Welcome in to the newest edition of the Just In Time Sports Podcast.
I am your owner and host, Justin Jackson.
In this week's episode, we'll be talking about NFL Week 15.
We will touch on last week as well if necessary.
We will have our NFL betting segment, Jax Pack.
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Welcome back into the Just In Time Sports Podcast, the audio edition.
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But as you guys heard in the intro, we'll talk about the NFL, we'll talk about a little
gambling, we'll talk about some college football, we'll touch on the NBA, which is about what
most people are doing, touching on the NBA, no one's really watching, but we'll get to
that point.
We'll talk about the upcoming week in the NFL.
So of course, this show, being an instant release show, it's going to be a Saturday
show.
I don't want to spend too much time, if any time, on week 14.
You guys have heard about that all week.
Who cares about that, right?
So let's jump into NFL week 15.
We'll talk about Thursday night because it was just a couple of days ago.
It was a rain-soaked slob fest, mostly a snooze fest.
It wasn't even good defense, it was just bad offense between the Niners and the Rams,
which considering the head coaches are Shanahan and Kyle and Sean McVay, very rare to see
a defensive or an offensive snooze fest between the two of them.
But that's exactly what was delivered.
No touchdown, six field goals combined between the two.
Rams ultimately win 12-6.
The Niners' season of disaster continues to pile up.
Of course, there's no CMC the rest of the year.
Of course, Brandon Iuk was hurt earliest in the year.
This game Devon J. Campbell just decides I'm done and walks off the field with the
trainings that I told the team he didn't want to play anymore.
Which we've seen this a few times over the past decade.
It's because guys retire.
One guy just looked up and was like, I'm done.
He just retired in the middle of the locker room.
It was wild.
On a fitness plan, he was like, nah, I'm good.
He retired in the middle of the locker room.
We've seen the Gary Blunt famously walked out on the Steelers.
He famously caught on the Steelers and gets picked up by the Patriots and scores three
touchdowns and wins the Super Bowl.
We've seen it a couple of times.
Antonio Brown's famous quit on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers against the Jets.
We've seen this a few times over the past decade.
Guys just quitting.
Devon J. Campbell's was thought to be an injury, but it came out right after the game.
It was not.
That is something that definitely is different.
It's interesting.
I've never seen a coach address it right after the game.
That's what I don't remember.
You had to address the Antonio Brown thing.
Shanahan just volunteered.
He just told us he wasn't going to play anymore.
He didn't want to play anymore.
We sent him to the locker room.
The teammates being like, yeah, that's some punk-ish.
He probably didn't get cut soon.
That was some punk stuff.
Then it comes out the next day, all the stuff most of the Niners are dealing with.
You've got a guy who just lost his child who's still playing.
You've got a guy who's on ankles and his back.
So many different things happened with the Niners organization.
For the guy to just walk off in Devon J. Campbell, definitely did not sit well in the locker
room.
Shanahan came out this weekend and was like, yeah, he's not going to play for us anymore.
We're just trying to figure out the best way to get it done, whether that's to cut him,
just to make him inactive.
We're just trying to figure that out, but he's not playing for us anymore.
That's the kind of move that, like with Gary Blunt with a special case, because he ended
up landing with Belichick.
That's the kind of move that no one in the league respects.
If you're battling an injury and you get a little, quote unquote, soft on an injury
you don't want to play, that's a different conversation.
Just to walk off mid game, I don't play anymore.
That's something no one in the league respects that'll probably end his NFL career.
Now, Devon J. Campbell's an older player.
So I think it ultimately ends his career, but insane.
But it kind of speaks about the Niners season and that their season is pretty much over.
The Rams, however, have found new life.
They keep finding ways to win games, ugly, pretty, high-scoring, low-scoring, to go from
the shootout they had last week with the Bills 44-42 to coming to this game and winning 12-6.
Huge win for them, the kind of game that can really build momentum or continue to build
momentum.
It's another feather in the cap kind of game, so huge for the Rams.
But that is pretty much all of the recap we're going to do here.
Let's jump into the NFL Week 15 Sunday Slate of games.
So let's jump right into Jets and Jags.
This is a game of Tankathon.
It's in our Jax pack, so we're not going to pick it.
But it's a game that, if you're an organization, you're kind of on two halves of the same
coin.
And it's not like one's going up and one's going down and they kind of met in the middle.
Sometimes you see teams that are both 3 and 10, I believe.
Sometimes you see games where one 3 and 10 team is like, oh, they're really young and
they're showing some promise and they're kind of trending up.
And the other team is like, oh, this team is a disaster and they happen to both meet
at 3 and 10.
This is a game of teams on the same side, two opposites of the same coin.
So the Jets, the Jets are a disaster, right?
The Jets have nothing positive going for them except a couple of decent players.
They have Elijah Vera Tucker, they have Garrett Wilson, they have Breece Hall.
And then Quinan Williams.
And they have a couple of guys on defense, right?
But for the most part, they have five to seven good players.
And then there's nonsense.
Your coaching staff is fired in or bad.
Your management team is bad.
Your ownership is bad.
Your fan base is all right.
You're the second team in a stadium.
So your support in the city is bad.
Like it's just, it's not great if you're the Jets.
The Jaguars, however, they have a lot of positives.
I like their owner and Shad Khan, T-Stable.
Their GM is okay.
Don't like Dougie P all that much as far as the coach, but you know, that could be better.
Your roster has some talent on it.
Everett Ingram.
Their roster is also not great.
Trevor Lawrence, I still believe in.
You know, they have a good left tackle.
So they have some roster improvements they can make as well.
So they allow them to be three and 10, but you know, they have solid support in the community.
They're rebuilding it.
They're building a brand new sports facility and complex from the NFL team.
So there's a lot more positives in Jacksonville than there is in New York.
How do you get to three and 10?
You have a lot of positive.
You have injuries.
Number one, that's a number one thing.
They have injuries, Trevor Lawrence and multiple other players.
Number two, you have a coach that I don't think is that good anymore.
And Doug Peterson.
I think he's a good guy, but I just don't think he's, I don't think he's there anymore.
I think he lost his fastball.
I think getting fired from family might have took some of the confidence.
So that's how you end up where you are.
And I just think that, you know, they're just, again, they need an improvement in the roster.
I think they need to, I think, you know, they need to spend a lot of money for agency and
hit them the draft pick.
Ultimately, the two teams that kind of need to fix their stuff the same way.
If you're the Jets, clean out the top of the organization.
Coach, GM, management team, hell, training staff.
Clean the top of the org out.
If you're the Jacksonville Jaguars, do the same thing.
Now come back to, they both get to spend money for agency and they both have to hit their
draft picks.
Now the Jets have to hit draft picks more than for agency.
The Jaguars have a young style at the quarterback, so they can lean a little bit more for agency
and try to win fast.
The Jets need sustainability right now, so they need to hit on draft picks.
But again, it's two sides of the same coin.
Both should be tanking their way.
Jets trying to take their way into Chador or Cam Ward.
The Jaguars are trying to take their way into Travis Hunter.
It's pretty much a Will Campbell or Emory Jones.
They need to be tanking their way into a player that can help them immediately.
Bucks and Chargers, a game that is not in Jack's pack.
Bucks on the road and Chargers.
Now the Chargers, I picked against them last weekend.
Part of it was because I didn't believe in their home fed advantage.
They have notoriously been the site of either neutral site or home road games, as I call
it.
Like, yeah, it's listed as a home game, but there's way more people here for the other
team.
And so that's where a lot of their games for like their plays, if they're played as home
road games, for lack of a better term.
It's like, yeah, that's exactly what you would want them to do is to have, you know,
home fed advantage if you are an NFL team, but the Chargers being the second team in
LA, they just don't have that sustained fan base most of the time.
And so if there's a team, especially a closer team, it feels like a road game.
However, they were able to make it feel like a home game against Buffalo and it's a very
similar travel from Tampa.
So I think the Chargers are going to play the game really, really well.
I think they played the Chiefs incredibly well.
In those stages, they got Chiefed.
The Chief on this magical march to victory found a way to defeat the Chargers.
The Chargers seem, I think that outplayed them for most of that game.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they're attempting to basically ice the NFC South.
Carolina's a joke.
The Saints viable-ish in the Division of Race.
I'll be there two games back and don't own the Tidebreaker.
So that's not good if you're the Saints and I can't even think of the other team
in the NFC South.
Atlanta.
Atlanta probably should have won this division, but Kirk Cousins has gone into the pits of
hell as far as playing wise.
They're going to stick with them probably because of finances.
But I could also see a very real scenario where the Falcons move on after this year,
eat the money for one year and basically just say, okay, Michael Pennant's contract ends
a year early kind of thing because Pennant's already sitting there ready to go.
You can't continue to just throw money at the problem and Kirk Cousins.
The best thing we took the opportunity to go ahead and draft Michael Pennant's junior
with a top 10 pick.
So this is definitely something to keep our eye on as far as Atlanta.
Coming back to the game, Bucks and Chargers, like I said, the Bucks are looking to put
a stranglehold in this division.
I think the winner is the Chargers.
I think they're looking to keep pace in a crowded AFC.
They can't catch the Chiefs.
The Chiefs lost the division already.
So I think the Chargers just aiming at this point to try and get a high wild card spot.
Steelers at Eagles.
It is an Ajax pack, so we're not going to pick it.
This is a game between teams that are overachieving.
If you would have told me that the Eagles or the Steelers would have had this kind of
record, I would have laughed.
Like heavily laughed.
Like one of those Santa Claus belly shaking, I can't believe, please stop it.
Please make it stop kind of laugh.
Like there is no way I would have even considered the Eagles or the Steelers.
That's honestly having this kind of record.
But instead, that's where we are.
And so it's going to be a huge game between the two of them.
I said I won't pick it just yet.
But these are two teams that are overachieving in my opinion.
I love the coach in Pittsburgh and Mike Tomlin.
I hate the coach, but love the roster in Philadelphia due to Nick Sirianni.
So game kind of two teams that are playing really good football at the same time.
And yet two teams I don't think anybody had with this kind of record early, early in the
season.
Packers at Seahawks, a game that is not not Jack's pack so we can pick it.
The Green Bay Packers go on the road to face Seattle Seahawks.
Now the Packers on the road is not a huge problem.
And Jordan Love has been actually a pretty solid road quarterback.
And depending on what Seahawks team you kick, depending on how strong that 12th man is,
they're going to be loud.
They're going to be raucous.
But the 12th man always feels a little better whenever the 12th is always a little more
dangerous whenever the Legion of Boom was there, whenever Russell Wilson in his prime,
whenever Pete Carroll was rolling the program.
They feel just a little less dangerous these days.
But the Packers are a really good road team.
However, Geno Smith has been playing winning football.
He's gone out there every single week and just finding a way.
Just, I mean, literally finding a way to win games over and over and over and over again.
They're just, I mean, they're just finding ways to win games.
And a lot of times it's Geno Smith spearheading that change, spearheading that victory.
But I just don't think he gets it done against the against the Packers here.
I think the Packers win the game that they win about 10.
The Seahawks kind of had it easy last week when it came down to the Arizona Cardinals.
And I was one of the few people on that side of the betting world, really, when it came
down to the Cardinals.
It just didn't feel like the Cardinals were going to win that game.
And then sometimes you have games where you're like, that team's not going to win.
Rare that it happens in such a manner.
But it, you know, that's exactly what went down.
And congratulations to the Seahawks.
I just think some of that magic begins to run out and the Packers take the victory.
And then Bills versus the Lions.
I won't pick it.
I'm going to pick the Seahawks pack, but this is a hell of a game.
This is a game that early in the season, you have circled, you have gold starred, you have,
you know, whatever it is, you have this game as a potential playoff seeding decider.
Now, of course, one's in AFC, one's in NFC, but this is one of those games where, you
know, having the win over a team that has less than five losses is a huge feather in
the cap because most of the league didn't have that win.
So Bills versus Lions is huge in terms of how each team can be seeded in their respective
conferences.
Now both are going to win their division.
So Bills have already clinched the AFCs.
Lions have all, but I mean, they're only fighting the Vikings for the North.
And I think the Lions are going to ultimately win the North.
But if the Bills would beat the Lions, now it opens up the door for the Vikings.
So this is the kind of game that the Lions could look back on and go, man, we win that
game with a two seed, we lost the game with a fifth seed and on the road in the first
round.
Now it's on the road at Tampa, so not the world's best, not the world's worst spot,
but it's still on the road when you could have been, when you could have been at home
hosting the sixth seed.
So that is definitely the situation there.
But again, we will pick it in Jack's pack.
So don't worry about that.
We will pick it.
But quick hitters, Odell Beckham and the Miami Dolphins did mutually agree to part ways.
Odell Beckham will clear waivers on Monday where he will be free to sign anywhere he
wants.
And a strong smoke strong opinion believes that he will ultimately land with the Los
Angeles Rams.
Trayvon Diggs has been ruled out with a low with a leg injury.
So he will not play this week against the Carolina Panthers.
Harrison Bucker is back for the Kansas City Chiefs.
He has been activated off injury reserve.
The team has consequently released Kicker Matt Wright, who actually kicked pretty well
for them.
Carson Palmer is going to coach his high school alma mater, very similar to Teddy Bridgewater,
who is one win away from winning the state title with his alma mater.
Carson Palmer has decided to go head coach his alma mater.
So Carson Palmer has gone back to school.
He joins another legend going back to school.
And Randy Moss, prayers for Randy Moss, man.
Prayers and thoughts for the NFL legend as he revealed that he has been battling bio
duct cancer.
He hasn't gone through surgery.
He's on the road to recovery now.
So prayers and thoughts for Randy Moss, man, absolute legend, absolute light in the football
world.
And we're thinking about Randy and hoping he gets better, praying he gets better.
But up next, we're going to shift to our NFL betting segment, Jack's Pack.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we're going to get into our NFL betting segment, Jack's Pack.
Admittedly, it was a bad week.
However, I put together an 18-money line parlay.
That was one leg off.
Thank you, Buffalo Bills.
But admittedly, Jack's Pack had a bad week and it brought our teetering percentage crashing
down.
So we basically are now, we went one, three and one last week.
We had our third tie of the year.
We didn't have, we haven't had three ties in the history of Jack's Pack.
And now we've had our third tie in a year.
So we are now 36, 31 and three, which brings our percentage down to 51%.
However, if you are in the community that doesn't count ties, that the money just brings,
the money goes right back to you.
We are, let's see, 36, 36 divided by 67.
We're at 54% if you don't count the ties.
So most people don't count the ties because the tie, and if you put down a unit or two
units on the bet, the money would come back to you.
It was a tie.
How's it going?
You didn't win.
Nobody, you know, you didn't lose.
So how's it going?
You didn't win.
So considering that is the case, we are at 54%.
So we are right below where we wanted to be because the goal is to be at 56%.
And above we're at 54.
Ties don't kill us.
They just don't help us.
So not bad at all there.
But let's get right into these numbers.
So our first number of the week, Jets minus three at Jags take the Jets.
This is a situation of who's bad was better.
Honestly, it was, that's how it felt.
Who's bad was better.
The best received, the best quarterback in this game is either 40 older Aaron Rodgers
or Mack Jones.
I'm going to take Aaron Rodgers.
He better receive, the best receiver in this game is Garrett Wilson.
The best singular offensive lineman in this game is probably Elijah Vera Tucker.
Breeze Hall is supposed to be back.
So he's the best running back in this game.
You know, you start going through the positions, the Jets have the best of the stuff.
Probably coach would go to Jacksonville, which, hey, whatever.
But like the Jets have the best of the stuff.
So I'm going to lean Jets here minus three over the Jags.
Plus three over the Panthers.
I don't understand how the Cowboys young dogs in this game.
I get it.
The best receiver in this game is easily C.D. Lamb.
There's no one on Carolina can guard him.
The better running back in this game is probably Dottle.
I mean, the Panthers running backs make it close, but probably Dottle.
I think Bryce Young is better than Cooper Rush, but the gap isn't that far.
McCarthy versus Canelas, I think is the name of the Panthers guy.
McCarthy by a little bit.
I don't know how the Panthers, I mean, you're saying Neutrocyte, they're even.
I would think Neutrocyte probably Cowboys minus three.
So I think this game should have been an even line.
I got the Cowboys plus three here.
Take the Cowboys.
Still, it's plus five and a half at the Eagles.
Take the Steelers.
This is not a slander to the Eagles.
I think the Eagles win this game.
However, I think the Steelers cover the five and a half.
Mike Tomlin, two things didn't happen to Mike Tomlin.
He didn't have losing seasons.
He doesn't get blown out.
Seven points.
I mean, over a touchdown, the NFL is a blowout in effectiveness.
I think the Steelers here cover the five and a half.
This game feels twenty-seven, twenty-three, you know, twenty-four, twenty.
That's how this kind of game feels.
This game was four and a half.
I'd probably go Eagles, but at five and a half.
If you can tease up to seven, your bet is probably really, really safe.
You can tease it to seven.
But I've got Steelers plus five and a half here.
Take the Steelers.
Lions, minus two and a half versus the Bills.
It's a home game for the Lions.
Take the Lions.
If they had to go deal with Orchard Park and whatever in the entire nation goes on in Buffalo
this time of year, I would say take the Bills.
But it's an indoor game.
It's going to be a track meet.
Whenever the track meet, one team has Sonic and one doesn't.
Along with Amon Raw and the rest of that crew.
So I've got the Lions here to protect the home field advantage and to keep pushing away
the Vikings in that division.
Bills have already locked up their division.
Not saying they're going to be any less motivated.
However, the one seed's probably gone because of Kansas City.
So at that point, so was Debye.
At that point, you're just keeping away whoever wins the AFC, whether Weston side, that's
Kansas City.
So everyone's AFC North, which is probably Pittsburgh at the moment.
I think Pittsburgh is going to hold the North and then the South is a joke.
So you're not even aware of what comes out of the South.
It's either Jacksonville, Indy, Tennessee, or Houston.
Houston's the only viable program out of there.
They're the four seed.
The one seed's gone.
So you're really just fighting whoever wins the North out of for the two and the three.
And the grand scheme matters is who's your divisional road game or home game.
So I think there's a little less motivation in Buffalo right now.
I think Detroit because they know they have a legitimate shot at the one seed and they
have a legitimate shot and they have the fight Minnesota tooth and nail for their division.
And then they're going to win this game by more than a field goal.
So take the Lions and then Vikings minus seven versus the Bears.
This is all slander to the Bears as a joke of an organization.
And this is full belief in the Vikings somehow someway overtaking the Lions and win that
division.
I think the NFC will end up going through Philly and then I think it'll end up going
through ultimately to go through Minnesota next.
And that's going to be hard to go into Minnesota with that defense and beat them.
And I think the Bears are just going to not score enough points.
I mean, I don't see the Bears scoring over 13, 17 if they're lucky.
I don't see, you know what I'm saying?
But that's two touchdowns.
I don't know how they get the two touchdowns unless it's bad Donald and Donald gifts some
pick six and then sits them on the goal line for another one.
I just don't see the Bears going over realistically 17, which means the Vikings 24 with that defense
rookie quarterback, bad infrastructure, fired head coach.
This feels like a Vikings blowout.
So Vikings minus 17, the Vikings.
So I went through the numbers one more time.
Jets minus three over the Jags, Cowboys plus three over the Panthers, Steelers plus five
and a half over the Eagles, Lions minus two and a half over the Bills, Vikings minus seven
over the Bears.
Up next, we'll jump into college football and talk about what's going down there.
Welcome back into the show.
And now we are going to jump into college football.
So as of the past six weeks plus, we've been doing the college football two minute drill,
just kind of hitting on top piece quickly in the college football world.
However, however, this week we're not going to do that.
We are instead, we're going to actually do a full college football segment.
So the big news because they had major news coming out of college football is transfer
portal time, it's coaches getting jobs time, so on and so forth.
And the big one, of course, Bill Belichick has gone back to school.
He has accepted the University of North Carolina head coaching position.
Saying Bill Belichick is coaching in college program would have been laughable.
A week ago, honestly, like that's, you know, that's laughable.
A week ago, that's laughable.
Maybe, okay, the smoke started with go.
So three weeks ago, that's a joke that Bill Belichick, whatever, if anyone ever thought
of the idea that Bill Belichick was going to be coaching college football, I would have
given a hearty laugh.
Especially if it's not like he didn't get Bama or he didn't get LSU or he didn't get,
you know what I'm saying?
It wasn't, you know, it wasn't a situation where he netted, it wasn't a situation where
he netted, you know, one of the major programs, Florida State, Florida, Bama and LSU and Ohio
State or Notre Dame, you know, somewhere where it's like a USC, somewhere where it was major
that he would land.
He got North Carolina, which can be, it could be a sleeping giant.
We know what they do in basketball.
They really get other sports as well.
Football they've never, to me, felt like a priority on the campus.
However, they committed a lot to Bill Belichick.
There was a rumor of a 400 paid manifesto, a 400 paid list of things he want done.
I don't know how true that is.
However, they did financially commit to Bill Belichick and this project.
For instance, he got a five year, $50 million contractor.
He joins, he jumps in the mix at $10 million a year.
One million dollar base with $9 million in supplemental income.
So the $1 million comes from the school.
$9 million comes from guaranteed endorsements.
He didn't have to do, you know, TV appearances, radio, blah, blah, blah.
But he gets $10 million a year for being head coached North Carolina.
Now interesting things, a few interesting things.
There is easy outs on both sides.
For instance, the first three years of this deal is guaranteed.
The full five years is not.
So if this goes horribly left, let's say in two years, Carolina could fire them for
all of, they can fire them for all of $10 million or whatever, whatever there's left
on the contract because only the first three years are guaranteed.
After that, he becomes an at will coach.
Like he could coach a game, they could fire him and don't want anything else.
I mean, so that situation there.
So the buyout for Belichick is prior to June 1st, 2025 on his side, not on the team side,
on his side, if he walks before June 1st, 2025, he owes the school $10 million.
If after June 1st, 2025, so again, this is next summer in June, they, he has not coached
a game.
It is $1 million for him to leave.
1 million.
So his deal starts now.
He's going to make a million.
He's going to make multiple million before he ever coaches the game there.
He could go to the NFL this summer for a million dollars.
He can go anywhere he wants this summer.
I don't think it's college, but he can go anywhere he wants $4 million.
Now he said in the interview, I didn't come here just to leave because they asked him,
they was like, yo, the DJs are kind of out.
What if, you know, NFL job calls in the summer, hey, Bill wants you to come be our NFL head
coach.
Do you dip?
He's like, I didn't come here just to leave.
Now I think that that is a consideration, but also it's in the contract.
He can easily get out.
He has a home connection there.
His father was an assistant coach in North Carolina in like the 50s and 60s.
So he grew up in that he probably he has pictures in the stadium.
Reportedly his first words jokingly was beat Duke or Duke sucks or something like that.
Like, you know, so he has a connection there.
So I think it was another place.
He might, you know, old NFL's call up came out.
Now reportedly he didn't inquire about the judge job.
But hey, so he has that in this in his repertoire.
He could own he could get into three and a half million dollars back to this contract
though.
I don't think he's gonna leave after, you know, before the season.
I think he's gonna do at least a year, maybe two.
Now he set it up and we'll get into that.
But he set it up to where Stephen Belichick, if he leaves Washington where he is right
now is the DC is named coach in waiting of North Carolina right after Bill.
So it goes from Bill gets handed right to Stephen.
And then there's reportedly he's going to bring in Josh McDaniels, his brother, as a
key member of the staff.
He's going to keep on staff.
Freddie kitchens, who was the former I think he's a former head coach of the Browns, tight
end coach in the league.
He's at Carolina.
Bill is going to keep him on staff.
And also he is looking to bring in Matt Patricia and a good rule.
He's hired a former Patriots personnel guys GM.
So we'll get into that in a second.
We're going to jump back into some key points of his contract.
He has up to three and a half million dollars worth of bonuses annually that he can get
to up to 350 grand for winning 12 games.
So he gets if he wins eight games, he gets 150 grand.
He was nine games.
He gets 200 grand.
Everyone after that up to 12 wins is another 50 grand.
He wins a conference, he gets to the conference championship game, he gets 200 grand.
He wins it 300.
A bowl appearance is 150.
Any elite bowl appearance is 350.
Now again, this is the greater amounts.
He makes it.
He makes the college football playoff 750 grand.
He wins the first round.
He gets a million.
He makes to the semis.
He gets 1.25.
He makes it to the championship game, one and a half.
He wins the Natty 1.75 million dollars and the final CFP poll.
If he's ranked 250 grand, all the in it's structured at 50 grand, the 75 grand, all
the way up to top five, he gets 500 grand.
So if he were to win the national championship, he would collect pretty much three and a half
million dollars.
But the key thing I want to talk about is why would a guy like Bill Belichick, who's
been in the pros since he was in his 20s, who's been in the NFL since he was for 40
some odd years, why would he go to college?
Because that was looked at as a downgrade.
Stephen A. Smith said it was beneath him to go to North Carolina.
He's the greatest NFL coach ever and you coach college?
It was beneath him from Stephen A. Smith.
I say the school to me was a bit low.
If it was one of the Blue Bloods, your Michigan, your LSU, your Ohio State, your Bama's, your
Miami's, okay, you could sell me on that.
UNZ?
So a USC would have been, a UCLA would have been something, and not a Blue Blood in football,
but the name recognition.
UNC, North Carolina, but then you bring in the family ties and you bring in the commitment.
Number one thing that Bill Belichick wanted to do, their NIL at North Carolina was four
million dollars a year.
To put into perspective how low that is at the major college level, Bryce Underwood cost
three million dollars at Michigan and he got outbidded from LSU.
So that's just to put into perspective of what's going on around the country.
Reportedly, North Carolina has agreed to up the NIL for football to 20 million dollars
a year annually.
I don't know where they're getting you from, whether it's Jordan Sponsorshows, private
donations, whatever.
They have agreed 20 million dollars a year to go into football.
Boom.
They've also, based on the new revenue sharing model, the 20 and a half million dollars is
available, they have given 13 million to football.
So now effectively, Bill Belichick has a salary cap, quote unquote, of 33 and a half million.
Because I have 13 and a half million dollars directly subsidized from the school as part
of the new revenue sharing model and I have 20 million dollars in NIL.
So I have 33 and a half million dollars per year to put together a roster.
That feels like a salary cap.
He also gets 10 million dollars a year for an assistant coach pool.
That's a lot.
So Bill's making 10 and his assistants can make up the 10.
If I'm Bill, I go to them and say, hey, every dollar I don't spend goes into the NIL fund.
Because think about it, the highest paid assistant in the country, I think it's Blake Baker.
He's the highest paid like decent.
He's making like two and a half million.
So if you pay an assistant, let's say you get your son in, two million, you get McDaniels's
brother as your OC, one and a half, 1.75, you're not spending four million dollars,
especially in a community that costs you another million.
And then your assistant, your position coaches, you know, you may spend all 10 million in
your assistant pool.
That's cool.
All right.
Strength and conditioning staff is a million.
That feels a bit low.
Strength and conditioning coaches by themselves make a million dollars these days.
That feels a bit low.
I think the top guy is making like two and a half million or something like that.
One point two million, something like that.
So one million for strength and conditioning staff feels a bit low.
I would definitely try to pool some of that money into strength and conditioning from
the assistant coaching pool, but whatever, right?
Strength and conditioning staff is one million dollars.
He gets a staff salary support pool of 5.3.
So if the general manager, I think his general manager, costs him 2.5 or three million dollars,
he says another two million dollars for dedicated scouts, for dedicated recruitment staff, so
on and so forth.
Your director for operations is in that money as well.
I don't care about the movie expenses.
I already discussed salary pools.
So that is what Bill Belichick is walking into at North Carolina, which is why I say
he can win immediately.
He has 33 and a half million dollars per year as far as salary cap.
And he has the ability to bring in NFL level guys to his program and run it like an NFL
program.
They're going to be structured.
He's already talked about how it wants to be a pipeline to the NFL.
It's going to be structured like it's going to be in the NFL.
Like he's already said, he wants his program to look like the NFL.
So this is going to be huge.
And if anybody knows how to build from the NFL, it is Bill Belichick.
Year one, it's going to be rough.
But I think by year two or year three, you're looking at a nine plus win program, 10 plus
win program outside playoff contender.
They may even get into a playoff game.
And with case you give Bill Belichick three weeks for one team, it's going to be hard
to beat them.
Right.
So that's going to be something that I'm going to be watching very carefully.
North Carolina, the Heisman show is tonight.
It is going to go down to Travis Hunter and Ashton Dainty.
One is the AP player of the year.
The other is a Walter Camp winner.
And I think that you look at and there's an argument going on, you know, Oh, Genti should
get it.
Why?
This is about the best player and the best season in college football.
Travis Hunter was, won the award, disputed it or not.
He won the award for best receiver and college football.
Genti won the award for bestgrpingback in college football.
Genti wins the award for best offensive player in college football.
Great.
The problem is, Travis Hunter won the award for best defensive player in college football.
Amongst the best versatile player in college football.
Like, he won six awards, seven awards.
7 awards.
Like an awards fest for him.
Gen-T's got 2.
Like, I get it.
He won the best, Travis Hunter won the best defensive player in his conference.
Gen-T won the best player and offensive player in his conference.
Gen-T in probably any other year wins the Heisman.
The problem is Colorado had the best player in the freaking country in Travis Hunter.
He's gonna win the Heisman.
The Heisman's over.
He's minus like 4,000 or something like that betting on him.
I wish I would have put money on him earlier in the season, but hey it is what it is.
Cause if I had to bet earlier I would have bet Shador.
But like he's gonna win the Heisman trophy.
It's not up for debate.
And people talk about you, you know, they're trying to discredit him with all these different
pieces of Hunter and they're like we've never seen Gen-T before.
Yeah we have.
It's called Melvin Gordon.
And Melvin Gordon didn't win the Heisman.
He lost to Marcus Mariota who had a more versatile better year.
It happens.
Alright.
It's hard for a runner back to win the Heisman.
Usually it takes a down year or historic numbers at a big program.
While his numbers were historic he did do it at Boise State.
Right?
He did do it on a boatload of carries in some game.
Early in the year when he was hitting for 18, oh he got 17 carries for 5 touchdowns
and 20 yards.
Okay that was insane.
But then he played a different competition and it became 37-2-1 and 2 touchdowns.
35 for 190.
You know what I'm saying?
The yards per carry fell.
The touchdowns per game fell.
Travis Hunter just went higher and higher and higher.
Like it is what it is people.
Travis Hunter is the Heisman Trophy winner.
Sorry to be the bearer of obvious news.
But Travis Hunter is the Heisman winner.
Regas returns to West Virginia and lamented in the press conference going to Michigan
and leaving West Virginia.
He's not the only coach to have done that and my brain has gone blank.
But there's another coach who came back to his old school too.
And he said it too.
Like yeah I should have never left.
Like basically don't chase happy or don't try to do better than happy.
And I'm going to see if I can follow Dan Mullins at UNLV.
But that's not the coach I was looking for.
Rich Rod back to Michigan.
Hold on I'm scrolling through Just In Time Sports because I know we have it.
Oh man.
I cannot find it right now.
It is betraying me.
But there was a coach who went back and his thing was like yeah don't try to outdo happiness.
Like if you are somewhere and you're happy just be happy.
Like you know whenever you get to trying to beat happiness that's when it gets too far
and that's when you start to lose your joy in the business.
And it's just if you're happy somewhere you're feeding your family.
Don't try to outdo happy.
And that was ultimately what Rich Rod said in his interview.
Marshall has opted out of the Independence Bowl in Shreveport against Army due to the
fact that they had a coaching change number one and more than 25 players on their team
have jumped in the transfer portal.
And so they physically don't really have a roster.
So they've opted out of their bowl game against Army in Shreveport.
So now the Independence Bowl is going through the process of calling and finding five and
seven teams with high FPI to see if they want to get into the bowl.
And I'm sure they're going to swing some more of the pot to Army as a result to Marshall
opting out.
And then the big news of course in college football is the college football playoff round
one is next week.
We're going to dive into this a lot more next week.
Just want to give you guys a quick preview of the games.
We have Notre Dame hosting Indiana in round one early right now.
I'm feeling Notre Dame in that game.
Texas hosting Clemson.
I'm going to tell you now and then Texas is going to win that game.
Ohio State is hosting Tennessee.
I am going back and forth on this game.
I'm leaning Tennessee right now, but it would not shock me if the Ohio State pulls it out
in the horseshoe and then Penn State is going wide out against SMU.
They're the better team.
Penn State is going to win that game.
So Texas and Penn State are going to win their games for sure.
I think Notre Dame is better than Indiana.
I'm going to go with Notre Dame right now there for sure.
And then Ohio State and Tennessee feels like a coin flip.
But up next, we're going to dive into the NBA and talk about what is going on and why
they seem to can't get people to watch.
Welcome
in to the show.
Welcome in to our NFL betting segment.
Jack's Pack.
Absolutely great show so far.
We're going to jump into the NBA.
Talk about why people don't watch anymore.
All right, so let's get to it.
The solid play is terrible.
The Rockets and the Hornets just set the NBA record for 75 missed threes.
The most ever in a regular season game because that's what the NBA boils down to at points
is an NBA three point shooting contest.
You don't get the exciting plays at the rim often.
You get the John Marantz, the Anthony Edwards, LeBron still go through.
But a lot of times you get a three point shooting contest between guys that if the NBA devalued
the three a little bit would be out of the NBA.
It's a lot less skill involved right now.
It's the main skill that people care about right now is shooting.
It's just not the pretty, it's not the ball hand exposition, not attached to the rim.
It's not big dunks, big blocks at the rim.
Warriors Cavs from 2016 looks like a bygone era as far as attacking the rim, shooting
the mid-range, blocking at the rim, dunks on the night.
That looks like an era of yesterday.
It looks like yesteryear.
The NBA doesn't look like the NBA we grew up on.
You have a group of individuals with to me probably one of the shorter attention spans
in history as far as the generation growing up on a league now that has no highlights.
Three point shooting is boring to watch repeatedly.
It is.
And if you're not a basketball lover or basketball purist, a 90 second clip of three
pointers is boring.
You swipe.
You don't watch the full game.
You know what I'm saying?
And now the Spanish is shorter.
So if your product is less exciting, people are going to not watch as much.
Also you sold most of the rights to streamers.
Amazon has rights.
All these local different TV packages have rights.
And they're only putting their games on certain channels, certain companies.
And it's like, it's too hard to watch a basketball game.
I have, I'm a Pelicans fan.
I live in Louisiana.
I have not watched a single Pelicans second on TV unless it was TNT or ESPN.
And guess what?
One of the ESPN games, I was at the game covering the year for Justin Time Sports.
So literally I have not watched a local TV broadcast of a game.
I have not heard Antonio Daniels voice all season.
I have no idea how to watch the games.
It's really difficult.
Like why are you making it that hard?
And if I bought Leap Pass, it wouldn't work in my area because I'd be blacked out because
I'm close to the Pelicans.
Like I said, I haven't heard Antonio Daniels voice all season.
It's insane.
It's terrible.
Now we're bad.
So watching it isn't the most enjoyable thing anyway.
But it's still awful that there's so much work to do to watch a game.
The style of play is boring.
I say eliminate the corner three.
Nick Wright's idea of making dunking worth three points is sounding better and better.
Now it would screw up the record books, but who gives a crap?
The record books would screw up the add a three point line.
The record books just skew whenever the fastest to make the most threes, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, because now everyone's just shooting threes.
So who cares?
Whatever.
You have a pre three point line and a pre dunk worth three point record book.
It is what it is.
But I think making dunking worth three points, I think would bring centers back overnight.
Because the big thing about a center is I, you know, you have to take go bare off the
floor.
You have to take center on the floor.
Like imagine if like, you know how dominant or how useful Jackson Hayes, Onyeka Okongu,
Jonas Valanchunas, Nikola Vucic.
I think some of these guys who are just either running dunk or pound centers, if a dunk is
worth three, because now Steph comes out, hit a three, bang, you're playing the Warriors.
Quick fast break out, let LeBron with a dunk, bang, and Steph's threes cancel.
And the dunk and the crowd's going crazy because of the dunk.
Now we're excited.
Now you're down three.
Just imagine the end of game situations.
You're down four with 10 seconds left.
That's usually an automatic three because of the free throw game.
I get a backdoor cut dunk it.
It's a one point game now.
That's huge.
That's cool to me.
That would revitalize the sport to me.
That'll make me ask what we're interested in because now a guy like Zion, oh my goodness,
he's 22 points a game and all his two is cons for twos.
Just imagine if he could turn some of those layups into dunks and now he's getting threes
off dunks.
Like that would be insane, right?
The NBA changed before.
Remember when I was shorter and that was Ego Baca Jordan could shoot a three and then they
slated back two years later.
He couldn't shoot a three no more.
And the scoring went back down.
Like they've done it before.
They've done a radical changes to scoring before.
Dunking worth three points sounds better and better.
Because you got to do something.
Game's boring.
It just is.
And that's what it is.
It's boring and hard.
It's boring and hard to find to watch.
It's a bad combination.
The NBA ratings are in the toilet.
So hey, that's a good idea.
The limited three point line.
Bring the games back to easy watching and dunking worth three.
Again, it feels cooler and cooler the more you say it.
But that is all I have for the day.
Great show.
Very football focused because the NBA is boring and no one wants to watch it.
And I hope you guys have a great rest of your weekend.
I hope you guys are enjoying the holiday season.
This is your host, Justin Jackson signing out.