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Speaker 2: The anxiousness in me is rising as we get closer
Speaker 2: and closer to Saturday afternoon, and again it just feels
Speaker 2: off to say, this is a big game Louisville Georgia Tech.
Speaker 2: But it's the biggest game up to this point. It's
Speaker 2: the first time we're going to see this team really
Speaker 2: challenged in any way, and usually we get to see that.
Speaker 2: Earlier I talked, I mean, I remember throughout the summer,
Speaker 2: even maybe in the spring, looking at Louisville schedule, thinking
Speaker 2: to myself, wait a second. Usually we've got some opponent
Speaker 2: that's got a pulse that we've heard of, that we
Speaker 2: know a little bit about within the first few weeks,
Speaker 2: and we had That's why there was that. I mean again,
Speaker 2: it's such a random, meaningless fact, but it made it
Speaker 2: make a little more sense to me as to why
Speaker 2: I just felt so off to be this late in
Speaker 2: the year and not really know if you are decent,
Speaker 2: really good, really bad. I mean again, even Saturday won't
Speaker 2: tell us the whole story. You got a lot of
Speaker 2: ball left play, but It's been a long time since
Speaker 2: Louisville has been in this situation where they're this far
Speaker 2: into a season where they've already had a buy and
Speaker 2: they've yet to be tested really in any way. So
Speaker 2: that's not a bad thing. That's not a negative on
Speaker 2: the team. It's just, you know, it's how.
Speaker 3: It played out.
Speaker 2: So George Tech is a big game in the fact
Speaker 2: that it's a conference game. It'll give you a chance
Speaker 2: to retain your top twenty five status. And I think
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech right now. You know, somebody asked a good
Speaker 2: question earlier, and I'll answer it as best I can
Speaker 2: by leading with the fact that I you know, it's
Speaker 2: tough to know who's really good it all right now,
Speaker 2: but I think it. You know, you've got twelve teams
Speaker 2: on your schedule. I would say Georgia Tech, from what
Speaker 2: we know right now, is a top five team on
Speaker 2: your schedule.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I mean, if we're just basing it off of what
Speaker 2: we know right now, And again, it's early, and you
Speaker 2: can say that it's early when it comes to teams
Speaker 2: who've already played, like a couple of legitimate opponents that
Speaker 2: were tested. But right now, I think Miami's the best
Speaker 2: team on your schedule from what we've seen. After that,
Speaker 2: I don't know where I would go. I mean, part
Speaker 2: of me says, well, by default, it's going to be
Speaker 2: Notre Dame with they just lost at home to Northern Illinois,
Speaker 2: I would say tied for second. I'm going to put
Speaker 2: Notre Dame in Clemson, and then I would put I
Speaker 2: put Kentucky and Georgia Tech maybe tied for third or
Speaker 2: I guess tied for fourth. So yeah, I mean again,
Speaker 2: it's early. Maybe that changes in a month and it
Speaker 2: looks totally different, but yeah, this is with this being
Speaker 2: one of the top five teams you're going to play
Speaker 2: on your schedule, that does add some significance to it.
Speaker 2: Because let's say you beat Virginia, SMU, Boston College, Stanford, Pittsburgh, Like,
Speaker 2: you're not going to get a lot of credit for
Speaker 2: those victories because that's what you're supposed to do, beat
Speaker 2: those teams that everybody believes is going to be bad.
Speaker 2: Boston College I should, I should give a little more
Speaker 2: respect to but I don't think SMU is any good
Speaker 2: at all. Virginia is really bad, Stanford's really bad. Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: they they've got a couple of wins against Big twelve teams,
Speaker 2: but I still don't think they're very good. Better than
Speaker 2: last year though, for certain. So yeah, I mean, this
Speaker 2: win isn't going to be one that maybe down the
Speaker 2: line people say, Okay, Louisville should be in line and
Speaker 2: as one of those at large spots in the playoff
Speaker 2: because they beat Georgia Tech. But still, I mean, there's
Speaker 2: gonna be more value there potentially than than the majority
Speaker 2: of the other games on your schedule. So the cards
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Speaker 2: and at five point thirty we're gonna be joined by
Speaker 2: Brian Edwards from Vegas Insider to get his thoughts on
Speaker 2: the slate. As they say, a football to bet on,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of football to bet on starting tonight.
Speaker 2: So we'll talk to Brian coming up here in about
Speaker 2: twenty minutes or so. But I do want to give
Speaker 2: you the latest on Colin Lacey. So Jeff Brown last
Speaker 2: night on his Coaches show gave an encouraging update with
Speaker 2: in regards to Colin Lacey that I was not expecting,
Speaker 2: but it's certainly encouraging. Quote says Colin Lacy is out
Speaker 2: with a collarbone injury, but he has just started practicing again.
Speaker 2: He's not clear to play this week, We're hopeful for
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, if not the week after vers SMU. But
Speaker 2: he's really come along well. So for obvious reason, there's
Speaker 2: not a whole lot of like specific details on injuries
Speaker 2: for Hippa and player privacy and you know, I'm not
Speaker 2: entitled to know the severity of an injury, but it
Speaker 2: was kind of weird when they announced Colin Lacey was
Speaker 2: out with a collar bone. They initially said, was it
Speaker 2: six to eight weeks? I think that's what they'd said,
Speaker 2: and then it turned into where, Okay, he's just out
Speaker 2: an extended period of time, so maybe he is recovering nicely.
Speaker 2: An it's not clear to play, and even if he
Speaker 2: is clear to play, that may not mean he's going
Speaker 2: to be thrown out there to play in a real game.
Speaker 2: I mean, it may be a gradual thing, so that's encouraging.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not kidding you. I was told by
Speaker 2: two people that they didn't think he would play it
Speaker 2: all this year, and that they thought he would be
Speaker 2: probably getting closer to play towards the very end of
Speaker 2: the year. And with him being a fourth year guy already,
Speaker 2: I mean, sorry, a fifth year guy already, it might
Speaker 2: make more sense for him to just take the red
Speaker 2: shirt medically and come back and play at Louisville next year.
Speaker 2: Not to say that that's what he was going to
Speaker 2: do or what he wanted to do, but when I
Speaker 2: heard that he may not be availableun till towards the
Speaker 2: end of the year. I just assumed that might be
Speaker 2: the most likely option for him, but it sounds like
Speaker 2: that's not in the mix here because even if he
Speaker 2: can't play this next not this weekn but next weekend
Speaker 2: against Notre Dame, if he's good for SMU and he's
Speaker 2: cleared to play, then you're going to play him.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that's very encouraging.
Speaker 2: Again, we don't really know what we're missing because we've
Speaker 2: never seen him play at Louisville, but this is a
Speaker 2: weapon that Jeff Brown really liked having. And he started
Speaker 2: to really not gush and just rave about Colin. But
Speaker 2: you could tell when asked about Colin Lacy throughout practice
Speaker 2: in the and on camp started that they were they
Speaker 2: really liked how comfortable he was getting. And I guess
Speaker 2: there was some issues, not maybe issues is an exaggeration,
Speaker 2: but like he he didn't really stand out in Spring
Speaker 2: the way maybe some people expected. And when I say
Speaker 2: some people, I'm not talking about Jet Brown, but like
Speaker 2: it wasn't as if he really looked like, Okay, this
Speaker 2: guy is special. But you can see what he's done
Speaker 2: at South Alabama. I mean the guy is I mean
Speaker 2: he was on these priests. I mean, this is what
Speaker 2: really was was a punch to the gut for Louisville
Speaker 2: fans because you know, there's a lot of unknown from
Speaker 2: the portal that Louisville has on this roster, and so far,
Speaker 2: I like what we've seen, but again, it's come against
Speaker 2: guys you don't really know what you know, It's come
Speaker 2: against opponents that you don't really get a chance to
Speaker 2: learn much from. So it's it's a question mark at
Speaker 2: this point with Colin Lacey. You know, I was reminded
Speaker 2: when I was look at all these preseason All American
Speaker 2: lists and he was like an honorable mention All American
Speaker 2: by some publications. And when it comes to the All
Speaker 2: American teams that are you know, the all portal teams
Speaker 2: essentially in the preseason just because of what he did
Speaker 2: at South Alabama is insane statistics. I mean, he was
Speaker 2: getting a lot of love. So again, even if he
Speaker 2: doesn't translate to the level at Louisville like he performed
Speaker 2: at South Alabama, he's still somebody that is going to
Speaker 2: help you. And who knows, maybe it does translate.
Speaker 3: You never know.
Speaker 2: I mean, let me give you an example, Quincy Riley.
Speaker 2: I know he plays a different position. That's a guy
Speaker 2: who transferred to Louisville from Middle Tennessee State and he's
Speaker 2: become one of the best defensive backs in the country,
Speaker 2: certainly in the ACC. So encouraging update there on Colin Lacy.
Speaker 2: All Right, so real quick, something I wanted to mention
Speaker 2: on the Kentucky side. Earlier today, Mark Stoops was on
Speaker 2: KSR to announce that they're Blue White Game. All the
Speaker 2: money going towards the Blue White Game Memorial Coliseum is
Speaker 2: going to go towards their basketball programs in il collective,
Speaker 2: which you got a chance to put a lot of
Speaker 2: money in that nil bank account for your hoops program
Speaker 2: by doing that. And I don't bring it up to
Speaker 2: like act as if Kentucky's taken steps that louisll and
Speaker 2: other schools aren't, because everybody's situation is different.
Speaker 3: Like some people may not be.
Speaker 2: Able to do that, Like some schools, and I know
Speaker 2: Louisville is probably not one of them, but some schools
Speaker 2: would not really be able to just fund what it
Speaker 2: takes to put that event on and not keep any
Speaker 2: of the money. Kentucky's obviously in a little bit of
Speaker 2: a different situation, so it's not just Kentucky. And I
Speaker 2: hate doing it because they're the rival. I don't want
Speaker 2: to be giving them credit, but I'll give credit words too.
Speaker 2: I think this is a good idea and it's going
Speaker 2: to give them a chance to raise a lot of money.
Speaker 2: And we know NIOL money is very important, and it
Speaker 2: will still be important even when schools have to start
Speaker 2: paying players. It's still going to be very much a
Speaker 2: big part of how all this works. Now, well, these
Speaker 2: guys make as much money as they are now, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know if we really know how
Speaker 2: much money any of these guys are truly making, to
Speaker 2: be honest with you, But if you've got a group
Speaker 2: of thirty to fifty college basketball schools that all have
Speaker 2: relative that are all getting the same level of investment
Speaker 2: from the athletic department, meaning every one of these schools
Speaker 2: in the Power five was able to round up the
Speaker 2: money to max out and spread twenty two million across
Speaker 2: all of their athletes, and I'm sure it's not going
Speaker 2: to be divided evenly.
Speaker 3: But still at that.
Speaker 2: Point, you're just back to where we are right now.
Speaker 2: Right playing fields lead is even nil is still going
Speaker 2: to be able to put you over the top to
Speaker 2: get big transfers and get kids out of high school
Speaker 2: and whatnot. So NIL is always going to matter.
Speaker 3: It's important.
Speaker 2: And another thing that UK did that I think is
Speaker 2: brilliant and I wouldn't be able to even ballpark the
Speaker 2: amount of money they can pull in from this, But
Speaker 2: this is a really good idea that it shows, in
Speaker 2: my opinion, some selflessness from an athletic department that needs money.
Speaker 2: I mean Kentucky and U of L and even Indiana
Speaker 2: schools like that. Around here, they're not hurting for money
Speaker 2: at all compared to like smaller schools that really are
Speaker 2: potentially going to have to look into cutting sports whenever
Speaker 2: this happens. But if you donate, you know, season tickets
Speaker 2: at u of L, they require a donation season tickets
Speaker 2: that UK or to acquire a donation. And what UK did
Speaker 2: is they if you ended up donating five K, ten K,
Speaker 2: whatever the donation is, whatever the donation is to get
Speaker 2: season tickets, if you donate that amount of money to
Speaker 2: one of their collectives, that counts as your donation for
Speaker 2: your season tickets. So I mean that that's I'm really
Speaker 2: surprised anybody's doing that because that donation money. I mean
Speaker 2: that that that's a lot of money. And they in
Speaker 2: these schools have been used to having that annual chunk
Speaker 2: of money from season ticket donations. And you can think
Speaker 2: about what you're doing. You're not paying for a season,
Speaker 2: I mean you have to you have to donate to
Speaker 2: be able to buy the tickets, right, which, again, anytime
Speaker 2: I just say that out loud, I'm like, man, college
Speaker 2: sportsmans are the biggest suckers. I wouldn't have it any
Speaker 2: other way. I wouldn't be able to afford it. I'm
Speaker 2: just telling you that. But like, think about that. You
Speaker 2: got to pay me a donation just to be able
Speaker 2: to get a ticket, and that donation's.
Speaker 3: Actually a donation at that point. Yeah, I mean, what
Speaker 3: is it? Like it's I mean, it isn't calling it
Speaker 3: a scam, but is it. It kind of feels like it,
Speaker 3: right yeah? So and again like what that in?
Speaker 2: What that's done psych From a psychological standpoint, I think
Speaker 2: I think people would be more willing to get season
Speaker 2: tickets if they could afford it knowing that, because at
Speaker 2: least they can think, okay, well I know where this
Speaker 2: five to ten K is going, it's going to a
Speaker 2: pool of money to where we can go get good players.
Speaker 2: If you're just giving it to the school to add
Speaker 2: on to what you're already paying them for the ticket,
Speaker 2: like you kind of feel like you're getting scammed. So anyways,
Speaker 2: I don't want to nerd on it nerd out on
Speaker 2: it too much. We're a big college market around here,
Speaker 2: we all know that. But I am always fascinated by
Speaker 2: the different creative things that are done by schools when
Speaker 2: it comes to NIL, and it's not changing again, it's
Speaker 2: not going anywhere. I think there's a belief that if, when, if,
Speaker 2: and when this bill passes in the schools are on
Speaker 2: the hook to pay student athletes that NIL goes away. No,
Speaker 2: it's going to be, you know, it's going to be
Speaker 2: really the cherry on top. It could be really what
Speaker 2: puts you over the edge with other schools, because again,
Speaker 2: you got to keep in mind, if you're going after
Speaker 2: a highly regarded transfer, there's a good chance that highly
Speaker 2: regarded transfer is gonna be considering top tier schools, right,
Speaker 2: and those top tier schools are probably all doing the
Speaker 2: exact same thing from a monetary standpoint as far as
Speaker 2: the school paying the student athletes their revenue share. So
Speaker 2: then you're right back to again where we are, where
Speaker 2: it's who's got the biggest bag when it comes to nil?
Speaker 2: All right, Brian Edwards from Vegas Insider is going to
Speaker 2: join us, coming up here in just a few minutes.
Speaker 2: But before we do that, let's talk. Let's talk about
Speaker 2: tonight's matchup, shall we? In Thursday night football? Not a
Speaker 2: sexy matchup in my opinion, but you know, it's got
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers and the Jets. They're a big market team,
Speaker 2: and I don't I feel like there's no team with
Speaker 2: less of an identity than the Patriots right now because
Speaker 2: they've got Jacoby Brisset as they're starting quarterback, a career journeyman.
Speaker 2: They've got a new head coach whose name I keep
Speaker 2: forgetting that nobody expected to be in the mix for
Speaker 2: that job, but here he is. They got off to
Speaker 2: a decent start where they nearly beat the Seahawks last week,
Speaker 2: and they beat the Bengals in Cincinnati to start the year.
Speaker 2: But like to me, they just seem like a team
Speaker 2: that is going through the biggest like rebuilding of their
Speaker 2: identity of anybody in the NFL right now, and more
Speaker 2: than anything. It's just because they were it was. It
Speaker 2: was Belichick for so long and Brady for so long,
Speaker 2: and now obviously Belichick's gone and they have already moved
Speaker 2: on from the quarterback they brought into replace Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: So yesterday you guys heard me talking about what I
Speaker 2: was gonna do on the Underdog Fantasy app and I
Speaker 2: already did that. But today I'm gonna build a smaller
Speaker 2: pick them here, but it's gonna be I'm gonna put
Speaker 2: a little bit more on it.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Some people call it units, Right, I'm gonna I got
Speaker 2: two units on this or it's a one unit play
Speaker 2: if you for those who don't know what that what
Speaker 2: that means. And maybe everybody bets different amounts anytime they bet.
Speaker 2: In fact, John, when you bet parlays, you don't have
Speaker 2: to tell me the amount of money, But do you
Speaker 2: bet the same amount each time?
Speaker 3: Usually?
Speaker 1: Same here?
Speaker 4: On how many legs it is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, same here.
Speaker 2: So for me and I have no problem saying it
Speaker 2: as I've grown a little bit as a better and
Speaker 2: you know, I've had some success like I usually if
Speaker 2: I'm going to do if I'm going to do it
Speaker 2: two to three leg parlay, I'll usually throw twenty bucks down.
Speaker 2: If I'm going to do a four leg parlay, which
Speaker 2: of course is much harder to get, I'll put ten down,
Speaker 2: And of course that's a good investment if it ends
Speaker 2: up coming back and winning. So ten, let's say your
Speaker 2: units are ten dollars. You got two units on it
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Speaker 2: You're really confident you're putting three down. So if you've
Speaker 2: never wondered what people mean when they say that's that's
Speaker 2: what that is. So I'll put a little more units
Speaker 2: on this one because there's not as many plays that
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Speaker 3: You guys know the drill.
Speaker 2: You just got to look at what they've got set
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Speaker 2: got greedy. I didn't put as much on it, but
Speaker 2: you know I had six different picks. What I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do here as far as this pick, well, multiple picks
Speaker 2: to make the play here. Let's uh, I'm so tempted
Speaker 2: to take Rogers with an interception, but then again, like
Speaker 2: he's Rogers, like maybe he said even like quarterbacks can
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Speaker 2: I don't have the stones to do it. So in fact,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna stick with one of the picks from yesterday.
Speaker 2: I'm going higher than two hundred and sixteen and a
Speaker 2: half passing yards for Aaron Rodgers, And I feel pretty
Speaker 2: good about that. And I know, like projections don't show
Speaker 2: that to be you know that that'll play out. In fact,
Speaker 2: I keep seeing people say take the under, referencing different
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Speaker 3: I don't care, all.
Speaker 2: Right, So for receiving yards for Collins, the receiver for uh, nevermind,
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Speaker 2: All right, we didn't get in a lot of time
Speaker 2: to get we we didn't have any time to get
Speaker 2: into our picks. Which that's okay because I would imagine
Speaker 2: your parlays for college football this week and John do
Speaker 2: not include South Alabama and app State. They do not, okay,
Speaker 2: So we can save that for tomorrow if we don't
Speaker 2: have much time later on. But I do want to
Speaker 2: get to a break. We'll bring him in on the
Speaker 2: other side, he's Brian Edwards from Vegas Insider dot com
Speaker 2: to talk about this weekend's action a lot of football,
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Speaker 2: Who do we have here?
Speaker 3: John?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: This was?
Speaker 3: This is Sting Sting, Yeah, highlight headlining tonight.
Speaker 2: I should say, yeah, I second guessed myself here, knowing
Speaker 2: that Sting was was a late addition to the music
Speaker 2: festival Bourbon and Beyond, which is in town today, tomorrow
Speaker 2: and uh Saturday and Sunday as well. But I've been
Speaker 2: so wrong and so confident about some of the artists
Speaker 2: you play when we come back from break and I
Speaker 2: just made myself look like a fool. So I just
Speaker 2: I thought i'd ask there instead of potentially looking like
Speaker 2: an idiot. But yeah, Sting one of the bigger names
Speaker 2: in the entire festivals. Right of course that's going on
Speaker 2: from these next four days. All right, let's talk some football,
Speaker 2: shall we. Let's bring him in. He's Brian Edwards from
Speaker 2: Vegas Insider. Brian, how we doing this afternoon?
Speaker 3: My friend doing outstanding?
Speaker 5: What's happening? We?
Speaker 2: Uh, we're ready for some football around here. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you this man, when it comes to uh, Louisville football,
Speaker 2: rare start to the season. They're two to zero, but
Speaker 2: you don't know anything about them. They've played Austin p
Speaker 2: and Jacksonville State. They had a bye week in week three.
Speaker 2: So this Georgia Tech matchup will be maybe not a
Speaker 2: huge test, but certainly their first test. And this this
Speaker 2: Georgia Tech team under Brent Key, they really thrive in
Speaker 2: spots like this, right, underdogs double digits even you know,
Speaker 2: I know we had already talked about this matchup specifically,
Speaker 2: but what would you guess is the reason why this
Speaker 2: thing is hovering above ten right now because I think
Speaker 2: most people think Louisville should win. But that's a lot
Speaker 2: of points for Georgia Tech team that's already shown to
Speaker 2: be pretty solid this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, Louisville's very highly power rated amongst you know,
Speaker 5: every set of rankings that I've seen. I've got them
Speaker 5: at eighteen. I have Georgia Tech.
Speaker 1: Where do I have Georgia Tech.
Speaker 5: Oh, I've got them at forty one. So but I
Speaker 5: like Georgia Tech here. Like you were saying with Brent Key,
Speaker 5: he's been incredible as an underdog. Thirteen and three gets
Speaker 5: the spread with ten outright wins as a double digit
Speaker 5: underdog seven and three ats with five outright wins, and
Speaker 5: Haynes King was a turnover machine at A and M
Speaker 5: as a young quarterback first couple of seasons, and he
Speaker 5: actually led the acc and interceptions last year, you know,
Speaker 5: despite having a pretty good year otherwise, I mean led
Speaker 5: them to their first Bowl game since twenty eighteen or two. Yeah,
Speaker 5: twenty eighteen, and their first bowl wins. It's twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5: But right now he's playing like an All American seventy
Speaker 5: six point four completion percentage, nine hundred and sixty two
Speaker 5: passing yards six to one TDI and T Ratio also
Speaker 5: has one hundred and fifty eight rushing yards, three touchdowns,
Speaker 5: six point three yards per terry average. I've got I've
Speaker 5: got Georgia Tech at ten and a half looks like
Speaker 5: it's looks DraftKings has moved to eleven, but there's a
Speaker 5: ten at Caesars most other books at ten and a half.
Speaker 5: I like the Yellow Jackets catching the big number.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't want to make Louisville fans
Speaker 2: think that I'm doubting their team and that that you know,
Speaker 2: I don't think that the Cards can have a good
Speaker 2: year I just I've got a lot of respect for
Speaker 2: Brent Key and this Georgia Tech team, and I think
Speaker 2: their their spot against q SO who was understandable for
Speaker 2: them to come out flat. So yeah, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to touch this one. But if I did, and I
Speaker 2: you know I had to, you know, my my financial
Speaker 2: situation depended on it, I would I would lean.
Speaker 3: The Yellow Jackets as well.
Speaker 2: Before we get back into the college side of things tonight,
Speaker 2: we've got the Pats at the Jets.
Speaker 3: You know, I feel like this, uh, this this.
Speaker 2: Team in New England, they seem to be the team
Speaker 2: more than anybody in the NFL, kind of trying to
Speaker 2: reform an identity with the guy that was there so long.
Speaker 2: Now Belichick's gone, They're off to a decent start the Jets.
Speaker 2: Obviously Aaron Rodgers is there and now he's healthy. Uh
Speaker 2: you got any action on this Thursday night football matchup tonight?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 5: I'm on the Patriots plus the six. I made the
Speaker 5: Jets four point favorites. I think we think the line
Speaker 5: is a little rich here. Patriots had looked good obviously,
Speaker 5: a really nice win at SINCI, and the Bengals looked
Speaker 5: great last week at Arrowhead and you know, uh lead
Speaker 5: at halftime or led you know, big chunks of the
Speaker 5: game against Seattle last week, and I had the lead
Speaker 5: in the fourth quarter, but with fifty five seconds left, Seattle,
Speaker 5: you know, forsd Oht with a field goal and they
Speaker 5: win it in ot But the Pats have been very
Speaker 5: feisty running the ball well with Romandre Stevenson. I don't
Speaker 5: want to give you, you know, a bunch of stats because
Speaker 5: it's just two games in, but they're up at the
Speaker 5: top and all the defensive categories right now. And you know,
Speaker 5: the Jets kind of got a little help from Will
Speaker 5: Levis last week with his carelessness with the football, but
Speaker 5: the Jets have not you know, they got smoked at
Speaker 5: San Francisco, and you know weren't overly impressive last week.
Speaker 5: That game in Tennessee could have gone either way. So
Speaker 5: I'll go Pats plus six.
Speaker 2: I know, on the college side of things, this is
Speaker 2: probably not a huge game in the grand scheme of things,
Speaker 2: but I know you've got to pick here at play
Speaker 2: I should say in this Cincinnati Bearcats Houston Cougar's matchup,
Speaker 2: Scott Saderfield, we don't miss him that much around here.
Speaker 2: But you know he's he's still got a chance to
Speaker 2: salvage some things in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: What do you like here?
Speaker 5: I like Cinci a lot here. You know they they
Speaker 5: should be undefeated. They had a twenty seven to ten
Speaker 5: lead over Pitt at home with a minute left in
Speaker 5: the third quarter, but gave up an eighteen to o'
Speaker 5: run and Pitt.
Speaker 2: Rally for Yeah, I've seen that movie before. Brian here
Speaker 2: in Louisville and Saderfield was here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think I remember either a Thursday
Speaker 5: or Friday night I was on Louisville pretty heavy against
Speaker 5: Florida State.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Friday night games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we might have even spoke that afternoon.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Anyhow, I will give credit to Sadderfield for this. He
Speaker 5: got him a heck of a quarterback and Brendan soaresby
Speaker 5: from Indiana, and he's thrown for eight hundred and sixty
Speaker 5: seven yards, six touchdowns, no picks. He's also got a
Speaker 5: pair of rushing touchdowns. I had the Bearcats against Miami,
Speaker 5: Ohio last week. They covered fairly easily, and I liked
Speaker 5: them laying three and a half at home to Houston.
Speaker 2: All right, now, my producer is a big time Indiana
Speaker 2: Hoosier fan, and Kurt Signetti has injected some real life,
Speaker 2: some enthusiasm not only in his team, but in a
Speaker 2: fan base that I didn't really know they existed. I
Speaker 2: know a few Indiana football fans, but now there seems
Speaker 2: to be a lot more of them because they're having
Speaker 2: some success. Signetti is a big time winner, but they
Speaker 2: are one of the bigger favorites in college football over
Speaker 2: the weekend. You think they could cover.
Speaker 5: Here, I do, And I don't like laying big numbers
Speaker 5: like this now. Oh gosh, I haven't looked at it
Speaker 5: in a couple hours. I know some lines had gone
Speaker 5: to twenty nine, but I got twenty eight and a
Speaker 5: half earlier in the week, and I bought it to
Speaker 5: twenty eight. You know the key number. So if your
Speaker 5: numbers twenty eight and a half, I'd buy the half point.
Speaker 5: If it's twenty nine, don't worry about it. Signetti is
Speaker 5: the real deal, and they went out West yet last
Speaker 5: week and just dominated UCLA from starting to finish. I
Speaker 5: watched that game back, or at least a good chunk
Speaker 5: in the first half at least. The other night, Curtis
Speaker 5: Rourke looked out standing seventy four point three completion percentage,
Speaker 5: seven touchdowns, no picks. He's got a rushing touchdown, and
Speaker 5: Charlotte's down to a third stream quarterback and they're not
Speaker 5: very good anyway. I think Indiana deals out a woodshed treatment.
Speaker 2: So in the SEC, Florida and Mississippi State. Your Gators
Speaker 2: obviously not off to a great start. But you know
Speaker 2: who's even worse? Mississippi State. I mean, I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 2: surprised that this is not a much bigger number in
Speaker 2: favor of Florida. Uh, I mean, what do you think
Speaker 2: happens here?
Speaker 5: I Like, Mississippi State, they obviously looked awful last week.
Speaker 5: I mean, you're down thirty five to three at home
Speaker 5: in the third quarter to a MAC program, even though
Speaker 5: it's Toledo, which is, you know, probably the class.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you don't have the facts here for this, Brian,
Speaker 2: but would it be possible that nobody else has ever
Speaker 2: in the SEC been in that situation that big of
Speaker 2: a deficit in the third quarter against a MAC team
Speaker 2: at home, Like that's some precedent and for SEC play, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean, if I had to guess, I'd probably say
Speaker 5: Vandy maybe, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't ever, Yeah, you
Speaker 5: rarely see that, if ever. But look, Florida's banged up.
Speaker 5: I mean, maybe the best player on the whole team,
Speaker 5: certainly the best receiver, Eugene Wilson.
Speaker 3: He's out.
Speaker 5: Two of the best portal gets in the offseason, safety
Speaker 5: Asta Turner and defensive lineman Joyce Blackman, who was the
Speaker 5: Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year last season. They're
Speaker 5: both out. So three key players for Florida are out
Speaker 5: and look as a favorite, Napier's been horrible at UF.
Speaker 5: He's three eight and one against the spread. We go
Speaker 5: back in his last couple of years in Louisiana, last
Speaker 5: twenty nine games as a favorite, Napier's teams are nine
Speaker 5: nineteen and one ATS. And one of the few bright
Speaker 5: spots for Missippi State has been Baylor transfer QB. Blake Shaping.
Speaker 5: He's playing really good seventy point one completion percentage, eight
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty four passing yards, seven to one TDI
Speaker 5: and T ratio. And they've got an outstanding receiver and
Speaker 5: Kevin Coleman who is fourth in the SEC in all
Speaker 5: purpose yards. And Florida is only seven and sixteen under
Speaker 5: Napier straight up against Power five competition. I think Mississippi
Speaker 5: State wins outright, and I hope Napier's fired before launch on.
Speaker 2: Well, I know we're going to get back into some
Speaker 2: other games. But I have to ask you this, what
Speaker 2: do you make of people claiming that Lane Kiffin wouldn't
Speaker 2: leave Ole Miss for Florida. Again, we don't even know
Speaker 2: if the I mean, the job probably will open up,
Speaker 2: and I would assume if they're smart, they will target him.
Speaker 2: And I'm not even just trying to gass up the
Speaker 2: Gators here, but on what planet would the head coach
Speaker 2: at ole Miss not leave to go coach at Florida?
Speaker 3: I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for people to imply there's no chance, I think
Speaker 5: is delusional. However, I think Ole Miss is going to
Speaker 5: the playoff and with the way you know, the schedule
Speaker 5: works in college football. Now, whatever early signing day is,
Speaker 5: I want to say, it's like December twelfth, But see
Speaker 5: you if you hold it, if you pull a mouth
Speaker 5: more and wait like he did with Saban with the Dolphins,
Speaker 5: and you wait for Kiffin. And I'm sure Jimmy Sexton
Speaker 5: can give the people at Florida a clue whether they
Speaker 5: have a decent shot or not. I think you wait
Speaker 5: it out now that if they're going to win the
Speaker 5: national championship, and I think ole Miss is a legit
Speaker 5: national title contender, then you know, maybe you strike out
Speaker 5: there and maybe it looks horrible, but nobody's really getting
Speaker 5: me excited to be the next Gator coach other than
Speaker 5: Lane Kiffin. So I want us to go all out,
Speaker 5: you know, back up the breaks, the you know, the
Speaker 5: truck with all kinds of money. But the CFP could
Speaker 5: kind of could get in our way.
Speaker 3: We'll see, dude.
Speaker 2: Lane's brand, Lane's everything about him, his vibe is perfect
Speaker 2: for Florida, I think. And what he's done at ol
Speaker 2: Miss is impressive, and he has put himself in a
Speaker 2: position to have the roster that you mentioned is is
Speaker 2: potentially a national championship contender that's not as sustainable at
Speaker 2: ole Miss. It could be in every it could be
Speaker 2: not only a regular thing to be a playoff participant
Speaker 2: at Florida, but you could also have an even higher
Speaker 2: ceiling than he has at ole Miss. I get old
Speaker 2: Miss as a is a great job, but it ain't Florida.
Speaker 2: And he you know my again, my guess doesn't mean
Speaker 2: much of anything, but I think he'll be the gators
Speaker 2: next head coaches because it makes it.
Speaker 3: Makes too much sense.
Speaker 2: But real quick, the other big one of those, I mean,
Speaker 2: I just don't see it any other way. And yet
Speaker 2: it's become like this hot take on these round table
Speaker 2: shows of like, uh, you know, wait a second, I
Speaker 2: don't know about Florida. I'm like, look what he's done
Speaker 2: at Ole, miss is crazy, but it could be a
Speaker 2: once in a decade thing. He could literally do it
Speaker 2: every year Florida. But what do you like about Tennessee Oklahoma?
Speaker 2: Any play here? Obviously a big time matchup, a lot
Speaker 2: of points expected to be scored.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna go Ball's team total over thirty two
Speaker 5: and a half. You know, the line's gotten a little
Speaker 5: too big. I mean, if I had to pick it,
Speaker 5: I still go balls, presuming it's still seven, which I
Speaker 5: believe it is. I know a couple seven and a
Speaker 5: half popped earlier, sumer low on time, so I'll rip
Speaker 5: off a couple more sure, like cal plus two and
Speaker 5: a half at fsu Jay Not'll be back with their backup.
Speaker 5: Damian Thomas is playing great seven point eight yards for
Speaker 5: Carrie and will Cox is thirty and fifteen against the
Speaker 5: spread forty five games as an underdog. Also like two
Speaker 5: Lane minus three at Louisiana. Tou Lane's been playing the
Speaker 5: big boys in the last two weeks and you know,
Speaker 5: hung in double digits on Case State at half two
Speaker 5: weeks ago, only down by five at Oklahoma seven minutes left.
Speaker 5: I think they go into Lafayette and take care of
Speaker 5: business against Louisiana and then NFL. I'm on the Bucks
Speaker 5: minus six and a half and i got the Commanders
Speaker 5: plus eight, but as long as they're catching at least seven,
Speaker 5: I like them at Sency.
Speaker 2: Good stuff, Brian, appreciate the time as always. Enjoy a
Speaker 2: great weekend of football and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Brother, Thanks Dick, have a great weekend.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: That's Brian Edwards from Vegas Insider dot com. Always appreciate
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