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Speaker 2: It's Tuesday, we're in the.
Speaker 1: Heart of bull season, we got college football, we got NBA,
and it's my birthday. And I wasn't sure Dan was
going to join us, but he is joining us. Therefore
I'm rocking the fireball Onesie, the one of them. Oh
it looks good, dude, If it's great, I told you,
it's designed for somebody that's like seven feet tall, that
weighs one hundred pounds, like it's it's basically.
Speaker 2: Designed for the center of the Washington Wizards.
Speaker 3: But it's so comfort Yeah, no, there's I don't care.
Speaker 4: I don't care. You know, the big tough guys in
the chat are going to be like.
Speaker 3: Oh you were ones, Oh you were on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's comfort. It's comfort that you can't even describe.
It's it's it's a beautiful thing. I'm happy for you, man.
And also, folks, take one second, you're joining us.
Speaker 3: Right here.
Speaker 4: At the top of the show, we have Jesse Schule
coming up. He's gonna be breaking down nuggets and mavericks.
He's gonna give you two teams that you should be
fading in college football Bowl action. Drew Martin is joining
the show here. I haven't talked to Drew in a while.
I'm excited to have him coming by to talk Boker
Ratone Bowl and the New Orleans Bowl. And then we're
gonna end things off here with Brian Power talking the
Frisco Bowl between UNLV and Ohio. He's also got an
NBA play for you between the Thunder and Spurs.
Speaker 3: That should be a great game. And then we're gonna
let him go so he can do the blitz.
Speaker 4: But all those plays and Andy's all around the world
coming your way on this show. Just take one second, folks,
that's what you have coming up. Comment below. Happy birthday, Andy,
our fearless leader, folks Wisch this show would be nothing
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from a man, Andy Lang, Happy birthday, buddy, Happy to
be here with you. There was no way I was
missing today's show on the day of our Savior's birth.
Speaker 3: Oh I mean our host.
Speaker 4: You're just a Christmas Carols stuck in my head that
you're just saying that because.
Speaker 1: We won our Monday Night football prop again and we
won the wtf LFG who nobody liked.
Speaker 3: Yes we won both of those, Andy, Yes we did.
Speaker 1: Well. Let's bring on Jesse. We got to talk some NBA.
We got to talk some college football here. So Jesse,
I mean Christmas love the hat hat is dope.
Speaker 2: You were like, I know, we were dressing out for Christmas.
I'll just randomly throwing this hat and it's like the
coolest thing.
Speaker 3: Sweetest that ever.
Speaker 5: It's on the shelf behind me normally, but a good
thing I had something around because I was not dressed
appropriately at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 1: Well, let's go to NBA here real quick. I want
to get your take on this Nuggets Mavericks game. I've
been watching a lot of both of these teams. Actually,
I like the Mavericks Cooper Flags really coming into his
own and the Nuggets. Probably it's the Nuggets or the Rockets,
in my opinion, the ones that could challenge the under
here in the Western Conference. So really really good game
here tonight. How do you break down Nuggets and the Mavericks.
It looks like not too many injuries to deal with,
just dealing with Aaron Gordon and Braun Krystal Brown is out,
but those guys have been out for a while. So
how do you break down Nuggets Mavericks.
Speaker 5: Well, the tricky thing here, Andy is it's a second
game of a back to back for both teams, So
you gotta sort of put your thinking cap on and
make an estimation about how these teams want to use
their star players in a second game of a back
to back situation. When you look at Anthony Davis for
the MAVs, I mean, he's been banged up for most
of the year. He's notoriously injury prone. You look at
his minutes last night. He played thirty five minutes last night,
thirty four minutes on Saturday. This will be second game
of a back to back, third game and four nights.
Is he going to play? If he does play, is
he going to be used sparingly? I don't think they
can just play him for thirty minutes tonight. That seems foolish.
Dallas off back to back losses last night lost at
New Orleans one nineteen to one thirteen. Yeah, there's only
two teams in the NBA though, that are allowing more
points to opposing centers. And that is Washington and Sacramento,
and that has me looking at the player prop market,
not for the Joker, but for the backup center Jonas Valentiunis,
who last night had twelve points and eleven rebounds in
just sixteen minutes. He's scored double digit points in four
of his last five games. His points total sits at
eight and a half. Joker played less than thirty minutes
last night. I think being a second game of back
to back, you want the backup center to get in
there for you know, at least a handful of minutes,
and eight and a half is a pretty low number
for a guy who's very productive with the limited minutes
does get on the court. If it's gonna be a side,
I gotta look at Denver. I mean, they're twelve and
two on the road, eight and two in their last ten.
I think they got more depth than Dallas has. And
I got my concerns about whether or not Anthony Davis
plays and how many minutes he.
Speaker 3: Logs if he does play. Andy.
Speaker 5: So that's the way I think about this game.
Speaker 3: I like it.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: I think this Jonnis Valonina signing was one of the
most underrated signings of the offseason, Yoker, Joker doesn't even
have to play the minutes that he was playing last year.
It's been a really, really nice addition there.
Speaker 2: So I have to agree with you. I'm not sure
what we're getting from Anthony Davis tonight. Shout out to
Garth Drake in the chat.
Speaker 1: So nice, tipped us five dollars, tipped us five dollars.
Happy twenty first, great twenty one?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just strong.
Speaker 2: I'm a rough twenty if I'm twenty one, it's a
rough twenty one.
Speaker 4: What the fifteenth anniversary of the twenty first birthday?
Speaker 3: Correct? Is that what we're celebrating?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, yes, well big thanks to Garth and anytime
that anybody drops those super chats, we actually pull all
that money together. When we have enough of it, we
send it to different charities. So we really appreciate when
people do that. So appreciate you, Garth. You're helping someone somewhere.
I'm just not sure exactly which charity we're given to
this time.
Speaker 1: All right, Jesse, Moving on to college football, you always
give us a couple of teams to fade. Today is
no different. We're gonna go with cal first. Why are
we fading Cal this week.
Speaker 5: Well we're fading Cal because Justin Willcox is no longer
the head coach. He got fired. We got Nick Rolovich,
the offensive coordinator, filling in for him. Cal seven and
five in the ACC, which is actually kind of impressive.
They must have gone over their season win total four
and FOURIGN conference play. They had the fourteenth best offense,
averaging just three hundred and forty seven yards per game.
But really it's all about motivation in these bowl games,
and I don't think Cal has it with the interim
head coach and Hawaii. If you guys remember I put
out preview videos all in the offseason, all through July
and August. I'm working on preview videos for week zero,
in week one, every single game on the board, And
the very first video I did was on Hawaii, and
I said, I think this is the year that they
step up. Timmy Chang gets them to a bowl game.
Well he got them even better than that, eight and four,
eight and four against the spread. They were six and
one at home. This game is in Hawaii. Their last
two home games twenty seven to seven against Wyoming thirty
eight to six against San Diego State. San Diego State
was a damn good team in the Mountain West. This year,
Hawaii has got themselves a quarterback. They got to be
over the moon to be in a bowl game at
home here. This is just a motivational mismatch. And this
is a Hawaii team that I've liked them all year long,
especially at home in Hawaii. This line's flipped. It's gone
from Hawaii plus two and a half to minus one.
I think that line movement tells us something about this game.
Absolutely love Hawaii in this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm trying to figure out the motivation of these teams.
Is it's like the number your number one job in
handicapping these bull games?
Speaker 2: Who cares who's playing?
Speaker 1: So we're fading Cal and we're also gonna fade Southern Miss.
Speaker 2: Why do you what do you what do you got
against Southern mister Jesse?
Speaker 3: Yeah? What's your problem with Southern Miss? Jesse?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, Southern Miss was on the original show
where you guys asked me to fade teams. This was
like one of the teams I've faded.
Speaker 3: It's full circle.
Speaker 5: It's full circles. You know what else comes full circle?
Speaker 3: Dan?
Speaker 5: If you mess with married women and you end up
shacking up with a married woman. There's only one way.
It ends one way. It it pays to be faithful.
So Southern Miss was one and eleven two years ago.
They hired Charlie Huff. They stole him from Marshall. He
brought over all those players from Marshall, and we faded
them in Week one because they were a one and
eleven team and they were a single digit home dog
against Mississippi State. They lost that game thirty four to seventeen.
They went seven and five this year, big improvement from
one and eleven, and Charlie Huff is gone. He's gone
to Memphis. When Charlie Huff came from Marshall, he brought
all those Marshall players with him. Where do you think
these Southern Miss players are going? Interim head coach? They're
playing a Western Kentucky team that has my favorite name
in college football this season, Maverick mcgiver. He was out
with an injury halfway through the season. He's back. The
quarterback that filled in for him, Rodney Tisdale, is also healthy.
They'll probably play both these guys in this game. Tyson
Helton is four and two in his career in Bowls.
Western Kentucky always gets to a bowl game, they usually
win it. This is a team that's going to be
up for this game. And Southern miss is in a
bad way right now. With Charlie Huff out the door.
Speaker 1: Maverick mcgiver, it's like, that's an old timer. It doesn't
get it doesn't get much.
Speaker 3: Hard to beat. That's that's eighties cheese right there.
Speaker 1: Baby Uh Jesse, what do you have up for everyone
at wager Talk?
Speaker 5: I have a five percent play on the Texas Bowl
coming up in a few days. I'm hoping if we
win this one, it'll be ten and oh with moneyline
five percent plays in the calendar year of twenty twenty five.
And I will acknowledge they had a bit of a
rough week this week, but hey, it's a good by
low spot for Jesse right now. So hit me up.
Speaker 2: Man, ten and oh, five percent money lines. I'm in,
count me in, Dan.
Speaker 3: Good hard to be much better than that. The only
thing that would be better is eleven.
Speaker 5: I know, well, you know, if we hit this one,
we'll be talking a lot about that eleven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there we go, there we go.
Speaker 2: Awesome stuff.
Speaker 1: Jesse, Thank you so much for fading col fading Southern
miss And if there's anybody that knows fading college football
teams and married women, it is Jesse.
Speaker 4: So Rob liked when we were like, what the hell
is your problem Jesse and the married women?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, uh Dan, we had a nice winner in Monday
Night Football continues. The just insane streak on primetime NFL
games this season.
Speaker 2: It's been like one of the funniest spots of.
Speaker 4: And it's something behind it where you can really like
iso in and dive into a singular.
Speaker 3: Game as far as or is it just this is you?
Speaker 4: Just you ride the streak, you know what I mean? Like, like,
is there any reasoning behind it? Because a lot of times,
I mean, even when we're talking about streaks and trends
in bedding, we're like, Okay, if it's just fodder for
Barney at the bar, we don't really love it. But
if there's something prescriptive about it and you can have
it make sense. Is there anything may be prescriptive about
the run or just primetime Andy Lang, you're deon Sanders
of handicapping.
Speaker 1: Well, normally the primetime games are the hardest ones because
there's only one game, like on Sunday, you got a
million props, and you've got a million different ways that
you can play the games.
Speaker 2: But on Monday, just one game. So I don't know,
I'm just I'm actually trying not to overthink it. I'm
just trying to be like.
Speaker 3: Too much about it.
Speaker 2: I got a bunch of props on this game. We'll
pick one and roll with it.
Speaker 4: So it's people shouldn't overthink. What an insane deal this is,
by the way, folks, birthday special, Yeah, it's I got.
I had a segue in my in my sack of
toys here for you, Andy. But but yeah, this is
a no brainer, folks. Andy forty six seven days for
forty six dollars. We've been mentioning Andy's birthday to day
a huge way to thank him, Guys.
Speaker 3: I mean forty six bucks for this.
Speaker 4: It's probably the lowest price that you can get for
a seven day all access pass outside of some other
huge ones. But turning forty six, Andy forty six, and Andy,
you're gonna have a lot of action heading here into
the holidays.
Speaker 3: What do we got.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we already got a couple NBA props, a huge
NBA slate today. I didn't even realize there are that
many games, but we've already got three. We got two
plays up. Third is gonna go up after the show.
Then we'll talk about some NBA. But yeah, we've got
the World Series of Darts that's still going on. That's
we take a couple of days off for Christmas and
then on the twenty seventh are right back up. So
we have NBA, we have NHL, We've got everything. Damn
if you have lacrosse plays, you're gonna get those. So
it's a great time of the year. We're closing out
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Speaker 2: Let's let's build those bank rolls.
Speaker 3: Baby, beautiful man.
Speaker 4: I see got people Andy asking here about the Boca
ratone ball, and oh we got there. There's no one
I think I would want more. Tell me about the
Bok ratone bowl.
Speaker 3: Yes, Drew, Drew got the memo.
Speaker 4: Drue Martin joining the show with arguably the best holiday
hat I've ever seen. I thought Jesse was coming strong
with the bowler. True, you look amazing, buddy.
Speaker 3: How you been Ah? Thanks Dan? Yeah, it's been a while.
Happy birthday to you, Andy, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you I got this hat.
Speaker 6: I think it was like four dollars ninety nine cents
at a Walgreens many years ago. And I saw you
guys with the hats the festive even Jesse had one on.
And sure enough, if I'm a little sweaty, it's because
the wife and I were just rummaging through our garage
to find this gave so hey, got it.
Speaker 3: That's why I love this show. Is like Andy and
I didn't even plan anything. Like.
Speaker 4: Andy was like, I think I'm gonna wear my fireball
onesie that my buddy got me.
Speaker 3: That's a one of one hundred.
Speaker 4: And I was like, all right, well, Andy's wearing something
I should at least like I don't have this. This
is the topper that we have on our Christmas tree.
So I probably got all kinds of bugs and shit
crawling around in my hair. So we're all just like,
oh shit, other people are wearing Christmas stuff we got
at on Christmas.
Speaker 3: I love it. Man way to be festive for the season.
Speaker 4: But Drew, folks are already lining up here asking about
these Bowl games. One of the best college cappers, whether
it's on the hardwood or the gridiron.
Speaker 3: I always love hearing your breakdown. Strow.
Speaker 4: Let's kick it off here with Boca Ratone, Sean pointing out,
you've already seen a pretty big line move here in
this Boca Ratone Bowl. Has it pushed it into unbeedable
territory for you or do you have something else?
Speaker 3: Maybe you'r eyeing you know.
Speaker 6: No, I don't necessarily think it's an unbetable territory, Dan, However,
I was looking to beyond Louisville. I did bet Louisville
last night. I put it out as a free play,
just a reminder there. Checked the wager Talk free plays page,
got it out last night yesterday seven and a hook
on Louisville, and surprisingly enough, before coming on the show,
checking the market, it's minus eleven, minus eleven and a half. Now, Dan,
I mean you were kind of leading up with it
in terms of it's not too uncommon to see this
in bowl games, and of course when information comes out,
the lines are gonna move. This one kicking off in
under two hours, and there's a big reason why Louisville's
taking money. One being Toledo. The Rockets a great defense. Overall. Statistically,
you could make the argument the number one defense in
the country. Now keep in mind they're playing a MAC schedule,
but in terms of yards per play allowed, they did
rank number one in the country. The problem is Jason Kandell.
He's out at Toledo, the defensive coordinator gone, as well
as Syracuse three assistant coaches out in terms of Toledo assistance,
and this is gonna be like a skeleton crew for
the Toledo defense. So I wouldn't expect that dominating defense
that helped them win games in the MAC. Instead, they're
stepping up against an acc opponent in Louisville, who beat
Kentucky forty one to nothing in their last game. Their
head coach, Jeff Brohm, is six and two in bowls,
a lot pointing towards Louisville. I would probably cut it
down a little bit in terms of your normal unit count,
because we are up into the double digits now. But Dan,
I would not be surprised if Louisville kind of blows
them out here wins by two plus touchdowns.
Speaker 3: Even with the steam coming in.
Speaker 4: Maybe some value still there on Louisville, says our man
Drew Martin in the Boca Ratone Bowl of Beans Bowl.
Speaker 3: Maybe the strangest strangest bull name ever.
Speaker 7: That.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're just gonna keep adding on to it.
Speaker 4: Next year it'll be the bog Ratones Bowl of Beans
Ball for uh, you know, challenge children or whatever. They're
just going to continue adding adding on, maybe some cheese. Yeah, yeah,
Bocatol Battle of the Beans with Boston Big Beans. I
did see, And I don't know if this is true
or not, but if if you want free admits to
the game today, if you bring a can of Bush's
Baked beans, it acts as your ticket. So if you
don't have a ticket, you bring a can of Bush's
Baked beans to the boker Retol Bowl of Beans Bowl,
then you will be getting in for free.
Speaker 3: There. You go, grab your bust baked beans and get
down there. Drue.
Speaker 1: That's diabolical by bushes because what they do is you
buy it, you go give him the can, and then
they put it right back on the shelf, and then
they've sold the same can of beans twice.
Speaker 3: It's brilliant, I see brilliant.
Speaker 4: That's that's the kind of brains Betime behind the Bokra
tol Boca ratone Bowl of Beans bowl.
Speaker 3: That's the type of brains.
Speaker 4: That you'll see with the top brass at the bokratone
Bowl of Beans Bowl.
Speaker 3: There we go alliteration for you, Drew.
Speaker 4: Hey, all right, brother, let's talk a bowl that is
is not as crazily named, and that's this New Orleans Bowl.
Hilltopper has taken on Southern Miss. Right before you popped
on here, we had Jesse saying he's looking to fade
Southern Miss. Are you agreeing with that? Or are you
hitting this game a little bit different of a way?
Speaker 6: You know, I agree with Jesse's assessment of the married
women thing that he brought up.
Speaker 3: However, I do not part of the breakdown good part
of the breakdown.
Speaker 6: It was it was very, very, very wise, a lot
of wisdom in that, I will say in his assessment
of Southern Miss. I do not and I get what
he's saying in terms of Charles huff Leaves he takes
the Memphis job. However, guys, I thought that Southern Miss
did a pretty wise thing in a bet on situation.
Speaker 3: They named their new head coach the old O C.
Speaker 6: So you're keeping all the same strategies on offense, the
same play calling with Blake Anderson. You right, remember Blake Anderson.
He was at Arkansas State, he was at Utah State.
He had success on the field, he had some you know,
issues off the field that caused him to get fired
there at Utah State. But what I liked about it
is they remove the interim tag. He is the new
head coach. A lot of what Old miss did with
Pete Golding. And what that does is, you know, as
a kid in elementary school, the substitute teacher comes in up,
you can do whatever you want. No, no, no, this
is the guy they're practicing to win this game. I
actually like Southern myths in the I mean, the number
one pass offense in the Sunbell Conference. Their quarterback Brayln Braxton.
He's a good quarterback. When you watch him play, he's
running around and if you go by those three losses
they had towards the end of the year, you got
to remember he had a knee injury. He was not
the same quarterback. Kind of reading up here on Blake
Anderson's kind of practice reports, he.
Speaker 3: Looks a lot better, a lot healthier.
Speaker 6: I actually think that's something to bet on here with
the Southern Miss side. And when you look at Western
Kentucky yet, I mean, the Hilltopper is a good program
in the G five, number one scoring offense in Conference USA. However,
go look at their wins. There's not a lot of
meat on the bones. I mean they beat Louisiana Tech
and a tight one in overtime. I guess Delaware Missouri
State decent wins. Kind of the upcomers there from the FCS.
But this is a team that did not play a
very tough schedule at all. They lost by three touchdowns
to FIU at home. I actually think Southern Miss is
the more talented team. We get a fast track here
in the New New Orleans Bowl controlled climate. I like
Southern Miss. I think it's wrong team, wrong team favored
plus one and a half. I put that in my
pocket here, guys, in the New Orleans Bowl maybe not
one of those top line bowls. They actually lost their sponsor,
so it's just the New Orleans Bowl. And I like
Southern Miss plus one and a half.
Speaker 4: They need to go to more people with big beans,
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Speaker 3: That's the only way to go.
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Speaker 1: Awesome stuff, Drew, awesome stuff. Shout out to your wife
for help for helping you find the hat. The hat
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Speaker 3: Yeah it's yeah.
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Speaker 3: Boys, I'm on a roll right now. Drew. Appreciate you, man.
Merry Christmas, have a great one, brother, Dan, Merry Christmas
to you.
Speaker 6: Happy birthday to Andy cashlows tickets boys, thanks for having
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the Bushy, the hairriest race known to mankind.
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Speaker 3: What was it?
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Speaker 2: Was it England?
Speaker 1: Where they let people vote on the name of their
Like they built this destroyer and people wanted it name
like body mcboat face. They said, no, great stuff. Let's
bring on Brian Power.
Speaker 3: Who look at look at you are a dapper as hell,
my friend, look at that.
Speaker 4: Well, your your shirt looks amazing, but your mic doesn't work, Brian,
So it's.
Speaker 3: How about now? I was so screen.
Speaker 7: This is the old holiday hooky bar crawl official jacket.
Speaker 3: Andy.
Speaker 7: We always like to take a day off during the
holiday season. Me and my friends go bar hopping. And
you're never too old to do that. Send the kids
to Graham on Grandpa's. So yeah, pick this one up.
I'll tell you what, Dan, my wife, she was getting
a little jealous. The women were just chasing me down
at all the bars are probably.
Speaker 4: I mean, how could they not? I mean, how could
they not? I mean that whether that's that's better than
the lumberjack look that we had, and and you you can.
Speaker 3: Pull off the lumberjack would look as well.
Speaker 7: My friends, so that I can't swing an axe though,
I'll tell you that, but I think everyone Yeah, probably as.
Speaker 4: Long as you can handicap plays, that's all we give
a shit about it.
Speaker 3: They're overrate good.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, Brian, We're going to the Frisco Bowl
yet n U n LB in Ohio. Uh, it's it's
the jacket. It's hard to beat this jacket. I hope
this breakdown is half as good as this jacket.
Speaker 3: That you're blind?
Speaker 2: How do we break down this this game?
Speaker 7: Well before I break down the matchups, just before I
because I sometimes we'll forget this stuff. I just want
to let everyone know. Bowls off to a great start
for yours, truly perfect six and all. As a matter
of fact, the Bulls and college football playoff twenty one
and eight in college football at wager Talk since November
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night's Hawaii Bowl. Now to Tonight's Frisco Bowl, where the
major news is that Ohio fired head coach Brian Smith
with cause for having an inappropriate relationship with a student
little hanky panky at the ou.
Speaker 3: In Dan oh no A.
Speaker 7: As a graduate of Ohio University, you're supposed to use
the hotel at the other end of the street that
my parents have stayed at, the OO Inn.
Speaker 3: For Christ's sake, what are you doing headge coach Smith? Anyway? Now?
Speaker 7: If you coffee the end of the Blitz last week,
you may remember me saying there had to be more
than just storing alcohol to that story.
Speaker 3: Of course, I am a proud Oh you graduate. If
you're new to the program, I.
Speaker 7: Can tell you there's not a single drawer in all
of Athens, Andy Lang that does not have alcohol in it.
Speaker 3: So that's it.
Speaker 7: No head coach Smith anymore at OU. So we have
to start our handicap by wondering what is the mindset
of these OU players? They lose their head coach under
the not most flattering of circumstances. An interesting thing, however, guys.
Not many players for the Bobcats are opting out here.
This is also a program that has the nation's second
longest active Bowl win streak at six straight, trailing only Minnesota.
So it's defensive four a er John Howser, he's going
to be the interim coach for the Frisco Bowl.
Speaker 3: He's going to have quarterback Park and Navarro.
Speaker 7: He's three thousand total yards twenty two touchdowns this season.
Lots of seniors on the OU roster as well. And
something else worth noting, And I doubt many remember this,
but because I went to OU I do. Two years ago,
everyone for OU hit the portal for the before the
Myrtle Beach Bowl, and the backup still clobber Georgia Southern.
So I think there's some pride here to continue this
bull win streak. So I think long story short history says,
OHU may not simply roll over here, But based on
the way the lines move, betters clearly have a different opinion.
UNLV's taking all the money. You look at the wage
talk godscreen. Rebels open minus three and a half, they're out.
The minus six and a half total's been that way
up as well. It's actually the highest total we have
for any bowl game this season.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 7: Again, though, if you watch me on the Blitz during
the regular season, you know, oh I'm not a big
believer in UNLV. It's a top twenty team in luck
rating five and one in one score games. I faded
the Rebels in the mount West Conference championship game. That
was a four percent best bet on Boise State, Thank
you very much. Pretty easy win. Maybe I'm gonna look
foolish here. I don't think this is a homer pick.
I just want to punch back at the market. Dan
and Andy take the points. Obviously, there's no way to
accurately gauge the Ohio players mindset right now until the
game starts. My guess is we're gonna see just how
motivated they You're gonna know midway through the first quarters
how motivated this team is. But I think they show
up ready to play high variance game with the high total.
Speaker 3: Give me oh U plus the points.
Speaker 2: Brian Power breaking down the hanky panky bowl always good.
Speaker 7: There's yeah, you thought he was nice hotel, and I mean,
I guess it makes sense. It's the only nice hotel
in Athens, and it is right across from the It's
basically right across from the football stadium.
Speaker 3: So I guess I can undread.
Speaker 4: You thought you thought it was fire because I remember,
and it was on the Blitz, which the Blitz is
also coming up in thirty minu it's from now. It's
going to be Brian Power, Steve Merrill and Ross Benjamin
breaking down some ball action here for you. On the
Blitz you were mentioned and you were like, yeah, if
you got have only fired because you know he was
hiding liquor in the cabinet. No, it wasn't, It wasn't
because he was hiding liquor. He was playing hide the sausage,
and he got caught.
Speaker 3: And that's yes time.
Speaker 7: For the record. He is contesting it. He's claiming that
he didn't have an affair the divorced. Look, this is
not for us to decide. We simply break the handicaps
until you.
Speaker 3: All I know is he's fired.
Speaker 7: All I know is all I know is uh. It
sounds like he's sleeping alone for Christmas. Huh, Bryan Smith.
So hopefully he unwrapped something under the tree.
Speaker 1: I realized it's a small town and it's pretty hard
to It's a very small town up until you're.
Speaker 2: Gonna get caught. There's people are gonna see all right.
Speaker 3: When people saw him, they're like, coach, who is this woman?
Speaker 7: Then?
Speaker 3: What is happening here? Who is not missus Smith? We
are this is uh? What is the Yes, gentlemen, he
moved graduating and I spent it on reckless things. But
that's okay, what you do.
Speaker 2: We move on to the thunder in the spurs.
Speaker 1: This is a tough handicap we're giving you, Brian, mostly
because Wenby's questionable. Holme Gunna Hartenstein question. I'm surprised Hartenstein's questionable.
Speaker 3: I would guess.
Speaker 1: He's not playing, But uh, what are we gonna do
to break down this game here? Between Okay seeing the
Spurs right now?
Speaker 7: Andy, I really appreciate you prefacing this breakdown with we
gave you a hard game breakdown here because I'm gonna
make le get points and say, well, but look, obviously
a lot of people are interested in this game, and
for good reason.
Speaker 3: Obviously.
Speaker 7: The headline here Oklahoma City out to avenge one of
its three straight up losses this season.
Speaker 3: Ten days ago in the semi finals the NBA Cup.
Speaker 7: As you guys know, the Spurs beat the Thunder one
eleven nine is ten point underdogs my thinking, and I'd
be interested to hear from those of you who are watching,
those of you in the chat the look my thought
coming at the public's gonna see, Okay, see Land a
short number here on the road, a revenge spot and
be all over them. This morning, when I looked at
the wager talk Odscar, it didn't look like that was
necessarily the case.
Speaker 3: So you know, I don't know if you guys have
the latest dad in front of you.
Speaker 7: I actually closed the screen down unfortunately, right now, but
it is worth noting I'll point this out. The two
shortest numbers we've seen okay Seed lay this season. They
laid three and a half at Portland on November fifth,
and then seven this past Friday at Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Both of those games they lost.
Speaker 7: Those were two of the three losses, so a short
number may be a case of too good to be
true here with oka See, especially considering other than the
one to San Antonio, okay See's other two losses. Those
two aforementioned games, they came on the second night of
a back to back, and it just so happens the
Thunder played last night beat Memphis one nineteen one, O three,
got thirty one, ten and eight from SGA. Team is
now three and oats off the straight up loss this season. Guys,
you may want to file that one away. Not only
have they covered the number Oklahoma City all three times
off lost, but they won by an average of nearly
twenty three points per game. Andy, you touched on this Heartenstein, Holmgren, Williams, Caruso,
Wiggins all missed last night's game for the Thunder. It's
gonna be interesting to see how many of those guys
are back tonight. For San Antonio, webin Yama. We need
to monitor his status. He's come off the bench each
of the last five games. All of those are wins
for the Spurs and another win to night for San Antonio.
They matched their longest overall win streak.
Speaker 3: In a decade.
Speaker 7: It is tough to envision the Thunder losing three times
in five games.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people watching would concur there.
Speaker 7: Note when these teams met ten days ago in Vegas,
Okase did lead by as many as sixteen in the
first half, So even though they lost, they were in
control early. Ended up only shooting twenty four percent from
three in an unfamiliar setting.
Speaker 3: And if you guys remember back to last year.
Speaker 7: In the NBA Cup, it was the NBA Cup Final,
Oklahoma City shot horrible. I think that was against Milwaukee Andy.
That was the NBA Cup Final. They were horrible from
three in that game. So there's SUBMUDOKC in Vegas not
being able to hit threes. Contrarian in me does want
to take the points here. These teams are gonna meet
again on Christmas Day in Oklahoma City. I actually it's
gonna be a bigger number obviously because Oklahoma City's at home.
That actually might be my preferred spot to bet the thunder,
so stay tuned for that.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 7: I think it's ak this line. I'd be interested to
hear your guys thoughts. It might be a case of
too good to be true with Okay, see laying a
short number. I kind of want to take it with
san Antonio.
Speaker 1: I mean, bringing Wemby off the bench is so diabolical.
They have this killer starting line of Oh, let's bring
Wemby in off the bench to face your backups. Like
I actually, I'm kind of here for it. I will
throw out a yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say their net rating in the game.
Speaker 7: The last time these teams played with Wemben Yaba on
the court because of who he was matched up with
was incres It was one of the best, you know,
plus minus ratings for any player. I believe we've this season.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I throw in Luke Cornette over his rebounds
with Winby coming off the bench. He's the starter. He
doesn't score, He's just there to grab a bunch of
rebounds and box out the other guy. Brian tell us
about the blitz.
Speaker 2: We're going live today. Hearing about twenty minutes.
Speaker 7: Correct, yes, twenty minutes special Tuesday edition of The Blitz.
Obviously normally to go on Thursday, but we didn't want
to make Dan work on Christmas, and quite frankly, I
didn't want to word. I didn't want to do the
show on Christmas either, So it'll be Steve Man, Girl Ross,
Benjamin at myself breaking down mostly the Saturday and Friday games.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of Bulls this week.
Speaker 7: This is one of the most interesting weeks to handicap
I think in all the football, not just with all
the uncertainty surrounding the Bulls, but my god, there are
so many backup quarterbacks playing in the NFL this week.
So stay tuned WT Dot Buzz slash pp I mentioned
already I'm a perfect six and oh start.
Speaker 3: To the Bulls and college football playoff. We had a
and m We.
Speaker 7: Had pardon me, we had an in Miami first half
under I'm not sure if you guys saw the scoreboard.
Speaker 3: Halftime zero zero. Does not get much easier than that.
Speaker 7: We also had Miami Florida outright in that game, and
we've been doing well in the lesser bowls. We always
get the good information there too, so six and zero
college Bowl run. We're seeing it while in the NBA
eighteen and five going back to last year's playoffs, sixty
seven percent in the NFL with all sides and totals
since November thirteenth. So stay tuned, especially for the Blitz
again coming up at the top of the hour, myself,
Steve Merrill, Ross Benjamin all.
Speaker 1: Right, great stuff, Brian, appreciate you as always, great breakdowns.
Watch the Blitz here twenty minutes. Bring your questions. That's
what's the point of doing that live show. Ask all
the questions about college football.
Speaker 2: So yeah, r J. I like it too.
Speaker 1: Zion coming off the bench, By the way, he's thin.
Now have you seen this dan Zion share or thinner?
He's thinner. I mean he looks good. He really looks good,
Like he looks healthy. He's he's playing a lot more
controlled it. This is kind of what I was I'm
hoping we would get from Zion.
Speaker 3: What a fricking animal are you?
Speaker 4: When it's like Zion's weighing at two sixty four, he's
spelt Now, it's like, dude, you're an absolute beast that two.
If I weighed two sixty four, Andy I would roll
into this room to do this.
Speaker 3: Show with you if I weigh to sixty four.
Speaker 2: You know, does Zion play back to backs? Probably not.
Speaker 1: But the fact is when he's playing and he's coming
off the coming off the bench, he looks, he looks
really good.
Speaker 2: So alright, helps.
Speaker 3: Out the shoes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so you don't you don't. You don't have
a Seriously, you don't have a WTF or LFG.
Speaker 4: All right, you know what, screwing Andy, I'll do it.
We have we have all this Bowl action today. You know,
a couple of thoughts in that. But what we'll do
for the WTF or LFG as we have bounced back.
We grabbed the win yesterday and nobody liked it. You
didn't like it, the chat didn't like it. I didn't
have one LFG except for my man defunct Disney, who
I think has done LFG every time. And if you've
done LFG and and followed me on all these plays,
you cash six out of nine plays were six and
three on these plays, Andy, I actually am looking towards Thursday.
Speaker 3: And the NFL action.
Speaker 4: It's really hard to handicap these games from a side perspective.
Even a total perspective because they're essentially Bowl games. Andy
like they don't really mean anything any of it. Yeah,
and there's opt out. It's like crazy, like the Netflix
got screwed on paying an insane amount for these games
because on paper they look incredible. Now they're just Bowl
games where you have third stringers playing and all kinds
of injuries. But one that I isoed in on is
this Detroit Lions Miami are a Minnesota Vikings game. And
for me, even when he was banged up, Aaron Jones
because of the injury to the Jordan Mason, it was just, dude,
find a way, Please find a way that we can
win this game. And he got so much work. Now
he's also banged up, but clearly it's not going to
impact what he's going They don't trust CJ. Ham to
be on the field, and if Max Brosmer is really
going to be the one who is playing under center,
even if it is JJ McCarthy, it's going to be
all Aaron Jones find us a way to get out
of here. So I'm gonna take his rush attempts over.
There's fourteen and a half, there's fifteen and a half's
out there. I'm fine with laying the minus won twenty
five for the over fourteen and a half because he
only averages just over ten carries per game. But in
last week's game, once once Mason went out and CJ.
Ham was proven to be ineffective, he had twenty one
attempts rushing. I think he's going to be at least
around that fifteen. So fourteen and a half. But if
you want to grade me at fifteen and a half,
that's fine too. I like it at plus money at
fifteen and a half. But the bet for me would
be lay the extra ten cents, extra fifteen cents and
get the fourteen and a half. That one's over at
the blue Book. So the official play over rush attempts
for Aaron Jones Thursday evening on Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll give you an LFG. That's a that's a
great look.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's me WTF because I feel like the
plays do better when I cannot.
Speaker 1: Just I'm just gonna it's tough to bet against a
guy named Ham on Christmas.
Speaker 2: It is it just it feels like.
Speaker 4: Hands score, but you really feel like maybe Ham anytime
touchdown is the way to counteract this, simply because on Christmas,
we go Ham.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I'll give you an LFG. Let's let's
hope Jones goes Ham.
Speaker 3: Well done, it's a bunch of hopefully Jones goes.
Speaker 4: Ham while Ham does the opposite. Maybe anytime touchdown, who knows?
All right, Andy, this is our final uh time that
we'll be getting our all around the world. Well, I
guess I was gonna say until the end of the year,
but no, we'll be back together.
Speaker 3: On next week.
Speaker 4: So but we're about to be in that twilight, Andy,
between Christmas and New Years where everyone's just full of cheese.
Nobody knows what day it is, what time it is,
but all you know is we will be your accompaniment
through these challenging times every weekday at twelve except for
the next two days. So Andy, all around the world time, buddy.
Speaker 1: What do we got Yeah, that's NBA heavy. We have
a ton of games tonight. So we go to Calves Repelicans.
Jared Allen under twenty six and a half points, rebounds
and assists. He's gone under an eight out of last
nine games. This guy's getting benched in the fourth quarter.
He's not playing that well. He had fourteen and sixteen
the last two games on the second legs back to back,
his usage is down. The last game that the Cavs played,
they scored one hundred and thirty nine points and nearly
had seventeen pra So Jared Allen not playing his best balls,
will take his under. This one comes from the free
picks page at wager Talk. We've got Josh Giddy over
twenty eight and a half points plus a cysts.
Speaker 2: Dyson Daniels is out tonight.
Speaker 1: They're big, they're big stopper, so you get the number
one defender out and they played on Sunday and he
had thirty one points and assists. That was with Dyson
Daniels in the lineup. So last five games the Hawks
are last in defensive rating of the Bulls number one
in offensive rating. And then we'll go to Carl Anthony
Towns under two and a half made threes. I don't
understand this line. In two games since the NBA Cup Final,
he's one for five. That's in two games, and the
last game against Minnesota he was one for five in
that one. He's only shooting thirty four percent from threes
this season, so making three three pointers feels like an
awful lot for Carl Anthony, towns will take under. I
know that's my birthday we should be celebrating, but root
for some guys is not play well tonight, Dan, I'm
Jared Allen.
Speaker 2: And Carl Anthony. I like it, miss a lot of shots.
Speaker 4: But also here's the thing too, is around you know Christmas.
I don't know how many overs I want to be
playing for these guys.
Speaker 3: Sure, you know you have the Christmas Day games.
Speaker 4: But even heard Lebron come out and say verbatim, I
would rather be on the couch with my family than
be playing these games. So yeah, how how And I
completely get it, you know what, Like I'm not even saying, oh,
this is ridiculous. Come on, Lebron, you know what I mean?
Like I would not want to be I mean, we're
not even doing a show on Christmas. We don't want
to be doing it. We want to be with our family.
So I think it does play more towards some unders
around this time, even though I.
Speaker 1: Gave out a note, yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 2: And now look at the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: There's plus thirteen and a half on Christmas, they announced
they're moving Like this team is completely up in the
air and I feel bad for Travis Kelcey. He's winding
his career down and who's throwing in the ball, well,
third string quarterback.
Speaker 4: Home, he's gonna be married to like one of the
richest performers that ever existed, So we can't feel too
bad for Travis kelce So you know, I guess like
you feel bad for Travis Kelsey the player, but maybe
not Travis ll me like he's like, oh.
Speaker 1: I got one more season in me, and then at
the end he's thirteen and a half point favorite running
around with a bunch of third stringers as his career.
Speaker 4: RJ pointed out, Jones rolled his ankle. He's probably out.
He was limited in practice. Jordan Mason was held out
in practice.
Speaker 3: It looked like Jones rolled his ankle.
Speaker 4: He was out for you know, a series, and then
they shot him up whatever they shoot him up with,
taped up his ankle. I would expect Aaron Jones to play.
If he doesn't play, our play gets voided anyway.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I'm with you. I'm with you, so all.
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