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It is our weekly NFL picks episode. Ryan Horvat joins us. Harvey, good to see you on episode 778. We got good to see 777 last night. Hi, good to see you as well.
Just so everybody knows, this is going to be a curse-free, no swear podcast from me. I'll see what you do here, but. There'll be no swearing from me today. Why? For the YouTube.
Remember, you week one you yelled at me about it, and then week two I've been good. And then oh, that was nice clay. No, I think I got struck down because I was talking like a lot about drugs. Oh yeah, yeah. Not like happy place ham promo code bar twenty five percent off each and every order, but I was talking about like.
Taking bumps and needles and stuff I've never done that I you know we're on drugs drugs win I'm excited for some baseball now full disclosure I did think game one was tonight but you corrected me there but I'm looking at it right now it just popped up on my screen that the Brewers took a little bit of money they were minus one fifty seven on the open minus one sixty one right now. Total in the game Bart six and a half. If you like the Rays, which I don't, plus one forty eight is the best price. The Miz is going to be on the bump three two four ERA in the postseason. Tampa hasn't named starter.
I legit couldn't name one starter that.
Well, it's going to be Drew Rasmussen. Oh, and Freddie Game Two.
So it's two former Brewers. I'm excited for this World Series. This is a ballknollers World Series, right? Yeah, the big market teams. But I'm not gonna lie, man.
Like I was cheering for you guys against the Dodgers, and because I want you to have happiness and all the other people that I like from the Wisconsin area, I'll cheer for you guys and my family members. But it's tough for me to cheer against Tampa because, you know, like growing up in in Chicago, even like look at these Brewers tickets. Me and my dad would always go when we would go on vacation. We'd be like, "Let's go to a Rays game," and we would feel like big shots because you could sit behind home plate for like forty-two dollars. Yeah, I've been, I've been to the Trope.
I'm so excited. I'm almost more excited to go back to the Trope one more time than I am to go to a World Series game. Should it go five? Which I think it will, and I think we win in five. You think you win in five?
I think I'm going to clinkers when you're there. Wouldn't that be something? That would be awesome. Oh my god!
So, what's your is that your prediction though? Brewers in five. You got to make one. Um, like if I get a free million dollar bet kind of thing, I'd probably go six. Six.
I do think we win, even if we don't.
Well, let's cross that bridge when we get to it, because I've I just feel like the whole I feel like the whole city, the vibe in the whole city for the last month is. We are. We've already won it. It's just a matter of playing it out now. I really, I really feel like everybody.
There's just an excitement with sports that there's never been. Like there's no nervousness. There's no. There's no. We're gonna blow it because making the World Series.
Too many of us is winning the World Series already, and now we've got another series. Actually, win the World Series. Just the fact that I'm wearing a hat. On the Dan Shaney Insurance YouTube stream that says World Series with the Brewers logo, I can't even. This is the last day before the World Series.
I don't want it to start. I don't want it to start. I want to live in this land forever. And I have to say this: we are no longer a small market team because the amount of money that people are handing over to the Brewers for tickets for merch. Everybody's got merch.
They closed the pro shop today, the eve of the World Series, because they're out. They had to restock today. They're out. It's unbelievable. You know the question that I would ask today if I were doing sports radio in Milwaukee, I would ask if you like it, or if it makes you a little nervous.
That usually. Brewers postseason, I mean NLCS especially. You're going against the Dodgers. They're pretty hefty underdogs, like plus one forty-five to plus one sixty. Is it weird being such a big favorite right now, minus one sixty-five over at Pato?
Brewers to win the World Series, Rays plus one forty-five. Like, do you feel like like you're not the underdog anymore?
Now you're kind of the favorite, even though you haven't won anything since they were the Milwaukee Braves.
Well, we should be the favorite. They're they're a 103 win baseball team. That's what makes me a little bit nervous. They just swept the Dodgers, and that's why if I were to bet this series, I feel like I would take Tampa, but I would wait until after Game One because the Mize goes Game One, and Tampa hasn't even named their starter. I mean, I don't want to talk about this with you, but that's what makes me a little bit nervous.
I feel like that's fine. Public and everybody's going to love the Brewers because they just watched them take down the Empire. And and right and like I'm not gonna lie, bro. I didn't even watch any of the Tampa series because it was Tampa versus Cleveland. I'm not saying I'm like big market guy, but I hate both of those teams.
I don't hate the Rays. I just got done, you know, blowing them. But I didn't care. There there was not enough star power for me to like. There's been football on every single night for three weeks.
I almost can't take it. Like last night, I'm watching Sam Houston and the NBA starts, which don't think you're getting out of. We got to talk about last night because I bet the Bucks. Oh, the Bucks stink! Terrible!
They're not going to win thirty games. I gave, I get Pato, Pato, and I have a sponsorship, and I gave the money right back. I was going to say you got a pretty hefty bet on the Bucks to win what thirty games? You tweeted last night that Tyler Hero might average forty a game. I don't even think he should average forty minutes.
And you said when he's your go-to guy, it's rough, man. I, I can't, I can't stomach it. I bet them, but so did a lot of people. They were six and a half point dogs. It closed at four and a half, and I'm actually kind of high on the Wizards this year.
If AD, oh, I am too. Trey Young could actually play more than thirty games. Me and Nathan are going to go to some games, so yeah. But the Bucks—that was a disgusting product last night. What was more disgusting was the Miami Heat's product.
I feel like that's going to be them this season. Forty-one to forty-three wins. Giannis puts up thirty ten and eight a game, but it doesn't matter because. Like the like like you know, I asked you like other than Tyler Hero, who's the other go to guy? Are you a big Bam guy?
I don't know. Like Bam kind of is what he. No, Giannis is on the same team. Nobody could create their own shot on that team, right? Like if you go to Miami and they could keep Tyler Hero, it's a different story.
But they're not going to be any good. The East has gotten so good. All right, I just got a text from Shay. Tim Shay said, "Give me the link. I need to show you guys something." I hope it's not as uh.
Is junk.
Well, let's find out. Here's here's Tim Shea joining. I'm not going to show you my junk, okay?
Well, I never know, Tim. I mean, you're kind of a lot. Good to see you didn't change from last night. No, I didn't, and I probably won't until like after the. Were you out all night?
We were at Pato. I was at Pato last night. Did you see Joel Embiid? No. I thought maybe we'd see a ray or two.
There were no rays.
Well, I am funny enough. I am outside the fister. Oh, are there any rays? Are they shining those big baseballs? Oh, that I didn't even know about that.
Wow, stupid. Yeah, shining those baseballs. Whose name's all on there? Let me see that again. Did you sign one here?
Do you want me to flip it? I don't know if I can. Yeah, what is this? Haven't you heard about those baseballs downtown? No, you can't flip it, but just turn it around.
Yeah, just turn the phone around.
So that's you see that? Yeah.
So that's that, and then here's like the baseball. Here's the baseball. Try to find some names that you know. Yeah.
I I mean I'm looking like is McGivern on there? Go Brewers. It says Booya. Go Brewers. You got this.
Miss Miss Peachy signed it. Miss Peachy, yeah, we know you can do it. Go MKE, Joyce, Joyce, Joyce Hawthorne, Joyce, Joyce, yeah, Mrs. H, Adele Evans, Adele, yeah, dude, I'm getting Adele. It looks like a lot of kids are writing on this.
Caitlin, is that a Ninja Turtle head? They're right there. Yeah.
Yeah.
What is that? Why is that on there? Looks like Raphael. Did I just write the Winkler verse on there or something? Yeah.
Oh yeah, you should. Write my name since I'm not there. Yeah.
Write Winkler, Shane Horvat. Yeah.
Okay, hold on here. Let's do it. Ah, where should I do?
Okay. Winkler. I'll say. Here we go. I'll say.
Let's go, crew. Yeah.
Let's go, crew. Winkler, Winkler, H O R V A T, right? Yep. No H or V.
Sometimes people always add that. Horvat. All right. Let's see. Let's go, crew.
Can you see it? Get closer. Winkler Horvat Shea. Here, you guys, wrap this really quick. I gotta grab a charger.
Okay. Get a charger. Yeah, that looks good. All right. How do you feel about people reselling watch party tickets?
Screw them all. Ninety dollars. That's that. Yeah, that's a bridge too far. I'm I'm for people trying to get any money they can in this society, but not not this.
But that's fifteen dollars you're giving to the charity, and then now you're reselling it. Yeah.
For like four times it. Yeah, if you're gonna if you're gonna say I got a bunch here, they are for twenty. Like those people still bitching about the timeless ticket. Those people should get their watch party tickets taken away. I agree.
All right, that's all I wanted to do. I'm in front of the fister. I don't see any rays here.
So why are you down there? To sign the ball. No, today's the big media workout day. Yeah, yeah. I did see the as as we were driving by.
I did see the fox set. It's up in the Miller deck.
So, oh, so does it look good? Yeah, it does. Nice. I was gonna cut my interview with the Violent Femmes drummer, and then I I took another nap. Oh, all right.
I'll let you and Harvot get back to the picks. I just wanted to show you the balls, and I'm glad now you got your but you got the ball signed. Yeah.
So we didn't see your balls, but you still showed us a ball. Correct. Correct. Now let's see your right. Yeah.
All right. Goodbye. They're in a sharpie big enough to sign Shea's fucking sack. Yeah.
All right. Did you win any money last night? No. Oh no, no, not after. I think you were our good luck charm.
Oh shit.
So. All right. All right, Winkler. All right, shit. See, Tim.
We'll talk to you later. Go, Brewers. Go, crew. Tim Shea reporting live from downtown here on the Winklerverse as we approach 11:38 this morning. Skies sunny and temperatures in the mid 60s.
Should be a nice forecast for your World Series tailgate. Let's take a look at our Doppler radar. Wink thousand. Going to have a nice weekend all the way around coming up. Maybe some showers next week.
We'll have more coming up in 10 minutes. All right. The Patriots and Bears play tonight. They do.
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Where is this game tonight? Foxborough, because I'm going to guess the Lions. No, it's in Chicago. It okay? It's in Soldier Field, right?
Yeah, yeah. Soldier Field. I don't think the Bears. I think the bear. I think the Bears are respected enough that they're going to be the favorite, but I don't think it's by much.
I've got Bears one and a half point favorite.
So that was the open. Actually, the Bears opened as one and a half point favorites. They take a little bit of money. They that's a talent, right? That's pretty good.
I mean, I just nailed it right now at Pato. They're three. I'm actually praying that this doesn't hit two and a half because if it does. I really i got a i got a player prop in tonight's game, but I didn't really want to take a side. As I say that, though, there is a pretty cheap money line minus one fifty five right now.
I think the Bears win this game. This run of favorites winning outright on Thursday night eventually has to come to an end. That isn't the reason that I like Chicago in this spot. I know New England's played much better. Remember Week Two?
Everybody was already running off Drake May, and you were hating on Vrabel.
Well, they're they're playing good ball, but yeah, they're back. I I like I don't know man.
Now that Caleb's back, Caleb looked good. He completed like his first what like twelve passes or whatever it was last week.
So I like Chicago to win this game at home. Think they're going to go on a little bit of a run. That's the thing. I think Green Bay is going to go on a run. Although I do worry this week against Detroit, they're three point dogs.
But the division's just so good. Minnesota never loses, even though they haven't had good quarterback play. But I'll take the Bears here, even at three. I think it's probably a push. I think they win this game exactly by a field goal.
So I like the money line minus one fifty five, or the Bears at two and a half minus one fifteen. But I did bet Colston Loveland to score a touchdown right now. Pato or anywhere else plus one ninety almost two to one. He's got the most red zone targets. He's got five.
And Caleb's back. In those three starts, he's got five red zone targets.
So I'm gonna roll with that one. You know, last week six grabs, sixty five yards, and a tuddy. Let's go Colston Loveland. Anytime touchdown plus one ninety. I was hoping that it was at least plus two hundred, but it's not.
Well, those two guys, Loveland and Williams. Are like the two guys I don't have in this game in any league. I'm zero and six in the league where I drafted Ramondre Henderson, and I know I got it wrong. Trayvon Stevenson.
So Ramondre Stevenson, Trayvon Henderson. I drafted them back to back at a turn because I didn't know which one to take, and that strategy is normally done well for me. And this year, it's not.
So I am also starting Rashawn Johnson in that league tonight, and I'm. Can you get out of that? What? Could you get? Can you instead pick up Corey Kiner instead?
I think he's already picked up. I was gonna say because Vrabel was like blowing them in the presser, and he had 57 rushing yards. I kind of like him for um and anytime touchdown, first touchdown tonight is 60 to one. He was a good preseason guy. Watch I watched some of that, dude.
I think he could get the red zone. I'm gonna take a little 60 to one. He's been really good. Like the nerd numbers, man. Like rushing yards over expectation, seven point five.
Stevenson and Henderson have been really. Kind of, she's sixty to one anytime touchdown. No, that's first touchdown. First touchdown. Yeah, I got like one of those free bets, and it's like, what am I gonna do with ten dollars?
Yeah, I got three dollars in all my accounts randomly. It's just like three ninety nine or two fifteen. I'll just throw a bunch of kinder money on tonight. Clear. I'd rather have it zero than three.
All right, let me pull it up right now at Pato, so we can give the people the real numbers because I'm gonna bet this actually.
Okay. Uh, sixty-six to oh wait, damn it! Wow, the six.
Okay, it's actually thirty-three to one now. At Pato, six to one anytime touchdown, anytime touchdown. I'll go, I'll go six to one on him. Stevenson and Henderson have been terrible. I know because I played both of their props back to back weeks, just going unders.
I'm taking New England to win. Are you really? Yeah, is this just a Chicago hate thing? Especially because, for whatever reason, they were doing the Green Bay sucks shit. Like while people were hurt last week.
Oh no, but there was one guy in a Packer jersey. No, no, no! You didn't see. You do do your research, Bart. You didn't see there was one guy in a Packer jersey.
You didn't see that part. We we when we see Packer jersey, we have to da. We can't ignore them. We have to do it, Bart. No, I I think that my life is.
Going swimmingly right now with the Brewers, and I don't think bad thing will happen tonight. They got a bunch of injuries on their offensive line. Dobbs is on the IR, which actually kills my dynasty league. Yeah, but AJ Brown's back to get eight targets and two catches. Yeah, he didn't look very good when he was healthy, though.
Man, I love you know what? I love the Bears tonight. Bear down. Do it.
Well, I'm going to go with the Pats in a rematch. They're finally going to get their revenge from 41 years ago. I really didn't want to add a bet because I have way too many college football bets this weekend. Fuck it though, we're going Bears, and I just swore. I'm sorry.
All right, let's go to. Oh, I got to get out of NBA. I kind of knew you would. Are you? You knew I'd what take Chicago?
No, swear. No, no. All right, let's go to. Damn it, we got to go to Paris. I wish we were actually going to Paris.
Me, you, and the chain smokers. You are going to guess the line on this one. It's even now. There is riots. Yeah, I'd still go.
It's funny. I was at Sturgill Simpson, Johnny Blue Skies on Sunday, and he was like, "Did y'all see what happened in Paris? Could you even imagine?" He's like, "Because we were in DC." We'll never riot like that. We'll never protest like that, because they made our lives too comfortable. Our lives are too comfortable.
Even if we think they're bad, they're still comfortable. We have every device we could ever want. Oh, you mean in the United States? Yeah, yeah. We will never do that.
Oh, our protest is a bunch of is a bunch of people at a No Kings rally going. Dump Trump, dump dump Trump, like some stupid dance, like do do do do, like we're so proud to be loud and shit like that, like fuck you, man. Not make that difference. Yeah, dude. I mean, like honestly, our country.
I mean, you can say what you want, but there's like bombs blowing up all over the place. I love it, USA. USA.
So who's going to Perry Steelers? Oh, Aaron Rodgers is going to Paris, and you know what I love.
So I don't tell me the line, and I'm all like happy for Rodgers, and it's like New York Times is like maybe Aaron Rodgers and his family's relationship isn't as good as you. Blah blah blah. They were at the game. I'm like, why do we care about this? Who actually cares about this?
What I care about Bart is the trenches and the X's and O's. The Saints. Who that was my number one bet last week, and they came marching, baby. They want us some money. They're taking on the Steelers.
You want to guess the line? Wow, this is really tough. The Saints aren't going to lose in France, first of all. I'm going to say, fuck. I kind of think the Steelers are a favorite by like two, two and a half.
Um, they were. It was actually one and a half on the open.
Now it's at three and a half.
So Saints three and a half point dogs minus one eighteen. Total went from forty two and a half, forty four and a half. Over money coming in. Who do you like here? The Saints are not losing in France.
Their whole culture is based on lef lef lef. They're not Mardi Gras. Isn't that French? They're not losing. This is a narrative play, like when Drake London and the Falcons played in London.
I'm like, Drake London is going to score a touchdown today, you idiots! And then he did. Of course he did. His name is London.
Sometimes it's that easy, folks.
Sometimes it's that easy.
So I'm taking the Saints. Yeah, I'm tempted to take the Saints too. I like what I saw last week. Their problem is they just don't have a run game. But I like Steelers.
One last week, right? Steelers won last week. Then they'll lose. Yeah, you know what, man? I actually, I think the Steelers.
I'm, I'm, I'm not going to. This about Rogers, for you? Are you Rogers thinking?
Well, they're four and two. They're okay. Here's I said this about the Steelers. I think last year. They're the two.
They're not going. They're not going to be five and two. They could be five and three. They're never going to be two games better than five hundred in either direction. I just like.
I feel like you know. I kind of agree with the line move here. I don't think you're getting any value. But one and a half to three and a half.
Now, if this was like still one and a half, I would probably take Pittsburgh because the Saints are a younger team. Other than you know their their backfield. Steelers are a veteran team making this trip to Paris. You know they're going to do things the right way because if they go to five and two, they're setting themselves up nice in one of the tougher divisions in football. Also, it's just more like Jalen Ramsey isn't the same player, obviously, that he is or was, I should say, when he was in Jacksonville.
But he's always making plays, and I just worry because the Saints don't really have a strong run game. And they lean so much on dropping shuck back thirty five to forty times that if they have to do that against the Steelers pass rush, they're probably going to get home. I uh yeah, if I had to bet the game, I would probably bet Pittsburgh. Actually, so I'll take Pittsburgh three and a half. You're going Saints outright money line.
I'm going Saints again. When it when it comes to these international games, I usually just do narrative. Yeah, don't blame. Yeah, so I'm gonna go Saints because of the French connection. All right, next game Tampa.
On the road, taking on Carolina, Tampa. One, no, one and five this season. Baker's back. Carolina's three and two. Baker, Carolina three point favorite, three and a half.
Baker's decision is actually expected tomorrow officially. I would assume he's probably back. Although, like, does it really matter right now? He's not the like the quarterback position is not the issue. Yeah, I would just move on from Baker.
I would make Daniels my future. How much longer Baker got anyway? Although he's not that old, Baker. Yeah, I just feel like he's thirty-one only. I think.
Let me see. I think Baker's good. Thirty-one. Yeah, but I also kind of think he's plateaued, and I think the Buccaneers are not close anymore.
So maybe developing Daniels and flipping Baker. They're a team that needs a quarterback. Baker's jumped on a team before with no practice and won. He can do it again. I like Tampa, and I mean, if Baker does play, what's the line?
I got Panthers by three. And you're right; it's Carolina three. I I like Tampa. I mean, I had them last. Aren't you impressed how good I've been so far?
You've been really good. Thank you. I just want. I just want your acknowledgement. Oh, I gotta answer this question in the chat from Horvat.
Are you up or down overall all time on sports bets? You could actually follow all my picks. I hate to have to promote these guys because I don't work for them, but I like their app. Ryan Horvat underscore twenty four Action Network. And let's answer his question real quick, Bart.
Let's see. Last thirty days, fifty five and thirty six. My stats. I'm gonna do this all time in the NFL. I am six hundred and seventy six, five hundred and four and nineteen, so that's fifty seven percent win, thirteen point five percent on return on investment, and then the last one, college football, six hundred and eighty seven, five nineteen and fifteen wins fifty seven percent of the time, so up overall.
Now the shitty sports for me, NBA, I am up twenty seven units, all time two hundred and ninety eight, two fifty and six. And let's find something I'm a loser in. Here we go. I did not do good in the NHL. Sixteen, eighteen, and two, forty-seven percent.
But you could follow me, and I track everything, like this week's picks, right here: Michigan, South Carolina, Central Florida, Texas, Wisconsin, Atlanta, Seattle. Boom, Bobby also asked earlier. I have your show on TV. My wife's friend wants to know if Horvat has a girlfriend or boyfriend. She thinks he's smoking hot.
Bobby has asked this question before, and I usually ignore it. I think Bobby is asking this question and using wife as a shield, married man. But which is okay. If I were single, look at Horvat. He's a good-looking chap.
I appreciate that. I appreciate that. So, you like Carolina here or Tampa? I'm actually keeping track of these this week. I want to do a little experiment.
I like, I like Carolina. You, I think. Oh yeah, you have them winning the division though, don't you? I'm a Bryce Young truther. Yeah, he's a lot better than I thought that he was going to be.
So I got to give you some credit. They have a lot of weapons. I love Hubbard. I like the Panthers. I think they're good.
All right, next game, you gotta guess this one. The Jets are two and four now. The Dolphins are zero and five. The Jets are at home. Oh, five and a half Jets.
Very close. It opened two and a half Jets, and then they won a football game, so they get a ton of love. Four and a half. The total in this game. Open at forty one and a half.
It's down to thirty nine and a half.
So usually I would have to say like dog or pass here. Getting more than a field goal. In fact, that's I just I had the Jets last week. Had the Jets against the Browns. I just can't live in a world.
I can't imagine a world where I lay four and a half with them, even at home, man, with Aaron Glenn.
So as nasty as they've looked, and Malik has not looked as good as I thought that he would. Four and a half with Miami. How about that right now? We'll add that. Love will lead us, all right.
Love will lead us. She will lead us. Can you hear the dolphins cry? See the road rise up to meet us. Can you hear the dolphins rise and beat the New York Jets?
Yeah, outright, son. What's the plus money line? It's my drive the paddle pick of the week. Dolphins finally get their first win. Halfley Willis embrace at halftime.
Halfley tears his ACL on the hug, and Willis tears his as well. Man, Dolphins! I'm getting a dolphin plasty like Kyle's dad. Kyle Bradlowski, Pato has plus one ninety. Did you see the last South Park?
Randy Marsh was a kid. He was their size. It was funny. No, what are they even airing now? Comedy Central every two weeks.
Oh, they are still on Comedy Central. Didn't they go to like Paramount or something? There's all these shows are doing this now. There's a few exclusives on Paramount. Even, even.
Simpsons and Family Guy have exclusives on Disney Plus and Hulu. Yeah, I don't know. I I've watched them all. I'm a completist. I like it, but it's like it's not a show that I can let my kid watch, so I don't watch it as much because he's just that's just you know, like when when he's like this ain't the 90s, it's fine.
I mean, like probably, but you know, trying to. Trying to uh, trying to sculpt a young mind here. You know, I'm just kidding. I I don't have time for that. Like I just said, we've had football 21 straight days.
The Brewers are in the World Series. The NBA tipped off last night. How about Wemby laying a big egg opening night? No, I'm with you, dude. Um, but I'm a put Janis on the same exact team he was on a year ago.
I'm gonna bet Miami at four and a half minus 105 because I'm a wimp. No money line for me. But I'm with you. All right, next game. Let's go to rotation number four fifty-seven.
Cleveland taking on Tennessee. Tennessee coming off a win, baby. The the six and a half not dead quite yet. Tennessee's at home. What do you got?
Hey, did you give me the line already? No, I'm letting you guess it. I just heard six and a half wins. I have Titans over six and a half wins, and they have one. All right, Cleveland.
Who's home? Tennessee against the Browns. Yeah, that would be Cleveland. Two and a half for Cleveland. Three and a half.
Um, let's see. Six and a half. No, I just moved.
Okay, Titans were two and a half. It's one.
So the Titans actually open as the favorite. Titans are the favorite. They were two and a half point favorites.
Now they're one and a half point dogs.
Now I gotta bet this stupid ass game again. I'm gonna bet Tennessee at home. They're at home. It actually looked good last week for Cam Ward. They got a little bit of momentum.
Which is a real thing, and I just I don't I think the original line was the right line. I think that they should be slight favorites in this game. Cleveland's a much better team at home, you know. I just yeah, give me Tennessee here. I'm going to bet this right now while you talk.
I'm gross. Um, the the coach is Monken, right? Yeah, Todd Monken. This guy. You ask me this every week.
I know. This guy, I'm so I'm so intrigued by him because I think, I think he really puts a lot of his heart and soul into these games. But I I also think he's gonna burn out too quickly. He's been waiting for this job his entire life. He is just like, just the read I get from him and the few interviews I see.
I just really think like. This shit matters almost too much to him, and he's gonna need to take like a sabbatical at some point. I just, I think he's, I think he's, I don't know. I'm worried for him. I like the Browns to win.
The Titans aren't winning. All right. I don't know about that Titans theory is back, and it's better than ever. Actually, some are saying Cam Ward, baby. Or his numbers last game.
Let's see. I don't know. Let me give them to you. Yeah, they were shit. He was eleven for twenty two, hundred and two yards and a touchdown.
He had no business winning that football game. I'm gonna take the Browns. I'm still gonna ride the Browns. All right, let's go to the next game. We've already spent too much on this, and I bet it.
So the Giants are on the road, and they're taking on the Texans, who also might be back. Texans two and four, Giants three two and one. JJ McCarthy is going to get the start. I got a fun fact for you. I got a Ryan Horvath into the Winkler verse Pato the drive.
Whoever you want to sponsor on this one's little fun fact for you. JJ McCarthy. Carlos Place. Did you know that JJ McCarthy in the eleven minutes of game action that he played? Last week, threw for more yards than any Vikings quarterback has in a game in the entire season.
I believe it looked pretty good. I mean, granted, they were dropping back and prevent, but JJ, baby.
So the Texans are going to be about a four and a half point favorite at home. I would I would have to probably dip into the four hundred one k and lay it all on the Texans if that were the case. Try ten and a half. This open five and a half. Wow, ten and a half.
Yeah, it's JJ McCarthy. It's the Texans. I think, honestly, dude, it's too many points. But I can't bet JJ McCarthy against the Texans. Who CJ Stroud?
We ragged on him. We got to give him some some flowers. He's looked like a top five quarterback the last couple weeks. Him and him and J Love look like the best quarterbacks in the league right now. And Trevor Lawrence, which is wild.
If I had to bet the game, I would actually lay it with the Texans at ten and a half. JJ looks so good in that fourth quarter, but that ain't the case. I have a feeling that tonight is going to be a good night. I do too. JJ, this is going to be the best performance of a JJ since the Coco Melon season finale, folks.
Not JJ Watt getting the lead analyst role at CBS. That bums me out so much. Who'd you want to get it? I wanted them to hire Greg Olson. Me too.
GREG with the third leg. I don't think. I don't think that Jim Nance. I think he's too smitten with JJ Watt for this to ever work. He's like in love with him.
Yeah, I think that JJ has that effect on people, right? Like everybody's just like when they get in a room with them, they want to be buddies with them.
So I kind of agree. I think you need. I've talked shit about JJ my whole life. I bet you if he gave me twenty minutes, I would be telling the world this is the greatest guy you've ever met. I'd probably like jump on his shoulders and have him give me like a piggyback ride.
I'd change. I'd. I'd call this into the Watler verse. Yes. Change my last name for him.
If I were producing, I would try to get him on for you. I just feel like the Giants are gonna win outright. Yeah, all right. Let me see what it is. Hold on.
You know this league? It's crazy. Plus three ninety. Plus three ninety. I like it.
Scadaboo's gonna rush for a hundy. Is he even gonna get a touch? He didn't get a carry. Yeah, he's gonna get. They're gonna overcompensate.
But then they cut Najee Harris. I bet Najee Harris. They did. Hey, listen to this story real quick. Did they really?
I didn't see that last week. Najee Harris. Did they really cut him? Yeah, and they were pretty much hinting that they were going to give him more carries after making him the feature back.
So I looked on Fanduel, and his rushing yards were twenty two and a half. And I was like, they're going to make him the feature back.
So I hammer it. Game day. I wake up to a tweet from Shefty, and it's like Najee Harris going to get the majority of the carries. He in the first half has like three carries for negative two yards. Needless to say, he didn't come anywhere close to it.
He got cut. Scadaboo didn't even get a touch. That's the worst bet maybe I've ever placed. But I got closing line value of like ten yards.
So hell yeah. Scadaboo sucks. He keeps. I know he does. You think this is revenge game?
No, I I don't know. I I think that I don't know. I think that I don't want him to suck at football because I feel like football is like all he has, right? Like the Riggins family. Like I worry.
I hate to say this, Horvat. We need more guys like Cam Scadaboo to play because football is dying. Less kids are playing, which means less talent. Yes. Not in like Florida and California.
So when we get these, when we get these brain dead kids that want to be even more brain dead, we need to exploit them. Jesus Christ!
Well, if they want to play, it's their choice. Like Ronnie over there keeps running into the wall. What should we do with them? Give them a football and have him. He'll be playing.
Sign him to a five year deal. He'll be taking handoffs from Jackson Dart.
Next thing you know, Spark guy says Texans are winning that division. Yep. I want to play a voicemail from Sparky if I can. I haven't. I would do him one better and stick with my.
I would maybe take a little piece and win the Super Bowl. If Stroud's going to play like that, the Texans, yeah, Stroud's going to play like that, and the defense is going to live up to the hype. Easy division, Texans. We keep hyping up this Jags team. I do like what Travis Hunters look like the last couple weeks, though.
Yeah, he looks like a number two pick now, doesn't he? Yeah, I got to play this voicemail from the smart guy. Touchdowns in the same game, like he's Dion. Yeah, go on. It's related to Cubs, Cubs fan, Brewers thing.
I think. Okay, so it makes sense. Also, I wanted to play it anyway. You can leave a voicemail on the Carl's Place voicemail line four zero two nine one five two two seven eight. That's four zero two nine one five Bart.
Bart, smart guy here, giving that call in. You're in Brewers week. Big time for the people of Milwaukee. As a Cubbs fan, lay in low a bit. Don't need to be a damper on everybody's parade.
Enjoy it. That said, just a comment I want to say because I am a Milwaukeean. I am a Wisconsin native. I've been elsewhere. I've come back.
I want to be here. I will retire here. I will live here for the rest of my life. I've been here. I'm from here.
I do not understand the insecurity of people in the state, though. And I hate to call you out, but even yourself, one of the comments you made. Was you want people to come here and like it now? Unless you're on the economic development or the tourism board, I just don't understand why you care. Like I said, I live here.
I've been elsewhere. I've come back. I want to be here. I don't want to live in a huge city. I don't want to live in the tourist spot.
I don't want to do the things that requires admiration of people because I know they will come here and like it. And if they don't realize that now, what does it help if they soon do realize it? But I. I do think it speaks to people's relative insecurity about being here. Part of it I don't gather.
I think some of it's generational. We used to be a top ten city; now we're at the bottom end of the top fifty as far as like economic development and population.
Some of that may have to do with it. This might be generational trauma. But some of the stuff people focus on, the announcers hate us. It's unfair. Those are people's feelings.
I care to understand them, but I think the one thing I will wait for a few weeks from now, regardless how the World Series plays out, is this salary cap. Is this labor dispute? There needs to be an extensive conversation. I am a Cubs fan. It should be in my interest that the Brewers don't do well, even though they've made the playoffs even in the last nine years.
I should be in favor of it because my team will do better with the salary cap and all the things that come with the labor agreement after this. But to see uniform agreement in this market and in this fan base for this upcoming labor stoppage and all that it will mean, and fundamentally, particularly the vested years that will be slashed from players and will break teams up like the Rays and like the Brewers. Man, I think it would beat you. My point is, like, the rich are going to get richer, and you're going to make the MLB into the NBA.
So that's a point in the discussion for another day. But we would love your thoughts on what I just said.
Okay, first, here's another quick voicemail from Brent. Hey Bart, why don't you? Love America. All right, that was from the. I don't know.
I should play that for Carlos.
So first of all, with Spark Guy, I disagree with everything you're saying about Milwaukee. I don't. I don't think that. We can talk about that later. What about Milwaukee being insecure?
We're not. I don't think we're insecure. Or if we are, it's there's a right people. People don't people shit on us. People shit on Milwaukee.
When the Bucks were like making the run in the finals, it was all like f Rachel Nichols and ESPN. People think Milwaukee is Gary Indiana. That's what they think. And then like the Rays fans could probably make the same you know case. Like and then right now it's like you know I saw Freems had a great tweet that got a bunch of love and it was.
Um, when Mad Dog was talking about the Brewers, or you know Pat Murphy not going on the show, and then he ends up getting Pat Murphy. Frames was like, "I've been on the beat since whenever, and never seen you once. Why do you want to you know come to the party now?" So, I don't know if I would. I don't know how you know. I I just think that it's kind of.
I think, like, yeah, you guys have a case, and it's it's okay to be like, "F you." We're finally here on the big stage, but also, other than like Los Angeles and New York, they don't really like the national media doesn't cover anybody. They barely talk like Cubs. When's the last time ESPN's done a segment on the Bulls? Yeah, ninety nine. I mean, not saying that they should.
They got beat by sixty five last night. I um. I don't need a salary cap in baseball. Also, I don't mind that there's one sport that's a little bit different. I I just don't like that some teams can afford to pay guys or this deferred thing.
Like that's unfair. That you that you shouldn't be able to do. I don't like that. Um, and also, yeah, the salary cap. The owners don't want a salary cap to make things more fair.
The salary cap is going to give them more money. They want a salary cap, not a profitability cap. I've talked about this. Spark guy's right on that. The rich will get richer, so I don't need a salary cap because that's going to give more money to the owners.
It's under the disguise of this is what's best for baseball. It's actually this is what's best for us. The owners are never going to all agree on doing something. That's just going to benefit us without them getting more. Like rich people don't do that.
True. We got to stop thinking rich people are our friends. Also, we're not going to be rich. We're a lot more closer to being homeless than we are being rich. Right.
But somehow we always protect the rich. We worship the rich. We idol the rich. I've always been like Robin Hood, where I steal from the rich and give to the poor. We think a guy who fucking shits on gold toilets is gonna think about us?
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But the problem is the wording there, but it's got hit where I bet. Atlanta at a current number that is no longer there. Atlanta's home against the San Francisco Forty Nineers, who are six and zero. Atlanta's two and four. Guess the current line, and I'll tell you what.
Current line. Yeah, this is why you got to see. This is why you got to follow me on the old action. Five and a half Niners. No, no, it's actually two and a half now.
I didn't get to the four and a half, which I wanted with Atlanta because I bet it on Monday morning. But I got three and a half, more than a field goal. Great spot, right? San Francisco's wide receivers are all dead. Mike Evans gets hurt.
Now you're on the road against Atlanta, who sure they're two and four, but I think Atlanta's going to win this game outright and give San Francisco their first loss. I at least think they keep it within a field goal, so I love four and a half and three and a half. Not so much at two and a half. Can't be a. Best bet, but I love Atlanta.
What about you? I I do I do like Penix. I'm a Penix guy. Big Penix energy. San Francisco.
Who's their number one wide receiver going into this game? Although, man, Brock Purdy's been so good. I'm just gonna keep riding the Niners till they lose. And it's Shanny against his former team. Yeah, I don't think that's a bad move.
I loved again. I liked the four and a half and the three and a half. Three and a half, what I got. Also, Brian Robinson anytime touchdown since I cut him and I have had to start him the last two weeks as a backup.
So I like Brian Robinson to score against his old team. People forget B Rob. Oh, and it's Shanny's former team too. Colin plays in the twenty eight three Super Bowl. Yeah, Matt Lafleur was a part of that staff, and we hired him.
Hey, his he was in his bag last week, so we got to give him a little bit of credit. Although the wow, yeah, yeah, just throw deep, Jordan. Wow, what a brilliant coach! Here's a game where I kind of want to go. Matt Lafleur's calling plays like you're running it in the church parking lot.
Like, all right, you do a fly, you do a fly, and then you do a up and in. I keep man. I want to go to this game, but ticket prices right now are ridiculous. Baltimore at home against Cincy. How much are tickets?
Is Lamar back? Looking like Lamar's going to be back. Yeah.
Can I say something about Joe Burrow? Sure. I'm. I'm actually a big Joe Burrow fan. I don't trust him.
Why's that?
Something's up. How? I don't know. There's something up.
Something's up. I think if you were to tell me tickets are bad, all I think if you were to tell me, hey, aliens have been living among us, and one of them's a starting NFL quarterback, I'd say, oh, it's Joe Burrow. Clearly. Maybe me and Nathan will go to this game. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, like he's he's like a little weird, I guess. But I think I just think something. I think it's a good thing with the quarterback, like quarterbacks and pitchers. I want them to be a little weird and like just. I don't think it's bad.
I don't think he's hiding an evil secret. I just think something's up. It might be different. Maybe he's like the toadies behind the the boathouse is where I'll show you his dark secret. Maybe he's a cannibal.
So do they know if Lamar's playing? Because that's going to affect the line. Lamar is well. Let's see what the latest is because today's big injury report day. Lamar was not seen at practice yesterday.
Officially limited, but they're optimistic he's going to play. The number, I mean, right now with the Ravens being a favorite in the game, tells you that that's Lamar playing. It was a three-point spread. It's one and a half.
So I think it's kind of like them in the middle. I just I can't pick this game, but like with that, I'm really high on Cincy. I got them going to the Super Bowl, so I'm going to go Bengals here.
Well, if Lamar's playing, I'm going to take Lamar. You go Baltimore if Lamar plays. If not, Cincy. I don't know. I don't like Cincy in this spot.
I'm going to take Baltimore no matter what. Let me ask you this: Who, if if I gave you an NFL future, an AFC future, I was like, here, this is free. Who would you rather have, Baltimore or Cincy? Fuck! Not knowing home field advantage or anything, just like which team are you higher on?
I actually agree. I think Joe Burrow also is going to retire out of the blue. They keep like hinting that there's this quarterback that's not in love with the sport, and everybody maybe that's it. Maybe, maybe, but and I don't. It's going to be like it's going to be like it's going to be like week eleven.
He just doesn't show up. Like it's not going to be Herbert. His bitch ass is just going to show up and suck every week. But Burrow like, and people, people are gonna give Herbert every chance. He is gonna start for another team.
He's getting a big contract like this never happened. Like, like Burrow's into like art and like the stars and like fashion. He's always at like the Met Gala. Yeah, because he's not a human. Herbert's not into like anything but his chick.
He ain't going anywhere. He doesn't get the chick without football. He's just another. He's just another. He's just like a dude that wants to be Ethan Hawke without football, right?
Like Ethan Hawke was talking about how he wanted to fuck Drew Barrymore the other. Remember in Days Than Confused when um. Randall Pink Floyd is thinking about quitting the football team, and he like tells Don, he's like, "How many times have you got laid just because you play football?" He's like, "We could do just as good at four in a band." Joe Burrow could be a star doing other things. Herbert leaves football. Like, what's his talent?
He's just a dumbass. It keeps losing me money. I'm gonna take Baltimore. All right, I'll go Cincy. All right, next game, let's go over to Pato.
I almost pulled that link. There we go. Arizona at home against Denver. Guess the line. Denver, three and a half.
Close four and a half point favorites on the road. Arizona coming. I think Arizona is getting way too much credit for beating a Rams team that was DOA coming into the season. I love how that Rams the us shitting on the Rams. God, yeah, it was a great take.
I bet them to miss the playoffs. I know. Such a good take, and under eleven, eleven and a half wins. How are they winning twelve games with that? I've just never seen a a league, and the media, and the fans just automatically assume the Rams are going to the Super Bowl.
Why? Because you got Miles Garrett and Aaron Donald came out of retirement. Sick. I love, I love thinking things from five years ago were cool too. Right.
The Rams are like the six, seven of the NFL. Their moment is past. Like, do you think like right? There's a reason why Cleveland, who really is probably just we thought like a quarterback away, but like you know, Cleveland's not that far off. There's a reason why they would say goodbye to Miles Garrett.
You know, I know he's getting a little bit older, but he wasn't healthy, right? They traded a, they they let go of a you know a hurt guy, and then Aaron Donald. It's so hard. Like this isn't Madden. You don't just show up just because you're just because he's benching.
Right, just because he's got the 100s and he's benching 125s and shit, that doesn't mean that he just shows up and he's a dominant football player after sitting on the couch with the rest of us for the last three years. And then Matthew Stafford, everybody was worried about him last year. Oh my God, he's not going to make it to week six. His back is shot, and then he balls out, right? Because he's getting pumped with shit all year long.
Now his body's breaking down. They've killed Devontae. Fuck that team, dude. I'm glad that I was right about them. And I'm and now we're doing the McVay to TV thing again too.
Notice that McVay's going to the well. We got a lot of season left, you know. I just think these guys. We had those wonky start to the year with the travel, and you know we got a lot of good veterans on this team. I really still believe in our guys.
I hate press conferences now, and I'm trying to do a tough guy act for some fucking reason. I'm so cool. I'm Sean McVay. Imagine him know that Peter Schrager worships me and rubs my feet when I go to bed. You know who should be investigated next, man?
Should probably be Peter Schrager, right? Like we're all like, it's always this this signing knocks it up. The Rams do it again. This pick in the sixth round, guy sucks. You notice how like he's never had anything negative to say.
I don't understand that. I shit on Schrager. He saw it because he's got his new show, and I said. I said, "Good reminder to throw my TV into the river." Yeah, I tweeted at him, and then he's like, "Ha!" He goes, "Ha ha, all love." No, it's not all love. You can't play nice with me.
I don't like you, and I'm not wrong about you. Jeez, I just like we always give crap to the. To the Green Bay guys, the media, because they're hanging out with Lafleur, even though we'd hang out with well, you wouldn't. I'd hang out with Lafleur though and go have beers with them, talk football. But like the national guys are all doing the same stuff.
They all have their buddies, Glazer, all those guys, right? And then it's like let's crap on this guy. Glazer just shows up at these teams, he's wearing their apparel, and he's like lifting, doing their bench press. Like that's not. Get the fuck out of there!
You know what I mean? Like, there's a reason why.
Okay, so you know that like meme, and it's like a fat guy, and I don't know. You'll get you'll get the reference here in a second, but it's just like, okay, so for example, Robert Sala gets another opportunity, one year removed from a total disaster, where they go out, they get him Aaron Rodgers, they get him all these pieces, and the Jets are an epic failure. He goes back to San Francisco with his buddy Shanny. Who all the media loves him and McVay and that whole tree Lafleur, and then somehow Robert Sala has a job. You know who doesn't have a head coaching job?
The best defensive coordinator in football in the last decade plus, not named Steve Spagnuolo. Brian Flores and everybody's like, "Oh, he hates his players. He's mean to the quarterbacks. No, he was mean to Tua. You know why he was mean to Tua?
Because Tua's absolute fucking shit. Why is Brian Flores not a head coach, but Robert Sala is? It's because all these media guys, it's all big fraternity, just like radio. If you didn't go to Syracuse or Fordham, you're in your kitchen right now doing a podcast. Even if everybody was downloading your stuff, um, is that are you speaking for a friend?
Yeah, Cliff Clavin, but I'm no. I'm saying that Robert Sala. It's on. I'm just saying, like, why doesn't Brian Flores have a job, but Robert Sala does? It's because there's like we all hype up this Shanny tree.
It's like the Belichick tree. Remember, they would all get jobs and be like, this guy sucks. Cornell, Patricia is a head coach.
Well, you could go off the Mike McCarthy tree, which has. Jeff Jagodzinski and fucking no one. I went to grade school with him. You debt the Jags? No, there's it was like a name of a kid that I really went to school with, though.
Oh, who else is on this tree? Oh, who was that other fat fuck? Ben McAdoo. He was with the Giants. Yeah.
Um. Oh. Um. Joe Philbin. Yeah, where's Edgar Bennett coaching these days?
He had a stint. All right, let's get to the next game. Uh, oh wait, what did you what did you do here? Cardinals or Broncos? I'm taking the Broncos because the look ahead was seven and a half, and now we're down to four and a half because Arizona beat a dead team.
I don't like Denver. I think Bo Nix. I think Bo Nix is like top ten worst quarterback in league, but they're gonna beat Arizona here by touchdown. Oh yeah, God! Arizona is just not good.
I'll take Denver. Yeah, got to take Denver here, man. Getting three points. All right, Detroit. Let's do it at home against Green Bay.
Do you know the spread? Four and a half, Detroit. No, if it was, I would take Green Bay. But it's three, three flat. Three flat.
I'm going to pick against the Packers because I did against Dallas and I hated that spot. I got Detroit. Bobby hates my Cincinnati pick. He's going to hate this one more. I got them actually meeting Detroit.
Detroit beats them and wins their first Super Bowl. I hate to do it. Defense, they're going to figure that thing out. I like Detroit this week. I hope I'm wrong.
Jordan Love always plays pretty well against them though, so I think he'll pick them apart. Kind of like the over. I got to take the Lions here. Um. Think we get them back though.
I'm definitely taking the Lions. You are to win this game. Yeah, we just had a three game win streak, right? Remember when I kept saying the Packers were going to finish nine and seven, and there'll be some weird three game win streak where it looks like they're unstoppable. We have won.
We just won three in a row. Yeah, you're right. But I don't know that we've learned anything because Tampa sucks. The Bears, yeah, that was Bajin, and then Dallas. Dallas is eleven one and one against us since two thousand and nine, or we're against them.
We don't lose to them. I still think we finish nine and eight. I haven't seen anything with the Packers that like, oh, okay, they figured it out. I think some people think that, but I don't. I think like Jordan Love's really good, and yeah.
But like Matthew Golden, still he's got flashes. He's showing. Is this normal to do with your face? No, it's actually. I thought that was just your beard.
Is that your face? Yeah, you have a lot of skin. I used to be able to take my chin skin and put it up to my mouth. That movie used to scare the shit out of me, where their witches and they pull their faces off. I feel like you're going to do that.
Like you have a lot of yeah underneath. I'm actually Joe Burrow. I like the Lions to win the game and cover, of course.
So we're both we're both going against Green Bay here. Man, yeah, I hate to do it. You know what else I hate to do? If I had to bet this game, I would take the Rams this week. They're on the road taking on the Raiders.
What would you do? Uh, what do you got the spread at? Rams three and a half. Yeah, it's exactly right. I do.
I think that they'll probably win this game because I still think that we're going to see Fernando Mendoza. Shout out to the Raiders who did cover on a back door for me, but um. Like this is like kind of like a playoff game for the Rams now. They got to start winning games. Look at that division, dude.
Seattle's struggling right now, but they're still the champs. Arizona's more competitive than we thought, and San Francisco might be the best team in football.
So, season on the line. I wish it were two and a half or three, but there's a reason it ain't. I'll I will take the Rams here. Rams three and a half. I'm not gonna bet this though.
Yeah, I take the Rams too. I don't love it. Yeah, not an official bet, but if I had to bet the game, that would be it. Because the look ahead was seven and a half, now we're down to three and a half. Think Jalen Hurts ever plays again?
Yeah, but not in Philadelphia. Yeah.
And I don't think he should. And I don't think they deserved him. It was always he can't do this, he can't do that. Like I, yeah, they never liked him. Oh, I'm sorry, he only took you to two Super Bowls and was the MVP in the one he lost, and then he won you the other one.
And only, hey, he only, we only. Oh, Jalen Hurts does the tush push because he benches so much.
Okay, so that's why y'all turn on him at the first crack. Honestly, he could have won the MVP in the first one too. He was awesome. Yeah, he should have. Bring back MVPs for losing teams if they were the most valuable person in the game.
God, remember those stupid segments? Connor McDavid was the best player, but you know, fucking cares. Anyway, let's go to another game. Another bet that I have an official bet, but we got some line movement. I took Seattle earlier this week.
The lines moved though; they're at home. Against the Chiefs, oh Sunday night! Yeah, waiting all day for Sunday night. I really like the Chiefs, but I don't think Seattle. Seattle's too good to be three and four, so I'm going to take them.
The line is Seattle one and a half. Seattle's three and three. Oh yeah, not to be three and four. Oh no, it's it was two and a half. I hammered Seattle.
Now we're at three. I still like it. I think Seattle wins this game by at least a field goal. They need this one, man.
So, yeah, we we gotta go. We gotta go, Seattle. Here, I think there's no way Kansas City's running the table. Is this Kansas City's first Sunday night football game on the road? That's what it feels like on the road.
Yeah.
Honestly, I can't believe that their win total coming into the year was only nine and a half. I just can't believe that everybody just wrote off the Chiefs. You know what they didn't do? They didn't. They did not write back.
They did not. The way we felt about the Rams, we is how people should have felt about the Chiefs. I gotta say, I bet Seattle, but I don't think there's a worse way. There are one of the more painful ways, even though we won a Super Bowl, four hours. Of a game with money on Sam Darnold is rough, man.
He makes one throw where he looks like Montana, and the next where he looks like he should be starting for Arrowhead. No, starting for Montana, for Montana, Montana State. Maybe he looks like who's the rapper? Jeezy. No, the Montana Frenchy, Frenchy Montana, French Montana.
Yeah, Frenchy Montana. Like a like a character on the Disney Channel. It's the kid with like the long hair, and he's always like, "Yeah, you guys want to check out my new bike?" That kid, Mitch, put in here. Where does Hertz go? I was actually weirdly thinking about this last night, and I don't know why.
And I was thinking the Jets, the Giants, because I'm not sold on Jackson Dart. They might be, but he's hurt every year. The best, you know, the best ability, Bart. The best ability, best ability is predictability. The Vikings, like they're winning, but it's not because of Kyler.
No, Kyler sucks. He looks so little. He looks even littler in Minnesota than he. I feel like he shrunk, dude. Like my grandma is like that's what I mean.
Three feet nine now. I feel like that's Kyler. She's like only a head above my seven-year-old kid. He was my fantasy quarterback, so I was like, "Come on, guys! Like he ain't that small, but like he looks like a little ass dude.
He looks like how like Wemby makes everybody on the court look like they're like five eight, even though they're six nine, six ten. Like he's so little. I know you can like step on him. Like that's my that's why I couldn't buy into Bryce Young. Like when I watch him, he looks like an eighth grader." I know, but he's good.
Yeah, he can make throws. Kyler like has to like Kyler just can't make the throws. That's why I wasn't ready to say like Marvin Harrison Jr. was a bust.
So this is the Monday night game, Minnesota. Um, no, this is no. This talking about what are you doing to me? It's a Chief Seahawks is what we were on. Oh, then why are we talking about Kyler?
Oh, I was just I don't know. We're both on Seattle. All right, Monday night. If Kyler Murray played baseball, the A's never move. That's my hot take.
Um, I don't even have it. I don't have an answer on that one. Philadelphia at home against Dallas. Guess the line. Dallas two and a half.
Oh no, Dallas four and a half. It would have been Dallas, or actually, it would have been Philly with Hurts. Philly would have been a three-point favorite. Dallas is winning and covering.
Now I'm going to take Philly. Tanner McKee is awful. No, he's not though. You you like the McKee Damian Pierce backfield? Yeah, I think Philly might even win this.
I just I wanted to believe in Dallas. Dallas can't afford another loss. Dallas sucks. Yeah, they were shut out at half against the Packers defense. Yeah, no, I I'm gonna take Dallas because they're my second favorite football team.
I just haven't admitted it yet. I'm gonna take Philly, man. Like a seven and a half point adjustment, and I love Jalen Hurts. Everybody tells me that he's not even a top ten quarterback.
So seven and a half points for McKeith, sure. Four and a half. I'll I'll bet Philly if I have a good weekend. What's the Tuesday night game? Tuesday?
Oh, we're not there yet.
Soon we will be.
Soon we will be at Tuesday night games. Will that will that be the end of the week or the beginning of the next week? Tuesday night, Tuesday night games. College football, dude.
South Carolina is going to beat Tennessee, obviously. Can I hold on? This is how fuck college football is. I saw this tweet and I wanted to read this to you. Um, about how crazy college football is.
Here are some of the quirks for week eight. Are you ready? Yeah.
Hawaii at Northern Illinois is a conference game between schools separated by forty two hundred miles. Hawaii would have a shorter trip to Tokyo than to Northern Illinois. Yeah, why? Yeah, that is insane, dude. Indiana is going for its first win in Ann Arbor since 1967.
I bet. I bet Michigan plus seven and a half. I like. I like C.J. Carr's brother.
In fact, I don't want to talk about Notre Dame. Virginia Tech is visiting Clemson. They have both been ACC. Opponents since 2004. Yet this is Texas' first visit to Clemson in 14 years.
Yeah, how is that possible? Texas Tech at Cincinnati for the first time ever. USC is coming to Wisconsin for the first time since 65. Iowa State heading to Arizona for the first time since 66. Oklahoma and Mississippi State, a conference game, are meeting for the first time ever.
Meanwhile, Duke Virginia are going to play for the third time in 342 days. Just some fun facts for y'all. I mean, it's not really college football anymore, is it? But I will continue. And now we're going to a 2014 playoff, which we all hate, but we will all love when it actually happens.
Okay, so and I do hate it too. But like the more that we watch college football and see how much it's changed, and that there's going to be a three-loss, maybe even a four-loss team that gets into the playoff. Like right now, yesterday I made a bet LSU to win the national title. Any other year, they're not even getting in. I feel like there's more parity.
Notre Dame just got beat by BYU. A quarterback that wears number forty-seven. His name's Bear, and he sits at the dinner table with his family naked, just beating Notre Dame, a team that's going to have like eight dudes on the defensive side of the ball drafted.
So I feel like with the parity, I don't know, man. I'm just saying, like, I don't love it. Kind of hate it. I would rather go back to the BCS, honestly. But I'm not going to complain because I'm still going to end up watching it.
Like we have an unranked, we have an unranked South Carolina team. That's a two and a half point favorite over Tennessee, who's six and one and just beat Alabama. Like, how's that the case? How is that the case? I love South Carolina in the game, dude.
They're gonna be because Tennessee. This is what I do. I love fading these teams. They spent the last four days partying their nuts off, just like I told you in that last spot.
So now they have to hit the road in Lenora Sellers. They're gonna get cellar'd. Gonna get cellar'd, baby. They're gonna get Lenorest. Also, how's Texas coming off back-to-back losses?
A three-and-a-half-point favorite over Ole Miss. I don't know, but I bet him anyway. Even though Arch stinks, love Texas. Think Texas wins that game by a touchdown. Look at these prices for the Badger game against USC, which is during Game Two.
Of the World Series, hate myself. I bet the Badgers plus three. I think they're down to two and a half. The more I think about that, I think they might get lit up. But they're getting look at this seat you can get for sixty six bucks.
Corner Enzo, let me see it. It's right there. You see it? Oh yeah. I might actually take that.
Maybe I'll go. I think I bet the Badgers, but I bet them last week and they suck. Eighty one bucks to see. Oh, the other spot, the other spot. Talking about partying, not that they did this because it's BYU, but BYU gets that win over.
Oh, I've been showing you the wrong screen the whole time. Wow, I'm that's why I thought you were just showing me the price. No, I'd opened a new screen and I was sharing this screen. Whatever, Tim. Central Central Florida six and a half point dogs against BYU.
You got to fade BYU. They've probably been drinking a bunch of punch, dirty sodas.
Now they got to go on the road to the bounce house.
So there you go: Michigan, South Carolina, Central Florida, Texas. What's the Badgers' line? What's the Badgers' line? I bet them at three. It's let me get the new one.
I think they're two and a half now. Two and a half. Favorite at home? No, they're dogs. Yeah, they're not favored over USC.
Who's USC's quarterback? Mason Miller or some shit? Maiava, Mason Miller. That was like he was at Louisville after that. Jesus Christ!
No, what's his real name? Mason Miller's the pitcher. Who's the USC guy? I'm thinking of Miller. Miller Moss.
Yeah, Jaden Maiava is is their quarterback. Wasn't Miller Moss a WWE wrestler? Let's see where he's at. That was Riddick Moss. No, Miller Moss is actually on the Bears.
We'll see him tonight. Hopefully not though. I think he's on the practice squad. He's probably running fucking scout team right now, pretending to be. Who they play tonight?
Drake May. Yeah, Miller Moss is Drake May. All right, I'm betting the Bears. All right, I'm betting the Patriots. You already said.
Are you going to ride with me on Corey Kiner? We the people. I'm a Patriot. Corey Kiner and Colston Loveland touchdowns. Let's do it.
Should I parlay that? Both of them, yeah.
Okay. With your three dollars. With my three bucks, okay. I'll do it. Do it, and then you could get a ham sandwich or something.
I would do that. That's a good idea. Yeah, ham sandwich. Yeah, those even at Pick and Save they're eight fucking dollars. How much are they at Pato?
Well, depends how much you win. It's true. Hmm. And if you have a food credit, Horvath. Good to see you.
Let me say one last thing. Even when you lose at Pato, you actually win. Oh yeah. Sometimes, because sometimes the journey is the reward. Phil Jackson.
I was out last night at Pato. I don't go out a lot at all anymore, and I barely out on the weeknights. And this place was bumping, and people were having the time of their lives. And I'm like, oh yeah, there's more to life than just putting your kid to bed and. Pounding seltzers and watching Vision Quest, having the time of their lives.
What do you think ever happened to Sergio? They are down here having the time of their lives. What do you think ever happened to him? He's probably in his kitchen right now doing football picks. The best tonight, on the dog.
I like a DeAndre Swift. These guys don't pay me, but this is some good shit.
Some good espresso. Do you? I miss getting coffee at the station when the machine was broke every other time, and it was always Allie that broke it, and she blamed us instead. I don't miss it because then, when the cups were dirty, you would have to you would try to suck up to the bosses by blaming everybody and writing an email. Ali threw away 80 of the cups one day.
Riggs and Ali. Riggs just presented at the Marconi Awards. Yeah, isn't he? Wasn't he like up for a one his show? I think they won an award.
They got like a big showdown in Houston. Yeah, Riggs doing big things. You know who else is going to do big things this weekend?
South Carolina. Corey Kiner. Corey Kiner tonight. If he scores a touchdown, especially the first, I'll buy next Winkler verse. I'll come on with a jersey, a Kiner jersey.
Yeah, honestly, let's see. I'll get a Corey Kiner Cincinnati Bearcat and LSU jersey. One of I'll get a half Bearcat, half LSU jersey. I don't even think Mister and Misses Kiner have that. They probably do.
Thank you for popping in on number seven seven eight. As it's our first episode on our quest to fourteen or fifteen fifty four. Um, I said last night, once we reach episode a thousand, we'll do something. But the big episode party is going to be for episode twelve fifty. When I get to episode twelve fifty, I'm going to broadcast from the roof of Odyssey.
You should cut your ear off like Van Gogh. I'm gonna. Yeah, and leave it in the parking lot and let let Donna run over it. Leave it in the Hell's Corner parking lot. Let McGivern pick it up.
I'll let McDonna and McGivern wrestle for it. We could be having just vacation with with you. Yeah.
Anyway, have a good night. Got that spare tire around you, huh? You know what? I wanted to text Grant and ask him. Remember the bumper song?
Got to meet the hottie with the billion-dollar body. Where did he find that bumper music? I don't know. Sometimes I hear like an old Bill Michaels bumper on like classic rock, and I just like drive into a ditch. Yeah, I'm on a train with cocaine.
That was one of the songs. Got the hottie with the million dollar body. I love the cocaine. I love the cocaine. Why are you there?
We're welcome on out, Michael. Hey, Baldy.
Next time you're here, we got to do lunch, okay? We got Warren Sapp on the line right now. I love the cocaine. Anyway. Hey, Coach, how you doing, buddy?
Yeah, yeah. I got to get up there. We got to go. Yeah, we got naked bicyclers, Coach. But you got to get over there, Coach.
Come on, keep up. Anyway. Ah, good Thursday. Little Thursday. Thank you for stopping into the Winklerverse.
See ya.
