From 30 for 30 podcasts Brian Pada senior defensive lineman from Miami gunned down The key to this case it's blind I before he died he was on a phone arguing what's about this might be a hit you want to truth We had a killer monster murder at the U listen now Part of the interruption, but I might love on Chicago It could feel like you know eight degrees in the bears post the rams on Sunday night Tony. I'll be there I'm Tony corner. So what's the windshield gonna be like in your suite? My big boy if you were a man You'd go shirtless and be outside with the fans Yeah, Richard Richard did always insist on opening the window to the suite And I'm get that I don't understand You know rich that's because he played I know you get a cold jacket but enough, you know, yeah Well gonna P.T. I boys and girls in today's episode NFL playoff previews the Dodgers land Kyle Tucker the Mets get bobe is Shit, but we begin today with tomorrow's first NFL playoff game Buffalo at Denver The bills got there by beating Jacksonville at Jacksonville Denver has been sitting and waiting as the AFC's number one seed will bond which where are you leaning? Tony, you know, I'm leaning toward Josh Allen in terms of my rooting interests If I'm allowed to have one is this Josh Allen especially with what he did last week where he just you know Sort of flexed and said I'm by on it. I don't care what you you know Try to put a hole in I'm gonna come back and play the next set of downs And he did it was inspiration. I found but I think didn't her is possibly the most Underrated and undervalued team of the entire season I mean that people have been talking about what a story the bears are and the Patriots and Drake May and there You know and Vrable and that staff and Denver it never depraise never gets to Seen a role around to Denver which has this fabulous defense and if you're looking for ways that you need to stop Josh Allen Having a great defense is one of them Tony and knowing how to sort of corral Somebody of his talents the past or the quarterback. I mean Denver seems to me to be I'm not gonna say a big favorite I don't know that any team is that great this year, but I mean let's face it Denver really has to be a favorite over Buffalo at home Yeah, so the people who created this show Created it so that we could have opinions and those opinions would diverge But not today. They're not gonna diverge look there My answer to this is who do I favor? I have the answer from my heart and the answer from my head and the answer from my heart is I do want Buffalo to win I want Buffalo to get back to the Super Bowl for the first time in what 30 plus years something like that And not just for Josh Allen who's a great team leader, but for the entire Buffalo team for the city of Buffalo And it was a region of upstate New York that I am you know that I'm very familiar with you know I just I think it'll be a really great story if they got back there in a year when right in front of them Kansas City in Baltimore did not make the playoffs and I don't think they'll be bothered if it's cold in Denver because they're Buffalo Really care about them though, but I also think like you think I think that Denver is truly good I think that Sean Payton is truly good even though he's only one and four in his last playoff games A three years he's been in Denver. They have gone steadily up And I assume that Denver is is ready for this and I would go back to Buffalo for a second to say this You know what have they got they've got nine parts Josh Allen They've got one part the running back cook who's really really good, but what else what else do they have not enough? You didn't pick them to win last week You thought they were gonna lose in Jacksonville a lot of people thought they were gonna lose in Jacksonville So so as much as I'd like them to win My head tells me you can't be confident in that I cannot be confident in making that pick right camp Tony You know everybody says well, this has got to be Josh Allen's year. No, it doesn't because the team isn't as good as the team that is surrounded Josh Allen in previous years when they had Kansas City beat and they'd one of the and so yeah Denver man, Denver seems to be a solid favorite if not overwhelmed me Let's move to Saturday's late game with a 49ers hobble in the Seattle as dogs Niners star tied in George Kittle out linebacker Fred Warner not back yet the Seahawks beat the Niners just two weeks ago beat him bad But Seattle quarterback Sam Donald has an injured oblique and he already flopped into playoffs last year as we all know Tony's all the pressure on Donald and the Seahawks No, I don't think it's all on Donald. I mean, I really don't though. I did find out this morning I hope this is a correct statistic that he leads the league in turnovers with 20 look if he has a game Like he had with the jets where he says he saw ghosts. Yeah, then Seattle is in trouble But by the same token of CJ Stroud has a game against New England like he had against Pittsburgh Then Houston is in trouble. I mean, did you see? Two weeks ago the way that Seattle beat San Francisco is now we're not it's two weeks ago It's not in August when Miami beat Notre Dame is two weeks ago and it was in San Francisco And they smothered them and they held them the three points and they held Christian McAfee to a total of 57 yards of very very very convincing win Everyone tells us all the time What a genius Kyle Shanahan is and how his play designs are unique and and fabulous and that's all true But he's not coaching against an empty hat the guy in Seattle knows what he's doing knows what he's doing Yeah, no, Tony. I you know, it's interesting. We talk about pressure No, I spit out some years in my life some time in my life as you have in Seattle Seattle's not Philly They're not coming out booing because they didn't like what somebody tweeted on Tuesday. That's not Seattle So pressure is not on Seattle. It to me as Relative to the other big markets in the United States of America pressure doesn't even know how to get to Seattle Pressure is the 49ers because I know what it's like in the Bay Area when they expect the Niners to win I don't know that you can expect in the win with all these injuries Not with a job not with how Shanahan is done right I can't know But but Tony I still think there's more pressure on the 49ers than there is Seattle, but like you If Donald like which Donald are we gonna get we don't know that's why we tune in right if we get the Donald it turns it over the 49ers who can and we'll be back in the NFC championship game. They will be No, no, yeah, I mean this is another head and heart thing for me if you ask me honestly I'm gonna root for the 49ers because like you So much of the time that I spent covering football and writing about football and writing columns So much of the good times were were the 49ers Yeah, they were great to be around but yeah, but I cannot divorce that from what I saw two weeks ago And oh and what I say two weeks ago here you the 49ers had nothing the only thing I can go with is it I'm told Brock Perty is No, in games and plays in Seattle. That's yeah in Seattle Let's move to the stunning amount of money Kyle Tucker will get from the Dodgers 240 million dollars over four years that is $60 million a year or what we hear called Bradley Bill money Tucker spent last year with the Cubs where he had 22 homers and 73 RBI Four-time wall star two-time silver sluggery want to go glove and use them will von what does this edition do for the Dodgers chances for a three-piece Well, it pushes the Dodgers off the charts I'm sure you'll get to the Vegas of it all by the time we get to April and May and it this is what the Dodgers do They they assess what it is they want to do The dollar sign never holds them back They're not worried about that in the least they're gonna do it's best for the Dodgers and that's it I mean you got to envy that if you're any other team in baseball Let me get to the Tucker of it all because he played for my team last summer as you noted he's a fine player a terrific player even and Overrated I Started saying in August are the Cubs gonna exit? How they're gonna go? Are they gonna make an offer for Kyle to no? I'm not paying Kyle Tucker 60 million a year I'm not paying them 50 million a year. I'm not paying them 40 million a year if you ask me who I want Boba shit or Kyle Tucker I'll take Boba shit who led the lead in in hits To eat twice I understand because it's going to the meds. Yeah, I'm just saying I'm just saying the the Tucker a fine player Tony But overrated he's not great at any one thing he's the jack of all trades not great at any one of those five things When we talk about a five-two player, but Two more than one thing can be true. He appears to be great for the Dodgers So yeah, let's let's get to this thing 60 million dollars is an awful lot of money Obviously for Kyle Tucker a guy who only once finished in the top 10 votes for MVP in his league Yeah, not top three the top 10 top 10 he's never bad at 300 He's never hitting more than 30 home runs So if he's worth this kind of money what is Aaron judgeworth? Okay, but let's get to the meat of this. It's a four-year contract. It's not a 12 or 13-year contract They're not going to be paying him when he's 39 years old. He's going to be 29 tomorrow They're paying him Mike for 29 30 31 and 32 So as much as the money is the length of the contract is spot on I don't know how many times I have to say this here the Dodgers have a pile of money and they spend a pile of money But they spend it Smartly they bring in O'Tani they bring in Yamamoto they bring in Freeman they bring in bets Glass no snow and now this year Edwin D. As in Kyle Tucker You know Andrew Friedman seems to almost always get it right. This is why other Owners in the league want there to be a salary cap to stop teams like the Dodgers from doing this The Dodgers if I'm not mistaken here paid more money in the luxury tax penalty Then the then the meds and the Yankees combined and they spent all kinds of money here So does it help the Dodgers the Dodgers know what they're doing This is why players don't want a cap because this guy Kyle Tucker just got 60 million dollars NBA money Let's take a break coming up which team do you trust more on Sunday the Texans or the Patriots? I do the Rams or Bear seem more inevitable Sunday night the Dodgers are inevitable and by the way Andrew Friedman He ain't spending his money because the owner has the money. You know who the owner is That's right. Yeah, I know you guys are what North Western drive Idol money lies in your current account picking crumbs out of its belly button wondering should I eat them? 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At this point nobody knows old friendships Buried cash and a sinister plot that was once pitched as a movie plays out in real life I'm juju Chang from 2020 and ABC audio Listen now to bridge of lies wherever you get your podcasts It's time for toss up two men enter one man leaves finishes the show then secretly wishes It was also in Chicago this weekend, but would never admit this to Wilbond toss up they meet on Sunday which team do you trust more the Texans or the Patriots? So they have had remarkably similar seasons right? New England won 10 games in a row in October and November Houston right now was on a 10 game winning streak Houston is here because of defense their number one in a league in defense New England is here because of offense their number two in the league in terms of points scored New England is hosting this game because they were 14 and three although a lot of people think that schedule that they played was easy and Houston was all in three to start and since then I believe is 13 and two it feels like a dead even game My inclination is to go with Houston's defense even though Nico Collins is out for this game on offense and he is a big threat He's a big threat, but curiously I found out this morning the one statistic on defense Where Houston is lacking is specifically against Scramblers and Drake may is Specifically good at being a scrambler so I think that this game is going to be determined by the amount of points Drake may can put on the board See and I think it's directly determined which is saying the same thing differently by the number of points that won't be Perhaps put on the board by Nico Collins. I mean he's the offensive threat for Houston If you told me the college was gonna be out there and ready to go like we've seen him ready to go at times I'd say Houston just because I trust defense. I trust him in call whether I trust him on the road I trust him when they are so arrogant even they don't pay attention to the rush lanes Which is why they give a quarterback scrambles because they're too busy getting after you to beat your head in that is they don't have to pay attention normally to rush lanes But they might with New England and so I think Tony the absence of Nico Collins and That that that that trend where they don't really pay attention to quarterbacks rushing down feel for six yards here and eight yards there That might be the difference in this game and it might lead me probably does to trust the Patriots just a bit more at home So you want to you're gonna take the wingman. You're I mean because I would say I don't really trust either team But you're gonna take the wingman. I'm gonna take the wingman. Yeah, I get surprised as me I did not think you were gonna go that way. What's next toss up? They play on Sunday Which team seems more inevitable the Rams for the Bears? All right, so let me try and explain this in terms of inevitability that inevitability for the Rams is based on the notion that they have a thorough and Complete roster and a really good team and an inevitability on the part of the Bears is based on the fact that they Continue to win late every single week every single week so to me the inevitability Falls to the Bears because of the way they have played. I mean, I just watched the Rams last week almost lose again in Carolina team probably shouldn't even been in the playoffs and let me talk about weather a little bit now I understand it was 80 degrees today in Southern California where the Rams live Ain't gonna be 80 on Sunday the latest forecast says it's going to feel I mean, it's gonna be eight degrees with gusts up to 35 miles an hour probably feel under eight degrees So I mean those things shape up for the Bears, but there's always a but Mike and you know this better than I the Bears Do not have a good defense the Bears allow No need of yards and the Los Angeles Rams have the best offense in football They are number one and scoring and they are number one in yards at that point. So I mean for me I think the Rams are probably the better team But all I want out of this game is a chance to get on that text chain Is it Richard Den and Tommy while who's on this text chain? I want to get on this text chain Yeah, yeah, surely I'll let you in Tony the Bears are more inevitable because of what you said you and I as the English major and journalism major are taking this literally the word inevitable And what the Bears have done it became it has become inevitable This the ridiculous fourth quarters which have taken both taken months off my life And made me feel a joy Ultimately that I don't think I've ever felt as a sports fan now The weather is completely overrated it ain't that cold here I went past and waited to some people playing beach volleyball on the way to the studio for my apartment All right, it's just ain't that cold Tony. It's getting the 30s now We had some flour some days going to be like 21 it ain't that cold I got here wishing for below zero I know the dome teams are over for the last 15 in the playoffs I know Matthew Stafford is one and eight below 40. I'm wishing for frozen tundra It ain't happening the bears are gonna have to win this game We can throw the ball against that ram secondary But the ram's average 4.6 yards of carry and we can't stop a nose bleed So maybe a high scoring game even though it'll be in the snow We'll see That's it I win Let's take one last break still to come to your Australian open starts this weekend There's no back joke of it. Have any chance to win his 25th major any chance of course he does any chance Jonathan Who I like and you don't watch is I just tired of four years win again and keep him on the bench Free coming higher to the drama Mike free it like Kevin Durant shows up on the court and scores 40 and then there's drama this guy doesn't drama and where's the port The port Project Hill Mary is the cinematic event of the year The world is counting on you Dr. Grace strong Ryan Gosling I'm not an astronaut two worlds one impossible mishak So I met an alien project Hill Mary you are brave as human I have ever met is joke I only meet one human and is you in cinemas everywhere March 19 You Happy time people happy 31st birthday Trudea Vius White the bills veteran quarterback broke up three separate passes and Buffalo's thrilling victory in Jackson the last week in the wild card round White broke up one pass right outside the goal on in the third quarter It could have put the jags up 14 13 and white tip treblanc's last pass Which resulted in a game ceiling interception from cold bishop who took a couple of steps then wisely sat on the ground White began his career as a late first round picked by the bills out of lsU played seven years in Buffalo making two pro balls Then went to the Rams briefly to the Ravens and back to Buffalo this season Buffalo's gonna need him to make those kinds of contributions again in Denver Tony Because I mean with that different defense it doesn't figure that even the great Josh Allen is gonna put up a bunch of points Mile high that could be a close and reasonably low scoring game and Buffalo's gonna need to defend Happy anniversary Larry Fitzgerald on the state 10 years ago in an absolutely thrilling contest the Arizona Cardinal star receiver Displayed his elite level talent in overtime in a divisional round game against the Packers green Bay at forced overtime with a desperate 41 yard touchdown pass on the last play of regulation in overtime Fitzgerald took a short pass from a scrambling Carson Palmer 75 yards two plays later Fitzgerald took a shovel pass from Palmer into the end zone Fitzgerald is likely to be voted into the Hall of Fame this year He was an 11 time pro baller and he is second all time in career receptions In the 2008 postseason Fitzgerald had 30 catches 546 yards and seven touchdowns in four games wow Wow, you know there's been no more favorite player for me than Larry Fitzgerald Um at one point he was little Fitz because his dad big Fitz grew up or I did South south out of Chicago and it's just great to see a family Evolved like that and little Fitz becomes Larry F Fitzgerald one of the great receivers of all time And now you can only find him on the golf course Every day a golf course somewhere good for you stroke. He won't be doing that Smart happy trails to Jonathan Kaminga seeing the floor for a 14th straight game Steve Kerr sat the forward again last night and the 13 point win over the nicks just two and a half months after committing to him as a starter The seventh pick of the 2021 draft is now not played since December 18 and the Warriors are ten and four in that stretch Including four and one in their current homestay Kaminga requested a trade this week Am I the only one tired of this guy and wondering if he's any good No, I think he is good and I love Steve Kerr you know that he's a great great all-time great coach This is not Steve Kerr's best work of figuring out what to do with Kaminga I'd love to see the bulls trade vooch for Kaminga, but that ain't gonna happen either Big finish quickly the lightning of 11 straight are you impressed? Yeah, they got off to a slow start now they lead the Eastern Conference should be oppressed The Austin Open begins this weekend. You excited for that Sure, it's the first major and I mean I think Joe could be chance. He got to give him a chance In women's college hoops number two South Carolina edge number four Texas. How'd you know that was gonna happen close game But I knew South Jeff thoughts out Joe out of win that game one time Heisman Fade John Matier Returning to Oklahoma. You surprised about that No, I'm not surprised he was injured this year you get another you make money in college You get another year in college and you go higher in the draft He's not gonna go number one because he was hurt last one 17 to know Nebraska at Northwestern your people tomorrow you smelling upset? Yes, and when we win I am storming the court. You want to watch for that good? You know, man storming the court. You haven't seen That's what's gonna have to get get knocked down like that guy in the Trying to do better in the next time Kathy Wesley happy birthday I'm Mike Wilbond have a great weekend look ahead and now Just once Kick off the 40 season with my office on the NRL Oh Download the tab up to get personalized offers on every NRL game Now that's something to shout about tab We're on available to account holders online tease and seize at website What's gambling really costing you for free and confidential support visit gambling help online dot org dot a you
