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00:00Here's a good headline if you're a Terry McLaurin fan and a Commanders fan.
00:03Terry McLaurin loves Commanders OC David Blau's plan to feature him in the offense.
00:10He likes what he's been hearing and seeing from new Commanders OC David Blau.
00:14It's a game.
00:15I love that.
00:16I love that.
00:17You know, he told me that way back in February.
00:20He texted me that him and I have a really good relationship.
00:23And, you know, he's been a man of his word.
00:24And, you know, my job is to prove that each and every day when we're having workouts to be the
00:29leader, to be someone who you can count on to be on the field and make plays.
00:33And that's all I've been asking for.
00:34That's all I want.
00:35So to win games and have a big part of that.
00:38So I was definitely smiling when I saw that come across this phone.
00:41And, you know, from OTAs and stuff, I could definitely tell that's going to be a part of it, along
00:46with the other guys as well.
00:47You know, there's going to be opportunities for me to take away coverage for Chig and for, you know, Trey
00:53and, you know, Bill and just so many other guys on the offense.
00:58I think that's cool when you have an offense that has multiple looks and formations, can make things look the
01:03same and marry together.
01:05It provides opportunities for everybody because the defense has to worry about you being in the receiver position one, two,
01:13and three on the left or the right.
01:14You know what I mean?
01:15There's just so many different combinations we can do now that I feel like frees up a lot of people.
01:19We'll see if David Blau's a man of his word.
01:21I mean, he said shortly after he was promoted that one of his plans is to get Terry McLaurin 10
01:26targets per game.
01:27There you go.
01:29That's a lot.
01:29I learned a nugget, and I think it's from that same interview and another point in it where he talked
01:35about Terry was, of course, also being recruited potentially by Purdue.
01:41And if he had gone to Purdue, David Blau would have been his quarterback.
01:44Yeah, that's right.
01:45Yeah.
01:46That's a good point.
01:46So they, you know, they're basically the same age.
01:49Yeah.
01:50I think they would have been freshmen the same years.
01:52They're both 30 years old.
01:53Maybe he was already there for a year or two because Blau got there 2015 to 2018 at Purdue.
02:01Not sure when Terry's freshman year at Ohio State was, but he might be a year or two older than
02:06him.
02:07But anyway, that interesting nugget.
02:10I'd be intrigued to see what he would do with 170 targets if you got somewhere close to that because
02:16his high watermark for targets came in 2020 when he had 134.
02:22When he was targeted 134 times, he had 87 touchdowns, 87 touchdowns, over 1,100 yards and four end zone
02:35trips.
02:36So if he's targeted 170 times, you could extrapolate that out.
02:41He's got great hands.
02:42He's going to have well over 100 catches.
02:44Hopefully he stays healthy and puts up crazy numbers.
02:46And hopefully he finds the end zone seven or eight, ten times.
02:49When I saw David Blau and his wife and his kids in Costco last week, I did ask him that.
02:54Oh, what was in his cart?
02:55Did you look in his cart and see what he was buying?
02:57Well, one of his kids was in his cart.
02:59Okay.
02:59But I don't care about his kids.
03:01Products he was buying.
03:02Lots of meat, it looked like.
03:03Like meat and fruits and vegetables.
03:05So lots of like ground beef, maybe some ribeyes.
03:08And I asked him, I said, how many targets is Terry Mack going to get?
03:11And he said, 10 a game.
03:13Nice.
03:14If David Blau had a bunch of kids in his cart, he probably spent $350 to $400 at Costco.
03:20Well, he can afford it.
03:21Depending on how old his kids are.
03:22They're young.
03:23He can afford it now.
03:25OC in the NFL, he's doing all right.
03:26Yeah.
03:27I'm sure he's doing great.
03:28Good for him.
03:29But if McLaurin plays 17 games, I mean, and Jaden's place.
03:33A lot, if not 17 games, he's going to put up numbers.
03:37I'd love to see him get back to 17, because we saw what happened last year.
03:40He only played in 10.
03:41But in the previous one, two, three, four seasons, he appeared in all 17 games.
03:46So it's been pretty durable.
03:47So Conor recently did an interview with Greg Cosell, and I was listening to it as I was driving
03:52in this morning.
03:53And you know Greg Cosell, he's kind of notorious for going through all the film.
03:58He's awesome.
03:58Yeah, he's really good.
04:00Doesn't hit on every prediction or anything like that, but he's very interesting.
04:04He's very well informed.
04:06He said that he loved, like of all the picks, he loved the Antonio Williams pick for Washington.
04:14Just loves his separation at the top of the route.
04:16Loves the wiggle.
04:17Loves the juice in his legs.
04:19Loves the fact that he surprised people, you know, ran a 4-4-1.
04:22He thinks he could probably also, you know, obviously be a deep threat, but probably be
04:27a more slot kind of guy.
04:28But that, you know, when John asked him about, do they need another receiver?
04:32He goes, well, sure, because Williams is a rookie and he hasn't proven it yet, but he's
04:38really high on Antonio Williams.
04:40I'm ready to make a bet on Antonio Williams catches as a rookie.
04:44If anybody wants to jump in on the other side.
04:46Okay.
04:47I'm pro Antonio Williams will have 35 catches as a rookie.
04:53That's a, that's two per game.
04:55I think that's a, I think that's a, I would, I would potentially go over that.
05:01If they didn't add another guy, I'd probably go over that.
05:05He was hoping people would take the under.
05:06But if they're going to add another guy.
05:07I mean, I can't come in in years, like in years past when I said, like Josh Doxson is
05:12going to have 55 catches as a rookie.
05:14Yeah, you don't know.
05:14I've learned my lesson.
05:15I think, I think he could potentially go over that fairly significantly, but you know,
05:19also if they bring in an IUK or something and he's like in mid season form a couple of
05:23years or you know, Diggs, if Diggs catches 80 balls, that's going to take away, obviously.
05:28And Chig's going to catch a bunch.
05:30Chig's going to catch 60, 65.
05:32I would think.
05:33I mean, he was maybe more.
05:34He was catching in the mid fifties with pretty poor quarterbacks.
05:40And yeah, I mean, I think he's going to put up Will Levis is the world throwing him
05:44the ball.
05:44If he's out there, he's going to put up 65.
05:47I also thought it was interesting just as a side note, because I think a lot of us in
05:51the back of our minds, you know, we're worried about Jaden's health and people love to point
05:55out.
05:56And I'm certainly the first one to acknowledge that Jaden was a tick off last year.
06:00It wasn't, you know, the production wasn't like it was now.
06:03Now, of course, some of that is because he was in fits and starts and he only played four
06:07complete games.
06:08I think that's probably most of it.
06:11But in Cosell's mind, they don't have a quarterback issue.
06:16They've got their quarterback.
06:17So, and I know most of us think that way, but I know there are some naysayers out there
06:22that feel like Jaden might be exposed.
06:25Rookie year was good as best year.
06:26And it's just, you know, it's going to be all downhill from here.
06:28I don't think most people think that I haven't heard anybody say that, that they don't have
06:34their quarterback.
06:36I think people just question.
06:37They question the health.
06:39They question.
06:39Can he be durable?
06:40Just think about it.
06:40How many people have you thought, have you heard compare him to RG3?
06:44Yeah.
06:44Okay.
06:45So that means they don't think they have their quarterback.
06:47Yeah.
06:48But they're generally saying that on terms of the injury.
06:51Because if you ever go deeper with somebody that says, oh, he's going to be another RG3
06:55and doesn't he have a different personality?
06:56Doesn't he appear to have a different work ethic?
06:59Oh, of course.
07:00Yeah.
07:01For me, the similarity is simply the injury.
07:03Yeah.
07:04Yeah.
07:05All right.
07:05Let's go.
07:06Let's go to Antoine.
07:07It is an open line Thursday.
07:10It certainly is.
07:10800-636-1067 is the number if you'd like to reach out to the junks.
07:15Getting texts from people telling me when they're going to show up today.
07:18Excellent.
07:19What's up, Antoine?
07:20Let's go to Antoine.
07:20Hey, Antoine.
07:21What's up, buddy?
07:23Good morning.
07:23How are you guys at all?
07:24What's up, Antoine?
07:24How are you?
07:26I'm good.
07:27Yeah, so I just wanted to vouch for Draft.
07:29I think that y'all should avoid his bet.
07:31Why?
07:33All right.
07:34So, like, FanDude, they do have a thing called BetProtect now that it started, like, last
07:39month.
07:40You just pay an extra 3% on your bet.
07:42Did you pay an extra 3%?
07:44Vouchy didn't offer it.
07:47It was only 30 cents on $10.
07:49So, I mean, it ain't like you were, like, adding that much money.
07:52Yeah, he didn't have the foresight to do that.
07:54It wasn't offered.
07:55If it's not offered, they void it.
07:58Okay.
07:59We don't use Kalshie.
08:00Kalshie.
08:01No, I said Kalshie.
08:02I said Kalshie.
08:02I've never even heard of it before.
08:05I've heard of Polly Market.
08:07Kalshie's one of the massive books.
08:09I don't worry about it.
08:10Fandies doesn't do it.
08:14I don't know.
08:15I just don't think it's going to be avoided.
08:19But he's not going to lose.
08:22Even if you don't void it, he's not going to lose.
08:24Yeah, I think he was last word.
08:25I think you're fine.
08:26You're fine.
08:27Moore's going to lose.
08:29I tend to believe that, too.
08:32He's probably not going to hit his pick.
08:34Probably.
08:35He's not going to hit his pick.
08:37There's nothing to worry about if a guy goes 0-7.
08:40Yeah, he's going to climb out of the hole in the last day.
08:42It's actually a do theory.
08:44I kind of feel like the do theory.
08:46You're going to hit, too.
08:47I think you're going to hit.
08:48Yeah, but he's chasing now.
08:49I don't even know what you're looking at.
08:50He's chasing.
08:51He's got to go with a long shot.
08:54I've reached the bottom on this.
08:57Anybody got an idea, I bet it.
09:00What Jason's doing is pretty remarkable,
09:02but it's being overshadowed by Mars losing, I feel like.
09:07Equally as amazing.
09:08Because not only is Mar Ofer,
09:12you combine that or you parlay that
09:14with the fact that how crappy he was.
09:17Last year.
09:18Last year.
09:19Yeah.
09:19I don't know.
09:21It's one of the most remarkable losing streaks
09:23I've ever seen in my life.
09:25I mean, MGM National Harbor should hire him
09:27to walk just up and down the high limit pits.
09:30He should be a blackjack dealer.
09:31No, he should be cooler.
09:33Just walk by every baccarat table,
09:35every blackjack table, every craps table.
09:37Craps table gets hot, he jumps in.
09:40He just walks by.
09:42He should be within 10 feet of the table.
09:43So what is he going to do?
09:45Is he going to do like some total rebounds or something?
09:47He's going to do something during the hoop game,
09:49the Knick game, right?
09:50Yeah, he's going to do.
09:50I think he's going to do total points for a certain player.
09:53I'm not sure what player.
09:54I told him to find Donovan Mitchell over 40 points.
09:58What are you helping him for?
09:59Just give him an idea.
10:00Let him choke on his own.
10:02Let him choke on his own vomit.
10:05I don't even know what those odds are.
10:06He's helping each other here.
10:07This is every man for himself.
10:11I haven't even looked at the odds on the NBA player props.
10:14What is that ticking sound?
10:15It sounds like a ticking time bomb.
10:17Or is that just the ringing in my ears?
10:18Hold on.
10:20I don't hear anything.
10:22Maybe the jackhammering of your feet on the floor?
10:24I don't know.
10:25Yeah, it was me doing that, and that would.
10:27Is that what it is?
10:28Well, I mean, they don't cover the thing.
10:31I mean, it's a joke, what they do here.
10:33I hope you're in a better mood tomorrow.
10:36I can't have this sourpuss bick on at our biggest show of the year.
10:43I'm annoyed that I can't pick a 50-50 shot.
10:46It's annoying.
10:48You can't pick.
10:49You can do whatever you want.
10:49You can't make the pick.
10:50You can do whatever you want.
10:53Yeah, I've tried.
10:53I made three or four of them.
10:55Yeah.
10:56Two of them hit.
10:59Gambling's hard.
11:00It's not easy.
11:01Sports gambling is hard, yes.
11:02Sports gambling is hard.
11:05Yeah.
11:05Let's see.
11:06I think I had the wrong philosophy, though, to be honest with you.
11:09I should have just been taking some plus money ones, and then just hit one, and then
11:13you're coasting.
11:13Yeah.
11:14And you're in good shape.
11:15Just take more plus money.
11:16I was just trying to take 50-50 shots and just eventually finish 500.
11:20That was my philosophy.
11:21Just take 50-50 shots and then finish 500.
11:25That was my philosophy.
11:26It was bad philosophy.
11:27I mean.
11:28Bad philosophy.
11:29Failed.
11:29You were off.
11:30You were a half run short yesterday.
11:32Well, yeah.
11:32I'm two and four, so I'm one away from being 500.
11:34The strategy is you don't have to finish first.
11:37Just don't finish last.
11:39And that's all I'm making on?
11:40But I'm second to last, so pretty vulnerable.
11:44Pretty vulnerable.
11:45You could be overtaken.
11:46You know, it's like a guy who's like 125 on the money list in the final round.
11:51Yep.
11:51You know you're getting passed.
11:52He needs to get his card.
11:53You know you're getting passed.
11:54If he wins 300, you lose 100.
11:57You're last.
11:59Yeah.
12:00I pretty much resigned to rubbing that turd's belly.
12:03Right?
12:04He's got to go up 300.
12:06Yeah.
12:06So if he loses 100, he'd be at minus.
12:09So I think.
12:10Yeah.
12:11But I lose 100 either way.
12:12You're going to be fine.
12:13All he's got to do.
12:14He's got to aim to win $300.
12:16Because he's got to be.
12:17Yeah.
12:17Because he'll be minus 100.
12:17I think there's a due factor.
12:21Listen.
12:21I'm the proponent.
12:22He's been due all week.
12:23He hasn't hit a single bet.
12:24I'm the PhD.
12:26There was my dissertation, due theory.
12:28And I believe in it.
12:30And I think he's going to hit on due theory.
12:33I think he's going to take Donovan.
12:36No.
12:37He's going to take James Harden tonight.
12:40Total points?
12:41To score 25 points at plus 360.
12:44Play zero defense.
12:45What's that bet?
12:46He can score 25 pretty easily.
12:48At plus 360.
12:49I think that's what he's going to do.
12:51It's not a bad play.
12:53All right.
12:53Don't forget.
12:53I don't think he's going to do first score.
12:55He said he wants to do a game tonight.
12:56He wants to do the whole game.
12:58So he wants to be rooting for the entire game.
12:59He wants to do a game tonight so there's some juice during the appearance at the Starbird
13:03tonight.
13:04Maybe I'll make my pick so it can be opposing picks during the game, too.
13:08Right.
13:09That's what I'll do.
13:10I told him he's blowing it.
13:13We'll be sleeping by the time Donovan Mitchell scores 40 points.
13:16Of course.
13:17There's no payoff.
13:18He should do a first basket so we can stream it and celebrate it all together and everyone
13:22at the bar be rooting for him all at one time.
13:24There's no point laugh at him.
13:25There you go.
13:25There you go.
13:26Eric, Eric, you got jumped.
13:28You got jumped.
13:29By the way, I could see him being at the bar until 11 o'clock.
13:32Oh, yeah.
13:32He might be.
13:33The rest of us won't be.
13:34He's Memorial Day Mike.
13:35This is what he does.
13:36Cakes said he's cutting himself off at 10.
13:38That means 10.30.
13:40You never know.
13:41Cakes is already saying 10.
13:43It's midnight.
13:43I said I want to leave by Starbird at the latest by 10.
13:45Because he's going to have the good vibes.
13:48Time doesn't exist at the Starbird.
13:50It's like being in a casino.
13:51Oh, yeah, yeah.
13:52There's no clocks.
13:53Yeah, yeah.
13:54In the Starbird.
13:55Well, you can definitely kick off summer with us live from the Starbird
13:58either tonight or tomorrow.
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14:03It gets going early.
14:04Doesn't slow down all day.
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