PMS 2.0 1641 - TNF Preview/Picks, Bryce Young, Kirk Herbstreit, Georgia Head Coach Kirby Smart, Tyrese Haliburton, Coach Chuck Pagano, & AJ Hawk

Pat McAfee (0:00)

Hello, beautiful people. And welcome to our humble abode, The Draft King's Thunderdome. On this NFL Week 5, Kip-Lock Thursday, October 8, 2046, the sports program begins now.

He is the greatest, and joining us today is a man who has coached football for 37 years, 19 in the pros, 18 in college. Our coach, ladies and gentlemen, Chuck Pagano. Good to see you, Coach Pagano. Also, The Toxic Table is here at Boston Conner, and at Ty Schmidt. Ty, how you doing, pal?

Ty Schmidt (0:32)

Doing pretty darn good. You know, week five already, crazy. Baseball season's over, unfortunately, so now it's just, we're full bore into football season, which is the way it should be.

Pat McAfee (0:41)

Listen, mathematics aren't happy with AI right now, okay? Because AI is solving centuries-long math equations that are wonders of the world that these mathematics were trying to get to the bottom of, then AI figures it out. So we'd like to let the mathematics know that they still feel as if they are an important part of society. On that note, Mathematist, Connor, what's the percentage of the season that we're about to be through here with week five kicking off already?

Boston Connor (1:04)

Yeah, we are already 23.5% through the season. After this weekend, after Monday night football, we will be over 29% through the season. So take it in, soak it in. It's a rare thing to have a great season like this.

Pat McAfee (1:15)

See, the Englishians are gonna get upset about me saying mathematician instead of mathematician, but I know that they're both scientists and mathematicians coming together for the mathematician world, and we love them, and we appreciate whenever math comes in and reminds us that we need to enjoy every single one of these. Let's go to one half of the hammer.

Cowboys, AP Tone. Tonight, eight and a half points spread at home. Cowboys favored with the Bucs coming to town. How do you feel about it? Why do you think it's so many points? Is this Bucs team dead? Is that what they're saying?

SPEAKER_4 (1:41)

Well, yeah, the and 4 Bucs public perception is that they are very, very much dead. That kind of goes into the line as well. The Cowboys coming off a huge last second couple wins that they've seen there against the Houston Texans that everyone saw. So public perception is on the Cowboys. You got Jalen Daniels, a rookie, undrafted free agent quarterback. This is all going into the line tonight, baked into there. And also the Bucs haven't covered 13 straight games. So that's also, also 13 straight dating back to last season that they have not covered the spread.

Pat McAfee (2:18)

Oh, oh, for the last, so what? Man, somebody found that early. Somebody was in there like the second week this was happening. It's like, you know what? I'm just betting against the Bucs. I'm just betting against the Bucs. And they've been living quite a little high life. And this has been a guarantee. A matter of fact, the Buccaneers, we thought potentially had positive energy coming into the season because they got deals done with Vita. They got deal done with Baker Mayfield, even though both of those felt like they were in the rear view and they're going to have to move on. It was going to be a rebuilding process in Buccaneer world.

Instead, they just don't play good football. Then, Bate gets hurt. Now, you got a rookie, Jalen Daniels coming in. He can run.

He can run his ass off. We've seen him in college, obviously, for a lot of good football. Now, he's with the Bucs getting an opportunity against the Green Bay Packers, had it close, could have made a couple of big plays down the stretch and win that game for them. Maybe he has a big night against the Cowboys defense. It hasn't been necessarily fantastic, but we are hoping that he runs good.

Ty Schmidt (3:10)

Aren't we, Tone?

Pat McAfee (3:11)

We are hoping that Jalen will run his ass off, which is certainly possible. We do believe he could throw the ball. He is a potential NFL quarterback long term, but with his legs, he's really a weapon, and we think he'll get scrambled, pushed out, maybe by the Cowboys defense, try to make some plays, and he'll be able to run. And we also think CD Lam is going to continue to eat after his record-setting performance last weekend. Our super boost tonight by land, Jalen Daniels, air and sea combined, CD Lam. We are going to be boosting CD Lam's 60-plus receiving yards tonight, Jalen Daniels' 40-plus rushing yards. We will be boosting to plus 150 Shout out to DraftKings making that happen. Lot going on in the DraftKings world right now and in the predictive marketing world, it does feel like. But for tonight, we will be boosting this to plus 150 I don't know when it goes live. Does it go live immediately?