Speaker 1: It's time for coffee and company, fueled by Thornton's on
Speaker 1: Sports Talk seven nine day. Now, here's nick coffee.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do it five o'clock on a Friday
Speaker 2: here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Thank you for hanging
Speaker 2: out with us. Hopefully we can help you get your
Speaker 2: weekend started. Maybe your weekend has already started. If so, salute.
Speaker 2: We still got another hour to go. But as I
Speaker 2: always say on five at five o'clock on Fridays, it
Speaker 2: kind of feels like the weekend's already here for us.
Speaker 2: I mean, technically, John, we're still on the clock. We're
Speaker 2: still working hard, aren't we? Or are we hardly working
Speaker 2: at work?
Speaker 1: You like that?
Speaker 2: I like when dad jokes just kind of unexpectedly exit me,
Speaker 2: if that makes sense, Like, I don't you know, that's
Speaker 2: when you really know you're becoming a dad. You don't,
Speaker 2: cause I don't know if dad, Maybe I'll get there
Speaker 2: at some point. I'm a dad of two. But like
Speaker 2: anytime I found myself like, oh wow, that I really
Speaker 2: just say that. That was so corny. That was such
Speaker 2: a dad joke. It was never something I planned to say.
Speaker 2: It just happens. Man, You'll be there one day, John,
Speaker 2: don't judge me. You'll be loving You'll be there one day.
Speaker 2: But it is Coffee and Company, Nick Coffee, that's me,
Speaker 2: the company man, mister John. All on alongside today as
Speaker 2: we take you up until six o'clock is mentioned, hopefully
Speaker 2: getting you set for the weekend, we will give away
Speaker 2: another pair of tickets to go see Brooks and Done
Speaker 2: at five And at five thirty we've got real band,
Speaker 2: Fake band trivia coming your way and that'll be your
Speaker 2: your last chance this week to win a pair of
Speaker 2: tickets to see Brooks and Done as they bring their
Speaker 2: kne on Moon tour to the Kfcum Center. So again,
Speaker 2: five thirty will be when we give those away. All right.
Speaker 2: So we did talk a little bit about the two
Speaker 2: of situation earlier, and I don't really want to get
Speaker 2: back into that just because it's not really something that's
Speaker 2: fun to talk about. However, it is one of the
Speaker 2: biggest stories in sports, and it's you know, I get
Speaker 2: the sense that it's in just kind of sampling nationally
Speaker 2: what's being discussed out there today. It's not a huge shock,
Speaker 2: but I think even those that are in a position
Speaker 2: with a platform much bigger than mine, that, you know,
Speaker 2: their opinions value by a lot of people. Nobody can
Speaker 2: really give a real opinion on this because we all
Speaker 2: know there's not a I think even the experts in
Speaker 2: this kind of thing, neurology, brain injuries, concussions for athletes.
Speaker 2: There's no exact science here that's going to tell you
Speaker 2: what what the best course of action is for Tua. Now,
Speaker 2: if somebody said, look that many concussions for anybody is scary, dangerous,
Speaker 2: so like he shouldn't play football, Like that's not a
Speaker 2: crazy thing to say. We also know that, Like I
Speaker 2: don't think Tua woke up today and you know, went
Speaker 2: to the team facility and they were like, yeah it's over,
Speaker 2: and he's like, okay, huh, it was fun, see you later.
Speaker 2: Have a nice life. Like you know, this is something
Speaker 2: that again I know that scenario would never happen, but
Speaker 2: it is a scary situation and nothing would really shock me.
Speaker 2: I mean maybe I shouldn't say nothing would shock me.
Speaker 2: But if he's given the green light and they say, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's recovered, he's out of concussion protocol. Yes, this now
Speaker 2: does make three concussions in the NFL, but he's cleared
Speaker 2: to play. And in any moment he could have another concussion,
Speaker 2: or you know, he could play five more years and
Speaker 2: not have one, Like you just don't know. And anytime
Speaker 2: I say it, I feel like I'm ruining the mood
Speaker 2: and being like a fun sucker, because that's not at
Speaker 2: all where I'm coming from. But like, football has always
Speaker 2: been a really violent sport, always will be, and I
Speaker 2: think we're still learning the effects of being a NFL
Speaker 2: football player for a long part of your adult life
Speaker 2: and then seeing how it impacts you when you get
Speaker 2: to your life after football and you become a little older.
Speaker 2: There are there are plenty of examples of guys who
Speaker 2: are not all there or are no longer with us
Speaker 2: because of what the game did to him. Like we
Speaker 2: know CT is a real thing and that's scary. Doesn't
Speaker 2: mean we're not gonna pla footb anymore. Doesn't mean that,
Speaker 2: like you know, we should throw flags on these guys
Speaker 2: and not let them tackle. That's never gonna happen, and
Speaker 2: I don't think that it should. But we all just
Speaker 2: need to accept that this is a violent sport and
Speaker 2: at any moment somebody could get seriously hurt. And now
Speaker 2: that two has got multiple concussions. There's just more of
Speaker 2: a heightened awareness to like, if he gets his bell
Speaker 2: rung again, like you know, who knows what happens, And
Speaker 2: we kind of were already there. And then it happened
Speaker 2: last year, him being able to play without any injury
Speaker 2: to you know, any any you know, concussion type injury.
Speaker 2: That didn't make people forget his history, but it did
Speaker 2: show that, hey, he recovered from that. He seems to
Speaker 2: be a okay. Now with that said, you don't really know,
Speaker 2: like maybe he never had that concussion last night, Maybe
Speaker 2: he never had another concussion in the next five six
Speaker 2: years of his career and then retired, Like maybe that happened.
Speaker 2: Let's say that happened. Can we say we'd be shocked
Speaker 2: that if twenty years from now, when he's much older,
Speaker 2: we find out that he's got some issues like you
Speaker 2: never know, you don't know yet, and football, in the
Speaker 2: grand scheme of things, I think it's still relatively young
Speaker 2: as far as us knowing the long term effects of
Speaker 2: what the game can do to somebody. And every year
Speaker 2: I feel like the NFL players get bigger, stronger, and
Speaker 2: faster to where it's worse in my opinion than a
Speaker 2: car Rack at times out there seeing these guys get hit.
Speaker 2: My wife, God lover her. She she every now and
Speaker 2: then whenever we're watching football, and she loves football too,
Speaker 2: trust me, She's not like anti football. But that's one
Speaker 2: of the things I love about watching sports with my
Speaker 2: wife because she occasionally will say something and I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm not. I would have never thought
Speaker 2: to say that, but you know what, that's an interesting
Speaker 2: perspective from somebody that clearly views sports and sees it
Speaker 2: a little bit differently than me. You know, she'll see
Speaker 2: somebody just get completely busted up on a play, just
Speaker 2: get laid out like big old hit, right, and she'll
Speaker 2: just say, man, I don't know how they get up
Speaker 2: after that, And I'm like, I mean, it's their job,
Speaker 2: it's what they do. But I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 2: if it was me, I probably wouldn't get up. So
Speaker 2: it's a violent sport. It's always going to be. And
Speaker 2: I don't think these uncomfortable conversations about should should these
Speaker 2: guys play after getting concussed once twice, three times? Like,
Speaker 2: I don't think those conversations ever going away, and we'll
Speaker 2: never know. So it's stupid to even think about it.
Speaker 2: But I've said it once before and it was one
Speaker 2: of the many dumb things that has come out of
Speaker 2: my mouth. But after saying it, I still feel, many
Speaker 2: years later, that it's that. It's that it's a legitimate
Speaker 2: statement if we'd never played the game of football before ever,
Speaker 2: and it was introduced today with athletes that are built
Speaker 2: like this, with this type of size athleticism, if you
Speaker 2: introduce the sport today, medical professionals would tell us, hell, no,
Speaker 2: you cannot, you can't do this. And I'm glad they
Speaker 2: introduced the sport long ago. I'm glad that you know
Speaker 2: we're we're not there. But like, it's a violent sport
Speaker 2: that can really really hurt people, but it's also great.
Speaker 2: It's part of our culture. It's never going away, and
Speaker 2: I'm not advocating that it should. So I don't say
Speaker 2: that to say we should just stop playing. But like,
Speaker 2: this notion that we're ever gonna get to a level
Speaker 2: where none of these serious concerns are out there is
Speaker 2: just not really, it's just not realistic. And I think
Speaker 2: the NFL, to be honest with you, does a really
Speaker 2: good job of making people well aware that they do
Speaker 2: care a lot about player safety, and they are constantly
Speaker 2: learning new ways to try to keep player safety and
Speaker 2: that's never gonna end, and that's the way that it
Speaker 2: should be. But I don't think there's unless they just
Speaker 2: change the game for what it is, You're always going
Speaker 2: to be in situations like this, I think, and you
Speaker 2: know it is what it is, all right. Also, we've
Speaker 2: talked a little bit about this weekend's action in college football,
Speaker 2: which you know, let's let's just get into it. John,
Speaker 2: do you have I know you've got a parlay already
Speaker 2: built of those legs within that parlor. Is there one
Speaker 2: game you're more confident in than than others that you
Speaker 2: feel the best?
Speaker 3: The Indiana game out there because it's part of the parlay,
Speaker 3: And I feel like that's more hard than that, I understand.
Speaker 3: So I won't throw that one. But I've got BYU
Speaker 3: minus ten against Wyoming. Wyoming's zero and two. They lost
Speaker 3: to f CS Idaho last week, and I'm assuming there
Speaker 3: should be a beat down considering BYU. I think covered
Speaker 3: as dogs against SMU.
Speaker 2: They beat them outright, they beat Okay, Yeah, there you
Speaker 2: go that that's that's yeah. I don't I don't understand
Speaker 2: this one. You know, Wyoming lost to Idaho, which is
Speaker 2: a bad loss for them. By the way, Wyoming's a
Speaker 2: Mountain West team. Idaho, I mean, are they FCS or
Speaker 2: even lower than that? Now if you remember the FCS, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean they are you sure they might have.
Speaker 3: I don't even know if they were formerly in the
Speaker 3: Mountain West at the FBS level.
Speaker 2: Idaho was Okay, that's what it was. I knew they
Speaker 2: dropped down. Yeah, because if Paul Patrino used to coach
Speaker 2: their Bobby's brother. But yeah, so that airs in a
Speaker 2: state who By the way, last night, you know, I'll
Speaker 2: give them credit. I don't know how good they're gonna be,
Speaker 2: but they were dogs against Texas State. They went in
Speaker 2: there and won. And you don't just go into gym
Speaker 2: whacker Field and leave without putting up a hard earned victory.
Speaker 2: And that's what they did. So credit to them. I
Speaker 2: lost on that one. But yeah, Wyoming has two losses,
Speaker 2: one to a really bad team. And I shouldn't say bad,
Speaker 2: but like you know, when you lose to an FCS team,
Speaker 2: as an FBS team, there's really no way to like,
Speaker 2: here's what you gotta do. You got to realize, man,
Speaker 2: that's a huge upset or man, we really suck. That's
Speaker 2: how we lost to an FCS team because you know what,
Speaker 2: they're supposed to be a lower level, but you know what,
Speaker 2: they're better than us. And then BYU, I mean they
Speaker 2: they took care of business against Southern Illinois, which is
Speaker 2: what you're supposed to do in those games. And then
Speaker 2: they beat SMU at SMU. SMUs now bench their quarterback
Speaker 2: something stone. So I like this one too. I mean
Speaker 2: right now it opened up, by the way at plus
Speaker 2: six and a halb. It's now all the way up
Speaker 2: to plus ten for Wyoming. You like BYU minus ten? Yes, nice,
Speaker 2: I like it too. That's a good one for me.
Speaker 2: You know, I'll be honest with you. I talked about
Speaker 2: it all week. I'm not going to retract. The one
Speaker 2: game that I felt really good about it is the
Speaker 2: one I've already lost. That was last night's Texas State
Speaker 2: game when they took on Arizona State. But for me,
Speaker 2: it's another game tonight. There's other games I like as well,
Speaker 2: but tonight, man, I'm gonna trust. I'm gonna trust Kansas
Speaker 2: State at home. And it's been my gut pick of
Speaker 2: the week with these matchup Arizona. By the way, this
Speaker 2: is a top twenty matchup folks. Tonight Friday night, You've
Speaker 2: got in Manhattan, Kansas at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. You've
Speaker 2: got Kansas State hosting Arizona. Both teams, again, as mentioned,
Speaker 2: are ranked. Kansas State should have probably lost to Tulane,
Speaker 2: and I did win on that When I had Tulane
Speaker 2: to cover like plus eight and a half and they
Speaker 2: ended up ended up losing by a touchdown, they should
Speaker 2: have won the game, to be honest with you. So
Speaker 2: Kansas State had a scare, but they did travel to
Speaker 2: New Orleans to play, so that was a true road
Speaker 2: game for them. And then Arizona, Man, they looked I
Speaker 2: mean they looked really good against New Mexico. Well, they
Speaker 2: gave up a lot of points. And then Northern Arizona.
Speaker 2: Let's see, they played last week and it was a closer.
Speaker 2: They were thirty. Yeah, right now Arizona's Arizona is o
Speaker 2: in two against against the spread. However, they've got a
Speaker 2: great duo at quarterback and receiver that his name is
Speaker 2: blanking me. He might be the best receiver in the country.
Speaker 2: The guy that plays for Arizona, what is his name.
Speaker 2: The quarterback is Noah Fafita or is that? Yeah? That
Speaker 2: that's that's their quarterback at Arizona, and he's good. But
Speaker 2: I just think Kansas State at home Friday night, like
Speaker 2: they actually do have a pretty pretty big fan base.
Speaker 2: I think they're I just think they're better, and I
Speaker 2: think they had a close call last week against Tulane,
Speaker 2: and I think that's why this number is not a
Speaker 2: little bit bigger. So I'm actually gonna take Kansas State
Speaker 2: tonight minus six and a half. I you know, the
Speaker 2: way I'm laying it out probably doesn't sound as if
Speaker 2: I'm super confident in it, but you know, sometimes I
Speaker 2: get to overthinking it. But I I've learned to trust
Speaker 2: my gut when it comes to making bets, because there's
Speaker 2: nothing worse, and I mean it, there's nothing worse than
Speaker 2: talking yourself out of a bet and going in a
Speaker 2: different direction and then it not and then you know
Speaker 2: you losing, and you should have trusted your gut. Actually,
Speaker 2: there can be something worse than that. That is putting
Speaker 2: together picks, not betting them, and then them all actually winning.
Speaker 2: That was a tough way for John to get college football. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you living, you learn, right, we're learning here as we go.
Speaker 2: All Right, some other things I want to get into
Speaker 2: before we get to our giveaway. So game day, let
Speaker 2: me ask you this. John Indiana has they've never have
Speaker 2: they ever hosted a game day.
Speaker 3: They did, It was a very weird game day. It
Speaker 3: was when they hosted Ohio State back in Tom Allen's debut,
Speaker 3: and it was on a Thursday night, So they kind
Speaker 3: of haven't. Yeah, but it was not like a real
Speaker 3: name to have, like the game day crowd.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like when the college basketball game Day
Speaker 2: came to the Louisville Kentucky game when they played in
Speaker 2: a week day. Like it's not the same, Like they
Speaker 2: still call it that they bring in the crew, but
Speaker 2: like it's not truly the same thing. I guess technically
Speaker 2: it does count. But either way, the reason I ask
Speaker 2: that is because I don't think that game day has
Speaker 2: the value. Hosting game day is cool for fans and
Speaker 2: like it. It does show that you are a part
Speaker 2: of a big time matchup that the college football world
Speaker 2: cares about, but I don't know if it's as valuable
Speaker 2: as people think it is. Like Kentucky seems to be really,
Speaker 2: really really upset that their team losing to South Carolina
Speaker 2: led to them not being able to host game Day.
Speaker 2: Like anytime you can get promotion for your program, like
Speaker 2: that's all good, right, Like you want anytime your coach
Speaker 2: gets a chance to talk to those guys Herd Street,
Speaker 2: Rhys Davis and now Pat McAfee and even saving like
Speaker 2: that's good pub But like Kentucky, like if let's say
Speaker 2: they snuck by and beat South Carolina last week and
Speaker 2: they got game Day, and then they get beat by
Speaker 2: thirty five against Georgia, Like I guess you'd rather have
Speaker 2: it than not, but I just don't quite understand, like
Speaker 2: what it really does for you. Again, I know the point,
Speaker 2: like anytime you can get that FaceTime on ESPN when
Speaker 2: everybody's watching getting ready for a college football Saturday, there's
Speaker 2: value there. But like I'm overhearing that that helps in
Speaker 2: recruiting anymore. It doesn't. Money is what you need when
Speaker 2: it came to recruiting now, especially in the portal, Like
Speaker 2: you could have game Day six times out of the season,
Speaker 2: but if you don't have NI on the right spot,
Speaker 2: that's not going to be a factor for a kid
Speaker 2: making a decision to come and play for you. So again,
Speaker 2: I don't act like it means nothing, but like if
Speaker 2: Louisville lost a game Day the way Kentucky just lost
Speaker 2: a game Day, I can't claim that I would be like, oh, man,
Speaker 2: not only did we lose to South Carolina and get embarrassed,
Speaker 2: but man, we lost our spot to have game Day.
Speaker 3: Plus now there's so many game Day copycats out there.
Speaker 3: Obviously have big newon Kickoff and then I do believe
Speaker 3: there's like an SEC Nation for the SEC Network as
Speaker 3: BTN Tailgate for the Big ten Network.
Speaker 2: There's so many different copycats. Bart's a good points. That's
Speaker 2: a good point. By the way, Barstool has consistently been
Speaker 2: able to bring more people to their show than most
Speaker 2: of these other shows, honestly because one, I think they're
Speaker 2: pretty entertaining and like the students on campus, that's their market.
Speaker 2: That's who they cater to, is those people who want
Speaker 2: to go there and yell at Dave Portnoy and maybe
Speaker 2: get a chance to see Big Cat and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, the SEC Nation went like it's almost the
Speaker 2: same thing, just with the SEC Network crew. Like I
Speaker 2: know Cash Daniel was because they did it last week
Speaker 2: and George for the South Caroline. They had the SEC
Speaker 2: whatever you call the SEC what is it called kickoff?
Speaker 2: Yeh SEC nations, So like they do their own version
Speaker 2: of it. But yesterday, and I mentioned this briefly before
Speaker 2: we talked with UH with Brian Edward yesterday, but Kirk
Speaker 2: Kirkstreet did confirm that Kentucky was gonna be the location
Speaker 2: for game Day until they lost. Because there was a
Speaker 2: tweet from a fan that says, why are you Why
Speaker 2: are you not on the call for Georgia Kentucky game
Speaker 2: primetime ABC. Herbstreet says, because Kentucky spit the bit last week.
Speaker 2: College game Day was a lock for UK if the
Speaker 2: Cats won last week, and we would have rather called
Speaker 2: that game as well, but South Carolina dominating that game.
Speaker 2: With South Carolina dominating that game, we always adjust to
Speaker 2: the results from the previous week. So like that seemed
Speaker 2: to be salt to the wound for Kentucky. And again
Speaker 2: I get it, like it's just you know, while we
Speaker 2: whant you pile on more things that make us sad,
Speaker 2: But like I really don't think if it was me
Speaker 2: in that position as a fan, I would I would
Speaker 2: look at that as, oh, it just keeps getting worse.
Speaker 2: We don't get game Day, but here's what South Carolina
Speaker 2: has in store, because that's what happens. South Carolina stole
Speaker 2: Game Day. Now they're going to be there for the
Speaker 2: LSU South Carolina game. Shane Baber's going to join the desk.
Speaker 2: I'm reading this from a South Carolina beat writer and
Speaker 2: the reason I'm bring this up because I don't nobody cares,
Speaker 2: but just to kind of like, I guess this could
Speaker 2: be a counter to my point that there is real value.
Speaker 2: Shane Biemer is going to be on the set, probably
Speaker 2: making a full of himself because he's a weird guy.
Speaker 2: Mayor Daniel the mayor of I guess Columbia, South Carolina.
Speaker 2: Daniel Rickenman is going to present Lee Corso a Key
Speaker 2: to the City. Darius Rutger is going to join the
Speaker 2: show for a performance, and Ryan McGee will do a
Speaker 2: feature on the birth of Sandstorm, the song that has
Speaker 2: become very well known for being what gets South Carolina
Speaker 2: fired up at was at William Brice Stadium something like that.
Speaker 2: And then also don Staley is going to be the
Speaker 2: guest picker, which makes total sense for her to be
Speaker 2: a part of it, considering she's on top of the
Speaker 2: world right now in college basketball, so you know there's value.
Speaker 2: It's just as a fan, I can't claim that that
Speaker 2: would be something I would be totally bummed about. I'd
Speaker 2: be way more bummed about, you know, losing the way
Speaker 2: that that that they did. All right, speaking of losing,
Speaker 2: that's not happening this weekend on Underdog Fantasy. Hear me
Speaker 2: you guys, hear me, John, Do you hear me? I
Speaker 2: hear you Because Underdog Fantasy, man, it is. It is
Speaker 2: where you can go and make picks that are specifically
Speaker 2: based off of players, not wins, point spreads, or talking
Speaker 2: what individual players do. And I'll give you just an example.
Speaker 2: You know, the NFL. Let's go to let's go to uh,
Speaker 2: let's see, let's go to which game we want to
Speaker 2: go to here? Let's see you get logged in here
Speaker 2: and figure out which game because there's a couple that
Speaker 2: I've already looked at as far as what I you know,
Speaker 2: expect and hope to happen. Uh when we get you know,
Speaker 2: when we get to Sunday. But as I described yesterday,
Speaker 2: here's how it works. Like right now, let's just say,
Speaker 2: let's go to the Ravens game the Ravens are taking on.
Speaker 2: Let's see, I just had it pulled up here, where's
Speaker 2: my notes at? Come on? Now here we go? Here
Speaker 2: we go. So in the yeah, let's go to the Ravens.
Speaker 2: In the Raiders game, like Lamar Jackson, there's higher or
Speaker 2: lower two hundred and fifteen and a half passing yards
Speaker 2: or higher lower two hundred and seventy and a half
Speaker 2: passing and rushing yards over ort higher than you know,
Speaker 2: point five touchdowns, which means she just has to score one,
Speaker 2: which you can do it again. The terminology is not
Speaker 2: the same within the Undertouk fantasy I just because from
Speaker 2: like a regulation standpoint, it's it's different. But here's what
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take Lamar over two fifteen
Speaker 2: and a half passing yards. That's one of my picks.
Speaker 2: And now all I have to do in order to
Speaker 2: get in here and give myself a chance to win
Speaker 2: money is pick at least one high or lower for
Speaker 2: somebody on the other side. So Gardner Minshew, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go Gardner Minshew higher than point five interceptions. So right
Speaker 2: now I can just play this and if I put
Speaker 2: ten bucks on it at underdog fantasy that gets me
Speaker 2: a payout of twenty five to eighty not bad, right,
Speaker 2: And I think both those things are likely. But let's
Speaker 2: just say I'm getting a little greedy here, and I
Speaker 2: want more action, I want more juice. Let's go Derrick Henry.
Speaker 2: We're gonna say he's gonna have at least one touchdown,
Speaker 2: so I'm going higher than point five. I've added that,
Speaker 2: so now i've got three picks here. I'm still getting greedy, John,
Speaker 2: I'm still greedy here it happens, I'm gonna go brock Bowers,
Speaker 2: the rookie tied end for the Raiders. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: he's gonna have higher than three point five receptions. So
Speaker 2: I've got four picks for this game right now. And again,
Speaker 2: has nothing to do with who wins how much they
Speaker 2: win by the total of points scored in the game.
Speaker 2: We're just talking about players individually getting higher or lower
Speaker 2: from what is set here within the Underdog Fantasy app.
Speaker 2: So I can play this for ten bucks, it's gonna
Speaker 2: pay me fifty eight dollars. It's a pretty good payoff
Speaker 2: for four things that I think are pretty likely to happen.
Speaker 2: Brock Bowers having at least four receptions, Derek Henry scoring
Speaker 2: a touchdown, Gardner Minshew throwing a pick, and Lamar throwing
Speaker 2: for over two fifteen and a half. And what makes
Speaker 2: it even better is I can flex that, which gives
Speaker 2: me a little bit of security. So if I flex
Speaker 2: it and I still put the ten dollars down, that
Speaker 2: ten bucks is gonna pay me. Let's see, it's gonna
Speaker 2: pay me up to thirty five point twenty. But if
Speaker 2: I end up, you know, if I end up getting
Speaker 2: just three of the four correct, I'm still gonna make
Speaker 2: some money. It won't be the full it won't be
Speaker 2: the full thing that if all four come in. But
Speaker 2: again it's flexing giving you a little bit, a little
Speaker 2: bit of insurance, a little bit of security there. So
Speaker 2: I love doing this because again, you guys know, I
Speaker 2: love betting on games and whatnot, But this gives me
Speaker 2: like a separate space to really just kind of nerd
Speaker 2: out and get into looking at what I expect players
Speaker 2: to do from a statistical standpoint, think player props. But again,
Speaker 2: terminology is different. And maybe it's just me, but I
Speaker 2: think others would like having a SEP placed to go
Speaker 2: and do the player specific things that's not included with
Speaker 2: you know, your parlays and that kind of stuff. So again,
Speaker 2: it's Underdog Fantasy. If you've not signed up yet, do
Speaker 2: it right now. Download the Underdog Fantasy app. You sign
Speaker 2: up with my code Nick seven ninety. Again. Nick seven
Speaker 2: ninety is the promo code, and all you got to
Speaker 2: do again, it's easy. You use the app, or you
Speaker 2: can go to Underdog Fantasy dot com and when you
Speaker 2: sign up with my promo code, they're gonna give you
Speaker 2: a free pick to use on your first cash pick them.
Speaker 2: Plus you can get up to one thousand dollars in
Speaker 2: bonus cash when you deposit money, so it's totally risk free.
Speaker 2: You deposit money, they're gonna give you one thousand dollars
Speaker 2: in bonus cash when you deposit, or you can just
Speaker 2: go take advantage of a free pick. It's Underdog Fantasy.
Speaker 2: The promo code is Nick seven ninety. If you do that,
Speaker 2: you're gonna claim the new customer special of a free
Speaker 2: pick and your deposit offer. So, I know a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of you have heard of Underdog Fantasy.
Speaker 2: If you haven't, I don't know where you've been, because
Speaker 2: they've really exploded here recently because there's all kinds of
Speaker 2: sports fans like myself that have realized how awesome it
Speaker 2: is to get in on the action and win money.
Speaker 2: Over a million fans across thirty three states got into
Speaker 2: the game last year by competing on Underdog Fantasy. I mean,
Speaker 2: you can win up to one thousand times your money
Speaker 2: just by choosing again high or lower on your favorite
Speaker 2: player stats touchdowns, passing yards, et cetera. Again, you're already
Speaker 2: probably you've probably already been doing something like this elsewhere.
Speaker 2: Do it with Underdog Fantasy and use my promo code
Speaker 2: Nick seven ninety. And I promise you when I can't
Speaker 2: guarantee you, but I feel confident in saying you're gonna
Speaker 2: really love the experience, and you're going to make it
Speaker 2: a point to look at every matchup right, look at
Speaker 2: every game and all the pick them's out there. There's
Speaker 2: tons of NFL games each and every week, right, and
Speaker 2: you each each game gives you a chance to pick
Speaker 2: what you want to do, high or lower this player
Speaker 2: stats and again make some real, real money. So again
Speaker 2: Underdog Fantasy. Sign up right now and use the code
Speaker 2: Nick seven ninety. You'll claim your new customer special of
Speaker 2: a free pick and your deposit of from us the
Speaker 2: eighteen and up President and state where underdof Fantasy operates
Speaker 2: terms applot concern. It's your play called one hundred gambler
Speaker 2: or visit NCP Gambling dot Org. All right, Brooks and
Speaker 2: Done tickets, we're giving them away coming up next, So
Speaker 2: stick around five oh two, five seven one seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 2: Again five oh two, five seven one seventy nine hundred.
Speaker 2: Give us a call and you could be the winner
Speaker 2: of a pair of tickets to go see Brooks and
Speaker 2: Done at the kfcmsenter coming up in April right here
Speaker 2: on Sports Talk seven ninety All right, five oh two,
Speaker 2: five seven one seventy nine hundred is the number. Again,
Speaker 2: five oh two, five seven one seventy nine hundred is
Speaker 2: the number. Give us a call if you want tickets
Speaker 2: to go see Brooks and Done as they bring their
Speaker 2: tour to the KFCM Center coming up here in April
Speaker 2: April of twenty twenty five. So again five oh two,
Speaker 2: five to seven one seventy nine hundred. We got a
Speaker 2: couple more tickets we can we can give away. Somebody
Speaker 2: asked a good question earlier that I don't have the
Speaker 2: answer to, but I'm gonna guess for you. So, the
Speaker 2: Louisville basketball schedule in total has not been released just yet.
Speaker 2: But that's it's not just Louisville, it's the ACC. So
Speaker 2: I'm with you, Like, not that long ago, I feel
Speaker 2: like thinking, hey, why have they not, Like, why haven't
Speaker 2: they released that just yet? You would think that by
Speaker 2: now it would be out there. I think there's actually
Speaker 2: quite a few schools that already had quite a few
Speaker 2: college basketball schools out there that already have you know,
Speaker 2: their their schedule in in you know, in full, and
Speaker 2: we know, like we I think we know who Louisville
Speaker 2: is going to play. I mean got in. The non
Speaker 2: conference schedule, by the way, has been released, so we
Speaker 2: have an idea of of who they're going to play.
Speaker 2: It's just we don't know the exact dates. In fact,
Speaker 2: we can look at it later. I don't want to
Speaker 2: get into it right now, but we already, like we
Speaker 2: we already know which which teams they're gonna play twice,
Speaker 2: which teams are only gonna play once, which teams are
Speaker 2: going to play home and on the road. We just
Speaker 2: don't know the dates yet. What I want to see
Speaker 2: is what games they're going to have in ACC action
Speaker 2: early in the year, like in December and November, because
Speaker 2: that's when they went to a twenty game schedule for
Speaker 2: the ACC basketball. They gave you two conference games that
Speaker 2: took place in you know, before January, and then you
Speaker 2: get to the rest of the eight teen once you
Speaker 2: get to you know, the new calendar year. So uh,
Speaker 2: I just checked last year, it was September twenty sixth
Speaker 2: when they whenever they released and unveiled the ACC basketball schedule,
Speaker 2: they do it on the ACC network, So I'm sure
Speaker 2: they probably got it scheduled to come out before the
Speaker 2: end of this month, and at that point we will know.
Speaker 2: All right, let's do it. We got tickets to give
Speaker 2: away here, Brooks and Dunn our final pair of tickets
Speaker 2: to give away, uh, and the first two to get
Speaker 2: in here and get in line to be a part
Speaker 2: of the contest. We have Mike and we have Ruth. Mike.
Speaker 2: Are you with me? Yes, Hey, Mike, appreciate you joining
Speaker 2: in here. Ruth. Are you there? I sure am hello? Ruth.
Speaker 2: All right, So here's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: one by one. We'll start with Mike, then go to Ruth.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you two band names, and you guys,
Speaker 2: you know, one by one. We'll start with Mike again.
Speaker 2: Ruth will be next, and you have to tell me
Speaker 2: which of these band names is real? Like, one of
Speaker 2: them is a real band, one of them is a
Speaker 2: completely made up band. So whoever ends up getting the
Speaker 2: most points throughout will end up being the winner. So Mike,
Speaker 2: are you ready?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: All right? Which one of these is a real band?
Speaker 2: Butcher Babies or Iron gaping Um Babies. He's going Butcher
Speaker 2: Babies and he got it right, John, Can you tell
Speaker 2: us something about Butcher Babies?
Speaker 3: They are a metalcore band from Los Angeles, California. They've
Speaker 3: been around since twenty ten. There you go, all right,
Speaker 3: So he's got one point. Let's go to you, Ruth.
Speaker 2: Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What's a real band? The Turd Pumpkins or the Sick Puppies.
Speaker 2: Sick Puppies? You are correct, We've got We've got each
Speaker 2: with a point. What can you tell us about the
Speaker 2: Sick Puppies?
Speaker 3: They're an Australian band from or at least they formed
Speaker 3: back in nineteen ninety seven, been around for a while
Speaker 3: there you go.
Speaker 2: All right. Back to you, Mike, Ah, you're ready, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: real band or fake band? Flesh Water or Anus Outlaws? Uh?
Speaker 2: The first one? Which one was that? The first? The
Speaker 2: first first one that you mentioned? Flesh Water? Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: that's correct. What can you tell us about Fleshwater? They're
Speaker 2: from Boston. They do shoegaze. All right, whatever that is?
Speaker 2: So is he?
Speaker 3: He's now three for three, so two So Mike Scott
Speaker 3: to Ruth will get her second answer?
Speaker 2: Okay, got you? Okay, Ruth, you're up. Which one I use?
Speaker 2: Is a real band or a fake band? Controversial Clucking
Speaker 2: or Silly Goose?
Speaker 1: Hm hm the first one.
Speaker 2: Incorrect? Silly Goose is the is the real is the
Speaker 2: real band? What can you tell us about silly.
Speaker 3: This is the only one without a Wikipedia page. They
Speaker 3: are currently touring and I believe they're from Texas something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: Okay, good to know. All right, Uh, back to you, Mike.
Speaker 2: You've got a two to one lead. We'll do one
Speaker 2: more question for us for each of you. Uh, which
Speaker 2: one of these is a real band? Which one of
Speaker 2: these is a fake band? Creamy Companions or military.
Speaker 3: Gun crazy Companions?
Speaker 2: Incorrect? So the real what is military gun? What do
Speaker 2: we know about them? John?
Speaker 3: They're also from Los Angeles, California. Like the Butcher Babies
Speaker 3: have they only been around since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: All right, John, there's one of these names. Here's where
Speaker 2: I run into a little bit of an issue because
Speaker 2: we've got a two to one lead and we've got
Speaker 2: one more. Ruth can tie it up here, correct? Correct? Yes,
Speaker 2: do me a favor, John, real quick, dm me one
Speaker 2: of the names that you threw at me earlier. Okay,
Speaker 2: if you've got a quick second here, because I want
Speaker 2: to make sure, I want to make sure I do
Speaker 2: this as fair as possible, and I feel like I
Speaker 2: might have a I think I have a fake band
Speaker 2: name that I don't want to use because I think
Speaker 2: now just doing the internet, you're doing some searching here,
Speaker 2: that they might in fact be a real band. So
Speaker 2: just you know, just just trying to be safer, send
Speaker 2: it to me, and as soon as you do it,
Speaker 2: I'll ask Ruth, and if they're tied, then we'll do
Speaker 2: what we do here for the for the top breaker,
Speaker 2: because each will have had three opportunities to uh to answer, So, okay, gotcha,
Speaker 2: all right, we'll do here here we go. You ready, Ruth?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 2: Texas Hippie Coalition or the Thundering Bolsters.
Speaker 1: The first one.
Speaker 2: She got it right, She's got it. What can you
Speaker 2: tell us about the Texas Hippie Coalition?
Speaker 3: Texas Hippie Coalition. They are from Texas and they've been
Speaker 3: around since two thousand and four. They play Southern metal.
Speaker 3: All right, here we go. This is gonna be just
Speaker 3: pure luck here. Actually, so I was going to do
Speaker 3: the number thing. John's gonna think of a number in
Speaker 3: his head that that that is between one and twenty,
Speaker 3: and whoever can get closest. But how do we determine
Speaker 3: who gets to pick first?
Speaker 2: I guess just random? I mean I guess, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just trying to make sure this
Speaker 2: was first, as Mike was first in line. If we
Speaker 2: want to go by that, Here's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2: Mike and Ruth, are you ready? You're both winning? You're
Speaker 2: both won because you tied and I had an I
Speaker 2: ended up getting the extra pair to give away that
Speaker 2: I requested, So both of you stick around. Thanks for playing,
Speaker 2: thanks for being a part of it, and congratulations. We'll
Speaker 2: get your information and you want tickets to go see
Speaker 2: Brooks and done. All right, all right, no problem, thank
Speaker 2: you guys. All Right, that worked out perfect because tip breakers,
Speaker 2: you know, I don't ever want to do them, but
Speaker 2: sometimes we end up in that position. We ended up
Speaker 2: here today, and sure enough I had I literally no joke,
Speaker 2: probably ninety seconds ago. I checked my email and I
Speaker 2: did see that I got the green light that hey,
Speaker 2: you got one more pair to give away if you want.
Speaker 2: So that's the easy way to do it. So thank
Speaker 2: you to Mike and Ruth, and congratulations on your victory.
Speaker 2: All right, see here, Uh, let's do this. I want
Speaker 2: to get to a break a little bit earlier than
Speaker 2: we typically do. It's not it's not to act as
Speaker 2: if we're gonna have a ton of time as we
Speaker 2: wrap up the show, but I do want to on
Speaker 2: Fridays to start giving myself a little bit more cushion
Speaker 2: in our final segments so we can talk a little
Speaker 2: more about what kind of picks we uh were putting
Speaker 2: out there. And I'm I'm just gonna choose to believe
Speaker 2: in the power of positivity here and you know, speak
Speaker 2: these picks into existence because I've got four NFL games
Speaker 2: that I feel really good about. And I've got I
Speaker 2: got a lot of college football games I'm gonna bet on.
Speaker 2: But there are a few, and I already mentioned one
Speaker 2: of them earlier, but there are a few that that
Speaker 2: I feel better about, you know, than than than than
Speaker 2: the others. So again, I probably sell myself a little
Speaker 2: too short when it comes to to my sports wagering.
Speaker 2: I mean, trust me, I'm not making a whole lot
Speaker 2: of money, but I'm such a competitive person that like
Speaker 2: any loss just guts me and I'm like, man, what
Speaker 2: are you doing? You're wasting money. But then again I
Speaker 2: remind myself, Nick, it's not about money. It's about just
Speaker 2: having fun, giving yourself, you know, some action. It may
Speaker 2: it definitely enhances the overall experience when it comes to
Speaker 2: watching sports. It gives it gives you a different element
Speaker 2: of the entertainment. And by the way, thank you to
Speaker 2: those who who signed up yesterday when I was talking
Speaker 2: about the Underdog Fantasy app, which again you should sign
Speaker 2: up right now and use promo code Nick seven ninety.
Speaker 2: They'll give you a free bonus bet and they'll match
Speaker 2: your deposit up to a thousand dollars. So again, just
Speaker 2: keep that in mind. But a couple of you have
Speaker 2: sent in that you you did it last night in
Speaker 2: the Bills Dolphins game and you were successful. So hey, again,
Speaker 2: the terminology is different, That's what I want to That's
Speaker 2: what I want to make clear. You're not going to
Speaker 2: see the same terminology in the Underdog Fantasy app that
Speaker 2: you see when you, you know, are betting on games
Speaker 2: when it comes to spreads and whatnot. But it's still,
Speaker 2: I mean, the concept's the same. It's just you're doing
Speaker 2: it based off of higher and lower as far as
Speaker 2: what a player is going to do statistically, So you know,
Speaker 2: like it may not feel like you're betting, but you
Speaker 2: are and you're winning money and last I check, that's
Speaker 2: that's what it's all about. So again what I put there,
Speaker 2: But I built one live on the fly and I'm
Speaker 2: sticking with it. So if you guys missed it and
Speaker 2: you want to, if you want to tail and maybe
Speaker 2: just maybe make this your first wager, your first your
Speaker 2: first experience here on Underdog Fantasy. I feel good about
Speaker 2: this one. Guys. Lamar Jackson over two hundred and fifteen yards,
Speaker 2: passing Gardner Minshew at least one interception, Derrick Henry at
Speaker 2: least one touchdown and then over three and a half
Speaker 2: or higher than three and a half receptions for brock
Speaker 2: Bauers for the Raiders. Like again, we'll see what happens,
Speaker 2: but like I think all those things are likely. So
Speaker 2: if you want, if you want to tail, let's do
Speaker 2: it all right, quick break, we'll come back on the
Speaker 2: other side. Wrap this thing up. It's coffee and Company,
Speaker 2: fuel by Thornton's right here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2: That's right, it is coffee and Company, and we are
Speaker 2: fueled by Thornton's here on Sports Talk seven ninety as
Speaker 2: we wrap up the week and we get out of
Speaker 2: here for a loaded weekend, a college football action and
Speaker 2: a FELL action, something I'm certainly excited about. And yes,
Speaker 2: I mean I wish Louisville was playing in a meaningful
Speaker 2: game tomorrow and we could get a chance to learn
Speaker 2: where this team is and whatnot. But hey, it's out
Speaker 2: of our control. I'm going to take advanceage of a
Speaker 2: week off for my team and just sit back and
Speaker 2: observe college football, NFL and you know, again, best time
Speaker 2: of the year. I'm not going to take it for
Speaker 2: granted because I get sad. It's my happy place when
Speaker 2: we get to this part of the year and it's
Speaker 2: good stuff. No doubts already mentioned tonight, I really really
Speaker 2: do like Kansas State to cover as favorites minus six
Speaker 2: and a half against Arizona. I've got no thoughts really
Speaker 2: on unov Kansas. My initial my initial gut says take
Speaker 2: Kansas minus eight and a half. But I don't know
Speaker 2: if I can trust him now. You know, Kansas is
Speaker 2: one of those teams that I think deserve to get
Speaker 2: some love heading into this year with what Lynch Leepold
Speaker 2: has done the last few years. But I don't know,
Speaker 2: Like if Kansas loses tonight straight up, or they win
Speaker 2: and don't cover, can like you can you blame anybody
Speaker 2: but yourself if you trusted Kansas football. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying, John, I'm with you. Yeah, Alabama Wisconsin tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I'm tempted to take Bama minus sixteen and a half,
Speaker 2: but I don't know. They were in a close game
Speaker 2: with South Florida and like the Bama might win by
Speaker 2: eighty Just isn't there anymore with saving now? They But
Speaker 2: like I just there's times where I would see a
Speaker 2: spread and sell okay, savings covering that, but like he's
Speaker 2: not there anymore, you know what I mean. I'm definitely
Speaker 2: taking Memphis plus six and a half. Maybe because I'm
Speaker 2: a hater of Florida State. I just think what makes
Speaker 2: this intriguing for me is that not only is everybody
Speaker 2: aware that Florida State's way more beatable now than maybe
Speaker 2: you would have thought before they played a game this year,
Speaker 2: but a team like Memphis can now go into Tallahassee
Speaker 2: and know we can beat these guys. We're better. I mean,
Speaker 2: they may not be, but they can. They can realistically say, hey,
Speaker 2: we're better than Boston College or Georgia Tech. And when
Speaker 2: you already have two bad losses and you've already really
Speaker 2: kind of lost your season as Florida State, adversity's gonna
Speaker 2: be different.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: You get down ten, you get down a score even
Speaker 2: like that mental factor can really take over and you
Speaker 2: really start second guessing yourself. And by the way, if
Speaker 2: you do get down, do you have a quarterback that
Speaker 2: can come from behind? Dju I don't think he's doing that.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about Ole Miss minus twenty three
Speaker 3: and a half against Wake four? I wanted to stay away,
Speaker 3: but that's my other Parlayen. Yeah, I like it a lot.
Speaker 3: Brian Edwards talked about that one as well. I think
Speaker 3: Lane Kiffin is is one coach that if he can,
Speaker 3: and I think he will be able to.
Speaker 2: He will. He will put up a score that will
Speaker 2: give him attention for taking care of business right like.
Speaker 2: He's not the kind of coach that that, in my opinion,
Speaker 2: will not cover win by ten and then claim wake
Speaker 2: Forest is a good team. People don't know what they're
Speaker 2: talking about, like and look style points. I hate calling
Speaker 2: him that because it just you know, I it's it's
Speaker 2: you know, it's a little it's a little overused. But
Speaker 2: like perception matters Man and ole Miss, they're not gonna
Speaker 2: win the SEC, but they want to get one of
Speaker 2: these at large spots. So when they play another power
Speaker 2: for team like wake Forest, I think they got to
Speaker 2: crush him, and I think they have the personnel to
Speaker 2: do that. So I like that one. You say it's
Speaker 2: minus twenty three, Now.
Speaker 3: I believe that's I got it either twenty three, twenty
Speaker 3: three and a half something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got. If you got any thoughts on Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: West Virginia, it's West Virginia minus two and a half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 2: It's a rivalry game. I don't think either team is
Speaker 2: very good. Wake four or not. Wake for West Virginia
Speaker 2: was bullied essentially by Penn State. Penn State winning in Morgantown.
Speaker 2: I just took care of business, Pitt. I don't think
Speaker 2: they're a good team. They should have lost last week,
Speaker 2: but you know what, they lucked out because the guy
Speaker 2: coaching the other team was Scott Sadderfield. So they were
Speaker 2: able to come from behind in a race of twenty
Speaker 2: one point deficit in the fourth quarter and still win.
Speaker 2: So the rivalry matchup there and the spread being as
Speaker 2: tight as it is has me intrigued. That's probably gonna
Speaker 2: be a gonna be a stay away from me. And
Speaker 2: again I'm tailing Brian Edwards here with this one. I'm
Speaker 2: taking the Georgia over thirty four and a half team total.
Speaker 2: I just think that's I mean, I think they could
Speaker 2: score that with ease. And then in the NFL. Just
Speaker 2: some really quick thoughts here, I do, in fact love
Speaker 2: the Chargers minus four and a half against the Panthers,
Speaker 2: who I think really really suck. I'm gonna go Homer here.
Speaker 2: Maleak Willis is starting in Green Bay. Give me the
Speaker 2: Colts minus three. I really like that one. And theirs
Speaker 2: are the Cardinals. I actually think they're gonna be a
Speaker 2: surprise team this year. Give me the Cardinals minus one
Speaker 2: and a half against the La Rams. All right, we're
Speaker 2: out of time, you guys. Enjoy your weekend. We're back
Speaker 2: at it on Monday, right here on Sports Talk seven
Speaker 2: to ninety. Take care,