Grant and Danny
WILD Ravens-Chiefs Game... Football Is BACK!
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I think cash to tickets is the spot for you. We're real, we're transparent, we're having a hell of a good time with it, and we sit there and we're there for the sweat with you guys. We're just trying to figure it out just like you. Follow and listen to Cash the Ticket on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. We don't need to start the show with negativity. No, we shouldn't. I'm going to clean it up. I'm going to turn things positive. Do it. Because I'm in such a good mood. My son came to the door today, never, ever, ever says goodbye. I always say, hey buddy, daddy's going to work. Can I have a hug? And he goes, no. He's like, I don't care. Can I have a kiss? And he's like, no. And then I walk out the door. Today he ran to the door. He opened the door and he said, have a good day at work. Wow. And I was like, wow. And he said, dad, dad. And I turn around. He goes, make sure you have a good day at work. Oh, he doubled down. He's certain. So between that and the football being back, your boy's feeling good. So I'm going to go around the room here with compliments. Okay. Oh, just dudes given compliments. Danny, first compliment to you. You got a haircut today. I did. You're looking fresh. Thanks. You hate the sides of your head. Yes, I do. When there's like those feathery hairs. And so you tell them to take them all off, they're all gone. They're gone. You look good. Congratulations. Look, okay. Thank you. Daris, you're always so sweet. You're just a nice lad. I'm happy to see your smile and face today. Ryan, you brought us cookies yesterday. I mean, you're very handsome. You look like the guy in Twister's name, Glenn Powell. Men want to be you. Women want to be with you. Okay, that kind of in you. So there's the compliments for everybody in the room. Now let's get to the program. All right, everyone is in a good mood. Yeah, that was nice. Wasn't that nice? Chiefs was nice. Ravens, Danny. God, it was good. Why is the sport so popular? Why do people care so much? Why are these guys making such a big deal that it's coming back? It came down to a half of one inch last night. If a absolute beast, Isaiah likely, what are performance? Yeah, I was growing up. What a coming out party it was for him. Nine grabs, 111 yards in a touchdown and some mauling, eye hop amount of pancake blocks from him last night. But if he wears a shoe size, one size smaller, the Ravens tie the game, you know, they were going for two to get away. You saw Harbaugh with the deuces. He put them right up. So let's go. You saw that one coming like four minutes out. Oh, sure. I'm sure everybody would have reacted the first Friday after the season opener. Very reasonably had the Ravens had gone for two in loss or based on Lamar's performance or whatever else everyone's going to be chewing up left and right today. But it came down to one inch as we remat ran back the rematch of the AFC championship game. Just perfect. Just perfect. So a couple of things, just notes on the possession. I don't know when it became the paradigm, but I think it has. I'm the I'm the old dinosaur that's going spike it, spike it, spike it, spike it. And no one seems to have any interest in it. Mike Toreko and Chris Collinsworth on the broadcast. Toreko asked Collinsworth. Wouldn't that have made sense to maybe ground the ball there and spike in Collinsworth had sort of muttered some sort of axiom or platitude of they got a score anyway, or something. His point was so wrong. And frankly, just dumb. So Toreko asked him and you're talking about the Ravens get the ball down on the big catch. Huge play shot baby fingertip catch. Unbelievable stuff. The play ends with around 29 or 30 seconds left on the clock go inside the 10 yard line. And now the whole formation, including all the big boys that are out of breath that have been working hard all drive long have to jog down 30 yards, line up inside the 10, get a snap off and spike it. If you spike it, you save yourself. What would you guess 15 seconds? Well, it ended up, they finally snapped the ball after getting everybody organized with 19 seconds left. That play takes well. Jackson scrambles around a little bit moves, then throws an incompletion where likely comes down awkward and hurts himself. There's nine seconds left. Then there's only 10 seconds left. Right. But my point is there was 10 seconds of play that they ran. But if you're not getting organized, calling a play, lining guys up and you just run down and you're just using whatever your code word is for spike, apple, apple, apple, apple, and you get up to the line and you spike it, I think they would have saved themselves 15 seconds. Absolutely. I would say at least. But Toreko asks his analyst who's very good, Chris Collinsworth, hey, should they have spiked it there and Collinsworth to your point said, oh, you got to score either way. So, you know, they still have a couple more plays. The clock is the most important thing there. His point was, well, they would have run one play with the spike and they ran one play anyway. So what's the difference? The difference is there's time left. After the incompletion to likely, you now have a fourth downplay. So I thought his point was outrageously incorrect. Agreed. So you set up this amazing moment because, of course, it had to come down to that, right? The two minute drill, such as it was Baltimore wasted timeouts on defense earlier in the half. Again, that's another thing that I'll never understand that coach, you know, how and why coaches do that as good as John Harbaugh is. That's a bit of a Harbaugh state. Yeah. In a close game against a good opponent, I can't ever do that. There's got to be something egregious. Like they'll score if I don't do this. It's not worth five yards. It's not worth the delay game to me. In the second half, that timeout in a close game, I'm going to need it on offense. And if I don't use it, fine, but I need to always save them for that. The drama was just so good. But the drama's perfect. Likely on a couple of plays before that. So there was a three-place sequence at the end, throwing to the end zone. Deep shot corner of the end zone, unlikely, who was open. If Lamar makes a good throw, it's a touchdown. Overthrows it back at the end zone, tries to make a leap and catch. It's violently shoved to the ground. I thought he broke his hand. Oh, there was a wrist. I mean, I mean, I saw ribs. It sounded like he dislocated something and then popped it back in. Two plays later is right back on the field. Now the play in the middle there, the sandwich play, with Zayflowers wide open in the back of the end zone. Lamar missing him by six feet behind him. A little bit of a miscommunication where he thought he'd throttle it down. Zay was just kind of running into space in the back of the paint. So they missed there. And then the final play was the throw to likely. Here's how it sounded last night on NBC on the national telecast. And first four. Lamar trying to make magic happen. Throw an end zone, likely to feed down. Yes, touchdown. What a play. I say unlikely. Let's make sure. Oh, very close. Is there enough to overturn? That's wrong. That's on the line, isn't it? Terry McCauley is going to have to make this call, but it looks like that toes on the line, Terry. I agree completely. The right toes on the line. It's out of bounds. This is going to be reversed to an incomplete pass. Oh my goodness. So that's how it sounded last night on NBC. Hey, Mike Valenti here host a cash to ticket alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. Are you tired of podcasts claiming there are a bunch of pro betters when they live in their mommy's basement? Are you tired of podcasts that claim they had 80% of the games? When really, they just lose like most of us. Think cash to tickets, the spot for you. We're real, we're transparent. We're having a hell of a good time with it. And we sit there and we're there for the sweat with you guys. We're just trying to figure it out just like you. Follow and listen to cash the ticket on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. Few things there. Mike Rico is the best. Yeah, just awesome. Second, I do like Collinsworth a lot. But Terry McCoy does not have to make that call. My mom or your dad or anybody's nephew could have made that call. His cleat was clearly on the chalk. Jackson after the game, I don't know if you saw said he thought it was a touchdown and he still thinks it's a touchdown. And to that, I would say, no, it wasn't because his cleat landed on the paint on the white chalk out of bounds in the back of the end zone, but does not change what would have been an amazing play by quarterback and the tight end, an amazing drive in the end. Chief's win 27 to 20. Just rapid fire thoughts on the game really quick. Some things that I jotted down. I want to know what you thought. Football's the best. That was the first thing. Lamar is not going to last 17 games running that much. That seemed like maybe a game plan thing, I guess. He ran the ball 16 times last night for 122 yards. That's not going to work over 17 games. He also lost 15 pounds so that he could be quicker. And he was, I thought, in the game. But there was a point where he's running out of bounds and he lowered his shoulder and went helmet to helmet with someone. That was stupid. There were a couple of other just big, loud contact plays that I thought he could have avoided, but he's not going to have 17 of those in him. Now he might only need two or three of those, but it's the first game. And that seems like the design is, is there going to use him a lot running the football and Derek Henry only had 13 carries, but I just don't think that's sustainable. Travis Kelsey was library quiet and he was whisper quiet in this game. Kelsey ended up catching three balls for 34 yards. The number of Kelsey catches was like one third of the number of shots of his girlfriend Taylor Swift in the crowd. It's not a whole lot of Travis Kelsey last night for the Chiefs. Isaiah likely amazing. He was the best tight end on the field, nine for a buck 11 and a score coming into his own. My guess is he supplants Mark Andrews a little bit this year. Come to agree. Yeah. Andrews have a big season, but don't you think? I mean, that there's a role for likely. You cannot put that car back in the garage. Yeah. There. There's a role for him because he's not as large as as Andrew's not maybe not as physical and inline block or though he was pretty good last night, but he looks like an overgrown wide receiver. You know what I mean? Just kind of the way he moves around a little bit. And if attention is going to be paid to say flowers, who they featured heavily, and you would think Andrews get the same requisite attention for a guy that's been close to 1000 yard receiver in his own right as a tight end. There'll be some spots for him. I love how hard Isaiah Pacheco plays and runs. He just does everything pretty violently angrily. He also is one of these guys. You know, some people move in a way where it doesn't look like there's any effort. James Wood does this. He is a glider with his limbs to the point where there was a piece written in the post about how like his coaches growing up at different levels didn't think he was hustling. And still, I'll get a tweet every now and then from Nat's fans like, why doesn't he run or why doesn't he do this? It's like, no, no. You didn't notice that he was the fastest guy on the field in that moment. It just looks different because he's so giant. It looks like Pacheco. Everything is like really whatever the opposite of James Wood is. It's Pacheco. It's choppy. I just got sugar. You know, like he's so yeah. Rishi Rice slanted the Ravens to death all night. Very much not suspended if you're curious. He is on the field seven for a bucko three last night. They're leading receiver facing eight felonies, I think, but nothing has come in terms of hearings yet. So the NFL is waiting on that. And he fell in a lot of fantasy drafts because people just didn't know who's getting suspended or not. It looks like he's in tune for a big season, perhaps. We'll see how much the offense changes when Hollywood Brown comes back. Two other things they debuted their rookie, rookie Xavier Worthy. How fast is that guy? He's expedient. That is quite literally the fastest 40 time in the history of the NFL was turned in by him. His first touch was a 21 yard touchdown last night. I want to give Clary credit because he was in here last night saying he put money down on a first touchdown for Worthy. Now he didn't win it because unfortunately the Ravens got the ball worth first and just walked down that field. But how about Worthy, dude? Yeah. And then he had the busted coverage 35 yard touchdown later in the game. So a couple things. My note, I have only have a few to add. Both those teams are excellent. Both those teams are going to be factors. Both those teams are going to be really, really good this year. I saw nothing to dissuade me of that. Kansas City's offense is going to look like we're used to it looking. Last year is the anomaly. Now they've got a few more toys. There's, they're more versatile, right? Now that you don't have to force feed Travis Kelsey, they both were planned to me look like they wanted to take Kelsey away. Fine. Watch this. We'll spread you out with this super fast, dude. We'll, we'll find a matchup to exploit it. You're going to bracket Travis Kelsey. Okay. You're going to leave Rishi Rice on a linebacker and you're going to lose that time after time after time after time. Yeah. And having Worthy, I don't know how great a football player he is. I know this is going to sound a little bit iffy, but bear with me. I don't know if he's like, if he went somewhere else, he would be 80 for 100, you know, for, you know, 1,200 yards in 10 touchdowns. I know that as a toy, Andy reads offense, he's terrifying. And that presence, I think is what matters the most. I also think the discourse on him is going to get out of the hand this week because he scored two touchdowns. One was on a really nicely designed, perfectly called play. We didn't, he didn't get touched. Yeah. They're seven or eight mammoth dudes in front of him, paving the road. The other was a busted coverage completely. And so it was two scores and ate a monster game, but I could very easily see that's, you know, one catch for four yards next week or something like that. Yeah. I think the threat of him is more important than him. That that makes any sense. The Ravens need Lamar Jackson to make more throws though and he missed way too many throws. Yeah. And for Baltimore's perspective, it's, it's, you know, it always sort of feels a little bit to me like when they have a huge game like this, where everybody's got, they know the talking heads tomorrow, we're going to be saying something. It's almost like they're, it runs like a filmmaker who got criticized for his last movie, going fine. I'll do what you guys want in this movie. Because remember, he just stood in the pocket against Kansas City, the AFC title game. And it didn't work well, because they're not really built to do that. They're like, okay, fine. We'll run in the death. See if that makes you happy. And it's, there's, there's a happy meeting there. Even still, I was pretty impressed with the Ravens. Hey, Mike Villetti here host a cash to ticket alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. Are you tired of podcasts claiming they're a bunch of pro betters when they live in their mommy's basement? Are you tired of podcasts that claim they hit 80% of the games? When really, they just lose like most of us think cash to tickets, the spot for you. We're real, we're transparent. We're having a hell of a good time with it. And we sit there and we're there for the sweat with you guys. We're just trying to figure it out just like you. Follow and listen to cash the ticket on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.