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Please gamble responsibly. And that is the always talented Nick Costas. Nick, how you been?

Zach, what's going on, man? Great to be on with you. Happy football season to you and your listeners doing this right now live from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. So what better place to be for week number one? I guess I could be at the game, which would be fun also for the Jets and the Bills.

But great to be on with you, brother. Please, you want to be in rainy New York and the New Jersey area when you could be in Vegas and be three hours behind and having wonderful food and drinks? I'd much rather have that right now.

I did say to my co-host on You Better You Bet, who I know you've had on the show before as well, Ken Barkley. I actually think, this might sound crazy, I think I prefer Eastern Time to Pacific Time. Even though hashtag East Coast problems, we're up super late, especially during playoff season in the NBA and the NHL.

I actually think I prefer it though. It's weird that it's 4-20, 4-21 right now and the football game is starting in a little bit. Let me ask you this though, because I know you're a big Giants fan. Before we get into the game tonight between the Bills and the New York Jets, how did you react to that debacle yesterday? I grew up, Zach, as die-hard a Giants fan as you could possibly imagine. The Giants winning or losing on a Sunday or Monday would basically determine my mood for the week.

But as I've gotten a little older, I worked at NFL Radio at Sirius for a while and you had no players in the league and coaches and PR staffs. Now betting for 20 years and Doing You Better You Bet, I've kind of become numb to it. I had a small bet on the Giants last night. The bet obviously never had a chance.

I lost zero seconds of sleep and I'm not going to overreact also. The Giants should be able to win on Sunday on the road at Arizona. I actually think the line is going to move a little bit towards Arizona, Zach, and that will be an interesting conversation a little later in the week. But as far as losing sleepover, the Giants losing. I'm good.

I'm good on that. So I always figure out what bet I'm going to place for the Monday Night Football game when Sunday Night Football is wrapping up as Nick Costas is here with us and for some reason last night I ended up going with a parlay for tonight. Anytime touchdown, same game parlay of Staphon Diggs and then also Garrett Wilson. The odds are at plus 400.

Now you have all these weather concerns. We'll see how it plays a factor in the game tonight. What do you think of that bet going anytime touchdown with Staphon Diggs and Garrett Wilson at plus 400? I think if you are going to take like any two players in the game, like maybe you'd want to put Josh Allen in there just because like I know people are really excited about James Cook this year in fantasy football. Also like Josh Allen doesn't really throw to the running back and when they're down by the goal line like he's the one that usually tries to carry it in. So maybe like James Cook can be decent.

I just don't really necessarily see it the way some do. So I think Allen would maybe have been my first choice but look like you have a two all pro caliber receivers, the number one wide receiver on each team with Wilson and Diggs. When I play anytime touchdowns and look like if you win the bet it's like who cares like you win.

I'm generally going a little bit farther down the board. I've got one wacky anytime touchdown play for tonight which maybe we can go over in a little bit but like I don't hate your plays at all. The best receiver on the Jets, the best receiver on the Bills and look we saw Jalen Hyatt like Cook sauce Gardner in a preseason game like Diggs can certainly get his against sauce. And the way that I look at it at plus 400 I just feel like it's too good to be true so that means that neither player will score a touchdown tonight and this will be like a 6-3 game probably.

Well look man I bet Texas Tech plus six and a half against Oregon on Saturday it closed four and I lost on a pick six in the final minute so I'm with you man. What's your worst beat of all time? Of all time?

I mean like there are beats. You know what? Or just one that comes to mind. Well yeah I mean it's like the one that comes to mind because I lost the most money on it. I had the Falcons big and the under big in Super Bowl 51 against the Patriots.

Oh wow. Yeah and like not only do like the Falcons like the game goes to overtime and it's like can the Patriots just win by three? And of course like they score a touchdown and win 34-28. Game goes over the total.

I just lose everything. That's the worst one in terms of money but like I mean how about like yesterday we had the Colts yesterday to cover against Jacksonville. Second and goal of the one like we literally have like pick one quarterback in the NFL not named Josh Allen or Jalen Hurts I guess like to sneak the ball in to score a touchdown and backdoor a spread.

It's like the tank Anthony Richardson he's got to come out here comes Gardner Minshew three cracks at it can't score a touchdown Jacksonville ends up covering the spread. Man there are bad beats around every corner if you bet enough and have been betting for long enough. Well I was on the other side of that so I'm happy that it won. What a jerk.

What a jerk man. Nick Costos geez Louise I was shocked that I ended up winning in that game because you're exactly right when they got inside the goal line. Originally they were down by you know down by four Jacksonville they end up going by ten I'm like okay they're going to win and then you see the Colts drive and I go oh this has no chance of covering and it did. So it happens.

You win more than I win let's be real. I mean well maybe that's true I mean listen you know it's kind of how it goes right I also had the Titans yesterday against the Saints plus three and a half and at the end of the game like Saints are up by one they get the big conversion down the field the big play to reach for she chewed and I'm thinking like oh my God like I'm going to lose by four and I'm going to lose this bet and like unbelievably soul crushing fashion and then we got like you need to thread a needle sometimes is better is where you're thinking about like what do you need at the end of the game I needed Saints first down but no touchdown to a run out the clock and I did get it so like it doesn't always go against you so I was able to get that one but but the Colts one was pretty tough against Jacksonville. We'll get to the game tonight in just a second Nick Costas here with us going to join us each and every Monday in football season right here at seven twenty p.m. Eastern four twenty p.m. Pacific on the Zach Gelb show what was your biggest surprise from yesterday Nick. You said surprise from yesterday right you cut out for us yeah biggest surprise honestly it's the Seattle Seahawks and like how terrible they looked against the Los Angeles Rams and and Zach just because like the betting market like really leans away. It doesn't mean that that's what's going to happen but it is worth noting that like Cooper Cup is ruled outright and placed on IR by the Rams and you'd think okay like betters are going to are going to push Seattle up as a bigger favorite at home. It was actually the opposite like the Rams got bet like pretty hard by professional betters and then the Rams go out there in Seattle and they win the game thirty to thirteen and honestly like I watched the game. Like it actually should have been more of a blowout than it was that's how bad Seattle played and that kind of takes us back into this week's game against the Lions where Seattle might be without their starting two tackles and they they're going to apparently sign Jason Peters forty older than me and I'm old forty one years old to the practice squad like going into Detroit Detroit off extra rest right playing last Thursday night in the opener against Kansas City. Against Aiden Hutchinson and that pass rush with how bad Seattle looked yesterday Zach we bet the Lions already my co-host Ken Barkley and I I actually think this this line could close seven it's six right now if you could find the five and a half bet a six I like the Lions coming up on Sunday against Seattle.

I'm worried about the Seahawks and I'm not trying to overreact to one game that was alarming what we saw yesterday against the LA Rams. What is your play tonight on the spread the bills are two and a half point favorite you know that building in the swamps of Jersey MetLife Stadium which one of the worst stadiums in the league is going to be rocking with Aaron Rodgers your play on this game on the spread is what. Yeah I call it the Death Star it's a brew it's all gray it's like it's absolutely terrible if I had to bet the full spread of the game I guess like maybe like a lean towards Buffalo but my preferred play and Zach we talk about this a lot on you better you bet it's been a pretty profitable strategy.

It does not mean that it's a guarantee there are times that it loses or like otherwise like everyone would know about it and you wouldn't even be able to bet it right. And that is home underdog on Monday Night Football in the first half and especially in this game right and you were talking about this on the show today. There's a chance that this is like quite literally the biggest home opener in the history of the New York Jets franchise like maybe you can make a case for ninety nine like coming off the AFC title game appearance with Parcells and Vinny Testaverdi and Vinny tears is ACL in that game like this is probably like the biggest home opener in Jets history. The crowd's going to be going absolutely nuts and the Jets are plus a half in the first thirty minutes of the game. So like a tie you win like you if it's ten ten at halftime you cash that bet Jets winning at halftime you cash that bet. Now over the course of sixty minutes maybe Buffalo the better team maybe Buffalo ends up winning out that I don't feel as confident in but this is a trend that we play all the time early in the season.

Let's play the Jets Zach in the first half plus a half here at home against Buffalo. What was this secret anytime touchdown that you liked in this game that you were teasing. So there is a player formerly known it's always good like this how wacky the anytime touchdown prop is that it's a player who changed his name. That is Deontay Hardy used formerly Deontay Harris who's been playing in preseason and in training camp as the bill starting slot receiver like I know that they drafted Dalton Kincaid in the first round you'll see him a little bit in the slot.

They signed Trent Sherfield he generally plays on the outside Khalil Shakir is on like a milk carton now he had played in the slot a little bit last year for Buffalo. Deontay Hardy like is going to be playing like a decent amount for the bills of preseason and training camp like like will show us give us any idea of what's going to happen here. How about Deontay Hardy anytime touchdown tonight here for the Buffalo Bills I am looking at BetMGM that number plus seven hundred so again it's plus seven hundred for a reason not extremely likely to happen.

You bet Diggs and Garrett Wilson that's obviously more likely but Hardy plus seven hundred here for beer or pizza money anytime touchdown bet for tonight. Love it love it love it before we let you run if memory serves me right don't you have a special song for Brandon Iyuk? Do I have what like Iyuk is on fire did I do that once with you?

Right? That's not I don't do that all the time. That's not your signature song? I probably like came on and did it once with you but maybe not actually that might I just like you when you asked I was like what else could it be other than Iyuk is on fire.

For some reason yesterday when I see Brandon Iyuk going eight receptions a hundred and twenty nine yards and two touchdowns and sticking it to the Steelers. Every time he scores now I think of that song I remember one Sunday morning as I was waiting to get on the air you singing that song. I don't think it was Ken Barkley you know someone's going to sing that song it's going to be you.

It would be me it would be me that's right. You're forever like engraved in my brain when Brandon Iyuk scores. Now we got a we had a new song for this year are you a are you a Justin Timberlake fan? I could dabble in a little JT. I would hope so he's pretty awesome. My favorite Justin Timberlake song featuring T.I.

is My Love. Now we will we will do the remix here for Jordan Love basically. No other player going to take your spot Jordan Love so I'm going to bet on Jordan Love etc.

Because we bet the Packers yesterday against the Bears and Zach will be loading the chamber again here to bet the Packers on the road in Atlanta coming up in week two. Ritter me this who would you rather have as your quarterback in a Pickham game? Desmond Ritter or Jordan Love?

Ain't no other player could take his spot Jordan Love. Oh love it love it love it Nick Costas is going to be fun all throughout the season. Enjoy Las Vegas even though it doesn't seem like you're enjoying Las Vegas. I've been here for six days it's enough it's enough. I'll play my small violin for you give me a break here I'll swap with you next time you go to Vegas. You could come to New York we'll let you chill here in the studios I'll just go to Vegas and we'll party up with Ken Barkley. Sounds good it sounds good and you come here you stay in Vegas for seven days and you tell me how you like it.

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