The Jason Smith Show with Mike HarmonOn The Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys take a deep dive into the 2025 Masters, giving golf legend Fred Couples his flowers after shooting 1-under par on Day 1. Later, they react to Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson’s latest social media post. Then, former oddsmaker and Fox Sports Radio Vegas Insider Todd Fuhrman joins the show to break down everything from the NBA Playoffs to the Masters—from a betting perspective. Don’t miss all that and more on The Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
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We'll get to that big NFL story in a second. But today was Day one of the Masters, a tradition unlike any other, and a couple are really crazy stories, really fun ones.
Tonight.
Justin Rose, of course, is your leader after day one, just twenty two putts overall, which is like I put twenty two times I think on the front nine twenty two putts. He leads the Masters by three shots. Scotty Scheffler, who was expected one of the big favorites coming in Rory McElroy as well. Scheffler had a big night, so a big day to day. So it looks like we could have a pretty fun hey, big name down the stretch if day one pour tens of anything but the story of the day.
And it's just insane that this happens.
Is that right now, still within shouting distance after day one, and like, I don't know how much longer it's going to be this way, But Freddy Couples.
Yeah, boom boom.
Freddy is under par, just the second person sixty five rover to carry an under par round at the Masters, and here he is in content after day one, and it's like, well, I mean, what a what a blast of the wayback machine, Like, all of a sudden, here's Freddy Couples. Potentially, Hey could be a player here the first couple of days of the Masters.
Tied with a very large group of people for the eleven slot. Right now we got five nations represented in the top ten. That's good, but yeah, the fred Couples thing. As soon as he hit that, he's tied with Brian Harmon.
Not my brother m a n for Brian Harmon, not mon as our surname.
But look, I always celebrate the elder statesman in our sports Jason, because it means that we're still okay, we're still not quote that old. So Freddy, keep swinging it, buddy. It's the highlight I've played probably thirty times. Come on, let's see it again.
Oh Freddy, you want you want a great Freddy Couples story? You want this is I'll never got a Freddy Couples. Oh I'll never get a chance tell the story again. Well, first of all, it's the which I'm glad it didn't have actually two stories.
So you know, for a long time.
My dad used to uh was a marshal at the Genesis Invitational.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
He hasn't been able to do it the last couple of years. They changed it. They change the rules on him, is what he says. They change the rules on me.
Now.
Oh okay, So he was finally have to check that box on question fourteen, and he'd avoided.
For years, and he would joke around with me and I would say, oh, what do you doing. He goes, well, one of the things that the marshals does and people who volunteer, is you.
Know, you get like they they do the whole thing.
I think it's like a free round of golf and stay different like this has been a pretty consistent thing all along for the last like twenty thirty years.
When you do this, he says.
His first job was first couple of years, was going to the airport and picking up the golfers and bringing them to their hotel or bringing them to the course wherever they needed to go, like bring what tell the course?
And I said, wow, I said, they trust you with They trust you with that. He goes, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course they.
Trust He goes, well, unless I got Freddie Couples in the car, then I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm like, oh, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, don't don't joke around with that when you're there story time.
Just joke around with me. That's a commercial.
This is like Freddy in the back seat going this isn't the way to the golf course.
What did he have to beef with Freddie Couples?
No, not beef, like he loved Freddy Couples like Couples, Oh no, he loved Freddie Couples and Bubba Watson were too and kJ Choy Right, remember I told you like hit it? Sure, yeah, Like but Freddie Couples and Bubba Watson were his two favorite golfers in the last thirty five years, and he was like, oh my god, you Bubba's not playing this year. But boy, if Freddy Couples is there, oh, man, like, Dad, Dad, Dad, don't don't say that. Don't joke around with that at the at the course. Just just talk to me about that. Don't joke around with that.
Don't You're worried about a misery situation happening?
Come on, mister man, kind of like a nicer misery situation.
Yeah.
No, sure, I'm not saying they were gonna he was gonna hobble him, right, No.
I think it's like like Freddy Couple, Hey, is this Freddy Couples in this hole in the wall bar like thirty miles outside of LA and Freddie Couples goes, Please someone call someone, make a phone call for me.
I'm fred Couples, Please help me.
What was the uh what was it? Celtic Pride. Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Dennis Farina was the head coach. Yeah, Damon Wayans was the was the Uh wait, so Dennis Farina coach to that too, because he was fired as the knick Eddie Eddie.
No, that's right. He was the coaching. He was able to do both. Yeah yeah, yeah, no, no, he was the coaching. I had my aughts.
See what I tell you that when the aughts is such a huge, you know it'll happen in wasteland.
Yeah. But I mean look at that cast you had.
Dion Sanders was in there, sure, Paul Guilfoyle before he was hanging out with my man William Peterson on CSI. Yeah, I mean, Shooter McGavin was in there for Carling. Had the great Gail oh Grady. Yeah.
Oh, I love Gail ever since NYPD Blue all My she's in all those Hallmark movies now, like Geo Grady's and a lot of them.
Yeah, she's married like six times. Yeah.
Now she's like the mom in the I'm like, ah, really.
Well but still active, still getting after it. Yeah. Same, we're not that old. Yeah, if it's too loud, you're too old. Right.
So so here's this is my best Fred couple story. So this is back in ninety three. I'm going back thirty years, right, But because I remember this today is that I just started working at ESPN as.
A production assistant.
And you know, you go in at like three o'clock in the afternoon and you get assigned a game that's your game is supposed to be. You're supposed to watch that game, take it into the edit bay, and edit the highlight that they run on Sports Center, right, So that was what everybody did when they first started. So I come at three o'clock and I haven't been there that long, and the guy in charge, the manager, says, oh, Jason, glad you're here. I'm like, I can't believe you know who I am. I've been here like a week and a half. Hey, you need to watch the first day at DURL. It's coming in right now. You're cutting a highlight for the six o'clock Sports Center. It's the lead store. You got a minute and a half. And I'm going, okay, because you know six o'clock at night, you know the Sports Center, there's not a lot of highlights from the day, and it just happened to be one of those days where there was no baseball that I'm like okay, and I sit down and I go I.
Know absolutely nothing about golf. Oh my good.
The only golfer I knew because then, you know then obviously in the in the years there, that's kind of where I'm all my golf knowledge came from, because I really started enjoying and appreciating it. I started playing it a lot, you know, a long time ago. I'm like, I don't know anybody like I knew just a couple of names. I'm like, I don't know what am I gonna look for. I have no idea, and I gotta I'm gonna edit this, and it's the first thing they're going to be in the show, and it's like going to be like a minute a half highlights.
I'm going, oh my god.
The only golfer I knew, really that I knew was good was Fred Couples that was playing. That's the only one, because he had just won the Masters and he had the best year of his girl like he was gad Like, it's hard to not know Fred Couples, right, Sure.
And your dad had his poster up on his wall.
No, no, that back then, I didn't know that. I don't think my dad. My dad back then was probably you know, hey, Ben and J. C. Snead are my two biggest golfer. So I'm like, okay, I guess I will all right, fine, yeah, okay, I'll all hit the highlight. So I edit the highlight and I put in Fred Couple like like six times, right like in a minute, because he's the only guy I really knew. And I'm like, okay, this guy's up at the top of the leaderboard. But is how great of a shot is this? I don't know. So I put Fred Couples in like six times, and I'm going I don't. So I go the highlight and I put it in and and and I'm kind of nervous, and I'm sitting to the back and I'm watching the highlight as it airs on Sports Center, and everything is is fine, like Bob Lee voices over the highlight, everything is fine. Here's another Hey Fred Couples, Fred Couples. Boom, oh, Freddie Couples, Freddy Couples.
Okay great. I'm like oh.
And then a couple of people PA's who had been there longer than I was like, wow, that's a lot of Freddie Couples in that wasn't it was?
It was there? Better stuff? Was there? Better stuff?
I'm like, blank, you man, I watched it, okay, but and they were like, ohho, go look at it.
I'm like, oh, man, okay.
So I'm thinking, okay, maybe that's not that this wasn't the best job I did, but who knows. And then the guy my manager, says, hey, Jason, the producer of the show wants to talk to.
You now, and I go, oh no, oh okay.
So it's like it's like it's like seven o'clock and the I'm gonna watch is starting in like twenty minutes. I'm hoping to run to McDonald's and get food, and I'm going, okay, wow, I'm in trouble. I'm never going to get a golf highlight again. They're gonna hate me because you started on a six month probationary period. Sure you well enough, after six months they said you're gone. You're gone, they fire you. So I'm like, okay, this is the first one. I want to walk in and tell him I just did it because they gave me the assignment. And the producer says to me, hey, your highlight. He goes that you had a lot of thought in that.
That was great.
I'm so glad you spotlight Fred Couples. He was the biggest name at the event. Like that was pretty good. You know, what do you do?
You have? You cut a lot of golf highlights.
I go, no, I've been here like a week now, I'm been here with he goes yeah, he goes out. You really followed the storyline, and apparently Freddy Couples was the biggest golfer there, Like there wasn't a lot of other guys. You know, I know that there was a lot of them in the highlight, but you know, hey, everybody wants to see fred Couples more than they want to see any of these other guys. No, that was really good. I'm like, okay, And that was the point in my life when I realized, if someone's com implementing you and and and you have a lot of questions, you just say thank you and you walk away. Hey thanks, So I said, hey, thanks, really appreciate that. Awesome? Okay, great, great. So I walked back. I'm like, yeah, where's that. Where's a PA's that been there like four months longer than.
Me going oh that highlight, that highlight. So I was like feeling pretty good.
But then the next few months I became the go to guy for golf highlights early in the day, like every day.
I came in at three point thirty.
It was hey, Jason, sit down and watch the deposit guarantee. Jase, sit down and watch the first day of the Greater Hartford Open. Jason, You're gonna cut this. I'm like, oh my god. I had golf like every day for like three months.
Oh boy, I want to go watch the match. Can I go watch the match? Leepy me.
But then I started doing more research on it and understanding more people. I'm like because in the one highlight where there were hardly anybody else there, and I still remember the shot I put in a couples missing a putt, he like three putted and he put the club of the and he put his club like on his forehead and he banged it on his forehead, and I was like, oh my god, Like, hey, that was a great shot to get in there. Oh my god, that was so awesome. You put in a great reaction shot. I'm like, yeah, oh great. So I became the golf guy. I was like the pier. I'd walk in at three thirty because a lot of people going at three thirty and they don't do anything their game is at seven and they just get to hang around and some because it's a lot of people. It's like fifty people coming in PA's and they're all different things, and there's two people in charge. When someone needs to do something, they grab them at the So some people you come in form like four if not doing anything right, that's what it was. No no, oh golf, Oh here, yeah, I know I'm doing that golf. So I would sweat my ass off cutting a highline for this golf thing because I didn't really know the sport and then like, okay, now you got a baseball game or a basketball gamer.
Oh man, all.
Because of Freddy Couples. Freddy couples starting to be off on that run right there.
I gotta have more couples. Gotta gotta have Freddy couples. I gotta have it. I gotta have Freddy couples. You gotta give me trilling. When he came down you, yeah, I mean you walk up to you.
The other guys they're like, oh what you got called to the principal's office and producer. What did he have to say? I said, I gotta have more couples. It's like, but your head six shots.
In there already. It's like I didn't enough.
Who got that highlight with Freddy Couples? Oh man, that was chasing? All right, hey, okay give him everything else. I'm like, please, can I walk in and just said nope, nope, here I am on Friday. Hey, it's cut down day, Chason. Let me know when they when they make the cut. What the cut's at there?
The sure? Sure? Oh my god, my god. Okay, yeah, but think.
About the golf guys, the guys that got golfer or the women that got golf.
Later on, it was just just watch Tiger Yeah yeah, oh exactly, yeah, it does. Anybody else doesn't matter. You just watched Tiger Woods. Just watch Tiger Woods's all you get all his facial expressions. H t is a curse word. Make sure we get it, you know all of that. Yeah, what about McElroy. No, we don't need any of those guys.
Show me to tell you what. Nah doesn't matter going into the weekend.
He is obviously the the non live favorite, and all of that heavy, heavy betting market on Rory McElroy. You want to talk about an overweighted proposition of Hey, who's everybody's money on that guy?
No pressure here. That's hey, Freddy. I hope Freddy wins. I mean, oh no, Freddy.
I mean he comes in like this would be what an awful because I remember it wasn't too long ago. What was the year when when Watson at the Open Championship like came down to a putt on the last hole and he could have forced a playoff. This when he was like in his late fifties, and I was like, oh my goodness, Tom Watson could actually win. He had an incredible run over the weekend. I forget where it was. Maybe it was a Troon or Carnoustie, I forget, but all it came down to, like if he hit which and you know, his whole career, Tom Watson putting was his thing, right, I told you thirty.
Years I've been, I've been, I've been studying.
God Like, I think he had a putt on eighteen that if he hit it could have forced a playoff, and he didn't and he lost. I forget who won, but it was such a I mean that's kind of what I feel like for Freddie Couples here. And look, the Masters clearly as one of those courses where you know, hey, playing there for so long, You're only going to stick around for a certain amount of time because really the length and the scores going low is what's really going to do it for you. It's you know, if you're going to really stick around as an older golfer, it's got to be where the elements work at you, or the course works at you and takes away the advantage other people have, Like you know, I mean, Freddie Couple's one of the most was the longest hitter on the tour for so long, and now, of course.
He's sixty five.
He watches guys just you know, fly by him obviously, So I hope he sticks around. I doubt it, but it would be an unbelievable story if he does. You were taking us back to two thousand and nine Open Championship. Is that what we're looking to do over at turn Property Jordan Scotland. Ah, very nice, Okay, all right, that's where it was, okay, And he had a putt on eighteen that wasn't It wasn't a really, it wasn't like it was incredibly difficult. It was like a fifteen footer or something, I think, and if he hit it, it would have been with.
Oh my god.
Tom Watson's like sixteen, he's in't a playoff? Yeah, ends up with Stuart Sink.
Yeah. And there you.
Go, Exit out bout of Fresca, Exit Swollen Dome, that walk down Memory Lane.
How about that thirty years ago of Freddy Couples.
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Jason Jason, Thank goodness that you have the knowledge to cut highlights. This is a miracle. I actually need justin Rose's eighth birdie of the day. I need his birdie put on the sixteenth hole, and I need it in the next five seconds. Can you do it?
You think, okay, everything you just said right there, if instead of five seconds you said two and a half minutes, that's how it.
Came you bad.
Sorry, need work, I need it in five seconds. So here we go.
I was reading into a lot of subtext there. I love.
Justin Rose leads the Masters a three shot lead after a seven under sixty five.
Today needs the pace Andie's got it. What a punt from Justin Rose? Can't you believe it? Ned? There's no stopping him right now.
That's unbelievable. Jason, how'd you do that?
Ah?
You know you asked me to do what I did.
Now with the technology and now everything is on server instead a video, it's a lot easier.
You can't to the rescue there.
You know, I took an extra ten seconds I think it was. It was more fifteen seconds.
Five. Oh, we fill a bustard nicely. Yeah, that's all good.
It's like riding a bicycle, isn't it.
That's right, that's right. He's never ridden a bicycle in his life. I mean.
But here's the thing, honestly, is that when you think about what it was like to edit a highlight in the nineties versus now, Oh my gosh, here's a videotape.
You record it, you pop it out of the out.
Of the system, you bring it into a room, you dub it over, you tell them where to edit, get in and out. Then you take it out, bring it into the room like you need five or ten minutes. Whereas now it's like, oh, this highlight just happened. Oh yeah, give me thirty seconds and you can have the highlight. Oh great, that's technology.
It was hell back then, wasn't it. I tell my kids, we actually had to get up and walk over to the TV uphill in the snow both ways.
That's right.
Justin Rose three shot lead over Scotti, Scheffler, Corey Cotters and Ludwig Oberg. All of them shot a sixty eight. Today in the NBA, the Indiana Pacers held off the Cleveland Cavaliers one fourteen to one twelve for their sixth straight win, and they also clinch a top four seed in the Eastern Conference. Kate Kattagam scored thirty six of the Pistons one fifteen to one oh six win over the New York Knicks, Bucks winning over New Orleans one thirty six to one eleven. Yiannis on tenakunpo twenty eight points, eleven rebounds, five assists. One game going on right now. At halftime, the Memphis Grizzlies will lead the Minnesota Timberwolves seventy two to sixty seven. Baseball, they're still in a rain delay. In Atlanta, Phillies and Braves tied at one the seventh, Then in Kyle Schwarborough home run for Philadelphia, his sixth of the season to lead the National League. Finally, in the NFL, it was announced today that Brent Musburger has been inducted into the Broadcasters wing of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Musburger spent sixteen years as the host of the NFL Today, at program that really set the standard for modern sports television pregame shows. Here's how it sounded in nineteen eighty seven when Musburger set the stage for Super Bowl twenty one.
You are looking live at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. One hundred and one thousand fans will gather in this venerable stadium for the biggest singles sporting event of the year. The American Football Conference champion Denver Broncos has meet the National Football Conference champion New York Giants.
This is the super Bowl And that was actually edited twenty seconds ago by Jason Beck to you.
You know, the funny thing is my dad.
Every time you would see that, like I'd watch games, my dad, he always had a great line like you would hear that line, and that was always Brent Musburger is saying you are looking live ere he would say, and my dad, would you allow him?
Go?
No crap, Brent, Oh, I thought this was a tape of the Super Bowl. Well, I won't say that. If it was an NBA Finals game at the time, it would have been.
Every single time you are looking on the taball that's great, We're looking live.
All right, great, thanks, thank you. I appreciate it. Buddy.
Wow, hateful on, good old Brett Musberger. Congratulation go cats. By the way, if you need some Freddy Couples action twenty five hundred to one right now, get it on.
Boom boom right now, baby, Thank you.
I love Jason and Mike live from thetirec dot coms. All right, so we wanted to get to that Freddy Couple that was set. That was Gregage deal today, I mean Freddy Couples and the Masters. This is such an amazing story, but coming up next. Yes, an NFL quarterback had an Instagram message for all of the haters and non believers today. That's not Aaron Rodgers. I think he's gonna get a message right back at him. And it's coming up next Jason and Mike Fox.
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. A big story out of the NFL today, Deshaun Watson Remember.
Him like to boyd?
Watson decides to put a message on Instagram. He's been rehabbing after retearing his right achilles tendon, a situation acts going to sideline him for most, if not all, of the twenty twenty five season.
Remember was just a couple of weeks ago.
Jimmy Hasslim, owner of The Brown said, hey, listen, it was a swing and a miss on Deshaun Watson. Well, Deshaun Watson is still working out rehabbing at the Browns facility, and he wants people to know that, Hey, you haters and downers, wait till.
I come back strong.
Okay, by that, you mean twenty twenty, right, Like he's not gonna be back to it.
You mean like twenty twenty.
You mean like six years ago is what it's gonna be when you're ready to play again, that you're gonna be that good again. Deshaun Watson has to understand his NFL career is over. It's he's not going to take another snap in the league because he can't stay healthy. He's been hurt all three of the years he's with the Browns, never played more than seven games in a season, He's out all of this year. He is no good, he's been bad, he's been unmotivated, and so, okay, those two things enough is gonna tell you. And he's still nuclear because of the massage situation. Who's going to bring in a guy that is nuclear, who stinks and hasn't been good in five years now six years, and can't stay healthy.
Who's gonna say, yep, let's bring him in.
I mean, I know that there's lots of teams that are gonna say, hey, we'll try to get a great quarterback cheap.
But it is Helen gone for Deshaun Watson.
Like, I mean, this is here, he is saying, dude, you're not playing in the NFL again.
If he's lucky you play in the CFL.
You'll play there, you know, try try to, you know, re rehabilitate his career has image everything else. Go play in the CFL. No one, you are not playing in the NFL again. You have taken your last snap in the league.
Well, we watch how difficult it is for veteran quarterbacks who still have a bit of something to get a job, right. Whatever the dance is going on with Aaron Rodgers. Before that, it was Russell Wilson. Is he getting a job?
All right?
Eventually he gets a deal with the Giants who had already signed Jamis Winston, who already have been tangentially linked to some of these quarterbacks in this draft. Right, So I mean you go all the way through, it's still a tough road. He hasn't played, as you said, meaningful football since twenty twenty. Then they had the operation shutdown here whatever the hell that was back in twenty twenty one. You want to talk about documentaries, I kind of want to watch, because I say kind I'd be doing something.
Else while it was on in the background. I'm not gonna lie to you of what really.
What transpired that twenty twenty one season where he sat down and then he goes to Cleveland gets the bag. Maybe he's in the Hall of Fame for NFL business based on getting that deal, But in terms of being a quality player, he's he's been what's the one word that we always say, it comes back, there's.
Only one thing wrong with him. There's only one thing wrong. Really, all those things I just said, it's really only one thing. Yeah, you know, all those things, go ahead and land put them all into one pot. There's only one thing wrong. You know what that is?
What is that? Buddy?
He stinks That's what it comes out to all of this. Yes, we can rehabilitate you. We can find a way to sign you. If you were any good. And he's not been any good.
You think it's it.
You're terrible, and you bring all sorts of smoke that the team that has to deal with now, Yeah, but it'll be in the best shape of his life.
He's done.
Yeah, when he play, he goes playing the CFL or someplace else. Right, That's what he's gonna have to do. That's gonna be it for him. Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Tirac dot Com Studios. Speaking of football, we know the one story that's gonna dominate every day between now and the Draft.
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Fox Sports Radio, a tradition unlike any other, true Live from the tire Rack dot Com Studios and Butler Cabin. Here we are talking about the first great golf of end of the year. We're not gonna mention Tiger Wood's not playing. Anybody that doesn't know. Don't want to ruin it for him. Maybe you're watching thinking you'll see Tiger Woods play. Even if you won't, maybe you'll see Fred Couples, sixty five years old making it through the weekend, and oh what a story that would be.
What do you think about that?
Tony Romo, Jim Jim for a couples is like ninety Jim Jim and he still plays got white hair now, Jim Jim Jim.
His nickname is Boom Boom Jim. How cool is that? Jim Jim Jim.
I think Jim Nance and Tony Romo in the in the booth would be pretty good. And Tony's a golfing right, yeah, you know he's a golfer.
Haven't happened. But that's just it.
Even if it's the second screen experience, give me the second scream experience.
Come on, what do we see ahead this weekend? What do we see from the NFL Draft? Time to head to Vegas. Nobody better to talk with than Vegas insider extraordinary Todd Furman. He is on Twitter at Todd Furman, former odds maker. Check out the Bet the Board podcast as well. See him on CBS Todd.
What's happening, Bud, Yo, gentlemen, This is a tough time of year for me. It's the rare instances we get into April where I actually have to pretend I followed the NBA through a meaningless regular season. I'm going to start actually paying attention as the teams and players begin to care about the games that they'll play over the next two months.
Yeah, I mean, do you have that thing where you go, hey, after the All Star Game, we basically take a break NBA wise because we don't care, why should they, and then we'll get back to betting as we got closer to the playoffs.
I mean, the NBA is not a sport that I bet on a night at night out basis, so I have to be transparent in that regard. But I know it's definitely creates some trials and tribulations for folks that do trying to figure out what players are going to be in the lineup, what players are going to be out. You get all sorts of enigmatic results, like we saw earlier this week with the Warriors losing outright as a seventeen and a half point favorite to the San Antonio Spurs. At least when we start the play in tournament next week, you know that everybody is going to be fully entrenched. And it's not just teams jockey and proceeding looking to try and win to get into certain spot there or are some cases lose to avoid various opponents.
Todd.
One of the results we saw this week we watched the dramatic return of Luca Doncis to Dallas over under was thirty and a half for his points. Smith dubbed it the easiest bet ever to make.
What's say you pretty impressive result as far as Luca going home and wanting to try and make a statement, His points, rebounds assists for that night was forty eight and a half and he'd only gone over that in one previous game as a member of the Lakers. Clearly, this was a spot he had circled and wanted to go out there improve a point, and he essentially did that. So the Dallas Mavericks fans and attendance can't be thrilled. They did a good job with the tribute video and the Lakers right now, you know, I listed as the fourth favorite on the board to win the NBA Championship at a price tag right around fifteen to one, and it puts them behind only the Oklahoma City Thunder, Boston Celtics, and Cleveland Cavaliers. So we'll see if the star power can carry them through. But as far as the West is concerned, plenty of intriguing series and a lot of land mines for even some of the favorites.
Todd over under the rest of the season for rescinded technicals for Luca.
If you play, I put it three and a half, what would you take?
I have to imagine that the officials are going to be extremely judic before they hand out another technical off Lucas bantering back and forth with fans. As always, as fans of any sport, you want to see your superstars out there. So an over zealous official with a quick whistle took what was going to be a close game for the Lakers in Thunder and turned into a little bit of a lopsided contest. But I think even in the wake of that loss on the ultimate cover for Oklahoma City, it showed that the Lakers are at least going to be able to push the Thunder if that's a matchup we get. And you always wonder about the stars at the top of the Lakers roster and their capabilities versus the Thunder, who have a ton of difference makers, are a tremendous defensive team, but outside of Shay Gilles Alexander, sometimes you begin to wonder who can be their secondary scoring options in a game of that magnitude.
God, we're marveling at the Masters, particularly Fred Couples and the Eagle, and he's twenty five hundred to one. How much betting is done on an event in the golf landscape, and that sub sub question is the Roy ma Kero seems to be everybody's favorite.
Is that followed the money as well.
Single biggest golf betting event of the year. Sportsbooks do a great job of putting out odds to win the Masters essentially once this tournament will come to completion on Sunday, so you have the better part of eleven months to try and get down and it creates a little bit of volatility, especially further down the board. You're not going to get long shot prices on Rory or Scotty or some of the biggest names in the sport, but you can find guys that start the year pretty hot and that may end up giving you an opportunity to kind of build around those particular investments. As far as Rory, when you look at where he is chasing Justin Rose seven strokes back, odds makers giving him a ton of respect, and I think rightfully so when you see Rory's number drifted out about seven and a half to one before the tournament. Now out to twelve, and that's reflected across the board. I know Justin Rose, at least on paper as a three stroke lead, and it can't be discounted. But odds makers still have Scotty to favor. His odds have shortened substantially from a price tag of four and a half to one now down to two. Ludvig Olbert number two twenty five to one pre tournament down to six. Justin Rhodes of course, Justin Rose, of course, the big winner and all of that one hundred and ten to one coming into Augusta. He's now the third favorite at seven and a half to one. It's in prominent sportsbooks.
All right, Tod, Let's head to the draft. We talked about this earlier look. The status and where Shador Sanders gets drafted is going to be the topic between now and the NFL Draft. From what you're seeing and hearing in Vegas, if I said to you the most likely outcome for Shadoor Sanders based on what you're hearing, is what that he's.
Going to fall a little bit further than people are led to believe.
As far as what outside the top ten, like outside the top ten like well like where do you say.
If you want to bet Shador Sanders in a one way market, So keep that in mind. To be a pick inside of the top five, you can get a price return of about two to one, and I think that you would see substantial money coming in on the NOH if that was the case. Now with quarterbacks, it's always a little bit different, Smith, because you have to imagine if Shador is there seven, eight, nine, ten and a team, he's going to be their guy that they're going to trade up. So all it takes is one team to fall in love with you, especially as a quarterback, and it kind of throws a wrench into things. But as far as the price is out there now on Shador and the team to draft him, I think that's a very interesting market. Because the Saints have moved to the forefront as the favorite. Now that price will get you right around three to one. The Steelers second on that board, priced neck and neck with the Giants in that four and a half five to one range, and then lo and behold your beloved New York Jets now force on the board to try and select Shador Sanders and make him the quarterback of the future for game Green oh, we.
Love justin Field. Justin Field is our guy? Hey, Shiador Sanders? Is there draft Jador Sanders? We love j Sante.
Yeah, we know, we know how this is going to go for the Jets. Let's knock sugarcoat it in any capacity. I still think though the Jets are going to use their first round pick on an offensive lineman to try and create a little bit more depth in the trenches. But if you think that a quarterback is going to be the order of the day, you know, seven to one kind of the going rate should they have fallen in rove with Shad or Sanders, Jackson Darda or a player to be named later.
That has actually been one of my the curious things I've been following in the betting circle stot of by individual team what player will be their first selected, So is it an offensive lineman and is it a quarterback?
And then odds there app for each of those positions. I think it is an interesting way of examining the draft one.
Hundred percent, and I think you can isolate some of these teams and try and figure out where you have a higher level of conviction you'll Last year, the Jets were a massive favorite to take an offensive lineman with that tenth overall pick. I allowed folks that wanted to take some shots, thinking that they might add an offensive weapon in brock Bowers to get some long shot pricing. But I think for Raiders fans must of their chagrin. And I'll bring this up to Plank on Sunday night because I love the needle in whenever I get the opportunity. The running back position is a dollar forty five favorite for the Raiders for their first drafted player. You look up and down that roster. I'm not sure that's what's going to get the Raiders over the hump, even if they think they have a dynamic runner in Ashton Genty out of Boise State. We've seen Pete Carroll make this mistake before. Fortunately for Raiders fans, he probably won't draft eight running back out of San Diego State this time around.
I will say this though, Todd, I see a lot of running backs coming off the board the first couple rounds. It may not be quarterbacks, may not be the order of the of the draft here, but I see tons of running backs coming off in those first sixty four picks.
I think we'll see a number of guys start to go. I mean, clearly, Ashton Genty is an overwhelming favorite to be that first guy. And that's where things start to get a little bit more interesting in terms of who you believe will be the second running back drafted. Most signs right now, given the media interviews and the way he has risen up on some of the draft forecasters boards, would be their running back out of North Carolina, Marion Hampton. So we'll see how that looks. But again, that's a position that if one player's skill set fits a little bit different, maybe they fall in love with Travian Henderson in the process. Maybe it's Quinn, Shawn Judkins or somebody else, but I think it's Ashton Genty the first back o Marion Hampton number. And that's where things start to get a little bit squarely.
Third on down the line, Todd, last one for me, how can I what kind of odds can I get on the Knicks losing in the first round? Oh?
Come on, manok.
The price tag on the Knicks in their series if we look ahead for them, you know, potentially on a crash course to take on to the Detroit Pistons barring some unforeseen change, if the Indiana Pacers can get by the next the Knicks will be substantial favorites. And you would think, given any level of veteran experience, that they're going to open as a substantial favorite. So if you think the upstar Pistons can get the job done, you'll get a pretty aggressive price tag out there HERM and a lifetime's worth of material that you can rip Smith for for the next eleven plus months.
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We'll talk to you next week.
You got a gentleman. Enjoy a great weekend at golf and whatever whatever other sporting pursuits are.
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We'll get some more on Onredeur Sanders up next hour. But it's interesting to hear, you know, you hear all the different possibilities for him of you know, top two, top three off the board, by the top ten falling through the draft, and you know, as more time goes on, there's been more of the falling through the draft, and there's been in the top five of the draft. Just seeing the way things are going, it looks like a fall for Shador Sanders's coming.
Yeah, I know it's gonna be interesting to see, right who is there a team that loves him enough to just say we have to have him, because we've seen that in the past. But for this year, Yeah, there's more intrigue at the top of the draft. Can't wait to cover it all with you, as we do each and every year here on Fox after mister Perfecto gets things going as well, so it'll be brilliant.
