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- 0:00Speaker 1: Yep. Inside, I want to kill myself. We're on Own
- 0:05Speaker 1: seven run over the last two days after tonight it
- 0:08Speaker 1: was just complete bullshit. So that's that's I'm gonna start
- 0:11Speaker 1: off this show horrible Sunday one and five. I don't
- 0:14Speaker 1: even know what to tell you above that. I just
- 0:17Speaker 1: don't want to do this anymore. I have never seen
- 0:20Speaker 1: anything like this. Man with the slump continuing. Two straight losses,
- 0:25Speaker 1: not a good day at all. Own four, I have
- 0:29Speaker 1: not had a good season. Man with wookends the slump
- 0:34Speaker 1: that I'm on, and the slump continues. I've reached a
- 0:37Speaker 1: new pink. Actually, I'm trying to burn my browins hat Man,
- 0:42Speaker 1: I don't know what is going on with the bruins
- 0:44Speaker 1: arch hape. Is that what it is? I don't even
- 0:46Speaker 1: know it's It's March ninth, I think who even knows? Man,
- 0:50Speaker 1: I don't know what data is anymore. I don't even
- 0:53Speaker 1: know what data is anymore. Man, back with you after
- 0:57Speaker 1: the worst day that I can possibly have, Back with
- 0:59Speaker 1: you as I always am until I die, at least
- 1:03Speaker 1: oh and two. Yesterday and yesterday it did not go
- 1:06Speaker 1: well for me. Own five. The worst month that I've
- 1:10Speaker 1: ever had in my eighteen years doing this. I don't
- 1:13Speaker 1: know what to even tell you about this anymore. To
- 1:15Speaker 1: the slump, the slump discontinuous, the slump continues. Somebody fucking
- 1:20Speaker 1: kill me, please. I don't even know what I should
- 1:24Speaker 1: do at this point, other than potentially end it all.
- 1:32Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, it's towed back with you? Better off dead?
- 1:35Speaker 1: NFL Week eight position, coming off another winning day on
- 1:39Speaker 1: the show, Man, I don't even know how it happened,
- 1:42Speaker 1: but it happened. Yeah, I mean, we got a lot
- 1:46Speaker 1: of the late games right, man, So we're moving the
- 1:50Speaker 1: headphones again. Let's do this just using it for the
- 1:52Speaker 1: audio check now unencumbered. Baby, we're free. Let's go all right? Yeah,
- 2:00Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I mean maybe i'll talk about
- 2:02Speaker 1: it more tomorrow morning. I don't know if I want
- 2:04Speaker 1: to go through the whole rundown what happened here on
- 2:06Speaker 1: this show, because this is gonna be a long show, obviously,
- 2:09Speaker 1: the less long than usual because we have like six
- 2:11Speaker 1: teams on by here excuse me, I'm by here, but
- 2:14Speaker 1: we did not do well in college football. I will
- 2:17Speaker 1: save the rant for that for tomorrow morning show. Let's
- 2:21Speaker 1: get into the NFL. Man, we already want to know.
- 2:23Speaker 1: In the NFL this week, I'm gonna add two more
- 2:25Speaker 1: plays for the Sunday card. I really really hate this board, dude,
- 2:30Speaker 1: so I'm gonna give you my opinions like I usually do.
- 2:32Speaker 1: I'm gonna go through like the final market read tomorrow
- 2:36Speaker 1: morning as well, just to see if anything change, because
- 2:40Speaker 1: I might have changing opinions on some of these games,
- 2:42Speaker 1: and some of these games are just so hard to read.
- 2:46Speaker 1: But I do have two strong enough opinions that I
- 2:49Speaker 1: think that will give them out as plays to track
- 2:53Speaker 1: the buys here. We are gonna have two teams coming
- 2:55Speaker 1: out of a bye into this week, so Buffalo and
- 2:58Speaker 1: Baltimore are those teams. We also have six teams on
- 3:03Speaker 1: by this week, so we do have only thirteen games
- 3:05Speaker 1: this week. I think one of them already happened. We're
- 3:07Speaker 1: already one to oh this week with the Chargers with
- 3:10Speaker 1: an easy win on Thursday. Lions, Raiders, Rams, Cardinals, Seahawks,
- 3:15Speaker 1: and Jaguars all on by this week. Of course, Rams
- 3:18Speaker 1: and Jaguars are gonna buy coming back from London. Rest
- 3:22Speaker 1: of these other teams that I mentioned were also all
- 3:24Speaker 1: on by this week, so we're gonna have a shorter,
- 3:28Speaker 1: shorter board here to work with, Man Jets Bengals. You
- 3:32Speaker 1: better believe that's gonna be one of my plays, because
- 3:34Speaker 1: you know me, man, oh ugliest game of the week. Perhaps, Yeah,
- 3:38Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna have a play on that one,
- 3:40Speaker 1: of course I am. That's in the one PM slate.
- 3:45Speaker 1: We don't have any London games anymore. Yes, no Europe games. Yes,
- 3:49Speaker 1: hopefully they're done for the season. Hopefully they're done permanently.
- 3:52Speaker 1: And well have one Monday night game this week too. Yes,
- 3:56Speaker 1: back to tradition, return to tradition. So much better, Man,
- 4:01Speaker 1: so much better, except that we don't have as many
- 4:04Speaker 1: spots that I like forty nine Ers and Texans. I
- 4:06Speaker 1: do have an opinion on this one. This opinion is
- 4:08Speaker 1: not gonna change. How close is this to being a
- 4:11Speaker 1: play for me? Pretty close? I like the Texans in
- 4:16Speaker 1: this game. Texans are sitting as a two point favorite.
- 4:18Speaker 1: They haven't really moved. Public is all over the forty
- 4:21Speaker 1: nine or seventy three percent of tickets, only sixty five
- 4:24Speaker 1: percent of the cash on the Niners. So they are
- 4:26Speaker 1: a public road underdog here. And you know I talk
- 4:29Speaker 1: about this. I like to fade the public just generally,
- 4:32Speaker 1: because I think that's how you find value, because the books,
- 4:34Speaker 1: especially in the NFL, have to at least skew the
- 4:37Speaker 1: number a little bit towards that public side there. And
- 4:43Speaker 1: in a case like this, when you're getting an anti
- 4:46Speaker 1: public favorite, you're actually kind of you know that you're
- 4:49Speaker 1: actually getting like a decent team, like a competitive team.
- 4:52Speaker 1: And yes, I do think the Texans are actually a
- 4:54Speaker 1: decent team, mostly because their defense is pretty good. San Francisco.
- 5:00Speaker 1: This is a spot where you have a team like
- 5:01Speaker 1: San Francisco that looked really good in a primetime game.
- 5:04Speaker 1: And that was a winner for me last week. That
- 5:05Speaker 1: was the only winner I gave out. I was one
- 5:07Speaker 1: and two. Not a good week for me in the NFL.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Last week. San Francisco came through for us in the
- 5:13Speaker 1: Sunday night game. It was a bad spot for Atlanta.
- 5:16Speaker 1: I think Pennis got hurt in the game, which I'll
- 5:18Speaker 1: talk about when we talk about Atlanta. But San Francisco
- 5:21Speaker 1: looked good in primetime. Man, they held that Atlanta team down.
- 5:24Speaker 1: San Francisco is actually kind of an anti public team
- 5:27Speaker 1: in that one, because everybody was hyped up about Atlanta
- 5:29Speaker 1: because Atlanta had beaten Buffalo on Monday night the week
- 5:32Speaker 1: before that, so the public just they shift opinions. You
- 5:35Speaker 1: want to shift your opinion like to counter the public basically.
- 5:38Speaker 1: So Atlanta was actually public because they had upset Buffalo.
- 5:42Speaker 1: Everybody loved them. Everybody saw them do it in primetime.
- 5:45Speaker 1: I was like, Nah, we're gonna get San Francisco bouncing
- 5:48Speaker 1: back nicely in this one after San Francisco had lost
- 5:51Speaker 1: I believe that week to Tampa Bay. And yet San
- 5:53Speaker 1: Francisco showed up. Defense really showed up in the game
- 5:57Speaker 1: off of San Francisco. But now they have to travel
- 5:59Speaker 1: Aga again, back out on the road, and this is
- 6:02Speaker 1: gonna be a third road game in four weeks for
- 6:04Speaker 1: San Francisco. That's not easy, dude. Grand one of them
- 6:09Speaker 1: was Thursday night at La so they stayed in California
- 6:12Speaker 1: for that one and they had extra time off and
- 6:14Speaker 1: then they did have to go to the East Coast,
- 6:15Speaker 1: lost to Tampa Bay, flew all the way back cross
- 6:18Speaker 1: country to play that late night game. They beat Atlanta,
- 6:21Speaker 1: which tough spot for an East Coast team to have
- 6:23Speaker 1: to go west. As I always talk about the East
- 6:26Speaker 1: Coast teams having to play in the Pacific time zone
- 6:28Speaker 1: late night. Not an easy spot. Then San Francisco now
- 6:31Speaker 1: has to fly back out and they have to go
- 6:33Speaker 1: to Houston, and they're actually going to be on the
- 6:35Speaker 1: East Coast again next week against the Giants. San Francisco
- 6:39Speaker 1: difficult part of their schedule here. They're traveling all over
- 6:42Speaker 1: the place here, Man. The one I think good thing
- 6:45Speaker 1: for San Francisco is that Brock Purdy is not coming back.
- 6:48Speaker 1: So if he was going to come back, I think
- 6:49Speaker 1: that would be like a chemistry shift, and I think
- 6:51Speaker 1: it would be a bit of a negative, kind of
- 6:53Speaker 1: a reverse injured players spot. But in this case, I'm
- 6:55Speaker 1: not even sure that he's the better quarterback. Mac Jones
- 6:59Speaker 1: has been doing fairly well, man, So I think just
- 7:02Speaker 1: San Francisco, they're just a well coached team, very good
- 7:06Speaker 1: defensive coordinated with Salad. Their other coach, Kyle Shanahan, maybe
- 7:11Speaker 1: the best coach in the league doing what he's doing
- 7:13Speaker 1: here at five and two with like just an extremely
- 7:16Speaker 1: injured team. But I think with all this travel with
- 7:19Speaker 1: a kind of depleted team here, I think it's gonna
- 7:21Speaker 1: be a problem coming into this one. Yes, they did
- 7:23Speaker 1: get kittled back last week, but I think they're still
- 7:25Speaker 1: without Piersol, so they're still a little bit thin at
- 7:28Speaker 1: wide receiver. McCaffrey did finally break out and have a
- 7:31Speaker 1: good game for once, but I don't know if he's
- 7:33Speaker 1: gonna be able to do it against Houston, because again, Houston,
- 7:36Speaker 1: the one thing that they do well is play defense,
- 7:39Speaker 1: and I think they might be able to slow this
- 7:41Speaker 1: San Francisco offense down more than some of these other
- 7:44Speaker 1: teams have been able to. Not that San Francisco's offense
- 7:46Speaker 1: was really even that good last week against Atlanta. McCaffrey
- 7:50Speaker 1: was able to run the ball and they were able
- 7:52Speaker 1: to maintain possession of the ball at the very least.
- 7:55Speaker 1: But San Francisco also injured on defense as they lost
- 7:59Speaker 1: war going into that game last week. He's their defensive captain.
- 8:03Speaker 1: He's out. I think they're still without Bosa as well,
- 8:05Speaker 1: So definitely some injury concerns for San Francisco. They're coming
- 8:09Speaker 1: out and they're about to face Houston, who looked really
- 8:11Speaker 1: bad on Prime time. And yes, it's a shorter week
- 8:13Speaker 1: for Houston because Houston played on Monday night. They played
- 8:16Speaker 1: in the late night game on the Pacific coast, so
- 8:19Speaker 1: they're actually going from the Pacific coast from Seattle back
- 8:22Speaker 1: home as well. So that's kind of my hesitation with
- 8:26Speaker 1: this is just I don't love the Houston's on the
- 8:28Speaker 1: shorter week, And the other thing I don't love is
- 8:31Speaker 1: that Houston actually won the turnover battle against Seattle and
- 8:33Speaker 1: they still lost the game. Houston actually won the turnover
- 8:36Speaker 1: battle four to one, so it's pretty bad that they
- 8:39Speaker 1: still lost a game by eight points, like when you
- 8:42Speaker 1: have a turnover margin like that, when you're plus three
- 8:44Speaker 1: in turnovers, and they didn't even lose the yards battle
- 8:47Speaker 1: by that much. They only lost it by whatever that is,
- 8:49Speaker 1: sixty yards, So there's not much of an excuse for
- 8:52Speaker 1: them to lose this game by eight still, so they
- 8:54Speaker 1: didn't capitalize on the turnovers. A couple of concerns with
- 8:57Speaker 1: Houston just for those reasons. But I do think they're
- 9:02Speaker 1: gonna show up for this game. It's a Monday night
- 9:04Speaker 1: game against the forty nine ers. It's gonna be throwing
- 9:07Speaker 1: off the public. The fact that the Niners are five
- 9:09Speaker 1: and two and Houston's only two and four. The public
- 9:12Speaker 1: is gonna want nothing to do with Houston for that reason.
- 9:14Speaker 1: They're gonna think there's value getting. Oh, San Francisco, the
- 9:17Speaker 1: team that looked better in primetime than Houston did last week,
- 9:20Speaker 1: the team that has the better record, and you're giving
- 9:22Speaker 1: me them as an underdog. What is that? Yeah, it
- 9:24Speaker 1: looks way too easy to take San Francisco as the underdog,
- 9:27Speaker 1: so I would not do it. Houston. I mean, they've
- 9:30Speaker 1: also been competitive this entire season, Like every one of
- 9:33Speaker 1: their losses was by one score. Their loss that was
- 9:36Speaker 1: by the biggest margin was that eight point loss against Seattle.
- 9:41Speaker 1: They haven't lost by more than that in any game
- 9:43Speaker 1: the season. So Houston, I mean that they've not played badly.
- 9:47Speaker 1: Their defense is keeping them in games, just as their
- 9:49Speaker 1: offense is really struggling right now. They have a ton
- 9:52Speaker 1: of offensive injuries, very depleted offense. Is Stroud. I mean,
- 9:56Speaker 1: the league has figured Stroud out. He's just not as
- 9:58Speaker 1: good as he looked like he was in his rookie season.
- 10:02Speaker 1: But all that being said, I like the Texans in
- 10:04Speaker 1: that game not going to be a play for me,
- 10:07Speaker 1: but that one is closer to being a play for me.
- 10:09Speaker 1: Too long of a handicap on that one probably bears
- 10:12Speaker 1: Ravens is gonna be my other play. I'll leave that
- 10:15Speaker 1: for the end of the show. Dolphins Falcons also at
- 10:19Speaker 1: one PM. Here, Falcons are up from a six point
- 10:21Speaker 1: favorite to a seven point favorite. They're public ninety two
- 10:24Speaker 1: percent of the tickets, but ninety three percent of the cash,
- 10:27Speaker 1: so it looks like some of the money is joining
- 10:29Speaker 1: the public on the Falcons here. I have some hesitations. Man,
- 10:34Speaker 1: this is a game where I don't really have a
- 10:36Speaker 1: strong opinion on the side. I don't know which way
- 10:38Speaker 1: I actually want to go in, like my pick them
- 10:40Speaker 1: yet where I have to pick every single game. Normally,
- 10:43Speaker 1: I would say you actually probably want to look to
- 10:45Speaker 1: taking the points with the Falcons just because Atlanta. I mean,
- 10:48Speaker 1: they're traveling cross country, which is not really that easy
- 10:51Speaker 1: to do. We saw them play Sunday night. They lost
- 10:54Speaker 1: a little bit of a wind streak there. They're having
- 10:55Speaker 1: to cross the country twice because they beat Buffalo at
- 10:58Speaker 1: home primetime game, they had to play another primetime game
- 11:02Speaker 1: against San Francisco out on the Pacific coast. Now they're
- 11:05Speaker 1: flying all the way back east, so that's not that
- 11:07Speaker 1: easy to do. And Miami just got annihilated last week
- 11:12Speaker 1: against the Browns, which is gonna make Miami look even worse,
- 11:15Speaker 1: not that Miami looks good anyway, but they had at
- 11:19Speaker 1: least basically been in every single one of their losses
- 11:21Speaker 1: except for their season opener against Indianapolis where they got
- 11:25Speaker 1: pretty much blown out and they had a bad turnover
- 11:28Speaker 1: margin in that one. But now they got blown out
- 11:30Speaker 1: by the Browns. So people are just gonna be nobody's
- 11:34Speaker 1: gonna be taking the excuse me, nobody's gonna be taking
- 11:37Speaker 1: the Dolphins after this. But if you look at what
- 11:40Speaker 1: happened in this game, I know they lost thirty one
- 11:43Speaker 1: to six, but the Dolphins actually outgained the Browns in
- 11:46Speaker 1: this game, even though they only had two hundred and
- 11:48Speaker 1: nineteen yards. Both teams were in the low two hundreds
- 11:51Speaker 1: yards wise, the Dolphins were minus four and turnovers. But
- 11:54Speaker 1: looking at this final score, you would think the Cleveland
- 11:56Speaker 1: absolutely destroyed them, but that was not the case. So
- 11:59Speaker 1: this is a very misleading results. So I actually do
- 12:02Speaker 1: think the Dolphins maybe are not quite as bad as
- 12:06Speaker 1: they look. But the problem that I have, yes, I
- 12:09Speaker 1: probably still need to taking the points with the Dolphins.
- 12:12Speaker 1: I mean, the Falcons are just too public. I think
- 12:14Speaker 1: the spot does set up a little bit better to
- 12:16Speaker 1: maybe get some value at the Dolphins at plus the touchdown.
- 12:18Speaker 1: But the problem is Atlanta is in an injured player
- 12:21Speaker 1: spot here, as I was alluding to when I just
- 12:23Speaker 1: talked about the Niners against the Falcons last week. Pennis
- 12:27Speaker 1: got hurt, so he's not playing in this game. So
- 12:30Speaker 1: that means Atlanta is going to go to Kirk Cousins,
- 12:33Speaker 1: and it hasn't really affected the line. So I talk
- 12:35Speaker 1: about the injured player spot where when the start, like
- 12:38Speaker 1: when a starting quarterback goes down, a lot of times,
- 12:41Speaker 1: the line will drop on that team. So you get
- 12:43Speaker 1: a little bit of extra value on that team, and
- 12:44Speaker 1: the team will like become extra motivated, right, and we'll
- 12:47Speaker 1: step up because they know, oh crap, we lost our quarterback.
- 12:50Speaker 1: Now we have to like play harder. And to an extent,
- 12:53Speaker 1: I do think the Falcons are gonna have that aspect
- 12:55Speaker 1: of this, even though the line hasn't moved, because the
- 12:58Speaker 1: oddsmakers are basically telling you it's not a downgrade from
- 13:01Speaker 1: Pennix to Kirk Cousins, and I agree that it's not
- 13:04Speaker 1: really a downgrade. I don't think it really matters necessarily
- 13:07Speaker 1: which quarterback is in their Cousins. He knows what he's
- 13:09Speaker 1: doing out there. Man, he's a veteran, he's been in
- 13:11Speaker 1: the NFL for a long time, he's been in the
- 13:13Speaker 1: playoffs before. He knows the deal, he knows the drill.
- 13:17Speaker 1: He's not unfamiliar with this at all. I think he's
- 13:19Speaker 1: gonna be actually really excited to get back out there,
- 13:22Speaker 1: to be honest. And he's a guy that gets respect
- 13:25Speaker 1: from his teammates, so I think his teammates are gonna
- 13:27Speaker 1: be pumped to play with him as well. I think
- 13:30Speaker 1: the Falcons are going to an extent be kind of
- 13:32Speaker 1: angry because they looked really bad in primetime last Sunday night,
- 13:36Speaker 1: so I think they will want to play better for
- 13:37Speaker 1: that reason too. So you can see why I'm struggling
- 13:39Speaker 1: to figure out what I would want to do with
- 13:41Speaker 1: this game, which is obviously I'm not gonna give out
- 13:43Speaker 1: a play. I'm leaving this game alone. I'm considering the
- 13:46Speaker 1: Falcons and Survivor though, because they don't have that much
- 13:48Speaker 1: future value, so maybe there'll be some value there. And
- 13:52Speaker 1: for people that think Kirk Cousins is bad because of
- 13:55Speaker 1: what they saw last year, watch the Netflix Quarterback documentary
- 14:00Speaker 1: See what really happened with that Cousins he was playing
- 14:03Speaker 1: injured man. He was massively injured. He had like an
- 14:06Speaker 1: injured shoulder, an injured leg. He was basically he just
- 14:10Speaker 1: couldn't even like get out there and do anything. Man.
- 14:13Speaker 1: So we actually have a healthy Kirk Cousins now coming
- 14:16Speaker 1: out here. So I think the Cousins that you see
- 14:19Speaker 1: tomorrow is not going to be the Cousins that you
- 14:21Speaker 1: saw when they finally switched to Pennix last year. Cousins
- 14:27Speaker 1: he was like literally on one leg and like couldn't
- 14:29Speaker 1: even throw the ball. And I'm assuming he's healthy now,
- 14:33Speaker 1: So I think he's gonna be okay and he's gonna
- 14:34Speaker 1: be back out there. And you could see like how
- 14:37Speaker 1: sad Kirk Cousins was that he wasn't playing anymore too.
- 14:40Speaker 1: I think he's gonna want to seize this opportunity, man,
- 14:43Speaker 1: because he basically was like when you watch that documentary,
- 14:45Speaker 1: he's like, I'm not done yet. I was kind of
- 14:48Speaker 1: rooting for him to go somewhere else. It would be
- 14:49Speaker 1: awesome if he went to Minnesota because they don't have
- 14:52Speaker 1: a fucking quarterback in Minnesota, so they could really use
- 14:55Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins back there right now. He could be their
- 14:58Speaker 1: starter and they could be a playoff team potentially if
- 15:00Speaker 1: he was. But I think he's gonna try to make
- 15:03Speaker 1: the most of this opportunity, man, because if you go
- 15:05Speaker 1: out there and you do well, it's possible that, Like
- 15:08Speaker 1: I mean, I doubt that he's gonna keep the starting
- 15:10Speaker 1: jaw because they drafted Pennix for a reason, but you
- 15:14Speaker 1: never know. So I think he's gonna be extra motivated
- 15:16Speaker 1: to get out there though. So there are some reasons
- 15:18Speaker 1: to kind of like the Falcons here as well. So
- 15:21Speaker 1: I mean, I slightly lean to fading the public with Miami,
- 15:24Speaker 1: but it's that's a very very difficult read in that game,
- 15:29Speaker 1: mohave wander What's up man? Cowboys and Steelers on a
- 15:32Speaker 1: two leg parlay, I actually disagree with both of those sides,
- 15:36Speaker 1: which I'll I don't have a strong opinion necessarily on
- 15:41Speaker 1: the Cowboys Broncos game. I like green Bay quite a
- 15:44Speaker 1: bit in the In the Night game, which I'm gonna
- 15:46Speaker 1: talk about when I get to those games, so if
- 15:48Speaker 1: you stick around, you can see what my thoughts are
- 15:50Speaker 1: on it. But yeah, I'm I don't have like strong
- 15:55Speaker 1: opinions necessarily on those two games though, Nate, What's up Man?
- 15:58Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out, all right, Where are we going next?
- 16:03Speaker 1: Bill's Panthers bills very public, but it looks like the
- 16:08Speaker 1: cash is also joining the public on the bills here
- 16:10Speaker 1: they're seven point road favorite. Money is coming in on
- 16:14Speaker 1: the seven. It looks like, as it's getting close to
- 16:15Speaker 1: seven and a half here, ninety one percent of the tickets,
- 16:18Speaker 1: ninety four percent of the cash on the bills. Again,
- 16:22Speaker 1: this is one of those spots where i'd kind of
- 16:24Speaker 1: my default reaction is like I want to fade the
- 16:26Speaker 1: public here, and I would want to lean towards taking
- 16:29Speaker 1: the points with the Panthers. But the Bills are coming
- 16:31Speaker 1: out of a buye and I think that buy came
- 16:33Speaker 1: at a good time for the Bills because they went
- 16:35Speaker 1: into the buy on a really bad note. They lost
- 16:38Speaker 1: two games in a row. They lost to New England
- 16:40Speaker 1: as a favorite in that primetime game where it was
- 16:42Speaker 1: like New England's coming out party, and then they followed
- 16:45Speaker 1: it up with a loss at Atlanta, and I pointed
- 16:48Speaker 1: out I liked Atlanta quite a bit in that one.
- 16:50Speaker 1: I didn't make it a play. Kind of mad that
- 16:52Speaker 1: I didn't. But Buffalo went into the buy on that note,
- 16:55Speaker 1: so you know they're gonna be getting drilled. They're gonna
- 16:57Speaker 1: be fixing some things in that buy. Like the best
- 16:59Speaker 1: time for a buye to come up is when you're
- 17:01Speaker 1: on a losing streak, because that buy can like end
- 17:03Speaker 1: that losing streak right away and then you come out
- 17:06Speaker 1: and you play better after that buy. So that is
- 17:08Speaker 1: positive for Buffalo. There is a negative here, though, which
- 17:11Speaker 1: is that their next opponent is the Kansas City Chiefs.
- 17:15Speaker 1: And you know, Buffalo has that game circle because guess what,
- 17:18Speaker 1: the Chiefs are the team that eliminated Buffalo from the
- 17:21Speaker 1: playoffs again last year. So Buffalo they're gonna want revenge
- 17:25Speaker 1: against Kansas City. Obviously that is a huge game for them.
- 17:29Speaker 1: So the question is are they gonna be looking ahead?
- 17:32Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I would put more weight
- 17:34Speaker 1: into the bibing a positive. I think that that what
- 17:37Speaker 1: happened before the game matters more than like what might
- 17:41Speaker 1: happen in the future, right, because what happens in the
- 17:44Speaker 1: future is only a mental thing. You just have to
- 17:46Speaker 1: avoid getting distracted by that look ahead. But what happened
- 17:49Speaker 1: in the past, it already did whatever it did to you.
- 17:52Speaker 1: And in this case, I think they had a positive
- 17:55Speaker 1: week off to try to fix things. So I actually,
- 18:00Speaker 1: as ridiculous as it might sound, I'm actually kind of
- 18:02Speaker 1: slightly looking towards Buffalo in this one right now, although
- 18:04Speaker 1: Caroline is coming off a real, real ugly game against
- 18:08Speaker 1: the Jets. But here's the other thing about Carolina. Bryce
- 18:12Speaker 1: Young has been doing so bad that Carolina is actually
- 18:15Speaker 1: switching to Andy Dalton in this game, and it hasn't
- 18:18Speaker 1: really affected the line. So the oddsbeakers are basically like,
- 18:22Speaker 1: we don't fucking know, man, Like either of these quarterbacks
- 18:25Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. So the ginger, the what's his nickname,
- 18:30Speaker 1: the Red Rocket? He's coming back, baby, or is that
- 18:33Speaker 1: Cooper Rush? Is Rush the Red Rocket? I don't know, man,
- 18:36Speaker 1: It should be Dalton. Dalton's coming back in this one.
- 18:39Speaker 1: He's a veteran. I mean, he's been around for a
- 18:40Speaker 1: long long time, so he's not gonna be intimidated by
- 18:43Speaker 1: this or anything like that. It might actually be an upgrade.
- 18:46Speaker 1: And the thing that that might help out with with
- 18:48Speaker 1: Carolina is Buffalo might have a little bit more of
- 18:51Speaker 1: a difficult time preparing for that because they probably spent
- 18:54Speaker 1: the whole week preparing for Bryce Young and now they
- 18:56Speaker 1: have to prepare for Andy Dalton on the fly, although
- 18:59Speaker 1: I know Andy Dalton old, like, he doesn't really have
- 19:01Speaker 1: an added dimension to his game at this point. He's
- 19:04Speaker 1: a pocket passer and that's basically it. And you saw
- 19:06Speaker 1: what Carolina did with him last year, so Buffalo could
- 19:09Speaker 1: probably still whip up something for that. Again, like, these
- 19:13Speaker 1: games are so difficult to read, dude, Like I don't
- 19:16Speaker 1: even know what I want to do with these, Like
- 19:18Speaker 1: do I want to really like pick Buffalo laying the
- 19:21Speaker 1: points in my pick them league when I usually will
- 19:24Speaker 1: like fade the public. I don't know, man, I still
- 19:28Speaker 1: don't know what I want to do with this one.
- 19:29Speaker 1: I could see arguments for both sides in this one too.
- 19:32Speaker 1: Carolina is coming off that really ugly win over the Jets,
- 19:35Speaker 1: which people were gonna put no weight into that at all.
- 19:38Speaker 1: Although I thought it was a bad spot for Carolina
- 19:40Speaker 1: because they were coming off that big win over Dallas,
- 19:42Speaker 1: but the Jets were coming back from London, so you know,
- 19:46Speaker 1: I mean, I guess I have to take it back
- 19:48Speaker 1: about the team's returning from London. The teams that say no,
- 19:51Speaker 1: we don't want to take the buye, we want to
- 19:53Speaker 1: play immediately because they've been really bad. They've been their
- 19:56Speaker 1: zero to three against the spread this year, so that's
- 19:59Speaker 1: not good. Every redhead not named Carrot Top is called
- 20:03Speaker 1: the red Rocket. Okay, yeah, and it's also every dog
- 20:08Speaker 1: Dick is called the red Rocket. Giants Eagles. I got
- 20:12Speaker 1: a hard time with this one too, man, because the
- 20:14Speaker 1: Eagles are public seventy four percent of tickets, only seventy
- 20:17Speaker 1: three percent of the cash Eagles down from eight to
- 20:20Speaker 1: seven here. But I mean, we remember what happened two
- 20:24Speaker 1: weeks ago, right, the Eagles played at the Giants. The
- 20:27Speaker 1: Giants had that ridiculous win, crazy win, which I was
- 20:30Speaker 1: correct about on the show, although I didn't give it
- 20:31Speaker 1: out as a play. Giants pulled off the upset in
- 20:34Speaker 1: that one. Remember what the line was in that game though?
- 20:37Speaker 1: The line was Eagles minus seven and a half in
- 20:40Speaker 1: that game at the Giants. And now you're telling me
- 20:42Speaker 1: that the Eagles are a smaller favorite than that at home, Like,
- 20:47Speaker 1: does that line make any sense? Yeah? I mean definitely.
- 20:51Speaker 1: You could argue that the Eagles should not have been
- 20:52Speaker 1: a seven and a half point favorite at the New
- 20:54Speaker 1: York Giants in that game. But if you give each
- 20:57Speaker 1: team like one and a half, the minimal amount of
- 21:00Speaker 1: home field. This line should at least be ten. And
- 21:04Speaker 1: then yeah, you got to deal with the fact that
- 21:06Speaker 1: aj Brown is going to be out in this game
- 21:07Speaker 1: for the Eagles. But he I mean, if you've watched
- 21:10Speaker 1: the Eagles, he looked hurt anyway. So I don't even
- 21:12Speaker 1: think that's going to downgrade the Eagles at all. So
- 21:15Speaker 1: I think there is line value on the Eagles in
- 21:17Speaker 1: this game. Like this line I think is just too short. Again,
- 21:21Speaker 1: even if you think that the Eagles should have been
- 21:24Speaker 1: less of a favorite in that game against the Giants,
- 21:26Speaker 1: I think this line still should be higher than a
- 21:28Speaker 1: touchdown here in this one. The Giants are also coming
- 21:31Speaker 1: up that brutal game last week where they had to
- 21:33Speaker 1: go to Elevation. I mean, this is a difficult schedule
- 21:36Speaker 1: for the Giants right now. Man, if you look what
- 21:39Speaker 1: they did recently. They've got that win Jackson darts debut
- 21:43Speaker 1: against the Chargers, which that was one of my plays
- 21:46Speaker 1: on the show. We got that right. Then I gave
- 21:48Speaker 1: out New Orleans the following week, and that was another
- 21:50Speaker 1: correct play on the show. They had to go to
- 21:52Speaker 1: New Orleans, let down spot. They lost the game. They
- 21:55Speaker 1: were looking ahead to a Thursday night game against Philly
- 21:58Speaker 1: as well. They pulled off the huge against Philly, then
- 22:01Speaker 1: they had to go out on the road again, out
- 22:03Speaker 1: into elevation. I gave up Denver on the show. I
- 22:06Speaker 1: thought it was a bad spot for the Giants. I
- 22:08Speaker 1: thought it was a major letdown spot. They had this
- 22:10Speaker 1: Eagles game again up next Denver though, they were coming
- 22:13Speaker 1: back from London, and Denver just started really slow in
- 22:16Speaker 1: that game. Denver, it took a miracle for them to
- 22:18Speaker 1: win that game. But the thing is the Giants, I
- 22:21Speaker 1: think they're gonna be maybe a little bit crushed, like
- 22:24Speaker 1: that was kind of a spirit crushing loss, man. I
- 22:26Speaker 1: think for how the Giants lost that game, they were
- 22:29Speaker 1: winning nineteen to nothing. In the fourth quarter of that game,
- 22:31Speaker 1: they were still winning, I think got twenty what was it,
- 22:34Speaker 1: twenty six to eight or something like that, with not
- 22:36Speaker 1: much time left in the game, with like maybe eight
- 22:40Speaker 1: minutes to go, maybe less, and they wound up giving
- 22:42Speaker 1: up thirty three points in the fourth quarter and losing
- 22:45Speaker 1: the game thirty three to thirty two. And the Giants
- 22:47Speaker 1: also missed two extra points in the game because they
- 22:49Speaker 1: don't have a kicker, which, by the way, their kicker
- 22:52Speaker 1: right now, looks like it's Graham Gno, but I don't
- 22:54Speaker 1: know if he's actually gonna be ready to play in
- 22:57Speaker 1: this game. So just another thing to keep in mind here.
- 23:00Speaker 1: It's all just craziness. But I think that was a
- 23:02Speaker 1: really deflating loss. And you know that because Philadelphia just
- 23:06Speaker 1: lost to the Giants, you know that Philadelphia is not
- 23:09Speaker 1: gonna overlook them this time. So I actually do lean
- 23:12Speaker 1: to the Eagles in this game. Philly coming off a
- 23:16Speaker 1: good win against Minnesota, but I mean Minnesota, they just
- 23:19Speaker 1: don't look very good right now, So I don't think
- 23:21Speaker 1: the Philadelphia is gonna be like in a letdown spot
- 23:23Speaker 1: after that or anything like that. They're going into a
- 23:25Speaker 1: bye after this, so they do have Green Bay and
- 23:28Speaker 1: Detroit coming up after this, and those are huge games.
- 23:30Speaker 1: They're both primetime games. But I don't know if it's
- 23:32Speaker 1: really gonna be a look ahead because they do have
- 23:34Speaker 1: the buye They're gonna remember what the Giants just did
- 23:38Speaker 1: to them, man, and this is a quick revenge spot,
- 23:40Speaker 1: so you know the Eagles are gonna be the team
- 23:42Speaker 1: that has the adjustments to make because now they've seen
- 23:44Speaker 1: what the Giants did. This is gonna be the first
- 23:47Speaker 1: time that a team faces the Jackson Dart Giant offense
- 23:51Speaker 1: for the second time, and I think they're gonna do
- 23:54Speaker 1: a little bit better facing him the second time. We'd
- 23:56Speaker 1: be my opinion. Even though I don't think the Eagles
- 23:58Speaker 1: defense is really that good. I do think the Eagles
- 24:00Speaker 1: are overrated this year, but in this spot, I would
- 24:03Speaker 1: lean to the Eagles in this game, so that that
- 24:07Speaker 1: one I have a stronger opinion slightly towards the favorite
- 24:09Speaker 1: than I do with other Bills and the Falcons. But
- 24:12Speaker 1: I I have to figure it out before I make
- 24:14Speaker 1: these picks tomorrow. But they're not gonna be plays for me,
- 24:17Speaker 1: so very very difficult to figure these games out. We
- 24:21Speaker 1: have yet another touchdown favorite and Browns Patriots. This game
- 24:24Speaker 1: is a pretty low total. It's gone up a little
- 24:28Speaker 1: bit from forty and a half to forty one, but
- 24:31Speaker 1: we're expected to see some defense in this game, especially
- 24:34Speaker 1: because the Browns are actually a legit defense. Eighty two
- 24:38Speaker 1: percent of the tickets, only seventy nine percent of the
- 24:40Speaker 1: cash on the Patriots, so the Patriots are obviously the
- 24:42Speaker 1: hype right now. The public is on the Patriot train
- 24:45Speaker 1: because the Patriots keep winning. I would probably lean to
- 24:48Speaker 1: take take I would probably lean to taking the points
- 24:51Speaker 1: of the Browns in this one, though, because they're the
- 24:53Speaker 1: better defense getting points, so that's just kind of my default.
- 24:57Speaker 1: I know the Browns looked better than they actually were
- 24:59Speaker 1: last week because Miami turned it over a ton and
- 25:02Speaker 1: the Browns offense did absolutely nothing. But that's a confidence
- 25:06Speaker 1: boosting win at the very least because the Browns had
- 25:08Speaker 1: lost three games in a row. So I think the
- 25:11Speaker 1: Browns will at least have some confidence coming into this
- 25:14Speaker 1: game and show up for this game, at least on
- 25:17Speaker 1: New England. I think they're a little bit overrated right now. Yes,
- 25:19Speaker 1: they're five and two, they're ahead of Buffalo in the
- 25:23Speaker 1: AFC East right now, But what have they done outside
- 25:25Speaker 1: of winning against Buffalo. They pulled off that upset, which
- 25:28Speaker 1: if one play went different here and there, they would
- 25:30Speaker 1: have lost that game. Their other wins are against Miami Carolina,
- 25:34Speaker 1: which was a misleading result by the way, where Carolina
- 25:37Speaker 1: had a lot of turnovers. New Orleans and then Tennessee
- 25:40Speaker 1: and Tennessee compounded their mistakes with a lot of turnovers too,
- 25:43Speaker 1: So the Patriots have no impressive wins besides the Buffalo one.
- 25:47Speaker 1: So they faced a really really weak schedule so far.
- 25:51Speaker 1: So I'm still not completely sold on the Patriots. I mean, yes,
- 25:53Speaker 1: they're the second best team in their division. I don't
- 25:56Speaker 1: think they're better than the Bills. I think at some
- 25:58Speaker 1: point they're gonna regrets to some extent as teams also
- 26:02Speaker 1: kind of start figuring out what the Patriots are doing
- 26:04Speaker 1: with this Drake may offense, even though I do think
- 26:07Speaker 1: he is pretty good, But I would lean to the
- 26:09Speaker 1: Cleveland defense and that woe to take the points with
- 26:11Speaker 1: Cleveland Bucks Saints. This is gonna be one where I'm
- 26:15Speaker 1: not gonna change my opinion on the Bucks are a
- 26:19Speaker 1: three and a half point favorite. I don't think they
- 26:20Speaker 1: were ever a six point underdog. I don't know what
- 26:22Speaker 1: the hell that is. Eighty two percent of the tickets,
- 26:24Speaker 1: only seventy eight percent of the cash on Tampa. They're
- 26:27Speaker 1: a very public road favorite. And you know me, dude,
- 26:30Speaker 1: I'm leaning against Tampa every single week. I mean, that's
- 26:33Speaker 1: just the way that it is. Because they had four
- 26:35Speaker 1: of their five wins they were losing the game in
- 26:37Speaker 1: the final like minute eight of the game, so they
- 26:41Speaker 1: could easily be like a below five hundred team if
- 26:45Speaker 1: those games went slightly differently. They're only really convincing wins
- 26:48Speaker 1: against San Francisco, and San Francisco was in a bad spot.
- 26:52Speaker 1: Good win, but still bad spot. And maybe we're seeing
- 26:55Speaker 1: Tampa get a little bit of a little bit exposed
- 26:58Speaker 1: because they did lose pretty badly on Monday Night and
- 27:00Speaker 1: their offense did absolutely nothing against Detroit. They lost twenty
- 27:04Speaker 1: four to nine in that game against Detroit. But Tampa
- 27:07Speaker 1: is a team that looked bad on Monday Night, So
- 27:09Speaker 1: you could argue that maybe that means they're gonna be
- 27:12Speaker 1: a little bit undervalue, perhaps because everybody saw them look
- 27:15Speaker 1: bad on Monday Night. But I don't think they're gonna
- 27:17Speaker 1: be undervalue when their opponent is the one win New
- 27:20Speaker 1: Orleans Saints. I mean, you're pretty much always gonna get
- 27:23Speaker 1: value on the Saints against a five and two Tampa
- 27:25Speaker 1: Bay team that right now still looks better than they
- 27:29Speaker 1: actually are. I think, I mean Tampa. You know that
- 27:32Speaker 1: that's the case because Tampa is still very public obviously,
- 27:35Speaker 1: so I still need to taking the points with New Orleans.
- 27:38Speaker 1: You know, New Orleans is gonna get up for this
- 27:39Speaker 1: game because it is a big divisional game. You know,
- 27:42Speaker 1: New Orleans is gonna try to play tough in this
- 27:44Speaker 1: one Tampa. They are coming off, they are on a
- 27:48Speaker 1: short week at the very least, and still a tough loss.
- 27:50Speaker 1: You get up emotionally for a game against Detroit on
- 27:53Speaker 1: Monday night. They lost the game. They're gonna have a
- 27:55Speaker 1: bye after this, and then New England and Buffalo, though
- 27:58Speaker 1: those are out of conference games. But I do think
- 28:02Speaker 1: it sets up a little bit better for New Orleans.
- 28:03Speaker 1: And New Orleans has at least been pretty competitive in
- 28:06Speaker 1: basically all their losses. They've lost by seven to five.
- 28:10Speaker 1: Their only blowout loss was to Seattle, and that was
- 28:12Speaker 1: because of I think some turnovers and the yardage battle
- 28:16Speaker 1: was like not much of a difference in that game.
- 28:19Speaker 1: Like Seattle did not outgain them by much. In that
- 28:21Speaker 1: one a, New Orleans hung to within twelve. At Buffalo,
- 28:25Speaker 1: they only lost by six to New England, and then
- 28:26Speaker 1: last week they lost by twelve to the Bears, which
- 28:30Speaker 1: was one of my losses on the show. But if
- 28:32Speaker 1: you look at what happened in this game, New Orleans
- 28:33Speaker 1: lost the turnover battle four to one minus three in turnovers. Yes,
- 28:38Speaker 1: the Bears did outgain them, but when you lose the
- 28:41Speaker 1: turnover battle four to one and you only lose by twelve.
- 28:45Speaker 1: That's kind of saying something. I mean, it does say
- 28:47Speaker 1: that the Bears. The Bears didn't capitalize on those mistakes.
- 28:51Speaker 1: But I still think New Orleans, I mean, they're playing
- 28:55Speaker 1: tough in every one of these games, so they're a
- 28:58Speaker 1: decent underdog, and it's a divisional home underdog in this case.
- 29:03Speaker 1: I think that is the way to look in now,
- 29:04Speaker 1: an anti public as well. Not a play for me,
- 29:07Speaker 1: though I don't really have a situation to really rely
- 29:10Speaker 1: on there. Dallas at Denver SOS. If Mojave is still here,
- 29:13Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about this game now. The money is
- 29:15Speaker 1: actually somewhat agreeing with him. Right now is the Broncos.
- 29:18Speaker 1: I don't know when they were ever a five point favorite,
- 29:20Speaker 1: but they're three and a half point favorite right now.
- 29:22Speaker 1: Sixty five percent of the tickets, sixty nine percent of
- 29:25Speaker 1: the cash coming in on the Cowboys side. This total
- 29:28Speaker 1: is insanely high, and I just I don't see this
- 29:31Speaker 1: going over this total. The totals up from forty seven
- 29:34Speaker 1: to fifty one, and it's basically because the Cowboys defense
- 29:38Speaker 1: is absolute ass The Cowboys of one of the worst
- 29:41Speaker 1: defenses in all of football, and they did just lose
- 29:45Speaker 1: who was it? The Cowboys lost one of their cornerbacks.
- 29:48Speaker 1: I think digs I want to say so the Cowboys.
- 29:51Speaker 1: I mean, they're just massively depleted on defense. Yeah, their
- 29:55Speaker 1: offense looks good. But if you like the Broncos in
- 29:57Speaker 1: this game, and I do kind of lean that way,
- 29:59Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be an under type of game.
- 30:02Speaker 1: Eighty six percent of the tickets, only eighty two percent
- 30:04Speaker 1: of the cash on the over. We also saw we
- 30:06Speaker 1: saw the Broncos score thirty three points in one quarter
- 30:09Speaker 1: last week, and we saw the Cowboys score over forty.
- 30:12Speaker 1: So the public is going to be all over the
- 30:14Speaker 1: over in this one. I don't agree with that. I
- 30:16Speaker 1: would lean to the under in this game, especially when
- 30:19Speaker 1: you get under the key number fifty one. And I
- 30:21Speaker 1: think under is correlated to the Broncos because if it's
- 30:24Speaker 1: gonna be a low scoring game, that means the Broncos
- 30:26Speaker 1: defense is checking the Cowboys offense. Yes, the Broncos should
- 30:31Speaker 1: be able to put up some points against this really
- 30:33Speaker 1: bad Cowboy defense as well. Knicks hasn't been very good
- 30:36Speaker 1: in his sophomore year, but this is a defense that
- 30:38Speaker 1: he should do well against And also the Broncos scoring
- 30:41Speaker 1: thirty three points in one quarter pretty misleading because they
- 30:44Speaker 1: scored zero in the first three quarters in that game
- 30:47Speaker 1: against a giant defense. It isn't really that good. So
- 30:51Speaker 1: I don't know, but I do lean to the Broncos
- 30:53Speaker 1: as well. They're a three and a half point favorite
- 30:54Speaker 1: right now. I think I already mentioned that and mentioned
- 30:56Speaker 1: where the money's coming in. It's slightly on Dallas right now,
- 31:00Speaker 1: but I don't agree with it really Dallas. They're coming
- 31:02Speaker 1: off of a really huge divisional win, dude, beating Washington,
- 31:06Speaker 1: and Jade Daniels got hurt in the middle of that
- 31:07Speaker 1: game as well, but Dallas huge win for them. Man,
- 31:11Speaker 1: beating Washington, that's a huge divisional win for Dallas. I
- 31:15Speaker 1: think they could be in a little bit of a
- 31:17Speaker 1: letdown spot after that. Now they have to play a
- 31:19Speaker 1: third game in four weeks on the road. They're actually
- 31:23Speaker 1: playing a fourth game in six weeks on the road.
- 31:25Speaker 1: They've been all over the place, dude, those games being
- 31:28Speaker 1: in Chicago, in New York, Carolina, and now they have
- 31:32Speaker 1: to go to elevation to Denver. So this is a
- 31:36Speaker 1: spot where I think the travel might be catching up
- 31:38Speaker 1: to Dallas again. Three road games in four weeks is
- 31:41Speaker 1: not a great spot for any NFL team. Plus it's
- 31:44Speaker 1: the letdown spot Denver. I think they might be better,
- 31:46Speaker 1: just like I said, with the Chargers having a second
- 31:49Speaker 1: game in a row back home after so the Chargers,
- 31:51Speaker 1: you know, after traveling all over the place, the Chargers
- 31:55Speaker 1: got to stay at home for once. That's what Denver's
- 31:57Speaker 1: doing here, because Denver had to go to philadel and
- 32:00Speaker 1: then they went to London, they came back home. Now
- 32:03Speaker 1: they're back home for another week. I think it sets
- 32:06Speaker 1: up better for Denver here, man, and Denver almost lost
- 32:08Speaker 1: that game as a favorite. I think Denver knows they
- 32:11Speaker 1: escaped that game, and I know it was a hard
- 32:13Speaker 1: fought game, But I think that game is gonna hang
- 32:15Speaker 1: the Giants over more than it does to Denver because
- 32:17Speaker 1: I think Denver was just expected to win that game
- 32:20Speaker 1: and they almost didn't. So I think Denver's gonna realize
- 32:24Speaker 1: we escaped in that game. Man. And it's the Dallas Cowboys,
- 32:27Speaker 1: I mean, Denver's gonna show up for a game against Dallas.
- 32:30Speaker 1: Dallas for them, it's also one of the least meaningful
- 32:33Speaker 1: games on their schedule because it's a road out of
- 32:36Speaker 1: conference game, and I know they already did that, and
- 32:38Speaker 1: they did beat beat the Jets in one of those games.
- 32:41Speaker 1: But even so, Denver is better than the Jets obviously,
- 32:45Speaker 1: And yeah, Dallas again, road out of conference game. It's
- 32:50Speaker 1: the game that means the least on your schedule because
- 32:53Speaker 1: it's because it has almost no effect on the tiebreaker
- 32:58Speaker 1: at the end of the season. Sorry, is just out
- 33:00Speaker 1: of it right now because it's late. Yeah, I lean
- 33:03Speaker 1: to Denver in that one. I don't think I'm gonna
- 33:05Speaker 1: wind up changing my opinion on that one, to be honest,
- 33:07Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna probably wind up with Denver and
- 33:09Speaker 1: the Pickhams, but it's not gonna be not gonna be
- 33:13Speaker 1: a play for me. And yeah, Javonte Williams revenge game,
- 33:16Speaker 1: I don't know how much weight to put it to
- 33:17Speaker 1: that really. So he's he's Dallas's running back now, right,
- 33:20Speaker 1: and he was formerly on Denver. I don't even know
- 33:26Speaker 1: who the fuck does Dever even have as a running
- 33:28Speaker 1: back now. I don't even know. I know they have RJ.
- 33:30Speaker 1: Harvey in the mix there. Who else do they have? Oh? Yeah, Dobbins,
- 33:33Speaker 1: that's right, the other initial guy JK not JK. Simmons
- 33:39Speaker 1: the act or Whiplash. Good movie by the way, but yeah, JK.
- 33:45Speaker 1: Dobbins and R. J. Harvey. Yeah there all right. At
- 33:49Speaker 1: Tennessee at Indianapolis this is wait, is that the next game? Yes?
- 33:53Speaker 1: It is. Oh I skipped over it. Sorry, I went
- 33:56Speaker 1: over to the schedule rather than the rather than going
- 33:58Speaker 1: down the board. Sorry, but whatever, Tennessee and Indianapolis. Indianapolis
- 34:04Speaker 1: is the largest favorite on the board this week. They're
- 34:07Speaker 1: up from twelve to fourteen and a half. Here in
- 34:09Speaker 1: this one, ninety two percent of the tickets, ninety four
- 34:12Speaker 1: percent of the cash coming in on the Colts. They're
- 34:14Speaker 1: public right now. The money's also coming in on the Colts,
- 34:16Speaker 1: but I'm not going to agree with that. I would
- 34:19Speaker 1: not lay the double digits with the Colts. Everybody's I
- 34:22Speaker 1: think too high on the Colts. I mean, they're my team,
- 34:25Speaker 1: but one of the Colts really done. I mean their
- 34:28Speaker 1: impressive wins are the ones against well really, their only
- 34:31Speaker 1: impressive win was the one last week at LA, which
- 34:34Speaker 1: I thought they were going to lose that game. But
- 34:35Speaker 1: I guess I was wrong about the the uniforms LA.
- 34:39Speaker 1: Apparently they didn't feel good in those yellow uniforms and
- 34:42Speaker 1: they lost the game. They didn't play a good game
- 34:45Speaker 1: if you look at what happened in this game though,
- 34:47Speaker 1: which I think I pointed out when I handicapped the
- 34:49Speaker 1: Chargers and I went with the Chargers this week. The
- 34:51Speaker 1: Chargers actually outgained indian this game, but the Chargers were
- 34:55Speaker 1: minus two and turnovers and that was part of the
- 34:57Speaker 1: reason why they lost the game. So the game was
- 34:59Speaker 1: not exactly what it appeared to be on the scoreboard.
- 35:02Speaker 1: And that's Indy's best game of the season. I mean,
- 35:06Speaker 1: look at what INDI's wins are. They beat Miami Tennessee
- 35:10Speaker 1: Raiders Arizona with a backup quarterback, although I think Brissett
- 35:13Speaker 1: is actually better than Kyler Murray, and Indianapolis came close
- 35:17Speaker 1: to losing that game, and yes they had to win
- 35:20Speaker 1: against Denver. Denver's a good team, but Indianapolis got lucky
- 35:23Speaker 1: at the end of that on that leverage call to
- 35:25Speaker 1: get the rekick there. So Indianapolis it faced a really
- 35:28Speaker 1: weak schedule so far, and they already went into Tennessee
- 35:32Speaker 1: and beat them by twenty one in Tennessee. So this
- 35:34Speaker 1: is I think the first instance of this this year.
- 35:37Speaker 1: This is a divisional road revenge angle. It works out
- 35:41Speaker 1: more often than it does not. So this is something
- 35:43Speaker 1: I talked about. Once we get into the later part
- 35:45Speaker 1: of the NFL season, when you have a second of
- 35:48Speaker 1: the two divisional matchups and the road team won the
- 35:50Speaker 1: first one, you tend to want to you want to
- 35:53Speaker 1: look towards the road. I mean, you don't tend to,
- 35:55Speaker 1: like the public's gonna tend to want to be on
- 35:56Speaker 1: the Colts in this one. But from a handicapping perspective,
- 36:00Speaker 1: what you actually want to do is you want to
- 36:01Speaker 1: look towards the road team because that team already lost
- 36:05Speaker 1: to this team in their own house, so they're gonna
- 36:07Speaker 1: want to like repay the favor, and you're usually getting
- 36:10Speaker 1: them as an underdog. That is the case here. Yes,
- 36:13Speaker 1: I know Tennessee is probably the worst team in football,
- 36:16Speaker 1: but they're getting a ton of points here. Man, it's
- 36:20Speaker 1: a spot where maybe Indy just looks right past them.
- 36:23Speaker 1: I mean, Indy's coming off a big win over the Chargers,
- 36:26Speaker 1: they got a winning opponent next in Pittsburgh, Aaron Rodgers.
- 36:30Speaker 1: So and again Indy already easily beat Tennessee on the
- 36:33Speaker 1: road once. So I think Indy might just look right
- 36:35Speaker 1: past Tennessee in this one. I would lead to Tennessee
- 36:39Speaker 1: plus all those points in that one, if I was
- 36:40Speaker 1: really gonna play that one, which I'm not. Sunday Night.
- 36:44Speaker 1: We're already Sunday night. Man. I love these short weeks.
- 36:47Speaker 1: You can get in and get out, just like we'll
- 36:49Speaker 1: get in and get out, just like you're either like
- 36:51Speaker 1: you're fucking a hooker or like the Colts are gonna
- 36:54Speaker 1: do with that game against the Titans. Sunday night is
- 36:57Speaker 1: a big game. This is the Aaron Rodgers Bowl. It
- 37:00Speaker 1: is the Packers against the Steelers. That is the first
- 37:02Speaker 1: time Aaron Rodgers is playing against the Packers in his
- 37:06Speaker 1: entire career, because of course he's spent almost his entire
- 37:09Speaker 1: career with the Packers. He is saying he's gonna retire
- 37:11Speaker 1: as a Packer, which obviously makes sense. So I don't
- 37:15Speaker 1: think he really has any animosity towards the Packers. You know,
- 37:19Speaker 1: I think he basically knew it was time to see
- 37:22Speaker 1: to Jordan Love. I talked about this last week. Maybe
- 37:25Speaker 1: he didn't want to do what Brett Fire did to
- 37:27Speaker 1: him and like keep sticking around there, and the team
- 37:29Speaker 1: basically had to be like, nah, see you, Brett, like
- 37:32Speaker 1: we have to go with Aaron. Now, Aaron Rodgers didn't
- 37:34Speaker 1: want to do that. So Aaron Rodgers actually took Jordan
- 37:37Speaker 1: Love under his wing more than Fire did with Rogers.
- 37:40Speaker 1: And again you could see that on the Netflix Rogers
- 37:43Speaker 1: documentary how that all played out a bit as well.
- 37:46Speaker 1: So I don't think there's really any animosity here with
- 37:49Speaker 1: Rogers against the Packers, Like it seemed like he did
- 37:51Speaker 1: have animosity against the Jets, which I didn't even think
- 37:55Speaker 1: that was the case, but apparently it was. But I
- 37:57Speaker 1: don't think he has animosity against the Packers. Is he
- 38:00Speaker 1: gonna want to show up and play, Well, yeah he is.
- 38:03Speaker 1: But looking at this line, man, the Packers, they're three
- 38:07Speaker 1: point road favorite here, and I think the public's gonna
- 38:10Speaker 1: look at this and think, well, wait a minute, both
- 38:12Speaker 1: these teams are good, right, green Bay's four to one
- 38:14Speaker 1: and one because they had that tie against Dallas. Pittsburgh's
- 38:17Speaker 1: four and two, and you're giving me points at home
- 38:20Speaker 1: with Pittsburgh with Aaron Rodgers, and Aaron Rodgers is the
- 38:23Speaker 1: guy in this game, Like the talk is just all
- 38:26Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers. So I think the public's gonna want
- 38:28Speaker 1: to take Aaron Rodgers plus the points. Uh, sixty three
- 38:32Speaker 1: percent of the tickets are on the Steelers. Sixty one
- 38:34Speaker 1: percent of the cash though on the Packers. The osmakers
- 38:37Speaker 1: are telling you who the better team is here, and
- 38:39Speaker 1: I agree. I think the Packers are the better team
- 38:42Speaker 1: all around. To be honest, I actually think the Packers
- 38:44Speaker 1: have a better offense and better defense. The Steelers. I
- 38:48Speaker 1: know people like have this image of them as just
- 38:50Speaker 1: like punishing defense, but that hasn't really been the case
- 38:53Speaker 1: this year. I mean, they gave up a lot of
- 38:55Speaker 1: points to the Jets. They give up over thirty points
- 38:58Speaker 1: to the Jets, which is not good against justin fields offense.
- 39:04Speaker 1: The Steelers kind of held New England down on the scoreboard.
- 39:07Speaker 1: But the Steelers, uh, they only won that game because
- 39:10Speaker 1: New England turned the ball over five times or something
- 39:12Speaker 1: like that. And then Pittsburgh, I mean, look at the
- 39:15Speaker 1: offenses that they face. They faced a ton of week offense.
- 39:18Speaker 1: Isn't the only offense they faced. It isn't that week
- 39:21Speaker 1: with Seattle, and they give up thirty one points to Seattle.
- 39:24Speaker 1: Other than that, they face a Carson Wentz Viking offense.
- 39:27Speaker 1: That's not a good offense. They faced Cleveland with Dylan Gabriel,
- 39:31Speaker 1: not a good offense, and then they faced Cincinnati last
- 39:33Speaker 1: week and we saw how bad Cincinnati was with Jake Browning.
- 39:36Speaker 1: I know this was with Joe Flacco, but still that
- 39:39Speaker 1: Cincinnati offense is not that good. I don't think with
- 39:43Speaker 1: Joe Flacco. And Pittsburgh lost the game and gave up
- 39:46Speaker 1: thirty three points to them, So I don't think that's
- 39:48Speaker 1: a good sign. I actually think green Bay is the
- 39:50Speaker 1: better defense here. Green Bay has faced some more difficult
- 39:53Speaker 1: schedule as well. Pittsburgh is also coming off a tough
- 39:57Speaker 1: divisional game, man, so I think the spot doesn't set
- 40:00Speaker 1: up that well. I know Pittsburgh played on Thursday, so
- 40:02Speaker 1: they have extra time off coming into this game. But
- 40:05Speaker 1: that was a brutal divisional lass, dude, A game that
- 40:08Speaker 1: you know, there were a lot of emotions flying in
- 40:10Speaker 1: that game. It was Rogers against Flacco, huge emotional game,
- 40:13Speaker 1: which is gonna factor into my Cincinnati handicap this week
- 40:16Speaker 1: as well. It broke Pittsburgh's three game win streak as well. Yeah,
- 40:21Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit of a hangover spot here. Man.
- 40:23Speaker 1: That was that turned out to be a big divisional game,
- 40:25Speaker 1: and Cincinnati kind of got back into the mix in
- 40:28Speaker 1: the division there, at least for now. And Pittsburgh does
- 40:30Speaker 1: have the Colts up next, which is a conference game,
- 40:33Speaker 1: which is big as well. Though, yes, this game is
- 40:35Speaker 1: gonna be big. It's a primetime game, it's the Aaron
- 40:38Speaker 1: Rodgers Bowl, as I keep calling it, So they're not
- 40:42Speaker 1: going to overlook this game, but they could be a
- 40:45Speaker 1: little bit fatigued in this one after that Cincinnati game.
- 40:48Speaker 1: Green Bay they're coming off a really bad performance where
- 40:51Speaker 1: they almost lost to Arizona, and green Bay was a
- 40:54Speaker 1: big favorite in that game, and if you remember, I said,
- 40:57Speaker 1: I leaned to Arizona when all of a sudden because
- 41:00Speaker 1: green Bay had a five hour flight delay getting out there,
- 41:03Speaker 1: and the spot just didn't set up that well for
- 41:05Speaker 1: green Bay. And I thought this was a look ahead
- 41:07Speaker 1: as well to this game. So green Bay, they didn't
- 41:09Speaker 1: play well, I think that's going to focus them, man,
- 41:12Speaker 1: because green Bay actually they haven't played that well in
- 41:14Speaker 1: either of these games. They did beat Cincinnati the previous week,
- 41:17Speaker 1: so I'm kind of surprised the public isn't looking at
- 41:20Speaker 1: that and saying, well, wait a minute, if green Bay
- 41:22Speaker 1: beat Cincinnati, who beat Pittsburgh. Doesn't that mean green Bay
- 41:25Speaker 1: should beat Pittsburgh here, But the public's not doing that.
- 41:28Speaker 1: The public's on Rogers green Bay. In my opinion, they
- 41:31Speaker 1: just didn't play that well in any of their last
- 41:34Speaker 1: four games, really, and I think it's gonna focus them
- 41:36Speaker 1: at some point. They played poorly against Cleveland, that was
- 41:40Speaker 1: a win for me on the show. They didn't play
- 41:43Speaker 1: very well against Dallas, which was a big game for
- 41:45Speaker 1: Dallas in primetime. Green Bay then went into a bye.
- 41:48Speaker 1: They came out of the by with a little bit
- 41:49Speaker 1: of a lackluster game against Cincinnati. I think they just
- 41:52Speaker 1: didn't care that much about Cincinnati, and then I think
- 41:54Speaker 1: they had to deal with the flight delay. I think
- 41:57Speaker 1: they didn't care that much about Arizona either, So I
- 42:00Speaker 1: do think they're gonna show up focus for this one.
- 42:03Speaker 1: It's not a third road game in four weeks because
- 42:05Speaker 1: they did have a bye after those two road games,
- 42:07Speaker 1: So it is a second straight road game though, which
- 42:10Speaker 1: is still not that easy. But I think the spot
- 42:13Speaker 1: does set up a little bit better for green Bay.
- 42:15Speaker 1: That is my lean in that one. My opinion is
- 42:17Speaker 1: green Bay minus the three in that one. Justin what's
- 42:20Speaker 1: up Man how's Missouri, how's living in misery? And I
- 42:27Speaker 1: don't really want to talk about Missouri right now after
- 42:29Speaker 1: what happened in the well. I'm gonna talk about it
- 42:31Speaker 1: tomorrow morning, hopefully my voice comes back a little. My
- 42:34Speaker 1: voice is so fucked right now. But we're gonna have
- 42:37Speaker 1: to talk about it because I lost to play on
- 42:39Speaker 1: Missouri today. Monday night is gonna be Washington at the
- 42:44Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Looking at this line, the line was
- 42:48Speaker 1: gonna be five and a half on the Chiefs and
- 42:50Speaker 1: now it's eleven and a half. And the reason for
- 42:53Speaker 1: that is Jaden Daniels is hurt, so it's gonna be
- 42:56Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota. But you know what I always say, it's
- 42:59Speaker 1: an injured player spot. When a team loses their star
- 43:02Speaker 1: quarterback like this, they step up their game play. And
- 43:06Speaker 1: they're gonna step it up anyway because they're playing on
- 43:08Speaker 1: Monday night against the Chiefs. So I think you know
- 43:10Speaker 1: you're gonna get an effort out of Washington. The Redskins,
- 43:13Speaker 1: as I will keep calling them, They're gonna step up
- 43:16Speaker 1: their game knowing that they have to go in to
- 43:17Speaker 1: their backup again. I don't think Mariota is actually a
- 43:20Speaker 1: six point downgrade from Daniels either. I mean, Mariota is
- 43:23Speaker 1: a similar style of quarterback. He fits into the system
- 43:26Speaker 1: fairly well. He's played numerous games already. Because dude, Jayden
- 43:30Speaker 1: Daniels keeps getting hurt, man, he might be the next
- 43:33Speaker 1: RG three. I've been kind of saying that a little bit.
- 43:37Speaker 1: It's been in my head. I mean, we don't really
- 43:39Speaker 1: want to say that and jinks him. But as we
- 43:42Speaker 1: remember RG three was a very similar style of quarterback,
- 43:45Speaker 1: like a dual threat quarterback. He was on the Redskins
- 43:48Speaker 1: and he couldn't stay healthy and he made one playoff appearance.
- 43:51Speaker 1: What if the same thing happens to Daniels. I don't know,
- 43:54Speaker 1: but it's gonna be marioda in this one. I do
- 43:55Speaker 1: think we're getting value on Washington here, a double digit underdog.
- 43:59Speaker 1: I mean, think about that as far as Washington, Like
- 44:02Speaker 1: last year, Washington was a playoff team and now they're
- 44:05Speaker 1: a double digit underdog. I know it's against one of
- 44:07Speaker 1: the better teams in the league, the Chiefs at Arrowhead,
- 44:09Speaker 1: but again I think Washington is that we've reached a
- 44:12Speaker 1: point where Washington's actually being undervalued even though they were
- 44:16Speaker 1: one of the teams that I thought was really overvalued
- 44:18Speaker 1: coming into the season. I think the market has gone
- 44:20Speaker 1: too far in the other direction. I think the market
- 44:23Speaker 1: is too high on the Chiefs now as well. After
- 44:24Speaker 1: the Chiefs keep putting up a lot of points and
- 44:27Speaker 1: everybody's now saying, oh my god, the Chiefs are gonna
- 44:29Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. Like they have a good defense. Yeah,
- 44:32Speaker 1: we all know that, but their offense looks really good
- 44:34Speaker 1: again this year. Mahomes is killing it from my fantasy team. Yeah,
- 44:38Speaker 1: all that is true. And yeah, the Washington doesn't have
- 44:41Speaker 1: a good defense. I get it. Chiefs should be able
- 44:44Speaker 1: to put up some points in this one, but I
- 44:46Speaker 1: don't know how focused the Chiefs are gonna be in
- 44:48Speaker 1: this one. Man. I think you pretty much know you're
- 44:50Speaker 1: gonna get effort out of Washington, especially after the Datas
- 44:52Speaker 1: had an embarrassing loss last week against Dallas, and that
- 44:55Speaker 1: was coming off a Monday night loss that everybody saw.
- 44:58Speaker 1: I thought they were kind of in a a little bit
- 45:00Speaker 1: of a primetime sandwich there too, because they played that
- 45:03Speaker 1: Monday night game, they had to go to Dallas, and
- 45:05Speaker 1: they had this primetime game against the Chiefs upcoming. I
- 45:08Speaker 1: wasn't a play for me, But I was correct on
- 45:10Speaker 1: the pick with Dallas and that one embarrassing loss for
- 45:14Speaker 1: Washington though, So I think Washington is going to show
- 45:17Speaker 1: up in this one for that reason. As far as
- 45:20Speaker 1: Kansas City is concerned, Kansas City has played so many
- 45:23Speaker 1: primetime games this year it's like it doesn't even matter anymore. Like,
- 45:27Speaker 1: Kansas City, look at how many primetime games they played
- 45:29Speaker 1: this year. I mean, we can go through them all.
- 45:33Speaker 1: Friday in Brazil against the Chargers, that was one New
- 45:37Speaker 1: York Giants that was a primetime game Sunday night. And
- 45:41Speaker 1: in between that they had big games against the Eagles
- 45:43Speaker 1: in Baltimore those were not primetime. Jacksonville was a Monday
- 45:46Speaker 1: night game that was primetime. Detroit was a Sunday night
- 45:49Speaker 1: game that was primetime. So I mean, Kansas City, they
- 45:54Speaker 1: play all these big games, dude. So that's just the deal.
- 45:57Speaker 1: Like this is a game where they might not actually
- 45:59Speaker 1: have total here. They're coming off a divisional just destruction
- 46:03Speaker 1: of the Raiders, and the Raiders have played the Chiefs
- 46:05Speaker 1: pretty tough the last couple of years and they just
- 46:08Speaker 1: absolutely wrecked the Raiders there. So I think Kansas City
- 46:12Speaker 1: might just kind of sleep walk through this game man
- 46:14Speaker 1: against an injured quarterback Washington team. Washington also has a
- 46:17Speaker 1: bunch of injured receivers whatever, And Kansas City does have
- 46:22Speaker 1: a big game against Buffalo up next, then they have
- 46:24Speaker 1: a bye, then they have Denver in Indianapolis, so they
- 46:26Speaker 1: have bigger games coming up after this that are conference games.
- 46:29Speaker 1: So I would lean to taking the points with Washington
- 46:33Speaker 1: in that one, not giving it out as a play
- 46:36Speaker 1: at least for now. I mean, I'm gonna talk about
- 46:37Speaker 1: it again Monday morning, I guess, and see if my
- 46:39Speaker 1: opinion gets stronger or anything. It probably won't, but I
- 46:42Speaker 1: would take the points with Washington in that one. It
- 46:46Speaker 1: was definitely rough. I'm gonna talk about Missouri tomorrow and
- 46:48Speaker 1: hopefully I have a better voice. Your nephew on a
- 46:52Speaker 1: rare Saturday but playing safety, oh hell yeah, his last
- 46:57Speaker 1: game of the year, fifth grade. He's playing safety on
- 46:59Speaker 1: a football team. Hell yea what. I don't even know
- 47:02Speaker 1: what level of football that is, but hell yeah, man,
- 47:05Speaker 1: I'm only thinking of Little Giants right now, the underrated
- 47:09Speaker 1: movie Little Giants with Ed O'Neill from Modern Family, and
- 47:14Speaker 1: I think Rick moranis is in that too, right from
- 47:19Speaker 1: Honey I shrunk the kids and whatever else Ghostbusters, He
- 47:23Speaker 1: and Ghostbusters I can't even remember. I think he is,
- 47:25Speaker 1: I can't is he? No, I'm thinking of Harold Ramis
- 47:28Speaker 1: now I think some dude with glasses. I don't know whatever.
- 47:33Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the plays man and then
- 47:36Speaker 1: I'll get out here. Oh, by the way, I forgot
- 47:37Speaker 1: to mention Green Bay. Christian Watson might come back in
- 47:40Speaker 1: that game, so that'll be an extra target for He's
- 47:42Speaker 1: one of their best wide receivers, so that'll help Jordan
- 47:45Speaker 1: Love have another target there if Christian Watson does come back,
- 47:48Speaker 1: and it won't really affect the line. Washington, as I
- 47:52Speaker 1: was pointing out, which I think I forgot to finish
- 47:53Speaker 1: my thought, Washington is a very injured offense. Though they
- 47:56Speaker 1: have a lot of injuries to wide receivers right now.
- 47:58Speaker 1: I think they're still without McLay, they're still without Deebo Samuel,
- 48:02Speaker 1: and they're still without Austin Eckler as they're running back
- 48:04Speaker 1: to although they're using another running back tandem that is
- 48:07Speaker 1: pretty good with what is it Crossky Merritt and Robinson
- 48:13Speaker 1: is at his name whatever it is. All right, let's
- 48:15Speaker 1: get to the place. This will be the best bets.
- 48:17Speaker 1: That was the breakdown. I always forget to put up
- 48:19Speaker 1: the graphic, but you guys like it. So there you go,
- 48:23Speaker 1: best bets and that'll be the end of the show. Here.
- 48:26Speaker 1: You pretty much already know what they're gonna be. Well,
- 48:28Speaker 1: you know what one of them is, definitely, and it's
- 48:30Speaker 1: the ugliest thing around. Man. You know what I'm doing.
- 48:33Speaker 1: The ugliest way to go, man, is to take the
- 48:35Speaker 1: New York Jets yet again. And that's what we're doing here.
- 48:38Speaker 1: Plus the six and a half. I don't think it's
- 48:40Speaker 1: gonna get to seven. Now the Bengals are up from
- 48:42Speaker 1: a two and a half point favorite to a six
- 48:43Speaker 1: and a half point favorite. Here. Don't really know exactly
- 48:46Speaker 1: what caused that move other than I think maybe the
- 48:48Speaker 1: look ahead was two and a half and now seriously,
- 48:51Speaker 1: just based on the fact that the Jets lost again
- 48:53Speaker 1: last week to the Panthers and the Bengals finally looked
- 48:56Speaker 1: good for once and beat the Steelers. Now the lines
- 48:59Speaker 1: are like up six and a half, Like, are you
- 49:01Speaker 1: kidding me? There's value on the Jets in this game? Man,
- 49:04Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but we have to do it again. The Jets,
- 49:07Speaker 1: they've covered I think three spreads this year though, so
- 49:10Speaker 1: the Jets have not been like a team is just
- 49:12Speaker 1: getting obliterated on the number. They covered for me for
- 49:15Speaker 1: us on the show. I gave them out as a
- 49:17Speaker 1: play in Week one. They should have won the game
- 49:18Speaker 1: outright against the Steelers, so they wound up losing that game,
- 49:23Speaker 1: but they covered, they covered for us, I gave out.
- 49:26Speaker 1: I gave them out again against Tampa Bay and they
- 49:28Speaker 1: got the cover there. I did give them out against
- 49:30Speaker 1: Buffalo two and they lost, so two and one. I
- 49:33Speaker 1: gave him out again. Did I give him out against Dallas?
- 49:35Speaker 1: I think I did and they lost that one, so
- 49:37Speaker 1: we were two and two and I gave them out
- 49:39Speaker 1: against Denver two. So we're three and two on the
- 49:41Speaker 1: show in Jet games this year, playing the Jets in
- 49:45Speaker 1: all of those, and we're doing it again, man, We're
- 49:48Speaker 1: going right back to the well, let's let's get it
- 49:50Speaker 1: done again. We've been on all three Jet point spread
- 49:53Speaker 1: winners at least, and we're going and we've won on
- 49:55Speaker 1: the Jets because we're slightly up with the three and two,
- 49:58Speaker 1: So let's do it again here, man, Cincinnati, they're coming
- 50:02Speaker 1: off of like just a huge win, Dude, I mean,
- 50:04Speaker 1: Cincinnati just looked atrocious with Jake Browning in there, and
- 50:07Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, Joe Flacco comes in and
- 50:09Speaker 1: they beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in primetime in front of
- 50:12Speaker 1: a home crowd on Thursday. Let's take a little bit
- 50:16Speaker 1: of a step back, man. Is Joe Flacco seriously turning
- 50:19Speaker 1: this offense around to that degree? I don't really think so.
- 50:24Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see them be somewhere in the middle.
- 50:26Speaker 1: He's better than Browning. Sure, he's a very experienced quarterback,
- 50:30Speaker 1: he's old, and I'm not gonna just all of a
- 50:33Speaker 1: sudden say that he's like the second Coming or something
- 50:36Speaker 1: like that. I think he's a decent quarterback. But I
- 50:38Speaker 1: think you're gonna see Cincinnati's offense take a little bit
- 50:41Speaker 1: of a step back after that game. And that was
- 50:42Speaker 1: a huge win, dude. So this is a letdown spot.
- 50:45Speaker 1: They finally got a win, and it was that huge
- 50:47Speaker 1: game Flaco versus Roger's huge divisional game primetime Thursday night. Yes,
- 50:52Speaker 1: they have extra time off, but when everything worked for you,
- 50:55Speaker 1: what are you gonna do with that time off? You're
- 50:57Speaker 1: just gonna like kind of bask in that win. I
- 51:00Speaker 1: don't think you're really gonna focus too much on the
- 51:01Speaker 1: Jets here. They don't really have a huge game up next,
- 51:04Speaker 1: it's against the Bears. They do have Pittsburgh again after
- 51:07Speaker 1: that though, although they think they have a buye between
- 51:09Speaker 1: those two. But yeah, I mean, I just think this
- 51:12Speaker 1: has let down written all over and I think you're
- 51:14Speaker 1: getting a lot of value on the Jets in this one.
- 51:16Speaker 1: People are gonna also say, hey, Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh, who
- 51:20Speaker 1: beat the Jets? So that makes it look even easier
- 51:22Speaker 1: to take Cincinnati in this one. Public all of a
- 51:25Speaker 1: sudden on Cincinnati, man, and the public was the public
- 51:28Speaker 1: was completely off of Cincinnati for weeks. So all of
- 51:32Speaker 1: a sudden, they get one win and now the public
- 51:34Speaker 1: is all over the Bengals. Nah, that's a situation like
- 51:38Speaker 1: that again, when you have the public shifting completely from
- 51:40Speaker 1: being against a team to being on that team. That's
- 51:43Speaker 1: an overreaction to one week two and you want to
- 51:45Speaker 1: fade that overreaction. That's what we're gonna do here. Eighty
- 51:48Speaker 1: two percent of the tickets, only seventy two percent of
- 51:50Speaker 1: the cash on the Bengals. They're very public. Less of
- 51:53Speaker 1: the actual money is coming in on them. I think
- 51:56Speaker 1: we're actually gonna get some defense in this one. Man,
- 51:58Speaker 1: this is a lower scoring game. I think we're gonna
- 52:01Speaker 1: get defense from the Jets, is what I mean to say,
- 52:03Speaker 1: because the Bengals defense is ass They might have the
- 52:06Speaker 1: worst defense in football. It's between them and the Cowboys. Man,
- 52:09Speaker 1: one of those two defenses is the worst. So I
- 52:12Speaker 1: actually I think the Jets might be able to score
- 52:14Speaker 1: a little bit against the Bengals here, and I think
- 52:16Speaker 1: the Jets defense might be able to hold them in
- 52:18Speaker 1: this game because they have the better defense. So again,
- 52:20Speaker 1: it's the better defense getting points. That's something I like
- 52:23Speaker 1: to look for as well, that is the Jets, and
- 52:27Speaker 1: the Jets can still run the football. Man, Say what
- 52:29Speaker 1: you want to about their offense and how bad it's been,
- 52:32Speaker 1: but they still can run the football, and they may
- 52:34Speaker 1: be able to have an easier time doing They may
- 52:36Speaker 1: have an easier time doing that against a really bad
- 52:38Speaker 1: Bengal defense. So I think you might see the Jets
- 52:41Speaker 1: be able to actually have some possession in this game.
- 52:44Speaker 1: The Jets have gone most of the season without even
- 52:46Speaker 1: forcing a turnover as well. They had not first turnover
- 52:50Speaker 1: at all into the London game against Denver, so the
- 52:53Speaker 1: Jets were. They're also a little bit under value because
- 52:56Speaker 1: of that because they're turn like they're a turn over
- 53:00Speaker 1: differentials just insane right now because they just haven't had
- 53:04Speaker 1: hardly any takeaways. And that's just some of that is luck.
- 53:08Speaker 1: Like when a fumble hits the ground, it's fifty to
- 53:10Speaker 1: fifty as far as which team recovers it. And you're
- 53:12Speaker 1: telling me that the Jets have only recovered like one
- 53:14Speaker 1: or two fumbles this year. That has to like regress
- 53:18Speaker 1: a little bit or progress back to some sort of
- 53:20Speaker 1: mean as well. So I think that's part of the
- 53:22Speaker 1: reason why I keep playing the Jets, but I'm doing
- 53:24Speaker 1: an eyear mostly because of the situation. One other thing
- 53:27Speaker 1: to be aware of is that the Jets are switching
- 53:31Speaker 1: quarterbacks again because Justin Fields blows, so they're going back
- 53:35Speaker 1: to Tyrod Taylor. In this one where Aaron Glenn is
- 53:37Speaker 1: being mysterious about it, He's like, we know who our
- 53:39Speaker 1: quarterback is, but I'm not gonna tell you because we
- 53:42Speaker 1: want the Bengals to not know who to prepare for.
- 53:45Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's gonna be Tyrod. He hasn't been
- 53:48Speaker 1: that great this year, but he is still a veteran.
- 53:51Speaker 1: I don't think he's that much of a downgrade, if any,
- 53:53Speaker 1: from Justin Fields. I mean, I don't think that affects
- 53:55Speaker 1: the line that much. It's at least a shake up
- 53:58Speaker 1: where you know, this last game film on what the
- 54:01Speaker 1: Jets are gonna try to do with Tyron Taylor. He's
- 54:03Speaker 1: played a little bit this year. He is the more
- 54:05Speaker 1: experienced of the two quarterbacks. At least he's a veteran
- 54:08Speaker 1: who's been around for a while. So yeah, I'm not
- 54:12Speaker 1: concerned with that. I think that'll be fine. We'll go
- 54:14Speaker 1: with the Jets in that one man, and again, it
- 54:16Speaker 1: might actually spark the Jets a little bit, because when
- 54:19Speaker 1: things aren't working and they're not working offensively, one thing
- 54:22Speaker 1: that you can do is just shake something up on offense,
- 54:24Speaker 1: switch quarterbacks, and then maybe that'll spark the team a
- 54:27Speaker 1: little bit. So we're taking the Jets, and then the
- 54:31Speaker 1: other game we're gonna be on is the Baltimore Ravens
- 54:34Speaker 1: minus two and a half, and we have to be
- 54:35Speaker 1: aware of what's going on the quarterback situation in this
- 54:38Speaker 1: one too. This line has been all over the place. Dude,
- 54:41Speaker 1: it was gonna be six and a half or seven.
- 54:43Speaker 1: When it looked like Lamar Jackson was coming back. He's
- 54:46Speaker 1: not gonna be back in this game. They're give they're
- 54:48Speaker 1: giving him, they're giving him another week. It seemed like
- 54:51Speaker 1: he was gonna be back after the bye. He's not.
- 54:55Speaker 1: So the line, I think we're getting a lot of
- 54:57Speaker 1: value on the Ravens in this one. Man. You basically
- 54:59Speaker 1: just need them to win game. Here, they're at two
- 55:01Speaker 1: and a half, might go up to three. Maybe you
- 55:04Speaker 1: can start looking at money line or something like that.
- 55:05Speaker 1: I would probably still lay the three, to be honest,
- 55:08Speaker 1: but I think you probably still get the two and
- 55:10Speaker 1: a half. I think it is still probably out there,
- 55:12Speaker 1: maybe two and a half minus one fifteen or so.
- 55:14Speaker 1: I think that's still okay. Fifty three percent of the tickets,
- 55:17Speaker 1: fifty nine percent of the cash on the Ravens. The
- 55:19Speaker 1: money is coming in on the Ravens. And I know
- 55:22Speaker 1: you're gonna be saying, well, you're just asking Baltimore to
- 55:25Speaker 1: win the game. But how could they do that when
- 55:27Speaker 1: they've scored thirteen total points over their last two games.
- 55:30Speaker 1: They've been just non existent without Lamar Jackson. I know,
- 55:35Speaker 1: but this is still the Baltimore Ravens. Dude. They came
- 55:39Speaker 1: into the season one of the best teams in football,
- 55:41Speaker 1: and I still don't think they're that bad. They faced
- 55:44Speaker 1: a really difficult schedule, dude, they just happen to have
- 55:46Speaker 1: lost all of their big games. They lost to Buffalo
- 55:49Speaker 1: in the first week a though. You remember they were
- 55:50Speaker 1: winning that game by fifteen with four minutes left, and
- 55:54Speaker 1: just an inexplicable loss there. Really, but they had that game.
- 55:58Speaker 1: They easily could have won that game. They lost a
- 56:00Speaker 1: Monday night game to a really good Detroit team. They
- 56:03Speaker 1: lost on the road to Kansas City, who we know
- 56:05Speaker 1: is a good team, and that was the game. Lamar
- 56:07Speaker 1: Jackson went down and then that was it, and then
- 56:09Speaker 1: since then they've been bad without Lamar Jackson. They got
- 56:12Speaker 1: killed by Houston. I know that doesn't look that good,
- 56:14Speaker 1: but as I pointed out, Houston is at least better
- 56:17Speaker 1: than the record would indicate. And then they lost to
- 56:20Speaker 1: the Rams. The Rams are a good team too, So
- 56:21Speaker 1: the Ravens will face a very difficult schedule so far.
- 56:25Speaker 1: They're playing the Bears here in this one, and I
- 56:27Speaker 1: think the Bears are overrated as well. The other thing
- 56:32Speaker 1: that I was alluding to with the quarterback situation here
- 56:34Speaker 1: is it's not gonna be Cooper Rush for the Ravens. Now,
- 56:37Speaker 1: it is going to be Tyler Huntley. Tyler Huntley is
- 56:41Speaker 1: coming back here man, Snoop Snoop Dog is coming back. Man.
- 56:46Speaker 1: I think that's a good thing, man, because Cooper Rush
- 56:49Speaker 1: hasn't been getting it done for the Ravens. So they're
- 56:51Speaker 1: gonna switch something up here. Looked like it was gonna
- 56:53Speaker 1: be Lamar coming back. It's not. But Tyler Huntley, he
- 56:57Speaker 1: knows this Baltimore system. Dude. They just they picked him
- 56:59Speaker 1: up off the scrap. He because he was on Miami
- 57:02Speaker 1: earlier this year and I think Miami just cut him.
- 57:04Speaker 1: Or actually I think he was on Cleveland. I don't know,
- 57:07Speaker 1: he's been all over the place. I think he was
- 57:09Speaker 1: on Cleveland and Miami this year. Actually, I think he's
- 57:12Speaker 1: been on Miami in the past. But remember he was
- 57:15Speaker 1: on the Ravens within the last few years. He was
- 57:17Speaker 1: on the Ravens for multiple seasons, and he did play
- 57:20Speaker 1: for the Ravens, like he played a bunch of games
- 57:23Speaker 1: for the Ravens when Lamar Jackson was hurt before. So
- 57:26Speaker 1: Huntley is a guy who knows the system, dude. He
- 57:29Speaker 1: played under Harrbaum played with this team, So I think
- 57:32Speaker 1: that's a good move because you're getting a quarterback. There's
- 57:35Speaker 1: not gonna be like a huge chemistry issue here because
- 57:38Speaker 1: Huntley knows the system. He's been there before, he started
- 57:41Speaker 1: a bunch of games from them before. So I actually
- 57:43Speaker 1: liked this move. I think that's gonna spark the offense
- 57:46Speaker 1: a little bit. I think you're gonna see the Ravens
- 57:47Speaker 1: actually be able to do something this time and score
- 57:50Speaker 1: some points. Here you're getting a team that is still
- 57:53Speaker 1: one of the better teams in the league, and you're
- 57:55Speaker 1: getting in this really cheap price, which I also like.
- 57:58Speaker 1: And of course they're coming out of a bob and
- 58:00Speaker 1: they went into the buy on the worst possible note, Dude.
- 58:02Speaker 1: They went into the buy on a four game losing streak,
- 58:05Speaker 1: losing their quarterback, only scoring thirteen points over their last
- 58:09Speaker 1: two games. That's the best time to have a buye
- 58:11Speaker 1: pretty much, man, because you know they're gonna be using
- 58:13Speaker 1: that buy to fix a whole bunch of shit. So
- 58:16Speaker 1: I think that buye is gonna be a very helpful
- 58:19Speaker 1: buye to them. They're gonna come out with a lot
- 58:21Speaker 1: of focus. They don't have anything to focus on next Miami.
- 58:24Speaker 1: Who cares? Even though I know it's on a Thursday night,
- 58:26Speaker 1: but come on, they're not gonna look ahead to Miami.
- 58:29Speaker 1: They can't afford to overlook anybody right now. Because they're
- 58:31Speaker 1: one to five. They could still potentially win the division.
- 58:35Speaker 1: I actually think that they might. I think there's still
- 58:38Speaker 1: they still might be a favorite to win the division, actually,
- 58:40Speaker 1: which is crazy. After that buy, I think they're gonna
- 58:44Speaker 1: come out with a lot of focus. Man. Harbaugh has
- 58:46Speaker 1: been drilling them, and actually I saw an article Harbaugh
- 58:49Speaker 1: took all of their games away from them. Man. He
- 58:52Speaker 1: took away like video games, cornhole, whatever the hell else
- 58:56Speaker 1: they had going on in the locker room. He took
- 58:58Speaker 1: it all away. So you know, oh, this is like,
- 59:00Speaker 1: this is getting real serious. You know this team is
- 59:03Speaker 1: gonna show up focus man, He's taken all the distractions away.
- 59:07Speaker 1: I like that a lot. I think you're gonna you're
- 59:09Speaker 1: gonna get a really focused Baltimore team here. I was
- 59:11Speaker 1: potentially gonna give them out minus the six and a
- 59:14Speaker 1: half or seven with Lamar back, even though that would
- 59:16Speaker 1: be like a reverse injured player spot. But this might
- 59:18Speaker 1: actually be better because, uh, with Huntley in there, you're
- 59:22Speaker 1: actually getting a way, way better number here, So it
- 59:25Speaker 1: almost remains like almost an injured player spot. It's a
- 59:28Speaker 1: spot where there's a shakeup going on. And I think
- 59:31Speaker 1: the Bears are overrated doing. I mean, people are gonna
- 59:33Speaker 1: see the Bears are four and two and the Ravens
- 59:36Speaker 1: are one and five, and who's gonna want to actually
- 59:38Speaker 1: lay points with the Ravens, Like, how could you possibly
- 59:41Speaker 1: have a team that's one in five favored against the
- 59:43Speaker 1: team that's four and two. Well, the oddsmakers again, they're
- 59:46Speaker 1: telling you the Ravens are the better team, and if
- 59:48Speaker 1: Lamar was back, they'd be the significantly better team. Well,
- 59:51Speaker 1: they're telling you, yeah, that the Ravens are the better team. Actually, yeah,
- 59:53Speaker 1: my mistake. Yeah, uh, because home field is probably about
- 59:57Speaker 1: two points, but they're telling you that Lamar. They're like,
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: the way better team is almost a touchdown favorite. But
- 1:00:03Speaker 1: even so, they're telling you they're still the better team
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: even with Tyler Huntley in there. The Bears, I mean,
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: they're on a misleading four game win streak. Man, there's
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: nothing else I could really say about that. They caught
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: Dallas in a really bad spot when they beat Dallas.
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: I forget exactly what it was, but I think it
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: was a sandwich spot. I think Dallas had the Green
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: Bay game coming up after that or something like that.
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: It was a bad spot for Dallas. Dallas has a
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: really bad defense. I know the Ravens defense hasn't been
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: that good this year, but they're better than Dallas. The
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: Bears actually got completely outgained by the Raiders in that
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: game against the Raiders, and they somehow got away with
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: a win in that game. I don't even know how.
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: They blocked a field goal at the end of the game.
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: They had no business winning that game against the Raiders.
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: Then they went into a bye, they came out and
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: they had a big Monday night game, big revenge game
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: for Caleb Williams against Jaye Daniels. They beat Washington. That
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: was a spot where I leaned to Chicago in that one.
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: I thought it was a good spot for Chicago to
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: actually get the cover in that one. And then what
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: do they do last week? They beat New Orleans. Who cares.
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: I know it was a bad spot. I know I
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: gave out New Orleans plus the points in that one.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: I know New Orleans didn't get there for us. In
- 1:01:09Speaker 1: that one. But Caleb Williams was awful in that game.
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: He had one hundred and seventy two yards. I mean,
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: I don't think Williams is that good man. So going
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: to Baltimore here, yeah, I'm not so sure that Shakai
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: was actually gonna be able to handle it. I don't
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: think they're as good as the record looks. Again, I
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: think Jim Harribaugh is gonna or excuse me, John Harriba
- 1:01:29Speaker 1: my mistake. I keep calling him Jim. I think Jim
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: is with the Chargers, John Harribaugh. He's still a good
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: coach man. He's gonna have something. He's gonna draw up
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: something to try to beat Caleb Williams here, man like
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: he could draw things up to beat these young quarterbacks.
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: So we have the more experienced quarterback on the side
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: of the Ravens here, and you know me, I'm not
- 1:01:50Speaker 1: a Caleb Williams fan. I don't think he's as good.
- 1:01:52Speaker 1: I don't think he's good. I don't think the Bears
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: are as good as they look right now. Enough said
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: Baltimore minus the two and a half, I think there's
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: value there. It's a weird spot, but that's what we're
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: gonna do. That's gonna do it. Thanks guys for hanging out.
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: I appreciate it. One more time. The plays Jets plus
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: six and a half. I know you love these plays
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: Jets plus six and a half and Ravens minus two
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: and a half. Adding those on to the win that
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: we had on the Chargers minus three on Thursday night.
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: That's gonna do it for now. I'll be back in
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: the morning because we're gonna have I'm assuming the World
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: Series is not an action because they're gonna be traveling
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: out to LA, so we're gonna have just NBA and NHL.
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: I think to talk about in the morning tomorrow, but
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: I will be back to do that. I think it
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: will be a short NHL board and maybe a little
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: bit of a bigger NBA board. It might be a
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: small board though, because the NFL Football owns the day,
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