Hour 1 – Dodgers Land Kyle Tucker, Matt Norlander

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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Made it too a Friday. It's hour one, Ready to go. Fritzy's here, Seaton, Marv Pauli, yours truly in the backroom, guys, Christopher mad Dog Russo coming up in an hour from now in Chris Sims on loan from Football Night in America. We'll look at the games coming up this weekend, games on Saturday, games on Sunday as well. Eight seven seven three DP Show operator Tyler sitting by. He'll take your phone call, Seaton. We'll have a poll question. We got to play the day coming up. Good morning, if you're watching on Peacock and if you're listening on our radio affiliates over four hundred cities carrying the program. Thank you part of Fox Sports Radio and iHeartRadio as well. Baseball last night with a big surprise, because I kept thinking it's gonna be Toronto, It's gonna be the Mets. Kyle Tucker is gonna get paid. All of a sudden, the Dodgers got Kyle Tucker. And that salary is I guess sixty million dollars a year. You're probably not familiar with Kyle Tucker. He's a good player. That feels like a lot of money to. Then you said sixty million dollars a year. You're probably not familiar with that. Those things should not go together. They don't normally. But and I didn't know the Dodgers needed Kyle Tucker. Maybe they needed him so the Mets and the Blue Jays wouldn't get him. But it's sixty million dollars for Kyle Tucker. He plays right field. I no, I got to I feel like I have to introduce him.

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Speaker 3: To I mean, that's right, you should not have to explain.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Kyle Tucker is his average salary, I guess is sixty million dollars. The only player that is making more is Shoheyo Tani, his teammate. I also saw the salaries that are guaranteed for this upcoming season. This is total amount of guaranteed money on the books per Major League Baseball team. The Dodgers, now, this is guaranteed money two billion dollars two billion, two point one. San Diego is one point two, Toronto one point two, the Mets one point one. Philadelphia. Come on, Phillies, they're not even a billion. They're at eight hundred and sixty five million dollars. Oh, you know, it makes it. The Dodgers make the Mets and the Yankees feel like a mom and pop shop, Like, man, they're scraping stuff together. It's incredible what they're doing. And that wasn't that long ago where we looked at the Yankees and we go, they're ruining baseball. Here Dodgers at two billion dollars on the books. Now you got deferred money that's included in there because most of Shoheo Tani's contract is deferred. Paulie, would you let America know about Kyle Tucker.

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Speaker 3: He's been a very good player, four time All Star the last four years. A couple of years ago he was fifth in the MVP, hitting two eighty four twenty nine homers, one hundred and twelve rbi for Houston. Then he joined the Cubs last year, had a pretty good season, banged up at the end. Considered a classic hitter. Oh, the classic beautiful swing day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, love least classic hitter, twenty eight years old, right, four year deal?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, if you're the Dodgers, did you need this going forward to com to win or do you just do it to make sure others can't challenge you. I guess it's a semantics.

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Speaker 2: Well, the Blue Jays were in the World Series and they wanted Kyle Tucker. But then I don't know what's going on with Bob Baschett here, but uh, I mean I thought maybe if there was a big, big ticket item as far as the pitcher went, that I could see the Dodgers doing that. But they picked up Edwin Diaz. You know, they got him from the Mets. You know, when you go shopping, you don't worry about the price tag, or when you go to a restaurant and you don't order it by looking at what the price is and work your way back. That's the Dodgers. They order from the left side of the menu. They don't worry about what that price tag is, or if they go to a store, they don't ask, or you go to a car dealership, you just say you got that in uh Dodger blue please?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Seton.

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Speaker 5: What else is kind of weird about it too? If you think about, like a lot of people played Little League baseball and right field is where the worst player.

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Speaker 2: On the team went.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, right field is always where the worst player was. Yeah, and that dude is just got paid, just gobs of money. There's something about your youth brain that won't let you reconcile. Why are you paying that much for a right field that they're always the worst player?

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Speaker 2: But there aren't many left handed batters when you're growing up, Therefore you don't worry about somebody hitting into right field. But you get to the major leagues, your best arm was usually in right field. Some of the best arms in baseball history were right fielders. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panini America.

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Speaker 2: Got our play of the day Nita poll question, Seaton, what are we going to go with? At least in the first hour of this award nominated program, for at.

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Speaker 5: Least the first hour of the show, we are going to go with which game is most likely to be a blowout? Broncos, Bills, Patriots, Texans, Seahawks, forty nine Ers, Bears, Rams.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmm, well, okay, let me give you this betting stat here from DraftKings. You can bet on which team will score the most points this weekend. Which team will score the most? The Rams are the favorites, Then it's the Seahawks, the Bears. Broncos and Bills are tied, which is interesting since they're facing one another. Then you have the Patriots, Texans and the Niners. The Niners are the worst odds to score the most points. Here stand the Day and the Day past Stat of the Day, stat of the Day Here comes that. What Stat of the day. Stat of the Day brought to you by Panedi America. The Bills are getting one and a half the Niners. It's now seven, it was seven and a half. Sam Donald has an oblique issue somewhat so that Drew Lock took some snaps and that's a big deal. Like you can hear if you know, a quarterback might be banged up a little bit, but took all the snaps. Drew Lock taking some snaps. Drew Lock is the backup quarterback to Sam Donald. The Texans are getting three against the Patriots and the Rams favored by three and a half against the Bears. We do make a big deal about the cold weather, and I can speak from first hand knowledge. The Cincinnati Bengals against the San Diego Chargers with Dan Fouts and they came into Cincinnati. It's the coldest NFL game on record, and some of the linemen for the Bengals came out they didn't have any sleeves on and I'm thinking, you guys crazy, And then the Chargers came out. The Chargers had if they could have played in parkas they would have, but they came on the field and you could almost to a man, see them go can we get through three hours of this and then go huh like that, we're not gonna We're not gonna do well here. Now. Nobody wants to play in the cold conditions, but I always find it interesting when you get one or two guys who come out as if to say, it's not that cold. I don't have a sure h Tennessee tried to do that against Ohio State, and the Ohio State players probably went, the cold is in your head, not ours. We know it's cold. You're trying to prove that it's not cold. It is cold, But somebody will be out there and they'll be warming up and they'll have their shirt off, and you're probably gonna have players who go, the cold is in your head, you know Chicago's going to play in it. I remember talking to a former Minnesota Viking when they had the outdoor stadium, and Bud Grant famously didn't want heaters on the sidelines because if they had heaters, then the other team got heaters he didn't want. He wanted his teams tough, and they were tough. But the player said, we didn't like playing in the cold, but we had to act like we liked playing in the cold. And a lot of these guys who are in shot, like Caleb Williams, where's he from? Did he grow up in cold weather? I guess DC kind of coldish. Or you get guys who played in California who now play in the Midwest. You went to college, you know, now you're playing cold weather, or vice versa. You know, we always talk about Florida when the Florida teams come up. Then we go, uh, they're soft. Now they might be because history is shown that they don't do well in the cold weather. Or you get teams from the North who go down to South Florida and all of a sudden, you know, you go, Dolphins shouldn't win, but here it is December and it's really hot. They end up winning the you know, the Patriots, it felt like, would always lose in South Florida and be like, oh man, that humidity. It is weltering. And guys will say, they'll tell you that I'd rather play in the cold than the hot because I can add layers in the cold. There's only so much you can take off in the you know, when it's sticky, when it's hot, when it's humid, but somebody is going to be out there shirt off. They're gonna go okay, but it's going to be cold, it'll be windy, it'll be Chicago weather. Yeah, Paul.

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Speaker 3: Couple of guys on NFL Network yesterday saying, you know, Poka Nakua and DeVante Adams playing with Matt Stafford. It's tougher for them in the cold to catch his football is because he throws a hard football. Then the other guy made the complete opposite case. He said, well, Pooka's got the best hands in the sport, so if anyone could catch those balls of the cold, it's him, So that gives the Rams an advantage. It was like a direct opposite conversation.

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Speaker 2: And then I heard an Annaly state, well, you know Stafford played in Detroit all those years, and I go, uh, he played inside. He was inside. You know what, there are other games in the division. Okay, he played one game in Green Bay in one game in Chicago, depending on when it landed on the schedule. So he played. You know, Minnesota's inside. So it's not like I mean, I know Matt had to leave his house to walk to his car. Maybe the car is in the garage, so he didn't even have to do that, and then he parked underneath the stadium. He didn't, you know, have to face the cold weather. You know, he played in Detroit. No, he lived in Detroit. It wasn't playing in the elements in Detroit. So the weather will be an issue. I don't know what it's going to be in New England for the Patriots and the Texans. I don't think it's going to be anything that's alarming that's going to be oh my gosh, the Texans, how are they going to survive in New England? What do we got temperatures in the thirties Pauling.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, thirty five at kickoff with the Patriots, Bears at home, seventeen at kickoff, Seahawks forty nine, and Broncos forty one degrees at kickoff.

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Speaker 2: Ooh loalmy. And here's another thing that when the Rams almost beat the Eagles last year, it was in the snow in Philadelphia. I think if you check the temperature, it was in the mid thirties, so it wasn't it was snow, but it wasn't that bitter cold. And you know that football gets really slick when you're in the cold and if you got somebody, you know, players would talk about Elway and Elway through the hardest football of anybody, and you know those guys. It's almost like you had to catch it out of self defense because this thing is going to hurt. Elway would leave Marx on you. But the cold weather coming up this weekend, Denver, don't have to worry about that. Got to worry about other things like defense, their defensive line, That's what I would be worried about. All right, Seaton, did you come up with the pole question?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: We were telling which NFL game this weekend is going to be a blowout.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's what we're going to do this first out. All right, I'll save my pick. We'll take a break here when we come back. The college basketball gambling scandal that broke yesterday while we were on the show, and I got some information before this went public, talking about players who were involved, some players who were still playing right now involved in this. And we talk about these smaller schools. I've said it before. If I am going to fix a game, I'm going to talk to somebody who knows somebody at a smaller school who may get ten fifteen twenty thousand in nil. Maybe they don't get any nil, but those are the players you target, and that's what happened in this situation. We'll take a break. More on that coming up. Your phone calls as well. This is the Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 2: Subscribe, hit that thumbs up icon and comment away. We will tell you the game that could get out out of hand this weekend. We'll have that for you. That's our first hour poll question college basketball front and center not in a good way. Yesterday, seventeen former college basketball players listed as defendants in an indictment. Fifteen of the players participated in the twenty twenty three, twenty four or twenty twenty four to twenty five seasons, and a few have actually played this season. And you start to look at the numbers being thrown around of the amount of money bet on some of these games. Betting amounts four hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars for North Carolina A and T to lose against thousand, four hundred and twenty four thousand on Ken State to cover the first half spread against Buffalo, two hundred seventy five thousand for Southern miss to not cover a first half spread against South Alabama. Two hundred and fifty six thousand dollars for Robert Morris to flop in the first half of a game against Northern Kentucky. Now there's a couple things to think about here. These are smaller schools. You're going to get nil, but not as much as you think. A lot of these schools still they do pay nil. But also, you're going to do this with a first half cover. It's easier to pull something off like this of not playing well in the first half and then you play hard in the second half. You've already covered the bet, you're going to get paid, But the fact that you had this amount of money, I'm surprised that these games weren't flagged. Our good buddy, Matt Norlander, CBS Sports has been covering this. These are big numbers, Matt. How did somebody not notice this when they were actually happening.

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Speaker 7: Well, this has been investigated for more than a year.

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Speaker 8: I actually expected this story.

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Speaker 7: I was told that the FEDS wanted to try and get the story out before Christmas, but they had the processes. We finally got this lot out of the bag in a public forum on Thursday. And if you notice the games that are affected, and you can go to cbsports dot com. At the bottom of that story, I've got every game that was affected.

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Speaker 8: It started. The whole thing starts.

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Speaker 7: In twenty twenty two with Antonio Blakeney, a former five star prospect played at LSU, had a cup of coffee with the Bulls, and now he's playing in China, averaging more than thirty points a game. And then a couple of central bad actors there got involved with him to throw some games. They purportedly allegedly got away with that for a little while, and then they thought, let's head back to the States and see if we can get some low level college players who aren't making huge anil deals to toss some first half lines or affect some game outcomes. And the list of those games it begins February seventeenth of twenty twenty four, and then the most recent one in this specific case is January eleven, twenty twenty five. So I think, Dan, to your question, I think that they had a line on this. The NS Double A has also a number of the players that were charged in this. They've already been found out, named in banned from the NS DOUBLEA for life. But it's the grand scope of this. Now, it's twenty nine games that were affected in the scheme of things. It's a very very low number among all divisions games that are played, and we're talking New Orleans versus Lamar, Robert Morris, Northern Kentucky, Fordham, Ducaine. But there are I know what the shirt Polly's gone on right now, there are a few DePaul former DePaul players that were caught to this. That's the only Power Conference program that's affiliated with this. But still twenty nine is twenty nine, way too many. This is a huge, huge deal. It's a huge story. And for anyone that sees the story and thinks, all right, I never watched Tu Lane play East Carolina, Like, what do I care about a comp and state South Carolina state game? Remember Major League Baseball had this issue with its pictures. We saw what happened with the huge case Jontay Porter, the separate case Terry Rogier, Chauncey Billups, with the illegal gambling ring. So this is pervasive throughout sports. This one right here though, as it pertains to all of the games affected DAN, this really stands to be the most widespread game fixing scandal in the history of college sports.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, they caught this or this was brought to light, but you wonder the number of games that have not been flagged and people got away with this. But once are they betting it? You know? Are these bets legal? Like are they offshore account? Because if I see four twenty four, four fifty eight North Carolina A and T to lose against thousand.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So I am not someone who is logging onto the phone and logging bets.

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Speaker 8: That's just not what I do.

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Speaker 7: But my understanding, obviously is that if you have an individual game with an individual better that is going to bet that amount, and almost every single legal online sports back they're going to flag that immediately and take it off the board. What they were trying to do here was have a network, literally a criminal conspiracy to log these bets. Hope they didn't get flagged. They obviously did. There's not just the sports books that did this, there's you know, third party watchdogs that work with the sportsbooks, that work with the NCAA that we're tracking this. My understanding also is that you know, this was a criminal investigation. They don't want to tip it off too early. They want to get all the evidence they can get so that they can bring charges against twenty six people that came down, many of them former players in general. But yes, this was all done or mostly done in person at sportsbooks online, at a variety of different sports books.

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Speaker 8: And this is just what we have here.

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Speaker 7: There are still talking to some sources both this week and back in the fall. There are still believed to be some other former players that could still be up for some real trouble here. But this was this was the big story out of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and now you know, we wait to see how it advances and if all that the twenty six charged wind up going to prison. The potential prison times vary by person. But every you mentioned this before, four players in college basketball, or I should say we're in college basketball played within the past week, Simeon Cottle at Kennesas State.

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Speaker 8: I know most of your audience isn't gonna know who that is. He was.

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Speaker 7: He's one of the best mid major players in America. So there is a little bit of a shock value there that you even had guys who had allegedly participated in this in the previous seasons still playing as recently as early this week. Obviously, all of those players now have been suspended. Has he been arrested, he has been charged. There has not been a release that he has specifically been arrested. There have been some arrests made, but the charges come down, the indictment has come down, has not specifically been revealed. If Coddle and some of the other current players have been arrested.

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Speaker 2: And we're done with prop bets in college, correct, you would hope.

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Speaker 7: So I'm so glad you brought that up, Dan, because that is the other part of this. So Charlie Baker has been pushing to end prop bets. I's the president of the na I've heard you talk about this on your show as well. He wants to get rid of it, not just so that players can't be tempted to affect their own prop bet lines and be induced to do game manipulation. As you well know, also college basketball players, college football players, they are the subject of severe, severe online harassment out in public in their dms. And eliminating prop bets at the collegiate level, which needs to be done by Congress. The NCAA is waiting on Congress to basically fix all of its issues timeline and that very much remains to be seen. But that is the hope and that is the goal. But as you well know, even if we do you get to that point in twenty six, in twenty seven and twenty eight, and prop bets are no longer a thing in the legal gambling laps that are out there, it still isn't going to prevent the idea of someone you know, getting compromised and someone going to someone and say hey, because these players were paid ten thousand, twenty thousand, one thousand, sometimes thirty thousand dollars just to say, hey, make sure that your team doesn't cover that first half eleven and a half points spread so that prop bets can't solve. But it's kind of a six and one half dozen. And the other Dan, the fact that gambling and all these ads and all these.

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Speaker 8: Apps out there, it's just everywhere.

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Speaker 7: So the fact that it is it makes the watchdogging and the flagging of it easier to catch. But you can also make the argument that it makes it that much more likely that it is just since it is so pervasive in the culture, that it is that much easier to find a player or two or in this case, dozens to participate in a scheme like this, because it's becoming more and more just an accepted part of the culture. And it's why that Supreme Court case that got basically flipped seven eight years ago was such a massive one as it pertains to our industry.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us on short notice, Matt, have a great weekend.

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Speaker 8: Appreciate you, Dan, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Matt Norlander, CBS senior writer analyst, podcast host. Yeah, you go after the small guy, And as I've said numerous times, nobody's gonna notice this game. Hey we're North Carolina A and T. Nobody knows who we are. It's the amount of money that was bet on the game. Like, right there, something's up. I can't imagine that amount of money on all of North Carolina A and T's games. Four hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars. And if you're going to fix a game, you fix it in the first half. Hey you got up to a slow start, didn't play well. Next thing you know, Hey we're down fifteen second half, Now let's play. You get paid anywhere from ten to thirty thousand dollars, and these players are getting nil. Now it's not a lot, but they're getting paid nil. It might be ten thousand dollars or twenty thirty forty upwards one hundred thousand dollars, maybe at some of these smaller schools, but they are getting paid. But this is where you think nobody is going to notice it. Gues Ton and what happens when a.

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Speaker 9: Player gets involved once and they realize either they made a terrible mistake or they just don't want to participate anymore. Who are these characters that they're dealing with where they can't just be one and done where they're going to be expected to continue doing that for them.

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Speaker 2: Well, this you go back to the Boston college scandal back in the seventies. Once you fix one, you're in. They got you, and what are you gonna do? Call the cops. You're gonna call the NCAA. Once you're in, you're in. And you know these are kids once again. They they don't think they're going to get caught. Nobody's going to know this. But you start getting text messages and then you know, then you text somebody else. Now you're bringing in more and more. Somebody tells somebody. Then you have somebody who's going to say to their buddy, hey, you want to get in on this, all right, and give me a piece of it too, But go with the first half cover, all right. And then that guy tells somebody, and then that guy tells somebody. Nobody keeps a secret, yeah, Paul.

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Speaker 3: And you know why this might be easier to hide or keep under the rug these days is because of a kid from Kennesas State all of a sudden has five grand on him. He could just say, yeah, it's my nil money. It could be explained away, and it's from the betters it's from the gamblers. The nil kind of covers your bases.

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Speaker 2: Kennesaw States Simeon Coddle, he is the Conference USA Player of the Year preseason Conference Player of the Year average in twenty a game. He's involved in this. There's a player at Delaware State. There's a player at Eastern Michigan. There's a player at Texas Southern. They were playing as of a couple of nights ago. It's not going away. The watch dogs, you know, you have to rely on them to make sure that these things are flagged, and normally they are. Whenever you see a line that is you know, all of a sudden it goes from like three to nine or nine to three, and then you go, what's up with this inside information? You know, then they take it off the board. Yeah, Marv, that's.

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Speaker 10: Like when somebody has four figures on Johntay Porter over under rebounds John Say Porter, even though he was an NBA player.

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Speaker 2: But that's where somebody tells somebody, and then they tell somebody and then they'll they'll say this, Hey, don't tell anybody, but get in on Johntay Porter under five rebounds. Well it doesn't. You don't have to be a sleuth to go, Hmmm, something's up here. It's staring you right in the face. All right. The game that could get out of hand this weekend. According to DraftKings, the Rams are the one favored to score the most points in their game. Therefore, I would say the Rams against the Chicago Bears. Now I was going to go Seattle against the Niners. I mean, I'm still amazed what San Francisco is doing, but at some point the better team is probably going to win. But the Rams against Chicago, But then you have Chicago. I mean, this feels like it's going to be one of those Hey, first team who gets to thirty five points is going to win the game. Because the Bears had the third best odds to score the most points this weekend, Broncos and the Bills are both tied. Damn. That feels like the Broncos they can either lose this by one or win this by fourteen. But then I feel the same way about the Bears. They either pull off the ups or they lose by two touchdowns. Patriots against the Texans is tricky, that one. That one feels like it's going to be close, just because I don't know how good. That Patriots offense will be against that Texans defense and the Texans offense against the Patriots defense. Let's see a couple of phone calls in here. David in Ohio, Hi David, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 4: Hey Dan, happy to meet Friday nobody. I've got some NFL divisional rhyme time here for you, real quick.

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Speaker 11: Uh.

00:29:34
Speaker 4: First one is oh sorry, hold on, let me pull it up. I'm sorry, Dan. First one is Patriots q B not real.

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Speaker 2: Drake fake Drake fake.

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Speaker 4: Yes. Next one that's for Pauli Bear's running back and cousins.

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Speaker 3: What was the second hit?

00:30:02
Speaker 4: There's running back and preasant like a president you.

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Speaker 8: Received, swift gift.

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Speaker 4: Swift gift, yes, all right. Next one is from our niners QB and time Niners qube time.

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Speaker 2: Rock clock, rock clock.

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Speaker 4: And this one's for the room. Last one him nance partner type of sandwich.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, Yes, ton tony bony rhyme time. Uh god, do you wanna maybe that was fun? Give me some rhyme time later in the show. Okay, Okay, I just want to I'm opening it up for you to do that, okay, if you would like to. Uh, Chemo in Virginia Beach.

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Speaker 6: Hi, Keemo, Danny, Danny, you stole my best of the weekend. That sweet sweet flannel snuggy thank you you got made in the membrane. Right anyway, let's go to this weekend. All the Danets have standalone games with their prospective teams, right, yep. The pole question today should be which Dynet makes it through the weekend or my choices.

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Speaker 4: E none of the above.

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Speaker 6: But then anyway, statistically.

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Speaker 2: Now you're talking about their team making it through the weekend, not Danet's actually making it through the weekend.

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Speaker 6: Wellspect yeah, their respective teams. Yeah, that's my point. And it still breaks down to front row back row.

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Speaker 2: Well, I got Bears and Niners up front. I got Patriots and Broncos in the back. Thank you for the phone call, Chemo. Now, how does he want us to phrase this? Which Danet's team has is the worst chance of making it through the weekend or the best chance through the weekend. Uh, we'll figure that out. Buddha in San Francisco, Hi, Buddha.

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Speaker 12: No body happy meet Friday Boys every day in the Super Bowl, especially for US Niner fans. Tomorrow in Seattle, Dan and uh, you know all, I gotta say, it's gonna be We're gonna be big time dogs tomorrow. But we're looking down and we're looking to take down some birds on a short week. But hopefully we can make some ghosts appear for a little Sam Donald to worry about. But that's not gonna be easy. But let's go, Marvin and Dan. I gotta tell you, I was working the floor last night and I felt my phone buzzing and buzzing, and I looked down and saw several texts, and one of which was from my man Gusts in La.

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Speaker 4: So I clicked on it, saw a couple of links.

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Speaker 12: Of the revealed to Kyle Tucker trade, and then I started to overhear several tables hating on the Dodgers and talking to complaining about the trade. And then I just proceeded to giggle my ass off for the rest of the night. Andrew Friedman man turning into the modern day Jerry West straight doing work.

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Speaker 2: Man, Well, all he had to do is just give the biggest paycheck there. I don't think it was wheeling and dealing like Jerry West did. It's like, do we want Kyle Tucker?

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Speaker 4: Sure?

00:33:27
Speaker 2: How much did you gonna cost well, I think the Mets we're going to give him fifty million. We'll give him sixty million. I want to order my entree if I can. Christopher mad Dog Russo will have some thoughts on this coming up at the top of the hour. John Harball is still not signed by the Giants. I'll tell you why. I think it's well, what might be holding this up? We'll take a break. Play the Day next.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: The game this weekend that is most likely to be a blowout. Okay, Bill's Broncos Patriots, Texans, Seahawks forty nine Ers Bears Rams. Right now, Uh, Seahawks forty nine ers has a slight edge over Bears Rams.

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Speaker 13: Okay, all right?

00:35:36
Speaker 2: Uh Sue in Montana, Hi, Sue, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 11: First time caller, well, first time getting through caller, long time caller, long time listener, private one.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if when many.

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Speaker 11: Years I do that, but I felt like I had to.

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Speaker 6: It's the first step for recovery. Right, and.

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Speaker 11: Ravens fan, big time Ravens fan about John Harbaugh. Eaven But Gus, you've got to wish him luck. I feel great about where he landed and if we can just find the right fit for us. I think a restart to repress is good for any team, and I'm looking forward to the future for both him man for the rate.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, thank you, Sue. Yeah, John Harball and the Giants, I think they've agreed to a contract, they haven't signed the contract. And keep this in mind, this was told to me yesterday. John Harball hasn't really negotiated a contract in nineteen years. Now, He's got contract extensions. This is different now in today's NFL what you can ask for it's not just money. If you want a country club membership, if you want use of a private jet, this is different. And John Harball and his agent probably not used to asking for these perks. Do you get a suite at the stadium? So it might be sort of ancillary thing that he's asking for or they're negotiating. Also, I talked to somebody yesterday about Mike Tomlin, somebody with a TV network, and I said, can you see a scenario where Mike Tomlin's brought into NBC and you use him through the Super Bowl? And the TV execs said I don't know if it's a given Mike Tomlin is going to be in TV this next season. I said, Okay, feels like it's foregone conclusion. He's friends with Jay Glazer, maybe Fox, maybe NBC brings him in. Tony Dungeye is there, or CBS you got Bill Cower there. I don't know their relationship, but you know, two former Steeler coaches. But I was told, not a foregone conclusion that Mike is going to want to do TV next year. I don't even know if Mike Tomlin has an agent, So really, I don't even know how you get in touch with him now. Being serious, but I don't know if I think Mike. I think Mike wanted to step down from the Steelers, but I don't know if he's stepping down saying because I want to do this. I think he just stepped down from the Steelers, and maybe he's going to take a little time to figure out what he wants to do and does he want to do TV. Let's see Ron in Illinois? Hi, Ron, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 11: Hello?

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Speaker 13: So my name is Ron five eight two fifty. So how come not more people are talking about this forty years in the making Bears Patriots Super Bowl sixty.

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Speaker 2: Well, if they do play, I don't want to see what was you know what that matchup was like forty years ago. That wasn't pretty at all? Was that Tony Easton? Was he the quarterback for the Patriots in the east of Illinois? Yeah, yes, Marvin.

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Speaker 10: The AFC that Sorry, I was looking back at the eighty Super Bowls and it was just shelack like mollywops. Yeah, year after year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So the AFC was just no good. Well the end of you could look at the other way. NFC was really good. Maybe a different style of football. I mean Washington, what Washington did to Denver. I mean they didn't have the ball that often. They were down I think ten to nothing, and then you know, Doug Williams just went crazy. Uh. You know Buffalo when they played Dallas, they just they got they got in and then they were in trouble and then it just becomes this avalanche. But then you had them go toe to toe with the Giants, you know, with Scott Norwood. So you you've had competitive games. But there for a while, we're like, man, what the AFC has got to put up a fight? Here, and then you have the Buffalo Bills, you know, with the close game, but also the blowout game as well, which unfairly mars those players. Now, I'm glad that the Hall of Fame is open their eyes to They got to four consecutive Super Bowls that will never happen again. Like we make a big deal when somebody goes back to back at a Super Bowl. Yes, just should be going back to back that absolutely, they did four in a row. Yeah, Paul, I went.

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Speaker 3: Back to that AFC title game of eighty five. Is Damn Reno versus Tony Easton. Easton only threw for seventy one yards, but he had three touchdowns. They were all five yard passes. Basically, they ran for like two fifty and ma Reno just had an off date twenty or forty eight. Two touchdowns, two picks.

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Speaker 2: Dang over right, nobody all right, one hour in the books on this Meet Friday. More phone calls coming up. Christopher and mad dogarusso he'll he'll be on fire with Kyle Tucker joining the Dodgers. And if you're watching on Peacock, it's worth tuning in just to see what Mad Dog's hair looks like. It'll be a mess. Chris Simms will join us as well as we get ready for this football weekend. One hour in the books, Fritzy Seat and Marv Paula yours truly Hour two right around the corner.