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Yeah, and back on the street. Lights just came back on today at about eleven am.
Yeah, and yeah, what a scary, scary moment yesterday. I talked to Danny last night, and you know you lived where fire trucks are going by no electricity. I hear his kid crying. I'm like, oh, man, Danny G's in a moment right now, y'all let you go, man. But it was scary. At the end of yesterday show, Danny G and I had to leave, like with twenty minutes left in the shows. We both got calls saying like, yeah, you're in an evacuation zone. I was on the road like I was like speed racer and riches fire as the news developed, seems to be from an arsonist. How crazy is that? It is crazy. What's crazy is that the citizens of the Woodland Hills area that community took him down and held him down, detained them until the police got there. That was kind of cool to see, like police academy for citizens on patrol. Have you seen the footage though, I have the good The dude had a little blow towards we were tackling. Yeah, yeah, that's what I mean. I love seeing that. I was like, when they tackled him, they should have kicked them a little more. It went like I would I would have, in my opinion, if I saw that in my neighborhood arrest me. I would have maybe tried to severely hurt that time. Yeah, that was wild, Like I'm not just holding him down. I'm holding him down, and like why would I hit him until the cops get there? And if he's alive, he's lost. So I want to just update our sentiment as we carry on and continue through the show. It's been a crazy tough week and we've been shouting out all the first responders all week. You know, wherever you are, whoever you are all the first responders, but especially the ones here in LA and that would be you know, all the medical people, the firemen, the police officers, we said, the news reporters, because we question do they have to be there right there putting their lives in danger? But yeah, they're painting the picture. Props to them, But props to the citizens that took down this piece of garbage. Honestly, in my opinion, that guy is the lowest of the low. Now, he may have done it, but right he was apprehended by the police, but as of now, he has not been charged with arson.
That was an update from a little while ago. He might have done it. I'm sure there's a lot of forensic stuff to be collected, but he has not been charged as of now.
Well, I think guy walking with him. If you see a guy walking next door to a strip club and he has two hundred and one dollar bills in his pocket, what are you assuming guy was going to strip club? This guy has a guy's going to the woods, that he has a bolttorch, what is he doing?
The roast of marshmallows know there are people out there that are are are just mentally ill and they and help themselves, no excuse kill this guy.
The oh wow, the supposed to a lot of you.
I think it's an absolutely abominable act. This guy deserves to be put to death by the law.
Well, it did prove our theory right and our speculation based on what we were hearing, what we were seeing in the communities that we live next to. Again, we're surrounded by the chaos in sherman ocause that's where we're broadcasting live right now from the west side. We knew that some of these fires were natural disasters, right, It all seemed terrible, and then it also seemed to be suspicious, like, well, how are all these fires happening? Especially after the studio city one, You're like, well, how did that happen? And Henry Winkler comes out and he's like, I think it's ours, And people were like, hey, fauns settled down. People just start going crazy. One turns out we learned another valuable lesson never doubt the fun the faun's no yeah, and the looting that's going on, the fires, but it brings out the worst in people. These moments are saying it, but a lot of it was I think it was I think it was. I'm certainly not comparing this to nine to eleven, but the sentiment I'm about to share it is when tragedy strikes small level, big level, whatever you consider it, you see the best and the worst in people. It's true. You see the best in people coming together as a community. You see rescue workers and firemen, policemen like you see these people put their lives on the line for you. And then you see looters, people trying to start other fires. Have you seen the comments on social media? You'll want to go through Instagram and strangle these people. Scrow There'll be a woman crying like I lost everything, and the comments are disgusting, really are. It's ugly. It's the worst. Honestly, it's like the worst of humanity and the best of humanity emerges in these times. So again, sending strength and if you want to send more Redcross dot org or donate, question a lot of people, a lot of animals that need help. If you if you lost something, yeah, if you lost your home and you see people mocking you in the comments, your instinct want to be like, I'm gonna track down this person and kick them in the nuts. No, you don't want to be your that want to be your instinct, like, I'm gonna find these people and please let's realize a few things. We're all very fortunate. Oh, no doubt lucky. It's been a scary week. Everybody here has been really fortunate to say, Man, our houses are still there, but what a scare for everybody again surrounded by it. Thousands of people were affected. But Danny g and Rich got a taste of what it was like to be, you know, ready to go, and Rich, I know you got emotional. I just want people to understand where you're coming from. You got pretty emotional yesterday in that moment because you thought you had to evacuate it. There was a moment where Copture in my neighborhood telling people like you might need to leave. And then you you have this thought that you never thought you'd have in your life, which is or you're like, you're also thinking, if I leave, people are gonna potentially rob my hand. And on top of that, you're starting to think, grab my valuables. What are my valuables? Like passport, ID, like your check book. For some reason, you're like and then you're like old documents, the deed to my house, like my carved information. I hate to say it, you know, not only because it's Fox Sports Radio, but you got to take that nineteen eighty six autographed Mets baseball. Could I tell you something? Yeah, you do worth money. I was going to bring this up, and this is by no means trying to make light of anything when I was going, when I was going through right valuable things, I said, all right. Because we started to do this, my wife had crates in the back of our suv ready to roll, and she's like, what do you want me to add in there? Besides photo albums and some old like memories from high school and college, and documents other than documents, and like one or two boxes of memories. I'm not even joking. In a little bag. I put my eighty six Mets baseball and my Mike Tyson boxing glove. I'm not surprised. So I was like, what else do I really like? Everything else is just stuff I agree with.
That is one of the main parts of this is when you're dealing with something like this. Rich I wasn't able to get through the wall of cars to get home, so Brenda had to go because there's one street in and one street out to get to the freeway where we're at and back in that canyon. She knew because she's been through this like six years ago or so. If you don't get out right away, you're stuck on those streets to get to the freeway. It took her forty minutes to go five minutes to get to the one on one freeway. She called me on the phone and she's like, what do you want? What do you want of yours? What? What are you what's most important of yours to throw in the car right now? And meanwhile, I'm in the parking garage here trying to get there. I had no idea what to say. I'm like a birth certificated a security car.
Make sure you get my Dodger's hats and jerseys, my two rags, my son lakers, my breath, the hit Man heart glasses. But it is my Tupac mask.
That's everything you listed is in my back patch already I got.
But that's a that's a really sad reality that everyone had to go through, and some people way worse than others, and that happened live on our show yesterday. So we're trying to just express if you weren't here that emotions are high. We we were very lucky and stressful. I'm not taking anything for granted, but there are so many people that lost everything and it is wild to see. Like I said, the greaton people come out and the awful people come out. And I don't take back what I said earlier, Like I got a couple of stairs in the room and I said, I hope that guy gets killed. I feel that in my heart of heart. So some guy sets a community on fire for for sen giggles, that guy should be hung by his toenails. From some point, you think that guy deserves like a happy time in prison or something. Get out of here.
No, I mean, like he's out of here and he's owed the just you know justice. I mean he needs to go through due process. I'm saying, not that guy out. Well, I don't know if that's a part of due process, but he is. You know, it's a horrible if you're doing that. But if he's mentally ill, that's thing you too, kind. I was saying, no, listen, I was going off on people in texts like like when you I look at an article and then you can on Facebook you can leave like a little thumbs up emoji, a care emoji, a heart, and then you can do like an angry and like a laughing And there were seven people out of like thousands, seven people who left a little laughing emoji. And I'm like, I want to post that and be like, shame these people because they're disgusting. It's to people, it's like this, It's what I call state hate. It's like you live in a one state where the politics are much different from California, or live in a state you know where you know I live in California, trust me, But there are people match many people I know, but politically there's all kinds of mix of people in every state. So like we should as a good American, you need to have people's backs when they are under and they're miserable and going through bad things.
You know, this story is still developing, lots to one furl and figure out, and you know, we should focus on the fact that communities are coming together in the great efforts of the rescue efforts. And and how nice it was to hear from people that I haven't heard from in years, just to see if we were okay and how things were. You know, it was nice to see the humanity that the kind side of people. You know, of course there's terrible people everywhere and that's just the worst. But we also have seen a lot of a lot of good and I hope more good comes of this. And Rich on the flip side of things. And again it's Fox Sports Radio. We mentioned this yesterday and this just isn't the pander to sports because it's Fox Sports. We talk about everything here. It really does go to show you the beauty of sports and how important it is in our lives. You're gonna tell me you didn't need that distraction last night, that football game in Iosam. You kept hitting U up telling us what a great one it was.
I was watching.
You know, the world needed that distraction. There's only so much terrible footage of fires you could watch, especially when you're surrounded. All right, If you know, we need these games, that's the beauty of it. That's why we love this, That's why we talk about it. That's why we have fun with it. Sometimes we take it too serious, but it's it's just like you need a vacation, Rich to one wind and stress relieve. You need that with your sports, your music and whatever else it is there's a sense of once my family made the decision we're gonna stay put. The evacuation order was like we were on like alert. I was like, let's let's stay put. Yeah, man, it's nerve wracking. I took a deep breath. I put on that football game. And again, this is not sports panthering I because it normalizes everything. We saw that with nine to eleven. Dude, wasn't that the start of we're getting back to normal. It's it's it normalizes you, It levels you out, it takes you away, even if it's just for a few hours. That's the beauty of it. It really is. Anyway, enough of you know, miserable world events, we got a lot of fun to have today. On today's show, we are gonna put five on it. We're gonna we're gonna see who could hit if anyone in the studio. Every playoff season, I treat everyone because I'm a big spender, five bucks each. We'll do a six or six parlay everyone in the room and let's see if someone could hit a very difficult We're gonna include one listener also, so be listening out for when we ask you to pray. If you want in on It hit us up eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox when we tell you but yeah, it's uh, it's you know, back to business today, but some scary moments yesterday, and you see people that lost everything, and you can only imagine what it must be like to start over, Like what where? Where to even begin? Can't even imagine like those communities that like you see blocks and blocks like the palisades, you see like here's what it looked like during the holiday season. Here's what it looks like now, Like what do you even like? How do you begin how do you begin to even understand it? Especially if you got little kids? How do you explain that to your little kids? Like we're not going home, We don't have a home, lifetime of memories, generations of memories gone, yeah, I know. And celebrities, non celebrities. There's a lot of people like they're not showing sympathy because what I'm gonna show sympathy for all these rich peace people And it's gross. And I'm just telling you what I'm seeing on social media. Not just rich people. It's not just wealthy people. There was a lot of people affected about middle class, upper class, any class. This affected a lot of people. But that's also an odd sentiment that because someone has money, like you're you think it's like okay if they lose their home and everything, like, that's wild to me, Like what type of maniac are you? Oh? They got, they got, they got millions, they lost every lot of stress.
And I saw a heartbreaking thing yesterday where a mother brought her five year old son back to the site of where their home burned down and he said, uh, yeah, that the chimney over there, that's where Santa just came through for Christmas and now it's gone. And that that just hit me. Hit me sideways. Look at the cook look at the look at the comments. It's probably some just don't don't look at it because it don't matter.
You don't.
I'm getting sick of people see seeing people's opinions all the time. They don't matter, Right Sam, right on, we're surrounded by it. That's our story. Stick to get it.
Yeah, we're sticking to it, and let's get into some of these good games before we get into I got five on it. I'm I'm excited about this. I have an NFL theory based on everything going on over the last few weeks. Ben Johnson. Every day you're hearing about it is our team that doesn't want to interview this guy for the head coaching position. Mike Rabel's wrapping ups of interviews with Shack.
There was a rumor that the reason the Raiders cut ties with toe LESCo is because they were setting it up for Ben Johnson, who's interested in putting his own GM in place.
But Dan but then Primetime Dean Sanders said he could be lured to the NFL. What would do that if you got to coach his son? So maybe there's a team that takes a one two punch of Primetime and Shadore Standers. So there's so much to be said about the coaching carousel in the NFL. Mike Rabel, like I said, you mentioned Rex Ryan saying no one's more suited for the Jets job than him, and he's like, with all due respect of Rabel and everyone else, I'm the guy. Yeah, he seems like extra confident about out that being his job. I was gonna say he's very Sea shore. Yeah, that's the word. I was gonna say. That was the perfect description. And I was trying to figure out another way to say he's very sure of him, very sea shore of the position for sure, and you see guys like Robert Sala are gonna have decisions. Is there a head coaching vacancy for him or the forty nine Ers are very high on bringing him back as defensive coordinator and man when he was the forty nine Ers DC and Shanahan on the offensive side of things. That's a combination right there, right. They just upgraded Kubiak to OC for the Niners, so there's a lot of coaching moves. So here's the question I ask all of you, all the big NFL fans and especially college football, because college football and college basketball is such a culture based on coaching and programs. As a fan, think solely as a fan, which we all are, do you get more excited when your team acquires a good player or when your team acquires that top tier a level coach that you think could change your team around. What's a more exciting sentiment for fans? Because we live out here in LA I think there's a lot of love for the Dodgers and Lakers, but the football scene, there's rams fans. But the Chargers got their first little spark of life on attended Chargers when Jim Harbaugh came here. And I think Chargers fans we're more excited about Harball than any acquisition I've ever seen that team make because he's in a change to culture. Like you said, he's in already system here, Yeah, already has well and they already had their star quarterback in place. To be fair, who are you going.
To get so amped up over Dobbins Who's turned out to be a good acquisition, but they didn't really add a huge star per se.
But Danny, it's a great question for you because the Raiders stars are in need of a star player, but they're also in a new face. You know. They they had some ups and downs, grud and Antonio Pierce now gone, They've got you know, McDaniels. They went through the ringer of what they thought would work. So would you be more excited with of Rabel or prime time and place, or would you be more excited about acquiring a big player. That's a great question, you know what, it's very specific, very specific to the or to football. I should say, not necessarily just like college football football, because every other sport. I'm not saying a manager or a coach doesn't matter as much, but I think football matters the most. You know their systems and their culture that they set.
Yeah, and the position they're in right now. Cavino is like the position the Washington Commanders had been in, where they need new leadership, a new coach, and a new quarterback. And look how the Commanders turn things around. The Raiders should follow that blueprint, which is what they're doing right now with the new leadership of Tom Brady and Richard Seymour.
I want to go back nine years in baseball because I agree with Covineo not as much in baseball, but it matters in all sports, but it matters most in in the NFL, in the NBA, I would be more excited about a player in baseball than a coach, without a doubt. With football, it's probably a lot different. I put yourself in Chicago a decade ago, okay, and your team gets theo Epstein and Joe Madden.
Mm hmm.
You're telling me that fan base who went on to win their first World Series in like one hundred years. You're telling me that wasn't as exciting as any introspect. Yes, the answer is yes, and it's probably still the correct answer. But it doesn't kept people as excited. It's it's like that old sayings like you could teach a man and the fish. You can give the fish wish, but give me. But wouldn't you be more excited just to get the fish, even though you know being taught how to fish is more valuable.
You have to be quiet to get the fish.
I believe what he's trying to say is fool me once. Shame point is, of course, the coaching here, in the general managing in this situation that you described was in the greater scheme of things, more valuable to the Cubs. But more people are going to be excited about the big fish, which is the player in this analogy. I was trying to, Yeah, think about a couple of years ago, Craig Council was a sought after manager. There's because you want it now. The fans kind of want it now. When it comes to coaching, it's not always going to be now. Could be like a building process. It could be a trust the process, and sometimes you trust the process. Hey, I know basketball fans that are still trusting the process.
Nothing happened, And in college football the coaches are bigger stars than they are in the NFL.
Usually, No, that's turnover. In college football, you need a ustability in the.
I mean, I know he's one of the biggest coaches in sports history, but like, just like that, Belichick put North Carolina on the football map. I'm not advocating that people keep their head into clouds, and I'm not saying that ignorance is bliss and you should not be mindful of what what's going on. I'm not saying you shouldn't stay informed on the news. But it was so nice to put that game on last night. Man escaped for a while, and I'm very excited for the game tonight and the wild card weekend. You see the game winning kick by Gita, his dad's with his iPhone. It's so funny how I'm not surprised when a Jeter comes in clutch, you know, Jeter dad was so calm. He's just like, oh yeah, buddy. What I found funny was that a parent is going to be a parent regardless, meaning his son is about to kick the game winning field goal to go to the National Championship, but he still thinks his iPhone footage is gonna be better. It's the orange ball. But meanwhile, the Dad's like my my iPhone format, my y. Yeah, but maybe you just feel the need like you have to do something in that moment because you're so nervous. But when that place kick took off, am I the only one that saw it? Like the right and then look right back left? I was like no, yes, I mean there had to be Notre Dame fans that stomach's dropped in that moment that that cheeks were clenched for a second. That kick looked like it was gonna veer left and boom right. So anyway, speaking of the you know nine two of the five days of football stiffs, last night we hit our bet. What do we say? The over over forty four and a half didn't look good for a second and then there was some scoring at the end, so we hit the over now tonight. I as much as I respect Texas, my wife's from New Bronfels, right outside of Austin. I've been to Longhorns games. I've been, I've been there, But I think Ohio State's just a far superior team. So I like Ohio State laying the six Ohio State wins by a tuddy and then you got Notre Dame Ohio State. What a great national championship. So I'm going to Ohio State. You can do what you want, but I like that at minus six. All right, and we're gonna talk more football now. Rich is basically posting this question. It's Rich's NFL coaching theory. Do you get more excited when your team gets a superstar player or a superstar coach? Football specifically here, because I think it is different per sport, no doubt, but I think every sport, though, there is an emphasis on that very top tier cavino of coaches. And when your team, like the Chargers are the best example, a team that just always faltered in the playoffs, a team that really doesn't have an identity, a team that I mean most people still think of them as the San Diego Chargers. Well that's right. You're in LA, a team with not much. Herbert's a young star quarterback but wasn't really up to his potential. You have suddenly like, what are the Chargers? Jim Harbaugh was way bigger of an acquisition than any player that team could get. Not all coaches translate, though, right, not all players translate. So you have that commonality. I think the coaches because of the culture shift and the leadership they bring is probably the right answer, but it's not always the answer. Probably it took to you why kids wear jerseys are their favorite players. No one cares that much that much about the coaches. I know if you had, he would have rather have won, probably when he played in the NFL as opposed to coaching in the NFL. So there is a sense of, yeah, we know it's important, but that superstar on your team is way more exciting in my opinion as a fan, even though I know the coach is the right answer. Like I said, the coach is going to teach you how to fish, but I just want that fish. I like that superstar player. I'm thinking I'm thinking of coaches that could change culture, like like a Jim Harbaugh. Right, And that's another point. Not all coaches come with that sort of swagger, and not everyone's a superstar. So it's a fair question, are you more excited about the superstar coach or the superstar player Pete Carroll? If I'm a Bears fan and Pete Carroll, I know he's all now, I know that's an interesting thought. He would be the oldest coach because he has such a young energy. Pete Carroll drove me nuts as a Niners fan because of his damn intensity chewing his gum Seahawks. You know, we're great with him. When you see a guy like Pete Carroll wanting to coach again, you don't think of you're a Chicago Bears fan, You're like, we went through eber Flus and a bunch of nobodies. Now you don't want to Pete Carroll or if Rabel or someone that you really feel like could make an impact. You do? You know why though? It's just different, and we're trying to pose this question because one's more important, but one's more exciting, right, I really think that's what it is.
Well, and the Bears are in a very similar situation that the Chargers were in. Caleb Williams has all the tools he needs, the right head coach.
And there's another guy that, you know, maybe not the most likable over the last couple of years, but you know, because of the failed experiment with Russ, I think he's sort of, you know, not given enough credit that Sean Payton went into Denver and did exactly what he said he would do. He turned that team around. They're in the playoffs. There's a lot of good teams now. It all seems to be working the way it was supposed to when he was hired. Guess who's not in the playoffs? The Jets, the Dolphins, the Bengals, other teams people thought would be good. The Denver Broncos won double digit games and they are playing Buffalo this weekend. Sean Payton has done the job they thought he would do. And Bo Nicks is a rookie and only going to get better, and you don't know what that team's going to develop into. So when you think about it, wasn't Sean Payton a really good thing for the Broncos?
More so I had to give him time. Though, don't forget all of the people who barbecue Sean Payton.
More excited. So, in other words, you should have been more excited about Andy Reid than Patrick Mahomes. But Patrick Mahomes is the one that excites you. I know, But wos Patrick Mahomes Without Andy Reid?
Though?
What would you be like under another coach? You don't know that, you don't know any reader tires and then Patrick Mahomes play for somebody.
It's like that great mystery, like you think like, well, what if I would have married one of my high school college the question because we should be equally as excited about these coaches that make these huge differences for the teams that you root for. Kevino and I have worked together twenty years. We've we've jokingly said, like, Yo, what do you think your life would be like if you married the girl you were dating when we first met, like your twenty year old girlfriend. Would you have like grown ass kids? Would you be happy? Would you be miserable? It's like saying, well, what if this guy was coached by this person? These are all like hypotheticals you'll never know. You'll never know. Let's go to maybe in a parallel universe, rich in a multiverse. Maybe in some sort of multiverse we get to play these games someday, mel in Maryland, you're on with CNR coaches or players. That sounds like a ridiculous question, but get you what'll gets you more excited?
First, cannot say some about the callers and people just been saying bad things about what's going on in California. Yeah, Okay, I'm a veteran and I'm sixty years old, and I last I was in the Service within nineteen eighty six. It's when I got out of the service, and I still feel the exact same way I do now as I did then. I love this country, I love the people spend it.
I love you.
If you're a Republican or a Democrat, that's something you. We should be able to have talk and dialogue without being just stupid, no doubt. And I don't understand. I don't understand it. I just don't understand. This is the greatest country on the planet and we get that and take it for granted every single day, and I just don't understand.
Yeah, well, the tragedy like this does bring people together. He'd be like Obama and Trump, uh, cracking jokes together. Jimmy Cordispina. Yeah, that was fun to see, you know. I mean, let's be all paid. Thanks for your service, man, Thank you very much. What's your thoughts on coaches and players?
Now, okay, I'm a cowboy fand okay, and I tell you, guys, for a long time ago A four the only thing the Cowboys got always have eight, nine, ten guys going to the Pro Bowl when they're winning, but they can never get over the hump because they got too many distractions from outside sources. When you jump off side, that's lack of detail, black playing attention, that's coaching, okay, And the coaches can't do their job because the owner is to be in the locker room and getting distracted the players from the man that's supposed to be in charge, not Jerry Jones. But the coaches charge you. So you bring back, you bring back the guy that's gonna kich your ass instead of run your team. If you not have button with your owner in Dallas, if you're not head button with him, you're kissing his ass.
That's kissings. Thanks Mail, Thank you mel that there are teams that you will see like a team can't get over the hump is a coaching. So maybe coaching is always going to be more important. And in football that's really so we could go to Isaac cron up day, what's up? Andy?
Hey?
Byzano's he my heart, My heart goes out to everyone deals with these fires right now. My mother she of about fourteen years ago, she actually had lost a house.
In the Christmas fire.
And you know, ever since that day, you know, have the service in the Marines.
I always kept it stayed ready back with documents, you know, duplicates seasonal clothes, you know, a couple of days worth of clothes. And now that you know my fiance we have kids. Actually have two Miley back packs, so you know I have them a specific location in the house. So God forbid anything ever happens. You know, I already know where to go. Run throw these on my bag, and you know we have the most important things that we can have beside those bags. And you know we just carry on and uh, you know, to answer the question about the players, you know, segue to that, I would say that, you know, with star power with players, I think it carries weight. And like they say, players do make the team. So in a sense, the fan base is always gonna be there see Charonda players. And I really don't think they had cut out of coaches in the sand.
That's true. You don't see the fat heads of coaches. Thank you, Andy. We did this last year. I say let's do it again.
Yeah, we're gonna pick every NFL playoff game this postseason. All right, Rich, You're gonna give us the point spreads and we're all gonna pick each game, and you're gonna compile the the picks here and we have to hit a parlay six for six to actually earn any money.
Six for six. Good luck. Maybe someone in the room will hit it. We're gonna use points spreads, not just money line winners. But before we do this, I gotta do one thing as a Mets fan. As I hear this song now, betting number five Tayvid right, this is walk ups on fifteen years.
If you're listening in the future to the podcast version of this live show, you're missing one of the greatest hip hop beats of all time, the Loonies. I got five on it playing behind us.
It really is so good.
Yeah, way ahead of their time with this beat.
I remember one time Cavino telling me David Wright's not cool enough to use that song. I like him. I like him. We got on it all right, David right, Craick right.
So here's the pickers, and uh, I know, Covino, you love that show, Rich Davis right there, Spotty boy, just watch Mexican Pickers. It's way better, of course. Iowa Samuel right there. I'm going to make my picks and then we'll include one listener each week. Hunter in Maine is going to be our victim and you're right, Rich, we can't mail any money to the listener just for fun. But it's for fun, and we can mail them a prize package if they hit. They talking okay, Hunter and men, you ready to make some wild card picks?
Absolutely?
All right, let's go. Could someone hit a six for six parlay and like I said, five bucks. I'll give you the calculations when we're done. What a five dollars parlay nice would hit us? Let's do this? Covino on Rich DraftKings Sportsbook. All right, Chargers Texans in Houston, Chargers by three. What do you guys think, Let's star with Kobe, Chargers by three. I'm going with that. I'm going Chargers Chargers, Cavino. I think this is the year the Chargers get next level. I think we've talked about who's going to be that fourth team in the AFC, because I think we feel like, you know, Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore, who's that fourth team? Jim Harbor takes it to the next level. So I'm going Charges as well. I mean, we just had a whole discussion about coaching and making a different culture.
Danny g what you got, brother, Vegas knows what they're doing. I think the Texans went on a last second field goal, but they only win by two.
Texans are underdog though. Oh so then you're taking Texans straight up.
Then then I would take them straight up and you're getting three Okay, yeah, give me, give me the three.
Texans for Danny Ia Samuel. Do I think the Chargers will go all the way and when the Super Bowl?
No, but can they beat a what I think to be a slumping Texas team by my field goal?
Yeah?
Give me go Chargers, Go go Chargers, thank you.
And before we get the spot, let's go to hunt the first Hunter. What do you think? Man? Thanks?
I'm going with Harbaugh, Herbert and my guy mcconkeye, and I'm going with the Chargers.
McConkie all day, All right, Chargers, Danny g's the lone Texan. What do you think, spotty boy? I love this headline.
Chargers will destroy Texans, So I'm gonna ride with that.
I'm gonna pick the Charger, My Chargers, Danny.
You guys are all sleeping on C. J.
Stroud.
It took a little bit of a step back this season, but I jinxed him by picking him to go to the super Bowl this year after a big time me at the Super Bowl.
Stee, why would you? Why would you back this guy.
Just to prove that I'm not Tom Petty?
And by the way, before you get into the next game, rich A, you're forgiving him. You ever look at McConkie and feel really old because he looks like he's about six ten years old? Like, I never really feel that way, but when I saw that, dude, I'm like that. No, that's a whole separate conversation. But if you want to look at guys that make you feel like you're old as hell, look up when you get a chance, Google image the Mets Brett Batty. Yeah, Bady looks like he's twelve. You know, when I saw him, Kanga made me feel that way. And I rarely feel that way because in our minds as fans, you know, we still feel like, uh, not that old lot of us, right, Drake May to me feels like a guy that like the age of someone your daughter would bring home like that, it's my boyfriend, It's crazy, dude. Next game. This is an interesting one because I think we all know who's gonna win. But do we think the Ravens cover the nine and a half, Ravens hosting the Steelers division battle, Ravens by nine and a half. Of course, Lamar Jackson could be the MVP again. He's got nine and a half King Henry now with him. But if you remember this year, they didn't you know, they didn't handle the Steelers in both games. So as what do you think I am going? You know, yeah, I'm going Baltimore with nine and a half. I just think they blow it out. I think there's a huge The reason to spread so high is because you know they're capable of it, and I think they're gonna surpass that by a lot. Uh, Danny G. What do you got, man?
I feel like that number is just a little too big, right, Ravens by a touchdown, So I.
Think it's gonna be a blowout.
Dude. Yeah, I'm gonna say Ravens by seven. So Steelers, all.
Right, Danny G going Steelers. And by the way, earlier this year, Steelers beat the Ravens eighteen sixteen. I know that game wasn't Pittsburgh, but it's a divisional battle, spotty bull, let's go to you.
Yeah, you know, I agree with Danny on that one.
Like usually whenever I pick.
Games, I don't pick huge spreads like I try and avoid those games.
You like it, you like a huge like Italian spread though, right, Charcuter spread Football Sunday Charcoter.
Because like, I do agree that that Baltimore is going the distance. I think I'm gonna go with the Steelers on this one. I really yeah, I don't.
I don't want to piggyback Cavino for the second one. But I think that this Steelers have stumbled down the stretch and the Ravens are coming into their own. I think this is a this could be a twenty point differential. I like, I like Ravens blowing them out. To me, they've been exposed. I think that's the game. I think this is the game. Then in the third Corty, I got it, honey, let's go to dinner. I really don't, I was Sam.
Yeah, I'm thinking that the Ravens win this game something like twenty four to ten or a twenty four to thirteen, twenty one ten something that so they would cover that nine and a half. Give me the Ravens to cover that, Okay, cool and Hunter round it out, bro, I don't.
Think Zay Flowers being out is gonna stop Lamar Jackson. I think he's gonna throw to a bunch of other people, and he's got Derrick Henry behind him. So I'm gonna go to Baltimore.
You know what, I love that Hunter comes with like reasons. He's like a broadcaster. I appreciate it Hunt Hunter his research.
Right.
Next game, final AFC game of the Super Wild Cord Weekend, Broncos at the Bills, Bills favored by eight and a half. We were just praising Sean Payton, but could he keep it close? Could he upset the Bills? Or is this Josh Allen's year? Danny g Let's start with you this time. All Right.
The Broncos defense, I think is gonna keep it closer than that point spread. They lead the league in sacks. You watch any Broncos game of almost all Bronco games this past season, You're like, you're blown away by that defense. And if bo Knicks can just play a steady game, plus, the Broncos will keep it a little closer than that. So I'll go Denver Spotacus.
I guess I have more faith in Josh Allen than Lamar Jackson, because I'm gonna pick the Bills on this one.
Blow it out? What about you? Hunter?
Yeah, I'm gonna go Buffalo too. I don't think if Alan's gonna choke in the playoff, is gonna let it happen to Bonick Cove.
What's the spread again? Eating a half bills at home? People jumping through fiery tables. Is there a weather updates spot real quick? Can you look what the weather is gonna be like in Buffalo, New York on Sunday morning. I think this is the toughest one that we've had at debate so far. I agree the defense is going to step up for Denver, but I think that these are the games that are gonna separate, you know, the championship teams, and I think Buffalo is that caliber. I think they're gonna cover it.
Yeah.
We have a high of thirty three, low of twenty nine, cloudy, no chance of precipitation twenty four percent with wins out of the Southwest at nine miles.
That's warm for Buffalo twenty four percent.
Two cult to jump through tables in the parking lot or just that's all.
Me for them out there. Yeah, Sunday will be great. There's some showers on Saturday morning, showers on Monday morning, but not on Sunday.
We're good. This game, to me has back door action written all over, and whoa talking about points spreads. I think that Buffalo is gonna be winning the whole game, easy, breezy. They advance, but there's gonna be some bs last second meaningless Bonnicks runs it in. They win by seven or eight, and all of a sudden in Vegas is burnt.
And it's like, oh they've I feel you on that.
I'm going Broncos with like the back door cover. So Buffalo dominates the game, but Denver makes it look like, you know, it'll be interested. It would be like that's a good twenty four. It would be like twenty four to ten, and it's like, oh, they got this game in the bag one minute, ten seconds that bow Nick scrambles left for a touchdown twenty twenty one, seventeen, twenty four to seventeen, and it's like, oh, you know, so there you go? All right? Uh Sam, what you got? Man Rich?
That that is very convincing what you just said. I wanted to say that Josh Allen just defies all defenses, and you know, just is a magic man, but I'm gonna take Buffalo to win.
But Denver with the points. Yeah, okay, let's let's move it along here. I don't want to take Forever on this Packers at Eagles. Let's go to the NFC Eagles at home. Five and a half points. Some injuries for the Packers. Yeah, they lost Washington, Squon got that extra rest. It might be a little issue.
Jordan Love hurt that elbow a little bit.
Only if I say only a five and a half spread, So give me at home. I'll start off to say, Eagles all the way on that Eagles and y'all, y'all you want that uh that John Pretzel that they were promoting, Yeah, give me the Eagles and that Pretzel extra dippins. All right, I'm I'm going up sit here. I'm gonna be a little bit of a homer because my wife and her family are Packers fans, and I've been on Jordan Love in the second half saying this team is being overlooked because they were in the same division with the Lions and Vikings. This is a damn good team. I think I think the Packers could win outright. I love the five and a half, So I'm going Green Bay. I'm going Packers. Wow, Hunter, what do you think? Man?
No, I'm not going to go with the Packers. How You're Alex Vanders though, too, isn't he he is?
Yeah? Yeah. By the way, imagine sitting Saquon Barkley. Imagine sitting Saquon so he could rest and not get the record, only to lose the next week. No way, Okay, Hunter's going Eagles, spotty. What do you got said? No question? Eagles? Okay, Danny G.
Normally I would lean towards the Packers, covering hair a little bit, but because Josh Jacob especially, that ground game could keep things at least they could control the clock a little bit. But too many injuries, I feel like the Eagles will run away in the fourth quarter.
Iowa, Samuel, Yeah, I'm going to take the Eagles to cover the points there does win.
Let's go to Tampa Bay. Baker Mayfield, Cavino's homie hosting Jayden Daniels, the guy that Danny G and I've been believing in all year. This might be the game oh the week. Just say this. This might be the most fun game to watch, right, I'm excited about that. Then this is your This is your Sunday evening game.
This is also a repeat of Week one, where the Buccaneers won thirty seven to twenty.
Yeah. Exciting game. I don't think either team's going all the way, but exciting game. Uh, Cavino, We'll start with you. I gotta stick with my guy. He is my guy. You know. I don't have a team, which makes me the odd guy here on Fox Sports Radio, me and Colin Cowhard. I don't believe Colin has a team. I don't have a team start, and that's pretty much the only thing we have in common. But Andy hair, he just doesn't diet. I think I'm slowly becoming a Buccaneers fan.
Man.
I gotta stick with Tampa Bay here, Okay, spot, what's the spread again? It's it's it's three.
So it's like, you know, Tampbo. Yeah, I'm gonna lean with I feel like Baker's been been having here. I know the Commander's had a strong year, but I think Baker's really going to bring it home.
So I'm going with the Bucks. Hunter. My dude, what do you think this is? So hard?
Man?
Yeah, I'm gonna go.
I'm gonna go with Tampa Bay. I just changed my mind, like last second. But I think Mike Kevin is gonna have a big day.
Yeah, dude, I mean, if you believe in momentum. Remember they let him have that moment and that brought that team together. They looked fired up last week. So I'm definitely feeling Tampa Bay there. I'm with you Hunter, all right, Danny j Yo.
As as much as I agree with what you just said, Covino, I don't think Jaden Daniels is going to let the Commanders down.
He's cool man. I like him too. I'm going Washington. Wow, it's botty. I said it ready, we got you Bucks. I'm sorry, Yeah, Sam, I'm sorry, Sam. I will take the Buccaneers to cover the three points, all right. I'm Jaden Daniels all day. I love Baker, but we can't just overlook what he's been doing all year. And let's wrap it Roale Vikings at Rams. That point spread moved up because the game left so far and now is being played in Arizona. It was one and a half, now it's Vikings by three. I'll start, you know me, I think this is a blowout. Vikings all day. Let's go, Sam Darnold I have to agree with you, Rich. Let's get it out of the way, and they have a lot to prove after that last week, you know, they're still the Vikings. They had a good season.
They got this game, Hunter, What do you think I got Minnesota too. I think that Jefferson and Addison are just gonna get touchdown touchofts and touchdown reception.
Yeah, spotty boy, Vikings, Vikings. Anyone picking the Rams, Danny g I was, Sam.
You know, I was thinking about this game on the drive in because I don't overlook the Rams there. Once their offense got healthy, Yeah, with the receivers, all of a sudden, they had an explosive offense. I still think the Vikings win though, but don't count out the.
Rams, Sammy.
The Vikings they had two They suffered two losses back to back.
One of them was in l A against the Rams.
I think this time, though, the Sam Arnold rebounds from that end of season lost against the Lions, give me the Vikings to win.
Okay, now, guys, I gotta just cover the three. I have to be honest with you for a second. As we wrap up these picks, I'll post all of our picks. I have to be honest, I sort of cheated a little bit. Oh really, of course I went with my picks, but my picks were really not my picks. I asked my five year old son, Chargers and Texans. Who wins Chargers in Texans?
Same?
Okay, Chargers, Steelers and Ravens, Steelers and.
Ravens, Ravens Okay, Broncos and Bills.
I don't know.
You tell me Broncos and Bills, Broncos Okay, Packers and Eagles, pack Commanders, Washington or the Buccaneers Rattington okay?
And the Vikings or Rams, Vikings or Rams? Last one? What do you think under it? Forday? Cool? There you go. I duplicated my son's picks, and in fact, the only one I disagree with him on deep down was I think the Bills might cover. But you know, I'm gonna go with the Broncos because my five year old son Ben said so. And uh, you know, stranger things have happened that way, Rich. No One, No one believes in like let's do it for La. You don't think Stanford's trying to really get people fired up. You don't believe in the due for Janney. I don't believe. I don't believe in that. You don't, huh, I don't believe in that. Nobody does. No Yankees lost the World Series in one after nine to eleven. It's almost like a neutral site game. Now, I know, I know, I know. And by the way, thank you Hunter, you're the man. Hopefully we get sorry to send you a little prize pack, right, Bud.
Thanks for having me.
God, good job, Hunters stay on the line there.
Yeah, Danny effect can just for playing. He was great. I got he got five on it. Hunters involved and let's see, well, yeah, how much money we wanted to get? Stener Hunter was the guy that was able to play along IOA Sam Danny g spot may you everyone did it? And five dollars. A five dollars parlay on a six or six parlay roughly pays two fifty two hundred and fifty bucks. It was like two forty eight, so five bucks. I like that. Six games. If you could be the wild card hero hit up all six and can one of us beat Rich's nose picking five year old? Who imagine if he wins right right, he wins is good to go at a target and pick out.
A few things.
So I think he was just picking the teams he could pronounce. You know, It's funny.
My son is at that age, and I think there's a lot of moms and dads out there when your son or daughter gets very interested in like watching a game with you. Every day, my son will ask me a question, like, hey, dad, who's the give me a player on the Bears, like Caleb Williams, And he's like Caleb Williams kid. Then I see him in the living room with his little their football and he runs and jumps on the couch and he's like touchdown Marathon. He's really thinking about it. Though. I had a child expert once tell me for real, Yeah, that a kid. He's five, so he's getting older and smarter. But a little kid, a toddler kid, will always pick the last choice you give him. So and he's like, if you a telekid, you want the pink one, the red one, the blue one, the green one, or the black one. They're gonna say, I want the black one because that's the last thing you said. So, if you listen back, did Ben always go at your last choice? Because if not, that means he was really thinking about it.
No, I didn't know that means he was really safe memory too for his age.
Yeah, because most kids they're like, they just remember the last thing you said to them, and they get way into it. By the fact that my five year old son could name like a bunch of quarterbacks, you know, kids get into it. If you go to my Instagram whim at rich Davis, I havent pinned at the top. I asked my kids that they were like, you know, they were busting by juavos about something. I'm like, hey, leave that alone for a little bit. You guys get to pick out one toy at Target or something. If in the next hour you work together, brother and sister work together and memorize all thirty two NFL teams, would you believe they did? It's that was great. How much kids want toys from Target? That was really cool. I love I put that at rich Davis for all the moms and dads out there. It's time for weekend hobnobbin. Let's go live in for the weekend.
You're winning bets for talking points if you get stuck socializing.
You ever done anything dangerous? You ever dance with the devil in the pale line? Friday brings us weekend hob Now. Obviously there's lots of football. It's day two of your five Days of Football, Stiffies, so lots of great football. You talked about your NFL wild card games, that's obvious. You know that's what we talked about off the air. I know it's not we can hob nobin, but we have a little extra of time. Kavino and I, we're trying to decide what our dads go to a concert with us, Like our dad we've met twenty years ago. Can you know what I've been working together? Our dads I don't think ever met, right, I don't think they've ever met now, and we're both gonna be in New York this summer. Billy Joel and Rod Stewart are playing at Yankee Stadium one night only show, and I feel like my dad and Comino's dad are both like Billy Joel Rod Stewart guys. I was like, what it be corny and hilarious if we were like, come on, Dad's I don't know if they'd go, but yeah, so one night only.
Yeah, that would be funny and you should have them film of course each other.
The fact that we've known each other twenty years I have a dance off of the game off. They have a dance off and it gets awkward. What if they do a podcast together and it's like there are dads and they're better than us, two old guys. So yeah, that was announced this week. That's that's something watching. Here's some others you s yeah, right, Caroline Dubois, Caroline Dubas versus Jessica Kamara ten rounds. IBF Women's lightweight title is on the line on the Zone. So some good boxing. A boxing card on the Zone this weekend if you want to watch some fights. And two documentaries that I highly recommend first one if you like music and if you want to have some family fun time, I highly recommend for you. Danny g I mentioned it piece by piece. It's the Pharrell Williams Story. It's the documentary of Pharrell right of the Neptunes of N E. R D. Pharrell the superstar producer. But it's done in lego form. He has everybody in his story, from Gwen Stefani to Jay Z. Yeah, but everybody, Teddy Riley, They're all in it as legos and it's a really fun documentary. In the music and the soundtracks phenomenal. It's available on Amazon Prime, piece by piece and another music based documentary that I recommend. It's a little sad, but it's a cool story. It's called I'm Tim and it's out now on Netflix. Who's Tim? Tim is a Vici better known as a Vici, the superstar producer and DJ, and you learn about his crazy life and his ups and downs and the people he collaborated and worked with. And it's a sad story, but it's definitely worth to watch on Netflix. Check it out now. Danny G. I'm gonna steal this right from you. I talked about this a couple of days, right from probably your notes in front you, So I'll give Danny G props. You reminded me that there's a Jerry Springer documentary. Yes, sir, I want you to know a difference between Rich and me, though, because guess what I had it written down. I was like, now, I bet you Danny G's gonna say, it's.
A two part documentary fights, camera action.
You know, the trailer makes the team like the people behind the scenes like there was a lot of drama.
It's there's so much that you have no idea happened behind the scenes that we were kids at the time, So it's, dude, I think even more special to see because we didn't know about any of this.
Remember he was he was a political guy right Cincinnati. Yeah, and then he got in trouble because he wrote a check to a prostitute. Do you remember that it is white? He recently was married, and she's like, what is this?
He was a straight newsman and his arm had to kind of be twisted to go out and do the style show they eventually wound up doing.
You know, interestingly enough, we always talk about Mike Tyson and Dennis Rodman and some of the most interesting people out there. The Lake Greatry Springer such an interesting path when you think about a politician newsman and because like the face of like trash fighting television. So definitely gonna watch that two part document in.
The Beef, the beef between him and Oprah, it's at that's making headlines. A lot of people are taking that out of the first episode.
Changed the daytime format forever.
Yeah. Sure.
Nel Camino, a guy that looks like you when you have one too many takeitos, has a new stand up special. Gaba Gleasias.
Oh yeah, we're id Love One Too Many, Love of Fluffy, I Love Gave, I Love Gaba Glad I Know So a brand new comedy special and we talked about Nate Barghetzi special last week. Gave you one this week from Gaba Galacias and uh, Danny, g you you turned me on to season two of Shrinking, which is great.
Silo on Apple TV.
Yeah, I got it, good, you got I gotta take your word on that one.
Silo is fantastic. And there's a drama called Missing You on Netflix. I'm gonna check out No Good Deed with very Ono and Lisa Kudrou I checked out And if you want to watch it at home and you didn't have a chance to get to the theater, you could buy and rent Wicked from the comfort of your own couch for like thirty buckaroos. Right then again like at the theater, like one ticket's like a fifteen twenty. Yeah, No, that's worth it. Not bad. Anything else on your radar, Danny.
Well, besides the new two parter on Jerry Springer, I had written down that Brenda and I finished an old series, but it's worth the rewatch on Netflix, Breaking Bad so legendary. I wanted to see it all over again, and it was epic. There's things I noticed this time around that I didn't notice the first time back in twenty thirteen. And next on the list for Brenda's El Camino, she was new to it.
Let me let me tell you. There's a couple of shows a lot of our friends keeped us so honest with burg. There's a couple of shows our buddies always hit us up with. So if you want to, you know, endorse these hit us up at Cobin on rich linus Landman. There's a lot of good ones out there. And Cavino, I'll give you a fist bump because you told me about the new Dexter Original Sin new episode today, so I know. Yeah, it's a prequel. It's worth the watch. So when you're done watching Ohio State beat Texas tonight, then you can check out Dexter Original Sin.
That's what's happening between the Buck guys and the Longhorns.
I feel it, man, I feel it. And you know what I'll post on our Instagram at rich Davis that's Steve Kubino, A Coulvin on Ridge, all of us our picks. I got five on it. Our parlays for this week's wildcard action. Have a great weekend, stay Staffe, enjoy your stiffy, and enjoy your weekend. And I can feel it all the way down on my plump. Yeah that's right. To have a good one until Monday. Have a great weekend, Ribadecci baby, check out over Promised and we'll see you in the over Promised land. Have a great weekend, guys. Later
