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Torn ACLs, Big Finishes & A Baby Born | NFL Week 15 Recap · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Sunday Week fifteen, wrapping up, the Chiefs are eliminated, the
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Patriots wind streak is over, and we have a new podcast, Baby.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, presented by DraftKings. I'm your host
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Brandon Kravitz, joined by my fellow d Jens Kendram Middleton.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Evan Abrams is with us tonight as well. Stucky is
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: out for the night as he and his wife have
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  Speaker 1: welcomed in the newest member of their family and ours.
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  Speaker 2: So congratulations to them.
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  Speaker 1: We have our first podcast, Baby that isn't a shrimp Kendro.
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  Speaker 2: This is huge news.
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  Speaker 3: It's massive news. Congrats to them. I can't believe.
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  Speaker 4: Stucky was tweeting after his child's birth about the games
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  Speaker 4: was so iconic, so good, congrats, so great.
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  Speaker 1: And apparently the I believe the time of birth was
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  Speaker 1: one pm exactly on the East Coast. So born into
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: a football family and already ready to watch some Titans football.
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  Speaker 2: We've got our goats and wotes queued up.
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  Speaker 1: Our biggest takeaways from the Sunday slate A fast pass
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  Speaker 1: parlay for Dolphin Steelers Monday Night Football, Kendra. We have
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  Speaker 1: so much to cover today that we're gonna definitely have
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: some meat left on the bone for Tuesday's episode, where
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  Speaker 1: do we even begin?
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  Speaker 2: Who's your goat on the day?
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  Speaker 4: My I have so many goats, but I think I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna go with the Commanders.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously that was massive and Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 4: Those were the two biggest things that I needed today
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  Speaker 4: and they both happened.
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  Speaker 3: Probably gonna go with.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, I'll save that for our biggest takeaways from the
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  Speaker 4: one o'clock hour by I'm gonna go Commanders and Josh
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  Speaker 4: Allen because somebody else wrote what I was gonna say
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  Speaker 4: on here, so I'll save that for them.
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  Speaker 1: The Trevor Lawrence performance today, even if it was against
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  Speaker 1: the Jets, I am not gonna scoff at accounting for
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  Speaker 1: six touchdowns forty eight points.
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  Speaker 2: These Jacksonville Jaguars might just be for real. My goat
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  Speaker 2: on the day is mister Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I actually picked up some swag just to
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  Speaker 1: commemorate the moment here since we are Jacksonville Jaguars podcast.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, use your goat today, I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Gonna flip it. My wote is first will be the Raiders.
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  Speaker 5: Uh I, Just every single week it seems like they
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  Speaker 5: get worse and now they are forced and I say
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  Speaker 5: forced to go play the best defense in the NFL
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  Speaker 5: and the Texans next week. It's almost gonna be, as
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  Speaker 5: you know, watchable as Philip rivers today. Uh and my
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  Speaker 5: my goat is stuck because, honestly, as unbelievable as you know,
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  Speaker 5: the whole process is a child on an NFL Sunday fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: The dude is logging bets as well, taking both sides
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  Speaker 5: of the Packers and the Broncos. He's looking for from
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  Speaker 5: a middle while just having a baby. And then the
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  Speaker 5: Ravens put up a shutout right after his kids born.
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  Speaker 5: There's really nothing better than that. So shout out the stuck.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out the stuck.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, great call on the Buffalo Bills as well, and
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  Speaker 1: not so much on the Kansas City Chiefs. We went
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  Speaker 1: tend to head with the Chargers and the Chiefs, and
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  Speaker 1: so of course an honorary goat for Justin Herbert and
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  Speaker 1: those hard charging LA Chargers for coming through not just
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  Speaker 1: getting the win or the cover, but the win as well.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we have to mention, by the way, what was.
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  Speaker 5: That I thought you were gonna let it go?
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  Speaker 2: But now, okay, here's the thing. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: You guys actually share that one because the bills were stuck.
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  Speaker 1: He's plant the flag and then then they were your
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  Speaker 1: How am I supposed to keep track of all this stuff?
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  Speaker 1: I need to start writing this down. But listen, you
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  Speaker 1: came home on the commanders for us, and that was huge.
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  Speaker 1: I had myself a nice profitable day, and certainly a
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  Speaker 1: part of that was tailing some of the knowledge that
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  Speaker 1: you bring to the table for our podcasts, and I
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  Speaker 1: greatly appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm wearing a jags at right now. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to catch any shit tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, you're jagging off, baby, let's go, I get that right.
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  Speaker 2: But Patrick Mahomes injured. He's done for the year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Chiefs are done for the year, so
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  Speaker 1: it kind of doesn't matter as far as this season goes.
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  Speaker 2: But huge news.
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  Speaker 1: It's an ACL tear, so he's gonna be rehabbing this
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  Speaker 1: all throughout the offseason. Evan, is the dynasty over or
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  Speaker 1: is it just a pause?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I think it takes a bit of a hit. Like
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  Speaker 5: I think we're gonna see Minchew probably for the rest
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  Speaker 5: of this season. Next week they're at Tennessee line's gone
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  Speaker 5: down to four and a half. My personal opinion shut
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  Speaker 5: it all down for this year, Like there is no
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  Speaker 5: reason for anybody over the age of twenty eight, yes,
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  Speaker 5: over the age of twenty eight, to be playing another
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  Speaker 5: day for Kansas City. I think based off of all
• 5:03
  Speaker 5: the games they've played as a group in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 5: it's like an extra season, an extra season and a half,
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  Speaker 5: Like just let everybody relax and then take a reset.
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  Speaker 5: I think they needed like the offseason. They need additions.
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  Speaker 5: They need to do things to actually make the roster better,
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  Speaker 5: because I think that's what got them got them this year,
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  Speaker 5: the blocking, the defense, the pass catchers, like they just
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  Speaker 5: they need more help and hopefully the homes comes back
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  Speaker 5: week three, Like I think Week one is a little crazy,
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  Speaker 5: but you know it's pat So we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Kendrew, where do you fall on where we are with
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  Speaker 1: the current form of the Kansas City Chiefs, we'll get to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for them, they're done for this year, and
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  Speaker 1: anybody that had an under on their win total, congrats
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  Speaker 1: you the playoffs. What do you get that that sounded?
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  Speaker 1: That's got to be at least plus two?
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  Speaker 3: Funny, let me pull it up next time one of
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  Speaker 3: you are talking. I don't think the dynasty's over.
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  Speaker 4: I think that it's probably more so just they need
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  Speaker 4: to retool, which we kind of all knew before the
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  Speaker 4: beginning of this season. Anyway, Like if you thought that
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  Speaker 4: they were going to run away with you know, the AFC,
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  Speaker 4: I think that you just haven't been watching the last
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  Speaker 4: couple of seasons.
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  Speaker 3: They're teams so old and like he just said, like
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  Speaker 3: they've played so.
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  Speaker 4: Many games, which is why I kind of had the
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  Speaker 4: thought process that I did when betting them to miss
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  Speaker 4: the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't think it's over. They just need to retool.
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  Speaker 4: Like he's going to come back. Sure he won't be
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  Speaker 4: one hundred percent, but I don't I don't expect him
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  Speaker 4: to ever not play in another Super Bowl, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean. Like his career is probably only what
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  Speaker 4: half over a little over half.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's not forget Brady had bagged a couple of
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowls before he tore his ACL and he's still
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  Speaker 1: cranked out a few more after that.
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  Speaker 2: So they definitely have a lot of work to do,
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  Speaker 2: and they will get.
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  Speaker 1: Busy in the offseason because, as Evan mentioned, it's every
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  Speaker 1: piece of that team. I think going to the super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl last year off of all of those one possession wins,
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  Speaker 1: I think it masked a lot of their problems and
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  Speaker 1: they didn't really go hard into the off season trying
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  Speaker 1: to fix those because they they go, well, why would
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  Speaker 1: we We made it to the super Bowl, And I
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  Speaker 1: think that that sort of deodorized a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: problems that they had. Not the only injury today, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, Micah Parsons also torn ACL. At least that's
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  Speaker 1: what it looked like. Do we get the official word
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  Speaker 1: on that. I don't want to speculate, but to me,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like a torn ACL the way that his
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  Speaker 1: knee bent sideways and was helped.
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  Speaker 3: Off the locker roving question.
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  Speaker 1: I believe Mike Florio had reported that this was yeah,
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  Speaker 1: an ACL.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's what it looked like. Let's I'm not
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  Speaker 2: a like.
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  Speaker 5: We've seen Yeah, we're gonnare that right now?
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  Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport is also saying that it is believed that
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  Speaker 1: he has suffered a torn ACL. Rarely do you see
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  Speaker 1: the fear a torn a cl and then the next
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  Speaker 1: report is like, just kidding.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually just uh something else.
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  Speaker 1: So it looks like he's done for the year, as
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  Speaker 1: well as somebody that has Packers futures. Evan, what does
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  Speaker 1: that do for your confidence on this team moving forward?
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, they just lost the Broncos. The Broncos,
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  Speaker 1: at what point are we going to buy into this team?
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  Speaker 1: They're obviously real at this point.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, So starting with the Packers, I like them
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  Speaker 5: before they got Mica, so I think I need to
• 8:15
  Speaker 5: take a step back. And you know, obviously a deflating
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  Speaker 5: day for people who believe in the team and have
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  Speaker 5: those tickets. I mean though, if it was just Christian Watson,
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  Speaker 5: I probably could have handled that given the depth at
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  Speaker 5: target and wide receiver, even without Craft as well. But
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  Speaker 5: the fact that you've got the Watson injury and the
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  Speaker 5: Parsons and the loss hard not to be dejected. But
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  Speaker 5: I will say this, Lions lost Bears one. But we
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  Speaker 5: have that matchup next week Saturday, short a little short rest,
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  Speaker 5: which kind of sucks, but I'm gonna try to stay positive.
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  Speaker 5: Like Green Bay either way should make the playoffs, so
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  Speaker 5: there at least is going to be a shot there,
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  Speaker 5: but their luck this year has just been absolutely crappy,
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  Speaker 5: So heard to stay away from that.
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  Speaker 1: One one of my wotes today is the Seattle Seahawks,
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  Speaker 1: and I know they pulled out a win.
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  Speaker 2: By the skin of their teeth.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that they struggled with Philip Rivers as much
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  Speaker 1: as they did today, who could not move a lick.
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  Speaker 1: The easiest bet I cashed all day was under half
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  Speaker 1: a rushing yard for Philip Rivers. This guy was immobile
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  Speaker 1: and at their entire game plan was so predictable. It
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  Speaker 1: was just it was short, easy passes for Rivers, hand
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  Speaker 1: the ball off to Jonathan Taylor. To me, this is
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  Speaker 1: a big hit in my confidence of the Seattle Seahawks. Kendra,
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  Speaker 1: how do you read this whole situation or do you
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  Speaker 1: just want to give Philip Rivers the forty four year
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  Speaker 1: old grandpa's flowers today?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't want to keep scrolling, But one of the
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  Speaker 4: things that did pop up for me is the under
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  Speaker 4: ten and a half win total for the Chiefs was
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  Speaker 4: plus one fifty, So that did cash. I will go
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  Speaker 4: through the rest of my bets later and find that
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  Speaker 4: for our show on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: As far as the Philip Rivers say.
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  Speaker 4: I also lost confidence in Seattle today because I had
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  Speaker 4: their defense for an any time score. Because I thought
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  Speaker 4: that they would pick the old man off and they didn't.
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  Speaker 4: And considering the inconsistencies that Sam Darnold has been having,
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  Speaker 4: the fact that they couldn't capitalize on playing a forty
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  Speaker 4: four year old grandfather, how does that not take a dip?
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  Speaker 4: How does your confidence in them not take a dip?
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  Speaker 4: And the other thing is, like I low Keim in
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  Speaker 4: the camp that he should go into the Hall.
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  Speaker 3: Of Fame just for the performance he had today. Was
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  Speaker 3: it boring?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: If it was not a forty four year old man,
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  Speaker 4: would I be sitting here being like, whoa, that was awesome?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely fucking not.
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  Speaker 4: But that man has been on his couch for almost
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: five years and came out and almost beat debatably a
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  Speaker 4: top two defense in the NFL this season.
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  Speaker 3: Like that's that's insane.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what that was.
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  Speaker 1: Everything I wanted from the Mike Tyson fight and didn't
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  Speaker 1: get was what we got for Rivers. It's a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: fight out there. I mean, the Colts very well could
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  Speaker 1: have won that game.
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  Speaker 3: So insane.
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  Speaker 5: He had a game winning drive basically, I mean it
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  Speaker 5: did set up a sixty yarder, So I don't exactly
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  Speaker 5: want to give him the full credit. Maybe I would give, like,
• 11:06
  Speaker 5: maybe give me ten to fifteen more yards, but he
• 11:08
  Speaker 5: got him in position. He did everything he had to do.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 3: I wonder what those numbers were like.
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  Speaker 4: I know that the number closed at what thirteen and
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: a half fourteenen but I didn't want.
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  Speaker 5: That down a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know what the pricing wound up being on it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm curious to go back and look at this point,
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: because holy crap.
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  Speaker 5: I mean commised with one hundred and twenty passing yards,
• 11:29
  Speaker 5: so definitely went under that through the touchdown pass, which
• 11:32
  Speaker 5: was nice, but it was a lot of runs. It
• 11:35
  Speaker 5: was conservative, to say the least, but he can sling it,
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  Speaker 5: and I think he gave him a better chance. I
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  Speaker 5: think the defense also played a lot better. I think
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  Speaker 5: they just felt more motivated as a team to have
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  Speaker 5: him back there versus say Riley Leonard. So I think anything,
• 11:51
  Speaker 5: the team played better because he was out there. But
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  Speaker 5: I think he was mild leading mediocre would be probably
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  Speaker 5: what I would say.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: Some other takeaways to get to I want to stick
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: on the biggest game of the one o'clock slate, and
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  Speaker 1: that was the Bills and the Patriots and it looked
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: like it was gonna be all New England twenty one nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and then Buffalo comes barreling back and it is is
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: if people don't watch this league every single week, I
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: saw the tweets firing out way too early.
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: I would like to read.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: You, guys some of these please yes, various celebrities, including
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  Speaker 1: one that's on this podcast. Let's start with somebody by
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: the name of Will Compton. He said the Patriots week schedule,
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: haters are sick watching this ass beating against the Buffalo Bills.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: What about Pat McAfee, one of the biggest media stars
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: out there today, belt to ass in Foxborough? The Patriots
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: are a problem several ms. Emmanuel Acho, often outspoken, says
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  Speaker 1: this is a state by the Patriots. Also, the Bills
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  Speaker 1: defense way too slow. How about our very own Kendra Middleton.
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  Speaker 1: The Patriots are going to win the Super Bowl, aren't they?
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  Speaker 1: And then here come the Buffalo Bills. Kendra, what do
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  Speaker 1: you have to say for your crow?
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  Speaker 2: What is this? I will better?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? I first of all, First of all, I bet
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  Speaker 3: on the Bills.
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  Speaker 4: Second of all, I went on not only our morning show,
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: our night show and my morning show on the weekends
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  Speaker 4: backing the Bills. I was so ready to eat crow.
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: But everyone can suck me at work this week. Call
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  Speaker 4: into my show six one seven seven, seven nine zero
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  Speaker 4: ninety eight five. I'll be there so much this week.
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  Speaker 4: Call me the amount of crap people were saying in
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: my DMS.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait to go to work this week.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait. I can't wait. I can't wait to
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  Speaker 3: listen to the callers.
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  Speaker 4: Ah.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why I'm surprised that you that you
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  Speaker 1: gave up on.
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  Speaker 2: It as quick.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not even kidding I was.
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: This happens. It happens every night in the NBA. This
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: happens every week in the NFL. People need to get
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: off of Twitter before the deep depths of the fourth quarter.
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: That's my main.
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  Speaker 3: Picking my ass all season long. Like I was ready
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  Speaker 3: for it. I literally you know what, They've been kicking
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: my ass all season long.
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: But you know what I'll have forever my bet on
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  Speaker 4: Vegas the first game and the freaking Buffalo Bills.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: This week. I will take the l's for those two dubs.
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: I think all I would have asked was that they
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: maybe waited five minutes into the third quarter to at
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: least fire off the first tweet because Buffalo scored four
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: touchdowns in their first four drives in the second half, Like,
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: if you would have just waited five minutes, maybe you
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: would have been like, oh, we actually have a game here.
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: This is just the game script that we all knew.
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: Brandon Anderson, who obviously works for Action now attracts all
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: of picks in the New England first half Buffalo second half.
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: It was just it was the bet that people assumed
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: was gonna happen in this game, and it literally worked
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  Speaker 5: to a t. Couldn't have been any more perfect. But
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: the thing, I guess back up for one second. The
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: positive from New England. They ran the ball really well,
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: and again, everybody runs the ball really well against Buffalo,
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: but it was actually kind of nice to see some
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: balance from New England side, which we hadn't seen for
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: a while, which I'll take as a positive going forward
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  Speaker 5: because listen, they're gonna be in the playoffs either way.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: They're probably gonna win the division either way, as long
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: as they take care of business. But that was a
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  Speaker 5: positive for me.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know. They play the Ravens next week, correct, it.
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  Speaker 2: Does look play I mean, I don't.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take too much away from New England
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  Speaker 1: in losing this game. That was an all time effort
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  Speaker 1: from Buffalo in the second half. The Patriots had one
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty straight home games where they were leading
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: it by seventeen or more without losing the game, and
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: that streak was broken today. So that was one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty plus at home leading by seventeen or more
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  Speaker 1: broken by number seventeen, which is beautiful poetry. And then
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs after the game said something that I completely
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  Speaker 1: agree with. It's a little bit narrative based, but he
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: said that they needed to lose that game in order
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: to kind of wake up because they were living in
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: a dreamland. Kendrick, it sounds like you would agree with
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: that statement that this might actually turn out to be
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: a bit of a positive for the Patriots moving forward.
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  Speaker 4: I definitely think it's probably a little bit of a
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: reality check for them, considering the world that they have
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: ahead is it doesn't really matter who you pulled in
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: the AFC, it's probably gonna be a blood bath.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: So I think one it.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Was a reality check for them, So I do think
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: in the end it'll wind up being a positive.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: But I'm not gonna fully make up my mind.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: Until I see how they look against Baltimore because just
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know fully who they are. Do I think
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: they're a good team, Yes? Do I think that they
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: deserve to be in the postseason?
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: Do I think that Josh McDaniels has absolutely just elevated
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Drake Made to the Nines. Yes, But I need them
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: to I need to see them play another good, hungry
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: team before I decide whether I believe.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: In them in the postseason or not.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: The problem is is if they lose to the Ravens
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: and then take care of business against like the Jets
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: and Dolphins, and they entered the playoffs that way, You're
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: still gonna have no faith in them, Right, I don't know?
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Because no, I don't think so.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Because as long as I, as long as I see
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: them compete with Baltimore, even if they lose to the
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Ravens by like a walk off field goal, I think
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: that I would still feel decent about that because it's
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: obviously in away game for them, and Lamar has to
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: be on a terrork because their division is even more
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: wide open if they don't take If they don't take
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: care of business against the Jets in Miami. I will
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: have more concerns than whether they lose to Baltimore by
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: a walk off field goal or a situation like that.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Okay, it's just they have such the cupcake schedule. Most
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: people would probably go down the path to be like, Okay,
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: you know, you did what you had to do, but
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: you couldn't beat the teams At the end, there's going
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: to be an excuse, because I think they always want
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: to have an excuse with this team. But that is
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: the most likely case I can see coming already.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: A couple of other quick notes from the one PMS
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Pete Carroll might have to go that team is an embarrassment.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Good to see the Eagles get a cover, though, because
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: they have really struggled with that. The Texans, if we're
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: talking about a beta ble angle, I don't think logging
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a Texan super Bowl bet right now is such a
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: bad idea. They're eleven to one to win the Super
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Bowl plus four seventy five. If you just think that
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: one of these juggernauts in the NFC is going to
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: win the whole thing. Best defense in the NFL with
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: an offense that's capable of scoring forty. Those are the
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: kind of teams that win Super Bowls. So I think
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that that's one that I would look at. I'm probably
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: gonna end up taking some sort of Texans future. I
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: feel like I've seen the offense Mary with the elite
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: defense enough now to where I feel comfortable doing that.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: And the Bengals officially.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Eliminated from the playoffs today, any other takeaways Kendro from
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the one o'clocks before we move on.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: I gotta say the boys better start doing their nails
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: and drinking their mamachia because KAYLEB Williams is on y'all's ass.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: That's what I have to say about that.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: So the Bears put a thumping on the Cleveland. It's
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the Browns though.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Do we bet the Browns next week? Who do the
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Browns have next week? I think I think this might
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: be a bro.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: Wait, you actually did the brown You don't know? The
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: Browns are at home. They're double digit under the bills.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, the Bells.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're definitely ending up. Oh my god, they're ending
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: up on the car. And you already you already.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: That's gonna be fun.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we can basically lock that one in.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: That's a guarantee, uh into the four o'clock window. The
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Niners hang on to against the Tennessee Titans. That was
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: a big time sweat. But I covered that one. That
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: was the plant the flag game from yours truly, and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: let's see the Saints wound up walking off against the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: That's not good. It is what happens, Evan.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: It continues when this team is favored, you cannot trust them.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: They are only betable as underdogs.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: They just couldn't close this game. They were up, I
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: believe seventeen to seven and literally couldn't get the first down.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: They got stuffed, gave the ball back to New Orleans
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: multiple times. I mean, they were asking to lose this
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: game on the road. And that throw from Bryce Young
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: that we had, that rainbow throw was maybe the throw
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: of his career in a loss, which obviously says something
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: about this. But listen, it all comes down to Carolina
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: and Tampa Bay anyway, So that feels like the right
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: way to end this two games against each other. I
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: made a joke before, like Todd Bowles when Carolina was
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: winning this game before had to gone out and look
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: for like a positivity pirate or something like that to
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: try to switch this locker room. Because god, it was
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: just imagine trying to watch this game in Carolina leading early,
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: were gonna lose yourself.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: But did you guys see the meme of the Panthers
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: and the Saints kissing with Todd Bowles in the box
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: in the cock chair.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: No, thank you for that, though I did not.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: It was so good. I know I liked it.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: I'll have to find it and send it in our
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: slack because I thought it was so funny.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: It is very on brand for the NFC South. The
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: two top teams in the NFC South to lose this
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: week the exact same week to the bottom teams in
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the NFC South, So that was one of the other ones.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Already talked about. The Seahawks and the Colts. The Seahawks
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: struggling to put an old man, Philip Rivers away, and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: let's see anything else.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Oh well, yeah, well we had the Lions in the Rams.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: The Rams put it who The Detroit Lions spent some
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: time without Pokinakua in this game. DeVante Adams went down
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury and still their running attack is
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: so good. The combo of Kyon Williams and Blake Korum
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: is the element of this team that we have not
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: discussed enough. Stafford's been great. The receivers are awesome. The
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: defense is top three in the NFL. But those running
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: backs are really, really good.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: You did say one name.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: I'm a buyer, of course, he said one keyword. You said,
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: receivers are good. I'm expecting at least DeVante not to
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: be there on Thursday night, soame right. Yeah, So I mean,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: we'll see about that. And Pooka got hurt, but he
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: should he it was just cramped.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: He'll be came back into the game.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Rams right now, laying one and a half in Seattle.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: It looks like the current line on Thursday night football.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: And honestly, the way the NFL works and how bad
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Seattle looked today, Seattle's probably a decent bet. But we'll
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: see what happens.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: The Browns.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there you go.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: And then one other thought, we had the Packers and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the Broncos. The Broncos just continue to not be the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: sharp side going into these games, and then they win.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: They cover this.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: This is a very difficult team to figure out. Bo
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Nicks throws a very catchuble football is one of my
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: big takeaways from this game. But NFL Totals have to
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: be the toughest market to read. I wanted an under
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: in this game. I didn't wind up taking it. I'm
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: so glad that I didn't. You have two top defenses
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, two teams that like to kind of
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: grind it out in terms of their pace playoff like
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Atmosphere cold weather, the unders taking money the whole week,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and then the oversmashes. This is why me and NFL totals,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: it's like oil and water. So I'm glad that I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: was able to stay away because that was when I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: was eyeing the entire week.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: The Broncos still don't scare me in the postseason, though,
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Like if I'm like an NFL team, it doesn't really
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: matter if it's a Homer away.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Game, I don't. They don't scare me. Do they scare
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: anybody else? Are you intimidated by them?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Intimidated?
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: No? But they will they That's one of those teams
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: that might just might just find their way into the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: super Bowl when it's all said and done.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Imagine Bonick's super Bowl champion. I would literally vomit.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Any thoughts on either of those.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: I was gonna say today, did give you guys back
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: your Christmas nights? Since Denver's and Kansas City, Uh so
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: you probably don't need to watch that one as closely
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: as you might have, because a Casey win today, they
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: would have beaten Tennessee and you know, things probably would
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: have mattered for them in that game, but not so
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: much anymore. I don't know. I mean, Denver's defense is
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: so freaking good week to week, and even with the
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: points put up by Green Bay today, like it's not
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: like exactly what Denver's defense is. The pressure they have,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: the secondary they have like week to week, it's a
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: dominant piece. And when you see Sutton and Franklin and
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: Mims like everything starts to roll, They're gonna be very
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: tough to beat. So it's hard not to believe in Denver.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: My long shot super Bowl pick I put on pods
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: in the preseason was Denver and Philly, and I don't
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: know how I backed into that one.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Wow, And that is kind of live right now, yeah,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: kind of We are gonna skip. We're gonna skip a
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Sunday night football breakdown because we already have the Vikings.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: That was one of the legs of our parlay.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Of course, the parlay that snapped because of the Browns
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: plus seven and a half wasn't even close. But my
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: nomination was the Minnesota Vikings plus five. We got it
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: in the parlay at plus six and a half because
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: we bought an extra point. So that'll be our play
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: as a show for tonight before we get to Monday
• 25:41
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to our Draft Kings Monday Night Football fast
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: pass parlay before we settle in for Cowboys Vikings. Tonight,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: we're talking Dolphins Steelers. Steelers minus three at home total
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: sitting at forty two and a half. My nomination is
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: going to be for a backup running back for the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. I'm going Jalen Wright over seventeen and a
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: half rushing yards. Eight Chan has been on the injury
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: report all week. He is gonna play, it looks like,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: but he's dealing with a rib injury that could pop
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: up at any time, and I think they're gonna give
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: the Steelers a nice steady dose of the ground game
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: either way, no chance they put this game into his hands.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be nineteen degrees twenty four carries for Jalen
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Wright last week. He's clearly taken over the backup role,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and the Dolphins are tied for the most rush attempts
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: per game in the NFL over the last four weeks.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go over seventeen and a half.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I can be talked into in anytime touchdown for him,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: which is three to one. But I'm gonna nominate for
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the parlay over seventeen and a half rushing yards for
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the backup running back Kendra off.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: To you eastole my thunder.
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: I just had a chan for in anytime minus one
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: oh five because with the injury, this was the best
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: price we were gonna probably get him at for the
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: foreseeable future unless something insane happens.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: So that's why I went with that.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: And Plus, when it's a parlay, I don't mind taking
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: like a one minus one oh five situation for a
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: prop just because you're obviously adding other things. But it's
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: just so as someone who lives in the Northeast, it
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: is cold as hell outside, They're gonna run the ball
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: into the ground.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter who it's gonna be. But I'm just
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: gonna go with the safest option because it's a parlay.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think we can very much get home
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: on both of these. There's there's no reason why. I mean,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: we were kind of leaning into the same.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Thought process process.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just the Dolphins running the hell out of the football,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: all right, Evan had a leg for us.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna slam this together on the app.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: I was gonna do Ali Gordon, but you kind of
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: stole the stole the thunder of the prospect of the pick,
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: and in the cold, Ali Gordon touchdown kind of felt right,
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: but we'll go separate. Adam Feelen touchdown will be what
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: we add to this parlay. Rogers a week of extra practice.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: He you know, he loves his tight end, so trying
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: to choose between his three tight ends felt a little difficult.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: If I had to choose one, it'd probably be Friar remooth.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: I saw that Washington cleared concussion protocol, but who the
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: heck knows? So Adam thelen atd let's roll all.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Right, Adam Theeeling, by the way, adds some nice, some
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: nice wiggle room for us here on the parlay. He's
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: plus eight hundred to score a touchdown, so we've got
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: what I put Jalen right at fifteen plus in there,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: especially since we're taking the long shot on the touchdown.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Adam Thelin anytime touchdown, Devon, anytime touchdown your draft Kings
• 29:03
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• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Kings where the crown is yours.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: That's gonna do it.
• 29:12
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