Latest / The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast / Super Bowl LVIII Betting Preview
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- 0:08Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast presented by BET three
- 0:12Speaker 1: sixty five. We are part of the Action Network. Today
- 0:15Speaker 1: is the first of our Super Bowl preview episodes. I
- 0:21Speaker 1: am Chad Millman, Chief Content Officer of the Action Network.
- 0:25Speaker 1: We've got the San Francisco forty nine ers and the
- 0:30Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. We've got Kyle Shanahan trying to heal
- 0:34Speaker 1: those festering old Super Bowl wounds. Twice a coach in
- 0:42Speaker 1: the Super Bowl as a coordinator and then as a
- 0:45Speaker 1: head coach giving up huge leads. Don't forget he was
- 0:49Speaker 1: the coach of the coordinator for the Falcons when they
- 0:51Speaker 1: blew that massive lead to Tom Brady and the Patriots.
- 0:54Speaker 1: He's got a quarterback who can finally execute the entirety
- 0:58Speaker 1: of his brilliant offensive scheme. Oh, he's got to beat
- 1:03Speaker 1: Andy Reid. Probably on a track to be top three
- 1:06Speaker 1: all time NFL coach Patrick Mahomes the entirety of the
- 1:11Speaker 1: Taylor Swift universe. He is not battling one team in
- 1:15Speaker 1: this game. He is battling all time greatness. In this game,
- 1:22Speaker 1: an offense that is dominated all season long is favored
- 1:27Speaker 1: against the quarterback who may already only have one legacy.
- 1:31Speaker 1: He is chasing Tom Brady. We are going to kick
- 1:36Speaker 1: off the hype machine. Also later in the show, we
- 1:40Speaker 1: will shout out some of the best listeners submissions we've
- 1:44Speaker 1: received so far in our Bet three six ' five
- 1:48Speaker 1: super Bowl prop contest. If you want a chance to
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- 2:02Speaker 1: That is a wind up from my bff, my co host,
- 2:05Speaker 1: my companion, Mike Capadre. Professional better signon under you know, Simon.
- 2:13Speaker 2: Chad super Bowl weeks. Baby, So good to be.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Here, dude, you are so famous. This podcast has gotten
- 2:21Speaker 1: so big. Tell everybody what just happened to you in
- 2:26Speaker 1: your tiny, tiny island of Hawaii.
- 2:30Speaker 2: I'll try to make it a quick story, but I
- 2:32Speaker 2: basically I'm a psychopath and me chat finish for our show. Sunday,
- 2:37Speaker 2: I go right into super Bowl mode and you know,
- 2:39Speaker 2: start working on the phone, start watching film, and I
- 2:42Speaker 2: basically just pull an all nighter. It's just I'm a
- 2:44Speaker 2: creature of habit. I've done it all season. I like
- 2:46Speaker 2: to stay up through Sunday night into Monday, and then
- 2:50Speaker 2: I'll eat an unhealthy amount of food that midday Monday,
- 2:53Speaker 2: and then I'll just sleep until you see me right now.
- 2:56Speaker 2: So I literally stay up and then I just sleep
- 2:59Speaker 2: from midday Monday until seven am five am depends on
- 3:02Speaker 2: our showtime Tuesday. And I always order a big meal,
- 3:06Speaker 2: and obviously I don't drive because I'm not an idiot.
- 3:09Speaker 2: I know how many people be get injured, drive and
- 3:12Speaker 2: sleep deprived. I always ordered delivery. So when I order
- 3:16Speaker 2: on my name name on the site, it's Simon H.
- 3:19Speaker 2: So I ordered food and apparently this guy is a
- 3:22Speaker 2: fan of our show. Saw this order for Simon H.
- 3:26Speaker 2: And he lives in Mawe. So he put it together
- 3:28Speaker 2: and he pulled up and he saw my car with
- 3:31Speaker 2: new Jersey license plate. So I told Chat it was funny.
- 3:34Speaker 2: When he came up, my door's open and like letting
- 3:37Speaker 2: the wind in. Instead of knocking, he just said my name,
- 3:40Speaker 2: which again is normal because it's on the back. So
- 3:42Speaker 2: I just popped out because I'm obviously who is not
- 3:44Speaker 2: excited for their food delivery. There's a few better feelings
- 3:47Speaker 2: they can finally get in your food. And turns out
- 3:50Speaker 2: he's a fan of me and Chat and our show
- 3:52Speaker 2: couldn't have been a nicer guy.
- 3:54Speaker 3: You know.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Of course remembered a couple of my bad beats, a
- 3:58Speaker 2: couple of my bad bets on the Jets and Panthers,
- 4:00Speaker 2: and wanted to bring that up and why we wanted
- 4:02Speaker 2: to bet them so bad this season. But was also
- 4:05Speaker 2: just crazy, nice guy and just pretty surreal how big
- 4:09Speaker 2: this show has gotten. So I want to give a
- 4:11Speaker 2: shout to our guy, Brian. He's a scuba diver master
- 4:14Speaker 2: instructor here in MAUI Google him, hit him up. I mean,
- 4:18Speaker 2: he seemed like a really cool dude, and he gave
- 4:20Speaker 2: me a business card and on here it says he's
- 4:23Speaker 2: certified dives and he does turtle dives, he does kayak dives,
- 4:26Speaker 2: he does shipwreck dives. He does it all so really
- 4:30Speaker 2: cool dude, and he's living all our dream chat. He
- 4:32Speaker 2: just hangs out, dives in Hawaii and bets on football.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Not a bad life.
- 4:38Speaker 1: December third, twenty three, that is the day that we
- 4:42Speaker 1: decided to bet both the Jets and the Panthers on
- 4:45Speaker 1: the same day. I will never forget it. Shout out
- 4:50Speaker 1: to all our fans in the great state of Hawaii.
- 4:55Speaker 1: I mean, that's just fantastic, not scary at all. Simon.
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- 6:03Speaker 1: the Action Network. You to page. Look, there's one game.
- 6:10Speaker 1: It's not being played for another ten days, and right
- 6:14Speaker 1: now the Kansas City Chiefs are one and a half
- 6:17Speaker 1: point underdogs to the San Francisco forty nine Ers. Here's
- 6:22Speaker 1: a little reminder of how far we've come in terms
- 6:25Speaker 1: of coverage of betting in the media. During the championship game,
- 6:32Speaker 1: Tony Romo started talking about how if he's a bookmaker,
- 6:38Speaker 1: there's no way he's ever making Patrick Mahomes an underdog.
- 6:44Speaker 1: And yet the Chiefs opened at two and a half.
- 6:47Speaker 1: At three. For about four minutes, you got the three.
- 6:50Speaker 1: I did not went down to two and a half,
- 6:52Speaker 1: then two, then one and a half, Like it's basically
- 6:58Speaker 1: at one and a half. In holding, I've been doing research.
- 7:01Speaker 1: You've been doing research for the past thirty six hours.
- 7:04Speaker 1: We definitely do it differently. I haven't stayed up all night,
- 7:07Speaker 1: eating one meal and then gone back to bed. I
- 7:11Speaker 1: can't see any reason why I wouldn't want to bet
- 7:12Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes.
- 7:14Speaker 2: Obviously, there's a lot that goes into it. First time,
- 7:16Speaker 2: we start by saying I've heard a lot of people
- 7:19Speaker 2: complaining about this season. I don't know if you've heard
- 7:20Speaker 2: this people complaining that this season wasn't that fun and
- 7:23Speaker 2: kind of a boring season because it ended up being
- 7:25Speaker 2: forty nine Ers versus Chiefs. Come on, man, I feel
- 7:28Speaker 2: like this was such a great season. We had a
- 7:30Speaker 2: Puka and Nakua come out of nowhere, break all these
- 7:33Speaker 2: rookie receiving records. That was pretty amazing. CJ. Stroud, pretty
- 7:37Speaker 2: amazing rookie season. The fact that we had the Browns
- 7:40Speaker 2: and the Lions in the playoffs and people were kind
- 7:42Speaker 2: of scared of them was pretty amazing. I felt like
- 7:45Speaker 2: it was a great season. And the perspective of, yes,
- 7:49Speaker 2: does it suck that we're having a rematch from five
- 7:52Speaker 2: years ago instead of having the Lions versus the Chiefs. Yeah,
- 7:55Speaker 2: we all wanted the Lions there. I agree with that part.
- 7:57Speaker 2: But I love Super Bowls like people getting bogged down
- 8:02Speaker 2: because it's the same old teams that are always in there.
- 8:06Speaker 2: It's annoying to me. So, like you just talked about
- 8:09Speaker 2: the public everyone pros. I just felt like when that
- 8:13Speaker 2: we talked Sunday night, it was like, Okay, the money's
- 8:15Speaker 2: gonna come on the Chiefs. Even though the Chiefs didn't
- 8:17Speaker 2: play the perfect game. The Mahomes factor is just so
- 8:22Speaker 2: above anything else the forty Niners could have done. I
- 8:24Speaker 2: believe you know, if the Fortyniners would have blown out
- 8:26Speaker 2: and rolled the Lions, I still could see this number
- 8:30Speaker 2: moving the way it had. But the fact that the
- 8:33Speaker 2: forty nine ers back to back weeks are getting thrown
- 8:36Speaker 2: on by Jordan Love and thrown on by golf, it
- 8:40Speaker 2: makes sense, right this number would come down. I'm looking
- 8:43Speaker 2: our app right now. All the money, all the bets
- 8:45Speaker 2: jet are on the Chiefs, and you know, I talked
- 8:48Speaker 2: to a couple of professionals. They were happy to wait
- 8:50Speaker 2: it out. They like the forty nine ers. They'll let
- 8:52Speaker 2: the money come in and they'll wait and they'll come
- 8:54Speaker 2: on the other side. And a couple of them that
- 8:56Speaker 2: bit the bullet and made the bet on the forty
- 8:58Speaker 2: nine ers. So the keeps bouncing now from one and
- 9:01Speaker 2: a half to two, and it makes sense. It's like,
- 9:06Speaker 2: if you have a model, the forty nine ers are
- 9:08Speaker 2: going to be the better team. They have the more
- 9:11Speaker 2: complete team. And me and Chad both know why that is.
- 9:14Speaker 2: One team is spending twenty five percent of their money
- 9:16Speaker 2: on one quarterback. The other team has a seventh round,
- 9:20Speaker 2: last pick in the draft. Rookie contract, what does he
- 9:23Speaker 2: make a nine hundred k a year? Perty Like, it's
- 9:26Speaker 2: it's Apple's oranges, right, Like every everyone's gonna have it
- 9:29Speaker 2: constructed that the forty Niners are the better team. No
- 9:33Speaker 2: one's disagreeing with that. If you're a forty Niners fan,
- 9:36Speaker 2: that's that's what you're believing in this game. It's like
- 9:38Speaker 2: you have the better team. But me and Chad joked
- 9:42Speaker 2: about it, it's it's not that hard. We're getting Mahomes,
- 9:45Speaker 2: the dog. Mahomes is the X factor. He's the best player.
- 9:48Speaker 2: So what I've done watching the film, I really what
- 9:52Speaker 2: I was looking for in the film is what is
- 9:54Speaker 2: wrong with this forty nine Ers secondary? And I do
- 9:58Speaker 2: think Baltimore kind of the blueprint on what to do
- 10:01Speaker 2: against the secondary of forty nine ers. If you watched
- 10:04Speaker 2: since that game, different teams have attacked in the same way,
- 10:08Speaker 2: which is it's not so much running just downfield, it's
- 10:12Speaker 2: running downfield and cutting back into the middle. So they've
- 10:15Speaker 2: they pretty much have found I mean, any team can
- 10:17Speaker 2: look at it that. It's like these guys like Fred Warner,
- 10:19Speaker 2: he steps up right he's really been protecting it against
- 10:22Speaker 2: the runner of the tight end. The middle of that
- 10:24Speaker 2: open field. They don't have the best safeties this FORRTNAS team,
- 10:27Speaker 2: Like the middle of that open field has been opened.
- 10:28Speaker 2: That's why these teams have been able to move the ball.
- 10:30Speaker 2: So it's there are things where I can get where
- 10:34Speaker 2: It's like, I'm not just blindly betting the Chiefs here.
- 10:37Speaker 2: There is logic and reasoning behind it. And the biggest
- 10:39Speaker 2: one is that and just all the love we're gonna
- 10:42Speaker 2: I mean we haven't even talked much about it, but
- 10:44Speaker 2: Spags like everything he's done for that defense of the Chiefs,
- 10:48Speaker 2: it's like that's the game changer, isn't it, Like isn't
- 10:52Speaker 2: that the difference in this matchup where it's like we're
- 10:54Speaker 2: giving this guy two weeks now to prepare for party.
- 10:56Speaker 2: In this offense, I think they're gonna be able to
- 10:59Speaker 2: get stopped. Like when I think of this Chiefs defense
- 11:02Speaker 2: and getting stops, I like that advantage really really do
- 11:05Speaker 2: for them. And offensively, we talked about it, it's my
- 11:09Speaker 2: homes like he's gotten more comfortable with their offensive weapons
- 11:12Speaker 2: and whenever he needs a play, Andy has in his
- 11:16Speaker 2: back pocket, Like it feels like on third down plays,
- 11:19Speaker 2: they're just saving different plays and different looks for Kelsey
- 11:21Speaker 2: that just get him open. And he's obviously been a
- 11:24Speaker 2: totally different player of this playoffs. And I just don't know,
- 11:27Speaker 2: if you know, we saw Colle Hamilton, the best cover
- 11:30Speaker 2: safety in football that touchdown to Kelsey. Everyone that saw
- 11:34Speaker 2: that touchdown said, that's Hall of Fame players right there.
- 11:37Speaker 2: It was a perfect ball in the perfect spot against
- 11:40Speaker 2: perfect coverage against Colle Hamilton.
- 11:42Speaker 3: No one.
- 11:43Speaker 2: There is not a single player on that forty nine
- 11:45Speaker 2: Ers defense again cover like Kyla Hamilton against Kelsey. So
- 11:49Speaker 2: there's just so many different little advantages towards this Chiefs
- 11:52Speaker 2: team that it makes you feel comfortable taking them despite
- 11:55Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers having the overwhelmingly better roster.
- 11:58Speaker 1: All Right, he said something really interesting, and we're gonna
- 12:02Speaker 1: we're gonna go so deep into this game. But the
- 12:05Speaker 1: idea that this was not a fun season, I don't
- 12:07Speaker 1: disagree with. It was actually a pretty agonizing season. There
- 12:12Speaker 1: was there was so much bad football. There were so
- 12:15Speaker 1: many teams that couldn't execute. There were so many bad
- 12:19Speaker 1: calls by the refs on procedural plays right, so many
- 12:25Speaker 1: linemen down field, so much illegal like shifts, so many
- 12:30Speaker 1: things that they decided to focus on this year that
- 12:34Speaker 1: just slowed the play down, made people lose momentum. It's
- 12:37Speaker 1: like it was honestly at times excruciating to watch these
- 12:43Speaker 1: games this year. Like a, I know that the ratings
- 12:45Speaker 1: are through the fucking roof right now, but this was
- 12:48Speaker 1: not as good a product as it has been in
- 12:51Speaker 1: the past to me, Like it was at times unwatchable.
- 12:57Speaker 1: So I understand what people are saying, and look, if
- 12:59Speaker 1: you're a better as we are, and a lot of
- 13:02Speaker 1: betters who have experience are used to playing where are
- 13:05Speaker 1: used to betting on the underdogs, those are a shitty
- 13:08Speaker 1: year for bettan underdogs right Like it was a huge
- 13:11Speaker 1: year for betting favorites. Favorites continued to cash this year.
- 13:14Speaker 1: Favorites were covering in an epic rape. Just not a
- 13:17Speaker 1: great year for doing that for our side of the ball,
- 13:21Speaker 1: so to speak. Can't argue with anything you're saying about
- 13:25Speaker 1: the Niners will go much much deeper into this, but
- 13:30Speaker 1: you know, like I think the key thing here is
- 13:35Speaker 1: we were all over the Ravens against the Chiefs because
- 13:40Speaker 1: we felt like it was a better team in the
- 13:43Speaker 1: right situation to finally get over the hump. And that
- 13:46Speaker 1: is a lot of the logic on this Niners team
- 13:48Speaker 1: as well. And You've said it, I've said it, everyone
- 13:52Speaker 1: is saying it. I think it's more true now than ever.
- 13:56Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is a cheat code. He is in pervious
- 14:00Speaker 1: to pressure. He steps up in the pocket to find
- 14:03Speaker 1: a guy and get the ball exactly where it needs
- 14:06Speaker 1: to go. He steps up in the pocket to gain
- 14:08Speaker 1: the fifteen yards he needs to get the first down
- 14:11Speaker 1: on third and long. Those are backbreaking, emotionally draining plays.
- 14:17Speaker 1: And you can look at every part of this game
- 14:22Speaker 1: which we're all going to and that is worth so
- 14:26Speaker 1: much more. Like if you think about Patrick Mahomes, he's
- 14:29Speaker 1: far and away. We're at the most point to get
- 14:31Speaker 1: the point spread than any other quarterback in the NFL.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Like I would think there is a ten to twelve
- 14:38Speaker 1: point difference between Patrick Mahomes and the backup for the
- 14:42Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. That's how important this guy is when
- 14:45Speaker 1: it comes to the points spread.
- 14:48Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I don't know if it's that extreme, but
- 14:50Speaker 2: I mean it's close. Just again because Spags and that defense,
- 14:54Speaker 2: it's like that has quietly been their identity all season. Right,
- 14:58Speaker 2: the fact that we knew go into that game. I
- 14:59Speaker 2: think what was that stat It was like they're geting
- 15:01Speaker 2: up seventeen points per game. Yeah, obviously that Chiefs defense,
- 15:06Speaker 2: like Mahomes has never had this, He's never had this
- 15:09Speaker 2: type of defense. And you know, obviously a major blow
- 15:13Speaker 2: to them. I believe one of their best pass rushers
- 15:15Speaker 2: towards acl Yeah, they guy which trip sacked Lamar. Big
- 15:19Speaker 2: deal to that team, of course. But they're also a
- 15:22Speaker 2: team of like next man up, right, that's what they
- 15:25Speaker 2: feel like, the kind of team of like you know,
- 15:27Speaker 2: they're a bunch of faceless guys. Right, it's really Chris
- 15:30Speaker 2: Jones in the middle and then a bunch of guys
- 15:31Speaker 2: around them, and they've really made it work. We talked
- 15:36Speaker 2: their secondary one of the best in the league all season.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Their biggest weakness is the run. And that's what again
- 15:44Speaker 2: me and you bet what we bet was true. Right,
- 15:47Speaker 2: The Ravens could run the ball against them, they chose
- 15:49Speaker 2: not to. Ravens could defend them for the most part,
- 15:52Speaker 2: like they were matchups that did favor the Ravens. It
- 15:57Speaker 2: was just all scheme in Mahomes that just dominate that
- 16:01Speaker 2: like we talked about it on Sunday, It's like the
- 16:03Speaker 2: Ravens for some reason, whatever that Mahomes effect is, it
- 16:06Speaker 2: affected them so much they completely abandon who they were,
- 16:10Speaker 2: their total identity in the entire season, and just put
- 16:13Speaker 2: the ball totally Lamar's hands and just had throw at
- 16:15Speaker 2: thirty forty times and let's see if we can win this,
- 16:17Speaker 2: which on his best day would have been in a
- 16:21Speaker 2: crazy idea, but it wasn't. It was like one of
- 16:23Speaker 2: his worst games he's ever played, and they were trying
- 16:25Speaker 2: to make him force throw. So the blueprint is there
- 16:28Speaker 2: for this forty NURS team like run the ball and
- 16:30Speaker 2: McCaffrey ball control. It's over. But what have we seen
- 16:35Speaker 2: these last couple of weeks. They've come out slow, Chat,
- 16:38Speaker 2: They've come out slow, They've gone behind, and they had
- 16:41Speaker 2: a miracle comeback against the really young team in Green Bay,
- 16:45Speaker 2: and they had an incredible comeback against a bad secondary
- 16:49Speaker 2: in the Lions. They're not going to have that here.
- 16:52Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's a totally different situation of
- 16:57Speaker 2: party can be young and growing and becoming a better
- 16:59Speaker 2: player every week in this game with all this pressure,
- 17:04Speaker 2: how is Purtty going to handle this mentally because these
- 17:06Speaker 2: last two weeks he has been an incredible season VET
- 17:10Speaker 2: where it's like he the moment's not been too big
- 17:12Speaker 2: for Purdy. He's come back in two back to back
- 17:14Speaker 2: games and one you know, not all on him, right,
- 17:18Speaker 2: Like a lot of that stuff was McCaffrey making big
- 17:22Speaker 2: runs and guys getting wide open, But like I talked
- 17:24Speaker 2: about last week, he was desperate in that game, and
- 17:28Speaker 2: he played desperate and it really worked for him where
- 17:30Speaker 2: it's like he was pulling it down and running something
- 17:32Speaker 2: we hadn't seen all season. And it wasn't just like,
- 17:35Speaker 2: oh he was getting luck in these runs. If you
- 17:37Speaker 2: watch it, he had an incredible vision on those plays.
- 17:38Speaker 2: He was making the right reads, setting guys up downfield
- 17:42Speaker 2: to make a cut on them. It was like, who
- 17:44Speaker 2: is this guy? We have not seen that from Party
- 17:46Speaker 2: in his career. So if he plays that way, I mean,
- 17:51Speaker 2: the foy nin Ers definitely have a chance.
- 17:52Speaker 3: Right.
- 17:52Speaker 2: If he's playing that style, I just how can I
- 17:55Speaker 2: cap that? It's it's really flaky. We've never seen pretty
- 17:58Speaker 2: play that way before, so it's it's hard for me
- 18:01Speaker 2: to really bank on that. Where me and you, like
- 18:04Speaker 2: back in my homescrewers, I feel like we know exactly
- 18:06Speaker 2: what we're getting. Even at one and a half, I'm
- 18:08Speaker 2: still comfortable taking that number ism a dog. But I
- 18:10Speaker 2: think you just said it where it's like, shouldn't we
- 18:12Speaker 2: just take the money line at this point if it
- 18:13Speaker 2: gets up to plus one twenty plus one, ten, and
- 18:15Speaker 2: that you want to take the two, which we talk
- 18:17Speaker 2: all the time. Two is such a key number, you
- 18:19Speaker 2: might as well take the money line. But it's just
- 18:21Speaker 2: I feel comfortable with Mahomes knowing that if this game
- 18:25Speaker 2: is close and it's in the fourth quarter and we
- 18:27Speaker 2: have Mahomes a dog and he is the ball, don't
- 18:30Speaker 2: you mean don't we feel like we're going to cover
- 18:32Speaker 2: this number? Chats where I can't say the same. I
- 18:34Speaker 2: don't have that confidence. You know, Party's played great these
- 18:36Speaker 2: last two weeks. I think it says more about those
- 18:39Speaker 2: defense he's played where this Chiefs defense and Spags all
- 18:42Speaker 2: the different looks are going to give him. I just
- 18:44Speaker 2: don't have the faith in it where I just don't
- 18:45Speaker 2: think we'll be able to do what he did the
- 18:47Speaker 2: last couple of weeks against the defense. So it's it's
- 18:50Speaker 2: hard to go against Party because this is one of
- 18:51Speaker 2: my favorite stories ever. Right, a seventh round, last pick
- 18:54Speaker 2: in the draft making it to a super Bowl in
- 18:57Speaker 2: his first year. I mean, it is a story like
- 19:00Speaker 2: it really is inspirational. But we gotta I gotta play
- 19:03Speaker 2: Myhomes here. I gotta play Mahomes as a dog.
- 19:06Speaker 1: So listen, you mentioned the Chiefs defense a couple of times,
- 19:08Speaker 1: and I do want to talk about the under in
- 19:11Speaker 1: this game, because that was a bet that we talked
- 19:13Speaker 1: a little bit about on Sunday night.
- 19:14Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 19:14Speaker 1: I can't believe that in a move though that we
- 19:16Speaker 1: that we might like even more than the side. The
- 19:19Speaker 1: last thing I'll say about Mahomes and again we will
- 19:22Speaker 1: we will dig much deeper into this game. Uh as
- 19:25Speaker 1: the weeks go on. Not only is he impervious to pressure,
- 19:32Speaker 1: but he puts so much pressure on the opposing team.
- 19:36Speaker 1: We have just seen for three straight weeks the three
- 19:40Speaker 1: best offenses in the NFL crack and completely change their
- 19:45Speaker 1: game plans because of what Patrick Mahomes was doing or
- 19:48Speaker 1: what they believed he could do. On the other side.
- 19:52Speaker 1: That is an advantage that Andy Reid knows he has,
- 19:55Speaker 1: and I think it also plays into why the totals
- 19:59Speaker 1: have been so low have the scoring has been so
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- 21:02Speaker 3: That's summer all here with John Matten and all that
- 21:04Speaker 3: build up and all of this soup law John, is
- 21:07Speaker 3: it as big as it seems? I think it's bigger
- 21:09Speaker 3: than it seems. It's not just getting here today, but
- 21:12Speaker 3: it's winning today. And I think that the biggest gap
- 21:15Speaker 3: in sports is a difference between the winner and the
- 21:17Speaker 3: loser of the super Bowl. The winner your world champion.
- 21:20Speaker 3: They can never take it away from you, You'll never
- 21:22Speaker 3: forget it. The loser, they just get thrown back in
- 21:25Speaker 3: the pile.
- 21:26Speaker 1: All right, Forty seven and a half is the total.
- 21:30Speaker 1: Sunday Night, you mentioned you liked the under. I like
- 21:33Speaker 1: the under as well. I played the under. I've got
- 21:38Speaker 1: a lot of stats and details, but before I dig
- 21:41Speaker 1: into those, give me some of your logic.
- 21:44Speaker 2: Yeah, it's same as last year fan the show. Last year,
- 21:46Speaker 2: it's if I take a position on a total, I
- 21:49Speaker 2: go all in, so first quarter last year over first half,
- 21:53Speaker 2: over third quarter, over fourth quarter over game over, like,
- 21:56Speaker 2: I go all in on those kind of bets. I'll
- 21:58Speaker 2: be doing the same year with the under. I just
- 21:59Speaker 2: love the under. And there's a bunch of different reasons,
- 22:03Speaker 2: but the biggest one will just be what Chad talked about,
- 22:05Speaker 2: where I believe not only will the Chiefs defense get stops.
- 22:11Speaker 2: I'm still not fully convinced. I know it's crazy on
- 22:15Speaker 2: Mahomes getting touchdowns in the red zone. But it's like
- 22:18Speaker 2: I could still see them getting threes. So if I
- 22:20Speaker 2: feel like the safest side will be rock pretty playing tight,
- 22:24Speaker 2: settling for field goals, the Chiefs offense could get a
- 22:27Speaker 2: little you know. I don't want to say, I don't
- 22:31Speaker 2: want to say they'll struggle, but I could see this
- 22:34Speaker 2: forty on our team being finally giving up tons of
- 22:37Speaker 2: yards in the middle of the field, but then really
- 22:38Speaker 2: counting on it's getting stops in the red zone. That
- 22:40Speaker 2: will be the key to them to this game. So
- 22:43Speaker 2: not shocked that the number has come down. I believe
- 22:46Speaker 2: a couple of books opened at forty nine forty eight
- 22:49Speaker 2: and a half. It went right down. I think by
- 22:50Speaker 2: the time we even did our show Sunday it was
- 22:52Speaker 2: down to forty seven and a half.
- 22:53Speaker 1: Yeah it was. If it was at forty nine and
- 22:55Speaker 1: forty eight, it was there for milliseconds.
- 22:58Speaker 2: Never saw it, so we only saw the forty seven
- 23:00Speaker 2: and a half. It's been holding there a week now
- 23:04Speaker 2: despite all the pros just hitting the under again. Public
- 23:08Speaker 2: money mean chat talk all the time, all the money,
- 23:10Speaker 2: all the public bets will come in from Saturday morning
- 23:14Speaker 2: till midday Sunday, that's when the then again that's Chad
- 23:18Speaker 2: just said it. That's eleven days, ten days from now.
- 23:20Speaker 2: So if you're looking the app yes, the early money,
- 23:24Speaker 2: it tends to be professional money. You don't mind locking
- 23:26Speaker 2: their money up for the next couple of weeks. They're
- 23:28Speaker 2: just trying to get the best of the number. That's
- 23:30Speaker 2: what it is right now. So the early money, obviously
- 23:32Speaker 2: Chiefs early money on the under you're gonna hit us
- 23:36Speaker 2: all the trends in the stats. My basic thinking for
- 23:38Speaker 2: it is just I have faith in this Chiefs defense,
- 23:41Speaker 2: and I think the forty aers could get tight, and
- 23:44Speaker 2: Sam goes with the Chiefs offense where it's like I'm
- 23:46Speaker 2: a buyer. I'm a buyer in mahomes and if he
- 23:49Speaker 2: needs to get seven, he can get it. I'm just
- 23:51Speaker 2: not a buyer, and then be consistent. I still think
- 23:53Speaker 2: they will set out for three. That's just who they've
- 23:55Speaker 2: been this season. So the fact that it is at
- 23:58Speaker 2: a key number though, forty seven and a half, that's
- 24:00Speaker 2: why I wanted people to grab it now, just because
- 24:03Speaker 2: if it does go down, you're gonna miss out again.
- 24:05Speaker 2: Forty seven a half. It's shocking, but it's a key number.
- 24:08Speaker 2: It lands there more than you would believe. So just
- 24:11Speaker 2: in case it does drop down to forty six, which
- 24:13Speaker 2: I don't think I will. I do think a public
- 24:15Speaker 2: will coming on the over and I'll go back up.
- 24:17Speaker 2: We'll be'll get better value just grabbing the forty seven
- 24:19Speaker 2: and a half now. I'll make a bigger bet later
- 24:21Speaker 2: in the week if it does go up.
- 24:22Speaker 1: Obviously, these are the number two and number three scoring
- 24:28Speaker 1: defenses in the league, just after the Ravens the Chiefs
- 24:32Speaker 1: this season, and this is really you know, it's been
- 24:35Speaker 1: so long since Patrick Mahomes had a defense that could
- 24:40Speaker 1: play to his caliber, and we've seen this season what
- 24:44Speaker 1: an impact that has had. And they're just not getting
- 24:47Speaker 1: credit for it in the marketplace because people still think
- 24:52Speaker 1: of it as Patrick Mahomes and a high scoring offense.
- 24:55Speaker 1: But the truth is they're not that high scoring of
- 24:58Speaker 1: an offense. And they gave up, forget about offense for
- 25:02Speaker 1: a second, more than twenty one points just three times
- 25:05Speaker 1: all year. The most they gave up was twenty seven
- 25:08Speaker 1: against the Packers. One of those times was in the playoffs,
- 25:12Speaker 1: they gave up twenty four to the Bills. They had
- 25:15Speaker 1: four games in which they didn't give up double digits,
- 25:19Speaker 1: So they had more games in which they didn't give
- 25:22Speaker 1: up double digits than they did in which they gave
- 25:25Speaker 1: up more than three touchdowns. Like that's insane. And then
- 25:29Speaker 1: look at the playoffs. They just dominated three of the
- 25:31Speaker 1: best offenses in the league during the playoffs, the Ravens
- 25:37Speaker 1: number one rush offense in the league, the Bills, one
- 25:41Speaker 1: of the highest scoring quarterbacks in the league. Fifty freaking
- 25:46Speaker 1: touchdowns for Josh Allen Miami Dolphins, no matter the circumstances,
- 25:50Speaker 1: no matter how bad it was in Kansas City, this
- 25:53Speaker 1: was a record setting offense on par with what the
- 25:57Speaker 1: Greatest Show on Turf was doing for the Rams in
- 26:00Speaker 1: the late nineties early two thousands. The second half adjustments
- 26:07Speaker 1: on offense and defense have been masterful. They've given up
- 26:11Speaker 1: ten second half points in those three playoff games. That's it,
- 26:17Speaker 1: three and a third points a game in the second
- 26:21Speaker 1: half in the playoffs. And Andy Reid they just play
- 26:26Speaker 1: a different game in the second half. And he's always
- 26:27Speaker 1: done this, which is why the under is a good
- 26:30Speaker 1: play for the Chiefs. Now, of course, the more we
- 26:33Speaker 1: talk about how convinced we are, it's Mahomes in the under.
- 26:38Speaker 1: It's gonna be like seventy five seventy with Brock Purty
- 26:41Speaker 1: throwing for one thousand yards.
- 26:45Speaker 2: No, don't let them scourge you. That's just how super
- 26:47Speaker 2: Bowl Week is, where it's like you're literally beating yourself
- 26:50Speaker 2: up for two weeks about making these plays, where it's like, yeah,
- 26:53Speaker 2: the doubt eventual will creep in, where it's like, am
- 26:55Speaker 2: I disconvinced on this side again? Last year, I was
- 26:59Speaker 2: an idiot that took the egos against my homes and
- 27:01Speaker 2: it was like, they're the better team on paper, they're
- 27:03Speaker 2: the best team and end up coming down to a
- 27:06Speaker 2: coin flip Chiefs one by three. But I mean, that's
- 27:08Speaker 2: that's kind of how it goes. Just the season before,
- 27:12Speaker 2: we talked about usually teams that win and win cover.
- 27:17Speaker 2: We did have a team cover and not win. Obviously
- 27:19Speaker 2: in the Bengals a couple of years was it two,
- 27:21Speaker 2: three years ago, they had the four and a half.
- 27:24Speaker 2: I believe that what they missed an extra point something
- 27:27Speaker 2: weird were landed on three with the Ravens. So just
- 27:32Speaker 2: a brutal beat, especially then where people had the three
- 27:34Speaker 2: and a half. Rams. Yeah, Rams, yes, you're right, your Rams.
- 27:39Speaker 2: It's it is a thing. Where we talk all the
- 27:42Speaker 2: time about like you know, you're gonna hear a lot
- 27:45Speaker 2: of noise this week. That's why I try to make
- 27:47Speaker 2: take my position early on where even again we'll do
- 27:51Speaker 2: sharp calls next week. The amount of calls I got
- 27:54Speaker 2: after our show being like, you know, the forty nine
- 27:57Speaker 2: ers are the better team, and I just have to
- 27:58Speaker 2: smack them back and be like, you know, Mahomes is
- 28:01Speaker 2: the cheat code. And that's that's really the big thing
- 28:04Speaker 2: here where it's like we all know the Fighters are
- 28:06Speaker 2: the better team. We all can do simple math, and
- 28:08Speaker 2: we've all seen the product they put on the field,
- 28:10Speaker 2: Like they got the big dogs, They got everything they
- 28:13Speaker 2: need on that team. It's just the most important position,
- 28:17Speaker 2: right the quarterback position. And we've seen time and time again,
- 28:20Speaker 2: unless you have an incredible dominant thing, right say, the
- 28:25Speaker 2: Foynaire has had this incredible dominant front line, that would
- 28:28Speaker 2: change my opinion on this. If they had our front
- 28:29Speaker 2: four that was incredible against the run and really good
- 28:32Speaker 2: at getting pressure, this wild change my opinion. They're not.
- 28:35Speaker 2: The forty nine ers are just not that dominant of
- 28:37Speaker 2: our front line as we expect them to be this season.
- 28:40Speaker 2: So you know, if you want to look back on
- 28:44Speaker 2: the type of defenses that give Mahomes trouble. This really
- 28:47Speaker 2: isn't the defense this time with defense is not that
- 28:50Speaker 2: style for the forty nine ers. So again, Chad, I
- 28:53Speaker 2: get where you're coming from, like the doubt will creep in,
- 28:55Speaker 2: but I'm locked in right now. And this Chiefs and
- 28:57Speaker 2: the under.
- 28:58Speaker 1: Well, look, that was something You're right. There's too much
- 29:01Speaker 1: time to talk about these games, just way too much time.
- 29:06Speaker 1: I thought it was really interesting. Both games. They talked
- 29:09Speaker 1: about how the Ravens and the Niners like to play
- 29:14Speaker 1: a lot of zone and they those are not the
- 29:19Speaker 1: kind of matchups the well against those two teams, you're
- 29:23Speaker 1: gonna play zone. Against the Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes is just
- 29:28Speaker 1: gonna pick you apart all day and if someone's not open,
- 29:31Speaker 1: he's just gonna run. That's it. And so that is fascinating.
- 29:37Speaker 1: But here is the thing you really got to think about.
- 29:41Speaker 1: When you have someone as special as Mahomes, when what
- 29:45Speaker 1: you are witnessing is breaking the bounds of convention, does
- 29:51Speaker 1: that have more influence in how you account for the
- 29:53Speaker 1: circumstances and outcome of anything. Right, we're watching the equival
- 30:00Speaker 1: of Picasso of Shakespeare of the people who did this
- 30:06Speaker 1: in ways that set entirely new dynamics for everything. Right,
- 30:12Speaker 1: So he's the freaking Beatles rolled into one. Like he's
- 30:16Speaker 1: setting the standard that is different, and so you have
- 30:19Speaker 1: to account for that. It can't be Well, the Niners
- 30:22Speaker 1: got a better team. So we think that the model
- 30:24Speaker 1: says this. Mahomes is a model breaker. He just is.
- 30:30Speaker 2: I mean, you keep getting back to the human element
- 30:33Speaker 2: of it. Of if the fid and are down by
- 30:36Speaker 2: seven and they're looking across the field of the Mahomes
- 30:38Speaker 2: and they know even if they drive their field and
- 30:40Speaker 2: tie it up, they still have left too much time
- 30:41Speaker 2: for Mahomes get down the field and kick a three.
- 30:43Speaker 2: Like that's just pure mental warfare, and that's what they're
- 30:47Speaker 2: so good at. I mean, even though I know it's
- 30:49Speaker 2: the corniest thing ever, them screwing with a kicker and
- 30:52Speaker 2: Tucker on the Ravens. It's like, guys need that kind
- 30:56Speaker 2: of stuff right in their own head, Like Mahomes. I
- 30:59Speaker 2: know it sounds stupid, but he took it as disrespect.
- 31:01Speaker 2: How did you start that Ravens game? Chat? What was
- 31:03Speaker 2: that eleven for eleven against the yeah defense? So that's
- 31:06Speaker 2: what I mean, it's like the littlest light. These kind
- 31:10Speaker 2: of guys, like the Michael Jordan type, just take it
- 31:13Speaker 2: to a whole other level. And that's what makes these
- 31:14Speaker 2: guys so great. So, yeah, the books making Mahomes a
- 31:18Speaker 2: dog again, Chad, we don't even need we don't even
- 31:21Speaker 2: need anyone say anything. Mahomes already knows that people doubt
- 31:24Speaker 2: them again. So I think Evan had an amazing stat
- 31:28Speaker 2: first time. This would be the first time in his career.
- 31:30Speaker 2: He's been a dog three straight weeks. So the way
- 31:34Speaker 2: the numbers trending, it's going up, it looks like Mahomes
- 31:37Speaker 2: is going to close the dog. So it's it's historical
- 31:40Speaker 2: and I feel like a fool for not taking advantage
- 31:42Speaker 2: of it. So I'm not gonna miss out on this one.
- 31:44Speaker 2: I'm gonna take him in the super Bowl. Especially now
- 31:46Speaker 2: you can get the two Why would you not go
- 31:48Speaker 2: grab that or grab the money line.
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