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On the Infinity Sports Network. Got my guy Ryan back in the studio spinning the wheels for us. You want to talk? Hit me up. The number is 888-710-4ISN.
During the break, Ryan, I What has to be the worst Halloween candy of all time?
So. I thought that that was Tootsie Rolls because I don't know what Tootsie Rolls are. They're just something that gets stuck in your mouth, kind of chocolate, just tough to describe. And then I thought, no, it gets worse than Tootsie Rolls. Candy corn is even worse.
Have you ever had chocolate candy corn, bro? No. Yeah, it doesn't sound that bad. It's not that good. In fact, it's worse than actual candy corn.
And I wish that I had some scope with me because my mouth tastes disgusting. I don't even know how to describe what it chalk? Is I guess the, and I've never actually eaten chalk, but that's kind of what it tasted like. It definitely didn't add to the flavor. It just added to the texture and the color a little bit.
I don't know what's going on.
So it's chocolate candy covered. It tastes like chalk. Yeah, I think that's what they meant. I think they meant chalk candy corn, but they called it chocolate. They dyed it brown.
They let me eat it. And that stuff They can't be healthy for you. What the hell is candy corn anyway? And it's so good, or I shouldn't say so not good. But it's only available like two months a year.
Can you get can you if it's July 4th? And you're going to pick up fireworks and some brats. Can you also get candy corn? I don't think so. The question is, is it available?
I've never actually looked. No, you have looked you just haven't found I've never looked for candy corn Nobody has. That's my point. Nobody's ever looked for candy corn, not in October. Yeah, of course.
Ever. Period.
Now can you get it? Probably on the dark web and from certain guys on the corner that'll also take your parlay bet. But I think 11, I'm convinced 11 months out of the year, it's either invisible. Or just doesn't exist. You are a first team all weirdo.
If you're on your boat in the summertime at the Lake of the Ozarks on your pontoon with your family, and instead of busting out some ranch chips, You bust out the candy corn? Or the chocolate candy corn? Brah. Beautiful. Anyway, let's take a peek at the NBA scoreboard, then we'll get back into the football.
Nixon's calves back and forth.
So Knicks had a huge lead at the end of the first quarter. They're up by 10. The calves came back a little bit At halftime, it was a little bit closer. And then the Cavs all of a sudden had this crazy third quarter where they're outscoring the next 36 to 22. And you look up right now, it's a one-point game.
End of 38786. The Knicks with the lead. This one is going to be good down the stretch. Hornets and Nets. Hornets with a 105 to 90 lead.
Two minutes left in the third quarter from Charlotte. Heat up 99-94 on the Magic. That game, nine minutes left in the fourth. At halftime from the ATL, the Raptors up on the Hawk, 65-59. Just out of halftime from Boston.
The Celtics, how about this third quarter run? 14-4 over the Sixers, and they've got a four-point lead. Boston does over Philly, 65-61. You want to talk about a lead? The Bulls are.
boat racing the Pistons in Chicago right now. What if I said they're up by a Michael Jordan? They're up by 23, bro. 54 to 31. Is my math right?
Carrie the one. Yeah. 50. That's a Michael Jordan. That's 23 points.
fifty four to thirty one. The bowls. over the pistons. Two minutes left till halftime from Memphis. Grizzlies down three, 51-48 to the Pelicans.
Bucks all over the Wizards in the second quarter, 66-49. And then tipping off, right? Hang on, right, right. I'm watching right now. The Clippers on the road at the Jazz.
LA's a 10.5-point favorite. Half hour from now, we get an alien versus a. Flag? Victor Wembanyam and the Spurs on the road at Dallas. Does Cooper Flag have some sort of a nickname?
Did you know that Cooper Flag has an identical twin? I think he's an identical twin. If not, they're like very similar. And body structure ace flag. I know they're in the same class if Cooper didn't reclassify, and this dude's going to play basketball in Maine.
How does that happen? That's where they live. He's the main event. That's his. No, no, no.
I know that that's where he's from when he's staying back home. But how is there such a separation in talent between two guys that basically have the same body structure, the same parents? I would assume the same individual practicing. Whatever they put into Cooper Flag, they put into Ace 2. How does one of them go to Duke?
He's a one and done. He's the first player in the draft. And the other guy goes to Maine. That's what I want to know. Um a lot of I don't know.
I would say injuries. One, two, passion. Three. Uh IQ, there's a lot. I guess.
Kings and Spurs and Maz, by the way, that game tips off a half hour from now. Dallas is a three and a half point favorite. Suns, Kings, and Trailblazers, Timberwolves are your two nightcaps, but we're going to be out of here before those games tip off an hour from now. 888-710-4ISN is the phone number. Let's get back into the NFL.
Where I'm looking right now at the betting odds to win the Super Bowl, And I'm looking at the betting odds to win the MVP. Both those things have something in common. And they both go through Kansas City. The updated MVP odds Patrick Mahomes is your favorite. At even money right now.
That's right. Plus 100.
So basically. Is it going to be Mahomes? Yeah. Is it going to be the field, the rest of the league, which includes Josh Allen, whose odds when a couple of weeks ago for being the heavy favorite, all of a sudden he's four to one? Josh Allen, as the season's gone along, has taken kind of a weird arc.
Coming off his MVP season last year, where out the gates he was great, but the last couple of games, turnovers, dumb mistakes, losing football games. Josh Allen is not heading in the right direction the last couple of weeks, but he still has the second best odds to win the MVP at 4-1. Baker Mayfield, who was the betting favorite last week, has fallen down to third, 7-1. Check this out: Drake May. Drake May.
Has the fourth best odds to win the MVP? at eight to one odds. Who knew? Matthew Stafford, 10-1. Jared Goff, 18.
Dak Prescott's 20-1. Dak Prescott's really easy to poke holes because he's the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. And we know that there have been a lot of times when they won 10 or 11 regular season games. It's America's team. The playoffs come around.
They poop right down their leg, and we blame Dak. Dyke Prescott Is he a Hall of Famer? I'd assume at some point he probably has to win a couple of playoff games and out of nowhere, maybe take the Cowboys to the Super Bowl, and then we can revisit that conversation. But if we're going to have that type of talk about guys like Philip Rivers, or even Eli Manning, Look at Eli Manning's stats, and you're probably going to say, Yeah, what about those Super Bowls? And that's a fair argument.
So let's go back to Phillip Rivers. It'll help me make my point a little bit better. If we're even going to talk about Phillip Rivers getting in because he's top 10 all time in yards and touchdowns, well, That's based on longevity. And to me, the Hall of Fame, my Hall of Fame standards are for a four to five year period of time in the NFL. Were you a top four or five player at your position?
And that doesn't get you in, that starts the conversation. And I don't think we can say that about Philip Rivers. I don't ever remember a four or five year period of time where Philip Rivers was elite. He was always kind of next. Is that where Dak belongs?
Or is he maybe a little bit of a step up? Individually, if you look at his numbers, Dak is probably going to end up with even better numbers than Philip Rivers if he can stay healthy. The question is, is he ever going to win anything? That's my problem with Rivers. Like, what's the throw?
What's the game? What's the... Super Bowl that he was in, and am I forgetting something? He just played for a really long time, which means he stayed healthy and put up really big numbers. That doesn't get you in the hall of fame, not in my eyes.
That gets you a lot of contracts and a lot of money, a lot of security for generations of Rivers businesses. But if we're gonna talk about him ever getting in the Hall of Fame, you gotta talk about Dak. What if he wins the MVP this year out of nowhere? 20 to 1 odds right now. Daniel Jones, 25 to 1.
How about that? 888-710-4ISN is the phone number. So those are the updated MVP odds as far as the Super Bowl odds go. Chiefs of the favorite again. At the beginning of the year, it was Baltimore and it was Buffalo in the AFC.
And I came on this very network and I said, I'm not arguing. Like I'm not going to get real passionate and yell and scream and say, why are those teams? Why do those teams, Buffalo and Baltimore, are better odds than my Chiefs? But I will say it was head scratching. I didn't understand it.
for a couple of reasons. The Chiefs have been to five Super Bowls with Patrick Mahomes, and Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson have been to a combined zero.
So I don't know what changed in the off season. Alan's taste. Mahomes a couple of times in the playoffs, so was Lamar. Patrick Mollums has won every one of those games.
So, if it actually came to fruition in the playoffs, would those odds change? I didn't get it. But once we got a couple of weeks into the season, I was going, okay. Maybe the Chiefs have taken a little bit of a step back. Clearly, Baltimore has.
Part of that is because Lamar got hurt. But if we were just going back to two weeks ago, real time. When the NFL season was one month in, It looked like Buffalo was the best team. At that point, they were undefeated, probably the team to beat. It looked like Kansas City was a borderline playoff team, and we could start to see.
That it just wasn't the year for Baltimore. Whether it was injuries or close losses or bad calls, whatever it was, at the end of the year, I'm very curious to see what happens with John Harbaugh. But that. Isn't going great. I think we would all agree with that.
But you look up right now, the Chiefs had the best odds to win the Super Bowl. At five to one. I think ultimately they win the division for the 10th year in a row. Because I'm looking at the standings right now, right? Kansas City got their way back to 500 a game over at 40 and 30 after beating the Raiders.
And technically, Denver's leading the way at five and two. But the reason I say technically is Is anybody that impressed with what Denver's done so far? Does anybody look at The comeback that they had at home against the New York Giants and pat them on the back and say, Hey, great job. Versus hay. You should have never put yourself in that position.
What a great football team. Ever get down that big to have to score 30 plus points in the fourth quarter to beat the Giants?
So I'm asking you, if you're not a Cheese fan, if you don't have a dog in the fight. And we're talking about just the AFC West. The Chargers are better, clearly. The Broncos are good, clearly. Who would you put your money on?
Because the Chiefs are trying to win the AFC West. for the 10th year in a row. Barack Obama was the sitting president the last time the Chiefs did not win the AFC West.
So it's been a while. And if they win the West and they end up with the best division in the AFC and they get the one seat again, you better say a prayer. I mean, a real one. If you are a fan of any of these other ASE teams, because if the Chiefs get the one seed, nothing has changed from the past seven or eight years. The dynasty that a lot of people tried to convince me this offseason was dying or dead is just not true.
Now, the Chiefs have a lot of work to get that one seed. I mean, if the playoffs started today, First of all, that'd be crazy because it hasn't even been Halloween yet. But if the playoffs started today in the AFC, guess who the one seed is? Yeah, you got it. the Indianapolis Colts.
Now, just because you get the one seed doesn't mean you're not going to slip up in a home game, and then all of a sudden we look up. Kind of like last year. Detroit had the one seed in the NFC. They got knocked off in their first playoff game. Then ultimately, the path went through Philadelphia.
So we'll see what happens. We're only seven, eight games so far into this NFL season. I think what we. Can say is It's not working out the way we thought it was going to. Or is it?
Because I'm looking up right now. Here are Las Vegas' five best odds to win the Super Bowl. It kind of is the teams we thought it was going to be: Kansas City, five to one. Detroit's have no one. Buffalo at eight to one, although I'm not a huge believer in them right now, but you could convince me they're gonna get right.
Green Bay 8-1, and then the Philadelphia Eagles at 10-1 odds to win the Super Bowl. Let's see if there's anybody else that's not some crazy long shot. Where are those Broncos? 20 to 1? Colts 13 to 1.
The Rams at 11 to 1. And then you're getting in the Wheats. Then you're getting in the Seattle Seahawks territory at 27 to 1. I can get you the Buccaneers at 30 to 1 to win the Super Bowl. How about this one?
Both these actually. New England at thirty five to one to win the Super Bowl. If you're a believer in Buffalo, New England's got a better record and just beat them a couple of weeks ago.
So, if you believe in Buffalo, how can you not believe in New England, who's leading that division? 35 to 1, you say. and then Pittsburgh, fifty to one. That's a Curtis Jackson fitty. Fifty to one for the fighting Aaron Rodgers is his.
Ooh, take on. The Pittsburgh take on the Green Bay Packers. Coming up on Sunday night football. That's going to be fun. Who you guys got in that one?
Aaron Rodgers at home versus his old team, the Packers. Green Bay coming in. Four, one, and one leading the division, and a three and a half point favorite. I might just have to take Pittsburgh on the money line. Monday Night Football.
Is Washington at Kansas City? The Chiefs are a huge favorite in that one, 12 and a half, only because Washington is going to be without Jaden Daniels. The week kicks off tomorrow, Minnesota on the road at the Chargers. LA's a three and a half point favorite. And then there's a couple of other fun games coming up this weekend, like Buffalo at Carolina.
Carolina, all of a sudden. Back to over 500. Let Buffalo go into Carolina and lose that game. Then, how are we going to be talking about the Panthers come Monday morning? And how are we going to be talking about the Bills if they lose the Panthers?
come Monday morning. Dallas at Denver. Is another fun one. I could easily see Dallas winning that football game. Look, Dallas, I can't tell if they're a good, bad team or a bad, good team.
But they're really fun to watch. How about them Cowboys? 888-710-4ISN is the phone number. We'll take some phone calls on the other side, talk a little bit of college football, check the NBA scoreboard, then we'll play a game of overrated, underrated, and then. I gotta go.
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And I'm here with Craig Thomas, who co-created the show along with Carter Bays. Hi, Craig. Hey, Josh.
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That is Ryan spinning the wheels. And you are joining us right here on the Infinity Sports Network. Got a couple of segments left. We're talking a lot of football. Let's check that basketball scoreboard real quick.
Eight minutes left from the guard and Knicks, not that Garden. That was my Boston Garden accent. The other Garden, Madison Square Garden. 101 to 89. The Knicks are pulling away from the Cavs.
Looks like a successful debut, at least so far, for head coach. Mike Brown, the Hornets up 119-102 over the Nets. Eight minutes left in Charlotte. Celtics, how about that? 82-75 at the end of three over the 76ers with that makeshift starting roster.
Notably, no Jason Tatin. Good game in Orlando. Everybody loves the Magic this year and the moves they made this offseason. Although they're losing right now in the fourth quarter with four and a half left to play. Heat 113.
Magic 110. 5.55 left in the third from the ATL. Hawks making a little bit of a comeback here in the third, down eight to the Raptors, 87.79, and just tipped off from Utah.
So that's Ace Bailey's first game. 13 to 7 The jazz with the early lead over the Clippers. 888-710-4ISN is the phone number. Let's get back into the football where. The Chiefs, I think.
At some point, it's a long season. They're going to overtake Denver and the Chargers and probably win the West. I'll see if the Chiefs end up 12 and 5, honestly, maybe 11 and 6. takes care of that division. Working away around the rest of the AFC.
The AFC South is just full of frauds. And I'm not talking about the Colts. The Colts are legitimate. The Colts, I owe a public apology to because I said they were going to have a top five pick, and Chain Steichen was going to be one of the first coaches fired. And they're not going to have a top five pick because there are teams that are bad.
Like Miami's really bad, and Cleveland's really bad, and the Raiders are pretty bad. Like we know what really bad football teams look like. And the Colts, they're not bad. They're not good. They're great.
I almost went Tony the Tiger on you. They're great. Best record right now in the AFC, and their quarterback Daniel Jones, out of nowhere. Nobody saw this one coming, has found himself really in the middle of the MVP conversation early on this year.
So, whatever the opposite of a fraud is, like a legit, That's what the Colts are, I'm believer. Those other teams, though? By and large, because of their quarterback, total frauds. Let's start with Houston and CJ Stroud. What?
happened. Almost every time. In the NFL, if you've got a rookie that has a special type season, the next year, One of two things happens, right? He either gets a little bit better or gets a little bit worse. Most of the time, there's not this huge drop off or this huge increase where CJ Stroud went from being the 10th best quarterback as a rookie to all of a sudden being the best the next year.
Well, this is not going the right way, is what I'm trying to tell you. Like, I know we're in. Where are we now? You're three for CJ Stroud. What is going on?
Whether it's the eye test or the arm strength or the accuracy, or he's just. going the wrong way and so is his football team. The talent that that team has, and as good of a quarterback as CJ Stroud was as a rookie, yo, they should go 13 and 4 with that schedule and run away with this pretty average division. And Jacksonville, same thing. What a bunch of front running frauds that team is.
And if you ever believed in Trevor Lawrence. Not ever, that's not fair because coming out of college, we all believed in that guy. He had the great hair. He played big in the national championship game. He had the Peyton Manison Manning comparisons.
He was the number one overall pick. But since then, If you're still a Trevor Lawrence guy or gal, that's on you, sir. Ma'am, I'm sorry. If you're still a believer, then you're just stubborn. Because with Trevor Lawrence I don't care how you want to judge him.
And at some point, we've got to start to judge him on winning and losing football games. He's just not it. And Jacksonville paid him that absorbent amount of money last offseason where they're stuck with him.
So good for you.
Now you've got the 25th best quarterback in the NFL under contract, guaranteed a lot of that money for the next five years. I don't know what's going to happen with Jacksonville. I think Indy ends up running away with that division. Everybody else probably finishes under 500. Give me the Chiefs in the West, give me the Colts in the South.
The East? I don't know. I mean, I can't believe we're even having this conversation based on what Buffalo was the first month of the season and really what the Patriots were also. Patriots were 2-2. They looked pretty average.
We didn't know what they were. Buffalo was 4-0. They were coasting, coming off a season where their quarterback won the MVP. But I'm talking about right now. Whatever the date is, nine days away from Halloween.
So, what's today? The 22nd? Right now, I'm asking you: who's the best team in the AFC East? Not what you thought it was going to be. Not who had the MVP quarterback last year.
Not based on those Las Vegas odds that I just gave you. I'm asking you for real. Who's the best team so far through the first seven, eight games in the ASC East? If you're not saying New England, then I don't know if we can kick it. I don't know what you're seeing.
New England's got a better record. They went into Buffalo and they beat him a couple of weeks ago.
So maybe Bills fans are still lying to themselves. But clearly that team is not What we thought they were going to be, at least so far. You could easily convince me New England wins that division. And then in the north, it's just by default. I guess I'll take Pittsburgh.
I don't mean to sound like a jerk Steelers fans, because I was wrong about your football team, too. The Aaron Rodgers experiment has gone way better than I thought it was going to. I'm on record as saying that I thought Pittsburgh was going to sneak in the back door of the playoffs the same way they had the last couple of years, and then they were going to fade away and basically waste their time with all this Aaron Rodgers hubbub. Whether it was not drafting a quarterback or holding out for Aaron Rodgers or when you could have just re-sawned Justin Fields, there were a lot of different options that Pittsburgh had this offseason. And I thought what they were doing was Not a mistake.
But holding out for Not the guy that He actually has turned out to be, if that makes sense. I thought Pittsburgh saw Aaron Rodgers as the guy from 10 years ago, at least their front office did, with the long hair, the discount double check, the MVP, going to the Super Bowl, and he hasn't been that guy for a while. But he kind of looks more like that guy than the guy that I thought he was going to be.
So kudos to Pittsburgh. And again, process of elimination. They're going to run away with that division, too. Who are you going to convince yourself of? Cincinnati without Joe Burrow?
I don't think so. I got my questions when it comes to Zach Taylor. Definitely not Cleveland. It's not Baltimore season. I think this is probably the end of the road for John Harbaugh.
Not in the middle of the year. They're not going to James Franklin his ass. They're not going to just can him. He's done too much. He wears a Super Bowl ring.
But at the end of the year, I wonder what's going to happen while we're going down this road. To all these great coaches that have won a bunch of games the last five or six years, if they don't cash in this year. Like Sean McDermott with Buffalo. What if the Bills don't win the division? They have to take a wildcard route.
They go 11-6 because New England takes the spot. And then they, let's say, lose to Kansas City again. Is that it for McDermott? Do they need to get a new voice in there? There's a big difference in the NFL between being really good, like Baltimore and Buffalo, and being great.
like Kansas City.
Sometimes you just need a new voice in when it comes to the head coach. 888-710-4ISN is the phone number. Let's bounce over to the NFC while we got a few minutes left. Caleb Williams, year two. I'm looking at the numbers right now.
Nine touchdowns. to three interceptions, but that doesn't matter. The numbers that matter for Caleb Williams and for Bears fans four wins and two losses. I didn't see this coming. I thought the Bears were going to basically be.
Another version of what they were a season ago. Where the quarterback was going to struggle a little bit, the division's really good. I don't really know what to make of the Vikings, but I know that Green Bay and Detroit are both a problem. Both those teams could end up in the Super Bowl.
So I'm not trying to convince you that Chicago is on that level, but I am trying to convince you that Chicago is a playoff team. Which I did not see coming. Because with Caleb Williams, let's be real, as a rookie, we paid a lot of attention to a quarterback that didn't grow too much on the field. Because he was Caleb frickin' Williams. He went to USC, he's a number one pick.
He went to Chicago, Heisman trophy winner, paints his nails. There's a lot of flash, there's a lot of reason to pay attention to Caleb Williams. until the game started. And then we started watching this guy named Jaden Daniels because he got off to a hot start. And he was winning football games.
And then he kept winning football games. And then his team finished with a 12-5 record. And D.C. football, yes, Washington, D.C.'s football team. You read it, said.
Made the playoffs out of nowhere with a rookie quarterback.
So we kind of stopped with all the Caleb Williams stuff and started focusing more on Jaden Daniels. But here we are in year two. I'm not saying that Caleb is the better quarterback. What I am saying is, Caleb has finally gotten to the point where he should be in year two. Jaden Daniels, at least my eyes tell me, and the numbers and injuries have something to do with this.
Maybe isn't going to be quite as good as he was last year.
Sometimes rookies take a little bit of a step back. I'm not saying what happened to CJ Stroud, I don't expect that at all. But what I'm saying is at the end of the year, if we revisit this conversation, Bears fans. Commanders fans, is there a chance that we're saying, you know what, Caleb was the right guy? Caleb is the guy if you give me one of these two quarterbacks over the next four or five years.
I'm not saying, I'm just saying there's a chance. We all got so excited about what Jaden Daniels did last year. And both these guys have played less than 25 games as a starting quarterback in the NFL. Let's give it a minute before we determine which of these guys is the better quarterback. Everybody wants to put Jaden Daniels in the Hall of Fame and put Caleb Williams on the bench.
Let's just chill. The Bears are kind of good and kind of fun to watch. They should have won that first game of the season, and then how we'd be talking about them: Chicago. Hey Chicago, what do you say? Oh, that's not the Bears, that's the Cubs.
The Cubs are gonna win today. that one. 888-710-4ISN is the phone number. Can you imagine though if the Bears would have won that first game, which they blew the big lead in the second half? And they were five and one.
Yeah. Wow. I didn't see that one come. The boys and the bears kind of remind me of each other. Where they're both NFC teams that nobody had too high of expectations for.
We had our questions with both Dak Prescott and with Caleb Williams, and they're both fun to watch, and they both have a chance to make the playoffs. Like the Dallas Cowboys, again, kind of like the Bears, they play in a division which, in my opinion, is the best team in the NFC, the Philadelphia Eagles. And Washington probably finishes nine and eight, maybe gets a playoff spot, something like that.
So ultimately, when the season is over, I don't know where the Cowboys stand. But they're better than I thought they were gonna be. Same thing with the Bears. And the NSC is pretty wide open if we're being real. Outside of Philadelphia Who's the next best team?
If you're listening to me in Motor City, you're going, well, it's us, dude. How is it not us? We won 15 games last year. We got the most underrated quarterback in the NFL. We're on a little bit of a hot streak right now.
Just beat Tampa. What are you talking about? If we had this conversation last week, I probably would have said it was Tampa. as the second best team in the NSE behind Philadelphia. If you're listening to me right now in the Bay Area in San Francisco on the Infinity Sports Network, you're probably yelling at your radio, going, What about us?
Well, what about you? You're 5-2, that's a great record, but here's the problem.
So is everybody else in the division. The Rams, the 49ers in Seattle all have a 5-2 record. What about Green Bay? Packers fans Listen to me right now at the brat stop in Kenosha, Wisconsin. They're going, what the hell, dude?
What about us? How is it not us? with Micah Parsons.
So the NFC to me is Philadelphia. Gap. And then whoever you think's next. I'll give you, as of right now, the Lions. Packers Forty niners Bucks.
That's my top five right now in the NFC. And the AFC. Kansas City. I don't know. I'm not a real believer in a lot of these teams.
Like, well, if the Chiefs have to play Daniel Jones and the Colts in the playoffs here in a couple of months, how do we really think that goes down? As much nice stuff as I'm trying to say about New England. And I do believe in Mike Frabel, and I think that team has a lot of talent. What happens when the games get real, the weather gets cold, and let's say New England comes into Arrowhead? Drake May's awesome.
Drake May is also a second-year quarterback that will be going on the road in the playoffs for the first time. Against this cat named Patrick Mahomes. How do those games usually play out?
So, again, in the AFC, I think it's, you know what? The conclusion that we've come to? Is even though we've taken a different path through the first month and a half, two months of the NFL season, we're kind of where we thought we were going to be. with the chiefs. With Philly.
With Detroit. A lot of people had high expectations with Green Bay. Buffalo, to me, outside of Baltimore, because they're not even worth talking about. Is probably the biggest disappointment through the first month and a half of the season as far as the elite teams go. Again, take Baltimore out of the conversation because that's just too obvious.
Nobody saw the injury coming, nobody thought they'd be a one-win team at this point. What if Buffalo loses coming up on Sunday to Carolina? How are we talking about the Bills? 888 710 4ISN is the phone number. Coming up on the other side, you know I wrap up all the shows that I do.
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Both those games, the first to go final tonight. Actually, so did the Magic over the Heat, 125 to 118. Raptors beating the breaks off the Hawks in Atlanta, 116-88. Speaking of beating up, how about the Jazz over the Clippers? The Clippers were a double-digit favorite heading into this game.
I know it's just the first quarter from Utah, but the Jazz have a 21-point lead by my math. 37 to 16. The Celtics, the Tatumless Celtics at home. Beating the 76ers with MB 96-92. Bulls up 20 still in the third quarter over the Pistons, 77-57.
Bucks up 87.78 over the Wizards, and then tipping off here in a matter of moments. We're going to get Victor Whitman Yama versus Cooper Flag, Spurs, and Mavs, T-Wolves, Blazers, and then your nightcap in the NBA is the Kings and the Suns. 888-710-4ISN is the number. Let's play a little game of overrated, underrated. Ryan, you know how we do.
Kevin Durant is now a Houston Rocket. I don't know if anybody told you, but he signed with the Rockets in the offseason. Good game last night. Lost in a couple of overtimes to the champion Oklahoma City Thunder. His entire career in a nutshell.
Got in the league in 08.
So 17 years of Kevin Durant in the NBA. Overrated or underrated? It's underrated. He's just one of the premier scorers in the NBA. He has the two finals MVPs.
I know he did not, of course, win it as the number one. But when you look at his longevity, His MVP He's got finals MVPs. It's not an overrated career. Do you think, Ryan, that if he would have never gone to Golden State and he went to basically any other team, stayed with Oklahoma City, went to. The Jazz, the Spurs, the Hornets, the Lake, anybody except for Golden State, do you think Kevin Durant wears rings?
Yes. I really do believe if he stayed with OKC, he would have won a ring. You really believe that? Also, he He was the number one on the Brooklyn Nets. I still believe to this I believe to this day.
If Hardin doesn't tear his hamstring and Kyrie doesn't sprain his ankle, They are. The champions. The champions, you got a little excited there, my friend. Maybe they're. A team that wins a playoff series or two versus what they ended up being.
And then, because the only reason I say that is we saw afterwards in Phoenix. Dude, they missed the playoffs in Phoenix with Kevin Durant. Healthy last year and Devin Booker. You know how hard that is to do to miss the playoffs in the NBA? I'm going overrated, but I'm a little bit of a hater.
Um, the Denver Broncos, five and two, overrated or underrated. A little overrated. I would say the team itself is a little underrated, but Bo Nix is overrated. Therefore, the team. In the playoffs, it is going to be overrated.
I'll say this: that division is loaded with coaches. They all got rings, whether it's Pete Carroll or Jim Harbaugh, in the case of a championship ring in college. And then obviously, Sean Payton and my guy Andy Reid is a fistful of those things. I do believe in Sean Payton. I don't know about Bo Nicks.
At the beginning of the year, I said he was going to be a top 10 quarterback. He's got his team off to a five and two start. He proved that he can come back. Although, also, he proved that he can get down by 20, whatever points it was at home in the fourth quarter against the Giants. I don't really know.
Zach Prescott, his whole career, overrated and underrated. Underrated. He's been a franchise quarterback since he stepped into starting role. Definitely. And he puts up stats.
I know there's times where he's like, okay, you can't win a big game with him. But he is arguably a top 10 quarterback almost every year he plays. That's healthy. He's in the MVP conversation this year, and I would venture to say the The best Cowboys quarterback of all time. People are probably going, What are you talking about?
Troy Aikman won three Super Bowls. Troy Ickman. averaged 16 touchdowns and 14 interceptions per season in his entire career. 16 touchdowns. I know it was a different game.
It was a different day sports machine. I don't give a damn. I mean what are you really talking about here? Overrated and underrated. I don't know if you saw this, but.
There's a Louisville back. Basketball player that played in the G League for a couple of years that somehow has college eligibility. I have no idea how that works, bro. Tom Izzo, the Michigan State coach, is pissed and he was vocal about it. Tom Izzo, overrated, underrated.
Uh I'd say normal, but I'm gonna go a little bit underrated. He just gets the big games and he wins 'em.
So I'm not gonna hate on the guy. Ryan B., were you trying to sit the fence on my game? You almost sat the fence there. There's one rule. I know, and I chose underrated.
I just appreciate that. Cal Raleigh's season: overrated, underrated. Underrated. He's a catcher. It's not.
It's a very good idea. Every year, of course, where a catcher hits, I guess it was a 64, 65, 64. 64 runs combined in the postseason, regular season, while. playing a majority of the games behind the plate. I know you can say, oh, you know.
He didn't hit for average. He didn't get on base as much as he could. But People don't know how hard it is to manage a pitching staff. and expect to hit in the same game without Everything collapsing.
So it's a very underrated season. Forget about all that. How about his knees, and how about that mustache? On a real note, can you imagine being a major league catcher? I don't know how old Kyrali is, but somebody that's like a veteran, like a 30-like Salvador Perez.
How many times that guy's had to crouch down at that? I don't know what you do for work, but you probably sit at a desk or maybe you're like on a phone all day or. You're not crouching down like a catcher. I'm not saying, I'm just saying. What else we got here?
Oh, a couple's costumes. I told you I'm going as a pirate. This year, couples Halloween costumes, overrated or underrated. They are overrated. I just the most of the time they're corny.
The other times are just dumb. And I think sometimes when you look back at pictures, And if you do happen to break up with the significant other, you're like, what am I doing? What was I doing that year? Your ketchup and cheese mustard, and then she's your ex. Yeah, that's embarrassing.
You know, would be a good couple. I just thought of this. Macho Man Randy Savage, since I've already got the Macho Man mask and What was this old lady's name? Miss Elizabeth. Maybe I'm gonna talk the girl into doing that.
Or you just go as the pirate. I don't know if she's going to appreciate the pirates.
So, if you're just now tuning into the radio show, I've been dating this girl now for, I would even say, we're dating. We've gone out on a couple of dates, and Halloween comes around. She sends me the text I've been dreading my entire life. It's hey, do you want to dress up as a couple for Halloween? And I'm thinking, You're really taking the next step in the relationship here.
Like, we've only gone out a couple of times. To be a couple's dressed up at the Halloween event, wherever you go, the next step is marriage, as far as I'm concerned. That's pretty serious. And so I was hesitant and I finally said yes and she said, you know, let's just go as pirates.
So she showed me the outfit that she got, Ryan, and it is. every bit as sexy as a pirate outfit that you're imagining right now. The little plaid skirt, the patch, the hook, the high heels, even the top, bro. And she wants me to go as a pirate.
So I think I'm going to go as a Pittsburgh pirate. Is that funny or is that just corny as hell? Peerry with me. You're my guy. It's pretty.
pretty funny, but if the person you're going with's also a pirate It's a little corny. It depends on the pressure. Because she expects me to show up as a pirate, like with a parrot on my shoulder, and I'm going to show up in a. Bobby Bernier uniform. I would say If you were going by yourself and you wore that, I'd think it's hilarious.
But if you're going with someone who closes like an actual pirate, That's when it gets questionable. You see, I don't think it's funny unless you're part of a couple with another pirate. Like, if I just walked in in a Paul Skeens outfit in the bar, people are just going to be like, oh, that guy's dressed up like Paul Skeens. If you're with a pirate, you know, somebody dressed up like Captain Hook. All of a sudden it becomes kinda cool.
That's true. You got a couple more left. Maybe it was a parrot, too. She should go as the parrot. I should be the pirate.
She should be the parrot. And I'll carry around on my shoulder. That's a terrible idea, too. The Florida football job is open. Is that job overrated or underrated?
I would say underrated. They have a lot of passionate fans down there in the swamp, and then I think they'll get enough NIL funding. And it's perfect weather.
So like you said, the should should Be in a good spot. It blows my mind that these Florida schools are ever bad at football. Like, if you've ever been to a high school game, I've been to one high school game in Florida, I've been to one high school game in Texas, and I'm convinced, just based on the resources and how much people care, and all the five-star recruits, that UT, Florida State, Florida, Miami should never be bad at football. I have no idea how that ever happens. Cooper Flagg makes his debut tonight.
Actually, that game just tipped off. His rookie season, overrated or underrated. It'll be a little overrated.
Well, I'd say underrated. I changed my mind. I think that he's going to be. Overshadowed by everybody else on the Mavericks and how they're going to be competing in the West.
So I think when we look back at it, the stats may be lower than anticipated for Cooper Flag, but it's going to be an efficient season for him.
Okay, that's a lot to say.
Something very confusing. I've never seen the Rocky movies until this week, and now I'm on a binge. I am embarrassed to admit that. I'm up to Rocky 3. Oh Ryan, the Rocky series is overrated or underrated.
Underrated. Rocky 4 is amazing. Just oh, Rocky's that the best one? Yeah, that's the one. That's what I'm working to next, dude.
Can't wait. All right, looking forward to it, Adrian. Thank you to everybody that called into the show over the last four hours. We had on my guy Rob Brown from the Rob Brown show. And a special thank you to Ryan B.
spinning the wheels back in studio. Great job, as always, my friend. Don't forget that Bart Winkler comes up next, right here on the Infinity Sports Network. Let's take one last peek at these NBA scores before I dip out with the games going on right now. Um, never mind.
Screw that. Uh, I'm looking forward to this Trailblazers game tonight. That's where I've got my money. Uh, that's it for me. Fun four hours.
Don't turn the dial because Bart's got you. Lockdown for the next four right here on the Infinity Sports Network as Wednesday turns into Thursday. Thanks for checking me out. I'll talk to you next time right here on the Infinity Sports Network. Good night.
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Some people follow the rules, but where's the fun in that? I'm Saraya, and this is Rule Breakers, the podcast where we celebrate the rebels, the misfits, and the ones who make their own way. Every week, I sit down with the biggest rule breakers in sports, entertainment, and beyond to talk about the wildest moments, toughest lessons, and why breaking the rules might just be the key to success. Follow and listen to Rule Breakers with Saraya, an Odyssey podcast available now for free on the Odyssey app and wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everyone, I'm Josh Radner, and I am so excited to tell you about How We Made Your Mother, a rewatch podcast looking back at how I met your mother.
And I'm here with Craig Thomas, who co-created the show along with Carter Bays. Hi, Craig. Hey, Josh.
Somehow, it has been 20 years since the show premiered. That's you know, I'm gonna check the math on that. 10 years since it went off the air, and we thought that made this a perfect time to look back, see what the hell we did, and why the show still seems to resonate with fans around the world today. Follow and listen to How We Made Your Mother wherever you get your podcasts. Did you know Tide has been upgraded to provide an even better, clean and cold water?
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