Episode Transcript
[00:00:08] Speaker A: Welcome back to split decision. This week on episode 27, we're gonna recap UFC 296, Leon Edwards versus Colby Covington from this past weekend. From there, we're gonna draft our top five things from 2023. That should be pretty interesting. Then we'll huddle up for college football playoffs and week 16 of the NFL. And finally, we're going to jump back into stakes and takes. That's going to be our betting segment where we give you our best advice and our best guesses to this week's games. But first, don't forget to head to splitdecisionpod.com to find all of our podcast, our merch, our episodes, and a little bit more. Don't forget splitdecisionpod.com. All right, let's go.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: All right, so the last UFC payperview and card in general happened this week in UFC 296, Las Vegas. It was a nice fight card. A lot of big fights.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: A big close out to 2023.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Big close out to 2023. There were a lot of people that complained about the card, especially the back half, but I thought it was fine.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: I'll call them casuals on Instagram and Twitter.
[00:01:24] Speaker B: I agree. Honestly, the fight I was probably most excited for, though, on the card was supposed to be the opener. It ended up getting canceled. That's Ian, Gary, Vicente, luque.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: Instead we got a fight that I thought was probably a main card fight on most pay per views.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: Right.
[00:01:42] Speaker B: But it got bumped up to the opener. So it was an interesting fight card all around. A lot of exciting things happened. The main event, though, that was obviously the big story. Leon Edwards, his first. Not his first title defense, but his first title offense against somebody other than Kamaru Usman taking on Kobe Covington, coming back from a two and a half year layoff. Damn near. And it showed. Honestly, Leon was the sharper fighter. He was the faster fighter. He beat Colby at his own game for most of the fight. Leon won by unanimous decision.
[00:02:14] Speaker A: Right?
[00:02:14] Speaker B: Easily won four out of the five rounds. Probably lost the last round, which is not something you always see. But overall, good performance from Leon Edwards. Overall, Colby Covington might be past his.
[00:02:26] Speaker A: Don't. I don't, uh. Leon Edwards definitely dictated the pace. He controlled the fight, defending the takedowns.
[00:02:33] Speaker B: Anytime he got taken down, they got up and he immediately just took Colby down.
[00:02:37] Speaker A: Yeah, it was like, I'm going to get one back.
[00:02:39] Speaker B: He made him stand up again, but it was like.
[00:02:41] Speaker A: Exactly. I'm going to make sure you're not scoring the points for a thing in your head.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: If you're a wrestler, you take a dude down, you'll get up and he takes you right back down. You know, they had to fuck with Colby's head a little bit.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: Dana White said, colby Covington looks slow and Colby.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: I mean, Leon was way faster than Colby.
[00:03:00] Speaker A: I would more Colby.
[00:03:02] Speaker B: He was kicking the shit out of Colby's lead leg, too.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: Look, Leon Edwards, he did great, right? He outstruck, he outpaced, he outclassed. I'll call him Colby. Calm Covington, not Colby chaos.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: He did good. I don't think it was a great performance. A great performance would have been finishing Colby. Right, but it was a solid performance, one that he obviously kept the belt with.
[00:03:23] Speaker A: So, big question, who does he defend it against next? There's a big, obvious number two.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Well, the obvious one is Balal Mohammed, but for some reason, they hate him. The UFC is, like, hell bent on not giving Bilal Mohammed this fight.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: Look, the guy is unbeaten in his last ten fights. The last fight he wasn't beaten in was a no contest with Leon Edwards.
[00:03:47] Speaker B: Guys, Leon has, like, a 1213 fight streak. It's a crazy streak between the two.
[00:03:52] Speaker A: But Leon Edwards poked Balal Mohammed in the eye to the extent where they could not fight if a rematch is not due there to the number two ranked fighter in the welterweight division, mind you, Kamaru Usman is number one.
I don't think he's fighting in the welterweight division. He's not probably ever again or any division ever again, in my opinion.
[00:04:15] Speaker B: He's coming back. He's fighting because he had a strong performance against Chamayev.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: That's true. He did finish. He did lose by decision, but I.
[00:04:23] Speaker B: Think Bala should get it. But if he, for some reason, doesn't, which is very possible, I think the next logical guy is a guy that fought on this card and won. And that's Shafkat Ron coming off right.
[00:04:33] Speaker A: He's 17 and 18, and now all finishes six and o in the UFC. Five subs, one ko, and he's going.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: To be top five.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I think right now the rankings will be updated. He's top five. He was five and six, and then you never know. He swapped.
[00:04:52] Speaker B: He's a solid, but you never know. What about Hamzat Chamayev? He could always been a 170 fighter before. Obviously had the big weight miss, and then came back and fought at 185 in his last fight. But he's a 175, too. He's fought at welterweight. His biggest win against Gilbert Burns at welterweight situation.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: I do believe that if he, especially for the title, he could make weight at 170 given notice, it can't be a short notice type of thing, but he would take it seriously for a title.
[00:05:26] Speaker B: I mean, he did miss by like eight pounds last time, so I don't know.
[00:05:29] Speaker A: I don't think he cared. Still, he pretty much said that last time is that he didn't care. But anyway, let's move on to the co main. That was another title fight between flyweights Brandon Royval challenging Alexandre Pantoja.
[00:05:45] Speaker B: This is a rematch. Second time they fought Pantoja, subbed him.
[00:05:48] Speaker A: The first time, kind of dominated him in the first fight, subbed him, what, second or third round? I forget exactly what it was. But this one, Roy Val seemed a lot closer in competition. He never stopped pressing forward to credit him. He never stopped.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: Unbelievable cardio from Roy Val. He did what Colby Covington usually does, right?
[00:06:08] Speaker A: He pressed forward, he never stopped attacking. If he got taken down, at least he never stopped working. And honestly, I know it was very obvious that Pantoja won the fight, like almost 16 minutes of control time.
He was very dominant on the ground. He controlled when he got.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: Rondell was probably better on the feet.
[00:06:29] Speaker A: But Pantoja kind of got gassed early on in the fight, which was. It just looked weird.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: It looked weird. But if you get gassed but you're still able to control the mean, what does it still performed?
[00:06:46] Speaker A: Exactly. I think it was still overall a good outing by Pantoja. I think obviously his first title defense. Right. If he know, he watches the tape and he feels as though he got gassed in the beginning of the fight, I think they're just going to address that for the next title defense. But to kind of go right into that, who do you think is going to be the next title defense? I know it's weird to think Moreno's could be catapulted, right.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: If he wins his next fight, right.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: It's Moreno versus Albazzi. If he wins, he could definitely be in contention for another title shot.
[00:07:23] Speaker B: And then if Moreno were to beat Pantoza, they would have to fight again. So Moreno is in another situation where he's fought a guy like four.
[00:07:30] Speaker A: Yeah, like just sacrifice eight, nine years of your life to fight two different people, which all credit to you. If it's that competitive in your division and it's that contentious for the title, great.
[00:07:42] Speaker B: I mean, he did lose by split decision the last fight he could have arguably won.
[00:07:45] Speaker A: Exactly. So it's not to say that he doesn't deserve to be there, but if he's going to challenge the title, again, he needs to go out there with a dominant showing. The other option I have is the winner of Manelkop versus Nicolau Nicolau.
[00:08:02] Speaker B: I like both of those. I think either of them. I agree with that. I do have a dark horse, though. Kai cara France.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: Now he's coming back off an injury. Injury.
[00:08:11] Speaker B: And I think he lost his last fight. He did lose his last interim title fight, so you never know.
[00:08:17] Speaker A: Yeah, he's definitely a dark horse.
[00:08:19] Speaker B: Timeline. Things don't work out for the two winners of the fights we talked about. He could be somebody to look at.
[00:08:23] Speaker A: And I think Kaika France's next fight is in, like, February or March, so he could definitely fight towards the middle second half of next year.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: But all that's to say, Pantoja has a couple options now. He has a title defense under his belt.
[00:08:37] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:08:38] Speaker B: They say you're not a true champ till you defend it once. So he has that. Now it's his time to try to make his mark on this division, like, long term.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: Yeah, I 100% agree.
[00:08:47] Speaker B: All right, the next fight on the card, surprising. Not surprising. Probably got to lean towards not surprising. Shot kof Ramanov defeating wonder boy Thompson by submission in the first round. Surprisingly, wonder boy obviously known as, like, an elite striker, first time getting subbed in his career. He actually has a pretty solid ground defense game. So the fact that Shovkot was able to come in, beat wonder boy in the first round by something that's never happened, it was an impressive performance from him.
[00:09:18] Speaker A: Look, Shovcott going in an obvious step.
[00:09:21] Speaker B: Up in competition, that was what I.
[00:09:22] Speaker A: Was about to say, actually. Shobcott being 18 and is one thing, because there are every now and again, those fighters that go, like, 16, and then they enter the UFC. Shopkot's not that guy. He's proven, and now he's proven against a legend that he can finish people who aren't finishable historically. So Stephen Thompson's never been finished. Boom, here we go.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: He's been knocked out once, but he's never been subbed.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: Right before this, Shavkat Rockwin came in, and he proved that he was too much for wonder boy from the beginning. He was able to kind of keep him off of him in the first round, but late in the second, rear naked choke.
I mean, a perfect finishing rate through 18 professional fights.
Six and o in the UFC. Five subs, one ko. I think he deserves a title shot pretty soon. If not mean, who do you think outside of Leon Edwards should fight mean?
[00:10:27] Speaker B: I don't think anybody wants to fight him.
[00:10:31] Speaker A: I agree with that because Thompson even admitted previous.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: He's like the boogeyman at this point, right? Nobody wants to fight that dude.
[00:10:40] Speaker A: He's a criminal in the division.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: That's why I don't think he gets a title shot, because Leon's not going to want to. Leon's already proven he's a.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: He's trying to keep the belt. He's not trying to test himself. He's beaten the test in his mind.
[00:10:52] Speaker B: And the test was, he's already talking about moving up.
[00:10:55] Speaker A: Right. The test was Usman, and which that was.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: Look, that was a test at this point. Yeah.
[00:11:00] Speaker A: There's a new crowd coming in in every division, but this division specifically.
[00:11:04] Speaker B: I think Balal should get the, as we talked about before, should get the title shot. But if you're Shovkot, you almost probably don't even need another fight. If you wait long enough, if you're willing to wait, your next fight will probably be a title shot. It just might not be as quick as you think.
[00:11:18] Speaker A: So Leon is an option. Bilal Mohammed's an option. You want to hear my dark horse?
[00:11:26] Speaker B: Let's hear it.
[00:11:27] Speaker A: Kamara Usman, second number one contender, technically, in the welterweight division.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: He already took great showing.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: Great showing against Chamayev, so if he's feeling himself Shavkat, he wants to finish legends.
[00:11:46] Speaker B: Colby already said no in the press conference.
[00:11:48] Speaker A: Colby's already scared, and he just fought the champ.
I think that's a perfect showing. Dark horse, Kamara Usman to fight Shovkat.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: Probably, you never know.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: April, April of 2024.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: That would be a great one. But we also keep talking about Chamayev.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: Or even two just juggernauts going against each other. I want to see some of these two men.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: Nobody wants to fight each other.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: That would be very interesting.
So for our next one, we move on to one of my favorites in the UFC currently, Patty the baddie versus Patty the baddie Pimblet, Tony Ferguson.
[00:12:29] Speaker B: And thank God as Patty fans, it's been hard the past, like, year since his last controversial win. Should have lost.
[00:12:37] Speaker A: Unanimous decision, win over Jared Gordon.
We, even as fans, agree he should have lost. We're not the Twitter crooked people or the ex crooked people where we're just going to ride and die on him no matter what. Look, you got to learn from losses, you got to learn from wins every time.
[00:12:55] Speaker B: I like that he came out. At first, he was saying, I won that fight. But the past few weeks, he's been like, yeah, we rewatched the fight. Wasn't my best performance. He didn't say he should have lost, but he pretty much hinted at it. He came in, and I know we fought a dude that's on a six fight now, seven fight losing streak. But he looked impressive. He was good on the feet. He was beating Tony. He was obviously way better than Tony.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: Right?
[00:13:17] Speaker B: In this fight.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: I put a couple things, but think about. I didn't even write as much about the fight, more about the feelings of the fight. Imagine going into a fight, a native in America, right, beating Tony Ferguson, a UFC american legend, right, with David Goggins in his corner.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Yeah, the David Goggins. That was the only reason why I was like, tony might do this, right?
[00:13:44] Speaker A: Like, dude.
[00:13:45] Speaker B: And then by the end of it, they had David giving him corners.
[00:13:48] Speaker A: Who's gonna carry the.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: Fucking self you're going to get? He was giving him shit, right at this point.
[00:13:55] Speaker A: Throw everything out you can.
[00:13:57] Speaker B: I think going into the third round, they were like, all right, this is your time, guy. David, you need to.
[00:14:02] Speaker A: Mr. Goggins, it's time.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what they tried to do. And honestly, the third, wake him up. Probably his best round, but he still lost it.
[00:14:10] Speaker A: But I think Pamlet won in all categories, all three rounds.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: Yeah. Impressive performance from Pamela. What's sad is watching our hero, obviously not himself. Even Dana said in the thing. He's like, I respect him too much to say he should retire, but I don't want to see him fight anymore.
[00:14:26] Speaker A: Right. I agree. I love Tony.
[00:14:29] Speaker B: The dude owns the longest winning streak in lightweight history right now.
And now the longest losing streak.
[00:14:35] Speaker A: Tied for the longest losing streak.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: Seven.
[00:14:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: BJ, seven losses.
[00:14:39] Speaker A: BJPin is the only other. And I read on the Internet today that they offered Bjpin an 8th fight, but then he was removed from the UFC due to those things in 2019.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: Yeah. When he got beat up in a car, they're like, you lost that fight. You lost the amateur fight.
[00:14:54] Speaker A: You're out.
And then last I did see a.
[00:15:00] Speaker B: Funny thing before we move on.
It was a meme, and it was talking about Tony Ferguson retiring. And then it had Jake Paul. It said Jake Paul. And it was the meme of the guy looking. He was behind the tree, like, peeking.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: You. Yeah, I got some money coming. Don't worry about it.
[00:15:20] Speaker B: Add that knockout on my resume of an old, way past his prime MMA fighter.
[00:15:25] Speaker A: I could definitely see it. I could definitely see that.
[00:15:27] Speaker B: All right, so now let's move on to the last fight we're going to cover. This originally was supposed to be a prelim fight. Got moved up to the main card.
[00:15:34] Speaker A: And I'm so happy it was because unlocked potential for both fighters. Honestly, like, I want to see Bryce Mitchell fight again just to see what's going to happen.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: Bryce Mitchell, Josh Emmett.
[00:15:44] Speaker A: But you got to remember the last time because we've covered Josh Emmett before. Think about the last time we saw Josh Emmet. We were like, oh, it's time to retire.
He's old. He's 39. Maybe it's time to hang him up. He came out here, and they never questioned it. One time, they were like, he's got brutal knockout power.
[00:16:03] Speaker B: Literally almost killed Bryce Mitchell.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: The dude was seizing on the ground. It was truly terrifying.
[00:16:09] Speaker B: It was terrifying. If you look at the slow mo, it's just a perfect hook that hit him right, like, in the middle of the jaw. He couldn't have placed it any better. And it was instant.
[00:16:19] Speaker A: Instantaneously goes out, knocked out cold couple.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Seconds later, then starts seizing up for the next five minutes. He couldn't even hold himself up.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: Yeah. And then they let him walk around after.
[00:16:32] Speaker B: It was insane. I'm going to say this for Josh Emmett hit him.
[00:16:36] Speaker A: Josh Emmett hit him with the fist of God. Because that's what happens when you say the earth is flat. I guess. I don't know.
[00:16:43] Speaker B: Well, the earth is probably a little bit flatter for Bryce now here on Tuesday.
[00:16:49] Speaker A: I agree. I agreed.
[00:16:59] Speaker B: Okay, so to honor the new year, to honor the end of 2023, to.
[00:17:05] Speaker A: Honor the past year, to honor the.
[00:17:07] Speaker B: Past year, our top five this week is going to be the top five things of 2023. We thought about doing top five Christmas things, but the last two ones have been Christmas themed.
[00:17:19] Speaker A: They kind of exhausted what we think of Christmas.
[00:17:22] Speaker B: I think so, too.
[00:17:23] Speaker A: And encapsulated all of Christmas, I should say.
[00:17:26] Speaker B: And I think the best of 2023 on our last podcast of 2023 was too good to pass up for a.
[00:17:33] Speaker A: Top five, especially the only first end we'll have of our first year.
[00:17:39] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:17:40] Speaker A: It's pretty exciting.
[00:17:41] Speaker B: So I'm excited about this. This was a very broad category. You could go a lot of different ways.
[00:17:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:49] Speaker B: You could go good things. You could go bad things. It's really just top. So, I mean, whatever you perceive as.
[00:17:55] Speaker A: It could be just funny to you or whatever. I texted you some heinous shit that I'm not going to include in this list, but worthwhile to talk about it is just not here.
[00:18:07] Speaker B: And then I think I have the first pick, though, right? You do?
[00:18:09] Speaker A: Because I had last week long and hard about this.
Long and hard long and hard.
[00:18:18] Speaker B: Pause.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: Long and hard about this phrasing.
[00:18:22] Speaker B: It took me a while. I had a list where I had a lot of good things, but it was hard for me to pick. Narrow it down to my number one thing.
[00:18:30] Speaker A: So what did you do? You just left that list at work?
[00:18:32] Speaker B: I did leave that list at work, but I knew most of these. And I think this is the thing that, when we look back in five years, is going to be, like, the thing of 2023. I think it's a thing that, although it's controversial, it brings two totally different kinds of people like it for their own different ways. The number one thing of 2023 was the Donald Trump mugshot.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: Dude, that is a high class pick for the exact reasons, like, the simplest of terms is. Everybody likes it for their own reason. If you love Donald Trump, you think it's hilarious.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: If you're an idiot on the left, you think, we finally got him. If you're an idiot on the right, you think, this dude's my savior, right?
[00:19:18] Speaker A: He's like, all the felon's gonna be the president now. The inmates are gonna run the asylum.
[00:19:24] Speaker B: No matter how you think of him. And then if you're in the middle, you think it's just fucking funny. Because it is funny.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Because think about it.
[00:19:30] Speaker B: If you could look at it objectively.
[00:19:32] Speaker A: Think about Donald Trump objectively.
[00:19:34] Speaker B: Very funny.
[00:19:34] Speaker A: He's a business magnate who became president.
[00:19:37] Speaker B: Who just gives the best quotes, funniest quotes of all time.
[00:19:40] Speaker A: Yeah. And calls you ugly. Yeah.
[00:19:42] Speaker B: He just says exactly what ugly a twelve year old boy would think.
[00:19:46] Speaker A: Right. No filter. And it's all.
[00:19:48] Speaker B: And he's a billionaire.
[00:19:49] Speaker A: It's great. Yeah.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: That is a great Trump mugshot. I think that was the most iconic thing that happened in the year. I think it was the biggest thing that happened in the year. So that's my number one pick.
[00:19:57] Speaker A: I think that's a very, very good pick. I'm going to counter that with the sphere.
[00:20:05] Speaker B: Oh, I didn't have that one on my list, but I like it.
[00:20:07] Speaker A: The sphere. I believe you took that number one overall in a previous draft this year. I've been thinking about it more often than not lately. It's one of those things where I just feel like I need to go. I need to kind of experience what the sphere is. But looking at it on social media is just amazing. I think it has been one of the biggest hype things of 2023.
[00:20:30] Speaker B: It was awesome.
[00:20:31] Speaker A: And it's one of the biggest pull offs of 2023. It's not a bust. It's a get.
[00:20:38] Speaker B: It was honestly a story of a positive story that we don't have a lot nowadays.
[00:20:44] Speaker A: Right. We got to get positivity now and again.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: You don't even say wholesome, but it was just like, no, this thing's fucking awesome.
[00:20:51] Speaker A: Right.
[00:20:52] Speaker B: Nothing bad about it.
[00:20:53] Speaker A: And they're willing to do cool things with it.
[00:20:55] Speaker B: Nothing controversial about it. The thing's just awesome.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: Yeah, they change it to the eyeball emoji. They've done interesting stuff. It's cool on the outside. It's cool.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: Much like my first pick can be perceived as controversial.
[00:21:06] Speaker A: Right.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: Your second pick is the exact opposite. There's no way the spear is controversial. It's just fucking awesome.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. I love it. My second pick, this isn't the first time we've been introduced to this person.
We've known about this person for a very long time.
[00:21:24] Speaker B: I'm interested now, but this person has.
[00:21:28] Speaker A: Given football new success, otherwise unheard of success that we just.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: If you're about to do what I think you're about to do, I'm going to be pissed off.
[00:21:37] Speaker A: It's just unbridled that this relationship has caused this success in the NFL. It just caused a lot of hype.
[00:21:45] Speaker B: It's not what I was picking, but go ahead.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: I go with Taylor Swift.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:21:50] Speaker A: For my number two pick for top things of 2023. Taylor Swift. She wasn't gone before, but she started the eras tour in 2023. Big tour.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: I mean, she made like a billion dollars in profit.
[00:22:02] Speaker A: She's just literally going crazy. Tickets are off the charts. She's in a relationship with Travis, Kelsey, so guys like us, which wouldn't normally care about her concert, she's being shoved down our throats and I don't hate it. Turns out I kind of like her music sometimes.
[00:22:19] Speaker B: Yeah, she has some bangers.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: So Taylor Swift, number two thing, in my opinion of 2023, it's not a bad pick.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: I just don't know if that's you, bro.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: Maybe not, but I'm going pandering. Going for clicks maybe.
[00:22:35] Speaker B: So your number two is Taylor Swift.
[00:22:37] Speaker A: Well, let me say it better. I'm going for clicks, baby.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: My number two is.
[00:22:45] Speaker A: Awkward.
[00:22:46] Speaker B: You said it was somebody that brought a whole new set of eyeballs and attention to football, correct?
[00:22:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I said something around my number.
[00:22:57] Speaker B: Two pick did the same thing but a different kind of football. My number two pick is Lionel Messi. Coming to the MLS biggest and best soccer player in the world. He's going to go down as arguably the best player of all time. Just coming off of a World cup win, finally with Argentina, he moves to the US, to the MLS, instantly goes on like an incredible run where he's scoring in every game.
I mean, it was awesome to see. It was good to see a guy still show he's awesome. Like, still great.
[00:23:29] Speaker A: Dude. He went on that crazy scoring run games.
[00:23:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:23:33] Speaker A: If you could have gotten in on at the beginning was the only way that you could have made any money on it because like two games in he was minus like 235.
[00:23:41] Speaker B: Two games in it was like, oh, he's still way better than these dudes.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: But see, I don't have perception like that because I've never followed football.
But you told me that the best players of all time, when the greatest player retire, they come, not all of them, but a lot of them come to the MLS and they're still just amazing. So I thought that was just going to be the case just purely because you told it to me. And then it happened and I was like, oh, cool. So I wasn't nearly as like, wow as everybody else was. But I get it now.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: After, like, there was a time for.
[00:24:17] Speaker A: Seeing it five to six weeks where.
[00:24:19] Speaker B: It was like the top story every time they played.
[00:24:21] Speaker A: No, it was like sold out. Because prior to him coming, you could get Miami tickets for like $47.
[00:24:27] Speaker B: That was the big thing that kept going around. It was like $47 to like $4,500.
[00:24:31] Speaker A: It was just nuts.
But then you get to see one of the greats, so it's awesome. Yeah.
[00:24:36] Speaker B: So my number two, Leonard Messi, coming to America, coming to the MLS now. I got my number going.
[00:24:44] Speaker A: How are you going to go, though?
[00:24:45] Speaker B: This is another one.
[00:24:46] Speaker A: Are you going personal? This draft? Like, what are you thinking? Because I got a couple personal picks.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: I mean, you just got to see what I'm about to pick, bro.
[00:24:52] Speaker A: That's true. Let's go.
[00:24:54] Speaker B: My number three was. There was a period, it was probably about two weeks where this was by far the biggest thing anybody talked about. Everybody was talking about it.
[00:25:04] Speaker A: It's right here on my list. I think I know what you're going.
[00:25:06] Speaker B: My number three is a submarine incident. Submarine meme, that whole thing into one that captivated the Internet and everybody's attention forever.
[00:25:16] Speaker A: It really did.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: It had people, like, cheering that a dude was dying, a group of people were dying just because they were rich, which was nuts to see.
[00:25:25] Speaker A: They were cheering for it. So then they had like, the small curve that was just been like, you got to save them. Little did we know they had been dead for like a week.
[00:25:35] Speaker B: I mean, really, if you think about it. Yeah, it was like right away they died. And then the search went on for like a.
[00:25:42] Speaker A: Come to find out, the director, like Christopher Nolan, had word, like James Cameron. That's what it was like several hours after they went uncommunicated.
[00:25:53] Speaker B: I mean, it was crazy. On the news, they would have like a countdown, like, how much oxygen they have.
[00:25:57] Speaker A: It was wild.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: It captivated. Everybody was talking about it. Whether you were like, fuck those dudes, or like, we need to save them.
[00:26:05] Speaker A: No, you're absolutely.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: It was crazy. Everybody talked about it. Everybody had an opinion on it. So my number three is the submarine incident. The submarine meme of 2023.
[00:26:13] Speaker A: Yeah. We're going to figure out a way to word that maybe the Titanic incident of 2023.
Titanic 2023 sub has to be in it.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: Submarine.
[00:26:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: That's my number three. What's your number three?
[00:26:25] Speaker A: My number three, man, that's a very good number three. I'm kind of torn, but, man, honestly, when you bring up the Titanic incident that kind of captivated the world, it makes me think about the aliens in Mexican Congress when the kind of hoaxists captivated the world for their own two weeks because they declassified.
[00:26:57] Speaker B: That dude looked like a twix.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: Right? It was ridiculous.
It was the fakest ass alien on the planet. So I got to go with that for my number three.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: It's not a bad pick. I don't know if it's a number.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: Three thing, but it's silly and funny. I mean, I can redeem myself with the number four if I have to. That's fine. But the aliens in the mexican congress, to me, is just like.
[00:27:23] Speaker B: These people in Congress, but their counter is we let somebody, some dude just get railed in senate. The Senate. Yeah, I guess I'd rather have fake aliens backshots.
[00:27:33] Speaker A: 2023 is a big thing. Yeah.
[00:27:36] Speaker B: Look, my number three pick, backshot.
[00:27:39] Speaker A: That's terrible. Look, so I have a few things on my list, a few things I.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: Could go with here for your number four.
[00:27:47] Speaker A: For my number four, I think I'm going to go with something a little bit more real here, a little bit more good for me and you. I think 2023 was a big year for comedy for you and I. I'm going to put comedy on my list as a top thing for 2023. That's a more personal pick. But we attended a few comedy shows. We had some good fun. We had some things we don't even remember.
It's great. Comedy is a top thing in my opinion for 2023 shows we saw, it's a great thing.
[00:28:21] Speaker B: Comedy is not a bad pick, although I think it's a little too personal.
You know what I mean?
[00:28:26] Speaker A: A little too personal.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: Oh, well.
So what do you have for four?
[00:28:33] Speaker B: My fourth pick, this was a hard one, but I'm going to go the rise. I know it's been around before this year, but this is the big year of it.
[00:28:46] Speaker A: The rise of Skywalker?
[00:28:47] Speaker B: No, the rise of chat, GPT. AI took a huge leap forward this year. It is now something everybody is familiar with. Like, no matter how young, no matter how old, everybody's familiar with AI. Everybody's aware of AI.
[00:29:01] Speaker A: It's definitely a common, common term.
[00:29:03] Speaker B: And I feel like this year is the year that it came to prominence. It's a common term that's going to be pretty much around forever now. I think any reasonable person can conclude.
[00:29:14] Speaker A: To not going away and it's only going to keep growing.
[00:29:17] Speaker B: Exactly.
[00:29:17] Speaker A: Hopefully it's a beneficial tool.
[00:29:19] Speaker B: It's a manageable thing.
[00:29:21] Speaker A: Right.
What about that fifth and final?
[00:29:27] Speaker B: My fifth and final, it's hard to narrow it down because I do have a personal one.
[00:29:35] Speaker A: I got straight fire for my fifth.
[00:29:37] Speaker B: I do have some MMA ones.
[00:29:39] Speaker A: I don't have any mma.
One of my favorite fighters lost in 2023. So it was a great knockout, but I don't want to consider it a top thing because I hate it.
[00:29:52] Speaker B: I'm going to round it out with number five, pick of 2023, jaden Daniels, winning the Heisman for LSU. My favorite football team. My favorite team in general.
[00:30:01] Speaker A: So that's a disconnected personal. I got it.
[00:30:05] Speaker B: Third Heisman winner in school history and one of the most stored football programs.
[00:30:10] Speaker A: That's crazy to me that they've only won three in history with how kind of notorious, at least in my perception, LSU has been as a good football program and two of the three have been in the past five years.
[00:30:22] Speaker B: Yeah. That's why Alabama has like five. But the first one was in 2011.
[00:30:26] Speaker A: That's even crazier.
[00:30:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:28] Speaker A: But have they been also good for kind of forever?
[00:30:31] Speaker B: They have a way better history than LSU does.
[00:30:34] Speaker A: Wow. All right. But, yeah.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: So Jaden Daniels winning the Heisman, it was a big deal. I think everybody, the Heisman is a big deal. Big time award, big prestige.
[00:30:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:45] Speaker B: That's my number five pick.
[00:30:47] Speaker A: I like the Jaden Daniels Heisman. It's kind of a surprise because coming into the season he didn't really have. Not a shot, but he wasn't.
[00:30:55] Speaker B: He was like a dark horse to do it.
[00:30:57] Speaker A: Right. He wasn't a top.
[00:30:58] Speaker B: He was like, top 20.
[00:30:59] Speaker A: Right. He was a dork horse. That's a very good way to say it. If you put some money on him.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: Preseason, you'd have, like, plus hundred or something.
[00:31:09] Speaker A: Yeah. You'd have been paid out here. That would have been great. I don't have the patience for those kind of bets, I guess my last pick and the fifth pick for the overall draft.
I've been toying with a couple of things.
I don't know exactly how I want to go with it just yet. But 2023 was good, right?
Of course. Every year has the highs and the lows.
They had the Joe Biden dog bites where you couldn't.
[00:31:39] Speaker B: I thought about that, but the only thing was they started before 2023.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: Right. This was kind of the final straw. Right? You want to offer up any honorable mentions before I make my final pick? I'm not stealing. I kind of think I have my narrative.
[00:31:53] Speaker B: I want to hear your last pick.
[00:31:55] Speaker A: I think it's something that in 2023, us guys couldn't stop thinking about. It was a very common, year long, captivating thing, if not a few months long, captivating thing.
The Roman Empire.
[00:32:09] Speaker B: Oh, I still love the Roman Empire.
[00:32:11] Speaker A: Right. Thinking about Maddie. Even the memes, they still hit.
[00:32:16] Speaker B: They still do hit. I watched roman empire shit today.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: What'd you watch?
[00:32:19] Speaker B: Or yesterday, it was the Spartacus battle, the one that Joe Rogan and Shane.
[00:32:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I watched the clips of that on YouTube yesterday. That's a good one. So, yeah, I think just us guys sitting around thinking about the Roman Empire, naturally, that was a big thing in 2023. That kind of proved that you got to just let guys be guys.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: I agree. I think it's something that a lot of people could relate to because you just think sometimes, like, man, they did all that shit and they didn't have shit.
[00:32:57] Speaker A: They didn't have electricity. Yeah. They had some boats and they were.
[00:33:02] Speaker B: Swords that smart and they figured, shit. It is insane.
[00:33:06] Speaker A: It is.
[00:33:07] Speaker B: I love that. That's a great pick.
So I had a couple honorable mentions. I had the James meme.
[00:33:13] Speaker A: Oh, that's a good one. That's a very good one.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: And then I had two UFC ones. I had Volt getting KO'd, which was just surprising to see. And then I had Sean Strickland beating Adesanya.
[00:33:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:24] Speaker B: Equally as surprising.
[00:33:26] Speaker A: Absolutely. I had Ozempic.
[00:33:29] Speaker B: That's a good one. And guess what they're finding out now it's bad for you. It's like shit.
[00:33:34] Speaker A: Yeah. 2024 is going to be the year of just gaining weight, I guess. The comedy mothership, that's a big one for 2020.
[00:33:41] Speaker B: Thought about that one, too.
[00:33:42] Speaker A: Twitter changing their name to x. Oh.
[00:33:45] Speaker B: I forgot about that.
[00:33:46] Speaker A: Right.
[00:33:46] Speaker B: That's a good one.
[00:33:48] Speaker A: I went to the book of Mormon. That was a pretty sick play, dude.
[00:33:51] Speaker B: Somebody else said that recently.
[00:33:53] Speaker A: It was on a podcast.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: I think it was Shane Gillis something.
[00:33:56] Speaker A: Yeah, it was Shane Gillis on the one on one Barbenheimer.
[00:34:01] Speaker B: Oh, I forgot about. I had Barbenheimer on my original list that I left at work.
[00:34:06] Speaker A: High noons.
[00:34:08] Speaker B: I mean, they were around before that, right?
[00:34:10] Speaker A: I didn't mention it until now.
I just like high noons.
Get it? I had a kid in 2023 and.
[00:34:19] Speaker B: Yeah, way to drop that in there.
[00:34:20] Speaker A: Yeah, just honorable mention. Shout out, Logan. I guess not quite top five, not quite trying, not quite funniest yet. Maybe next year, kid.
[00:34:31] Speaker B: All right, so the recap. My number one pick, the Donald Trump monk shot fire pick. My number two pick, Leone O'Messi, coming to the MLS. Number three pick, the submarine incident meme.
Number four pick, the rise of chat, GPT AI. And number five, Jaden Daniels, Heisman winner.
[00:34:53] Speaker A: And I have as my number one pick, the sphere in Las Vegas. Number two, Taylor Swift. Number three, aliens subject to Mexican Congress. Number four, overall comedy or just comedy? And number five, thinking about the Roman Empire.
[00:35:17] Speaker B: Sid Hood. Let's get ready for football this week. Since it's the last week of 2023 and it's we're not gonna meet again until the college football playoffs happen, we're gonna give you our College Football playoff picks along with week 16 in the NFL. Is that the week?
[00:35:35] Speaker A: Week 16 NFL? I guess you can just call it our halftime break.
[00:35:38] Speaker B: Halftime break. So that's going to be ten NFL games. The two college games. So let's start with the college football playoffs, biggest games of the year. We're going to start with the Sugar bowl. The number three Texas Longhorns. Big twelve champs. Taking on the undefeated number two ranked Washington Huskies. Pac twelve champs.
[00:35:57] Speaker A: All right, I'm going to go for it here. You ready?
[00:35:59] Speaker B: Let's hear it.
[00:36:00] Speaker A: Is Xavier going to prove himself worthy? It's a wide receiver for the Longhorns. I got nothing else. But is Quinn Ewers going to be able to throw it to him? Can Jonathan Brooks run the ball against a stout Washington defense?
[00:36:16] Speaker B: I think so. And honestly, I think this is a game where anything could happen.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:22] Speaker B: These teams haven't played similar teams, two different schedules.
I think Texas is the more talented team Washington may know. They went through the season undefeated. But I think the Longhorns go in, I think they're going to have the home crowd advantage in New Orleans.
I think the Longhorns get the win, the number three Longhorns and they go to the national championship game.
[00:36:45] Speaker A: So we didn't cover the Huskies every game this season, but they're 13 and I picked them in their matchups every single game that we covered them but one. And obviously they're 13 and so I lost.
[00:37:00] Speaker B: Only one was the last one, though.
[00:37:02] Speaker A: It was against the Ducks. I thought the Ducks were going to pull off the win.
[00:37:05] Speaker B: I did too, to be honest. Everybody did.
[00:37:07] Speaker A: Everybody did.
[00:37:09] Speaker B: I'm not doubting super disrespectful to Washington earlier in the year and everybody was like, oh no, they're winning.
[00:37:15] Speaker A: Fuck these guys. They're out, right? That's immediately. And in all honesty, if they wouldn't have won, this whole like college football playoffs controversy wouldn't be nearly as big, right. With FSU.
[00:37:27] Speaker B: No, because Oregon would have definitely taken Washington spot. Oh, the exact same thing.
[00:37:31] Speaker A: They were undefeated prior.
[00:37:33] Speaker B: They had one loss to Washington.
[00:37:35] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. Well then there you go. A beat to them kind of trumps him. I get it. Yeah. Okay. So I don't think Michael Penix Jr. Is going to fail me twice in the sense that I thought he was going to lose. He's going to beat the Longhorns and I think to Rome. I can't say his last name. Adunes. Adunze.
[00:37:55] Speaker B: Yeah, the wide receiver, right.
[00:37:57] Speaker A: He's been on fire all year.
[00:38:00] Speaker B: Both teams have a lot of talent on offense.
[00:38:02] Speaker A: I think it's time to let the big Dogs play Washington Huskies. You get the big, know big dogs play Washington Huskies. They're going to win. They're going to beat the Longhorns. Kind of steer them up, if you will.
[00:38:18] Speaker B: There you go.
[00:38:19] Speaker A: Trying.
[00:38:21] Speaker B: All right, opposite on that.
[00:38:23] Speaker A: Opposite on the first one. Next we're going to talk about the number four Alabama Crimson Tide. They come in twelve and one on the season. Who do they lose to?
[00:38:32] Speaker B: Their one loss was to the Texas Longhorns.
[00:38:35] Speaker A: Boom. At home, Michigan 13.
[00:38:38] Speaker B: And this is the Rolls bowl, undefeated.
[00:38:42] Speaker A: Does Harbaugh get to coach?
[00:38:44] Speaker B: He does. He coached in the Big Ten championship game, the last game, last three.
[00:38:47] Speaker A: Regular suspension really didn't matter.
[00:38:50] Speaker B: I guess he missed Ohio State the biggest game of the year.
[00:38:53] Speaker A: But it did get to them, to this spot because if they lost one of those games, they wouldn't be sitting.
[00:38:57] Speaker B: Here and Ohio State was the biggest game and he missed it.
[00:38:59] Speaker A: Right. Okay, so obviously, like huge upset from Alabama to Georgia, right? That was a big upset.
[00:39:08] Speaker B: And now people don't think it's that big upset if Michigan. This is a pretty even game. Alabama was on the card for Alabama. They were big underdogs against Georgia. And now because they beat the Bulldogs, they're taking on an undefeated team three times in a row. Big ten champs. And they're even with them.
[00:39:27] Speaker A: So look, I don't see, I'm not the best pick them on college football games or anything, but there's a couple of stats that I see here. Michigan's defense is great, right? Top five.
[00:39:43] Speaker B: Not as good since the whole sign stealing thing, apparently.
[00:39:47] Speaker A: Apparently. But Alabama's defense has consistently given up points all season.
So if Michael Pennix Jr. Can get the ball moving.
[00:39:58] Speaker B: Michael Pennix plays for Washington.
[00:40:00] Speaker A: I'm sorry, my bad.
Damn it. JJ McCarthy. If JJ McCarthy can get the ball moving on what I consider a light Alabama defense, I think Michigan is going to pull this off because the problem.
[00:40:14] Speaker B: Is they have a better defense. I agree with you. The opposite is also true. Michigan's offense has not been scoring points lately. Right, Alabama.
[00:40:23] Speaker A: That's kind of why I'm hinging everything on my belief of JJ McCarthy. Kind of going back to the left at big dogs.
[00:40:29] Speaker B: I'm taking Millro. I'm taking Alabama. I think the Crimson Tide, that has to be one of my rules. Now, again, I know they played Georgia last week and Georgia has been pretty much invincible, right? But I bet against the Alabama Crimson Tide with plus ods. What were we thinking? Of course Alabama is going to go and win the game. Of course they're going to come in.
[00:40:49] Speaker A: And it's going to be a nasty win and they're going to come in. No, I get it. But I think here in both games it looks like we don't have both college games for January 1. We don't have the same picks for either one. But I think that's a reason. That's why the playoffs exist, is the best four teams are playing each other that weekend. So I totally could see either one of us winning either one of those two games.
[00:41:18] Speaker B: That's crazy. We're opposite on both College Football playoff games. But that tells you how close they are and how good a games they're probably going to be, right?
[00:41:25] Speaker A: So then next we're going to go straight into NFL Week 16, which is going to be this coming weekend.
[00:41:32] Speaker B: And not only are we going straight in, we're going right to the Thursday night game, which we don't always do.
[00:41:36] Speaker A: Which will be, I guess, by the time you're hearing this, potentially tomorrow or today or yesterday. Saints at Rams, huge playoff implications.
[00:41:46] Speaker B: Seven and seven. Rams seven and seven, Saints.
[00:41:48] Speaker A: Almost every game we're covering this week has big playoff implications.
[00:41:53] Speaker B: Yeah, we made sure to pick the ones that matter. Every single. Yeah, yeah.
[00:41:57] Speaker A: The jets don't matter anymore. They're know the Panthers, goodbye, go to sleep. Yes, but this game, this game matters. And the Saints specifically in the Panthers.
[00:42:09] Speaker B: One of their best performances of the year.
[00:42:12] Speaker A: I just secured Derek Carr in my dynasty.
[00:42:14] Speaker B: That is not a good idea, sir.
[00:42:16] Speaker A: I had just. It's been a brutal ACL season for me.
I've had to do what I've had to do. But yeah, it's a Saints versus Rams. Saints need a win here. Rams need a win here. Both teams coming off of great performances from the quarterback. One of the best performances from each quarterbacks of the year in my opinion. What do you say?
[00:42:40] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so too. And I think both teams come in. I mean, either one of these teams playing their best can really compete with anybody in the NFL.
[00:42:49] Speaker A: The ODs are so close.
[00:42:50] Speaker B: Both teams have a lot of talent on their team. Even if they're seven and seven teams, they have stars that can make plays, right? They do.
[00:42:58] Speaker A: Is Chris Olave back?
[00:42:59] Speaker B: I don't know if he's going to be back for this game.
[00:43:01] Speaker A: I hope he is, if he isn't, but they've also proven. Is it Joanne Johnson?
[00:43:06] Speaker B: Joanne Johnson proven with him that he.
[00:43:08] Speaker A: Can kind of supplement the know when Derek Carr kind of gets hot.
[00:43:13] Speaker B: It was by far his best game. I've seen him play with the Saints. He was accurate. He wasn't necessarily making giant plays, but he was making the plays that needed to be made. I'm hoping Derek Carr continues that. I'm going to bank on him, continue that. I got the Saints winning the game.
[00:43:27] Speaker A: See, I'm going to go opposite again on you here. My biggest problem is the Saints are three and four on the road or three out of four games on the road. Say they've lost four times on the road this season. It's not great.
22 points per game.
The Rams are a little bit better in terms of stats, but I think with the more explosive offense, at least know more recent weeks, I think the Rams are going to have what it takes to get it done this week.
[00:43:59] Speaker B: Damn. So three games, three games in a.
[00:44:01] Speaker A: Row, we're going to alternate picks. I don't like how the later half of this season is starting to shape up here.
[00:44:07] Speaker B: All right, so let's move on to the next one. I think it's the Saturday night. Night game or Saturday game we go Bengals and Steelers. Bengals. Steelers. Huge AFC north game.
Both teams technically still in the playoffs. Bengals obviously in a better position than Steelers. Bengals look like a legitimate.
[00:44:23] Speaker A: It seems, dude, it's. I'm not saying like, I could go into the Bengals and play a football game because that's obviously not the case, but it seems like the Bengals might be solid enough where if you put.
[00:44:36] Speaker B: A decent backup, that's what Jake Browning's doing right now, they can just put.
[00:44:40] Speaker A: It together and win games. So what is he like? Three straight wins, 6th seed in the playoffs, currently holding the second wild card slot.
[00:44:49] Speaker B: Everybody thought they were done once borough.
[00:44:51] Speaker A: They can lose one game at the.
[00:44:52] Speaker B: Current slot and the Steelers are on the way opposite.
[00:44:57] Speaker A: Like they need to win momentum wise, though. Damn near.
[00:45:00] Speaker B: The Steelers have been playing like dog shit.
I know they're seven and seven, I.
[00:45:06] Speaker A: Think, but the Steelers seven and seven and eight and six.
[00:45:09] Speaker B: They are like one of the worst. Seven and 17, like they should not be.
[00:45:12] Speaker A: But look, we have to give credit where credits do. We've had Mitchell Trubisky coming in.
[00:45:18] Speaker B: Trubisky looks like he doesn't belong in.
[00:45:19] Speaker A: The NFL and now he's been benched again for, I believe Mason Rudolph again is back. Mason Rudolph is back in the NFL to play for the Steelers. But then we have Browning. I think this later half of the NFL season is showing that it's not necessarily like the quarterback does a lot, but with how the teams have been like these specific teams have been crafted, that we're covering, that are making these playoff runs, know backup quarterbacks deep into the season. It's like a weird anomaly for this year that we're seeing this come across. Even so, I think the Bengals are going to win. I think they're going to move to nine and six. This game as well is a toss up. Pittsburgh's plus two at home.
So they don't even get the three point advantage, which means they do get the 3.5 point swing for them, which just puts the Bengals at even higher favorite. But the ODs are very close. With a backup quarterback, this game could easily just get out of hand for either player.
[00:46:22] Speaker B: Yeah, I think I agree with you, though. I think it's the first one. We agree. I got the Bengals, too.
[00:46:25] Speaker A: I'm happy we agree on something. At least we can lose together.
[00:46:28] Speaker B: So let's move on to the next one. This is your favorite team taking on my favorite team's arch rival in a game we need them to lose. Colts playing the Falcons.
[00:46:39] Speaker A: So I really hope we're both hoping for some gardener. Minshew magic here we are.
[00:46:43] Speaker B: Gardner's been play eight and six.
Their coach may be coach of the year with the way he's I don't.
[00:46:51] Speaker A: Want to talk too much about it.
[00:46:53] Speaker B: They're a good football team. They're coached very well. Like if they had a star quarterback, they'd be one of the best teams.
[00:46:58] Speaker A: If Anthony Richardson did not have to.
[00:47:01] Speaker B: Have shoulder surgery because I don't know. I think this year their record's probably better with Gardner than Anthony.
[00:47:07] Speaker A: I think it was important to have a worse season with him, not know if he was able to play through and learn. I think it's more important that than making a middling playoff run. If you can't win the Super bowl.
[00:47:19] Speaker B: Yeah, but this year it's wide open, right?
[00:47:22] Speaker A: This year, like I said in the previous game, this year is a straight up anomaly with backup quarterbacks. This is another game. Gardner Minshew in for the rest of the season with Anthony Richardson out, Desmond Ritter has been playing pretty bad for the Falcons. They're six and eight. Falcons are favorited by one at home. Another toss up game, another game with big playoff implications. Honestly, the Jags are still in it. The Texans are still in it. The Titans are like two games out with three games left in the season. So if things go crazy, anybody in that division can still.
[00:48:03] Speaker B: I mean, they're tied with the.
[00:48:04] Speaker A: Yeah, like they're one behind the Jags. They're one ahead of the Texans.
But the Jags lead in the division because of the divisional record. So they need the Jags to lose is what ultimately needs to happen. I think the Colts have what it takes to beat the Falcons. I think the Falcons have kind of hung it up. I think they're done for the season and we kind of hope they're done for the season.
[00:48:27] Speaker B: They have so many talented guys, they're.
[00:48:31] Speaker A: Just not doing anything with them. I don't understand.
[00:48:33] Speaker B: Me neither.
[00:48:34] Speaker A: Are you just trying to get more people.
[00:48:37] Speaker B: Somebody said that it seems like the Falcons are owned by a team in their division and their goal was to just acquire the most talent and not use it, just so nobody else has it.
[00:48:47] Speaker A: But isn't that the same thing as the Panthers at this point? Yeah, they did the same thing this year.
[00:48:51] Speaker B: Panthers just don't have talent.
[00:48:53] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess that's true. You're right.
[00:48:55] Speaker B: So we both got the Colts in this one.
[00:48:57] Speaker A: I think we are both going with the Colts. I think we're going to both side with. We kind of need that if nothing else.
[00:49:04] Speaker B: Agreed. So let's move on to the AFC north matchup. The Lions, ten and four. Taking it on, taking it on. Take an on the Minnesota Vikings.
[00:49:13] Speaker A: Take me home.
[00:49:15] Speaker B: Sorry. The Lions might have got out of their funk last week. They looked.
[00:49:21] Speaker A: Five touchdowns.
That's impressive from Jared Goff.
[00:49:26] Speaker B: It was like first two drives, punts and they scored them five touchdown drives in a row.
[00:49:29] Speaker A: That's wild.
[00:49:30] Speaker B: It was wild. Lions, I think. I don't want to say back, but they looked like a few games. Like they had kind of like hit their peak and fallen. Now it seems like they might be back. Can they keep it up against the Vikings? I think they.
[00:49:46] Speaker A: Since. So you lost Kirk Cousins with the Vikings early on. Earlier on, Josh Dobbs had a couple games, fell off the Alopecia king, kind.
[00:49:54] Speaker B: Of crushed, but then fell off for.
[00:49:57] Speaker A: The majority of the season you've been out know top five wide receiver in the NFL. Justin Jefferson's been on IR. First game he comes back, gets sent back to the hospital for a different injury altogether. I think at this point, the Vikings being seven and seven, they need a win, but they also need to be safe. If you're going to try to get a playoff shot, you need to be able to win a game in the playoffs. And at this point they're not in a position that they can win.
[00:50:28] Speaker B: I think that's a bullshit thing. You make the playoffs so you can.
[00:50:30] Speaker A: Make the playoffs, but I don't think they're not in a position to win a game in the playoffs.
[00:50:35] Speaker B: You make the playoffs to make NFL.
[00:50:37] Speaker A: Especially kind of fuck chaos. Just you make the playoffs, ruin it for everybody else. I get it. I think the Lions are going to win here.
[00:50:45] Speaker B: I think it could be a very close game, though.
[00:50:47] Speaker A: I think the Lions are going to win because of how just kind of downticking the Vikings have been week after week.
[00:50:53] Speaker B: The Lions are going to win, but it's going to take a late drive or like a late clutch performance from Jared Goff.
[00:50:59] Speaker A: The Vikings have a way of doing close games.
[00:51:02] Speaker B: So we both got the Lions in this one.
[00:51:04] Speaker A: Both Lions.
[00:51:05] Speaker B: So let's move on to the next game.
[00:51:06] Speaker A: Browns at Texans, Browns.
[00:51:08] Speaker B: Texans, Browns. Nobody's talking about them. I know they're like on their third quarterback, Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco's playing well, but he got.
[00:51:17] Speaker A: His ass a contract.
[00:51:18] Speaker B: He got his ass a contract. But did you see some of the throws he had this week?
[00:51:22] Speaker A: It was good. It was great.
[00:51:23] Speaker B: And the bruise?
[00:51:24] Speaker A: I would argue it was Super Bowl Joe Flacco.
[00:51:27] Speaker B: If they're not going to have Deshaun Watson out of all the quarterbacks they've had this year, Joe Flacco gives them the best chance.
They're making the playoffs, probably to win.
[00:51:40] Speaker A: Nine and five, nine and five. Overall, they're in a good spot. One or two more wins, they have.
[00:51:48] Speaker B: A playoff, and they're taking on Houston. Who the big question is, is CJ Stroud going to be ready for this game?
[00:51:56] Speaker A: Late as I could. He's still currently, as of now, this is Tuesday night. He's still in concussion protocol. It's not to say that he can't get out of it by Sunday, but they're taking more security. They're making sure that these guys are cleared to play well before, which is.
[00:52:13] Speaker B: What they should be. And because of that, I was originally going to take the Texans thinking he was going to play. I'm going to switch it. I'm taking the Browns. I think especially if CJ Shraud doesn't play. Joe Flacco has these guys playing well. He's a vet.
[00:52:28] Speaker A: This is the season of the backups.
[00:52:29] Speaker B: Dude, I got the Browns winning the game.
[00:52:32] Speaker A: I think there's going to be a surprise if it's not the 49 ers, I think there's going to be a surprise, like backup quarterback win the Super bowl this year. Something ridiculous, some chaos happened.
I also have the Browns winning just because I believe that Flacco is like, the Browns are already good. They've been building. That's why they spent the money on Deshaun Watson. But then they got kind of like a sleeper, if you will, in, you know, give him some time, build with the practice squad, get him associated with everybody, let him loose. He's a vet. He can pull it off. I think Browns. You think Browns. We think the same on that one as well. Nice.
[00:53:14] Speaker B: All right, so another game. Now we're going to take a look at. It's another team you need to lose.
[00:53:19] Speaker A: Plus another team you need.
[00:53:20] Speaker B: I need to lose. So it's not the same.
[00:53:22] Speaker A: But if they tie, does that help us both or does that actually hurt?
[00:53:26] Speaker B: A win is not a win if you understood that right.
[00:53:29] Speaker A: I get it, even though I don't get it, but it's the Jags, the.
[00:53:34] Speaker B: Jacksonville Jaguars, three losses in a row, eight and six, taking on the seven and seven Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa. The battle of North Florida. Really?
[00:53:46] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:47] Speaker B: Two teams that are mediocre but also could beat anybody.
[00:53:52] Speaker A: I feel like, yeah, it's another. Just another two weird teams in the NFL where it's like, Trevor Lawrence is a great quarterback. He's currently kind of like probably 80, 90%.
[00:54:04] Speaker B: They started six and two and they're eight and six now.
[00:54:06] Speaker A: Right?
What is everybody doing? Is it all injury?
Did they figure out your game plan?
[00:54:15] Speaker B: This is a season. If you're Trevor Lawrence, you should be one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL right now. Everybody else is getting hurt.
[00:54:21] Speaker A: Yeah. Why have you not Kirk, Kirk Rogers, Kirk cousins out, like everybody's Joe Burrow. Joey B's gone. You know, Justin Herbert out. Rest of the.
[00:54:34] Speaker B: Watson, Deshaun Watson out.
[00:54:37] Speaker A: Who else? Bunch of people like top level quarterbacks are gone right now. If you're Trevor Lawrence and you're vying for an early Super bowl in your career, you're playing every fucking snap you can.
[00:54:50] Speaker B: I mean, he is playing, but like.
[00:54:52] Speaker A: I know you got to figure out. You got to figure out a way to produce. You got to figure out a way to produce.
[00:54:59] Speaker B: All right, so let's move on to the next game. It's the fraud bowl in Florida.
[00:55:03] Speaker A: I don't like it.
[00:55:04] Speaker B: The ten and four Cowboys coming off of a blowout loss to the Bills. Are they for real? Taking on the ten and four Miami Dolphins coming off of a loss than a win? But it was a win against a team with like their third quarterback.
[00:55:19] Speaker A: Is Tyreek Hill going to play?
[00:55:21] Speaker B: That is a big factor in this game. Tua, he had a good game last week, but noticeably not as good when he does not have Tyreek Hill, which is understandable. Tyreek, the best player in the league.
[00:55:34] Speaker A: Run as fast as bolt like and.
[00:55:36] Speaker B: He can catch and he's got like, he can run like avoid tackles and break tackles.
[00:55:43] Speaker A: Right. It just makes sense that you would kind of suffer if you don't have the number here.
I think that Dallas's defense is going to hold the Dolphins in check for the majority. I think they're going to be able to score on them because at the end of the day, the Dolphins are a good team, but I think the fraud bowl is going to go to Dallas. At the end of the day, I think with or without Tyree kill, I think the defense will be able to compensate for it at least somewhat.
[00:56:14] Speaker B: Yeah, I tend to agree with you. I think the Cowboy, despite all the ods I have with the Cowboys going on the road and getting a win, I think they go on the road and get a win. I think they're going to respond after that bad loss. I don't think this is a team that's going to win the Super bowl, but I think they're a little bit different than the past few years where they're going to respond well, not controversy.
[00:56:34] Speaker A: But loss of the Bills adversity.
[00:56:36] Speaker B: They're going to come out play well. I think they go into Miami. Miami is an easy place to play, I feel, not because the Dolphins aren't good, but because everybody loves Miami and.
[00:56:45] Speaker A: Maybe they took the Bills for granted because of their know, coming in like.
[00:56:49] Speaker B: I don't think anybody's taking the Bills for granted.
[00:56:51] Speaker A: Just coming in like not having the best year already.
[00:56:53] Speaker B: I think the bills just beat the shit out.
[00:56:55] Speaker A: Maybe. We'll see, I guess.
[00:56:57] Speaker B: But I got the Cowboys in this one, too.
[00:56:59] Speaker A: Oh, so we're picking the same way. That's good to know.
[00:57:01] Speaker B: So let's move on now. AFC west matchup, the Kansas City Chiefs. The formerly named Oakland Raiders.
[00:57:08] Speaker A: Las Vegas Raiders, ten point swing.
[00:57:12] Speaker B: The Chiefs and the Raiders are coming off of a 63 to 21 win. They were up like 42 to zero at halftime.
Underdog Chargers.
[00:57:22] Speaker A: Not Chiefs. Raiders and chargers. You said Chiefs again? No, it's Raiders and Chiefs.
[00:57:28] Speaker B: The Raiders are playing the Chiefs.
[00:57:29] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:57:30] Speaker B: The Raiders play the Chargers last week and beat them 63.
[00:57:33] Speaker A: Yeah, 63 to 21. That's wild. Absolutely wild.
[00:57:35] Speaker B: 42 to zero at halftime and the Raiders come in touchdowns after that. They're minus ten underdogs. Yeah, their next game. I know the Chiefs are good, but the Chiefs haven't been the chief in lately.
[00:57:47] Speaker A: Is this a team like with the Raiders that can cover that ten point spread?
[00:57:52] Speaker B: That's exactly what I was about to say. I think they're a team that covers that ten point spread, but I think they lose the game. I think the Chiefs just the experience and who they have. This is nut cutting time for them. They proved last week might not be pretty, but they're going to go in and get a win. I think they come beat the Raiders, but it's probably by a touchdown.
[00:58:12] Speaker A: I think this is like wild. But do you think if Cadarius Tony's in the game, do you think the Chiefs lose?
[00:58:20] Speaker B: Somebody said a good point. They're like when the Chiefs go to the playoffs and they inevitably lose because of a Cadarius Tony fuck up, they can only blame themselves at this point.
[00:58:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it's not his fault.
[00:58:31] Speaker B: How many times is this going to.
[00:58:32] Speaker A: It'S not his fault? It's the old George Bush thing. Blame me once, shame on you. Blame me once, twice, shame on me, shame on me. Blame me three times.
Dang. And blame me a third time. Yeah, now I get it. I pick the Kansas City Chiefs beating the Raiders.
[00:58:49] Speaker B: I got the Chiefs too, but you made me nervous mentioning Cadarius Tony. I feel like he's going to find.
[00:58:55] Speaker A: A way to fuck it up. Yeah, I think so as well.
[00:58:57] Speaker B: But you know what's crazy is we say that, but last year he was like their key player in the Super bowl.
[00:59:03] Speaker A: Speaking of fuck ups, we're going to move on to the Eagles at home. They fucked up against the Giants two.
[00:59:13] Speaker B: Games in a row.
[00:59:14] Speaker A: Three in a row.
[00:59:14] Speaker B: Three in a row. But their last one was especially bad to the Seahawks.
[00:59:19] Speaker A: Dude, you lose to Drew Locke. Look, losing to Gino Smith is one thing. Losing to Drew Locke replacing is like unsurmountably worse when you have a play that they are currently reviewing as illegal or not and are pending decision in the offseason.
On a fourth down situation, you can guarantee yourself a minimum of three yards of play and you're losing games by three points, throwing interceptions with time on the clock.
[00:59:59] Speaker B: Yeah, but then they're coming out playing the Giants, who just got blown out by the Saints.
[01:00:02] Speaker A: So it's like, I don't know what's going to happen. I honestly think coming in that the Giants are going to cover the eleven and a half point spread. Yeah. Tommy DeVito is going to have that hype behind him acting like a spicy meat of Boba.
I don't know. That's all I can think about.
[01:00:17] Speaker B: I got Eagles by eight.
[01:00:20] Speaker A: I got Eagles by eight, too. I like that. Actually, I'm going to pick that Eagles by eight. Let me write that down.
[01:00:26] Speaker B: Now let's move on to Christmas night. And they saved maybe the best game of the regular season. Game of the year for Christmas night, which is crazy.
[01:00:34] Speaker A: Listen, put me around the family. Let me have the best game of the top. In my opinion, the top two teams in the NFL right now, one in.
[01:00:45] Speaker B: The AFC, one in the NFC. The Baltimore Ravens visiting the San Francisco.
[01:00:50] Speaker A: 49 ers win healthy, the best team in the NFL.
[01:00:54] Speaker B: And the Ravens might have something to say about that.
[01:00:57] Speaker A: We'll see.
[01:00:57] Speaker B: Both these teams best team in the AFC and the Ravens best team in the NFC. The Niners. Niners had a great start to the season, had a weird three game stretch where they lost three in a row.
[01:01:06] Speaker A: But both teams eleven and three.
[01:01:07] Speaker B: But since then, the Niners have just been on a roll. This team is so good. Brock Purdy, I mean, you can't even say he's overrated at this point. Now it's like, no, I saw. He's like second or third in the NFL in passing yards, and he's like 27th in pass attempts. Yeah, I know he has great guys with him, but no matter what, to be able to do that, you're like.
[01:01:31] Speaker A: There'S something to say about a team.
It's not out here to be an individual sport. You can't argue with the guy if he has a good team around him.
[01:01:40] Speaker B: Yeah, that's what I don't understand. They try to hold it against him.
[01:01:43] Speaker A: Because you have Brandon Iuke and Christian McCaffrey.
They were still good with Raheem Mostert.
[01:01:50] Speaker B: Well, Raheem Mostert leads the league in touchdowns right now.
[01:01:53] Speaker A: Right. Like, you can't say he's over here being a piece of shit at the Dolphins. No, he's killing it. Christian McCaffrey is just a great back. He's versatile. Debo Samuel Ayuk kittle the line.
[01:02:09] Speaker B: Yeah, but they just hold it against him because.
They just hold it against Brock Purdy because people try to say he's great, which I think he is great.
[01:02:16] Speaker A: I think he is and has very good potential in the NFL. I think, and I've said this several times, I'll say it again when not injured, the 49 ers are the best team in the NFL this season.
[01:02:29] Speaker B: I agree with you.
[01:02:29] Speaker A: And they will be winning the Super bowl if they can continue this trend.
[01:02:33] Speaker B: Now, this is a rematch of a Super Bowl a few years ago, the Harbaugh bowl.
[01:02:37] Speaker A: It went to the Ravens. Right.
[01:02:39] Speaker B: The Ravens won.
[01:02:40] Speaker A: Right.
[01:02:40] Speaker B: It was when it was in New Orleans and the Lights went out.
[01:02:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. I was trying to think. That's why I remembered it.
[01:02:45] Speaker B: Kaepernick, starting quarterback for the 49 ers.
[01:02:47] Speaker A: That was kind of the last time he was relevant.
[01:02:51] Speaker B: Well, I wouldn't say relevant.
[01:02:52] Speaker A: Well, relevant football in playing. Right.
[01:02:55] Speaker B: But this is the game of the year. Before we get off subject, right.
[01:02:58] Speaker A: Let's not go too far down that rabbit hole.
[01:03:00] Speaker B: I got the 49 ers. I think these are two great teams. I think the Niners win a close game.
I think Brock Purdy, while Lamar Jackson, definitely more dynamic, bigger playmakers. Brock Purdy is not going to lose the game for the Niners.
[01:03:13] Speaker A: I 100% agree. I think the 49 ers are going to come out. I think it will be a good game back and forth, but I think the Niners will have what it takes to win the game.
All righty. And now we're gonna go into stakes and takes. So we're gonna recap a little bit of last week's bets and picks, go into that briefly, and then we're going to jump right into this week's bets and our upsets. I got a couple of good things going. What'd you do last week? How'd you go overall?
[01:03:51] Speaker B: So, UFC, we picked five fights. One of them didn't happen. So to the four that did happen, I went four and undefeated.
[01:03:59] Speaker A: God damn it. I went three and one.
[01:04:01] Speaker B: What'd you get wrong?
[01:04:02] Speaker A: Colby Covington.
[01:04:03] Speaker B: Yeah, of course you got that one wrong, Tom ass.
[01:04:05] Speaker A: To win the welterweight title. I thought he was going to. I don't have to explain myself. I lost NFL. How'd you do?
[01:04:14] Speaker B: NFL. So we picked ten games last week.
[01:04:16] Speaker A: Ten games.
[01:04:17] Speaker B: So I went six and four. So not the worst over 500. Not the best, though.
[01:04:21] Speaker A: I went six and four, too. I think we went six and four different ways.
[01:04:25] Speaker B: Yeah, I had the Broncos, which was wrong, obviously. They lost. I had the packers loss, Bears loss, Eagles loss, and then Eagles loss.
[01:04:35] Speaker A: I had the Bears as well. Had the packers as well and the Eagles as well. But I threw in a wild card.
[01:04:41] Speaker B: One different one.
[01:04:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I guess that would have been easier to say. I threw in a wild card of the Cowboys being wrong as well.
[01:04:48] Speaker B: I threw the wild card of the bills being right, and I got it right.
[01:04:51] Speaker A: You know what I mean? When you have one that can go either way, one of us is going to get it right.
[01:04:56] Speaker B: Thank God for the bills. I guess that made the whole week.
[01:05:00] Speaker A: God saved the bills. Something like that. So, yeah, it was a pretty good week for both of us. I went nine and five. You went ten and four. What about bets for last week? How'd you do, what about your stakes? What did you stake and how did you do it?
[01:05:16] Speaker B: So bets. I went four and one. I got one bet wrong.
[01:05:19] Speaker A: Holy Jesus.
[01:05:20] Speaker B: And it was the goddamn Philadelphia Eagles blowing that game against the Seahawks, which we covered earlier.
[01:05:26] Speaker A: Look, that happens every now and again.
I can't really complain because I didn't do any better. I went two and three.
I got Covington wrong, I got the packers wrong, I got the Cowboys wrong, and I got my upset wrong.
[01:05:46] Speaker B: It happens.
[01:05:47] Speaker A: It happens. I'm going to do better. I'm going to have better research this week. This week I think I'm going to rebound hard. I didn't overthink a single thing. I went with my gut for all five and my upset. But let's kick it off. Because we have college football playoffs. I'm only picking one of the two. I'm picking both of them for January 1.
[01:06:07] Speaker B: I'm picking both.
[01:06:09] Speaker A: All right. So you want to go first or.
[01:06:11] Speaker B: I'm going to give you my two. I know we have two opposite picks.
[01:06:14] Speaker A: Yeah, we do have two opposite picks, so I guess I'd know both of yours.
[01:06:17] Speaker B: Bama, Moneyline plus 102 Texas moneyline -185.
[01:06:21] Speaker A: And I'm going Michigan with that big Michael Pennox Jr. Energy.
[01:06:26] Speaker B: It's not Michael Pennix. He's Washington.
[01:06:28] Speaker A: I know. I'm just fucking around at this point.
I'm going Michigan. JJ McCarthy killing it against Alabama. Got to get to the finals. I think that's where they're going to.
[01:06:41] Speaker B: College football championship in the finals. Bama, Texas.
[01:06:44] Speaker A: You think it's a rematch? That'd be an interesting one.
From there, I think I just have four. NFL. You have three, right?
[01:06:52] Speaker B: I got three NFL.
[01:06:53] Speaker A: All right, I got Bengals. Moneyline I think Jake Browning is going to continue to kind of prove that he can fight against adversity, and the team around him is also helping uplift him, seeing that he's trying to keep them in a playoff spot.
Next I go with the Lions. Money line surprising in the NFL so far? Not so far. It's pretty deep into the season, but they're like a very good team this late into the season, which is surprising to me. I think they're going to pull off another win. -176 moneyline there.
Brown's. Moneyline.
Think they're going to pull it off. Flacco, I think is proving what the offense needs after their fourth quarterback of the year with Deshaun going out and then the Bucks beating the Jags. Moneyline -108 I believe the line is I just need the Bucks to beat the Jags so the Colts can have a playoff spot. To be honest, that's funny because I.
[01:07:51] Speaker B: Got none of those good.
[01:07:52] Speaker A: That actually helps.
[01:07:53] Speaker B: Kansas City Chiefs. Moneyline I think they find a way to win. They beat the Raiders. A better team minus four seven. That's my biggest favorite.
[01:08:01] Speaker A: Find a way to win. That's a weird thing to say about a team that 100% should win.
[01:08:07] Speaker B: Not necessarily. You just think they should win because of Patrick Mahomes. Doesn't mean the team is good. We just talked about with Brock Purdy how it's a team game.
[01:08:14] Speaker A: That's true. That's true.
[01:08:15] Speaker B: But then I got in the Dallas Cowboys. Moneyline plus one and two. I think in the opposite way as the Chiefs figure out when ways to game. The Cowboys are sometimes labeled as they don't. I think this is a game they prove that wrong.
[01:08:28] Speaker A: Like a non clutch scenario is what they're faced with typically.
[01:08:31] Speaker B: I think this is a big win because if they come out and win this game, I think they gain all the confidence back and can just say, hey, that was a bad game, but we're going to rebound against, I think.
[01:08:40] Speaker A: A lot of things about how you rebound for sure.
[01:08:42] Speaker B: And I think the Cowboys are going to be able to respond to that. And then I think the 49 ers moneyline minus 230. I think in a game where we said probably the two best teams in the NFL, they're going to rise to the occasion Christmas night, literally every person in America is maybe watching this game.
[01:08:58] Speaker A: That'd be a great present to have a Brock purdy like win.
[01:09:02] Speaker B: It would be a great present.
And I got the San Francisco 49 ers.
[01:09:07] Speaker A: Got to come up with a pun for that one at some point.
Yeah, I like all these bets. I think it's going to be an interesting say. Your upset of the week did not. My upset of the week is Washington money line.
[01:09:20] Speaker B: The commanders?
[01:09:22] Speaker A: No, the Huskies.
[01:09:23] Speaker B: Washington Huskies. Oh, so you're going with one of.
[01:09:25] Speaker A: Your, one of my picks. I'm going with the tried and true. Now this time I'm not joking around. I'm not going to doubt the big pennix energy.
I think they have what it takes to beat Texas. I really do.
[01:09:42] Speaker B: I got the New Orleans Saints moneyline plus 165. I think they in a must win game. Really?
[01:09:49] Speaker A: Yeah. In a very tight playoff contention.
[01:09:52] Speaker B: I think they get it done.
[01:09:54] Speaker A: Yeah, and I don't disagree they really need that kind of that push if they're going to make any kind.
[01:10:01] Speaker B: You don't disagree, but you literally.
[01:10:04] Speaker A: No, no. I don't disagree that they need that. I'm saying I disagree with what you're saying for sure. I don't think they're winning against the Rams this week.
[01:10:13] Speaker B: Well, on that note, thank you for listening to this episode of Split Decision. And thank you for listening for 2023. Check us out in a couple of weeks. We're actually going to take a week off.
With the UFC off holidays coming up. I think it's a good time for us to take a week off, come back in the new year, get ready for the new UFC card, get ready for the college football championship game, get ready for NFL playoffs. Lot of big things coming.
[01:10:38] Speaker A: So I guess check us out in 2024 when we recap the college football semifinals and we look ahead to the college football finals. College football championship. To see who's better with you.
[01:11:06] Speaker B: Wait a minute.
[01:11:14] Speaker A: Scratch it.
