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Don't Drop The Soap Sports
Episode 88
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This week, it's the NFL Draft post-mortem. Then, Hocevar and Talladega. Plus, two big PGA tournaments coming up and Fabio says Matt Fitzpatrick is on fire, but will he win?
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SPEAKER_03What happened on Saturday is not gonna happen on Sunday, just like what happened on Friday night doesn't happen on Saturday.
SPEAKER_00He's even got good life advice. If you slap your wife, you're going to jail. With this kind of talent, he needs a sidekick. We'll call him Fabio. And I like the way you're talking. With cell phone in hand, he's a sports talk freak show.
SPEAKER_01How are they gonna be able to bond as a team? And that defense hasn't proven anything. They're gonna be able to put up a ton of points, possibly, but how many are they gonna give up?
SPEAKER_00But then along comes another sports talk know it all.
SPEAKER_02They had every opportunity to win that game.
SPEAKER_00His name is Rodney.
SPEAKER_02Especially if they get home field advantage. Only got to win two games.
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SPEAKER_03Three, two, one, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to another episode of Don't Drop the Soap Sports. I am King Nutt, joined by my fabulous Fabio, Ira Peters out of Western North Carolina. Without today, our sponsor, Rodney Cole, bit under the weather. We're being brought to you by Rodney Cole Insurance at Rodney ColeInsuranceAgency.com or 804-569-6208. They have every insurance need you might ever need, and they have it at a cheap rate with great service. He's got a great staff over there. I stay with all my needs from auto home. I got a life policy with him. I got several policies with him. I think I got a renter's with him through an apartment my son or a house my son made a bad decision with. Start to another day. And also on Game Day Grill Up on 301, where you can have tacos today because we are recording on a Tuesday. It's Taco Tuesday, Wing Wednesday. They have trivia Thursdays, they have chef specials Friday and Saturday, and they always have they got one night, and I forgot what night it is, where they got uh music as the bingo, or you know, that you hear a song and you you have it on your card, and there it is. Anyway, buddy, how are you down there in the great state? I am I am great. Going through a storm right now, but we'll be good. Hopefully that doesn't shock you through your mic. Just keep stay back. Stay back. Stay back. All right, we're gonna cover off the draft and what we feel won and lost. Everybody says this, but I have always been one that says a draft doesn't win or lose for three years. Now there's a particularly part of it. It looks good on paper, and there are instant impact people. I'm not saying that, but a complete draft you can grade now because you're a guy like Kuyper or somebody that this is what they do for a living. Somehow somebody convinced them. It's almost like a guy runs a fantasy football show. Like, are you serious, Clark? I mean, you get to do this for a living. So I just don't get it. And then we'll we're gonna cover a little golf and a little NASCAR before we get out. Also, wanted to tell you the baseball race is getting pretty good. The Braves are 20 and 9, so we're 30 games into it. Braves hold the best record. The Yankees have gotten hot again. That West Division NL looks good. Uh the Central, I'm shocked. The Pirates are still in there above. I think they're all winning records with the exception of the Brewers, who I think people thought were going to win the division to begin with. So a lot of baseball, NBA not paying attention. NHL, my uh Penguins are down 3-2 because they did pull out another victory yesterday with the Flyers. A lot of good series there. Hockey and NBA, I think, are two sports because of the way their seasons work. Wouldn't you say they're two sports that people gain playoff interest and may not have watched a damn game during a year?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, those seasons are so long, and every game doesn't matter as much as a as an NFL game, right? Because there's so few of them. I think people just wait, wait, wait. Okay, here's here's what I'm gonna watch, here's what I'm gonna root for. Just wait till the end of the year. That that's what I do.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, I mean, but also too, I I don't again, I watch so little NBA. I turned a game on the other day, and I think it was damn, I can't even remember. Maybe it was Minnesota's Memphis. I think it was an M. Um, and then you see a player, oh hell, I remember him in college, and he's 12 years into the C into the league, and well, he's an old guy for for the league, you know. So it's a little bit different. Let me ask you back to the draft thing here. You know, Rodney covered off. I I thought the Vikings uh uh scratched my head a little bit, but we'll again three years into it, you don't know. Uh the Steelers had two head scratchers. I thought that the last pick was awesome, you know, a Pittsburgh kid in the Naval Academy. And I told my sons every mock draft I'd ever done, I'd pick that kid just because when I watched him for Navy, how impressive he was. He has very similar numbers in every category to Christian McCaffrey. So they from size to speed to how many bench press reps he you know everything he he could do was was uh right there with McCaffrey. And I thought it was a good ending to have him on the stage kind of to wrap that draft up. And the draft went well. It was over 800,000 people between the three days in Pittsburgh. Cleveland did well, uh, but they'll screw it up. Uh Philly did what they do very well. Uh, and there were some teams of head scratchers. The Jaguars had virtually no picks and they swapped picks around and they drafted people, and you wanted to call somebody and go, hey man, do they drug screen where y'all work? Because uh they do where I do. So uh anyway, what did you like about it?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you you mentioned some of them I like. I I think Philly always does a great job, whether it's through the draft or through through free agency, and they did a really good job once again. Cleveland on paper, they did do a great job. I think the Giants did a good job in this one. I think my Raiders did a phenomenal job. I liked the I liked every pick that they did. Uh, they did reach on a couple, but I like what they've done, what they tried to assess. Wish we would have looked at receiver a little bit more, but uh, we'll see. Uh with some of the free agents, maybe they'll be okay. But I thought those teams did really good with it. You did mention Jacksonville. It's almost like they didn't address the needs that they had that they needed. I was shocked at some of the the big blockbuster trades that we're used to. We didn't see any of that. The AJ Brown's still out there. I thought something would happen with Pickens. He's still, you know, he still signed that franchise tag. So there's still a lot to be done. I mean, it's not over all the moves aren't. So, but the draft was it very interesting. Um I was very excited about it, liked how it took place, and continues to be a bigger and bigger event for an NFL, which is exactly what they want. You talk about almost a million people. Uh, just imagine what that did to the economy of Pittsburgh over that weekend. So I think it's in DC next year, so uh we'll continue to see the great things out of the draft.
SPEAKER_03You mentioned about the draft. The NFL by far as a league does the best with making what used to be some sh you read about in the paper on Monday a bigger deal, right? They they're it's an event now. Yeah, it's big. My wife and I were talking about the booze for Goodell, and I, you know, she doesn't pay close attention, but she does know who he is, and she knows I don't like him. And there's several reasons I don't like him. One, I think this league instead of just being a league turned into a justice organization, they got a cause for everything. It doesn't matter what it is. But I can tell you the guy's handsomely compensated, but maybe rightfully somehow this league has just grown. I mean, intern I don't like the international shit, but I mean LA starting a game in Australia or New Zealand or something to start the year with uh the 49ers and the Rams. You got a Brazil game. They're doing something to try to make it bigger and better everywhere. So kudos to them about how they do that. And again, some of their stances on things are needed and true, but late and then won't be let go. So let go of something to how how you gotta get things accomplished to people because when I turn on the TV to for three hours, or in my case, ten hours on Sunday afternoon, Thursday night, Monday night, sometimes Friday and Saturday. I'm watching a game to I don't want to think about sh other than that football game. That's how America I mean, we can all find common ground in that, right? Yeah. Well when you said how the draft worked and how they make it a bigger deal, the way they have the green room and have kids that are sitting. I mean, you look at a kid from that sat back there for a day and then you had another one that decided not to come back that was invited to that top twenty-one. Goodell's the ownership's gotta all the sh you may put up with him, there's something about the way he's leading the league is taking them to new heights, and the other leagues only wish they could mimic it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, they just print money. I mean, really, right? Yeah. And I think the NFL's gotten as big as it can get in the United States. So that's what they're it could easily become a world game, and that's what they're trying to do. I mean, even with this, I'm I'm I'm not a fan of it. I wasn't a fan of it when I was a kid, flag football, but even them participating in that the way they have, trying to gr get more interest in the game has been a big deal. I mean, you know, everywhere else in the world, football's uh a little round ball that you kick. Roger Goodell in the NFL is trying to change that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, one of those skits uh Nate Baghazi does where he's done funny ones about Washington, D.C. or about George Washington, et cetera. But one of the one he goes, uh, we'll call this game football. No, you throw it with your hand. Uh little kicking. Yeah, a little kicking. A little kicking. One point, it does depend, three points or one point. Sometimes one. That guy's funny as hell. No, he's great. Flag football, you mentioned a really good deal. Uh, particularly, they just saw they made they announced in that draft push it, pushes, which one of the things they do that kind of irritates me too. Flag football is now a sport recognized by the Maryland High School Association, so they now have women's uh flag football, which is cool, and I think it's a great story, and it's all due to the NFL again, but it's how they they're big on this, how they stance things and promote it. But enough of that chat. I want to ask you this question. All right. You said something about Jacksonville not meeting needs, and we had the conversation after the first round. You draft what I feel is the best player, particularly in those first few rounds, and then you go back and maybe you start saying, hey, here's five players we had equal. Uh, what do I need? A left guard, a safety, or a wide receiver, and then you pick by the need. Uh some people are need picks to begin with. Some had glaring need, like the Raiders, they knew they needed the quarterback, but they also knew they needed to line. They had a couple defensive holes they were looking for, entire new coaching staff. So you got a new philosophy kind of coming in. So maybe some of those players, even that were there, don't fit this new philosophy, right? Was there any pick anywhere? You know, was it a reach what the Rams did with that quarterback situation? Those things. I think I yeah, I do.
SPEAKER_02I mean, if you look at that pick uh in particular, I mean, we all we all three of us last year talked about how great the Rams were. If they'd have been to went to the Super Bowl, they would be the champs. Yeah. I mean, it was just getting there. Did that pick help them in 2026? It did not, unless Stafford gets hurt. I mean, that's the only way that that helps. And could they have put another weapon around him? Could they have put another lineman around him, another defensive piece that would say I've got a quarterback that's in the late prime of his career and don't have many more runs with him instead of building towards the future of that team. So yeah, I think I think it was a reach. I mean, nobody projected him to go 13. I mean, he was late first round, early second round type of a pick. So I I do think it is. I if you're talking about a team that wants to win now, that wouldn't have been the pick that I would have took for him.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we we all said they're close, right? I mean, yeah, hell they were within a possession of Seattle, and then or you got a different Super Bowl champion. I I agree with that. I'm also glad they took Ty Simpson, so there was no damn chance in hell Pittsburgh could take him, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER_02I still think he would have looked good in silver and I mean in uh black and gold.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I saw Kenny Pickett is what I saw. Just a little bit taller version, a little bit thinner.
SPEAKER_02Um if you start thinking about like Devontae Adams, he's he's 34 years old. For a wide receiver in NFL, that's getting old. I know he caught a ton of touchdowns last year, but he caught them from the one-yard line, most of them. Hey, and he feels like he was dominant.
SPEAKER_03Yes, who was there? Mikhail Lemon was still there. Yes, he was there. And that was the Eagle Stealer debacle that the dumbass Cowboys decided to trade within there. I hope every time Mikhail Lemon steps on a field against the Dallas Cowboys, he has 30 catches. I hope, I hope they run every play just to him. And I I hope they beat him by 30, and I want to talk to Jerry Jones and his son, that son that has that never mind, I'm gonna get mad, and we're not here for my madness. I'm gonna throw I'm gonna throw something to you and I want your opinion of this. So we talk about needs, best player, how it works. We think the Raiders did good, really good. The Jets I thought did fairly well. The Giants I thought did fairly well. I scored them a little higher than what the draft experts, so-called experts, say. The Eagles killed it as they normally do, including a trade with Minnesota to get an edge rusher that they needed and they didn't think there was value in the draft. Roseman's a genius. We just knocked that off. They're good. I thought other people like that the Steelers, they gave a B. And the reason because I pay close attention, I'm gonna give you and then ask your opinion of this. So we all we did the show after the first round, the Steelers, the whole lemon thing backs up. Then they take this tackle, didn't play from Nigeria, didn't play till he was held second year of high school or college or something, then, and he is a freak. So when they played AM, I went back and watched the tape. You had two highly rated pass rushers, two highly picked pass rushers, he gave up zero pressures no matter which one he saw. Still has some footwork issue, et cetera. So although it said, hey, this is not the guy, it may not be a bad pick, particularly when you have Broderick Jones, you don't know what this neck thing is. And then you go get a wide receiver, this Jeremy Bernard. I think he's uh a good slot receiver, it's gonna help it. And the reason I'm running through this is I want another so I say there was two areas of need, and then they get uh Dunker, the big redhead mullet guy from Iowa that's a tackle with poor footwork, but he's a mauler, so they're gonna move him to guard. They had a need at left guard, and that's who what I thought they'd take, but they still had the kid from Georgia Tech there. So everybody does these draft boards, including each team, and so to me it showed the Steelers had the kid from Iowa higher than the kid from Georgia Tech, right? That that happens between teams. Then they go with Drew Aller, which after McCarthy has said good things about Will Howard, I think studied rehearsed really good things, or maybe they're true. And then you get this kick returner from Iowa that's and Pittsburgh had a glaring when Calvin Austin left to go to the Giants, you don't have a putting turn anymore. There's nobody there return punches, nobody returned kicks, and this kid was the best in college football, period. So I'm gonna stop there and ask you a question. I'm using the Steelers, it could be any team. Yeah. We said as you get to the later rounds, you start looking at need, and people had him as a fifth or sixth round pick. The Steelers reach up the fourth to get him. In that fourth round pick, because that's that glaring to that team, is that a good or bad thing when we talk about best available player?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, the way I look at it, I think the first couple of rounds are really I I know that guy, you've heard of this guy, you've known that guy. After about the second, about the third or fourth round, it I really think it becomes a scouting and need to draft. What I mean by that is that there's people that got drafted I didn't know existed. And and and probably never will know they existed. And somebody went, watched them, like what they saw, and said that's going to fit with what we're doing with our team. It may not be the best available player, but it may be you may not need a wide out, right? But you you have a glaring hole at offensive tackle. So later into the rounds, I don't I think you pick your needs versus the best player because you may have that best player already at that position. And I think that's what you're seeing a lot of it, where you just went through the Steelers. And the same could be said for anyone, but the first couple rounds, I would always take best available player and then build off of that from what my internal team needs from that. And if I had, for the sake of it, if I had extra picks, it'll be offensive line, defensive line, because you can't ever have enough of those people.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you let them battle it out too. You see who's the best, and there there are several linemen in the NFL, a lot, I would say more than any position that are either late round or undrafted free agents that are still playing. And some of them at a high level, right? Because you got you got to have them there. So uh that's exactly the way I thought, except for when we're having these group text messages about this, and then the Nexus Steelers pick a tight end, and several of my close compadres, including one of my kids, just absolutely loses mom. We we missed Harold Perkins, the linebacker still there. Okay, well, dude, we got five inside linebackers on the roster from Patrick Queen, you know, all the way to Peyton Wilson. I mean, they they're they're not perfect, but hell, a fifth rounder is not gonna help them there. You know what I'm saying? Like it's not a roster spot, but they only have two tight ends, and Connor Hayward went to the Raiders. Uh they cut Parm, and John O. Smith experiences over, thank goodness. And so now they gotta have, but Connor Hayward was an H-back. This kid they drafted as a tight end also has full backup. So there is a need. That's right. It's not sexy, and you have people all throughout this this analyst role that will just speak to speak. We're you and I were just speaking because we love to talk to each other, and that's right. Maybe 150, 200 people listen to us every week. But we want to make sure that you get the player that you need, and and only the teams that are there believe that need. Now, there's sometimes Jacksonville picked a couple of players when I went, holy hell. What are you thinking, guys? And they're they've the ones that put Cleveland in the shape they were in with trading to get what they got last year, and a guy who they're not sure is a D B or wide receiver, and he's hurt.
SPEAKER_02He'll continue to stay hurt. Yeah. Because you can't play a man that much. You can't practice him that much on both sides of the ball, and you can't play him that much, and not in NFL. It's he's gonna get beat up doing that. They're gonna have to pick what he's gonna become.
SPEAKER_03I don't except for uh Heinreich, the guy that the Steelers picked, and that wasn't just because of Steelers. It was a great story from Pittsburgh. Naval performed, led him in receiving and rushing, insane. That was my favorite. Was there a player you really liked that went somewhere that it it it may not even been the Raiders?
SPEAKER_02It was the Raiders, actually, for me. That fourth round, the Jamon McCoy, everybody had him put way up on the board. He has ACL problems, knee problems, and anybody could, right? I mean, Tom Brady was the steal of a draft too, but he could be the steal of this draft if we can get him healthy and and and play correct. I mean, he could be a number one starting cornerback for that team. So in the fourth round, you've taken needs, and I would I don't mind them reaching for someone that has that ability, and everybody else might be a little bit afraid of. It's a fourth round pick. Yeah, it's not like it's going to kill you at the end of the day.
SPEAKER_03He was ranked like 21st on most people's draft board. Peyton Wilson, the Steelers got two years ago, the linebacker from uh NC State had had three knee operations already, and it took him in the third round. And the upside was, hey, Bill Polyon said this. If a kid gives you five years, you win. Because he's the fastest guy around, he's ball instinct, etc. McCoy's gonna be the same way. Now, regime, I think having somebody like Brady there is gonna help what the Raiders do from a stability standpoint. Yeah, well, I think it you know, could see a return there. Cleveland two kodas to them, not only they have the ugliest uniforms in football, they get shit on all the time. But if you use Tide, you can wash it right out of there. Turn to brown right back to white. Hey, quickly before we move on, I wanted to tell you I saw something cool on the Hope for the Warriors website. Uh uh, folks, if you're looking for a charity to donate to, a four-star 92.8 charity. So 92 cent of every dollar goes to actual event, not the overhead cost as compared to some. Hope for the warriors.org. They had a NFL draft. They got Hope and their staff and some other uh wounded vets that played uh uh the Move United Sport, Bob Woodrow Foundation. I'm seeing watching it, they actually. Actually, had all the teams represented. They played wheelchair football inside, and uh it looked like a great cause. Uh, we support that big, and I uh encourage you to. We're being brought to you by Rodney Coinsurance at Rodney Coinsuranceaz.com at 804-569-6208. They got a need. If you have a need for insurance, they got a way to help you. Great staff, give them a call or go online and look for a quote. All right, drafts done. Now the next big thing for the NFL will be the schedule release, which they do again. People, I I'm one of the idiots that sit baited breath to see which games I'm gonna go to. Uh, and they're very good about when, who, where, timing, where the Steelers, Ravens play every year, what part of the season. It's usually the last game of the year, and maybe a few weeks earlier, so there's still some bang up happening. They're good at where San Francisco and and LA are gonna start the season in an international game. They're good at where Dallas plays internationally because they're a popular team. But we're moving on a little bit here to NASCAR. So I'm gonna let you give your Talladega perspective because our boy finally gets his win, right? It's a big deal. Big, big deal.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, there's gonna be more of those. Oh, there's gonna be more of them. We talked a couple weeks ago about uh the Gibbs boy winning his race, and I said coasting Hosevara will be the next guy, and be damned if it wasn't the next race.
SPEAKER_03It's serious, you know. Like um more to come. But a buddy of mine called me and said, uh, hey, I'm watching a race, and and you and I were talking offline. He says, I said, I didn't think you were a race guy. And he said, Well, hell I wasn't, but I had a couple beers and I got interested, and those cars are going really fast. And he says, You've been to a lot of races. You ever been to Talladega? I said, dude, I have been to Talladega, but when I went to Talladega, they weren't an April and late season race. I I think they were around June and July, like they went back to back months. And he goes, You sh me? I said, buddy, the only thing hotter than Talladega in July is hell. And I went, lost 11 pounds, drank a case of beer, and still walked straight. It was incredible. And then I looked it up, so I couldn't remember which one I went to, but I as soon as I saw it, I knew it was it. I was at the 95 Die Hard 500 at Talladega on July 23rd, won by Sterling Marlin, who held off Dale Jarrett and Dale Earnhardt, and it was famous for Ken Schrader's flipping accident on lap 139, it says. And Sterling Marlin, remember that was the old Morgan McClure days. He was a genius drafting. So if there was anybody as good as Earnhardt drafting, it was Sterling, and ironically, they were involved in the same accident that took Dale's life. Uh again, no, that was not something Sterling did in pop and poor, and he was in a Dodge by then. So I was pulling for the old 40 silver bullet. Now he couldn't spell silver bullet, but some bitch could drive one. So what did you see in this race, particularly about Hosevar you liked?
SPEAKER_02Well, you saw the typical, oh sh, there's the big one. Uh we saw that one. Uh, and everybody giving Bubba Wallace a lot of crap about that. Um if you go back and look at the replay, he was definitely um the run come from about five cars back, and and they just shoved, they just tried to drive through him. Um did take out about half the field in that. But after that, it does become an opp opportunity for someone. And Carson Hosevar ran up front uh after that wrecked the entire race. Um good pit stops, good that uh good timing as far as um who he's having push him there towards the end and just um the elation and his victory uh celebration, unlike anything that anybody had ever seen. It's just really cool to see a a kid that get that excited versus someone, well, hell, we've seen them win again, but you didn't know what he was going to do. Just the last year and a half really for him's not been easy. He's he's made a lot of mistakes out on the track, being very aggressive. But bringing a team like Spire Motorsports to Victory Lane is a big deal uh to continue to grow them as a as an organization. This kid's contract, he's under contract, but when he's when his contract's up, you're gonna see him in a Hendrick car or a Gibbs car. You're gonna see him somewhere like that. I know you probably want to see him in a Dodge, but don't know. But it was really cool to see what he had done. And I think he'll only build on this. And uh uh first of many, I believe.
SPEAKER_03You said something about Dodge and who he's gonna go. Now, here's what I'd tell you. I saw this happen with Martin Truex with front row. Remember when he started like damn, that's 78 cars up there all the time. Who is this kid? But he just doesn't have and then they make an agreement, they get Hendrix Motors, right? Yeah, and then he wins a couple, you know, now he's in there. That organization got bigger sponsorship, bigger money, uh, still based in Colorado. I never understood that. But and then they were performance-wise. Now, you said he's under contract, you know he'll go to Gibbs or Penske or Hendrick or somewhere. Isn't this the right time if you're somebody like Dodge? Like a sponsor that says, Hey, I got a NASCAR backing. What if you're now gonna inject and infuse money and say, hey, sign that kid for 10 years, I'll give you the money. We need to keep him here, and we're gonna build this program or this team around him. Is that as likely as going to one of the big ones? Or do every one of them say, Hell, I'm gonna go win and then I'm gonna have my pick to be able to go where Joe is or where Rick is or where Roger is, etc.
SPEAKER_02It's a option, but what I think is even you talked about Martin Truex, he ended up in a Gibbs car. I think it by nature these drivers are very selfish people, meaning they're I want to win, right? And they're gonna put themselves in the best position for that. Whether if Spire Motorsports continues to while he's under their contract, continues to rise like they are, maybe he does stay there, but I think he'll you'll see him in a proven car. There's not a lot of commodities like Coast and like him out there right now. So I think you're gonna see him put himself in the best position to win.
SPEAKER_03He runs good at every track. It doesn't matter whether it's Bristol or Martinsville. I mean, his equipment may not be quite as good, but uh and so there's an equalizer when you get on these drafting tracks, but he's as good driving wise, and and I always listen to what Dick Petty says because Dick always says that the best driver he had seen talent-wise was Kyle Bush. He said that cat, you know, he calls that by cat could win the Sherman tank. And he actually said the other day on an interview I saw him he feels sorry for Bush because he hasn't this car is not good for a guy like him because he was a driver. He outdrove people, and this is uh a different package.
SPEAKER_02You're talking about the drivers, you think about some of the dry spells that some of these guys have been on. I mean, it's been almost a year since Larson has won a race, almost a year since Joey Logano's won a race. I mean, there's a lot of people sitting right now going, man, we if we could only win one, and it's just it's just not happening right now. You're seeing a lot of uh Denny Hamlin's winning, a lot of those type of things. So we're going to Texas next.
SPEAKER_03And that's one of those cookie cutters again that they built all at the same time.
SPEAKER_02So this is a road course after that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Now, Hosevar, this is something on this mile and a half. This is where the Gibbs and Hendrick cars and and occasionally Pence, this is where they separate because those are the tracks that are common and that's what they're they're good at.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, this is where you're gonna see the I think you'll see Ryan Blaney back up there again. You're gonna see the Gibbs cars back up there. I still don't think the Chevies have figured out this new arrow package for them. So I think they'll struggle a little bit there.
SPEAKER_03Hey, Ryan Blaney and this kid Rodriguez, the linebacker got drafted by Miami. They got the two most impressive ugly mustaches I've seen in my life.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think the mustache owns Ryan Blaney. It's not the other way around. Yeah, that's a good point. He grew a Ryan Blaney, the mustache did.
SPEAKER_03That's a Chuck Norris type thing.
SPEAKER_02That is right.
SPEAKER_03All right, let's close this real quick. You got two golf tournaments, one coming this week, and then what was the Wells Fargo is now the truest, right? That's correct. At Quail Hollow and Charlotte. Who's hot right now?
SPEAKER_02I mean, is Scheffler? No, the hottest man on the planet right now is Matt Spitzpatrick. He is his last five starts, he's won three of them. He's finished second in the other one, and bless his heart, he tied for 18th in the other one. And he's moved up to number three in the world. He's the hottest golfer on the planet right now. And he won with his brother last week, which was pretty cool with that uh Zerk Classic where you team up as a partner and they ended up winning it. So it's a big deal for his brother as well there. But yeah, but it's a signature event. You're gonna see all the big names in the next two events. Um they have to play in them. Scotty's Scotty's right there. He's finished second or third in in all these events. He's just if he could just get started on on Thursday, that's where he's struggling is in early, early rounds. Because he finishes like a thoroughbred coming down uh finishing the W early here.
SPEAKER_03No doubt. Now let me ask you quickly on this. Fitzpatrick, you say, is on fire, which I agree, and could be and moved up to three. Does he win at least one of these two? He does not.
SPEAKER_02Ah I think the emotion of the last last couple events. I mean, he he beat Scotty in a playoff down in um Harbortown, beat him down there, and then he him with his brother last week. You could see some cracks because he was trying to win so hard for his brother, because with that, he gets all those exemptions, Alex does. So I just think the what he's been through over the last couple weeks, he's gonna be emotionally drained from it. Uh but I I think Scotty will win one of them, and I think Roy will win the other one.
SPEAKER_03Golfers tend to have that where they we say, well, hey, we're about to write them off, and then they somewhere reach, yeah. Then they reach inside and they find something different and they come back and get it.
SPEAKER_02So um if I had to pick Scotty wins this week and Roy wins in Charlotte. All right. He plays Quail Hollow really good.
SPEAKER_03Folks, you you heard it first here from the Which means you bet the other way no matter what. The last year you gave me two sixes. One I won a bunch of money on, four or five hundred dollars on a five dollar bet, and the other I think I won like twenty-five bucks. This year you gave me one, and DraftKings wanted more money from me. It was so poor. I was gonna check. They said, hey, it's five dollars. You owe me ten more just for placing this bet. Yeah, just for pissing them off. Yeah, so somebody was a long shot. Folks, if you got a question or comment, please email us at don't drop the soap sports at don't drop the soap sports at gmail.com. Sorry about that, at gmail, or you can go on the Facebook page, which I have a question that came from the Facebook page to you, Fabio, from Steven. He wants to know did the Buffalo Bills do enough in the offseason and through the draft to take back that division. Remember, they hadn't lost that division since 18. Did they do enough to unseat the Patriots?
SPEAKER_02They did. Patriots and Patriots do not make the playoffs this year. I think you're gonna see the regression there uh just simply because of now they're playing a number one schedule, right? Where they played a three, I think they played a three last year, so they're not gonna be as well. I wish Buffalo would still figure out that wide receiver room. I don't feel like they've done enough there, but uh I love a running back, obviously love their quarterback. I think their defense is solid. They just need a little bit more out of their wide receivers. I know they took a guy in the fourth round. I've never heard of him, Skyler Bell from Bon.
SPEAKER_03Dude, that guy's a route running genius. Well, that's the only guy they picked. Yeah, well, I think that's part of that too is they got a couple receivers that mimic him, which usually when I look at receiver, I want somebody different. So if I got a big body guy, I want a guy that runs patterns. But if I got a pattern guy, like they have what's the little kid they throw to all the time at or behind the line of screen. I know he's home at uh Shazir. Shaker Shakir, whatever. He that this Schuyler Bell is very similar except for he does have a very good route tree and and he's a strong catcher. I think it was a steal where they got him at. So he fell down there. So and they also got DJ Moore.
SPEAKER_02I keep forgetting about that. So they've done a little bit to improve it, but yes, they're gonna win their, they're gonna win that commerce. They're gonna make a deep run again, and uh Patriots will not make playoffs.
SPEAKER_03I like that. And then you got Vrabel and counseling. So uh And Vrabel's very active, if you know what I mean. Yeah, he's active. Folks, this will be posted. Uh I want to give a shout-out to our engineer, Chris Weigel, who works hard to patch all this stuff up and clean it up. Why dog, you are the man. Ira, you and I will chat later about our possibility of uh a dinner escapade, and uh we will chat soon, bud.
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