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this is cashy now with your host Dustin Sweetleson on Vsin. These sports betting network. Yeah, buddy September the second be with you on on Wednesday night. Welcome on into the program. I'm Dustin Sweetleson and I'll be with you all night long as we broadcast from the circus sports book in downtown Las Vegas. You can always catch the show series section channel 189. That is a new number. YouTube TV, the Vswanach app radio affiliates across the United States of God bless America. Email the show cashing out at vsin.com. Tweet us at vsin live at Dustin Sweetleson. We got a fun one lined up for you tonight over the course the next three hours as you can smell it in the air week one college football this time in 24 hours. We will be discussing what Colorado and Georgia Tech did you a B an Illinois UCF and Bethune Cookman. That's what we're looking at. Real football is back. We get a little taste on Thursday.

We get a little bit on Friday and then Saturday. Everyone's in action a trio on Sunday and then we get one on Monday. Oh baby. We made it shout out to Shania looks like we made it. Look how far we've come my baby. All right. Later on the show we have a lot to get to as far as week one is considered bottom of this hour best bets from one of the sharpest college handicapers out there. Microcalibre's action network New York Post will be with us in 30 minutes here. Steve Helwick covers the group of six leagues. Underdog dynasty is the website. His thoughts North Dakota State favor to win the Mountain West. How does some of these smaller schools stack up against their power for foes and week one of college football will break that down with him coming up in about an hour. Max Starks a multiple time Super Bowl champion called Steelers Games on the radio also does college and NFL radio as well. We will look at the SEC specifically with Max who starred at Florida back in the day. Eric Cohen our guy Cohen's corner with his best bets for

week one in college football and Eric Frohton Yahoo sports lead college football fantasy analyst. How are we attacking this week from a betting prop perspective as far as week one is concerned all of that more coming your way plus the core for where we look at long shots to make the college football playoff. We'll do three up three down breaking down everything going on a major league baseball for Thursday a lot to get to and just three hours to do so fired up to be with you here on a Wednesday night as we only have three games currently in action in major league baseball. So updating you on the scores the Dodgers with a three nothing lead on the cardinals looking to bounce back from last night. That game is currently in the third inning Freddie Freeman with a home run in that contest as we have the Dodgers going off originally at close at a price of minus 273. They are now currently minus 2900 St. Louis's plus nine 20 you could take plus four and a half on the cards. That seems a little long eight and a half is currently your in game total there. The Yankees are up one nothing on the angels. This is a

been a very good pitching matchup. We kind of thought it would be when we previewed this last night read debtmers enter the contest on an absolute heater and he's rolling right along five and two thirds just 79 pitches one run six strikeouts the Yankees do lead one nothing the lone RBI driven in by Ahmed Rosario. Cam Slitler your favorite for the American league say young five shut out innings six strikeouts for him on 64 pitches so far. His day is not done his ERA is down to 2.03. Could he be sub two by the time he gets out of the start tonight. Is there enough room for him to do that? We will monitor that here on the program his strikeout prop was set at seven and a half the over was about minus one 32 when I looked at it last night. So he has a very good chance to go over his K properties only allowed one hit so far in five innings of work. The other late game were in extra innings in Minnesota and you know what if you're going to buy a ticket to watch Detroit Minnesota play right now you better get some free baseball there better be a two for one

special because I don't enjoy watching either of these teams. Five five is the score currently looks like Detroit is at the plate and it's Minnesota minus 129 even money on the Tigers 12 and a half is your in game total max Clark the rookie they called up a few weeks ago he's got two hits in this contest and it looks like he's at the plate right now two for three two runs and a walk for one max Clark in this game I'll keep you updated on that and all the baseball all night long right here on Vison these sports betting network. Earlier tonight in case you missed it as we were hitting the air the Milwaukee Brewers to care a business against the Cubs which is interesting because they didn't get a great start out of Jacob, Mizorowski your favorite to win the National League side young he goes for earnings five earned four walks five strikeouts ERA all the way up to 1.97. It's not panic time here but it is worth noting we're deep into the season and his importance for for the Brewers this year to finish the job to win the National League pennant get to a world series maybe win the first world series in franchise history. He's paramount.

He is the number one reason why they'd be able to get past the Dodgers lining up a series for him to go to three times potentially in in a best of seven. You need him to be right you need him to be healthy and he's a young guy he's a lanky guy there's not a lot of meat on those bones he didn't grow up in my house I could tell you that much so I'd be a little concerned for the Brewers here of how we're going to manage this down the stretch now there's only a few weeks left in the season not sure he can lose his grip on National League side young but you do have to keep it in the back of your mind at the Milwaukee Brewers their goal is not a good looking picture a psi young award their goal is as an organization to prove that one of the have nots one of the little engines that could can get the deal done in win an actual world series here so it's just worth noting here file it away he is down to minus six hundred for the analysis on Chris Salles five to one Christopher Sanchez twenty to one and Yamamoto is 45 to one I always think it's weird. Why are the sports books get to just pull names off the board and say you know what those guys aren't in the mix to win this award how do you know you don't

You don't know that. I mean, they're probably right, but leave those up there just in case something happens because like a week ago, I was willing to give them my money for Pitalonzo MVP. They didn't have them available for days. By the time they reposted him, he was 45 to one. And see, that's my issue, is that you can offer a bad number. And people go, well, that's the only number out there. I'm taking, I won't take 45 to one. You could have had an prediction market around 92 to one on Pitalonzo when I was looking at that. So that's just something that really annoys me here. You had Houston beating the white socks earlier, and I should note, by the way, Milwaukee was a minus one, 41 favorite, we go over the total of eight and a half. Jackson, Churriot, three for four with a home run. Breggman was 24th ding, or the season for the cubby's on the other side. Houston over the white socks, two nothing was the score. Astros cash minus one, 32, we go under eight and a half. Both pictures were brilliant in that one. Davis Martin, Wazewski, for the Astros in that contest. San Francisco just took down the pirates and extra innings as Raffi Devers. Third straight game with a homer, 32nd of the year, helps lead the giants as a plus one 41 dog at P and C.

We push on the total of nine there in that contest. The Braves avoided a sweep, nine nothing. They beat the nationals. Akunya showing up when it matters. Three for five, a homer, three, where it be, Sean Murphy, third home run, went two for four. He's only played 19 games. He's got three home runs. He's the backup catcher behind Drake Baldwin right now, but they're going to make sure his bats in the lineup often. The A's took one from the Rangers, nine to two. They were plus a dollar 46. We talked about it last night on the show Jacob Lopez. He's been on a good run. It continued here six innings to earn seven strikeouts there. Cincinnati beat San Diego seven to five. That is a bad loss for the friars. They've lost seven of nine. There's still a half game back in the wild card when I looked about an hour ago, want to make sure I have the Arizona result and the diving backs did beat the Phillies, one to nothing, avoiding a sweep earlier today. So with that score being final, Arizona has the final wild card. San Diego is a half game behind Arizona. That's where we stand right now in the national league. Andrew Paine, by the way,

was very good for Philadelphia. He went seven innings, shut out baseball six strikeouts. Mariners topped the Red Sox eight to three. We were on the over here that cash is the total was eight and a half. Seattle with Bryce Miller not getting through the fifth inning. He they still win plus an hour 29 in that contest. The Metz took care of business against the raise 10 to four. They took two with three from Tampa Bayes, Juan Soto slugged his 23rd home run of the season. The blue jays cash at a minus 130 price on the road at Cleveland. We go over the total of seven because the blue jays one 11 to nothing. See six innings, shut out baseball four strikeouts his ERA down to 2.25 on the year. And finally the Baltimore Orioles. They lose two of three to the Rockies here. Colorado six five victorious today. They were plus a dollar 59. We go under the total of 11 and a half. The Orioles are now one and a half games back in the wild card. They are tied with Texas and Toronto. And all three of them one and a half back at the Cleveland Guardians. And just a waste of a great start from Trevor Rogers who had 11 strikeouts in this game.

Now the big story of the day came down in the NBA. It's September 2nd. And this is what matters here because in case you missed it. The NBA has finally levied penalties to the Los Angeles Clippers because of their trying to circumvent the salary cap using other organizations outside of the NBA franchise to funnel money into the hands of Kauai Leonard and his cohorts on his team. And this is the ruling that comes down from Adam Silvering Company earlier today in case you missed it. The NBA took away five first ground draft picks from the Clippers. 2029 through 2033 Steve bomber. The owner was fine 30 million bomber and president of business ops, Gillian Zucker suspended one year president of basketball operations. Lawrence Frank suspended six months. Kauai Leonard finds $700,000 and his uncle Dennis Robertson banned from doing business with NBA teams for five years. That's it. Okay, here's the deal. This was cheating. They got caught and they jeopardized the sanctity of the NBA.

They deserve this punishment. It stinks for the fans. It stinks for the players on this roster. But the reality is Adam Silver did what he had to do. And I got to tip my hat because it felt like he'd lost control of this league over the last few years. But salary cap leagues exist for a reason to give all markets a fair shot to win. This directly challenged that by circumventing the cap and putting 20 plus million dollars in Kauai Leonard's pocket, along with the rest of his team and only being able to pay him so much, according to that cap and adding money to that on the side, it really hurts what the NBA is built on. A league where we saw Milwaukee win a title recently. You have Denver winning a title a few years ago. Oklahoma City just won one a season ago. They look like a potential dynasty and San Antonio is building another one. I don't know how Kauai Leonard only gets $700,000 in fines. He's culpable and he said yes to the money. He knew this was wrong and there's serious, serious issues for everyone else here involved. But somehow he only is fine 700,000 when he made 21 million alone in the aspiration deal in this whole thing.

And I think it's odd that he can just walk away and go to the raptors and just leave this wake. This rubble left of the clippers who are franchised that struggling for relevancy all the time without those five first round picks combined with the five they traded to be bring Paul George to Los Angeles a few years ago and shipping SGA. This organization will be irrelevant until further notice. Welcome back to cashee now. You're on decent. He sports many network. College football is back. We will do plenty on the big one on Thursday night. Colorado goes to Atlanta to take on the Georgia Tech yellow jackets to very different looking teams

from a year ago when they met in Boulder. Brent Key has a new offensive coordinator and a new quarterback in Alberta. Mendoza on the other side. Ju-ju Lewis takes over at quarterback full time. The five star with the buffs. You will hear from Dion Sanders later on in the program. Alberta Mendoza as well as that's the big boy on Thursday. It trickles into Friday and then Saturday is going to be locked and loaded. And if you go to Vison.com right now. There's a lot of great information. In fact, Adam Burke and the team, they put together these hubs. And it says the college football betting hub for week one. It's everything you can need. It's the picks page. Vison.com slash picks. It is articles written about specific games that may jump out to the guys here at the website. And you also have maybe one of the most valuable resources we have at Vison. Steve McAnons numbers. He is a data driven better. And his data driven database goes back very, very far and very, very deep. I was looking up at the website earlier today and I just wanted to pass along what I saw

because he does a few different strategies when he comes up with finding his bets. And he's got his system matches based on certain systems that he likes. And I'll share a few with you here along the way. He also has betting concepts involving angles that jump out to him. And then he also has some other plays that I just thought were interesting in the way that he was coming at it from his specific viewpoint here. So let's share some of them first. And whether or not we have teams that make sense. Now, in order to find out the teams that are applicable in all of these situations that you're going to see up on the screen, YouTube TV, the Vison watch app, you're going to have to read the article. Steve does list them there. You don't have to go on a fact finding mission to find out who this is pertaining to this week. But the first one up here, New Head Coaches. That is obviously a big story in college football. There's a lot of transition every single year. New Head Coaches, according to Steve, 92 and 154 straight up, 111 and 133 against the spread. That's 45.5% in the first four weeks of the college football season when they're facing

a returning head coach. And that goes back to 2021. Well, for Steve, that means you're looking to fade a team like Stanford with David Appritier taking over facing Mario Cristobal and the Miami Hurricanes. Coastal Carolina with a tough one against Richard Rodriguez. You have James Madison as they welcome Sunbelt, Billy Napier back to the league. They take on Jamie Chadwell and Liberty where they had a down year a season ago, but they do return a lot of experience. Peace is most notably that coaching staff is back. You have Auburn as a fade candidate here, taking on Baylor in the Mercedes-Benz dome in Atlanta. Auburn is essentially a whole new team, a whole new staff. Part of it though is the South Florida roster. So you have to keep that in mind when some of these coaches as Dion would say bring their Louis with them, it's not as much of a transition as it would appear on paper. Oregon State has a whole new staff, a ton of transfers coming from the FCS level and they are facing Houston on the road where that one's up to 20 and a half. So you got to pick and choose the ones that make sense because technically according to

the data, Ole Miss, Pete Golding is a new head coach. I would think trial by fire in the playoff, you kind of don't view him as a first year head coach. Because of a tough one against Louisville and I, I'm on the dog, the Louisville Cardinals in that matchup, but all that information is up at Vison.com for that angle from Steve. You also have new defensive coordinators. They are 165 and 195 against the spread. That's only 45.8% in the first four weeks of college football season when they are facing a returning defensive coordinator since 2021. So it's a little bit of a different angle, right? It's not the defense versus the offense, it's defense versus defense because that is certainly something that you want to want to watch here early in the season with so many teams relying on the transfer portal. How do those pieces come together? And more importantly, when there's a new man in charge, a new defensive coordinator, the task at hand is all that much harder. The teams that jump out in Steve's systems here, and by the way, these are the ones to fade. You would fade Toledo, taken on Michigan State, even though Michigan State has an entire new coaching staff there themselves.

You would fade USC taking on Fresno State there because they have a new defensive coordinator. It's like James Madison, as I mentioned earlier, their battle with Liberty. You also have North Texas who they lost everyone a season ago. Oklahoma State is someone he'd consider fading by the system. Also Memphis, which again is a tough team to consider in this because so many players from Southern Miss went to Charlotteshof. I think it's very, very smart to not just blindly bet these systems, but instead to look, use them to set up the conversation of what does and doesn't make sense here. Another system play for Steve McAnon, teams with 17 plus returning starters are 108 and 87 against the spread. That's 55.4% in the first four weeks of the college football season when they take on teams returning 16 or fewer starters going back to 2021. Well, some system plays for him now. Following this is USC. USC is laying 21 against Fresno, which feels like that number.

I'm surprised it's coming back that way. Feels like the market is completely overreacting to what USC did a week ago against San Jose State, where they completely kept the offense vanilla and save stuff for later, knowing that they were going to win that game. Everyone's acting like USC showed that they have major issues. You don't know what you saw from USC. They may have major issues, but you didn't learn that from that game. I want to be clear about that. A&M laying a big number this week. That is a play for him. How about UCLA? Flipping of a favorites. It was Cal minus 1 and a half. We're up to UCLA minus 2 and a half right now. And according to Steve, they would be a play here on Saturday. Houston, Notre Dame, the other two listed here. Houston is a team that I want to bet. I'm on the under in that matchup against Oregon State, but I may lay it as well. I'm feeling spicy week one. I know you guys are shocked. I'm not going to be very disciplined in the amount of bets I have when I'm excited. That's just a reality in the situation for me at times. Some other system plays teams that he would like to back this week, West Virginia. When he takes on, when they take on Coastal Carolina, because this is now their stability

scores. Steve Maconham, what he does is he has a system that he went into last week on the website to find out how stable a program is coming into a matchup. And when there is a big chasm between two teams in stability, he looks to fire on one of them. So playing on a team with a stability score edge of six plus and non-conference games in the first four weeks of the season, that's week zero, one, two, three, assuming the game doesn't have a spread of minus 30 or higher for either team. This is 55.3% since 2013. That's 303, 245 and 12 against the spread. Well Houston is listed once again for Steve here. That is worth noting. West Virginia is listed here and Liberty is listed here. We took Liberty plus six and a half the other day. It briefly hit seven. It's now down to six. I think Liberty is the right side there just because those teams talent wise are pretty evenly matched between Liberty and James Madison and Liberty returns so many more pieces. They just got to fix the run game from a season ago. Notre Dame Houston, a couple other teams that round out that list for Steve Macanen.

Looking at some of the line moves from earlier today, we touched on them yesterday. So I just want to update the ones that move specifically today. And UCLA is one that moved more today. UCLA, as I mentioned, Cal opened up minus one and a half. It's now two and a half. That is a four point move. That is the biggest side move so far for week one in the college football season. Bob Chesney is eight and all against the spread in his career as a road favorite of seven points or less. Yesterday, we had Kent State and South Carolina. That move from 33 and a half South Carolina favorite to 35 and a half. I'm sorry to 36 and a half. It's now back down to 35 and have a little back by back on Kent State earlier today. And Bimmer is three and one against the spread as a favorite of 31 plus points while the head coach of South Carolina. A new line move earlier today, two and a half points swing. Western Kentucky Lane Fort Nevada. It goes from one and a half down to two and a half in that contest.

Akron awake for us. This is a tough one to dissect. We'll do do more on this in the campus crawl. But we don't know if Akron's quarterback is going to be deemed eligible. We are still waiting to find out if Reese. I'm going to butcher the name Puffin Barger who is at Albany in a club by way in the class like 2000, 2001 played O one at Old Dominion. That was at Albany for two years. Put up monster numbers. And then the last couple seasons backed up, cam wore to Miami, just backed up, drew Mastemaker in North Texas. We think he's going to start, but I have not seen official word whether he is going to be allowed to start because he's applying for one of those waivers where he's already played. I believe six years of college at this point. So we wait for that move for that news. The line is still moving in Wake Forest favor, almost like it thinks that he's not going to be playing. We open with wake minus 22 and a half against Akron. It is up to 24 and a half here. And now it's back. I'm sorry, it was 23 and a half yesterday. It's back up to 24 and a half. This thing keeps flipping back and forth from 22 and a half on open.

It was 23 and a half. Now it's 24 and a half. Joe Morehead the head coach for Akron. He's on four against the spread as a dog of 21 and a half to 31 while the head coach of the zips that game is on Thursday. So we better find out some information pretty soon here as far as that one is concerned. Terms of total moves earlier today. Sam Houston and Troy. This one's now a three and a half point move. Opened at 51. It's up to 54 and a half. And yesterday it was 53 and a half. So it moved to another point earlier today. Toledo at Michigan State, 49 and a half. It's now 46 and a half. It was 47 and a half yesterday. So we just keep dropping. It's now a three point move. You have Pat Fitzgerald in that one. 12 and 2 to the under as a home favorite of seven and a half to 14 in his career and against a Mac. Coastal at West Virginia, the final move from earlier today from 58 down to 56 and a half. Now yesterday it was 55 and a half. So it came back up a point with coastal and West Virginia. But Paul's back baby. Veecent Pro gives you everything you need. Everything I just shared from Steve Mac and at Veecent.com.

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Keep you posted on everything transpires in all of those games all night long. But as I've been on all I'll show long week one is here in college football. It's the best feeling because you know why everyone's got hope. Everyone has belief. All these teams are relevant. Nobody just fading away into just the darkness to end the season. We have all of these teams going as hard as they can week one and a guy who's going as hard as he can with these bets is going to join us next. Mike Calbrice the action network. Check him out at East Breeze on X and he joins us on the progressive guess line. Michael thanks for doing this man. I really appreciate it on a crazy week and I was looking online. I saw your article posted about your conference champion Parlay and this is something that I get just picking up more and more steam for all sports going forward. Where you just you find them you get that plus money. You pair it together and hopefully you're right on all of them. You get a big payout and I saw yours and we are very like minded in a lot of these. So when you were looking at putting together your four bets to put in this parlay who were the four that you ultimately decided on.

So I started with the Miami Hurricanes in the ACC there were the only conference champion that were yet late juice minus 146 to win the conference and then from there it slowly went up in terms of payout. You have Oregon to win the big 10. They're kind of in that co favorite department second favorite in that conference. Then Texas finally to punch through in the SEC and then the G6 is more of my bread and butter. The Memphis has been mispriced this entire off season. I got them at 12 to one to win the college or to win the auto bid from the G6 to go to the college of all playoff but also in terms of the American as it relates to this parlay grabbing them at plus 750. It's down to seven to one. Just at least in my opinion not enough movement based on their performance in week zero. They went out to Sin City against a Dan Mall and coach team and they were the better offense. When it came to moving the football and protecting their quarterback late in that game that was the difference. And then the Jackson Arnold is going to put up some big numbers for you and I'll be this year but they cannot protect them in crunch time and that's why Memphis won it. And if you can run the ball if you have good quarterback play and you have a great defensive

line at the G6 level you were way ahead of the pack. So I think they're mispriced to win the American even at seven to one. Yeah, Michael I'm with you on this completely. I've been yelling about Memphis for the last few weeks here and that everything I saw over the weekend just confirmed what I already believed is the American is wide open. Like Navy being favored at plus 370 UTSA which I feel like when there's expectations always lets us down. ECU has a new quarterback. You have South Florida in transition. Blake Corvath isn't back for Navy here. Memphis on paper is probably the most talented and deepest team in this league. Would you agree with that? I've made this argument to anyone who will listen to me including the guys who make the sandwiches at Wal-Waw there's sick of it but I'll pitch it to the audience here one more time. They have incredible coaching. Charles Huff is a Nick Saban protege. Sometimes from that coaching tree that coaching tree has just created monsters from signety to Kirby smart to Dan landing to Mario Christobal. Everyone who cut their teeth under Saban seems to really have a hold on how to build a program. Huff has one at Marshall.

He wanted Southern Miss and now he's in here at Memphis with that FedEx money. He's spent at wisely in the off season. They have one of the most talented G6 rosters and he also went out and spent money very wisely in terms of his coordinator hires. Lance Gidry reunites with him. He previously had coached together at Marshall. He's a great defensive coordinator and he went out and he got a rising star at OC and Kevin Decker who did absolute miracles at Ultiminion. He had the monarch seventh in the country in rushing and the final piece of this puzzle is Marcus Stokes. All of the preseason hype going back to the spring was air Nolan's coming in a former blue chipper four star guy but Marcus Stokes from Division 2 West Florida is really the quarterback to keep an eye on not just from winning the job but I think being one of the best quarterbacks of the G6 level he had offers from Florida from Penn State. He had a scandal where he's wrapping to a song. He used a word he shouldn't use and all of a sudden every one of his D1 offers vanished. He apologized. He went the Miyakopa route and then had to go on that redemption tour. He got you know scholarship offers at the D2 level decided to stick it out.

Placed two years at West Florida and when he re-entered all of a sudden he was an undervalued asset. This was an elite 11 quarterback and he looked like it in week zero against UNLV. We are so like minded on this. It's like step brothers. Do we just become best friends? I bet Memphis by the way in the fourth quarter of that game against UNLV 13 to 1 to make the college football play. All right. Let's start looking ahead to week one and obviously the big one the battle with the two death valleys LSU and Clemson really jumps out with both coaches saying a lot to the media these days. I wanted to head into the year high on Clemson thinking there'd be continuity. There is not continuity Michael and while LSU it's all new it looks a lot better on paper. You're going to lay the 10 with Lane and company. Talk to me. Tell me why. I think there's so much noise around this game for obvious reasons. Is LSU even going to be an SEC school by kick off? Is the conference going to kick him out and offer their spot to two Lane. There's a lot of non football noise going on. But when it comes to the roster that Kiffin has already assembled he's the transfer portal

king. There's no doubt about it. When you look at the number one class that he signed it at 29% more blue chips than the second best class in college football. There are elite at all the important positions. Past russia left tackle and quarterback. I think this is Clemson when you look at last season and this is a similar opener at Death Valley at Clemson. I was actually at that game. The hype leading up to it was this is our year. We got club Nick. We have all this continuity. We have this elements of it's our time. The air went out of the balloon. That is not where they are here. I think they're the coyote that runs off the cliff. Their legs are still moving. But the fall is going to come at this point and it's going to come in this opener. Because when you have a quarterback who's only started one game walking into Death Valley in Baton Rouge it can be a snowball effect. I think if Ellis you can jump on them early and get some momentum because Sam Levin, let's not treat him like he's this quarterback who is lost in the wilderness. He had one injury cost him much of last season and he was pressing a bit before that. But if you go back just one more season he led the sun devils to the college football

playoff. And then Scott was a big part of that but he made some really big plays along the way. They had an opportunity to be Texas. They had him on the ropes in that game. This is a quarterback from a physical tools standpoint that is so much better than what Clemson's putting on the field. So I don't think this is going to be particularly close. I'm going to look at alternate lines here as well. And I still think it's suppressed by the fact that people don't like Lane Kiffin. Here's a news alert. There's lots of college football coaches that have not been the best guys who've won a ton. Urban Meyer did it. He's been problematic coaches left and right. You got to put that to the side. Once the games are played, you have to look at the roster. You have to look at the coaching. He also did an incredible recruiting job not just on the players, but also retaining his defensive coordinator. He's going to dial out pressure on this young kid from Clemson a quarterback. And I think he's going to be in a world of hurting this one. Michael Calvary says our guest, the action network at East Breeze. You can find him over on X. How about this quarterback matchup? Texas State and Texas Brad Jackson. 38 total touchdowns a year ago against Archmaning.

Totals 59 and a half. The spreads 29 and a half. Obviously, the long horns are favored. But you think Texas State and that offense shows up here and you want to go over? Well, a few things. Texas State, whatever they do, they're going to do it quickly. They were 21st and seconds between plays last year in terms of snaps. And that's the identity that they have. And what's also nice is G.J. Kenny since he arrived in San Marcos. He's always been punching up early in the season. His very first game is the head coach, the upset Baylor. Two years ago, they should have upset. There's a state team that went to the college football playoff. So I don't think the lights are going to be too bright. They like to test themselves early in the season. And for many of those games, they've shown up. And when you look at Brad Jackson, it's not just a guy who's got incredible physical traits. He is two receivers that both have 1,000 yards receiving last year that are returning in both star, both sparks and Christ on junior. And for those reasons, I think he's just going to be able to play point card. They're going to get 14, 17 points in this game. And then I think you're going to see this revamped Texas offense absolutely drop the hammer.

The last three games, two of which were against naturally ranked teams, Archman and turn the corner, 94.5 QBR in those three games. And now he's got Cam Coleman, who just, in case of emergency, throw it up, cams down there somewhere. Everyone saw that preseason catch where you had full Calvin Johnson reaching behind him, jumping looked like to 12 feet. He's someone who's a mismatch, tech to state for as much as I love them offensively. They have never figured it out defensively. That's the reason why Kenny is still a Texas state and not at a power for job. But his defenses were even middling by national averages. They probably would win nine or 10 games last year and he would have been out. But instead, they're going to continually have to play for those shootouts. I think they'll get some points. This must champ defense. I also think rationing up the aggression, the blitzing packages, letting Colin Simmons just absolutely terrorize people off the edge. And there's a chance for a defensive touchdown or two in this game. So I think it's going to be high scoring explosive and Texas is going to use this as momentum in a springboard in a week, two against Ohio State. Great stuff. He's Michael Calibri's check him out the action network.

New York Post at East breeze on X. Thanks for doing this. Nightman. I love the conversation. We love the chat throughout the football season as well. Thanks so much for having me enjoy the football. We've made it. We made it to the wilderness. The harsh off season of college of ballads here. We all deserve it. Yes, sir. Good luck with all the vets. That's Michael Calibri's the action network. Great stuff from him. And by the way, great stuff from the sharps NFL weekly on the sharps. It turns each week's NFL slate into a sports prediction tournament. Everyone starts with the same chips picked from the same slate and lands on one public leaderboard. So you can see exactly where you stack up. Enter it. Join the sharps.com or scan the QR code on the screen and use code V. In 50 for a 50% deposit bonus up to $100. That's joined the sharps.com promo code. V. In 50 one head coach in the NFL defense his quarterback from critics. The other one says why he's seen growth from his signal caller here from them. Next on cashing out.

Welcome back to cashing out here on visa. He sports many network. 45 minutes from now, Max darks two times. Super Bowl champion will be on the program. Get his thoughts on his Florida Gators. How they rank in the SEC with a new head coach, a new coordinator on offense, and a new quarterback that coming up in 45 minutes here. In an hour and 15, Eric Cohen, pro handicap, sports line handicap, or checks in and will do player props at Eric Froton, a Yahoo sports at one 30 a.m. Eastern time. But right now we've neglected the national football league. Let's hit the top stories there in the three point stance. The top stories in football. Every single day. I saw some. This is three point stance. I got this again. So I don't get five. I'll put in a mirror. Not exactly the most shocking news earlier today as the Las Vegas Raiders name Kirk Cousins. Their week one starter.

We will have to wait to see the era of Fernando Mendoza. Whether or not you take anything out of the preseason, I don't really think you can go either way on Fernando Mendoza. We've seen first round quarterbacks look really bad and then end up playing and be all right. He's learning. We don't know what they're working on there. But only this decision had anything to do with Fernando Mendoza and his progress. I think it's big picture for this organization. The goal is to be more competitive to not be a laughing stock and an embarrassment. This upcoming season Kirk Cousins gives you the best chance to raise that floor at least early on. The Raiders are laying three and a half by the way week one against Miami at home. The total in that matchup is 40 and a half. And if you're looking to bet on some player props for Fernando Mendoza, well, you can't his passing yard prop is off the board. This is one that was bet by a few people here at the network in the last month. I know Matt humans drafted that as part of the pro football futures draft. Go to Vecin.com slash download. You can get a PDF of everyone, all 130 picks from that futures draft. But Mendoza still seven to one for rookie of the year.

If Cousins looks good early and you can get a balloon number up to Mendoza, I don't hate the idea of getting it, getting him if it goes north of 15 to one. I don't know if it ever gets there because if you look at the track record of offensive, rookie of the year, the reality is quarterbacks have such an advantage touching the ball on every play, controlling the destiny, the win lost impact, the competitiveness impact that they bring to the table just by existing. If Mendoza were to play eight, nine games, 10 games, he could still steal this award. The biggest problem I keep coming back to for the Raiders is when do you turn the keys over? When do you hand the reins to Fernando Mendoza? Because like I said, they want to be respectable. They don't want to be a seller dweller. When total is five and a half, it's hard to find six wins. I'll add that. But let's give them the win against Miami week one, right? You'll look on the schedule. I don't know outside of the Jetson week eight. One, how many more wins are coming? Two, where's that soft spot to put Mendoza out there?

Because you could beat Miami week one. You could beat the Jetson week eight. You can win at Cleveland in week 12, maybe Tennessee in week 16 in Arizona on the road in 17. Outside of that, you'll be pretty surprised if they win any of those other games. I can't imagine they're favorited a lot of them, even the ones that they have at home. That's the reality of the situation because even when the Jets game happens right before it, you have a run of Kansas City, New England, Buffalo and the Rams. Then it's the Jets after the Jets at San Fran against the defending champion Seattle Seahawks at Denver. There just isn't a really good spot for Mendoza to be acclimated to work in and just kind of pick things up. There's a chance we don't see Mendoza. That's the reality of the situation right now this year for the Raiders. Some other news coming out of Raiders camp, Clint Kubiak optimistic that Ashton Genti is going to be available in week one. So everyone freaking out after he went down in practice and some of those reports were that has to remind you. You got to figure out who you follow, who you trust for information because people were panicking when they saw the news about Ashton,

Ashton Genti going down in practice. The reality is if he plays week one, a lot of those people reported that it was catastrophic have egg on their face. Now I have egg on my face when it comes to this next quarterback because heading into last year, I was pretty adamant that Bo Nick stunk and I still think skill set wise. He leaves a lot to be desired, but he's a dog and he's made me a bold lever. I think he operates in the Sean Payton offense very well. And I think based on the way that they want a function as a team, which is just hang around for three quarters and in the fourth quarter, make sure that defense keeps him in the game, which it will against just about anyone. Bo Nick's in his mobility, Bo Nick's in his playmate and Bo Nick's out of the pocket. Now with an added weapon of Jalen Waddle, that can be something for the Dan for Broncos, but there's still plenty of Bonyx critics, even though I am no longer in that camp. And I can't wait to see him now prove me right originally and wrong now because I know that's how that always goes with my takes. But Sean Payton was asked about the critics of Bonyx earlier today. Here's what he said defending his QB. There's two things that I think can happen. I think you can you can be predetermined based on how you saw him coming out and slow to move off of maybe

your draft opinion, which isn't very normal. And then you know, oftentimes you're not exposed to certain players based on television or so that's it's the one. Cool thing about our sport, though, we could you could argue. You know any position top 10. All of those discussions and generally time will give you those answers, you know, we love kind of what we're seeing. And again, they're measured by wins. They're measured by certain things and and ultimately that's how history will be written about any of the quarterbacks specifically. Sean Payton's a bold dude. If he didn't want Bonyx and didn't believe in Bonyx, Bonyx wouldn't be the quarterback here. And a lot of us got to e-crow. A lot of us have to knit one or wrong. I know people in the media don't like to do that. I probably do it too much where I acknowledge my shortcomings, but you know what?

I'm a human being and I'm not going to pretend like I know everything because I mean, based on results in my life, I definitely don't know everything. The only thing I do know is buying this jacket was a good decision because I just keep getting compliments on it from everybody. But the Denver Broncos, they don't think it was a mistake drafting Bonyx. And if you look at the numbers, the number tell the story. They won the division a year ago, the win totals nine and a half. I'm not going to be someone who doubts them. I'm just not I think they got better. I think the addition of Jonah Coleman in the backfield gives them a little bit more balance and a legitimate three down back that can run between the tackles to pair with JK Dobbins and RJ Harvey out of UCF can be what he's meant to be, which is a pass catching running back out of this backfield. And I think when it comes to Bonnick's, I'm not saying he's drew breeze. But if you go and look at drew breezes record and what he did statistically under Sean Peyton, it was year three where it felt like things took a big jump. It was the first time in Sean Peyton system that drew breeze through for five thousand yards, finishing with five thousand sixty nine yards. It's also the first time drew breeze cleared 34 passing touchdowns,

completing 65% of his passes. They only went eight and eight that season, but this is now year three for Bonnicks. You have to imagine coming back multiple years playing for the same coach. And now you had a wrinkle of Davis, web is the offensive coordinator. Peyton's going to oversee, but now you have a fresh set of eyes saying, hang on, Bo. I think you can do this and you're not caught in your ways. You're not stuck doing what you always did here. I'm not just an added element for Denver, where we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg for this offense. I can't believe I'm out here defending Denver and Bonnicks right now. But I'm with Sean Peyton on this one. If he's good enough for Sean, he's good enough for me. There's a playoff team again. And I think they still compete to win this division, even with my homes healthy. The division, a lot of people are claiming is the best in football is the NFC North. I think it's the NFC West, but you can make your debate. It's the NFC North. I don't really understand the pricing of it. Why is Chicago the third shot in the board? Because I think the upside is there for them to win the sleep, the winning NFC and even win the Super Bowl. Why? Because I believe in Ben Johnson and he believes in Caleb Williams, the head coach of the Chicago Bears, Ben Johnson said he's seen a lot of growth in his quarterback in the offseason.

I've seen a very composed person every time he steps into the building. This guy, you know, might have had a little bit of goofy to him a year ago. When I use that term with love and now you just see a more serious player and intent every time I'm around him. And I think his teammates feel that as well. You know, he's getting to the practice field early. He's making sure his part is taken care of. He's warmed up. He's ready to go. He's staying after with the guys after practice. I think you guys see that on a regular basis. And so he's taking a lot of pride in his approach right now. And it trickles down to everybody around him. I think it's a great thing. And so I think he continues to grow up and he's going to be a huge leader for us this year. To quote, remember the Titans attitude reflect leadership captain. That's exactly what Ben Johnson was getting at. Caleb Williams is attitude. His leadership of this team. It's being seen. I know the schedule's hard.

It was hard a year ago. There are plus 305 to win the division. I don't buy Detroit like everyone else does. I think Detroit has so many shortcomings. Chicago has issues too, mostly on defense. But Ben Johnson can make up for that. Why he has Caleb Williams. Why he has Colston Loveland. Why he's got weapons on the outside like Luther Luther, Bert and the third who we haven't even seen what he's capable of being. I like Chicago plus 305. There's a world where they win the NFC. That's how much I believe in Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams. And I love to hear that they're on the same page. That is a positive development as we head into the season. I think sometimes we get a little too caught up in the schedule game. Well, they have to play this person. They have to play this team. You think Ben Johnson scared? You think the mad scientist is terrified of what some defense is going to throw at him this year. He is licking his chops with trick plays up his sleeve. And if you look at their schedule early on at Carolina, Minnesota, Philadelphia, the Jets at Green Bay at Atlanta. I mean, we're talking like a potential foreign two five and one start,

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