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Speaker 1: and Gentlemen, the Great Teddy covers Good morning, Teddy, Gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Great to be here. Thanks for being are I appreciate
Speaker 1: you doing this. Always fun having you, Hey, the pleasures
Speaker 1: all mine and hopefully this time. There was one pod
Speaker 1: that I remember just being vehement and arguing against all
Speaker 1: you guys, and then I was completely wrong when Monday
Speaker 1: Night you guys mocked me, and I think maybe that's
Speaker 1: why I wasn't on from Oh No, if we have
Speaker 1: being in arguments, I'll try to be on the right
Speaker 1: side of them. Teddy, we mock everyone, We mock each other.
Speaker 1: It's kind of what we do. All right, Let's start
Speaker 1: as we always do in reverse. Will start with Monday Night.
Speaker 1: It is a NFC East. I hesitate to use the
Speaker 1: word clash, but basically, if the Cowboys lose tonight on
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Football to the Saints, which might be the
Speaker 1: highest rated Thursday night football game of all time, we
Speaker 1: shall see. But if the Cowboys lose that game and
Speaker 1: the Eagles end up beating the Redskins, we will have
Speaker 1: a three way tie on top of the NFC East
Speaker 1: at six and six Cowboys Eagles at Redskins. We'll see
Speaker 1: if it pans out. As it is for this game,
Speaker 1: the Eagles are six six and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: Consensus in this game on Monday Night, it will be
Speaker 1: Colt McCoy again for the Redskins. Redskins on extra rest
Speaker 1: here having lost to the Cowboys last Thursday and Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: refs refusing to make some calls on the Cowboys, man
Speaker 1: just say, as a Redskins fan, kind of a p
Speaker 1: I rapage that wasn't called, kind of a targeting that
Speaker 1: was heard up in the booth that wasn't called. But
Speaker 1: you get the idea. The Redskins didn't win the game.
Speaker 1: Didn't cover unless you got it early. On guessing lines.
Speaker 1: I said eight and a half was ridiculous. If you
Speaker 1: got it early enough, you were you want on the Redskins.
Speaker 1: But most people did not win on the Redskins. Anyway,
Speaker 1: they lose that game. Offense is just decimated really, Besides
Speaker 1: Jordan Read and their starting center, everybody's different than was
Speaker 1: the case from the beginning of the season, although Trent
Speaker 1: Williams and Morgan Moses get in and out of the
Speaker 1: lineup at tackle. And then there's the Eagles, defending Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champions, who have just not looked anywhere near the
Speaker 1: way they did last year. Much of that the fact
Speaker 1: that they're not having the same success on third down conversions,
Speaker 1: which they were just lights out on last year. A
Speaker 1: lot of injuries in that secondary. But they come back
Speaker 1: from a nineteen to three deficit against the Giants last
Speaker 1: Sunday win at twenty five to twenty two. So again
Speaker 1: a chance if things go break their way here on
Speaker 1: Thursday night as well, to be in a tie after
Speaker 1: all that twelve games of the season atop the NFC East, Teddy,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about this game? So, you know,
Speaker 1: the Rescues were a team that when they got off
Speaker 1: to that hot start, it really felt real like Washington
Speaker 1: was going to be there for the full race. But
Speaker 1: when your offensive line gets decimated with injuries and you
Speaker 1: were talking about it, you know, uh yeah, puts a
Speaker 1: real damper on everything that you're capable of doing. You know,
Speaker 1: last week you talked about all the key plays except
Speaker 1: the one that actually what's the point spred difference maker
Speaker 1: of course, the missed extra point for the Ridskins having
Speaker 1: enormous betting occasions here in Las Vegas. Uh, with the
Speaker 1: eight point victory in the game that closed seven seven
Speaker 1: and a half. The missed extra point was the difference
Speaker 1: maker there. And obviously when you're talking about this stage
Speaker 1: of the season, it's not unusual to see games land
Speaker 1: right around the number. Every half point can and does matter,
Speaker 1: and this is one of those games where as we talk,
Speaker 1: we're looking at six and a half. I expect this
Speaker 1: game to go to seven by the time that you know,
Speaker 1: at least at some books, by the time we're looking
Speaker 1: at kickoff, simply because Philadelphia saved their season last week
Speaker 1: and Washington had another National TV loss, and we know
Speaker 1: the Eagles aren't anywhere near what they were a year ago. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of it, in my mind, has
Speaker 1: to do with the brain trust. You know, look at
Speaker 1: the Colts with Frank Greig right now, and boy, their
Speaker 1: game plans are unique and difficult to defend every week. Huh.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen that in Philadelphia. We've seen John to
Speaker 1: Philippo up in Minnesota have success as the offerensive coordinator
Speaker 1: of the QB coach for Carson Wentz last year when
Speaker 1: Wentz was an MVP candidate. Clearly he's not an MVP
Speaker 1: candidate this season. Of course, the Eagles do have all
Speaker 1: of those injuries in the secondary secondary last week that
Speaker 1: had nary a healthy starter in the mix. That's a
Speaker 1: problem in this point spread range. All that being said,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is the better of these two teams moving forward.
Speaker 1: When you talk about upside, the Redskins with a backup
Speaker 1: quarterback who's not you know, a playmaker in Colt McCoy
Speaker 1: got who made a lot of mistakes last week and
Speaker 1: is going up against a strong pass rush here. Boy,
Speaker 1: I don't trust McCoy to avoid the mistakes this week.
Speaker 1: I think Philly more likely to get the job done.
Speaker 1: Philly more likely to get the job done. And you're right.
Speaker 1: Colte McCoy first start for the Redskins in place of
Speaker 1: the injured Alex Smith, thirty eight for two touchdowns, three
Speaker 1: picks among his passes, more than his share of ducks.
Speaker 1: He was sacked three times. Colte McCoy gets a second
Speaker 1: start of the Sea in this one. Zach Ertz the
Speaker 1: go to guy for Carson Wentz this year. Seven catches
Speaker 1: for ninety one yards and a touchdown against the Giants
Speaker 1: last week. Uh, Teddy just mentioned Frank Reich in that
Speaker 1: Frank Reich is the common thread. The Eagles were the
Speaker 1: best team on third downs last year. Frank Reich was there, O,
Speaker 1: c what do you know Indianapolis Colts this year the
Speaker 1: only team over fifty conversion rate on third downs. That's
Speaker 1: obviously been a huge differentiator among so many for the
Speaker 1: Eagles thus far this year. Marco, any thoughts on this
Speaker 1: ball game? Yeah, Washington, Uh use a VR's favorite line
Speaker 1: or the pony is a three dollar bill. You know
Speaker 1: when they had that four in one run, uh, prior
Speaker 1: to losing the last two. If you go back and
Speaker 1: look at that four in one run, they enjoyed a
Speaker 1: twelve to two turnover edge. I'm sorry. Whenever you have
Speaker 1: a twelve to two turnover edge over five game period,
Speaker 1: you're gonna win some ballgames. That's how they won the
Speaker 1: Carolina game. They were plus three in turnovers. Beat Carolina
Speaker 1: twenty three to seventeen. Plus three in turnovers, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to win bigger than six points. Um. We all talked
Speaker 1: about that Tampa Bay game. That was another one. Uh.
Speaker 1: They beat Tampa Bay sixteen to three with Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: having like five hundred yards of offense and no points
Speaker 1: to show for it. Well, it was plus four in
Speaker 1: the turnover margin in Philadelphia last week. As bad as
Speaker 1: Philadelphia has been, and we've seen it all year. The
Speaker 1: way they were able to pull last week's game out.
Speaker 1: That is the type of game that can save someone's
Speaker 1: season and start them on a run. And I think
Speaker 1: that's where you're gonna be with Philadelphia. The injuries to
Speaker 1: Washington has been well documented. UM, asked Alex Smith. That's
Speaker 1: you know, probably why Uh, you know he got hurt
Speaker 1: with the poor offensive line play. I'll take Philadelphia here. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is a game that, like you said, Gil, if
Speaker 1: we get a loss tonight by the Cowboys against the Saints,
Speaker 1: this sets up, you know, if you're a conspiracy theories,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be on Philadelphia at least for a teaser anyways,
Speaker 1: to just win the game. Because what better way to
Speaker 1: have the NFC least other than having three mediocre teams
Speaker 1: at six and six. Yeah. I was gonna ask you
Speaker 1: if this had teas written all over it on the Eagles,
Speaker 1: and you answered the question. Uh. Normally when you speak
Speaker 1: poorly of the Redskins, I always go, how dare you, Marco?
Speaker 1: How dare you say such things? But you are you
Speaker 1: are completely correct in the in this in this case, Um,
Speaker 1: and yes, the Tampa Bay game four nine eight or
Speaker 1: four hundred nine nine yards of offense. Can't remember the
Speaker 1: exact number, but it's right there, and the Buccaneers managed
Speaker 1: three points. That just doesn't happen. Doesn't happen. Ridskins won
Speaker 1: that game. In that Carolina game you referenced, Redskins went
Speaker 1: up seventeen and nothing, and you're right to DJ more
Speaker 1: turnovers for the Panthers. That was huge into the Redskins
Speaker 1: getting steaked to a seventeen and nothing lead. Panthers came
Speaker 1: all the way back, got the ball all the way
Speaker 1: to the fifteen yard line with it as to win it,
Speaker 1: and then Cam just had this Cam like horrific sequence
Speaker 1: where the Redskins escaped and you're like, what was Cam doing? So, yeah,
Speaker 1: a bunch of escape jobs for the Redskins. ACE totals
Speaker 1: at forty five. Any thoughts on this game? Yeah, I mean, listen, obviously,
Speaker 1: the Redskins haven't looked good to the last four weeks
Speaker 1: except for that win at Tampa Bay. But with that said,
Speaker 1: they they've been decimated by injuries of late um not
Speaker 1: giving him a pass, but I mean you gotta factor
Speaker 1: that in. Personally, I thought this line was a little high.
Speaker 1: I don't like what I see out of Philadelphia Um.
Speaker 1: I mean when you look at the matchups that they've
Speaker 1: had against solid teams, they just can't get it done.
Speaker 1: I mean against Dallas at home, a very big game.
Speaker 1: The way this division is lined up, I couldn't get
Speaker 1: that win as seven and a half point favorites. Against
Speaker 1: Carolina at home, fine point favorites, another big game. Can't
Speaker 1: get that win. Against Minnesota at home three and a
Speaker 1: half point favorites, can't get that win. Ohly did they
Speaker 1: not cover these games? They even win the game straight up.
Speaker 1: So I don't see anything to get excited for with Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: um let alone laying a touchdown. This is going off
Speaker 1: of last year. I mean, their their reputation this entire
Speaker 1: season is going off last year. Um. That's why they're
Speaker 1: burning through money. If you're betting them there three and
Speaker 1: eight against the spread, that's not by an accident. Um.
Speaker 1: So for me, I just can't lay close to a
Speaker 1: touchdown with Philadelphia, And the fact that they're three and
Speaker 1: three at home gives me no confidence to even tease them.
Speaker 1: You know, I could see if they, you know, were
Speaker 1: a five and six, six and five team, but they
Speaker 1: were getting their winds at home and just having trouble
Speaker 1: on the road. But this team is a coin toss
Speaker 1: at home and on the road, so they have confidence.
Speaker 1: I just don't see it. I mean, for me, it's
Speaker 1: a dog or pass situation. UM. But I think there's
Speaker 1: value in the over here. I mean it sets up
Speaker 1: as that NFC East playoff aspirations called what you will
Speaker 1: for both these teams fighting for that top spot. And
Speaker 1: and it's that NFC East I think perception of that
Speaker 1: defensive game, and then you factor in, you know, the
Speaker 1: Eagles have been in on their team. Four of their
Speaker 1: last five games have gone under. UM. Again, it's it's
Speaker 1: at the primetime game. UM. Usually that the biases towards
Speaker 1: the over, and I not want to quickly jump on
Speaker 1: that over, but I did last Monday night and it
Speaker 1: worked out for me, and I liked the over again
Speaker 1: this Monday night as well. If there's one thing I
Speaker 1: saw out of Washington, as much as McCoy makes those
Speaker 1: mistakes and they had five turnovers the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: the offense moves okay, and I think they'll be able
Speaker 1: to get some points against Philly, and Philly will do
Speaker 1: the same, So give me the over. They scored forty
Speaker 1: seven and and fifty eight when they played last year.
Speaker 1: In those two games, I think they could go over
Speaker 1: forty four and a half forty five. Last thing on
Speaker 1: this game, because we do we do sort of gloss over,
Speaker 1: you know, when a team gets estimated by injuries. But
Speaker 1: the Skins on offense, man, my god, both starting guard
Speaker 1: Shawn Laval and Brandon Schriff out for the season. Trent
Speaker 1: Williams and Morgan was their their tackles in and out
Speaker 1: of the lineup. Jamison Crowder, their slot receiver, has been
Speaker 1: out for two months. Chris Thompson, the best player on
Speaker 1: that offense, been out for almost two months. Who else
Speaker 1: Paul Richardson and yeah, Paul Richardson out for the year,
Speaker 1: and of course Alex Smith now done for the year
Speaker 1: as well. It's incredible how how many injuries they have.
Speaker 1: But we'll see, still got a shot. Redskins right now
Speaker 1: six and a half point dogs on the road at
Speaker 1: Philly on Monday night, Sunday night, guys, game that was
Speaker 1: flexed in good matchup Chargers at the Steelers. Steelers right
Speaker 1: now are three and a half point favorites consensus, though
Speaker 1: you will see some threes out there with extra Juice, Marco,
Speaker 1: it is fitting that we start with you, not only
Speaker 1: because it's the Steelers, funny how that always works out,
Speaker 1: but because you absolutely rabbit footed up your ass your
Speaker 1: way to a Denver win last week. If I may
Speaker 1: be blunt, how many things had to happen in that
Speaker 1: game for Denver to to cover and win it out right?
Speaker 1: By the way, Denver wins it by a touchdown. Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: won only five teams that didn't hit on the tease
Speaker 1: last week, twenty five and thirty on teaser sides. Big Ben, though,
Speaker 1: in that game against the Broncos forty one of fifty
Speaker 1: six for four sixty two, one touchdown, two picks. That's
Speaker 1: a six four hundred and fifty yard plus game of
Speaker 1: his career, juju is ridiculous. Thirteen catches for nine and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Steelers had five hundred twenty seven total yards
Speaker 1: of offense, controlled the ball for thirty five minutes. However,
Speaker 1: let's run down the list. Blocked field goal a fumble
Speaker 1: through the back of the end zone. By the way,
Speaker 1: I cannot stand that rule. Ben misses the wide open
Speaker 1: receiver in the third quarter that was headed to the house.
Speaker 1: James Conner fumbling just inside the red zone, and of
Speaker 1: course the final interception from Big Ben at the end.
Speaker 1: Steelers first loss since September. And then there's the Chargers
Speaker 1: who come in this game off a huge victory over
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, really coasting easy victory after they spotted Arizona
Speaker 1: ten points. But Melvin Gordon gone because Anthony le Lynn,
Speaker 1: when they were up by like a thousand points, decided
Speaker 1: to keep him in the game. He's gone now with
Speaker 1: the knee injury. He'll be out this week and maybe
Speaker 1: a couple subsequent weeks. Four. The Chargers Pittsburgh again three
Speaker 1: point favorites. It's called three and a half consensus right now,
Speaker 1: total at fifty one and a half. Marco, Well, that's
Speaker 1: set up with the horseshoe and everything else. Sounds like
Speaker 1: somebody had. Somebody had Pittsburgh last week. Did No? I
Speaker 1: did not. I did not have any action in that game,
Speaker 1: all right, But yeah I did. I had Denver and
Speaker 1: it was the luckiest win. And this is what's humbling
Speaker 1: about the NFL. As you like to throw out your
Speaker 1: plink oh and coin flips and everything else, till I
Speaker 1: went one and one on Sunday in the NFL the
Speaker 1: game I lost, I never show lost in the game
Speaker 1: I won, I never should have won. That's the beauty
Speaker 1: of the NFL. I had Carolina that went up and
Speaker 1: down the Seattle last week, and you know I would
Speaker 1: have gladly traded that one and one the other way around.
Speaker 1: Um obviously because of you know, my loyalty to the Steelers.
Speaker 1: But you know it was a bad spot for Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: last week, and it's why that I put me on Denver.
Speaker 1: They were coming off that Jacksonville game. Playing back to
Speaker 1: back road games, UM is always tough, and especially the
Speaker 1: way the Steelers had to come from behind to win
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville game. And as we all know, that was
Speaker 1: a huge revenge game for Pittsburgh. But did I think
Speaker 1: the Steelers were gonna put up the numbers they did
Speaker 1: last week? Offensively? I mean, they went up and down
Speaker 1: the field and kept shooting themselves in the foot. And
Speaker 1: how often do we see this though throughout Mike Tomlin's career,
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, when the Steelers play a sub five
Speaker 1: hundred team, they played to the level of the competitions.
Speaker 1: It's frustrating. And uh, Denver stole a game, pure and simple,
Speaker 1: and now we've got the Chargers in Pittsburgh. They got
Speaker 1: something in common. These two teams both gave games away
Speaker 1: to Denver in the last two weeks. UM, so they're
Speaker 1: the same on that aspect. But you talk about Juju,
Speaker 1: and you know, I just want to highlight for a
Speaker 1: second what he's doing right now. And Gil, if you
Speaker 1: remember back right now, what we're seeing with Juju is
Speaker 1: what we saw with Antonio Brown, uh in his first
Speaker 1: and second year in Pittsburgh, and that was you know,
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown was not the guy. It was Mike Wallace,
Speaker 1: you know, and Mike Wallace was getting all of the
Speaker 1: you know, the double teams, and Antonio Brown, because he
Speaker 1: is such a good, you know talent, you know, was
Speaker 1: the unknown factor and not getting you know, the coverage.
Speaker 1: Is that Antonio Brown, you know that Wallace was getting.
Speaker 1: And now that's what's happening to Juju. And he is
Speaker 1: emerging as a superstar. If you don't get him immediately
Speaker 1: when he makes the catch, his yards after the catch,
Speaker 1: um is insane. I mean, just look at last week's
Speaker 1: you know, ninety seven yard touchdown. You know this guy
Speaker 1: when he gets into the open field, Uh, the speed
Speaker 1: and elusiveness uh. And then you know you got a
Speaker 1: B on the other side getting the double team. He
Speaker 1: got juju And if you somehow manage to cover those two,
Speaker 1: you gotta worry about Connor out of the backfield, and
Speaker 1: you gotta worry about Vance McDonald, who is emerging is
Speaker 1: one of the best tight ends in the NFL. He's
Speaker 1: having a breakout season with the Steelers. So this offense
Speaker 1: is just, you know, right now, unstoppable unless Ben throws
Speaker 1: it to the wrong colored jerseys. Um. I look at
Speaker 1: the Chargers, and everybody's gonna point out where all the
Speaker 1: Steelers are going against a good defense. The Chargers don't
Speaker 1: give up any points. Let's just stop with that for
Speaker 1: a second. Look at who the Chargers have played, uh
Speaker 1: in recent weeks in which you know, they've had a
Speaker 1: stretch here now of seven games where only one team
Speaker 1: is top twenty points. That one team was Denver. Uh.
Speaker 1: You look at the other teams that they played. They
Speaker 1: played Oakland, who is absolute trash. They played Cleveland when
Speaker 1: the clown show was still there of Hugh Jackson and
Speaker 1: Tied Haley, And we noticed Baker Mayfield's numbers the minute
Speaker 1: Ti Hayley cut replaced and he got replaced my head
Speaker 1: coach at the defensive coach, and the offensive numbers are
Speaker 1: off the charts. With Baker's last three games, Um Tennessee,
Speaker 1: not an offensive Jugger, not UM Seattle. Okay, they held
Speaker 1: them to seventeen, but then they played Oakland a second
Speaker 1: time and then Denver in Arizona. They haven't faced an
Speaker 1: explosive offense. We'll see what the Chargers defense is really
Speaker 1: made of going against a good offense and explosive offense.
Speaker 1: And we know the Steelers home off of the loss,
Speaker 1: how good they are. They're a different team at home.
Speaker 1: They averaged seven points a game more at home. And
Speaker 1: now this game is flexed into the Sunday night game
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Uh, this just doesn't look good for the Chargers.
Speaker 1: And this one, uh, no Gordon, and this one for
Speaker 1: the Chargers that's gonna hurt them. And I am gonna
Speaker 1: actually finish this analysis with yes, I'm on Pittsburgh and
Speaker 1: I went the entire analysis without calling the Chargers the
Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers. How about back well done? That that's
Speaker 1: the big upset of the day right here, plus eight
Speaker 1: hundred cashes on that. Uh it's so true though, like
Speaker 1: I could totally see Pittsburgh just rolling in this game,
Speaker 1: because Pittsburgh always seems to have one horrific out of
Speaker 1: the blue road loss every year. It's kind of what
Speaker 1: they do. And I think Denver is that this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, just just in your mind's eye picturing Ben
Speaker 1: trying to get hold of the turf by Joey Bosa
Speaker 1: and just managing to get it out in a big
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh playing this one. By the way, anecdotally, if you
Speaker 1: talk to any Chargers fan, they're such defeatist fans, by
Speaker 1: the way, Chargers fans, they're like, yeah, this is the
Speaker 1: game where we get absolutely destroyed. Yeah. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: I had Denver last week also, and I get it.
Speaker 1: Four turn minus born turnovers for Pittsburgh. You're not going
Speaker 1: to cover games. You're not gonna win games like that,
Speaker 1: so call it what you will. I I like, I
Speaker 1: thought we had the right side. We got a little
Speaker 1: couple of lucky plays, but regardless, Um, listen, they snapped
Speaker 1: their six game wins. Now they return home, Um, this
Speaker 1: is the to be their only excuse me home game
Speaker 1: in like a four weeks. Threat. Um, I could definitely
Speaker 1: see the Steelers showing up, and I agree with Marco.
Speaker 1: The only thing I don't like is not sure the
Speaker 1: market's reaction based on the Gordon situation. You know, I
Speaker 1: I as soon as a key player goes down like that,
Speaker 1: usually the market overreacts and thinks he's worth more to
Speaker 1: the betting line than than he truly is. And for me,
Speaker 1: I'm always cautious there. Um. I do like the under though, um.
Speaker 1: And I know it's scary because you've got the Chargers
Speaker 1: team that's definitely gonna try to throw on these Steelers.
Speaker 1: You know they're they're gonna have trouble running the ball,
Speaker 1: especially now. Um, But I don't think they would have
Speaker 1: had all that much success anyway. They were gonna come
Speaker 1: and throw in the football against the Steelers defense. And
Speaker 1: when you think of two teams that are gonna be
Speaker 1: throwing the football, you think points and over. But but
Speaker 1: I think this line is just way too high. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: we've seen total us that we've never seen before this season.
Speaker 1: In fact, we saw the unprecedented one two Monday nights ago, um,
Speaker 1: where they scored a hundred five points and went over.
Speaker 1: I get it. Um, it's a it's a change the
Speaker 1: NFL and you have to approach it a little differently.
Speaker 1: But with that said, UM, the NFL betting market is
Speaker 1: probably one of the most efficient on the planet. UM
Speaker 1: and none evolve and uh quicker than the NFL. And
Speaker 1: I think that you're starting to see these totals high
Speaker 1: in games that it's not warranted. I mean, you look
Speaker 1: on the board now and you're seeing four, five, six
Speaker 1: games in or around the fifties, UM, and I just
Speaker 1: think that's more of what we've seen, uh this sample
Speaker 1: size of this year than it really being warranted. So
Speaker 1: for me, I think this total is too high. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and bet the under. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a two way shootout. I could see
Speaker 1: it turn into a one sided game on the Pittsburgh side,
Speaker 1: So I do like that a little bit as well.
Speaker 1: But I just think this total is way too high.
Speaker 1: Give me that under, all, right, under fifty one and
Speaker 1: a half. I am contractually obligated gentlemen to mention that
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers last week against the Cardinals in that blowout
Speaker 1: forty five to ten blowout, twenty eight of twenty nine
Speaker 1: had twenty five consecutive completions to start that game, uh
Speaker 1: ties in NFL record Ryan Tannehill's mark for but it
Speaker 1: is a record for completions to start a game. But
Speaker 1: twenty eight of twenty nine, that's nineties six point eight
Speaker 1: percent is the greatest completion percentage in the history of
Speaker 1: the National Football League. And let me just say this,
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen and Mike Williams were making just unbelievably amazing
Speaker 1: catches with their tiptoeing just inside the sidelines. Those receivers
Speaker 1: helped Rivers out so much too. It's just an impressive performance.
Speaker 1: But a last the Cardinals, they ain't the Steelers, Teddy,
Speaker 1: what do you think? So? Now, did you notice that
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers left the game after completing twenty nine Then
Speaker 1: Gino Smith came in and through three strading completes. I
Speaker 1: did notice that, Yeso Smith. Gino Smith, by the way, Teddy,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite scouting report lines ever when he
Speaker 1: was coming out of college. It's a Geno Smith slow eyes.
Speaker 1: I love that slow eyes and Gino I mean to
Speaker 1: watch his NFL career is absolutely no surprise and Nione
Speaker 1: that watched him in college and the fact that the
Speaker 1: Jet has been a first round draft choice on him,
Speaker 1: and the fact that he's lasted this long in the league,
Speaker 1: I'll give him credit. What it speaks volume about the
Speaker 1: football organization in New York. A couple of things we
Speaker 1: got to talk about right off the bat. First, of course,
Speaker 1: is the weather. When we're talking about l A traveling
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh for a night game, tempi are supposed to
Speaker 1: be in the fifties. Is a chance of light rain,
Speaker 1: but it's not going to be one of these cold,
Speaker 1: nasty nights at the Hinesfield. So advantage in that regard
Speaker 1: probably l A. Of course, when you start talking about
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler instead of Melvin Gordon, that's not necessarily an
Speaker 1: advantage l A. And by the way, their third leaning,
Speaker 1: the third leading rusher this year is Keenan Allen. They
Speaker 1: do not really have a decent backup for Atli who
Speaker 1: you know, Lynn's talking the talks and oh he can
Speaker 1: be an every down back, no problem. You know, you
Speaker 1: see all the yards after after contact that he gets. Okay,
Speaker 1: the guy's got seventy carries on the season. And this
Speaker 1: is a game where l a's game plan has to
Speaker 1: be run the football, keep big ban off the field.
Speaker 1: That's likely to be a problem with their backup running back,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm not a running back guy. I
Speaker 1: tend to think of them as being interchangeable. Now Gordon
Speaker 1: is not interchangeable, and his absence will be fetting. Note
Speaker 1: that the note that the markets have pretty much been like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon doesn't matter the threes and a half getting
Speaker 1: back down? Are you Are you surprised by that, Teddy,
Speaker 1: because I was a little surprised by that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I get it, these guys don't mean that much, much
Speaker 1: less than the public perceives. But in Gordon's case, I
Speaker 1: thought maybe some movement, none really none, none whatsoever. And
Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do with, again, what
Speaker 1: we saw last week. What we see last week? We
Speaker 1: saw the Chargers blow out a bad team, and we
Speaker 1: the Steelers lose straight up uh to a mediocre team.
Speaker 1: Hence the I think that has something to do with
Speaker 1: the lack of market support for Pittsburgh here and the
Speaker 1: lack of enthusiasm for Melvin Gordon, and the fact that
Speaker 1: both of these teams, I mean, what the Steelers did
Speaker 1: against Denver, you guys setting nailed it. You know, Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: does this not once. That's why they do it a
Speaker 1: you know, three or four times. It's like every season
Speaker 1: they have games where, yeah, they should have won, but
Speaker 1: they didn't. Um. Of course, the Chargers have more than
Speaker 1: their fair share of special teams misc used. No surprise
Speaker 1: here if the Chargers end up losing this game at
Speaker 1: s because somebody misses an extra point or somebody this
Speaker 1: is a field goal. It's what they do. But with
Speaker 1: one team coming off the blowout win, the other team
Speaker 1: coming off a bad loss where they were minus four
Speaker 1: in turnovers a prior, you have to look at the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh side here at three. I'm a buyer on the Steelers.
Speaker 1: All right. It's such a good point about the Charges too.
Speaker 1: If you're friends with any Chargers fans, they will tell
Speaker 1: you this. It's just that there's cursed with place kickers.
Speaker 1: Like it's an amazing how a franchise can't get together.
Speaker 1: You know who has a little of that. The Vikings. Like,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Dan Bailey is not Dan Bailey
Speaker 1: anymore in Minnesota. So it's like a Blair Walsh lost
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, I lost on a Super Bowl because
Speaker 1: they both accurate kicker in NFL history at the time.
Speaker 1: The Jip John Field, Gary Anderson, that's right, and then
Speaker 1: of course there's the Blair Walsh kick against the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Kai for Bath Daniel Carlson had moved on to other teams. Sam,
Speaker 1: It's interesting, alright, gentlemen, we get Sunday DIBs now from
Speaker 1: Ace your choice of Sunday games, sir, all right, a
Speaker 1: lot of good games to choose from. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and and save some people some money because this
Speaker 1: is gonna be one of the most tease teams, um,
Speaker 1: come Sunday, and and it even just falls into that
Speaker 1: advantage teaser number as well. And that's going to be
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Raven. Stay away from that team this Sunday
Speaker 1: going into Atlanta. UM, it's we're at that time of
Speaker 1: the year where you start the ad that must win
Speaker 1: Moniker and nothing to play for Moniker on teams, UM,
Speaker 1: and rest assured that's been factored into the betting line,
Speaker 1: and once it is discussing, it becomes meaningless. Is blah
Speaker 1: blah blah for nothing? Um, And they're going to tell
Speaker 1: you this, we're at that point of the season where
Speaker 1: everyone's quit on Atlanta. They've now lost three straight games. UM.
Speaker 1: Listening except for that loss at Cleveland, which was ugly.
Speaker 1: Losing the Dallas and losing at New Orleans aren't really
Speaker 1: the two worst losses you can possibly have. On the
Speaker 1: flip side of that same coin, what Dome I seem
Speaker 1: from Baltimore. This is a team that's lost to Cleveland,
Speaker 1: lost to that Saint Saints team, lost to Carolina, lost
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh, and they they looked good the last two weeks,
Speaker 1: beating Cincinnati, beating Oakland. I mean, I don't get it.
Speaker 1: And then you talk about the Lamar Jackson experiment. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be good, but this is his first
Speaker 1: road game and he's not going up as as granted,
Speaker 1: this the Atlanta isn't the eight I Bears defense, but
Speaker 1: still now all of a sudden, you're you're going on
Speaker 1: the road, um, and it's not Oakland or Cincinnati and Atlanta.
Speaker 1: If anything, I think this is a team with with pride.
Speaker 1: I mean, coming into the season the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: it's a team that was focused on making the playoffs
Speaker 1: and making a run in the playoffs. And I get
Speaker 1: it with teams like that, when when the playoffs, when
Speaker 1: they're eliminated, you want to be cautious how motivated they are.
Speaker 1: But listen, they're not mathematically eliminated. And as long as
Speaker 1: there's a sliver of hope, I expect players to show up.
Speaker 1: And if Atlanta shows up Sunday at home on in
Speaker 1: a pretty much pick them situation, my money's on him.
Speaker 1: I like Atlanta Sunday. All the nonsense about the you know,
Speaker 1: must win in Baltimore in the playoff hunt, they can't
Speaker 1: afford losses. Yeah, well that's great what you can and
Speaker 1: can't afford? Um, what's gonna happen to a different story?
Speaker 1: Give me Atlanta, I'll l a one to three. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. Save your money on the teasers,
Speaker 1: don't take them up the eight nine. They're gonna lose
Speaker 1: by double digits, Atlanta one and a half point in
Speaker 1: since his favorites now in that game. On Guessing Lines,
Speaker 1: for those who listened to Guessing Lines, whether on Visa
Speaker 1: on a Numbers Game Monday through Friday, Marco seven and
Speaker 1: nine am Pacific, uh Tenda Doon Eastern, or on the
Speaker 1: Beating of the Book podcast a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I was outraged when Vinny, who was sitting in for Chrissy.
Speaker 1: When Vinny said that the Redskins were eight and a
Speaker 1: half points, I was like, what eight and a half
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys? And again, if you got it right there,
Speaker 1: you did it land on the Redskins as a winner.
Speaker 1: And the other one that week where I was incredulous
Speaker 1: about was I was like, how are the Colts nine
Speaker 1: point favorites hosting the Dolphins? Nine? What? Like? What is that? Like?
Speaker 1: Where did that spread come from? And that proved to
Speaker 1: be an easy winner for the Dolphins on the line
Speaker 1: this week. The two that I was outraged by, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, there are weeks where I'm not outraged
Speaker 1: by anything, but it's funny that back to back weeks
Speaker 1: I've had to where I'm just like, what is that?
Speaker 1: And one of them was the fact that the Titans.
Speaker 1: This was before the Titans even played. He saw that.
Speaker 1: He saw that one had the Titans posted as a
Speaker 1: nine point favorite hosting the Jets, and I'm like, what, like,
Speaker 1: how are the Titans nine point favorites against anybody? The
Speaker 1: other one was the fact that the Ravens were favored
Speaker 1: against the Falcons at Atlanta, and I was I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it. I was like I was, like, we gotta
Speaker 1: start thinking about some of these NFL teams. We talk
Speaker 1: about home road splits in baseball a lot, but we
Speaker 1: don't ever in the NFL think about these teams in
Speaker 1: the NFL this year that our home road splittish. The Packers,
Speaker 1: you know, they haven't won a game on the road yet.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are very home road splitty. We'll see what
Speaker 1: happens tonight. We'll talk about that momentarily. Atlanta is one
Speaker 1: of these teams. Also for me, there's such a different
Speaker 1: team at home than they are on the road. Everything
Speaker 1: I said about Lamar Jackson and his first road game
Speaker 1: as well, I'm with you there, Ace. Right now, the
Speaker 1: Falcons are the team that's favored one and a half.
Speaker 1: Is the numbers? All right? When you agree with me,
Speaker 1: it's been good results. We may be gone for the
Speaker 1: third straight winner for the listeners last week and we
Speaker 1: got that post. I just want to repeat this is
Speaker 1: want to repeat what he said. He's on a two
Speaker 1: game winning streak. I just want to point out what
Speaker 1: it's just highlighting. That's awesome. Uh, Teddy, what do you got?
Speaker 1: I don't think I've lost since now, since the start
Speaker 1: of November long, since before the mid term, since before
Speaker 1: the Midtermat okay, Teddy, what do you got on Saturday?
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take a look at two teams whose
Speaker 1: full season long stats are telling nothing but lies right now.
Speaker 1: That's Indianapolis and Jacksonville. The Jags first was of the
Speaker 1: season that they were good. They were the same team
Speaker 1: that were last year. We saw them blow out in
Speaker 1: New England. The offense was clicking, everything was just fine.
Speaker 1: Now we're talking about a Jags team that still has
Speaker 1: that first month of this season on their stat list.
Speaker 1: But they've also lost seven in a row, just got
Speaker 1: beat by Buffalo at home, and they have had a
Speaker 1: pretty rough go of it obviously over the course of
Speaker 1: the last two months. There's Indy with the one in
Speaker 1: five start. They were awful, god awful both sides of
Speaker 1: the football for extended stretches. Darius Leonard, who has been
Speaker 1: as impressive as any rookie defensively this season, was banged
Speaker 1: up luck took a while to find his rhythm. The
Speaker 1: Colts over the last month have been that again. The
Speaker 1: competition has been relatively weak, but Indie has been pretty good.
Speaker 1: And no, they weren't good enough to cover a big
Speaker 1: number last week against Miami. They came back and won
Speaker 1: that game, though, and that's what I expect him to do. Here.
Speaker 1: There's a reason that Cody Kessler has been on the
Speaker 1: bench behind Blake Bortles all this time. There's a reason
Speaker 1: that the Jags coaching staff said, no, Bortles is our
Speaker 1: best option. Okay. Cody Kessler was a starter in Cleveland
Speaker 1: Parade games in the year where the Calves of the
Speaker 1: kil the Browns won sixteen. And yeah, he threw six
Speaker 1: touchdown passes in eight games. All right, if you watched
Speaker 1: him last week, if you watched him in preseason, Cody
Speaker 1: Kessler is a downgrade from Blake Bordles. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's hard to be, man, that's very hard to do. Okay,
Speaker 1: you bring your fire, Nathaniel Hackett, and you the QB
Speaker 1: coach gets promoted. Okay, great. The defense still thinks whatever
Speaker 1: the Jacks defense was supposed to be, it isn't. The
Speaker 1: two teams are headed in opposite directions, and yet we're
Speaker 1: seeing a tick of Jacksonville money. They can't be this bad. Yes,
Speaker 1: they can give me the Colts minus the spot in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Two teams at an opposite direction, and I was I
Speaker 1: was worried that you were going to take Jacksonville there,
Speaker 1: to which I was going to say, because I agree
Speaker 1: with you. Jacksonville is almost at the point, Marco. We've
Speaker 1: talked about this for years too. They're almost at the
Speaker 1: point now where how can you, how can you in
Speaker 1: any right mind put your actual harder and money behind
Speaker 1: that football team they like the Pittsburgh loss was so
Speaker 1: gut wrenching, like even if you thought they had any
Speaker 1: motivation at that point, the fact that they were up
Speaker 1: sixteen and nothing, they lost twenty to sixteen, like that
Speaker 1: is just a season in killing whatever they had left
Speaker 1: of it, season killing game. And then they doubled down
Speaker 1: on that last week, would come back from fourteen down
Speaker 1: to Buffalo have the ball on the doorstep of the
Speaker 1: end zone at the one yard line, and then Leonard
Speaker 1: Leonard four Nette goes all sugarade Leonard on Shack Lawson
Speaker 1: uh and then a sequence of events that ends up
Speaker 1: in a Shank field goal and then Buffalo matriculating the
Speaker 1: ball down the field and taking lead, like just how
Speaker 1: many stomach punches can you take if you're the Jaguars
Speaker 1: and care anymore? You know, it's just amazing. And yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see Nathaniel Hackett. As you point out, Eddie, the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, he's the guy who ends up paying the price,
Speaker 1: and he deserves some of the blame. But there's a
Speaker 1: lot of blame to go around there in Jacksonville, starting
Speaker 1: with Blake Bortles, who will be on the bench. As
Speaker 1: you point out, Marco, which way you going here on Sunday? Yeah,
Speaker 1: one last thing on Jacksonvill. Don't you always love whenever
Speaker 1: there's a coach that you know is going to be
Speaker 1: gone at the end of the year. He throws one
Speaker 1: of the coordinators under the bus, kills me and you
Speaker 1: and I we should we should say this, Marco, because
Speaker 1: I talked about a conversation I had with you with
Speaker 1: Michael lombardion air at Vesta, which is, if this is
Speaker 1: gonna be an interesting year with coaches. When you and
Speaker 1: I were driving back from our Monday night game the
Speaker 1: other night, we were talking about how the worst teams
Speaker 1: in the league this year, those coaches are all gonna
Speaker 1: stay right like Oakland's not firing Gruden, San Francisco is
Speaker 1: not firing Shanahan. The Giants are gonna gonna fire Schirmer
Speaker 1: after year one. You know, I don't know does Arizona
Speaker 1: get Wilkes pass after year one? Probably? Right? All these
Speaker 1: guys that are in these awful teams, it's these mid
Speaker 1: tier guys, McCarthy and Rivera and Horrorball. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a really interesting year for who gets fired. And it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be the worst teams anyway. I just want
Speaker 1: to point that out. Yeah, I agree with is gonna
Speaker 1: be a fun off season, that's for sure. Marvin Lewis, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: if he if I'll think what what if he survives again?
Speaker 1: We have to we have to see the pictures that
Speaker 1: he has of whoever is trying and firing him that
Speaker 1: it hasn't fired him yet, because they've got to be
Speaker 1: really good, because I don't know how he is still there.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm sorry. I'm gonna go back to the
Speaker 1: scene of the crime. If last week my my team
Speaker 1: that let me down last week, I'm going to give
Speaker 1: them a chance to redeem themselves. Carolina went up and
Speaker 1: down the field on on Seattle last week, and Rivera
Speaker 1: just stop with the gambling already, Okay, the opening drive,
Speaker 1: they go all the way down the field they got.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not fourth and one, it's fourth and three.
Speaker 1: You have a five six minute drive in which you
Speaker 1: just have Seattle on their hills, and then you make
Speaker 1: it all go away by gambling on fourth and three
Speaker 1: and not taking the three points, not coming away with
Speaker 1: something at the end of that drive. And oh, by
Speaker 1: the way, what does three points have come in handy
Speaker 1: at some point in that game? Yeah? Final score? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you lose by three. You're an idiot, And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come back with You know, we've got Tampa Bay. This
Speaker 1: is a team that finally got a win last week.
Speaker 1: They go back to Jamis Winston, who has a good game.
Speaker 1: When was the last time Jameis Winston has had two
Speaker 1: good games in a row. Florida State Okay, probably, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is a spot where I'm gonna go with Carolina.
Speaker 1: You look at the defense of Tampa Bay. How are
Speaker 1: they going to stop Carolina? And when Cam's running the
Speaker 1: football like he was last week and throwing the football,
Speaker 1: I mean he had a huge day too. You know,
Speaker 1: they had two yards underground. McCaffrey an absolute beast. What
Speaker 1: a weapon. This guy is running the football and out
Speaker 1: of the backfield catching the ball, and then when you
Speaker 1: throw Cam in there with the red option. I don't
Speaker 1: see how tamp but base stops them. Uh. Does it
Speaker 1: become a track meet and they have to outscore one another.
Speaker 1: I think Carolina's defense is solid enough to put the
Speaker 1: clamps down onto Jamis Winston. I'll go with Carolina here.
Speaker 1: I think we're getting a short number because we got
Speaker 1: the three game losing streak of Carolina, and they should
Speaker 1: have won two of those three that they lost. The
Speaker 1: only game they got drilled on was the Pittsburgh game. Uh,
Speaker 1: Detroit again, he gambles, doesn't go for the overtime, Take
Speaker 1: the extra point and go into overtime. You're the better
Speaker 1: team and you've got all the momentum. Why make the
Speaker 1: game come down to a coin flip on a two
Speaker 1: point conversion? Go into overtime. You've got the better team.
Speaker 1: But it's just like when you have the better team
Speaker 1: and you're looking at overtime. It's the same way I
Speaker 1: look at the house. Uh in Vegas, the longer you play,
Speaker 1: the edge goes to the house. If you're the better team,
Speaker 1: the longer you play, the edge goes to you go
Speaker 1: to over time. Just stupid I'm on Carolina. If they
Speaker 1: blow this one, this might be a theme then the seasons,
Speaker 1: the season's gone, because then they're gonna lose four in
Speaker 1: a row and they're out of it. And this is
Speaker 1: a tough spot for them. They've got three of their
Speaker 1: last four games they played on the road. They play
Speaker 1: on the road again next week, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Cleveland's not a cupcake. And after that you've got the
Speaker 1: Saints Atlanta and the Saints again. You better take care
Speaker 1: of business right here if you want to keep your
Speaker 1: season alive. I thought you're gonna sing for Carolina. Unbettable,
Speaker 1: that's what you are. They are, they are, They are
Speaker 1: so frustrated. I'm sorry, sorry about that. I apologize to everybody,
Speaker 1: so so unbettable. I think Ron Rivera, to your point,
Speaker 1: has turned into Dusty Baker, Like you know how Dusty
Speaker 1: Baker would just make all the wrong calls, and then
Speaker 1: sometimes even when he would start to make the right calls,
Speaker 1: they would just not go his way. Like Ron Rivera
Speaker 1: just seems to make the wrong choice at every go
Speaker 1: of it now. And I think at that game against
Speaker 1: Detroit that you were referencing two weeks ago, when all
Speaker 1: he had to do is keep the extra point force
Speaker 1: overtime and not do this stupid like, you know, hey,
Speaker 1: let me be macho and try to win it. Right here,
Speaker 1: we're playing for the win, like I hate brain dead
Speaker 1: coaches to do that. Like I almost wonder if Riverboat
Speaker 1: Roun if his nickname made him do that, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, oh, I gotta live up to
Speaker 1: my nick Yeah. It is just like the people you
Speaker 1: expect things from. That's how they act, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: the class clowned this that if once you get that
Speaker 1: like name stock or what people expect people, you usually
Speaker 1: act that way, you know what I mean. It's more
Speaker 1: like subconsciously you do it. And that dudes just the
Speaker 1: moron because he believes he's Riverboat rons who you are.
Speaker 1: It's funny if you know, when we get to the
Speaker 1: question of which game do you want no part of? Though, Mark,
Speaker 1: I might have picked this game because Carolina scares me
Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay's offense, Man, you never know what those
Speaker 1: guys um, but that is your call. You're taking one
Speaker 1: last stab on the Panthers. As he holds his breath
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Speaker 1: Night game tonight, Ralph Michael's your boy, Marco. He had
Speaker 1: a great little stat on this about the about the Saints,
Speaker 1: rather New Orleans Saints. They've one un covered nine straight
Speaker 1: games since nineteen eighty nine. Only five other teams have
Speaker 1: covered and one nine straight games, and since eighty nine,
Speaker 1: no NFL team has made it to the tenth one.
Speaker 1: So the Saints are trying to be the first team
Speaker 1: to go ten and oh straight up in a t s.
Speaker 1: We shall see if it happens tonight again. They are
Speaker 1: seven point favorites on the road against the Cowboys. Teddy
Speaker 1: will start with you here. Any thoughts, brief thoughts on
Speaker 1: tonight's Thursday Night game? Will you be betting it? And
Speaker 1: if so, how I'm not involved in tonight's gaming. And
Speaker 1: this is a story where I'm not willing to step
Speaker 1: in front of New Orleans. I've learned that lesson. And
Speaker 1: yet it feels like the value is clearly on the
Speaker 1: Dallas side of the equation. But when you get your
Speaker 1: teeth kicked in betting against the team more than once,
Speaker 1: try to learn your lesson. I have at least an
Speaker 1: enter to the Saints. I got the Saints power raiters
Speaker 1: three points better than anyone else in the NFL right now,
Speaker 1: and if Dallas falls behind, it worries me about their
Speaker 1: ability to catch up. So I'll be sitting on the
Speaker 1: sidelines here with the slightest of leans home Dog. I
Speaker 1: honestly think that what you just said there reflects the
Speaker 1: feeling of many people tonight. Like there's a lot of people,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who are like, oh, seven
Speaker 1: point home dog. I mean like they they almost like
Speaker 1: instinctively go to and then they're like, I'm not getting
Speaker 1: in front of that train, you know, Like there's like
Speaker 1: why am I going to do that? There's no reason
Speaker 1: for brave points here, so stay away for Teddy Marco anything. Well,
Speaker 1: my question to you before I give you mine is
Speaker 1: I know your teeth in this game tonight, but I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. You know, like road road, seven
Speaker 1: point favorites is a six proposition that's like below break even.
Speaker 1: So by the math, I wouldn't, but yeah, I might,
Speaker 1: I might, I might. Where do you feel where do
Speaker 1: you feel more comfortable taking the Saints to just win
Speaker 1: the game or taking the Cowboys and getting that thing
Speaker 1: up to two touchdowns sat the win. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: you do that. I'm on I'm on Dallas here and
Speaker 1: the Saints, I know, the freight train and stepping in
Speaker 1: front of it's not a wise thing to do. But
Speaker 1: you know, they ruined my fourth played a Turkey um
Speaker 1: last week on the night game because I had Atlanta,
Speaker 1: because I'm sitting there with the you know, my fourth meal,
Speaker 1: and I watched Atlanta turn the ball over not once,
Speaker 1: but twice inside to five, a third time inside the twenty,
Speaker 1: and then just to you know, for extra major or
Speaker 1: fourth time. I forget where that one was. But four
Speaker 1: turnovers and I've got and I'm holding a ticket at
Speaker 1: plus thirteen and a half and lose by fourteen. That's
Speaker 1: a little frustrating, you know, But I know you guys
Speaker 1: are all worried. I did get that fourth plate down, Okay,
Speaker 1: I powered through. I'm taking I'm taking the Cowboys here.
Speaker 1: They're different team the last three games. And you know,
Speaker 1: as much as we made fun of the Cowboys for
Speaker 1: once again, you know, blundering and paying too much for
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper giving away you know, a number one draft choice. Guys,
Speaker 1: Look what he's done instantly to this team. They now
Speaker 1: have a legitimate deep threat. What's that done? You still
Speaker 1: gotta have Dak get him the football. Well, what it's
Speaker 1: done is opened up the running game again for Zeke
Speaker 1: because teams are not cheating and coming up and trying
Speaker 1: to stack the line, you know, daring Dak to throw
Speaker 1: the football, and with him spreading the defenses out when
Speaker 1: Cooper goes downfield, if Zeke runs the football and he
Speaker 1: breaks that first line and containment, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: what would have been a five yard rush turns into
Speaker 1: a fifteen or twenty yard you know, explosive play, and
Speaker 1: you started getting chunk plays, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Dack's got confidence because he's got a threat to throw too,
Speaker 1: and it's opening up the passing routes for the underneath guys.
Speaker 1: And let's not ignore the fact that the Cowboys very
Speaker 1: quietly have emerged as one of the best defenses. Uh.
Speaker 1: This defense has improved tremendously. I've got him, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the points. I'll take the seven, and you
Speaker 1: shop around. There's still a couple seven and a half's
Speaker 1: out there, and I think as we get close to
Speaker 1: game time, you're gonna see the old flip flop. The
Speaker 1: public is gonna take the Saints ticket to seven and
Speaker 1: a half. Soon as it hits seven and a half,
Speaker 1: the sharps will take the Cowboys and it will keep
Speaker 1: going back and forth. So you should be able to
Speaker 1: grab a seven and a half, not to douse cold
Speaker 1: water on your passion there, but no Tyrone Smith tonight
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys. He is out Cowboys standout offensive linement,
Speaker 1: so he will not be in the lineup for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I think your analysis on a Marii Cooper is dead on.
Speaker 1: So for the people who are like, oh, he showed
Speaker 1: up again. The Skins too touchdowns, Yeah, Quentin Dunbar slipped
Speaker 1: and ha ha, Clinton Dix needs a pro tractor. He
Speaker 1: took an awful angle. But I think your analysis is great,
Speaker 1: which is just forget that he even scored those two.
Speaker 1: Just him being on the field spreads it out for
Speaker 1: DAC and just having that thread is such a big deal.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Dallas also rediscovers Zekiel Lli in
Speaker 1: the process, which is awfully kind of them to their
Speaker 1: fans and their backers as well. So New Orleans seven
Speaker 1: point favorites against Dallas. Marco's taking a bite on Dallas.
Speaker 1: By the way, when you were eating that fourth plate
Speaker 1: of turkey, do like other people at the table look
Speaker 1: at you and disgust and they're like, dude, like, could
Speaker 1: you leave some food for us? Stop eating? Do they do?
Speaker 1: Do you get those works? You're at my house. I
Speaker 1: bought the turkey. You're lucky. Jeez. Do you at least
Speaker 1: have good stuffing? Are you one of these people who
Speaker 1: like put raisins and nuts in their stuffing and jack
Speaker 1: the whole thing up, or like, do you have like
Speaker 1: simple stuffy well or puts uh? She puts the cran
Speaker 1: rais and then come on, LORI with the some man
Speaker 1: Laurie got her fifteen seconds on the show. It did
Speaker 1: not go well. It did not go well. I'll let
Speaker 1: her know yet here. Yeah, listen. Fewers high on the
Speaker 1: Saints as I am. And it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the bias. I like them coming into the season,
Speaker 1: and after that one and one every chance I got,
Speaker 1: I thought I was saying, go bet that future. Now
Speaker 1: this is still one of the best teams in the nfl. Um.
Speaker 1: But the spreads the great equalizer and this line is
Speaker 1: a little bit too high. Again, I don't want to
Speaker 1: stand in front of New Orleans either. You know you're
Speaker 1: not gonna get rich doing that. Um. But with that said,
Speaker 1: I like what I've seen from Dallas of late, not
Speaker 1: just them running the football, but the fact that they
Speaker 1: could stop the other team from running the football. That's
Speaker 1: the most interesting thing about this game. That you have
Speaker 1: too good rushing off that is, against two really good
Speaker 1: Russian defenses. Um, I think you're going to force both
Speaker 1: these teams to kind of become one dimensional if they're
Speaker 1: able to run, and when that's the case, you usually
Speaker 1: get lower scoring that's than is expected. I see value
Speaker 1: on Dallas. I see value on the under as well. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, again, you didn't get Rich Betton against New
Speaker 1: Orleans this year, so I'm in no rush to jump
Speaker 1: out ahead of them. But I'm not gonna lay the
Speaker 1: points with them on the road. Just no chance of
Speaker 1: laying that many of Dallas. And let's not forget the
Speaker 1: last time New Orleans had a streak like this, they
Speaker 1: had one thirteen in a row, and who stopped it?
Speaker 1: Tony Romo in Dallas when they went to Dallas. So, uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, deja vu. Who knows. We'll find out tonight.
Speaker 1: But this isn't unprecedented territory. This strikes me as one
Speaker 1: of those games where Dallas beckers, like five minutes into
Speaker 1: the game, they're like, Oh God, what was I doing?
Speaker 1: What did I do? How did I bet against? Yeah? Exactly, yeah,
Speaker 1: no way, I'm putting money on Dallas, No way. Al Right, gentlemen,
Speaker 1: final two questions, the first of which is always which
Speaker 1: are the big favorites? Do you think is the most
Speaker 1: likely to lose? Outright? We will bend this to six
Speaker 1: point favorites are greater, so the candidates are New Orleans,
Speaker 1: as we just talked about, seven point favorites on the
Speaker 1: road against Dallas tonight, the Rams ten point favorites on
Speaker 1: the road against the Lions on Sunday morning, Green Bay
Speaker 1: two touchdown favorites at home against the Packers. Houston six
Speaker 1: point favorites at home against the Cleveland Browns. Then Sunday afternoon, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: this is down to seven and a half at home
Speaker 1: against the Jets. Kansas City, which still gets to play
Speaker 1: Oakland at home. By the way, later in the season,
Speaker 1: we'll see what that line is, although I think it's
Speaker 1: week seventeen, so it might be squirreling. Yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 1: Kansas City's fifteen point favorites consensus right now on the
Speaker 1: road against Oakland, Seattle, ten point favorites consensus at home
Speaker 1: against San Francisco, and then Monday night we talked about it.
Speaker 1: The Eagles six and a half point favorites at home
Speaker 1: against the Skinnies. Teddy, which of those big favorites do
Speaker 1: you think is the most likely to lose? Outright? But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give I'm not gonna say the most likely
Speaker 1: to lose outright. I apologize for not answering the questions specifically,
Speaker 1: but I kicked the Lions, and if there's one of
Speaker 1: those favorites I want to bet against, it beat the Rams.
Speaker 1: The Rams coming off the by in Detroit, and I
Speaker 1: think the Lions are capable of giving them a game
Speaker 1: and potentially pulling off the outright upset. And it has
Speaker 1: everything to do with you know, how much more fat
Speaker 1: and happy can you be for l A. You know,
Speaker 1: you score fifty four points on Monday night football, you
Speaker 1: go on your buy we get more. Tell you how
Speaker 1: great you are, and now you gotta go to the
Speaker 1: Motor City and play a team, but you're not really
Speaker 1: excited about It's not a step up spot, uh for
Speaker 1: l A. And you know, for as bad as the
Speaker 1: Lions have been, I be competitive, and they've particularly been
Speaker 1: competitive at home, you know, last week losing on a
Speaker 1: defensive score against the Bears as possible here, but rams
Speaker 1: defense isn't getting I mean I didn't against k C admittedly,
Speaker 1: but that's not a defense that I trust to get
Speaker 1: scores on a weekend, week out basis. So maybe take
Speaker 1: a shower with the Lions if you're looking for a
Speaker 1: big dog on the money. Wow, did not expect that game.
Speaker 1: By the way, Marco, I think Teddy meant fatt and sassy.
Speaker 1: Didn't He not fat and happy? Isn't that correct? You know?
Speaker 1: Fatt and sassy? Is it? You know? He didn't. He
Speaker 1: would have had to send me, you know, permission, disclaim
Speaker 1: to use it and everything and all that. So he
Speaker 1: just didn't want to go through all that and he
Speaker 1: just you know, how did you Neric one? Ace and
Speaker 1: I are still waiting for Barstool to pay us money
Speaker 1: for sprinkle me. Oh my god? Alright, what do you
Speaker 1: got here, Marco, same question. Uh, when you were running
Speaker 1: down the list there, did you include Houston and that
Speaker 1: I did? Okay, all right, I'm I'm there with Houston,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you why. Because one, first of all,
Speaker 1: this Cleveland team is playing with a newfound Uh it's
Speaker 1: just like a different team. I mean you Jackson's gone,
Speaker 1: Todd Haley's gone, Baker Mayfield's had his three best games
Speaker 1: of his career in the NFL. After he was looking
Speaker 1: like he hit the rookie wall um four weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I mean he was declining game after game. Uh, you
Speaker 1: look like a deer. Cotton Headlights was having a happy feet,
Speaker 1: was taking bad sacks, and all of a sudden, he's
Speaker 1: put up big numbers three games in a row. That's one.
Speaker 1: But the other part of it is this is a
Speaker 1: bad spot for Houston. They're coming off of a Monday
Speaker 1: night game, short week, an emotional Monday night game on
Speaker 1: several different fronts. One, you had the you know, the
Speaker 1: death of the owner, Um, you know over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Uh there that caused you know, uh something probably should
Speaker 1: have factored into the Monday night handicapping. You know the team, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know get that fired up, you know, win for
Speaker 1: the uh the owner uh mentality, plus the fact that
Speaker 1: win over Tennessee basically gives them the division. I mean,
Speaker 1: the closest team to them right now was indiana Apolis,
Speaker 1: and they already beat Indianapolis thanks to the the frank
Speaker 1: right uh you know bonehead decision when he kicked the
Speaker 1: long field goal and missed and then gave them the
Speaker 1: short field uh in that game or no, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: went forward? Yeah, and uh that game in the game.
Speaker 1: So they already have a two game lead and we're
Speaker 1: having the tide breaker. It's basically a three game lead.
Speaker 1: With the emotional, the short week, and the satisfying win
Speaker 1: that gives them the division. They are filling fat sassy.
Speaker 1: I think Cleveland's a live, live dog that Mike go
Speaker 1: in there and pull the upset. I have an over
Speaker 1: ticket on Houston at eight and a half, which obviously
Speaker 1: looks great, but more importantly, I have an Indianapolis Colts
Speaker 1: to win the a f C South at eight to one. Man,
Speaker 1: would I like Houston a trip up at some point?
Speaker 1: As it is Houston, They're gonna be favored in four
Speaker 1: at other last five games. New England's got them in
Speaker 1: the rear view for that number two position in the
Speaker 1: a f C, and the by like New England better
Speaker 1: not stump because Houston. There's a scenario where Houston actually
Speaker 1: gets there. But you like Cleveland here as a live
Speaker 1: dog getting six and Baker Mayfield throwing shade at Hugh
Speaker 1: Jackson after that game. Uh the other day was just phenomenal. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then my second favorite rumor, second highest favorite rumor
Speaker 1: of the week is, uh, did you see that report
Speaker 1: where Cincinnati was like, yeah, if we fire Marvin Lewis,
Speaker 1: they may be interested in Hugh Jackson, who's on their staff.
Speaker 1: Now I'm like, wait, what what? Why would you? Why
Speaker 1: is that your go to He's kryptonite? Bring? Yeah? Why not?
Speaker 1: My favorite rumor, by the way, thanks for asking. My
Speaker 1: favorite rumor is this new one where Jason Witten is
Speaker 1: so bad in the Monday Night Booth and Dallas has
Speaker 1: an injury at tight end that he's gonna come out
Speaker 1: of retirement and play for the Cowboys. That's my favorite
Speaker 1: one because it's so that's a win win for everybody
Speaker 1: if that happens. We'll see Ace which is the big
Speaker 1: favorite you think is the most likely to lose that right.
Speaker 1: I agree with both those gentlemen. I think Detroit is
Speaker 1: live as as as you can get, especially getting ten points.
Speaker 1: And I always say, if I'm gonna bet a dog,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sprinkle a little something something as well. And
Speaker 1: I agree with Marco also, um, but I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with Dallas. Man. And again this is
Speaker 1: me telling you against the Saints because usually, man, there's
Speaker 1: a spot of team slips up. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: the NFL, um, and Dallas is that team that's not
Speaker 1: out of all those teams you the matchups you gave us,
Speaker 1: Dallas is that team on the other side, except for
Speaker 1: Cleveland that seems to be playing motivated ball. That's not
Speaker 1: a junkie team, you know what I mean? Like, Dallas
Speaker 1: is actually a pretty good football team, even at six
Speaker 1: and five, and especially at home. I mean they've won
Speaker 1: four of their five games there um and outscored their
Speaker 1: opponents by a touchdown. So I mean they're very capable
Speaker 1: of winning this game at home. So for me, I
Speaker 1: think that one. And let's not forget prior to the
Speaker 1: season startmin and granted, Saints are a lot better than
Speaker 1: most people think, not better than I most people. Um
Speaker 1: Dallas was minus two and a half in this game.
Speaker 1: They were favored two and a half point favor Now, granted,
Speaker 1: a lots transpired since the first week of September, but
Speaker 1: still I think this is a possible slip up for
Speaker 1: for the Saints. All Right, guys, no buys this week
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Everybody from here on out is playing
Speaker 1: every week, so we have sixteen games. If you had
Speaker 1: to play fifteen of them, Let's say we lived in
Speaker 1: a bizarro world, Teddy, you had to play a side
Speaker 1: on every single one of these, but you were allowed
Speaker 1: one free pass. What's the game you want no part of?
Speaker 1: And and there are multiple choices here, try to debate
Speaker 1: which one was the one that I really liked the
Speaker 1: absolute movie, and that would probably be Arizona Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Do I trust the Cardinals to do anything? No, I
Speaker 1: don't you know. My powertyings have them right with Oakland
Speaker 1: as the worst team, the worst two teams in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Trip to Lambo in December is not anything the Cardinals need.
Speaker 1: But do I trusting Green Beta bounce back off what
Speaker 1: they've been through over the last month? No, assertainly not
Speaker 1: by Margins So to me, that's that's probably the easiest
Speaker 1: pass in the board, although there are some other real
Speaker 1: good options for those looking to pass the game. You're right,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of choices here, Marco. What do
Speaker 1: you like the least? Denver Cincinnati? Do you want to
Speaker 1: lay points on the road with the Broncos, which needed
Speaker 1: needed for all of those interceptions by Ben and fumbles
Speaker 1: through the end zone? Um? But yet do you want
Speaker 1: to take Cincinnati with Triscoll? Come on? You know dead
Speaker 1: Man rocking Marvin Lewis that whole situation there? I can't,
Speaker 1: I can't be involved in this game. God, you could
Speaker 1: make a case for at least at least five or
Speaker 1: six of these Ace What do you want no part of? Here?
Speaker 1: For me, it's simple because I actually love all these games. Um.
Speaker 1: Only one really jumped out at me that that I
Speaker 1: just crossed it right off. Um, and that's going to
Speaker 1: be Kansas City at Oakland. To me, that's just a
Speaker 1: meaningless game, Kansas City coming in off that loss against
Speaker 1: the Rams. Um. We know how bad Oakland is. You know,
Speaker 1: is Kansas City warranted to be a two touchdown road
Speaker 1: favored in the divisional game? Probably? Um? But do I
Speaker 1: want to lay it. Absolutely not, even though they you know,
Speaker 1: they're capable of going out there and beating them like
Speaker 1: they did Cincinnati. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we know what they are about. When they face on
Speaker 1: New England or Rams, they get slapped back into reality
Speaker 1: and that's why they got two losses. So they'll keep
Speaker 1: beating up on the oaklands of the world and then
Speaker 1: they'll run into the wrong New England or RAMS team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of points too many to lay from me,
Speaker 1: and we'll be in Missouri getting changed for those three
Speaker 1: dollar bills real soon. It's Seattle over again. It's just
Speaker 1: he refuses, will tell I will tell you what we
Speaker 1: will know sooner than not. So they don't win the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, than you're right somehow on this. Of course,
Speaker 1: if they get knocked out of the playoffs their first game,
Speaker 1: absolute they can't win a playoff game. Yeah, if you're
Speaker 1: that good and you're you, you got a home playoff
Speaker 1: game and you've been crushing everyone and scoring forty points
Speaker 1: a game, and then some team that had the had
Speaker 1: the win wild card weekend comes in there and beats you.
Speaker 1: But when I say, you'd say race was right, that
Speaker 1: the three great wait, un tilt it your direction. But
Speaker 1: what if they lose the Super Bowl by a field goal?
Speaker 1: The are you right? No, I'd say, you know what, No, No,
Speaker 1: I I would and I'd be honest and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: they were legit, they got it a big game. And
Speaker 1: then because you lose by field goal, man, that was
Speaker 1: a very winnable game. And I give them that. The
Speaker 1: games that they did lose, that they lost at New England,
Speaker 1: which was on the road, and the Rams game again
Speaker 1: on the road. So you got to give them that.
Speaker 1: Both their losses came on the road. So again, when
Speaker 1: the playoffs come, you're playing at home, you've got to
Speaker 1: win those games. You should be able to get to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. That's that's what you're telling me. You're
Speaker 1: that good. So until I let me see it, you've
Speaker 1: done talking about Patrick mahomes private parts. You've done with that. God, yeah, yeah, yeah, honestly,
Speaker 1: thank god. I'm just glad, honestly that they lost that game,
Speaker 1: all right, And more importantly than five turnovers, next to it,
Speaker 1: five turnovers, that's the best, the best five turnover. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of candidates for games I want no part
Speaker 1: of Carolina, Tampa Bay, which I know you like, Marco,
Speaker 1: I would not touch that game. Chase Daniel is the
Speaker 1: starting quarterback for the Bears, their four point favorites at
Speaker 1: the Giants. People really liked Chase Daniel on Thursday. I
Speaker 1: was like, he was terrible to me, Like he held
Speaker 1: the ball forever. So he does not inspire confidence in
Speaker 1: me in that game, though I think the Bears probably
Speaker 1: win it with that defense. Uh, Tennessee seven and a
Speaker 1: half against the Jets. That scares me a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of anyway, what was your by the way, before we go, Marco,
Speaker 1: before you guys came on the air, he came on
Speaker 1: like a few seconds before you did, and he said,
Speaker 1: you and Teddy Ace Teddy, you guys got into a
Speaker 1: feisty Minnesota New England video battle. What was you What
Speaker 1: were you guys talking about? Oh no, I was just
Speaker 1: it was simply stating that they know they're gonna get
Speaker 1: New England money, they know there's gonna come some sharp
Speaker 1: money against them, and yet New England once again is
Speaker 1: eight and three straight up and seven and four against
Speaker 1: the spread. And I say, instead of sitting there and
Speaker 1: crying every week about how New England beats you put
Speaker 1: up a fucking bigger number. Let the wise guys get
Speaker 1: the best of it. Who gives this ship, they're gonna
Speaker 1: take the good number. And and they're not the ones
Speaker 1: that are betting it all the way down. They're the
Speaker 1: ones that I said, instead of putting it up at
Speaker 1: at six, put it up at eight, put it up
Speaker 1: at eight and a half. So what those guys aren't
Speaker 1: gonna bet it all the way down the flour they're
Speaker 1: gonna they're the guys are gonna take the eighth, the
Speaker 1: eight and a half, maybe some seven and a half,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be the rest. They're gonna be the
Speaker 1: piggybackers and everyone else that's willing to take the third, fourth,
Speaker 1: fifth numbers take the worst of it. And then that's fine.
Speaker 1: Let them do that. But you know you're gonna get
Speaker 1: all the public money coming in on New England in
Speaker 1: any way. So why did you let one team continue
Speaker 1: to beat you against the spread? That's all I was
Speaker 1: trying to explain that that why is Alabama keenan oh?
Speaker 1: And yet not even against the spread because they did
Speaker 1: a good job with it. Can I hear from Teddy
Speaker 1: Ace is mad at the betting marketplace. He's like, yes,
Speaker 1: instead of giving us, they said, letting all the wise
Speaker 1: guys we have six with New England, let him if
Speaker 1: we have make with New England instead, and that's the
Speaker 1: better choice for the bookmakers. And I'm like, that's that's insane.
Speaker 1: The betting market is what it is. It's not them
Speaker 1: or ust, it's not wise guys or sharpers. It's a
Speaker 1: betting marketplace. You buy a stock, that's what the price is.
Speaker 1: You buy a game, it's not the people who list
Speaker 1: the stock that says what the price is. It's the
Speaker 1: market that says what the price is. It's the same
Speaker 1: story in the NFL. Guess what New England opened six
Speaker 1: and got pounded down. That wasn't public money, that's wise
Speaker 1: guy money. So just say that this is where the
Speaker 1: line should be in the books are idiots because the
Speaker 1: Patriots keep beating every year. It's not the books, it's
Speaker 1: the markets. So obviously you have a disagreement on that
Speaker 1: was certainly a fun video. I'm glad that's settled. Teddy,
Speaker 1: thank you for coming on, man, really appreciate it. Always
Speaker 1: a pleasure. Thank you so much for having me. Gil
Speaker 1: a Marco, Best of luck to all of you this
Speaker 1: week too, About Too for Marco and a skill Alexander
Speaker 1: is always good luck with all your bets and for
Speaker 1: Teddy covers as well. From Sports Memo, thank you so
Speaker 1: much for listening.