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The Coach Talks WWE, Steroids, and Vince McMahon

Jan 13, 20221 hr 6 minEp. 44
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Former WWE personality, Sportscenter host, and betting expert Jonathan “Coach” Coachman joins Olivia and Yannis this week to talk behind the scenes of the WWE and gives his picks for the NFL Wild Card Weekend.  Coach lays out his time with the WWE and what it was really like to work for Vince McMahon. He shares his thoughts on the organization, gets real about how badly he feels the WWE treated him in the end and tells why he will never go back. Coach shares his true stories and his thoughts on who the greatest wrestlers were of all time. Then the guys all talk NFL Wild Card weekend and Coach gives his tips for the best bets in teasers.  This week Olivia “Unleashes” on how amazing the last weekend of football was and Yannis shares how inspiring he found the return of Klay Thompson to The Golden State Warriors to be. Finally we announce our “Bad Beat of The Week” and Peter Andreu gives his picks and we find out who lost this week’s “Punishment Picks.” It’s another action packed week on “Unleashed” presented by BetMGM. 

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From the King of Sports Books comes the Key Sports Podcast Unleashed, presented by bet MGM. Here's your host, Joanna's Papas and Olivia Harland Decker. Welcome in everybody. This is Unleaked by bet MGM, the King of Sports Books, and I've just got to say we may be the King of Sports Comedy podcast in just less than a year on the air. That's incredible. Little brab on our show Real Quick, where you were nominated for Best Sports Comedy Podcast of the Year, and you can help us win.

You just have to vote. I've been pushing this all over my social media. I've tweeted it, but I'm going to keep it in my Instagram bio ad Olivia Harland Decker, please go there and please vote for our show. We know you guys are listening. We appreciate all of our listeners and we would appreciate every vote. Voting INDs in March, so help us out. I'm crazy competitive and I really

want to win this. I was about to say, I know this has brought out the competitiveness in you because you have been talking about this more than any of us. You keep bringing up You're like, we're nominated we're nominated. Push you, guys, push it, push it, push it you really? Yeah, please guys, let us win. So Olivia, Olivia, doesn't you know, take it out on me if we lose. I might combust if we don't win, and that's not good. You just got a brag on our producers, Maddie and Alex.

They have done such an amazing job. We've had incredible guests for less than a year. I keep saying that, but I can't believe it's been less than a year. And then of course everyone at bet MGM has been wonderful. So we're just so excited. This may be the most excited I've ever been for a show. Two just started and it's already lining up to be one of the

best years in sports we've ever scene. I'm not just saying that because my dog's just won the Natty, or that I think my Packers will win the Super Bowl. We'll talk more about that in a little bit. But plus some NBA Clay Thompson's amazing return. There's a lot this week, but this year is made all the better, no pun intended by the fact that sports betting is finally legal in New York. Bet MGM is launching this week. Start spreading the news. You're gonna take it away in

New York. I don't know the rest of the words for the song, but I know it's it's competing with Frank Sinatra to become the anthem of New York. It's really I mean, last time I ask you to sing, yeah, don't do that. I mean, I you know, like some people have zero talent for something, I have a negative ability for singing or really anything else in life. So don't ask me to do anything else except wing it. All I'm good at is winging it. Okay, okay for a man. So Mike, you cannot carry it tune, No,

I cannot. I cannot you That would actually be a good punishment pick at the end if I lost, if you just made me sing yeah, Well, what do you think? Honest New York betting? It seems like this is going to be, you know, monstrous. This is great for New York. This is great. Now we don't have to hide it anymore. We could talk about hand the open. We can go get an egg and cheese and be like, did you hit your ova under? I got a pole yesterday? You know what I mean? You can talk about it over slices.

We can have our phones out and we can make a little money. Thank god, we can do it out in the open like everybody else. This is sweeping the nation. Gambling is taken over. Baby, it's fun. Make a little scratch. I mean we're spreading faster than covid. God, should that be the byeline? Is that the marketing plan for betting? Yeah? I'm not again, I said, the only thing I'm good at his wing and I'm not good at marketing, so that we gotta hire. Yeah, that's not my strong suit.

You're good at one liners too. You're always keeping me on my toes. Hey, another celebration, A big win is my alma mater. You g a baby winning Monday Night beating Nick Saban. Finally, how about them dogs? I gotta teach you a couple of you gisms here. What we say is you say how about them dogs? And that's just like how you say hello, and then you can also say just go dog sick them. Oh that was going to hear one of those that was on par with dan Orlovsky's. That was a really horrible dog park.

But yeah, how about them dogs? What you gotta do it. Do you have to do with like a Southern accident? How about damn dogs? Y'all? Yeas, like if you're you're filling up your car at the gas station, someone walks by, Hey, how you doing? How about them dogs? How about them dogs? But while you were on campus, it was probably a little bit more of just like a drunken you guys used to get lit up. Georgia is a party school,

bit is it is? Speaking of partying? Did you see the quarterbacks that's in Bennett on g M A the morning after the game. Look, I watched the game. I watched it. It was an incredible, incredible sports experience, and that that guy was a walk on and he was dreaming his whole life about playing for Georgia and then to win a national title. I myself from a former

walk on who didn't make it. Okay, all right. I don't know if you remember the history, but I tried to walk on at the American University and I didn't make it. So I feel like he made it for all us walk on. Yeah. I started a slow, rudy clap in my living room for him, and a tear dropped down my face and I saluted the flag. I got goose bumps everywhere. You did it for all of us under dogs out there. Congratulations to Olivia, the Bulldogs

and Mr Walker. What was his name? Steltson Stiltonson Bennett, Stetson Bennett, who couldn't be more of a white name. I mean, that name is so white it hurts my back. I think I just threw my back out saying that, well he was. He is like the Harold now for all walk Ons. And not only did he walk on at U g A, they kept bringing in all these big recruits at quarterback and pushing him further and further down the depth chart. The guy had a switch to

a Juico school. He transferred to Juco, played a season in Juco, came back to Hugh g A, got a scholarship, still buried on the depth chart, and worked his way up. But I mean, it's an incredible story. But what I was referencing earlier is he must have had himself a night as he well should have, and he's graduating. He's done. He's not an NFL guy like this is it for old Stetson Bennett. And I think he was still sipping on some Southern comfort in the wee hours of the

morning for his g m A appearance. Let's roll in that tape that was too good. Good morning, my friend. How you feeling this morning after that incredible performance last night? Have you had a chance to get any sleep? You know, a few hours? Not many I've been wondering about. Yeah, no, not many. Honest, I hope you're in that kind of shape when we get in l A for the Super Bowl, because I'm going to request some kind of really early morning recording after our first night in town. What do

you think I want? I want to hear you steps and bennetting your way through a recording. Well, you can do that right now because we're recording pretty early for us, and you know, I'm half a cup of coffee in and you know, having a baby is like drinking. You know, that's like that's like a responsible parent. That's the same thing it does to you. It's like you're hungover every morning, you know, puffy eyes. I don't know where which direction is which. I feel like I'm actually drunk every day,

chasing a toddler around, making sure she doesn't drink bleach. See, that's why I want a night nurse and an esthetician to move into my house. I want those two things, so I constantly have a facial every morning. All right, enough of this nonsense. Yeah, I mean being apparent. You almost feel like a free safety. You feel like a safety, like you're just wherever she goes. It's like wherever the ball,

you just go. And just like I tackle her before she she jumps into toilet or she you know, it's just it's I need to be I need to win Defensive Player of the Year because I have stopped a lot of offensive threats from her to run outside or fall into the toilet. So yeah, I got a great game plan. And that's great parenting advice in terms that I understand. So thank you very much. Enough of this swaddling nonsense. Don't tell me all this stuff I don't know.

Tell me in football terms, Speaking of which, we've got a lot to get to. The NFL playoffs kick off this weekend with the Super wild Card weekend. That means each conference gets three wild card teams. You know, it used to be too, so this is a big deal. It's all very exciting. We'll talk to bet MGMs Peter Andrew about all six games I'm actually going to be on the sidelines for Steelers at Kansas City on the national radio broadcast if you want to tune into Westwood one.

I can't wait for that one. Big Ben's career is continuing. As the Steelers managed to get into the playoffs, they get at least one more game. All the pieces fell into place, and the Raiders pulled off one of the most exciting wins in NFL history to keep their a f C West Division rivals, the Chargers out. So we're gonna talk all about that wild Week eight team finish in a second. Plus. Coming up, we've got a great guest from CBS Sports and you know him from the

w w E. Jonathan Coachman. He's got some great stories from his time there. Can't wait to pick his brain. W w E is always fun to dissect. And by the way, before we get to this week's Unleashed Janice, you're unleashed from last week? Did come true? You out what you wanted, my friend, The New York Football Giants listened to your demands and Joe Judge is out. Yeah, I mean there was rumors he was gonna stay. He was acting confident like he was gonna stay and they

were gonna fire everybody else. But it looks like they're cleaning house. It looks like we're wiping out everybody. It's just a whack job. It's like the end of Good Fellas. You just gotta walk people in the room, you know, and just bang back in the head, bullets into the back of the head, and we start fresh. So you gotta blow it up. You gotta blow it up. And I hope they get a quarterback in the draft or you know, everyone's saying what they do, they gotta get

a line. I mean, they gotta work. I've realized now that I've been watching so much football this year, everything is really the offensive line. Without an offensive line, you can't do anything. You can't run the ball effectively, you can't pass the ball effectively. You don't even need great receivers because if your offensive line holds holds the line long enough, one of those guys will get open. I don't care for me out there. Get the quarterback seconds

you'll be able to find me. So the Giants, it's the same old story. Just draft offensive lineman who cares and bring Doug Flutie back to play quarterback. It doesn't matter. We need an old line, baby, well, so here's the hot question then, because there are not a lot of great quarterbacks in this year's draft at all, so you're kind of having to get the free agency market, which could be Russell Wilson. It could be a hate to say, Aaron Rodgers, but neither one of those guys are going

to New York. Who do you want as your quarterback? And who would you want as your head coach? Russell Wilson, that's the r That's what every New Yorker is hoping for. You know, Paul Versey, who we had on this show, he acts like he works in the front office and the Giants. He's like, we don't need to draft a

quarterback because Russell Wilson's coming. I'm like, you know, And he does that with everything, like he was like Lebron's coming to New York, and then k D's coming to New York, and now it's Russell Wilson's definitely coming to It's like, it's like, dude, you don't work in the front office. Okay, every time you say something, it doesn't happen. I hope he comes. He's thirty three, he's still got a lot of good football, So I hope it's him. Obviously it's not gonna be Rogers, I don't think. But

hopefully it's him, Yeah, I mean you said it. Hopefully Russell Wilson cup. Hopefully Sierra wants to come to New York and you know, just for her, Yeah, yeah, good business move for her. So you know, I hope they recruit her. I hope the Giants get on the couch just like they did when they recruit, you know, coming out of high school and they say, hey, guys, look we can get you in this restaurant, we can get you in this club. You know. Just that's the way

you gotta pitch stars like that. It's like, look, bum bum bum, we give you this. You get you get to go to the Cirque, you get to go to mckeens steakhouse. Whatever they gotta do to pitch them, even if it's a little money under the table, we'll look the other way. Yeah, you know, it's an NFL, right, you can you don't have to put the money under the table. This can be all right in front of you. But I don't know, I'm Aaron Rodgers. If he's not

returning to Green Bay, which would be horrible. I think that'd be a huge gaff for the Packers. But if he doesn't return to Green Bay, I bet he goes to Denver. Remember, see Layers are looking for a quarterback. This is gonna be an interesting quarterback market in a horrible year. Why couldn't this have been last year, right when all these quarterbacks are taken in the first round. Anyways, a lot of coaches were fired on Black Monday, Joe Judge being one of them. I have an uncle who's

actually an NFL coaches agent. In this time of year for him, oh my gosh, from Thanksgiving when the college football firing start right now, it's bleak, my friend, it is dark, and I feel for all the agents out there because it's uh, it's not fun being on the phone. He lives on the phone. It's like such a stereotype. Anyways, you know who had a bad week who was not a fired NFL coach? I think you're about to tell me about our bad beat of the week, Brad beat

all the Week. Yeah, and it's one of bed MGM's most loyal followers. We see him all the time on Twitter. It's Woades. He had a seven team parlay let down by the Cardinals. Even in the forty niners, how to come back? When to keep him in it? But no, sorry, Wads, but our gift to you is one hundred dollars site credit so you can try your luck again, just in time for the wild Card weekend, the Super wild Card weekend.

And for all of you listeners, this could be you just tweet us at MGM with a pick of your bad beat and you could win. We announced every week on the show. So that's a big deal, hundred big ones. I just I'd like just an envelope in the mail with the hundred bucks cash. That's what I want. I love it. I love it. It's like the last scene in Saving Private Ryan, like, look, you lost, but listen, we gave you this. Make it worth it. Make it worth it. Make that hundred bucks worth the sacrifice, the

loss that you had. Make it worth it guy, right now. Absolutely, And at the end of the show, we're gonna have to talk with Peter Andrew. If you did have a hundred bucks sitting there burning a hole in your pocket, who you should bet on. So that's gonna be fun at the end. Okay, let's keep it moving and sound off on one topic we feel passionately about their week. Honest, it's time to unleagal. It's let's unleash my girl. Hats off to the n F freaking l fans and even

players were not sold on an eighteen week regular season. Well, I for one, I'm sold. That was such an incredible finale to an incredible season. In a quick tangent, this is why college football needs an expanded playoff in more parody. If there's a way to replicate the steaks and the chaos of the NFL at the college level, I'm all for it. Down to the wire, so many teams were still alive for the playoffs, so many games mattered. You could not have scripted it any better that final Sunday.

It was incredible as we watched it all unfold. First Jaguars, they absolutely shocked the Colts, which it left the door open for the Steelers. More on that, I kind of felt bad for the Colts, I gotta say. And the second I said that, my husband was like, what, No, you can't feel bad for a team, and there's no excuse to lose for the Jaguars. But I don't know

culture a good story this season. He's yea. It was like you're cold hearted, I you know, hard knocks, and they had won all those games and Jonathan Taylor and then Carson Wentz just looked horrible. So now that's going to be his storyline. The Colts lost a draft pick by getting Carson, so that their futures looking bleak, and the Jaguars, good for them, I guess, I mean they are going to get the number one pick in the draft.

Trevor Lawrence finished the season really good. He he looked great on Sunday, so Jaguars have a lot to be happy about. Okay, But then we saw Big Ben in what could have meant his last raw. You know, they had the home game where he paraded around the field as a big deal. ESPN was super awkward about it, being like this may be his last game. We're not sure, blah blah, because he hasn't officially said that. It's more like implied anyway. So then he had a road game.

They win, They beat the Ravens uh in overtime. I mean, it was incredible. We saw t J. Watt tied the single season sack record and lock up to Fensive Player of the Year. That was really fun to watch. But Steelers Nation wasn't officially in yet, so even with this win, one more thing still had to happen. Honest, I told you this was good. That takes us to the final game of the season Sunday night in Sin City. Yes, I wrote that myself, incredible alliteration. The fate of three

teams were in the hands of two coaches. Many thought they should just take any play to a tie at midfield. It was like a standoff, and they almost did it was it was theater after everything the Raiders have been through this season, with the Henry Ruggs car crash, the John Gruden scandal, an interim coach, Derek Carr, a quarterback many people have doubted. Went down to the final seconds and they did it on the foot of Daniel Carlson. Raiders end the awkward standoff and kicked the Chargers out

of the playoff picture. Forget Succession, forget yellow Stone. This was the most dramatic Sunday Night of television I've ever seen. It was incredible. As an NFL fan, I was salivating. Congrats NFL on an amazing season and an amazing eighteenth week first time ever with this expanded schedule, setting up a great playoff. Unbelievable action. Unbelievable action. Like you said, they almost did play to a tie. Who knows that

time out it's not called. Maybe they just run it out and that's it and they don't go and Big Ben has to limp off into the sunset because yeah, the kids, the kids, the kids got a lot of miles on them. And yes, oh god, Carson wentz again again. It's almost like you wanted, you wanted the cults to have nick falls there to get them in there. Carson wentz. Yeah,

disappointment again. You know, he's trying to redeem himself. Well not really, he got injured, but I'm just saying, like, you know, just you know, to redeem himself as the number one guy. It doesn't work out. It's rough, but what a game that was. It was unbelievable to watch. And I've never i mean fourth down conversions. I mean, let's talk about this kid, huh throwing rus twenty one yards for a touchdown? Kids got balls, Kids got balls? Okay,

you're honest. Quick question on Big Ben. You know how some football players when they retire, they get really skinny. Have you seen this? Yeah, it's usually offensive lineman like Joe Thomas. Have you seen a recent picture of Joe Thomas. He's felt and handsome and looks great and no offense and I'm actually friends with his wife. But he looks better than ever than when he played all those years. Do you think big Ben will like be in g

Q anytime soon post career? Like, like, maybe he's not that big out of a football uniform, you know what I mean? Big Ben has he's got that fat potential. You can see his face, you see it. He's got like he's gonna blow out. I mean, that kid's gonna blow out. He's going the other way. You can see it in his cheeks. He's got that chirrub like he's he's got a body that's begging to be fat. You know. So I think he goes the other way. He goes

the other way, and he's just gonna blow out. He's gonna Yeah, he's just you won't be seeing him with your dad calling any games as a color commentator. That kid's gonna be on the couch. I didn't even think about that. How would he be on area? Yeah? He might be great. Yeah, I don't know, I don't see it. He's blowing out the kids got a fat face. How about next season, we have a big Ben watch and we just kind of keep tabs on him, you and me.

I love it. I love it. We should just keep We should check in week by week and see, you know, see how much weight he's game. I love it. That was an amazing unleashed Olivia. That was absolutely amazing. I love hearing your passion for football. It was an incredible season and we got incredible games coming up wild Card. It's just unbelievable fun. You know what. I was clicking back and forth. I was actually clicking back and forth.

The game was amazing. The Chargers, it was amazing. But I had to check in to see the return of Clay Thompson. I think probably the most underappreciated player. Ah. You have to nominate him all time as one of the most underappreciated players, unsung heroes, even in big games. The guy is just a machine of efficiency. And in an era where guys are playing on super teams and you know, talking about their contracts and all the egoism, this guy just sits back in the cut plays chess

in his free time. He's a huge chess fan, which I am too, So it makes me love him even more. And he defers to Steph who gets all the credit and everything, but make zero mistake, he is the second best shooter in NBA history. We're talking about Clay Thompson's

return to the Golden State Warriors. I had to click over on my during commercials and even miss some of the Charger game to just hear the roar of the crowd they love him in the bay and watching him come out and have an amazing game game obviously they were running plays for him, you know, and he was chucking. He put up a lot of shots, but he looked great. One of his first plays was a dunk, and it was just great to see him back on the court, I mean, the last time. It was a good feeling.

It was a good feeling because the last time he's been out, he's been out for two years, horrible injuries. It was just a reminder of an innocent time before COVID seeing him out there, you know where Pete Davidson was just making jokes about the Kardashians and he wasn't putting his big piece in them. It was just, yeah, it was the time before waves. It was a time

before variants. It was a time before masks. Someone actually pointed out that the last time Clay Thompson played, if you had bought fifty dollars worth of bitcoin, right, it would be worth a hunt one point six seven million dollars today. That's how long ago it was that Clay Thompson was out there. Tears came into my eyes. It was just great to see the Splash brothers together again on the court. Obviously, basketball is about to kick up. We're about to start talking a lot of basketball. They're

a contender. He's pumped, he's pumped. He's got a chip on his shoulder now because he didn't make, you know,

the greatest players, probably because he was hurt. So you got a backcourt now that both of them play with the chip on the shoulder because you know, Steph always played with the chip on his shoulder because he was from a mid major and Davidson overlooked too slow, whatever, and now Clay, both sons of former NBA players, to those guys have a lot in common, and it's just great to see the Flash brothers back in the pool.

I'm rooting for Golden State this year. They're my second favorite team behind the Turkishish Kebabs over there in Turkey with my favorite player, Sam Decker, so Go dubbed Nation Congrats. Clay Day was an absolute pleasure to watch, and basketball is about to ramp up, big baby. You know, I had a hard time on focusing on anything else that do you mentioned the litt nugget about bitcoin? Do you own any bitcoin? I don't own any bitcoin. I didn't you know. I still think it's a ponzi scheme. I'm

not convinced. I know there's back Damon's doing commercials. I just don't understand it. It's like what I get a couple of bitcoin, I can buy an illustration of a gorilla to make my profile pick for a week. I mean, why would I pay? No, that's n f t S. These are different. That's n f T S, which is equally weird and confusing. But you and I are probably just antiquated. Yeah. I'm a boomer. I'm such a boomer. Yeah, yeah,

we're I'm a boomer. I got boomer energy, and I wish we had boomer size and on okay, actually, small plug. If you are interested in n f T S, we had someone on our show who explained it. It went over my head. I still didn't get it, but it was an incredible episode. Go back to the Austin Neckler episode. Austin Neckler running back for the Chargers. He is really deep in the game and n f T s, so

go search that one. Okay, that was incredibly honest. I agree, Clay Day was a huge success and for everyone listening to the show. Once the NFL season wraps up, you're gonna make a major pivot to a lot of basketball, so you're gonna get all your basketball news here too. Great stuff, you honest. Let's go ahead and get to our guest this week. He's had a great career that's put him face to face with some of the best athletes in the world and also in headlocks from them

as well. He spent ten years in the w w E. Now you can find him covering sports, betting, the p g A and who knows when you'll show up in a w w E ring again. Jonathan Coachman, he just told us we can call him coach. How you doing, Coach. It's so good to be on with you guys. Now listen, I've been listening to your content for a minute. Now, you guys are on point. I love bet MGM. So it is a thrill to get the offer, and it's a thrill to be on with you guys here today.

How nice is that? Now? I kind of went through your bio little, but I left tons out obviously a former football player, yourself, walk us through because everyone gets into sports broadcasting, I feel like, in a different way, walk us through your way. Yeah, it's so funny because I had such a lucky but I put myself in position to get to a point where I was on

national TV. But I tell people all the time, whether you're in college where they're in high school, if you have a dream of being on television or radio or now podcasting or anything like that, you gotta put yourself in position. And I did that right out of college. I was in local TV. I was only in Market sixty for a minute, Kansas City Market thirty. I'm very lucky at the age of twenty two, and then I was only there for eight months and I got the offer to go to w w E. So it was

a very lucky way of doing it. But getting to national TV when you're only twenty three certainly put you on the fast track. Uh. And then at ESPN for ten years. But now I'm doing exactly what I've always wanted to do. We were building our own brand at CBS. Sports Lines amazing, and I get to to work with so many different great people that understand sports and understand sports betting. So I'm having a blast. But I've had a great career so far. So so thank you for

listening all those accomplishments. Yeah, man, you're quite versatile, you know you were. You were great doing sports, also great doing wrestling. I have a question I've always wondered about wrestling. So much of the storyline is planned out. Is the commentating also planned out? Because you were so good at acting and emoting you know the storyline that was going on and and actually dramatizing it. So has that played

out or is that just off the head. We kind of would attack a Monday night Raw or a Friday night SmackDown the same way that you would attack a football game or a basketball game, and you study the storylines and what is gonna sell that particular match to the audience at home. It's the same way if you're doing a football game or a basketball game or a baseball game, and you just lift up the stars and you make them almost superhuman to the fan at home,

who's watching and who's listening. So that was our preparation. But I'll tell you this that Vince McMahon was in our ear every single night, almost every line I missed one Monday night in ten years one one, and he would be I got so good at hearing him and repeating what he wanted us to say that I could say within a half a second or maybe a second as it was coming to my ear, I could spit it out. Because if you didn't spit it out right when he said it, then he would scream at you

for not saying it and interrupting other people. So you learned that you said what Vince wanted you to say, or you weren't gonna be out there for very long. And I did something right because I lasted ten years the first time, and then I went back for a year and a half or two years in two thousand eighteen and realized very quickly I didn't want to do that anymore, and this is what I was meant to be doing. He's such a larger than life figure of

Vince McMahon is so successful. Obviously when he's not barking in your ear during a broadcast? What is he like to work with? Like, what's something you took away from his time? I think so many things away, so so many When I when I got the ESPN, so many people asked me what can you possibly take from wrestling to real sports? I mean, well, what can you carry over? There's a million different things. First and foremost, branding is everything.

Every single person, every character, every move that we make in the w w E has to do with individual branding. But then bigger branding to the w w E. And I would say in sports betting it's exact same thing. There's so much competition right now that if you don't have the right branding, whether it's bet, MGM or any other sports book that you're talking about, you have to have the right branding. So that's the first thing I took over from Vince. The other thing was don't be

scared to try something. And what I mean by that is in this day and age where seven guys and you do some on Monday and people forgot about it on Tuesday, try something. The whole reason early edge in sports Ligne is what it is today with us is because a year ago we tried something, and if it wouldn't have worked, we would have moved on and we would have tried something else. But that's another thing I took from him. What I took from the Rock was

this timing. Everything you say has to matter. If you only got ninety seconds, that make it the best ninety seconds that you possibly can. Whether you're doing one of these shows, make it the best take that you can. And guess what sports better is if they're watching one of these shows, they don't want to hear you talk for two or three minutes, So get in thirty or forty five seconds and get out and move on down

the road. So all of those things I learned from doing Monday Night Row and working with all those different talents, but specifically events. Damn you honest, we already recorded the open. We would have done it much more efficiently after we heard that nugget. Yeah, I mean you have me hyped coach two. Yeah, Well, I love that, you guys dont understand. I love this so much. And nothing drives me crazier than when somebody comes on somebody else's show and they

act like they're doing you a favor. No, no, this is a thrill for me. Because this means that I'm doing something right. That we can sit here and chop up whatever it is, wrestling, sports, sports, betting. This is everything to me, and so you're gonna get the best of me no matter what it is, what time of the day, and what the show is. What you said, you you realize it wasn't for you, and I've read that you've said that you'll never go back to it, and you know, I hate to say it this way,

but let's just bring it up. You said you love to not be working for a company that doesn't have that too respect, just paraphrasing. Can you elaborate on that a little bit? Yeah, sure, absolutely so. When you when you give somebody ten fift twenty years of your life, which is exactly what I did and the stuff that I did for Vents, and it's many, many things. And even when I got to ESPN, I would still get phone calls at three or four o'clock in the morning

asking for favors to get his content on ESPN. And I did that. We did that. I put the other crew and we got w w E content on ESPN every Tuesday night on Sports Center for over two years. We started storylines on Sports Center that my bosses at ESPN didn't even know we were doing because they weren't smart enough to watch the content that we were doing. So I did all that. And the reason I did that is because they were trying to get a big TV contract with Fox, which is what they have right now.

It was a billion dollars or something like that. But they could not have done that if they wouldn't have shown Fox. Well, look, we can put our content on regular television and it works. So that's just one thing I did. I could list ten things. So then when I left ESPN because to thank you, So I don't even want to cut the bill. I don't even want to cut of the billion. I just want them not to bounce a check to me. And I've said this

in another interview, so it's not breaking news. They asked me to be a part of the XFL and because they wanted a w W E guy to kind of oversee what was going on. Well that was when the pandemic shut down halfway through the XFL season. Well, I gotta check the bounced and when I called them, it was all of a sudden, radio silent. Twenty years of loyalty and you're gonna bounce a check and not make it right. And they still haven't made it right to

this day. So people say all the time, Oh, coach, people say all the time, I would never go back. It's wrestling. Everybody goes back. Mark my words. I'll say it again right here on your show. I will never go back to the w w E. It doesn't matter what they do, I won't go back. Did you get a lawyer? Did you? Are you? No? Because they filed bankruptcy. So when you filed ankruptcy, it's just you sit around

for years and you might get a percentage. So I thought I was the only one that had a direct relationship with Vince and the bosses on the w B side. So what I got back from them was that's a different company. So there's not much we can do. Of course, it's say how does of course it's shady, which is why I'll never go back. You can't treat people that way and then expect them to want to say nice things about you, to want to go into business with you again. And that's why right now, a lot of

what they're doing, people are frowning on it. People are not watching it because you can't have that reputation and treat people the wrong way and then expect them to want to be with you long term. So if people want to go work for them, they can do it. No, ill will. Part of the reason I have my two kids this day is because of the w w E. But as far as ever working for them again, it would be a cold dayan hill before I would do that.

Wow wow, Well, you know, coach, we can always go see them in a different way, you know what I mean if they you know, we can go with a couple of bad and say, hey, how about chair, how about we can do that. We could do that, no doubt. I like it. I like it on brand on brand Alright, beg let me ask the tough questions. How much steroids are in the w w E. Uh. Well, here's the thing is that I personally never took any, and a lot of guys I know did over the course of time.

There are certain things, though, be honest, you just don't talk about. Right, if you're doing him and the person next to you is not, you don't talk to them about that. So I personally, I people say, oh, coach, you're covering up. It's just nothing that I ever wanted to do, because even though I got into the ring, the only reason you would ever care about what you physically look like is if you had to take your

shirt off or you were a full time wrestler. I wrestled, but I didn't have to worry about that because I could talk, and I had value because I could speak, so I never had to Did it never happen. I'm not gonna say that it didn't, but it wasn't something I walked around the locker room looking for. Yeah, I used to guess based on how small the package was in the shorts. See what I have to deal with, Olivia?

How do you do this on it? If you're ever living for a new co host, Olivia, you've got my number. Now you've got my number. Now now this is her replaceable. He's in that upper. All I'm saying is Triple Triple Age has a tiny piece. That's all I'm saying. Then I take back what I just said. Come on, let me cut you off. I can promise you. I could promise you that I would never ask him that. I

don't know, I would never ask him. So who's a current or former, probably more former athlete that you can think of right now that could have an impressive career

at w w UH there's several. I think the obvious one is Connor McGregor, but anybody that just blanketly says, oh, Connor would be great in the w w E, you gotta remember he's only he fought it and a pounds, all right, so if you translate him into the world of the w w E. There's only been maybe two or three guys ever that have been under a hundred any pounds that did anything as a pro wrestler because they just looked too small. And in the world of pro wrestling, you've got to look the part and be

able to play the part. So Connor would be the obvious one, but I don't think he's big enough to do it. There are other guys I think that. I think Janisna Kompo, even though he isn't like a super super tough guy. I think he could be part of a group because he's so nice. He's very personable, he likes interaction with fans. You've got to like interacting with fans to be a w w E superstar, so I

think he would be absolutely terrific. I think Lebron James would be great because he's six nine, He's really strong. I think the biggest secret about becoming a w W superstar or a e W or professional wrestling in general, guys, is that how tough you have to be. When I started training, and I was being trained by different people, it was the hardest thing I've ever done. You've got to be able to learn how to get your ass

kicked in a professional way. And if you can't bump, as we used to say, you can't get into the ring. So when you have a fist coming at your face and you have to stand there and make sure they hit it to within an inch half an inch, that's very difficult to learn how to do. So, uh, there's a lot of guys I think that physically could do it, but you gotta match Olivia the talking with the physical aspect to to to make it work. What about I

think he'd be great. It's funny you mentioned him because two thousand, sixteen and seventeen, Uh, as I said, we had w W content on Sports Center, so we actually took a full desk to WrestleMania and did live Sports Center hits from WrestleMania. So Gronk was best friends with one of our w W wrestlers at the time, so they had him in the Royal Rumble or the Rumble

Match at WrestleMania on one of those two years. So I actually had him on Sports Center right next to me the day that he actually jumped the railing and went into the ring and helped his buddy win the Rumble match at WrestleMania. So he would be perfect because he's already done it. Yeah, the way I see, there's two aspects to be in a great wrestler. It's the charisma part obviously, and then the wrestling part. In your opinion,

who's the best wrestler, who's the best star? A lot of people say Brett Michaels, Who do you think is the best technical wrestler we've ever seen in the w w F slash w w E. Well, Brett Michaels was a singer. I think you're talking about Sean Michael's It's okay, okay, it's okay, yeah, sorry, Although Brett, Brett Michaels, I'm sure wanted to be a wrestler. He's he's very small, he's very small. Wait, way to way to prepare for the interview. Honest, I'm sorry, I got I got ct I'm I'm I

used to be a big wrestled fan. I just got CTE. It's okay, it's okay. We're gonna forgive you. We're gonna forgive you. Sean Michaels was fantastic, fantastic, But the best wrestler that I was ever around, that I ever saw in the ring was Kurt Angle And to me, it's not close. And he was a great amateur wrestler, won a gold medal in the Olympics, but he made the transformation to professional wrestling like nobody physically that we had

ever seen. Now, what he was able to do was to create a character and learn how to be funny, because when he first came out, people forget that he was local in Pittsburgh and try to be a sportscaster. He was terrible. He was awful, and he had just turned down a multimillion dollar offer from Vince in the w w E straight out of the Olympics because he frowned on pro wrestling. Well, then when he came back

and said, wait a second, maybe I'll try this. Oh that that million dollar offer that's gone We've got to fifty for you over here, though, if you'd like to take that and then earn it. So he had to earn it. But as far as the best character and star of all time, in my opinion, it's not even close. And it's the Rock. Now. I had the the ability and the good fortune that for at least two years it was me and him doing our little skits on the show every single week, and people absolutely loved it.

He would make fun of me and I would look the foil and it was magic. And over the course of eight or nine years our relationship changed to where in two thousand and seven then he showed up. He had been gone for years. He showed up out of nowhere to go face to face with me as I was making fun of another character we had. So it

all came full circle. But the Rock, I've taken more from The Rock than anybody else I ever worked with, as far as as timing, as far as kindness, paying it forward, understanding that no matter how big you get, that you're not bigger than anybody else. And that's how Rock treats everybody is it doesn't matter if you're his personal assistant or you're the president of Universal Studios. He's gonna treat you the same, and that's what I try

to do every single day. So, uh, there's a lot of guys that have taken stuff from and there's lot of guys that are dynamic, But those are the two curd angle the Rock. I'm a big fan of the Rock, not only as an entrepreneur now, but he was a former football player as well. So let's pivot to football a little bit. Wild Card Weekend begins this weekend. From a betting perspective, I have a theory on this first

round of the playoffs. So the last four years, the first round playoff games have been close, like every year besides last year Saints Bears that was a blowout, but every other game, I swear to god, I went back and look last four years. So if you see a big spread like Steelers Chiefs for example, I want to say that's like twelve points or something. If you see a big spread, do you just go ahead and play the underdog in this one? Or what's your approach to

week one of playoffs? You can do one of two things. What we are going to do and and people get scared of this, but it's actually very very simple. We tease it because the numbers on the underdogs live it. You are spot on. The underdogs in recent years have cash like eighty five or right. So if you've got a number, then what we like to do, though, is we tease it and you put it in a two team teaser, so you add six points of that number.

So now if you want to be on the Steelers, now you're getting eighteen and a half and you gotta win two games, but you're getting eighteen and a half. So if you look at several of the games this weekend, for example, you've got the forty niners. They are plus three, right, so if you tease them now you're getting them at plus nine. Now you don't have to worry about that very little number, and you can tease them with a The Raiders are getting five and a half, you tease

them now you're getting eleven and a half. So that's what we like to do. But anything above five or six, we would automatically go to the under the underdog because they also play a lot different guys and in the playoffs, it's just about getting in and getting out. You don't care how much you you you went by. You don't care about the stats for the players. All we talked about last week was all the incentives that players had to make for the last week of the season had

nothing to do with the playoffs. This week, all that shifts, all that changes, and now it's about winning and moving on to the second week. So a lot of prop bets I would stay away from because they're just not going to care. And then I'd also alive it to your point, I would go I would look a lot at the underdogs this weekend, except for the Chiefs. We believe they're going to blow out the Steelers. Have you

guys put together a teaser that you're really standing behind yet? Oh? Absolutely, So we do our big Mega Can you share something with us? Yeah? Of course, absolutely so. We do our big NFL Mega preview on Tuesday, because then the numbers changed throughout the week and it's all about bidding the number. Our show is called the early Edge for a reason. You want to beat the numbers. So the amount of time you get to Sunday and it's no longer five and a half, it's down to three and a half.

Now you've got that number where you wanted it on Tuesday or Wednesday, So that's what a lot of novice betters don't do. Also, you don't look at a game three or four days before you need to do There you go, it's all about game day. You can't do that. You got all week long. So well, coach, if I can interrupt you real quick one second, what must have been really tough for you all this year is the COVID list situation. You know, so many times we're sitting

I'm waiting, well, who's even playing? How do you deal with that? Well, we have a prop show that we do every Friday at two pm Eastern time. So what we had to do the last several weeks was we had to do an extra prop show on Sunday. And we we like to say it at our brand that we're here to serve the sports better, no matter the day, no matter the time, right, So if the props aren't there on Friday, then you gotta give them on Sunday.

So that's how we would counteract that. Or we also like to say some of the best bets that you make are the bets that you don't make. You don't have to bet on every game, you don't have to bet on the prop just because you like it, just because you're looking at it. You don't have to do that. So staying away sometimes is the right play because you just don't know until maybe an hour hour and a half before game time, and that's just not enough time

to put everything together. You know, in football, it's very hard to market yourself because it's such a team game. There's so many guys on the on the field. You gotta helmet on people. You know, football players probably get recognized the least, you know, maybe hockey play hockey players less. What would you what advice would you give football players in the day of social social media to market themselves. Get a little bit of that endorsement money. Take a page out of the w W E. You know, it's

like Victor Cruz had his dance. You know, Tom Brady's now got his clothing line. Is it just acting crazy and taking your uniform off and cheering the crowd like Antonio Brown did? I mean, what do you do to get that attention when you're a football player. If you're not trying to get the attention now, then you're being foolish. If you're not trying to push your brand within the brand, you're being foolish. I actually sit to the p g A tour a whole list of marketing ideas that I

would do with players golfrid because they're individuals. But you can do the same thing in the NFL because the one thing that athletes love to do the most guys is complain about money they're not making. Oh I deserve this, Oh I deserve that. Well, guess what. You can't always dictate how much money you're gonna make it on the field because it has it has to fit into your salary cap right, and you may the team may say you're not worth what you think you're worth. So where

do you go? What do you do? Well, there's a whole lot of money over on this side that I can make just by doing commercials, doing endorsements. The reason Groc is so good it is because he doesn't care about making himself look stupid, because he's also laughing every single Monday morning when those checks show up for all the commercials that he's doing. So what I would tell a football player is start using social media to your advantage. Now.

I know a lot of teams have rules in place, but make yourself look likable, give yourself a personality, and all of a sudden, these companies they're gonna start coming. I promise you that because now companies have realized that if they pay somebody fifty hundred thousand dollars, that's a lot less than what you'd pay for a TV commercial

or what you'd pay to advertise over here. So being strategic in your marketing, that to me, is the most important thing right now, and that's why these companies need to hire really smart people that know how to do it and help these athletes promote their own brand. I'm gonna hire you coach from my social media. Yeah honest, you could be doing a fab fund box any day now.

Sagarar Hair Care, Yeah yeah. I feel like the football players got to take their helmets off more, have weird hairstyles, like you know, like the Island Boys or you know, Dennis Rodman. That's the way to do it. Take the helmet off every play. Take the helmet off. Did you guys see The Island Boys the other day did a cameo video for somebody who was quitting a job. They sent it to the They sent it to the bosses.

They said, get the boss saying by the Island Boys I'm like, so you're gonna spend four hundred dollars to tell your boss your quitting. That's that sounds like a smart business move to me, because they cost four hundred dollars to do a cameo video. Okay, he's getting no severance nothing that zero zero. Okay, coach, we got a little derailed. But I want to hear your teasers for this weekend. Oh certainly. So we love the forty nights. We're gonna ta them up to uh nine and that

that's gonna be one side of your teaser. Because there is no way on God's green earth that the Dallas Cowboys are gonna win by nine. In fact, I think they're gonna lose. On the field. San Francisco's defense is way too good. They're getting most their their defensive backs back. So we'll take the Niners plus the nine. Then if you really like it, even though there are certain numbers, if you're gonna tease, it has to go through, meaning three is one of them, seven is one of them.

So teasing the Chiefs down to six and a half, that's a little more than you want to lay on a teaser. But if you believe the Chiefs are gonna win by twenty, which is what we do. Then you could tease the Chiefs down and put them with we like that a lot, or taking the Raiders up to eleven and a half, love them, do not touch, I repeat, do not touch the Bills side. If you're gonna bet a teaser, bet the Patriots. They're getting four, so that means you take them up to ten. Can the Bills

beat the Patriots by ten? I would say no, I think it's gonna be a three point game. I would say, yes, oh you think they can't to my tent, yes, we we are talking about that after this with Peter Andrew. But what I was going to bring up is every victory they have this season and no playoffs are different is by double digits. Okay, but what happened against New England when they played in Buffalo in Buffalo with don't they still had the game plan to get it done.

And in the playoffs, it's about the game plan. That's a throw away game. Three pass attempts. Mac Johns, are you are you? Are you a Bills fan? All right? So if you if you if you think they win by ten, I'll give you three to one. Odds, and I'll bet you and I'll take the Patriots plus the tent. You're gonna be Sinnamy Venmo on Sunday night, Saturday night. If you want to do that, we can do that. We show all the time. I'll block your phone number

by then I won't. I'll pretend. Okay, that's right, four days from now, where we're gonna be strangers by that. We only take ethereum. You got if you If you lose the bet, you gotta pay in ethereum. You know. I was about to say, you guys need to do a pay per view event. That was a nice little tee to tat. I like that. You guys were cutting a promo. That's fine, that's fine. We can do this all day, all day. Okay. Of the wild card teams, who do you think could or as most likely to

actually make a Super Bowl? If anyone m of the wild card team, I would have to go straight to the Patriots because when you look at the other teams, because I can't pick the Bucks, can't pick the Cowboys, can't pick the Chiefs, so they all won their division. So I've got to go with either the Patriots, and they're the only one that I think or maybe I don't even like, or the forty Niners. Let's go Patriots and forty Niners. I think they're the only two of

the I think I'll go. I'll go. Patriots and forty Niners are the two on either side of the fence that could make the playoffs at a wild card team. I don't think they will, but I think they could. Okay, that's a good answer. That's a good answer. What about a road team this week, and especially with the spread kind of that in mind, what road team this week has the toughest out the toughest out. Oh, that's a

great question. The toughest out. I'm gonna go right back to the Bills gaming and I think that's gonna be the game of the weekend. I really really do, even though I teach you about the ten points spread. Uh, and the likely outcome would be a tight game. Now it could be tann and I'm just teasing you, but the likely outcome is these are two division rivals. They know each other very very well. They play each other twice a year. That matters when you get to the playoffs.

So I think the toughest out is for the Bills on the a f C side, and then I think on the NFC side, the toughest out is gonna be for the Dallas Cowboys. I I really am bullish on the Forts because of how they won last week and got I in. They were down seventeen, they come back,

they end up winning on the field. That was big time to me, and I think that shows a lot about what they have inside and they never gave up in that game, and so that's why they're in the playoffs and I think they're gonna play really really well this week. Who were you most impressed by this season? Which young quarterback? There was so many this year, who you most impressed by? That's a great question. I love Mac Jones. I the toughest thing about playing for Bill

Belichick is getting past that first season. We don't remember what it was like for Tom Brady act of the first season, but now we're seeing it because there's so much hyper focus on the Patriots. What are they gonna do post Tom Brady? So Mac Jones has been dynamic to get his team to the playoffs, to play the way that he did at certain times. He had some hiccups, but every rookie quarterback is going to have hiccups, and

then Justin Herbert. I think Justin Herbert got You know, he's a he's a second year quarterback, but he got hurt by his head coach. And people will not criticize Brandon Stalely. He's the future. He's the millennial head coach. He's the guy that looks at the numbers and understands when to go for two. Really, he left points on the field three weeks ago that would have won the game. And then if you wouldn't have called time out on Sunday night, they would have played for a tie and

they would have made it into the playoffs. He outthinks himself way too much and that hurt his team. And now his team is sitting at home. So when you look at the other young quarterbacks, whether there's Trey Lance, he didn't play all that much. You're looking at Jalen Hurts. He's now a full time starter. But what have they done in Philly. They're protecting him. They're running the football

to two or fifty yards a game. So I think, really you have to look to Mac Jones as the guy as far as young quarterbacks are concerned, that had the best year. Yeah, it's incredible in such a shame that Justin Herbert is not in the playoffs. I can't grab my head around that that that you're coaching really messed up. If you have that kind of quarterback and he's sitting at home twiddling his thumbs, all the weapons, to all those weapons they have a ton, it's really

really sad. But that's the way it works in the NFL. Look at the Colts. They had what four or five games this year that they just gave away. And you can't go to Jacksonville and lose as a fifteen point favorite and lose by fifteen, you deserve to sit at home. What is he you think he's doing? Like a moneyball thing in football where he's just like he's looking at the analytics and saying, on fourth down, this is the

probability that you know it's and you know what's he doing? Like, I mean, you know to to to go for it on what do you go for it? On his fourth uh? In that game it was on his own eighteen eighteen a full yard and he handed it to his five seven running back Austin Ekeler, and it was a full yard. It wasn't like a short yard. It was a full yard. It was the worst play call, and then he always defends himself after the game it was the right call that this is what the numbers said to do. Well,

sometimes you gotta have a field for the game. Sometimes you gotta look at and say, what does my gut tell me to do? And my gut tells me that right here and right now, I need these three points because I'm gonna get the ball on the other side of half time. And then I can add another three or seven and now look what I've done. But he doesn't do that, and look what's happened the last several weeks. So I think he's made a lot of mistakes and

he deserves to be criticized for those mistakes. Yeah, fun money ball, Let the boys play. Let him way on the kicker for the charges. Can you imagine for the kicker for the Chargers. Can you imagine what his thought process is right now? Honest? You know what I've learned today from coaches that I'm taller than Austin Neckler, which is a real disappointment. He's a very handsome man, and I just can't with the height. I can't and that

I weigh as much as Connor McGregor. Now I am five and I was pregnant, but I didn't know his wait until he said it. But you still look great. You're only seeing you raced up. So thanks so much for your time. This has been a lot of fun. You brought us a lot of laughs, an incredible insight. Thank you. I try it again. Thank you guys for asking me. I'm always here and your honesty. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Thanks guys, have a great year. Well,

the NFL playoffs are finally here. I cannot wait one of my favorite weekends of the year where everything kind of comes into focus. So let's not waste any more time and bring in bet MGM betting expert, the one and only Mr Peter Andrew Peter. Thanks for joining us again. I'm in a better mood now that the Niners one on Sunday. I love it. Okay, let's get into some of these super wild card games, which I just love

the title. Can't say it enough. Go ahead, throw out your games you got and you honest and I will each make a pick for our punishment picks. Punishment picks. Yeah, so I'm trying to pick the ones that maybe you're steaming off the cuff a little bit more competitive. I think first one is a fun one. On Saturday, you got triots at the Bills, Bills minus four and a half. You've seen them split the season series, so I think it's gonna be a fun one. It's gonna be cold

in in Buffalo. So what do you guys look there on that one? Yanny you start? Yeah, I'm going with the Bills. I mean, hats off, hats off to the Patriots for making it look so good for a rookie quarterback in that Belichick system. But I'm going with the Bills. He's not there yet. Mac Jones isn't there yet. Going with Josh Allen, Baby, yeah, Mac Jones has not looked good. I think he's three and two and his last five starts in Josh Allen, I mean little Jekyll and Hide

here with this Bills team. But when the Bills win, they win big. Every victory this year has been by double digits. So I like the Bills. What's the line, pete four and a half? Oh, take it, definitely take it now. The Pat's defense is the only thing keeping them in games. They allow just eighteen points per games, so maybe stay away from that over But I like the Bills and I like them big yeah. I agree with you as they're on that one. Next one is the one that's near and dear to my heart. Niners

at the Cowboys. Cowboys are minus three, so three point favorite Niners coming off a very emotional win and then Cowboys were able to wrap it up with the blowout win against the Eagles on a week team M yeah, I think, I think I like the Niners. Here's why. These teams that are the wild card teams, they're dangerous. They they're playing with house money, right. They didn't think they'd make it, really, I mean, who knows what they thought.

But I just think this is gonna be good. It relies on the broken, busted up hand of Jimmy g When he doesn't throw a pick, they win. They have not lost a game when he doesn't throw a pick. But Dallas takes the ball away. That's their m O. This defense is really good and like we saw in Dallas's last game of the season, Wow, when they are clicking on offense, they are scary. So I don't know if this were in San Francisco, maybe a different story.

So I take it back. I'm taking Dallas. I convinced myself. Flip flop. I mean, you should run for office, Olivia. I mean that was what they call a flip flop in the political world. Because I'm definitely going with Dallas. I couldn't believe you were going with the Niners. I was about to say they should start calling me the betting expert on the show because I win so much. So I'm going, obviously with the Cowboys. They're a juggernaut. I think they're a real contender. They could win it all.

The forty Niners just you know, they're here, They're there, They're nowhere. It's any game, anything could happen. It's gonna be a bad game. They're gonna get blown out by the Cowboys. Put a lot of money in the Cowboys, guys, a lot of it all. I'll say, roll wide receiver one, running back one, and now QB one with a touchdown pass last week. So I'll tell you guys, be careful for that next week. I think he's going to be the dual threat that that is the difference maker last game.

This is always fun. The first time Monday Night football for the playoffs for Super World Card weekend Cardinals Rams. They were fighting to the end for the division. Rams are four and a half point favorite at home, and so far, what do you guys like there? Well, we have to disagree on this one, honest, because we're in agreement so far. I'm gonna take the Rams. And here's why. Matt Stafford's looking horrible and in general, it's hard to

kind of cheer for the Rams. But talent wise, they are so stacked and Cardinals aren't getting hot back this week, are they? I don't think so. I don't think so either. That'd be a difference maker, though, but I've got to take the Rams at home. Although the Cardinals are better on the road. I think they're eight and one on the road or something. But yeah, I'm going with the Rams.

I really like their mid season editions in von Miller and O b J. I feel like that's made them way more complete and competitive, so I think they'll really show up for this wild card game. Well this is appropriate because I'm not just disagreeing because we have to. I like their mid season addition to Miller, but as a former Giant fan, I gotta say, oh b J likes to drop passes in the playoffs, big moments, the passes just get dropped, mark my words, big plays. O.

B J is gonna drop some big passes. He's overly emotional. I'm going the other way, baby. We're going with the squeak at quarterback. He's gonna run like little Mighty Mouse all over the field. The Cardinals are taking this. Put big money on Yanni's picks and you'll win money. Baby. I'm the betting expert at bet MGM. I think interesting game. I would say it's a three point game either way, so maybe plus four and a half is the right way. What I will say is potentially next week Stafford up

first Rogers Davante Adams. I think that's a pretty intriguing matchup if you like divisional round and it'd be a fun one up in Lambeau. Yeah. Yeah, these are some close ones here, so it'll be a fun first weekend and obviously a couple more games, maybe a little bit potential to be a blowout, but it's gonna be a great weekend. I'm gonna be watching him from Cobble Mexico, so I'm excited. Oh, we need more information on that next the week before we go, we have to pay

off our punishment pick. And it was supposed to be you know, New Year knew me like everyone I saw in the gym this week. But once again, Janice, you're the winner. You crushed me picking the Raiders and the Niners correctly. I feel like Brandon Staley, completely heartbroken and wanting to call a time out. But here we go. I have to read the outro. This is what I get. I don't know. That's why they paid me the big bucks, I guess. Okay, thanks for listening, everybody. This is miss

Preggers herself the Georgia peech. Alam oh h d. But let me tell you, Georgia winning the national title took me back, y'all. It took me back to a simpler time when your girl was guzzling down vodka shots and acting real SUTs on the weekends. That's right, your girl loved party and I got the rap sheet to prove it. I was arrested. Okay, now I can't read this on I was never arrested. Just tell us your story, tell us your story. It's okay, you were four. I hope

we have no new listeners who were so confused. Right now, I was arrested, for punching a girl in the mouth for talking to my man once. My dad had bailed me out of jail for robbing a rite aid my sophomore year. It wasn't my fault. I was dating a towny named Dale and he needed some boxles. What's that boxes? It was your body and Clyde face. Oh, I was a natural. Didn't have to pistol, whip the cashier or nothing.

We were in and out. Well, I'm not allowed back on campus, and my family had a pulse and strings to get my record expunged. But it was worth it, y'all. How's Dale now, you ask, Well, let's just stay. Last time I heard he was in prison for sticking up a cracker barrel and selling bath salts. We took different roads,

but we had our time anyway. They used to call me Olivia the Gremlin back then because I was all nice and sweet during the day, but at night, you pour a little alcohol in me and you could find me drunk on the quad squat being a four am. I'll bring an amazing grace to the girl who did my homework in exchange for me saying hello to her in front of my cool friends. I'll always be grateful. I can't remember your loser name, but you made college fun you too, Dale Bulldog for life, by y'all, you're

a wild girl, Olivia. I'm glad you got out of that face. What a wild face? How week I say? I hope my mom isn't listening to this. Well, my mom is currently standing over my shoulder and just heard that whole thing. So thanks a lot you honest. I'm a twenty girl, grounded, pregnant woman. But that's a fresh show. This week takes everyone for joining. Make sure you follow app at MGM on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. That's new.

We're doing a lot of fun one bet videos on TikTok and I really really hope I went next week because I can't keep my career going much longer with those sign offs. Thanks y'all. Piece

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