Speaker 1: Ka boom boom. If you thought four hours a day,
Speaker 1: minutes a week was enough, I think again. He's the
Speaker 1: last remnants of the Old Republic, a sole fashion of fairness.
Speaker 1: He treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as
Speaker 1: the rich pill poppers in the penthouse, the clearing House
Speaker 1: of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air
Speaker 1: everywhere back in the podcast Jojo The Fifth Hour with
Speaker 1: Ben Maller and Danny G Radio and we are ready
Speaker 1: to dive in two week sixteen of Benny Versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: Are you prepared, Danny G. Yeah, Ben, I am still
Speaker 1: as an NFL fan. I'm still on cloud nine from
Speaker 1: that Vegas trip last Sunday. We will get into that.
Speaker 1: We will have a frame bite frame breakdown on this
Speaker 1: Saturday podcast. We'll find out did you think about leaving?
Speaker 1: Did you stay to the end We'll go, We'll get
Speaker 1: to all of that. As you were at you talk
Speaker 1: about your first Raider game, one of the most memorable,
Speaker 1: like we'll remember for the rest of our lives. And
Speaker 1: you happen to be at that game. You're talking about
Speaker 1: good timing. My god, Danny, check put baby, it's almost
Speaker 1: as good as what you've been doing this season with
Speaker 1: your picks. You show off. Well, let's see if that continue.
Speaker 1: Let's strike up the band right now here we go.
Speaker 1: Welcome players, You're welcome. It's time now Benny versus the penny?
Speaker 1: All right, Benny versus the penny before we get to
Speaker 1: the week sixteen card and all the games on Saturday.
Speaker 1: That's right, Saturday and sun Day. It's a walky weekend
Speaker 1: because of the Christmas holiday, so we got a bunch
Speaker 1: of games on Saturday and a few games on Sunday,
Speaker 1: so not the usual Sunday monsoon of the NFL. It's
Speaker 1: mostly on Saturday. So we'll get to the pis quickly.
Speaker 1: But last week a full card, sixteen games on the
Speaker 1: NFL schedule, and how did we do well. We got
Speaker 1: off to a very good start on the early part
Speaker 1: of the television window, and we cooled off a little
Speaker 1: bit in the late part. But overall, another ten wan weekend.
Speaker 1: So ten five and one against the spread. That's a
Speaker 1: six sixties seven winning percentage. The penny went, unfortunately for you, Danny,
Speaker 1: five ten and one, so not not a particularly memorable
Speaker 1: week for the Penny. That's a three thirty three winning percentage,
Speaker 1: half the side of the devil and overall on the year.
Speaker 1: If you look at the season totals on your podcast,
Speaker 1: you can see right there the graphics will get out
Speaker 1: the telestrator here. So Penny, that would be me hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty two wins, eighties, six losses, and six ties.
Speaker 1: That works out to a six or six winning percentage
Speaker 1: to penny, still under five hundred. We've only got a
Speaker 1: few weeks to go. The Penny's gotta get its act
Speaker 1: together here, Danny to finish at five hundred, the penny
Speaker 1: one hundred three wins, one seventeen losses and four ties.
Speaker 1: After that five ten in one week, so that works
Speaker 1: out to wait four winning percentage. A couple of good weeks,
Speaker 1: the penny can get to five hundred, which is what
Speaker 1: you'd expect the penny to be at Mathematically alive, Ben,
Speaker 1: Penny needs you to lose out for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season. The Penny needs to win every game. Uh,
Speaker 1: we need to get that. I'm doing the numbers. We
Speaker 1: need to get the penny at least a five hundred.
Speaker 1: That will make the bit reasonable. But the penny's got
Speaker 1: to make up four games in three weeks. So my
Speaker 1: computer like mind tells me, if the penny can make
Speaker 1: up five and a half games a week, will that
Speaker 1: being I think it's gonna be six games? Was six
Speaker 1: games a week? The penny's gonna make up six games
Speaker 1: a week above five, Okay, so the penny is gonna
Speaker 1: have to go. There's sixteen games every week, so the
Speaker 1: penny is gonna have to go with twelve and six
Speaker 1: or twelve and four something along like that every week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can stop doing the math now. Anyway, we'll get
Speaker 1: to it. Here we go. Are you ready? Are you ready?
Speaker 1: Here we go? Yeah, let's do it all right. We'll
Speaker 1: start out with the New York Giants Christmas Eve in
Speaker 1: the morning Giants and Minnesota Giants eight five and one,
Speaker 1: Minnesota eleven and three. It's on Fox with Adam Amin
Speaker 1: and Mark Slavor. They have the call Vikings open to
Speaker 1: four point favorite. They're favored by four and a half.
Speaker 1: It's lucky. There's a dome in Minnesota. Temperature sunny and
Speaker 1: one degree at kickoff outside US Banks Stadiu him most
Speaker 1: people betting on the Vikings in this game. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the Giants here. Minnesota's defense is so lousy.
Speaker 1: How lousy are they? They're so lousy. I don't trust
Speaker 1: them against anyone, even a subpart. Danny Dimes will find
Speaker 1: open receivers in the Vikings soft secondary. They are cream
Speaker 1: cheese in the secondary. And these teams are closer than
Speaker 1: their records indicate. The Giants are still fighting for a playoffs.
Speaker 1: About the Vikings at eleven and three, he have a
Speaker 1: shot at the number one overall record, although they need
Speaker 1: a lot of things to go their way because they
Speaker 1: already lost to Philadelphia. But Minnesota coming off that thirty
Speaker 1: three point come back against the Colts, now they play
Speaker 1: the Giants, but they have the Packers and a key
Speaker 1: divisional game, key rivalry game for them next week. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Giants and the points. Vikings twenty
Speaker 1: seven and the Giants six the final, and the penny
Speaker 1: is going with Danny Jimes and the Giants. Alright, so
Speaker 1: we agree on that. We move on now. This is
Speaker 1: a game that has no redeeming quality whatsoever. Danny New
Speaker 1: Orleans five and nine at Cleveland six and eight on
Speaker 1: CBS with Spirodidas and Jay feely. The Browns opened a
Speaker 1: three point favorite at home, and they are still favored
Speaker 1: by three. This line has stayed flat with the gambling
Speaker 1: market and most people betting on the Cleveland Browns in
Speaker 1: this game is going to be a dome team in
Speaker 1: bad weather, not snowing or rainy, but cloudy and ten
Speaker 1: degrees at kick off in Cleveland and northern Ohio there
Speaker 1: and some of the numbers here. The Saints one in
Speaker 1: five against the spread with Dennis Allen as the coach.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton has not been particularly great there. Although here's
Speaker 1: an odd quirk I found when I was handicapping the
Speaker 1: game getting ready for this. In Andy Dalton's career last
Speaker 1: ten games against the Browns, most of those granted with
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati ben Gals back in the day. But Dalton
Speaker 1: eight and two against the spread against the Cleveland Browns,
Speaker 1: And this is a game I flip flopped on. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna lie to you. When I originally started handicapping
Speaker 1: the game, I was gonna take the Cleveland Browns. The
Speaker 1: more I dove down the rabbit hole, I went the
Speaker 1: other way and I flip flop. So I'm taking the Saints.
Speaker 1: The pick is on the Saints. And here's why I
Speaker 1: flip flop. Cleveland is absolutely feeling it. You've got Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb who's got a bad foot, defensive tackle Miles Garrett
Speaker 1: who's been sick, both listed as questionable for this game.
Speaker 1: You've also got Jadevion Clowney and you're old guy A
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper from the Raiders there who are also on
Speaker 1: the injured list. So you are down some major tanks
Speaker 1: and some major torpedoes here. And while the Saints blow,
Speaker 1: they still have a shot to win the division and
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. At five at night, it makes no sense.
Speaker 1: It's illogical. It's gonna be an ugly game, god awful game,
Speaker 1: terrible game, blah blah blah blah blah, but I love
Speaker 1: getting some points. This will be a field goal game,
Speaker 1: so the most likely outcome is a field goal difference here.
Speaker 1: So if the Saints win, you obviously win the money,
Speaker 1: but if the Browns win by a field goal, you
Speaker 1: get your money back. Saint's nineteen Brown sixteen the final.
Speaker 1: The penny is going the other direction, taking the Browns,
Speaker 1: and we move on on Benny versus the penny man
Speaker 1: versus an adamant object. As we handicap every game. We're
Speaker 1: doing this for years. Tell a friend Detroit seven and
Speaker 1: seven and they take on Carolina five and nine. It's
Speaker 1: on Fox with Fox Sports Radio alumnus Chris Myers and
Speaker 1: Robert Smith. They have the call. The Lions opened up
Speaker 1: a two and a half point favorite, and they are
Speaker 1: favored by three on the road. Detroit a road favorite,
Speaker 1: and many people think this is a free money game.
Speaker 1: Just been on Detroit, your guarantee you'd win. In downtown Charlotte,
Speaker 1: Sonny and thirty degrees at kickoff at Bank of America
Speaker 1: Stadium where our friend black Steve the Second, we'll be
Speaker 1: watching on TV unless he's not so. The Lions are
Speaker 1: seven and oh. Their last seven games against the spread,
Speaker 1: they have been a wagon and I believe that stops here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Panthers in this game, and the
Speaker 1: main analysis. I'm gonna keep it simple here. I love
Speaker 1: the Lions. I think the Lions are great. I hope
Speaker 1: I'm wrong on this. I hope the Lions win the
Speaker 1: game by three touchdowns. But I simply do not trust
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. You know why, Danny, I saw this guy
Speaker 1: with the rams and cold weather. He gets into the
Speaker 1: fetal position, and he starts, he sucks his thumb. He's
Speaker 1: Frosty the Snowman at quarterback and it ain't good. Five
Speaker 1: and nine against the spread and cold weather games, and
Speaker 1: many of those games have been completely lopsided with no
Speaker 1: offense from Jared Golf, and I just can't get that
Speaker 1: out of my mind. Maybe maybe it's different now he's
Speaker 1: in Detroit and all that stuff, But until I see
Speaker 1: this guy go out in a cold weather game and
Speaker 1: play well, I'm on the other side here. I simply
Speaker 1: do not trust Jared Golf. I like the Lions defense,
Speaker 1: and I know Sam Donald's a mistake prone ballplayer and
Speaker 1: all that, but man, oh man, do I think this
Speaker 1: is going to be an ugly game, cold weather game?
Speaker 1: The Panthers are coming off a loss to the Steelers
Speaker 1: last week. They can run the ball, uh and they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to because of Sam Donald. And I hope
Speaker 1: I'm wrong on this, but the Panthers twenty and the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions seventeen will be the final. And the penny says,
Speaker 1: too bad, your rams don't have any picks left to
Speaker 1: trade to get Golf back. Ben going with the Lions.
Speaker 1: I think they're good on that. The only way golf
Speaker 1: comes back is if if Sean McVeigh is doing TV,
Speaker 1: or if he's a he's the Grand Pool Ball on
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, maybe they'll they'll bring golf back, all right?
Speaker 1: Next up, that is the game I'm interested in, not
Speaker 1: that I'm not interested in these other games, but what
Speaker 1: a matchup. You got Cincinnati ten and four at New
Speaker 1: England seven and seven. The team you just saw last
Speaker 1: week Danny the Patriots on CBS, Iron Eagle and Charles
Speaker 1: Davis have the call and the ben Gals. The worm
Speaker 1: has turned Cincinnati favored in New England. Holy Tom Brady
Speaker 1: Batman the Bengals at three point favor They opened at that.
Speaker 1: The line has stayed the same at three and another
Speaker 1: one of these games. Everyone's loading up on Cincinnati. They
Speaker 1: think this is easy money, cold weather game. That's what
Speaker 1: you get in late December at Gillette Stadium, sunny and
Speaker 1: thirty four degrees at kickoff. And the Bengals, how about
Speaker 1: this Joe Burrow last twenty five games, they've been a
Speaker 1: root and twot in success with Joe Burrow twenty and
Speaker 1: five against the spread in the last twenty five starts
Speaker 1: for Burrow. But I'm gonna take the Patriots in this game.
Speaker 1: I love the Pats as a home dog. I wish
Speaker 1: it was three and a half. I wish it wasn't three.
Speaker 1: I wish I was getting some more that the line
Speaker 1: had gone up to three and a half. It's back
Speaker 1: down to three, but I'm taking the Patriots. No time
Speaker 1: for a ah we suck hangover after the Patriots absolutely
Speaker 1: blew it. The most bone headed playoff's seen in this
Speaker 1: era of the NFL. So New England's gotta shake it
Speaker 1: off and they've they've got to play with desperation. They
Speaker 1: went out there likely a playoff team. They lose one
Speaker 1: of these games and that's it. So it's last chest,
Speaker 1: last chance saloon for the Patriots to go up, up
Speaker 1: and away and and make the playoffs. Three tough games.
Speaker 1: It starts with this game. New England's defense is the
Speaker 1: real deal here, and that's really the basis of my wager.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and dance or round on
Speaker 1: Mac Jones. I think he sucks, but the defense is
Speaker 1: good and Joe Burrow can be rattled, and Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: is a ninja with mind games and all that. A
Speaker 1: Jedi mind trick here Burrow has been playing great. The
Speaker 1: turnover bug is lurking though in the weeds. Patriots is
Speaker 1: a home dog a wise play there ten and five
Speaker 1: against the spread. Their last fifteen is a home doog.
Speaker 1: I'll take Belichick and the theme is a nineteen seventies
Speaker 1: discos theme, Danny Staying Alive, Staying Alive. I'll take the
Speaker 1: Patriots twenty six and the Bengals twenty three, and the
Speaker 1: Penny says that that stiff arm has scarred Mac Jones
Speaker 1: for life with the Bengals. God was that? Oh my god?
Speaker 1: And I know we'll talk about on a Saturday podcast,
Speaker 1: but holy Connoli, Oh my god, Jez ran over. I'm
Speaker 1: like like a little sister. It was. It was abusive.
Speaker 1: If you're just tuning in, I don't know how you
Speaker 1: would just be tuning in. You probably had to listen
Speaker 1: to all the other bullcrap until we got to this point.
Speaker 1: But I should have mentioned the beginning. If you're new
Speaker 1: to the Betty Versus the Penny bit, the home team
Speaker 1: is heads Danny. The road team is tells you're the
Speaker 1: flipper of the Penny because you traveled by planes trans
Speaker 1: and automobiles and and so that's why we do road
Speaker 1: team tales. And you sit on your took us in
Speaker 1: the home team, you use your head. Okay, simple right, yes,
Speaker 1: correct a bundo. Alright. We move on now to sweet
Speaker 1: home Chicago. What a great city of family in Chicago
Speaker 1: and Buffalo. The Bills Mafia, they are arriving. They actually
Speaker 1: roll arrived earlier, a couple of days earlier because of
Speaker 1: the weather in Buffalo. But the Bills eleven and three.
Speaker 1: And if you're dyslexic, this is the perfect matchup because
Speaker 1: Chicago is three and eleven and it's on CBS with
Speaker 1: Greg Gumble and Adam arch Aletta. The Bills a opened
Speaker 1: up a ten point favorite, but wonders will never see
Speaker 1: says they're lying down to eight. Buffalo is still favored
Speaker 1: by eight and mostly cloudy. The temperature will be five
Speaker 1: degrees at kickoff at Soldier Field. The wind chill will
Speaker 1: be below freezing, you know, way below. It's actually below
Speaker 1: freezing at kickoff. It's gonna below zero. That's what I'm
Speaker 1: trying to say. If the man could talk, hat Soldier Field.
Speaker 1: Bills have not been great lately with Josh Allen two
Speaker 1: and five against the spread their last seven, so they've
Speaker 1: been unable to meet expectations with the gambling market as
Speaker 1: they stamp around on the field. And the Bears quietly
Speaker 1: over their last seven games, not that they're winning many
Speaker 1: of these games with five and two against the spread,
Speaker 1: so they've been able to outproduce the gambling market. And
Speaker 1: I believe that happens again here. I'm gonna take Chicago,
Speaker 1: Oh yee, a little faith in Buffalo. This is a
Speaker 1: sandwich game for the Bills. They're coming off a key
Speaker 1: divisional prime time matchup with the Dolphin last Saturday. They
Speaker 1: have the ben Gals in an a f C hierarchy
Speaker 1: showdown in since coming up on a Monday night in
Speaker 1: week seventeen. So I don't sense much of an edge
Speaker 1: here in this game, and Buffalo will likely jump out
Speaker 1: to an early lead. They've got a couple of starting
Speaker 1: lineman that are injured. Justin Fields is always a backdoor
Speaker 1: cover possibility. He can bake up a storm. He did
Speaker 1: it last week Danny in Philadelphia or in Chicago's just
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia, the Eagles were covering the number, big number,
Speaker 1: and you've got a late touchdown by Justin Fields and
Speaker 1: a backdoor cover, the dreaded backdoor cover if you better favorite.
Speaker 1: And the Bears are a bunch of average joes, but
Speaker 1: I believe they will make enough second half place. The
Speaker 1: hoodwink the points bread, So I'm taking the Bills to win,
Speaker 1: but the Bears to get the back door cover. Bills
Speaker 1: twenty four, Bears seventeen, and the frigid monsters in the
Speaker 1: Midway Home Stadium. In the Penny lands on heads. That
Speaker 1: means cheating off your paper taking Chicago did again, lollygagging around.
Speaker 1: Bad job by the penny. I don't blame the penny.
Speaker 1: Looking at the records overall, I don't blame the penny.
Speaker 1: The penny has sucked balls, Danny this year. It has
Speaker 1: not been good, all right. Next up Houston one, twelve
Speaker 1: and one at Tennessee seven and seven on CBS with
Speaker 1: Andrew Catalan and James Lofton. The Titans opened up a
Speaker 1: nine point favorite, and they are favored by only three.
Speaker 1: And we'll tell you why that line change in a minute.
Speaker 1: Most people betting on the Titans in this game at
Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium in downtown Nashville, the house that Clay Travis built,
Speaker 1: Although they're getting a new stadium. So so that'll be
Speaker 1: the house that he built. But our man Clay Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio and miss and the guy that Danny worked with,
Speaker 1: he Clay spent a lot of money on Titans tickets
Speaker 1: over the years. Yes, he's not getting those for free
Speaker 1: as he's paying for those. Yeah, that that ain't cheap.
Speaker 1: Uh So listen, I'm gonna take the texts in this game.
Speaker 1: The reason we've seen the line change if you have
Speaker 1: not been paying attention, if you're out hanging out with
Speaker 1: country bumpkins Houston. Uh they've they've they've shown some fighting.
Speaker 1: Now everyone's waiting for the bottom to fall out here
Speaker 1: for Lovey Smith. Last two weeks against supposed powerhouse teams
Speaker 1: in the Chiefs and Cowboys, they have been nail biers.
Speaker 1: Overtime game with k C last week. Cowboys games should
Speaker 1: have been you know, should have could have would have
Speaker 1: gone to Houston. They blew it in the end. I
Speaker 1: like to grind I expect more of that from Davis
Speaker 1: Mills and the c squad, mainly because the Titans are
Speaker 1: the thirty second ranked past defense, so the worst in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So there's gonna be some yards to be
Speaker 1: had there for Davis Mills. He had a backbreaking fumble
Speaker 1: in overtime. He also had three touchdowns his first three
Speaker 1: touchdown game against Kansas City last week. The Titans, though
Speaker 1: the reason the line changed they do not have Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill and he will I'll be playing, you know, likely
Speaker 1: the rest of the year. Here. Pat Ankle done for
Speaker 1: the season, and that means Malik Willis, who bangs in
Speaker 1: the wind, who's not ready for prime time, is back
Speaker 1: under center. So it's all about Derrick Henry and no
Speaker 1: one else down. Willis started the game when these teams
Speaker 1: played earlier this year and attempted ten passes the entire game.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason is because Derrick Henry ran for
Speaker 1: over two hundred yards in that game. Now, if that
Speaker 1: happens here, obviously the Titans win this game easily. But
Speaker 1: the way Tennessee is playing, with all the injuries they
Speaker 1: lead the NFL and injuries, I just don't sense that
Speaker 1: that's gonna go the way it went before. The sequel
Speaker 1: will not be the equal, and I will take the
Speaker 1: Texans to upset the Titans. Holy crap, Texas twenty and
Speaker 1: the Titans sixteen. The final and the penny says what
Speaker 1: you're talking about Willis like that for going with the Titans.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Malik Willis has not shown anything. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel bad for the guy. They were hyping him
Speaker 1: up in the preseason, Danny, and he has been absolute stiff.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he shows something here. He looked great a liberty.
Speaker 1: He's he had liberty anymore. Right here, You're not at
Speaker 1: liberty anymore. Uh. He's like, I know, but you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta show me something, you know, as as Sherry
Speaker 1: Glamville taught me when I was a little boy, Danny,
Speaker 1: the NFL is not for long. If you play like that,
Speaker 1: then congratulations. All right. Next up Seattle at Kansas City,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks circling the wagons. What has gone on there?
Speaker 1: Seven and seven? Kansas City, eleven and three. It's on Fox,
Speaker 1: Kevin Coogler and Mark Sanchez. The Chiefs opened up a
Speaker 1: nine and a half point favorite. They're favored by ten
Speaker 1: in this game. And I will have multiple friends that
Speaker 1: will be an Arrowhead Stadium, my radio friends I go
Speaker 1: on there, going on with him every third day. Bob
Speaker 1: and Josh will be on the feet, one will be
Speaker 1: on the field during the sidelines. He's gonna freeze his
Speaker 1: ass off. Josh Clingler and my friend Bob will be
Speaker 1: in a luxury box, so he will be fine. He's
Speaker 1: a big morning guy. Uh. Everyone's been on Kansas City
Speaker 1: this game. Three degrees mostly sunny, three degrees that kick
Speaker 1: off at Arrowhead, a chamber of commerce type of day,
Speaker 1: and I am gonna go against the grain on this
Speaker 1: one a bit. Kansas City has blown the last couple
Speaker 1: of games, is big favorites. I'm gonna take the Chiefs though.
Speaker 1: I think this is the week they put it all
Speaker 1: together here and they say addio s muchachos to the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Kansas City has failed against the Texas le
Speaker 1: Broncos back to back to come. Remember that that big
Speaker 1: lead against Lebroncos twenty seven to nothing or something like that,
Speaker 1: and they blew it in that game. Last week they
Speaker 1: had to go to overtime against Houston. So I expect
Speaker 1: a blowout City over a ragged Seattle team that has
Speaker 1: no defense. They also don't have Tyler Lockett. Not expect
Speaker 1: to play bad hand he had surgery and Kenneth Walker
Speaker 1: at the time we're doing this podcast. Danny, He's got
Speaker 1: a bad ankle. He has not been able to practice
Speaker 1: all week long. And so you've got Geno Smith roaming
Speaker 1: around throwing the ball to himself. Good luck. Uh, this
Speaker 1: just has a blowout city all over it. Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: fattening up his stats. Chiefs thirty three and the Seahawks seventeen.
Speaker 1: And I very rarely lay the big number, Danny. So
Speaker 1: this is a rare exception to one of my one
Speaker 1: of my rules. The penny wants to take advantage of
Speaker 1: that landing on tails band. That means thinking it can
Speaker 1: make up some ground on you by going with the Seahawks. Alright,
Speaker 1: good luck on that. Normally I would take Seattle, but
Speaker 1: I saw the injury chart and I just think this
Speaker 1: is a cold weather Seattle is just gonna gonna freeze
Speaker 1: over there in the conditions where it's like Siberia. All right.
Speaker 1: Next up Atlanta five and nine at Baltimore nine and five.
Speaker 1: It's on Fox. The pitch perfect. Kenny Albert and Jonathan
Speaker 1: Filma have the call. Ravens opened up a six and
Speaker 1: ap point favored. They are favored by seven eighty five
Speaker 1: per cent of the wagers on Baltimore. The numbers we
Speaker 1: have at M ANDT Bank Stadium in the House that
Speaker 1: Sports with Coleman Build and Greg the realtor in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: So the weather is gonna be frightful. The Falcons quarterback
Speaker 1: is frightful. But I'm taking at Lanta anyway. I'm going
Speaker 1: crazy here, Danny j I'm taking the Falcons. And here's why,
Speaker 1: uh Lamar Jackson bad me. Doesn't look like he's gonna play.
Speaker 1: He missed his eighth straight practice the other day and
Speaker 1: I don't think he's practiced at all here. So well,
Speaker 1: you've got him out wide receiver Devin Dubern a bad foot.
Speaker 1: He gone, things are so bad? How bad are they?
Speaker 1: And it's so bad in Baltimore. The Poets, the dead
Speaker 1: Poets have turned to Sammy Watkins as the guiding light
Speaker 1: at receiver. They picked him off, picked him up off
Speaker 1: the waiver wire, your boy from the Rams. He's used
Speaker 1: my phone, Danny, he has used the mallophone. But he
Speaker 1: has been miserable in Green Bay. The Ravens, also their
Speaker 1: backup quarterback, was checking this out on the injury report.
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley added to the injury report midweek with the
Speaker 1: right shoulder injury. If he's unable to play or if
Speaker 1: he gets knocked out of this game somebody named Anthony Brown.
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Charlie Brown is going to be the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Now the Falcons have nothing either at the quarterback, so
Speaker 1: this isn't actually an even matchup because the Falcons quarterback
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter, Holy crap, uh man uh he they said
Speaker 1: he wasn't scared of a moment. That was what the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons were saying. Well, he might have been scared
Speaker 1: of the moment, but he played like a salad, a
Speaker 1: tird salad against the Saints. Now I didn't have Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and I won that bet because of a late touchdown
Speaker 1: on the back door cover. But no passing game. This
Speaker 1: game is going to be uh uh late with the
Speaker 1: Capital you and I just can't lay that many points
Speaker 1: with the Ravens. They've got a better defense than the Falcons,
Speaker 1: They've got the running game. They should be able to
Speaker 1: rotate running running backs in. But this is too many points.
Speaker 1: I'm stubborn. Ravens sixteen, Falcons twelve the final and the
Speaker 1: penny says Sammy Watkins is gonna have to t d
Speaker 1: s going with the Ravens. All right, we'll ring the
Speaker 1: bell next late games, late games now on the Saturday card,
Speaker 1: Washington seven, six and one at San Francisco. Of course,
Speaker 1: they'll be played in Santa Clara ten and four on
Speaker 1: CBS with Kevin Harlan and Trent Green. They have the call.
Speaker 1: The Niners opened a six point favorite. They are favored
Speaker 1: by seven and another one of these games. Everyone loading
Speaker 1: up on the forty Niners free money game. Fill up
Speaker 1: your bank account, fill up your four oh one k.
Speaker 1: Here you go. And I've learned over the years that
Speaker 1: is generally the wrong way. When everyone's going one direction,
Speaker 1: you gotta go the other direction. It's a horror of
Speaker 1: horrors if you go with a mob at Levi's Stadium,
Speaker 1: mild temperatures in Santa Clara's sixty degrees at kickoff. I'm
Speaker 1: taking Washington in this game. They will siphon off a victory.
Speaker 1: The Commandos under Ron Rivera have been a very good
Speaker 1: West Coast team actually prior to Ron Rivera also seven
Speaker 1: one in two their last ten games against the spread
Speaker 1: when they've had to travel from the East Coast to
Speaker 1: the West Coast over two thousand miles of travel, So
Speaker 1: they've been a great team far away from their homestead
Speaker 1: in land Over Maryland, and even with last week's tobacco
Speaker 1: against the I asked some questionable officiating at the end
Speaker 1: of that game. The Commanders are five and two against
Speaker 1: the spread with Taylor Heineke, and I like brock Purty.
Speaker 1: He's been very good. Magic carpet ride has continued for him.
Speaker 1: It did last week. He's actually the second ranked quarterback
Speaker 1: in the league behind Trevor Lawrence since he took over
Speaker 1: over the last three weeks. But dinged up still expected
Speaker 1: to play this game, and I have a hunch on
Speaker 1: this the Commander's defense will be the top unit that
Speaker 1: brock Purty's played even in these games. It's not like
Speaker 1: it's not like the forty Niners have been, you know,
Speaker 1: completely running from from beginning to end their offense without
Speaker 1: any kind of of of hiccups here, So I listen
Speaker 1: to the Washington defense is pretty good. I think this
Speaker 1: point spreads just too inflated. The value, the point spread
Speaker 1: value is on the side of the Commanders and they
Speaker 1: are playing for their playoff lives. The Niners have already
Speaker 1: wrapped up a playoff birth. They're playing for seating the Commanders.
Speaker 1: If they want to get in the playoffs, they gotta
Speaker 1: pull an upset here. They will not actually win the game.
Speaker 1: But if you've been on Washington with the points, you'll
Speaker 1: be on the right side of it, because as the
Speaker 1: forty Niners went at sixteen over the Commanders and the
Speaker 1: Pennies going the other direction taking the forty Niners. Alright,
Speaker 1: we move on to the final game on the late portion,
Speaker 1: late portion of the television window on Saturday. That's Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and Dallas. Philadelphia thirteen and one, Dallas ten and four.
Speaker 1: It's on Fox with Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen at
Speaker 1: the wheel. That's the eight team. Why is why is
Speaker 1: the eight team doing this game? It's a it's a
Speaker 1: good game and be it's the Cowboys and the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That's guaranteed to be the top rated game this weekend
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and everyone in TV knows it, and
Speaker 1: so it's a boon for TV people. Cowboys opened up
Speaker 1: a one point favorite. They are favored by five in
Speaker 1: this game, and most people betting on Dallas at a
Speaker 1: t n T stadium. Jerry's World sunny in thirty degrees
Speaker 1: at kickoff, and I'm want to take the Eagles in
Speaker 1: this game. I know Jalen Hurts is out. That's why
Speaker 1: the line movie he's got a bump shoulder. He's expected
Speaker 1: to mistance game. At the time we are doing Benny
Speaker 1: versus the Penny Gardner Minshoe midshoe mania, he takes over
Speaker 1: and I have a case of Minshew mania. This guy
Speaker 1: should be starting for some crap team like the Texans
Speaker 1: or maybe the Titans next year. But I expect the
Speaker 1: Eagles offense to be clicking even without Jalen Hurst. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense, their stats are inflated. We saw them absolutely
Speaker 1: proved to be frauds when they lost their way in
Speaker 1: Jacksonville last week. Blew that big lead, couldn't get it done.
Speaker 1: Watching them try to stop Trevor Lawrence was as effective
Speaker 1: as as milking a bull late in that game. And
Speaker 1: if you look at the Cowboy offens last month or so,
Speaker 1: they're twenty three at stopping the past and they're actually
Speaker 1: worse than the Texans and the l A Rams. The
Speaker 1: spread on this game is out of whack, Eagles thirty
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys the final, and the Penny landing on
Speaker 1: heads for the third time in a row. Going with
Speaker 1: the home team. The Cowboys alright, A lot of favorites.
Speaker 1: When you when you land on that side of the penny,
Speaker 1: the best laid plans of mice men and pennies. Next
Speaker 1: up the final game on Christmas Eve on Saturday, and
Speaker 1: that is in Pittsburgh, Hey A and Las Vegas, Vegas, Vegas,
Speaker 1: Vegas six and eight in Pittsburgh. Also six and eightis
Speaker 1: on the NFL network. Rich Eisen and Kurt Warner will
Speaker 1: have the call for something. They should have called you, Danny.
Speaker 1: You could have been the third man in the booth
Speaker 1: there with Warner right, you would have traveled the pits.
Speaker 1: But when your wife have allowed you to travel the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh for that game, Yeah, yeah, you could have done
Speaker 1: the game. You're doing very eloquent in the broadcast. We've
Speaker 1: but the Raiders getting most of the money here. Steelers
Speaker 1: a two and a half point favorite. They opened it
Speaker 1: one and a half and another frigid night of football.
Speaker 1: It's a fun time of the year if you like
Speaker 1: cold weather games. Sixty uh said money on the Raiders.
Speaker 1: But the forecast here ten degrees. That kick off at
Speaker 1: the former Hinz Field, which now is named after some
Speaker 1: kind of insurance company. The Raiders have done very well
Speaker 1: against the Steelers with Mike Tomlin last seven games. The
Speaker 1: Raiders are six and one against the spread against the
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin Steelers. But that's the good news the bad news.
Speaker 1: It's a vicious cycle. And the Raiders are three and
Speaker 1: twelve against the spread their last fifteen games against teams
Speaker 1: that have a losing record like the Steelers. And we
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier how great Washington has been when they go
Speaker 1: from east coast to west. So the opposite that would
Speaker 1: be the Raiders when they travel from the friendly confines
Speaker 1: of lost wages Nevada and travel more Thans or more there.
Speaker 1: Two and eight against the spread their last ten and
Speaker 1: I want to take the Steelers in this game, very
Speaker 1: similar to my logic on Jared Goff. I don't trust
Speaker 1: Derek Carr in cold weather. I don't think he's going
Speaker 1: to handle this very well. I do love t J.
Speaker 1: Watt and that Steeler defense, And not that I'm a
Speaker 1: big emotion guy when it comes to betting on NFL games,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be quite the scene. As they were
Speaker 1: honoring the immaculate reception and Frank o'harris just passed away
Speaker 1: unexpectedly a few days ago. It's gonna be a madhouse.
Speaker 1: There the the raw emotion in favor of Pittsburgh, but
Speaker 1: that'll wear off once the game kicks off. I just
Speaker 1: trust the Steelers defense. They are a top ten defense
Speaker 1: with t J. Watt, and we know that your guy
Speaker 1: Derek Carr does not handle that well. And the cold
Speaker 1: weather on top of it. Steelers twenty three and the
Speaker 1: Raiders the final and the penny learned from last week,
Speaker 1: but you didn't going with the Raiders. Remember John Madden
Speaker 1: took it to his grave saying that ball was on
Speaker 1: the ground. Yeah, well I'll find it. What are you
Speaker 1: planning a special party for this game, Danny? Are you
Speaker 1: any kind of It's It's a holiday, so you gotta
Speaker 1: be with family. I would think Christmas. I'm gonna find
Speaker 1: a way to watch this game band no matter where
Speaker 1: I'm at, no matter what family is doing, this game
Speaker 1: will either be on my phone or on the big screen.
Speaker 1: If you need me to send you a link, I
Speaker 1: might know a guy that has a link. So if
Speaker 1: you want to let me know and I might be
Speaker 1: able to hook you up. I know a guy who
Speaker 1: knows a guy who knows that a Russian guy, Russian, Ukrainian,
Speaker 1: maybe some island just north of Australia. I don't know,
Speaker 1: say Nooniesia, you know somewhere I don't who knows? All right,
Speaker 1: Next up, let's get to the Sunday part of the card,
Speaker 1: and only a few games on Sunday as these are
Speaker 1: showcased games. The Green Bay Packers six and eight at
Speaker 1: Miami eight and six. It's on Fox on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: Joe Davis and Darryl moose Johnson have the call. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins opened a three and a point favorite. They're favored
Speaker 1: by three and a half. Still a lot of money
Speaker 1: on the Packers in this game at hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 1: Mostly cloudy and uh temperatures will be mild in Miami
Speaker 1: by Miami standards for this game. But I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Packers. I'm gonna take the Packers in this game.
Speaker 1: Miami returns home three game skid to a tongue of
Speaker 1: my Lord and forget about winning the m v P Award.
Speaker 1: He's the twenty fourth ranked quarterback over the last month,
Speaker 1: behind Kenny Pickett and Zack Wilson. Neither one of them
Speaker 1: has been all that good either. The Dolphins defense, though,
Speaker 1: that's the main reason to like the cheese heads. In
Speaker 1: this game, the defense has struggled to stop the passing
Speaker 1: attack that the Packers offense should be efficient with Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: they've started to click recently. I think this line is
Speaker 1: a little too high. You're getting the hook there with
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers the three and a half and
Speaker 1: I always love that, and the Packers they gotta win
Speaker 1: out Austin their only These teams are not dead yet,
Speaker 1: but they're on life support and they're about to have
Speaker 1: the last supper if their fortune does not change, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna go down fighting purely and simply though they're
Speaker 1: not good enough in the end, I'm taking the Packers
Speaker 1: plus the points, but the Dolphins win the game thirty
Speaker 1: seven the final and the penny lands on tails for
Speaker 1: the second time in a row. Going with the Packers
Speaker 1: al right. Next up a game that has no redeeming
Speaker 1: value at all other than from a gambling standpoint, Danny.
Speaker 1: That would be the Denver l a matchup Denver four
Speaker 1: in ten the Rams four and ten. It's on CBS
Speaker 1: with essentially on Nickelodeon as well as one of those
Speaker 1: Nickelodeon games where Iron Eagle, Oh yeah, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: slimed if you score a touchdown. Yeah, yeah, I and
Speaker 1: Eagle the son of the Great, his father who's been
Speaker 1: amazing here, Nate Burlson. They also they have the call
Speaker 1: there on Eagle the Clipper. Yeah, I believe right. So
Speaker 1: is that there's his kid? Right? Uh So? Anyway, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Rams, this game open to picking. The Rams are
Speaker 1: a one point favorite, and we're gonna rock and roll
Speaker 1: with the Broncos. It's so far stadium. I'm not betting
Speaker 1: on the Rams. You're kidding me. Uh. The reason behind
Speaker 1: me betting against the Rams, Baker Mayfield was back to
Speaker 1: being the Duke of Puke in the Monday night football game.
Speaker 1: And I know the weather is gonna better, and Baker
Speaker 1: is usually okay in good weather. Uh. He goes against though,
Speaker 1: the star of the show and that is the Broncos defense.
Speaker 1: They are the only elite unit in this game. The
Speaker 1: Rams offense not elite. The Rams defense without Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: not elite special teams. No, the Rams are playing a
Speaker 1: bunch of lift drivers and Uber Eats delivery guys in
Speaker 1: their defense. It's it's an absolute mess. I expect multiple
Speaker 1: turnovers from from Baker Mayfield that offensive line for the
Speaker 1: Rams is all messed up, and not that it's gonna
Speaker 1: lead to a massive wind, but as you said, the
Speaker 1: Rams will end up covered in slime and good heavens.
Speaker 1: But Russell Wilson, who has expected to play in this
Speaker 1: game back in the wind com Broncos twenty and the
Speaker 1: Rams sixteen the final and the Penny says the Rams
Speaker 1: should get slimed a lot because they'll be in the
Speaker 1: end zone more than the Broncoes. Kenny says, shame on,
Speaker 1: you bend your ms. Listen. Maybe maybe I'll be wrong.
Speaker 1: This would be the week that all all goes to
Speaker 1: hell right here, and I'll be crying like a baby.
Speaker 1: Next up, Sunday Night football, Tampa Bay six and eight
Speaker 1: at Arizona four and ten. It's on and be see
Speaker 1: the Peacock with Mike Dirico and Chris Collinsworth as the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers opened up a three point favorite there favored by
Speaker 1: seven and a half in this game and a lot
Speaker 1: of the money coming on Tampa Bay at State Farm Stadium.
Speaker 1: And this is one of those games where I will
Speaker 1: cover my eyes, I will try not to puke in
Speaker 1: my mouth, but I am gonna take the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneers in this game. I will lay the massive number.
Speaker 1: The Bucks have been an absolute dog food team. I
Speaker 1: realized that. But they have met their equal in the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. Colt McCoy the backup concussion. He's likely out
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. That means someone named
Speaker 1: Trace McSorley, yeah, is getting tossed into the incinerator. I
Speaker 1: would rather have Marty McSorley as my quarterback. This guy
Speaker 1: is a Mama luke. He's an absolute bum dog with
Speaker 1: fleas however you want to say it. Uh. And I
Speaker 1: expect the Buccaneers defense to flour ish. I would be
Speaker 1: surprised if the Cardinals do anything at all on offense
Speaker 1: for most of this game. And Tom Brady had a
Speaker 1: great first half against the Bengals last week and then
Speaker 1: had those turnovers all and the Cardinals defense is not
Speaker 1: that great. Injury ravage Cardinals secondary. Let may be this.
Speaker 1: Let me be be very clear here, Nay. If Tampa
Speaker 1: does not win this game by ten or more points minimum,
Speaker 1: if I own the Bucks, I fired Todd Bowls on
Speaker 1: Christmas night at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. That's how
Speaker 1: big a disparity there is between trace McSorley and the
Speaker 1: Buccaneer defense Buccaneers twenty three and the Cardinals thirteen. The
Speaker 1: final and the Penny says, I may be made out
Speaker 1: of fake copper nowadays, but let's keep it real. The
Speaker 1: Bucks are the easy winner here, all right. So we
Speaker 1: agree on that. Now we get to the final game,
Speaker 1: the final game this Christmas weekend of Benny versus the Penny,
Speaker 1: the soft underbelly of the NFL that would be in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: You're talking about opportunity for the Chargers. This is like
Speaker 1: one of those games you show up, you're collected. When
Speaker 1: Chargers eight and six Indianapolis four nine and one is
Speaker 1: on ESPN Slash ABC with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman.
Speaker 1: The line Chargers open up a two and apt point favorite.
Speaker 1: This speaks volumes to where the Colts are. The Chargers
Speaker 1: are a five point favorite, five point favorite in this
Speaker 1: game of the money on the Chargers at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Speaker 1: It's a dome, which is a good thing because it's
Speaker 1: gonna be cloudy and twenty one degrees outside at kickoff.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Colts. I'm shooting for the mode. I'm
Speaker 1: taking the Colts in this game. And let me explain why,
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, twenty games in his career as a favorite
Speaker 1: of three or more, seven and thirteen against the spread
Speaker 1: in that spot, Indianapolis did lose Jonathan Taylor for the
Speaker 1: seas in, so they got a bunch of second rate backups.
Speaker 1: Zack Moss and Dion Jackson will carry the running backload
Speaker 1: and Matt Ryan bench hey Gon sent to the Principal's
Speaker 1: office the penalty box. And so we have Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: remember him, He's back starting Nick Foles, who, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he did something a couple of years ago in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I forget what, but a generic brand quarterback. He will
Speaker 1: not make as many mistakes as Matt Ryan, who was
Speaker 1: always on dangerous ground. And that little thought bubble above
Speaker 1: my head here, I just don't trust the Chargers. The
Speaker 1: Chargers are like a chocolate Christmas Santa that you expect
Speaker 1: to be rock solid milk chocolate, and it's actually hollow.
Speaker 1: And I just don't trust them. They're they're able to
Speaker 1: to move the ball with a passing attack and all that,
Speaker 1: but Justin Herbert, when you expect the Charges to do well,
Speaker 1: they don't. When you don't expect him to do much.
Speaker 1: They do pretty well, and this is too many points here.
Speaker 1: Even with all of the issues that the Colts have,
Speaker 1: including playing like gutless pukes last week against the Vikings
Speaker 1: in the second half, Chargers will not cover the spread
Speaker 1: Chargers twenty six, Colts three, the final and the perfect
Speaker 1: ending here as the Penny is going with the Chargers,
Speaker 1: all right, So we disagree on that. And that is
Speaker 1: every game all weekend long on Saturday and Sunday on
Speaker 1: this Christmas weekend Hanukka Weekend edition of Benny Versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: So good luck. Remember money management, Danny. You don't want
Speaker 1: to get crazy here. Pick your spots. Don't bet every game,
Speaker 1: but pick the ones you like and good luck. Right,
Speaker 1: see see how you do. See if you can out
Speaker 1: fox the wise guys. But now you just can't leave.
Speaker 1: We listen. Have a great weekend. We'll have original podcast.
Speaker 1: This is a test run. We we point this out, Danny.
Speaker 1: If the podcast do well, future holiday weekends will have podcast.
Speaker 1: If not, we'll go back to some evergreen programming, or
Speaker 1: we'll just take the weekend. We'll be dark on the podcast.
Speaker 1: We'll see what kind of impact the podcast. You and
Speaker 1: I could have just been dipping chips and some baba ganoose.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yes, still broadcasting. Yeah. I have a great
Speaker 1: rest of your day on Friday. If you're listening through
Speaker 1: this on Saturday morning, we'll have another podcast coming your
Speaker 1: way a little bit later. Have a wonderful rest of
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