WEBVTT - Benny vs The Penny, Round 14 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:11.440 Welcome. Players, You're welcome. It's time now Penny versus the Penny, 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.040 and that it is a week fourteen in the NFL. 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.480 We already picked the Thursday night game on the radio, 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.680 so obviously you know the outcome from Soldier Field, Chicago 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:23.280 with the Cowboys and the Bears and all the drama 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.360 around the Cowboys win or lose. But we get to 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.560 the card on Sunday in the NFL, and I'm excited 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.320 to be here now on Benny Versus the Penny. A disclaimer, 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:41.600 this is marginal handicapping of NFL games. All right, we 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.640 handicapping games. You should use this as a tool. You 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.120 should not blindly bet every one of these games, but 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.040 you should handicap the games themselves. If both of our 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.880 thoughts line up, then that's probably a game you should 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:57.480 bet on now representing the Penny. Unfortunately, because we couldn't 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:02.400 find anybody else, David guesscon maybe I should have a 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.800 little bit more influence on our listeners selecting games. What 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.840 about that, Well, you're more than welcome if you want to, 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:10.800 you know, Mr big shot, pick the games. We'll see 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.240 how you do if you want to do that. But 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.480 that that's it's Benny versus the penny. It's not Benny 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:19.679 versus gag On, you know, just saying, uh, well, we 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.040 can talk about that in if we bring this thing 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.560 back for another season. Yeah, well we'll see about that. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.319 But all right, well let's get to the games here 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.880 and we'll see what happens this week. In Week fourteen, 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:32.560 will start out. You don't want to look back at 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.480 last week? No, I'm good. I don't live in the 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.919 I don't live in the rear view mirror. I look ahead, 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.400 I look out the front window. I don't look at 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:45.200 I don't look back what I do. Let's let's get 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.760 to work. But let's get to work, alright. I have 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.800 a winning record overall this season, and uh you know, 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:53.880 some weeks are better than another weeks. All right, Well, 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.800 then we'll start with Baltimore tenant two at Buffalo nine 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:02.080 and three. It's on CBS with Iron Eagle, the dad 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:05.000 of the Clippers, l A Clippers radio guy, and Dan Fouts. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.720 They have the call on CBS. The Ravens opened a 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.640 seven point favorite. They are favored by six. I was 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:15.440 hoping for a like a lake effect blizzard type situation, 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.880 but it's not gonna happen. The forecast calls for mostly 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:23.080 cloudy forty two degrees. As we are recording this podcast 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:27.120 at New Era of Field in Orchard Park, New York. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.600 The pick is in and I'm gonna take Buffalo. Here 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.120 we go, Buffalo. I'm taking the Bills in this game. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.760 A couple of reasons why now. Listen, Lamar Jackson and 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:40.600 Josh Allen. These guys have combined for over four rushing yards, 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.320 so this is the most combined rushing yards on a 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.000 season by opposing quarterbacks in the same game in NFL history. 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.239 And they said that styles make fights with these quarterbacks. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.400 While certainly Lamar Jackson has been better than Josh Allen, 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.640 they are similar of nature here. And I am starting 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.760 to come around on Josh Allen. I'm in a show 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:03.760 me state of mind with with Josh Allen, and I'm 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:08.160 starting to come around here. Uh and and and and 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:10.840 the reason here's here's the reason I am coming around. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:15.320 It's because he's playing well. Eleven touchdowns and one interception 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.799 in a ninety eight point seven quarterback rading over his 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.720 last seven games. Now that is against some Tomato Cans, Cleveland, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.359 Washington teams like that mixed in there. But he's been 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.079 good and and in years you know last year not 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.880 years pasted. Last year. Uh, he was not good even 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.280 against the bad teams. He was a mistake filled mess. 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.440 We called him the compass Rose because he threw the ball. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.080 You never knew where it was going, north, southeast, west, 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.720 you name it, the ball go anywhere. And it's not 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:47.360 like that now. And he's going to have to be 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.480 effective obviously to to compete with Baltimore in this game. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.440 The way the Ravens have been playing all year. The 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:58.840 Bills are one win away from ten, a ten win season, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.640 first time that will happen when they get there since 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:06.440 nineteen ninety nine, the last time the Bills won at 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.080 least ten of their first thirteen games nineteen nine one. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:12.680 What's the last time? That's? I mean before I was 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.000 a live guest guy. And that's how long ago that was, 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.800 back when Buffalo was going to the super Bowl every year. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.040 You're like sixty years old. What are you talking about? 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.279 That's a lie. I'm ay, I'm not even a millennial. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.360 I'm gen Z. I'm the new generation gen Z. Yeah. 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.599 Uh number two, all right, on this game, Buffalo is 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.799 the right side. Now, why is Buffalo the right side. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.320 I like the mental aspect of this. I liked looking 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.960 at the morale of teams and and I often based 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.760 my bets based on that and nothing else. For example, 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.799 this week, you look for for spots, you look for angles, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:49.200 and historically these angles have worked out very well. Right, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.160 they've worked out very very well. And as we do 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.800 betty versus the penny, I look for motivation. I look 0:04:55.880 --> 0:05:00.240 for who is motivated here? Uh, you know, you have 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:04.320 to bet on bad teams occasionally, but public perception plays 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.839 in this. Our team's overvalued. But in the case of 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.039 the Ravens, all right, there's a lot of criteria that 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.839 fits betting against the Ravens this week because they're coming 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.159 off a very important even though it was in primetime, 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:18.960 it was a key game last week, and against the 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:24.080 forty Niners, a right possible Super Bowl preview, and they 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.360 barely won that game. They won in the time ran out. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.400 Are they gonna have anything left in the tank? Plus, 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:32.960 and this is the other thing here, when you look 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:36.960 ahead to the NFL schedule and you start peeking ahead 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.440 and you say, well, this is the Ravens and the 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:43.200 Buffalo Bills. Let's see what happens in week fifteen. Well, 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:47.080 the Ravens play Thursday and night there in the next 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.680 week's Thursday game, and so are they distracted And they're like, oh, 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:52.800 we gotta play another game in a few days and 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.560 and and all that. So you wonder how that's gonna 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.599 play out. And I love the Bills defense. To me, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.280 the Bills defense is it's like a poor man's version 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.960 of the forty Niners defense. That gives you hope you 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.880 can contain, not stop, but contain Lamar Jackson. Guys like 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.159 Ed Oliver upfront, Jerry Hughes, those guys, big fat guys 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:15.080 are gonna have to gonna play a wonderful I'm gonna 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.800 play wonder there. I bottle them up. You're not gonna 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.800 stop Lamar Jackson, but just slow him down. The forty 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.080 Niners slowed him down. You only had a hundred yards passing. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:22.400 He had a hundred yards of rushing, but only a 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.560 hundred yards passing last week. And if you look at 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.520 the Ravens as a road favorite by almost a touchdown 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.359 under John Harbaugh, the Ravens have just a four hundred 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:36.239 four oh nine winning percentage as road favorites. This point 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.480 spread is inflated by a couple of points. I think 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.400 Buffalo wins the game outright, it is. It's a reality 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:50.880 check for the Ravens. Bills seven Ravens. You're final. Penny 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.360 likes what you're drinking. Going with the Bills as well. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.839 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:59.880 Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.359 Awards Radio, and the I Heart Radio app. Al Right, 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.240 next up Washington three and nine at Green Bay nine 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.000 and three is on Fox. Are we playing the Dick 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.320 Stockton game this week? Or yeah? But I don't think 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.480 it'll be stuck on this game? Uh No, I like 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.400 he said, stuck on this game. That would be Kenny 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.720 Albert with Ronda barbera friend of the show, Kenny Albert, 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:26.200 Mallar Militiaman Kenny Albert. Yeah. Packers opened a fourteen and 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.960 a half point favorite. They are favored by thirteen and 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.240 a half. It will be cloudy and thirty nine degrees 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.360 that they started play kickoff at Lambo Field, just down 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.640 the road from Appleton, Wisconsin, where my my brother decided 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.800 to move and leave me in the dust. I am 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:47.119 gonna take the Washington Redskins plus thirteen and a half. Now, 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.080 I am not betting on Dwayne Haskins. This is one 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.120 of the weird things about wins and losses, wings and 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:58.520 mother blanket losses. Dwayne Haskets is riding a two game 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.480 winning streaks, so he's clearly figured out how to play 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.520 quarterback in the NFL. Unless he hasn't. The Redskins have 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.480 been able to win in spite of their quarterback. And 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.600 the Redskins have and I give him credit because they 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.360 even though they're a terrible team, they have in many 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:14.600 of these games scratched and clawed and attempted to compete. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.240 And they did did that against the Lions and Jeff 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:22.520 driscoll and Carolina and Josh Allen last week. Despite Haskins 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:25.640 completing less than fifty percent of his passes, no touchdowns, 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.200 one interception, he had a passer rating in those two 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.959 games of less than sixty and yards per attempt barely 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.959 over five. But the reason I like the Redskins here 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.040 is they have the ability to run the ball. Darius 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.480 guys look like a video game character. He was like 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.400 a joystick running around there. A hundred and twenty nine 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.559 yards against Carolina on ten carries average twelve point nine 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:49.680 yards and carry even that old child, the beater, Adrian 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.680 Peterson had a big game last week. Now that was 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.679 against Carolina, But I don't think Green Bay's defense is 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.199 any better than Carolina's defense. It's all about motivation, and 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.440 you know Aaron Rodgers should have a mass of day. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.480 I'll find Davante Adams all over the place here, and 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.760 I saw that Davante Adams is second in the NFL 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.000 to Michael Toomps of the Saints. And share of targets, 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.560 which is the most important stat for receivers. What percentage 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.520 of the targets do I get? He's getting almost thirty 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.360 one percent of the targets in the Green Bay Packers offense. 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.280 But you know, Aaron Rodgers also has been pretty good 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.280 and and this is a key thing for the winning 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.640 doubt throw it out. He leads the NFL with twenty 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:33.120 nine throwaways. Uh So I'm taking the points here because 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.120 I think the Redskins will be able to run the ball. 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.240 I love double diget dogs. The Redskins, if you look 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:40.040 at this on the surface, should lose this game by 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.600 thirty points. Well, I think we can all agree on that. 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:45.000 But like I said, they've shown some fight. They've they've 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.160 shown the ability to to push the shove, to scratch 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.600 the claw, all that stuff, and and punch back, even 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.559 though they're in not as good talented, not not as 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:56.320 talented as as these other teams are playing. Uh. And 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.559 also the Packers, this is a weird spot. The Packers 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.160 had a game against a bad Giants team last week. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.880 Now they have a game against the bad Redskins team 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.600 this week, but then after that two key divisional games 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.600 in the NFC North against the Bears and Vikings. So 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.880 this is kind of those one of those go through 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:18.240 the motions type situation. Packers thirty, Redskins seventeen. That is 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.280 a cover. He can lose by thirteen and still win 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.200 the bet. Penny is going the other way with the 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.360 Green Bay Packers. All right, Next up Denver four and 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.640 eight at Houston. It's on CBS. Houston comes in eight 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:34.160 and four. Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon have the call here. 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.120 Texans opened up a seven and a half point favorite, 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:38.840 but after they beat the Patriots, this went all the 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:42.400 way up to nine and a half against your Broncos 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:47.800 Gascon It's a Dome in Houston, partly Cloudy's seventy degrees 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:53.600 at kickoff in this game to pick is in and 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.280 I'm going with your Broncos. Giskin, take your Broncos here 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.760 plus the nine and a half. This is a classic 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.520 sandwich game. Again we look for those angles and gambling. 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.760 There's a sandwich game for Deshaun Watson and friends, the Texans. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.400 What kind of energy are they gonna have here? You 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.160 you don't have to have great energy to win the game, 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.320 but you gotta get really good energy to cover the 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:17.319 point spread. Houston beat the Patriots Sunday night. Al Michael's 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.120 Chris collins Worth through there, and they have had their 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.439 ass kissed the entire week. Oh my god, the Texas 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.040 are great. They're a threat to win the NFC. Blah 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.199 blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. You know who 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.200 they play next week? Because I know who they play 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.120 next week. I have not like Kansas City. No, you 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:33.800 gotta look at next week's schedule in your hand to 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.080 kept these games. It's an amateur move by you. I 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:40.679 wasn't camp of the game the Texans play and the Titans. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:44.760 That is a massively important game in the a f 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.360 C South. So you're gonna get up for that game. Uh, 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:50.360 and and be for me. The key here is not 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.280 actually Drew Lock, although he simply has to manage the game. 0:11:55.000 --> 0:12:00.480 The Texas defense is they've got several week spots us specifically, 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.480 it's stopping the run. So I look at Philip Lindsay 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.760 and Royce Freeman, guys like that. Uh, these guys are 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.800 gonna have to step up. Houston has allowed. Check this out. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.600 They have a lot of hundred and ninety two rushing 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.520 yards per game since Week ten, since they're bye week. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.080 That's the worst in the NFL. They have the worst 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:20.480 run defense in the NFL since Week ten. And so yeah, 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.200 and I'm not excited about a rookie quarterback and and 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.400 Lock and all that stuff, but they'll run a dumbed 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.959 down playbook in this game. And you know the defense 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.240 has enough guys with Von Miller and others that you 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.480 can rattle the cage of Deshaun Watson. You just have 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:36.360 to stay within arms length. You just have to keep 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.000 it a one score game. Most of these games are 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.199 one score And if you look at both these teams 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.680 since in Houston has played twenty games decided by seven 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.760 points or fewer, tied with the Steelers for the most 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.520 of the NFL, and the Broncos have had four games 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.680 this season decided by a field goal in the final 0:12:55.840 --> 0:13:00.640 thirty seconds of regulations. So they played close and this 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:08.679 will be close. Also Texans twenty seven Broncos Penny also 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.720 go in that way with the Broncos. Alright, so we agree. Now, 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:15.160 I took out for time reasons, gag On. I took 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:20.640 out Let's get trivial, Z Well, I wasn't being lazy. 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.520 I mean, I have the questions, but I I deemed 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.439 the fact that you know, we're doing the podcast and 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.400 you usually have somewhere to go. You're kind of half 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.160 hearted during Benny versus the Penny, So I thought we'd 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:32.719 speed up. But if you want a question, I'll give 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.360 you a question. You want to get trivial, usually work 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.880 a nine hour shift right after this, so, yeah, it's 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.480 being half hard. Some of us have to prepare for 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:44.000 a network radio show, produced the show and come up 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.760 with the content, and yeah, uh, I'll give you let's 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:51.360 get trivial, give you a question. So Philip Lindsley of 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:55.320 your Denver Broncos has two thousand, two hundred and twenty 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.880 seven yards from scrimmage over his first two NFL seasons. 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.160 Since the merger, only two undrafted players have had more 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.760 scrimmage yards over their first two seasons. They are Aryan 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:12.240 Foster of the Texans and blank fill in the blank. 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:16.559 The answer coming up here on let's get trivial this podcast, 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.120 which is very trivial. Why do you sign like that. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.560 I wasn't siding, I was laughing. It sounded like a sigh. Well, 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.720 by the way, how much better does the audio sound 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.800 this week? My god? I think my I think my 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:34.840 audience sounds great even though I'm sick. I'm you know, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.160 still golden pipes of all. Right, hold on, let me 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.400 get my little violet. Lord can play a little violin. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:46.520 And you know it's misconduct. It's to say that you 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.720 just you're showing incompetence, is what you're doing here. And 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.560 I know that you often have a deliberate indifference when 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:58.800 you do these podcasts, But my god, is it deliberate? Yeah? Absolutely, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.200 don't hide it very well. You know, my poker face 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:07.600 is not working on on podcasts. It leaves a lot 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.040 to be this listen, we got san Francisco and New Orleans. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.360 Let's go all right, let's get to it. Uh, you know, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.800 let's we're on on the Bible belt, you asshole. I 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.920 would we I don't want you to curse. All right, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.160 Santa Clara Tennant two at New Orleans Tenant two. It's 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.480 on Fox one. Kevin Burkhardt Charles Davis on the call. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.680 That is correct, Kevin Burkhout Charles Davis have the call 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.520 on Fox. The Saints opened a three point favorite and 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.520 they are favorite by three at the time we are 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:43.480 recording this podcast live to tape or digital or whatever. Uh. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:48.600 The Mercedes Bend Superdome covered, but outside it will be 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.400 sixty four degrees in New Orleans at kickoff. The pick 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.120 is in and I am gonna take the Saints in 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:59.600 this game. And this should be a slobber knocker NFC 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:03.000 play off positioning on the line. Neither team has any 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.359 wiggle room. We know the situation here. The forty Niners 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.720 are in a cat fight pawing at Seattle, and the Niners, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.240 uh their situations. They gotta win. They they are looking 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.960 at if they don't win the division, having to play 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.560 on wild Card weekend. And the Saints also are in 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:23.160 a situation where if they stumble, they could they could 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.200 really f this up here. And they're in some in 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.320 the in stranger danger zone themselves. So there's a lot 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.800 of pressure on both sides. That makes for a good 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:35.440 football game, obviously, and both teams very good at getting 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.080 into the quarterback. In fact, the Niners defense forty five 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.480 sacks of the season, second most in in the NFL. 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:43.560 But you gotta start to question, and I don't think 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:44.920 the Niners are gonna win this game. You start to 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:47.440 question Kyle Shannon, and he got called out last week 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:51.480 for game management. His decision against the Ravens late did 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.000 not go so well on a fourth down play call, 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.480 decided to pass when the Niners were averaging six yards 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:02.280 per carry. Now, it is no in to lose the Seattle, 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.800 to lose to Baltimore. These are good football teams. But 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.600 if you continue to lose to every good team you play, 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:14.720 then that becomes a different conversation. People start to question 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.480 whether or not you're just a paper tiger. I don't 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.639 really count the green Bay win for the Niners because 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.440 green Bay didn't show up that particular night, and they 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.919 don't think green Bay is that good anyway. Uh. The 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:27.840 other thing to like about the New Orleans Saints here, 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:29.920 they are at home. It's only a three point line, 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.560 it's an even line. The public, according to the information 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.800 I have, is loading up on the forty niners, like 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.520 of the bets are on the side of Jimmy Garoppolo. 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:44.080 Uh and uh, I don't think that that that, to me, 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.640 is the wrong side. I think that that's a red flag. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.080 I'll go with the gumbo guys here. The Saints also 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.440 had a little extra time. Remember they played Thanksgiving nights, 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.760 so they had a couple of extra days, for whatever 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.440 that's worth. And Sean Payton, much like Belichick and these 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.240 other coaches that have been around a long time, I 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.679 have a really good record and when they get a 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.800 little extra time, a little extra time there, they don't 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.960 they don't lollygag. They actually prepare for these games here. 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:17.080 So I will take Nolans thirty three and Santa Clara 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:24.000 twenty three. Penny is going the other way with San Francisco. 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.959 All right, you want the answer to the let's get tribute? 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.720 All right? So Philip, no, go ahead. I was gonna say, 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.840 Philip Lindsley h two thousand two twenty seven scrimmage yards 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.960 two seasons. That is the There's only been two undrafted 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:44.200 players since the merger that have had more Arian Foster 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.159 and Blank. I think I know who this is, right? 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:52.000 Is it Tim Ryan, your friend the guy that you 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.960 advised before he appears on radio shows on what to say? Uh? No, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:19:00.000 it is not Tim Ryan. It is not the correct 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.840 the answer from the mid nineteen eighties Cleveland Browns, the 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:08.560 Mac Attack Kevin Mack, big brooding running back Kevin Mack 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.680 in the nineteen eighties. If you're if you're a fan 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.600 of tech Mobile like I was, Kevin Mack and Ernest 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:19.400 Biner were fantastic with the Cleveland Browns back in the day. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.879 he was. He was decent the Browns, you know that, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.200 really effective teams. And then that would be I was 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:30.600 like thirty years ago though, so brutal Kevin Mack. By 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:36.480 the way, you know what he's doing now insurance? Uh 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:44.520 he actually has a LinkedIn page? And uh did Kevin Mack? Well, 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:46.399 I was just curious. I always wonder what these like, 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.600 what these people do when there when they're done? You 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.560 know what they I don't it's not letting me click 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.160 on it. So I guess we won't know what he's doing. 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.120 But he he's fifty seven years old, so maybe he's retired. 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.679 I don't know he's what what the Battlemount? I clicked 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.080 on it and then have to log in, and I 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.320 don't remember my log in because I don't I don't 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.320 go on they're very often, so I can show his title, 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.199 though it doesn't show us. I don't know. Maybe I'm 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:13.919 doing it wrong, right, all right, anyway, let's move on. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.520 All right? Edit that out of the podcast, right that one? 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:21.760 Nobody will hear that? Yes, okay. Next up, we will 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:27.200 talk about two anemic feeble franchises that are a train wreck. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.680 They have been on the wrong side with Cincinnati Bengals 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:36.200 ineptitude and clumbiness. Uh, the Cleveland Browns have been decrepit 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:40.639 for years and Cincinnati one in eleven Cleveland five and seven. 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:44.440 It's on CBS. Now, this game is so unimportant? How 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:49.680 unimportant is it? Gas Gun? It is still unimportant. We've 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:53.560 got Spirodidas on the call. Even better, Beth Muwens has 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:57.720 the call for CBS with Tike Barber. That's the play 0:20:57.720 --> 0:21:01.600 by play and color commentator team for the seven people 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:03.480 that will watch this game in the state of Ohio. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.720 The Browns opened to ten and a half point favorite. 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:10.159 They're favorite by eight. I don't understand this point spread 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:13.359 at all. I don't. It's gonna be mostly cloudy forty 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:16.080 eight degrees that kicked off the mistake by the lake 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:20.320 at First Energy Stadium in beautiful Cleveland. I am gonna 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:23.960 take the ben Gals in this game. I'm gonna take Cincinnati. 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:25.760 We were on the Bengals last week. I'm gonna be 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.760 on them again. And the main reason behind this pick 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.200 is the Browns had a lead in Pittsburgh. It was 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:37.920 a stay alive game, staying alive, staying alive, and they choked. 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:42.879 They lost to waterfowl. That guy Duck Hodges who started 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.720 opening up the playbook in the second half. Now Cleveland's 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:49.359 got a hobble Baker Mayfield, but Mama didn't, didn't raise 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.760 no woos. And you know what kind of energy are 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:57.040 they gonna have? And with Andy Dalton, he's horrible, but 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:01.080 compared to what they had, he's great. It's like a 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:04.439 poor man's Boomeriscias. And compared to the Finley who had 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:08.880 been playing quarterback prior. And so the Browns are all 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:12.960 but dead. I the Civil War of Ohio football. I 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:14.680 don't know how up they players get for that. I 0:22:14.760 --> 0:22:18.040 expect them to come out flat as a pancake. Nobody 0:22:18.320 --> 0:22:21.719 gets up for the Bungles. Cincinnati has been called how 0:22:21.720 --> 0:22:23.560 about this though? He's a fun fact. They've been called 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:28.080 for eighty one penalties and only five penalty yards, both 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.199 fewest in the NFL. Does that mean the Bengals are 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:32.080