Hour 4: Week 3 NFL picks

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1:00If this falls off the rails, that would say a lot about a lot of this socialization right now. This is DPH Rowan Rothenberg. On ESPN, New York. The MSG Network and streaming live on YouTube. Are we rolling along on a football Friday picks coming your way 930? By the way, we are 5 and 1. You know this. We're going up against the afternoon show in a battle this season. Absolutely. What's the record through two weeks? We're 5 and 1. They're 3 and 3. That's called leading right now. 5 and 1 is... I mean, you know what the thing that's frustrating about Rick and we love Rick. But you know it's really frustrating, slashing, knowing about Rick. If you go 2 and 1, what is Rick focused on? 1. It's like, 1. If you go... If you're 5 and 1, no one should say a word of complaint. That's a great record. I mean, 5 and 1 is outstanding. Is it not? But that's why he's not built to gamble. No. I mean, you should...

2:01I mean, every pick at the stress level, the consternation, I shouldn't do this. I don't know. He asked, he walked down the streets and asked people, what do you think about this? What do you think about that? You think I'm kidding. Are J. Jason like random? Are J. Is Mike kidding? So he's... I don't know if we're supposed to say where he is. He's out at a sporting event for his kids, right? Coaching. Is it a youth hockey tournament? Why can't we say that? No, I just do it. Yeah, I'm sure we can. So, I would find it 100% certainly level. He has consulted with people, parents, other coaches, people on the trip back. Hey, and he'll work it in. Hey, what do you think about it? They want the box. I don't know. They haven't covered it. There's no chance. Why do you think it's a rehab center? On the upper west side. It may get sound like it's a rehab center, a different facility. It was a different office space, right? Yes. There was a nice cafeteria on the first floor. So you would go in, you'd get his food, and the woman that would check him out, he

3:03would add, do you like the falcons getting three and a half this weekend? She'd be like, I'm from the islands. I don't really follow American football. And it didn't matter. He wanted information on the game. You know what that is? You don't ask anybody. That's like, those are degenerate tendencies. Right? That's degenerate behavior. It's crazy. You're asking betting advice from the lunch lady. Yes. Yes. He would ask anybody. If you walked in and you were like, hey, I have a sales meeting. What do you think about this? He'd be like, hey, what about the package getting seven this week? Like, why pregnant not back? You're why pregnant not back. All right. So what happened? I don't know what happened. Well, why, why break me not back? You love that, don't you? Who doesn't? Seriously? By the way, I have, I pay, I pay $5,000 a month to hear that for about 10 minutes straight once a week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't stop for 23 minutes.

4:03I do have the games that Rick, Rick likes. Okay. He's ready. Do you concur with any of these games? We both have a question for you, which I will save to that. It's going to be giants related. It might be. We'll jump, we'll jump right into that right now. So Dan, I said it. I've said it all week. I feel stronger at the closer we get. I think the giants are going to win this game by touchdown plus. All right. And what I just said, the fat Jack rings true. Part of the reason is the opponent. Tennessee is not a good football team. The giants brought in a competent, capable, legitimate head coach. He's had a week to prepare with James Winston. He's going to look better than he did. They're going to run the football. It's not like Tennessee's offense is anything spectacular. There's no reason the giant shouldn't win this game 24, 17, something like that. They should win this game. I don't care about what the weather forecast says bottom line is this is a game that the giant, the giants are a better football team, even without Jackson dark. And maybe without, and we know without Brian Burns, maybe without Andrew Thomas, Tennessee is not good. I mean, I don't know how many other ways I can say it.

5:04They're not good. They're not well coached. I've seen this movie before. He got a quarterback who still is not even close to figuring this whole thing out. Let's put it this way. This will be a bad loss. No, no, this would be a loss beyond that. It would be catastrophic because if you can't win at home against Tennessee, Dan, I would ask you a serious question. Who can you beat? Who can you do is Arizona the next week? Is that a win? Is at Washington? A win? I'm not talking about the Seattle's and the San Francisco's because forget about those from the moment. If you can't beat right now, who would you, where would you rank Tennessee as far as the 32 teams in the NFL? Where would you put the Titans? Either 30 or 31. Okay. So if you can't beat in your home stadium with a full week to prepare for the different quarterback and get him, you know, situated and accustomed to what you're going to run and put the plays that he's most comfortable with in your system. If you can't beat this team, really just beat them, right?

6:04Because the spread is, I'd have to look at the exact spread at the moment. It was two and a half that went up to three. If you can't beat them, you have massive, massive problems on your hands. 100%. This would be bad. And look, I understand it's a short week and I know that there's probably a little bit of a shell shock element to it. And we don't know how that's going to affect the football team, right? We'll see how they come out on the field. But bottom line is your home. I think it would be a little bit different if they were on the road. If they were on the road, I could see them going through the motions, but at home, there's no excuse for this. But if you pass the shell shock crap of it already, you had that. You dealt with that for a full game, right? You were in LA, you're taking on the Rams. He goes down in the first drive over the game and you had 50, whatever, seven minutes of no Jackson ball. But you know, and you might have got boat race that night even with dark. Maybe so. That was a hornet's nest. You were walking into a terrible situation. So I'm not even going to argue that with you. But if you're still shell shocked after having dealt with it all week, this is when you, this is when you make your money, man. This is what it's all about.

7:04Go out there and win this football game. And I don't want to hear one excuse about it. Nothing. I know that you said Arizona as well, but you take it one at a time. This is a game that they absolutely should win. And then you know what? Then you feel good about yourself for a week. You know, if you're two and one, you're able to win a game without Jackson, Darts. All right. You know, okay, that's why we got this coach. And then you keep repeating that refrain next week when you get ready to have an opponent coming in. You also should beat that's what this whole thing is about now, right? And then you go to Washington. You may not have Jaden Daniels. Right. Jordan just told us he goes, the giants wanted to run the football with Jackson, Dartis quarterback. They're going to want to run the football with James Winston is quarterback. So run the football. And I like the idea of taking some shots. You all right? He has he has a big arm. You have some playmakers figure it out. I don't want to hear one excuse from anybody about the giants not winning this game. What would be I mean, worst case scenario is if James looks like the guy we saw on Monday

8:06night. How is that possible? Hey, you never know. I don't think it's going to happen, but I mean anything is possible. Oh, God, would that be would that be like if he's just forget about it. It's got nothing to do with the preparation and all because I mean, you know, that's going to be there. But just like, what if the arm isn't there for some reason? Like we don't I'm saying like, what if he just looks like a shell of the guy that we even saw last year? I just I don't understand how that's possible. I understand how he wasn't good in this one week. I don't understand how it was so bad, but I understand this week he wasn't ready to play. He wasn't prepared. I mean, some of the throws were egregious, but now having the full week, he's not like he's an old quarterback. It's not like he was bad last year. It was good last year. How could you just how could it go from being really good to really bad so quickly? It shouldn't be the case. Shouldn't be. I mean, this is again, you can aside from Miami, aside from Miami, you may not be able to pick a better opponent given what you just went through on Monday night. I agree. And a location, your home. You have to win this game.

9:07And I'll tell you something. I actually think the weather favors the giants. I truly I don't I don't even care. I mean, that's big though. You know, if you're going to make things a little bit more challenging for a quarterback, can't more to show him that he can't figure out anything even when it's 75 degrees in sunny. What about the bad weather? Wind rain. You name it. Yeah, I mean, I have a couple of weapons, but their offense is not exactly thrilling. You saw them against the Jets. They couldn't stop the run. That's what the giants want to do. Right. I mean, it all adds up to the giant should be able to accomplish this. And I know that RJ has his concerns. I don't care, man. I don't care what anybody says. I don't care anything other than the fact that if you don't go out there and win this game, you have a massive problem on your hands. So you got the head coach or the other team sitting there telling the world that, you know, they dominated. They were the better team on Sunday. Meantime, you look at all the important stats. I mean, everything went to Philadelphia. So I don't know how they dominated the game and still lost. They're the one I think they could have won the game.

10:08They could have been in. They didn't. Well, they didn't dominate it. They also, you know, the head coach he was wearing. Did you notice he was wearing like two sweatshirts on Sunday when it was 105 degrees? I did not. He doubled up. Is that a guy you want coach in your team? I don't care if the guy dresses like Joey from friends and puts on every piece of clothing he has. I don't see. I don't get that reference. You never watch. I wasn't a friend. RJ and I were talking about that. Actually, this is where to go this morning. This is extremely weird. This is weird that you guys, you never watched friends. No, we were just having a conversation about this. It's not that. The three of you ever watched friends. I was never a big friend. I was in a friend's guy. The girls in college that lived the cross from us. They were big friends people. So I didn't know it's ridiculous. Not everyone liked friends except for the three of you. I know. I watched it because I made a friend's reference and you know what I've discovered. This is not you Dave, but it is the majority of people I would say. You either like sign fell their friend. You don't like both. Well, they're different levels of humor. They were five years apart though. Well, it turns out like they permed.

11:09I felt in my opinion, is the far superior show, which is my point of your show. But friends was a good show. I'm not saying it wasn't. I just never watched it. Yeah, I wouldn't say it was a bad show. I dislike it. Like if it's on and I'll catch it, like, okay, yeah, but I was not a friend's person. Like, oh, friends is a new episode. I gotta watch friends. Yeah. Never that. Interesting. So, you made a reference early this morning and it just kind of fell on deaf ears. Yeah, but I mean, I'm not gonna get mad if they don't, you have to. I don't know if he was deaf ears though, right? RJ was almost like, what did I respond? It's lost on him. It went into the ether. I'm a little mad at RJ though. Why? For not believing that the giants are gonna win this game. I think it just could get weird. That's all. I don't think we, I don't think any of us said that the giant is not going to be dead. The other team is bad. RJ did. I don't know yet if the giants are not bad. But I know the Titans are. Well, but so the injury report Dave glosses over this. Each time we talk about this. I don't gloss. So Malikna ever sounds like he's right in a roll. Two Thomas and Brian Burns sound quite the opposite.

12:10And that matters a ton. So you're down three of your four best players and neighbors could be compromised. And he's fully dependent on the guy thrown in the ball who we just watched play. Perhaps the worst football of his career. It was unbelievably bad. Okay, let me ask you this. Do you anticipate James Winston revisiting his performance from Monday night? No, here's what here's what I think happened. You have to try to be that. I think most likely the giant win, but I think it it's closer than like you the way you make it down the giant to be pulling away at the end. I think 24 14. No, I don't think 21 13 27. I think we're like it like a like a 2017 and it's it's tight late. Can I tell you this? Don't play from behind because of the weather. That could be tricky if you're going to be resorting to just throwing the football. RJ at the moment because this matters. What is the spread on this game? Was two and a half. It's been two and a half this morning. It's two and a half. It's going back and forth. Are we going to get this game before before we make those picks with those guys in the

13:11afternoon? Yeah, it's been going back and forth all done. Two and a half. Two and a half. I love this game. I have to be the right number. I think I would roll with that. This is the infamous bet the house. Bet the. RJ, you're saving money for the kids to go to college, right? See, this is where you this is where you go too far. But no, I'm asking you a question. Yeah. Five twenty nine down. Great. Here's what you do. Oh boy. Get that money. Okay. Get that money and wager all of it on the Giants minus the two and a half. Then he gets in them to Oxford. We do not endorse this this action. I'm totally as a show date. Dave is putting it out there, but we as a show tonight. No, we as a show completely stand by this opinion. I don't know. You got to double your money. You can have the opinion. I'm just saying don't take out the mortgage. Don't bet the house. Don't bet the farm. Bet it all. Ranch. Everything you have, RJ. Well, Rick texted me this and he's right. I mean, so the rain could help from a game planning standpoint like we're on the football, but what about like the wind and the rain?

14:12Like the accuracy was a gigantic problem for Jamison. We think the wind and the rain is going to help matters. Well, no, but do you think it's going to help Cam Ward? No, he can't figure anything out. I mean, he's not good to begin with. At least I've seen Jamies have moments where he's pretty good. Now I don't expect huge things from Jamies, but I expect him to be good. I think that's fair. So I think the giants will run the football better than Tennessee. It's nice to be good after the quarterback too, a little bit for a chase. You're not kidding. What do they have two sacks this year? One sack? Yeah. One. Obedoel Carter has one sack. Yeah, that's the surprising thing to me is that this past rush has not been able to get home. I granted their plane. They played two very good offenses. I get it, but I'm a little surprised. I haven't been able to get home. I agree. And Carter, I mean, as much of the loss as Brian Burns is, he's done almost nothing through two games. But it's funny. The Carter sack was a great play. Oh, my God. He was getting mold on the play. Is that amazing? Because I'm watching it. And I know it's such a weird thing to do complain when you guys get like a 10-yard sack. But I'm watching like, how is that not a whole thing?

15:13I know. When we were talking about it last Friday with the Thursday night game with the Lions, members like Hutchinson was getting like dragged down by three dudes and they never pro play. Don't understand. Some of the stuff they call them, some of the stuff they don't call. Well, I mean, the jet game, seriously, it doesn't matter who you root for. Does anybody want to watch a football game where there's 300 yards in penalties between the two teams? It's terrible. What did you have to have 144 yards of penalties? It was like one had one, 41 had like one 30 something and like, and what is it? Was it 27 accepted penalties between the two teams? Come on, man. How many were called? A few that were declined. Like who, like the league has got to like get in these guys here. It's like who wants to watch this crap? Nobody. Well, forever. Left. It did take forever. When plus you have the two guys getting carted off on consecutive plays in the second day of the game. And then you had the, you know, I mean, you went into the overtime. Oh, special teams, by the way, it was disgusting. It has to be better. Yeah, it was bad. Very bad. And that's supposed to be a strength of the team. Well, last year it was a strength of the team and now go figure and let's him down.

16:16I mean, that's the other thing. Like, I'm on the other belief that if they make that tackle on Skymore on the punt return, I think they find a way to win the game. I take it probably right. Oh, lucky. You didn't take that to the house. I know. And normally one of your more dependable guys, you know, he couldn't wrap them up in Aryan Smith. Um, let's go to Edgar, every day. Edgar, I'm blooming Dale. Hi Edgar. How are you? I'm good, man. You're right. That's the house. Better. All science going to win this game. The only way they lose this game, Dave, and I don't want to say it if Jamie's goes down in the rain because we don't, you don't have a back. You don't have a backup at all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the only way they lose this game. Yeah. I bet the house. I got, you know, I might be sleeping in my garage, but that's alright. I think it's worth. Edgar, I think it's, I think it's, I think it's the call I think it's going to work out well for the giants on Sunday. Sometimes the schedule makers do your favor. And obviously they don't know when somebody's getting at her, but sometimes you look at the schedule and you say, well, boy, this is a good spot right now.

17:19How quickly that what is it? The bloom is off the rose. Is that the phrase? Um, yeah, I think so. I think that's what it is. I mean, Sunday night. Yeah. Like not even two weeks ago, you're dancing around. You just beat up on the cowboys. Your quarterback looked like a, a pro-bolaur. You can't wait for the season. And now you're like 15 more games of this, huh? You just hope it doesn't come to that though. You know, I mean, like you hope it's not unwatchable. It's bad, man. It's, it's really it's a, and you've lived it. I don't know how tough this is. Trust me. There's nothing, there's, there's, there's, as a football fan, there's nothing worse. Um, football Friday's ESPN New York brought to you by draft Kings. Draft Kings, the crown is yours. Uh, RJ. Yeah, hi. RJ. Hey, there you are. How you doing? Good. Good. Hey, you have a nice little layup this week, don't you? Keep sitting there. Wait, I mean, what you do, I don't like that. You keep saying it. Come on. You don't know for sure. I'm pretty confident. Todd Jeff. Game. I hope you win the game. Yeah, I, I think they win the game. I'd be, I'd be, that'd be horrifying.

18:21I think you win the game if they don't. Well, you go into a top. I, I do like the fact that every, every week, you just like, I'll stress out. Well, well, last week for Miami. No, that one, no. Why I have higher, I don't think anymore. I think it's caught back up, but I have had higher expectations for this team than everyone else to this point. I think, I think now the, like, water's found its level. But yeah, going into the air, I had really high expectations. Is your goal to not leave the apartment this weekend? Not leave the apartment. Yeah, I think that's in place. I think I said it's a bit for a lot of, I mean, because I think weather's going to really play in our favor. Yeah, I think that's in place. We got the new coffee machine. What's the reason you got a coffee machine? Get a fire. That is. Recess of coffee. No, they were gone. I ate those. You ate all the Reese's already. I mean, there's only six of them, but yeah, they're gone. You ate six. I ate five. I gave one to Antonio. Oh, boy, you're some doting dad. Wait, how about a 20, five for one? One for you is one cup. And it's like daddy. Yeah, can I have another?

19:21Well, you know, so we thought about that. The other ones, the other ones, it could take some of them to eat it. The other ones. So you scarfed yours down so he couldn't have that opportunity. Yeah, never gone. Why no, why no, why don't I get two cups? Yeah, daddy, can we, we could it? So I think it's a fair question, but dad's gone. You wait five. Yeah, after genos, a couple before a couple. Oh my gosh. Yeah, look at that. I think you could eat, right now with no issue, you could eat 14 peanut butter cups. 14? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I feel bad about myself. I told Arger, we had the, we had the pizza delivery yesterday. It's the pizza. It's the pizza. I still mad at him. I had a beautiful slice of Sicilian with pepperoni that I forgot the name of the place, but it was outstanding. And I hated myself the entire way they just delivered it to you guys. It was for a corner table. Oh, spot. Big fans of the show, big fans of the station and they sent over two pies and they were glorious. Really? Oh, that's a silly.

20:21I'm a bad, that's a carlin' eat. He had, he had a one of each, but you know, it was the problem. Here's the problem. And I said, because you know, we have govons that work here, you know, that, right? So bringing the two pies. Yeah. I have one slice. And obviously like he takes, you know, he has one of each because you know, we're rating the pies and all that stuff. And then we open it up for everybody. Hey, come in. There's all this great pizza. So like obviously our staff comes and gets one and then we get the word out to the rest of the office thinking that there's going to be more. And it's gone already. And it's gone before they come in. It's almost like the depression where they're waiting in the long line for soup and there's none left. And then I go into the office and I find out that some of our cohorts, they're good again. They doubled up. Oh, really? They doubled up. They took two slices. Oh, well, this is done. I'll take anybody's food. No, it wasn't done. Okay. RJ, did you get your hands on it? RJ was gone. Huh? Because this came at like 1240ish, something like that. Interesting. But some that you have remained nameless, you know, doubled up.

21:22No, no, others. Give us a name. Come on. Yep. Give us a name. Do it. Do it. Come on. All right, John had to. John had to. Wow. John had to. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I love dinosaurs. Isn't John supposed to be like a parent at the station where he lets others eat before he does? That's Mickey stuff. Has that ever been established? Wow. Wow. That's Mickey style. Wow, that's Mickey stuff. And I can't confirm this. I can't confirm this. And I don't want to like spread, you know, falsehoods out there. Yeah. Anthony F2. Well, you know what? Those guys do travel in pairs. Well, that's what I mean. And they all sat in the office and had like a little communal lunch. Yeah. Must be Italian. It's Italian. Yeah. Social club. You strongly take, they claim to the two slices. Tom Bowers here. Tom was here. He could, he witnessed it. He probably could tell you who got what?

22:23Well, maybe we'll ask Tom about that in a few minutes. Arjan, I didn't know we were going to get off on this crazy track. Are you, are you ready for the stuff you missed? Has that ever been? I like things my way. My coffee, my schedule, and my treatment. So I talked to my doctor about self-injecting with the VivGuard Hydrolo-Prefilled syringe, which contains effgarte gum on alpha and hyaluronidase QVFC. It's injected under your skin, subcutaneously. It means I can inject in my space on my time. It's my treatment, my way. Visit VivGuardMyway.com. That's v-y-v-g-a-r-t-myway.com. And talk to your doctor about VivGuard Hydrolo, brought to you by Argenics. Replace your worn out wiper blades during O-rewards member appreciation month at O'Reilly Auto Parts. Receive two times O-rewards points and save $10 when you purchase a pair of rain ex-latitude wiper blades. They will even install them for free at O'Reilly Auto Parts. As you know, managing maintenance, repair, and operations is never easy. But for the ones who always rise to the challenge, Granger has your back.

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24:26B-John's 190 yards rushing last night, more than the Packers have had all season in games. That's not great. B. John also had two scores. Drake London huge game, 194 yards from Michael Panax who threw for 256. Touchdown, Interceptions, Belkins get there first. When Packers have been out scored 91 to 56 through three games. That's not good. That's not good. To reporter Junior, I've noticed some Giants fans or at least he was. He says he'll play for the skiers. He's just not sure when. Yeah, he's just not healthy yet, right? Yeah, that's what he says. So we'll keep an eye on that. Also, injury report. Tell you about sounds like things are not a good place for Brian Burns with that ankle injury or Andrew Tom's with the groin this week. And a positive note, Malik neighbors said he is good to go. Deante Banks has been practicing at least in a limited fashion. Rich demean said this earlier for the Jets, make it to Patrick's status. Very much in question. Heading into this game. I guess I just like these the AD Mitchell could be a long-term issue from Ricky. That's a new one. That's that happened late in the day. I didn't even have a chance to check in on that, but that would be bad. That's a new one. So keep an eye when you said when does Aaron Glenn talk to them.

25:311040. I said, well, no, no, no, no, Eastern. Little baseball, George Lombard, Jr. Pretty cool slide. That was awesome. Leaping slide. And he also had a tie-breaking tour on home run. Yankees, Wayne, Cam, Schlittler finishes with an A.O. Best 1.95 ERA Yankees six for come back over the race. Schlittler on the season, 14 and six. Struck out 239 over 193 and two third gennings in his first full major league season. He's the front runner for the American league. Say, young Yankees. He's going to win the American league. Say, young. And he finishes with the third-lowst year A.O. among qualified pitchers in Yankee history. Did you hear this? I'm confused by this. Okay. Why, why they talk about starting Schlittler in game two. So Boone had mentioned that he did not know who was going to start one or two, but it would be, I believe he said it would be here. Freed. Then go one or two. Right. It'll be Schlittler. Freed. Right. But do you know, I want Schlittler pitching team one. Well, so do I. I think he would, that would be an eye on if you wanted to try to get greedy to try to line him up for preferable games, maybe

26:36the game next round. They deemed preferable because Max Freed is Max Freed splits their way better on the road than they are at home. By the way, I believe it was one week ago where that top was approached. And I don't think you, I don't think you called me crazy, but you told me. No, I, I surprise that they're going to go with Freed over Cole. He can't overthink it either. It's got to be those three. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, the redone stuff. A lot of people want redone. You've heard a lot of that. Well, the thing would wrote, well, redone because redone is so much better at home. Yes. But you still roll pitch that's happening. I'm not playing God. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, wait, exactly. My series against the red socks by doing what's best for, for Tampa. Right. I, I'm sorry. I'm starting to, can you imagine, can you imagine like if, let's say if the Yankees get eliminated in the first round and, and you don't pitch Freed Schlipler and Cole, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, it's three to like you, you, that would haunt you all winter. No, that's fireable fence. Yeah. Yankees double hunter today. The stadium, they bumped up Saturdays going into a double hunter today against the O's first game. They got the big CCC sabatheia festival three

27:38o'clock. Yeah, three o'clock first game, first game, four o'clock second game to follow. Mats Listery, one of the Rangers, Texas, top three game losing Stric Houston, one seven five against the A's. Both teams, 79 at 83 games left heading into the final weekend. Astro, hold the tie breaker in the head to head. White socks, I clench the left berth after back to back 100 lost seasons. Lunar talk of Murakami. He's celebrated it after and things got things got pretty wild. I'm going to scale 110. How's it going so far? 100. Oh, 10. 100. How many sheer paint bottles have you been so far? 100. What does it mean just to be able to celebrate it with this team? I'm a somebody. That's the sound bite of the year, buddy. I love that. You know what? I made this celebrate with this. You know, good for that. They lost like 200 and something games last two years. 130 something games over the last three years. 100 horrible. I know you're there. Good to see that Murakami, by the way, has gotten over

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31:46The Arden, I just discussed the Niners. And then they play the Broncos next week. That's a good game. In San Francisco, the Broncos have a hellish schedule. Little Super Bowl 24 rematch next week. Look at you. I didn't even remember Super Bowl. It was so boring. Yeah, it was not a great Super Bowl. I was not alive, but... So let me throw this at you real quick. I know we got picks and everything. Yeah. So you're trying to look for this like ideal best case scenario for the Giants. Uh-huh. You remember the Browns team a few years ago that won 11 games despite a litany of injuries to the quarterbacks? Here are the quarterbacks that started games for the Browns that year. There were five of them. De Shorn Watson. Joe Flacco. Dorian Thompson Robinson, who's now in the UFL. D-T-R, right? Yeah. Was he from the University of Washington maybe? UCLA, I think. I think you're right. PJ Walker, Temple Zone.

32:46Temple, yeah. Did he play in like the XFL? Yes. And then you went MVP. Yes. And the Immortal Jeff Driscoll. They started five quarterbacks that year. And none of them are good. Well, that was the joke. Not a joke. It was ridiculous that Joe Flacco won come back player of the year that year. He played five games. Like they thought they made it seem like Joe was the guy who took over in like week four and helped them win 11 games. No, like the other guys did the dirty work and Joe just showed up at the end to, you know, get credit for it. Here's why I don't love these comparisons. You can always find something to support your narrative. Like look at this. Quarterback gets hurt early on in the season and this guy comes in. There's always going to be that. But for the most part, it doesn't work out like that. Yeah. Could James Winston carry you to great things? I guess I don't even want great things or expect or need great things. I just want competence, which is something I haven't had in such a long time. I don't disagree. And like I said, that browns team had some good players too.

33:46Like that roster was not bad. And they were well coached. You know, Stofanski. Did he win coach of the year again that year? What all the injuries he might have. I think he did. Yeah. So other guys are going to have to do their part. But again, the most important position, they have five guys. Not the burgers. I like the five guys burger a lot. You're going to probably jump down my throat and never had one. I can't. You never seen friends. You know, you'd eat five guys. Yeah, never had a five guys. All right. I think it's time for our picks. Rame it if you will. Fail. Picks. I have to go with the chiefs and lay them in and I. I'm DNR. Very nice. So where we stand is going up against the afternoon show, we're five and one. They're three and three. We could pick up another game here. A three game lead early in the season would be a pretty size of build a little cushion. Yeah. Build a little bit of cushion. Argy, what are your three games that jump off the page to you? What do you have? All right. I would need to be talked. I'm not that we're going to go with this here, but I would need to be talked off one anyway. Because you know, I don't think you ever want to take three road favorites. Two of them big road favorites, but that's where that's where we're at.

34:48So you're going to go Kansas City. The city of Miami. I watch Miami very close last weekend. They are bad, bad, bad. At some point they have to look better, but I don't think this is a week against Kansas City. The other one is a team that, while I really, really don't like them, I respect them. Shaddle in Washington, Marcus Mariot against his defense. I'm sorry. All right. Raymond just told me that Jane Daniels not going on. I are. Yeah, Chef, you just had that as we. Oh, it's great. Yeah. Right. So he'll be back and get the giants in two weeks. That could change in a week though. You never know. But I would take I would take Seattle on the road. And then Rick and I are aligned. This is this is an odd line. I know they're not good. I love the Bengals. Three and a half. Who's not good? No, the Pittsburgh's not good. Oh, Pittsburgh's not good. I love I love but three and a half on the road seems, you know, for a divisional games, it seems like a pretty hefty line. But says Daniels is considered week to week right now. Yeah, I would take the Bengals minus three and a half. All right. See like the Bengals. Well, all favorites again for you. That's what I'm saying. It does look great, but. Ray, where do you? Yes. RJ and I share a lot of the same sentiments when it comes to the road favorites,

35:49because I'm I'm in the same boat. I'm right there with them with Sinci. I love that for them. I in Pittsburgh. Yeah. I also like Carolina on the road in Cleveland minus two and a half. And then my third, another road favorite. And a soda one and a half against the bucks. Wow. Yeah. So so we're just the show of favorites here. Huh? And it's like that last week too. Some would say how's it work out? They're road favorites and again, yeah, we're what it was five and one. Yeah, five and one so far. So yeah, it is working out well. So so Rick sent a text and he likes Houston. There is another road favorite. They're given a point to have to Indianapolis. And Houston was on my short list too. He also likes Seattle, which is another road favorite. He likes Cincinnati and Carolina. I mean, we all we are is road favorites. And it feels like a dangerous stuff. Full disclosure, we did not discuss this at all. No, at all. I will concur with one. I like Cincinnati. I told you I'm very anti Pittsburgh, very anti Pittsburgh. I think they're they're offense stinks.

36:52I think they have trouble moving the ball. I don't really think they have any tremendous playmakers. I think the quarterback is bad. Since tonight has a real defense this year. They're motivated defensively. I know Burrows a little banged up, but still, Jamar Chase is a difference maker. Let's lock that in. Cincinnati minus the three and a half. I love it. Dan, what else jumped off the page to you of what we're discussing here? Did you say anything about the Sunday night game yet or no? No, we didn't even mention you know what? The Rams Broncos to get off of the whole favorite thing. I know it's only two in another road favorite. No, I'm almost I'm willing to take these two and a half that I'm getting with the Broncos at home. I can't do that. After watching the Rams do what they did last week, I can't sign off on that. Bronco defense though at home. Right. It looks like Nuku may not play, but the Rams are that could be a special football team. No, MG still miles Garrett. I can't do it. I can't do it. What I can do and what I will do for you guys is Seattle.

37:53Seattle, they look like a juggernaut. Marioda is certainly not Jaden Daniels. I think we go with the with the Seahawks. And what's the number on that RJ? It's seven and a half. Seven and a half. Yeah, I think that's a 10 point game. So I'll agree with you. And I don't care if you guys agree. I don't it doesn't matter to me. We're taking the giant to relay in the two and a half. Here we go. I'm sorry. It's done. It's done. So go on all in. We couldn't be more more. I hope if somebody's taking your advice today, they're not calling us angrily on Monday morning. No, call angrily. If you if you bet all you have and you lose, call angrily and be livid and furious. You should know what's that stipulation on the bottom. Well, you reimburse them. No, I'm why what? Okay. If they win big money, do they give me some? Yeah, maybe they will. Well, maybe they will. What's the fine print? No, I'm not reimbursing anybody anything. I'm just giving you my advice. My advice is the giants win by a field or more. And then you will be wealthy. This is my advice.

38:54So there you have it. RJ, do you know what to send over to Rick now? Yep, so it looks like we're looking at him. At least three and a half. Yep, so seven and a half. Giant's minus two and a half. All right. You don't like it, do you? I'm nervous about the last one, but listen, I trust you. I trust you. No, I do. And then the one I actually, if I wasn't so bullish on the giants, I do also rate like the Vikings minus the one and a half. Jump side at you. Yeah, because I think the bucks might be bad. They look terrible less way against Cleveland. Minnesota's defense travels. That's a good defense. Well, they don't turn this thing around the show. This is going to be a foretod. It should be, no? Yeah. So there you have it. That's our three hopefully winning picks that we'll send over to D-H-R. Survivor were done, so we don't have to do that anymore. Right, RJ? Yep. We are no longer surviving. Great. Right. We have not survived. Um, if you manage an active facility, Dan, and I know you used to. I don't know if you still use to. Used to, yeah, not normal. Yeah, you know, construction can't bring everything to a stop. You just can't. That's why Trichon's construction is built for projects inside healthcare,

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40:58or you should make a new open. That is a new open. A new new open. Well, listen, we have a lot to react to on Monday, mostly, Aaron Glenn. Once you get the ball and you go on a school, you put the pressure on other team. You don't have to go then score. So, but he didn't happen forced away that, that, you know, I plan. Oh my god. Oh, it's gone. It wasn't just one time. This loss is not going to define who we are and what we're about. I will say that. Okay. Monday was a fun show. Had a lot to go to when around the league. Broncos beat the Jags 2013. Well, there are his games. We never get to the end of this. Yeah. Well, that's what happens when everybody's playing. Now, Cowboys going to Brazil this weekend. The fields apparently are mess out there too. So, that's another thing. Usually everything's well-manicured in Brazil. That's funny. Or did it just kill me. Would you? Oh, you got a big football game. And I can't do that. And speaking to the Cowboys, they couldn't finish. And this had like five or six times where they had a guy had a second his grasp. Oh, you got the sack. You really got to give grip tight. There it is. At least the problem. We can't say sack anymore, huh?

41:59It's Yankee's open for things. We can't, I mean, it was introduced into the NFL in what, 1982. And now we can't say sack anymore. No, we can't. They're ruining sack for everybody. I love the sack. It's so unfair. But you ain't done. Don't love the sack. Everybody does. It was a rough day for you Tuesday. Can I go home? No, no, no. Unfortunately, we've lost Jackson Darts who went the little horseback riding. And I have it, I like the instructors. Like, you're very good. I'll do, yeah, I have a way with animal. Dave, you sure you mean horse? Like a Rex Ryan situation. Yeah. What do you think? Jackson Darts. He's got some of the wild stallion to him. They need Dave. On the table. Yeah. Yeah, you can train them. I'd love to get dinner with Jackson Darts and really just kind of talk to him. I'm sure you want to go down. I'm sure you would. I'm going to tell you that. Tell me. Rough. We were talking about this giant's tight and spread. If the giants can't cover three points of bread at home against Tennessee, minus two and a half now, two and a half. Come on. Listen, we put that in the show picks, but you might be on your own and how good you feel. RJ. No, I have a lot of concerns. Oh, God. I've lost you too.

42:59No, I don't want to. You're only the giant's beat the Titans. Listen, you got to get in there and you, you got to motivate them. Nobody thinks we can do this and let's do it. Do what? I still don't know what this is. That's just so hard. We're gonna win the game. We're gonna win the game. That's what you need. You know what I mean? A new caller, although he's not necessarily new to RJ, but Smith Smith, you're on ESPN. Hello, I'm Smith. Okay. SMI T-8. Great. SMI T-H in Manhattan. The older guy is good. The younger guy of one other thing. The younger guy's got arms like a defensive lineman. Number one, I don't know who the D.H. Sean Ratham Berges. You never identify yourself. Number two, be like I miss. I miss was good. Take notes. Smith SMI T-H. Let me write this down. Five times a month. You never say who's who. Listen, if there's one thing you take away from that call, you guys slow down. Yeah, you gotta slow down. Like you're doing what you're doing. Oh, like me too fast. Davis come so many miles.

44:00Look, look at that beautiful backdrop he's got going. All the Sherries work, but the mic is not changing. Think of all the freedom of movement you would have if you didn't have to sit close to that microphone though. I love this mic though. This is my baby. You know what it's like? It's like when you get back from war and you have like the helmet that you use the whole time. I'm not gonna get a new helmet. This is this is the helmet. Like you're right hand. There's a special attachment to it. RJ. It is what it is. You get joy. Make this Saturday full day of Red Bull's Father. Oh yeah. Not joy when callers make weird suggestions like this. I think every team needs to start in quarterback because quarterback is getting injured. Yeah, that was a really good one. Also, I appreciated RJ bringing up this story and observations. They showed on TV that some of the linemen were doing drills like pass blocking drills. I thought you were gonna say whippets. Oh yeah. Big on the whippets. Whippets were a good time back in high school. Happy birthday. Yes, RJ. You get the best bang for your buck on a birthday. You think there's any chance they do cupcakes for your birthday? Zero. None.

45:01I'd say none. You're a kink guy. How about the bang part? It's a star yesterday. It was Djibouti Dan though. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to Rick and RJ. Happy birthday to you. And I'll close the shop. I say happy birthday to my mom tomorrow. She turned 64. Happy birthday, mom. Love you. Wow. That's that's nice. That's hard felt. Happy birthday. RJ. Happy birthday. Rick. Enjoy your football this weekend. And you're going to be able to be locked away because it's going to be miserable. Oh, otherwise. It's rule 76. Oh, no excuses. Pay like a champ. Cross a Robinburg and let's go giants. Covered that number. Honest be in New York. You don't talk to anybody. There's no Guido, the killer pamphletist in the corner trying to sell you something. Thanks for listening to the DPA heroine, Rothenburg podcast. I'm just trying to have the best possible show. That's what I'm trying to do. What does that start? Catch us live weekday mornings from 6 to 10 AM on ESPN, New York. The MSG network and streaming live on YouTube.

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