 The convention center where it is all going down this week as we lead right up to Superbowl 56 a bunch of awesome memorabilia you see there on display for fans to check out and hundreds of media members right here broadcasting from radio Rogan everybody ready for the big game between the Rams and the bangles I'm welcoming you in and headlining radio row the Fandals sports book set of course more ways to win welcome in everybody thanks for hanging with us as we get to you set for the big game on Sunday I'm your host Lisa Kearney and of course our our sports betting experts filling out our starting five we've got Dave Weaver we got Andrew Phillip we got Paul Wright we got Eddie Gross fine in-house the headliners I call you guys we're the starting five awesome stuff guys this place is filling up NFL players both current and former media and fans taking part in the fan experience have you guys checked it out yet by the way the 45-yard field goal as a matter of fact really really right a 4 3 140 I did it's true they're all not at all yeah guys oh my goodness I'm still in the soup look at that 1.37 seconds a new record yes look at this oh no don't do it in our family oh no where is the lower his shoulder take us for your spattered down underneath didn't have to duck too far and I just try to land on the mat here anywhere keep your day oh my gosh stick with the horses and you didn't rip your pants football wow put me on the field what what field yeah he's like no I'm gonna just hang tight in this chair right here that was awesome by the way great job man you really brought it you lowered your shoulder got into it good workout I'm speechless I saw a flag flying little helmet to helmet though a little low on that one though awesome stuff by you Dave awesome stuff guys and talking about awesome the huge stars joining us right here on our set we've got Cardinals wide receiver Deandre Hopkins right here we've got formal former NFL quarterback Michael vick on the show today they will be here on set with us breaking down the big game and of course we are getting their picks but before we dive in all that fun a reminder that you can place all the bets that we are talking about in this show on the Fandals sportsbook app right now and for all of our new users be sure to sign up using the account getting your new account with this promo code more ways 1000 you're gonna get your first bet risk-free up to 1000 bucks so we got to get right into it guys rams are giving four in this one this line hasn't moved four and a half four and it's staying here at four um are you rethinking your bets at all how are you playing this now that we're only a couple days away you know we could talk all we want about the players on the field but let's talk about the coaches this is the youngest Super Bowl matchup between coaches ever guys in their mid to late 30s don't you think it's a huge advantage for Sean McVeigh to have been through these trenches already he has a Super Bowl under his belt it was a loss but i think that was a good learning experience for him and i give them the edge not from just a player standpoint but from a coaching standpoint too well any number of ways you slice it i mean 20 years ago the rams had Super Bowl winners they got beat by Tom Brady before he was the go i mean so you never know with the experience i could go either way with that the one thing i am sure of with the bangles and i'm not picking them the win and i'm going to go with the rams i just don't think burrow is going to be overwhelmed by the moment whatsoever all the reasons to pick against Cincinnati Cole thinking that the second year quarterback is going to be a deer and headlights because it's finally the Super Bowl i just don't see that happening to you no i don't i see Joe burrow going out there and getting after it like we talked about just the other day he lost the state championship but since then he's been able to go out there and win every single game and over their last six Cincinnati bangles with Joe burrow at the helm he wants another cigar he does he does i think it's going to be something from from a foreign land that's uh we're with a whole lot of bucks when it comes to those those prized leafs there but when you take a look at what this team's able to do they win close ball games when it comes to the rams right now we know that they're blowout artists they have eight wins of two scores or more so this game right here when it comes down to being close knit i think Joe burrow is going to keep things intact but you got to keep them clean that's going to be the key right there there are a couple of storylines that i think we need to correct as far as things that we believe are big deals but in fact really aren't one of them is okay well the rams are really different now that odell beckham is there and that you can't really look at the first half of the season well really he's fulfilling that sort of robert woods role when he got injured odell beckham came in and so they're roughly that second target from at stafford so i think that all the data that we've seen in terms of rams the regular season i think that's fine other thing too is that even though von miller is the super bowl mvp and has done all these great things in his career the pressure rate for the rams has actually gotten worse over time so this is a fantastic opportunity for joe burrow to sort of capitalize off of the rest of the defense aside from erin donald talk about joe being joe cool and wanting another cigar he's not going to be he's gonna be unflappable on sunday there is another joe cool who started out with that nickname joe montana was on edify i saw him today you see that shirt he was he was asked about like yo now we got now we've got another joe cool how do you feel about that you're the original and he was like man i've had my time he can have it he was like i'm too old now so um yeah joe cool will get ready to do his thing of course on sunday and we're going to jump right into player prop bets here and pony and call this one is for you and i am going to start with burrow because pony you just said he's not going to be overwhelmed um over under one and a half touchdown passes for burrow so we had two in the a fc championship game for him that was a lower scoring game that game went way under uh i think he's going to get it in garbage time i think my game script for this one is rams get ahead big okay the hits take a toll on burrow but he doesn't quit and i think somewhere in the fourth quarter he gets that touchdown that puts him over well like you said garbage time that's going to be something that really lends to his stat padding in this game like i said i think that this is going to be a Cincinnati victory and you take a look what he's been able to do over the last handful of games six games a 13 touchdowns just two interceptions i think the key for joe burrow is that efficiency he's been sacked 63 times so far this season like we said it's going to be a tale of the offensive line will they be able to keep him clean will he be upright at game's end i think the less damage that joe burrow incurs the the more success that the Cincinnati Bengals are going to have all right ed and dave this next one is for you as we continue to bet these props again you can find them right now on the fan old sportsbook app but david ed uh what about the first running back to reach 10 or more rushing yards do you think it'll be acres or a mix in um dave i'm gonna start with you well you know those first drives or the scripted drives where they know what they're going to do and to me when you have cooper cup and odell beckham you pass and when you have joe mixon you run so i just think the script ed sets it up more for mixon to be the guy that gets 10 yards before cam makers the bingles much much would prefer establishing the run early in large part to give joe burrow a little bit more breathing room things like that not to mention the rams want to diversify the portfolio when it comes to the backfield you don't exactly know who's going to be getting a lot of those carries especially in those scripted plays and so i feel like joe mixon committed to him committed to the run bingles have it all right there you have it our guys betting those for you there are hundreds of others fun game and player prop bets right now for you on the fandal sportsbook app you can check them out right now but hey we get it if you prefer a simple moneyline bet you got to do you we get it fandals got your back hooking you up with a crazy odds boost check this out it's super bowl 56 so new users making their first sportsbook wager will get 56 to one odds up to five bucks on a moneyline bet for the super bowl that's right a winning five dollar wager means you'll win $280 in cash it is that simple you just pick the winner here guys download the fandals sportsbook app sign up with that promo code more ways 1000 get your new account 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set with us what's up how's it going thanks for hanging thank you life is good yeah i'm up here on set with you you great people so uh no it's good can't play welcome all right right right um yeah i'm going to get your super bowl pick in just a moment but first i want to just you missed a couple games there coming back from injury i want to know how you're feeling how you're doing where you're at kind of take us in your world yeah so uh obviously my team was 71 i had a minor set back hamstring injury and a couple weeks later you know mcl uh injury i tore my mcl had surgery early december so that's been a long process is you know obviously one of my first i would say real injuries i've had in eight years so it's unfamiliar territory for me and i was on a great great team you know going to the playoffs we uh you know we had a great start and as you guys see we kind of fell off towards the end and uh obviously me being a key player you know this injury i would say uh was part of reason you know uh of that set back for us so um you know just you know a lesson learned taking care of the body and coming back stronger next year awesome and wish you all the best of luck you're way too much fun to watch play to have you sit on the sideline i'll tell you that thank you uh dave you're up next what you got well so the Cardinals know the Rams very well played at three times you were in two of those games you didn't get a chance in playoffs but you guys took a two of them here in LA then they got you over there what can you tell us about the Rams that makes them so tough i would say um and their defense obviously you know you got great guys over there on their offense but their defense their defense is uh stacked you know they got they got guys in the secondary they got young guys veteran guys as well and uh i would say their leadership is why they're tough um you see jailing getting on the guys you see you know bun you know he's a quiet person but still you know if you're in that if you're out there on the field you know those guys demand greatness from each other and also their leadership dandre you are part of one of the great iconic moments in NFL history with that hail murray at the same time what's been interesting as far as league wide a lot of teams are getting better and better when it comes to those two minute drills why do you suppose that offenses are so much better at it now than they've ever been oh man that's a that's a great question but i would say that we practice those situations more so now i'm not sure you know i've been in nfl going on 10 years um then i you know previous you know me watching football or knowing and my coaches you know they kind of uh you know let us know that you know we we didn't used to you know practice these scenarios how we do now and i i think it's just you know quarterbacks receivers and and just you know the the times have changed of you know having the quarterback like pat moho is 30 seconds so you're going to practice those situations that practice a minute situation at your own 50 so i would say putting those guys in those situations during practice and like you know every every week it's a scenario situation and hail mary has been one of them as well before the hail mary now nuke you talked about all the different weapons on both sides of the football for both teams when you take a look at what the los angeles rams have especially in a guy like cooper cup 145 catches this season now your guy who's gone over 100 catches four times in his career so when you talk about how remarkable an incredible cup season was this year uh yeah how big of a deal is that cooper cup has been the most consistent receiver um past couple years but i would say this year obviously he's shown it with the stats but he's always been reliable and consistent so for him to do what he's done it's it's no surprise to receivers like myself who was like you know we get paid the big bugs but we're watching cooper cup film you know like honestly man you know a lot of guys it's it's it's a respect for him a lot of guys like julio and myself like we we love cooper cup game but i would say cooper cup is one of the biggest pieces for the rams success this year cooper cup is the gel of that team the gel of that uh not just the offense but i feel like with that team he's been one of the most consistent players past couple years but this year i think he's solidified itself to to be one of the best receivers in the game wow dianna i have to ask you because i came a story recently um with kyler murray scrubbing his social media accounts of all things related to to the cardinals have you talked to him about that you know like what that was all about uh i haven't talked to him about it i'm not sure what it's about i i try to stay out of the media but obviously it's hard when you come to media row uh i i mean you know you get asked those questions but uh i will honestly say you know whatever college doing i'm sure he's doing what he feels best for him and uh you know so he's he's my teammate still and uh hopefully he's my teammate for a long term uh two years ago tampa host super bowl they win it this year rams are hosted super bowl i think they're gonna win it next year arizona's host super bowl i see a trend developing here what do you got for us oh man i didn't know that that's that's a good statistic i feel good um i think we should be in the next year uh as well you know obviously i would say we had some injuries jj y and myself got hurt this year some key pieces when we were right there um you know obviously you said we beat the rounds here we'd be sent fran as well some some big teams uh you know that that went deep in the playoffs so i think we have the pieces it's just guys staying healthy and uh you know obviously people you know taking taking control of their position and just owning what they do you miss those four games miss the playoffs your team needed you man you're gonna get healthier and a comeback strong um i'm gonna ask you about the super bowl in just a minute but i want you to tell me what you're doing with visa uh so i'm here today uh spotlighting local small businesses that uh you know are are from la this area this community they chose 10 10 different uh local businesses and they gave them 20 thousand a piece to kind of help them get on their feet you know covid and uh post-covid kind of set a lot a lot of things back so uh you know visas here to help yeah pay it forward that's awesome uh good on you good on visa i love that partnership okay we got a big game on sunday who's gonna win is it the rams or is it the bangles i'm going bingles i like joe i like joe i like uh man i they got so many weapons on their team uh the the young sneaky uh receiver uh i can't think of his name right now but not boyd but the other receivers chase higgins yeah yeah t higgins is here too i'm not t is t boyd and uh chase but the other the other guy the other other guy the fast one uh our number 10 or 11 maybe not not cj who's on with tight end no no it's but anyway yeah but but they got it i think they got too many weapons uh for the rams obviously i think van miller erin donald but i'm going since never okay okay you're just the second guy is the second guest this week that is has picked the bangles that shon alexander was the first one yesterday on day three here we are on day four deandre hopkins everybody thanks so much for being here we appreciate you we wish you all the best of luck in your recovery and on to next season appreciate thanks a lot appreciate you deandre deandre fantastic insight from deandre hopkins and we have another great guest coming up in just a few moments right here on the more ways to win set former NFL quarterback michael vic joining us right here on set vic of course revolutionized the way the quarterback position is played was one of the first running back threats at that position will ask him to break down the super bowl quarterbacks get his advice for players going to this year's big game and you know i'll be getting his super bowl pick as well you just heard deandre hopkins cheers to the bangles so make sure you stick around for former NFL quarterback michael vic joining us right here on our more ways to win set in just a few minutes all right as we continue on here on more ways to win from radio row in los angeles i want to get you right to our game props we did player props a little bit earlier in the show and right now i'm going to turn to ed and col and you guys i got to know what is going to be the result of the first drive of the game is going to be a punt an offensive touchdown field goal attempt or are you going off the board with an other who gets to go first is it me or is it you ed you go first do i get to go first go first i think you find yeah i'm going to go with a mat gay field goal from inside of 30 yards i'm going to see a rams drive stalled out mat gay going to answer answer the question posed once upon a time by a tribe called quest can he kick it you guys know he cannot defend this i know yes he can oh oh okay you guys must not have heard that that's not my career i don't call it sorry okay all right okay so where are you going i'm going with a punt here and i'm going to be lame but if you look at scripted plays for the bangles epa per play they're one of the worst teams in football they are much better when it comes to unscripted plays and that's why Cincinnati's here in the first place is what they've done latent games and then as far as the rams they're pretty good at scripted plays but there's enough wiggle room to where a punt can happen okay we'll see how it goes all right um i gotta move on because one of the favorite prop bets to place of all time every single year is of course gatorade when we get to the super bowl so first gatorade color dunked on winning dumped on the winning coach what is the gatorade color i don't know why it says first not first because it just is well but what color is the gatorade going to be guys dave i'm coming to you i'm going red which really doesn't make any sense on the team colors you think rams are going to be blue and yellow and the bangles are orange but it's about the taste everybody likes the red gator i hate it i'm going red off the board parents are mouth red looks like they have lipstick your tongue is red it's whack dave that's my bet it's whack no i don't pony i like blue you like plus 440 there you go that rams theme i don't see clear recently i think well they can't do it again no clear was a popular choice last year i yeah where's clear clear it's been forever it's been forever since you've seen water they want to like water yeah clear clear or crystal pepsi but uh they call it like mountain orange plus 184 i like orange because that's the bangles color and it's also possible if the rams when that orange is a flavor it's universally okay okay universally left absolutely right i'll get your high c there vitamin c all right dfs fans one game left and we're all in here gotta tell you about a free Super Bowl DFS contest that you can sign up for right now the 56 thousand dollar super showdown presented by iris spring is a single slate dfs contest for this Super Bowl only all you got to do is head to fandal.com slash league slash irish dash spring sign up set your lineup watch as the players on your roster just rack up those points during the Super Bowl on Sunday now if your team scores enough points you will share in the 56 thousand dollar prize pool so get on everybody you know what to do make sure to log on to fandal.com slash irish dash spring to enter for free and you can do it now and of course we've got your back here on more ways to win because we want to help you score those points so we turn to senior writer and editor for a number fire jim sonnis who gives us his Super Bowl stud plays for the big game hey jim basically so yeah the fun thing about the Super Bowl 56 is that we know where the ball is going on both sides which means we can have some fun with these studs and to me that does start with joe mixon at 12,500 dollars i think he's a bit under salaried at that mark mostly because of what he does near the goal line in the full games mixon has played this year he has 46 percent of the team's red zone carries or targets so when the Bengals get close they go to mixon that's good for him especially given a pretty nice passing in role he has had throughout these high leveraged games i also like his quarterback joe burrow checking in at 15 a thousand dollars burrow has shown that when they give him passing volume in this offense he can come through there is some risk here for sure because the ram's defensive line is very good that could increase the number of sacks interceptions etc etc but burrow has shown that he can come through even in tough spots i do like burrow at $15,000 as a discount from matthew stafford speaking of stafford i want to get most of stafford's production by using his wide receiver cooper cup who checks in at $16,000 if you use cooper cup you're effectively getting a lot of the passing points of matthew stafford to get you without having to roster stafford so cooper cup checks in at $16,000 we know he's gonna be the go-to guy for this ram's offense if tyler higby can't go we may see even more targets go cooper cubs way he's been absurdly consistent this year with the high ceiling as well that's hard to replicate on any slate especially a single game one so to me i think those are the three studs i'm focusing on most in order to get the the large share of the production from both of these two high-powered offenses awesome always love having jim on the show take jim's information set your lineup for the $56,000 super showdown presented by irish spring and remember it is free you can sign up right now at fandal.com slash league slash irish dash spring it is all right there and a reminder to follow jim sonnis on twitter and instagram at jim sonnis hit up his podcast as well it is awesome the heat check fantasy podcast you can find it on apple podcasts thanks jim all right y'all let's get right to it because we've got a massive guest on the show with us right now to a guy who really changed the way the quarterback position is played and oh by the way defended as well former nfl quarterback michael vick on set with us mike thanks for being here so great to have you thanks for having me and good to see my husband says hi you guys yeah right we're getting ready for that super bowl but patrick you and patrick were teammates for quite some time he said what's up um and he will uh he'll be here so it'll be good to see you you know that's my that's my big bro that my big big bro we go way back yeah some good times in atlanta together um all right gotta get to your expertise because we get it right to these two quarterbacks and so much has been said this week of course leading up to this game but it's really your jam i mean you you're the guy so break down these two quarterbacks in the way that they play and who do you see as having the advantage in this game well it's two quarterbacks it's on you know the same trajectory but you know they're just in different you know different wavelengths right now you got matthew staffer who um it just feels like this is his moment and um you know he said he was a big game quarterback he came to la for the big games and he won in a wild card week game one in divisional round he won and in the championship round so i think he proved you know that he's a big game quarterback obviously is one more game to play and this will submit his legacy to me um in terms of him being a hall of fame i think he won this game he matthew staffer is a hall of fame because of what he went through it in in detroit for all those years and coming out on the other side and then joe barrow is just ascending in the right direction young quarterback the face of the league face of the franchise and um you know everybody is calling them joe cool and i think that's the um the way that you characterize this man this this this kid this man understands the game of football and um you know he's in the super bowl so that goes without saying i want to follow up on that joe cool real quick because we got a quarterback with this swag that we don't usually see in that position right it's usually the wide receivers the dbs with all that swag and cigar and the thing the cigar that's what got me how do you feel about the answer in the locker room with the cigar yeah that was like okay okay truly joe cool truly joe cool and the big chain that he spent so much money on yeah yeah i mean he was right you know make too much money to be walking around with some fictitious jewelry around his neck so uh you know i it's good to see those guys having fun you know it's good to see them having fun with the media and uh enjoying the fruits of their labor and and that's what the game of football is all about you know that's why we work so hard to get in these moments and you got to live it up mike are there stuff besides the because everyone talks about the intangibles with burrow he's so calm under pressure he's cool he's mature beyond his years what are the actual physical traits in him as a quarterback that you like well i think he can move better than what people think and i always felt like he can move really well um even when he was at lsu and when he was the first pick it was no surprise i mean i know he won the national championship and that was evident but it was like he can do it all you watch some quarterbacks and we've seen quarterbacks win national championships and get drafted in the fifth round get drafted in the sixth round and even i used to question why these guys getting drafted so late and it's always something you know underlining you know why they would be drafted in the lower rounds but i looked at joe and i was like man he just got everything and is when i break a quarter back it's not about your physical abilities i gotta watch you in four quarters and how you handle everything getting sacked throwing a pick throwing a touchdown getting down coming back third and ten third and three it's everything and i just see that he has it all man and you know when you got to go when i tell you that zack tell it can probably tell us better now mike whether it's a quarterback like joe burrow or kyla murray or lemar jackson for that matter you see the way the game has evolved over the last decade or so so do you ever sit back and think while you're watching the game on sunday man i wish i was born about 10 15 years later i do to a certain extent i also see that these guys are exerting a lot of energy out there but it's for the greater good of the team and football is a sacrifice the quarterback position is a sacrifice we give up a lot to make sure that our team ends up in in the postseason and have a chance to compete for for a title and when we don't we always feel like we got a better brunt of the blame and that's okay but you know these guys now are doing so much and the game is improved gotta give a shout out to the office of coordinators out there who are helping enhance the game and make it better in terms of how it was defended and how guys perform on the offensive side of the ball i want to ask too about joe burrow's mobility in terms of the play calling because it seems like with erin donald von miller and them that perhaps design rollouts might be the way to go for burrow but they haven't run many of them in sentinati so my question is with an extra week to prepare how versatile can you make the playbook how much can you add to it with that extra week it's a lot of things that you can always add and every opponent the opposition every week when you're on the offensive side of the ball they give you something different and it's a lot of ways that you can attack it's all about how can we do it so that we don't make our quarterback uncomfortable one we want him to go in and feel good about the game plan and not be thinking too much so at the end of the week we got it we got to jail and have an understanding and how can we just push the envelope how can we get the run game involved make sure that the run game is efficient how can we pass the football and make sure that we stay on we stay on on course that that's what's most important so you know i think it's up to the office of coordinator obviously to be on the same page with with the quarterback and make sure that they they mesh real quick mic because we're about to end the show just a few more seconds who is going to win the game rams bangles i've been picking against the bangles all year and i hate it i also feel like i've been picking against the rams all year and and uh rightfully so for for a couple weeks i think we all did but uh you know what man i'm going with my man matthew stafford he says rams hopefully the rams everybody i want to surprise with the bangles thank you ha thanks for watching we'll see you tomorrow