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A Numbers Game — A Numbers Game | January 6, 2026 | Hour 3. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
A number is called the story of those idiots who believe in the analytics. This is a numbers game with Gill I like Xander gone V said our number three of a numbers game at V said these sports spending our visa.com game plus I hard radio YouTube TV. Of course, series XM channel 158. However you're taking a sim we appreciate it's Gill Alexander Kelly Biddling Kelly. We have some news in the NFL, not a head coaching carousel bit of news, but a coordinator or times two coordinator, a bit of news from Washington DC or at least outside of DC for current status, Adam Schefter reporting that the commanders offensive coordinator Cliff Kingsbury is leaving the organization to pursue other opportunities Kingsbury and head coach Dan Quinn met today and agreed to mutually part ways sure they did sure that's always the awarding. By the way, the commanders also are they firing or demoting the defensive coordinator Danny Joe wit junior is done so fired as the defensive think you did fired also as
the defensive coordinator of the Washington commanders. So good God pardon me, I'm emotional for playing the read between the lines game. Oh, we don't even have to play the read between but go ahead and say it, I had a different comment when I just heard about it being Kingsbury because I was the mutually mutually agree is always funny to part ways right because like let's see what Kingsbury's next job is then it will kind of tell you it will help mutual this was right. But if the DC got booted too, maybe it sounds like there's some pressure on Dan Quinn dinging. That's that's a head that to me is a head like yeah, but let me just say this, let me just evaluate it for you. Cliff Kingsbury did nothing wrong. You had your starting quarterback from beginning to end of game this year for three games. The guy who got you to the NFC championship last year played a grand total of three football games this year. That's the first thing not to mention you didn't have McClure and for a lot of those, you didn't have Debo. They barely all played together. The offense was not the problem because there's no way you can properly evaluate the offense.
Right. Even if you think the offense, let's say you're like, ah, they suck whatever you're pretty. There's no way to properly evaluate it. So what did he do wrong? Yeah. I or you're evaluating with those players, which are not the players that you took to an NFC chance. It's ridiculous. You should be dinged for whatever happened with the offense this year. Joe, it junior on the other hand, I have said on this show that Dan Quinn is a defensive guy. Remember, he's supposed to be the defensive genius. Joe, it junior scheme, I said earlier in the year, minimized the contributions of Frankie Louvre. Frankie Louvre was spectacular last year, but he wasn't really allowed to freelance this year and that minimized his game. But Dan Quinn, you're supposed to be the defensive guy, right? The same reason why Mike McDonald ought to be the head coach of the year. The coach of the year is because he's the defensive guy. His team held his opponents to the fewest amount of points in the NFL. That's the name of the game. His side of the ball drives that team. Dan Quinn should be the one gone. Joe Whit Jr. Fine. He should be gone too. But Cliff Kingsbury being this is just feels like a fall guy thing is exactly what you
said. Dan Quinn, trying now to preserve his job, he should be the one gone. If you had the choice, though, you would have him gone, still believe it, Dan. I'm just saying, if you're getting rid of someone, yeah, yeah, what do we do? I hate, I hate this classic move in the NFL, right? It's like, hey, we're going to fire the coordinators. It's like, okay, so there's heat on the head coach and they're in the automatic answer is to get rid of two of the other guys. I wish clink Cliff, Cliff Kingsbury well, because he was spectacular. I'm like, I'm kind of just still a believer in both. I'm not too worried about your commanders that you got a good cornerback. I'm still I'm still Dan Quinn guy. I think it was not a great season. Obviously. And yes, the defense, when you're a defensive guy, that is not a good look. By the way, some of this falls on Adam Peters to the GM, like the guys you let go, the one, you know, Jeremy Chin here and for the Raiders, Jeremy Chin was a great player. Let him go, St. Juiced is a charger. Let him go. Cam Curle before that is a ram.
So is a manual Forbes Forbes. I don't mind so much. Like some of it is the decisions of who you kept and who you let go as well. So I don't know. I mean, it's like there's blame to go around. Cliff Kingsbury is not even like top five on the list with you. I mean, that was going to be my excuse for next excuse for Dan Quinn a little bit. So like he really took over the most talented unit ever, GM's, it's got a first part of that's got to fall on GM too. Oh, yeah. Adam Peters who could do no wrong for a while now, you certainly can say, yeah, but what about this? What about that? We get to our NFL power rankings, cleave TA, who's been on the show many times. He's on the megapod all the time, hoping to get him on for the megapod division round. And one of the great followers on Twitter, CLEV TA TA is he's awesome in the NFL. He has great preview guide, which we still quote, right? As we're looking at award parameters, he's the guy we quote on that stuff. He had this tweet, which I thought was fascinating. What percent of snaps pardon me? Did each NFL defense get to face?
They're a backup quarterback or one of the worst quarterbacks in the NFL 30th or worse by EPA. The Patriots with a ridiculous 61% of total snaps came versus backup slash bad quarterbacks. We go back to that one more time, guys. You saw I can finish the the read here. Thank you. They only faced what I'd call three bona fide quarterbacks all year, Alan twice and Lamar Jackson and Lamar was only for 12 plays, otherwise dark coming off a concussion on Monday in a football and Baker in the midst of a second half slump were the only other halfway decent quarterbacks. So here's the chart. This is a fascinating chart. It's again, we watch all the football games, but analytics sees all the games better than we do. Patriots 61% of snaps by opponents. Epe or one of the 30 or worse ranking in terms of the quarterbacks they faced Jaguars are second most snaps faced 30 or worse bears third most 58% of opponents snaps that the Jaguars faced were 30 of their worst EPA quarterbacks bears 50% of them.
Let's go further down those Rams or fifth Broncos six. Okay. Now we get into the sort of the middleing area. We go further down though we flip it. So Patriots Jaguars and bears got the best of it. Another thing you can add to the bears just getting the best I was going to say it feels like this could this could fit in anybody's narrative for if you want to attack the Patriots Jaguars bears. But now let's go sort of towards the bottom here. She's in the Broncos. Okay. Texans are right in the middle right 38% they we've best defense in the NFL I think most people agree. But if we go to now the opposite side of the teams that faced the fewest right percent of snaps versus 30 or worse quarterbacks we go to the bottom of this first of all let me just say this of the playoff teams the panthers right they face the second fewest of these 18% the Eagles faced 21% they're the third fewest facing opponent snaps of 30 of their worst EPA quarterbacks. Um panthers most battle tested team huh and the chargers ninth fewest want to point that
out for those of us who are high on the chargers by the way it should be mentioned non-playoff teams the Vikings face the fewest period and that is a it Brian floor as goes into any meeting for a head coaching job he just needs to put up this graphic bam and we're still awesome. He's great. I hope you ends up with the race number one fewest face and we're still the best you know one of the great defenses in the league uh to our power rankings ladies and gentlemen let's do it. Great stuff for the FDA. The update is awesome. He usually includes that in his his preview guide right. Birds. Birds. He usually includes that in his preview guide I'm glad he gave us those numbers before the playoffs. So we're seeing look at so Kelly's uh Kelly tasked us with let's just rank all 14 playoff teams so we we throw out the lions like teams that would appear in here yeah but aren't in the playoffs. So these are just the 14 playoff teams ranked Rams up my number one Seahawks are my number
two Niners three I didn't dingle because there's no Trent Williams in that game against the Seahawks and their defense actually played okay uh Texans for best unit perhaps best single unit maybe among all the teams exists on the defense side of the ball for the Texans Chargers or five Eagles six is I do think they have ability to flip the switch and make a run here Jag seven you win that many or Texans Jags you win this many in a row how can you not be in the top seven at this point Patriots are eight only muted by the schedule they faced and as we just learned the snaps against terrible quarterbacks bills are nine it's again no I mean what what are we doing with some of that defense Packers at 10 bears 11 here's where it gets a little controversial for folks bears 11 Steelers 12 Broncos 13 Panthers 14 now this is not reflect what I think the Broncos chances are of winning the Superbowl
just because I think they're 13th of the 14 teams against struggling against the Chargers in a Tray Lance game not struggling but like really couldn't break away from him and we went through the laundry list of of bad teams they beat by like one point or two point this year I could go through it again but they get the buy so the power rankings are not reflective of what I think they're Superbowl chances are because hey man you get the buy and then you get home games but that's where I have them rank you sir yeah for me it's a Seahawks one Rams two but I was more like a one a one b thing I guess at this point I'm kind of leaving them in that order because I switched that after the Seahawks beat them they do the buy these kind of should be flipped I'm going to go with the T1 at the top or you flip them right like if I said said last segment if I had to make one bet in the NFC it wouldn't be the Rams price so I guess I should have them one and then I kind of okay then I resorted everything like you said Broncos they have the buy but this is truly what I think about where the teams are at their number 10 for me okay so Seahawks Rams one two I went Texans Jags and it's mainly just based off what you said man
we could pick apart these schedules and everything but they are on both teams on fire I believe in the Jags right now more than any team in the AFC and man that is I say that with not much confidence behind it the Texans single best unit I agree defense defense in the AFC so that's why I have them three Jags for but the Patriots five it's another one I think we can pick apart all we want but they want a bunch of games put them five then it's my two teams are okay let's just not let's not fall asleep on them right Eagles like you said when we would be shocked at any point if they flip the switch and come alive no Eagles six bills same thing I don't know if Josh Allen just drags this team to a super bowl appearance I won't be stunned they're seven nineers down to eight for me I think that was disappointing what we saw last week out of them Packers nine Broncos 10 bears 11 charges 12 Steelers 13 Panthers 14 so it's actually the we don't disagree the most on
the Broncos we actually agree pretty pretty close to them we disagree the most on the chart that's what was last week too is Chargers and Packers I had the Packers higher last week okay Chargers by far the biggest difference for what it's worth we'll get to some college for what we've gone two hours without talking about college football that is not allowed Pete few tech his thoughts on the semis next on a numbers game right here at Vison these sports betting that were you're here because you want an edge that's what separates listeners from winners but let's be real mindset alone doesn't get bets home pros win because they've got the tools the data and the discipline and now so can you Vison Pro gives you access to the same real time insights the sharps use no secrets no fluff just actionable info that moves markets tap the link and see why serious betters are turning knowledge into profit with Vison Pro numbers game on Vison these sports betting that work numbers game live from circus
Gil Kelly and a cast of thousands we had to wait to be in the book Brian Moriannan hey I miss the start of the show because of meetings what hour replay do I need to listen for Kelly's full segment on the greatness of james for 30 second birthday today oh wow hour four it's coming up big birthday big birthday james good happy birthday master of puppets aFC is 100% the bills he says I think your percentage is a little high but that's just me no one's talking about them he says not now when to win the aFC the way to bet them is per game then roll it over every game they might be a dog in one of them this pays way better than the plus 475 good luck guys you two uh Andy V you know I love about Andy V on Twitter when it comes to basketball he's he's all on my side of stuff mm-hmm he says watch your back you'll you're going after the NBA hardos prints sga was the prince winning it I don't know uh you guys are in lockstep love how glossed over okc winning last season because in both games sevens they got massive injury luck
Andy V everybody the RGB the or he says the RGB Georgia Southern University I love people are doing this guys the super roles within sites so we can get a good wine recommendation that pairs well with cloud of smoke because we really need that flyover lock asking he's asking if we can get that from Drew next time Brian Schaefer 31 thank you Washington Eagles fall in the playoffs it'll be their offense if they fail in the playoffs it'll be their offense cliff to the Eagles offense accord in next year oh there might be sick by the way he adds shenanigans did not sound optimistic that trend or peace or pier saw will play this week really that's not what I heard but you could be right uh tdg shocker guilt has nineers power rated number three when will the Raiders arrive and how about them commy slightly overgressive with the cities he lives I believe me I'm not a nineers fan not a nineers fan not a raider show not anything except San Francisco giants so shocker tdg but you're incorrect let's talk some college football peat
few tag is here by the way I am told that peat few tag is in town but didn't make it to the studio this represents a poor effort peat few tag joins us now courtesy the progressive guest line the emperor of college football news dot com peat where are you and what's the story I'm just gonna say you don't want this uh what what I would be presenting at the immediate moment after a night out in your city you know hmm this thing is interesting Vegas didn't win but it came close I was a why aren't why aren't you here and where are you staying by the way I'm seeing it I'm seeing it's a palatial link which you know you know it's it's an interesting hotel it but let me just put it that way um I stayed here because one of the people I'm hanging here with uh was staying here and today I just stay here it's cheap and it's fine and it's cheap and um all right I'm still alive and um I will survive this and they did have a you know open bakery at uh two o'clock in the morning which was great so that was good but I love them that I don't mean to you know I have a
gorgeous view of a wall um which you know I would know that what about the real quick what about the happy jim what about the what about the aroma what does it smell like in there um I don't know it's kind of urban foot I think it's the way I would describe it um it's not exactly doesn't it doesn't exactly smell like some of the other like for uh there's your stuff uh thought I'd ask I'm sorry I interrupted you what were you gonna say you're about to say okay the jim the jim is Winston stuff somewhere on my phone uh because he remember he was in the uh the last BCS championship game and he turned 20 then and during like a little media session the Florida State team a couple guys came out and gave him uh cake and stuff of game I had he did his media session in a uh birthday in a uh little party hat thing so that was jim is being jim is like a million years ago and yeah it's kind of how he rolled back then and still now apparently remember that final four the first
BCS we were also excited and jim is uh get got Florida State to the promised land well we're down to four now Pete this just in Miami Ole Miss on Thursday Oregon Indiana on Friday let's start with Miami and Ole Miss uh you when I asked you last time I'm like hey who do you think wins this all and you said I still think Ohio State well not so fast my friend Miami three and a half point favorite against Ole Miss who those two teams really knocked out the teams that everyone was sort of you know consensus scared of if you will Ohio State and uh Georgia respectively how do you view this game yeah and hindsight you know we we should have kind of seen coming I mean look at least with Ohio State Ohio State just never put their foot on the gap all year they just they did not have whatever fire and blah blah blah and figure for effort they just it was too late by the time that they turned it up against the Miami and Ole Miss was just fun look you know yes I'm still not
sold on the SEC this year Georgia was you know looks good by because they beat other SEC teams they look good against Georgia yeah Georgia tech uh but look it's all about if Miami could keep this going why not I mean they've got the guys they've got the NFL talent they've got the starting 22 but what's weird is they didn't play like this all year like this running game this power thing that they're doing and the you know the way they're controlling everything with their defense and Carson Beckplague and full control command they didn't do this during the ACC season they kind of did once in a while but it they it went away for a while so as long as they they can make Ole Miss play its current style so they don't want to get really into a shootout with Ole Miss because they're just good at ballin out uh I just like the way that Miami's playing and I think that they can get to the national championship and possibly win it the long wood way of thing I like Miami you like Miami down to three I another one I got the uh I got Miami minus two and a half bought it
on I bought it down on on Monday against Ole Miss but just a just an awesome matchup between the Keynes and the Rebels two teams especially in Miami's case but two teams whereas we were approaching the uh you know the show that revealed who made the playoffs there was a scenario right if BYU had won that maybe both of these teams would have been knocked out or if or if they if the committee had just stuck with their same criteria for Alabama and with BYU they changed their criteria in mid ranking and how they were doing things so had they either way it would have been uh yeah you're right we would have gotten probably Notre Dame instead of Miami. Physic just texted and he said Pete's at the links please send search and rescue to help him before it's too late and it becomes a recovery mission instead of a rescue. That's from Physic Live. Yeah it's live texting. If you if you can't if you can't be tell I'm blinking you know and more code here on the phone to try to see how different. All right what about Indiana Oregon on Friday night three match if you will
from uh for regular season game where Indiana really was the was the moment where I think a lot of people are like oh they are for real like that was the moment going in and beating Oregon uh Indiana's now a three and a half point favorite in this one total 46 and a half what do you think? I'm what would this be if they didn't do it first of all if you find the Alabama then you loved that Indiana win because it was so dominant but Alabama just wasn't that great they weren't that great for the last second half of the season you look at that gauntlet that everyone was you know talking about every single team on that gauntlet that was supposedly really good lost in their bowl game Vanderbilt Missouri Tennessee you know right I'm down the line you know all these teams lost and so Alabama was just okay it's not to take anything away from Alabama America from Indiana because they could absolutely were brilliant. It's the wrong way to look at it but I'm still
gonna go with it the exact same game the year before the I think I'm gonna get one way or the other but I think it was October 11th this year when Indiana beat Oregon well I think it was like October 12th last year when Oregon beat Ohio State and the rematch came and bad things happened I don't think we're gonna get that but I do think Oregon is just gonna win because they're better I just look I love this Indiana thing they are this team is just so flawless they do everything right their blocking schemes brilliant they the receivers run the most precise throughout the college football Mendoza is great but at some point that talent level is going to kick in and Oregon has more of it they are playing so fast so sharp except for when they took everyone out of James Madison and they're the one team that held Indiana's offense down in that one game that they lost I think Oregon pulls this off and it's Oregon Miami for the national championship wow
Pete we can't be normalized though to what Indiana did to Alabama right can we at least say I know you you're downplaying Alabama but Indiana destroyed them in a way that we have never seen done of an Alabama team in in memory for your recent memory like everybody forget the Florida state game by the way Florida state is the exact same thing but yes I see I don't you say I'm I'm let's put this way I have an Indiana 10 to one ticket to win it all I hope you're wrong um yeah I could be yeah not sold a thousand percent sold out of yeah they're great but yeah and you know I'm saying and this is the last time we can ever even utter Indiana has and I don't know I'm not even sure if this is true but you say Indiana has worse talent than Oregon uh signety doing big things in the transfer portal we may never be able to even suggest that again you would you acknowledge right after this year I just think of for another day I'm not really sold on that transfer portal tail but yeah they are that good they could have to be with it hate few tack
everybody it's cry if you need help or blink blink twice as you said if you need help we'll get to you and we'll be able to get there next time we'll see you next time you tell me please tell me please tell me thank you as Peter Futech at Pete Futech if I you T.A.K. College football news.com it's where he does his thing uh a little coach talk a little sports talk radio isch next on a numbers game numbers game on fysand these sports betting network head into the new year with the smarter betting strategy powered by the sin pro join visa pro get instant access to everything you need to make it form bets every day sign them down get daily best bets from bison hosting guests real time draft Kings the circuit betting splits a i powered prop tools and match analysis 24 seven video and full show replays on the bson watch at plus expert picks and prop data throughout the NFL and college football playoffs get started today for just 999 or say 50% with an annual plan start betting smarter today at bson.com slash subscribe that's bsiad.com slash subscribe Bobby Getty's
a little behind today but my favorite part of the show so far was drew stretching out his arms to answer the wine question that was hilarious but many thanks to drew who gave me several wine recommendations for my Italy trip last year yeah he gets into it he's like he stretches and the answer dude it's like I get wrapped up and and you know what I was literally thinking this time around was I don't know that I'm as passionate about it or is there something in my life that combines two topics that I enjoy so much together like that and it's it's which do topics in juice he wants in he loves he loves those alcohol and he I mean like it's it's the dirt it's the ground the man's a scientist about the ground he gets to combine the science with his passion he's a seismologist exactly that's right so like I don't think we have it when when I do that cow sports and money I guess that's easy answer I mean that is kind of thing right that is the thing why was I fat I was I was a avid baseball card collector and then the Beckett price guide came out I'm like this is my heaven dude the Beckett price built in yeah just built in you when I do my uh cow she will
there be an 8.0 earthquake by the end of the month segment drew as my guy as a seismologist Xavier 82 Jacob says with the mutual parting of ways with commanders where do we think Cliff Cliff Kingsbury goes and you don't think one of these head coachless teams would dare giving him another shot I don't know man like I said in case you missed it I don't know how Cliff Kingsbury gets fired after all this Jayden played three games beginning and this year I mean I guess the other one will bring up on the heels of that tweet is maybe also maybe college right because is that a possibility there's that that's right I guess I don't think and I don't think he's getting an NFL head coaching job but it wasn't just Jayden it was everybody's ridiculous Buddhist man on on the wine he says how troglodites like me hear this now weekly wines with drew segment he says blah blah blah blah blah blue I ain't hear words you said Lance Schaefer bills if not now when responding to the other tweeter who said if not now when
he says the edge of the question is simple never that said I love the Jags I've been putting in futures on them for weeks but it worries me how many people like the Jags though yeah everybody's on the Jags good myself by the way Chris he says soil technician is the a phrasier looking soil technician there we go there we go can we shout out storm me by the way it was on the broadcast last night we were talking about the game we never mentioned that she was on the sideline last night she did a great job did a wonderful job was it miss Phillies yeah Nashville yep Dave Fleming the play by play guy speaks as we all know stormy he speaks glowingly of stormy so good for her that she got that game she'll be back on money moves today tomorrow I don't know I think today okay back yeah back on money moves today look at her wow I'm going to turn around fluent from Nash Vegas in a Las Vegas is it did he is she here or is she in Dave Ross's son she's going to be here okay good for her um because she did do a show last week out of our Kentucky studio oh did she yeah okay I think the first person to visit Dave Ross you know from pieces we see that general Dave I'm sure you get a lot of visitors good even speak after all
these coaching moves by the way coaching was let me ask the can I ask the mainstream media question about these coaching vacancies the show six coaching vacancies four came available in the last you know Sunday night Monday morning two were the interim jobs with the giants and the Titans there you see the six total head coaching openings on the left general manager openings in Atlanta and in Miami remember Miami had an interim and Atlanta did the whole coach NGM firing yesterday with both or two days ago with both Morrison Fondo so the the mainstream media question list before we get to betting odds because these are better yeah the mainstream media question is which is the most appealing job and which is the least I have answers okay um most appealing I think you could go one at two ways but I think it's pretty clear to for me trying to decide yeah yeah pretty clear to Atlanta or New York bingo bingo these are absolutely one and one one and two and this is where it
and I think you can go with either one because guess what kill one has got a great roster in Atlanta but lacks a quarterback one I think the other one you'd believe in the young quarterback and it lacks the rest of their roster I'll even add one more for Atlanta not only do I think they have a sneaky good defense um not only to have those great skill players on offense but you're right there is no the quarterback is the problem yeah but because they did the head coach slash GM firing that just inherently is a more appealing job that's a good point rather than coming so the giants it is New York City you got those great players on offense in Dart scatter bow and neighbors all coming back next year but Joe Shane is still in charge and so there is that sort of little knock where you like well I still have to really I don't I don't call the shots here but I still think it's number two and then 3 4 5 6 man you can pick your order but I will say six is probably it's time Arizona
might be the worst I'm going Titans yeah Arizona you have a quarterback issue you know it's funny is neither one of us mentioned Raiders and you know what went through my mind I actually think Raiders would be number two for me or the worst you know yeah number five yeah um but you know you know what did click in my mind as much as we kind of make fun of this sometimes like they just Vegas Vegas more so than like being stuck in Nashville like that's well you can bet on these Raiders next head coach odds remember Tom Brady going to be more involved now he says Clint Kubiak is your favorite and minus 195 uh Robert Salah minus 164 with Robert Salah get another shot here remember he was the Jets head coach went back to being a solid coordinator with the with the Niners injuries though played in minus 164 take the Raiders job Jesse Minter was one of the rumored folks who might take might get the Michigan gig but Michigan decided to obviously sort of say well maybe we should
completely part ways with the Harbaugh link let's go uh completely different direction there there is Cliff Kingsbury at minus 123 on the list now who has moved to the favorite according to he has moved to the favorite minus 300 bam so someone's betting Clint Kingsbury now again as a reflection of reality who knows and how much to take to move that from minus 123 to minus 300 50 bucks I don't know yeah we have no idea we have no idea Brian Flores at plus 117 here's my here to my thing you should hire Brian Flores Brian Flores should be the number one choice of any team period Mike McCarthy eight dollars Joe Brady 13 to one I'm gonna bring up something we say Brian Flores you and I have always paid big Brian Flores fans and I just showed the cleave stats right yeah Vikings face the fewest 30 31 32 EPA I do want to say something though that I didn't hear many on mainstream media saying yesterday when they were like you said the same question gets tossed out which team and which coach yeah man there was a lot of individual thinkers
that were coming to the conclusion of Brian Flores and it's well we did get a report right we got a report that Tom Brady is interested and the Raiders are interested in him like Brian Flores is an extremely fascinating case when it comes to NFL head coach he's suing the NFL in multiple teams and like there is a reason but besides his coaching ability why he has not been brought up the past couple years for many of these jobs I couldn't believe how many people I was seeing yesterday they're like well I'm Brian Flores you get a shot this year it's like well yeah because you just read a report three hours ago that the Raiders are connected to him Clint Kubiak is also the short shot for the Falcons job Kevin's defense he's name came comes up for that one next at four to one Chris Shula Mike McCarthy remember him Matt naggy why Joe Brady Joe Brady's lasted both of these for the Falcons these are where these available by the way these are cows all okay and with cows you get a no price by the way that's a lot of people in these awards market saying like what's
the proper hedge go to cow she and bet knows right that's your straightest hedge on a lot of these when it's multiple markets like this multiple uh yeah I'll give you an example like I had I could have grabbed I did this over the weekend I could have grabbed Trevor Lawrence for comeback player of the year at seven to one I just got a no on uh on CMC at seven to one so there you go and for me yeah it leaves open the small sliver of a window if if DAC caches tickets for me then I win both uh on that Falcons board so there's no Brian Flores there's no Cliff Kingsbury who would you want Clint Kubiak offensive coordinator with the Seahawks DeFansky just ousted as the Browns coach head coach Mike McCarthy's been on the beach for a year or two man this is going to sound this is going to sound boring to say but like why does Maggie keep coming up seriously well he's he is supposedly going to be one of the guys that's in the in the discussions for some of these I don't defense gate four to one does it does jump out I know it's
going to be easy to say for a lot of these next team Chris Schule by the way the Rams defensive coordinators an interesting choice yep I'm surprised I'm surprised Clint Kubiak's that short do we really think he's I guess I haven't I guess I haven't gotten anything he's gonna jump we don't have a GM yeah to know what the tie is if there is any in Atlanta that's the difference I mean look it's I think with the talent that they have I do think SteFansky made more sense in Atlanta than he would in other places what I love about calcium though is again that's they're reading the bets they're not artificially moving anything right it's moves based on bets that's why you see the Kingsbury move right after the news of him being gone from Washington's OC position coming back the numbers game live from Circus or casino here on beast in these sports betting network
Gill Alexander Kelly Bidlin I just have to comment on this one thing because this could only happen to certain franchises but we have to bring this up I think I think most of you know that the the former Oakland athletics by way of Sacramento will eventually how it's supposed to go will eventually end up here in Las Vegas yes that's the plan right but the latter part of this decade um just further reporting on what I'm not up to you earlier no but we haven't talked about it on air the US patent and trademark office the US patent and trademark office has denied the A's trademarks for Las Vegas athletics and Vegas athletics it denied the patent trade off trademark office found the trademarks quote primarily geographically descriptive meaning they are not eligible for registration now what does that phrase means that it's too tied to Oakland for them to allow it say it again the reason for not granting them you lots Vegas athletics and Vegas athletics
trademarks which you would think will be something they would think about in advance uh they're not they if they found the trademarks primarily geographically descriptive a geographically descriptive mark may acquire distinctiveness when the consuming public recognizes the mark uh as identify the source of a product or service so one such situation is is when the mark reflects the geographic source of the product or service known as geographic descriptiveness so I read that to mean it's so tied to Oakland that they're not given them that I just pulled up another article yeah and it says because it's too generic so basically the athletics the word athletics is too generic don't pick your pick your reason thank getting it yeah shout out to Wyatt Tom check who brought that up but by the way if this camera was just on me while Gil was reading this is my look yeah well that's right you look my brain hurts whatever you just read um Wyatt Tom check bringing the bring you this to our attention this is and I'm like what like like don't we know this team well enough by now they could
just be the a's like do they really have to be the athletics can't they just be the a's well if it if the reason is yours that it's so descriptive or over so too generic yeah or mine that it's geographically descriptive either one that doesn't that doesn't work either it is like bizarre though that this is the eight the a's date a nod to the athletic baseball club of Philadelphia which spent a lone season as a nationally team before folding in the wake of the 1876 campaign like yeah I don't know I'm okay I'm okay with an update okay with it 1876 that's the most a story ever by the way we get tweets made in the book primetime cowboys underscore comes one yo hey man wine 101 classes in session everybody knows boons farm strawberry and MD 2020 orange Jubilee are the tops kid I think we all agree on that stat logic sports conversations between Adam Peters and Dan Quinn Adam Peters hey Dan either you go or they go Dan Quinn thanks for your support I'm in I'm all in Jack O'Lequire killing Kelly thanks for taking the time yesterday after your show to chat
for a few minutes with us really appreciate visiting with you guys best show on Vs and he says thank you Jack it's great seeing you guys Jack a gym and Jeff all the O'Lequire brothers were there yesterday yes I saw them as well when I left with Ryan who was not an O'Lequire brother Durban P224 you're going to have Todd do a reenactment broadcast of Pittsburgh ball the more fourth quarter on on the megapod oh god be sure to set an oxygen tank to the quirk attic ahead of time be sure to do that Todd will be on the on on the numbers game tomorrow but yes megapod Thursday beating the book megapod wild card edition Drew Dinsick our guests Todd wish to have Will Hill and I and then also tomorrow on the show I don't think I said this on air yet Aaron shots maybe I did say Aaron shots is on tomorrow Aaron shots the creator of DVOA who is making his annual poster regular season pre playoff appearance on the show tomorrow we will talk about all things DVOA he's also an awards voter so like Meena Kimes he is 2% of the entire vote one of the 50 so we will get that from Aaron
at least he's not as open as as Meena is with the awards but he'll sort of let us know who he's choosing between kind of thing on that stuff again it's still up some spots like fandom you can still bet on this stuff but some of the DVOA historicals man did you see some of this stuff I did not see that cowboys when you said earlier that's wild cowboys fourth worst defense in the history of DVOA I'm old enough to remember when there was like a month period when we were talking we were all talking about how much better the cowboys defense was getting and watch out lots of other share yeah patriots third easiest schedule in the history of DVOA going back to 1978 this one has nothing to do with DVOA but I should have seen this with points scored and points points given up Kansas City Chiefs end up with the fifth biggest underperformance in terms of what the record was based on points scored and points allowed this year 6 and 11 record but they were plus yeah plus 34 I guess that is in in point differential there's
tons of these best DVOA to miss the playoffs since 1978 the Detroit Lions of this year were the seventh best team to miss the playoffs ever and the Colts he says were the tenth best team ever to miss the playoffs you can go on and on with this stuff oh best team with the losing record ever this year's Colts hmm I don't know if I buy that with the Colts to you I'll buy one either but that's the the the Colts were always pulled by the DVOA numbers in a way that I don't really remember seeing in the past few years like they jumped out to that early early on it was they flew up those rankings and kind of hung around there then the whole time well there's more of those but we'll save them for Aaron tomorrow including the the conundrum that was the New York Jets this year and credible just like read more about that A's things wild oh did you ever did you ever see I'm sure you have it but like if you ever see the South Park episode the Washington Redskins South Park episode I think someone the team got brought down they didn't have the copyright or trademark
anymore and it's like that's part of the A's story it's like they're so worried about people just stealing up all everything that the A's could call themselves here oh boy here's the bets by the way recapping mine from guessing lines bears minus one versus the Packers I hear it's bears minus one and a half now I know it's here and I'm looking at yep Jaguar's money line versus the bills Niners I did not get the best of it though I got the Niners plus three and a half I thought it might tick down didn't want the other way and then I have the Chargers plus three and a half and the Chargers sprinkle on the money line sprinkling mean Luke Riley says the Athletics is not a specific enough name for recognition as an independent entity there are most likely several athletic clubs based in Vegas that we even use the name trademarks have to be exclusive and their name is not unique enough they should add baseball well I'm just reading the articles I said another to do it so no it was funny was the way what the term and I read the term to it was like it felt like it was the exact opposite like it was the geographical descriptive or whatever it's like no it needs to be more descriptive oh well uh be John offensive player the year 150 to one Mike Mcdonald coach of
the year at nine to one let's go Mike Mcdonald let's go mean it comes like I like her wrote to favorite doobies are Mike Mcdonald so I don't know that one in 40 girl virgin which one was that I don't remember I'm gonna fall right Superbowl file as Chargers will be there y'all will be there Chargers Rams 28 to one Chargers Niners in the Super Bowl 66 to one I might add another this week I probably will and then Indiana with the college football playoff attend to one let's go Hoosiers let's make up for a lot of heartache on this oh there's my NBA ones from uh from when the spurs took down the uh the thunder in their most recent meeting I couldn't take it anymore in the first quarter spurs to win the NBA finals 19 to one spurs Celtics NBA finals match about 125 to one I like the spurs yeah I like that spurs Celtics exactly it's a good one um I'm gonna be shopping around I can't Missoula's like third right now for coach of the year and then check out for with me you should be like one what a strange guy he is uh yes he is
that he is uh our NBA today wizards plus seven and a half just one for me I did add James Pierce junior to win defensive rookie of the year yesterday plus five 66 also drink may with an MVP bet for me just a bit of a Stafford hedge there NFL this weekend did add one of these uh as you said that bears packers line has been moving around so I was able to tease up both sides packers up to seven and a half with the Jags and bears up to seven and a half with the Jags two different teasers there also in the Jags money line Eagles laying three at one 15 and Texans laying three all right bevy of picks from all I guess Jake Han on the NHL avalanche night money line at the lightning islanders is a slight dog on the money line versus the devil stars can stars hurricane hurricanes are a buddy and a big nail you should say stars hurricanes under six and a half a total under in that one then the props uh in that Dallas game Jake out in your over 26 and a half saves for the Leafs Joseph wall over 26 and a half saves Anaheim's Beckett Seneca at uh one plus point Toronto's Austin Matthews uh over three and a half shots on goal and then an admittance that
drives him over two and a half shots on a goal uh you'll have to lay a little bit of juice for that one James Patrick route college hoops tonight South Carolina plus seven and a half at LSU in an SEC clash Michigan just rolling teams minus 20 and a half at Penn State 20 and a half not enough on the road according to Jim and the Oklahoma State minus three and a half uh in their ball game a little later on tonight as well then uh Drew Dinsick Mavericks tonight in the NBA minus five and a half at the Kings and finally ladies and gentlemen Jeff Erickson he's on the Eagles Wildcar Weekend minus four and a half versus the Niners charges Patriots under he's also got props John Jennings and the Niners game under 42 and a half receiving yards Hunter Henry under 44 and a half receiving yards in the Pats game and Pat Fryer Mooth over 34 and a half receiving yards for the Steelers in their finale wow Monday night Wildcar Weekend prop points is next enjoy it from Veecin these sports betting network from Veecin these sports betting network
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