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00:00as we get the ball rolling here on this monday with the big injury that we're
00:03still waiting on some clarification from which could affect the next couple
00:07of games including the christmas day game
00:09for the kansas city chiefs as patrick mahomes left yesterday's win against the
00:13cleveland browns with what they're calling is a high
00:15ankle sprain at least that's what they're saying for the time being
00:19right now it would appear that mahomes very much in question to play this
00:22coming week it remains to be seen if we'll be able to play on that christmas
00:25day game this came late in the game by the way kansas city was already up
00:2921 to 7 in this game a dominating defensive performance for casey for
00:34sure but the focus right now has to be on
00:37mahomes who said adrenaline got him through and could have probably returned
00:40to the end of the game but today we will find out his fate
00:46um yeah i mean it's hard to say right now i mean obviously you're still
00:49adrenaline rolling and um usually it's kind of the day after
00:52you kind of get a good good sense of it but
00:54um i feel like i could have finished the game in different circumstances
00:58um but i thought the smart decision um i think we talked about was to put
01:01carson in and he's played a lot of football and he finished the game well
01:04can you describe sort of exactly what happened or how you felt
01:08yeah i was trying to run up in the pocket i'm obviously fourth down trying
01:11to make a play happen um and as i threw the ball i kind of got
01:13hit and i haven't seen it but it's like someone hit me from behind as well and
01:17so i kind of just got rolled up on um it kind of happens at football and so
01:21um try to bounce back up but obviously it
01:23hurt a little bit um but uh now we'll just get after the rehab part of it and
01:26try to be ready for next week well it's not broken that's what i can
01:29tell i mean i just got off the field so you know that's
01:32so i'm i'm gonna just see how it goes i mean it'll literally be
01:35day to day as we as we go forward i don't know how much swelling he has or
01:39any of that so um or what will come you know from now
01:44till whenever
01:4621 to 7 the final as the chiefs just keep on winning meanwhile another
01:51quarterback injury in the sunday night football game
01:54as the green bay packers go to seattle and win by a final of 20
01:58to 13 a dominating perfor excuse me 30 to 13 a dominating performance
02:03yesterday as once geno smith left the game for
02:07seattle the packers just simply had their way
02:10with the seahawks no word yet on how long geno smith will be out but as we go
02:14to the packers matt lafleur the head coach said it was all about the defensive
02:19performance as part of our team effort um
02:23especially our defense i thought they played a really good game
02:27you know for four quarters got constant pressure on the quarterback got a couple
02:30takeaways it was great to have cooper obviously
02:34back his stat line was pretty impressive and he made some big time plays
02:37i think offensively we started fast um and then stalled in the second half and
02:42and didn't probably perform the way we'd like to but
02:46you got to give them a lot of credit i think
02:48that defense has come a long way i got a lot of respect for mike and his staff
02:52adding dirty um for their ability to get those guys
02:55to play and they play hard and they play the right way and it's a good scheme and
03:00so um you got to give them a lot of credit and
03:03um but i i also want to give a big shout out to our fans i mean
03:07i definitely was not expecting that many packer fans
03:11in the stands this is a tough place to play it's extremely
03:15extremely loud um and i was shocked when our defense was on the field and i
03:21could hear our packer fans so i definitely think that that made a
03:25difference for us so much for the 12th man cheese heads in
03:29seattle last night 90 points between the bills and the
03:33lions with the lions having a chance right at the end to come back
03:37they couldn't stop josh allen and the buffalo bills all day long detroit was a
03:41short two and a half point favorite of course this flew over the total
03:44josh allen pretty much cemented his mvp candidacy
03:48although jared goff had a huge game as well over 400 yards passing in this one
03:53tons of offense fun game well we wondered why the eagles were
03:55five and a half point favorites against the pittsburgh stealers seemed like a
03:59fishy line indeed it was it was very easy the eagles just crushed the
04:03stealers 27 to 13 really wasn't much of a battle
04:06as it looked like that was the right spread and the denver broncos
04:10sparked a huge fourth quarter comeback really led by the indianapolis colts
04:14running back jonathan taylor dropped the ball right
04:17before the end zone broncos came back from there
04:19and dismantled the indianapolis defense 31 to 13 they also had a defensive
04:24touchdown on a strange offensive play as well
04:26all right tampa bay buccaneers they go into los angeles and just keep on
04:29rolling baker mayfield and company speaking of rolling they rolled over the
04:33chargers easily 40 to 17 the final tampa bay has now won four straight games
04:38they lead the division if atlanta loses tonight that could be the end of the
04:41line for them against the raiders lamar jackson also had a huge game
04:45yesterday against the new york giants probably won't win mvp but he did throw
04:49five touchdown passes and the ravens easily covered the spread
04:52saints took the washington commanders right down to the wire yesterday
04:56last second touchdown gave the saints a chance to tie to go to overtime but they
05:02opted to go for a two-point conversion and did not get it so the commanders
05:07win they do not cover in that game by the way
05:10jayden daniels returned home and was happy to be in front of his fans with
05:13the win life comes full circle uh started my
05:17career here coming back and playing my first year in the nfl
05:21in the dome um it was nothing but love it was
05:25nothing but love obviously you know i'm happy that we won i don't know if a
05:28couple a couple people out there and saints
05:30fans might have some mixed emotions but you know i decided just to be able to
05:34play in front of them again houston texans capture the division again
05:39in the afc south it looks like they have put the dolphin season to bed with a win
05:4320 to 12 yesterday as houston did just enough coming out of there by
05:48to a tongue of ilo and not his best performance throwing a few picks in that
05:51one three interceptions for two one of the
05:54bigger stories that came out of that game
05:56is one of the wide receivers on the dolphins grand duboz who came in for an
06:00injured jalen wattle was hit in the head had to be removed
06:04from the field on a cart to a talked about going through those
06:07situations himself in the past certainly can relate
06:11um you know i i heard some good news that he's he's doing well he's recovering
06:17um but you know we we all know i i've gone through something very similar
06:22and that's you know that that's no fun you never want to be put in
06:26in any of those situations but you also understand
06:30that this is a physical sports contact sport um
06:34and again i you know i i just i just think of what i could have
06:38could have done to have uh not put grant in that situation
06:44dolphins this week will take on the 49ers absolutely season on the line this
06:47week cardinal season was on the line every game the rest of the way they took
06:51care of the new england patriots 30 to 17 kyler murray briefly hurting this one
06:55big game for james connor on the ground they cover the six and a half point
06:58spread hey the bengals just keep on rolling offensively
07:01they win 37 to 27 over the tennessee titans titans benched will levis
07:05in the game aaron rogers and the jets finally get a win 32 to 25
07:09over the jacksonville jaguars huge game for both aaron rogers and davante adams
07:14cowboys beat the panthers on the road 30 to 14
07:17and of course saturday night in case you missed it travis hunter ended up winning
07:20the heisman trophy award so congratulations to
07:23him pretty easy call there notre dame making
07:25announcement yesterday that they have extended marcus freeman
07:29their head coach as they get ready to play
07:30in the college football bowl game with a statement yesterday saying
07:34the investment they continue to pour into our program is
07:36invaluable to our student athletes the commitment goes well beyond
07:42myself meanwhile notre dame is going to get their running back back for the
07:45college football playoff coming up this weekend jeremiah love howard cross the
07:48third they will play in south bend against
07:50indiana the army navy game army was a six and a half point favorite
07:54didn't matter at all navy went in and dismantled army 31 to 13
08:00and i don't know why but marshall has opted out of their bowl game against
08:04army losing a bunch of players to the transfer portal so louisiana tech is
08:07going to fill in to play army in their bowl game and also michael
08:11van buren has committed to lsu after leaving mississippi state in the
08:15nba last night lebron james returned and he helped the lakers beat the
08:19grizzlies by a final of 116 to 110 the mavs win a 143 to 133
08:27game with luca having 45 points yes welcome back to newswire here on
08:31sports grid happy holidays to those of you who are watching let's bring in
08:35pat evans from legal sports report he's getting ready for these big bowl games
08:39coming up college basketball season underway pat great to have you back here
08:42on newswire really interesting report that you
08:45guys had last week about this congressional hearing that's coming up
08:48i've been waiting for a story like this and and to pop where
08:52they're going to review the congress they want to review everything that's
08:56happened since sports betting has been legalized and so do the good things
09:00that have happened the bad things that have happened i think this is really
09:02important to take a look back and it seems like that's what they're going to
09:05do i've been waiting on this one yeah this is uh really not a surprise i
09:09think to anybody who pays attention to the industry
09:12um i mean if you listen to legal sports report podcast which i suggest everyone
09:17do even though it might take you away from
09:18the grid uh you know we adam and matt brown have been talking about this
09:24for a couple years now about how eventually
09:27all the little tiny bad things that have popped up and made
09:30you know little news nuggets will kind of snowball and turn into something that
09:35the you know u.s lawmakers need to pay attention to
09:38and of course that you know they often brought up how
09:41you know on big poster boards you'll have the
09:45kind of sometimes problematic tweets from sports betting accounts and
09:48and things that bring responsible gambling uh really into the limelight
09:53and i think tuesday might be the first time we see this
09:56in reality um this year has been kind of a tough year
10:00in terms of news for the industry uh you know a lot of negative things
10:04from the scandals like the otani scandal to the
10:08alabama baseball scandal to all these things
10:11continued uh scrutiny on the responsible gambling
10:15and maybe lack thereof measures that lawmakers kind of wish
10:19there were more of um all these kind of things
10:22the glut of advertising that people who don't maybe sports bet or don't like
10:27sports betting kind of get annoyed at and all of this has kind of bubbled up
10:31snowballed made u.s lawmakers pay attention of
10:34course you know we have a fairly significant piece of legislation called
10:38the safe bet act that was written by senator richard
10:41blumenthal and representative paul tonko um to kind of really put in a big
10:46framework of advertising guidelines to kind of
10:50really make more robust responsible gambling
10:53requirements to the nationwide you know situation um then of course we
10:57have senator lee and senator welsh who have sent a letter to the
11:01federal trade commission this month to say hey
11:04let's look at the anti-competitive measures that uh
11:07fandula and draft kings might be doing and all of this again just kind of
11:11snowballed so sure enough senator dick durbin has
11:14called a congressional hearing for tomorrow 10 a.m
11:17uh in the senate judiciary committee that will just kind of take a look
11:22um i don't know yet kind of how many witnesses we're going to go through how
11:26many kind of things we're going to be looking at specifically
11:29but you can you can be sure that it'll kind of
11:32take a huge peek under the rug at this industry and see
11:36you know exactly what's going on and how you know maybe the u.s government can
11:41affect it um and this is a heavy hitting uh
11:44committee by the way i mean you just look at the list of legislators that are
11:47on it you've got dick durbin and richard
11:49blumenthal you have lindsey graham amy klobuchar
11:52chris coons cory booker chuck grassley john cronin
11:56josh holly ted cruz um it's a you know kind of a who's who of senators that
12:01have been on the national stage at least somewhat in the last couple of years
12:04and you know this is going to be something that to watch and
12:08and say huh i wonder what's going on i of course i'm a political nerd i love
12:12these things especially you know in the last year or so we've had some
12:15weird ufo ones um that are kind of fun to watch so this
12:18kind of could be a similar thing that that kind of keeps uh the news going are
12:23there going to be some negative clips coming out of about the sports and
12:26sports betting industry that'll hit the mainstream media
12:29very likely um so i would be prepared uh for that
12:32if you're a big sports betting fan yeah i think we'll get all of that and you
12:36can read more about it at legal sports support as pat said check out their
12:39podcast as well okay some news with 2026 or 25 coming
12:44maybe for 26 is what i was sort of alluding to south carolina
12:48maybe a new sports betting bill possible being put on the ballot i see
12:52some interesting tax numbers too reasonable by the way
12:56for state of south carolina i think 12 and a half percent tax if they get this
12:59push through very preliminary and i would guess pat if this does
13:03happen it would be more for 2026 but maybe past
13:06next year does that sound right yeah i think i mean yeah so a new
13:09bill coming out it is bipartisan it's got a republican and a democratic
13:13sponsor so that's promising in itself because of course as we always talk
13:16about here it is a very bipartisan uh issue you
13:20need people on both sides of the aisle because of
13:22you know dissenters on both sides of the aisle
13:25now south carolina is one of those southern states that sees a lot of
13:29you know republican conservative opposition to gambling
13:33and as a republican controlled state that's kind of an issue in itself
13:37we've heard a lot of things you know there's rumors out there that uh
13:40senator lindsey graham of course he's u.s but he's probably the biggest
13:44political name in south carolina is against gambling so it probably
13:47won't do anything until he leaves office
13:51but also you know they're getting kind of worked up in states
13:54around them that have sports betting of course north carolina went live and
13:58i think that's going to put a lot of pressure on south carolina
14:02and i've heard from some proponents that it probably won't get anywhere
14:06until georgia uh legalizes which again you know that's something we've talked
14:11about ad nauseum the last couple of years of georgia coming close
14:14almost getting it done not quite getting it done they're going to be a front
14:18runner to get it done in 2025 does that make it kind of a situation
14:23where south carolina lawmakers say oh we can do it too this year or are we
14:26going to wait until 2026 after georgia launches uh we'll see there
14:31but yeah it's it's a fairly standard bill you've got you know eight licenses
14:34which i think is pretty sound for a state the size of south carolina
14:37to your point a very industry-friendly 12.5 tax rate
14:41with full uh deductions for promo promos and federal excise taxes
14:46so very industry-friendly i think lawmakers there are starting to say okay
14:51most states in the union have done it a lot of states surrounding us including
14:55our our north carolina neighbor and nearby
14:58tennessee have done it a lot of other neighbors are very close
15:01to kind of getting something done whether it's
15:03georgia getting sports betting done or alabama starting to expand their
15:07gambling um abilities uh or at least thinking about it
15:11nearing that um so yes south carolina definitely
15:14something to watch i don't think they'll get it done in 2025
15:18but you know there's always surprises out there in the political world and
15:21uh you know as i'm working on my my uh predictions over there at lsr for the
15:25holiday weekend uh week in our look ahead and look back
15:29stories i do think two states will get it done what two states
15:32next year i'm not sure but south carolina you know they're a dark horse
15:35and could all right so we'll keep them on our list
15:38for a possibility for 25 or 26 all right finally i gave this story a
15:43click over at legal sports report.com because it said that michigan
15:46wants to increase taxes in sports betting but honestly
15:50i felt like you clickbaited me here pat one percent they can't get this passed
15:54well why does fandul or drafke why do they not want this to happen because
15:57they think this will set a precedent for the future or something this is such a
16:00small tax like if if this is the case yeah i think i mean to some to a larger
16:05topic that we've talked about quite a bit is
16:07the industry is worried about tax hikes i mean a lot of states are talking about
16:12it a few states have done it like ohio and
16:14illinois after seeing new york come out with a 51 tax rate so
16:17other states are like hey we're missing out
16:19um and now you've got louisiana talking about potentially hiking it and now of
16:24course michigan uh and yeah to your point fandul bad
16:27mgm a couple i think draft kings did as well
16:30sent out emails asking their customers to write their legislators and say please
16:34don't raise the tax to your point one percent doesn't seem
16:38that big however you know it could just be a
16:42starting point to get the discussion started and then at some point the
16:45lawmakers start to hike it even more who knows it could go up maybe another
16:4910 15 if the amendments kind of flow in so
16:53it's something the industry doesn't want to you know kind of start
16:56thinking about they just want it to stay status quo
16:59and so michigan my state will be one that i'll be watching closely this
17:03legislative session around that bill all right pat thanks again for coming on
17:07news i really appreciate it you on the rest of this week am i gonna see you
17:10again or i'll be on wednesday hopefully
17:11celebrating the michigan state win tomorrow night so let's uh all right
17:17all right pat have a great weekend or week see you wednesday weekend it's
17:21only monday i guess i'm looking forward to that