WEBVTT - The Fifth Hour: BENNY VS. THE PENNY (Week 17) 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:05.480 Kabooms. If you thought four hours a day dred minutes 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.720 a week was enough, I think again. He's the last 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:12.440 remnants of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.520 He treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.760 the rich pill poppers in the penthouse. The Clearinghouse of 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.560 Hot Takes break Free for something Special. The Fifth Hour 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:32.800 with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.680 as we are back at it in the podcast Ojo 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.760 The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G. Radio. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.960 And it is Friday, and that means it's a pick 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:52.400 up Hellosa, strike up the band. Welcome players, You're welcome, 0:00:52.520 --> 0:01:03.960 are you? It's time now penny versus the penny. All right, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:08.600 let's get started. Danny G a man who is fighting 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:10.680 the good fight? Is that how we say that? Danny 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.920 will get more to that on the podcast. But you're 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:17.600 you're a trooper. Through the magic of technology, you were 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:22.840 able to be here and you're not contaminating anyone. I 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:29.160 was quarantined upstairs the whole time by myself, not the 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.520 first time I've been alone on a holiday bend, so 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.399 it was okay. My girl still made me feel cool 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.959 on my birthday though, I got to go outside for 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.920 a few minutes, and now I feel like I've really 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.720 been let out the loony bin for a walk on 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.640 the wild side. To join you for a podcast. Wow, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.000 this is a podcasting while COVID. Now, I was able 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.520 to do the show when I had the COVID because 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.280 it up and and all that. I just hit the 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.160 cough button a lot. So when you need a cough 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.880 at all button, you're good to go. So this is 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.000 Benny Versus the Pay podcast. We'll get into Danny G's 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:07.000 life and times and the situation that he's going through 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.880 on the Saturday podcast. But this being Benny Versus the Penny. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:14.680 It is already week seventeen of the NFL, which means 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.840 we have this week next week, and then the playoffs start. Playoffs, 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.799 as our former colleague Jim Morris said back in the 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.240 day there so that will be coming up in a 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.120 couple of weeks down the line. And so this is 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.280 the next to last weekend we will pick every game 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.480 in the NFL. We'll continue this all the way up 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.560 until the super Bowl, and then we'll do something else 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.320 on these Friday podcasts. We'll get back to having people 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.119 hang out with us on the Friday podcast. But let's 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.280 look back at week sixteen of the NFL season. Before 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.960 we look ahead, we must look back. And there were 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:51.160 sixteen games on the NFL card over the holiday weeken, 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:57.320 most of them played on Saturday. And how did we do? Overall? 0:02:57.520 --> 0:02:59.760 Got off to a very good start in week sixteen, 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.359 yours truly, but then they kept playing games and it 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.480 didn't go so well for me as the weekend progressed. 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.880 Now I ended up a middling eight and eight, which 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.440 you don't make money when you go eight and eight. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.600 You have to get fifty two point four or better 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.520 of your bets correct to make money. So I lost 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.400 money at five, eight and eight. How did the penny 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:26.080 do you ask, I'm sure the penny kicks the mass. Uh, well, 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.000 the penny did kick my ass. The penny ended up 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.320 winning and had a ridiculous hot speak here. The penny 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.240 finished ten and six, got off to a terrible start, 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.880 won seven of the final eight games on the card 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.800 after starting the weekend three and five. So it was 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.400 a reverso where I I got off to a good 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:50.800 start and then took a shifter, and then the penny 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:52.920 they got off to a mediocre start, and they went 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.600 seven of eight to close out the weekend. So they 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.480 end up ten and six. Now, I lost three games 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:04.440 by one or as three games by a point or less, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.240 but I can't be less than a point. But the 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:13.360 Patriot Bengal game, Patriots came back, had the ball, they 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:18.040 were driving down the field, and there was a fumball. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:23.400 They were inside the red zone. That killed me. Cowboys Eagles. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:28.320 Eagles fumbled deep inside Cowboy territory. They were driving the 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.760 ball down the field. They ended up losing by five. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:35.080 They were four point underdogs. And the Ravens and Falcons 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:40.360 game lost that also by a mirror point. So three losses. 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:42.760 But but I don't feel bad about that, Danny, because 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.039 I feel like I handicapped the game. It was right there. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:50.039 It was anyone's game. And sometimes you're the fire hydrant, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.000 sometimes you're the you're the dog, and then in this case, 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.840 I was the that was the fire hydrant. But that's fine. 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.120 I think it was close's I'd rather have that than 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.440 get my doors blown off like I in with the 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.000 For some reason, I thought the Broncos defense would show 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:08.160 up against the ramp. They lost by forty points, So yeah, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.280 it does cut both ways. I'd rather I'd lose. I'd 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.880 rather lose my point because that tells me my gambling 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.760 instincts were proper as opposed to to the Broncos didn't 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.720 even show up and should have just taken Christmas off 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.160 against the Rams in that game. But that's what has happened. 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.279 And now let's see what's going to happen as we 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.640 get out to Crystal Ball, get to the week seventeen card, 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:35.200 and we already picked the Thursday night game. We did 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.560 that on social media because there was no radio show 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.359 this week because we're dark in sabbatical on the radio 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:45.840 back this weekend on Sunday night. But we'll start out 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.760 first game on the card for US Carolina six and 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.240 nine at Tampa Bay seven and eight. It's on Fox. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.920 This is the A game for Fox. Kevin Burkhardt and 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.640 Greg Olsen have the call. Buccaneers opened originally a six 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.359 and app point favorite, that's all the way down to 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:06.039 three and the forecast humid and overcast temperatures in the 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:09.719 seventies at Raymond James Stadium, the house the T. J. 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:14.320 Reeves built in Tampa and the slight lean on the 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:19.520 handle towards the Carolina Panthers. But the Buccaneers don't look now, 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:24.440 but Tom Brady and the Buccaneers and NFL worst for gamblers. 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.240 If you bet on the Buccaneers blindly against the spread 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:32.440 every week, you have gone three eleven and one this season. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.880 That is the worst mark in the NFL. Tampa one 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.760 eleven and one against the spread their last thirteen games, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.240 and the Carolina Panthers on the other side since they 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:47.640 made the coaching change. Steve Wilkes the interim coach, unlikely 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.320 to be the permanent coach. But Carolina seven and three 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.320 against the spread in the Steve Wilkes era as coach, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.760 and I'm gonna take the Panthers in this game. I'll 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.760 take Carolina on the road. It as a small underdog. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.520 Actually like Carolina a lot in this game. The running 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.839 game of Deonte Foreman and Cuba Hubbard to get chunk 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.320 plays against that Bucks defensive front. They're not gonna be 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.200 as good as they were last week against the Lions 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:17.240 and historic first half of that game. But it's imperative 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.760 that Carolina run the ball because you don't want to 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.960 expose Sam Donald too much. He's like a vampire. You 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.320 you throw the ball too much, it's like the vampire 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:30.080 with sunlight, bad things happen. The Buccaneers have been winning 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:34.600 games with spit, duct tape and w D forty at 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.960 this point. They the last four weeks, Tom Brady has 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:44.120 seven touchdowns, seven interceptions, and he's averaging barely over five 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.480 and a half yards per past. Terrible numbers for Brady. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:50.680 You're not allowed to criticize him, though, Danny, because he's 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:55.000 Tom Brady, and the Brady defense team will activate and 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.600 circle the wagons. But those mistakes very costly. It's certainly 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.920 a game like this the if there's are just the 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:04.400 better team. Lately, they've been the better team. I say 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.560 that continues this week. Their defense and will be able 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.960 to slow down an offense for Tampa which is not 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:17.840 that hard to slow down. Panthers two Buccaneers twenty the 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:25.160 final and the Penny would like to remind you that 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.760 we have a famous drop where you say you love 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.160 Tom Brady so much that you would cuddle with him 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.880 going with Tampa Bay. Well, there was a point when 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.080 every other show was all Tom Brady all the time, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.560 but we've moved on from that. Now it's only twice 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.199 a week. It's Tom Brady. I love Tom Brady. I 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.240 would cuddle with him, that's how cool he is. So 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.600 you used to have to do monitor. You were forced 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:54.760 into ball monologues. Remember, oh yeah, Oh there was even 0:08:54.800 --> 0:09:03.760 a ball song that we played on a regular basis. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.520 That was fun that. The flight Gate scandal was good. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:12.679 That was good talk. That's good scandal radio for sports talk. 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.120 That was a fun time. I'm glad I got to 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.000 be on the radio during and you were part of that. Danny, 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.240 we had we had a plast with that. It was fun. Balls. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.800 I was wonderful. Had the Belichick news conference where he 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:27.440 you know, he was yapping, and then Brady got up 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.480 there and he was talking about the balls, how he 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:33.319 likes his balls, and it was it was lots of ball, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:37.400 dozens of ball drops. It was a lot. I was. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.200 I was holding ball, touching balls, you name. It had 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:45.200 a lot of balls. It was. It was solid alright. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:50.600 Next up Cleveland six and nine at Washington seven, seven 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.400 and one. It's on Fox with Adam Aman and Mark Labor. 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:58.800 They have the call Commanders opened at two point favorite. 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.400 They are favorite by I won most people betting on 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.439 the Browns in this game. It's at FedEx Field, overcast, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:09.559 temperatures in the fifties at kickoff for this game. The 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.800 Browns last ten road games they have a losing record. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.359 For gamblers. There are four and six under Kevin Stefanski 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.120 Washington six three and one against the spread, their last 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:24.120 ten under Ron Rivera, and the pick is in. I'm 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.800 gonna take the Commanders in this game. There's a quarterback change, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:31.719 Carson Wentz taking over for the Commandos, and I am 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.600 not a big fan, not a big fan of him. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.960 I'm not betting on this game because of Carson Wentz. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.439 I think he's a middling quarterback. And this is actually 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.760 a similar situation if Taylor Heineke had started. I don't 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.080 think there's much difference between when Wentz and Heineke. But 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.640 I am betting against the Shawn Watson. He's played now 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:53.720 a month, and in that month, the Cleveland Browns are 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.560 averaging two or ninety six yards per game. Since Watson 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.600 made his debut, that's twenty six in the NFL. He 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:05.000 is simply not producing year uh, not getting it done. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:09.520 Just two touchdown passes, three interceptions, averaging less than six 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:14.760 yards per attempt. At say slow offense, a plotting offense 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.080 for Cleveland Washington. The strength of this team, you wouldn't 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:18.840 know it based on the game with the forty Niners 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.960 last week is the defense. They have a top ten 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:24.920 fringe defense in the NFL based on some of the 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:28.680 stats you mix in Brian Robinson, that running game against 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:34.040 the Cleveland defense, which is still injury ravage and Washington 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.120 only favored by a point, is the right side in 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.720 this game they should win by closer to ten points. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:44.800 Commanders twenty four, Brownies six team will be the final 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.880 and the penny go on the other way saying this 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.199 is the week Deshaun Watson is going to get off 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.680 the table, you know they Yeah, So he'll get out 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.240 of the baby yoga pose and you'll get into a 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.480 different pose like the Chargers coach the other day with 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.200 his pose before the game that you see that video, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:12.920 Oh my god, quite the video of anyway. All right, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:18.839 New Orleans, Uh, the the game there New Orleans and Philadelphia. 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.800 That's the next game as New Orleans comes in six 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:25.960 and nine. Popular Record the NFL Philadelphia thirteen and two. 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:30.560 It's on Fox with Joe Davis and Darryl Johnston The 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.560 Eagles opened a seven point favorite, their favorite by five 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.600 and a half most people betting on the Eagles. That 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:41.040 scares me a little bit. Overcast and fifty degrees at 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.360 kickoff at The Link in South Philly, the house that 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.400 Tony Bruno used to watch games at back in the day. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:52.560 The Saints opened up in this game getting getting a 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.640 fair amount of money, but the Eagles now getting pretty 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.960 much everything as far as the gambling handle is concerned. 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:02.240 Dennis Allen has coached Answer two and five against the spread, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:06.720 Philly six and one against the spread at home and 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:11.160 New Orleans. They have been really bad against the better teams. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.880 They are owing three their last three games against teams 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:16.280 that every winning record. I'm gonna take the Eagles here. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.120 It's uh, it's a favorite. I don't normally bet the favorites, 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.440 but I'm gonna take Philly here. Good spot for them. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:25.440 Even with Jalen Hurts bad shoulder, he has not practiced 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.320 and is not expected to play. The Eagles have not 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.360 made that official at the time. We are doing Benny 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.480 versus the Penny, so it's still up in the air, 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.000 but we are comfortable with Gardner Minshew, who played well 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.160 in stretches against Dallas. The big bugaboo and it's a 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.240 massive thing if you're a gambler betting on a favorite 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:49.359 is the turnover game. Two interceptions and two fumbles backbreaking 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.280 killed us against the Cowboys last week. But the Eagles 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.480 were able to matriculate the ball up and down the field. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:14:01.000 That sloppiness doing them in. But Gardner Minshew averaging eleven 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.680 point to air yards per attempts, second highest average of 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:09.960 his career. The big key here is getting that Philly 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.360 defense on track. They were flambaided by the Cowboys for 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.920 nineteen yards. They with a ten point second half lead 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.400 in the third quarter in that game. The good news 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.360 is Andy Dalton is starting for the Saints and he's 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:30.040 good for a couple of turnovers himself Eagles seven and 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:38.400 then all in Saints twenty the final and the penny 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.400 is also riding with the Eagles. Alright, so we agree 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.800 on that. Next up, boy, this is a game that 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:49.280 it has no redeeming value. Arizona four and eleven at 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:55.120 Atlanta five and ten. It's on Fox with Jason Bennetti 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:59.920 and Brady Quinn for your your guy. Brady Quinn, who 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:04.360 back in the day you worked on that show them, uh, 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.360 and now you're on the midday show. But anyway, Brady 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.400 Quimby calling this game part of the Fox Sports Radio Family. 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:15.520 The Falcons opened up a three point favorite, and they 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.680 are favored by three and a half right now. Most 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:23.200 people betting on the Falcons inside the climate controlled Mercedes 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.720 Benz Stadium. The Falcons two and eight against the spread 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:32.520 their last tennis home favorites Atlanta three and seven over 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.720 their last ten overall against the spread with Arthur Smith 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:40.480 as coach, and Arizona's got those great numbers as a 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.920 road underdog their nine and two against the spread. This 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.440 the final couple of games of J. J. Watt. He 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.680 announced this week that he's hanging up the shoulder pads 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.000 and the helmet. He's done at the end of this season. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.400 Cardinals not going to the playoffs clearly, but I am 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.960 gonna take Arizona this game. Last place teams going head 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.440 to head, Cardinals have lost five games and roll straight up. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:06.280 Falcons have dropped four straight. Colt McCoy though he's gonna play. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.000 You say, who cares he sucks, But listen, he's the 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.440 lesser of evils in this game. Colt McCoy coming off 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:19.920 the concussion protocol back for Arizona and Trace McSorley, who 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.600 was as bad as advertised. Somehow, that game went to 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.680 overtime against Tampa Bay, which is more about the Bucks 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.360 than it is the Cardinals. But Colt McCoy will be 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:29.960 able to make a few players. You really don't need 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.200 that much. This game will be nip and tuck, and 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.880 I really think the key is you're getting that half point, 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.920 the three and a half. Most likely this game decided 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.280 by a field goal. Either Atlanta wins by a field 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.760 goal or Arizona wins by a field goal. Either way, 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.200 you're gonna win the bet with the three and a half. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.120 So I'll take the Cardinals plus the three and a half, 0:16:50.240 --> 0:17:01.320 Arizona nineteen and Atlanta sixteen the final. And just like you, 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:03.960 the Petty would like to do a jersey exchange with 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:07.560 Colt McCoy after the victory. Okay, there you go. Get 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:10.080 you gonna get some grits and hang out with your 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:13.480 own Drenovitch our our buddy done in Atlanta, part of 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.640 the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. He's retired now. It's 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.080 crazy when I hear people retire like it's weird. I'll think, 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.159 get enough money to do that. I know, well he 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:28.040 did TV. That's why sense not just radio. Jacksonville seven 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:32.600 and eight at Arizona to twelve and one. It's on 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:37.800 CBS with Andrew Catalan and James Lofton. The Jags opened 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:39.879 a five and a half point favorite. They're favorite by 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.920 four and a half slight lean on the handle the 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:48.320 Houston in this game at n RG Stadium inside the Dome, 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.320 the house that Chris and Houston built. Jacksonville has lost 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:57.200 seven straight games outright as a favorite, including all three 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.000 this season, and that is actually tied for the fourth 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.240 longest streak in the Super Bowl era of Jacks have 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.160 not been great on the road overall. They didn't win 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:09.920 the game against the Jets, the last the road game there, 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.520 but they take gone the Houston, the worst team in football. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.879 Jack's five and ten against the spread on the road 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:22.159 with Trevor Lawrence. Doug Peterson has not been great. Second 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:27.040 consecutive road game, two in seven against the spread. So 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:29.359 I'm giving a lot of numbers here, but I'm gonna 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.120 take the textas of this game. Jacks as a road favorite, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.080 not comfortable. First time they've been a road favorite all 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.760 all season long. Here, they have been favorited in only 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:44.000 three games this year, and they have lost all three 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.840 games outright as a favorite. So win or lose this 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.920 is an odd game because win or lose it doesn't 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:55.359 matter for Jacksonville. They are ensured of a winner take 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.760 all game for the a f C South with Tennessee 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:02.360 in Week eight teen. So they win this game by 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:04.800 seventy points, it doesn't matter. They can lose this game 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:09.600 by fifty points, it doesn't matter. Houston, meanwhile, they've done 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:13.560 very well lately and and the overall in the division 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.680 Houston three and oh against the spread their past three 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.879 games as a dog and uh for gambles against a 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:25.240 FC South divisional opponents, they're nine in three against the spread. 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:28.480 We'll take the Jags to win it, but not cover 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:32.080 the number. Jacks twenty four, Texans twenty three, the final 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:38.960 and the penny. He's also wags in on his boring 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:43.200 game by taking the Jags alright Jacksonville that the new 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:46.159 hottie among the quarterbacks is Trevor Lawrence. Though he's the 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.199 guy getting hyped up, Daddy, He's not my hottie, but 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.240 he's he's been good for me lately. But you know, jack, 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:55.800 I bet you Jacksonville ends up on multiple prime time 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.920 games next year because the NFL marketing Arm they get 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.600 together in the off season a resort, usually in Florida, 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:06.640 and they go into a room and determine who who 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:10.680 the sexy teams are for the following year. And they 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.760 need that. They need to keep cultivating the next generation 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.520 of quarterbacks. And so Trevor Lawrence is gonna get a 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.679 lot of luck. Even though Jacksonville is not not a 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:21.959 national team. They're not a you know, a great they 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.760 don't have a great following, but they're gonna try to 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.359 build one up with Trevor Lawrence. So alright, next up 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:32.720 Chicago three and twelve at Detroit seven and eight. It's 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.600 on Fox. Friend of the Show. Kenny Albert and Jonathan 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:40.040 Vilma have the call. Lions opened up a six and 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.760 a point favorite, their favorite by six. At this moment, 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.600 most people think this is free money. Just bet on 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:49.480 the Lions. It's like a broken a T M machine 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.760 overcast in forty degrees in the Motor City, but the 0:20:52.760 --> 0:20:57.560 game is being played indoors, the great indoors at Ford Field. Bears. 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:01.639 Check this out there. Oh in seven against the spread 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:07.800 their last seven games versus teams that have a winning record, 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.320 the Chicago oh and three their past three road games 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:15.680 the Lions. This is an odd spot. There's six point 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:19.000 favorites laying their most points in a game since way 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:24.160 back in twenty nineteen. So this is uncharted territory recently 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:28.480 for the Lions. Detroit enters four and no against the 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:30.760 spread their last four at home, seven and one against 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.840 the spread their past eight games regardless of location. They 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.200 got their doors blown off by Carolina last weekend. I'm 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:40.520 gonna take Chicago in this game. The Lions run defense 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:45.240 sprung a major league in Carolina last week. They got 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:49.240 absolutely trampled in that game by the Again and the 0:21:49.320 --> 0:21:53.280 Yang and the Panther running attack. Detroit still missing a 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:55.880 couple of players on the defensive side of the ball, 0:21:55.920 --> 0:21:59.719 including Deshan Elliott, the safety and the information that we 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:02.080 have year and so the Bears. The one thing the 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:04.640 Bears do is run the ball. And so you've got 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:07.200 to think that David Montgomery and Khalil Herbert in the 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:12.320 backfield and then justin fields the dual threat quarterback. It's 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:15.560 gonna be like the Autobahn running the ball around there 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:20.400 and Jared Goff will be better. It's not. He's playing indoors, 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.639 the great indoors, their climate controlled environment inside the dome, 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.840 but not enough to cover the six points. Lions twenty seven, 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:36.359 Bears twenty four the final, and the penny is the 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:41.440 president of the Jared Goff Fan Club going with Detroit alright, 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:46.800 de Detroit Football. Next up, Miami eight and seven at 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:51.560 New England's seven and eight. It's on Serris with Iron 0:22:51.560 --> 0:22:56.000 Eagle and Charles Davis, friend of the podcast, and they've 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:59.560 got the call on this. Patriots and the Dolphins actually 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:01.399 opened a two point favorite. Patriots are a two and 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:04.560 a half point favorite now, Dolphins originally favorite by two 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:07.760 on the early line. Patriots getting a fair amount of 0:23:07.800 --> 0:23:12.160 the money. Foggy conditions at Gillette Stadium and kickoff, don't 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:16.040 talk about to his head like that. Temperatures in the 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:20.120 low fifties at kickoff. Dolphins have been a miserable road 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:24.000 team for gamblers this year, with Mike McDaniel one five 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:27.400 and one against the spread. Many people think though that 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:30.159 this is a good spot for the Dolphins because Teddy 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:35.719 Bridgewater in his career has been a very profitable quarterback 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:39.879 forty two twenty two. His record forty two wins, twenty 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:43.879 two losses against the spread in his career, twenty four 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:48.640 and eight against the spread as an underdog and nineteen 0:23:48.720 --> 0:23:50.639 and four against the spread as a road underdogs. So 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:53.480 those are some big time numbers. That's an eight winning 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:57.760 percentage against the spread as a road dog for gamblers. 0:23:57.800 --> 0:24:00.680 But I'm going the other way. I'll taken up Patriots 0:24:00.680 --> 0:24:03.160 with two a tog of ilo and the concussion protocol 0:24:03.520 --> 0:24:07.320 Bridgewater starting this game. The Patriots secondary. They have been 0:24:07.400 --> 0:24:10.760 fleet bitten recently. It does not bode well against Tyreek 0:24:10.840 --> 0:24:14.199 Kill and Waddle and the big playmakers that Dolphins have. 0:24:14.400 --> 0:24:19.720 Mild weather, but I'm counting on the Patriots making Miami 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:22.520 a one dimensional team, taking away the running game with 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:26.359 that great front seven that the Pats have, and Mac 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:29.399 Jones will do his part against the Dolphins secondary. R 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:35.359 overall twenty nine and past defense that secondary over the 0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:41.760 last month. Here Patriots thirty three Dolphins six the final 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:50.080 and the penny going the other way taking the fins alright. 0:24:50.080 --> 0:24:53.120 Disagreement on that. Next up, Denver four and eleven at 0:24:53.280 --> 0:24:56.840 Kansas City twelve and three. It's on CBS with Greg Gumble, 0:24:56.880 --> 0:25:00.560 who hates sports talk radio, and Adam arch A. Let Uh. 0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:03.679