just an underdog. I don't know, I thought

he didn't play high school football at all. He just was walking through the campus of Oklahoma and like an errant football came. He was actually an exchange student who grew up in Japan. He came bouncing to his feet. He picked it up and he threw it like 80 yards in the air and Bob Stoops

was like, who did that? And then they went and grabbed him and yes. That's as emotional as I've ever seen Jake I think. Fuck that guy. I didn't know what the hell was going on. I didn't know where that was going. I was kind of scared. I've seen Jake way more emotional.

And now I will get to my triple play and I will take on Jasmine. Ooh. Last week we went head to head with Jake. Last week, we went head-to-head with Jake. You took the Lions and Dan Campbell because you want him to violate you, which seems great, a great reason to take a team. But I see the Green Bay Packers getting three at home. I see Jared Goff playing in his first outdoor game this year. You don't like it. Jared Goff is not good first outdoor game this year. You don't like it.

Jared Goff is not good if it's not turf. It is not turf in Green Bay. I see the weather forecast looks a bit dismal, which is to be expected in Green Bay. So give me the Green Bay Packers for my triple play. And my knockout, I'll do it very quickly, is the Saints taking on the Panthers. And I think Derek Carr is coming back this weekend too. Who up?

Let's throw it to Akash on top of the standings. What's up, guys? How y'all doing down there? Only because I think Saroi's frozen. I'm not sure he's still here. How does Lexington show out? You didn't have a Thursday night show, did you? No, I think we're almost cleared tonight and then tomorrow hopefully

we'll be fine as well. What's there to do there? We literally just got in. I was just checking into the hotel. It's actually shockingly pretty. I was very surprised how pretty it was driving in. Is the nightlife like Applebee's? What is it? I don't know. We'll find out.

It's probably a lot of big girls. It's probably a dirty whore at a bar shoving mushroom chocolates in your face. There probably are a lot of big girls there. That's what I'm saying. Sturdy. I'm going to try to seek her out. Okay. I know this is a tough matchup because I know Kirk Cousins, the white Dak Prescott,

he doesn't historically play that well against Dallas, it seems, at least in my mind. But I'm still going to go with the white Dak Prescott. I think there's no pass rush to mess him up. I thought about triple playing that. I'm also thinking about triple playing the Lions because I think Jordan Love is hurt. I don't know if he's going to play. I think nine is too many to give the Bucs against the Chiefs, but

I think I'm going to go with the Lions as my triple play. My elimination game, I'm choosing the Bears to beat. Who are the Bears playing again? Whoever they're playing. It doesn't matter, does it? I think they're going to be alright. That's ballsy. I think they're going to be alright. The Cardinals. That's ballsy.

The Cardinals. Yeah, I think they're going to be alright. The Cardinals, yeah. Well, the thing about this elimination thing, you've got to pick a different winner every week. So, it's getting tricky. I think they'll beat the Cardinals, though. Yeah, I can't even remember if I've picked the Saints yet. I don't know. You haven't. Okay, good. You did get away

with the Eagles twice, but you have not picked the Saints. Yeah. All right. All right, right on. And, yeah, Akash is in first, so everybody write that down. Let's go to – oh, I think we did lose – oh, no, there's Saroy. Should we grab Saroy now?

Put me on, put me on, put me back on. Mike Saroy is back. He's probably a force field. He's outside a doctor's office or something. Pharmacy. This is not... A lot of doctor's offices, but we just had a dermatologist today

and the only problem is a giant rash on my mom's titties. I'm so sorry. What? Yeah, that's my bad. That's my bad, Mike. That's fine for me. Oh, my God. It's right in the middle. All due respect.

So we got steroid cream. It should be... I think we'll be all set on this one. Then on to other issues. We do not see that one coming. Who's applying the steroid cream? Okay, probably me. Probably me.

Twice a day. Yep. Oh, my, probably me. Probably me, twice a day. Yep. Oh, my God. But yesterday, Halloween, my mom invited us, 82nd birthday, and we had a really nice day. Oh, yay. Yeah, I made her a nice steak.

I got a little birthday cake from Carvel. No fudgy the whales. Oh, Carvel fudgy the whales is shit. They know what they're doing. What did you dress up as, Mike? The rash on your mom's tits? Steroid cream man. No.

So, anyway, all set. I'm getting these knocked out. Yeah, Falcons, minus two and a half. I'm not fucking with the Cowboys, I don't even think ever again. 49ers are not that good. Like, they're not that good. And they still made the Cowboys look bad. We're conditioned to believe they're fucking amazing.

But I don't know. You know, they're beat up. So, whatever. Falcons are getting it together. It takes a little while when you have a new coach and new quarterback and new weapons and all this shit. But they're studs on offense. Assuming it's two. Oh, it's three.

You guys had it at. That sucks. But I'll still take the Falcons minus three. No sweat there. Let's see triple play i'm staying away from my doppelganger dan campbell and his game i'm not i'm not gonna make a play uh but i'm getting down on a game that uh mr mcdowell mentioned i'm getting with the indianapolis colts five and a half, right? At Minnesota. Is that what we got? Yeah. Flacco, dude. Way better than Richardson like today. Flacco. And healthy Taylor is back and Vikings lost Christian Derrissaw. Probably their best offense in the line. I don't know. I like five and a half. I think they'll keep it competitive. And you're right. We're kind of slim

pickings on the survivor job. So I'm stuck with the Saints because I'm kind of just fading whoever the Panthers are playing if I still have that team available. So give me Saints to survive. All right. Jake. I will, of course, only in a single play this week, take the Cowboys. I will take the Cowboys every time they're an underdog.

That's how we like it here in Cowboys Nation. You know, the world, including Akash and Mike Soroy against us. It's where we do our best work. So I'm going to roll with the black Dak Prescott for my Cowboy pick. Black Prescott. Yeah. And then for my triple play. Black Prescott could run.

This guy cannot. That's a really good point. College Dak Prescott was the shit. He was black back then. He was getting in fights at spring break. That was my guy, dude. Now he's

talking about mental health and going to therapy. Getting engaged on a golf course. You know what? That's all that happened. We just made him white. Did you see his little Halloween photo yesterday? He was like a scarecrow. Yeah, he's white, man.

It's tough. You can really actually trace when things went south is when he became more white. Now that I think about it. In honor of Daniel Fleming here, TC's brother, I'm going to triple up the Aggies against South Carolina.

I think it's like four, four and a half. A&M is not losing until that game in Austin in a couple weeks. Texas I'm less sure about. It's at Aggie, isn't it? Yeah, I was wrong. Yeah, when we said it the other day. A&M has them at home that weekend. I think they'll both still be one-loss teams, which is going to be incredible.

I don't see them screwing that up with South Carolina. Then, the knockouts are tough right now. It's only because their season's kind of lost, Mikey. I agree that the Vikings are cool again, but I'm going to take the Bills

over the Vikings for my knockout league pick. I want to be a Vikings fan. The Bills aren't playing the Vikings. The Bills aren't playing the Vikings. Oh, I said Vikings. Obviously, I meant Dolphins. Yeah, for Soroy. We had an argument one time late at night about whether or not the Dolphins

are a cool franchise, and it legitimately made him want to hit me. And now I think they are cool, but they're screwed for this year. So I'm taking the Bills. Now I think they are cool, but they're screwed for this year, so I'm taking the Bills. We go now to Greg Chappie Kemp. Guarantees that he will be on top of this whole game nine weeks from now. That's right.

Well, you asked me, and I told you. So you can't go but one way, which is I'm looking at the couple folks behind me and a couple of folks in front of me. And I got to be honest with you, the ones in front of me don't really impress me. So I would be more concerned if there was somebody behind me. And you know, it's half over. So I may be dreading getting on this call the next eight weeks. But I just closed on a house and got funded. So there's not too much that can go wrong with me over the next eight weeks yeah i'm sure oh yeah yeah yeah very hard to do um

what's that go ahead okay ignore jake yep yep I've tried to for years. So I'm going to take the Cowboys plus three. You know, I think the Cowboys, neither one of these teams play defense, by the way. But the Cowboys are two games behind the Commanders and the Eagles right now as we've said. So as bad as they are, I think you're going to see somewhat of a sense of urgency

knowing that, you know, the Commanders and the Eagles are probably going to win again. So if they lose this weekend, they're down three. And that's pretty much it. That's pretty much going to do it. So I'm going to take the Cowboys plus three.

I still have a decent team or two left on my knockout. I'm going to take the Bills playing the Fish. I don't know any organization that doesn't get a backup quarterback after the one you've had has five concussions. I'm not real sure about the leadership in that. That's insane. Yeah.

That is insane. That really is. I mean, I'm not trying to sound all serious here, but I can't understand why you would do that and you couldn't find a serviceable quarterback to, you know, let your offensive system continue to flourish. Anyway, I'm taking the Bills. And then for my lock of the week, my triple,

I'm going to go out to the NFC West and I'm going to take the rams minus one up in seattle it's divisional game uh the rams kind of have their numbers seattle's lost four out of five the rams have won their last two they've got both their studs up uh at wide receiver you got arguably still slinging it around one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. I feel like one point is within reason. Also, if you'll notice, the Rams front seven, they're young, but they've been coming together every single week this year.

So I'll take the Rams minus one going up into Seattle Sunday afternoon. Chappies. Lock of the Week. And there it is, guys. Indeed. Indeed. I'm a little disappointed that I lost the video because, as

Jasmine had seen, I had a fake mic that was made out of aluminum foil. Oh, it was amazing. He did have a prop today. He had bits. He had his sunglasses. I had it going on, man. Then I had a Halloween mask.

Jake, you'll appreciate this. It goes all the way back when you guys were youngsters, and I was going to put that on. Some really solid preparation by me that just just didn't pan out ah well that's what's good to hear about stuff we didn't do yeah when you get my age dan that's a lot of what you say every day all right