The numbers told the story they always do.

It's one of those idiots who believe in analytics. This is a numbers game with Gil Alexander gone V-SEN. And that is how Sam Darnold won himself his first Super Bowl. It's exactly how it happened. Does this not been airing the last two weeks? I don't stop talking about it. It is a Monday morning. Good Monday morning to you. It is a numbers game at Visa.

These sports betting network, visa.com game plus IHeartRadio, YouTube TV series, Except Channel 158, Gil Alexander, back in the fold. Triumphant return. That's right, man. I don't know how many returns that aren't triumphant, but this one is. I'm pretty sure I said that, the promo on front. Did you? Yeah, yeah. Kelly Midland, everybody.

Can we just shout out Matt, Matt Brown, right off the top.

Matt Brown, fantastical. The man is fantastic. Two weeks in with you. I imagine you guys had a gay old time when you were here. Oh, yeah. The last two weeks. On the next numbers game, Gil Alexander makes his triumphant return for vacation. There you go.

There you go.

There you go.

I have a return.

Good to be back. Matt is awesome, as always. Thanks to him for being in this chair for the last two weeks. And holding down the fort. What other cliches could I use on there? But he's awesome. Yeah. And I hope everybody recognizes. Gives him his propers on that. today on the show, and I know you guys have probably,

you two probably discussed this

at some level over the last two weeks, but we're going to talk tanking.

For a guy, no one loves tanking more than I do.

Eight years ago, we had the whole NBA tankathon thing that went down.

Took incoming back then, Kelly.

People are like, what are he talking about?

Teams tanking. Now people act like that didn't happen. But it was. It was a very innovative sort of thought at that time. Now everybody in the league's heads on fire over it. That's correct. Eight years later, we're going to talk about NBA tanking teams. I will give you my tears of the 11 worst teams in the NBA,

where I think they are in tears of the 11 worst teams in the NBA, where I think

they are in terms of trustworthiness. And by trustworthiness, I'm talking about bizarro

trustworthiness, meaning trustworthiness to lose. Because we want to start brain dead parlays,

which we did eight years ago to much success. We're going to start doing that again here

on the show. Although there isn't really an opportunity with tonight's late. There's only three games, and one of them involves two tanking teams against each other. But we will probably start that in earnest tomorrow. But we'll go through the tiers. And by the way, these are just my, this is just my opinion. Feel free to disagree on the tears as well. No, I'm looking forward to the conversation. I think it's a, it is such a thing. I don't think it's ever been more of a thing this year. I can't stop talking about it, Gil. I mean, you were out for two weeks. It was two weeks of me basically in charge. You don't think we beat MBA to death. But yeah, this is, I want to hear your thoughts on it. And I think that there's, I think each team is a little bit individual.

So I think that's where it's going to be very curious to go through each one of them. We'll do a little history on it. We'll do a whole thing. Championship formula by popular demand. Our second iteration of the NCAA championship formula, we did one. Danny and I did one. I think when you were out. We did a NCAA Championship Formula 1.0 in, I think it was the two, a couple weeks before the Super Bowl.

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