The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Colin Cowherd Podcast Prime Cuts - Dodgers Win The World Series, Did Jets Save Their Season? Betting NFL Week 9

Episode Date: November 2, 2024

Colin’s top takes of the week! He starts with his instant reaction to the Los Angeles Dodgers beating the New York Yankees in game 5 to win the World Series! He congratulates the Dodgers and explains why the Yankees were the inferior team and why Shohei Ohtani deserved to win on baseball’s biggest stage (3:00) Then, breaks down why the TNF  was a great spot for the Jets against a shorthanded Texans team and why the Jets could control their own destiny when it comes to winning a wild-card spot for the playoffs (13:00)  John Middlekauff, host of “3 and Out” stops by to debate whether the 49ers have peaked (30:00), why the Bears play calling against the Commanders was a “fireable offense” (38:00) and why Sean Payton deserves to be in the coach of the year race (41:30) Finally, Chad Millman, Chief Content Officer of the Action Network and host of “The Favorites” podcast, joins Colin for a round of “Sharp or Square,” to help provide Colin with the sharpest betting advice for week 9 of the NFL slate. 52:30 - Dolphins vs Bills 54:45 - Cardinals vs Bears 57:30 - Commanders vs Giants 59:30 - Rams vs Seahawks 01:02:00 - Vikings vs Colts 01:10:00 - Broncos vs Ravens  01:13:30 - Cowboys vs Falcons 01:15:45 - Chargers vs Browns 01:17:00 - Packers vs Lions (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) Follow Colin and The Volume on Twitter for the latest content and updates!  #Volume #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Freeman and Otani. It's like an all-star team. There's a lot of pressure on Dave Roberts. And, you know, here's a guy with the Red Sox. Here's a guy, you know, wins a World Series. And then Dodgers as a manager. And I just think he's a classy guy who's taken a lot of shit. And he did a great job, a masterful job of not only managing the team, but managing his resources. Now, I felt very strongly tonight that it was going to go back to L.A., and the Dodgers were going to pitch. At least I thought this in the eighth inning. They were going to pitch, Yamamoto and Walker Bueller, their two best pitchers at home, whereas the Yankees just expanded Garrett Cole, so he's done for the series, and they go on the road. But I really thought as much as the Dodgers won tonight, I thought the Yankees, and I thought they were the inferior team.

I thought they gave the game away. And the fifth innings are the craziest thing I've ever seen. over the course of 10 minutes, Aaron Judge, with a 5-0-0 lead, drops a routine fly ball. It was the kind of ball that you, if you were playing catch with a friend, he drops a routine fly ball.

Then Volpe at short, short hops a throw to third. And then Garrett Cole, who had a masterful 108 pitching performance, doesn't cover first base. It was like, it would be a, you would think that was a bad, spring training performance. You'd get chewed out after a spring training game. To be in a World Series game and have three miscues, one after the other, is just insane. And then the game is

tied. And then I felt like the Dodgers were playing loose and with house money. I mean, at that point, I mean, you get down five nothing. You're like, okay, we're going back to L.A. We got Yamamoto. Yamamoto, we've got Walker Bueller. This will be it for Garrett Cole. We have a pitching advantage, hitting advantage, home field advantage. They're not going to win four straight against us. That's what it felt like to me. And so all bets are off. But, um, God. And Max Muncie, who was just great in the NLCS, had a rough world series. Otani didn't hit. And Dave Roberts, you know, I mean, there are a lot of people that didn't want Max Muncie coming up, you know, that final time. So you got Muncie struggling. O'Tonnie's struggling. And remember,

Jack Flaherty, who the Dodgers got, there was a story last week. I think it was in the LA Times where his velocity had come down. So, you know, he didn't look like, you know, he had his best stuff. So after the bullpen lost yesterday, Flaherty struggling today, you're thinking, you know, to me it was just like, okay, you're going home, Yamamoto, Walker Bueller's stuff is nasty. You're in great shape. I've been taking notes for four hours. I got so many notes.

And then, you know, again, the Yankees in the top of the eighth. You got back-to-back singles by Keike Hernandez and Tommy Edmund, and then Will Smith walks. You have no outs on the bases loaded. And so you get, and then there's a catcher's interference against the Yankees. So, God, it's like the fifth and the eighth. It was just time after time the Yankees. you know, and as I said before, I don't watch a ton of baseball in the regular season.

I mean, it's on in my house with the Dodgers. When I worked at ESPN back east, I always had the Yankees of the Red Sox on. It was the Yes Networker Nesson. I watch my local team, right? I kind of keep track because I used to work for the Padres. So I kind of keep track of the Padres a little bit. But this was a game in which the Yankees just kept giving the Dodgers every break in the fifth inning and the eight inning. and catchers interference and airs and free passes,

and the Dodgers eventually, you know, took advantage of it. So, you know, it's interesting. Years and years ago, there's a coach, the late Lute Olson coached at Arizona. He had great teams in the tournament, and he just could not win a championship. And there was a lot of years they went in as a heavy favorite lost in the first round. And then eventually they got this team with Miles Simon and a bunch of freshmen and a bunch of kids, and they won the national championship.

And it's just so interesting. So many times with Dave Roberts and the Dodgers, you've gone into the playoffs and you felt really strongly about them. And they just, they kind of unravel and they have a bad pitching performance. This year, I mean, think about it. In this World Series, Otani dried up. Max Muncie, who was brilliant in the NLCS, dried up. All of a sudden going into the World Series, Flaherty's velocity dips. You've already used 40 pitchers.

You're going into a World Series coming out of a nationally. divisional series and a championship series where you had to have bullpen games. You're just managing resources of all the years to win it. If you had written down this script and said, yeah, oh, Tani, it will just be brutal in a series. Max Muncie will dry up. I mean, you'll have basically two starting pitchers and Walker Bueller's kind of crossing your fingers because he's been hurt for a year and a half, two years. So, God, that fifth inning, I think all five of those runs, the Dodgers scored. I think all five were unurned. Is that? ever happened in a World Series game, 500 runs? Well, it's just, it's just crazy. And, you know,

it's, you just never know in these championships where they come from. And I thought it was interesting that the World Series came down to Garrett Cole being pulled, not singularly came down to, but Garrett Cole being pulled in game one got a lot of heat. And then Garrett Cole, not covering first, kept that fifth inning going for the Dodgers. So Garrett Cole, Cole, who was, you know, the best pitcher in the series for either team, I think, ended up being so crucial, probably pulled a little early at 88 pitches, and the Dodgers, you know, had to go to their bullpen and good luck against the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium with your bullpen. And then in this fifth inning, you know, he was brilliant tonight, 108 pitches, but he didn't

cover first base. I mean, that's just crazy to me. A guy that zoned in doesn't cover first base. So, I mean, the Dodgers. Dodgers aren't going anywhere. I mean, it's just so many, so many things went wrong physically for the Dodgers. I mean, Otani's shoulders, collarbone. What are the chances of that? On a slide to second base, you're looking at him, you're thinking there's no collision? All of a sudden, he grabs his shoulder, and you're like, you've got to be kidding me. The timing's terrible. Ends up they didn't need him.

So it's easy, I find it's easy to root for the Dodgers. I think it's a really classy organization from research and development. they don't miss on trades. You know, when they call guys up, they deliver. It's just, it's just, you know, Kershaw, to Otani, to Betts, to Freddie Freeman's story, to Dave Roberts, to the late Vince Scully and now Joe Davis. You're just, it's class personified as an organization. And you can blame Aaron Boone and you can blame the defense in the fifth inning. But, I mean, if you really looked at what was happening,

If the Dodgers would have not come back in the fifth inning, you were going to L.A. to face the Dodgers' best two pitchers. And at some point, Otani was going to get a big hit. I mean, Aaron Judge finally, Aaron Judge tonight roared back. I mean, really roared back tonight. And despite what happened in the World Series, the Dodgers three years ago set their sights on Otani. And what a significant, upgrade for him personally. Because, you know, when you get these star players, it always reminds me to a lesser version of like Joe Mauer with the twins or a Joey Votto with a Cincinnati Reds where you just can't, you pay him and you can't surround him with elite players. And the Angels couldn't really do that. But with the Dodgers, you can have him cleanup. You can bat him third, fourth. You're going to have Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman and Max Muncie. You know, and tremendous players all around him. He's going to usually get better pitchers. And it's just, I mean, for him to be as, as classy as he was, I mean, this season started with that, you know, gambling story, which could have derailed the franchise, derailed his career. And he was just poised, under control, a beloved in the locker room, fit right in. And it feels like they're just certain players. I mean, it's like Aaron Judge needs to be a Yankee, right? Like Otani really needs to be a Dodger. it's nothing against the angels, but, you know, they're just, the Dodgers have more resources,

and the Yankees have more resources. And there's just a handful of teams that can surround these great players with better players, so they get better pitches. And I just, I just thought, think of how the season started pretty bumpy for Otani, and it ended pretty bumpy, but let's not forget what he produced for a majority, 95% of this season. He was the best player by a lot. And that's saying something on a team with Batson Freeman and Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper and the amazing players in Major League Baseball. Otani by a long shot, 50-50 club was the best player in baseball. I like how it ends for him and the Dodgers. So great players eventually have their moment on a stage like this.

So congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers in what was one of the weirdest, most bizarreo world series games I've ever seen. and a pretty quick series where a stack roster, despite all the injuries, won. Hi, everybody, and welcome in. In about 10 minutes, we'll have Chad Millman, which we do Sharper Square, where I give him about seven or eight of my picks, and he chews him up and spits him out. And I'm taking more and more favorites these days, as I think you do get to a point in the season where the better teams separate, the better coaches separate, everybody gets banged up. It's a war of attrition at this point. You see, all these things. players dropping. Sometimes Devonti Adams, the player goes out, comes back in. He did, had a

touchdown. So the Jets beat the Texans 2113 on Halloween the Jets dressed up as a pretty good football team. Aaron Rogers, I thought, played, especially, you know, in the second half, I thought he played pretty well. I've seen that so many times this year where a quarterback Brock Purdy against the Cowboys, Russell Wilson, a couple of times, Aaron Rogers tonight, where it just, they just can't get it right in the first half, and then they just, they get warmed up, and I thought Aaron played a really good second half. You know, when you have Brise Hall, when you have Devante Adams, when you have Garrett Wilson, you know, those are real weapons, you know, if you can get decent protection. Aaron had a nice run tonight. It got called back because of a holding on the rookie from Penn State,

but that was a really nice run. He had 211 yards, 22 or 32, 3 TDs, no picks. I like the Jets tonight. That was one of my stronger plays. It would have been my first or second strongest play if it was on Sunday. And I think the reality of this game, it was a really bad spot for a beat-up Texans team that can't protect C.J. Stroud. So the Jets had eight sacks tonight, which is about double what teams had been getting against Houston,

but they're down to Tank Dell and a bunch of third and fourth-level receivers. So it was a good spot for the Jets. And what's interesting for the Jets, and this is why this win matters. So, yeah, two of their wins, a short week at home, Patriots and Texas, But now, think about this, it's an advantage because the Jets are not going to win a division.

We know the Bills are going to win the division. The Ravens will eventually win their division. The Chiefs will win their division. Colts, Texans will go back and forth, but this is key. The teams, the Jets only hope to get into the playoffs is as a wild card team. And right now, unless they go on a losing streak, Pittsburgh looks like it will be one of those wild card teams, but there's two other wild card spots. And the good news is the Jags can be one of those teams, the Jets play them. The Colts could be one of those teams. Jets host them in a couple of weeks. The Texans could be one of those teams. The Jets just beat them. So it looks like to me the three playoff teams in the AFC we know are Bills. Ravens will make it. They're just too good unless Lamar got hurt and the chiefs. And then you're going to be battling the Colts, the Jags, the Texans, the Chargers, the Steelers for three wildcard spots. And you've already got a double in the Colts, the Jags, the Texans, the Chargers, the Steelers, for three wildcard spots. And you've already got a double. W over the Texans and you get the Colts at home. You also get the advantage when you play on Thursday night. You get four days extra rest against your next opponent. That's Arizona. So they'll have to

travel out to the desert in Arizona, but you've got extra rest. Arizona plays a very physical Chicago Bears team, a really good defense for the Chicago Bears off a humiliating loss. So I'm sure the Bears, you know, that's going to be a physical game against Arizona. You're going to be more rested, more prepared with a veteran quarterback and Aaron Rogers coming off a very good outing. The more he plays with the Bonte Adams, the better it's going to work. So they've got the pieces. I don't think they're a brilliantly coached team. But I've said this before, there's three really good teams in the AFC. Then, you know, it's pretty mushy in the wildcard race. Miami's not as good as we thought. Chargers just, they have very limited firepower, unless they make a

trade at the deadline. The Chargers are going to be in a bunch of close games. If they play the Jets tomorrow, it would be a close game. I mean, the Chargers just can't, they can't beat anybody badly. They don't have any playmakers. Ladd McConkey, the rookie, is like a two. He's twitchy and clever, but he's not a burner. He's not an over-the-top guy. Doesn't have huge separation in the NFL. So, I mean, it's, what do I think about the Jets? Well, they ran for about 100 yards tonight. Aaron was comfortable. Aaron had time to throw. And the schedule works out. Extra rest for Arizona. Colt, Seattle at home, Rams later at home. I mean, only one team that Jets play. The rest of the way right now has a winning record, the Buffalo Bills. And they're not one of the divisions so they don't have to worry about Buffalo. So it's all right in front of you. Listen, I like C.J. Stroud, but he's down to second and third tier receivers. They can't protect him. Joe Mixon's a hell of a player. That was his number one weapon tonight. But Jets win 2113. And, you know, I I was thinking about this. I was talking to J-Mack on the phone tonight. He was out with his kids doing

Halloween. So I live in a place without a lot of kids coming up. So I went out for a walk and saw all the kids in the neighborhood out, having a good time. But when I came back, I was talking to J-Mack. And, you know, New York has just had a really rough stretch for a decade in sports. I mean, the Yankees, it really wasn't competitive against the Dodgers. It really wasn't. They won a single game. Both the Padres and the Mets matched up better against the Dodgers than the Yankees did. The Yankees won one game and it was a bullpen game by the Dodgers. They went 0 and two in the games in which Garrett Cole pitched. They're just, you know, again, they beat, they can beat the guardians. But the Yankees, they just don't match up to the Dodgers. And the Dodgers were beat up. They'll be a

significantly better and healthier team next year. The Giants and the Jets, at least one of them has Aaron Rogers and Quinn and Williams. You know, the Knicks were a nice story, but I don't think they're in the class of the Celtics. So it's been rough. I mean, It's, you know, the Mets have a rich owner and Francisco Lindor is a remarkable player, but they have good players and one great player. So, I mean, people, you know, you think to yourself, why does anybody care about the Jets? If you're in New York, I mean, because of Devonte Adams and Garrett Wilson and Aaron Rogers, you know, they have their moments in like in the second half tonight.

They have their moments where they look competitive. So, you know, here's the good news for New York. Colts, Jags, Texans, all these teams that they can make up ground and if they beat them head to head in the wildcard race and the AFC, I don't think they're going to get there. I'll still stand by my prediction. I think they're an eight or nine win team. But I do think Devonte Adams, like tonight in that second half, and you can see the more he and Aaron play together. And what I really liked about Aaron tonight is he was really into it. He was really into it. He had good energy in the second half. He was pumping his fist. He was fired up. And that's what you worry about with Aaron. He can be a very moody guy. And I've said he's always, I had an NFL coach tell him a pretty famous NFL coach once say he's just Jay Cutler with talent is that he's kind of a moody, prickly, difficult guy. The differences Aaron can really, when he has time to throw, really can spin it. And tonight he was in a groove. He had great energy. He played inspired. And it was fun to watch. The first half wasn't fun. But 21,

13 Jets win, and it's something. Eight sacks, ran the ball effectively. Aaron had a good night. Now you have extra prep time against the Arizona Cardinals. I love this time in the NFL season because it does feel like the games get a little bit easier to predict

just because it's statistically defenses get hurt more than offenses. And, you know, so you get a separation now. You get some finger pointing in the bad locker rooms, the quarterbacks in the best. coaches feel like they separate. I don't think the Jets have one of the better coach teams. But I do think offensively, and that's what this leads,

nobody's stopping anybody defensively. I still think the Jets Miss Robertsal on that end. But offensively, you got to be able to score. And you start looking at the Jets pieces. If Aaron's healthy, it's something. It's not that it's better than the Giants. I mean, there are a lot of teams in worse shape than Aaron Rogers, Breeze Hall, a decent backup,

Alan, the kid from Wisconsin, Garrett Wilson, and Devante Adams. There are a lot of teams in much worse shape than that. And in this point forward, the offenses win in this league. I mean, you go look at January and February, the last three or four years. It's the offenses that separate. Nobody's stopping anybody late. Everybody's all dinged up on that side of the ball. Listen, don't bail on CJ Stroud. His last three games, he has a 76 passer rating. you're dealing with second-tier-wide receivers, and there's no protection. And this is like, it's like Sam Darnold. You look at him with the Jets, and you're like, he's terrible.

And then you're like, oh, he goes to Minnesota, and he has a good coach, and he has good protection, and he has weapons. And, God, Sam Darnold's pretty good. It's amazing how it looks. You go watch Brock Pruy without Christian McCaffrey, Debo Samuels banged up, and you're like, ah, what is he? Well, you know, all of a sudden, second half last week, he's moving. You know, you watch Brock Pretty now as Jennings gets healthy and McCaffrey comes back. You're going to look at him and go, oh, he's pretty. Folks, there's like one or two guys in this league, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Patrick Rahomes, are about it, where it doesn't really matter who's healthy and who's not.

That's about it. C.J. Stroud, he hasn't reached his peak yet. He probably reaches, he'll go into his prime after next season. This is year two, next year, year three. year four to year nine to ten, six years, prime. Won't have many surgeries at that point, still fresh, now knows the game, knows the coverages. He hadn't even reached his prime yet.

So you've got like second and third tier receivers, terrible protection. And it's a defensive head coach. So, you know, he's got a coordinator. But if that coordinator leaves, that's not ideal, Bobby Sloick. So, you know, I just, there's three guys in the world that it doesn't really matter. They're just going to be wildly productive. Mahomes, Alan Lamar. For guys like C.J. Stroud, he's closer to a Sam Darnold.

I think he's a better throw with the football than Sam Darnold. And he's a better athlete and a bigger, stronger version of Brock Purdy. But in the end, there's the three greats. And then a lot of these guys, it's just circumstantial. And he'll be fine when they get Nico Collins back. Nico Collins is uncoverable. And they get their offensive line straightened out. but don't sell any stock.

We've seen this kid when he has support, and he's really good. Everybody in this league, you know, Baker Mayfield has Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. Oh, he's pretty good. And they get hurt. He's not as good. He just lost to Atlanta. It's the way it works for 90% of the quarterbacks in this league. Does your favorite NBA player have what it takes to be crowned king of the court?

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I didn't think it would be that close. We'll spend 15, 20 minutes on this. Listen, there are things San Francisco. Doesco does well. They run the ball. They had, you know, 200 yards rushing. Dallas doesn't run the ball. We knew that going into the season. They adjust. I thought they adjusted really well at halftime tonight. They were really struggling, stopping Dallas in the first half. Dallas was getting a push, and then they kind of exploded in the third quarter. I do not trust this Niner pass rush or team late in games. They've been burned late in games. I thought Brock pretty really struggled low off-torty. Target early, I thought later in the second half to gain confidence. He used his legs a little bit, started moving, kind of gained confidence, hit on some nice throws. Kittle had a great night. You know, I think there's a difference between Dallas and San Francisco. I think San Francisco is a good team that is just physically, like the Rams in the first month, just beat up. They just don't have enough good players. I think Dallas is a bad team. That actually played pretty well tonight. They got a break when the couple of Niners banged into each other and CEDD.

Lamb got a wide open touchdown. And I've been saying this for a while. Dallas almost, if you're a cowboy fan tonight, you're like, wow, we made it competitive at the end. I think they got to take a swing, John. I think they have to do something in the offseason. I think they have to sell some pieces, get too high draft picks. I don't see the way out for Dallas.

DAC is ordinary. They're paying him a fortune. They're locked into him. If CD Lamb twisted his ankle, they don't have a guy on this. offensive roster that you would be forced to roll coverage over. I think it's, despite the score tonight, I think it's grimmer for Dallas than people think, especially with Washington now, like looking like the next decade, they're going to be locked in with Jane Daniels. Yeah, you know, this is not a game. I guess you need to worry about most people box score scouting

because everyone watches it. But that score, I mean, they scored two touchdowns in the last five or six minutes of the game. One of the drives was a seven. the second drive. Yeah. Which, you know, is pretty unheard of in the NFL. Obviously, the Niners, the first touchdown drive playing way off. You don't hit me tonight is the 49ers have beat these guys now four times in a row. Twice in the playoffs.

They Molly Wopped him last year on Sunday night football. And they were up in this game, 27 to 10, missing a lot of guys. This matchup, which is one of the biggest matchups of my life in terms of brands and the history, is currently Kyle Shanahan, who's, you know, first. for a young guy. He's been coaching in the NFL for 20 years, and his dad is one of the most famous offensive coaches of all time. So he's been around football his whole life. And John Lynch, who currently last year or two years ago, just went into the Hall of Fame. That's the 49ers brass building this team against an 80-plus-year-old Jerry Jones.

It just, it was like, this is not really a fair fight because it's not like, they both hit on some high-end players, Micah, CD, Nick Bosa, right? I mean, they've both hit on high, Trade for Trump Williams, paying a bunch of money. But the 49ers team is littered with guys in the fourth, fifth, sixth round. That Isaac Garendo is a fourth round rookie running back. And boom, plug and play. What's the whole thing? Cowboys, no running back.

They're playing Zeke who can't run away from me or you. Who's tough physical guy, but can't move? They draft Isaac. Well, guess what? I think he went a couple picks right after the pick that they traded for Tray Lance. who is their third string quarterback. And listen, I admire Jerry's clearly from a business standpoint. He's been incredible for 30 plus years.

I mean, hell, they sell practice facility tours to make a little extra income. But he tried to strike oil on that one. And sometimes he does that, and you're not going to strike oil, Jerry. Like, you're going to take couch. Who are you bidding against on that one? And the other quarterbacks in his draft class, who are way better, went for like six and seventh round. picks, Fields, Mac Jones, Zach Wilson.

So that's kind of a microcosm of Kyle Shanahan, John Lynch, but you can just go right. Les Needs, Sean McVeigh, Dan, Brad Holmes, Dan Campbell, Gouda Kins, LaFlor. How is Jerry compete? The NFC, you know, the Eagles, Siriani is under question, but no one questions how he's intelligence. So from a football standpoint in that conference, doesn't have the high-end quarterbacks of the Mahomes, Allen, Lamont. Marr, Burrow, Herbert, but it does have very, very high-level front office and football guys.

Coach and GM combos that I would say and have built very, very good teams. Because you watch the Cowboys, they got injuries. Like you said, how many guys are on the sideline for the Niners? Hell, halfway through the game, Debo's got a 17th injury of the season. And he's in the blue 10. Didn't even matter. To me, that score, like, don't get me wrong. I mean, you're on the edge of your seat those last couple of minutes.

not really indicative what we witnessed when the Niners really put pedal to the medal there and when the game mattered. Yeah, I mean, what's discouraging is for a long time, the Niners were 50% on third down with a lot of time to play. They had 450 yards. And Purdy was, like you said, atrocious in the first half, missing base of throws. Yeah. Underneath stuff, like layups.

And beat up. I mean, they have like seven starters out. It's just, this is almost encouraging for, Dallas because they were competitive. Off a by, though, you know, with Jerry talking a bunch of crap, they were kind of motivated. I don't know. I thought they threw the kitchen sink and they ran out of juice. That's what I think.

I mean, Mike McCarthy actually, he's not Andy Reed, but he's top five or six coach in the league off a buy. And they had a very solid first half. And then again, you can only tweak, you know, I mean, it's just interesting to watch. Like Ricky Pearsall, he got a little run. I mean, they're using cowling on punts. They're getting a lot of different guys involved. You know, and it's funny in the NFL, you're allowed to whiff. I mean, John Lynch has whiffed on some guys.

I mean, you know, he's taking swings and missed on guys. That wide receiver from FSMU, he was a second or third round pick gray. Yeah, it's terrible, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, Les Need and McVeigh missed on Logan Bruss, the second round guard, who's just a perennial backup. Second round guard, two-two Atwell. You know, he'll be gone here soon. So, I mean, it's okay to miss.

People miss all the time. Pete Carroll had hits. He had misses. I mean, he had Rashad Penny in the first round as a running back. That never panned out, really. No. So, but it's just, I just feel San Francisco, also the advantage that San Francisco has, they're better at drafting, but they also have a coach that has a certain style.

So stylistically, there are things you can draft that almost always work. with Shanahan, like running backs, slot receivers. It's, they almost always work because, you know, it's like, they're like with Andy Reed. I mean, they've missed on some wide receivers, which by the way, is the hardest position to draft in the first round in the NFL because, I mean, for a lot of reasons, a lot of times you get a mature quarterback. He's just not patient. He just doesn't want to wait for some kid to figure out the routes. They don't trust him. That was Brady in New England. He just didn't trust that. Historically, it was one of the bigger busting positions to the last six or seven. in years when the college football changed. Washington beats the Bears 18 to 15 on a Hail Mary. Let me just start with this. Washington was the better team. They were the better coached team. I thought Chicago's offensive coaching at the end of the game was

egregiously horrible late in the game. And I give, let me just say, Caleb and his movement and his side-arming stuff, you can see the Mahomes comps. He's running around. The O line's getting overwhelmed. I mean, first of all, it was 9-0. At half. Chicago had 33 yards passing in the first half.

I thought the game was over. But Chicago, you know, their defense, you know, kind of kept him in the game. And then Washington's offense stalled. But I got to, John, the third in goal, where the Bears did the Fridge Perry, the following drive on a third down to win the game, you thought. They did a draw, essentially putting in the hands. The whole game came down to one play. Thank God, Keenan Allen, it was past interference.

I didn't get that. I mean, they made no attempt. It felt like the third down was just setting up fourth down, and they had to have a touchdown to take a lead. So I just couldn't stand Chicago's offensive coaching, and I know it to Hail Mary, but my take was Washington was a better team. 100%. I could not agree more.

There was a stat that popped up, I think, in the second half that said he was four of 13 for 36 yards. That being Caleb, I thought, on this drive, can't be the game. And I had to double check. It was the game. Their offense was horrendous. Their defense was outstanding. I wrote down, I mean, even when it was 9-0, it felt, I mean, 28 to nothing. Yes.

Complete control. Jaden didn't just look like the best player in the game. He looked like one of the best players in the league. the thing I wrote down is if you could pick these two coaching staffs, Iber Fluse, Waldron, and Dan Quinn, Cliff Kingsbury, the gap is like going from a star-starting quarterback to some random backup. You're like, it's not even close. That's why when they take the lead, I'm like, listen, it's sports,

crazy things happen. But there haven't been many games this season where a team would have came away with a victory that was like, you didn't even come close. To call the play to a backup officer. offensive lineman. Like, I was one years old with the refrigerator Perry plays, but he did it a lot, right? It was part of their arsenal. They weren't a good, obviously Walter Payton, but they weren't some dynamic offense.

You got, you drafted a receiver 9, you got Keenan Allen, you got DJ Moore, your running backs are the reason you're in the game. Yes. I mean, if it wasn't for Swiss, whatever huge run. Oh, huge run. It wouldn't even have been close. It was like that gave them life because they had none. None. They had none.

To give them that play, even they ended up taking the lead with 20 seconds left. I think that has to go down as the most egregious play call of the season. Second would probably be that. Remember that fake play? The Bills ran against the Ravens when they were storming. But that was way worse. To back up offensive linemen, I mean, it's not even, you can't even blame him. Belichick would say it's not on the player, it's on the coach.

You can't call. You can't put that guy in that position. So here's a prime example of coaching. One team has Joe Burrell, Jamar Chase, elite pass rusher. One team has Bo Nix, Cortland Sutton, and no elite pass rushers. Now, Patrick Sertan, I wrote this down today. He may be a top 10 defensive player in the league. He is just absolutely phenomenal.

But this is what coaching does with Sean Payton. Bo Nicks today, who in his last game, I text Sean. I said, man, his mechanics are off. Sean's like, hey, the kid's great. We're going to get it cleaned up. Three touchdowns, no picks, 280 yards, nine different wide receivers, tight-end targets, only one penalty. When I was watching the game, there may have been more, but when I wrote it down, only one penalty. They were tremendous on third down.

Now, Carolina, I get it. Denver was picked to win five games by Vegas. They're at five and three halfway through the season. They are coaching the you know what out of this team. John, this is the same defensive personnel. Remember because of Russell, they didn't have any draft picks. They got the Ellis kid out of Utah, I think third. round. They got Franklin the wide receiver who dropped a ball right through his hands today,

a deep ball. And I don't even think Bo Nix would be this good. And he struggled in the first month. But I watched him today, back foot, confidence. This, if you think we're being hard on Zach Taylor, Denver is squeezing every ounce of juice. You tell me how they're generating this pass rush. You tell me how Bo Nix is thrown for 300 yards behind kind of an OK offensive line. I watched Denver and I think that is coaching. That is coaching. That's what I see. Yeah, I mean, I totally agree.

I mean, I don't think Denver's roster is very good. I also think I think Vance Joseph last year when they scored, what Miami scored 70 on them. Yeah. And Sean Payton stuck with them. And by the end of the season, they were playing good defense. Their defense, like you said, beside the corner, you have to Google some of the guys on the team.

Yeah. This is not Neil Smith and Bill Romanowski that you're like, I don't even know who these guys are. And now we're going to find out a lot more about them. On Thursday night playing that New Orleans team a week ago. I mean, that was kind of a joke squad. And I didn't even think Bo Nix was that good in that game. The Ravens and the Chiefs coming up.

But hell, they don't have to win those games. If you get to 9 and 8 with this roster and a rookie quarterback, what a great building spot. Now, this is the thing with hiring good coaches. Like, look at LaFleur. He's 6 and 2 with a starting quarterback in and out of the lineup, completely unfazed. You're going to look up, I don't know how many games Jordan Love.

Who knows how long he's out? They're going to be an 11-12-win team no matter what. The power of that position in this sport flies by everything else. Is it Aaron Boone's fault that Aaron Judge has no clue what's coming out of the pitcher's hand? There's nothing he can do. Right. Where in coaching, you watch in college last night, Texas A&M has been one of the biggest jokes in college football the last couple years. And you watch him now, you're like, holy hell, this looks like Alabama or something.

It's because it's not even just about the play calling. It's about the messaging. It's about the structure. It's about the discipline. It's about basic things like how you practice the first 10 minutes of warmups. What is okay and what is not okay. If you come out with the wrong stuff, do I make you go back in and change or do I let it slide? And I think you just see the separating.

You see the Jets are a good example. They got no clue what they're doing. It's one of the worst coaching staffs in the league. It is the worst coaching staff. And then you look, I think Denver and the Chargers are very, very good examples. They have no business. You could say the Chargers a little bit because they do have a good quarterback, you know, an experienced quarterback to win 10 games with their roster.

If I give half the coaches in the NFL those teams, they don't sniff 10 wins, right? But I give Jim Harbaugh and Sean Payton and what do they make, a combined $35 million? They make it for a reason because you're going to feel pretty good about them winning double-digit games every year going forward. And the other thing that we don't talk a lot about with coaches, who do you hire your staff? It's one of the Harbaugh family's great attributes.

I would say Sean Payton, for the most part, has always had good coaching staffs. Dan Campbell was assistant. Dennis Allen's not a good head coach, but he's an excellent defensive coordinator. So he had a staff, and now, listen, I was skeptical of Vance Joseph, but you got to give him a lot of credit, like their defense is flying around. So your job is more than just calling plays or the draft. It encompasses a lot. Yeah, and the other thing, this is one of the things Sean McVeigh does so well, you're often asking yourself, how did Cooper Cup and Pooka Nukua get so open? Well, that scheme. I mean, it's like in the Super Bowl when Andy Reid has Sky Moore in the red zone wide open. You're like, there's only so much space. How is Sky Moore not covered at the 12? I'm watching Denver. And there were multiple times today, you're like, now again, it's Carolina.

but I'm seeing this time and time again. When they beat the Jets, we thought it was a fluke. No, Denver is better with Bow Nicks. They're a better football team than the Jets with Aaron Rogers. And the Jets have significantly better players overall. No, not even close. And so I'm just watching Denver today and I'm like, this is like, and I've text Peyton a couple times,

like this is what a well-coached team looks like. They should have beaten Carolina badly. They did. They should have beaten New Orleans badly. They did. But they're also winning this, that Jets game you look at and you're thinking, God, it was terrible weather. Bow Nicks had no, there's no reason in the world.

Bow Nicks goes and plays cross-country. If I recall, their travel was bad and beats Aaron Rogers in a, like a semi-tropical storm. Peyton won't get coach of the year, but he should be honorable mention because I think what he's doing with this roster is incredible. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque. Others say it's unleashing human potential.

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Quarterbacks are even more important. Teams in locker rooms move off players. more finger pointing, the better cultures win, the better coaches win, the better quarterbacks win. So there's a couple of big favorites I like this weekend, and I don't normally do that. Let's go to the underdogs, though. Dolphins plus six at the bills, I like Miami. Okay, so this has been a series dominated by Buffalo. No question, but they played very good.

They're really feeling themselves. They travel cross-country, now it's back. Miami, two is the first game back off a concussion. They actually controlled that game led by 10 in the fourth. Usually, quarterbacks off concussions don't play great in the first week. Second week, third week, fourth week, you see improvement. Division rival game really like Miami plus the point, sharper square. Look, it's flipped.

It opened at six, moved up to six and a half. The wise guys liked Buffalo at six and a half. And there's been a lot of wise guy money moving this back down to six. It might even get down to five and a half before kickoff. So wise guys are on your side here. They like Miami. They like Tua. They want to fade the bills because they've been playing so well.

I will tell you, I'll give you the other side of that argument, because I've bet Buffalo at minus six, I will be against the wise guys. I might be against you too. I want to give everybody the opportunity to hear both sides. Tua is terrible against teams that are good that are on the road. Okay, two and ten straight up, three eight one against a spread, away from home versus winning teams in his NFL career with the Dolphins. Also, the bill's offense has been top three in the league

across the majority of metrics, superficial advance metrics, whatever you want to do when it comes to rushing the ball. The Dolphins are a terrible tackling team. So from a matchup perspective and a history perspective, I think the bills have an advantage. But the wise guys, they like what they saw. They feel like two of the second game back after the concussion. He's going to be better. They feel like this Buffalo team, it's a little bit too high. It's inflated because of how well the bills have been playing.

So wise guys are with you, Colin, but I'm not. Okay. So I like Arizona minus one and a half at home. First of all, Matt Eberflus is the worst road coach in the league. Terrible. Terrible. Secondly, Arizona's better. Their personnel offensively is the best kept secret in the league. I love Connor the back, McRide the Tide in. Harrison now is getting more consistent. He's a dog.

Kyler Murray in the second half was outstanding. And I never trust this team's consistency and maturity, but I like the staff. I like their fight. Chicago, if you start looking at Chicago, they unraveled last week. They really did. They were lucky to be in a position to lose by Hail Mary. Arizona's a good home team. Iber Flues awful on the road. Arizona minus one and a half, sharper square. Yeah, it's sharp-ish.

Like if the wise guys are playing anything here, they're playing Arizona. But it's not primary in the games they're betting. A lot of wise guys I talk to, they kind of. want to pass on this game. In a perfect world, in a vacuum, they bet on the bears. The bears are more talented offensively. They're a really good defensive team, and they're really good at rushing the passer, and they're really good in coverage.

Now, the challenge for the bears is Montes Sweat didn't practice on Wednesday, has an injured shin. We don't know what his status will be. They're 10 and 5 with Montes Sweat since he joined the team. Okay? Number one, that's really good for passers. rush. Number two, Braxton Jones, their left tackle, he probably isn't going to play, did not practice this week. They were terrible when he left the game last week. Caleb was running for his life,

and then they got worse when Bracton Jones backup came in, and Bracton Jones backup is not going to be playing this week. So they're scraping the bottom of the barrel there. But here's what's interesting about Kyler. Kyler is great in the chaos. And what the bears would create and what their strength is is creating chaos for quarterbacks because they are so good at rushing the pasture. and so good in coverage. So Kyler's strengths actually plays to the bear's strength, which is another reason why the wise guys aren't quite looking to rush to bet this game.

And like you, Iber Flues, man. And I can't imagine you don't have a theory on this, but as a Bears fan, why draft Caleb Williams and then keep a coach who's a defensive coach who if he doesn't do well this year, you know you're going to get rid of, then you're going to bring in a new coach, and you've basically wasted a year

and created bad habits for kids. Caleb Williams, right? So now all of a sudden, Ibrose is basically throwing his team under the bus, saying, we practice this play, the Hail Mary every single week. I don't know why the guys didn't do it right. That hasn't sat well. So people don't know what they're going to get with the bears this week. Okay, you know I love the magic number four, four and a half and five. I take the favorites. Washington thoroughly outplayed Chicago. And Chicago is a pretty decent team. The Giants now, as we talked about, no Andrew Thomas. Daniel Jones visibly frustrated during the week. Two-point conversion against the Steelers. They're off him. Everybody in the building knows it. It just feels like a horrible environment.

The owner has supported the GM and the coach and not the quarterback. I think Washington's a really good team. I think they're for real. I think now Jaden Daniels is healthier. I didn't feel he was at 100% last weekend. I would take Washington minus four. I know it's a division rivalry game, Sharper Square. No, the wise guys are with you. They're betting on Washington. And it's a, normally they wouldn't, right? A division game, you're getting a home dog at more than a field goal. You want to bet the home dog. And we've got other games in which that is a scenario this week. But right now, like three and a half for a team that has lost its left tackle, he was the only reason that you ever felt comfortable betting on this team because he was so good at stabilizing that line. And now Tyrone Trayor who has really been an offensive weapon out of the backfield for them, the running back out of Purdue, he had a concussion, not likely to play. You're right about Daniel Jones. I think it's only a matter of time before they give him the hook

because they owe him, you know, $23 million if he gets injured next season. So I think pretty soon this experiment with Danny Dimes is going to end. Okay. I think the Rams are really a good football team when healthy. In fact, if you go back to last year when Stafford, Kairn Williams, Puka and Cooper Cup play, their seven and three in their losses at Detroit and overtime, at Baltimore and overtime. Offensive coach and Matt Stafford played on Thursday. Extra time to prepare.

They only have to give up one at Seattle. This is a coach and a quarterback mismatch. They are now healthier. And like the Packers offensively, the Rams defensively are crazy. young, young teams grow. They become better and better every few weeks. The Packers' offense just getting better every two games. This Rams defense is high draft picks, hungry, no stars, fast, young, and collectively very good. I think the Rams put away the Seahawks here, Sharper Square. Colin, you and I right now are going into the Foxhole on the Los Angeles Rams. The Wise

guys hate this bet. The Rams opened it as one and a half point underdogs. They are now almost two and a half point favorites. The wise guys, they love Seattle at two and a half. I'm with you. And Simon Hunter, my co-host, he's with you. Like, we feel like we are alone in the foxhole betting this game and we don't see what other people are seeing in Seattle. You've said this before. Sean McVeigh, for all the bells and whistles, all the motion on this team, he likes to run the ball. And Kyron Williams has been a top five running back in the NFL the past season and the half.

And he has been amazing since this season began, especially against team like Seattle, which are bottom third in all the rushing stats that matter. There are total rushing yards, yards per carry, EPA per rush. Like they are not a very good rush defense. They're still a team that's developing its 10. Alan. Puka's back. He's a great run blocker. You saw that last week. He's just so freaking big. Cooper cut back. Stafford is great in these situations. He's a quarterback. At the end of the day,

like you've said, there are quarterbacks that you just don't want to bet against. And sometimes I make my decisions about who I want to bet on based on how uncomfortable am I going to be if I am betting the other side and this quarterback has the ball in the last two minutes. Matthew Stafford's top five on that list. So you and I, brother, if it's in the blazing, you're going to be in a foxhole. I'm going to be in the foxhole. We'll be in it together. There's a couple of games that are fascinating to me. First of all, I don't know if it's a stayaway game.

I think I would take the Vikings at home minus five against the Colts because they're making a quarterback change. Also, I think the Vikings, I think the Rams on the road and the lions, Those offenses and those coaching staffs can make teams look very bad. And I think Minnesota's defense, if you go back three weeks, we thought it was pretty good. I think they need to redeem themselves before they get into division play. I think this is a good spot for them. I think they have a quarterback advantage. I think both coaches are really good.

But in this spot with a quarterback change, I think Minnesota has to get right. There's real urgency here before they get to the Green Bayes, the Detroit. the Chicago's in their schedule, I would take the Vikings minus five sharper square. Yeah, the wise guys have been bet in the Colts. They bet them at six. They bet them at five and a half. If it's down to five, it means they bet them again.

The Colts situation is incredibly confusing. Shane Steichen kind of intimated that this was coming from ownership, right? Like, you look at Anthony Richardson, in completion percentage is not a very good way to judge a developing quarterback. And there's been a lot of great analysis this week about if you analyze each one of his throws, he's making the choices that are the lower percentage throw, but the higher ROI if they're completed versus eight yard outs that won't get you the first down or 20 yard outs that will get you the first down. And so there's decisions being made there. And Shane Steichen, I'm a huge fan as a

coach. The wise guys are on this game because when it became Flacco, they sort of felt a little bit more comfortable that he can manage a Brian Flores defense and anything this guy throws at him. And don't forget, the Colts have an elite Russian game. And we talked about this last week. It's why I liked the Colts against the Texans last week. If you have a really good coach who's a good play caller and you have an elite unit and you're a decent sized underdog, I'm going to make that play. And that game played out exactly as we expected it to play out with the Colts. They dominated on the ground, right? And they had so that Jonathan Taylor had more than 100 yards rushing in his first game back.

They ran 6.2 yards per carry. Like, they will rely on the running game. They'll find ways to potentially keep this game close. So it feels a little bit trappy to bet the Vikings. It's not going to be a game that I'm invested in at all. Imagine an Olympics where doping is not only legal but encouraged. It's the enhanced games. Some call it grotesque.

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Ravens at home minus nine and a half. Now, Lamar has taken a couple practices off. The Ravens, by adding another receiver, are telling you, listen, we don't have Kansas City's defense or Buffaloes. We're going to win by scoring. They want to ramp up this offense. Their weakness is the back end. Over the top, you can beat them. And Mahomes and Josh Allen might.

Herbert might. Bow-Nicks isn't. That's not how they're built. He's not a big, deep ball thrower. He's more agile, mobile, underneath. Raven's weakness is not going to be exploited by Denver. This is a tough spot. Raven's off a loss.

Again, Baltimore on most Sundays, the last two years has been the knockout artist in this league blasting teams at home. Not beating them. Blasting Niners. Miami. Like Detroit.

This is a number all swallow. Ravens 9 and a half. I know I am as square as a Lego, right? Not this week, brother. Not this week. Like last week, I tried to get you on the Lions. I love the Lions. And like that was a no-brainer

from the get-go. It didn't matter what the number was going to be. We were betting the lines. The Ravens, the wise guys are coming in on the Ravens. And it's a little bit tricky because Denver's defense is fierce, right? Great pass rush. Great pass rush. Great against the run. Like their front four is phenomenal. But you can also look at it and say they've played not very good teams. They've had a relatively easy schedule. Weaker quarterbacks. weaker quarterbacks, right? You can look at the Ravens and say, okay, they should be dominating,

but they let every team back into it. And look at what James did last week. Look at what Jaden Daniels. The Ravens were up by 10. The spread was 7 and a half. The commanders lost that game by 7 because the Ravens let Jaden Daniels get back into it. We've seen it week after week after week.

The Ravens give up 17.3 points per game. in the second half this year, that is the worst in the NFL. Only the Titans are at 31. It's like those two. And last week they were tied. And so the Ravens number got worse this week. And the Titans number, after giving 52 points, got better. That's how bad the Ravens back end has been.

If you watched that game last week, Ross Tucker, who's a great broadcaster and really good podcaster, he talked about, like, you look on film and every single week, this Ravens defense, the back end, they look confused and they're communicating and trying to get it right while the play is being called and while the ball is being snapped. So it's a huge gamble, literally, to take the Ravens at this big a number, you've got to believe that Bo Nix won't be able to go over the top in the same way. And you know, Sean Payton is going to have him sling it. Like he's playing him like he's a fourth year pro. So it's risky. But the wise guys are on it. If you want to be on it, I can't walk you off it. Okay. So the game that's most interesting to me,

every game, every week I pick a game, and I want you to convince me. So my natural feeling is even off a buy, Dallas just doesn't deliver much to the field. Off a buy against the San Francisco defense without Dre Greenlaw, not really playing particularly well, some top starters out, they couldn't generate much offense. And they were dominated once you went off script in the third quarter and adjusted by the Niners. So I just don't like Dallas. every part of my being loves Atlanta minus two and a half three every part but Atlanta is off a very very competitive divisional game highly emotional game and I can see them coming back down the

earth I can see Dallas remember Atlanta offers no pressure guys like Dak and Gino Smith with time to throw are usually really effective so my gut feeling is Atlanta's the side I picked Atlanta to be the number one seed in the NFC with 12 to 13 wins. I love them. But something tells me Dallas is the side here. Dallas is where the wise guys are. And this number gets to three. It gets bet down to two and a half.

It gets back up to three. It goes down to two and a half. The wise guys definitely like the cowboys here. It's a little strange, you know. The Falcons, Kirk Cousins, is basically run up his numbers, thrown against the Buccaneers and the Panthers. That's how he's had such a good year. And like, he's played, honest to God,

he's thrown like eight touchdowns and thrown for 800 yards against the Buccaneers. And so you look at those numbers, you're like, oh my God, he's amazing. He finally made Kyle Pitts look like what everyone has been drooling about from a fantasy point of view for the past three or four years.

But against regular teams, they're generally mediocre. And so the question becomes, especially against teams they can cover and they can rush the passer. So the question you have to ask yourself is, is Micah Parsons going to play? Because without Micah Parsons, the Cowboys can't rush the passer. That is, you know, part in the phrase, an Achilles heel for Kirk Cousins. He's not very good against coverage right now. Is Duran Bland going to play?

He practiced this week, the Cowboys cornerback. If so, the Cowboys are much, much better in coverage. Jack Prescott is basically a mall Santa at this point. Like he does not move inside the pocket, right? He just sits. For four hours, the guy's just sitting there. Giving away gift to CD-LAM. If he is able to do that against a team like the Falcons

that can't get any pressure, then yeah, he's going to slice them up. Cowboys have no running game. They can't stop their run. It is so ugly. It will be so uncomfortable. Everything about these teams says fraud. So you're really just deciding I'm betting on the underdog as a fraud.

Okay. There's always a game or two. I missed. I have a feeling Chargers, Browns could be one of them. I would be prone to bet against Cleveland after a win. That would be my gut feeling. Is that one of the games I missed? Well, certainly it's a game that a lot of wise guys are talking about.

And they have been betting on Cleveland. This number has moved down. I think it was a two and a half. No, down to two, now down to one and a half. half. I'm with you, man. I don't get it. And this is what makes betting so interesting, right? Because you have to decide when are you selling? It's like the market. Are you selling? Are you going to hold on for one week too long? Are you going to lose 10 to 20% of your value? Or are you getting out at the peak? Let's break down the Ravens and the Chargers as competition

for James. Let's break down James as he played the Ravens last week. He was great. It's sliced them up, also had a fumble at the end of the first half that put the Ravens in position to score the go-ahead touchdown instead of being down six-three. They're up 10-6. The play before he threw that dime to Cedric Tillman to win the game for the Ravens, he threw a gimmie interception to Kyle Hamilton that Kyle Hamilton dropped. And there were three of those in that game, right? So now you go look at the Chargers. The Chargers have an elite run defense. They have a great playmaker and Justin Herbert who doesn't turn the ball over. You know they are going to run the ball. Is James Winston going to get away with the same mistakes? That is my concern in betting on the

Browns. The wise guys are betting that James will continue to find a way to be James and that because this offensive line is getting healthier, because this defense is getting healthier because the game is in Cleveland. There's an upswing. There's still momentum. I'm not buying it. If you want to pass on it, I get it. If you want to take the Chargers, I get it. The Chargers number is getting lower. It's a little trappy to take sort of the road dog, the road favorite in this spot. So it's not a huge play for me, but I will bet the Chargers.

Anything else I missed? Yeah. How did we now talk about the Lions and the Packers? Well, because I don't know if Jordan Love's going to play. Doesn't matter. Don't care. As Jay Cutler says, in the urinal, in Chicago, when someone tells us, them, they went to Vanderbilt.

Don't care. I don't care. I'm betting the Packers at plus three and a half. And by the way, if Jordan Love isn't playing and it's Malik Willis and the number goes up to four, four and a half, I'm still playing the Packers. Matt LaFleur is an elite schemer. He has been amazing this season. Matt LaFleur is 70% against the spread when he is an underdog. And by the way, when he's an underdog of three or more points.

points, 18 and 4. You got Jared Goff, who has a balky ankle. You've got Jared Goff playing outdoors. You've got the lions at peak value right now. You've got the lions going against a Packers offensive line that is a fantastic pass blocking unit. And this will be the first time we really see the impact of not having Aiden Hutchinson to rush the passer. And by the way, Malik Willis, what has he done badly to not give us confidence? Matt LaFleur understands what he is getting into with that quarterback. This is a smash spot for the Packers. I love the Packers here.

Well, that's why you're a professional gambler and I'm a radio schmuck. By the way, by the way, nobody knows nothing until the game is over. But I am definitely... By the way, my toughest loss of the year, I took, you know, I love the number four. I took Green Bay against Jacksonville, and they kneel before rushing in. That was rough. Rough. That was rough.

I think I told you to take Jacksonville at three and a half. I know. But I honestly, Green Bay led, I felt like I was in the wrong. I felt like I was on the right side. But the way I lost, I remember last year, I lost a doink on the Saints. They like hit the crossbar. Maybe twice in that game. I felt like about once a year.

I laugh. I don't get angry. I feel like you've got to be kidding me. They led by, I think, 10 at one point in the second half. They're going in, running for the touchdown, and the guy does a dive at the two. And I thought, well, okay, the experts were right. Yeah, that's how it works out. By the way, that Jacksonville game was a joke. I was joking on the podcast this week. I hated the Jacksonville bet. I didn't want to make it. I thought it was a bad idea. I hate that team. I'm not impressed with them. Everything that we needed to go right in that game went right. It was a lucky, lucky win.

But then you got to look at the Colts against the Texans and either we got, either we got really lucky with the Colts because the Texans were going to, the very least, kick a field goal late in the game if Joe Mixon and C.J. Shroud don't botch the snap, don't bunch the handoff. And the Colts recover. And then, you know, they can go down. and do their thing or the game ends at three. It wasn't going to go like that, but everything that led up to that

made it feel like a great handicap. Everything with Jacksonville felt like a bad handicap and we just got lucky in the end. But you sort of had to say to yourself, did I get lucky in both games? Or were both games a great handicap? So I'm going with they were genius ideas. And I'm hoping the same thing happens with the Packers.

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