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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Action Network Podcast. I am your host,

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Speaker 2: Evan Abrams, and I am joined as always on these

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Speaker 2: beautiful Sunday nights by the one and only Brandon Anderson.

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Speaker 2: And this is it. This is the recap of week

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Speaker 2: eighteen before we head into the playoffs. We are coming

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Speaker 2: off the Sunday night football game between the Vikings and

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Speaker 2: the Lions. Of course, Brandon a Vikings fan, an unfortunate

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Speaker 2: set of circumstances there, so Brandon, I will bring you

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Speaker 2: been a bit of a different story. But you know,

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Speaker 2: you can start us off. You know, Lines win the

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Speaker 2: game thirty one to nine over Minnesota. They cover is

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Speaker 2: a three point home favorite as the close total goes

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Speaker 2: way under the fifty six and a half. Obviously, and

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Speaker 2: I can get into some notes there, but Brandon go first.

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Speaker 2: First of all, Hello, and what do you think about

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Speaker 2: the game?

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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously not my favorite way to end a

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Speaker 3: regular season, but you know it's not over. It is

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Speaker 3: a very familiar feeling for Vikings fans. Well, it's a

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Speaker 3: familiar feeling for any any football fans. Sometimes it's just

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Speaker 3: not your game, and this very much felt extremely all

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Speaker 3: throughout as this is just not the Vikings day. There

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Speaker 3: was the drop pick six that could have swung the

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Speaker 3: game as it was just getting away. There were how

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Speaker 3: many failed attempts inside the ten and five yard line?

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Speaker 3: In fact, I'll tell you how many. I believe by

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Speaker 3: Mike count, the Vikings ran eleven plays inside the ten.

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Speaker 3: They scored three points total on all those plays. That

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Speaker 3: was on free possessions. True turner is undowns. Sam Darnold

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Speaker 3: the season. He was one of nine for three yards

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Speaker 3: in this game. I know we're going to get the

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Speaker 3: discourse on the fourth down stuff. I like it. You

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Speaker 3: know the Lions are going to score points, you know

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Speaker 3: the Lions are going to be aggressive. I think it's

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Speaker 3: right process, wrong result. I think you go for the touchdown.

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Speaker 3: You try to get the points. Take the points, take

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Speaker 3: the threes. All throughout the game Detroit scored thirty one.

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Speaker 3: You're not winning this game in this division in one

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Speaker 3: seed with a bunch of threes. So I don't have

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Speaker 3: a problem with that. Detroit to me, looked a lot

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Speaker 3: like what we saw last year in the playoffs, which

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Speaker 3: is they know that they're a little bit short decked

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Speaker 3: on defensive talent. Including big thing from this game. To me,

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Speaker 3: the biggest thing is Terry and Arnold out for the

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Speaker 3: game and we'll see how long he's out. The rookie

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Speaker 3: cornerback Carlton Davis already out. Detroit cannot lose more guys.

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Speaker 3: They also maybe lost guard Kevin Zeitler at the end

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Speaker 3: make sure to keep an eye on that. Definitely a

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Speaker 3: just going to bring pressure. They got to Donald. They

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Speaker 3: clearly rattled him his earmailing throws all night. Donald was

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Speaker 3: absolutely awful this game. Anyone that way to vote, I

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Speaker 3: don't think has given him their comeback clear of the

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Speaker 3: Year vote. After that one, we'll see about Kevin O'Connell

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Speaker 3: and Coach of the Year. I don't know exactly how

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Speaker 3: but the lines were two good Jamior Gibbs four touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: It's just not a good game for the Vikings. Looking forward,

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Speaker 3: the big picture is those injuries Terry Arnold and Kevin Zeitler.

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Speaker 3: The lines are so short staffed already, especially Arnold will

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my notes at Arnold's circle. That was going to

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Speaker 2: We were two Dome teams indoors, and the game just

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Speaker 2: the pressure got to him. But Detroit had two turnovers,

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Speaker 2: through it. The one thing about Detroit before we keep

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Speaker 2: matchups at the end of the NFC games. Detroit finishes

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Speaker 2: the last four years in the regular season forty seven

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Speaker 2: twenty and one against the spread over seventy percent. That's

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Speaker 2: the best stretch for any team in the Super Bowl era.

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Speaker 2: They have just been absolutely cover machines twelve and four,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the formula we've seen for the Lions.

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Speaker 3: Like the stats that you gave are great, but they're

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Speaker 3: to get last year. This game saved the season for Detroit.

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Speaker 3: I think unfortunately this game all but ended the season

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like we've seen this story a lot.

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Speaker 2: Two losses during tonight and Minnesota could have two losses

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Speaker 2: let's keep going with the NFC Chicago Green Bay. So

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Speaker 2: Chicago beats Green Bay. We haven't heard that one in

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Speaker 2: the only thing to say here is all the streaks

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Packers had won twenty six of twenty nine

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Speaker 3: the fans in Chicago. This one's in Green Bay. Honestly,

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Speaker 3: worst case scenario for Packers in this game. Christian Watson

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Speaker 3: Malik Willis almost saves the Packers season again. Seemed like

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Speaker 3: he was going to Chicago's up fourteen to three. Shouts

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Speaker 3: of whatever that was ten or eleven losses in a row.

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Speaker 3: Now they lost, and while they were losing the game,

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Speaker 3: got a worse version of Jordan Love. This is the team.

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Speaker 3: I've been loving the Packers as far as futures go,

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Speaker 3: but early in the season they were not looking that good.

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Speaker 3: Why I think because Jordan Love wasn't playing healthy. Now

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Speaker 2: Carolina wins this game in overtime forty four to thirty eight,

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Speaker 3: This was just a fun game. Bryce Young has five touchdowns,

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Speaker 2: If you didn't see, Mike Evans did say he's going

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Speaker 3: I thought it was ridiculous. I'm happy he got paid.

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Speaker 2: to see who has to end up going there try

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Speaker 2: to take down the Giants. The next game we'll talk

434
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 2: about is Rams and Vikings, and I'll toss it to

435
00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,919
Speaker 2: you first before I kind of I looked up some

436
00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:26,720
Speaker 2: stats and obviously they played a few weeks ago in

437
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:28,439
Speaker 2: Week eight, so you kind of have a bit of

438
00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:32,199
Speaker 2: a preemptive strike on this matchup. But what are your thoughts.

439
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 3: It's not a great spot for Minnesota. I'm not gonna

440
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 3: lie and I know I'm a Vikings pessimist. I know,

441
00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 3: like as a fan, that's always going to creep in there,

442
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,240
Speaker 3: but it is a really tough emotional bounce back spot

443
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,160
Speaker 3: to go from. We should be home on the bye

444
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:48,919
Speaker 3: week right now, and instead we blew it so badly

445
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,439
Speaker 3: that now we're on the road immediately the week later.

446
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,560
Speaker 3: And the Vikings only lost a game one time earlier

447
00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,959
Speaker 3: this season, that was to the Lions. And what did

448
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 3: they do. They played immediately the next week in Los

449
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 3: Angeles against the Rams and they lost by double digits.

450
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:08,240
Speaker 3: They know that, So maybe that's motivation. Maybe it's like, Okay,

451
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 3: we get a second chance that this thing, let's bounce

452
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,720
Speaker 3: back at it. But I know I've got some kind

453
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:16,479
Speaker 3: of the wild card trends here. The Rams as a

454
00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 3: home playoff team against the team that did not make

455
00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:22,360
Speaker 3: the playoffs last year. That's a very positive trend for

456
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:25,000
Speaker 3: the Rams. Went up with ten out of last year's

457
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:28,119
Speaker 3: fourteen playoff teams came back again the season, so not

458
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 3: a lot of turnover there. We had no worse to

459
00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:33,359
Speaker 3: first team this year in the division. A lot of chalk,

460
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 3: as we kind of saw throughout the year, played out

461
00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 3: toward the playoffs as well. Yeah, Stafford was able to

462
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 3: really pick apart this Minnesota defense and Brian Floores of

463
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 3: the pressure cannot get home. I thought Puka had a

464
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Speaker 3: monster game against Minnesota last time. I think he could

465
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Speaker 3: be a good prop play. That's our Monday night game,

466
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Speaker 3: So that one we'll preview more a week from now

467
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,919
Speaker 3: on Sunday Night. But certainly I'll be watching. But I'm worried.

468
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 3: I think the vikings, the numbers say historically it's a

469
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,880
Speaker 3: pretty tough spot for them to go on the road there.

470
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Speaker 2: Yeah, my notes were basically the Flores, blitz and Stafford.

471
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 2: So I did look this up. Stafford this year eight touchdowns,

472
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:18,439
Speaker 2: two interceptions when he's blitzed. When he's not blitzed, twelve touchdowns,

473
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,480
Speaker 2: six interceptions, all right, pretty comparable when he's getting pressure,

474
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 2: two touchdowns, six picks. When he's kept clean in the pocket,

475
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 2: eighteen touchdowns, two interceptions. And so when you had this

476
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:35,840
Speaker 2: game against Minnesota, he had four touchdowns and one interception

477
00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,119
Speaker 2: in the game, all when he wasn't blitzed. And he

478
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Speaker 2: had three touchdowns and no interceptions in a clean pocket

479
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 2: in that game. So the blitz really didn't impact him

480
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,199
Speaker 2: at all. I believe it. I didn't look this up.

481
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 2: I believe he had a pretty quick release in that

482
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 2: game and that's kind of what got him exactly what

483
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Speaker 2: the result was, which is a ten point win against

484
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Speaker 2: Minnesota in their last loss. So I think those stats

485
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Speaker 2: are interesting. Also, no sacks for Stafford in that game,

486
00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: so not only were there no pressure, there were you know,

487
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 2: he wasn't on his butt at all, which I think

488
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 2: is very noteworthy entering this matchup. All right, so the

489
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:13,679
Speaker 2: next game would be Tampa Bay and Washington. That is

490
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 2: the three to six. The only note I have on

491
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,239
Speaker 2: this game. It is right now. The highest total of

492
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Speaker 2: any game of the weekend is fifty and a half

493
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,400
Speaker 2: at the moment, which I thought I find kind of interesting.

494
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:26,960
Speaker 2: We've been seeing a lot of high scoring games with

495
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay as long as the other team can keep

496
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:32,600
Speaker 2: up with them. So I kind of wonder, with Washington's

497
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 2: style and the way Jayden runs up and down the field,

498
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,640
Speaker 2: that they're expecting a bunch of points here. But what's

499
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Speaker 2: your thought, Tampa Washington.

500
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm kind of with what you said earlier to me.

501
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 3: Of all the six games on the schedule, this is

502
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Speaker 3: the one I feel like I have the least feel for.

503
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:47,200
Speaker 3: I don't know I'm gonna end up on a really

504
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 3: strong position here. Just these are the teams to me

505
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 3: that out of the fourteen teams in the field, these

506
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 3: have been my last two probably picks in as just

507
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 3: playoff teams. These are not teams that I thought to

508
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,240
Speaker 3: get here, and I don't feel like I've totally caught

509
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 3: up to having the right perspective on them, and are

510
00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 3: pretty similar teams. They're kind of like Voderline top ten offenses,

511
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 3: not that great on defense. I think Tampa will be

512
00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:12,600
Speaker 3: able to run some. I think Washington should be able

513
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,159
Speaker 3: to pass some. Really Interestingly, Mike Evans for his career,

514
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,800
Speaker 3: the one team that he has never played well against

515
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,520
Speaker 3: is the Saints, who we played today, except he did

516
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,080
Speaker 3: well today because Latimore is not there anymore. Latimore is

517
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 3: in this game matching up against Mike Evans again, assuming

518
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,800
Speaker 3: he's healthy to go, so I think that's important. Tampa

519
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 3: Bay needs Evans to be able to do some stuff

520
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 3: otherwise they don't have a ton of other weapons. With

521
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:38,199
Speaker 3: God went out a couple angles, I'll be watching that

522
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,360
Speaker 3: same trend. I just mentioned home teams that made last

523
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 3: year's playoffs against the team that did not that fits

524
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:49,119
Speaker 3: here again, that's advantage Tampa debut quarterback playoff obviously rookie

525
00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 3: Jaye and Daniels obviously it's his debut. And then first

526
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 3: half second half. Washington's defense has been way better in

527
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Speaker 3: the first half, and mentioned with Tampa, they've been a

528
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 3: way better second half. They're thirteen and four second half ats,

529
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 3: Washington's below five hundred. So I wouldn't be surprised if

530
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 3: this is kind of a game that hangs around for

531
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Speaker 3: a while, maybe goes back and forth, a bit of

532
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 3: a shootout. This one's Sunday night, so this will be

533
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 3: the one that we're talking on right after next time.

534
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 3: This is to me, there's usually one game out of

535
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,080
Speaker 3: the sixth this round that's like, oh, sure, I'll watch that.

536
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 3: That'll be fun. Let's see who's gonna lose in the

537
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 3: next round. That sort of is what this game feels

538
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,520
Speaker 3: like to me, Like one of these teams is the

539
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,879
Speaker 3: team that everyone hopes to draw next round instead of

540
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,439
Speaker 3: all the other options that are available. Sorry, that's just

541
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 3: how it goes. It's gonna be a fun game, but

542
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,920
Speaker 3: I think it'll be close. I think the line's about right.

543
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:43,160
Speaker 3: I don't have to play on this one yet.

544
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, funny that you just said that, because as I'm

545
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 2: sitting here, it looks like Tampa Bay just moved to

546
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 2: three and a half. That would be the first move

547
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 2: off of the open at three. So we'll see what

548
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,879
Speaker 2: that looks like by the time everyone listens to this.

549
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 2: Our last NFC game is Eagles Packers. I'll just give

550
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 2: you some of the easy ones here. So Eagles and

551
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 2: Packers did play, ready, they played in Week one. Philly

552
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:08,639
Speaker 2: won the game thirty four to twenty nine, if you

553
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 2: remember in Brazil. It's interesting enough that Hurts is two

554
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:16,160
Speaker 2: and zero against Lafloor in his career, and so thirty

555
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 2: four to twenty nine and then forty thirty three, so

556
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 2: both very high scoring matchups. One against Love, one against

557
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 2: Rogers this one as well, and this is what's kind

558
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 2: of getting me a little scared on the Green Bay side.

559
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 2: So Hurts has played three playoff game not on the road,

560
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 2: so basically home or neutral, including the Super Bowl. He

561
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: scored thirty five, thirty one, and thirty eight in those games.

562
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 2: So you just kind of have to expect that Philly

563
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:43,120
Speaker 2: is going to put up the points that they need

564
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 2: to in this one, especially. You know, even if they're

565
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: having a little rust with the fact that they had

566
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,080
Speaker 2: to take a week off, you do assume that Philly

567
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 2: is going to get things right here. And here's one

568
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 2: more on the Green Bay side that I did look up,

569
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,040
Speaker 2: So Philly's past, he has been incredible this year. I

570
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 2: believe one seventy five or so best in the league.

571
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 2: So Lafleur has actually done a decent job. He's seven

572
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 2: and four in games versus really good pass defenses, four

573
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 2: and one with Loved and won five straight. So he's

574
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: done a decent job at putting up enough points in

575
00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:17,879
Speaker 2: those games and kind of holding down those pass defenses.

576
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 2: But I feel like Hurts is going to get his

577
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 2: in this one. But what's your thought on the matchup?

578
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, this obviously is the biggest game of the weekend,

579
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 3: I think. To me, I say obviously, but it's obviously

580
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 3: to me. The reason being, I think these are the

581
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 3: two best teams in the NFC right now. I neither

582
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 3: the two best all around teams. I think this is

583
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 3: the NFC Championship, which means the way that I will

584
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 3: want to bet this game, And I don't know which

585
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 3: side yet because especially I don't know how I feel

586
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 3: about the two quarterbacks injury status going in. But whoever

587
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 3: I like in this game, whenever I get to a

588
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 3: pick on it, that's the futures that I'm looking at.

589
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 3: I want NFC futures as a proxy for the money

590
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 3: line in this game, because in any other scenario to

591
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 3: the bracket, I have wanted Green Bay against whoever they played,

592
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 3: and Philly against whoever they played. Instead they're playing each other.

593
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 3: That's how this goes sometimes. I guess you could say

594
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 3: for the rest of the NFC. The good news for them,

595
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 3: if I'm right that these are the two best teams,

596
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 3: is one of them is going to be out right

597
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,120
Speaker 3: away in the first round. So that's good. If you're

598
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 3: an ansty sleeper, you only have to beat one of these two,

599
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 3: not both of them now because of how the bracket went.

600
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 3: That's another really good like this was a dream scenario

601
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 3: for the Lions, for example, who by the way, aren't

602
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 3: really afraid of the Packers. A key matchup here. The Packers'

603
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 3: defense has been really good lately, but not against the

604
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 3: middle of the field. The Lions you just saw tonight

605
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 3: against the Vikings carved up the middle of the field.

606
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 3: The Eagles don't do that. The Eagles have not attacked

607
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 3: the middle of the field very well with Jalen Hurts

608
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 3: ever at any point, So will they do that? Can

609
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 3: he do that in a matchup where they're vulnerable there?

610
00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 3: I think that's really interesting. I don't know the answer

611
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 3: to that yet. It's a very intriguing matchup. It's for

612
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 3: sure the one that I'll be watching the most tape on,

613
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 3: looking the most into the data. It probably is a

614
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 3: game honestly, and the regular season i'd pass on and

615
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 3: be like, I don't really know how I feel about

616
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 3: this game. We'll watch and learn. Can't watch and learn

617
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 3: because this is the spot where I think one of

618
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 3: these teams probably comes out of the NFC, And if

619
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,640
Speaker 3: I watch and learn, I've lost a possibility to invest here.

620
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 3: So I think this is the key game to dig

621
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 3: in and find your angle on. It's the game that

622
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 3: I will be most excited for next weekend for sure.

623
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's gonna be a fun prop game.

624
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,719
Speaker 2: I look forward to digging in it as well. All Right,

625
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 2: So that is the NFC. I'll give you my one

626
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 2: stat which is a few different things here that I

627
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 2: kind of want to break down and then we will

628
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 2: go into the AFC slate. So we had a huge

629
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 2: year of favorites and we've been talking about it for weeks,

630
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 2: but the one o'clock window was extra special because dogs

631
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 2: went seven and one against the spread. It was the

632
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 2: most one PM Eastern covers for dogs in almost two years,

633
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 2: so a nice turnaround. But favorites still went twelve and

634
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 2: four straight out this week. They've been twelve and four,

635
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 2: are better every week since week thirteen. They are seventy

636
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 2: two and twenty one straight up seventy seven percent since

637
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 2: week thirteen, and they end end the year at almost

638
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 2: seventy two percent, so pretty crazy overall. And then the

639
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 2: one stat which we had talked about on the favorites

640
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 2: on convinced me all week is basically fading the teams

641
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 2: that needed to win to get into the playoffs against

642
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 2: eliminated teams. That was the Bucks, Falcons and Dolphins, and

643
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,719
Speaker 2: they went zero to three against the spread. So that

644
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 2: trend kind of ended up coming to fruition, especially with

645
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 2: those inflated lines. That's now one, eight, sixty nine and

646
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 2: four since nineteen ninety, so very very interesting. Week eighteen

647
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 2: stuff with incentives and milestones, and it's a fun, fun

648
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 2: week for a lot of us. But one more, I'll

649
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 2: give you years favorites and night games. Uh and obviously

650
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 2: now we've got a few night games coming up in

651
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,400
Speaker 2: the playoffs, but crazy favorites a night game this year

652
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 2: forty seven and twelve eighty percent, only twelve underdogs one

653
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 2: night games the entire twenty twenty four season, as the

654
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 2: best mark since nineteen seventy one. Had to look back

655
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 2: for that one. But that is that is my big stats.

656
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 2: Let's go into the AFC. Now, Brandon Case Denver is

657
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 2: where we're gonna start here. So Denver wins the game

658
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 2: thirty eight nothing over Kansas City. I know a lot

659
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 2: of us liked Case in this one, just absolutely never

660
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 2: had a shot the entire time. Denver wins the game,

661
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 2: covers a ten and a half point favorites, total goes

662
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 2: under forty and a half. I mean Denver clinch at

663
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,719
Speaker 2: the end of the first quarter. Basically in this one,

664
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: they led twenty four to nothing at half. Nicks looked efficient, composed, accurate, confident.

665
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 2: I mean, these are all like the adjectives I use

666
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 2: while watching this game. I mean, I'm you know, I

667
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 2: understand that it was a second tier defense, and I

668
00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 2: understand that Spags has pretty much given them the Sea

669
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 2: package out there. But he really did look good overall,

670
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 2: and I think he's looked good lately the ones that

671
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 2: I looked up, which I think says to his composure.

672
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 2: This year, he has thirteen passing touchdowns and one interception

673
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 2: when leading, which I think just says a lot about

674
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 2: how Denver's been able to hold these games together with

675
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 2: a really good defense, and I think Sean Payton's just

676
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 2: really helped the development. But from Bo's point of view,

677
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 2: nine touchdowns and one pick in his last three games

678
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 2: and during the playoffs, I think he has confidence, which

679
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 2: I said before, and I think that's really going to

680
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 2: help some stats before I get your opinion, if you've

681
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 2: any to say here. So Bo Nicks finishes a year

682
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 2: twelve and five ats, is a rookie, the most profitable

683
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 2: quarterback in the NFL against the spread. And the crazy

684
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 2: thing about Casey in this game, they literally wanted to

685
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 2: end this game immediately. They had thirty three offensive plays

686
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 2: in this game, which is I believe the lowest by

687
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 2: eight of any team this year. So just absolutely finished

688
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 2: before the game even started. And then you talk about

689
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 2: Denver and Buffalo, which we'll get to a little bit later,

690
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 2: but that that is the matchup which we get. This

691
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 2: weekend spread is about eight and a half. But anything

692
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 2: else to add there Casey Denver.

693
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, the thirty three plays that

694
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 3: Chie has finished with ninety eight yards, that is a

695
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 3: double digit yard total on the day. They were a

696
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 3: fifteen percent one to five percent success rate on the day.

697
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 3: That's the zero percent dile including on only ten run

698
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,479
Speaker 3: plays for the day, zero percent success rate. They did

699
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 3: not have a successful running play at any point in

700
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 3: the entire game, just completely And I've never seen a

701
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,240
Speaker 3: number like that before. Obviously you can't get any worse

702
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 3: than that. Yeah, like you said, this was da No

703
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 3: Carson wentz Jersey for me tonight. They didn't even show up.

704
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, a sad one altogether. Let's keep going here, Miami Jets.

705
00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 2: Jets beat Miami thirty two to twenty two and a

706
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 2: half point favorites, so it goes over thirty nine and

707
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 2: a half, just like every other Jet game. Jets were

708
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 2: plus two and a half at some point and of

709
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 2: course closed his favorites, says they closed minus two and

710
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 2: a half in this one with even more late steam.

711
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 2: Obviously Steam ends up being correct here, so Rogers ends

712
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 2: up actually going eighteen drives between the Rams, Bills and

713
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 2: Dolphins games without touchdowns, and then he finally hits Conklin

714
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 2: for five hundred and yes it wasn't Davante. It ends

715
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 2: up being Conklin. But the greatest thing about basically the

716
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 2: stretch of Devonte and New York is ends up having

717
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 2: twelve targets today, has double digit targets in seven of

718
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 2: his last nine games since the Thursday Night football win

719
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 2: against Houston, so Rogers was giving him the rock literally

720
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 2: as many different opportunities as possible.

721
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Aaron Rodgers, enjoy your retirement, buddy, next game.

722
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 2: I mean to be fair, though, he threw four touchdowns

723
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 2: in the game, first four touchdown game for him since

724
00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, so at least he ended on a

725
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 2: high note and made the Jets pick worse. But all right,

726
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 2: let's keep going. Let's keep going here. Obviously Miami gets eliminated,

727
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 2: but I think they really did the best they could

728
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 2: to end the season. No Tua situation a little bit difficult.

729
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 2: Now Tyreek wants out, So they will figure that out

730
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 2: in the offseason. But let's do the Saturday games now quickly,

731
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 2: so Cleveland and Baltimore. So Baltimore wins a game thirty

732
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 2: five to ten, covers his nineteen and a half point

733
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 2: favorite to close total goes over forty two. Like right

734
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 2: before Zappi through the pick six when we went back

735
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 2: to back punts, I was like, what if that was

736
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 2: the note I wrote. I was like, this is a

737
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 2: little interesting, and then it kind of just ended. Jill

738
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Speaker 2: who obviously he works here at the Action Network tweeted like,

739
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 2: what if ben Zappi gets benched? And then like through

740
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 2: the pick six. Three seconds later he was benched and

741
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 2: we saw dtr again. So I mean, from Baltimore's point

742
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 2: of view, Henry and Lamar both look great. Nice to

743
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: get them on a high note entering the playoffs. Now

744
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 2: a home playoff him against Pittsburgh, which we will talk

745
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,240
Speaker 2: about in a second. And my other note here, Rashad

746
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 2: Bateman looks he was like a three. He actually now

747
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 2: looks like a pretty good two, which makes Baltimore I

748
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 2: think a little bit more dangerous in the past game.

749
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 2: Now maybe that's more Lamar than it is Bateman, but

750
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 2: I do feel like he's become more reliable and I'm

751
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 2: kind of seeing this in their offense. That's just kind

752
00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 2: of my opinion without some numerical backdrop there. But I

753
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 2: will say this, the Baltimore Pittsburgh matchup is kind of

754
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 2: good now also because of rest, which both of them

755
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 2: playing on the Saturday game kind of on the same

756
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 2: exact schedule, just makes it easier there. I'll give my

757
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 2: notes when we talk about the AFC in terms of

758
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 2: the matchup itself, but any thoughts Cleveland Baltimore.

759
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 3: Not much on this game. We got the fat Man

760
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 3: interception Michael Pierce. That was a good highlight for Saturday.

761
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 3: A lot of fun there. Bateman, as you said, is

762
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 3: a good number two now. I think that's true. Unfortunately,

763
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 3: the real takeaway from this game is that Zay Flowers

764
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:09,359
Speaker 3: left hurt and he might miss next week. It looks

765
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 3: like so now Bateman's number one, and he is certainly

766
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 3: not a number one receiving depth chart after these guys,

767
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 3: Tylan Wallace, maybe Steven Simms. It's not great. The Steelers

768
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 3: corners are very beatable. I think we're probably go to

769
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 3: get a lot of two tight ends in that game

770
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 3: a lot. Isaiah likely out there with Mark Andrews. It's

771
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 3: a team you want to be able to do that with.

772
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 3: Their tight ends are pretty good. But I think that

773
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 3: will be an interesting twist there, maybe take away an

774
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 3: advantage that Baltimore could have had. Zay Flowers just made

775
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 3: the Pro Bowl only you should have, but certainly a

776
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 3: good receiver and a big miss for them. Last note,

777
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 3: just because I have to kind of poke a little

778
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 3: bit more, don't forget as farst as this game was,

779
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 3: this team beat the Ravens earlier this season. That's what

780
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 3: a symbolic loss it was. That, by the way, is

781
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 3: why Lamar Jackson's not the MVP this year.

782
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:00,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgot about the Flowers news. And the only

783
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 2: thing I can think of is if only Deontay Johnson,

784
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 2: I guess would have worked out, he would have been

785
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 2: a decent option at this point, but not for this situation.

786
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 2: All right. Next Saturday game was Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, and

787
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 2: this was the one that we were hoping was kind

788
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 2: of gonna live up to the billing. But Cincinnati beats

789
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh nineteen to seventeen as a two and a half

790
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 2: point favorite on close total goes under forty eight and

791
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 2: a half. My only notes here are the fact that

792
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 2: I feel like the Bengals asked to give this game

793
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,280
Speaker 2: away like forty five times, like when it was nineteen

794
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 2: whatever the score was, and Pittsburgh kept, like, you know,

795
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,239
Speaker 2: stalling and kicking and just staying close. I just kept

796
00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 2: writing down and saying to myself that when I rewatched

797
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 2: film and kind of look back at this one, I

798
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,000
Speaker 2: feel like Pittsburgh had a lot of opportunities to just

799
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 2: take this game away and it just didn't happen. Cincinnati

800
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 2: opened this game with a touchdown drive. They then went

801
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 2: field goal, turnover, on downs, punt, interception, field goal, field goal,

802
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 2: field goal, punt, punt, and then just won the game.

803
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,720
Speaker 2: So I don't necessarily think, and I know Cincinnati season

804
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 2: is now over, I don't necessarily think they ended on

805
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 2: the best note possible. They didn't exactly score thirty five

806
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 2: points and dominated Pittsburgh. Cincinnati more penalties, more turnovers if

807
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 2: you were rushing yards, and they ended up winning on

808
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,759
Speaker 2: the road, which I think also says something about the

809
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 2: current state of Pittsburgh, which I can go into a

810
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 2: little bit more when we talk about Baltimore. But losing

811
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 2: four straight, scoring seventeen or less than all four. Just

812
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 2: not looking good there. But what else do you have

813
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 2: here on Cincinnati Pitt.

814
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had to rock the Bengals shirt because the Bengals,

815
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 3: they must be the one seed, right They have the

816
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 3: league leader in passing yards, passing touchdowns, receiving yards, receiving

817
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 3: touch triple crown sacks. Trey Hendrickson had three sacks in

818
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 3: this game to close out the game. How do you

819
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 3: have all that stuff and not even make the playoffs.

820
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 3: It's a crazy season for the Bengals. This was a

821
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 3: classic raw raw voodoo Mike Tomlins spot as much as

822
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 3: you could get. Like, the Bengals dominated this game. They

823
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,839
Speaker 3: had over one hundred more yards, they had the ball

824
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 3: two thirds of the game, fifty two to thirty four

825
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 3: percent success rate like this was not close at all.

826
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Speaker 3: But here are the Steelers scoring their one touchdown late.

827
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,240
Speaker 3: Here's the fumble bouncing off the Bengals guys foot because

828
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 3: of course, because Mike Tomlin so just a really weird

829
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 3: one and that's why those Tomlin trends somehow seem to

830
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 3: always get across. Steelers are on a four game losing streak.

831
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 3: Entering the playoffs now all of them ugly. This should

832
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,280
Speaker 3: have been uglier. The other three were by double digits.

833
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 3: They're the third team ever to enter the playoffs on

834
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 3: a four game losing streak. Not since nineteen ninety nine

835
00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 3: Lions has it happened. Here's the good news for the Steelers.

836
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 3: Those Lions lost by fourteen. The other one was the

837
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 3: eighty six Jets. They were on a five game losing streak.

838
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 3: They won by twenty in the next game at home.

839
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 3: I don't know how you lose five to Rowe and

840
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 3: get a home game. Must have been an awful division.

841
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 3: But they have won a game, then lost by three

842
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 3: and overtime. So maybe a little bit of hope for

843
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 3: the Steelers. They are now over the last thirteen years

844
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 3: with Tomlin, three and eight in playoff games, currently in

845
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,279
Speaker 3: a five game playoff losing streak. And I guess I

846
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,280
Speaker 3: had a Steelers fan friend texting me about this today.

847
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 3: Here's the glass half full. The Steelers' roster is a

848
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 3: seven or eight win roster every year. We know this,

849
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 3: we all talk about this in the preseason. But Mike

850
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,240
Speaker 3: Tomlin is an excellent coach and they get an extra

851
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 3: winner two where they shouldn't. They get over five hundred,

852
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 3: they sneak into the playoffs, and then they lose because

853
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 3: they're a seven or eight win team masqu rating as

854
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 3: a playoff contender. That's what this team basically was all season.

855
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 3: That's what they look like right now, and then they

856
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,800
Speaker 3: made the playoffs. So how can you make a change?

857
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:42,440
Speaker 3: Bring Tomlin back, bring the guys back, run it back again,

858
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 3: bring back the seven sort of win team. Overachieve again

859
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 3: by a win or two. We'll be right back here

860
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 3: again last next year. We were here last year. That

861
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 3: just seems what the Steelers are at this point. Again,

862
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 3: this is one of those games that felt like an

863
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 3: elimination game. Feels like we're giving the obituary for the Steelers,

864
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 3: So we're not. They still have a game to come.

865
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 3: We'll talk about it against the Ravens, certainly an opponent

866
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,320
Speaker 3: that we have seen them play a lot against.

867
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely a matchup that won't be too difficult to

868
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,240
Speaker 2: analyze as we do it twice a year, and feels

869
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 2: like a relatively close team as we do it all

870
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 2: the time. All right, last game before we go into

871
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 2: these matchups, Chargers Raiders. So Chargers win the game thirty

872
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:24,879
Speaker 2: four to twenty is a seven point road favorite. Total

873
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 2: goes over forty two and a half. The only note

874
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 2: I had here is just lots of overs in eliminated games.

875
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 2: It felt like today San Francisco Arizona had like sixty

876
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,800
Speaker 2: seven points, this game ends up having fifty four points.

877
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 2: Just felt like a lot of random offense, which might

878
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 2: be just something to look into and remember for next year.

879
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 2: But literally no lost momentum for Herbert here, five touchdowns,

880
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 2: no picks in his last two games they needed both.

881
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 2: He actually went all seventeen games with an even touchdown

882
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 2: to interception or better in every game, only three picks

883
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 2: the entire season, and the interceptions they won. Two of

884
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 2: those three games they had a pick, so really even

885
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 2: wasn't a detrimental pick to the outcome in most of

886
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 2: those situations. From Vegas's point of view, they obviously wanted

887
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 2: to get Meyers the ball. It seemed like he wanted

888
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:12,279
Speaker 2: to get to a thousand yards. He had a ton

889
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 2: of looks in this game. Bowers got all the records.

890
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,479
Speaker 2: Time for a new quarterback on that team is really

891
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 2: the best way to explain it. And then now Chargers

892
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 2: at Texans for the playoffs. They will open the playoffs

893
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 2: as the Texans do, as religiously as almost anything else

894
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 2: in football. I believe I saw a tweet that's going

895
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 2: viral right now where it's every time as Saturday at

896
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 2: three thirty. Well, here we are at Saturday at four thirty,

897
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:41,760
Speaker 2: so an our difference. But we can talk about the bracket.

898
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 2: But you have anything else, Houston Chargers. I mean, I'm sorry,

899
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 2: Vegas Chargers.

900
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 3: Nothing out on this game. Let's just get to the bracket.

901
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 2: All right, So one seed Chiefs obviously the bye here.

902
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 2: By the time we see Kansas City play football, we

903
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 2: probably haven't seen Mahomes in like twenty five days at

904
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 2: that point, so well, maybe one of the widest rests

905
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 2: we've ever seen for an offense in the starting quarterback.

906
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 2: But before we see the Chiefs, we'll start with Texans

907
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,360
Speaker 2: and the Chargers. At the moment, the spread is Chargers

908
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 2: minus three over under at forty three and a half.

909
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 2: You can start with this. What are your thoughts?

910
00:45:18,520 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 3: It's an interesting game. I really like the defenses here,

911
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 3: so we'll come back to that on the hot read.

912
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 3: But I do think this is maybe just because it

913
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 3: feels familiar, because it's the Texans. This feels like the

914
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 3: classic Saturday opening playoff game. I think we're gonna get

915
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 3: a very slow start, a slog of a game. I

916
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 3: think we'll get a lot of defense here, a lot

917
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 3: of kg settling for field goals, get some points on

918
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 3: the board. Both Harbaugh and Demiko Ryan's very good coaches,

919
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 3: but tend to be pretty conservative take the points sort

920
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 3: of coaches. I don't think we're gonna get a ton

921
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 3: of points in this game. I think though you've got CJ. Stroud,

922
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 3: you've got Justin Herbert. We know who the top three

923
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 3: four quarterbacks are in the NFL. Those are the guys.

924
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,279
Speaker 3: Those are among the guys that were waiting to say, okay,

925
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 3: are you top five? Are you in that mix of guys?

926
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:07,320
Speaker 3: And one of them is going to get a playoff

927
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 3: win here and then in all likelihood go to Kansas

928
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 3: City and a shot at Patrick Mahomes. After that, you

929
00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 3: never know neither one of them is the guy yet,

930
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 3: but this might be the spot that propels them forward.

931
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 3: I think, big picture, here's the look that I have

932
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 3: big picture even past this game. The Chargers all one

933
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 3: to five this season against teams that had qualified for

934
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 3: the playoffs before Sunday. That doesn't count. Denver, Denver, just

935
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:34,720
Speaker 3: knock in. They had some ugly losses to Baltimore, to Tampa.

936
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 3: They were eleven and one against everyone else. That's fine,

937
00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 3: you do what you do. Took care of business, but

938
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 3: they didn't beat the good teams. Houston is the same things.

939
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 3: Houston one in five against playoff teams. They did beat

940
00:46:45,800 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 3: Buffalo early in the season, nine and two against everyone else. Well,

941
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 3: guess what. That doesn't help in this game because I

942
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 3: don't know if they're both frauds, and I don't know

943
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:55,760
Speaker 3: who's supposed to be the last fraud of the game,

944
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,440
Speaker 3: but one of them is probably the Chiefs next opponent. So,

945
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 3: like you said, here we are again. After all, we

946
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 3: talked about the Chiefs all year long. I know what

947
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 3: they did today, it didn't matter. That wasn't the Chiefs

948
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 3: at all. They're gonna be arrested, very arrested, waiting for

949
00:47:12,239 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 3: unless the Bills or Ravens get upset one of these

950
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 3: two teams. And even if they do get upset, then

951
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 3: it's the Steelers the Broncos that the Chiefs get. We

952
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 3: are staring down the barrel of the Chiefs getting one

953
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 3: of these teams, beating teams that have not beaten a

954
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 3: team like them yet, and being hosting the AFC Championship

955
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 3: game yet again. And I guess the Chiefs futures are

956
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 3: the right investment again somehow, because that's the way the

957
00:47:38,719 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 3: bracket has broke for them. So it's gonna be an

958
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 3: interesting game. I think it's one of those where it's

959
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 3: like who's got the ball last, whose kicker made a

960
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 3: field goal, or who missed one. It'll be interesting. I

961
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 3: want to watch it, I think to me and the AFC,

962
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 3: it's the version of the Bucks Commanders. It's like, Okay,

963
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 3: who wins the game that the other teams hope to

964
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 3: play against next. So I think that's probably where we

965
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 3: had here. But I do like the under. We'll come

966
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:05,879
Speaker 3: back to that in the hot raid.

967
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying not to give it away because

968
00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:10,320
Speaker 2: that was kind of I liked it as well. I

969
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 2: bet at under forty four and a half, but we'll

970
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:14,359
Speaker 2: talk about that later. A few stats that I thought

971
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 2: were interesting, so Houston's actually pretty decent pass defense, Top

972
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 2: six DVOA versus number one wide receivers, fourth versus tight ends,

973
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 2: and even EPA there's sixth in dropback EPA for the season,

974
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 2: So I do think they're going to give the Chargers

975
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 2: offense some sort of trouble. I mean, Herbert feels like

976
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 2: he's been able to toss it all over the place

977
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 2: with Ladd and Johnston, and their offense feels more complete

978
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:42,040
Speaker 2: than I thought it would be this year when they

979
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 2: lost all those Keenan and Mike Williams and all that stuff.

980
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 2: But Houston's defense should give them some sort of trouble here.

981
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 2: So that was definitely the note that I looked at,

982
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 2: and the other one I thought I thought was kind

983
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 2: of interesting. I mean, this is pretty much the same

984
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 2: role stroud was in last year. I mean he closed

985
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 2: plus two at home against Cleveland fourteen. Cleveland was a

986
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 2: good defense, obviously a different offensive situation, but either way,

987
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,359
Speaker 2: I mean, Strouds started nine home games as a dog

988
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 2: or a favorite of less than three. He's six and

989
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 2: three ats in those games. So if Houston's defense shows

990
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 2: up and you know, obviously no tank, no digs, I mean,

991
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 2: they're missing so many offensive pieces that I felt like

992
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:26,879
Speaker 2: what made them the preseason expectations they had, So who

993
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 2: knows what this one?

994
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: All?

995
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 2: Right? The next matchup Baltimore and Pittsburgh. Crazy. I mean,

996
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 2: you kind of saw this one coming on the map

997
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 2: and you said yourselves, all right, we're gonna get it again,

998
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 2: and then you're getting it in. The spread is nine

999
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 2: and a half, which feels so on Baltimore and Pittsburgh.

1000
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 2: Like especially, we just saw a game where not usually

1001
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,400
Speaker 2: something we see in the series, but Baltimore kind of

1002
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:55,080
Speaker 2: blew them out and Pittsburgh has not looked like Pittsburgh lately,

1003
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 2: so you can start here. What are your thoughts Raven Steelers.

1004
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you said, we kind of know this matchup, right.

1005
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 3: We just did this one a couple of weeks ago.

1006
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,400
Speaker 3: We had this one as a hot red pick because

1007
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 3: you always take the hot red pick on Baltimore Pittsburgh.

1008
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 3: You know how you're betting you've got the underdog, you

1009
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 3: take the under That's how y'alls do it. Do those

1010
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 3: trends work in the playoffs and do they still fit

1011
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 3: or the Ravens just way better like we saw in

1012
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 3: the last matchup where neither one of those trends hit.

1013
00:50:19,719 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 3: The Ravens finally won a game by more than a score.

1014
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 3: We'd had nine straight one score games in this ravel

1015
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 3: reintil that one. We'd had six straight games thirty four

1016
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,360
Speaker 3: points or blow until that one. So I don't have

1017
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 3: a hot read on this game, in part because if

1018
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 3: you want the underdog or the under, I don't think

1019
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 3: you need to rush to grab it right now. Pittsburgh's

1020
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 3: not going to get below a touchdown here. The line's

1021
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 3: not going to move that far, So it's possible the

1022
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 3: way things are coming, we might hit ten or ten

1023
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 3: and a half. That's kind of a semikey number. You

1024
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 3: get to ten points there, so you're better off to

1025
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,359
Speaker 3: wait there. It's not going to probably drop alone nine

1026
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 3: because a teaser protection. As far as the under, we

1027
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 3: talked about this on Third Days podcast for Friday. We

1028
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 3: already talked about the under forty seven and a half.

1029
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 3: Then forty seven is a key number. The next one

1030
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:08,680
Speaker 3: downs forty four. We're kind of in that range. Now

1031
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 3: we've got some rooms, so maybe this goes back up.

1032
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,240
Speaker 3: Baltimore has scored a lot of points lately and Pittsburgh

1033
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 3: looks vulnerable. I think if you like the under or

1034
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 3: like Pittsburgh, I get it. That's the trends. That's what

1035
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:21,959
Speaker 3: the trends are gonna tell you to do. They're gonna

1036
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 3: tell you to trust the Mike Tomlin voodoo that we

1037
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 3: keep backing all year long. If you like that, I

1038
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:29,320
Speaker 3: think you can bet it. But you're gonna have to

1039
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 3: wait a little bit because you might get even better number.

1040
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 3: The way things are steaming towards the Ravens, we know

1041
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 3: what the matchup is. Everybody knows the Ravens are the

1042
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 3: better team. Everybody knows the Steelers should not win this game.

1043
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 3: The question is does any of that matter or is

1044
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 3: it just gonna be another Steelers Ravens game. I don't

1045
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 3: know if we know the answer until we watch it.

1046
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what you said is right in the

1047
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 2: sense that we don't know. Also, the Pittsburgh team that

1048
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 2: we're gonna see now based off the one that we

1049
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,760
Speaker 2: did see before, I mean, this team just can't find

1050
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,440
Speaker 2: offense at the moment. And I think it's pretty scary

1051
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 2: to see seventeen points in four straight games and the

1052
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,279
Speaker 2: four straight losses. And you talked about the history with

1053
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 2: the eighty six Jets and the ninety nine Lions, but

1054
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 2: the history of teams with those four plus game losing

1055
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 2: streaks late in the season that kind of just fall

1056
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 2: their way into the playoffs. Isn't a good streak. And

1057
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 2: I'll put some stuff together for my article this week,

1058
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 2: but those teams usually lose in their first or second

1059
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,400
Speaker 2: playoff game. They very rarely make their conference championship. And

1060
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 2: then you talk about Tomlin. We've known he's been struggling

1061
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 2: lately in the playoffs, but he's closed plus three or

1062
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:36,399
Speaker 2: higher in five playoff games, and they are zero to

1063
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 2: five in those games, and they're one in one, four

1064
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:43,759
Speaker 2: and one against the spread of those games. So it's

1065
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,160
Speaker 2: just not a good result. And I'm the guy that's

1066
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 2: gonna sit here and tell you if it gets to ten,

1067
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna take Pittsburgh because I do think the

1068
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 2: Flowers injury is important, and I think it's one that

1069
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:59,120
Speaker 2: makes their offense less three dimensional and a little less vertical,

1070
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,799
Speaker 2: and I put it puts the pressure on Henry, you know,

1071
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 2: side to side versus Uphill. Okay, So that's Pittsburgh and Baltimore,

1072
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 2: and then finally it's Buffalo in Denver, And if not

1073
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 2: for Pittsburgh and Baltimore, this would be the highest spread

1074
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:16,719
Speaker 2: on the board. Kind of shocking, it isn't given We've

1075
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 2: got a rookie going into Buffalo here to face a

1076
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 2: Buffalo team that is very well rested, a defense that's

1077
00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 2: a little shaky no matter who the opponent is, and

1078
00:53:27,760 --> 00:53:31,000
Speaker 2: they give up a decent amount of points. And Denver,

1079
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 2: who you know, eight to no against the spread, is

1080
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 2: a favorite this year. Bonnick seems to find success in

1081
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 2: lots of different areas with the tutelage of Sean Payton.

1082
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 2: But this feels like a little bit of a different

1083
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 2: mountain to climb. But what are your thoughts with Buffalo

1084
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 2: and Denver?

1085
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's a good way of saying it.

1086
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 3: This is a step up in weight class, and it

1087
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,919
Speaker 3: might be a couple step up for Denver. I love

1088
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 3: Buffalo here. This is my hot read on Bill, so

1089
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 3: I'll make the case for that a bit later. But

1090
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 3: I don't think this is going to be a very

1091
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,959
Speaker 3: close game. Do you think that Denver has any shot

1092
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 3: to even kind of hang around here?

1093
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 2: I kind of disagree with you in one little bit.

1094
00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not in love with Buffalo. I think

1095
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 2: the right call was the seven and a half at start.

1096
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 2: I think the you know, eight and a half is

1097
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 2: fine in itself, But I do feel like Denver has

1098
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 2: some ability with their defense to kind of make Josh's

1099
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 2: life a little bit difficult, and I think if they

1100
00:54:29,360 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 2: can do that, bo might find his way into some

1101
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 2: points here. I just I would lean more towards Denver

1102
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:42,320
Speaker 2: and Sean Payton and the points and saying Josh doesn't

1103
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,879
Speaker 2: do really well as a big favorite anyway. I need

1104
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 2: to look more into the numbers to kind of see

1105
00:54:47,160 --> 00:54:50,680
Speaker 2: how the matchups work out. But I kind of like

1106
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,640
Speaker 2: Denver a little bit, but I'm just an underdog better.

1107
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,359
Speaker 2: But I could see it. I mean, there's also spots where,

1108
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 2: you know, the majority of Allen's wins have been by

1109
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 2: a lot of poins, so there is a chance you

1110
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 2: get the you know, forty seven to ten type of situation,

1111
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:07,799
Speaker 2: and he did it against It was Pittsburgh last year.

1112
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:10,360
Speaker 2: I think they won by like fourteen points and covered

1113
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 2: and it was you know, barely close at all. So

1114
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 2: definitely see it both ways. There.

1115
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 3: My last question before we get to the rest of

1116
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 3: the games here, So the AFC, we don't know what's

1117
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 3: happening in the NFC. We kind of made that clear.

1118
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 3: There's a bunch of games we don't have a great

1119
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 3: feel on the AFC seems very much like we were

1120
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:32,320
Speaker 3: all expecting Bill's Ravens second round Chiefs against whoever wins

1121
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 3: the Texans or Chargers game, and then presumably Chiefs against

1122
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 3: either Ravens or Bills. So here's my question for you.

1123
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 3: If we don't get Ravens versus Bills and one of

1124
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 3: them against the Chiefs, why didn't we get it? What

1125
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 3: was the one upset that happened along the way?

1126
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 2: Interesting question. I would probably say, from an AFC point

1127
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 2: of view, if there's a team that knocks out some

1128
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 2: of the top dogs, I still feel like it's Pittsburgh.

1129
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 2: So I still feel like next weekend, Pittsburgh, especially if

1130
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 2: Zay doesn't play, has the ability to all of a

1131
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 2: sudden find something. I think a few things need to

1132
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 2: go right. I think a little bit of health. I

1133
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,200
Speaker 2: know even TJ is a little bit banged up, so

1134
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 2: I think there's a few things that need to go right.

1135
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:23,440
Speaker 2: But again, they're a ten point underdog, and I think

1136
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,839
Speaker 2: if you knock out Baltimore with that Pittsburgh game, the

1137
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 2: entire picture shakes up, because let's say Buffalo does their job.

1138
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 2: I still feel like at that point with Baltimore out

1139
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:36,720
Speaker 2: of the way the AFC looks much different.

1140
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:39,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Pittsburgh just ends up going to Kansas City.

1141
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 3: In that case, Buffalo yells the Chargers or the Texans,

1142
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 3: then I think it changes a lot. Because I'm not

1143
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 3: really in love with the Bills as a team. I

1144
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 3: just like the particular matchup for them, and when I

1145
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,240
Speaker 3: get your hot read, but I think Bills against Chargers

1146
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 3: or Texans, we might get kind of a shoot up

1147
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 3: back and forth there, and now you might have the

1148
00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 3: path where Stroud or Herbert kind of make a run.

1149
00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 3: So I do think that that's interesting. I don't give

1150
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:05,840
Speaker 3: the Broncos any real much of a chance. I guess

1151
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 3: to answer my own question, if I honestly think we're

1152
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,360
Speaker 3: going to get the obvious AFC path, but if we

1153
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 3: don't get it, probably I think that I have to

1154
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 3: say that it's one of those quarterbacks Herbert or Stroud,

1155
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 3: somehow putting it together and taking out this Chiefs team

1156
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 3: that I just said has this path laid out for them,

1157
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 3: and they've played so well the last four weeks before today,

1158
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 3: but they've looked vulnerable all season before that. It's still

1159
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 3: the Chiefs is still Mahomes. But I think if we

1160
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 3: somehow don't get the obvious AFC path, I think that's

1161
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:38,640
Speaker 3: the most obvious way that we get there is just

1162
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 3: one of those quarterbacks taking down Mahome somehow.

1163
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 2: If YOU'RKC last question before we going to the restless slate,

1164
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 2: if your case, which one do you not want to face?

1165
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 2: It's your division, divisional rival.

1166
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:53,080
Speaker 3: Right, I think so, just the divisional rival. The Chargers

1167
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 3: games have been so close over the years anyway, with

1168
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 3: Mahomes and Herbert, and yeah, I think that that's it.

1169
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 3: I think Harbaugh is the guy that you don't want

1170
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 3: to face as a coach, even though Demiko has been

1171
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 3: pretty good and the Chiefs to play the Texans, they

1172
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 3: know that team pretty well. I think they know that

1173
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,640
Speaker 3: they've got the Texans. Yeah, I think it's the Chargers

1174
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 3: that the chief The Chiefs frankly would have much rather

1175
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:19,080
Speaker 3: had a Texan Steelers matchup. This did not go quite

1176
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,160
Speaker 3: their way this weekend. They would have been just resting

1177
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 3: easy on that one. But I think that answers the question.

1178
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 3: The Chargers got in and that's the worst matchup for them,

1179
00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think the Chiefs would hope for Texans win.

1180
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 3: Given their options.

1181
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 2: Intend to agree all right, best of the rest here.

1182
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 2: So Buffalo New England. New England beats Buffalo twenty three

1183
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 2: to sixteen is a three point home underdog. Total goes

1184
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 2: over thirty six and a half. New England completely wastes

1185
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:46,160
Speaker 2: the number one pick opportunity, as every team has seemed

1186
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 2: to do over the last few weeks. Girodmeo ends up

1187
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 2: being fired in the aftermath of the loss. Hello Joe Milton.

1188
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 2: Joe Milton goes twenty to twenty nine for two forty one,

1189
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 2: even as ten carries in a touchdown. Felt like he

1190
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 2: completely took over. It was fun to see him on

1191
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 2: the field. We talked about Buffalo and Denver. The interesting

1192
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 2: thing about Josh before I tossed it to you, So

1193
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 2: he's three and seven against the spread in the playoffs.

1194
00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 2: He's under five hundred ats in the wildcard, divisional and

1195
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 2: championship rounds. So I mean, either way, these big spreads

1196
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 2: haven't been friendly to him. Otherwise he's done the I'm

1197
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 2: a big wild card favorite three times, two three point

1198
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 2: wins and one kick butt of the Steelers last year.

1199
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 2: So I do think history and what we've seen from

1200
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 2: him in the playoffs in these situations, doesn't lend towards

1201
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 2: a cover, doesn't mean it's not going to come because

1202
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 2: you know, bo is a rookie and it's a different situation.

1203
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 2: But I do think this Denver team is a lot different.

1204
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:49,919
Speaker 2: So what are your thoughts there?

1205
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that that's fair. I think

1206
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:54,840
Speaker 3: that we kind of do the thing where it's like, well,

1207
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 3: this has never happened for Lamar Jackson's never one of

1208
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,600
Speaker 3: the playoffs. Josh Allen never covers in the playoffs. Well

1209
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,720
Speaker 3: and tell, somebody's gonna have to do the thing or

1210
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 3: it's just the Chiefs winning again, So maybe it is

1211
01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 3: just to keep winning again. Otherwise one of these dudes

1212
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 3: is gonna have to do the thing that haven't done before.

1213
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,919
Speaker 3: So that's easy to shrug off any sort of fact.

1214
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 3: That's not a really a fair counter argument by me.

1215
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,360
Speaker 3: But yeah, the numbers are the numbers. I think Josh

1216
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 3: Allen's gonna have to actually do the thing. But so

1217
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 3: far this season I think he's gonna win MVP because

1218
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 3: he's been doing the thing. So I think it's maybe

1219
01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 3: a little different this year. We got one play from Josh,

1220
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 3: we got one drive from Drake. May you know how

1221
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 3: we talk about like when a random player becomes a

1222
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:34,760
Speaker 3: hero for a city, they're never gonna have to buy

1223
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 3: another drink in their lives in the city. Joe Milton

1224
01:00:37,640 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 3: is gonna have to pay for drinks everywhere that he goes.

1225
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 3: Joe Milton blew this for New England. They're not happy.

1226
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 3: They're throughway the number one to pay now. Granted they

1227
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:47,280
Speaker 3: don't need the quarterback. I think they love Drake May.

1228
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,600
Speaker 3: They should love Drake May, but that's a lot of

1229
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:52,080
Speaker 3: value possibly down the drain not getting number one. They

1230
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:55,160
Speaker 3: dropped to number four in the draft. They fired girod Mayo.

1231
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 3: We just had that a year ago where a coach

1232
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 3: got themselves screwed out of the number one to pay

1233
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 3: and then immediately lost their job after Like, what are

1234
01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 3: you doing? Just get it over a bit before the game.

1235
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 3: I don't know what's happening, Like Mike Rabel rumors already

1236
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 3: makes a lot of sense with New England, a very

1237
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 3: New England sort of higher for them. Bill Belichick is

1238
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 3: a college coach now, so this was Belichick's hand picked choice,

1239
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 3: and I think that now that he's just kind of

1240
01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 3: out of the NFL, the Patriots are like, all right,

1241
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 3: we gave your hand picked choice. We don't like how

1242
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 3: luck we're starting over here. I like Drake may a lot.

1243
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 3: I thought Drake Mayo was fantastic this year. I think

1244
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 3: that that is a pretty good situation. They get a

1245
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 3: lot of cap room, They've got still pretty good draft picks. Obviously.

1246
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:39,560
Speaker 3: I think the Patriots are team to keep an eye on,

1247
01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:42,000
Speaker 3: not because they won this game, but in spite of it.

1248
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 3: But yeah, the Bills. The credit the Bills. They're up

1249
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 3: sixteen fourteen with the backup quarterback Trubisky, they bench him

1250
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:51,880
Speaker 3: for Mike White just to finish the job and make

1251
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,280
Speaker 3: sure their division opponent didn't get the number one pick.

1252
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 3: So I guess credit for that one.

1253
01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:01,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, Joe Milton and Drew Locke can always get drinks

1254
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 2: in Nashville, is the way I look at it, all right.

1255
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 2: Houston and Tennessee. Houston beats Tennessee twenty three to fourteen

1256
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:11,959
Speaker 2: as a two and a half point underdog. Total goes

1257
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 2: over thirty six and a half. The only note here

1258
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 2: for Tennessee is they are the only team that seems

1259
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 2: like they knew how to lose correctly, and they ended

1260
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 2: up now having the number one overall pick. But the

1261
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 2: Titans finish this season two and fifteen against the spread,

1262
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 2: which is the worst record for any team in the

1263
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 2: Super Bowl era. No team had fourteen losses ATS. Now

1264
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 2: no team had fifteen losses ATS. I'm not sure this

1265
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 2: record actually ever gets broken in my lifetime. I'm not

1266
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 2: sure you ever see a team only cover one game,

1267
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 2: maybe two, and they tie them. But this feels like

1268
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 2: it is absolute history. They goh to eight against the

1269
01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:53,439
Speaker 2: spread at home. They're the first team to lose eight

1270
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 2: games without an ATS win at home since nineteen ninety one.

1271
01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 2: Mason Rudolph Owen six ATS, Will Lewis two and nine

1272
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 2: this season. Just honestly, they deserve the number one pick

1273
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 2: going through all that awfulness. So good to Tennessee, Houston.

1274
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,000
Speaker 2: The one note I had, which you didn't talk about.

1275
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 2: They do end the year thirteen and four against the

1276
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 2: spread in the first half, which will be useful to

1277
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 2: try to start fast against the Chargers as an underdog

1278
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 2: at home. Demiko twenty five and eleven first half ets

1279
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:29,520
Speaker 2: CJ twenty five and nine. So some good numbers there. Overall,

1280
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:31,520
Speaker 2: anything Houston, Tennessee.

1281
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:33,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mostly hat the same trends you had against

1282
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 3: the Titans and for the Texans. Problem with the Texans

1283
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 3: first half, they're a wagon in the first half. But

1284
01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 3: that's been a Chargers thing all year too, that they've

1285
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 3: been really good at coming out early. So yeah, I

1286
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 3: don't know what to do with that trend in that game.

1287
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:49,240
Speaker 3: I think, to me, the question here is Titans get

1288
01:03:49,240 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 3: the number one pick, you go two and fifteen ATS,

1289
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:54,520
Speaker 3: They're gonna take a quarterback. I have to believe they

1290
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 3: played Lavis and Rudolph in this game. You go get

1291
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 3: your quarterback. I think it's probably cambod I really like

1292
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,920
Speaker 3: what I've seen from him. Is Brian Callahan the coach?

1293
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 3: Is this the guy that you want? Can you really

1294
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:08,480
Speaker 3: keep a coach around after going two and fifteen ATS?

1295
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 3: I know that's not the job, but when expectations are

1296
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 3: this low and you still can't even just like cover

1297
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 3: a spread, you can even keep a game competitive, is

1298
01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 3: that the guy you want mentoring your new quarterback that

1299
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:24,200
Speaker 3: is moving your franchise forward. Kalahan's an offensive guy, but

1300
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 3: he's an offensive guy for the Bengals that came over

1301
01:04:27,320 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 3: and never really impressed me a whole lot with what

1302
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:30,880
Speaker 3: they're doing offensively. I think that's just a lot of

1303
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 3: talent over there. So I'm curious if we hear a

1304
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 3: little bit about his name Monday's as you're listening to this,

1305
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:39,640
Speaker 3: you got the number one to pay? Are you sure

1306
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 3: you don't want to just have a hard reset and

1307
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:44,680
Speaker 3: start over here. I'm not sure that Callahan will be

1308
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 3: around for it.

1309
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 2: I mean it's definitely something they're going to think about obviously.

1310
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 2: I mean, if you take Shador, maybe bring over Dion.

1311
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:55,760
Speaker 2: That's a half joke, okay. Giants and Eagles. Eagles beat

1312
01:04:55,800 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 2: the Giants twenty to thirteen. They covers three and a

1313
01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 2: half point favorites, total goes under thirty five and a half.

1314
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:04,640
Speaker 2: Not much to say here from the Giants point of view,

1315
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 2: aside from they should have just lost this game the

1316
01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:08,680
Speaker 2: same way they did this week as they did last week.

1317
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 2: But Malik Neighbors and Tracy both look absolutely fantastic for

1318
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 2: the Giants, So I do think whatever they're able to add,

1319
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:20,200
Speaker 2: and I believe number three in the draft, which may

1320
01:05:20,240 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 2: not be a QB of Shador and Camera Gone, but

1321
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 2: at the minimum could be McMillan could be Travis Hunter.

1322
01:05:27,120 --> 01:05:30,160
Speaker 2: Either way, some talent there with Neighbors and Tracy, which

1323
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:35,320
Speaker 2: I thought really ended the year looking strong, Giants having

1324
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 2: won outright on the road in Philly. Now since twenty thirteen,

1325
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 2: that day was Eli Manning, Peyton Hillis and Victor Cruz

1326
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 2: and they beat Mike Vick and Matt Barkley. That is

1327
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:48,960
Speaker 2: long how long ago the Giants haven't won in Philly.

1328
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 2: Twelve straight wins for the Eagles at home against New York.

1329
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 2: We talked about all the Philly stuff, but for the Giants,

1330
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 2: I do think there's some positive with some of that talent.

1331
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Neighbors had a great touchdown late. Other

1332
01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:05,280
Speaker 3: than that relatively lifeless performance, not even really in an

1333
01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 3: insulting way, like this is exactly what the Giants wanted

1334
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 3: to have happened last week. They just didn't do it

1335
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 3: last week. Eagles defense was really dominant until that late touchdown.

1336
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 3: The only takeaway for me is I'm curious. I hope

1337
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 3: we just get Jalen Hurts in the playoffs, but he

1338
01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 3: is coming off a concussion. Are we sure Kenny Pickett

1339
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 3: is the guy that comes in if it's not Hurts,

1340
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:29,360
Speaker 3: Because Tanner McKee looked pretty good. Two more touchdowns, two

1341
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty nine yards. I'm not positive that that's

1342
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:35,320
Speaker 3: maybe the guy that I might go with as the

1343
01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:37,680
Speaker 3: backup if we had to get there. Hopefully it's hurts,

1344
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 3: but to me, that's the only takeaway from this one.

1345
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 2: The first can't go. I think Sirianna should just run

1346
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 2: the wildcat because that's probably gonna be their best option.

1347
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:48,400
Speaker 2: All right. Seattle and the Rams. Seattle beat the Rams

1348
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:51,600
Speaker 2: thirty twenty five, seven and a half point favorites. Rams

1349
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 2: get the cover, but the total goes over thirty eight

1350
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 2: and a half, so the Rams score twenty five after

1351
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,600
Speaker 2: three weeks of just a terrible offense. Of course, this

1352
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 2: was Jimmy G and not Matthew Stafford, which we get

1353
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 2: Stafford back next week at home against the Vikings. But

1354
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:09,840
Speaker 2: Jimmy G three hundred and thirty four yards, two touchdowns

1355
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:14,440
Speaker 2: with backup wide receivers. I mean, it was pretty decent.

1356
01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 2: Six point two yards per place, seven point two yards

1357
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 2: per attempt, and Jimmy G and people we had been

1358
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:24,040
Speaker 2: talking about, you know, his cover numbers forever, but he's

1359
01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:26,920
Speaker 2: now nineteen and seven as an underdog against the spread,

1360
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 2: which is pretty nice. He feels a way to get

1361
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:32,680
Speaker 2: some points on the board. From Seattle's point of view,

1362
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 2: Gino gets his incentives they get to ten wins. I

1363
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 2: think he makes like five or six million bucks in

1364
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 2: this one. Definitely looked motivated. McVeigh is now twelve and

1365
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:45,840
Speaker 2: five ATS for Seattle, including eleven and two ats since

1366
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen, so he tends to put up points there

1367
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:53,440
Speaker 2: to at least cover the number, all right. San Francisco Arizona.

1368
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 2: Arizona beat San Francisco forty seven twenty four. I didn't

1369
01:07:58,120 --> 01:07:59,960
Speaker 2: even realize I got to forty seven until I saw

1370
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:02,560
Speaker 2: later on as five and a half point favorites. I

1371
01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:05,840
Speaker 2: closed total goes over forty three and a half. This

1372
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 2: is just an awful end to the year, at least

1373
01:08:08,400 --> 01:08:10,680
Speaker 2: from San Francisco's point of view. They were two and

1374
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 2: fourteen against the second half spread this year, three and

1375
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:18,439
Speaker 2: seventeen last twenty games second half ats. So after the

1376
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:20,519
Speaker 2: last few years where they were really good in the

1377
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:24,760
Speaker 2: fourth quarter and really good closing games, injury bug got him.

1378
01:08:24,960 --> 01:08:27,160
Speaker 2: No Christian McCaffrey in the red zone got him, and

1379
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 2: they were just terrible closing games all season. From Arizona's

1380
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:34,160
Speaker 2: point of view, Kyler looked good today. The real funny

1381
01:08:34,160 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 2: thing was we had four players throw four passing touchdowns

1382
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 2: this week, so Kyler, bo Nicks, Rogers, and Gino, so

1383
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:47,280
Speaker 2: people showing up in Week eighteen. Kyler didn't get his incentive.

1384
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 2: But I think Arizona is going to be a and

1385
01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 2: you're one that's going to look into this but a

1386
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 2: hot team for next year. I mean, they ended eight

1387
01:08:57,600 --> 01:08:59,920
Speaker 2: and three against the spread, and I think people are

1388
01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:03,040
Speaker 2: kind of like them as a bit of a underdog

1389
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:06,800
Speaker 2: coming out of this NFC West strong defense. We'll see

1390
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:09,680
Speaker 2: what happens with James Connor, but with Harrison and McBride,

1391
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,000
Speaker 2: I just think people are gonna like Arizona. They actually

1392
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:15,599
Speaker 2: go over their win total with this win as well.

1393
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:19,400
Speaker 2: And here's one fun note. NFC West might actually be

1394
01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:22,680
Speaker 2: the most balanced division as San Francisco finishes last with

1395
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:25,200
Speaker 2: six wins and that as the most of any fourth

1396
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:28,879
Speaker 2: place team, So really no bottom feeder in this division.

1397
01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 3: Yeah. My only note on this game is I was

1398
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 3: bummed that the Cardinals won, only because I completely agree.

1399
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 3: I think the Cardinals are gonna be a favorite sleeper

1400
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:40,200
Speaker 3: next year. This was a team I wanted as my

1401
01:09:40,280 --> 01:09:42,559
Speaker 3: worst first team this year. I couldn't quite get there.

1402
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:45,799
Speaker 3: I didn't quite believe in the defense enough. Defense is improving.

1403
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna be able to add a lot

1404
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,640
Speaker 3: more talent to that team this year, and then the

1405
01:09:49,720 --> 01:09:52,040
Speaker 3: offense should take another step forward, a better year for

1406
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:56,000
Speaker 3: Marvin Harrison. I like the team a lot. Unfortunately, since

1407
01:09:56,040 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 3: they won the game, the Niners are now the last

1408
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:00,680
Speaker 3: place in the division, and so the Arnolds can't be

1409
01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 3: my worst the first team anymore. So that's the only

1410
01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:05,479
Speaker 3: thing I'm disappointed about. Everybody will think the Niners are

1411
01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:08,080
Speaker 3: the worst first team next year because it's the Niners,

1412
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:10,439
Speaker 3: barring them blowing something up, that will be kind of

1413
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:13,040
Speaker 3: the obvious pick. This year, that was the Bengals. They

1414
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 3: were the obvious worst to first team because it's like, oh, well,

1415
01:10:16,240 --> 01:10:17,800
Speaker 3: they're not going to start out zero to two and

1416
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 3: blow the whole season at the beginning of the year again, ah,

1417
01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 3: spoiler alert, That's what the Bengals do every season. So yeah,

1418
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:27,240
Speaker 3: it will be interesting interesting division for sure. Not today,

1419
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,479
Speaker 3: but yeah, of course Kyler has a big game against

1420
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:32,519
Speaker 3: a sub five hundred team, and that's that's what he

1421
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:35,240
Speaker 3: does well in a game that didn't matter anymore. After

1422
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:37,680
Speaker 3: they couldn't get over the line last week to give

1423
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:39,840
Speaker 3: us a more interesting Seahawks Rams game today.

1424
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:43,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, what a Koogy division too, because the Rams

1425
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:45,759
Speaker 2: started like one in four end up winning the division

1426
01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:49,280
Speaker 2: and just weird, weird up and downs the entire year.

1427
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:52,240
Speaker 2: Seattle had a shot, Arizona had a shot, just a

1428
01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 2: wild year. Our last game Jacksonville and Indy. Indy wins

1429
01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:00,439
Speaker 2: a game twenty six to twenty three in overtime. Jacksonville

1430
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:02,519
Speaker 2: ends up covering by half a point, getting the three

1431
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 2: and a half total goes over forty six and a half. Again,

1432
01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:10,599
Speaker 2: I know they didn't score twenty four points on Indies

1433
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 2: side today, but jackson I mean on Jacksonville side. But

1434
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:16,240
Speaker 2: Gus Bradley twenty four plus points allowed in seven straight

1435
01:11:16,280 --> 01:11:19,559
Speaker 2: games twenty three for Jacksonville today, I feel like he

1436
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:22,440
Speaker 2: gets a lot of the blame for Indie getting eliminated.

1437
01:11:22,479 --> 01:11:25,439
Speaker 2: Their defense just didn't keep up with whoever was at

1438
01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 2: the quarterback there. INDI's now two to eight ats versus

1439
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 2: Jacksonville since twenty twenty and three sixteen and one since

1440
01:11:33,920 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, so obviously gets to win today. Flaco, if

1441
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 2: this is his last start, looked good. Forty attempts, no

1442
01:11:41,240 --> 01:11:44,719
Speaker 2: interceptions and overtime win. Seemed happy walking off the field,

1443
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:47,160
Speaker 2: so we will see what that looks like in the future.

1444
01:11:47,200 --> 01:11:49,960
Speaker 2: And even downs and Pittman go off. So just a

1445
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:54,439
Speaker 2: bravo for Flacco in that last start and honestly a

1446
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 2: great full circle moment. So bo Nicks covered his twelfth

1447
01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:02,000
Speaker 2: game today and he tied Joe Flacco's rookie record for

1448
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:04,559
Speaker 2: twelve covers, which he did back in two thousand and eight.

1449
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:08,120
Speaker 2: And Flacco starting on the exact same day as bo.

1450
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:08,599
Speaker 1: Uh.

1451
01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:11,800
Speaker 2: Just kind of a fun story there, But anything Jacksonville, Indy.

1452
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:14,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, in like May, when you're like, man,

1453
01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 3: I just wish I could watch an NFL game, any

1454
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 3: NFL game. This is the game. This is the game

1455
01:12:19,520 --> 01:12:22,559
Speaker 3: that you're missing. Joe Flaco and Mac Jones airing it

1456
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:26,040
Speaker 3: out to finalize this season. They gave Johnson Taylor thirty

1457
01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 3: four carries. That is malpractice in a game that meant

1458
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:31,840
Speaker 3: nothing to nobody to put that sort of mileage on

1459
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:34,599
Speaker 3: your running back to end the season. That's it. Brian

1460
01:12:34,640 --> 01:12:38,880
Speaker 3: Thomas looks electreak. He was great again. I legitimately had

1461
01:12:38,920 --> 01:12:40,639
Speaker 3: to look up who won this game when I started

1462
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 3: my notes, I didn't remember it was overtime. I watched

1463
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 3: it on a red zone and it was so meaningless.

1464
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:48,000
Speaker 3: I didn't even know who won the game. I guess

1465
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:49,759
Speaker 3: those are the Colts, but it didn't matter to anybody

1466
01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:50,479
Speaker 3: for anything else.

1467
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:53,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, those two notes there are good though. Brian Thomas

1468
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 2: unreal believe he led rookies in receiving yards. He was

1469
01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:58,960
Speaker 2: like sixteen to one in the preseason. And go look

1470
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:02,320
Speaker 2: at Jonathan Taylor game log for his last like five

1471
01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 2: games or so. He was an absolute workhorse at the

1472
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:08,680
Speaker 2: end of the season, which will go kind of unnoticed.

1473
01:13:08,680 --> 01:13:11,639
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to your hot read, Hot wrap

1474
01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 2: both day on.

1475
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,560
Speaker 3: Ice rights, ice cream, hos.

1476
01:13:16,760 --> 01:13:21,600
Speaker 2: Hoe, Real Soul Trade. We've been alluding to it to

1477
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:23,320
Speaker 2: the entire time, and I think you already know. So

1478
01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:26,679
Speaker 2: you can start with Buffalo and Denver. What's the pick

1479
01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:27,879
Speaker 2: and give us a little analysis.

1480
01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 3: I love the Bills here. I got Bills minus seven

1481
01:13:30,320 --> 01:13:31,640
Speaker 3: and a half. I think it's eight eight and a

1482
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:34,080
Speaker 3: half now. Kind of a dead zone there, so I

1483
01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 3: don't really mind it. Just get it before it gets

1484
01:13:36,280 --> 01:13:38,880
Speaker 3: gonna keep rising, because we're kind of in the spot

1485
01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 3: where it's gonna get to nine to nine and a

1486
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:43,799
Speaker 3: half for teaser protection, just grab the Bills. I think

1487
01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 3: in this round you'll want the big favorites. Next round

1488
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:49,800
Speaker 3: you fade the big favorites rested. We'll get to those

1489
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:52,840
Speaker 3: trends in the division round later on. But kind of

1490
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:55,120
Speaker 3: made the case earlier. I just don't think these are

1491
01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:58,520
Speaker 3: teams in the same waiting weight class. Starting with the quarterbacks,

1492
01:13:58,520 --> 01:14:01,479
Speaker 3: we get rookie Boonecks. Know what I think about Bo next,

1493
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:04,439
Speaker 3: He's been pretty good this year, but on the road

1494
01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:08,599
Speaker 3: in Buffalo hostile environment. The Bills are the number one

1495
01:14:08,640 --> 01:14:11,960
Speaker 3: offense at home for the season. Denver is defense. I

1496
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 3: think good offense beats good defense, and I think that's

1497
01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:17,759
Speaker 3: what we're gonna see here. This defense gave up forty

1498
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:20,120
Speaker 3: one to Baltimore when they played them earlier this year.

1499
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:23,520
Speaker 3: That's the sort of offense that Buffalo is not stylistically,

1500
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:25,960
Speaker 3: but that's sort of the level that they are. Denver

1501
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 3: only beat two teams all year that won a playoff game,

1502
01:14:29,120 --> 01:14:31,479
Speaker 3: one of them today against the Chiefs, so that barely

1503
01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:34,720
Speaker 3: counts one Against the Bucks. They got crushed by Baltimore,

1504
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:38,040
Speaker 3: they got swept by the Chargers. They lost twice in

1505
01:14:38,040 --> 01:14:40,640
Speaker 3: a row against real opponents trying to get into the

1506
01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:42,960
Speaker 3: playoffs before kind of getting this one handed to them today.

1507
01:14:43,400 --> 01:14:46,439
Speaker 3: I look this up. Heading into Sunday, Denver had played

1508
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:49,599
Speaker 3: so far this season six games against a top thirteen

1509
01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:53,280
Speaker 3: offense by DVA. They were one in five in those games.

1510
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:56,839
Speaker 3: They obviously count one for the win today against the Chiefs,

1511
01:14:56,840 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 3: but that's not a top thirteen offense. They played today

1512
01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 3: thirty thirty four and forty one in three of those games,

1513
01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 3: so and the defense has been sort of falling off

1514
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:07,840
Speaker 3: a little bit. Anyways, the number are going to look

1515
01:15:07,840 --> 01:15:10,439
Speaker 3: pretty good today because of what they did, but heading

1516
01:15:10,439 --> 01:15:14,799
Speaker 3: into today, last six weeks, they're fourteenth in DVAA against

1517
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 3: the run, in the pass, right around league average there.

1518
01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:20,639
Speaker 3: So the trends here only time we only had four

1519
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:23,719
Speaker 3: years since we expanded to get a seven seed into

1520
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:26,320
Speaker 3: the playoffs, So we have eight seven seeds so far.

1521
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:29,200
Speaker 3: Five of the eight lost by twelve or more points,

1522
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:31,720
Speaker 3: so these games have not really been that competitive. Only

1523
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:34,040
Speaker 3: one of them won the game now is Packers. Last year,

1524
01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 3: they're now the seven seed on their side of the bracket.

1525
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:40,760
Speaker 3: Wild card host I mentioned this trend earlier that made

1526
01:15:40,800 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 3: the playoffs last year against an opponent that didn't Denver

1527
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:45,960
Speaker 3: did not make the playoffs. Not for the last eight years.

1528
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:49,599
Speaker 3: Those teams are twenty two to ten and one ATS

1529
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:52,280
Speaker 3: sixty nine percent for the Bills. So it's basically a

1530
01:15:52,320 --> 01:15:54,720
Speaker 3: trend saying, Hey, the team that we knew was going

1531
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:56,439
Speaker 3: to be in the playoffs against the team that sort

1532
01:15:56,439 --> 01:16:00,280
Speaker 3: of surprised and got here. That experience shines through and

1533
01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:03,439
Speaker 3: last one home favorites of nine or more this round

1534
01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:06,479
Speaker 3: are ten and one ATS the last two decades. We're

1535
01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:08,439
Speaker 3: not nine or more yet. I think we're going to

1536
01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:11,479
Speaker 3: get there. As I mentioned, so Bills my seven and

1537
01:16:11,520 --> 01:16:13,960
Speaker 3: a half. I took that at DraftKings. We got a

1538
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:16,760
Speaker 3: link up in the podcast and the video description. You

1539
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 3: can click that for a quick slip link and then

1540
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:21,400
Speaker 3: the DraftKings app will open and get your pick in there.

1541
01:16:21,720 --> 01:16:23,920
Speaker 3: Get the best number you can, obviously, but in that

1542
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 3: dead zone range, I just think the Bills are going

1543
01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 3: to coast in this one and win pretty easily.

1544
01:16:29,040 --> 01:16:30,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, that ten and one number is a little scary

1545
01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:33,000
Speaker 2: for Pittsburgh and Baltimore as well. We might have two

1546
01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 2: really big spreads in this round. All Right, you're looking

1547
01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:40,080
Speaker 2: at a total here you've alluded to it two Chargers Texans.

1548
01:16:40,520 --> 01:16:42,360
Speaker 2: I like this one. But at what number do you

1549
01:16:42,439 --> 01:16:42,840
Speaker 2: like it too?

1550
01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 3: Yeah? I got Chargers Texans under forty four and a half.

1551
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:48,000
Speaker 3: We'll get to the number in a second. It's already

1552
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 3: falling a little bit. But let me make the case first.

1553
01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:53,240
Speaker 3: Kind of got to the case a bit earlier. It's defense.

1554
01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:57,120
Speaker 3: Both these teams are defensive identity first, both defenses I

1555
01:16:57,120 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 3: think clearly have the edge over the opposing offense. Chargers

1556
01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:02,599
Speaker 3: defense we talked about. They faded a little bit down

1557
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:04,760
Speaker 3: the stretch, but I think the Texans offense is a

1558
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 3: pretty good alixa for that, because the Texans offense has

1559
01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:09,679
Speaker 3: not been good to any point this season. They're bottom

1560
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:12,840
Speaker 3: cord of the league passing and rushing, and in particular,

1561
01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 3: the Chargers are top five against wide receiver one, but

1562
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:18,680
Speaker 3: bottom five against wide receiver two. A different version of

1563
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:21,280
Speaker 3: Houston that could have been a problem, but this version

1564
01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:23,840
Speaker 3: has Nico Collins, who is the only good thing they

1565
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:26,800
Speaker 3: do on offense and nothing else after that. So if

1566
01:17:26,840 --> 01:17:29,800
Speaker 3: the Chargers can limit or take away Nico, I don't

1567
01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:32,439
Speaker 3: know what the Texans offense can do on the other side.

1568
01:17:32,840 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 3: Chargers offense certainly improving, but Houston is one of the

1569
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:38,519
Speaker 3: best defenses in the league. They're the number one defense

1570
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:41,280
Speaker 3: in the league at home. They have a great pass rush.

1571
01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:43,040
Speaker 3: I think they have a good shot to kind of

1572
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 3: limit things for the Chargers. And again conservative mindset here,

1573
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 3: kind of running the clock. I think this is just

1574
01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:52,639
Speaker 3: a low scoring opening game. Chargers defense has been better

1575
01:17:52,680 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 3: on the road this season, their offense has been worse

1576
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:57,920
Speaker 3: on the road. And both these teams are under teams

1577
01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 3: this season too. Houston goes eleven six to the under.

1578
01:18:01,280 --> 01:18:03,320
Speaker 3: The Chargers weren't as much of an under team late

1579
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:06,320
Speaker 3: in the season, but certainly early in the season they were.

1580
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:08,840
Speaker 3: I think if this line moves too much on the

1581
01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:11,920
Speaker 3: total first half, under will be a good pivot as well.

1582
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 3: Both these teams are especially good defensively early in the game.

1583
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 3: And then I kind of talked to it earlier, just

1584
01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:21,640
Speaker 3: like not really believing in these games, but in these teams.

1585
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,759
Speaker 3: This is just the ugly early Saturday game to start

1586
01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:28,240
Speaker 3: the playoffs off. Now to the number here, under forty

1587
01:18:28,240 --> 01:18:29,719
Speaker 3: four and a half if you can get it still,

1588
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:32,760
Speaker 3: forty to forty four is a really important range with

1589
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:36,160
Speaker 3: key numbers forty forty one, forty three, forty four. Those

1590
01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:38,639
Speaker 3: are all kind of key numbers with totals, not quite

1591
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 3: as big of a deal as like a field going

1592
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:42,360
Speaker 3: a touchdown, you know the three and the seven on

1593
01:18:42,479 --> 01:18:45,679
Speaker 3: a spread. But definitely you want to grab this one

1594
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 3: now because I got the forty four and a half

1595
01:18:48,080 --> 01:18:50,040
Speaker 3: most books. Now we have forty three and a half.

1596
01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 3: If it keeps on a fall and you lose a

1597
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:53,599
Speaker 3: key number, you lose a key number. You don't want

1598
01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 3: to go too much in that direction. So under forty

1599
01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 3: four and a half, Chargers Texans, this one, I bet

1600
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:01,280
Speaker 3: MGM again. And if you want a tail, you can

1601
01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 3: find a quick sip link in the podcast and the

1602
01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:06,439
Speaker 3: video description. Click that it'll pop up right into your app.

1603
01:19:06,479 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 3: Have the pick ready for you to go, and we'll

1604
01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:11,559
Speaker 3: get that under start the playoffs out want to know hopefully, Yeah, if.

1605
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:14,240
Speaker 2: You want to know what direction that Chargers Texans line

1606
01:19:14,280 --> 01:19:17,080
Speaker 2: is going. The first half total is twenty one and

1607
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:19,720
Speaker 2: a half and the full game is now forty three

1608
01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:21,559
Speaker 2: and a half, So I expect the full game to

1609
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 2: probably start dropping a little bit to at least that

1610
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:27,679
Speaker 2: forty three range. So when you're listening to this hopefully

1611
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:30,080
Speaker 2: click the link. Don't forget. We've got quick sip links

1612
01:19:30,080 --> 01:19:32,800
Speaker 2: for Brandon's hot repicks for next week in the podcast

1613
01:19:33,200 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 2: and video description, so if you want a tail just

1614
01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:39,360
Speaker 2: tap the link. All right, Before we wrap up, let's

1615
01:19:39,400 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 2: hear from Patrick Everson from Vegas Insiders and how things

1616
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 2: looked in Las Vegas.

1617
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:45,479
Speaker 1: All right, Evan, thanks a lot for having me back

1618
01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: on the Action Network podcast recapping the final weekend of

1619
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:54,040
Speaker 1: the regular season NFL Week eighteen. It was definitely a

1620
01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:56,920
Speaker 1: pretty entertaining weekend, I can tell you. I took in

1621
01:19:56,960 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 1: a good portion of Sunday at Circus Sports Circus Sports

1622
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:04,559
Speaker 1: Book downtown Las Vegas, where the Survivor and the Million

1623
01:20:04,600 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 1: contests were being decided. It was absolute pandemonium there, especially

1624
01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 1: in the Survivor contest. And one of the reasons for

1625
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:16,640
Speaker 1: that is the underdog is after weeks and weeks and

1626
01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:19,040
Speaker 1: weeks of favorites doing really really well, some very key

1627
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:22,759
Speaker 1: underdogs jumped up and bit people today really cost people

1628
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 1: in the Circus Survivor contest. Because of the eighteen remaining

1629
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:30,240
Speaker 1: entries that made it to Week eighteen, eight of those

1630
01:20:30,800 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 1: entries selected the Falcons. That was the most there were

1631
01:20:34,280 --> 01:20:37,599
Speaker 1: only five teams selected overall. Out of those eighteen entries,

1632
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:42,880
Speaker 1: eight entries took the Falcons, and obviously the Falcons lose

1633
01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:47,679
Speaker 1: to Carolina in overtime. Two entries took the Packers ten

1634
01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 1: point favorites against the Bears at home, and the Packers

1635
01:20:51,200 --> 01:20:56,439
Speaker 1: lose outright. So certainly some heartbreaking defeats for some of

1636
01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:59,720
Speaker 1: the folks in that Circus Survivor contest. But I will

1637
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 1: tell you pretty much all these contestants were hedging quite

1638
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:04,800
Speaker 1: a bit. Certainly not enough to make like a million

1639
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:07,920
Speaker 1: dollars or anything like that, but they made a lot

1640
01:21:07,960 --> 01:21:09,960
Speaker 1: more than the thousand dollars that they'd paid to have

1641
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:13,080
Speaker 1: the entry. So they all did well to varying degrees,

1642
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: even if they got beat today. But it was definitely

1643
01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:19,559
Speaker 1: a bummer for them to have touchdown favorite in Atlanta,

1644
01:21:19,720 --> 01:21:23,400
Speaker 1: ten point favorite in Green Bay for those you know.

1645
01:21:23,560 --> 01:21:25,799
Speaker 1: Ten entries eight to the Falcons, two to the Packers

1646
01:21:25,800 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: that did not get to the finish line today in

1647
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: Service Survivor, and that also coincidentally just leads nicely into

1648
01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:35,519
Speaker 1: this probably being one of the best weeks for the

1649
01:21:35,560 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 1: sports books since perhaps mid October. Just generally speaking, overall,

1650
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:43,320
Speaker 1: there were pockets here and there where. Some books did

1651
01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:44,800
Speaker 1: all right over the last two and a half months,

1652
01:21:44,840 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 1: but generally speaking, the favorites, as we've discussed on this

1653
01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:51,000
Speaker 1: podcast and elsewhere, the favorites have had a great run since,

1654
01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 1: you know, early to mid October all the way to now.

1655
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:57,960
Speaker 1: And in Week eighteen, you finally had some underdogs jump

1656
01:21:58,040 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 1: up and make some noise. I alluded to the Bears,

1657
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:04,439
Speaker 1: double digit underdogs at Green Bay. They win on a

1658
01:22:04,560 --> 01:22:07,560
Speaker 1: last second field goal. Bet MGM told me that was

1659
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:09,679
Speaker 1: a great result for them. John Murray at the super

1660
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:11,439
Speaker 1: Book said that was one of their best results of

1661
01:22:11,479 --> 01:22:15,200
Speaker 1: the day. That was surely the case, and multiple other

1662
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:17,360
Speaker 1: bios as well. The putt and the Packers were a

1663
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:20,640
Speaker 1: popular play and NFL Week eight team for sure. The

1664
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:25,400
Speaker 1: Buccaneers were super popular on the spread, laying fourteen fourteen

1665
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:27,400
Speaker 1: and a half somewhere in that neighborhood depending on where

1666
01:22:27,439 --> 01:22:31,080
Speaker 1: you shopped two touchdown favorites against the New Orleans Saints.

1667
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:34,040
Speaker 1: The underman New Orleans Saints. The Saints lead that game

1668
01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:37,519
Speaker 1: sixteen to six and half. The Bucks were never really

1669
01:22:37,760 --> 01:22:39,519
Speaker 1: threatening to cover in that game at all. It did

1670
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:42,840
Speaker 1: come back and win, which dialing this back over to

1671
01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:45,640
Speaker 1: the circuit contest for a moment. Five entries had the

1672
01:22:45,680 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 1: Bucks as their final pick and they needed the Bucks

1673
01:22:48,200 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 1: to rally. They got a really good sweat there at

1674
01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:54,519
Speaker 1: circa on that one, but got there to each cash

1675
01:22:54,880 --> 01:23:00,320
Speaker 1: out for almost two million dollars apiece each entry. But

1676
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:02,639
Speaker 1: the Bucks did not cover, and that was a great result.

1677
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 1: Behind the counter, Bedham Jim said that was their best, uh,

1678
01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:08,360
Speaker 1: probably their best result of the day, Tampa Bay covering.

1679
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:11,720
Speaker 1: That was what Tristan Davis uh texted to me on

1680
01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:14,720
Speaker 1: Sunday evenings. Tampa not covering made it, you know, it

1681
01:23:14,760 --> 01:23:16,559
Speaker 1: was one of the games that definitely made it a

1682
01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:19,800
Speaker 1: really good day behind behind the counter because they just

1683
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:22,640
Speaker 1: could not get a Saints bet. That's what Christian Sippelini

1684
01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:26,240
Speaker 1: said leading up to kickoff early Sunday. We just could

1685
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:28,760
Speaker 1: not get a Saints bet. I'm paraphrasing only slightly. They

1686
01:23:28,800 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 1: just could not get anybody on the Saints. So the

1687
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:34,599
Speaker 1: Saints covering there was good for the books. Like I said,

1688
01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:36,080
Speaker 1: I mentioned that mentioned the Bears.

1689
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:36,559
Speaker 2: Uh.

1690
01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:38,599
Speaker 1: I don't know that there was a lot of activity

1691
01:23:38,600 --> 01:23:42,000
Speaker 1: necessarily on the Falcons, but the Panthers went out right

1692
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:44,960
Speaker 1: in that game. So that's certainly gonna fall in favor

1693
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 1: of the of the sports books. That's not gonna You know,

1694
01:23:47,920 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 1: it's rare that people were on the Panthers this season.

1695
01:23:49,920 --> 01:23:52,559
Speaker 1: There were one or two occasions I think we're perhaps

1696
01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:56,679
Speaker 1: they were, but but again generally some some underdogs that

1697
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:59,360
Speaker 1: that did well today, and jumping over to our friends

1698
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: at draft came just to illustrate where tickets and money

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Speaker 1: went and how they didn't do well necessarily for the

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Speaker 1: betters at DK, you had four of the most five

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Speaker 1: bet teams on the spread did not cover, Chiefs, Bills, Bucks, Packers,

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Speaker 1: and four of the top five point spread money takers

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Speaker 1: at DK, Bucks, Vikes, Packers, Commanders also did not cover.

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Speaker 1: There's some overlap there, but did not cover. So the

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Speaker 1: public finally got a little bit of a cup muppets.

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Speaker 1: It's been a good season for the public. We're certainly

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Speaker 1: rooting for the betters to do well, but you had

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Speaker 1: to figure. It took forever, but you had to figure

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Speaker 1: the pendulum was going to swing a little bit at

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Speaker 1: some point, and it seemed to do so finally in

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Speaker 1: the last weekend of the regular season, week EIGHTEAM. So

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Speaker 1: there I have it a look at the recap, the

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Speaker 1: final recap of the regular season to look forward to

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Speaker 1: hopefully talking to you more about these as the playoffs

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Speaker 1: unfold with next weekend's Super wild Card weekend.

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Speaker 2: And that's it, folks. That is a wrap on Week

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Speaker 2: eighteen and the regular season in the books. And that

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Speaker 2: has been the Action Network Podcast recap episode, and we

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Speaker 2: will be back. Playoffs are right around the corner. We've

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Speaker 2: got Best Bets episodes this week. We will have so

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Speaker 2: much content up in the Action app and on Actionnetwork

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Speaker 2: dot com. I am Evan Abrams, that is Brandon Anderson.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the week and see you for the college football

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Speaker 2: playoff and the NFL playoffs Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday

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Speaker 2: next week. It is going to be an absolute ball

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Speaker 2: See you guys soon.

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