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Should we read I know we're sitting here, I got Delaney's record, Uh, you might have my record Delaney as Taylor's record. Should we read them off each other? Did?
Let's don't start with mine? Start Wills I'll start it Wilves last y last week, will went eleven and thirteen forty six percent.
Oh, let's go forty six thought it was. That was terrible in the pro foot.
A lot of gamblers out there who are true gamblers understand that that's not a bad record. You want to be fifty eee fifty three right after week one because a lot of people see week one and they think the same things that happened last year are going to happen this year, and it just it's about getting your feet wet. So I think that's a's, a's a respectable number after week one.
I think, so what were the big hitters. Obviously we hit Nebraska.
Yeah, yeah, you hit Nebraska. Illinois money line dog guy.
I tried. I know JP. I hated the bet. I hated doing it because I I think Kansas is a good football team, and obviously we'll talk about college football in the back half. But I was seeing I felt it, man, I'm telling you.
And then you had Notre Dame versus n U I or n IU. I had Notre Dame and IU, but you also had like this little typo on the sheet here an IU Northern Illinois University. You had them plus twenty eight.
Oh yes, yeah, oh they ended up. And again we'll talk about that money line. I know, I know, Delaney. You went eleven and fifteen bat and forty two percent. You had Carolina money line. Uh at New Orleans lost? Okay, Ohio money line. You won that.
You also won the Duke Yeah yeahlik.
Yeah, Murphy, and you had it even though the bet the Boys parlay the bet the Boys parlay did lose. Christian McAffrey didn't even play, so that should be a wash, that should be a walk.
Last week we were all arguing about, well, Delaney was arguing about Christian McCaffrey. He wants Christian McCaffery, and I was like, hey, we're all going to get him every single week. I happened to get him this list weekend, but.
He had Derick Henry the King. He did score in the opener. I think the Ravens, I don't know where you guys obviously will read Taylor's record. Yeah, we got a lot uh to recap from last week.
So Taylor went eight and fifteen thirty five percent. How you feel about that?
I think Michigan men around the world had about the same weekend is on par with my weekend. Had a great experience over the weekend. But overall, if you looked at you know, how my teams did and everything, it's thirty five percent.
Yeah. I mean you hit the Steelers falcon under that was a win. As U minus six and a half, that was a win. And that Cleveland loss that was crazy.
Shame on me, Bro, Shame on me because you you had the Cleveland as well.
No, it's yeah, yeah, I went with Dallas.
He says, here, you went Cleveland minus two and a half loss.
I should have had Dallas.
But what happened We were just talking before the show at the continuity between your picks here and then pffs. Yeah, just totally different. But dude, we should know better than the bet against the Cowboys early in the season. Early you don't start bet against Cowboys taking to January said that too. You just get so used to it.
I know. But honestly, man, as much as like, yeah, Dallas is a great regular season team, like we should have known not to bet with Deshaun Watson. I know, like flacoh, obviously, the defense is good. Flacco was great last year when it came in for him. But for the love of God, Deshaun Watson is I mean, he's absolutely stealing. He got a lot up.
Well, he's not stealing because he gets he gets a lot of lawsuits. So yeah, I mean the off field stuff that another one just came to right when he lost. Soon as he lost, it was like get.
Him, yeah, get his as Yeah, he's just not playing good man.
I mean, you got to think about that back of your mind.
Was it Billy Oh had the right offense for him down in Houston.
So here's what I heard about Billy Oh. We talked about this on Bust with the Boys a little bit. Is apparently on Watson couldn't pick up the playbook in Houston. And obviously you're this is a take from a guy said DeAndre Hopkins is not going to play last week, ended up playing. So yeah, and I was told by an extremely reliable source.
And I'm thinking to myself, Okay, that'll be good to be, you know, first out on But yeah, it didn't.
He played like ten snaps had one catch. But anyway, uh, rumor has it that Deshaun couldn't pick up the offense in Houston, so Billio essentially had to take all of Clemson's offense, like this is what we're running now.
That makes sense. Make the guy feel comfortable.
Now, Stefanski correct, Stefanski is trying to implement his offense what they want to do on DeShawn, and it's just not clicking offense. But you see guys like Joe Flacco coming last year off the couch and started lighting it up, lighting it up, so it's like there is obviously the common denominator is DeShawn.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're not going to make that mistake.
I mean, he guaranteed money, so he's second highest paid quarterback in the league and fully guaranteed.
Yeah, and he wasn't until four days ago.
Yeah, and shout out Dak Prescott.
Oh yeah, Dak.
Just securing the massive back whether.
They deserve it or not. Congratulations.
It was crazy. They did it right before the game. He had to go out there and playing.
That thing and nuts and I almost would not want that. I know, could get paid like two days before, you're just sitting there in your bed of money, like play. I gotta take this out of my head. That's fucking tough.
Hey, would you would y'all think of Tom Brady's debut as a commentator.
It was a tough weekend for all Michigan men throughout the world. You gotta double down that, Listen, it was tough. But Tom Brady wasn't a finished product out of high school, out of college until a couple of years in the NFL. He's a guy that's going to take this personally. He's gonna take the criticism. He's going to keep working on and he's going to get better.
Now. I know.
Fox is like, yeah, we just paid this two three hundred million dollars and that's the problem.
Put him over breg Olson, which, by the way, justin.
He is great at yes, greg Olsen, and then three year, three year ago Tony Romo, We're all like phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal, And it's just you could tell he was having a hard time. Where do I pick my spots to talk? And it's like, I think he goes in the next game. He should go next game. Tell them to tell you to talk less, Like, just talk about the football. Game is if you're watching it, you're commentating, so just talk about the ship.
And you're Tom Brady.
You're Tom Brady, you know everything about football. This is what I would do in this situation. But to me, I think this takes away from tom Brady's legacy. Me too, I think him being in the booth. I think him being in the booth like it's like like like Michael Jordan's.
The thing about Michael Jordan is like played and then got the fuck out of Dodge and now everyone's like, Yo, Mike Jordan Jordan, He's just playing golf and doing his thing, but like he has like this legacy that's like Yo, Michael fucking Jordan, Like what's he up to?
I don't know.
He's a billionaire, though.
You think is it fair to say the more he's on TV, the quicker Mahomes is able to surpass him as the goat. I know this is hurting his legacy has brings.
It's like two different pillars of legacy like he had, Like this is obviously is spilling over the football legacy that Mahomes. If he gets more Super Bowls, if his stats are better, he'll pass. But when it comes to this, it's like there it was an interesting draw to Tom Brady, Like you saw what he was doing off the field, dating the models, marrying the model like kind of all over the place.
He won everywhere outside of f t X. He won everywhere.
He won everywhere, everywhere, And so I feel like when you see him in the booth, it's like and you see him uncomfortable.
Man, who is this guy human?
You're like, that's what he's in us.
We don't want him to be human.
Let him be.
He's gonna he's gonna get better. He's gonna get better.
That's his that's him. He's good. He's good. I know you all are in it. Y'all are committed to the Titans more than myself based on the years you guys play. Is my transition? Is will lev is Willie Mayo going to get better?
You don't think he started off the game well. I feel like they played well.
I'm still on Willing Mayo. But people are coming for his head right now.
Yeah. The last post he had he hasn't posted like over two weeks.
Comment.
I mean to me, actually, Alan was telling about the comments and I didn't go back and look, because like that's what bothers me to see go through it, especially.
That because he played well, Like this is Tennessee. I'm saying, like, you know, yeah, yeah, this is Tennessee.
Y'all know that happens all the time.
You know that happens like they will at what cost, at what point the things change?
And it's the here's here's the deal. I said it in a tweet. If the game was thirty minutes, we're talking about Titans being contenders this year. Yeah, the first thirty minutes of the game, they looked incredible. Credible were they You couldn't guess what they were going to do next. They did a great job intermediate, They took a couple of shots, They ran the ball really well. It was defense played incredible special teams now might be an issue, bro special they were all TD like good returns, O
my stuff. But here's the problem. Patrick Mahomes is sucking up all these young cats because Pat goes out there and does his behind the back things, the look away throws like this backyard bullshit, longest Stard reference. He does the backyard bullshit and then it works out for him because you will Levis like, he should have step There was that one play where they're up seventeen sixteen. He should have stepped up in the pocket, thrown it a
out check down. Charlie'sup situation rolls out to the left, starts catching pressure and as he's falling away and it's like, bro, like your defense is playing incredible. He puts up a little muffin guy catches it right in the basket and goes and scores a touchdown. And now you're playing from behind when the momentum has gone away from you so much. Those those are things that are easily fixable. I think. I think Willie Mayo is gonna be straight.
Yeah, he talked about it. He said, I, you know, I got away with things like that last year. I ain't getting away with it this year. I gotta things I can work on. He gonna change. I just feel like it's early Tennessee always do that. You know, they felt like we were up, we should have won that game.
They I mean, they gave that the.
Bears were actually at the game and the Titans wanted and lost it. Yeah, they were just kind of they were also expectator.
You don't think the play calling got a little softer though.
I think they got conservative. They're playing not to lose.
You playing there you go right there.
Yeah, but that's also first time Brian Callahan, first time coach. Yeah, so it's gonna take a little bit of time.
Yeah, yeah, of course my I'm still a fan. I still believe they're gonna get back on track.
That's just big bounce back week I had with them hosting the Jets. Jets. My game of the week really really, I do really before we get the game was Thursday night football Bills and Dolphins. Dolphins favorite minus two and a half right now in the Draft Kings sports book, the over under right now is forty nine. Delaney Man.
After what the Bills did in that performance and them coming back to the finals, hugs the Cardinals, but the Cardinals.
Was playing great. They were showing. The Cardinals were playing all right. They was playing they fell apart in the second half. They were playing good in that first time.
Same thing we said at the Titans.
It's true. But with that being said, I mean Miami just getting Tyreek h Jalen, them boys getting the ball had over one hundred yards both of them again, I think they probably what ten consecutive times, both of them getting over one hundred yards and receiving, both touching the
an zone. I'm gonna have to go with the Dolphins just with that minus two, that spread, I just think the Dolphins is gonna pull away with it, and that's just so good enough for a reason for me to choose the Dolphins over the Bills.
I think the Dolphins would kill him.
Yeah, I'm with the Dolphins. I love that we're at a triple A stat call back.
I think going on right now. Look at Tyreek like he's got all the juice in the world right now, right now. Cuffs on the ground last week, like he doesn't feel like he needed anymore more.
They know that hurt too.
Yeah, and miamis and they they.
Miami started slow against Jacksonville. Jacksonville could be frisky this year in my opinion, but the Miami came out swinging in the second half. They settled in. I feel like they just have way too much speeding creativity on offense with coach Coach McDaniels and the Buffalo Bills have question marks in the back end. Bro. They have kind of like, you know, guys like myself on the back end, not like big names, no, not white, not white, but just
guys that not with the biggest names. You got you got a guy going into like year ten at corner. You got another young guy, you got the Mare Hamlin at safety. Get the other safety's name Taylor rap I just feel like they have question marks on the back end. Again, like Arizona played well, but they came more. Arizona kind of lines up and plays more than versus like a Rams.
Miami Dolphins that do like Jets motions. They do a lot of creativity to get their speed going on the back end and then build play action off of it. I think they'll be able to hit shots deep on Buffalo and I legitimately and they're at home. Yeah, I think Miami can kill them.
I like there's something to be said about middle of September in Miami when you're coming from Buffalo. Oh yeah, yeah, you get you know, five degrees every single day in Buffalo in the summertime, and then you have to go down to Miami. It's sticky, it's swampy. A couple of guys are going to that massive strip club because all the boys do.
The defense has some nastiness too. You got Jaylen Ramsey, David Long. Yeah, they got some.
Very underrated Yeah.
I think I think the Dolphins run away with this one. Honestly, the thing that's gonna keep the Bills in the game is Josh Allen. Josh and that's why I also think it's probably an over game.
And I was thinking about the over but then I'm sitting there looking at us, and when I was watching the Arizona Bills game unfold, I'm like, man, Miami and Miami playing the second half of that of the game against Jacksonville. Wait, man, they can really they could beat this team's ass. Yeah, it's only up to Josh Allen to keep him in it.
Right, But Josh has that ability, Yeah, has that ability, but it doesn't have the weapons he did last year with Diggs gone now and stuff.
But he hurt?
Is Josh Allen hurt? Do you have a hand problem?
It says on the sheet. He does, Josh, we do have.
We do have our Bills expert Steven Bond in the back left hand. Is it something something to monitor or something of concern?
He says?
It's a left hand too, Like you, you don't need a left hand.
He said. He's eleven and one against the Dolphins.
Yeah, I mean that makes you feel even better about the Dolphins, right.
Yeah, Dolphins. I feel like here they get themselves in a position for home field advantage come to the playoffs, Like that's a dangerous team. Yeah, yeah, for sure, because they they're they're a team too that's been sniffing it, just like the just like the Ravens last couple of years, and everyone's kind of like, yeah, they're good, but we're put them at tier too. Still, oh yeah, they have
insane speed. But when we get to the playoffs, it's kind of like, all right, you guys had a great regular season.
Yeah, and it was a real He's starting to be a real leader though. You can see him.
Like year toys.
Yeah, man, really wasn't panicing.
Yeah, I like I like Dolphins and the you know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, which at times, yeah, because last year, when I started to get behind this like thirty five percent, I just started fucking firing firing bets everywhere, like, yeah, let's get murder, let's get murdered or murder the game. And I think I'm gonna go, I'm gonna I'm gonna take Dolphins. I'm also gonna take the over in that game.
I love that we get to uh who wants to start off Game of the week? Game of the week obviously our NFL. Later on in the show, it'll be Trophy Game of the Week with College Football Delaney Taylor. You guys want to take game of the week is mine will be talking about Titans. So I feel like that'll take up a little bit.
Of I get started with it. So my game of the week is going to be the Saints at the Cowboys. I'm taking the Cowboys. I feel like Dak the performance he put on that paycheck he got, you got CD, you got cooks, you got exakiel Ezekiel.
It's a tough word.
Yeah, I feel come on, start with a now.
Definitely about definitely about.
I just feel like those boys are gonna come out. The Saints played great against Carolina, but it is a Carolina team. You know they that Caroline team is struggling. The Saint Show, they asked they went out there, put them boys in the coffin.
But I ain't so good they did. But the Cowboys spread, Like, what's the the spread is?
The spread is minus six and a half and over unders forty five and a half.
At Dallas at Dallas, I'm with you. Yeah, Dallas at home last year, I know, just even really all years, but they played really well at home and early in the year too.
Yeah, they had a crazy stat about also covering against the spread always at home. It was like like in the eighties or nineties percent. It was impressive.
Love that defense shows up at home too, Like the defense plays for whatever reason, so much better home.
I mean, them boys is balling. Keep it real.
I love your reference talking about the Saints playing so well, but it's against a shitty Carolina But your ballsy pick last week was the Yeah, that's the best part.
It was a balls pick and they I thought they were going to do well and he let me down. They let you down, man.
I like that pick though I like Cowboys. Yeah, I like Cowboys. Six and half. It's a big line, it is.
There's a few out there that have like six plus.
Yeah.
I mean we can move the line if you.
No no, no, no, no, We'll doude my game of the week because I know you're talking about Titans, but I got Browns at Jaggs Jags your favorite minustery. I think the Jags are gonna mop the floor with them. But this is the reason why it's the game a week for me. It's it's a gbot situation for both these teams. Like the Cleveland Browns are on life support. It's the monkey meme with the thing in the nostrils. They are in an absolute shit storm. Everyone's freaking out
in Cleveland. And I think with Jacksonville, they for the last couple of years have done a not a great job of living up to expectations and they've got to get back on track. So I'm thinking Jags three.
What's the over under forty and a half.
I'm with you. I think Jacksonville.
I think Jags will wax some double digits.
Yeah, and again they played strong against Miami. They just kind of fell apart in the second half because they were up pretty good coming out of the first half. And in Cleveland again they're not facing an offense like they just saw Miami with all the little wrinkles that coach McDaniels does. Yeah, like Cleveland, you kind of line up a little bit more and playing Deshaun Wasser's is not I mean, he ain't anymore. He ain't him. He's got money. Though he lost the juice.
James wist they may come out there.
He lost the juice. He has the juice and also lost the juice.
Yeah, yeah, man, I'm with you, though, I like that you replace that locks in the chat, locks in the chat, locks in the check.
Got to have it, gotta have it all right.
Game of the Week Titans, Yes, Jets at Titans. Jets are favored by three and a half. The over under on this one is forty and a half. Uh. I think the X fact in this game is uh, what's his name? Cornbread? Sweat? Yes, Sweat and Simmons. Bro, that's the X factor. If you can get pressure up the middle arden Key and Harolander, if they can get after him and kind of drop seven, I think that they can have success. Will Levis, you know this Jets defense
is nasty. They struggled with the Niners, but they started hot.
They did.
They have a lot of speed. They struggled the the Niners, but the Niners are like the Niners are. They're a great football team. Bro.
They got to who's been together for a while.
Yeah, man, like that offense is high powered. I like the Jets, oh, but more importantly, don't Nick Nickson. I do like the Jets minus three and a half. However, what I'm choosing in this game is the under under forty and a half. I think this is a big defensive game.
Yeah, but Rogers and Wilson, the.
Jets are going to get after this title offense.
Yeah, But I'm I'm just saying, if the Jets, if the Titans can for somehow put together sixty minutes and their first thirty minutes, if they can make that sixty minutes, I'm with you win football. Yeah, and it's it over. It breaks my heart that I'm trying to find it for the Titans right now.
Defensively, they have some swagger, like they have a lot to like hang their hat on. But just the mentality when you know a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers is coming to town, like you're you're almost thinking, man, hopefully the offense can play well, you know what I mean? Yeah, just that mindset being in the locker room thinking and the offense can play well. We got our hands full with Aaron Rodgers, Breist Hall, Garrett Wilson, but they're gonna
feel confident. It's legitimately, it's it's gonna be on Will Levis in that offense. And I just think the Jets defense is too, is gonna be nasty.
The Titans defenses you from it.
I'm curled up a little under go under. There's a good going I'm going under under twenty and a half. Forty such a low number it is, but I could see this game. I could see this game being like twenty to ten.
Well you said forty and a half.
Because I think both defensives do that. I just don't think. Yeah, and they add, Okay, he's under forty and a half, you know what I mean.
Yeah, I'll do the under, just kept for camaraderie, like it scares the ship out of it.
Also, you gotta go Titans, right, No, you gotta go.
You gotta go Titans.
I can't go.
We're in. We do this show in National. We got three Tights.
Love the Titans, but I'm out getting units, you know what I'm saying.
So don't be disrespectful.
No, not not disrespectful, love the Titans.
Just being real.
I'm just being real right now, I'm gonna go under.
I'm gonna go under. So we got right, lots in the chat, we got the trip, we got lots in the chat.
News is that we're either all gonna do really well this week or really shitty together.
Yeah, that's that's cool. I mean, at least we all have the same percentage Oh, it's gonna separate us right here though.
Oh no, what what you got?
I'm just looking at my balls picked up?
Oh you read?
Look at the app a little wrong.
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No, no, no, I really like your first one. But you take that one?
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I can talk about this one though. Go ahead, take that one. Take that one.
I'm under a Rams money line versus the Cardinal divisional game. Yeah, the Cardinals played well in the first half. It kind of fell apart in the second half against the Bills. I think the Rams when they go to overtime with
the Lions. This is a pissed off team with a lot of talent and great coaches, and for them to be underdogs against the Cardinals the most like what bugs me about Arizona being from Arizona is that the fair weather fandom that takes place in that state, like being able to go to Michigan and seeing people just like totally be into their Michigan even Michigan State, Detroit all
their teams like they live and breathe it. And then you come down here and I get to share a bus with guys like Garrett and Jack that like when the Titans lose, they're on suicide watch. Like it's like, you don't see that in Arizona. That stadium is not gonna be full, and if it is, it'll be La fans, which is also another fair weather state. But whatever, I see the Rams winning this game. I don't see them starting to zero to two in the season. I'm a big
fan of this pick. That's why I dove into a bunch of research before the show started.
You ready for me to scare you about this pick? Four offensive lineman starters injured.
Yeah, but everyone's always said offensive lineman don't.
Matter, Pooka Nkula injured.
Every one's always kind of been like crazy, always matter. But I'm more mad at myself that, Like I looked at my thing and I was like, oh my god, my money, my ballsy pick is minus one sixty two Colts.
Colts.
What was I fucking thinking any staff can figure it out. It's McVeigh, no doubt effort. And when they're playing against the Lions, they do again a lot like coach McDaniels in Miami. They do things to get the ball out fast. They build play action creatively through jet sweeps. Hopefully they do whatever they can to minimize getting uh, you know, giving up sacks. And again you had a rare intersect in the red zone of the two minute drill that
Stafford threw which didn't happen. Which doesn't happen with Stafford, a drop fourth down by Cooper cup dropped, they.
Dropped the ball happen.
Durant had an opportunity to put the nail in the coffin with an interception in the fourth quarter, and it didn't happen. The Lions are just too big. They they were somebody who just got they understand how to play five full quarters, like have an offensive line that stuff Montgomery's running at your neck at the end of the game, similar to like Derrick Henry back in the day with the Titans.
To switch it up.
But I do like that, I do like Yeah, I like that pick. I do like the Rams, I like McVeigh and I like Stafford.
Yeah.
Well, we don't have to agree on the ballsy pick though, right.
We don't know, we don't have to take the talk about that. That was what I had on here to talk about because I was kind of split because, my h the other one I had on here was Buck's money line at Detroit. I know, I came after Detroit.
Last week and you just blaze Detroit a couple of seconds ago. Yeah, Montgomery offensive line.
No question. But if you watch the tap by Buccaneers, that offense is a machine. Mike Evans, he's Benjamin Button. The dude is ageless. Did you see his first touchdown in the end zone? Yeah, yeah, I mean it's crazy. Bro Evans is insane. Baker looked really good. He's poised, he's breaking he's breaking sacks, he's throwing the ball, he's keeping his eyes down, feel he's going after news. He's got that swagger that he had from last year. I like the Bucks at Detroit again, your boys swung, and
I missed on the Rams money line at Detroit. However, they took those boys in the overtime. But I am nervous because the Detroit offensive line, they're big, they're ugly, they're nasty. They were moving the line of scrimmage in the fourth they were moving the line of scrimmage in overtime. David Montgomery was pissed off. So it does scare me. But again, I like the Bucks. I think their offense is a weapon. They absolutely handled Washington last week.
Going back to the Cleveland game. Could you imagine Cleveland if they had Baker right now? I know, I mean to be sick when that happened.
Everybody was. Everybody's kind of divided and split on that because Baker. It was like, I want to say that was maybe his second or third head coach or.
Yeah, it's just tough Baker. Baker was a second round pick. He'd be elite.
Yeah, but there was too much expectation the first round. Yeah, that's that's that hurts you.
But like the Bucks money line right now, sitting at plus two seventy in the DraftKings sports Book.
I mean, that's a that's a ballsy pick.
Okay, my balls pick. That's what y'all want to hear. Yeah, we would love to see. Okay, let me get you out my balls he pick. So, man, I'm going it's the Seahawks versus the Patriots. I'm taking the Patriots. Coach Mayo got those boys back. We know we can say it Patriots about how much chill hold up? I'm gonna tell you that's plus three Patriots plus so Patriots plus three the eight underdogs in.
This game, you're taking a money line.
I'm taking the money line, though, but he wanted to know what was the spread. It's you know, it's in New England. It's in New England.
I was a said line would be way higher if they were in Seattle.
Yeah, it's in New England. And I'm telling you the Patriots is back. He got Jacobe Prissette out there slinging the ball. I just feel like this game is theirs. I think they're back. I think they're gonna come up, show up. Seahawks didn't look too good last week. This is a game they can take, so all right, they was decent. That man threw a pick like straight out the gate.
I get the bad plays out of the way early last week and by the way Week one of NFL, you can throw it out the window right now.
That extended preseasons very true. I'll give you that, very true. Them dudes didn't play in preseason, None of them starters played. They get out there, it's like they're getting their feet weight for the first time. I understand that. So you can never tell from week one, But I just think the Patriots looked pretty good. I think they following that coach. You know, when you got a coach like that that played the game, you usually go out there and ball for that.
Dude, let's not talk bad.
Talking about that. We did not look I even though I won that bad, but you know, I mean I talk about it.
Yeah, yeah, Raiders right now, I'm gonna stay away from bettering anything. Same on the Patriots.
Same because they did shock. They shocked.
There's aspect to that.
But I did. We'll see, you know, we'll see what have balls picked? Though it's a very ballsy one.
Balls picks I was.
I was hoping to get a better one. So you know, should we hit a rapid fire, let's do it. Daldn't rapid fire here?
First game, rapid Fire. Raiders at Ravens. Ravens are favored by nine. Total is forty one and a half's.
Raiders.
I like the under forty one and a half. I don't think the Raiders score a lot of points.
Ravens Bengals at Chiefs, Chiefs laying six. Total is forty seven and a half.
Chiefs Chiefs minus Jeeves.
Bears at Texans. Texans favored by six and a half. Total is forty five and a half.
Texans and the under Cayler Williams ain't ready. I'm going Texans minus six and a half.
I'm taking Texans as well.
Falcons at the Eagles Eagles favored by six and a half. Total is forty seven.
Under you know what, fuck it, Falcons plus six and a half.
Eagles, Steelers favored by two and a half at the Broncos. Total is thirty six and a half.
Steelers minus two and a half.
For some reason, I just like bo Nicks. I'm going Broncos. I'm going Broncos plus two and a half.
Steelers.
Giants at the Commander's Washington Lane a point and a half totals forty four.
Commanders minus one and a half.
Let's go with the Commies one and a half under forty four? All right? Can I go under forty four? I kind of like that under forty four?
Can I also go in there forty four locks in the chat? Yeah? Listen, of all these bets, I feel the best about the Raiders.
Raders could win that one again. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know Ravens. So Ravens looked very bad against the Chiefs, their operation was bad. Like you might think Lamar's using up the entire clock, but that dude was frantic when that play clock was running down, trying to get the ball off, trying to check something late. I think they clean a lot of shit up that. The Ravens to me, looked like they were in a preseason game. God see, I think they're gonna they're gonna obviously they lost.
They're gonna feel, you know, bad, all week long about it and can't wait to get the taste out of their mouth hosting the Raiders. They could boat race them.
What do y'all feel about players not playing in the preseason, Like, I feel like they none of those guys played the whole preseason. The Ravens, and they came out and they looked like it when the Chiefs play every preseason, their starters play every preseason. They came out and they looked like it. They started off fast. I'm just a firm believer. If you don't play in the preseason, Week one is going to be a ship show. Always.
As a player, I love not playing the preseason. What as a player?
Right, Like, as a player, and you know you don't the game, I want to play I always wanted to play. And that's why.
It's because you never practiced.
Yet your your your three preseason games were practiced.
He was always in big ass shoes. Yeah, it practiced like once a week. And of course you want to get in on some of the preseason.
I think I think the Ravens have way more issues on offense than we even expect. Besides like the like preseason shitty bahlah ball. I think it's it's way more than that. The fear was what are they to do with Derrick Henry. There's a there's a recipe to make Dereck Henry successful, but it's not the recipe that the Ravens are used to doing. Spreading them out gun with the back offset. Derek's not used to turn your shoulders to the sidelines and then going into the line of scrimmage.
They have to decide whether or not they want to be a team that is going to go under center and give Derek Henry the ball or keep a spread r PO type of you know, collegeish offense. I think don't think in week two they're going to do They're gonna be able to figure that out.
I think they already have decided that Hardball just came out yesterday and the presser and said, we didn't bring Derek Henry in here to give him the ball thirty times a game.
Wow. I mean he didn't play the last for the fourth quarter. I don't think he came in the game, right.
Yeah, because they were throwing the ball too much. Yeah, Derek doesn't block. It's one of those things too, Like he didn't have a nice ball though.
I just don't think it's the block. I think it's the routes because you see they was motioning the other guy out, had him run a slants, choice routes, Yeah, options. I just think it's that that factor in the game.
See, Like you know, once you have like three games of a sample size on when Derek comes in the percentage of it being a run. Like I know, defensively, those are things you start to dial in on, Like, hey, it's like if Travis kelce and forgive me for not knowing the second tight end, but when Travis Kelsey's in the game, if his hands on the line of scrimmage versus him being the off guy in a Paara set, whether it's gonna be play action or run, you know
what I mean? If Travis Kell for receiving Titans hands in the dirt. Look for play action if he's off, if he's back, that could be more run because they have the blocker down on the line of scrimmage. Like I feel like when you have when Derek's coming in the game, I'll be curious after like three games, like what that breakdown looks like on Hey, the percentages is like eighty five. Derek Anders in the game, He's either getting the ball or it's a play action pass right right.
And I think with the Ravens offensive line, the right side of the offensive line, Max Crosby is going to fucking.
Feast, Yes, bro yes, because he is going to feast the Chiefs ate them up.
And the Ravens made a big mistake after too serious, taking their right guard and putting them taking him out and then putting in a rookie and who gives up a sack to Chris.
Jones right out of the game. So you know that the least team.
So now you have assholes are tight everyone that rights out of the offense line. Ronnie Stanley Studd, I don't speak Mac Crosby be on him at all, but Max on that right side We've seen him against the Patriots last year. He gets a chip from he gets chipped by the running back and then ducks under the tackle and gets sat gets the safety and which puts them over twenty points for the first time in however many games.
So I think I just think the Ravens have a lot more issues, have a lot more issues than they expected to have, because it is Derek is such a unique player, and you've got to give him the ball for him to have a level of success that makes people scared of you.
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Yeah, you're excited about it.
I am excited about it. JK Dobbins, ooh, that's a good pick. You saw the style of harrorball, the way he was in this last game running the ball. I love the fact that in the post game in the locker room he says he beat him a lot, but this one's for JK because JK is a Ohio State guy. Yeah, and it's just funny you see him smiling, low key pissed off about it, but he's fired up because he knows he's getting the rock over and over again. Yeah, Joe Alt, JP, I believe you showed me who showed
me that? So JP showed me a clip of Joe Walt versus Max Crosby. Now, I saw Joe at the combine. He was telling me legit, I don't want to go to the Chargers for the soulbeis, I don't want to play right tackle. Loves the Chargers, doesn't want to play the right tackle, gets drafted by the Chargers at five overall, goes the right tackle first time as an entire life, and the dude put on a clinic against an elite pass rusher. They're offensive line is stacked. They have the
ability to run the ball effectively. They got Herbert in there, who can condition it all over the yard if he wants to. That is a good fucking team. And I was worried going into the season if people were going to buy into hardball's uniqueness. But the best way to buy in is catching W's left right and set us catching a week one W and know they're going to hand off the rock a bunch of times. JK has got to be sitting there in the meetingum this morning
being like, Yo, this is fucking awesome. The tip of the spear, Yeah, the tip of the spear, And they're gonna give it to him over and over again. They're so used to and call in the NFL guys just throwing it and the backs kind of getting out of the backfield. You toss it over them check downs, then give them a couple of runs, spice things up a little bit. Not in not at the Chargers, not at the Chargers. That is a huge vocal port of their offense.
And I think JK. Dobbins I feel really good about that bet.
Yeah, Joe's a fucking beef.
Joe Mixon. Joe Mixon with the Texas, he got the ball thirty times over one hundred and fifty with the touchdown, but knowing he's touching the rock thirty times and slow its offense coming from San Fran you know, they love to run the ball. And when you got a guy that is the feature back and people thought, you know, when we were gonna even going through fantasy drafts. I'm trying to do my research for fantasy draft. People talking about Seal, Joe Mixon, cel Joe Mexicans getting older, wearing
tearr YadA, YadA. Dude touching the rock thirty times, he averaged whatever that average is. Does that average give me the calculator? What is that like? Five yards?
You have five yards? Cardy yea, yeah, yeah, that's fine.
I love Joe Mixon. I love Joe Mixon.
I'm going bar I love that with the Eagles.
Yeah, that's a good man.
Was five thirteen on DraftKings locking in right now, say on Joe Mixon Dobbins, I'm obsessed.
Can we just get a quick moment of silence for CMC always in our hearts? It breaks my heart.
I need him on the field, He's on my fantasy team.
I need him on the field for white guys everywhere.
Most white guys leading them on the field for white guys everywhere.
Trooper Deine that I see did not looks phenomenal.
Actually, it's a lot of white cornerbacks this year, so I mean, you know, it's a.
Hey, white guys are making a comeback sports.
Where they say a white boys summer or something.
Like that, something like that white boys summer, white boy season, White boy. Yeah, Like people are gonna take this cup and be like, oh Taylor, no, dude, forever, forever. White guys, you walk into a locker room as a white guy, you're behind the eight ball.
Minority. Because quarterbacks, I was gonna say, depend on the quarterback, but off, it's a lineman.
Oh, if you're playing dB, definitely you bottom of the pole, no doubt. If slot, if you ain't the slot guy, you're a little nervous.
Shot. White guys, dude, shout out, shoutout, White guys out. Let's take a piss and we will be back with college football week. Welcome to the college football portion of the locker room. It is a great day, a great day, and a great week to be a Nebraska corn Huster. Tough week for Michigan, tough week to be a Michigan Wolverine. You obviously cover a little bit of that. But guys, Husker football is fucking almost back. I say almost. I
feel like it's back. I'm just gonna say almost because I feel like we have a trap game this week against Northern Iowa. Track game.
Trap game.
In one of those things, like it's easy to show for the opener Dylan Rails first start, it's even easier to show for Colorado like you were environment was insane. But knowing you got again a tough Illinois football team on the schedule next week, it's easy to like get a little comfortable with everybody patting you on the ass against Northern Iowa, Like I think they're gonna win no matter what. But if you only win this game by a single like a single score, that's that's where I
think it's like a trap game. The guys just don't show up. Yeah, the guys just don't show up and hang fucking fifty on them. Because when this team does not belong on the football field with Nebraska, they always think of wear an in on the side of their helmet, and we got to treat them as such.
And there's finally an expectation in Lincoln, right, oh yeah, and it's like living up to that expectation. Now you need to cover against Northern Iowa.
Yeah, I think the spread there it might be thirty.
That's great.
It's a great feeling. I'm not touching it. It is a great feel. I am starting to Everybody would call me crazy, but I don't think it's crazy to talk about Nebraska playing for a college football playoff spot.
I give them that for sure.
Yeah, the way they have and what's just we'll just we'll just pretend that they lose to Ohio State. It's a one loss Nebraska team with the prestige of the end. Yeah, I can see you sleeping in there. Eleven to twelve.
You think they lose to Ohio State.
I mean I think you got two undefeated teams at that point.
Listen, yeah I can. I gave you that. Yeah State.
The only team I hate more than the House State is Michigan State. They look fucking good. I mean, they paid all the money in the world. They they're they're they're putting points on the board. Their defense is playing. Well, that's a good that's a good ball club. That's a really well oiled ball club. Right now, So you got it?
You just we will.
We'll get there when we get there. But if we're just doing a grand picture, we'll just say it's a loss for the argument and say you can still make the playoffs.
Yeah, what is that? Eleven and one? We're playing for the Big Ten championship? Yeah, I playing in Ohio State again. If if we're talking.
We could very well see it in Nebraska Michigan. Uh Big thing championship game.
Let's hope he's talking about Michigan, right. They gotta win out, to win out, to win out. Yeah.
Yeah, but a one lost team. I mean, Oregon hasn't looked great. They played Washington, they kind of already owned Minnesota Big Ten champion.
Unbelievable. That awesome.
That'll be the Big ten taking over again.
Yeah, I mean the Big the Big ten championship is always Big ten teams.
But yes, that's a good point though, yea big Yeah, Big ten might be taken over.
Right, But it's not crazy to think we're owning it. We own the fas football landscape.
Yeah, no, I mean Big ten is showing up this year.
I think if you guys just win by twenty eight points, even if y'all don't cover, it's a big game.
Texas Michigan, that's sec verpe, I.
Know, but that's only that was Listen, Yeah we.
Fell, we fell asip at the wheel On that one, Colson Loveland gets caught, you know, catch the ball and stride. It's a totally different game, there's no question about that.
But I don't know, you know, I stopping Quinns in that all.
I don't know, dude, You don't. You never know what a spark does. You saw the Bears. The Bears were worse than the Titans last week, and then all of a sudden, a couple of sparks happened. Yeah, interception, this, that and the other that's all you need.
Get back on track.
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Trophy Game of the week. Uh. I want to start off by saying, and I hope this age as well. I feel so good about my college picks now I don't feel as strong about my NFL picks, and I want to tell the people that you see I'm seeing everything and it's all kind of coming to me. As as long as I didn't make a mistake like I did on my Ballsy pick, I feel really good about these picks. My trophy game of the week is Oregon versus Oregon State the Civil War. Organ's won the last three.
They're split in the last six games as far as against the spread, but Oregon hasn't looked good. They're losing to Boise State, Idaho. The spread is sixteen and a half right now, rivalry games, I'm taking Oregon State to cover sixteen and a half. Here, I'm taking Oregon State. Dan Lanning, like Listen, I was not able to go to the Spring Tour this year with Oregon. The way everybody in this room who was out there talks about it, it makes me a bigger fan of Dan Lanning in Oregon.
This is strictly a business move right here, the way Oregon has looked I gotta feel good about the Beavers coming in and covering sixteen and a half. Their office has not been clicking the way they need to with the Ducks. I feel real good about that, and the points are only fifty. I've thought about dipping in that.
Over dipping in, dive in.
I don't want to die dive in, but I feel really good about sixteen and a half. I felt really good about sixteen and a half.
That's my game. I'm not touching that game. Oregon like I thought that they would mop the floor of Boise State, Like, yeah, they had a good Boise has a good running back. But I'm bothered and I'm disappointed right now in the Oregon Ducks. It's a team I want to root for. You know, Dan Lanning, you know that's my guy. I got married tomorrow. He might be up there right next to me.
Oh type of guy behind you, good, behind all good, continue, just do it again?
Yeah yeah, yeah, he's a Missouri guy. I just watches the show. Fan of the show. Yeah, boomed. I'm bummed about Orgon right now. I'm staying away from that game.
But you're staying with the game because you're a fan of Dan, not because.
Like I want to see Oregon play well.
I want I want to see wins. I want to see organ win. I listen if they covered. It's like, I'm happy because Dan is a fan of busting with the boys. I love that. Like I said, strictly business move.
Yeah, I bet this game, and I'm staying away because I bet on him. In week one, I doubled down. I doubled down because obviously I talked directly that coach a landing. Last week I doubled down and lost that one. I just I have to stay. I have to remove my heart. So I can't do that. I can't do that. But it'd be like like I bet with my heart last week in Michigan and every part of me was like, man,
Texas could mop these dudes. And I did it the year before in Nebraska all the time, Like I got to stop betting with my heart.
Yeah, you have to maturity is outstanding.
Go ahead, my trophy. Gawell you yeah, you want me to go? You go ahead?
No, I was just gonna say, I'm all take go ahead, you got it.
Boston College. Boston College is at Missouri this week to spread. Missouri's favored by sixteen and a half the over unders fifty four. I like Boston College. I think missus a good football team. Missoo's got a shot to be competing for the college fotball playoff. But Billy oh is a college football coach, and he has those Boston College kids a little brainwashed. Right now. They come out they beat Florida State twenty eight, twenty eight thirteen.
Who's a bad ball club?
Bad ball club, bad ball club? But how you said this, Dukeuesney Yeah, du Quesney do what dukine. They mop of fifty six, They mop of fifty six nothing. This team can score some points. Billy Oh, I love him as a college football coach. I think they're going to Missouri obviously. I'm taking the point sixteen and a half, but I think they keep it within that two score RNG. I like Boston College at Miszoo.
I hate Bill O'Brien. I think he's a little bitch. I think he's got a button chin. He talked about me constantly when he was at Houston. The players that came over said he talked shit. He and I would talk shit during games. That's why I'm stinking with for me. You're probably right.
So there's a little bad blood.
Yeah, I think I think Bill.
I think there was a little bad blood with Billy.
Like the New Chairs again, like just hypes me up.
NFL seems too real, too close to the best, Like you really got to be dialed in and you feel a little more professional. College football is way more fun.
It's more fun to be like, yes, emotionally unstable. Yeah, college football, you can be emotionally unstable. Yeah, Like BC's probably gonna do what Will just said I was half listening because I was just thinking about hating. I hate Bill O'Brien. Bill was at Penn State when I was at Michigan, said nasty things. He was at Houston when I was at Tennessee said nasty things. I had Ben Jones and a bunch of guys come over from Houston be like Bill Ryan says this about you, says that
about you. I gave Bill the fucking bird where we ran a power flip and Derek Henry took it down their sidelines.
He's he is a trophy game between Taylor and Billy Oh.
This week he openly told me to go fuck myself one time, like it's just.
Go mazoom minus sixteen and a half.
Honestly, you will know by.
Mazoom, I just listen. I'm I'm gonna stay.
I'm stay stay. I don't want to bet against you. I don't want to bet against you. And and approach it's like it's a you with Dave. Okay, it's like you with Dave, like you don't want to go him on day because you know I'm gonna catch lots of strays.
Right right, and it hurts.
I've told you you can if you want, But I'm not gonna bet against him. I'm not gonna but I'm not gonna bet it.
Because if your chest though. Yeah, at first I'm thinking, God, damn, what's happening here now? And now the context of.
It, Yeah, college football was just too many teams and hey, that is just throws me for a loop. College football is not it for me. It's not fun, it's not exciting.
It's just you tell people why they should take your trophy game of the week. Thin.
Now, Now, let me get mines going. You know what I'm saying. I'm gonna take twenty Arizona versus fourteen Kansas State. And I'm taking Arizona. And while I'm taking Arizona because Noah fawlly fafty.
Yep, that's a perfect pronunciation.
I don't know. That is how he said last day. And McMillan and the receiver McMillan is a beast. If y'all see what that man been doing, he's been going out there putting it on a show. I just feel like they're gonna come out there, they're gonna upset Kansas State, get the job done. So I'm taking Arizona. That is my game Trophy Game of the Week Arizona versus Kansas State Arizona. Get it done, baby your hometown.
Shout up, Mark Weischeck.
I don't know who that is.
Yeah, shout out the boy. Mark. I'll give you something too, because I want to get in on this game. Shout out the boy. Bryce brook Card. He DM me, He dms me his picks every weekend.
Look did he have that pick?
Pretty nice? He likes Kansas State Arizona the over. Both teams with low scores last week, which helped bring the total down. But they both have the potential of high powered offenses. They just haven't performed the.
Perform so I love the over.
What's the total there?
The total is fifty eight and a half.
Fifty eight and a half. I'm rocking with my boy Bryce. Shout out Bryce, man, So.
You're going the over in that game, going over because I know Arizona had a little struggle with NAU. Shout out the Boys and Flagstaff. Arizona and Lumberjacks played there one time.
But they came back and got it there.
Yeah, they came back and got it down. There's a lot of expectations on Arizona this year. I don't think they're the best team in Arizona.
Arizona State is Arizona State, but they they're not ranked though. I don't think Arizona State are they what's they.
Got to do with anything?
They're not ranked the now yet they just beat Mississippi State.
They did, but they're not ranked.
Well, you know what they play the last game of the year, we'll see.
Yeah.
Tier talk, Tier all right, here's how we threw a little wrinkling tier talk. We can't share the same one. So once it is picked, Once a Tier three team is picked, and I use that, we have two or three to kind of play with. Who wants to start off the Tier three?
Oh? Start because I just touched. I just touched by talking about as USU's playing Texas State. Ash's favored by one and a half. The points are sixty. I don't know about that one, but I think ASU Dillingham, Chaparral guy, Charlie Arago's special teams coach, my head coach in high school. They're igniting the valley and Tempe is a place that if they can just have enough success and start to get some of these big money people to start throwing money.
An il deals. Arizona State could be a good fucking ball club, like a real ball club. And I think they take advantage of Texas State in this game.
They win that one, especially with that running back camps got Tabui or whatever are you saying?
I hope that's the real name.
How you say his last name?
Cams you got it?
Yeah?
Yeah, yeah, that man white running back.
Yeah, And we coached him in the spring game. He was my running back. He was nice, he was yeah. They're like, hey, we need to get him at it's a spring game. We need to get him some rest. He's like a starter. I was like, I need him in there, but we need you. You're gonna win this game. Since you took that, I'm gonna go. I have a couple on here. And again, if you're new watching this, Tier three is an unranked team, you're taking an unranked team.
In this Tier two, you're going anybody ranked from eleven to twenty five. And our Tier one team you're taking a game ranked between one and ten. But my Tier three is going to be and again, strictly business decision. Strictly business. Arkansas State to cover plus twenty three and a half at Michigan Michigan's winning the game, but I think what we've seen out of the offense, do they have the power to cover?
Wait, who you just say, Arkansas State?
Yeah? Plus twenty three and a half.
Here's what I think you're wrong.
And and like it's Arkansas State business. Every fan that left that stadium, which is a lot of fans that left after half, they're very disappointed. They're very disappointed. Nobody's going to be excited about Arkansas State. They're gonna come and it's just not going to be And I think you got a lot of question marks right now. I think that the Michigan football team needs to look themselves in the mirror at nighttime before they go to bed and question whether or not they believe that they're a
Wolverine because they're not playing Wolverine football right now. I strongly believe that can't tell you something. Defensively, you got too many dogs on that team, bro. They all need to be checking themselves.
Can't say something, yeah, you're.
Not wrong, because it's really I'm not. Like, it's here's where I think they I want you guys to turn it around.
I think they can cover because I think we'll be able to score that many points, and I think the defense is going to do really well because Wink does a lot of exotic blitzer now quinn ewrs when he comes in. He's a great, elite Heisman caliber quarterback that has probably been taught to differentiate too single high, too high nickel cap to those types of things. I don't
know anything about Arkansas Arkansas State. I don't know anything about them, but I'm assuming that they probably are gonna be able to handle exotic blitzeres the way that Texas was able to the hopefully put a goose egg up text. I think, guys, listen if we're talking about strictly accountability, because I am a Wolverine through and through. I love these boys. Leaving that game it broke by a piece of me died on Saturday. Mason Graham is one of
those guys that needs to have accountability. It was the second quarter him walking, all the rest of the defense was having a conversation. I dap him up right after halftime. He seemed very lethargic in his attitude about going into that game. You need him to be more of a leader in decision. Just from the two things I saw in that game, just strictly accountability. But I think Sean Morris going to get these boys right. He didn't get
those boys right. Obviously. That broke my heart for you to say that, But you didn't say anything wrong.
Business decision, like you said.
I was looking at South Carolina plus seven against LSU. South Carolina came out swinging. Last week against Kentucky, they cleaned up the offense a little bit more. I love. I'm going to be tuned into that game because they got a shot. Man. South Carolina's got a shot.
My Tier three is going to be UNLV at Kansas. I'm taking Kansas minus seven. Uh, the over under is fifty eight, but I'm taking Kansas. That boy Ricky White, the third receiver, he can have a day out there. He can have a day. So I'm gonna take those boys to beat un l V straight up, which they should. I mean, they their favorite to win the game by seven.
Song on, hang on, what are you taking here?
Kansas?
Kansas to cover? Right?
Yeah?
He said straight up that confuter No, yeah, yeah, he was gonna go to Kansas money line.
No yeah, okay, but that ain't the word you us.
Got you.
I don't know anything about either of those teams. Be honest, I do like the fact that un LV does a slot machine when they get a pick.
Oh yeah, you see that. Uh was it the football team or was it the cheerleaders? Un LV go off on you will what they do? No? No, oh wait, he's doing that little TikTok dance. You and l V dudes at U and V.
Youre talking about when they were talking about Sanders.
No, there's something out there. There's something. I thought it was UNLV. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's a different team, like.
Dudes doing the TikTok dance, like Ji.
We can cut this part. I want to find it. Oh that was It's like is it UNLV? Oh okay, yeah the guy cheers squad for un l V. Yeah.
Give me Kansas.
Yeah, they look a little zesty. Give me Kansas. Yeah, I'm gonna you know, I'm not gonna rune. I'm not going to touch that game. Actually, I am. Give me Kansas mine seven because Kansas. Kansas is a good team.
They are a good tank.
After being putting their place a little bit, their ego got yeah, they got checked. Yeah, I'll started off with the Golden Tier two. I'm gonna go tou Lane at Oklahoma. The spread is Oklahoma's favorite, mine thirteen and a half the over runners forty seven and a half. I'm taking Oklahoma to cover minus thirteen and a half. Tulane fought their asses off against Kansas State, an emotional loss for them.
I think they're a little tired, they're a little empty in the tank because you're going against an Oklahoma team who had way too close of a game against Houston. That's gonna feel like a loss all week long. They didn't score over twenty points against Houston. I think they make it rain out here against Tulane, and I like them to cover mine thirteen and a half against Tulane at Oklahoma two. If anybody wants in on that, I love that. That's locks in the chat. That's locks in the chat.
I'll go locks in the chat. I'll take that.
Yeah, yeah, I was gonna do that one anyway I had. That was my second one.
If that was your tier two.
Well no, and just in case. I have multiple just in case, and that was to get you ready. So I'm gonna ride with you on that, and then my tier two I'm gonna go Oklahoma State to cover minus twenty and a half at Tulsa.
That scares me. Why, I don't know Oklahoma State Oklahoma? Hey who they played last week? Arkansas? Arkansas should have beat them. They was up the key word.
But this is Tulsa. Like, come on, man, I feel you.
That's a lot of points.
That is a low point. Y'all want to move the line?
Coop, Coop, how do we feel about Oklahoma State? They're gonna cover for They're gonna cover for sure, Cooper cousa Right, Cooper calm locks pick of the week? Yeah, man, com lock go gome the state they're covering minus what twenty and a half?
Twenty and a half?
All right, there you go. We can move the line, but we're not moving the line.
Yeah, we gotta stop doing You mean we can move the line. We gotta stop doing that.
Well, you can move the line. It's a it's a thing.
I know, it's the thing.
For sure. My Tier two is gonna be Utah Utes minus twenty versus Utah State. Now this one hurts me a little bit because my first offer in high school is from Utah State.
Yeah.
I didn't even know it was coming. Springball coach walks up to me, shakes my hands, says, hey, we'd love to have you. I think he's just giving me a compliment. Head coach Charlie Ragel comes up to me says, how's it feel? So what we mean? He goes, all, they just offered you a scholarship right then and there. I knew the boy was going to the NFL. Not a big deal. But I'm taking Utah minus twenty minus twenty. What you got?
What you got?
I had that one too.
I've seen what your ballsy pick was.
Oh I had that one.
Yeah, Utah minus twenty. Utah is just they're a good program every single year. They got a lot of the Polycats in there. Anytime they're playing a team in the same state as you, it's a personal game. They're out man and outgunned in the Utah state category. Utah is gonna take this one and they're gonna cover minus twenty.
I like that.
I had that one as well.
You want to kick off Tier one or is it you taking the Tier one?
I could take the Tier one first.
I drafted the first and Tier two, so you know I gotta.
Take my Tier one number one Georgia Bulldogs at Kentucky. I'm taking the Bulldogs. I mean, come on, you just the Bulldogs looking really good. You got Carson back out there slanging and doing his thing, controlling that offense. I'm sticking with those boys, So I'm taking the next A quarterback Carson, but big backs.
A quarterback for Georgia. Yeah, is it sure about that?
I'm definitely sure about that.
Riley Leonard wishes he was on Duke.
Hey, but I told you Maleak. I gave Malik his his pros. Milak was actually a quarterback. He went, keep doing your thing at a boy, keep getting that through him. Sorry that I disrespected you, man, but he was a transfer from Texas, so you know they didn't have a lot of information on them at that time.
Yeah, I'm with you. Not a lot of info out there on the internet to know the quarterback was for Duke.
Last week minus twenty four. Georgia is minus twenty four against Kentucky. I think they cover that.
I agree with you.
That was in my Tier one as well. It was when I was doing my couple of picks. I think Georgia is a good looking ball club. Yeah, in Kentucky after last week, I think they're dead.
Yeah. Done. You want to draft second.
Y'all go my Tier one. Uh, probably the best team in college football, Texas Longhorns the minus thirty five and a half against UTSA, which is University of Texas San Antonio.
At San Antonio.
So many colleges, that's crazy.
University of Texas at San Antonio.
There's no A in the middle of the team.
The s.
I was just telling, okay at San Antonio, what we'll do that Texas covered. They covered their spread the last two games. If you guys are wondering sixty two to zero against Colorado State and obviously they did well last week. So Quinn yours is a good, good player, offensive line solid.
Talk about this er one, the team that moped this.
It's just business onward.
Alabama minus sixteen at Wisconsin. I think Alabama great out of them. Wisconsin is not like they haven't made a jump from year one to year two Underfickle the way I thought that they would. I don't feel like Wisconsin. They're kind of getting away from being you got five hogs with that line of scrimmage is bigger than most
in the NFL. They're not utilizing that. They're a little more pass happy than the Wisconsin have passed and I think Alabama bro is like, I forget who Alabama played last week, but you got to Booker laughing at these kids that are walking by him. I mean they're they're walking by him in the end zone and he's pointing and laughing at him. Like the confidence that Alabama just had, the mentality that they have, and it seems like they haven't missed a beat with their new staff. I like
Alabama to go in Wisconsin. Madison's going to be rocking for literally two series and Alabama's gonna shut them up. I love Alabama. Mint of sixteen here. I also had Old Miss minus twenty three at Wake Forest. I think Old missus a wagon.
Yeah, I'm sure nobody took Tennessee versus Kent State.
That is just too high for my taste.
It was a.
Tougher.
They cover every Yes, I'm surprised nobody's touched Colorado State Colorado.
I was I was going to my Tier three. I think Colorado State.
Wins that game. What do we know? The spread there?
Seven?
I mean Nebraska, it's seven seventh. Nebraska broke this team. Listen.
I didn't get a chance. I didn't to talk about this. We didn't just to really talk about it, because Merks kind of came on in the middle of our intro. Yeah, we got to talk about Yeah, Colorado is the most disfunctional, unorganized piece of shit program I've ever had the misfortune of watching in my life with you, it looked like a Juco squad, band of misfits, all individuals playing with
each other. They have two players. They got Hunter and they got Shador, And I hate the press conference of Shador Sanders talking about how many times Royela get touched. It's just constant finger pointing, zero accountability. Coaches are fighting each other left, right and center.
If you want to.
Be like the nineties Miami Hurricanes, if you want to be that team, you gotta be good. When you're good and you take the penalties and you still drop forty on Cats and give them zero and everyone's fucking hooting and hollering and parting. That's cool. That is a thing that we can all get behind and be like, No, Miami's sick. When you suck and you act like that, that's bitch made shit.
Yeah.
And Travis Hunter throwing that tantrum.
Yeah, I mean, if I'm Travis, my god, his conditioning is one of the.
He's armstrong. It's crazy.
It's unbelievable him playing that many snaps and just like sprinting cross field, chasing guys, covering them, and then he's not even panting. It's incredible.
It has the energy to just be pissed off yet.
But it's like you you can't. You can't have two good players and act like that as a team. The offensive line is garbage, they're bad. Their defense is you know, garbage, but like, yeah, you give protection, are they going to do better? Probably? But it's just your team sucks and when you act like that, it's such a terrible look.
He definitely hurts himself in draft boards because he is a really good player.
Yes, well, him going and talking about the whole line, you never do that.
Nebraska broke this team. They broke this team. They bopped us last year. You talk about making jumps from year one of year two. There's a little bit of like damn, because you know, I root for Dion. Like when he came in. He came he was coaching a high school coach at Jackson State. He's going to Colorado. He's talking big game, like telling those boys the honest truth, Like you know, we gotta get guys out of here. I'm
bringing in my Louis. You just think this is like he's got whether or not people agreed, disagree, whatever, but he has this or about him to where you think he's gonna make a big jump from year one of year two and this team had not even been am They're gonna fight to be a four win team, and it just he keeps composed. Dion does, but it just feels like the attitude and the swag he had last year about motivating this team this year, it feels like he knows it's his sons last year and Travis is
like they're gonna go to the NFL. He's probably his last year. You could tell like he's just staying calm and hey, we got to do this. I thought they did a pretty good job here and there, but it wasn't the same. It's not the same Dion that had the hunger as he was climbing the coach.
You're a player that's not Travis or should during that thing, and you're hearing a press conference of your head coach saying having those two players is like parking a Lamborghini outside of a trailer. That's that composure to me, like he might say it.
Disrespectful?
Wild, How any guys to come together when your head coach is essentially shitting on all of the other guys. Yeah, twenty two starters. He's shitting on twenty of them.
Yeah, how are you as an old lineman you hear your quarterback talk like that in the press conference?
I might let one go first play, might let go ahead ball. This one's for you. That shit is so fucking disgusting, Devin Gardner.
Has that ever happened before in your career? Like, do you feel like guys have ever felt like? No?
I don't think there's ever been an opportunity for coaches to let quarterbacks talk like that. I've been on bad football teams. I've been on bad football teams in the NFL, And in college we gave up negative forty five rushing yards against Michigan State and all they did was when Barel Cross That's all they fucking did. Devin Gardner was literally picking himself up the ground, pulling, you know, pulling teeth out. It was so bad. He got up in
the press conference. Devon and I didn't have a great relationship. He and I got in a fight a Thursday before a Saturday game, still got up there, took accountability when we all know the office line sucked that game. But it's like you can't be talking about it.
Yeah, I've never seen it and never heard ever.
Yeah.
Ever it's crazy because you you you says. I'm like, I'm a fan of Dion. I think Dion's is the fucking man. Like it's it's awesome, but like watching this, it's like, bro, you you he fucked up.
As far as leadership, just seems like they're packing it in, I mean behind closed doors. Yeah, you can address that issue about.
The line for sure. You know how those you.
Do not do it for the world to see that you get in a teamving room, how am I supposed to tell you do or step up in the pocket when we see this, Yeah, you do that in house in house.
And it's like the head coach, it's like, you know Rabel, Rabel was this way. It's like, hey, we got our ask today. When you talk to the press, you give them all the credit in the world.
Yeah yeah, yeah definitely, and then he you know, he'll he'll put your own blast.
We pay day how much we pay you? Yeah, yeah, you to do this. Yeah, yeah, we got a little track down with balls Picks. We got balls Pick.
They're always so organized, it's always and then we suck it up.
Balls Pick of the Week segment presented by Fireball Whiskey. So many things make football great, but you know the best thing. Kicking the living shit out of your rivals is absolutely no better feeling as an athlete or fan. This week, we obviously just covered Colorado versus Colorado State, and Fireball Whiskey is here to give me the spark to ignite that rivalry all season long. Grab your buddy by around and reignite the rivalry. Flame. Who wants to start off the balls pick?
I'd love to go balls picked this week, and I really don't think it's a ballsy it's plus two hundred, but I got South Carolina money line versus l s U.
Let's go.
I think the the Brian Kelly's slamming his fist on the table, it's.
Like he planned that.
He planned that, and then.
You can tell what the energy to Yeah he Actually, I just don't.
South Carolina's got something to fight for. They got they understand what's at State, their coaches at stake, the programs at steak. You got a freshman d end. Yeah, what's his name?
What is Dylan Stewart number five? Is that's a crazy name. Animal.
Yeah, you think it'd be way different than that with with an energy energy he has. The kid is like, what's he twenty pounds?
Oh?
Really, little Stuiam guy?
Yeah, yeah, is he?
He's gonna be the second overall pick in a couple of years, right behind Dylan Ralo. They're gonna go one and two.
The kid, I've never seen him put tackles and blenders like this ever. And obviously, people, when you think about South Carolina defendends, you think of Jadavian Clowney. Kids got the potential to be better, kids get the potential to.
Go through you, around you. His bend is insane. His relentless effort getting after.
His his bend and his motor is he's at the bend of von Miller and the motor of Max Crosby.
Yeah, and watch those guys.
And the thing is he's not a big cat, so you're thinking, oh, that doesn't have a whole lot of power, But because his speed and it gets you on your heels so much, dude, So that's what gets dudes they go down.
It's incredible, great analogy to Miller, Max Crosby like that.
Look, I appreciate it, but it is. It's true. And this kid, I don't know anything about him other than like the twenty clips I've seen, but the kid is a bad out of hell and it fires me up to be a freshman, similar to Riola walking out in the front, that type of mentality, like the kids got it, he stays healthy. Yeah, we're talking about second overall pick. He's a stud and I think South Carolina wins this game. I'm betting that.
Go ahead, Delaney.
Uh, I'm taking Purdue to beat Notre Day.
I don't hate that pick. Now.
I'm taking Purdue to beat order Day money line.
I don't think they win. I do like Purdue with the points. I think it's ten plus ten and it's at Purdue. I do kind of like purdueing that situation. But man, Notre Dame is gonna be hopefully just so ready to get the bad tast out of their mouth.
I don't think so, you know what I mean, Like, that's a game you're going through all the bullshit you're sitting there, you know, but it's Wednesday right now, but you're sitting there Monday and Tuesday coach is still for whatever reason, you're still watching place from last week's game, and you're pissed off as a player, and you just want to get to like, bro, we just got to get to Saturday to get this bad taste out of them. Mount we can't have that shit yet.
And Purdue doing the same thing, like, look, this team came in here, gave them the business. Bullies get bullied one.
Point four million dollars to beat their ass.
Let's do it our turn. It's our turn to get the spotlight. Yeah, it's our turn to be talked about.
With this pick. You got to get some shout outs to Sharm. Sharam had a great take on how fraudulent Mire Dame is.
And that was he was that from the get go. He was a few months ago.
You thought it was different after watching them in College Station. It's like, yo, you win, go into an environment like that and win, like yeah, they might be legit yeah, and then drop it like they did against a team that you literally paid to come play.
You and going off of that, my balls, he picks A and M at Florida. I'm going Florida money line plus one fifty four. Like, do I think Florida is like a quality football team. No, but I do think that they can win in the swamp and being underdogs at the Swamp. They came out against Sandford hung forty it was forty five seven. Yes it's Sanford. But after such an abysmal performance against Miami, you hope that coaching staff has just been on the rast. You got A
and m coming into town. Give me Florida at the Swamp money line plus one fifty four.
I don't know about that.
One balls pick, it's a ball pick, basy pick, he's nuts, rapit.
Fire, ballsy pick, rapid fire. We got rapid fire. And then the fan call in what that will call us it out with? But Steven, go ahead and kick us off.
Bro all right boys. Arkansas State at Big Blue Michigan favored by twenty three and a half to forty seven and a half under.
Arkansas State plus twenty three and a half under.
Nevada at Minnesota Gophers favored by sixteen and a half. Total is forty three and a half.
Nevada Give me Minnesota. The Gophers Defleck Bank minus sixteen and a half over.
Ole Miss favored by twenty three and a half at wake Forest. Total is sixty four and a half.
Ole Miss twenty three and a half.
Ole Miss is a machine minus twenty three and a half. Link Lane Kiffen has those boys rolling.
Oh Miss.
Vandy at Georgia State Commodorees favored by ten and a half. Total is forty six and a half.
Vanderbilt ten and a half. Believe Pavia psychopath.
Believe in them. Vandy minus ten and a half at Georgia State. I know this rapid fire.
With this win, they will clear their overunder of games they were picked to win this year.
It was two and a half.
Two and a half.
Wow, I didn't Bacon Bandy knows nothing about this game.
But Colorado favored by seven at Colorado State. Totals fifty eight and a.
Half Colorado State money line.
Let's go Colorado State plus seven, Colorado State plus seven.
Indiana at u C l A. Hoo's yours, Hoo's Yours favored by three, totals forty.
Six Indiana minus three, Indiana minus three at UCLA. I think Indiana can be scrappy.
I hate to do this to my boy. Indiana. Gotta take Indiana.
You ain't taking UCLA. That's home base.
I know I can't do it. I can't go.
I'm in Indiana, first Big ten.
Game ever played.
The big girl had some hammer canons behind her, some hammer pans, hammer thirty pillows.
Oh I don't know.
Boobs?
Oh okay it miss likes to say boobies. Yeah, booby scene. All right, let's get into the fan calling picks. Parlay last week, our boy Allen, Thank god he's shamed. He's on our call of shame. Alrightp the boy just a brutal performance all around our fan calling pick. Let's get to it.
Parret Jared's old man's picks of the week that I like. I like South Carolina mainly. I live in South Carolina. They're playing LSU at home, getting seven points. I think the game Cocks are for real. Boston College is going on the road to Missouri. They haven't been this excited since Doug Flutie had his uniform on. But they're getting sixteen and a half at Missouri. I think they'll cover that. And then the final one of my trifactor would be
Michigan minus twenty three point five against Arkansas State. I think they have something to prove after last week and we all know what I'm talking about. So I think they're going to run it up. They're kind of a Funson effect. That's my big three. So I hope that's good enough.
YO.
Shout out Mike Jared's dad, he understood the assignment. Uh, we need more fan calling. We need more fan call ins. We'll find out a more maybe a more fluid way to do it. Yeah, but we need more fan callings. Again, get an opportunity to get featured on the show, like Big Mike just did. Shout out Jared's daddy understood the assignment. That parlay. Uh, if you didn't hear them, South Carolina plus seven Boston College plus sixteen and a half in
Michigan minus twenty three and a half. That parlay is plus five ninety five on the DraftKings sportsbook gap. I like, you know, I like both of them outside of the Michigan mins twenty three and a half. But I might ride with him just to kind.
Of I'm a ride with him because this is pop straight up family first. You feel me. That's how I get it right.
I went on this whole thing about how I'm knocking to bet Billy oh, Boston College and now it's in the parlay.
That's right, That's right. You can't here we are you got to stand on business. Nah?
Fuck it, dude, you're gonna ride with Mike.
Nah, you're right. Yeah, Like I can maybe hedge my bed a little bit, because again, I like South Carolina plus seven. I love Boston College plus sixte and a half. You know, the Arkansas State. I'm kind of just picking it as my tier three. But if i want to hedge my bet a little bit, I'm gonna throw a little bit on that parlay plus five ninety five.
Yeah, yeah, you and a half. You guys, go ahead, Yeah, I'm gonna I think I'm gonna put a dollar on it.
Yeah, I see what it does. Yeah, I'll just see what turn the dollar into five straight up.
But if we see Big Mike and the call.
Of fame, yeah, we love for him to be the first call of fame.
I mean, I think Will needs to do the videos because Taylor, you just didn't get a lot.
Of I know, feedback, tweet exactly tweeting to.
Now you when you do your video, you get more people.
You personally think we just need to have an email for people to go to because you got because we can say it on the show, you know what I mean, Like right now I can say, hey, send your video to and then we got the we got the email sitting right there versus hey, wait for five of clock on Tuesday evening and find one of our tweets, right, you know what I mean. We can kind of stay uniformed across the board.
Understandable, but again work in progress.
We had. We had a couple of diitions. We got lights back in the locker shot at the boy g we got a light on the American play, we got the we got the Michigan pennant hanging up, the Michigan pit hanging up. We got the Calvin Ridley jersey, and the locker going, Oh god, that is wild. Hey, hell of a show. Boys, A lot of fun. I know this one went smooth over an hour, but this was I had a lot of fun. Why not win them all?
Let's do it?
Why not?
Definitely can have a better week than last week.
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