The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Colin Cowherd Podcast Prime Cuts - Peyton Manning on GM Jobs + Trey Lance, Cowboys with Matt Mosley, NFL Week 1 Best Bets

Episode Date: September 10, 2022

This is Prime Cuts! The best of The Colin Cowherd Podcast. First, Colin defends Jim Harbaugh against agenda-driven media criticism he still somehow gets after winning everywhere he’s ever coached, and  explains the biggest unintended consequence of the college football transfer portal Then, 5-time MVP, 2-time Super Bowl champ - and host of the Capital One College Bowl - Peyton Manning on if he would ever take a GM job, the value of the Niners playing Trey Lance now, and the most important trait he looks for in young QB's. Then, longtime Cowboys columnist - and host of The Doomsday Podcast - Matt Mosley joins Colin on realistic expectations for 40 year-old tackle Jason Peters replacing Tyron Smith and  if Jerry Jones is turning into Al Davis. Then the Action Network's Chad Millman tells Colin if his NFL Week 1 picks are "sharp" or "square" for Packers/Vikings, Eagles/Lions, and Browns/Panthers. Follow Colin and The Volume on Twitter for the latest content and updates and check out FanDuel for the best wagering and daily fantasy action! #herd  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Completely straight shooter. No BS with Mosley. Are they becoming the NFL's new version of the Raiders under Al Davis at the end? And Chad Millman, my week one bets, are they sharp or square? But first, my top takes of the week. You know, I've always thought it's interesting.

A long time ago, somebody was asking me about social media. And I said, it's too often a place where less successful people go to tell more successful people how to do things. Jim Harbaugh is really successful. I don't know. In his entire life, smart kids, beautiful wife, played in the NFL. San Diego won. Stanford won. Super Bowl in the NFL.

Michigan won. He's been successful at every venture in his life. Dad, husband, player, coach, college pro. Nick Saban embarrassed himself in the NFL. Steve Spurrier, Urban Meyer, were disasters in the NFL. Jimmy Johnson, Pete Carroll, and Jim Harbaugh won in both leagues. So Michigan is rated fourth in the latest Associated Press poll. But please, less successful people, tell me what adult Jim Harbaugh is. It's amazing how people can seriously criticize Harbaugh, whose coaching career borders on unrivaled. Folks, 90% of college coaches get fired. Harbaugh is three for three.

San Diego, Stanford, Michigan. Michigan's average 10 wins since he arrived. Take out the COVID season. That's a train wreck for everybody. They're in the top four. He just beat Ohio State. And Michigan's not an easy school. They don't accept every recruit.

It's harder to get some kids into Michigan. It's an elite school, elite law school, elite medical school. This is not a place where you can get anybody in. It's harder to win at Michigan. It's a great school. So, you know, I just laugh at all these critics of Jim Harbaugh. Where has he failed ever? Ever.

Show it to me. You don't have to like him. Like, you don't have to like Brian Kelly. But folks, if you do something and you succeed in multiple places, Bill Parcells turned around four different pro football teams. He's good at what he's done. Like, where has Harbaugh ever failed? I mean, even the people who love Sabin would have to do.

acknowledge the NFL was a bit of a shit show for him. I mean, a lot of stories that he couldn't get along with players. Nobody could look him in the eye. And I like, I like Nick Saban a lot. But he was a little too rigid, a little too pro-system over player. Harbaugh took a disaster with the 49ers, got him to a Super Bowl left, and they were a disaster 45 minutes later. So when I look at Michigan, they're not in Georgia's class or Alabama's class. And most years, they're not as good as Ohio State. But Ohio State's probably right now the third best program in America. Some would argue second.

There's 130 programs. If Michigan is between 5 and 20, and you know they are, he's done a great job at Michigan. By the way, never been busted for any recruiting scandal. So he does things right. it takes him a little longer. He's not going to roll the dice on some of these recruits. And a lot of the Michigan boosters, this is a very refined university. A lot of these southern schools, they'll just get into bidding wars for a high school football player.

Michigan's a little different. They're boosters. It's not going to be a cash grab to buy high schoolers. They're not going to do it. I respect that. But, God, the constant negativity around Jim Harrow. Marball. Look in the mirror. Good God, if most people in America could be just as successful as he was in his first job at San Diego, that would be an incredible coaching career. If you turn around one program, you turn around three and got to a Super Bowl and the Niners tanked when he left.

I'll never get it. You know, people complain that the media has agendas. And I think fans are often right. that the media has agendas. But fans have agendas too. If you don't get what Harbaugh has done in his career, you've got an agenda. The only program in America that can kind of look down on him is Ohio State because they play them every year and they've dominated that series. Well, Ohio State historically is a better football program. Not always better, not every year better.

But Ohio State is the one northern school in America that feels like a southern, dedicated, focused, committed, wealthy football program. I've said that for years. Ohio State feels like if you put them in the SEC, they'd fit right in. Socially, academically, athletically, commitment, they'd fit right in. Michigan feels like a northern academic football power. They should be proud. It's a great school.

I wish I would have gone there. But, I mean, look yourself in the mirror. If you're still banging on the media that has agendas and you're criticizing Jim Harbaugh, It's a layup, folks. That's an easy one. He's really good at what he does. He's different. He's unique.

He's outspoken. You don't have to love what he's doing, but not everybody loves what Dabo Sweeney says. Not everybody loves how Saban acts. Oftentimes, we think something is wonderful. We demand something. We want something. And then there's an unintended consequence of that thing. A great example.

People just complain about cable. Your cable bill was too expensive. I want streaming. Streaming is great. Netflix is great. Streaming. Well, Netflix, yes, it was very successful and is. And because of that, many big corporations like Amazon and Disney have also gotten into streaming.

Now there's like 15 to 20 streaming services, all charging me $999 or more per month. Now it costs more than my cable. and it's hard to keep track of all the passwords and codes. How many times have you thought, oh, I heard there's a great, there's a great show. Oh, I forgot what streaming service it's on. I tried to watch something the other day on the actor, Army Hammer. It was on Discovery Plus.

It took me 10 minutes to sign up for Discovery Plus. Cable, I contend, and I've always said this. If you like college basketball and college football, you have to have cable. and it's one of the great values in America. I pay $120 a month, and I get unbelievable college athletics. 365 days a year.

I'm keeping my cable. And I think about that because the transfer portal in college football is really viewed as a gigantic win for everybody, right? The player has mobility. Your team can solve a problem very quickly. here's the unintended consequence of it. It's important that Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley and Mario Cristobal don't win 11 or 12 games this year. Because there's like 10 to 12 great brands in college football, maybe 10.

USC is one of those, right? You know, your Alabama's, Texas, Michigan, Ohio, State, Notre Dame. If it becomes so easy to take one of those top 10 brands, and win immediately with no struggle, then why would you stay at a really good job like Michigan State? A really good job like Wisconsin, you know, Virginia Tech, Oregon. Why stay at those jobs? If the transfer portal is some magic elixir to immediately at a big brand, Bama, USC, Oklahoma, solve all your issues. You want it to be hard for even a great coach to go to a big brand.

You want him to struggle. Because in the back of his mind, if he's got a good job or a very good job, you don't want him thinking, God, just get me to an Alabama. Just get me to an Oklahoma. Just get me to a USC or a Notre Dame or a Miami. I mean, Nick Saban, seven and six first year. Pete Carroll, USC, six and six first year. Kirby Smart, eight and five.

It took dabble with Sweeney at Clemson four years. Yeah, it's important that it's hard even at LSU, even at USC, even at Miami, even at Texas, even at Notre Dame, even at Michigan. You want it to be kind of hard, even if you're Jim Harbaugh, Michigan. You don't want him winning 12 games the first year. So the unintended consequence of the transfer portal is that it may make it really easy. I mean, did you notice this weekend the SEC went 14 and 1? Why? Because in the transfer portal, those are the richest college football programs. Those that had little tiny issues, paid for them, and solved them in the off-season.

You want an SEC program if they fire a coach and bring in a new one. You want it to be a two-year battle to get back to the top. So the transfer portal is wonderful, but I think there has to be some parameters. And I hope, I hope we don't have coach. transferring to the level of players. I want Brian DeKley to stay at LSU for seven, eight years, but I want him to battle it for a year or two. Now, Lincoln Riley's different.

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I don't care what you'll say. Yep, that's me, Cliver Taylor the 4th. You might have seen the skits, the reactions, my journey from basketball to college football, or my career in sports media. Well, somewhere along the way, this platform became bigger than I ever imagined. And now I'm bringing all of that excitement to my brand new podcast, The Clifford Show. This is a place for raw, unfiltered conversations with some of your favorite athletes, creators, and voices that not only deserve to be heard, but celebrated.

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podcast. And for more behind the scenes, follow at Clifford and at TikTok Podcast Network on TikTok. Payton Manning's a pro and college football Hall of Famer. Two Super Bowls, five MVP's co-host of the Manning cast on ESPN2 with his brother Eli, host of the Capital One College Bowl. Season two of the Capital One College Bowl kicks off back-to-back episodes Friday, September 9th, 8 Eastern Pacific on NBC. The one and only Peyton Manning joins us. So, you know, your name has come up. For the audience, you have Omaha Productions, which is that you guys do a lot of B on B, business on business stuff, very successful.

You've had, you know, I don't want to get into your private investments, but you've done really, really well. But in those investments, I do feel like, and I know you've been in a liquor business, you're currently in it, I am in it, and you're very committed to it. You'll call the bar owner. That's the game, right? You're a committed guy. And when your name comes up for front office jobs, I've said, yeah, he's got the commitment and the intellect. That's not what I worry about. But it's being a GM's weird because you got often a crazy owner above you.

And these guys are billionaires and nobody tells them no. The second thing is you played in this league. Some of it's guessing. Like you can do all the tape shit. Some of it, Peyton, is guessing. And somebody asked me once, I said, I don't think Peyton wants to get into the guessing business. And everybody says, oh, I said, I could see him being an owner. I could even see the coach thing a little, although I didn't have the time.

But I think a lot of people see you because of your intellect as a general manager. And for me, I've always thought, there's a lot of moving parts you can't control there. How do you view it? Yeah. I don't see a GM in my few. future. Coach, I'm the offensive coordinator on my son Marshall's sixth grade football team. We got beaten overtime on Saturday. And a couple of my players asked me why I ran the ball so much in the Red So I think coaching in my future is also out because hearing that from a couple

six graders was tough. Hearing that from a 32-year-old wide receiver and quarterback, hey, I haven't got the ball. What are you doing? I think that's out. being a resource to quarterbacks to to rookies, to coaches, to general managers, I love doing that. In the six years I've been

retired, I felt like I've kind of been a resource to a number of different people that have my number, either that I talk to about Monday night football, the broadcast, they say, hey, by the way, let me ask you something. In the two-minute drill, did you call everything? Did y'all stay in the same formation?

It seemed like I've got a lot of plays in, and I would just go, yeah, actually we did. We lined up in the same formation. And that might be to Matt LaFleur, the head coach of the Packers. And so I've enjoyed being that resource to lots of different people. And, you know, if there was a team to be a resource for specifically, sure, something like that. But a general manager, what, you know, John Lynch has done at San Francisco and George Peyton, doing here in Denver. Hey, I'm not qualified to do it. I really don't think that I am. And it's just not something that's in my card. You're right. I mean, it is a gift. It is a talent. You are

going all in on a draft choice and you're behind him. And all of a sudden, two years in, you realize, golly, this guy is just not the player that I thought he was, right? Everybody's going to say you made this huge mistake. So, yeah, I wouldn't be good at the guessing. And I don't see that in my car. by any means. I want to ask you about repetitions part of quarterback play, the verbal repetition, the film repetition, accuracy comes pretty easy to you. You know, Joe Burrow feels like it just, it comes easy. The ball comes out.

Kyler Murray's got just a nice baseball rhythm to it. I watched Trey Lance, and aesthetically, it's not pretty. Now, Philip Rivers wasn't, and he was pretty accurate. Right. You know, there's arguments about Josh Allen. So I watched two Josh Allen college games because I heard about this kid from Wyoming. So I watched the Oregon game and the Iowa game. And I'm like, oh, boy, this is a lot of work.

This is a raw pony. He said somebody needs, he needs a trainer. And all of a sudden you look up and it's like, okay. Matt Stafford's been really successful. He's about a 61, 62% completion guy. So you don't have to be you. You don't have to be Kirk Cousins. But do you kind of, where do you land, Peyton, on coaching accuracy?

Where do you land on that? Because Trey Lance worries me. Yeah. Look. I mean, the better timing you have with your receivers, the more accurate you can be. Obviously, there's a better chance to consistently move the ball, right? Every time you receive a kickoff, I got an accurate. quarterback. He knows where to go. He's been playing with these receivers for a couple of years.

I think we can go 80 yards on every single possession, right? That's kind of how we felt and we played, right? We didn't care where we got the ball on the kickoff. I mean, I used to get so mad at, you know, a block in the back on a kick return. I'm like, just get me to the 20. Give me to the 20, we can score, right? But starting on the 10, because you clipped, that that was always annoying to me. player never had to answer in a quarterback meeting room, right? Because he's probably like a safety that clipped that, you know, special teams meetings are separate. So anyway, I'm getting off subject.

If you're not super accurate as a coordinator, you're going to have him, you're going to have to pick and choose your times when to take shots, when to try to have these explosive plays to shorten drives, right? It might be a, you know, sprint right, throwback screen to Kettle that's going to get us 50 yards. and now we're in the red zone, and now we can maybe get a touchdown. So, but for Trey, I mean, to me, it's about the reps, right? Anytime you're in quarterback competitions, right,

or not getting on the field, your accuracy, your decision-making, your play is always going to be challenged, right? The best way to learn is on the field, right? 28 interceptions is a rookie. We won three games, but what I learned in that rookie season, And I mean, there's no way we're going 13 and 3 the next year if I don't play every game as a rookie.

Eli says that the six games he started with the Giants compared to the 10 he sat behind Kurt Warner, no comparison at all, right? On the field. Get in there, see just how fast these linebackers are, see how much ground these safeties can cover. And you don't really get that in practice. You don't get that in the preseason. You get that in games, right? and division games are faster than non-division games. Playoff games are faster than regular season, right?

So, you know, for trades, just get them in there and let them learn. And hopefully you can win at the same time, right? The 49ers are used to winning, right? They're not looking for a three and 13 season. Like, you know, first picking the draft. There's a reason that team's picking first in the draft, Colin, because they stink, right? You know, and so that was tough for me as a rookie. But I think the supporting cast around Trey, Samuel, Kittle, I think they can give him a chance of success.

I think Kyle Shanahan knows the position is to keep Trey in to give him a chance to be successful. I want to shift because I love college football. You love college football. And I went to the USC game this weekend. By the way, Caleb Williams, when you're live at the game, man, he is instinctive. Peyton, it's crazy. Like I. Really?

Good. It's like 19, 20. I couldn't believe how instinctive he was. When I watch college coaches, I always feel like 17 hours, 19 year old kids, just show me that you're not going to waste timeouts. Show me you can manipulate personnel. Like my standard is lower.

When, when you look at some of these college quarter, What do you look at? Like with Caleb, I'm like, wow, instincts are good. Same delivery system, short, flat, deep seam, all looks the same. It's like a pitcher. Change up fastball, curve, nothing looks different. The batter doesn't get any hedges or ticks. So when you look, because we have five quarterbacks this year, they're entering their second

ear. And we're already seeing some tells. Some guys young, some guy's not accurate. What do you look for when you see a college quarterback? It's funny because I get to see a lot of these kids in person at our football camp. We have this football camp for high school kids. It's called the Manning Passing Academy. But it's turned into sort of a double pay it forward and that we're coaching the high school kids. But this past year, we had 40 starting college quarterbacks. They come and coach the high school kids that they're counselors in the camp. But in between practices when the high school kids are eating lunch or, you know, taking a nap or taking a shower,

Eli and I are out there throwing with these college quarterbacks or doing a chalk talk. We're not throwing anymore because, you know, no one wants to see five-yard hitches thrown all day by a 46-year-old quarterback. But we're kind of running the drills. And I'm doing the same drills that I used to do. So look, you can get fooled. by how impressive a guy is in what I would call routes versus air, right? You're throwing routes.

There's no defense. There's no past rush. There's no corner. And guys can wow you and go, wow, this guy can really throw or he can really spin it, which is my least favorite term in all of football. He can spin it. I don't know what that means. Can he play?

Can he leave? When he move the chains? That's what I want to know. You know, spin it. So, you know, I mean, name somebody through the years. Matthew Stafford threw it as well as anybody who ever had at the camp, worked out for him. Andrew Luck, I remember, didn't throw it all that well.

Now, because everybody knows who he is and they expect every throw to be a perfect spiral and right on target, you know, that probably works against Andrew because, you know, oh, he's not as good as I thought he was. Well, because you thought he was never going to throw an incompletion, right? to Marcus Russell threw it as well as anybody we ever had. One time we were on the 20-yard line throwing out, and he almost ran the receiver into the goalpost. My dad's like, you got to back up, Peyton. I'm like, dad, he just threw it, you know, 85 yards.

I didn't know he was going to throw it that far. You know, 47 yards is my maximum, you know, deep pattern. So you can get fooled in that. Bryce Young was there this past year, right? Didn't wow you with his, you know, arm strength or accuracy. see. But what impressed me about him is that, I mean, he is calm, he is cool, he is in control, and that's what you see translate on the field, right? So I'm looking for leadership, I'm looking for presidents, and on the field, I'm looking for decision making, right? Do they

make good decisions, right? That's what really matters, right? You know, wowing somebody in a private workout at the combine or at your own, you know, campus. where the weather is perfect and you got your favorite song playing in the background to get you hyped up. That doesn't do much for me, right? I want to see good decisions. I want to see how they lead a drive after they throw an interception, right? That's what's going to show me something, right? Do they put it behind them or do they, you know, let it drag on and they throw another interception to make a bad decision?

So anyway, so going back to that guessing game, you can get fooled by, you know, certain quarterbacks, but I think the guys that are leading, the guys that have presence, you know, the guys through the years that have been to that camp, you see that, and you see that translating to success in the NFL. He's my friend. He's Matt Mosley, part of the highly successful Doomsday podcast with Edward, or they talk a lot of Dallas Cowboys. That's what they do. And we haven't had Mosley on for a while. And his relevance and wit are. are highly in demand. And we feel very lucky today that we have him.

So first of all, I see this Jason Peters move today, the left tackle who was moved about as well as a coffee table with the bears. And I thought, holy God, this is awful. What do you make of that signing? How is it playing in Dallas? You know, it is desperate times signing. And it's playing as here is a former Arkansas play. player who Jerry Jones is going to feel comfortable with.

But he's 40 years old. I believe we looked up his birthday. He'll be 41. And while in some, you know, things in life, that's a nice young age, certainly not to play left tackle. And so I don't, I think it's brought even more attention to already sort of a bad situation. And so I kind of love how they're playing it. in the last 24 hours since he's gotten here, as of today, it's being played is almost like he's a tutor.

You know, we brought in this unbelievable mentor for Tyler Smith, and it'll just be like another coach, and he'll be in Tyler Smith's ear. When the reality of this is he's here because there is a decent chance this could be a disastrous situation for the Cowboys. And that's not even a knock on. this player, Tyler Smith, but they wanted him nowhere near left tackle. And that is where he's going to start his NFL career. Wow. You know, I've made this comparison on the air.

I don't know if I did it last time with you. I think the Cowboys are turning into the Raiders when Al Davis got old. So Al Davis and Jerry Jones are very similar. They're Mavericks, Contrarian, street fighters, visionaries. And then you start getting into your 70s and you start believing in your press and you're not quite cognitively as quick. And I think Jerry's had multiple missteps in the last several years, things he said he's had to backtrack on. And I thought at the end of Al Davis's reign, he really romanticized. He really lived in the rearview mirror.

And I feel very much that way with the way Jerry Jones handles Zeke, as if it's a running back league, as if you want your running back to be the biggest cap hit. And I look at Dallas right now, and I think they're dangerously close to becoming the last 10 years of Al Davis's raiders. I think what saves them is the division so damn awful. But I thought Philadelphia, Matt, had a really, really good offseason. Size up the Eagles offseason and the Cowboys and where they stand today, in your opinion. Well, I think you saw Colin the Eagles, you know, needed a. safety slash corner and really they need a safety help. And they went and made a trade.

And I think it irritates Cowboys fans that Howie Roseman, who have gotten to know pretty well over the years, is now being sort of celebrated. This is the guy that's gotten ahead of things. And he's got, he's doing these trades and he's solidified the team. And I don't know if this is accurate or even fair, but just based on some of the offseason and then even the buildup to this season, people are now picking the eagles over the cowboys. And Jerry has no one else to blame but himself.

And you brought up the Zeke thing. Zeke jumped in front of Dak. And then Dak became a man. Most people, when they have a career-altering type injury, don't have a bunch of leverage. You would think the Cowboys might be in the best position. But because of how they handled it, it and they kept kicking it down the road, they ended up having to pay him enormous money.

And so they've just mismanaged this thing so much to where, and what you're saying about Jerry, I think there's some truth to it, although he's still extremely quick. So cognitively, I think he's fine. I think sometimes he's just a bad, you know, he just does a bad job at some of this. and he still thinks he can snap into where they were 26, 27 years ago. And as we get farther and farther away from that, it just seems so distant. What the Cowboys are good at doing, and boy, you've seen this, they're still good at landing sometimes like unbelievable star players.

This is a place for stars. And like Micah Parsons, they have some individuals, C.D. Lamb, that kind of to blow people away. But over time, think about the depth at wide receiver. The depth on the old line. And nobody has just tremendous depth across the board. But the Cowboys went from three years ago to people making the statement, this might be the best line in the NFL, to just being pretty awful. Like they're not solid at left guard. They're not solid at center. They're very solid at right guard, they're iffy at right tackle, and now they're really iffy at left tackle because they wanted to start Tyler Smith. His first year at left tackle was supposed to be like the

2004 season. That would have been perfect. Tyron Smith, get him through two more seasons and welcome this guy in to play left tackle in 2024. In 2022 season, he is your starting left tackle. So Jerry wants to talk him into being great. And so that's where Jerry and Al may have some of those similarities. And to your point, Jerry worshipped Al. Like, not only were they kind of similar in some ways in Mavericks, but where do you think, I mean, a lot of that stuff Jerry did, he got from Al. And Al saw this guy in Jerry, like, ooh, that reminds me of myself, and he took him under his wing.

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I'm leaning one way. And then at the end, I'll say, you give me a really sharp pick on your own and maybe I'll steal that. It's all about me. Listen, it is Colin Cowherd's volume podcast network, okay? By the way. No mistakes. Look at this right here.

That is Fancy Town. Yeah. Okay. Let's get to the ones I've liked all offseason. I've already laid a little lettuce. Vikings, it's now one and a half. I got a better line. Vikings plus one and a half.

at home where they have always, Kirk Cousins has always been formidable against the Packers. Say what you want about Captain Kirk. I think they're going to win straight out. I think Green Bay by Thanksgiving, October, maybe the rookies then, then are ready to be big contributors. I don't think it's going to be the first week of the season.

I'm going to take the Vikings straight out, sharp or square. That is very sharp, very, very sharp. The Packers going on the road to play the Vikings, everyone will always make a big deal about how Aaron Rogers has owned his division, how Aaron Rogers against the spread has owned his division. The majority of that is against the lions and the bears. It's not as much success against the Vikings. And I do think, we saw some of this last year early in the season with the Packers too,

You are going to have a transition period without Devante Adams, who, by the way, was especially effective against the Vikings. So now Aaron Rogers is going in with receivers nobody's heard of, who he hasn't really played with. Alan Lazard has been banged up. And you've got an offense in Minnesota, again, Captain Kirk, who knows, but you've got a great running back. You've got an all-pro caliber receiver. You've got an offense that will probably be more explosive, probably be a lot more efficient on first down and not put Kirk Cousins in positions where he has to make bad decisions. You mentioned this line has moved. That is a fact.

It has moved from about two and a half down to right now. Minnesota is, let's say, plus one and a half. So sharp, my friend. Okay. This one's a little dicier because the lion's O lines. a tad beat up, and it is the strength of their football team. I'm going to take Detroit, now down to three and a half, at home, lively dog against Philadelphia. I think Philadelphia by year's end is a better team.

But again, lesser teams don't know their lesser teams in September, especially a Dan Campbell team that's chewing up kneecaps and running through firewalls. So I like the lions here getting more than a field goal at home, sharper square. Classic sharp spot. This is one that wise guys pegged as soon as the lines came out. The lions, you mentioned the offensive line. It is a strength of their team. It is one of the better offensive lines in the NFL. They've also got really good talent on the edges at running back and at receiver. Jared Goff is perfectly serviceable. It's been a team that last year, even in spite of having a 3-13-1 record, never gave up, especially against the spread.

They were effective. The wise guys fell in love with them. They were a team that everybody is tagged as being one of those teams that will not quit. Wise guys are going to be with this team all season long. They like the Lions plus four. A lot of them are taking a little bit of a taste on the Money Line for the Lions to win outright. In his career, the variant. impulsive Baker Mayfield has been able to harness that emotion for singular games.

The revenge win over Ohio State. The revenge wins over Texas Tech where he had huge games. The revenge win over Hugh Jackson when he went to the Bengals. The win over Pittsburgh. Now, over the course of time, he is impulsive and he can't channel that emotion properly. He's got too much of an ego. he tends to be, again, somebody that doesn't take a deep breath. He never falls on the sword.

He creates controversies instead of suppressing them as what's the great quarterbacks do. But in these one-game situations, chip on his shoulder, I'm going to prove you wrong. I've seen it at Oklahoma. I saw it in Cleveland. He's been very good. He can harness it for a week. Carolina is going to win outright minus one and a half. They were three and O to start the year last year with Darnold, and they're a best.

better football team, I like Carolina to win this game by a touchdown. Sharper's way. 100% sharp. I'm huge on Carolina this year as well. I have them over six and a half wins. I'm a big fan of Baker in this spot. Last year, for everything you said is true, he gets in his own way. He was also injured last year.

And I think that had a big impact on his ability to perform. I think in one game, first game of the year against a team that does. doesn't have its top quarterback that he is very bitter about. That alone makes it the right side. I also think the Panthers like at home, their defense is improved just by virtue of Baker Mayfield being on the offense than Sam Darnold being on the offense. It gives them more of an opportunity to perform better. Christian McCaffrey, healthy, maybe for the only time this year because he'll have to play a game. So now's a good time to bet the Panthers. So yes, 100%, especially with this line dropping a little bit.

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