Episode 26, UFC Vegas 83 Recap Song Yadong vs Chris Gutierrez, Top 5 Christmas Songs, UFC 296 Preview Edwards vs Covington, and More!

[00:00:08] Speaker A: Welcome back to split decision. This week on episode 26, we're gonna recap UFC Vegas 83, song Yudong versus Chris Gutierrez from this past weekend. From there, we'll draft our top five Christmas song to keep it themed. Up next, we'll will preview UFC 296, Colby Covington versus Leon Edwards for the welterweight title for the last UFC card of 2023. Then we'll huddle up for the big playoff implications for week 15 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 head to splitdecisionpod.com, where you'll find all our recent podcast top fives and more. Again, that's splitdecisionpod.com. All right, let's go. [00:01:08] Speaker B: All right, so the UFC fight night from this weekend ended up being a quietly good card. Not a lot of expectations, not a lot of chatter about it. But if you watch the fights, especially the main card, it was very exciting. [00:01:21] Speaker A: Very eventful. [00:01:22] Speaker B: Very eventful. A lot of good showings by guys. A lot of guys that, you know their name, and then they kind of just made a statement. [00:01:29] Speaker A: Was it only one decision or two decisions? Two decisions for the main card, the main event, and the first fight. [00:01:35] Speaker B: And they were both, like, entertaining fights. Like, it wasn't a boring fight. [00:01:39] Speaker A: Right. Both contested. Both. Both back and forth, both correct, in my opinion. Correct decision by the judges. Yeah. [00:01:48] Speaker B: And one was very obvious. And that was the main event. [00:01:50] Speaker A: Right? [00:01:50] Speaker B: Song Yidong, Chris Gutierrez. This was billed as a fight between two great strikers, and it ended up being just that. Just that. Song Yidong had the obvious edge over Chris Gutierrez. About middle of the fight, Gutierrez was visibly frustrated, not only with the way he was fighting, he was frustrated with his corner, like, some of the back and forth between him and his coaches. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Yeah, you saw that, too. He was know, like, he was like, kind of calling him off, like, no, I got this. [00:02:20] Speaker B: But it was like, dude, you're not showing. You got it. And then he started arguing with somebody in the crowd that even the announcers had to be like, I don't know what, fighters talking shit to him, but somebody in the crowd was talking shit and threw him off his game. [00:02:30] Speaker A: Look, he was obviously flustered. I think Song Ye dong, he also. [00:02:35] Speaker B: Got beat by the better striker. [00:02:36] Speaker A: I believe that was actually what I was about to say. I think Song Ye Dong had the better strikes throughout for the fight, but also he was the aggressor for the whole fight. He cornered Gutierrez now, Gutierrez, to his benefit, he did use his signature leg kick move to keep people at bay, damage Song Yedong's legs as often as he could. But he just didn't put together combos that mattered at the end of the. [00:03:02] Speaker B: Day and before the fight, Song Yedong was talking some mad shit. It was probably in Chinese because they were just saying what he was saying. But he was very confident coming in. He said he was going to finish it early. It ended up not being that, but Song Yidong, his words before the fight was, I should have got somebody pretty much ranked higher than this. I'm going to prove why. And he kind of proved why. He proved he deserves to be a contender in this division. [00:03:26] Speaker A: Yeah. Look, he won the fight on the judges scorecards. [00:03:29] Speaker B: 50 445-045-5045 so every round with 210, eight rounds thrown in there, look, that. [00:03:35] Speaker A: Shows domination to me. It shows that Chris Gutierrez, you can. [00:03:38] Speaker B: Get very least, was flustered MMA judges to agree on every round that you won. [00:03:43] Speaker A: Right. [00:03:44] Speaker B: That's impressive. [00:03:45] Speaker A: That shows that everybody was watching the. [00:03:48] Speaker B: Same thing, even somebody that doesn't know what's going on. Can new Song Yidong kind of beat up Chris Gutierrez in this fight? [00:03:55] Speaker A: Absolutely. My wife was able to tell that, and she doesn't even really pay attention when the fights are on. So I have a question. Who's next? Song Yidong called out Peter Yan. [00:04:07] Speaker B: I would love to see that fight. [00:04:09] Speaker A: That's a good fight. [00:04:10] Speaker B: That's a fight they could have in China, too. [00:04:12] Speaker A: They could have that fight in China. [00:04:13] Speaker B: This fight card was supposed to be in China, by the way, up until. [00:04:16] Speaker A: What, like a month, two or three weeks ago. [00:04:17] Speaker B: It was crazy. [00:04:18] Speaker A: Yeah, it wasn't. [00:04:19] Speaker B: Changed it. [00:04:20] Speaker A: So other options for me, rematch with. [00:04:25] Speaker B: As a. I think that's too soon of a fight for them to rematch. [00:04:28] Speaker A: Again or an, you know, we're thinking possibly like a marab, but Marab's got a fight with scheduled, I think, in the other. The other brother, Al Jermaine Sterling. Think he could be a good, good. [00:04:46] Speaker B: I don't know. If Aljo takes that fight, I would like for him to. [00:04:49] Speaker A: At some point, Aljo is going to have to stop doing what he wants to do and start doing what the UFC tells him to do. [00:04:54] Speaker B: That would be a big fight for song Yedong, though. [00:04:56] Speaker A: It would. I think any of those fights would be good. Probably the most likely, in my opinion, is going to be his call out. Peter yon. Peter yon. I haven't seen fight in a little bit, and I believe the last time. [00:05:08] Speaker B: He fought, he lost two or three times. [00:05:11] Speaker A: Right. So if you're going to call that guy out, the UFC might look to book that fight. And like you said, maybe a china card. Moving on, we have the co main event that was between the light heavyweights, Anthony Smith and Khalil roundtree Jr. That was another one. Know, we kind of thought it could go either way, or at least I thought it could go either way. With the know, if Anthony Smith used his height advantage, his reach advantage, to kind of keep roundtree away from him, it would work. But obviously, I was proven very quickly wrong. Yeah, this was a chicken leg. [00:05:50] Speaker B: Anthony Smith, you knew nothing about fighting. And you saw the two guys, you'd see the big guy with muscles versus the guy. He's not in bad shape or anything, but he just doesn't have the muscles that Khalil Roundtree has. [00:06:01] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:02] Speaker B: You would think Khalil Roundtree would dominate. Conventional thinking as a fight fan would make you think the opposite was like, no, not the impressive guy looking guy. [00:06:10] Speaker A: Right? [00:06:10] Speaker B: Like Zeke and everything. That's not the best fighter. Personally, in this case, the casuals were right. [00:06:15] Speaker A: Personally, I thought Khalil Roundtree's muscles were going to gas him late into the fight, and Anthony Smith was going to kind of just wear on him, and then later in the fight, he was going to kind of piece him up to victory. [00:06:26] Speaker B: He took too much damage. Khalil was just piecing him up. [00:06:28] Speaker A: Yeah. A minute into the third round, he got all wobble legged. Yeah. [00:06:32] Speaker B: And as you said, it was to a lesser extent bobby Green. [00:06:35] Speaker A: Right. [00:06:36] Speaker B: Although they stopped the fight without him taking more damage, which the Bobby Green fight should have been. [00:06:41] Speaker A: Right. Yeah. I don't want to harp on that too much. The Bobby Green took way too much. Know when he was getting knocked out. [00:06:48] Speaker B: This fight was not as bad as a wobble leg knockout. [00:06:52] Speaker A: Better look, though, with Roundtree standing over him with a bald fist, just ready. [00:06:57] Speaker B: I was about to say that that was maybe one of the most intimidating. I'm sure there's a cool photo of him out there standing with the hammer fist, just ready to pounce on him. If I think it was Herb Dean, let him. But he waited for the ref. Give him credit, didn't give Anthony too much damage. What an impressive win from roundtree. [00:07:17] Speaker A: What do you think so for the next, with the next fight for Roundtree. So he obviously kind of jumps Anthony Smith in the rankings there. He moves up. Who do you think he called out? Alex Pereira might be a little early for there. [00:07:30] Speaker B: I would like to see that fight. [00:07:32] Speaker A: But light heavyweight's not very stacked up. [00:07:34] Speaker B: As a division possible if Pereira defends the belt one more, I don't know. [00:07:38] Speaker A: That's not out of the question. So I threw up two other possible options. We have like a Jan Blachovich or a Nikita Krylov. [00:07:46] Speaker B: I would like either one. But him versus Jan Blachovich is probably the fight he would like most. Blahovic just carries more. He's a former champ, so that carries more weight. [00:07:54] Speaker A: I agree. [00:07:55] Speaker B: If you were to beat him, that's a good one to put on your resume. [00:07:57] Speaker A: I think you don't get the Pereira fight next for Roundtree. I think if you book somebody, if not Jan Bohovich, specifically, somebody like, hey. [00:08:06] Speaker B: And then Yuri's just sitting out there, right? [00:08:08] Speaker A: Somebody like Jan goes out there. If you beat him, you're standing next in line for a title shot. If you beat Jan or Yuri, somebody like that, I think you're pretty much set up. [00:08:21] Speaker B: All right, so that takes care of the co main. The next one, Jamie Malarkey taking on the Moroccan. [00:08:26] Speaker A: Man, I ate my shit on this one. [00:08:28] Speaker B: Hapcarassed. [00:08:29] Speaker A: Hapcrest hack paras. [00:08:31] Speaker B: Hack press. I don't know why I can't say that guy's name. It's a cool name. [00:08:34] Speaker A: It is. [00:08:34] Speaker B: And I picked him the win and he performed first round knockout. [00:08:37] Speaker A: Yeah, you did exactly. He did exactly what you said he was going to do. [00:08:41] Speaker B: The best way to describe his performance was sharp. Sharp as in his punches were pointed. They were getting where they needed to go. They cut through and they were landing on Jamie Malarkey and they were obviously powerful. By the way, this fight, the. [00:08:54] Speaker A: I agree. We thought this was going to be a striking bout off the bat. And both fighters started off strong. Jamie Olarkey, did, you know, initially start off kind of countering whatever hackprass was throwing, but like you said, the damage was just too much. [00:09:11] Speaker B: Too much for, like I alluded to. [00:09:15] Speaker A: It before, he kind of looks like a more in shape Kelvin Gastolum. He showed that he kind of better in the striking range in that division. If that's his counterpart. He finished the fight early. It didn't go to a decision or anything like that. Good for hack breast. I had to eat my words. [00:09:34] Speaker B: Is he the second resurgence of african fighters rocking? [00:09:39] Speaker A: He could. [00:09:40] Speaker B: He could be. They had a big peak last year. Kind of dipped. They're going to come back under two. [00:09:47] Speaker A: Minutes in the first minute. 44 seconds in the first round was a stoppage. If that's the case, if that's the resurgence of Africa in the UFC, who does he fight next? Is it somebody like Bobby Green who just got knocked out because the lightweight division stacked, or I think somebody like Benoit St Denis, who's on a tear of a win column on his own. [00:10:09] Speaker B: I would like to see him versus St Denis. I think Bobby Green is going to have to take a long time off. [00:10:14] Speaker A: What about Raphael dos Angelos? He's coming off of a loss, but it's a loss from a couple months. [00:10:20] Speaker B: Ago against Vicente Luque. [00:10:21] Speaker A: Right. [00:10:24] Speaker B: I think that would be a good fight for him. I think right now, Hack Paras needs a guy with a name. RDa has a name. Benoisant Denis has a name right now in the division. [00:10:31] Speaker A: Benoit Saint Denis has a big name right now in the division. [00:10:34] Speaker B: Either of those are good fights for Hack Paras and I think anybody he fights, he's going to come in with. He might not be the favorite, especially against like St Denis or something, but he's not a guy to mess around with. [00:10:45] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely wouldn't want to sleep on somebody like Nazareth. Hack perass to win at any point in any fight, even against our know, going into whoever he's fighting next. All right, so jumping into the next fight for UFC Vegas 83, the late notice, it was a late notice replacement by Tim Elliott. He took on sue Mu Diergi. It was a strong bantamweight fight and kind of like we were talking before we started hitting the record button, mu Diergie kind of hit his weakness. [00:11:20] Speaker B: Yeah. If you look at this on paper, you would say, oh, he's lost all his fights by submission. Well, Tim Elliott has submission, so he's going to win. That's exactly what happened. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Yeah. You picked Mu Dairji, I picked Elliot. It was kind of a clash from the beginning. I didn't know how to judge the fight coming in. The biggest thing I thought from Elliot was going to be his crazy, unorthodox style was just going to be too much for Mu Dairji to combat in a setting where he didn't have a full camp or much longer than a few days to study who it's if you. [00:11:52] Speaker B: I don't think it really mattered, honestly, because strong ground game and that's obviously his weakness. [00:11:58] Speaker A: Right. So going in, it played a very significant role. Like we said, mudairji tried to stay composed through Elliot's unorthodox style, but it proved way too much and he got was. It was an impressive victory. [00:12:15] Speaker B: So as a guy that's new to the UFC and mood. Ayers, you're taking on one of the biggest vets in the division and Tim Elliott. [00:12:21] Speaker A: Right. [00:12:21] Speaker B: And it proved, as we've said before many times before in our six months of doing this, that the experience, and. [00:12:29] Speaker A: There'S levels to this experience and levels. [00:12:31] Speaker B: And Tim Elliott proved he's a level above Mutaji, a gatekeeper, even on short day notice. [00:12:38] Speaker A: As long as you can make weight, if you're Tim Elliott, you have a chance to win the fight. [00:12:42] Speaker B: All right, so the last fight of the main card that we're going to cover was the main card opener. Jung Young Park, Andre Munis. Honestly, I was surprised by the way this looking on paper. Muniz, I don't know why I didn't think he was going to win. He had two straight losses, taking on a guy with four straight wins. It looks like careers in opposite directions. [00:13:03] Speaker A: I agree. [00:13:04] Speaker B: And Muniz proved us wrong today, junior. [00:13:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I agree. I thought it was definitely a match with careers almost in two different directions. With Munez losing to Brendan Allen and Paul Craig in kind of that order in history. [00:13:22] Speaker B: Those are two killers, though. I'll give them credit. [00:13:24] Speaker A: Park, four wins in a row, getting what, three of those by submission? [00:13:28] Speaker B: I straight subs coming in. [00:13:30] Speaker A: Look, I thought this was going to go more of the way of park having the angle of wrestling, but it showed that park was resilient and never giving up and giving the position up. He always found a way to get back to his feet no matter how long it took. It was more annoying to me because of how dominant Muniz was able to be with the control time, with the kind of. [00:13:57] Speaker B: It was control time, but it was. [00:13:58] Speaker A: Like it was active. I wasn't pissed with how the fight was happening. [00:14:03] Speaker B: It was active, but it wasn't like ground and pound act, right. I think they said it during the broadcast that park. [00:14:08] Speaker A: Park could have won the first round in the last minute, but they said alone. [00:14:12] Speaker B: Yeah, because he was getting control most of the fight, but he turned it around in the last minute and started getting grounded. [00:14:16] Speaker A: He got damage, they said. [00:14:18] Speaker B: Park, they said, and if you watch the fight, it looks like it happened. Park, he was good. He was getting control, but he was good at limiting the damage he took while he was getting controlled. [00:14:29] Speaker A: Right. He was able to take his time and get out a move, get out of position. [00:14:33] Speaker B: Yeah, if you get him to the ground, he's not going to get back up that much. He'll get back up a little bit, but he's going to make sure you're not ground impounding him. [00:14:43] Speaker A: Yeah. I believe this could have gone either way. I think it was a solid split decision victory by Andre Munez. Yeah. [00:14:49] Speaker B: If I had to pick, you got to pick Munez. [00:14:52] Speaker A: Even pre fight when I picked FArc, even pre fight when I picked park. I believe that watching the fight, Munez did do enough to win the fight through three rounds. [00:15:08] Speaker B: Okay. Just as we did last week, we're going to have a theme, a Christmas theme. Top five. I think that's going to be the theme for the whole month, obviously, as we get closer to Christmas. Last week it was movies. This week, top five Christmas songs. I think there's a lot of Christmas songs that are good. [00:15:27] Speaker A: There's a lot of songs that are. [00:15:28] Speaker B: Not good, but yeah, they're not good as in Christmas movies good. [00:15:34] Speaker A: Right. [00:15:34] Speaker B: They're just popular. This was a much harder one than the Christmas movies. [00:15:38] Speaker A: I didn't expect it to be hard coming in. I thought it was going to be like the Christmas movies where I had like a slew of options that just kept coming to my head. [00:15:46] Speaker B: Well, the thing is I have a slew of options for this. [00:15:49] Speaker A: I like options that I like a. [00:15:51] Speaker B: Bunch of them, but there's not one or two or three that I'm like, I love this. [00:15:56] Speaker A: Right. There's a bunch of popular Christmas songs. [00:15:59] Speaker B: So I think that's kind of necessarily bad, but. [00:16:01] Speaker A: Right. I think that's actually what I geared my list towards is when I think about pandering. [00:16:06] Speaker B: Okay. [00:16:07] Speaker A: Yeah. When I think about myself singing Christmas. [00:16:09] Speaker B: Music, you're trying to win over our giant audience. [00:16:14] Speaker A: Yeah, basically. I also have my kid help that helps me. That does help my number one overall because it's my week to go first. I'm going to defrost the queen herself. The commercial success, Miss Mariah Carey. All I want for Christmas is you. [00:16:32] Speaker B: I mean, I totally get this pick. I think it would have had to be my first pick, too. [00:16:36] Speaker A: I don't know if a billion plays every Christmas. [00:16:40] Speaker B: Not my favorite, but it's like you're. [00:16:44] Speaker A: Trying to win a top five. [00:16:45] Speaker B: You're trying to win a top five, which we're not playing anything, but it's also like unequivocally. She's singing very well and very talented in the song. [00:16:54] Speaker A: She's a very talented. So it's like. [00:16:57] Speaker B: I get it. [00:16:58] Speaker A: Can you hold a pin? [00:17:02] Speaker B: But, yeah, that's a good first pick. [00:17:05] Speaker A: So what do you have for your first two picks, sir? [00:17:09] Speaker B: So my first pick, I went old school and I picked a song. Everybody knows. It's kind of like, and it's a catchy song. And honestly, when I think about it, it's one of my favorite Christmas songs. Number one, Felice Navidad. [00:17:22] Speaker A: Oh, that's a good one. [00:17:23] Speaker B: I love the song. Everybody knows the song, whether they even know what they're saying, especially in America. But everybody knows the song just means Merry Christmas. It does. [00:17:34] Speaker A: Catchy, very catchy. [00:17:35] Speaker B: Brings cultures together. [00:17:36] Speaker A: Felice Navida, I want to wish you a merry Christmas. [00:17:42] Speaker B: They have like a great song. [00:17:43] Speaker A: It's like kind of like poppy country rock song. [00:17:47] Speaker B: Great song, very popular. Everybody knows it. Felice Navidal, my one. [00:17:53] Speaker A: That's a solid one. But there's no comparison to Mariah Carey. [00:17:57] Speaker B: No, mine's better. This is a better listen to song just because it's more popular. McDonald's isn't the best burger in the world. [00:18:04] Speaker A: It's the most consistent. [00:18:06] Speaker B: So my number two, this is where, I don't know, there's so many things to choose from. [00:18:12] Speaker A: And this is where personal opinion must kind of play the biggest. [00:18:17] Speaker B: All right, I got my number two. Santa Claus is coming town by the Jackson Five. [00:18:22] Speaker A: Ooh. That's the exact song I had on my list. [00:18:25] Speaker B: It's a great song. Santa Claus is coming to town. Like, everybody knows it. It's played everywhere. It's Michael Jackson singing probably at his peak. His peak, where his voice is child peak, jackson five. I mean, everybody knows that song. Everybody loves that song. It's still on every playlist. Like, if you go to a department store and they have a Christmas playlist, that's like ten songs, this song is going to be on there. [00:18:55] Speaker A: Right? No, I agree. That's a very good pick. Similar to the Felice Navida. It's an up there pick that gives you levels of popularity, kind of the department store vibe where you'll kind of catch it throughout the season, wherever. And to my pandering list, it kind of plays in that same category where you're doing the exact same thing as me. You're just not willing to admit it. So that's good. [00:19:24] Speaker B: I don't know what you're talking about. [00:19:26] Speaker A: Right. So that moves on to my second pick. I think I've got to go with Jingle Bell Rock. [00:19:34] Speaker B: Damn it. [00:19:35] Speaker A: Right. It's just an elite Christmas song I mentioned in the Felice Navida. It's like a pop Christmas. [00:19:41] Speaker B: It's like the better version. Everybody knows the original. [00:19:44] Speaker A: Everybody knows Jingle Bell. [00:19:45] Speaker B: It's like a real song version of the Jingle Bell. [00:19:49] Speaker A: Right? Exactly. [00:19:50] Speaker B: A good song. [00:19:51] Speaker A: Jingle Bell Rock is an elite song in the Christmas spirit. It's also one kind of like your last pick where it's going to be in that top ten for the department stores. For anybody playing a Christmas playlist, Jingle Bell Rock is going to find its way in there. So it kind of is a catch all in the sense of what the song is. My next pick, third overall for me, man, there's a few on here, but I think I got to go with let it snow. Let it snow somehow did not have. [00:20:27] Speaker B: That on my list. [00:20:28] Speaker A: There was a couple of sneaky ones that evaded me, but it's a good song. It's a classic Christmas song. Weather outside, right? You're at home watching a movie. You could have that playing in the background and it's not pissing anybody off. You're at a Christmas party. It's on. It kind of hits that same thing where it's in that top Christmas playlist. It's a catch all. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. [00:20:55] Speaker B: That was your third pick. [00:20:56] Speaker A: That is my third pick. [00:20:57] Speaker B: My third pick. Another. This is a classic Christmas song. I believe it was in the movie home alone. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Oh, no. [00:21:08] Speaker B: Rocking around the Christmas tree. [00:21:09] Speaker A: Rocking around. Yeah. [00:21:10] Speaker B: That's a good Christmas tree. That's a great song. It goes with the theme of all our other picks where it's going to be on any Christmas playlist. Pretty much been around a long time popular. [00:21:23] Speaker A: It's catchy, that actually, dude, I'm realizing now that's not actually on my list. [00:21:27] Speaker B: That's a great song. [00:21:28] Speaker A: That is a good song. I don't know how I missed that one. That is a good song. [00:21:32] Speaker B: So that's my number three. And now I have my number four, right? [00:21:34] Speaker A: Number four. [00:21:36] Speaker B: Oh, man, this is tough. This is tough. My number four pick is going to be. [00:21:43] Speaker A: Don't do it to me. [00:21:48] Speaker B: Beginning to look a lot like Christmas. [00:21:50] Speaker A: Oh, that's a good one. [00:21:51] Speaker B: My number four. [00:21:52] Speaker A: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Is that the actual name of the song? [00:21:55] Speaker B: Beginning to look a lot like Christmas. [00:21:57] Speaker A: Oh, beginning. Okay. [00:21:58] Speaker B: Beginning to look a lot like Chris. [00:22:02] Speaker A: That's a good pick, man. So the more I look at these lists, once you single them out, each individual song is a good Christmas classic. Yeah, there's really no bad. [00:22:12] Speaker B: And they're from all different eras, too, which is kind of cool. [00:22:16] Speaker A: But a lot of these songs were developed in the. [00:22:21] Speaker B: They just keep getting remade. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Remade and remade. [00:22:23] Speaker B: More modern and more modern. All right. [00:22:27] Speaker A: My number four and my number five. So you finished your third and fourth with rocking around the Christmas tree and beginning to look a lot like Christmas. So I think for my number four, I'm going to go with deck the halls with. [00:22:44] Speaker B: I somehow didn't have that one either. [00:22:46] Speaker A: See, there's a lot of sneaky Christmas songs that are very popular. Deck the halls being a very popular. [00:22:53] Speaker B: That's a great pick. I did not think of that. [00:22:55] Speaker A: It's a sneaky number four, evidently how you didn't even have it on the list. So. Yeah, deck the halls, another Christmas classic. Played another kind of, as we said, with almost all of these picks so far, two of two for each of us not having on the other list a good department store Christmas pick, a good home for the holidays pick. I'm kind of torn for what I want to do for my number five. [00:23:21] Speaker B: There's a lot of ways you could go with it. [00:23:23] Speaker A: I think I'm going to go with one that at least now I know is on both of our lists. I'm going to go with happy Christmas war is over by John Lennon to finish it off. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Are you some left wing douchebag? [00:23:35] Speaker A: I told you earlier that I was currently on a Beatles kick. That one's. We listened to it earlier. It's just a good song. Happy Xmas, happy Christmas war is over. Good song by John Lennon. Wish he was still here. [00:23:52] Speaker B: All right, so I'm just going to round out my top five. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Another Christmas classic. [00:23:56] Speaker B: Another Christmas classic. [00:23:58] Speaker A: That's fair. [00:23:58] Speaker B: It's the most wonderful time of the year. [00:24:02] Speaker A: Not on my list either. What the hell? [00:24:05] Speaker B: Yeah, I think it's a classic. Goes it's a department store one, everybody knows the words. I think it's a classic. I don't see how it can't be on somebody's list. I don't know how it dropped this far, even for myself. [00:24:18] Speaker A: Yeah, well, sometimes things like that happen. [00:24:20] Speaker B: So let's recap. My number one, Felice Navidad. My number two, Santa Claus is coming to the town by Jackson. [00:24:26] Speaker A: Five. [00:24:27] Speaker B: My number three, rocking around the Christmas tree. Four, beginning to look a lot like Christmas. And five, it's the most wonderful time of the year. [00:24:35] Speaker A: Man, put those on a CD, I'd listen to them. My number one is all I want for Christmas is you by Mariah Carey. Two, jingle bell Rock. Three. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Four, deck the halls. And five. Happy Christmas war is overload. All right, so the final UFC card of 2023, UFC 296, Vicente Luque versus Ian Gary. How do you think this fight is. [00:25:11] Speaker B: Going to go, man. I would love to come in here and say, vicente Luque is going to teach Ian Aaron Gary. Aaron Gary. [00:25:22] Speaker A: I mean, at this point, if he loses, we can change his name to whatever we want, right? [00:25:26] Speaker B: That's what he did. I would love to see Vicente Luke the silent assassin, come in, teach the 26 year old a lesson. [00:25:34] Speaker A: I don't think he can do it. [00:25:36] Speaker B: I think these ods are this way for a reason. I think Ian Gary comes in. I think Ian Gary gets the win. I think he stays undefeated. Vicente Luque, I think he is a gatekeeper. He's a guy. He's very talented, but he's proven he's not at the top of the top, right? So he's to see, like, how legit are you look, he's a legit top ten guy. He's not a top five guy. So what's Ian Gary? [00:25:59] Speaker A: Everybody can talk all the shit they want. Ian Gary is 13 and he's six and O in the UFC. And he's taking on and willing to take on any skilled opponent. But to your credit, and to anybody's credit, Vicente Luque is a very skilled opponent. I think the ods here are showing exactly how prominent Ian Gary is in the welterweight division -400 is the moneyline here. And I think he pays that through. I think this is going to be a striking, heavy match where Ian Gary does what he said he's going to do and win 14 and Owen is in his future, in my opinion. [00:26:38] Speaker B: I think Ian Gary gets a dub, too. One interesting thing to look at, though, Vicente Luque, he's been in UFC since 2015. He has 13 UFC finishes. [00:26:48] Speaker A: That's a lot of finishes. [00:26:49] Speaker B: That's a lot of finishes. He's a guy that could. Ian Gary is not just going to roll over him, but I do agree that I think Ian Gary gets the dub and the next fight we move on to. This is maybe the people's main event. [00:27:02] Speaker A: Man, this one's crazy. This is crazy that this fight's even happening. [00:27:05] Speaker B: The guy that the consensus MMA fandom loves, Tony El Kakui Ferguson, coming in a six fight losing streak at 39 years old. The guy who has recently become what a majority of MMA fans hate, Patty the baddie pimblet. [00:27:22] Speaker A: I love Patty. [00:27:23] Speaker B: I love Patty, too. He's four and o in the UFC. Yes. [00:27:26] Speaker A: Riding high, riding on the hype. [00:27:28] Speaker B: His last fight was a contract. He should have lost the fight, but he won by split decision. But he's also a guy that's 23. He has three UFC finishes. So people love to talk shit on him just because of his last fight. But he has MMA fighter. [00:27:43] Speaker A: He's 20. He choked out Jordan Levitt. He won split decision over Jared Gordon. [00:27:47] Speaker B: He was cage warrior champ before he came over. Like Michael Bisping has done that look. [00:27:51] Speaker A: And arguably he's not even arguing three in his career. [00:27:54] Speaker B: And he finishes people. [00:27:56] Speaker A: Okay. The other fan favorite, Molly McCann. He's done better than she has. And everybody still loves her. [00:28:01] Speaker B: No, people hate on her online too. MMA crowd hates her. [00:28:05] Speaker A: I like her. I like her too. [00:28:07] Speaker B: Well, I mean, this is an interesting fight. Tony Ferguson, can he. Should he retire? I think we all think yes. [00:28:13] Speaker A: Six fights in a row, losing. [00:28:15] Speaker B: He's lost all killers. But each one, four of six of. [00:28:19] Speaker A: Them have been not decision. [00:28:21] Speaker B: He's looked worse and worse and older and older. Each of these six fights, I just don't see any way. I'm not going to say anyway, Tony is definitely going to stay in there. But I think Patty rises to the occasion. He's had a long time off. He just found out his wife's pregnant with twins. So I think he's going to have the motivation. He's the younger guy. He's the guy whose career is kind. [00:28:42] Speaker A: Of hanging in the balance. [00:28:43] Speaker B: He's 28. El Kakui is 39. Like in six losses in a row. I think Patty Pimlet rises to the occasion. He gets the dub. [00:28:51] Speaker A: I think that. I agree with you, but at the same time, if he beats Ferguson here, I think Patty Pimlet needs to be tested in the UFC next. I agree that he's going to win, but his next fight after this doesn't need to be a hype train fight. It needs to be a real contest in the lightweight division. [00:29:10] Speaker B: I agree. [00:29:12] Speaker A: Moving on to our next fight, we're going to have Shockvot Rockmanov taking on Steven Wonder boy Thompson. The no bad is 17 and O in his career. Five and O in the UFC, finishing every appearance. Four submissions, one take tko. [00:29:29] Speaker B: Not only that, he's 17 and with 17 finishes, it's crazy. Nine subs. The man can do it all. [00:29:37] Speaker A: The wonder boy, Steven Thompson. He's a black belt in karate. He's an excellent striker. His last fight was canceled. I think Michelle Pereira missed weight by like three pounds. So that was its own controversy. [00:29:47] Speaker B: That means his last time he's fought was exactly a year ago in December 2022. Right where he did beat up Kevin Holland. [00:29:54] Speaker A: But he did beat Kevin Holland by doctor stoppage. Which means Kevin Holland was willing to fight the doctor said he couldn't go. [00:30:01] Speaker B: Well, the team threw the towel in, too. Wonder boy. He's 40 years old. How's the layoff going to affect you? I could see it being positive for an older guy or negative. [00:30:10] Speaker A: I could. I could definitely see that. I think somebody like. [00:30:17] Speaker B: Rock. [00:30:17] Speaker A: I'm going to go with the Nomad. [00:30:19] Speaker B: Rockmanov. [00:30:20] Speaker A: Shovkat Rockmanov. That's such a hard name to say. I apologize. [00:30:23] Speaker B: Kazakhstani. [00:30:24] Speaker A: The nomad. I think he's going to come out. I think he's going to do what the line says -650 odds. As much as I don't want to say it, I think he is going to beat the wonder boy at his own game. Think it's going to be a striking based bout. And I think Rockmanov is going to beat him on the feet. [00:30:42] Speaker B: I think the same thing. A little preview to one of my bets later. I think this goes the under. I think shofkot by finish. [00:30:50] Speaker A: Fair enough. So we go on to the comain event. What's that one? [00:30:54] Speaker B: Comain event? The first title fight of the night for the 125 title flyweight. Alex the cannibal Pentosia making his first title defense against a guy he beat not that long ago in Brandon. Roy Val. [00:31:07] Speaker A: Raw dog crazy. [00:31:09] Speaker B: That's your nickname now? Raw Dog? [00:31:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Look, I dig it. Look, Raw Dog is 15 and six in his career. He can make his nickname whatever he wants. Three wins in a row. [00:31:19] Speaker B: His last loss, Pantosia to Pantosia in 21. So it hasn't been that long ago, but five and two in the UFC. Roy Val, his two losses, Pantosia and Brandon Moreno. So I mean, those are two notable losses. [00:31:32] Speaker A: Little bit of a fun fact for you. Pantoja's only lost by decision in his. So that's. That's very interesting when Pantoja has an array of ko subs, decision victories, but he does not get finished. So I like that, seeing that the new champ is going up against somebody he's already subbed as his first title defense. To me, it's not the UFC handing him his first victory, but it's handing him somebody he can beat to defend his title for the first time. I don't think the UFC wants the title to change hands in the first defense. At least give him some time to rep his country, get some ground behind him, perform a little bit. I think Pantoja wins wholehandedly this fight. [00:32:22] Speaker B: So I think Pantoja wins, but I think it's going to be by TKO KO. I think Roy Val, he's a submission guy. He got subbed by Pantoja last time they fought. [00:32:32] Speaker A: He did. [00:32:32] Speaker B: So I think Roy Val is going to be very aware of that. He's going to be overly defensive to that. And I think that opens up Pantosia to hit him, piece him up a few times on the feed and get a tko finish. [00:32:43] Speaker A: I like that. All right, so now the main event, USC 296. [00:32:49] Speaker B: This is a fight that big fight. [00:32:51] Speaker A: For the welterweight title. [00:32:52] Speaker B: A big fight, just like the last title. Although Leon has defended it once, he's only fought one guy and Usman to. [00:33:01] Speaker A: Get the title and then to defend it, have stability. [00:33:04] Speaker B: Usman was the champ for a while. Can Leon Edwards win, or is Colby Covington going to come in, avenge his two title losses, and just overwhelm Leon Edwards with Cardio, as he does in the presser? [00:33:15] Speaker A: Covington's got the win right on the press. [00:33:19] Speaker B: He does kind of stumble over his words sometimes. [00:33:22] Speaker A: He doesn't seem like that. His character is as well defined as Covington's is. [00:33:28] Speaker B: It's not as artificial. Leon's is being a real guy, so he doesn't always have a comeback. Colby's completely manufactured personality, but we've also. [00:33:35] Speaker A: Seen Covington take serious damage and walk back into the fight. [00:33:39] Speaker B: No, he's tough. Say what you want about him, he's tough, and he has some of the best cardio in UFC. [00:33:46] Speaker A: But on the other hand, Leon Edwards hasn't lost since like, 2015. He's had one no contest to Mohammed. [00:33:52] Speaker B: Twelve unbeaten, eleven of those wins. And as you said, the one no contest. He poked Balal in the eye real bad, dude. [00:34:00] Speaker A: It's a tough fight. I think Colby is coming in the right nickname for Colby Covington because I think he's going to come in here, create some chaos in the presser, get people off their feet, get people kind of agitated, get Camp Edwards frustrated. And I think they're going to do enough in camp Covington to win the fight. I pick Colby Covington to get the belt back for America, the welterweight division. [00:34:25] Speaker B: I completely disagree. I think Leon Edwards been the more active fighter, better on the feet. He has good enough ground game. I think Colby's taken way too long off. He hasn't fought since March of 2022. I think Leon Edwards comes in able to step a few takedowns, get Colby away from the fence and knock him out. I got Leon Edwards by knockout. [00:34:46] Speaker A: Ow. [00:34:53] Speaker B: Ready said hut. Let's move on to football this week. Big week in the NFL. [00:34:58] Speaker A: Lot of playoff implications, a lot of. [00:35:00] Speaker B: Playoff implications, we're not covering the lesser bowls. Maybe as the bowl season goes on, bigger bowls we're going to cover for college football. So it's going to be all NFL this week and the first game, which, because college is over regular season. One good thing is we've got NFL games on Sunday. [00:35:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:35:16] Speaker B: I mean, not on Sunday. On Saturday, that's the wrong day. Of course they're on Sunday. [00:35:21] Speaker A: I like them on Sunday and Saturday. [00:35:23] Speaker B: But Saturday we have three games. The first one, the seven and six. Minnesota Vikings with their backup and now backup quarterback, double backup Nick Mullins, taking on the Cincinnati Bengals with their backup quarterback, Jake Browning, who's really been playing well, did. [00:35:42] Speaker A: The Vikings won last week, three to three to zero. [00:35:45] Speaker B: So it's the Vikings. They have an amazing defense, but their offense, the past, like two or three weeks have been playing like shit. The Bengals, somehow with Jake Browning, they're. [00:35:53] Speaker A: Still a. I'll say it, they've adapted. [00:35:56] Speaker B: They've adapted. They have a good coach. That's a sign of a good coaching staff. [00:35:59] Speaker A: What's his name? [00:36:01] Speaker B: Taylor. [00:36:02] Speaker A: Zach Taylor. [00:36:03] Speaker B: Zach Taylor. [00:36:04] Speaker A: There you a good coach alert. Zach Taylor can do it without Joe Burrow, but I'd prefer to have Joe Burrow in the offense, throwing it to T Higgins, Jamar Chase, Tyler Boyd. [00:36:17] Speaker B: I think the Bengals at home get this more. I think they're the better team, although I think both teams are good. Both teams are pretty much missing the quarterback to be Super bowl contenders. But for the Bingles, get the win. [00:36:29] Speaker A: For my NFL picks this week, I've decided to stop doubting myself. Number one. Number two, don't let you talk me into or out of anything. Go with my gut. So I'm going to pick the Bengals. [00:36:47] Speaker B: Okay, so we agree. So I talked you into that. [00:36:49] Speaker A: No, I picked the Bengals first, and you just got to say it first. [00:36:55] Speaker B: The next game, also on Saturday, features your favorite team. I picked the Colts seven and six. Colts hosting the seven and six. Pittsburgh Steelers. Steelers. They lost to the Patriots last week. That's a bad, bad loss. [00:37:09] Speaker A: Can he pick it out? Mitch Trubisky. Having Mitch Trabisky is the epitome of what you don't want to be your starting quarterback in this Pittsburgh area. [00:37:19] Speaker B: And the Colts, although they're coming off a loss to the Bengals before that, they've won four in a row. Look, Gardner Minsha win games. [00:37:26] Speaker A: Gardner Minshew is nothing. If he's not electric, he's a locker room guy. If he's not the starter, you want him on your team. [00:37:33] Speaker B: Bottom line, I believe in Gardner Minshew a lot more than I believe in Mitch Trubisky. [00:37:38] Speaker A: I believe you there. [00:37:39] Speaker B: I think the Colts get the win. [00:37:40] Speaker A: I appreciate the follow there. I do also believe in a backup, kind of high stakes backup match because both teams at seven and six are playoffs. [00:37:50] Speaker B: First four teams we've mentioned, they're all with at least their backup quarterback. [00:37:55] Speaker A: Yeah, they're all with their backup quarterback and fighting for playoff contention for each of these teams. So every single victory is important. Seven and six for the Colts, seven and six for the Steelers. The Colts need this win to contest with the eight and five Jaguars. I think the Colts win with Gardner Minshew. Magic. [00:38:16] Speaker B: Yes. So we agree on that one. Next, we're going to move on to the last Saturday game. Saturday night, Broncos. Denver Broncos, seven and six versus the. [00:38:24] Speaker A: Lions, nine and five. This Lions team, underperforming, underwhelming, but also good. I don't understand. [00:38:33] Speaker B: You don't know what's going to show up. They're either going to win, look very impressive or get blown out. I don't understand the Lions, but the. [00:38:39] Speaker A: Broncos, listen to this. They have won six out of seven of their last seven games. [00:38:45] Speaker B: Remember, they lost by 50 points to the Dolphins. And then since then they've been a great team. Sean Payton is first year ticket. [00:38:52] Speaker A: Seven and they're seven and six, which means at one point, what were they? One in two. [00:38:59] Speaker B: Yeah, but they one in two or one in six? [00:39:01] Speaker A: I mean, sorry. Way worse than that, brother. One in two. That's not that bad. [00:39:06] Speaker B: His first year, they're finally clicking him and Russell Wilson. I think the Broncos momentum continues. I think the Lions, they're a team. They're a good team, but they could also lose to anybody. And not saying the Broncos aren't anybody, but I think the Broncos go and get the win. I think they move to eight and six and it'll be another disappointing loss for the Lions. [00:39:22] Speaker A: Dude, the Lions lost to the Bears by 15 points last week. [00:39:26] Speaker B: Jared Goff has been struggling the past. [00:39:28] Speaker A: Couple of weeks, but they're still leading the NFC north. I think if they're going to do that, they need to beat the Broncos here. They need to find a way to win and I think they're going to rebound. Well, I actually picked the Lions here to beat the Broncos at home or to win against the Broncos when the Lions are at home. [00:39:47] Speaker B: All right, so let's move on to Sunday. Now, one of the teams we just mentioned, the team that beat the Detroit Lions last week, the Chicago Bears five and eight, quietly in playoff contention. Quietly taking on the eight and five Browns. Another team with a backup quarterback. How do you see this one going, man? [00:40:05] Speaker A: Look, the Browns beat the Lions by double digits. I think it's really just time to let Justin Fields play. [00:40:14] Speaker B: That's what I was about to say. Is he finally coming? Like finally starting to play? They've won two in a row, five and eight. He makes big plays. Yeah, he does still make some mistakes. [00:40:23] Speaker A: But this has also let him swing it. This has also been an efficient Justin Fields. When they've let him do his thing, they've only really struggled with on a leash. [00:40:37] Speaker B: Yeah, right. Let the guy run. Let's see what he can do. [00:40:40] Speaker A: If he's going to get hurt, he's going to get hurt whether you're protecting him. [00:40:44] Speaker B: But not even that. They're not even letting him. A lot of times they don't let him throw down field. [00:40:49] Speaker A: Now look, the Browns have activated Joe Flacco off the practice squad two weeks in a row. They've officially named him as the starter for last week. [00:40:58] Speaker B: You saw some of his. He had some great throws last week. [00:41:01] Speaker A: Yeah, no, they named him as a starter for the rest of the season. I think they're going to just give know, elevate him permanently off the practice squad. He's gonna be the starter. We've already know that they're in playoff contention. So are the Bears. This is a big one, but I think the Bears win. I think Justin Fields being able to kind of do what he needs to do, even if he has to ignore the coach here, I think he's going to just do what he has. [00:41:25] Speaker B: I don't think he's going to ignore the coach to win the game, but I think the Bears win the game. I like the way Justin Fields has been playing lately. I got the Bears, too. So let's move on. Next game, another game, huge playoff implications. Even though they're not the greatest teams. The six and seven Tampa Bay Buccaneers going to the six and seven Green Bay packers, both teams fighting for the spot. Green Bay coming off of a tough Monday night loss to the Giants. Bucs, a huge division win against the Falcons last week. As I said, bucks are in contention not only for the playoffs, the last playoff spot. [00:41:59] Speaker A: They're currently winning the division with losing. [00:42:01] Speaker B: Record, but for their division so they can make it both ways. Packers really going for that wild card spot. I think it's going to be tough for the Bucks to go to Green Bay and win. And I'm never at this point, I like the guy. [00:42:17] Speaker A: Never be betting on Baker Mayfield. [00:42:19] Speaker B: Never going to be betting on Baker Mayfield, right? [00:42:21] Speaker A: No, I agree. I think they've done well this season with what they've had. It's strange to say that when they're a six and seven team, like they have a losing record, but we're proud of him in some way. [00:42:31] Speaker B: It's not strange. It's just they're overperforming. [00:42:34] Speaker A: Right. We didn't think that. [00:42:35] Speaker B: We didn't think they were going to. [00:42:36] Speaker A: Be anything out of them. [00:42:37] Speaker B: And now they're like six and seven. [00:42:38] Speaker A: So it's like, oh, right. To be on the verge of 500 is great. They currently hold the keys to the division with a losing record, especially beating the Falcons and the Panthers in the respective weeks. I think the packers are going to win this week, but I will credit Baker Mayfield as doing his part to hold down the know with everything he's had to deal with this season so far. [00:43:02] Speaker B: All right, next game, AFC east matchup. The division leaders, the nine and four Dolphins, coming off of a very disappointing Monday night loss to the Tennessee Titans, taking on the New York jets. Five and eight coming off of a very impressive 30 to six shellacking of the Houston Texans. [00:43:21] Speaker A: What do you call it when Zach Wilson just comes back off the bench and just starts slinging? [00:43:27] Speaker B: See what his teammate said? He told him what he said, well, they can't. What are they? The worst they can do is bench me again. So I'm just going to go sling it. And it's like, why haven't we been doing this the whole time? [00:43:35] Speaker A: How do you bench the guy five? Like, yeah, you're going to throw picks. You can't be wishy washy on your quarterback. You got to stick with him through thick or thin because he will perform and he will grow. You have to give him an opportunity. [00:43:50] Speaker B: With all that being said, I don't think he performs this week. [00:43:53] Speaker A: No. I think the Dolphins are going to trounce. [00:43:55] Speaker B: I think the Dolphins, especially if of a loss at home division opponent. I got the Dolphins I don't know about. I found a nine and a half point spread for the Dolphins, which is crazy. I think that's a little too large. [00:44:07] Speaker A: Especially they haven't been playing nine point favorites. I got the Dolph season. [00:44:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I got the Dolphins winning by like seven points, four points. [00:44:13] Speaker A: But if I'm a betting man, I might take the jets to cover that nine point spread. That's a pretty wild one. That might actually play into my takes later. [00:44:23] Speaker B: On stay with the New York teams. But another New York team on the road, New York Giants five and eight, coming off of a big win against Green Bay just yesterday, Monday night, taking on the six and seven New Orleans Saints. Saints right there with the Falcons and the Bucks tied at the top of division, close to a playoff spot. Underperforming, but they are coming off of a, as a Saints fan, I can't even say it's a huge win. Like they beat the shit out of. [00:44:49] Speaker A: It's a needed win. [00:44:50] Speaker B: Needed win. But we beat the shit out of the worst team in the NFL and we didn't even do it. Like we didn't look great doing it. [00:44:57] Speaker A: No, absolutely. They needed the win. Number one. It's kind of weird though because you got Tommy DeVito three and O is the starter. [00:45:05] Speaker B: I mean, Tommy DeVito, say what you want. He's winning games. [00:45:07] Speaker A: He's a spicy meatball. [00:45:09] Speaker B: He's like captivated the, at worst, he's captivated the fan base and like meme. [00:45:14] Speaker A: Culture, dude, look, I saw a meme today. They set italian stereotypes back 400 years. [00:45:21] Speaker B: Back or he's a three and o starting quarterback. [00:45:23] Speaker A: I said that sets it forward. No, the italian stereotypes, they set the stereotype back 400 years just because he's playing the stereotypical italian part in real life, not in football. He's doing great as a starter. I think the Saints have what it takes to pull it off this week. [00:45:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I think being at home is going to be the difference. A young, inexperienced quarterback going into the Superdome in a game where if the Saints play well, that place is loud. [00:45:51] Speaker A: And look, Derek Carr, say what you will about him, he is a good quarterback. [00:45:55] Speaker B: He's not a good quarterback. [00:45:56] Speaker A: He just needs to figure it out. [00:45:58] Speaker B: With that system with the brakes on. He is not a good quarterback. I'd rather have Jameis Winston in there. Well, I'm not, but I got the Saints winning. [00:46:06] Speaker A: I think the Saints win with Derek Carr despite the Saints fans in the building. [00:46:12] Speaker B: Derek Carr's absolute dog shit. Saints win despite Derek Carr. Saints seven and seven. Let's go to maybe the game I'm most excited about. There's one more game, but the ten and three hottest team in the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys, first place now in the NFC east, taking on the Buffalo Bills seven and six, maybe the NFL's most disappointing team, but coming off of the biggest win of the season at. [00:46:39] Speaker A: Arrowhead, I don't know if they're the most disappointing team, but they're the most least clutch team. [00:46:45] Speaker B: This, I think they're most disappointing because they're Super bowl contenders and they're seven and six. [00:46:49] Speaker A: The Cowboys are the number one scoreboard is probably the most, probably top ten in every category in the NFL. [00:46:56] Speaker B: We said most disappointing. They might be the most like surprised at whatever the opposite of disappointing is. Surprising. [00:47:02] Speaker A: I guess the biggest question is, are the Cowboys going to cowboy or are. [00:47:07] Speaker B: They actually, we all know eventually they're going to cowboy. They're not winning the Super bowl, but. [00:47:11] Speaker A: Right. [00:47:11] Speaker B: This is great for them. [00:47:12] Speaker A: There will be. So this is the thing to wonder. There will be a time in history where the Cowboys win the Super bowl again. [00:47:22] Speaker B: I wouldn't. [00:47:23] Speaker A: I'm not saying it's this year. By any standard. [00:47:25] Speaker B: That might not be true. The NFL is not going to last forever. It won't at this point, America probably won't last forever. [00:47:32] Speaker A: Fair. If it did, there's a reasonable chance. [00:47:37] Speaker B: That I believe there's a finite NFL amount of NFL seasons. [00:47:41] Speaker A: How many are there? [00:47:42] Speaker B: That's like asking like, when am I going to die? [00:47:45] Speaker A: So you don't want to know the answer, but you'll never. Okay. There's all, there's a finite NFL seasons for me. [00:47:53] Speaker B: So the way the Cowboys have been playing. Yeah, and exactly for me, 100% the way the Cowboys have been playing. I don't know if they do win another Super bowl. [00:48:01] Speaker A: Look, I think not playing this year. [00:48:03] Speaker B: I meant playing as in the past, like 20 years. [00:48:05] Speaker A: Right. [00:48:05] Speaker B: Because obviously this year they look very impressive. [00:48:08] Speaker A: I think regardless of how the Cowboys have cowboyed in the past, I think they're going to go to the Bills and beat them at home. I think Dallas is going to win this game. [00:48:17] Speaker B: I disagree. I think this is going to be a lot like last week for the Bills. Back against the wall. They had to go to Arrowhead, get the win. They need this win. They're going to figure out a way they're going to beat Dallas at home. Maybe it's cold. Maybe Dallas can't handle the outdoor conditions. I got the Buffalo Bills winning this game. [00:48:37] Speaker A: Yeah, you would think. Look, next one we have ten and three ravens. Probably finally time to talk about them. [00:48:44] Speaker B: So we just talked about the number one team in the NFC, the Dallas Cowboys. Technically, I think they're ahead of the Niners in terms of standings. [00:48:52] Speaker A: Crazy. [00:48:53] Speaker B: But Cowboys, one of the top teams taking on maybe the top team in. [00:48:58] Speaker A: The AFC, untalked about the Ravens. Ten and three taking on the Jaguars at home. Eight and five leading their division, coming off two straight. [00:49:07] Speaker B: Disappointing losses, though. [00:49:09] Speaker A: I need the Jaguars to lose here for the Colts to be able to tie them for the division and hopefully take advantage by the end of the season. [00:49:17] Speaker B: I get that, and I think they do lose. I think the Ravens, they had an exciting game last week. The Ravens are a team that wins. They've been on the cusp of things for a little while, for a few seasons. So I think they're finally making that jump. I think, look, they're a legit Super bowl contender. I think they go to Jacksonville. I think they get the dub. I think the Colts and the Jags are tied by the end of the day. [00:49:39] Speaker A: I agree with you in all of that. I just want to add to it that I think that has, you know, he's been very efficient this year because they've allowed him to do what he needs to do similar to what they need to do for Justin Fields. I agree. I think the Ravens are going to win and the Jags. Colts are going to be tied by the end of the day. [00:50:00] Speaker B: All right, so let's go to Monday night. This is the third day we've covered. [00:50:04] Speaker A: Monday night is going to be very important if you're a Cowboys fan, if you're an Eagles fan, if you're a Seahawks fan, if you're a Seahawks fan, this loss could count you out of the playoffs. [00:50:15] Speaker B: If you're a Rams fan, I mean, all the teams in contention for the playoffs is the game to watch every game. Two straight losses. Two straight. Not only losses, they got dominated by the two other best teams in the conference, Seahawks. Four in a row by the Cowboys. And then the Seahawks come in six and seven right there in playoff contention. But as you said, four losses in a row and they haven't looked good really in any of them, except maybe the Cowboys game on Thanksgiving night. [00:50:43] Speaker A: Yeah, but that was more DK Metcalf just being fired. [00:50:47] Speaker B: The team has not been performing. I think the Eagles go into Seattle, they're a great team, Super bowl contender, and they've lost two in a row. To me, that tells me they're going to rebound very well, especially with the extra day rest. And I think the Eagles go into Seattle and I think they slap the Seahawks around and get the dub. [00:51:05] Speaker A: I wholeheartedly agree. I think the Eagles are going to walk into Seattle and show them who the true birds are of the NFL. All right, and now for stakes and takes our, I guess I'll say our best guess for betting segments, best advice. [00:51:31] Speaker B: For what you can do out there? [00:51:32] Speaker A: I'm doing my best is what I mean. [00:51:34] Speaker B: We're doing our best. But our best wasn't that good this week. [00:51:37] Speaker A: Not this week. I went a total of seven and eight. I believe you went eight and seven. [00:51:43] Speaker B: So at least I got the dub and I'm over 500. I'm happy about that. [00:51:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Let's kick it off with UFC. I went two and three. My wins are Tim Elliot and Song Yedong. Losses are going to be Jung Young Park, Jamie Malarkey and Anthony Smith. [00:51:59] Speaker B: Man, we were off on a lot. I went three and two, but the opposite way. [00:52:04] Speaker A: Right. [00:52:05] Speaker B: I didn't pick Tim Elliott. Right. That was my loss. And I had sung Young park. We had that one the same, but I picked hack. Perass win. I picked Khalil. Roundtree over Anthony Smith win and I picked Song Yidong. I think we both had that. [00:52:17] Speaker A: Yeah, we both. [00:52:17] Speaker B: So three and two. So it feels like I did a lot better. But it was only a game better. [00:52:22] Speaker A: Yeah, just one switch. [00:52:24] Speaker B: So it's not that big one fight better. So it's not that big of a win. [00:52:27] Speaker A: We just have difference in picks. [00:52:28] Speaker B: Both went one and o in college football, the one cause game. Army. Navy. [00:52:31] Speaker A: Army beat Navy 17 to eleven. Little late, safety. [00:52:35] Speaker B: Little late, safety. [00:52:36] Speaker A: Catching the over. [00:52:37] Speaker B: Got to love it. [00:52:38] Speaker A: Spread or the spread? [00:52:40] Speaker B: I think both, actually. [00:52:41] Speaker A: Nice. Got to love it. Got to love it. [00:52:42] Speaker B: So both got that one right. How'd you do, NFL, man, I went four and five. I did two, but we also is a totally different four and five. [00:52:50] Speaker A: Dude. I got the Browns right, I got the Ravens right. I got the Vikings right and the. No, I got the wrong. Wrong. Yeah. How'd you do? [00:53:03] Speaker B: You had the opposite of that four and five. I went ravens right. I think we both had that right. I think we both had 49 ers, right? Correct. 49 ers over Seahawks. I had the Bills over the Chiefs. [00:53:14] Speaker A: I didn't write the 49 ers. Sorry. [00:53:16] Speaker B: I got bills over Chiefs and then I had the Broncos over the Chargers. So that's when we got different. [00:53:22] Speaker A: Right. [00:53:23] Speaker B: So I got those two different, but also four and five. [00:53:26] Speaker A: It was a wild way for us to tie for you to win by one pick. We both got a wild. [00:53:35] Speaker B: We disagreed on like six or seven things. [00:53:37] Speaker A: Yeah. It was not what I wanted to do. I thought for sure I had the right thought for us as coming in. It obviously proved wrong. But in the same time, you only won by one pick, so you were barely bet. [00:53:51] Speaker B: You don't know something else. [00:53:52] Speaker A: You still won that. [00:53:54] Speaker B: And I also won the bets by one pick, too. I went three and two on bets. [00:53:57] Speaker A: Yeah. I went two and three. [00:53:58] Speaker B: I started three and o. I thought I was going to have a perfect week. I lost my last two, my two NFL ones, but three and two, my two mma. I had song Yidong Moneyline. I had Nazrat hack Perast Moneyline. Got both of those right. And I also had army over Navy moneyline. [00:54:15] Speaker A: Right. I had the Elliott Moneyline and Vikings Moneyline. As my wins. I lost park Moneyline, Lions Moneyline and Chiefs Moneyline. [00:54:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I lost Eagles Moneyline and Texans Moneyline. [00:54:24] Speaker A: Texans. Really disappointed. But look, dude, we both got our upsets of the weeks. I picked the Vikings beating the Raiders. They were plus three favorites on the road and they won three. [00:54:34] Speaker B: That was maybe the worst NFL game. [00:54:37] Speaker A: I've ever seen in my seen. I don't think I've ever seen an NFL game end with just three. [00:54:44] Speaker B: Remember? I can't remember, but that is incredible. [00:54:48] Speaker A: It was a very bad game and you got the Bills upsetting the Chiefs. [00:54:52] Speaker B: Thank God for Cadarius Tony lining up like 3ft off. Yeah, that was a yard in front of the football. [00:54:59] Speaker A: And normally I would even entertain controversy like this, but the fact that they're. [00:55:03] Speaker B: Even arguing so obviously offsides and a thing they emphasize this year where it's like. [00:55:08] Speaker A: Yeah. Would you say like two years ago was one time, last year was two times and this year it's been eleven times. [00:55:13] Speaker B: They've made a point like we're calling this. [00:55:15] Speaker A: Yeah, so the Bills had no excuse to lose that game, especially when they won the Chiefs. [00:55:21] Speaker B: You said the Bills had no excuse, especially since they trying to. [00:55:25] Speaker A: I meant to start that off with the Chiefs. That was my bad. The Chiefs had no excuse. They had an opportunity after the Cadarius Tony off sides and they still didn't get the touchdown or the first down to extend their drive at all. [00:55:38] Speaker B: I think the Bills deserve to win. [00:55:39] Speaker A: They did. [00:55:40] Speaker B: Wholeheartedly formed. They've had a lot of close losses. They deserve this close win. [00:55:43] Speaker A: So the seven and eight loss for me and an eight and seven victory for you, where does that put you on your stakes this week? Your bets. [00:55:54] Speaker B: My bets. [00:55:55] Speaker A: I was totally confused, dumb ass. Every single mess I thought you messed every week you think I mess up and I'm right. I made the segment up. [00:56:03] Speaker B: Yeah, you're confusing me. [00:56:05] Speaker A: I'm sorry. What are your bets, aka your stakes? [00:56:10] Speaker B: I got three UFC ones. [00:56:12] Speaker A: I have two UFC. Let's go with UFC first, then we'll go to NFL. [00:56:16] Speaker B: I got Rockmanoff Thompson the under because obviously I picked Rockmanoff to win by finish right. I think he does it. [00:56:23] Speaker A: That's pretty fair. What is it under there? Is that under one and a half rounds? [00:56:27] Speaker B: I believe so. I haven't seen a lot of the. [00:56:29] Speaker A: Lines don't come out until later in the week, but I understand what you're trying to say here. [00:56:33] Speaker B: I think either way I'm taking the under. I'm taking the pantoja money line. I think he dominates the rematch against the guy he's already finished. [00:56:40] Speaker A: I also have the Pantoja money line as my first UFC bet. [00:56:44] Speaker B: And then I have main event. I have Leon Edwards. I think you might head kick Ko Colby cup. [00:56:51] Speaker A: Oh, dude. I have an upset here. I have Colby Covington taking the belt from Leon Edwards money line plus 135 from my side. [00:57:00] Speaker B: I like having one. We disagree in. [00:57:02] Speaker A: Yeah, it's always fun to kind of put your money where your mouth is. [00:57:05] Speaker B: And then I met I have two NFL ones. I got the Baltimore Ravens going on the road beating the Jags. I have their money line and I have the Eagles going on the road beating the Seahawks, their money line. Little nervous picking two road teams. [00:57:18] Speaker A: I think both of those wins are going to happen, though. I think the Ravens are going to go on the road and win and I think the Eagles are going to be the better birds of the matchup and beat the Seahawks at home. My three NFL games, I think Jake Browning and the Bengals are going to continue to beat adversity. I think they're going to rebound well with the loss of Joe Burrow. I think the packers are going to win and I think the Cowboys are going to go to the Bills and beat the Bills at home in a. [00:57:47] Speaker B: But we disagree on that one. So I like it. [00:57:49] Speaker A: What do you have for upset of the week? [00:57:51] Speaker B: My upset of the week, I have the Chicago Bears winning in Cleveland plus 145. Chicago Bears moneyline so I'm going to. [00:58:01] Speaker A: Go with my last pick as my upset. I think the Cowboys are going to go to the Bills and beat the Bills at home. I think it's just kind of showing. I'm not going to doubt them again. The cowboys, in my opinion, at least before the postseason, they got you right. [00:58:15] Speaker B: Where they want you. They're about to disappoint the shit out of you. [00:58:17] Speaker A: They're not going to cowboy yet. That's all I got to say about it. [00:58:22] Speaker B: So it'd be interesting to see what happens. But thanks for listening to episode 26 of split decision. Check us out. Next week we're going to review UFC 296, the last card of the entire year for the UFC. We're going to preview the next week in NFL, and we're going to give you a good special edition Christmas top five. Check it out. [00:58:45] Speaker A: You, um, scratching like the whip with the winter. [00:58:54] Speaker B: Scratching. [01:00:01] Speaker A: I want to win the whip.