NFL Week 4 Picks (Hour 4)

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For the ones who get it done. Fourth and final hour on a football Friday. That's right, it is the Zach Gelb show coast to coast on CBS Sports Radio. And we're coming to you live from the Rocket Mortgage Studios. Whether you're looking to purchase a new home or refinance yours, Rocket Mortgage could help you get there for home loan solutions that fit your life well. Rocket can. Alrighty boys and girls, children of all ages, we're going to have Jersey Jerry from Barstool Sports joining us.

About 20 minutes from now, as we will be getting into our NFL picks with Jersey Jerry as we do each and every football Friday. I don't like that I just said boys and girls and children of all ages. Kind of reminds me, remember Carole Baskin from Tiger King? Oh yeah, Tiger King. Cool cats and kittens.

Oh yeah, how are you cool cats and kittens? Which I hated. And by the way, I'm just, I don't have any factual information behind this, but when you watch that show. Isn't it kind of amazing how it appears that she played a role, I got to be careful I don't want to get sued.

How it appears like she played a role, let's just say in the disappearance of her husband and that just gets like kind of glossed over. Now it doesn't defend the actions of Joe Exotic or whatever. Is that guy still in prison?

Joe Exotic. Yes, I don't think he asked for a presidential pardon. I don't think he received that one. That guy was asked for a presidential pardon? I don't think that was received. Okay, so he is still in the slammer.

I believe so. And he was re-sentenced to, wow, 21 years in prison in January of 2022. For what, conspiracy of? I have no clue. Murder?

It just says ABC News right here. Tiger King Joe Exotic speaks from prison in his first interview since being re-sentenced in Murder for Hire plot. Joe Exotic was re-sentenced to 21 years in prison in January of 2022. So, not looking like it's going well for him.

Tiger King 2, I guess, is not going to be in the works anytime soon. If we were doing the closing bell right now, I guess you would get a stock down if you were Joe Exotic. So Jerzy Jerry from Barstool Sports stops by 20 minutes from now. He's up one game on yours truly. And Mraz is up one game on yours truly if you follow the DA show right here on CBS Sports Radio, being a good company guy.

DA, Mraz, Pete the Body, Bilotti, and then also Andrew Bogusch, AB. I am their weekly guest picker going up against one Mraz this year and we've been throwing some jabs. It's been a fun segment. They've been playing at about 7.40, I think it is a.m. Eastern, my pick.

So make sure you listen to them, listen to them, listen to us, listen to everyone here on CBS Sports Radio. You go from DA to Bill Ryder to the legendary Jim Rome, Maggie and Perloff, yours truly, JR, Amy, and then all the cast of characters that we have on the weekend. I cannot name the weekend schedule. I can name some hosts that are on on the weekend. But with how often that weekend schedule change, I cannot give you from 2 a.m., which is like the start of the weekend shift, which is hickey. I know that one Friday into Saturday weekend overnight.

If you had to ask me to get to midnight, I would have no clue. All I know I could do Sunday. DA, Sunday morning football, then me for eight hours. Then Jody. Yeah, then Jody and then Gresh. I'm pretty sure that your Sunday company, man.

Yeah. Saturday, I have no clue. Your guess is as good as to be fair. I'm not sure there's an actual who comes on. Is it Carl Dukes? I love him. Put him up, put him up after meets Carrington Harrison. The ground just allowed another home run. So that is the third.

So I like character. So that's the third solo shot that he's allowed tonight. Danzy Dansby Swanson goes deep. So Atlanta three Mets won. Well, barring a comeback here for the Mets, he's in the bottom of the six. Looks like we're going back to even with two games to play in this series. Scherzer on the bump tomorrow. All I asked for was two out of three.

Just take two out of three. I actually had a feeling, Hickey, that the Mets were going to lose tonight. But they're going to bounce back. Scherzer is going to win tomorrow. And then Sunday, Bassett.

What are you? This game's not over. It's the sixth inning. They can't score. They're down two runs. They can't score.

They're in the they're in the Braves bullpen. OK. And they got. Yeah. I think Max Fried was puking. I just read on Twitter that he was sick.

Hmm. And then I looked on Twitter and said he was hurt. The radio broadcast of the Braves that he was hurling in the dugout. Jeez. That's a good reason.

It left him from the only pitch, five innings. That makes sense. Yeah. He spilled his guts on the field literally in the start.

Yeah. But I just had a bad feeling about tonight. But they have one run. It was because Rosario couldn't field the baseball twice. Well, Kenley Jansen, not exactly the sturdiest closer in the world. I hope you're right.

I really do hope you're right. But I just don't see where the offense is coming from tonight. Oh, is that a two run blast by Swanson? Oh, you just saw that they put up four runs on the score. I go, that's a solo blast. They put up four runs on the scoreboard and then they just reduced it back to three. This could be four right here. Could we get another solo shot at the track at the wall and caught by Mark.

So there you go. Did you really do the track to the wall? I know you. Is it the warning track? I knew you basically went to a home run call. It was out of the park. It was like John Sterling at the track at the wall.

And it's a pop up. Anyway, you got some NFL music for me. I'll take Kiki. We'll give you one thought on each and every game for this upcoming weekend in the National Football League.

We start things off in London. If you're going to this game, my condolences. Andy Dalton starting at quarterback.

Here's my thought. You want to say must win. You want to say can't lose. You got to have it.

Whatever it is. You got to have this game if you're Minnesota. You're going up against Andy Dandy Dalton. This isn't technically a primetime game for Kirk Cousins, but it is an isolated window game at 930 a.m. Eastern Time.

I'm not even going to try to do the math of what time it is in London. But you're going up against the Saints without their quarterback and without Michael Thomas. No excuses for the Vikings this week.

Your bad defense can't be bad. And you can't let Andy Dalton find a way to score a few touchdowns. And Kirk Cousins just has to dominate with the weapons at his disposal of Justin Jefferson. Hasn't played great the last two weeks. Adam Thielen just got his 50th career touchdown and K.J.

Osborne just had the game winning touchdown. Davin Cook also going to play on this one. Cleveland at Atlanta. The thought here is can the Browns continue to weather the storm? And in a matchup like this up against the Falcons, they can.

The Falcons, it's weird, they're like a gritty team. We'll see if Cordell Patterson is going to play in this game, but he's having a really good year. Marcus Mariota is like hot and cold. Drake London's been a stud.

Kyle Pitts is very good. But it's just one of those games that Jacoby Brissett can't be the reason why you lose the game. Like he can lose the game for you, but you need him to just get to continue to weather the storm and rely off Chubb, rely off Kareem Hunt and make sure you limit the opportunities for Jacoby. But Jacoby, when he's given the opportunity to throw the football, just can't mess it up.

Washington and Dallas. Cooper Rush. He should be able to make it 3-0. This is a weird spot, though. Hickey, is this one of those weeks where Carson Wentz? It's very few times he'll have the quarterback advantage. This is one of them. I would not be surprised if you see a commander's upset, I guess you would say.

Early in the year. Here's the problem. That line stinks. And even when Wentz gets protection, he holds on to the football way too long. Micah Parsons, if I set you the line of one and a half sacks, over or under? I would take the over.

Yes, I would agree. Even though you are a Penn State homer, I would take the over. How about over or under two sacks for Micah Parsons? I'll say push. I don't want to get crazier and get greedy, say three.

Okay, that's fair. I expect like six sacks for Micah Parsons this weekend. Yeah, I'll pause the thought on the commander's potential upset. Detroit and Seattle. You want to talk about a bad game? No DeAndre Swift, no Amman Ra's St. Brown. But then for the Seahawks, you're asking me to trust Geno Smith. This game feels like an under type of game.

I don't know what the line is. But Ryan, this game feels like an under. That's my one thought on this game. Like I said, the only real excitement for the Lions, the two best players are out.

Yeah, I don't see a lot of offense here. Tennessee at Indianapolis. This is your squad. You're rooting for the Tennessee Titans this weekend. I mean, the Indianapolis Colts. What's your one thought on this game? Limit there.

Actually, no, I'm sorry. It's the Colts offensive line. Block somebody.

Block somebody. They have stunk through the first three games. If they can't block, the season's over. If they can, I think the offense will be pretty good.

I think you're close. It's not limiting Derrick Henry. It's more so when Ryan Tannehill throws the football, make it a turnover. I think Derrick Henry's going to have a big game. Jonathan Taylor's going to have a big game. This is coming down to Tannehill-Ryan. When they're asked to throw the football, who protects the football better? Chicago at the Giants. No David Montgomery.

I think this is actually a very favorite. I know Killa Herbert's having a really good run so far. But I think this is a favorable spot for the Giants. Not many times I pick the Giants to win. The Giants are going to be 3-1. I'm very confident about the Giants. I'm not even a Giants fan. You know that. But that was one game I circled. I said I'm really confident with the Giants this week. Not that it's going to be a pretty game, but I see them winning like 17-10. Are you so confident you would take them in a survivor pool?

No. They would not be my survivor pool play. Because then you would really shoot yourself in the foot like if you lose in the Giants.

I lost to Daniel Jones. Jaguars and the Eagles. Dougie P. That's the thought.

How much motivation do the Jaguars use and does that motivation lead them to a victory? Doug Peterson was once the coach of the Eagles. You know he may have won a Super Bowl with them.

You may have heard that story before. Is this the Doug Peterson revenge game? I just think Philly's too hot right now. And if I had to make a play on this game. Everyone's saying Jaguars 2-1 plus a 6-1.

Plus a 6-1. I would lay the 6-1 on Philadelphia. Everything's just clicking right now for Philadelphia.

When you're hot, you're hot. I'll take Philly. Jets at the Steelers. Zach Wilson's return. Please give us some good offensive football to watch in this game.

Because you know it's not coming from Mitch Trubusky. Even up against this Garbage Jets defense. I want Kenny Pickett in this game at some point. Buffalo at Lamar Jackson.

That's the way I'm just saying it. Can the Lamar show continue up against the great Buffalo Bills? I think this is a game where you just hammer the over.

Allen Lamar. This is going to be a tremendous football game. If this game's a dud on a 1 o'clock window and I'm doing ion football. And I only get three games in the 4 o'clock window. And these games this week on the 1 o'clock window are not good.

I'll be very disappointed. I'll be very salty in the 4 o'clock window for not reacting to Buffalo and the Ravens saying that it was a great week 4 game. Chargers at the Texans. Chargers are banged up.

But you're playing the Texans. No Bosa. Rashawn Slater out for the year.

Keenan Allen not going to play. Herbert finally a full participant in practice. This is just the week where Justin Herbert. This is why he's your franchise quarterback.

When a team's banged up when he's banged up he just finds a way not only to win but win going away. Arizona at the Panthers. Can any wide receivers for Arizona be healthy? AJ greens out like every other receiver is questionable.

And then for Carolina. Run CMC's on the injury report. We'll see if he's going to play. But Baker Mayfield like are you any good?

And can you get D.J. Moore involved? Patriots at the Packers. This will be a disgraceful football game. Because Brian Hoyer starting.

Mac Jones out with the injury. Packers got to win this game by at least two touchdowns. If they don't win this game by two touchdowns that's the floor having some sympathy points going to Bill Belichick.

That's the only thing I would have for you on that explanation. Denver and Las Vegas. It's getting late early for both these teams. I know Denver's 2-1. But they feel like they're 0-3. And for the Raiders you are 0-3. My intrigue here is coaching and offense.

Not a lot of confidence with McDaniels and Hackett and right now not a lot of confidence with Carr or Russell Wilson. Kansas City at Tampa. What wide receiver shows up? Evans back. Kelcey.

Tight end technically. But for the Kansas City Chiefs who's emerging with Tyree Kilnau and Miami? Protection with the line and wide receivers determine this game. Even though everyone's going to be talking about Mahomes and Brady. And then on Monday night the Los Angeles Rams at the San Francisco 49ers. Vegas is begging you to plus the one and a half with the Rams.

I will give you my selection coming up in five minutes with Jersey Jerry on that game because I am picking that game. But my thought for this one is if the Rams lose this game and Matthew Stafford does not play good through the first three weeks. There will be a lot of questions about the Rams because this 49ers team we talk about timing in the NFL. Jimmy G coming off a bad game.

Like actually that's an insult. It's coming off one of the worst games I've ever seen a quarterback play. No Trent Williams now he's injured. For the Rams this is setting up to be a victory. So my thought is if they don't win then the panic meter is really going to start for the LA Rams. Zach Gilp's show CBS Sports Radio will come on back with Jersey Jerry as a one game lead on me.

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All righty. Week four NFL pick Zach Gilp. Jersey Jerry here with you on CBS Sports Radio. Jersey Jerry joins us, of course, from Barstool Sports. Jersey Jerry, how you been, my friend? Hey, what's going on, Zach? How's everything, brother?

I'm doing great, man. I can't complain. You know, a couple more days till the NFL. Week four. I'm excited. Very excited.

Yeah, I'm excited for this weekend, but I would be more excited for you because you're going to the Steelers game. If we had Zach Wilson going up against Kenny Pickett instead of Zach Wilson going up against your pal, Mitch. I'll tell you what, Zach, the more I do this show with you every week, the more and more I say to myself, you know what, Zach is right. Listen, it was never Mitch. It was never Mitch.

It never will be Mitch. And that's just what it is. That's just what it is. I tried to tell you he's Mitch Trubusky for a reason.

You just weren't willing to listen at the time, Jersey Jerry. Yeah. You know what? I've seen enough. I've seen enough. I did the experiment.

It's done. You pull a Band-Aid off. You let the rookie go out there and see what he can do.

You know what I mean? Give him some in-game experience against some of these tough teams you got coming up. You know, after the Jets, the Bills, then, you know, a couple more games. We got the Saints, you know, some tough defensive Eagles, Dolphins. So, you know, get the young guns some experience against some pretty good defense. I got no problem with it.

I really don't. Where are your seats for this weekend, by the way? First row. Very, very first row Steelers sideline.

I'll be on the field as well for pregame. Oh, so you could be chanting putt and picket before the game. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, if you see Tomlin before the game, are you going to look at him and say, Coach, I love you.

It was always Mike Tomlin, but now it's time to go to a little Kenny Pickett. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

I mean, there was an instance a couple weeks back, more than a couple weeks, I'd say, about a month and a half back. I was to a preseason game and I seen Omar Khan, the GM for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was walking in the tunnel and I stopped him. I said, Omar, listen, any money left over to bring AB back? That's a good line.

Crazy eyes and just started dying laughing. He was like, thanks, but no thanks. Yeah, I'll tell you what, I will. I might say something to Tomlin. I haven't decided yet.

You know what I mean? Me and Mike don't have that kind of relationship, but I might just say, hey, Mike, hey, what's done is done. Let's let's pull the bandaid off. Time to go. I'm going to win some football games. You got to start somewhere.

I think it would be a good first impression and I'm sure he would appreciate the opinion and probably not listen would be my guess. Exactly. All right. Let's get to the picks. I'm finally on the board. I'm one game back of Vietnam. So you're still in the lead.

So let you go first. What are you going with? My underdog play. I'm going to be taking the Ravens over to build. I think I think Lamar is destined to have a crazy, crazy year. Kind of similar what you're seeing with Aaron Judge, you know, that's on himself. And and, you know, the Yankees are going to have to pay him a boatload more money.

You're going to see that with the Ravens this year as well. Should have paid the man what he wanted, because now guess what? Price went up.

Price went up. Lamar is showing people this year. He ain't playing games. I know it's early three weeks into the season. Front runner MVP.

He looks very, very good. I'm going to go with Lamar. Listen, I think this Ravens team is going to be pretty good.

Definitely. I think they're going to make the playoffs. I would I would hate to play this kind of team in the playoffs.

For me, this game, I think it comes down to a quarterback duel and I can't believe I'm saying this. But I think I think Lamar, I'm starting to realize, you know what? Maybe Lamar Jackson is really, really good. And I'm just a Steelers fan who hates the Ravens.

But now I'm starting to realize this guy's good, man. And this team is pretty good. Give me the Ravens plus three. Yeah, this one was a stay away from me because I think we're just going to get a whole lot of points between the Bills and the Ravens. And it may come down to which team does have the ball last. I'll give you my underdog. Man, I know Vegas is begging me, begging me to take this team and I probably shouldn't. But I'm going to take them anyway and just rely on the fact that they're the better team. And this 49ers team is looking like a mess right now. The Rams are getting a point and a half. Yeah, plus the point and a half for me with the Rams on Monday Night Football.

Okay, no problem. I like it. I like it. For me, I'm going to go with, I can't believe this line went all the way down to nine points. I'm going to go with a Sunday afternoon game. The Green Bay Packers over the Patriots. Packers minus nine. They opened up, I think, about minus ten and a half.

I've seen some other lines. Minus eleven. It's down to minus nine right now. Listen, I just, I just think, I just think the Patriots offense is abysmal. I don't think they can move the ball.

They're really not great. Super great on the defensive side of the ball. So I'm going to go with Aaron Rodgers this week. Minus nine for the Packers. Yeah, this is a lock. The only way that the Patriots can cover the plus nine, nine and a half points.

You said nine, so yeah, let's go with nine. Is if, if, if, if LaFleur just feels bad for Belichick because they're beating him down in this game so much. I do not think this is a good spot for the Pats, no Mac Jones in the game. And Belichick just doesn't care about offense these days with Joe Judge and Matt Patricia running the crew. I did not pick that game, but you did. So I think it's a great pick. I'm going Chargers. I know they're banged up, but they're playing the Texans. I can't trust Davis Mills.

Justin Herbert is now a full participant in practice. I saw that today. So I'm going the Chargers laying the five points, going to Houston and taking down the Texans big. Awesome.

Awesome. I know we usually do one underdog play, but I'm going to go with another one. I'm going to go with the commanders plus three and a half over the Dallas Cowboys. I think, you know, everybody's super high on this guy, Cooper rush.

You know, he throws a great ball. There's people saying in the media, this guy's better than Dak Prescott. Everybody's really, really high on the Cowboys.

But I'll tell you what, this is just what the Cowboys do. They lose, they lose games like this. So I'm going to go with the commanders. I think the defense gets home. I think it's a pretty low scoring game. And Carson Wentz pulls a couple of tricks out of a hat and he wins the game. So I'm going to be, even though I think the commanders are going to win, I'm going to play it safe and go with the plus three and a half.

My final pick here. I don't think I've bet in favor of this team in at least three, four, five years, somewhere around there. But I'm picking them this week and I feel good about them. I don't think it's going to be a clean game, but I think they're going to find the way to win this game by more than three points. The Bears stink right now.

I'm not a big fan of Daniel Jones, but he'll run the football and Saquon is the best player on the field in this game. I'm taking the Giants, Jersey Jerry, laying the three points up against the Bears. Awesome. I love it, Jack. I love it. The picks this week, I take the Rams plus one and a half, the Chargers minus five, the Giants minus three. Jersey Jerry goes with the Ravens plus three, the commanders plus three and a half, and the Packers minus nine. And I saw something on social media right before we brought you on, Jersey Jerry. You did a Barstool sports advisor this week? That's one of my favorite shows.

Yes, yes. I filled in for Dave this week. You know, Dave is too busy dealing with some tax issues. He fled down to Florida with the hurricane. Probably one of the worst times to head down to Florida if you watch the news recently. So I don't know what's going on with Dave. Listen, he took a flight back to Miami.

He'll be in Miami for who knows when. Filled in for advisors this week. It was electric.

Hopefully you tune in. It was a really great show with Stu and Big Cat. Well, I love Stu.

And I know Stu pretty well. Here's the big question. Did he kiss you this week? No, no, no, no kisses worked.

He tried. There was no kisses exchanged this week. I promise you that.

So no funny business. Anyway, safe trip. Enjoy the game in Pittsburgh this week. Hopefully your Steelers go get a win. Hey, thanks, Zach. I'll look forward to next week, okay, brother?

You got it. Jersey Jerry from Barstool Sports joining us. Fun pick segment as always. You know, Ryan, there's going to be some big time social media video coming up from Jersey Jerry at that game on Sunday before the game. Talking to Tomlin, talking to Omar Khan or just chanting put in Kenny. And he's got seats right. He said the right in the first row, I believe. Yeah, behind the Steelers bench. Jerry's got the hookup on field passes before the game first row.

Well, that's the thing. When you're on the field, that's a tough spot to be on the field and be saying put in picket. But a lot of those Steelers guys know Jersey Jerry.

I don't know. Would you have the guts to be on the field? GM walks by. Let's just say, I don't know, Curtis Painter was your quarterback or something like that since you're a Colts fan.

And they were playing Curtis Painter and they were not playing the young kid. Would you have the guts hot take kicky to say, hey, Ryan Grigson. Should I go to Chris Ballard just so you can speak to the rest of the segment? Hey, Chris Ballard.

Put in C.J. Stroud. Let's just say if that was the scenario. The GM. Yes.

The head coach. I wouldn't. You're such full of crap.

The GM's easier is not in game mode. No, no, no. You know why you're so full of crap? Why you produce Ryan Leaf. Ryan Leaf was in the studio last week and you didn't even say hello to him. And it's not because he disliked them. You didn't want to bug him. Well, he was Russian. He was late to come on the show.

I don't want to take away from Maggie Pearl up. Then he was racing out. He had a train walking out afterwards.

Yeah, he was in a rush. How is it that tough to say, hey, Ryan, your old producer, Ryan Hickey, how you doing? So I'm seeing a while. You know, it's kind of how you've been.

How you doing? Grads, I'm not having a show with you. Small talk that two minutes, as you know, you missed the train. You missed the subway today.

Ruiner. I didn't believe her. Your cojones are basically in your mouth and you're afraid to speak. I know the GM will not be in a rush to get back to the press box during the game. I'll have his ear. I'll say, listen, what are you doing here?

It's time to go to the youth. I will not do the head coach. I think they're too snippy before the game. Marco, if you were upset with your team's quarterback situation, you had sideline passes and you see the GM or the coach before the game. Would you make a little remark?

I can see Marco making a sarcastic remark. Probably not. But if you did get my smart acidness, I think I'm with Hickey on this. I would go to the GM first, not the head coach, because the head coach on game day. You ever talk to a coach on game day? Yeah, not the most talkative person in the world. Don't.

Yeah, that's not the guy. I mean, you can almost see yourself in an altercation. They're in a different mindset at that point. So, no, I don't think I'd want to go down that road just for obvious reasons.

I don't need to do this. I get it. You're already annoyed. I could just see now, like, Hickey and Frank Reich tumbling at the 30 yard line. Yeah, like, they're really, I mean, head coaches are a different breed to begin with. You get them on game day?

Leave them alone. Do you believe Hickey would have the guts to say something to the GM? Yeah, I think he might. I think he might. I think he would do it in Hickey's way. I don't think he's going to be confrontational about it.

If you were Pinocchio, your nose would be grown right now. Your voice went up to a different octave that I've never heard it go that level for Marco. No, I think he would do it in his way, because I don't think it's going to be combative. I don't think it's going to be where he's really, like, yelling and screaming at him.

No, I think that would be ridiculous. But if you tell me if he's just kind of like, I don't know, wry, but just kind of quietly saying, hey, I think we might should, yeah, I could see him doing that. You know how I think Hickey would play it?

Hickey, tell me if I'm right or wrong here. GM stands right in front of you. You never talk to the general manager, but you talk to your buddy. What's your podcast partner's name? George, right? George.

Okay. So, like, George is standing right next to you. The passive aggressive. And I think Hickey would go, hey, George, as the GM's right in front of you. It'd be really great if we could see C.J.

Stroud soon. That's how I think you would play it, Hickey. No, I don't want to talk to him.

Hey, Chris, how's it going? Big fan of, you know, your philosophy. You know, just curious. That's what I'm saying, the butter up in between. Yeah, I could see it. I could see it. Big fan of you guys just being good. Yeah, no, I could see it.

Never went to AFC South. I'm probably asking, how is C.J. looking in practice? Like, you know, ask him a question or two about how the cortex progressing.

Have you seen him in the game soon? I was fired up. Not even that. Like I said, I think it would be less pushy. It's going to be passive aggressive is the right way. You did it where he's not even talking to him directly.

I could see him talking to him directly, just doing it a roundabout way. I would not be like Michael. Is it Michael Myers, the guy who has the camera and walks out to people and, you know, gets in their face back in the day? You know what I'm talking about? Halloween?

No, no, no, no. Michael, he's a filmmaker. His first name is Michael. Gets people's faces, gets... Filmmaker, first name Michael.

About 9000 of them. Michael Myers is Halloween. That's why I'm a little, I'm a little lost here. Now I can't get past that. Now I got to go culture some of the...

He's not very talkative. Did you hear Hickey? Now I got to go culture, you guys. That's what he just said underneath your breath. I think you're going to give me more than Michael. Like, I feel like, I think I know who he's talking about. Now, you know what?

Beard, big dude. Now I can't place his name. Yes. I was not going to say that.

I did the Flint, Michigan documentary. I think I know who he's talking about. Hey, why do you do this?

You know, why is he a bad person? Like with the video camera in their face. That's not me, but you know. Now I got to, I can Google it.

I'll find that. I think I know who you're talking about. I'm starting to lose control of my show here.

Yes, you are. You've lost it completely. I have no clue what either of you are talking about right now. I do.

And both of you are staring at your phone and not like typing and talking. So I'm just in this awkward spot where I'm trying to stall here until one of you... Michael Moore. There we go. Michael Moore. Thank you. Not Michael Myers. Michael Moore. Big difference.

I love big difference. Marco, how old are you though? Uh, 44.

How does Marco, who's 44, get it that quickly, but it takes you, who's like Mr. 28, young and hip, nine years. Well, do you want to know what I was typing in? Investigative journalist Michael. Wow. Man.

And he's got his phone. I'm working on... You know what's scary? No offense, the desktop in this, in this studio.

It's just, that was the reason why it took so long to find it. Hickey, by the way, this is what scares me. Hickey's like the person that trains people around here now. They go to Hickey or Pierno. Now, Pierno I feel good about, but Hickey, this is like the blind lead in the blind around here.

Hickey's the trainer now? Pierno I knew. I know how to push buttons. I can't, okay, I can't remember Michael, Michael Moore, excuse me.

My bad. I can teach a guy around here to push a button and hey, you know, how to get to break. I don't know, have you heard about some of the people that have been running the scenes around here lately? Have you seen anyone training here recently? Wasn't me. All right, Shaggy.

Wasn't me. On CBS Sports Radio, closing bell time next. Hi, Granger, for the ones who get it done. If you're a State Farm customer affected by the recent hurricane and need to submit a claim, go to StateFarm.com, call 1-800-SF-CLAIM, download the State Farm mobile app, or contact your local State Farm agent. With one of the industry's largest catastrophe response teams, State Farm and your agent are ready to help. Go to StateFarm.com to start your claim.

If you're a good neighbor, State Farm is there. You're listening to the Zach Gelb Show. This season, for the first time, you can hear every Westwood One NFL broadcast stream live for free Mondays, Thursdays, Sunday nights.

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I'm glad you used the word bizarrely. It's Michigan, Iowa. I'm excited to see who Michigan is. Oh, you're not even going NFL. No. I'm going college football.

Is that really bizarre? Because Michigan, this is their first legit opponent of the year. I think a lot of us believe that Michigan's going to win the game. It's just, are they going to win it with style points? Or are they going to more so win it because they'll be able to put up two touchdowns and the Iowa offense absolutely stinks? I'm not sure they're winning the game. I think I was going to win. I'm excited to see if Michigan does win.

What does J.J. McCarthy look like? This is a good first test for what is a college football playoff contending team to kind of see their legitimacy two years in a row. OK. So I like how you did this. Let's go one college, one NFL. The game that I am really excited for and I think it even caught Cole Kublick by surprise.

Like he was happy to talk about this because this guy does national hits all over the country and not many people have been talking about this game. Oklahoma State Baylor. I'm really excited for this game. And I think Spencer Sanders has a Heisman case to be made that everything's going to have to go right. And there can't be a letdown anywhere for Oklahoma State. But Blake Shapen with what he did last year at the end of the season, I was expecting him to be really good this year.

And it hasn't been the case. I'm bizarrely excited for this game. I think Oklahoma State should win the game. I don't know why, but any time you really fall in love with the team in the Big 12, it's kind of like packed whole syndrome to whenever you fall in love with the team in the Big 12, they shoot themselves in the foot. I know it was up against Kansas State last weekend, but Oklahoma did that when people started to come around on them with Dylan Gabriel and Brett Venables.

And we already know Baylor, they lost to BYU in a game where BYU was without their two leading wide receivers Puka Nakua and then Gunnar Romney as well. So I'm bizarrely excited for the Oklahoma State Baylor. What's the one in the NFL that you're kind of in a weird way excited about? I don't know if this is weird, but I will go Jaguars-Eagles. I'm very excited to see how Jacksonville bounces back.

I think they're legit. I mean, I hope the Eagles win the game for selfish reasons. But I'm excited. I think the Jaguars put up a really good fight and kind of pushed the Eagles here. So I'm excited to see this game. I can't believe I'm going to say this game. Giants-Bears. No.

Browns-Falcons. Really? Yeah.

Really? If Cordell Patterson plays, you have Patterson going up against Chubb and Hunt. It's going to be an awful game.

And I don't know. And I hope he's all right. And he probably shouldn't play. I don't know if Miles Garrett's going to play or not.

And we send our best to him. But just seeing these two quarterbacks who at times they both had their moments like they look like they can be decent. Mariota, former number two overall pick, Heisman Trophy winner and Jacoby Percette has played a lot of games in this league. But I think there's going to be a lot of big runs in this game. I really do.

That's why I'm like in a weird way excited about Browns and Falcons. You love the ground and pound. No, I don't.

But for this week, I guess I do. I want to do that each and every Friday now in the final segment before the closing bell. What's the one game in college football? What's the one game in the NFL that in a weird way we're excited about? Talking about the aforementioned closing bell. Let's get to it right now. Another day is in the books and we're taking stock of the sports world. It's time to find out who's up and who's down. Let's end the day right and hit the closing bell.

Only on the Zach Gelb show. I purposely did not listen to this audio today. Because there's two color analysts in football that I like to see what sound effects they kind of make.

That's the right way to say it. Scott Zolock's not going to have many positive sound effects this year. Because Patriots often stinks. But Dave Lapham has an opportunity to do so.

So let's listen up. This is a Joe Burrow 59 yard touchdown pass to T Higgins last night. To make it 14 to 6 in the second quarter, here is Dan Hoard and Dave Lapham on the Bengals radio network. Burrow on third and 11 will look to pass. He throws it deep down the sideline. And it is caught. T Higgins breaks the tackle.

He's at the 10, the 5. Touchdown! Bengals!

That was awesome. Got him! Yeah! Yeah! Nice!

Yeah! And I don't know what he said at the end. The play-by-play guy started to step on his toes because Dave Lapham was stepping on the toes of Dan Hoard. Lapham, you know who he reminds me of? He reminds me of like the uncle at the family barbecue. That's always just having a good time. And he just says what's ever on his mind.

No matter if it's the proper time or place or not. That's how I compare Dave Lapham. So this sounds like we're giving a stock up to Dave Lapham. We're giving really a stock up to T Higgins for making the play to provide us the Dan Hoard-Dave Lapham sound effects. So give a stock up to T Higgins. I'm going to preface this stock up by saying this may be the most pathetic stock up I've ever given out. Do you have any guess what this stock up could be to? Pathetic stock up? Yeah.

It's weak. No. Can I give you a hint?

Sure. It's about a player that is going to be participating in the NFL this weekend. He's played a lot of games in the NFL before. He's played a lot. Tom Brady has not played as long.

He's not started this year yet. That could change though. And it will change. Not Drew Locke. That will change. DeAndre Hopkins.

That will change. For this Lincoln. Euros.

Pounds. Andy Dalton. Ah, there we go. Yeah, Andy Dalton starting an NFL game. Expected to start this Sunday with Jamis Winston-Hurt. So we're going to get Kirk Cousins against Andy Dalton. I'm giving a stock up that Andy Dalton is still starting a game in the NFL this year. And a stock up to Kirk Cousins because, man, they cannot give you an easier win this weekend.

Stock up. If they lose this game, the Vikings. What was that face for? You think they're going to lose the game? No, you said they couldn't give you an easier win. I'm like, oh, this is classic Kirk right here. Lose this game. I can't imagine. It's not Monday night. That's good news. So, but the only excuse you have is, oh, it was in London. You guys should beat the living style of the Saints this weekend.

Giving a stock down. It's weird because I don't know who to blame. But what we saw in the field last night was scary with Tuatunga Vailoa. It's like I can't blame Mike McDaniel for playing him because he was cleared to play. I still don't understand how he was cleared to go back into the game last weekend.

But once he went back in the game last weekend, I never thought there was going to be a chance that he would miss the game on Thursday. So there's a lot of mixed reactions and confusing feelings. But what we saw last night was just horrific on the field. So I'm just giving a stock down.

Let's just say to the situation is the way that I will appropriately give a stock down in this scenario. And then finally, Jerry Jones. Last week, you're welcoming a quarterback competition. Today, you go on one of five through the fan and say when Dak is healthy, he's going to be the starting quarterback. I don't get why he starts this drama in the first place. There never was going to be a quarterback controversy or quarterback competition. You paid Dak. Dak's your guy.

And now you're walking it back. It just shows you Jerry judges the success of a football team by how much drama he could stir up. Stock down through Jerry Jones, the owner of the drama Dallas Choking Cabos. And that's the Zach Guilp show on CBS Sports Radio.

Big thanks to Drew Tranquil for stopping by. I'd like to thank Cole Kublick as well and Jerzy Jerry who joins us each and every football Friday at 9.20 p.m. Eastern, 6.20 p.m. Pacific for NFL picks. One more time, my picks, Giants laying the three, Chargers minus five, Rams plus the one and a half.

Jerzy Jerry went with the Ravens plus three, the Pack minus nine, and the Commanders plus three and a half. Hot Take Kiki, have a good weekend. You can listen to him coming up next, 2 to 6 a.m. Eastern on many of the same CBS Sports Radio affiliates. And you can catch me on Sunday for Ion Football. And if you want us still, we'll be here Monday, 6 p.m. Eastern, 3 Pacific. Bye-bye, we out.

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