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is guaranteed. Hi, everybody, welcome in very funny Sharper Square with Chad Millman. We're talking to Ravens, Chiefs, lions, Niners. Want to address a couple things Falcons did not hire Bill Belichick, who I thought, if he wanted personnel control, was one of the weaker candidates. I'm not interested in that. They hired Raey Morris. So Raheem was a coach and
Tampa didn't work. Was a great assistant after Brandon Staley left for the Rams, became mcveigh's best friend on the staff and did very, very well with a really young defense. Morris is one of those guys like Demiko Ryans or Sean McVay. Very impressive in person, kind of you know, just a guy, eye contact, really smart point of view. So Raheem interviews very well. I've been told that numerous occasions. Probably I would have gone after maybe a Mike Rabel again,
defensive coach. They don't have a quarterback. But I think this is what Belichick is falling into, is that it's really funny that Bill doesn't really have any vulnerability, Like
Bill's gonna do what Bill wants to do. That's why he's got his kids on the staff and he hires coaches who are He had a very weak staff, multiple fired guys in New England, so you know Bill wants more control than Arthur Blank and Rich McKay are willing to give, and had Bill read the room, he would have known that Arthur Blank has never hired a big time head coach. He's always given it to up and coming coaches who don't feel like they have to own
the room. Blank's a brilliant businessman. Rich McKay is excellent with operations and certainly knows talent. Terry Fontineau from the Saints is a smart guy that's well thought of around the league. I mean he's not you know, we don't look at him quite as a less Snead maybe yet, or a Mickey Loomis in New Orleans yet, or a Howie Roseman or a Brett Veach. But he is well thought of. But I think Belichick the thing that worries you if you're Atlanta. He's a milestone guy. Is he
really care about Atlanta? Never? Never, never coached really, I mean head coach in Cleveland, then in New England, he didn't know much about the NFC South. He has drafted fifteen quarterbacks, one star Brady, one starter Garoppolo, two to three capable backups, and ten misses. So I think Bill was going up against recent history in Atlanta, where they're going to take a Dan Quinn. They're going to take
a Raheem Morris. They're going to take a young, up and coming assistant that's not going to need to dominate personnel. And I'll be honest with you, the Seahawks' last two drafts have been much stronger when John Snyder was empowered by ownership and controlled the drafts. Pete in a vacuum in Seattle when Paul Allen died, had a lot of power. It frustrated John Snyder, who went and sought the Detroit
Lions job, got a raised. They brought him back to Seattle, and there were some assurances that he would have more control in the draft. I have it on two different sources who I trust implicitly is that Pete would sometimes have a very strong opinion and it would sway the Seahawks rafts. And for years in a year, I was told this for years by people in the league. I
respected that Seahawks drafts were unpredictable. Now, Pete's were very good when he came out out of college out of USC at a two or three year run where they're excellent. But like most pro coaches, he's not sitting around watching college football all Saturday. He's looking at NFL stuff, in at NFL personnel, in film. And I thought Seattle's drafts got much better in the last couple of years when John Snyder exerted more power. I think Belichick's last seven
drafts have mostly been absolutely abysmal. Why again, I have it sourced for multiple people that as he started stacking rings and net worth and power, he was more difficult for Brady to deal with. And he told mid January the draft department, the scouts, I got it from here. It's hard to find any hits in the last seven drafts. On the offensive side, they've had two Pro bowlers, one's a punter. So I don't think coach. I remember when Mike Hoggan was in Seattle years ago, great coach, he
had a little bit too much power. When he first started in Seattle, he struggled with a couple of early drafts. You're asking drafting is hard enough for great gms. Howie Roseman has had huge whiffs, and how he's brilliant and completely dedicated. So the idea that Bill Belichick, any of these coaches want over fifty percent power. John Gruden, by the way, with the Raiders, had the final say with Mike Mayock. I know that because it's sourced. Go look
at the Raiders' first round picks. In later rounds, Ruden would let Mayock have more control. But in that first round, there's first second round. John thought he was the television John Gruden and exerted too much power and control and they had multiple major whiffs. Gruden, Pete Carroll, Bill Belichick, Mike Holmgren. Those are just four examples. The best way to do it is less Snead and the Rams and Sean McVay, where McVeigh has absolute say, but they really
work collaboratively. They really work together very very well. Sean, if he does have the final say, is very respectful about it. But they're really committed to the process from beginning to end. And last year they had a sensational draft outside of Stetson Bennett, who had struggled, I think with some things personally and they're not sure if that's going to work. He was a fourth round pick, but they nailed their second round pick, two thirds, multiple fifths.
It was a great draft for them, even picked up some guys late in the sixth and seventh round, so you know Belichick has got to read the room. His drafting record is atrocious and though Raheem Morris I probably would have gone to the offensive side, they just had an offensive coach and it didn't work. So there is a history in this league. Demiko Ryans is the latest. If you have a top defensive coach and a star quarterback in c. J. Stroud certainly emerged looks like a star,
top six to seven quarterback, you can hoist trophies. I don't think defensive coaches are as good with marginal quarterback talent. I don't think they're good when they have a disruption at quarterback, a backup like a Gardner Minshew or a Joe Flacco. Shane Stikeen and Kevin Stefanski hit it out of the park. But if you have a Lamar Jackson or a Josh Allen or a c J. Stroud or Brady in his prime or Big Ben in his prime,
I'm okay with defensive coaches. So if they nail, if they draft the third or the fourth quarterback and nail it, Raheem Morris will be a fine coach if they If they draft somebody and it doesn't hit and their marginal he'll probably struggle it is a weak division. But Belichick didn't get it. He didn't get the Chargers. Reportedly, Ben Johnson is a slam duncan Washington. To me, those were the three best jobs Carolina. Nope, that's taken too by
a young coach. So and when you get older, Belichick, a year off is not an advantage, that's not necessarily an advantage. Sean Payton was seeing closer to his prime Mike Rabel seen as closer to his prime. Belichick is, and his draft record shows it. Allergic to offense, tone deaf, offensively, not building great staffs. He is not only past his prime, he's well past it. Just say that, all right. Chad Milman, CEO Action Network Sharper Square, all odds provided by DraftKings.
So had I bet last week, I would have gone three and one. I had the bills. Shame on me, everything else, everything else, I was on the right side.
Come on, come on, no, no, no, no, no, you don't get credit for had I bet. You either did or you didn't. Well, there is no try. There is do or do not. You didn't do anything last week. You watched some football, and maybe you were right about what you were thinking.
Okay, so this week I love the picks. I think the lines are wrong this week. First of all, we are overvaluing the Chiefs because they played a completely decimated Miami defense in minus twenty seven degrees with a quarterback that can't throw the ball deep. And then they play an absolutely ravaged Bills defense missing six starters, so we're overvaluing who they are. Baltimore is a team that wrecked San Francisco, dominated Miami, destroy Detroit. You know my favorite
number in this business, minus four. I think the Ravens roll Mahomes is hard to blow out, but I don't think they'll have success running it with Pacheco. Here comes Marlon Humphrey back to guard Rashi Rice. I think the Ravens are one of the best playoff bets, believe it or not. At minus four, Sharper square.
So sharp that if you end up not betting it and then just thinking about betting it, doing yourself a disservice. It was sharp when it was minus three last Sunday. It was sharp when it was three and a half. It's still sharp at four. The wise guys love the Ravens in this game. It is a scary, scary bet, not because of what the Chiefs have done the past two weeks, and you're using the right terminology, they're overvalued
based on their season long results. But it's still Patrick Mahomes man, and it's still Patrick Mahomes who's nine one and one in his career as an underdog, who's two and zero straight up in his career as an underdog, who's eight and three straight up in his career as
an underdog. The reason why this bet is scary is because the idea of betting against Patrick Mahomes late in the game and he is stepping up in the pocket against a really good pass rush and you don't know where the ball is going yet because you can't see it on TV, and who's on the other end of it. You have no idea, but you're pretty sure it's going to be completed, and you're pretty sure it's going to be a long pass because someone was in single coverage
and some receiver is wide open. That's the fear. So you're right. Sharp's are on it. Sharp's love it defense is dominating for Baltimore, and they're rush offense will destroy the Chiefs rush defense, and the Chiefs, by the way, missing Joe Toney, their offensive guard, who is one of the highest rated pass blocking guards according to Pro Football Focus. In every way, the Ravens should destroy the Chiefs, except
the Chiefs have a cheek code and Patrick Mahomes. So I will tell you what I've done, which is only slightly less untoured and cowardly than claiming credit for Beth you didn't make. I bet the Ravens minus two and a half first half, all right, because I'm scared, because I'm afraid of Patrick Mahomes. But every otherwise guy is piling in on the Ravens, and there I agree with you one hundred percent.
All right. I like the Lions plus seven and a half. So if you take I do this with big games. I take the top ten players and then the top fifteen. The Lions are stacked. I have eight seven Lions, eight players to seven for the Niners. Now top five McCaffrey, Bosa, Trent Williams. But when you start extrapolating from the fourth best player, and it's Pine sul and it's Hutcheson, and it's Homoran Saint Brown, and it's Jared Goff's the better quarterback. The weather's not a factor. We know This is a
team that doesn't play well and windy or cold. Weather going to be sixty seven degrees, it's going to be dry, There's going to be no wind. Jared Goff played plenty of outdoor games in the Bay Area. He's fine. This offensive line's better. The Niners offensive line center right is actually one of the weak spots on the team. Neither team has a great secondary. What concerns me about San
Francisco The names are bigger than the production up front. Defensively, their rush has been hit and miss over the last six seven weeks. Bosa absolutely, Chase Young, meh, you're not getting the names right now. It's like a hotel chain you went to when you were a kid. You go about ten years later and you're like, it's kind of an average hotel. Well, the name is bigger than the property, right You've seen that with golf courses, hotels. I think right now I can't unsee the Ravens crushing them or
the Packers out playing them. I think Detroit matches up, may not win. I think seven and a half. I think the numbers should be closer to six five and a half. I'm taking the lion Sharper square.
So the wise guys have been on the Niners. It's one of the reasons why this number is moving. In fact, it's a really interesting stat Then, the Lions are a huge liability for the sportsbooks this weekend, not because there's so many people on the Lions. At plus seven and a half, there's forty four percent of the money according to our tracking on the Lions money line. Like people are just piling on the Lions to win this game out right, more than they like the Lions to actually
cover the spread. But the wise guys have been on the Niners, and there's a couple factors in play. You cannot discount how bad this Lion's secondary is, right, look at what they've given up to players like Nick Mullins multiple four hundred or near four hundred yard games, Baker Mayfield more than three to fifty, Matthew Stafford more than three point fifty. Brock Purty. There should be no bashing
of brock Purty. All the guy has done in a season and a half is starting is lead his team to two different NFC title games, lead the league in passing yards, and be as effective and efficient as any quarterback. Kyle Shannon's Shanahan has had and he's the reason why he is closer to winning a Super Bowl than he has ever been. This is a much better team than the Lions across the board, and there's a real big factor I think for the Lions their offensive line. Jonah
Jackson isn't going to be playing in this game. When Jonah Jackson played this past week against a heavy blitz from the Buccaneers, zero pressures in any of his snaps, he goes out at the end of the game seven pressures in eighteen snaps given up by his replacement, Jared Goff getting pressure up the middle when he cannot step up is not the same quarterback no matter what the conditions are. So wise guys are back in the Niners.
Here also the X factor, it's Deebo Samuel. Look when the Niners have Deebo Samuel twelve and one this year, winning games by an average of eighteen points per game. There's one game when they did not win by double digits. That was Week two on the road at the Rams A Division game they only won by seven. Deebo is a complete game changer, and I am checking Debo's availability because I already bet the Niners minus six and a half. I am checking his availability NonStop, and he's still fifty
to fifty progress. But in pain. He's a major major factor for this game. So even without debo, the wise guys have betting the Niners with debo, I think you'll see this number skyrocket.
By the way, he does get a break played on Saturday. Now, this game's on Sunday, so you get another twenty four hours, and we know with surgery or injuries, twenty four hours is a long time. I want to ask you about Jim Harbaugh. So it was funny. I was in Los Angeles. You know they call it the city of Angels. I've heard that, yes, and Harbaugh's no angel But it was non stop, wall to wall coverage of Harbaugh in Los Angeles,
the second biggest city in the country. And I said to somebody that I know that's close to the Chargers, I said, you guys probably made about six million dollars yesterday in coverage. It was wall It led every newscast. I mean, it was the story in LA. And then
the Chargers have fifty one thousand season tickets. If they can get to about fifty seven five, which they could probably sell the stadium out now with Herbert and Harbaugh, but they don't want to because as a war mother city, they want the Denvers and Kansas cities to come in and to be able to elevate the prices based on
how hot and how big the game is. So if they get to like fifty seven fifty eight thousand season tickets, that extra six thousand plus all the publicity you get, you kind of pay for Harbaught twenty million bucks a year. So Harbaught not that he's a bargain, but this feels like seven of the twelve losses for the Chargers were three or less significantly more than the league. So this is not a rebuild like Houston. This is like a five win team that could win eleven And it feels
totally reasonable. Where would you put the over under if you had to? If you I thought to myself, am I nuts? It's ten? Am I nuts?
So it's funny you say that, Hey, I love the way you're thinking about the economics of this deal. It's not that dissimilar. Remember when ESPN went out and signed Tory Aigman and Joe Buck for eight figure yearly contracts. Everyone's like, what are they doing. Meanwhile, it puts him in better with the NFL. They get better games, the AD rates go up, they sell commercial time, the ratings go up. Those deals were paid for in one game. Right. You just made the same point with Harbaugh. It doesn't
matter what they pay him. They were going to pay for it in some way, shape or form by the publicity they were getting in the attention they were getting. And oh, by the way, it's going to be such a better product on the field. He is a game changing coach. He has been that way everywhere he has gone. What he does is drive the people that he works for crazy, and that's when he ends up burning out his welcome. But he will have this team ready to be very competitive and be a contender in the AFC
very very quickly. When you were asking win total, my first instinct was nine, and you're saying ten. I could see it at ten because bookmakers might feel like they can take advantage of the public and set it a little bit higher because they can say, all right, Jim Harbaugh is getting so much attention, we know they're going to want to bet the over no matter what it is. So let's set it at ten, and let's see what we can sort of get in terms of some soccer money.
But I would not bet against Jim Harbaugh. I love the guy, love the guy as a coach. I think he's amazing.
So the public could do very well if Detroit wins. But the public had a very good year betting. I want to circle back to one of my theories on this because I had a very good year betting, and it took me about four weeks to figure it out. But I was overthinking the room. And I've done this in the AFC playoffs where I'm five and zero, basically picking the best quarterback. I took Stroud over Flacco. The Sharps like Flacco, and I'm taking golf to cover against Purdy.
In fact, I took Love over Purdy and he outplayed them. Is that is do you believe now on a macro level that some I mean, you'll tweak everything you do because you're a professional gambler. But there is a dynamic now that has to be considered. The young quarterback that come in, if they've got two years starting and all those camps and the new culture. It's a cottage industry quarterback. They're better, faster, the coaching's better, and increasingly there's more
offensive coaches, and that the best quarterback. It's hard, harder than it's ever been to bet against them because I find myself a default. In fact, a prime example, I took Kyler Murray several times. I didn't think Arizona was better, but like against Philadelphia, I'm like, Jalen's struggling. He may be better than Kyler, but Kyler's healthy, rested. I'm taking Kyler. Will you tweak over the course of a season seeing these trends which appear to be substantial, it may only
be a half point to a point. But one of the teams I didn't bet this year that a lot of people did was the Colts because I just couldn't buy any Gardner Minshew as much as I like Shane Steiken. Your takeawa sort of my rambling here about this changing. It feels like the league is slightly changing for betting.
So there's there's three different things that I want to pick out of that. Number one great year for the public favorites were winning at an unprecedented clip. And if you're like me and you like to play underdogs, and you find value in the underdogs, and When you model these things, you're playing on the idea that bookmakers are going to overvalue favorites because that's where they can expect the public to come in. So they're going to give
you an advantage. This year it didn't matter as much, right, So that's number one. Do I think that's a trend? Do I think that there's going to be regression for that? My guess is there will be a regression. There are some things that are irrefutable when it comes to betting.
Regression is irrefutable, right number one. Number two the quarterbacks betting, And we've talked about this a lot this week on my podcast because the Chiefs and the Ravens are a perfect example of trying to figure out when you are betting, how to ride the wave and then get off the wave before it crests. Historically, you look at Lamar Jackson terrible as a favorite of more than three and a half or more, Patrick Mahomes amazing as an underdog of
three or any number. Right, So last week we were betting on the Texans because we felt like Lamar Jackson hasn't proven it yet. We were betting on the Chiefs because we felt like we were betting against the Chiefs because we felt like at two and a half the Bills were the right side and Patrick Mahomes' time has
passed because this team isn't as good. Missed on both counts because the wave went one way and we were expecting it could to go a different way with the Ravens, and the wave went one way and we were expecting it to stay the same with the Chiefs. And so this week trying to thread that needle. Are we betting on Lamar Jackson? Do we think he's over the hump
on the stressful situations and choking in the playoffs? Are we betting on Patrick Mahomes because what we've seen out of him, no matter what his team has been, has been so good so often. That is the biggest challenge, and adjusting that it's really really hard, and this is a game where you sort of measure it.
The reason I'm taking Lamar over Mahomes, I consider Mahomes better, but as I told you circumstantially with Kyler Murray, I believe Lamar is at home with better protection and significantly better weapons. So it's not just who's better circumstances, whether where's the game, what are your weapons. I think with Marlon Humphreys coming back taking on Rashi Rice, you're not going to run much on Baltimore. I think Mahomes is going to be very frustrated in this game at times.
And I think Lamar, I think Jay Flowers Mark Andrews back, he'sa Flowers has been. I mean just a seminal change in his career. I mean Lamar has He's got his you know, Stafford is Cooper Cup, He's got his safety valve. He never had one. It was a tight end. So in that instance, I like Lamar because I think he'll be the better quarterback in this game. I think Goff will have better protection, better protection, and I'm betting that Debo doesn't play much, so that Golf will be the
better quarterback in this game. May not win, but I don't think you're getting forty eight snaps from Debo. I think you're getting eighteen. And therefore, I like the weaponry of amor on Saint Brown, Laporta, Gibbs, Montgomery, and he'll have better protection. So in this instance, I believe I am taking well, GoF is better than Perty is a natural thrower. I'm taking the better quarterback circumstantially and what he's surrounded by. So that's why I'm taking my pick.
So again this is the classic. I know that Malms is better than Lamar. I don't think he's got great protection this year. Now he's not getting sacked much because he's very nimble. This Baltimore front is this is the best linebacking crew in football. It's this front seven is really athletic and really twitchy for big athletes, and I think he's going to be under some dress.
So to your point about the quarterbacks, it's a little bit of a self fulfilling prophecy, yes, because the better quarterback is almost always on the better team, and so if you want to bet on the better quarterback, they're almost always going to be on the favorite. And this year the favors were winning at a larger clip than they ever have before. So the real test to your theory, and this is what's interesting about betting, is you don't bet for the week. You bet for your life, right,
and how did you do this year? How did you do the next year? How do you do the year after that? Does that trend continue to hold? It's why trends can be an interesting compliment to anything you're doing. When you're talking about betting, we're talking about what's happening on the field. That's really important. A trend is a good compliment to anything you're thinking about in the field. It's not the re and you make the bet. So well the Kylin Cowhard good quarterback theory hold up next year.
That's when we start to know if that's really something that is sustainable. As for the game, I think what you're saying about the Chiefs offensive line is critical. I think the middle of the field for the Chiefs in this game against the Ravens defense is critical. The Chiefs are not an explosive offense at all. If Marlin Humphrey is back like you say, and he is locking up or she rice, which is what the expectation is. The Ravens are not the Bills who are starting aj Klein.
They are not the Dolphins who are decimated at every level of their defense. They are Patrick Queen. They are Rokwan Smith defending the middle of the field, who can do wonders when they're patrolling that middle of the field. And as we said before, Joe Toney offensive guard for the Chiefs and not going to be playing that also will make it difficult for Patrick Mahomes to step up into the pocket. There's nothing scarier for a quarterback than not being able to step up right to roll out.
They like to be able to step up against pressure that is coming in from the edges. I think that's going to be a real handicap for Patrick Mahomes in this game. So I completely agree with your theory on why you like the Ravens and why Lamar could be the better quarterback in this game. That's why the Sharps believe it too.
Well. Hey, before, I don't watch any streaming during the football season, and then once the football season ends, I'll commit to a few Netflix shows. I've peeled back. I have Amazon for football and Netflix for my wife. I've peeled way back on this stuff. I think these streaming services are I like sports, I like news, I like politics. It's all on TV. But give me one series, one streaming series now. As I segue, probably in about a week, as I move toward an occasional streaming show, do you
and your wife have one? I should be aware of.
Oh my god, Colin, we have so many. And I love how you're being with the streamers. I know you're saving up. I know you got a lot of big plans.
Hey, you just got I got a bile Southwest Airlines and Spirit Airlines tickets.
I understand. So I'm gonna I'm gonna give you three okay. Number One, If you're not watching The Bear, which is on Hulu slash FX, okay, then you are missing out on one of the best shows of the past twenty years. This is a show. Now, granted, I'm a Chicago guy and this is a Chicago show to culinary culinary show. It just swept the Emmys right. Every single morning I am watching a clip from The Bear on YouTube. I go onto YouTube. I want to see, hey, how do
we do overnight in our clips and everything else? And before I get there, The Bear is all over my home feed. It is so brilliant, Colin. It is the only show that has ever come out where I waited long after the premiere of the second season because I knew the second I started the show, every second I watching it was a second closer to being over. It is a unbelievably enriching experience. Number two, Listen, you have fine, fine tastes. I'm gonna give you a show that was
really interesting. It's called Drops of God Apple TV. I don't know if you want to pony up for Apple TV plus Drops a god fascinating show about a guy who had the most expensive fiction, the most expensive wine collection in the world, A real terrible person as a human being, and a father leaves the wine collection to his daughter and one of his proteges, but they have to answer like all these questions almost go through like a contest to see who's going to get it. And
it is dramatic. It makes you want to drink a bottle of wine every time you're sitting down to watch it. I freaking loved it. Finally, I'll tell you Season five of far Ago John Hamm Juno Temple a amazing.
Okay, my wife said Jody Foster True Detective may be worth watching, thoughts haven't.
I would watch it huge. Jody Foster fan loved the first season A True Detective. Haven't watched it since the Vince Vaughan You're at the season I didn't love and so I would pick it. I would pick it back up for sure.
You know Vince Vonder works out at my gym. He's much bigger in person than you'd.
Think tall guy. Another Chicago guy.
He's a Chicago guy.
He is very tall guy. Loves sports games, a lot of games. Is he stacking weights? Do you judge it?
I don't. I don't judge. I myself am more of a repetition guy than a stack weights guy. I just want to be, you know, sort of tight, as I say, I've had a beautiful wife, and I have to be at my you know, it's got to be at my best. I gotta look tight. I'm not worried about being the biggest guy. I'm not going to be.
Your wife is beautiful. Your wife is beautiful. As we've discussed, my wifs kind of look alike. My wife also has red hair. They're both in the architecture and design space. Last night, I feel like you can appreciate this. Last night I was in the kitchen and my wife asked me a question and I answered with a joke, kind of one of two or three jokes I've said, probably for the twenty something years we've been together. She looks
at me with all seriousness. She goes, look, if things go well, you and I are going to be together for another thirty something years. Micah, Huh. She goes, you need to get some new material. So now I'm working on it. I got to think of some new jokes for the next thirty years of my life. If things go by the way, if things go.
Well, well, she's worth keeping. My wife has an amazing quality and I have no idea how she does it. So if somebody tells me a funny joke, I will walk up to a stranger within five minutes and tell them because I can't keep it to myself. I want to get a laugh. I want to perform and get a laugh. Of course can't. My wife cannot only keep a joke for twenty years. I've been with her seventeen years. And she will deliver the line or the joke at the perfect time, and I'll go, how long have you
had that? She goes, oh god, I heard that in college. I'm like, you stored that for sixteen years. And it's not just jokes. She'll have a line. And she dropped one the other day, one of the lines she dropped years and years ago. We had just gotten married. And you know, I'm feisty, little rascible, feisty, and I was just in one of my moods and I said you know this, nobody, nobody that's balanced is happy. I said,
is Peyton Manning balanced? Was Michael Jordan? Balanced? Passion is what makes people happy, finding something, falling in love with it, kicking ass. Those are happy people. Not the web designer, ski instructor, poet, barista. That guy's not happy. He's searching his whole life. Well, he's balanced. And she goes, honey, she touched me on the shoulder. You're balanced. You have a chip on both shoulders.
Oh man, that is good.
And I was like, you saved that for twelve years. So the other day we were talking about the volume and the growth of it, and you know, she I'm always interested in her opinion on it. And you know, I said, I you know, I'm I'm I'm proud of this, this, this, And she goes, honey, it's okay to look at success. Don't stare at it. And I wow, wow. And I was like she was basically saying, stop patting yourself on the back.
Yeah, do the next thing, one step every day forever.
Fled.
I was just like that, that's amazing.
It's a great quality.
It is. I feel like and maybe this is a trait that balances couples like you. I my The success of an evening for me is judged by laughs per minute from things I said, And so at the end of the night, it was a great night with another couple if the other couple laughed at a lot of the things that I said. My wife will say all of the things that she thinks really matter. I'll say, I'm going for volume. She is going for a very specific,
calibrated comment that everyone's going to remember. I think I think we married the same woman.
It's it's I marvel at it.
Yeah.
It would be like if you're a baseball pitcher and you had the best pitch and you were facing the Dodgers and you only used it twice against Mookie Bets and only in the later innings, and he'd be like, why don't you use that thing in the first inning. You're like, well, I don't want to show too much of it. I'm gonna use it like twice a game. And you're like, the game was tied in the third, it was tied in the fifth, you only used it in the eighth, And you were like, well, it was
a high leverage situation. I thought that's the time to use it. They'd be like, I can't. I can't do that. I'm not I'm not capable of saying I've got this great gift, I'll hold off of it for twenty years.
Yeah, I'm gonna wait. I need to be expressing what I believe my full potential is at all times.
I'm like, because if.
I'm not Colin, if I'm not I'm not sharing my gift with the world. Yeah, what am I doing? Then?
I feel like the minute I get a funny joke, I'm in the catskills and I'm Scheky Green, I've got to let it go.
And you're wasting your life if you're not doing that. I know. All right, all right man, good stuff, buddy, Good luck to you this weekend. Talk to you later. The volume