Speaker 1: It's time to place your bets. Let's talk to the pros.
Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to betting pros. It's me joeyp Joe Pizipia.
Speaker 1: And today officially kicks off what our NFL coverage. I
Speaker 1: know you've all been waiting for it. We've had so
Speaker 1: much going on, Baseball, Olympics, so many things, But it's
Speaker 1: a football season, that's right. Training camp is here and
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Speaker 1: whole lot more football talk the next month or so,
Speaker 1: all leading up into the season, and of course in season,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take you through everything you need to know
Speaker 1: all week long in terms of the lines, where they're moving,
Speaker 1: and where you want to place your bets. And of
Speaker 1: course today we want to kick things off with our
Speaker 1: AFC preview. We're gonna talk to you about the win totals,
Speaker 1: the props, the division and also those conferences as well.
Speaker 1: Who we think might come out of that AFC And
Speaker 1: of course those division winners are really important too. There
Speaker 1: might be a few divisions that are really more up
Speaker 1: for grabs than we might think. And of course there's
Speaker 1: nobody better to talk about all this with the one
Speaker 1: of my favorite people. She is a rising star or
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Speaker 1: see her every single morning for three full hours, and
Speaker 1: you know what, that's not enough. On the morning after
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Speaker 1: she's known to most as the prop Queen, but she's
Speaker 1: everywhere rocking and rolling from the FanDuel Sports with five
Speaker 1: days a week. Ariol Epstein, it is so nice to
Speaker 1: see your face and have you on the show today
Speaker 1: to talk a little AFC preview with you. How are
Speaker 1: you this fine afternoon, Joe piece Apia.
Speaker 2: I am so excited to be here today. Also, I
Speaker 2: had no idea when you invited me on that this
Speaker 2: was going to be kicking off your NFL coverage. No pressure.
Speaker 2: At least I don't have to go up against anyone
Speaker 2: else's opinions yet, so that's good. I get to start
Speaker 2: it off.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little of mine, but who cares. A good
Speaker 1: difference of opinion makes for good radio, for a good podcast,
Speaker 1: for good TV. Steel sharpened steel areals. That's what it's
Speaker 1: all about. It's about all of us getting some good
Speaker 1: information and then letting everybody else go out there and
Speaker 1: fish or whatever. The hell that used to be about.
Speaker 1: So today, like I said, it's AFC time, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna chat about that. And I know you are a
Speaker 1: Ravens fan, I'm a Patriots fan. Somehow, we will try
Speaker 1: our best to coexist for the next half hours, So
Speaker 1: make it all work. There have been some great battles
Speaker 1: over the last few years or so for our teams.
Speaker 1: But I want to start with the AFC East. And
Speaker 1: obviously the Bills, who last year had quite a run,
Speaker 1: came real close to the Super Bowl, fell a little short.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen had a great season. They clearly are leading
Speaker 1: things off here at minus one fifty five, and that
Speaker 1: is of course our betting consensus pros number. And for
Speaker 1: all the betting consensus pros numbers, you go to bettingpros
Speaker 1: dot com and you could see where all the different
Speaker 1: sports books are pushing you towards where the lines are,
Speaker 1: where the values are as well. No surprise to see
Speaker 1: the Bills at the top, then the Dolphins at plus
Speaker 1: three hundred, of course, my Patriots at plus three fifty,
Speaker 1: and then the Jets, the lowly Jets at plus twenty
Speaker 1: five hundred. So let's leave the Jets out of the equation.
Speaker 1: They're so adorable, aren't they? The Jets trying to get
Speaker 1: another quarterback?
Speaker 3: They try?
Speaker 1: Don't you love it? Areo when they try to get
Speaker 1: another quarterback every couple of years, And that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the one.
Speaker 2: Right, It's gonna be the line, especially, you know when
Speaker 2: their passing yards drop is what thirty four hundred yards
Speaker 2: or something like that. This year it's a mess. But
Speaker 2: I do love their new head coach ravererts a lot.
Speaker 2: I think that's Salad's gonna do a great job there.
Speaker 2: It's just not going to be this year.
Speaker 1: I agree one thousand percent. I'm a huge fan of him.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he give me a guy to finally gets.
Speaker 3: That's why you like him, right.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm not gonna lie. That's a big part of it.
Speaker 1: He's definitely handsome, obviously you could tell from that. So
Speaker 1: let's talk about does anybody have a shot here in
Speaker 1: this division besides Buffalo? Because the Dolphins did draft Jalen Waddell,
Speaker 1: they did bring in Will Fuller. Last year was a
Speaker 1: very difficult circumstance for Tua to really kind of develop.
Speaker 1: The locker room was kind of against him, the injury
Speaker 1: was against him. No preseason all that was against him.
Speaker 1: Do the Dolphins have a chance here at plus three hundred,
Speaker 1: or do the Patriots with all those players coming back
Speaker 1: from COVID have a shot here? Or is it just
Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion that the East belongs to Buffalo.
Speaker 2: It is a foregone conclusion that the East belongs to Buffalo.
Speaker 2: You're asking someone that has been constantly saying the next
Speaker 2: curse to be broken is the Buffalo Bill's Super Bowl curse.
Speaker 2: We have broken so many curses in sports in the
Speaker 2: last few years, the Cubs, the Red Sox, the Capitals.
Speaker 2: It is time for the Buffalo Bills to break the curse.
Speaker 2: They just signed their quarterback Josh Allen to a huge
Speaker 2: extension through twenty twenty seven. All the Bills have to
Speaker 2: do is improve their defense. Two years ago, the Bill's
Speaker 2: defense was top ten in the league. Last year, they
Speaker 2: weren't in that category, but their offense was top ten
Speaker 2: in the league. If they can combine the two two
Speaker 2: years ago and last year, the Bills are a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl contender. Their head coach, Sean McDermott is a defensive
Speaker 2: minded coach.
Speaker 3: He was the defensive.
Speaker 2: Coordinator in Carolina. If there's anyone they can get the
Speaker 2: job done in improving this defense. It's the defensive mind
Speaker 2: of Sean McDermott. The problem with the other teams in
Speaker 2: this division is there's too much uncertainty. Tuatunguovailoa from Miami
Speaker 2: last year, he was a turnover prone quarterback. He was
Speaker 2: still a little bit shaky on his feet, and even
Speaker 2: though they added to the receiver position, I'm still not
Speaker 2: convinced that this Miami team is good enough to get
Speaker 2: through the division. Your Patriots are a team that's tough
Speaker 2: for me to bet on because I don't know what's
Speaker 2: going to happen at quarterback. How long is Cam Newton
Speaker 2: really going to stay under center, or are they going
Speaker 2: to try to make the switch to Mac Jones midway
Speaker 2: through the year. I don't want to bet on a
Speaker 2: team that may be making a mid switch, a midyear
Speaker 2: switch at quarterback. Even though Justin Herbert was the Rookie
Speaker 2: of the Year last year for the Chargers and had
Speaker 2: an amazing rookie season, he has all these veterans around him,
Speaker 2: and it still wasn't enough to get the Chargers to
Speaker 2: the playoffs. When they have a team like the Kansas
Speaker 2: City Chiefs sitting at the top of their division. That's
Speaker 2: how I feel about the Patriots and the Dolphins. Just
Speaker 2: not enough experience. When you have this Bills team that's
Speaker 2: now built playoff experience for the last two years, all
Speaker 2: they really have to do.
Speaker 3: Is zone in on that efense.
Speaker 1: Well, I absolutely agree with you. It's Buffaloes to lose,
Speaker 1: and I can't see putting money on the Dolphins or
Speaker 1: the Pats. Like you said, uncertainty is the biggest thing. Now. Look,
Speaker 1: these teams might end up in the playoffs, but winning
Speaker 1: that division, eh. And I do think that secondary can
Speaker 1: get back to where it was a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago for Buffalo. They were a fantastic group. They also
Speaker 1: hit hard, which is nice. You don't see a lot
Speaker 1: of secondaries that still hit people the way they do.
Speaker 1: A little bit of intimidation factors good. They need a
Speaker 1: little bit better play up front.
Speaker 2: It's a little bit harder too, when you're in Buffalo
Speaker 2: in December. The hit is just a little bit harder,
Speaker 2: a little bit more.
Speaker 1: But that's also what hurts them On the offensive side.
Speaker 1: They don't run the football very well outside of Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: That's the problem when you get to December. In January,
Speaker 1: you don't have a running game in Buffalo. It does
Speaker 1: kind of come around to bite. You just go back
Speaker 1: and look out close at Indianapolis, Colt's playoff game ended
Speaker 1: up becoming at the end because you can't run out clock.
Speaker 1: That's an issue. You want to make sure you take
Speaker 1: advantage of that weather. Now, I want to take advantage
Speaker 1: of this division that we're gonna talk about next, because
Speaker 1: this is the AFC North, and I know this is
Speaker 1: very personal to you, but this is all business here
Speaker 1: on the show. This is what we do at betting.
Speaker 1: The Ravens are at the top somehow betting consensus plus
Speaker 1: one twenty the Cleveland Browns, that's right, the Cleveland Browns
Speaker 1: plus one forty five, the Steelers at plus four to
Speaker 1: twenty five, and the Bengals all the way at twenty
Speaker 1: to one. Bengals still work in progress. Will leave them alone.
Speaker 1: Hopefully Joe Burrow gets his knee right and his confidence back,
Speaker 1: and they'll just fun to watch from a fantasy perspective.
Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, it's a little different dynamic
Speaker 1: that we're starting to see. All of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, the depth of the Browns, the defense of
Speaker 1: the Browns, the running game of the Browns. All that
Speaker 1: looks really good. So are you confident that the Ravens
Speaker 1: can take a step forward offensively and start to throw
Speaker 1: the ball a little bit more, become a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a diverse offense or do you think maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe, the Browns have a real shot at this thing.
Speaker 1: I know that's a loaded question, but I ask it anyway.
Speaker 2: The Browns on paper should have a shot at this thing.
Speaker 2: The problem is that they're the Browns. Even though last
Speaker 2: year they still had a good season. I'm concerned about
Speaker 2: what's going to happen with the mental cases on this team.
Speaker 2: You have Odell Beckham Junior and Jarvis Landry granted Odell's
Speaker 2: back from tearing his ACL Baker Mayfield another head case,
Speaker 2: and then you have the defensive side to Davion Clowney
Speaker 2: who can't stay healthy. And you have Miles Garrett, who, Okay,
Speaker 2: he's one of the best defensive players in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I'm still concerned. I love this Browns team on paper,
Speaker 2: I just can't put money on them. There's too much, again,
Speaker 2: uncertainty when it comes to consistency and the Browns. To me,
Speaker 2: I just can't rely on They just can't win the
Speaker 2: big game. They can't get past the Ravens, and they
Speaker 2: can't get past the Steelers. To be honest, they always
Speaker 2: keep it close. Can they take the next can they
Speaker 2: take the next step? AFC North is really tough to handicap,
Speaker 2: because you're right, the Ravens are a team that even
Speaker 2: though they've added young wide receivers, they added Sammy Watkins,
Speaker 2: another player that can't stay on the field for more
Speaker 2: than half a season. I wish the bout half a quarter,
Speaker 2: half a corner right. Tammy Watkins is so tough to
Speaker 2: watch play. And then today, the day that we're recording this,
Speaker 2: Rashad Bateman, their rookie wide receiver out of Minnesota, is
Speaker 2: limping off the field after going up for a ball
Speaker 2: at practice. If the Ravens can't stay healthy him, mean
Speaker 2: this thing is over. But apparently Mark Andrews and Lamar
Speaker 2: still have a good dynamic, which I'm not surprised by.
Speaker 2: The problem is last year, it's hard to judge because
Speaker 2: the Ravens didn't really have camp, they didn't have much
Speaker 2: of a summer, and that was really the year that
Speaker 2: they needed Lamar Jackson to excel in the passing game.
Speaker 2: The good thing the Ravens can't get worse at the
Speaker 2: path or the worst pass offense in the NFL last year.
Speaker 2: It really can't get worse. They can only go up.
Speaker 2: The Ravens can improve this passing game if Bateman stays
Speaker 2: healthy on the field, if Sammy Watkins can play a
Speaker 2: few games, and if Hollywood Brown can somehow get better,
Speaker 2: and we showed we saw glimpses of it last year
Speaker 2: towards the end of the season. I'm just hoping that
Speaker 2: Bateman can challenge Hollywood. On the other side, I'm not
Speaker 2: betting anything in this division, and I know that that's
Speaker 2: hard to say because I'm here on a show trying
Speaker 2: to give out picks. But the one thing I would
Speaker 2: do is it actually like the Steelers over eight and
Speaker 2: a half wins, I would go more win total in
Speaker 2: the AFC North than I would for betting any of
Speaker 2: these teams to win the division because this division's always close.
Speaker 2: This division, you will usually have three out of the
Speaker 2: four teams and make it into the playoffs. If not
Speaker 2: two out of the four teams make it into the playoffs,
Speaker 2: it's I think last year was the second time in
Speaker 2: the last decade where the AFC North had two had
Speaker 2: three teams go to the playoffs out of it. Now,
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers is a tough one because Ben Roethlisberger,
Speaker 2: you have to wonder about his arm and his age.
Speaker 2: But he looks good, he cuts down, he slimmed out.
Speaker 2: I can't see Ben Roethlisberger and Mike Tomlin together in
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh having a below eight hundred excuse me, a below
Speaker 2: five hundred season. So I would say over eight and
Speaker 2: a half wins for the Steelers would be the way
Speaker 2: I would play this division.
Speaker 1: I agree with that on the win total too. I
Speaker 1: also think this Steelers are fascinating at the four to
Speaker 1: twenty five because that's where you make your money, you know,
Speaker 1: if all of a sudden these injuries do pile up.
Speaker 1: I saw that Baban news like you did, right before
Speaker 1: he came on, and I'm very high on Bateman and
Speaker 1: Fantasy this year, and that kind of certainly throws a
Speaker 1: little wrinkle in all of my hopeful projected plans for
Speaker 1: that passing game. The Browns, You're right, are a bit
Speaker 1: of an enigma, and the Browns will brown from time
Speaker 1: to time the Steelers, you know, with naj Harris coming
Speaker 1: back in. That's the problem is they again couldn't run
Speaker 1: the football, right, they become a one dimensional offense.
Speaker 2: What happens they Yeah, they can't get worse at the
Speaker 2: run game, and the Ravens can't get worse at the
Speaker 2: pass game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe they could just combine all the rosters together
Speaker 1: and then they'll have a really good chance at maybe
Speaker 1: maybe beating the Chiefs. Maybe maybe Well we'll get to
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in a second. I want to talk to
Speaker 1: you about this next division because in the South, the
Speaker 1: Titans are the clear favorites at minus one thirty four,
Speaker 1: and I think they should be right now, especially with
Speaker 1: what's going on right now with Carson Wentz. We're not
Speaker 1: exactly sure when he's gonna come back, how that's gonna
Speaker 1: work anyway, even if he was healthy. Still, like I said,
Speaker 1: questions and like you were mentioning before, it seems like
Speaker 1: the Titans are just gonna run away. I'm actually surprised
Speaker 1: that the numbers just minus one thirty four. I thought
Speaker 1: this would be even greater. You got the Colts a
Speaker 1: plus one to eighty, then the Jaguars with Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: and obviously that new regime with Evermyer coming in at
Speaker 1: plus six hundred plus twenty eight hundred for the Texans.
Speaker 1: Let's not even talk about the Texans. Okay, they do
Speaker 1: not deserve our attention. I don't care if Deshaun Watson plays,
Speaker 1: doesn't play, I don't care. As a terrible roster. So
Speaker 1: really it's about the Titans number at minus one thirty four.
Speaker 1: To me, if you like the Titans, you gotta get
Speaker 1: it on now, because I don't see this number as
Speaker 1: you start to see them in preseason getting any better.
Speaker 1: I think this is going to go into that minus
Speaker 1: two hundred range potentially, because I just think the rest
Speaker 1: of this division is just clearly a step behind. Cults
Speaker 1: are a good defensive team, but do you think that
Speaker 1: the Colts have any shot here if Carson Wentz does
Speaker 1: come back sooner on that timeline to compete for this
Speaker 1: division at all?
Speaker 3: I do think the Colts have a chance to compete.
Speaker 2: The thing is, I wouldn't be betting the Colts right
Speaker 2: now because you're still getting them, as you mentioned, at
Speaker 2: a pretty decent price and like it's short odds kind
Speaker 2: of price, whereas the Titans minus one thirty four. It's
Speaker 2: probably the best you're going to get them for now.
Speaker 2: If you get no Carson Wentz for the first let's
Speaker 2: say five weeks, like it says, of the season Carson
Speaker 2: Wentz being or excuse me, five to twelve weeks is
Speaker 2: the label. So let's just say he's out the first
Speaker 2: three games of the year. Four games of the year.
Speaker 2: Carson Wentz's the Colts odds are gonna go much longer
Speaker 2: if they lose two out of four games. You're gonna
Speaker 2: want to wait for that better number on the Colts.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna get them to lose the first few
Speaker 2: games of the year. Now, I have to go look
Speaker 2: back at their schedule and see how the end of
Speaker 2: the season looks. But I'm pretty sure that the end
Speaker 2: of the season for the Colts isn't as bad as
Speaker 2: the beginning. The Colts are gonna lose early games anyway,
Speaker 2: because from what I remember, they have to play really tough.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure they get the Rams early on. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you have the schedules pulled up, but
Speaker 2: I probably should. I was looking at these schedules for
Speaker 2: the Colts and I thought, wow, like this is a
Speaker 2: really tough start to the year for them.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring it up.
Speaker 1: Well, the start of the season begins with, yeah, the
Speaker 1: the Rams, the Titans, and then that Dolphins defense and
Speaker 1: the Ravens.
Speaker 2: De right, but you look at so now I haven't
Speaker 2: pulled up too So you start off with a really
Speaker 2: tough for five weeks. So at some point you're gonna
Speaker 2: get a better number on the Colts that that's in
Speaker 2: that span. But look, the last five weeks of the
Speaker 2: year for the Colts, You've got Houston, New England, Arizona, Vegas,
Speaker 2: and Jacksonville. If you have your team healthy at that point,
Speaker 2: and yes, maybe you could be in a hole, but
Speaker 2: you are playing in the AFC South, which is one
Speaker 2: of the worst divisions in football.
Speaker 3: The Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 2: You have four games against two teams that should finish
Speaker 2: below five hundred. You've got Houston that you have to
Speaker 2: go up against, and Jacksonville. You could go and get
Speaker 2: four wins like that in that division. So now you're
Speaker 2: really just focusing. Yes, you have Tampa Bay tough, Buffalo tough.
Speaker 2: There are really tough games on this schedule that Tennessee
Speaker 2: also has to play against. That's why I could see
Speaker 2: at the end of the year the Colts could make
Speaker 2: a run. You're just gonna get better. You're gonna get
Speaker 2: a better number with better value on Indianapolis if you
Speaker 2: wait for about week three or four.
Speaker 1: This is why I have you on the show, so
Speaker 1: you could say smart things like that to make everybody
Speaker 1: better better, which is a weird thing to say now
Speaker 1: that I realized I just said a better better. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to the West. Is it really anything
Speaker 1: to say the Chiefs minus three thirty five. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't bet it, so forget it. There's nobody else.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the Chargers, the Broncos, Raiders, forget it. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna waste anybody's time.
Speaker 2: But I have to point something out to you. And
Speaker 2: this is more going AFC broad picture. And I don't
Speaker 2: think that this team's going to I don't think this
Speaker 2: team is gonna win the AFC.
Speaker 3: That would just be crazy.
Speaker 2: The Vegas Raiders have been one of the sharpest teams
Speaker 2: that I've been hearing about. Even though I wouldn't bet
Speaker 2: them to win the division. I would look to the Raiders'
Speaker 2: win total. There are a lot of really smart cappers
Speaker 2: who I've heard betting on the Vegas Raiders over for
Speaker 2: their wins. And when I looked in the Futures Market Show,
Speaker 2: it was so it was so weird because we do
Speaker 2: this segment called Market Movers on the morning after, we
Speaker 2: look at how the markets moved from a time I
Speaker 2: snapshoted it months prior to what the odds are now.
Speaker 2: When I was snapshotting the AFC odds back to about
Speaker 2: a month ago, I think it was like mid July.
Speaker 2: I snapshoted these odds of the AFC picture. The odds
Speaker 2: were forty one to one for the Vegas Raiders to
Speaker 2: win the AFC. Those odds moved to thirty seven to one.
Speaker 2: No one had odds move in their favor that significantly
Speaker 2: to win the AFC more than the Vegas Raiders did.
Speaker 2: I mean, other teams had the line move in their favor,
Speaker 2: but not that much forty one to one to thirty
Speaker 2: seven to one. Even though again I don't think the
Speaker 2: Vegas Raiders are going to win the conference, I do
Speaker 2: see there being some value on Vegas to the over
Speaker 2: on their win total.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree with that as well. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what I false. I also think it's going
Speaker 1: to be a huge home field advantage of people don't
Speaker 1: realize yet that building. When you see it and you
Speaker 1: kind of see and feel what Las Vegas could be
Speaker 1: and how excited they would be, you didn't get to
Speaker 1: see it last year, so at full capacity, if you
Speaker 1: do get to that this season, which it seems like
Speaker 1: we're going to be going towards that at least hopefully
Speaker 1: for now, Fingers crossed. That home field advantage for the
Speaker 1: Raiders is what turns that win total, because if they
Speaker 1: become a very good team at home, just like that
Speaker 1: new building in Minnesota a couple years ago, and it
Speaker 1: was so loud, Right, what happened last year? All of
Speaker 1: a sudden that defense collapsed? Gee, I wonder what. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's because I was on that volume went out of
Speaker 1: the building and maybe they weren't as good as we
Speaker 1: thought they were. So I think that home field advantage
Speaker 1: could be a really huge one for Las Vegas that
Speaker 1: we haven't seen yet.
Speaker 3: All right, week one, though hopefully.
Speaker 1: After week well, of course, of course, I want to
Speaker 1: get your team out of there unscathed. AFC champion. Let's
Speaker 1: take a look at some of the favorites and the
Speaker 1: long shots. Now the favorites are clearly the Chiefs at
Speaker 1: plus two fifty. Then you've got the Bills at plus
Speaker 1: five fifty, the Ravens at plus six fifty, and the Browns, yes,
Speaker 1: their favorites still plus seven to fifty. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it anyway, any other money you want to put anywhere
Speaker 1: but the Chiefs on some of these other favorites, because
Speaker 1: I personally think the Bills have a really good shot here.
Speaker 1: I like the plus five to fifty on them.
Speaker 3: I love the Buffalo Bills. Told you, I'm I.
Speaker 1: We both look at us coming together on the Bills.
Speaker 3: I love the Bills.
Speaker 2: I'm right there with you at the Bills to have
Speaker 2: the most value at plus five to fifty.
Speaker 3: To win the AFC.
Speaker 2: I even love the Bills to win the Super Bowl
Speaker 2: at ten to one. I loved this last year. I
Speaker 2: even said last year when I was giving out my
Speaker 2: win totals, it was until this year where the book's
Speaker 2: finally caught up to us. Buffalo has been so underbooked
Speaker 2: for the last three years that I can't last year.
Speaker 2: I remember this specifically because I did this whole like
Speaker 2: COVID video thing where I was given out win totals
Speaker 2: in COVID.
Speaker 3: I was so bored. I was editing.
Speaker 2: All these random videos and I remember specifically because the
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bill's win total last year was I.
Speaker 3: Want to say nine, not like around that range. Then
Speaker 3: I said in the.
Speaker 2: Video, Okay, the Bills hit their first of all went
Speaker 2: over that year prior anyway, But the Bills hit their
Speaker 2: win total of I'm pretty sure it was like six
Speaker 2: and a half, seven and a half two years ago
Speaker 2: by Thanksgiving. And I remember saying that because when I
Speaker 2: did that research, I couldn't believe that the Bills hit
Speaker 2: their win total two years ago by Thanksgiving and they
Speaker 2: went over that nine win so easily. Let two years
Speaker 2: ago that I couldn't believe last year's win total was
Speaker 2: still just the nine and a half. I bet the
Speaker 2: over and it ended up hitting. This year, they caught
Speaker 2: up to us, and they're one of the best teams
Speaker 2: in the AFC. Rightfully, so I still believe that the
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs, Now, you're gonna tell me they're gonna
Speaker 2: go three straight Super Bowls. I mean that's a lot.
Speaker 2: This is wide open in the AFC. Someone's coming out
Speaker 2: of it. I know it's not going to be the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: I'm just willing to say that the Chiefs are not
Speaker 2: making the Super Bowl for a third straight year. This
Speaker 2: is the same team.
Speaker 1: It's very difficult to teach.
Speaker 2: Much except the offensive line. It's the same team that
Speaker 2: we've seen when it comes to skills players for the
Speaker 2: last few years. I'm gonna say someone else is coming
Speaker 2: out of this division. It's just a matter of which
Speaker 2: defense out of the AFC is.
Speaker 3: Going to be the best.
Speaker 1: Well, I think you also got some clarity last year
Speaker 1: because I think you saw the deficits of the Bills
Speaker 1: and I think they realized what they needed to work on.
Speaker 1: But you also saw a team like Cleveland go hey,
Speaker 1: we can hang with this team. I think that builds confidence.
Speaker 1: Even though they lost. I feel like you kind of
Speaker 1: come away going, well, maybe we're better than we realized
Speaker 1: and we're actually should be. In this conversation, look if
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson plays up like a said, to his abilities
Speaker 1: and also people forget it, he was a good pocket
Speaker 1: passer in college. The offensive lines that really built for
Speaker 1: pass protection is built for running. So that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a fascinating evolution. But like you said, and we were
Speaker 1: talking about before. It's about the health. If the health
Speaker 1: of the wide receiving corep isn't there, then we're right
Speaker 1: back to where we used to be, which is predictable.
Speaker 1: I think that build A plus five fifty is where
Speaker 1: I want to go. But you know what, that's no fun.
Speaker 1: Those are favorites. Let's talk about the long shots. Let's
Speaker 1: go with the Titans plus thirteen hundred, the Patriots plus fifteen.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are at plus fifteen, the Chargers at plus sixteen.
Speaker 1: It's all about the Titans. For me, I'm drinking the
Speaker 1: kool aid. It's music City. I'm here for it. I
Speaker 1: love what they did. Add in Julio Jones. I don't
Speaker 1: think people realize how devastating that combination of those two
Speaker 1: wide receivers going to be. Bud Dupree is an incredible
Speaker 1: pass rusher. Also, they're not giving enough credit to that move.
Speaker 1: I understand there's still deficits on the defensive side, but
Speaker 1: can I sell you on Ryan Tannehill, Mike Rabel, Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry and this group of wide receivers of Age Brown
Speaker 1: and Julio Jones being this team maybe that people don't
Speaker 1: realize is going to come through and just whoop on everybody,
Speaker 1: get hot at the right time and go all the
Speaker 1: way to the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: You can sell me on it.
Speaker 2: This team has proven they can get there. Coaching is everything.
Speaker 2: That's what scares me a bit with the Browns too,
Speaker 2: because they won a playoff game without a head coach
Speaker 2: and then they ended up having their head coach and loseig.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, what's the problem here.
Speaker 2: So for me to see that Tennessee has their head coach,
Speaker 2: mec Brabel, who was able to out coach Bill Belichick
Speaker 2: in a playoff game, It's that alone is impressive. But
Speaker 2: then you look at this team who defensively they were
Speaker 2: able to play up two years ago and that's what
Speaker 2: got them to where they did an the AFC Championship game.
Speaker 2: And then for the new wide receivers coming in where
Speaker 2: you have one of the best wide receivers coming over
Speaker 2: from Atlanta and Julio Jones and you have him alongside
Speaker 2: some top notch receivers. Oh, and you're running back Derrick
Speaker 2: Henry and then you have that guy, Yeah, that guy.
Speaker 2: And Ryan Tannehill has proven himself to be a to
Speaker 2: be a reliable quarterback and his completion percentage in the
Speaker 2: playoffs has been fine. He hasn't done anything to throw.
Speaker 2: He hasn't done anything to make me believe that he's
Speaker 2: not the quarterback that can get them there. I do
Speaker 2: believe out of all these teams that you were listing,
Speaker 2: that the Tennessee Titans are that long shot at thirteen
Speaker 2: to one to win the AFC because they have the
Speaker 2: opportunity to be the most well rounded team. The real
Speaker 2: question is special teams. Did they improve special teams from
Speaker 2: last year? Because last year, watching Goskowski and watching this
Speaker 2: team continue to blow games because they can't get special
Speaker 2: teams right, that's gonna be the difference. This Tennessee team
Speaker 2: last year could have had three more wins at least
Speaker 2: if they were able to make field goals.
Speaker 1: Now, the special teams were absolutely atrocious for that team.
Speaker 1: And you're right, it all is all about coaching. That's
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, gonna have all the
Speaker 1: talent on a roster you want in the NFL. If
Speaker 1: you don't have the coaching, you don't have the schemes,
Speaker 1: you don't have the game plan, the adjustment, you're not
Speaker 1: going to be the team. Belichick. Andy Reid, Right, Andy
Speaker 1: Reid is a coach who historically doesn't make good adjustments.
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick is the king of adjustments. That's why he
Speaker 1: ends up winning games so often. And I think when
Speaker 1: you look at the other coaches, the great coaches in
Speaker 1: the last twenty thirty years, those are the guys that
Speaker 1: are able to go in there and say, Okay, this
Speaker 1: was our game plan, it's not working. Let's do this instead.
Speaker 1: Because they came out with that, and it's that second
Speaker 1: half adjustment. I think variable is a tremendous coach. I
Speaker 1: think you're right, and that's why I love this number.
Speaker 1: So for me, you get a little bit of the Bills,
Speaker 1: maybe with a smaller you know, with a bigger wager,
Speaker 1: a little bit you're holding hands together running through the
Speaker 1: meadow on the AFC. Let's go Bills and Titans is
Speaker 1: gonna beautiful. I'm all about this, And I'm glad because
Speaker 1: I was very excited to talk about the Titans today
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that somebody else besides me is excited
Speaker 1: about them. And like I said, drinking the kool aid,
Speaker 1: let's get to some of the win totals that you
Speaker 1: mentioned before, because obviously there's some really good ones out there.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the Ravens. The number is eleven plus
Speaker 1: one hundred on the over, minus one twenty on the under.
Speaker 1: You want to go over under on this eleven or
Speaker 1: stay away from the Ravens? Eleven?
Speaker 3: Why do you do this to me?
Speaker 1: Because I'm fun, because I'm well? Then you could say pass.
Speaker 1: You could say pass. Honestly, eleven sounds like a good number,
Speaker 1: and that can pay vision numbers. I wouldn't bet it.
Speaker 1: I would walk away from it. Sometimes the best advice
Speaker 1: is don't bet. You know that.
Speaker 3: No, I know, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't bet my own team. I'm just one of
Speaker 2: those people. I won't even throw a dollar.
Speaker 1: I bet against my own team.
Speaker 3: It's called hedge.
Speaker 1: That's what I do. Exact. Oh, hiding your happiness. I've
Speaker 1: never heard anyone cool.
Speaker 3: That's what I call it. I love that happiness.
Speaker 1: Can I do that in life? Can I huge my happiness?
Speaker 3: Of course?
Speaker 2: So here's the thing, Like, I do this all the time.
Speaker 2: And actually it was my favorite thing to do two
Speaker 2: years ago at the Ravens. Didn't work out as much
Speaker 2: last year. Two years ago my favorite thing to do
Speaker 2: because the Ravens were always the team that scored first.
Speaker 2: They were the best first quarter team in football two
Speaker 2: years ago. I would go wait for the live opportunity
Speaker 2: for the Ravens to score in the first quarter, and
Speaker 2: then I would take the points with the other team,
Speaker 2: not asking for the Ravens to lose.
Speaker 3: I was just saying that they're not going to cover
Speaker 3: this double digit spread.
Speaker 2: Usually the Ravens are favored by six seven points, so
Speaker 2: I would end up waiting for it to hit about
Speaker 2: ten because the Ravens scored early in the first quarter,
Speaker 2: and take the points with the opposite team. Ravens hopefully win,
Speaker 2: but the opposite team ends up covering, and I end
Speaker 2: up hedging my happiness.
Speaker 1: I love it. Let's head your happiness with the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: Eleven over under is the number plus one hundred on
Speaker 1: the over minus one twenty on the under. I'm going
Speaker 1: over on this. Your thoughts, that's my lean right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going over because how do I not go
Speaker 2: over when I say that this team's going to win
Speaker 2: the AFC.
Speaker 3: I also wouldn't be surprises.
Speaker 1: Money, Ariel. Don't forget about the plus money side on
Speaker 1: the over too, which I'm actually kind of surprised about.
Speaker 3: Oh, I do like the plus money on that over.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at their schedule.
Speaker 2: Now Buffalo, they have to face the NFC East, which
Speaker 2: is great, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: But I mean they face Washington, so that's good.
Speaker 2: They have to face let's see, they get the Jets,
Speaker 2: which is great because you know you had Jets twice.
Speaker 2: You get your jack you get the Jack Wars this year,
Speaker 2: the Patriots, the Saints that aren't that daunting.
Speaker 3: So they're facing the NFC South.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, I actually could see this being
Speaker 2: an over because I'm looking at these games. Pittsburgh they
Speaker 2: should win at home. Kansas City is a tough game
Speaker 2: Week five, that's in Kansas City. They'll probably lose that game,
Speaker 2: but if they win that game, that's huge.
Speaker 3: Then they have money.
Speaker 2: They actually have two really tough games back to back
Speaker 2: Kansas City Tennessee, but then they have a bye to
Speaker 2: look forward to, which is really helpful because they could
Speaker 2: say we'll make it through these two games, we go
Speaker 2: to the bye, and.
Speaker 3: Then everything after that's really easy.
Speaker 2: Aside for Tampa Bay, I say that loosely because it's
Speaker 2: the NFL, but realistically, you look at the next half
Speaker 2: of their schedule. In the second half off the bye.
Speaker 2: It's really an easy schedule for Buffalo. I would take
Speaker 2: the over on their win total for sure.
Speaker 1: And we have to adjust our brains too, because it's
Speaker 1: a seventeen game season now. And that's the thing. I
Speaker 1: think people see these old numbers and they're still It's
Speaker 1: not that they forget it, but they're not really equating
Speaker 1: it properly, whether it comes to the totals for the
Speaker 1: players or whether it comes for the win tis to say, well,
Speaker 1: it's only one more game, but you know it makes
Speaker 1: a difference. Eleven's kind of low in a seventeen game season,
Speaker 1: actually for a team that we have expectations for, like
Speaker 1: we do the Buffalo Bills. All right, let's go with
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. Here. Ten and a half is the
Speaker 1: number for them. The over is minus one oh five,
Speaker 1: the unders one to fifteen. This one's tricky, all the volatility,
Speaker 1: all the characters, if you will, in Cleveland. Can they
Speaker 1: all put it together and get to that eleven mark,
Speaker 1: because that's what they'd have to do to go over.
Speaker 1: Where your thoughts on this number for Cleveland.
Speaker 2: I just automatically, without looking at the schedule, want to
Speaker 2: fade Cleveland because everyone is always public on Cleveland.
Speaker 3: The public always wants to back this team.
Speaker 2: This is a division in the AFC Nord that has
Speaker 2: one of the toughest division schedules in football. The Steelers
Speaker 2: actually have the hardest schedule in football this year, and
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure the Ravens are second toughest, which means
Speaker 2: the Browns have to be up there too because they're
Speaker 2: going to play the same opposite conference.
Speaker 3: There are same divisions.
Speaker 2: Now, they have a game against the Chiefs right off
Speaker 2: the bat in Arrowhead, which again a bunch of head
Speaker 2: cases on this Browns team. You'll lose that game in
Speaker 2: Arrowhead and you're going to be oh no 'or Onhing one.
Speaker 2: How does this team bounce back? But then they have
Speaker 2: some pretty easy games. They have Houston Chicago, but defensively
Speaker 2: Chicago could be tough. Minnesota maybe they're better. But the
Speaker 2: first half's not that bad for Cleveland. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: down the stretch. Cleveland schedule is not that bad. Honestly,
Speaker 2: then I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1: Well they I mean, it's a very tough division. This
Speaker 1: is the this is the hyper competitive division in the AFC.
Speaker 1: You know what, if you handle your business against the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh or not. You handle your business against Pittsburgh and Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: then I think this is an over. If you struggle
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh, I think this is gonna be.
Speaker 2: Here's why I think it's an under because I think
Speaker 2: that the book is being I think the book's undervaluing Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: I still see a lot of value on Pittsburgh. The
Speaker 2: run game can't get worse. The only real issue in
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh is who's stepping up in defense, because, as you
Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, they lost some of their key linebackers. If
Speaker 2: the Steelers defense can be what it normally is a
Speaker 2: top ten unit, it's supposed to have the second best
Speaker 2: front seven in football this year according to Warren Sharp.
Speaker 2: If that's the case, Pittsburgh is gonna have over eight
Speaker 2: and a half wins, which means, my guess, based on
Speaker 2: how the book is handling this, giving the Browns two
Speaker 2: more wins than the Steelers, at least one of those
Speaker 2: games is getting split. I mean one of those games
Speaker 2: going to Pittsburgh. At least, I'm gonna say under for
Speaker 2: the Browns win total. Even though the schedule isn't that
Speaker 2: daunting now that I look at it, it's still a
Speaker 2: tough division, and I'm very curious to see how this
Speaker 2: offense does against some top notch defenses, like if Minnesota
Speaker 2: or Chicago are improved.
Speaker 1: All right, let's have some fun here. How about the Texans.
Speaker 1: The numbers four. Again, it's a seventeen game season, so
Speaker 1: the four sounds I know, what's minus one forty on
Speaker 1: the over, plus one twenty on the under. See, to me,
Speaker 1: this is all about if Deshaun Watson plays or now
Speaker 1: Shaw Watson plays. Obviously it's no but if you believe
Speaker 1: that somehow that's just not gonna happen, you hammer this
Speaker 1: under because they are just atrocious. This is possibly the
Speaker 1: worst roster in football that I've seen in quite some time.
Speaker 1: And again taking off the frank quarterback from it does
Speaker 1: not make it better. So anything here for you with
Speaker 1: the four number.
Speaker 2: I would go under for Houston's four and a half
Speaker 2: because they were four and twelve last year with Deshaun
Speaker 2: Watson at quarterback.
Speaker 3: Now you're gonna have a Taradre Taylor.
Speaker 2: It's we've seen for the last two years that the
Speaker 2: worst team in football has had one win. I mean Cincinnati, Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: I could see the Houston Texans being that team, And honestly,
Speaker 2: why not if Watson's not going to be there, which
Speaker 2: by the way, he's not traveling to the preseason game.
Speaker 2: If Watson's not going to be in Houston and they're
Speaker 2: going to try to trade him, then go for a
Speaker 2: number one quarterback. Go for your next franchise quarterback. Let
Speaker 2: your team stink this year and find someone out of
Speaker 2: the college ranks who you can go and draft with
Speaker 2: the first overall pick.
Speaker 1: Last one here, let's see the Dolphins. Nine and a
Speaker 1: half is the number. The over is plus one fifteen,
Speaker 1: the unders minus one thirty five. This is really about
Speaker 1: the development of Tua. Can he get to that next level?
Speaker 1: And like we said before, we were talking about everything
Speaker 1: that could possibly be against him last year was so
Speaker 1: this is a full regular, healthy offseason, a full regular
Speaker 1: preseason for him. Can they get to this level? Because
Speaker 1: that was a very competitive team. The Dolphins were very
Speaker 1: competitive in all of their games. They were a team
Speaker 1: that really showed up to play defensively as well. The
Speaker 1: offensive line still in question, but they did add some
Speaker 1: more talent in the wide receiver corps. Is that enough
Speaker 1: here to help kind of pull two along in year two?
Speaker 1: In the NFL and maybe pull them over nine and
Speaker 1: a half or is this an easy under.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say it's an easy under.
Speaker 2: I could see this one going over because the nine
Speaker 2: and a half is still below where this team was
Speaker 2: last year. Last year was a ten win team and
Speaker 2: that was only sixteen game season, and now we're going
Speaker 2: to go to seventeen. You still again have to factor
Speaker 2: in that extra game. I could see that extra game
Speaker 2: helping Miami get over the nine and a half wins.
Speaker 2: The problem is that they are going up against certain
Speaker 2: teams like the Giants, who I could see being a
Speaker 2: better defense than people are giving them credit for. It
Speaker 2: was a top ten defense last year. Carolina also could
Speaker 2: be improved. They were a young defense last season, but
Speaker 2: still improved. And Sam Darnold maybe and he knows Miami.
Speaker 2: So looking at who these who they have to play.
Speaker 2: Of course, Buffalo is gonna be their toughest competition and
Speaker 2: they have them week two. Uh, Jacksonville they get to
Speaker 2: play this year, Houston they play, so they're playing the
Speaker 2: South and then New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Isn't that daunting? I mean, not too many.
Speaker 2: I could see this team two games against the Jets. Obviously,
Speaker 2: You've got two games against Buffalo, which will be tough,
Speaker 2: and then two games against New England, which I could
Speaker 2: see them splitting. I would say I lean over just
Speaker 2: because I'm not one hundred percent sure that Miami's gonna
Speaker 2: get worse than last year. Now, you do have to
Speaker 2: factor in Ryan Fitzpatrick and how he had some fitzmagic.
Speaker 3: Last season in Miami. The Beard.
Speaker 2: I know it is all about Tua, but he does
Speaker 2: have his wide receiver in Jalen Waddell that he's gonna
Speaker 2: be able to play with.
Speaker 3: So Miami over nine and a half.
Speaker 1: Wins, well, boy, you can't shake the confidence of that call. Boy.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, whatence the thing?
Speaker 3: You didn't ask me about my favorite win total of
Speaker 3: the season?
Speaker 1: What is your favorite?
Speaker 2: See? Yeah, see under for the Jaguars under six and
Speaker 2: a half wins. You're telling me that a team that
Speaker 2: had one win last year, all of a sudden's going
Speaker 2: to have a rookie quarterback, a rookie running back, and
Speaker 2: essentially a rookie head coach in the NFL and Urban
Speaker 2: Meyer that they're just going to come into the NFL
Speaker 2: and do six times better than they did last year. No,
Speaker 2: we saw it with Cincinnati. They had a new head coach,
Speaker 2: they had a new quarterback, first pick in the draft.
Speaker 2: They still only had four wins last year. I'm not
Speaker 2: buying that you're gonna get six more wins because you
Speaker 2: have all those factors at play, there's still growing pains.
Speaker 2: I will always tell this story, Joe, when I was
Speaker 2: covering local news. My favorite thing about covering local news
Speaker 2: is that on a football weekend, I was able to
Speaker 2: go from high school football on Friday and I was
Speaker 2: shooting the games, like with a k camera on the
Speaker 2: field by myself, shooting the games Friday from the field,
Speaker 2: shooting the game Saturday for college football, and shooting a
Speaker 2: game Sunday for the Carolina Panthers. Seeing the speed Friday
Speaker 2: to Saturday, I mean, and I was in North Carolina,
Speaker 2: so these high school kids are like legit. And when
Speaker 2: I would watch these Friday to Saturdays, they said, Okay,
Speaker 2: there's a difference, but it wasn't anything that I wasn't
Speaker 2: prepared for.
Speaker 3: But then Saturday to Sunday was so ridiculously.
Speaker 1: And everyone should get to be on a sideline once
Speaker 1: so they could see just.
Speaker 2: What it's like because and compare it like go to
Speaker 2: each sideline be able to compare it day by day
Speaker 2: and see And I had Cam Newton at quarterback for
Speaker 2: Carolina Panthers at the time, so being able to see
Speaker 2: what Cam Newton was doing from a field level. And
Speaker 2: you're trying to shoot it because when you're shooting the games,
Speaker 2: you're trying to be like a linebacker. You're trying to
Speaker 2: figure out what the quarterback is going to do. Is
Speaker 2: he gonna pass, is he gonna throw? I mean, is
Speaker 2: he gonna pass?
Speaker 3: Is he gonna run? And with Cam you just really
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, the head coach doesn't even know what he's
Speaker 2: gonna do because the play call is probably to throw
Speaker 2: and he's going to try to dive headfirst into the
Speaker 2: end zone.
Speaker 3: So you just don't know. On these players are so fast.
Speaker 2: That's why when I talk about these these transition years,
Speaker 2: the quarterback trying to transition into the NFL. It was
Speaker 2: so impressive what Justin Herbert was able to do last
Speaker 2: year because he came in on a whim, but coaching
Speaker 2: a new head coach and a new quarterback for the
Speaker 2: Jacksonville Jaguars, I'm not gonna get I'm not gonna bet
Speaker 2: a over on this team to have seven wins. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say they're gonna wonder six and a half.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Let's turn the keys once again. You
Speaker 1: and I pretty much see the AFC the same. Maybe
Speaker 1: I like the Browns a little bit more than you,
Speaker 1: but I like a hot mess sometimes sometimes it's fun.
Speaker 3: I do think on paper they're really good.
Speaker 1: There's just such a roster. You should be nervous because
Speaker 1: they are a bunch of knuckleheads. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's a deep bunch of knuckleheads in terms of roster,
Speaker 1: and that's the one thing in the NFL you're gonna
Speaker 1: have injuries, especially on the defensive side. You're looking at
Speaker 1: some of these guys too. The depth of that roster
Speaker 1: so good that next man up is actually a pretty
Speaker 1: good man to put in there. All right, two minutes, real, leies,
Speaker 1: you're ready, We're gonna do some props. Patrick Maholmes passing
Speaker 1: yards over under five thousand point five, seventeen games under.
Speaker 1: I agree. I'm with you. Under for me as well.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson passing yards thirty four hundred point five over under.
Speaker 3: Ooh, probably under.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Maybe I'm just depressed about Rashan Pateman today. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say under. AJ Brown receiving yards twelve hundred
Speaker 1: point five over under.
Speaker 3: Oh, under, because he has Julia next to him.
Speaker 1: Now over over, it's gonna be a lot. Oh, I
Speaker 1: love it. Let's go. AJ Brown's gonna be a top
Speaker 1: three wide receiver. Julio Jones one twenty five and a
Speaker 1: half over under.
Speaker 3: Oh, that seems pretty low, it does. We're gonna have
Speaker 3: two one thousand yard receivers.
Speaker 1: Why no, we had one two years.
Speaker 3: Maybe he didn't want to play last year over.
Speaker 1: Who could blame him? Derrick Henry rushing yards after two
Speaker 1: thousand yard season the number is fifteen to thirty nine
Speaker 1: and a half on betting pros.
Speaker 3: Well, there are a lot more receivers for them to
Speaker 3: pass to.
Speaker 2: Its sustainable. All right, we're going over.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go. It's over. Derek Henry and of course
Speaker 1: my favorite guy, Naji Harris one thousand point five over
Speaker 1: under for Naji Harris.
Speaker 3: Mmmm, rookie season.
Speaker 2: Over.
Speaker 3: They're gonna keep.
Speaker 1: Big Ben healthy over absolutely, I'm with you. There we go.
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