00:00Yeah, we got a lot going on here.
00:02Just, let's see, T-minus, what, 48 hours and counting
00:05before we actually have a football game,
00:09our first football game there right here to start the season.
00:13I cannot believe it.
00:15We made it.
00:15Paul Faden is here.
00:17We made it.
00:17And I believe Carson Beck was announced as the starter for the Cardinals.
00:24So, yeah, so we're going to – it's not going to be good football.
00:27Yeah, Pickett versus Carson Beck for the opening game on Thursday night
00:33for the Hall of Fame game.
00:35Cardinals taking on the Panthers.
00:36I'm expecting good things from the Panthers this year
00:39because I'm thinking Bryce John's going to take that next step again.
00:43But the Cardinals, I'm still a little hesitant about.
00:48But either way, we get our first crack at both these teams on Thursday,
00:52and that means it won't be long before college football is also upon us
00:58in a few weeks.
00:59Crazy.
01:00I've always said – I've said it here on this show, and, man,
01:04I'm going on like eight or nine years here at Sports Grid.
01:06I've always said that football season doesn't really start
01:10with the Hall of Fame game, but I think the awareness that football is back
01:15starts with the Hall of Fame game.
01:17You know, I think that's when people are aware, okay,
01:20like we're getting closer again.
01:21So I guess, first of all, I will not watch this, but I will ask you this.
01:26So I'm going to give you an over-under, Joe, over-under on four
01:31and a half real minutes, four and a half football minutes of you watching
01:37that preseason game tomorrow night.
01:39Not four and a half minutes, four and a half football minutes
01:43in that game tomorrow night, over or under for you.
01:48It will – it will – it'll be close, but I would say it will be the over.
01:53Oh, I gave you a good number.
01:55I gave you a good number.
01:56Only in the second half, though, because I never watched the first half
02:01of these games because from a betting perspective – you know this, Craig –
02:05nothing is ever decided in the first half in preseason football.
02:09If you're betting preseason football, A, there's a phone number you need to call,
02:15but B, these games are always decided in the second half.
02:20Why?
02:21And one of the things that I'll always do is go, show me exactly who the backup –
02:26who are the quarterbacks playing and who's got the most experience
02:29at the backup quarterback position because the second half is what determines
02:34whether a guy – you win, you lose, it covers, it doesn't, it goes over.
02:39I will say this, for how many years?
02:41I think last year was an outlier, but these first games have always been
02:46total of 30, 31, 32, right?
02:50Right.
02:50Like you see some of the –
02:51Right.
02:51I would not expect a ton of offense in these early games here,
02:57but it will be good just to be able to flip – if you're flipping around,
03:00Craig, right, just, oh, look at that, it's football back.
03:03How long does that usually take you?
03:0530 seconds before it immediately gets turned off?
03:08Yeah.
03:0930?
03:09Yeah.
03:09Pretty much, man, pretty much.
03:11I really don't watch a lot of the preseason.
03:14And they've really destroyed the preseason, which is fine because they have
03:18these joint practices and that's it.
03:19They consider that.
03:21Now the preseason.
03:22The preseason is for – from my understanding, Joe, is for the roster bubble guys.
03:26That's pretty much it now.
03:28It's for the guys who they're thinking of keeping on the team or not.
03:30None of the guys, none of the starters even really play.
03:33It used to be so different.
03:34Four preseason games.
03:35Nobody plays in the first.
03:36Nobody plays in the fourth.
03:38Guys play a little in the second.
03:40And everybody plays in the third.
03:41Now, guys don't play at all, right?
03:44So someone's out there right now, Joe, listening to you going,
03:47Googling, where is Gardner Minshew?
03:50To what team is he up?
03:51Is he going to bet that team in the second half?
03:54Yes.
03:54And then the other thing that I would remind – now, I don't know about this year.
03:59Okay?
03:59I don't know the answer.
04:01But historically speaking, for whatever reason and whatever trend, Joe,
04:07I think people forget this every year and then it happens.
04:09The Ravens win every preseason game.
04:11I don't know why, but they do.
04:14They win every preseason game.
04:17Right.
04:17But he's gone.
04:18So now is it the Giants?
04:20Are the Giants going to win every preseason game?
04:22Do you remember this, right?
04:24Like the Ravens not only win, cover every preseason game.
04:28So are we taking that now to New York?
04:32Is that what happens here?
04:33I'll keep an eye on that.
04:35That was always a Harbaugh mentality.
04:39Harbaugh's concept from when he first got the gig, right,
04:42was that winning is a culture,
04:46which means that every time we step on the field,
04:49our goal is to win the game.
04:51You know, if you go 0-4, he wanted nothing to do.
04:56He wanted winning, winning, winning, and winning.
04:58And boy, oh boy, for what?
05:00How many years?
05:01You know, over a decade and a half?
05:03We got nothing but cover, cover, cover, Harbaugh, cover, win.
05:08Like he never lost in the preseason.
05:11I will be betting the Giants a lot this preseason.
05:14I think we're going to know pretty quickly
05:16whether or not that is the same philosophy
05:20at this point in his career as a head coach
05:22where winning is a culture.
05:24And you and I both know the Giants
05:26have not done a lot of winning over the last few seasons.
05:31So this could be interesting.
05:33I think you're on to something there, Craig.
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