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- 1:23Speaker 1: to the favorites of the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.
- 1:26Speaker 1: I am Chad Melman, Chief Content Officer of the Action Network.
- 1:30Speaker 1: We are heading into conference championships Sunday. I'm feeling both
- 1:36Speaker 1: euphoria and sadness. I am joined as I am for
- 1:40Speaker 1: every episode by my co host, my bff, my companion,
- 1:44Speaker 1: my compadre, professional better Simon Hunter. Hello, Simon, Hello Chad. Yeah,
- 1:53Speaker 1: this is truly the best time of year in the
- 1:55Speaker 1: worst time of year. It's so upsetting. Yeah, I'm I'm uh,
- 2:00Speaker 1: I'm crushed about so much of it. I was sitting
- 2:03Speaker 1: at dinner with my wife and Sun last night. I
- 2:06Speaker 1: was like, the schedule is so intense during football season
- 2:10Speaker 1: for all of us for various reasons, right and for me. Thursdays,
- 2:14Speaker 1: I'm up early. I'm doing research for this podcast, recording
- 2:19Speaker 1: a hit for FanDuel TV early in the morning. Then
- 2:22Speaker 1: I do more research than we record this, then we
- 2:24Speaker 1: would do Action Island an hour after this for fan Duel.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Then later that day I'm doing a podcast with Cowherd.
- 2:30Speaker 1: I said to my wife, it just feels like tomorrow's
- 2:33Speaker 1: the last day of school, you know, because things slow
- 2:36Speaker 1: down so much, and I'm just devastated the party is are.
- 2:41Speaker 1: I feel like next week. It really feels that way,
- 2:43Speaker 1: Like we always joke about the week before the week
- 2:45Speaker 1: of the super Bowl. It's um, that's really really when
- 2:49Speaker 1: it hits me. But I would say the amount of
- 2:51Speaker 1: free time is shocking. You could literally go, like I
- 2:53Speaker 1: think you just touched on. You go into like a
- 2:54Speaker 1: five six month comb of just you know, you're just
- 2:57Speaker 1: working either working, you're doing whatever, and you're personal life,
- 3:00Speaker 1: but there is no free time. There's always something going on.
- 3:03Speaker 1: And I had that on Tuesday af of our show.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Usually I gotta go back, get back to work, run
- 3:09Speaker 1: more lines, make more calls, and I just got done,
- 3:10Speaker 1: like I have nothing to do. There's really nothing to do. So,
- 3:14Speaker 1: as you know, Chad, this this week a lot of noise,
- 3:18Speaker 1: a lot of conversation just because it's four teams left.
- 3:21Speaker 1: So we joked about like I know what you're talking
- 3:23Speaker 1: about the teams last week, where this week, obviously we're
- 3:26Speaker 1: about to just do a little bit of a deep
- 3:27Speaker 1: dive into each team and talk about what we're feeling.
- 3:29Speaker 1: So it's it's fun if you're a fan of the
- 3:31Speaker 1: last four teams. I think we can all agree this
- 3:34Speaker 1: is the best four teams. I feel like we can
- 3:35Speaker 1: all agree on that. Um, that's rare and football. I mean,
- 3:38Speaker 1: last year we had to four seeds in the Super Bowl.
- 3:42Speaker 1: This year feels more like it is what it should be.
- 3:45Speaker 1: It's a one a one seed of three seed and
- 3:47Speaker 1: that could have been a two seed and uh or
- 3:49Speaker 1: a one seed and it's a one seed and a
- 3:51Speaker 1: two seed that both both could have been the one
- 3:52Speaker 1: seed the NFC. So um, yeah, definitely one of those
- 3:56Speaker 1: rare weeks where it's just been fun because everyone split
- 3:59Speaker 1: like there is no like, oh I had this huge
- 4:01Speaker 1: advantage here. It's it's not. No one's really puffing their
- 4:04Speaker 1: chest out this week. But it's gonna be fun breaking
- 4:06Speaker 1: down these games. Well. It's also it's really strange just
- 4:10Speaker 1: because of the line moves for the Chiefs and Bengals,
- 4:13Speaker 1: which which we're going to get into. Um, we owe
- 4:17Speaker 1: people of foxhol we owe people assignment says, we owe
- 4:22Speaker 1: people in exact decision, we owe people of big balls, uh,
- 4:26Speaker 1: and we owe people all these things. I think largely
- 4:29Speaker 1: because one of these games it was so unpredictable and
- 4:31Speaker 1: for a lot of the reasons. We talked about we're
- 4:33Speaker 1: going to get two sharp calls in a second. But
- 4:36Speaker 1: when we last spoke about these games on Tuesday, we
- 4:41Speaker 1: said we bet the Bengals plus three as soon as
- 4:44Speaker 1: it opened. On Sunday night, we bet the under fifty
- 4:46Speaker 1: one and a half in Bengals Chiefs as soon as
- 4:48Speaker 1: it opened. By the time we were talking on Tuesday,
- 4:52Speaker 1: the line was Bengals minus two and a half and
- 4:55Speaker 1: the total was at forty six and a half. We
- 4:58Speaker 1: thought Wednesday would be the line of demarcation. It's when
- 5:04Speaker 1: we see the line start to move based on Patrick Mahomes.
- 5:08Speaker 1: Is he practicing, is he on the field, what is
- 5:10Speaker 1: the response to the treatment, etcetera, etcetera. He was on
- 5:14Speaker 1: the field, came out in the press conference, said he
- 5:17Speaker 1: felt fine, he's gonna play. The line dropped immediately, so
- 5:23Speaker 1: it went down to Chiefs plus one. I think that
- 5:27Speaker 1: it's very possible. Hold on, I'm checking right now. In
- 5:30Speaker 1: the app Kansas City is now a one point favorite again,
- 5:35Speaker 1: so you know this one's nuts. Before we get before
- 5:39Speaker 1: we do deep dive, I would say, what sharp calls.
- 5:42Speaker 1: It's almost like sharp calls is the whole show today
- 5:45Speaker 1: because we're going to be doing everything, so we can say,
- 5:48Speaker 1: let's get to sharp calls. But I feel like whatever
- 5:53Speaker 1: you're hearing is also the conversation we should have. So
- 5:58Speaker 1: what are you hearing? Hello, I'm there, I'm talking. It's
- 6:11Speaker 1: tough because it's so many guys and groups taking positions,
- 6:14Speaker 1: Like my biggest position of this weekend, and I was
- 6:16Speaker 1: simply a hedge on the Eagles one, like I took
- 6:20Speaker 1: a really large position on the forty Niners just because
- 6:23Speaker 1: as much as I was bashing them and everything like that,
- 6:25Speaker 1: trying to get you to go on the Eagles with me,
- 6:28Speaker 1: the fort Downers are really good. Like this pretty thing,
- 6:31Speaker 1: I should put a pull out with Pretty win more
- 6:33Speaker 1: than five games the rest of his career, because this
- 6:35Speaker 1: is truly lightning in the bottle. Like I go back
- 6:38Speaker 1: and I watch it. I think we'll break it down
- 6:40Speaker 1: as we go long here. But it's just it doesn't
- 6:43Speaker 1: make sense. The numbers don't make sense, and there's just
- 6:45Speaker 1: some pros that are just simply back in the forty niners.
- 6:48Speaker 1: And on the flip side, se seventy five percent of
- 6:51Speaker 1: the guys I talked to are just terrified or Joe
- 6:53Speaker 1: Burrow like the really that was the reason and they're like,
- 6:56Speaker 1: I'm not even plugging this into a model, like I
- 6:58Speaker 1: did zero work this week. I'm just being Joe Brow
- 7:00Speaker 1: and can't fault them, Like, cannot fault them from that standpoint.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Crazy stadis like as a seven point favorite or less
- 7:09Speaker 1: a t s his last twenty. Like we joke all
- 7:11Speaker 1: the time about NEOs guys that break the matrix. He
- 7:14Speaker 1: he is, he breaks the matrix. He's out of this world.
- 7:16Speaker 1: It's the books can't catch up to it. And you know,
- 7:21Speaker 1: luckily we wrote him for most of this past year
- 7:23Speaker 1: where we didn't try to fight it. We just joined
- 7:25Speaker 1: the party because it was just it was crazy every
- 7:28Speaker 1: week undervalue things. So not shocking that so many pros
- 7:32Speaker 1: are on that one. I did think it was shocking
- 7:33Speaker 1: how many pros love the forty niners. So that's one
- 7:36Speaker 1: we'll obviously deep dive into. But yeah, like this this week,
- 7:40Speaker 1: next week, I'll be with a lot of pros, a
- 7:43Speaker 1: lot of a lot of guys who are big, big money,
- 7:45Speaker 1: big timers. Chad knows. I'm flying out to London on
- 7:48Speaker 1: Sunday to be with a bunch of guys for the
- 7:50Speaker 1: games that are like high level betters and people from Europe,
- 7:53Speaker 1: and they're just they viewed things differently than I do
- 7:56Speaker 1: because to me, I could never just blindly bet a
- 7:58Speaker 1: game like I'd have to run a model. And they're
- 7:59Speaker 1: the that just like I've seen this a thousand times.
- 8:03Speaker 1: They just know what they're doing. So it's really been
- 8:05Speaker 1: interesting the back and forth this week because the spreads
- 8:08Speaker 1: are so short. I mean, that's just how it is
- 8:10Speaker 1: in the game the world. Everyone's got a little bit
- 8:13Speaker 1: of an ego and everyone's got their opinions and view
- 8:15Speaker 1: so it's like, you know, for me, I enjoy it.
- 8:18Speaker 1: I literally just stayed on the sideline. Especially in these
- 8:19Speaker 1: group text it's just guys going back and forth super
- 8:22Speaker 1: personal stuff. I mean, bets from twenty five years ago
- 8:25Speaker 1: that guys lost houses and wives over um. It's just
- 8:29Speaker 1: it brings out the worst than people. There's only a
- 8:30Speaker 1: couple of games and we're all feeling it where the
- 8:33Speaker 1: season is almost over, so everyone's like, really not just
- 8:36Speaker 1: piste off of it. We just know the ends near,
- 8:38Speaker 1: so we're trying to soak up every little bit we
- 8:40Speaker 1: can before we all just disappear for a couple of months.
- 8:42Speaker 1: So um, this these are my favorite times, like this week,
- 8:45Speaker 1: next week, hanging out these guys, talking on these guys.
- 8:47Speaker 1: It's just especially fun after such a long season. Um.
- 8:52Speaker 1: You know, we all have our opinions, right, everyone's got
- 8:54Speaker 1: their opinions, are staunching their opinions at this point, and
- 8:56Speaker 1: what you believe in, what you want to back at
- 8:58Speaker 1: this point. So um to me, that's why I love
- 9:00Speaker 1: when it comes down this final four teams here, just
- 9:03Speaker 1: because we got we got the rare, rare thing here
- 9:07Speaker 1: the first time was put out. Maybe that both spreads
- 9:12Speaker 1: were below three points in the championship games. So no
- 9:15Speaker 1: matter what, we're in for some amazing football. I feel
- 9:18Speaker 1: like we all can feel that way. Let's dig in
- 9:20Speaker 1: here a little bit. You're making me a little nervous
- 9:23Speaker 1: about our Eagles play that we both loved on Sunday
- 9:26Speaker 1: at minus two, and I still feel pretty good about it,
- 9:30Speaker 1: to be honest, even even with the pretty magic in
- 9:33Speaker 1: the bottle. Let's let's let's talk about that game first,
- 9:36Speaker 1: because because, to be honest, that may end up being
- 9:41Speaker 1: our big balls bet right because and maybe we just
- 9:46Speaker 1: declare it right now, Eagles minus two and a half
- 9:49Speaker 1: big balls better the week. I'm hearing the same thing
- 9:55Speaker 1: you are. We both loved the Eagles when the line open,
- 9:58Speaker 1: I think you got it. You got at it up
- 10:00Speaker 1: to two. I got it at two. We still like
- 10:03Speaker 1: it at two and a half. A lot of guys
- 10:05Speaker 1: have a power raider to three. But look, Nick Giffin
- 10:08Speaker 1: went on Green Dot Daily earlier this week. He's one
- 10:11Speaker 1: of our brilliant analytics minds. He had all these reasons
- 10:16Speaker 1: why the Niners are probably a better team than the
- 10:20Speaker 1: Eagles dv O A wise, schedule, wise, performance wise. Here's
- 10:25Speaker 1: my thing. That's why I still feel confident about the Eagles.
- 10:29Speaker 1: The Eagles still haven't lost. When Jordan Davis and Jalen
- 10:32Speaker 1: Hurts play, the Eagles pass rush is historically dominant. Brock
- 10:38Speaker 1: Party has been amazing also been sacked I think sixteen
- 10:42Speaker 1: times in seven games. He has a tendency to hold
- 10:46Speaker 1: the ball and not make decisions as quickly as he
- 10:49Speaker 1: could all the time, even though he's also been brilliant.
- 10:52Speaker 1: I think sixteen touchdown passes, four interceptions in those seven games.
- 10:56Speaker 1: History is against him because he's a rookie. He's the
- 11:00Speaker 1: is his third road game, and Philly is not Seattle
- 11:05Speaker 1: against Gino Smith. It's not Las Vegas where half the
- 11:11Speaker 1: stadium is going to be on your side anyways, all right,
- 11:14Speaker 1: it's fucking the fighting city of Philadelphia. You don't go
- 11:20Speaker 1: into Philly for an NFC championship game as a guy
- 11:23Speaker 1: who's played seven games in your career and essentially half
- 11:28Speaker 1: to win the game, which is what he has to
- 11:30Speaker 1: do to cover this number. I don't care. I don't
- 11:33Speaker 1: care what we've seen. I'm telling you how it is. Yeah,
- 11:39Speaker 1: I know, obviously I'm all in the Eagles. Chah, there's
- 11:42Speaker 1: no there's no discuestionary there. I'm just I'm trying to
- 11:44Speaker 1: get people the perspective, um, what the pros are seeing here.
- 11:47Speaker 1: So you know what I'm getting back and forth is
- 11:52Speaker 1: kind of how it means you feel sometimes where these
- 11:54Speaker 1: lines are fucking bullshit, Like this line does not make sense?
- 11:57Speaker 1: Two and a half? What what in the world? How
- 12:01Speaker 1: is how is Brock not at three three and a
- 12:03Speaker 1: half yet? So I know the pros that are holding
- 12:06Speaker 1: at three and holding it two and a half, I
- 12:07Speaker 1: should say, like they're they they're darre in these books
- 12:11Speaker 1: to go to three. That's how strongly they feel about
- 12:13Speaker 1: this Fort and IROs team. Where I just keep throwing
- 12:15Speaker 1: that history in their face, like there's a reason no
- 12:18Speaker 1: rookie has ever won the championship game in this long
- 12:20Speaker 1: history we have with the NFL. There's something about it
- 12:23Speaker 1: that that pressure is real, and the tape in the
- 12:27Speaker 1: book is out all the guys by this point, right,
- 12:29Speaker 1: we know that. So the reason these pros love party
- 12:34Speaker 1: is he doesn't know what the hell he's in. Yet
- 12:36Speaker 1: they're all in an agreeance that like this kid, I
- 12:39Speaker 1: don't they think he doesn't get it that he's like
- 12:41Speaker 1: playing in the football league and every guy he's playing
- 12:44Speaker 1: against is better. I mean, it's you can't wrap your
- 12:48Speaker 1: head around because this could play to Iowa State. So
- 12:50Speaker 1: say at Iowa State, he played against whatever it was Iowa,
- 12:55Speaker 1: the best guy in Iowa that he ever played against
- 12:57Speaker 1: in his life. On defense, it's probably on special teams
- 13:01Speaker 1: on the in an NFL team. That's the level he's
- 13:03Speaker 1: gone from Iowa State in a year from last year
- 13:06Speaker 1: to where he's at now. That's a high of the
- 13:07Speaker 1: level is So that's why I like the Shanahan Coach
- 13:10Speaker 1: of the Year there. I'm so abstaunching it where it's
- 13:11Speaker 1: like we can't wrap our head around it because we
- 13:14Speaker 1: have such high expectations for this foreign team. It's mry
- 13:17Speaker 1: irrelevant seven and oh in the NFC Championship game. That's
- 13:22Speaker 1: why I like chat. I feel like I should be
- 13:24Speaker 1: putting in my life savings on this game with the Eagles.
- 13:27Speaker 1: In what world does this kid go on the road
- 13:28Speaker 1: Like you just talked about, I feel like we feel
- 13:31Speaker 1: like we're being pumped. If the wise guys are saying
- 13:33Speaker 1: they love San Francisco, it's almost like they're fucking with us,
- 13:36Speaker 1: But they're not like they they're just like they think
- 13:40Speaker 1: like a lot of people think where the Eagles. They
- 13:43Speaker 1: haven't played a defense like this foreign as defense and
- 13:46Speaker 1: a defense that actually is showing so many holes in
- 13:51Speaker 1: the secondary against the past that it's like it was
- 13:54Speaker 1: fucking cheese. Their strength is the run, and that's that's
- 13:57Speaker 1: what people people think this Eagues team without the run.
- 13:59Speaker 1: And I'm just one thing I think they're underestimating. Hurts
- 14:02Speaker 1: A J. Brown, DeVante Smith, God or they're receiving options
- 14:05Speaker 1: for this Eagles team. That's the thing where it's like
- 14:08Speaker 1: a lot of back and forth and I can't counter
- 14:10Speaker 1: it because of exactly what they're saying. Where the Eagles defense,
- 14:14Speaker 1: I don't know, say they have given up three or
- 14:17Speaker 1: four games over thirty points, the ft Nanciers have only
- 14:20Speaker 1: done it twice all year, and I go back on them,
- 14:21Speaker 1: that's because of their scheduling, the QBS they faced. And
- 14:24Speaker 1: that's what this week is. It's like a lot of
- 14:26Speaker 1: people making opinions, drawing lines, and I feel like we're
- 14:31Speaker 1: reading this one right where the forty niners, I get
- 14:34Speaker 1: the fear, like the fear of these pros going against
- 14:37Speaker 1: them because they've outperformed every metric you can set, Like
- 14:41Speaker 1: once again, it's a seventh round rookie. This is I
- 14:44Speaker 1: know you already has sent stuff to the Hall of Fame.
- 14:47Speaker 1: It's all gonna be in there, like this is. This
- 14:49Speaker 1: is truly a historical thing we're seeing right now. This
- 14:51Speaker 1: kid who's mystery I relevant. Um, I don't know if
- 14:54Speaker 1: he'll have more than five wins the rest of his career,
- 14:56Speaker 1: because you know, no one will be shocked they show
- 14:59Speaker 1: up next August and Trey Lansi plays him for that
- 15:01Speaker 1: starting rule. I mean, Treyl answer is a reason he
- 15:03Speaker 1: was the third pick overall and Purty was the seventh
- 15:06Speaker 1: round pick. But it's like he doesn't know it. Chad.
- 15:08Speaker 1: Like watching that Cowboys game, he would make two reads
- 15:11Speaker 1: and if it wasn't there, he literally would just throw
- 15:13Speaker 1: it away. Like that's veteran level understanding of I'm not
- 15:18Speaker 1: the reason we're gonna win this game. I'm the reason
- 15:20Speaker 1: we'll lose this game. So I'm just not gonna be
- 15:22Speaker 1: that reason we lose. And that was very smart and veteran.
- 15:25Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Shannon's in his ear telling him do
- 15:27Speaker 1: this stuff. So with this Eagles game, I can't see
- 15:30Speaker 1: him getting away with that. I just don't see the
- 15:31Speaker 1: Eagles offense sputtering. Um. We've all had our doubts about Doc.
- 15:36Speaker 1: There's no reason for us to have our doubts about
- 15:37Speaker 1: hurts like that. That his first career playoff games against
- 15:41Speaker 1: Tom Braiding the Bucks. We talked to Austin. He laid
- 15:44Speaker 1: on agging in that game. He had reads he missed.
- 15:46Speaker 1: This year we talked about he's corrected that when he
- 15:48Speaker 1: seeds that one on one with a J. Brown, he
- 15:50Speaker 1: attacks the downfield. So to me, I think the pros
- 15:54Speaker 1: are still underestimating this Eagles team. And I might be
- 15:59Speaker 1: in my words here, Chad, because the books believe it
- 16:01Speaker 1: with them. Like the books, they're all in unity here
- 16:04Speaker 1: holding this two and a half like I I have not.
- 16:07Speaker 1: I've seen one book. It was bet MGM moved to
- 16:09Speaker 1: the three um and it hung it there for I
- 16:11Speaker 1: don't say twelve hours and it went down to a
- 16:13Speaker 1: half and it has been back. So um, we're going
- 16:16Speaker 1: against the books on this one, like we we're definitely
- 16:18Speaker 1: with the public side on this one. But I think
- 16:20Speaker 1: the money will get a little closer comes Sunday because
- 16:22Speaker 1: I know a lot of pros that are just waiting.
- 16:25Speaker 1: They're waiting for the three. They're hoping the public hits
- 16:27Speaker 1: us up to a three and they'll take the value
- 16:28Speaker 1: on the forty niners. So to me, we already went
- 16:34Speaker 1: through the numbers. The Rookies Championship game. One of three
- 16:38Speaker 1: a TS owned four historically, they had four touchdowns passing
- 16:41Speaker 1: nine interceptions. Um. The one cover was a fourteen point dog.
- 16:46Speaker 1: So we we we love the idea of purty against
- 16:50Speaker 1: this Eagles defense and philling. When I was listening to
- 16:55Speaker 1: the Action Network podcast earlier today with ray Bond and Stucky,
- 17:02Speaker 1: Raybon loved the under in this game, and ray Bond
- 17:05Speaker 1: has been smoking hot, And I hate when you and
- 17:09Speaker 1: Raybond don't agree with each other. But the problem is
- 17:12Speaker 1: I didn't agree with it either. We liked I think
- 17:15Speaker 1: we bet the over at forty five and a half
- 17:18Speaker 1: on Tuesday. It's um now at forty six and a
- 17:24Speaker 1: half is the key number here? Why do I still
- 17:31Speaker 1: like the over here? What? Like even when when Raybond
- 17:35Speaker 1: ran through all the numbers, Yeah, and there was a
- 17:38Speaker 1: lot of research to back it up. Sometimes you just
- 17:42Speaker 1: get a feeling like games aren't going to play the type.
- 17:45Speaker 1: And it's so an anthema to the way that I
- 17:49Speaker 1: like to think about betting games and the way that
- 17:52Speaker 1: I like to share information, because I don't believe your
- 17:56Speaker 1: emotions and feelings should be a part of this process.
- 18:01Speaker 1: But I just keep thinking this isn't over. I've seen
- 18:04Speaker 1: too much. I've seen too much evidence of the Niners
- 18:08Speaker 1: defense in the back half of their defense and not
- 18:10Speaker 1: being able to stop passing games. Well, Lucky for me,
- 18:16Speaker 1: I work with this guy. Chris. I spent a lot
- 18:18Speaker 1: of time with this guy, Chris, and I can pull
- 18:20Speaker 1: up his numbers here, so he he literally had this
- 18:22Speaker 1: game rate at forty five point five, so that could
- 18:25Speaker 1: be your answer right there. He thinks it moved, so
- 18:27Speaker 1: he likes the value on the under. Um. I have
- 18:30Speaker 1: this game rate at forty seven. You can see why
- 18:33Speaker 1: I like the over. So it's it's one of those
- 18:34Speaker 1: where it's just tight, like he literally likes the under
- 18:36Speaker 1: to a point. Um. Looking at this matchup, I'm in
- 18:40Speaker 1: a holding plan agreement with you, Chad. When I first
- 18:42Speaker 1: saw this open, I was like, oh, that's a trap line.
- 18:45Speaker 1: Not that every line the trap line, but like forty
- 18:47Speaker 1: two and a half felt right for this two matchups
- 18:50Speaker 1: because I am in total agreeance these are This is
- 18:53Speaker 1: the reason I like both these teams for the Super
- 18:55Speaker 1: Bowl coming up, because I just think both these defenses,
- 18:57Speaker 1: both these d lines are just such a nuts, just
- 18:59Speaker 1: such a eye level um compared to the other side,
- 19:03Speaker 1: the FC. I just don't think you can compare it.
- 19:05Speaker 1: I think both that everyone knows that. I mean, you look,
- 19:08Speaker 1: most books already hung Super Bowl lines. The four Nighters
- 19:10Speaker 1: and Eagles are both favorites. Now, so um, the public
- 19:14Speaker 1: might not understand it where they're just so enamorated with
- 19:16Speaker 1: the quarterbacks, but I'm telling you, it's all about the
- 19:19Speaker 1: old line, D line and then you fill out with
- 19:21Speaker 1: the quarterback and then the skill position. So I was
- 19:24Speaker 1: shocked that they hung it at that chat next week
- 19:27Speaker 1: that the favorites was gonna be a rookie and Purty
- 19:30Speaker 1: and you know, his third start in the playoffs hurts.
- 19:34Speaker 1: But the books are sharp. So that's my fear here
- 19:37Speaker 1: with this this line going with the Eagles. But on
- 19:40Speaker 1: the total, I haven't waiver at all. I still like
- 19:43Speaker 1: the over, and like you just talked about forty seven,
- 19:45Speaker 1: such a key number, I still think we're getting good
- 19:47Speaker 1: value on it. So we'll know early on, Like if
- 19:50Speaker 1: this Eagles team sputtering really early the game script coming
- 19:53Speaker 1: out doesn't work, that's a huge red flag to this over,
- 19:57Speaker 1: just because they're one of the best scripted t tames
- 20:00Speaker 1: in football this year. I mean, if you go through it,
- 20:02Speaker 1: they've been one of the best first half teams all
- 20:03Speaker 1: year and we've just seen it time and time again.
- 20:06Speaker 1: They have a nice script to start these games, and
- 20:09Speaker 1: there's a big difference when you go back to the
- 20:11Speaker 1: Eagle schedule, there's very telling signs of if they sputter,
- 20:14Speaker 1: and the other team usually sputters as well. Honestly, like
- 20:17Speaker 1: Eagle's defense is usually pretty get in the first half,
- 20:19Speaker 1: it's the second half their defense kind of lets down.
- 20:22Speaker 1: You could probably wait and see what we can get live,
- 20:24Speaker 1: but to me, if you can still get the forty
- 20:26Speaker 1: sixty five and a half, you gotta grab you over.
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- 22:42Speaker 1: Mahomes heroically walked to a press conference, heroically walked away
- 22:50Speaker 1: and looked like he was playing skipped to Mulu on
- 22:54Speaker 1: the practice field. He's Superman. He's got the reginitive skills, talent,
- 23:02Speaker 1: DNA of that you know snake that loses its tail
- 23:05Speaker 1: and then regrows its tail immediately. The guys fucked, and
- 23:09Speaker 1: he's playing in an injury that takes six months to
- 23:11Speaker 1: heal and he's doing it in six days. The line
- 23:13Speaker 1: has been whacky. Do as it stands now forty seven
- 23:16Speaker 1: and a half. I think we still like the under
- 23:20Speaker 1: Chiefs minus one? What the fund do we do here?
- 23:26Speaker 1: I know exactly what I want to do. I'm interest
- 23:28Speaker 1: hear what you want to do, But how am I
- 23:30Speaker 1: not going to take the Chiefs? I've just been waiting
- 23:33Speaker 1: to see how he looked, how he's moving maybe I'm
- 23:36Speaker 1: a sucker because like him, him jogging down those steps,
- 23:39Speaker 1: to me was actually a big deal because that was
- 23:41Speaker 1: truly not thinking about his ankle at the press conference.
- 23:44Speaker 1: I know it sounds stupid, but like going down the steps,
- 23:47Speaker 1: he's not thinking about his next step. He's simply jogging
- 23:49Speaker 1: down the steps like its routine and out the door
- 23:52Speaker 1: and then you do it. You saw him do it.
- 23:53Speaker 1: Stretches and he was full participant. I don't know what
- 23:56Speaker 1: to think, Chad, because like the early line movement to
- 23:58Speaker 1: me was smart money. Get an info that this is
- 24:01Speaker 1: worse than they're letting on, right, Like that was a
- 24:03Speaker 1: huge swing through a bunch of key numbers. They moved
- 24:06Speaker 1: it from plus three all the way to a two
- 24:08Speaker 1: and a half on the Chief side. So if he
- 24:10Speaker 1: looks the way he looks, the numbers should be back
- 24:12Speaker 1: to three. But the books are like in this weird
- 24:15Speaker 1: spot now where it's like they really got hit hard
- 24:18Speaker 1: on that two and a half, Like they got a
- 24:20Speaker 1: lot of good, big money on that two and a half.
- 24:24Speaker 1: Still yeah, Chiefs two and a half plus two and
- 24:27Speaker 1: a half. Still though all the money and all the
- 24:30Speaker 1: tickets are mainly still in the Bengals. That's how much
- 24:32Speaker 1: early money came in on them. So the lineman doesn't
- 24:35Speaker 1: really make sense to me. It should be back to three.
- 24:37Speaker 1: That's that's where it should be at. If my homes
- 24:39Speaker 1: is he able to move in the pocket, which everything
- 24:42Speaker 1: I've seen of, if he can stay on his tippy toes,
- 24:45Speaker 1: he's good like that's that's that's where he that's where
- 24:47Speaker 1: he excels. He's he's on the he's on his toes
- 24:50Speaker 1: where he can move in the pockets so smoothly and practice.
- 24:53Speaker 1: That's what he was literally doing. So um, all we
- 24:56Speaker 1: can go off of his beat writers and a little
- 24:57Speaker 1: bit of insight sources we have, and everything I hear
- 25:01Speaker 1: was it was bad when it happened, right, And it's
- 25:04Speaker 1: one of those things too where he was scared to
- 25:06Speaker 1: even put weight on it because it just didn't feel
- 25:08Speaker 1: right to him. And as the game went along and
- 25:09Speaker 1: the drilline took over, he was like, Okay, I'm more
- 25:11Speaker 1: comfortable now. But then they figured after the game it
- 25:13Speaker 1: would be in a real bad spot, it'd be all
- 25:15Speaker 1: swollen up. But we know the technology we have nowadays.
- 25:19Speaker 1: They put that whatever he's something one of those bead
- 25:21Speaker 1: things that like is good for your body, and then
- 25:23Speaker 1: put different types of graps yeah and zero hot cold
- 25:27Speaker 1: and all this different crap, and it's like the man's
- 25:30Speaker 1: jogging two three days later, it's it's mind blood. So
- 25:34Speaker 1: I was prepared to take since like a one legged
- 25:37Speaker 1: Mahomes against arguably the best QB and football right now
- 25:40Speaker 1: and Burrow. I would have backed Burrow, but my Homes
- 25:43Speaker 1: is able to play fully. I love him in this
- 25:46Speaker 1: spot where he's going through against Burrow and what are
- 25:49Speaker 1: they calling it yet, burrowhead. They're calling arrowhead burrowhead. Even
- 25:53Speaker 1: the players on Sincius and like I listened to um
- 25:57Speaker 1: shout out to the Kelsey Boys podcast, Travis Kelsey was
- 26:00Speaker 1: talking about they're talking about that in the locker room.
- 26:02Speaker 1: He's like, they know. So I love this game. I
- 26:06Speaker 1: hate that I'm going so chalk, going both one seeds,
- 26:08Speaker 1: both home teams. But I love the Chiefs. I love
- 26:11Speaker 1: the Eagles. Oh man, it's so tough because Bros so
- 26:16Speaker 1: damn good. I hate going against him, but it's it's
- 26:19Speaker 1: this number should be three and it's not. So I'm
- 26:21Speaker 1: gonna take the value right now and on my Homes
- 26:24Speaker 1: we bettered at plus three for the Bengals on Sunday night.
- 26:29Speaker 1: I bought a little bit back on the Chiefs at
- 26:32Speaker 1: plus two and a half. I wish I did. I
- 26:34Speaker 1: got the one and a half because I needed to
- 26:36Speaker 1: see it. I told you I needed to see it
- 26:38Speaker 1: because I was hearing so much noise of like they're overrating.
- 26:41Speaker 1: He's fine. He was supposedly up the next day, lightly
- 26:44Speaker 1: jogging in his neighborhood. It's like I needed to see it.
- 26:46Speaker 1: There's too much bullshit flying around this time of year.
- 26:49Speaker 1: But yeah, good for you. Goodbye you hitting that two
- 26:51Speaker 1: and a half because that's such a key number. Yeah,
- 26:54Speaker 1: I'm excited about it. So I feel really good about
- 26:56Speaker 1: my position there. I've still bet I bet more on
- 26:59Speaker 1: the Bengals at plus three that I did on the
- 27:01Speaker 1: Chiefs of plus two and a half, so I still
- 27:03Speaker 1: come out a loser. If if you know the Chiefs
- 27:06Speaker 1: win by more than three, I think you're right. Like
- 27:08Speaker 1: if it's if you're basically getting Chiefs to win at home,
- 27:14Speaker 1: that's that's what you gotta play. Yeah, there, you have
- 27:17Speaker 1: no options, so frustrating, such a challenging game, its brutal.
- 27:21Speaker 1: What are we thinking about the under right now? Forty
- 27:23Speaker 1: seven and a half still feel good because it feels
- 27:25Speaker 1: like the way you win this game is one side,
- 27:28Speaker 1: lane and egg. Like I we're all hoping for the
- 27:30Speaker 1: ultimate shootout, right, But me and Chad don't bet that way.
- 27:32Speaker 1: We we we play the percentages, and we play the
- 27:34Speaker 1: numbers we've been down and your read outdoors playoff game
- 27:38Speaker 1: at home, it's just above a six percent in his career,
- 27:41Speaker 1: even when this is including his time at the Eagles.
- 27:43Speaker 1: So this is just a number of position. We will
- 27:46Speaker 1: take the rest of our lives as long as and
- 27:47Speaker 1: you reads the head coach, he's an offensive genius. The
- 27:50Speaker 1: public knows that they will always bet the over. Me
- 27:53Speaker 1: and Chad will always take the other side. Um, not blindly.
- 27:56Speaker 1: It's all about the matchups, right. I know for a
- 27:57Speaker 1: fact we're both on the over last year Bill's Chiefs
- 28:00Speaker 1: game that was at Arrowhead. But in this matchup, I
- 28:03Speaker 1: just I gotta take the under, so um hoping it
- 28:07Speaker 1: gets up the forty eight and a half. I did
- 28:09Speaker 1: throw a little more on the forty seven and a
- 28:10Speaker 1: half when I got there. I just think the public
- 28:13Speaker 1: as a week will go along. I just see them
- 28:15Speaker 1: betting the over. It's just the my homes effect like
- 28:18Speaker 1: you said, would open that you you gotta have fifty
- 28:20Speaker 1: three or something a little in between there, right, four
- 28:23Speaker 1: day and a half would make more sense. Forty nine
- 28:25Speaker 1: and a half would make sense. I don't. I don't
- 28:27Speaker 1: see it getting back up to fifty one, but I
- 28:29Speaker 1: could see it keep keep rising a little bit as
- 28:31Speaker 1: a public will come in here on this over um.
- 28:34Speaker 1: But yeah, I thought the only game I flipball was
- 28:36Speaker 1: this one. I thought I would flip back to the
- 28:38Speaker 1: Chiefs if my homes um looked the way he did.
- 28:41Speaker 1: I just did not see him looking as good as
- 28:43Speaker 1: he did, Like this was truly mine. But from what
- 28:44Speaker 1: I saw Sunday, I thought this kid would be in
- 28:47Speaker 1: a walking boot all week. Game time decision completely wrong,
- 28:51Speaker 1: like whatever. I maybe I underestimated the medical treatment, but
- 28:55Speaker 1: it was just one of those where it's just it's
- 28:57Speaker 1: what we saw in the field, Like the kid just
- 28:59Speaker 1: looked completely different obviously afterwards. Um. So that that's that's
- 29:04Speaker 1: the best part of this whole week right now is
- 29:06Speaker 1: we're gonna it looks like we're gonna get a percent
- 29:08Speaker 1: of homes, which is great. Right now, of the bets
- 29:14Speaker 1: meeting the public are on the over of the money
- 29:18Speaker 1: is on the under. Yeah, right, it makes sense. That's
- 29:22Speaker 1: just a that's a that's a pro under there, because
- 29:24Speaker 1: everyone's gonna be on the over all. Right, Well, listen,
- 29:26Speaker 1: we gotta do a foxhole. Also, I want to point
- 29:29Speaker 1: out one other thing that's just amazing. We gotta do
- 29:33Speaker 1: a foxhole. We gotta do with Simon says, we gotta
- 29:36Speaker 1: do an exact decision. Let's do it. I mean, people
- 29:38Speaker 1: know what we're doing. Yeah, so why don't why don't
- 29:41Speaker 1: we do? Simon says, first, and then I'll do exact
- 29:45Speaker 1: decision and then we can settle on our foxhold. I
- 29:48Speaker 1: gotta just be a man. I just gotta pick side.
- 29:50Speaker 1: So we did big balls for the Eagles, I'll do
- 29:52Speaker 1: Simon says, grab that, my homes. You can get it
- 29:55Speaker 1: at pick right now, or get it at the minus one.
- 30:00Speaker 1: We do what science exact decision. Chad is going, Oh
- 30:05Speaker 1: my god, I am so torn between the under forty
- 30:09Speaker 1: seven and a half, which makes me nervous just because
- 30:11Speaker 1: it's not the number I like, or the over forty
- 30:14Speaker 1: six and a half, which makes me nervous because it
- 30:16Speaker 1: is a fucking gut bet that's it. Betty Betting's hard, brother,
- 30:21Speaker 1: betting is hard. I'm going with the under forty seven
- 30:25Speaker 1: and a half for the Bengals and the Chiefs. The
- 30:29Speaker 1: choice between the unthinkable and the impossible. Are you happy?
- 30:35Speaker 1: Exept decision? And then I think our foxhole should be
- 30:40Speaker 1: the over. Yeah, and the Eagles. You know me, regardless
- 30:43Speaker 1: of what's going on, I'm a foxhole guy. I commit
- 30:46Speaker 1: to a team, I commit to a city. I'm a
- 30:47Speaker 1: foxhole guy. The mix of a foxhole big ball because
- 30:50Speaker 1: this this this takes balls. Even Chad scared of this one.
- 30:53Speaker 1: I'm totally scared of this One's where once again, the
- 30:57Speaker 1: first quarter will know where're gonna be out with this
- 30:59Speaker 1: bet pretty quick. I totally believe it totally makes me nervous.
- 31:03Speaker 1: So to recap, the foxhole is over Eagle San Francisco,
- 31:10Speaker 1: Simon says his Chiefs minus one slash pick exact decision
- 31:13Speaker 1: is under forty seven and a half since the k C,
- 31:16Speaker 1: I do think you should wait on it, by the way,
- 31:18Speaker 1: because I do think that's gonna go up a little bit.
- 31:20Speaker 1: I'm hoping. And then the big balls as Eagles minus
- 31:22Speaker 1: two and a half. Motherfucker. It's not like gust In
- 31:27Speaker 1: the year in the not in the year, you know
- 31:29Speaker 1: what I mean. I have two favorites head into the
- 31:30Speaker 1: Super Bowl weekend. But last year at this point we
- 31:34Speaker 1: had the Bengals three and a half and we had
- 31:36Speaker 1: the three and a half and one covered and one
- 31:38Speaker 1: one outright. So this year, hope we're going for two
- 31:41Speaker 1: for two, both winners outright. Here's the schedule for the
- 31:44Speaker 1: next couple of weeks, a lot of Super Bowl betting content.
- 31:49Speaker 1: On Tuesday. Next Tuesday one, we'll do our initial Super
- 31:54Speaker 1: Bowl betting preview. You and I from England, live from England.
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- 32:02Speaker 1: who listen on AMP, we were doing all this Manchester,
- 32:05Speaker 1: England band stuff after the show was over. That is
- 32:10Speaker 1: because Simon will be in uh, Northern England for part
- 32:15Speaker 1: of the week that he's uh that he's across the pond.
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- 32:41Speaker 1: of the year with two of the biggest stars in
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- 33:04Speaker 1: amazing all season, really smart. He's the one who tipped
- 33:07Speaker 1: everybody off to Eagles outline of minus twenty and a
- 33:10Speaker 1: half against the Giants paid off at about three and
- 33:12Speaker 1: a half to one. So that is the schedule for
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