The After the Horn crew dives into a packed weekend of football, starting with the College Football Playoff semifinals and rolling straight into NFL Wild Card Weekend. Tom Green, Woody Paige, and Ron Zappolo break down Miami vs. Ole Miss and Oregon vs. Indiana before shifting to every postseason matchup on the pro slate. From betting lines and point spreads to coaching storylines and quarterback trust, the guys offer sharp takes, disagreements, and a few longshot futures as they size up who can survive January and make a real Super Bowl run.
The show opens with college football’s biggest matchups as the panel debates Miami vs. Ole Miss and Oregon vs. Indiana, weighing toughness, quarterback play, coaching, and postseason momentum. From there, the focus shifts to NFL Wild Card Weekend, with in-depth discussion of Rams–Panthers, Packers–Bears, Bills–Jaguars, 49ers–Eagles, Chargers–Patriots, and Texans–Steelers. Along the way, the guys examine betting angles, weather factors, experience versus upside, and which teams are built for playoff pressure. They close by looking ahead to Super Bowl futures, identifying favorites, mid-tier value plays, and long-shot teams that could surprise if the bracket breaks the right way.
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Tom Green
But then he had the famous apology. Remember the apology?
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Ron Zappolo
That's the guy hit the home run.
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Tom Green
It. Castellanos did it to two other people, too. It's just like I really. This is not who I am. And there's a drive.
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Ron Zappolo
To the left. It's out of here. Now, back to the box.
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Tom Green
And then it happened. Castellanos did it to someone.
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Ron Zappolo
Else again later. Oh, someone's.
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Tom Green
In the middle of something serious.
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Ron Zappolo
Heartfelt apology. Hard hit the drive right center. Well, I don't know. I mean, he was so stunned that it went out there.
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Woody Paige
Yeah. So the final thought about Peyton is I'm. I became good friends with West off to. Yeah. This guy. And he brought him up Sunday. Yeah. You know he 77 in the and he's in Fort Myers fishing every day. And he calls me and you know what's going on from your standpoint I said what's the what is the deal with your coach.
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Woody Paige
He said he's got favorites and he's got people that if you write something bad about him, he just doesn't want to ever talk to. Yeah, yeah. He won't give you anything that's fun. So that's basically what that's about. Here's the rubs. People at Shanahan had him investigated.
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Ron Zappolo
Kizer rubs everybody the wrong way.
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Woody Paige
Eventually he found something on kids which I'll never talk about. But he called kids in and said you know you want to pick on my ass.
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Tom Green
Yeah that sounds like Mike.
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Woody Paige
I can get the word.
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Ron Zappolo
I like Mike. Yeah. The only thing that would be better is Mike would have a third party. Tell kids.
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Tom Green
Yeah, yeah. You ready?
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Ron Zappolo
You would tell him himself.
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Tom Green
Eye rolling open. Let's go.
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Tom Green
Is that the right open, though? I'll pick them both. Okay, so we just go from here.
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Tom Green
You want us to just go from here?
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Woody Paige
So grinding. Grinding my gears, I get, an email emoji from someone on the program that's got a, got a truck, and they got a Christmas tree in the truck, and it got like 18 people in the back of the pickup truck right now, right back of that. Go.
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Woody Paige
I love your family pictures, Ron.
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Tom Green
I did get that. We are back after the horn. The weekend betting edition. You know, there are all those ads you hear for all those, betting services. They're always offering their free tips. You know, just call the 800 number and give free tips, or we'll give this game away for free. All our tips are free.
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Tom Green
And remember, you get what you pay for. So, we're coming off one of our hottest weeks. I think that question of the.
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Ron Zappolo
Year, we had everything.
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Tom Green
Do well.
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Ron Zappolo
We didn't. We picked up Santa Claus was going to show up.
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Tom Green
At Santa Santa's Little three. Maybe there's some big, big games, obviously, in that we're down to the Final Four in college football, and we've got the NFL playoffs starting as well. And starting on Thursday. There is a big game, at least one big game every day for the next few days.
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Ron Zappolo
Be fun. Really. If you're a football fan, Thursday through next Monday is spectacular.
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Tom Green
And what are you, going to start with? The the big one between Miami and Ole Miss because you being our southern correspondent, these are your teams.
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Woody Paige
Well, I said in our earlier program that we've done this week that I am pulling for Ole Miss, and I'm not a fan of teams. I didn't go to school there. I have friends that everybody that I went to high school with went to Ole Miss, I think because of the Lane Kiffin situation. But Miami is, I think, tough.
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Woody Paige
Is that a good word? I think Miami is tough.
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Tom Green
I don't know if any of it is more impressive than Miami. And Indiana in the games to get to this point. They were both teams that I think just blew your socks off, that even if you'd seen him play, it might have been the best game that either team played on their way to the Final Four.
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Woody Paige
This this is the best Miami group I've seen since you go back to national championships when they, were tied with Nebraska, back in when they would wear, army outfits before games.
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Tom Green
Yeah. And state.
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Woody Paige
This is a reminder of what Miami used to be as a football program. So I, I, I'm going with Miami. I just as much as I like Ole Miss, I like what we saw out of the quarterback and they decided to come back to Ole Miss. I think that Miami's got the it's a bad word, but they will bully you on the football field.
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Tom Green
Certainly did the Buckeyes.
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Ron Zappolo
You know, what his friends in high school went to Ole Miss. Mine went to UMass. It's pretty close symmetry there. I'm going to totally agree with him. Miami was the most.
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Woody Paige
I went I went to see between me and you in this not for the program. So I edit this out.
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Ron Zappolo
Edit this.
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Woody Paige
There was so many people that came down from Boston and Philadelphia and New York that came to Tennessee, and I thought, this must be a good school. All these people from the East coming down here. And so I would ask him, I said, why don't you come here? Because we're I thought maybe we were the Harvard of the South.
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Woody Paige
They said, well, this all the school we could get into. And I say that. So that's the way I feel about Ole Miss.
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Ron Zappolo
So, Miami is the best team left, I think. And I do think they're going to bully Ole Miss. And I say that as somebody I'll root for Ole Miss because I think I root for the story. Like we all done our whole lives. People realized people don't realize about us. We never rooted for teams. We root for good stories.
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Ron Zappolo
Excuse me. Ole Miss is a great story. I think it ends against Miami.
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Tom Green
Yeah. Ole Miss was also very impressive, against Georgia for a couple of reasons. One, that they had a tough time with officiating late in the game. Everything went against them and they still came back and they still won that game.
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Woody Paige
Longest, one second in the history of college.
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Tom Green
The last.
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Ron Zappolo
Though, that was the Stanford band play again.
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Tom Green
The officials who couldn't see a facemask out in the wide open suddenly decide to referee the last six seconds of the game. Like it was.
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Ron Zappolo
Like the end of an NBA game. It took 20 minutes.
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Tom Green
That was so bad. But you know what really impressed me in a quirky way? Because you have Trinidad Chambliss and Ole Miss has all this talent, the Lane Kiffin story and all this. If I'm a National Football League team and you can scout all these guys and tell me about the receivers and the running backs and alignment of the quarterbacks is something I've seen so many NFL teams that can't kick a football.
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Tom Green
That kid who kicks for Mississippi, he's a draft him in the first draft pick.
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Ron Zappolo
And that is a great point because the one thing I came away with last week was what Atticus sapping in for Oregon and the kid for Mississippi. I thought there two NFL kickers.
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Tom Green
The best kicker I think I've ever seen in college. And you go back to Tony Franklin and the Golden Black Brothers and all those people. I'd never seen a kicker.
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Woody Paige
Georgia called a timeout to try and ice him. And so the coach kind of comes out and says, you know, you got this. And I you can almost see into the the helmet. The kid goes, oh, I got this up, which was totally different from what I saw with the.
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Ron Zappolo
Baltimore.
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Woody Paige
Ravens kicker. And I thought, the Ravens will not remember that game. They will remember the fact that their kicker cost him the game. However, because there's a big game starting.
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Ron Zappolo
Here, we.
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Tom Green
Are to play right before they kick that the Ravens missed that field goal. They have 12 seconds left. They've got they've got time to run one play and instead of trying to pick up five yards this wasn't a cheap shot. I'll think I'll go.
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Ron Zappolo
Once I go one step further. The tight end. I, caught the ball at the 21 yard line. Yeah. Lamar Jackson was on fire in the fourth quarter. Instead of running backwards and taking a knee, how about throwing one in the end zone to take the kicker out of the situation? Because he's a rookie kicker. His next big kick will be his first.
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Ron Zappolo
Don't ever, ever, ever leave it up to a kicker unless you have to.
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Tom Green
Unless that's a kid from Mississippi.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah, maybe. You know what? We'll see how he does. Yeah, because those are indoor kicks where he gets outside in the elements and let's see how it is.
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Tom Green
So my thought on the game is tricky because I do see what you guys see. And I was overwhelmed by what Miami was able to do to Ohio State. They took the best team in the tournament and blasted them. I don't know if they can get there again. I think Ole Miss is playing at a high level, so I'm going to go the other way.
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Tom Green
Just on the sense that Miami, you know, everyone's going to be up. It's the final Four, that's no problem. But I that's as good as Miami can play I think. And I might see them ebbing a little bit. So I'll just take a shot, take a flier. Go with Ole Miss. The other games, the rematch with Oregon and Indiana.
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Tom Green
Indiana went to Autzen Stadium and won the first round. And now they will meet again. You know, Oregon, Oregon look great. They got a nice win. Indiana looked like they were playing against Alabama Junior College. That was a quite a show they put out there.
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Woody Paige
I think though I hate cliches. Probably used to 50,000 of them in my career. But I give Oregon a puncher's chance. Right? I really have been impressed with Oregon. Yes, they lost to Indiana at home. I think it's tough for college teams to win twice against Georgia, but not out against.
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Tom Green
You don't often get twice in a.
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Woody Paige
Season. Yeah. And Oklahoma and Alabama they play twice. Yeah I think it's really tough to get up again for the same team. So, I like Indiana. Liked what they saw along with Miami as you pointed out, Tom, two best teams that we've seen in the playoffs. But I just think that Oregon I'm curious about what uniform they were I do for their film.
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Ron Zappolo
Who tells them to wear what they're.
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Tom Green
They're making them now.
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Woody Paige
But I give Oregon a chance. This going to be a closer game. This is going to be a close game.
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Ron Zappolo
It's going to be a close game. And I went into last week's games and I watched them and I my thought was that Dylan Moore was better.
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Tom Green
Dante Moore the.
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Ron Zappolo
More they're done to him or excuse me, I do that all the time. Was better than Fernando Mendoza. I changed my mind after watching last week. I think Fernando Mendoza, he convinced me last week.
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Tom Green
They're one two, right.
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Ron Zappolo
They're going to probably be. Yeah. If you figured that the Raiders and the Jets have the first two.
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Tom Green
Picks but they don't need quarterback.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah they don't need any quarterback. But I'm going to I know it's hard to beat a team twice in one year. It really is I'm going to go with Indiana I can see in Indiana Miami final. I wish I had bet Miami before the tournament started because there were like 100 to 1 because people thought they weren't going to get into the tournament.
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Ron Zappolo
I think Indiana's just got something going. I'm not really wild about the coach, but I got to grudgingly give him a lot of respect. He's got that team ready all the time.
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Tom Green
So in that other semi we were talking about Mario Cristobal and not Lane Kiffin or the two coaches. And in this one, you know, Dan Lanning is one.
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Ron Zappolo
Like Dan Land.
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Tom Green
Right. One of the preeminent coaches totally wired. And then you have Kurt Signori who I think is rewriting the book on what it what you have to look and behave like as a coach. Because every high school coach and every second division college football coach is saying, I need to be more like him.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah, but he has that attitude. Two of you didn't believe in us. Yeah, no one believes in us, you know, the hell with all you. That's fine. But it gets old after a while.
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Woody Paige
But what? They've done the portal, I mean. Yeah, with.
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Tom Green
A lot of those guys came with him, you know? James. Matt. But are you thinking. Oh, we got a bunch of guys from James Madison. So what?
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Ron Zappolo
When I think of Dan Lanning, though, I think of him last year when they went up, when they played See You and that video of the way he said, hey, they're playing for clicks, they're looking for clicks, we're a football team. And then they went out and kick their ass and you got to hand it to him. But the more I was and I thought, I don't like this guy.
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Ron Zappolo
But as I've watched in the last two years, I do like them.
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Woody Paige
Indiana is better than Oregon. Yeah. But again, I don't dismiss Oregon. I don't think that Indiana is going to treat them the same way that I.
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Tom Green
Agree with you.
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Woody Paige
Yeah.
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Ron Zappolo
So it'll be.
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Tom Green
Indiana's playing three and a half.
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Ron Zappolo
I'll leave the three and a half, but it could be a field goal kind of a game.
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Tom Green
I feel funny because I just said, you know, Miami. I don't know if they can reach that level again. So I think they may come back. I think Indiana has been at this level all year. I mean, the only game they really struggled in there that that win late Penn State. But they have been pounding people through the year and they do it.
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Tom Green
You know, you wait for a team to make a rise like this and have the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback, and you think they're slinging it and tricking you and doing all this stuff, they're coming right at you. And they are very impressive with their size and strength on the lines of scrimmage. So I'm going to take the Hoosiers also.
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Woody Paige
Yeah. I.
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Woody Paige
Let me narrow this. Do you need a quarterback? Is this close to having a personality as Tim Tebow okay.
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Ron Zappolo
Yes.
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Woody Paige
Not for the same.
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Ron Zappolo
Reasons it is, but yes.
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Woody Paige
I.
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Tom Green
I has a different throwing.
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Woody Paige
Talking about drafting.
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Ron Zappolo
Accuracy. Yes.
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Woody Paige
Yeah. That's why I said, you know, you have to narrow this to just to. But really you're right.
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Ron Zappolo
He does remind you.
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Woody Paige
And I wonder if teams are going to avoid him because they go, oh boy, this guy reminds me of Tebow coming into.
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Ron Zappolo
You know, I don't know if they'll avoid him, but if you look into Raiders, I'd hate to see this kid go to the Raiders because they've got so many holes. Yeah. And they are so dysfunctional that an outsider might look at the Raiders and say, you know what, you might be better off drafting guys that play on the lines and make sure you got a good left tackle and build up your defense before you take a rookie quarterback and stick him into a situation that, you know, we've seen quarterbacks ruined.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah, by getting on getting embattled or.
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Tom Green
Just being drafted by the Jets.
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Ron Zappolo
Well one of these guys is going to get.
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Tom Green
So these guys would go one two. And this game you would think would have a lot to say about how teams view them. Who's one who's two. You know they could flip flop. This brings me to one of my favorite things of the year, is that you will have a quarterback who have played 12 or 14 games this year and maybe played 10 or 12 last year, so you have hours of tape of him in games, but then all of a sudden come spring time, he's going to run A47, 540 in Indianapolis or wherever.
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Tom Green
They're doing time by this year and they're going to go, oh, wait a minute.
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Ron Zappolo
Oh yeah, I don't know. Then he's going to take the Wonderlic. Yeah. And you're going to find out that his grandmother was, you know, and this this is really going.
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Tom Green
To change everything. I'm going, you know, those those 40 hours of tape you have of him might be more valuable. Evaluating him is.
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Woody Paige
What we have on his act. Yeah.
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Ron Zappolo
And you know what? When he was in high school, and you get to markets like that, guy.
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Tom Green
Gets taken.
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Ron Zappolo
Nowhere. None of his teammates went to his birthday party.
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Tom Green
Remember the debate? The big debate. There were teams that Ryan leave for Peyton Manning.
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Ron Zappolo
Yeah.
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Woody Paige
I've tried to tell you this story before, but I called when Jay Cutler was with the Broncos and I thought, boy, this guy's an asshole. It's just a total blast. Of all the people that ever played for the Broncos quarterbacks I've ever been around, he's the worst. And so I called his high school counselor back in Santa Claus or Christmas, whatever it is.
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Woody Paige
Yeah. And I said, do you think that there was a time when Cutler turned? He said, no, he was the same way.
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Tom Green
We miss those of our high school counselor to weigh in.
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Woody Paige
I thought this was your closest teacher in high school who's ripping on you saying, oh, he was always.
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Tom Green
Hey, we got to talk about the pro games. But before we do, I just I know a lot of people at home who've been watching and admiring our new furniture, and we want to thank our friends at Furniture Row for a very comfortable class in the place, up with some of these beautiful chairs, tables and the like. And, they've, been helping us out with their sponsorship.
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Tom Green
Certainly we appreciate sponsors, but we also appreciate having great chairs to sit in while we sit and talk about football. And of course, in this case, wagering as well.
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Woody Paige
Natasha, we need I've been told by people who've seen or listened to the show saying it, and they say, we need something on the coffee table. Yeah, I don't know what it was.
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Tom Green
Well, last week we had cocktails.
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Ron Zappolo
You know what I know?
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Natasha
I know what I'm saying. To bring that back.
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Ron Zappolo
We could bring them.
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Tom Green
Well, when you say people are saying bring that back, by that you mean me.
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Natasha
Exactly. Yeah.
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Tom Green
That you mean. Oh. All right, let's get to the pros. We turn it on on Saturday. The first game you.
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Natasha
Need to be sponsored by by an alcohol that last we need that bourbon was pretty good. You know.
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Ron Zappolo
What? They might pay.
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Natasha
Breckenridge. Hey.
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Tom Green
We throw sponsorship over here. Yeah. Saturday afternoon, the first game of the NFL postseason has the Rams heavy favorites on the road, giving ten points in Carolina. This this is an interesting matchup because the Rams, despite, having lost the NFC West late, are considered by most people to be a favorite to win the Super Bowl.
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Woody Paige
It started at nine and a half and it's gone on our board to ten. But I saw this morning that it was ten and a half. I think it might reach 12.
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Ron Zappolo
I think it might.
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Tom Green
Be hard to talk people into betting Carolina. You're gonna have to give them some points.
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Woody Paige
I mean, yeah, LA to begin with because of its location in Hollywood and everything else in Carolina. Nobody believes in Carolina. They they have the right to say we're not getting any respect. Well, you you didn't earn it, so you can't, they.
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Ron Zappolo
Back then.
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Tom Green
I was on that national TV looking at them, and they didn't look any good.
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Ron Zappolo
Listen, they didn't what is right. They didn't look any good. They didn't earn it. The Rams were a potential Super Bowl entrant.
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Tom Green
Quarterback mismatch too in.
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Ron Zappolo
This I mean and the Rams got beat by Carolina six weeks ago in Carolina. They're going to go in there and get the job done.
00;18;38;11 - 00;18;51;25
Woody Paige
You know like this. They came through the, employees insurance. We say that about golf balls. When you make a play, you go, oh, before you came in the, you know, the Butlers. Yeah.
00;18;51;25 - 00;18;52;11
Ron Zappolo
The Rams.
00;18;52;11 - 00;18;54;05
Tom Green
So yeah, the trick is the ten points.
00;18;54;05 - 00;18;58;22
Ron Zappolo
That's what you're trying to get a lot of points I wouldn't, I would if I was gambling I wouldn't bet on me. What do you.
00;18;58;22 - 00;19;00;21
Tom Green
Mean if I was gambling. Don't you bet a lot.
00;19;00;21 - 00;19;12;23
Ron Zappolo
Actually I do bet a lot. So I will not play that game because there's too many points. But if I was, if I was in Vegas and I had to play the game, I would take the Rams and I would lay the ten points.
00;19;12;23 - 00;19;14;19
Tom Green
When you say you had to play the game like someone's.
00;19;14;19 - 00;19;24;25
Ron Zappolo
Making, like somebody forced me, okay, you know, if they pulled the gun on me and said, get to the window and play the game, damn it, let's blow out some money and play the game. All right, I will.
00;19;24;25 - 00;19;26;25
Tom Green
All right, all right. You talk me into it, right?
00;19;26;28 - 00;19;34;04
Ron Zappolo
But if I'm home on Saturday afternoon, I will promise you that I will not wager on that game.
00;19;34;04 - 00;19;35;21
Tom Green
But if you had to, you'd take. But if I had.
00;19;35;21 - 00;19;38;12
Ron Zappolo
To, I take the Rams. Lay the points. Woody.
00;19;38;14 - 00;19;44;12
Woody Paige
Oh, I, I, I wouldn't touch this if a guy pointed a gun in my eye. You should.
00;19;44;14 - 00;19;44;29
Ron Zappolo
Shoot.
00;19;45;00 - 00;19;46;28
Woody Paige
Me. If I have to bet on.
00;19;46;28 - 00;19;47;16
Ron Zappolo
This one, I'd.
00;19;47;16 - 00;19;51;27
Woody Paige
Better be I I passing. All right, I don't bet, I've never bet.
00;19;51;28 - 00;19;52;19
Ron Zappolo
What are you going to.
00;19;52;20 - 00;19;59;12
Tom Green
Well, I'm in a release it as my five starts now. I can't for free because it's my fault.
00;19;59;12 - 00;20;03;11
Ron Zappolo
I know you had to call a number. Can we. Can we finish that number on the screen?
00;20;03;11 - 00;20;07;12
Woody Paige
Here? What aspect? You're not. Where's the game being played?
00;20;07;14 - 00;20;09;07
Ron Zappolo
The games being played in Charlotte North.
00;20;09;11 - 00;20;13;03
Woody Paige
Yes. Okay. So I give them a break for that.
00;20;13;03 - 00;20;14;10
Ron Zappolo
Okay.
00;20;14;12 - 00;20;21;23
Woody Paige
I think that it's very difficult in these games to beat up on somebody badly.
00;20;21;27 - 00;20;23;08
Ron Zappolo
We've already spent too much time.
00;20;23;08 - 00;20;25;14
Tom Green
You're talking you're talking yourself into this.
00;20;25;16 - 00;20;31;15
Ron Zappolo
No he's not he's not going to. But he would never if he was. But he never bet. If somebody was a better he wouldn't bet.
00;20;31;18 - 00;20;35;29
Tom Green
But if somebody had a knife to my throat and someone was threatened to shoot him.
00;20;36;01 - 00;20;38;17
Ron Zappolo
And I'm already dead.
00;20;38;19 - 00;20;40;03
Tom Green
I would take the Rams, lay the titles.
00;20;40;03 - 00;20;41;29
Ron Zappolo
Okay, we all agree. Next game.
00;20;42;02 - 00;20;49;22
Tom Green
All right. Packers and Bears. Fantastic third matchup. These two teams. They both they played two great games against each other through the season.
00;20;49;25 - 00;21;09;11
Ron Zappolo
No one else is interesting about this game as a gambler. The spread has been bouncing around. Yeah. It, Chicago opened up as a favorite. It went to green Bay for about 24 hours. And now I think the bears are back favored. So it is a game that the money is coming in equally on both sides.
00;21;09;11 - 00;21;12;02
Tom Green
You likely just have to pick the winner. Yes, to win the bet.
00;21;12;02 - 00;21;13;06
Ron Zappolo
It's pick the winner.
00;21;13;06 - 00;21;18;07
Tom Green
So they go to Soldier Field. Woody, that'll be, 6:00 Prime Video run.
00;21;18;09 - 00;21;25;15
Ron Zappolo
Well, you know, I'm going to go out to eat with a good friend of mine, but I'm going to go early enough because I'm older, so I'll get back for the second half.
00;21;25;15 - 00;21;27;12
Tom Green
Yeah. Back about 630.
00;21;27;12 - 00;21;34;09
Ron Zappolo
Oh, I got a friend of mine likes to go at 430, and I'm saying, hey, listen, I'm sorry, I can't do that. I'm not going to do it.
00;21;34;14 - 00;21;40;03
Woody Paige
I don't go to those early. I don't I can't say it's because there's nothing but old people. Listen.
00;21;40;05 - 00;21;44;27
Ron Zappolo
Well you want, but I'll give you one of my favorite restaurants. Chianti at Saturday night.
00;21;45;00 - 00;21;47;07
Woody Paige
Oh, yeah. I was there for New Year's Eve.
00;21;47;09 - 00;22;10;03
Ron Zappolo
Well, lovely. Well, yeah. I mean, I love Katie's, and I'll be there. And my friend Victor will be taking care of me, and I will, like, look at my phone in the first half to see what the score is and who you taking? I'm going to take the bears. I know the Packers probably have a little bit more experience, but you know what I think Caleb Williams I trust him a little bit more than.
00;22;10;06 - 00;22;11;03
Tom Green
I like the moment.
00;22;11;05 - 00;22;25;20
Ron Zappolo
He likes the moment, the moment not too big. And I love the fact that Ben Johnson took that job and said, God, I'm so tired of beating the Packers, but I'll do it some more. I just think the bears are better. I think since Micah Parsons got hurt. Tom.
00;22;25;20 - 00;22;26;08
Tom Green
Yeah, the.
00;22;26;08 - 00;22;27;23
Ron Zappolo
Packers have not been the best.
00;22;27;23 - 00;22;28;08
Tom Green
A little faith.
00;22;28;08 - 00;22;37;04
Ron Zappolo
And I don't think in the playoffs you can just hit a switch and say, okay, we played lousy for a month. Now we're going to be really good.
00;22;37;04 - 00;22;39;13
Tom Green
The bears are not the bears.
00;22;39;15 - 00;22;44;15
Woody Paige
Well, he was talking about Kante and he's a guy that goes in there gets lasagna.
00;22;44;17 - 00;23;02;03
Ron Zappolo
No I don't I get I get a good bottle of wine and I can tell you what I get. It's not lasagna. That's for like guys like you Southerners don't know Italian food. You know, if you want to go in there, I'll go with you and I'll order for you and you'll enjoy it. I mark my words.
00;23;02;03 - 00;23;03;19
Woody Paige
I get black and fish.
00;23;03;19 - 00;23;05;22
Ron Zappolo
That's not. There you go. That's not bad.
00;23;05;25 - 00;23;10;22
Woody Paige
That's what I do. That's lie. And I sit right next to the wine wall.
00;23;10;25 - 00;23;11;19
Ron Zappolo
The wine wall is.
00;23;11;20 - 00;23;13;05
Woody Paige
And I can pick out my own.
00;23;13;05 - 00;23;20;12
Ron Zappolo
You can grab it. He's not lying. You can literally grab it right out of the wall. If you're waiting for your meal, you can see.
00;23;20;13 - 00;23;33;23
Woody Paige
So you're, Okay, I stand corrected. A little design here. But you're taking the bears. I'm taking the Packers because I'm a I'm a I go outside the box.
00;23;33;23 - 00;23;36;03
Ron Zappolo
You do? Yes. We know that about you.
00;23;36;05 - 00;23;43;27
Woody Paige
I the bears have not really been here. The Packers have been here.
00;23;43;27 - 00;23;45;12
Ron Zappolo
They have.
00;23;45;14 - 00;23;53;09
Woody Paige
They game this close. And you know that there's not a bear. I mean, they're going to be as many Packers fans. There is a traditional.
00;23;53;09 - 00;23;53;27
Ron Zappolo
Rivalry.
00;23;53;27 - 00;24;02;04
Woody Paige
Game. Yeah I, I like the Packers because of good experience I like love he's we all healthy.
00;24;02;06 - 00;24;06;16
Ron Zappolo
We all love we all want to come on don't we.
00;24;06;18 - 00;24;10;08
Tom Green
Well I wasn't I was a little bit on the tight after Packers.
00;24;10;08 - 00;24;10;22
Woody Paige
Have a better.
00;24;10;22 - 00;24;11;29
Ron Zappolo
Deal after listening to Woody.
00;24;11;29 - 00;24;13;18
Tom Green
You're going to go Packers to go. No.
00;24;13;21 - 00;24;15;03
Woody Paige
Hackers have a better defense.
00;24;15;03 - 00;24;17;22
Tom Green
After listening to you. I'm all in on the bear.
00;24;17;24 - 00;24;19;11
Ron Zappolo
00;24;19;13 - 00;24;40;12
Tom Green
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00;25;31;10 - 00;25;44;15
Ron Zappolo
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00;25;44;17 - 00;25;45;20
Tom Green
Do want to try it.
00;25;45;23 - 00;25;48;13
Ron Zappolo
Well, maybe next time. We know you're thinking that.
00;25;48;13 - 00;26;03;00
Woody Paige
You're thinking that. But I'm thinking people watching on YouTube knows he's reading that. People listening to the podcast think, wow, what a job. Why would he give him that? But you know what, Gerald nine he could still be there doing well on.
00;26;03;07 - 00;26;11;02
Ron Zappolo
Are you worrying about those upcoming credit card bills after the holidays? And you would go to me. Fuck yeah. And then.
00;26;11;04 - 00;26;11;28
Tom Green
Yeah, well.
00;26;12;00 - 00;26;13;23
Woody Paige
Then we lose the sponsor.
00;26;13;25 - 00;26;32;05
Natasha
Well, my thing is, like, if kind of feel like it should be how you have to have the warnings or whatever when you have a, DraftKings ad or, right, betting ad or. Yeah, whatever, which is like, don't, don't spend all of your money on betting that's your home.
00;26;32;05 - 00;26;51;06
Ron Zappolo
Because I am paying for a wedding, a destination wedding in March, which I felt like Edward Bennett Williams. Can he hire George Allen? And said I gave him an unlimited expense account and he already exceeded it. That's how I feel about this wedding coming. So I may have to call.
00;26;51;06 - 00;26;59;24
Woody Paige
American Base dancing based on your picks over the season, are they going to have a justice of the pizza at the, you know, EMV?
00;26;59;24 - 00;27;11;01
Ron Zappolo
You know how gambling? You know a gamble. Based on my picks over the season, I'll be making some very expensive wagers in the in the next three. Trying to get right try to get right game.
00;27;11;02 - 00;27;16;06
Woody Paige
You do a great job of reading even though he reads the books, right. But you haven't read my.
00;27;16;11 - 00;27;17;05
Tom Green
No, not yet.
00;27;17;12 - 00;27;19;08
Woody Paige
What? You didn't read the other one, though, from the.
00;27;19;08 - 00;27;25;00
Tom Green
Earlier revenge sounds very mean. I'd rather call it returning a favor. That's today's blackboard.
00;27;25;00 - 00;27;29;01
Woody Paige
But what he did, Tasha, like the earlier blackboard. And you'd never read that.
00;27;29;03 - 00;27;30;28
Tom Green
Well, we didn't have time because we were talking about.
00;27;30;28 - 00;27;36;18
Ron Zappolo
Hey, let's get on to the best game of the entire weekend. And there it is.
00;27;36;21 - 00;27;53;13
Tom Green
Bills and Jaguars down in Jacksonville. But Buffalo is a one and a half point favorite. That obviously has to do with the public thinking. The bills have been there and done some of that. They haven't done all of it. But the Jags are new to the party. I think it's a fantastic.
00;27;53;15 - 00;27;54;12
Ron Zappolo
It is
00;27;54;15 - 00;27;57;28
Woody Paige
To pay for your wedding cake. The over.
00;27;58;01 - 00;27;59;05
Ron Zappolo
Here's what you got to do.
00;27;59;12 - 00;28;01;26
Woody Paige
You're going to say hey 51 point.
00;28;01;28 - 00;28;07;01
Ron Zappolo
Chair get I'm going to tell you right now, if you want to pay for a wedding, take the over.
00;28;07;02 - 00;28;07;27
Tom Green
This didn't work out.
00;28;07;27 - 00;28;13;12
Woody Paige
51.5 28 to 27 would be what I do.
00;28;13;13 - 00;28;14;22
Tom Green
55 I get you there.
00;28;14;22 - 00;28;17;08
Ron Zappolo
So you like the over? You know.
00;28;17;08 - 00;28;24;22
Woody Paige
1.5 Buffalo is favored in Jacksonville. Jacksonville's playing great great.
00;28;24;22 - 00;28;25;16
Ron Zappolo
Football.
00;28;25;18 - 00;28;35;20
Woody Paige
I can't beat this one I don't again I don't bet. But I guess I don't know why I have to say that because people don't give a shit. What. That better.
00;28;35;20 - 00;28;37;06
Ron Zappolo
Not. Doesn't matter.
00;28;37;09 - 00;28;38;09
Woody Paige
But.
00;28;38;11 - 00;28;39;11
Ron Zappolo
I would I.
00;28;39;13 - 00;28;46;13
Woody Paige
This is like the Packers game. You don't know who's going to win this game, but they're going to score a lot of points. You know what.
00;28;46;16 - 00;29;10;26
Ron Zappolo
I would take Jacksonville in this game because I think that line to your point Woody is indicative of the bills have been around forever. They've they've built up a lot of respect and goodwill even though they haven't gotten to a Super Bowl. It's Josh Allen. The whole the country knows them. The country doesn't realize yet. Honestly, Tom, how good the Jaguars.
00;29;10;29 - 00;29;12;11
Tom Green
It says small market or mid-market.
00;29;12;11 - 00;29;34;16
Ron Zappolo
Yeah exactly. You know I hope that comes back to haunt you know the Jaguars defense is significantly better than the bills total. And that will be the difference in the game. The Josh Allen will play his ass off. It'll be a field goal game. But I think the Jags at home have enough to get by the bills.
00;29;34;16 - 00;29;40;22
Tom Green
So this is part of my master plan. So I take all the money that I win. On the Rams Panthers game. That we were all forced to bet.
00;29;40;23 - 00;29;41;20
Ron Zappolo
So you're up a ton.
00;29;41;20 - 00;29;45;01
Tom Green
No wait wait. So I got that in the sack right? I get the big bag of money.
00;29;45;02 - 00;29;49;24
Ron Zappolo
What do you, Tom Homan of $50,000 and a sack of brown sack.
00;29;49;24 - 00;29;50;15
Tom Green
That's how we were.
00;29;50;15 - 00;29;52;21
Natasha
Woody on the plane. And then I'm sorry.
00;29;52;21 - 00;29;59;25
Tom Green
So then I drop all that on on the bears. So now I've doubled it again. Way up. So, I mean, like, I don't even know how to.
00;29;59;25 - 00;30;03;27
Ron Zappolo
Carry this is like, this is like land, man. The other day when she goes to the casino.
00;30;03;27 - 00;30;05;09
Woody Paige
Yeah, I tell her.
00;30;05;11 - 00;30;07;18
Ron Zappolo
Tell him how to win. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Go ahead.
00;30;07;18 - 00;30;17;24
Tom Green
So now I'm going to drop all this on Jacksonville. So now I'm starting to really stack some cash. Yeah. So I've got Jacksonville but that I do too. Now I have all the money that I've won because I've gone three and oh.
00;30;17;24 - 00;30;18;09
Ron Zappolo
You're way.
00;30;18;09 - 00;30;19;26
Tom Green
Up. I don't even know what to do with it. Yeah.
00;30;19;27 - 00;30;30;07
Ron Zappolo
So but just to be clear, you and I like Jacksonville and Woody likes you over. So we're giving you three opinions there. None of us like the bills. That should tell us a little something.
00;30;30;09 - 00;30;31;02
Tom Green
Well.
00;30;31;05 - 00;30;32;26
Ron Zappolo
That means bills are going to win easily.
00;30;33;03 - 00;30;35;19
Tom Green
So what do I do with all the money?
00;30;35;19 - 00;30;37;07
Ron Zappolo
You come to 40 Niners.
00;30;37;07 - 00;30;37;18
Tom Green
Eagles.
00;30;37;18 - 00;30;39;25
Ron Zappolo
You come back on the 40 Niners and the Eagles.
00;30;39;25 - 00;30;41;20
Tom Green
Yeah. Do I start to scale back.
00;30;41;20 - 00;30;46;24
Ron Zappolo
Let's take you know what. No I think you go just like Ali Larter didn't land many other.
00;30;46;24 - 00;30;47;20
Tom Green
If you're that hot just.
00;30;47;27 - 00;31;08;20
Ron Zappolo
When you're that hot you keep letting it ride and you let it ride on the Eagles. And I'll be pulling for Kyle Shanahan. But you know what? The Eagles rested their guys. The Niners didn't. The Niners you know what. Their offense is good. But we saw with it. We saw what a good defense can do to them.
00;31;08;26 - 00;31;20;17
Ron Zappolo
The Eagles have a good defense. They're home I don't like Sirianni and I like Kyle. But I think the Eagles are the play in. The money is going on the Eagles. It opened at three and.
00;31;20;17 - 00;31;22;00
Tom Green
Still good going up to.
00;31;22;00 - 00;31;22;19
Ron Zappolo
Four and a half.
00;31;22;19 - 00;31;24;00
Tom Green
But you're still beating them.
00;31;24;03 - 00;31;43;23
Ron Zappolo
I think I would I just listen I kind of trust the Eagles a little more. I know McCaffrey's great but so is Saquon Barkley I know he's played pretty well down the stretch last week notwithstanding. But Jalen Hurts has won a Super Bowl and he hasn't had a great year. And a lot of that is the dysfunction with the receivers.
00;31;43;29 - 00;31;58;02
Ron Zappolo
I just think they're home and the defending champs. I think. I think for the Niners they did a great job overcoming injuries this year got a lot further than they probably should have, but I think it ends in Philly.
00;31;58;04 - 00;32;01;28
Woody Paige
Take all that money you're trying to rates for winning.
00;32;01;28 - 00;32;04;07
Ron Zappolo
Oh I thought you meant Tom because Tom's on fire.
00;32;04;07 - 00;32;09;03
Tom Green
But if I, if I, if I do if I can hit the rest of these, I can help Ron with the wedding cam.
00;32;09;03 - 00;32;12;12
Ron Zappolo
And he would because he really does care about, Philadelphia.
00;32;12;14 - 00;32;24;28
Woody Paige
Philadelphia. You said McCaffrey had a great season. No, he has had a good season as a wide receiver. He's averaging less than three yards per carry. He's like 38th. No running back a good point.
00;32;25;03 - 00;32;27;29
Ron Zappolo
You know they only gave it to him eight times the other day against.
00;32;28;03 - 00;32;35;00
Woody Paige
It because he's having a bad season. You know he's injured all the time but he's having a bad.
00;32;35;02 - 00;32;36;13
Ron Zappolo
Game had a good.
00;32;36;16 - 00;32;46;23
Woody Paige
Time. He's got seven maybe ten touchdown catches. He's not. And he will when he runs it and it's from the one yard.
00;32;46;24 - 00;32;51;13
Ron Zappolo
Should have called all the other night. Could it could change the whole game. Yeah. So we're both in Philly.
00;32;51;13 - 00;32;51;25
Woody Paige
Oh yeah.
00;32;51;25 - 00;32;52;10
Ron Zappolo
You like the.
00;32;52;10 - 00;32;53;28
Woody Paige
Eagles. Philadelphia's is.
00;32;53;28 - 00;32;54;29
Ron Zappolo
Yeah. They're superior.
00;32;54;29 - 00;33;00;19
Woody Paige
Yeah 40 Niners come as come have come as far as they can come.
00;33;00;19 - 00;33;01;17
Ron Zappolo
Yeah they had a good year.
00;33;01;18 - 00;33;03;11
Woody Paige
Seattle just.
00;33;03;14 - 00;33;09;23
Tom Green
Throws them. Yeah. That's why I'm going to take it off. And I'm gonna I'm gonna push them all in again.
00;33;09;23 - 00;33;10;16
Ron Zappolo
And I go.
00;33;10;21 - 00;33;11;27
Tom Green
I'm going to take the over.
00;33;11;27 - 00;33;12;26
Woody Paige
And in and.
00;33;12;29 - 00;33;14;08
Ron Zappolo
The over.
00;33;14;10 - 00;33;17;05
Woody Paige
People are considering Kyle for coach of the year. Yeah.
00;33;17;05 - 00;33;20;09
Tom Green
Shanahan I don't think he's in the top five.
00;33;20;12 - 00;33;23;18
Woody Paige
His playoff record is awful.
00;33;23;24 - 00;33;33;24
Ron Zappolo
But he did. He I can see why he's in the running for it. Because he is because of the injuries and how he was able to get them to the point. Yeah. Where they were last week.
00;33;33;24 - 00;33;34;08
Tom Green
They had a.
00;33;34;09 - 00;33;39;04
Ron Zappolo
So the over made because the 40 Niners defense might not be able to stop the three of us.
00;33;39;04 - 00;33;41;04
Tom Green
That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking there's going to be.
00;33;41;05 - 00;33;42;05
Woody Paige
That's why I said if you're.
00;33;42;05 - 00;33;43;17
Ron Zappolo
Looking at Eagles, if I.
00;33;43;18 - 00;33;45;22
Woody Paige
Call this wedding money this is.
00;33;45;23 - 00;33;46;04
Ron Zappolo
Good.
00;33;46;07 - 00;33;50;05
Tom Green
But if you guys are smart, one thing you'll do before you make any of these bets this time of.
00;33;50;05 - 00;33;51;05
Ron Zappolo
Year, I'm writing all these.
00;33;51;05 - 00;33;55;22
Tom Green
Down. Check the weather. Philadelphia in January may not be great.
00;33;55;22 - 00;33;57;16
Ron Zappolo
No, but Philly is used to that.
00;33;57;16 - 00;33;58;01
Tom Green
I know, but.
00;33;58;01 - 00;34;07;27
Ron Zappolo
It's the Niners. Won't be. It's just it's going to be an ugly, dark, dreary day. I'm sure. And the Eagles are just. But sometimes you know the Eagles are better.
00;34;08;00 - 00;34;14;27
Tom Green
So let's presume I've won again. The next big one is the Sunday nighter. And that'll, see the LA charge.
00;34;14;27 - 00;34;16;05
Ron Zappolo
I'm looking forward to that game.
00;34;16;05 - 00;34;22;06
Tom Green
And I think the L.A. Chargers will look a little different than the Chargers did. I think they're going to go with some of their starters.
00;34;22;12 - 00;34;24;03
Ron Zappolo
They might actually try to win that game.
00;34;24;03 - 00;34;29;02
Tom Green
But again this is what I'm talking about. The East Coast weather I mean how many January games have you seen in Fox? Well, I.
00;34;29;02 - 00;34;30;16
Ron Zappolo
Know who the Broncos are rooting for.
00;34;30;16 - 00;34;35;27
Tom Green
Horrible in this one. Well, the Patriots are a three and a half point pick over the Chargers.
00;34;35;29 - 00;34;50;14
Woody Paige
My memories are so strange about playoff games and being in a playoff game in New England with with the Broncos, and it was about 15 below T but I wanted I wanted a a bourbon after the game in the lot.
00;34;50;16 - 00;34;52;09
Ron Zappolo
Where were you staying.
00;34;52;11 - 00;34;53;13
Woody Paige
In in were.
00;34;53;13 - 00;34;53;29
Ron Zappolo
You in Rhode.
00;34;53;29 - 00;34;54;27
Woody Paige
Island and.
00;34;54;29 - 00;34;58;05
Ron Zappolo
In Providence, right. Probably. Yeah. Because Providence is closer.
00;34;58;08 - 00;35;05;04
Woody Paige
Yeah, yeah. Than Boston. So we're in the I'm waiting for somebody to come out. I've got bourbon and coke.
00;35;05;06 - 00;35;05;25
Ron Zappolo
If I knew.
00;35;05;25 - 00;35;28;02
Woody Paige
I would parking lot tonight so that I needed to check with the paper if my column was, I was mistaken about something. So I called the paper and I sat down on the car, my bourbon and coke, and I talked to them for about five minutes. When I went to drink, it smacked me in the face. Hey. So.
00;35;28;04 - 00;35;38;20
Woody Paige
All right, so that's my memory of, playoff games in New England. That's what you're going to get if you bet on the Chargers playing there in bad weather.
00;35;38;20 - 00;35;39;04
Ron Zappolo
Good luck with.
00;35;39;04 - 00;35;48;22
Woody Paige
That. That's like betting on the Broncos when they go to New England. When the weather's bad, the Chargers do you remember that game in Cincinnati when you.
00;35;48;22 - 00;35;52;06
Ron Zappolo
Played the famous game the. Yeah I told you.
00;35;52;07 - 00;35;52;18
Woody Paige
Know and I.
00;35;52;18 - 00;35;53;21
Tom Green
Said Dan Fouts.
00;35;53;22 - 00;36;02;10
Woody Paige
I thought the Chargers had no chance. And the quarterback of the Chargers said he woke up and knew they had no chance after he saw what the weather was there.
00;36;02;11 - 00;36;06;27
Tom Green
So you're going to lay the three and a half. You're going to take the Patriots to cover that number?
00;36;06;27 - 00;36;16;08
Woody Paige
Sure. I think that, they have the coach of the year. He's going to win going away. Even though we hear about Shanahan and Peyton bouncing.
00;36;16;11 - 00;36;18;01
Ron Zappolo
Liam Cohen Ben Johnson.
00;36;18;01 - 00;36;21;06
Woody Paige
But he should share that award with
00;36;21;08 - 00;36;22;03
Ron Zappolo
Mike McDaniels.
00;36;22;03 - 00;36;27;29
Woody Paige
Yeah. And and I think the Patriots are.
00;36;28;01 - 00;36;33;19
Woody Paige
They have the better quarterback I think. And Herbert we've been waiting for you know.
00;36;33;20 - 00;36;39;22
Tom Green
Herbert may be as good as Drake May. But they'll protect Drake may and they'll they'll try to run the football. But you know.
00;36;39;28 - 00;36;47;24
Ron Zappolo
It's a great matchup because there's two great young quarterbacks. Herbert's a little more experienced. Both coaches I think are top.
00;36;47;25 - 00;36;54;19
Woody Paige
The Chargers have a bad offensive. The not their fault they've lost two starters. Yeah yeah they've.
00;36;54;19 - 00;36;55;03
Tom Green
Decimated.
00;36;55;09 - 00;36;56;16
Woody Paige
They're down to like.
00;36;56;18 - 00;37;10;00
Ron Zappolo
The Patriots do have some distractions with Christian Barmore and Stefon Diggs. They do have distractions but they're used to those kind of distractions. I hate to agree with Woody, but I kind of much agree with them on everything.
00;37;10;00 - 00;37;14;09
Tom Green
I just like that backhanded insult. They're used to those kinds of distractions.
00;37;14;10 - 00;37;17;18
Ron Zappolo
They are I mean, they've spent the last 20 years.
00;37;17;20 - 00;37;19;00
Woody Paige
I just everybody hates.
00;37;19;00 - 00;37;35;18
Ron Zappolo
To agree with me. Back in against the Patriots are used to that. Yeah they they they do this. Who hasn't been indicted around here. Do you really believe that the Chargers I ask you yeah are going to go up there. It's going to be cold. It's going to be windy. It's going to be.
00;37;35;18 - 00;37;36;17
Tom Green
How you're doing the weather.
00;37;36;17 - 00;37;42;05
Ron Zappolo
It's going to be a while I know what it's like. There's going to be 80,000 people who I grew up with.
00;37;42;07 - 00;37;43;24
Tom Green
Nice, nice, really good.
00;37;43;26 - 00;37;52;09
Ron Zappolo
Yeah. And the Patriots are going to find a way to win the game. And I don't know if it's going to be that close. I think they win maybe by ten points.
00;37;52;12 - 00;37;56;11
Tom Green
All right. Well I'm going to take some of my oh I'm not no I'm not pushing.
00;37;56;13 - 00;37;57;25
Ron Zappolo
That but bringing some back.
00;37;57;26 - 00;38;07;20
Tom Green
This is the one they may have to make me. So I'm going to put $8 of my of is all profit. $8 I'm going to put on the charger.
00;38;07;20 - 00;38;18;27
Ron Zappolo
You know what. Don't do it Tom. Just don't do it because I know I need that eight bucks for the wedding. So don't put the eight on the Patriots because then it'll be 16. It'll be better for me.
00;38;18;29 - 00;38;20;01
Tom Green
I'll go ahead.
00;38;20;01 - 00;38;20;25
Ron Zappolo
You take the Chargers.
00;38;20;27 - 00;38;31;25
Tom Green
I'll take the first but I don't I don't like this. Bet it looks rough to me because this game could also this is the one Sunday night everyone's looking forward to. And this is the one that ends up 31 three.
00;38;31;28 - 00;38;49;16
Ron Zappolo
I'm going to take before what he says anything. I think the Texans have a great chance to get to the Super Bowl. I think the Steelers again, did a great job to get to this point. And I'm no big fan of Aaron Rodgers. He's going to get his ass kicked. The Will Anderson and Hunter and those guys.
00;38;49;18 - 00;38;56;22
Ron Zappolo
That's the best pass rush in the NFL. And Aaron Rodgers better get is better. Get rid of the ball a better be a three step drop.
00;38;56;22 - 00;38;57;02
Tom Green
To.
00;38;57;02 - 00;39;17;15
Ron Zappolo
Gong because he doesn't move around like he used to. And if Baltimore could have pressured him in any way in the fourth quarter, they would have won that game. That's to me, I think that's the best bet on the board. I'll take Houston and I'll leave the three. It's on Monday night. We take what you've lost, you pushing.
00;39;17;16 - 00;39;18;09
Tom Green
It all in and.
00;39;18;13 - 00;39;19;29
Ron Zappolo
Push it in there.
00;39;20;01 - 00;39;29;23
Tom Green
And just I do too. I, I'm, I'm with you on Houston. I think that's a solid play there that they're a completely outclassed the Steelers and no.
00;39;29;23 - 00;39;34;18
Ron Zappolo
Denver gets enough credit. Is the guy that Demeco Ryans. Yeah he's he's done.
00;39;34;18 - 00;39;36;20
Tom Green
Okay in his second year.
00;39;36;23 - 00;39;39;29
Ron Zappolo
Third year I think. But I know with this he's still going.
00;39;40;03 - 00;39;44;05
Woody Paige
He was a candidate for jobs. He was down the street here.
00;39;44;08 - 00;39;44;29
Ron Zappolo
He was.
00;39;44;29 - 00;40;03;20
Woody Paige
And he was who I was pushing. Everybody was talking about Harbaugh and Peyton. He has proven to be exactly what he was expected to be. If you were somebody watching him when he was with the 49. Yeah. If you watched him as a player, he was.
00;40;03;23 - 00;40;10;09
Tom Green
He would have been harder to hire because of just if you wanted to see a more experienced coach. But he's proven that he's a.
00;40;10;09 - 00;40;11;13
Ron Zappolo
Very he's got the team.
00;40;11;15 - 00;40;33;16
Woody Paige
I like to agree with the Rock because I do it so rarely that the best two teams down the stretch have been the Jaguars and and yeah. And the Texans and the Texans haven't lost. It's a loss to Denver. And that was a that was one of those three point games. Didn't the Broncos win by like three.
00;40;33;17 - 00;40;36;24
Ron Zappolo
And I think it was 18 to 15. Yeah.
00;40;36;26 - 00;40;50;23
Woody Paige
I I love this. Here's what I I'm as the elder statesman I'm going to tell you not only don't rake in all your money on Houston okay. My three save the other part and do the under.
00;40;50;25 - 00;40;51;10
Tom Green
Okay. There you.
00;40;51;10 - 00;40;51;26
Ron Zappolo
Go.
00;40;51;28 - 00;40;57;06
Woody Paige
Go 9.5. So double up your money. Yeah, but the point.
00;40;57;07 - 00;41;18;02
Ron Zappolo
Do you think that might be a good play? I got a question for both of you. If the Texans win this game and they win it handily, what happens to Mike Tomlin. Because I have a good friend who is a Steeler fan. And I ask him all the time about God. He loves the Steelers. And I go, what do you think of Tom when he goes, love him as a coach?
00;41;18;06 - 00;41;34;21
Ron Zappolo
Great guy. I think it's time for him to go. And I think he speaks for a large segment of the Steeler population who is spoiled and tired because they haven't won a playoff game in 12 or 13 years.
00;41;34;21 - 00;41;36;13
Tom Green
It's tricky, but he knows the organization.
00;41;36;13 - 00;41;36;27
Ron Zappolo
What do you do?
00;41;36;27 - 00;41;39;16
Woody Paige
They had a they haven't had a losing losing streak.
00;41;39;17 - 00;41;44;25
Ron Zappolo
No. But what do you know what. You could make the case. It's worse. They're stuck in the middle. Yeah.
00;41;44;25 - 00;41;45;16
Tom Green
They're always drafting.
00;41;45;16 - 00;41;48;23
Ron Zappolo
They're stuck in the middle. They want to get a quarterback.
00;41;48;25 - 00;41;56;02
Tom Green
But they also that organization famously you know, between Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin. They don't make changes. No they do. Well what.
00;41;56;02 - 00;41;57;20
Ron Zappolo
If Mike Tomlin says.
00;41;57;20 - 00;42;00;22
Tom Green
Yeah I'm going to go get the Giants job.
00;42;00;25 - 00;42;08;19
Ron Zappolo
I don't want to rebuild this thing. And I know that unless we make some drastic decisions, we're always going to be.
00;42;08;19 - 00;42;09;07
Tom Green
This team.
00;42;09;07 - 00;42;19;05
Ron Zappolo
This team that ekes out a playoff spot and then loses in the first round. I think people in Pittsburgh, I don't want to speak for them, but I think they're tired of that.
00;42;19;07 - 00;42;22;02
Tom Green
Was there a city you do want to speak for? Sure. Yeah.
00;42;22;04 - 00;42;25;11
Ron Zappolo
Let's. Denver, Colorado. Nice. I love it here. Denver I'd.
00;42;25;11 - 00;42;26;08
Tom Green
Like to speak I.
00;42;26;08 - 00;42;35;03
Woody Paige
Love it. Just let me add Oklahoma. The Steelers will not score much. They don't score much. Well they're they're it's tough for them to score to.
00;42;35;03 - 00;42;36;02
Tom Green
Like those running backs.
00;42;36;02 - 00;42;58;14
Woody Paige
Though. Those two guys right okay I'll give you that. Hey Texans are going to give them more than ten points. So if Pittsburgh has to win this game it's going to be 10 to 9 in a bad weather. Everything else Houston Texas they're not Texans. He did not a great offensive team. But again that Broncos game was 1850 50.
00;42;58;16 - 00;43;03;02
Woody Paige
Yeah that's what this game is going to be. That's why you take the under on this.
00;43;03;02 - 00;43;04;29
Ron Zappolo
Texans beat the Chargers. What two weeks.
00;43;04;29 - 00;43;07;16
Tom Green
Ago. That's why it's so low. The reason that's 39.
00;43;07;16 - 00;43;09;00
Woody Paige
And and it's going to be a close game.
00;43;09;00 - 00;43;17;20
Ron Zappolo
And will either Mike Tomlin or John Harbaugh leave the franchises that they're with right now I think at.
00;43;17;20 - 00;43;18;18
Tom Green
Least one.
00;43;18;20 - 00;43;33;14
Woody Paige
Dude, I'm going to give you come back to me in a month. Tomlin is going to not return to the Steelers, but he's not going to another team. Toliver says he'll be he's going to go to television. That's what's lost about you.
00;43;33;14 - 00;43;33;22
Tom Green
Get it.
00;43;33;22 - 00;43;37;29
Ron Zappolo
Thinking about that I work for us. How about Harbaugh?
00;43;38;01 - 00;43;46;07
Woody Paige
Harbaugh will be back okay. Every year he goes through this. Every year they go I'm it's one of those cases of who is better than he.
00;43;46;07 - 00;43;57;20
Ron Zappolo
Like being able to disagree. They're going to make a mistake. I'm watching that game the other night and it was incredibly entertaining and I stayed with it. And I flicked over to this.
00;43;57;21 - 00;43;58;18
Woody Paige
He did. Yeah.
00;43;58;21 - 00;43;59;08
Ron Zappolo
Oh I get oh.
00;43;59;08 - 00;44;00;08
Woody Paige
Who would have turned.
00;44;00;08 - 00;44;08;01
Ron Zappolo
That off? Because sometimes guys guys fall asleep, you know. So I go over to watch Sports Center and I.
00;44;08;01 - 00;44;08;12
Woody Paige
Get that.
00;44;08;12 - 00;44;30;29
Ron Zappolo
Or I see, I see Lamar Jackson up there and he gets asked the question, do you want to see. Hardly. John Harbaugh back. And his answer was, hey, I'm still trying to process this game. I can't think about next year is and they estimate again. And he gave the same answer. When the quarterback refuses.
00;44;31;06 - 00;44;31;28
Tom Green
To endorse to.
00;44;31;28 - 00;44;33;11
Ron Zappolo
Endorse the head coach.
00;44;33;11 - 00;44;33;28
Tom Green
Is only.
00;44;33;28 - 00;44;50;28
Ron Zappolo
One of them will not be back. And usually in this instance, we have experienced this in Denver when it's a quarterback, in a coach, the coach loses the head coach. So unless Lamar Jackson gets traded, which I don't see, John Harbaugh will not be back.
00;44;51;02 - 00;45;06;17
Tom Green
Hey, before we wrap up, we have the odds for all the Super Bowl teams we have. We're down to the 14 teams, the Seahawks, the Rams, then the Broncos are the top three. The Carolina Panthers, kind of a longshot if you want to take a flier.
00;45;06;17 - 00;45;09;29
Ron Zappolo
You know, there are two fliers, Houston and Jacksonville.
00;45;10;02 - 00;45;27;02
Tom Green
Yeah. I think if you were looking at that and you wanted to, you know, pick a winner, you'd go to the high end of these, these numbers. But I think if you wanted to try to make some money, those middle AFC teams, the bills, Texans, Jags would all give you a little more excitement and maybe an opportunity to to cash in.
00;45;27;02 - 00;45;29;13
Tom Green
But then again this isn't to get to this is to win.
00;45;29;21 - 00;45;32;10
Ron Zappolo
To win it. Yeah.
00;45;32;13 - 00;45;34;18
Woody Paige
I want to grind my gears. Would you make.
00;45;34;18 - 00;45;38;13
Ron Zappolo
The. That's just been the wrong show for that. But go ahead.
00;45;38;15 - 00;45;45;14
Woody Paige
Take this. Would you make your commercial read like a minute longer.
00;45;45;16 - 00;45;46;11
Tom Green
Stretch it out.
00;45;46;11 - 00;45;47;07
Woody Paige
So we can go to.
00;45;47;07 - 00;45;51;02
Ron Zappolo
Bastrop. Let's run this show because it's bathroom time.
00;45;51;02 - 00;45;53;08
Tom Green
So I do want to do the.
00;45;53;10 - 00;46;00;12
Woody Paige
Nuggets, but I'm so tired and I can't wait for the end of the first quarter because you get a like, I'm going to miss anything, you know? And I'm.
00;46;00;15 - 00;46;01;15
Tom Green
Learning how to do the yeah.
00;46;01;15 - 00;46;03;29
Ron Zappolo
Close to the television. It's very important.
00;46;04;07 - 00;46;05;29
Woody Paige
It's a two minute,
00;46;06;02 - 00;46;06;13
Ron Zappolo
It's a.
00;46;06;15 - 00;46;08;00
Woody Paige
Good process.
00;46;08;03 - 00;46;13;06
Tom Green
I'm studying how to do the ads from my cell phone experts, Luke Wilson and Billy Bob Thornton. Yeah.
00;46;13;07 - 00;46;14;11
Ron Zappolo
They're there.
00;46;14;11 - 00;46;17;29
Tom Green
They believe the work they did to learn so much about cellular technology.
00;46;17;29 - 00;46;20;00
Woody Paige
Out in the middle of nowhere, too. I mean.
00;46;20;02 - 00;46;21;06
Ron Zappolo
You won't believe where I am.
00;46;21;06 - 00;46;24;15
Tom Green
We gave up acting so we could talk about cellular technology.
00;46;24;15 - 00;46;48;06
Woody Paige
I want the two of you guys. So based on what your abilities are that neither one of you were full time meteorologist, you used to be called weatherman, but. Yeah, because, people again, watching the show will see what I'm doing here, but they have the best job in the world because there's a map behind. Yeah, that they're not looking at, but they can talk about everything.
00;46;48;08 - 00;46;57;11
Woody Paige
The they're not looking at it. Let me tell you, as a guy who's worked at TV stations, they're looking at a teleprompter that's over here, they're.
00;46;57;11 - 00;46;58;09
Ron Zappolo
Looking at the TV.
00;46;58;09 - 00;47;01;06
Woody Paige
But people think that they are doing such a great.
00;47;01;06 - 00;47;02;24
Ron Zappolo
But they've learned how to point.
00;47;02;24 - 00;47;10;12
Tom Green
But they'll do that. Just your naked name. Every one of the what are there like 38, 40 states? They could name every one of them.
00;47;10;15 - 00;47;16;29
Ron Zappolo
Not only that, they can name every county in Colorado, which is. Yeah, which is tough to do.
00;47;17;02 - 00;47;38;27
Tom Green
Well, that's go to, what a wrap for Miami on our weekend betting edition. As always, we wish you the very best, with your own betting weekend and football watching and the like. You know, and never because. Well, I wish you the best. These two quarterbacks, they're going to chaotic. You're going to have some blackened fish in it and then some fava beans, maybe with their chaotic.
00;47;38;29 - 00;47;43;16
Tom Green
We hope to see you again next week. Thanks as always. And,
00;47;43;18 - 00;47;44;23
Woody Paige
So say good night, Gracie.
00;47;44;24 - 00;47;49;11
Tom Green
Go ducks. Good bears.
00;47;49;14 - 00;47;50;28
Ron Zappolo
Oh, God.