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news on Fox Sports fourteen fifty eight. Okay, So the pairings for the
PAC twelve basketball schedule are out and Arizona fans, Arizona and UCLA fans will
be happy to hear that this was the year, this was going to be
the season that Arizona only plays Ucla one time, but they went ahead being
in it's the last year of the PAC twelve where with Arizona and UCLA both
in it, and so realizing that, look, you have to fix that.
So they are Arizona will play and Ucla will play twice home and home
this year, but the PAC twelve seasons. The last PAC twelve season starts
the week of December twenty seven to thirty one. Uh. The Arizona schools
are at Callen Stanford and then the next weekend back here taking on Colorado in
Utah. Those single games that they've moved. You remember that early in December
you would playing game Those are gone. Those are mixing good gigs. Then
now into uh into the rest of the season. But that means there's some
weeks that you gotta play three games. So but uh so, but the
they have and they haven't even said yet who's playing Thursday, who's playing Saturdays?
Now they got to put the TV schedule together, but the conference season
doesn't get started until until December the twenty seven. And do you realize,
Steve, that we are two weeks away from the Red and Blue games.
I know, I know we're gonna be in McHale from basketball in two weeks.
No, I know, it's quick. Come on, man, I'm
not ready. It's we're getting all. Everything goes, everything goes a lot
faster now. Then we then we don't get a chance for basketball for another
six weeks and they go to Duke early November. So it's gonna be like
here it is, and then you don't see us now you see us now
you don't exactly. So there's still a lot of good football in between.
There's there's plenty of football left. That's the one thing that kind of bothers
me about that starting early. You know, can we play the Red Blue
game in October and get a little further into the like we used to October
fifteenth, like we used to do it. Well, practice used to start
October. Yeah, well that was the first night, the first over midnight
anyways. All right, So anyway, so that that's out. So there's
a release on that. Bruce Pascal's tweeting and stuff about it. So if
you're following him, you can get more news about the football or excuse me,
the basketball schedule. A little controversy going on up in Buffalo, Buffalo.
Yeah, you haven't seen this Buffalo Buffalo or Colorado bull bills. Tell
me the Buffalo bills, one of the bills, you know, online report
order, you know, like Arizone's got a reporter you know that does well
you know who you know who does a lot of that. Well, Yeah,
Alex Smith, Alex Smith, go ahead, Yeah, I don't want
to jump ahead. So there the reporter got caught on a hot mic after
after the session with Stefan Diggs. Not Stefan, uh, the other dick.
Yeah, it was the other dick. Yeah, it's it's Stefan.
Don't go ahead. So so maybe that's why he was reading yesterday. Anyway,
So she said the girl, it was a girl, Yeah, it
was a yeah. Yeah, it's Stefan Diggs. It's Trevon Trevon Diggs who
plays for the cob. But she said, quote, he'll look me right
in the face and say f you. That's how he treats everybody. She
said that about him. He's really mad. Wait wait, wait wait,
she she went on the wreck. She was on a hot mic. She
was on a hot mic and said, talking to who I'm talking to?
I don't know who? Show wait a second, on second, So she
was on hot mics. Something something in her But that's your job, right,
right, And and she's reporting something that happened directly to her, right.
She she got caught saying that a Stefan Dig's basically is a jerk.
Okay, what's the news because if he's a jerk, he's a jerk.
Yeah, but you can't say that stuff publicly when you are the report.
I totally get you. If you're the Buffalo newspaper reporter or you're Steve Steve
Rivera on the Bill's radio station. Yeah, no big deal. They were
for the same. The call is coming from inside the room, right exactly.
That's it. That's the deal. Uh so what happened to her?
I haven't seen anything else that's happened to her. But Trevon Diggs, who
played it, was the defensive back for the Cowboys and said, Stefan's got
to get the hell out of out of Buffalo. So now it's kind of
like, now you're gonna have this tension. Yeah, no, no,
But but the thing about it is, okay, okay, come on,
Well you and I have dealt with guys like that. Yeah, and you're
right, it's not We're not in house, so it doesn't really matter.
And we know who's been the who's been quickly with us, So there's no
report of anything that's you know, if she's gonna be disciplined, it's not
like the Baltimore dude. Well these guys remember the Baltimore read your guy.
All he said was they beat him more last year than this year. This
year more than last year, and he kept kicked him off for two weeks.
Man, What the hell was that? No sense? All right?
Going back to basketball, the Field of sixty eight, the Twitter feed came
out and has the top twenty backcourts in college basketball? Oh, okay,
can I guess? Top ten? Arizona eight? Nope? Lower lower,
like they're not in the top ten. Really really, there was some pretty
pretty good, some pretty good back courts eighteen ahead of them. They'll be
better than that. It goes, It starts the Marquette Duke, Kansas,
Michigan State, Houston, Texas. They named Yukon, Creighton, Villanova,
Tennessee, us See, Baylor, FAU, Miami, North Carolina, Arkansas,
Florida, Arizona, Texas, and Syracuse. I think they've got that.
And are you are you talking about two guards? Are you talking about
three guards? Right? Because there's a who's got three? No, that's
why they're gonna be good. They're gonna be good at that spot. Well,
the thing again, Jay, is you know what you have here.
You don't know what other people have over there exactly. And then you know
what you just gott to prove it on the court. You ought to play
him out there and then and then see what happens. And they're probably much
better as a team than they are eighteen, that's for sure, right,
our friend, every everybody's been on our show as our friends just say.
Some people know when I say that our friend, our friend Randy Robbins today,
Okay, okay, Saturday, Okay, Yeah, it's good dude.
He's a good dud, good dude, very good dude. We've had him
on the show. He's a athletic director at that cast of grand I don't
know if he used to think get retired. No, I said there was
a picture of him. No, no, no, no no. When
we did the flag football story All Sports, Twusson had a photo and he
standing and after they played casta Grant and the opener and he's standing him.
So if he's not the idea anymore than hob Morale's lied, do it.
No. No, I was gonna text him, but I'm sure he didn't.
Uh, okay, no better, Sorry, sorry, Randia wanted you
retired already. Enjoy the rest of your time. Okay. So now,
as if, as if Colorado hasn't already liked this story, hasn't already show
people that you know, just shut the hell up and play him. The
Colorado stead coach Jay Norvell sCOD I think he's probably got not Deon pissed,
because Dean probably doesn't really care, but he'll use Oh, no question,
He's gonna say this right before they leave the stadium. You will go in
the field that he's made it personal. It's funny everyone want to have the
same same last year. It's a totally different personal from Dion. But let
me ask you this. Let me set down verybody that he was on his
radio show from a restaurant. Normal. Yeah, he said, I sat
down with the ESPN and I don't care if they hear the boulder. I
told them I took my hat off and I took my glasses off. That's
what my mother taught me. Because he was talking about the fact that at
his press conferences, Deans always got a cap on, always got his shades
on. So always got his shades on. Out on the field, I've
got a cap on. But that he's somehow impolite because he are disrespectful because
he doesn't do so okay, so Jay here, nobody set some scenes up.
Do you remember Jay Norvell he coached in Nevada. He came out here
for Arizonable, very impressive. In fact, a couple of people reporters in
that press conference looked like this dude could probably coach here. He was very
impressive. Former NFL guy. Right, Uh, and I'd like to say
this when I played poker kenness macho. It's a macho game. Right.
Oh so Dion played and he was fantastic. Norval played in the NFL.
You're not gonna tell another NFL dude you're better than me. You're not right
because you got paid too. Right, So normal what he said, And
he probably said, well, maybe some people hear it, maybe some people
don't. Do you as a coach or is the player need that stuff to
get motivated to play? You don't need it. But if you got it,
you use it to say that we're gonna kick your ass because you said
this, I just want to kick your ass. You want to kick your
ass. But and part of it depends is it will well what here's what
I'll happen. Deon's not gonna use it in his speech because do you hear
what the Colorados take? But what he's gonna say is something when they kick
their asses on Saturday in a postgame interview, he's gonna bring it up.
Say see, I showed you. You saw you saw what he did to
Rule right, and Rule just said you know, hey, hello, he
said, he said hello to but in a disrespectful way. So no,
in that in that regard, does Deon need this to motivate a se Absolutely
not not because because if you're waiting for something like that every week, and
then what happens if you don't get exactly exactly? But Deon's the kind of
guy who's gonna put that on a little index card in the back of his
brain. You know, he's gonna cover the point spread with a Lake touchdown.
You know, he's gonna throw a bomb, you know when the game
should be over. He's got you because Dion, I think, is that
kind of guy who will say he's gonna want to put you in your play
well, and the players mimic that, the mimic that they you know,
they poured on it. His son said, well they don't. They disrespected
us. So we decided to do this. Yeah, you decided to do
this because you were much better than that, better than that. Yeah,
right? But yeah, no, no, I mean you just I saw
that it was interesting and I can't kick kind of people will They did this
and they said this, What do you want them to say, they're gonna
kick her ass? No, you want to you want a team that's gonna
be proud to be who you are, whether you know you're gonna get well,
excuse normal said, you know, our guys have a chip on their
shoulder too because of the way people are just assuming beat their ass exactly twenty
three and a half points point point point spread. And I think Colorado State
was ranked last week? Were they not the Colorado State? Yeah, no,
Colorado is. I don't think. Okay, but you know, nonetheless,
no you need that. But if you don't, you know you don't
need it. You can use anything like that no matter what. Guys are
gonna use it. I'll just again relate the story. We're playing baseball at
Saint Gregory. We're playing cast of Grant. They were the number number one
team in the state in our division. In our division, had a double
headed against him, and across it right before the game, across the dug
out, we heard the coach say, let's show them why we're number one,
and we heard it, and we beat them, and no business beating.
And that's what motivated with the game. Guys got fired up. We
beat them. Wait, we played so we played doubleheaded, we beat them.
They run ruled us in the second game. So because we got their
attention. This is how I would have praised it. And I was a
coach, and I gave him a speech, and I was the reason why
some of the coach game with speech, we said, let's number one with
you, all right. It fired our guys up, huge, big,
fired him up with me. But the other hell no, they think we
did. You know, just the dugout was close enough for him for us
to say, that's that's right, all right. Uh, it was kind
of funny, all right. A couple of little bitty news things. Oh
wait, here's this one, this one I went before we're just about to
go out. Uh, you know, we were talking about the PAC clubs
record non conference record so far, and it's this massive number of years.
Hey, well who they play. Well, here's who they play. They've
got the best record, best non conference record against par five Appontasis. They're
six and three. ACC is four and three, Big Tenni is three and
three, Big twelve is four and five, and the SEC is three and
six. So there. So then we're going to but to snoopy face guy,
just like you get some good news in the PAC twelfth finally and you
just step all over it. Okay. So we're gonna take a break,
right, Yeah, we are gonna take a break. We've got Johnny Avello
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the excess at alls. It's Steve Lavera and Jakin Salvens. This is I
on the Ball on Fox Sports fourteen different. Hey, welcome back to Why
on the Ball here on Fox Sports fourteen fifty. I'm Steve Rivera. He's
Jakin's oss. Now on the phone, we have Johnny Avello from Jeff Kings
Sports Book. Johnny, how the heck are you? Hi, Stephen?
Jay. I'm doing well, guys, really good. Thank you. You
must be very excited. The season has started Week two coming up here.
I love it. I don't know what Jay loves it. Every must love
it. Yeah, you know what football? Football is the king of all
sports. Not that things slow down too much when football is not going or
when it's over with, but it seems like everyone has interest in football and
betting when football is now you know that that entails both college and pro.
And we play a lot of days a week now. We're playing four currently
five, and we're going to be seven days a week when we get to
November, right, So it feels like it's you know, when football rolls
around at the start of a new year, right, Like that's like the
sports calendar year. At least that's how I look at it. So what
do you guys? What kinds of things are you guys doing to get ready
for when football does, you know, come around? New products? Uh,
you know, take a look at what people have been doing, ideas,
what kinds of things do you do spending what we would call the offseason
basically the summer. Definitely new product. You know, we've got more offerings
out there than we've ever had before. I don't know if you guys saw
regular season wins with the sliding scale where you pick the number that you want
to bet over under. So you know, the team is constantly making enhancements
and we're getting up all the bets on the NFL in college quicker than we've
ever done before. We have a lot of the NFL up by you know,
May April May. We've got a lot of content already up to the
games and futures and regular season wins and to make the playoffs and things of
that nature. I'm assuming that you keep track of a lot of different states
and stuff. How is Arizona treating you? Very well? Loved Arizona.
Things are going real good since the launch down there. We're also opening up
our new retail book at the PG eight course, and Arizona has been a
great state for us. Are we are? We kind of like everybody else
in terms of what what the the betters bet on here, what they're looking
for. Do you see pockets of where there's different stuff that's more popular than
in other places. Well, you know, when I look at the states
and the teams that they bet on for future bets, they certainly like to
bet some of the local teams. You know, in the Arizona's case,
it's a little difficult this year to the baseball team was pretty good, and
certainly the sons of that put a quality team on the court. But you
know, it's it's hard to play some of the teams to win it all,
although they're getting some pretty big odds. But no, I think Arizona
betters overall pretty savvy. They're used to betting coming up to Las Vegas to
play. They no longer need to do that. They can just stay home
and make all those bets in the comfort of their home or anywhere within the
state boundaries. So you use the word savvy. You know, it's been
going a couple of years here, a few years here now at least legalize
in different states for a feears some places are brand new. Do you notice
or can you sense that that betters are getting more savvy all the time in
terms of what they do. Are they getting better at this? Is it
or is it just kind of there's so many people betting it's going to come
out the way it comes out. You know, basically, what you guys
are shooting for is, you know, sort of fifty fifty. I mean,
what do you what kind of sense do you get from how betters are
betting and how they're doing. They're definitely getting better. They have more information
at their fingertips. If they can go to the internet and look at local
newspapers from different states and different cities. They they listen to Your Guys show,
which gives them a wealth of information. So they have a lot of
different tools now to you know, make a decision on which way they want
to go on games. Yeah, no question, Johnny, I told child
the j here, I want to ask you what the heck are crowns?
And I get these numbers and I have numbers? What what can I what
can I use them for? Yeah? The crowns are you for? You
know, you're you can swag as we call it. You can use them
for to cash them in for it. I mean, there's there's a whole
array of ways to use those crowns. How many do you have? By
the way, I'm a meager guy, so I don't I don't want to
it's a few thousand, a few thousand, probably not enough to buy stuff,
but but that's what it's for. Then you can get swag tickets and
whatever. Yes, that's what it's for to cash them in at some point.
Okay, cool, cool, Okay, So, uh, you know,
the same game parlay is something that you guys, you know, push
a lot with some of your specials and those kinds of things. Can you
explain to me a little bit about what you can't do? I tried.
I tried to go do a same game parlay on the game last week,
and I could bet the over under. I mean, I could bet the
spread, but I could not parlay it with the over under. How does
that at work? Because some games you can and then occasionally run across the
game that you can't. There's some sort of a formula or something you can
do it on every game. See what happens, guys. If there's I'll
give you for instance, and if a team is a twenty one point favorite
and the total is thirty nine, well obviously you can bet that you know,
to cover to spread and over or the dog to cover and go under.
And that's a correlation which kind of puts the advantage into the player's pocket,
which is not a lot. Might be ten fifteen percent, but it's
still an advantage. And so what same game parlay is do it? They
allow you to make that bet. Now, in order to make that bet,
you have to go to the same Game parlay menu. You just can't
pick and choose. You have to go to the menu because the menu already
has those odds figured out for you. Whereas other operators won't let you parlay,
we will, but you need to go to the the same Game parlague
menu. Okay, So I just wasn't looking in the right place. So
you same game in all. Okay, God, I have one for you
too today. Just for instance, you guys have these great promost tonight,
and is one of them, you score seven, you go, you get
get up seven, you automatically win, whether they cover or they don't.
So I'm looking at that thinking I want to do that. So I put
a little you know, I think it's like a fifty bucks total. I'm
not going to do that, but some number. But it's not allowing me
to do it in this market. Yet it allowed me to enter into that
market. It allowed me to enter into the bonus I think you have to
what they call opt in to do that, and I think once you opt
in, you can do it. That's a promotion guys, where if your
team goes up by seven at any point, so then you win the bet.
So if you're betting the younger dog in the game, they go up
seven nothing, you won your bet. And if the favorite comes back and
then goes up by seven at any point, those people have won. So
it's just getting up seven at any point they're in a game. Yeah,
no, No, it's a great I've done it a few times. I
like it a lot. Is there is there anything that's more popular by a
lot than anything else? Or do people just do a little bit of everything
because there's so much out there, Like you go on the site, you
can almost do whatever you want. Yeah, you really can play. Your
props are really popular, especially who's going to score the first touchdown in Pro
football? That's really super popular in game wagering. It's also continues that's one
of our most popular offering that continues to grow each and every year. So
this might be a dumb question because it doesn't apply to you, but the
fact that Aaron Rodgers got hurt I'm sure you had some money on them winning
or possibly winning the Super Bowl or going far. How has that changed?
Oh? Boy, have the futures on the Jets changed. The Jets were
around fourteen fifteen to one. That are sixty to one. They were pick
close to win the Division U Now they're fourth choice. Uh, they're over
under season wins, which we keep up all year, we keep adjusting.
It was like ten and a half. Now it's eight and a half.
Everything's changed for them. You know, they lost the guy that was supposed
to lead them to their promised land. Not that they're out of it,
it's just that, you know, Aaron Rodgers has a reputation of and and
stats to for that matter, to you know, to take teams far,
and he's not going to be the guy to do it. Well, well,
they're they're not mathematically out of it, but they're out of it.
That's that's you might say that it's gonna be a tough road. Hey,
So when something like that happens, Okay, a big you know, a
thing that really can change the board, how quickly do you guys have to
jump on that to make sure that you you know that whatever odds are gonna
come look friends, Okay, here's an example. Colorado goes and beats beats
up on TCU. They were an underdog to Nebraska. How quickly do you
have to respond to that so that people, you know, aren't all of
a sudden they're getting two points, you know in a game that later on
in the week, you know Colorado was given up four or six or eight
depending on where you picked up. How on the on the spot do you
have to be to fix that time were on the Johnny? Do they have
to be exactly? Yeah? Yeah, we're on top. Well, the
whole trading team, which is you know, as fifty plus guys. They're
on top of everything, whether it's being watching the game live on Twitter,
any form of information we can gather. Uh, Colorado was a team that
we have taken a lot of action on the first two weeks, and we've
actually got buried on him for two weeks in a row. Yeah. So
yeah, So Colorado was five hundred to one to win national championship. After
they beat TCU, they dropped out to one hundred. Now they're eighty and
they're still taking a lot of money. So the team is on every team
in any sport. We have to be we can't make mistakes, we can't
care sleeping. Yeah, no question, maybe last question. We don't have
about a minute left. Colorado. You brought it up, Jay, They're
they've been unbelievable so far. What do you think about them? And in
the bedding scheme? I think they've certainly been underrated in the big book maker's
eyes. They were a little better than we thought. We knew what they
had coming, but you know, could they could They actually beat TCU,
who is down a little bit this year, no surprise in the second game
against Nebraska, and they should win against Colorado State, although I think that
game may be a little bit closer than with that line getting pushed up.
Schedule gets real tough after this guy. As you start playing teams like Oregon
in USA, they're gonna have to really show it. They're gonna really have
to show us everything they've got to beat those teams. One last one.
I know that the Chiefs are still the favorite to win the Super Bowl,
but do you feel like it's kind of tightening up a little bit up at
the up at the top with you know, some other teams, you know,
the forty nine ers, looked really good last week. The Dolphins looked
really good last week. Is it starting to compress a little bit at all,
or is it going to kind of well? Do you think do you
think it'll kind of stay where it is right now or close to it?
No? I think that you know, the Chiefs deserve to be one of
the favorites. But there's a lot of teams that could contend for this title.
It's a long season. They'll there'll be some teams that will overachieve.
There'll be something that are underachieved. We'll keep making adjustments, and it's hard
to win the whole thing, guys. I mean, one mistake in the
playoffs and you're done. Well Johnny, we appreciate your time. Always good
information. Yeah, we really going to thank you. Don We love we
love the site. It's great guys. By the way, guys, your
Ariazona teams looking pretty good. I think they make I think they make the
Bowl game this year. Wow, thank you Johnny, because Steve doesn't think
so. I appreciate Johnny. Thanks a bouch Man. Hi, guys,
Okay, at least we got one ouptimistic we do. We do all right,
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cool, all right, Steve, it's time. I'm surprised. I
was surprised that you didn't ask Johnny for some picks this week. I no,
you know why because if he gives them picks and their craft picks,
which you know, my picks always seem to be crap picks, I don't
want him to take the hit for that, so I'd rather not. I
came up with some pick, Stephen. You know last remember I told you
I felt good about my pick. Yeah, I don't feel good about any
of Yeah, there's this slim pickings this week. It's a tough week.
It's not a lot of great games, right, and uh, it's just
it's just tough pickings. So all right, you still have the honor,
your honor, so to go ahead, the pick number one our special game.
We're both picking Bengals of Ravens today. Yeah. I struggled a little
bit with all this stuff today. Luckily I'm doing Okay, I'm gonna jinx
it with that. So I'm gonna go college first. I'm gonna go LSU
over Mississippi State. Uh. It was obvious that Mississippi State can't score.
I can't score, and I'm not saying Arizona's defense wasn't the reason, but
LSU was overpowering. They're nine and a half point favorites, so I think
ten points is not that bad of a number. So LSU, all right?
Is that? I mean? I mean, is it because you what
you saw last No? I think she was better than what they showed last
weekend or two weeks ago whatever. Well, they got beat up by Florida
State. Yeah yeah, and then wait and again one, that's one of
those things we don't know how good Florida State is, right, Yeah,
all right? You know I bad mouth these guys all summer long. Wow,
and uh, but you know, from what I've seen so far,
I gotta kind of stop doing that. So I'm taking organ State. Yeah,
okay, Yeah, I like that game. Too, did I do
it? I don't like the hook on the twenty four and a half.
But San Diego State got beat up at four, they got they got beat
up at home by uh. San Diego State did by Ucla last week,
and I don't think Ucla is that good organ State at home they're playing,
they're playing for you know, they're playing to show everybody what you know,
what the hell they are and why why they got left behind. I think
it extra motivated all season long. Twenty four and a half just doesn't seem
like enough for Yeah, I thought it was twenty eight. So I liked
the twenty four. Yes that's said. I hope you hit that game.
Oh thank you, because I have with them too. You took or you
got them to Oregon States as well. Let make sure because I'm certain I
saw, yeah, twenty four and a half, I like it. Collect
a number twenty and I was a little skeptical with twenty four. I like
it. Yeah, So all right, so we both got that. All
right. My next game, I'm gonna stay on this bandwagon that I can
jumped on. Last week, I'm taking Oklahoma. They're giving twenty seven and
a half to Tulsa Tulsa got beat up by They were at Washington and got
beat up there. Now they got to take another road trip and go to
go into Oklahoma. Oklahoma scoring a ton of points. They covered for me
last week at the last second beat they beat SMU. Back to back games
against Washington and Oklahoma are tough when you just don't have the personnel. So
I'm taking Oklahoma giving twenty seven and a half at home. Oh no,
they're at Hell's up, but it doesn't matter, you know, I think
they beat him by forty. Okay, I did not go with that game.
So now I'm gonna go as you know, I go to I go
to NFL, and I do more NFL than a new college. And I
had a little struggle here. But I'm gonna go with Miami minus three over
the Patriots. I think that that was not a one off. Miami's pretty
good. Patriots are okay, but not in Miami, and so minus three
over the Patriots, right. I didn't even look at that, cause I
just looked at a couple of games because I'm you have to vic the Bengals
Ravens game, and then I decided I was going to jump on the band
Wagons. I'll tell you what that one is in a second. I'm gonna
go through college again. I just love the college ones. I'm taking Duke.
They're they're they're playing Northwestern. Spread there nineteen. Okay, Duke's at
home in this one. They're they're giving nineteen. I know Northwestern beat up
on on UTEP last week, but they look really bad uh before that.
So they and Duke has scored seventy points in two games, so I think
Duke is just gonna run up a lot of points and covered the nineteen.
I like the fact that it's under the under three touchdowns, so that's why
I'm taking. I'm taking the Blue Devils over Northwestern. That's a Saturday afternoon
game for US. Okay, that's not a bad pick. I like that
too. I'm not picking it though. So now I go to the NFL
and I'm gonna go with with San Francisco over the Rams MNUS seven and a
half. And that's gonna be my best bet. Yeah that was, you
know, Okay, that was a toss up for me because I like San
Francisco. I watched them. I was very impressed with them. They looked
really, really good last week. But I you know, I thought the
Rams looked pretty good too. So I'm trying to decide between this game and
another game and the one that I'll give you here just a second. And
I went with the other game because I want to get before it gets really
crowded. I want to get on the Lions bandwagon. And the Lions are
at home. They won at Kansas City last week. You got a home
opener. The place is going to be bonkers because they think they got themselves
a team now, especially after beating uh after beating the Chiefs. The Seahawks
are coming in after getting lit up thirty to thirteen at home by the Rams,
and so I feel like the Lions are just set up. I'm number
five and a half the Lions and minus five and a half at home they
went by two touchdowns. So I'm all over the I'm all over the Lions.
I'm gonna stay on the Lions bandwagon until it goes into the ditch.
So, and I think the Seahawks may be really bad. Okay, So
I really like the Buffalo game over the Raiders. I had that you talked
about that earlier in the show, but then I said, well, we
can't do that game. So Cincinnati. I wouldn't take Cincinnat over Baltimore because
Cincinnati can go lay two bad games in a row. They just can't.
They just can't. My note that I wrote, My note that I wrote
next to that work, you know it says Bengals won't lose two in a
row. I'm taking them for the same reason you are. Again, the
Bengals are at home. I don't. They can't get off to an O
two start. Uh. You know that it's a it's a great rivalry gain.
They'll be up for it. They look bad last week against against the
Browns, but I think they take that as well. So we've both got
the Bengals and the Ravens in our special game. So who just say you
were locking? So let's just go San Francisco. Okay, all right,
A lot of times, a lot of time left, So let me let
me go over these again before and we'll take it. We got time to
take some calls. If you want to call us with seeing you know any
of your picks, or if you think our picks suck, or if you
think my pick suck, which they have sucked the last two weeks. Yeah,
Richard, if you want to call us, please do a few.
He's I've got Oregon. We've both got Oregon State over San Diego State giving
the twenty four and a half. I'm taking Oklahoma over Tulsa minus twenty seven
and a half, Duke over Northwestern minus nineteen. I've got the Lions.
I'm locking the Lions minus five and a half against the Seahawks. The Lions
are at home and their home opener. And then we've both got the Bengals
over the Ravens. Your other three games, You've got LSU giving nine and
a half to Mississippi State, who probably a lot of people in the SEC
think they should have lost last week to Arizona. You've got the Dolphins,
who looked really good last week and beating the Chargers. Oh, You've got
the Dolphins minus three against the Patriots. And then the very what I thought
were the very impressive rant forty nine Ers giving seven and a half to the
Rams. And you've locked that one. Yeah, right now, Steve is
Steve's got seven points in our contest. He's got me up seven to one
right now. I'm just off to a horrible start again, But a lot
of season left. Steve a lot of seasons. We got seventeen more weeks,
and I try to put as much distance as I can. And when
I when when you get up to me owing you twenty bucks, then I'll
give you a twenty dollars right now, I only owe you. It's gonna
be in two weeks. I've already spent the money, so it's gonna be
in two weeks. Yeah, you know, my conscience, my conscience in
terms of, you know, I technically or sort of cover the team.
I wanted to take Arizona. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna go there
too. It's rare that I do that. But I'm with you on that.
I hear you. I So I'm gonna go on the record even though
I didn't take it in my bis. Plus, if I picked it,
my daughter would yell at me because especially if they don't cover. So I
believe Arizona is going to cover the eighteen points bread io. Yeah, and
another one I wanted to take and then I didn't. And I told you
I never take ASU games because if I lose, it's a double lot.
It's gonna beat the hell out of them. You know, I think I
think that the you know, I think they got a little demoralized by the
Oklahoma State loss at home. They're home again, but Fresnol State's pretty damn
good and they can't remember who they beat last week. But if I would
call it was pretty maybe it was in the in the opener, it was
relatively impressive. Yeah, but yeah, there's not very many sexy games.
Very findable winners, but not very big games. Yeah, no, it
wasn't the Tennessee Florida game. Florida is a good one. You've got Washington
at Michigan State. That's a that's a decent game, but just not but
the next week, man, the schedule is crazy. Fresnol State beat Purdue
at Purdue in week one. Okay, so that again another reason why,
you know, I think that they're gonna go in there and they're gonna handle
as you they're not certainly not gonna be intimidated by it, and they don't
tend to be intimidated by anybody. But I like I like that. I
like that game too. That's one that I go again. I just I
just stay off of Arizona and ASCU because too many others, too many other
things they get into my head when I fixed Yeah, it makes you breaks
your weekend in terms of happiness, and you're already unhappy. I'm already happy.
Didn't we talk about this? We gonna say, Texas, give me
twenty and a half to Wyoming Bright. Yeah, and then there're maybe they're
regression for Texas. It's a big game. They went to Alabama or not.
I don't know. Twenty twenty is not a big point. Listen to
you. I don't feel like Texas is a bandwagon I want to be on.
Yeah, yeah, there was something else I wanted to tell you.
College games, Okay, Colorado Colorado State. Now that we've had all this
other stuff, that's Colorad in Colorado big. I've gone on the last two
weekends. I like I like them, keep riding that horse. Yeah,
I'm not here elsewhere. I didn't look at that because I didn't really go
that far in terms of looking at games. But I would go Colorado.
I would go Colorado, Arizona, and I don't know my third I might
get another one. Get give the fans a three team parlay the Beavers,
Colorado, Arizona and Oregon State. Yeah, there's there's Steve's Steve's Parlay feature
parlay of the week. You get what you got, twenty five bucks,
you get about a uh yeah, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna write that
one down. See, because we're gonna come back to that. Colorado Arizona
Arizona state state. Okay, don't make me do this, Yes, we
got to do make me do this. If I had to take if I
had to take a parlay out of my five picks, I'm probably taking the
Lions. Yeah, probably taking Duke. Yeah, probably taking Order. Yeah.
I think organ State's pretty good. I try to stick to home teams
on stuff like that. Yeah, you know, I mean I still like
the Oklahoma game. Oklahoma at Tulsa. Tulsa is not an intimidating place,
so I don't think that's a big deal. But in Organs State, at
playing at home, you know, they're they're just gonna want to kill everybody
this year and say and say why did we get left behind? Because did
you see a clip I guess I just saw now on Twitter where Riley from
USC when he left Oklahoma, that he announced it that he was leaving,
that his house was pretty much attacked by the Oklahoma Sooners because they were so
pissed that he was living. That's the level that fandom is going. I
get mad because of Twitter. Yeah, that's kind of real life. Yeah,
you know, people, I understand they have this passion and we and
I see this for basketball, Jay, you know this, it's a wee
wee we How much money are you giving to the program to make it a
wee wee if you're aside from your ticket, well mostly involved. That's on
you see remember when when when USC when Arizona lost to US scot he got
and he got deaths right, it's crazy. Yeah, all right, we
have a caller. Hi, you're on the air and I on the ball.
Yeah, Steve. I think there were a few over zealous stands.
Uh. I'm not certain that they weren't impaled by an electric fans. Why
I'm making Rowley's the state. But I do understand Lincoln he did recently could
get a screen test out in Hollywood. You know, everybody was in LA
they think they might be a star. The results came back, they said.
They told him as a character actor, there were two roles he could
play. One was a West Texas copy with the mirror glasses, or two
of Mannicin. So it was between Mannken or wet wash rag they worked.
Sure. Wow, were you one of the guys that went over his test?
There's trespassed on his property? Witness that personally? You know, I
think what's happening here is he's starting to realize the traffic is terrible in la
Hey. You might be might be missing a few things in the harland.
All right, Do you like my pick on Oklahoma this week twenty seven and
a half? I do. I think I think that's pretty safe. Jay.
I think hocom has got to go to their freshman quarterback to really ramp
up their offense and see if it's go and get him out or see what
he can do. So, just getting another call, Richard, your DNA
is Your DNA is all over his house. They found it on the fences.
About I gotta I gotta go. All right, Okay, Hey,
I'm out of here tomorrow. Sorry that I can't be here tomorrow. Just
got a personal issue. I got a more service. I've got a ten
tomorrow. So Steve will be here with a special with a special special guest
host and take you into the weekend and then we'll be back. We'll be
back on Monday and we'll break down that you tip game. Whatever happened.
Yeah, I do believe Arizona handles this too. Doo. They need one
of these games, they do. And kind of what you're looking for more
than anything, to think is that, as Jed said, kind of a
mistake free game, a good solid or a clean game. Books to have
a turnover or some some sort of a turnover. One No, no,
I'm not betting that the Lord. No, no, there will be a
turnover. I thought you died for just a second. All right, thanks
for being here exactly. Hey, we'll be back. We'll be back tomorrow.
Thanks for being here.