Guest / College Football Analyst · 1-4 on settled picks
“[58:28] do, and I do feel bad for everyone who's getting this information now, but Jalen Murrow for Heisman [58:33] is the correct pick. I got it at 14-1 a couple of weeks ago”
Colorado's Travis Hunter won the 2024 Heisman Trophy on Dec 14, 2024; Jalen Milroe did not win (NCAA.com).
“[1:00:09] By the way, you want a long shot for the college football playoff? [1:00:12] Take Iowa.”
The 12-team 2024 College Football Playoff field was Oregon, Georgia, Boise State, Arizona State, Texas, Penn State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Tennessee, Indiana, SMU, and Clemson; Iowa was not selected (Wikipedia, citing CFP selection committee).
“So what are some of the plays that you have been eyeing or might have already bet heading into next week's draft? Yeah, Kate, I'm ready for draft season. I love like the buildup to draft season, but we are now at that territory where the overanalyzing is getting absurd. It feels like we're a week away from somebody judging a quarterback for wearing white before Easter. And that is a knock on their decision making, right? Like it's all over the place on what they're coming up with. I played Jayden Daniels going number two overall long ago. About as soon as that hit the market, I had that play because I was such a huge fan of watching him at LSU. And this was even before the commanders got their new coaching regime. I just had this feel, and working in the market helps that a little bit, that they were going to go with a young, exciting quarterback. So I've had Jane Daniels going at number two for quite some time. One thing that I would look at, though, is who goes number three or potentially who is drafting at number three.”
The Washington Commanders selected Jayden Daniels with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft (NFL.com). (Jayden Daniels: pick 2)
“why don't you give us one of those? So I went a little crazy this weekend. I should know, but I went a little crazy this weekend with some futures bets in the NBA. I like to think of myself as a futures bet connoisseur. So imagine how dumb I felt. This one was placed, you know, about two weeks ago. Imagine how dumb I felt when I put Milwaukee in a plus 800, and then six hours later, Giannis goes down with an injury that looked very, very similar to what Kevin Durant went down with in the final days of his days in Golden State. I already felt dumb enough for betting on a Doc Rivers coach team to win the finals. And then the reason that I bet on that team being Giannis going down made me feel like an absolute looney tune but I'll tell you what guys I don't know if I'm getting duped but I'm really all over the Dallas Mavericks and”
Boston beat Dallas in five games to win the 2024 NBA Finals; Milwaukee did not win the championship (ESPN). (2024 NBA champion: Boston Celtics (beat Mavericks 4-1))
“I bet on that team being Giannis going down made me feel like an absolute looney tune but I'll tell you what guys I don't know if I'm getting duped but I'm really all over the Dallas Mavericks and I got him at 24 to 1 with the way that Luke is playing and the way that Kyrie is playing now Kyrie I think this year is a really good example of when you put all the the other stuff aside the off the court stuff and whatever you feel about him personally when you put all that to the side and it's just about the ball, that dude's a hooper at heart. He's an absolute hooper and you talk about with him and Luka, it's two of the more clutch individuals that you're going to have in the postseason and I don't know how teams are going to be able to stop them, right? We've seen what Kyrie can do when he has another guy that's on his level playing with them. That run in Cleveland, specifically when they came back from 3-1, everybody focuses on LeBron as they should. I mean, he was the captain of that team. He was the leader, but Kyrie was balling for those final games as well. So getting them at 24-1, I feel really, really good about that. Now they're going up against the Clippers, which is going to be one of the more exciting series, I think,”
Boston beat Dallas in five games to win the 2024 NBA Finals; Dallas did not win the championship (ESPN). (2024 NBA champion: Boston Celtics (beat Mavericks 4-1))