Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Time Sports Podcast.
I am your host and owner, Justin Jackson.
In this week's episode, we'll be talking about the NFL week six.
We'll be discussing NFL week seven.
We'll have our NFL betting segment, Jack's Pack, and we will have Jack's Hot Take.
We'll also touch on the WNBA Finals as well.
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Welcome into the show.
For those of you who listened last week, you guys know that I'm in fantasy football.
So don't ask me how that's going.
I'm sure I'm one of the many who are struggling in fantasy football.
I'm not winless.
I'm not winless in my league.
I am two and four.
But we're just not going to talk about that.
Cool, cool, so let me get that out of the way.
Make sure there's no right-hand question this week about it.
I'm not going to answer them on purpose.
If you know me personally, don't text me about it.
If you're a fan, don't DM me or at me about it.
I'm not, I'm not going to answer.
All right, so moving into the show.
So happy to be with you guys on by the time you guys hear this a Wednesday morning.
I'm excited, man.
A lot of great sports going down.
Like I said, if you heard the intro, we got the NFL, of course, with our recap of last
week preview of this week and our Jax pack.
We have the WNBA finals roaring up.
The MLB playoffs, shout out the big win teams.
All the 100 win teams are gone.
The top five records, I believe, are all gone.
And the Astros are teetering.
You know, you've got, that's going to be humongous free agencies coming up soon.
And Major League Baseball will be all over that.
Whenever that comes around, we'll talk about the NBA finals.
And of course, we'll have Jax hot take at the end of the show.
But let's go right into NFL week six, the day of the backup.
Honestly, it was incredibly wild.
PJ Walker and Zach Wilson took out the last two undefeated teams.
PJ Walker, of course, filling in for Deshaun Watson, who's dealing with some sort of
shoulder strain situation.
And when you've got a quarterback who's guaranteed $230 million fully over the
next five years, you take precaution.
So he filled in for Cleveland against Brock Purdy in the 49ers.
And then, of course, Zach Wilson, obviously filling in for Aaron Rogers, who went
down within a few plays of his New York Jets debut.
So he's technically the back quarterback there.
And so he went against Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles.
The injuries, however, beseech the undefeateds.
So this, I think, is the earliest in a very long time that the NFL has no
undefeated teams.
The Niners and the Eagles were the last two teams coming in.
Of course, you guys know the 72 Dolphins literally throw a party every year
so one's no longer undefeated.
They held their breath in on seven because the Pages got to the Super Bowl.
But, you know, both teams went out on the same weekend.
It was the first time in, like, since the merger that both undefeated teams
lost the back quarterbacks.
First time since the merger that both undefeated teams lost on the same weekend.
It was like, it was wild, the amount of history that was happening there.
But it kind of elevated the point.
I was trying to make last week and I actually caught some flak behind, which
is my Brock Purdy point.
And, you know, I want to commend P.J. Walker and I want to commend Zach Wilson.
I'm playing good enough to win the game.
I want to commend both defenses for sure.
I mean, there's one clip of Miles Gareth throwing Trent Williams, which I didn't
think was physically possible.
He got him to Trent Williams' armpit and chucked him and Trent lost his balance.
Again, I didn't think that was physically possible.
And then, of course, the New York Jets absolutely torturing Jalen Hurts for most
of the night.
Leading Robert Salah to say they've embarrassed some of the quarterbacks that
they've played in the first few weeks.
Quinn and Williams a little more humble, but I can't disagree with what Salah
is saying.
I mean, they pretty much put the clamps on everybody.
But back to the Browns and Niners, more specifically Brock Purdy.
I said it last week.
Brock Purdy has the advantage of the best roster by far in the NFL.
He has the highest paid left tackle.
He has the highest paid running back.
He has, I believe, the highest paid middle linebacker.
He definitely has the highest paid linebacking room.
He has an incredibly high paid receiver room and DB room.
And he has the highest paid defensive line by a country mile.
Why?
Because he makes $800,000 a year against the cap.
Why?
Because he was misfit irrelevant in the draft.
Why?
He wasn't that good in college.
The Brock Purdy now is three, four times the quarterback of the Brock Purdy
at Iowa State.
You want to know what happened to the Brock Purdy at Iowa State?
Didn't have a lot of talent around him.
Couldn't lift it up.
You want to know what happened to Brock Purdy on last Sunday?
He didn't have a lot of talent around him.
He couldn't lift it up.
I know what you're saying, Justin.
Brock Purdy drove him down the field, put him in field goal range,
and the kicker missed.
Welcome to the rest of the NFL.
His left tackle got hurt.
Welcome to Joe Burrow's life.
His running back got hurt.
I'm sorry.
Has Tua ever had a consistent running back behind him?
His star running back is currently hurting in Devon Aking.
Oh, oh, but his receivers were dropping the ball.
Insert Mac Jones here.
He was still had one of the best rosters in the league,
especially because of the defense.
He just got introduced to what the rest of the NFL goes through.
They have a replacement level left tackle.
They have all right receivers.
They have a decent running back.
Guess what?
Look at the Chiefs roster.
You want their offense line or the 49ers from your Sunday?
Clean flip?
You want their receiving room, even with Debo and IU,
Gimpy, or you want the Chiefs receiving room with Sky Moore,
Kideres, Tony, and Prayers?
Niners?
I gave you guys the upper check goes better than the 49ers back
because I gave you that.
But that's about the only difference.
So roster offense on offense, clean flip?
Even with the injuries, that Niners offense of personnel
was still better than the Patriots offense of personnel,
which we'll talk about in a minute.
How about Jacksonville?
Who's their left tackle?
No one knows.
Running back?
They got ETN.
ETN's better.
Receiving room, again, even with IU and Debo struggling.
Niners?
O-line?
Niners?
Again, ETN is better than McCaffrey's backup.
So all Brock Hurdy did was get introduced to the rest of the
life in the NFL, and he didn't muster 20.
Not even 20.
Couldn't get it done.
Now, he got his team and position to win the game.
I give him that.
He went right down the field when he had to.
I give him that.
But somehow it always works out for the great ones, you know?
It works out for the really good ones most of the time.
For the average ones or the low average ones,
something goes wrong where it doesn't work.
From Mr. Hurdy, it was a missed field goal.
He was missed the irrelevant for a reason.
I'm going to stand on this until it's proven correct.
He was missed the irrelevant for a reason.
For about a half, he got the feel of the rest of the NFL felt.
By the way, he was playing bad before they got hurt.
Before half, he got the feel of the rest of the NFL felt.
He looked uncomfortable with the last drive.
Just saying, Mr. Hurdy.
Just saying to people who support him.
He better wins before that rookie deals up.
So his agent goes to the front office, and they say,
look, my client's 32 and 7 as their starter.
Been to two A championship games, been to two A championship games,
been to a Super Bowl.
I believe he deserves a six-year, $300 million contract.
The Nines are going to have to pony up.
And then you'll no longer have the highest paid this
and the highest paid that and the most talented this
and the most talented that.
You'll have what you had on Sunday,
which as we saw, was not a whole lot for Mr. Brock Hurdy.
Supporters of Brock Hurdy, people who love the Niners,
be nervous because the reality is that, well,
if you said to Mr. Hurdy to lead you,
you might as well unhitch the wagon.
You're not going very far.
But moving into things that aren't irrelevant,
although a franchise that used to be former relevant,
now they could be sliding into irrelevancy,
is unfortunately my New England Patriots.
Yes, my Patriots.
Sunday was tough.
I admit Sunday was tough.
For some reason we keep drawing the national TV game.
I don't get it, but whatever. Sunday was tough.
I admit that.
Because Sunday, the Las Vegas Raiders scored 21 points.
Which means that 31 of the 32 NFL teams have scored
20 points in a game this season.
The one team that has not, the New England Patriots.
However, down 1917, Mac Jones throws his best ball of the night
hits DeVonty Parker in the hands and goes through them
because, well, it's DeVonty Parker.
Beautiful throw.
Front of the corner, left of the safety, gorgeous throw.
Hits DeVonty Parker in the hands and comes out
because, well, it's DeVonty Parker.
What else would happen?
The New England Patriots have such a lack of accountability
and a dearth of talent, unlike anything I've seen
from a good franchise in a long time.
But they're not openly tanking.
Like, I have been proponent of this for the past couple off seasons.
Currently the New Orleans Saints, currently,
are $88 million over next year's cap.
They don't make one single roster move.
They're $88 million over next year's cap.
The NFL is a hard cap.
Not one penny over.
Again, they're $88 million over next year's cap.
That's about as all-in as all-in can be.
And yet they're not like a tender.
They may not make the playoffs,
and they're going to have to do a lot of financial maneuvering
in the off season, like they've done the past four or five off seasons,
maybe even six off seasons, to try and keep their roster together
and yet somehow not pay the bill for it.
Nick Wright has a hilarious analogy for it.
It's like Mickey Lumis is spending,
like spending on a credit card like the war is going to end tomorrow.
Like he'll never have to pay the bill for it.
That's kind of how the Saints operate.
He's never going to have to pay the bill for it, et cetera.
But my remedy to that was, buy them out one year.
Keep your own draft pick. Tape whoever is available.
Come get them.
Tray down with Camara. Tray Michael Thomas.
Move a couple of those veteran defensive players
who can really go make an impact on the championship team.
Tyron Matthew, Cam Jordan, et cetera.
DeMario Davis.
Stockpile two through first round picks.
Three or four second round picks.
A baby of third and fourths.
A couple of fifths.
Three or four five six sixths.
A lot of sevenths.
Rebuild pretty much in one year.
If you got 15 draft picks, seven will make your roster.
Eight will make your roster.
Three will make you practice while you miss on four.
And have $130 million in free agency ready to go out to the draft.
Who has taken that approach?
Most of that approach.
My New England Patriots.
Excuse me.
And I actually didn't even notice that was a play until about a week ago.
Where somebody was suggesting that they make a trade on Twitter.
That they make a trade and then begin to list all the Patriots' assets.
If that trade would have happened.
It goes to my campus.
And one of the things that included was having their own draft picks.
And $100 million plus in cast space for next season.
And that is without a single deal in place.
That's without a restructuring.
That's without a stretching wave.
That's without a fight out release.
They have over $100 million in cap space to do with whatever they please.
And so I'm kind of hoping that that's the play in New England.
Some fans are beginning to call for Bill Belichick's job.
I'm over Mac Jones.
But I think Robert Krabs is going to try to give Belichick a chance to go out on his sword.
Which means give him a chance to go out and get the wins record.
Again, I just ultimately...
I'm just looking at it from the perspective of yes, having $120 million of cap.
Plus the 8-9-10 draft picks is great.
But you got to use that cap space wisely.
And you have to draft correctly.
Which is something that Bill has not been the best in the early rounds.
But we got to keep our eye on New England, of course, as I am a huge fan of the Patriots.
Shout out to Detroit Lions.
They have their best 16-game stretch since like the mid-1970s or 80s.
Where they are 13-3.
Which is a tremendous record over their last 13, 14 games last year.
And then bleeding into the first few games this year.
The Lions look absolutely great.
They're fully bought into Dan Campbell.
I remember during the broadcast they asked one of the players, or they referenced how they asked the player,
When are you buying into Dan Campbell?
He said about week 10.
He was completely and totally bought in, hook, line, and sinker.
Because Dan Campbell, you see a player, he's got that rah-rah, ready to go run through a brick wall, energy naturally.
And so he turns into, who he has turned into for coaching, Dan Campbell really leaves the entire team in a frenzy.
So super excited for the Detroit Lions and the Detroit fan base.
They absolutely deserve it. They're supporting them.
First time they, you know, out of season tickets since they moved into four field.
They are supporting the organization and the team is rewarding them with great play in Detroit.
The Buffalo Bills are continuing their roller coaster ride of ups and downs and ups and downs and spins and ups and downs.
This season, as they struggle, that dude means struggle.
Struggle probably is too nice of a word to get through the New York Giants led by Tyrod Taylor.
If Tyrod Taylor maybe doesn't change the playoff in the goal line and they get two cracks at it,
maybe ultimately they kick a field goal, they get a touchdown rather,
and who knows how that game turns with a touchdown by the Giants at the end of the half,
instead of Tyrod checking to run and getting stuffed and getting no points.
And so that's going to be a very interesting situation to watch in Buffalo because the Giants were awful.
They said they had Tyrod Taylor. They didn't even have Daniel Jones.
They had a makeshift in the offensive line. It was a fully started combination in the many weeks.
Justin Pugh, who hilariously says from the couch when doing his player introductions to play guard,
ended up playing in the position he was drafted for, which is tackle. However, he wasn't good at tackle,
so they moved him in the guard and he ended up at left tackle just getting the views out there.
At left tackle, starting to get some false starts and all kinds of stuff.
And so that's the situation that the Bills were playing against, a team that was hurting the ragged,
and the Bills was absolutely teed off, sending pressure and doing everything they could to disrupt Tyrod's timing.
And ultimately it was just good enough. But the Bills have some issues there offensively.
Brian Dable and the coach of the Bills, Sean McDermott, clearly had a very, very quick handshake.
Just about as fast as you can make it, honestly.
And so the Bills are just fighting for their lives right now to me in order to stay afloat
because something's going on with that offense.
And then lastly, of course, the injury bug always sucks.
Alain Johnson injured himself. Hopefully doesn't miss too much time, but he is injured.
Christian McCaffrey, who we spoke about earlier, is considered week to week with his injury.
And then the quarterbacks, Ryan Tannehill, Justin Fields, Jimmy G., all suffered injuries as well.
Hopefully nothing too serious. And of course Trevor Lawrence as well.
Hopefully nothing too serious, no more than three weeks for any of them.
But they all, or three fourths of them, might be sitting the week in order to make sure their bodies are fully healed.
Well up next, we're going to shift to the NFL week seven and talk about what's going down there.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to jump into NFL week seven, which begins Thursday night, of course.
But we are not going to talk about Thursday night game because mainly I don't care.
All right, but there will be a few games that we will discuss.
Starting off with the commanders and the Giants.
Of course, as you guys know, if it isn't Jax Pack, I won't pick it. I'll just talk about it.
And then of course we'll talk about it a little bit more, a little bit more in depth when it comes to Jax Pack.
But because he won't pick it, I'm going to give you guys away my picks.
But the commanders at the Giants.
This is a game between two teams in a very interesting position.
As we just saw, the Giants with Tyra Taylor, it's not bad.
Now there's no guarantee that Tyra Taylor started this week.
Daniel Jones could very well be back.
And if Daniel Jones is back, I'm sure they'll open up the playbook a little bit more.
But Daniel Jones is out because he got beat to smithereens behind a tattered offensive line.
Update, the offensive line has not gotten better.
And so 50-50 on whether they could produce points.
I mean, they did it on Buffalo's defense, which is not the world's stoutest defense, but it's not bad by any means.
And so that is going to be interesting there.
But if you look at the Giants defense, they've got a defense too.
They put a hurting on Buffalo's offense.
Brian Dable clearly came in with a plan, short in the game, don't make mistakes, taking advantage of opportunities where you get them.
Where Tyra Taylor checking, not checking out of a run, keeping the pass on for maybe them going into halftime up 16-0.
And who knows what happens in that second half.
But, you know, that's what happened there in Buffalo.
And so the Giants being a team that can fight, continue with Buffalo.
We believe Buffalo is a good, they mean most of the meaning.
We believe Buffalo is a good team.
Subo container, Dark Horse Subo container out of the AFC.
Division winner, level team out of the AFC East.
Pretty loaded division these days.
And New York right there, what for what with them.
With makeshelf offensive line, with a back of quarterback, they were right there.
So it's going to be a very interesting game in East Weatherford this weekend.
Again, we will pick it in Jax Pack.
Lions at Ravens, another game that is in Jax Pack.
Another game with two teams that are pretty hot.
So the Ravens for the first time are starting to get a little healthy.
They were pretty beat up earlier in the season.
Lamar Jackson was kind of making some magic, he would let them float.
The new offense seemed to be fitting him well with Tom Monk and his offensive coordinator.
But they were kind of making things work, kind of shape shifting and shape bending an offense.
A team really, around the fact that the Ravens are pretty beat up.
But now again for the first time all season, they're starting to get healthy.
First time since the preseason really.
They're starting to get healthy.
So that is a huge advantage for the Ravens.
They are starting to put together their actual roster.
So people can see like them what it actually looks like.
However, the Lions, we spoke about them earlier.
They're 13 and 3 in their last 16.
13 and 3 is a number one seed level team.
Their offense now is flying everywhere.
Their defense is always out.
Dan Campbell has those guys believing that you can put a hundred brick walls in front of them.
Each one of them individually will pass through all our hundred walls.
You got a team believing like that.
You got the talent that they have in Detroit.
You got a very dangerous ball club.
And so Detroit goes to the Baltimore Ravens in a very interesting contest there.
Packers at Broncos.
A game I can't give you who I think will win.
I think it's going to be the Broncos.
Jordan Love for some reasons having an issue getting started.
He plays a good fourth quarter.
They don't have a rough first three quarters.
They're giving very Tim Tebow vibes when Tebow would be absolutely horrible.
Like 2 for 11 in the first three quarters throwing the ball.
And then the fourth quarter he's 8 for 10, a buck 42, two touchdowns.
And it's just like what is this?
And so I kind of get a similar feeling from Jordan Love where he's he hasn't been Tim Tebow bad.
He's a different quarterback to a lot of these Tim Tebow bad.
Tim Tebow was absolutely God awful.
The disgrace to the position as a whole.
But he hasn't been Tebow bad obviously, but he's been struggling in the first three quarters.
And then that fourth quarter he'll turn it up.
The second half he'll turn it up.
I just wonder if playing a Denver team where your turn it up be down 17-0 and then Denver is just using Russell Wilson's IQ to win games.
Because Denver is an interesting spot.
I don't think they have their own pick.
Or maybe it's the first year they have their own pick again.
But they're in no incentive to lose because they have their franchise quarterback.
They have no incentive, no benefit, no anything to lose in the game.
They have their franchise guy.
Whenever you have your franchise guy, there's no benefit in getting a high draft pick.
Because everyone trying to get a high draft pick, look for a quarterback.
And so when you have a team like that in Denver who's still trying.
Now there's some fissures and fractures in the locker room reportedly.
And that people are out on the roster construction.
They want a new roster brought in.
They want a bevy of other things done.
Sean Payne is looking to see some world control in the organization.
As you guys know he pretty much had all but final say in New Orleans.
And then Luma's ultimately decided.
But Sean had pretty much day to day operations as far as roster construction.
And so he's looking to get more of a hands on role with the roster overall.
In the not so distant future.
But it is incredibly interesting the package of the Broncos.
Kind of on what scale they are.
As far as the winner, I'm going to go with the Broncos.
Again, I think Joe and Love snaps.
Our Joe and Love starts are just a little bit too slow.
Chargers at Chiefs.
Another game we are allowed to pick.
I'm going to pick because it's not in Jack's pack.
And in this contest I have the Chiefs.
But I think it's going to be a dog fight.
Chargers are interesting.
Because the Chargers had a very emotional game last week against the Cowboys.
Tried to be the killer more revenge game.
It ended weird.
And so I just think that the Chargers are going to come out there incredibly focused.
They are going to pick out a Chiefs defense that can be had.
Although it's been pretty decently stout.
They can be had.
And I think they get an interception of two of our Fatima Homes as well.
But on the Chiefs side, the Chargers really have been unimpressive this year.
Now their offense has been unimpressive as far as the Chiefs is concerned.
It's not doing what it usually does.
It hasn't been its usual level since Tyree Hill left.
But it hasn't been anywhere in the area of normal ever since Airbnb left.
Excuse me.
Sorry.
I'm a little sick this week.
But I'm powering through for you guys.
But it hasn't been its true level since Airbnb left.
Whose offense coordinated now in Washington.
And so that's what's going on with Kansas City.
I do think Kansas City, like I said, wins this game.
I just think it's close.
I'm talking like 34-31.
30-27.
Something like that where it's a dogfighting end.
Not really whoever has the ball last wins.
But a situation where if Herbert has the ball down three with 150 left.
I'm nervous if I'm a Kansas City Chiefs fan base.
And then lastly, Dolphins at Eagles.
A game that is in our Jax pack.
So we will not pick it right now.
This is going to be an interesting game between two teams.
Kind of on opposite sides of the spectrum.
If you're the Eagles, you were riding high.
You were undefeated.
You had challenges, sure.
But you were getting through them one by one.
And then you lose Lane Johnson.
And then you lose the game.
And not only do you lose it.
You lose to Cleveland for the first time ever.
Not only do you lose to Cleveland for the first time ever.
You completely wet the bed there.
Jalen Hurts has his worst offensive performance.
Three inattentions.
And Cleveland had their backup quarterback.
Who two years ago was in the USFL, the XFL.
One of the FLs.
In the Spring League.
Earning MVP of the league.
And just getting a trial with the Panthers.
To see if he can make it at the NFL level.
So that's what the Eagles lost to.
Going for the Dolphins looked absolutely horrible.
For a quarter against the Carolina Panthers.
Who are, when listened to me, the worst team in the league.
They were absolutely distraught and awful.
The Dolphins were in that first half.
So bad so that a couple of the Dolphins I knew was incredibly quiet.
So after the Dolphins started charging back.
This game is in our Jax pack.
So we're not going to discuss it right now.
We're going to wait until we get to our Jax pack.
Which is coming up in just a couple of minutes.
But just some quick hitter news.
Grover Stewart has been, he was the Carolina Panthers.
Can't remember correctly right now.
Has been spending six games for a PED usage.
Aaron Rodgers before the game with the Jets.
Was throwing on the field with no crutches.
Moving and flexing that ankle.
Absolutely ridiculous.
Whatever alternative measure he's found seems to have worked.
And Julio Jones has joined the Philadelphia Eagles on a one year deal.
The former seven time Pro Bowler is trying to find a last ride home.
He's looking for somewhere he can still compete for a spot for reps.
And also compete for a title.
He thinks he's done that in Philadelphia.
But up next we're going to shift our NFL batting segment, Jax pack.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to jump into our NFL betting segment, Jax pack.
Last week unfortunately was another losing week for us.
As we went two and three.
Bringing our total to 14 and 16.
However we did nail our lock.
So our locks this year now four and two.
Again for those of you who are just joining us, our locks are our two unit bets.
So if you're traditionally a hundred dollar bettor, your lock would be.
And that's one unit for you.
Your lock is a two unit bet.
So it's $200.
If you're a ten dollar person, your lock is $20.
If you're a five dollar person, your lock is $10.
Whatever.
But a two unit bet is what you would normally gamble on the game.
So you went to your local casino, your local app, whatever.
They say I'm going to put 20 hours on game.
A game.
That's your unit.
So each of these individual five games are one unit bets.
Except for our lock which was a two unit bet.
Because again we're locking that in.
Pretty much guaranteeing that's going to hit.
For four and two so far in the season.
On that 14 and 16 overall.
I spoke about it before.
To be a professional gambler you want to hit consistently 55 to 56% of your bets.
And that's how you be a professional gambler.
Not parlays.
Parlays.
Not how you be a pro gambler.
You would take $500.
You have five different things you want to hit.
You would take $500 and you would want to hit on four of those things.
To make your money.
That's how you be a pro gambler people.
Or three of those things to be a pro gambler.
Like you're not going to hit parlays 56% of the time.
Go seven eight leg parlays 56% of the time and make your money.
It's not happening.
You want to go if you make 100 bets throughout the year.
You want to win 56% of them.
You'll be profitable.
You'll be a pro gambler.
Just that simple.
But anyway into the NFL betting segment.
Jack's pack or back on track to Jack's pack.
The first game which is our locker of the week is Patriots versus Bills.
Bills might have eight and a half take the Bills.
The New England Patriots are a mess.
I love my Patriots.
They're an absolute mess.
The Patriots have not scored 20 points all season.
I don't see a reason why they would Sunday.
I don't see a reason why they would score more than 13 on Sunday.
Which means I'm telling what's it really I'm saying the Bills.
Who's the fine digs already torches the pace when he sees them.
The Bills have to not score 22.
Or 20 have to score 21 or less.
I think it's safe bet for the Bills.
I think the Bills win the game pretty.
I think the Bills might win 27 to 10.
It's just one of the situations where the Patriots.
They're not even doing long drives to get field goals.
It's like three on a punt.
So I can envision a world where it's into the first quarter and it's 17-0.
And the game's over.
I just think that New England's an absolute mess.
They got Bill Belichick in cartoons.
Pull it on Kayla Williams' jersey.
Like come save us.
I mean it's just an absolute disaster in New England right now.
I think the Bills are going to take advantage of it.
Especially after a struggling offensive week.
The Josh Allen effect.
He's down one week.
That means he's up to next.
And so I have the Bills covering the 8-1 half as my lock of the week.
Bills over Patriots.
Lions.
Next game Lions plus three over the Ravens.
Take the Lions.
I think the Lions win the game all right.
I just think they're a better football team than the Baltimore right now.
I trust the quarterback a little bit more.
I trust the head coach a little bit more.
I trust the health a little bit more.
Even though they just lost a running back.
I trust their health.
Their quarterback and their head coach a little bit more than I do right now.
Baltimore's trio.
I trust their receivers a little bit more.
I do Baltimore receivers.
I just trust the Lions oddly.
More than I trust the Ravens right now.
I just think the Lions win the game all right.
So of course they easily cover the plus three.
Take the Lions.
Third game.
Dolphins plus two at Eagles.
Take the Dolphins.
I didn't understand this line here.
I really didn't.
If you had to say Dolphins minus two.
I'd have stayed away from it.
But if I would have blindly guessed it.
I would have said Dolphins minus three.
Three and a half.
Now you're probably wondering.
Man that's a big number.
That Eagles defense.
Yeah you're right.
The Eagles defense is spectacular.
But it's the University of Georgia's defense effectively.
What was the University of Georgia's defense weakness against 2019 LHC?
It wasn't the run game.
It was that you get sideways.
So when they got Waddle going one way.
Tyreek going another way.
And Chosen Anderson going somewhere.
And Mostert's running zone actually.
That's a lot of different speed elements.
Running at you all at one time.
The Eagles defense is kind of built to play in a phone booth.
Not really looking to go sideline to sideline for the most part.
I think the Dolphins could play the big guys of Philly off the field.
Make the goal a little smaller.
Once it goes smaller.
Now the zone's in action.
It could be one of those games where I just think the Dolphins just match up really well against the Eagles.
Again I think the Dolphins win straight up outright.
So of course they cover the plus two.
Take the Dolphins.
Commanders plus two at the Giants.
Take the Commanders.
Another line I didn't understand.
Again if it had been Commanders minus two.
I'd probably stay away from it because it would have fit.
But the Giants have offense and up to two written all over it.
Even with Daniel Jones.
The amount of pressure the Commanders are going to cause up front.
They're going to fold that makeshift offensive line into pieces.
I'm sure St. Croix is the focal point.
And with Daniel Jones having to run and throwing the run and stuff like that.
It's not really what he's built for.
He's built to run.
But he's not really built to throw and run accurately.
As he struggles throwing in the pocket accurately.
And so I just think that the Commanders cause way too much pressure up front.
Ron Rivera gets in his bag a little bit.
It creates all kind of havoc for the Giants.
Commanders plus two.
Take the Commanders.
And lastly Cleveland minus two at the Colts.
Now Jonathan Taylor is there for the Annapolis Colts.
He is.
He was there last week.
And I struggle to.
I struggle with the thought of the Colts keeping pace with Cleveland.
Now PJ Walker is nobody's mega star.
And I don't think he scores more than 20-24 points.
That means the Colts have to get at least 18.
18 to 22 points.
Depending on where it falls on the Colts' banner.
And I don't think they could do it.
Cleveland's defense is absolutely elite.
They're used to carrying bad offenses.
Now they're carrying actually a pretty solid offense.
With an injured quarterback.
I just think that Cleveland continues to put on their show defensively.
And take care of the Colts pretty easily.
By about eight or nine points.
Again which will easily cover the minus two.
So to run back through it.
You got Bills in our lock of the week.
Minus eight and a half over the Patriots.
Lions plus three over the Ravens.
Dolphins plus two over the Eagles.
Commanders plus two over the Giants.
And Cleveland minus two over the Colts.
Now up next we're going to shift to the WNBA.
It's like what was happening in the first place.
Welcome in to the WNBA finals portion of the Just In Time Sports Podcast.
We're going to jump right into the coverage.
We are running into game four.
Which goes down, watch how you guys hear this.
Tonight between the Las Vegas Aces and the New York Liberty.
Now it is currently a 2-1 series.
With the Aces being up at a best of five.
So the Aces are one win away.
Whether it be in game four or in game five.
Away from claiming their second WNBA title in as many seasons.
Going back to back for the first time since the Sparks in 2001.
Where as of course the Comets started off the league with four straight titles.
In Houston.
Bad ownership is the only reason that thing folded.
Because they were absolutely monstrous.
They had air swoops.
They had the rest of the crew there as well.
They won four straight titles.
The Houston Comets were untouchable.
And then Lisa Leslie Sparks went back to back in 2001.
Somewhere in there.
Which LA was king of basketball.
Because of course the Lakers three peed from 2000 to 2002.
Four straight finals of course going to 0-3.
But losing to the Pistons.
Absolutely great series so far.
The Aces dominated in Las Vegas.
Absolutely dominated in Vegas.
It was so bad I was concerned it was sweep.
I said man it would be a lady like sweep.
You know what I said.
Gentlemen sweep.
4-1.
Maybe a lady like sweep.
3-1.
I didn't think the Liberty had the ability to win more than one game.
Aja Wilson was making statements in the first two games.
Because the WNBA 2K cover athlete is Sabrina Inesco.
Who's on the Liberty.
And the WNBA MVP is Brianna Stewart.
Who's on the Liberty.
Aja Wilson came in second in the cover voting more than likely.
And she came in a very narrow second for the MVP.
So Aja was showing the entire basketball world.
I'm the best player in this league.
I'm the MVP.
I'm the face.
Like this league comes through me basically.
If you have a problem it comes through me.
Pretty much like Candace Parker did early in her Sparks career.
Maybe Maya Moore rose up and stuff like that.
But Candace was saying I'm the face of this league.
I'm the best player in this league.
It goes through me.
And ultimately Candace went about titles, injuries, poor roster management, etc.
Kind of prohibited her from winning as many titles as she should have.
But she's on this team now.
So I'm sure she's telling Aja what Lisa Leslie told her.
This is your league.
Go take it.
So Aja Wilson dominated the first two games.
And then it comes out to game three.
I figured the Liberty were going to win game three.
Getting swept was not in the cards.
Because this has been a brewing finals for months.
Since the offseason.
Whenever the Aces off their title add Candace Parker and fill in the rest of that bench.
And then the Liberty trade for Brianna Stewart.
I already have Sabrina in that school.
Trade for John Quill Jones.
They already brought in Stephanie Dolson.
That was going to be their roster.
They get Courtney Vander Sloot.
And you pretty much hire Sandy Brandello.
And you pretty much see this is who's going to go at it.
It's going to be Liberty and Aces.
I'm excited to see what the Mercury do.
Matt Ischmia is going to give the Mercury a $100 million private facility.
And he hired a Detroit Pistons assistant coach as their head coach.
He makes him the highest paid head coach in WMA history.
I wonder if Mark Davis ups the pay of Becky Hammond because of it.
But WMA teams are skirting around the rules about no private justice or Iconics.
But the Liberty have a great facility.
The Aces have a world class facility.
They're in the finals.
So now Matt Ischmia is going to invest in the Mercury the same way.
Anyway, so these two teams have been on a collision course since the offseason.
I knew a sweep wasn't in the cards.
It didn't.
Not that it didn't make sense.
Not that it's rigged.
It didn't make sense.
But the two U-2s happening.
Either side getting swept doesn't make sense.
So now they're going to go into game three.
The Liberty as expected come our role.
And then injuries start to happen for the Aces.
Now the Aces are down to starters.
Chelsea Gray is on a cart in a boot.
The other starter is out.
She's not playing the Mortar Series.
Chelsea Gray is out for game four.
It is very likely she's out at game five if necessary.
Which means the Aces big three are going to have to win them again.
Well, three of the big five.
Because at first it was Jackie Young, Kelsey Plumb, Chelsea Gray, Candice Parker, Asia Wilson.
That was your five in Vegas.
That was your star study five.
That was your five.
Candice Parker's out.
Chelsea Gray's out.
So that leaves Kelsey, Chelsea, and Asia.
Kelsey Plumb.
Everybody fell in love with her.
Literally fell in love with her last parade.
Jackie Young.
I'm sorry.
Jackie Young.
Not Chelsea.
Kelsey, Jackie, and Asia.
Jackie Young is the WNBA's highest-playing player per year.
Asia Wilson.
She believes she's the best player on the planet.
In order for the Aces to win this series, they're going to have to go in again.
And what I mean by them, those three are going to have to get off the bus with 65 points.
Asia put up 25.
Jackie pitching 20.
Kelsey pitching 20.
They're going to have to get off the bus with 65 points.
They're going to have to pray to the rest of their teammates to get 15 more.
And they play good enough defense to win a game 80-72.
I mean, that's how they're going to have to win this series because it sucks that injuries
stopped the true collision course because the Liberty are healthy.
The Aces are not down with Candice Parker, the other starter whose name was Kasey B,
and Chelsea Gray.
They're not three very pivotal players that are supposed to impact this series against
the New York Liberty.
So if the Aces don't win game four, they're going to have all the home quarter advantage
of the world in game five, but all the pressure is on them in game five to avoid getting cut
back off 2-0 in their home building.
The Liberty beat them in the Commissioner Cup.
The Liberty beat them three out of four times they played in the regular season.
The Liberty have had their number.
The Aces came out in the first two games and dominated led by Asia Wilson.
So we're very interested to see how game four goes because they're going to be in a war without
their point guard Chelsea Gray.
I believe the Aces ultimately do win the championship either they win it in game four.
I think Asia, again, Asia, Jackie, and Kelly should just say, look, one game, you got to
do this.
And they score 65, 70 points for the three of them.
They get the rest of teammates feeling up to 10, and they win an ugly 77-72 kind of game.
And they horse to the championship in Brooklyn before flying back to Vegas for all the party
in the world.
But up next, we're going to shift into Jack's hot take with a little big PENX energy.
Welcome back into the show for our final segment, our Jack's hot take, which is going to be
a little big PENX energy for standout Washington quarterback, Michael PENX Jr., the left-handed
assassin, the person whose name almost got Desmond Howard a lot of Twitter trouble for
like energy.
Tried to repeat RG3's famous line of big PENX energy, and it kind of sounded like the other
thing, which PENX sounds incredibly similar to something else.
And so it got Desmond Howard into a lot of fire on Twitter, aka X.
And so, anywho, Michael PENX Jr., the left-handed assassin, like I say, out of Washington,
went into war against Bo Nicks and the Oregon Ducks.
And outgun Bo Nicks, gun for gun, pretty easily.
Ultimately, Oregon kept it close, had a shot to win it at the buzzer, missed a field goal.
But to me, that did a couple of things.
To me, that secured Michael PENX's second quarterback off the board in the draft.
He's better than Drake Lee.
I don't think Shadour Chandler's coming out this year.
He's better than Bo Nicks.
We've seen it.
He's not better than Caleb Williams, although they'll have a chance to go at each other.
He's not better than Caleb Williams, but again, they'll have their shot to go at each other.
And it also secured Michael PENX Heisman.
Barring they play Caleb Williams and Caleb massively outplays PENX, which I don't see
happening, Michael PENX is delivering a Heisman trophy to the University of Washington.
Jayne Daniels has already lost the game for LSU, although he's absolutely rolling.
I think they'll lose another one.
Caleb Williams played absolutely god awful and got destroyed on national television by the other day.
Bo Nicks just got outplayed by Michael PENX.
Shadour Sanders isn't going to win no football games.
So that pretty much clears the map for Michael PENX Jr. to win Washington's first ever Heisman.
I want to say Jake Larkin won the Heisman, but that can't be true.
So to secure Washington Huskies Heisman campaign, he's currently the betting favorite.
I think he gets it done.
I think he has a steep road ahead of him, but I just think he gets it done.
Two in national TV games.
Everyone's falling head over heels for him now.
I think that he secures Washington's first Heisman, and he ends up being the second quarterback off the board,
hopefully to the New England Patriots.
But we will see about that.
But thank you for joining me this week.
My apologies on the voice.
I'm a little sick this week.
I'm alright though.
I'm on the back end of it.
Popping a bunch of DayQuil and NightQuil.
But I am on the back end of it, so I appreciate your thoughts.
And again, I'm alright.
So my voice is a little nasally because I'm a little sick.
It's alright.
But I appreciate you guys rocking with me over these last 50-51 minutes.
As always, this is your host, Justin Jackson.
We'll see you guys in a bit.
Bye.