Anything Better? - NFL Picks & Preview | Week 2

Episode Date: September 12, 2024

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What's up everybody and welcome back to the Anything Better podcast NFL edition for week number two guys. We've got a great show for you but before we get into the show we got a shout out our sponsor it's the BetMGM Sports app everybody. BetMGM is offering $1,500. Holy shit. Yes, in Betts to get your season going. How do you do it? It's four easy steps. You download the BetMGM Sportsbook app, get it on your phone, your Android, all that, and use our code. B-U-R-R, that's Burr. B-U-R-R at betmgm.com. You sign up and deposit at least $10 into your BetMGM Sportsbook account, place your first wager, and

receive up to $1,500 back in bonus bets if the bet loses. If the bet does lose, your bonus bets will be available once your initial wager is settled. Bet responsibly, have a good time, and you know what? Do better than old Paulie did in week one because I got a fucking whopper. I start the year 0-4. My Giants look fucking horrible. I lose by a toe. We got Saquon Barkley scoring three touchdowns in an Eagles uniform going for over 100 fucking yards. We'll get into that. But thank God for Bill Burr keeping the show somewhat afloat by winning a couple of games. I think Jake the Snake... Oh, Billy wins some, lose some once again.

Oh Billy wins some, lose some. I think Jake the snake went 0-4. I think Andrew- I got that one and the Lions covered. And then the Raiders fucked me. And the Jets were just the Jets again. That was a one week affair. By the way, everybody, I'm really fucking sick.

So this is gonna be abridged. Your Patriots pick was fucking great one, man. That was a great performance by them, dude, against a good team, too. Yeah, I think we're not as bad as last year, so that's good. That'd be amazing. My fucking head is What, did you find out what you got? What do you got? I don't have COVID. I don't know what it is, but dude, like my eyes hurt. All right, well, hey, we'll get our picks in quick.

You know what it is? The kids come back from school with shit. All right, so anyway, you- Dude, this would kill a kid. Or maybe I'm fucking too old. Jesus Christ. You get the first pick this week, Bill. Oh, Jesus.

You get the first. Well, I watched the Titans versus the Brown, the Bears last week. Bears defense was obviously impressive. I feel bad for that Will Levi guy who was playing like his fucking hair was on fire. He threw that fucking last interception that picks sick. It was like a chick back in the day when they see a mouse and they jump up on the stool. So there's only one way to go from here. He was like, oh, I ate it.

How much I related to that. All right. I'm going to go with the Eagles because I don't understand. I know Kirk Cousins is what the Falcons and Kirk Cousins scores points, goddamn it, Paul. But he's playing with the Falcons. And I think the Eagles, they always, you know, their head coach, his medication is right. The early earlier time of the year, somewhere around Thanksgiving,

the turkey messes with it and then he gets a little nuts. So so I feel like they're going to win again I'm gonna take the Eagles laying Paul six and a half to the fucking Falcons. Kurt Cousin, disrespectful to Kurt Cousin. I love that pick because that's the Eagles first home game uh which I can't fucking get because DirecTV's having a fight with fucking Disney. I love that they're having a fight so we pay for it. Same thing happened with the Yes Network with the Yankees. You couldn't get a Yankee game certain days of the week because they were feuding with cable vision.

I know. And then they point the finger at each other. Oh, they don't want you to watch the game. Fuck you. You want too much money and they want too much money. All right. Work it out. We have no life.

You're going to see how blurry I am. This is how I feel, Paul. We have no life. You see how blurry I am? This is how I feel, Paul. I'm fading away. All right. Well, I'm going to go my first pick of the week. I'm going to go with a team that is just flying. And I think they're just going to keep getting better. And already, I think they've been flying since last year. It continued this year and they got great talent. They added Stefan Diggs on top of having Nico Collins they got good quarterback I'm gonna take the Houston Texans at home against

the Bears I think the Bears are good but I think the Bears are young I like the Texans to have a big big big game. They can hang out in the football that offense wasn't doing anything against the Titans I can tell you that. No the Bears offense seems I mean it's early but doesn't seem ready yet rookie quarterback I like the Texans at home lay in six and a half all right well you know oh wait real quick I don't mean to cut you off but Jake the snake Jake the snake do we, I know we lost some people, who do we lose? Anybody? Yeah, so it sounds like McCaffrey

is gonna be out again next week. And then Russell Wilson is not gonna start again against the Broncos. I know they wanted Russell Wilson to make his return to mile high, but it seems like he's gonna be out. And then Jordan Love got hurt at the end of that Eagle game.

The coach came out and said he might play, but it's a pretty severe injury. So he's unlikely to play. So if you like the Colts take it now before he's officially out tomorrow. All right, so we got no Jordan Love. We got no McCaffrey. We got no Russell Wilson.

No Russell. Yeah, those are the big three injuries I could think of. Jake the Snake, that's what he does. What do you got, Bill? I'm gonna go with the Kansas City Chiefs. I know you're sick, because you said it's sad. Mine is five and a half.

No, it's just they're the story now. They're the story. And they always act like Brady was always the story. He wasn't. He won three fucking rings, and they always act like Brady was always the story He wasn't he won three fucking rings and they were still saying alright if I got to start a team though I got to go with Peyton Manning Brady started getting the calls in the late 2000s And now this is a business Yeah, the atrocious fucking officiating

Fucking atrocious like they are just looking the fucking, hey, it fell off the truck. Oh, it's like a good fellas montage. I know. I mean, if that's how they're gonna officiate these fucking guys, I'll take the Chiefs. The Chiefs look really good too.

That's a great pick. All right, for my second pick, I'm gonna take, the Chiefs. The Chiefs look really good, too. That's a great pick. Alright, for my second pick, I'm going to take you know what they got off to a slow start but won the game. Harbaugh looks

like he settled in nice to the NFL. I'm going to take a Chargers team playing in the words of Bill Burr, the hapless, the hapless Carolina Panthers. I'm going to get FC south you say that's another country I have no idea what's going on over there yeah I like the charges over the Panthers

they're just a better team with a better quarterback and a better coach- lay in six I got the charges. All right I got the Patriots get three and a half against the Seahawks the coming home oh feeling good they're gonna like I mean, what do they got? They got they got Something Smith who's that? Gino Smith is that their quarterback the Seahawks quarterback Gino Smith? Yeah

So I like that guy but like I don't know. I liked our defense last week. So I Want to do that? Oh my God. This fucking shit dude. I am going to do something that I didn't think I would do, but if Jordan love is not playing, I think the Colts are good. I think Anthony Richardson is good. I'm going to take the Indianapolis Colts, get a lay in two and a half on the road in Lambeau. You got to love a team. That's a good team playing a team that's a good team, playing a team that doesn't have a starting quarterback, less than a field goal. I'm taking the Colts. I

got the Colts minus two and a half in Lambeau. Watch Jordan Love plays. He has this fucking Willis Reed game, comes out limping. Everybody goes nuts. The kid throws for 350 yards and four touchdowns. I don't think it's going happen. And I also think if the page if the Packers if the Packers do start that kid after that, it's it's ridiculous bad move. So there you go. I'll take the calls to win that game. All right. Hey, Jake, the, uh, the Jaguars have any injuries that I need to know about? Uh, no, you mother fucker. I like that one. You mother fucker. Minus three the going right into the lake. I'm not going to lie to you. That was a pick I had on my board this week. It's a great pick, but don't you worry.

Don't you worry because I got another one. Easy with the volume. I got a fucking brain is going to fall out of my ears. Oh, that's all right. All right. All right. Bill's having an injury. This is Bill's in just Bill's flu game picks.

All right, here we go. Let's do for my fourth and final pick. I might be at Giants Commanders, but I'm not going to do it. I'm going to take the Cowboys at home to win by a touchdown against the Saints. I think the Cowboys look good. C.D. Lamb looks good. Dak Prescott just got his fucking whatever 60 million dollar extension. Who's the pretty girl on the Saints? Who's playing quarterback? Carr. Oh, Derek Carr. Played really good last week too, but I could, you know, if it was over seven, I would say no. Six and a half, I think the Cowboys are a better team by a touchdown, so I'll do the Cowboys. Yeah.

Well, there you go, Paul. Paul, I gotta go fucking laid out. My head is fucking killing me. Yeah, all right, do we have our all picks? We have all four of our picks? I think so, right? There we go. All right, Bill, all good.

I'll take this puppy home. All right, you bring it home. All right, everybody, good. I'll take this puppy home. All right, you bring it home All right, everybody. Sorry about being under the weather get rest. We'll see you next week In other words, don't show your wife how much you're gambling I'll see you later. There you go guys. The co-host had what it took to hang in there He had what it take to hang in there and and get his in. But I know what it's like to be that sick and feel like you can't even keep your head up. That's the worst, but I'll be honest with you, man.

If I was that sick, I don't even know if I would have done the show. So shout out to Bill. I do love his picks, especially, I mean, I love his Patriots pick. I love, but the one that I wanted, I would be very surprised if, I honestly like I don't want to I'm not saying this because he would say oh don't jinx it I love the Jaguars in in at home against

against the Browns by a field goal and you know and like I said other than that pick I like everything that I was doing um but we'll see you know could I say? How could I talk any shit? I went all in for Jake, you went all in for two. Yep. I was on for as well. It's brutal. It's brutal. It's brutal. And it's tough. Here's how bad my week was. Okay. Just so the fans just so the fans of the anything better show. And here's the deal, guys. Here's the deal. Okay. What do we do? Oh, Andrew, that's last week, right? Yeah. Yeah. So here's the deal. See, we're professional this year, guys. Look, we got, we got, we got live stats as I'm talking over here. Okay. We got, look at this thing. We got three boxes on this side. Andrew,

you're running a show over here. What are we doing? We did it last year too. I just didn't pull it up as much. Um, I know, I know. Don't get defensive. I'm just saying. No, no, no, no. I know. I'm just saying, you know, and then here's our week. I got to it last year, Paul. This is how bad my week went, okay? It started off on Thursday. And I'll be honest with you, might be the worst NFL week I might've ever had.

And I'm hoping that it's not, you know, a, uh, what do they call it? A microcosm of what's yet to come with this thing. I hope not. I was riding shotgun with you on that Ravens pick. Uh, that was brutal. Well, that's how it started. That's how it started. Yeah.

It started with, I'm going, Oh, look, Lamar Jackson, we're in the red zone. We score right here. Um, I'm one and O ready start, and we lose by a toe. I'm not even gonna say a toe. We lost by 2 centimeters. That's how close that was. Yeah, and the rest, which Bill brought up, they were driving me crazy watching that game.

That was insane. Insane. Dude, the toe on the line, and I was running around going, oh, my God, we did it. That happens. Then if that's not bad enough, I gotta watch Saquon Barkley in a rival uniform, score not one, not two, but three touchdowns and rush for over a hundred fucking yards

celebrating in an Eagles uniform. Then if that's not bad enough, were you on the Packers ball? Just asking because I can't really see that. Were you on the Packers in that game? Was I on the? No, you take the Packers. Oh, you're just saying it's in general. I didn't know.

No, I didn't. I didn't touch the game because the spread on that game was brutal because it was a two-point game. So you would have pushed and then the Packers kicked or sorry the Eagles kicked a field goal in garbage time to make it five so that was a brutal one if you're on that but anyway keep going. No no I wasn't on that game as far as a pick I was just like watching the game you know I was psyched that there was a Friday night game to watch so I got home and could watch the second half of a game on Friday night after the debacle on Thursday.

So then I'm like, I like Saquon Barkley, but I'm like, I'll hold him to like maybe a touchdown and like 70 yards and we go on with our lives. No, that doesn't happen. He's fucking now he's the NFC player of the week. Okay. Then I got to watch the Giants who I did pick get fucking destroyed with Daniel Jones is throwing pick sixes when he's in the red zone Or whatever what he's throwing interception in the red zone. He's throwing I mean, it's it couldn't be more couldn't be worse Um, and then and then I lose Buffalo by half a point and I lose and I lose the Dolphins by half a point

So everything that that could have went wrong went wrong. But here's what I want to say. And I want to, I want to, this has been on my mind. Okay. I told Bill that I had it with this shit and I was going to go off on a little bit of a rant. And he was like, Hey, I'm sorry, I'm sick, but you know, maybe it's a good time for you to go on the rant. So this is what I have to say. And I know people, listen to me right now, all you listeners, I don't give a fuck what you think or if you disagree with me. So you could put your dumb fucking YouTube comment in and go this and that. I don't give a fuck. If you'll yeah, well, that's what the fucking giants get. What I'm going to say is what I'm going to say. And this is what it is. Okay. All of you people who watch the NFL

and say, well, running backs don't matter anymore. You don't pay the running backs anymore. Running backs don't matter. First of all, if running backs don't matter as much anymore in this NFL, then why is Christian McCaffrey on the top of every board of fantasy football? Do you want to know why? The reason why is because other than a quarterback, a running back has the ball more than anybody else in the game. And listen, yes, a lot of running backs are in a middle pack and they're kind of the same, but not a Saquon Barkley, period. There are certain running backs, Christian McCaffrey, Saquon Barkley, this kid, B. John Robinson on the Falcons. There are certain, what's that? Yeah.

Breeze Hall. Breeze Hall is a great one. There are a handful of running backs that if you if you're fortunate enough to have them in your building, if you're fortunate enough to have them in the organization, you make them happy, especially a kid who is in his mid 20s, not even 27. OK, fine. I get it. You got a 28, 29 year old wanting a big extension There's a difference there. Maybe you don't give him as much. He's not happy

You got a 25 26 27 year old that can fucking turn a corner and take it to the house like that You do it and it go. Oh, well, we don't need and John Mara in that in that what's it called the clip? In the hard knocks John Mara was right when he was like, I'm gonna lose sleep If we don't you know the say this Saquon Barkley thing. So all the people going, fuck Saquon, you don't do it, it's not worth it. This is why it's worth it. To not watch him get three touchdowns in a rival's fucking uniform week one of the next year. That's why. You know, this kid is the NFC player of the week on a rival team. It's literally like,

it's literally like your girlfriend cheating on you and fucking your rival. And then basically saying he fucks better. That's what it's like, okay? I know that's a little extreme, but that's what it felt like watching it as a Giants fan. So I understand that you got to pay the quarterback, but how about giving Daniel Jones 10 million less?

Yep. Okay. How about, you know, you give Daniel Jones 160 million, fine. I understand you want to lock up a quarterback for a few years. He took you to the playoffs. You want to pay him? Fine. But it's a kid that hurt his neck.

I mean, that's, at that point, I think, what you just said about Jones, that's where it has nothing to do with the field and it has everything to do with the market. And that's when the conversation starts to drift from production. And listen, we talked about this last year, and I know Bill was giving you shit just about like,

what has he done? Even at the beginning of this year, like, well, what has Daniel Jones done? And you want to say like, he was sharp and he looked good and he could manage the team, whatever he fit. You can say all that stuff, that's fine. But that's, you have to bring up like, yeah, what are we getting rid of?

And if it's not Daniel Jones, who's the other guy plus Saquon, right? Like, I mean, there weren't any other, who else did you guys sign on the off season? Picked up a, I think at least a D back, right? That would prove to D. No, in the off season, it was Brian Burns. It was Brian Burns from the Panther

who's one of the best pass rushers. Listen. Yeah, pass rushers, that's right. Yeah, but look, and listen, I know the Giants GM assistant guy. He's great guy. And in fairness, Saquon Barkley did walk away from us for $500,000. So Saquon Barkley did say, hey, I'll match this.

The Giants said to Saquon Barkley, and this is 100% true. I know this for a fact. And it was on hard knocks, but there are certain things that other people don't know. And I'll give you a little insight. Basically what happened was, Saquon Barkley said, I'm going to test the market and I'll come back to you guys and if you guys match it. And his last words on the phone on hard knocks were, you know where I want to be. So he's basically saying, I want to be a giant for life.

And over his record of being in the NFL, he said, I want to be a giant for life. Then it was a $500,000 difference and he chose to go to the Eagles. Ultimately what happened, and I understand it was when they franchised him again, and he lost out on $12 million and he could stay in his same house in Jersey, go down the fucking turnpike an hour,

because he was on the other side of the Jersey. So you're talking, he could stay in his house, he can go down, have a better line, and they were going to give him incentives to make some of the millions back that the Giants did not give him. I get that. But I think what the Giants should have done was the Giants should have given Daniel Jones 10 million less and play with that money and make Saquon Barkley happy and then would do whatever you can to beef up the line. Listen, it didn't happen, but the idea of running backs don't matter anymore. That's true when you have an average running back.

That's true when you have an 800 900 yard rusher, but it's not the case for a guy that can go for 1500 yards and is just special. Not to mention Saquon Barkley probably saved Daniel Jones' fucking life with the way he blocks. Cuz he's somebody that can not only catch balls out of the backfield, but he can block. So- Can I ask you this?

Cuz I agree with that. What do you think the odds are that he just saw he just looked at Philly and just looked at the teams, like I can win a Super Bowl this year? No, absolutely. I think he was like- Cause I get that he probably wanted to stay there and I'm not, you know, I don't know what the man's thinking,

but like you look at that team and you're like, do I want to play with Jalen Hurts and AJ Browns? Like, yeah, like that's, that's a hell of an offense. And no disrespect to the Giants, but the Giants are three years away from anything. Right. And maybe more at this point. I don't know what's gonna happen with Daniel Jones.

I don't know, what's he guaranteed? Look, the Giants, I would say maybe not three years if something changes at quarterback, or if, you know, look, I look at it like this. Our defensive line, even though it didn't play amazing against a good Vikings team, our defensive line has studs. You know, Dexter Lawrence is probably the best run defend. I mean, Dexter Lawrence up front is as good as it gets. Brian Burns and Tibbitt on the outside. I think once they gel, that's good. And we do have Tay Banks in the back. We have Bobby O'Kara K. We have, and we got that kid Phillips, who actually forced a fumble DBA. I think the Giants defense is young.

Now here's the other thing about the Giants. The Giants are the second youngest team in the NFL. It's going to take some time, but I do agree with you, Andrew. I think that say Kwan's agent was like, look, dude, how many years are you going to waste? You're wasting your, you're wasting years. You can, you could stay in your house and go down the highway, have a good offensive line and a team that's kind of ready to go right now.

And they're gonna give you incentives to get some of those million dollars back. At the end of the day, he's gotta do that. But I just feel like- They're just, I think the problem with the Giants, and then we get them to harp on the same words to probably get it. But like, I think the thing is just, yeah,

it's like, forget about winning a Super Bowl. They're just, they're, hey, sorry, Paul, I don't think they're going to make the playoffs. So I just think like, that's, I think that, that, that, that just bottom line, Hey, you might know what Super Bowl is like, dude, do you not want to make the playoffs for the next three years? Or do you, or do you, or do you want to, you know? The, the logic from last year is what's most upsetting if you're a Giants fan, because who's the best player, you need to pay your best players like you were saying Paul

position doesn't not that doesn't matter but like you know you need to pay the best player regardless of your position so who's the best player on the Giants it's by far say Gwen Barkley why don't you just extend him first instead of tagging him and doing all this under the underhanded stuff and then you can just whatever's left you could there's gonna be plenty of money left to pay Daniel Jones if you feel he's the guy what's Daniel Jones gonna walk away from 140 150 million there's no shot there's no shot so the thing is the thing is is that Saquon Barkley is a generational talent

Saquon Barkley is a guy that comes around once every 20 25 years okay as far as his speed as far as what he Okay. As far as his speed, as far as what he can do, as far as his cutting ability. Now granted, people will say, well, you can't blame the Giants too much because he was hurt two out of his first three years. He had injuries, this and that. Fine. And some of that's bad luck, but the kid is still young. I mean, you should also look back at like he bounced back from that one injury kind of quickly and got back. I just think the kid was, you know, I mean, Danny Jones running for his life, Saquon Barkley

is like the last line of defense before everybody collapsed. He didn't want to lose any more years on it. So we'll leave it at that. But I'm just saying people have this, the dumb NFL fan, and there's a lot of them. Okay. The dumb NFL fan goes, nah, fuck running back. You plug anybody in there. That's the case with mediocrity and maybe a guy that's a little above average, but it's not the case with those McCaffrey's and all those guys. And

that's why I agree with you a hundred percent. You got to take care of the guys that take care of you. And I think they franchise, if my memory is right, didn't they, they franchise them two times in a row. I think it was just once because the second time it's like a lot higher. So then they usually extend you out for that. But, but I think when you franchise a guy, like I think the player is going to internalize it most of the time. And that's when stuff usually falls apart and like you can, and the giants can come back and say, Oh, we were, we were close on the extension this last off season.'s fine but they should have got this done before Daniel Jones if

they truly valued them like like they should have in my opinion and you know to your point Paul about McCaffrey like look at the Niners record ever since they traded for him they basically have gone undefeated and to a Super Bowl so I mean and and McCaffrey here's the other thing too McCaffrey was injury prone with the Panthers. You're right. And then what happens? He goes to the 49ers and they said last game was the first game that he ever missed as a Niner. And he's been to multiple Super Bowls. So, you know, the same thing can happen with with Saquon Barkley.

You know, if I'm the GM and hey, I'm not because I tell dick jokes and fucking malls at night and shit. But if I'm the GM, I call Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley in the office at the same time. And I'm like, guys, look, I call Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley in the office at the same time. And I'm like, guys, look, I want to keep you both here. You two are the guys that are going to make this engine go. We want to renegotiate and move a couple of things around. And this is what we're thinking about doing.

Do you want to do it? Or like, you know, don't give Daniel Jones $160 million. Give him $145 million with an incentive, you know? And with that $15 million, it makes Saquon Barkley happy. So, um, look, it sucked to see, but you know, the Philadelphia, the, the, I almost said Phillies, the Philadelphia Eagles have their guy and, uh, it's going to suck to see him thrive. But you know what?

I like the dude as a dude and, um, it is, it is what it is. So I'll leave it at that, but I can't hear another person say that running backs don't matter and it's a different league because it's really, you know, it's really not. I mean, if you look at the amount of touches that running backs get, they're the points in fantasy football, right? I mean, do you guys do fantasy, right? Jake, you have a fantasy team? Jake Kennedy I do. Aaron Malkin Who was your first pick? Jake Kennedy This year was Bijan. Aaron you go. Yeah. There you go.

Running back, you know, and everybody else either has Bijan Robinson or actually too. Yeah. So it's either like Saquon Bijan, Bijan Robinson, or, or, you know, Christian McCaffrey and all that stuff. And then you go to, to wide receivers. So there you go. I said my piece. It sucked to see the Giants like that. Here's my dilemma. All right. I'm in Baltimore this weekend, guys. September 13th and 14th, Friday, Saturday. I'm in Baltimore. Now the Ravens are playing the Raiders right by where I'm at. But 50 minutes down the road, my Giants are playing the commanders in DC and I'm gonna go to that and the line is, you know, Whatever one and a half. Yeah, so I'm going like do I go down? 4550 minutes to see the Giants do I? Get in my car after the Saturday night shows and drive home

So I could be home and wake up, but you know get get home at three in the morning, wake up and watch football at my house. Do I stay in Baltimore? Watch the Ravens Raiders, but I can't do that if I stay to watch a game. It's gotta be my Giants, right? Yeah, it's your team and that's the game you guys can win. Truly, because we're always

good against Washington. Yeah, we're always good against Washington and it's it's a their defense isn't very good. It's a rookie quarterback still. I'm sure I'm sure you know who knows how it will end up because you know it's a rookie quarterback still. I'm sure I'm sure you know, who knows how it'll end up because you know, it's a brand new team, but I think that's a rivalry game. It's the line tells you everything right there. It's basically a pick them. So that'll be a lot of fun. You should definitely go to the Giants. Yeah, I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna I think I'm going to do that. So should we do a Monday night special? Should I just pick the Monday night special on my own? Yeah, Jake, and Paul, do you guys have anything else that you want to talk about in terms of the

week? Let me just pull up the... Well, we touched on the Ravens officiating thing. And then you guys already talked about the Chargers win. So I think we can... Well, one thing I'll talk about is I do think. I subject to change, by the way, I will put my final ones in and send them to you guys after the show. I'm going through each game doing my research. I just I these are the only three that I can't read that is that is that this week's picks? Yeah, yeah. Yes. So I might pop out change some of these. But Paul Jake submitted his before the show.

He's going Chargers, like you, Colts, like you, Chiefs, like Bill, and the Steelers, which I like the Steelers. I did have the Broncos last week. I did think that there was just no way that they weren't gonna cover, but you know, it was a push. Yeah. Listen, I think another good pick this week,

if I would say like, oh, like my honorable mention pick this week would be. Yeah, that's what's good. I think the Jets, I think the Jets are gonna bounce back against the Titans. I think that that's, you know, part of me, I was gonna go with that, but I just, with a rookie quarterback, I mean, with, but I just with a rookie quarterback,

I mean with a rookie quarterback or a backup quarterback with the Packers. That's why I went with the Colts. But I see Aaron Rodgers and the Jets kind of riding the ship. I mean, listen, it's Aaron Rodgers first game in like two years or whatever the hell it was, or a year and whatever the months were. And he's getting back from an Achilles and then he's got to go into San Francisco against one of the top defenses. He's still probably not 100% with his legs and and and let's be honest if you watch that game the

Jets never had the ball like the jet in my I've never seen on the field a lot. They weren't on the field ever. They didn. They didn't convert third downs. There were some drop passes. Some guys weren't in the right spot. I almost, I don't wanna say that it's anybody's fault, or it's not somebody's fault, but I didn't see Rogers, I didn't see Rogers miffing much. Did you?

I mean, did you think he looked bad? I mean, listen, there were some open guys that he probably missed downfield, but overall. No, no, I don't think, think no and they even said like his arm now listen a lot of experts and ex-NFL players and analysts said it did look like he was a half a step slower just because of the injury it's not so much because of like his age is probably like dude an Achilles if you had an Achilles injury in the 80s your career was over like Dominique Wilkins had it and he was like the first one to come back from it.

It's a, for an athlete, it's like a horrible, horrible thing. And I thought his arm looked good. Like you said, Andrew, I thought he was hitting targets to Garrett Wilson. The problem was I was watching the game and my son, me and my son, and I looked at my son Lucas and I go, dude, I go, have the Jets been on the field on offense?

Like it really was like the Jets weren't playing offense that whole game. It was weird. Yeah. I think the biggest concern for the Jets weren't playing offense that whole game. It was weird. Yeah, I think the biggest concern for the Jets in that game, it was actually their defense. Their tackling was terrible. The Niners just ran all over them. And so they just like you guys are saying, just dominated time possession and, and then like Roger Rogers could have played better. Sure. But like, um, I think to your point, they just didn't have the ball enough. Yeah. So that's why I think they're going to go into Tennessee and I can see them lighten Tennessee up. I really can. I mean, either way, what's the line? Three and a half. Yeah. I mean, you don't like to have a point, but I could also see the Jets

winning that game by two touchdowns. That's good. That's an honorable mention for me. And then the other one I was looking at is, is the Niners against the Vikings. I think, um, Minnesota is a tough place to win and six a lot of points so that's why I end up going Steelers because it's just a lower number and the Broncos are probably worse than the Vikings but I think the Niners are really good. Yeah the Steelers are good. Mike Conlon. The Steelers defense looked incredible against Atlanta so I think I think I'll carry over to Denver. You know what know what I gotta do I gotta change something here I'm gonna have to change cameras because for some reason the one outlet is not my phone needs

I mean my computer needs to charge hold on one second. Yeah, of course I'm just going I'm just gonna change this setting here. All right, so it's gonna be a little bit of a different look right now But just because all right Paul because my good a different look right now but just because. That's all right Paul. Because life. Still looking good. Yeah the Steelers are a good team. Mike Tomlin really good against the spread.

The other game that kind of worth noting is this 49ers Vikings. That's five and a half. Yeah. Did it drop down to five and a half? Down to five and a half. It was just before we went live. I'll give it a little refresh. Which one is it? Which one is this now? Vikings? Niners. Niners, Vikings, five and a half. So I mean, that's under a touchdown. It's crazy. Yeah, look, I mean,

here's the other thing. I don't understand. I don't understand that one too, too much. And again, forget about forget about Maccappell the capital issues, go of last week's performance. The Vikings did not look bad, right? No, no, no, they didn't look bad. But Sam Donald also probably better. Yeah, Sam Donald probably looked better against, you know, against he didn't do that much. I mean, he did okay. He just hit guys that were there. He didn't like that. If you watch parts, I most of that game, I say at least three quarters of that game. And it was not, it was not an impressive stance for, for, for, to, to look ahead to see that, uh, that they'd be

doing too, too much against the Niners. I do like the Vikings defense. Their defense was good last year. I mean, you know, and if you, if you if you look, last year, Darnold was on the Niners. So, I think they know him well and I think that defense is gonna be all over him. I think yeah, I I'd be shocked if the Niners lost that game but crazier things have happened. It's not an easy place to go in and get a win. Bill Belichick being the Giants head coach next year now is more of a possibility than ever because it's his dream job.

It's the job that he's wanted. He said it. He's vocal about it. And I think that if the Giants end up going, if the Giants end up going, let's say, five wins or four wins and get humiliated and fire, there's no way that he doesn't take that interview. And I think there's no way he doesn't take it, especially if the Daniel Jones thing doesn't work out and he gets another quarterback. But this is one thing. And that's like half the reason why it didn't work out with him with other teams was it

was control stuff. Because he knew it wasn't going to get the control he had with the Pats, but he also needed, his stipulation was to be able to build, at least for the first two years, to build the team that he wanted. And yeah, I don't, like you said, he loves the Giants. I don't even know any other team that he could do that for right now that he would actually want to play for.

So yeah. No, I mean, he's vocally come out and said his dream job is to be the head coach of the New York Giants. That's who gave him a shot and all that. But here's the thing. Now, this is the last thing I'll say about the Giants. Then we'll get to the Monday, the, the, the Monday night special, whatever. Um, the, the thing that happened to Daniel Jones and I was texting Bill, this

me and Bill were texting during the week, or I texted him, um, after this happened. I think I know what happened to Daniel Jones and this is my theory on it. So the year Daniel Jones really bounced back and showed that he was like not only good, I mean very few quarterbacks in the history of the NFL throw only five interceptions for a year. So he throws only five interceptions for the year. Now he didn't throw a ton of touchdowns, but he ran a ton of touchdowns. And we get to a nine and eight record. We go into a 13 win Minnesota team. We beat that team and his rating is unbelievable in that game.

Then this is where I think what happened wrong, what went wrong. He came in the next year, our line was shit. He got that neck injury, right? Then he comes back. And do you remember the look in his eyes when he looked shell shocked in San Francisco, where they showed him? There's a picture of him and he got sacked

so many fucking times in the first half of that San Francisco game. And there's a picture of his eyes and he looks like a deer in headlights and he's looking around and he was running for his life and he was getting the shit kicked out of him and he looked completely shook. He had happy feet and then he gets the knee injury and he's out for the year, you know, he's out and then he comes back at, you know, after the knee injury and now he's kind of

dealing with it again. And what I noticed in that Vikings game is even when he had time, which there was a couple of series where he had like okay time, he had these happy feet. And even when he saw a defender blitzing, he was like jumping around. I think, dude, I think Daniel Jones has not recovered from the absolute fucking ass kicking that he got after that decent year he had, good year I'd say.

And I think that he's afraid to get hurt. I think he's thinking about maybe the neck, maybe the leg is not right, but dude, he looked scared. And it's- How many games did he play last year? What did he play? Seven, something like that. There was Tyrod Taylor played a couple

then Tyrod Taylor got hurt. And then DeVito played six. So I mean, yeah, DeVido played six, went three and three. As far as the team goes, as far as the 2023 passing attempts, they were in the lower part of the NFL. And it's actually kind of interesting. The other teams that had like below 500. So Giants had 518 passing attempts.

Another low attempt was the 49ers or 491, but that's expected because they have a star running back. Other teams that were low were the Broncos. Well, that's also Saquon Barkley too. Right. Fair enough. The Broncos and... Probably the Eagles are low too. They run it a lot. Eagles are... That's a team for the great... Eagles are in the middle, round 560. The high's around 6, Mahomes 635, Lions 606,

Texans were pretty low. You know, a team to watch out for in this Belichick sweepstakes, I think is actually the Cowboys, because say they have another early playoff exit, they're going to fire Mike McCarthy. And the difference with the Giants is, I think Dayball is a really good coach. He just doesn't have the right pieces yet.

So maybe they get impatient and move on because the guy like Belichick is there. But like, I just think that McCarthy can go. I think that they keep Dayball, I think they'll keep Dayball if we don't get embarrassed. I think if we're an, if we're a laughing stock and an embarrassment and the team quits, then they'll get rid of Dable.

If the Giants can like compete and be in games and still not make the playoffs, cause we're young, then they would keep them. I think the only thing, Jake, it makes sense, but I actually think the only thing that would be a wrench in that, two things. Jerry Jones doesn't usually fire coaches mid-season, if I'm correct.

No, no, no, he'll wait till they get eliminated in the first round of the playoffs or something like that. But there's also a rumor, shout out to Sean Green, for kind of putting these pieces together for me was Deon Sanders. Yeah, Jerry Jones wants Deon Sanders as the head coach of the Cowboys. Jerry Jones wants Deion Sanders as the head coach of the Cowboys. So, I mean, that seems more likely than Bill Belichick. And I feel like- That'd be a huge, huge story. And here's- Story, yeah, story. Yeah, that's right. Oh, yeah.

It would be a huge story, but here's the other thing too. Bill Belichick wants too much control that Jerry Jones could handle. Jerry Jones, Jerry Jones wants to kind of be the GM and kind of run the show. Bill Belichick and him would butt heads, you know, where I think John Marra and the Giants, they would give Belichick a little more of the reign. They would give him a little bit more of the, of the control. And Dion Sanders would just be so happy to be the fucking Cowboys coach that Jerry Jones will still have a lot of say. So I actually agree with Andrew. I think that's more. But all right, let's do the Monday night special here. Yeah. Falcons in Philadelphia against the Eagles. Falcons getting six and a half. Who picked the Eagles? That's a that's

a that was an honor of venture for me too. I know I know someone already told you when I both have the Eagles my I have a tentative Eagles I don't I don't see the Eagles losing this game, especially by a touchdown. Wait, this is the one they look great. Can you

pull it up? Can you pull the Monday night special up? Yeah, what do you want to see? I mean, I just want to see the line in the game is it's the Eagles and half and the over unders 47. Who are they playing?

Eagles playing the Falcons at Philadelphia. At Philadelphia, right? Am I right on that? Sorry. Yes. I actually don't know that. I said that with a lot of confidence. Six and a half.

What do you think, Paul? Do you like just Eagles' money line and then we can parlay some props I Actually don't like the points. I I think that the I think the fact You could do straight up, you know, yeah Yeah, I was gonna say I don't yeah the six and a half cuz I could see the number the fat Yeah, I could see the Falcons just feeding B. John Robinson and controlling the clock a little bit Yeah, we could do so money line Billy's D can hold. I mean, yeah, I don't know. Yeah.

Eagles money line B John to run a rushing touchdown. What do you something like that? Um, Eagles money line. Well, we gotta do three. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just saying the first two legs we can think of a third. Um, yeah, we can do, do B. John Robinson to run one, we could do Eagles money line, I do like those two and then maybe um. You want to do Hertz, A.J. Brown, we could do totals, I'm not good with point totals but I mean that's an option But I mean, that's an option. That enough.

You said it's 47. What you say? Forty seven for the over on the seven. The under killed us again last week. It feels like that'd be an under game, but I'm not certain. You want to go say

Quan Barkley, I mean, I hate to do this, but you want to do say Quanon Barkley? I mean, I hate to do this, but do you want to do Saquon Barkley over 75 yards? Ooh. Oh, I think he's, I, yeah. Good call. The prop that I'm going to put together on that is Saquon anytime touchdown, Jalen anytime. Saquon's going to get 75 yards.

You can even get better odds. But touchdowns can be a little tough with Philadelphia because they run it a lot with hurts. So I think it's smarter to do yards like Paul said. Seventy five is also not that high. If you think Atlanta has a bad defense. Yeah. I mean, I

think we could go over 75 yards. A hundred yards is tough heat because I know Saquon well, if he gets a hundred, he gets it like at the end of the fourth quarter, it'll be we'd be coming down to the wire because he's a Saquon's a type of guy that'll have 21 yards in the fourth quarter. It'll be, we'd be coming down to the wire. Cause he's a, Sequon's a type of guy

that'll have 21 yards in the third quarter. And then all of a sudden two runs, two runs, and he's at 80. But also if they shut him down, and I think, you know, obviously I think the Falcons are gonna try to shut him down. I think we go over 75 yards. I could see that happening and then do Bijan to get one

and the Eagles to win the game outright. I think see that happening. And then do Bijan to get one and the Eagles to win the game outright. I think that that's a good one. Well, what's the odds on that answer? I'm in California, so I can't properly build it. I can put some rough numbers together in a second. Just- You wanna add a fourth to make the odds better?

Hit me with everything you just said. So you didn't say passing touchdowns did you? No, the Eagles to you know what would make the lot what would make the odds better is if we took the Eagles to win by seven instead of the money line. We can do that but we have the Eagles with the we have the Eagles with the money line. We have Robinson to score. Eagles money line. Yep. Bejon Robinson to score. All we want Eagles Moneyline. Yep. Bijon Robinson to score. Alright, let me, I gotta add these. And you guys kill some time.

Anytime touchdown, Bijon Robinson. Yep. By the way, you reminded me of how badly my buffs got whooped the other day. Oh my god. Who was the next one? The next one was... Saekwon over 75 yards, if that's available. What'd you say, Jake?

Well, you guys brought up Deion and reminded me how we got embarrassed at Nebraska on Saturday. Just awful. That must have been how you felt watching your Giants, Paul, because that was the offensive line was just nowhere to be seen. There's nothing worse. There's nothing worse than being excited about your football team that day, that game. Waking up excited, thinking it's gonna just you know there's gonna be this thing and then watching not only a close game watching your team just be bad and embarrassed there's like you almost feel like the quarterback that's sitting on the bench with his head down you're just like

what the fuck just happened you know the craziest thing about the game Paul is that they didn't even score in the second half and they still won by twenty. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. This pick six killed us. So go ahead. It's real quick, you give me some numbers here. So Philly to win money line, Bijan one anytime touchdown and Saquon at least 76 run it that's 76 is the floor that tend to win 42 10 to win 42. So it's plus three 20. Uh, I'd like to, yeah. So if they bet a hundred, if they bet a hundred and it hits,

they get three 20, they get two 20, four 20. Oh, nice. That's a great, wait a minute. Hold on. I just took that off. Hang on. Let me add it back in. Uh, I mean, that's a pretty solid power layer at the 100 to win 420 is 10 to win 4200 to win 420. Yeah, so so you're risking 100 to win 320. That's great. It went 320. Yeah, total pay. So you're gonna win 320. I like that. I'm an asshole. So I gotta bring this up. If you push. If you push say Kwan. Let's's see here like 80 or something yeah why if you push Saekwon to 86 it's plus 123 and that'll that'll put your you know what

is it is it that puts you to plus 393 so so that's 100 to win 493. So that's maybe not worth the extra. But you know what? Those 10 yards changed the bet so much. To only win 70 extra for that? It's not worth it. Plus 86 yards against the Falcons team is gonna be, I mean, I'm not saying they're great, but

they're gonna be concentrated on him, especially after last week. Plus, he was NFC player, NFC player of the week last week. You never know if he's gonna do it again. He could have a slow, I think the 75 or 76 is the way to go. Okay, cool. All right, so Philly to win Moneyline, Bigeon anytime, Seguon at least 76 plus 320. That's the odds right now depending on where you get it.

Pretty good. I like it. And all right, there you go. So you have Bill's picks, you have my picks. Jake and Andrew will have their picks up. You'll find out what those guys did but we just showed some of them so you guys can follow the show and you guys could follow what we're doing. Guys, if you want to see me live this weekend, this Friday and Saturday, I'm doing two shows Friday, two shows Saturday at the Port Comedy Club in Baltimore.

I have not been to Baltimore since so many years ago, so I'm looking forward to that. I heard it's a great spot. You may see me at the Ravens Raiders, but you're probably gonna see me at the Giants Commanders. So if you do, come by, say what's up. And then what else do we have? I'm gonna be in Tampa Bay, SideSplitters Comedy Club,

one of the best comedy clubs in America, September 26th through the 28th. We got Munich, Germany at the Fat Cat on November 8th and all other dates at paulversey.com. And yeah, check out- What day is your Baltimore show, Paul? My Baltimore shows are the 13th tomorrow and the 14th Saturday.

Saturday. So if you're in the area, this is what I'm going to suggest. Even if you're just outside the city, get a hotel room somewhere around there, go see Paul. Okay. Then the next morning go hang out. And one of the best football bars, one of the best bar cities most underrated in the country, Baltimore, the inner Harbor area is right where the comedy club is. Go get yourself the best Bloody Mary that I've ever had. Literally any bar.

Are you serious? Oh dude, yeah, because they use Old Bay and there's Old Bay seasoning and everything. I walked into a bar once, first time I was in Baltimore. I didn't even know what that smell was. It was like if you smelled Indian food for the first time, what is this? This is new. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's on the French fries, it's on everything.

If you don't like it, I mean, you know, you gotta go to the next city over. But if you like any of that stuff, do it. Every bar has a dedicated team. So you can walk up and down. My buddy's like, well, we're gonna go to the Patriots bar. And on the way to the Patriots bar, you pass by the Pittsburgh bar and every bar, Denver, the people of Baltimore, great football fans

that have relocated to that area. It's a beautiful area, get yourself a bloody, go see. Hey Paul, you get yourself a bloody. How about that? Dude, I was just gonna say when you said that, I like the best bloody marriage. They also have a thing there called orange crushes, which one time made me not get through airport security properly because I was so fucking drunk. My buddy still tells the story is that they got this thing called an orange crush and all they do is just squeeze, just squeeze fresh oranges or grapefruit, whatever you want into a glass of ice and vodka, maybe a little triple sec.

I don't even know. Dude, these things were going down like, like I was just watching cartoons, drinking juice. I mean, Andrew, why don't you hop on a flight and meet me there, dude? Let's go to the game. Well, I should have done this. We should have done this. Jake, here's what, here's what we should this. Jake, here's what we should do. Okay, here's what we should do.

You'll be in LA soon, huh? Let's send him in on the weekend. I'll be in LA in October, I believe. I think we're working on that. But here's what happens. The All Things Comedy, I mean, All Things Comedy. This is an All Things Comedy show, but this is also Anything Better, Bet MGM.

Let's get on a horn with Bet MGM, okay? Let's get, hey, Bet MGM, this is coming from me, co-host Paul Verzi, let's do this. Let's fly Jake the Snake and Andrew to Baltimore, even if you guys get there Saturday, because tomorrow's two last minute, you guys get there Saturday, you come to one of the shows Saturday,

the last show Saturday, we go out after the show, we have a dinner, then we wake up Sunday and we decide if we're going to go 45 minutes down the road to Giants or we stay for Raven's Raiders. We get bloodies. We make a whole Sunday of the thing and fucking bet MGM takes care of it. I mean, that sounds like a deal to me. Why wouldn't they want to do that? Why wouldn't they want to send that? Why wouldn't they want to send us for no cost benefit across the country?

How about this though? We set up a tailgate with the anything better. Bet MGM anything better shit and we say watch our podcast, watch our podcast, take pictures, hand out some stickers. There we go, man. Yeah, well, you know what they would do in a perfect world. Let's just say they actually like had all this shit printed and sent us out there in the next two days and somehow went through corporate to get this budget approved. Let's say we did that, Paul. Paul, you know what's gonna happen is, is like four o'clock is gonna roll around. The games are, or four o'clock that night, eight o'clock in the roll, the games are gonna be over.

We'll have all lost some money, we'll be shit-based. And we're gonna be just sitting there with stacks of pamphlets that we've got to hand out. And they're gonna be like, how'd it go? Like, oh man, people were just like- Oh, I agree. Yeah, it's like that Mitch Hedberg joke about flyers. It's like handing out a flyer, is like saying, here, you throw this out.

I think we got more fans than you realize, man. Oh, I'm not saying we don't have fans. I'm saying we're idiots, Paul. And we're not gonna hand out flyers. We're gonna be four. Paul's gonna look at me, this is the best play mirror I've ever had. No, no, no.

No, no, no. We tell the, that's true. We tell the fans what part of the parking lot we're in and they come out, man. We're gonna do something like that. But when you're out here in LA, maybe we'll go live. We'll live stream. We'll do something, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, we can figure out a charger game for sure. No, we'll definitely. All right, take it easy. No, I'm serious. No, me and Barnick had a great time with that. All right, so there you guys go. You wanna come down to the show, come and check me out. Go to paulversey.com for all my shows.

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