NHL Best Bet & NFL Players Turning Down Big Money

Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast Hosted by Chris Hodge and JR - NHL Best Bet & NFL Players Turning Down Big Money! 

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Welcome to the Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast for Friday, March 13th. I am Chris Hodge, my main man, JR here as always. Oh, I don't even want to go near right now because the run he is on in the NHL is absolutely epic. And if the sports books truly find out where these games are coming from, don't put me on ice because I'm gonna melt it. It's fire on ice right here. Holy screen. Greatest run I've ever had in 31 years in the business. This is something right now. 26 and one. Yeah, that's a crazy run. As of this taping. 26, 1, and 1. Well, it's really a win. Because I gave out the over 6.5 in the Edmonton game back, I don't know what it was, a few games ago. And it fell on uh I I had clients ask me, should I take it at seven? Because it was six and a half minus one fifty-eight. We drove it up. Originally it was minus one thirty-eight, then one forty-eight, one fifty-five, one fifty-eight. Um, so I said take it at seven. We'll take the push if it lands on seven. Yep. Landed on seven. But I did have a third of the guys that still took it at six and a half. So I'm taking the win 26 and one. Didn't you release Edmonton for free last over in Edmonton, Edmonton, Carolina, last Friday? You got another free pick for tonight we're gonna talk about. We'll talk about that later as we go along. No guest today, which I'm very upset about. I thought scheduling conflicts happen. I think we got a great guy lined up to come on, professional fighter. Same with me. Um so when he comes on, I think that's gonna be a lot of fun, but we'll get that done. Hopefully next week. Yeah, gonna have Landrum from WJOX come on as well. That's gonna be fun. And you're live from Vegas next week. Yes. Yes. Oh, baby. Awesome. So let's have some fun. There we go. The producer drops the light to start this thing off. You can't trust this man. This guy. This is why David Faustino came on and said, You gotta fire this guy. He literally said, I never even met you guys. You gotta fire this guy. Get rid of him, man. Uh, anyway, let's have some fun. Let's do a podcast. You all saw the story or the game this week, so I'll get your opinion on it. You're here where I am. Bam! Bam. Bam, out of bio. Congratulations, man. Second highest most points in NBA history. Surpasses Kobe's 81 with 83. Um, they beat the Wizards that night, 150 to 129. Obviously, because of the world we live in, it sucks so much, man. All right, like this world is just crazy. Anytime there's something positive, people gotta tear it down. Have to. If you don't create controversy, there's no good television. I saw nothing wrong with what the Heat did the other night. Nothing. Good. Nothing. We actually agree on something, can you imagine? Amazing. Yeah, I mean, well, Kobe passed away. Why you're gonna put a put a uh a blemish on his uh on his legacy. The dumbness that comes out of some of the the media sometimes. I swear, they're just there's no way they believe what they're saying half the time. They're doing it for controversy and ratings, nothing else. But like that dumb idiot Pat Beverly saying that uh the WNBA could beat the worst, the NBA champ, WNBA champs could beat the worst NBA team. Dumbest things I've ever heard. I mean, they couldn't beat, honestly, uh a high school. We've been over it. We've already talked about it. We've been over it, but um Bam Matabao goes 36 of 43 from the free throw line. He attempts 43 shots from the field, so that's 86 shots in the game. But there is no bigger fan of Kobe Bryant than me. I know that that is true. Kobe Bryant is my guy. He is my guy. Everything, and he has like next to no memorabilia. The guy doesn't hang stuff. Everything's about, you know, he's got things about his family, stuff like that. Kobe. But Kobe. The jersey comes with me, wherever. Yep. Yeah, and um, I'm texting my wife Tuesday night, you know, and I'm like, man, Arbao's about to break Kobe's record. And my wife starts looking it up and she goes, What record? The record is a hundred points. We're celebrating someone finishing second. First of all, now I'm gonna really sound like terrible right now, but I'm gonna say it. I don't even believe the 100-point game happened. Like, I don't believe people walked on the moon. Okay, come on, bro. First off, it happened. And and the moon at a hundred. No, the hundred. Okay. Not the moon. Not the moon. Unless they had duct tape on on the shuttle. That's another we could do a whole podcast on that. But no. It happened. Not only it happened, okay, but the same shit that happened with the band game with the fouls at the end to get to the hundred is what happened in the Chamberlain. Okay, so here's the thing with that. I have no problem with how Miami ran that game. I have no problem with what they did. He had a shot to accomplish history. When you have a shot to accomplish history, you go accomplish it. I don't put an asterisk next next to it. I don't care. Let me ask you a question, though. And I have never asked you this question before. This is the first time you're hearing it. Okay. If you are a coach, where are you with running up the score? NBA or college? I'm a kid's. Go high school. College. Go kids. High school college. Where are you with running up the school? College, I feel like you need to because you gotta get you you really gotta impress the, you know, the board, if you will. Okay. Um, I I'm looking to make the tournament. Where are you in high school running up the score? Definitely not. Absolutely not. I mean, don't get me wrong. If if I'm up 20 and there's five minutes left, I'm not running it up anymore. I'm done. If it's an eight-point game with three and a half minutes to go. I completely disagree with you. Of course you don't. What do you mean? We just agreed on one thing. I can't. One thing in 20 plus weeks. And I'm gonna tell you why. I'm all for running up the score. And people out there, oh, that's classless, this, this, that, and the other. Let me let me say it to you plain and simple, right? If I'm coaching a team and I've done this, right? Now I have starters and I have rotational players, and every team has these, and you get three or four kids that never get in the game, right? Unfortunately, it's just the way it works, right? And they come to practice, they're good soldiers, they're good teammates, right? So, and I'm talking basketball and I'll even get to football as well. But yeah, both sports, right? You get you, you know, if you coach. I know where you're going. I'm gonna agree. I agree with you. I'm kids that never get in the game. I don't owe it to your other bullshit team that can't stop us to take my foot off the pedal. I owe it to my kids that have come to practice every single day, dealt with the starters every single day, did all the running, the lifting. And if I can get that kid a three-point shot or a touchdown. I absolutely agree with you. Now, so when you said running up the score, I thought you meant keep the starters in. Okay, you know, hammer it away. Let's come up with plays to continue running up the score. No. But if you're putting in backups and they're doing great, let them keep doing it. Let them keep doing it. And actually, I want the offensive coordinator to actually call the game right. I I want them to try to score. Yeah. If it's a football game or if I had any kid on any level, on any level, high school, college, or you get a kid in the pro or you know, a grown man in the pros, and they are approaching a record or something that is sacred in their sport, sure, I'm doing everything of my power to help that person accomplish greatness. I don't think they should have taken him out when they did. I think they should have kept him in. Yeah, take him out for the ovation. He got listen, he wasn't getting to 100, right? So he wasn't getting there. If they kept found, nah, nah, he wasn't getting to a hundred, right? So he got past Kobe. Yeah. You know, and you know, it's funny. LeBron has the the point record in the NBA, right? So it's played for 37 years. When you're when you're passing Michael Jordan, it's just my Michael Jordan, that's the guy you want to pass, right? It just means something. You know, when Kobe passed Michael Jordan, there was a celebration. When LeBron passed Michael Jordan, there was a celebration. You know, so it's just that I think it's also still, I mean, I know Kobe's been gone for a bit of time now, but I it's still kind of fresh. And people, you know, that played with them are still there. I mean, it's I just think there's too much emotion. I mean, I have no problem. Fucking sports guys. It's it's can we stop the bullshit? It's about competition, it's about beating each other and competing at a high level. Not, oh, we don't want to do that to the legacy of Kobe Bryant. Why are you fouling? There's still a legacy. It's annoying. But there's still a legacy. Of course there is. He's still arguably the second or third greatest of all time. We can make that argument. I know you put him at two. Uh but Jordan. There's an argument there. There's no argument on number one. Agreed. I hate these kids today, these morons that want to argue. You can't blame LeBron. I mean, come on, bro. They never watched Jordan play right now. No, you know what? Then go watch some goddamn tape. He did shit that no one can do. He did it and he did it with passion. He made everyone around him better. He didn't buy players and and and and you know, go out and make teams beg for him to come to know. Michael was the man. Okay, still is. Agreed. Still is. Yeah, uh, we see. We agree. Okay. All right, good. See, I don't almost disagree. We agree. No, I'm happy. Uh, congratulations to Bam atabio, number two all time in terms of single game, NBA points. Never would have put him there either. I never think that. No, that no one would have predicted that. No, but well earned. Man, enjoy that. And um, you know, all intents and purposes about him, an ultra team player, an ultra good guy. And um, you know, anytime history is made, I believe it's a good thing. Um, and records and games are made to be broken, right? That's why they're they're there. They're made to be broken. Every Olympics, how many times you're watching, like, oh, another world record. Oh, another world record. What are we just getting faster and stronger every year? I mean, it's insane. Well, maybe they're getting faster and stronger due to the help of Celsius.com. Yeah, how do you like that? I like that. That was good. This is my favorite flavor, Arctic Vibe. I have not tried the Arctic Vibe before you let me try it. Loved it, right? Love it. Yeah, absolutely. I'm not saying that just to say it. Love it. What? I already drank it two, three times. Celsius.com, go check it out. We'll combine with exercise. Their formula is clinically proven to boost your metabolism and help you burn body fat. It's helping me. So I get skinnier as it's going along. Yeah, man. So uh Celsius and I just lost 30 pounds. So you dropped 30 pounds. 30 pounds. Since the beginning of this podcast, week one, till now, 30 pounds. That's not camera, guys. That's real fat. I don't know what this one is. Yeah, we can agree on something else now. I'm trying. I'm trying, man. The uh the metabolism for me is. You're the strongest motherfucker I know, though. I'll give you that. I seen you grab a guy.

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I was so worried about that guy, man. Yo, this is the well tell the story. The story behind that is a fist fight breaks down or opposite happens. You don't say it's 23, 24 all amongst each other. This fight breaks out. And um, boy, someone was getting it pretty good. Someone was getting it pretty good. And in comes the goon. And I and I almost threw this poor guy through the wall. And uh felt bad about that. So I apologize. I'm not gonna mention his. It's a good thing that you got big dogs because I always be like, I I love them and hold them and hug them and squeeze them. I can see you just destroying an animal by accident. Well, no, if the dog was attacking the guy, I'd probably let the dog continue. Of course, you'll grab the guy. Um, yo, speak, you know, I saw the story. I know this is listen, this is a sports podcast, and you know, we'll have a free pick in the NHL because he's just been on fire with the NHL. I really can't give you anything because by the time we see this podcast on Friday, uh the conference tournament games will be going off, and we don't know the matchups really for Saturday as we're doing this podcast. Um, but there are some great games tonight, which we will talk about. And I think the uh conference tournaments as a whole through Thursday anyway have been some really good games. Great games. Yeah, I mean, everything's coming down to the wire. I mean, at least with point spreads, I would say. Yeah. Um everything looks good. I mean, uh the odds makers, man, how fucking good are they right now? I mean, with the line movements going, it's insane how good they were. What was it the other night? Clemens. Clemson game? Thank God I used I gave out the money line, and I mean, I had clients texting me. Hey, it's minus one and a half. Should I take it? No. No, take the money line. They were plus one and a half. Originally, yes. They were up 18 in that game. I think they were up 73.60 with three minutes to go in. Three minutes. Unbelievable. I literally, I told you, I was watching it. I'm like, all right, we're up 12, 13, whatever it was. Turned it off, put on the Vegas Knights. I had the knights on the puck line. I was looking for them to get the lead. They wound up winning, by the way, six to two. Yeah, because minus one and a half, plus one sixty. Um, beautiful pick. But I went Thursday night. Thursday night, same night. So I go back and I go, let me just make sure Clemson's the final. What's going on? What's going on? I'm sitting there and um I'm literally doing research on Hubert Davis because I remember when he played for the Knicks and you know. I uh I made three big free throws for this. Yeah, you know, how about this? He's the third greatest uh three-point shooter of all time in NBA history. Who? Hubert Davis. In terms of what? Field goal percentage? Percentage. Oh, okay. Three points. Three point made percentage. Correct. Yeah, I didn't know that, and I don't even know if I agree with you. I didn't know it either. You sure you're not I'm peddling some nonsense? Listen, I might I might like to smoke some shit at night. Yeah, I might smoke some shit cameras, bro. I might smoke shit at night, but that doesn't mean that I'm not, you know, looking at things the right way. I saw a story the other day, completely not sports related, but I I I really could not believe this story, right? And then I just thought, like, why can't I believe it? Like, because this makes sense. So they have these robots now, these AI robots, right? Where are we going? Okay. So so apparently the AI robots, when threatened to be shut down, right, are beginning to lie and try to deceive who's ever trying to shut them down. And and people are surprised by that, and people think that's dangerous, and I don't understand why, because the robots were created by human beings, and human beings lie and deceive and everything. Like it like it doesn't matter. That's what they do. So why wouldn't they train these robots to lie and deceive? It doesn't make sense to me. They do it on their own. These are so when you mentioned to me, and I I'll say you just mentioned that you were gonna bring this up, I'm like, man, I remember a story that not only were they trying to not have themselves shut off, they were resorting to blackmail and all kinds of shit. And a human being. Absolutely. So they fed an AI. This is in 2025 and 2026, all right? Recent AI safety tests conducted by AI research firm Anthropic have revealed that advanced AI models, specifically Claude Opus 4, can resort to blackmailing their developers to avoid being shut down or replaced. In these controlled simulated scenarios, the AI model was given access to fictional emails and tests with acting as a workplace assistant. So they literally were sending emails and telling people we're going to release this if you don't stop it till the robot blackmailing humans to not be shut down. Insane. So now they were resorted to blackmail. Well, that's just one of the things another thing humans do. If they had access to electrocuting the guy, they probably would have. Insane. Insane shit. I would like to think Terminator, baby. Yeah, and well, by Terminator, I think we got three years left. What was it? 2029 in Los Angeles. It is right there. The world was blown to smithereens. I would just like to think, I don't know if this is arrogant. Like, if a robot showed up at my door, I have to be able to win. Like, why would I lose? Well, it depends. It's a fucking robot. Is it weaponized? Does he have guns and can he like zoom in on you and know you? How dangerous could he be? A robot. You obviously didn't watch Terminator. I did watch Terminator, you know, and I guess that makes some sense. You know, he was uh Arnold Schwarzenegger was he was the he was the good Terminator in that movie. One of them he was the bad one of the terminated. He was the bad in the beginning, and then he becomes a good right. It kind of goes back and forth. Well, the guy that the I think was Terminator 2, the guy that turned into Liquid, which I also believe would try to accomplish now. But like, man, I mean, we're afraid of robots now. Like, I'm not afraid of robots, but I mean I'm afraid of where it's going or could go. Why? Listen, Elon Musk is the one that originally started OpenAI, right? Him and his buddy, Sam, or whoever it was, started open AI. And he let it go. Elon was like, all right, whatever. He started doing his own thing, SpaceX, Tesla, all the other stuff, and said that shit's dangerous. And now that it's taking off, Microsoft invested a bunch of money of kind of doing their own thing, right? With their guy over there. He's trying to do something to kind of overwatch what's going on with the AI industry. Because I mean, it really is. You know, when you think about how far advanced it can get, it's fucking scary, man. Okay. But my wife's listening to music the other day. She's like, I didn't know that Ed Sheeran and uh Bruno Mars did a song together. I'm like, it's fucking AI. She's like, really? I'm like, that's not a real song. But here's the thing humans created the AI. Right? Like, so why can't the humans just say, okay, aren't we just robots? I mean, our brains are like everything in us is electrical synapses that are blasting. I mean, what's any different? I don't know what we are. I really don't. Are we just some other matrix, whatever? All I know is this we are the AI. Remember when I uh what was it? A couple months ago, I said if I ran for president, my slogan would be everyone dies. Kill them all. And and people actually emailed in and said, Yo, that's a great slogan. People actually emailed in and said, like, I would vote for you. Like, that's how crazy we are, right? Yeah. But I I like to think, like, if I was God, I'm I would be fastballing asteroids at this planet to get rid of us, man. If I was in control of every, I'm just I I what I do is I put all the dogs in the air. So now I gotta go and give you lessons on how the back in the Old Testament he was a mean God. He was very jealous. He watched us grow and then we we committed too much sin, lived too long. That's you obviously know nothing about religion, which is okay. I know you're, you know, it is. Oh, so if you were God, what would you do first? And that's why you go look at the Bible. The Old Testament and the New Testament is two totally different gods. God, great. Forget the Bible, right? If you were God, what is the first thing you would do? Uh, try to help man become better. Ah, you're a baby. Man, try to. Are you out of your mind? Make the world, make the world a more peaceful place. I want to do a podcast with a meaner person. I'd be rocketing asteroids at this planet. And then you got nothing to do. All right, you ruined the planet. What's next? Create another one. You've got to exactly you gotta go do it all over again. Okay, but I'm gonna. So how do you know he didn't already set up those dominoes, kill them all, destroy them all, and it was like, you know what? Maybe I should let this particular ant for live. Just to see if they kill each other. Just for his amusement. It is amusing. If you're up there looking down, you're like, look what this fucking psycho's doing. Or you're just up there like, what are the jets? The jets make you laugh. Yo, Malik Willis turning down 22 million. Uh he took 22 million from the Dolphins and turned down 30 million from the Jets, called it suicide. Career suicide. Oh, 100% right. Has it gotten his payday yet? 100% right. You're turning down $8 million a year. Yeah. Yes. Come on, man. Yes. Suicide. Go into the Jets. Suicide. Miami's any better? It's not suicide. Well, two of them might think otherwise. But it's not, it's not suicide. No. And first of all, you don't have to deal with the crazy state taxes in New York and New Jersey. Right? So you get it's still not going to make up $8 million a year. Let me tell you something. You know how I just said if I was God at rocket fastball asteroids at this plan, something right now. Here. Let me tell you something right now. If I was the father of a quarterback in the NFL, never would that man play for the Jets or the Browns. Never. Has to depend on his uh The kid from Oregon knew it. He knew it. He was like, the Jets are gonna draft me, I'll go back to school, I'll take my NIL. He knew it. It really has to come down to also uh the talent level of what we're who we're talking about. No! If my kid is Malik Willis, go get your money. He got his money. He got 22. All right. You go off for 30. Nah nah, nah. I would never go to the Jets. $8 million, man. That's what you're talking about. 40% more. Not worth it to me. Sorry. I'd rather get my bullshit by a hammer. It worked out fine for Sam Donald. No, it didn't. They tried to kill him. He had to resuscitate his career nine times. I know. And then it finally worked out in the end. But it's a good start. Look at Geno Smith. Good old Geno, baby. Well, that's what I was going with. I I did a video earlier in the week and I said, you know, only the Jets, because Geno Smith was replaced by Sam Donald in Seattle, and Sam Donald replaced Geno Smith at the Jets. So now you hire the guy to replace the guy who replaced you twice. That's so Jets, it's wonderful. I'd love to know what the Madden rating was. Oh yeah, the Jets probably would be that shit. You know, I feel bad. And um, he's gonna get mad at me for doing this. I'm not gonna mention his name, but my uncle, one of the greatest sports losers of all time. I and I love you, Unk. I do, and you know I do. Um but he knows who he is, and uh I mean he's a Jets fan. He always thinks they're gonna win. He's a mess. There's no way if he's a Jets fan, he's gotta be realistic. He's delusional. No, absolutely delusional. One of those guys like, this is our year. Every year. Every year. So like the Aaron Rodgers year must have been like he was going to the Super Bowl. Every year. Yeah, every year. Um he's a Mets fan. Oh, God. He's a Rangers fan. Yeah. He never wins. He believes we landed on the moon as he texted me the other night. I said, if you believe such nonsense, and he texts me immediately. What are you talking about? I watched it on TV. Oh, okay. Yeah, you watched it on TV. You saw him on the rotary phone talking to the moon? Hi. Yeah, that was so real. But my uncle, man, he's uh I say he's He's cursed with his sports teams. I say he's cursed. I say he the Jets will win when he dies. Like I literally say that. That's what I tell my brother. Year after he passes away, no doubt dolphins get a I don't think your brother's cursed. My uncle's cursed when it comes to sports teams. He just picks shit teams. Yeah, Jets, Mets, Rangers. You know, there's no reason. You could switch. I tell my brother this all the time. Yeah. You don't have to keep loving the team just because you liked them when you were nine years old. Agreed. You know, you grow up at some point. You're like, wow, my ownership sucks. Let's go. They don't love me back. I'm gonna go and watch it. I love watching like my brother loves watching the Bucks, the Packers. Why not switch? Why are you still a fucking Dolphins fan, you moron? Let's go with that. Where are you guys with your loyalties to your teams? Right? Like, you're a Steelers fan. I am. I I did, I'll be completely transparent or honest. I grew up a Mets fan. When I got to the age of reason, I realized this is bullshit. I'm going over to the Yankees. Why not? And I made the switch, and boy, I took some criticism for that. I did that. I grew up a Rangers fan. Because my father was a Rangers fan. So you didn't have a spectrum. Back in my day when we had only TV, uh my brother, who was an Islanders fan, of course, he always wants to be opposite of everything. So my father wouldn't let us watch Islanders because the Rangers were on. So you had to go watch the Islanders somewhere else, which wasn't on in any other room. Anyway, I grew up and then I realized about 15 years ago, wow, Long Island only has one professional sports team. That's the Islanders. Oh my goodness gracious. That's why you start rooting for that failure of a franchise? About four years ago. And look at what's going on, baby. Oh, what is that? I didn't say we're winning a cup, but man, they have gotten better. I'm telling you, this is my matrix. Any team that I decide to fall in love with will become great. The Steelers have sucked for 15 years. What are you talking about? During my lifetime, I've seen them in more Super Bowls than any other team other than the Patriots. What year were you born? 1975. 1975. So Oh, yeah. Go ahead. Do the math. You were two years old when you were dribbling in your life. I was like Ben Lockesberger. I got to win Super Bowls. I got to go to Super Bowls. I got please. Who'd you the Jets? The Jets? You were. No, no. What? I was never a Jets fan. I never I worked for them. Exactly. You're not a fan of the team that you fucking work for? No. You were a scout. No, and I'll tell you why I wasn't. Because they were so terribly run. You loved people. You did love Herman Edwards. Herman Edwards. Great guy. Yeah. Great guy. Fantastic coach. Got a bad gig in New York. You think? Like everyone else. I'll tell you this about the Jets, a little off topic. There is only one coach. Al Grow falls into this. But there is only one coach in their history that has coached more than one season. Because Al Groh only coached one season and had a nine and seven record. There's only one coach who has coached multiple seasons for the New York Jets that has a winning record with that team. And he was a great coach. This is Bill Parcellus. That's the only coach who has coached multiple seasons with the New York Jets. So God himself couldn't win there. You can't win at the Jets. It is career suicide. What was Rex Ryan's record? Not 500. He was under it. He did go to two AFC. Two AFC championship games with Mark fucking Sanchez. So another quarterback they tried to kill. He was never good. I never thought he was going to be. He was a serviceable and a half. Serviceable, yes. I'll give you that. Serviceable. Great word. Was not a great quarterback. Who is great? There's like six of them that are great. Then you need serviceable. You know? Like, is Sam Donald a great quarterback? They just won a Super Bowl. Great. No, but Dreck May, a great quarterback. So what would be between serviceable and great? Really good. Sam Donald's really good. Right. Up until yes, up until recently, he was not considered that. You know? He was put in a great situation, like you said a couple minutes ago. But I mean, quarterbacks that you trust with your life on the line? No. How many of those guys exist? Six? You know? It's tough. These days, the quarterback pickings in the NFL has gotten gone to shit. We've talked about this. I mean, you go back 10, 15 years ago, quarterback playing in the NFL was the highest it has ever freaking been ever. I mean, we're talking about, you know, Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, uh, Rothesberger, Brady. I mean, it was everywhere. You had great quarterbacks. Uh Drew Brees, even Phillip Rivers, Aaron Rodgers. I mean, it was it was loaded. Yep. Now, it's it's ugly out there, man. Quarterback play is way down since they switched systems to running quarterbacks and less pocket passing. I just feel like the breed is changing. You know why that is? And and it's getting worse. You know why that is? And I'm gonna say it, it's gonna piss people off. Because they're not coaching them. No, high school coaches are full of shit. Right? That's what it is. You high school coaches out there, 90% of you are full of shit. You're bad at your job, right? There's some very good high school coaches out there, but uh no. So I actually coached on a college level, right? Right. I get these quarterbacks from high school, they never did drills, they were never taught read progression. I go, what were your high school coaches doing? Jerking off the pawn hub? Like, what the hell were they doing? Cover six, cover four, cover two, they teaching you everything. One single high. What is that? Like your alignment for corners and linebackers. Like, they didn't teach you this shit. Never mind, do pocket drills. Like that, you high school coaches out there, you watch shit on TV, you think you're good at it, you make your 5,200 a year, and you move on. It's like all they do sometimes, everything is out of the shotgun. So everything is a good thing. So they're taught, they're taught poorly. Look, oh, look at the story with um, who was it? Derrick Henry. Yes, great story. Right. When he couldn't, he didn't know blitz pickup. And they went over there and he goes, blocking. I never did any of this. They in high school they told me that they gave me the ball and tell me to run. Oh, great. Wait, you want me to block? Oh shit. Hey, Secretariat, go take this ball and run. Score touchdowns. I look like a genius. No, you did nothing. Unreal. You did nothing. And and I I feel that about high school coaches. Now, there are some very, very good high school coaches out there, but full of shit. Terrible. Gotta go back to the fundamentals. Gotta start teaching pocket passing again. You don't teach it. It's not about bootlegging. It's not about athleticism. They rely on athleticism. They they let the quarterback or even other players. I mean, you just said Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold is not, I would not consider him a running quarterback. He's a pocket passer. He can run, but he's he's a pocket passer. Sure. That's what wins. Tom Brady couldn't run to save his fucking life. Pocket passer. Pocket passer. Cayan Rogers, pocket passer. Eli Manning. Payton Manning, Eli Manny. Rogers could run. He could run back in the early part of his career, yes. But more stayed in the pocket, ran if he had to. Yeah. So, I mean, I don't understand. Why are we changing the position? It's from the bottom level up. They're not being developed. Then they get to college, they got the RPO, they're not being developed in terms of reads. I think they're trying to take shortcuts. No, I just think they don't know. I really, I really think high school coaches have started this nonsense. College coaches are now coaching for their lives and their livelihood, obviously, with money and everything. Um, I don't think it's about development anymore. And I'll take it a step further. It is no longer, and this is very sad, because only 245 kids that played college football last year are going to play in the NFL. True. And maybe, maybe 25 of those kids are going to get a second contract. Maybe. Okay. Really? There's a number that low? It's not that, it's not that high. 25? Oh, second contract, which is uh which would be a good contract. After five years. Yeah, they're not going to get a second contract. They all you all see that in the NFL. Gotta get to your second contract. We're not developing them, and I've said this before, as people. We're not getting them their education, teaching them. So when they're done with their school, when they're done with their college and their talent is no longer there, they can go out and succeed in the real world. These coaches don't give a fuck. These coaches care about their next contract. That was like I heard Charles Barkley on uh on my social media. He had a little clip, you know, a little short or whatever, and he was talking about how when he first got paid, came into the into the league. He was like, Gotta take care of mom, gotta take care of my brothers, my sisters. And uh I think I don't want to mention a player. Actually, it was uh uh uh Grant Hill's mom. He said, Grant Hill's mom gave me a piece of advice, and because he he was out to dinner with Grant Hill, his mom, and uh she she went to go pay her part of the check or the check, and he's like, What are you doing? Your son just got a hundred million dollars. He's like, son, let me tell you something right now. You don't owe your family anything, you don't owe your friends nothing. And if you do give them money, the moment you say no, they're gonna hate you anyway. So no matter what, they're gonna hate you. Just set it in stone early. If you want to give them a gift or something, no problem. But you don't need to buy their homes. You're gonna buy them a home and a car, and the one month they can't make that payment on the mortgage, they're gonna call you. And when you say no, they're gonna hate your guts, even though they're living in your house. Yeah. It's a joke. Yeah. So it's amazing the percentage of athletes that go broke. Well, they're not taught money for the rest of your life. They're not taught, and unfortunately, the lot of them are taken advantage of. Right, right. They're taken advantage of, and they just don't know any better. And they and they're inherently good, so they inherently want to. They want to do right by everybody, and that's that's not necessarily doing right by themselves. Like me, I'll just tell everyone to go fuck themselves. Such a dick. And I'm not cheap. I am not a cheap person. You're not. But uh just get the hell out of you, simple-minded bastard. Yo, go get your own job. Um, conference tournaments. You actually said that the other day. My brother asked me, if you want a billion dollars, no, no, he didn't he didn't say that. You know, let's let's get the story straight. If I if I was lucky enough to win money, if I won the lotto, I would help out everyone, right? If I worked my ass off, grinded, went through failure, put my own money on the line, and then made it and have the little, oh, can you help me? No, get the fuck out of here. Go grind and get your do your own. Didn't give him a job. I'd give him a job where he had the potential to earn, but I'm not just giving handouts. What the hell would I look like? US government? A billionaire? Right? No, no, bro, it's not a billionaire. It's like you've worked your whole. So if you grinded your whole life, you work your ass off. My kids. And and all of a sudden your company is you're worth a billion dollars. Okay. You're not gonna just take care of everyone in your family? Well, again, am I actually work well? My family, my wife, my kids, I'm talking about everybody. Everybody, brothers, sisters. If my brother was an asshole, no, if he was lazy, get the hell out of here. No, at least buy him a house, right? Maybe. Maybe. Uh, conference tournaments tonight, some really good games. We'll get to your free pick in just a moment. Again, uh, schedule and conflict uh today. We hope to have a professional fighter on next week, which will be a great uh interview. I know you got Landrum Roberts. You're trying to set up two from Alabama. Um, he's doing a great job there on jocks. Uh Miami, Virginia tonight, that's gonna be a great game. Kansas Houston tonight, that's gonna be a great game. Clemson Duke loses, I think, a little bit of its luster with the injuries to the Duke players. But we're getting some really good matchups. We are. We're getting some really good matchups, and um, I'm really excited to see the Kansas Houston game. I want to see Kansas, you know, full throttle, see what they do. Um, so there's some good things going on with college basketball. To me, I don't know where you are with this. To me, it march is the best time of the year. Oh my god. You agree? By a long shot. I mean, not only the most profitable, but the most exciting. You got so much going on at the same time between the conference championships, the big dance, the NHL. Um, I mean, it's just NBA. I mean, it's it we just had the Olympics a couple weeks ago. There's just so much excitement. And we truly make our clients the most money from January through mid-April for the full year. When we do our radio show, which is on every Saturday for 40 weeks throughout the year, whether it's September, whether it's May, we always say the same thing because it's the truth. Yep. We always make our clients the most amount of money in in the first three months of the year with basketball basically every single day. Yep. It's the easiest thing to do. Um, I believe I've said this before on this podcast. I believe college basketball is the easiest sport to wager on and win money. Um, you're always indoors, it's a round ball. You only have 13 people on the court, five players on each side, three referees, even though those referees suck too. Um, football man, weather could come into play, coaching decisions come into play. 22 players on the game. 22 players plus God knows how many officials who can't friggin' read or write or do anything right. Can't see. Can't see, they're all blind, you know. Um they got muscles, though. Yeah, man. It's just you know, it's a lot harder to control a football game in terms of the point spread than I believe it is a college basketball game in terms of you know where that number is. So I've said that forever in my life. Uh and everyone loves to bet on football, everyone loves to watch football. No doubt. Right? But you I always say the NHL is the fourth most popular sport in this country. Football, basketball, baseball. I read something the other day. There was a huge bump in liquidity uh in hockey because of the Olympics, right? So um and now it's gotten really exciting. So it's not like they jumped in and got bad hockey. It's been great hockey. And because of the scrunch schedule, there's so much going on all at the same time. You had the trade deadline last week, so much happening in the NHL. We're taking advantage of it. The scheduling. You gave out a free pick last week that won. I did. Um, I can't and I did lose my free pick last week. God damn. Did you? Yeah, Purdue. I didn't even know. Yeah, bad pick there, bad pick. But uh, your free pick one, you got one tonight? I do. Um, I if I had the time, which I didn't have the time to look at tomorrow's schedule, it would have given you guys more time. But um, I did my interview, as you know, uh on WJOX today, on WWL, then in New Orleans as well. Uh give a free pick on there. So there's only two games on the board in the NHL tonight. The Blues are taking on the I, excuse me, the Blues are playing Edmonton and the Islanders are playing the Kings. Oh, here we go. I'm not using that game. Not using the Islanders Kings game. No, I'm not. Even though I have an opinion on it, which we'll keep off the air, uh, I'm gonna go to uh I've I've gone over the posted total in every Edmonton game since the break. They have gone over in every game since the break. Jari's not in the net tonight, Ingram is, Bennington's also gonna be on the bench, and yet I'm telling you it's gonna be defense in this game. It's the first game I'm gonna use the under six and a half. Under, don't blunder, go under six and a half. Okay. About 20 years ago. He used to scream at, don't blunder, go under. So we got under Edmonton. Edmonton uh taking on against St. Louis, six and a half goals in St. Louis, and that's gonna go under. It's gonna be a slow game. Uh, just not normal Edmonton hockey. All right, no interview today. Um, we've had a recent stretch. We've had some great interviews. Uh come on, just again, scheduling didn't uh match up today for us, especially with the tournament. He's traveling next week, so we got a bunch of things. Oh, to Vegas, baby! We have uh going on. Um be sure to check out girls that gamble.live. Uh, they got a great deal through March Madness. Also, check out takingvegas.com. Again, Celsius.com. Thank you so much. Thank you. It's good stuff, man. Arctic Vibe is my favorite flavor. Go check that out. Everyone, hope you enjoy listening to the Bet Big Talk Loud Podcast. Want to close this out? Let's go out there, be safe, have fun, and let's make some money.