The Show Episode 556

US Open, World Cup, NFL Stats, AFC North, Browns, Ravens

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And yes, we just got done. Watching the US opening currently going on all weekend. And of course, it ended up uh finishing on this Sunday. And of course, today is Father's Day. So a happy shout out from the host to all the fathers out there. Happy Father's Day as you uh you know begin to listen to uh this latest episode of the show. Oh, we also got coming up today. More soccer comments provided by the host of some other things I've noticed for you soccer hooligans out there. We got some NFL stats uh to go over. We got the last two teams in the AFC North to discuss on this show, and we'll give you an update on the host 2025 over and under record as we predict our 2026 over and under for this upcoming NFL season. And as I promised, as I promised, and I've been teasing this for two episodes now, we will get to the softball co-ed story right here on this show. And now I probably hyped it up too much. Probably people are gonna be disappointed in the story. Or people probably went and looked it up uh to see what the uh story was really about. So who, you know, but I'll tell the story as the host does, you know, with the usual uh commentary that the host provides right here on the show. But back to what I was discussing at the beginning of this, we have another second time US Open champion, and that of course is Wyndham Clark is your 2026 champion. He got out to a big lead on Thursday, and he held on to the lead the entire time. He did not let that go. He continued to lead through Friday, continued to lead through Saturday, and shooting plus three today, still came out as a US Open champion. His second time in winning the event. Now, as you well know, if you've listened to this show, you know that the host is not a big fan of Wyndham Clark. Uh don't like his antics. Uh again, he if you watched it all weekend, you would have seen one of his antics yesterday. Oh, we'll get to that. Uh, you know, he had the incident last year where um he uh had a bad round at Marion and he totally lost it uh at the U.S. Open and destroyed the locker room there. He had to pay for all the repairs to the locker room. And at one point, uh the place has banned him from continuing playing there. So if the U.S. Open ever goes back to uh Marion, he won't be allowed to play because he's been banned there because of his temper tantrum. Also last year, wind dumb Clark. Uh he was frustrated during uh a round of golf. He threw his driver. The driver bounced off the T marker and whacked a volunteer right in the head. Uh no precautions uh, you know, for uh Wyndham Clark. This is slap on the wrist, a fine from the PGA tour. This guy's a uh a lunatic. He's a basket case out there. Then, of course, last year during the players' championship, uh Wyndham Clark hit a ball that was ruled that he got it could get a free drop. Now, of course, the drop was in the rough. And he called over the rules official. And as the rules official was explaining to him where he could drop the ball, Wyndham Clark was prancing around on the grass, flattening it out with his feet, acting like he didn't know where the rules official was telling him to drop the ball. Finally, when the rules official told him where he could drop the ball, it was in the part where Wyndham Clark was purposely matting his feet down. And he got to drop the ball on in the rough, which was already matted down for him. And he got the play out. That's gonna lead me into this. If you were watching yesterday, at the end of Clark's round on Saturday, he hit a ball over next to a TV tower. TV Tower is a man-made object. It is made for the course, for the tournament, to broadcast the tournament on TV. William Clark's ball landed by it. Once again, he calls over a rules official and he's able to get a free drop. No problem with him getting a free drop. The host has no problem with him being able to get a free drop in a situation like that. But once again, which no one is talking about. Which no one brings up. Wyndham Clark mats down the grass again where he's gonna drop the ball. Mats it down with his feet again while the rules officials explain to him where to drop the ball. At the end of it, he gets to drop the ball. And it's on the grass, he already matted down. I don't know what to say. Guys, this is a guy's this a lunatic. So on the broadcast yesterday, they had to have a conversation with his therapist. And his therapist went on this whole rant about Wyndham Clark and how he prepares himself and how he works himself through and how he gets through the situation. Remember the same therapist, if anybody watched the show Full Swing on Netflix, the whole there was a whole segment on the show Netflix with Wyndham Clark with this therapist. Here she is on the broadcast yesterday, telling us what a lunatic he is. How he's now with it. Yeah, here's this guy allowed to be back on the course, bending the rules, as we'll say, throwing clubs, having temper tantrums in the locker room, and now he's a two-time US Open champion. And by the way, Wyndham Clark. This is one of my arguments about these guys on the PGA tour and my my my whole live rant and US Open rant, or you know, my whole PGA Tour rant. There's some guys on the PGA tour that have won events in the past that are some sort of a name, as we'll say. I guess you could say they're a name. That get to play in all these elevated events and get to get rewarded with the extra money that the PGA Tour hands out to these guys. Justin Thomas is one, Jordan Spieth is one. These guys, these guys don't do any. Ricky Fowler's another one. These guys don't win anything. Yet, because of their reputation and wins they've had many, many, many years ago. They somehow get to be on the elevated PGA tour. Well, that, of course, is going to go away, according to reports, of the new rules that the PGA Tour is going to be put in place. And we won't be seeing these guys on the elevated tour anymore. Well, Wyndham Clark was close to that until a few weeks ago when he destroyed the field and he played great. I'm not going to take that away from him. He played great in some uh tournament in Texas where he was minus 31. And he ended up winning the tournament and he ended up getting uh more exemptions where he could keep his elevated status and play long. Now he was he was he was already exempt from playing in the U.S. Open because he just won a few years ago when the thing was in uh Los Angeles in 2023. So he has a five-year exemption for that. But his exemption status at the TJ Tour was running out because of the way this guy does not play well. But all that being said about him, he came through and he played great, especially yesterday on Saturday. He made putts that I didn't think he was gonna make. He made putts to save par, and he he came up with the huge uh shot on the uh, I think it was the 16th hole par five, and he made Eagle. And I I texted a guest after he made the uh second shot on that uh par five for the Eagle. I said, Well, he's not losing now. And I was right. Now, he had such a big lead today that he really didn't have to do that much. He just had to get through the course, make enough shots, and get through the day, and he would be champion again for the second time. And that's mostly what we had to do, had to do. Uh, Sam Burns uh made a run at him. Uh Sam Burns had a great putt on 18 to get the minus four. Just, just went along the edge of the lip of the cup. Uh that there he couldn't get the minus four, he ended up minus three. Uh Clark had the big putt on 17 that he made to get the minus our uh big putt on 16. I'm sorry, he had the big putt on 16 uh for Bertie to get to minus five. He bogeyed 17. There's a little drama, of course, on 18. He hit it in the rough, but he had a shot short, and he made a great lag putt up for this to tap in, and he is your U.S. Open champion. So the only pro issue I have, of course, with Wyndham Clark is how he acts outside of golf and how he acts sometimes on the course, bending the rules a little bit. That's it. I've uh like I said, he played great. I'm not gonna take that away from him. He did what he had to do to win that tournament. No one else could uh step it up. Uh, you know, Rory couldn't step it up, Scotty couldn't step it up. We'll get to those two in a second there with NBC. NBC seemed kind of bummed that uh on Saturday that uh you know Wyndham Clark wasn't choking and wasn't surrendering the lead because you know he had a six-shot lead, and then that meant to the NBC that they were uh losing viewers. And you know, they weren't getting the numbers that uh they thought they should. So even the NBC executives uh you know wanted Wyndham Clark to do bad because boy oh boy, those Wyndham Clark, I'm sorry, misspoke there. Those NBC people, those NBC announcers, Mike Tariko, Dan Hicks, Kevin Kaiser, uh all the people walking the course, they on Saturday were rooting so hard for Rory, so hard for Scotty Sheffield, and they just couldn't get it going. Every time it seemed like they were gonna get it going, they got a couple birdies, and then they would make a stake, mistake, and get a bogey, and they would drop back down, and the air was just taken out of the broadcast because one of those two guys wasn't up there fighting for the lead. And then Scotty made a run at the end of Saturday, he got to minus one, he was able to get in the last group, and uh NBC was Mike Tarico was so excited that Scotty Scheffler was going to be in the last group. But he was six stats back. Just they just wanted to have a big name up there. And you if you if you open your uh uh Peacock app on uh whatever device you watch it on, you click on the NBC Peacock app, you go to US Open. Who's the first two guys you see right on there? Scotty Shefford and Rory. That's who they want you to tune in and watch. They don't want you to tune in and watch Wyndham Clark. They don't want you to tune in and see Sam Burns. They don't want you to tune in to see Tom Kim, the guy who finished third, who, you know, uh got a little extra money to pay for his groceries now, you know, because he's, you know, you know, because he's fat and likes to eat, Tom Kim, you know. And I despise any fat golfer. Shane Lowry, you know, any you know, Craig Staler of the past, anybody that's fat shouldn't be allowed to golf. So here's Tom Kinn. Uh, you know, couldn't wait to get off the course today after finishing third to get up to that buffet line so he could uh fill his uh stomach up. But he finished third. You know, that's not the guys NBC wants on on the broadcast. They don't want, they don't want uh to be showing those guys. They want Scotty Shefflin. They want Rory up there. They couldn't stop talking about Mike Tariko on Friday when I was tuning in and watching it in the morning, kept on telling us what time Rory was teeing off at. 202, 202 Eastern, 202 Eastern, 202 Eastern. He must have said it 10 times on the broadcast. That's all they cared about was Scotty Scheffler and Rory. That's all they talked about. They couldn't wait to mention their names. Yet they just couldn't get any close to Wyndham Clark. They just couldn't put it up the numbers. Wyndham Clark in this U.S. Open had two Eagles. You know, when you get two Eagles in a U.S. When you get Eagles in a U.S. Open, you're gonna be up at the top of the leaderboard and you're gonna have a great shot to win. Just like Tiger when the when the when the uh U.S. Open was at Torrey Pines. He had those two Eagles in one round to propel him uh to get back into things and get up on the leaderboard. Uh you know, that great that great 2008 U.S. Open with Tiger in it, where he beat Rocco Media. Don't you get any player that scores Eagles in a U.S. Open is, you know, gonna climb the standings and you know get up there. So, you know, these guys, and these guys, you know, as much as they were rooting Sam Burns on today, they they didn't want to see Sam Burns. They, the only reason they were rooting for Sam Burns is hoping that he'd get to minus four is maybe they could have a playoff, and that means the ratings would go up. That was the only reason they're rooting for him. You know, the same Sam Burns last year, right? Who uh called over the official and wanted a ruling for his ball, said his ball was laying in standing water, he didn't get the ruling, and immediately hit one of the worst shots you've ever seen in the U.S. Open after that, and he totally fell apart after that and blamed not getting the proper ruling after calling two rules officials over. That's Sam. That same Sam Burns. That same Sam Burns is the one who you know finished second in this yet, you know, when Wyndham Clark bogeyed 17, Sam Furns finally got up and was gonna go warm up thinking that he had the chance. But then after uh, you know, Wyndham Clark put up that lag putt on 18, uh, Sam Burns just walked off the uh driving range in defeat. That was that was actually a funny highlight for me uh seeing that, seeing that happen. I had, you know, the whole time watching the watching the watching the broadcast. Oh, the course is so hard. The course is so different. The wind is making it so hard. Oh, no, no, no. They gotta tell you every time you see a US Open is on, they gotta tell you how difficult. How hard. Let me let me explain to you about the way the host looks at a golf golf course. You set up a golf course for any kind of tournament, whatever. It could be a regular tournament, US Open, Masters, whatever. You hit a shot on the green, and the greens are so hard, and they got the greens so shaved that the greens are playing super fast, and the ball rolls off the green, that's a lousy course. And that's a lousy setup. You're not supposed to be penalized for hitting shots to the center of the grid. You're supposed to be penalized for hitting lousy shots. You're supposed to be penalized for hitting shots off the grid. Not when the ball lands on the grid. You shouldn't be penalized for those kinds of shots. And that's what the U.S. Open does on some holes. And it's just stupid. And it's stupid. And then the announcers, you know, they're afraid they're gonna say, they don't want to say anything bad about the course because God forbid that the announcer gets banned from the course or NBC gets banned from doing any U.S. opens, so they're not gonna make the comment of it. So at least people like me, you know, speaking to, you know, the audience that I have to get that message out there. Because bigger audiences, you know, are afraid to say stuff like that on the national broadcast. But we're not afraid to say it here on this show. And hey, uh Augusta, you masters people, what do you think of the uninterrupted coverage both Saturday and Sunday on NBC? Uninterrupted, no commercial, no dumb breaks looking at the stupid flowers, no breaks of Jim Nance reading the leaderboard for the three hundredth time for the over the weekend, no shots of the bridge, no shots of birds chirping, just golf. NBC knows how to show golf. CBS doesn't, Augusta doesn't NBC knows how to show golf, and they did a great job this week. You didn't see any, you know, any boring shots of scenery, not like they do at Augusta every two seconds, and there wasn't hardly any shots on tape. Almost all their shots are on tape, almost all their shots are on delay. There's hardly anything live. And when it is live, Gym Nats has to tell you it's live. Not with the NBC. Everything was live, uninterrupted. And here's my here's my question for the uh coverage in case a lot of people were watching. They got all those Rolex watch, Rolex time clock watch towers all over the court. Are those plastic? Are those real? Is that a real watch? Is that a real Rolex watch? Or is that just some cheap plastic uh clock that they just put the green Rolex thing around it and paint the inside of it gold to look like it's a Rolex? Is that a real Rolex time clock that they put out there of the course? It can't be, right? It's just a stupid green thing with plastic, say, Rolex. Because if it was real, people be stealing. You know, the host of the guests would have one in the back of their cart if they were playing out there. That'd be right in the cart if the host of the guests are out there. One of those Rolex, Rolex clocks that are out on the course. Oh. The host of the guest would look around and that'd be right in the cart, right in the right in the back of the truck as we pull out of the golf course after finishing that day. Oh, that'd be great to have. That'd be great if the host of the guests could pull that off. Taking one of those. That'd be awesome. But uh, yeah, that's my uh US Open wrap-up. I I know uh people are like, oh my god, host, here we are again. Another show about golf. Host, I thought you weren't gonna talk about golf. We had to hear about the golf trip, we had to hear about the master, we had to hear about all the talk after the master. And here we are, back on golf talk. Don't worry, folks. Don't worry. There's one more tournament left. Of course, that's the British Open or the Open Championship, and that's in Northern Ireland. Rory's hometown. Will he choke again? As the tournaments played his hometown. Well, of course, we're gonna have to talk about it on here. But uh, as I move on, um, you know, I I made fun of the you know soccer hooligans uh on the last show. And uh, you know, I I gotta admit, uh the host has to admit, I've watched some soccer over the past three or four days. Now, it doesn't help that uh, of course, on the William Hill app, you could bet on it. And also, the William Hill has this uh crazy game going on where you hit this spin thing and it spins three games, it's kind of like a slot machine and it stops and you can lock in the choice that it gives you or spin again. But you only get three spins, and on the third spin, if you haven't locked in anything on the first two spins, whatever comes up, that's your play. And if you win one or three, you get a 10% boost. If you win two or three, you get a 25% boost. And I forget what three or three is, I forget what the boost is if you get three or three, but they're doing that every day. So you got that to uh look forward to and watch. And then I gotta bet on the games. And what somebody told me to do, and I'm again, I'm no soccer hooligan expert, someone told me this bet to draw every game because you'll come out ahead. And one of the days after this guy, and I said, nah, you can't do that, not all games are in a draw. Of course, the very next day that this guy said that, every game was a draw. Every game was a draw. Yeah, I know, I know. Every game was a draw after uh that guy came out and said that. But it hasn't been like that since. Uh, you know, the uh the good teams seem to be pulling away. Uh if you uh if one of the better teams, now here's another, here's another thing that I know. If one of the better teams is playing, just play the over because they're gonna score. Because they want to score, they want to score goals. I guess more goals helped you in your positioning for the knockout round, as they call it. Uh you know, USA won again. They're there they won both their games so far. They're in the knockout round, uh, uh advancing to that because they got six points already and they got lots of goals. They scored, what, four goals? And they scored how many goals the other night? Two or three. So USA advancing. I don't think their match even matters uh what they do against uh Turk Turquai? Is that is that how it's pronounced? Isn't it Turkey? For some reason it's spelled differently, and maybe it's a totally different country. That's how well your host knows his geographical cities. Um but that's who else is in the uh USA's uh group. You can't say uh division in soccer. Uh you can't say standings either. Uh it's not standings in soccer, it's table. You know, hey, uh pass the salt and uh pepper. I uh I got it uh on the on the table. And what's the uh what who's wanted the hockey table as you pass me the salt? Hey, could you hand me a napkin? Wait a come on, soccer, table. I know soccer has the uh goofiest things. Here's what I've noticed though. I gotta I gotta ask my uh soccer hooligan friends. Why is it when and this is every team, this is every team, why is it when a team comes in and they score, why does the goalie flip back and jump back like he's shot with one shotgun in Call of Duty? And why is the reaction so late? Is it because he wants to act like he's trying to stop the shot when it's already, the net's already uh, it's already past him in the net? Why does the goalie dive like that when the ball's already by him and in the net? Why does he have to flop like that and look like an idiot? It's just a question. It's so ridiculous to me. It makes me laugh every time I see it. When the when when there's a shot coming in from one of the players and it goes in the net, and then all of a sudden you get the delayed reaction, the goalie just flops back in the air. Like he's taken out with a with a missile. That's okay? That's a that's acceptable? You you guys think that's alright? To me, it just looks really stupid. And again, I I don't know. I'm not a soccer guy. You soccer hooligans out there gotta tell me what what why why is this happening? And uh the other thing, and I know this has been going on a long time, and this is this part of the game, the diving in soccer, of people getting acting like they're getting their head taken off, uh, getting tripped, or getting shoved, or getting hit in the face, uh, just the dramatic acting that goes on. And uh some of these moves that these guys do on the field. It just seems like it's just over the top to me. Now, it's over the top of the NBA, yeah. Of course it is. And some of the players admit it they do it on purpose to get fouled. No, no one soccer guy admits that they're doing something on purpose. Oh, you can't you can't say that in soccer. Oh, the sacred sport of soccer. You can't say that. But man, I just it's just something I noticed as I I tune in and watch some of the games. Um now, I don't have it. Okay. Let me let me just throw this out there too. In the host sports arena, the the uh you know the host viewing of TVs. Oh, soccer's not on the main TV, it's on one of the little ones on the left or the right, up top. So let's let's slow the horses down thinking that the host is becoming a big soccer fan here. Let me let me make that clear with you people the host has it on the little TV. That's it. I don't have it on the big TV. I'm not sitting there with uh with a with a drink going, ooh, I can't wait to watch this soccer match. No. Hey, and here's the other thing it kills me. You have all these stadiums that these matches are being played in. They're filled to the brim. They're jammed, they're packed. People are paying big money for these tickets. Some people are paying thousands of dollars to get a seat in a stadium to watch these matches. And the match is only 90 minutes. An hour and a half shorter than going to a football game, an hour and a half, hour shorter than going to any baseball, NBA, NHL game. Yet, these stadiums are jammed with people. Jammed with people from their country. Jammed with soccer hooligan fans, just packed to the brim. And they're selling these tickets. It's just it's just unbelievable to me. Remember all the reports of none of the stadiums will be filled, none of the hotel rooms are going to be filled. This stupid sports media loves to lie to you to tell you what's really going on out there. All these places are packed, all these places are jammed with these soccer hooligan fans. The cicadas. Like I said on the last show, they come out of everywhere. Oh man. All right, let's let's move into a little uh football before we go into the uh our uh final two teams of our AFC Dork. Now, uh I came up with the uh a couple of stats here uh to uh talk to you guys. Teams last year that allowed the fewest passing yards over the last 10 seasons. Now, three teams from last year got in to allowing the fewest passing yards over the last 10 seasons. Three teams from the 2025 season cracked that. Two three defensive teams. And I was surprised at the one team that cracked. Not only cracked the top 10, are number one of allowing passing yards with their defense. Number one, these are these are the top teams over the last 10 seasons. Number one, the 2025 Buffalo Bills, they only allowed 2,668 passing yards on their pass defense last year. Coming at second was another team from 2025, the Minnesota Vikings. 2,694 passing yards allowed over the entire season. So two teams in a league that's supposed to be about passing made it one and two on this list for the last 10 years. Anyway, allowing under 2,700 yards. That's just that's that's something else. And I didn't think the Bills pass defense was that great, and they're number one on this list. The 2019 49ers are third, 2017 Jacksonville Jaguars are fourth. The 2021 Bills are fifth, 2023 Browns are sixth, the 2025 Browns are seventh, the 2023 Jets are eighth. The 2018 Buffalo Bills are ninth. The Bills have three different pass defensive teams that made it that low in passing yards allowed. And the final 2019 New England Patriots with 2,886 passing yards allowed. So the Buffalo Bills, not only did they grab the number one spot this past season, they got three of the all-time passing least amount of passing yards allowed in the last 10 years. So it makes you think now, right? Which leads me into this. It makes you think now, now that Sean McDermott's gone, he was a defensive guy, they hired Joe Brady, who's an offensive guy, who's Josh Allen's friend, how is that Bill's defense gonna be now? You know, the Bills defense was keeping a lot of those Bills' teams in games so Josh Allen could lead them back and make a play and lead them to victory. Because, okay, hear me out Josh Allen known to make some buffoonery mistakes in games where he's given up the ball on a fumble or thrown a bad interception. And the Buffalo Bills' great pass defense stifies teams and allows the Bills to remain in games, even though Josh Allen is making errors. So, how is that gonna affect the 2026 Bills? Is their pass defense gonna be just as good? Look how good they were with Sean McDermott over the last 10 seasons. Three of the top 10 teams all time. So, this is something for those Bills fans out there to think about moving ahead. I'm sure, I'm sure they've already thought about that. I'm sure some of those Bills fans already thought about that. Last season. Teams with the best sack differentials in the 2025 season. That means your sacks that you got as a team versus your sacks that you allowed by your offensive line. This is the teams with the best players, best big men in the trenches. Now we got six of the top teams right here. Ray here from last year. Number one, the Denver Broncos were plus 45. That means they had 45 more sacks defensively than their offense has given up, allowing Bone Nicks to get sacked. Plus 45. They are 14 ahead of the next team. And that next team, of course, is the Atlanta Falcons. Now, this Atlanta Falcons team, they already had a decent offensive line because of BJ Robinson running around back there. They had mobile quarterbacks in Michael Penix and Kirk Cousins, which helped them to the Sloud sex. And the Atlanta Falcons last year went out and drafted two offensive, or I'm sorry, two outside edge rushers in the draft that helped them become plus 31. So they were ranked second last year. Number third last year with best offensive line and best defensive line. LA Rams, plus 24 on the sack differential of not allowing Matthew Stafford to get sacked while getting after the quarterback. Just think how much that's going to improve for the Rams this year by adding Miles Garrett. So they might challenge the Broncos if the Broncos remain with that great sack rush that they have. Number four, Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. They were plus 20. They protected Sam Darnold well, and they also got after the quarterback. Number five, Pittsburgh Steelers. Plus 17. Of course, they always get after the quarterback with their multiple guys going after the quarterback. TJ Watt, Alex Sysmith, Nick Kerbig, Cam Hayward, and then that offensive line, which is still young. And of course, they had the veteran Aaron Rodgers back there, who got rid of the football very quickly. That led them to be a number five and number six, the Houston Texans, the number one defense in the league. They had, of course, led by Will Anderson. They were getting after the quarterback. They know how to get after him. CJ Stroud, mobile quarterback. That's why they are plus 16, and they were the sixth best team last year in the NFL with allowance sacks. Now, as we move on here on the show to our final two AFC North teams. Now, last show we did the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cincinnati Bengals. Right now, as we stand on our 2025 over and under, we're one and five. Now, I know that I got this team right, and I always get this team right from the years past. That is, of course, the Cleveland Browns. The Cleveland Browns record was two. I'm sorry, their 2025 record was 5-12. Their head coach is Todd Munkin, replacing the fired Kevin Stefansky. Their leading quarterback from last year was Shadur Sanders. He had 1,400 yards, seven touchdowns, and 10 interceptions. Their leading receiver was Harold Fannon, 72 catches, 731 yards, six touchdowns. Their leading running back was Quinston. I can't even read my uh Jutkins, 827 rushing yards and seven touchdowns. Their leading sacker, Miles Garrett, he had 23. Their leading tackler was Carson Schwezinger with 156. Their offensive rank was 30th. Their defensive rank, however, was fourth. Their 2,026 over and under is 5.5. Minus 110 to the over, minus 110 to the under. Their odds to win the division are plus 1,800. Odds to win the conference plus 8,500. Odds to win their Super Bowl plus 15,000. Their 2025 over and under was exactly the same as it is this year at 5.5. The hosts predicted that they would go 2-15. Guess what? They finished 5-12. Winner for the host to get in the Cleva Browns. I got that right. Their key additions are Zion Johnson, Elkin Jenkins, and Jared Verst in the trade for Myles Garrett. Their key departures. Miles Garrett traded to the LA Rams for Jared Verst. David Joku, Wyatt Teller, and Jack Conklin. They drafted Spencer Fano and offensive tackle. They drafted KC Concepcion and Denzel Boston, two wide receivers, and they drafted Emmanuel McNeil Warren a safety. So trying to shore up more offensive skill players to go along with a Jarvis Landry and help out the offensive game. And they got a safety in there and a new offensive tackle. Their schedule. They opened the season at Jacksonville, lost. Open, I mean, opened the season at Jacksonville, lost. Their next game at Tampa Bay, lost. At home against Carolina, win. At home against Pittsburgh on Thursday night football, win. At the Jets, lost. Baltimore at home, lost. At Tennessee, lost. At Pittsburgh, lost. At New Orleans, lost. Houston at home, lost. Then they have a bye. Oakland at home, win. Cincinnati at home, lost. Atlanta at home, lost. At the Giants, lost. At Baltimore, lost. Indianapolis at home, lost. At Cincinnati, lost. I got the Cleveland Browns going 3 and 14. This team is a mess. They got rid of a great coach in Kevin Stefansky. He was two-time coach of the year. He led this team to a playoff win at Pittsburgh, led them almost to victory in a division round. They said, see you later. Hit the road. They hired Todd Montkin, an old guy out of Baltimore, who was the offensive coach for Lamar Jackson, who was offensive coach at Georgia. He's going to turn the Cleveland Browns around. They got Chadur Sanders. They think Deshaun Watson is going to be their starting quarterback. Now they drafted two young receivers, which could be very well helping them in the future. But I don't think they got the right cornerback right now. And of course, they got more first round picks in the trade with Myles Garrett. They were fourth ranked defense last year under Jim Schwartz. Jim Schwartz wanted a head coaching job. They didn't retain him. Out the door, he went. They have a new defensive quarter end. Are they going to be the same without Miles Garrett? Hell no. Is Jared Verse a younger? Young linebacker who can get after the get after the quarterback and make plays on defense? Yeah. But does he want to be there? Has anybody asked that? No. The Cleveland Browns just continue to just do things that make you scratch your head. And it looks like and we really don't know yet. There's just talk of now. It looks like they're going to try to go with Deshaun Watson as their starting quarter. I think this team is just really screwed up. And I don't think this team is going to do well. That's why I predict them to go 3-14. I predict them under 5.5 again. My play would be under minus 110 for the Cleveland Browns for the 2026 team. Our final AFC North team. The Baltimore Ravens. Their 2025 record was 8-9. Their head coach is Jesse Minter. He is replacing the fired John Harbaugh, who went on to move on to coach the New York Giants. Their leading QB from last year, of course, is Lamar Jackson, 2,549 yards, 21 touchdowns, seven interceptions, another 349 rushing yards on the ground. Their leading receiver is Zay Flowers, 1,211 yards with five touchdowns. Of course, their leading running back. A free thream! Derrick Henry had 1,595 rushing yards to go along with 16 touchdowns. Their leading sacker, Travis Jones with five? Roquan Smith was their leading tackler with 130. Their offensive rank was 16. Their defensive rank was 24th. Their 2026 over and under is 11.5 plus 126 to the over. Minus 150 to the under. Odds to win the division plus 190. Odds to win the conference plus 500. Odds to win the Super Bowl plus 1100. Their 2025 over and under was 11.5. The host had them going 11-6. I was under the 11.5. They finished 2025 at 8-9. Another winner for the host. Steve is now three and five on his 2025 over and under pick. So bad start. Redeemed ourselves here with the Cleveland Browns in the Baltimore Ravens plays from last year. They're key additions. Trey Hendrickson, four years, 112 million. Now they got him, remember, with the whole Max Crosby debacle. What happened there? He was going to come here, fail the physical, then Baltimore went out and got Trey Hendrickson. John Simpson, a three-year, $30 million deal. They also brought back Kalius Campbell again to help with the help with the going after the quarterback. Their key departures, their center, which is huge, which no one is talking about. Tyler Lindebaum, their tight end, a favorite for Limar, Isaiah Likely, Drew Mont Jones, and their fast guy out of the backfield, Keaton Mitchell. So as much praise as Baltimore is getting for hiring Jesse Mentor, they're not talking about all the key stuff here that the team lost, which just scratches my head. So I don't think Baltimore is going to be the top team that everybody thinks they're going to be. I think their defense will be better. They're going to be able to get after the quarterback better because they got Trey Hendrickson. But I don't think offensively, and the way they move the football on the ground with the freight train, I don't think they're going to be as successful that way. So let's uh well first they drafted Alugi Oni, a guard, uh Zion Young, another edge rusher, and Jacoby Kane, a wide receiver. So let's go and look at the schedule and see what we come up with. At Indianapolis, loss. New Orleans at home, win. At Dallas, that game is in Brazil, loss. Tennessee at home, win. At Atlanta on Sunday night football, win. At Cleveland, win. Cincinnati at home, win. At Buffalo, loss. Jacksonville at home, Thursday night football, win. San Diego at home. Monday night football, loss. At Carolina, win. At Houston, loss. They got their bye week. Tampa Bay, home win. At Pittsburgh lost. Cleveland at home win. At Cincinnati, Thursday night football lost. Pittsburgh at home win. Now let me I got them going 10 and 7. Now let me bring up a couple key things here in their schedule. Their final four games are against their division. Two against Pittsburgh. Sandwiched in between the two Pittsburgh games is Cleveland at home at Cincinnati on Thursday night football. They play twice on Thursday night football to the Baltimore Ravens. They go to Brazil to play a game. So that's some key things to look out there in Baltimore's schedule. Especially at the end of the season. Where they come off that bye, and if Tampa Bay happens to be good, they play them, followed by four straight division games. Don't forget, out there hanging two that's over the head of this team is Limar's whole contract extension. You saw the Mahomes sign for 64 million a year. You know Limar's wants to be up there. You know Limar wants 65-66 now. That's gonna be dangling over the team. And I think the loss of Tyre Lindebaum is more huge than people are saying. Plus, the freight train. How many more years can this guy run the way he runs? I got him going 10 and 7. William Hill's got them 11.5 wins. I think that's very hard to get the 11.5 wins. And William Hill, as much as they got an 11.5, the under is minus 150. They love the under too, does the William Hill. And so does the host. So that concludes our two AFC North teams for this show. Our AFC North Division is done. And now we move on to our next division. Who knows what that's gonna be? You're gonna have to tune into the next show for that. Now, as I promised before we end this show, I know. We're running at 50 minutes right now. I'd love to end the show right now and then wait to tell the softball story again on another show. But I promised I would tell you guys on this show. So I'll make it quick. Down in, I think it was Arkansas or Alabama, where you can have all-year-round softball. They play all year-round softball. There was a co-ed team. That was the name of their team. No game schedule. So when a schedule comes out and you look at it and you see who you're playing, you would see on the schedule, no game scheduled versus the barnstormers. The barnstormers, the people on the barnstormers would look at that and go, oh, well, it's a snow game schedule. We don't play. Right? Wouldn't that make sense if you saw that on your schedule? If you had a schedule and it came out and you saw everybody else, you know, the uh Midnight Corn Huskers versus the uh you know Arkansas, whatever somebody is. You saw that game, six o'clock. Then you saw underneath it, no game scheduled versus the barn store. Oh, no game scheduled, we don't play that night. So what happened is now they played 12 games, league games. At the end of the 12 games, the top four teams made the playoffs and they got to play. So what this team called No Game Schedule did, they showed up every day when they were supposed to play. But the other team never did. If they had a game at 6 o'clock, the no game schedule team showed up, the other team didn't, the umpires gathered around, called the game a forfeit, and gave the win for no game schedule. This went on for the whole 12 games in the season. They played 12, they played 12 different teams. They played the same team twice. No one talked about that. They just kept on doing it. They finished no game scheduled, finished the season 12 and oh. When the playoffs rolled around, the other three teams that made the playoffs, because I said the top four teams made the playoffs, the other three teams said, Wait, wait a minute. How's this how's no game scheduled 12 and oh? We we uh we we joined up to them and it said we we were supposed to play, it said on the schedule, when it said that our time, it said no game schedule. So how they got a win? Well, they sat down, or they the all the captains of all these softball teams got in a room and they explained it. Well, their team name is no game schedule. You're the idiots for not realizing that you never showed up, and they showed up at the appropriate time, no, the other team didn't, and the umps granted them the win. Can you believe that? That this team went 12-0, and then nobody realized it to the end of the regular season. So the playoffs start. And now that everybody's on to the team called No Game Schedule, No Game Schedule played their first playoff team. They were the number one team because they went 12-0. They played the number four team. So in this league, there's after four innings, there's a 15-run mercy rule. After five innings, there's a 10-run mercy rule. So that means, right, after four innings, if one team is winning 18 to nothing, that means the game's over and that team wins. Not even worth playing the rest of the game because of the mercy rule. You don't want to keep on making it any more harmful for the other team, beating the snot out of them, what you are. So, you know, that's what happened. So, no game scheduled, finally got to play an actual game. They played the fourth team, they got mercy ruled in the fourth inning, 30 to 2. That's how bad of a team they were. But somehow they manipulated the system with their team name no game scheduled. And the first game they actually played, they were the number one seed in their their whole softball league. They got mercy ruled 30 to 2 in the fourth inning. You can't make this up, folks. You can't make it up. That's the intramural softball story. Intermedial or co-ed softball story. Down in uh Arkansas or Alabama, wherever this this league was. Unbelievable, right? No game scheduled, nobody showed up to play until they figured it out at the end of the regular season. Pretty good though. You gotta admit, it's pretty good. Pretty good. We should have tried that at bowling. Maybe we would have won instead of the Yahoos I was paired with. Maybe I should have named the team no game scheduled on the bowling, and we would have showed up. And then the other team would have not showed up for a bye. We would have won. Maybe they maybe maybe that would have helped our bowling team. That's what I should have came up with with that. No match scheduled this week. We could have won. What is it? 99 and oh?

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Oh, man. All right. Ah, you guys are great. Anyway, thank you for all the downloads. You guys have been great. I know this is a longer show.

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I I know I try to keep it at 40 minutes, but you know, a lot to talk about, a lot going on, a lot to discuss. Anyway, you don't want to get the show by now. That's the host at Steel DF72, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, of course, Amazon Music. And as always, it's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. Well, I'm gonna leave you guys with this. Um, I don't know. I can get hooked on this band lately. Um break. Uh,