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This is Vsyn Prime Time. Live from the circus sportsbook in downtown Las Vegas. On Vsyn, the sports betting network. Is Vsyn Prime Time alongside Matt Humans? I'm Tim Murray. Live from the circus sportsbook in downtown Las Vegas. A busy weekend. No doubt at the sportsbooks. And now the final four ahead of us. The NFL draft is coming up very quickly. Draft Kings has put up a number of more props that we can dive into and speaking of draft Kings. Well, it's a Monday. So let's get the latest from behind the counter. Where are the lines changing and where's the money going? Let's go behind the counter. Johnny Avello joins us every Monday to give us the latest and recap the weekend. That was and he joins us right now courtesy of our progressive guest line. Johnny always appreciate you jumping on. Let's get to what we saw unfold on Sunday. What a game it was. Yukon comes from 19 back. They get to win 73 72. How was that result for you guys?

And secondly, was there a lot of folks that believe Matt Humans is a big optimist. He always is positive that things are going to turn out his way where there are a lot of people betting Yukon in game to make the miraculous comeback. Yeah, there was certainly money on Yukon, especially when they were down 19. What would have been a better result for us would have been Duke win the game and not cover it. And that's what it looked like it was going to be. You know, the way that game ended remind me of my 12 year old granddaughter. She's playing, you know, she's playing basketball in grade school right now. And that's the kind of passes they throw. Try to go over top of two people, you know, so it was it was it was a strange ending to the game. Kind of a miracle win for Connecticut. And they just keep doing really well during this tournament with a unbelievable record. How about yesterday with Michigan, Mauling, Tennessee. And then you you talked about the result.

The would have been best for you as Duke winning, but not covering. And that game against Yukon did the Michigan result. Because was that a setback for the book because so many people playing the favorite. They like Michigan in the game. Yeah, you know, Michigan, they the way that the handicapers looked at the game was Tennessee had the run. Now they're going up against a quality team and, you know, didn't think they could get past them. And not don't worry about the point spread. Just worry about who's going to win the game. Let the points, but take care of itself. That's kind of the way it went to. 95 62 Michigan over Tennessee in a blowout. Now we get Michigan Arizona. And Johnny, what do you think the number should be here? Is the number right with Michigan? Let's say one and a half point favorite. I think it is. I mean, it's hard to separate the two teams. Both with just great seasons. I think the numbers right could have been pick could have been one Michigan. I don't see it being any much

different than that. So I have no problems of where we put it. Is this going to be one of those, I would say really strong two-way action games where the handle is going to be outstanding, but you're probably going to have a close to 50-50 action on each side. I think this game certainly going to be the game that's going to be bet more of the two. And the reason I say that, first of all, it's the second game. It's the two ones. First of the two versus three. And, you know, it's being the second game, everything will dump into that game from the first game. So yeah, I think this one will overshadow the first game. And I say that because they're both two big betting games. I just think game number two is going to be one of the games of the year for betting purposes. I was going to say, Johnny, is this going to be as fair to say this will be the biggest bet game of the tournament to this point? Like you said, one of the biggest bet games of the year,

Michigan, Arizona. I believe so. That's the way I see it right now. And game one is no slouch. It's just that when you look at these two, these two teams, we've had these incredible seasons, you know, both positioned at number one now, you know, getting there with the matchup. It would have been nice to have them meet in the final, but that's not the way to, you know, the other two number ones didn't do their part. So these are, and we talked about this at the beginning. We said, how many number ones would be left? And we said, you know, one and a half was the right number, probably two. And that's what we ended up with. I think you told me, somebody told you that there would be no number ones, right? Is that what you told me? Yeah, we had a Tim Brando of Fox Sports is on with us a couple of weeks ago here on the Monday. And he said, no number ones to the final four, trying to make a bold prediction. Obviously, I said two. And you said two. So Johnny, we got the two right with Michigan and Arizona. Yeah, yeah, two right. You know, I could have saw, I could see Houston getting there too.

I thought they had a good team. Maybe it was their time to get there, but I guess there's no time is there is Houston's time. Johnny Avella joining us here courtesy of our progressive guests. I have seen a couple of sportsbooks put out where they're at from a liability standpoint today with these four teams remaining. So run us down the list, Johnny, Arizona, Michigan, Yukon, and Illinois. How are you guys from a future standpoint? Nothing's horrible, horrible. I mean, if you go back and look at Connecticut during the season, when they were a much higher number in 2025, you know, there are some people that have some good, good numbers back then. And that's the only hazard that really is for this team. Otherwise, you know, every Michigan was a decent price at one time. Arizona also was a really decent price at one time, but we're okay on them. So we're not in bad shape here. I kind of like our

position going into these final three games. Johnny Avella joining us here courtesy of our progressive guest line. Johnny, I want to continue to talk college hoops and all of this. But news came out today that the Super Bowl will be coming back to Las Vegas in 2029. I drove past a legion stadium today. They had the side of it lit ups and Super Bowl 2029. This will be Super Bowl number two, of course, here in Vegas. I think I asked you this question during Super Bowl week, but for someone who's been here as long as you have to think that not only would this city get one Super Bowl, it seems like it will now be on a rotational basis, getting it probably every four or five years. Could you envision this 25, 30 years ago? No, not at all. I'm shocked that we're getting it for a second time this quickly. And not that we don't deserve to have it here because we we have the amenities that other cities don't have. You know, a lot of hotels, a lot of food and

drink places around town. People can be comfortable. It'll be crowded. It always is. You know, anytime there's a big event, but we know how to handle it. We've handled big events in the past. So it's the right venue. Just kind of surprised how it came around so quickly with other venues out there wanting it and a couple of new stadiums opening up in the near future. So glad to have it. And but just kind of a little surprise. Yeah, think about that too. You're going to have the big 10 tournament, the final four. We've got all sorts of big events coming to Vegas pretty soon, but the Super Bowl is going to be back here again. Johnny, a week from today, we're going to be talking about the national championship game, but we're also going to be talking about the masters. We're that close to Augusta. Scotty Sheffler took last week off. What's your master's betting board look like at this point? I see Sheffler creeping up around five to one at some books right now. Yeah, we don't have we don't have them there yet. He's still three and a half

to one with us. You know, we've been we've taken money on Scotty back when he was playing well. People bet him ahead looking ahead to the masters. You know, Matt, you know, you know as well as I do that when it comes Sunday, this is a really tough tournament to win. Even if you're up a couple strokes, I mean, I think everything tightens up for the masters more than any other tournament. So when you look at the list of guys, I mean, how deep can you really go? Can you go down 10 deep? Maybe, I mean, you look at some past champs like Patrick Reed, you know, and and because those guys know how to win and have been here before, but can you really go away down and look at the JT's and Jordan's piece and the Countless? Can those guys get there? Because, you know, I haven't shown to get there yet, but I don't know. The JT has a one to master's, has he? No, well, he has nothing. No, okay. Yeah, he's one of the major, but not that. Yeah. So the masters is a different

tournament than all the others. And I say that because and I include all the other three majors. It's just tightening around the neck on Sundays. We've seen this. We see it on Sundays now. Just imagine how more intense it is when we get to the master's final day. So I don't see this as a totally wide open tournament. I see it as, you know, maybe 10, 12 guys can get there. Yeah, it would be maybe 15 if you wanted to stretch it out, but I've got more master's futures than typically do at this point. I bet eight players so far, but some of those are deep lawn shots. We'll talk about those a little later in the show. One guy I was not going to bet on no matter what, if I did bet, I was going to bet against him, I would say bet against Tiger Woods to make the cut. Johnny, just because I felt like it is physical condition, he can't walk that course at this point. I don't think he can compete with these players anymore. Did you anticipate betters

were going to be playing honor against Tiger if he if he were able to play in this master's? They would play him to make the cut. That's the way they would have played him. And they would have took, you know, some would have taken him at some crazy huge odds to win it all. I said three years ago that he would never win any type of tournament. I just didn't think he was in golf shape any longer. And that has played out. And now the only tournament he'll ever win now is if he goes to the senior tour, gets healthy, goes to the senior tour and, you know, can beat, beat somebody there, but he's not going to beat anybody on this tour. That's for sure. Johnny always appreciate it. And yeah, look forward to it next Monday. You'll be joining us right before tip off of the national championships. So we'll get great insight on the national championship a week from tonight. Johnny always appreciate your insight. Thank you guys. There he is. Johnny of L. Draft King's sportsbook giving us the latest from behind the counter. Final four, approaching Major League Baseball going on all across our

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This is recent prime time on VSA, the sports betting network. The segment of recent prime time being brought to you by CUT, tired of betting against the sports book, try cut the social betting platform where you bet directly against your friends and other fans on basically anything new users get 15% deposit bonus on their first deposit with promo code VSA and download cut K U T T today. That's Matt humans. I'm Tim Murray. Oh, Matt, this might hurt the national futures that I have placed. It's now seven one nats with a six run lead over the Philadelphia Phillies as a home run in the bottom of the fifth inning about to get rolling here in just a little bit. Actually, I think just underway, Matt, the Boston Red Sox and the Houston Astros. That was a best bet from our buddy Will Hill as he liked the Boston Red Sox. So that came

just underway. I asked a question to Johnny regarding the future liability with the teams remaining and Jeffrey Benson chimed in as well as Dave Mason from bet online. So they gave out their futures book and Jeffrey Benson here at circa Matt said Michigan extra large winner Arizona extra large winner. That's surprising Illinois break even Yukon extra large loss that from Jeffrey Benson Dave Mason from bet online Arizona extra large winner Michigan extra large winner Illinois medium loss Yukon extra large loss. So it sounds like looks rooting against Yukon. Yes, they are big a line high fans to knock them off in the final four. It sounds like the books. I would imagine Matt. Now Duke's a pretty popular team, but their number really was never high. So I would envision

that there probably weren't too many books out there that had a big liability on Duke. I tell you what surprised me a little bit here is that Michigan is an extra large win for both of these books because I've got Michigan at 20 to 1. I know a lot of people have Michigan at a number like that. And you would think that would not be that big of a win for the sports books. Arizona was preseason right around number 14 in the country. So you know, you could get Arizona at a decent number out there as well. I'm surprised those are extra large wins. A lot of times you can talk about big wins on futures for the book. It's the teams like the chiefs in the NFL that are is around four to one to eight to one right and you don't have to pay off a big number. But there are some pretty good numbers out there and Arizona and Michigan. So that does surprise me a little bit. I've also got Yukon. I got one bet of 15 to one. One bet at 16 to one. Uh, Yukon actually, I think got as high as around 30 to one at one point. So I wonder if there was more Yukon action to wait in the season two when the odds drifted up a little

bit. Yeah. I only have one future left standing and that's Illinois at 15 to one. I certainly wasn't upset that Duke lost that game. Now they're a favorite. So it gives you a little bit more wiggle room. They'll be if Illinois wins on Saturday night, what do we think in five and a half? Six point dog. Arizona Michigan somebody asked me that last night and said, uh, the numbers got to be around five and a half. That said, this would be kind of a cop out answer, but right now would say five and a half. Yeah, that was my, that was my guess. We actually do have hypothetical lines out there. So let's check out what they would be and Illinois would be a three and a half point dog to both Michigan and Arizona. That surprises me. I think Illinois would be a little bit more of a dog to me. I agree. And the money line, if you do have futures, a bit more palatable and you can right now get in on getting off of your bed. If you want at this point, uh, these are these are at draft Kings, right, Cory? Cory, our producer. I believe these are draft

Kings hypothetical lines out there. So I actually have a little surprise. I thought it would be five and a half on on that. So three and a half is the number and they made it five and a half right now on Yukon versus Michigan or Arizona. So there you go. Some hypothetical lines that are out there. Our buddy Lance, whose loyal listener says he's got some futures on Illinois and Connecticut. Thought they were both dead a month ago. Said he got a future in on Michigan, which is a decent payout and said he's looking forward to laying the wood with Michigan on the money line. So Lance rolling with the Wolverines and the final four. I've got a, uh, I've also got a futures bet on Illinois at 23 to one, but as I mentioned with Mitch Moss who's walking out of the studio, I don't even, uh, it's the smallest of all the college futures bets I made on Illinois. I think it placed it right in the middle of the season. 23 to one. I wish I bet more on it.

Right should have bet more on it. That's what they always say. So that's not a big fact. That's really not even a factor for me going into this final four and what I'm going to bet. Yeah, it was kind of funny, Matt, when the bracket came out, I had three futures. I had one on Arkansas at 50 to one. I had one on Florida 17 and I had one on Illinois at 15. I'm thinking, all right, South region is good and bad. Have a good chance to get one of those teams out. So I ended up taking a little bit of Houston to win that region at plus 255. So now I still have Illinois alive. Obviously it could have everything could have gone up and spoke of Iowa had one on on Sunday or excuse me Saturday, but yeah, this is interesting decision to be to make when you have a future alive and depending on how much you put in, depending on what you're feeling about the game. Do you do you let it ride? So a lot of decisions for people to make as we head into the final four. Well, I've got it's similar to Duke last year for me with Michigan. So I've got a lot riding here on Michigan to win this game.

So I don't need to bet Michigan in the game, but my pick in the circuit college oops challenge is going to be on Michigan. But my bet on that game is going to be on the future. I need Michigan to cash to win this whole thing at a 20 to one. So I don't know. Do you play something on Arizona here? Maybe live. Yeah, that's why I would, you know, I could I could live bet this at one point of Michigan. It's got a big lead. Take a bunch of points with Arizona. I might play it that way, but I don't have to bet the game. I don't have to bet it before tip off and you got that much riding on Michigan. And the Wolverines incredibly impressive of the four underdogs, Tim on the weekend. Tennessee was one I liked the least. And Tennessee was the one that got crushed and never had a chance. Iowa should have covered pretty good grade at half time. Yukon makes a great second half come back, but Tennessee never in the game. That was embarrassing. You know, that put the bow on a really embarrassing tournament for the SEC, by the way. Yeah. Yeah, you think about, I mean, Alabama, I thought probably showed the best out of the conference. I mean Vanderbilt doesn't have

much to be embarrassed by losing at the buzzer or missing that half court shot, but I thought Alabama probably showed the best of any team in the SEC were in Alabama played pretty well. Yeah, I'm just saying in general. Oh, for sure. The SEC did not make a very good showing. About four to one at last year. You could say, you know, I had the national champ last year. Not a big deal, but four to losing to Iowa and the SEC going old and five straight up against a big 10. Big 10 had quite the showing. Only two teams make it out, but an opportunity for three. And when we headed into the sweet 16 a chance for an all big 10 final four, we knew that was likely not to happen, but I will say, Matt, there were some sweats to be had, especially with that Iowa Illinois game. Did you bet under nine and a half seed? Yes, you did. So Iowa wins that game and you're toast. Yeah, because Iowa was a nine to obviously anyone else on that. That's

pretty easy to figure out. But I think Tennessee is a six seed, put a scare into some people in that prop too, especially depending on what number you had, right? Well, yeah, you would have been screwed because Illinois Iowa winner would have gotten you over anyways too. It's been until five minutes into the game. Tennessee go longer, put a scare into you in terms of that, but that seed prop under eight and a half or under nine and a half for a total number of seeds to make the final four. Nine and a half was out there. A couple of places in Vegas. I know you could have bet and I did bet it. And we needed to knock out Tennessee. We need to knock out Iowa to get there. So you've got a total of seven on that Arizona one Michigan one Yukon two in Illinois three. So a three seed the highest to get there in this final four in Indianapolis. And I tell you why I really believe that Yukon's going to be a public dog this week against Illinois, but maybe that doesn't matter. You know, that's this, that team is so it's like Michael Myers in

Halloween movies, right? So tough to kill in the month of March. I was going to go with cockroaches, but they're both are challenging to kill. Even though I could just when a cockroach comes on, I just step on it. Cockroaches aren't that hard to kill. Michael Myers never died. The guy came back. I'm going to move. They're still making those movies, right? I think so. Halloween 17 comes out this year. Scream seven just came out. I know you're a big scary movie guy. I like movies like that. Well, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I haven't I haven't asked about your your movie. I mean, I don't watch many more, but the Halloween series started when I was a kid. That's how I caught a song. Yeah. Hey, this segment of decent prime time brought to you by Cut. If you've got a group chat full of hot takes, Cut was built for you. Cut is a social betting platform that lets you bet directly against your friends and other users on basically anything sports, politics, pop culture, and even personal bets. How many Halloween movies there are? Every bet is fully customizable and pre-funded, which means no more chasing someone down when they lose.

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that I want to want to bring up to our good friend, the professor. I hate to laugh about this because I was not laughing after the Iowa game either. I put up the standings on Sunday night when everything wrapped up. Christmas, Sarah Paul Stone are tied for first. And the professor said, I failed to cover with Iowa and Duke. And I have no friggin friggin clue how well done, not cursing so we could use this on the air. Good job, Aaron. And yeah, I, uh, I don't know how I went, Duke, both of them don't come home for you. So Tim, you have to be multi-dimensional with your language. So first and foremost, we learn that. And boy, I was hoping I would come on and you guys would tell me I was wrong and Duke won that game. Like I'm still surprised. That's the situation. A day later, I'm wondering how do they lose leading by 19 points, not covering. It just seemed

to be an escalation that just kept getting worse and worse. And I think the most surprising part of it is it was Duke that lost it. And you think about Christian Latener and what he was able to do 30 plus years ago, 25, 30 years ago. And Duke was the team that blew the lead. So surprise the team and the elite eight blows that lead doesn't cover. And just for the fact that brand name, it was Duke. It was even more surprising. I don't know how, and let's go back to Iowa. How did they not cover that game? Now winning the game, I'm not surprised because you could tell Illinois was building that offense probably with about 12 minutes to go. But the seven points in that ballpark to not even come close. I don't know how that happened. Yeah. Hawkeyes just collapsed in the last 10 minutes of the game. I was with you and that felt really good about Iowa covered and all the sudden things fell apart. Did you also have Santa Clara against Kentucky? Don't tell me you also had that.

Thanks. Thanks, Matt. Any other thing you want to bring up? I had the under. I had the under in that one. And I had it in the contest. And with about three minutes to go, you never want to say it's guaranteed. But boy, that under sure looked good with about three minutes to go. And then when it goes into overtime, obviously, you're done. So I mean, maybe that's, you know, talking about those games, Matt, maybe that's one of the reasons why this March madness has been so popular. And I look at it in the popularity in terms of just media content, but betting. So basketball fans, I think have been satisfied in betters. Obviously, there's ups and downs, but there's been great betting opportunities. I think this is why this has been one of the very popular March Madnesses of recent times. I think it's been a great tournament as well. It's lived up to the hype. No question. Your best bet was Iowa. You also had Michigan minus seven against Tennessee. How impressed did you come away with the Wolverines after that performance in the blowout of the volunteers?

And are you going to back Michigan again against Arizona? I was impressed because that was who they who they are. That was a tall athletic team that can play both offense and defense. Now another tall offensive and defensive team is Arizona. So this matchup is amazing. And it makes me think of back in the 90s when it was the NFL and it would be the NFC championship game. It would be Dallas versus San Francisco. And you would say, this is the de facto Super Bowl. Whoever wins this game really should be the Super Bowl champ. And I think with Michigan, Arizona, it's the same thing. Whoever wins this game, we expect them to be the national champion. In this game right now, I was surprised when when I opened, I was able to get Michigan at a point and a half. I got them as a dog and it quickly switched. And I think at this point, it's a it's a coin flip. And it I would imagine most betters have a future play on either one of these teams. So I had a little play on Michigan when I was surprised

that I got them with a plus number. But otherwise, I don't think I'm going to play this one. Talking to Aaron Moore, our professor at pub relation prof on Twitter. Before we get to Illinois, and I know you got a play on that game, I just want to take a step back because we were actually just discussing this in the last segment. You wanted to hit on it, which is the popular prop of number of seeds to make the final four. If you had bet the under the last two years, easy winner. Now wasn't so easy this year. Obviously, Iowa or Tennessee could have blown that up, both lose in the elite eight. But Aaron, moving forward, do you think this number maybe comes down a little bit? It ended up being close at eight and a half and a mat bed at nine and a half. I curious, you're kind of a perspective on this prop and what betters should be looking at moving forward with it. Yes, I got it at eight and a half. I know there were nine and a half out there. I was unable to get it. I got it at eight and a half and I was happy for that. I do think this is going to become a very popular play because what has been the big narrative

during this tournament is how good those top seeds are, how much better the elite, let's say five the seven teams are than the rest of the pack. And there's no reason to believe that's going to change. So I think you're going to see this become a popular play. And as you said, Tim, it closed at eight and a half. Maybe next year it goes down to seven and a half. Maybe there's really a correction. Perhaps the books feel the momentum here and they start creating more alternative lines and you can go as low as you want to. Because if you look at it, Iowa as that ninth seed, yes, obviously they had a chance to be Illinois. But I really think that's going to be the outlier moving forward that we're going to be talking about every tournament. I would say in the foreseeable future, the conversation is going to be, is this the year once again all number one seeds make it? That's going to be the conversation. And I think better is are going to really be looking at possibly taking that bait. So if it closed at eight and a half, maybe just by popularity next year,

Tim, it starts at seven and a half. And I think you would have to be interested in even taking under seven and a half, especially what happened this year. All right, Aaron. Let's look ahead to Illinois and Yukon. You got a couple of plays in this game. But let's keep it simple on the side. Illinois, right now you can get to, but you're going to be a little bit more risky. You're going to lay two and a half at a cheap juice of minus 102. Yeah, for me that juice, I got that at minus 102. I was willing to take it. And the reason I look at it here is just the height and physicality of Illinois. I think that becomes the deciding factor against Yukon. And you just look at the abyss of itch towers, what those two guys could do against Terrace Reed in the middle. I think that's going to be a very big factor. Also physical, Kylin Boswell against Braylon Mullins. I think he'll be able to really turn him down and not have him get some fantasy shot at the end of the game. And if you look at it too, I think there's somewhat correlated. If you like Illinois, I think you have to look at the

over here as well because Yukon has been doing well in the tournament playing games in the 60s and low 70s. We know with this Illinois offense and how well they move the ball. I think they can get this game into the mid 70s. At least they can score into the mid 70s. So that total is at 139.5. I think if you like Illinois, you have to like them for their offense. And that could possibly push that total over 139.5. But otherwise, I took the two and a half and you know, I'd be willing to lay even three in this game. I'm pretty adamant here about Illinois winning this game. Aaron Moore, the professor, follow him at Public Relations Prof. Aaron, when you look ahead, we're talking a lot of final four here. But how about immediately this week on Wednesday, Thursday, we got the Crown tournament and Vegas, the NIT and Indianapolis. Any of those games you've handicapped at you're thinking about playing at MGM Grand Garden or Fink Hinkle Field House this week? Yeah, Fink Hinkle Field House or Las Vegas. There's some differences there.

Now, I've looked around. I don't know if you guys the Crown tournament. Where are those numbers listed? Because I haven't been able to find those. And I think that'd be an interesting situational handicap because what are those kids playing for? I look at a team like Oklahoma in that tournament. Obviously, there's a lot of transition with that athletic department. So so far, I haven't been able to find those numbers. Those numbers are up. Just look at the check out the odd screen. You're all over the place. Draft Kings, you got them. Superbook, Caesars, Southpoint. I'm seeing numbers all over the place. Oklahoma, eight and a half point favorite against Colorado, total 165 and a half. Baylor, three and a half against Minnesota, total 148 and a half. That is the Wednesday double header. Then on Thursday, you got Stanford, one and a half against West Virginia and Creighton, four and a half against Rutgers. And I believe that's going to be the coaching song. Yeah, Swanson, Greg McDermott on his way out. Creighton, right? No better way to send a walk off into the sunset than winning the Crown. Now, I think if you're looking in New Jersey,

you're not going to find Rutgers listed on Draft Kings. Rutgers Creighton on Thursday night, put the rest of those games are listed this week. So I think I would look to go. I'd look to go against Oklahoma, Matt and that Oklahoma Colorado game. Look at these teams that have a lot of transition with who's going to be their coaching wise. Oklahoma's dealing with a lot of change in the athletic department. So I'm going to look at teams in these situations where these players might have one foot out the door in the transfer portal. So I'd be willing to go against Oklahoma in that game. Aaron always appreciate it. And the next time Matt brings up bad beats that you suffer. Just remind him of the Rams Eagles game. He's still not over it. So just Aaron always appreciate it, man. Talk to you soon. Thanks guys. Good luck to you. There he is. Our professor, Aaron Moore, lay in the chalk with the Alina against you come. The Toyota Tundra and Tacoma are built to keep going blending rugged muscle with precision

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And I said, what's the happiness? It's the happiness hedge. He goes, what? So they will 68 and whatever. And we lose, they still suck and we lose our battling. That's a good point. Well, they start off with a road trip against the Cubs and Phillies and you think, all right, maybe the nationals be like some like one in five. Now they're they're setting the world on fire here. And smart baseball people, a lot of people know more about these baseball rosters than we do. Thought this nationals team could be the worst in baseball. They don't look like the worst team in baseball at all. They're up nine. Yeah. Other look pretty good against the Cubs over the weekend up nine, two in DC tonight. Our prime time game of the night season. It's a long yet to the long season. Our prime time game of the night, Seattle, taking on the Yankees and the Yankees three. You know, they are slight road favorites in Seattle. I know Dustin sweetlson who just walked in who I was not aware of his proclamation that if Purdue made the final four,

he was going to shave his head. He must not listen to a show. You just admitted you don't listen to the Dustin show. I listened to all of it. So I just must have missed that small part. They talked about it a lot. So he was going to shave his head if Purdue made the final four shave his beard if Purdue won the national championship. And he was actually said he was also going to shave his back at Purdue won the national championship game by more than 10 points. So that would have been something. But um live on the air 3831 a half time. Purdue up on Arizona. Maybe it was Dustin who who maybe Dustin disguised as my buddy and sent me that text message that Purdue might win it all to mush him. He's probably sweating a little bit. I mean, he doesn't have a lot of hair. He shaved that off. He don't know if it's going to grow back. What fired? Well, gloves off throwing throwing bows there to Dustin. He says he's going to do that more often now. He's going to make bets that he will shave his beard or save his you know how much different that guy would look

if he had no beard. I would I would be it would it would surprise me. You might not recognize him. Who's that guy walking in here? It's a stranger walking into the studio. Um, Matt, we got a little bit of sound here. Um, you and I have been on with the Goliques on their show on Fandall sports network. I don't think that show exists anymore. It still does. Does it? And Marcus Freeman was on it today. And you must not listen to that show, Matt. Actually, David Bierman told me that those shows no longer in existence. Still it's still hanging around. Are they still hanging around? Oh, well, at least for now they were on today. And Marcus Freeman was on and he was asked about when a team calls him about Jeremiah love and what he says about Jeremiah love. Here's what he had to say. Probably my number one response is don't over think it. He's a he's a pretty special man and he's a special special football player and he's a unique person. He is such a unique great individual. Um, he is as talented as anybody I've ever coached.

Can do some things physically that I don't know if I've ever been able to see in the complete package and in what he does as a running back without the ball in his hands like everybody sees what he does with with the bonus hands, what he does without the bonus hands is as special as anything that he does. But um, he is never going to embarrass your program. He's going to be exactly what you need him to be. Um, he is going to be a professional first class hard worker. And uh, you're going to be able to depend on Jeremiah love at all moments of the season and in the off season. So you and I met like the bet the draft haven't bet anything yet. You do have a big bet already and we'll talk about where that number has moved, but we're not allowed to bet that much on it. But Jeremiah love, Matt, his over under at draft kings is sitting at four and a half. It's juice to the over minus 140 plus 110 to the under. But I look at that, Matt, and I say, well, it's basically will Jeremiah love be drafted by the Tennessee Titans? So under is plus 110,

if he gets drafted by the Titans, that market is even money. So if you think you'll be drafted by the Titans, you can bet it plus 110. It's a better bet than betting that the Titans will select them tent overall. But Matt, it does feel like and I'm not going to bet it right now because still a lot of things could play out. But it feels like in that scenario, you're betting on only one, right? When you're betting these overunders, you got to kind of think about where could they potentially go? To me, it would be only over or anything here and the other market that is out there, Jeremiah love to be the fourth overall pick. So let me rephrase it. Look around, right? If you think that Jeremiah love is going to go to the Titans, I would bet him fourth overall plus 125 Titans or even money and then over under four and a half, I don't think the Arizona Cardinals are spending the third pick on Jeremiah love. The jets aren't going to draft them at two. Obviously, the Raiders aren't going to draft them at one. But I think it's a, I was

surprised to see the juice as light as it was because there are a lot of people who believe maybe he goes seven to Washington. Could he go possibly five to the giants? At four, it's, it's certainly possible. But I think the more, more as we get closer, I don't know if the Titans are going to spend the fourth overall pick on Jeremiah love, even though I think he's going to be a really good pro. So what you're saying is don't bet on him to be the fourth pick? Well, saying if you looking at the market right now, the over under four and a half, juiced under plus 110. Do you see a scenario that the Cardinals pick him third? No, I could see a scenario where the Titans pick him fourth. Okay, so then bet him at four to overall plus 125. Or the commanders take him seventh. Right. There's a decent chance he's going to go in the top 10. I agree with that. And again, I'm not saying he should, even though I like him a lot, advocating for taking running

backs in the top 10 necessarily, even though I like Jeremiah love a lot. Yeah, I don't, I don't know what I would bet with this right now. And also you got to read, so you got to listen or read several different sources. You can't just listen to one guy because some people have agendas like last week, we talked about the ESPN airhead Dan Orlovsky talking about the quarterback situation with Ty Simpson, right? Ty Simpson's better than Fernando Mendoza. Lovsky, it turns out, has the same agent, right? Yes. He's read by the same agency that Ty Simpson's read by and not the Fernandez. He's got an agenda putting that out there that Simpson's, you know, some people think he's better than Fernando Mendoza. Well, there might be a couple out there who do about you have to read, you know, if everything checks off at multiple credible sources when you're betting the draft, then you got something. But don't just listen to one source. So I wanted to bring up quarterbacks because it was last week that you said on this show, you really liked the quarterback market. So you can bet over under on a number of players selected

at draft kings. That last week, it was what minus two 10 to the over. Yeah, it was two, when I bet it 215 minus 215. Now minus 270 to the over. So if you think that multiple quarterbacks will be drafted in the first round, Fernando Mendoza going one, Ty Simpson at some point plus two or minus 270 now, if you think Ty Simpson isn't going to go in the first round, it's now up to plus two dollars. So somebody asked me last week, why would you make that bet? I mean, there's how many teams could take a quarterback in the first round? Well, there's going to be teams like a couple of years ago, Tim, when we predicted the Jackson Dart was going to be a first round pick. The giants traded up to number 25 spot and took Jackson Dart. That's something that you can definitely see happening here. Could be the jets, but I really expect it to be the Arizona Cardinals. Arizona Cardinals, by the way, if you're wondering right now in the player to be drafted by market, the Arizona Cardinals are plus 125 to draft the Ty Simpson. Yeah, I was seeing a little

bit better price on that last week. So that's coming down. I think a lot of people are starting to pick up on the fact the Cardinals quarterback, depth chart stinks and the Ty Simpson is probably going to be their guy. Look at that Cardinals quarterback. So Kobe percent is their guy right now. I think the Cardinals have to be the team most likely to move up to draft Ty Simpson, but look, the jets are going to be in play. Cleveland Browns is crazy as it sounds could be in play with Simpson. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Shedore Sanders is changing to number two, Matt. That means lockdown starting, Joe. I think a team could definitely trade into that last seven or eight picks range in the first round and take Ty Simpson. I definitely expect him to be a first round pick. Now, no mock drafts don't mean a lot to him. Mel Kipers got Simpson going number 16 to the jets. I'm starting to look at some more mock drafts here this week or about to get into it, about to get into draft season. Hey, for those of you listening to us on Sirius XM channel 158, I believe there's some preempting going

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