Speaker 1: Welcome players, You're welcome. Are It's time now Penny the
Speaker 1: Penny that it is week seven in the NFL. We
Speaker 1: are back at not a great weekend last weekend. We
Speaker 1: don't have a lot of time to play grab bass here,
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Speaker 1: an informative information based podcast giving opinions on all the
Speaker 1: NFL games. You should not only go on the you
Speaker 1: shouldn't bet everything I've been is what I'm trying to
Speaker 1: say here. Um, but if you're a gambler and you
Speaker 1: have an opinion on a certain game, if I agree
Speaker 1: with it, that I always say that's that should be
Speaker 1: the thing that pushes you over the edge. There, But
Speaker 1: don't lose touch with reality. I've been very hot this year. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's very um thinly based, shall we say. I
Speaker 1: believe I will continue to win. But uh, years past
Speaker 1: years and years of data, Uh does not go well anyway?
Speaker 1: This week we will not. We have we have the
Speaker 1: no Browns, no Panthers, no snow Steelers. They're all on
Speaker 1: the bye week now. David Gascon is the voice of
Speaker 1: the Penny and so Gascon, how did we do last week?
Speaker 1: Before we look ahead? You were awful five and nine. No,
Speaker 1: I think I was like six and eight. No, no,
Speaker 1: you're five. No, no, you're five. I think you're wrong. No,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, no. You got Arizona or you got Carolina. Correct,
Speaker 1: you got Minnesota and Arizona. And Arizona they covered against
Speaker 1: they were an underdog against Atlanta. They covered the Lions.
Speaker 1: Uh the lines, they covered, that's right, and that's it.
Speaker 1: And the Jets. Okay, I don't have it in front
Speaker 1: of me, but I think I believe I did better
Speaker 1: than your saying. But it doesn't matter that I had
Speaker 1: a bad week. It was not good. I lost my shirt. Um,
Speaker 1: and I will do better. I I like the card
Speaker 1: this week better. I didn't really like the card last week. UM.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's some more games I have a
Speaker 1: good feel on that are in the spotlight this weekend.
Speaker 1: So we'll see see what's going on with that. Let's
Speaker 1: make some money, all right. Arizona to three and one
Speaker 1: at the New York Giants. It's on Fox. Check this out.
Speaker 1: Kenny Albert's working with Greg Olsen, the former. Actually he's
Speaker 1: still playing. He's in the NFL with Carolina. They're gonna
Speaker 1: bye week this week. So Greg Olsen slides into the
Speaker 1: fox box that rocks with Kenny Albert. Thanks to my
Speaker 1: friends Sports with Coleman for for letting me know. Uh.
Speaker 1: I thought Kenny normally works with one of the Barber brothers,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna work with Greg Olson here. Uh. The
Speaker 1: Giants opened a three point favorite. The line is still three.
Speaker 1: It's mc cloudy degrees at MetLife Stadium for this game,
Speaker 1: so the weather's not a factor. I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: Giants in this game. I've been on the Cardinals the
Speaker 1: last couple of games. Um, you know it's it's appropriate
Speaker 1: that Kyler Murray, who's the size of a high school freshman, um,
Speaker 1: is that way because the Cardinals are in the junk
Speaker 1: food portion of their schedule Bengals, Falcons and now Giants,
Speaker 1: and you're you're never supposed to choke on cream puffs.
Speaker 1: Now Arizona is a cream puff. Kyler Murray sycophants or delusion.
Speaker 1: He's done okay, but let's not go overboard. Uh. This
Speaker 1: is another game against a dreadful defense where Murray should
Speaker 1: put up some numbers. New York is twenty eight in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Defensively, they can't stop anybody uh And secondly,
Speaker 1: Big Blue. The Giants are dead last and giveaways per game,
Speaker 1: they ranked thirty second, neck and neck with the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: And in one of the keys to this game obviously
Speaker 1: is the Giants, say Kwan Barkley, he was apparently backed
Speaker 1: the information we have he missed the last couple of games.
Speaker 1: How effective he'll be after that high ankle sprain isn't
Speaker 1: an open question. The jury is still out on that um.
Speaker 1: He suffered that back in week three. But Evan Ingram,
Speaker 1: the tight end also is back. So they're getting a
Speaker 1: couple of playmakers. You've got Golden Tates still there, and
Speaker 1: Arizona is actually worse defensively then the Giants their thirtieth
Speaker 1: in the NFL defensively the g men. So I expect
Speaker 1: this to be a seesaw kind of a game. But
Speaker 1: in the end, I believe the New York Giants at
Speaker 1: home will ween and cover. Giants thirty four, Cardinals thirty.
Speaker 1: Harryett Mode Penny is also going with the New York Giants. Alright,
Speaker 1: Houston four and two in Indianapolis three and two. It's
Speaker 1: on CBS with Greg Gumble and Trent Green on the call.
Speaker 1: The Colts opened a two and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: Public loves the Texans, so the culture down to a
Speaker 1: one point favorite. Games in a dome at Lucas Oil Stadium,
Speaker 1: but outside the dome it will be sixty five. I
Speaker 1: stay in Indianapolis, mostly cloudy on Sunday, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Colt. I'll tell you why. First of all, this
Speaker 1: is a huge letdown spot. I like the psychology of
Speaker 1: sports gambling. I believe this is a letdown spot for
Speaker 1: the Texans. I know it's a divisional game, but the
Speaker 1: Texas are the toast of the NFL in many respects.
Speaker 1: The talking heads are slabber slabber lick lick all over
Speaker 1: the Texans after they want an arrowhead. Last week winning
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, they were trailing going to the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: They won the game, fell behind big early, so everyone's
Speaker 1: been massaging Deshaun Watson and and you know his fan
Speaker 1: boys there. It was orgasmic for them. But the train
Speaker 1: keeps moving and Indianapolis is a good spot for Indye.
Speaker 1: They stepped on the booby trap in their last game
Speaker 1: before the bye. They lost to the Raiders. Uh, and
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a hungry motivated, focused Colts team looking
Speaker 1: to get that bad taste out of their mouth, and
Speaker 1: you got a satisfied Texans team to a point. And also,
Speaker 1: Jacobe Bristette, this is one of the teams he's actually
Speaker 1: played pretty well against in his career. He's yet to
Speaker 1: throw an interception's one of all three games as a
Speaker 1: quarterback against the Texans in his career. And the other
Speaker 1: thing about Indies are very hard to play in the
Speaker 1: sense that they're like a chameleon on office. They changed
Speaker 1: their style from week to week depending on who they're
Speaker 1: playing to attack the weaknesses of the opponent, which means
Speaker 1: they're a versatile team. And you know, the other thing
Speaker 1: is Houston's just due to cool off. The law of
Speaker 1: averages plays in here. They've had sixties six first downs
Speaker 1: the last two games. Sixty six first downs the last
Speaker 1: two games, which is more of a testimonial to the
Speaker 1: Falcons and the Chiefs. Indianapolis is a better defensive team.
Speaker 1: They should show some resistance here. Colts six, Texans twenty
Speaker 1: compending like you to go with the Colts. Be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio and the I Heart Radio app. All Right, Next
Speaker 1: up Miami, oh and five at Buffalo four and one
Speaker 1: is on CBS. Andrew Catalan and James Lofton have the call.
Speaker 1: The Bills open the fifteen and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: They are favored by seventeen degrees at New Era Field
Speaker 1: the fifty seven at kickoff in Orchard Park, New York.
Speaker 1: I am gonna take Buffalo in this game. The main
Speaker 1: reason the Dolphins of the peasants of the NFL. They
Speaker 1: are the undomesticated animals of the pigskin. See uh. And
Speaker 1: this is pretty much a show up and win situation. Know,
Speaker 1: obviously the big question on this Buffalo Miami game is
Speaker 1: can you cover that number? Buffalo is an offensively challenged
Speaker 1: football team, at least that's the public perception. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of real estate to navigate with Josh mistake prone
Speaker 1: Allen as quarterback. But there are it's more than one
Speaker 1: way to bake a cake. Because I like to say so,
Speaker 1: defense and running the ball, and the Dolphins are going
Speaker 1: with Ryan Fitzpatrick, who will guaranteed at least have a
Speaker 1: fumble and an interception or two interceptions, something like that
Speaker 1: as he gets the start, it wouldn't It wouldn't really
Speaker 1: matter whether same or Josh Rose Fitzpatrick could actually throw
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdown passes, which would screw you up.
Speaker 1: But the Bills, even though they're not thought of as
Speaker 1: a great offensive team, they have outgained their opponents by
Speaker 1: nineties seven total net yards per game. That's fifth best
Speaker 1: in the NFL. The Dolphins have been out gained by
Speaker 1: over two hundred yards per game, the worst in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Um by the way, the Jets of the second worst
Speaker 1: and about sixty yards better than the Dolphins. But I'm
Speaker 1: riding the Buffalo defense. I'm gonna ride with the Bills.
Speaker 1: Mafi here crushed the tables and hope that Frank Gore
Speaker 1: in the running game are able to find Peytir enough.
Speaker 1: The other thing is the public keeps betting on the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: They're not even trying to win in the dummies in
Speaker 1: the gambling public keep betting on Miami. They said, oh,
Speaker 1: seventeen points. They must think Dan Marino's playing for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Buffalo thirty one, Dolphins ten. You're final. It's a divisional game.
Speaker 1: Penny is also going with the Miami Dolphins. Never mind
Speaker 1: all that it's a divisional game, but when one team
Speaker 1: is not trying, you don't you lay the points? All right?
Speaker 1: Moving on Minnesota four and two at Detroit to two
Speaker 1: and one. It's on Fox. Brandon Gotten and Chris Bielman
Speaker 1: have the CoA. Why aren't you doing this game? Well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that when we go have dinner with
Speaker 1: your buddy Kenny Albert trying to ride my cotips. Just
Speaker 1: talking about play by play teams and anyways, come on,
Speaker 1: let's go. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Alright,
Speaker 1: Vikings open, Yeah, I know I wanna avoid that. Vikings
Speaker 1: open to pick him. They are one and a half
Speaker 1: point favorites. It's gonna be in a dorm at Ford Field,
Speaker 1: and it's the weather's not bad and destroyed at kick off.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Vikings in this game. This is
Speaker 1: a game that was a bit of a toss up
Speaker 1: for me, which Kirk Cousins is gonna show up. Cousins
Speaker 1: had six touchdowns over the last two games against weaker defenses.
Speaker 1: Yeah you Philadelphia, Their secondary sucks and recorded just three
Speaker 1: across his first four games. Now I am drinking the
Speaker 1: Purple Kool eight. I'm betting on Cousins getting the job
Speaker 1: done here. But we cannot be oblivious to the fact
Speaker 1: that he has been like a swing. He's up and
Speaker 1: down from game to game and in his Minnesota tenure.
Speaker 1: And the Lions are a better defensive team. Um, you
Speaker 1: wonder where they're at mindset wise. After a stinging, heartbreaking,
Speaker 1: hotel heart break, hotel loss at Lambo on Monday night,
Speaker 1: they were given the Packers were given the game by
Speaker 1: incompetence by the referees. But but I'm gonna take the Vikings.
Speaker 1: I mean, Detroit has some pretty good names on defense.
Speaker 1: The perception is they're a good defensive team, but statistically
Speaker 1: they've been pulverized. They're giving up four hundred thirteen yards
Speaker 1: per game the Lions this year. The Vikings, for a comparison,
Speaker 1: are number five in defense in the NFL. So you've
Speaker 1: got a much better Viking defense, and you know, Minnesota's
Speaker 1: defensive a blitz happy attack, which that actually you know,
Speaker 1: it's the game within the game. That doesn't necessarily help
Speaker 1: the Vikings because Matthew Stafford has four touchdowns and no
Speaker 1: interceptions against the Blitz. But despite it all, Vikings only
Speaker 1: a one and a half point favorite. I don't know
Speaker 1: on the road, I'm gonna take the Vikings twenty seven
Speaker 1: Lions twenty four depending going that way as well. Go
Speaker 1: with Minnesota, all right? Next up Oakland three in two
Speaker 1: at green Bay five and one. It's on CBS. Jim
Speaker 1: Nance and Toe Knee row Mo have the call. The
Speaker 1: Packers opened a seven point favorite. They are favored by
Speaker 1: five and a half. It will be partly sunny in
Speaker 1: fifties six degrees that kick off at Lambow Field. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't like the fact that I agree with the
Speaker 1: public on this, but I do. I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: Raiders all right. Now. First of all, the Packers are
Speaker 1: proof it's better to be lucky than go. We just
Speaker 1: told you they were given a game by the officials.
Speaker 1: Green Bay has been the biggest beneficiary of officiating calls
Speaker 1: going their away, meaning most yards gained from penalties on
Speaker 1: the other team than any other team in the NFL's
Speaker 1: not even close. So the Raiders are going into a
Speaker 1: hornet's nest where they not only have to beat the Packers,
Speaker 1: they have to beat the officials. It's like on eleven um.
Speaker 1: So the Packers have a distinct advantage here. But I
Speaker 1: think Green Bay is just over raded. I believe they're
Speaker 1: over rated. H you know, people, So that's just how
Speaker 1: could you just say that, you know, there's a couple
Speaker 1: of these games that they should have lost that we're
Speaker 1: given to them by the opposition. So if green Bay,
Speaker 1: let's say green Bay's three and three right now, the
Speaker 1: perception is not, oh, they're great. The perception is whether
Speaker 1: average And I don't know who the real Raiders are either,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I mean the to me,
Speaker 1: the Raiders in Detroit are about even and in Oakland
Speaker 1: is the rested team after the bye week? Is they
Speaker 1: continue that nomad lifestyle, that football orphan lifestyle Packers coming
Speaker 1: on the short week. Aaron Rodgers has been a garden
Speaker 1: variety quarterback. He's twenty in the NFL case, Keenum has
Speaker 1: been more productive. Jacoby Brissette has been more productive, uh
Speaker 1: in these games. Plus the other thing for for Green Bay,
Speaker 1: I look at the psychology of this. This is a
Speaker 1: peak of boot special. The Packers have a showcase game
Speaker 1: next week with the Kansas City Chiefs now and this
Speaker 1: is you know this is an out of conference game.
Speaker 1: I know that's an out of conference game, but that's
Speaker 1: a big highlight game for the NFL. So do they
Speaker 1: get caught looking ahead? Packers will win, but will not
Speaker 1: cover Packers two Raiders twenty three Penny also go with
Speaker 1: the silver and bleak Oakland Raiders. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: trivial Gardner Minshew, my guy Gardner, mishu. The second is
Speaker 1: the third quarterbacks in the n eight hundred plus passing
Speaker 1: yards and no interceptions through his first three career roads starts.
Speaker 1: The other two we're Marcus Mariota and blank fill in
Speaker 1: the blank. The answer coming up in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Gardner Minshew. Jacksonville at Cincinnati Jacks two and
Speaker 1: four Bengals oh and six. It is on CBS with
Speaker 1: Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon. They have the call on
Speaker 1: this game. Jacksonville opened up a three point road favorite.
Speaker 1: They have actually been bet up to three and a half,
Speaker 1: which should scare you a little bit because that's that
Speaker 1: hook on the end of it. It's gonna be cloudy
Speaker 1: sixties six degrees. A kick off at Paul Brown Stadium
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. I'm gonna take the Jags in this game. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I think that's the only way. Either don't bet
Speaker 1: the game, or you take Jacksonville Gardner minshew Mania. Uh.
Speaker 1: They obviously ran into a brick wall last week. But
Speaker 1: even with the offensive frailties, the Jags were tied with
Speaker 1: Big Bad in New Orleans going to the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and it took a Teddy Bridgewater drive and a low
Speaker 1: scoring game in the fourth quarter to win that for
Speaker 1: New Orleans. So that's a that's a not a you know,
Speaker 1: never a good loss, but that's a competitive loss for
Speaker 1: Jacksonville against one of the better teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And it's really hard to suck against the Bengals. They're
Speaker 1: so sorrowful, right, this is the perfect rebound game. It's
Speaker 1: stunning to see the Jags favorite on the road against anybody.
Speaker 1: But it's really tribute to the incompetence of the Bengals
Speaker 1: franchise that they're in that situation. The Bengals are trying
Speaker 1: to go oh in sixteen, as you know, the front
Speaker 1: office and all that, they have to lose this game
Speaker 1: to get closer to that destination. The main reason to
Speaker 1: like Jacksonville is Leonard fin four net. He should pillage
Speaker 1: those dreadful Cincinnati Bengal linebackers. Jacksonville is averaging five point
Speaker 1: one yards per carry, third best in the NFL. The
Speaker 1: Bengals are allowing five point three yards per carry. That's
Speaker 1: worst in the NFL. Now that tells you what has happened,
Speaker 1: doesn't tell you what will happen. But the public is
Speaker 1: all over Jacksonville, which I said, you know that scares me, um,
Speaker 1: But listen, the Bengals were good or even somewhat competitive,
Speaker 1: I would say, Okay, I'll roll the dice with Cincinnati
Speaker 1: is a live home dog. But don't hold your breath.
Speaker 1: They're poorly coach. They have bad players. I know they're
Speaker 1: getting some guys back, but the mistakes will continue. Jacksonville
Speaker 1: the Bengals twenty penny going the other way, going with
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Speaker 1: we gotta pay off the instant or the instant the
Speaker 1: let's get trivial Gardner Minshew the third quarterback since nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty have eight hundred plus passing yards and no interception
Speaker 1: through three his first three career road starts. The others
Speaker 1: were Marcus Mariota, who's been benched in Tennessee back in blank. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Bernie Kosar's good name. You know,
Speaker 1: that's Dick In Dayton's favorite Brown's quarterback is Bernie Kozar.
Speaker 1: Nobody else is good on that team. Dick and Dayton
Speaker 1: loves him. Webster Slaughter, Ernest Biner, all those old Browns,
Speaker 1: the fumble and uh and Dick would like to see
Speaker 1: every time the Browns fire coach and executive. I said, hey, Deck,
Speaker 1: who do you want to see the Browns hire? Dick
Speaker 1: and Dayton will always tell me Bernie Kozar. Ben I
Speaker 1: think Bernie would be good. It's so funny. Um, But
Speaker 1: now the answer is he's a here's another good name,
Speaker 1: Elvis Gerbach, Kansas City chiefs. Now he did with as
Speaker 1: a rookie with the forty niners in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1: So that goes way back. It's over twenty or something,
Speaker 1: you know, almost twenty five years ago. You believe it's
Speaker 1: been almost twenty five years that's a lot. Uh. Anyway, Anyway,
Speaker 1: I remember talking about Elvis guir back on the radio
Speaker 1: when he was playing, Uh yikes, all right, the l
Speaker 1: a Rams three in three at Atlanta one in five
Speaker 1: on Fox with Sam Rosen and Charles Davis calling this game. Now,
Speaker 1: the Rams opened a four point road favorite. They are
Speaker 1: favored by three. Mean a dome in Atlanta, light, rain,
Speaker 1: sixty degrees outside, but inside, perfect conditions at the Mercedes
Speaker 1: Benz Stadium. I'm taking the Rams, all right. The Falcons
Speaker 1: went into Los Angeles upset the Rams in the playoff
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. This is the first meetings
Speaker 1: since that game. You assume there's enough players on the
Speaker 1: Rams that are still around that remember that this is
Speaker 1: also the perfect vaccine, the magic elixir for what is
Speaker 1: hurting the Rams. Everyone and their uncle gets healthy against
Speaker 1: the Falcons. If the Rams lose this game, heads should
Speaker 1: roll under no circumstances. So they allowed to lose this game.
Speaker 1: Now the questions when they cover the spread Under Sean McVeigh,
Speaker 1: the Rams have played as road warriors, have done really well,
Speaker 1: especially against crappy opponents. The problem is this version of
Speaker 1: the Rams that they currently have has the worst starting
Speaker 1: offensive line in the NFL according to the advanced data,
Speaker 1: not counting the Dolphins outside the Dolphins, who aren't even
Speaker 1: a real NFL team. Fortunately, though, the reason you like
Speaker 1: the Rams here, Jared Golf is going against the Falcons defense,
Speaker 1: which gargles tap water from Flint, Michigan. They're so bad. Uh.
Speaker 1: Even even Marcus mari Oda a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: looked invincible against the dirty Birds defense at Alanta has
Speaker 1: allowed one thousand thirty four total yards the last two games.
Speaker 1: That's the most surrendered by any team in a two
Speaker 1: game span the entire year so far, including a league
Speaker 1: that has the Dolphins and the Bengals and the Redskins.
Speaker 1: So and the other thing is the Ramps should be
Speaker 1: foreign to Greg's oline. Mr gimme in Seattle. And if
Speaker 1: the Rams were four into at this point instead of
Speaker 1: three in two or three and three, the public perception
Speaker 1: would be much different. The line the Rams would be
Speaker 1: probably favored by five or more points in this game. Um,
Speaker 1: so you gotta adjust with that and say, well, they
Speaker 1: should have won that game. And the other thing, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of soaking and winding going on in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Everyone's waiting for the guillotine to fall on the neck
Speaker 1: of Dan Quinn as he continues to hold on by
Speaker 1: a threat as the sheriff of Hucklebee Um Huckleberry. But
Speaker 1: but the Dolphins in in Bengals are historically bad, so
Speaker 1: Atlanta is getting a bit of a pass of criticism
Speaker 1: and you don't have the full bull's eye on their
Speaker 1: back and all that. But they have been playing powder
Speaker 1: puff football in Georgia, UH this year. And you know
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan will get his empty numbers, will pass for
Speaker 1: three hundred yards and a couple of touchdowns and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. But you know, plenty of ineptitude and clumsy
Speaker 1: in this UH. And hopefully Jalen Ramsey will play and
Speaker 1: he'll he'll shut down Julio Jones or contain him. And
Speaker 1: the Browns will have a bunch of drop passes, a
Speaker 1: bunch of fumbles, a bunch of players slipping and falling.
Speaker 1: It's like a football follies video, and the Rams will
Speaker 1: feel good about themselves and they'll get the four and
Speaker 1: three Rams, thirty falcons twenty damn right man, damn right.
Speaker 1: I love that play that more. Penny's also going with
Speaker 1: the Rams. They gotta win more. They had to win
Speaker 1: more in the Rams. Penny can't pa playing that unless
Speaker 1: they start winning. Playing like a bunch of chops three
Speaker 1: and three. They got man handled last week. They're right
Speaker 1: in the middle of the bell. They were grabbing ankles
Speaker 1: last week. It was embarrassing. You do that every weekend,
Speaker 1: All right, let's get trivial. He set me up, man,
Speaker 1: You're like, that was like a John Stockton passed a
Speaker 1: carm alone back with the old as you thought, yead,
Speaker 1: you can sent me up that. That was a an
Speaker 1: alley pass from Russell Westbrook to James Arber Christy. Come on,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get trivial. The Redskins earned their first
Speaker 1: win of the season in interim coach Bill Callahan's debut. Now,
Speaker 1: Callaghan is bidding to become the fifth Redskins coach to
Speaker 1: win his first two games, the first since blank. The
Speaker 1: answer coming up. Speaking of the Redskins, they play host
Speaker 1: to Santa Clara. The Santa Clara forty niners of five
Speaker 1: and oh Redskins are one in five. It's on Fox.
Speaker 1: My former colleague Chris Myers, part of the Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio Alumni Association, and Darryl Moose Johnston have the call.
Speaker 1: The Niners opened to nine and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: They're currently favored by nine and athro line has not
Speaker 1: changed to be cloudy in fifty nine and landover Maryland
Speaker 1: at FedEx Field. Uh and against my better judgment, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the Redskins here and I'll tell you why
Speaker 1: I bet on bad teams. First of all, this is
Speaker 1: a classic letdowns about the Niners. Have played prime time game.
Speaker 1: They played prime time game against the Browns Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1: They follow that up with a key NFC West game
Speaker 1: for them against the Rams. They got a lot of attention,
Speaker 1: and they have another game which is much more important
Speaker 1: as far as the the NFL power structure, the totem
Speaker 1: poll in the NFL. They played Carolina next week, which
Speaker 1: is more of a high profile game. And the other
Speaker 1: thing is nobody gets fired up to play the Redskins.
Speaker 1: You've got you know, this is a good test to
Speaker 1: see how the Niners handle prosperity. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I think the Niners are a good team. I like
Speaker 1: their defense. I'm impressed. I hate to say that I
Speaker 1: had to give him credit, but they may They said
Speaker 1: they looked like a good team. The way they played.
Speaker 1: They are down a couple of offensive linemen, which you
Speaker 1: got a factory in coming to this game. Will that matter?
Speaker 1: The Redskins are pretty bad defensively. Uh. And the main
Speaker 1: problem I have I'm taking the Redskins despite this is
Speaker 1: how are they going to move the ball? Their offenses trash?
Speaker 1: They got a bunch of good for nothing playmakers who
Speaker 1: collectively disappeared to fit air for stretches of games. But
Speaker 1: that said, the value is on the side of Washington.
Speaker 1: You get over a Touchdore, I gotta stay loyal to
Speaker 1: my gambling principles on Benny versus the penny, I tried
Speaker 1: to do that. And and West Coast team going east
Speaker 1: early start forty Niners. You figure a little lethargic at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the game. Redskins can score special teams touchdown.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo throws an interception that could lead to an
Speaker 1: easy score for the Redskins. And the other thing is
Speaker 1: the public is loading up on the Niners, and most
Speaker 1: NFL games are decided by touchdown a less even the
Speaker 1: bad teams keep it close. And this is not quite
Speaker 1: double digits. But you can live a nice life on
Speaker 1: clothes or at double digit odds. So I'm gonna close
Speaker 1: my eyes, I'm gonna cover my ears, more importantly, shut
Speaker 1: my mouth, and i will take the Santa Clara forty
Speaker 1: Niners six the Redskins seventeen. That's right, Hail to the Redskins,
Speaker 1: Hail to victory. Penny Gill with San Francisco. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get trivial. The Redskins earned their first win of
Speaker 1: the season and interim coach Bill Callahan's debut, Callahan bidding
Speaker 1: they become the fifth Redskins head coach to win his
Speaker 1: first two games, the first since Blank Gascon, lifelong fan
Speaker 1: of the Washington Redskins. I'm gonna go with Can I
Speaker 1: go with North Turner? It's good name, It's good name,
Speaker 1: North Turner. Uh No, not Norvelle Turner. The correct answer.
Speaker 1: You gotta go back to the that seventies show. Jack
Speaker 1: Pardie got off to a six and oh start with
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventy eight version of the Redskins. I would
Speaker 1: have thought it would have been like Joe Gibbs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my first That was the obvious one. That's
Speaker 1: why I used it. I don't like when the obvious
Speaker 1: one is the answer, Jack Pardie. Here's a name. I've
Speaker 1: heard that name since I was a kid. All Right,
Speaker 1: Late games l A Chargers two and four at Tennessee
Speaker 1: to and four. It's on CBS with Iron Eagle and
Speaker 1: Dan Fouts. The Tennessee Titans opened up at one point. Favorite.
Speaker 1: Titans are favored by two at this moment. Now the
Speaker 1: weather gonna be partly sunny seventy eight degrees for Clay
Speaker 1: Travis when he goes to this game at Nissan Stadium,
Speaker 1: he's a Titan season take it older. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: his Titans in this spot. You don't love this game,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna take Tennessee as a small favorite at home.
Speaker 1: This season has come apart for both these teams. The
Speaker 1: Charges were in a f C power last season playoff
Speaker 1: team won a playoff game. Now they are in a
Speaker 1: pit of misery. And Philip Rivers has been worse than
Speaker 1: his statistics. His turnovers and misquse have put the Chargers
Speaker 1: consistently behind the eight ball. And you figure things would
Speaker 1: go better. You figure that things would go better this
Speaker 1: week against a week Tennessee team, right, And and I
Speaker 1: believe you know, I believe it when it happened. You know,
Speaker 1: I am I am skeptical of of this actually actually
Speaker 1: working out. Uh, and so so we can we can
Speaker 1: write this down seven ways to Sunday. Uh. If you want.
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon came back, he's been no good. The Chargers
Speaker 1: actually have have been held the thirty five rushing yards
Speaker 1: or fewer in both games since Melvin Gordon returned to
Speaker 1: the team's first time. The Chargers have had back to
Speaker 1: back games with thirty five rushing yards are less since nine.
Speaker 1: The Titans have a decent defense, The problems on offense
Speaker 1: has been a polar vortex. In their offense, they simply
Speaker 1: can't score. Things are so bad that we know they're
Speaker 1: turning to Ryan Tannehill as an upgrade over Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 1: The Titans have had fewer than twenty five completions in
Speaker 1: eighteen straight games, the longest active streak in the NFL.
Speaker 1: The key here, he's the opponent. The Chargers defensively are
Speaker 1: are not terrible statistically, but they've been just off enough
Speaker 1: that it's not a winning formula. Combined with Philip Rivers mistakes.
Speaker 1: You know, so the public seems to be slow reacting here.
Speaker 1: How bad the Chargers are the public perception is you
Speaker 1: know it, say, when the legend becomes the fact that
Speaker 1: you go with the legend. Right, The legend is that
Speaker 1: that the Chargers are a good team. The fact is
Speaker 1: that right now they're not. And I expect Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: to run wild against an injury ravage Charger defense Titans
Speaker 1: despite the substandard quarterback twenty four the Chargers. Penny also
Speaker 1: going with Tennessee. Alright, moving on, let's see here we
Speaker 1: pressed on. We have the next game. I should well,
Speaker 1: Lit's say a trivial one more time. Which quarterback has
Speaker 1: produced the fewest negative plays that sacks, interceptions and fumbles
Speaker 1: lowest rate through the first six weeks? Answer? Coming up?
Speaker 1: Baltimore four and two at Seattle five and one. It's
Speaker 1: on Fox. You know who's calling this game? It's a
Speaker 1: pretty good game. Who's got the game? I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with Dick Stockton? That Dick. Dick Stockton and Ronde Barber,
Speaker 1: who normally works with Kenny Albert and Mark Schlay were
Speaker 1: three man both calling this game. Seahawks opened a four
Speaker 1: point favorite. They are favorite right now by three and
Speaker 1: a half. Light rain traditional Seattle weather, light rain and
Speaker 1: fifty three degrees. I'm excited. I'm gonna tell you guys more.
Speaker 1: I'll probably do it next week. Um, They're gonna be
Speaker 1: a Mallard meet and greet at a forty Niners game.
Speaker 1: Jay Scoop is setting this up. But but some of
Speaker 1: the big super fans of the show in Seattle are
Speaker 1: gonna get together before a Seahawks forty Niners game kind
Speaker 1: of hold a rally outside the stadium with signs and
Speaker 1: stuff and bull horn and it's gonna be pretty cool.
Speaker 1: I'm fired up about it. I wonder if I can
Speaker 1: get to Seattle and and maybe that would be fun
Speaker 1: if I can go to that game and and be
Speaker 1: part of it. But but anyway, so that's coming up.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna take the Ravens actually in this game.
Speaker 1: Sorry Seahawks fans, I'm gonna take the Ravens. Pete Carroll.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's got lucky fuzzy dice or
Speaker 1: rabbit's foot or whatever, but he has been able to
Speaker 1: ward off bad luck. Seattle statistically has been outplayed in
Speaker 1: several of the games that five and one, but they yeah,
Speaker 1: they've won the scoreboard. My evaluation is much like talking
Speaker 1: about Green Bay that the Seahawks really should be three
Speaker 1: and three. They were outplayed by the Bengals, of all teams,
Speaker 1: they rams missed the chip shot field goal that should
Speaker 1: have won the game. Uh, you know last time out,
Speaker 1: so uh two weeks ago. That that's the randomness of
Speaker 1: the NFL season. Russell Wilson has yet to throw an interception.
Speaker 1: That means the law of averages, he's due. Nobody's perfect.
Speaker 1: You're gona throw interception? Why not this week against US
Speaker 1: average Ravens defense. Uh. Secondly, this is the hardest game
Speaker 1: I would say to handicap because both these teams are
Speaker 1: more I believe of a pretender than a real contender.
Speaker 1: And yet someone is either gonna be six and one,
Speaker 1: or that would be Seattle, or both these teams will
Speaker 1: be five and two. The Seahawks defeated the Browns last week.
Speaker 1: They got their fourth win of the season by four
Speaker 1: points or fewer. No other NFL team, Uh this Sea
Speaker 1: and has has two more than two wins by four points,
Speaker 1: so that they've been living a charmed life. And so
Speaker 1: far this season in Baltimore, they haven't planned anybody. Their
Speaker 1: opponents have a combined three winning percentage tied with the
Speaker 1: forty Niners for the easiest schedule so far this NFL season.
Speaker 1: And I'm also taking the Ravens despite history, I'm going
Speaker 1: against the trend. Historically, the Ravens have turned to vampires
Speaker 1: when they when they go to the West Coast, they're
Speaker 1: dead birds. Ravens are four and eleven against the spread
Speaker 1: on the West Coast in their franchise history. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure Lamar Jackson's losing sleep over that. But there's something
Speaker 1: else to follow a way that the Ravens have a
Speaker 1: bye week next week, so you wonder about that. But
Speaker 1: I like Marcus Peters energizing locker room coming over. They
Speaker 1: think he's good. He's not um from the Rams, and
Speaker 1: he'll just play cat coverage. You know what cat coverage
Speaker 1: is gascon. Uh, Well, he's playing stopped and he's playing
Speaker 1: in zone. So no, no cat coverages. When you don't
Speaker 1: know what you're doing, you just tell him go out
Speaker 1: and guard that cat. You point at the receiver that's
Speaker 1: cat covered. I've never I heard that that's an NFL
Speaker 1: coach of that years ago. But this is the Earl
Speaker 1: Thomas revenge game. Uh. He's one of the captains for
Speaker 1: the Ravens this week, So win it for Earl, Do
Speaker 1: it for Earl Ravens as an underdog twenty three, spending
Speaker 1: out with the home team of this one, see at all.
Speaker 1: All right, we're doing an expetited edition of Benny versus
Speaker 1: Pennycus Guest gone showed up late. Let's get trivial quarterbacks
Speaker 1: who have produced negative plays alright, sacks, interception and the
Speaker 1: fumbles at the lowest rate through the first six weeks.
Speaker 1: Who's number one most perfect quarterback? I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Teddy Bridgewater. That's a good one.
Speaker 1: He's He's eighth. He's played very well, has not made
Speaker 1: a lot of mistakes, given you know, that's not a
Speaker 1: bad guess. Number one Patty Mahomes. Patrick Mahome him. Despite
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, Patrick Mahomes is still number one.
Speaker 1: Fewest sacks, interceptions and fumbles. Wow. Carson Wentz his second,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's third, those are the top three. Al Right,
Speaker 1: New Orleans five and one, at Chicago three and two.
Speaker 1: It's on Fox with Tom Brenniman and Troy Aikman. Joe
Speaker 1: Bucks doing the baseball and so he's doing the Thursday game,
Speaker 1: but he's not. He did the Thursday game, but he's
Speaker 1: not doing the Sunday game. So Akeman's gotta work with Brennaman.
Speaker 1: The Bears opened a three point favorite. They're still favored
Speaker 1: by three. It'll be sunny in sixty four degrees at
Speaker 1: Soldier Field. I'm gonna take New Orleans in this game.
Speaker 1: First of all, it looked like a fiasco with Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater when he first played against the Rams. But obviously, uh,
Speaker 1: that was just some bad luck at the beginnings. But
Speaker 1: he's played wonderfully. Uh, and the Saints have They've molded
Speaker 1: the offense, made him an efficient quarterback, really solid game manager,
Speaker 1: doesn't throw the ball down the field too much, and
Speaker 1: it's working. You got a good defense in New Orleans
Speaker 1: and they're they're fine. Uh. You know, Bridgewater has made
Speaker 1: me look like a donkey. I look like a jackass
Speaker 1: with that monologue I did about the Saints, but I
Speaker 1: felt that way at the time. Bridgewater is now fifteen
Speaker 1: and six as a starter. Since the only quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: have a better record with a minimum of twenty starts
Speaker 1: are Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes. The guys just winning
Speaker 1: games and not put up great numbers per se, but
Speaker 1: he's winning games. I think that continues this week even
Speaker 1: without Alvin Kamara, because the Saints have much like all
Speaker 1: these great teams, they have that next man up mentality
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Now. Secondly, the Bears offensive line, they
Speaker 1: have more holes than a fashionista's pants on the catwalk.
Speaker 1: It's some fashion show in Paris that they have been
Speaker 1: decimated by injury. And Mitch Robinski is back as the starter.
Speaker 1: He has a dislocated shoulder and I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw this this week, but he was wearing a
Speaker 1: left shoulder harness during practice. I mean, how much confidence
Speaker 1: you have in your quarterback when he's gonna wear a
Speaker 1: harness during practice? Well, you're not supposed to hit the
Speaker 1: quarterback and they wear the red jersey. Um, not exactly
Speaker 1: the picture of confidence. Uh. He says he's close to acent.
Speaker 1: Nobody believes him. Chicago has lost five straight coming off
Speaker 1: the bye That is the longest active streak in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's this situation at the bye week. Last week, New
Speaker 1: Orleans four and oh straight up and against the spread
Speaker 1: under the Teddy Bridgewater era. You don't love them in
Speaker 1: this spot, but they are a small underdog. Bears are
Speaker 1: a good team defensively, will cause some problems, but you
Speaker 1: ride the Teddy Bridgewater Wave. It's bridge over and untroubled
Speaker 1: waters until it crashes to shore. Saints seventeen Bears thirteen
Speaker 1: penny going with the Saints right. Next up Sunday Night Football,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia three and three at Dallas three and three. It's
Speaker 1: on nbes SEE with Al Michaels and Chris Condworth, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys open to two and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: They are favored by three. It will be mostly clear
Speaker 1: eighty one degrees a kickoff at a T and T
Speaker 1: Stadium in Arlington. Jerry's world. Now, I'm taking the Cowboys
Speaker 1: here and I'll walk you through my logic on this game.
Speaker 1: This should be a slobber knocker. The Cowboys seem unbothered
Speaker 1: by the statement made by Doug Peterson on the radio
Speaker 1: and Philadelphia on Sports Radio when he guaranteed the Eagles
Speaker 1: are gonna win the game, then backpedaled after he made
Speaker 1: the guarantee. I don't mind that. I think you should
Speaker 1: guarantee it win if you're the Eagles. I like the
Speaker 1: confidence you should expect to win every time you play
Speaker 1: on the play the game. If you don't, you're messed up.
Speaker 1: You suck your loser, and I don't like you. You've
Speaker 1: got to defeatist attitude. Both these teams have been flea
Speaker 1: bitten in recent weeks. The Cowboys in particular, played progressively
Speaker 1: worse since they got rid of the cream puffs on
Speaker 1: the schedule. Both these teams have played injury Bengo, and
Speaker 1: that's a key factor here. They need to hire a
Speaker 1: medicine man, get some remedies here with all these hobbled
Speaker 1: players in Philly and in Dallas. And both these teams
Speaker 1: got caught peeking ahead. And we always say this, if
Speaker 1: you lose the game, that's a trap game because you
Speaker 1: get caught looking ahead, you then have to come back
Speaker 1: and you have to win the game. You're looking ahead
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. It's a weird thing that's going on under
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson. They're eighteen and two when they score first,
Speaker 1: score in the first quarter, not even when they scored first.
Speaker 1: When they score in the first quarter, they're eighteen and two,
Speaker 1: best record of the NFL since seventeen. When the Eagles
Speaker 1: have been outscored uh or in the first quarter, they've
Speaker 1: been outscored by thirteen points this season. What I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say, second worst in the NFLS. They haven't gone
Speaker 1: off the good starts. But the main reason, like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys the Eagles, secondary is the blind leading the blind.
Speaker 1: And even with the Mark Cooper not playing, I would
Speaker 1: figure that Dallas is gonna have a bounce back game
Speaker 1: on offense. They actually moved the ball well last week
Speaker 1: they they against the Jet they just didn't start the game. Well.
Speaker 1: The money is heavy le tilted on the Eagles. You
Speaker 1: can make a lot of cash betting against dummies in
Speaker 1: the public on the the When the public bets underdogs
Speaker 1: like this, you can want a lot of money on it. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't love the Cowboys, but I do relish the
Speaker 1: chance to be on the side of the bookie the
Speaker 1: wise guys. So how about ma'am? Cowboys Cowboys thirty Eagles
Speaker 1: twenty three. Penny also likes Dallas as well. Last one
Speaker 1: just a programming note. I don't want a baseball game.
Speaker 1: I love, I love Game seven. I want to focus
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys and Eagles. If there's a baseball game
Speaker 1: on Sunday, I won't be able to focus on that.
Speaker 1: Your right handling be getting a workout? Wow, alright, Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football, New England six and oh at the j
Speaker 1: E t s sucks, sucks, suck one in four it's
Speaker 1: on ESPN with Joe Tessa Tour, who is David Gastgard's idol,
Speaker 1: and booker McFarlane. Well, we need to acknowledge what happened
Speaker 1: last week because the Penny was the one that said
Speaker 1: they don't need the points, they don't want the points.
Speaker 1: They the New York and Jets over the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I took the Jets to Yeah, but you didn't say
Speaker 1: that they would win, out right, the penny did. No.
Speaker 1: I took the Jets. No, no no, no, but the Penny
Speaker 1: said they would didn't matter. I mean, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: where they car. You don't say money line. I didn't
Speaker 1: say money line. I said take the Jets, take the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I can at least acknowledge, all right, But as far
Speaker 1: you're getting me distracted? Double all right? What's wrong with you?
Speaker 1: I mean you know what I mean? You know you
Speaker 1: go googlely eyed over there? What's I mean? Stop it?
Speaker 1: All right? Can I can I talk? Yes? Yes, you
Speaker 1: can continue? All right? So I mentioned the Patriots and night,
Speaker 1: and that point favorite it'll be sixty three and cloudy
Speaker 1: at MetLife Stadium on Monday night. That it is the forecast.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Patriots. I do not love this,
Speaker 1: but I am gonna do it. The Patriots are six
Speaker 1: and old. They have an injury ravage turnstile of an
Speaker 1: offensive line, but it has not mattered because of a
Speaker 1: proper mix of coaching. And let's be honest, you're playing
Speaker 1: dog food opponents. Is a beautiful nation for New England. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the Patriots defense is as good as it gets. They
Speaker 1: create turnovers, they don't regularly give up big plays. On
Speaker 1: the last week, Golden Tate had a big pass play,
Speaker 1: but that was more of a bobbled past that was
Speaker 1: almost knocked away by the defender. It was a fifty
Speaker 1: fifty ball. Uh And And secondly, I wanted to find
Speaker 1: a reason about on the Jets. I love in a
Speaker 1: divisional game. I've always said, when you get over a
Speaker 1: touchdown in a divisional game, you don't ask questions. You
Speaker 1: take the points. But there are exceptions of the rule.
Speaker 1: I couldn't find a really good reason. While you know,
Speaker 1: Sam Donald, the Cinderella story is wonderful. He really only
Speaker 1: played well in the first half last week. He didn't
Speaker 1: do much in the second half. And that win against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys will have no bearing on what happens this week,
Speaker 1: all right, it won't. If anything, it will help fuel
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick to go Defcon one. The Jets are not
Speaker 1: a hard team to defend, and they've got the Patriots
Speaker 1: have a great defense. I mean, it's pretty simple. I
Speaker 1: know very little about ex in those football but I
Speaker 1: know if you key in on shutting down Levy on
Speaker 1: Bell and Belichick has always done this. He's like, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll take away the other team's best player and we'll
Speaker 1: handicap them. We'll have you know, like rush limball, one
Speaker 1: arm tied behind their back, and we'll see if they
Speaker 1: can succeed with the other players. They have no other
Speaker 1: real playmakers other than Levy on Bell, Bill Belichick. With
Speaker 1: extra time, and remember the Patriots have that extra time
Speaker 1: they played last Thursday. That is a lethal situation. And
Speaker 1: even with a huge number, and I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I'll be very uncomfortable with it, and I would much
Speaker 1: rather be on the side of the Jets. I would
Speaker 1: much rather be on the Jets. But I'm telling you
Speaker 1: the Patriots on the right side here. Uh, it'll be
Speaker 1: somewhat close for a half. Patriots will pull away. Similar
Speaker 1: that game against the Giants, Patriots twenty three Jets twelve.
Speaker 1: They'll barely cover the number, but they'll cover it. Penny
Speaker 1: is going with the Jets back to back weeks. Let's go,
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Speaker 1: Can you do that? Would you prefer that since your
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Speaker 1: All right, listen, have a great weekend, Good luck with
Speaker 1: your bets. Uh. This has been a little quicker edition
Speaker 1: of this podcast, but blame Gascon. He showed up a
Speaker 1: little ate, so we didn't have as much time in
Speaker 1: the studio. But have a great week and will be
Speaker 1: back on the radio the Magic Radio Box Sunday night
Speaker 1: into Monday two am in the East on Monday eleven
Speaker 1: pm in the West on Sunday night, and enjoy your weekend.