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- 1:20Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.
- 1:26Speaker 1: I am Chad Moment, Content Officer of the Action Network.
- 1:31Speaker 1: I am joined by my co hosts, my bff, my companion,
- 1:35Speaker 1: my compadre every episode Professional Better Simon Hunter. We are
- 1:42Speaker 1: on the eves, the eves of the Phillies playing the
- 1:48Speaker 1: Asters in the World series. It's a week from right now.
- 1:50Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna be in person together. We can
- 1:52Speaker 1: we tell the fans where dude, let's talk about it.
- 1:55Speaker 1: We got it. A week from right now. A week
- 1:57Speaker 1: from right now, me you Matt Mitt show. We will
- 2:01Speaker 1: be descending on Lexington, Kentucky Thursday night. We're gonna hang
- 2:05Speaker 1: out with our friends Stucky to co host of the
- 2:08Speaker 1: Action Network NFL podcast with Raybond, which will reference in
- 2:11Speaker 1: the show. Then we'll be doing a live podcast. We're
- 2:14Speaker 1: super excited. We'll give more details about how people in
- 2:16Speaker 1: the area can attend as we get closer and as
- 2:19Speaker 1: we get them. But yeah, we'll be together. My man.
- 2:22Speaker 1: I can't wait. So I love it. I'm injocutingly Chad
- 2:24Speaker 1: the whole time. How we haven't been letting anyone know
- 2:26Speaker 1: that we're going there, And I just realized it's only
- 2:28Speaker 1: a week away. We're gonna get to this place. I
- 2:30Speaker 1: have a live showing. Two people are gonna be there,
- 2:32Speaker 1: which wouldn't be the worst thing, too loyal fans show up.
- 2:34Speaker 1: But by listen to me. Do you know how many
- 2:36Speaker 1: times I've done book signings where there can be two
- 2:40Speaker 1: hundred and literally one There was one book signing that
- 2:44Speaker 1: I did for the book I did about the Steelers
- 2:46Speaker 1: and the Cowboys, and I co wrote it with somebody,
- 2:50Speaker 1: and look, that was a best seller, one of the
- 2:51Speaker 1: four of the seven books I've written. But we did
- 2:54Speaker 1: a book signing in Pittsburgh. There were two authors there,
- 2:58Speaker 1: one guest. You never don't know what's gonna happen live events.
- 3:01Speaker 1: That's what makes them exciting. You can be completely surprised
- 3:05Speaker 1: or you can be completely tickled with sadness. I'm sure
- 3:09Speaker 1: you had a month's notice to all these people before
- 3:11Speaker 1: you went to these books signings. I'm just don't feel bad, peop.
- 3:14Speaker 1: If you can't make it the electings end, we're giving
- 3:15Speaker 1: you a week notice. I'm sure. I mean Chad will
- 3:17Speaker 1: do other live events, will meet people. I know people
- 3:19Speaker 1: always ask like can we get a drinks and meeting
- 3:21Speaker 1: you guys. We'll figure something out. This is more like
- 3:25Speaker 1: this is about the volume, right, So this is through
- 3:27Speaker 1: the volume. This is where we're all going there. So
- 3:30Speaker 1: Matt Mitch once lets everyone know. The Favorites episodes will
- 3:32Speaker 1: be done as normal. We'll still be putting out the
- 3:34Speaker 1: show Thursday Friday morning. Hey, thanks Chad and Simon. I'll
- 3:38Speaker 1: jump in here for the logistics. So next week Chad,
- 3:42Speaker 1: Simon and I are heading to Lexington, Kentucky for the
- 3:46Speaker 1: Breeders Cup. Here's the deal with the schedule for the show. Tuesday,
- 3:50Speaker 1: no changes. Will release the show like we always do
- 3:53Speaker 1: late Tuesday into Wednesday morning. That show will also record
- 3:57Speaker 1: live on AMP just after one thirty pm in the afternoon.
- 4:01Speaker 1: Then on Thursday, we're all gonna fly to Lexington. We
- 4:06Speaker 1: will record together in some hotel room. That again, the
- 4:09Speaker 1: podcast version exactly the same, will come out late Thursday
- 4:13Speaker 1: into Friday morning, same as always. That show will also
- 4:16Speaker 1: release live on AMP to PM Eastern time. That would
- 4:21Speaker 1: be my guest right now. Then we'll have a bonus
- 4:24Speaker 1: podcast episode that will record in person in Lexington for
- 4:29Speaker 1: the Breeders Cup will cover NFL Stuff, World Series Stuff.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Breeders Cup Stuff will record that and then release it
- 4:35Speaker 1: immediately upon completion. Should be somewhere around noon Eastern next
- 4:40Speaker 1: week if you don't care about AMP podcast will have
- 4:42Speaker 1: its normal episode out late Tuesday into Wednesday, late Thursday
- 4:47Speaker 1: into Friday, and a bonus episode Friday afternoon from Lexington,
- 4:53Speaker 1: So that's all you need to know if you're just
- 4:55Speaker 1: a podcast listener, will have a Wednesday morning, a Friday morning,
- 4:59Speaker 1: and a Friday after neon bonus episode. Doing doing a
- 5:02Speaker 1: live show, obviously, we'll be able to meet some people
- 5:04Speaker 1: in the local area. I think we'll be pretty cool
- 5:06Speaker 1: to meet actual fans because for the most part I've
- 5:09Speaker 1: literally had I don't know, I would say eighty interactions
- 5:12Speaker 1: seventy interactions with fans of the show, just one one
- 5:15Speaker 1: bad egg out of all of it, and to me,
- 5:17Speaker 1: that's pretty good, pretty good numbers to start this thing
- 5:20Speaker 1: off with. Speaking of pretty good numbers, we should get
- 5:22Speaker 1: to the shows we gave. We gotta finalize our final five.
- 5:26Speaker 1: We gotta give a big ball better the week. We
- 5:30Speaker 1: gotta do some scooch Roulette. We'll probably do a money
- 5:33Speaker 1: line round Robin Parla. Not probably, we will, but first
- 5:36Speaker 1: before we get to anything, we gotta do surf cos Hello,
- 5:44Speaker 1: who's there? I'm talking somebody say? This is of course,
- 5:54Speaker 1: when we get some feedback from the professional betters who
- 5:58Speaker 1: listen to the show and they give us their take
- 6:00Speaker 1: on what we got right and what we got wrong
- 6:03Speaker 1: from the previous episode. Simon, what are people saying? I
- 6:08Speaker 1: feel like it was again this isn't gonna help, but
- 6:10Speaker 1: I guess our live listeners, so I'll just be brief.
- 6:13Speaker 1: I just gonna believe how many guys like the Bucks tonight. Um,
- 6:16Speaker 1: it feels like they're just betting a spot and trying
- 6:19Speaker 1: to be sharper than they're sharp. It's just I don't
- 6:22Speaker 1: get the reason behind it. But that was one of
- 6:23Speaker 1: the bigger calls I got, and I just told them simply,
- 6:25Speaker 1: there's no no world Me and Chad we're gonna have
- 6:27Speaker 1: a bocks in our contest and I got great spot,
- 6:30Speaker 1: but I just can't do it. So when they agreed
- 6:32Speaker 1: on us with um that I think you've come around
- 6:35Speaker 1: on it was the Cowboys again. They logged they talked
- 6:37Speaker 1: to us about it last week. Mean Chad or on
- 6:39Speaker 1: the other side. Look, we didn't play the lines of
- 6:41Speaker 1: the contest. I think this week we're gonna do a
- 6:44Speaker 1: big spread. It's looking like the Cowboys like I like
- 6:46Speaker 1: the matchup, Chad, Chad loves loves watching videos of people celebrated.
- 6:51Speaker 1: Locker room are getting mad about it, which I love
- 6:53Speaker 1: about old man Chad. Well, listen that the what you're
- 6:56Speaker 1: referencing is of course we talked about. Listen as soon
- 6:59Speaker 1: as we saw that Cowboys Bears line, we both agreed
- 7:05Speaker 1: the Cowboys were the right side. And then of course
- 7:08Speaker 1: I'm on the social media, I follow the Bears everywhere,
- 7:12Speaker 1: and there is a celebration from the locker room. You
- 7:15Speaker 1: had talked about what the Bears were going to be
- 7:17Speaker 1: doing that after that game on Monday night, and of
- 7:20Speaker 1: course there was a celebration in the locker room. I
- 7:22Speaker 1: didn't even watch the whole thing. I just slacked you
- 7:24Speaker 1: and Matt Mitchell. I'm like, fading the Bears. That was it.
- 7:27Speaker 1: I sent you the link and the fade the Bears.
- 7:29Speaker 1: I'm fading the Bears. I'm with you. So I knew
- 7:33Speaker 1: we were had a couple of calls of guys back
- 7:35Speaker 1: on that one because I'm starting to see a trend,
- 7:36Speaker 1: a little bit of a trend here of just them
- 7:39Speaker 1: behind the dip on Dallas, right, I think Dallas, they're
- 7:43Speaker 1: clearly really good. Like there's three or four teams NFC
- 7:47Speaker 1: that are just performing really well. I mean, there's no
- 7:50Speaker 1: denying at this point. The Cowboys have an incredible defense.
- 7:53Speaker 1: So I wasn't surprised getting that call again. We'll break
- 7:55Speaker 1: that down, mooards you go along here. The one they
- 7:57Speaker 1: want to stay away from, which I still think I like. Okay, Um,
- 8:02Speaker 1: it was Vegas. They see it as a good spot
- 8:06Speaker 1: for this Saints team. They think they're undervalued. Um, can't
- 8:09Speaker 1: talk to me out that one again. We'll talk more
- 8:11Speaker 1: about that as we go along here. But just surprising,
- 8:13Speaker 1: surprising here that so many guys like the Saints in
- 8:15Speaker 1: that spot. And then the one we have to take
- 8:18Speaker 1: apparently we can't not take chat Houston. We we we
- 8:22Speaker 1: thought that line was fishy, we thought it stunk a little.
- 8:25Speaker 1: We said, wait, maybe a better get some points back
- 8:27Speaker 1: on it. It's gone for one and a half up
- 8:28Speaker 1: to two and a half. Um Man again, that might
- 8:33Speaker 1: be and it might be our b B B B
- 8:35Speaker 1: Bed of the week. Um Man, that is. I just
- 8:38Speaker 1: couldn't believe it when they kept saying, so there's many
- 8:40Speaker 1: other options on the board, you really love that one.
- 8:43Speaker 1: It wasn't just like one or two professionals. It was
- 8:44Speaker 1: just about every guy talked to this past two days. So, um,
- 8:48Speaker 1: that's definitely we're gonna to dive into more because I
- 8:50Speaker 1: would love to hear you're out with that one. So
- 8:52Speaker 1: that have coming out of the call. The most confident
- 8:54Speaker 1: pick I felt was the Cowboys. Didn't hear much love,
- 8:58Speaker 1: um for our Cleveland picks Price. I think guys are
- 9:01Speaker 1: just scared to get in front of Joe Burrower right
- 9:02Speaker 1: now because he's playing so hot. And Uh, didn't hear
- 9:06Speaker 1: much love for the Jets. I think guys are like you,
- 9:08Speaker 1: they're like ready to get off the Jets training here.
- 9:10Speaker 1: So just an interesting week, a lot of pros because
- 9:12Speaker 1: there's so many home dogs home divisional dogs, which again
- 9:16Speaker 1: it's just very profitable to take in these positions. It's
- 9:19Speaker 1: really interesting, um, that you say that about the Texans,
- 9:26Speaker 1: because I'm starting to fall in love with the Texans here,
- 9:30Speaker 1: and I know we fall in love with the Texans
- 9:32Speaker 1: every single week. Um, but this is line enough to
- 9:36Speaker 1: be a really good spot, so we can we can
- 9:38Speaker 1: get into that for sure. UM, let's go down the
- 9:43Speaker 1: list here because there's a couple other games that I
- 9:46Speaker 1: want to that I want to get to. I agree
- 9:51Speaker 1: with the wise guys who are coming in and saying
- 9:53Speaker 1: they don't like the Jets. Um, it makes me nervous.
- 9:58Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the logic. There's two sides of
- 10:00Speaker 1: the coin here. Are you going against the team that
- 10:06Speaker 1: are you going with with the trend of playing the
- 10:10Speaker 1: team that got blown out on prime time and fading
- 10:14Speaker 1: the team that's on a hot streak that everybody is
- 10:16Speaker 1: falling in love with, or do you play the team
- 10:19Speaker 1: that is the home dog in a divisional matchup? Those
- 10:23Speaker 1: are the signals that were battling against and it ends
- 10:27Speaker 1: up being which one do you favor more? And the
- 10:32Speaker 1: reason I'm having a hard time is because these are
- 10:35Speaker 1: all the things that I look for at one time
- 10:37Speaker 1: playing against each other I look forward to. I think
- 10:40Speaker 1: the big thing that kept getting brought to me was
- 10:42Speaker 1: just all the Belichick. The Belichick trends first, that Jets team, Um,
- 10:47Speaker 1: they have had their number for all twenty years. He's
- 10:50Speaker 1: been in New England for some reason. They just even
- 10:52Speaker 1: when the Jets were good, they made all those AFC
- 10:55Speaker 1: Championship runs. I know they did beat the Patriots one
- 10:58Speaker 1: of those runs, but I think the Hris won the
- 11:00Speaker 1: division every year that that happened. Again, the Patriots have
- 11:03Speaker 1: just played well against him, Belichick. He's twelve and oh
- 11:06Speaker 1: right now against them last twelve times they played. I'm
- 11:09Speaker 1: trying to throw all that stuff out because I'm trying
- 11:11Speaker 1: to think this is the new Jets error, like they say,
- 11:15Speaker 1: the same old Jets him they got, they got the
- 11:17Speaker 1: players on this team. Um, it's it is brutal. Though
- 11:22Speaker 1: when you think about this is the time to fade
- 11:26Speaker 1: the Jets. I think that's where these pros are, right,
- 11:28Speaker 1: Like Chad just said, they're on four straight wins, four
- 11:31Speaker 1: straight covers, all his underdogs until last week, right, they
- 11:34Speaker 1: flipped to be a favorite. But I just think they're
- 11:37Speaker 1: still just being devalued by the public. Like the public
- 11:39Speaker 1: is coming and they bet the Patriots. Again, the pros
- 11:42Speaker 1: weren't saying they're betting the Patriots. They're just saying they're
- 11:44Speaker 1: not touching the Jets. I feel like that's a bad
- 11:45Speaker 1: spot to take them. So I don't know nothing really change.
- 11:48Speaker 1: I already did a teaser with them the Bucks because
- 11:50Speaker 1: we talked about on Tuesday. Bucks, you could have teased
- 11:52Speaker 1: him up the seven and a half. That was a
- 11:53Speaker 1: good number. The same thing with the Jets, Like I
- 11:56Speaker 1: probably should have waited, right the Jets are now up
- 11:57Speaker 1: to two and a half or one and a half,
- 11:59Speaker 1: But I just was like, you know it, I'll take
- 12:01Speaker 1: up the seven and a half. Matt Jones looks broken.
- 12:04Speaker 1: So they can keep saying all these trends, all these
- 12:07Speaker 1: things they want. I try to always take in all
- 12:09Speaker 1: this stuff, but I also have to trust my numbers
- 12:12Speaker 1: and trust this Jets team and the fact that they've
- 12:15Speaker 1: just been covering for me. They've been winning for me
- 12:17Speaker 1: and for the same things I like about him. Nothing's changed,
- 12:19Speaker 1: Like their defense is really good. Going up against a
- 12:22Speaker 1: team that's one dimension on right now, all you gotta
- 12:24Speaker 1: do is stop the run of the Patriots. You want again,
- 12:27Speaker 1: This sounds crazy to say you want Matt Jones throwing
- 12:29Speaker 1: the ball. He has been atrocious this year every time
- 12:32Speaker 1: he drops back. So maybe me and Chat will have
- 12:35Speaker 1: it in our contest, right, Maybe that that's how what
- 12:38Speaker 1: we'll do again. Like last week, we'll just stay away
- 12:40Speaker 1: from it. But nothing changed from me on the Jets team,
- 12:42Speaker 1: even though I know you're right, like this is me
- 12:46Speaker 1: staying on too long. I just I'm just playing the number.
- 12:49Speaker 1: And it's just like, who the hell are the Patriots
- 12:51Speaker 1: two and a half against the Jets? Like the Patriots
- 12:55Speaker 1: are we sure the Patriots are good? Right? Like That's
- 12:57Speaker 1: why I had to keep asking myself remember when they
- 12:59Speaker 1: played Green Bead with Zappi and like, yeah, they probably
- 13:02Speaker 1: should have won that game, but they didn't, and Green
- 13:04Speaker 1: Bay looks terrible. And then they beat up Cleveland, which
- 13:07Speaker 1: I don't know, Cleveland doesn't look like the best team.
- 13:09Speaker 1: So they're just I'm just I'm just a little weary
- 13:12Speaker 1: of this New England team, where this Jets team they've
- 13:14Speaker 1: been smacking everyone they've played, like ever since time in
- 13:16Speaker 1: Miami game, they've just been bullying these teams. So I
- 13:20Speaker 1: just feel like the Jets identity is more more tangible
- 13:23Speaker 1: to me right now than saying the New England Patriots
- 13:25Speaker 1: should just win this game because Belichick is twelve and
- 13:27Speaker 1: oh against the Jets number one. I've never seen such
- 13:34Speaker 1: concern on your face when we've talked about a game
- 13:38Speaker 1: you seem so conflicted because you believe in your heart
- 13:42Speaker 1: that the Jets are the right side. But I know,
- 13:44Speaker 1: how seriously would you take the opinion of other professional
- 13:48Speaker 1: betters and it is it is killing you right now
- 13:51Speaker 1: because it should be an auto player. I just don't
- 13:52Speaker 1: get it, and like, I can't to these guys if
- 13:55Speaker 1: it hits. But I'm not going to do that because
- 13:57Speaker 1: I try to be a pro. But geez, it feels
- 14:00Speaker 1: like we're missing one here. Uh well, look it, there's
- 14:05Speaker 1: I don't think we can put this in the contest
- 14:07Speaker 1: for a couple of reasons. I think there's way too
- 14:09Speaker 1: many conflicting signals to feel, you know, if we if
- 14:12Speaker 1: we if the contest is a reflection of our confidence
- 14:15Speaker 1: level in games, I don't think we have a confidence
- 14:18Speaker 1: level with the Jets that that will be higher than
- 14:22Speaker 1: five other games. Like there are four games that I've
- 14:26Speaker 1: squared that we didn't even put on the list on
- 14:30Speaker 1: Tuesday when we spoke. But I feel better about the Jets,
- 14:33Speaker 1: all right. So the other game that we talked about,
- 14:37Speaker 1: and I kind of want to take this off right now,
- 14:39Speaker 1: is the Falcons minus four and a half. So we
- 14:42Speaker 1: believed betting the Falcons and minus four and a half.
- 14:45Speaker 1: It was time to get back on the Falcons. Were
- 14:47Speaker 1: we bet the Falcons at plus six last week against
- 14:51Speaker 1: the Bengals didn't work out plus six and a half.
- 14:54Speaker 1: It was peak Falcons. We were wrong. We knew we
- 14:56Speaker 1: were stepping into it. This week, we got back on
- 14:59Speaker 1: the Falcons right away. I am very concerned about their
- 15:04Speaker 1: defensive secondary and that hey, they can't get pressure and
- 15:10Speaker 1: be they can't cover anybody. Now, Um, I'm not so
- 15:14Speaker 1: concerned about, you know, the Panthers beating them. I just
- 15:17Speaker 1: feel like, is my confidence level high enough on the
- 15:19Speaker 1: Falcons that I think this number is right compared to
- 15:22Speaker 1: other games that I like a little more. Okay, I
- 15:25Speaker 1: mean that's fair. Again, it's two divisional it's a divisional
- 15:29Speaker 1: game between two teams are just aren't that good. So
- 15:31Speaker 1: I agree with you, you you probably should take the points there.
- 15:33Speaker 1: I just think such an easy spot to fake Carolina
- 15:36Speaker 1: and such a letdown spot after such a big win,
- 15:38Speaker 1: so completely that the injury to the injury to yes,
- 15:44Speaker 1: who's an all Pro corner back to them, that's a
- 15:47Speaker 1: big deal. We talked about it last week. That was
- 15:49Speaker 1: a huge deal against the Bengals, so I'll ride with
- 15:52Speaker 1: you on that, right. I could stay away from that
- 15:54Speaker 1: one because there are a decent amount of other games
- 15:56Speaker 1: I like to this week, uh Lions plus three and
- 16:00Speaker 1: a half. Still love him, love him more than I
- 16:02Speaker 1: ever have. I've been tracking DeAndre Swift all week, full practice,
- 16:08Speaker 1: not on the injury list, Mamra st Brown expected back.
- 16:11Speaker 1: They're playing um at home. It's a bilow Sell high
- 16:16Speaker 1: on the Dolphins. Everything about this to me screams Detroit
- 16:21Speaker 1: rock City. Hello Detroit. We'll buy and I'll blame Chad
- 16:32Speaker 1: if it doesn't win. And of course I wanna be
- 16:34Speaker 1: on this one too. I'm just Chad knows. I'm fearful
- 16:37Speaker 1: of this dank gamble thing. Man, I do not like
- 16:40Speaker 1: what I've seen from Detroit these last couple of weeks.
- 16:43Speaker 1: They started out so well. I mean, the offense was incredible.
- 16:46Speaker 1: I know they had a bunch of injuries and that's
- 16:47Speaker 1: what really slowed them down. But man, it's just bad
- 16:50Speaker 1: vibes right now with a team that again, people don't
- 16:53Speaker 1: get it. If you're not winning, that's gonna take a
- 16:56Speaker 1: toll on you. And it's been a lot of years.
- 16:58Speaker 1: A lot of guys plouncer Troy team have not been
- 17:00Speaker 1: last year and this year included, so this has gotta
- 17:02Speaker 1: be everything game. That's why I'll rod with Chat on
- 17:05Speaker 1: it like again, this is this feels like this should
- 17:07Speaker 1: be it for Dan Campbell if they can't win this one.
- 17:09Speaker 1: But I've I don't know what to make of it. Um,
- 17:13Speaker 1: good number. Play the three and a half. We played
- 17:15Speaker 1: it every time, but Detroit that got to show it here.
- 17:19Speaker 1: Um again, i'mant Brown wo'd be great if he's back.
- 17:22Speaker 1: I think Chad nailed it. The Swift that's the big
- 17:24Speaker 1: deal to me. He is the game changer for them.
- 17:26Speaker 1: We've seen what they've been like without him, so they
- 17:29Speaker 1: desperately need Swift back and at three and a half,
- 17:31Speaker 1: that's great value. Um. I believe the lines will be
- 17:35Speaker 1: in our money line round robin underdog of course. Uh
- 17:41Speaker 1: all right, let's talk about the Seahawks. We haven't been
- 17:43Speaker 1: at minus three? Are they one of our five? Most confident? Uh?
- 17:48Speaker 1: Probably not, just because of the Giants are Giants are daddy?
- 17:51Speaker 1: Giants are six and one eight ts this season. In Chat,
- 17:54Speaker 1: I think our own five picking against them, So yeah,
- 17:58Speaker 1: that's the one one of you I'll stay off. But
- 18:00Speaker 1: if it's two and a half in the contest. Gotta
- 18:03Speaker 1: be tempting. Yeah, exactly, that's gonna really tempting. Taking a
- 18:06Speaker 1: short favorite there in a game that should land on
- 18:08Speaker 1: three like that feels like a good number. The Giants
- 18:11Speaker 1: are gonna be down ten. Daniel Jones will throw a touchdown,
- 18:13Speaker 1: the will somehow cover that three and a half three,
- 18:15Speaker 1: just because that's what the Giants have done all year.
- 18:17Speaker 1: So again, the luck metrics, I love them, follow them.
- 18:22Speaker 1: They're the number one luckiest team in football right now.
- 18:24Speaker 1: It's it's it's incredible what they've done with the talent
- 18:27Speaker 1: they have. But yeah, two and a half again, me
- 18:30Speaker 1: and Chad, we'll have a tough decision on Sunday to
- 18:32Speaker 1: make with the Seahawks are sitting there in contest, all right.
- 18:35Speaker 1: The last one on our list from the other day,
- 18:38Speaker 1: it's the Simon says we bet at Brown's plus three
- 18:44Speaker 1: and a half. It's now a three and a half. Yeah,
- 18:47Speaker 1: which we said that that was gonna happen. So what
- 18:51Speaker 1: is the trepidation here? I mean, I still love it.
- 18:54Speaker 1: I just I was shocked to know their pros are
- 18:56Speaker 1: on it. I think it's the Joe Burrow effect. Though
- 18:58Speaker 1: the guy is on a little bit of a heater
- 19:01Speaker 1: right now. Right they started out really slow. He's kind
- 19:03Speaker 1: of put it together and they've been beating up on
- 19:05Speaker 1: bad teams. Cleveland is viewed is a very bad team. Um.
- 19:09Speaker 1: I had a couple of people reach out about d
- 19:11Speaker 1: v o A. I'm the wrong guy. I hate d
- 19:13Speaker 1: v o A. I'm the biggest naysayer of d o A.
- 19:16Speaker 1: It's just the lazy man stat um. Again, this Bengals
- 19:19Speaker 1: team last year, d v o A, they were like
- 19:21Speaker 1: twenty they went to the Super Bowl. Dv A don't
- 19:24Speaker 1: mean shit. It's just a nice little parameter where it's like, yeah,
- 19:28Speaker 1: if I have a team that's the number one d
- 19:29Speaker 1: v o A defense going against the twenty nine d
- 19:32Speaker 1: b o A offense, sure that's meaningful. Okay, that's gonna matter,
- 19:37Speaker 1: But other stuff like that doesn't really matter to me,
- 19:39Speaker 1: especially when they're going off numbers of seven weeks in
- 19:41Speaker 1: a dd o A. It's like based off matchup schemes,
- 19:44Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks. A lot of stuff can get skewed that way.
- 19:47Speaker 1: So that was the biggest THINGE reach out to me about.
- 19:50Speaker 1: This is a horrible team. D v o A. Wise
- 19:53Speaker 1: the Browns go to get to high power offense d
- 19:55Speaker 1: v O A wise of this Bengals team, which, yeah,
- 19:58Speaker 1: it makes sense. The Bengals up it up a ship
- 20:00Speaker 1: ton of points and yards. The Browns have getting up
- 20:03Speaker 1: a ton of yards and points. They're not as bad
- 20:06Speaker 1: as their record has shown. The Browns again have lost
- 20:08Speaker 1: a bunch of close games. And we talk all the time.
- 20:10Speaker 1: I tried to get two freaked out about one possession
- 20:12Speaker 1: games because those are coin flips to me, and we've
- 20:14Speaker 1: seen in the Browns. I don't know if you saw
- 20:17Speaker 1: that clip with the Ravens, Chad. They called them for
- 20:20Speaker 1: whatever it was, off sides, false start. It was a
- 20:23Speaker 1: bad call. Like the band, the Browns probably should have
- 20:26Speaker 1: stole that game against the Ravens. I still think they're
- 20:28Speaker 1: being underrated. Where since he just beat the crap out
- 20:31Speaker 1: of Atlanta, it's just such a cell high spot on
- 20:34Speaker 1: an Atlanta team and a Brown teams that no one's
- 20:36Speaker 1: gonna bet. And I told you that a Monday night game,
- 20:39Speaker 1: everyone's gonna be chasing. You're gonna get a good number.
- 20:42Speaker 1: That's why I thought I would go back up a
- 20:43Speaker 1: three and a half. It moved quick, That moved quick
- 20:47Speaker 1: to three and a half. It literally went that night.
- 20:49Speaker 1: So um, you can keep waiting, maybe up for the four,
- 20:52Speaker 1: but I can promise you it's gonna be a pros
- 20:54Speaker 1: versus shows game. I know Pros are gonna come in
- 20:56Speaker 1: on the Browns. I know the public will have every teaser,
- 20:59Speaker 1: every money and parlay, everything tied to that money night game.
- 21:01Speaker 1: So it's just an easy spot for me to take
- 21:03Speaker 1: this Browns team. You hate d v O A H.
- 21:07Speaker 1: I think it's good though, if you're just if you're
- 21:10Speaker 1: lazy just trying to find quick numbers, I think it's
- 21:13Speaker 1: great because it's literally two lists and you're done, while
- 21:16Speaker 1: other people gotta do tons of work to find those numbers.
- 21:18Speaker 1: I have a question, but first I want to feel
- 21:20Speaker 1: some questions from the live listeners on AMPLE are sending
- 21:24Speaker 1: Matt Mitchell some questions in the chat. I would encourage
- 21:26Speaker 1: everyone to do that we can answer them live. Uh.
- 21:30Speaker 1: Is this a good game to bet live with the
- 21:33Speaker 1: assumption that it will end within three points either way? Yeah? Again,
- 21:38Speaker 1: I'm I'm the wrong guy for live betting because I'm
- 21:41Speaker 1: I don't do it because I can't really get that
- 21:43Speaker 1: much money down doing it. So that's why I rarely
- 21:45Speaker 1: ever give it out because it's like it's like the
- 21:47Speaker 1: ultimate cheat code. Yeah, there's plenty of times where, like
- 21:50Speaker 1: even off time I had the Bangle was playing the Ravens. Um,
- 21:53Speaker 1: we talked about the exact same scenario. The Ravens get
- 21:56Speaker 1: out fast and they played bad in the second half.
- 21:58Speaker 1: So the Ravens were up I think ten enough and
- 22:00Speaker 1: on the Bengals. The line, shall we up to eleven
- 22:02Speaker 1: and a half for the Bengals, right plus eleven and
- 22:04Speaker 1: a half? Yeah, I want to give that out as
- 22:06Speaker 1: an easy play. Of course, it's a divisional game. Two
- 22:09Speaker 1: teams are gonna keep it close. I think the final
- 22:11Speaker 1: score is Bravens by three. So divisional games like this,
- 22:15Speaker 1: I love playing live dogs, especially home dogs. Um, it's
- 22:19Speaker 1: always great opportunities to play these kind of things. So yeah,
- 22:21Speaker 1: if you if you just want to wait and play
- 22:22Speaker 1: it live always, I mean that's I said all the time.
- 22:26Speaker 1: Playing live is a lot easier than betting games beforehand. Um,
- 22:29Speaker 1: you can just find a lot of opportunities betting live,
- 22:32Speaker 1: but you're also getting a lot of trouble chasing. And
- 22:35Speaker 1: that's why I try not to give out live betting
- 22:36Speaker 1: because a lot of people get hurt that way, Like
- 22:39Speaker 1: they'll have a great more one o'clock afternoon, Right, they'll
- 22:41Speaker 1: win four out of five games, so they're ups, say
- 22:44Speaker 1: four hundred dollars. Then the next two games in the
- 22:47Speaker 1: four pms isn't going their way and they start chasing
- 22:49Speaker 1: and start using the money they had already won. That's
- 22:51Speaker 1: my issue with live betting, where it's like you just
- 22:53Speaker 1: take the l and move on instead of being like, no,
- 22:56Speaker 1: I'm right. This is why I'm keep hitting this live number.
- 22:58Speaker 1: But divisional games like this, I love playing the dog
- 23:01Speaker 1: especially I know what Joe Burrows team is. They're just
- 23:04Speaker 1: incredible second half defensively, Like Joe puts up twenty four
- 23:08Speaker 1: points and the Browns. The Browns have seven points head
- 23:10Speaker 1: into halftime, it's over. That's a dead bet, so that
- 23:14Speaker 1: I would not recommend. But again, if the Browns are
- 23:17Speaker 1: up fourteen nothing on the Bengals, hell yeah, coming on
- 23:21Speaker 1: the Bengals. You hate t v o A. What is
- 23:27Speaker 1: the stat that you look at as a better that
- 23:31Speaker 1: you feel is predictive. My big reason I think I
- 23:38Speaker 1: have a little bit of an edge on most books
- 23:40Speaker 1: is I'm really into d line playing offensive line play.
- 23:42Speaker 1: So to me, if you can go into different sites
- 23:45Speaker 1: and look at different run blocking schemes, different offensive schemes,
- 23:48Speaker 1: and then you go and see how the D line
- 23:50Speaker 1: performs against those schemes. Again, Pro Football Focus they have
- 23:54Speaker 1: they have good numbers over there. Again there, I think
- 23:57Speaker 1: that books just won't account for because they don't care
- 23:59Speaker 1: about that stuff. So Carolina last week, if you would
- 24:01Speaker 1: have looked at it, they performed really well against the
- 24:05Speaker 1: certain blocking scheme of the books. We're gonna run right.
- 24:07Speaker 1: The books could not run the ball, made them one
- 24:09Speaker 1: dimensional and that was a huge advantage for Carolina. Did
- 24:12Speaker 1: I nail that pick? No? But me and Chad were
- 24:14Speaker 1: simply You're like, yeah, you take the home divisional dog.
- 24:17Speaker 1: We weren't blindly just saying that, right, there's always gonna
- 24:19Speaker 1: numbers backing up stuff. Just do people really want me
- 24:22Speaker 1: to come on here and break down the offensive line
- 24:24Speaker 1: offensive line play? I mean there's other shows that do that.
- 24:27Speaker 1: So to me, I'm looking for edges and places people
- 24:30Speaker 1: aren't looking, and that's where I find big discrepancies. Again,
- 24:34Speaker 1: I missed a big time on um the lines. Right.
- 24:38Speaker 1: I had the lines graded as my third best offensive line.
- 24:41Speaker 1: Big miss I also had the Eagles. My number one
- 24:43Speaker 1: grade in Kansas City is my number two graded. Okay,
- 24:46Speaker 1: we see my Eagles future is my super Bowl feature
- 24:48Speaker 1: is great. On the Chiefs, it wasn't me just betting
- 24:51Speaker 1: their offensive line. It was more about you're giving me
- 24:54Speaker 1: my homes behind the best offensive line. And the same
- 24:56Speaker 1: thing with the Eagles. It's like I was Basically I
- 24:59Speaker 1: liked all the talent on paper, it was all about hurts.
- 25:02Speaker 1: So to me, if people want to know what my
- 25:04Speaker 1: advantages and what I'm looking for, that's where I really start. Honestly,
- 25:08Speaker 1: I look in the trenches and that's where you'll find
- 25:10Speaker 1: so much value because no one wants to look at
- 25:12Speaker 1: that stuff. It's boring, it's bland. No one talks about it.
- 25:16Speaker 1: But I'm telling you there's a whole little world inside
- 25:19Speaker 1: that offensive defensive line matchups that you'll be able to find.
- 25:22Speaker 1: You'll be able to find value in certain games that way. Um,
- 25:27Speaker 1: that's fascinating. I mean, I don't want to shoot on
- 25:29Speaker 1: d you a that. I'm telling you. If you're just
- 25:31Speaker 1: a sports fan, you want to look at something for
- 25:33Speaker 1: one minute, do it. It's the perfect lazy man thing.
- 25:36Speaker 1: But if you're just blindly betting. You're you're gonna ge,
- 25:39Speaker 1: You're gonna get screwed. It's public. Everyone has those numbers
- 25:43Speaker 1: and everyone uses that numbers. There's no there's no advantage
- 25:45Speaker 1: onlines simply betting d V O A. It's it's too
- 25:48Speaker 1: publicly known to find advantage. I just think it's nice
- 25:50Speaker 1: for a baseline. So that's what I don't want to
- 25:52Speaker 1: shoot on it. I know people use it. I just
- 25:54Speaker 1: want to make it my number one thing. It's fascinating
- 25:57Speaker 1: um For years, I know of professional betters they're watching
- 26:02Speaker 1: the second game of preseason, the third game of preseason,
- 26:06Speaker 1: years ago when there was a fourth game, a fourth
- 26:08Speaker 1: game of preseason. Not because they're betting crazy amounts on
- 26:13Speaker 1: these games. They want to grade the second string right tackle,
- 26:17Speaker 1: they want to grade the third string left guard because
- 26:20Speaker 1: at some point of those players are gonna have to play.
- 26:24Speaker 1: And they always found the advantage in offensive line play,
- 26:27Speaker 1: and whoever was backfilling, and if they were good or
- 26:29Speaker 1: not was going to have a huge impact on whether
- 26:31Speaker 1: or not they found value in the number. It's like,
- 26:35Speaker 1: you're right, Look, you're talking to a guy who's full
- 26:39Speaker 1: belief in philosophy about building teams is an offensive line metaphor.
- 26:46Speaker 1: When we were starting Action Network before it even begun,
- 26:51Speaker 1: Like I left ESPN, I'm sitting in the VC office
- 26:54Speaker 1: of the place that was founding it UM and we're
- 26:57Speaker 1: talking about who we want to hire and talent it
- 27:00Speaker 1: And they've got all these names on the board of
- 27:03Speaker 1: people who are high profile, who we know like sports betting. Again,
- 27:08Speaker 1: this is two seventeen, Like we knew these people like
- 27:11Speaker 1: sports betting, but they weren't doing sports betting, and they
- 27:14Speaker 1: want to spend this much money and this much money.
- 27:16Speaker 1: I'm like, you, guys, we gotta hire of the offensive line. Like,
- 27:21Speaker 1: we cannot put anything out if we don't have the
- 27:23Speaker 1: people who are making the decisions and putting stuff on
- 27:25Speaker 1: the website. I'm a huge believer in building a round
- 27:29Speaker 1: our offensive line. Again, people building out models, if that's
- 27:33Speaker 1: where I start a lot of my edges, Like I
- 27:34Speaker 1: look offensive deal, defensive line play by talk all the time.
- 27:38Speaker 1: If you're building a football model, the number one thing
- 27:41Speaker 1: is always gonna be quarterback. Like again, that's there's not
- 27:44Speaker 1: too many Giants, Jets teams out there that can hide
- 27:47Speaker 1: their QB and have it work for him. But certain
- 27:50Speaker 1: schemes can do that. So that's just something you need
- 27:51Speaker 1: to be a paying attention to. Right now, we like
- 27:54Speaker 1: the lines a lot plus three and a half. Uh,
- 27:57Speaker 1: everything else we're wavering. So to throw up some other teams,
- 28:01Speaker 1: I would not be uncomfortable putting the Cowboys in at
- 28:04Speaker 1: minus nine and a half. Yeah, auto play it for
- 28:06Speaker 1: me again. We touched on it where we like the
- 28:08Speaker 1: defensive matchup. We like Michael Parsons against the fields. But
- 28:12Speaker 1: the biggest thing is just this Cowboys team's defense is
- 28:15Speaker 1: built for the exact style that this Bears offense likes
- 28:18Speaker 1: to run. So to me, they might find an edge
- 28:21Speaker 1: and running right that might be where they look to
- 28:24Speaker 1: find edge. And the Bears, but they had the same
- 28:26Speaker 1: tape we all have, like you gotta bring you just
- 28:29Speaker 1: gotta bring the house to stop the run and have
- 28:31Speaker 1: a QB spot for fields and you'll be good. The
- 28:33Speaker 1: kid doesn't get it. You can't hold to the ball
- 28:36Speaker 1: for as long as he holds onto the ball. Now
- 28:38Speaker 1: you're gonna going to get the defensive line that is
- 28:40Speaker 1: a wall be the best on football at sacking the
- 28:41Speaker 1: quarterback and against the quarterback that holds on the ball
- 28:43Speaker 1: too long. So it's the same spot when we kind
- 28:46Speaker 1: of faded that we took the Cowboys against the Washington Commanders, Like, yeah,
- 28:50Speaker 1: it was more people all over the Washington that spot there,
- 28:53Speaker 1: like this is this number is a fishing number. We
- 28:55Speaker 1: kept saying, it's when slow against that d line. I
- 28:57Speaker 1: got that holds onto the ball too much number two
- 29:00Speaker 1: and holding the ball the longest right now, being great
- 29:02Speaker 1: out this year is fields. So just a bad matchup
- 29:05Speaker 1: for a Bears team coming off a huge win. Again,
- 29:07Speaker 1: we talked about being a letdown spot. You mix that
- 29:10Speaker 1: in a young team and in a great the young
- 29:14Speaker 1: team with a big, great win on Monday night game,
- 29:16Speaker 1: it's never a good formula for them the following week.
- 29:19Speaker 1: Now you're going on the road to play against the
- 29:20Speaker 1: Dallas team. That's just you know, getting after in every
- 29:23Speaker 1: game against the quarterback. So yeah, getting back no brainer. Alright.
- 29:28Speaker 1: Another game that I have completely fallen in love with
- 29:31Speaker 1: over the past few days, and we talked about it
- 29:34Speaker 1: on the podcast earlier this week. You asked my opinion.
- 29:37Speaker 1: I didn't love it, but I felt like we had
- 29:39Speaker 1: to do it the Arizona Cardinals, And the more I
- 29:43Speaker 1: look at this, I was doing some research this morning
- 29:46Speaker 1: on my own I was doing the research and then
- 29:48Speaker 1: I listened to Raybun and Stucky on the Action Network
- 29:50Speaker 1: podcast and they confirmed it for me. Um, this is
- 29:55Speaker 1: a different team with DeAndre Hopkins. And I said this
- 29:58Speaker 1: the other day. This team Kyler mur seventeen and ten
- 30:01Speaker 1: with DeAndre Hopkins six thirteen and one without him. Hopkins
- 30:04Speaker 1: comes back, goes for ten and three last week. Uh,
- 30:08Speaker 1: they're playing in Minnesota, team that I still think is
- 30:11Speaker 1: a bit of a fraud and has been getting lucky,
- 30:13Speaker 1: and their defense is dreadful. Defense is the last three
- 30:17Speaker 1: games they've had fewer yards per play than the team
- 30:21Speaker 1: they played, which to me shows the other team has
- 30:24Speaker 1: actually played better. They've gotten good bounces, there's a regression.
- 30:27Speaker 1: They are terrible at covering a number one receiver. Everything
- 30:31Speaker 1: to me lines up and I will say this. I
- 30:34Speaker 1: got a theory. We're about to enter November. Cliff Kingsbury
- 30:40Speaker 1: usually turns into the worst coach in the NFL in November.
- 30:44Speaker 1: What if we're living in a bizarro Cliff Kingsbury universe
- 30:47Speaker 1: where because he's getting DeAndre Hopkins back, and because the
- 30:50Speaker 1: Cardinals were so bad earlier the year, the Colonel has
- 30:53Speaker 1: actually become good. So I like the Cardinals plus four.
- 30:56Speaker 1: Love him, love him in the contest, love him in
- 30:59Speaker 1: the car test. We might have a bet off. Brother. No, yeah,
- 31:03Speaker 1: I flipped. I like the Biking. I'm so sorry. I do.
- 31:10Speaker 1: I do. I know they're they're they're getting you though
- 31:13Speaker 1: sharp track, They're getting you. Don't do it, Chad, you
- 31:17Speaker 1: know better. Vikings one o'clock at home. I should have
- 31:23Speaker 1: known better to get sucked in on this Cardinal's love.
- 31:26Speaker 1: Of course, they're giving us plus three and a half.
- 31:28Speaker 1: They want us to take this game so bad. They're
- 31:31Speaker 1: begging you to take Arizona. I guess what the public
- 31:33Speaker 1: is doing. They're coming in heavy on Arizona. Chad getting
- 31:37Speaker 1: sucked in the Hopkins hype. I'm gonna lose money on Kirk.
- 31:42Speaker 1: I've already accepted it. I gotta back it. So this
- 31:45Speaker 1: sadly will not be in our contest because there's no
- 31:47Speaker 1: way I'm taking the Cardinals here. I had a couple
- 31:49Speaker 1: of calls about it, um a couple of sharps on
- 31:52Speaker 1: the Vikings as well, but that didn't even flipped me.
- 31:55Speaker 1: It was just more looking at the day, and it's
- 31:56Speaker 1: just like Arizona sucks. They probably should have lost to
- 32:00Speaker 1: New Orleans last week. They got very lucky on two picks.
- 32:03Speaker 1: Six is before the half. They haven't fixed a lot
- 32:06Speaker 1: of their issues. I like the Hopkins move. I agree
- 32:08Speaker 1: that's a big upgrade for them. He doesn't fix anything
- 32:11Speaker 1: for them. On offense, they got major issues. So to me, Vikings,
- 32:16Speaker 1: full game, Vikings, first half. The Cardinals ain't doing it.
- 32:20Speaker 1: Dude off, we got a full on bet off. Who's
- 32:29Speaker 1: gonna be my bitch? I want to know I'm bet
- 32:33Speaker 1: off so I'm feeling good. Oh my god, I can't
- 32:36Speaker 1: believe I gotta have this much pressure on the game.
- 32:38Speaker 1: I've already bet the game, and now I gotta have
- 32:40Speaker 1: a bet off. I bet it too. I bought out
- 32:42Speaker 1: of my position though, because I was. I was with
- 32:44Speaker 1: you on Tuesday. It's like, hell yeah, you take the
- 32:47Speaker 1: Cardinals here every time, Like Kirk is not that good.
- 32:50Speaker 1: Their record, They're not what their record says they are.
- 32:53Speaker 1: But when you really break down the film and the
- 32:55Speaker 1: numbers on Arizona Chat, they are broken again. I even
- 33:00Speaker 1: when the Rams being as bad they are, I still
- 33:02Speaker 1: see the Cardinals finishing fourth in this division. I am shocked.
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- 35:16Speaker 1: want to get to the big balls. Well, I just
- 35:18Speaker 1: said Texans as you said big balls, and look at
- 35:22Speaker 1: I feel like that just shows that you and I
- 35:24Speaker 1: are having the mind meld that we always have except
- 35:26Speaker 1: on our big bet offs. Healthy relationship. It's true, It's
- 35:31Speaker 1: totally true. Uh, it's big balls better than week. Really
- 35:38Speaker 1: gonna take some big balls, right Chat, this this might
- 35:40Speaker 1: be one of our bigger balls bet of the week
- 35:42Speaker 1: of the year. Houston looks dead, they were People are
- 35:45Speaker 1: leaving them for dead. They they view them as the
- 35:48Speaker 1: worst team in football, which they might be mean. Chat
- 35:51Speaker 1: might be walking right into it betting against their divisional
- 35:54Speaker 1: leader in Tennessee. But I do think Daniels banged up.
- 35:57Speaker 1: I think that's real. The amount of professionals that reached
- 35:59Speaker 1: out to he said they like Houston here for that
- 36:01Speaker 1: simple fact of he's not healthy. Um, we'll do it.
- 36:05Speaker 1: We'll walk right into it. This is gonna be painful
- 36:07Speaker 1: as hell. Play the number here, people, two and a
- 36:10Speaker 1: half should not be what it is like. This is
- 36:14Speaker 1: this is uh another game this week. The public is
- 36:17Speaker 1: gonna view is free money and the books aren't your friends.
- 36:20Speaker 1: They're not just giving away money, They're setting you up
- 36:22Speaker 1: for a trip. So I like the Houston aspect. The
- 36:27Speaker 1: only worry with Houston is this is seller's week, right,
- 36:30Speaker 1: So you know, if you want to get the hell
- 36:33Speaker 1: out of Houston, this is the week you tank because
- 36:35Speaker 1: you're gonna get traded for the deadline this upcoming week.
- 36:38Speaker 1: But I I look at the match up, the scheme
- 36:42Speaker 1: this This Tennessee team just has not been playing that well. Again,
- 36:45Speaker 1: their defense is really but what's holding that team together
- 36:47Speaker 1: through a bunch of different games or defense just gets
- 36:49Speaker 1: the turnament makes the plays. Houston historically in this position
- 36:54Speaker 1: plays well against Tennessee, so so divisional home dog. You
- 36:58Speaker 1: can't take all of them, but this is one of
- 37:01Speaker 1: these where if I can't get the Jets in the contest,
- 37:03Speaker 1: you gotta least let me get Texans in. Dude, I'm
- 37:06Speaker 1: with you on this. I love this marking down. I
- 37:13Speaker 1: I heard a stat I think on the Action Network
- 37:16Speaker 1: PoID this morning that the texts the Titans are allowing
- 37:22Speaker 1: twenty one points a game and scoring nineteen points a
- 37:24Speaker 1: game and yet the four and two and leading the division.
- 37:27Speaker 1: That's probably what the Bills just beat the crap. I
- 37:29Speaker 1: don't know what I'm gonna This is not a great
- 37:31Speaker 1: football team right now. No, no, So I love the
- 37:35Speaker 1: Texans at plus two and a half. Year as you
- 37:37Speaker 1: were talking, hoping to get the three though, right, the
- 37:39Speaker 1: public will keep hammering, uh Tennessee. So if me chau
- 37:43Speaker 1: get three in the contest three and half, that would
- 37:45Speaker 1: be amazing. I gotta is you're taking a two and
- 37:46Speaker 1: a half though. Well. As as you were talking, um,
- 37:52Speaker 1: I went into the Action Network app, I clicked on
- 37:55Speaker 1: this game. I used fan to a quick slip and
- 37:58Speaker 1: made the bet as you were talking. King took me
- 38:00Speaker 1: about thirteen seconds. It was that easy. What number? I
- 38:06Speaker 1: took it at two and a half and a half.
- 38:08Speaker 1: I'm okay with taking me to two and a half.
- 38:10Speaker 1: Me too. But to the little listeners, I always want
- 38:12Speaker 1: them to whole to get the best of the number.
- 38:13Speaker 1: I do think the public will hammer Tennessee and you'll
- 38:16Speaker 1: be able to get the three. Yeah that's true, totally true. Um,
- 38:20Speaker 1: All right, so we got the Texans in lines three
- 38:22Speaker 1: and a half boys nine and a half Texans plus
- 38:24Speaker 1: two and a half. I will tell you right now,
- 38:26Speaker 1: I'm feeling more optimistic about this lineup so far than
- 38:28Speaker 1: any lineup we've had this year. It's never good for us.
- 38:33Speaker 1: Usually when we hate it, we do good. The Foxhild
- 38:37Speaker 1: bed for us the other day was minus one and
- 38:39Speaker 1: a half. Yeah, you hated it, Now I love it.
- 38:43Speaker 1: Let's do it again. That's another one where I didn't
- 38:46Speaker 1: break it down too much, but that was just mainly
- 38:48Speaker 1: offensive line defensive line. And I just think we have
- 38:50Speaker 1: a huge edge with the four nine, and after getting
- 38:54Speaker 1: embarrassed last week against the Chiefs, they're gonna be here
- 38:58Speaker 1: in it all we and this is such a bounce
- 39:01Speaker 1: back spot Historically Shanahan versus McVeigh, he just he schemes
- 39:05Speaker 1: it up against him. He just does really well in
- 39:07Speaker 1: these matchups. So I'm happy here. You came around on it.
- 39:10Speaker 1: I knew you would. This will be our biggest public play.
- 39:12Speaker 1: Last week, our biggest public player with Tennessee came through
- 39:15Speaker 1: for US. UM this week it's gonna be the fourty niners.
- 39:18Speaker 1: I know they're gonna get every teaser, every money line part.
- 39:21Speaker 1: Everyone's gonna have them thrown in there. Just because public
- 39:24Speaker 1: public is watched this RAMS team. They're not being they're
- 39:28Speaker 1: not being sold fool's gold here. We know they have
- 39:30Speaker 1: major issues and they have no run game and we've
- 39:33Speaker 1: just seen the running back is now on the injury report. Right,
- 39:36Speaker 1: Henderson's out, So they're bringing up some young kid to
- 39:38Speaker 1: play who wasn't played all year. Just not not good
- 39:41Speaker 1: Juji right now for the Rams. Alright, Lions three and
- 39:45Speaker 1: a half, Boys nine and a half minus nine and
- 39:47Speaker 1: a half, Texas plus two and a half, forty nine
- 39:49Speaker 1: minus one and a half. One more game. You liked
- 39:51Speaker 1: it a lot the other day. I'm liking it even
- 39:54Speaker 1: more now. Washington plus three. And I is actually surprised.
- 40:01Speaker 1: We talked about um the line movement on it. I
- 40:03Speaker 1: just couldn't believe Matt Ryan was worth a point um
- 40:06Speaker 1: because from everything I've seen this kid, Sam's not as bad. Well,
- 40:09Speaker 1: he's just more athletic, I should say, then, Matt Ryan,
- 40:11Speaker 1: So you should bring something new to this offense. But again,
- 40:16Speaker 1: we we might be stepping in here, but we have
- 40:18Speaker 1: to take We have to take Washington. It's gonna be
- 40:21Speaker 1: a public dog. I think everyone's ben because everyone's feeling
- 40:23Speaker 1: good if you took them last week, and this cold
- 40:25Speaker 1: team led a lot of people down last week. Not
- 40:27Speaker 1: only did they lose the spread, they burned a ton
- 40:30Speaker 1: of people on teasers, right, everyone teased them up to
- 40:32Speaker 1: eight and a half. They lost by nine. Usually the
- 40:34Speaker 1: public is really mad about those kind of teams. So
- 40:38Speaker 1: I I'm hoping we're not stepping in it. We're not
- 40:40Speaker 1: waiting too long here. But I just like what Washington has, right,
- 40:44Speaker 1: they have good pieces. If they weren't in the NFC East,
- 40:47Speaker 1: they'd probably be doing well in these other divisions. They're
- 40:49Speaker 1: most of their losses have just come in the division
- 40:51Speaker 1: this season. So to me, Washington is not as bad
- 40:54Speaker 1: as a record shows. And again Heineke, we we talked
- 40:58Speaker 1: about last week. He wasn't gonna be that much worse
- 41:00Speaker 1: than went. What do we know? He was gonna be
- 41:02Speaker 1: able to throw a pick six and be all right.
- 41:04Speaker 1: But still you watch that game. He had the offensive
- 41:07Speaker 1: movie like him throwing the mode Terry mcclarin. I love
- 41:11Speaker 1: that kind of stuff where it's like you've got no read,
- 41:13Speaker 1: you just get it to your best guy who's in
- 41:15Speaker 1: single coverage. You let your best guy and make a play.
- 41:17Speaker 1: There's three different third downs like thirty and eight, thirty nine,
- 41:20Speaker 1: third and twelve. He made those kind of throws to Terry.
- 41:23Speaker 1: I love that ship like that's my favorite stuff seeing
- 41:25Speaker 1: a QB trusting their best receivers. So again, this cold team,
- 41:30Speaker 1: they're just bad. They're just a bad team. Where I've
- 41:33Speaker 1: seen Washington actually have good moments and good players and
- 41:36Speaker 1: their scheme is good to me. So yeah, me and
- 41:38Speaker 1: Cha might be stepping right into it, but I can't
- 41:40Speaker 1: not take this plus three. I don't think we are
- 41:43Speaker 1: I think everything you said is true. I think the
- 41:45Speaker 1: market is not caught up to the fact that Taylor
- 41:48Speaker 1: Heineke is a better quarterback for this team and they're
- 41:50Speaker 1: still getting downgraded because of what they had done with
- 41:53Speaker 1: Carson wentz Um. The coolest thing is really interesting to me.
- 41:57Speaker 1: Sometimes there are those stories that just start to fascinate you.
- 42:00Speaker 1: And as soon as they benched Um Matt Ryan. I
- 42:03Speaker 1: was reading some of the coverage and I feel like
- 42:08Speaker 1: Frank Reich. He had some quotes in there, and he
- 42:11Speaker 1: seemed like a lovely guy, and but one of the
- 42:14Speaker 1: quotes was basically, we thought it would be great with
- 42:17Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, with our running game and our offensive line.
- 42:21Speaker 1: We didn't hold up our end of the bargain. Uh.
- 42:25Speaker 1: And then he essentially said to Matt Ryan, it's not you,
- 42:28Speaker 1: it's me, but you're getting benched and to me And
- 42:32Speaker 1: then there was a weird transition and Raybon and stuff.
- 42:36Speaker 1: You talked about this on their podcast too, but in
- 42:38Speaker 1: this story, there was this transition about how involved was
- 42:42Speaker 1: Jim Rsay in the decision making and Rich basically said
- 42:47Speaker 1: the decision was me or Say and the GM. That's
- 42:53Speaker 1: not a good way to run a football team. Yeah,
- 42:55Speaker 1: And so it feels like there's a lot there's a
- 42:59Speaker 1: lack of faith in what the coaching staff can do.
- 43:02Speaker 1: It feels like the owner is getting too involved in
- 43:04Speaker 1: the decision making. Uh. And they're given a quick hook
- 43:07Speaker 1: to the quarterback Matt Ryan for a guy who's a
- 43:11Speaker 1: six you know, round draft pick um two years ago.
- 43:15Speaker 1: So I think there's some real issues on the Colts. Yeah,
- 43:18Speaker 1: we talk all the time. It all starts in football
- 43:20Speaker 1: at the top. You go through all the different organizations
- 43:23Speaker 1: that have success, that consistently have success. What is it?
- 43:26Speaker 1: It's good ownership, good good putting the right people in
- 43:29Speaker 1: the general manager position and having owners that just shut
- 43:32Speaker 1: the funk up, like they're letting people run their teams,
- 43:35Speaker 1: have stepping in controlling everything. I feel bad for the
- 43:39Speaker 1: Colts because they're stuck in that middle level of hell,
- 43:41Speaker 1: where like you're not bad enough to get a franchise quarterback,
- 43:44Speaker 1: and you're not ever gonna stop trying to pick up
- 43:47Speaker 1: these guys and these one or two year deals because
- 43:48Speaker 1: you have the pieces there. Like again, Jonathan Taylor was
- 43:52Speaker 1: the best running back on football last year. Can't do
- 43:54Speaker 1: a single thing this year, cannot do anything. So it's
- 43:58Speaker 1: it's brutal if you're a Colts fan, where maybe this
- 44:01Speaker 1: is it right the kids Sam could come in, you'll
- 44:03Speaker 1: know you'll have in him or he's terrible, and you
- 44:06Speaker 1: can be bad this year and get a good draft
- 44:07Speaker 1: pick because it's different this year. The bottom is not
- 44:10Speaker 1: really that bad, right. The couple of the worst teams
- 44:13Speaker 1: like the Saints, the Jaguars, even Houston, they're not that
- 44:17Speaker 1: terrible like them and the Bears. The differences in that extreme,
- 44:19Speaker 1: but the hero of the Bears at what three and
- 44:21Speaker 1: four chat So there's gonna be a bunch of teams
- 44:23Speaker 1: that they're gonna win some games they shouldn't. And I
- 44:26Speaker 1: think even if the Colts tank this year, if they
- 44:28Speaker 1: only want one or two more games, you might be
- 44:30Speaker 1: able to still end up with the top four, top
- 44:31Speaker 1: five pick where we just talked about there's five good
- 44:34Speaker 1: quarterbacks in this class that could work out for the
- 44:36Speaker 1: Colts because to me, I I would do what they're doing.
- 44:40Speaker 1: I would sit Matt Ryan and get the young kid
- 44:42Speaker 1: a shot. Where again, it's nothing against Matt Ryan. They
- 44:44Speaker 1: did fail him in some aspects. He has the most interceptions,
- 44:48Speaker 1: the most fumbles, and the most sacks in football right now.
- 44:51Speaker 1: Not all on him, but some of it it is
- 44:53Speaker 1: on him. Simon, We've narrowed it down and I'm really excited.
- 44:57Speaker 1: Lions plus three and a half, Cowboys minus nine and
- 44:59Speaker 1: a half, Texans plus two and a half, Niners minus
- 45:02Speaker 1: one and a half, Washington plus three. Our foxhole is
- 45:05Speaker 1: Niners minus one and a half. Simon says, as Brown's
- 45:08Speaker 1: plus three executive decision from me as Lines plus three
- 45:12Speaker 1: and a half, Big Balls, Texas plus two and a half.
- 45:15Speaker 1: We have a bet off. We have an official bet off,
- 45:17Speaker 1: Matt Mitchell. We probably got to get some some bet
- 45:20Speaker 1: off music. Now check and here it comes. They stop it.
- 45:28Speaker 1: I'm playing because someone here's run on the field. In
- 45:31Speaker 1: this case, you know what I think you are. I
- 45:33Speaker 1: think you're the bitch, and it will not be a
- 45:36Speaker 1: good night. We have a bet off with the Cards
- 45:38Speaker 1: and the Vikings. Simon, give me a Scootroolet pick. You're
- 45:41Speaker 1: dominating right now when all hope is lost, all that's
- 45:45Speaker 1: left is relief. Let's play scots Roulette. Yeah, what's the
- 45:53Speaker 1: record of that scootra let stuff? I don't know. You're
- 45:56Speaker 1: far ahead. It's eight. What do you what do you like?
- 45:59Speaker 1: Are you like five and two? Now? Yeah? After a
- 46:02Speaker 1: slow one and two starts? Yea three and one. Real cocky.
- 46:08Speaker 1: He's now three and four. Wait, you're four and three
- 46:12Speaker 1: and on three and four? Oh no, no, I'm five
- 46:13Speaker 1: and two. Don't once you try to take one away?
- 46:16Speaker 1: How dare you? Well? Listen? What could be interesting? We
- 46:20Speaker 1: have a bet off? But should scootrow let be the
- 46:23Speaker 1: Vikings and the Cardinals. I'll do it. You really want
- 46:26Speaker 1: to do that? Yeah? I was gonna take the Cardinals anyways,
- 46:28Speaker 1: You you fool? All right, give it to me. Vikings.
- 46:34Speaker 1: You're a fool. It's not even one of my favorite bets,
- 46:37Speaker 1: and now it is that. Now I have to load
- 46:39Speaker 1: up on us just to even even feel like more
- 46:41Speaker 1: of an idiot when the Cardinals do something. Cannot wait
- 46:44Speaker 1: for the Cardinals to win I know they're gonna not win.
- 46:46Speaker 1: They're gonna definitely backdoor. Though this says backdoors. It's not
- 46:50Speaker 1: November yet. This game is being played before Halloween. As
- 46:52Speaker 1: Matt Mitchell, we'll tell you, Uh, Matt, I know the
- 46:58Speaker 1: amp folks can't hear you. But for the best benefit
- 47:00Speaker 1: of the you know, hundreds of thousands of podcast listeners,
- 47:04Speaker 1: would you like to share your Cliff Kingsbury theory. It's
- 47:07Speaker 1: an annual tradition here on the Favorites. Well, I'll do
- 47:10Speaker 1: the full screed next week when it goes into effect.
- 47:14Speaker 1: But you Cliff Kingsbury's very much inbounds for Halloween, which
- 47:18Speaker 1: is Monday, so you get it in just under the
- 47:20Speaker 1: wire here you can bat him. But once the know
- 47:24Speaker 1: his stock and the health and vitality of pumpkins are
- 47:28Speaker 1: basically the same, we're you know, we're approaching the the
- 47:32Speaker 1: other side of the curve for pumpkin futures, and same
- 47:35Speaker 1: goes for Cliff Kingsbury. So I wish you the best
- 47:38Speaker 1: of luck Bettenham in this kind of final week of eligibility. Well, listen,
- 47:42Speaker 1: Madame Mitchell. As a man who knows pumpkins, we've had
- 47:46Speaker 1: many conversations before we get on the air about the
- 47:51Speaker 1: number of pumpkins decorating his front stoop. His sons. He
- 47:56Speaker 1: has two kids. Uh, he has a boy who's older. Uh.
- 48:00Speaker 1: His son's obsession with pumpkins also gores, which he doesn't
- 48:04Speaker 1: really know how to differentiate. Kind of kind of teach
- 48:07Speaker 1: the kid these things. So it's an apt analogy. Uh,
- 48:11Speaker 1: money line round Robin Parlay. I mean, obviously we're going
- 48:16Speaker 1: with the Lions. I think we gotta go with the
- 48:19Speaker 1: Texans Washington. Yeah, we gotta. Can we get a big dog.
- 48:25Speaker 1: That's a good because that was nice last week. Um,
- 48:29Speaker 1: obviously didn't only hit on the one the Seahawks, but
- 48:32Speaker 1: if you us when it came through, that's been a
- 48:33Speaker 1: really nice pairing. You throw the Jets in there, Jets, Lions, Texans,
- 48:40Speaker 1: Washington and the Jets. I know Matt Mitchell was putting
- 48:43Speaker 1: this all into the chat for the live listeners right
- 48:45Speaker 1: now to do it. But they're the only team I
- 48:48Speaker 1: could see of all the big favorites get upset Eagles.
- 48:54Speaker 1: I could just see this scenario. I'm sleep walking in
- 48:56Speaker 1: this game, even though again I'm taking the Eagles. Why
- 48:58Speaker 1: would we not put the Cardinals in there? Instead of
- 49:00Speaker 1: the Eagles. You can, that's fair. I'm just trying to
- 49:03Speaker 1: get a big dog because all these dogs are little,
- 49:05Speaker 1: Like I like having one big guy in there because
- 49:08Speaker 1: that really juices the odds. Well, this is a little
- 49:10Speaker 1: dog week, Like there's no really big dogs, um, because
- 49:13Speaker 1: I know we didn't talk about like another survivor plays
- 49:15Speaker 1: the Cowboys obviously against the Bears. So like, there's no
- 49:18Speaker 1: way I'm picking the Bears and went out right, there's
- 49:20Speaker 1: no world I picked Green Bed and went out right. Yeah,
- 49:22Speaker 1: they're just not there's no really good big dogs this week. Um, Lions, Texans,
- 49:27Speaker 1: Washington Jets cards. That's what I think we should do,
- 49:31Speaker 1: all right, Lyons, Texans Washington Jets cards. Um, we've got
- 49:36Speaker 1: a bet off. We are playing it in Scoochroulette. You've
- 49:39Speaker 1: got the Vikings, I've got the Cardinals. Our final five
- 49:42Speaker 1: lines plus three and a half, Boys minus nine and
- 49:45Speaker 1: a half, Texas plus two and a half, forty Niners
- 49:47Speaker 1: minus one and a half, Washington plus three. Those lines
- 49:49Speaker 1: are pretty stable right now. So as you're listening to this, um,
- 49:52Speaker 1: you should definitely go get them. I only wanted to
- 49:55Speaker 1: wait on in Houston, just hope to get that three.
- 49:57Speaker 1: I love. I just love the number three even No
- 50:00Speaker 1: I bet it two and a half. Yeah, I bet
- 50:01Speaker 1: it too, Like I got it, I got any got any.
- 50:06Speaker 1: I think we've done all we can do here bro Um.
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