Episode 25, UFC Austin Recap Dariush v Tsarukyan, Top 5 Christmas Movies, UFC Vegas 83 Preview Yadong v Gutierrez, Huddle Up with Football, and More!

[00:00:06] Speaker A: Welcome back to Split decision. This week on episode 25, we're gonna recap UFC Austin Benil Dariugh versus Armand Sarukian from this past weekend. From there, we're gonna draft our top five Christmas movies. Next we'll preview UFC Vegas 83 be Song Yudong versus Chris Gutierrez. Then we'll huddle up for the biggest rivalry in college football, army versus Navy, and week 14 of the NFL. And finally, we'll jump back into stakes and takes our betting segment, where we give you our best advice for this week's games. But first, don't forget to like and subscribe and head to Splitdecisionpod.com, where you'll find all our recent episodes, podcast, top fives, and more. Again. That's splitdecisionpod.com. All right, let's go. [00:01:06] Speaker B: All right, so going in, we thought UFC Austin might be the best fight night card of the year. [00:01:12] Speaker A: I think it might have been. [00:01:14] Speaker B: And I think it lived up to the hype. [00:01:16] Speaker A: That was a pretty crazy fight card that we just witnessed. [00:01:18] Speaker B: Both the prelims, which there were people on Twitter literally saying, was this the best prelim card ever? [00:01:24] Speaker A: Dude, I was sitting in my office at work watching the prelims, and I was hyped. [00:01:30] Speaker B: And then the main card, which we're going to cover, lived up to the hype. Every fight was exciting, especially the three or four big fights that we had. They lived up to the hype. Exciting things happen. And we're going to start with the main event, Benil Dariush, Armin Sarzukian. And this one we came in saying, can Sarzukian step up his game against a legitimate contender, the number five guy in Benil Dariush. And not only did it step up his game, he knocked him out cold in the first round. [00:02:01] Speaker A: Yeah, it was a minute and 4 seconds in the very first round. A little bit of back and forth. I think it was less than 40 strikes total thrown, but, like, ten landed. Armin Sarukian showed his power, showed his strength, showed exactly what he was planning on coming to do to the lightweight division. And I think that's exactly what we get to see here from now on, is a young guy in the top five. He deserves that place. I don't know who he fights next, but it was a great showing. Not much to report, not much to cover on the fight other than, I. [00:02:42] Speaker B: Mean, what had happened in under two minutes, it looked like he hit him with a knee, and that's what did it. But when they slowed it down, he barely hit Benil with the knee. But Benil did not see the hook coming, and it hit him right on the same they commentators even said it was before his knee. The foot that he threw the knee on touched the ground. [00:03:03] Speaker A: Right. [00:03:03] Speaker B: He knocked him out with his hand. He generated, and then got a few good shots on the ground. Benil stayed on the ground for a long time. I think Armin outside chance. His next fight is a title shot. Like it wouldn't be out of the question. But I think he probably has one more fight. Question is who? Because he beat number five guy, Benil. He was number five, right? [00:03:24] Speaker A: Yeah. Benil is number five because Chandler, any of the top was four. Because Chandler's five, any of the top. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Four is hard to get a fight with right now. Just because they're either vets like Gaethje, right? [00:03:34] Speaker A: I mean, the top five, they're not. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Going to fight a guy like Armin unless it's for the Belt or it's Islam. Who's he going to fight next? [00:03:41] Speaker A: Olivera. [00:03:42] Speaker B: Olivera. That's supposed to be the next fight. Michael Chandler supposed to fight Conor McGregor, so it will be interesting. He doesn't seem like the type of guy to me that's going to take a lower opponent after this. [00:03:53] Speaker A: Is he automatically just the new gatekeeper of the lightweight division? [00:03:56] Speaker B: No, because I think a gatekeeper you've had to have already tried. [00:04:00] Speaker A: Or is it Jalen Turner? Jalen Turner got a surprise, not surprise, but a quick victory over Bobby Green in the lightweight division. [00:04:07] Speaker B: Yeah, but Jalen, I don't know if he's up there yet. Armin, I think he's sniffing a title shot. Not saying it's next, but it's coming in the future. Especially one more win. [00:04:16] Speaker A: One more win I think would jump him above in front of another guy. Because the other guys are content waiting for a title shot. They kind of done what they needed to do to deserve it in their minds. So they're okay kind of sitting around waiting for that title shot to present. [00:04:32] Speaker B: Itself to them and jumping to the co main. You just mentioned it. Jalen Turner bobby Green a lot like the first fight. We just covered the main event. Jalen Turner caught Bobby Green in the first round, got the knockout, three knockouts. I think this might be dana White said it, I saw it all over Twitter as well. Might be one of the worst stoppages in UFC history we've ever seen. Not because it was too early, like is usually the case. As you said, Bobby Green might have got knocked out three different times in this sequence. [00:05:02] Speaker A: Before all that, it could have been. [00:05:04] Speaker B: Stopped 15 seconds before it got stopped. [00:05:07] Speaker A: But before the rock or the stoppage of the knock, anything like that. It was a good start to the round by both fighters. They decided not to touch gloves. It looked like it was going to be a striking forward match. Both guys with length, kind of keeping each other at bay. They're both crafty. [00:05:25] Speaker B: Bobby Green has length for 155, but Jalen Turner, 63. [00:05:30] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:05:30] Speaker B: You're not going to outlink them. [00:05:33] Speaker A: Bobby Green just got caught. As simple as it was, he kind of got caught, had that delayed. [00:05:39] Speaker B: He got hit on the back of the head, got the wobble. He tried to throw a punch and was like, oh, he's fucked up, right? [00:05:45] Speaker A: And as soon as that happened. Jalen Turner smelled the blood and attacked, dropped him immediately, and he looked like. [00:05:52] Speaker B: A dead body out there. [00:05:53] Speaker A: Ground and pound for a solid 15 seconds. [00:05:55] Speaker B: I mean, he took some unnecessary shots to the head. [00:05:59] Speaker A: Brutal. Unnecessary shots to the head. [00:06:01] Speaker B: The right should have been up. He even admitted it after, and he was upset about it. Dana White said so. [00:06:06] Speaker A: Question for you. I know this loss, a quick loss like this to a talented person like Jalen Turner doesn't take a lot away from Bobby Green. Yeah. [00:06:14] Speaker B: But we're not worried about a contender. [00:06:16] Speaker A: In this division, and we're also not worried about him today because he lost. We're talking about Jalen Turner. He got called out by Renato Moicano. I don't think he wants that fight. Other people nine. Right. Other people around his ranking would be somebody like Benoit St. Denis, who I. [00:06:37] Speaker B: Don'T think anybody wants to fight Benoit St. Denis right now. [00:06:40] Speaker A: Right. I think Benoit St. Denis actually ranked 10th at the moment, so that could be a match. [00:06:44] Speaker B: You got to give Jalen credits. He took this on short notice. He showed he's willing to fight anybody, kind of. [00:06:49] Speaker A: And knocked him out cold. [00:06:50] Speaker B: Yeah, three times he showed he's willing to fight. So I don't want to say or maybe he doesn't want to fight Benoit, but I don't know if he's taken. [00:06:55] Speaker A: That Grant Dawson off a loss. Bobby Green lost to Grant Dawson. [00:07:00] Speaker B: After a win like this, I think he's going to try to go for somebody higher ranked than him or maybe. [00:07:04] Speaker A: A Drew Dober who's off a win. Any of those guys. I think Jalen Turner in the lightweight, not quite, like we said, ready for a top five opponent, but definitely top 15. I think he's ready to take that next step. He's ranked nine in his own right by beating Bobby Green. Give him a test. Don't put him up against a heavy wrestler. Put him up somebody with a mixed bag. Make him fight for it. Make him work. [00:07:29] Speaker B: All right, so the next fight we're going to look at, while the first two had crazy knockouts and maybe were the best knockouts of the night, this might have been the fight of the night and most impressive showing of the night. Rob Font versus Davidson Figueredo. Figueredo moving up to 135. He was a killer at 125. He moved up to 135, and he kind of schooled Rob Font. [00:07:49] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. Four out of seven takedowns. Very, very impressive. [00:07:52] Speaker B: He was faster than Rob Font. He looked like his punches were hurting him, were hurting Rob Font more than Rob Font's punches were hurting him. It was a unanimous decision win for Figueredo. He won all three rounds. I think I think even the judges had it that way. [00:08:06] Speaker A: Yeah, that's what I saw. 29 27 or 29 28 unanimous for Figueredo on all three scorecards. I didn't know what to expect coming into the fight. Just moving up in a weight class. You don't know if the power is. [00:08:20] Speaker B: Going to train the question. And he proved he's right up there with the because Rob Font's a good fighter. I think he was number in the. [00:08:28] Speaker A: Bantamweight division, especially Rob Font held his own. He's fought contended top ten. I think he was ranked 11th at the moment. [00:08:36] Speaker B: But that's tough. He's now one in four in his last five. All four of his losses are against. [00:08:40] Speaker A: Killers, but it doesn't take away the truth. It's one in four. [00:08:44] Speaker B: I think Figueredo automatically moves up to a contender in this division. I agree he rallied, especially as a former champ, right? [00:08:53] Speaker A: He rallied late, but it really showed that a three round fight. And it showed this for Font as well. But it showed that a three round fight for these type of guys, it doesn't really matter to them. They can go five rounds at any given point. They have the gas for it. So I think Figuereto winning in the fashion that he did kind of sets him up to at least know a fight night in the future. So he can have that five round test to see if he can take it at bantam weight with that extra weight, convert that power more, maybe get some more wrestling on the bags and see if he can go for a. [00:09:28] Speaker B: Title shot in the yeah, I think regardless, he's probably a win away from being a legit. Like, he should fight for the title next at one time. [00:09:36] Speaker A: And dude, it's starting to seem like every division in the UFC this past year, 2023, is almost in the bag. So every division, the UFC has just started to kind of blow up. Everything's getting heated. [00:09:47] Speaker B: Heavyweight staff, there's not a lot of dominant champs right now. [00:09:51] Speaker A: Right? [00:09:51] Speaker B: Everybody belts are changing a lot right. [00:09:54] Speaker A: Now, and it's exciting. The next one. We have Sean Brady versus Kelvin Gaslin. [00:10:00] Speaker B: This was, unfortunately, maybe the most predictable fight of the card. And I like Kevin Gaslin. [00:10:06] Speaker A: We think he has the most raw talent. He just comes in with. [00:10:11] Speaker B: But this time he came in, he was in, I was going to say. [00:10:14] Speaker A: With the most unfortunate circumstances, but Sean. [00:10:18] Speaker B: Brady walked him on the ground, walked. [00:10:21] Speaker A: Forward and just dominated. That was exactly what I was going to say. Dominated him on the ground. [00:10:25] Speaker B: It was one of those where you got to think if you put yourself in Kevin Gaslam's shoes, he's got to be thinking like, what the fuck am I doing out here? Because he could not compete on the ground. It wasn't just that Sean Brady, like, kind of beat him on the ground. Sean Brady schooled him on the ground and make him look like he didn't know what to do. Like he didn't know what he was doing out there. [00:10:44] Speaker A: Right. And Gastlam has a wrestling background. [00:10:47] Speaker B: He was the Arizona State High School champ. They said it during a broad cast. [00:10:50] Speaker A: Right. [00:10:51] Speaker B: Sean Brady was making him. [00:10:52] Speaker A: Now, the only thing I really had to question coming into this fight was after Sean Brady's loss, dropping to 15 and one. How do you respond to that? Well, he kind of showed you that and he showed you during the fight, but then he also told you after the fight, he's coming in, he's going to start submitting people. He's going to start doing what he does. He's not worried about what anybody wants him to fight like. [00:11:16] Speaker B: Yeah, because they were booing him, and. [00:11:18] Speaker A: It was like he's like, no, I don't care. I'm coming out. Fight like me. That's why I got signed to the UFC. [00:11:23] Speaker B: I was 15 and before my last fight, right. [00:11:25] Speaker A: Coming out to do things like I'm not used to doing, stick to the game plan. You get 15 victories in a row. I think now, being 16 and one, he's going to stick to that word. I think he's going to continue to just submit people. [00:11:40] Speaker B: All right, the next fight, Clay Guida, the vet, I think he's 41, 42 years old. [00:11:45] Speaker A: He turns 42 in, like, three days. [00:11:48] Speaker B: On December eigth, taking on Joaquin Silva. Is that his first name? [00:11:54] Speaker A: Joaquin Silva? They called him. [00:12:01] Speaker B: A fight. It was a fun fight to watch. Silva kind of beat Clay Guida up in the first round. Clay Guida showed his toughness, took the second round, and then it came down to the third round, where I think Silva was just a little bit better. But Clay Guida, despite being that old, the age thing, he didn't show his age in this fight. [00:12:22] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, he did get, like I wouldn't say, like, heavily rocked. Well, I mean, he did get rocked once. [00:12:29] Speaker B: He kind of got heavily rocked once. [00:12:31] Speaker A: But he recovered well, and he recovered quick at 41. [00:12:36] Speaker B: He recovered and then won the next round. [00:12:38] Speaker A: Right. I mean, Silva has a striking power to knock anybody out, but he couldn't put away Guida. Guida is, as always, the typical aggressor that we've always seen. [00:12:49] Speaker B: They say the chin's the first to like, if you're a vet, that's like the old saying. And obviously his chin is not gone. [00:12:57] Speaker A: No, I mean, if that's the first to go, he's got three, four more years at least. It's crazy. Clay Guida did great in this fight. He pushed forward the entire time. It just wasn't enough for Joaquin Silva. It was a striking masterclass, in my opinion. He dodged. He didn't get baited into Guida's attempts to kind of make a mistake, if you will. I don't know. He just did what he needed to do in every round, even when he lost around. The losing was like a last ditch effort for Guida to win. So with all that, I agreed with the unanimous decision, 29 28, I believe it was, on all the judges scorecards. [00:13:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it was. First round, Silva, second round Guida, third round, silva, right? [00:13:44] Speaker A: Yeah. And then opening UFC Austin's main card. We had Punahile Soriano versus Dustin Stoltzfuss. This was another interesting one. It was a upset opening card upset. I like these. A guy that doesn't normally get submission victories got a submission victory. [00:14:05] Speaker B: And it was honestly, for Stoltfis, this, like, saved his UFC career. Getting this win. [00:14:09] Speaker A: It saved his career. It was two guys, kind know, on different tracks, or not really on different tracks, but it kind of decided what direction they were going in a sense. [00:14:17] Speaker B: Well, I mean, Soriano came in three and three in the UFC. Stolfis won four. So Stolfus definitely needed this. [00:14:23] Speaker A: He needed the win more, for sure. [00:14:25] Speaker B: Soriano isn't looking pretty either. I mean, three and four in the UFC is not great to have either. But it was kind of two guys like, who wants to stick around, who's like yeah. [00:14:35] Speaker A: Who's got the more determination to stay. [00:14:37] Speaker B: In the UFC to turn their career around. [00:14:40] Speaker A: Showed his resilience in the know, I'd say it's a good striking matchup. In the first know both people got damaged early. But I think the damage kind of weared on Punehile in the first carrying over to the second round where he was able to or Stolzfitz was able to bring the fight to the ground and then get the submission which, like I said, rare submission by, you know, he needed. So, yes. [00:15:07] Speaker B: Overall, very good performance from him. [00:15:09] Speaker A: And very good fight card. [00:15:10] Speaker B: Very good fight card. I think we enjoyed this one. It was exciting. Every fight showed something a little different. And thank God, I mean, the crowd makes a difference, too. [00:15:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Having a big UFC crowd anywhere you. [00:15:21] Speaker B: Go, especially a place that doesn't get. [00:15:23] Speaker A: It a lot, like Moody Center in Austin was electric for the prelims. It was still full. It's great. And we only have one more fight night for the whole year, so that's exciting in its own right. [00:15:42] Speaker B: Okay, so let's jump to our top five this week. This week, excited first week of December in the Christmas spirit. This whole month, we're going to be doing Christmas themed top fives. And the first one we're going to do is the top five Christmas movies. And I believe I have the first pick. [00:16:00] Speaker A: You do, sir. [00:16:01] Speaker B: So this is a tough one. There's a lot of good Christmas movies. Every list I saw and the movies on those lists that I've actually watched, there wasn't a bad one on there. [00:16:11] Speaker A: No. [00:16:13] Speaker B: Most Christmas movies are good. [00:16:15] Speaker A: I was going to say, as much as I didn't think I liked all these Christmas movies, when I was making my list, it was easy to fill up the list. [00:16:22] Speaker B: It was very easy. [00:16:23] Speaker A: Then it was hard picking. Normally, it's easy to pick your top five. It's like, oh, these are my easy top five. And then these are, like, kind of leftovers. If you take one of my top five, then I'll have this to kind of fill it in. This one was easy to fill up the list. [00:16:40] Speaker B: Hard to narrow it down, right? [00:16:43] Speaker A: Yeah. So I'm excited. It's a good one. [00:16:45] Speaker B: So the first pick is especially hard, but I think the first pick in the draft one one. I got to go. Elf. [00:16:54] Speaker A: Elf. [00:16:55] Speaker B: Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell. [00:16:56] Speaker A: Zoe Deschanel. [00:16:57] Speaker B: Zoe Deschanel. Who is the dad? [00:17:00] Speaker A: Peter Dinklage is the mid. [00:17:02] Speaker B: Peter Dinklage is in it. There's a lot of famous people in it. I mean, for our generation, very good people. Born in the 90s, it was probably like the first Christmas movie that came out when we were kids that has stood the test of time. [00:17:16] Speaker A: It also did that thing at the. [00:17:17] Speaker B: Beginning where we saw this movie become a Christmas classic. [00:17:20] Speaker A: Yeah, we did it did that thing at the beginning of it where it hits you with that, like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Then it got kind of real. As real as that movie. [00:17:31] Speaker A: Like, whoa, this is it's fun. It was a different, new, fresh take when it came out, and that was. [00:17:37] Speaker B: Like, right at the start of Will Ferrell's run where he was just making banger after banger movie, right? [00:17:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Very good. [00:17:44] Speaker B: So, Elf, one one, you got your next two picks. What do you got? [00:17:47] Speaker A: So my number one, you picking Elf. I think that was going to be either my one one or my one two. Knowing that I had two picks back to back, my number one, since you took that one off the board, it made it easy for me. I'm going to go with Home alone. Oh, big Christmas classic. [00:18:06] Speaker B: That's probably going to be my next pick. [00:18:10] Speaker A: My eight year old loves it. It's one of his favorite Christmas movies. It's a whole good Christmas franchise. But obviously, in my opinion, the original first one is I watch it every year. I've already seen it a couple of times. This Christmas season, it's a good movie, but Home Alone's great. The McAllisters are awesome. Check out my bathroom. At the current moment, it's decorated, you know, slightly like that. Second pick. Honestly, man, I think I'm going to go with the Grinch. [00:18:42] Speaker B: Which one? [00:18:43] Speaker A: So you want to be specific for the Grinch? [00:18:46] Speaker B: I think we have to be. [00:18:47] Speaker A: Okay. So I'm going with one that more shaped my childhood than the current Grinch that's out there. I'm going with the Jim Carrey grinch. [00:18:58] Speaker B: The Jim Carrey one. The only reason I asked that is because I wasn't even thinking the most current Grinch. I was thinking the cartoon. The cartoon grinch. [00:19:06] Speaker A: Right. Yeah. I enjoy the cartoon as well, and I enjoy the new live action one with Benedict Cumberbatch. But I got to go with the one I preferred most as a kid because that's where Christmas it's not the most important, but it means the most to you. It's where you get the most Christmas spirit. From. So the one that shaped my childhood, jim Carrey's Grinch. [00:19:29] Speaker B: That's a good pick. I think that's another one that was kind of our age was made when we were kids. [00:19:35] Speaker A: It kind of made for know, made for our childhood. [00:19:38] Speaker B: It was a great movie. [00:19:40] Speaker A: What was your number second? [00:19:42] Speaker B: My number two? This is legitimately. Maybe like one of my it's definitely in my top five of all time favorite movies. [00:19:50] Speaker A: What? [00:19:51] Speaker B: The Nightmare Before Christmas. [00:19:53] Speaker A: Oh, man. [00:19:53] Speaker B: It was my favorite movie as a kid, and I still love this movie. Jack Skeleton mixes the Halloween with the Christmas much like real life does. Like, you go from Halloween and kind of go to Christmas. [00:20:05] Speaker A: You forget about Thanksgiving. [00:20:07] Speaker B: They briefly go to Thanksgiving Town or like pass by Thanksgiving Town in the movie, too. [00:20:12] Speaker A: Really? Yeah. My kids there's like a door to go to. Couldn't I couldn't tell you anything. [00:20:16] Speaker B: Jack skeleton all time character. Tim Burton, all time director. My number two, Nightmare Before Christmas. [00:20:23] Speaker A: Dang. I don't even have that on my list. [00:20:25] Speaker B: I love that movie. [00:20:28] Speaker A: That's a solid second pick as well, as much as you could think it's a Halloween movie, it does embody the thought of it's a similar movie to The Grinch. [00:20:40] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:20:41] Speaker A: Where it's like the guy doesn't understand it and then he learns what it's about and he loves it. [00:20:45] Speaker B: And he loves it. [00:20:47] Speaker A: What's your third pick? [00:20:48] Speaker B: So my third pick, this is one that's always the one where they're like, did you know this is a Christmas movie? My number three is going to be Diehard. [00:20:56] Speaker A: God damn it. [00:20:57] Speaker B: First, Die Hard is a great movie, a great act. It's a classic action film. It's Christmas. Bruce Willis at his finest. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Listen, as much as it's one of. [00:21:08] Speaker B: The best franchises, like action franchises in American cinema history, so I don't have. [00:21:15] Speaker A: Many movies, like physical copies of movies anymore. I think in 2023, that's a dying thing. But there are three movie franchise I'm sorry, four movie franchise where I have every hard copy. Die Hard is one of them. Since I was a kid, Die Hard has been one of my favorite movies. It was my next pick in this draft. Die Hard is a great Christmas movie. I was trying to kind of save it because I didn't know if you liked the movie. [00:21:46] Speaker B: I love diehard. [00:21:47] Speaker A: I wasted john McClain. [00:21:49] Speaker B: John McClain. Yippee kae motherfucker, right? [00:21:52] Speaker A: I wasted it. I won a competition and a work thing because of hard as my Christmas thing one. [00:21:58] Speaker B: So well, you got the next two picks. So what you got? [00:22:01] Speaker A: I think for my next pick, I'm going to go with National Lampoon's christmas Vacation. [00:22:05] Speaker B: I had that on my list. I mean, that's a classic Christmas movie, right? [00:22:07] Speaker A: I think it's a very classic Christmas movie from an early age. Even when a kid doesn't understand all of the humor, there's humor for every generation. [00:22:18] Speaker B: One of those movies you love it as a kid. You watch it again when you're a teenager, you understand more. You watch again as adult, then you get the whole movie. [00:22:25] Speaker A: Right? As you get older, the wiser you get, you kind of learn more about the movie as you grow up. It's great. It's one of those movies where it's multigenerational. It's a Christmas classic. And I think that leaves me with my second to last pick, which would be my fourth pick, right? [00:22:46] Speaker B: Correct. [00:22:47] Speaker A: Oh, man. I think I got to go with A Christmas Story. [00:22:50] Speaker B: I had that. That was going to be my next one. You can't argue with a movie that on one channel every year. They just play it for 24 hours. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Dude, they play it for longer than 24 hours, I'm pretty sure. I think they play it once or twice a day every day through Christmas. But then you get it like a little like 24 or 36 hours. [00:23:09] Speaker B: Christmas day. [00:23:10] Speaker A: Christmas day. [00:23:11] Speaker B: Keep playing it. [00:23:12] Speaker A: Which, look, I respect. And they've even made like, some shitty sequel since then. Or maybe it's not a shitty sequel. It's not for me. I think Christmas Story, it's one of those Christmas classics where even if you're not a big fan of Christmas, you're not mad when that movie comes on, you got to sit through it once a year. [00:23:32] Speaker B: So that was your number four. Correct. So I got my four and five next, my number four. I'm going to go with a classic. I'm going to go with A Christmas Carol. Scrooge. Everybody knows the story of Scrooge. You might not know he's from this movie, but it's this movie where they bring him. He's a scrooge. [00:23:50] Speaker A: You're talking about like, the live action? [00:23:52] Speaker B: Correct. [00:23:53] Speaker A: Okay. [00:23:53] Speaker B: And they bring him through. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Nobody we know the name of is in the cast. [00:23:58] Speaker B: He's the Christmas scrooge. He hates Christmas. He's a bad guy. Then he's brought to understand the true meaning of Christmas, which I'm beginning to understand is the plot, more or less, for every one of these Christmas movies. The traditional Christmas movies. [00:24:11] Speaker A: Yeah, pretty much. [00:24:13] Speaker B: And I think A Christmas Carol was the first one to use this plot. So I think that's why it's such a great pick. That's why it's my number four pick. [00:24:21] Speaker A: Does that mean? Muppet Christmas carol is off the list. [00:24:26] Speaker B: It is not. Neither is Scrooged. [00:24:28] Speaker A: That's on my list. I just don't know if it's going to be my last pick. [00:24:32] Speaker B: So that was my number four, Christmas Carol, and then my number five. I got a few ways to go, but I'm going to go. [00:24:39] Speaker A: But how are you going to go? [00:24:40] Speaker B: I'm going to go, like, off the beaten path. [00:24:42] Speaker A: I don't think you will. [00:24:43] Speaker B: I am. I'm going to go. Batman Returns. Michael Keaton's second movie as Batman. Michelle pfeiffer as catwoman. Danny DeVito as the penguin set at Christmas. Another Tim Burton film. [00:24:56] Speaker A: I was going to say it's your second Tim Burton movie. On the list. That's a rare you have kind of a double dip, if you will. [00:25:02] Speaker B: It's a great movie, great plot. It's iconic. Michael Keaton I am no, it was. [00:25:07] Speaker A: It was kind of the first crazy Batman we know, the first kind of unhinged Batman like, willing to do anything Batman. And it was great. [00:25:19] Speaker B: Yeah. So that's my top five. What's your number five pick? [00:25:22] Speaker A: My number five pick? I think I got to go with another man. I'm kind of torn here. I don't know if I want to go animated or live action, but I think I got to go with another Christmas classic, at least. Classic for my generation. Classic for our generation. I got to go with the Santa Claus with Tim Allen. [00:25:40] Speaker B: I had that on my list. That was one I was debating. [00:25:43] Speaker A: They they've gone to make several movies since I think there's even a TV series. It's it embodies kind of the adulthood of that. I don't like Christmas anymore, but I got to get back into it because I got kids. [00:25:59] Speaker B: I mean, it's the exact plot we just have mentioned a lot. [00:26:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the best. [00:26:04] Speaker B: Grows to love Christmas. [00:26:05] Speaker A: You have to grow to love Christmas. I've kind of gone through the whole hate Christmas thing already, so I appreciate these types of movies even more now. I love Christmas again. I'm back in it. Full swing Santa Claus. Full Christmas spirit. Let's go. [00:26:21] Speaker B: So my top five to recap, number one, Elf. Number two nightmare Before Christmas. Number three die hard. Number four a Christmas Carol. And number five batman Returns. [00:26:31] Speaker A: That's a good list, dude. That's not a miss on that list. But there is going to be requirements for the month of December. You are now required to watch all five of those movies. All right? And for myself, I have Home Alone, jim Carrey's, Grinch, National Lampoon's, Christmas Vacation, a Christmas Story, and The Santa Claus. All right, so to open up the final fight night of 2023, back in the apex, we've got UFC Vegas 83. Kicking off the main card, we have Jungyong Park, the iron turtle, facing off against Andre Sergipano Munez. Both fighters coming in here with an efficient wrestling background, also able to get it done on the feet. It's kind of not a toss up victory here, but a toss up for how the fight's going to know. Is it going to be a striking prominent or is it going to be a wrestling kind of grappling, close quarters. [00:27:41] Speaker B: Prominent fight, two guys kind of going in the opposite direction? Park, four straight wins, three of those by Sub. Those three straight wins by sub. Actually, he's taking on Munoz two straight losses. [00:27:51] Speaker A: Park only has two losses in the UFC as well. [00:27:54] Speaker B: Munoz does. Muniz, muniz. Muniz, muniz. He also does. He started five, and these losses last two. So can he kind of write the ship, or has he kind of met his match. In terms of potential. It'd be interesting to see after giving. [00:28:10] Speaker A: Park not two straight striking encounters, but Know, more striking forward guys. And Dennis Talulin and Albert Durayev, they're giving him somebody who Know so at least more wrestling forward. So they're trying to kind of test his wrestling skills. I lean for this fight to be more of a striking mixed with the ground. [00:28:31] Speaker B: The thing is, park, he's more of the well rounded guy. You say. He kind of has it everywhere, a little bit everywhere, while Muniz is more focused, focused on the ground. He's a grappler, right? Like, he's known as a grappler. [00:28:44] Speaker A: I'd be interested to see Know take this fight to the ground and show Andre Muniz what's going on with his skill there. [00:28:55] Speaker B: I think his best bet to me is to avoid the ground show. Yeah, he does have a great ground game, but so does Munoz Muniz. I think park can beat him on the feet, and I think park beats him on the feet. That's why I'm picking park in the fight. [00:29:09] Speaker A: I pick park as well. My biggest thing here is in the last two fights, Muniz was out or lost, I should say. Last two fights in the UFC he lost, which were also his last two fights in the UFC. He was submitted by Brendan Allen, and he was knocked out by Paul Craig. Those are the last two fights. [00:29:29] Speaker B: I mean, that was the last what was that, two weeks ago, the main. [00:29:33] Speaker A: Event, right, that was the main event from two weeks ago. I'm thinking that Know is going to be able to catapult himself off his last two wins and like you said, get himself last four wins. [00:29:46] Speaker B: I think he's going to go to five straight wins after this, get himself. [00:29:49] Speaker A: An on the feet victory. I think there might be some moments on the ground, but I agree with you. I think we're going to go with a striking heavy matchup. [00:29:59] Speaker B: All right, so the next fight is the Moroccan Nazrat hackparast taking on the Australian Jamie Malarkey. Hack paras, comes in two straight wins, his last win in September. Malarkey his last fight was also a win. He's three and two in his last five. I think this is going to be a very interesting fight. [00:30:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. Jamie Malarkey while they're both it's kind. [00:30:21] Speaker B: Of the opposite of what we had last fight, where we had a ground guy taking on a well rounded guy. This one, we have a well rounded guy taking on a striker. [00:30:29] Speaker A: Right, yeah, that was exactly what I was about to say. Jamie Malarkey is well rounded. You know, he has the ability to submit people if he needs to knock you out. Obviously, I think kind of the style for almost every fighter in the UFC is they prefer to knock you out just because it's flashier, gets you those paydays kind, know, keeps you in good graces of the UFC. At any time, but Jamie Malarkey can do it anyway. Nazrat Hack Press, he shows a lot of power. He finishes a lot of fights by decision as well. Wins a lot of fights by decision. [00:30:59] Speaker B: Yeah. One interesting thing, he has knockouts, but his last six fights have all gone to the scorecard. He's four and two in those fights. So that's something to look out for. [00:31:08] Speaker A: Right? I have that written down as well. Malarkey has been similar, but he has a TKO as well, kind of mixed in with those decision victories in his own stead. I think in this fight being not a toss up on the cards. It's a -200 money line to Nazrat Hack barrass and a plus 170 to Jamie Malarkey. I think with Jamie Malarkey's well rounded ability to kind of take people down, strike you from any angle, submit you kind of get you off your guard. I think Jamie Malarkey is going to win this fight. [00:31:42] Speaker B: See, I'm going opposite. I think Hack Paras gets the win. I think he just betters Malarkey on the feet. He's only been subbed once, so it's not like he gets subbed all the time. I think he's going to have good enough defense where Malarkey's ground game is going to be obsolete. It's going to come down to the feet. I think Hack Perez gets the win, and I think it's probably another decision win for him. [00:32:01] Speaker A: So is this the first we're not agreeing on here. [00:32:03] Speaker B: I think that's the first pick. Well, yeah, it's only the second. Well, that's crazy. [00:32:08] Speaker A: Yeah, no kidding. Well, this should be a few then. [00:32:11] Speaker B: Way to tip our hand, Alex. [00:32:12] Speaker A: There we go. So the next fight we have is Sue Mood Dayergi versus late notice replacement Tim Elliott. We were originally supposed to have Alan Nasimento. He's out. Tim Elliott stepping in. [00:32:28] Speaker B: Tim Elliot, short notice, as you said. He last fought in October, too, when it was a loss. So he's trying to bounce back in there. [00:32:34] Speaker A: He's got to bounce back. Look, he's 19 and three in his career. [00:32:36] Speaker B: He started off six and seven in the UFC, though, so he's been real up and down. [00:32:41] Speaker A: Right, real up and down. He needs to get back on track. He's got three Ko victories, few submission victories. He's been winning by decision. When he wins lately, it's not the best. Sue is two and three in the UFC, most recently, Matt Schnell. [00:32:59] Speaker B: That was his three and two in the UFC. [00:33:01] Speaker A: That's what I meant. [00:33:02] Speaker B: Three wins, two losses. [00:33:03] Speaker A: My Dyslexia flipped that around on me. Matt Schnell was his recent loss in the UFC. [00:33:07] Speaker B: Last fight was a loss. He had the schnell. As you said, he got choked out. One interesting thing, three and two in the UFC, 16 and five overall. Every single one of his losses has been by submission. So obviously that's the weakness to go after if you're Tim Elliot. [00:33:23] Speaker A: In all honesty, that was the matchup that they were kind of setting up. NASA mento had 14 submission victories coming into this fight. [00:33:30] Speaker B: I actually had picked NASA mento. I did all the research. Then they did this late switch. [00:33:34] Speaker A: I know that's one of the not frustrating things with the UFC. It's a frustrating thing with fighting is accidents. [00:33:40] Speaker B: It's injuries happen sport where yeah, injuries can literally give out. [00:33:44] Speaker A: Bro. [00:33:47] Speaker B: You had to train so hard to be the best shape in the best. [00:33:52] Speaker A: You'Re dehydrated, you're strained. There's going to be injuries. We'll be able to bet on Nasimento in the future. I agree, though. It was kind of an unfortunate but. [00:34:04] Speaker B: I think the late notice helps. How do you say his name? Maserati mu dairji. [00:34:14] Speaker A: I'm going to go with the Tibetan Eagle. There we go. [00:34:17] Speaker B: The Tibetan eagle. I think this late notice switch definitely helps him. While Tim Elliott does have a ground game, it's nothing near Nasimentos. I think Mudairi gets the win and I think he might knock out. [00:34:30] Speaker A: Look, I think I think Tim Elliott here is going to get the win. I don't know what the ODS are currently, but I know Mudairji was the underdog in the fight he was supposed to fight. I think giving him somebody like Tim Elliott, who needs a win to really stay relevant in the UFC, I think Tim Elliott's going to get the win here. [00:34:51] Speaker B: All right, so now let's move on to the comain event. Anthony Lionheart Smith taking on Khalil. The warhorse roundtree. This is a matchup at 205. Khalil roundtree comes in with four straight wins. His last one in August by TKO. Three out of those four wins have been by TKO. Ko so he's a guy on a roll. Eight, five and one in the UFC, and he's taken on Anthony Lionheart Smith. Obviously a vet in the UFC. Three and two in his last five. He's one and one in 2023. Last fight was a win. I think this is a very interesting matchup. [00:35:27] Speaker A: It is a very interesting matchup. You have somebody with Anthony Smith who has knockout power when he needs to. He's always moving, always striking. But he's also got 14 submission victories, meaning he can put you on the ground. He can kind of bend you at his will if you're inexperienced. [00:35:45] Speaker B: Anthony is a guy he can win anyway, but he can also lose anyway. [00:35:49] Speaker A: Right? He's been knocked out ten times. He's been subbed four times. He's lost by decision four times. My biggest concern here with Khalil roundtree is in a three round fight, if he doesn't knock out Anthony Smith, if Anthony Smith doesn't make a mistake, is he gassed? Is Anthony Smith kind of two minutes into the third round? [00:36:12] Speaker B: Say what you want about Anthony Smith. He's going to be there. [00:36:14] Speaker A: He will be there with the you. [00:36:16] Speaker B: Can beat the shit out of him and he'll still be there. [00:36:18] Speaker A: Khalil roundtree. He has a very heavy, very muscular build where if he's throwing heat, throwing power the whole fight, ten minutes of just swinging those arms, not being able to knock you out, or a combination of not being able to knock anthony smith out and wearing anthony smith on his back for a large combination of the fight. Is Anthony Smith going to be able to knock Khalil roundtree out or finish him? I think the answer is maybe. I go with Anthony Smith for the victory. [00:36:51] Speaker B: So your answer is maybe. That's pretty decisive. Alex? [00:36:54] Speaker A: I choose Anthony Smith. So I'll say yes. [00:36:56] Speaker B: I'm going to go opposite of you on this this third in a row. Now we're opposite Khalil roundtree. I think roundtree. Although he isn't known, obviously, as no. Submission wins. He's only been submitted once, though, so I don't think Anthony Smith is going to be able to just dominate him on the ground. I think Khalil roundtree beats him on the feet. And I think it's going to be a TKO. Probably 1st, 2nd round for roundtree. [00:37:21] Speaker A: Okay, so look. Now, the main event. We have Song the Kung Fu Kid Yidong taking on Chris El Guapo Gutierrez in what I envision to be a leg kick main event from Chris Gutierrez. I know. I've said it before. [00:37:40] Speaker B: These are two elite strikers. Two elite striking dudes. [00:37:44] Speaker A: Elite strikers. You're going to get a lot of output to it's. Not all going to be high damage, but there's going to be a lot of strikes. Yeah, it's going to be very heavy output -400 moneyline favorite for Song Yidong. [00:37:58] Speaker B: Which I'm surprised because both guys come in four and one in their last five. [00:38:02] Speaker A: Right? [00:38:02] Speaker B: Both guys won their last fight. Song Yidong. His only loss in those five is the Corey Sanhagen Nine. Two and one in the UFC. Chris Gutierrez's. Only loss was the Pedro Munoz. He's eight. Two and one in the UFC. So these guys on paper they look pretty comparable and looks like it is going to be a great matchup. And as you said, both high output. Guys. That's why I'm kind of questioning this -400 line. That's kind of crazy. [00:38:27] Speaker A: I think the sheer difference here is going to be that you're going to. [00:38:30] Speaker B: See yadong has the power. [00:38:32] Speaker A: I was going to say the difference in power with yadong to where chris gutierrez will touch you 100% of the time throughout the fight. You're going to get the strikes through. He's going to get the points on the scorecard. That's why he has what? Ten decision victories. You're going to get a bunch of touches from Chris Gutierrez. But with Song Yudong, you've got the nine kos with eight decisions. It's still a lot of decisions, but you mix in a couple of submissions there, it kind of keeps the other guy guessing. I think Song Yidong, with the extra power, he's going to be more precise, ready to go in there. And I think he will get the victory. And I don't think the fight will go. The decision on this one, I got. [00:39:16] Speaker B: Song Yidong Two, the Kung Fu kid, 26 year old Chinese guy. I think he gets the win. And I kind of agree with you. I have an inkling that this is going to be a finish for him. Said Hood. Let's jump into football and we're going to start with the biggest college rivalry game in college football history. Still the biggest rivalry game after all these years. It's the army. Navy game. It's so big they give it its own weekend. Both teams come in five and six. [00:39:53] Speaker A: Does the six win matter for either team? [00:39:56] Speaker B: Because six win makes you bowl eligible. [00:39:58] Speaker A: That's what I was wondering. I'm just learning that that matters. But you can be snubbed from the college football playoffs for no reason. [00:40:08] Speaker B: And I don't think either team's going to a bowl game. They might be. I didn't look at all the bowls yet. But it doesn't matter. This is one of those games. [00:40:16] Speaker A: This is their Super Bowl. [00:40:19] Speaker B: This is the game of the year. [00:40:20] Speaker A: For both teams talking shit for the whole next year. [00:40:23] Speaker B: This is army. Navy. Army has won five out of seven in this rivalry, which is a good run for them because before that, 14 straight wins for Navy. [00:40:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Army their quarterback. What is his name? It's bryson daley. He's obviously their leading passer, but he's also their leading rusher. Yeah. [00:40:43] Speaker B: Army does not pass the ball. Neither of these teams pass the ball. It's going to be a running game. [00:40:47] Speaker A: Yeah, dude. I was looking online, kind of doing my research for everything and they said this was abysmal offenses for both. Just just not great football teams as far as like college football, the scale of college football is concerned. But Bryson Daley is the leading rusher. It looks like they've had like a carousel. Starting quarterbacks for Navy so far, but it looks like Ty I don't know how to say his last name. Lavante. Lavante. He's one of the sounds Hawaiian starter for Navy. Like I said, both teams have had poor offenses throughout the season. It's an over under of 28 points. Who do you think is going to win the game? [00:41:33] Speaker B: I think it's going to be a close game as usual. I think it's going to be a low scoring game. The game is in Foxboro. It's always at a neutral site. [00:41:40] Speaker A: Do you think the under is going to hit? [00:41:42] Speaker B: What's the over under? [00:41:44] Speaker A: Over under 28. [00:41:45] Speaker B: It's very possible. [00:41:47] Speaker A: That's crazy. [00:41:47] Speaker B: I'm thinking like a 1710 game. I got army winning the game. I think they figure out a way to edge out Navy. I think they continue their good fortune in this. I got the army black knights beating the Midshipment of Navy. [00:41:59] Speaker A: I think the agree. I think I think the Black Knights are going to edge the Seamen. [00:42:08] Speaker B: All right. So now we're going to move on to the NFL after we've covered the one college football game of the week. First game we're going to look at NFC north matchup. The Nine and three detroit Lions heading to Chicago. The four and eight Bears Lions come in minus three favorites in Chicago. [00:42:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess that's just because divisional games are always tough. You're going to play to your rivals. [00:42:32] Speaker B: Well, the Lions, they're a team. They're nine and three, but they've had some stinkers out there. They could easily lose this game. So I think that's part of it. They're kind of unpredictable how they're going to play. [00:42:41] Speaker A: They are they've come a long way since last season where they were kind of a surprise good team. They've been another surprise good team this season, but a more consistent a almost we could lean on them all season. [00:42:57] Speaker B: But they're one of the best teams in the NFC nine and three record and both teams coming off of a win. But I think the lions go into Chicago. I think the Lions get a dub. [00:43:05] Speaker A: I agree. I think the lions win. They're fifth in points scored in the entire NFL. That obviously leads to their nine and three record. But it doesn't go to say that their defense is just allowing anybody to score on them. They've done a lot to maintain the points scored against them middling in that column. But with how good their offense has been at times, they've been able to win. I agree. I think the Lions are going to win, and I think they're going to move to ten and three for that'll. Probably be the first time ever. [00:43:37] Speaker B: Not ever. Pretty close in a long time. So now let's move to the next game. It's going to be the Jacksonville Jaguars, eight and four. The NFC South leaders heading to Cleveland to take on the seven and five Browns. Browns come in minus two favorites. Big question is Trevor Lawrence going to be ready to play in this game? High ankle sprain, questionable the Bengals of this point. [00:43:59] Speaker A: The Bengals with Jake Browning. Is that his name? [00:44:02] Speaker B: Correct. [00:44:03] Speaker A: They were able to beat the Jaguars, I'll say, because Trevor Lawrence wasn't able to come know. If Trevor Lawrence was on the field. [00:44:13] Speaker B: I think he's questionable. There's a very good chance he plays in this game. [00:44:16] Speaker A: Well, I'm saying I think if Trevor Lawrence was able to have come back and played know the rest of the game against the Bengals, I think there's a good chance the Bengals would have lost that game being on that backup. But if you go to a backup backup situation like you could go to. [00:44:31] Speaker B: With the browning played his ass off last night, though. [00:44:34] Speaker A: He did. You go to a backup backup situation with the Jaguars and the Browns. I don't know. High ankle sprain, trevor Lawrence being questionable. I don't think he's the type, you know, or the Patrick Mahones type where he suits up next week. They need him to kind of rest and be as close to possible as he can. Christian Kirk's also out. He has to have core surgery. He tore his core in a non contact pass yesterday, which is brutal. So he has to have surgery. So they're down bad. This might just be the end of their season. [00:45:12] Speaker B: Not even closer. Eight and four leading a shitty division. [00:45:15] Speaker A: Yeah, but that doesn't mean they're going. [00:45:17] Speaker B: To win their superseason. He might play their quarterback. [00:45:21] Speaker A: I don't think he's going to play. I don't think he's going to play. [00:45:23] Speaker B: College ball playoff committee. Just fuck you. Your quarterback's kind of hurt. [00:45:28] Speaker A: Yep. Clip him. He's done. Clip. You got to clip them all. [00:45:32] Speaker B: So you're picking the Browns in this, I think how long does it take you to say you're picking the Browns? [00:45:37] Speaker A: And with Flacco getting the nod, I picked the Browns. [00:45:40] Speaker B: I'm picking the Jags. I think they come in and get the dub. I believe in the jaguars. Best team in the NFC South. Speaking of NFC South, let's move on to the next game. The other best team in the NFC South fuck. The Indianapolis Colts is the Houston Texans. Six and a half point favorites at the New York Jets. Texans come in seven and five. Jets, four and eight. [00:46:01] Speaker A: Jets have lost five straight jets in four and eight. That's impressively bad. [00:46:06] Speaker B: Texans have won four out of five, including their last game over the streaking Denver Broncos. I mean, I think the Texans are just going to be too much for the jets to handle. Jets have a great defense, but no. [00:46:17] Speaker A: Starting for the quarterback. [00:46:18] Speaker B: They said they wanted to start Zach Wilson again. [00:46:21] Speaker A: He was reluctant. [00:46:22] Speaker B: Reluctant? Like, how bad would Zach Wilson's like, nah, fuck this. [00:46:27] Speaker A: Okay, so listen, you got to hear me out on that. If you're healthy, right, you're listed as the backup to Aaron Rogers coming into the season, you're losing to the Bills. They're not a bad team. [00:46:41] Speaker B: They beat the Bills first game of the year. [00:46:43] Speaker A: Right. But I'm saying, like, this past week, you're losing to the Bills 32 to six. Or they lost to the Bills 32 to six, right. [00:46:49] Speaker B: No, this past week they lost to the Atlanta Falcons 13 to eight. [00:46:53] Speaker A: Jeez, I forgot about that one. You're right. So if you're benching Zach Wilson for as the emergency he's inactive. He's the emergency quarterback, and there's two guys in front of him, and then you're asking him to come in, I'm good. You can have this shit show. [00:47:12] Speaker B: No, because that kind of kills, like. [00:47:16] Speaker A: Squad anyway. [00:47:17] Speaker B: No, it's still bad look. [00:47:19] Speaker A: It's a bad look. He had redeeming qualities at the beginning of the season, but I think he's kind of done with that whole system. Just in his mind. I'm sure he's done in the NFL in his mind. I'm sure he feels like he's being used. But that's kind of what a quarterback has to do sometime, is come in. [00:47:37] Speaker B: He's doing literally his job, daily job, like, shut the fuck up and go out there and play. [00:47:42] Speaker A: You're getting paid millions of dollars to go out there and have fun or lose, whatever. [00:47:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:47:46] Speaker A: The Texans are going to win as well. Yeah. [00:47:48] Speaker B: All right. Next game. Another streaking team. Tina's won three in a row. The Los Angeles Rams back into the playoff conversation, six and six going into quietly the most impressive team this year. Nobody's even talking about them. The Nine and three Ravens. [00:48:03] Speaker A: Yeah, the Rams, I looked it up today. They are middling in almost every category. Yeah. [00:48:09] Speaker B: But the last two weeks they've dominated. [00:48:13] Speaker A: Last two weeks barely beat Seattle's. [00:48:14] Speaker B: In the last two weeks, they've dominated a bad team. So we'll see how they do. [00:48:17] Speaker A: 13Th in points scored and 14th in points allowed. [00:48:21] Speaker B: It's about winning games, right. Ravens, as we said, nine and three, seven point favorites. They've won four to five, two in a row. Can the Ravens continue it? Get their 10th win in a row? I think try to lock up and take a hold of that first round buy in the AFC? I think they do. I think the Ravens get the Dub. [00:48:42] Speaker A: 68.3% is Lamar Jackson's completion ratio. That's the highest he's been as a starter or in his career in the NFL. I think know him running less. He's lost the ball a little bit know, running this season, but he's been more efficient. They have more points per game. I think the Ravens win the game. I think you're right. Next is going to be the Vikings, also six and six. [00:49:12] Speaker B: Probably the worst game we're going to. [00:49:13] Speaker A: Cover this week versus the Raiders, five and seven. And honestly, the only reason we're covering it is because there's no more college football to cover. [00:49:20] Speaker B: Raiders, two and a half point favorites. [00:49:22] Speaker A: At home we have Josh Dobbs versus Aidan McDowell. [00:49:26] Speaker B: Josh Dobbs stock dropped so much after the twelve to ten losses, the Alopecia. [00:49:31] Speaker A: King turned into Jada Pinkett Smith. And I couldn't care any less. He threw four interceptions last week and. [00:49:39] Speaker B: The Raiders last week jumped up 14. Not last week, their last game. So two weeks ago, right, against the Chiefs, they jumped up 140. Everybody's like, what the fuck's wrong with the Chiefs? Chiefs ended up winning that game 30 117. Where's this Raider team go? We don't know. They've lost two in a row. I think it's going to be an interesting game. [00:50:00] Speaker A: Solid. [00:50:00] Speaker B: Who. [00:50:01] Speaker A: I said, I like your rhymes. That's solid. [00:50:03] Speaker B: I didn't even know I rhymes. [00:50:05] Speaker A: Good job. [00:50:06] Speaker B: I think the Raiders figure it out. I think these are both teams that they're not going to do anything. I don't think either one's a playoff team. I think simply because the Raiders are at home. Vikings have a meddling offense. I think the Raiders figure out a way to get it done. Close game take in Vegas. [00:50:22] Speaker A: I would agree with you if not for the fact that Justin jefferson was intentionally activated off of injury reserve. They had a chance to do it before the buy, but they wanted him to be 100%. They didn't want him to play unless he was I don't know if Josh. [00:50:39] Speaker B: Jobs is good enough to but at least where an elite receiver is even meaningful, at the very least. [00:50:46] Speaker A: Yeah, we've kind of proven with Aiden McDowell that Devontae Adams is more or less useless. Right. [00:50:51] Speaker B: I mean, he wasn't the start of the whole year. Garoppolo is who's really to blame for that? [00:50:56] Speaker A: Yeah, but just kind of a whole mix with the Raiders just being a shit show. I think at the very least this week with Justin Jefferson, at least there's a target share that gives him an opportunity to catch the ball. With that, I think the Vikings win the game. [00:51:12] Speaker B: So we're different on that one. So let's move on to the next one. The NFC West matchup. The best team in the NFL, the Nine and three. Maybe not best record, but best team in the NFL, the Nine and 349 Ers host their division rival, the six and six. Seahawks 49 Ers, ten and a half point favorites at home. [00:51:30] Speaker A: And we've said it before, when the 49 Ers are healthy, they are the best team. [00:51:34] Speaker B: I mean, they proved it last week. They beat the shit out of the Eagles in Philadelphia. [00:51:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Tush push couldn't do shit against them. There was nothing to stop four straight. [00:51:43] Speaker B: Wins for the Niners after some questionable losses. Well, they started off five and right. Lost three in a row. They had a lot of injuries during that time, but lost three in a row. Had a bye week since then. Won four in a row. I think they figured it out. I think this is clearing away the best team in the NFL, and they're taking on a Seahawks team who's lost three in a row. [00:52:05] Speaker A: Right. Seattle has the ability to score, but their defense allows points. [00:52:10] Speaker B: And just two weeks ago, the 49 Ers beat the shit out of them in Seattle. [00:52:14] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:52:14] Speaker B: On Thanksgiving Day. [00:52:16] Speaker A: The close proximity to matchups with I. [00:52:20] Speaker B: Think the close proximity honestly helps the Seahawks. I don't think the minors are going to come in, blow them out quite like they did. No, but it's going to be a. [00:52:27] Speaker A: Good game for the 49 Ers to kind of flex. That the team. [00:52:31] Speaker B: I don't think they cover two and a half, .2 and a half points. [00:52:34] Speaker A: I was going to say two and a half. [00:52:35] Speaker B: I think the Niners win probably by, like, a touchdown, like eight or nine points. But I got the Niners winning the game. [00:52:41] Speaker A: I also have the Niners winning the game. I think it won't be an easy victory, but I think it'll be a touchdown. [00:52:49] Speaker B: All right, so let's move on to the next game, which at the beginning of the season, if you were to point at the most exciting biggest game of the year. I think a lot of people this would be a strong candidate for that game. But it turns out both teams not doing as well as we thought. Chiefs, eight and four, they're still doing enough to make the playoffs. Taking on the six and six Bills, who have been the most disappointing team in the NFL. Chiefs at home, two and a half point favorites. I mean, this is a game where both teams, coming off a loss in their last game, both teams desperately need a win. The Chiefs to kind of continue their supremacy, although their team, if they make the playoffs, they're still going to be favored to win every game. Taking on the Bills, who they just need to make the playoffs. They need a win. They need to win over a big team. [00:53:36] Speaker A: The Bills kind of are like a shell of their former like, they've been different since. [00:53:41] Speaker B: But the thing is, they're just riddled with because they're close in all these games and they fuck it up. [00:53:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:53:47] Speaker B: It's like it's all self inflicted wounds. [00:53:50] Speaker A: It's almost like they've turned into the clutch level of the Chargers. [00:53:54] Speaker B: No. Yeah. [00:53:55] Speaker A: This season at the very least. I don't know if it's Josh Allen. [00:53:58] Speaker B: Or but then the Charger said, we'll see you one. [00:54:00] Speaker A: Right, let's go. Even worse. [00:54:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:54:03] Speaker A: I don't know what the but this has been a season where it seems like the teams that the very good teams last year were winning or the games where the very good teams last year were winning, this year they're not. [00:54:16] Speaker B: And that's the nature of the changes. So competitive and it's so hard. It changes so much. You're not going to stay long at the top. [00:54:23] Speaker A: Chiefs, of course, I think at this point, they're currently ranked like third overall in the NFL. Of course. They're always an elite force. With Patrick Mahomes, Travis, Kelsey. [00:54:33] Speaker B: I mean, no matter what, like I said, if they make the playoffs, they're. [00:54:36] Speaker A: A contention, they're a moneyline favorite, still. [00:54:38] Speaker B: Picking them in every game. [00:54:39] Speaker A: Right, I agree. I think the Bills just haven't gotten back on track. I think both teams defenses are pretty solid so far this season, but I think Kansas City holds through and gets the win. [00:54:50] Speaker B: I think the Bills saying that this is a game they have to win. They know it's a game they have to win. They had a bye week. I think they're going to come out, probably have their best performance of the season. I got the Bills winning the game. I got the Bills going to seven and six. So let's move on to the next matchup. It's an AFC West matchup. I'm sorry. nfafc the six and six Broncos coming off a loss after a huge winning streak. How can they respond? Taking on the, as we said, the least clutch team in the NFL, the San Diego now La chargers. I know it's been like, five years, but. I still think san Diego Chargers five and seven. The Chargers last week, though, coming off of a win six to zero to Mac Jones, is so bad. I know. We're not covering any of their games. [00:55:40] Speaker A: Mac Jones intentionally not covering the Patriots. It's hard to find anything to say about that. [00:55:46] Speaker B: Two or three years they've gone from the dynasty to literally the worst team in the NFL, the Broncos. [00:55:52] Speaker A: I don't know if you're Russell Wilson, how do you go from winning five games in a row? So without the five game winning streak, you would be one in six. [00:56:00] Speaker B: Yeah, but I mean, that's like saying without half the season, right? [00:56:04] Speaker A: I know, but I like saying it like that. [00:56:07] Speaker B: You would say without the one in six, we'd be five and oh, there you go. [00:56:14] Speaker A: Well, there you go. He threw four interceptions last week. Absolutely. [00:56:20] Speaker B: Texas Texans did a great job getting to him. I just think this is going to come down to a game where, like. [00:56:27] Speaker A: Less than 300 total. [00:56:30] Speaker B: It's going to be a Chargers game. [00:56:32] Speaker A: I think it's less than 300 total passing yards. [00:56:34] Speaker B: Chargers are going to outgain the Broncos by 100 yards, but lose the game. I got the Broncos winning. [00:56:38] Speaker A: I think the Chargers are going to win this game. As much as I talk shit on. [00:56:43] Speaker B: Their clutch level, it's going to be down to coaching. I think Sean Payne's a better coach than Brandon Staley. [00:56:48] Speaker A: I think if it wasn't Sean Payton, this would be a battle for a coach's of this kind of game, is like the turning point of this. [00:56:58] Speaker B: I mean, it's definitely Brandon Staley's third or fourth year because this is one. [00:57:05] Speaker A: Of they have a very they went like ten. [00:57:08] Speaker B: And the thing is, they have a. [00:57:09] Speaker A: Very talented roster, like a 13 and three one season. And it's just gone down and down and down every year since. [00:57:17] Speaker B: They blew a 28 to zero lead in the playoffs last year. [00:57:20] Speaker A: And nobody's giving them 28 to three Falcons shit in the Super Bowl. They're just letting them well, I mean. [00:57:26] Speaker B: The Super Bowl is a whole different beast, right? [00:57:28] Speaker A: But they're five and seven with a great team. [00:57:32] Speaker B: All right, so now let's move on to the last football game, the main event. The main event, the best football game of the weekend. Probably NFC East matchup. As we said, the Bills Chiefs, probably preseason was game of the year. This might I was going to say. [00:57:44] Speaker A: This might be the hottest matchup besides. [00:57:47] Speaker B: Last week when the Niners beat the shit out of the Eagles, right? [00:57:51] Speaker A: This is divisional Rivals division reevals tight, though. [00:57:54] Speaker B: Reevals rivals NFC East matchup. This is one where the Cowboys Darrell Reevis Cowboys can pull even if they win at ten and three. The ten and two Eagles, nine and three Cowboys. Dallas at home where they're undefeated this season. [00:58:07] Speaker A: Three and a half, three point favorite. [00:58:08] Speaker B: Point favorite. [00:58:09] Speaker A: They're usually dog shit at home. [00:58:11] Speaker B: Not this season. Four straight wins total. Last week, Thanksgiving night, they last week, two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, thanksgiving night. Beat the Seahawks. Another bird team bird gang. [00:58:26] Speaker A: Another bird. [00:58:27] Speaker B: They beat them in a shootout, taking on the Eagles coming off. They had a lot of close games, close wins leading up to this. They got the absolute dog piss beat out of them by the 49 ers. Yeah, it was a bad humbling game where how are the Eagles going to respond? Are they going to respond playing their best football? Are they going to still kind of be a step back? [00:58:50] Speaker A: This is one of those games where I don't even want to watch just because it's like, as much as my dad's a Cowboys fan, I just can see what's going to happen to Dallas at home here. But I'm not. [00:59:05] Speaker B: Everything's pointing to the Cowboys winning this game. [00:59:08] Speaker A: Right. And what happens every time everything points to the Cowboys winning this game. [00:59:12] Speaker B: I'll tell you what, buddy, you just convinced me. I'm changing my pick. I picked the cowboys. I'd never thought about it till you said that. This is an Eagles win all the way. [00:59:20] Speaker A: Right? I am changing my own mind here. I never thought about it every time I've ever thought the Cowboys were going to win in a matchup that was. [00:59:31] Speaker B: Cited when an important game like this all points to you. [00:59:35] Speaker A: The Cowboys. [00:59:36] Speaker B: Fuck it. Cowboys are going to fuck it up. [00:59:38] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't want to do it, but I absolutely switch to the Eagles. [00:59:43] Speaker B: I think same, brother. Same. I'm picking the eagles. [00:59:47] Speaker A: Look, Dallas is top ten in every category this season. It's crazy how good they've done, how efficient they've been lucky they're not in the playoffs right now because the Eagles are going to walk back off of the San Francisco 49 ers loss, and they are about to cripple the Dallas Cowboys this game. [01:00:06] Speaker B: So we agree on that one. [01:00:09] Speaker A: I never expected that to happen. Cracking and now it's time for stakes and takes. We're going to recap last week's bets, last week's picks, stakes or takes, if you will. Or takes or stakes, whichever way you say that. We give you our standings for the season, last month of November included, and we'll give you our upcoming stakes for this week. [01:00:42] Speaker B: Well, we gave you our stakes. No, we gave our takes. [01:00:45] Speaker A: We gave you our takes. [01:00:47] Speaker B: I tried to correct you. I'm sorry. [01:00:49] Speaker A: We'll figure it out one day. The stakes and the takes. One is bets, one is picks. You all tell us which. Just kidding. What's your record from last week? [01:00:59] Speaker B: Last week wasn't the best for me football wise, surprisingly. I went nine and seven overall. Four and two in the UFC. I was happy with my UFC picks. [01:01:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I went four and two as well. I think we picked the exact same there. Got the same losses. [01:01:11] Speaker B: Yes, I went two and three in college football. I got Oregon, Washington wrong. Washington obviously won. I picked oregon. I got Georgia. Bama wrong. [01:01:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I got that one wrong, too. [01:01:27] Speaker B: I picked Georgia. You got both of these wrong. [01:01:29] Speaker A: Right. [01:01:30] Speaker B: I picked Georgia. Bama obviously won and then the one I went out on a limb. I was trying to call on upset. I thought Louisville was going to beat Florida State without their quarterback. Florida State won by double digits, still got left out of the College Football Playoff, but I got that one wrong. [01:01:47] Speaker A: You got to think about that. You preemptively snubbed them by just going against them. [01:01:52] Speaker B: Yeah. I think that's why I'm so adamant that they should have got in because I did that and look what they did. It was an ugly win, but they won by double digits. They were obviously way better than Louisville. Right. [01:02:01] Speaker A: I agree that you can't just snub them because somebody got hurt. [01:02:06] Speaker B: That's fucked up. They're 13 and that's the open excuse. [01:02:11] Speaker A: They'Re trying to use is they're not the same team without Jordan. [01:02:14] Speaker B: It's not like this is central Nebraska going 13 and their best player gets hurt. This is Florida State, one of the most storied programs college football. I tell you what, leave them out. [01:02:26] Speaker A: As soon as we put the Florida State hashtag on this video, this is going to get views because it is heinous what they are doing to them. [01:02:34] Speaker B: Yeah, it really is. Anyway, and then NFL, I went three and two. My two losses, I picked the Broncos over the Texans. Obviously Texans proved me wrong. [01:02:42] Speaker A: I picked the Texans there. So whoop whoop. [01:02:45] Speaker B: And I think we both got this one wrong. We both assumed the Chiefs were going to beat the packers. Props to the packers. They showed out. They got the yep. [01:02:54] Speaker A: I went four and one on NFL. I got the packers pick wrong. Everything else I got right. Four and two in the UFC. Three and two in the college football. Good thing is I tied things back up in the picks. Christian, you are now 57, 43 and one. I am now 57, 41 and three. Got the same amount of wins, a couple less losses, but I got some. [01:03:19] Speaker B: Pushes in there that it's all about the wins, baby. [01:03:23] Speaker A: It's all about the wins. Moving on to our stakes, how'd you do last week? [01:03:29] Speaker B: Considering I did average in takes, I did Horrendous in stakes. [01:03:35] Speaker A: Yeah. Were they all like, well done. [01:03:38] Speaker B: One in oh, soriano moneyline. He was a favorite. I lost Rob Font moneyline. He was a favorite. I lost Oregon Ducks moneyline. They were a favorite. I lost Georgia Bulldogs moneyline. They were a favorite. Only one I won and thank God they showed out for me was the San Francisco 49 ers. I had their moneyline. [01:03:56] Speaker A: Yeah. That's a bit of a situation for you, man. That's rough. [01:04:03] Speaker B: It was tough. I'm pretty sure it cost me the lead in the takes the Takes. I'm sorry. [01:04:12] Speaker A: That's what made us tie back up for sure because I went four and one, two weeks in a row. Four and one. It really helped push Me back, put me back in the mix. Otherwise you were just going to keep walking away with it. For the total season standings, it brings both of us up to 153 for the Wins. I have 81 losses. You have 82 losses. I have four pushes. You have three. So we're still neck and neck up to the very very end and two weeks left. Two weeks left of the whole first season season zero both Stakes. [01:04:48] Speaker B: And Takes are for the taking for either one of us. Literally tied pretty much, yeah. [01:04:52] Speaker A: I mean, it's within a pick. So we got to figure Something out. To kind of decide this at the very end of the Season. What do you have for UFC takes this week? [01:05:05] Speaker B: My UFC takes this week. [01:05:08] Speaker A: I got two. [01:05:09] Speaker B: I also have two. One of them got canceled. I was planning on going. Nasamito moneyline. Obviously he pulled out of the fight instead. I'm going Song Yidong. I know he's a big favorite. -400. I don't quite like the odds, but I'm trying to pick winners right now. [01:05:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Just trying to get an edge to win. I get it. [01:05:29] Speaker B: I'm getting song Yidong and I'm Nazrat hack parast. Hack Parast. I always have trouble saying his name until I get it. Once I get it. But I'm taking Nazrat. I got his money line. Of -220. [01:05:44] Speaker A: Nice. My two I'm taking Jungyong Park money line. I think on that one. I think with the mix of the ground game, he's going to win. My other UFC fight. I don't know. The ODS, they didn't release anything yet because he's a late notice replacement. I'm taking Tim Elliott Money line to beat Sue Moodayergi for late notice. [01:06:09] Speaker B: Not bad. Are we both taking the college game? [01:06:12] Speaker A: I'm not taking the college game. [01:06:14] Speaker B: I am I'm taking army -148 army. [01:06:17] Speaker A: Money line for Christian. [01:06:19] Speaker B: I believe in the black knights. [01:06:21] Speaker A: I have three NFL bets. [01:06:24] Speaker B: I obviously have two. [01:06:26] Speaker A: I have the Detroit Lions money line. [01:06:29] Speaker B: What's the ODS you got? [01:06:30] Speaker A: I think they're going to win. Let's see my ODS here. Damn. Of course. It's the first page. Not the last page. My ODS here. -185 for the Detroit Lions yeah. [01:06:41] Speaker B: I had -170. But I like that pick. [01:06:44] Speaker A: My next. Pick is going to be the Vikings. Money. Line. They're actually going to be a plus 155 underdog see I have them at. [01:06:53] Speaker B: -162 that might have updated since I wrote it. [01:06:58] Speaker A: I think it's going to kind of flux. I think it's going to end up being more or less of a Pickham for the Vikings. They could lose. They could win. Both teams have their struggles. And my last one is going to be a Chiefs money line. It's Kind of a toss up with them with the bills. It's a -140, what I have is the money line. Here. I think the Chiefs are going to win. They don't usually lose two in a row. Even though it's kind of a push for the Bills. They need the win here. I think the Chiefs are going to pull it out. [01:07:28] Speaker B: I got two NFL bets. I got Texans minus 298 is what I got it at. So I got the Houston Texans going to New York, beating the jets, and then I changed this one late, too. I got the Eagles moneyline plus 154 over the Cowboys. [01:07:46] Speaker A: Nice. You have an upset for us this week. [01:07:49] Speaker B: So my upset of the week, the Eagles could be it, but I wrote somebody before I switched my pick to them. I'm going to take the Buffalo Bills plus 120. Going to Kansas City, getting a dub. That's my upset of the week. [01:08:03] Speaker A: Bills plus 120. My upset of the week is Jamie Malarkey. I think he's going to beat Nazrat hack parast. I think he has what it takes at that. Plus 170 money line. With the diversity and his skill set to take the win, I think that. [01:08:20] Speaker B: About wraps up our stakes and takes for the week. Thanks for listening to episode 25 of Split Decision. Check us out next week. We're going to review UFC Vegas 83, take a look ahead to week 15 in the NFL and also look ahead to the final pay per view UFC event of the year. UFC 296. Colby Covington leon Edwards. [01:08:43] Speaker A: Scratch the whip. Scratching. Scratch. It's cracking. [01:09:50] Speaker B: Wait a minute. [01:09:52] Speaker A: It's cracking. I feel like the.