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One of my favorite shows of the year.
We've been doing it for the past couple of years.
We do the prediction show now.
The past couple of years, I've taken my time.
And I've picked every single game of the NFL season.
That gets you your win totals, that gets you your divisions.
So on and so forth.
This year we're switching it up, right?
Because I will go through all that.
It's taking me like an hour or two to do all the games right.
And then put it into the thing right.
And put it into the playoffs and so on and so forth.
And who be what, when, why.
And get a symbolic, exact and all the other stuff.
We're scrapping it this year.
We're not doing that this year.
We're gonna do some of my favorite over-unders as far as win totals.
Our suit boilers actor, our awards prediction is gonna be in this topic.
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So our first segment in this A block is going to be our over, under season win totals.
Now this is something that obviously we cannot cash until later in the season.
You know, think, you know, week 16, 17 or 18.
Because either they have already passed the number that, you know,
is there is already passed the number or they are in math and math you can't reach the number.
So this is always a fun situation because it leaves room for error.
But it also doesn't hem you in.
So like people do like make playoff bets.
And it's like, ah, because if the NFC is, that's it, AFC is hot one year.
And Houston goes, wins 10 games and they're over an hour and a half.
And they missed the playoffs.
You would have hit the over, but you lose your missed playoff bet.
You lose your make playoff bet rather.
So making the playoffs is always one of those things where it's like, ah,
I got to have a lot of confidence in that team making the playoffs.
It's got to be like a Kansas City.
It's got to be like, oh man, I'm trying to think who's going to own that division.
Pretty much Kansas City is the only team I can think of off the top of my head that's going to run.
It's Air France.
You know, I think it's going to just dominate the division.
That's when you put the team to make the playoffs.
But if it's one of those like Chicago with eight and a half wins, nine wins might get you in the NFC,
but it's not a guarantee.
Right. So who knows?
Right. So I kind of stay away from making from miss made playoffs.
I stay away from season long player props because I, for instance,
Justin Jefferson had a hundred yards a game last year and he was severely under
and he missed like six weeks with injury.
So I stay away from player props.
Plus those you have to shop around because there is such a big swing in the odds
for different sports books for player props.
There is like point spreads, wins over unders.
Those are usually fairly consistent within, you know, a few points of each other,
within a little juice of each other.
But player props can be massive swings, especially season long player props.
I'm telling you, stay away from those.
However, I'm going to give you five win totals that I love in the over unders this year.
Now, again, this is brought to you.
These are fan do odd.
So we're going to keep this sheet.
We're going to keep this episode, of course.
We're going to come back to this at the end of the season and find out how we did.
But all of these bets will be considered a single unit bet.
Now, what's a single unit bet?
A single unit bet is if you go, let's say that you're, let's say that you gamble
and you say, I'm going to bet $10 on this game.
That's a unit for you.
However, somebody of a higher financial status may say, I'm going to bet $1,000 on this game.
That's a unit for them.
The unit is about what you are comfortable in your wrist.
What is your stereotypical bet?
So let's say you're a hundred dollar better.
Let's say I'm going to bet $100 on this game.
A half unit bet for you would be $50.
A quarter unit bet would be $25.
However, a unit bet would be a hundred.
A two unit bet would be 200.
A three unit bet would be 300.
So on and so forth.
So for our over, under, win totals, we will always do them as single unit bets.
So again, if you're a $10 better, you can put $10 on each one of these lines.
If you're a hundred dollar better, a hundred dollar each one of these bets.
If you're a thousand dollar better, you understand, right?
And so again, these are single unit bets.
Our soup bowl exacta, considering the odds are so long, we'd do that a quarter unit bet.
Our wards also are quarter unit bets.
And then when we go to Jax packs, we go to Jax pack.
Those are single unit bets.
So again, over under, single unit.
Soup bowl exacta, quarter unit.
Awards, quarter unit.
Jax pack are four unit bets.
So no half unit bets in this segment.
You see the fools are quarters.
But anyway, let's get right into it.
So again, we're jumping into our over, under season totals.
Now again, this is how many, how many wins each, how many games each team will win this season.
I only picked five.
As you guys know, the Jax pack is five as well.
But I only picked five and I love these five.
So our very first one is the Chicago Bears over eight and a half, which is minus 130.
So for those who are not sure what the minus plus or minus means, it's how much money you have to lay down to earn a hundred dollars.
So in order for this to hit, in order for this to give you a hundred dollars of new money, you'd have to put a hundred and thirty dollars in.
And so that is how much money you have to do.
It is juiced positively.
So the Bears again, over eight and a half.
I love that win total this year.
I think the Bears are going to be a very good team.
I think Caleb Williams is substantially better than Justin Fields.
I like what Matt Eberfluss is doing on the coaching staff.
The new GM, I believe, is Ryan Pace.
He's doing a hell of a job as far as beginning to some of this roster.
This team has DJ Moore.
This team wouldn't got Kenan Allen.
This team has a good tight end.
They are solidifying the defense.
Like the Chicago Bears is a very good roster.
And we are in a situation of being in a division where there is no super talented team.
I love the Lions this season.
But let's be honest, it's not the Green Bay Packers of old where you knew everybody was fighting for second because of Aaron Rodgers.
It's not the AFC East of old where everybody was fighting with second because of Brady and Belichick.
It's not even the NFC West where it was like, good God, like you're going to have to battle the Rams and the Seahawks to even breathe for third.
Like it's not that it's the Lions are good, but the Lions can be horrible.
The Packers just paid Jordan Love and exorbitant amount of money.
And so they could be rough as well.
Like the NFC North is not a super, super talented division.
And it's a good division, but there's no superstar team in it.
There is no like AFC West with Kansas City right now.
You're playing for second.
Like Patrick Holmes is in that division.
You're playing for second.
So there's no one like that sitting around that division.
So I think Chicago over eight and a half is a great bet.
Houston over nine and a half minus 158 on the odds.
Slam this bet.
I love this bet.
You took a team that first year head coach, first year quarterback was kind of going through some things, kind of going through an adjustment period.
They come out and they looked great.
They ended up winning a playoff game, I believe.
And now you add in the Stefan Diggs.
You bring back your Tankdale.
This whole team and everything goes through a real all season together.
You add in the talent.
Like I said, superstar talent receiver in Stefan Diggs.
You add in a run game.
Like you are looking at a much better, improved team.
And then your division isn't the world beaters.
The coach are not very good.
The Jaguars are very inconsistent.
And then you're the Texans.
And then the other team, the AFC South is the Tennessee Titans.
You can legitimately play your division and go five and one.
You can win both games over the Colts and the Titans and split with the Jaguars.
They usually have to win five other games and your other 11.
Very easily doable.
The Houston Texans over nine and a half hammer that bet.
The Saints under seven and a half plus 100 on the odds hammer that bet.
Look, Derek Carr is a disaster.
And it's not even a Derek Carr problem.
He is not good enough to have a bad defensive head coach as his head coach and be successful.
And Derek Carr and Dennis Allen, they were together in Las Vegas.
Dennis Allen was such a great head coach.
He ended up being fired with that combination.
And before, now they're trying that combination again.
Because both men are older with a lot more experience of losing.
Dennis Allen is just not a good head coach.
He's not an NFL head coach.
I don't know if he's a college head coach.
I don't know if that's his niche and he's just tooling away any NFLs.
One of those like I'm here, I'm going to make this work moments.
But he is not from what we've seen a NFL head coach, especially long term, especially trying to be successful.
We've just never seen it.
We've seen him struggle in a lot of different areas.
We've seen his defense has always been good.
He's been a coordinator.
However, we have not seen him be a successful head coach.
The offensive personnel on this team is rough.
They're saying they're in now.
They do have Kubiak as the OC now.
So maybe that kind of helps some of the offense move along.
But I'm just looking at that bet at under seven and a half just stands out to me for New Orleans.
Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Steelers over eight and a half.
Odds are plus 136.
Hammer this bet in Pittsburgh.
Which means in order for this bet to not hit, Mike Tomlinson will have to have his first losing season.
I don't think that's the case.
Now, people talk about the quarterback play.
Everybody talks about Russell Wilson and Justin Fields with the potential of the quarterback play.
What I say is Kenny Pickett got nine.
They're better than the Kenny Pickett.
It was those times when he was like the Mason Rudolph of the world.
No, seeing they end up going at least eight and eight, nine and seven.
If he can do it with those guys, he can do it with Russell Wilson and or Justin Fields.
I strongly believe in that.
I strongly believe that he ultimately does win nine games this year and keep the streak alive.
And I think the Pittsburgh Steelers go nine and eight actually and move on.
This is nine and a half.
I probably stay away from it.
But eight and a half, I believe Pittsburgh wins nine plus.
And so they move on, hammer the Pittsburgh Steelers over eight and a half.
And then our final over under win total for the season is Jets under nine and a half plus one thirty two.
Look, I know the name recognition on the Jets is palpable.
It's sauce Gardner, Aaron Rodgers, Quinn Williams, Garrett Wilson, Breeze Hall.
Oh, so I'm back in the case name, but they they have star power everywhere.
And despite all that, they're going to struggle this season.
Aaron Rodgers basically is not playing a competitive football game in two seasons
because he played four snaps in the regular season last year before his Achilles pops on him.
So he has not played a football game in basically two years.
I I would like to commend the New York Jets because they had an opportunity out of Aaron Rodgers and they took it.
Bar none, cost to the win.
We're going to take it.
And so definitely kudos to the Jets.
However, it just doesn't work all together.
I don't know if there's a disconnect, whether it's clearly the difference in office and defense.
I don't know if it's a disconnect between the quarterback and the head coach,
but it is clearly something off with those two sides.
And therefore, the Jets as a whole to me are going to suffer.
And also, it's just the Jets.
Right. So under nine and a half hammer it for plus one thirty two.
So again, let's run through them one more time.
The Chicago Bears over eight and a half Houston Texans over nine and a half Saints under seven and a half Pittsburgh over eight and a half Jets under nine and a half.
So again, that are my season long over under win totals.
Now we're going to move into the awards.
So I won't rattle off.
OK, I'll probably rattle the names off.
I won't necessarily get too deep into them, but I'll rattle the name off.
And then after that, we'll have our Super Bowl exacta.
But awards.
So all these have come with plus odds.
And the reason why is it's kind of a long shot to pick a season long award.
September 2nd.
I first gave the name start to Thursday night.
So it's going again.
It's kind of hard to pick.
You know, it's rather difficult to do an exacta.
Awards pick, you know, it's four months out from the season.
We got so often this season.
But first MVP, I have Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow.
It comes with plus one thousand odds.
So again, you get great odds on it.
But I have MVP being Joe Burrow, offense rookie of the year with I believe my lowest odds on anything.
It's Caleb Williams plus 120.
Again, he's the rookie quarterback for the Chicago Bears.
Almost when Jane Daniels here, I just don't think the commanders are going to win enough games.
And if Williams does truly go, you know, nine and nine and eight, ten and seven,
it's going to be hard to keep him away from offensive rookie of the year.
Offensive player of the year.
I got San Francisco 49ers running back.
Christian McCaffrey, the madden curse.
He's going to break it.
I know we were about the madden curse.
I who protects me about, you know, fantasy.
Do you pick McCaffrey because of the madden curse?
I just believe in him this year.
I believe in high things, care of his body.
I don't think I think by present, it's not to come right down to earth even more.
So in order for this year to be successful, they're going to have to lean on Christian McCaffrey.
So I've got him as your offensive player of the year.
Defensive player of the year.
Aiden Hutchinson, the defensive end from the Detroit Lions.
I think that has a chance to be a really good defense,
but I think Hutch and that pass runs are going to have to lean spearheaded.
It's either he spearheads it all the way to a defensive player of the year award.
Defensive rookie of the year.
I have Jared verse from the Los Angeles Rams, I believe.
Let's see a charger.
But he's one of the other.
He went to Florida State, very good pass rusher.
Definitely a kid that's going to cause a lot of havoc.
Hutchinson's odds is plus 1,400.
Jared verse's odds is plus 700.
Again, this is for the Los Angeles Rams edge rusher to be a defensive rookie of the year.
Comeback player of the year.
I have Kirk Cousins.
I almost went Joe Burrow here, but I don't think you can win.
I'm sorry, Adrian Peterson and Peyton Manning set the precedent of not winning
comeback player of the year and they didn't repeat in the same year.
So because I have Burrow winning the MVP,
I've got Kirk Cousins winning the comeback player of the year at plus 430 odds.
Coming off his injury, binging move, changing cities.
I already got players kind of out on him.
And so he wins comeback player of the year.
And then coach of the year, which would be Matt Iroflou.
He has plus 1,000 odds to be coach of the year.
And again, this is kind of leaning back on that Chicago Bear thing.
If they truly do win 10 games, maybe even 11 games,
it's going to be hard to keep Kayla Williams off rookie of the year
and Iroflou off coach of the year.
And lastly, but certainly not leads, the Super Bowl exacta,
which is my pick of who makes the Super Bowl and who wins it.
And my pick is the Cincinnati Bengals defeat the Detroit Lions.
The odds on that happening is plus 9,000.
So that is my Super Bowl exacta.
Again, Bengals over Lions.
But up next, we will be shifting to our next segment,
which is the Jacks pack, which is for week one.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to talk about our Jacks hot pack.
Our Jacks pack. Sorry.
I confused.
I combined Jacks hot taking Jacks pack, but this is our Jacks pack segment.
Where we pick five games every week based on the point spread.
And we'll keep tracking them throughout the season.
And then we'll see how we did at the end.
So again, if we, if you remember our first segment, we had our win.
Totals were a full unit bet.
Our Super Bowl exacta was a quarter unit bet.
I'm actually going to change our wards to half unit bets,
but the Jacks pack are definitely full unit bets.
Every week.
Now, depending on the juice and so on and so forth, you know,
depending on how close we are to 500, you may end up winning money,
but you be below 500 or lose winning be above 500,
depending on how it's juiced.
But let's get right down into it.
Our first game, those pesky bears, those bears I seem to love so much.
Bears minus four and a half over Tennessee.
Take the bears.
Look, Tennessee, I don't even know what they're doing right now
on the offense side of the ball.
They traded Derrick Henry.
Or they let Derrick Henry walk rather.
I don't know what they're doing at receiver.
They say I have the Andre Hopkins, but okay.
I don't know what they're doing at quarterback.
Their offensive line seems to be doing stuff.
Their defense is mid.
I just don't like what's going on in Tennessee at all.
And Tennessee's on the road in Chicago.
It's Kayla Williams' first game.
In front of the fans, in front of a regular season crowd.
With the regular season jitters, it's a full game for him.
But I just think that they're going to dominate Tennessee physically.
They're going to win this game 27-13, 27-16.
And the Bears easily cover the four and a half against the Tennessee Titans.
My second favorite bet of the week, or my second bet rather of the week,
is Atlanta Falcons minus three against Pittsburgh.
Take the Falcons.
Now this is a game of similarly talented teams.
And I think home field would have decided this either way.
Because you get three points for home field.
So I think the home field would have decided this either way.
With the Falcons, I do think they're a little bit better than Pittsburgh.
I think Kirk Cousins at this stage and age is a little bit better than Russell Wilson.
I think at this stage and age, the receiver can core splits.
I think there's a better running back tandem in Atlanta than there is in Pittsburgh.
And I definitely think that the defensive talent is better than Atlanta.
And I think early talent's going to win games that maybe Scheme and coaching will later.
But I've got Atlanta winning this game 24-20.
And so they will barely cover the three points spread.
However, they do cover it 24-20.
The Minnesota Vikings minus one and a half over the Giants hammer the Vikings.
Even though they're on the road, even though it's Sam Donahue and IJJ McCarthy, it doesn't matter.
The New York Giants are going to be fighting or in the Shadoura Sanders race.
In order to be in the Shadoura Sanders race, you got to lose a lot of football games.
And I am hammering the Minnesota Vikings here.
I just think that coaching is a major advantage in this game.
Not that Brian Dable is a bad coach. Brian Dable is actually a great coach.
I just think that he is at a personnel disadvantage having Daniel Jones.
He's also at a coaching staff disadvantage because he and Brian Flores can battle out to a draw.
I just think the advantage of the Minnesota Vikings head coach, whose name I cannot think of right now.
I do apologize to him at this current time.
I just think that he is such an advantage over the New York Giants.
Kevin O'Connell. Kevin O'Connell is his name.
I think you see he's such an advantage over the New York Giants defensive coordinator.
As they are installing a new DC because of course the last DC, Wink Martindale,
got into it with Brian Dable and ultimately left.
So Shane Bowen is in his first year as the New York Giants DC.
He was previously the Tennessee Titans DC for the last three years.
Tennessee has had alright defense. There's nothing crazy.
It's I think we're at a talent deficit the way that the Giants are.
Mixing that with a coaching staff that's looking to prove something between Kevin O'Connell and Brian Flores.
I just think they keep the ball out of Sam Donald's hands in bad spots.
They feed Justin Jefferson in good spots and they win this game.
They control it all the way through 20 to 13 Vikings win.
49ers. Our fourth game. 49ers minus three and a half over the Jets on Monday Night Football.
It's in San Fran.
I have the Niners winning pretty comfortably in this game.
And so minus three and a half feels good against the Jets.
The Niners have one of the best rosters in football.
They had a snafu. They had an incident earlier with this offseason with Brandon Iuke.
It is settled. Now they still are dealing with the Trent Williams case.
Now Trent Williams may miss games. Trent Williams begins to miss games.
This could change how this offense looks of course. Trent Williams is if not the best tackle.
He's easily one of the best left tackles in the game.
So if he is not there that puts an element of uncertainty behind Brock Purdy.
Who knows what that starts to happen.
It also takes away a dominant lineman from you.
So if he misses the game this could change a little bit.
But assuming he plays the Niners should crush the Jets.
I think Hufanga is back or he's close to being back.
I just don't believe in the Jets offensively.
I don't believe Ramasala is a head coach.
One thing I don't want to mess with the Niners early.
The Niners at home. And then I ask for something to prove.
And right now all three of those things are true.
And so I think they roll over the Jets 30 to 17.
And then lastly there's on the Cardinals on the road plus five and a half against the Bills.
And I think the Cardinals look I think the Bills are going to have struggles on offense.
And you're at a point in the season where weather wise you're not a major advantage being a Buffalo.
It's not like it's you know November December and we're shoveling out piles and piles of snow off a snowbank.
We're in a pretty fairly calm part of the year.
Where even if it's precipitation it's like 60 65 degree rain.
So there's no real advantage as far as weather.
And then you're looking at again the fact that it's week one.
And then you're also adding in the fact that the Bills are trying to work in receivers.
Again there's no Stefan Diggs in there for the first time in Josh Allen's real career.
There's no Stefan Diggs there.
You're looking at they lost Gabe Davis as well.
So they're working in new receivers.
New scheme.
You know they're trying to get stuff together trying to figure it out.
And I think Arizona year two of the system in that situation.
They've been adding talent to Kyler.
They got more of a Hayes Jr.
They may not win the game all right.
But this is going to be a kicker field going in to win it kind of situation.
But I think the Bills still do win the game all right.
However I got Arizona fighting them tooth and nail until the very end.
So just to recap it's Bears minus four and a half over the Titans.
Falcons minus three over Pittsburgh.
Minnesota minus one and a half over the Giants.
Niners minus three and a half over the Jets.
And Cardinals plus five and a half over the Bills.
But up next we're going to shift to the WNBA and talk about what's going down there.
Welcome back into the show.
Now we're moving away from the NFL.
We're going to go into the WNBA as they are barreling towards their playoffs.
We should be in the WNBA playoffs in the next couple of weeks.
We'll be talking about matchups, who plays what, my predictions.
Excuse me all that good stuff as we get closer to the playoffs.
But as of now we're going to talk about what is happening around the league.
As we've done the past couple of weeks we're going to start off with the standings.
Number one seed is the New York Liberty.
Baller by the Connecticut Sun.
Two and a half back from them.
Minnesota Lynx a half game back from them.
And then there's a gap.
The Las Vegas Aces are currently holding down fourth.
Three and a half games back from the Lynx.
The Storm are one game back from the Aces.
Then there's another gap.
Then the Fever for the first time in five years or over 500.
They are two and a half games back from the Storm.
The Mercury are a game back from them.
Then there's another gap.
With the Chicago Sky currently via tiebreaker.
Holding down the eighth position.
Four and a half back from the Mercury.
Now the reason why I say via tiebreaker is the Atlanta Dream are currently tied with the Chicago Sky based on the record.
But the Sky currently have the tiebreaker.
Now the Sky had a sizable league in the playoffs.
They are on all the teams out of the playoffs.
They have lost six straight.
They have won two of their last ten.
The Olympic break probably was the worst thing for them.
Indiana came out of the Olympic break firing.
The Sky came out of the Olympic break squandering.
And they showed in the standings.
But anyway.
The Washington Mystics are two games back from the Dream and Sky.
The Dallas Wings are also two games back from the Dream and Sky.
And the Los Angeles Sparks are four games back from the Dream and the Sky.
So huge, huge looking at the standings.
If it ends right now, the season ended today.
We'd have Liberty Sky first round.
We'd have Sun Mercury first round.
We'd have Lynx Fever first round.
We'd have Aces Storm first round.
A whole lot of intriguing first round matchups.
With the WNBA talent wise being so close.
I think any of the top five could win the championship.
You know preseason I had the Asians running away and hiding with it.
Then Chelsea Gray came in hobbling.
We had Kelsey Plumb dealing with what she had to deal with in the offseason.
It's hard to win the championship.
It's really, really hard to win two in a row.
It's damn impossible to win three in a row.
And so it's so much happening.
Then it popped up you had the D'Arca Hanby stuff.
Happened with the Aces.
So it was a lot of different things going on with Vegas this season.
If I had to pick right now, I'd still pick them to win the WNBA title.
All of that notwithstanding.
I'd still pick them to host their third consecutive trophy.
But it's not nearly the shoe end that I had it entering the season.
Because again right now like I was saying any of the top five in my opinion can win the title.
Which is the New York Liberty.
Who pretty much would have won the title the past couple of years if it wasn't for the Aces.
The Connecticut Sun.
Who would have had a real shot at the title if it wasn't for the Aces.
The Minnesota Lynx who won the Commissions Cup.
The Las Vegas Aces of course who just signed the Fendi match champion.
And the big three in Seattle.
With Skyler Dickensmith, Nneka, Goumakai and Jewel Lloyd.
Amongst others in Seattle.
So I think any of those six can win the title.
I think the Fever can make a bunch of noise.
I think the Mercury could win a round.
I think if Diana Taurasi and Khalia Copper and Brittany Griner have just one little Syria.
I think they could win a round.
I think Chicago if they make it get swept.
I think Washington if they make it get swept.
And Atlanta.
I think whoever plays the Liberty is going to be gone in a sweep.
I think Indiana could take a game off Minnesota.
One of those Katelyn Clark hits seven threes.
Kelsey Mitchell gets you four five threes.
Aliyah Boston gets you 18 efficient around the rim.
And there's an off night in Minnesota.
I think that the Fever could get you a game.
So that's kind of how I'm looking at the standings.
I'm excited for this playoffs.
You know it's going to be a real playoff.
I don't know how it's going to work with the DirecTV stuff.
My main service, my main cable provider is DirecTV.
So considering I think the WNBA is going to be on ESPN networks.
I'm not sure how that's going to work.
But hopefully it gets rectified.
Like for instance tonight I can't watch the game tonight.
The Florida State Boston College game.
That's an ESPN game.
And that has nothing to do with the WNBA but that just hit me.
A lot of these games that are coming down the stretch are going to be ESPN games.
And I think the WNBA has the ESPN contract.
That's going to make my playoff watching interesting.
But I'll find a way to watch it.
Don't worry people.
If you want to send me some links or helps let me know.
But I will find a way to watch it for sure.
But anyway it's going to be very interesting playoffs.
There is a slew and I do mean an absolute slew of interesting storylines and matchups
in this WNBA playoff.
And I cannot wait for it.
But anyway so we're going to start off with our quick hitters for the WNBA.
We're going to start off with Asia Wilson and the MVP look.
I know and I'm recording this on Monday around 5ish.
I know that Stephen A Smith got on the airwaves and stated that
Hey, Katelyn Clark is going to be in the Rookie of the Year and she's probably the MVP discussion.
That's the part I had a problem with.
I'll get to the Rookie of the Year in a second.
The MVP discussion part is what I had a problem with.
There is no discussion.
Well, no, okay, no, that's not true.
That's not true.
There is discussion.
It's whether Asia Wilson wins unanimously or not.
That's the only discussion.
I'm allowing anyone to have Asia was currently averaging 27 and a half 12 rebounds,
2.4 assists, two steals and effectively three blocks a game on 53 percent shooting,
including 86 percent from the free throw line.
She's doing 34 minutes a night.
Remember the WNBA has 40 minute games.
She's in there for minutes tonight.
Let's just go to her stats.
And I want to pull up.
Hold on one second.
This is on me.
I should have had this queued up.
And we talked about it on the video show last week where she's ranking as far as
throughout the league this season.
All right, so Asia Wilson is number one in points per game at 27 and a half.
The nearest person to her is Enrique Dumboale at 22.7.
She's not going to be on the search threes.
Asia Wilson is second in rebounding behind Angel Reese at 13.1.
However, Asia Wilson is two full rebounds clear of third and of Derek Ahamby and
Nafisa Carrier who are both tied in third.
Asia Wilson has 2.7 blocks.
She's a clear half block above Easy Mag Beggar of the Seattle Storm.
I apologize for that pronunciation.
Asia Wilson is tied for third in steals with Nafisa Carrier.
She's 0.1 steals behind Nneka Gumike and 0.5 steals behind Enrique Dumboale for the
steal advantage.
So she is number one in scoring, number two in rebounding, number one in blocks,
and number four in steals.
It's not a conversation of who the MVP is.
It's whether Asia Wilson runs away and hides with it unanimously.
There's no conversation.
So when he says, she's going to be an MVP conversation, there is no conversation.
There's a conversation of who's going to ultimately finish second, third, fourth,
and fifth.
But as far as who's going to win it, we're not having that discussion.
I refuse to have that discussion.
It's Asia Wilson, and it's not even close.
She's going to be an MVP.
She came in on the tear.
She came in on an angry tear from not winning the MVP last year.
And so she will run out to prove, I'm better than all y'all.
And she went out without a shadow of a doubt, and she proved it this season.
So kudos to Asia Wilson for what she is doing on the court this season.
Points had to be proved.
She proved it.
She's still proving it as we speak.
I mean, she is just the best player of the WNBA.
It's actually wild.
It's actually wild that if I told you who's the best player of the WNBA,
you say Asia Wilson.
If I told you who's second, you'd probably say Breanna Stewart.
But the gap between Asia Wilson and Breanna Stewart is massive.
We saw that in the Olympics.
Team USA had, in the Olympics, 12 of the best 15 players from what I saw.
Even Meesaman is probably better than Diana Taurasi at this point.
Gabby Williams is probably better than Diana Taurasi at this point.
And there's one more player, I can't think of her name,
but she's probably better than Diana Taurasi at this point.
Other than that, everybody on Team USA was better than everybody else.
The Team USA ladies had one close game,
and that's when Asia Wilson got beat up by France and didn't call a foul,
and she had a rough night.
That's it.
She was that much of a tip.
Now think about it.
11 of the 12 players are still better than everybody else on France
but Gabby Williams.
And Asia had an off night, so the whole team was off.
Anytime they got stuck, Asia went off.
She was the best player for Team USA.
It wasn't close, and she easily proved who she is, what she is,
which is the best player on the planet.
Like I said, this gap is enormous.
This is Shaq 2000, 2001.
This is LeBron 2016.
This is Michael Jordan 1990, 1991.
The gap between who's first and everybody else is astronomical.
This is Patrick Mahomes today.
This is Wayne Gretzky in his prime.
There is no second.
She's so far won.
She's so A1.
There is no second.
There is no discussion.
She's the MVP.
Like I said, it's a matter of whether it's unanimous or not.
But, however, speaking of those rookies, speaking of Kaylin Clark,
speaking of Angel Reese, they are setting league records as rookies.
Now, we spoke about it before how this rookie class has such momentum
coming in from the college game, and they needed to take advantage of that
by being good.
I didn't say they had to be world beaters by being good.
If they had marginal improvement on both teams, they put up some stats,
they set a rookie record or two, perfect, they done their job.
And they had exciting play. Angel had a big block maybe in the end,
one high lay, Kaylin had a couple of those bomb threes,
but overall played like rookies.
Both Kaylin Clark and Angel Reese are top 25 players in the WNBA right now.
Why can you say that?
Angel Reese is the best rebounder in WNBA history.
Think I'm lying?
She just broke the rebounding record.
For a single season rebounding in a season from Sylvia Files,
she broke it with about six, seven games to spare,
and there's a legitimate chance she goes over 500.
The previous record was full four.
She's the double-double queen in a single season,
so she's going to near, she's going to take that over.
She's coming up for the 20-10 crown.
Like, what she's doing is astronomical.
Could she be more efficient? Yes.
And I think that's due to the fact that she hasn't learned the kickout yet.
She's not trusting the kickouts.
She gets through the round and she's just going up.
Because in the college game, she was getting a lot of those foul calls.
In the W, she's not getting it.
She hasn't adjusted to the fact that I'm not going to get that call,
or I'm not just bigger and stronger than the other ladies on the court.
But even if you do hit me, it's all good.
I'm going through it anyway.
So she hasn't adjusted to that.
So her field goal percentage is pool trash.
However, her effort is undeniable.
Even if you take out rebounding her own misses,
she's still the best rebounder in the game.
I mean, what she is doing is historic.
We've never seen it, right?
Conversely, Kaitlyn Clark's on the other side.
She has the most three-pointers made in the season by a rookie.
She is coming for the assist crown.
She's also putting up historic numbers that we've never seen in the W as well.
And her team improvement is massive.
I mean, they were the number one pick for a reason.
Now this is the first time it's 2018, they've been over 500.
Is it all Kaitlyn Clark? No.
They have Nellisa Smith. They have Kelsey Mitchell.
They have Aliyah Boston.
But is that doing a large part to Kaitlyn Clark? Absolutely.
So kudos to her. Congratulations to her.
As her team is going to be firmly in the playoffs,
Angel Reyes is still fighting for trying to get the sky in.
And the sky did no favors by trading away their best shooter,
Emory and Amabry, for a point guard that they obviously didn't need that much.
I think her and Camila Cadoso are going to be dominant next year.
I think they're going to get them a wing in the draft,
someone who can score the ball.
And that would be interesting to watch in the college season to find out who that wing would be.
But they're going to need somebody, they're going to need a wing to score the ball.
This is a Juju Watkins draft. That would be perfect.
Somebody that I can come in and get a bucket.
Kennedy Carter is a bucket, but she's kind of small.
They need a wing that can do that.
They got a point guard, they got Kennedy Carter.
So now they need to get a wing to go with Angel Reyes and Camila Cadoso.
And then they can go from there.
But I think that the Rookie of the Year race is over.
I think it's Kailyn Clarks.
I fought a lot for co-Rookie of the Year.
And I still, it wouldn't upset me if there's co-Rookie of the Year.
Because of the league-wide historic stuff that Angel Reyes is doing,
it would not upset me if it is co-Rookie of the Year.
But I think it is Kailyn Clarks' full-blown Rookie of the Year to lose at this point.
And I don't see a path where she would lose it.
Up next, we're going to talk about Jack's hot take,
which is a discussion of college football is back.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to talk about college football being back.
I'm going to watch it, guys.
If you help me watch it, shout out my brother.
But Florida State and Boston College is wrapping up week one as we speak.
As the Seminoles just spiked the burning arrow into the field, we are back.
College football is officially wrapping up week one.
And it was highlighted last night, of course, by LSU-USC.
And I'm a huge LSU fan.
I probably talk about LSU every single week.
I'm a huge LSU fan.
Last night was frustrating.
And Brian Kelly beating the table and making the water bottle jump
was very appropriate to how all of LSU pretty much felt.
You know, and the SEC had a frustrating weekend in general.
Texas had him lose to the Reims.
Vandy won.
Shout out Vandy.
You know, all those kind of showcase games for the SEC was four of them.
We went one and three.
Oh, Florida gets dog walked by Miami.
Shout out Coach Guidry.
Worked under him at Southeastern.
Shout out him.
And then LSU loses a heartbreaker to USC.
LSU controlled the game most of the game.
At no point in that game could you have told me that LSU was going to lose it.
I wouldn't have believed you.
We controlled the run game.
We ran the ball better.
USC had a couple of big pop plays with Zachariah Branson coming up there to speed,
but there was nothing that threatened us.
It was one of those, like, you kept waiting on the offense.
And then you kept waiting on the offense.
And at a certain point you realize the offense is never going to come.
So that was incredibly frustrating to be kind.
You're just sitting there waiting on the offense and waiting on the offense and waiting on the offense.
And again, the offense never came.
So that was incredibly frustrating.
And it was a game that for the fifth straight time LSU lost, which was a season opener.
Two Florida State games.
I mean, the LSU had lost season.
Oh, geez.
LSU has not won a season opener since 2019.
Again, to say it's frustrating would be kind.
And it is something that I think that LSU has to clean up.
Next year they go to Clemson.
It's not even a neutral side situation.
They go to Clemson next year.
And Clemson's got their own issues.
They got absolutely punched in the face by Georgia.
You guys realize that.
People were not giving Georgia, people were not giving the SEC credit for Georgia.
Because it was my own in the four showcase games, LSU won three with only Vandy winning.
Like Georgia won.
Georgia dog walked Clemson, especially in that second half.
But, you know, Clemson's going through their own problems.
I think Dabbo Sweeney, the game was passed him by.
He doesn't believe in I.L.
He doesn't believe in the transfer portal.
I don't know how he expects to win football games.
That's pretty much the culture of today's college football, of college sports, especially at the major level.
The transfer portal and the I.L.
I'm not sure how he expects to win otherwise.
But I'm sure he has a plan.
I'm sure he has some sort of goal, I guess.
He wants to keep recruiting freshmen.
I don't know.
But clearly the game is passing him by.
I think his run at Clemson's over.
But back to LSU, it was just a frustrating game.
The defense with Blake Baker as the new coordinator played incredibly well.
They held a Lincoln-Riley offense to 27 total, but truly, truly, in my opinion, it was 20 points when it mattered.
I mean, huge defensive performance.
I mean, we had this kind of defense last year.
LSU's probably the reigning national champion with the offense they had last year.
So that was an encouraging sign.
Frustrating to start off 0-1.
Now, they've got three layups before they play Ole Miss.
So that'll be 3-1, probably number 17, 18 in the country when they play Ole Miss.
But again, a frustrating game all the way around.
Missing Chris Hilton was important because the deep threat wasn't there.
But again, LSU should have been able to physically move USC.
John Emory had the most success running the ball.
Shout out to him.
He had the most success running the ball.
Not having a quarterback run threat was huge, especially in short yards where instead of it being kind of a zone read, it was traditional zone.
And USC just pinched down on it, which is something that we're going to see a lot of people do to LSU this season.
But kudos to USC on a hard far win.
That would have been a hot seat kind of game if Lincoln-Riley lost it.
Kind of wondering, are they ever going to compete?
Especially because they go into the Big Ten this year.
You know, they have games at Ann Arbor.
They have some big sight games this year in the Big Ten.
So they're going to have to prove themselves when they get there.
But all in all, week one is usually a quiet week.
There's a few showcase style games in week one and two.
And then pretty much everybody takes week three and four off, as I call it.
They schedule Panera Bread State, Western, Southern Tech.
They just start scheduling people to kind of ease their way, especially if conference comes early.
These bigger conferences with nine conference games, they kind of ease their way into conference with an easier win.
Kind of a clean up kind of game.
And then they go into conference play.
But we'll be back to touch on that for sure.
But that is all I have for today.
I hope you guys have a great rest of your day.
I hope you guys have a great rest of your week.
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