So we just went to Green Bay. Where everyone is giddy like Christmas Day. Ha ha ha ha ha.
Now, let's get some reaction out of Dallas. I can only imagine. What it's like on social media down there. I can only imagine what it is like on sports talk radio. And all of the things that Saad Youssef of the Athletic has heard over the last 24 hours about the Dallas Cowboys.
Saad Agresh here, how are you? And my God, Jerry actually did it. I can't believe it. Yeah, I mean, that's a very prevalent reaction, honestly, throughout Dallas, Fort Worth, and really a lot of Dallas media as well. We all kind of.
Saw everything that was being said, this the traits. Quest, all that stuff. At the end of the day, though, I think we all thought that this deal was going to end up being done. Um we did not and I don't think anybody expected that Micah Parson would be traded. Jerry Jones just does not trade his superstar players.
There's no precedent for this in the history of the organization. There's a lot of patterns of the opposite, which is him holding on too long to his star players. But I've never seen anything like this from the Jerry Jones Cowboys. This is the first. Saad, to the best of your knowledge, did Jerry Jones shop?
Micah Parsons, or is this more like Luka Doncic 2.0 where it was one team really involved and that was it and it was clandestine for no one else to know.
Well, I think this situation is a little bit in between. I don't think it was one team. I don't think it was just the Green Bay Packers. But it wasn't the entire league. really you know there's two different situations with Nico Harrison and the Mavericks That was complete malpractice.
It was just a terrible job. On his part. With Jerry Jones, it wasn't so much the shopping around that was his problem. The problem with him was the timing that he tried to do it. If you're trying to do this in March and April, The rest of the league has a lot more cap space before free agency.
They have draft picks before the April draft. When you're trying to do this one week before the regular season begins, when teams are already, you know, not only have they spent all their money, they've even cut down their rosters to 53 at this point. When you're trying to do it there, you're automatically shrinking the pool that you have for the options to do this. And so I think it was kind of by, you know, by default that he didn't have as many options throughout the league. I still don't think it was just the Green Bay Packers.
All of a sudden, you're now looking for a team that not only has the assets to trade for Micah Parsons, but also has a cap space to extend him beyond this year.
So, to the best of your knowledge, Saad, how ugly did it get? Because Jerry Jones tried to circumvent the agent. It feels like at that point It was either going to be somebody was going to, you know, cave in and give Michael Parsons what he wanted, or something like this was going to happen. That's the part of this that is really unconscionable to me. I can't believe the NFLPA has not issued a statement on this, but how much did that really drive to this moment of Michael Parsons becoming a Green Bay Packer?
To me, I think it was everything. I think, you know, the Cowboys have the cap space, they have the ability to extend Micah Parsons. That was never the issue. I do think that it came all down to just the egos involved. Jerry has a famous quote: you know, I grew up in Dallas, even before I was a reporter for.
28 years. And a common quote that I've always heard from Jerry Jones is: don't let your money get mad. And I think Jerry Jones let his money get mad in this situation because I think, you know, if it wasn't with everything involved with the agent, there weren't that many differences in terms of what the Micah Parsons wanted and what the Cowboys wanted, which was to continue the partnership in Dallas. But You know, where it really reached fever pitch for me was this past week when Micah Parsons' agent reached out to the Cowboys again and said, all right, let's continue negotiating in earnest. Let's look for a common ground here.
And at that point, Jerry Jones basically slammed the door shut on Micah Parsons' extension and said, no, at this point, you're playing on the fifth year extension. And I think that was the breaking point. And that is when trade talks really began. Wow, that is uh that's pretty amazing.
So how has the locker room taken this news? You know, we were in the locker room today, and you know, today was technically a Monday for the Cowboys since they play a Thursday game, which is not a heavy locker room. Presence day. We talked to a couple of the rookies.
Well, Don Vanozaraku, one of the rookies, and a second-year player, Marshawn Nealon. They're taking it fine. To me, the way that I interpret Micah's kind of locker room presence, it wasn't so much that I don't think that his. Uh his departure is gonna leave this just gigantic wound that that just you know go permeates throughout the entire locker room. Micah Parsons had a few really close friends in the locker room.
And I think for those people, it will hurt quite a bit. I'm talking like guys like Trayvon Diggs in particular. But I don't think that he had this hold on the locker room the way that I think, you know, say a Dak Prescott would. I think that is a completely different territory that the Cowboys don't have to worry about because that's just the nature of the way Micah's relationship was in the locker room. Uh what about I mean, Brian Schottenheimer, my God, like...
What a bomb to have dropped on you. I know that he signed up for it, but there is the part of me that still does feel bad for the guy. How does he, I don't know, how do you message this inside the room without saying, well, you know, the crazy old man upstairs is up to his tricks. What am I to do? Like, that's what it feels like he should say.
I know he's not going to say that. How in the world does Brian Schottenheimer try to keep this football team moving forward and motivated with what they have? Yeah, that's a good question. And look, there's not a whole lot that we know yet about Brian Schottenheimer as a head coach. He hasn't made his regular season debut, but I will say the one thing that has do know about about him is that he's really good In maintaining relationships, he's really good.
At communicating with his players and even with the higher-ups in the organization. That's a big reason why he got the job that he did. They really were looking for him to call the offense, but I think when he went in for that interview, he impressed them so much that they gave him the head coaching job. The reason why I say that is because I think that part is really not going to be that difficult for Brian Schottenheimer. He's really good at being upbeat positive.
Up until literally two days ago, we sat in a press conference and he said that he had full confidence. that Micah Parsons was gonna be on the field against the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday. I think he says all the right things. He knows how to go about it. I think the real challenge is going to be when it comes to scheming and things on the field.
That is where it's really going to take a big hit for him and Matt Eberfluz, the defensive coordinator. But in terms of maintaining that stuff in the locker room, out of this entire chaotic situation that's been unfolding in the last four months, I think that's the one thing that I have the least concerns about. Wow, that's very interesting just in terms of that whole dynamic down there. I'm sure there are going to be times as a head coach, he's going to be rolling his eyes with some of the stuff with Jerry Jones. Saad, I want to ask you about the younger fan, right?
Someone brought this up to me. that if you're Like my wife's cousin Chuck, who's 62 years old, you might remember Jerry Jones with Jimmy Johnson a little differently. But if you were born in, say, 2000 All you've seen is, you know, inconsistency and sort of up-and-down actions from Jerry Jones. Is Jerry Jones running the risk of alienating the young Cowboys fan, especially now that you do the one thing the fans hate, which is trade a superstar? Yeah, I think absolutely he's running that risk.
I'll speak for myself. I'm a 1995 born, and you know, for me, one of my earliest memories of the Cowboys was him handing Chad Hutchinson like a seven-year contract to play quarterback for the Cowboys.
So I've never seen the glory days, I've never seen what that's like. And I think. Right now, that's, you know, it's funny because they just dropped this documentary on Netflix about the 90s, the gambler and his cowboys, Jerry Jones. And I just think the timing is really interesting with all this because, you know, that's focused on the 90s. It talks all about.
You know, Jerry in the glory days. And a big topic in that documentary was the Herschel-Walker trade. And when I look at the way that Jerry's been operating this summer, I I feel a lot of it has been operating on nostalgia, trying to rekindle that 90s, except that I think the NFL has kind of passed it by at this point. There's a salary cap that other teams. Are a lot more able to keep pace, and Jerry is not able to be a frontrunner the way that he was in the 90s.
And I think that's really, you know, kind of a conflict here for Jerry because you're right, I do think that he is alienating a lot of those younger fans. And I don't think that you have to be as young as 2000. Like I said, if you're even in the 90s, this drought has been going on for 30 years. It has been a long time since the Cowboys have even been in an NFC championship game.
So, yeah, they are running that risk. But On the other hand, while we say all of that. Yesterday, or I think it was two days ago, Forbes releases a report. Where the Cowboys are still the most valuable franchise in the world, and they're a distant first place in that. And I think for Jerry Jones, that's his Super Bowl.
I think that is what matters most. And as long as that number keeps going up, As it as it does. I I don't think too much else is gonna change. Saad, is there anything good about this that you can sell us on? Like, I know that Jerry Jones is going to put perfume on the pig.
But is there any silver lining, any one pot? Like, is there anything good that comes out of this, in your opinion? Sure. I mean, you know, I don't think trading Micah Parsons is like the craziest thing ever. I really don't, to be honest with you.
A lot of people comparing this to like the Luka Doncich trade, and I don't even think they're in the same galaxy. I mean, trading Luka Doncich was a, was it just a, I mean, it was an inexcusable thing that the Mavericks did. I understand wanting to trade Micah Parsons.
Now, the process of how we got there is what is the big issue. Like I said, the timing of it, the smearing the agent in public when that's the same agent that represents George Pickens, who you're going to try to extend next year in the offseason. There's a lot. That they mishandled in the process of this. But yeah, I don't think trading Micah Parsons is necessarily the end of the world.
The Cowboys, you know, they weren't one superstar pass rusher away from being a Super Bowl contender. I mean, before Micah Parsons was traded, we all thought he was gonna stay in Dallas, and we were all still picking them to win eight or nine games this season.
So, it's not like it's the end of the world.
So, I think that's one silver line that you take from it. The other thing is, How are they going to manage these first-round picks?
Now, Green Bay is most likely going to be successful, and these are going to be bottom of the first-round picks, but. No, the Cowboys might be in the first half of the first round. And do they package those to? Move up in the draft? Do they get players that can make an instant impact in the Dak Prescott window?
I think those are all the kind of questions that you're going to be looking at. And to be honest with you, Their deepest position in training camp this year probably was defensive end.
So losing Micah Parsons is not a death blow to them necessarily, but that's because this wasn't something their whole hopes weren't riding on Micah being there. They weren't very good of a football team, even with Micah in the fold. They got run off the field by Micah's now Packers in 2023 when they were a top seed, a second seed in the NFC.
So the Cowboys haven't been close to a Super Bowl. And losing Micah Parsons doesn't make them any closer, but it doesn't necessarily take them out of where they were already, which was a.
Solid playoff team. All right, well, hopefully everything calms down now down there in Dallas and the wacky trades stop and things like that. Saad Youssef of the Athletic breaking it all down from Dallas in the belly of the beast. Saad, thank you for the time. Great conversation.
Appreciate the intel. Have a good season. Of course. Thanks for having me. There we go.
I mean, to hear... You know, it isn't the craziest thing in the world to trade Micah Parsons, but I think Saad does make a good point. And I'd sort of brought it up earlier that if you do this around the draft, It's almost like a lottery in a way, and you're probably going to get more compensation out of it. than what Jerry Jones was able to do. But you know, I admittedly, I was kind of going down the road of Is this similar to trading Luca?
And what would sting more, excuse me, what would sting more? And Saad kind of shut me down pretty quick, and it was like, no, no, no, the Luca thing is way worse. 888-710-4ISN 888-710-4476. Rashawn is in Baltimore on the Micah Parsons trade. Rashawn, you're with Gresh on the Infinity Sports Network.
Hey, how are you doing? Thanks for having me. And me being a Cowboys fan, I look at this a different way. I'm not really a fan of Parsons. I guess some of it is personal because I met him before and he wasn't a nice person.
So I I I've been holding on to that. But but also, um He disappears in big games, man. Let's let's be honest. Um one sack and four playoff games. The guy s seems you know, he's turned out, seemed like he was like a crybaby towards the end.
And also looking at the salary cap situation and the contracts the Cowboys already dished out, You got a total combined three hundred eighty million dollars guaranteed between Dak Prescott, C. D. Lamb and Trayvon Diggs.
So we would have gave them one hundred and thirty. That's a hundred point five billion dollars in guaranteed money for four players And and and guess what? I I didn't have the Cowboys making the playoffs this year worth off a while. Michael Parsons.
So might as well trade them. Get the draft picks and get other pieces around you. Yeah, why not why not just trade CeeDee Lamb then, too? Why not turn around and trade other and Rashawn tanks? Why not trade other guys on the roster then?
So if it's down to choice. We're just going with the guys that are already under contract that we're kind of stuck with. Like that's the part that gets me.
Now look, Micah in the playoffs. You know, um In the last playoff game in 2023, I could understand the quibble. But if you look in 2022, even though it was two games, Guy still had three quarterback hits, two tackles for loss. Seven tackles overall and a sack. And in 2021, they played one game as a 22-year-old and went and had a tackle for loss in nine combined tackles.
So I don't think he disappears. I think the problem is he is dragged down by the Cowboys who can't win nothing in the postseason anyway. Here's the challenge I give you next. Dak? Micah Parsons.
C D Lamb Those are your big paid guys. If you could only Pick One. Who would you pick? Would you pick Dak over Micah? I mean, would you really do that?
You can only have one. of DAC Micah Parsons or CD Lamb. Who is the guy that you're picking? Don't worry about the cap. I'm just talking about.
Player for player for player. If you're keeping one... Who would be the one you would keep at triple eight? 710-4ISN 888-710-4476. Scrash InfrajR on the Infinity Sports Network.
You're listening to the JR Sport Brief, Keirs Fresh. Drunk driving changes your world. Drive sober, get pulled over, paid for. By Nitzer. The 2025 Black College Hall of Fame Classic takes place over Labor Day weekend, August 28th through 31st in Canton, Ohio.
The game that everyone will come to see is on Sunday, August 31st at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium. This year's Clash at the Classic. Features two Division II conference champions, the Virginia Union Panthers out of the CIA. And the Miles College Golden Bears out of the SIAC. Both had dominant seasons last year.
Game will be simulcast on HBCU Go and NFL Network.
Now that's going to mark a historic moment for HBCU football. Beyond the Gridiron, the weekend celebrates HBCU excellence with events like a college fair, Battle of the Bands, Community Tailgate. In a fifth quarter band showdown, the classic blends high-level football with culture, education, and tradition, making it one of the most anticipated events in the HBCU sports calendar. When I was at Rhode Island, we played one HBCU team. We went to Delaware State.
That was the first time I got to see Dover Raceway, the racetrack.
So, where you and I wouldn't even call it a stadium back then at Delaware State. I don't know what they have now. But I know that they were across from like the big racetrack. When you're standing on the field, you can kind of see it. And um Yeah, it was an interesting uh Huh?
Excuse me, it was an interesting place to Uh, go play a football game. And uh learned a little bit about uh The the presentation at HBCU games, which the band was awesome. And that and and basically we were kind of huddled in a outdoor corner of the end zone because the facilities there uh and not that the Rhode Island facilities were great, but they weren't they weren't great at Dell State. I don't know what they are now. I know Deshaun Jackson, I do believe, just took over uh that program.
But HBCU football has been getting some run. You know, you start putting players in the NFL and people start to respect your league a little bit.
So Good for those HBCU schools. Fantastic halftimes, I gotta say. Fantastic halftimes, and you never know when somebody's gonna make the pros. and represent one of those HBCU schools. I know in our conversation with Sod down in Dallas.
Sad Youssef, who joined us at the Athletic, Uh he had mentioned the the kind of the betting lines after the Micah Parsons trade.
So to show you From a really from a gambling and handicapping standpoint. the value of Micah Parsons in that world. At MGM Sports Book, Green Bay moved from 22 to 1. to win the Super Bowl, which was tenth on the board. To 13 to 1 to win the Super Bowl, which is sixth best on the board.
So They took away the value pretty quickly in terms of betting Green Bay. to win the Super Bowl.
Now, as you can imagine. And as someone who's been telling everybody, Bet the Cowboys to not make the playoffs. That was a minus 210 wager about two weeks ago. Dallas went from 50 to 1 to 60 to 1. And they're now tied with the Seattle Seahawks.
That represents Dallas's worst. Preseason Super Bowl odds. Since 2014, When the Cowboys were seventy five to one, that year going into the season. The guy who is the vice president of risk. At the Westgate Las Vegas Super Book.
said we moved Green Bay from twenty to one to twelve to one to win the Super Bowl. The Packers need to get a passing game, but long term, they should be better than Detroit.
Now, what about week one, you ask? Green Bay moved from a one and a half point home favorite against the Lions. to two and a half.
So Micah Parsons moved the line for this week's game one point. And the Cowboys went from a consensus, which means all the sports books kind of agree. Consensus seven-point underdogs at Philly to seven and a half-point dogs. Although you could probably still find some sevens out there. And now knowing that Micah Parsons isn't showing up.
Ah Philly minus the number all day long. In fact, I would say Philly minus the number in the first half. A guy quoted in here, Lamar Mitchell, Director of Trading at MGM Resorts. Said, think the Packers are definitely in play for the championship. If Jordan Love stays upright and healthy, they should be in the mix to win the Super Bowl.
Green Bay's win total moved from nine and a half to ten and a half. The under is weighted now to minus one thirty. And Dallas has shifted from the US. From seven and a half to six and a half. And the over on Dallas at 6.5 is weighted to minus 150.
So that means you're betting 150 on that bet to win $100, in case you don't know. The over-under is the Cowboys' lowest win total since 2002.
Now Green Bay also moved into the position. Of NFC North favorites, At uh Sportsbooks Ahead of the Lions. Green Bay moved to plus one seventy to win the North at Bet MGM, and Detroit. moved to plus two hundred.
So I think You know, that's a pretty big indicator as to some expectations, but also. Just How important Micah Parsons is going to be to the Green Bay Packers.
Now Green Bay is now tied With Detroit for the second best odds to win the NFC at plus 650, the Eagles have the skinniest odds at, or sorry. Uh Green Bay and Detroit are plus 650. Philadelphia is plus three fifty. Um The Cowboys' new win total of just six and a half, the lowest since 02. But expectations already weren't high in the betting market for Dallas.
So while Dallas's number moved. I don't know if it necessarily led to either more dollars coming in. Or, you know, more people betting on the negative, like me, when it comes to Dallas, the whole missing the playoffs. One better at BetMGM wagered ten grand on the Cowboys at twenty five to one before the Parsons trade. Cowboys are now thirty to one to win the conference.
Boy, if you're that guy, I don't think you're dipping back in. The week four look-ahead line to Dallas and Green Bay. Green Bay is a two and a half-point road favorite at Sportsbooks. On the look ahead line. And I would say, after a couple of weeks, that may end up changing.
I could see that line end up moving a little bit more. Triple 8-710-4ISN, 888-710-4476. Lot of NFL. We touched on college football. I am going to look ahead to week one.
I really thought Jerry Jones was going to try to ruin opening night a different kind of way.
Now that we know he's not going to do it, I'm really, really confident on the Eagles now smacking around the Cowboys with no Micah Parsons. But we will get to all that coming up next with you on these phones. I'm Gresh, and for JR, let's get updated on everything in the world of sports. Here is Pete McCarthy. Or Marco Poletti.
You're listening to the JR Sport Brief, Keirs Fresh. Alright, so Ryan, I know what's going on here. You're in cahoots with the Gelb people. I got. I got a text about 245.
of uh or no no no it would have been wait five forty five Eastern time right around there.
Somebody said oh hey Gelbin crew we're looking for you But I was downstairs making myself, uh, you know, getting myself a glass of water and getting ready for the show.
So I know at the end of Gelb's show, he was going to try to poke and prod me because of this horse shack. Of a song That this guy plays. He can't come up with some other song that has alliteration for Zach. For God's sakes. And he plays this awful.
90s. Boy band garbage. Has anybody ever met Gelb? Like, I am six foot five and north of 300, right? Gelb is like probably six four, six five, right around my height.
Except thinner. He is the last guy who would be in a boy band dancing up there with a bunch of people who may or may not have met Lou Perlman along the way. And if you don't get that joke, Gelb, then you shouldn't be playing this. And Ryan, you're now, you like Jericho, you've made the list. Because I know little Samter and those tiny little hands of his are probably sitting in the chair rubbing them together, laughing, because they know I'm I'm completely spasmed out over this.
And they wanted to poke the bear earlier. And they were lucky I wasn't sitting here. Cause I'd have dog cussed both their asses. Gelb. Get outta here with that crap.
Will you please? And congratulations on the Compass thing. Um Ryan, are you under orders to clip it and send it to them? I'll plead the fifth.
Okay, that's what I thought. That that's what I thought. You know what? The next time Gelb comes to a game, I'm going to make sure that or goes to a Patriots game since he's a Patriots fan. I'll make sure to find him or text him and like wave to him from the red seats while I go in to go get some.
Free food at half time. That's too nice. I would be more. No, no, no, no, no, no. I would not offer him a ticket.
I'm saying I would wave to him wherever he is, and then I would go inside and he would sit there. You know, with everybody else on the outside and a cold day in November in New England. Oh, that's good, though. You have to shove it in his face in a respectful way. Like, I don't know, get like a.
What's fancy food? Like, clam shower they have in New England State?
Well, a little bit. See, here's the thing: my father-in-law's company is the one that has the tickets and the red seats. And. Normally, the way I would describe it is you're Paying to park? Closer.
And so you get your own awesome parking lot if you're in the red seats at Gillette. But it used to be you paid To be able to go inside to pay to buy fancier food, right?
So there would be... At certain times of the year, there'd be lobster rolls. You're right, there'd be the clam chowder. They do make really good pizza there. But y but what happened was Gerard Mayo taking over for Bill Belichick.
Sucked so bad. It was so terrible that in the final couple games of the year. The people in the red seats who are used to paying for access to their own sort of concession stands to go buy stuff at. They were giving it away for free.
So, if I roll, I went to one of the last games of the year. I do not make it a. I don't make it a. Uh, like a consistent thing for me to like go to these games whenever my wife has the tickets. through my father-in-law and his company.
So I went to one last year, and Ryan, how about this? I go up to the thing and I'm like. I was like, is this really free? And they're like, Yeah, yeah, and they told me all so it's like All right, you know, I got a couple of hot dogs and like a slice of pizza and stuff like that. And naturally, you just, you know, you think you got to get your phone ready or you get your credit card out.
Even though I was like, I wasn't stunned out or anything, but I walked up there and I was like. It was this free and they were like, Yeah, and I still. Had the urge to like get my wallet out and still pay for it because that's normally a part of the experience there. But no, now you can be uh you can be a tub Like, you like, if you really love it, you want to go to town when they're hot dogs, you can go up there and be like, hey, yo, give me five dogs. They give them to you and be like, here you go, and that's it.
So they already uh at least in the Red Seats in New England, they already committed to giving people the free stuff on the basics because uh it started to uh stink last year. I'll tell you the other thing too. Whenever you're getting those club seats. What you're and I always do concession stand because I'm not the biggest drinker, but what you really are doing is kind of paying up. For better parking, a good seat, and access to a bar.
That quite honestly, if you don't even want to go sit in the stands, like there have been times where we've gone to the games. Where maybe like me and my boys might go sit in the stands and there's normally a seat open because my wife is just like, I'd rather hang at the bar here with my friends and just watch the game that way.
So there is that part of it too. Because I'm not a drinker. I'm I it's not that I'm not a drinker. I don't drink I'll drink around my wife. I drink around people I'm comfortable around.
Otherwise, I'm not doing it because, you know, I don't want to have like too much gin or do something stupid or say something or goozle somebody. Nah, I'm better with uh I'm better with other stuff. If you know if you uh catch my drift for people who uh you know, certain things have been legalized in the Northeast. But I know that bar is always packed every time you're there.
So, you know, they're making their money on liquor. To give somebody what turns into with labor, probably a 20-cent hot dog when it's all said and done, it ain't that big a deal, but it was the gesture.
So, anyway, my gesture would be to. Be in the red seats. Find out what next time Gelb's there, and if I'm there, either way, like. Like, wave to him from my red seat as if I'm texting him, and then maybe, like, flip him off or something like that, and then turn around and go in. get my uh appropriate amount of food.
So anyway Man, that was terrible. What a what a way to bring the show down at the end to play that s Stupid. Boy band crap. From the Gulb Show.
Well, let's get into uh previewing The week that is coming up in the National Football League.
So on Thursday. Boy, I'll tell ya. I'd have spent hard-earned money talking into a microphone on a wager that Jerry Jones. Was going to sign Micah Parsons to a long-term contract extension on the morning of the game in Philadelphia, where Philly is getting ready to raise a banner in Lincoln financial field. I absolutely 100% would have taken that bet, hook line, and sinker, and I would have lost.
But Dallas is now going into Philadelphia. Philly is a 7.5 point favorite. I hope he got it at 6.5 or 7. I'm sure there's still some sevens out there if you want to find it, but. I have no hope for Dallas now.
And even if it falls on Dak Prescott, Dak he'll throw three touchdowns, but he'll throw a big interception in the fourth quarter. Then he'll end up sealing it for Philadelphia, in my opinion. Here's a game from a gambling standpoint. I want nothing to do with, nothing to do with Kansas City at Los Angeles. It's just too much weird stuff when you go that far away.
They're going to Brazil to play a game. Who knows if somebody wakes up with like the sniffles, malaria, The trots. Whatever. Too much weirdness can happen on that Friday night game all the way down in Brazil.
So, yeah, I don't I'm just staying away from Kansas City and the Chargers.
Now, Kansas City will find a way to win the game late. I think it's Chargers or excuse me, it is Kansas City minus three and a half. Yeah, I I I think that's a three point win for Kansas City. If you feel the need to have action on it, that's just my gut feel. Tampa is at Atlanta.
I really wonder. If Arthur Blank of the Atlanta Falcons At some point during this regular season. in a moment by himself, maybe on his yacht where he met with this guy. That if it isn't going well in Atlanta. I really do wonder.
If Arthur Blank is sitting there saying Damn, I should have went with Bill Belichick. Because I just don't see Atlanta surging to the playoffs this year. Tampa's got a groove, they got a quarterback, they got a vibe. I think Baker Mayfield's pretty comfortable there. I'm going with Tampa and that one.
Cincinnati and Cleveland, psh. Cleveland, same thing as Dallas. You got no chance. Miami and Indianapolis. Oh my God.
This is the suckbag bowl. Miami loses to a thermometer twice a year, ladies and gentlemen. If it's 32 and below, the Dolphins are losing that game. And then Indianapolis is going with Danny Dimes, for God's sakes. The epitome of mediocrity will be in Lucas Oil Stadium at 1 o'clock.
Then you have Las Vegas and New England, where both cities have some renewed hope. They got responsible adult head coaches in there Not the two guys that were there last year on each side.
Now you got Vrabel and you got Pete Carroll. And I think in New England, they're still trying to figure out the back end of their secondary, but their front seven's ready to turn it loose. And we'll see if Christian Gonzalez gets out there for New England. Boy, if he does, that makes a big difference. At least you know you got a number one corner, even if you're not really feeling the rest of the back end of your secondary.
But I think it's going to be tough for Vegas to run right into the front seven of that New England defense. Arizona's at New Orleans. I mean, this is a race to Arch Manning, isn't it? Which of these teams can just stink worse? And I think New Orleans is up to the task.
Um Pittsburgh and New York Jets. Why would I believe the New York Jets have fixed anything in their organization? I'm going Pittsburgh. Then you got the New York Giants at Washington. I feel like Washington calmed their situation down.
By bringing back Terry McLaurin. Very much necessary there. Carolina is at Jacksonville. Jacksonville's a favorite in this game. I can't wait to watch it on Fox.
I hope it is on in my neck of the woods, or I got to find a way because I want to watch Travis Hunter and all the different ways they use that guy on offense and defense. Number one overall picks normally lose that opener. Tennessee is at Denver. Do that what you wish. San Francisco, are they kind of healthy?
Are they grumpy? Are people ticked off? San Francisa Seattle. I have no faith in Seattle. I think last year was a Cinderella season for Sam Darnold.
I don't think he's that good. Detroit is at Green Bay. Boy, has the tenor and tone of that game changed at 4:25 on Sunday. And then you got Houston at LA, the LA Rams, where, oh my god, it's the smartest guy in the world, Sean McVay. How can LA lose?
And then on Sunday night football, a heavyweight fight that might determine the number one seed, Baltimore is at Buffalo, and then Monday night, Minnesota at Chicago. Both young quarterbacks, I think, will struggle. Great job by Ryan Betcher down in New York City. I will see you on Sunday at 10 a.m. right here on the Infinity Sports Network.
