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Make an impact on your child's learning. Get IXL now. And listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at IXL.com/audio. Visit IXL.com/audio to get the most effective learning program out there at the best price. And away we go with the 3 o'clock hour, 302 is the time. I really, really like that one. The interview with David Peralta. People probably think I say that because I'm trying to say that we did a good interview. No, I said that because he just was nice enough to give us a lot of really fun revealing answers about himself and his struggles to make the major leagues. I mean, look, he's celebrating his 10 year anniversary as it were, 10 years with Big League service today. That means he started in the major leagues on July 12, 2014. But he started his journey and what did he say? Oh, nine as a pitcher, pitcher drafted by the Cardinals. And he was so bad that like they didn't send him to the minor leagues and say, you know, work on it. They basically just returned him to Venezuela. I mean, it was like, all right, see you later, but you're not going to make it as a pitcher. And I think, I don't know how many of us would have said, gave it my best shot, didn't necessarily work out. You know, I'm gonna see what else is out there for me. David Peralta said, no, I'm going to try to turn myself into a good enough hitter to where I can get another chance in the big leagues. It took two years for that to happen. And then they sent him to an instructional league. That's as low on the totem pole as you get. Yep. And then he finally got some of the Diamondbacks to rookie a ball or what do you say, hi, or something. So he had to make it all the way through that, you know, and to get to the big leagues and have a, I think, a pretty good career. Yeah, 278 career hitter. As I said, during the interview, won a silver slugger in 2018, came right back the next year, won a gold glove in 2019. So, you know, those are, you know, achievements at the big league level. That's not just being another guy. That's being a pretty solid, you know, ball player hit 30 home runs one year. You don't make it 10 years if you're not a solid ball player. No, they're not going to just keep paying you money because you're not, you know, you're not that great because you're almost the 10 years or whatever. I think he's been a nice pickup for the Padres as he torn the, you know, no, but I don't feel uncomfortable with him coming up just like the other day in the ninth inning, that game was on his bat and you're facing Munoz who, you know, in the eighth inning struck out profile with a slider that profile missed by about three feet. And that's pro far. Yeah. Then he struck out Meryl and the ninth inning on a slider they'd missed by oh, about three feet. And then Peralta came up, there was two strikes and I thought he's going to throw another slider and Peralta is going to miss it by three feet. But did he hold off that? He held off that and then got another one that didn't, you know, bite as much. Yeah, got a little bit more of the plate and he had a line drive to centerfield that if you're watching on TV like I was, it was tie game. That was a base hit. Two runs in. We're going to extra innings. And then out of nowhere came old, uh, Pradomo was a Pradomo. Yeah. No, not Pradomo's Seattle game. Um, Crawford, JP Crawford, and he flagged it down, short center field. So that was a tough break. But, uh, Peralta, you know, really, uh, those interviews are fun because now when I watch David Peralta play, yeah, I'm going to be thinking about french fries. You can. It's a weird thing. I wouldn't be thinking about french fries. I'd be thinking about him trying to work the register or the register with a huge line of people wanting free big Macs. You could just hear it. His first day in the job. That would be stressful. I get anxiety just thinking about it. That was good. You could tell just by the way he answers questions, how much he appreciates his, his career and he just is enjoying it, which is nice and it's refreshing. You know, he was with the Dodgers last year and then, you know, the season was over and he hit two 59 and drove in 55 runs for them. And then, uh, the phone did not ring. I mean, right? You're a free agent. You've played nine years or eight and a half or whatever it is. Nobody's calling that. That can be a little nerve-wracking on its own. Yeah, you, you probably think, man, I'm so close to my 10 years. Am I going to get a chance of 10 years? Yeah. So he sounds like a guy that's really happy to be playing and, uh, you know, I think we're, you know, at least I am. You know, I think the Padres should be happy to have him here. All right. Uh, coming up on the program, uh, as Tony starts to prepare for his TV duties and when he's got TV, we don't get him as often on the show as we do when he's doing radio because there's a lot more that goes into preparing for TV work. Um, but he will be back for our countdown of the top five NFL teams and our big five. So we'll get a little more Tony, but in, you know, without that, we got daily gambit right about here and Scrappy. Let's go. Do you like money? I think about money a lot. Do you like money without doing anything? Uh, duck, winning. Do you want to make money while watching sports? I think Washington is immortal luck. Washington. If you answer yes, this is your segment. Just don't blame us when you lose. Nothing is ever your fault. It's okay. Take it. Gwen and Chris go through the top bets of the day in the daily gambit on 97 three, the fan. Daily gambit is our daily sports betting segment here on Gwen and Chris. Please everybody gamble responsibly. Finally, Jacob noticed my shirt in the, uh, chat. It's Friday the 12th and I have my sad Jason shirt on because he's looking at the calendar and it says Friday the 12th and he missed it by one day because it's not Friday the 13th. I noticed that too. Here's the funny thing. Uh, who is it? Jason noticed it in the chat. Yeah. Jason. Jacob. Jacob. Jacob. Yeah. You're Friday the 12th shirt. How many, how many times per year does the 12th of a month land on a Friday? One or two? Not many. But you wear that shirt every time without fail for sure. I have to. I would never miss that. And you know, it's funny if it's near the 12th, I look at my, and I'm going to work or something. I look, I make sure I know that it's not Friday the 12th. You know, and I'm missing out on wearing it or something. Yeah. Uh, I mean, you can set your, your clock to it or your calendar to it by scraping, wearing that, uh, Friday the 12th shirt. Anyway, I just wanted to bring that up real quick because, uh, Jason, let me see the, let me, the sad look on Jason's face. You can just show the camera. Look at it. There it is. There we go. There's the forlorn hockey mask. He's got the sword. It's not a sword. It's a knife. Oh, it's a knife. It looks what's, that's a knife. Anyway, he's all upset because it's not the day he can attack people. Good point. That's exactly why he's upset. That's funny. All right. Anyway, um, how do we do on our picks fillies and dodgers, fillies were minus one and a half on the run line over the dodgers. Uh, you chose the fills, Tony and I chose the dodgers, fillies swept the dodgers by winning five to one yesterday. That series wasn't even close and seem like one game was close at the middle game. The middle game, the Dodgers lost on a fly ball that died on the warning track. Yeah, but still, I mean, the fillies are scary. The Dodgers are having their problems because they have almost their entire pitching staff hurt. That's true. Ask the Padres how that is. Yeah, I mean, Yamamoto, whatever happened to Yamamoto, he's still injured. I mean, I forgot all about this guy. Tricep tightness. Yeah, I know Bueller obviously is out. I know Kershaw still hasn't come back. I know that a glass now is on the Fugazee list. Yeah, and the Fugazee. Yeah, but I didn't know that Yamamoto. I mean, Yamamoto. Yeah. So there. I mean, let me just real quick just for fun. Here's the Dodger rotation heading into the final weekend before the All-Star break. Paxton Roblesky. Oh, yeah. Old Roblesky. Roblesky is a Dodger. I don't know who that is. Paxton today, and they don't even have anyone scheduled for Sunday yet. So let me try to figure it out. But really, the only guy that started the season in the Dodger rotation that's there now is Paxton. And Miller, who was kind of a young up and coming, you know, supposed to be. He just got sent back to the the miners. Yeah. That's, you know, and there's no Mookie Betts. Now is the time for the Padres to win some games. They have to put a little pressure on those guys. A little bit of pressure. We just assume that the Dodgers have already won the division. And the fact of the matter is as good as they still are, they are somewhat catchable. They're missing a lot, right? I'm going to go through the rest of this quick because we need to speed up. Castillo, who pitched more innings yesterday? Luis Castillo, the Mariners, or Max Fried of the Braves. You guys said Castillo, I said Fried turns out both of us are right because they both pitched six innings. They did. They both pitched well. Castillo shut out as the Mariners whipped the Angels. Fried allowed one run. But that cost him in a one nothing loss to the Diamondbacks. The A's and the Red Sox over under a total of 10 runs. Chris went over. Tony and I went under. It was under seven nothing Red Sox. Djokovic minus six and a half games over Musetti. You two, Chris and Tony chose Musetti. I chose Djokovic and Djokovic only won by five games. So you guys win the bat. He did win in straight sets, though. Yeah, six, six, six, six. Djokovic is back in the in the Wimbledon finals. It's crazy. But he was a little, you know, Missetti game will run for his money, but never really threatened to beat him. You know, Djokovic always plays those big points. Alvarez and Medvedev over under 39 and a half games. We all over. We were all correct. They went 42 games. And it was Alvarez, who prevailed there. So we got him in the finals. So we got Alvarez against Djokovic, which is a rematch of last year's Wimbledon final. All right, who won? Djokovic. No, I think I'll go as one last year. I have to look that up to be sure. Go ahead. Liberty were nine and a half point favorites over the Chicago sky. You guys chose the New York Liberty. I chose the sky. I was wrong because the Liberty won 91 to 76. So not even close there. Angel Reese over under 12 and a half rebounds. Did she get her double double? Her record extending double double. Chris and Tony said over. I said under. It was under, but she did get her double double. She had 10 rebounds. She had 10 rebounds. She needed to get 12 and a half to go the over. And for the second consecutive game, she scored a bucket late in the game to get her double double. I, you know, life is not going to be able to continue if Angel Reese's streak doesn't continue. I'm sorry. I think it's a real big deal. Yes, Alvarez did beat Djokovic last year in a five setter to win at Wimbledon. So they'll they'll face off again. All right. What do we got? We got a little WNBA. Okay. We got Diana Tarosse, Phoenix Mercury at Indiana to take on Caitlin Clark's fever. We got Phoenix favored by two and a half on the road. Only two and a half. Fever has been better since they started the season 0 and six. Scrabby, you're up. You're eight and nine for the week, by the way. Thank you. I'll take the fever at home, taking indie plus. I think Phoenix is still a little better than indie. So I'll take Phoenix here on 12 and five having a good week. Caitlin Clark over under 18 and a half points. Tonight, let me see. I wanted to do this because I wanted to see what her scoring average is right about now. It's like around 16 and a half, 17 points. I mean, I think she's having a good season. This whole angel Reese double, double streak has taken some headlines away from it. It's taken all the headlines away from Caitlin Clark, which is a right. It should be probably isn't bad for Caitlin Clark. No, she can let her just play a little bit. Although, you know, this rookie of the year award and the WNBA is turning into a big deal. I mean, you honestly have people lining up on the angel re side or the Caitlin Clark side. And there doesn't seem to be any in between. And frankly, everybody, it's just a rookie of the year award. So everybody should kind of come together and calm down about that. Just a tad. It's good for the WNBA, but there's so many people that are so upset. Like you said, they're either they're one side or the other. There's no one. Right. And who's going to be it's Caitlin Clark. It's totally angel. I don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, I hate you. I can't stand you. Yeah. What? That's what people say. Whenever I get whenever I get people like yelling at me on Twitter, I always imagine them going. Well, that's kind of what they do. Caitlin Clark is averaging 16.7 points per game. So you were right on it. Over under 18 and a half. I'm first. She's at home tonight. So she's comfortable. I'll say over. What about you? I'm gonna go over as well. Both going over. All right, one more WNBA. The Las Vegas aces two time defending champs cut off to a slow start this season, but they've bounced back. Now they're 14 and seven. They're on the road against Adam Kluge's at Atlanta dream. Okay, the dream is the opposite seven and 14. Okay, Vegas is a 14 and a half point pick on the road. Yeah, I'll go aces. They keep Las Vegas showing me that they're better. They are better, but I'll take Atlanta. That's too many points at home on to tomorrow morning. The Wimbledon women's final. My new one of my new favorites here. Jasmine Paolini. Okay, the seven seed taking on the Czech Republic's Barbara Kred Shekova in the final. Paolini's in her second consecutive grand slam final. Also made the finals at the French Kred Shekova has won a French open title before, but never Wimbledon over under 22 and a half total games. So basically, do you think it'll go three sets? Or will it be decided in two? This has three sets written all over at Scrabie. I'm going to go under. You're going to go under anyway. Yes. I'm going over. Okay, the men's final is Sunday. And that's Al Carez and the Joker. And guess who's favorite? Just for fun. The Joker Al Carez. Oh, this favorite. He beat him in the final last year. He's a slight favorite by one and a half games. Who do you like here? The men's final is Sunday. I think the Joker, I think he wants to win this because so he can make fun of the crowd. So I'm going to say him. The Joker gets his revenge. Yes. Al Carez should win this. He's playing insane. I'm going to take Joker, which too. I just have a weird feeling. It's not going to lose two years in a row to the kid. All right, we got two more real quick. All right, we're going. We got the Copa America final. And that is Argentina against Columbia Sunday. Argentina is favored by a half goal. Now, keep in mind, if the game ends up a draw and they decided in penalty kicks, then as far as the odds are concerned, the game did end as a draw. See what I'm saying? So if you take Columbia plus the half goal and they end up tied, you would win. Okay. They're tied at the end of regulation. Oh, you get it. All right. Who you taking? Argentina after all that. Yes. Argentina is way too good in soccer. My goodness. I'll take them also. And then the Euro Cup also Sunday, Spain and England. Spain is favored by a half goal. I'm going with the jolly old Brits. I'm going with Spain. Okay. From what people tell me. You've got it. All right. We'll see how that all turns out. But looking to increase on a 12 and five week scrape, it's pretty good for me. That is pretty good. Let's check traffic. And then when we come back, I got a quick time, a short segment. I got a guy on the Miami Dolphins who is making me a little bit angry. I'll explain. I can't wait. Yeah. Explain what he did and why I'm angry when we come back. Worried about letting someone else pick out the perfect avocado for your perfect and press them on the third date guacamole? Well, good thing. Instacart shoppers are as picky as you are. They find ripe avocados like it's their guac on the line. They are milk expiration date detectives. 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I think he had a pretty darn good start to the season, but both Austin, Riley and Matt Olson, who are in the middle of this lineup also have had off years. Aussie albies hasn't been as good as he was. True. Previously, the one guy that is really scary now in the Atlanta Brave lineup is Ozuna. He's had a monster first half, but other than that, yeah, you know, you say, eh, Waldron gets the knuckleball in there tonight. They should be all right. Let me see what Jared Kellnick's doing real quick before I not write him off. Not a whole lot. He's sitting 266 10 home runs, not many RBIs, pretty average, honestly, 750 OPS. Sub average. They ask me. I mean, we would take that 266 batting average would be great. Where is he going to play? We already have three all star outfielders. Yeah, no, I know that. I'm not saying you just said we would take that. You just said we would take that. I would say where were you going to say home runs? Because you said pedestrian. Where are you going to take them? TH just to give you an answer. You got you did. Thank you. You're welcome. Why do guys do stuff like this? Miami Dolphins new tight end. Johnny Smith. I didn't even know they had Johnny Smith. I didn't either, but I know who he is. He used to play with the Patriots Titans and then the Patriots. He's on some podcast and he says that the Buffalo Bills fans and the stadium in Buffalo quote, that's got to be the worst place you can be in the world. And the Buffalo wings aren't even good. I have heard that. I'm throwing all types of shots at Buffalo. I have heard that the Buffalo wings and Buffalo aren't very good. Why do you do that to yourself though? They already hate the Dolphins there in Buffalo. And now you're going to say that before you go up there and play. I think believe me, they'll remember. I think he it can say worse things. I mean, I don't find this to be a big deal. Okay. This is a big deal. Okay. A bigger deal. CBS Sports Cody Benjamin has come up with his rankings of the top 10 coaches in the national football league. Saw this. All right. So I can't quiz you on it. No, because I disagree with it. This list is weird. Really bad. It's not a good list. It's not a good list at all. I mean, number one, I agree with. Well, everybody's going to give it to Andy Reed right now. Yes. My number two is Mike Tomlin. Their number two is your number two is crazy, by the way. It's not the guy. The guy is 500 every year, but let's get a little bit further in the playoffs before we say Mike Tomlin's number two. It's got a Super Bowl. And like, I love when you say that, but it was like 12 years ago. Okay. Counts. He put 12 years ago. He put the Steelers in the playoffs. That's a Steelers of the worst team in football. They're not the worst. And he puts them in the playoff. All right. Their number two is Sean McVeigh. Yeah. I'm not just saying that because of 49ers. I don't understand the number two of Sean McVeigh. I mean, you talk about he won a Super Bowl. Fine. But what has he won a game since then? Yeah, he he did take the Rams to the playoffs last year, which is kind of the similar to Mike Tomlin. No one thought the Rams are going to make the playoffs. Well, then put Tomlin to and McVeigh down the line. Don't put McVeigh there. Kyle Shanahan. Enough said he's all right. Tony got in my head about the whole birdie thing when his Kyle Shanahan going to turn his back on him. It's it's a true it's a true criticism of Kyle Shanahan. He does not have quarterbacks backs when it comes down to it. I don't think any I'd be honest with you. I don't think any NFL team has any players backs in anything. Patrick Mahomes. He might be one of the few, but look, if you don't perform in the NFL, they don't know you just like that. Yeah, I know. It doesn't matter what you've done in the past. Oh, I know. John Harbaugh's fourth. Can't argue that. No, Matt LaFloor fifth. I can argue that. I can argue that too. Yeah. Tomlin is sixth. I already mentioned how mad that is. Jim Harbaugh. I don't know. Ready? Yeah, I don't know how he got the top 10. He seventh. Yeah, he won a national championship, but that was in college. Well, his career NFL record is 44 19 and one. Does anybody ever talk about his final season? It was a bad season with the 49ers. Number eight, really good season. Number eight, kneecap cannibal. I'll say this for Dan Campbell. Everyone thought he was going to be a disaster. So let's give him credit. He's not been a disaster. He's brought life to a really bad franchise. Sean McDermott nine. I don't know the bills. I could get him on a list somewhere, but the bills have been supposed to be in the Super Bowl about six years in a row and they've come up short every time. It's true. Number 10. No way. Kevin Stefanski. Has anyone two coach of the years already? Yeah, Kevin Stefanski has been the darling coach, but I don't really think he's that great of a coach, but what have the problems done with him? These one one playoff game in five years, and he wasn't even there. He was at home. It's not very good. Mike McDaniel 11th. I'll be honest, that's too high for a guy that's won no playoff games. Sorry, and hasn't beaten anybody. Your guy Kevin O'Connell 12 likes a nice feather in his cap to be in the top 15. The only reason I say he's in the top 15 is because he missed a lot of last year with the quarterback. Number one, when Kirk Cousins lost or tore his Achilles and then he lost Justin Jefferson for like half the season and it's on down the line. I'm not going to give you every, but who's the last? I think worst coach in football. I can't remember. I think it might be either one of the new coaches, like the Panthers coach or scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, Jared Allen, or not Jared Allen, Dennis Allen, Saints, worst coach in football. No kidding. He's already worse than the guys who've never coached in the title for the Titans or Dave Kanalas of the Panthers. Jonathan Ganon of the Cardinals. What did he do last year to get to be 27th? That's what he did. That is crazy. He did get put Dennis Allen lower than the guy who's never ever coach. You just said Dave Kanalas. Yeah, I'd be honest with you. There's maybe one football fan out of 10 could tell you who he is. He was the former offensive coordinator of the Buccaneers. He's already ranked 24th. That's crazy. For what? That's crazy. All right. This list is stupid. Thanks for bringing it up. You're welcome. But we're on to the football world and that's a good place to be. Our countdown is next. Get yourself a hero. If you love Mediterranean food like I do, try Spiro's authentic Mediterranean cuisine, not only in Coronado and La Jolla, but at Petco Park. If you're going to the game tonight. Spiro's down the third base line main concourse near the Western Metal Supply Company building for dining takeout options. Visit spiro's cuisine dot com Chris L. O Tony Gwen Jr. at Petco Park preparing to do a little TV tonight. Jesse and scan will be on the radio broadcast here with Sam Levitt's pregame show getting started about two hours from right now. Mike Schult just confirmed to the media at Petco Park that Xander Bogart's will be returning to the lineup tonight. Still don't have an actual line. We don't have the actual line up yet, but Bogart's is in. Maybe Sammy Levitt has. Let me go check Sammy Love's Twitter real quick. Do that. Let's see. Appreciate it. Nope. Not yet. Not yet. Okay. So maybe they just don't have the lineup out. We know that Bogart's plan. They don't know the whole lineup. Send someone down. Yeah, they'll have to send somebody packing. I don't know. They might send Luis Camposano back down. I was really surprised the other day when Brett Sullivan got the got the start in. I know it's a right handed picture, but Camposano is still your catcher. I thought right now he got Chilka has passed him. I get that because he's been hot. It's baseball, but I think just giving up on Camposano. I mean, he's come back from the injured list. I think he's played one game. If that I can remember. So, I mean, if you're just going to give up camp, give up on Camposano. I, you know, fine, but that seems a little early. Seems a little quick. You know, I think you're there in football. You can't lose your starting position to injury. Is that the same in baseball or are they just riding the hot handed baseball? Well, I think you. Yeah, you're going to have to write. You got to write a got Chilka. I have no argument there. I just thought when a got Chilka took a day off the other day, that would be a time to get campy back in there, but they didn't. They went Sullivan. So maybe they'll send Camp Esano back down again. I don't know who they're going to send down. Sullivan is the one that honestly makes the most sense. It doesn't. I kind of feel bad for him because he was. He was in really well. Triple A. They brought him up. He didn't really get in the lineup because Kyle Higashio could keep hitting home runs. Yeah, but I feel like Brett Sullivan is a good player. They just really haven't given him a lot of time to prove that. Uh, he's had 97 at bats in the big leagues. Yeah. Over the last two years, he's at 206. And I'm not saying that's the end all. I'm just saying he with the chances he's had, he hasn't done a whole lot. Well, yeah, but okay. Well, you need some chances. I'm uh, aware. If I was given spot starts to do a show, they would never hire me, Chris, because I need to get in that rhythm. Gotta have, you gotta have reps. Yes, reps. All right. Give me some traffic. And then our countdown focuses on the current top five teams and the national football league. You'll never believe who's gravy picked. It's now time for Gwen and Chris to rank their top five of the day. Gonna grip and rip as usual. This isn't just a regular top five list. I love it. It sounds sadistic, but I love it. This is a countdown. And it starts right now at 97 three, the fan. All right. Uh, we all love the game of baseball as much as anybody, probably more so than than anybody. Um, I like talking about Wimbledon. Um, enjoying the, uh, the Euro cup, Copa America, the soccer tournament's going on. But come on, man, we are only two and a half weeks away from the first preseason game in the national football league. That's right. August first is the first preseason game. What's this? July 12th? Yes. We're looking at two and a half weeks. That's it. Time to get our minds back on some football people. And to that end, today's countdown, very simply after all of the off season maneuvering, and there was a lot of it in the NFL. What are our top five teams in the NFL right now? Number five, two and a half weeks before the start of the season. Let's start with the football expert, myself, Tony Gwen Jr. Oh, yeah. You just go ahead and think you are. I thought you were going to put me into the corner now. You just go ahead and you just go ahead and think you're the football expert, but I'm going with Tony Gwen Jr. He is a defending champion on Gwen versus Chris NFL pick him. So the jump is I'm going with him first. Who do you got? All right. Number five. Oh, five. Yeah. Number five. Yeah. We're going to do it that way for it. Maybe I made a mistake calling him the expert. Scravey, you know, I have five to one. When did that start? All right. All right. Sorry. You're jerking. Number five. Houston Texans will be my number five. Interesting. This year. They went out. They added Joe Nixon. They added my man from Buffalo. I can't think of his name right now. It's coming. Oh, dig dig. Yes. They added digs. They added digs. Yes. We talked about last week. No, we didn't. We went through all the running backs last week. We didn't go through all the wide receivers. And I think C.J. Stroud takes another step for us. I'm putting that Texan team at five. That's that's big doings for the Texans who did win a playoff game last year. All right. Number five Texans. I see that. All right. Now we'll go to the guy who knows the third most about football. Me. Oh, wow. I fooled you again. I fooled you again. I was coming up with come back to my head. I'm going to go. I'm going to go with the Cincinnati Bengals. Number five. I know that I think they finished last in that division last year after it was all said and done. But you know, without Joe Barrow, the thing to me is with the Bengals. And I know and you just mentioned it. Mixon's gone. But Joe Barrow, I think just off the top and we could go through a bunch of different, you know, you know, different ideas about it. I think he's the second best quarterback in the NFL. I mean, Mahomes is clearly number one. But there's only one guy that when a game starts, I feel comfortable can beat Mahomes. And that's burrow. So I got to put the Bengals in the top five. Because I think, you know, as long as you know, there's no way to prove, you know, predict whether it'll be healthy. But I think as long as he's healthy, I think the Bengals are a contender. That's what we're saying. As long as he's healthy, he's true is he missed lots of time. No, but but I'm not going to put him on my fantasy roster this year. So he'll probably play the full year. All right, Scrappy, go. All right, I chose the Texans as well. I think everything that Tony said, I think that dig's edition is going to be huge for CJ Stroud because he already has receivers. Yeah, he was using last year and they weren't even as good. They were younger, but they're going to get better. And I love to Miko Ryan. So I think he's a good coach or Dameko Ryan is his name. You love him so much. You don't even know his name. Hey, you don't even know your own coach's name if it's McDaniel or McDaniel's. True. Okay, that's true. I don't. Four. All right, Tony, you got number four. I'm going back and forth, but I will put the Baltimore Ravens at number. Oh, yeah. Derek Henry edition. Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson. What do you do? Yeah, this is that is a conundrum for defenses. If I'm if I'm if I'm Lamar Jackson, I'm just I'm never pulling the football out. If we do the option, I'm putting it in his stomach, he can go. Yeah, right. But nonetheless, I like I like Baltimore four. They're good. I'm going to go with the San Francisco 49ers four. I don't think they're the best team. It's not. I mean, I think there's three teams that are clearly better than them heading into the season. The 49ers have lost God. They, you know, look, they can't keep this entire all-star team together for the rest of time. And I think you can only blow it so many times in the NFC Championship or the Super Bowl or wherever you get to every year before you finally have one of those seasons where things don't go your way. So and I'm just if that ever really does happen, it is really going to make my life enjoyable. I got to tell you guys out there, you know, I mean, having to sit here year after year after year as the 49ers just romp through the NFL is almost impossible for me and Tony. And so for that reason, you're lucky. I even put them for I consider leaving them out altogether. All right, go ahead. Who do you have? My number four, Tony's got my list or I got Tony's list because I say the Ravens to everything that Tony said, plus the Ravens were embarrassed in the playoffs last year after having such a great season. And I have this feeling that Lamar Jackson has another chip on his shoulder. Another thing that he has to prove, which is get them to the suit. What if Lamar Jackson just isn't good enough to win in the playoffs against those guys? I mean, he's done it. It's happened to him two or three times now. Then next year when we do our list. Okay, all right. Fair enough. Fair enough. Tony. The San Francisco 49ers. I want to leave them out, but I couldn't quite get there. This is still a very talented team, although there is some dissension going on in that locker. Randon Ayuk. Mr. Ayuk wants his chips with dip. He thinks Niners are delinquent. And so they're to cheap franchise. So he's been a cheap franchise. I don't want to pay the man. So I don't expect it to go as well as it could this year for the Niners. Okay, that's fine. I mean, three is pretty high when you don't even have a top 10 quarterback. Facts. Thank you. Scraving. Scraving. Scraving nodded, but he wanted to punch me. No, he keep going. All right, number. We're pressed for time. We're good. Number three for me is the Detroit Lions, the team that had the 49ers on the ropes in the NFC Championship game. And wasn't it a couple of bad calls turned to tide, I think, if I fall down and tries. Yes. Well, look, the kneecap cannibals not going to stop going on fourth down. And so, you know, you're right. That was those are big plays and the 49ers made them, but this year, I think it's going to be the kneecap guy. And I think he's going to make sure that his team gets the home field for that NFC Championship game this year against the 49ers. And that is going to make the difference. The Lions may finally, finally reach the promised land of their first Super Bowl. The Lions may finally roar. And beyond that was so stupid. I'm not even responding. No, so you should have just finished your point, Chris. You should even acknowledge that he's stupid. It's time to try to. I tried to, but he said nothing, nothing. He just kept talking, that would have made him even better. He just kept talking like he'd even hear nothing. Well, here's my last point on the Lions. Aemon Ross Saint Brown played a Mon Ross Saint Brown, sorry, played the entire season last year with his muscle of his oblique torn off the bone. That is a guy who's committed to winning. Yes. So I'm going with them three. My number three, the Lions as well. I think the Lions are going to build upon last year, and I'm scared for the four yards to face them in the playoffs because I think Chris is right. They want that home field advantage. And I think they're going to go out and they're going to get the home field advantage this year. So Lions are number three. All right. Is this me? Yes, sir. Number two on the list. This is Troy Lyons. Be cap countable. His team. Number two on the list ahead of the niners. I think they overtake the Niners this year in the NFC. I'm praying for the Lions. I'm playing at the church of the Detroit Lions this year. You're going to go pray to very sad. Aemon Ross Saint Brown. Aemon Ross. That's right. My guy. Aemon Ross Saint Brown. I'm funny today. Not really. And number two for me. I just want to get this isn't an aside because they certainly didn't make my list, but I wanted to work them into discussion somehow. Through the months of September and October, I expect the Miami Dolphins to be in this category somewhere. But November and December must be played. And I know that they will fade miserably at that point. Leaving my number two team as the Baltimore Ravens. You guys mentioned them. Look, Miami season was going along OK until they lost to Baltimore in December. I don't know. I thought the score was like 90 to 14. I don't remember what it actually was, but it seemed like they scored four touchdowns every quarter. That team is so good, so capable. Defensively, you know, they've got a lot of their fierceness back. And yeah, I don't know how you stopped Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson. So number two Baltimore for me. It looked a little bit like what it looked like when they went to San Francisco. Oh, that was a real wow. Wow. It just hit me. Wow. I remember that game. That was one of the worst Christmases of my life. Great Christmas. It was a Christmas night. I was all excited all day. Where my jersey ready for the game and then boom, brought pretty through like 25 interceptions in the game or something like reason. Number 10. Why he's not a top 10 quarterback because he had one bad game. OK, to a Tango Valleau would like to have a word, Chris. He's not in the top 10 either. Number two can't see Chiefs. They're the the champs. And so I can't unseat them from number two because you guys know who my number one is. We're not even going to go to here for number one. We'll go to Scrape. Is it for Daisy? By the way, let's follow your list. Five four and Daisy in a fell list for my first gravy over one. Number one, Kansas City Chiefs until someone dethrones these bad boys. It will remain the same. Christopher. I got to be in agreement. And they really approved it last year more than ever before because they didn't even get the home field to take them to the Super Bowl. You know, I mean, very Patriot like they went on the road. They beat Buffalo on the road. They beat Baltimore on the road. Those were really, really impressive. And now everybody's going to tell Patrick Mahomes that no one's ever won three Super Bowls in a row, which is exactly what he's going to try to prove everybody wrong and do. Forty years number one, ain't even close. All right. We're at the top of the hour. Even close. At the top of the hour. At the top of the hour. It's not even close. God. This is what we live with on a daily basis, people. All day, every day. All right. Take your shot at Christopher's the fans 8332880973 trivia when we return. It's now time for Gwen and Chris to rank their top five of the day. Gonna grip and rip as usual. This isn't just a regular top five list. I love it. It sounds terrific, but I love it. This is a countdown and it starts right now. 97.3 the fan. All right. We all love the game of baseball as much as anybody, probably more so than than anybody. I like talking about Wimbledon. I'm enjoying the the Euro Cup, Copa America, the soccer tournament's going on, but come on, man, we are only two and a half weeks away from the first preseason game in the national football league. That's right. August first is the first preseason game. What's this July 12th? Yes. We're looking at two and a half weeks. That's it. Time to get our minds back on some football people. And to that end, today's countdown, very simply after all of the off season maneuvering, and there was a lot of it in the NFL, what are our top five teams in the NFL right now? Number five, two and a half weeks before the start of the season. Let's start with the football expert, myself, Tony Gwen Jr. Oh, wow. I thought you were going. Oh, yeah, Jesus, go ahead and thank you. You are the football expert. I thought you were going to put me into the corner. No, you just go ahead and think you're the football expert, but I'm going with Tony Gwen Jr. He is the defending champion on Gwen versus Chris NFL pick him. So I'm going with him first. Who do you got? All right. Number five. Oh, five first. I'm going to do it that way for it. Maybe I made a mistake calling him the expert. Scravey, you know, I have no way. We're going from five to one. When did that start? All right. The Houston Texans will be my number five. Interesting. This year they went out. They've added Joe mixing. They added my man from Buffalo. I can't think of his name right now. It's coming. Oh, it was the digs. Digs. Yes, they added digs. They added digs. Yeah, we talked about last week. No, we didn't. We went through all the running backs last week. We didn't go through all the wide receivers. And I think CJ Strauss takes another step for us. I'm putting that Texan team at five. That's that's big doings for the Texans who did win a playoff game last year. All right. Number five Texans. I see that. All right. Now we'll go to the the guy who knows the third most about football. Me. Oh, wow. I told you again. I told you. I was coming up with comebacks in my head. I'm going to go. I'm going to go with the Cincinnati Bengals. Number five. I know that I think they finished last in that division last year after was all said and done. But you know, without Joe Barrow, the thing to me is with the Bengals. And I know and you just mentioned it. Nixon's gone. But Joe Barrow, I think just off the top and we could go through a bunch of different, you know, you know, different ideas about it. I think he's the second best quarterback in the NFL. I mean, my homes is clearly number one. But there's only one guy that when a game starts, I feel comfortable can beat my homes and that's burrow. So I got to put the Bengals in the top five because I think, you know, as long as you know, I need there's no way to prove, you know, predict whether it'll be healthy. But I think as long as he's healthy, I think the Bengals are a contender. That's what we're saying. As long as he's healthy. Yeah, true. Coming is he missed lots of time. No, kidding. But but I'm not going to put him on my fantasy roster this year. So he'll probably play the full year. All right, Scrabby, go. All right, I chose the Texans as well. I think everything that Tony said, I think that digs edition is going to be huge for CJ Stroud because he already has receivers. Yeah, he was using last year and they weren't even as good. They were younger, but they're going to get better. And I love to Miko Ryan. So I think he's a good coach or D'Amico Ryan is his name. You love him so much. You don't even know his name. Right. You don't even know your own coach's name. If it's McDaniel or McDaniel's. True. Okay. That's true. I don't. Number four. All right, Tony, you got number four. I'm going back and forth, but I will put the Baltimore Ravens at number. Oh, yeah. Derek Henry addition. Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson. What do you do? Yeah, this is a conundrum for defenses. If I'm, if I'm, if I'm Lamar Jackson, I'm just, I'm never pulling the football out. If we do the option, I'm putting it in his stomach, he can go. Yeah, right. But nonetheless, I like, I like Baltimore four. They're good. I'm going to go with the San Francisco 49ers four. I don't think they're the best team. It's respectful. It's not. I mean, I think there's three teams that are clearly better than them heading into the season. The 49ers have lost God. They, they, you know, look, they can't keep this entire all-star team together for the rest of time. And I think you can only blow it so many times in the NFC championship or the Super Bowl or wherever you get to every year before you finally have one of those seasons where things don't go your way. So, and I'm just, if that ever really does happen, it is really going to make my life enjoyable. I got to tell you guys out there, you know, I mean, having to sit here year after year after year is the 49ers just romp through the NFL is almost impossible for me and Tony. And so for that reason, you're lucky I even put them four. I considered leaving them out altogether. I could bring myself to do it. All right, go ahead. Who do you have? My number four, Tony's got my list or I got Tony's list because I say the Ravens too. Everything that Tony said plus the Ravens were embarrassed in the playoffs last year after having such a great season. And I have this feeling that Lamar Jackson has another chip on his shoulder. Another thing that he has to prove, which is get them to the Super Bowl. What if Lamar Jackson just isn't good enough to win in the playoffs against those guys? I mean, he's done it. It's happened to him two or three times now. Then next year when we do our list is out of the top. All right, fair enough, fair enough. Number three, Tony. The San Francisco 49ers. I wanted to leave them out, but I couldn't quite get there. This is still a very talented team, although there is some dissension going on and then lock a randon, I you know, Mr. Ayuk wants his chips with dip. He thinks hey, Niners are delinquent. And so they're to cheap franchise. It's always been a cheap franchise. I don't want to pay them in. So I don't expect it to go as well as it could this year for the Niners. Okay, that's fine. It's fine. I mean, three is pretty high when you don't even have a top 10 quarterback. Facts. Thank you. Scraving. Scraving. Scraving nodded, but he wanted to punch me. No, he keep going. All right. Number. We're pressed for time. We're good. Number three for me is the Detroit Lions, the team that had the 49ers on the ropes and the NFC Championship game and wasn't it a couple of bad calls turned to tide? I think if I fall down and tries. Yes. Well, look, the kneecap cannibals not going to stop going on fourth down and eyes not. So, you know, you're right. That was those are big plays and the 49ers made them. But this year, I think it's going to be the kneecap guy. And I think he's going to kneecap guy. I think he's going to make sure that his team gets the home field for that NFC Championship game this year against the 49ers. And that is going to make the difference. The Lions may finally finally reach the promised land of their first Super Bowl. The Lions may finally roar and beyond that was so stupid. I'm not even responding to now. So you should have just finished your point, Chris. You should even acknowledge that he's stupid. It's time to try to. I tried to, but he said nothing, nothing. He just kept talking, I would have made even better. You just kept talking like you need me or nothing. Well, here's my last point on the Lions. Aemon Ross Saint Brown played a Mon Ross Saint Brown. Sorry, played the entire season last year with his muscle of his oblique torn off the bone. That is a guy who's committed to winning. Yes. So I'm going with them three. My number three, the Lions as well. I think the Lions are going to build upon last year and I'm scared for the four yards to face them in the playoffs because I think Chris is right. They want that home field advantage. And I think they're going to go out and they're going to get the home field advantage this year. So Lions are number three. Number two. Is this me? Yes, sir. Number two on the list. This is Troy Lyons. Be cap accountable. His team number two on the list ahead of the Niners. I think they overtake the Niners this year in the NFC. I'm praying for the Lions. I'm praying at the church of the Detroit Lions this year. You're going to go pray to very sad. Aemon Ross Saint Brown. Aemon Ross. That's right. My guy. Aemon Ross Saint Brown. I'm funny today. Not really. And number two for me. I just want to get this is an aside because they certainly didn't make my list, but I wanted to work them into discussion somehow. Through the months of September and October, I expect the Miami Dolphins to be in this category somewhere, but November and December must be played. And I know that they will fade miserably at that point, leaving my number two team as the Baltimore Ravens. You guys mentioned them. Look, Miami season was going along OK until they lost to Baltimore in December. I thought I don't know. I thought the score was like 90 to 14. I don't remember what it actually was, but it seemed like they scored, you know, four touchdowns every quarter. That team is so good, so capable, defensively, you know, they've got a lot of their fierceness back. And yeah, I don't know how you stop Derek Henry and Lamar Jackson. So number two Baltimore for me. It looked a little bit like what it looked like when they went to San Francisco. Oh, that was a real wow. Wow. It just hit me well. I remember that game. That was one of the worst Christmases of my life. Great Christmas. It was a nice. I was all excited all day. Where my jersey ready for the game and then boom, brought pretty through like 25 interceptions in the game or something. Reason number 10. Why he's not a top 10 quarterback, because he had one bad game. Okay, to a tongue of a low, I would like to have a word Chris. He's not in the top 10 either. Number two, can't see Chiefs. They're the the champs. And so I can't unseat them from number two, because you guys know who my number one is. We're not even going to go to your number one. We'll go to is a foot is a foot is a foot is a foot is a foot is easy. By the way, I let's follow your list. Five four and easy in a fell list for my first gravy. Over one number one, Kansas City Chiefs. Until someone dethrones these bad boys, it will remain the same. Christopher. I got to be in agreement and they really approved it last year, more than ever before, because they didn't even get the home field to take them to the Super Bowl. You know, I mean, very Patriot like they went on the road. They beat Buffalo on the road. They beat Baltimore on the road. Those were really, really impressive. And now everybody's going to tell Patrick Mahomes that no one's ever won three Super Bowls in a row, which is exactly what he's going to try to prove everybody wrong and do. 40 years number one, ain't even close. Hi, we're at the top of the hour. 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