Speaker 1: Welcome. Players, You're welcome. It's time now Penny versus the Penny,
Speaker 1: and that it is a week fourteen in the NFL.
Speaker 1: We already picked the Thursday night game on the radio,
Speaker 1: so obviously you know the outcome from Soldier Field, Chicago
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys and the Bears and all the drama
Speaker 1: around the Cowboys win or lose. But we get to
Speaker 1: the card on Sunday in the NFL, and I'm excited
Speaker 1: to be here now on Benny Versus the Penny. A disclaimer,
Speaker 1: this is marginal handicapping of NFL games. All right, we
Speaker 1: handicapping games. You should use this as a tool. You
Speaker 1: should not blindly bet every one of these games, but
Speaker 1: you should handicap the games themselves. If both of our
Speaker 1: thoughts line up, then that's probably a game you should
Speaker 1: bet on now representing the Penny. Unfortunately, because we couldn't
Speaker 1: find anybody else, David guesscon maybe I should have a
Speaker 1: little bit more influence on our listeners selecting games. What
Speaker 1: about that, Well, you're more than welcome if you want to,
Speaker 1: you know, Mr big shot, pick the games. We'll see
Speaker 1: how you do if you want to do that. But
Speaker 1: that that's it's Benny versus the penny. It's not Benny
Speaker 1: versus gag On, you know, just saying, uh, well, we
Speaker 1: can talk about that in if we bring this thing
Speaker 1: back for another season. Yeah, well we'll see about that.
Speaker 1: But all right, well let's get to the games here
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens this week. In Week fourteen,
Speaker 1: will start out. You don't want to look back at
Speaker 1: last week? No, I'm good. I don't live in the
Speaker 1: I don't live in the rear view mirror. I look ahead,
Speaker 1: I look out the front window. I don't look at
Speaker 1: I don't look back what I do. Let's let's get
Speaker 1: to work. But let's get to work, alright. I have
Speaker 1: a winning record overall this season, and uh you know,
Speaker 1: some weeks are better than another weeks. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: then we'll start with Baltimore tenant two at Buffalo nine
Speaker 1: and three. It's on CBS with Iron Eagle, the dad
Speaker 1: of the Clippers, l A Clippers radio guy, and Dan Fouts.
Speaker 1: They have the call on CBS. The Ravens opened a
Speaker 1: seven point favorite. They are favored by six. I was
Speaker 1: hoping for a like a lake effect blizzard type situation,
Speaker 1: but it's not gonna happen. The forecast calls for mostly
Speaker 1: cloudy forty two degrees. As we are recording this podcast
Speaker 1: at New Era of Field in Orchard Park, New York.
Speaker 1: The pick is in and I'm gonna take Buffalo. Here
Speaker 1: we go, Buffalo. I'm taking the Bills in this game.
Speaker 1: A couple of reasons why now. Listen, Lamar Jackson and
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. These guys have combined for over four rushing yards,
Speaker 1: so this is the most combined rushing yards on a
Speaker 1: season by opposing quarterbacks in the same game in NFL history.
Speaker 1: And they said that styles make fights with these quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: While certainly Lamar Jackson has been better than Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: they are similar of nature here. And I am starting
Speaker 1: to come around on Josh Allen. I'm in a show
Speaker 1: me state of mind with with Josh Allen, and I'm
Speaker 1: starting to come around here. Uh and and and and
Speaker 1: the reason here's here's the reason I am coming around.
Speaker 1: It's because he's playing well. Eleven touchdowns and one interception
Speaker 1: in a ninety eight point seven quarterback rading over his
Speaker 1: last seven games. Now that is against some Tomato Cans, Cleveland,
Speaker 1: Washington teams like that mixed in there. But he's been
Speaker 1: good and and in years you know last year not
Speaker 1: years pasted. Last year. Uh, he was not good even
Speaker 1: against the bad teams. He was a mistake filled mess.
Speaker 1: We called him the compass Rose because he threw the ball.
Speaker 1: You never knew where it was going, north, southeast, west,
Speaker 1: you name it, the ball go anywhere. And it's not
Speaker 1: like that now. And he's going to have to be
Speaker 1: effective obviously to to compete with Baltimore in this game.
Speaker 1: The way the Ravens have been playing all year. The
Speaker 1: Bills are one win away from ten, a ten win season,
Speaker 1: first time that will happen when they get there since
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine, the last time the Bills won at
Speaker 1: least ten of their first thirteen games nineteen nine one.
Speaker 1: What's the last time? That's? I mean before I was
Speaker 1: a live guest guy. And that's how long ago that was,
Speaker 1: back when Buffalo was going to the super Bowl every year.
Speaker 1: You're like sixty years old. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: That's a lie. I'm ay, I'm not even a millennial.
Speaker 1: I'm gen Z. I'm the new generation gen Z. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh number two, all right, on this game, Buffalo is
Speaker 1: the right side. Now, why is Buffalo the right side.
Speaker 1: I like the mental aspect of this. I liked looking
Speaker 1: at the morale of teams and and I often based
Speaker 1: my bets based on that and nothing else. For example,
Speaker 1: this week, you look for for spots, you look for angles,
Speaker 1: and historically these angles have worked out very well. Right,
Speaker 1: they've worked out very very well. And as we do
Speaker 1: betty versus the penny, I look for motivation. I look
Speaker 1: for who is motivated here? Uh, you know, you have
Speaker 1: to bet on bad teams occasionally, but public perception plays
Speaker 1: in this. Our team's overvalued. But in the case of
Speaker 1: the Ravens, all right, there's a lot of criteria that
Speaker 1: fits betting against the Ravens this week because they're coming
Speaker 1: off a very important even though it was in primetime,
Speaker 1: it was a key game last week, and against the
Speaker 1: forty Niners, a right possible Super Bowl preview, and they
Speaker 1: barely won that game. They won in the time ran out.
Speaker 1: Are they gonna have anything left in the tank? Plus,
Speaker 1: and this is the other thing here, when you look
Speaker 1: ahead to the NFL schedule and you start peeking ahead
Speaker 1: and you say, well, this is the Ravens and the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Let's see what happens in week fifteen. Well,
Speaker 1: the Ravens play Thursday and night there in the next
Speaker 1: week's Thursday game, and so are they distracted And they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we gotta play another game in a few days and
Speaker 1: and and all that. So you wonder how that's gonna
Speaker 1: play out. And I love the Bills defense. To me,
Speaker 1: the Bills defense is it's like a poor man's version
Speaker 1: of the forty Niners defense. That gives you hope you
Speaker 1: can contain, not stop, but contain Lamar Jackson. Guys like
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver upfront, Jerry Hughes, those guys, big fat guys
Speaker 1: are gonna have to gonna play a wonderful I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play wonder there. I bottle them up. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: stop Lamar Jackson, but just slow him down. The forty
Speaker 1: Niners slowed him down. You only had a hundred yards passing.
Speaker 1: He had a hundred yards of rushing, but only a
Speaker 1: hundred yards passing last week. And if you look at
Speaker 1: the Ravens as a road favorite by almost a touchdown
Speaker 1: under John Harbaugh, the Ravens have just a four hundred
Speaker 1: four oh nine winning percentage as road favorites. This point
Speaker 1: spread is inflated by a couple of points. I think
Speaker 1: Buffalo wins the game outright, it is. It's a reality
Speaker 1: check for the Ravens. Bills seven Ravens. You're final. Penny
Speaker 1: likes what you're drinking. Going with the Bills as well.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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Speaker 1: next up Washington three and nine at Green Bay nine
Speaker 1: and three is on Fox. Are we playing the Dick
Speaker 1: Stockton game this week? Or yeah? But I don't think
Speaker 1: it'll be stuck on this game? Uh No, I like
Speaker 1: he said, stuck on this game. That would be Kenny
Speaker 1: Albert with Ronda barbera friend of the show, Kenny Albert,
Speaker 1: Mallar Militiaman Kenny Albert. Yeah. Packers opened a fourteen and
Speaker 1: a half point favorite. They are favored by thirteen and
Speaker 1: a half. It will be cloudy and thirty nine degrees
Speaker 1: that they started play kickoff at Lambo Field, just down
Speaker 1: the road from Appleton, Wisconsin, where my my brother decided
Speaker 1: to move and leave me in the dust. I am
Speaker 1: gonna take the Washington Redskins plus thirteen and a half. Now,
Speaker 1: I am not betting on Dwayne Haskins. This is one
Speaker 1: of the weird things about wins and losses, wings and
Speaker 1: mother blanket losses. Dwayne Haskets is riding a two game
Speaker 1: winning streaks, so he's clearly figured out how to play
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL. Unless he hasn't. The Redskins have
Speaker 1: been able to win in spite of their quarterback. And
Speaker 1: the Redskins have and I give him credit because they
Speaker 1: even though they're a terrible team, they have in many
Speaker 1: of these games scratched and clawed and attempted to compete.
Speaker 1: And they did did that against the Lions and Jeff
Speaker 1: driscoll and Carolina and Josh Allen last week. Despite Haskins
Speaker 1: completing less than fifty percent of his passes, no touchdowns,
Speaker 1: one interception, he had a passer rating in those two
Speaker 1: games of less than sixty and yards per attempt barely
Speaker 1: over five. But the reason I like the Redskins here
Speaker 1: is they have the ability to run the ball. Darius
Speaker 1: guys look like a video game character. He was like
Speaker 1: a joystick running around there. A hundred and twenty nine
Speaker 1: yards against Carolina on ten carries average twelve point nine
Speaker 1: yards and carry even that old child, the beater, Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson had a big game last week. Now that was
Speaker 1: against Carolina, But I don't think Green Bay's defense is
Speaker 1: any better than Carolina's defense. It's all about motivation, and
Speaker 1: you know Aaron Rodgers should have a mass of day.
Speaker 1: I'll find Davante Adams all over the place here, and
Speaker 1: I saw that Davante Adams is second in the NFL
Speaker 1: to Michael Toomps of the Saints. And share of targets,
Speaker 1: which is the most important stat for receivers. What percentage
Speaker 1: of the targets do I get? He's getting almost thirty
Speaker 1: one percent of the targets in the Green Bay Packers offense.
Speaker 1: But you know, Aaron Rodgers also has been pretty good
Speaker 1: and and this is a key thing for the winning
Speaker 1: doubt throw it out. He leads the NFL with twenty
Speaker 1: nine throwaways. Uh So I'm taking the points here because
Speaker 1: I think the Redskins will be able to run the ball.
Speaker 1: I love double diget dogs. The Redskins, if you look
Speaker 1: at this on the surface, should lose this game by
Speaker 1: thirty points. Well, I think we can all agree on that.
Speaker 1: But like I said, they've shown some fight. They've they've
Speaker 1: shown the ability to to push the shove, to scratch
Speaker 1: the claw, all that stuff, and and punch back, even
Speaker 1: though they're in not as good talented, not not as
Speaker 1: talented as as these other teams are playing. Uh. And
Speaker 1: also the Packers, this is a weird spot. The Packers
Speaker 1: had a game against a bad Giants team last week.
Speaker 1: Now they have a game against the bad Redskins team
Speaker 1: this week, but then after that two key divisional games
Speaker 1: in the NFC North against the Bears and Vikings. So
Speaker 1: this is kind of those one of those go through
Speaker 1: the motions type situation. Packers thirty, Redskins seventeen. That is
Speaker 1: a cover. He can lose by thirteen and still win
Speaker 1: the bet. Penny is going the other way with the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. All right, Next up Denver four and
Speaker 1: eight at Houston. It's on CBS. Houston comes in eight
Speaker 1: and four. Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon have the call here.
Speaker 1: Texans opened up a seven and a half point favorite,
Speaker 1: but after they beat the Patriots, this went all the
Speaker 1: way up to nine and a half against your Broncos
Speaker 1: Gascon It's a Dome in Houston, partly Cloudy's seventy degrees
Speaker 1: at kickoff in this game to pick is in and
Speaker 1: I'm going with your Broncos. Giskin, take your Broncos here
Speaker 1: plus the nine and a half. This is a classic
Speaker 1: sandwich game. Again we look for those angles and gambling.
Speaker 1: There's a sandwich game for Deshaun Watson and friends, the Texans.
Speaker 1: What kind of energy are they gonna have here? You
Speaker 1: you don't have to have great energy to win the game,
Speaker 1: but you gotta get really good energy to cover the
Speaker 1: point spread. Houston beat the Patriots Sunday night. Al Michael's
Speaker 1: Chris collins Worth through there, and they have had their
Speaker 1: ass kissed the entire week. Oh my god, the Texas
Speaker 1: are great. They're a threat to win the NFC. Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. You know who
Speaker 1: they play next week? Because I know who they play
Speaker 1: next week. I have not like Kansas City. No, you
Speaker 1: gotta look at next week's schedule in your hand to
Speaker 1: kept these games. It's an amateur move by you. I
Speaker 1: wasn't camp of the game the Texans play and the Titans.
Speaker 1: That is a massively important game in the a f
Speaker 1: C South. So you're gonna get up for that game. Uh,
Speaker 1: and and be for me. The key here is not
Speaker 1: actually Drew Lock, although he simply has to manage the game.
Speaker 1: The Texas defense is they've got several week spots us specifically,
Speaker 1: it's stopping the run. So I look at Philip Lindsay
Speaker 1: and Royce Freeman, guys like that. Uh, these guys are
Speaker 1: gonna have to step up. Houston has allowed. Check this out.
Speaker 1: They have a lot of hundred and ninety two rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game since Week ten, since they're bye week.
Speaker 1: That's the worst in the NFL. They have the worst
Speaker 1: run defense in the NFL since Week ten. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm not excited about a rookie quarterback and and
Speaker 1: Lock and all that stuff, but they'll run a dumbed
Speaker 1: down playbook in this game. And you know the defense
Speaker 1: has enough guys with Von Miller and others that you
Speaker 1: can rattle the cage of Deshaun Watson. You just have
Speaker 1: to stay within arms length. You just have to keep
Speaker 1: it a one score game. Most of these games are
Speaker 1: one score And if you look at both these teams
Speaker 1: since in Houston has played twenty games decided by seven
Speaker 1: points or fewer, tied with the Steelers for the most
Speaker 1: of the NFL, and the Broncos have had four games
Speaker 1: this season decided by a field goal in the final
Speaker 1: thirty seconds of regulations. So they played close and this
Speaker 1: will be close. Also Texans twenty seven Broncos Penny also
Speaker 1: go in that way with the Broncos. Alright, so we agree. Now,
Speaker 1: I took out for time reasons, gag On. I took
Speaker 1: out Let's get trivial, Z Well, I wasn't being lazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I have the questions, but I I deemed
Speaker 1: the fact that you know, we're doing the podcast and
Speaker 1: you usually have somewhere to go. You're kind of half
Speaker 1: hearted during Benny versus the Penny, So I thought we'd
Speaker 1: speed up. But if you want a question, I'll give
Speaker 1: you a question. You want to get trivial, usually work
Speaker 1: a nine hour shift right after this, so, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: being half hard. Some of us have to prepare for
Speaker 1: a network radio show, produced the show and come up
Speaker 1: with the content, and yeah, uh, I'll give you let's
Speaker 1: get trivial, give you a question. So Philip Lindsley of
Speaker 1: your Denver Broncos has two thousand, two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: seven yards from scrimmage over his first two NFL seasons.
Speaker 1: Since the merger, only two undrafted players have had more
Speaker 1: scrimmage yards over their first two seasons. They are Aryan
Speaker 1: Foster of the Texans and blank fill in the blank.
Speaker 1: The answer coming up here on let's get trivial this podcast,
Speaker 1: which is very trivial. Why do you sign like that.
Speaker 1: I wasn't siding, I was laughing. It sounded like a sigh. Well,
Speaker 1: by the way, how much better does the audio sound
Speaker 1: this week? My god? I think my I think my
Speaker 1: audience sounds great even though I'm sick. I'm you know,
Speaker 1: still golden pipes of all. Right, hold on, let me
Speaker 1: get my little violet. Lord can play a little violin.
Speaker 1: And you know it's misconduct. It's to say that you
Speaker 1: just you're showing incompetence, is what you're doing here. And
Speaker 1: I know that you often have a deliberate indifference when
Speaker 1: you do these podcasts, But my god, is it deliberate? Yeah? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: don't hide it very well. You know, my poker face
Speaker 1: is not working on on podcasts. It leaves a lot
Speaker 1: to be this listen, we got san Francisco and New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Let's go all right, let's get to it. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: let's we're on on the Bible belt, you asshole. I
Speaker 1: would we I don't want you to curse. All right,
Speaker 1: Santa Clara Tennant two at New Orleans Tenant two. It's
Speaker 1: on Fox one. Kevin Burkhardt Charles Davis on the call.
Speaker 1: That is correct, Kevin Burkhout Charles Davis have the call
Speaker 1: on Fox. The Saints opened a three point favorite and
Speaker 1: they are favorite by three at the time we are
Speaker 1: recording this podcast live to tape or digital or whatever. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Mercedes Bend Superdome covered, but outside it will be
Speaker 1: sixty four degrees in New Orleans at kickoff. The pick
Speaker 1: is in and I am gonna take the Saints in
Speaker 1: this game. And this should be a slobber knocker NFC
Speaker 1: play off positioning on the line. Neither team has any
Speaker 1: wiggle room. We know the situation here. The forty Niners
Speaker 1: are in a cat fight pawing at Seattle, and the Niners,
Speaker 1: uh their situations. They gotta win. They they are looking
Speaker 1: at if they don't win the division, having to play
Speaker 1: on wild Card weekend. And the Saints also are in
Speaker 1: a situation where if they stumble, they could they could
Speaker 1: really f this up here. And they're in some in
Speaker 1: the in stranger danger zone themselves. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure on both sides. That makes for a good
Speaker 1: football game, obviously, and both teams very good at getting
Speaker 1: into the quarterback. In fact, the Niners defense forty five
Speaker 1: sacks of the season, second most in in the NFL.
Speaker 1: But you gotta start to question, and I don't think
Speaker 1: the Niners are gonna win this game. You start to
Speaker 1: question Kyle Shannon, and he got called out last week
Speaker 1: for game management. His decision against the Ravens late did
Speaker 1: not go so well on a fourth down play call,
Speaker 1: decided to pass when the Niners were averaging six yards
Speaker 1: per carry. Now, it is no in to lose the Seattle,
Speaker 1: to lose to Baltimore. These are good football teams. But
Speaker 1: if you continue to lose to every good team you play,
Speaker 1: then that becomes a different conversation. People start to question
Speaker 1: whether or not you're just a paper tiger. I don't
Speaker 1: really count the green Bay win for the Niners because
Speaker 1: green Bay didn't show up that particular night, and they
Speaker 1: don't think green Bay is that good anyway. Uh. The
Speaker 1: other thing to like about the New Orleans Saints here,
Speaker 1: they are at home. It's only a three point line,
Speaker 1: it's an even line. The public, according to the information
Speaker 1: I have, is loading up on the forty niners, like
Speaker 1: of the bets are on the side of Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: Uh and uh, I don't think that that that, to me,
Speaker 1: is the wrong side. I think that that's a red flag.
Speaker 1: I'll go with the gumbo guys here. The Saints also
Speaker 1: had a little extra time. Remember they played Thanksgiving nights,
Speaker 1: so they had a couple of extra days, for whatever
Speaker 1: that's worth. And Sean Payton, much like Belichick and these
Speaker 1: other coaches that have been around a long time, I
Speaker 1: have a really good record and when they get a
Speaker 1: little extra time, a little extra time there, they don't
Speaker 1: they don't lollygag. They actually prepare for these games here.
Speaker 1: So I will take Nolans thirty three and Santa Clara
Speaker 1: twenty three. Penny is going the other way with San Francisco.
Speaker 1: All right, you want the answer to the let's get tribute?
Speaker 1: All right? So Philip, no, go ahead. I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsley h two thousand two twenty seven scrimmage yards
Speaker 1: two seasons. That is the There's only been two undrafted
Speaker 1: players since the merger that have had more Arian Foster
Speaker 1: and Blank. I think I know who this is, right?
Speaker 1: Is it Tim Ryan, your friend the guy that you
Speaker 1: advised before he appears on radio shows on what to say? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: it is not Tim Ryan. It is not the correct
Speaker 1: the answer from the mid nineteen eighties Cleveland Browns, the
Speaker 1: Mac Attack Kevin Mack, big brooding running back Kevin Mack
Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties. If you're if you're a fan
Speaker 1: of tech Mobile like I was, Kevin Mack and Ernest
Speaker 1: Biner were fantastic with the Cleveland Browns back in the day. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was. He was decent the Browns, you know that,
Speaker 1: really effective teams. And then that would be I was
Speaker 1: like thirty years ago though, so brutal Kevin Mack. By
Speaker 1: the way, you know what he's doing now insurance? Uh
Speaker 1: he actually has a LinkedIn page? And uh did Kevin Mack? Well,
Speaker 1: I was just curious. I always wonder what these like,
Speaker 1: what these people do when there when they're done? You
Speaker 1: know what they I don't it's not letting me click
Speaker 1: on it. So I guess we won't know what he's doing.
Speaker 1: But he he's fifty seven years old, so maybe he's retired.
Speaker 1: I don't know he's what what the Battlemount? I clicked
Speaker 1: on it and then have to log in, and I
Speaker 1: don't remember my log in because I don't I don't
Speaker 1: go on they're very often, so I can show his title,
Speaker 1: though it doesn't show us. I don't know. Maybe I'm
Speaker 1: doing it wrong, right, all right, anyway, let's move on.
Speaker 1: All right? Edit that out of the podcast, right that one?
Speaker 1: Nobody will hear that? Yes, okay. Next up, we will
Speaker 1: talk about two anemic feeble franchises that are a train wreck.
Speaker 1: They have been on the wrong side with Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 1: ineptitude and clumbiness. Uh, the Cleveland Browns have been decrepit
Speaker 1: for years and Cincinnati one in eleven Cleveland five and seven.
Speaker 1: It's on CBS. Now, this game is so unimportant? How
Speaker 1: unimportant is it? Gas Gun? It is still unimportant. We've
Speaker 1: got Spirodidas on the call. Even better, Beth Muwens has
Speaker 1: the call for CBS with Tike Barber. That's the play
Speaker 1: by play and color commentator team for the seven people
Speaker 1: that will watch this game in the state of Ohio.
Speaker 1: The Browns opened to ten and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: They're favorite by eight. I don't understand this point spread
Speaker 1: at all. I don't. It's gonna be mostly cloudy forty
Speaker 1: eight degrees that kicked off the mistake by the lake
Speaker 1: at First Energy Stadium in beautiful Cleveland. I am gonna
Speaker 1: take the ben Gals in this game. I'm gonna take Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: We were on the Bengals last week. I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: on them again. And the main reason behind this pick
Speaker 1: is the Browns had a lead in Pittsburgh. It was
Speaker 1: a stay alive game, staying alive, staying alive, and they choked.
Speaker 1: They lost to waterfowl. That guy Duck Hodges who started
Speaker 1: opening up the playbook in the second half. Now Cleveland's
Speaker 1: got a hobble Baker Mayfield, but Mama didn't, didn't raise
Speaker 1: no woos. And you know what kind of energy are
Speaker 1: they gonna have? And with Andy Dalton, he's horrible, but
Speaker 1: compared to what they had, he's great. It's like a
Speaker 1: poor man's Boomeriscias. And compared to the Finley who had
Speaker 1: been playing quarterback prior. And so the Browns are all
Speaker 1: but dead. I the Civil War of Ohio football. I
Speaker 1: don't know how up they players get for that. I
Speaker 1: expect them to come out flat as a pancake. Nobody
Speaker 1: gets up for the Bungles. Cincinnati has been called how
Speaker 1: about this though? He's a fun fact. They've been called
Speaker 1: for eighty one penalties and only five penalty yards, both
Speaker 1: fewest in the NFL. Does that mean the Bengals are
Speaker 1: the most well coached team in the NFL because they
Speaker 1: don't make unforced mistakes and they had some good games
Speaker 1: earlier this year? I think you're tying. You took them
Speaker 1: in Week one right at Seattle. Yes, they covered the
Speaker 1: spread almost won the game against Seattle. Yeah, but but
Speaker 1: you know that they're not well coached. I believe that
Speaker 1: it's like euthanasia. The officials just want the game to end,
Speaker 1: so they don't call fouls and take them on. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's like, there are plenty of
Speaker 1: penalties to call. But yeah, shout out Ethan Asia and
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. Yes, all right, any time you get
Speaker 1: over to touch down in a divisual game, what is
Speaker 1: the golden rule here? Gascon? You take the large dog.
Speaker 1: That's right. You don't ask questions. You take the points here,
Speaker 1: especially when motivation is lacking for the favorite. Brown's will win,
Speaker 1: but they won't cover the spread. Brown Bengals twenty. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be shocked if Prevelan wins out like or be
Speaker 1: shocked that you actually capped this game. But the Pennings
Speaker 1: going with the Bengals as well. Yeah, I should have
Speaker 1: just given the pick. That would have been what a
Speaker 1: good person does. But I'm bad at this. All right,
Speaker 1: Carolina five and seven at Atlanta three and nine. It's
Speaker 1: on Fox. You better watch, all right. That is correct.
Speaker 1: This is not Dick. This is not Dick Stockton. Uh,
Speaker 1: it is not. The game is being broadcast by Chris
Speaker 1: mars Hey, how's my my hair? Right? Kid? Because I care?
Speaker 1: And Darryl moose Johnson, the old cowboy from back in
Speaker 1: the the nineteen nineties. They have the call here now.
Speaker 1: The Falcons opened a one point favorite. They are favorite
Speaker 1: by two. Cloudy outside the dome in Atlanta forty eight degrees,
Speaker 1: but obviously perfect conditions inside. I'm gonna take the home team.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Falcons as a small home favorite.
Speaker 1: The Panthers begin life in the twilight Zone without Ron Rivera.
Speaker 1: And this will go one of two ways. They will
Speaker 1: rally back and play with pride, using the that whacking
Speaker 1: of the coaches motivation, try to win one for the
Speaker 1: interim coach, or they will continue to spiral out of control.
Speaker 1: I am betting on the ladder uh that to happen here.
Speaker 1: This is a hot mess. It's not just the Redskins game.
Speaker 1: That was the cherry on top of the ship Sunday,
Speaker 1: no attention to detail. The Panthers have allowed a hundred
Speaker 1: and eighties seven points in their last six games, tied
Speaker 1: for the second most in a six game span in
Speaker 1: franchise history. So that gets your defensive minded coach fired,
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera. That's why you got fired here. And it's
Speaker 1: been a couple of years of bad football. Now the Falcons.
Speaker 1: If you look at this game on the surface, you'd say, well,
Speaker 1: this is a good spot to bet on Carolina because
Speaker 1: the Falcons actually kicked the snot out of Carolina a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and in a normal gambling parlance,
Speaker 1: is a revenge game, right, the team was embarrassed Carolina.
Speaker 1: They're gonna come back, But I just don't think they've
Speaker 1: got any guts left. I don't think they've got any fight.
Speaker 1: I think they've got nothing. They're spineless. Uh and maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I'll be proven wrong here. But it's function at
Speaker 1: quarterback Kyle Allen, who looked really good four and oh
Speaker 1: the first four games he started for Cam Newton. Since then,
Speaker 1: he's gone one in five and his passer rating is
Speaker 1: seventy two. He's he's just not giving them a chance
Speaker 1: in most of these games to win. And even though
Speaker 1: Atlanta one three back in week eleven, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Falcons again. I believe Falcons will win by double digits.
Speaker 1: I'll take Atlanta twenty eight. Carolina. Penny is going with
Speaker 1: the A T L. All Right. Next up, Detroit at Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Detroit at Minnesota, it's on Fox. You better watch. This
Speaker 1: is the home of Dick Stockton this weekend. All right.
Speaker 1: So you are going all in on Dick Stockton, going
Speaker 1: to Minnesota, the Twin Cities, to US Banks Stadium to
Speaker 1: call vikings and lines. It's got to be this and
Speaker 1: see that this season Arizona. So I'll go with this one.
Speaker 1: It's not the Dick Stockton game. This is a Tom
Speaker 1: Brenneman game, Tom Brenneman and Chris Spielman. We'll be in
Speaker 1: the Fox box that rocks to call a game again.
Speaker 1: Alliance team that looks like Death Warmed Over most of
Speaker 1: the time, and the Vikings. Let's handicap again. Now. The
Speaker 1: Vikings opened a fourteen point favorite, their favorite by twelve
Speaker 1: and a half, partly sunny thirty three degrees that kick
Speaker 1: off for this game. I'm taking the Lions, I'm taking
Speaker 1: the lines. Now let me let me walk you through this. Now.
Speaker 1: On at first glancer Kirk Cousins, you would say, is
Speaker 1: licking his chops. He can have an oil painting against
Speaker 1: the Lions secondary. Because everyone's putting up numbers. It would
Speaker 1: seem against the Lions secondary, they're setting records. It's everyone's
Speaker 1: homecoming opponent, the Motor City kiddies. So this game should
Speaker 1: be for Minnesota like Monopoly, show up pastco collect a
Speaker 1: win for for the Vikings. The question is the point spread.
Speaker 1: That is a massive number, twelve and a half points.
Speaker 1: In an NFL game, we're most decided by one score
Speaker 1: or less. The Vikings have they have been much better
Speaker 1: at home. All four of the Vikings losses have come
Speaker 1: on the road, and in the five home games they
Speaker 1: are averaging almost thirty points per game. That's the second
Speaker 1: most in the NFL. Only the forty Niners have average
Speaker 1: more points at home. So that's all good stuff. And
Speaker 1: I realized secondly that the Lions are a bad team.
Speaker 1: But here's the key here. As insignificant, as messed up
Speaker 1: and worthless as the broken down Lions have been, they
Speaker 1: haven't quit on Matt Patrician, they haven't given up on
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia. The Lion is lost to the Bears by
Speaker 1: four points on Thanksgiving and the Bears had to come back.
Speaker 1: That's the fifth consecutive loss that the Lions have had,
Speaker 1: and and that each decided by one score eight points
Speaker 1: or less. The line in this game is twelve and
Speaker 1: a half. Now that does certainly bode well. You would
Speaker 1: say patternicity and all that, but you know that's part
Speaker 1: of the problem. Here link for patterns. But things don't
Speaker 1: always repeat, as you know from flipping a coin and
Speaker 1: all that. But over the long term, betting on double
Speaker 1: digit underdogs, we all we often preach about this. If
Speaker 1: you're a sports gambler, it is a really good strategy. Historically,
Speaker 1: you've won a high clip of those games betting on
Speaker 1: inferior teams, especially in divisional games. So I am going
Speaker 1: with the undrafted rookie quarterback out of Purdue, David Blow.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he doesn't play like David Blow. So in Blow
Speaker 1: we trust, not in Blow, we trust Vikings thirty lions
Speaker 1: twenty they come in to Sprague. I don't even know
Speaker 1: what that means, Ben, but the penny is going with
Speaker 1: the Minisota Vikings. Well, let me help you out. What
Speaker 1: do you need? It's it's like it's like I told
Speaker 1: you when you first started in radio, don't let a
Speaker 1: falling star fall on you. And and is A is
Speaker 1: a one trick pony after what he did last week
Speaker 1: and the lost to Chicago. So yeah, double digit favorite,
Speaker 1: give me the penny. That is the Minista Vikings. Alright,
Speaker 1: I think the other phrases don't let your mouth right
Speaker 1: checks you. You can't actually cash with your body, right,
Speaker 1: that's from Top Gun. Right, it's a great linee Are
Speaker 1: they remaking that movie they just suck. Probably it's probably
Speaker 1: gonna make it a chick flick, right, that's what they're
Speaker 1: like with Ghostbusters. Everything a chicklick. There's that sentiment that
Speaker 1: the No Time to Die, the latest of five movies
Speaker 1: with Daniel Craig is James Bond would be like that.
Speaker 1: I saw the trailer a couple of day as ago
Speaker 1: and it does not look anything sort of like that.
Speaker 1: So I'm thankful for this. This will be the last
Speaker 1: one for for Commander Bond, as as Daniel Craig. But no,
Speaker 1: I don't think the Top Gun movie will be anything
Speaker 1: like that. So alright, moving on. You want to get
Speaker 1: trivial again, Yeah, I guess we get time. Did you
Speaker 1: did you actually write a question or now? No, I'm prepared, man,
Speaker 1: I was a boy scout. No, well, I mean, did
Speaker 1: you actually write it or did you take it from
Speaker 1: one of your listeners that writes questions for your fear show? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Very funny, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Uh no, this was something
Speaker 1: I came up with. I do take questions though, because
Speaker 1: it makes it easier people saying questions in but I
Speaker 1: don't think they really write content. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You know what the boy scout motto is. I used
Speaker 1: to have this patch when I was a boy scout.
Speaker 1: Be prepared. That's right, you gotta be prepared, gotta be
Speaker 1: an honorable citizen, representative, the community and all that. Anyway,
Speaker 1: here it is so Davante Parker of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: He's got three receiving yards since week eleven, sixties six
Speaker 1: more receiving yards than any other player in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Blank blank is second. Again. Since week eleven, DeVante Parker
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins has been lighting up fantasy football with
Speaker 1: sixties six more receiving yards at any other pass catcher
Speaker 1: in the NFL in that span. Blank is second. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: did you get the question? All right? Next up? Amazing
Speaker 1: how this works? Guess it's almost like we prepared it
Speaker 1: this way. Choreographed Miami three and nine at the Jets
Speaker 1: for at eight. It's on CUBAZ with Tom McCarthy and
Speaker 1: Jay Feely. Jets opened to seven and alf point favorite,
Speaker 1: their favorite by five and a half, partly sunny forty
Speaker 1: one degrees in New Jersey at kickoff at MetLife Stadium.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins are the pick. I don't quite understand the
Speaker 1: point spread on this. This is to me an even matchup.
Speaker 1: These are a couple of lightweights oozing with garbage. They
Speaker 1: might as well play this in the swamp lands of
Speaker 1: New Jersey, which I think they are. The Jets and
Speaker 1: Dolphins check this out. This season are worst and second
Speaker 1: worst in yards per play. They are the bottom of
Speaker 1: the barrel, is what they are. They're the slop at
Speaker 1: the very bottom. Ryan Fitzpatrick is kind of like a
Speaker 1: broken water heater at quarter for the Dolphins. He runs
Speaker 1: hot and cold and sporadically at that. The Jets do
Speaker 1: not have much gusto on defense. They don't put a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on imposing quarterbacks, which does give you
Speaker 1: hope that fits magic can find the aforementioned DeVante Parker,
Speaker 1: who looked like Jerry Rice last week against Philadelphia. Now secondly,
Speaker 1: back at the start of training camp, Adam Gaze pumped
Speaker 1: his chest out with his crazy eyes and said the
Speaker 1: Jets would be playing meaningful games in December. Guess what
Speaker 1: he's Pinocchio. He was lying, all right, He's absolutely lying.
Speaker 1: I expect Gang Green to play like zombies on Zanix.
Speaker 1: Uh this. They were essentially eliminated last week against the Bengals.
Speaker 1: I expect a lifeless performance here. You don't cover a
Speaker 1: five and a half point line with a lifeless performance.
Speaker 1: Give me Miami to shock the world. They get their
Speaker 1: fourth win of the year. They're not supposed to win
Speaker 1: four games. Dolphins twenty, Jets seventeen. Penny is going with
Speaker 1: the New York Jets in this one. Be sure to
Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at
Speaker 1: two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Let's play off the
Speaker 1: Let's get trivio. It's a scout law, you know, have
Speaker 1: a slogan Scout Law and all that stuff. Requirements. Uh
Speaker 1: here it is so DeVante Parker. We mentioned three eighty
Speaker 1: receiving yards since week eleven sixties, six more receiving yards
Speaker 1: than any other pass catcher in the NFL in that span.
Speaker 1: Blank is second. So I got on this one because
Speaker 1: of what is on decks. I'm gonna say it is
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin. No, it's incorrect. Mike Evans is also incorrect.
Speaker 1: What the yes? Correct the answer? Calvin Ridley boom boom, boom,
Speaker 1: baby boom, baby boom baby boom. Calvin really three nineteen
Speaker 1: receiving yards since we go eleven second to Davante park
Speaker 1: I thought it would be like Michael Thomas or you know,
Speaker 1: one of the big name past catchers, or what's the
Speaker 1: guy in Houston that catches all the past, DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 1: DeAndrea Hopkins, like those guys put up monster. No, yeah, alright, anyway,
Speaker 1: moving on, And you didn't mention Tampa Bay Indianapolis six
Speaker 1: and six. That's why I thought, like, you know, choreographed,
Speaker 1: I got sabotaged trying to talk Tampa Bay five and seven.
Speaker 1: It's on CBS. Spiro Adidas, former Laker and Nick played
Speaker 1: by play Guy and Adam Archoletta, who's claim to fame
Speaker 1: is not playing in the NFL with the St. Louis Rams,
Speaker 1: it is working with me at the NBC Sports Network
Speaker 1: years ago. That's the high light of his broadcasting career.
Speaker 1: He's now slumming with Spirodidas. The Buccaneers opened a one
Speaker 1: point favorite. Tampa's now favored by three. It'll be mostly sunny,
Speaker 1: seventies six degrees that kick off at Raymond James Stadium,
Speaker 1: and I am gonna take the Pirates the Buccaneers to
Speaker 1: take the win. Here a couple of reasons why I
Speaker 1: keep bringing this up, and I'm the only one that
Speaker 1: does this in sports talk radio or podcasting. The Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Colts at the beginning of the year, we're braggadocious they
Speaker 1: thought they had found a diamond in the rough and
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette manna from heaven. Andrew Luck retires, don't worry,
Speaker 1: slide on over, baby, Jacoby Brissette. And the first of
Speaker 1: the season he was really good and he was a
Speaker 1: diamond in the rough. And the last part of the
Speaker 1: year he has been a cubic Zirconia is what he
Speaker 1: has been right after that fast start. Now, injury is
Speaker 1: a part of it. There's not a lot of playmakers.
Speaker 1: But even so, there's no need to sugarcoat this. Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissette the last three weeks, two touchdowns, three interceptions, less
Speaker 1: than seven yards per attempt, a passer rating of under eighty. Bad.
Speaker 1: He has been bad. Uh. He is not moving mountains.
Speaker 1: He is not shifting the balance of power in the
Speaker 1: direction of the Indianapolis Colts. Here and what had been
Speaker 1: a brass ring a great opportunity. Uh he he is
Speaker 1: blowing it. And Indianapolis is going to have to consider
Speaker 1: in the off season making a change at quarterback because
Speaker 1: he does not appear to be anything more than a
Speaker 1: band aid unless he plays better down the stretch. The
Speaker 1: other thing, I like Tampa Bay for several reasons. That
Speaker 1: the Bucks are bipolar. They've scored a hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: four first half points this season, third most of the NFL,
Speaker 1: but in the second half halftime adjustments, they've given up
Speaker 1: a hundred and ninety one points, the second most points
Speaker 1: allowed in the NFL in the second half. So hot
Speaker 1: and cold. Jamis Winston is a rare bird. He is
Speaker 1: gonna throw for close to five thousand yards and thirty
Speaker 1: touchdowns and still be considered an abject failure at quarterback
Speaker 1: because of all the negative plays. It's outlandish. We did
Speaker 1: a monologue this week about Winston and Bruce Arians and
Speaker 1: his comments and all that. I would expect another gaggle
Speaker 1: of mistakes this week, but Indies defense has been so
Speaker 1: torn apart with injury and ineffective play, I'm skeptical they
Speaker 1: can take advantage of late the Buccaneers have been the
Speaker 1: better team. Bruce Arians team has been better than Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: The Colts are one in four their last five games
Speaker 1: and Tampa Bay is three and one in their last
Speaker 1: four games. Give me the box, thirty four Colts twenty four.
Speaker 1: Penny is going to Indianapolis Colts. All right, Now we
Speaker 1: get to the late television window, which excites you, guests,
Speaker 1: because that means there's only a few games left, right,
Speaker 1: they only have a few late games, actually more late
Speaker 1: games this week because we got left, so we should
Speaker 1: hurry up. Is that what you're saying. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you you cap some really bad football games. So that's
Speaker 1: the great thing about the podcast. I'll teach you about podcasting.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of time. You don't on radio.
Speaker 1: We have limited time. See if we were doing the
Speaker 1: radio show, I would have not even handicapped the Jets
Speaker 1: game or the Bengals game. But because we're on podcast,
Speaker 1: I can I can go along. I could be very
Speaker 1: very blosequacious. I mean usually in shows too, you have
Speaker 1: a copy that you need to read, and you have
Speaker 1: advertisers and spots. That's true. We have no advertisers. I
Speaker 1: cannot refute that statement. I I'd like to debunk that
Speaker 1: guest guy. There are commercials, but we don't have any libages.
Speaker 1: We gotta get this like the sleep number of people
Speaker 1: to sponsor this, or we should just get one of
Speaker 1: your thousand militia members that actually is showcasing you in
Speaker 1: Seattle in a couple of weeks to sponsor the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by the way, before we move on, if you didn't
Speaker 1: listen to the other podcast, we're doing a Mallard Man
Speaker 1: March in Seattle December twenty nine. I'm flying into Seattle.
Speaker 1: The Mallard Militia has stepped up here. They want me
Speaker 1: to be there. They've been at You're very generous nations.
Speaker 1: I will be there. I'm fired up. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: But we're looking for a place if if you live
Speaker 1: in Seattle and you're one of our KJR listeners who
Speaker 1: just listen on I Heart Media. We're looking for like
Speaker 1: a restaurant bar, kind of near the stadium December. We
Speaker 1: want to go out and have a little get together.
Speaker 1: Have I don't know how many people are gonna show up,
Speaker 1: maybe like three people, but it could be a lot
Speaker 1: more than that. Uh and so we want to have that.
Speaker 1: We're looking for a place in CM. Yeah. Full disclosure,
Speaker 1: Ben has had a Mallary Militia member pay for a
Speaker 1: flight pay for a hotel. That's not that's not totally true.
Speaker 1: You're embellishing. You're embellishing that I will cover many of
Speaker 1: the costs associated with the trip, but not all of them.
Speaker 1: You can cover the free pretzels to cover the free
Speaker 1: cocktails of the fight. I don't know that the Seahawks
Speaker 1: will credential me. I have put in a request to
Speaker 1: get a credential, but I don't know that they're going
Speaker 1: to give me credentials anything. Like the Los Angeles Rams,
Speaker 1: they will not credential you. Yeah, I stopped the Rams
Speaker 1: turned me down for a credential, so I haven't even
Speaker 1: bothered it. And plus the Rams have been so bad
Speaker 1: at home, I like, I don't want to go anyway.
Speaker 1: But but anyway, back to what the l A Chargers
Speaker 1: four and eight at Jacksonville four and eight. It's on Fox.
Speaker 1: You better watch who's doing this game? Man? This is uh,
Speaker 1: this is a dog of a game. Wait, it's it's
Speaker 1: on Fox. Yeah. This is one of those rare occurrences.
Speaker 1: You know, every once in a a while CBS does an
Speaker 1: NFC game and Fox does an a f C game.
Speaker 1: This is it because no Bye weeks. So this has
Speaker 1: to be Dick Stockton, right ding Ning Ning ning Ning. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is the great Dick Stockton, which is good because
Speaker 1: Dick lives in like Fort Lauderdale, I believe, in the
Speaker 1: Miami area, so this is an easy trip for him
Speaker 1: to fly up like on a on a commuter plane
Speaker 1: from Miami to Jacksonville. H So, Dick Stockton, Mark Slayworth
Speaker 1: have the call Chargers open at one point road favorite.
Speaker 1: They are currently favored by three and light rain sixties
Speaker 1: seven degrees at kickoff in Jacksonville at t I A
Speaker 1: a bank field. The pick is in. I'm taking Jacksonville
Speaker 1: won't spend too much time on this game. Jacksonville's on
Speaker 1: back to Gardner Minshew. While he certainly has not been
Speaker 1: as good as he was earlier, I'm still a believer
Speaker 1: in minshew mania. I like the guy's story. And on
Speaker 1: the other side, Philip Rivers turtle mistakes up the wazoo
Speaker 1: and those are obstacles and that's a dilemma for the
Speaker 1: Chargers to have to overcome. Rivers has five touchdowns eight
Speaker 1: interceptions in the last three games he's played. I'm not
Speaker 1: betting on that guy's a road favorite. And in the
Speaker 1: other the Charges should not be favorite in this game.
Speaker 1: I look for Klaius Campbell and some of those big
Speaker 1: guys for for Jacksonville can get to the quarterback to
Speaker 1: wreck havoc on Philip Rivers. Now, the one thing that
Speaker 1: gives me pause. Here is Jacksonville has been an abomination
Speaker 1: at stopping the runs. So you look at Melvin Gordon said,
Speaker 1: this guy could have a monster game for the Chargers.
Speaker 1: But where's the motivation. The Chargers lost in Denver. They're
Speaker 1: all but dead. Jacksonville seven, Los Angeles. The Bolts West
Speaker 1: Coast team going East Coast. Penny is going to Jacks.
Speaker 1: But it is a late start, so usually it's an
Speaker 1: early start. You say, you bet against the West Coast team.
Speaker 1: But as you know, as an expert like I am,
Speaker 1: I I look at Coost things now not get it,
Speaker 1: I get it. Just step all over. Man's fine. It
Speaker 1: was like when you called me yesterday to ask how
Speaker 1: is doing? Because I wasn't feeling well, and you proceed
Speaker 1: to talk about yourself for like the twenty minutes of
Speaker 1: the conversation. All right, I gotta go hang up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's beny Well. I couldn't I couldn't believe what
Speaker 1: I was hearing because you were complaining. I gotta cool,
Speaker 1: I gotta go. What do you I mean? What do
Speaker 1: you ninety years old? I know you're older than me,
Speaker 1: but my god, around some sick people getting the wrong women. Well,
Speaker 1: you're a sick bastard, is what you want? Alright. How anyway,
Speaker 1: Kansas City eight and four at New England ten and two.
Speaker 1: It's on c b S. This is the big game
Speaker 1: for CBS. Jim Nance and Tony Romo have the call,
Speaker 1: and the Patriots open to four point favorite, their favorite
Speaker 1: by three. The weather partly cloudy, thirty four degrees. That
Speaker 1: kick off at Gillette Stadium in beautiful Foxboro, where the
Speaker 1: traffic piles up. The pick is in and I am
Speaker 1: a glutton for punishment here Gascon, but I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I am gonna take the Patriots. First of all, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and the Pats offense continues to be flummixed on
Speaker 1: a regular basis. But there's opportunity here, there's value with
Speaker 1: the Patriots. They are seventeenth in yards per game over
Speaker 1: the last three weeks, very mediocre, and a lot of
Speaker 1: that came in garbage time last week against the Houston Texas.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs. I don't believe in the Chiefs. They're a
Speaker 1: mixed bag on defense. They've got some some guys that
Speaker 1: have shown flashes of being very effective, but overall, you
Speaker 1: are what your record says you are in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: is the twenty five ranked defense in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: even as mediocre as Brady has been this year, he
Speaker 1: has had his big games against the worst of the worst.
Speaker 1: That's how it usually works defensively, and so Brady, even
Speaker 1: in this season of decline against substandard defenses, has been
Speaker 1: closer to the quarterback that he has been his entire career.
Speaker 1: And Secondly, Patrick Mahomes has quietly not been playing up
Speaker 1: to the m v P standard he had last year.
Speaker 1: His numbers have leveled off the last two weeks against
Speaker 1: generic defenses and the Charges and the Raiders. Patty Mahomes
Speaker 1: just two touchdowns, one interception, a passer rating of seventies seven,
Speaker 1: and the most troubling stat about Mahomes his yards per
Speaker 1: attempt with all those fast playmakers on offense, five point
Speaker 1: eight yards per attempt, and now you go against the
Speaker 1: ball hawking New England defense. Everyone has been writing the
Speaker 1: eulogy for the Patriots all week after they lost to
Speaker 1: the Texas. I even dabbled in that a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I'm not a sucker. Home cooking is the perfect elixir,
Speaker 1: at least for this week. Patriots will rise on up
Speaker 1: out of the Grave Patriots thirty one Chiefs shocking thirty
Speaker 1: one point for New England. Penny likes the way you're
Speaker 1: thinking going through New England Patriots. Fox Sports Radio has
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Speaker 1: to listen live. All right, Penny versus the Penny. Next up,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh seven and five at Arizona three, eight and one.
Speaker 1: It's on CBS. What burtle game? Yeah, this is not
Speaker 1: a great game. Andrew Catalan and James Lofton have the call.
Speaker 1: Game open to pick on. Pittsburgh's a three point favorite
Speaker 1: on the road to be cloudy, but this is a dome,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't matter in Glendale, Arizona. Now, this is
Speaker 1: a game I went back and forth on, but I
Speaker 1: decided to The final decision was to take Pittsburgh in
Speaker 1: the game him as a small road favorite. Tyler Murray
Speaker 1: finally started to play like the Pop Warner All star
Speaker 1: we thought he was gonna be hit rock bottom last week.
Speaker 1: Looked like you should be playing baseball in Double A
Speaker 1: for the Oakland Athletics. Uh, it doesn't take a Rhodes
Speaker 1: scholar to know he has been just an ordinary quarterback,
Speaker 1: and certainly over the last six weeks, Kyler Murray has
Speaker 1: an eighty nine point four passer in he's been sacked
Speaker 1: twenty times, that's the most in the NFL in the
Speaker 1: last six games, and throwing for just six point three
Speaker 1: yards per attempt, which is appropriate. It's fun size, it's
Speaker 1: the lumpa size and unable to stretch the defense. It's
Speaker 1: hard to trust him against a very good Pittsburgh defense
Speaker 1: that should be able to maul that offensive line for Arizona,
Speaker 1: and you look at those big guys on defense. Arizona
Speaker 1: features a defense that's as soft as cookie dough. I
Speaker 1: love cookie dough, but I can go right through cookie dough.
Speaker 1: The Cardinals have allowed at least twenty one points in
Speaker 1: every game this season. They're only the seventh team all
Speaker 1: time to allow twenty one or more points the first
Speaker 1: twelve games of the season. This is a huge mismatch.
Speaker 1: Duck Hodges the sensation of the Steeler nation there unless
Speaker 1: he's not. He's won his first two starts. He's completing
Speaker 1: over seventy of his passes. Why is he doing that?
Speaker 1: That remedial passing attack that game manager offense, especially early
Speaker 1: in games. To Mike Tomlin's credit, he's actually coaching this year.
Speaker 1: They're not throwing the ball down the field early, and
Speaker 1: then as the game progresses he picks his spots and
Speaker 1: they start getting more aggressive as the game of involves Pittsburgh. Listen,
Speaker 1: it's worked out. This is an offense put together with
Speaker 1: spit and duck tape essentially, but it's working. They're not
Speaker 1: cutting corners. And again, my confidence is on the defense.
Speaker 1: It's on Cameron Hayward, It's on t J. Watt, It's
Speaker 1: on Minca Fitzpatrick and those guys messing with the aforementioned
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray Alligator Arms, Murray Steelers, twenty six Cardinals. Hen
Speaker 1: Penny is not down for your guillotine radio. Go with
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals again. I know you love the little
Speaker 1: man and there's reasons for that, but I just I like,
Speaker 1: is that the hell is wrong with you? Do You
Speaker 1: like the pip squeak, You like the grasshopper, the itsy
Speaker 1: bitsy little spider, you enjoy that? Um, I like big potatoes,
Speaker 1: you like small potatoes. You want to go on, I'll
Speaker 1: see you on if you want. I'll see you next
Speaker 1: week when the penny proves to be correct with Arizona.
Speaker 1: All right, we will find out over under on Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray's passer rating against Pittsburgh, I will say under, I
Speaker 1: will say, I will say Arizona wins the game out right.
Speaker 1: No passer rating for alligator arms Murray. It'll be it'll
Speaker 1: be ninety. Okay, I'm going under. He's barely bigger than
Speaker 1: a garden. So if they made a movie about his life,
Speaker 1: it would be gett shorty to be the No matter
Speaker 1: how short he might be his statue, Kyler Murray is
Speaker 1: still taller than you. And he sits on and he
Speaker 1: sits on his wallet. This is this is comedy gold here.
Speaker 1: Guess these are great lines. And you are not and
Speaker 1: you're not helping out here, You're not. I know you're
Speaker 1: not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but these are
Speaker 1: good lines, said I am the brightest crawn in your box,
Speaker 1: Ben Mallory, Especially when you've got a bunch of rods
Speaker 1: and tools and your kid. Well in in fast food parlance,
Speaker 1: you're a few fries short of a happy, fucking disgusting.
Speaker 1: This is as all right, let's get to another bad game.
Speaker 1: Tennessee seven and five at Oakland six and six. It's
Speaker 1: on CBS. Greg Gumbel and Trent Green have the call
Speaker 1: the Titans a three point road favorite. The line has
Speaker 1: stayed the same light rain in Northern California at the
Speaker 1: Coliseum fifty six degrees at kick off. Now, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go off the reservation here, I'm gonna take the Raiders.
Speaker 1: This is a good spot for the Raiders. This is
Speaker 1: this is a week where your wonders. Ryan Tannehill's glass
Speaker 1: slipper gonna turned back into a crappy shoe at midnight.
Speaker 1: The Titans quarterback, he has been playing out of his body.
Speaker 1: Joel Montana, like, you expect a regression to the mean
Speaker 1: here at some point, will he finally do? Will he
Speaker 1: finally do the Tannehill three step, one step forward, two
Speaker 1: steps back and that regression. It hasn't happened so far.
Speaker 1: Maybe he made a deal with the devil. Now history
Speaker 1: actually favors the Raiders. I know you don't bet on
Speaker 1: trends usually, but the Titans franchise going back to the
Speaker 1: days they wore the powdered blues with the the Houston
Speaker 1: Oilers love me blue. They have played fourteen games at
Speaker 1: the Colisseum in Oakland. The franchise is three and eleven,
Speaker 1: including the playoffs. That's the fifth worst record by any
Speaker 1: team at at that particular stadium. Now, all the optimism, secondly,
Speaker 1: and all the good will around John Gruden has been
Speaker 1: flushed down the toilet. Oakland is who we thought they
Speaker 1: were a pretender instead of a contender. And the Raiders
Speaker 1: had a golden opportunity right they They were sitting on
Speaker 1: an oil mine, uh an oil well rather, and they blew.
Speaker 1: The Raiders of late have been on the fast pass
Speaker 1: to the slaughterhouse. And how bad the last two games
Speaker 1: they've lost by thirty or more points, only the second
Speaker 1: time in franchise history a Raider team has lost back
Speaker 1: to back. And they've had some really bad Raider teams
Speaker 1: over the last fifteen years or so. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make a small play on Oakland because I expect pride
Speaker 1: to kick in. Plus, this is a bad gambling spot
Speaker 1: for Tennessee. They're coming off a big divisional win against Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: Now they have to travel to the West Coast. Nobody
Speaker 1: gets up to play the Raiders these days, and next
Speaker 1: week they play the Texans. That's a key divisional game
Speaker 1: that could decide the winner of the division. Raiders twenty
Speaker 1: four Titans twenty three. Did Derrick Henry magically fall into
Speaker 1: a black hole because Penny is going with the Tennessee
Speaker 1: Titans in this one? Well, listen, you take Tennessee. That's
Speaker 1: what the public is doing. I am betting against the public.
Speaker 1: You like betting, You like group think. I don't. I
Speaker 1: think for myself. I'm an individualist. You believe in the
Speaker 1: power of the group thing, which is fine. That's your prerogative.
Speaker 1: You can certainly do that if you want hang out
Speaker 1: with sprinkles the crowd. I I don't believe in the
Speaker 1: band wagon effect like you do. I mean, you'll be
Speaker 1: in Seattle in two weeks with the band wagon effect
Speaker 1: in the play. So hanging out with the people, the
Speaker 1: working class, the hard working members of the Mallem militia,
Speaker 1: the underappreciated fans of the show, the super fans of
Speaker 1: the show that would be better appreciated if you had
Speaker 1: a better time slot. How about that. It's a micro
Speaker 1: cosm of our world, is what it is. I mean,
Speaker 1: just think people have asked you to be on a
Speaker 1: different time slot. Your wife has begged you to be
Speaker 1: on a different time slot, and that's a lie. You
Speaker 1: have not propelled yourself to a higher time slot. Uh yeah, Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of Seattle, the they're in l A. But I'm
Speaker 1: not going to this game Seattle Sunday Night football tennant too.
Speaker 1: I go to Seattle to watch the Seahawks. I don't
Speaker 1: need him come to l A. Seattle ten and two
Speaker 1: at the l A RAM seven and five. It's on
Speaker 1: in b se Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth have the
Speaker 1: call Rams open to three point favorite at last report.
Speaker 1: As we're doing this in real time on tape, Rams
Speaker 1: Ury two and a half point favorite, So you might
Speaker 1: want to check that line, see if there's any movement.
Speaker 1: Light rain on Sunday evening at the Coliseum sixty one degrees.
Speaker 1: It never rains in l A, although it's supposed to
Speaker 1: rain this weekend in Los Angeles. I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: Seahawks in this game, my Seattle Seahawks. Uh. And here's why.
Speaker 1: Jared Golf, he has played okay against bad teams and
Speaker 1: has sucked out right against good teams. Is that gonna
Speaker 1: change this week? He actually had success in Seattle relatives success,
Speaker 1: I think you get a big third quarter if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly. Uh And in defense of Jared Goff, he
Speaker 1: has tied for the NFL lead of having the most
Speaker 1: receiver errors according to the Advanced Statistics with seven. But
Speaker 1: this is just a bad match up. The Seahawks have
Speaker 1: forced twenty seven turnovers this season, including fifteen during this
Speaker 1: last five game winning streak that they've been on. And
Speaker 1: you look at you say, well, the Rams make a
Speaker 1: lot of mistakes, all right. And the Rams have scored
Speaker 1: an average of just thirteen and a half points in
Speaker 1: their last four home games. They've been pretty putrid at
Speaker 1: the L. A. Memorial Colis seems they wind down the
Speaker 1: home schedule and they have that new stadium in the
Speaker 1: hood in Inglewood next week. To give you a comparison,
Speaker 1: the Rams on the road have been much more efficient
Speaker 1: and even their previous ten home games since last season
Speaker 1: prior to the last four, they averaged thirty six points
Speaker 1: per game. Expect to see more, Todd Gurley. It will
Speaker 1: continue to be a charmed life for Russell Wilson and friends.
Speaker 1: Despite a tenant to record, Seattle has outscored the opponent
Speaker 1: by thirty six points. Our friend R. J. Bell pointed
Speaker 1: this out. In NFL history, they're the first team to
Speaker 1: win their first twelve games by not outscoring their opponents
Speaker 1: by more than three points per game, so that I
Speaker 1: expect that to continue this week. I just don't trust
Speaker 1: the Rams. I wouldn't mind the Rams winning. I think
Speaker 1: that would be good. That would be a good story
Speaker 1: because I believe the forty Niners are gonna lose in
Speaker 1: New Orleans and that would certainly even things up and
Speaker 1: keep things squared up in the NFC West. But my money,
Speaker 1: my wallet is gonna be on the Seahawks, and I
Speaker 1: hope I lose Seahawks twenty three or I am Penny
Speaker 1: is going with the Los Angeles Rams night. Damn right, man,
Speaker 1: you can't but not you. But I'm just I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: adults listening this podcast, keep it really PG third at
Speaker 1: least really Yeah, I think so. Would you classify your
Speaker 1: your listeners children, adolescents of the earth, hardworking lickers. Boot lickers,
Speaker 1: roll up their sleeves, hard respect, hard work. They know
Speaker 1: when they hear a Picasso of audio posers. Of course,
Speaker 1: last week I was Picassio of audio without a microphone
Speaker 1: because of somebody not to talk about that. I was
Speaker 1: Mozart without his piano. Last I was an appraiser and
Speaker 1: I came into your studio, I would probably appraise your gear,
Speaker 1: probably closer to twelve thou dollars my the studio I
Speaker 1: broadcast from here. Yeah, yeah, and mine had probably appraised
Speaker 1: it for like three fifty three fifty dollars. Kind of
Speaker 1: equipment I'm working with. That's because you're cheap and you're
Speaker 1: you're realizing that I sound better than you, that the audio.
Speaker 1: I am going to be a assistant producer to Curis,
Speaker 1: who's the producer at I Heeart Media, and I will
Speaker 1: help cure us out any we gotta get the last game.
Speaker 1: I know you gotta get out of there, right, You're
Speaker 1: gonna go so you have something to do. You're gonna complain.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna go somewhere. Blood blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah. Are you done yet?
Speaker 1: I'll be done in two minutes. Monday Night football, the
Speaker 1: New York Giants to and ten in the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: five and seven. When they get together, you throw out
Speaker 1: the records because if you looked at the records, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to watch the game. It's on ESPN, Joe
Speaker 1: test It Tour and Booger McFarland, the Great Booger McFarland,
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to hear him talk about the
Speaker 1: miracle of the Meadowlands and get the team wrong and
Speaker 1: all that. Eagles, Eagles open eight point favorite there eight
Speaker 1: and a half point favorites. Light rain in this game.
Speaker 1: Also at kick off at the link, and he's I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the ge Man, I'm gonna take the Giants.
Speaker 1: Here Eli Manning returning at quarterback for the Giants for
Speaker 1: the injured Daniel Jones, which means another chance to update
Speaker 1: his highlight reel, which is similar to super Duper Football
Speaker 1: Follies when he plays a lot of fumbles, drops to
Speaker 1: flog it passes, bobbled passes, players slipping, falling, anything that
Speaker 1: can will go wrong. Absolutely, and that's the way it's
Speaker 1: gone for Pat Shermer. The Giants are ten and thirty four.
Speaker 1: Since ten and thirty four, worst record of the NFL.
Speaker 1: If you find Big Blues running back, please let Pat
Speaker 1: Shermer and the coaching staff know. So Kwan Barkley has
Speaker 1: failed to get to a hundred yards in seven consecutive games.
Speaker 1: Now he is dinged up, but the production is not there.
Speaker 1: He got to a hundred yards half of his first
Speaker 1: eighteen games, and now he has this long stretch of
Speaker 1: seven games without getting there. Hasn't scored a touchdown in
Speaker 1: four consecutive games after never previously going more than two
Speaker 1: in a row without one. But the main reason to
Speaker 1: take the Giants despite all that negativity is the fact
Speaker 1: that the Eagles are also miserable. Right. The Eagles are
Speaker 1: a there are a hot mess themselves. Uh, and they've
Speaker 1: been reckless and irresponsible, and there are a bunch of
Speaker 1: dumb dumbs. They've been burned three weeks in a row
Speaker 1: on trick plays. The only reason teams run trick plays
Speaker 1: is because they believe the other team is not prepared
Speaker 1: and they're asleep at the switch and they can sneak
Speaker 1: it by them. Otherwise, you would never run a trick
Speaker 1: play because any defense worth their salt paying attention can
Speaker 1: easily stop the trickeration. It's insanity. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell is going on with Doug Peterson, but this
Speaker 1: is incompetent football. Now, This should be a game the
Speaker 1: Eagles get back on track, they should win. They're not
Speaker 1: in harm's way. But I am not gonna lay over
Speaker 1: a touchdown in a divisional game when I don't think
Speaker 1: there's much difference between Philly the way they're playing and
Speaker 1: the Giants, even with the rotting carcass of Elijah Manning.
Speaker 1: Eagles win, but don't cover the spread Philly the Giants.
Speaker 1: Penny is on the same page as do you go
Speaker 1: with the New York Giants? And that is it. We
Speaker 1: put the baby to bed Gascon and hopefully the audio
Speaker 1: is better this week. We'll find out. Let us know.
Speaker 1: Do you want some good news, what kind of good news? Well,
Speaker 1: our podcast numbers have sword to six digits, which is
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Speaker 1: Despite the fact that I've been marketing by myself, I've
Speaker 1: worked with a partner that has taken a week off
Speaker 1: to spend time on vacation. On my deathbed, I was
Speaker 1: literally on my death dying. Get over it. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: microphone is mightier than the sword. That's the saying. It's
Speaker 1: an old saying. The pen is mightier than the sword. No, no,
Speaker 1: the microphone. I don't use a pen I use it's
Speaker 1: the hair on your chinney chin chin, don't start with that.
Speaker 1: It's it's either the hair or the skin. They're interchangeable.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you I don't know. I should, yes, I
Speaker 1: should get a random applause for for reaching that mark
Speaker 1: six digits on down and you can say either by
Speaker 1: the skin or the hair on that city teams may
Speaker 1: are you giving your self applause? Is that? What is
Speaker 1: that what I'm hearing here? I try to deserve the
Speaker 1: paddle back for the job. Well, yet again you prove
Speaker 1: you are the narcissist. You are pretentious, you are the princess.
Speaker 1: That is what you are. You're living up to your billing.
Speaker 1: Here is what you are. The job will have done.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, overly dramatic and self absorbed. You're like Lebron James.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, guess n We'll be back on
Speaker 1: the radio this weekend. Try the other podcast. If you
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Speaker 1: Have a great week and be safe. We'll catch you
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