Podcast: Episode 43 - Dec 12th, 2016 (our first morning show!)

Today we rolled with our first morning show edition of the show.  Chris and I will be doing Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for the rest of the year, and we'll try and start a daily morning show after the new year.

Gary and Chris start out their first morning show with discussion about last night's Cowboys loss to the Giants and how bad Dak looked, Johnny Football showed up at the Heisman Trophy ceremony and met up with winner Lamar Jackson afterwards to give him some advice, the Grizzlies destroyed the Warriors Saturday night and have won 6 straight, Army beat Navy for the first time since 2001 and Donald Trump showed up in the booth, the Packers beat the crap out of the Seahawks (and Russell Wilson threw 5 interceptions), and we talk about tonight's Ravens at Patriots game.

WCE Friday Picks (12/9/16)

This week has been a little crazy, but we still found time to make the picks for last night's podcast.

Here's what we look like so far on the year:

Head to head against the spread on the best games of the weekend: Gary is 53-43-4 (55%) and Chris is 37-59-4 (39%).

Our college football gambling picks against the spread: Gary is 38-30-2 (56%) and Chris is 33-24-1 (58%).

Our NFL gambling picks against the spread: Gary is 13-14-2 (48%) and Chris is 17-23-2 (43%).  Over everything, against the spread, Gary is 104-87-8 (54%) while Chris is at 87-104-7 (46%).   Now, check out this week's picks.

"...hope is all a defeated fan can ask for."

- Chris Giannini (@ChrisBGiannini)

 The 2016 season in the NFL has not been its best... by a long shot.

Plagued with boring games, dreadful coaching, and worthless quarterback play, ratings and interest overall have been down. That doesn’t mean the season has been a complete waste. Teams like the Raiders and Lions have pulled themselves out of the gutter to lead their divisions and have been unbelievably entertaining. Their young QBs are both in the race for the league MVP and their offenses seem to be clicking on all cylinders.

Playoff will always be broken until major conferences move to 16

There is no right way to fix the college football playoff as it is currently setup.

NCAA President Mark Emmert told ESPN's Brett McMurphy yesterday that he would "prefer an 8-team CFB Playoff so all Power 5 conference champions are guaranteed a bid."

But an 8-team playoff guaranteeing all conference champions get in doesn't solve things either.

The move to 4 teams was supposed to fix the issues that the BCS brought by having only 2 teams, which was brought up to fix the problem of not having #1 play #2 every year thanks to bowl contracts.

Power 5 coaches are not leaving for other jobs

Oregon just filled their head coaching position by hiring South Florida's Willie Taggart.  Great hire - Taggart was the running backs coach at Stanford under Jim Harbaugh (so he knows the West Coast), and has rebuilt programs from the ground up at Western Kentucky and South Florida, taking both from terrible losing seasons early on, to big time winning programs built to last.  You see what Jeff Brohm was left with at Western Kentucky?  Yeah, the same thing will be there for South Florida.