WEBVTT - Benny vs The Penny, Round 15 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:10.240 Welcome players, You're welcome. It's time now penny versus the penny, 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.880 and it is Week fifteen in the NFL. These are 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:20.280 your free handicapping picks four Week fifteen. Will pick every 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.119 game against the spread as we have done, and we 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:27.440 discourage you to bet ridiculous amounts of money unless you win, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.000 then we encourage you to tip the dealer. But the 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.680 way this works a little disclaimer here to cover ourselves 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.159 that that we handicapped. It's a hobby of mind, a 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:40.200 handicap these NFL games. Try I think I can predict 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:44.160 what's gonna happen in the NFL games. Uh, and what 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:46.480 should work. If you're a gambler, you know, you got 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.960 to do your own homework and then if everything matches up. 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.960 If everything matches up, then uh, then we're good. All right, 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:57.360 then you should probably bet that game. I guess God 0:00:57.560 --> 0:00:59.760 is the voice of the coin. He will not say much, right, 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.440 guess skun Well, I will not say much. But I 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:06.280 have a great message to convey to you from from 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:10.120 somebody else. Okay, your better half was actually spying on 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.200 us and listening to the podcast, and she said, in 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:17.800 a quote you never bug end quote, I never bug, 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:25.680 I never bug until she's lying. That's pretty quickly. Are 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.320 you putting your own sidiself to cut yourself on the back? 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.360 I thought it was a narciss thought it was really 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.320 kind of your better half to say that about me. 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.039 Flout her for the words and the compliment. I can 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:39.440 use a lot more of those, and some of get 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.920 must from from must have must have had a blind 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:47.720 moment there, a blind moment and a blind moment. Also, Yes, uh, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.240 have you thought about what we're doing for weeks seventeen, 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.000 because that's usually one like weeks seventeen, a week one 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.320 a usually the dangerous times of the year to bet. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.080 I usually don't bet week seventeen, So I mean we 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:04.800 can do it. I find it impossible. And uh, there's 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.200 only a couple of games where both teams are trying 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.880 if you don't know the motivation. I don't think you 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.240 can bet on a game, you know, And a lot 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.000 of these teams, you know, it's like what they're gonna 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.080 play their backups are they're really trying to win the game, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.800 and they're just gonna rest everyone, And so yeah, we'll 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.040 worry about that then, but I assume we'll probably not 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.120 do it for week seventeen. Maybe we'll only do it 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.720 for a couple of games that matter. Like you're like 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:32.760 your game will matter, You're Seattle, San Francisco. Games shouldn't matter. 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.040 I suppose that that should. You know absolutely, you know 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.359 in theory now matter depending if Seattle loses this weekend 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:43.440 to Carolina, that would change things. But we'll we'll find out. 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.520 All right, Let's get to the games here, Tampa Bay 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:49.640 six and seven at Detroit three, nine and one, and 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.080 we'll play the Dick Stockton game. It's on Fox. Is 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.120 this the Dick Stockton game? The game? Yeah, this is 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.520 it at Detroit. That is correct. You win the Dick 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.919 Stockton game. Right off the back. Dick Stockton and Mark 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:05.360 Slayer to have the call. The Buccaneers. They opened a 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:07.799 four point favorite, their favorite by three and a half. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.040 It'll be cloudy thirty degrees at Ford Field in Detroit, 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:15.360 Al those domes so don't really matter. I'm gonna take 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.440 the Lions in this game. And I'll tell you why 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:22.480 two bad teams you take the points, especially when the 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.640 road team his favorite. I don't trust either one of 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.880 these teams. The Buccaneers is over a field goal favorite 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:32.119 just does not pass the test from me. Tampa Bay 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.200 didn't all of a sudden become a good team. They're 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.040 a bad team. Now there you can say they're an 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.320 average team. They're six and seven and all that. But 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:42.200 the main reason again but better against the Buccaneers is 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.880 the cloud around Jamis Winston. He's got a mangled thumb. 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.320 Now he's gonna give it the old college try here, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.560 But how effective is he gonna be? And Winston already 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.040 when his thumb is not messed up, is a mistake 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.960 filled mess. So you know there's the questions about his 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.080 health if he gets knocked out of the game, and 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:05.080 that means Ryan Griffin is the backup. Good luck on that. Also, 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:09.360 Tampa has not been good as a road favorite in 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.320 recent years. They have a three oh eight winning percentage 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.760 when favorite on the road in recent seasons. And secondly, 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.400 the Lions have lost six straight, so why would I 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.119 bet on the lines? And and David Blow has played 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:26.479 like David Blow a lot of this time. I expect 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.440 Blow to have a fine performance this week. The reason 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:35.719 the Buccaneers secondaries a dog's lunch Tampa's thirty feet in 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:41.120 passing yards allowed. Only Arizona has been worse. So I'm 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.400 gonna bank on a couple of things. I'm gonna bank 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.159 on Jamis Winston throwing a couple of interceptions at least 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.000 with a couple of fumbles. And I'm also gonna bank 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.640 on that Tampa secondary being like cookie dough and the 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.159 Lions being able to move the ball. I believe Detroit 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.880 wins this game, and everyone's betting on the on the Buccaneers, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.400 and I don't get it. These are two bad teams. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:07.320 Lions twenty three bucks, twenty penny is good with the 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.000 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All right. Next up Philadelphia six and 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:15.560 seven at Washington three and ten. Uh, let's say six 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.080 and seven, Yes, six and seven and in three intent. 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.880 So it's it's on Fox. Tom Brennanman and Chris Spielman 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:26.000 have the call. The Eagles opened up a six point favorite, 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.039 and they are still a six point favorite on the 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.919 road at FedEx Field, cloudy and forty eight degrees at 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.200 kick off in land Over, Maryland. I'm gonna take the 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.640 Redskins in this game, and there's a couple of reasons why. 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:42.239 First of all, Philadelphia brings the mash unit to FedEx Field. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.880 The right tackle lane. Johnson's got a bad ankle. He 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.960 is not expected to come back this week. I don't 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.600 not play again. Al Sean Jeffrey has done for the year, 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.960 which means Carson Wentz will be without his safety blanket 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:57.840 protection on the offensive line. He'll have a bunch of 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:01.560 rejects he's got to throw the ball to again. Philadelphia 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.159 has guys like Boston Scott who actually played well against 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.840 the Giants. J j R. Seaga Whiteside at white Out. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.600 These are nobody's who are gonna have to play like 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.440 somebody's in order to win the game. And secondly, the 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.160 Eagles have lost to the Giants a couple of weeks ago. 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.640 They had a scratch and claw game against the Giants 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:25.599 and the Monday night game had to come from behind 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.479 in the second half and go to overtime to win. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.400 Plus it's a short week. All the pressures on the 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.280 Eagles to win this game. The Redskins, they still have 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:38.040 some moxie, they still have some fight to him. They 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:40.800 can run the ball with Adrian Peterson, Chris Thompson. I 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:42.640 would assume we get a lot of work here as well. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:46.160 And this rookie Terry McLaren, the wide receiver has been 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.640 pretty good. This game is gonna be ugly, It is 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:53.960 gonna be close, and Philadelphia has not really taken the 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.280 wood to anybody in a long time. And remember these 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.760 teams played way back in the opener and Washington had 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.640 a seven team point lead at one point against Philadelphia. 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:09.440 That was a healthy Philadelphia team. Eagles twenty, Redskins seventeen. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:14.880 That's a cover for Washington. Penny is going with the 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.520 Eagles on this one. That's a bad job by the 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.880 Penny alright. Next up Chicago at green Bay. We expedite 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.440 the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard podcast, which is all 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.600 about the NFL. And the next up the Chicago Bears 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.920 the Monsters of the Midway at seven and six of 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:35.880 the Green Bay Packers at ten and three. It is 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.960 on Fox. You better watch Kevin Burkhart and Charles Davis. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:45.320 The Packers opened a seven point favorite. They are currently 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.920 favored by four and a half. This is gonna be 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.240 the coldest game of the weekend. It's gonna be cloudy 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:54.840 in eighteen degrees at lambeau Field at kickoff for these 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.800 two rivals, that'll go at it. I'm gonna take the 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.080 Bears here plus the four and a half. Mitch Drabinsky 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.640 has he turned the corner. I'm not so sure about that. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.960 I think that's more about playing crappy teams like the 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:09.840 Cowboys and Lions, pathetic teams like that who are disgraceful. 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.160 We will see how things go this week at Lambeau. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.240 But if you look at the full body of work, 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.000 the Bears have gone three and out on thirty one 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.720 of their drives this season, highest in the NFL. That 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:28.040 is a direct reflection and a referendum on both the 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:32.920 head coach, Matt Naggy offensive genius, and Mitch Drabinsky, the 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:37.839 quarterback now be the Packers, and Rod the ambassador of Bakersfield, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:41.880 one of the senior Malla militia guys. So Rod called 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.880 up uh the other day this week and we talked 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:46.920 about the pack He loves the Packers, and we agreed 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.000 that despite their ten and three record, this has been 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.360 built on like a hill of marshmallows. It there's no 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:57.000 there's no stability here Green Bay. What's my havnes? Green 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.000 Bay is twenty second in defense. The Falcon and Redskins 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.200 have been better defensively this year than the Packers. The 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:08.240 cheese Kurds are twenty three in total offense. The Browns, 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:12.440 the much malign Brown's Jacksonville, with two different quarterbacks, have 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:17.240 been more efficient on offense. Holy Aaron Rodgers Batman. So 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.240 what I'm trying to tell you is they're doing this 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:22.520 with smoking mirrors here, much like Seattle has done it 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.520 with smoking mirrors. It's going to be a nasty arctic 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.800 day on the frozen tundra of lambeau Field. And I 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.680 expect this to be a close to the vest game 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.360 both teams because of the weather. And you're not gonna 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.720 open up the playbook here. Uh. And green Bay also 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.320 has a big game, a key game coming up with 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.800 the Vikings next week, which could determine the winner of 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:49.079 the NFC North likely will be the NFC North Championship game. 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.760 So it's a peek a boo spot Packers will win, 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.680 but they won't cover green Bay the Bears twenty three. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:00.880 Ben going the opposite way again, Go green Bay Packers. 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.400 That's about job by the penny. Next up New England 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:06.600 ten and three at Cincinnati one and twelve. It's on 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:11.360 CBS with Andrew Catalan and James lofton The Patriots opened 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:13.800 a ten and a half point favorite. As we're doing this, 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.480 the Patriots are a nine and a half point favorite. 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.360 The weather sunny and thirty five degrees at kick off 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:24.960 at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. I'm gonna take 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.720 the Bengals plus the nine and a half and my 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.040 my logic mindus until the Patriots find that mojo and 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:35.920 deliver the hammer to someone again. I haven't done this 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:40.200 in so long, specifically on offense. I just can't lay 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.800 over a touchdown with the Patriots the way their their 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:48.160 offense has fallen on hard times. Tom Brady has completed 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:51.280 just fifty of his past is the last four games. 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.040 That's the lowest in a four game span in his 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.000 entire career. He's playing the worst football of his life. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.120 He is on pace for just twenty three touchdown passes, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.120 which would be the lowest in a sixteen game season 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:09.160 since three way back in the day early in his career. 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.680 And he's also dinged up. So you toss in the 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.520 fact he's got the three stooges at wide receiver there 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.400 and a revolving door of an offensive line. Uh, good 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.640 times here, now, I don't I don't trust the Bengals. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.160 The Bengals go against a good Patriots defense, but they've 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.120 been able to move the ball between the twenties with 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.480 Andy Dalton, and that gets you into field goal range. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:31.679 And if you're kicking up field goals, you can beat 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.640 the Patriots the way their offense is going right now. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.680 Now everyone has gotten healthy against the Bengals defense. So 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.480 that does scare me a little bit. But again, I 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.040 could be completely wrong here. Patriots can win by thirty points, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.800 but I don't buy it. Without offense, Patriots will win, 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:52.600 but they won't cover New England Cincinnati fourteen. Oh boy, 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:56.559 Penny's going with the Patriots. Yeah, well, the Chalky mc 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.840 chalk bet the favorites. That's what the public does, and 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.040 real professional gamblers are willing to go off the grid. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.920 Next upting, what's that? We're getting trivia? No went off? 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.840 We went off? Time for it? Oh, you're so lazy 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.240 looking Shut up? You want me to trivia? Okay, if 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:13.640 you want me to do it, I'll do it. You 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.560 want me to do it, smart ass? You want me 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.000 to do it. You want to get you want to 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.640 get trivial, all right, I'll get trivial. Schmuck, I'm gonna 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:27.200 get trivia. Okay, your old school questions there usually Alright, 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.839 we'll only do a couple though. All Right, I am 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.079 the only player in the NFL this season with ten 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:40.400 plus sacks and two interceptions. All right, and the answer 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.640 coming up here. Next up, Houston eight and five at Tennessee. 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.640 Also eight and five. It's on CBS with Jim Nance 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.440 and Tony Romo. This is a game I am looking 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.640 forward to watching this weekend. The Titans open a one 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.040 and alf point favorite, Tennessee favored by three. It'll be 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:02.040 cloudy and forty five degrees at kickoff at Nissan Stadium. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.600 I'm gonna take the Titans in this game as a 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.760 small home favorite. First of all, Deshaun Watson is like 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.920 a kaleidoscope. You don't know what you're gonna get. He 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.640 tosses up a masterpiece a couple of weeks in a row. 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.160 Everyone's saying how great he is, and then he has 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.720 a finger painting performance. Last week against the Broncos, it 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:25.200 was a public disaster until garbage time. The Texans blew 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.880 a gimme a home game against a losing team with 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.240 a rookie quarterback, and now they travel. They got caught 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:35.800 looking ahead. Now they traveled into a bee hive in Nashville. 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:40.360 The public, though, is loading up on Houston. I'm not 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:45.080 feeling I'm not feeling it. And secondly, Ryan Tannehill and 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:49.040 and Derrick Henry have been an amazing combo. Now I 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.640 keep thinking that this is a temporary situation. This is 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.280 a house of cards situation. It's all gonna be coming 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.640 come tumbling down, but it hasn't yet. Then I bet 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.680 against Tennessee last week, and I thought they'd be caught 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:03.320 looking ahead. But Tannehill and Henry are as good as 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.480 peanut butter and jelly as a combo. I mean by land, 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.160 by air, by sea Tennessee right now, their defense is 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.520 starting to click. Has been clicking here. Tennessee has been 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.840 an acid rain on the opposition. And this is a 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.560 the first of two the final part of the year, 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.520 Tennessee in Houston to a f C South showdown games. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.800 I am going with the home team here. Tennessee. They 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:30.440 are the more complete team. They've got the quarterback who's 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:35.320 just been amazing. Of late Titans thirty Texans twenty three. 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:40.280 A penny's going that way as well. Tennessee Titans al right. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.400 Next up, all right to pay off the answer on 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:47.320 the Alright, NFL player the only one this season to 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.200 have ten or more sacks and two interceptions. I'm gonna 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.000 say it's t J. Watt of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Is 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.160 that your final answer? Is my final answer? But you're 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:57.640 sure you don't want to change your hands? I am 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.720 positive it is t J. Lot of the Pittsburgh stools 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:08.240 around boxer. Uh, really giving yourself your own applause, unbeliever. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:11.240 You got a little toy, though, little little toy. I'm 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.800 glad that you want to get trivial and uh, I 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:19.320 responded in kind, Yeah, okay, Uh fascinating. Be sure to 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.120 catch live editions of The Ben Miller Show weekdays at 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.520 two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.760 Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Al Right, Next up, 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:34.680 Schmuck Seattle ten in three at Carolina five and eight. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.920 It's on Fox. Friend of the show, Kenny Albert, the 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:42.320 voice of the New York Rangers the New York States. Yeah, 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.240 Kenny was in town and I could have hung out 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.520 with him at the King's Rangers game. Unfortunately I didn't 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.000 get the message till late, and I had. I was 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.080 unable to attend, so I could have spent a night 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.840 hanging out with the great Kenny Albert. But next time, 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.840 next time, we'll hang on. Yes we US three. No 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:05.160 no no, no, h Kenny Albert, Rodney Barber have the call. 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.160 The game is in Carolina at Bank of American Stadium. 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.920 The Seahawks open a four an app point road favorite. 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.560 They are favored by six mostly cloudy fifty degrees that 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.920 kick off. Seattle lost last week to the Rams. I 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.080 tried to find a reason to take Carolina. I love 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.720 home dogs, getting almost a touchdown. I couldn't find one 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.960 reason to pick the Carolina Panthers. I'm gonna take the 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.440 Seahawks here all day. Russell Wilson now he has been 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:35.240 flea bitten of late last four weeks. Russell Wilson is 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.840 the twenty second ranked quarterback in the NFL. Ryan Fitzpatrick 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:43.480 has been better. Russ has had only four touchdowns and 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:48.000 four in receptions since that mid November against the forty Niners. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:52.680 The Eagles, Vikings, and Rams are the opponents in that stretch, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.440 and they have been able to bottle up Russell Wilson. 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.560 Seattle in general has been using these Jedi mine tricks. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:03.960 To win these games by the skin on their chinny 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.400 chin chin close to the vest is an understatement. Now 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:12.879 that said, this is a good situation for Pete Carroll's guys. 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:18.040 The Panthers have no motivation. They are a rudderless ship. 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.960 They're floating out without an engine in the Atlantic. They 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.440 lay more eggs than a chicken farm. I don't know 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.719 how many other ways I can say. Ron Rivera clearly 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.239 wasn't the only problem there. They fired him. They went 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.600 out and got pull locks by Atlanta. This is a 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.880 big bounce back week for the Seahawks. We need them 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.199 to win. We've got the Mallard Man March coming to 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.879 Seattle for that forty niner game in week seventeen. But 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:45.119 Carolina's fatal flaw is they don't stop the run. The 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.040 Seahawks are a ground and pound team with Chris Carson 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.639 uh and the other running backs there. So he's in 0:17:50.720 --> 0:18:01.080 center square Chris Carson Seahawks Panthers thirteen. Penny is going 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:05.200 the other way, going with the Carolina Panthers. Alright, very 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.640 very good. Uh, that's a year. What's next year on 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.720 Benny versus the Penny Denver five and eight at Kansas 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:18.760 City nine and four. It's on CBS. Iron Eagle and 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:23.840 Dan Fouts have the call. The Chiefs opened a fourteen 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.920 point favorite in this game, and they've been bent down 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:31.280 to nine and a half. It's gonna be mostly cloudy 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:39.359 twenty six degrees at kickoff at Arrowhead Stadium in Consas City. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.040 I wanna take the Broncos in this game. I just 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.040 think this is too many points. The Chiefs are coming 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.200 off their Super Bowl win against the Patriots. They are 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:53.000 being celebrated and canonised with tributes in Kansas City for 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:57.760 beating the Belichickian dynasty. And this has the ingredients many 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:04.679 of the ingredients of a handcake special, meaning a flat performance, 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:07.320 a low energy effort, even though it's a divisional game 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.399 and all that. Plus Patrick Mahomes has an injured hand. 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:15.760 The Chiefs have won three straight games despite the worst 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:21.200 statistical stretch of Patrick mahomes career last three games. Mahomes 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:25.680 has sixty passing yards, just three touchdowns, and a passer 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:29.760 rating below eighty. All of those numbers are career lows 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.719 for any three game span of Patrick mahomes career, so 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.760 he's playing as bad as he's ever played in the NFL, 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:39.800 and the Chiefs are still winning most of these games. 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:43.399 I get that. At secondly, this is a revenge spot 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:49.000 for Denver. They were humiliated, they were mocked and kicked 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.720 in the nuts back in the game in the Mile 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.919 High City the first time these teams played. The jury 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.359 is still out on Drew Lock. I am not convinced 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.600 that he is the second coming of John Elway. Yet 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:04.359 he looked great with sensational last week and when I 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.960 saw him play against the Texans um but he's not proven, 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.720 and now he has the enormous task of playing in 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.560 his old backyard. He's from, uh, just a spit ball 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.400 away from Kansas City and Arrowheads, the stadium he used 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.080 to go to as a kid. So I think he'll 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:22.840 be okay. He's not gonna be as good as he 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.280 was last week. Chiefs though, win, but don't cover Chiefs 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:31.560 twenty eight Broncos twenty four penny Else to go with 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:35.080 the Denver Broncos, be sure to catch live editions of 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.639 The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:41.080 eleven p m. Pacific. All Right. Next up the Miami 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:44.560 Dolphins at three and ten at the New York Football 0:20:44.680 --> 0:20:49.000 Giants at two and eleven and it's on CBS with 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:54.240 Spiro Adidas and Adam arch Aletta the line. The Giants 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.040 opened three and a half, their favored by three and 0:20:57.080 --> 0:21:00.280 a half right now. The weather in New jery zy 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.840 this weekend on Sunday, cloudy forty six degrees at kick 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:07.120 off at MetLife statement, this is a very difficult game 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.160 to handicap. I look at this like a week seventeen 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:12.240 game to handicap. I'm gonna take the Dolphins because they're 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.720 the better team. Um, but I don't love the pick u. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.240 Both of these teams staked first of all, Uh, this 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.720 could be the last chance to bet against Eli Manning, 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:23.920 so I want to do that before he rides off 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.000 in the sunset. We believe he's gonna start again. Manning 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.840 had a couple of fluke throws in the first half 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:36.040 before he settled in to serving up vomit for the 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:40.280 Giants that the vomit commet Elijah. Manning had twenty four 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:44.160 yards passing in the second half, which included overtime, although 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:46.359 the Giants didn't get the ball in overtime, but still 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.560 just in the second half. That's not an error. I 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:55.480 expect a similar performance, a duplicate if you will, this week. Secondly, 0:21:56.000 --> 0:22:01.200 the last four games, Ryan fitzpa Drick has not been terrible. 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.200 He's been in the middle of the pack. He's got 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:06.840 a better quarterback rating we talked about this than Russell Wilson. 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:11.240 He's been better than Patrick Mahomes. Both these teams are tanking. 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:15.080 That's why it's hard to handicap the game because ownership 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:19.160 and management wants them to lose. The winner will actually 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:22.560 upset the front office because the master plan is to 0:22:22.920 --> 0:22:25.160 get that number, you know, high, not number one. There. 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:27.120 I think I think these the Giants have a chance. 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:29.480 The Dolphins really don't have a realistic chance at the 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:33.880 number one pick because of their wins, So the Giants 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.080 need to keep losing here. They have a shot if 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:39.480 Cincinnati can win one more game here to to get 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.800 into a tie and possibly take the top spot. But 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:46.679 I love betting against the dynamic duo of Elijah Manning 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:50.360 and Pat Shermer in a game that should be broadcast 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:55.280 on like c SPAN or something like that. Dolphins Giants 0:22:55.920 --> 0:23:01.840 thirteen pen You go with the New York Football Giants 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:06.760 in this on Alright, let's get to the late television window. 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:10.919 And this is a classic Jacksonville four and nine in 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:14.280 Oakland six and seven. You throw out the records in 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:15.800 this game. You know why you throw out the records 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.520 because they're combined ten and sixteen. Because if you looked 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:20.720 at the records, you wouldn't watch the game. It's on CBS. 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:24.199 Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon in the former Raider have 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:27.600 the call. Now. The Raiders opened a four and app 0:23:27.640 --> 0:23:30.280 point favorite. They are now a six and a point favorite. 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:33.760 Partly sunny and fifty four degrees that kick off at 0:23:33.800 --> 0:23:37.320 the coliseum. And I am gonna take the alrightus, I'm 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:39.679