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- 1:28Speaker 1: Volume Podcast Network. I am Shad Nolman, Chief Content Officer
- 1:33Speaker 1: of the Action Network. I am joined as I am
- 1:35Speaker 1: every episode by my co host, my bff, my companion,
- 1:40Speaker 1: my compadre, professional better, Simon Hunter, Simon Simon. We're gonna
- 1:50Speaker 1: get into it. Okay, everyone's asking us to get into it. Boy,
- 1:57Speaker 1: did we have a brilliant It's week. Last week? We
- 2:01Speaker 1: were right about Foxholt minus three and a half. We
- 2:04Speaker 1: were right on Simon says Giants plus two and a half.
- 2:07Speaker 1: We were right on the exact decision since he plus
- 2:10Speaker 1: two and a half. We were right on the big
- 2:12Speaker 1: balls better the week Rams plus eight, Scoot Troulette. You
- 2:15Speaker 1: had the forty Niners minus three and a half. I
- 2:18Speaker 1: stuck to my guns with the Titans plus five. Um,
- 2:21Speaker 1: the only blemish on the whole record. Dude, you know what,
- 2:26Speaker 1: I knew it was going down by Sunday morning. I
- 2:28Speaker 1: knew it. Yeah, we I did. We'll get into it
- 2:31Speaker 1: right away. Uh, you know, great week for us in
- 2:35Speaker 1: the contest. We went three and two. Our teams were
- 2:38Speaker 1: the Titans, which lost. We had That's which lost. Then
- 2:44Speaker 1: we had the Rams, the Niners, and the Raiders all
- 2:48Speaker 1: which one. So great week for us before we get
- 2:51Speaker 1: into Titans the Raiders three and two week. Tell me,
- 2:55Speaker 1: did we make up any ground of the contest? Did
- 2:57Speaker 1: we lose ground on the contest? We Yeah, that was
- 3:01Speaker 1: an easy week. We should have we should have won
- 3:03Speaker 1: five and over four and one. So we dropped the
- 3:06Speaker 1: game again. But that's okay. I mean, it's kind of
- 3:09Speaker 1: how it goes. I don't know if we're gonna drop
- 3:10Speaker 1: it into people right away or we want to wait
- 3:13Speaker 1: till Thursday so they can maybe jack together this out.
- 3:15Speaker 1: But we're taking a bye week this week. We have
- 3:17Speaker 1: to use a bye week. Me and I've been saving
- 3:19Speaker 1: it for this week for weeks now. Um, so I
- 3:23Speaker 1: think there's what six teams on a bye We did
- 3:26Speaker 1: the math, I mean it's one of it's me on
- 3:28Speaker 1: the worst weeks, the hated captures because it's the fewest options.
- 3:31Speaker 1: So again, this week, nothing changed on the show. We'll
- 3:34Speaker 1: still give everything out. But I think Matt Mitchell doesn't
- 3:36Speaker 1: wan us to put in the app I'll be the
- 3:38Speaker 1: only difference. I'll still put it out on Twitter and
- 3:40Speaker 1: everything what our five would have been. But yeah, it's
- 3:42Speaker 1: gonna be nice. We're gonna take a nice, little, well
- 3:45Speaker 1: earned break after we've had this week. Fourth team. We've
- 3:48Speaker 1: had two losing weeks at a thirteen weeks so eleven
- 3:52Speaker 1: and two winning weeks. It's been a good year. We've
- 3:55Speaker 1: we deserve a little break from a weekend. Yeah, I
- 3:59Speaker 1: mean in last week was excruciating because we lost the
- 4:01Speaker 1: Jets and we lost the Titans in the earlier games,
- 4:05Speaker 1: so we needed to go three, you know with the Raiders,
- 4:07Speaker 1: the Forts, the Raiders forty nine and who else was it?
- 4:12Speaker 1: And of course in the first five minutes Jimmy goes out,
- 4:15Speaker 1: so um. Anywayshen too was just brutal because I was like,
- 4:21Speaker 1: my whole thing is we've never gone own five and
- 4:23Speaker 1: I want that three on my tombstone. Um, And that
- 4:26Speaker 1: was in real jeopardy when we started owing two and
- 4:28Speaker 1: I was panicking. I was like, holy shit, are we
- 4:31Speaker 1: finally going five? But yeah, three straight winners the end
- 4:34Speaker 1: of the four o'clock games, save it. Three and two
- 4:37Speaker 1: weeks that that was falling. Thank God, Thank freaking God,
- 4:41Speaker 1: onto the Titans for a second, because I was on it.
- 4:46Speaker 1: You were not, and on convinced me on Sunday, this
- 4:51Speaker 1: show we do on Sunday Mornings, we had a graphic
- 4:55Speaker 1: me you, raybon Kerner. Everybody was on the Titans except
- 4:59Speaker 1: for you, and you stuck to your guns. You said,
- 5:03Speaker 1: this is why I do it professionally kind of, but
- 5:06Speaker 1: but you got to admit that, like if you were
- 5:10Speaker 1: on an island in the universe, not just professionally, like
- 5:14Speaker 1: the professionals sharp calls, they all like the Titans, that
- 5:17Speaker 1: line moved from six and a half down to four
- 5:18Speaker 1: and a half. It wasn't public money moving that line.
- 5:21Speaker 1: So yeah, I would say that the pros that were
- 5:25Speaker 1: at six and six and a half, which I give
- 5:27Speaker 1: them the benefit of doubts. So that's the good value.
- 5:29Speaker 1: The value it shifted. That was my whole reason for
- 5:31Speaker 1: loving the Eagles. But I'll let you get off easy.
- 5:33Speaker 1: You just have to do two things. Do you want
- 5:35Speaker 1: to do the two things? Get off easy? I don't
- 5:37Speaker 1: know all right. First one is our sports books your
- 5:41Speaker 1: friends chat our sports books, your friend Chimon. Sports books
- 5:45Speaker 1: are not our friends. You already passed that one. Good job.
- 5:49Speaker 1: Number two who wrote the book, Fuck you. I wrote
- 5:54Speaker 1: the book. I'm telling you right now. I I wrote
- 5:57Speaker 1: the book. Sports books are not our friends. It's funny.
- 6:00Speaker 1: I was today recording this from are still being constructed
- 6:06Speaker 1: about eight done Action Network Studio in the city. Took
- 6:11Speaker 1: the train into the city from Connecticut this morning, and
- 6:14Speaker 1: I was looking at the games and we're gonna get
- 6:17Speaker 1: into it, and thinking about games that I like, and
- 6:20Speaker 1: there was a number and I thought to myself, sports
- 6:23Speaker 1: books are not our friends. There you go, that's what
- 6:28Speaker 1: I'm trying to get into. Some people like, was I
- 6:29Speaker 1: trying to get chattowheart time last week? No? But my
- 6:32Speaker 1: whole point is when he was coming at me about
- 6:34Speaker 1: why I was taking the Bills, who were a road
- 6:36Speaker 1: favorite against New England, and while I was taking the
- 6:39Speaker 1: Eagles against the Tennessee Titans, was just a simple fact
- 6:41Speaker 1: of you can't just always blindly go with what it
- 6:44Speaker 1: got you. There. There are weeks to weeks, the rhythm
- 6:47Speaker 1: to this whole football season. That's my job. That's kind
- 6:49Speaker 1: of ride that rhythm. And it is week the week
- 6:51Speaker 1: and I do feel sick to my stomach doing this
- 6:54Speaker 1: stuff like that Bills bet that was scary as hell.
- 6:56Speaker 1: We saw the reverse line action. I think it opened
- 6:58Speaker 1: at five or five and a half. It was three
- 7:00Speaker 1: and a half by kickoff. I was like, okay, I
- 7:02Speaker 1: might have made a huge mistake on this Bills game.
- 7:04Speaker 1: What happened? The Bills blow them out? Eagles, same thing, Eagles.
- 7:07Speaker 1: I thought you were getting a good number five and
- 7:08Speaker 1: a half. I thought I wasn't going back up to six.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Went the other way. It dropped the four or four
- 7:13Speaker 1: and a half. Yeah, that's a it's a lonely feeling.
- 7:15Speaker 1: Chat what you talked about? So what I al ways try.
- 7:17Speaker 1: I explained that people is again be nice to chat. Chad,
- 7:22Speaker 1: he did something I didn't think was possible, which he
- 7:24Speaker 1: actually hired a professional better and let them into this
- 7:27Speaker 1: whole media world where looking from the outside, I just
- 7:30Speaker 1: never understood it because I just looked at a whole
- 7:32Speaker 1: sea of phonies and it was just like, there aren't
- 7:35Speaker 1: hundreds of these people out there that are sports professionals
- 7:38Speaker 1: and they just happened to work in media as well.
- 7:40Speaker 1: So when Chad allowed me into his world and allowed
- 7:42Speaker 1: me into this whole media thing, it's for games like
- 7:44Speaker 1: that where it's like, yeah, it's a lonely feeling being
- 7:48Speaker 1: on the eagles there. But I think people learn from
- 7:50Speaker 1: that where it's like what you just said, you kind
- 7:52Speaker 1: of want to be that guy, right, you want to
- 7:54Speaker 1: be the guy by yourself against everyone else because that
- 7:57Speaker 1: tends to be the right side. So not a good feeling. Honestly,
- 8:00Speaker 1: it was like scary as hell because I had a
- 8:02Speaker 1: decent amount of money in the you was and then
- 8:03Speaker 1: we end up taking the times in the contest, and
- 8:05Speaker 1: I was like, Jesus, what am I rooting for here?
- 8:07Speaker 1: But the best thing happened where they just got blown
- 8:10Speaker 1: the hell out, so I didn't have to hear from
- 8:11Speaker 1: chat and even being like a close game, no excuse,
- 8:14Speaker 1: it was just the wrong side. But then it happens
- 8:16Speaker 1: like you make bad bets, you move on, and that's
- 8:18Speaker 1: kind of how it goes, where yeah, I'd love to
- 8:20Speaker 1: take a victory lap, but I was already onto this
- 8:22Speaker 1: week by Sunday night, Like it's just such a short
- 8:25Speaker 1: lived feeling of winning and gambling world where yeah, that
- 8:29Speaker 1: was fun on Sunday, but I was kind of already
- 8:30Speaker 1: on the week fourteen come under listen, by the way,
- 8:35Speaker 1: I also love the Lions, and you love Jacksonville. I
- 8:38Speaker 1: wanted to put the Broncos in. You didn't want to
- 8:42Speaker 1: do it. What do you mean? I gave you Pittsurick,
- 8:45Speaker 1: and I gave you the lines, and I stopped you
- 8:47Speaker 1: from taking the Bears. Don't don't try to flip this. No, no, no,
- 8:50Speaker 1: no no. We were never taking the Bears wanted. It
- 8:55Speaker 1: came down. It came down to the Jets and the Lions,
- 8:59Speaker 1: and we just did no, no, no. It came down
- 9:02Speaker 1: the Jets and Bengals, Bengals and Jets. The Bengals are
- 9:05Speaker 1: one and a half. That was the only reason we
- 9:06Speaker 1: didn't play. We wanted the two and a half. That's right.
- 9:10Speaker 1: But I was really I did like I did like
- 9:12Speaker 1: the Jaguars. The only reason I said let's take Detroit
- 9:14Speaker 1: was I think it was plus one and a half
- 9:15Speaker 1: or plus a half. The line had shifted the minus two,
- 9:18Speaker 1: so I was like, we could take lines. We want
- 9:20Speaker 1: the value. But yeah, three and two. I obviously wish
- 9:23Speaker 1: we'd gone four on one. I mean, the Jets game
- 9:24Speaker 1: we barely even talked about, but it was just like excruciating. Yeah,
- 9:28Speaker 1: you're typical. The sports book just knows. We're like, all
- 9:32Speaker 1: that money was coming on the Jets all week at
- 9:33Speaker 1: plus three and never moved. I thought they were misreading
- 9:37Speaker 1: the situation. I thought they got the line wrong. Somehow
- 9:39Speaker 1: they knew this guy was gonna drop the ball in
- 9:40Speaker 1: the back of the ends and the end of that game.
- 9:42Speaker 1: So yeah, the books, the books got lucky on that.
- 9:44Speaker 1: I want, but that's kind of how it goes. All right, Well,
- 9:46Speaker 1: we'll get into some of the Jets stuff. We'll get
- 9:48Speaker 1: into the Lions. Those are the Jets Vikings and then
- 9:51Speaker 1: the Lions Jags. The Lions are playing the Vikings this week.
- 9:55Speaker 1: It's a game that I'm really interested in. You. I
- 9:58Speaker 1: haven't talked about it, but all right, Thursday night football,
- 10:02Speaker 1: Raiders visiting the Rams. All of a sudden, the Raiders
- 10:06Speaker 1: six point favorites on the road. At the Rams, we
- 10:11Speaker 1: were ahead of the curve on the Rams. We loved him.
- 10:13Speaker 1: Last week at plus two, that line moved all the
- 10:15Speaker 1: way to Raiders minus two. We were on the Rams
- 10:18Speaker 1: that game opened to date, it closed about six and
- 10:21Speaker 1: a half. So we like both of these teams last week.
- 10:24Speaker 1: Is that influencing are thinking with the line this week?
- 10:29Speaker 1: Raiders nearly touchdown favorites on the road. Yeah, the Thursdays
- 10:34Speaker 1: are just tough for me. Right, even people can notice
- 10:36Speaker 1: it last week, right, usually go with the favorite, even
- 10:38Speaker 1: if they're on the road. And then since it late
- 10:40Speaker 1: in this season, on short weeks, it's a big deal
- 10:42Speaker 1: to just be the better team. It's because you don't
- 10:45Speaker 1: really have time to scheme. Right, most of these guys there,
- 10:48Speaker 1: they just got a car accident. That's how they those
- 10:50Speaker 1: football players descryed playing football. They got a car accident
- 10:52Speaker 1: on Sunday, the body rest Monday. Maybe they come in
- 10:56Speaker 1: on Tuesday for treatment and some film watch, do a
- 10:59Speaker 1: walk through on Wednesday, and then they have the game Thursday.
- 11:02Speaker 1: Like that's literally these guys weeks this week, there's not
- 11:05Speaker 1: much prep time. So, I mean, Chad knows we almost
- 11:08Speaker 1: always take the Rams here. I just have no play
- 11:11Speaker 1: because I kind of want to take the Raiders. The
- 11:13Speaker 1: fact that's under seven, I think you're getting a good
- 11:14Speaker 1: number of the Raiders. But this Rams team we saw
- 11:17Speaker 1: last week in Seattle, they have players that can make place.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Like got guys who have filled in and can't get
- 11:23Speaker 1: open it can make play. So I don't know what
- 11:26Speaker 1: to do with this point. I it's a it's a
- 11:27Speaker 1: game that I usually would go with the Rams, but
- 11:30Speaker 1: there's just there's just so much here to unpack between
- 11:33Speaker 1: these two teams on a short week, I'll probably have
- 11:36Speaker 1: a pick for it by Thursday. Like again, we'll do
- 11:39Speaker 1: two shows on Thursday, and I'll have more better in
- 11:42Speaker 1: front this game by then. But as we sit here
- 11:44Speaker 1: right now, um, I leaned towards the Raiders. We'll do
- 11:47Speaker 1: a podcast on Thursday, and of course we'll do our
- 11:51Speaker 1: Action Island show also presented. Here's one game that I'm
- 11:56Speaker 1: one team that I'm really glad we didn't get suckered
- 11:58Speaker 1: into going into the weekend. I love the Rams, I
- 12:04Speaker 1: love the Broncos. We made the Rams big balls better
- 12:06Speaker 1: the week I was totally comfortable with it being the
- 12:10Speaker 1: Broncos to bet them both avoided the Texans, avoided the
- 12:15Speaker 1: Texans curse just decided, as you said, you gotta play
- 12:19Speaker 1: the flow. You can't just play the number and Texts
- 12:22Speaker 1: are just a terrible team. And so there was like
- 12:26Speaker 1: everything they can go wrong for the Texans went wrong.
- 12:30Speaker 1: Every way that the Browns can score other than an offense.
- 12:33Speaker 1: They scored, and the Texans still couldn't cover that game.
- 12:36Speaker 1: They are now seventeen point underdogs to the Dallas Cowboys.
- 12:41Speaker 1: You know, we joke lash Show. I said, eventually the
- 12:44Speaker 1: the books gonna get Houston right, and we'll figure out
- 12:46Speaker 1: this line. I'm just tal gonna be one paying for
- 12:48Speaker 1: it to figure out one that that is because there's
- 12:50Speaker 1: just how other games are rather invested in. Houston is
- 12:53Speaker 1: a team to me that that first half was I
- 12:55Speaker 1: felt like it was gonna be easy money. We all
- 12:57Speaker 1: knew Watson was gonna be rusty. Um, I believe it
- 13:00Speaker 1: was five nothing and something stop bad. I don't know
- 13:02Speaker 1: if they threw a pick or whatever it was, but
- 13:03Speaker 1: it was it was it was maybe it was a
- 13:05Speaker 1: kick return, whatever it was. Cleveland scored. Then they scored again,
- 13:08Speaker 1: and it was just and one of the first time
- 13:10Speaker 1: I can remember team had twenty twenty one points and
- 13:13Speaker 1: their offense had zero of those points like their defensive
- 13:15Speaker 1: special teams that scored all of it. So yeah, Houston
- 13:18Speaker 1: is an absolute train wreck. Um, Dallas, this is always
- 13:22Speaker 1: the games they let down and let teams covering. Uh
- 13:25Speaker 1: after a huge blowout. But they're so good, Like they're
- 13:29Speaker 1: so good defensively, they're so good offensively how Boys are
- 13:33Speaker 1: gonna be one of these teams. They're gonna get hyped,
- 13:35Speaker 1: just like the forty nine is where these last couple
- 13:37Speaker 1: of weeks, and I'm gonna stay with I said with again,
- 13:40Speaker 1: Jimmy played well. I still don't think he's playing as
- 13:42Speaker 1: well as people thought he was Jimmy Garoppoloa. That's why
- 13:44Speaker 1: I don't know if it's that big of a deal
- 13:45Speaker 1: that he's out now. And the same goes for Dak.
- 13:47Speaker 1: Since Dad has been back, if you look at his numbers,
- 13:50Speaker 1: they're all not that impressive. He's been just very bless
- 13:53Speaker 1: where he has Pollard, a great offensive line and a
- 13:55Speaker 1: great defense where they're kind of hiding all these deficiencies
- 13:57Speaker 1: that Dec has had since he's been playing this year,
- 14:00Speaker 1: He's just not the same quarterback he's been. So I'm
- 14:02Speaker 1: excited for the Cowboys. I think they might end up
- 14:04Speaker 1: being a top sea. They can even steal this division
- 14:07Speaker 1: from the Eagles the way the season plays out with
- 14:09Speaker 1: different matchups in different games. But come come February or January,
- 14:14Speaker 1: I'm just not gonna be back in this Cowboys team.
- 14:16Speaker 1: I think that has major issues that he has not
- 14:18Speaker 1: figured out yet. So just going off this matchup right now.
- 14:22Speaker 1: Chad said it, like, aren't we supposed to take a
- 14:24Speaker 1: seventeen and a half? This is an insane number. Um
- 14:28Speaker 1: that's will probably end up. Will this be one of
- 14:30Speaker 1: my five biggest bets this week? No what, I'm just
- 14:32Speaker 1: not gonna be paying for that experience for the Houston team.
- 14:35Speaker 1: Not a chance. And it's the exact reasons why we
- 14:40Speaker 1: walked away from him. Look, we saw it on Monday
- 14:42Speaker 1: night or on Sunday night when the Cowboys played the Colts.
- 14:46Speaker 1: This team can get very explosive, very fast. You can
- 14:50Speaker 1: score in any way. The Texans really have no offensive
- 14:55Speaker 1: firepower to speak of. Kyle Allen is a sitting doct
- 15:00Speaker 1: back there. Yeah, it's varsity versus j V. Like there's honestly,
- 15:04Speaker 1: you know how sometimes you worry about a back door
- 15:06Speaker 1: cover and number this big, I worry about a front
- 15:09Speaker 1: door cover, like like they're going to find a way
- 15:12Speaker 1: to extend the lead when it's thirteen seventeen later. We
- 15:17Speaker 1: saw when they covered against the Eagles team you just
- 15:19Speaker 1: need a lot of things that bounce your away and
- 15:21Speaker 1: for Houston to cover that game, they had a touchdown
- 15:24Speaker 1: the opening drive and they had a touchdown right before
- 15:26Speaker 1: the end a half, and they scored three points the
- 15:28Speaker 1: rest of the game. So that's one of those where
- 15:29Speaker 1: it's just like, that's what I just said, How how
- 15:31Speaker 1: do you see Houston getting points? I just can't do it.
- 15:34Speaker 1: That's what's hard for me to back this number. You
- 15:36Speaker 1: watch that game together, the Cleveland Browns Deshaun Watson the
- 15:40Speaker 1: second game back or visiting the Cincinnati Bengals. Do you
- 15:45Speaker 1: know how I feel about the Bengals three weeks in
- 15:47Speaker 1: a row, on the Bengals, on the Bangles, on the Bengals,
- 15:50Speaker 1: made of my exact decision last week. I just think
- 15:54Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is so special, really manages the game, and
- 15:58Speaker 1: I don't mean that in a pejorative way. He just
- 16:01Speaker 1: understands the flow in the rhythm and is unafraid in
- 16:04Speaker 1: the moments where you cannot show fear. What's interesting about
- 16:07Speaker 1: this game. The bets are on the Bengals at minor six.
- 16:13Speaker 1: The money is relatively split. So what that's telling me
- 16:16Speaker 1: is that wise guys are coming in on the Browns
- 16:20Speaker 1: at plus six, and I kind of buy it. People
- 16:27Speaker 1: are gonna notice the feme Me and Chad we had
- 16:29Speaker 1: a couple of favorites we love last week. This week
- 16:30Speaker 1: it is just I love a lot of dogs and
- 16:32Speaker 1: this is one of them. People remember one of my
- 16:34Speaker 1: bigger bets. I think I might even a Simon says
- 16:35Speaker 1: play was that Brown's at home on Halloween against the Bengals.
- 16:39Speaker 1: I think it was three and a half, same exact scenario.
- 16:42Speaker 1: The Browns team looked awful the week before. The Bangles
- 16:46Speaker 1: are getting all the hype in the world, right, they
- 16:48Speaker 1: just had a big win. It's another game of I'm
- 16:52Speaker 1: not back in Watson. This is more of a back
- 16:54Speaker 1: of Their defense for some reason, matches up really well
- 16:57Speaker 1: against what Joe Burrow and this offense wants to do.
- 17:00Speaker 1: And in Joe's career, I'd have to look, but I
- 17:02Speaker 1: think he is owen four straight up any being the Browns, right,
- 17:07Speaker 1: I think that is right, though I think he's never
- 17:09Speaker 1: beating the Browns in Israeli career. He might have missed
- 17:11Speaker 1: the game because that a c out there, but in
- 17:13Speaker 1: the games he's played, he's just struggled against this defense
- 17:15Speaker 1: for some reason, the way they scheme it with their
- 17:17Speaker 1: cornerbacks and their safeties, and Male's Garrett always plays well
- 17:21Speaker 1: against the Cincinnati front line. It is a really bizarre
- 17:25Speaker 1: matchup in that sense, but just off, not going off
- 17:28Speaker 1: any of that. This number should before like this number
- 17:31Speaker 1: is ballooned up on what we just talked about. Joe.
- 17:34Speaker 1: Joe is he's gonna be that guy this week talked
- 17:37Speaker 1: about m VP like I'm not sure what his odds
- 17:39Speaker 1: were at the start of the week and now what
- 17:40Speaker 1: they are. But you have a game like that when
- 17:42Speaker 1: he had against the Chiefs, which was not perfect but
- 17:45Speaker 1: close to it, like anytime they needed to throw down
- 17:47Speaker 1: a big play, Joe kept doing it like you had
- 17:49Speaker 1: to talk about He's been doing it for weeks. Now.
- 17:51Speaker 1: They're on a really hot run, uh ten and one
- 17:53Speaker 1: their last eleven eighths. It's incredible what this team has done.
- 17:58Speaker 1: But this number is inflated, and it's it's an inflating
- 18:01Speaker 1: the number in a divisional game, I always back the
- 18:05Speaker 1: dog in those sides, so I wanted to be on
- 18:07Speaker 1: the Bengals. I was hoping that value would come down
- 18:09Speaker 1: because Watson was back, and I was like, maybe this
- 18:11Speaker 1: will open at three and a half. I could grab that.
- 18:13Speaker 1: They did it. It opened up at like six six
- 18:15Speaker 1: and a half staying at six. Maybe it's gonna drop
- 18:18Speaker 1: a little bit, but I grabbed that six now just
- 18:20Speaker 1: to be safe. I agree. I love it, love it,
- 18:25Speaker 1: wants some more of it. Interesting that we have three
- 18:30Speaker 1: in state games Texans, Cowboys, Brown's, Bengals, Jets, Bills, just
- 18:35Speaker 1: a cork of the Yeah, I didn't think of that
- 18:38Speaker 1: quirk of the schedule. Nothing significant, just interesting. It's like
- 18:42Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing Scott Hanson would drop in
- 18:45Speaker 1: red zone. Jets nine and a half point dogs at
- 18:49Speaker 1: the Bills? Did the Bills get right against the Patriots?
- 18:53Speaker 1: To the Jets blowing an opportunity to move up in
- 18:56Speaker 1: the standings against the Vikings? Is Mike White for real? Uh?
- 19:03Speaker 1: Very interesting team right now? My first instinct, not and
- 19:07Speaker 1: a half feels like a lot Jets defense a lot.
- 19:12Speaker 1: That's what I hate it. It feels like another game
- 19:14Speaker 1: like I'm hoping I get calls a by this one.
- 19:17Speaker 1: Friends there not a friend. So that's my issue, whether
- 19:21Speaker 1: where it's like me chatter all over this Jets team
- 19:23Speaker 1: when they upset and beat this Bills team and now
- 19:26Speaker 1: they're sucking us back and again it's like nine points,
- 19:29Speaker 1: nine points that's insane. So yeah, I haven't bet this one.
- 19:33Speaker 1: I don't know what to do with it yet. Um,
- 19:35Speaker 1: there will no doubt be a call. I'm looking around
- 19:37Speaker 1: at people seeing people are betting because it feels like
- 19:40Speaker 1: another game of everyone's gonna be all over the Jets
- 19:42Speaker 1: because of what I just said, Like, that's a lot
- 19:44Speaker 1: of points for a good Jets defense and offense that
- 19:47Speaker 1: can clearly move the ball. They punted that they punted
- 19:49Speaker 1: one time again to have Vikings teams. So um one
- 19:52Speaker 1: of the fifth year lines of the week. This one
- 19:55Speaker 1: early leaning though, is obviously towards the Jets. But I
- 19:57Speaker 1: haven't bet this yet. Yeah, it's uh. I want to
- 20:01Speaker 1: wait and see what the markets do on this. I
- 20:03Speaker 1: also think it'll be interesting to see if we get
- 20:05Speaker 1: any sharp calls about this one. Yeah. I don't know
- 20:08Speaker 1: if they're going to touch it though that's the only one,
- 20:10Speaker 1: because that's I feel like they might feel like me,
- 20:11Speaker 1: where it's like, what in the world, it's either the
- 20:14Speaker 1: Jets or nothing. I feel like most people are gonna
- 20:16Speaker 1: feel the same. What all right, this one? I know
- 20:19Speaker 1: we're going to talk about Eagles on the road seven
- 20:24Speaker 1: point favorites against the New York Football Giants. Do you
- 20:28Speaker 1: want to say it once again? Simon says the Giants
- 20:33Speaker 1: sime I knew it, you know you and I didn't
- 20:35Speaker 1: discuss it. But that's why I said, do you want
- 20:37Speaker 1: to say it? Because I had a feeling we were
- 20:38Speaker 1: going to Giants plus seven and the same reason we
- 20:41Speaker 1: took the Giants last week. I just feel like the
- 20:43Speaker 1: number is gonna move and the numbers inflated, where last
- 20:46Speaker 1: week I had the game of a pick. I really
- 20:47Speaker 1: think it was gonna end in a tie. No, but
- 20:49Speaker 1: it is. It is a great feeling the models hitting
- 20:51Speaker 1: that well. That game. Literally, I was just on the under.
- 20:54Speaker 1: I had the game of forty and I had that
- 20:56Speaker 1: game of a pick. The game literally in a pick
- 20:59Speaker 1: and under forty. That's like, if you're a nerd you
- 21:01Speaker 1: love building models, that's like the best feeling in the world.
- 21:03Speaker 1: So that under, by the way, I had a half yeah,
- 21:08Speaker 1: I mean if yeah. The fact we won that game
- 21:13Speaker 1: so stupid, so like not to score basically the entire
- 21:17Speaker 1: second half. It was at halftime I think, and the
- 21:22Speaker 1: Giants scored one touchdown early in the third quarter. Nobody
- 21:26Speaker 1: scored again was excruciating. So for this matchup, it's a
- 21:34Speaker 1: divisional matchup between two teams that we know what everyone
- 21:38Speaker 1: thinks to the Eagles. Now, people got burned bad by them.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Usually when that happens, people come in really heavy on
- 21:43Speaker 1: that side. And the fact that books now are hanging
- 21:45Speaker 1: six and a half, that's why I want people to
- 21:47Speaker 1: grab the seven now. I just can see this coming down.
- 21:49Speaker 1: The pros are gonna bet this number down to six,
- 21:51Speaker 1: I believe, and the public they love it. This is
- 21:54Speaker 1: gonna be one of the biggest tease games of the week.
- 21:56Speaker 1: Everyone will have this in a teaser, just a classic
- 21:58Speaker 1: public side. And me and chadn't even talked about it,
- 22:01Speaker 1: but last week on Sunday. I think the favorites when
- 22:03Speaker 1: one straight up. Usually the final week there are some
- 22:06Speaker 1: big upsets. So this is a game I have circled
- 22:08Speaker 1: Rare Eagles. We saw them struggle already this year with
- 22:11Speaker 1: divisional teams. We saw them lose at home against Washington,
- 22:13Speaker 1: the game they should have probably won. The same thing here,
- 22:16Speaker 1: it's it's a big number in a divisional game, should
- 22:19Speaker 1: be four and a half. Four. It's inflated up so
- 22:22Speaker 1: much now just because I feel like the Shines kind
- 22:25Speaker 1: of rubbed off on the Shints team on the flip side,
- 22:28Speaker 1: hurts he's almost tied. AWLB Mahomes bram v pods like
- 22:32Speaker 1: the Eagles are just being hyped up to no end
- 22:34Speaker 1: right now. So um, that was a nice bilow last
- 22:37Speaker 1: week on the Eagles. This week, I'll still high on them.
- 22:39Speaker 1: I'll go with the Giants again. Yeah, you know this
- 22:44Speaker 1: the Giants. It's a divisional game, Giants at home, playoff implications,
- 22:49Speaker 1: all the things you said, plus the inflation on the Eagles. Yes,
- 22:52Speaker 1: back the Giants. The other thing I'll say is uh
- 22:54Speaker 1: pricing the juice on this at plus seven is already
- 22:59Speaker 1: below minus one ten, which basically tells you get it
- 23:03Speaker 1: now because it's moving fast and it is a prose
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- 25:11Speaker 1: pros Joe's game right now Jaguars plus four against the Titans,
- 25:18Speaker 1: seventy the bets on the Titans seventy of the money
- 25:23Speaker 1: on the Jags. Yeah, I would say they're they're thinking
- 25:29Speaker 1: is correct and that this line is inflated, that tell
- 25:32Speaker 1: yous are not that much better of a team on
- 25:34Speaker 1: paper than that the Jaguars are. Well, we've seen it
- 25:37Speaker 1: earlier with this Jaguars team. They don't know how to
- 25:39Speaker 1: finish games and they're just bad in the second half.
- 25:42Speaker 1: And they've had many games like that where they've been
- 25:43Speaker 1: in it and they've let things slide. So I would
- 25:46Speaker 1: love to take the Jaguars here, but the value is
- 25:49Speaker 1: definitely on the Titans here in the sentence that this
- 25:52Speaker 1: is a good bounce back spot for them, that gets
- 25:53Speaker 1: a team that has been horrible on the road historically.
- 25:56Speaker 1: When we saw that last week with the they just
- 25:58Speaker 1: didn't not They look flat like they came out out
- 26:00Speaker 1: golf was tearing them up all up and down the field.
- 26:02Speaker 1: I'm on St. Brown was open anytime you wanted to
- 26:05Speaker 1: get open. And I know obviously Tennessee has injuries to
- 26:08Speaker 1: the wide receiver position that could be a big issue
- 26:11Speaker 1: to them, but man, it's hard to pass at that
- 26:14Speaker 1: number at four um, maybe I'll just stay away from it,
- 26:17Speaker 1: but it feels like Tennessee is the right side here.
- 26:19Speaker 1: To me, it's a pass right now. There's two. The
- 26:24Speaker 1: thing that makes it interesting to me is great coaching matchup.
- 26:28Speaker 1: You're not there's no advantage that you're getting in the
- 26:31Speaker 1: coaching matchup comparable in terms of the need. Right. I
- 26:37Speaker 1: think they played each other twice the rest of the year.
- 26:39Speaker 1: Still an opportunity for the Jags to win the division
- 26:43Speaker 1: if they can sweep the Titans and one or two
- 26:46Speaker 1: good things that's true, So there is some incentive and
- 26:49Speaker 1: then you've got just the divisional component of it, like
- 26:52Speaker 1: a divisional favorite, a divisional game of more than three,
- 26:56Speaker 1: you kind of lean Jacks. But I don't trust this team,
- 27:00Speaker 1: don't trust him at all. Yeah, I feel like the
- 27:01Speaker 1: books aren't giving to enough of value on the Jack
- 27:03Speaker 1: team that I have to look and I honestly think
- 27:06Speaker 1: they're two and eight teams something crazy like that. A
- 27:08Speaker 1: t S on the road. I know Evan put out
- 27:10Speaker 1: something last week about it. They've just struggled mightily, and
- 27:14Speaker 1: that's why I was okay with let's put the lines
- 27:15Speaker 1: and then look what happened, like one by thirty. So yeah,
- 27:18Speaker 1: I just I'm not I'm done betting the Jaguars on
- 27:21Speaker 1: the road. They clearly have issues with this team traveling
- 27:25Speaker 1: Vikings visiting the Lions. The Lions are two and a
- 27:28Speaker 1: half point favorites. This line has moved up, opened it
- 27:31Speaker 1: one and a half moved up today like in the
- 27:35Speaker 1: last few hours. I don't know. It's because I picked
- 27:38Speaker 1: the Lions on our show Green Dot Daily that airs
- 27:42Speaker 1: at newn Eastern on at Action Network Network HQ and
- 27:45Speaker 1: in the app I'm Gonna Eat this exact decision on
- 27:49Speaker 1: the Lions. I still like the Lions at less than
- 27:51Speaker 1: a field goal of the money on the lines right now,
- 27:55Speaker 1: but on the Vikings, so it's a pro joe game.
- 27:57Speaker 1: Pros on the Lions, they're just a better team. Like
- 28:02Speaker 1: I know, it sounds crazy to say it. The Vikings
- 28:05Speaker 1: again a one score game, gave up nearly five yards
- 28:09Speaker 1: to the Jets. They jett punted at one time. They
- 28:13Speaker 1: scored one touchdown like the Lions since aman Ra st
- 28:18Speaker 1: Brown came back, since they had their by The Lions
- 28:21Speaker 1: are comparable to the Bengals in terms of their rankings
- 28:24Speaker 1: for advanced metrics on offense and defense and their lights
- 28:28Speaker 1: out at home. So I love, love, love the Lions
- 28:33Speaker 1: in the spot by the way, Simon, where two Lions
- 28:36Speaker 1: wins away from cashing our over ticket for the season,
- 28:39Speaker 1: which was our probably our biggest preseason wind total future
- 28:44Speaker 1: do you agree or disagree? Lions exact decision exact decision
- 28:47Speaker 1: by Chad Woman. Yeah, of course, this is one of
- 28:50Speaker 1: these games. I better early, but the Lions on the
- 28:52Speaker 1: open as a dog. Um it flipped right away. I
- 28:55Speaker 1: think Sunday Night to them being favorites. A classic game
- 28:59Speaker 1: of public perception versus professional betters, how they view certain
- 29:04Speaker 1: teams at certain lines. Um, but if this hits three
- 29:07Speaker 1: three and a half for the Vikings, the value is
- 29:10Speaker 1: gonna flip. And that's the toughest part about doing this,
- 29:12Speaker 1: where it's like I want to take the lines two
- 29:14Speaker 1: and a half, I'd still take them like Chad's doing
- 29:16Speaker 1: right now. I think that's a good number. But in
- 29:18Speaker 1: divisional game like this, if it gets the three, the
- 29:22Speaker 1: Lions don't blow teams out usually like that was insane
- 29:24Speaker 1: what they did last week. They usually play close games.
- 29:27Speaker 1: That's what the Lakings do as well. They've had two
- 29:29Speaker 1: losses this year, both those losses that got blown the
- 29:32Speaker 1: hell out. Every other game has been a one score
- 29:34Speaker 1: game they've won. So I'm with you, they're lucky as hell,
- 29:38Speaker 1: but I've been paying for it. Like my two biggest
- 29:40Speaker 1: bets I won this year, one was the Eagles against them,
- 29:42Speaker 1: the other one was Dallas against them. But I'm giving
- 29:45Speaker 1: a lot of it back last week New England, yeah,
- 29:48Speaker 1: I can say they were unlucky and there's a lot
- 29:49Speaker 1: of special teams bys. The Vikings won that game, the
- 29:52Speaker 1: Jets game. What was the crazy stat the Jets had
- 29:56Speaker 1: five five trips to the red zone. There are five
- 29:59Speaker 1: for five on goals, laing core single touchdown. The Vikings
- 30:02Speaker 1: went three for three on touchdowns and the other on
- 30:05Speaker 1: the other end. So yeah, they keep winning by weird
- 30:08Speaker 1: ways and that's just kind of how teams are. So
- 30:10Speaker 1: we'll be able to get value next year fading them.
- 30:13Speaker 1: But there could be that wonkie team chat. So as
- 30:15Speaker 1: long as you know that, as we're back the lines,
- 30:18Speaker 1: it's it sucks. It's like the worst feeling right now
- 30:20Speaker 1: as you bet against this Vikings team, because that felt
- 30:23Speaker 1: like the right side that the Jets. It felt like
- 30:24Speaker 1: everything one exactly as we thought. I thought there'd be
- 30:27Speaker 1: a lot of points because they didn't our sound good
- 30:28Speaker 1: Mike White was, you have a chance to win it
- 30:30Speaker 1: there at the end and it just didn't happen. So
- 30:33Speaker 1: not gonna overreact and not cashing deaths two weeks in
- 30:36Speaker 1: a row. I'll stay with Chad, stay the course, keep
- 30:38Speaker 1: fading this Vikings team who was just getting very very
- 30:41Speaker 1: lucky these last couple of weeks. So under three, you
- 30:44Speaker 1: should grab the lines of line, grab it, grab it.
- 30:47Speaker 1: It won't last. Folks. Ravens on the road at the Steelers,
- 30:51Speaker 1: the resurgence Steelers. We've said this on the podcast. Kenny
- 30:56Speaker 1: pick it's a gamer um, and they are figuring out
- 30:59Speaker 1: ever since the by He's just been a better team
- 31:02Speaker 1: and they're getting George Pickens more involved in the offense. Uh.
- 31:07Speaker 1: You saw Nagi Harris with some angry runs. But really
- 31:10Speaker 1: it's about Kenny Pickett and his ability as a playmaker.
- 31:13Speaker 1: He's been fantastic, plus having t J Wack back again.
- 31:16Speaker 1: He was injured last week and went out at the
- 31:18Speaker 1: end of the game. UM Steelers two and a half
- 31:20Speaker 1: point favorites on the road against the Ravens. I don't
- 31:23Speaker 1: have a strong opinion here yet. Yeah, I love the
- 31:26Speaker 1: Ravens at three. If it touches three again, I'll grab
- 31:28Speaker 1: it again. Through a little on the three. They moved
- 31:30Speaker 1: the right to two and a half. Both these teams
- 31:35Speaker 1: without Lamar are the same team. They're gonna both rely
- 31:38Speaker 1: heavily on their defense. So a game if you're not
- 31:41Speaker 1: a couple of taking aside, just bet the under. I don't.
- 31:43Speaker 1: I just think both these teams are gonna struggle to
- 31:45Speaker 1: score points and what will be a defensive battle. Um.
- 31:49Speaker 1: The no Lamar thing is huge though, for this Ravens team.
- 31:52Speaker 1: But the fact that this game open it to pick,
- 31:55Speaker 1: it's moved to two and a half three, it seems
- 31:57Speaker 1: like a little bit of an overreaction on just a
- 32:00Speaker 1: simple fact that Lamar hasn't been playing that well anyway
- 32:03Speaker 1: down the stretch here. I saw enough in that offense
- 32:05Speaker 1: last week with the kind of got a rhythm they moved.
- 32:07Speaker 1: They're able to move a ball against a really good
- 32:09Speaker 1: Denver defense, and never defense is better than Pittsburgh's defense.
- 32:12Speaker 1: So um, in a divisional matchup like this, if Tomlin
- 32:16Speaker 1: was the dog, I would love him here with his
- 32:17Speaker 1: backup quarterback. It's no different with Horrible Like we've seen
- 32:20Speaker 1: these kind of matchups between these teams for the last
- 32:23Speaker 1: twenty years. Um, you kind of throw the quarterbacks out
- 32:26Speaker 1: and it's kind of a battle between two defenses. And
- 32:29Speaker 1: that's what feels like this game is gonna be. It's
- 32:30Speaker 1: kind of gonna be the old old school early two
- 32:33Speaker 1: thousand's battle. That's Pittsburgh Ravens defenses. So like the under
- 32:37Speaker 1: the most here, but the gets up three, I'll be
- 32:39Speaker 1: back on the Ravens a two and a half and
- 32:40Speaker 1: no real play for me right now, that's total on
- 32:44Speaker 1: this game at fan Duel is thirty six and a
- 32:49Speaker 1: half down a lot. That is the I'm looking at
- 32:55Speaker 1: the fan due app right now. That is the lowest
- 33:00Speaker 1: total on the board. The next lowest is Bucks nine
- 33:04Speaker 1: ers at thirty seven and a half. Nothing else in
- 33:08Speaker 1: the thirties that I've seen. Yeah, that's a low number.
- 33:14Speaker 1: You know what I feel like? Uh, wasn't someone at
- 33:17Speaker 1: thirty six or thirty five and a half this? It
- 33:18Speaker 1: might have been the Bengal the However, the Broncos played
- 33:21Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, right, yeah, Broncos Carolina which yeah,
- 33:26Speaker 1: which went way under um. All right, I will say
- 33:30Speaker 1: this right now as I said it last week for
- 33:33Speaker 1: the Rams, very early, big balls better the week contender
- 33:40Speaker 1: Broncos plus nine and a half at home against the Chiefs. Wait.
- 33:46Speaker 1: Last week I was slacking with Matt Mitchell and signed
- 33:49Speaker 1: and every morning I woke up wanting about the Broncos. Waited, waited, waited.
- 33:55Speaker 1: It got to my to plus ten for about five minutes.
- 33:59Speaker 1: I better to play ten and felt great about it.
- 34:04Speaker 1: I'm waiting for this to get the plus ten because
- 34:06Speaker 1: of the money is on the Chiefs the best, but
- 34:10Speaker 1: the Broncos at the side here. Signmon. Yeah, I mean,
- 34:13Speaker 1: if you want to say every big balls, I was
- 34:14Speaker 1: gonna make this our foxhold. But we can do big
- 34:16Speaker 1: balls for this one. Dude. I'll listen. I want the
- 34:21Speaker 1: Broncos on our slate. That's all I'm saying. It's gonna
- 34:24Speaker 1: be talk about. Yeah, Foxil Broncos. We're in the Foxil
- 34:31Speaker 1: we talked about last week. We're mean chat. We felt
- 34:33Speaker 1: gross doing it, but it was just the media was
- 34:36Speaker 1: just so bashing this Denver team. Everyone was bashed them.
- 34:40Speaker 1: No one was betting them. Everyone's talking bad about them.
- 34:42Speaker 1: The books kept bumping the line up because they're in
- 34:44Speaker 1: begging people to put money on Denver, and I didn't.
- 34:47Speaker 1: I hated myself ward. I literally hated myself. Word she
- 34:49Speaker 1: was a game kicked off. I hated having the money
- 34:52Speaker 1: on Denver. As you know, I saw Russell Wilson get
- 34:54Speaker 1: the ball. I hated myself. We're putting money on Denver.
- 34:57Speaker 1: He's the worst. They are so bad offensively, it is
- 35:01Speaker 1: truly painful to watch. But I kept seeing myself, you're
- 35:04Speaker 1: not betting them for Russia, you're betting them for the defense.
- 35:06Speaker 1: Did we get lucky as ship that Lamar went out.
- 35:09Speaker 1: Sure we knew that game was gonna be low scoring.
- 35:12Speaker 1: That's just how those games that game was gonna playoff.
- 35:14Speaker 1: That was gonna be a low ball game. And if Lamar,
- 35:17Speaker 1: even even if Lamart finished that game, I still think
- 35:19Speaker 1: it would have covered that number, just the way the
- 35:21Speaker 1: game flow was going, how Denver's defense was playing that
- 35:23Speaker 1: offense in Baltimore. I know, you gotta he went out
- 35:26Speaker 1: early in the first, but it just felt like that
- 35:28Speaker 1: game where Denver was gonna stay and we were going
- 35:30Speaker 1: to cover that number. Same feeling here with the Chiefs team,
- 35:33Speaker 1: where I would love the bout back the Chiefs to
- 35:36Speaker 1: have a huge bounce back. I know historically my home's
- 35:39Speaker 1: absolutely dominated Denver, and like me and Chad, we bet
- 35:42Speaker 1: this spot many of times. Like I remember two years
- 35:44Speaker 1: ago we had Denver at home, uh with Withdrew Lock
- 35:49Speaker 1: eleven and a half in the contest. Yeah, it was
- 35:54Speaker 1: all working for us. They were moving the ball, I
- 35:56Speaker 1: think it was seven seven, he was driving the field,
- 35:58Speaker 1: Drew Lock ext sack. They took it the other way.
- 36:01Speaker 1: They scored I think the end of winning by twenty
- 36:03Speaker 1: one the chief So we've been burned many times That's
- 36:06Speaker 1: why I'm not even worried about this with Russe Wilson.
- 36:08Speaker 1: He can't be any worse than Drew lock was over
- 36:10Speaker 1: all the times we bet this spot. So I'm with
- 36:13Speaker 1: Chatt of sense that this is an inflated line. We're
- 36:16Speaker 1: getting two points of value just because everyone hates bending Denver.
- 36:19Speaker 1: No one bet them last week, me and chattered a
- 36:21Speaker 1: few people that actually won money on them last week.
- 36:24Speaker 1: You gotta roll it over a divisional game, a home
- 36:27Speaker 1: dog with a good defense. We have to do it.
- 36:31Speaker 1: It's another case of if you have to just hold
- 36:33Speaker 1: your nose and bet this, don't even watch it because
- 36:35Speaker 1: I turn it off because it was so damn painful
- 36:36Speaker 1: to watch that offense. Just trust the defense, trust the number.
- 36:40Speaker 1: This is a smart play to back Denver here. But
- 36:42Speaker 1: do you wait until it gets ten or do you
- 36:44Speaker 1: played at nine and a half? Um, you can like
- 36:48Speaker 1: I already took that and a half, Like with most
- 36:50Speaker 1: of my bets, I'm like you, I'm waiting for that number.
- 36:52Speaker 1: So yeah, if the ten pop, that's when I'll kind
- 36:54Speaker 1: of load on it. But I played the nine and
- 36:56Speaker 1: a half small just in case it does dropped eight
- 36:58Speaker 1: and a half because you're getting. You're getting a fair
- 36:59Speaker 1: numb year nine and a half. You are getting a
- 37:02Speaker 1: fair number. A couple of stats that Evan Abrahams are crack.
- 37:04Speaker 1: Researcher sent me about this game. Home dogs are of
- 37:09Speaker 1: seven or more since two thousand two, are six against
- 37:17Speaker 1: the spread in December or later. It moves up to
- 37:21Speaker 1: um the teams that had since again since two thousand two.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Oh no, since two thousand sixteen, teams with a winning
- 37:30Speaker 1: percentage of or more first teams with a loot with
- 37:33Speaker 1: a winning percentage of or less Chiefs versus Broncos. In
- 37:37Speaker 1: this case, it's about uh no point seventy one and
- 37:46Speaker 1: a hundred against the spread. I gotta do the math.
- 37:49Speaker 1: I'm with that percentages. Evan didn't give me that crib note.
- 37:52Speaker 1: But since same scenario, the teams with the better record
- 38:00Speaker 1: are against the spread. I jumbled at all, but basically
- 38:04Speaker 1: the same back the Broncos. Now here's the interesting one
- 38:07Speaker 1: about Mahomes. Everyone knows his career November December record five
- 38:12Speaker 1: straight up, eighteen and two against the spread. What that
- 38:17Speaker 1: tells me is that he is so good. As the
- 38:20Speaker 1: season goes on, bookmakers automatically inflate the line, so you're
- 38:25Speaker 1: getting the value. Then he's the teaser god, just throwing
- 38:28Speaker 1: every teaser. The guy always wins. So that's another interesting
- 38:32Speaker 1: part of this. Why is that nine and a half
- 38:34Speaker 1: because seven point teaser, that's two and a half. So
- 38:37Speaker 1: the books know what they're doing and hanging these big numbers.
- 38:39Speaker 1: Another quick short number thing you can look at is
- 38:42Speaker 1: favorites US seven or more points. This year, they were
- 38:45Speaker 1: seven and oh heading into last weekend. The only loss
- 38:49Speaker 1: was Houston, So that's one of those things where Houston
- 38:52Speaker 1: lost that game because they're absolutely terrible. Most of these
- 38:55Speaker 1: teams we've seen this year that have been big dogs,
- 38:58Speaker 1: they've played well. So another reason I love the Giants
- 39:01Speaker 1: at seven. It's another reason I love this this UH
- 39:05Speaker 1: Denver team. Two divisional teams at seven or more points
- 39:08Speaker 1: at home. It's just it's me and chat. We cannot
- 39:11Speaker 1: pass on these kind of opportunities to play these games, simon,
- 39:15Speaker 1: no joke. Sometimes I forget we're live on AM. Yeah,
- 39:19Speaker 1: this number has moved from nine and a half to nine. Yeah,
- 39:25Speaker 1: so that's that's the fear with it. So I would say,
- 39:27Speaker 1: don't wait for the ten. Just grabbed the nine and
- 39:28Speaker 1: a half. Just go get it. That's why I think
- 39:31Speaker 1: a Giants will move to It's just as pros can't
- 39:34Speaker 1: pass on these kind of big numbers and divisional games
- 39:36Speaker 1: in December. It's just really hard to pass on those numbers.
- 39:40Speaker 1: Oh that's amazing. Look at the influence we have. We're
- 39:46Speaker 1: crazy Panthers on the road four and a half point
- 39:50Speaker 1: dogs against the Seahawks. I don't know, man, but why
- 39:56Speaker 1: would anybody be favoring there's so much money coming in
- 39:59Speaker 1: in the pant there's right now, what's the theory here?
- 40:04Speaker 1: It's three and a half by the way, to take Seattle.
- 40:07Speaker 1: It's the twelve man verse, Sam Donald, like, I just
- 40:12Speaker 1: blindly take Seattle here. But man, there's there's so many
- 40:17Speaker 1: question marks for now Seattle's defense, they just don't look good.
- 40:20Speaker 1: These last couple of weeks they've been good. I mean
- 40:22Speaker 1: l A was moving the ball up and down the
- 40:23Speaker 1: field on them with backups in every position. So I
- 40:28Speaker 1: get the love for Carolina. I'm interesting with people's opinion
- 40:31Speaker 1: on on this game. It's another game I haven't met yet.
- 40:34Speaker 1: I wanted to take Seattle right when the game opened, um,
- 40:37Speaker 1: just because I knew the public would fade them after
- 40:39Speaker 1: such a bad showing against the Rams. But man, I
- 40:44Speaker 1: don't have to do with this one. Um, we can wait. Yeah,
- 40:48Speaker 1: I would wait on this because I to me, Seattle
- 40:51Speaker 1: feels like the really does feel like the smart side
- 40:53Speaker 1: where Carolina will be a public dog and people are
- 40:57Speaker 1: just not because again Caroline is a great defense. But
- 40:59Speaker 1: they're they're simply for getting. It's Sam Donald who struggled
- 41:02Speaker 1: his whole career on the road going up against that
- 41:04Speaker 1: twelve man, which is a big deal. So um, interesting
- 41:07Speaker 1: game to say the least. We've got four games right
- 41:10Speaker 1: now that we are full on consensus about that. We
- 41:14Speaker 1: no brainers, no brainers. The Niners are three and a
- 41:20Speaker 1: half point favorites on the road, I mean at home
- 41:25Speaker 1: against the Buccaneers. This is another pro Joel game. Bets
- 41:29Speaker 1: on the Buccaneers, money on the Niners. I like the
- 41:33Speaker 1: Niners here, I know, but I don't love the number.
- 41:37Speaker 1: The number worries me. And this number is gonna go. Yeah.
- 41:41Speaker 1: I like it at three and a half, but I'm
- 41:43Speaker 1: with you, I just have no real feel for it
- 41:45Speaker 1: because I feel like, what the hell is his name?
- 41:48Speaker 1: Rock Purity Listen shout out to the big bets on campus.
- 41:53Speaker 1: Podcast with Stucky and Colin Wilson, who for the entirety
- 41:58Speaker 1: of the Action Networks existence. Brock Purty basically was in
- 42:01Speaker 1: college and we would him. We would celebrate bro October
- 42:07Speaker 1: every fall because of brock Purty and what he did
- 42:10Speaker 1: at Iowa Stay. I feel super left out because I
- 42:14Speaker 1: had never heard of that guy, Mr Irrelevant. Maybe I
- 42:17Speaker 1: heard of him then, but when he came to that game, Chad,
- 42:19Speaker 1: I was like, holy sh it, like my biggest bed
- 42:23Speaker 1: of the day, and I was resting on a third stringer.
- 42:25Speaker 1: But luckily what we've been on played out of that
- 42:29Speaker 1: poor defense game after twa And that's why you kind
- 42:32Speaker 1: of backed his ports team. It's I didn't want to
- 42:35Speaker 1: be the one ship on Jimmy g It was just
- 42:36Speaker 1: more of me saying this guy is such a vessel.
- 42:38Speaker 1: People are giving him too much credit. Where I Phil
- 42:40Speaker 1: was Trey Lanston there and he had been learning this system.
- 42:43Speaker 1: I think we kind of had the same results we've
- 42:44Speaker 1: seen this year. It's it's kind of built around that
- 42:47Speaker 1: where they just have so many weapons. I you has
- 42:50Speaker 1: taken such a major step this year that um debot
- 42:54Speaker 1: is not that he's not irrelevant. He just isn't what
- 42:56Speaker 1: he was last year because you just kind of filled
- 42:58Speaker 1: that void of being a true and I'm one receiver,
- 43:01Speaker 1: KIDDI still makes huge plays When you throw McCaffrey in there.
- 43:03Speaker 1: It's just like, man, this guy's four major weapons that
- 43:07Speaker 1: he just needs to get the ball in their hands
- 43:08Speaker 1: and they can make place for him. That's crazy. People
- 43:11Speaker 1: are Ben Tampa here. Maybe they're betting it because of
- 43:13Speaker 1: what happened last night and they think they canna ride
- 43:15Speaker 1: the momentum. On paper, the difference between these two teams
- 43:19Speaker 1: is light years. So take the under if you don't
- 43:21Speaker 1: have to take a side. If you're like Chad, you
- 43:23Speaker 1: just don't like the number. But I will be back
- 43:25Speaker 1: on the four nineers again this week where Jimmy went out,
- 43:28Speaker 1: I moved it by half a point. That was all
- 43:30Speaker 1: Jimmy was worth in my model for this four nine team,
- 43:33Speaker 1: which I could be dead wrong because I have a
- 43:36Speaker 1: really small Sampa right now in this kid. But I
- 43:38Speaker 1: went back and I watched his Iowa state footage and
- 43:40Speaker 1: it's like, all right, this kid can move the ball.
- 43:43Speaker 1: You could really sling it like Rock October. Yeah, so
- 43:49Speaker 1: he's obviously he's good. I'm not a huge a fan
- 43:52Speaker 1: of his mechanics. Like watching him play, I saw why
- 43:55Speaker 1: he dropped so late. This kid as as an unorthodox release.
- 43:58Speaker 1: He's got weird when he throws. He is a set
- 44:01Speaker 1: right which he had plenty of balls he got away
- 44:04Speaker 1: with that really scared me. But he threw in the
- 44:05Speaker 1: tight windows. He made big play. So three and a half. Sure, Chat,
- 44:09Speaker 1: I'll back too. But I'm like you where it's like
- 44:12Speaker 1: I feel great about it, not really, because I really
- 44:14Speaker 1: know what I'm getting at this quarterback here. Guy, I'm
- 44:17Speaker 1: not lying. We wanted to take goodbye this week. We
- 44:20Speaker 1: feel better, Like I feel better about the games we're
- 44:22Speaker 1: talking about than just about any games we've talked about
- 44:24Speaker 1: all year. What the fuck why? I don't know. I
- 44:29Speaker 1: think you're just you're feeling good. You're in New York
- 44:31Speaker 1: City right at chat. You're just feeling good. I don't
- 44:33Speaker 1: think it's the games. Could be I love the vibes
- 44:36Speaker 1: are just really high right now for you. It could
- 44:39Speaker 1: be I'm thinking about Brock Purty Brock. It's like Brock December.
- 44:45Speaker 1: I love it. I love that. Like I obviously I
- 44:47Speaker 1: don't know much about college. I got other stuff going on.
- 44:49Speaker 1: I love that was like a thing for them. Uh
- 44:51Speaker 1: because he has a great name. Oh my god, are
- 44:54Speaker 1: you kidding me? Stucky and Colin brock Purty and uh
- 44:59Speaker 1: the uh and Greg Dortch, the guy in the Cardinals.
- 45:03Speaker 1: They are foundational in the history of the college coverage
- 45:07Speaker 1: shere at Action Network, Dolphins on the Road at the Chargers,
- 45:11Speaker 1: you were all over the Niners and the wise guys
- 45:13Speaker 1: were all over the Niners. That was our big sharp
- 45:15Speaker 1: calls last week, betting against the Dolphins um basically at
- 45:19Speaker 1: any price, and it was right where the Dolphins exposed.
- 45:23Speaker 1: What did we learn? What does this tell us about
- 45:25Speaker 1: the Chargers as home dogs? And I remind people we
- 45:29Speaker 1: hate the Chargers is favorites. We love the Chargers as underdogs. Yeah,
- 45:35Speaker 1: And that was another cool thing of like the fans
- 45:37Speaker 1: enjoyed the fact that they were on the three and
- 45:39Speaker 1: a half of the four Niners and it closed up
- 45:41Speaker 1: five by kickoff. So it's nice when you're on the
- 45:44Speaker 1: early line movement. The pros come in heavy over the weekend,
- 45:46Speaker 1: but I'll have the five and you're sitting there on
- 45:48Speaker 1: three and a half ticket But same game this week
- 45:51Speaker 1: of Chargers are not left for dead. But it feels
- 45:56Speaker 1: that way by people. People are just totally off of
- 45:58Speaker 1: this team. Now. They every week shoot themselves in the foot.
- 46:02Speaker 1: We've seen the head coach like terrible decisions, make weird decisions. Um,
- 46:08Speaker 1: they don't make the playoffs. He's definitely gonna be fired
- 46:10Speaker 1: in this matchup. Like I was gonna make this why
- 46:13Speaker 1: Simon says, But I think you can wait and you
- 46:15Speaker 1: can get it three and a half. This is a
- 46:16Speaker 1: Sunday night game. The public is gonna be all over
- 46:20Speaker 1: Miami in this matchup. They're going to bet this number.
- 46:23Speaker 1: They're gonna throw them in a lot of teasers, a
- 46:24Speaker 1: lot of parlays. This is just a classic bounceback spot
- 46:27Speaker 1: for this Miami team. My issue is is Miami that good?
- 46:31Speaker 1: We already talked about it last week. I didn't think
- 46:33Speaker 1: Miami is that good. They played a kind of a
- 46:35Speaker 1: soft schedule, had a nice little had a couple of
- 46:38Speaker 1: games where they're in good spots against teams. Had major
- 46:40Speaker 1: questions about their defense. Their defense has given up a
- 46:44Speaker 1: lot of yards and teams have moved the ball and
- 46:46Speaker 1: then pretty easily. Um. Even I went back a couple
- 46:49Speaker 1: of weeks ago, I watched rewatched that Bears game against
- 46:51Speaker 1: them where the Bear should have beat Miami at home. Um,
- 46:54Speaker 1: justin Fields just had a really bad pick at the
- 46:56Speaker 1: end of the game. Where that that's why they didn't
- 46:58Speaker 1: like they got away with one there and where people
- 47:00Speaker 1: be looking at them different if they had dropped one
- 47:01Speaker 1: or two of these games along the way here. So
- 47:04Speaker 1: looking at the matchup between a Chargers team in the
- 47:05Speaker 1: Miami team that, man, this this is going to come
- 47:09Speaker 1: down to the quarterbacks. I looked them getting the three
- 47:12Speaker 1: and a half. That's that's a great number to have
- 47:14Speaker 1: with Chargers team that plays games close. We've seen the
- 47:17Speaker 1: games they've lost this year. It's usually a coss a
- 47:19Speaker 1: close loss or where they win by a couple of points.
- 47:21Speaker 1: That's just kinda been the charge has been this year.
- 47:24Speaker 1: Mike Williams has a big deal if he's back this week.
- 47:26Speaker 1: We've seen the dbs and the cornerbacks really struggle with
- 47:30Speaker 1: this Miami team this year. That that was out of
- 47:33Speaker 1: this world. Will happened last week with the four nine
- 47:35Speaker 1: is the fact they brought in a third stringer, were
- 47:37Speaker 1: be able to move the ball up and down the
- 47:38Speaker 1: field in this Miami defense. When we flipped the other
- 47:40Speaker 1: side where Joey Bos is not gonna be back his
- 47:44Speaker 1: his week. His injury was eight to ten weeks. I
- 47:47Speaker 1: believe it happened the final week of September, so he
- 47:53Speaker 1: should have been back this week practicing. If everything I'd
- 47:55Speaker 1: go off perfectly, it hasn't. I checked the writers this morning.
- 47:59Speaker 1: There is no eight Uh. They gave an update on
- 48:01Speaker 1: Sunday after the game that they didn't think Bos was
- 48:03Speaker 1: gonna practice this week with the team. I haven't seen
- 48:06Speaker 1: that it is. Let's a big deal. But luckily we
- 48:08Speaker 1: still have Khalil mac which is a huge advantage to
- 48:11Speaker 1: have on the defensive line going against up going against
- 48:14Speaker 1: these backups that Miami's having him starting out these left
- 48:16Speaker 1: tackline right tackle positions. So I love, I love all
- 48:20Speaker 1: the different things coming together. Where Miami is a really
- 48:23Speaker 1: good team, they're missing key key pieces to that offense.
- 48:27Speaker 1: And if Waddle is injured as well, that's even bigger
- 48:29Speaker 1: for a reason to want to back the Chargers team
- 48:31Speaker 1: like that, that really gets things going. You have Waddle
- 48:34Speaker 1: entire killing the field together. So all the science point
- 48:37Speaker 1: taking the charges, and the biggest last one is going
- 48:39Speaker 1: to be I don't know what the numbers are yet Chad,
- 48:41Speaker 1: But the public is gonna do. But I guarantee the
- 48:43Speaker 1: public is going to be backing this Miami team. So
- 48:46Speaker 1: if you're looking at a book, you have a three.
- 48:48Speaker 1: Just wait, I do think about a three and a
- 48:50Speaker 1: half of the bets are on the Dolphins right now.
- 48:55Speaker 1: Of the money on the Dolphins right now. Yeah, right,
- 48:59Speaker 1: so another or another road favorite getting all the money
- 49:02Speaker 1: and all the tickets. Never good last game on the board.
- 49:06Speaker 1: Like I said, it's a short week. Atriot's one point
- 49:09Speaker 1: favorites at the Cardinals. I hate this game. I hate
- 49:13Speaker 1: these things. Uh, there's very little reason to talk about it.
- 49:17Speaker 1: It's not going to be in our contest. If we
- 49:20Speaker 1: were putting something in for their contest. No opinion, yeah,
- 49:25Speaker 1: no opinion. It's my guts telling me you take Arizona here.
- 49:30Speaker 1: But the thing because Kyler can run the ball we
- 49:33Speaker 1: already talked about. The Patriots have struggled this year now
- 49:36Speaker 1: and three again, tornning quarterbacks, they lost the fields, they
- 49:39Speaker 1: lost Lamar, and they lost to Josh Allen last week.
- 49:42Speaker 1: That clearly is a major problem. Their defense. I don't know,
- 49:45Speaker 1: it's because they have a QB spy. That's why it
- 49:47Speaker 1: doesn't work. Their zone or whatever it is. It's just
- 49:50Speaker 1: a running quarterback seems to give this Pelicheck defense problems.
- 49:53Speaker 1: So I wanted to take the Patriots come with Chad,
- 49:56Speaker 1: like I hate Arizona and I love Fading Kingsbury no
- 50:00Speaker 1: member in December, and then at home Arizona struggled mightily
- 50:03Speaker 1: at home. But man, the running quarterback thing that throws
- 50:06Speaker 1: me off a loop. So not gonna be one of
- 50:08Speaker 1: my five biggest bets. But in my pickpools and we'll
- 50:11Speaker 1: I'll probably end up betting in the end, it's gonna
- 50:13Speaker 1: be Arizona. Simon. Right now, Voxhall was Broncos plus nine
- 50:19Speaker 1: and a half. Simon says, Giants plus seven exact decision
- 50:24Speaker 1: Lions minus two and a half. Big balls were holding
- 50:28Speaker 1: off on. I got a feeling come Thursday when we reconvene,
- 50:33Speaker 1: Browns could be on our big balls list. Um Chargers, Chargers,
- 50:40Speaker 1: those are the and maybe the Jets, depending on what
- 50:43Speaker 1: kind of news we get. But to me, those are
- 50:45Speaker 1: the three leaders in the clubhouse for big balls. Right now,
- 50:50Speaker 1: Brown's plus six, Giants plus seven, Lions minus two and
- 50:55Speaker 1: a half. Denver plus nine forty nine minus three and
- 50:59Speaker 1: a half Chargers US three, But we want you to
- 51:01Speaker 1: wait on that. Those are the games that we've talked
- 51:05Speaker 1: about showing our cards on that we liked the most.
- 51:08Speaker 1: Shorter week shorter week only six six six byes this week. Yep,
- 51:15Speaker 1: and it's we might cha my d you might be
- 51:18Speaker 1: like convinced me to put it in because I do
- 51:19Speaker 1: really love the games you already talked about. But as
- 51:21Speaker 1: we sit here, we know we probably should use the
- 51:23Speaker 1: boy we're gonna talk about games like we always end
- 51:27Speaker 1: up loving the games we talked about. I know at
- 51:31Speaker 1: some point we got to use it, all right. This
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