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- 1:17Speaker 1: Welcome favorites the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network. I'm
- 1:22Speaker 1: Chad Moment, chief Content Officer of the Action Network. I
- 1:26Speaker 1: am gonna welcome in my BFF, my companion, my compadre,
- 1:31Speaker 1: South Jersey's Finest, Philly's favorite son, professional Better signing hunter.
- 1:40Speaker 1: Thank you, Chad. These are truly for me as a
- 1:43Speaker 1: professional better. He is the dog days of summer. Not
- 1:45Speaker 1: like normal people. My summer is really May to midway
- 1:48Speaker 1: through June and that's kind of over. So trying to
- 1:51Speaker 1: stay busy. Me and Chad, we don't do this show
- 1:54Speaker 1: that often. Uh so I summer, I'll trying to make
- 2:00Speaker 1: a quick story. Me and a couple of guys bought
- 2:03Speaker 1: row Home. So it's about ten rows, like ten A
- 2:06Speaker 1: Holmes condos in a row home up in North Jersey.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Because our vision was, you know, we'll have six renters
- 2:13Speaker 1: and then four we'll rent out to our runners that
- 2:16Speaker 1: can live up in North Jersey. It's like New Jersey's
- 2:18Speaker 1: can go Ben p A and Bet in New York.
- 2:21Speaker 1: So we hired a guy you know to do fix
- 2:24Speaker 1: these places up. And again this is summer of I
- 2:27Speaker 1: think you've gotten three and a half done and came
- 2:30Speaker 1: to us in October of so again, I'm in the
- 2:32Speaker 1: middle of football season doing this stuff with you chat
- 2:34Speaker 1: and he goes, listen, I'm losing money now working for
- 2:37Speaker 1: you guys, because supplies have gone up so much because
- 2:39Speaker 1: everyone in America started doing fixing their asses up. Sorright.
- 2:44Speaker 1: We sorry, buddy, you're fired. We got rid of hand.
- 2:46Speaker 1: We'll do it ourselves. Blah blah blah. No one did
- 2:49Speaker 1: anything I would say for a good good year, honestly,
- 2:53Speaker 1: because all of us we already had three three of
- 2:55Speaker 1: them done. We're doing them out and then we were
- 2:57Speaker 1: letting the runners sleep in this kind of like kind
- 2:59Speaker 1: of the beat up condo has ever left there. So
- 3:03Speaker 1: I've been trying to go up there and fix stuff up, Chad,
- 3:05Speaker 1: now that we're in the off season and I'm not
- 3:07Speaker 1: meant to. These hands were not meant for hard work.
- 3:10Speaker 1: Uh learning stuff though learned you gotta turn the main
- 3:13Speaker 1: water off to the house before you start taking pipes out. Um.
- 3:18Speaker 1: I don't want to get into the grossness of opening
- 3:20Speaker 1: up pipes. I've been in a building for over fifty years,
- 3:22Speaker 1: but you can imagine it. So it's been it's been experienced,
- 3:26Speaker 1: let's say, trying to fix up an old row home.
- 3:29Speaker 1: But I'm then loving it. It's honestly fun work learning
- 3:32Speaker 1: to do this stuff because I have no handyman skill
- 3:35Speaker 1: in my body. You and me both, buddy, uh, Any
- 3:40Speaker 1: single time something easy had done in my house, lightbulb changing,
- 3:44Speaker 1: you know, the dishwasher joor is a jar. I look
- 3:48Speaker 1: at my wife and I say, it feels like an
- 3:51Speaker 1: architect job. They're gonna say, this is why we had kids. Wow, No,
- 3:57Speaker 1: it's why she went to grad school. This is why
- 4:01Speaker 1: you spent three years to get a graduate degree in architecture,
- 4:05Speaker 1: because you married a man who wants nothing to do
- 4:08Speaker 1: with any of us. What you should do is hire Stacy,
- 4:12Speaker 1: and then Stacy can hire a contractor who can go
- 4:14Speaker 1: up to North Jersey for you and fear it all out.
- 4:16Speaker 1: Maybe you might take her up one and we have
- 4:19Speaker 1: I would say four places left to do again, the
- 4:23Speaker 1: guy did three and a half in fall. Of all
- 4:27Speaker 1: we've completed since then is about one and a half.
- 4:29Speaker 1: So let you know we struggling Simon, listen, you're in
- 4:35Speaker 1: the dog days of summer. You've got nothing to do
- 4:38Speaker 1: but renovate right now. Meanwhile, the NFL, as always never ends,
- 4:44Speaker 1: sided schedule dominates the conversation days and days of programming.
- 4:52Speaker 1: We got more to talk about. We got odds for
- 4:55Speaker 1: prime time games. We got Week one odds. We've got
- 4:59Speaker 1: the Eagles bear a tilt in week fifteen. We got
- 5:02Speaker 1: to talk about how I definitely went through the Bear
- 5:05Speaker 1: schedule and tried to pinpoint every game that felt like
- 5:07Speaker 1: a win it was not looking like a lot um.
- 5:11Speaker 1: We got Sean Kerner put out of strength of schedule,
- 5:14Speaker 1: we got a uh some win totals questions that people
- 5:18Speaker 1: have been asking us about before we do any of that.
- 5:22Speaker 1: Let's get to the main event right now. NFL Week one.
- 5:31Speaker 1: I've got thoughts on my favorite bets. You've got thoughts
- 5:35Speaker 1: on your favorite bets. You go, I go, you go,
- 5:41Speaker 1: I go, you go? First Week one favorite bet, Give
- 5:47Speaker 1: it to me right now, so we'll dive in again
- 5:52Speaker 1: on all these games. But early bets. When you're looking
- 5:55Speaker 1: at this stuff, do you want to think how how
- 5:56Speaker 1: our lines canna move through? My favorite bets were Week
- 5:59Speaker 1: one or a lot of dogs, which I think might
- 6:01Speaker 1: come down because other pros are gonna bet these numbers.
- 6:03Speaker 1: There's some dogs that don't touch because I think the
- 6:05Speaker 1: public's gonna come in so heavy on the other side,
- 6:07Speaker 1: it's gonna keep giving me a better number once you
- 6:08Speaker 1: get closer to kickoff. So people, I gotta keep in
- 6:11Speaker 1: mind here week one. I've never seen anything like this before.
- 6:15Speaker 1: We have ten home dogs Week one, ten home dogs
- 6:19Speaker 1: Week one. Chat Like every pro I know is licking
- 6:22Speaker 1: their lips. This is love home dogs. We love home dogs.
- 6:25Speaker 1: This is too easy. They're really the public is so
- 6:29Speaker 1: heavy about what happened last year that Week one. They're
- 6:32Speaker 1: still thinking as if it's last year. It's like, there's
- 6:35Speaker 1: so much turnover, there's so many guys who are back
- 6:37Speaker 1: healthy compared to these teams last year. It's completely flipped.
- 6:41Speaker 1: And the bookmakers know that, and they kind of sucker
- 6:43Speaker 1: these people into these bets. Especially people are betting road
- 6:46Speaker 1: favorite week one. I mean, it's kind of crazy. So
- 6:49Speaker 1: my favorite bet right now for a week one that
- 6:52Speaker 1: just jumped out right away with the Texans. We have
- 6:54Speaker 1: the Sexans. People are viewing them as one of the
- 6:56Speaker 1: worst teams in all football going against the Colts team
- 6:59Speaker 1: that you know they added in Matt Ryan. They're exciting
- 7:02Speaker 1: coming into this season, just because we saw how great
- 7:05Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor was, We saw how good this Colts offense
- 7:07Speaker 1: could be when Carson Wentz was playing good. We expect
- 7:11Speaker 1: Matt Ryan to be a step up from Carson Wentz
- 7:12Speaker 1: last year. So I think the public is in on
- 7:15Speaker 1: the Colts, which you know, I get. I think the
- 7:17Speaker 1: culture a good team. But are they seven a half?
- 7:19Speaker 1: Are they eight? Are they eight and a half points
- 7:21Speaker 1: better than the Texans Week one in a divisional game
- 7:23Speaker 1: on the road. No, So the first bets I made
- 7:27Speaker 1: right when it came out was the Texans a plus
- 7:29Speaker 1: seven and a half. Hit it again at plus eight.
- 7:32Speaker 1: I took it again, a plus eight and a half.
- 7:33Speaker 1: A certain books, it's that's one of those numbers that
- 7:36Speaker 1: I love in a divisional matchup for an early week
- 7:38Speaker 1: where we joke all the time chat it's just the
- 7:41Speaker 1: state of November. Okay, obviously this would be very I
- 7:44Speaker 1: do this very different folse late in the season early
- 7:46Speaker 1: season like this, I mean, come on, that's way too
- 7:50Speaker 1: many points for any team to be catching on the road.
- 7:53Speaker 1: Let it lit a Colts team that did not make
- 7:54Speaker 1: the playoffs last year, like they don't have this moxie
- 7:57Speaker 1: that they should be respected and backed with. So to me,
- 8:00Speaker 1: if Feels are again free points, maybe two or three
- 8:02Speaker 1: free points from the public here taking the Texans team,
- 8:05Speaker 1: it's interesting, Uh, I couldn't agree more. Who love the
- 8:09Speaker 1: Texans in this spot. They were incredibly conderative last year,
- 8:15Speaker 1: and I think the Colts are so inconsistent and they
- 8:18Speaker 1: really have not figured out a way to dominate bad
- 8:22Speaker 1: teams during the Frank reag era. Right, So that's number one.
- 8:27Speaker 1: Completely agree with your assessment on the Texans, especially at
- 8:31Speaker 1: such a big number. Number two. You said there were
- 8:34Speaker 1: ten home dogs. There's actually eleven. I'm looking at it
- 8:38Speaker 1: right now. The Ramps to open the week against the Bills.
- 8:42Speaker 1: The Bills are one point favorites. The Falcons are three
- 8:46Speaker 1: and a half point dogs to the Saints. The Panthers
- 8:49Speaker 1: are four point dogs to the Browns. The Bears are
- 8:53Speaker 1: six and a half point dogs to the Forts. The
- 8:56Speaker 1: Alliance four point dogs to the Eagles, the Texans. We
- 9:00Speaker 1: mentioned um. The Jets are four point dogs to the Ravens.
- 9:05Speaker 1: The Cardinals three point dogs of the the Chiefs. The Vikes
- 9:07Speaker 1: one and a half to the Packer Cowboys, two and
- 9:10Speaker 1: a half to the Bucks, and the Seahawks h four
- 9:14Speaker 1: points to the Denver Broncos. There's one game that I'm
- 9:18Speaker 1: really surprised. Excuse me, you didn't take first Lions plus
- 9:26Speaker 1: four hosting the Eagles. This is a roar Lions roar spot,
- 9:34Speaker 1: not a fly Eagles fly, a roar Lions roar spot.
- 9:38Speaker 1: It is a home game. Dan Campbell is gonna have
- 9:42Speaker 1: this team jacked and ready to go. We already know
- 9:47Speaker 1: this is a physical team. This is a team that
- 9:49Speaker 1: can control the line of scrimmage. That bodes well playing
- 9:52Speaker 1: against the defensive line at the Eagles that is in
- 9:54Speaker 1: semi rebuild mode. We know this team is going to
- 9:57Speaker 1: be physical defensively. We've seen them beat competitive Jalen Hurts.
- 10:02Speaker 1: We still don't know what we're getting, even with more weapons.
- 10:06Speaker 1: Um lines plus four, you know you too, well, yeah,
- 10:14Speaker 1: that was gonna be one. That was my next one.
- 10:16Speaker 1: I mean lines, they're actually up to four and a
- 10:17Speaker 1: half now, and FanDuel Um It's it's hard not to
- 10:21Speaker 1: want to take this line right now, and I did
- 10:24Speaker 1: take it, but I would say to people listening, maybe
- 10:26Speaker 1: you can keep waiting, because I do think this is
- 10:28Speaker 1: gonna keep because again, it opened up a three and
- 10:29Speaker 1: a half. Now it's with the four and alf On
- 10:31Speaker 1: FanDuel and we're in May. So that that that's already
- 10:34Speaker 1: showing you where the public is kind of deciding where
- 10:36Speaker 1: they're gonna put their money. So to me, I love
- 10:39Speaker 1: that lines number Chad just touched on it. Where we
- 10:43Speaker 1: have a team that's very physical, the Eagles. That's what
- 10:45Speaker 1: their key, the key for the ego success to the
- 10:47Speaker 1: upcoming season. Is there a physical team, good offensive line,
- 10:51Speaker 1: a strength in their d line. You know that that's
- 10:54Speaker 1: kind of the egos what they need to do to win.
- 10:56Speaker 1: That's exactly what Detroit wants. Detroit wants to bully team.
- 10:59Speaker 1: So to me, the same tones sent are both these teams. Honestly,
- 11:03Speaker 1: I feel like this is gonna be where we look
- 11:05Speaker 1: back at both one of these teams. This game will
- 11:06Speaker 1: maybe decide one of these teams get in the plays
- 11:08Speaker 1: one team missing the playoffs. Like both teams are expected
- 11:11Speaker 1: to finish second their division right now. Not the Lions,
- 11:13Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that, but the Eagles are. And that's
- 11:16Speaker 1: this is a crucial way to start your season here.
- 11:19Speaker 1: But the Eagles, I know, we haven't done much scheduled talk.
- 11:22Speaker 1: They have a very favorable schedule. The Lions are right
- 11:25Speaker 1: there with them. The Lions got ranked most people have
- 11:28Speaker 1: them ranked number one for scheduled So to me, this
- 11:31Speaker 1: is the tone center for this Eagles team, this Campbell team,
- 11:33Speaker 1: where we think we're getting great value week one year.
- 11:36Speaker 1: Because to me, I saw this line, I checked my system,
- 11:39Speaker 1: made it a pick. Now this could move to maybe
- 11:42Speaker 1: minus went towards the Eagles when we get close for
- 11:44Speaker 1: the season. If I started like what I'm seeing from them,
- 11:46Speaker 1: and I like their system. But I can see this
- 11:49Speaker 1: line moving more towards Detroit as more people are gonna
- 11:52Speaker 1: get like Detroit. I'm telling I'm telling you guys, Detroit
- 11:55Speaker 1: is going to be a darling too. A lot of
- 11:56Speaker 1: people coming to the season, the nerds, everyone, They look
- 11:59Speaker 1: at the numbers. This is a huge number team. All
- 12:02Speaker 1: the numbers point to this team massively approving from last year.
- 12:06Speaker 1: How unlucky they were last year was one thing. Again.
- 12:09Speaker 1: They had seven games come down to five points or
- 12:12Speaker 1: less for them, Like, that's that's insane for them. Last year,
- 12:15Speaker 1: I think you only had what four wins to come
- 12:18Speaker 1: in second. So yeah, it's it is tough where I'm
- 12:22Speaker 1: looking at this matchup and obviously want the Eagles to
- 12:25Speaker 1: be the pick here, But just going by the numbers,
- 12:27Speaker 1: you're getting three four points of value on the lines
- 12:30Speaker 1: right now, just because what I just talked about, they're
- 12:32Speaker 1: one of the worst teams last year and it's a
- 12:34Speaker 1: new year. Cordner Sean Croner, uh the four easiest schedules
- 12:41Speaker 1: in the NFL inwo and you can find this in
- 12:43Speaker 1: the Action Network app very easy to find. UH. Giants
- 12:48Speaker 1: have the easiest according to his model, Eagles second easiest,
- 12:51Speaker 1: Commander's third easiest, Lions fourth easiest. Um, okay, so you
- 13:00Speaker 1: like the Texans plus seven and a half plus eight
- 13:02Speaker 1: plus eight and a half against the Colts. I like
- 13:04Speaker 1: the Lions plus four plus four and a half in
- 13:06Speaker 1: Week one against the Eagles. Give me another one easy
- 13:11Speaker 1: easy bet for Week one Ravens minus five and a
- 13:15Speaker 1: half minus five. I would take this up to seven,
- 13:19Speaker 1: no problem. The Jets again, we're gonna talk a little
- 13:22Speaker 1: bit more about them coming down the show, So I
- 13:23Speaker 1: don't want to be just punching the crap out of them,
- 13:26Speaker 1: but they're just not there. Yet people, I get the excitement.
- 13:29Speaker 1: I've seen the numbers. How they're one of the most
- 13:30Speaker 1: bet teams right now to go over their win total
- 13:34Speaker 1: and to win their division. They're just not there yet.
- 13:37Speaker 1: And historically the Ravens Week one it's free money again
- 13:41Speaker 1: you always this is for people like our loyal fans,
- 13:44Speaker 1: listen to us year round every preseason game you take
- 13:47Speaker 1: the Ravens money line. I believe they're on a run
- 13:49Speaker 1: of like thirteen and o or fourteen and oh in
- 13:52Speaker 1: prices of games winning straight up week one. Historically, Hardball
- 13:57Speaker 1: his teams have dominated Week one. I don't even remember
- 13:59Speaker 1: if us for the year before, remember the beat Miami
- 14:02Speaker 1: like fifty to ten Week one and Lamar Jackson through
- 14:05Speaker 1: like five or six touchdowns. It's there's just something about
- 14:08Speaker 1: this Ravens team Week one. They always come really prepared.
- 14:11Speaker 1: Now I have a Ravens team coming back from a
- 14:13Speaker 1: down year, a bunch of guys getting healthy coming back.
- 14:16Speaker 1: So that's that's that's built into this number because the
- 14:19Speaker 1: Jets team are just so hyped up right now. Like,
- 14:20Speaker 1: to me, this number should have been seven. That's a
- 14:23Speaker 1: fair number for this game. The fact that you're getting
- 14:25Speaker 1: under seven under six, two very key numbers. I'm taking
- 14:29Speaker 1: that Ravens number right now because you're not bet favorite
- 14:31Speaker 1: this early, but to me, that's such a key number
- 14:33Speaker 1: of five and a half being under that six. I'm
- 14:36Speaker 1: grabbing it right now, this Ravens number. H I love that.
- 14:41Speaker 1: I love that because I already feel like people act
- 14:46Speaker 1: as if the Jets are at win team because they
- 14:50Speaker 1: drafted the right athletes in the right spot at the
- 14:53Speaker 1: right time, and they still got a quarterback named Zack
- 14:55Speaker 1: Wilson who nobody really knows if he's any good. So
- 14:59Speaker 1: now every and things, the Jets can compete with the
- 15:02Speaker 1: Patriots for second place in the a f C East.
- 15:06Speaker 1: It's idiotic. So much value on the Ravens, even though
- 15:10Speaker 1: it's on the road. Um, I love the team early.
- 15:15Speaker 1: I'm going to give you one more. I don't want
- 15:18Speaker 1: you get angry at me, but if you give me
- 15:23Speaker 1: a team who's quarterback is coming off an injury with
- 15:28Speaker 1: a new coach going on the road as more than
- 15:31Speaker 1: a field goal favorite against a division rival, I am
- 15:37Speaker 1: going to take the home dog division arrival. In this spot.
- 15:42Speaker 1: We are an Atlanta Falcons podcast. Give me the Falcons
- 15:46Speaker 1: plus three and a half against the Saints. I don't
- 15:51Speaker 1: fear Jamis, I don't fear Marcus Mariota. I like this
- 15:56Speaker 1: team to cover by a field goal in a close
- 15:59Speaker 1: game between you not very good teams in Atlanta. Go
- 16:04Speaker 1: walk me back, tell me I'm wrong, But I know
- 16:07Speaker 1: you love it. I gave you gross. I gave you
- 16:10Speaker 1: grosser than growths. I gave you professional grossness. No people
- 16:14Speaker 1: know I love doing around Robbins. This is one of
- 16:16Speaker 1: the teams Atlanta's round robin I threw in their money line. Um,
- 16:21Speaker 1: gross disgusting. Might be the only game Atlanta wins the
- 16:24Speaker 1: entire season. But Chad just touched on what a beautiful,
- 16:27Speaker 1: beautiful spot for this Atlanta team hosting a division arrival
- 16:31Speaker 1: at home. No one knows what the hell offense Atlanta
- 16:34Speaker 1: is gonna be running. They got Mariota Mariota, So to me,
- 16:38Speaker 1: Atlanta is a team that's gonna be terrible, but early
- 16:40Speaker 1: on they're gonna be able to sneak up on teams.
- 16:42Speaker 1: Just like last year, Denver terrible teams started three, Carolina
- 16:45Speaker 1: terrible team started three, and oh it's because they are
- 16:47Speaker 1: running different offenses. Teams weren't prepared for their type of
- 16:50Speaker 1: offensive styles. So I love that pick chat three and
- 16:53Speaker 1: a half too. That's such a key number. I took
- 16:55Speaker 1: the number as well. But this is a money line
- 16:57Speaker 1: bet for me as well, because Atlanta, this game stinks
- 17:01Speaker 1: like no one's gonna betting their money line. Everyone's be
- 17:03Speaker 1: coming in on like you just had the fun, exciting
- 17:05Speaker 1: Jamis Winston Saints team. So if you want to hold
- 17:08Speaker 1: out and I bet it, I get it. But I
- 17:09Speaker 1: honestly would take three and a half right now because
- 17:11Speaker 1: that is such a key number. Can I just say this,
- 17:17Speaker 1: if I'm listening to this podcast for the first time,
- 17:20Speaker 1: you listen to me versus you and think Millman might
- 17:26Speaker 1: be more of a professional, better than Simon Hunter, because
- 17:29Speaker 1: because my picks are so much grosser the Falcons and
- 17:35Speaker 1: the Lions, I'm going with the Falcons and the Lions.
- 17:39Speaker 1: You at least Ravens in there, who a lot of
- 17:42Speaker 1: people think is the best futures bet at like one.
- 17:46Speaker 1: At this point, nobody's gonna be bet on my teams.
- 17:49Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna bet on my teams to even the oath,
- 17:52Speaker 1: to win their season, to go over their season win totals.
- 17:56Speaker 1: I am a I am in professional form right now
- 18:02Speaker 1: we're gonna dominate this year. I can't wait. Honestly, that
- 18:06Speaker 1: was my first thought. I saw, like, you just had
- 18:07Speaker 1: eleven underdogs week one. I was like, oh my god,
- 18:11Speaker 1: I have to wait all summer to bet this. It's
- 18:13Speaker 1: gonna be killing me because this we love it, all
- 18:15Speaker 1: these dogs, it's home dogs, it's it's the best. We
- 18:18Speaker 1: might win thirty thousand dollars in Week one together a team.
- 18:24Speaker 1: I know that's like what you're betting on sort of
- 18:26Speaker 1: one halftime, but for me, that's a big amount of money. Yeah,
- 18:31Speaker 1: there's that's gonna be like my the week before my
- 18:34Speaker 1: Sunday futures. I'm just gonna call my last minute futures.
- 18:37Speaker 1: I'm not walking around with bags of cash. Um. All right.
- 18:41Speaker 1: The other thing I want to mention I I talked
- 18:43Speaker 1: about not that we're done with this, but I mentioned
- 18:46Speaker 1: Kerner's strength of schedule, um, because I do think it's
- 18:50Speaker 1: interesting to sort of share what he's excuse me, little
- 18:54Speaker 1: COVID cough lingering covid cough there, um, what he's looking at.
- 18:59Speaker 1: Because I mentioned the Giants, the Eagles, the Commanders, the Lions,
- 19:04Speaker 1: the fifth team, there's the Bears and then six is Cowboys,
- 19:08Speaker 1: seventh is Colts, eighth is Vikings, ninth is Packers ten Bucks.
- 19:12Speaker 1: So in that top ten, there's a couple of teams Bucks, Packers, uh, Colts.
- 19:21Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people might consider to
- 19:25Speaker 1: be Super Bowl favorites. Um so I just think that's interesting.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Schedule go ahead. I was gonna say, I think people,
- 19:33Speaker 1: if they know us, they know now like we're all
- 19:35Speaker 1: about you just not wasting your money and saving your money,
- 19:37Speaker 1: and we're screaming all last year. Do not put a
- 19:41Speaker 1: single dollar on the Chiefs or the Buccaneers to make
- 19:44Speaker 1: it back to the super Bowl for the simple fact
- 19:46Speaker 1: that we told you how lucky you need to get
- 19:48Speaker 1: to make it to the super Bowl. There's no value
- 19:50Speaker 1: in teams that just went to the super Bowl to
- 19:52Speaker 1: make it back. You said super Bowl, and look at
- 19:54Speaker 1: what happened. I mean that the Ovous to Kansas City
- 19:56Speaker 1: was a quarter away from making it, but the Buccaneers
- 19:59Speaker 1: is just there's just so much that's go right for
- 20:01Speaker 1: a team to make it. So, like Chida said, those
- 20:03Speaker 1: teams there are the top ones. It just don't don't
- 20:05Speaker 1: put your money to those teams. You can, you can
- 20:07Speaker 1: still find good value at the very end of the
- 20:09Speaker 1: year with these certain teams, no surprise the hardest strength
- 20:13Speaker 1: of schedule, according to Kerner. Sean Kurner of Action Network,
- 20:16Speaker 1: our lead predictive analyststy two Kans City Chiefs, no surprise
- 20:23Speaker 1: considering they got the Chargers, they got the Broncos, and
- 20:26Speaker 1: they got the Raiders thirty one. The Raiders also in
- 20:30Speaker 1: the top ten, the Broncos and then the Chargers. So
- 20:35Speaker 1: all four a f C West teams are in the
- 20:38Speaker 1: top ten of the of the hardest schedule in the NFL,
- 20:42Speaker 1: according to Sean Kurner. And by the way, the Seahawks,
- 20:45Speaker 1: the Cardinals, and the Rams are all on the top
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- 22:37Speaker 1: there's one game on the board right now, and we
- 22:40Speaker 1: really got to talk about Week fift December in Chicago,
- 22:48Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles are going to be visiting the Chicago Bears.
- 22:53Speaker 1: You're an Eagles fan, I'm a Bears fan. I'm pretty
- 22:56Speaker 1: allergic to the cold. I think you and I need
- 22:59Speaker 1: to figure out who that listens to this podcast is
- 23:03Speaker 1: going to be benevolent and invite us into their suite
- 23:08Speaker 1: for the Bears Eagles in December in Chicago. I know
- 23:12Speaker 1: a guy in Chicago exactly Client. I can definitely reach
- 23:15Speaker 1: out to him and see if I can get to
- 23:17Speaker 1: make that happen with us, Which would be hilarious to
- 23:19Speaker 1: go to Soldier Field with a game with you. We're
- 23:21Speaker 1: both our teams be six and ten, five and eleven
- 23:25Speaker 1: at this like they might be horrible this season, so
- 23:28Speaker 1: I would love that chet going to Chicago with you.
- 23:30Speaker 1: We gotta figure out an event. Maybe we'll do like
- 23:32Speaker 1: a live podcast the night before or getting out with fans. Uh.
- 23:37Speaker 1: You know, we'll probably stay at my dad's with him
- 23:39Speaker 1: and his wife. You can have one of the bedrooms.
- 23:41Speaker 1: I can have one of the bedrooms. We can share
- 23:43Speaker 1: a bathroom. It'll be like a sitcom. That'd be amazing.
- 23:46Speaker 1: How fun would that be. It would be great, especially
- 23:49Speaker 1: because I I don't know another time in my life
- 23:50Speaker 1: i'd ever go to Soldier Field for a game. You
- 23:53Speaker 1: know what I mean? You know, we can go to
- 23:54Speaker 1: Gibson's the night before and have dinner, fancy steakhouse, pick
- 23:59Speaker 1: up some divorce days. That's where they all hang out.
- 24:02Speaker 1: It's great for you. That's your speed. Man. You'd kill
- 24:07Speaker 1: it there. Oh my god, you'd walk in. All the
- 24:10Speaker 1: five to fifty five year old divorced women would think
- 24:13Speaker 1: you're so cute. Oh my god. We would have so
- 24:16Speaker 1: much fun. Now I've heard a viagra triangle. As long
- 24:20Speaker 1: as you don't take me there, we're good. That is
- 24:23Speaker 1: the literal center of the viagra triangle. That is one
- 24:29Speaker 1: of the three points. It is like, dude, that is
- 24:34Speaker 1: right there. Oh my god. Um. Anyways, we gotta figure
- 24:40Speaker 1: out a way to get to that one. We'll make
- 24:41Speaker 1: a whole event out of it if we can get so.
- 24:43Speaker 1: I just need to be inside. I cannot. I cannot
- 24:47Speaker 1: do this outside. I'm sorry, So reach out to chat An.
- 24:50Speaker 1: You fans have a box and you want me, and
- 24:51Speaker 1: you had to be your friends for four hours. You
- 24:54Speaker 1: know how to find us. We'll do whatever it takes. Yeah,
- 24:56Speaker 1: we'll have you on the show with us too. Afterwards,
- 24:59Speaker 1: come on the show. You can talk about how amazing
- 25:01Speaker 1: we were as guests, how we embarrassed ourselves, whatever it is.
- 25:05Speaker 1: I just need someone to invite us. That's all there
- 25:07Speaker 1: is to it. Um. A lot of talk about wind
- 25:11Speaker 1: totals after the schedule came out. Uh, did you make
- 25:15Speaker 1: any specific moves? Yeah, and just real quick, I'll go
- 25:18Speaker 1: I'll go with my I'll just tell you my top
- 25:20Speaker 1: five and my bottom fire for schedule because again me
- 25:23Speaker 1: and Sean, we're gonna a little different how we measured it.
- 25:25Speaker 1: So actually have the worst schedule, even though they have
- 25:27Speaker 1: the shortest amount of distance traveled. I've already schedule as Pittsburgh.
- 25:31Speaker 1: Pittsburgh just has a really tough schedule this year. So
- 25:33Speaker 1: I have them as thirty second. I got thirty first,
- 25:36Speaker 1: got the Chiefs, then I had the Patriots, then I
- 25:38Speaker 1: had the Bengals, and then I have Houston the Jets,
- 25:41Speaker 1: which are pretty much on way I want to be.
- 25:43Speaker 1: They're pretty much the same grade. So I really loved
- 25:45Speaker 1: Houston coming into the year. But the schedule, gods did
- 25:48Speaker 1: not have no favors. They really don't have that favor
- 25:52Speaker 1: schedule or the flip side. My five best schedules, again
- 25:56Speaker 1: I'm not a homer. Number one is the Evils, they
- 25:59Speaker 1: have a really nice schedule. Number two the Lines, which
- 26:03Speaker 1: again me Chad made those bets and talked about it
- 26:05Speaker 1: before the schedule came out. I love the Lions coming
- 26:07Speaker 1: into it. You look at the line schedule. They have
- 26:10Speaker 1: no games against the team off of bye week, which
- 26:12Speaker 1: is insane for entire season. They have no games against
- 26:15Speaker 1: a team with longer arrest than them, So it means,
- 26:18Speaker 1: you know, if they play on a Sunday, the team
- 26:19Speaker 1: they played place on a Sunday, If there they played
- 26:21Speaker 1: a Thursday, the team they played or whatever isn't a
- 26:24Speaker 1: longer rest than them. So again, these little things work
- 26:27Speaker 1: out for these teams. That's why you know we're gonna
- 26:28Speaker 1: talk about lines over and the Eagles over and things
- 26:30Speaker 1: like that. Sorry, I'll go back to it, but Eagles one,
- 26:34Speaker 1: Lines too, Giants three, Bears four, and then I have
- 26:38Speaker 1: a coin flip between Washington and the Vikings in that
- 26:41Speaker 1: fifth spot. So to me, it makes sense. Okay, we
- 26:44Speaker 1: just talked about teams and bad divisions. We expect the
- 26:47Speaker 1: NFC East to be bad, we expect the NFC North
- 26:50Speaker 1: to be bad. That makes sense why these teams would
- 26:52Speaker 1: have favorable schedules over under Buddy, Well, hold on, what's that,
- 26:56Speaker 1: Because it's interesting you and Kerner are basically aligned and
- 27:00Speaker 1: five easiest not the same order, but the five teams. Yeah,
- 27:04Speaker 1: and uh, excuse me, five artist. Uh, he's got the
- 27:10Speaker 1: Steelers at fourth hardest, You've got him as second hardest.
- 27:14Speaker 1: But generally the five are the same. Yeah. The only
- 27:17Speaker 1: one on The biggest different I saw was he had
- 27:19Speaker 1: the Raiders having a much harder schedule than I did,
- 27:22Speaker 1: which again I think that's because of the division their division. Yes,
- 27:24Speaker 1: so it all makes sense. But yeah, it always feels
- 27:27Speaker 1: good when I'm on the same side as a guy
- 27:28Speaker 1: like Sewan, who I know is putting in the time
- 27:30Speaker 1: where I put in the time, But a lot of
- 27:32Speaker 1: my numbers it's like it's gonna be keep getting updated.
- 27:34Speaker 1: So it's nice to see that at least I'm on
- 27:35Speaker 1: the same track as a lot of other guys. Yeah
- 27:38Speaker 1: you are, you totally are, all right, give me some
- 27:40Speaker 1: uh uh wind totals that you've adjusted since the schedule
- 27:45Speaker 1: and no shocker here. I love the under for the Jets.
- 27:49Speaker 1: Um again. I want our fans. We'll talk about it
- 27:51Speaker 1: just real quick, because we're such good, loyal lovers of
- 27:54Speaker 1: our fans. I gotta keep reach out that man and
- 27:56Speaker 1: literally says he needs to know. Would you bet the
- 27:59Speaker 1: Jets plus five fifty to finish top two in their
- 28:02Speaker 1: division in the a f C East. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
- 28:06Speaker 1: no no. I just would not do it at all. Miami.
- 28:10Speaker 1: Say what you want about them, I still think they
- 28:12Speaker 1: are step above. And with the Patriots, I know there
- 28:15Speaker 1: are step above. Okay, we watched the Jets last year.
- 28:19Speaker 1: I mean, just get embarrassed by Belichick. So to me,
- 28:23Speaker 1: it's too tough. With the Bills, the Patriots in Miami,
- 28:27Speaker 1: all those teams are just so good. I just can't
- 28:29Speaker 1: see the Jets doing it. And that's why I've been
- 28:31Speaker 1: on there under. In that division, it's gonna be really
- 28:33Speaker 1: hard to come by wins. Like say, I'm just being
- 28:35Speaker 1: nice to them, and I gave them two wins, right,
- 28:38Speaker 1: they still went from they still one from the Patriots
- 28:40Speaker 1: they were doing for their division. I could not find
- 28:43Speaker 1: four more wins for them for the rest of the season,
- 28:45Speaker 1: and the numbers check out put into my system. I
- 28:48Speaker 1: had them at four point seven wins for the year.
- 28:49Speaker 1: So the fact that it's been been up to five
- 28:52Speaker 1: and a half to six at some books, I really
- 28:55Speaker 1: do love that under for this Jets team, and I'm
- 28:57Speaker 1: again I love their future prospects. But this year eight
- 29:00Speaker 1: fade fade there. They're too young. Jets are number one
- 29:06Speaker 1: in both tickets and money, Jets over five and a half,
- 29:11Speaker 1: FanDuel Bet, MGM points Bet, Caesar's and DraftKings. Remember who
- 29:18Speaker 1: at Caesar's there are three more bets on the Jets
- 29:22Speaker 1: to hit the over than on any other team. This
- 29:25Speaker 1: according to Darren Revel in a story in the Action
- 29:28Speaker 1: Network app. I remember at this point last year you
- 29:30Speaker 1: said the exact same thing about the Vikings. I believe
- 29:32Speaker 1: it was all the money and bets were on the
- 29:35Speaker 1: over of the Vikings, and what happened we talked about.
- 29:38Speaker 1: They went just under by half a game. So the
- 29:40Speaker 1: books know that they know in these numbers get inflated.
- 29:43Speaker 1: The fact you're gonna plus number right now in the
- 29:44Speaker 1: Jets just shows the hype that's happening right now and fandals.
- 29:47Speaker 1: So yeah, five and a half is plus one third
- 29:51Speaker 1: at bet MGM. The next most bet on teams are
- 29:53Speaker 1: the Lions six and a half over and the Steeler
- 29:57Speaker 1: seven and a half. The Steelers total is interesting to me. Look,
- 30:01Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin just doesn't have losing seasons. It's a fine
- 30:05Speaker 1: line between you know, drinking wine and squashing grades. And
- 30:09Speaker 1: this is the Mitch Robisky breakout year. So I don't
- 30:15Speaker 1: mind Stealers over seven and a half, even in spite
- 30:18Speaker 1: of their challenging schedule. I loved it coming in because
- 30:22Speaker 1: because the schedule that you just talked about, I can't
- 30:24Speaker 1: do it. I just cannot do in that division. And
- 30:27Speaker 1: I was banking a little bit on Watson gets suspended.
- 30:30Speaker 1: The more I read it, does it sound like that
- 30:31Speaker 1: guy is gonna get, you know, in real trouble. So
- 30:33Speaker 1: that means we have a full, full and healthy Brown's team,
- 30:36Speaker 1: a full and healthy uh Ravens team, and we know
- 30:40Speaker 1: what the Bengals are. Last year, Pittsburgh was not I
- 30:43Speaker 1: don't want to say they were lucky, but they were
- 30:45Speaker 1: catching this Ravens team banged up. They're catching this Brown's
- 30:47Speaker 1: team all banged up. It's you just can't kind of
- 30:49Speaker 1: predict that kind of stuff. So just like at the numbers,
- 30:52Speaker 1: I would take their under it. But that actually makes
- 30:54Speaker 1: me a little nervous. You said Detroit is being one
- 30:57Speaker 1: of the most bet on over teams, because that was
- 30:58Speaker 1: my next favorite bet I loved Detroit of five and
- 31:01Speaker 1: a half. I love him at six. I love him
- 31:03Speaker 1: at six and a half over uh seven, that would
- 31:06Speaker 1: give me pause. But if you can still get six
- 31:07Speaker 1: and a half, I would take that number right now,
- 31:09Speaker 1: if you're so inclined, just because their schedule lines up
- 31:13Speaker 1: very nice. The Vikings have an entire new team. Okay,
- 31:18Speaker 1: they they're they're switching their defensive style. The Zummers gone right,
- 31:21Speaker 1: So they have a new offensive coordinator, they have a
- 31:23Speaker 1: new DC. We've seen what's gonna happen with the Bears.
- 31:27Speaker 1: The Bears are kind of in this fluctuation of rebuild.
- 31:30Speaker 1: We don't really know what they're going to be because
- 31:32Speaker 1: they of course have a new coaching staff as well.
- 31:35Speaker 1: The Lions still have the same coaching staff to stay
- 31:37Speaker 1: mo see the stay in DC it's just all there
- 31:40Speaker 1: for this Lions team to really take a step up.
- 31:41Speaker 1: So as long as you're getting under seven still, I
- 31:44Speaker 1: love this number for this Lions team. It's even more
- 31:46Speaker 1: so now the schedules out. It's just it's just all
- 31:49Speaker 1: shaping up to be a good year Cliff Lines team
- 31:50Speaker 1: to bounce back, and to me, I have them great
- 31:53Speaker 1: out nine nine wins, so getting an extra two and
- 31:57Speaker 1: a half of games that that's a big discrepancy. That's
- 32:00Speaker 1: why I'm people are gonna say I'm like losing my
- 32:01Speaker 1: mind with a Lions team. It's just the numbers play out,
- 32:04Speaker 1: like the numbers really love the Lions. I personally, I
- 32:07Speaker 1: don't want to be doing this, but I have to
- 32:09Speaker 1: follow and trust my system. That's saying this team is very,
- 32:12Speaker 1: very under value just because of people's perception of this team.
- 32:16Speaker 1: I don't want to do it. They're making me do it.
- 32:18Speaker 1: I don't want to do this. I don't want to
- 32:20Speaker 1: be the guy that loves the Lions, you know. I
- 32:25Speaker 1: don't want to be the guy that's like their motivation is,
- 32:29Speaker 1: let's play well early in the years so we can
- 32:31Speaker 1: get flexed into a prime time game in weeks five
- 32:34Speaker 1: to fifteen. I don't want to be that guy, but
- 32:37Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be that guy. Now, do you have,
- 32:40Speaker 1: speaking of prime time games, like where before we go,
- 32:42Speaker 1: do you have any favorite prime time games? Because I know,
- 32:45Speaker 1: Matt Mitchell, what a dream here for the Buffalo Bill
- 32:48Speaker 1: is Opening night? They got a Thanksgiving game, they got
- 32:53Speaker 1: uh man, I'm looking at I think I have five
- 32:56Speaker 1: prime time games pulled up right here versus six. That's
- 32:59Speaker 1: a that I think it's five. Well, look, the Bears
- 33:02Speaker 1: have a few prime time games. I'm super excited about,
- 33:06Speaker 1: super excited to ruin my night. Um, but I do
- 33:10Speaker 1: think that what the NFL didn't this year putting the
- 33:13Speaker 1: Bills in the Rams on prime time and Thursday night,
- 33:16Speaker 1: it's beautiful. Love it. Yeah, And I don't know if
- 33:21Speaker 1: he's ever had man Mitch has ever had the experience.
- 33:23Speaker 1: He's never won a Super Bowl, but as a former
- 33:25Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning fan of a team, having the open
- 33:27Speaker 1: night game is seriously the best. It's like, even though
- 33:30Speaker 1: it's again the Rams game, you get to watch your
- 33:34Speaker 1: team with everyone else and then you're done for the weekend.
- 33:36Speaker 1: You get the gamble about fantasy. It's just a really
- 33:39Speaker 1: nice way to start Week one if you're a Diard fan.
- 33:41Speaker 1: But looking at this year schedule, Chad, we got three
- 33:45Speaker 1: games on Thanksgiving standard, We've got three games on Christmas
- 33:49Speaker 1: this year, which is NBA fans and NBA holes must
- 33:53Speaker 1: be piste. We've got three Lending games and we have
- 33:58Speaker 1: a Munich game in a game in Germany and up
- 34:01Speaker 1: on it because I was like, I need to learn
- 34:03Speaker 1: more about Germany and why they love football. Still apparently
- 34:06Speaker 1: they have one of the biggest Seahawk fan bases in
- 34:08Speaker 1: the world is in Germany. So the Seahawk you're playing
- 34:11Speaker 1: the Buccaneers in Germany, it counts as the home game
- 34:13Speaker 1: for the Seahawks. Interesting, very interesting that we have a
- 34:17Speaker 1: game in Germany nowadays, so again, three games in London,
- 34:20Speaker 1: one game in Germany, another game in Mexico City. The
- 34:23Speaker 1: it's crazy right now to travel all these different teams.
- 34:25Speaker 1: I'm sure we're gonna touch talk about all season, but
- 34:28Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's all over the world now. I believe
- 34:31Speaker 1: they call it Mountion, Munichi, Munich Mountion. I've been there.
- 34:40Speaker 1: I've been there. I had a beer the size of
- 34:44Speaker 1: Matt Mitchell's head. You were Do you ever go in
- 34:49Speaker 1: the Autobahn. I don't think I did. No I would.
- 34:54Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of driving fast. Um, Simon, I think
- 34:59Speaker 1: we covered it all. We really dug into the NFL.
- 35:02Speaker 1: I feel really good about it. I'm super excited to
- 35:05Speaker 1: be the professional better on this podcast, Um, and reframe
- 35:09Speaker 1: my legacy. I think it's bullshit. I'm not getting enough
- 35:12Speaker 1: credit for knowing how to bet. Everyone thinks I'm just
- 35:15Speaker 1: a guy just you know. Moving the conversation along here,
- 35:18Speaker 1: Simon gets to come in. Dude, I've been doing this
- 35:21Speaker 1: for so long. I am a professional. Better numbers move
- 35:25Speaker 1: when I make the fucking bet, I already know lions, lions,
- 35:30Speaker 1: You're probably not gonna get like plus four anymore. It's
- 35:32Speaker 1: probably gonna go down to three and a half. You'll
- 35:34Speaker 1: be lucky to get the hook on the falcons after
- 35:37Speaker 1: this podcast comes out. Whatever. That's how they call you,
- 35:41Speaker 1: Chad Number, the mover of numbers. So it makes sense
- 35:44Speaker 1: right now that you're saying these things and you're worried
- 35:46Speaker 1: about the line movement. You know what they call me? Moneymaker?
- 35:52Speaker 1: You two old. You're just an old man moneymaker from now,
- 35:57Speaker 1: please refer to me. That's a poker player from two
- 35:59Speaker 1: thousand four and his name is Chris h. I'm stealing
- 36:04Speaker 1: it alright. For Simon Hunter, for Matt Mitchell, I am
- 36:09Speaker 1: Chad Melman. This has been the favorites from the Volume
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