 everybody and welcome to the LA Convention Center where it is all going down this week as we lead up to Super Bowl 56. This is the home of the fan experience. And of course radio row is where as well where all of the members of the media are broadcasting from this week. And hello welcome into our set welcome into the Fandals Sportsbooks more ways to win studio here. What's up football fans. I'm Lisa Kearney here in Los Angeles where the Super Bowl is now just a few days away. Very exciting times and I am joined by the rest of the guys here on set with me. We are breaking down this big game between the Rams and the Bengals. We're going to get to them but we have got huge guests on the show. You guys Broncos running back Melbourne Gordon stopping by along with Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson just off the side of our set waiting. He will be sitting in one of these seats in just a moment. What's up guys. We're back together. This is officially day two of our Super Bowl preps. How's the energy? How are we feeling the energy of pacing ourselves. The vibe is good in LA. And Dave you put me onto a whole different way of betting last night. I've got a whole new philosophy after our dinner date. We had a great dinner last night by the way. You picked up the tab so generous of you. My pleasure. Anytime. Little birthday shenanigans a little team dinner if you will got to know each other a little better. Lots more to come on that. I'm sure whatever we can share here on the show it's family program guys. Before we dive into our analysis so a reminder that all of you can place all of your bets. We're talking about in the show right now in the Fandall Sports Book app and for all of our new users sign up for that new account using the promo code more ways 1000 you can get your first bet risk free up to 1000 bucks. So get on that. You can download that app right now. We're going to get into this show and kick it off and get right into this match up because I mentioned you know we're going to talk a little bit about these Rams and Bengals. We're going to start with the spread guys Rams laying four with the Bengals in town. Dave I'm going to start with you which side are you backing. It's been kind of going back and forth for four and a half back to four. You know you look at the experience of Matthew Stafford. You know played over 150 games in the NFL. Joe Burrow 29 games. Is it too much to ask for this young kid to get it done in the Superboy. You think he's been clutched. I think it's too much to ask especially with what the Rams defense is going to do to him. You know we've seen it all playoffs long. They've been phenomenal and you know that Rams defense and Cooper Cup the combination of those two things think the Rams cover. I'm blown away by his poise. Joe Burrow. I mean every time I think he's going to crack all the moments too big for him. 21 3 they come back. They win an overtime in error had to beat Lisa's Chiefs. So I'm not taking the Rams. I had to put that in there. You're wearing red. My red today. So look I'm not going to say I'm picking the Rams because I'm anti Joe Burrow but it's the three guys that are healthy now and are playing that they got in Von Miller Odell Beckham Jr. Cam Acres and I think those reinforcements call help the Rams cover minus four. Yeah especially when it comes to Von Miller of course he's looking to snag another Super Bowl MVP and bring that home. But when it comes to winning close games and Cincinnati Bengals that's what they've been able to do all season long. They've won 10 ball games this year by three points or fewer. So when you look at what they're able to do in those close knit contest and Joe Burrow as we talked about yesterday here on set. We talked about Joe Burrow not losing a big game and then Ed has to go bring all kinds of rain to the parade and say well he did lose a state championship in high school but high school for Joe Burrow a whole long time ago and on Sunday. Well not long ago. I think he's going to get a big gold chain that it doesn't last is swag is your not swag is not going to count for three four points when you know computing the numbers here. I want to push back on this idea when it comes to OK well the Bengals can win a lot of close games. No I want a team that's dominating opponents and we saw that in the playoffs with the Rams against the Cardinals with that defense did to Kyler Murray was absolutely epic. What the Rams have done against weaker competition has been absolutely epic. Meanwhile the Bengals have played a lot of close games especially when it comes to the playoffs. I want a team that's going to dominate and that tends to be be more predictive going down the road. That's why I like the Rams to cover. I'm the man on the island here. Just you know even though we're sharing a love seat you're on an island. I did notice that yesterday. Not a couch over there. You know Bengals have been disruptors right. They've come in and they've done things they weren't supposed to do. Here the Rams are fourth shortest odds to start the season. We talked about it yesterday Dave month ago 18 to one odds and then here they are hosting the Super Bowl in their home stadium and the Bengals can come in and do something that a lot of people aren't expecting them to do as they are getting four points in this game and I want to turn our our conversation out to player props because a big part of you know especially later in the season Odell Beckham junior has been a big part of in this postseason getting some numbers putting those up. So let's talk about his over under 61 and a half receiving yards for OBJ. Pony will you start us off here. Absolutely. I think Ed said was it four years ago you coined it do not succumb to recency bias. He said that for the first time I'd look it up. I'd look it up online. Yeah. Like what is this. Okay. If you just go by what's happened lately Odell Beckham junior should blow that away. Should go over right. But you go back the last five or six games before the NFC championship game 40 yards a game 50 yards. Right. The volume of the body of work in this body of work says go under. I think he's going to be more of a decoy in diversion in this game day. He's hit it the last three makers the last two games he's hit it but since joining the Rams four out of 11 where he's gotten right. That's what I'm talking about. I'm saying under. Yeah I'm going with you. All right you guys let's move on here and Ed and Cole this one is for you quarterback to throw a touchdown pass first. Do you think it's going to be Stafford or do you think it's going to be borough. What do you guys think I'm going to have to go with Joe borough at plus one 10 when you take a look at the team that's able to score first in the Super Bowl. They're 36 and 19 so if Joe borough is able to calculate some of those numbers and devise a game plan to get to the end zone who knows who are we going to see that strike to. Well that's yet to be determined but I'm going with Joe borough to throw that first touchdown in. It's awfully close when it comes to red zone passing but the Rams pass in the red zone 59% of the time. The Bengals do it 57% of the time. Cincinnati is also big when it comes to establishing the run. They're much more committed to that than the Rams are so to me Stafford's my pick. Okay all right. All right you guys well there are we're gonna have lots more conversations on these guys they just keep going. You know what I'm just here I'm just a decoy I'm just a prop. And another thing. And another thing you'll get your turn. 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gonna be a great conversation as he's got his hat on let's start with these rams now LA traded for math staffer before the season i've always been a Matthew Stafford fan and it's nice to see him get a chance here in LA to do the biggest thing here um you know they they collecting other players you know obj comes in what is your taking in all of and all of the the rams have put into really refining this roster both offensively and defensively i think they've done a great job i think less needs done a great job putting this roster together um i'm not out you know i think people are always big on draft picks the first round draft picks but i'd rather have a proven product guys who have played like a von miller you know and and Matthew Stafford you you've got those guys and that's what you want i mean it's it's almost sad because it's like people want Matthew Stafford to fail it's like oh he's not want to play off game or he won one or ain't that one another player go on that or ain't that going he's not gonna be the 49ers we get the superbowl oh well he got lucky it's like wow what can the guy i if he wins the superbowl i'm sure to be something else yeah well he has a he has quite a story and in his journey to get here has been a winding one so we'll see what he can get done on sunday but um Dave i know that you have a question for eric's i'm gonna turn over to you yeah first of all i brought my ball you signed this probably 10 years ago i don't know but i picked it up at a golf tournament and i know you do a lot of charity work here in southern california you like to do things like that so thank you for that thank you for the contribution um the question for you is you play with coach robinson yes um however many years he coached the ram never got a chance to go to the superbowl here's Sean McVeigh it's his fifth year as a head coach second trip already to the superbowl what if you could grade him as a head coach Sean McVeigh what would you give him oh man that's a tough course i don't like to grade coaches like i'm a great players but i mean you have to give him a at least an eight and a half you know because you you know i think the big thing is he hasn't won the superbowl that's everybody you got to win the superbowl so if he wins the superbowl he has to get a 10 because you have all these coaches coming from under Sean McVeigh there's head coaches there's other head coaches and i think that it shows you know Sean's knowledge of the game and the guys that have come after him so i'd have to give him an eight and a half all right it's a pretty good rating right there eight and a half not too shabby especially when he's playing for another Vince Lombardi trophy now ed we talked about guys who could play big-time roles in the superbowl on sunday of course von miller obj and cam makers when it comes to cam makers how does he dig deep we know he was played by injuries this year how does he dig deep and maybe in this game become the heroine channel his Eric Dickerson well the thing is is that you have to have i have the opportunity to run the ball yeah i mean that that comes first and the guys have to make the blocks but the thing i like about cam is he always seems to be going forward you know not falling back he can make the great cuts he doesn't take long to hit the holes and i saw that when he came back many's hitting those holes so fast and that's that's what we've that's what we've been missing we know we can't be an out you know it's interesting because i got a message that i was not allowed to ask you why you aren't wearing an smu hat because recruiting is a 24 7 process ed you know this but i do want to ask you as far as uh when when you're evaluating a running back when you're watching on film for the casual fan how can you tell when a running back has it and how can you tell when it's the offensive line and the structure establishing that run game well first of all you have to have both i don't care how great you are if you don't have the guys up front you can't do it but from for for me my my my best after a beat people say what what makes you so great or good i say my acceleration from zero to 60 you know to be able to cut because as big as i am i was six three two twenty but i could go stop and go and and that's that's the difference from a guy when you stop and make them rounded stutter steps or you're not sure about it and then sometimes you have to punish you have to punish the hole you have to punish the hole you know like you have to make a hole and i could do that too uh your single season rushing record still stands today still stand good that's hard to do man i you know the league has gone more past heavy do you see that record being broken and if you do who could do it you know someone will break it one day now i'll say this to do i wanted one to break it hell no i'm gonna hang onto my records you know people i was oh records are meant to be broken you don't have a record if you want your record to be broken um you know the guy that i look at this kind of like me is is derrick henry big he's physical and he's fast enough he's fast like fast and i thought he was so if it's a guy that has a chance right now that i see it's him or someone that's not even in the national football league yet let me ask you this question because you're looking good i might say thanks i'm hard to know there's like after the Super Bowl like 200 and something days until week one if you got a contract for one game next year do you think you could get a hundred yards absolutely not what i don't know i was waiting for a yes first of all the way when i watched the guys hitting that and i go oh i just can't believe i should do that yeah no i might i might look kind of looking i would take the ball and probably just drop it you can't make that hole anymore i can't make i can't make that hole anymore to find the sideline as fast as you can right so you got some running backs some really good running backs in this game in the Super Bowl is there any one talent or treat that you are looking for from these guys that makes you believe that look if they've got a lead you can salt it away because of their ability with that one trait well you know being able to take the punishment that's that's what it comes down to being able to take those hits because you know as the game goes on the games get more physical you know when it gets when it's a close game or you know just they you hit you hit or you're gonna run the football we can run the clock out can joe mixon do that i like joe mixon i know i know can cam not a big guy but he can take the hits and the thing about cam is he's almost like me he can almost slither through a hole he don't take the big hit so both the guys are a great backs okay well that single season rushing record as lisa alluded to it still stands and when you're talking about legendary records i don't know if you remember let's ram it that's a legendary track right yes how about your man please don't it ain't don't it ain't 16 by it and already you remember your verse and when's that 2022 remix coming man man it ain't coming okay i told those guys we did that don't do this a bad idea we don't you don't do it you can't do it and sure enough you look you're talking about this yeah 30 years later sorry i had to bring it up my bad the record still stands and there are a lot of stories that will be passed on in this book right here watch my smoke you guys check it out eric this is your new book that's out what can you tell us about it what what are your readers going to take away from your story i think one thing that readers take away from me people who know me know if you ask me a question i'll take the truth that that's that's one thing but another thing is is that how the media made me into this villain you know when i when i was going through my contract disputes and and a lot of it is you know we had no outlet we had no instagram we had no twitter so what the media wrote everyone believed and i think that to me i get a chance to tell you know my my story david is going to take this home with him he is going to ask you to sign it he's going to pass it on to his daughter and her kids it's going to live along for a long long time uh thank you for the the stories that you've passed on in your book you know i'm not going to let you go until i ask you who's going to win this game on sunday come on now who you think i'll win the los angeles rams can you predict a score for us what do you think you know i i'm gonna say this much you know i've since been saying since that we've gotten the playoffs if we don't turn the football over we control this game solely i said that when we played tamper about time brady but i said we don't turn the ball over we win it easily i'll say this again we don't turn the ball over i say this will be a 30 to 14 game we turn the ball over it's going to be a field goal it'll come down to a field goal and i don't mean once i mean like two or three times all right it's gonna be a great game regardless cannot wait especially the way these playoffs have gone absolutely epic eric dickerson pro football hall of fame wide receiver thank you for joining us is an absolute pleasure again eric's book watch my smoke is out now you can you can pick that up thank you eric appreciate it thank you obviously some great insight from ed here on the show we have another great guest ahead of us coming up right here on our set and just a little bit broad goes running back melvin gordon will be here everybody we have a ton of stuff to talk with him about he is a free agent so where does he see himself playing football next year and of course there are a lot of rumors about erin rodgers possibly heading to denver to be a bronco next season what are his thoughts on that he'll break down the running back matchup for the big game ahead of us on sunday between the rams of the bangles and you know i'll be 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situation to get him the ball uh-huh for the first score he's going to get it that's my guy cam makers and you didn't cash out and you didn't hedge no cash i love that about you you stick to your guns uh you've convinced me i'm going to go with acres too you know he had that fumble at the end of the Tampa Bay game he could have easily been in the doghouse for the nfc championship just go with sony michelle been there down that one in super bowl when they're on the red zone acres usually touches the ball first so i'm going to go with cam acres plus 650 colt all right well i'm going to jump with us come on i'm going to different direction just because everyone's jumping out the bridge of course you have to do that i'm going to go with odell cornelius beckham jr because uh we know obj well he's seen somewhat of a renaissance over the last few games and when it comes to that conference championship well the first 0100 plus receiving yard game that he's had since 2019 so when it comes to obj he's going out there and he and matt stafford what when they get together well they make some sweet music frank viola style uh that passer rating 124 just a skosh under that so i'm gonna have to go with obj scoring that first touchdown i don't know how you're feeling about mr beckham but i'm feeling good well beckham's fine but this is a bit of a hedge as far as like you know first touchdown throw but if i'm looking at the bangles i'm looking at drus sample the backup tight end for the bangles in large part because look when you get close in the red zone you want a big physical guy and cj uzama is obviously going to be you know the target so to speak and so who's going to be open might be the backup we'll see what is the odds on him uh 21 to 1 ability not big enough we're not big enough to take it all right great stuff guys all right that's just a little bit of the props they're all available for you right now on the fandals sportsbook app we've got plenty more coming up on the show including broncos running back melvin gordon joining us right here on set in just a couple of moments you will not want to miss that but first we're going to give our dfs players a little love you know we always like to take this little break here in the show to give you guys a little love fandal is hooking you up with millions in prizes for free just head to fandal dot com sign up for the super bowl dfs contest set your roster play and win and this week you'll be playing a single game slate which requires specific strategy right so we turn to senior writer and editor for number fire jim sonnis he gives us some tips on setting your lineup for super bowl sunday hey jim thanks lee so yeah single game slates are a different beast and the full slates we've been playing throughout this entire year but there are a couple of key things to keep in mind that can make things a lot easier and the first thing is decide how you think this game will play out first because there will be a 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get up to those studs we talked about last week on the show and still get access to some really fun options for this slate so once again decide how you think this game will play out pick your mvp based on that and then look for volume on your value plays that should set you up well for a fun day on sunday for the rams versus the bengals awesome jim always love having jim on the show i got a special guest i'm going to introduce in just a second but there you have it head of fandal.com sign up for free dfs competitions right now of course use jim's information for a chance to win millions in prizes follow him on twitter and instagram as well at jim sonnis hit up that podcast the heat check fantasy podcast on apple podcast thank you jim all right now i want to bring in a special guest i mean not much of a tease here he's sitting right here you guys know who this man is bronco's running back melvin gordon on the show awesome having the two-time pro bowler on the show with us we've had so much to get to um thanks for being here we appreciate you being here um first things first it is uh early in the week i want to know how you're spending your week leading up to super bowl sunday i'm just chilling my mom at the crib right now so you know we just posted up at the crib uh i live in orange county so i'm just kind of relaxing see a couple of my friends uh kick it with keenan um i'm just posted up all right just hanging i asked if you're doing the car wash making your rounds on all the media i mean you're right here in radio row just hitting up all the fandal exclusively so it's a fandal exclusive sounds like um all right great having you on this i know these guys have a million questions and dave's going to start us off yeah well you know rams bangles you guys played the bangles week 15 very very close game but a but a low scoring game anything you remember from there that kind of stands out about the bangles defense uh their nose guard was really good um that's what i remember yeah their nose guard was uh he played extremely well that game um you know i felt like it was a game obviously we could have won um but you know i think pass or tame he did his job one you know he did his job on chase uh but obviously they did enough to win the game but um you know we see what happens on the super bowl you think it of yourself as a bronco right now you we call it your broncos running back yeah you think denver's the place for you what do you think of melvin i mean i hope so you know you know i hope so it's it's tough trying to you know and it's not hard for me to to you know i got a i got a big personality so i can go to teams and you know and and start relationships but it kind of sucks you know you kind of build relationship with guys and then you know you just have to leave in this part of the game we all know that and understand that but you know i'd rather not have to do that i'm not really i'm not really big with change i really don't like it you know i just like being stable and just kind of you know just being where you are but you know like i say this part of it not really big with change but i haven't seen you since you got the haircut looking good all by the way and uh i appreciate it talk about those relationships you're able to build you're going to check in with keenan allen and you talk about you're the former teammate von miller von miller obviously and now a member of the rams to see him get potentially another vince lombardi trophy and maybe you know super one vp that's got to be pretty good when it comes to those building bonds in french yeah and and you know i i really von was definitely one of the biggest reasons that i you know came to the different broncos um you know his first person i called asked about the broncos a man what the team is about um and you know i actually live with von i stayed with von for a few days out the week especially with snowing because i live so far away um so von kind of took me in under the wing and and just the stuff he do behind the scenes it's just crazy i mean just the stuff he do he fly people in to get his body taken care of i mean he spent so much on his body now i wasn't spending that much but you know he definitely he definitely looked out a little bit for me you know but um you know uh good things happen to good people and he and he he pride itself on being a great teammate man and i think everything that's happening to him is happening for a reason and that machine is the moneymaker too you gotta gotta take care of yourself got to uh hey there's a little little conversation about erin rogers uncertainty of his future yeah i don't know if you've heard anything about you know maybe he's a good fit uh there in denver how much of that conversation you know kind of comes into the locker room and and you know when did you guys start hearing about that and what's your take on it i mean i mean we heard about it the first year um you know i mean we thought that erin rogers was gonna come in and end up not happening and uh now we're really hearing about it now um so i mean it's a chance you know we can't get the high you know our hopes up too high you know um but uh it's crazy man i mean we love the guys that was in the room let's not take credit no discredit them for what they were you know what they've done um but you know he's a hall of famer you know what i mean and who who would love to have erin rogers right so um you know hopefully it works out for denver to come there um we'd definitely be happy for that to happen open arms if it works out erin rogers you heard it here from velvet gordon um hey there's a big game on sunday i don't know if you know put a little thought to it but we got rams bangles and i need to know from you who's gonna win that game ah see it's tough because my best friend i grew up with play on the bingles okay trade lanes trade lanes and then you know i got vile miller on the other side along with some other guys i'm really close with joe mixing um i built the relationship with sony uh hopefully the rams play him a little bit more um i don't know it depends on the front it depends on what that front do it it's going to be hard stopping those boys i've seen what happened to titan's game and they got a block here and donald that's what i'm saying right we all seen that titan's game that that's what scared me nine sacks nine sacks shoot vaughn miller and boys might go forward i don't know vaughn i've talked to vaughn he he you know he on a different level right now mentally man so i don't know man i'm just hoping i'm just hoping for a good game it will be don't worry about that i think he said rams i think he said rams oh we'll take it rams all right melvin gordon everybody thank you so much for joining us you're awesome we wish you all the best uh in denver or wherever you might find yourself in the nfl i hope it all works out for you man appreciate you being here oh and what's a super bowl without a 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