Rico Bosco tracks down his critic on Pick Em Week 7

Dave came into the Week 7 taping with gossip, and Rico wasn't going to let it go.

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Dave met a person from Rico’s past who had some not so flattering things to say about Bosco. So of course Rico had to get to the bottom of it on the show:

It's a very Pick Em bit. Dave doesn't just tell Rico that somebody out there is talking trash. He brings it up on air, during a college football picks show with a DraftKings logo behind them, and lets Rico stew in it. Rico can't let it go either. Instead of laughing it off, he picks up his phone and starts investigating live. Meanwhile the host on the right has a hand over his mouth trying not to lose it.

That's what keeps the El Pres, Big Cat and Rico Bosco version of the show going. The picks are the excuse. Rico still talks like the Staten Island sports-radio caller who got himself onto the show, and he takes every shot personally. Dave knows it, so he keeps finding new ones. Here it's a shot from a guy out of Rico's old life, delivered secondhand by his boss, and the cameras are rolling for all of it.

Things didn't calm down after that. The show's own account posted another clip from the same episode with three dummy alerts in the caption, and it has the usual chaos: hands in the air at the center mic and everyone leaning in to talk over each other.

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🚨 DUMMY ALERT 🚨

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Dave met a person from Rico’s past who had some not so flattering things to say about Bosco. So of course Rico had to get to the bottom of it on the show: t.co/ocPT2sAUJb

The clip doesn't say who earned the dummy label this time, and you could make a case for any of the 3. Rico got grilled about his past on air. Dave started it. Big Cat sat there and enjoyed it. So the dummy could be any of them, and on this show it usually is all 3 by the end of the hour.

Here's the good part for people who watch every week: the old acquaintance has said their piece, and now Rico gets to answer. If there's a Week 8 follow-up, whether that's a callback, a name, or Rico producing receipts of his own, expect it to take up more airtime than the actual picks.