Speaker 1: Welcome players, You're welcome. It's time now penny versus the penny,
Speaker 1: and it is Week fifteen in the NFL. These are
Speaker 1: your free handicapping picks four Week fifteen. Will pick every
Speaker 1: game against the spread as we have done, and we
Speaker 1: discourage you to bet ridiculous amounts of money unless you win,
Speaker 1: then we encourage you to tip the dealer. But the
Speaker 1: way this works a little disclaimer here to cover ourselves
Speaker 1: that that we handicapped. It's a hobby of mind, a
Speaker 1: handicap these NFL games. Try I think I can predict
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen in the NFL games. Uh, and what
Speaker 1: should work. If you're a gambler, you know, you got
Speaker 1: to do your own homework and then if everything matches up.
Speaker 1: If everything matches up, then uh, then we're good. All right,
Speaker 1: then you should probably bet that game. I guess God
Speaker 1: is the voice of the coin. He will not say much, right,
Speaker 1: guess skun Well, I will not say much. But I
Speaker 1: have a great message to convey to you from from
Speaker 1: somebody else. Okay, your better half was actually spying on
Speaker 1: us and listening to the podcast, and she said, in
Speaker 1: a quote you never bug end quote, I never bug,
Speaker 1: I never bug until she's lying. That's pretty quickly. Are
Speaker 1: you putting your own sidiself to cut yourself on the back?
Speaker 1: I thought it was a narciss thought it was really
Speaker 1: kind of your better half to say that about me.
Speaker 1: Flout her for the words and the compliment. I can
Speaker 1: use a lot more of those, and some of get
Speaker 1: must from from must have must have had a blind
Speaker 1: moment there, a blind moment and a blind moment. Also, Yes, uh,
Speaker 1: have you thought about what we're doing for weeks seventeen,
Speaker 1: because that's usually one like weeks seventeen, a week one
Speaker 1: a usually the dangerous times of the year to bet.
Speaker 1: I usually don't bet week seventeen, So I mean we
Speaker 1: can do it. I find it impossible. And uh, there's
Speaker 1: only a couple of games where both teams are trying
Speaker 1: if you don't know the motivation. I don't think you
Speaker 1: can bet on a game, you know, And a lot
Speaker 1: of these teams, you know, it's like what they're gonna
Speaker 1: play their backups are they're really trying to win the game,
Speaker 1: and they're just gonna rest everyone, And so yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: worry about that then, but I assume we'll probably not
Speaker 1: do it for week seventeen. Maybe we'll only do it
Speaker 1: for a couple of games that matter. Like you're like
Speaker 1: your game will matter, You're Seattle, San Francisco. Games shouldn't matter.
Speaker 1: I suppose that that should. You know absolutely, you know
Speaker 1: in theory now matter depending if Seattle loses this weekend
Speaker 1: to Carolina, that would change things. But we'll we'll find out.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the games here, Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: six and seven at Detroit three, nine and one, and
Speaker 1: we'll play the Dick Stockton game. It's on Fox. Is
Speaker 1: this the Dick Stockton game? The game? Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: it at Detroit. That is correct. You win the Dick
Speaker 1: Stockton game. Right off the back. Dick Stockton and Mark
Speaker 1: Slayer to have the call. The Buccaneers. They opened a
Speaker 1: four point favorite, their favorite by three and a half.
Speaker 1: It'll be cloudy thirty degrees at Ford Field in Detroit,
Speaker 1: Al those domes so don't really matter. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Lions in this game. And I'll tell you why
Speaker 1: two bad teams you take the points, especially when the
Speaker 1: road team his favorite. I don't trust either one of
Speaker 1: these teams. The Buccaneers is over a field goal favorite
Speaker 1: just does not pass the test from me. Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: didn't all of a sudden become a good team. They're
Speaker 1: a bad team. Now there you can say they're an
Speaker 1: average team. They're six and seven and all that. But
Speaker 1: the main reason again but better against the Buccaneers is
Speaker 1: the cloud around Jamis Winston. He's got a mangled thumb.
Speaker 1: Now he's gonna give it the old college try here,
Speaker 1: But how effective is he gonna be? And Winston already
Speaker 1: when his thumb is not messed up, is a mistake
Speaker 1: filled mess. So you know there's the questions about his
Speaker 1: health if he gets knocked out of the game, and
Speaker 1: that means Ryan Griffin is the backup. Good luck on that. Also,
Speaker 1: Tampa has not been good as a road favorite in
Speaker 1: recent years. They have a three oh eight winning percentage
Speaker 1: when favorite on the road in recent seasons. And secondly,
Speaker 1: the Lions have lost six straight, so why would I
Speaker 1: bet on the lines? And and David Blow has played
Speaker 1: like David Blow a lot of this time. I expect
Speaker 1: Blow to have a fine performance this week. The reason
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers secondaries a dog's lunch Tampa's thirty feet in
Speaker 1: passing yards allowed. Only Arizona has been worse. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bank on a couple of things. I'm gonna bank
Speaker 1: on Jamis Winston throwing a couple of interceptions at least
Speaker 1: with a couple of fumbles. And I'm also gonna bank
Speaker 1: on that Tampa secondary being like cookie dough and the
Speaker 1: Lions being able to move the ball. I believe Detroit
Speaker 1: wins this game, and everyone's betting on the on the Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: and I don't get it. These are two bad teams.
Speaker 1: Lions twenty three bucks, twenty penny is good with the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All right. Next up Philadelphia six and
Speaker 1: seven at Washington three and ten. Uh, let's say six
Speaker 1: and seven, Yes, six and seven and in three intent.
Speaker 1: So it's it's on Fox. Tom Brennanman and Chris Spielman
Speaker 1: have the call. The Eagles opened up a six point favorite,
Speaker 1: and they are still a six point favorite on the
Speaker 1: road at FedEx Field, cloudy and forty eight degrees at
Speaker 1: kick off in land Over, Maryland. I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: Redskins in this game, and there's a couple of reasons why.
Speaker 1: First of all, Philadelphia brings the mash unit to FedEx Field.
Speaker 1: The right tackle lane. Johnson's got a bad ankle. He
Speaker 1: is not expected to come back this week. I don't
Speaker 1: not play again. Al Sean Jeffrey has done for the year,
Speaker 1: which means Carson Wentz will be without his safety blanket
Speaker 1: protection on the offensive line. He'll have a bunch of
Speaker 1: rejects he's got to throw the ball to again. Philadelphia
Speaker 1: has guys like Boston Scott who actually played well against
Speaker 1: the Giants. J j R. Seaga Whiteside at white Out.
Speaker 1: These are nobody's who are gonna have to play like
Speaker 1: somebody's in order to win the game. And secondly, the
Speaker 1: Eagles have lost to the Giants a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: They had a scratch and claw game against the Giants
Speaker 1: and the Monday night game had to come from behind
Speaker 1: in the second half and go to overtime to win.
Speaker 1: Plus it's a short week. All the pressures on the
Speaker 1: Eagles to win this game. The Redskins, they still have
Speaker 1: some moxie, they still have some fight to him. They
Speaker 1: can run the ball with Adrian Peterson, Chris Thompson. I
Speaker 1: would assume we get a lot of work here as well.
Speaker 1: And this rookie Terry McLaren, the wide receiver has been
Speaker 1: pretty good. This game is gonna be ugly, It is
Speaker 1: gonna be close, and Philadelphia has not really taken the
Speaker 1: wood to anybody in a long time. And remember these
Speaker 1: teams played way back in the opener and Washington had
Speaker 1: a seven team point lead at one point against Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: That was a healthy Philadelphia team. Eagles twenty, Redskins seventeen.
Speaker 1: That's a cover for Washington. Penny is going with the
Speaker 1: Eagles on this one. That's a bad job by the
Speaker 1: Penny alright. Next up Chicago at green Bay. We expedite
Speaker 1: the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard podcast, which is all
Speaker 1: about the NFL. And the next up the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: the Monsters of the Midway at seven and six of
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers at ten and three. It is
Speaker 1: on Fox. You better watch Kevin Burkhart and Charles Davis.
Speaker 1: The Packers opened a seven point favorite. They are currently
Speaker 1: favored by four and a half. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: the coldest game of the weekend. It's gonna be cloudy
Speaker 1: in eighteen degrees at lambeau Field at kickoff for these
Speaker 1: two rivals, that'll go at it. I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: Bears here plus the four and a half. Mitch Drabinsky
Speaker 1: has he turned the corner. I'm not so sure about that.
Speaker 1: I think that's more about playing crappy teams like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Lions, pathetic teams like that who are disgraceful.
Speaker 1: We will see how things go this week at Lambeau.
Speaker 1: But if you look at the full body of work,
Speaker 1: the Bears have gone three and out on thirty one
Speaker 1: of their drives this season, highest in the NFL. That
Speaker 1: is a direct reflection and a referendum on both the
Speaker 1: head coach, Matt Naggy offensive genius, and Mitch Drabinsky, the
Speaker 1: quarterback now be the Packers, and Rod the ambassador of Bakersfield,
Speaker 1: one of the senior Malla militia guys. So Rod called
Speaker 1: up uh the other day this week and we talked
Speaker 1: about the pack He loves the Packers, and we agreed
Speaker 1: that despite their ten and three record, this has been
Speaker 1: built on like a hill of marshmallows. It there's no
Speaker 1: there's no stability here Green Bay. What's my havnes? Green
Speaker 1: Bay is twenty second in defense. The Falcon and Redskins
Speaker 1: have been better defensively this year than the Packers. The
Speaker 1: cheese Kurds are twenty three in total offense. The Browns,
Speaker 1: the much malign Brown's Jacksonville, with two different quarterbacks, have
Speaker 1: been more efficient on offense. Holy Aaron Rodgers Batman. So
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to tell you is they're doing this
Speaker 1: with smoking mirrors here, much like Seattle has done it
Speaker 1: with smoking mirrors. It's going to be a nasty arctic
Speaker 1: day on the frozen tundra of lambeau Field. And I
Speaker 1: expect this to be a close to the vest game
Speaker 1: both teams because of the weather. And you're not gonna
Speaker 1: open up the playbook here. Uh. And green Bay also
Speaker 1: has a big game, a key game coming up with
Speaker 1: the Vikings next week, which could determine the winner of
Speaker 1: the NFC North likely will be the NFC North Championship game.
Speaker 1: So it's a peek a boo spot Packers will win,
Speaker 1: but they won't cover green Bay the Bears twenty three.
Speaker 1: Ben going the opposite way again, Go green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: That's about job by the penny. Next up New England
Speaker 1: ten and three at Cincinnati one and twelve. It's on
Speaker 1: CBS with Andrew Catalan and James lofton The Patriots opened
Speaker 1: a ten and a half point favorite. As we're doing this,
Speaker 1: the Patriots are a nine and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: The weather sunny and thirty five degrees at kick off
Speaker 1: at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Bengals plus the nine and a half and my
Speaker 1: my logic mindus until the Patriots find that mojo and
Speaker 1: deliver the hammer to someone again. I haven't done this
Speaker 1: in so long, specifically on offense. I just can't lay
Speaker 1: over a touchdown with the Patriots the way their their
Speaker 1: offense has fallen on hard times. Tom Brady has completed
Speaker 1: just fifty of his past is the last four games.
Speaker 1: That's the lowest in a four game span in his
Speaker 1: entire career. He's playing the worst football of his life.
Speaker 1: He is on pace for just twenty three touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: which would be the lowest in a sixteen game season
Speaker 1: since three way back in the day early in his career.
Speaker 1: And he's also dinged up. So you toss in the
Speaker 1: fact he's got the three stooges at wide receiver there
Speaker 1: and a revolving door of an offensive line. Uh, good
Speaker 1: times here, now, I don't I don't trust the Bengals.
Speaker 1: The Bengals go against a good Patriots defense, but they've
Speaker 1: been able to move the ball between the twenties with
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton, and that gets you into field goal range.
Speaker 1: And if you're kicking up field goals, you can beat
Speaker 1: the Patriots the way their offense is going right now.
Speaker 1: Now everyone has gotten healthy against the Bengals defense. So
Speaker 1: that does scare me a little bit. But again, I
Speaker 1: could be completely wrong here. Patriots can win by thirty points,
Speaker 1: but I don't buy it. Without offense, Patriots will win,
Speaker 1: but they won't cover New England Cincinnati fourteen. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: Penny's going with the Patriots. Yeah, well, the Chalky mc
Speaker 1: chalk bet the favorites. That's what the public does, and
Speaker 1: real professional gamblers are willing to go off the grid.
Speaker 1: Next upting, what's that? We're getting trivia? No went off?
Speaker 1: We went off? Time for it? Oh, you're so lazy
Speaker 1: looking Shut up? You want me to trivia? Okay, if
Speaker 1: you want me to do it, I'll do it. You
Speaker 1: want me to do it, smart ass? You want me
Speaker 1: to do it. You want to get you want to
Speaker 1: get trivial, all right, I'll get trivial. Schmuck, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get trivia. Okay, your old school questions there usually Alright,
Speaker 1: we'll only do a couple though. All Right, I am
Speaker 1: the only player in the NFL this season with ten
Speaker 1: plus sacks and two interceptions. All right, and the answer
Speaker 1: coming up here. Next up, Houston eight and five at Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Also eight and five. It's on CBS with Jim Nance
Speaker 1: and Tony Romo. This is a game I am looking
Speaker 1: forward to watching this weekend. The Titans open a one
Speaker 1: and alf point favorite, Tennessee favored by three. It'll be
Speaker 1: cloudy and forty five degrees at kickoff at Nissan Stadium.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Titans in this game as a
Speaker 1: small home favorite. First of all, Deshaun Watson is like
Speaker 1: a kaleidoscope. You don't know what you're gonna get. He
Speaker 1: tosses up a masterpiece a couple of weeks in a row.
Speaker 1: Everyone's saying how great he is, and then he has
Speaker 1: a finger painting performance. Last week against the Broncos, it
Speaker 1: was a public disaster until garbage time. The Texans blew
Speaker 1: a gimme a home game against a losing team with
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback, and now they travel. They got caught
Speaker 1: looking ahead. Now they traveled into a bee hive in Nashville.
Speaker 1: The public, though, is loading up on Houston. I'm not
Speaker 1: feeling I'm not feeling it. And secondly, Ryan Tannehill and
Speaker 1: and Derrick Henry have been an amazing combo. Now I
Speaker 1: keep thinking that this is a temporary situation. This is
Speaker 1: a house of cards situation. It's all gonna be coming
Speaker 1: come tumbling down, but it hasn't yet. Then I bet
Speaker 1: against Tennessee last week, and I thought they'd be caught
Speaker 1: looking ahead. But Tannehill and Henry are as good as
Speaker 1: peanut butter and jelly as a combo. I mean by land,
Speaker 1: by air, by sea Tennessee right now, their defense is
Speaker 1: starting to click. Has been clicking here. Tennessee has been
Speaker 1: an acid rain on the opposition. And this is a
Speaker 1: the first of two the final part of the year,
Speaker 1: Tennessee in Houston to a f C South showdown games.
Speaker 1: I am going with the home team here. Tennessee. They
Speaker 1: are the more complete team. They've got the quarterback who's
Speaker 1: just been amazing. Of late Titans thirty Texans twenty three.
Speaker 1: A penny's going that way as well. Tennessee Titans al right.
Speaker 1: Next up, all right to pay off the answer on
Speaker 1: the Alright, NFL player the only one this season to
Speaker 1: have ten or more sacks and two interceptions. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say it's t J. Watt of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Is
Speaker 1: that your final answer? Is my final answer? But you're
Speaker 1: sure you don't want to change your hands? I am
Speaker 1: positive it is t J. Lot of the Pittsburgh stools
Speaker 1: around boxer. Uh, really giving yourself your own applause, unbeliever.
Speaker 1: You got a little toy, though, little little toy. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that you want to get trivial and uh, I
Speaker 1: responded in kind, Yeah, okay, Uh fascinating. Be sure to
Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Miller Show weekdays at
Speaker 1: two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Al Right, Next up,
Speaker 1: Schmuck Seattle ten in three at Carolina five and eight.
Speaker 1: It's on Fox. Friend of the show, Kenny Albert, the
Speaker 1: voice of the New York Rangers the New York States. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kenny was in town and I could have hung out
Speaker 1: with him at the King's Rangers game. Unfortunately I didn't
Speaker 1: get the message till late, and I had. I was
Speaker 1: unable to attend, so I could have spent a night
Speaker 1: hanging out with the great Kenny Albert. But next time,
Speaker 1: next time, we'll hang on. Yes we US three. No
Speaker 1: no no, no, h Kenny Albert, Rodney Barber have the call.
Speaker 1: The game is in Carolina at Bank of American Stadium.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks open a four an app point road favorite.
Speaker 1: They are favored by six mostly cloudy fifty degrees that
Speaker 1: kick off. Seattle lost last week to the Rams. I
Speaker 1: tried to find a reason to take Carolina. I love
Speaker 1: home dogs, getting almost a touchdown. I couldn't find one
Speaker 1: reason to pick the Carolina Panthers. I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: Seahawks here all day. Russell Wilson now he has been
Speaker 1: flea bitten of late last four weeks. Russell Wilson is
Speaker 1: the twenty second ranked quarterback in the NFL. Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: has been better. Russ has had only four touchdowns and
Speaker 1: four in receptions since that mid November against the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: The Eagles, Vikings, and Rams are the opponents in that stretch,
Speaker 1: and they have been able to bottle up Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: Seattle in general has been using these Jedi mine tricks.
Speaker 1: To win these games by the skin on their chinny
Speaker 1: chin chin close to the vest is an understatement. Now
Speaker 1: that said, this is a good situation for Pete Carroll's guys.
Speaker 1: The Panthers have no motivation. They are a rudderless ship.
Speaker 1: They're floating out without an engine in the Atlantic. They
Speaker 1: lay more eggs than a chicken farm. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many other ways I can say. Ron Rivera clearly
Speaker 1: wasn't the only problem there. They fired him. They went
Speaker 1: out and got pull locks by Atlanta. This is a
Speaker 1: big bounce back week for the Seahawks. We need them
Speaker 1: to win. We've got the Mallard Man March coming to
Speaker 1: Seattle for that forty niner game in week seventeen. But
Speaker 1: Carolina's fatal flaw is they don't stop the run. The
Speaker 1: Seahawks are a ground and pound team with Chris Carson
Speaker 1: uh and the other running backs there. So he's in
Speaker 1: center square Chris Carson Seahawks Panthers thirteen. Penny is going
Speaker 1: the other way, going with the Carolina Panthers. Alright, very
Speaker 1: very good. Uh, that's a year. What's next year on
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny Denver five and eight at Kansas
Speaker 1: City nine and four. It's on CBS. Iron Eagle and
Speaker 1: Dan Fouts have the call. The Chiefs opened a fourteen
Speaker 1: point favorite in this game, and they've been bent down
Speaker 1: to nine and a half. It's gonna be mostly cloudy
Speaker 1: twenty six degrees at kickoff at Arrowhead Stadium in Consas City.
Speaker 1: I wanna take the Broncos in this game. I just
Speaker 1: think this is too many points. The Chiefs are coming
Speaker 1: off their Super Bowl win against the Patriots. They are
Speaker 1: being celebrated and canonised with tributes in Kansas City for
Speaker 1: beating the Belichickian dynasty. And this has the ingredients many
Speaker 1: of the ingredients of a handcake special, meaning a flat performance,
Speaker 1: a low energy effort, even though it's a divisional game
Speaker 1: and all that. Plus Patrick Mahomes has an injured hand.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs have won three straight games despite the worst
Speaker 1: statistical stretch of Patrick mahomes career last three games. Mahomes
Speaker 1: has sixty passing yards, just three touchdowns, and a passer
Speaker 1: rating below eighty. All of those numbers are career lows
Speaker 1: for any three game span of Patrick mahomes career, so
Speaker 1: he's playing as bad as he's ever played in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs are still winning most of these games.
Speaker 1: I get that. At secondly, this is a revenge spot
Speaker 1: for Denver. They were humiliated, they were mocked and kicked
Speaker 1: in the nuts back in the game in the Mile
Speaker 1: High City the first time these teams played. The jury
Speaker 1: is still out on Drew Lock. I am not convinced
Speaker 1: that he is the second coming of John Elway. Yet
Speaker 1: he looked great with sensational last week and when I
Speaker 1: saw him play against the Texans um but he's not proven,
Speaker 1: and now he has the enormous task of playing in
Speaker 1: his old backyard. He's from, uh, just a spit ball
Speaker 1: away from Kansas City and Arrowheads, the stadium he used
Speaker 1: to go to as a kid. So I think he'll
Speaker 1: be okay. He's not gonna be as good as he
Speaker 1: was last week. Chiefs though, win, but don't cover Chiefs
Speaker 1: twenty eight Broncos twenty four penny Else to go with
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos, be sure to catch live editions of
Speaker 1: The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven p m. Pacific. All Right. Next up the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins at three and ten at the New York Football
Speaker 1: Giants at two and eleven and it's on CBS with
Speaker 1: Spiro Adidas and Adam arch Aletta the line. The Giants
Speaker 1: opened three and a half, their favored by three and
Speaker 1: a half right now. The weather in New jery zy
Speaker 1: this weekend on Sunday, cloudy forty six degrees at kick
Speaker 1: off at MetLife statement, this is a very difficult game
Speaker 1: to handicap. I look at this like a week seventeen
Speaker 1: game to handicap. I'm gonna take the Dolphins because they're
Speaker 1: the better team. Um, but I don't love the pick u.
Speaker 1: Both of these teams staked first of all, Uh, this
Speaker 1: could be the last chance to bet against Eli Manning,
Speaker 1: so I want to do that before he rides off
Speaker 1: in the sunset. We believe he's gonna start again. Manning
Speaker 1: had a couple of fluke throws in the first half
Speaker 1: before he settled in to serving up vomit for the
Speaker 1: Giants that the vomit commet Elijah. Manning had twenty four
Speaker 1: yards passing in the second half, which included overtime, although
Speaker 1: the Giants didn't get the ball in overtime, but still
Speaker 1: just in the second half. That's not an error. I
Speaker 1: expect a similar performance, a duplicate if you will, this week. Secondly,
Speaker 1: the last four games, Ryan fitzpa Drick has not been terrible.
Speaker 1: He's been in the middle of the pack. He's got
Speaker 1: a better quarterback rating we talked about this than Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: He's been better than Patrick Mahomes. Both these teams are tanking.
Speaker 1: That's why it's hard to handicap the game because ownership
Speaker 1: and management wants them to lose. The winner will actually
Speaker 1: upset the front office because the master plan is to
Speaker 1: get that number, you know, high, not number one. There.
Speaker 1: I think I think these the Giants have a chance.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins really don't have a realistic chance at the
Speaker 1: number one pick because of their wins, So the Giants
Speaker 1: need to keep losing here. They have a shot if
Speaker 1: Cincinnati can win one more game here to to get
Speaker 1: into a tie and possibly take the top spot. But
Speaker 1: I love betting against the dynamic duo of Elijah Manning
Speaker 1: and Pat Shermer in a game that should be broadcast
Speaker 1: on like c SPAN or something like that. Dolphins Giants
Speaker 1: thirteen pen You go with the New York Football Giants
Speaker 1: in this on Alright, let's get to the late television window.
Speaker 1: And this is a classic Jacksonville four and nine in
Speaker 1: Oakland six and seven. You throw out the records in
Speaker 1: this game. You know why you throw out the records
Speaker 1: because they're combined ten and sixteen. Because if you looked
Speaker 1: at the records, you wouldn't watch the game. It's on CBS.
Speaker 1: Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon in the former Raider have
Speaker 1: the call. Now. The Raiders opened a four and app
Speaker 1: point favorite. They are now a six and a point favorite.
Speaker 1: Partly sunny and fifty four degrees that kick off at
Speaker 1: the coliseum. And I am gonna take the alrightus, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna lay the six and a half. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: against every gambling pointer. I look at everything I look
Speaker 1: at here. The Jags and Raiders are the football version
Speaker 1: of cow flatulence. It's like two cows farting out in
Speaker 1: the meadow. All right. They're bad for the environment, the
Speaker 1: green greenhouse gas effect. Jacksonville has managed to go completely
Speaker 1: a wall under Doug Morone in recent weeks. He's on
Speaker 1: the hot seat. He's likely gonna be fired. The Jags
Speaker 1: have allowed a staggering nine sixty eight rushing yards there
Speaker 1: past five games. That's the most they've ever allowed in
Speaker 1: a five game span in franchise history. And they've had
Speaker 1: some bad teams in Jacksonville. This ain't their first rodeo
Speaker 1: with bad football. This is a full chair Nobyl reactor
Speaker 1: for situation for the defense here and and you can
Speaker 1: bind that with the offense that has been bed wedding
Speaker 1: and grinding their teeth of late. It's not a pretty picture. Now.
Speaker 1: The second thing for the Raiders, can they take advantage
Speaker 1: of that that really pathetic run defense. Well, that's an
Speaker 1: open question. Josh Jacobs missed the game last week. He's
Speaker 1: got a shoulder injury. Uh. He has been licking his
Speaker 1: lips thinking about playing. It sounds like he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: John Gruden better throw away the passing offense and run, run, run, run,
Speaker 1: run and run some more. All right, make Jacksonville stop
Speaker 1: your stable of running backs. The Raiders also shook up
Speaker 1: the roster. They shook up the locker room after three
Speaker 1: straight blowout losses. They brought in some new faces, trying
Speaker 1: to change the culture around the Raiders on the fly.
Speaker 1: But this is a litmus test to see who's gonna
Speaker 1: gonna get you more fight in this game, I believe
Speaker 1: it will be the Raiders, and the main reason I'm
Speaker 1: betting on the Raiders this is the final game ever
Speaker 1: at the Colisseum in Oakland after forty one seasons of football,
Speaker 1: broken up by a trip to Los Angeles. Um. But
Speaker 1: I expect the Raiders with all the pomp and circumstance
Speaker 1: and all the tributes and all that nonsense that I
Speaker 1: hate the cornball stuff. Uh, the Raiders will blow out
Speaker 1: the Jacks. Raiders thirty Jacksonville ten penny is going with
Speaker 1: the Oakland Raiders. You know what I'd rather do than
Speaker 1: watch this game? What would you rather? I'd rather listen
Speaker 1: to your friend Chris and Houston with a with a
Speaker 1: quick take. No, I wouldn't know that guy's actually awful.
Speaker 1: Never mind that guys sucks. So you realize that you
Speaker 1: hadn't gotten your gratuitous cheap shot at at him. So
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Speaker 1: want to do another trivial or you're alright, uh, all right, Uh.
Speaker 1: We're looking for the name of a quarterback who had
Speaker 1: five starts in a season in which they completed at
Speaker 1: least eighty percent of their passes, the most by any
Speaker 1: quarterback in a season in NFL history. That goes back
Speaker 1: to nineteen fifties. Since that they start keep keeping track
Speaker 1: of that. That stat they started keeping track of that
Speaker 1: st Cleveland six and seven at Arizona three, nine and one.
Speaker 1: It's on CBS with Tom McCarthy and Jay Feeley. The
Speaker 1: Browns open to two and a half point favorite. They
Speaker 1: are currently favorite by two and a half sunny sixty
Speaker 1: two degrees at kickoff at State Farm Stadium in the
Speaker 1: Valley of the Sun. I'm gonna take the Browns in
Speaker 1: this game, and I'm going with the public here, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. First of all, I'm counting on
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield showing up and giving me a good effort here.
Speaker 1: Everyone gets healthy against the Cardinals past defense, their thirty
Speaker 1: second in the NFL. The Cardinals have allowed twenty one
Speaker 1: or more points in each of their thirteen games this season.
Speaker 1: You know, many teams in NFL history have allowed that
Speaker 1: many three uh and and it's embarrassed. And that includes,
Speaker 1: by the way, the Browns that allowed twenty one plus
Speaker 1: points in more consecutive games to beginning season. However, Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield's dinged up. He's got a hand injury. He was
Speaker 1: slightly off his game for the Browns last week. He's
Speaker 1: been slightly off his game most of the year. But
Speaker 1: come on, you're playing the worst past defense in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You gotta get right against this team. Secondly, I don't
Speaker 1: hear a lot of braggadocious conversation from Gagon over there
Speaker 1: about the umpa loompa Kyler Murray, who is now playing
Speaker 1: like vomit. He's playing like Peter number one pick in
Speaker 1: the draft. My ass alligator arms Murray the last four
Speaker 1: weeks is the thirty first ranked quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind there's only thirty two teams, and he's
Speaker 1: he's been even worse the last two weeks. His passer
Speaker 1: rating at sixty point five. He looked like he needed
Speaker 1: police protection against the Rams. Last week he was in
Speaker 1: over his head. He was drowning. And the Cardinals you
Speaker 1: partly that and stack that on the fact that they
Speaker 1: can't stop anybody. I'm taking the Browns, Browns thirty, Cardinals
Speaker 1: twenty penny will not let you to fame Kylie Murray,
Speaker 1: and it's going with the Arizona Cardinals. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get trivial here. You wanted to do trivial, so we'll
Speaker 1: get trivial. Uh. Looking at the name of the quarterback
Speaker 1: five starts in a season in which that quarterback completed
Speaker 1: at least of their passes, most by any quarterback in
Speaker 1: any season in NFL. His I'm gonna go with the
Speaker 1: middle reliever Tommy Maddox. Wow, terrible guests because it exposes
Speaker 1: you for not knowing about modern football. The answer is
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. This season with the Minnesota Vikings. By sorry,
Speaker 1: speaking of that, Minnesota nine and four at the l
Speaker 1: A Charge It's five and eight. It's on CBS with
Speaker 1: Greg Gumbel and Trent Green. The Vikings a two and
Speaker 1: a half point favorite. They opened a three point favorite.
Speaker 1: The weather sunny in sixty degrees. That kick off in
Speaker 1: l A at Dignity Health Sports Park, which will be
Speaker 1: Minnesota West. It will be the Purple people Eaters overtaking
Speaker 1: the stadium. I'm gonna take the Chargers here, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Chargers here and uh and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. First of all, on the surface, the
Speaker 1: Vikings have the better team. They must keep winning to
Speaker 1: make the Plus, this is a let down situation. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. The Chargers are not a team that
Speaker 1: inspires a lot of motivation. The Vikings, I predict, will
Speaker 1: be sleepwalking in La La Land. Plus they have an
Speaker 1: epic showdown with the Packers next week. So I don't
Speaker 1: normally talk about trends also, but I gotta I got
Speaker 1: the mother of all trends here about Mike Zimmer and
Speaker 1: the Vikings. This is actually pre date Zimmer Minnesota. Their
Speaker 1: last eleven games played in the Mountain and Pacific time
Speaker 1: zone the last decade has a one in ten record.
Speaker 1: They are oh ninety one. They've got to not only
Speaker 1: win the game, they gotta win the game by more
Speaker 1: than a field goal the cover of the spread. That's
Speaker 1: the second worst record in the NFL over the last decade.
Speaker 1: You know're the only team that's been worst. Guest gun no,
Speaker 1: I will. Who do you think? Jacksonville? That's it? Jacksonville
Speaker 1: is the only team is more. Jacksonville's one eleven on
Speaker 1: the West coast the last last ten years. UM. So
Speaker 1: I clearly they traveled by stagecoach the Vikings um and
Speaker 1: they get like typhoid fever or something like that. The
Speaker 1: Chargers are nine in three UH in the in the
Speaker 1: NFL in December here under Anthony Lynn. So they've got
Speaker 1: a very good record. That's actually tied for the best
Speaker 1: record in the NFL over that span. So here's what
Speaker 1: I do. I guess throw to Austin Ekeler, let him
Speaker 1: run wild. UH, mix it up a little bit, put
Speaker 1: pressure on the Vikings. Chargers win the game outright. The
Speaker 1: l A Chargers twenty seven, Vikings twenty penny going up
Speaker 1: tempo with the Minnesota Vacking's all right. Next up Atlanta
Speaker 1: four and nine at Santa clar eleven two, eleven and two.
Speaker 1: It's on Fox and Chris Myers Daryl Johnson have the call.
Speaker 1: Forty Niners on eleven point favor. They opened eleven and
Speaker 1: a half, mostly sunny, fifty five degrees that kick off
Speaker 1: at Levi's Stadium. I'm gonna take the Alkins in this
Speaker 1: particular game. Jimmy Garoppolo coming off two emotional heavyweight fights
Speaker 1: against the Ravens lost and against the Saints that's a win.
Speaker 1: So it's human nature for the Niners to exhale against
Speaker 1: a tomato can. And that's just human nature. And if
Speaker 1: you don't play with an age, if you don't play
Speaker 1: with the sharpness, you don't cover a double digit point spread,
Speaker 1: which we have in this game. That's just a fact, Jack,
Speaker 1: or whatever your name is. Plus, Santa Clara closes out
Speaker 1: their season with the Rams and the forty Niners, two
Speaker 1: key divisional matchups coming up to close out the year. Now. Secondly,
Speaker 1: Mattie Ice and the Falcons have actually played better of late.
Speaker 1: They have They've also done pretty well against against mostly
Speaker 1: second right teams. But they've been able to move the
Speaker 1: ball and put points up. And that's all you have
Speaker 1: to do. You just kind of put up some points.
Speaker 1: Here with Julio Owns and whatnot, we're talking about a
Speaker 1: double digit line. The Falcons have had two hundred five
Speaker 1: plays of at least ten yards this season, third most
Speaker 1: in the NFL. That'll be enough. I'll get field goals,
Speaker 1: I get a few touchdowns. Forty Niners thirty Falcons twenty.
Speaker 1: That's a cover for Atlanta Pentney going with Santa Clara.
Speaker 1: All right. Next up, the l A ra Am send
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys Rams, damn right, Rams six and seven.
Speaker 1: It's on Fox with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Suddenly
Speaker 1: the sky is not falling around the Rams. Rams a
Speaker 1: one point favorite in this game. The Cowboys opened a
Speaker 1: four point favorite, and it's all now. The Rams have
Speaker 1: become a one point favorite. The public's betting on the Rams,
Speaker 1: but so are the wise guys. And Uh, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be partly partly sunny or partly cloudy, depending on you
Speaker 1: look at it. Uh sixty two degrees at kickoff and
Speaker 1: a T and T Stadium in Arlington Jerry's world. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the Rams in this game. The Rams will
Speaker 1: either win big or lose big. I believe they will
Speaker 1: win big. And that has been the pattern this season.
Speaker 1: Nine of the rams thirteen games have been decided by
Speaker 1: double digits. Six wins three losses, tied with Jacksonville for
Speaker 1: the most in the NFL. The Good Book says, when
Speaker 1: the Cowboys play a team with a winning record, you
Speaker 1: bet against the Cowboys. When the Cowboys play a team
Speaker 1: that has a losing record, and then you you give
Speaker 1: it a shot, even though they did lose to the
Speaker 1: Jets earlier this year. The Cowboys if they play somebody
Speaker 1: that has a pulse and doesn't normally go well. Uh
Speaker 1: and and then Dak Prescott also has put up some
Speaker 1: zombie status. He's leading the NFL in passing yards plays
Speaker 1: played like a junior varsity quarterback last week for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys until garbage time in Chicago is a little extra
Speaker 1: arrest for the Cowboys. But they're a hot mess. Rams
Speaker 1: defense has been nasty. Jared Golf the much more line,
Speaker 1: Jared Golf is snapped out of the funk of late
Speaker 1: and the Rams have found something I think they keep
Speaker 1: it going this week Rams thirty four, how Boys seventeen
Speaker 1: penny also go with the Los Angeles Rams. All right?
Speaker 1: Next up Sunday Night football, Buffalo nine and four, Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: eight and five. It's on CBS with Al Michaels and
Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth. What are what are you mumbling over there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I'm actually looking forward to this game. I am looking
Speaker 1: forward to this game also. Yeah, but you're not excited
Speaker 1: about Collinsworth? Is that? No? No, I'm excited, just uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I just wish Buffalo didn't lose last week. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: the Steelers opened a two point favorite. The they they
Speaker 1: actually open at one point favorite. These Steelers are favored
Speaker 1: by two now mostly clear thirty one degrees. That kick
Speaker 1: off at Hines Field. The public is saying, here we
Speaker 1: go Buffalo. I'm not like that though. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers in this spot, and I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1: A Josh Allen I said he had turned the corner
Speaker 1: and then he did a face plant. It was like
Speaker 1: a vaudeville comedy act last week against the Ravens, and
Speaker 1: a trapdoor opened up and he got zonked and fell
Speaker 1: down into a pit of alligators. He's trying to bounce back.
Speaker 1: He sucked at a time you cannot suck, which was
Speaker 1: during the first three quarters of the game against the Ravens.
Speaker 1: He finished with a hundred and forty six yards passing.
Speaker 1: Most of that came on one big pass play, and
Speaker 1: even with that, the bill still had a chance to
Speaker 1: beat the Ravens in the fourth quarter. And this is
Speaker 1: also what's called a popular cherry game. You know what,
Speaker 1: it's a popular cherry game. Guess gun No, please explain
Speaker 1: it to me. This is the first prime time start
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen's career, and I think it's the first
Speaker 1: prime time game for Buffalo since what like ten years
Speaker 1: ago or fifteen years ago against New England back when
Speaker 1: they had black and white television. They were vanished off
Speaker 1: what is VHS? Yes, Actlee, So, uh, how will he
Speaker 1: do Josh Allen against t J. Watt and a very
Speaker 1: good Steelers defense, an elite Steelers defense. I think they're
Speaker 1: number one in scoring defense. Josh Allen has never thrown
Speaker 1: for three d yards in an NFL game? Did you
Speaker 1: know that that? Uh? He is a run pass combo
Speaker 1: guy who has been a ratic uh, and you knows
Speaker 1: I love the Steelers defense. I'm I'm betting my hat
Speaker 1: on the Steeler defense here. Bud Dupree and Cameron Haywards
Speaker 1: should be righting the grill of Josh Allen. And there's
Speaker 1: also this weird, kind of like fun fact thing. I
Speaker 1: read that Mike Tomlin and Sean McDermott, the two coaches here,
Speaker 1: are former teammates under the great Jimmy Laycock at William
Speaker 1: and Mary, So these guys know each I don't go
Speaker 1: way back back in the day. The Steelers are nine
Speaker 1: and six on Sunday Night football at Hines Field under
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin. Duck Hodges is three and oh as his starter,
Speaker 1: and he's completing about seventy of his passes. The guy
Speaker 1: has been ridiculously good at these high percentage passes. He's
Speaker 1: been very accurate. It's working. The formula is working. I
Speaker 1: don't trust Josh Allen. I normally been on the bills,
Speaker 1: but I'm not doing it this week. Pittsburgh at home
Speaker 1: twenty four Buffalo six. Penny says that is a loser.
Speaker 1: Go with the Buffalo Bills, all right. Next up, Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football, Indianapolis six and seven, at New Orleans ten
Speaker 1: and three. It's on ESPN with Joe Testa, Tore and
Speaker 1: the Booger Everyone's favorite booger, Booger McFarland. The Saints opened
Speaker 1: a nine point favorite, and they are currently favored by nine.
Speaker 1: Thunderstorms in the Bayou for Monday Night, but it's in
Speaker 1: a dome, so don't worry about it. At the super Dome,
Speaker 1: the Colts are the pick. Now. The Saints are back
Speaker 1: belly aching about the referees. They feel like there's this
Speaker 1: great global conspiracy against them. They got jobbed against the
Speaker 1: forty Niners last week and they've been raising Holy Hell again,
Speaker 1: so they're a slightly distracted team. Drew Brees and Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas are certainly friends, part of a superior team and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. New Orleans is coming off an emotional game,
Speaker 1: a hard fought game. They lost the forty Niners at home,
Speaker 1: and now they're playing a team that has a losing
Speaker 1: wreck and the Colts now they're gonna obviously need all
Speaker 1: hands on deck. That the injury report will determine a
Speaker 1: lot of this, whether t Y Hilton plays or doesn't play,
Speaker 1: and several other key players, Jacobe Brissette also scares the
Speaker 1: hell out of me. I'm betting on the Colts. But Brisett.
Speaker 1: Remember when he got off that quick start, and but
Speaker 1: he's been exposed. He had fourteen touchdown passes and three
Speaker 1: interceptions and a passer rating of a hundred and one
Speaker 1: the first six games of the year he played. Since then,
Speaker 1: that the last six games Brissette has played, he has
Speaker 1: four touchdowns and three interceptions in a passer rating of
Speaker 1: eighty two. Uh and so I expect more of that
Speaker 1: against the Saints here. But Indianapolis can run the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit. They're a feisty team. They've got a
Speaker 1: little bit of moxie still left in him. I expect
Speaker 1: a much better effort by the Colts this week. In general,
Speaker 1: you don't want to be embarrassed on national television, and
Speaker 1: I believe they will not be embarrassed on national television.
Speaker 1: I'll take New Orleans thirty and Indianapolis. Te Ben Penny
Speaker 1: is going with the Saints. Going with the Saints, all right,
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