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Welcome into season five, episode 29 of the Justin Time Sports podcast.
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But let's jump right into NFL week 10.
We're gonna start off with the Chicago Bears making some waves today as they fired
offensive coordinator Shane Waldron.
I kind of feel like this was a situation where changes had to happen, right?
You cannot go 23 consecutive drives without a touchdown,
without somebody being held accountable.
So let's go to the list.
You're not gonna fire the owner, you can't fire the owner.
The new, the GM is very, very new, you can't fire him.
The head coach isn't gonna fire himself mid season.
The quarterback was the number one overall pick all of seven months ago.
You can't fire him either.
That leaves one person in the chain of command.
And that is the offensive coordinator and so Shane Waldron, I think,
was end up holding the bag or was deemed as the scapegoat for
an institution and organizational failure.
The Chicago Bears, and I say this with no qualms of a joke,
no sign of incorrectness.
I say this with zero degree of uncertainty,
have literally never developed a passer of the football, ever.
They've never even stumbled into one that was amazing from the gate.
Like, no, they have literally never developed a passer of the football.
You think I'm kidding?
I'm sure there's some names going in your head.
What you got, Rex Grossman?
J Cutler.
How'd the Justin Fields thing go?
Sid Luckman, I think is the best passer ever.
You wanna know how I know that?
In the NFL history, in the Bears' history of being an NFL franchise,
I mean, I think they've done 100 years now.
I think they're one of the original franchises.
They have never had a 4,000 yard passer, ever.
In the history of life, ever.
Even in that weird year where the passing yards record got broken like four times.
Like, Stafford went to 5,000, then Breeze hit it, then Manning hit it,
Brady hits it, like all within like a year of each other.
Nobody ever gone over 4,900, and then like four of them hit 5,000 in like a year.
Right?
The Bears weren't near 4,000.
They've never had a 4,000 yard passer in their long winding history.
They've never developed a passer.
Right?
And so those in the Justin Fields camp go, well, see, it wasn't Justin Fields' fault
why he wasn't all that great.
The Bears suck.
And while that may be the case, he also went to Pittsburgh, who's developed multiple
passers over the course of its history, and Justin Fields still sucks.
So at a certain point, might not be the organization.
But coming back to the Bears, they've never developed a passer.
Right?
Whether it's just they're in Chicago, that windy, gusty rain, it just doesn't allow you to.
They've always played in a generally tough division.
But I can't even say the weather conditions because the Packers have developed multiple passers.
Try Brett Favre to Aaron Rodgers to Jordan Luff.
Right?
So they've developed passers in the terrible conditions.
I can't even say conditions.
It's just it just doesn't work in Chicago.
Now, I do think ultimately Eberflu will be fired at the end of the season.
I just think Eberflu may have made a deal, quote unquote, with management so that, okay,
if I get rid of, if I get rid of Waldron, you'll keep me, at least I can see if I can try
and finish this year and to save it.
So I think that's what happened in Chicago.
I kind of feel bad for Shane Waldron because some of it, a good majority of it, I understood
kind of what the plan was.
And I think that is the case.
I think that's the goal is that with an offense, you want to understand what's the plan.
And I felt like a lot of times you could see the plan with the Bears.
It just didn't work.
And so Shane Waldron ultimately was fired.
Thomas Brown, who interviewed for multiple head coaches, I was a finalist for a couple of them,
is expected to take over play calling duties or office according to duties, really.
But brutal, brutal, brutal for Shane Waldron.
But we're here now.
But another person who's had their season ended early, Dak Prescott.
Dak Prescott officially underwent seizing, ending hamstring surgery.
So he's out.
And it was one of those situations where the Cowboys were hesitant to put him on injury reserve.
Remember, I reported amongst others that the Cowboys are expected to put Dak on injury reserve with his hamstring.
No word if he's going to come back.
No word is one of the situations where he goes to IR and if they got a chance to the playoffs, he comes back.
Or if the season's over, he rests.
No, it was one of the situations where they legitimately didn't know if he was IR or not.
And then it comes out today that no, he has indeed or will indeed undergo season ending hamstring surgery
and be given all the time he needs to recover for next season, probably under a new head coach.
So he's probably taking the last nap he will take as a Cowboy.
And it just exemplifies the Cowboys' season.
And I spoke about this, I believe, last week on either the D2 Show or the audio show
that when a player begins to talk, when a star player begins to openly question and talk about the coach, it's over.
Because that means people in the locker room have talked about it so much, they've either given him permission to talk
or he knows, because he can do his interview and see, he's looking around at faces and those guys are agreeing with him.
And so, Alvin Kamara made statements right around the time of Dennis Allen
firing him from New Orleans and then Kam Jordan tweeted, like, we just lost to Carolina fans, y'all deserve better.
Like when stuff like that begins to happen, oh Kamara said, we have faith in the roster, it's faith in other things that we don't have.
Or confidence in the roster, whatever. Like when stuff like that starts to come out, it gets pretty bad.
And actually the Micah Parsons thing is awful because he basically went off unprompted.
Like, yes, he was asked a question, but it wasn't worth what he said.
But I'll play the clip for you, it's been shared a lot, I'll play the clip for you.
What's the sentiment inside the locker room and what do you tell people who aren't aware that was a Micah
and go meet your coach next year? You know, that's the boat in my pay grade about if Mike is coaching again next year.
But you know, all coaching aside, coaching, you know, Mike can leave and go wherever he wants.
But guys, I kind of feel bad for these guys like Zach Martin and guys who might be on their last year on their way out.
You know, because that's what I wanted to hold the trophy for.
You know, you want to win games and do great things with those type of legends who put in more time and work than Mike McCarthy ever did.
So those are the kind of guys that I have so much sympathy and hurt for.
So that's the clip, right?
And Skip Bayless runs on Twitter and he says, no, those guys have not put in more work than Mike McCarthy, which is true.
Over the football life of Mike McCarthy and over the professional life of Mike McCarthy, the professional life of them,
no, they have not outdone Mike McCarthy as far as work.
But what Mike McCarthy is saying is basically Mike McCarthy can get fired tomorrow by the Cowboys.
He can be the head coach of the Bengals next offseason.
You know what I'm saying?
But he's also in that clip, that's questioning Mike McCarthy's dedication.
That's questioning Mike McCarthy's work ethic.
I've said it before, if I'm Jerry Jones, I would fire him on the spot at the interview.
Because you interview with me saying that you've been watching tape all season,
you've got this new strategy to attack and you have been bucking down, hunkering, watching tape.
And then you get to the press conference and go, yeah, I hadn't watched football all year.
I would have fired you on the spot.
I would have stopped the press conference, stood up and say, I would like to apologize, change your story.
Mike McCarthy has just been fired for lying in his interview.
It is a breach of contract.
He has been fired.
We are reopening our head coaching search.
I would have done it right that second.
But instead, Jerry, because that's his guy, he liked him.
He had beer and nachos with him and Steven in the house and they talked all night.
And Jerry goes, you know what, man, you want to be the coach of the Cowboys?
Yeah, that sort of thing.
Mike McCarthy is the coach of the Cowboys.
Shouldn't be.
And now you've got a player in Michael Parsons who's openly mutinning.
Rex Ryan was on the thing saying they need to go get a superstar.
Somebody, you know, he said he was looking at Dan Campbell's, a former lion.
D'Amico Ryan is a former Texan.
He was saying a former Cowboy probably needs to be the head coach of the Cowboys
in order for those guys to expect it a little bit more.
You put on the same uniform. You were in the same building.
Well, not the same building, but you were under the same leadership.
You had the same expectations.
You've had those expectations and that pressure.
Being in this organization, you know, a guy like Micah may be looking for a way out
to get to a different situation.
I don't recall Michael Parsons being paid.
So that could be something that rears its ugly head inside the Dallas Cowboys facilities.
The Kansas City Chiefs.
The Kansas City Chiefs, they feel like they can't lose.
Seriously.
Like at a certain point, we have to just go, F it, they can't lose.
Like they literally feel like they can't lose.
I have never seen this before.
They're inventing ways to win.
They've won a game in four different facets of the game.
They've won a game on offense.
They've won a game on defense.
They won a game off a coin toss pretty much against the Buccaneers.
And then just last week, Denver, great clock man, by Bo Nicks and Sean Payton,
get the ball down the field in perfect position for a Will Lutz,
ship shot field goal to beat the Chiefs in Denver and the Chiefs block it.
And the crazy part about it is it was great coaching.
Because sometimes when you block a field goal, you slip through a gap and you block it
or you maneuver around a side and you block it, the operation is a little slow and you get to it.
No, no, no.
There are people that are finding now Twitter videos of that side of the offensive,
of that side of the field goal block unit just getting caved in repeatedly.
Just getting caved in.
And that person who got washed out, he's been constantly getting knocked back,
constantly getting knocked back.
And so the Chiefs went for it.
They lowered it all up on the side and they caved that side and they blocked it.
And it's just you block a field goal to stay undefeated.
It's just at a certain point, you almost have to shake your head like,
man, maybe there are unbeatable.
Maybe they just cannot be beat.
It's to the point where they're just figuring their ways out.
And there's times where you pull a defeat from the jaws of victory.
They are pulling victory from the jaws of defeat.
It feels like every week at this point.
And they just continue to do it.
And they're going to get healthy.
And Isaiah Pacheco and Amenu, Amenu, sorry, Amenu.
I couldn't read for a second.
Amenu come roaring in.
They're opening their practice windows so they should be a part of the team
within the next week or so.
So it's just the risks get richer.
The teachers keep figuring out how to win football games.
And now they're going to add in more weaponry.
But speaking of victory from the jaws of defeat,
the Bengals pulled defeat from the jaws of victory.
What I mean by is at no point were they convincingly ahead or anything.
Nothing like that.
But Joe Burrow continues to have these elite level,
legend level games against the Ravens.
And it seems to be off or not.
He goes, once again, he goes north of 350.
And he goes to 428, four touchdowns, no picks.
And it's just the Ravens were just a little better.
Lamar goes for 290 and four touchdowns.
He also runs around a little bit.
Derrick goes for about 70-some audio, if I remember correctly.
And a touchdown as well.
And Lamar has some highlight plays in there.
Jamar Chase was literally unguardable.
Out of the 428, I believe Jamar Chase had 230-something.
I mean, absolutely.
He had over half of the yards of Joe Burrow's major day.
It was a perfect storm if you had the Cincinnati Bengals somehow losing that game.
Justin Tucker finds his leg.
I mean, it was brutal for Cincinnati to where they could really, truly be in a spot where they are
right behind the Pittsburgh Steelers for the division,
owning the two-game tiebreaker over the Baltimore Ravens.
And instead, they're in neither one of those positions.
And it just picks back to you gotta get Zach Taylor up out of there.
Houston, however, I'm sorry, Detroit, however, pulled victory from the jaws of defeat.
If I'd have told you going into this game, Jared Goff would have three points at halftime
with five total interceptions, you would have told me that the Lions lost.
And honestly, you need to give me the final boss score with five picks.
And it seems like they just weren't going to be able to stop the Texans.
The Texans only threw two picks, including to have one of the greatest calls ever
and where Dan Quinn's quote of halftime, I mean, we got a fourth turnovers,
is being read literally as a Detroit Lions player forced to one of the two turnovers.
So that was pretty crazy.
But if you are Houston, man, you took it on the chain and burst the jets.
Then you win last week.
And now you're sitting there wondering how did we lose?
You know, we were up 18, 20 points at the time.
And number two is how did we lose with getting five turnovers, getting five interceptions?
And one was a hell of a match, you know, four.
But throwing four in the flow interceptions and still lose.
Like I said, that is a victory.
That is defeat from the jaws of victory.
And something that the preseason is good for because it does help get cleaned up.
But absolutely brutal way for Houston to lose that game.
And then the commanders, the commanders also lost in an incredibly brutal way.
They go back and forth with the Steelers and the Steelers line up fourth and one.
I'm screaming at the TV, don't move. They're not going to run anything.
It makes more football sense to back it up five yards to get a point and more space in Pittsburgh.
And of course, Rosa Wilson hits it with a hard count.
And Washington, one of those people running with the ball, jumps across the line and the ball game is over.
And it kind of just showed like, yeah, Washington is going to have these moments where it's just like,
as a coach, you probably don't ever talk about it because you're probably not thinking about it.
But, you know, Washington's got a great roster. Of course, they got a great young quarterback.
They're set up much better than the Cowboys are.
And so it should be an interesting divisional race, including Washington, along with conference race as well.
But up next, we're going to shift into NFL Week 11.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to jump into NFL Week 11. So we did most of the news coming out of the weekend in our last segment.
So this game, we're purely this segment. The plan is to purely talk about the games and what is happening there.
Although a little bit of news occurred in the NFL because it would not be just in time sports.
It would not be a JTS segment without some news.
The San Francisco 49ers and cornerback De'Amador, Lenore, have agreed to a five year contract extension worth $92 million.
And also Jamal Agnew has landed on the Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad.
So that could be interesting as well because Agnew has had some big moments in the NFL.
He is finally healthy. So he's on the Pittsburgh Steelers practice squad.
That could be huge for them coming down the stretch to add such a he was all pro returner to add such a high level return man and receiving weapon to the mix.
Especially when they make a playoff push, you know, he could crib one in a playoff game that could flip the whole game around.
So definitely huge for the Steelers there. But anyway, enough of that.
We're going to get into the games. We're going to start off with our Thursday night preview.
It is in our Jax pack, so we will not pick it.
It is the Washington commanders at the Philadelphia Eagles for basically control or the inside track at the NFC's crown.
Now, I would have I could have told you, everybody could have told you the Philadelphia Eagles were going to be in the mix late.
Most people thought it'd be Eagles and Cowboys coming down the stretch for the NFC's with the commanders in the third place and watch in the Giants bringing up the rear.
That was pretty much a general consensus around around the leagues around the media was that Cowboys and Eagles are fighting over the top.
Watch the coming third Giants are last.
Turns out because the NFC's never goes as supposed to.
Commanders and Eagles are fighting over the top.
Cowboys are in third, Giants are last. So it goes a little bit how it's supposed to.
And it is just an absolute war between the commanders and the Eagles.
I expect the great game. I expect two teams that have very pretty physical styles.
And I mean pretty as far as not pretty as an adjective as far as describing physical pretty as far as it looks good.
It looked like the commanders and the Eagles just do stuff offensively that looks good.
You know, they have motions, they have different intricacies in their offense.
It just looks it looks pretty.
But in the end of day, it's a very physical attack. It is it is the whole lot of power.
It's a whole lot of zone stuff concepts where they're trying to wash out a side.
But it is a lot of stuff that is happening that involves a lot of physicality on the offensive side of the ball.
I mean, you get that from both teams. You get that from Washington and from Philly.
I think all teams going to come down to which quarterback makes the most plays.
I'm not saying which quarterback throws the best balls.
I'm not saying which quarterback, you know, makes the best runs.
I'm not saying I'm saying which QB makes the best plays and quarterback.
Quarterback's actually very unique position in the sense of your playmaking ability starts when you break the huddle.
Like the head coach calls the play into the huddle.
Once you regurgitate the play, whatever that play is, you become the playmaker.
So you go to the line, checking into a different play and then that play working.
That's playmaking, in my opinion, is in it for a quarterback.
It's not just about spinning around. It's about making sure your team is in the right coverage, making sure that you go to the right route,
making sure that if you are a hot route, you get the ball to your hot route, so on and so forth.
To me, that's all involved in the playmaking aspect of a quarterback,
because you're going to need all those different things as a quarterback in order to make the team go and the team function.
So that being said, it's going to come down to a battle of the quarterbacks.
Coaching advantage, I think the coaching advantage right now goes to the Washington Commanders.
I think that Dan Quinn's a better coach than Nick Sirianni.
I think that Cliff Kingsbury and Kellen Moore kind of balance themselves out.
So because of which Dan Quinn also helps on the defense side, I think the coaching advantage is with the Washington Commanders.
Right now there's a positive energy around the Commanders, because they got guys wanting and wanted to go there.
When's the last time you heard anybody being like, yo, yeah, if you're going to trade me, send me to Washington?
That's never been the case. No one's ever wanted to go there. It's the field of a thousand curses.
There's a photo that goes around every so often of all the dot incidents that have happened in FedEx Field over the past 20 years.
Injuries, fans dumping stuff on people. It has been a wild situation in FedEx Field.
And now people are wanting to go to Washington, which again is one of the bigger switch ups ever.
And it's mostly spearheaded by Jay Daniels.
And in a village case, you have a team with a lot of expectations who now their biggest rival,
they thought was going to be their biggest rival, is no longer there in the Dallas Cowboys.
So now you're pivoting to battling the Washington Commanders in a situation that you did not anticipate being in.
So same fight, different opponent. So again, we'll pick that game in Jax Pack.
Shifting to the Ravens at the Steelers, the AFC North, the always intriguing, always exciting AFC North.
You've got the Pittsburgh Steelers beginning their stretch of conference opponents.
So we spoke about the Steelers in the preseason and we said they're going to start off hot.
They have a good chance of it. But then odds are they're going to fade.
And they're not going to fade because of anything wrong with them.
They're going to fade because they're going to play five division games out of their last six.
Out of their last six games, five of them are in the AFC North.
Now Cleveland is probably going to be two fairly comfortable wins.
But Cincinnati being there and Baltimore being there, you've got five division games in the last six.
And even though Cleveland is not that good, they're going to have to battle because it is the AFC North.
So we anticipate that they go two and three down the stretch,
kind of derails their playoff momentum.
Kind of screwy by the NFL actually to have them play so many division games back to back to back to end the season.
But it's the way the cookie crumbled, the way the schedule kind of fell for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Now the Baltimore Ravens have a chance to put a strong hold on the division.
Similar to Washington and Philly where it's like, OK, this is the battle, but it wasn't supposed to be.
It was supposed to be Philly and Dallas. This battle was supposed to be Baltimore and Cincinnati.
While they've had two great games, your girls made absolute history in both of them.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have been the team to show up.
So that division was picked Baltimore and Cincinnati fight over one and two.
Pittsburgh get three, clearly bring up the rear.
And so now you have a situation where Cincinnati and Pittsburgh have swapped.
And Baltimore now has a chance to put a strong hold on the division because they would have won two wins over Cincinnati.
And I believe this will be their first win over Pittsburgh, which all but guarantees they'll go a positive record, a very positive record in the division.
And so this is a huge, huge game for the Baltimore Ravens.
It is not in Jack's pack, so I am able to pick it. I am going with the Baltimore Ravens in this game.
They have an opportunity here to put their foot down on the division.
They have an opportunity to suffocate out the Pittsburgh Steelers who need to win all but I mean, if not all, they got maybe one loss left in them to have a chance at division.
So losing to the division opponent would be very, very detrimental to the Steelers chance of winning a division.
The Browns at the Saints, the James Winston return game, potentially the James Winston revenge game.
Now it wasn't supposed to be that way originally.
Of course, Deshaun Watson was the starting quarterback of the Cleveland Browns.
James Winston brought in as his backup. Deshaun Watson invariably gets hurt, unfortunately gets hurt.
And so now James Winston is the man in Cleveland and he is leading the Cleveland Browns into the Superdome against the New Orleans Saints.
You know, James Winston is sort of like a cult legend as far as how he's treated in New Orleans, how he is revered and treated on social media by the Saints fans.
He has great personality, his bully leadership. It's going to be huge for the Saints who are currently one and only under Coach Rizzi.
The Rizmus, they're going to have a man, you know, they're playing with his name a lot as far as making shirts and supporting him in the crowd and et cetera.
And I'm going to come here with him, the captain of the Saints for one of the reasons why he strongly embraced Coach Rizzi.
So that was huge for Rizzi to be able to come in there, communicate with the guys and have a shot at leading them.
And they're one and only right now. The intensity that Rizzi has is second to none.
He kind of makes up for the lack of tendency. Yeah, he kind of makes up for the lack of tendency in New Orleans.
They've got to figure it out, right? In the Saints are in a position where they're battling, they're scrapping, they still in their minds and probably in the truth, have a decent-ish shot at making the playoffs.
So they've got to try to win the game, obviously, but they can make it. But the question is, do I believe it starts with this game? I do. I think the Saints continue their high streak.
I think they went two in a row. I think Jamies has a solid game, throws a back-breaking pick at some point, which will secure the victory for the New Orleans Saints.
Probably the biggest game of the week is the Kansas City Chiefs at the Buffalo Bills. This has all the making of a classic fest.
Every time the Chiefs and the Bills get together, something historic happens. Everybody, of course, remembers 13 seconds. That's just brutal.
They never try to meet the regulars either. It is an absolute war between Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes. Probably the two most talented quarterbacks in the NFL.
Those two put on a show every time they go against each other. And then you're looking at this Chiefs team, man. It just feels like a team of destiny. They're just avoiding losses.
They're inventing ways to win games at a certain point. And then the Buffalo Bills are playing what Buffalo Bills do. If it's working, if it's hot that day, it's going to be a long day for whoever the other team is.
If it's not hot, if they can't connect on it, it is going to be a short day for whoever the other team is. It's going to be a very pleasant day for the other team.
But in this game, I have to believe the Bills win this game. I've got the Bills. It's going to be a close game, very close game. I'm going to be sweating bullets until the clock hits zero, then I'm going to wait two minutes and then I'll celebrate.
But this is a very interesting situation right now between the Bills and the Chiefs. So I'm just excited that it is almost over. It is almost a wrap.
And then, actually, no, I'm not going to talk about that. It's in Jaxpack.
Okay, that is all I have for the segment NFL Week 11 preview. Up next, we're going to jump into the NFL betting segment Jaxpack.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to go to our second game, very successful NFL betting segment, Jaxpack, where every week, for those of you who are new, every week we pick five games, or I pick five games against the spread based on ESPN bet.
That is my preferred betting line. I mean, I have nothing against FanDuel if they want to sponsor. I have nothing against any of the other sites. If they want to sponsor, reach out. We're glad to switch to your numbers.
But in my area, I just prefer ESPN bet for convenience factors because the local casino, the hard building casino, also does ESPN bet and use their numbers as well. So I'm just used to those numbers.
But we have used those numbers all year. I don't like people that do ESPN bet one week and then FanDuel another week and then so on and so forth.
Now, if you're going to stick with the ESPN bet, stick with those guys' numbers. Or if you're going to stick with FanDuel, stick with FanDuel, whatever.
Whoever you vote for, just stick with the same numbers. But we've stuck with ESPN bet all season. We are currently 28-22, coming off a 2-2-1 week. So we went from 57%, I think, entering the week to 56%.
And that is as low as we want to go. We have to start having winning weeks. We went 2-3-2-3 and now 2-2-1, which percentage-wise takes like an L because the numbers still count. It just doesn't hurt you.
So it doesn't hurt you in the loss column, per se. But we have to start getting winning weeks. Going 500 last week doesn't necessarily help us.
It brings us back to the memes. And again, we never want to go below 56% because that is a line of being a professional gambler.
And that is a line of where you will always make money no matter if you're taking on a lot of produce or whatever. You have to take on a lot of money to make money.
If you hit at 56%, you will always make positive. You will always make money.
But let's jump right into these five packs of games. My favorite number of the week, my ding ding ding, my red light, my golden ball, is the Washington Commanders plus three and a half at the Philadelphia Eagles.
This is my red light district game. This game, I think, is going to be a huge victory straight up for the Washington Commanders.
39th football, you have an Eagles team that just trashed the Cowboys. There's an opportunity, I think, for a letdown.
And you have a commanders team that just honestly feel like they gave a game away against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
It's going to be on the road. It's going to be in Philly. However, it's the NFC East. So yes, the Dallas Cowboys are in Texas, but Washington, D.C. is not that far away from Philly.
It's not that far away from New Jersey. They're kind of all in one little area. I think some Washington fans are going to make the trip.
I think that Jay Daniels has been playing in crazy, raucous environments his whole career. He's played at USC. He's played at Alabama. He's played at Auburn. He's played at Florida.
He's played for LSU. So big crowds, big raucous environments don't actually bother him. I think he's going to do fine in the link.
I have some questions about the Philadelphia Eagles defense. I think that if anybody is going to find it, it's going to be Jay Daniels, Cliff Kingsbury in that offense.
Just opposed to Philadelphia's offense, if it ain't Saquon, I ain't trusting it right now. I think there's a lot to be worked on in the passing game for the Philadelphia Eagles.
I think that ultimately if they do win, it'll be by last second, I think it's Jake Elliott field goal. That being the case, the three and a half still hits.
So the Washington Commanders plus three and a half take the Commanders. Packers minus six and a half at Chicago.
Now, road favorites getting nearly, or having to give nearly a touchdown is not something they're typically do. It's usually not the smarter side of a bet.
However, I proceeded to pick four consecutive road favorites. So the Green Bay Packers, my first of my road favorites. I'm giving nearly a touchdown.
I have to lay in the sports betting turn. I have to lay nearly a touchdown in order to get it.
However, I don't think the Chicago Bears, new OC or not, are going to score more than say 16 points.
Therefore, I just have to say that, OK, can the Packers get the 25? I think because 25 minus seven is what 18. So that's two touchdowns in the field goal.
I don't think the Bears are going to muster that. So can the Packers get 25? I believe they can.
So Packers minus six and a half over Chicago take the Packers. Vikings minus six at the Titans take the Vikings.
And honestly, if it wasn't for that commander's number, this would be my hard lock of the week.
This is my second favorite number of the week. It's easily my second favorite number of the week. Tennessee has a solid defense. True.
But the Vikings in order for this to cover, in my opinion, has to score 17. I don't see the Tennessee Titans scoring 10.
The Vikings have one of if not, Vikings have the best defense in the NFL bar none led by Brian Flores, the defense coordinator, schematically, personnel wise.
They're just an elite unit. Even looking at it in fantasy, they're the number one defense in fantasy.
They're basically worth a wide receiver, too, in some leagues like in a big 14 man league.
They're worth a wide receiver, too, or a flex. They're effectively flex player.
That's how many points they're scoring every single week for Minnesota.
And so I just don't see Tennessee having a path past 10, which means all Sam Darn in the office to recover this number gets a 17.
I strongly believe they'll score north of 20. And so I've got the Minnesota Vikings here. Minus six. Take the Vikings.
Texans minus seven and a half at the Cowboys hammer the Texans here.
The Cowboys are imploding. We are witnessing a team.
This is where our second team implosion, third team implosion of the season.
The Saints imploded around Dennis Allen. Dennis Allen ultimately fired.
The Bears are imploding around Matt Iberflu, Shane Waldron ultimately paid the price first.
But I believe Iberflu will join him in the offseason.
And the Dallas Cowboys are currently imploding around Mike McCarthy.
You have the injury to Dak Prescott. He's out for the season.
C.D. Lamb has a sprained AC joint. He's battling through pain.
Michael Parsons is publicly criticizing the coach saying he can go wherever he wants.
He's doing it for the players.
You have Jerry Jones speaking loudly about how there needs to be accountability in the coaching office.
I mean, it is a full blown implosion of the Dallas Cowboys.
They routinely play not as well at home.
And so I've got the Houston Texans here, minus seven and a half over the Cowboys.
Houston Texans team that flat out should be embarrassed.
They flat out should be angry. They should be frustrated.
They should be all the typical emotions.
They should be all of them because they found a way to pull defeat from the jaws of victory.
Yeah, defeat from the jaws of victory against the Lions.
It's brutal what average is.
If they get four picks, five picks off the Cowboys, they're going to win by 40.
But it's just the Lions kept fighting, kept coming, seeing that it's not imploding around its head coach.
But the Texans minus seven and a half, take the Texans.
And then Bengals plus one and a half at the charges, take the Bengals.
I think the Bengals are going to win the game.
Another team that has to be sitting there after last weekend and going, what happened?
We had it. It was in our hands.
We had it. And yet we don't have it.
And it's a loss in our column.
The Bengals are just flat out, you know, they just need a win.
The Chargers are in that NFC West that's always felt like it's tipping over itself.
But the Bengals here need a win plus one and a half.
I think they're just going to win the game. All right.
You know what it is with the Chargers.
There's going to feel like a Bengals home game at best 50 50 because the Bengals aren't necessarily a big traveling organization either.
So best you got 50 50.
And I just think the I just think the Bengals are just a little bit more desperate than the Chargers right now.
And the Bengals get the win. All right.
So definitely cover the plus one and a half.
But to recap, I have commanders plus three and a half of the Eagles Packers minus six and a half over Chicago Vikings minus six over the Titans Texans minus seven and a half over the Cowboys and Bengals plus one and a half over the Chargers.
But up next, I will be shifting into the NBA and talk about what's going down with the Association.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to jump into the NBA as the NBA Cup has begun.
I tipped off tonight. So I'm recording this Tuesday night.
You guys are here, of course, on Wednesday.
But the NBA Cup has begun.
So the NBA Cup is basically a copycat of the NBA's Commissioner Cup with a little minor tweaks due to the size of the league.
So with the NBA Commissioner Cup, they just play and that they earmark like six or seven games or certain amount of games as Cup games.
Those Cup games go into a dance to the count for the regular season and then go into their own standing.
The thing is the top two, I think of the Cup games play for the Commissioner Cup and the higher seed host it.
The NBA Cups a little differently. They have it kind of similar to a soccer star situation where there's group play.
You're playing your group and then the winner of each group plays in a semifinal situation.
And then the semifinal situation, the winners that plays in a special game in Vegas for the NBA Cup.
But just, you know, some games happening now. Nick Sixers, he pistons is a fricking battle.
Bucks, Raptors, Suns, Jazz, the Hawks have already beat the Celtics. The Magic have beaten the Hornets.
And then, of course, we'll end with Mavericks, Warriors, Timberwolves, Blazers with more Cup games.
Oh, I'm sorry. And then the next round of Cup games will be Friday.
I think the West goes basically are the other half of the Cup games they play on Friday.
So it's a nice adjustment. It's a nice switch up. Try and get a little more excitement into the regular season.
It'll get through the I think to all star break or right before our star break.
Is when the Commissioner, when the NBA Cup finals are the end season tournament as it was originally called IST.
And now it's called the NBA Cup. Is what it is. Right.
So the Lakers have won technically the first and only end season tournament championship because I was called the NBA Cup.
So next year, whenever somebody raises a banner, if they do it, it'll be the NBA Cup.
So kudos for them. But again, kudos to the NBA for trying to keep things exciting and interesting,
especially for some of the younger players who, you know, I play for Detroit.
We're not going to win the NBA Championship. We can win the NBA Cup.
Oh, I play for Charlotte. We're not going to win the NBA Championship in June. But we can win the NBA Cup.
I think keeps those guys engaged. I think he's older guys engaged.
Like, I like if I'm stuff, I don't have a NBA Cup championship.
You know what I'm saying? If I'm Katie, I don't have a NBA Cup championship.
Like it's just little stuff where it's OK. Well, I don't have one yet.
That could be a notch into the cap, especially because, you know, LeBron's team wins the first one.
But enough of the fun stuff. New Orleans Pelicans.
I'm a Pelicans fan. So I'm saying this, you know, guys, I would like to preface if it's coming from a place of known bias.
I'd like to preface it and be like, hey, you know, such and such.
I know for a fact, without a shadow of a doubt, that this is coming from a place of fandom.
OK, so we're all we're all OK with that. We're all OK with this coming from a place of fandom.
Again, we're all OK with that. Where everybody's good, we're all OK with that.
Again, purely from a place of fandom. Again, so we're all OK with this.
But what's happening? OK, now we got that out the way.
The New Orleans Pelicans have ruined basketball season for me.
My NBA season as a fan appears that it is going to be over before Thanksgiving, before the turkeys carve, before you carve your turkey.
It is going. My basketball season is going to be over as a fan.
Now, I will gladly and I do mean gladly watch it as a reporter. I'll gladly watch it as a general supporter.
But as a fan of a specific team, it could be over before Thanksgiving.
Want to know why? Well, here's why. As of nine hours ago, CJ McCullough is out.
Herb Jones is out. Trey Murphy is out, but he is working his way back.
De'Johnty & Mary is out. Tarianne Williamson is out.
Jordan Hawkins is out and Jose Alvarado joined the list. He is also out.
Yeah, that was that was a lot of players that was the way that Bachelorette's known to have to a people.
I just named seven people on the original 12 that are out.
It is so bad in New Orleans that Brandon Boston is just saving the city.
He is single handedly keeping basketball fans kind of interested in New Orleans by just being this light of scoring and fun play.
And it's just, oh, man, the Pelicans may have found someone here despite their challenges.
They may have found someone that can help the team reach great heights whenever they are healthy again.
And it's just like what's what's new?
They say they used to give us a little longer for them to just pile up. They all piled up at the beginning.
Like I said, my season could be over prior to Thanksgiving.
But hey, what's you know, what's new if you're a Pelicans fan? You're just used to this.
There's just stuff that happens to your franchise.
And at a certain point, you don't even feel like it's real. You're just kind of like, yep.
I mean, it was just just.
Yep. I mean, that's honestly the environment that is weird.
Like when this stuff was happening and the heroes and the heroes and the injuries, excuse me, were beginning to pile up.
You just kind of was like, yep, like none of it was shocking.
None of it was mildly just I mean, the pure number.
The pure number was shocking immediately. That was a bit wild.
Like I did again, I didn't really know 12 members of the roster. Seven of them are injured.
That was a bit shocking. But other than that, what do you expect out of New Orleans?
You expect a lot of preseason hype. You expect a lot of of hoopla.
You expect all these things. They didn't deliver.
But you know, you expect these things. You really do. You really do.
And it's just it's just depressing.
But moving on or slightly shifting gears, the NBA has a injury problem in general.
And there are several people I'm going to talk about with injury issues.
And then we're going to kind of discuss why that could be.
I have I have a theory rather why that could be.
Jimmy Butler is out due to an ankle injury right now.
Jomarant is week to week with a posterior hip subluxation with associated
grade one pelvic muscle strains, a.k.a. dislocated hip.
Kevin Durant is out another couple of weeks due to a left calf strain.
And then we have a home run is expected to return in 2024 2025 season.
He won't even have an update on his return to play for another eight to 10 weeks
due to a hip injury on a bad fall.
So Thompson is back. That is positive news.
Let's see Jimbo's living without Malik Monk will be re-evaluated in two
weeks due to a right ankle sprain.
And then we have a little concussion protocol.
Jose Alvarado is we discussed is out six weeks.
I've heard three to six weeks due to a hamstring injury.
And Tim Hardaway I expect to be in concussion protocol for banging his head tonight.
There's actually stats that are going around that say this is the most injured season ever.
And they're kind of injury projections and you know it's just out of the 49 players that are deemed stars like 28 of them have already missed at least one game.
It's just downright brutal right now.
And I think you know one of the things people always talk about man it's like why why are the injuries happening right?
Why these injuries occurring especially since a mass rate about the head injuries concussions.
OK it's fine.
Chet falls on the ground. All right that's fine. But we have hamstrings aplenty especially in New Orleans.
We have calf injuries. We have a lot of lower leg. We have a lot of lower body injuries.
I think it will number one it come with the training.
I think we do. I think there's a lot of stationary training a lot of you know.
What's I'm looking for here.
A lot of drill based training where it just it just feels like it's just a bunch of drills like you know once you pull up you know whether you're not getting that five B five real you know press all the time.
You're kind of going through the motions.
You know I'm saying and kind of just going through it. I think the lack of intensity and team organized practices.
One of the worst kept secrets in NBA is how little they practice.
So for instance that's just that's just started off with a Sunday.
OK and I have a Sunday our games on Tuesday. So we're going to have a throw game on Tuesday. So we got to travel.
So we're going to practice a team facility you know hour and a half mostly shooting and film work.
Let me see you guys early morning.
You get on the plane. So you practice basically shooting on Monday on Tuesday.
You get on a plane you have shoot around that morning.
You might try with a Monday night but regardless you get on the plane.
You have shoot around that Tuesday morning.
You go back to the hotel. You sit around you do nothing. You play the game at 7 you go home.
OK so let's just say your next game is on Friday.
Now we're basically doing recovery from the last game on Wednesday.
Guess what you're doing on Thursday that like practice again because you're going to fly out and then go play basketball on Friday.
Like you don't really practice during the season those five up and down runs.
So what happens to a body is when you don't use something you lose something.
So if you don't if you're not testing the ankle dexterity if you're not maneuvering those legs.
You're not doing those things on a regular basis.
They're going to get stiff and they're going to and they're going to fight back at you.
So that's how you get your pulls and how you get your strains.
So you get these things because your body for the first time is having to put that level of torque and that level of power.
Maybe at odd direction that it hasn't before.
So that is something that I think we need to work on just landing at different angles and you know actually working on dribbling and flexibility.
So from these coaches from these skilled development coaches that way they're trying to avoid some of these tissue injuries tissue and muscle injuries.
But all right.
Oh and there's also the night that Klay Thompson returns to go to state and they've had a really cool moment already where they Klay was on for his boating.
A lot of the staffers wore captain's hats in the players tunnel as Klay walked in.
So a really cool moment to get my video of course and then you know so on and so forth to play basketball.
I just definitely want to get that out of the way or get that in there.
So up next we're going to shift to one of the fastest growing segment on the show college footballs too many drill.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we are going to discuss again like I said one of the fastest growing segments in popular.
They want to mine to the college football two minute drill just like college football.
There's like any two minute drill.
We're going to put two minutes on the clock.
There's more things I want to discuss with you in college football.
But of course we're going to put two minutes on the clock.
Once time expires.
That's it. And we move on to the end of the show.
But two minutes on the clock.
And my timer starts now.
All right.
Alabama absolutely thrashed LSU in Tiger Stadium as a LSU fan.
That one hurt.
But they absolutely thrash LSU in Tiger Stadium.
It brings a lot of questions about the recruiting by a lot of the question about the effort.
A lot of questions about whether Brian Kelly actually succeed LSU.
It is a lot going on inside that building.
It was one of those loss that made you question everything.
Even go back to previous coaches who had similar bad losses.
No try to make yourself feel better.
Colorado officially controls his own destiny with the loss of somebody.
I think Kansas State I think lost.
And now Colorado controls his own destiny all the way into the playoff.
They went out.
They'll be in the playoff.
It's just that simple.
They went out.
They have punched their tickets to the Big 12.
Of course they went out including the big 12 championship game.
They will punch their ticket to the top five reseeded seed in the college football playoff.
Huge, huge game.
Game of the week is Tennessee at Georgia.
Now Tennessee starting quarterback, Nico, is in the country protocol.
They're not quite sure if he'll be able to make it to the game on Saturday.
If he does not, that takes some of the juice out of it.
But if he does, Tennessee goes in between the hedges at Georgia.
And that should be a hell of a football game.
Jack D'Aurio is out at Wisconsin.
He resigned due to a crash that involved things that put him under the influence.
So he is out.
The transfer report is supposed to be an absolute, NIL chaotic mess this season.
It is going to be rough at any and all levels.
And they're going to try and pull in the transfer with the amount of money that is expected to fly around.
The high has been watched.
It's simple.
It's Ashton Jennings, Dylan Gay, and Travis Hunter.
If it's anybody outside of those three, I will not entertain the thought of it being anybody outside of those three.
In Florida State, fire at the offensive corner, defense at the corner, and wide receivers' coats amongst their 1 and 8 star.
And we just sneak it in.
Got a little long with our LSU topic, otherwise I would have snuck in easily.
But we just sneak it in.
That is all I have for you today.
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