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[00:00:09] Speaker B: Welcome back to Split decision. We've got some exciting stuff this week. For episode 19, we're going to recap UFC 294. Makachev volkanovsky, two Makachev silencing all doubters, with no fights. This week, we'll draft our top five Halloween things. Then we'll preview our favorite football matchups across college and the NFL. And finally we'll get into stakes and takes our betting segment, where we give you our best advice for this week's games. But before we get into that, don't forget to go like and subscribe and then head to Splitdecisionpod.com, where you'll find all of our episodes merch and more. Again. That's splitdecisionpod.com. All right, let's go.
[00:00:52] Speaker A: Ahead. All right, so let's move on to UFC 294. Recap the fight card in Abu Dhabi. It was nice because I like when the cards are during the day here. Honestly, it kind of sets it. It's not your whole night. There's stuff to do after you wake up and there's fights on. So I like, 09:00 a.m. Start, 05:00 p.m. Finish.
It's like a work day.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Yeah, it was great.
I took off from my main job.
That was nice. Woke up, clicked on the TV, fights were there already. It was amazing. I agree with you. When I can get off for them, it's great.
[00:01:30] Speaker A: I was actually struggling because there was a soccer game I wanted to watch in the morning, there was fights, and then at eleven, the college football game starting. So I was like back and forth changing. Yeah, it was almost stressful. There was so much good stuff going on, right?
[00:01:44] Speaker B: I had the iPad on, I had the TVs on.
It was a lot, for sure.
[00:01:49] Speaker A: And the fight card, it was a weird fight card, but it was some crazy finishes, some unexpected. It kind of lived up to the hype. And the main event, I would say we're both probably upset about how it happened, but it lived up to the hype. Islam Makachev defeats Volkanovsky again. Second time this year. But this time, instead of a controversial scorecard, right, he came in first round, head kicked Volk, dropped him, wobbled him bad and dropped him.
[00:02:17] Speaker B: And then just kind of split both his eyebrows in the first round.
[00:02:21] Speaker A: It was crazy. And then just like, beat him up on the ground. Few shots. It was over from the head kick, though. Honestly, it was Islam's. Probably his most impressive performance. Even more impressive than beating Dubranx, just because of the way it happened. He beat Volkanovsky, too. We've never seen Volkanovsky like that, like, in that kind of trouble, right?
[00:02:39] Speaker B: We've spoken like, once a fighter gets a haircut like Volk, he hadn't lost but a couple times. The first time losing to Makachev, we didn't count against him because it was moving up. It was going to get a belt. And this weight class where you're not ever fighting.
[00:02:54] Speaker A: This one, I don't think you're really counting against him, but you just don't take anything away from how Islam played.
[00:02:59] Speaker B: Right. This one, you just have to pump Islam up is all you can do. Makachev won this fight. It wasn't a dominant showing in the beginning of the first round, I mean, I think quickly turned into just a devastation for Volk fans.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: I think the eleven day notice does play a factor in here, but.
[00:03:20] Speaker B: I.
[00:03:20] Speaker A: Don'T see Islam losing right now. I think he's proving he's more dynamic and kind of more of exciting fighter than Khabib was. I'm not saying he's better than Khabib or more dominant than Khabib, but we never saw Khabib do that kind of stuff.
[00:03:32] Speaker B: You're right. No, I think at this point, to your point, Khabib's the best wrestler in UFC history. He would beat anybody. Still, he could come out and probably go another ten wins undefeated if he wanted to in the US.
[00:03:48] Speaker A: His last fight, he dominated Gaiche.
[00:03:51] Speaker B: Right.
[00:03:51] Speaker A: And look at what Gaiche, who's fought and what he's done since then.
[00:03:54] Speaker B: Right. Just dominated other guys. It's crazy. So, albeit a worse wrestler than Khabib, but a better striker and worse wrestlers.
[00:04:03] Speaker A: Like he's still probably the best wrestler in MMA right now. He's not as good as Khabib.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Yeah, it's crazy. So Makachev, that's very impressive performance, all props to you. Great speech after he said it was the UFC's job to find his next opponent, dana White's job to find his next opponent. So I'll ask you because we don't have contacts like Dana White. Who's next for Islam, Makachev? Is it Charles Oliveira? Is it Justin Gaiche? Benil Darush?
[00:04:34] Speaker A: We already know it's definitely not Benil Darouch.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: Yeah, he's in the top five throw out.
[00:04:39] Speaker A: There a wild card he had talked about before the fight. If he won, he would want to fight the winner of Leon Edwards, Colby Covington for the 170 belt, try to get two belts. I wouldn't be mad if he did that. If he stays at lightweight, I mean, you could rematch the Bronx fight, the fight that was supposed to happen this weekend in the main card, main event.
We could schedule that. Or Justin Gaethje, I mean, he kind.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: Of deserves a title shot.
[00:05:07] Speaker A: That was an impressive win against yeah, he hasn't fought.
Want to be do you want the rematch or do you want a fresh opponent for Islam? And then you can do Dubranx.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: Right. And it's not even for Islam to win the BMF title. That was a special thing that happens for specific fights. But this would be a great chance for Gaiche to at least have a shot at the 155 title.
[00:05:31] Speaker A: Yeah, he would have a puncher's chance. I still think Islam comes in and.
[00:05:36] Speaker B: The wrestling for Islam is still so good.
[00:05:40] Speaker A: Yeah. And I think Volk probably he said he wants to fight Seporia in January. I think January he probably needs to take a little more time off, but I think that's the fight to make. When he comes back, he'll be healed up.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: It's just is he going to be mentally good? Is he going to be ready?
[00:05:53] Speaker A: It was tough seeing Volk like that.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: Yeah, he was emotional at the press conference.
[00:05:57] Speaker A: Emotional at the press conference. We've never seen him wobbled like it.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: Was it was rough. I mean, Volk fans everywhere were crying on Saturday.
So, moving on, co main event, we had another late notice change, so we had bit of controversy, good and bad.
[00:06:15] Speaker A: Two late notice changes. But both fights arguably got better.
[00:06:19] Speaker B: Right? Yeah. Paula Costa. Still fought, though.
[00:06:22] Speaker A: No, he didn't. He fought in the crowd. Yeah.
[00:06:25] Speaker B: I mean, he was not going to Abu Dhabi without fighting. But anyway, we had Kamzak. Kamayev facing Kamaru, Usman, both guys moving up.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: It was a fought at that weight before, but he just keeps going. But remember, he bounced and he weighed in at 178.
[00:06:44] Speaker B: Right. They told him he had to at least for this fight, he had to move up. And he was supposed to fight Paul Acosta, who would have been able to make weight at that weight anyway. But Kamaru has been stepped up. Electrico main event. I personally thought this was going to end. First round knockout in Kamaya's favor.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: Yeah, you almost thought this one was going to end.
[00:07:03] Speaker B: How the main event?
[00:07:05] Speaker A: As early as the main event, this.
[00:07:08] Speaker B: One went to the decision. It was a highly contested fight from kamara usman. The showing that I personally didn't expect to see. And I will say, all the people who said that he was a shell of his former self, he definitely didn't look it against somebody way more impressive, in my opinion, than somebody like his.
[00:07:26] Speaker A: First time fighting at that weight class.
[00:07:29] Speaker B: Right.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Hamzat came in. He kind of dominated the first round on the ground, but he never really had he had maybe a small window where it looked like he might get a finish, but other than that, it was poised control. From poised control, but he didn't really.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Have a lot of it was damage, but it wasn't heavy enough damage. But it wasn't to make it dangerous. Right?
[00:07:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And then Usman came out second round. You could tell Chamayev, maybe not. Maybe he lost some gas in his tank a little bit.
[00:08:00] Speaker B: Yeah. The takedown defense was strong from Usman in the second round.
[00:08:03] Speaker A: In the second round. And he was better than Chamayev throughout the whole fight. On the feet.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Striking. Definitely favored Usman for the entire fight. And then going to the final round, it was tough. Tough. It was tough. It was well fought.
[00:08:15] Speaker A: Usman was winning, I think.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: And then Kamayev got the takedown.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: Got a takedown and then kind of won the round. I had it two rounds to one. Chamayev, I had the same.
[00:08:25] Speaker B: I didn't necessarily agree with the majority decision.
[00:08:29] Speaker A: I think it was close enough fight. You could have given it to Usman, so I'm not upset about it.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: Right. But I'm not too upset. I think it's a great showing by usman. An impressive showing for Kamayev to remain undefeated in front of his home crowd. What do you think next for him?
[00:08:44] Speaker A: So they're saying possible title shot. Sean Strickland said he's open. He said he didn't deserve it. Hamza didn't deserve a title shot, but he would find him. Yeah, I wouldn't be mad about that. I still would like to see him fight one more time before the I.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: Want to see him fight Costa.
[00:09:01] Speaker A: Him versus Costa, the fight that was supposed to happen. I would love to see that.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: I mean, honestly, dude, if you just rescheduled him versus cancel every cancel from duplicate this past weekend to December or January or every reschedule schedule know, you could still have a crazy fight card with Islam, Chemayev, Johnny Walker. You could have a crazy fight card with the same names in December or January very, very easily.
[00:09:28] Speaker A: You could. I don't think they're going to do that. I mean, they already have the main event for December.
[00:09:33] Speaker B: That's true. You're not going to load it all up.
[00:09:35] Speaker A: Yeah. And now let's move on to the next fight. Magomed Ankolayev. Johnny Walker. This was what we thought was going to be an exciting fight. It was an exciting matchup coming in. And then it was ruined by the doctor.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: And then it was an exciting post fight.
[00:09:50] Speaker A: And then it was an exciting post fight where they still tried to fight, which looked like all hell was going to break loose. Kind of Khabib Connor style in the ring. But then Dana White stepped him and kind of godfathered him. Yeah, they all kind of, you're going.
[00:10:02] Speaker B: To do this at my daughter's wedding?
[00:10:03] Speaker A: No, it's kind of like, y'all better stop or you're gonna get cut from the fucking promotion. Yeah.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: Johnny Walker. You stop or you have to find your old way.
It was it was definitely going to be an exciting fight. I picked Johnny Walker pre fight. You picked Magomed on Kalayev. Only thing I'm happy about this one is it ended in no contest. So I couldn't take the L because I hate my my fan personal favorite in the fight, lose.
Walker did take some damage early, not heavy damage, but he was getting attacked by the kicks to his one heavy.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: Damage, a heavy knee to the face. He did when he was on the.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: Ground, he was obviously downed. And Magomed just took that.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: And that was weird. It happened a lot in this fight card, like in a lot of the prelims that there were a lot of downed opponents and there were a lot of kicking the balls.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: Yeah. Like fouls. But in the entire night, day or night for them, day for us, there was only one point taken. And there was like you said, I think there was like six ball shots.
[00:11:04] Speaker A: There was one dude that did illegal in the first round. And they still didn't take a point.
[00:11:09] Speaker B: And then two in the next round.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: Yeah. It was insane.
[00:11:13] Speaker B: Yeah. Illegal knees. Several illegal.
And then he got knee here.
[00:11:18] Speaker A: He got kneed in the face on the ground.
[00:11:20] Speaker B: So they stopped it, the brutal knee.
[00:11:22] Speaker A: The doctor came out and talked to him. He looked like he was fine. I mean, obviously, he just got kneed in the face. He's a little dazed, but he looked like he was fine to fight.
[00:11:29] Speaker B: My face hurts kind of thing.
[00:11:31] Speaker A: My face hurts. The doctor was speaking English, I believe. Johnny Walker doesn't have the best English.
The doctor asked him, I think, what country are we in? He said he wanted to say Abu Dhabi, but it wasn't 100% sure. He knew he was in Abu Dhabi, didn't know if it was a country. So he said the desert. And the doctor was like, all right, fight off. This guy's too concussed to fight. That thing's kind of bullshit. Yeah.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: So Johnny Walker was just like he looked at Magaba and he's like, nah, we're going to do this right there. We don't need any push.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: The ref. Two hand pushed the ref.
[00:12:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:00] Speaker A: That's going to be some kind of fine, right?
[00:12:04] Speaker B: Impressive performance post fight by Walker. I'd say being ready to throw down, I'd be impressive. They just look like I'd be pissed.
[00:12:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I would be pissed, too, but you can't do that. Yeah.
[00:12:20] Speaker B: I think it is safe to say that doctor will never be a part of another UFC event.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Because he told the other guy he didn't get kicked in the balls. And the guy had to go to the hospital because he got kicked in the ball so hard.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: Right. Like, the cup didn't work. I have setsumas in my pants. Please help.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: Yeah, that was a fight with a lot of hype. Looked like it was going to be exciting, and it kind of just ended.
[00:12:40] Speaker B: So I'd definitely like to see the rematch there. What do you think?
[00:12:43] Speaker A: I think that's what's next for both guys. Rematch, that fight.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: I want to see the I also I think I would double down and bet Johnny Walker again because I think him getting that pissed off edge would actually give him what he needs to win the fight.
[00:12:58] Speaker A: I'm not going. My my strategy worked in this card, who I picked.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I like it. It was a good strategy.
[00:13:07] Speaker A: And I'm not going against Anklev.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: Cool. Fair enough. So look, in the middleweight division, we had Ikram Aliskarov. He showcased very strong finishing ability inside the first round against Warley Alves. They started off, and Aliskarov almost immediately staggered him.
It was like straight jab.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: Whenever Ikram touched him, it was fucking Alves up.
[00:13:33] Speaker B: Right.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: And then, I mean, he like, smelled.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: Blood and just attacked, and then it was done. And then he hit him with that crazy jumping knee. Folded him once.
[00:13:43] Speaker A: He connected once and kind of like you said with that straight jab, it was like, Alvez. He was like, It's over.
[00:13:49] Speaker B: Right?
[00:13:49] Speaker A: Alves knew and Ikram knew. They were like, all right, this is about to end pretty quick.
[00:13:53] Speaker B: So Ikram was able to get off straight jabs. He connected with a couple crazy flying knees.
[00:13:59] Speaker A: He has crazy power. He looks like one of those guys. All he has to do is touch you with his fist and you're like, oh, shit.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And then he ended up knocking him out. Sealed the deal, if you will, with an uppercut.
Really?
Ikram's only career loss is to Kamzak. Kamayev, yeah.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: And it was I think they said.
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Before they it was before the UFC.
[00:14:19] Speaker A: Dude, he's a guy to watch out.
[00:14:23] Speaker B: Was also aliskarov was also scheduled to fight Paulo Costa earlier this year that was rescheduled with different opponents.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: Well, I saw a bunch of the tweets were like, all right, stop feeding these unranked guys to Ikram. He's got to fight a top ten. Yeah, he has, because he's just destroying.
[00:14:38] Speaker B: He needs to go and fight. I want to see a rematch with him and Kamayev. I want to see him fight Polo Costa. I want to see maybe him even fight Anthony Hernandez, but he needs to fight a top 15 opponent next 100%.
[00:14:53] Speaker A: Who's anthony Hernandez.
[00:14:55] Speaker B: He's the 15th guy in the middleweight division.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: He just hit I was trying to be a smart ass. I thought you were talking to Anthony Smith, but I feel you.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: No, he does not need to fight Anthony Smith. I don't want to see Anthony Smith die.
All right, so opening up the main card.
[00:15:11] Speaker A: Who we have it was sad. Sayeed said.
He was not sad. He was nurmagomedov. What's the other guy's name?
[00:15:21] Speaker B: I didn't know how to moan. Gaffarov.
[00:15:23] Speaker A: Gaffarov. So Nirmaga madov, which is a legendary name at this point in MMA.
[00:15:27] Speaker B: And not related to khabib.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: Not related. But he's from the same area, right?
[00:15:32] Speaker B: And impressive size. These guys looked way bigger than 135 pounds.
[00:15:37] Speaker A: Yeah, they were some yoked. 135.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: Ers, like, when you look at them, you would think, like, welterweight, something like that. Just big broly guys. No, they were both 136.
[00:15:46] Speaker A: This was another fight on this main card that ended in the first round with Said getting the first round.
[00:15:51] Speaker B: Gilly right. Standing to begin Gafferov. He pressed early on. I think he was trying to take Namagomed off by surprise, but then he.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: Fucked up and kind of overcommitted.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Right. And then he just got caught with a ten finger guillotine, and I was like, oh, shit. And he locked it in tight. Great.
[00:16:09] Speaker A: Sportsmanship, too.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: Yeah, he was from the little we got to see.
[00:16:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:14] Speaker B: But great sportsmanship. By Said. He let go of the choke as soon as he got the obvious tap. He didn't hold it in for a reflective second.
[00:16:21] Speaker A: The ref didn't see it.
[00:16:22] Speaker B: It was on the opposite side.
That's great. That actually added sayeed to the top 15 for this week's rankings. So he is officially in the top 15, the bantamweight division. With that, I think he should fight Chris Gutierrez. He just won with a bunch of leg kicks or leg kicks helping pave the way to his victory. Maybe Ricky Simon or Pedro Munoz. What do you think?
[00:16:49] Speaker A: I would like to see him. Ricky Simon. I think that would be a good one. I think he's ready to take the next step, but you don't want to throw him to one of the top, top guys yet. So I think anybody ranked from, like, seven to 15 would be good for him. Seven to 14.
[00:17:04] Speaker B: All of those I picked those with kind of keeping that in mind that he shouldn't get someone deep inside the top ten.
[00:17:11] Speaker A: Yeah, no need to rush him. He's only, like, 22 years old, correct?
[00:17:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:13] Speaker A: He's young.
[00:17:14] Speaker B: He has a lot of time to just keep finishing.
[00:17:17] Speaker A: Don't rush him. Let him keep getting better. Finishing people build his star and resume.
[00:17:21] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:17:24] Speaker A: All right, so this week in honor of Halloween, coming up, the next time you hear us on an episode is going to be, I believe, the day after Halloween, right. So this will be our Halloween special episode, especially since there's no theme from the fight card.
But this week's top five is going to be top five Halloween things, as I'm sure you could have guessed by now. So that goes anything at all to.
[00:17:48] Speaker B: Do with Halloween or your perception, if you can bring it to Halloween and you think it deserves to be in your top five, you can do that.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: Yeah. So let's see how this goes. And I believe I get to pick first in this draft.
[00:18:01] Speaker B: Yeah, you had a hiatus last week. You were sickly, and I did it by myself. So you get to go first.
[00:18:10] Speaker A: So I think this is a pretty easy one. One pick. I think this is just synonymous with Halloween. It is Halloween. I'm going to go candy. Halloween is all about getting candy. Even as an adult, there's some candy is just more readily available during Halloween time. They just have it at work for no reason. It's bowls of candy.
[00:18:32] Speaker B: Isn't it, like the best thing around Halloween time? My pantry just gets, like, filled with Halloween pantry.
[00:18:38] Speaker A: And my favorite candy is Reese's and the Reese's pumpkins.
[00:18:41] Speaker B: They're so good, dude, they're addicting.
[00:18:43] Speaker A: They're addicting. And that's why candy one.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I can't argue with that being a very solid one. One. I was going to ask what your favorite candy was.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: It's the reese's.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Reese's. Yeah.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: They're very especially the pumpkins.
[00:19:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
It's a great pick. I have no arguments.
There's not much that can beat that, but I'll try.
My first pick.
I think I'm going to go with horror movies.
I like horror movies a lot, ever.
[00:19:18] Speaker A: Since I don't like horror movies. So I'm glad you picked that one.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: But either way, it's a top Halloween thing, right?
[00:19:26] Speaker A: It is. It's synonymous with Halloween.
[00:19:27] Speaker B: Even if you don't like being scared, there are movies that only come out that are only shown on TV during this time of year. It's one of the biggest consumer holidays that there is. So you get the block.
[00:19:40] Speaker A: What about Halloween movies that aren't scary?
Does that count as your pick?
[00:19:44] Speaker B: No, just horror movies.
[00:19:45] Speaker A: Just horror movies.
[00:19:46] Speaker B: Just horror movies. Yeah, because at that point, I'd have to say Halloween movies. And I'm not a big fan. I like the Halloween. The Michael Myers, the Nightmare on Elm streets. I just watched the original Friday the 13th with my six month old. It was great. He didn't care. So horror movies.
[00:20:07] Speaker A: My one one not a bad one one just not my thing.
[00:20:10] Speaker B: I get it. Moving on. I guess it snakes me back to my one two. I'm going to go with the closest thing to candy that I can, and I'm going to say trick or treating.
[00:20:22] Speaker A: Oh, I was going to pick that. I was going to go double down, but I like that pick.
[00:20:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
Honestly, that would have won you the whole thing if you'd have been able to get trick or treating as well. Reason being, if you can't have candy, you got to play the trick, right?
It goes hand in hand. You get the trick or the treat. If they don't give you the candy, they suffer the teepeeing that night. That's all it is.
[00:20:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
And that's some of the best times as a kid. That was some of the first times when I was a kid that my parents let me kind of have freedom.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: Go out and do whatever.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: Because we had like a neighborhood friends, right.
And I was probably like eleven or twelve. And they were like, just come back at like 10:00.
[00:21:05] Speaker B: Yeah. You kind of got the night out.
[00:21:07] Speaker A: Yeah. And I was like, all right. As a kid, it was a night out. It was like, this is awesome.
[00:21:10] Speaker B: Yeah. And you almost like your first little.
[00:21:12] Speaker A: Bit of nervous, scared, first little bit of freedom.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Right. And as long as you didn't completely ruin it, you were kind of let off the leash from there. It gave you a lot. So trickortreating and as a parent, as an adult, I like trickortreating again. I know there's like a small time in your life where you don't it's back to being fun for me.
[00:21:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
trickortreating. You can't beat it, right?
[00:21:36] Speaker B: So what's your second pick?
[00:21:38] Speaker A: My second pick, I thought you going to take this as one of your top two. My second pick is costumes. I think dressing up in costumes is one of the most fun thing. It's fun when you're a kid. You kind of start not liking it a little bit when you're a teenager, but then when you get an adult, it's fun again.
[00:21:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:53] Speaker A: Dressing up in a costume.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: Kind of like the same thing with.
[00:21:55] Speaker A: Trickortreating yeah, same thing with trick or treating.
It's what Halloween is at this point is costumes. You can be anything you want.
You can be offensive. You can be non offensive. You can be funny. You can be like whatever character you're super into doesn't have to be funny. Yeah.
[00:22:14] Speaker B: You're almost encouraged everybody to culturally appropriate.
[00:22:18] Speaker A: And anybody and everybody that likes all different kind of things enjoys.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: Uh, I have some family growing up, they couldn't watch, like Harry Potter and things.
[00:22:30] Speaker A: I had family like that too.
[00:22:31] Speaker B: They wouldn't let a specific memory. I remember them specifically watching like, Veggie Tales. And I was young enough to know what Veggie Tales was and have seen it before. But I was like, why are they watching this at their house? I only watched this at vacation Bible school.
[00:22:50] Speaker A: It was wild. I had a cousin, they couldn't watch Rugrats with me. Whoa. Rugrats was simple because Angelica was a bad influence, they said.
[00:22:58] Speaker B: I mean, she kind of was.
[00:22:59] Speaker A: Yeah, but she was the worst person. It was obvious nobody wanted to be like her.
[00:23:03] Speaker B: Yeah, like the show made her hateable. That was the first hatable person.
[00:23:07] Speaker A: Didn't like glorify being a bully to babies.
[00:23:10] Speaker B: No, it was like, nah, she sucks. Right? The babies won all the time.
[00:23:13] Speaker A: Nobody wants to be like this.
[00:23:15] Speaker B: That's solid.
[00:23:15] Speaker A: But yeah. Costume is my number two, my number three. This is where it starts getting kind of hard.
[00:23:21] Speaker B: That's what she said.
[00:23:23] Speaker A: But I'm going to go number three. This one plays more into when you're a teenager and an adult. I'm going to go a Halloween party as my number three.
[00:23:30] Speaker B: OOH. I was toying with whether or not.
[00:23:33] Speaker A: I was going to Halloween party. Kind of goes in with the candy and the costumes. Like, you can dress up and they're all different ages. All different ages. Halloween is always fun. A Halloween party is always fun.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: I remember the different kinds of Halloween parties I've been to as a kid. Like the fun then when you're a teenager who can be the scary.
[00:23:53] Speaker A: Make out with my girlfriend.
[00:23:54] Speaker B: Right. We might play spin the bottle. And then as an adult, it's like, I'm just going to get hammered and have a good time. We're having a good time.
[00:24:03] Speaker A: Yes. So Halloween party, that's my number three.
Yeah.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: So that bounces back to me, right?
[00:24:09] Speaker A: So you got next two picks.
[00:24:11] Speaker B: Okay, let me scratch out Halloween part. So my third pick, I'm going to go with a haunted house.
[00:24:17] Speaker A: Oh, I had that one on my list.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: Now, you can think of this in the terms of, like, the neighborhood haunted house where they spend some money. It's like that treat that not a lot of neighborhoods have, but the ones that you find are crazy.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: Or you can go one family that's like, we're going to do the Halloween.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I got one right down the street. It's crazy.
Or we can think of stuff like the 13th gate or those very realistic level haunted houses. I love both ends of it. Even the little carnival haunted houses are kind of fun sometimes.
[00:24:51] Speaker A: Yeah, those ones, I do like those.
[00:24:53] Speaker B: But just a haunted house, it's once again just synonymous with Halloween. It brings me back to my childhood, running around different places, trying to be scared, get into all the Halloween stuff. I like feeling spooky, so that's why I went with that for my number three.
My number four man.
I think I got to go with pumpkin carving.
[00:25:21] Speaker A: Oh, I had that one on my list too. God damn it.
[00:25:24] Speaker B: Yeah. Pumpkin carving. I didn't do this that much when I was a kid. I know we did it. Of course we did do it. I did it more as a teenager and an adult, and I've done it pretty consistently since having kids.
It's really fun when you figure out how to do it. You can get really crazy with the designs. You can print stencils off the Internet. That help you make whatever you want to make. They have some really cool carbon pumpkin ideas. That's why I went with it for my number four.
It's just a solid Halloween tradition. Yeah, it's like dying eggs on Easter. It's like when you say it that's all you can think about is the holiday association.
[00:26:01] Speaker A: Does this rule out what my number four pick would have been?
[00:26:04] Speaker B: I don't know. Let's see.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: Which is jacko lanterns.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: No, because I have that on my list as well. Jacko lanterns are carved pumpkins, carving pumpkins. But it's not the act, it's not the action.
[00:26:18] Speaker A: Okay, then I'm going to put Jack olanter as my number four. I love a good jackalanter. I love seeing one.
As you said, they can get creative, they can get funny.
[00:26:28] Speaker B: Absolutely. Stick the candle in it.
[00:26:30] Speaker A: Let it rot with Halloween. Any, like, cartoon or anything.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: The headless horseman is a jack o lantern. Right?
[00:26:39] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:26:39] Speaker B: The whole scary villain based around a jack o lantern with a pumpkin head.
[00:26:43] Speaker A: I think jack o lantern is just, like, synonymous with Halloween, I think. You think Halloween, you think jackalanter.
[00:26:50] Speaker B: I agree.
[00:26:51] Speaker A: So that was my number four, and I think I get one more from my fifth pick.
[00:26:55] Speaker B: One more.
[00:26:56] Speaker A: And this is tough. I have a few different options right here.
So my number five pick, it kind of wraps a lot of our picks up into one thing.
[00:27:08] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: Hanging out with your friends.
[00:27:11] Speaker B: OOH, I like it.
[00:27:13] Speaker A: I think Halloween, I mean, everything we've talked about, from parties to trick or treating, carving pumpkins, you're hanging out with friends and family.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: What kind of psychopath carves a pumpkin pumpkin alone? That would be terrifying.
[00:27:28] Speaker A: You better be hanging out with somebody if you're carving pumpkin.
[00:27:30] Speaker B: At least act like you have friends. Like pay somebody to carve a pumpkin with you if you're not doing. It with someone, please.
[00:27:38] Speaker A: Yes. What if you're an adult that trick or treats by themselves?
[00:27:44] Speaker B: That's kind of like the thing that you never know, because if you're going trick or treating, there's hundreds of people out because you're not going by like you're by yourself, but you're not alone own, right?
[00:27:55] Speaker A: Yeah. Like you could just be like, oh, my family's over there.
[00:27:57] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm trying to catch I don't know where Barbara went or whatever, like, just make some shit up.
[00:28:02] Speaker A: Just some creep out there trying to get your kids by himself. But yeah, hanging out with friends and family, I think that kind of just wraps up a lot of the art picks up into one.
I mean, the best memories are trickortreating with your friends, going to a Halloween party, carving pumpkins. So hanging out with your friends and family.
[00:28:22] Speaker B: Yeah, absolutely. I like that my fifth pick. Man, this is tough because I feel like we took probably the top nine things that could have been taken so far, halloween related.
Most of my other things on this list are Halloween.
Not even animals, but like Halloween characters almost.
[00:28:46] Speaker A: I mean, it counts, right?
[00:28:48] Speaker B: It's hard to pick the right one. So I think I'm going to go with scaring people.
[00:28:54] Speaker A: Scaring people as my that's part of Halloween, right?
[00:28:57] Speaker B: It's playing the pranks, getting the scare with your mask popping out from behind the corner. I know everybody's seen the videos of Halloween pranks gone wrong or scaring done too scared or something. Scaring people is just a good Halloween prank. It's really one of the only times nowadays, especially, that you'll be able to get away with it on top of that.
[00:29:20] Speaker A: Yeah, that's not a bad pick. I think that kind of goes right in hand with Halloween. So that's our top five to recap things. My number one pick is candy. Two, costumes. Three, a Halloween party. Four, jack and lanterns. And five, just hanging out with your friends and family.
[00:29:38] Speaker B: It's a very solid top five, but I think mine is going to trump you there. Number one being horror movies. Two, being that good old fashioned trickortreating. Three, a haunted house. Four, carving pumpkins. And five, scaring people.
[00:29:59] Speaker A: All right, so let's move on to our football section this week.
This week again, we're going to go five of the top college games, five of the top pro NFL games. Kind of give you a quick little rundown of the game, give you our picks.
[00:30:13] Speaker B: So, yeah, jumping right in.
[00:30:16] Speaker A: Here we go. And the first game we're going to cover is going to be the Georgia Bulldogs, the number one team in the nation. Two time defending champs taking on their rival, the Florida Gators.
[00:30:27] Speaker B: You know Gator?
[00:30:29] Speaker A: I have heard of Gator grab. Gators are scary.
[00:30:31] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty would fuck a Bulldog up. Yeah, Bulldog's a little bitch boy.
[00:30:35] Speaker A: Yeah, they can't even give birth.
[00:30:37] Speaker B: No, and they can't breathe either. Yeah, but mascot fights we know who wins.
[00:30:41] Speaker A: Exactly. This game is always in a neutral site in Jacksonville. So kind of right between the two schools.
[00:30:46] Speaker B: Why is that?
[00:30:48] Speaker A: Just because they split the crowd in half. It's just a cool thing. No cool NFL Stadium.
[00:30:52] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:30:53] Speaker A: Georgia comes in 14 and a half point favorites, which is huge in this rivalry thing is Georgia's number one. As we said, two time defending champs Florida has kind of been up and down. Billy Napier is still trying to find his groove at Florida in his second year.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: Shout out, Ul.
[00:31:07] Speaker A: Shout out Louisiana Lafayette. Raging Cajuns.
[00:31:10] Speaker B: Sorry. Yeah, that's the proper name for actually.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: They go by the Louisiana rate. They drop Lafayette.
[00:31:14] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:31:15] Speaker A: It's good, but big city folk. Big city folk. But yeah. Georgia Bulldogs, florida gators I think Georgia comes in. I think they roll. They've had some close games this year, but when they're playing the team that's supposed like a good game, right? Like when they did against Kentucky, when Kentucky was like had all the momentum coming in, georgia had kind of wavered a little bit. Wavered a little bit. Georgia beat the shit out of them. I think Georgia just needs to be up for their games. When Georgia is at their best, and I think they'll be at their best for this rivalry game. I think they're easily the best team in the SEC East. Probably the best team in the SEC.
Probably the best team in the country. Again.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: Golly gee. So an over under 47 and a half. I'm not touching that with any stick from any angle. But this is known I didn't know this until I Googled the whole game. This game is known as the world's largest outdoor cocktail party.
[00:32:05] Speaker A: Yeah, it's great. The beach of Jacksonville is like a giant party scene.
[00:32:09] Speaker B: That's pretty awesome. Brock Bowers is going to be out. He's a loaded tight end for Georgia. He's going to be out this week. Most likely college football.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: Best tight end in college football, right. Probably the best player in Georgia's offense.
[00:32:22] Speaker B: But it should stay the usual contested game that's kind of here.
I think the Bulldogs are going to win, but I think Miami sorry, Florida is going to cover.
[00:32:40] Speaker A: Okay, so you're thinking a close game? Closer than next?
[00:32:43] Speaker B: Closer than that. 14 and a half spread is what I'm thinking. All right.
[00:32:46] Speaker A: So the next game we're going to move on to is Utah versus Oregon. I believe Oregon is number seven.
[00:32:52] Speaker B: Oregon is number eight. Utah is number 13. Oregon favored this one by six and a half.
[00:32:59] Speaker A: At Utah.
[00:33:00] Speaker B: At Utah. With an over under 49.
[00:33:02] Speaker A: Oregon coming off. They're still trying to rebound. They won last week against Washington State. The week before that had the heartbreaking loss to Washington, their first and only loss so far this year.
[00:33:12] Speaker B: And Bo Nicks is going to be leading that. One of the best offenses in college.
[00:33:16] Speaker A: Football against the Utes, a tough defense.
[00:33:19] Speaker B: Who beat USC? Yeah, they beat USC who was able to score on them quite a bit. But it kind of showed that Caleb Williams is not that superhuman. Everybody's touting him to not he may.
[00:33:31] Speaker A: Be good, but I don't think he's.
[00:33:34] Speaker B: Can'T he can be beaten. So what do you think happens for this game?
[00:33:39] Speaker A: I think it's going to be a very close game.
I want to pick Utah in this game, but I think for some reason something in my gut is telling me Oregon goes in there and gets probably like a three point victory at Utah.
[00:33:50] Speaker B: Oh. So I actually think that Oregon is going to blow out Utah this week. I think it's going to be so.
[00:33:57] Speaker A: You think a blowout?
[00:33:58] Speaker B: I think a blowout for Oregon. The reason I think that is because with Bryson Barnes, utah has just struggled to move the ball through the air. And I think Oregon is going to be able to capitalize on, know, mismatch. There strong defense for Utah, but I think BoNix has it.
[00:34:14] Speaker A: So we're both picking Oregon. I just think it's going to be a close game. You think it's going to be a blowout.
[00:34:18] Speaker B: Right. I think we'll probably probably Oregon will probably cover that spread and it'll probably hit the over. So it'll just be like a cover cover kind of situation.
[00:34:27] Speaker A: I see.
So the next game we're going to cover is Duke Blue Devils against the Louisville Cardinals. Both teams ranked.
[00:34:36] Speaker B: Every team from Louisville feels like they're the Cardinals, right?
[00:34:40] Speaker A: Well, I mean, every team from University.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: Of Louisville is the is it what state is Louisville?
[00:34:47] Speaker A: Kentucky.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: How many Kentucky mascots are cardinals?
[00:34:51] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure just the Cardinals.
[00:34:53] Speaker B: I'm thinking of St. Louis. Used to always be Cardinals or the Arizona Cardinals.
[00:34:57] Speaker A: There's a lot of cardinals.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: There is a lot of Cardinals. All right. I'm sorry. I'm an idiot. We digress 20 ranked Duke Blue Devils.
[00:35:05] Speaker A: Duke coming off a loss to Florida.
[00:35:06] Speaker B: State last week, not to be lost.
[00:35:08] Speaker A: To Florida State, to Notre Dame.
[00:35:12] Speaker B: Two teams that you can't not bad teams to lose.
[00:35:15] Speaker A: Louisville coming off of a surprising loss.
[00:35:18] Speaker B: Right. Right. To Pittsburgh.
[00:35:19] Speaker A: To Pittsburgh. And they got dominated.
[00:35:20] Speaker B: They did. It was weird.
[00:35:22] Speaker A: They had a huge win against Notre Dame the week before. So a huge letdown.
[00:35:26] Speaker B: Right. So then they had to sit on that during their whole buy.
They lost as a seven point favorite. Riley Leonard's status is in doubt for Duke. So that'll probably mess with the run game a little bit.
But it'll definitely give a different look for the Cardinals.
[00:35:43] Speaker A: And, you know, I was thinking this game I was picking Duke, and then as we just talked through it, I'm changing my mind. Uhoh, I'm going Louisville cardinals. I think they get it done. I think they just had an off week. They're going to bounce back. They're going to play like they did against Notre Dame. And I think they're coming and beat Duke.
[00:35:58] Speaker B: All right, so I got one more bit of info and then I'm going to tell you my pick coming off the buy. Louisville's Joanne Jordan should be 100% coming into the game, which leads me to my pick of the Cardinals winning by more than four.
[00:36:16] Speaker A: So you have the Louisville winning and covering.
[00:36:19] Speaker B: Right.
[00:36:20] Speaker A: All right. So the next one we're going to look at is the Florida State Seminoles. The Wake Forest Demon. Deacons Florida State comes in ranked number four, still undefeated. Wake Forest, I believe is four and three. They're non ranked, right. Four and two, four and three, four.
[00:36:33] Speaker B: And three, non ranked.
[00:36:34] Speaker A: Florida State comes in a huge favorite on the road -20 and a half that is a huge margin. Wake Forest. They're not great this year.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: They have a good defense last year.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: But they have a good defense like right. 20 points is a lot in florida State is a team that they've had great games this year. They've also had games where they played down to their opponents and don't have the most impressive performance like against Boston College and against Clemson.
[00:36:59] Speaker B: Travis, in order to cover that spread is going to have to connect with Keon Coleman a couple of times.
[00:37:05] Speaker A: I agree. For touchdowns. I think Florida State wins the game. I'm not 100% sure about the spread. That's a big spread against a conference opponent.
[00:37:16] Speaker B: Right. I think Wake Forest definitely has the defense that is going to hold the scoring down in this game. I think Florida State Seminoles are going to win the game, but I think it's going to be an under contest with Wake Forest covering that big spread.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: All right, so the last college game we're going to cover is the Oklahoma Sooners, number six ranked, still undefeated, taking on the Kansas Jayhawks.
Oklahoma at Kansas comes in ten point favorites. Oklahoma coming off of a scare last week. They were looking great all season. One of the best teams in college football looked like last week. Almost lost to a struggling Central Florida team, UCF team. They came back right at the end and won 31 29, I believe. I think they were like 20 point favorites in that game at home.
[00:38:02] Speaker B: They are not good against the spread.
[00:38:04] Speaker A: So they had a letdown game, but they still figured out a way to win. I think they come against Kansas, a motivated team. I think they beat Kansas and I think they beat Kansas pretty good.
[00:38:16] Speaker B: I agree with them beating Kansas. Listen, Oklahoma's put up almost 500 yards per game this season.
That combined with them scoring like 40 something points per game on average.
[00:38:29] Speaker A: Gabriel.
I think it's Dylan Gabriel, their quarterback.
[00:38:33] Speaker B: Right.
[00:38:34] Speaker A: He's probably like top five, top ten. Heisman player right now. He's having a great season.
[00:38:40] Speaker B: So they allow yards as well. But they also produce yards and scores consistently. Jalen Daniels will still be out with that back injury.
[00:38:51] Speaker A: This isn't the same team without him.
[00:38:53] Speaker B: Right. I'm picking Oklahoma all the way.
I'm not sure about that.
[00:38:57] Speaker A: Over.
[00:38:58] Speaker B: That's a very high over for a college game, right?
[00:39:02] Speaker A: I don't know. Scoring is typically high in college.
[00:39:04] Speaker B: I don't have a gauge on that right now. Scoring for college is freaky to me. I don't know why.
[00:39:08] Speaker A: They score way more in college than they do NFL.
[00:39:10] Speaker B: I had confidence on my first four picks. I have nothing on confidence for over. Under on that one. And with nine and a half points for Oklahoma to cover and the quarterback of Jalen Daniels being out, I'm going to say that Oklahoma is going to cover nine and a half points on the Jayhawks.
[00:39:26] Speaker A: All right, so it looks like we have all five of the same picks. We kind of differ how the games are going to go, though.
So that wraps up our five college games of the week. Now let's move on to the pro games. Again. We're going to do five pretty much of the biggest matchups or the most interest between us in the matchups, right.
[00:39:42] Speaker B: The first one, favorite matchups, if you will, exactly for NFL week eight.
[00:39:46] Speaker A: And our first one we're going to look at is the Jacksonville Jaguars going to Pittsburgh taking on the Steelers. Jacksonville, five and two, I believe. Pittsburgh's, four and two.
[00:39:54] Speaker B: Correct.
[00:39:55] Speaker A: Both teams looking like they could. I mean, the Jaguars, they had a great win against the Saints in their last game, scored some points.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: They've been very careful on offense, very careful with the ball.
[00:40:07] Speaker A: Right now they look like they're trying to make that next step in becoming a legit super bowl contender. The Steelers, they're trying to figure out if Kenny pickett's the guy. They have a great defense. They continue to win some games. Four and two. I think this is going to be a great game, I think because it's in Pittsburgh. I think the Steelers are going to figure out a way to win this game. I'm picking the Steelers look, that's all.
[00:40:29] Speaker B: Solid look Jaguars are favorited to cover two and a half points currently moneyline ODS of -150 over under on the whole game of over 42 I believe is what's trending steelers have a good defense. But the impressive thing that at least so far this season. That the Jaguars have shown they have forced more turnovers and gotten more interceptions than the Steelers have game per game for the season. I understand the Steelers are a better defense. That's one of those things that kind of makes me feel like it's going to be an under type of game with the Jaguars winning because they've had a more consistent, competent offense so far this season.
[00:41:08] Speaker A: So we finally got a differ on a football pick.
[00:41:10] Speaker B: It's going to happen on this next game, too when we look at the New Orleans Saints taking on well, your favorite team taking on my favorite team in the Indianapolis Colts. A split decision bowl, a split decision bowl game. Colts are at home, favored by one, pretty much a toss up on the lines. -120 in the Colts favor plus 100 for the Saints. Both teams coming in three and four wins and losses with an over under 43 and a half. Anthony Richardson had season ending surgery.
[00:41:39] Speaker A: He's out today.
[00:41:41] Speaker B: Gardner Minshew is in. He's a game manager if we've ever seen one. He can be electric at times, but he can also have those games where he throws two picks.
I don't really know what to do, man, but I'm not picking against my team. I'm going to ride the Colts until I die.
The saints.
I live here. I don't hate on them like I used to, but they've done a little bit different than the Colts. In the last five games, they've lost four out of five. When the Colts have won three out of it's, I don't know what that is. Olave just got arrested.
What's going on in New Orleans with Derek Carr? Do we need to put James in?
[00:42:22] Speaker A: I wouldn't mind seeing Jameson. I think the Saints figure out a way to win this game. I think it's going to be kind of like they did with the Patriots where they just come in, play a great game.
[00:42:30] Speaker B: This is a game where the Colts are playing better on the car and the Saints are also playing better on the road.
[00:42:37] Speaker A: I don't think Derek Carr is the answer, but I think he's going to come into this game and be this.
[00:42:41] Speaker B: Game answer and have a good his.
[00:42:44] Speaker A: Best game of the Saint is going to be this week against the Colts.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: That would be my saints. So obviously differing picks. The split decision bowl. I like that as a colloquial term. It's nice, honestly. Look, if we can just get some things nailed down on offense, even know Anthony Richardson going out for the season, I think we could have a decent year still.
[00:43:06] Speaker A: All right, so the next game we're going to cover is the Dallas Cowboys hosting the La. Rams.
We're still trying to figure out what kind of team the Cowboys are, honestly. We're trying to figure out what kind of team the Rams are, too, because both the Rams I think they're three and four right now.
[00:43:20] Speaker B: Three and four Cowboys are they can go either way.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: The Rams could go either way. The Cowboys could kind of go either way, too, because they've had some impressive wins, but they've had a couple bad loss, their two losses getting blown out by the 49 ers and then kind of getting dominated by the Cardinals, too.
[00:43:34] Speaker B: Right.
[00:43:35] Speaker A: What is happening?
[00:43:35] Speaker B: That's one of those things where Josh.
[00:43:37] Speaker A: So up and down.
[00:43:38] Speaker B: Josh Dobbs was on that weird, like, Gino Smith streak where he was just playing lights, but Gino is still playing well.
[00:43:46] Speaker A: Gino played well since he went to the Seahawks.
[00:43:48] Speaker B: Somehow somehow. But yeah, the Cowboys are coming off a buy. They just beat the chargers. The defense has really been the reason.
[00:43:55] Speaker A: They beat the Chargers last week, right? Or was that the week two weeks ago?
[00:43:58] Speaker B: Two weeks ago, yeah, the Chargers lost to the Chiefs.
[00:44:01] Speaker A: You're right.
[00:44:02] Speaker B: A couple of days ago.
Speaking of them, defense has been really the reason the Cowboys have been winning all these games.
[00:44:09] Speaker A: But now Diggs is out for the.
[00:44:11] Speaker B: Year, Dak has been a glorified game manager at best, throwing several touchdowns or interceptions, not touchdowns when they needed him to not manage the one game against the 49. Ers Rams have also been bad. Cup is back. And then we have like another option, I guess, in Puka Nakua.
[00:44:31] Speaker A: I like puka.
[00:44:32] Speaker B: And then we got Tyler Higby because, you know, what's the quarterback's name? Stafford. He likes to throw to white guys on the Rams for whatever reason or that's fun. I picked the cowboys here. I think it's going to be a low scoring defense.
[00:44:47] Speaker A: Six and a half cowboys, you think they cover?
[00:44:49] Speaker B: I think the Rams probably cover that, yeah.
[00:44:51] Speaker A: I think it's going to be like a four point Cowboys win.
[00:44:53] Speaker B: Yeah, it'll be a good game. I think it's going to be a very defensive game, but that's just where it's kind of got to play for me.
[00:45:01] Speaker A: All right, so the next one we're going to cover, it's a team we got to cover. It's the Kansas City Chiefs, probably the best team in football, and right now Taylor Swift has made them most popular team in the world, but also very.
[00:45:11] Speaker B: Weird because while they are arguably always going to be the best team in football for at least the foreseeable future, they just kind of have that.
[00:45:19] Speaker A: Patrick Mahomes is there.
[00:45:20] Speaker B: They haven't been playing nearly as well this season.
[00:45:24] Speaker A: Yeah, but any other team in the NFL that's not playing well, they're going to be losing. The Chiefs are six and one and they're not playing.
[00:45:30] Speaker B: No, I scary. Chiefs lost a linebacker last week. Nick Bolton, IR, he dislocated his wrist. I don't know if that's really going to affect his defensive strategy for the Chiefs, but I just know that they don't really need it when they're going to play the Broncos, where Russell Wilson and Sean Payton have been absolutely god awful.
So one defensive key player or not, I think Patrick Mahomes playing a little bit worse than he has ever isn't going to matter. I think they're just going to choke. The Broncos chiefs win by what are they covering? Seven and a half?
[00:46:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I have minus eight. I think they win by ten to 14.
[00:46:11] Speaker B: Right. The Broncos this isn't the team that the Broncos are going to come back late and scored three touchdowns in the second half. This is the kind of game where Russ might throw three picks.
[00:46:22] Speaker A: Yes. So the last game we're going to cover, it's going to be a hard one for us to talk about. It's the Bengals going to the 49 Ers. Our favorite player, Joe Burrow, taking on a team that's lost two in a row in the 49 Ers. But I still think they're probably one of the best teams in the NFL.
It's going to be interesting to see how they come out. The Bengals coming off of a buy after kind of getting momentum going. Did they have a buy come at the wrong time? Are they going to be able to continue the momentum?
[00:46:46] Speaker B: I think, honestly, man, that buy might help. Joe Burrow playing. Yeah.
[00:46:50] Speaker A: The healthier he gets, I think that's what's going to right.
[00:46:53] Speaker B: If you can get him to closer to 90%, 100%, he's going to play like he played in his first few years in the league this season. That calf injury in the preseason has just riddled him. He's taken hits because his O line isn't protecting him well enough. And a strong defense with Nick Bosa on it is not going to be pretty if the O line can't step it up, what do you think happens in the know?
[00:47:19] Speaker A: This is another one I just changed my pick on. I think I'm not betting against Joe Burrow. I'm not picking against Joe Burrow. I think he figures out a way to get it done. I think they're figuring out I think the 49 Ers are kind of on a slide.
[00:47:32] Speaker B: Does the pick change help because the 49 Ers lost to the Vikings yesterday?
[00:47:37] Speaker A: It helps a little bit. And I just thought about it more. I think I got to believe in my guy, Joe. I think he carries them. I think him and Jamar go off.
[00:47:44] Speaker B: I think we can still log this one for an anytime CMC touchdown.
[00:47:48] Speaker A: Yeah, they lost.
[00:47:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it's crazy scores no matter what coming off. I think the 49 Ers, to your point, they finally look beatable.
CMC kittle purdy Bosa huge threats to the offense and defense of Joe Burrow.
Three and one out of the last four for Joe Burrow. And the Bengals recovering from that calf injury. I agree. I think it's going to make him play way better, especially with the by week. But I still think the 49 Ers are going to win.
[00:48:19] Speaker A: So we agreed on all college and we differed on three out of the five pros. That's going to be interesting to see how that goes.
[00:48:29] Speaker B: All right. Now it's time for stakes and takes. The recap segment where we go over last week's stakes and takes. Those are going to be our bets and picks or yeah, that's right. Bets and picks. And then we give you our five confirmed bets for this week. Giving you a little bit of our advice. Just trying to make us some money, make us some units, if you will. All right. So last week UFC, how'd you do?
[00:48:54] Speaker A: I did pretty good in UFC. This is my best week I've had in a while. I didn't lose a fight. Out of the five fights we picked, one was a no contest.
[00:49:01] Speaker B: Boom.
[00:49:01] Speaker A: That was the Johnny Walker enchalev fight, right. With a doctor. Fucked up the other four picks.
[00:49:06] Speaker B: I lost that one too, if it's any consolation.
[00:49:08] Speaker A: My other four picks, I won them all. I went with my pick method, which was pick the Russian Muslim. Russian guys.
[00:49:18] Speaker B: That's fair. I mean, obviously it panned out. It was a heavily weighted card in their favor. So solid advice, always pick the guy.
[00:49:25] Speaker A: With the Muslim with the beard, with no mustache.
[00:49:28] Speaker B: All right.
[00:49:29] Speaker A: And they went four. And it helped me this week. How'd you do UFC?
[00:49:34] Speaker B: Three one and one. I thought Volk was going to beat Islam. I thought his confidence, even though he lost the first time out, was going to kind of play moving forward. But the fight ended in a dramatically different fashion than the original. So I went three, one and one in UFC. I'm not very upset about it. I took a chance on an underdog and it just didn't pay off.
But moving to college football, I went four and one. I only lost USC. I got every other pick, right.
[00:50:05] Speaker A: I went two and three. I didn't do as lost. I picked Penn State. They lost.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: And I picked USC.
[00:50:12] Speaker A: Stupidly. I'm never picking USC again. They lost.
[00:50:15] Speaker B: That's crazy. They just folded twice in a row.
[00:50:17] Speaker A: USC picked Clemson, double overtime, heartbreaking loss to Miami.
[00:50:21] Speaker B: And I picked Miami. That was nuts. To was because Miami was one of my bets, and I actually cashed that underdog. It was awesome.
[00:50:29] Speaker A: Yes. Two and three. I went in college. It looks like you beat me there.
[00:50:34] Speaker B: Beat you there.
[00:50:35] Speaker A: How'd you do NFL?
[00:50:36] Speaker B: I fucked it all up, dude. I went two and three.
I'm sorry. Three and two. In the NFL, Lions and Bills are my losses. It wasn't great. The Lions should not have won like 38 to or lost 38 to six. That's ridiculous.
[00:50:53] Speaker A: Yeah, they just didn't show up, dude.
[00:50:54] Speaker B: I was spouting like, oh, Aidan Hutchinson on the defense, about to take Lamar Jackson's ankles. Now it's like he was a high school volleyball player.
[00:51:04] Speaker A: Didn't show up. I went four and one. And that was my only loss in the NFL, was the Lions.
Oh, no, I'm sorry. I didn't even pick the Lions.
[00:51:12] Speaker B: You picked the Bills, which they should have.
[00:51:15] Speaker A: How'd they lose to the Patriots?
[00:51:16] Speaker B: Right? How do you lose to the Patriots? Josh Allen this season has been playing very similar to similar to Justin Herbert. Just can't come back.
[00:51:25] Speaker A: Yeah, but the Bill is still over 500.
[00:51:27] Speaker B: The chargers just suck, dude. That is a different story.
[00:51:30] Speaker A: Yeah. I got every other pick, right? Four and one. So it brought me to ten wins, four losses, and one draw, I guess you would say.
[00:51:38] Speaker B: Yeah. So ten, four and one on your takes. That's good. I like that. How'd you do? I went nine, five and one on my takes.
[00:51:45] Speaker A: I'll take it. I'll take it.
[00:51:46] Speaker B: You'll take it, right? Yeah. Chat GPT, otherwise known as our AI counterpart, went eight, six and one.
[00:51:54] Speaker A: I will say we both beat him this week.
[00:51:56] Speaker B: Right? That hasn't happened for a while. I will say with that, it was a great and crazy underdog day for NFL in its entirety, just not the five games we were totally focused on.
How'd you do for bets last week.
[00:52:14] Speaker A: So bets, I went three and two.
[00:52:16] Speaker B: I did the same.
[00:52:17] Speaker A: I got Islam and Hamza moneylines. Right. I got Penn State and Detroit Lions. Yeah. I somehow picked a bet that was opposite of my pick because I got those money lines wrong.
[00:52:27] Speaker B: Hey, man, sometimes that plus sign with how much money you're going to win.
[00:52:31] Speaker A: I didn't even look at it.
[00:52:33] Speaker B: Sometimes the ODS just make me second guess myself. Like, I could win $500 here.
[00:52:38] Speaker A: And then I had Eagles moneyline, which they won against the Dolphins Sunday night. So that saved me. Gave me a winning record of three and two. How'd you do?
[00:52:45] Speaker B: I went three and two as well. I went Florida heavy. It helped me and it hurt me. I had Kamaya money line on my UFC bet, and then I took the Hurricanes money line, which cashed as a nice little underdog, and then the Bears money line, they beat who did they beat last week?
[00:53:02] Speaker A: They beat the Raiders.
[00:53:03] Speaker B: They beat the Raiders, like, pretty bad.
And then I lost Volk money line because I tried to put my money where my mouth was there. Didn't work. And the Dolphins just decided not to be a contest to the Eagles at all.
[00:53:17] Speaker A: That was eagles are good.
[00:53:19] Speaker B: Yeah. And they didn't even need the tush push.
[00:53:21] Speaker A: Again, we both went three and two. So that kind of leaves us about where we came in.
[00:53:27] Speaker B: Right. So, yeah, that moves me for stakes. 38, 31 and two. Christian, it moves you to 38, 32 and one.
So we're right there with each other for takes. I'm 95, 53 and two. Christian 90 58 and one. So I have a little bit of an advantage there. And with our AI system, 47 22 for a pretty impressive ratio there.
But, yeah, that's going to cover pretty much all of our stakes and takes.
[00:54:00] Speaker A: For this week from last week.
[00:54:01] Speaker B: For last week, and that's going to jump us directly into our bets. Our stakes for this week, what you got?
[00:54:10] Speaker A: So no UFC. So we gave you our football picks already in our football preview. So we have five football bets this week is pretty much what we have to come up with.
[00:54:18] Speaker B: I did hockey. Okay. I'm kidding.
[00:54:21] Speaker A: All right, well, hockey season did start. Oh, it did?
[00:54:24] Speaker B: Yes. Damn.
[00:54:25] Speaker A: I did two college and three pros. I made sure they're all aligned with my picks as well.
[00:54:32] Speaker B: Oh, nice.
[00:54:33] Speaker A: So my. Two college ones. I picked the Oregon Ducks moneyline. -270. And then I picked the Louisville cardinal moneyline. -190.
[00:54:42] Speaker B: Nice. I also took the Louisville cardinal money line. I think based on what we said before, I think they're going to just have what it takes To Beat them. And I also took Wake Forest covering 20 and a half. I think with how weirdly good their defense is, that's just a crazy point differential that they're going to get.
That's it for all I have for college.
[00:55:05] Speaker A: So we each have two college. My three NFL bets, I did three Moneyline bets. I did bingles moneyline against the 49 ers plus 190. I did the Steelers moneyline against the Jaguars plus 120. Then I did the Saints money line, broke my own rule plus 100. I took all three pluses. Probably not a good idea, but I'm feeling it. Look overthinking. I'm not overthinking anymore.
[00:55:27] Speaker B: You're nothing confident?
[00:55:29] Speaker A: Go with my gut.
[00:55:30] Speaker B: My three NFL picks. Jaguars Moneyline slight favorite, rams to cover six and a half on the Cowboys, and the Bengals to cover five and a half on the 49 Ers. I want to say the Bengals are going to win, but they haven't shown it to me like that this season, so I'm much more comfortable putting a plus five. Giving them five and a half points is a lot better feeling for me.
[00:55:54] Speaker A: Thanks for listening to this episode of Split Decision. Check us out next week on episode 20 when we review our football bets and picks of the week.
Take a look ahead to UFC sao Paulo. Derek Lewis versus Almido. And then we'll take a look again at the football games for this next upcoming week.
[00:56:13] Speaker B: Yeah, I think NFL week ten.
[00:56:15] Speaker A: NFL week ten. College football week. Eleven.
[00:56:18] Speaker B: All right, so back in the olden days, turnips were used to carve instead of pumpkins. Scratches.
[00:56:28] Speaker A: Scratches.
[00:56:33] Speaker B: Scratching, scratches.
[00:56:40] Speaker A: And it.
