Bald Guys On The Bench
Bald Guys On The Bench
March Madness Mayhem: College Basketball, Golf Upsets, and NFL Rumors
Recorded March 30th, 2025
The Bald Guys are fired up as March Madness reaches its crescendo with all four #1 seeds making the Final Four for only the second time in tournament history. Graham and Scott dissect Duke's dominance after their dismantling of Alabama, who had previously set three-point shooting records against BYU. The guys break down each Sweet 16 and Elite Eight matchup, highlighting coaching decisions (or lack thereof) that shifted momentum in critical moments.
Beyond basketball, the podcast features an emotional segment about Gary Woodland's inspirational comeback story. After undergoing brain surgery less than two years ago—writing farewell letters to his family before the procedure—Woodland finished second at the Texas Open, shooting an incredible final-round 62. This remarkable return to form had both hosts reflecting on the power of perseverance in sports.
The NFL offseason discussion centers on quarterback movement, with speculation about Aaron Rodgers potentially retiring and whether Kirk Cousins might be traded again. The guys debate Pittsburgh's quarterback situation, with Scott boldly predicting they'll draft a quarterback in the first round despite needing immediate playoff success.
The episode concludes with Masters preview talk and a "Scotty's Hot Take" that Rory McIlroy will win multiple majors in 2024, including potentially completing his career Grand Slam at Augusta. With the championship game and Masters week both approaching, the timing couldn't be better for sports fans craving expert analysis delivered with the guys' signature unfiltered commentary.
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welcome to another episode of the bald guys on the bench podcast, with your hosts graham cohen and scott wasco what's up everyone and welcome back to another episode.
Scott:You know the bald guys on the bench. Sunday night Final Four is complete. I'm here with my boy, graham. What's going on in Vegas, graham? What you doing, bro?
Graham:What's good, brother, work is over with for the day. Super excited, Crazy weekend with the golf, crazy weekend with the college basketball. I'm ready to get into it, brother, but you know, like we always do before, what are we doing you? Know, I got these beers right here. Can we just grab one and crack one and start this off, right I?
Scott:thought you would never ask. Yeah, oh man. So like we were just sayingay night about 10 45 eastern time, uh, late start, but final four set golf was pretty good. Wasterdamus almost had a pick of the century. But, graham, before we get into any of that, how was your weekend?
Graham:Well you know, can I give a shout-out to Ford Motor Company? You guys are amazing.
Scott:Oh boy, here comes the first ever Graham Kick Rocks moment. I'm just saying if you're going to do a Kick Rocks moment, bro, you better get hype.
Graham:Oh. I mean if you want me to go hard in the paint, I'll go.
Scott:I mean, if you can't take the heat, get your ass out of the kitchen. We on a mission. I mean, let's go.
Graham:Luxury store does this.
Scott:When your boy, grammar Police, sells my co-host a extended warranty, yeah shit ain't probably gonna go the right way. Sorry, I just had to get that out of the way first. My bad, my bad, andy. It's got nothing to do with you, as far as you know it has nothing to do with you, andy, relax.
Graham:Um, you know, I was noticing these weird noises and I was like I better get this checked out now, mind you. Mind you, I've had my car, for it will be five years and a month and a half, right. So I'm like I don't. My warranty original warranty from Ford shouldn't be on there. All right, no big deal. So if that's the case, there'd be no reason for me to take it to the Ford dealership.
Graham:What mechanic do you use? He told me, dropped it off, went down there, did the whole thing, like, we'll get back to you. They get back to me and said, hey, we think it's this. This is not good. Do you still have a warranty? And I was like well, I gave you the information for the extended warranty that I got. And he said well, we talked to them and they said they'll cover it, but they need verification first from Ford to make sure that you don't have you're not still eligible on your existing warranty. I'm like, all right, I'll call up Ford, but I'm pretty sure I don't have it. Well, long story short, they did so because I'm still technically on the warranty. That ends next month.
Graham:By the way, the extended warranty I got was like well, we're not going to pay for it if you still are on your original warranty. And I'm like, well, this is bullshit, but I get it, you know, pass the buck. It is what it is. So I pick up the car and take it to the Ford dealership. Granted, I dropped it off. It was probably three o'clock in the afternoon and I knew they weren't going to take a look at it that night. But it is what it is. I told the person what I thought it was. I gave them the paperwork from the mechanic place that I was just at and said this is what they told me. They're like all right, well, we'll look into it. Wednesday goes by, thursday goes by, friday goes by, cr goes by, fridays goes by Crickets.
Graham:I'm like, all right, now, all these major dealerships now they're all hip with technology. So it's just like I got that automated text saying oh hey, thank you for choosing Ford and sending us your car. Text saying oh hey, thank you for choosing Ford and sending us your car. Click this link and it will take you to a portal that, basically, will tell you that we got your car and everything that we figure out with it. I'm like, all right, cool, so I click on it. Nothing.
Graham:Friday comes by. I'm like all right, let me give him a call and see what's going on. Give him a call. Crickets. All right, leave a message. Saturday comes around Nothing. At 10 am, 11, 12, 1, 2. Now it's almost 3 o'clock, nothing.
Graham:I call the number of the person that they have within the message that I got in the text Nothing. And I'm like you know what? I'm going? To call the dealership itself and then have them transfer me over. Do that get transferred over? And I'm like, yo, I haven't heard anything.
Graham:I left messages like oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we didn't get back to you. We didn't see the messages. I'm like, how did you not see the messages? I'm like, all right, whatever, fine, that's not the issue. I was just like hey, I haven't gotten any information on what's going on with the car and you've had my car since Wednesday. Yeah, about that. What do you mean about that? We haven't looked at it yet. What? What do you mean? You haven't looked at it yet? Yeah, well, we'll get around to it at the start of the week. Start of the week. What does that even mean? Is that Monday, tuesday, wednesday, oh, you know, whenever they have time to get to it, time to get to it, you've. I'm like you've had my car for four days already. If you get to it on Wednesday, you'll have my car for a week.
Graham:Like you told me that if it is what they say it is and it's covered by the warranty, you would get a loaner. I'm like all right, cool Cause, like I still need to get from point A to point B. Like I got a job. All right, I have a life Like what's up? Yeah, um, yeah. Well, here's the thing we can't give you the loaner until we actually diagnose your car and to make sure that what the other mechanic says is the issue is the issue which would be cover under your warranty. And then, therefore, we would give you the loaner.
Graham:And I'm like so I'm just supposed to be going around here taking Ubers, catching rides from people until you figure it out? Well, yeah, pretty much. And I was like what if I can't do that? She's like well, sir, there's really nothing I can do about it. I'm like, well, okay, what if I get a? What if I rent a car? She's like you can do that, but you still have to pay for the rental yourself. But then give us the information to submit it to Ford for us to reimburse you.
Graham:And I'm like what? I'm like this is ludicrous. So I'd have to. And plus, you know rental cars aren't cheap anymore. And then, my luck, I'd have to get the insurance with it, because you know, something's gonna happen out here. Dude, right, the a compact now is like 75 a day.
Graham:I'm like I'm not coming out of pocket 500 just to get from point a to point b. At this point it might be cheaper just to replace. It's like, dude, fuming, fuming, fuming. And I just like, now it's sunday, obviously nothing, and you know, because they're not open. But I said, oh, I'm like well, what about the other four dealerships? Can I just take my car somewhere else? And she's like, well, you can try, but you know they're kind of backed up too and I'm like how do you expect someone to leave your, their, their vehicle for an entire week? I mean, it hasn't been a week yet, but you make it sound like they're not going to get to it until Wednesday. How can you be that busy? Why can't you just say, hey, you can drop it off, but we won't get to it for a week, even though this is a warranty issue? That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
Scott:Okay, Are you fucking kidding me? As we continue to listen to this, I just gotta say this that was by far the weakest kick rock moment ever of the show. But oh, the best part about it is it may or may not have a little bit to do with grammar police.
Graham:I mean, it really doesn't, but it's just fun to throw it has nothing to do, I know, but it's just fun because you know it is what it is the audacity for ford to think like, oh, we'll get to it when we get to it, it doesn't matter if you need your car or not. Are you fucking kidding me right now for dealership?
Scott:kick fucking rocks on a side note, listeners, I don't know if you've noticed, in the apple podcast world or spotify podcast world, graham switched the lever over to we have bad words because of the f bombs we've been throwing out there in the last couple episodes. I never we haven't even talked about this, but I was like last couple we've been throwing them out there. We might need to, you know, throw the little thing out there. I don't know if you did it or if they listened to us and they were like, oh, my boy's out there throwing f-bombs.
Graham:But whatever you noticed that, yeah, I did.
Scott:Well, it was funny Kristen and I were talking about it a couple weeks ago and my dad and my dad's like, yeah, y'all been throwing some F-bombs out there. I'm like, yeah, we might need to change that little switch on the Apple thing. And then I looked like a week later and you had already done it. I was like, love it. So, with all that being said, let's fucking go.
Graham:so, with all that being said, let's fucking go well, dude, after our last episode, when I was editing it and I'm listening to it, I was like, yeah, I might have to.
Scott:For this episode, I gotta hit the button that says parental controls, just in case I mean and, by the way, instagram followers out there, as you're listening to this right now, I'm just gonna go ahead and accept all of you telling me thank you for the picture I put up of Paulina. I mean, are you kidding right now? Motorboat? I mean, that's the definition right there, not only was it an amazing picture of her female parts, she was at Augusta. I mean, you're welcome. I took a long time trying to find the perfect photo. Not saying I didn't like taking that much time looking for the perfect photo, but I accept Donata.
Scott:But I accept Donata and we appreciate all the effort that you put into finding the perfect photo for the real. I mean, when you're going to call, say, your motorboat, you better find the perfect picture of motorboat. I mean, like I said, you look up Wikipedia. If that ain't the goddamn picture, I don't know what is what is Anyhow. Oh man, we had to break the ice after that long ass story of Graham getting bitter Betty. Oh man, we had to have some laughs around here. Anyhow, is that all your weekend? I mean, what else you got going on?
Graham:Well, just some craziness at work, but it doesn't really matter. Well, some of it could be beneficial to me because I might have some more bar shifts coming up, but other than that, ain't shit. So just college basketball and losing bets, but yeah, pretty much just that. What about you, scott? How was your weekend? It was good.
Scott:Watching basketball. You know, march Madness 16 round. Thursday night, friday night, yesterday literally get home from work, dude, I had the Wasco sportsbook rolling. I think I told you about this last night when we were on the phone. I had the basketball on the TV, I had the Knights on one laptop and I had the Mets on the other laptop. So it was like the Wasco sportsbook for real. I had the Knights on one laptop and I had the Mets on the other laptop, so it was like the Wasco sports book for real. Fun weekend, you know, can't complain. All you people out there know I'm a golf pro, got some new sticks the other day, super pumped about them, played golf with my dad, his best friend Boyd and our boy Billy. Today down in Virginia Beach, first round with him, stoked, cooked up some steaks for the family and the significant other, andrew. You know, as I'm playing golf, kristen sends me a video of Kellen getting a haircut. He's been wanting a mullet and oh dude he got it.
Graham:And to be fair folks, it's not the traditional mullet. And oh dude, you got it. And to be fair folks, it's not the traditional mullet it's not the.
Scott:You know what's that show with Joe Dirt? Yeah, what was the hot chick's name in that movie? She's from North Carolina, that's all I know yeah, it'll get back to me. What is her name? We cannot continue until we know her in real life or in the movie. Who cares about the movie?
Graham:in real life.
Scott:I think it's something, daniels oh dude, he's got the fastest google going around joe dirt yeah, I'm googling. Joe dirt hot chick. Joe Dirt Hot Chick.
Graham:Brittany Daniels, I was right.
Scott:Or Daniel? Is that who it was? Is that her name? Yeah, I guess so no bro.
Graham:Yes, bro, hold on, I don't think you're right. You're a moron. I'm what I guarantee, to quote Sir Charles Barkley that is it you do, I'll bet a shot right now. I mean you still owe me one for the Kirk Cousins thing, but whatever.
Scott:Get that shot ready, bro, because it ain't her, you're so stupid, it's Jamie Presley, you dumb shit thing. But whatever, get that shot ready, bro, because it ain't her, you're so stupid, it's Jamie Presley, you dumb shit. Yeah, jamie Presley.
Graham:There's both in the movie. No, the girl that he goes after is the chick, is Brittany Brandy. He goes after Brandy. That's the one that he wants. You asked me who the hot chick that he goes after. You're telling me Jamie Presley. Huh, after Brandy, that's the one that he wants. You asked me who the hot chick that he goes at. They're both hot. Hey, I met Jamie Presley in person two years ago At the restaurant. I mean Body, still got it. I mean you want a cookie? I mean, yeah, still got it.
Scott:I mean you want a cookie, I mean, yeah, what you got I don't know, but you got to take a shot. That's all I'm saying.
Graham:Yeah, brandy is the main chick in the movie. Brandi's even hotter than her anyway.
Scott:No guy. And I said North Carolina and Jamie Presley's from North Carolina. So that's the deciding factor. So take that shot.
Announcer:Who.
Scott:Yeah, you Biatch. Now that we can cuss, let's go, anyhow, play some golf. Last night Graham and I were on the phone. We've been making these live bets on PGA tour for on Saturday nights for the last couple weeks. We won one with Ludwig, we won the one with Rory. We lost last week.
Scott:I forget who even picked, but it was close, and so last night I'm talking to Graham and I'm like dude, minwoo Lee has a four shot lead over some dude that we don't know his name and, I think, a five-shot lead over Scotty Scheffler. I'm like dude, scotty Scheffler's five and a half to one. If Minwoo Lee doesn't win this tournament, scotty Scheffler's winning the tournament. And I'm playing golf today checking the scores and I'm like, oh well, minwoo Lee's going to do it. Then I'm on the way home, scores and I'm like, oh, minwoo Lee's going to do it. Then I'm on the way home and I'm like I get a text and they're like, are you kidding me, went Minwoo Lee? I turn it on PGA tour radio on Sirius Scheffler birdies four in a row. Minwoo hits it in the water on a par five, makes bogey, one shot lead with two to go, and I'm like getting fired up. Right and men. We ended up getting the dub first win on tour. Ain't mad at it. Good for him. The up and down he had on 18, you know, was amazing, but is that the best story of the weekend? Not a chance, not a chance, not a chance. Major winner, us Open winner at Pebble Beach.
Scott:Gary Woodland had brain surgery a year and a half ago-ish. Don't quote me on. It Comes back, has his best finish sense. If you haven't watched full swing, when you watch the episode with Gary Woodland, if you don't tear up, you're not a human being, you're a robot. It was unbelievable. I mean, my guy wrote his wife and kids a letter before his surgery saying you know what you want to say, just in case. Yeah, you know what I mean. And then it's back to this. Are you kidding me? Amazing, amazing, amazing. Comes second place. I mean absolutely ridiculous Story, incredible. Don't care if you won, don't care about the five and a half to one. Gary Woodland, insane, insane. Nothing else you can say about it yeah.
Graham:Nothing. He also shot 62 today, by the way. I mean just throwing it out there Ties the course record. I mean, I mean, is that any good? It's ridiculous. I mean one better than Scheffler, who shot 63 and lipped out a birdie on the first hole Not lipped out, but grazed the edge on the first hole.
Scott:Yeah, incredible dude. And the best thing is it's a public golf course. Dude, they were playing Really. Yeah another public golf course. Dude In the rounds.
Graham:That's a pretty sick public course, yeah, it looked legit.
Scott:I mean you said, would Woodland shoot today? 62, I think, yeah, I mean, yesterday he shot 66. Round two 64. Round one 69. Is that any good? Yeah, couldn't be happier for the guy man After watching Full Swing.
Scott:I mean, I knew the brain surgery thing but you don't really realize the situation until you watch it. Oh for sure it's insane. But anyhow, back to my weekend. Real quick we got we fast forward a little bit. Well, actually we're still talking about a little bit. You know. Yeah, many of you that listen to the show always remember me busting graham's balls when I ask him about his and he doesn't ask me about mine. So Graham tonight literally ruined the show about five minutes before we got on air. And the way Graham ruined the show, you know he knew how pumped I was for my new golf clubs and this and that he knew I was playing golf today and he never asked me how the new clubs were until literally five minutes before the show. And I was going to get on here and blast him, you know. But it is what it is.
Graham:Folks, the look on Scott's face, Cause we were already in record mode. We're looking at each other on camera right now, seconds away, I bring it up, the look on his face and just how the happy face just went. All the muscles just drooped in his face and just went to a sad frown Like are you fucking kidding me? Right now I was ready to blast your ass and you're just hitting me with this right now. Hey, you know I got distracted with some other things. I'm sorry.
Scott:I remember, and folks. By distracted he means a fantasy football league with 18 people in it that started their draft today in March, before the draft.
Graham:My, my guy.
Scott:I'm a diehard fan yeah, diehard D's. My guy, he goes out and throws out a hundred dollar bets on my golf picks. Okay, me, his best friend. He trusts me more with his hundred100 wagers on golf bets, but yet he's questioning. They have a three-hour time limit for this draft. He's questioning a pick in the second round for a league that has a $10 entry fee. For a league that has a $10 entry fee. I equate that to this when I worked at Journey all the high roller gamblers. You have your player cards, right.
Announcer:Yeah.
Scott:And back then I don't know what it is now. To have a red card for Pachanga, you had to, on average, gamble a million dollars every six months. Okay, damn dude, we would literally have these people with thousands and thousands and thousands of comp dollars on their player card come in the golf shop, throw a shirt on the counter and look at me with a straight face go discount, discount, I get discount. I'm sorry, you just bet on average this and you're asking me for a discount Once again.
Graham:I'm sensing a nationality in that voice. Yeah, that was pretty bad.
Scott:I shouldn't have gone there, but I did. But you know what we can say fuck now, so fuck. So I mean, it is what it is, Sorry. And if you really want to know the funniest thing I've seen all day, it's a screenshot I sent you earlier of two oh, I'm not even going to go there, we're not even.
Graham:No, I don't, yeah, we're not even going to go there. They need to see the picture.
Scott:It's funny, oh just so you're saying I should throw that on the ground? No, we're going to leave that one. No, it's not.
Graham:Anyhow, before we get into March Madness in the tournament just four away from Ty and Gretzky five away from breaking his record. How many more?
Scott:games are left, maybe about 10 or 12. Okay, but pretty amazing, crazy thing. And just because we're talking about Ovechkin, I saw something last night and I had to screenshot it, just because I really wanted to talk about this Ovechkin this is back then. It says 13 goals. Now five goals away from the all-time record has earned $161 million in his 20-year career. That's the same amount the Giants paid Daniel Jones for four years. Ha ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha. The Giants paid Daniel Jones for four years.
Graham:Got a little slow clap for you here you go Insane, insane Anyhow, moving right along.
Scott:Bald guys on the bench Listener bracket challenge Heading into the final four weekend Dude, your boy's son Mullet, man Kellen and my brother-in-law, cody, in first place.
Graham:What's that saying? Blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while A hundred percent with Kellen.
Scott:But I mean, is it really that hard when all four number one seeds make it For the second time ever?
Graham:And here's the thing In March, madness, what's been going on for multiple years, but especially the last, x amount upsets are the thing. First round, even second round, you know, this year there was only one real upset, the 12-5, but it wasn't really an upset because the 12 seed was favored. So I mean it's like this year things kind of went how you think they would go. I mean, normally when you start these picks you're like all right, there's going to be at least three upsets, what's it going to be to get those extra points? And nah, it just came down to what you think it was going to come down to. All four number ones are there. I mean, look, except one region. It was one versus two. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Announcer:Yeah.
Graham:And the other division it was one three, so it wasn't like a lot of the lower seeds advanced.
Scott:Tennessee was a two. Who's the three? I think it was Michigan State. Oh, I thought it said.
Graham:I forget. I thought it was. Michigan State was a three. Were they a three? I?
Scott:don't know.
Graham:Not important.
Scott:Yeah, yeah, I mean, like I said, dude, second time ever All four number ones. Second time ever all four number ones. Can you name three of the four teams? The first time it ever happened in 2008?
Graham:2008 is when it happened. Can you tell? Me who won that year?
Announcer:I think Kansas, I mean who was good back then, probably Kansas, north Carolina.
Graham:There's two Arizona. Nope, that's almost 20 years ago.
Scott:I know, I know.
Graham:Kentucky, nope. Louisville, nope, oh, 2008,. Florida, nope. All right, I'm not going to mention 8,000 schools, just hit me with it.
Scott:There's one team you would never guess Memphis.
Graham:Yeah, no, they had a couple years where they were really good, Yep, that's why I was like dude. I don't remember what I had for dinner three nights ago.
Scott:Yeah, it was Kansas, Carolina, Memphis, and I did this screenshot that looks like UCLA Westbrook played for UCLA right.
Scott:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. That was a couple days after Ava was born, carolina fan playing Kansas and we got the wood. They do us, yeah that. I'm trying to think that may or may not have been Roy Williams' last game for Kansas, I don't know. Might have been, I have no idea. It's a problem with time. Anyhow, let's just jump right into the tournament, dude. Thursday night, let's do it. Sweet 16 action starts. Florida goes out and lays the wood to Maryland in their Cinderella story. Florida goes out and lays the wood to Maryland and their Cinderella story. Then we read today Maryland's coach says bye-bye to Maryland. Up to Villanova. Bama, the most entertaining game I've seen by performance, destroys BYU. I mean, everybody was talking about Bama's offense, byu's offense. The dudes on Sirius were like they can't make a total for this game high enough. It's like 174 and a half hits with like seven minutes left. Is that any good? But that's not even the story. The story is Bama. Did you see the three-pointers they were making? I mean record.
Graham:Thanks for playing. Well, yeah, when they shot like 60 of them, what do you get? And they made like half Dude, the crazy thing is.
Scott:I saw a stat afterwards If Alabama had not made a single two-point shot against BYU, Bama would have still won the game.
Graham:That's insane.
Scott:They had 93 points on three-point shots and free throws.
Graham:That's why there's the saying you live by the three, you die by the three. And what happened?
Scott:the next game. Like we said the night before the game way to go, bama. You just blew your wad. You're going to get boat raced by Duke. But speaking of Duke, I mean Thursday night, that's been their closest game. Yeah, seven, six, seven mean Thursday night, that's been their closest game. Yeah, Seven, six, seven points, something like that. But and then they just went out and just laid the wood dude. Eight and a half I think.
Graham:No against Alabama. Five and a half.
Scott:And I took alternate line minus 11 and a half and you're like, I'm sorry, what?
Graham:Oh, oh sorry. What? Oh, oh Sorry, let's interrupt for a stat update. Oh, hey, congratulations. The Suns lost by almost 40 tonight. Yay, 148 to 109.
Announcer:Yay.
Graham:Glad.
Scott:I took them plus 3.5.
Graham:Ooh, wow, I don't even know what I'm gonna wow yeah, the only reason why I said that is because that they just kept getting worse and worse. When I was talking to you earlier, it's like, all right, they're down 20. 10 minutes later now they're down 30. And now I'm like, oh, they almost lost by 40 yay, by 40.
Scott:Yay. Anyhow, Texas Tech dude Arkansas Thursday night Game was over, Until it wasn't.
Graham:Until Dude, most of this tournament. The first two rounds blowouts. Not really exciting. The teams who you think are going to win win Not very exciting. The third round Alright. We got some close games. This is nice, but then you have the underdogs that not only are they covering, they're up big. There's a couple of those games. They're up almost. What is it? 16, 18 points with seven minutes left in the game.
Scott:Arkansas was up, I think, 12, 13 points with three minutes left and Texas Tech takes it to overtime. Not only did they take it to overtime, but they covered the over for me and you. They ain't mad at it. Yeah, thank you. Over for me and you ain't mad at it, dude. Then you go. Let's just jump real quick into friday, michigan and auburn. Michigan's laying the wood to auburn dude. Then auburn goes on a 38 to 7 run and during that run, what does the michigan coach forget to do?
Graham:call a timeout.
Scott:There's this thing you get a couple of them, a half, and you know 30 seconds and you know whatever. You just have to do this, and then they stop the game and by doing this you just make the tea out of your hands. I guess he forgot that he was allowed to do that. I don't know.
Graham:I remember you texting me because I was at a movie. You're like bro. They just went on a 33-6 run or to 5 run and homeboy didn't even call a timeout and I was like what A normal coach if you go on even a 14-point run, let alone 20, that's almost like one of those things.
Scott:Automatic, I mean good God, almighty, 31 to 6 run, no timeouts called.
Announcer:Brutal, brutal.
Graham:But hey, it's a great learning experience for next year. Yeah, dude.
Scott:What Tennessee dominated, oh my God, kentucky. And going into that game, kentucky beat Tennessee twice in the regular season. You know the old saying it's hard to beat a team?
Graham:what Three times?
Scott:in a row, it won't be very hard for Tennessee.
Announcer:Dude, then you got.
Scott:Houston and Purdue tied with a couple seconds left. You and I are on the phone talking watching it together and I ruined it for you on the inbounds play. But, dude, michigan State beats Ole Miss and we head into Saturday. Dude and the matchup. Everybody's talking about Bama and Duke. Everybody on Vison's talking about Bama and Duke. Everybody on Vison's talking about how many points this game. I mean, I think the total was like 176 or something.
Graham:Yeah, I think it was 177.5.
Scott:All I could think is what, when everybody says it's going to be this?
Announcer:go the other way, take the opposite, yeah and it worked.
Graham:It worked, it got the dub yeah, but you parlayed it with something else no, I had second half. I had under the yeah, no, no oh, okay, no, I had something my bad. Yeah, I forget what the one I lost. The one I lost was the yeah, no, no, oh okay, I had something my bad.
Scott:I forget what. The one I lost. The one I lost was the later game last night, whatever the hell. Oh, okay, I'm just going to say this dude Duke beat a quality team by 20. Bama blew their wad Thursday night or whatever night it was. What can you say?
Graham:I mean. So when Duke take cares of Houston, what are you going to say after?
Scott:that Take. I mean, can you say that one more time please.
Graham:When Duke handles Houston, knock on wood, hopefully what?
Scott:are you?
Announcer:going to say then about him.
Scott:I'm going to say thank you for making Wasterdamus even better, because I bet you on November 1st at 12-1 to win the NCAA championship. That's what I'm going to say.
Graham:Now tell me how you really feel as a UNC fan.
Scott:Hey, if they lose, I'm going to be happy. If they win, I'm going to be happy. It's a win-win situation for me right now. Okay, Is you know, 10 bucks at 12 to one, 120 bucks Is $10 at 12-1, $120, the same as me laughing as Duke loses. Hopefully, if they're going to lose, they're going to lose in the championship, when all their stupid fans are all excited. But what's worth it, dude? What's worth it? There it is.
Graham:I mean. My point is you're not going to root for them to win the money. That's what I'm getting at. No, You'll allow it to happen to take the money. You're not actively rooting to win the money. I'd rather watch those cocksuckers lose.
Scott:That's what I thought, yeah, hey, I will say this, though Kudos to the head coach, my guy's done a hell of a job and it's, I think, third season and something else. You know, we're guaranteed now to have a first time national championship winner out of these coaches, which is, which is awesome. Yeah, I mean calvin sampson dude's been in, has been head coach for 32 seasons. Bruce Pearl at Auburn 21st season. Homeboy. Todd Golden with Florida 6th and John Shire, his 3rd. Pretty awesome that we get a first-timer right. I mean sick, sick, agreed. I mean I don't care, dude, who's the best team in the country? Duke, 100%. That's why alternate lined them last night minus 11.5, when the goddamn spread was 5.5. I sent it to you and you're like ooh, that's interesting. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you not see that Alabama was throwing it up from half court and making shots?
Graham:Hold on here. Let's back it up from half court and making shots. Hold on here.
Announcer:Let's back it up here a second.
Graham:We need finer distinctions here, folks.
Scott:I told, you last night.
Graham:Folks, don't. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let's check Wasterdamus here for a second. The only reason that he made that bet was because it was a free play.
Scott:What's that got to do with anything?
Graham:Everything. You could have taken it for, minus 20.
Scott:And I would have pushed.
Graham:I mean, you would have pushed, but I'm just saying, like you could have taken it for minus 19. You weren't actually betting it?
Scott:Yeah, I was. I mean, you made a bet, but it was a free bet. I got a no sweat bet. The reason I got that five was because I lost five on something else I'm just pointing out that you didn't put actual money on it.
Graham:That's what I'm saying. You didn't even making a bet with free money is just like saying, oh hey, here you go, here we try it out. I just I mean, let's be real, let's be real, let's be real. Anyhow Would you have put your because you always do your $10 bets. Would you have put $10 on that 100%? All right Now, after the fact, of course, of course, of course, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Scott:Oh, here's this, folks. He's trying to call me out, okay.
Graham:I'm not trying to call you out, I'm just saying so here we go.
Scott:So we're watching Duke in Arizona the other night and Arizona's hanging tough and Graham's, like I knew I should have took in Arizona. Rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, rah, Like bitter. Oh, you did not bullshit. Watch out Vegas.
Graham:Mama Cohen, Papa Cohen, I didn't say I Mama Cohen.
Scott:Papa Cohen leave. Graham's about to get struck by lightning because he's a lying fuck right now. Oh, is there another F-bomb? You're welcome, tag. He's back and forth. Then Duke goes up and he's like oh, I knew we were going to win. The old saying, if my aunt had balls, she'd be my uncle. So as we're watching the game last night, here's the best part. Graham is like once a piece of the action, somehow, some way, and he's looking at the amount of points Duke's going to win by, and it's either like six to 10 plus money, 10 to 14 plus money, he goes. So if I bet a hundred dollars on each, I'm guaranteed to win like 125 bucks. And I'm like yeah, graham, your math's pretty good right now at this time of night. But nothing is ever that simple. Oh, I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it. No, graham, stop, just shut up and don't bet to bet. And what happens? They win by 20.
Graham:They beat him by 20. And I saved them 200 bucks.
Scott:Won you money with Mackenzie Hughes? You did. You know we pushed on the Scotties hot picks this week but the one win was a three to one. So we pushed. So you know I saved you money. And here you are going to doubt my strategy on your quote-unquote favorite college basketball team Duke, you know.
Graham:Hey, I'm sorry. My relatives are actually founding members of Duke or Duke royalty and I'm not even a fan of them.
Scott:My bad. No, I only found out about this three and a half years ago if I would have known about it my whole life. Unfortunately, I would have been a christian latiner, bobby hurley. What's that ugly ass dude's name grant hill. I ain't hating on grant hill. If you hate on grant hill, I'm not even gonna say what I was gonna say he like we can't have two kickbacks.
Graham:Yeah, we're not even going there.
Scott:But anyhow, florida and Texas Tech. Last night, Dude, I'm texting you, wow, this shit's done. Florida's toast, I texted it to BT and BT's, like you did, burnt toast. And then what happens? What happens.
Scott:Arkansas misses, or Texas Tech misses a couple free throws, the end Like what the shit? Mental toughness Could not believe it. I mean, it was like the exact same thing that happened that Texas Tech did to Arkansas a couple games earlier. But I don't know, man. Yeah, today's games thank God I was playing golf and missed the first one, because that was a real barn burner, with Tennessee scoring a whopping 15 points in the first half.
Announcer:I know I saw the score was like 34 to 15 at halftime, tennessee scoring a whopping 15 points in the first half.
Scott:Boo, I know I saw the score. It was like 34 to 15 at halftime. I'm like that's got to be wrong Nope.
Graham:Imagine all the people that took the over on that.
Scott:Dude, it wasn't even that high.
Graham:I know that's the point it was like 120-something. That's crazy. Most of I mean we don't have the stats right in front of us, but would you say 80% of the games hit the over in this tournament.
Scott:I don't know the stats, but who knows, I don't know. I will say the easiest bet. Oh, I already said that, but the second easiest bet last night was under like 91 points in the second half of the Duke game Second half. So, like we just said, tennessee got blown out today and then, fucking, auburn beats Michigan State by six to advance. That game was a blowout the entire way until the end and Michigan State finally started making a run at them and Auburn's big man left the game. He was in and out, in and out with an elbow injury.
Scott:But you know Final Four's, here Matchups are set. We got the opening lines, we got Florida laying two and a half to Auburn and then we got Houston getting four and a half against Duke and it looks like the schedule is Florida and Auburn play the first game at six and Duke and Houston play at 845. The first game at six and Duke and Houston play at 845. So, with that being said, I I'm just going to go out and you know my bracket challenge thing I picked Florida to to be Tennessee in the final. But after watching Auburn today and after watching Auburn play against Michigan the other night, they look powerful, they look solid. It all depends on the big man how bad his injury is.
Scott:But if I was going to go out and say I'm going to Auburn-Duke, I don't know man. Florida hasn't impressed me like I thought they were Yesterday against Texas Tech. Florida's advantage is their size and they didn't use it to their advantage. No, that's smart Granted. Texas Tech came out and were making threes like Bama in the first half, but still they didn't use that advantage to dominate the game. You know what I mean, right? I don't know. Ain't nobody being dude? Dude, I'm trying to throw it out there. I'm guaranteeing it. Ain't nobody being dude?
Graham:Quit saying it like that.
Scott:If they do, he's solid. Cooper Flagg's. That guy, solid Player of the year, should be Freshman of the year. Yeah, see you later. Take your bitch-ass mom with you, but what are you like?
Graham:Sorry, not all of them can be Luca's mom. All right, who's?
Scott:Luca yeah, I know who it is. You dumb shit.
Graham:I just wanted you to say it. What do you mean? Who's Luca?
Scott:You ruined that shit too Shocker. Let me show you my shocked face.
Graham:Oh, God, I didn't.
Scott:God, Graham, Anyhow, what are your picks? Who do you think? I mean, we all know you're a Duke's quote-unquote Duke fan and you're going to pick Duke.
Graham:Why are you quote-unquote? I've been following them for 25 years. Wait, if I do my math correctly, so 92? Since 1992. That's 33 years. Our listeners know why. I mean, I wouldn't call myself a bandwagon.
Scott:Because of the episode last year when he said name anybody's name.
Graham:You know what?
Scott:Or Tripakowski or whatever that dude's name was. Anyhow, who's your pick? Duke and Florida.
Graham:Just because I don't watch a lot of the games I'm taking Duke Either matchup I mean any matchup, I think is going to be solid.
Scott:The Duke-Florida matchup, I think, would definitely be the best Because of the size of both teams. Yeah.
Graham:I mean, look, duke's game against Houston is going to be a good game. I still think Duke will come out on top, but I mean it's not a blowover game.
Scott:Anyhow. Did you see at the end of the game I don't know if you saw it when Houston actually won? Jim Nance was down there hanging out with the boys, because you know Jimmy Nance went to Houston, he was hanging out. That was pretty sick.
Graham:Sorry, Jimmy.
Scott:Anyhow Come Saturday. Sorry, we've been talking for a while. We haven't even brought up the NFL. There's not a lot going on right now. Literally, what did I say? Thursday night was exactly a month from the draft. So a lot of smoke and mirrors going on right now. A lot of Aaron Rodgers bullshit going on right now. I don of Aaron Rodgers bullshit going on right now. I don't like it. I'm over it.
Graham:This is the time of the year. Free agency already happened. No signings are happening right now. Like it's. If he decides to sign today, great. If he decides to wait two weeks, it is what it is Like it's all going to come down to the draft and, to be honest, or even after the draft, possible. Kirk Cousins.
Scott:You're not going to trade for Kirk Cousins unless the Falcons suck up 85% of that guaranteed money.
Graham:That's why they already got to pay him.
Scott:Yeah, that's why he traded him.
Graham:They already paid him the roster bonus.
Scott:If you release him, the Steelers get to do to Kirk Cousins what they did to Russell Wilson last year and sign him for league minimum. The Falcons could trade him to eliminate salary cap and not even get anything in return. Remember Josh Rosen?
Graham:Yeah, you know we've mentioned it before on this show. Can we just do a little RIP to Josh Rosen, like Rosen, sorry, if there's any quarterback I'd ever feel sorry for, it's that guy. How can you be the number one rated quarterback to come out? You were the fourth one drafted. You went to the wrong organization.
Scott:You had no plan aka the Cardinals. Hired Kingsbury.
Graham:You got ran out of the league.
Announcer:Did he even make it to the fourth year? I?
Scott:don't even know if he made it four years. I know he did three. Was he with the Panthers too?
Graham:Yeah, I know he was with the Dolphins, or three teams in four years? Yeah, no, I know he was too, but it's just like we said before especially with the quarterback position, it's all of you have to be in the right fit. Yeah.
Announcer:It just wasn't so.
Scott:I mean at this point.
Graham:So the whole point of this is what I'm about to say.
Scott:You brought up Josh Rosen and you didn't even tell the worst part of my guy's story His mom.
Graham:What's the worst part?
Scott:You don't remember this, am I?
Graham:wrong? Oh my God, no, you're not wrong and yes, I did forget about it, but as soon as you said that, now that I do, like that's just dude, you know what I gotta say to that, and because we're we're explicit content, now people are fucking assholes. Like it, like it really amazes me how people intentionally try to tear and tear an individual down.
Scott:Folks, if you don't know what I'm talking about, just go on Google and just search Josh Rosen mom story Beyond. But anyhow, it's brutal. We were talking about this earlier, before we even got on. Rumors came out today about Kirk Cousins. You know, rogers is doing what Rogers is going to do. Max Crosby came out and said kirk cousins, you know rogers is doing what rogers is gonna do. Max crosby came out and said yesterday he's talked to rogers.
Graham:he thinks rogers is gonna retire yeah yeah, to be honest, I kind of am in that field right now with it to be honest, because, like what, what is the point of waiting? Like there's literally no point right now. There's no advantage or disadvantage. It makes absolutely no sense. And the longer you drag it out it's kind of like I feel like he's leaning retire. So I mean, has Aaron done enough? I don't know. I mean, look, he's obviously a Hall of Famer, I get all that, but like you'd think he'd want to wash the bad taste out of his mouth and people's mouths with what happened with the Jets the last two years.
Graham:I mean, obviously there was the injury.
Scott:I get that, but I don't think it's his play on the field that he wants to wash. It's all the off the field shit, dude. I'm not coming to OTAs. I'm not coming to OTAs. I'm not coming to this. I'm not coming to that. Yeah, no, football, granted you and I didn't play football at a high level, but football and hockey are the ultimate team sports, dude.
Scott:You got to know what I'm doing as it's happening so you can do what you're supposed to be doing and vice versa. He's going to a new team in New York City and not showing up. Granted, the injury was awful. Week one on Monday night that was terrible how do you gain chemistry with your players?
Graham:if you like, yeah, you can have off-season workouts. You can bring the wide receivers to throw with you in the off-season yeah, that's great. But you need to be with your team and training camp and otas. I know that you're 42 years old and you don't want to do that shit, but you can't come to a new organization, a a new playbook and just expect to get continuity with your other players through what?
Graham:Nope, no way, no, dude Just thin air Like it's not going to happen. So if they're not going to do that I mean, pittsburgh's never really been in this type of situation, but or at least if they have, it's been so far, long ago that I just can't remember but like they're just in a spot where it's just like they didn't get who they want. I really think they wanted Fields, but the Jets just offered him so much more money that they're like we're not paying that they could have probably had Russell, but then they didn't like his decline the last seven games of the season last year. So that's out the bag. So all right, now Rodgers is an idea, but now he's kind of dilly-dallying around. So now we're left with all right, do we have to draft a guy or are we trading for cousins?
Graham:And the thing is, last year Art Rooney put out the ultimatum and said hey, do whatever you need to do. We need a playoff win. I'm not saying Super Bowl, we're not even going that far. We need a playoff win. We haven't had one since 19, 19 slack myself since 2015. That's a long fucking time. That's gonna be 10 years since the pittsburgh sealers who, by the way, has had the second most wins in the last 20 years or 10 years, whenever we said in the last episode, 10 yeah, you can't have the second most wins in the last 10 years and haven't had a playoff win in 10 years. Can't do it. So it's like, can we win? I mean, could we win a playoff game with a rookie? Yeah, we could, but when's the last time the Super Bowl was won with a starting quarterback being a rookie Tom Brady, anyone?
Scott:The end.
Graham:Well, the end. He came in at the end, though.
Scott:The end.
Announcer:That was like.
Graham:Okay, guy, hey, take me to the finish line, drop me off, and then I'll walk across the finish line.
Scott:I'll tell you another one. That was a super old rookie, kurt Warner. Oh, you're going to give Kurt Warner more props than the goat. Yeah, but that's you said failure about Kurt Warner and just said oh, take me to the finish line, Tom. Are you kidding me right now? Okay, Kurt Warner started the whole season. I didn't ask the question you did. I just answered the goddamn question.
Graham:Okay.
Scott:And now you're criticizing me.
Graham:I'm just you're criticizing me, I'm just. Kurt wore his special circumstance.
Scott:Oh, because he wasn't the beneficiary of the goddang tuck rule or whatever the shit.
Graham:Charles Woodson did Folks. You can see Scott.
Scott:So that's why he's better.
Graham:Who did Kurt want to replace?
Scott:Rodney Harrison ruined the dude's year in a preseason yeah, come on, let's go shit balls. And I'm showing you my hands because I'm not a cheater like you, I know dude.
Announcer:I know, who it is was it Tripp Edwards? No, it wasn't Dude I know who it is.
Scott:Was it Trent Edwards? No, it wasn't. I don't know who was it. Do you know Trent who?
Announcer:Yeah.
Graham:I do. You were right with the first name. Oh god damn it.
Scott:Whatever?
Graham:It's Trent Green. You were about to shit yourself, weren't you? When you said Trent, at first I was like no yourself, weren't you?
Scott:When you said Trent, at first, I was like no, that was a sick Super Bowl too. Yeah yeah, greatest show on turf, let's go. Little Torrey Holt, isaac Bruce, it was Marshall. Yeah, yeah, he was okay. What's the dude's name that played in Marshall's tournament? He?
Announcer:was all right.
Scott:Got security called at Patonga for smoking a blunt in the bathroom in the main bathroom in Patonga, oz Akeem the kick returner.
Scott:Yeah, dude, my boy, my boy, dre Bly High school, gave him a ride to school. His rookie season went in the big one. Thanks for playing, wow. Anyhow, graham, we're an hour into this. All I'm gonna say is you guys are signing aaron, rogers, orousins, and no matter if that happens or doesn't happen, you're drafting a quarterback in the first round. So just get prepared for it. It's going to happen. I know you don't want it to happen.
Graham:I don't want it to happen.
Scott:I want a stud defensive tackle Jackson Dart we don't have a second round pick and before we got on the air, you're like, who drafts a quarterback in the first round and doesn't start him right away? And I'm like, oh okay, graham. Here's a couple examples. Let's just number one Aaron Rodgers. How long did he sit behind Favre?
Graham:yeah, but they weren't contending teams. Well, the Packers were, but I'm just. I mean, like the Chiefs weren't when they took Mahomes, they weren't contenders, they weren't okay. Are you laughing, laughing? They weren't okay, are you? Scott is giving me the death stare right now.
Scott:Folks just letting you know you're like a man with no arms. You can't hang On. That note, graham, get us out of here. Everybody enjoy the Saturday games of the Final Four. We'll probably talk to you on Sunday night before the championship game, and you know the championship game is on Monday night. You know what starts the day of the championship game. Right? It's officially Masters Week. Let's go. Let's go. Oh, okay.
Graham:I'm like what am I missing now?
Scott:Oh man, Billy and I were talking about it today Real quick before we get off. You know the the thing my old member At Greenbrier does the big pulls for all the majors and stuff. It's going to be hard not to take Rory in the first year this year.
Announcer:Dude.
Scott:Dude, dude you took the win right out of my sails.
Graham:I was gonna say that sigh, sigh, sigh. I hate to say it guys do, but the fans are behind them, right now at least. I mean I was never against Rory. I really was. I mean like good dude, I like Rory. I really was I mean like good dude, I like him. He's great for the tour. All that Great. When he had his mistake At Augusta how many years ago was that? Now? Has it been 10?
Scott:years already. That hit the house. That I couldn't believe that was the house. It's been 10 years now. It's been a while, yeah, it's been a while yeah it's been a while.
Graham:Yeah, it's been a hot minute. My point is now it's just like the set, you know, just times have changed I'm pulling for him also even watching full swing.
Scott:It's just like I want him to do it. Dude, career grand slam, I want him to do it. You know we're golf fans, we want to see that shit. I mean, yeah, but I can go ahead and right now and give you a Scotty hot pick for the PGA championship at Quail Hollow where, where Rory's won the 7 million times, go ahead and just count that as a topic. I mean, don't be surprised if homeboy wins.
Graham:Oh at minus 200. Okay, A lot of people don't be surprised if homeboy wins. Oh at minus 200? Okay, here's the thing.
Scott:A lot of people don't realize this. You know where the Open Championship is this year it's in Ireland. I mean, if it was ever setting up for a season for Rory, if you could bet right now and I'm sure there's a line somewhere I wonder what the line would be on Rory. Major championships over one and a half.
Announcer:Yeah.
Scott:It'd be a lot. Book it One and a half. He's winning too.
Graham:I would think over a half is a lot. Two, two, wow, scotty, with the deep cuts.
Scott:Rory, I can't believe.
Graham:I just said that in front of everybody. I love it. Let's go To be honest. That's a Scotty's hot take mic drop right there. There ain't nothing to say after that. Folks, it's been a pleasure. I love doing the podcast with you, scott, and, as the best homie always says, buh-bye.
Scott:Good night, friends, rory, don't forget to eat. You lucky chums, Buh-bye, buh-bye.
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