Week 1 of the NFL with Ian Rapoport

Published Sep 8, 2022, 4:00 AM

Welcome back to another episode of Unleashed, brought to you by BetMGM. This week, hosts Olivia Harlan Dekker and Jerry Ferrara take a dive into week 1 of the NFL with a man who knows more about the league than anyone else, NFL Network Insider, Ian Rapoport. Ian joins Olivia and Jerry to give them the scoop on the rollercoaster off-season, the latest news from around the league and what to expect for the upcoming weekend of football. Later you’ll hear from BetMGM’s Betting Expert, Peter Andreu, as he shares his team picks for this weekend and how he would spend $100 for the week on bets. So sit down and tune in for another fun and exciting edition of Unleashed, presented by BetMGM!

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From the King of sports Books comes the Key Sports podcast Unwashed, presented by the MGM. Here's your host, Jerry Ferrara and Olivia Arlan Decker. The weight is over. Week one is here. You know, Jerry, I have a take that isn't quite as hot as your Super Bowl Sunday proposal. Sorry, super Bowl Saturday proposal. That's it's so acid and I can't even say it. But I was thinking of something this past weekend and I want your opinion on this. Okay, okay, let's hear it. Why doesn't the NFL in college football share week one? You know, Monday was Labor Day. Let people party all weekend, watching their teams, going to games, having parties, going to watch parties, whatever. Let college football have your Thursday kickoff, Friday Slate, Big Saturday Slate, and then the NFL has Sunday and the two Monday games like usual. They could even do three or four games on that Monday Labor Day. I I just don't get why a league that's so centered around Sunday, why they can't take advantage of a Monday holiday. Am I crazy? No, You're not crazy? And I like the way you're thinking because as asinine or trash, as you called my Super Bowl Saturday. They take, and it is the moral of the story is, let's separate a tiny bit from traditions. I love traditions. I don't want to lose the traditions, but we gotta. If we don't separate a little bit, we'll never innovate. So I'm not gonna say this is a trash take. I do like it. But to me, that still feels like college football would be the even though they're going first, they would be the main course. It's almost like NFL would be dessert, whereas the way it's lit up now, college football for me anyway, this whole week is like the appetizer, and then next weekend, this Sunday coming up, is like the main course. But I wouldn't be against what you're saying. I like to break some of these traditions in a small way. I don't think NFL would be desert. I think NFL the thing that people would worry about is that college football would get overshadowed because the NFL is king. NFL has the most absurd ratings, like they be NBA Playoffs, like a random lower tier game beats big NBA playoff games. NFL is king. I think you're not alone and being someone who has a strong NFL allegiance but not a college football team. Obviously, last week we found you one the chant of clears, the fighting chant of clears. Who are now want to know? We'll get to that later. But do you think that people more or less are kind of one or the other, Like they're more college football than NFL and vice versa. I don't think there's a ton of crossover, right, It's kind of a different audience. Yeah, I don't. I don't know how many people are out there that I love college football and NFL football the same. I think, you know, for me, like I enjoy college football, I really like college football. But yeah, I'm I'm not scheduling my week around all the games. Maybe one or two games I'll schedule around the college football. Yeah, I don't think. I think with people it's either one or the other. I just didn't think of one problem about your proposal. You're talking full Saturday, full Sunday might not be the greatest way to enter into a football season with some relationships. I think a lot of relationships might fail if the person who loves football is like, all right, Saturday Sunday, I'm out. I'm not gonna bes romantic relationships. Uh. You know, the force rate might already be high in this country, it might go higher if that's how we enter I just like just be like this way, we're slowly entering the season, as opposed to the mass hysteria that would be. You know, I don't know, Yeah, that could be a problem. I know my wife wouldn't love it, and she's a football fan, she would not love that much. Opening weekend well, as always, we know there's money involved and that deciphers everything. But so many networks broadcast both college football and NFL, so I feel like they could cross promote, and there's I don't know. I'm that just my husband and I disagreed on this one this weekend, so I wanted to ask your opinion. We can also ask the opinion of someone much higher up and more informed than us. It's NFL insider from the NFL network, Ian Rappaport. He's coming on the show. I'm excited for that one. Jerry. Yeah, there's so many other things to unpack. I even had an unbelievable moment. I know, we talked about our kids on this show. And I don't want to jump too far ahead, but I had a great moment with my my three year old revolving around college football. I saw that on your Twitter that you you guys were watching the game together and what he was like asking questions and was into it. Right. Yes, I I definitely don't do pressure. I've never been a pressure guy my whole life. Like, I've not been like, come watch football with me, like just I let him kind of do his own thing, but I watched football. So yeah, nine o'clock at night, he kind of came out of his room. He's like, oh, hey, Dad, what are you doing. You're watching some football. I'm like, yeah, can I watch with you? Sure, sit down and have a seat. He went. He's like, he went and got his pillow. He laid it down next to me, and he was laying down. I was explaining Ohio State, you know the red jerseys there from where you're from Ohio. He thought tackling was the funniest thing you ever saw. He just kept going, oh, you tripped, And he loved punts because the ball he could actually really see the ball in the air, So asked a few great questions. He made it a whole quarter. He watched the whole second quarter, and just when I thought he was gonna like settle in for the whole game, it's like, all right, Jacob, it's halftime that he's gonna make us some popcorn. He's like, no, I'm gonna go and Ben sleep with Mama. Good night. And he just took his little pillow and he walked off into the night. And it was I think maybe top three dad moments. There was no pressure. He just did it on his own. Oh that is so adorable. So you're never going to be like, hey, kids, get an acting class. Definitely not No, no, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe some school plays and stuff here and there, but no, I'm not going to be the you gotta be. Yeah, we're gonna be an actor. If he loves it, we'll talk about I'll actually discourage it, if I'm being honest. Speaking of that Ohio State game, though Notre Dame covered, and our friend Peter Andrew, he told you they would. Even Pat Forty, who was much more knowledgeable than Peter Andrew, thought that Ohio State would cover as a seventeen point spread. But the Friday in Irish hung in there and they did it. Yeah, that was a big number. We all knew that. In Ordered Dame. It's not nearly as good as Ohio State, but they have a good defense that they're well coached. They definitely had Ohio State playing their game in that first half. Ohio State was missing their receiver, so they slowed it down, but you kind of knew it was a I actually ultimately think that type of game long term for Ohio State will be good. They beat a quality team and kind of a grind out game. Worried because they got off to that slow start, I don't. I think it's actually long term a good thing. How jacked up are you about Georgia? That must have been a good feel for you this weekend. Oh, it was incredible. It was incredible beating a number eleven team and only allowing three points. I mean, they were so great. I was thinking of our friend Pat Forty because he writes this cover story on steps and Bennett, and then of course even in Sideline Red fort in which I did, is sometimes after you give a great story about let's say a second string running back or something, and then right after you finish your story, they score a touchdown, Like you're like Yes, that timing couldn't have worked better. And I was thinking of Pat when Stetson had an incredible game. He had three sixty eight and two past touchdowns, one rushing. I mean, he he was on fire. And it just it just to find the article, you know what I mean. Yeah, it's it's hard to say men amongst boys and college football because those are all large, strong, athletic fast men playing. So but he does look like I have remember thinking this watching the game. It's like he's like that kid who rolls up to the little league field and you look at the other you look at the other dugout and you're like, oh my god, the kid's got a mustache and he has a car keys in his pocket to be dried. Here he's supposed to be twelve years old. That's just kind of how at ease he looks playing quarterback right now. Just looks and I know they're loaded, but he's also playing just high. High level of confidence is the word I would use with him. He just looks unafraid of every situation. Oh, it was glorious to watch. And we talked last week about how most of the defense departed for the NFL. Well that doesn't seem to matter. It's it's a strong Georgia defense. Again. Last year they're best in the nation. I'm curious to see how they play out. This year they looked out, so I'm really hopeful about the Dogs. I'm excited about that one. Your second team his Michigan More despite your in laws were big Buckeye fans, but we were following the story of their quarterback of they were gonna have two different starters for the first two weeks. I believe you're starting week three, but Cade McNamara started last week Firs Colorado State. He went nine for eighteen, one six and a touchdown. J. J. McCarthy is going to start this weekend versus Hawaii. Did you follow this at all? Do you care? I do care because and Pat really did help us out. We mentioned Pat forty fifteen times already. He definitely did help. It was a great episode. I've been talking about it all week. He definitely helped me with the why are they playing too, Why they're announcing two different quarter they're basically announcing their starting lineup for the season now, and it's different quarterbacks, and he mentioned the whole transfer situation. He said, hardball is kind of genius with this, however, and Cade was fine. That game was over before it's arted, and it was all kind of mop up duty. Even then, J J McCarthy does come in, he goes four for four. He did rush for fifty yards and a touchdown on three rushes, so I think he actually still won the first week, even though it was kind of mop I don't want to call it mop up duty because the whole game was mop up duty. So I'm really interested to see what JJ does next week, because at some point someone's gonna play better and you have to Yeah, you know, they're not going to be playing Colorado State every week. At some point, tough decisions against good teams are coming. Yeah. Something we didn't ask Pat about last week that I wish we had. Of course it didn't break until the weekend, but still a really interesting topic that has been anticipated for years is the new college football playoffs. So it's expanding finally. A lot of people wanted that, myself included to twelve teams, implemented no later than so it's coming. I think people wish it was here sooner than later, because this is going to make college football that much more interesting. So much so that I think it's time two on which I think it makes the whole season more interesting start to finish, because otherwise a team who lost Week one, you know, we just finished Week one, you'd be pretty much out of it. And remember, Jerry. In college football, it's much more nuanced. You you have to have a resume. It's not how many wins you have, it's who you beat. You know, in the NFL, it's kind of a numbers game. It doesn't matter if people respect the team you just beat. You just gotta beat him, got a win your division, got to win your conference to advance to the super Bowl. In college football, it's like, well, you know, they beat Notre Dame week one, but Notre Dame was really shorthanded, so it's not as impressive as it might have been. Like that, truly is the type of conversation that we're having as we get closer to selecting the four teams who play in the playoffs. So I like that it makes everything more juicy, you know what I mean. It's not like a single elimination Week one, which has happened, so it makes the whole season more important. I think it's way more attractive for players to play in this now playoff. Let's say you're the twelfth team to make it. Well, you might have been playing in the good Year Tire Bowl, and if you're a guy who's wanting to go to the draft, you would skip it because you want to make sure you don't get hurt. Well, now instead of playing in the good Year Tire Bowl, you're playing in a playoff game. You're gonna play. It's important to you, it's important to your team. You're not going to sit out. So I think that is so much more enticing to the viewer of stars playing longer. And then with n I l more teams and players in the playoff. Now they've more of a chance to cash in. If your star running back on I keep kind of using this reference. But the twelfth team in well, now, maybe he's just signed a nice little deal for an extra ten twenty grand to do something in your town for you know what I mean. It's just this stuff at up but accumulates, and then I think most importantly it's the chance of an upset. It makes it more like March madness. When you have more teams you have you never know who's going to get hot at the right time. And you know, injuries really play a big role. When you think of Alabama last year, their top two receivers, one went down in the SEC championship, one went down in the National Championship. I think if there was a third game in there, I think if those had been too playoff games before they got to national championship game, that's interesting. That's really interesting. So I think all of it makes college football a little sexier. You know, you want, you want a bigger playoff. It just feels like more's at stake. So I'm off for it. I'm excited. Look as someone who self admittedly I like college football, I don't love it because I just don't have the band with yah. But if you're telling, if you're using that magic word that we all love playoff games and say sexy, right, it's odd because you know, baseball was kind of the first to expand the playoff system. People balked out of it first, and it's probably the best thing baseball has going right now. Obviously the NBA is now messing with this plan, which everyone loves. For the most part, I just think, like you said, they're taking a book at a play a page out of college basketball's book, and now you have the cinderella story. College football never had the cinderella story. Can't be like fifteen and two. That's not a cinderella story. But in college football, if you were to sneak out in national championship at fifteen and two, you were probably the underdog going and if you had two losses on your scheduleinati last year. Cincinnati last year was a quote college football cinderella story because they're a lower tier right school. But I agree, yeah, so you like it to dumb guy question here, are they gonna go right to twelve? Or do we not know? Are they gonna slowly? Are they gonna go for eight and then twelve? Are they jumping right from four to twelve? They're gonna jump for to twelve. That is a lot, that is the side note. And we've got to get Pat forty back. Maybe do one year with eight, test the waters and then maybe up at the twelve. He's jumping right to twelve. I don't know, but they are a lot smarter than I am. So well, that is for sharp. I'm all for it. But yeah, I feel like, you know, obviously it was just voted on. Is just agreed upon, So it's too late to have it for this season, but I just wish they do it next season. Just let's go. Let's do it, because then if you're let's say, you're a team that probably would have made the top twelve, but right now you're a junior, you know, you're like, I'm never going to see the playoff because my team is not gonna be a top four team this year or next year, but we would be a top twelve team, Like we're one of the twelve best in the country. So it's you know, like, just now that, now that it's dangling right in front of these guys, let's get to it. Yeah, it's gonna affect so many like it will affect the NFL draft, WHI would be cool. We all know we've am a prisoner of the moment with the playoff system and the now National Championship game. So now there'll be something, like you said, ten eleven twelve seeds who we would not be watching play playoff games. We're gonna get a look. So it's gonna even affect the NFL draft. So this is really cool. That was the unleashed section and now we have a new game, and I'm excited for this one. It's called That's the ticker. So as we are going to talk Week one games with Peter in a little bit. First, we're gonna have some fun with some futures and they're going to be kind of random, which I love because I love picking either a bad team to bet, like a low under on for win totals, or you know, a random player prop like These are the fun ones because then you have interest in something otherwise you wouldn't you know what I mean from a betting angle. Do you want me to throw the first random one at you please? Yeah? Okay, And these are random, but actually these are some kind of props that I love. Okay, let's start with one that actually will start up pretty much Thursday, because we're gonna have at least a player or two involved in this Thursday Night Rams Bills. Most regular season receptions, we have Cooper Cup plus four hundred. Obviously, I think he had four hundred receptions last year. Davante Adams now on the Raiders plus a fifty Justin Jefferson getting a Lot of Love plus nine hundred or Stefon Diggs plus nine hundred. What do you think? Well, he didn't have four d He had a hundred forty five up. Uh yeah, he had a hundred forty five last year and that was sharing with oh b J when he joined the Rams in November. So now, and I mean obviously other players, but those two cut the bulk. Now it's just Cup and Van Jefferson. And of course they added Allen Robinson. I know you're big Allen Robinson fan. Those are the starters. They also drafted to two at well who I think will contribute. But Cup, we'll get the bulk of the targets obviously. You know, oh b J was a star and kind of brought in his own style. But now I feel like cups receptions are even gonna go up from So it's chalk he's plus four hundred. I like Cup here. I also don't think Davonte Adams is going to be as great without Rogers. I hate to say that, but it's uh. I probably sound like a biased, bitter Packer fan when I say that. The only other one that was kind of intriguing to me was Stefon Diggs. And again we'll we'll find out sooner than later on that one. You know, he's healthy and that's gonna be good. But for me, I'm going Cooper Cup at plus four hundred. Do you like that or would you leave it? I do you it's hard to it's hard to not love that I got a hundred forty five receptions last year. If I were to make any other case, I would make the Justin Jefferson case. You know, different coaching situation there, theiling hopefully back and healthy, which may help Justin Jefferson not get fully double covered. I just think Justin Jefferson is poised for this kind of maybe record kind of year. I don't know, but uh yeah, I'd like the plus nine hundred. But Cooper Cup, you can't. You can't argue with Cooper Cup because there was no O b J. In Super Bowl. That was their only receiver, and he still had like a hunter and fifty receptions in the Super Bowl. So even with all eyes of O b J had like what two catches and one of them was for a touchdown right before he got hurt. Right, I will say, oh b J didn't didn't start the season there, So Cooper Cup did have a solid month month and ahead without O b J to pile up. I mean, god, it was insane, but they got Stafford there. I love it. I do love Grouper Cup. Most regular season receptions. Okay, you brought up Stafford. Let's stick with quarterbacks. I'm gonna throw the next one at you. Most regular season interceptions thrown. So we've got Zack Wilson at plus eight hundred, Justin Fields a plus nine hundred, and Trevor Lawrence plus one thousand. I think Trevor Lawrence was the leader in interceptions last year. Don't quote me on that. I think or he was tied for the leading interceptions. I think Trevor Lawrence takes a step up this year. Hopefully that means less interceptions. I like Justin Fields on this. I like him as a player. I don't even really put this on him. I do think there might be a level of maybe for his life with that old line. Although they're showing some signs. Zach Wilson plus eight hunter he may miss a game, although there are talks that he might be ready for Week one, which and I think helped report that, so that would be really really cool. I leaned Justin Fields plus nine hundred. I didn't check the odds on this other player who came to my mind and I'm gonna put our producer Joel Solomon on blast right now because I was kind of on the move getting the kid to school, and I said, anyone know what's Jamis Winston's odds on leading in this. We know Jamis, you know, famously threw a lot of inter sections, a lot of pick six is pretty much. And Joel sent me to Jamis Winston odds and then also just thought it would be fine to send me the Daniel Jones interception odds. I didn't ask for those. I don't know why you did that. I did not ask for the Daniel Joe. Daniel Jones is a fumbler. Let's get one thing straight. It's a fumbler. He's not necessarily he might not throw enough to have I I think justin fields plus nine dred Is would be my call. Okay, I disagree because I think the Bears are going to be so run heavy. I don't think they're letting him off the leash yet. And I agree that Trevor Lawrence is going to be much improved, but he's so young. I I don't know. I think he could lead from those three. I think he would have the most regular season and interceptions a plus one thousand, so that one not when we disagree on and Yeahzack Wilson might play Week one, which is nuts that that's just coming out. Okay, here's another QB one. How many passing yards well Tom Brady record in the regular season. The number is four thousand, five nine and a half. What do you think over under? I think over is a coin flip to me, But I'm not. I've been scorned by this already, thinking oh, this is the year Brady's done, and he won like three more Super Bowls after that, So I know this year might be a big under year on props for a lot of players out there. I'm not an under guy. I eileen over here. I know there's weapons issues with God and coming back from an A c L and Russell Gauges. I get it. But still I I think he's got enough there and I think with that division he could easily throw for for the over on that. So I'm going to say under, and you're you're not wrong. Both years he's been in Tampa Bay, he's had over that number. But now he loses Gronk, he loses Antonio Brown. Mike Evans is working back from injury, and probably won't go Week one is what I'm seeing. Russell Gauges injured, Chris Godwin is coming back, and I guess just this week practice without a brace. That's a big deal. They brought in Julio Jones, but I think there are enough question marks there. You know, he's kind of lost his two guys. You know, he was a big proponent of Antonio Brown through everything and and obviously Gronks his guy. But I think this might be an under year for him. Again, not saying that they can't still win, but I don't know if he's gonna completely air it out like that, because yeah, I just think is Stable is a little bit depleted. And you know, his last two years in New England, before he became a buccaneer, he was under that number. So I don't know I'm going under. Okay, here's another one. How many receiving touchdowns? Well, Kyle Pitts record in the regular season the numbers four and a half. So I love Kyle Pitts. Everyone loves Kyle Pitts. Want such a talented excite. I mean, he's basically a wide receiver at a tight at tight end, he's better than most wide receivers at this point, and I know touchdowns definitely wasn't his thing last year, although he had an all Pro years had one touchdown. I know I had him in like all fantasy leagues one receiving touchdown. Yeah, because it's very easy to key in on him inside the red zone and even inside the thirty yard line if they're not double covering Kyle Pitts. I would question every de coordinator. That being said, I I do lean under because I just don't know if there's enough around him to garner the four the five touchdowns to get the overside lean under. I like under here. I will say, though, if it does go over, I do think it's because he just has one monster game where he has like four touchdowns in a game, and I think that's what will maybe get him over. You know, yea some matchup with it's not gonna be against New Orleans, but you know, I think they play the Seahawks. That could be easily a game he has four touchdowns. Yeah you're Seahawks. Yeah, he might just do it against your Seahawks, but you know your Seahawks are going to win the division. So I even if he has four touchdowns, way to beat him. Okay, No, you said it wasn't over wins. Wasn't it when the division? When the division wasn't a lock, it was my lottery ticket. But the over wins, which I think is over five and hap is my lock? Was your lock? Oh god? What did they do? Okay? Super Bowl Division winning team a f C East is plus four FIFTYFC West plus three fifty, NFC West plus five hundred, NFC South plus six hundred. I'm going with the a f C West Obviously, I think tip to tail they're the most stacked. Definitely when it comes to the quarterback position. I just think there are too many good teams in that division that I like the odds of one of the four making it to the super Bowl or win. But ultimately I do see the bills from the a f C East winning the a f C. So that's that's a tough one. But I guess for a bet I like the a f C West at plus three fifties plus three fifties a good number for that you're essentially getting a whole division, which I don't think any of these other divisions have even the possibility of four teams winning the Super Bowl, even though it's highly unlikely that the you know, the Raiders will win the Super Bowl. Although I do like the Raiders this year, I'm gonna go a little different on Interestingly enough, no NFC East here, while shocking, we didn't even bring up the NFC East and what their odds are plus two million? Probably I like, I sort of like the NFC West. You get the Rams, who easily could get back there. You have the Niners. Obviously, Trey Lance figures out some things. Niners are super talented, and we know I love the Seahawks here, and everyone's writing off the Cardinals and I sort of them too. But NFC West at plus five hunter a f C West is the way to go. But if you wanted a second choice, NFC West with a little sprinkling might be okay at plus five. Yeah, because you like the Rams, I'm with you. I'm with you. All right, Let's stick with the NFL, and let's bring in our guest, perhaps only Jalen Ramsey covers the NFL as well as he does NFL Network insider Ian Rappaport's here. All right, let's get down to brass tacks. Right before we were here, you had a shirt that said, gotta go gott a text. You are the guy who gets all the latest and greatest information, and I know you were even a little late coming on here because you were finishing up something. So do you have any scoop for us anything recent? In the last couple of days. I have so much swimming around in my brain that I'm I'm sure some of it will come out. I mean, it's weird because is like, you know, we got a couple of days before the season starts, and so many of the different storylines for the off season a kind of culminating here, and like some of them had handled already, like Deshaun Watson is done obviously, Baker Mayfield was traded, Russell Wilson got a new contract. Lamar Jackson still as of right now, does not have a new contract. But like, it's weird because I personally, like, like, I love football, so I get so excited for so excited for the season to start. And some of the reasons because we start new with what I do, which is news, all of the off season stuff is like rounding to a close, and it's like by the time we get to Thursday night, it'll basically be clean slate and it's like, okay, like what are we gonna have and like what's the year gonna be? Like that, that's the really good stuff for me. I'm excited. Yeah, I almost said to him, I'm so happy to have you on and talk to him like we gotta hope he comes back, because you're right, it's kind of winding down. We're gonna get a fresh slate of stories and narratives coming up. So I hope you you you come back. But this is definitely been a strange offseason, at least as a fan watching all this, Like where does this one kind of rank for you? And bizarre you know, you got Tom Brady, you mentioned Deshaun Watson. Does this one rank up in bizarre kind of stories? Yeah? I mean the Deshaun Watson story, which was like never ending. I mean, you know, think about it. We had all year. So like there were times in June and I'm not talking this June, I mean last June, so where I thought Deshaun Watson would be traded at some point over the next week. That was last June, and he wasn't traded for you know, many many many months after that. I didn't play at all and then gets traded, which was massive, and then it's like, all right, four months of what's going to be a suspension? What's gonna happen to various disciplinary things like so we had that hanging over us at all times. We had the Baker Mayfield trade going into the summer, Like I broke that from the fifteenth Green of Congressional in Washington. He playing golf with a buddy of mine. It just it would never stopped the Aaron Donald contract, Like was he going to retire? Was he not? Like all of those things? So I don't know if it was like the craziest, but it was definitely one where like you couldn't really put the phone down because there were various times where you're like, all right, this massive news is going to happen in the middle of June and we're all just going to react to it. I mean, that's good stuff. That Baker Mayfield. You just jogged my memory. I believe it was your coworker Cynthia Freeland that he said, I'm going to f the Browns up. So that game is coming up this weekend. It's gonna be massive. Probably is one of the best storylines going into these week one games, what do you expect out of Baker and the Panthers, and and what do you expect for the Browns to bring without Deshaun Watson as he mentioned, But you know, Myles Garrett seems like he really wants to get to Baker as well. Yeah, so I'm like a weird person ask on Baker and you guys know, like I'm a newsperson, I break news. I'm not a scout, right. I don't analyze the film, but I feel Baker is good and last year, if you go back to last October, Baker tears the labor m on his left shoulder. If he sits down and doesn't if he doesn't play like he's a tough dude, he was definitely playing. If he sits down and doesn't play, I think he's still on the Browns. Because we went to at all the negative stuff, we would have still thought he was the Browns franchise quarterback. Instead, he played bad last year, he was injured and obviously got traded. I still see him as a guy who is a top half of the league quarterback who can be really good, and the fact that he's facing his old team is always fun. So I expect a really good performance. The thing with the Browns is, I mean, obviously we've spent so much time talking about two Sean and he's all the off field stuff aside as only a football player. He is a fantastic quarterback. I think the roster is pretty good, so I would expect a close game. But you know, for a team like the Panthers that I think a lot of people have written off, like I would, I think they're gonna be okay this year. You know another situation that's I don't want to say confused me, but maybe you could just clear it for me. He's the forty niners QB situation. I know we probably will all follow that closely too. And where's Jimmy g gonna go? And then he's staying? Is ultimately this a good thing? Like where does Jimmy G go from here? Like what's his ideal scenario? Is it seeing the field or is it taking a year off and then making some other decisions in a year from now. Yeah. See, that's a great question. And this is one when I was trying to figure out. You know, I knew he wouldn't get traded because I knew there was no market for him, by the way, that was one of the other storylines that was like never ending the summer, right, But I knew he wouldn't get traded absence some quarterback injury. So I kept thinking in my head, all right, well, they're gonna cut him, and then he's gonna wait because why would he go sign with the Seahawks, which I never thought that was possible anyway, But like, get healthy, get cut, and then some good team will lose the quarterback. It happens every year, and just go ride to the rescue, set himself up for a big year next year, and go ahead and make a lot of money. Instead the forty Niners keep him, but some of that is still in play, like and if there's an injury, step in for a system he knows too, like what if Trey Lance is up and down and what if he's not ready? And that is all possible, Like I think he'll be okay, but I don't know that for sure. And I was there in camp and he was, you know, there was some good, some really not so good. So to me, like just for Jimmy g the best case scenario is he rides to the rescue and plays well enough to lead them to the playoffs and forces them to make an unbelievably brutal decision in the off season. That's a great scenario for him. The other scenario of not playing. I think we'll go into free agency next year and be absolutely fine and probably make a ton of money. Anyway, Another high profile player who we don't really know where he'll find a home as early as this season is O b J. What teams do you think have legitimate interests in O b J. Yeah, I mean I would say to me, the Rams still feel like maybe the most likely option. They still have a need. He loves them. And he crash Sewn mcveigh's wedding, which is so messed up as you got through the guy and invite right, So he wasn't invited at all. No, they only invited the captives because otherwise you know what happens, like you can. I mean, we had ninety eight people at our wedding. We cut the list pretty hard. McVeigh is a great dude. He knows everyone, like you could invite a million people. So he crashed, and you know, there's so much good feeling there. I think that makes sense. It's just a matter of like doesn't make more sense for him to wait. Like that's another one where like he's not gonna be able to play until probably November, so early November probably. So if that's the case, then maybe there's a market. Maybe maybe there's three teams that need a really fast, really good receiver in November. But if we're talking about favorite teams, you know, can I just selfishly talk. I'm a little concerned, sir, And it's not the right word, very very excited about the Giants new coach Brian Table right that I was hoping you would call the plays. I look forward to seeing him with the big like cheesecake fact to remember, you know, like you got a million plays, looks like a menu. Yeah, and then you know, he says, our players are gonna be calling from the booth from Kafka, Like that, that's not a big deal, right, I don't need to panic about something like that, right, No, you shouldn't panic. I would say, Like when they hired Kafka, I sort of thought, all right, he's probably gonna be the play caller because otherwise he wouldn't leave, right, right, So in my head, like I didn't know for sure, but I'm like kind of putting it together, and nobody would tell me, like it was all very secretive. But I'm like, all right, this makes sense if he was going to call the place, because otherwise you stay in Kansas City with Mahomes. Right. I would also say that it's such an issue for a head coach. You know, you you're the play caller, you're the head coach, and then something goes wrong and it's like, are you gonna get up play calling? You know, it's such a storyline. Like as a head coach, he will have input, he'll help with the game plan. Most important is to be the leader, just you know, like let's say the defense has trouble, Like you should be able to spend a Wednesday during the with the defense without worrying that it's going to affect the play cang. So it does free him up to lead this team, and so I think that should be encouraging. That said, like, there is a possibility that is a difficult year for the Giants, which is okay, but I think there's a possible like they did not add a lot in the offseason, they don't have any money, and we'll see what Daniel Jones is like, there's it could go either way, but it's possible that it's not ideal. I think I need a second team to like, Yeah, I think it's start to always have two teams. Just jump on you, just be like, be like Odell, just wait till November and jump on board. I wish I had that luxury. It's ingrained to me these giants. Yeah. Another player who is kind of in a precarious situation is Alvin Kamara. His potential suspension is delayed. That's expected to be six games for his alleged involvement in a Las Vegas nightclub fight. What can Saints fans and fantasy football fans expect as far as his availability? What are you hearing? Timing wise? It does and we'll see, but it doesn't seem like it will be this year because the hearing has been pushed and pushed. I think now it's tensibly scheduled for somewhere in the middle of the season, but like you know, how it goes, everything takes forever. So my senses, this is something that's pushed through this year and you deal with it next year. And like I know, people think it will be six games. We'll see, Like, we don't know. I don't know what he did. I don't know what evidence there is, Like obviously I was not there and we haven't seen anything except the initial police sort of report that was made public. So we'll see how many games it is. I just get the sense of timing wise that it's not this year and everything is always push push, push, So that's probably the way it goes. So like for the Saints, I think he's gonna end up playing this year, and my my guess is he's gonna have a really really good year and that the offense is gonna be pretty good. And Ian kind of on that note, with the Deshaun Watson case, all of a sudden everyone became a lawyer as we're dissecting what was happening. Can you explain every one why the NFL can't almost handle probate by themselves in terms of a suspension on their own terms apart from what happens in the courts, well they do when they don't. So basically, the new system this year, and it was jointly negotiated in the c b A and the Union did not want Roger Goodell to be the judge during execution. They did not want him to just decide, so they added this extra layer. Now, if Goddell had his druthers, it likely would have been a full season. The independent arbitrator made it six games. They end up meeting somewhere in the middle, and it's eleven games. So it's I would say, a little more fair. But the problem is, you know the NFL, I think they so often they have to wait until the criminal proceedings go through because they don't want to interfere with Like, you know, if the NFL starts talking to witnesses of something, not about Sean but anything, well, then does that change things? Does something that is said to the NFL alter what the police are gonna do. So you know, we all, because we're football fans, care about like are they gonna play? Are they going to be suspended? What's it gonna be like? But the real world, it's like, is this not just Sean but anyone? Like is this person going to jail? Like did they do some sort of serious crime? So that's actually the most important thing, and then the NFL basically comes second because they don't want to interfere with like an ongoing investigation. So you know, I feel like switching topics for a second, because you mentioned you got a text or something while you were on the golf course, you broke a story, you would be one of the few people. I think it's like doctors, you know, or you know, people delivering babies and you. I feel like, it's totally cool to be on the golf course if you like, guys, I gotta I gotta take this. Sorry, I wouldn't be mad at you. If I'm on the tea in your phone rang normally I turned around, Mike, whose phones on, You would be one of the few people that's not a doctor or delivering a baby that if you're phoning off, I'd be like, oh, let's let's stop the golf match for a minute. Uh, what's going on in your phone? Yeah, it is actually a great thing. Now. A lot of times I wish you did not of off like that. And like, I play a lot of golf in the off season. I play a real lot of golf, and I'm just resigned to the fact that, like I'm going to be sending text I'll be getting calls. I got my air pods. You're trying not to be a total jerk, and it's just part of my life. And I mean people. You know, everyone i'm with knows what I do. So if there's a call, two things happen, I can go, oh, I gotta take this, nag go ahead. Like even my wife, who you know, you think about if you think she'd be you know, used to it and fed up like anyone. Like if I leave a conversation to get a call, she knows it's important, so she will almost she never says anything. It's never like why do you have to take this? She knows if I'm taking it, I need to take it. The other thing is everyone's like, yeah, your friends must annoy you, right, like yeah, yeah, who who's Can I see your phone? Can I see? Like that's you know, and like you know, there's always you play golf with three people, if you get three calls and spend the two minutes, they're always like who is it? Who is it? So you're like, can I trust you guys? Like let me tell you what's going went on? So like when I was working on the Mayfield Trade at Congressional with one of my high school buddies and actually and his father in law. Actually, I had to be like, all right, guys, I'm gonna tell you what's going on, don't say anything and this. So it was like a half hour where the only people who knew what was happening where me and then like my playing as we like shorted out. It's kind of fun and they all had They all had a great kick out of it. It was so they enjoyed themselves. What a perk of being your friend. Well, it's also like generally annoying too, because you have to deal with me, like, can you shut up? I'm trying to pin that happens to I really want to go off with you. Sorry, you go ahead of Livia, come on, come out to buy course. I'm mediocre. Sorry, go ahead of you. You wouldn't like it because all I would have a lot of entourage questions. I was a big entrage. No. I feel like it's got to be like yeah, go aheady and you ask a question, Well I would say, I don't have questions, but I do want to say one thing about entourage. So when I was like twenty four, I moved to Mississippi, and then I moved to Alabama. Mississippi for two years, Alabama for three years, then Boston. We traveled around the country and Androge was one of my favorite shows. And you know, I never missed an episode. I was all in and I missed my and like when I was in Missisippi, like I don't really know anyone, so I didn't really have any friends, and the like togetherness and bond that you guys had in the show was something I like held onto because I was not with my friends, and it was like actually like really meaningful because like this, I know, seriously, like it made me feel like close with my buddies watching you guys and like whatever happened on screen there, I mean, you know how good it was, right, I mean it was like I'm sure it was like pretty organic and awesome, but like it has a special place in the heartest So when he traveled around the country a lot of times by themselves, it was pretty cool. I mean that I appreciate that in so many ways. But that and that's the thing with the show. I always tell people, like Hollywood was the backdrop. The show was about friendship. The show was about four guys from Queens who got in this extraordinary scenario and always said we're gonna do this together. All the Hollywood stuff, that stuff is great, it's funny. Got a lot out of it. It shows about friendship. That's always what it was. That that means a lot. Now we all right, we're golfing. This is settled before maybe maybe finally. What's thing? I don't even know what a good time is for you because I feel like you're a very busy guy, busier than me. I'm a Tuesday only golfer during the season, in the off season, in April, after the draft, then it's all, okay, we'll figure it out. Tuesday only. Why Tuesday, that's no. But so basically like the way this season is, like, you know, I prepare for Sunday for our pregame show, like from my like me and Schefter and Glazer, like that's when a lot of our big stuff comes, and you know, you prepare news for Sunday. Then you watch the games and like we usually have friends over go somewhere, like it's pretty chill, and then by like three or four o'clock, like the injuries start to come in and I kind of gotta get to work. And then Monday is all like who's injured, which quarterbacks are being replaced to then we get fired, like all that stuff is Monday's like crazy Tuesday, you know, like there'll be a couple of kick or tryouts, like someone's bringing in someone because someone got injured, and so Tuesday sort of clean up some things. But Tuesday's like my only off day, and then Wednesday it kind of ramps back up. Players are back in the building like that kind of stuff. So that's kind of the way my my week kind of lays out. It's weird, but tuesday's my office. You know, you're pretty rare in this business that you could actually enjoy watching the games. So you said Sunday, like you have friends over you you're just sitting around watching the games. Yeah, it's great. That's very rare. It's actually really weird because people are always like, oh, like you know, we would have you know, we'd want to do something, but I know you're working, and I'm like, no, working, Like I'm watching it. That's great because you know, like Thursday night, like they will kick off and everyone I would talk to is watching the game. Now a lot of them will text me, like you know, coaches or gms or agents or what. They'll text me during the game just react because it's fun. But like, nobody wants to talk to me during the game. They all want to watch the game. And there's a lot of games, so like Sunday at two o'clock, every single person I would talk to his busy, So you just just watch the games and have fun. And like, I like my job a lot. It is intense and it is weird and it makes me do strange things like get over the middle of a conversation and not say sorry, just start talking to someone. But I like my job a lot, and I love football, so like I really get to enjoy football like anyone else, even though I have this kind of other weird job about it. You know. Yeah, no, I love that. You know. We were recently talking about the Man Titano documentary on Netflix and it was kind of so good. It was kind of a heat check in the journalist a world right to not take everything for face value. And there's even a phrase in journalism, if your mother says she loves you, check on it. Have you ever been lied to by a source or gotten screwed on not double checking something you were told? Yeah? I did, actually. Now, First of all, documentary was great, and it's crazy because like you shouldn't have to check is this girlfriend real or not? Like I would never think to check that, but sure it was incredible. I mean, dead spins reporting is not perfect, Like they let us down the road where like you sort of blamed him even though that really wasn't fair, but we didn't know at the time. I know, Terry, that's what I said. I told you it was you know men tite was very sad, but not complicit, you know what I mean. But yeah, so I had probably my most like famous one. Also the most painful for me was when Antonio Brown was going to get traded from the Steelers. You know, like remember the playoff game, Like I think he showed up at a fur cup. He was all a mess, and we everyone he was gonna get traded, and the big story that offseason was where's it going. Well, I knew the Bills and the Steelers were in like intense negotiations. The deal was basically done. They had terms. I knew the terms. I knew the trade was about to happen, and I wanted to break it so bad that when the trade was close, I reported it so and I had really good sources. The deal is closed between Antonio Brown going from the Steelers to the Bills. Well, as I reported the contract negotiations were going on for his new contracts and they could not come to terms on So I reported like eleven thirty without talking to every single person involved, but talking to enough sources where I felt very comfortable. And at eleven thirty I reported No one confirmed, no one denied, no one said anything like other reporters whatever, and I was like, that's weird. Okay. Around three thirty when contract talks broke down, they and everyone denied it. And I woke up at five and you know, the Bills had a statement where they were like, yes, we explored Antonio Brown, but we will not be trading for him. So I at the time I wasn't wrong, but you know I was wrong, and it changed the way I reported because you know, there are definitely stories where I get beat on. Now where I am I'm gonna wait until I hear from this specific person because this could be wrong, and other people will come out with it. They'll say this deal is close, and I'm like, I will wait. I will just wait because you've got to know it. You got to know it, and it's got to be buttoned up. And if there's so, I will now make absolute short to get in touch with all parties before I break something like that because it could go sideways and then in the end I didn't check enough and that has changed the way I do my job. Yeah, I can only imagine now it sucked at the time, but no, I can only yeah, listen, yeah, I can only imagine that feeling too, of like you know, when you I'm sure there's stuff that you probably even have her like, yeah, I got could reported this yesterday and it held up and but not. It's definitely all the time, and and there are people who are like, hey, you know you're on it, but you know you got to hold off and someone else gets it, and like it's aggravating. But in the end, I care that I'm first. Jefter cares that he's first. There's not a lot people who really are like who broke that? You know, the only thing they care about is are you right? And if you're wrong, it is terrible. You just got me thinking on your last answer. Actually, and I just gotta ask, because Adam Schefter is your competition. You know, you obviously work for different networks and you both are just hit for tap breaking news. What kind of relationship do you guys have? Do you ever share anything or are you true competitors? Are you friends? I would say we definitely have shared things. You know, there's some things that only he and I would talk about, or would care about, or would experience. There some people that have been not so nice to us in a similar way. We will sometimes talk about that, you know what, email back and forth every once in a while if something comes up that's that's relevant. And when you see him, you know, we're always friendly. It's pretty intense. I think both of us care about our jobs a lot. I wouldn't say it's personal though, like there's nothing that he would do or that I would do against the other one. Like, it's not like that. It's just very very intense because we both want to win and we both like our jobs a lot. Well, we only have a few nights before uh we actually get to see some games. Okay, that is there, and you know everyone's talking chief so the RAM is gonna get back bills or as so many trendy picks. Is there a team that you're just looking at that no one's really talking about, not saying, oh, they're gonna make a super Bowl run, but we all know who everyone's talking about. Is there a team out there that no one's talking about that just like this could be interesting. I'm not saying make a bold Super Bowl pick. Who's interesting to Yeah, I'll give you a couple of teams that I like to think about. Like I think the Texans. I don't know that they're gonna make the playoffs, but I think they will be in the mix. Davis Mills might be might be good. Like he there's not a lot of third or fourth rounders who turn out to be stars Russ. There's Dak Brady is okay, Davis Mills might be good, and I think like they're not. Again, they're not perfect, but they're kind of building that core. And they're really young. So every year there's one team that's too young and naive and doesn't know anything and is good and doesn't realize they shouldn't be that good, and like, it might be the Texas. I'd say that's one. The other team that you know, I think is going to be really good is the Raiders. And it's not like that's sexy, but their division is so hard. I think they're you know, Josh McDaniels first time as a head coach did not go great. He's got much better infrastructure this time. He's got a really good quarterback and his offense is awesome, and and they got Davante Adams. So I think the Raiders are gonna be really really good. They're not perfect, but I think they're gonna be really really good. Those are kind of my two teams to watch those. Thank you so much, honest, I really do hope you come back. That was awesome and God to see it's here, It's finally here. Let's just go already know, I'm so excited, so excited. Thanks, Thank you guys very much for having me. You are awesome and I would be happy to come on and get no doubt about it. Thank you. Okay, So I'm watching Contrast for the first time, as our loyal listeners know, and each week I get to ask you questions behind the scenes stuff, juicy juicy, intimate details of how the show was shot, everything, A lot of celebrity cameos, so it's it's a lot of fun to pick your brain on. This one celebrity cameo that I think has almost been the best yet as I'm still about halfway through season two, is Bob saget R. I P Bob Saget. He was so funny in about the two episodes they had him in. I don't know if he's in more. As I moved forward, he's raunchy as hell, which I always you know, know, he's so different from this Full House persona. But what was it like with Bob Saget? Was there anything off of the set that was interesting about him that you remember? So? Look, obviously I grew up on Full House like most kids my age, and Full House was one of those shows that no matter your age, you've seen it at some point. So I was super excited. Yeah he was. He was ready for all that. Most people wouldn't have wanted to do a cameo like that where they're sort of living. I guess you could say a brothel, you know, Beverly Hills. Yeah, okay. So then after that, you guys go to Sundance for Queens Boulevard the poster behind you, which I told you. Now I finally get it, and it's such a good I've been a Sundance. It's so freaking cool. It's unlike an anything else. And I was curious, were you there during actual Sundancer? Did you somehow fake that? No, we were there. That was always some of the best parts of Entourage were once or twice a year. We would always leave l a and go on location somewhere. I even mentioned last week, like we shot it like Laker games and stuff like that. So yeah, we went to Sundance and it was weird because the whole festivals going on there and other actors are there and all these directors and then there we are on our cameras and again at this point, people still didn't really know what Entourage was, like they were starting to to hear about it. That episode always stands out as one of my favorites, but also, you know, you never know. At the time, I remember shooting it with the whole turtle and drama crossing swords storyline. Yeah, I didn't see that coming with the hot and in my mind like that was always, oh, this is like a funny joke. It's a joke, it's a bit, it's funny. It's definitely going to be the thing people talk about from this episode because there's so much other stuff, and that was almost twenty years ago, and I think probably a thousand times I've had someone yell at me from across the street or meeting me and talking about me and Turtle and drama crossing sorts like we did not think that was gonna be the thing that stuck out in that episode, and oh boy did it. Because I've been hearing that for twenty years almost. I love it greatest hits. Oh no, I am thoroughly enjoying it. And this season is really good. Love the Trip to Sundance, and love the Bob Saget cameo. I'm really excited that there's going to be more of that. Yeah, you got some good ones coming up, though I know where you are now roughly you've got some. You've got some. Really the season two and three back to back room, I think the two best seasons. So alright, all have more questions next week, don't worry, all right, guys, let's just keep this NFL kick off excitement going. All right, that's pretty good. But here's the deal. This season, we're going to do something a little different than last year. Peter. Each week we're gonna give you a hundred dollars and you can bet. You can break it down really however you want for bets, ten, ten dollar bets, whatever you want. As always, everyone at home should bet responsibly. As we will. Hear Peter will keep track of his bank roll every week. So we're gonna call this the Unleashed one challenge. But let's go yeah, so you know, for everybody again pretend d let's call it ten dollars as a unit. That's I think a good way for you to compare to how much you're spending. To Oliva's point, bet responsibly, but you know this is how I spend my hundred every week. I'll probably start with my lock. I love Carolina at home minus two against Cleveland fifty bucks, So let's call it five units on that. I've sold myself into this, and we talked about this last week too. Return of CMC Baker versus whole Team Jacoby Bursett under center. I see a lot of things happen in that game. I think it's a Baker revenge game. I know he's gonna have to face a pretty stout defense, especially D line, but d J. Moore, Robby Anderson, CMC on the checkdowns, CMC for probably thirty rushes in the game. I think they win probably by two touchdowns. I've gotten a bit of brushback from somebody's on that, but that's my lock. Of the week the week. Why I could push back on that, I like, well, I want to book that one. Yeah, I try not to have too many storylines dictate where the money goes. But that's a big one. Baker has been pretty open and honest about that situation. The other side of things, Myles Garrett said, cannot wait to sack him. I mean, you can look at it both ways, but I think at home plays a big factor team is gonna be excited. Sadly, this might be the best QB that McCaffrey's ever had because as Cam Newton came a bit late in his tenure, so it's gonna be really interesting to see how they work together. But this is a big game for him. This dictates I think we talked about it, you know last week with comeback Player of the Year. He has a good game here. This sets up nicely for the rest of the season for them and puts them maybe in a playoff position or in the conversation as the season goes on. I'm in that one. Well, that's half your bank roll on your lock of the week. That is how that is half. So it's a big deal. Um next one again, I've been getting a little bit of brush back on two and a half units bucks Texans plus eight and a half. This is uh, this is all around for me. A bit of hype on the Colts. Obviously, Jonathan Taylor was unbelievable last year. Matt Ryan Pittman. I mean, you have a really, really solid offense. It's gonna be really tough for Jonathan Taylor to take that leap up again and be a contender for probably m VP and Offensive Player of the Year. I think they take a slight step back, But for me, it's Damian Pierce. So Damian Pierce has come in. They've released Marlon Mack immediately. He's a fourth round pick out of Florida, incredible college career. He ran all over the Niners last week of preseason, and I know, you know, you don't take too much stock in that, but the way he was running finding holes was really impressive. If you don't think he's the future team, you're not going to just drop every one of your solid halfbacks. So I think they're going to run around this guy. I mean, he is going to be the team. I have him is probably the breakout player of the year. Took him in Fantasy ninth round pick. So I'm pretty happy about that ninth round. I want to be in your league. Yeah, right, so it is it is all around him, and let me take a step back. I'll also give you just some prices on on these things. So first that was minus one ten fifty to Wint roughly, and then that Thatt seven. So we'll track this every week, make sure we're giving you the numbers that I'm hopefully up, maybe down. We'll see, Jerry, it sounded like you like this one. I disagree. I do think the Texans will be better this year, but I like the Colts with Matt Ryan. It's their fifth different season starter in five seasons. But Matt Ryan is a prose pro, a vet. He can assimilate quickly. Guys are gonna like him. Their defense has improved an indie, so I think they'll cover that and a half. I don't like that one, Pete. I was with you until that one. It's all right, CREATED disagree. We're not always gonna be on the same page, but I think it would be a better game that people think. I know you hear Davis Mills and you say I don't think they have a shot, but we'll see. Yeah, I'm with you, like I you know, I hear what you're saying, Olivia, And you've gotta imagine the Cults are going to come out with the way they ended last season. There's still a lot of players from the team last year. I know Carson Wentz is gone, but pretty much the team is intact aside from that. So they definitely are going to have to make a statement after that game, but I do think it might not be this week. I've talked about the Texans a lot on this show. I think the Texans are competent. I know that sounds like a backhanded compliment in a way. I think they a very competent team. The plus eight and a half and you only did twenty five, I would roll with that. But yeah, I can definitely see the world where thirty seven to three Cults finally because the Texas can't score. But I'm telling you, yeah, like I like that. You're already looking at the Texans in week one because we got to figure out what they are four three upsets are going to be because I think we have two or three. We got to figure out what they're gonna be, not this one, not weak one. Okay, So that's seventy five of your hundred. You got twenty five bucks or two and a half units left to play with. All right, let's get there, let's hear what you got, and I hope we got some odds coming to us. What do you got? So I'm gonna this is what I'm calling my pandor parlay because I've picked all of our favorite teams or one of Olivia's favorite teams for this one point five units of fifteen dollars Niners minus seven, Giants plus six, which I love even more. Now, Chiefs minus four and a half against Arizona UH plus six hundred, so fifteen to win one oh five total, including including your steak back. Again, these are I normally wouldn't do this and pander a bit to you guys, but I love all three of these games. Here. I think you look at we talked about it last week. Niners a really really good defense, I think personally best defense in the league. Potentially against a not so great Bears offense. Justin Fields I think is going to struggle, mainly because of his offensive line, some of his support. It's one of those situations. It's like Daniel Jones, It's not really because of him, It's because everything else around him. So I really like the Niners to cover and probably blow that game away. Giants at Tennessee. Howard Landry, who was the sack leader on Tennessee Titans last year out for the year torn a c L last week. I think Wednesday was announced. That's a big deal. That's going to give a lot of time for for DJ. I think sae Quan again comes back, has a really really strong year, sets the tempo here him versus Derrick Henry week one. I think that's a little bit of a personal test for him to to make sure he's matching what's on the other side of the ball. So plus six there, I think that's a pretty reasonable amount of points. I know you're a bit under that touchdown mark, but I think they will keep the game close and potentially pull it off on the road, which would be great. And then last one, Chiefs minus four and half at Arizona. I see a lot of problems with this Arizona offense. I mean, you're losing guys like Christian Kirk, DeAndre Hopkins outline suspension, the team really runs around Hollywood Brown, James Conner. I just don't see them with the same type of performance or same type of production. I know, Hollywood Brown is that deep threat, as was a guy like Christian Kirk, but you're losing a lot of production value with DeAndre Hopkins out for the first bit of the season. And then on the Chief side, I've kind of sold myself into all these different weapons where they're going to be throwing the ball around a lot to different people. You have Kelsey as that kind of quote unquote number one receiver, but you have a lot of different options, whether it's all this scandling obviously ju ju. I think there's a lot of weapons. They're the one mark always for me is just Clyde Edwards Hilaire. He said, I think a pretty underwhelming first two years. So recap that one Nineers minus seven, Giants plus six and Tennessee Chiefs minus four and a half. You got that one at fifteen plus sixtent so fifteen bucks to win one oh five. I like that one a lot. I might actually I might actually roll with you on that one with some of my entourage money responsibly of course. Yeah, so you've got ten bucks left. Now that you're in Ferrara territory, you're a lotto ticket time, and I am gonna throw a few lotto tickets at you before you go. We'll do maybe like a quick hit. But now we're in Ferrara territory of lotto tickets. You got ten bucks left, Mr Andrew, Yeah, so this is one game parlay territory. This is ten dollar flyer. You put it on something big. I'll read it all first, and then I'll kind of get through each of the different prop bets. So for everybody else, one game part of a amazing feature allows you to take any prop bets, any team bets, bunch it all together from one specific game. So for me, Thursay Night football Bills minus two and a half at l A. It's a banner ceremony. Obviously winners last year, So I got Bills minus two and a half. Allen Robinson new addition to the Rams. Anytime touchdown score any point in the game, Josh Allen over to seventy four and a half passing yards, digs over sixty nine and a half receiving yards. And then this one didn't mix sense, Cup is only ninety four and a half receiving yards. I took the over on that too. Both of those guys. If I start backwards, every week one opener for the last couple of years, their targeted thirteen and fifteen times. I think they both had eight or nine catches last year home opener. I don't think that's by chance. I think it's dictating where the offense goes for the rest of the season. Get them, you know, get them both going early. Wide receiver ones Cooper Cup probably best wide receiving the league. You start off and get them rolling early. I think there are some question marks still on both defensive teams. I know Rams have a very very strong defense, but I think Digs verse Ramsey is an interesting match up. And then of course Cooper Cup. He's Cooper Coup. He's gonna come out, he's gonna have a hundred yards minimum, he's gonna have a touchdown. He does what he does every year, and I don't think it's gonna stop, even with a new contract. He's not gonna see any lull. Josh Allen, I think they're gonna be passing the ball a lot on Thursday Night. I have question marks on both sides of the running position for both teams. Can makers back from injury. I know he came back late last year, and I think Bills have had a very very interesting situation at running back. I'm not a big fan of Devinson, Sincletary and Zack Moss Combo. It just seems like they're missing that true RB one. There are signs of breakout performances, but it's not consistent like it should be. Alan Robinson, I think is going to be a huge asset for Stafford this year. Such a sure handed guy. I think he's going to see a lot of the dB two coverage. He's gonna see less double teams. You're gonna see safeties like Poyer over the top watching cup. I think that's gonna open things up for him. I can see him scoring for certainly for for Week one and then going back to that Bills two and a half. My biggest thing that I bet in every single sport, if there's a banner night, fade them. Honestly, I remember last year Rangers game Henrik lun Quis retirement night. Fade the Rangers. Anytime they're doing ring ceremonies, fade them. For some reason, they just come out with a slump. I feel like I hit se time on those, so I'm just never gonna. I love this rule of thumb. That's so good. Honestly, it feels too accurate to be true a lot of times. I think we should all finish this segment on the count of three by saying the two words that every Broncos fan is going to say going in. Let's see how bad our WiFi delay is one. Let's lose, let's lose, let's ride. Peter, thank you so much as always for your great insight, love your hundred dollar picks, and it's gonna be fun to do this all season. You know we're going to keep tracks, so you better do your research every weekend. But thanks so much for joining us. Yeah, check my tickets on Twitter. I'll be sending you guys the Vegas tickets from our sports books. So it's gonna be a fun with him. Thank you here all right here, Thank you a looking forward to keeping track of of your hundred dollars each and every week. That will be fun and something that is gonna be fun. I gotta say, we're giving every customer I bet MGM a completely free bet to use on a one game parlay starting Wednesday. Just log into your account and your free bet will be waiting for you in your bet slip. You use it on any NFL Week one game, whether it's Thursday Night Football, Sunday slated games, or a Monday Night football. Pick your favorite O g P and lock in your bet O g P. I like that. That offer runs from Wednesday through Monday, so logging now to claim your free bet. That's a great offer. Next week, I'm so excited, Jerry. We have Jay Glazer, he's your buddy, and we'll talk more inn FL. So that'll be really good next week. Yes, let's just get Yeah, let's I cannot wait to break down games next week. So thank you everybody for listening. And uh, let's let's just get to it. Let's get to it. The al s

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