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00:00but last night it was supposed to be the marquee matchup of the week in the national football
00:04league very high total we're going to get a lot of points and instead yeah we got it done last
00:09night bad weather i think that that's probably one of the reasons why you see this final score of 12
00:15to 6 yesterday effectively putting the 49ers season to bed and the ram season marches on
00:22san francisco just had all kinds of problems offensively in the rain in their own building
00:28especially in the first half and the rams did just enough in the second half to win the game
00:33including some catches from puka nakua and some running from kyron williams and sean mcveigh the
00:40head coach of the rams is pretty much aware his team has been doing it and winning in a lot of
00:44different ways last week it was on offense this week it was on defense you know what a job by our
00:50group tonight so much respect for the 49ers and i think what's really cool is this team has found a
00:56bunch of different ways to be able to win football games you come off a 44 42 game the other day
01:01and then you went 12 to 6 and you know our group did what they needed to do to be able to get it
01:06done and the defense just felt like they were coming up with you know stop after stop what a
01:11pick by darius williams what a great job by kobe turner getting a couple sacks really proud of josh
01:16cardi to be able to go four for four we needed every single one of those and then thought as
01:20the game went on you know we really struggled offensively the weather was definitely a factor
01:24early on in terms of some of the things that limited what we could do it was a lot more of
01:28an issue than i think probably what would have been recognized on the tv or even if you're just
01:33in the stadium but there were times when it did slow down and i thought matthew made the plays
01:38that he needed to make i thought kyron ran really tough we were able to sustain some drives it felt
01:42like we stayed a little bit more connected in the run game in the second half to be able to at least
01:47sustain possession and move the football get some first downs run some clock off and like we know
01:52we'd love to be able to finish those with touchdowns in the red area but um the niners
01:56they did a great job defensively there's going to be some great things we can learn from but we'll
01:59take the win and like i said i'm really proud of this football team yeah really good run for the
02:04rams now as they try and catch the seattle seahawks for the division as far as san francisco is
02:09concerned a very dismayed brock purdy after the game seems to be defeated and coming under the
02:14realization that the 49ers probably not headed to the playoffs this year yeah i mean it's it's
02:19everything man like our season and our guys you know trying to fight to get in this thing and
02:24fighting for each other playing for each other man so um you know that's what that's what comes
02:28with playing quarterback and being in this position you're trusted with the ball in your
02:32hands and and uh to make the right decisions in the right moment and uh something man that
02:36i'm gonna have to learn from for sure moving forward sunday everyone said you had to win out
02:41and that every game was a playoff game what are you feeling right now um i mean obviously this
02:47one hurts um and i'm just trying to comprehend it really still so uh don't really know what the
02:52whole picture looks like but uh we have a lot of guys in the locker room man that are going to
02:56continue to fight including myself for this organization and for our fan base and for each
03:01other more than anything to uh to finish out the season in the right way and focus on one game at
03:05a time and and uh see where we're at at the end of it so at least for the time being there's one
03:12player on the 49ers doesn't appear to be all in on the team Devondre Campbell defensive player
03:17for the 49ers refused to enter the game in the third quarter for San Francisco a very good player
03:23who they could have used in this one for whatever reason declined to enter second player we've heard
03:27about this Deontay Johnson was the first one a couple of weeks ago Campbell after the game not
03:33getting an endorsement from his head coach Kyle Shanahan and George Kittle they're starting tight
03:38happened with Devondre Campbell he didn't play and he went into the locker room at some point
03:42yeah he didn't said he didn't want to play today play today yep the coaching staff um he did when
03:49i asked him why he didn't want to go in so during the game or before no that was in third quarter
03:55does that create tension or disbelief or just disconnection on the sideline um not disbelief
04:03or disconnection like as a team that is one person who just decided not to you know play for
04:11his teammates and um i don't think that that doesn't like it doesn't make our offense look
04:16at it should be like wow man you know we're falling apart it's more of a we're like the
04:21defense hey we're falling apart it's more of a one person making a like mooney said a selfish
04:27decision and i'm with mooney on that and i i've never been around anybody that's ever done that
04:32um and i hope i'm never on anybody that does that again really tough scene for the 49ers
04:38overall meanwhile let's get to the national basketball association the complaining from
04:42steve kerr got a look into a final play in the game against the houston rockets but it looks
04:48like at least the nba is saying that kerr was incorrect in the last two minute report confirmed
04:53officials made the correct call when jonathan kamingo was assessed a personal foul on jalen
04:58green on a loose ball scramble houston wins 91 and 90 wednesday night against uh golden state
05:04steve kirk can't like this one the celtics are now 20 and 5 they beat the pistons 123 to 99
05:10tyler hero had 23 points for the heat last night against the raptors they win 114 104
05:15sacramento beats new orleans 111 109 de montes sabonis had 32 points in their win yesterday
05:21in tonight's nba no lebron james once again they're playing the minnesota timberwolves lebron
05:26is away from the team for personal reasons minnesota's nine point favorites the calves 21
05:30and 4 on the season they're 17 point home favorites tonight against the washington
05:36wizards why the wizards are 3 and 19 the pacers six point underdogs on the road in philadelphia
05:40and mvp favorite nicole yokich and the nuggets six and a half point road favorites
05:45against the clippers this weekend the new orleans saints are making a quarterback change again
05:50this time jake haener is their starting quarterback this week with derrick carr being
05:55out of the game against the washington commanders garrett bowles left tackle for the denver broncos
06:00has signed a four-year 82 million dollar contract extension to stay in denver odell beckham jr is
06:06looking for a new team again he and the dolphins decided to part ways and by the way the lions fan
06:12who taunted the head coach of the green bay packers uh basically had his season tickets
06:18removed and can no longer attend games in denver this was about matt leflore and went after him
06:24during a game not a really good scene regardless it's not what you want to do on the field all
06:29right the heisman trophy awards coming up this weekend travis hunter is expected to be the winner
06:34and he was the big winner on college football awards late last night hunters the associated
06:38press college football player of the year he got 26 of the 43 votes from a panel of top 25
06:44voters he won the walter camp award the chuck benarik award he's going to win the heisman
06:49trophy award as well virginia tech has fired their defensive coordinator chris marv they were 58th in
06:56total defense in the country arizona is going to hire a new offensive coordinator marshall's seth
07:01dodge and maryland's quarterback billy edwards says he is entering the transfer portal every
07:06single day a new player seems to be headed to that transfer portal as well big rivalry game
07:11in college basketball last night iowa state taking on iowa as the cyclones were six and a
07:16half point favorites they win and cover the spread they had a 52 point second half a huge game for
07:23curtis jones he had 23 points in the game texas beats new mexico by a final of 91 to 67 and in
07:29the big 10 battle between nebraska and indiana tonight we'll see what ends up happening nebraska
07:35is four and a half point favorites armies on the road against george washington the total is 49
07:40and a half let's get to some headlines here from tennessee they're reporting some record
07:44breaking sports betting numbers in 2024 their gross handle increased to 594 million dollars
07:51that's eight and a half percent over previous months 547 million dollar handle in october
07:57also set a record-setting figure louisiana lawmakers are considering how to tax unregulated
08:02i-gaming operators i-gaming is becoming supremely popular and a lot of people are betting on it as
08:07well bet 365 year in sports betting shows a major growth in women's sports very specifically
08:14the arrival of caitlin clark and betting on the w nba welcome back to newswire here on sports grid
08:21sam mcquillan is with us from legal sports report we'll dive into the latest news on sports betting
08:25by the way over at lsr that is legal sports report.com you can read about all of these
08:30articles that we're going to talk about sam great to have you here on this friday ahead of a big
08:34weekend of course in pro football one big game in college football but we're just a couple of
08:39weeks away from the biggest college football playoff that we have ever seen 12 teams are
08:45going to go at this thing used to be four used to be two expanded playoffs means more money and sam
08:52i'm guessing it means more wagering as well you're spot on craig i wonder in a couple years will we
08:59be talking about a 24 team playoff a 48 team playoff because it seems like you say the more
09:04teams they add the more money is involved and of course where there's more money involved there's
09:09always more betting money we've seen you know sports books be a huge boom for the industry so
09:15it's no surprise that they're expecting more money to be bet on college football this time of year
09:20than ever before you know you have these marquee matchups now instead of these meaningless bowl
09:25games in the past a lot of players would sit out or you know opt out of in favor of the nfl draft
09:33or enter the transfer portal next week you have smu at penn state go lions uh tennessee and ohio
09:39state clemson and texas these are big matchups between big fan bases which draw a lot of betting
09:45interest um and at the sports books uh you know one draft kings is telling me that we're expecting
09:51more handle than ever because people are actually going to care about these games and these teams
09:56really have a reason to play for you know you have more games just overall going from
10:01three playoff games to 11 that just increases the sheer number of games that you're betting on there
10:07um then the format itself you're going to have um the five conference champions getting automatic
10:13bids um as well so those those betting on those games was up as well versus just in the past
10:19we've seen some teams even sit out of conference championship games or rest their players
10:24um to stay healthy for the playoffs uh at espn bet they told me that one of those games
10:29texas georgia and then another one of those games penn state and oregon um actually saw as much money
10:33or even in some cases more money uh than it's bet on an average nfl game so we've seen this
10:38betting interest spike up it's only going to continue into the playoffs and you have more
10:43teams with a chance to win it all which means more people are betting on the futures uh for
10:47different teams as opposed to just you know one two or three teams and even in the selection
10:52sunday there was a ton of interest because we didn't really know who would be playing who
10:55we didn't know who would be making it which obviously has a huge um part in what ultimately
11:00happens at the end of the day so sportsbooks are really happy with the expanded playoff it seems
11:04like everybody else's so far um i'd imagine we're going to get you know more and more numbers
11:08continue to roll in as we approach the new year yeah and and a lot of people like to predict
11:14futures and predict who's going to be where it's a lot more difficult this year doing that not
11:18knowing who's in the second round of a lot of these matchups we just know the teams that got
11:22the first round by very similar to the nfl playoffs all right uh pat and i talked about
11:27this story earlier in the week sam and i know that we're going to expand on it as well you know the
11:31notion that there's some anti-trust lawsuit against draft kings and fan duel or one potentially coming
11:37really doesn't add up to me uh sam you know i understand that they are the leaders in the
11:40industry but naturally that doesn't mean that other companies can't get their footprint in
11:45what's what's going on here with this potential hearing yeah it's it's a really interesting uh
11:52thing to talk about right now as you rightly point out it didn't really add up at first um but now
11:57we're kind of hearing at least i'm hearing um the climate around this in the industry what people are
12:02thinking of it is really changing um a lot just over the past the past week you know originally
12:07it came out that the senators who really have had no involvement in sports betting were calling on
12:12a lame duck fdc and a lame duck doj to investigate these supposed antitrust claims from this
12:18one source document that this random temple law professor had sent out and like you you point to
12:24craig you know other people have options to bet on different apps there was really no evidence
12:28we've seen of this happening um but now a lot has changed we've no first of all i'm told that
12:36there will be a couple key witnesses at this hearing one being ncaa president charlie baker
12:41who uh while he did sign the bill to legalize sports betting when he was governor in massachusetts
12:46he's been relatively critical or at least outspoken about its impact on student athletes
12:51even calling on a lot of states to ban player prop betting on college athletes you're going to
12:55have a ruckers professor who's been critical of the industry testifying at this hearing
13:00someone from a company called epic global solutions which specializes in dealing with
13:05problem gambling they employ a lot of people who um are gambling addicts or recovering gambling
13:10addicts themselves who have now worked at really admirable to tell their story and use their story
13:15to work with leagues and sports books on solutions here but i'm told from industry sources that
13:20nobody representing uh the industry itself is going to be has yet so far been invited to speak
13:26at this thing so that kind of points us in the direction of maybe this is going to be a very
13:31critical uh hearing you know you don't know what will come out of that um more has come out in
13:37terms of the picture what the fdc will look like next year trump just appointed his new nominee
13:43that nominee uh is a former staffer of one of the senators who called for this investigation
13:49he also works for a law firm that does heavy work with one of draft kings and and
13:55fan duels chief competitors which does not do sports betting so that kind of leads us to
14:01maybe some breadcrumbs as to where this is exactly coming from at the end of the day we don't really
14:06know if it will amount to anything it could it might not but it definitely seems to be
14:10more than we thought it was at this time last week and i'm sure more is going to come out
14:14i'm really excited to see you know what flies during this this hearing next week
14:19all right well we'll update you on that next week here on newswire now let's get the latest update
14:24on the upcoming super bowl sam naturally because more states become legalized more people bet on
14:29the super bowl than ever before that was the case last year that was the the case the year before
14:34is there any other reason to think that will change this year maybe some wrinkle or new way
14:39to bet on the super bowl that i'm unaware of i feel like i've been doing long this long enough
14:43to know even back when they used to print out those sheets at the super book you know page one
14:48page two with page 20 just so many different options to bet but really in the end it's more
14:52states being legalized and more ways to bet that's why the numbers go up am i wrong no you're 100
14:59right craig i think what's actually notable this year is that we will only have one more state
15:04added to the list this year so in the past you saw you know four states 10 states uh you know
15:09a bunch of different states had launched uh since the past year boosting numbers up it's only
15:14north carolina added to the mix this year which is it's a big state but it's not enough to really
15:18you know boom handle in and of itself i think what you're going to see this year is yeah more ways to
15:24bet uh more people betting the rate at which people are betting going up as well and legal
15:29sports support we've kind of used the historical data of what's happened in the past couple super
15:33bowls uh to indicate the growth uh last year you had 1.38 billion bet which was obviously a record
15:40and this year maybe it can reach about 2 billion you know you have a lot of companies have talked
15:45about how they have gotten more out of their customers especially in older markets as sports
15:50betting has progressed we've certainly seen companies like fandal use it as a big marketing
15:55ploy they have their kick of destiny um it's a huge opportunity for people to sign up because they
16:00get a lot of promotions and bonuses tied to the specific event as opposed to a lot of you know the
16:05run of the mill five dollars get 200 bonus credit promos that they have done previously i think
16:11what's really interesting too is last year you know the public won on the money line on the spread
16:16on the total it was all in the public's favor but it was actually one of the best superbowls ever for
16:20sports books because of the proliferation of player prop bets same game parlays so i'm really interested
16:26to see how that wrinkle fits in this year where you know the actual game outcome really does not
16:32have a significant impact last year's kind of the first year we saw that so should be another
16:36interesting matchup this year you know despite whoever's playing in it yeah and and a lot of
16:41different props and we have great coverage of it here of course at sports grid fantasy shows
16:46regular shows and i'm sure you guys will be covering it over at legal sports report.com
16:50sam have a great weekend thanks again for coming on newswire i really appreciate it
16:54thanks you too craig