The Herd with Colin Cowherd - What's Wright - Nick Wright reacts to College Football Week 1, Arch Manning & Belichick debut, Micah Parsons-Packers

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

Nick Wright discusses the fallout from then Dallas Cowboys trading Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers and what it means for the NFC. Then, Nick recaps week 1 of the college football season – from Arch Manning’s disappointing performance to Bill Belichick’s UNC debut. After, Nick caps off his annual preseason gambling show with his division winner bets and his Super Bowl exacta. Later, Nick and Damonza answer your questions. #VolumeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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some less surprising results for others and we are two days away from the start of the NFL season officially 58 hours from now the Eagles will be taking on the Micah Parsons list cowboys in Philadelphia so all of that is coming up it is the part three and the final part of our preseason NFL gambling show. Also, I noticed De Manze, you are yet to enter the, my official, unofficial survivor contest, the $25 an entry with my friends at Slack Sports. By the way, they're giving away some entries today to that. A few notes on that. Unpaid endorsement. However, I am, if I'm being totally transparent, thanks to my friend Phil. I'm, you know, I have a little tiny tiny tiny stake in that company um so it's unpaid but there are people i i've worked with that

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Guys, this is a lesson for everyone. And I tried to mention this on the show, but then Wilds got weird. about it thought I was talking of maybe about myself and I wasn't um this is actually a relationship lesson Tyree kill on the Dolphins you need to decide whether or not you're still mad and whether or not you can get over something if you're still mad and you can't get over something you need to end it and if you say you're not mad and you're over it then you can't all of a sudden still be bringing it up six months year years later the dolphins are like no it's all good Tyreek but we're still very very

mad at you and that is net that never works that never works either end it or move on but this half measure is you can't have the best player on your team not be a captain he's the best player on the team so if you're so mad at him for what he said then just trade him just move on from in the summer because we all know what path this is walking down towards. Tyreek Hill being released after the season and signing with the Kansas City Chiefs. Like, we all know that's where this is going. So you could have circumvented that by maybe trading him or by really putting your arms around him.

Being like, Tyreek, he to the battle. We know that's not you, buddy. And you might say he didn't earn, he didn't deserve that. What he did was wrong. don't care like if I do care but if you're having him still on the team and you're fun and you're still the entire you're all of your hopes and dreams for the season revolve around him then this whole like he's not a captain nonsense I think is silly and the Milwaukee Brooks bucks have brought back thanassas and I assume someone

check on Al Horford sister who was so devastating for the young man who didn't get drafted because Brani did and I would just love to know her thoughts on the young man who Thanos is taking that roster spot for and I'm not picking on Al Horford's sister and her very terrorizing Twitter feed um it is it was just the first one that came to mind I just I am not hearing a lot of the folks that are like listen it's not about LeBron I'm just anti-nepetitism I their Twitter fingers were awful quiet yes last night watching Steve Belichick's defense get dog walked by TCU in that football game I'm not saying I'm just saying reminder like rate subscribe review to the podcast we have a very cool I don't want to spoil it but crossover event happening involved in the podcast very soon with I don't know one of the most famous people in the world at this point.

I don't know. Maybe that's slightly overstating it, but I don't think so. It feels like he's... I don't think it's that far off. And so I don't want to spoil who it is. It's also someone that I spent some time with. Oh!

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Another one of those games tonight. Like the same folks? I don't, I don't. I is certainly the same folks. I don't know if it's the exact same roster. Right. I will I will reveal

whatever details I can on Thursday, but that should be good. All right, let's get right to it. Bill Belichick's debut happened. Started good. Hell of an opening drive and then the rest of the game happened. They bamboozled and that opening drive got that opening touchdown and it was pretty much

downhill from there. This was a historically bad opener for UNC actually. What's the state of Bill Belichick? That was pretty rough him obviously as an NFL coach so this was I when we were talking and we're going to get to arch manning in a second but when the discussion surrounding arch manning over the weekend was a lot of well what do you expect from him it's up against that matt patricia pro style defense and

i said yesterday i think that is underselling the impact the Ohio State players had and overselling the impact the actual coach had because to me that was that was more about a young player who'd never played on the road playing in a brutal environment and the other team having all these pros on defense than it was about Matt Patricia's brilliant scheme but that that was not a popular take the popular take was that Patricia was Dick Leboe mixed with Vince Lombardi out there, which would lead you to believe, well, if that's what Patricia's defense looks like, holy smokes, wait do you see his mentor, Bill Belichick's defense, you know, Monday night against TCU.

And then what happened? What happened Monday night against TCU was his team with the 70 new players, with all the hype, with Jordan and Mia Hamm and Lawrence Taylor and all the North Carolina royalty in the stadium got absolutely dogwalked for three hours. Because here's the truth more than anything about college football. Scheme matters to a degree. Talent matters more than anything. Why is college coaching so important for the recruiting?

for the in this day's NIL the ability to acquire the talent and it is college i looked at yesterday's game and i said tc u has a veteran quarterback who's been with the program for three years north carolina is starting a kid that transferred from south alabama i don't care that it's at north carolina that is not exactly a super scary or intense intimidating place to play and I thought TCU I didn't think they were going to win by 30 But I thought they'd cover the three and a half and I think folks that expected Belichick to come in and do a snap turn them into a contender turnaround were foolish now oddly de Monzae I think this actually makes it more likely that Bill Belichick

is the North Carolina head coach in a year. Yeah. Because the only way he wasn't going to be the North Carolina head coach in a year was if this went so well that an NFL team was like, okay, that's, you know, he's had his time off. We now want to bring him in. I don't think it's going to go that way. And I do think that it is totally fair and totally.

in bounds to ask the question, does 70-something-year-old Bill Belichick have his eye on the ball here? That how much of Belichick, Mr. No Distractions, Do Your Job, Keep the main thing, the main thing, how much of that has been weakened by this three-plus year at this point? relationship with want to be starlit Jordan Hudson that's fair that's not out of bounds that isn't I you're bringing up the guy's personal life because they have made their relationship super public via Instagram posts podcast interviews the CBS morning news and via the weirdest business run of trademarking attempting to trademark gold digger and other weird stuff that you just know is going to

shine the spotlight on the coach and his girlfriend who is the coach is older than damonze's grandmother and the girlfriend is younger than de monzae that's all fair and the only way to To knock that out and have it just be a side thing is to be great. And not only do I not think they're going to be great, I think they are going, I think the expectations were a touch too high. You watched that game last night and you said to yourself, oh, are they going to have competent quarterback play? That's a fair question.

Then you watched that game last night and you said to yourself, oh does that defense you've got to assume the defense is well coached so how do we explain what we saw do they just really not have the personnel then you ask yourself the question of how long has it been since we have known bill bellichick is a an above average talent evaluator all those things come together for some very nervous times. So now listen, they get Charlotte, Richmond,

and then UCF, I'll be totally honest, I don't know how good UCF is supposed to be this year. They will beat Charlotte and Richmond. And they don't have, because they're in the ACC and because of the draw they have, the only juggernaut on their schedules,

Clemson. But in a month, when they host Clemson, it's going to look like, the TCU game, but worse. And if TCU, a team on the fringes of the top 25

but outside of it can do that to you, then you really worry about what any of the legitimate Power 5 programs are going to do to them. And so I... Do you think that anything that happens

throughout this season is going to affect his legacy? Can it do that positively or negatively? Is it too early? No, listen, if he went to college football and was awesome, that would positively affect his legacy. Him going to college football and being awful will not, in my opinion, negatively affect his legacy, except it will be,

it will affect it like this. In 30 years, De Manzai, when you're talking sports with young people and they're talking about the greatest coaches of all time and they're like, yeah, and Bill Belichick at that point is like Vince Lombardi. You know what I mean? Where they act like, what was, you know, what made him great or whatever? You'll be like, and really weird end for him.

Right. He went and coached college and dated this 20-year-old. like it kind of you know it's the last thing you remember about him right but it won't be a thing my point is this it won't be a thing that actually sticks to the legacy it will just be a thing that people who were here for it remember bring it that's you know what i mean but it won't it won't stick to it for those in the history books now here's where it does hurt his legacy to a degree at least in my mind.

And sorry if we're taking some internet hits. We got nothing open but the script. So I got no way around that. Oh, there is one thing I can do. Hold on. He needed to be really good at North Carolina, DeMonte, to have a chance to get back to the NFL and run down Shula. Yeah.

So that part, you know what I mean? That part hurts him. but no, this is not his NFL legacy. And listen, I know people are going to throw up the record with Brady, record without Brady. The problem for that is we all saw, like those of us that saw those first three Patriot Championships, understand how great they were defensively and that Brady wasn't Brady yet. And those of us that are being fair also remember the final Patriot Championship where they scored 13 points in the Super Bowl,

and Belichick's defense made Sean McVey and Todd Gurley and Jared Gough look totally inept on the biggest stage. So like that, I'm not going to allow like the revisionist history on that, but this is a really, a very auspicious end or beginning to the final chapter.

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Yeah, so he entered that. enter the game with the top odds for the heisman he dropped down to eight what would you say is next for archmanie well i listen there sports media has become very doing this job has become really interesting it's always been interesting but an interesting thing has happened over the last five years and i'm hand-ups hands up um i'm guilty of it to a degree for sure which is very often before there's even been a news cycle about the event, the news cycle turns to the reaction to the event. And so like before, you know, during the game,

there was already like a pushback to the pushback. It was like during the game, there were. memes or jokes being sent like, you know, Arch Manning, if his name wasn't Manning. And then before the game's even over, there is like a backlash to that. Where it's like, oh, we're going to write this kid off for dead based on three quarters. And then by the time, it's actually the next morning and it's time to, or two days later, and it's time to talk about the games, it's, some of it is. talking about the game and some of it is talking about the commentary during the game online

about the expectation and it's all very meta and weird so here is my take on archmanic i was not in no particular order first one i was not surprised with what we saw now i thought it would be higher scoring than that but I thought having if you've never played on the road and you're on the road against maybe the best team in college football that has eight or nine guys on its defense that are going to be pros including the best player in college football Caleb down certainly the best defensive player the odds are stacked massively against you and I so in that regard I was not shocked by what we saw there's one take here's another take i am not writing archmanning off as a pro i'm not writing them off as even the number one overall pick at some point i am pretty damn

close to monse to writing them off for this year's heisman trophy for two reasons one is that game counts and it's hard to win the heisman if you know one of your highest profile games of the year you play that poorly and the other one of the other one of the one of the first you one is, because I how I watched him play, I don't expect him to have this, you know, now all of a sudden rip off 10 straight

A plus games or A level games. So I do think that's fair. Another take from the game. Some of that was scheme and some of that was nerves. First drive, first play of the game, he short hops a pass. I'm not a passing mechanics expert,

but a lot of his throws seemed weird. You know what I mean? It didn't look like how you expect it to look. I also think that late in the game, he had guys open when they were down seven on that final drive and missed some easy passes. Sorry, there's a gnat here I'm trying to catch. So I think all of that to me is fair in what I saw.

now was he overhyped probably a little so here's the deal he went to you what you look at his high school stats and you look at this the high school highlights and you realize okay this is not he didn't go to he didn't play in a district like kempner damon's hey dimmner kimner kimner is the i don't know 3,000 person 6A high school de Monsay went to in Houston. Very diverse. He went to, well, his school might be diverse, but it's not, but it's not a powerhouse. Right. You know what I mean?

I'm not saying Kempner was a powerhouse, but it played in a district with, you know, a bunch of huge Texas schools. He went to the Louisiana school, his family's gone to. There's not a lot of, you know, future D1 kids on his team or the teams he's playing and it was weird his numbers were not you look at some of these kids high school numbers and it's like holy shit through for 5,000 yards and 55 touchdowns and like it wasn't that okay not the biggest deal in the world but that is a data point you then look at the fact they didn't play his first two years and his first year true freshman no problem we're gonna red shirt him last year Texas

trying to win a national championship. Quinn Ewers is a good college player who was a seventh round NFL draft but a good college player. They decided Quinn Ewers is our better option. That's just a data point. It's not the biggest deal in the world, but it's a data point. And the two previous guys, De Manze, and now listen, we'll see what type of pro Caleb ends up being and Trevor right now is teetering. But the two previous guys who were like that's the number one pick of the draft we knew it a year ahead of time That was not their college story Trevor Lawrence walked into Clemson as a true freshman and kicked everybody's ass They went undefeated they won the national championship he was awesome

He was 38 and 2 as a starter started immediately Caleb Williams as a true freshman gets dropped into the Red River shootout trailing Texas like 21 to 7 and as a 19 year old leads an insane comeback and it's like oh okay that is the environment didn't matter that guy is the goods that's that's not yet where arch is now you guys know how much I like pedigree you know how much I like measurables I'm not writing the kid off at all am I being honest when I say if his name weren't Manning, the hype would be drastically, drastically different, of course.

And I don't think that's unfair. And so I, here's what I think, DeMonte for Arch. Their next three games are San Jose State, Utep, Sam Houston State. It would not surprise me at all. if he leaves those three games with a thousand yards passing and 11 touchdowns and no turnovers like I think that's on the board and then it's at Florida in the in the swamp and then it's the Red River shootout and I'm very interested to see how he plays in those spots now the I I I all one other thing

that i just think is a fair data point. Caleb downs who everyone is calling the best player in college football and had a huge impact and all of that he and arched the same high school class like it is unique for a player that everyone's like tanking for him number one pick to have by his third year in college not done anything and again his first year red shirt him no problem his second year they're on a team that can win the national championship he's sitting behind a senior sure but is it now more on the board than before that he actually plays two years at texas i think so and again maybe we're going to look back and ohio state's going to do this to every single quarterback they

play i don't think that's going to happen because i think they're going to play Some fourth year starter that's going to be a future undrafted free agent that is not as rattled by the environment and by the scheme and by the talent, even if he doesn't have the upside of Archmanning. So that's, that's where I land. Go ahead, pal. Do you think with Arch and Belichick failing so early, because those were obviously the two huge college stories coming into this year, everybody will start really locking it on the NFL and kind of pushing away? Well, listen, for some people, college football is their number one favorite sport. The new show that just started today on FS1, I think wake up barstool, I think a bunch of the guys involved in that. College football is their absolute favorite.

College football is the second most popular sport in America. So the nation at large, no. Me personally, I, I'm, you know, I am vast, vast, majority NFL over college football, but I thought this year week one before the NFL started had so many amazing games I was into it I'm kind of glad that week two does not have those types of matchups. I'm looking at week two and Michigan Oklahoma is the one game that is must see like Saturday night so Thursday night we got Eagles Cowboys Friday night Chiefs Chargers Saturday night night, Michigan, Oklahoma, and then Sunday, your full slate.

And then I'm just looking at like the marquee matchups early in the college football season. Tennessee, Georgia, in week three, that jumps out at you. Florida LSU, week three, that jumps out at you. And then week four, Florida, Miami jumps out. And then it really starts ramping up. This is, I think, actually smart. I don't know if this was on purpose or just how it landed. week one before the NFL started college football all out all these amazing

matchups and then a bit of a not lull but you know what I mean this is when teams play a lot of their non-conference games their cash games all that stuff and then into September we get Oregon Penn State Alabama Georgia you know what I mean in the in the same window at week six you get Texas floor and that's probably the big game is Texas, Florida. Week 7, Ohio State, Illinois, South Carolina, LSU, and, Florida, A&M, and then it ramps back up. So what is true is I will be more locked in on the NFL, but I always am.

But I'm going to keep an eye on North Carolina, and I'm interested in how Jeremiah Smith bounces back from a mediocre game, a couple drops. Ohio State and this run of kicking ass against top five teams, pretty impressive. So it's not back-burnered, but the NFL takes over here starting in two days. Ever signed up for a phone plan thinking, wow, amazing price? And then a few months later, it's like surprise, bills higher with Boost Mobile. You pay $25 a month forever.

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We just contributed to it. We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts. We're starting a trend. But this one's extra special. So how do we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it.

And, well, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band before Jonas Brothers. This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, where people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys. Listen to Hey Jonas on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

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We go straight to the source, the athlete themselves. Their locker room stories, their reactions, the stuff nobody gets to hear. The laughs, the drama, the triumphs, the moments that never make the highlight real. From viral moments to historic games, from buzzer beaters to controversial calls, we break it down, give you context,

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I did an emergency pot on Friday on it, and now let's get into it more. Go ahead. Yeah, so you addressed it a little bit already, but it kind of seems like Michael Parsons' teammates didn't really like him. Dag said that he's just glad that there was a solution. The players in the locker room apparently said that he was egotistical. and self-centered. Nobody was apparently a huge fan of his podcast. Do you think that the Cowboys are just coping here?

To a degree, yes. And here's the thing. I don't need my Star Pass Rusher to be the most popular guy in the locker room. Star Pass Rush or star receivers allowed to be a little, have some little red flags. And when we look at the history of Star Pass Rusher, if the red flag we're talking about is talks a little too much and has a podcast that's a

that you'll take it like i was pretty amazed at the snap turning on parsons via anonymous sources when again sometimes your star pass rusher is dwight freeney and he's just your jason Taylor and just great dude, great leader, you know, Walter Payton Man of the Year type. More often than not, there's a little extra there. Lawrence Taylor was not winning any teammate awards. Jared Allen just went to the Hall of Fame,

had a lot of off-field issues, particularly early in his career that he talked about. Von Miller has dealt with a bunch of stuff. He's a great player. Charles Haley. who was great for the Cowboys and the Niners, was a certified maniac. Like, we can go up and down the list of, you know, on the edge pass rusher.

And for any of those guys, like Micah doesn't get in any trouble. Micah is not a, you know, he's incredibly available. He's a hard worker. He's wildly productive. And now all of a sudden, the Cowboys Company line, after they were dying to pay him 40 plus million a year and give him reportedly 150 million guaranteed is

he sucked against the run and he was a pain in the ass. Give me a break. Jerry got in a battle of egos with the agent and traded away their best player. Now, I think there is an argument that that's what they should have done once they got themselves in this spot. Once you pay DAC too much, once you pay CD top of the market, once you miss on some draft picks, once you deal with some other injuries, sometimes, and once you squander the

opportunity to get Micah signed a year ago before the market exploded, maybe this is what you've got to do. but don't tell me this is because actually when you crunch the numbers Micah Parsons sucked against the run and that's what's killed us. He's the best player on your team. And you didn't want to be, you wanted to sign it. And so I, I, I don't, I don't buy this revisionist history. Even if, and I said this on Friday, I'll say it again,

the Cowboys had put themselves in a no-win situation. Because if Dallas had signed Micah to the exact deal Green Bay had signed Micah too, we'd all be talking about how Jerry got taken to the cleaners. If Dallas had given Micah $47 million a year, we'd be killing them for it. And I think that it is understandable to say, we're not going to be able to win with three players. taking up more than 50% of our salary cap. The only team that's close to that is Cincinnati,

and they can't win that way. So, like, I do understand that once they got here, why they traded him. But don't try to sell me the bill of goods. That, you know, it's addition by subtraction. And I don't want, like, I, if it's true that DAC was relieved, or, you know, is good with Micah being gone, then I hope Dak is as good as his biggest supporters believe he is.

Because they're going to have to be a better version of the Bengals last year. I didn't like Dak saying that, honestly. I'm glad there was a, I feel like, like, it's good that a solution happened? Yeah, I didn't really like that. And then he's like the guy that's reaping all the benefits. He's getting paid.

He's not even that good. It's just, I don't know, I didn't, I've never really been a big that guy. He's a company man, that's for sure. Yeah, exactly. He's the biggest winner in all of this, honestly. Well, I mean, it's certainly that it becomes his team unequivocally. Yeah. But they didn't start having those 12 wins seasons until Micah got there.

And if people want to be like Micah doesn't show up in the playoffs, like we, First of all, I don't know that I agree with you, but second of all, the sample size is minute. And third of all, we don't want to talk about guys not showing up in the playoffs as a defense of Dak Prescott. Like, we don't want to do that. And so I, listen, I thought the Cowboys were going to finish last in that division before they traded Micah, which is actually an argument to trade Micah. If you're going to finish last with him, then maybe you do need to reset to a degree. And I'm a long time Kenny Clark fan.

So I think he, and he had a down year, I think he'll be good for them. But I, this does feel like a lot of cope to me, to Monzae, without a shadow of a doubt. All right, I know you have some Michael follow-ups we want to get to. Yeah, I was about say, Schaefter reported that Michael might take an epidural before the Lions game. If you were the coach, would you even have him play in the situation? I think he's going to play, but I think. it's going to be a limited. I'm not worried about his back as much as I'm worried about him not having a full ramp up and soft tissue stuff. So I think he will be in this game, probably,

like a third down specialist, and then by week two, be, you know, closer to a full go. But, yeah, I'm less worried about the back and more worried about when you don't have a training camp, how much does that, you know, lead to potential early season injuries. Keep gone. Do you think that he will stop podcasting? So I'd be shocked if he did. That's like a real business for him.

He has like a real job with Bleacher Report on it. He really likes it. And to me, that would be almost conceding that he did something wrong here. When again, I don't feel he did. And I just, one last kind of, the Cowboys obviously are hoping this is their version of the Tyree kill trick. You trade away a great player, but you get a bunch of draft picks that help you rebuild

deficiencies on the team. What I would, where I would push back on that in defense of Micah is, you know, is, you get a bunch of Micah is, Tyreek had real off the field issues. Real. Dating from college and then other stuff that popped up as a pro and has gotten in, you know, real trouble. And as a dolphin has been, you know, way worse of a teammate than Micah ever was. So like, I don't, I just don't, Micah talks a lot. And I understand that some guys on the defense, you know, took some issue with it.

But I, on the list of, you know, NFL problems, like, that to me is, does, it's not one of them, not a real one of them. So tears in the chat, asks, is it not still super on the board that the Packers finished third in their own division? Listen, I think it is. I think it's on the board. Yeah. I mean, I think that that's the toughest division in football. and it really is this is just such a huge bet on Jordan Love

and no player in my lifetime has gotten more of a pass on a three interception playoff game than Jordan Love got this past year. I don't even think people remember that that happened. I think honest to God, if you ask football fans, like, hey, tell me about that Eagles Packers playoff game. I think they'll be like,

I feel like there was an opening, drive or opening kickoff fumble it what you forgot it i didn't remember there were 3 3 picks in the game correct that's what i'm saying like lamar had those two early turnovers we talked about it all off season yeah herbert threw those four picks talked about it all off season golf had those three picks talked about it all off season jordan love a year after again because they're saying years ago. He was hurt. Right.

Two years ago, they're down three against the Niners with a minute left in the playoffs right around midfield. He made a horrible decision through that pick, but it was like, well, he was so good late in the year, so good in the Cowboys game, whatever. And then last year, people have kind of redone history in their brain of like, oh, that Eagles team was just a wagon juggernaut that was rolling. through everybody. That's them rolling through everybody started

in the conference championship game. Yeah. The game was winnable. Galen Hertz at half time of their first playoff game had six completions for 35 yards. Like that it was Jordan Love mistakes in the Eagles defense that, you know,

was putting the Eagles in that position and nobody cares. And that's fine. Like, I'm not even trying to kill Jordan Love. My point is, it's a huge bet on Jordan Love. You know what I mean? He, that Michael will be the final keys.

Right. Yes, absolutely right. All right. All right, let's do the NFL 100. Oh, go ahead. Oh, would you, so a lot of people are obviously comparing this to the Luca trade. Do you want to talk about that? Like how it could be similar, the similarities and differences?

No, I don't think it's, I think it's similar in that they're both in Dallas and they're both the team's best player. But the Luca trade was indefensible and abjectly shocking. This trade, the guy demanded a trade and the team, they were in a big dispute. You know what I mean? And guys Micah's caliber, as great as Micah is, get traded in the NFL. Yeah. I was just thinking like, Coleo Mac got traded. Right, with how much they meant to their respective teams.

I honestly think Michael Parsons might have meant a little bit more to the Cowboys than Luca. Oh, that's insane. That's crazy. I think the Mavericks are left in better shape after Luca left than the Cowboys are screwed. Well, two things. Cowboys are already screwed. But the Cowboys big return is draft picks. The Mav's big return was a player.

So that's one piece of it. And the only reason we don't think the Mavs are screwed is because they got lucky and got Cooper Flag. Like, no, the Luka trades the most shocking trade in sports in 30 years. It was surprising, yes. Like the Mika trade, to me, is in a totally different bucket. All right, let's do the NFL Top 100 real quick. So the Top 100 is out. We got Sequin at number one.

Behind him, we got my guy Lamar. We got Allen at third, Chase at fourth, and then Mahomes at five. I'll be honest. I'll be until we see Mahomes throwing up the five after a touchdown. Five. I don't know. I don't know if he'll do that. I know he counted to eight once when he came in eight.

I think he's maybe is past that, maybe not. I'll also say, I was fine with this. I was fine with this, believe it or not. Like, I thought there was a chance. They were really going to insult him. But fifth, behind the two quarterbacks who were jostling, for MVP last year, I don't find to be outrageous. I know people want, you know, like, I obviously think he's the best player in the sport.

I think everybody deep down thinks he's the best player in the sport. But Sequin being number one, you know, you know it was number one a year ago on this list? Do you know? It'll shock you. Was it a year ago on this list? Was it Josh or was it Lamar? No, it was not a quarterback. Oh, wait.

Was it Turrey Hill? Yes. Wasn't three? Yeah. It was Tyreek. Yeah. And so I think this list kind of, it seems like as of late, leans toward, if possible, non-quarterback record breaking year.

And Sequin had a chance to have the single most prolific rushing season in NFL history. So him being number one is fine. Chase being four, Chase being ahead of Borough. I don't know that I, but again, four versus six. like this is if if mohomes had been outside of the top five I would have been irritated

but mahones was four last year five this year they do it before the playoffs I don't know honestly if that helped or hurt Patrick because obviously he was great in the lead up to the Super Bowl and then struggled in the Super Bowl and so I you know like that to me

is I'm not going to fair yeah I think it actually is fair like I it's again it's not where I would have him but Lamar won MVP two years ago almost won it last year Josh did win MVP last year they do it before the playoffs like so be it I'm not going to flip out about this I do think the home is going to have an

insane season but we're going to get into more of that on Thursday we're also we'll do our final season preview stuff on Thursday as well, but I want to get to part three of the gambling show if for no other reason, then I really want, I want to recap what we've done

and then get to DeMazze's picks and my final picks. So we did six official, if you want to hear all 32 overs and unders, again, like rate, subscribe review, it's on YouTube, it's on iTunes, it's on Spotify, everywhere you can get your podcast. And you can hear,

my picks for all 32 teams. But there are six bets that we are making, okay? We are betting the overs for the following teams with the following juice. Jags over seven and a half minus 125. I think the Jags are going to make the playoffs. I think Trevor is going to have a bounce back year. I also think he knows this is kind of a make or break year for him. He luckily already got paid, but as far as him being considered like a no doubt franchise

quarterback. They've got to be good. I think they will be, and they only have to win eight games. The Bears over eight and a half at plus 115. I like everything about the team. I love the coach, at least this. I love their offensive coordinator who's also their head coach. I can't yet say if I know Ben Johnson will be good at the head coaching stuff. I know he's good at the play calling stuff. I don't mind the tough love on Caleb, so they're an over. I have Kansas City. You just bet the chief's over every single year. I mean, it's since Andy's been there, Prima Holmes, it has failed to hit one time. And they, if they only went, if they go 12 and 5, people would consider that a bit of a disappointment, and it would hit their over.

Tampa over nine and a half is probably my favorite bet of all of these. I think the bucks have a real shot to be the one seed in the NFC. and I think that they are going to win at least 11 games, maybe 12 or 13. That's minus 120. The Raiders over 6.5 at minus 145. They're the team everyone thinks is going to be bad that I think is going to be good. And Atlanta, over 7.5 at minus 140. Again, they won eight games last year with cousins falling apart.

And I think, you know, year two of Rahim Morris with the defense, those are my overs. DeManzi, of those six, What is your favorite and what is your least favorite of my six overs there? Favorite? I got to say, man. I think it's the Jags over seven and a half. Least favorite? I don't really, I guess if like if I had to choose one,

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and the TikTok podcast network on TikTok. All right, now the unders, six unders as well. Bengals under 9.5 at minus 1.15. I just don't see a team with those. I think they have real question marks on the O line and obvious question marks all over the defense. And I think Zach Taylor's seat is very hot. I don't think they're getting to double-digit wins.

The Colts under 7.5 at minus 130. This is my favorite of the unders. I think they could end up with the number one pick of the draft. I think that is absolutely on the board. The Broncos under 9 and a half at plus 110. I think the Broncos are going to get out to a decent start. People are going to be crowing. I think the final two months of the season are going to be brutal for them.

I also think people have overestimated what they're going to get from Bo Nix this year. And their two major, their two major defensive additions are such injury risks to me that I don't think, I don't know that they're going to get the boost from them that people expect Saltick under nine and a half. With better odds. Oh, if they get off to a good start, yeah, sure. Absolutely, yeah, that's on the board. Cowboys under eight and a half minus one, 45. I did this before the Parsons trade.

I assume, you know, odds have shifted on this, but we've made these bets already. Vikings under nine and a half minus 125. I just think it's a lot to ask in that division for a de facto rookie quarterback. And I just think the Niners win totals wrong. I think the Niners are looked at, Ieers in the Schedule Soft, as like a Tier 2 Super Bowl contender. I don't look at them that way. I think that they are a 7-8 win team. So I will take under 10.5 for the Niners.

My favorite there is, as I mentioned, the Colts, DeMonse, your favorite, your least favorite. Least favorite there is Bengals. Favorite. Favorite. Yeah, I agree with the Niners. Yeah, the 49ers. It's just a big number, man.

They can win the division and hit their under. Like that, it's just a big number. All right, make miss playoffs, do it quickly. Jags plus 180, Chiefs minus 380, Raiders plus 340 for a half unit. Giants 5 to 1 for a quarter unit and the Bucks minus 170. Those are make playoffs. Miss playoffs.

Steelers minus 140. Cults minus 260. Broncos plus 130. Cowboys minus 210. Again, that one is moved, but I got it in time. The Vikings plus 100. Two units on that one and the Cardinals minus 140. And then a miss playoffs parlay.

I did a few of these last year that, screwed me. I'm only doing one. Four teams that I think are likely to finish in dead last in their division. Saints, Jets, Browns, Colts, all to miss the playoffs minus 135, two units. I am acutely aware de Monzae

that the Colts have a chance to be the Jags for me this year or two years ago. Remember two years ago, I would have had a hugely profitable preseason gambling shows. But the Jags involved in four separate bets, I lost them all. Because the Jags weren't as good as I thought.

If the cults are really good, I lose this, I lose the miss the playoffs bet, and I lose their under. Luckily, Daniel Jones is greatly involved, so I'm not worried about that. I'm still getting accustomed to the betting and stuff.

Parlaying four things to just get minus 135, is that not? It's terrible odds. No, I know. It's a terrible value. Okay. Yes, you are correct in telling me that is a square wager. Okay. I just wanted to make sure.

Putting four things together just for the opportunity to lay minus 135 is terrible process. Okay. I'm seeing things correctly. I just feel, yeah, no, you're right. I just feel like Saints, Jets, Browns are just D.O.A. for the playoffs. And so I have the cults to miss the playoffs at minus 260, and then I have them basically again to miss the playoffs at minus 135. So that's the way I'm doing it.

It's not a good process. You're right. All right. The new picks, before we get to DeMonsé's picks, which were wildly profitable last year, we are only doing three division, better bets. And I can't believe the first two of these de Monzae are only minus 1.15. Tell the audience the first one.

All right. No surprise here. We got the Chiefs to win the West, the AFC West, sorry, a minus 115. Yeah. They win it every year. Mahomes is 35 and 5 in his career in the division. They win it by an average in Mahomes' career by four games. Last year, the AFC West had three playoff teams.

It was such a tough division. They won it by four games despite throwing week 18. Minus 115, I'll take the Chiefs over the field. The next one, another team, DeMonse, that wins their division every year. Only minus 115. What is it? We've got the bucks to win the NFC South. Minus 1115.

Like, the Saints and Panthers. to me are no shot no shoters and the I just think the bucks are gonna be really good and then the last so that's I love I might like that even more than I like the Chiefs one but I the just because the how weak the division is yeah exactly right and then I found I found a plus money parlay here to Monzae only two teams so we got a division winner we got Baltimore plus Buffalo at plus 106. I'd say that's another safe one.

I mean, that's really, to me, just fading the Bengals. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm not worried about the Steelers. It's just maybe, no, maybe the defense somehow with the new D coordinator is average. The offense is the same, and they have an awesome year. But Baltimore and Buffalo are such regular season juggernauts that putting them together at plus 106 to me makes sense. and then our annual tradition, Super Bowl Xacta, three years ago, we had Chiefs Niners,

and the Niners found themselves in the conference championship game. Last two years ago, we had Chiefs Cowboys, and the Cowboys found themselves with 12 wins. Last year, we had Chiefs Bears, and the Bears had a season from hell and missed the playoffs. this year, the Super Bowl Xacta at 55 to 1 is, drum roll please, DeMazze? We got Kansas City versus Tampa Bay and the Super Bowl exacta plus 5500. How about the, and then, obviously,

spoiler, Super Bowl, exactly with the winner. Right, Kansas City to defeat Tampa Bay at plus 11,000. Indeed. So, DeMonsei. Here's something I didn't even think about when I made this pick. Brew mentioned it.

The Chiefs with Mahomes have been to five Super Bowls. All rematches. Played Philly twice. Oh, yeah. Played San Francisco twice. The one other team they played, Tampa Bay. Another Super Bowl rematch? Bake show against Patrick?

Oh, oh. Revisiting? the greatest, the craziest college football game ever played? Do you know about their college football game, DeMonse? No, it wouldn't be torn at all. Against each other? Yes, you do. I'm sure they probably let each other up.

Hold on. Well, let me, DeMonse, so let me just tell you real quick, 2016, because they have played in the playoffs before. All right, so the final score, DeMonsei, I'm just actually, hold on, let me just go to Patrick Mahomes College stats. Final score was 66 to 59. So that gives you a little bit of a preview.

It was Texas Tech where Baker started against Oklahoma. And hold on, where is it? Here it is. The final stats are as follows. Joe Mixon was in the game. He ran for 260. Okay? And four touchdowns.

But that wasn't the story. The story was Baker Baker was 27 of 36 Only through 36 passes For 545 yards 7 touchdowns no picks Okay Okay

Patrick Patrick was 52 of 88 Oh he was slated For 734 yards 5 times touchdowns. They did have a running back? Well, no, they did have a running back go.

12 carries for 85 yards and two touchdowns. That running back's name was Patrick Mahomes. So Mahomes in that game combined for 810 yards, seven touchdowns one pick. Bake show in that game, never ran the ball, through for 545 and seven touchdowns on just 36 attempts. Mahomes threw it 88 times. It is an all-time legendary college football game.

Sounds like a fun one, yeah. Yeah. October 22nd, 2016, all-timer. And so they played in the playoffs before Patrick got hurt against the, when Baker was there in the Browns.

And, yeah, that's my that is my Super Bowl Exacta. I cannot wait. Hold on one second. I have to, oh, okay. I have to see what this is. Okay, never mind. We're fine. All right, Demonsay, now the most important part. Last year, Damase gave you Baltimore to win the AFC North at plus 145, Jaden to win rookie of the year at 6 to 1, Kansas City to win the AFC at plus 3.50. and then two losers, but that's fine, hugely profitable. This year, what are your top five preseason bets?

All right, so these are the five future bets that I love. First off, we've got the Jags to win the AFC South at plus 300. I love it. So proud. I just think they can do that. Cincinnati to lose in the divisional round at plus 425. Oh, hold on. Let's slow down a bit.

Yes. That's a very strong. specific bet. They have to make the playoffs, win a playoff game, and then get beat. Go ahead. Because I'll just say the last one on here, because I expect Joe Burrow to have the most passing guards. That will be at plus 450.

Because I think they'll sneak in as like a wildcard team, and I think they'll even win a playoff game, but then I think they'll lose. And then I got the Ravens to win the Super Bowl at plus 600. I know that's conflicting. That's not conflicting. Well, with me, no, me and you. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, of course.

That's fine. Then we got Beechon Robinson to have the most rushing touchdowns at plus 11,100. So it's kind of all over the place, but those other ones are... I like them. A little linear. I like, and here's the thing. If you, if you hit the Jags bet and lose all the others, you lose one unit. That's it.

If you hit any of the other bets, you... Guaranteed profit because they're all plus 425 or better. And if you hit multiple again, you're guaranteed huge profit. So that's great. I like the Bejohn Robinson, most rush touchdowns one. Me too. Mike, your nervousness there should actually be more about a quarterback than a running back. No, Jalen or Josh.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like that's a sneaky one where like one of them could snipe you on. it but I like it. It's funny. I actually did look up. Because when I was looking for the most rushing touchdowns, I went and looked at Josh Allen's. Forget what his over-underer was, but yeah, I just felt more comfortable doing a running

back. Hopefully he doesn't walk me there. But thank you, sir. I love it. All right. So let's go to some listener questions to Montaigne. Remember, like, rate, subscribe, review, all of that. Let's go to X.

X says, if the chiefs are the team you've been most right about and the Eagles, the team you've been most wrong about the last five years. What NFL teams are second on your most right most wrong list? Second most right is the bills without a doubt. I've been right about them every single year, including last year when I believed in them and other people didn't. Second most wrong. Warriors.

I think you're talking an NFL. Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I just couldn't wait to jump on the opportunity. Second most wrong is, that's an interesting one. Who's a team? NFL? Oh, the Jags. The Jacks.

That's it. Yeah. That's easy. Now it took me a minute, but it's the Jacks. That's for sure. Go to Robert, please. Robert asks, Nick, any interest in joining me and my buddy for a practice round at Augustine X. April?

We'll have a fourth ticket. You buy the sandwiches and we're good. Oh, wow. Is that real? that is a real I mean if that's real if that's real the answer is yes I'm going to have to take

I will I'm going to if that is a real invite I am going to start taking golf lessons now just so I don't hack up Augusta National but yeah I've never been if that's a real invite that's yes it's happening that that's a yes

okay that would be unbelievable Oh, by the way, I don't want to give out, I don't want to say you guys full name because he might not want me to. But there's this really nice guy named Chad, who is a Casey guy who was very, very successful in business, started a company, sold it. And he is a fan of the show and reached out a few years ago. remember he took me and your mom de monse to celtics maves court side for the finals court side 100% yeah he is in new york and is coming gonna watch the show tomorrow and then he and i are sitting like center court second row u.s. open which i'm so excited about and so i um i will absolute like here's the deal um i am not as social as people might expect i'm a little socially

awkward in public settings at times i get over it for unbelievable sporting events and i was really like i was really glad i did it with chad because he was such a cool guy we sat and had drinks with me and your mom and him and his buddy um he's in the again i don't i don't know how much much of his, you know, bio he would want me to say. But he has a really interesting career and story. And if this person's really inviting me to Augusta National, like, I have to go.

By the way, if Danny hears this, Danny's going to be so mad. Danny is like a loves golf is a good golfer. Oh, my goodness. Caleb wants to know what I'm being involved with the U.S. Open. I didn't try out this year. and Tom says Nick Wright has that BS captain take on Tyree Kill when Hill was never even named a captain during his time with the Chiefs.

So I guess two points here. One is, I didn't know that. Second is he wasn't the best player on the team. Third, Travis Kelsey was and then Mahomes was. Third is, if he had never been a captain with the Dolphins, it'd be fine. but he was a captain the last two years. So a nice, good try, good effort, Tom, but it's apples to bowling balls there.

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