Schopp and Bulldog LIVE! | July 18th 2025 | WGR SportsRadio550

Schopp and Bulldog LIVE! | July 18th 2025 | WGR SportsRadio550

good news as we head into the weekend. The entire 2025 rookie class for the Buffalo Bills is now under contract with training camp starting on Wednesday. TJ Sanders officially signed his four-year rookie deal earlier this morning. And he is among plenty of second round picks who have signed their deals. And that does also include this morning Seattle’s Nick Emmen Worry. The third overall pick of the second round gets a fully guaranteed contract. NFL PA’s executive director Lloyd Howell announced his resignation after two years in the role earlier today. The board of players representatives is expected to meet soon to discuss the next steps which potentially include naming an interim executive director. Baseball is back today. The All-Star break has wrapped up. Jay’s host the Giants. Mets have the Reds in town and the Yankees. They’re down in Atlanta against the Braves. All three are going to get started just after 7:00 while the Bison’s they are at home against the Stormchasers just after 6:30. That game can be heard on our sister station, The Bet 1520. And then day two of the open championship is underway. Matt Fitzpatrick and Scotty Sheoffller tied at the top at nine under. Sheffller still has two more holes to play. And for more on the open and the Porter Cup, tune in to a 2-hour edition of TA Green tomorrow morning from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. live from Niagara Falls County Club. Stay tuned. Brian Kosial is going to join the show at 4 for more on the Open and the Porter Cup. That’s your Padox Chevrolet sports update. Paddock Chevrolet celebrating 90 years of being your hometown dealership. I’m Zach Jones for WGR Sports Radio 550. My dad’s not here right now. He’s still at work. So, I’m going to blast him. Mike Show and the Bulldog. I’m going to see if there’s a clean version so that my parents and the people at my school will not get mad at me. We’ve got the spritzer filled with water just in case if stuff gets too fire. I’m going to set up the speaker and I’m going to listen to Mike Shopee and the Bulldog. I think this is the best Mike Shopee feature that I’ve heard in a long time. I think his flow is really good in it and I like his aggressiveness on it and the bulldog put not enough effort in it. I think overall his flow was good but I don’t like that moa rapping. That was my review of Mike Shop and the Bulldog. Didn’t need the spritzer. Wasn’t fire enough. No spritzer for you. No spritzer. Hi there. Another great summer Friday. I’m Mike Show. Thanks for listening today. All week Bulldog has been off. He’ll be back with me on Monday. Uh before you ask, what was I just doing? I was verifying my identity to DraftKings by entering a six-digit code that was texted to me that, by the way, don’t even ask for it because they do not want me to tell you what that code is. What? What? How serious is that? Every time you get one of these text code ID entry things, these little pass keys, uh I’m sure half of those words were probably Not quite right for what I’m describing, but they always tell you do like in very ser all caps bold do not share this code number with anybody. What happens if you do? Like once I’ve already entered it, if I told G this six-digit number from DraftKings, could he just like easily access my account and start wagering my $198? was like, could he just sort of like, oh, awesome. I’m not giving him the password. I’m just giving him the temporary 10minute long code to be able to like sort of the the backup for the password. It’s not even a password anymore. It’s the fingerprint, the biometrics. Should you not share that? Should I not I should make sure not to send like a picture of my fingerprint to anybody because that would that would be worse, I think. But they’re very serious about how you whether it’s a betting app or anybody how you should not uh share that information. Well, not to force it, but speaking of betting, Sam Pennyovich today, um I wonder if it’s football season yet for Sam. I mean, it is for me. It’s also like if you go back years with this show. I mean, it really is fantasy Friday. It should be. It’s Friday and it’s mid July. They’re in camp next week. That’s kind of like perfect for it. But believe it or not, I have no sort of fantasy specific plans today. I know it’s shocker. Uh we will talk to Tyler Dunn and Tyler recently wrote about Dalton Concincaid and Concincaid, you know, maybe Tyler too. Tyler loves his tight ends. fired up for Concaid to, you know, really emerge as a guy that looks like somebody you would spend a first round draft pick on. He really hasn’t yet. Would you disagree with that? 803 0550. He really hasn’t yet. It’s always this uh and it’s not to say like the player is, you know, it is to say that the player is maybe never 100% responsible for it, but it’s also usage, you know, like we had a long a long stint early when Concincaid was a rookie where they were it was Ken Dorsy then who sort of ironically we were told was who wanted Concincaid for the offense but really couldn’t figure out what to do with him and everything was at or behind the line of scrimmage. Like it was just why would you ever in draft why would you ever invest a draft pick as high as round one on a guy that you’re not going to let run real routes? That seemed weird. Dorsy then left. That got a little bit better later that season. Last year you had injuries and it was it was kind of mixed. It was both where you had you know there were times when concaid was used down the field. The last time I believe we saw him used was the last Bill’s offensive play of the season in Kansas City. And you know, there has been there is a debate about and maybe there will maybe it’ll be like 13 seconds when it’ll it’ll be one that we think about and remember until the Bills actually get over the hump. until they do, those games at Arrowhead will sort of always stick with you and bother bother us. How bad a drop is that by Concaid? Like I I have had a tough time ripping him for it. I mean, not that I’m trying to find a way to. It’s not it’s not like that, but I’ve I’ve never thought of that play as, you know, to use one word, egregious. But there are people who do and he did have his hands on the ball and what’s your job, right? So that I’m sure is part of I know it is because I’ve read it. It’s part of what uh the focus is when it comes to concaid. My issue with him is not that he dropped a pass to end the season or that he’s been used in kind of complicated or confusing different roles by the Bills. It’s that, and I’ve said this a lot, but with Shakir, I don’t know what Concaid’s path is to success, unless they use either Shakir or Concaid out wide, and both would be weird. So, I don’t really know how he has a chance at a big season unless Shakir is injured because why are they going to take him out? You know, just one one more day of of contemplating uh the Bills receiving unit in just having a tough time understanding it. But hey, like so far it’s it’s worked. And here we are on to another season where they are I got into my DraftKings. So they sent me the six-digit code which I won’t share with you. They are tied for the favorite to win the Super Bowl with Philadelphia and maybe also Kansas City. There were three teams at plus 650 that I saw. The Bills are tops in the NFL on this same aforementioned app to win their division. And that’s coming as no surprise to you. Uh we’ve talked about this a lot. At one point yesterday, I brought up, does anybody want to push back on how I feel I’m pretty kind of relaxed about the AFC East? And nobody did. So, I feel like we’re all in on the same page there that it’s just over already. Look out. Look out. Hope you’re not superstitious. The Bills are minus280 to win the AFC East. If you don’t speak DraftKings, uh, that means you would have to wager 28 US to win 10 or 280 to win a 100, which I’m I’m guessing my upcoming guest Sam Pani will agree is a terrible bet. There are way more interesting and fun and potentially lucrative ways to bet on favorites than just sort of lay the 280 to win a 100. Um, I would never, but it is easily the biggest favorite in the league to finish first in their division. Second is Baltimore at minus 150. Think about that. The Ravens with the Bengals in their division. And by the way, you know, a refreshed Pittsburgh team, Rogers, TJ Watt is back, Jaylen Ramsay, uh, you know, DK Metaf. I mean, the Steelers are always decent, at least by record. The Ravens are the second shortest odds, we would call this, I believe, to win their division behind the Bills. And it’s not close, but Buffalo, like if if you do dabble in this stuff, what do these numbers mean to you or what would you do with them? Buffalo minus 280 to win a sixth straight AFC East title. Okay. Uh, New England plus475, Miami plus 750. The Jets Assari plus,800. This is the time of year and maybe this I I’ll say in somewhat in my defense maybe this is from many many years of Bills and even Sabres teams that are expected to lose where you kind don’t we do this like if you go back to the drought you kind of figure out ways to believe that they can win not just like Tom Brady gets hurt either just sort of this this and this these things go right and it happens. And I I find myself doing that. Like yesterday I had a guest on from Cleveland, Spencer German, and was all sort of like ready to pitch that the Browns might not be terrible. And he’s like, “Oh, that’s interesting.” Cuz I kind of agree. And then we started talking. I’m thinking like, “No, I think they’re terrible.” Like this. I looked at the schedule and I sort of had talked myself out of it uh right away. And I do this with the Jets kind of on an annual basis. I mean, last year they were literally the division favorite when the season started, which is wild to think about as bad as they were. But plus, 1800, uh, new coach, new quarterback, still talent, you know, rookie of the years at offense and defense, Garrett Wilson, Sauce Gardner, Bree Hall would have won it maybe that same year Wilson did had he stayed healthy. like and they’ve addressed the line like maybe they’re not so bad. But this is what I do every year with certain bad teams with the Browns when the the Browns were oh man Hugh Jackson like they were either headed for their winless season or coming off of their winless season and the betting line is like four and a half wins and like oh that’s telling you this these guys are going to be good and that did not tell you that they have to give you a number that you might want to go under. If it’s one and a half, I don’t think anybody is betting the under on an NFL team, but four and a half, you can do it. I mean, Cleveland’s number this year is a little bit like that. I’m I’m not excited. I’m like many very curious to see what the Patriots look like. In fantasy, everybody is hot for Drake May. And I think that might just be in general, like everybody is hot for Drake May. And are we sure? I mean, rookie year was pretty good. We We’ve really talked ourselves into Drake May a as a society. Athlete Vrabel, we like do we like Josh McDaniels for New England. The the bull cases, as they say, for the other AFC East teams, not factoring in something serious going wrong for the Bills. The Bills could have a season. And I read from I’ll get to the the point there, but uh Pro Football Network sends me essays like every day and I always read them and this week they did best case and worst case for every team and their worst case scenario for the Bills was 11 and six. You know, an Allen injury of course could really undermine that, but not predicting that which doesn’t make any sense to try. 11 and six being the worst case scenario for them. And we’ve seen that two years ago. That was their that was their record from six and six where they were just they were sloppy. They lost the game in New England that year. They lost to Denver and that Monday night game. What a loss. Maybe the worst loss they’ve had with Allen uh here. that Monday night game against the Broncos where too many men on the field for a field goal attempt and they what an awful loss that was. Um that that was a season where were they about as good as last year or pre previously where they were winning 13 games or so? I would say yes. But it just fell that way. 11 wins that season can always happen. I mean, as good as as well as they’ve done with their roster and with just sort of covering all their bases, that happened to them two years ago and how just little things went the wrong way. Special team stuff like that play against the Broncos and you lost six games. And other teams, you can’t control other teams, you know, like you’d want to either. I mean, may maybe somebody’s just better than you expected when you looked at the schedule and and maybe that’s New England. You wouldn’t have that was M. Jones. You wouldn’t have expected the Bills to lose to New England uh that year, but they did. So, apart from where was I? Apart from a season where the Bills like have a major problem that affects the whole landscape, how do the other teams in the AFC East get there? New England does it through Vrabel. Drake May taking the leap in year two. Diggs healthy. Tayvon Henderson. Kyle Williams added rookies. And defensively they’ve got some good players. They just become a team that’s pretty tough to dominate. Defense holds up and they get plays out of their offense and the schedule isn’t bad. We’ve done this with the Patriots. It starts pretty favorably. If they’re decent out of the gate, home to Vegas, at Miami, home to Pittsburgh, home to Carolina, then they come here and then it’s the Saints, the Titans, and the Browns. Arguably the three worst teams in the NFL. New England could be seven- one. That’s lofty. But they pretty easily could be five and three. Pretty easily. I think I would predict it. Maybe Sam knows a way to get odds on New England’s record over under four and a half wins through eight games. Then it’s Atlanta and Tampa and the Jets. I mean, that’s where are we? Seven and four, something like that for the Patriots. So, apart from knowing that this would be a bet against the Bills, I like the idea of being on New England because of the schedule. Then it’s the Bengals and the Giants after that. Eight and five is a totally believable schedule for them. And then it’s it’s harder late. Bills, Ravens, well then Jets and Dolphins. So 10 wins isn’t isn’t nuts there. I think the bull case for the Patriots, best case scenario, I haven’t read their section on the Pro Football Network essay, but it’s that May is actually good. The team is under control. It’s organized. It’s not like Gerard Mayo is their coach anymore. It’s a serious coach and they take advantage of a weak schedule and are a playoff team. I could I could see it pretty easily. Miami best case on Miami where the vibes have been the opposite mostly this off season than New England. People are ready to accept New England as like a cont a playoff contender. Not so much a you know championship contender at all but a playoff contender. Miami has turned people away. They’ve had losses to the roster. Armstead is big. Offensive line, of course, the Ramsay trade. They get Minka Fitzpatrick. What happens to their overall? Does Tua hold up? It’s the same talented and fast but shallow offense in terms of skill positions. John Smith is traded if you care. What happens to the Dolphins is line holds up. Tyreek Hill is still Tyreek Hill. And we’ve we’ve seen when they’re able that they can be really dangerous. And so that would be it for Miami whose schedule, by the way, welcome to the AFC East. Their their schedule starts Colts, Patriots at the Bills on the Thursday night in week three. Jets at home, Carolina, Chargers, Browns, Atlanta. Like that. That’s their first half. And that if they’re not bad, that could be five or six wins, too. The schedule is so interesting this year because it looks like in a lot of these cases, teams have pretty easylooking first half schedules and then it gets rough. I think the Ravens are interesting in the role they play for this. They play Miami in week nine, New England in week 16. If you want the Jets for this, too, that’s in week 12. Of course, the Bills in week one, but nobody’s expecting, you know, the Bills to be bad. So, you look at these schedules, you don’t see Baltimore until you get into November or December, and that’s big. When you play the Bills, I mean, who is it? Uh well, the Bills play division-wise, they play each of their three division opponents early once and then mid to late once. Uh weeks 2, three, and five are division games for the Bills this year. So Miamiy’s best case scenario is two is healthy and smart coach comes up with some new stuff that keeps defenses on their heels and maybe they take advantage of 150°ree days in Miami and they they roll uh at least for a while. Second half is always a different story for the Dolphins. And then the Jets and they’re the most interesting one I think of these for me is that it’s so new here. Here for me I made this case with Theo Griminger a couple of days ago on his one of his podcast one of his 17 podcasts. It’s this. It’s okay. So, you’re going with Justin Fields now, and everybody’s knock on Fields is he hasn’t been able to see the field quickly enough to avoid trouble, to avoid sacks and mistakes. And so, that’s the re that’s the bet against Justin Fields. I think though if the Jets have a functional offensive line and Bree Hall is good, which I think he is, and Fields is a dynamic runner, they could become kind of a a different sort of challenge for teams where the Jets might end up running the ball more than anybody else in the league. And if they’re bad, they won’t get away with it. But if they’re good, that could really be interesting. And so I mean I think with Fields like he’s got the people say the processing part that works against him but he can throw it. I mean he was an early first round pick in the NFL as a quarterback. He can throw the ball and Garrett Wilson who was his college teammate by the way is a great receiver. If that’s simplified and Fields and Wilson are able to click then they could be a little bit interesting. And what do they go? Steelers, Bills, Bucks, Dolphins. Their schedule isn’t the same sort of bottomheavy as the other teams. Dallas, Denver. The Denver game is in London, Carolina, Cincinnati, Browns. I don’t know what would be good for the Jets would be a season apart from the fact that they would deprive themselves a high draft pick which might be best for them would be a season where they’re around 500 by the time they get to you know what Thanksgiving even that that late one of these teams being really bad is really good for the other two because they’re of course it’s two games a year so if it turns out that the Dolphins just to pick one for the point are in shambles. Jets benefit, Patriots benefit, and bring them up in the wildcard conversation. Of course, Bills, too, if the Bills are just clearly the better team there. Uh, so that that could be something else to think about with the AFC East, but they are Buffalo, uh, easily the biggest favorite to win their division. If I can sort this quickly just on the fly. Baltimore 150 would be second. Philly 130 minus 130. Kansas City minus 120. Tampa minus 105. Then all the other favorites are plus money. Houston + 110. Detroit and San Francisco to round it out at plus 150 each. Who am I to talk about betting odds with Sam Pani waiting in the green room from Bet Sweats? Sam next. mostly NFL. I know he did a little bit on the Heisman with Bulldog last week. He asked me to uh you know consider a question about the Heisman Trophy and I have I haven’t thought of one yet but I have considered it. So that’ll be next. We have Brian Kio coming on open championship late in the day. Scotty Sheffller is the leader 10 under on the last hole, one up in the tournament. Here we are again. And also as I mentioned Tyler Dunn uh later on Bisonens are home. Dallas Kel, longtime major league vet, is pitching against the Bison’s tonight, by the way, for Omaha. If you’re like me and somebody who’d want to know that when considering whether to go to the ballpark tonight, somebody that you’ve maybe if you’re a baseball fan, known of for a long time, is tonight’s opposing starting pitcher. Okay, break and then Sammy P. This is Mike Schop again. Happy Friday. Thanks for being with me on this beautiful day. This is WGR. led by as Scotty Sheffler shoots a 64 his career low in a major to take the lead into the weekend at the open championship is how he was able to change clothes five times during this round. I mean, I don’t think he necessarily changed his pants or his underwear or anything like that. I I think that would have been a well, a bigger story, but I mean, he goes from the hoodie to then it warms up to the polo to then there’s like the slicker and then there’s the hoodie and the slicker. Is it the same one? Is it already wet? They said he changed clothes like five times. I will maybe have, depending on, you know, the forecast, a jacket in my bag or a I don’t know, never a hoodie. It’s golf, but times have changed. Um, I might have like a garment or two in I’m also in a golf cart. And you know, at some point the bag just becomes unwieldy when you have your entire your closet. And does the closet fit into the bag? I don’t know. I mean, I know these caddies are good. They had to have how many different Now he’s changing his clothes on the scorers tent. How many wardrobe changes do you actually prepare for at the open championship? Probably that would be this is the tournament where it would be the most. Well, that for now will have to go unanswered unless our guest on the Western Hotline, Sam Pani, happens to knows happens to know the answer to this question. Um Sam, how wellversed are you in wardrobe changes at majors? I’m not, but if you would have gave me three and a half over under, I probably would have taken the over. These bags are, you know, lightweight enough and big enough to handle numerous jackets and and hoodies apparently. I guess so. Well, when you’re the best player in the world, you can do whatever you want. And it’s funny you bring up Scotty to start because that’s where I was going to start. I haven’t watched a single second of the Open Championship. And don’t you dare call it the British people. It’s the Open Championship. Anyways, I saw Sheffller this morning. I slept in a little bit because we’re off again this week for the All-Star break. I looked at my apps about 8:30 in the morning. Scotty Sheffller was about plus 185 to win the whole tournament. And what does every golf wise guy tell you? Oh, you can’t bet plus 185. There’s no value. Well, the price right now is minus 200 or higher. So, I I didn’t pull the trigger. And I’m I kick myself when when a guy like him is is so wellversed. His form is good. He’s he’s as dominant as it gets. And I still talk myself out of it because, oh, I can’t bet plus 185 on a golfer. Well, now it’s minus 200. So, I always do this to myself in golf. And these are what the sharp golf people always tell me. You can’t bet favorites, you can’t bet this, you can’t bet that. And as we talked about pretty much every major this year, usually the good guys are right around the top. So is the lesson here now, Sam, you can’t you definitely can’t bet them at minus 200 or that you should? I would now because I’m in a total mathematical pretzel and I already missed all the good numbers. I would wait and see if he maybe he kicks a couple holes early tomorrow. Um, the issue there is that, you know, you might have to get up at 5 in the morning on a Saturday. I don’t know when he’s going to tee up. I’m guessing. Well, actually, now that I know that it’s Saturday. Yeah, it’ll be late. Now that I again, vacation mode is in full throttle over there, Mike. Yes. So, you don’t you don’t really have that ability to get him at at a plus price anymore. Now, if he comes, you know, five over in the first nine, he’ll he’ll go out to plus money, but you’re probably not going to get a chance to get him at plus money the rest of the way because the liability just builds up and builds up and builds up. So, I I wouldn’t lay I mean, if I didn’t want to take plus 185, I’m not laying 200. He’s almost definitely not going to be far from the lead by the time he tees off, which I’m guessing it’ll be our time or Eastern time at least between like 10 10:30 something like that. 5 hour round, 5 hours ahead, 3:00 local maybe. So I mean this morning you got up and he was plus 185 because he was six shots back like that. That was Brian Har five shots back. Brian Harmon at minus 8 and Sheffller hadn’t teed off yet at three under. There were a lot of people between the lead and him. That’s the kind of respect he gets. But very unlikely tomorrow he’ll be far from the lead. I don’t know. The weather is interesting here, too. But by the time he starts his round for him to lose, he’s going to have to shoot like 72 or something like that and bring a lot of people into it. That’s my guess. What I would really like and we’ll see how this round concludes and we’ll see exactly the the standings after two days at the open. I would love for one of these books bet MGM whoever to just put out a market shuffler against the field. Yeah, that that would get my wheels spinning because if you’re going to tell me Scotty’s minus 200 to win, you know, you could probably if somebody were to calculate a price, it would be very close to that number. Of course, I that’s the question. Do you would you take the field if you could get plus money of all the guys? I love and hate that bet. It goes back to the Tiger years. We on this show we have been doing a g running a game. You might know about it. We’ve talked about it probably in passing when the majors come around where Bulldog and myself and a third person Brian Kosio, one of our golf guys, take turns picking 10 players from the field just looking for the winner. That’s it. and we’ve handicapped it. So if you pick one of the three favorites, you get half a unit and if you go outside the top 20 favorites, you get 2x. So it’s re a really fun bet. Chef Sheffller is ruining it. I mean, this is what this is what Tiger did to fantasy golf 25 years ago where he was literally one big one I played in I know I I do go back that far. one big one I played in in those those years like you were not allowed to take Tiger and Sheffller I mean he’s not quite there yet but Sheffller versus the field Sam is reminiscent of Tiger versus the field bets and he’s priced very similarly in a lot of these tournaments now the only thing that has made him I guess less expensive is because Rory finally won the Masters this year so there was a huge Rory tax the next two majors that kind of pulled you know, financial liability away from Scotty. But I’m curious going into next April at Augusta, what do we see on Scotty? You know, cuz Tiger Tiger in his prime like late 90s, actually, let’s push it forward like 2002 Tiger, he’s minus 200 to win a major. Yeah. So that, you know, that’s like when Garrett Crochet starts for the Red Sox. That’s that’s the mathematical equivalent. You know, Crochet at home against the Royals. Um, as I bring up Rory though, see, this is why I hate gambling because I look at the board and I look at the market and I see Rory at 30 to1 and I think, “Oh, there’s a good number on Rory, but he’s probably not going to win.” But you’re you’re always enticed by the right number. I have never I’ve loved so many golf bets through the years and I’ve never won a single one because they’re always never Well, maybe not never. the sometime you get to I mean numbers that are even crazier than that on guys that are like top 20 in the world and you know they threaten but winning is winning like you’re going to have to stare this guy down not just you know play well and have a good showing you got to beat him and that’s that’s the hard part isn’t it you know like you can pick a guy who comes in at 50 to1 he had a great week but he has to win he’s been top 10 12 times this year and that number will go to 13. I I I feel pretty confident in that. I don’t know if he’s going to win. I mean, he’s favored to win. I would be stunned if he fell outside the top 10, but if you go back to let’s go to the Texas Open, which wrapped up at the end of March, here’s the way he’s finished. Second, fourth, eighth, first, first, fourth, 1st, 7th, 6th, 8th. That is the definition of consistency, Mike. Wow, that’s so good. I I want to share this, too. And by the way, Sam and I did have, as usual, a short chat before the show, and the one thing he told me was, “I haven’t seen a minute of the golf tournament.” So, we are we’re still have not we’re still on the golf, but the other day before the tournament started, I saw a graphic on the golf channel of the greats and their average finish in the open championship and Tigers was 18th. He won three, but his average finish was 18th. Mroy was something like 37th. and many of the other, you know, tip of the tongue great golfers in history kind of in that range. Jack Nicholas was third. His average finish over 20 years in that tournament, if I saw it right, was 3.2. That’s pretty good. Wow. Credit to him. Also, the field clearly not as talented uh as it is now. Okay, let’s see. I’m I’m going to get you a price by the end of this segment cuz I can’t do it at Bet MGM, but I know somebody will let me parlay Shuffler to win and the Bills to win the East. I’m going to get in on that. Yep. Bang, bang, bang. Why is that not sponsored yet? The weekly Bills to win the AFC East, which I was talking about here earlier today. Minus 280 at Bet MGM. I think that number is stretching out a little bit. And the second shortest in the NFL to win their division is Baltimore at minus 150, which is kind of interesting, too. Um, hey, look, the hot dogs have been eaten, Sam. It’s It’s kind of football season here. We’re going to camp. It’s It’s kind of starting. Is Is the NFL I mean, you’re going back to work on Monday. Is that where your head is? Oh, 100%. I’ve actually I was looking at my Fox Sports um not that I look at my history of stories written but before I came on here I’m looking the last let’s see one two three four of the last five stories I’ve written are football one is hot dogs three NFL one is hot dogs correct you’re right uh one is hot dogs three NFL one college football so we’re getting there and ironically enough there we go to in the open and the Bills to win the division plus 110. I That’s a winner. That’s probably a winner. Anyways, I digress. Wow. Um you’re noticing when you log into the apps now, whatever app you use, they’re starting to slide NFL towards the Yeah. the front. Yes. Yes. A couple of weeks ago it was Major League Baseball and then it was uh you NBA summer league and now it’s like NFL is in slot three or four depending on the book you look at. um you know, still in front of NCAA football and NBA, but we are we are throttled up, man. And I’ll tell you what, I um they they wanted us to write about a team that that nobody’s talking about. And that’s always a complex, you know, editorial angle like, well, like somebody’s talking about it, but I guess they didn’t want the Eagles, the Bills, the Chiefs, the Ravens. So, I was looking at Cincinnati and humor me on this one. Cincinnati to lose in the AFC Championship game, not win, lose, is 10 to one. Is that the worst idea? No. They’ll have a very tough time getting home field. I mean, that’s putting That’s pretty much an understatement. But like, what are we talking about for the Bengals? Likely a wild card. So they get the five, they win 11 games, Baltimore wins 12, they get the wild card, they go to Indianapolis. I didn’t want to say Houston, just make it too obvious. So they go to Indianapolis 5-4 and then they win one more. Then you’re in that game and then you can win either way. If you make if you make the game, you’ll win either way. Yeah. because if they were to get to the AFC Championship game, which we’ve seen before, and Burrow’s the only guy, the only guy that’s knocked off Mahomes um in the AFC playoffs. Yep. I would probably guess, let’s just say it’s Cincy at Buffalo or Cincy at Baltimore. Those are the two highest power rated teams in the league. I’m going to guess right now Buffalo is a fourpoint favorite, four and a half at home. um if it were to get that far, like I don’t think they’d be a touchdown dog, but then I could just bet Buffalo to win right the Super Bowl and then I’m guaranteed to have a team in the Super Well, I’m guaranteed to win one way or the other, right? Like I’ll have Buffalo in the Super Bowl or I’ll have the Bengals to lose. Um so yeah, I man that’s that’s just a number because you look at the prices on Buffalo, Kansas City, and and Baltimore to lose in the AFC title game, it’s like four to one, five to one. So, you’re really you’re trying to get creative with these stories. And I kind of like put the lipstick on the pig of of how great Joe Burrow was last year. And in case anybody forgot, I mean, holy crap. Almost 5,000 yards, 49 touchdowns, and seven picks. And Chase, who I know you like, you’re taking in a lot of your fantasy stuff. It’s hard. Had 1700, 1700 yards, and 17 touchdowns. Yeah. Um, so I mean, the offense is there. They also lost what was it? four games by one score. Well, like and no, no, more than that. No, more than that. But they lost four games when they scored 30 points. So, it’s just like eventually that’s going to regress in their favor, one would think. They lost the two Baltimore games. Both one was 3534 on a missed two-point play. The other was in overtime after they missed a field goal. Uh 4138. So, yeah, they they they could have ended up That’s the number. They they could have ended up better. The number here. What’s that? Sorry, Mike. I got the number. They’ve lo They lost seven of their first eight one-score games. Remember Jaden Daniels on the Monday night to Mcccluren that prayer in the end zone to beat him? That was another one. Week three. Mhm. Sam Pani on the West her hotline. Um the Chiefs. So, I had I had a conversation yesterday with our guy in Kansas City, Alex Gold. And you know, we’ve had sort of two years ago when they made their run on the road through Buffalo and Baltimore, you had a community of people maybe including Joe Estrski who were like, “Careful. You want to bet against them, go for it, but you want to bet, you want to not take the Chiefs as an underdog, getting points, okay, but you know, do so at your own peril.” and they got there and then, you know, they lost the Super Bowl, but they kind of did it again despite struggling all season. Do we want to attempt fate this year with the Chiefs? It’s a good division. They’re going to find decent odds on other teams there. Are we ready this time to again tempt fate and bet against Kansas City? I’ve done this six straight years now. I I just bet a unit on them to win the Super Bowl every August. I I just like it’s the it’s the easiest bet um collectively of course because if you’ve done it for six straight years, I mean, think about the rings they have and then think about the times they lost in the game. So you get you get a good Yeah, you get a good spot though. I mean, if they’re in the Super Bowl, you could you could either free roll it or or hedge it or whatever. I mean, you could put yourself in a great spot. Yep. Um let’s see. They’re still cheaper. So funny. They’ve won three Super Bowls and they still have longer odds than both Baltimore and Buffalo. I don’t mean to laugh. It’s just very funny to me. It’s the same thing with the Patriots. I mean, this is this is the same situation where, you know, they’re good enough at coach and quarterback to get there. The question is, is the math good enough? But 3 years ago, they’re 5 to1, now they’re 8 to1. Um, but I I I will say I I do think that I think that this beginning of the schedule for them is is no walk in the park. I mean, they got to go to Brazil week one and play Harbaugh. Brazil and the Chargers. That That’s I mean, I that’s not an easy start no matter who you are. No. So, you start the year. Here’s how you start the year if you’re Kansas City. You play the Chargers in Brazil, then you get the Eagles, then you go to the Giants, which you should win. Then you play Baltimore. Good lord, man. Three of those four could be losses. Keep going at Jacksonville. Then you’re home against the Lions. Yep. So, this would be a team maybe more than any other year cuz last year they started gang busters and they were winning like every game. If they start two and three or two and four, you’re going to I remember the year like they they went to the Super Bowl early in Mahomes’s career and Trent Der was like, “Oh, the Chief’s dynasty’s over after four games.” And then they go to the Super Bowl that year. So I I mean you could probably if they were to lose three of their first five or four of their first six that 8:1 becomes I don’t know 14 to1 and then you could bet it then you could buy low. That’s what the move would be. There are a number of teams whose schedule seem really tipped either toward the front half or the back half this year. So there might be an edge somewhere in uh your world, our world dare I say it in in that. Uh do you have just a couple of minutes left with Sam. Do you have a favorite division winner bet? Aside from the elephant in the room, the Bills. I mean, you’re not going to bet them atus 280. Yeah. I mean, that Yeah. No, I’m just I’m just parlaying in parlaying it with everything not nailed down, right? Um, man, if you’re looking for a price, I don’t think I mean, we’ve talked about this now several times. You, Bulldog, and myself. Dallas. Dallas. Yeah, Dallas is the one. just for a price. I mean, look, I can sit here and go, “All right, let me give you every favorite.” But I can tell you this, the Westgate had them Westgate’s a casino in Vegas, the Superbook. Westgate had them as high as plus 8:30 about a month ago. Somebody walked in, a guy who wins, a guy who I know, and bet 5,000 at plus 8:30 and they moved it to like 750 right away. It’s to win about 41,000. Now, he got a much better number than market right now, but if you can still get that 650, 675, like Caesar Sportsbook has a 675 on Dallas. That’s not a bad bet, Mike. I like it, too. I MGM I have it at plus 550. Now, I feel like a a chump, but plus 550 at MGM still. I mean, that that’s longer than Pittsburgh. That’s longer than some New England. It’s longer than some kind of maybe bad teams. And I don’t know. I’m excited about about Dallas. I mean, that’s also the fantasy player in me talking with George Pickins. I mean, they they could throw a billion passes this year. Lamb, Pickkins, Ferguson, they’re they’re nowhere at running back, Sam. Like, if Prescott stays healthy, which he hasn’t always done, that could be a huge year. They’re there’s your MVP MVP bet if they win the division from where they’ve been. And he he was second two years ago. like if you want you’re trying to find somebody at playable odds for MVP, it’s that guy. And there’s also the built-in narrative that he was hurt last year to play in the year angle. Um, look, when he’s on the field and Michael Parsons is on the field, they win double digits. Um, I think people doubt the coach or have questions about the coach. I understand it. But look, there are worse receiver rooms in the league, CD Lamb and George Pickkins, and they love the tight end there. Um, Dak is very good play action. Just got to stay on the field. I was gonna ask you a question actually. Go. Um, Chase 12 to one, Jefferson 16, Nua 16. Offensive player of the year. Which one excites you the most? Jefferson because I think Chase is I mean he’s sort of the guy who’s already did he did he win the award last year? I mean, he had the triple crown in receiving stats. So, Barkley of course, so it doesn’t matter. Like he’s already up here. He’s the favorite for a reason based on last season. And I think with Jefferson, the skepticism about JJ McCarthy is baked into that. And I don’t know, love the coach. I can buy the player. I could see Jefferson still being Jefferson. And Nua, I know you have loved him. I I’m not against that, but with Devonte Adams there, I think he has a tougher time compiling. So Jefferson, they’re all around the same price. I’d pick I’d pick him. Yeah, I might bet smaller amounts. I might bet all three, but I can promise you now. I know we’re a ways away, but Monday night, week one, I will have a massive bet on the Vikings to go into Chicago and win on the money line. If there’s one thing we know from bet sweats, they are not not with the Bears. The be the Bears are gonna have to do something good first, which is again reasonable. Uh, very good. Sam, thanks for a nice conversation. We’ll talk next week. All right, guys. See you. Sam Pani, Odyssey Betting Insider, Bet MGM for all the latest odds. And you can check out Sam with Joe Estraki weekday mornings 9 to noon on the bet 1520 and the Odyssey app. Then again, if you do not want to bet on JJ McCarthy, who barely threw a pass at Michigan, uh, to be prolific as a passer, then I guess stay away. I’d love to draft as much Jamar Chase as Sam thinks I’m doing, but you have to have the first pick. You kind of have to have the first pick to get Jamar Chase most of the time. Fantasy Friday. There you go. We’ll get back to the Open Championship and a little bit on how things are going at the Porter Cup with Brian Kosol after the next break. Tyler Dunn will join me later. This is Mike Schop. Thanks for listening to WGR. We’ve been living in so long. All the feels are gone. Fellas stopped me on the street last night. Said everything’s all right. Roller coaster. Make it through the day of ride. It seems your meal ticket is gone, but life goes on. I could never imagine something better. Yeah, right now you’re cooking on high heat in the middle of the street. Roll that coaster. Take me to a better time. Let’s go in your high life with the roller coaster. It’s time to choose your timeline on the roller coaster of life. Oh, you seem to easily forget how to place your bed. When everyday life gets you down, you got to steal the crown. Got to own it. Don’t and moan about it, please. God forbid you scrape your knees and it’s nothing to sneeze at. Oh, I told you over and over again. You got to get both hands around it and make your own plans. Roller coaster, it’s taking over. It’s about time in your mind on the road. You got to choose your time with the roll out of life. I want to go down the rock down the rock of life. And now it’s about to leave. Oh, no. Let go down. Oh, let go down. The Bills entire 2025 rookie draft class is now under contract as it became official this morning. TJ Sanders signs his four-year rookie deal. And now next up is training camp which will begin on Wednesday. Plenty more second round picks have also been signing their rookie deals. That does include the third overall pick of the second round. Seattle’s safety Nick Emmen Worry. He gets a fully guaranteed contract. And then NFL PA executive director Lloyd Howell did announce his resignation after two years in the role. 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I’m Zach Jones for WTR Sports Radio 550. It’s Mike Schop and the Bulldog Happy. The ball itself has its own energy or life force if you will. Its natural environment is in the home. So why don’t you send them home? It’s Mike show. Why didn’t you just go home? That’s your home. Are you too good for your home? Answer me. And the bulldog. That happened at Gilmore. He’s a real crackup, isn’t he? I mean, he’s a hoot. You know what was great today? One of his fans mooned me and had happy written on his ass. Ha on the one cheek and then sure enough, PPY right there on the other. It’s Mike Shopee and the Bulldog. Happy learned how to putt. Uh-oh. On WGR Sports Radio 550. That guy’s talking to his ball. Angrily at one point. Angrily talking to his ball. in my uh wonderful few years of playing golf with the Mcintes in Rochester every every weekend or for a while there kind of every day. John and I had had uh well words over whether you should talk to your ball. He was a big He is a big talk to your ball guy. Sit. Look, it’s not a dog, right? It’s a It’s a golf ball. It’s not it’s not listening. You know me, analytics and everything. What difference does it make if I talk to the ball? It’s like, well, how are you going to get it to do what you want? Like, well, you know, one idea, a good golf swing. He’s like, well, you lack that. So, otherwise, how are you going to get the ball to do what you want? You got to you got to tell it what to do. Different schools of thought on that. Brian Kosial along TA Green, he joins me on the Wester hotline. Brian, are you a talk to the ball guy? on the golf course. I am not. But I definitely probably talk to myself, you know, you idiot or that was awful or what are you doing here? Like I think I do a little bit of that probably while I’m playing. Yeah, that’s okay. That seems like that could make sense. Uh you know, you got to be good to be gentle to yourself, but still like at least you might listen. The ball. That’s correct. The ball do exactly what uh you did with the club. So talking to it doesn’t you’ve lost the impact you can have on the ball once it hits once it leaves the club that you are swinging right. So yeah it’s still your responsibility. It’s not the ball. I think so too. Well we’ll continue to debate that for for the rest of time. Um Scotty Sheffller in the lead and I think they might be done just about done as we speak now with the second round. Um, which I’m bringing up because the cut line was really close there between plus one and plus two, but it looks like the plus twos are are in trouble. Um, Brian, for the purposes of our game, pick 10, Sheffller, and I recognize this tournament is only half over is encroaching on the Tiger Woods territory where in betting circles, fantasy golf during Tiger’s Peak, you might have had like you had to leave them out. Uh, there might have been a rule where you can’t pick them. Tiger Wood, Tiger Woods versus the Field kind of action. Sheffller is kind of ruining our game. Yep. He’s definitely becoming one that is an automatic pick. We It’s We should turn it into pick nine and you get for sure. Yes. It basically is that. Yeah. I mean, I Who’s the last guy that hasn’t taken him. I mean, we probably got to go back at least four years. I think we’ve taken him every single time. Yeah. It I think I’m loving I I loved watching today. I thought it was great television. The change in the weather. I know I said it yesterday. I think is making for some interesting golf. And there’s a lot of interesting stories at the top, whether it’s Lee or Fitzpatrick or even just that next group that there’s a big group at 500 with like McIntyre and Hatton um and English. And then then you’ve got a bunch of big names in that like 432 area with Mroy in there too. Um and there’s a little bit of me that’s like I I want it to I want it to be more interesting because there’s still two more full days. And then there’s a little bit of me that says, “Is it over already?” Like, I I hope that’s not what happens. But man, he’s in the lead. He’s first in approach shots and first in putting. If there’s anything we’ve said over Sheffller’s dominance here over the last three seasons of golf is that, well, if he could just be average putting, he dominates every other category. Well, he’s first in putting. So, I mean, that that just shows right now how confident he is. And that’s pretty alarming to the rest of the field that if his putter’s hot, I mean, his distance control is just so good. When you watch him play, watch where his ball lands in comparison to, you know, being pinned high, I guess, is the kind of the phrase that we like to use when we’re playing. Um, he’s so good with his distance control and it matters at courses where there’s a lot of penalty areas or a lot of trouble around the green and there’s areas you’re trying to avoid. Yeah, it’s he’s he’s just he’s locked in. Um, I shame on me for even saying this. I was thinking this afternoon, I’m like, well, if he gets this done next year’s US Open, he could quickly join the Grand Slam Club. He’d already have all four. Uh, I know he’s only won two of the four. I’m already jumping ahead here, but it it almost feels a little bit like old Tiger days where up, Tiger was right there at day one and then he pounces on day two and now he starts to pull away over the next 36 holes. Can somebody be better? I’m less to argue yes. If it was one round, I’m like, well, one of these guys could beat him for one, but can they beat him over two when he’s already got a lead? It makes all those nice big names that are sitting between like five under and three under like, can they beat Shuffler by more than six or seven over these next 36 totals? Like, I think that’s a tall pass. And if he wins here, we’ll have all the way up until April to talk about whether he can win four in a row because that’ll be two. But he’ll be the favorite at Augusta and then wherever the PGA is where he has been, you know, dominant. So there there’ll be that to talk about too. And I I won’t mind that. Dare I ask hi his agame versus Tigers in his prime. What are the differences? I mean I I think that there we definitely have established this week by his comments with Sheffller that there’s a different attitude between the two players. may be extremely different, but actually mechanically on the golf course, what do we what’s the difference? Tiger, I mean, Tiger was close to perfect. Sheffller sort of sounds like or looks like he he gets there, too. Um, Tiger just more power. Brian, what are the differences? Yeah, I think uh to to to go with your first part, I think the attitude piece, no one is walking up to the tea like there there was that mental and physical intimidation with Tiger. Not necessarily because of Tiger’s size, but because of his power. Um and you know, as you mentioned, like he mentally said, you know, I’m here. I’m going to beat you. I’m going to I’m my job over the next eight next 18 holes to see how many I can beat you by. And guys felt that. And we would always say, man, no one is stepping up to Tiger here. He’s just on cruise control. Um, I don’t know if Sheffller brings that sort of like mental dominance uh because he’s so nice and and everybody loves him and he’s friendly. Uh, and he doesn’t give you that like I’m here to beat your brains out sort of attitude, at least publicly. He definitely at least says in the nice, calm, soft words like I want to win. I’m I’m very competitive. That sort of thing. It doesn’t come across the same. Um, and on tour even with Tiger, like by far he would get the biggest galleries and everything, but I mean right now you could still say like is Mroy at least more popular or at least more wellknown globally? I don’t know. I think so. I think I think Mroy is a household name and his face is widely recognizable in a way that Sheffller’s isn’t. But I don’t I don’t have to be right. Yeah. And then as far as playing goes, I would say Sheffller maybe um this I I don’t mean to insult Tiger. This is going to come off that way, but I think Sheffler is almost more consistent. Tiger was a little bit more errant off the tea. I If there was one part of Tiger’s career that I guess if you wanted to slightly poke at, you could say, well, he wasn’t as accurate off the tea as you would think a player of that dominance would be. you would think, oh, a player that that that put up those numbers and those wins that he would just be never in trouble when in fact he he was more often than maybe, you know, a top 10 player would be. His ability to recover was just maybe the greatest we’ve ever seen from anybody. And he definitely was the best putter in the world by far. I remember a quote from Butch Harmon, um, his longtime coach, that he said, um, you know, Tiger can beat the field by five. He goes, “But if it was a 72-hole putting contest, he’d win by 20.” He was just that good and could handle the pressure and just always seemed to have the perfect speed when he was on the greens in these pressure moments to handle it. So, uh, in that sense, maybe unlike this week where Sheff was putting well, um, Sheffller I feel like is more about consistency and and control and Woods was more about the power, the pizzazz, the intimidation, and the just the ability to hit those incredible recovery shots and then put you away when he buried that 20 foot putt with the pressure on the line. I mean, Tiger Woods transcendent in every way. like just his his story, his name, his his strength, his power, the ads, you know, his his racial makeup. I mean, there were just so many things about him that made him just maybe the most famous man in the world. I don’t know. At one point, maybe it got to that point. Sheffller is was it the the casual Sheffler? Shoffley, is that someone is that are those different people? Sheffller shot who was the one that got in the car accident at the at the one major. Um but he is just continuing to uh to dominate here and today he had to change his clothes five times which I don’t know how you do that. How how many clothes are in that bag? It’s a it’s his caddy Ted Scott’s earning his money, right? He’s got towels. He had a vest. He had a hoodie. He had a rainsuit. Y and then obviously the golf shirt, too. Yeah. The weather today I thought was fun and I and I love it just how it’s bright sunshine, there’s shadows on the green, they’re all in short sleeves, and then literally in five minutes it’s sideways rain, every single person’s got an umbrella. It uh it’s I I think it’s it’s made for some enjoyable TV. And you know, let’s even credit for those that puted well today like Sheffler and some of these other guys that puted great. Um these green speeds are slower now. The greens, if people are noticing, they’re a lot more slopier. There’s a lot more hills. So, you can’t have green speeds that are like if for those that know the stint meter number like at 13 or 14 like they do on the PJ tour because you just can’t you you’d lose the greens. They would burn out. You just can’t have them. They’d be unfair even in this sense. So, um they have to bring the speeds down just because of the way the greens are shaped and molded and guys have to adjust to that. Now, you throw the fact that it rains, so that could necessarily change the speed. If you’ve noticed, too, caddies are doing this quite a bit now. They’re standing next to the pro while it’s raining. And yes, it’s to help keep them dry, but it’s more so they’re over the ball. They’ll actually hold it over the ball. They’re saying how I was hearing a couple guys say that there’s the the water on the putter is actually less impactful than the than the rain on the ball because when you take your putter back, a lot of that when you, you know, just swinging motion of the club, a lot of that moisture will come off the club, but they need that ball to be as dry as possible when it’s rolling because the the water then adheres and it can cause the speed to slow down. I mean, when you’re that good and you’re able to have that good speed putting control, uh the rain you have to make an adjustment to and and the guys in the players have to do that all day. Even sand shots when it rains, you know, the top maybe, you know, quarter inch of the sand now is kind of soggy and matted down and then it’s dry sand underneath. That’s something they’ve got to take into account uh when they’re going through. Um and even the rough like it’s going to be a little bit thicker and and wetter and juicier when that club’s coming through. And these guys obviously are the best in the world. they know how that’s going to handle it. But a lot of different adjustments throughout the day as the weather changed. One more thought I or question I have on Sheffler, Brian. So he has this unique move when he’s hitting the ball where his feet kind of slide out and I wonder if anybody’s going to be or is teaching that. Is there something defensible? I mean, he’s number one. What What is that move? How does he get away with it? And is it a thing that somebody out there is telling their pupils to do? I would think no. I mean, based upon the conversations I have each week with a PGA Pro when we go to do our show, none of them are saying like it’s something that you’d ideally want to copy. Um, but it makes it work for him. At impact, he gets everything where it needs to be, which is really that’s all that matters. I mean, for years we would talk about Jim Furick swing. Like that is something that you wouldn’t teach someone Yeah. to do, but at impact he’s where he needs to be. And that really that’s all that matters is when that club face makes contact with the ball. Where is everything at? And he’s able to get that. Now, I I think a piece of Sheffller’s feet coming off the ground. That’s something that’s been a trend probably over the last 5 to 10 years here where guys are trying to maximize their distance. They’re trying to get their hips through quicker and quicker, which allows that torque and that club to really really sit back and that what allows to whip it through and that’s where they’re kind of gaining their extra distance on something like that. So, the feet off the ground thing, even though for Shefflin, it’s more of almost even a slide. Um, that’s something that I feel like that pros are definitely telling people to do now, especially when they’re hitting their driver. Well, you say you talk to pros all the time. Hopefully, you have enough influence where you can help me somehow eradicate the habit golfers have of when they finish their rounds, take the hat off, rub their hand through their hair, and then immediately shake seven hands. Just getting the the hair sweat all over their competitors. I mean, uh, we’ve got to we’ve got to remember, let’s shake hands first. Not that your hand isn’t filthy already, but before we go running it through our hair. Come on. Let’s go. Let’s be better. It’s It’s all marketing and branding. You know that, Mike. The second the hat the hat comes off, I got to make sure we look good for the kids. Yeah, I understand though. You’re right. Think about I mean, gross. You take the hat off after it being on for five hours of golf. And I I’m sure my hair is not uh in the best state of mind. So then you run your hand through it. Yep. I I I see where you’re going with it. It’s probably not the most uh perfect thing to do. your hand is already so disgusting and now you’re just going to make it that much worse by running it through your hair after five hours on the golf course or six in terms of this tournament. Well, yes. And also a note too, please. Uh, well, since we’re on this PSA moment here about keeping healthy, I see people when I’m playing all the time do this. Don’t lick the golf ball. There’s or put your tea in their mouth. There is so many chemicals and fertilizers on a golf course. Um, you know, you’re just Yeah. Just don’t do that either. Don’t lick the golf ball or the tea. That seems good. That seems right. Uh, who else can win here, Brian? What’s the likeliest scenario where Sheffller loses? I mean, one is he just can’t make putts this weekend and finishes still like easily top 10 probably. Uh, or I doubt he falls apart, but you you’ve got a lot of big names here. Lynx’s experience. Who who’s the guy that who are a couple guys that can, you know, outra him? Well, I mean, probably Fitzpatrick’s a name we should say. He’s been playing really well lately and he putting as good probably as Sheffler is. Um, one of the guys down a little bit, there’s two guys at five under, English and McIntyre. I kind of I I kind of like both of their games in terms of like handling the pressure moment. McIntyre last year at the Scottish Open like it was him and Mack like down the stretch and a ton of pressure and the and the pressure of it being his own home country’s national championship too and he handled it really really well. Um I feel like he’s got just a a really nice mentality in terms of handling the pressure moment. So I don’t know McIntyre gets hot with the putter which he we’ve seen over the last two years. He did it at the Canadian Open. We know he did it at the Scottish Open. Um that’s maybe one name. Harris English is a player who hasn’t necessarily um risen to major winning level yet, but I feel like there’s that time that he’s due. Um he’s as steady as it is. So, if there is a fall back from Sheffler at all and a guy that kind of just is plotting along and just doing his thing, that could just all of a sudden be there at the end, I guess maybe I would argue for for Harris English, too. Okay. Were you watching the business with Lowry and the possible penalty strokes? Yeah, it looked like he hit that teeny little like twig on a practice swing which then moved the ball. And I mean, I know the announcers were being pretty politically correct about saying like, “Well, we have to see.” I’m like, “Well, clearly the the second he made that practice swing, the ball ended up moving.” Uh, and but totally agreeable that Lowry might not have even known it because when you’re taking your practice swings, you might be looking at the green at your target. So, he could have been doing that and not even known that it moved. And also too, that that’s sometimes to me just the randomness of golf. Not that it’s not that it’s not a penalty, but the camera happened to be on right at that point. I mean, what if it’s a different hole and the camera is not on at that point or if his drives on the other side and maybe the camera access is not as close to get that much of a close-up or if it’s a lesserk known player and there isn’t a direct camera following them from the fairway like that. That’s all the randomness of golf. Sometimes I feel like ah, you know, there’s there’s probably all that that happens every single round in these tournaments of just random things that maybe nobody even notices where there could be a penalty called, but in terms of it actually happening there, it definitely looked like the ball moved when he made that practice swing. He did get two strokes. Yeah, I if I if I had the power to change that rule, I would make it one. It’s hard for me to believe. You might tell me different. You just have. And the announcers definitely were this way. It’s hard for me to believe he wouldn’t have noticed it. Even the the the way the brand on the ball is facing you turned. And I mean now they’re so good. There are times when the cam the camera crew goes and gets a closeup of the ball and then leaves the scene and they put that in a box on the screen so you can see what the player’s lie is. Uh but this one they they had it live when it happened. He takes a practice swing practice swing near the ball. The ball moves just slightly. And I I have a hard time believing he wouldn’t have noticed it. But is that unfair to say? No. I I think that’s I I I guess you know what? I’m just trying to picture myself taking practice swings. Like sometimes maybe my eyes are on the target. If if the ball moved but then moved back kind of down again, maybe in the same position where the where the logo or the or the number might be facing in a similar direction, maybe I would notice it. But I think you’re right. If I stand and see the ball and all of a sudden the number or the logo is moved a quarter, you know, quarter turn of the ball or something like that, I feel like I would notice it. But yeah, I I guess I’d like to see maybe like the behind view of the whole thing again now to see like what what was Lowry looking at during that practice to really give you an answer. I think both probably are fair without actually physically knowing what Shane saw. You know, to say maybe he was looking at the target or to say maybe he was looking down. I’m not sure. You know, I guess I guess I don’t want to like throw him under the bus here without fully knowing what he was looking at. I’ll leave that to me. I um we had a play I was texting you. We you thought it might have been Harris English. There was a player recently we were talking about who penalized himself a stroke or maybe it was two for this happening and he saw it and he immediately brought it to the the other’s attention like this just happened. He called it on himself. That’s what golf wants you to do. So yes, the cameras might make it’s not a level playing field because the cameras are not following everybody out there and it could happen to someone else and no one would know it. Uh but that’s this is what happens and did Did the I know that obviously the camera got it. This was after Lowry had already taken the shot or do you think like was Lowry made aware? I No, it it was half watching on mute at times. So, I didn’t know if they were actually like if Lowry was aware of what was happening as he was walking up that hole. TV only pointed it out after it happened and they as far as I know they only got around to telling Lowry a few holes later as he was walking up on a different hole. They told him, “Look, we have this and we’ll talk to you when the round is over about it.” And then they said, “They’re going to ask him what he saw.” And one of the announcers said, “Well, what what’s that? What’s that going to mean?” Like, he’s going to say he didn’t see the ball move, right? Like, are they not going to penalize him because he said he didn’t see the ball move? But apparently they did. If he said, “I saw it move.” Well, then he told his playing partners at that moment right away. That’s right. You’re you’re keeping score for each other. So, you know, I would probably 100% predict he’s going to say, “I didn’t see a move then because if if he did see it move, he would have said it already.” You know, I don’t think Shane Lowry is out here to try to like get one over. I mean, he knows every single thing is being recorded. So, if he saw it, I’m sure he would have said something. They did ding him anyway. So, I don’t know exactly what happened there. I can find out, but they did ding him anyway. All right, Brian, what have you got coming up at five? So, we’ve got our our duster challenge. We’re we’re over here setting up at Glenn Oak and we’ve got 108 putters. We’re sold out for the third straight year in a row. We’ve we uh just set up the whole putting course on the Gleno super big putting green. So, we’ve got 108 putters. We’re going to get it down to 16, make a cut, and then do ninehole match plays, one versus 16, two versus 15, and so on to uh eventually crown a champion. And uh we’re raising money tonight for PGA hope. It’s for military veterans to give them as they come back from serving our country like golf experiences or maybe even golf equipment or something if they have a disability that can help them kind of enjoy the game better, get them around PGA pros, give them lessons, um put them in scenarios to try to help them get them back to kind of normal life settings again. So, uh you know, we’re obviously so grateful for what they do for our country. So, uh, we’re hoping tonight to Last year we raised 6,500. We’re hoping to to break 7,000 tonight. We’re trending that way. We got raffles and prizes and all that sort of stuff. So, Bulldog and Owen are this year’s WGR celebrity invites to the tournament. So, we’ll we’ll get to see how uh those guys are. In fact, Bulldog and Owen are so dedicated, Mike, before I came on the air with you, they actually are here at Gleno playing the golf course. They were just making the turn. So, yes, it’s a full day of golf for your for your radio partner here today. Yeah. Shocking. shock. He never Today might be he never gets out. The best I I know you love to analyze weather here. This might be the best weather day of the official summer here in Western New York is perfect. We lucked out with that. Low humidity, sunny, the temperature, teeny little breeze. It’s like it’s perfect. Great. Congrats on this event and good luck to you and and uh Bulldog and Owen out there today. Very cool. And enjoy the rest of the tournament. Thank you. Yep. Two good rounds and uh we’ll have twohour tea green tomorrow and we’ll be at the final round of the Porter Cup too uh where we’re going to be at at Niagara Falls Country Club tomorrow. By the way, Brian Harmon who’s in contention. Yes. He won the 2007 Porter Cup. And I was looking at the leaderboard of it today. Second place that year was Chris Chris Kirk. Third place that year, Jason Kra. Fourth place that year, Billy Horchel. 11th was Dustin Johnson. 22nd was Ricky Fowler. So that was a stacked field. Harmon was 22 under par setting the Porter Cup record that year when he won it in 07. Was he really slow even then? Would you know? Oh my god. They’re still counting the waggles. They’re still counting the waggles. His press from what I’ve been following from them, they are all over his waggles. Oh yeah. They probably should be reminded. Sergio used to do the same thing. Yeah. And the crowd got on him sometimes. Yes. US Open. Anyway, Beth Paige, I remember that. Brian Harman is painful. You’re right. I wish that would stop. That that doesn’t promote what we should be copying from professionals. It’s a bad example for the kids. Eight under. Very much in it. Brian Harmon. Thanks, Brian. Okay. Thanks, Mike. Have a good weekend. You too. Brian Kosol on the Open Championship and he’s got that event at Gleno coming up later today. 8030550 talking some Bills props earlier. the golf rule stuff go a lot of different places. Let me give me a minute and I’ll figure out where I want to go. If you have a thought on anything that we’ve talked about today or this week, James Cook has been big this week. Again, that’s the law. Give me a call and we’ll discuss it. Tyler Dunn coming up at 5, just over a half an hour away. This is Mike Schop on WGR. officially this morning. TJ Sanders signed his four-year rookie deal. And he is not the only second round pick. Plenty have been signing over the last 48 hours. That does also include Seattle’s Nick Emmen Worry. He gets a fully guaranteed contract. He was the third overall pick in the second round. Bills camp is going to get going on Wednesday. And speaking of training camps, 49ers, they have placed wide receivers Brandon Aayuk and Ricky Piol on the active physically unable to perform list as they are getting ready to begin camp. And then day two of the Open Championship, it sees world number one Scotty Shuffler in front at 10 under. He shot a round of 64 on day two. And for more on the Open and the Porter Cup, do tune in to a 2-hour edition of Ta Green tomorrow morning from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. live from Niagara Falls County Club. And then the Bison’s they’re back in action tonight against the Stormchasers at home just after 6:30. And that game can be heard on our sister station, the bet 1520. Padox Chevrolet sports headlines. Padoc Chevrolet celebrating 90 years of being your hometown dealership. I’m Zach Jones for WGR Sports Radio 550. After an offseason long standoff, a mini camp hold out. TJ Watt as expected not going anywhere besides Green on a three-year 123 million contract extension that locks up Watt through 2028. It makes him not only now the highest paid non-quarterback in NFL history at $41 million per year, it is also the second largest contract ever in Steelers history behind oh yeah DK Metave Tom Pelisero. Well, the Steelers I think are kind of a joke, but give them credit for one thing. They’re not middling it. They couldn’t really have done much better than Aaron Rogers. I think the only guy maybe available that they would have had access to that would be bet a better bet for this year than Aaron Rogers is Justin Fields who they benched last year when they were winning. Like they they didn’t have they didn’t want Justin Fields back. So that wasn’t going to happen. And even, you know, that itself is obviously debatable whether he’s an upgrade. I mean, Rogers has Rogers is Rogers. Like that could still work out. And making the Jaylen Ramsay trade and then, you know, Metaf, they got rid of Pickkins because they didn’t like him. Wasn’t about rebuilding. They just didn’t like him. And you know, now this TJ Watt, you can’t go half measure with this kind of strategy this offseason and not pay TJ Watt. Everybody says the same thing. It would have been cheaper to do this earlier. That’s of course true, but sometimes, you know, you just don’t. And what do you do about it? You pay the extra. You You pay the tax for waiting. That’s what Dallas will have to do with Micah Parsons. cuz that’s what Cincinnati quintessentially will have to do if they don’t trade Trey Hendrickson. So, um you know, the Steelers could have done worse here, I think. And they’re probably decent, right? I mean, aren’t they always? Is it Can you picture a bad Steelers season? We did just have a bad Aaron Rogers Jets season, but the Steelers are not the Jets. I’m not a culture guy, but I do believe that there are edges in coaching that are sometimes even like behind the scenes. And Mike Tomlin must have that down because on the field, you know, strategy stuff, he’s terrible. But they do figure out how to win nine or 10 games every year with bad quarterback play and, you know, bad game day decisions. They they manage. There’s a mystique. And the Jets are the opposite. The Jets are a franchise that for so long has uh has has not had that like kind of like forever. The Jets since since Nameoth maybe with a couple of brief exceptions. Longest playoff drought in the league is the Jets AFC East. Longest drought without a playoff win is Miami. 2000 season, 25 years ago is Miami’s last playoff win. Do you remember? Can you recall a Miami Dolphins playoff victory? I watched it. I remember where I was. Lamar Smith was the star of this game, an overtime win over Indianapolis and a young Pton Manning back in the 2000 playoffs. Welcome back. I’m Mike Shopee. Bulldog is off again today. She’ll be back with me on Monday. Okay, he’s around. You might run into him. 8030550 is the number. I feel strangely good today. Uh, did I need to stay up past midnight watching a threepart series called Amy Bradley is Missing on Netflix? No. Uh, and I’m watching it thinking this is going to be a problem tomorrow. I’m I’m up too late. I’m drinking while I’m watching this show. Family’s out of town. Really don’t need to be doing this, but uh I’m doing it. And yet today I feel all right. So, who knows? I I don’t find there to be much useful correlation in like my behavior the previous night or in the morning and then and then the show that that day. Uh it’s not always how it’s supposed to go. Go to bed early. Get up early. Walk. Get your steps in. Walk the dog. Eat an apple. Get to work. Prepare. Work preparing. Writing down ideas. Uh anyway, today so far so good. I might I might be jinxing it right now. That um that golf course is gorgeous and I wish I were there. I mean, Glenn Oak is also I don’t mean Glenn Oak. Glenn Oak is very nice. I’m talking about this royal port rush and the weather changes have added to how spectacular the place looks. I mean, you have the downpour doesn’t help it at all, but the the views out on the ocean from the edges of that golf course are just amazing. Um, I mean, a Lynx golf course on TV is always very pretty in its own way. like the style of the course and everything like that, but that ocean view right there in the at the top of Northern Ireland is really really great. I think also without even maybe you don’t realize, but networks just get better at offering you that just views, more cameras, drones even like just more ways of being able to uh well paint the picture uh so to speak. So, I’ve really enjoyed these last two days, family away, so I might be lucky enough to watch a lot of it tomorrow and Sunday. Tyler Dunn is coming up at 5. We’ll talk about his essay on Dalton Concaid, his time spent with him. Uh Tyler is the best at these long form pieces, a lot of which are profiles on players. And this concaid piece he wrote is really kind of a I think to anybody who doesn’t subscribe to Tyler’s site, golongtd.com, it’s kind of a pumpup piece for Bills fans on this player. And you might need it, right? You you might need to be pumped up on Dalton Concincaid right now or Keon Coleman. I mean, Tyler has written about about him, too. I mean, we’ve spent so much time on receivers and camp hasn’t even started yet. We’ll see what we get once the players are on the field next week starting on Wednesday. Not as much maybe as on James Cook or about as much. I’ve spent plenty of time on Cook this week. No developments that I know of. Here’s one thing I think that is kind of like a a conclusion almost as we get to camp and we’ll see if anything changes on on that front. I think this is one where both sides, the player and the team should want the same thing. And that often does not happen in these kinds of things. And when it doesn’t happen, you know, it can get really tricky. Uh, I don’t know if I’m right in saying that. I’m saying they should. Cook and the Bills should want the same thing. You know, I’m thinking more of the Sabres for this, but the Sabres often are in these kind of predicaments where the player kind of has them. We know you’re weak. I’m good. If you want me, you’re going to have to pay the tax. Again, I’ll say it the same way as they did about the Steelers. you’re going to have to pay extra to keep me on this team. And then they’re at a position of weakness. And where the players supposed market value might be one thing to sign here, it’s more that might be Alex Tuck right now. They’re going to have to pay him into his 30s and worth a lot of money to get him to stay because what if they don’t? But I think so there’s a lot of those kinds of negotiations. I think with Cook, he and the Bills should want the same thing. They both should want about a three-year contract in the $9 million range. Too much more than that, in my opinion, is not reasonable. And I don’t agree that the Bills should just let him play out his deal. I think that’s risky. So, he’s good. He’s valuable to them. They never miss a chance to tell you how much they love him. Okay, this should be easy. You should want the same thing here. And that um is part of why I find the whole thing kind of kind of baffling, why it isn’t somewhere new yet. Here’s Pete next. Hi Pete. Uh yeah, I had a comment, but I said a question about something you just said. Why do you think it’s risky for Cook to play out the last year on his contract? I think it’s risky for the Bills because this is not necessarily fair to him. But I’d worry about motivation a little bit, you know, and just having it be a distraction like they would say, that kind of thing. Just do what they always do with these guys who are one year away. Just sign them. Yeah. And I guess the flip side of that is there should be a motivation for him to perform as good as he possibly can to cash in. But, you know, who knows how it plays out. That’s right. But anyway, the reason why I called is I think you mentioned Concaid earlier and you know, I had high hopes for the guy, but you know, as I’ve watched him over the last couple of years, I kind of fear that he’s in like no man’s land um as far as like an athlete in in pro football goes. I mean, he’s not quite big and strong enough to be a traditional tight end, but he’s he’s doesn’t seem quite quick enough to be an effective slot receiver. I think Bean talked about him being essentially like almost a replacement for Cole Beasley. I mean, he’s just not that. Cole I mean, people I think people in Buffalo appreciated Cole Beasley, but I think he was a he’s a really effective slot receiver and in in Concaid is just not that. And then the other piece is it seems like part of his poor performance or at least lack of production was due to some inaccurate passing from Allen. And I don’t know if that’s just what you get from Allen. So like concade, maybe he would be a very good uh tight end for Matt Stafford or Joe Burrow. Uh but maybe not for Josh Allen. Maybe he needs uh a quarterback that’s going to put it right in a particular window. Whereas a guy like Allen needs a receiver like a a Beasley or a Diggs, one of those guys that just gets tremendous amount of separation. And I just don’t think Concaid has that. Yeah, you make some good points. I wondered about that last point if it was maybe on concaid last year that you know the ball Allen’s usually pretty good at putting the ball where it needs to be and if they’re a little bit off with one guy why so I don’t know injuries were talked about last year too. Yeah. I I think the the overall point about his athletic profile has kind of always been there as a point to make. He was never going to play with his hand down like they they didn’t draft him for that. You don’t draft a first first round tight end for that ever. Like this was going to have to be a big play scene stretcher type and it has not happened. Some of that is the Bills have reigned him in earlier on in his career a little bit last year too. But yeah, I kind of agree. I think he’s and all that being said, Shakir is their slot receiver. Like where is Concaid’s path to having a good season? Like what does it look like? It’s got to be touchdowns, I think. And if you get him, you’re fine. That’s not seamstretcher, but if you get him, you’re fine. But he remember the year he was drafted, it didn’t work out at the combine. You know, he had only like a couple of big games in college. It was it was risky. He was not supposed to be the first tight end pick. Michael Mayer was. And then there was Leaporta who went in the second round and then had a huge year for Detroit. So overall, it’s been a disappointment. But Tyler will join me. He just talked to Concaid and he might straighten us out here. Thanks, Pete. This is Mike Show on WGR. about a minute here only then another break unfortunately unless you love breaks then Tyler Dunn. Uh just enough time to make one more point about yes James Cook the logic the caller asked me why do you think it’s risky for Cook to play on the last deal and I mentioned motivation I mentioned you know um just the possibility of any sort of distraction by it which are not great reasons it’s really mostly because I don’t think he would destroy in free agency even if he had the same year again. I just don’t think he’s that player. I think you only want to pay the biggest money to running backs that are going to play three downs and have just got a better athletic profile than he does. So, I don’t see there being a windfall for him out in the future. I think the Bills are probably going to be the best he’ll do. And that’s why I think both sides really should want the same thing here. If you thought if you think that Cook can go to free agency after another big season and break records in the free agent market, we just disagree on that. I I would doubt it. He’s not Barkley. Back with Tyler Dunn after sports. This is Mike Schop on WGR. The Buffalo Bills entire 2025 rookie class is now under contract with training camp starting next Wednesday. TJ Sanders officially signed his four-year deal earlier this morning. And the second round signings continue. That does include Seattle’s Nick Emmanory and the Bears Luther Burton who both get fully guaranteed contracts. And as camps are beginning to take shape around the league, the 49ers have placed wide receivers Brandon Iayuk and Ricky Pieraw on the active physically unable to perform list. Baseball’s back after the All-Star week has wrapped up. The Jays host the Giants. The Mets have the Cincinnati Reds in town and the Yankees are down in Atlanta against the Braves. All three will start just after 7:00 while the Bison are home against the Stormchasers just after 6:30. That game can be heard on our sister station, the bet 1520. And then day two of the Open Championship in Northern Ireland sees world number one Scotty Shoffler in front 10 under for the tournament today. Shot a round of 64. For more on the Open and the Porter Cup. Tune in to a 2-hour edition of TA Green tomorrow morning from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. live from Niagara Falls County Club. That’s your Padox Chevrolet sports update. Padox Chevrolet celebrating 90 years of being your hometown dealership. I’m Zach Jones for WGR Sports Radio 550. It’s Mike Shopee and the Bulldog. I don’t think Michael’s ever done drugs. It’s Mike Shopee. I don’t know if anyone’s ever offered him any. Let’s go over some of the symptoms of marijuana use, shall we? You tell me who this sounds like. It’s the bulldog. Slow moving, inattentive, dull, constantly snacking. Shows a lack of motivation. It’s Mike Shopee and the Bulldog on WGR Sports Radio 550. When your son or daughter is on a travel team and has a game where you could watch the live stream, but they’re not there to play in it. Do you still watch? One is you go to the game and they’re playing. Two, you can’t go to the game, but you watch it on the stream because they’re playing. Three, can’t go to the game, they’re not playing. Should I feel like I should be watching anyway? Does the absence of your child on the field or the ice render the game does it take it down such levels that you would not I mean I’m working here anyway that choice I have is to be doing this right now. In fact, like both I’ve got two kids and they’re both involved in different things plus a third thing. I could have three I I need the Sunday ticket for my kids sports. So, I’ve got here’s the hockey uh week showcase, here’s the lacrosse, then here’s the lacrosse game that my son is missing because he’s at the middle one. Do they have that, Tyler? Do they have like a I I need like the man cave, the setup that we’ll all fantasize about once we get to week one and we’re watching the Steeler Jet game, we’re watching Dolphins Colts, we’re watching it all. Get I I need this for my kids and I have two kids. I’m s well I’m surprised that you’re uh vocalizing this, Mike. I think you’ve stumbled upon a multi-million dollar business. So, let’s let’s let’s just pretend like you didn’t say any of that. You know, you can hang up right now and and pursue that venture if you’d like. I think it’s genius. Yes. I don’t have the the basement with the multiple screens. I have one I have basically two TVs in my house. I feel like that’s enough. If I had more, I wouldn’t leave the room. Plus, it’s cooler down there, Tyler. like that that that basement could be a nice rest bit when it’s you know not so much today but when we’re in the 80s you know you want to be down there but you know sometimes you got to stick your head up right now I’m just trying to uh take the TV back from the kids and you know it’s just it’s bluey all the time you know with a splattering of Spider-Man and you know uh school of rock is has been the choice of late so I don’t know I feel with football season approaching I got to start you know putting the foot down and you know taking back control completely completely lost control. I I I I’m so weak at this point. I’ll see Tyler picture him the night of the Hall of Fame game a week from Thursday just like you know beer popcorn sitting up on the edge of his seat watching Chargers Lions in the Hall of Fame game and his family’s like what what is this? It’s already it’s still July. What is this? And Tyler would be like what do you mean? Let’s go. I mean it’s football season. This is my job. You’re gonna have to see that that’s coming for you. The old I have to do this. I have to watch this game for work move that’s coming for you. Although inadvertently I think I’ve stumbled upon a a good bridge here that the kids are obsessed right now with all of the Rocky movies. So we’ve kind of been ripping through those and uh I I feel like you know the violence of Rocky will kind of ease ease right into football season. They they’ll be ready. It’ll it’ll basically look the same to them when you turn on when you turn on the NFL. Well, that’s good. That’s just you’ve thought ahead here clearly. Tyler Dunn, Westerhotline, golongtd.com. All right. So, one feature you’ve done recently among many, Dalton Concaid. You you see uh is this not the word? Is this maybe too big of a word here? A breakout season coming for him. Yes, I know. I’m trying to think of another word. I I feel like it’s uh one of those buzzwords we probably overused, but it’s absolutely applicable. I I I don’t know. Like you go through history and we’ve done it on on this show and you look at tight ends past, it’s a hard position to just waltz into professional football and dominate at you. You have to do a little bit of everything. And most of these guys, they they weren’t blocking for much of their football lives. And also, it’s just faster, everybody’s stronger, all of that stuff. I mean, the the comp would be a good one, but he looked Dalton Concaid looked up to Tony Gonzalez. Tony Gonzalez in year two led the NFL in drops 16. He was in a much darker place than Dalton Concade ever dreamt of after that fourth and five played arrowhead. I mean to Tony was locking himself in his bedroom uh drinking. Jack and Coke was his drink of choice just down out depressed lost and it and it took his own kind of man-in-the-mir moment to say, “All right, you know, I feel like I’m doing everything I got to do. I’m doing everything the coaches are telling me to do, but I got to do more.” And he started doing more. That’s kind of when his habit of catching a hundred balls before every practice began. And then he just made the Pro Bowl basically every year and changed the game forever. So I mean if if Dalton Concade forced the game to evolve himself, the Bills would take it. But in his own roundabout way, I mean he he had that moment right then that night. Micah Hyde going right up to him, you know, and and say, “Hey, you have to effing wipe those tears away and face the music. Own it. Own this play.” and and he really pointed to that moment as uh as a defining moment in his life really. I mean he he owned it and it wasn’t an easy play to make by any means. Uh but then flew back to Buffalo, watched the film you didn’t have to, right? You can bury those three hours and never see it again. Watched it, met with Bean, met with McDermott and basically lived at one Bill’s drive for the next five months and and he’s a much much stronger player. I I feel like he is Yeah, he is that player who’s going to bust out in a big way. They need somebody too out of that whole crew. And I think it’s Dalton Concaid. Camp starting will spare everybody from our next topic of would you take Tony Gonzalez’s career for Dalton Concaid. We won’t we won’t bother with that one. I’m pretty sure we all would. Um well, that’s all well and good, Tyler. I would say like I love the attitude and the you know the just how this all sounds. I wonder a couple things about him. One is, and this came up from a caller earlier in the show today, but it’s come up in here many times going back to when he was drafted, the athletic potential, like the ceiling for him physically. I don’t know. Can Can he be a downfield threat? Is he ever going to be like a handown player? I I don’t think so. I don’t know what there is in terms of a ceiling for Concaid. And also I think he’s kind of blocked here by the combination of Shakir and Knox where Shakir is going to play that slot. Do I need a second slot with Concaid or who’s going to play outside there? I don’t see it. And then Knox, I think especially as they became such a good running team, uh, also isn’t going anywhere. So, I wonder if he can accomplish what he wants given what, you know, these are opinions, but what you might think are obstacles. I mean, those are all great points, and I think it’s it it’s a good problem to have when you’ve got four or five different dudes that you can really target and prioritize in a game plan. But if I mean, if the Bills learned anything is, yeah, everyone eats is is phenomenal. I mean, there’s really something to it. But when it’s nutcutting time and you need a play, you better have somebody that you know you’re going to in that moment and it doesn’t matter what the defense is doing because you you’re rely on that guy to make the play. And I would still lean conceded because I I feel like there’s still something untapped there. I mean, he we we I don’t think we’ve seen the finished product. And and you go through history with the best of the best tight ends. And year two, you’re not you’re not seeing anything close to that finished product physically, athletically this early because you usually like you don’t choose to be an NFL tight end. Like you don’t grow up unless you’re Rob Gronowski here in Western New York idolizing Jeremy Shaki, you know, partying off the field and running people over, which I mean that was probably one of more fun parts of writing blood and guts, the similarities between those two. Other than that, like tight end chooses you. Like you’ve got this set of characteristics uh that the athleticism, the grit, the the selflessness. It’s just this this whole combination where eventually you kind of just wind up there. And I I think that King Kade is a lot he’s a hell of a lot t tougher than I than I thought he was. You know, talking to his coach at Utah, Fred Winningham, I mean, he had just cracks in his vertebrae at the end of that season. Played in the Pack 12 championship with those. Would have played in the bowl game and they had basically protect him against himself. So, he’s he’s physically tougher, mentally tougher than I than I think most think. And the willingness is is there. I mean, he’s he’s not going to be mauling people in the run game, but I think the potential is there to get a little better, so then you can keep on the field a little bit more. And what Wood Whittingham pointed to is is the yak. Like he said there was a point in college where he kind of emphasized that with Dalton and and becoming a weapon once the ball is in his hand. So, you know, I he is a a seam splitter. He’s got that stuff, but maybe that’s an area football-wise where you just figure out a way to get him touches. and this newer version of Dolphin Concincaid who was throwing around weights all off season and is 245 pounds of muscle is able to do some damage. So I I think that yeah you want to get this guy a lot more targets than you got him last year. Tyler Dunn on the Wester hotline golongtd.com for the latest piece on concade and lots of Bill’s content there. Of course this team Tyler I’m sure we’ve had this conversation too just from a macro perspective on them. They’ve got no excuse this year, you know, like everything points to a big year. The the changes to the roster, the weakness of the division that most people see, the schedule, the big games are all home games. I mean, I don’t want to add a Chief’s decline to this because that’s just, you know, who knows if there if there will be that. But in terms of the Bills themselves, whatever the last year of the stadium is worth for, I don’t know, spirituality, like they’ve got everything in their favor. I’m with you, man. 100%. It just, you know, we’ve had this conversation probably before. There there has been moments in time where it it appeared everything was breaking Buffalo’s way, right? even getting the Chiefs at home a couple years ago and then facing a vulnerable Lamar who you’ve had success against, you know, in that championship game. I mean, that that seemed to be a lane. I mean, last year, I mean, the Chiefs, they they were no, you know, this wasn’t the pyrochnic Chiefs of yester year. Tyreek Hill catching the ball, peace sign into the end zone, and they score the most points that they have in any game in 36 games against you in the AFC Championship game. So yeah, I feel I feel like we have had this conversation like, “Oh, it’s breaking perfect, but I love their off season. I mean, it wasn’t uh yeah, they they they needed to make some tweaks on offense, but maybe they made those.” Maybe Dolphin Concaid lifted more weights. Oh, by the way, he kind of pointed to Matt Collins as well, and so he saw how Matt Collins lifted weights late in the season, got stronger. I think that’s going to help him as well in terms of, you know, his development and looking at a different tight end there. But he’ll be better. Keon Coleman, you got to think he’ll be healthy, he’ll be improved. Bean loves Joshua Palmer. We’ve gotten into him like maybe he’s that threat. I didn’t think that they needed to do anything uh massive on that side of the ball, but they sure as hell needed to on defense. And you know, what are you going to do? You going to sit on your hands and just wish and hope and pray that you get a different result uh against Patrick Mahomes a fifth time or you going to do something about it? So Bosa, Oaken, Joby, Hoy, Deion Walker, TJ Sanders, Landon Jackson, like you’ve got so many new faces, so many new bodies. Brandon Bean’s basically handing them on a silver platter to Bobby Babage, Shawn McDermott, and saying, “All right, let’s see some different results.” Now, you’ve got a lot of different options here. If if you’re not trying, then you might as well not even, you know, participate this season. But I I got to think something’s different against Momes. I mean, he’s got to at least break a sweat, right? Maybe. Maybe throw a pick, maybe you get a few stops because different players I we’ll see if they’re any good, but it it’s it’s got to help because whatever you’ve been doing just hasn’t been working that point of the season. I love maybe throw a pick. Have you considered Patrick one time throwing an interception against the Bills in the playoffs just just to keep it interesting? Have you considered it? Maybe it’s time to do so. Uh Tyler Dunn with us here on the Western Hotline. Mike Schop with you. Bulldog is off this week. Tyler, I I’ve asked this of listeners many times this summer. Are we taking the AFC East too much for granted this year? Um, I mean, the betting markets point to the Bills as easily the biggest favorite of anyone in any division this year. Kind of double what Baltimore is at second. Baltimore being second is interesting, too. Uh, with Cincinnati’s, you know, potential. Are we taking the relative futility of the Dolphins, Patriots, and Jets too much for granted? Man, I like that question because I don’t know. It’s really easy for all of us living here to just look past the Dolphins and maybe we should, right? They haven’t they haven’t gotten over that hump, but you you still have that core of elite speed that can go the distance any given moment. I mean, it took a 61yd field goal from Tyler Bass to win at home. What was two of fresh off all these concussions was like 25 of 28 that game. So, you you know that they’ve got talent, but I feel like Buffalo just has their number. Like I when it when push comes to shove over the course of an 18game season when the Dolphins have to win in the cold or win against good teams, until we see it, we can’t believe it. And and the same thing for my or New England. until we see it’s it’s hard to believe. I think that they’re heading the right direction. My god. I mean, Mike Braval’s fingerprints are all over this roster. I mean, Milton Williams, uh, Carlton Davis, Harold Landry, Robert Splain, right out of the shooting free agency, just getting nasty, violent players who can kind of bring his message to light. And there’s a lot of a lot of familiarity, not just with Braille, but some of the coaches on his staff have been with these guys. Then you get into the draft, you get the best lineman. Will Campbell will give you something up front. My guy, remember his interview after the draft? He’s going to die for Drake May. It’s all set up for Drake May to take a step. Um, you know, if if Stfan Diggs can maybe cut back on the boat appearances and whatever’s happening out there, he if he could give them at that intensity, he’s not the same player he was in 2020. Um, but I was just talking to a coach for the Texans and he said, “Look, if if you get digged for a season or two, he will he will elevate the intensity level of everybody around him.” Happened here. He’ll probably wear out as welcome, right? It happened here, too. So, in the short term, I think he is what the Patriots need, but until we see it, it’s I don’t know. Even with their schedule, you can’t just say, “Oh, they’re ready to win the division.” So, yeah. I mean, it’s the Bills and it’s because of Josh Allen. I mean, they, you know, and this is this is coming from another another coach. This would be for an NFC team a couple days ago. They played Josh Allen and the Bills last year, and he said that in their game plan meetings, they’re going through the roster, uh, all the different positions and and they see a lot of, you know, C plus, B minus, B players, and they weren’t that impressed with a lot of guys I think locals are impressed with, but going into the game, they were still terrified of Josh Allen. they just they there’s just nothing you can really do defensively to go in and say this is how we stop this player that he’ll find a way. So as long as he’s the quarterback, simplistic as it is, that the Bills should own the AFC East bare minimum. I do think that probably continues until Allen’s rushing one way or another becomes mitigated. you know, like just the the way he can you could play a a third and medium perfectly and still lose because of him and his ability to run for first downs and then touchdowns. And I don’t know how how to predict. It’s interesting, Tyler, like he’s such a physical force. The Cam Newton comparisons are always made with running backs. I feel like we’re always just so eager to write them off because of their age. I mean, Allen doesn’t run that often. He He’s not like 300 touches or anything like that in terms of rushes, but with running backs, the age is always the thing. Barkley, even going into last year, always Derrick Henry. And I just wonder what the evolution of this is for for Allen. A couple of years ago, they wanted to rein them in. We talked about sliding a lot and then they were six and six and that was over. They needed they needed the production. So, I wonder just how that evolves. No, because I feel like if you if you play that game, uh, you’re probably overthinking it. You don’t Yeah, you you don’t want to neuter and spay like the greatest weapon that you have. It’s Josh Allen in full doing whatever the hell he wants with everything on the line. He’s probably getting better at like picking and choosing his spots, right? like he’s if it’s the first quarter against the New York Jets in week seven, you don’t necessarily need him truck sticking a linebacker, you know, that kind of stuff. Or, you know, obviously the leap over Anthony Bar comes to mind really early in his career. He’s cutting back on that stuff, I guess, would help a man. And I think Brandon Bean gets this and and maybe maybe Shawn McDermott does too. Like, you can’t try to force him to be something he’s not. I mean, this is a backyard quarterback. He’s he’s he’s not going to overthink it. He’s going to play loose. He’s going to be free. Honestly, I think that’s what drove Brian Dable nuts with the Giants. Like Daniel Jones is just the opposite. Like he takes everything so serious. He’s way too robotic personalitywise. Just so so rigid. It was such a swing away from everything he had with Josh Allen that um I’m surprised they lasted as long as they did three years and and finally maybe they get a personality match with Jackson Dart um if not Russ Wilson. So yeah, I mean I I feel like the Bills just kind of have to let Josh Allen, you know, pilot pilot all of this, steer all of this. He’s the one in charge and and just kind of maybe gently kind of nudge him the right direction and hey, let’s not truck stick, you know, the Tennessee Titans cornerback in a game that doesn’t matter. But overall, just get the hell out of his way and enjoy it as long as it lasts because I you I mean, Super Bowl windows open and close for all teams and all quarterbacks regardless. Like I don’t know. Like there’s quarterbacks who who couldn’t run worth a lick and all of a sudden they’re they’re out. They’re not contending anymore. Right now the Giton’s good. I wouldn’t want to slow him down at all. I think I think the Bills big picture. Get that. Works for me. I agree. By the way, what’s uh coming up next at golongtd.com? Oh man. So the today I had a really fun conversation with with Fitz Magic uh Ryan Fitzpatrick. And so obviously a ton of Bills talk. He uh looks back at 2011 that win over the Patriots just, you know, it’s wild. He went 20 and 33 as the starter and yet he’s beloved. I mean, you know, I’m surprised there’s not a statue or a street named after him somewhere that everybody here loves Fitzpatrick. So, we kind of get into why that is. He has some theories and my god, he played 17 years, nine teams, had seven kids in seven different cities, just an unparalleled uh football life. And he really opened up over the over the course of an hour. And if nothing else, uh, stick around or I guess it’s at the top of the the conversation. We talked about, you know, chest hair and back hair for probably longer than we should have, but a full analysis on, you know, where you draw the line. I I think that’s worth listening to. And and on Monday, I’ll have a story on the Cleveland Browns and what a team at what a juncture. Uh, they’re they’re freeing themselves of Deshun Watson, the player, if not the contract. Uh, but I think the air just it it breathes a little easier. It’s Everything’s a little fresher down there in Cleveland these days. Fitz is who needs that first idea with the different monitors for all the kids stuff. I mean, oh my god, seven. I got two. What am I complaining about? Very good. Tyler, enjoy your weekend. Always great to talk to you. Always enjoy, Mike. Thanks so much for having me, man. Good luck with the kiddos. Yes. Thank you, Tyler Dunn. Golongtd.com is the site. Dalton Concincaid, James Cook, any of the other bill stuff we’ve been harping on here uh for weeks and months. You’re welcome to weigh in at 8030550. Camp opens on Wednesday. This is Mike show on WGR. TJ Sanders officially signed his four-year rookie deal with the Bills earlier this morning. And with that, the Bills entire 2025 rookie class is under contract as training camp will start next Wednesday. And more second round picks continue to sign their deals today, including some fully guarantees. Seattle’s Nick Evan Warary and Bears Luther Burton. And then staying with camp as that is taking shape across the league. The 49ers have placed wide receivers Brandon Aayuk and Ricky Piol on the active physically unable to perform list. The Bison are back in action tonight. They are at home. They take on the Stormchasers just after 6:30. That game can be heard on our sister station, the Bet 1520. And day two of the Open Championship is in the books. 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May it not happen, but I’m I’m on record as this is the last year I could I can take this same season again where for all his merits, when I get and as challenging as this particular task is, if I get to January and I can’t stop anybody, what are we going to do about it? I’m drafting defense like crazy and investing in it like crazy. Certainly, no lack of effort has been made on that front. They’re going out and getting as much talent as they can this year. I mean, it was absolutely about that in the off season. Maybe it won’t happen. When I kind of was kidding with Tyler Dunn, he mentioned Patrick Mahomes throwing an interception in the playoffs against the Bills. It’s true that he never has. 131 attempts in four playoff games. Four playoff games. Nine touchdowns, no picks for Mahomes. He had a fumble in this last game if I recall correctly. They they’ve just got to figure out I mean to be a little bit harsh. What is what is the coach’s job? I mean, that that’s what needs to happen one of these years in the playoffs for me to feel I I think I’ve had enough of of this repeating itself. And last year, I did not feel this way. For this whole time, I’ve been very much in the camp of, man, it’d be incredible to make a change with the success that they have. Who would even think of it, right? I mean, I’ve just been more incredulous to the idea, but but last year, you had it all set up. You got Baltimore at home and won thanks to their turnovers. You you won that game, Denver first and then Baltimore cakewalk through the division. You you clinch the division literally on December 1st, I believe. I mean, just after that, all all you’re here for is to game plan for Kansas City. Like that’s that’s what there is. And I mean, not all, but a lot of it, you have the freedom to do that and to rest guys. You know, you could have played that a little bit differently. Teams rarely do. Still, whatever it means, you got to you got to get there. And last year was just la last year was the test. I’ll say this about myself as somebody that’s felt more incredulous to the idea, as I’ve said, of a coaching change here. Well, a year ago, if I had thought maybe we did have this hypothetical, we do a lot of that kind of stuff. The Chiefs have a terrible season offensively, no explosive plays, they can’t score, they’re averaging, you know what, low 20s, whatever it is, and and you get to that playoff game again, and they light you up. What then? Somebody could have thought, maybe someone did. Someone could have thought to ask that hypothetical question a year ago to someone like me who has been like, you know, just I I don’t know when I’m ever going to want to do this. I I’m not sure I ever will. I have a tough time thinking I’m going to go 13 and four every year and win the division, you know, going on near record near record streak and like want to make that kind of move. But okay, all right, tough guy. Let’s say you have another great season and you go to Arrowhead and the Chiefs kind of stink offensively and they do it again to you and you can’t take the ball. You can’t Well, they did have a turnover, but you can’t pick Mahomes off. You can’t get to him. You can’t stop him. Then what? Well, you have a point. And that’s that is what happened. Whether anybody thought to ask that question or not doesn’t matter. That is what happened. And it got me to a point where like I I don’t want to see that again. Enough already. You you’ve got to you’ve got it’s what what is it to say? I know, but you’ve got to get to the top with this guy, Allen. He’s he’s too good. And you should have years more time to try. But you you got to get there one of these times. Mahomes isn’t older than Allen is much that matters. You know, neither is Jackson. They’re in your they’re in your window. They’re in your face for this whole era probably. Burrow too. You got to figure out a way to stop them. Allen in the playoffs has been great and it has not been enough. I don’t subscribe to the but they had the ball with two minutes to go down three bottom line for this team last year. I mean it it it’s true, but 32 to 29. I’m scoring touchdowns in the fourth quarter, taking the lead. I I mean, I I’m getting enough. Well, I guess I didn’t I should be getting enough from their offense to um to think this way. So, I want to say both things here. I want to say, what are the odds that this all happens again, right? I mean, how many years in a row can the same kind of season play out? I don’t know what the odds are, but what were they last year? They weren’t so remote. What is the likeliest scenario this year in the AFC? It’s probably that the Bills and the Chiefs meet in the playoffs again. Mix Baltimore in. Sure. But there’s a top three or a top one and then a next two in the AFC. It’s it’s an interesting time with how predictable the conference is, which is unusual, right? I mean, we think of the NFL as not being that way, but for the last few years, it’s been very predictable. These three teams or these two teams have four times in five years they’ve met in the playoffs. That’s kind of incredible. And you can’t you can’t stop the you can’t stop them. You haven’t figured out a way to stop them yet. So, that’s all the topic was put on the table, right? The Mina’s clip about, you know, McDermott’s strengths. I don’t deny them. I just need to see that make the difference. The way Kansas City’s defense made the difference, critical moments in those games, that or if that’s not a little bit too cherrypicked, just the the overall takeaways and stops and sacks, you know, everything you need to put on a good day defensively. 8030550 for your calls. I’ll look again after this break. I’m Mike Schop and this is WGR. Welcome back. Happy Friday. Mike Chopier. Bulldog back with me on Monday. Bulldogs got to be in the driver’s seat in our pick 10 golf bet. Scotty Sheoffller up top. He might have enough contenders to be wanting to root against Sheffler because Sheffller only pays him half the money. The top favorites, you only win half of the bet. So, I don’t expect you to all have this memorized. Maroy is the same and he’s also in contention. 12th. He’s 12th, but he’s seven back. I don’t know if Sheffler being on top means nobody else is in contention. It’s starting to feel that way. But best case for Bulldog would be Hatton or McIntyre win or somebody from farther back. Nine of his 10 guys made the cut. That’s pretty good. Dashambo was seven over yesterday but shot six under today to make the cut. I think he made it plus one. Um yes, but he’s not going to win the tournament, right? So, uh we’ll see. He’ll be back on Bulldog, not to Shambo. We’ll be back in here on Monday and we’ll we’ll settle up. in what, an hour? Less than an hour. The Bison 6:30. I’m only pretty sure of that. I wanted to bring this up again because they’ve got a cool thing going tonight. A couple. It’s Christmas in July if you’re into that. But they are going they’re trying to set a a world record. The world’s most autographed baseball tour is in town and there is a 1,200 pound replica baseball out in front of the ballpark. I like how it’s replica. It’s it’s it’s 8 feet high. Like it’s definitely not real. It’s an 8 foot, 1200 lb minor league baseball. It’s got the logo on it and everything and it’s just covered in fan signatures and there must be room for Buffalo fans, Bison’s fans tonight to go down there and participate. Uh the gates opened at 5. So it says anybody in line before 7 will be eligible to sign. You’ve got time there. And so um that’s a pretty cool idea. a giant baseball right out in front. You’ll see it. You won’t be able to miss it. I’m pretty sure if you’re down there right now, I have a small autograph baseball collection. None of none of them are none of them is 8 feet tall. Uh needless to say, my favorite Well, I got to say my favorite is the one with my great uncle’s signature on it, Cliff Fannon. He died in 1966. in the 50s. He pitched in Toronto and I was at a card show there when I was collecting and found a team ball, the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team in the mid-50s and his name I couldn’t believe it. Like his name was on it. I only have two items that he’s autographed and again he was he was dead several years before I was even born. So I have to say that’s my number one. But one time at a show I bought a 1972 Reds ball and it was really cool. Is really cool. One reason is because oh I feel like I mentioned this recently for another thing. I hope it’s not too recent. it. One reason is because the the pen the autographs are like this red color like almost purple, but you know, still really attractive. And those are the days where when an athlete signed his name, you were going to be able to read it. That has long since passed. Every there are there’s the rare exception, I guess, but pretty much every Sabers autograph I’ve seen in the last 20 years is ridiculous. It’s I mean, it’s it’s not even anything. You could never guess who it is by looking at the autograph. It shouldn’t even be called an autograph, but you know, Johnny Bch, Pete Rose, George Foster, all all the big reds. And you know, that’s the era of the big red machine. 72 was in 75. That’s when they won and 76, but it’s still great. And when I bought it, not wasn’t like I don’t remember being super expensive. The the seller, it was at a show and the seller told me, “There’s one issue with this ball. It doesn’t have Joe Morgan. You’ve got everybody from the 72, Sparky, everybody from that team except Joe Morgan who was in the Hall of Fame. And I had the thought for several years that I could maybe get Joe Morgan somewhere sometime, but I’d need the problem I had, the bigger problem I thought I had was the color of the pen because I wouldn’t want him to use like a blue ballpoint pen or something like this. All the other signatures are like this bright red color. So, I need to find a red pen and I need to find Joe Morgan. Well, Joe Morgan died, so I’m not going to find Joe Morgan. And then I guess I’m probably never going to need a red pen because it would have it would have been not worth doing in my opinion if it didn’t look right. And you know, sure, the autograph would have come 40 to 50 years later. Well, that’s not a problem, though. It might have looked different. Signing your name probably looks different when you’re 70 than when you’re 30. Uh but still, it would have been him. Anyway, again, that’s out. So, that’s my I’d have to call that 1A1B. The one with my great uncle signature has to be included. Has to be at the top of the list. And then, um, that Red’s ball. I also have a couple of mid80s Mets balls, which are cool to me because that was my team. 85 86 Mets. Uh, I have one of each and everybody’s on there. Still auto the signatures look great. Carter, who died at 50, died young. uh just that’s that’s maybe my all-time favorite team, so I’ve got to have them represented if I’m going to collect anybody. I mean, I wasn’t a fan of the 1955 uh Toronto Maple Leafs, but I would have been if my great uncle was pitching on the team, I would have that would have been my favorite team, right? Is that how we do it? If if Bulldog’s son had played for the Leafs, I think Bulldog moves over to the Leafs. Feel like that has to happen. You can’t just root for the Sabres over your son’s team. No, those are the rules. That’s That’s maybe the only thing that would be respectable for you to change is if you had a relative, a family member playing for the other team, then I think it’s okay. Otherwise, it’s probably not okay. If you missed Brian Kosial with me breaking down Scotty Sheffller and the Open Championship, check it out on the Odyssey app. He was on at 4 today. We did some golf in a diff different style I guess of conversation with Sam Pani from Bet Bet Sweats Odyssey Sports Betting Insider and we got into some Bill stuff and NFL futures with Sam as usual. That conversation is coming up next. I’m Mike Schop. Thanks for listening. This is WGR. All right.

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