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Well sports are pretty much done at this point until football starts... but don't worry we've still found a way to bring you some of that good stuff. NBA and NHL Finals recaps as well as some coaching/trade news in the NBA. Strap in for some extended NCAA Doomsday action here soon we're coming at you with force!

Some more NBA and NHL playoff talk! As well as our opinions on Dan Hurley turning down the Lakers' huge offer to be their next head coach. Are the Oilers doomed? Is Jalyen Brown really the Celtics' best player, per Jason Kidd? Is Carlos Alcaraz going to be able to last through his injuries? All this and more on this episode!P.S. Sorry about the shaky audio quality at times. I'll do my best to edit the lags out but some parts may be super sped up because of that.

The brothers are back just in time for Summer! This episode is a bit of a hodgepodge of topics because we wanted to cover as much as possible for the almost 5 months that we missed. NFL talk, NBA and NHL finals predictions, and why golf just hasn't felt the same recently are a few of the featured topics today. We hope to have you back (or here if this is your first time listening) for the remainder of the Summer! Feels good to be back spitting.

Just as we promised! The boys are back for March and ready for the Madness. In today's episode we cover what we usually split up into two different episodes: analysis of the bracket overall (seeding, placement, regions) as well as all 63 of our picks. As always, we're bringing it all for you guys in this one and hope you're as excited for the weekend as we are!

Happy NFL Playoffs! Today we give some of our predictions about how important home field advantage will be this Super Wild Card Weekend as well as our predictions for Super Bowl teams and winners. We also delve into some coaching talk for both NFL and Alabama's quick turnaround. And we haven't forgotten about college basketball either! Some of that in here too for those who are fans outside of March Madness. Enjoy!

Happy New Year to all! This is actually a great episode that gets into the weeds of the whole Florida State being salty conversation, so buckle up! But before that, we've got some unfinished business to take care of with the NFL MVP award as well as a few teams that surprised us and disappointed us over the course of the NFL regular season.

We're back!!!! After being gone for what seemed like an eternity (we know you guys missed us and were waiting impatiently for our return), the brothers have found their motion and come back to talk some football (with a little basketball and baseball sprinkled in).P.S. If you're still hating on Patrick Mahomes, you're a casual. That's all I'll say.

In this episode of FDRD, Matt gets into a long discussion about the frequent shortcomings of both the Dolphins and Cowboys, and how similarly their teams have fared against good and bad competition. Then, we cover the Bengals' convincing win over the Bills on Sunday Night, noting that this is definitely not the same team from the beginning of the season, and how there might be something brewing behind the scenes in Buffalo.Finally, it's time to explain why Michigan won't face any punishment regarding its sign-stealing scandal. They may have cheated to some extent, but it seems like other teams were in on it. Even if the NCAA does try to bring legal action, Matt gets into why this process ultimately won't work out. And, above all, with Michigan being one of the best teams in college football this year, any form of punishment would result in the worst case scenario for all parties involved... they don't make as much money!Hope you enjoy the episode! Please leave a review on the show and let us know what you like or what we could improve on going forward!

Welcome back to FDRD! It's been a while since the last episode, so Matt gives a State of the Union address to each of the major sports going on right now. We discuss the many reasons for lower scoring in the NFL so far, the first edition of the College Football Playoff Rankings and what's going on with the Michigan sign-stealing scandal.Then, we get into some NBA talk as the season is a mere two weeks in, going over the huge trades with Damien Lillard and James Harden. Finally, we end off with a review of the MLB season and World Series, with a special tribute to the upcoming start of the college basketball season.Hope you enjoy! Please leave a rating on the podcast so we can hear what you like about the show and grow our audience!

Matt is back to recap Week 3 of the NFL slate, including the Dolphins record-breaking win over the Broncos and where each of those teams are headed in the future. Then, we hit on the Texans and Colts who had surprising upset wins over much better opponents this past weekend. The Jets, Bears, and Cowboys all suffered bad losses and Matt goes over what the future holds for these teams. Then, we transition into college football, discussing Ohio State's close victory over Notre Dame, Colorado's loss (and why this is not such a bad thing), as well as Clemson's close loss to Florida State and why Clemson's future is in doubt if they are not willing to utilize the transfer portal going forward.

Welcome back to another episode of FDRD! Matt roles solo to recap Week 2 of the NFL Season and Week 3 of College Football. We talk about the Bengals' struggles and Joe Burrow's potential. Then, we try to unpack the Broncos unsuccessful season so far and how it might only get worse from here. The Browns/Steelers MNF game is analyzed to determine which of the teams are good, and the Patriots and Dolphins seem to be heading in different directions.Lastly, we discuss the two biggest stories in college football. Deion Sanders is changing the sport and Matt goes into the massive ramifications this can provide. Then, with bad showings from the SEC's best teams, we get into whether or not there is a power change at the top of college football. Thanks for listening, and we're continuing to grow the channel! Please leave a rating and review to help us grow even more!

Matt welcomes on a VERY special guest to the podcast this episode. We discuss all of the biggest news from Week 1 of the NFL, including Aaron Rodgers' injury and the Jets upset win over the Bills. We also mention the Cowboys dominating the Giants, the Chiefs looking mediocre, and the Rams surprising upset of the Seahawks. Then, we get into the two biggest college football games so far this year, with Texas' huge win over Alabama as well as Florida State's dominant showing over LSU. We hope you enjoy, and please rate the show to let us know what you think!

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comBe sure to send us emails of your craziest stories or experiences for an opportunity to be featured on the show!Today is the final day of our football previews (College and NFL)! It's been a pretty wild month but we're so glad to be able to bring it all to you just in time for the NFL regular season to start. We go over two of the best divisions in football today so you could say we saved the best for last... Hope you guys enjoy!

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comBe sure to send us emails of your craziest stories or experiences for an opportunity to be featured on the show!We're continuing the preseason grind with some discussion of some more under-the-radar teams this offseason. Will the Lions be as good as they seem on paper? Will the Cardinals have an all-time bad season? Is the 49ers win total projection too low? Find out our answers to all these questions and more by giving us a listen!

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comBe sure to email us your craziest experiences or stories for an opportunity to be featured on the show!Today is fantasy day! Always one of the most fun episodes of the year for us because we get to tell you guys how to lose your fantasy leagues... not really because I like to think we actually do give good advice. But yes, if you're in desperate need of some fantasy advice, we've got you covered in this episode. Hear about our general strategies, player breakouts, and player busts we see coming this year.

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comBe sure to send us emails of your craziest stories or experiences for an opportunity to be featured on the show!Today is day 2 of NFL previews and it's the same cardinal directions from last episode, just opposite conference... meaning AFC East and South. Are the Bills not being talked about enough? Will the Jets actually live up the the hype? Are the Jaguars and absolute lock to win the AFC South? Find out our answers to these questions by giving us a listen!

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comIt's NFL preview time baby... the brothers could not be more excited about the next 5 episodes of FDRD because they will all consist of previewing every NFL team as well as a fantasy football episode wiggled into the mix. We focus our decision for each team around their projected win total, but all other analysis is fair game and will be given! Today is an NFC day so if you see your team's division in the title, listen up! But also if you just love football like we do, peel the ears for that too!

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comBe sure to send in emails of your craziest experiences or stories for a chance to be featured on an episode!It's here. One of Matt and Hayden's favorite topics ever. NCAA Conference Realignment baby... Seriously though, this is one of the best, most informational and insightful episodes we've ever produced so we're really proud of this one and you guys should really listen all the way through if you're even a little bit interested in the topic of realignment. We literally cover everything from where we got started with all of this in general to how the Big 12 might actually be more competitive now even though they're losing Oklahoma and Texas. Hope you guys enjoy the banger.

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comMake sure to email us your craziest stories and experiences for a chance to be featured on the show!It's ACC and PAC-12 day! We were finally able to fit two conferences into one episode so here it is... only P5 left is the Big-12 which is coming next episode don't worry (along with in-depth conference realignment jargon). Will Clemson or Florida State make a playoff run? How about USC or even an Oregon or Washington? Find out about those top teams as well as the ones that may not be in the news so often in today's banger.

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comBe sure to send in emails about your craziest experiences or stories for a chance to be featured on the show!Today is Big 10 day on FDRD and we're going just as in-depth as we did for the SEC. We also feature our SEC championship predictions because we forgot to last episode smh. Where will Ohio State end up and what about Michigan or Penn State swooping in for a surprise come November? We break down all of it here today as well as the very underwhelming SEC West...

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comMake sure to send us emails of your wildest stories for an opportunity to be featured on the show!SEASON 4 IS HERE YESSIRRRR! Super stoked to kick off another year with months and months of football content. It's our favorite and what we do best here on FDRD so I hope you guys are dialed in for a great season! Today we've got our SEC football episode so you guys can know all there is to know about the possible contenders in the SEC this year. Get. Hype. Season Four Is Here.

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comBe sure to send emails of your craziest experiences to us to be featured on the show!The brothers are back in person and this marks the last "Summer Sports" episode before we get into our favorite part of the year... football season! But yes, this episode you'll hear our takes on NBA free agency so far, how McLaren has seemingly jumped Ferrari in F1, and some recap on things like the Open Championship and USA's first match of the Women's World Cup group stages. Hope you guys have a great start to the week!

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comMake sure to send in emails of your craziest stories/experiences for a chance to be featured on the show!Today's episode is a good one because we're finally talking about football again. Not quite our big-time episodes like the preseason ones we have coming up in August, but still some good content about the signing deadline and players getting punished for betting. Also please listen to our new segment towards the end of the show to hear us roast Anthony Davis just for the fun of it. Hope you guys enjoy and have a great rest of the week!

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comMake sure you guys send in your best and funniest stories for a chance to be featured on an FDRD episode!Today is a banner day for us as we get to talk about the PGA/LIV merger as well as one of our favorite topics... how unfathomably greedy the college sports world has become. There's a lot to touch on here so strap in and dial in those rather ravishing ears of yours because things get GOOD on this episode. Thank you guys so much for the support as always!

OUR EMAIL IS: firstdown.rundown@gmail.comBe sure to send us your crazy stories for a chance to be featured on a future episode!But yes, we are back after a 4-week hiatus and we're here to talk about the bigger picture for basically everything big that has happened in the sports world over the past month. Super excited for these new segments that I haven't even mentioned yet, but that we already have brewing in the think tank so I hope you guys are excited for those too. We're BACK boys and girls

The brothers are HERE for all of the Heat/Celtics jargon going on after the Heat finally pulled off the unthinkable in Boston on Monday. It's also time for a Stanley Cup Final that looks eerily similar to the seed-dynamic we have in the NBA Finals... Also, why was Monaco qualifying better than the Sunday race itself this past weekend?

The topic for today: why in the world is every conference finals series so lopsided? We have some answers but also recognize that this is about 1 in a million, so do some deep diving with us as we hash it out on today's episode. Also, will LeBron actually potentially retire and leave Bronny in the dust? Or might we see him play until he's 40+?

The brothers talk some NBA and NHL today (shocker) and discuss some similar problems we're seeing with the Sixers and Oilers in their respective leagues. Is "The Process" really over though? What do the Sixers do going forward without Doc Rivers? And why does Ja Morant continue to flash a gun on Instagram Live when he can just pay for all the security guards in the world?

Hayden is back on the pod after a rough few weeks of finals, but that can only mean one thing... Summer episodes! We're kicking it off with a mixed bag today: NBA and NHL playoff talk as well as some recap of the F1 race in Miami this past weekend. There's also a new segment at the end which we hope y'all will enjoy!

Matt is riding solo again, and this time we're talking about all 16 first round playoff series from the NBA and NHL! We rank them from most interesting to least, discussing hot topics such as the Heat upsetting the Bucks, Lakers topping the Grizzlies, and Steph's magic in Game 7 against the Kings.Then, we get into the NHL playoff series, featuring the Bruins and Avalanche losing in historic fashion to the Panthers and Kraken. We also discuss the drought for Canadian teams winning the Stanley Cup and whether or not that will come to fruition this year. Please leave a rating and tell us how you like the podcast!

Hayden and Matt are back on the pod together and in person this weekend! We finally get to talk about Lamar and Aaron Rodgers after waiting months to see how both situations would end up, but we also have some draft analysis to go along with it! It's a really great episode so I'm excited for you guys to tap in and hopefully some of our winners/losers from the draft will prove to be at least somewhat right LOL

Hayden brings on his good friend Ishaan Kathuria for his annual visit on the podcast because that's right... It's NFL Draft week! Strap in because we've got a long one but a really good one for you guys. More content than you can probably consume from multiple media outlets at once so sit back, relax, and enjoy the full first round Mock Draft by Hayden and Ishaan!

Hayden is back after a two-week hiatus! Huge shoutout to Matt for hopping on the pod the past couple weeks and carrying a full workload worth of content, Matt you're a beast. Anyway, today's episode has a full bracket worth of NHL Playoff picks (and yes, I know we're criminals for making our picks after the first game of the first round series, you guys will just have to deal with it). But hooray for a probably-back-to-normal-schedule month ahead!

Matt is riding solo for the second episode in a row, but it's definitely a good one! We get into what happened with the Mavericks tanking and league investigation, as well as the Pelicans disappointing end to a season in which Zion did not contribute. Then, Matt goes over the entire NBA playoff bracket and gives his picks to win each series, as well as a couple best bets to get down on. Finally, we end with some Masters wrap-up, discussing Jon Rahm beating Brooks Keopka and Rory McIlroy going another year without achieving the career grand slam. Please leave a review (good or bad!) and tell your friends about the podcast!

Matt is riding solo on this episode as we just witnessed UConn win the NCAA Basketball title in dominant fashion. He goes over how UConn ended up in this situation after starting the season strong but struggling closer to the tournament. Then, what a better turnaround can we have than closing out March Madness and having The Masters start in the same week? Matt goes over the biggest story coming into the Masters this week: how will the LIV players look in comparison to the guys who stayed on the PGA Tour? Plus, it's supposed to be a rainy one this weekend, so how will that affect the course and players. Hope you enjoy! Like and Subscribe!

Hayden and Matt are back on this fine Monday bringing you yet another full March Madness/CBB episode with a full review of this past weekend's Sweet 16 and Elite 8 games. The Final 4 is set and we're absolutely strapped in and ready for a crazy finish to what's already been one of the craziest tournaments to date! Enjoy!

What. A. Weekend. The first weekend of this year's NCAA Tournament did not disappoint at all! There's a lot to talk about in today's episode and we get to pretty much all of it so strap in! Historical upsets, higher seeds seeming to prevail, picks for next weekend and more! Enjoy guys.

The brothers give their full bracket picks for this years March Madness! If you're having trouble with any close matchups or if your toggling back and forth between any two teams while completing your bracket (which don't worry, Matt and I have gone through hours of the same feeling and still feel that way about some matchups), hopefully some of our insight today will convince you to go one way or another. If you're somehow stumbling across this and haven't even started making a bracket yet, don't copy us because your bracket will be busted sooner rather than later! Just kidding (not really), but seriously - Matt and I have put hours upon hours of hard work and research into making our brackets this year and hopefully you'll gain some insight from this episode! Enjoy!

Hayden and Matt bring you their raw first impressions of this year's bracket! They go over how they think the Selection Committee did with seeding certain teams, why the 1-seeds are/where they are, and of course, some first-round upset bids that are jumping out at us at the moment. Be sure to stay tuned for Tuesday night's episode where we will go through every one of our picks for the tournament! Enjoy!

The brothers are back! We're super stoked to kick off March Madness season with a full overview of the conference tournaments so far, as well as our picks and predictions for the remainder of the week (Power 5 + Big East). Stay tuned for an "immediate reactions" episode on Sunday night directly following the Selection Show! It's gonna be a banger of a week for FDRD, so strap in and let's have some fun!

It's just Matt on this episode, but we still crank out just over an hour of content covering a TON of sports! NFL Combine analysis for Anthony Richardson, Will Levis, Bryce Young and CJ Stroud. Then some brief thoughts on Derek Carr and his potential with the Saints. We go over the DocuSeries that have taken over Netflix, with analysis on Drive to Survive and Full Swing, going deep into what happened in the shows as well as some quick thoughts on the current seasons for F1 and the PGA. Finally, we get some baseball love with a discussion on the pitch clock and how that will affect the game time and scoring opportunities this season. Enjoy!

Hayden and Matt are back on a Monday bringing you all of their thoughts on one of the biggest weekends in College Basketball so far this season, as well as one of the wildest NBA trade deadlines we've seen in recent past. Plus, who what's up with the Bubble Teams in College Basketball right now? Last Four In? First Four Out?

The brothers are back for a little bit of a belated Super Bowl Recap, a discussion of where the new head coaching hires puts the Eagles as well as the Cardinals and Colts, and finally a debate on whether or not LeBron's scoring record will be surpassed in the future.

Hayden and Matt give their full Super Bowl XVLII breakdown and predictions. What are some things we're looking for from both teams going into this game? What do we think the media has gotten right or wrong through the past week and a half about this game? And of course, what are our final score and over/under predictions? Then, to round out the show, we have a little talk about the variability we've seen happen again this year across the college basketball season. Is this good or bad? Plus, Hayden takes a couple minutes to rail on the announcer that tried to say Houston is by far the best team in college basketball...

The brothers give their lasting impressions of last week's NFL conference championship games, whether or not Tom Brady will stay retired this time around, an appraisal of the recent NFL coaching hires, and a small conversation about why this year's NBA All-Star Game format may be detrimental to the organization.

Hayden and Matt break down the Divisional Round games and teams as well as preview the Conference Championships coming up this weekend. Also on the show is a discussion of Jaden Rashada and his unfortunate situation with Florida, including a $13M NIL deal falling through after he decommitted from UMiami.

The brothers are back with a Saturday episode, bringing you some sports talk outside of football. Today's episode includes a discussion of the NBA's ridiculous amount of scoring and resting star players, a state-of-the-game mid-season checkpoint in college basketball just giving an overview of the Top 25, and of course, an ESPN Notification Nonsense segment for the cherry on top.

Hayden's longtime buddy, Tyler Lancaster aka TheRealCoachLambo, joins the brothers today to talk everything that made up one of the wildest WildCard weekends we've ever seen! Matt tells us why Lamar might have been holding out this while time, Lambo tells us why he never lost faith in Doug Pederson and the Jags, and Hayden tells us why he saw Tom Brady and the Bucs falling to the Cowboys all along. See you guys in the Divisional Round!

The brothers are back with a jam-packed episode after about two weeks off. Lots of things to talk about today, we've got in-depth analysis of Georgia-TCU as well as the future of Georgia, some talk about NFL QB's that didn't make the postseason, and a full NFL playoff by both Matt and Hayden. Hope you guys enjoy and strap in for playoff season!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! The brothers are back together in person and coming at you with some banter about the Patriots and the Packers, a CFP Semifinal preview with betting odds and everything, and a discussion of the Nets' and Sixers' recent success as well as a prediction of whether or not they'll be able to sustain it through the end of the regular season.

Hayden goes solo dolo in this episode and talks about the crazy comebacks in the NFL this past weekend, Justin Herbert's situation, Tyreek Hill's take on the top receiver's in the NFL, a possible extension to the NHL regular season, and of course, Messi's much deserved World Cup. My vocal chords are shot. Hope you guys enjoy!