[00:00:04] Speaker A: What's up, everybody? This is Rome. Welcome back to sources from the Sofa Sports podcast.
We had to come back to talk about. A lot of things have been going down. We're about to start the NHL finals tonight. We got the NBA finals starting tomorrow. Hopefully the podcast goes up by then. We had some F1 stuff go down. Crazy race. Some new regulations going into effect this weekend before Monaco. I'm not sure if we'll get a chance to talk about it today.
Probably later in the week before the Monaco race. And plus the NFL still showing that they just dominate the airwaves no matter what time of the year it is. Offseason, regular season, preseason, postseason, it is always going down and they just shook everything up, thankfully. I think last year we had a big trade and it happened in the middle of the finals. It kind of like people were kind of like a little rattled off of it. I think that was the Parsons trade. I can't really remember. But we do have a special guest with us making another appearance, Sniper Wes coming out of Las Vegas. You can find them on all the socials at the sniper picks on TikTok x Instagram. I don't know what else you're on. You can find his clips on YouTube. I've been a guest on his pod as well. He's a couple pods Wes. If you want to plug that in real, real quick, then we'll kind of talk about everything else.
[00:01:26] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean my main stuff right now you can find
[email protected] doing a lot of content for them. Currently I have my own channel as well. But yeah, if you just search Sniper west on YouTube or Twitter, wherever you find all your information, I'll definitely be popping up all over your algo.
[00:01:42] Speaker A: Nice. Real quick, man. Before we get into it, we were kind of like on a little hiatus this podcast and then me and you jumped on to do a podcast and I kind of gave the guys a heads up, but not enough heads up before everything went live. So they were like, what did we get bumped down to the B team?
So they're like a little jealous that you got on before they did. We had a couple pods since then, but welcome back, man. Thank you for jumping on short notice. But first let's start off with the NFL because a couple big trades happened yesterday.
Miles Garrett being traded to the Los Angeles Ramsay. Jared Verse, a really phenomenal, phenomenal player goes to the Cleveland Browns in return as well as a first round pick, I believe next year. Then there's a second round pick and then A fifth round pick. I think there's, it's kind of separated by a few years. I think it's not all at once. Next year, correct?
[00:02:39] Speaker B: Yeah, I think, I think the Browns got Jared Verse and they got a fifth round pick next year and in 2028 they got a first rounder.
[00:02:48] Speaker A: Okay, great.
I kind of shook everything up yesterday morning.
As you guys know, Miles Garrett requested a trade last off season when things weren't going right. Browns have been a really talented team for the past decade. They just can't put anything together.
They, they shipped what's his name, Mayfield away after he finally brought them back to the playoffs. They've been hit or miss going through another round of quarterbacks this past year. They were God awful ugly but they definitely had some upset wins against the packers and were pretty impressive. Still on the defensive front, Myles Garrett had a monster season.
Who knows, maybe some people think that he should have maybe won back to back defensive player of the year awards, but he definitely deserved it and won it last year. And now he goes to a loaded Rams team who I thought were probably the best team in the football last year. They just got beat by a team that was clicking all cylinders with the Seahawks in the playoffs. But super bowl is in Los Angeles this upcoming year they get Myles Garrett. So I don't know how much of an upgrade, but it's definitely upgrade. Arguably one of the best players in football on either side of the field. Is that right outside the football?
So I'm not a Rams guy, I'm a Steelers guy. So I'm kind of happy for the Steelers that they don't face him next year. Joe Burrow's probably happy he doesn't have to face him. Everyone in that division, the AFC north is probably happy that Myles Garrett's gone, but now we have a super loaded NFC West.
Niners, my other team, I grew up a Niners fan. They can't be happy with this trade. And Arizona, who knows what's going down there. Seattle though looks like it's going to be a two headed monster here. We got Seattle and now even a more loaded Rams team that's going to go after the super bowl while it's in la.
Thoughts when you first heard about it, Wes?
[00:04:46] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, I wasn't surprised obviously. You know, arguably the Browns should have got rid of Garrett last year when he asked because they weren't really going anywhere anyway.
[00:04:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:04:54] Speaker B: But yeah, looking at the lines for the super bowl now, so the Rams before the trade went down, I think they were like Them, the Bills, the Seahawks and the Ravens were all around plus a thousand or ten to one, if you will. And now the Rams are plus 550. So the Rams went from ten to one basically to five to one to win the entire Super Bowl. And that's, that's pretty crazy because the next closest team after the Rams is the bills at 10 to 1.
So that's, you know, quite a split there. And then you have the Seahawks 11 1, Ravens 11 1, Patriots 16 1, Chargers 161 1.
So. And it's probably justifiably so. It's funny, man, because the Rams, they just keep doubling down on their future without the draft picks. In fact, the only draft pick they've had in the first round has in like the last eight years has been Ty Simpson.
They haven't had any first round draft. They had, they what, what they do, they go out, they buy talent like staffer, you know, the Stafford and golf trade.
They bring in guys like Devonte Adams and then they make something of their second and third and fourth round draft picks. They develop very, very well.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: Well, they've been hitting those.
[00:06:04] Speaker B: Yes, yes, a lot of those, you know, second, third, fourth round draft picks they've been hitting on.
But the Rams, their defense last year was a problem. I mean, if you remember in the playoffs, they just, they could not, not give up 30 points a game. And I mean, Stafford can only do so much. I mean, yeah, it's, it doesn't matter if he puts up 35, if they put up 38. You know what I mean?
[00:06:25] Speaker A: So crazy. Yeah.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: Yeah. So I, yeah, the Rams, you know, justifiably probably the, the favorite to win the Super Bowl. I'm talking about Cleveland.
So you know, desean Watson, from what I hear from the podcast I listen to, he is going to get every single opportunity to win this job, you know, over Shador. They're just paying him too much money. They have to, I mean, they can cut them and not have it, have it go toward their cap or whatever, but that's just a lot of money just to pay someone to go away. You know what I mean?
So we'll see what happens there with their situation as far as the quarterback situation. But take a look. I'm trying to find the regular. Oh, here we go. So regular season win. So the Cleveland Browns, they are at. Well, there's a couple. If you look at the minus 110 odds. Yeah, the Browns are at five and a half wins.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: Five and a half.
[00:07:15] Speaker B: That's at a 17 game schedule. And so you Know, they're predicted to go something like 5 and 12, if you will, or 6 and 11, which is probably right. Yeah, I had a buddy. I had a buddy, a short buddy of mine who, when he told me last year, he's like, there's no way the Browns are going to win five games. And I think they did. They won six if I remember. It's just the NFL, man. Like, I can't take a team to win under four and a half games, no matter how crappy they are. I can't do it. It's just fluky stuff happens, you know, other the quarterbacks, they play like Burrow. Burrow gets hurt every single year. So they get to play a backup quarterback in Cincinnati twice, you know.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:57] Speaker B: Aaron Rodgers, he's on his last leg. Was the guy like 45 years old almost. You're with your Steelers. He's there with McCarthy. One more year. We'll see what happens.
And then, you know, I do think the Ravens will be good with their new head coach. The guy that came over from the Chargers.
Yeah, no, Monk is actually on the Browns.
[00:08:13] Speaker A: I'm sorry. Yeah, you're right. My bad.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. Mocking. Went from Baltimore to Cleveland, so he's familiar with that division. Actually, the guy. Yeah, the guy that went to the Ravens. I forget his name, but he's from the Char. I think he was the Chargers defensive coordinator. Yeah, that guy's probably a good head coach.
So, yeah, AFC north should be interesting. Joe Burrow still talking to smack.
I don't know if you been following him in the media or here, but he says that they're going back to the super bowl this year. By the way, you mentioned the super bowl is in la, and last time in LA was the Rams versus the Bengals.
[00:08:45] Speaker A: I thought the Bengals should have won that one.
[00:08:47] Speaker B: Yeah, well, they should have. If Aaron Donald doesn't make that sack, Jamar Chase is running wide open down the sideline. They probably score a touchdown. So who knows, you know, who knows what happens if, you know, if that is a touchdown. Yeah. The Rams very well could have lost that game. That was coincidentally the largest wager I ever put on any sporting event. I think I put like 10 grand or something on the Rams and the money line.
[00:09:10] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: And.
And yeah, by the, you know, by the.
It actually worked out for me. It made up for the. The time that I lost with the Falcons plus three and a half, which I probably put five ran on against the Patriots in the 28 to three game. And I even. I even still had a shot to Win that bet if New England just wins by a field goal in overtime. Because they have plus three and a half of the Falcons and no, what they do, they get all. They go down and score.
[00:09:36] Speaker A: I actually hate watching highlights from that Super Bowl. It just irritates me. Like, I watched it, I think, like, a couple years ago, and I still don't understand how they gave up that lead. Like, it just, it just doesn't make any sense.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: There's. There was a couple plays, a couple fourth downs. If you remember the Edelman, he caught that ball.
[00:09:53] Speaker A: Yeah.
Disgusting.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: That just hits the ground. The game's over, essentially.
And then the sack, obviously, of, you know, Matt Ryan. If Matt Ryan sees that stack coming, I think he had a receiver open on. Right. If they make that first down, the game's over. Just this game of inches, you know.
[00:10:09] Speaker A: Really interesting with the Browns, though, they get Jared Verse.
I'm not sure how much he was a part of the trade or, like, accepting the trade or willing to be a part of it. All these things circling around the socials. I don't know what's true and what's not anymore, especially with AI, but there was, like, some funny memes going around how he was calling Max Crosby, seeing how he got the Ravens to resend the trade. You know, hey, how'd you get out of this? And, you know, all this stuff, really funny. But this guy's a bonafide star. It's kind of like a gamble to give away some guy like that. But without Verse, this does not happen. And that's probably why there's not like another first and like, higher draft picks included, because kind of just for such a bonafide player like Verse, and before his next big contract, I think he's up.
He might be able to resign, I think, after this season.
So Browns are saving some money, at least for one year. They're not going to be paying Miles Garrett money, at least on this next contract, too. But he's gonna be making some pretty big bank, right?
[00:11:08] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I think they needed to clear the book a little bit.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: And figure just get some draft picks back and, you know, Jeremy's a good player, man. He's not Miles Garrett, but he's a good player. He'll be a contributor. I feel bad, though. Yeah. Leaving, you know, the Rams now the favorite to win the super bowl, and going back, we won that.
[00:11:24] Speaker A: That's got to hurt a little bit. You mentioned the quarterback situation.
I'm a big Saunders guy. I, I, I like him, but you're Right. Though.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: The.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: Sean Watson, they are paying a lot of money, but it seems like they're not really sold on Saunders yet either. Sanders.
So it's a weird situation, but this guy was. I. I was a big desean guy when he first came out and he just lit up the NFL. And that was just like what, four or five years ago. And it's been bad since then.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: But I mean, obviously, you know, the off the field stuff and then he had some injuries and he's been dealing with that and I don't know, I think he's better than Shador. We'll see what happens. We'll see in training camp. But they pay him too much money for him not to at least compete for the job.
[00:12:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Some other news in the NFL.
OBJ going back to New York.
That was kind of a surprise.
Malik Neighbors. I guess the rehab is not going well.
[00:12:24] Speaker B: Right.
[00:12:25] Speaker A: Which is. That's not good, man. Hopefully that's like a career thing that's going to start to develop.
But what was the other big thing that happened Yesterday? Oh, yeah.
A.J. brown to the Pats reuniting with this man Rabel in New England.
We.
This has been like the most talked about trade for about like a year and a half already.
You know, all the bickering, all the drama, you know, A.J. brown not getting enough touches. And even when he did, they lost those games last year. Him. And the fallout between him and his quarterback, they. They've been buddies for a long time, but I guess Brown got married and his boy Hertz was not there.
Philly has picked up a few wide receivers, some in the draft and also via trade, one of the guys from the Packers. So it's been coming along. What they got what, like a fifth round pick? A third and a fifth round pick. That's about it.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
Yeah. You know this. I think everybody keeps focusing on the Patriots here, but you're forgetting about the Eagles. I mean, they're losing a stud obviously with AJ Brown, but you know, Devonta Smith, good wide receiver, but he was really, really good because you had to focus on AJ on the other side of the field. Now teams are going to kind of key in on him. You have Hollywood Brown there.
[00:13:44] Speaker A: They just signed him.
[00:13:45] Speaker B: Yeah, Maai Lemon is also there, but I mean, none of Those dudes are A.J. brown, so I think Philly might struggle a little bit to. To pass the ball. Jalen Hurts always has his struggles in the regular season. You know? Know as well, man. Andy Dalton is the backup quarterback to Jalen Hurts. That guy's still playing football. I can't believe it.
But yeah, I think Philly's gonna, you know, they always have a fantastic defense and we'll see that division's always interesting. We'll see how Dallas is. And you mentioned the Giants too. I think Harbaugh is going to be a good coach there.
Jackson Dart, I don't know. The jury's still out for me on him. The problem with Jackson Dart is the guy doesn't run out of bounds. He takes on too much contact, you know, got to get hurt, like if you keep playing, got to get hurt. It's just not smart football. The guy thinks he's invincible and you're not in the NFL so.
And then to round it out, you know, the Commanders, I'm interested to see, you know, Jaden Daniels, how he plays this year. Obviously he got hurt last year. I have some friends in the industry and you know, they, they don't think he's going to be that good. They think it was kind of a one year wonder and then he got hurt last year. I don't know, man. I think he kind of bounces back. I think the Commanders can be good as well. I don't think they have Devo Samuel anymore. I think they released him.
[00:14:56] Speaker A: They did, yeah. I, I, I like the Commander's quarterback. I think he has a bounce back year. When he played last year he was solid. He even brought them back and in the mix in a few games.
I think they rebound back into the playoffs.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I remember when they played the Lions, you know, two years ago with Jayden Daniels and they bounced the Lions and that was in Detroit too.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: Game wasn't cost me that game cost me.
[00:15:21] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly.
So yeah, that division is always very interesting. And then, you know, with your Niners too, going back to the NFC west, the Niners have to travel the most out of any team this season by far. Doesn't help that they're going to Australia for week one. Right. They start in Australia against the Rams.
[00:15:41] Speaker A: Dude, the international schedule is complete now. It's just, it's just ridiculous.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: Yeah, well, it's 13 games this year and the owners voted and they're having more next year. It's going to go to like 14, 15. By the way, there will be an 18 game schedule. It's not like it's happening. Yeah, it's happening probably by, I want to say by 2028 it's going to be 18 games, two preseason games, probably two bye weeks.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:11] Speaker B: Every team will be required to play out of the country, once that's kind of how it's going to go down, which actually is going to extend.
They're either gonna have to start the season earlier or they're gonna have to have it go later, you know, because you're adding another week, obviously.
[00:16:24] Speaker A: Well, I think right now they got the, whoever they awarded the, the like, like the next Super Bowl. What is it,
[00:16:35] Speaker B: la, then Atlanta.
[00:16:37] Speaker A: Who's after Atlanta? They just awarded it Louisiana.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: Nashville.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: Nashville. Okay, it's Nashville. They left that blank. And, but like a tentative date is set for mid February around Valentine's Day.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: And it kind of, it kind of, it hurts their, I don't want to say their economy, but it kind of hurts their whole situation because they have to have hotel rooms, but they have to start preparing like the Super Bowls. These cities start preparing two weeks, two years in advance for the super bowl for just the infrastructure, plane travel, you know, people coming in from all over the world, hotel accommodations. And it's. Yeah, they're like, yo, can we get a date for the Super Bowl? This we really kind of need to know.
[00:17:18] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not. I, I think this is the last 17 game schedule.
28, 27, 28. I think that that's when the 18 kicks in.
[00:17:29] Speaker B: So, yeah, so the season kicks off Wednesday night with the Patriots at the Seahawks.
Replay of the super bowl, which I don't like. Yeah, Thursday night is that Rams Niners game in Australia, which is another thing I have beef with, because a home team, I don't know who the home team in that game is, but they're losing a home game and it's a division game, you know what I mean? Like, I understand playing the games in Europe and stuff and you lose a home game or home field advantage or whatever, but it shouldn't be against divisional opponents, in my opinion.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: I would like them to make it, if they're gonna do an 18 game schedule to make it. So like everyone has the same amount of home games because it's odd right now. Some people have eight, some people have nine, and then. But so you still get your eight or whatever it's gonna be. And then everyone has like two neutral field games or one neutral field game a season. So it's more of an equal playing field.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I think if they require every team to play an international game of the 18 you play. Well, first of all, it'll be a 19. Well, actually, no, it'll be a 20 week season if they're going to do two buys. Right?
[00:18:42] Speaker A: Yeah, that's the season, dude.
[00:18:45] Speaker B: Yeah, 20 weeks and then you play 18, but you get the two buys.
But I think so that's nine. And obviously 18 divided by two is nine. But you can't do nine home games and nine row games because one of them is going to be international.
[00:19:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:01] Speaker B: So it still throws a wrench in the whole thing. So I have no idea how they're
[00:19:04] Speaker A: going to figure that out. I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know. But those trades going down yesterday and we have some more signings and stuff like that happening really got me excited for football. I'm kind of ready to start watching football again, but we still got another two and a half months to go.
[00:19:20] Speaker B: Yeah, well, speaking of football, we got CFL starting this week. And I know you probably know about the cfl, but this, get this. I literally, while I was waiting for you to do this podcast, I was watching a CFL video. They made some rule changes. So they finally went to the NFL model. So you know how the field was longer? It was like 120 yards.
[00:19:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:40] Speaker B: So. So they made it 100 yard field. Now they moved the goal posts to the back of the end zone like any normal, sane league would.
[00:19:47] Speaker A: Right.
[00:19:48] Speaker B: Instead of having it right there in the middle of the field, the end zone instead of being 20 yards is now 15 yards.
And then they made some changes to the. The. It's called a rouge. A rouge rule. I'm not going to go into it. It'll bore the audience. But I crushed the CFO last year like no one's business. That I absolutely destroyed it. It was my best sport of the entire year. Made a lot of money.
Look, I. I don't even know. I probably will never come close to that success again. I had something like 73 the CFL last year.
[00:20:19] Speaker A: That's crazy.
[00:20:21] Speaker B: But. And I probably won't do it again, but I'm hoping I have another winning year, so. Looking forward to that. Starting this weekend, really busy, man. Like a lot of these guys, during the summer, it's only baseball or whatever. They take a vacation. They don't really handicap it. I got baseball going on. We got CFL starting. I do wnba. That's a nightly sport, obviously. Right now with the Stanley Cup Final and NBA Finals, I'm still finishing that up. I have ufc, which is every weekend, which the White House card is in a couple weekends, so looking forward to that as well. Pretty, pretty lit card.
[00:20:49] Speaker A: And the White House car is so crazy.
[00:20:53] Speaker B: I'm doing World cup too this year. World cup starts June 11th, so. Yeah, very, very, very Busy, obviously. World Cup's only once every four years, but I'm extreme this summer.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: Are you gonna go to any games? World cup games?
[00:21:06] Speaker B: I don't know that they come to Vegas. I know the SOFI is hosting some
[00:21:10] Speaker A: soccer games, which I thought was expensive.
[00:21:13] Speaker B: Yeah. I thought it was funny, though, because I. I had heard that they didn't build Sofi's deal. The dimensions big enough to have a soccer game, but I don't know. Apparently they figured it out. It's not like they don't have the Rose bowl or like the Coliseum where they could have played, but I think they wanted it to be state of the art stadium, you know what I mean? So. But there's games. It's funny, there's games all over the place. It's usually just one city, but there's games in Mexico, there's games in Canada. There's games in Houston at, like, nrg, where the display everywhere.
[00:21:41] Speaker A: I'm gonna try to go a game up here. It's in Santa Clara at Levi Stadium. But it's. It's just the matches aren't ideal. I think we have, like, the cheapest World cup games out of all them, so I might try to go to one just to actually just go to a World cup game.
[00:21:53] Speaker B: What.
What did you guys get, like, Uzbekistan against, like, Mongolia or something?
[00:22:00] Speaker A: Like Senegal. Yeah, Senegal against, you know?
Yeah. I. I don't even know.
There is a few Muslim countries that are playing over here, so a few of my friends are. Are Arab or of that region. And. And so some of them got free tickets. Yeah, yeah. You have to just prove that.
That you have descendants from that area. And they got some free World cup tickets for that. So unless I change my name to Muhammad, I might be able to score some free tickets as well.
All right, let's go on to NHL or NBA first.
[00:22:40] Speaker B: I don't care. I'll do whatever.
[00:22:42] Speaker A: All right. NBA. We are now looking at the NBA Finals, which I think is a really great matchup. San Antonio spurs against the New York Knickerbockers.
Probably a lot better matchup than it would have been with Oklahoma City Thunder.
San Antonio, man. So we've had a lot of games happen. We haven't talked about it on this pod. We haven't been around since before the West. Since.
Since before either conference finals. But spurs knocking off the Thunder in seven games.
One thing.
Game one was absolutely epic. One of the best games I've ever watched. And it's. It's an instant NBA classic with Wemby Almost like a coronation of him arriving, like he's gonna be dominating the NBA.
Everything else was like a slugfest, you know, taking turns of who's gonna win by double digits. Game 6 was a big surprise. How the Knicks just didn't or not. Not. The Knicks of Thunder just did not show up. The spurs were ready to go. They were on their ropes and they dominate that from the tip off. I thought that was not a good sign for the Thunder. Thunder just didn't look like they had it mentally. And I was talking to a few guys about it. Like, spurs are just a better team. I'm like. I'm like, dude, like Thunder are like, are loaded. They shouldn't be looking like that. Like, they don't look like a defending champ in any regard. Granted, they do have a few injuries, and that ended up being pretty costly. I think if they have will maybe things, you know, change up a little bit. And then Game seven, Wemby with the three pointers, the Cornet with the big stuff, you know, that. That Duncan at the end to kind of solidify that, you know, it was the final punctuation point. It was just amazing to see. But the celebration at the end, there's a lot of emotions, almost like an NBA championship.
I do think. I do think that's going to come back to bite them and. But let me talk about the other conference. Everyone's not giving the Knicks any fair shot. They kind of breezed through the Eastern Conference.
They had some struggles. Remember, they were down 21 against the Atlanta Hawks. People were saying, oh, man, Atlanta's going to win this one. And then all of a sudden they switched cat to the point center. They've been on a tear since then, having the biggest margin of victory over 11 games in NBA history, regular and postseason, passing the mark that I think LeBron James had with the Cavs in the 2016, 2017 team. Whatever year it was.
Knicks are pretty interesting in my opinion, because although I'm not a big. Like, I do like the guys on the team, the Villanova Knicks, a lot of good veterans, and they're gelling really well. They actually like each other. They got a veteran head coach, although I'm like, hit or miss on their head coach.
No one's giving the Knicks enough credit. And I think that this might be like a little veteran presence might be beneficial in this Finals.
And I'm going to go against the grain here.
I think the Knicks have a great opportunity to steal this championship away.
Spurs will be back, but with, with all the, you know, Young guys on the spurs, the emotions of finally getting to the finals. And they're all young, dude, 21, 22 years old.
Knicks are full of older guys. I think they're going to want to push out a little more.
I got this going.
Knicks in seven.
But I think if they can win at six, it'll be great. But would not be surprised if the spurs, if the spurs just will this, you know, then they're going to be around for a while.
[00:26:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
You know, the Thunder really needed a performance from Chet Holmbren there in game six. Bro shot the ball two times. It's just unacceptable.
[00:26:24] Speaker A: He shut the bed.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: Yeah. So. And the problem was he kept trying to take the ball inside and then he's like, whoa, Wimby's too big. I can't do anything in there. And he, he wouldn't. It kind of spilled over into the rest of his game. He didn't want to put up any threes. He got scared. You can see it. He was playing scared.
[00:26:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:40] Speaker B: So, I mean, they, they needed to spread the floor against Wimby and I think that's what the Knicks have to do, too. Like, Cat has to not. And Cat can shoot three. He's a very good three point shooter. So they need to kind of spread the floor and try. If they get their three point shot going, which they're hitting 40% from three in the playoffs, which is really, really good. They're shooting 51% from the field and 40% from three. The Knicks are. Right now.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: If they do that, if they continue that pace, they will win the championship.
[00:27:07] Speaker A: I think so.
[00:27:09] Speaker B: Because it's going to negate Wimby.
[00:27:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:27:11] Speaker B: When we can come out and bought those threes all game. You know what I mean?
So that's, I think that's going to be the key. They got to hit their three point shots.
And Cat. Yeah, Cat needs to stay out of foul trouble. That's a big thing too, because, you know, going inside against Wimby and getting tangled with him. Conversely, Wendy needs to stay out of foul trouble, too. But I'm. I'm kind of with you, man. So the odds for the series. So right now, San Antonio's. They're minus 180 for the spurs to win the finals and The Knicks are plus 150.
So I, I'm not mad at the Knicks here, man. They're playing offense at a historic level right now. They turned it on, if you remember. Like you said, they were down two games to one, then they won that game four.
I Think in new. In New York. And then.
Well, all I remember, it went to game six, right?
[00:27:57] Speaker A: It did, yeah.
[00:27:58] Speaker B: That's when the Knicks really turned it on. They won that game by like 40 points on the road, if you remember.
[00:28:03] Speaker A: That's when they finally blew it open. Yeah.
[00:28:05] Speaker B: Yeah. It was funny because I was on the under the first half under in that game.
And it, I think it was like 110, whatever the number was. And it in the Hawks scored, man, I want to say they scored like 35 points or 33 points in the first half. And the game still went over in the first half because the Knicks put up like 80, you know, just unbelievable. That was probably the worst of the season.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: Final score is 140 to 89.
Yeah, it was an absolute thrashing. I'm like, oh, who's this next team?
[00:28:39] Speaker B: Yeah, pretty embarrassing, for sure.
But yeah, I like the Knicks, man. I, I can see the Knicks in six, Nixon seven. I'm telling you. Yeah, the spurs being this young and a lot of people say that they're here early, right? You've heard that all year long.
You're ahead of schedule. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not. I mean, Wimby me, yeah, he was crying like Michael Jordan on the floor, just even making the finals. But yeah, they're just so young, the Knicks, they have a lot of experience. Like you said, the Villanova Knicks, they're well coached. They've been in the league quite a while. And I think experience could play in here with the spurs being young. Maybe, you know, maybe New York comes in and takes game one. They get a little, a little, you know, fear in their belly and, you know, maybe the Knicks can win. I think the Knicks have a good shot to win the series. Would I be surprised if the spurs do know?
But I'm officially going to go on the record. I'm going to say with you, I'm going to say Nixon 7. And I think we see a little bit of an upset and the city of New York will literally burn to the ground,
[00:29:38] Speaker A: dude. Like, I know so many Knicks fans and they. And they've been posting and talking so much stuff, dude. And even in New York, they're painting all the subway stations, Knicks colors. The whole city's behind it. Yeah, you have. Schools are going to give exceptions if kids show up late the next day because all the games going to be late. You know, it's been a generational thing because they haven't been around since 99 and Dallas against the spurs, but they haven't really seen a parade, what, since the 70s, Walt Frazier days, Pat Ewing, he brought them there to the promised land twice.
But you know, as you know, as everyone knows from the 90s, Michael Jordan and the mighty Bulls were there to stop everybody in their tracks.
Orioles, the Houston Rockets for those two years. So I'm excited, man. One thing about the Knicks, though, like, they got a lot of guys that played in college too, and they've won championships in college. They got that championship pedigree and like, I just don't hear anyone talking about it.
They got a quite a few season guys. And Kat, besides the dumb foul trouble, just him hanging out the perimeter, being a facilitator, he can still shoot the three. Taking Wemby away where he can dominate and change shots inside the paint. I think that is going to be really key in this thing as long as Josh Hart steps up. I know he's been kind of cold in the postseason, but if he just kind of wakes up a little bit, just gives him like a game. One game where he steps in, brings in 15 to 20 points, knocks in a couple big three pointers. You know, Brunson's going to bring it.
You know, the rest of the guys are going to bring it.
I, I think it's going to be a fun series. I think it's going to be great. I think Knicks should probably steal this one now because, you know, Celtics are going to get healthier. Who knows where Giannis ends up?
Pacers, you know, they should be back next year in the mix.
Magic. They'll probably tool up as well. Detroit's right in the hunt. They now they just need another guy to pair up with Cade, so.
And plus New York has a lot of big contracts, so, like, this is it. I think, you know, it's kind of matching up really nicely for them.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: Yeah. One more key for the Knicks is Landry. Shammit Landry. He's. I think he's hit in that Cavalier series. He went 13 of 14 from three point.
[00:32:00] Speaker A: Really? Yeah.
[00:32:01] Speaker B: So like I, like I said, man, if they get that three ball to keep falling like that, I don't think the spurs are going to win this series.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: Yeah, the Knicks just match up really well. You know, they, they played in the NBA cup, which I don't put much thought into it in, like regular season. They, you know, they played really well against the spurs, but it's just a matchup thing. Just like the spurs were kind of like the Achilles heel for the Thunder, and the Thunder were really missing their number two guy. Like, that changed everything, I think for them.
Who knows? Maybe it ends up a little bit differently, but.
[00:32:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:32:32] Speaker A: By the way, it's a matchup thing. I just think it's just the Knicks, you know.
Oh, God.
[00:32:38] Speaker B: Yeah. No, I was going to say I actually went to. To T Mobile to the NBA cup when it was out here when the Knicks played the spurs and. And the Knicks won that game, if you remember. So if you do remember, though, I guess Wimby had lost his grandmother. His grandmother passed away, like, either the night before, like that morning or something. So they said he kind of, like, his head wasn't in the game or whatever.
But yeah, it's interesting that the NBA cup final is going to be the same two teams as the NBA Finals.
[00:33:08] Speaker A: So that's crazy. That's crazy. It's gonna give us some validity, I think.
[00:33:14] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:33:15] Speaker A: I'm not too crazy about the NBA cup, by the way.
They give it a bigger fanfare than the Finals. They do all the courts. They only do all that stuff for the All Star break. They don't do that stuff for the Finals. At least they're bringing the final logos back on the court. Although who's a graphic designer for the NBA? Man, you can hire me. You can hire my firm.
It's not that good. I can design something way better, more sexier. You're in New York. It's fashion. It's the. It's the bright lights. It's the concrete jungle.
We can do better.
[00:33:45] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, the. Well, the NBA Cup, I think all the players get, like, the winning players.
I don't. The 100 grand they get.
[00:33:54] Speaker A: Something like that.
[00:33:56] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe it is. I was. I was thinking it was 10, but I think it's 100 grand, which I guess is a lot of change for guys that are like number 12 on the bench or whatever. But the WNBA tonight, actually, they're starting. They have a Commissioner's Cup. Same version of the NBA. Yeah, but it's big for them because they don't make like a quarter of the money that these NBA players do.
[00:34:15] Speaker A: So now they do. Well, now. Now they're making good money.
[00:34:20] Speaker B: It's. Yeah. They're not making nearly half of what NBA player. I would say not even a quarter. Yeah, but should they like the. No. Well, I mean, that's a whole nother conversation, obviously. I mean, they just don't bring in the revenue that the NBA does. So it's.
It goes by a scale. It's like you get paid by the revenue you bring in, you know, it's just business 101.
[00:34:38] Speaker A: I think with the WNBA, like what they were able to renegotiate. I think it's a really good deal for the players.
I think it's great.
Any final comments on the NBA? NBA Finals. So you got. We both got Knicks, man. I think we both might be the minority against a lot of, you know, pundits and, you know, experts.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: It's going to happen when you take the underdog. When you take the underdog, you're always going to be in the minority, and that's fine.
[00:35:03] Speaker A: Dude, no one's giving the Knicks a chance. I was just like, dude, like, the spurs team's young.
[00:35:08] Speaker B: Yeah, they are.
[00:35:09] Speaker A: Like, we've seen a handful of times when a team's too young and then all of a sudden the bright lights change everything.
[00:35:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:35:15] Speaker A: But who knows? The spurs team has already, like, they beat up a really good Minnesota Timberwolves team with Anthony Edwards.
Same thing. They kind of took the soul away from the Thunder team.
So. I don't know.
I don't want to see him win yet. Cuz I'm a Lakers fan and if they start winning now, I don't know. I don't think Luke and the Lakers are gonna be winning a chip anytime soon unless a lot of things change.
[00:35:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I don't know what's gonna happen with LeBron. He's probably gonna stay in LA, to be honest with you.
Yeah. Luca coming back. I don't know. The Lakers have just kind of been a little bit of a mess. Mess Ever since.
Ever since they won in 2020. It's just. Yeah.
[00:35:56] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:35:58] Speaker B: They're paying LeBron all this money. LeBron, he's still a good player, but he's not.
[00:36:01] Speaker A: He's good. Yeah, I. I thought.
I thought he played great this past year.
[00:36:06] Speaker B: So. Yeah, we'll. We'll see what happens. There's talk about getting rid of Polinka. I don't know, man. I kind of feel like obviously they have a new ownership. Genie Bus is gone.
They brought in this Mark Walter guy who actually has up the Dodgers too. So.
[00:36:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:21] Speaker B: Yeah, we'll see what happens with the Lakers.
[00:36:24] Speaker A: All right. NBA Finals starts Wednesday.
Me and Wes got the Knicks in seven.
What is the payout like? Do you have like the odds for like, Nicks and six Knicks and seven spurs and seven?
[00:36:39] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, actually I have that.
I can find it. I actually have the hot. No, let me leave the hockey up because we'll talk hockey in one second.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, games. Here we go. Maybe this is it. Oh, more.
Let me do this. Actually, I'm gonna go to my other screen. We do have the Stanley cup final tonight, though. I'm looking forward to that, by the way. So it's. It's NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Final. Final.
[00:37:09] Speaker A: Final. Yes.
[00:37:11] Speaker B: That's the lingo they. They use up in. Up there in Canada. A, as they say up there in Canada.
What's that all about?
[00:37:20] Speaker A: Boots A.
[00:37:23] Speaker B: So, yeah, here's the series price tomorrow. Where is NBA? Oh, series props. This is probably it.
Okay, series correct score. So if we pick mix win four to three, it's plus 700.
So 100 bucks wins you 700 bucks for.
For next to win in. In seven games.
To win the finals in seven games.
[00:37:46] Speaker A: I might have to put that down. Dude, could you put that down for me?
[00:37:49] Speaker B: Next in six games is plus 500 for. It's all plus money. Spurs as first sweep is plus 675.
[00:37:58] Speaker A: No way.
[00:37:59] Speaker B: Yeah, but yeah, Nixon Sevens plus seven. Hundo, bro. 100. 107.
[00:38:04] Speaker A: Man.
[00:38:05] Speaker B: You could even bet. You can even bet if you want. You can bet this series to go to seven and not bet the winner seven. You get plus 200.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: Not as fun, but yeah, I would do like a parlay.
Series goes to seven. Knicks winning seven.
Brunson, mvp.
[00:38:26] Speaker B: Yeah, to be honest, I don't think they'd let you do that. They like, they let you do MVP to Nixon 7, but I don't think they let you bet the seven games and then the Nixon 7, because you're essentially like correlating the two double. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:38:42] Speaker A: All right. 700. I kind of like that. I don't know. I'm about to sit on that for like, the next 12 hours.
[00:38:48] Speaker B: Yeah, okay, let me. Let me know. They have these things called cash app and Zell and Venmo.
[00:38:54] Speaker A: Yeah, I'll definitely let you know.
All right, let's quickly pivot over to the NHL Stanley Cup Final.
Still best of seven game series. Pretty interesting how we got here, though. Everybody thought that the Avalanche would be the best. I think we talked about this. Avalanche, the best team in the NHL. They're going to be the favorites to win.
Anaheim Ducks. The Mighty Ducks are back. And they gave the Golden Knights a really good battle in the second round. I thought it was really awesome. Knights win 4 2. Move on to play the Avalanche then. No one saw this coming. Just punched them right in the face. All four games.
I didn't watch.
The only game I saw in totality was game Four the clincher. And it just.
Just Golden Knights just had it locked in. On the other side, you had Buffalo just missing out in a tough game seven against the Canadiens.
[00:40:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:01] Speaker A: Hurricanes just taking care of business on the other side of things.
And then.
And then they kind of took care of the Canadians as well. So now we got two teams that are on a tear.
The playoffs have been pretty well the first two rounds, and then the conference finals were just a breeze, which you hardly ever see that. It's kind of funny that we see that in the NBA and then the NHL at the same time. Well, more or less.
But you got Vegas Knights against the Carolina Hurricanes. I believe Hurricanes are favored.
[00:40:34] Speaker B: Yes, they are.
So, yeah, we could talk about the odds real quick.
[00:40:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:39] Speaker B: Regarding the.
So, so tonight's game is.
We have. Just for the game tonight, we have hurricanes minus 150, VGK plus 125 over under five and a half. Juice to the over. Minus 120 with a puck line. Vegas plus one and a half, minus 200. Carolina minus the one and a half is. Plus 160.
Yeah. Plus 165. If. Yeah. So looking at these series, so if you want, you can do the same type of thing, right? So series, correct score. You want to take the Hurricanes in seven games, plus 400.
[00:41:16] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:41:19] Speaker B: Hurricanes and six plus 425. VGK and seven plus 550. So you can kind of do the same type of thing that we were talking about in the NBA.
[00:41:28] Speaker A: I have no clue for this series. I'm personally rooting for Vegas just because I kind of like their team since they started. And, what, this is their third cup final in nine years of existence?
[00:41:39] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, they're definitely a juggernaut now. They came from out of nowhere. Yeah, Yeah. I mean, it wouldn't be surprised, but Carolina, they have a fantastic defense. I'm just gonna. I'm gonna throw out. I don't know. When are you putting this up, by the way? Is it gonna be up late? In like an hour,
[00:41:54] Speaker A: possibly.
[00:41:55] Speaker B: Okay. The only reason why I was gonna give out a free play on the game tonight, if it's gonna be up
[00:41:59] Speaker A: before then, I will do my best to put up in an hour.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: All right, well, I like the puck line. Minus one and a half with Carolina tonight. So obviously this Hurricanes teams, they're really good defensive team. Okay. They're only giving up 1.62 goals per game in the playoffs. That's phenomenal. And that's even given up six goals in one game to the Canadiens. And they're still only allowing 1.62 goals per game.
Vegas, they play great defensively to 2.68 goals per game allowed in the playoffs.
BGK, they're on a six game winning streak because they swept the Avalanche and won the last two against Anaheim.
The Hurricanes, they're looking to be the first team in the history of hockey to go 161 in the postseason. That has never happened before.
So obviously Carolina, if you were, you probably don't remember this wrong, but Carolina used to be the Hartford Whalers until 1997-98.
[00:42:49] Speaker A: I definitely don't remember that.
[00:42:51] Speaker B: Yeah, they moved to Carolina in the 9798 season. They became the Carolina Hurricanes. And they did win the Stanley cup. They won in 2006. Long time ago.
Vegas, obviously they won in 2023. They won. This is the third visit. They lost the first one in their rookie season. Yeah, as a team. And then they won the second one they went to.
But here's the deal though. Vegas. So they have 13 players left from that Stanley cup team in 2023. So they have a lot of experience.
But I still like Carolina just in this game. They're at home. They play well at home. They're so good on the defensive end. And I think they win this one, I think maybe there's like an empty net at the end, right? And you get like the 3 to 1 win, you know, 4 to 1 win, something like that. I kind of like the under five and a half a lot too. But I'll. I'll give the Carolina Hurricanes out puck line minus one and a half goals. So they gotta win by two or more and you get plus 170. So 100 wins you 170. You're getting good plus money there on that game. That'll be game one of the Stanley
[00:43:50] Speaker A: cup final, I take it. Who do you got to win the series?
[00:43:56] Speaker B: I'm gonna go with the Carolina Hurricanes. I'm gonna say Hurricanes in six.
They're just so strong on the defensive end. I think they can, Dick. I mean, BGK kind of dictated the pace against the Avalanche, which I was completely wrong about. I didn't think they'd be able to do that, but they did. But the Hurricanes play a different brand of hockey just on the defensive end. Their head coach, Rob Per, he was a fantastic defender years and years ago when he played and.
And he's going to preach defense. It's going to be a defensively oriented series. That's why this total is five and a half and not Six or six and a half because they know Carolina is going to play good defense. Yeah, the BGK is a very good defensive team too. But I just think that the Hurricanes are the stronger team. They do have the dogs to score goals too and yeah, I'm gonna go Hurricanes and six.
[00:44:43] Speaker A: Okay, Hurricanes and six. Very respectable.
I got nothing else. On the NHL finals, on the NHL playoffs. It's been pretty good all around.
Some young teams are starting to rise. It sucks not seeing Montreal in it go deeper, a few of the more experienced teams. But it looks like there's like a new wave of young teams coming up just like in the NBA. And it's kind of exciting. I just hope my Red Wings can join back in the ranks as well. But we have yet to see that.
[00:45:18] Speaker B: Man, you're all over the place. Your Pittsburgh Steelers, the Detroit Red Wings, the LA Lakers and the.
Who's your hockey team?
The Sharks?
[00:45:30] Speaker A: No, so I go for the both LA teams. I worked for the Dodgers, so I got Dodgers and Lakers Hockey. You know, I was influenced by the Red Wings.
[00:45:42] Speaker B: You just told me that.
[00:45:43] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. You know, NHL 95, 96, Super Nintendo.
Me and Aaron have known each other since kindergarten. We used to start having sleepovers like in first grade and we would just be playing NBA Live and the first, you know, Madden 94, all that stuff on the Super Nintendo. So like that's pretty much what it shaped. We would just pick the Red Wings, man, and just dominate and just win cup after cup.
[00:46:09] Speaker B: You were always Steve Yeiserman.
[00:46:11] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
I used to have a jersey somewhere. I gotta find it or get, get another one. But I, I don't really have a backup hockey team. I guess if anything I rooted for the piece the Penguins for a little bit because I'm a big Crosby guy but that's about it though. But yeah, Pittsburgh Steelers, Red Wings, my two LA teams.
[00:46:37] Speaker B: All right, there you go. It's respectable.
Yeah, I have a buddy, I have a buddy in Canada. He's a very sharp hockey better and he is a San Francisco Giants fan, a Philadelphia Flyers fan.
What the Dallas always fan.
And what sport am I missing?
Football, Baseball. Oh that. I don't think he has an NBA team but it's just so weird. The Cowboys, the Flyers and the Giants.
[00:47:08] Speaker A: That's a unique mix right there.
[00:47:10] Speaker B: He's never been to any of those cities. He just like, he's like, oh those are just the teams I like.
Very, very trained.
[00:47:17] Speaker A: The only time I haven't been to is Pittsburgh.
Yeah, I gotta make it happen. I Gotta make it. I've been in. In the vicinity. I've been in Philly a bunch of times. I've been the state. I just haven't been to Pittsburgh specifically.
[00:47:28] Speaker B: Yeah, badass. I've been there. I saw a Pirates game there. It's beautiful stadium.
[00:47:33] Speaker A: Dude, I would love to go.
And then if we're gonna add wnba, you know, I root for my local team, the Sparks.
I do have a thing for Kelsey Plum.
[00:47:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:47:44] Speaker A: So I was rooting for the Aces for a little bit, but now she's back in la.
Yeah, my daughter. We're gonna make some signs.
My daddy's single.
We're gonna go to a Sparks game, see what happens.
[00:47:57] Speaker B: Yeah, you never know.
[00:47:58] Speaker A: You never know.
[00:47:59] Speaker B: She's actually. She's hurt tonight. She's. Well, like I said, they're playing that. That Missioners cup tonight. Game or game tonight, but she's not playing. Got an ankle injury right now. But she is the WNBA's leading scorer right now, even with that injury.
[00:48:13] Speaker A: That's crazy.
[00:48:15] Speaker B: Yeah, that's crazy.
She's been hitting a lot of threes, man. She's a good, good ball player.
[00:48:19] Speaker A: Yeah.
All right, man, this was a lot of fun, jumping back on the pod, talking NBA Finals, NHL, some football. Any last comments before you take off?
[00:48:30] Speaker B: Not really. Like I said, you can follow me over on Twitter, YouTube, all that stuff is at the Sniper picks.
Do a lot of content for Wizards sports picks as well, if you want to follow that YouTube channel. And. Yeah, man, well, we got football coming up, so I'm sure we'll be doing a lot more pause together very shortly.
[00:48:46] Speaker A: Oh, my God, I am to. The trades just got me jacked up. Although I don't know how to feel about the Rams, but that's gonna be a fun team to watch.
[00:48:54] Speaker B: Yeah, definitely.
[00:48:56] Speaker A: All right, cool. They'll do it. Source from the sofa.
Hopefully we'll get Jason Aaron back sometime soon, but thank you, Sniper West. You can catch him on all the socials at the Sniper Pick.
Check them out at the Wizards as well. He has a daily podcast that comes out every morning or early afternoon, picking winners. And if you're really big into the Canadian Football League, then you're going to want to follow him as well, since he was dominant last year. That'll do it for us. We'll come back and talk a little F1 later on. We got Andrew coming back on the pod later on this week, talking about the new rules that are coming in place just in time for Monaco. So we are out.
