Will Cain Country - Sports Culture Clash: New York Versus Texas. Craig Carton Versus Will Cain

Episode Date: October 4, 2024

On the Friday sports episode on The Will Cain Show, Will sits down with the host of Breakfast Ball on FS1, Craig Carton, to discuss one of the most active sports times of the year, with the NFL and College Football in full swing, the MLB playoffs underway, and the preseason for the NHL and NBA off to the races. Plus, what are Craig's sources around the league saying about Davante Adams potentially joining his former teammate Aaron Rodgers on the New York Jets? And in Week 5 of "Will Versus The Experts," whose bias will hurt them more? Will's love of Texas or Craig's affinity for New York? Tell Will what you thought by emailing [e-mail] Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show! Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Texas versus New York. Wilcane versus Craig Carlin today on the Wilcane show. If the Wilcane show normally streaming live every Monday through Thursday at 12 o'clock Eastern time at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel on the Fox News Facebook page, you're listening. to a Friday edition of Kane on Sports, sports exclusive episode, which you can get by subscribing at Apple or on Spotify. This episode, I intend to get you ready for the weekend, talk about the five big games that I'm picking.

And my guest is the host of Breakfast Ball on FS1. He's Craig Carton. I've really gotten to like Craig. He's like the quintessential New York. So we end up talking about the Yankees, the Mets, the Nicks. But I make him talk about college football. Oh, and you have music in New York City. Hope you enjoy this with Craig Carton.

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What's up, Craig? How you been, buddy? And I want to apologize to you because when we spoke on your appearance on Fox and friends, you indicated to the American people that I might not be very objective when it comes to the New York Jets. And I said they were going to beat the progress by 40 anyway. So, oops. I got that wrong.

Oops. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, I'm going to accept your apology, but require an explanation. For those listening to the Wilcane show on podcast, not watching the Wilcane show on YouTube, Craig is sitting in front of a Grateful Dead picture, Jerry Garcia behind you. And that's not how I would have had you pegged, Carton. I would not have you as a deadhead.

I'm not. I can't stand the Grateful Dead. I married a Deadhead. Yeah. Really? I've been to about half a dozen Dead shows because it's in my marriage contract that I had to. But for me, and tell me if I'm wrong, every Grateful Dead song, sounds exactly the same as every other Grateful Dead song.

So it's like three hours of one song. It's mind-boggling. I have to admit, I like the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead were one of those things when I was a kid. I kind of liken them to like quiet riot or anthrax just because of their name. I was like, that's hardcore, whatever is the Grateful Dead. And everybody's super into it. And I'm a little scared.

And then I remember when I first heard the Grateful Dead. And I was like, oh, this is like, this is like Americana. This is folk. This is almost country. I like the dead. Almost, yeah, it's almost. Look, I don't hate the Grateful Dead, but I don't know how people, like, to me, once you've, and I know this is going to kill Grateful Deadpins.

It's going to be very upset with me, and I get that. And I may get divorced over this. Once you've seen a show, you don't need to see another show. And yet Deadheads will tell you, every show is so. unique and the order they play and how long. No, it's the same damn thing every single time. So, yeah, and by the way, I went to Chicago for what was supposed to be, the last Grateful Dead Show of all time.

And three weeks later, they come back reincarnated as whatever they call themselves now, and they're playing the same songs. I got screwed on that one. I can't figure out what you are. Like, you're so New York. to me. I don't even know if you are New York, but you are to me, New York. So what does that make you? Like, if you're

from Jersey, you're a Springsteen guy, if you're from Texas, you're a country guy. You're such a New York guy. Like, so what does that mean? Like, what do you listen to? Well, so musically, it's very eclectic. I didn't discover classic rock and really fall in love with it

until I was in my mid-30s. I grew up a fan of singers. I appreciated great voices. And I gravitated to Motown. You know, I grew up in a family where, you know, 1950s rock and roll is a very big deal. So as a kid growing up in the late 70s, mid to late 70s, you know, I could speak to, you know, Buddy Holly. I knew who the stylistics were in the 60s and all the great Motown groups and the temptations and the four tops were huge to me. Out Green, huge

to me. Edda James, huge to me. So I grew up really gravitating more towards soul music. And then it wasn't until I got into my mid-30s that I kind of discovered the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin and, you know, became a fan of that music as well. But I always gravitate towards singers. And, you know, there's, you know, as you know, there's country, you know, Nashville and Texas and all that. And I think San Francisco had a sound and Philadelphia was known for having a sound. There is no soundtrack of New York. You're right about that. They never was.

and I don't think if I... It's got Billy Joel on Long Island and then if I think of... You know what I think of when I think of New York? It's punk. It would be like that

CBGB punk music. Like that's what I would think of with New York. Yeah. Like I will say that's like if you go back far enough and it predates, I think both of us,

but you know, the East Village and you talk about, like you said, like CBGB, those really cool kind of underground, you know,

I'm not cool enough to go to that club. I don't dress the right way. And the music was really, unique, you're probably right about that. I think New York owns punk, Seattle owns grunge, Tennessee, Texas, own country, you know, Detroit, Midwest, owned Motown, obviously. So you're probably right about that. I like Soul, by the way. It's one of those kinds of music, R&B and Soul, that every time I hear it, I like, but I just never play it on my own. Like every time,

and I've probably rewatched this movie, I don't know, two or three times, but Jackie Brown, Tarantino's Jackie Brown Every time that movie plays And it's the I don't remember who's playing If it's the old white detective Or if it's Jackie Brown Or who's listening to like the Delphonics

I'm like who are the Delphonics We're talking about the Delphonics And I like it I'm like I gotta remind myself I need to listen to some soul Yeah like if you go back So when I grew up As I'm thinking about more now

Like Jackie Wilson Wilson Awesome lonely teardrops An amazing song Jackson 5 obviously, you're huge, the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, any of that urban sound I was really attracted to at a really young age. And then I appreciate like David Ruffin, like people who just had really distinctive voices and could sing. I didn't like any of the autotune stuff. I didn't

like people like, yes, like the yelling and screaming wasn't for me. I wanted somebody who could carry a tune. And for the record, because you're probably going to ask me at some point, I can't sing a lick. None of my repertoire. thinking to ask. I wasn't thinking to ask. That one doesn't surprise me. You've got a voice. You got a voice that intimidates somebody on the streets of New York City, but I'm not sure it's going to serenade me from a stage. By the way, Carton, before we get into football and baseball and basketball, two of which I wanted to touch on when it comes to New York with you, what's the biggest interpersonal confrontation you've had on the streets of New York?

well on the streets of new york um it's funny on the streets of new york there there is a moment where a guy drove by in in a truck not an 18 wheeler but like a big box truck right and started cat calling me from the truck and being a new yorker i gave it back to him and the guy stopped and there is he got out of the truck and there's this brief moment where this may be like I might be go let's go I might be fighting right now and we went back and forth he was mad about something I had said so this interaction happened in about 2015 well in 2009 I grew up a diehard Mets fan my whole life 2009 the Yankees are playing the Phillies in the world series I started a church called Mets fans for Yankees and I try to get Met fans for the Yankees because collectively, we all

dislike Philadelphia. This guy was so upset with me years later that I turned my back on the Mets and became this Fagasy Yankee fan that he literally wanted to fight him. And I was like, man, it was like

five years ago. Like, you're still pissed about it. He's like, you have a responsibility with that show you host a humor that if you're a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and he was ready to go. And, you know, thankfully, like the red turned, he was getting out that by other cars, you know, for stopping the middle of the road. And I probably got my ass saved because of it.

But these people are bashing it. All right. Let's stick with baseball then in New York. You're a Fugazi, New York Yankees fan. You're a Mets fan. As the moment of which we're speaking, both of your teams are alive, by the time this publishes, the Mets could be dead. uh, Mets in their, you know, tie-breaking game, uh, in the wild card round.

If they win, they go on to, I believe it is to take on the Phillies, is it not? Yeah, it's to Phillies in the divisional round. I'm sure there's a historian out there that knows better than me. I don't know that the Mets and Phillies have ever met in the postseason, which would be pretty cool. Oh, yeah, that's cool. And then the Yankees have, uh, have the buy where they did. And now they've got the Royals in the divisional round. Who are you pulling for?

Uh, and you've got to feel more confident in the Yankees. But are you going to, I mean, you've got to push your chips into the middle of the table with the Mets, though. I mean, you've got to care more of what happens here. This is happening in a few hours. So when this airs, I'm either going to be woefully wrong or I'm going to brag about being right. I don't think the Mets get out of it, I don't. And I felt going into the series that they were the team with the mojo. And we saw this a couple years ago, two years ago, in fact, the Philadelphia Phillies won 89 games,

but got hot right there in, you know, mid to late September and parlayed that. that mojo right into a World Series, which they ultimately lost, of course. And I started to get the sense, even the way the things happened with the Atlanta Braves and the Mets, that the Mets suddenly had this mojo, like guys we've never heard of Iglesias, who's all of a sudden like a 300 hitter over the course of a week, and, you know, Vientos, all these guys that aren't like household names, we're all coming together at the same time. Their closers getting the job done.

And then they blow a three-run lead in game two of the. the series against Milwaukee, and I'm not sure if you recover from that. You know, game three, they're starting pitchers 10 and 10 this year. He ain't great, Kitana. I don't think the Mets get out of Milwaukee. I think the Yankees, however, the Houston Astros are dead. There's no excuse me now, right? Tampa's not playing.

Houston's not playing. You've got the Kansas City Royals, a team that you were five and two against this year, I think we're seven and two, whatever it was, there's no more excuses. home field advantage, number one seed, a team that you're better than. If the New York Yanies do not go to the World Series this year, Aaron Boone, who I love to death and have a great relationship with, will not be their manager next year. Yeah, wow.

That's, yeah, it feels like the storm's kind of been on the edge of the horizon for Aaron Boone for a little while. I like him, too, by the way. I've met him. He's a good dude. Yeah. Do you, are you one of these baseball fans that thinks the playoffs are messed up? You play 162 game schedule that is designed to, you know, meet out whoever is the best over a long period of time. And then you got a three game series in the wild card round and down go the Astros, you know, or whatever it may be.

There's those that argue, it's just a different game. The game is not built to be done over these small sample sizes the way we've turned the playoffs into. It's just too different from the game that we played during the regular season. yeah i'm not i'm not a purest at all when it comes to baseball and the thing i like most about the added wild card team is think about just take this year think about how many cities how many fan bases if you go back 20 years their season would have ended in july right so now all of a sudden right i'm alive for that third wild card spot well i got a sold-out building in september i got people saying yeah i love football but my baseball team is a win away from getting

into the postseason. So I think from the standpoint of giving more cities and more franchises, the hope of maybe this is our year, albeit as a wildcard team, I think globally is a really good thing for the sport. Now, obviously, if you in your division and you lose in the very first round, you're ticked off about it. You're like, oh, that's not fair. How can you have to play in that series? But my advice would be to win more games in the regular. season so you avoid that wild card round i like it i'm about i think everybody should make the playoffs i love it i like it too i'm not a purest either i want the i want the excitement and you ran into a team with a great starting pitcher or maybe two straight great starting pitchers i'm sorry then you need to

get a you need to get an ace you need to be able to win that short series you know it's funny we talk about um sport baseball where we talk about fans as purest no other sport has that because you know we romanticize baseball in this country for so long. But I also think that generation is dying off. Like, you know, at some point, there's not going to be any purists left. And it's going to be just guys like us who just want to see more playoff games. One time I was riding the subway in New York City. So this is my match to you.

Most people in the world are not confrontational. So people don't say things like that truck driver to you on the street. And I would argue that they're more likely to even inspire. than in politics. I'm sure there's some commentators out there in politics who would tell me I'm wrong based on their life. But I was riding the subway. I was at CNN before I was at ESPN, you know, and I'm a fly in the ointment at CNN. I have an opinion that doesn't go with the flow. So I'm riding the subway and I was standing up. It was crowded and there was this black guy standing in front of me and we were basically face to face really close, you know, didn't even

really make eye contact. Certainly wasn't confrontational. And he just kind of says almost under his breath, but he was clearly talking to me. He goes, you know, I really hate some of the things you say. I just looked at him, laughed about like that. And I said, well, I appreciate you saying it to my face, man. It took some balls. Thanks for watching. I'm getting up the next stop. All right. Let's go to football, man. Let's talk about Devonte Adams. Devonte Adams, Las Vegas Raiders receiver wants to be traded. Looks like he'll be traded. Here are the names of the teams people are talking about.

Talking about the Washington commanders. They're talking about your New York Jets. They're talking about less so, but they have been mentioned, my Dallas Cowboys. Devante's like 32, I think, and he's had not a great hamstring. And he makes $15, $16 million a year. I'm not buying the hamstring injury at all. He does have an out after this year of the contract,

so that'll have to be figured out. I would be shocked, and I want to be very clear, this is not a Jet fan talk. This is just the guy that knows a lot of people within the Jet organization and people who are friendly with Devante Adams. I would be shocked if he's not a New York Jet next week. Really?

Yeah, the New York Jets are in a position because this is such a unique year with Aaron Rogers as their quarterback. And look, both men have been very open about the fact they would love to play together again, right? I would be shocked and I don't care what it takes to get him if the New York Jets don't get him for a few reasons. One, he's a great wide receiver and, you know, changes the dynamic of the Jets' offense in a better way for sure, number one. Number two, if you put the human element back into this, Joe Douglas is the general manager of the New York Jets.

He's never had a winning season. Robert Siles, the head coach of the New York Jets, obviously has never authored a winning season. They're human beings. they got families they got kids if you think our uh devante adams gives you a chance to get into the playoffs and make a run to a super ball which by default then equates the job security for you you do it it's not about the money it's about i'm going to make a move that's going to give my team a legitimate chance to win but i'm going to save my job in doing so now there's a few teams obviously could lay claim to that same position.

But we have thought the entire offseason that he was going to become a New York jet and now I think it's becoming a reality. The other team that you didn't mention, which would make sense to me, would be the New Orleans Saints because of his relationship with Derek Carr. And that's the only reason DeVante went to Las Vegas

in the first place. I don't think they need him as much as the Jets need them. And I don't think New Orleans is as desperate as the Jets are to get him. But I think next time you and I talk, whenever that is, number 17 will be on the New York Jets. The other team that's mentioned is the Steelers, by the way. We just, if we include the Steelers, we about mentioned all the teams that are supposedly in the running for DeVont Adams. Do you, so I watched the Jets this weekend, maybe because you told them they'd win by 40,

or maybe because it was the only game available to me on my flight from New York to Dallas. Jets, Broncos, it was awful. It was a horrific, boring game to watch. It was terrible, Carton. And I made the mistake at the beginning of the year in fantasy of drafting Garrett Wilson, who is a really good receiver. But it's a mistake because it's not happening right now, right? And I'm thinking, okay, Aaron Rogers, Garrett Wilson, this is going to be great.

I'm not bringing this up to talk about my fantasy team. I'm bringing this up to say, all right, you add DeFonte Adams. Like, what is that going to do? I'm not a great. He's a great receiver. I get it. Okay, are the defense is loading up on Garrett Wilson? like all of a sudden, does he open up?

You've stressed the defense. I'm a little worried, like, why your offense is so bad. And I'm willing to say, give Roger some time. He needs to settle into this whole thing in New York. But it's ugly. And I'm not convinced Devante Adams does get you. You just mentioned a Super Bowl run, man. I mean, I'm not sure what you get with Devont.

The Jets do have a world-class defense. You know, the third in the league and yards allowed. So I'm going to put that to the side for a second. You get Devante Adams. Garrett Wilson now gets the second. best cornerback, man-to-man coverage against him. He had a thousand-yard season with Zach Wilson has his quarterback. Zach Wilson stinks. We all know that. He's the third string quarterback for a team with a terrible offense that you watched, beat my Jets 10 to 9, the Denver

Broncos. The thing I disagree with you about is now there were four weeks into the season, there can't be any more excuses for Aaron Rogers about Rust or about having played in two years healthy because I wrote off the first two weeks of the season. You know, the bad game against San Francisco, the ugly win against Tennessee as all right, the rust is off. He looked great against New England. And then the game that we both watched against the death of Burkos, that's a game that I've seen a hundred times over the last five years. Aaron Rogers was supposed to represent that we were done watching those kinds of games. So we're going out to Tottenham to play Minnesota Sunday morning.

I expect them to win that game. You know, no more, hey, we're trying to figure things out. And, you know, it's a work in progress in a new offensive line. Uh-uh. It's time the New York Jets start winning. And Minnesota, obviously off to an undefeated start 4 and O, really good defense. But we have to beat teams like that if we think we're a Super Bowl team. And thus far, I've been very disappointed with Aaron Rogers,

as a quarterback and Garrett Wilson as his main wide receiver. All right, let's stay in New York but move to basketball. I never told you this, but after you were on the Will Kane show sometime last time, and I think you said something, you said it on air, but I went to the NBA finals. I'm a big Mavericks fan. I went to the finals

here in Dallas, and I had good seats. I had really good seats. And sitting right in front of me is your buddy. Tim Hardaway. Yeah. And he recognized me. I recognized him. We said hi, and I I said, oh, yeah, yeah, had carton on recently, yeah.

And I'd maybe even said something like, yeah, he was telling me, you know, how it's going for Timmy. And he kind of made a face or whatever. And it wasn't a great finals for Timmy. It wasn't a great finals for Tim. I mean, he did have one game. Actually, it was the game I was at. It was awesome to be there next to senior because I think that was the game, I know it was

the game, where junior hit like nine threes. Like he came off the bench. It was the blowout win over the Celtics. And he hit, did he hit nine? I think he hit nine threes. Like he couldn't miss. There's nine, but it was a bunch. He's now a Detroit Piston.

But I'm not bringing up this to talk about the Mavericks. The Knicks. Okay, the Knicks now have Carl Anthony Towns. It's a huge trade. It's NBA preseason. We've got postseason baseball. We've got NFL. That's a huge trade.

And I like it for the Knicks. I think this is good. I don't know if it puts them over the Celtics. I actually don't even know if it puts them over the Sixers who now have Paul George. But this is a type of move you have to do for New York. Yeah, it's a type of movie I have to do, and I do think it makes them a better team. Like, Nick fans were kind of tired of Julius Randall, and he's a very good player, Julius, but he's also a ball hog.

And if you bind to what the Knicks built, it started to build last year, everybody's involved. So getting Carl Anthony Towns, he's a better offensive player than Julius Randall is or was. He also gives us a legitimate big man, not that he's the best defensive player, but I think you're right in that the East Coast. Boston number one have to respect the Celtics and winning a championship and everybody comes back and they're very well coached in my opinion of two generationally talented guys and maybe even a third. I think the New York Knicks are right there though. I can't promise you that the Knicks are winning a title even getting to a May final, but I would say from a pure

talent standpoint off of what we built last year, the New York Knicks are good enough to make a run, more so than even the Jets are right now in the NFL. I love the trade. hate losing Dante and even Chenzhenso, obviously. But I love the trade. I love having a real offensive threat at the five at the big man and a guy that is a guaranteed lock for 24 and 10 every single night. The New York Knicks are going to be a very good basketball theme. He's a disappointment because everybody still thinks of him as a franchise 1A.

He's not a franchise 1A. He pulls disappearing acts. That's the truth. He pulls disappearing acts. I've seen it. And but if he, and he's not. But the thing is, he doesn't need to be your 1A, right? You've got Jalen Brunson, same as they had Anthony Edwards in Minnesota.

The question is, where does he slot in? And if he's your 1B, I'm a little worried for you still because he is going to pull a disappearing act. But if he is a guy who brings the unique things, he can bring to a game and doesn't have to be a dominant force, if he's not your deciding factor that, you know, when you go into a seven-game series and you're like, all right, well, Luca's going to win us two games on his own, right? And then I can count on, you know, maybe I get a Clay Tom, game. That's a third win. You know, you kind of start doing that thing. I think that the Knicks can look at a seven game series and go, I'll have, I'll get one Carl Anthony Towns game. I think

you can get one game. If you need two from him, you're in bad shape. Yeah, but I think the Knicks are built differently than most teams in that I take the Knicks collective. Don't forget, you know, you acquire McHale Bridges, OG An An Anobie comes back. So defensively, I'd make the argument with the best defensive team in basketball before they even put a ball on the court. But you're right. There is a, the next don't have a single dominant player, but there are not a lot of teams in the East that are as deep as them or as good defensively as them. And I would say the Celtics are the only team. And, you know, Porzingis is coming back from an injury, so I don't, I can't speak to him just yet. The Celtics have three guys who can score any night. I think that's fair to say.

That's right. The New York next, the New York next, right? there. And I think the New York Knicks are better defensively than the Celtics by a little bit. I don't believe in Philadelphia because they've never gotten past the second round with Joel and Bede. Let's see what Paul George does there. Love Tyrese's game, of course. And I think the Sixers now, even though they'll never admit this, they go through Maxie now more than a bead. And I'm not sure how Paul George messes up that flow from a standpoint of shots per game. They're going to be a good team, obviously. But I think it goes. Celtics 1, Knicks 2, Sixers 3, and the Pacers 4.

I think they're the four best teams in the East. Yeah, I would agree with that. I'd put in the exact same way. Paul George, by the way, speaking of guys, it disappeared. Yeah. Yeah. Well, by the way, just for my sake, what do you like about? You like what my Mavericks have done?

You like, I mean, first of all, I'm ready to debate you any day on Luca Donchitz. You couldn't have been more wrong on Luca. So it just totally destroys your credibility. But now I got Clay Thompson with it. I got Quentin Grimes. I got Naji Marshall. I think the West is incredible. I don't think the Mavs are the favorite to go back to the finals because you've still got the Nuggets.

And I think the Sons are good. We'll see what a full season of Bradley Biel is. But I mean, the Mavs should be a top four team in the West. I think Minnesota is the best team at West and the deepest team. Young, but I think talent-wise, they're deeper than any team at West. You can't sleep on the Nuggets, obviously. maybe the most dominant player in the sports still. Fourth, Dallas could be fourth or fifth.

Yeah, fourth or fifth. Why are you so anti-Luca? He just carried him. He just carried him to the NBA finals. You're so anti-Luca. He's a defensive player and he's out of shape. That's why. That's just an aesthetic thing.

Oh, come on. If that guy had the work ethic of Kobe Bryant, he'd be the best basketball player we ever saw. But he doesn't. You know that. He can't be stopped, and I don't know how his weight is stopping him. I haven't seen. That's like everybody's a baby fat.

He's a black ball with the basketball. He doesn't give up the ball to this like two seconds left on the shot clock. And then he wants Timie Hardaway Jr. To make a shot. It sounds like inside. It's so bad that Clay Thompson analyzed and goes, oh, this would be a terrible place for me to get a good shot. Everybody, I think,

everybody's played with three-point percentage has gone through the roof based upon their career averages. But I know where you're coming from. Yeah. There is, Jim Hardaway Jr. is happier that he's playing on the worst team in basketball in Detroit. But I have a question for you. Because you don't acknowledge that you're sitting for the Mavericks playoff game. I'm wondering how many other games you went to because I did not see you court side at a random game in Jackson. Who canes? Do you have? I didn't say court side. I said behind. I said behind. I said behind. hind heart away so second row

your courtside yeah how about this my seats were better than Zach Martins I said hi to Zach Martin he was down the row I think mine were better than Zach's uh all right let's do this speaking of football I don't know how you're you know you're a northeastern guys so you northeastern guys I always got to be careful with you because

you don't you know you don't get into college football that much I don't know you're professional sports talker so you have to invest at some level in college sports. I found this fascinating article, Craig. You can probably do this. It was on the athletic, and they, they polled all these coaches, coordinators, I don't know that it was a head coaches, people involved in college football and asked them what's

the best job in college football. If you could have any job, what would you want? I'll tell you what the results were of the top four, but I first want to know what job would you think is the best job in college football. I mean, I would think Alabama's got to be there. right but I'm I'm going to assume because you're asking your follow saving no I don't yeah why not you still get all the talent I mean Georgia that George Alabama game by the way was one of the greatest college games I've ever seen but I'm going to assume because I know who

I'm talking to that Texas job is the greatest job in college football am I correct no no I didn't do that it would be the my number one job for sure it came in second uh I I Georgia got number one. Georgia got number one job in the country. But look, Texas, Ohio State got third, Alabama got fourth. And then there was a huge drop off to LSU at fifth. And then I think it was even a bigger drop off after LSU to sixth, which was probably, I think, Oregon. You know, once you get up there towards the top, you get the same resources, you get the same boosters pretty much. You get the same NIL. So you have the same facilities. So then it becomes, you know, talent based, from which to recruit.

And the article argued that Georgia now, where in the past you'd say Texas, Florida, California, now Georgia's put itself on that same plane and even above a state like California in terms of local talent. So you're good to go. You got all those Georgia boys to come to Georgia. Yeah, I think, you know,

as great as Georgia is at football, you think that they would also make all their kids go to the DMV and learn how to drive a little bit safer? That's like, like 29. Right. Like, no joke, 29 situations. involving a player in a car over the last couple years. It's like, you couldn't even make that up.

That being said, they obviously get great football talent, and he's a really good coach, and they're a great team to watch. And I'm not a saving guy, so watching another SEC team take over and beat Alabama the last couple of years, I've endured that immensely. Oh, if you're not a saving guy, then you're also, yeah, and you've got to give him credit to Kalin DeBore. He's doing a great job. You never want to be the guy after the guy.

you know that's what max's problem was replacing skip on first take in part you don't ever want to be the guy after the guy you want to be the guy after the guy after the guy to come in but calin yeah Kaylin divorce doing a good job at Alabama okay I'm going to do five games Craig's going to tell me what he thinks about my picks as we head into the weekend so Craig I got one college football game for four pro games that I'm going to be watching I always pick the games that I'm most interested in watching first in college college football. Missouri, they're getting two and a half against A&M. That's number nine against number 25. Missouri popular pick, top 10 college football playoff pick all year long.

They don't look good though, barely beat Vanderbilt, barely beat Boston College. And Kyle Field in college station is a real home field advantage and A&M's got a good defense. I'm actually taking A&M. That's what I like in this game. Yeah, I like, I like A&M in this game because they're at home. and I was reading earlier this week that, you know, Brady Cook, you know, Missouri quarterback might have had some things to say about Aggie fans, not the brightest thing to do before you play in front of whatever, 80,000 of them. But look, it's a huge matcher because they're both, you know, top 25 teams. They both have, you know, playoff plans getting into the top 12,

but I'm with you on that. I like the home team. I like Texas A&M. And I think it's a high scoring game. I think you're going to see a lot of points of this game. And that's going to be a fun game to watch. Well, if that's true, that's good for Missouri, I think. A&M needs to defensively win this game.

I think you got to score 30 to end this game. Okay. Let's go back to your team, Jets, Vikings. So in the NFL, I vacillate back and forth between this carton. I go, well, you can't pick this league on a week-to-week basis. You just can't. The minute you think somebody's good, they lose to a stinker. But I'm going to jump off the Vikings after they lose.

I'm riding the Vikings. It's in England. I did not like what I saw from the Jets. And I don't root against the Jets. I do not. But I think I'm just going to ride Sam Darnold until the wheels fall off this horse. I'm taking the Vikings.

But like you said, every week's its own thing. And I think if you're a team with a great quarterback, a veteran quarterback coming off a miserable performance like the Jets and I'm Rod Jarre, that's when I like backing a team. So I think you've got Minnesota playing with house money, right, because they're 4 and 0. which nobody expected. Their defense is legit.

But I also saw them kind of fall apart in the second half against the Packers last week. And I would think that Minnesota would be like a touchdown favorite in this game and come in everybody picking Minnesota. If the New York Jets think that they're a Super Bowl team and they want to make themselves more attractive to Devante Adams after this weekend,

this is a game you got to win. This has got to be a get-right game for them after the embarrassment against the Denver Broncos. So a little lean, a little lean, but I think you get a much better game out of the Jets and I think they win it. All right. I think in the beginning of the season, by the way, there's too much like historical reputation stuff going on. Now I know we know some things. Like you said, we're four weeks in.

We know some things. But my point is if somebody's getting a lot of points, I'm always interested in that. So I've got Arizona, San Francisco. Arizona is getting a touchdown and a half, seven and a half. I don't know. Like I know Arizona's secondary is bad. Okay, so that means San Francisco can move the ball up and down the field. But Kyler Murray is also one of those guys, like one week he's great, one week he's awful.

I'm betting that this is the week he's great, at least within seven of San Francisco. So I like Arizona. Yeah, you would. That's why, you know, you're really good on Fox and Friends and not so good picking games. We'll find out after this. We'll find out. I'm doing well this year. San Francisco is just in a different class.

then Arizona. And yeah, Marvin Anderson Jr. looks like he's the real deal. And Kyla Murray looks he's like he's back to that, you know, playoff year, Kyleor Murray, but they don't run the ball very well. They're defensively not very good. And San Francisco's just a different ball of wax, man. They're loaded at every level of defense. You've got a top three quarterback in the NFL and Brock Purdy. Debo's back. Iuk's got something to prove. Kittles back on the field. The kid who replaced McAfra right now is also doing a great job. I think second in the league in rushing right now. San Francisco can score at will.

I think this is a blowout early, and I think you're taking the wrong side. It's the same guy that said Jets by 40 last weekend. I can't hear you at all. I can't hear you. So just for the record, I don't care about any game more than Arizona, San Francisco after that insult. that's going to be my that's the one I'm going to be locked in on two more real quick cowboys Cowboys Steelers in Pittsburgh

okay Cowboys are dogs two and a half point dogs I mean this is hard for me this is like you and the Jets I I recognize that I am not objective but I know the Cowboys look bad they look bad but I keep thinking okay but DAC goes in and DAC beats Justin Fields come on right like come on

even though Justin Fields probably does to Dallas what Lamar Jackson did look i don't think it's going to be pretty because dallas stinks against the run pittsburgh likes to run the ball though they don't run it as well as people think i'm concerned about the injury to lawrence the liz frank injury is out mike has got the high anchor spring but i'm with you on this if i had to pick dag prescott or justin fields it's an easy pick all day every day twice on sunday i don't think it's going to be pretty right i don't think dallas goes in there and looks like super bowl champions but i don't think pittsburgh's very much i don't think pitts

very good. My issue with Pittsburgh versus Dallas is that Pittsburgh's defense is very good. And they get to the quarterback really well. On paper, on paper, this should be Pittsburgh. I just don't think it is. Everything laid out is true. I like Dallas.

All right, last game, Monday night game. New Orleans, Casey. This is going to be, I'll be interested to see if our debate goes the same way as Arizona, San Francisco. Nor is getting five. I think five is a lot in the NFL still. Every NFL game is close. Almost every NFL game is close. And I think Casey's a little

overrated, Carton. I really do. The offense doesn't look like what you think of when you think of Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City. It just doesn't. Now, New Orleans has got a couple of high-flying games and a couple of not-so-good games. So I'm not sure what I get from them, but I get five points. And I don't think Casey runs away from people anymore. No, they don't. Every game they've won this years by a score. Four and O total point differential is only 20 points. Patrick Mahomes is having the worst year of his career statistically. And yet, yes, they're four and O. Pacheco's gone. They're starting running back. They lose Rishie Rice, who is everything to that offense. Kelsey's clearly washed up at the stage of his career at least four games in. Notty's not going to have that one great

game. I'm sure he will at some point. But, you know, Kansas City in a real unique year is led by their defense. Their defense is really, really good. That being said, the Saints do two things really well. They run the ball great with Alvin Kamara, and Derrick Carr is, looks like a rejuvenated Derek Carr, who's thrown the ball all over the field. I'm with you on this. I think New Orleans wins the game out right. I don't think they need the five points. I think New Orleans gives Kansas City its first loss of the year. All right. So that leaves Arizona, San Francisco. I care about No game more, even Cowboy Steelers. When you come back to New York,

we can just buy me lunch and apologize. It's all good. Deal. Okay, deal. One way or another, somebody's buying lunch. If you want breakfast, though, check out breakfast ball on FS1, 8 to 10 a.m. That's Craig Carton.

FS1. All right, man, always good to hang out with you. Thank you so much, Craig. You too. Be good. Take care. Have a great weekend. Okay.

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