Hour 4 - Jets Have To Win, Cooper Rush Starting, Jerry's Update & NFL Picks

0:00It's the boomer in Geo podcast from W F A N boomer and Geo coming you live for the build Ford tough studio on the fan and CBS sports network red pocket mobile fan line is how you reach us. It's your new ultimate sell carrier red pocket mobile 888 801 119. You know, Yankee Stadium is going to be amazing tonight. Sure. Of course, it's going to be one of those moments as we always have over the last 25 years where sports brings people together, both Yankee fans, meth fans and singing the national anthem and going through the remembrance of 911 at Yankee Stadium will bring back all the amazing memories that we did get from sports a couple weeks after when they restarted. And I think tonight the for the lucky people that are going to Yankee Stadium, hopefully you're touched by it. I think you will be and hopefully it's a great game. Yeah, I remember wanting to go to I was up at the good college and I wanted to get back home desperately because of what had gone on and wanted to see people I knew and I wanted to get to Shae Stadium.

1:03And because I've been there so many times and all the honoring that was done to the FDNY NYPD, PAPD and so on. And I remember going to one of those it wasn't the Piazza 911 home run game, but it was one of those other Braves games during that series and being there was I remember the security line going in. It was just eerie, just very eerie watching those games from in the stadium. I think that's 25 years later now and obviously the Yankees and the Mets facing one another was really thoughtful of Major League Baseball to save this second subway series for this weekend and have game one tonight. So yeah, I mean this is this is you know that sports life intersect was no greater than it was during 911 where you saw all of these leagues do a tremendous job of honoring those and all the respect that they showed. And I think that you know Bobby Valentine, Joe Tory, all the players at that

2:05time, they just they stepped up in such a big way. I mean, I remember seeing those videos of Bobby Valentine, you know, during the day he'd be sitting there like getting water to the first responders all day long and then go manage a game at night. It was it was it was a jetz and giants as well. It was all the leagues, you know, New York teams on the road, other teams coaches where in PAPD hats like we have on our desks here or NYPD hats or FDNY hats. Yeah, we saw it all and we'll see it again tonight and we'll see it with great emotion because the Yankees do these things an amazingly well. So enjoy the games and I hopefully it's going to be great. You know, the other thing too, I was thinking about, you know, was like the uncertainty of a team like when you're a new coach like John Harbour, like this is the stress part of the job. You know, he just had the you know, he had the fight with the media. Yeah, little testy. Well, welcome to New York, by the way. This same Baltimore kid, but he knows that, but it's just the uncertainty

3:12and the butterflies not knowing how your team is going to respond and because they're going to be Sunday night, he's going to be watching all these games leading up to Sunday nights game. Yeah, and you know, obviously the last game of the week will be the Broncos at Kansas City on Monday night, which would be a it's going to be a barn burner as well. But yeah, I mean, just being like jacked up and excited, but also stressed because you don't know how your team is going to react against the team that really is pretty much stabilized than Dallas Cowboys. That's interesting and I'm sure that will be one of his emotions, but I also think because, you know, he's been through it so many years and he has, he trusts his plan that there's a level of confidence that the guy like John Harbour has starting in a new place that at first time had coach wooden or someone who, you know, like a Rob Salah wooden. I think that he's got to he believes in his system. He believes in his players. So yes, there's going to be some of those butterflies for sure just because of the circumstances, but this isn't just some coach in a new place.

4:15And no one understands this is a this is a real coach. He's got a history who's been around, who's had success. All three phases of his teams have been successful. His defense is his special teams. He's had one of the best kickers in the history of the league down on Baltimore. And one of the best defense has one of the most electric quarterbacks down there. And it almost feels like he's a trending or the team is trending that way as well. Yeah. I mean, so that's a good thing now for Rob Salah and for Brian Dable. That's a whole different set of circumstances because they were inheriting horrendous team. Oh, yeah. Are really, really bad. And I think both fan bases are probably looking at this game in Tennessee. And then obviously here with the jet fan got to win this game, got to do it because the Titans are looking at the jets as a joke. The jets are looking at the Titans as joke. And somebody's got to win. So if it could be ugly football, but the jets desperately, I mean, this would just be it would be so bad with the way that the schedule lays out for the jets to lose to the Tennessee Titans and Rob Salah and then

5:21lose the next three. You know, two quarterbacks that I really, really interested to see how they start their season. And I'm really worried about them because they're both young players. One has had, you know, it's had some success, but also this had some really, really bad games, especially in big games when it comes to the playoffs that CJ Stravd in Houston. Yeah. And the other one is Kim Ward. Yeah. You know, inaccurate all over the place. He's got Brian Dable now. So hopefully Brian will be able to you know, stabilize him as an offensive coordinator and help him become a better quarterback. But you know, I would really be worried about him. Yeah, man, I think that you invest a lot of money in him. Yeah. First overall pick. Yeah. He was your guy. Now you got another coach in there. You got a second offense. He's got to learn. You remember I always tell you about that. Yeah. I mean, I'd young players. Yeah. I just just the head, the court of the year last year to keep it a buck. We asked. He was someone that I liked. He reminded me of watching Steve McNair

6:25back in the day. And then, you know, obviously he gets drafted by the Tennessee Titans, which sort of fit. How could you not be worried about him? And plus the roster around him is still in flux. I mean, they were one of the worst teams in football last year. You know, they added coaches that they were all excited about and made some free agent signings. But I mean, hell, they're still a team that is rebuilding and rebuilding in a huge way. Yeah, that's, you know, I think the Jets are catching in them at the right time as well. I mean, you can say whatever you want about the Jets, the Jets added some very good solid young pieces, but they also added veteran presence, especially on defense. Yeah. Yeah, they did. And they, I mean, they better win. They got to be so much better on both sides of the ball. They better win this game. I mean, I think we both picked the Jets than we both picked the Jets. We both picked the Jets. You picked the Jets. You're not picking it against Frank in his first game. I mean, I'm telling you I picked the Jets. You just admitted it's fine. Just a little early. We got four more picks. People hang around for those four more picks to bet against us. I swear there's got to be somebody who is on a yacht right now,

7:31picking against us for the last nine years. You think so? Oh my God. Yeah, somewhere in Owl of a Croatia. Just saying man, oh man. All you got to do is pick against these guys picks and then just how about how about what's going on in Atlanta? Yeah, I mean, so Cooper Rush looks like he's going to start, right? Yes. I mean, I mean, how did I mean, they're like a two a smear campaign going on. I mean, I understand that he's been bad and there's something about his personality, though, that people now they just hate. I don't know what it is, but I'm wondering what Matt Ryan's thinking. He's thinking, why did I take this job? It's probably what he's thinking. Well, I mean, his job, he's involved, but he's turned over all the football stuff to football people and his general manager in Kevin's the fanscape. But I'm sure he's involved. He's talking with the owner and they're going over different things. Do you think that he's really got no bleak injury? This is one of those things that we got to sit this guy. Yeah, well, they're not going to make him

8:33fake an injury. You can't do that. But this again, here's a quarterback. Here's a team that was quarterback needy in the off season. They knew that their young player Michael Penex was not going to be ready at the start of the season. So they figured they'd go out and get a guy that had a modicum of success and then back him up with another guy that has played a little bit. Yeah, and they're already on their third quarterback. It's unbelievable. And they go on the road to Pittsburgh. Yeah, yeah, that team should be fired up to be seeing those Falcons come out of the tunnel. Seemed like a disaster. Well, the other thing about is they have some really good players, man. Yeah, they got Providence one of the most explosive in the league. Yeah, I mean, they have tremendous wide receivers. But you know, I don't want to get against Cooper rushes. What nine and seven in his career. He's thrown for 3700 yards, 20 touchdowns. I mean, he's competent. Sure. I mean, is he drew a lot confident? I think, well, yeah, I would drew lock was with the giants.

9:35Like he won a game. Didn't he won that game? Did knocked him out of the draft position? Didn't he? Was that against the Rams? I feel like it. No, well, the Jets beat the Rams. Was the cults and it was drew lock. Yeah. And yeah, that was what the hell was that was being celebrated as like the best backup quarterback in the NFL is a top 10 backup. I would say so. I mean, you can do a hell of a lot worse than drew lock. Take them on the Jets, wouldn't you? I ate well. I mean, to be a backup over Cade Club Nick, all you want you back up to do is go in there and not turn the ball over. Don't fumble the snap. Don't miss handle us. Hand off. You got score points, interceptions, name and game scoring points. But what he like, the Patriots had every which way to win that game. He just never turned the ball over. And Drake made it. If the if the turnovers were the other way, the Patriots were to won by 25 points. Yes.

10:36For sure. Let's go to Pete Nees Chester. What's going on, Pete? How you doing, guys? Been a long time listening every morning. So happy to be on with you right now. Thanks, Peter. What's going on today? Just call them because because I know you guys so well from watching. I know there's a documentary out there right now that I actually edited, but it's about how sports and entertainment helped us get through 9-11 those weeks and months after. I know you just talking about that a little while ago. It's something that you'd really be into. It's actually produced by Michael Strahan's company and Derek Jesus' company and the company I worked for, A&E Global Media. But it really takes a look at that day of 9-11, so like the first 20 minutes of the film and then it gets into like every day afterwards and all the different events that went on that kind of helped all the first responders get through, you know, what they were going through obviously didn't, you know, completely heal anybody, but like it just gives you that bridge. It was a distraction. It was a distraction and it was a good distraction is what

11:39something we all needed. And by the way, it's the one place where 80,000 people can convener. Tonight there'll be 50,000 people at Yankee Stadium and that's how you can touch the most. And a lot of people will be watching on TV. Where do you find this documentary? So it aired on ABC last week, but it's also right now on Disney Plus in Hulu. It's called United We Stand 25 Years Later. And it's not just sport, it's entertainment too. It's, you know, talk about how Broadway opened up really like a couple days after Matthew Broderick's in it and it tells the story of like John Stewart helping out with John Fields Foundation, getting those guys later on in life, you know, to get the benefits, the health benefits for all the stuff they went through. And there's actually a great feeling there with Messier Boomer that you would love. He, uh, him with a fireman Larry McGee who they had an event at MSG and McGee like skated up to in the middle of it and had him wear a fire helmet. And it was just a really touching moment that I think you'd be into. So I appreciate it Peter. Thanks for calling it. But of mine actually did watch it on ABC

12:44spanky. Oh, I watched it on night and he was saying the document with the documentary is unbelievable. That night I forget where I was, but you know, he said you got to make sure you watch it. So now, now that we know that it's on Disney Plus, I'll definitely go back and watch it. It's going to Ira in the Bronx. What's going on? Ira, good morning. Not much how you guys doing doing good. Ira, what do you got for us today? My call is about how Aaron Rodgers is the most talented loser in the NFL. And I would like Boomer to prove me wrong. The guy won a Super Bowl against a big loser when he and Jay Cutler not in the Super Bowl, but in the championship. He wouldn't have won that game if Cutler wasn't on the bicycle. And after that, what does he want? Has he accomplished anything? He's in a division that has at least five, six wins a year in the past. And when he gets to the playoffs, he loses. He's one and four in championship games. And I don't understand

13:52how everybody loves this guy and feels that he's the most talented best quarterback ever. Well, I don't think people think that. I think that he's a very talented guy. And I know the statistics and the thing about it is, he had a sit and wait for three years before he took over. And when he did take over, he was at the top of his game. He was the best quarterback at one point in time in the NFL, probably for about 10 years. Yeah. I mean, he was tremendous. And you saw him. Sure. Right. All the time. So he was an incredible, incredible player. The fact that he's still playing at this age and coming off in a kill ease from two years ago and even taking a team to the playoffs last year, even though they lost, it just goes to show you the dearth of NFL starting quarterbacks that guys that like, you know, are lasting as long as they are. And the money, the money has a lot to do with it. Believe me, they're not out there playing for $800,000. He lost a lot of home playoff games that he was favored in in a Green Bay Packers

14:55uniform. That's for sure that's on his resume. But he won a couple MVP's there. He's been phenomenal MVP's right? Yeah. I mean, I just, I agree that the fact that he probably should have one more. Well, the last four years, freaking hard to do. It is. But the last four years, I mean, he was injured. I don't want to make excuses for him, but he's going to be a first-balled hall of a famer. I'm sorry. Yeah. He just is. There's just that pro those prime years in Green Bay. And, you know, and he's, you know, the way he presents himself, some people have a problem with that. So to John and Huntington, what's up, John? Hello. Hey, good morning, guys. What's up, John? Hey, Johnny, what's happened, brother? Hey, listen, I just want to reflect on a very, very close friend, a mutual close friend, Boomer and I want to raise the Rockville Center. I played baseball and Newtomio Bryant quite a bit. His dad was probably the nicest man and that family had such amazing, amazing faith to me.

15:56That's a guy I worked with them at Garvin that I worked again with him at Canniface Child, that resigned in November of 2000, fortunately. But I just wanted to reflect on that. And, you know, said, said, day and memories go out to him and his family. And Boomer, you also know my wife, which was Jimmy's fiance at the time, Gwen Wolfart. Yes. Wow. I met Gwen. I met Gwen Wolf after 9-11, even my 30th birthday. And it was just one of those things that happened. But I just wanted to call in and reflect on that. And I just appreciate you guys in the morning. You do such a tremendous job. It's great insight. You know, you're really funny and Boomer, you have such great insights to everything. I really appreciate it. I just want to say thank God for America and thank God for all people that keep us, keep our freedom and keep us

16:59safe. Thanks, John. I appreciate you know, just to reflect one more thing about Timmy O'Brien. So his nickname for us was Captain Catholic. And he would never miss a Sunday church service. And if he was going to miss a Sunday, he was going to be there on Saturday. He was a huge Yankee fan, Nick Fan, Ranger Fan, and Giants fan. And when I did his eulogy at St. Agnes, I actually put Phil Sims his jersey on. I said, I would only do this for you, Timmy. And one of the reasons why I think I was able to kind of put all of this together for Timmy was because he knew where he was going when he died. He knew that he was going to go to where he believed was the greatest place that a human being could end up. And that was going to be in heaven. And if there's somebody in heaven, it's Timmy O'Brien. It's the Boomerangio podcast from WFAN. All right. Boomerangio on the fan and CBS Sports Network. We got those giant cowboys tickets

18:04coming up this hour. So make sure you stay tuned. Listen for that cue to call and you'd be going to the game on Sunday night at Met Life. All right. Jerry Rekko is back. He's got another update moment of the day. What's happening? Jerry. Yeah. And it's been really all football. We are brought to you by Town Fair Tire. Nobody beats Town Fair Tire. Nobody obviously a big night at the stadium. But we'll get to that in a moment. First down under as they say in Australia. Two tight ends to the right. Here's the snap. Pretty back thrills back left side of the end zone. It is caught. Tuckstown 49ers. And it's Mike Evans. His first in a San Francisco uniform. It increases the 49er lead to 16 to 7. And this game was essentially over Ryan Rackie Westwood one right here on the fan. The Niners would whoop up on the Rams 27 to 7 as they scored 24 unanswered points from seven three down Brock Purtie throwing for three scores. That went to my Gevens though. And Harry was talking about this was a very different experience. But a win is a win. We went out

19:04and got it done. You got to be ready to play. But maybe a few days earlier would have been ideal. But no matter what, we don't care if they came a week or two weeks earlier. No, we had on our monitor come out here and execute and we did that. And he's referencing the fact that the Rams didn't show up until a day before. But that's their problem. Not the Niners problem. I don't know if this is from his press conference yesterday or two days prior the way it was put out. It was kind of not obvious. This is Christian McCaffrey. Obviously they they experience a lot of different things in Australia. We had the one clip from the other day where he said it's like the greatest coffee ever. Well, here he was talking about one particular instance he had. I was getting a haircut. I was getting a haircut today a few days ago. And one of the barbers looks at me and goes looks cracker. I was like, sorry, what'd you say? I don't know what I don't know what it meant. I guess that means it looks good. But that was funny. He said it again. I hear that every Sunday. That's funny. That was funny. You know what I mean? I thought that was funny. As

20:06for the Rams, they didn't do a whole lot. And we know about the travel and things like that. Sean McFaase says it's week one. We will get better. This will define us only if we allow it too. And today was one of those days. And you know, I always look inside out. I didn't do good enough job getting us ready to go. There were some opportunities where maybe the game could have flipped. But they deserve the win. And they didn't win. Remember this. This was supposed to be a Rams home game at so fine. They wanted to move it because of the invasion of the 49er fans when they play at home. That's right. Always happens. I say, though, I may be an advantage getting out of our building and go playing in a third party site. Not so much. The debut for Miles Garrett. Well, that didn't go well. 39 snaps. He had no sacks, no tackles, really, no, really, no stats at all. Clearly, can't be happy about what he did or didn't do. No, I mean, this was the worst version of myself up out there. Now I've got to be better. I got to find a way to recover and get back to the

21:09player I know I can be and I've shown that I've been before. And apparently some sort of issue with his leg, not 100%. The Rams, oh, and one they will take on the Giants on Monday night football in week two Sunday at one. It'll be the Jets and the Titans. Now, this is former Jet Willie Cologne who has filled in numerous times here at the radio station. So he was doing the Ryan Racillo podcast on Zoom and the interruption that you will hear is his wife barging in on him who was clearly unaware of what he was doing and who he was doing it with. Who is a super bowl pick for this year? Man, I'm going to go with cowboys with an NFC. I say that. Sorry about that, Ryan. No, we love it. Tell her to come back. We want her super bowl pick, too. Sorry about that. I'm just a Ryan Racillo show. What are you doing? I'm sorry. Totally potted. My wife's so out of pocket. No, don't apologize. What do you think we do? You think I'm just seeing her talking to a random white man?

22:13That's what I do when I go to WFAN. Not here. This guy's famous. I'm sure he's a red-footed guy. Very funny. Very funny. Sunday night giants and cowboys. Here is Denard Wilson who is dealing with his cowboys offense. Now to slow them down first and foremost, Dak Prescott. First of all, a lot of respect for Dak Prescott. He's a top quarterback in the national football league. He's seen it all. He's very decisive where he's going with the ball. He gets the ball out of his hands quick. And there's certainly had a lot of success against the giants. Matter of fact, looking at laughs, we always forget about that. Russell Wilson game where they just gave the game. Yes, they did. And Malik neighbors 167 yards receiving two touchdowns. Final attack. That's the defense. Stunk. They gave up 37 points and a whole lot of yardage to the giants in Wilson that day. So this would be Sunday night at MetLife Stadium. This was a suggestion from Al and I think it's a pretty good one. And the Jaguars play the Browns, Parker

23:18Washington is a member of the Jags. So I guess he's in a contract situation, if you will. So he was asked about it. So first you'll hear the reporter and then you'll hear Washington. And this is Al's fight that voice contestant, if you will. You feel like there's momentum for the contract stuff. I don't know. You know, we're still still having that communication, that dialogue. You know, I have updates from my agent each and every day. What do you think? I would 100% fight that voice. I'd lose a kick your ass. Yeah, he would demolish me. But if I had to make a decision to fight him or not based on that voice, I'm going in there. You're going in. I'm taking them on. I know, you know, so we'll have an indication that you know what the thing with agents. You know, you know how it is. Oh man, that was funny. Well done, Al. Aaron Rodgers on the cam Hayward podcast. A couple more. The really, I would say the two best ones. This is why he and his former fiance. I mean, I guess likely broke up. Shaline Woodley. I propose. And she says yes. Now she maybe felt

24:22like she was forced to make a decision. She could have said no. But not a couple days after that. She tells me, you know, before you get married, I gotta go f**k this guy. Hello coach McCarthy's office. Oh, oh, hey, Shaline, go and do what? Go and do what to you? Wow. Yeah, I'll be right there. I mean, there's got to be other stuff being said by the women in these relationships. They've been saying it for years. They've been, they've been trashing him for years. And this is why he finally came out and said stuff. They said he was a horrible relationship. And you know, mentally he was horrible for them. So he's finally decided to fire back. He just decided this was the day that he was going to just absolutely filate him and serve them to the world. And then a couple of critics that were near and dear to him. You know, I had two teammates who spoke out about me years ago. Two teammates out of all the people that ever played with me that didn't have a good experience

25:26with me. One was bitter because he went to another team and never became a player again. And the other was just not a smart horse. And then he to be very clear, he ripped on both Trump and Obama and then just to say about Joe Biden. Then they roll out that old bag of bones. He was all over the place yesterday. Well, whenever this thing was recorded, put them into the kind of stuff that Joe Beningos opened on Saturday. When they roll out that old bag of bones, final three on a fan. Oh my god, but this kind of stuff you want. Well, yeah, you never get this honesty for me. Very funny. All right, baseball wise Yankees and Rockies and what a story and what a moment tonight it was for one Anthony Volpe back with the big club played second base and contributed big time offensively. There's one one from Merget. Swing on hit the right field hit pretty well

26:30back on back. Look at it. Oh my goodness. We're at sleep for Anthony Volpe on his return. Yeah, Dave. Susan, are you crying? I'm in the middle of a call here. She's really crying. I don't think she was really crying. Who said she was crying? No, Rami said she was crying. Really? Yeah, she sounded very emotional. Well, she has that voice where she gets emotional. Yes. Well, she was just so happy that Dave hadn't shushed her in that moment. So she was allowed to say what she wanted to say. I was, yeah, I was actually very happy for the young man myself. How could you not be? Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. That's what I brought up this morning. You guys pooped me. No, it's just I need poop for you. I said for that kid, that's a hell of a moment for what he's gone through. Yes. Here he was with Susan on the field asked about the curtain call. Yeah, I mean, I thought great. I mean, just to have the team win and contribute and feel like you're part of it. And tomorrow we get to do it again. And he was talking about being up and down

27:32from triple A back to the bigs and the role that Shelley Duncan had again with Susan on the field. He's got a tough gig to take in all of us at, I mean, in some ways it's at your lowest point in your career. But you guys are most out of everyone there. I mean, that's why I think everyone's playing really well. And he's just amazing. I can't say enough. Yeah, well, it certainly has worked at least to some degree for one night, see if he can do it again tonight. Max freed 80 pitches in only three and a third really trying to ramp up for the postseason. Here he was talking about his performance. There's a lot of pitches. They were, they're, you know, having some good upats and not chasing, I felt like I was getting ahead and then just threw a lot of also just non-competitive pitches. But that was when he's ahead in the zone. Too many pitches did have seven strikeout. Yankees wound up winning 10-3 sweep the Rockies. Now trail the raise by three in the ALEAST as Tampa lost in Atlanta three to one. And of course tonight you've got Med Yankees, the start of a three game series 9-11 on the fan at 7-05. I know we don't usually play him,

28:35but this is different. This is Aaron Boone talking about what this game will be like. It's going to be incredible. Very emotional. I know there's going to be people in the building that have very strong ties or some very personal connection, you know, to the tragedy it took place. You know, I'm sure we'll see some tears in the crowd, especially just being the 25th anniversary to where it's, you know, and it's the two New York teams playing here against each other. No question about it. And 7-05 tonight it'll be Carlos Rodón and Nolan McLean at making the start. First pitch scheduled for 7-05. Or I know we got picks. So let's get to a moment of the day. Now I just played the clip. It leads into things. And since we love it, we play it again. This is the Aaron Rodgers clip about his ex-Fiancé sparking a very boomerangio type of conversation. I propose. And she says yes. Now she maybe felt like she was forced to make a decision. She could

29:37have said no, but not a couple days after that. She tells me, you know, before you get married, I gotta go f*** this guy. Yeah. That guy. And right before. Which was amazing. That story never got out. Oh my God. I don't know. He should go work for TMZ, man. He'd be perfect for that. I mean, he never talks about any of this stuff until recently with his relationships. It was always his ex is talking about it. So he decided this is the time to do it. When he told that story and the camera pan to cam Hayward, his face was just priceless. What? We got something here, boy. What? Anybody ever find out who the guy was? No. Al's on it. Yes, he desperately wants to know. It's got to be some actor, right? He's also going to be researching Brittany the way she spells her name from the University of Texas from 2017 this morning to find out who she is, who his wife is. Yeah. She revealed they met in 2017 when she was a student at University of Texas. And she spells her name very uniquely for a Brittany.

30:40So he ordered a yearbook and how he did. Okay. So and how is her name spelled? It's like B-R-I-T-T and why? No, it's got an eye at the end. Oh, A and I. Yeah. No, it's just an eye. So low eye at the end. Really, how many Britonies could there be there, right? Attractive woman at the University of Texas. I'll text Brian Jones. I'll find her two seconds. They might have a child together. Love you, B.J. Hope you're watching today. Miss your buddy. There you go. Moment of the day. It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. Bore and Geo's Friday football picks are presented by Fandall Sportsbook, the official sports book of WFAN Play Your Game. Boomer is the reigning champion. 2025's crown went to him as we start 2026. Jerry Rekko will start with his games. He came in second last year. Six games behind and then I was

31:44last, I guess we use more like five and a half and I was six. Whatever. We stunk. Everybody was under 500, but this year will be different, right? Five games. All that we picked on our own. We're not doing the thing that we started last year with where we picked the jets and the giants games and all of that. Maybe we pick a jet and giant game. Maybe we don't, but it's all coming out of our brain. Jerry Rekko. Let's hear it. You want all five or one at a time here? All five. All right. All five. So the first game I'm going to take is the Saints and the Lions. Lions minus six and a half. I know people are up on New Orleans. I'm taking Detroit. They lost the opener last year on the road of Green Bay, but came back. I believe in beat the Bears in week two, like 52 to something. So I'm going to take the Lions out of the gate to start fast minus the six and a half, not believing in the Saints just yet. That's game number one. Game number two will be the commanders and the Eagles. Philadelphia at home giving five and a half points. This is a for me a show me spot. I don't believe in the commanders until I see them play better last year was a mess. I think the Eagles are going to be better addition by subtraction with AJ Brown now in New England.

32:48I think it's going to be a little bit more cohesive. And I think a big say, Juan Barkley day, give me the Eagles minus five and a half game number three. Cardinals and chargers. I don't care if this spread is 15 and a half. It's nine and a half. The Cardinals are supposed to be the worst team in football along with the dolphins, Jim Harbohm, NLA, Mr. Herbert, time to put up or shut up at least this year. I'm taking the chargers minus nine and a half and what should be a route. All right, the two local games, Jets and Titans. Gordon Damer told me that the Jets are winning. Ha, he guaranteed me that the Jets are winning. He said that Jets will win this game. All right, Gordon, I hear you. I'll take the Jets. Wow. I'm taking the Jets plus one and a half on the road to good lord. Jim, the Titans. That is the picture of failure right there. It's on the screen. It works. It works. It's a nice little Jerry Rekko picks graphic. And lastly, Cowboys and Giants, the Giants plus two and a half at home, the start of John Harbohm,

33:54it is going to be magical. I do believe that, but not yet. Not Sunday night, not against the star, the Cowboys and Dak Prescott will roll in a MetLife stadium. They will beat the Giants by more than a fuel goal. We're taking the Cowboys. All right, Jerry. We do share a brain on two of those picks. So I'll just get those out of the way. I have a different logic for one of them. The chargers, though, minus nine and a half against Arizona. We have the same exact logic on it. That team is going to be terrible. Michael floor, Nate Hackett and Jacobi Berset for God's sake. If the chargers talk, I murder that team. Shame on them. With the Jets, I just, I don't like Rob Sala. I don't know if Ryan Davis coaching this team. Cam Moore down there's going to be a lot of pressure. The Jets just have to show up. I think that Gino Smith, Cam Ward, it'll be one right there in a terrible football game. And they just have the veteran quarterback making just one or two more plays and they'll be able to cover the spread and win the game.

34:57So you took a cue from Gordon Damer about a game. I'm taking a cue from Mike Tomlin about a game. And I understand he's a former Steelers coach, but he seemed really confident about the Steelers in this game. And that's when he thought two was playing. I wonder what he thinks with Cooper Rush playing. You might actually like the Falcons a little bit better, but the Falcons feel like a mess. Sound like a mask. Give me the Steelers minus four and a half at home against Atlanta. Yes, I'm actually picking the Minnesota Vikings in the first game of the season against the Packers, namely because they have all sorts of problems on their offensive line. You go in there, Vikings fans are going to be fired up, loud building. I think they get after Jordan Love a lot in this game. And the last one, quite honestly, I didn't have a pick that I liked for my fifth one. So I threw a bunch of a hat and I pulled out the Ravens minus three and a half at Indy. That's how I decided that one. So there you go. All right. All right. Here we go, guys. You know, I'm with you, geo, and it comes to the jets and the Titans. I'll take the jets. I'll take the point in a half.

35:59And the reason I'm doing that is because there are often going to be a lot better than you've seen. I'm telling you right now, I will put my reputation on it. I think they'll have a great game offensively. I'm Falcons at the Steelers. I will take the Steelers. I will lay the four and a half points. There's no question about that. Bills at the Texans. The Texans have one of the best defenses in football. Josh Allen struggles against the Texans. Don't be surprised that they lose the game and CJ Stroud has a good game. I think the Texans come away with the victory here. And by the way, I'll take the points in the home underdog with one and a half points bears at the Panthers. Panthers are plus three at home underdog at home. They have an underrated defense. Bryce Shung had a really good year last year. I think they bounce back. I think they play well again here against the bears. I don't know if they'll win the game, but I think that they'll at least cover. And then finally, the dolphins at the Raiders. You know, you were talking about the Cardinals stinking dolphins or spending more money in deadcap money than they are in the players on the field.

37:01I'll take the Raiders and Kirk cousins to take down the dolphins. All right. There it is. It's the first test of 2026 with all three of us picking the same team. And of course, we all pick the jets. This is going to go great. I'm just a new year. It's a new year. But this is our history. It's just it's I understand some new year, but every year most of us, if not all of us, are under 500. And then every time we all pick the same game, we lose. Yeah. Well, let's hope we don't lose this one. Well, you know, they're made after a jet happens if the, you know, I still I still I'm telling you this jet offense is going to be a lot. I'm telling you it's going to be a lot better. Just mark my words. They have good players. They're going to have a good plan. And you know, like Frank was saying yesterday in his press conference, Gus Bradley knows Frank, Frank knows Gus Bradley. They've worked together. They know each other really well. It's going to be a good plan. I think you know, it's going to have a really good game here.

38:04What do you want to do with our knockout pick? We're in a big pool. Boomer and I have joined together and you could pick any team you want any week. So it's not like we just want. So we're definitely we don't want to get cute. We're just going to go charge. I'm not going to get cute. We just said Nate Hackett. Yeah, I did. Yeah. Michael of floor, which I have nothing against these guys, but Nate Hackett. What is he proven? That he's a dummy. I mean, I you know, you got to go with the charge. All right, we're doing. Daniel and Justin Herbert throwing for 400 yards in this game. We'll go chalk. We'll go chalk. It's fine. I'm fine with chalk. We want just got to get through. Just got to get to get to get to where to. Yeah, that's a name in the game.