Speaker 1: Ka boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes
Speaker 1: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
Speaker 1: of the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He
Speaker 1: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the
Speaker 1: rich pill poppers in the penthouse, to clearinghouse of hot takes,
Speaker 1: break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben
Speaker 1: Maller starts right now in the Everywhere and it is
Speaker 1: a special Friday Friday holiday weekend edition of the Fifth
Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Mallard and Alex tysher In four The
Speaker 1: Hunting Mooning, Danny's us that a word hunting mooning. It
Speaker 1: should be, Ben, absolutely should be. You know, actually made
Speaker 1: up a word too, Ben. I call it decreptifying. What
Speaker 1: is that? What is that? I put it such? It's
Speaker 1: so fearful that it brings you almost to death. It's
Speaker 1: to creptifying. Oh, which is my radio resume flying? But anyway, alright, no,
Speaker 1: I so it's week twelve. Let's strike up the band here, Alex.
Speaker 1: We've got to make people money, is what we gotta do.
Speaker 1: Not you? Well, you're the penny, You're the voice of
Speaker 1: the penny. Here we go the big professionally done. Open. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's get into it now. Before we look ahead, Alex,
Speaker 1: we must look back. I screwed this up last week
Speaker 1: because I forgot to do this at the beginning. Bad
Speaker 1: job by me. But you were here. You were here
Speaker 1: last week as the voice of the penny. Did you survive.
Speaker 1: I know that you're not you're not you do sports radio,
Speaker 1: but you're a renaissance man. Yes, this is a little hard,
Speaker 1: oh sports, this penny versus the penny, Right, it is
Speaker 1: it is, you know, it's it's almost just enough Ben
Speaker 1: where I enjoy it. Still, it's not your jam. And
Speaker 1: I appreciate that you're leaving your comfort zone. Yes, and
Speaker 1: I don't. I very rarely leave my comfort and my
Speaker 1: wife forces me to do that from time with them.
Speaker 1: But you you know you've met her. But I'm usually
Speaker 1: in my own bubble like most people. And so I
Speaker 1: appreciate that you've come over from the anime. And someday,
Speaker 1: when you become officially the big star of anime, you
Speaker 1: can tell in your story when you're being interviewed on
Speaker 1: television and whatnot and and big internet shows, you can say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, at one point before I became who I am.
Speaker 1: I actually had to do a cheesy gambling show with
Speaker 1: this overnight guy and I I so anyway, But but
Speaker 1: here it is. So Week eleven, we had fourteen games
Speaker 1: on the card and I did not have a great
Speaker 1: feel for the card. I thought it was all right.
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was it was gonna go my
Speaker 1: way that well. I thought I'd be a middling week,
Speaker 1: but I actually ended up with the highest I believe
Speaker 1: I'm correct on this, the highest winning percentage I've had
Speaker 1: all season and any one we got. I was ten
Speaker 1: and four against the spread last week. That's a seven
Speaker 1: four teen winning percentage. So another good week and I'm
Speaker 1: still waiting for the bottom to fall out. The worst
Speaker 1: week I've had is Week two. That was the only
Speaker 1: losing week that we had. Every other week I've been
Speaker 1: ahead of five, and usually way ahead of five. And
Speaker 1: the penny you representing the penny, Well, no, it's actually
Speaker 1: not been the penny for the first time since I
Speaker 1: want to go back here, since Week six, the penny
Speaker 1: had a winning record. Let's go, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1: We both had winning records. Yes, the penny was nine
Speaker 1: and five, so that no. But last the week before
Speaker 1: the penny went five and nine. That job by honest
Speaker 1: abe there to go five and nine the week prior,
Speaker 1: so the Pennies first winning weeks since way back in
Speaker 1: week number six. As we said, so the overall records. Now,
Speaker 1: if you look at your audio device you're listening to,
Speaker 1: you can see the chiron right there the graphic. Uh
Speaker 1: and there I am nine and five. That is a
Speaker 1: six sixteen winning percentage documented on the podcast. The penny
Speaker 1: still under five hundred? Will the penny get over five
Speaker 1: hundred this week? And a few weeks back the penny
Speaker 1: was exactly five hundred, which is where it should be,
Speaker 1: where it should be penny eight six and three. That's
Speaker 1: a four seventy six winning percentage. And so that's how
Speaker 1: we have done. I've got I've got a pretty sizeable lead,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of games to go. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of time to give it all back the second half.
Speaker 1: But I'm not trying to get back. I'm gonna destroy
Speaker 1: the penny. I'm gonna take that penny. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: it on the train tracks and I'm gonna wait for
Speaker 1: the train to run by and just flatten that penny.
Speaker 1: Savage savage man, all right, let's get started with the
Speaker 1: actual games here alex as the Voice of the Penny.
Speaker 1: First game up Baltimore seven and three at Jacksonville three
Speaker 1: and seven. It's on CBS. Andrew Catalan and James Lofton
Speaker 1: have a call. Ravens opened a three and a half
Speaker 1: point favorite. They were favored by four light rain temper
Speaker 1: tears in the low seventies in Jacksonville for this game.
Speaker 1: Some of the numbers here they handle almost on Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Baltimore is four and one against the spread on the
Speaker 1: road this season. Their nineteen eight and two against the
Speaker 1: spread in Lamar Jackson's careers, so they've been a great
Speaker 1: bet as a road team. Jacksonville. They played four games
Speaker 1: against teams that have a winning record. They're owing for
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is a terrible record against the spread, and
Speaker 1: all these numbers are against the spread. Jacksonville this season
Speaker 1: one and six their last seven games against the gambling line.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Ravens here, and I'll tell you why.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson gotta get out of that stump. Last seven games.
Speaker 1: He's got six touchdown passes, five interceptions of passer rating
Speaker 1: below eighty not exactly a money grab, free agent deb
Speaker 1: type season. Here. The Ravens offense should have, could have,
Speaker 1: would have scored many more points last week. They got
Speaker 1: stuck in the mud, their own self created mud, a
Speaker 1: lot of penalties, self inflicted dropped passes, sacks that they
Speaker 1: allowed last week against a bad Panther team. This should
Speaker 1: be just what the doctored order doctor order here. Jacksonville
Speaker 1: not very good against the past in many statistical categories,
Speaker 1: and so you think Mark Andrews the tight end and
Speaker 1: Marcus Robinson, their top receiver right now, should flourish. But
Speaker 1: I love John Harbaugh on the road. It's a small line.
Speaker 1: It's four, it's not that many, and coming off of
Speaker 1: teams coming off of by playing John Harbaugh's Ravens are
Speaker 1: are not doing well. They're the team's coming off to
Speaker 1: buy playing Baltimore last ten one eight and one against
Speaker 1: the spread Ravens twenty four Jags nineteen the final and
Speaker 1: the penny picks tales bend. The penny went tales, all right,
Speaker 1: So the penny going tales and that means the penny
Speaker 1: taking the Ravens in this game. So Baltimore is the PIC.
Speaker 1: Next up for US Denver at Carolina Denver three and
Speaker 1: seven Carolina three, and it's on Fox with Chris Myers
Speaker 1: and Robert Smith. Chrismyers part of the Fox Sports Radio
Speaker 1: Alumni Association prior to Alex Tisher working at f s ARE,
Speaker 1: but Chris did work there back and they did some
Speaker 1: shows with him. And the Broncos opened a two and
Speaker 1: alf point favorite. They're favorite by two in this game,
Speaker 1: and most everyone's betting on Carolina. Three of the action
Speaker 1: last we had on the Panthers, mostly Sonny in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: temperatures in the low sixties that kick off in North
Speaker 1: Carolina Denver owen four against the spread as a favorite
Speaker 1: this season, Carolina, they were dreadful under Matt Rule as
Speaker 1: a team to bet on. They were three and sixteen
Speaker 1: against the spread the last nineteen games Matt Rule coach.
Speaker 1: But under Steve Wilkes there four and two against the
Speaker 1: number and Sam Donald returning normally you don't get excited
Speaker 1: about Sam Donald, but he can't be any worse than
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield was last week. And I just liked the
Speaker 1: the gusto the Panthers have played with. They've scratched, they've claude,
Speaker 1: they've fought for Steve Wilkes, the interim coach, and Denver
Speaker 1: they they lost a heartbreaker to the Raiders last week
Speaker 1: and overtime. They're completely cooked at this point at three
Speaker 1: and seven. The Broncos offense has averaged less than fifteen
Speaker 1: points per game. Defense has been solid, but Carolina's defense
Speaker 1: has been pretty good of late as well. So I'm
Speaker 1: taking the Panthers seventeen and the Broncos sixteen the final,
Speaker 1: and the penny picks tails again, Ben Alright, so the
Speaker 1: penny going with the road team in that one. So
Speaker 1: the penny taking the Denver Broncos. Good luck to the
Speaker 1: penny on that. Russell Wilson, Mr Unlimited All right. Next
Speaker 1: up Atlanta five and six at Washington six and five.
Speaker 1: It's a Fox game. Adam A. Mein and Marsh Labor
Speaker 1: in the broadcast booth. Now, the Commanders opened up a
Speaker 1: three point favorite. They are favored by four and a
Speaker 1: half and the money's pretty even, although slight leaned to
Speaker 1: the Falcons at FedEx Field, temperatures in the fifties and
Speaker 1: it's expected to be clear at kickoff Washington. What's going
Speaker 1: on there with the team formerly known as the Redskins
Speaker 1: five oh and one against the spread their last six games,
Speaker 1: so they've been cooking and their four oh and one
Speaker 1: with Taylor Heineke as the starter. Heineke as a favorite
Speaker 1: in his career, has been three and one against the spread.
Speaker 1: Washington this season as a favorite is three and oh.
Speaker 1: So that tells you what has happened in Atlanta has
Speaker 1: come crashing back down to earth in the gambling market.
Speaker 1: They started the year six and oh against the numb
Speaker 1: where the number has been adjusted, and right now, last
Speaker 1: four games a dirty birds or dirty dirty dirty oh
Speaker 1: and four against the spread. I'm gonna take the uh,
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders in this game. And I was going
Speaker 1: back and forth on this, and I normally like to
Speaker 1: lay the points, but I'm going the other way. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna take Washington and lay the points. Uh.
Speaker 1: There's a wide gap between these teams. And the more
Speaker 1: I crunched the numbers, the more I realize what am
Speaker 1: I doing with Atlanta. Washington ranked in some of the
Speaker 1: adjusted statistics the Nerd Stats the tenth best team in
Speaker 1: the NFL. The Falcons are twenty night the Commandos. They
Speaker 1: impressed me last week. I thought they were gonna Buckle
Speaker 1: against Houston, and they did not. It was a letdown game.
Speaker 1: They keep on winning. The formula here is pretty simple.
Speaker 1: Run run, run, run, run, run, run, Ryan Robinson, Antonio Gibson,
Speaker 1: and I'm getting some Jimmy G vibes from Taylor Heineken.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I'm the only one. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're getting those fibes. But Taylor Heineke, his
Speaker 1: numbers blow, but but he has been able to be
Speaker 1: under center. And while he's not statistically great, Washington has
Speaker 1: been much more successful with him than just about anyone
Speaker 1: else recently. So I'll take the Washington football team six
Speaker 1: and the Atlanta Football team twenty the final. And the
Speaker 1: penny goes, oh, he's actually I'm watching him right now.
Speaker 1: He's flipping the penny. Alex. There it is, Ben, It's heads,
Speaker 1: all right, So heads it is. That means the penny
Speaker 1: picking the home team, and that would be in agreement
Speaker 1: with me, the penny picking Washington in this game. We
Speaker 1: are keeping track of this for posterity's sake. Next up
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay five and five at Cleveland three and seven.
Speaker 1: It's on Fox with Kenny Albert, Friend of the Show
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Vilma. They have the call. Buck opened a
Speaker 1: three point favorite, favorite by three in Cleveland and a
Speaker 1: nice typical late November day in Cleveland, temperatures in the
Speaker 1: forties and raining. It's a chamber of commerce kind of
Speaker 1: day there in northern Ohio and the Buccaneers getting most
Speaker 1: of the money. You look at some of the numbers here.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay won six and one against the spread their
Speaker 1: last eight games. They did beat Seattle last week, although
Speaker 1: the Seahawks came back a little bit in the second half.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Browns in this game. The Browns
Speaker 1: have been miserable. They they did finish the game though.
Speaker 1: Against Buffalo, I got a backdoor cover. Thank you very
Speaker 1: much Cleveland on that the week plot prior, they got
Speaker 1: flushed down the toilet by the Dolphins and they've given
Speaker 1: up seventy points the last two weeks. That is a
Speaker 1: troubling statistic going into this game. But Tom Brady, you
Speaker 1: do some of the math on that and how he
Speaker 1: has played this year at this has not been in
Speaker 1: a wagon on offense for Tampa. The wind over the
Speaker 1: Seahawks look good, but you notice Seattle they were sleep
Speaker 1: walking the first half. The game started at six thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning as body clock time West coast time
Speaker 1: in Germany. Once they woke up, they played very well.
Speaker 1: I'll play Tampa in the in the late stages that game.
Speaker 1: So you're talking about a rainy Chile day in Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I love the ground game of Nick Chuba Lob lob
Speaker 1: to get it done there. Dinged up interior defense for
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay based on the numbers we have as we
Speaker 1: are recording Benny versus the Penny right now, so I
Speaker 1: will take the Cleveland Browns seventeen and Tom Brady's Buccaneers sixteen.
Speaker 1: The final ben the Penny has went heads again. Alright,
Speaker 1: so heads it is, so the Penny agreeing with me
Speaker 1: taking the Cleveland Browns in that game. Next up Cincinnati
Speaker 1: six and four at Tennessee seven and three on CBS
Speaker 1: with Iron Eagle and Charles Davis. Bengals opened a two
Speaker 1: point favorite there up to a three point favorite most
Speaker 1: of the handle in this game going in favor of
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Cloudy and fifty seven degrees at kickoff
Speaker 1: in the Music City in Nashville, Tennessee. Tennessee has been
Speaker 1: a wonderful team as an underdog there eleven and four
Speaker 1: against the spread their last fifteen. But check this out.
Speaker 1: Tennessee has covered eight straight games. That is the longest
Speaker 1: active streak in the NFL. Tells you what they have done,
Speaker 1: not what they're going to do. But one more cover
Speaker 1: here and the Titans, Remember the Titans, They would tie
Speaker 1: the second longest streak to past fifteen years. The most
Speaker 1: recent was Green Bay last year they covered nine strade
Speaker 1: but this is tied now for the longest cover streaks
Speaker 1: since the franchise left Texas to go to Tennessee. They
Speaker 1: were originally in Memphis for a couple of years. That
Speaker 1: was back in before I was in in a live craziness.
Speaker 1: One more cover here, So if Tennessee covers the spread today,
Speaker 1: that would be the longest streak in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: era for that franchise since the Love Me Blue nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy five. Houston Oilers, Holy crap, that's a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati seven and one against the spread since Week three,
Speaker 1: so they played well, I'm taking that Titans. Now I'm
Speaker 1: taking the times. We're betting on Tennessee. The reason I
Speaker 1: like Tennessee is their defense. There are top ten defense
Speaker 1: and getting to the quarterback. The offensive line played better
Speaker 1: last week for Cincinnati. I don't trust the offensive line
Speaker 1: getting it done again here, and so if I'm right
Speaker 1: about the Titans, they will force Joe Burrow to make
Speaker 1: some quick throws, some inaccurate throws which leads to interceptions
Speaker 1: in complete passes. Jamaar Chase does come back, but what
Speaker 1: version are you going to get? Mike rabele as a
Speaker 1: home dog has been the thanks Giving miracle, Thanksgiving weekend
Speaker 1: miracle in Tennessee. And that defense, that's the side they
Speaker 1: have given up twenty or more points just one time
Speaker 1: since September. Since late September, they've got a mini buy,
Speaker 1: so they got a little more time off for this game.
Speaker 1: It'll be a low scoring game, but the wrong team
Speaker 1: is favored. Titans will get to eight and three Tennessee
Speaker 1: twenty and up Ben Gals seventeen the final Ben the
Speaker 1: penny has won Heads yet again. All right, so the
Speaker 1: penny taking the home team, and remember Benny versus the Penny.
Speaker 1: Home team is Heads and the road team is Tales.
Speaker 1: Of the home team here is Tennessee, So the Penny
Speaker 1: picking the Tennessee Titans in this one. Next up Houston
Speaker 1: one eight and one, the NFL's worst team, and Miami
Speaker 1: Miami Miami at seven and three on ciby as with
Speaker 1: Spirodidas and Jay Feely. The Dolphins opened a nine and
Speaker 1: a point favorite. They've been bet up the thirteen and
Speaker 1: a half. Everyone thinks this is a free money game
Speaker 1: that all Miami has to do is show up and
Speaker 1: they're gonna win this game. Light rain temperatures in the
Speaker 1: mid eighties in the tropical paradise where the Dolphins play
Speaker 1: their games at hard Rock Stadium. Now, some of the
Speaker 1: numbers here on this game the to a tongue of
Speaker 1: Eloa Dolphins eight and oh straight up as a home favorite,
Speaker 1: six and two against the spread. Houston, though there four
Speaker 1: and one against the spread of at least a seven
Speaker 1: point line. They're getting almost double that in this game.
Speaker 1: Texans are two and oh as a double digit underdog
Speaker 1: this season against the spread. And this is a historic
Speaker 1: point spread. If you're into these kind of things, and
Speaker 1: what kind of point dexter is not right, Tisher, you're
Speaker 1: a big nerd. You're into this, yes, man, of course
Speaker 1: you're hanging on my every word. I can tell yes. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Miami has not been this big effe favorite. They have
Speaker 1: not been at least an eleven point favorite since twenty
Speaker 1: oh three Tonio Gays nineteen years ago. That was also
Speaker 1: against Houston. They were a fourteen point favorite. Miami lost
Speaker 1: that game for crapping giggles. Dolphins three fourteen games without
Speaker 1: being at least an eleven point favorite. That is the
Speaker 1: second longest streak in the NFL. That's gonna come to
Speaker 1: an end here this week, Detroit. If you're wondering, the
Speaker 1: Lions have the longest streak. They were last that big
Speaker 1: a favorite in nineteen ninety six. How old was Alex
Speaker 1: tysher in nine were even alive? Oh my god, Lord
Speaker 1: have mercy. Alright, alright, man, oh my god. Alright, the
Speaker 1: Texans are my pick here. I'm gonna take the Texas. Now,
Speaker 1: I realized this is risky business, and a six year
Speaker 1: old acts Tisher would have known even at age six
Speaker 1: that this is Miami is third in yards per games.
Speaker 1: Houston is dead last, Alex, they're dead last in yards
Speaker 1: per game. And you look at you know some of
Speaker 1: the numbers here. The defense for the Texans is thirty
Speaker 1: feet in that category. So that's why they're the worst team.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm gambling for a couple of things here,
Speaker 1: and all of this is a you know, put your
Speaker 1: neck out situation. But my logic behind the Texans pick
Speaker 1: is this, the Texans have been a middling team. They've
Speaker 1: been in statistically in these games for three quarters or
Speaker 1: for half. But normally what has happened is Davis Mills
Speaker 1: goes helter skelter and messes up. He's getting benched. He's
Speaker 1: not playing in this game. The Texans turning to Kyle Allen.
Speaker 1: We've heard that name before. He's played. He's been unstable,
Speaker 1: he's been unreliable. That's why he keeps changing teams. But
Speaker 1: he has had some really great performances mixed in with
Speaker 1: the crap uh and he started seventeen games, seven and
Speaker 1: ten career record. He has four career games with two
Speaker 1: touchdowns and two or more touchdowns and in receptions three
Speaker 1: games with three plus interceptions. Just for comparison sake, Davis
Speaker 1: Mills has two games only two, and he started many
Speaker 1: more games with three plus touchdowns and no interceptions. He's
Speaker 1: got six games with two or more interceptions. So as
Speaker 1: bad as Houston is, and they've earned every one of
Speaker 1: their losses. Eight of them. Only one of those losses
Speaker 1: has been by thirteen and a half or more points,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins only have one win by thirteen or
Speaker 1: more points. So that was last week against Cleveland Brown team.
Speaker 1: That was was a mess. So I'm taking the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Thirty four Texans twenty three Texans will be the right
Speaker 1: side of the bet, and we'll flip the penny up
Speaker 1: with Alex representing the penny. Alex Tisher, Alex the Vegan,
Speaker 1: Alex the Anime Star will be on all our podcast
Speaker 1: this weekend. Ben, You'll never believe this pen. The penny
Speaker 1: has gone heads again, pen. Are you sure about the
Speaker 1: hold that up? Let me see that here. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: see the other side. Flip it over. Let me see
Speaker 1: all right, it's a legitimate It's not unless it's a legit.
Speaker 1: It's a legit penny. That's the way the penny go.
Speaker 1: That's the way. Are you smelling fishy business just because
Speaker 1: I did well last week? Is I'm just I'm trying
Speaker 1: to figure out. I mean, all these he keeps coming
Speaker 1: up heads that's anyway that that's the Dolphins. So the
Speaker 1: Dolphins the pick for the penny. The home team again
Speaker 1: home Team Heads Road Team Tales. Next up Chicago Chicago
Speaker 1: Chicago dub Bears three and eight at the Jets six
Speaker 1: and four. It's on Fox with Joe Davis and Darryl
Speaker 1: moose Johnston. They have the call. The Jets opened a
Speaker 1: three and a point favorite. They are favored by six
Speaker 1: in this particular game. So that's the that's the number
Speaker 1: in this game, and this this game has changed quite
Speaker 1: a bit because of the quarterback situation for both teams.
Speaker 1: Will give you some of the of the numbers on
Speaker 1: this as far as the gambling line UH wide percentage
Speaker 1: wide percentage in favor of the Jets in this particular game.
Speaker 1: Jets coming off a bad loss as opposed to a
Speaker 1: good loss. A bad loss to the New England Patriots
Speaker 1: last week. New York has not been a six point
Speaker 1: favorite since Week ten of the season. Last time the
Speaker 1: Jets were a four point favorite was in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: Jets have been a good team this year off of loss.
Speaker 1: There are three and all against the spread. They're also
Speaker 1: four and oh against the gambling line against teams that
Speaker 1: have a losing record, and so those are some positive stature.
Speaker 1: Chicago has not been a good play as an underdog.
Speaker 1: But it's it's a whole new world here. We're out
Speaker 1: in the cosmos because the Bears will not have Justin
Speaker 1: Fielts out. We we believe, we were told that with
Speaker 1: a separated shoulder. But I'm I'm gonna the Jets in
Speaker 1: this game. I was gonna take the Bears had we
Speaker 1: had Fields. He's not, from what we understand, gonna play
Speaker 1: separated shoulder serrow. He's out. Zack Wilson has been benched.
Speaker 1: He won't even be in uniform either in this game.
Speaker 1: So you've got Mike White for the Jet season in
Speaker 1: the cockpit as the pilot versus Trevor Simeon in the
Speaker 1: Bears cage or dan? Is it a cage or a den?
Speaker 1: I guess it's a den, right, don't they call it?
Speaker 1: It's a Lions den? Is it a Bear's den? To believe? So,
Speaker 1: all right, you're the animal guy, you know what, you
Speaker 1: protect him, You're all exactly right. Yeah. Uh, Anyway, this
Speaker 1: is a bad matchup the Bears the Bears. Though, here's
Speaker 1: the deal. I look at the Bears as a one
Speaker 1: man band. There was one guy making plays the last month,
Speaker 1: and that was Justin Fields and assuming he's not there.
Speaker 1: They become the Headless Horseman. And you know, we know
Speaker 1: that the story that the headless Horseman. Uh, we don't
Speaker 1: trust Mike White very well either. Joe Flacco likely will
Speaker 1: get into this game of White has a reversal of
Speaker 1: fortune and rides the vomit comment. But we do believe
Speaker 1: in the Jets defense. That is a top notch units,
Speaker 1: top unit on the field. Of all the four Jets offense,
Speaker 1: all six right, because you've got special teams offense defense
Speaker 1: of all six units three on three, the Jets defense
Speaker 1: is the right side. And they gotta win this game,
Speaker 1: and they should win it comfortably. I don't know how
Speaker 1: the Bears are gonna score with Trevor Simeon outside of
Speaker 1: turnovers by Mike White in a short field. Up next
Speaker 1: after this game, the Jets have the Vikings and the
Speaker 1: Bills on the road. So you gotta win this game.
Speaker 1: Get that mojo back. Jets twenty three Bears nine. The
Speaker 1: final and the Penny picks. We have our tales band.
Speaker 1: Penny went tales all right, So tails it is. And
Speaker 1: so for the first time in a while, a road pick,
Speaker 1: and that means you're taking the Chicago Bears, so a
Speaker 1: disagreement on that game. We'll get to a late television
Speaker 1: window now and Benny versus the Penny Man versus Meadow,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas three and seven at Seattle six and four.
Speaker 1: It's on CBS with Greg Gumble and Adam Archiletta on
Speaker 1: the call. The Seahawks opened a three point favorite, their
Speaker 1: favorite by three and a half now and the handle
Speaker 1: on this game. Most everyone betting on the Seahawks. Rain
Speaker 1: showers and temperatures in the forties at Looming Field in Seattle.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks four and one against the spread their last five.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr, He's been a pretty good play as a
Speaker 1: road underdog since twenty nineteen. Twelve and seven against the spread,
Speaker 1: not straight up. I'm gonna take the Raiders in this
Speaker 1: game plus the points. This is a turning point game
Speaker 1: for Seattle. They misfired in Germany playing the Bucks. We
Speaker 1: talked about that earlier, discombobulated. It was an early start
Speaker 1: for them. The Raiders are coming off an overtime win
Speaker 1: over the Broncos. We do expect a rebound for Geno Smith.
Speaker 1: We don't think Glass Slipper has broken yet, and the
Speaker 1: Raiders are just a miserable team at stopping the past
Speaker 1: against the past, Max Crosby has been the only player
Speaker 1: earning his keep up front, and we do expect a
Speaker 1: cacophony of big plays from DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: in the passing game. But the Raiders have been the
Speaker 1: kind of team that's there and they hang around, they
Speaker 1: hang around, they hang around, and they're they're just bad
Speaker 1: enough to figure out a way not to hammer down
Speaker 1: to win, to screw it up, and they get behind
Speaker 1: the eight ball late in the game. And so I
Speaker 1: say that trend continues, and I know that say what
Speaker 1: has happened doesn't it's not guaranteed to happen. But that's
Speaker 1: my layman's perspective on this. So the Seahawks will win it.
Speaker 1: But I love the hook on that. I love getting
Speaker 1: the three and a half. And that's the line here.
Speaker 1: So Seahawks thirty and the Raiders seven. The final penny
Speaker 1: is going tails again, Ben. So the penny taking the
Speaker 1: road team that would be lost Vegas the Raiders is
Speaker 1: the pick a million miles away. Uh. We go down
Speaker 1: to the next game, the Chargers five and five at
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals four and seven, on CBS with Kevin
Speaker 1: Harland and Trent Green. The Chargers opened to two and
Speaker 1: app point favorite. They're favored by three. Most of the
Speaker 1: money on Arizona in this game, mostly cloudy degrees in
Speaker 1: the Greater Phoenix area at State Farm Stadium in Glendale.
Speaker 1: Feel the fear, the d the Dale, the Glendale l
Speaker 1: A five and oh against the spread on the road
Speaker 1: this season. The only team undefeated on the road against
Speaker 1: the spread this year. They've been wonderful in that spot,
Speaker 1: but most of those games they've been an underdog. Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury typically a great play as an underdog with Arizona,
Speaker 1: but lost last week. And I'm gonna take the Chargers here.
Speaker 1: I'll late the three points. I know that alligator arms
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's coming act. It won't matter. The Cardinals, They've
Speaker 1: got a half. The team has quit on Kingsbury. This
Speaker 1: team is just I don't know what's gonna snap matters.
Speaker 1: They just look lack of dais ago. They took plays
Speaker 1: off against the Niners. It's a frat house set up.
Speaker 1: You've got no discipline. Arizona's got a bye week next week,
Speaker 1: so you've got some of the guys looking ahead to
Speaker 1: their vacation in Cancoon. The Chargers have been heartbreak heroes,
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert putting up points. I was at the game
Speaker 1: last week. We'll talk more about that tomorrow on the podcast.
Speaker 1: But I was at the Charger game with the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Good offense, able to move the ball. They've gotten some
Speaker 1: guys back, but they've got to get cooking here and
Speaker 1: win a few games in a road to get back
Speaker 1: in that thick thickness of the playoff race. I say
Speaker 1: they do take advantage of a weak spot in the
Speaker 1: schedule and add to the misery of the Cardinals Chargers
Speaker 1: the former San Diego Charge now l A Chargers six
Speaker 1: and Arizona seventeen. The final penny picks penny has gone
Speaker 1: heads band alright, so the penny going with the home
Speaker 1: team that would be Arizona. So we disagree on that game.
Speaker 1: So does seem like there's been a lot of disagreement here,
Speaker 1: which means one of us is gonna be really happy
Speaker 1: and the other one will be really sad. Uh And well,
Speaker 1: I hope it's me. I hope I'm not sad one.
Speaker 1: Next up the l A Rams that Cansas City Kevin
Speaker 1: Burkhardt has the call with Greg Olsen on Fox. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming that the Fox executives wish they had not made
Speaker 1: this game such a big game, as it looked good
Speaker 1: going into the year, but not right now. The Rams
Speaker 1: three and seven, Chiefs eight and two Kansas City opened
Speaker 1: a ten point favorite. As we are doing this, we
Speaker 1: go through the numbers and wow, wow, wow, wow, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs are a fifteen and a half point favorite. They
Speaker 1: have jumped across the fourteen point mark. Everyone thinks this
Speaker 1: is a free money game. Nine seven percent of the
Speaker 1: action on the chief sunny, mostly sunny, and temperatures in
Speaker 1: the forties at Arrowheads Stadium in the heart Land. Now
Speaker 1: this is another historic point spread. How far have things
Speaker 1: gone into the abyss for the l A. Rams. No
Speaker 1: reigning Super Bowl champion has ever been a fourteen point
Speaker 1: underdog or worse, There have been double digit underdogs. The
Speaker 1: largest reigning champion to be an underdog the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: They were thirteen and nine point underdogs, and also the
Speaker 1: Niners they were also thirteen and that point underdogs. Both
Speaker 1: those teams went the way of the underdog. They went
Speaker 1: out right. Last time the Rams were this big and underdog,
Speaker 1: they were the St. Louis Rams in So it has
Speaker 1: gone to hell in a handbasket for the Rams. We
Speaker 1: knew they would not be as good this year, but man,
Speaker 1: old man, the ebb and flow has not been there
Speaker 1: at all. That being said, I'm still taking the Rams
Speaker 1: in this game. I can't lay over two touchdowns. Kansas
Speaker 1: City two and five as at least a four point
Speaker 1: favorite this season, so they have been good that spot.
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh has run out of the secret sauce and
Speaker 1: everyone's airing their grievances now around the Rams. This team
Speaker 1: reminds me of some of the Jeff Fisher teams from
Speaker 1: years ago. Bad to the bone, bad bad, bad bad
Speaker 1: bad bad the bone. Nevertheless, I'm gonna take the Rams.
Speaker 1: As I said Aaron Donald, all he has to do
Speaker 1: is make a couple of plays. Sack Patrick Mahomes spoiled
Speaker 1: some drives. Jalen Ramsey with a tipped interception. Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: is out. John Wolford likely out. That means someone named
Speaker 1: Bryce Perkins. We're not sure who that is. He's getting
Speaker 1: the opportunity of a lifetime here. Twenty five years old,
Speaker 1: undrafted out of Virginia, also played at Arizona State. He's
Speaker 1: attempted eleven career passes and now it looks like he'll
Speaker 1: be starting for a reigning Super Bowl champion. Rams also
Speaker 1: got rid of Darrell Henderson, got rid of some of
Speaker 1: their other players. One of the linebackers they got rid of,
Speaker 1: so they got cam Akers and someone named Kyraen Williams
Speaker 1: in the backfield. Man, is this a big mismatch? We
Speaker 1: we hope that Patrick Mahomes oversleep. But the change. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs are also dinged up here, and so the right
Speaker 1: side is the Rams betting double digit dogs. We talked
Speaker 1: about this all the time on Benny versus the Penny,
Speaker 1: but betting on double digit underdogs is a profitable strategy
Speaker 1: and betting the other way will chew you up. So
Speaker 1: the only way I would bet this game would be
Speaker 1: to take the points. I would not lay the points,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm gonna need some divine intervention here, Alex
Speaker 1: and the penny. But I'll take the l A Rams
Speaker 1: plus the points Chiefs thirty and the l A Rams
Speaker 1: with a special teams touchdown and a defensive score seventeen.
Speaker 1: The final ben We're not going seven and nine. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna settle for it. It's the tales, Ben, It's tales, alright, tales.
Speaker 1: It is so the l a Ram's the pick of
Speaker 1: the penny. We agree on that game. Next up, the
Speaker 1: last game in the late afternoon television window. Then we'll
Speaker 1: get to the primetime games as the New Orleans Saints
Speaker 1: continue to run up the debt as they are spotty spotty,
Speaker 1: shall we say it's like a fuzzy picture. Saints are
Speaker 1: four and seven San Francisco six and four. It's on
Speaker 1: Fox with with Kevin Coogler and Mark steel is not
Speaker 1: by all accounts are back and that's why they're a
Speaker 1: nine and a half point favorite. They opened at seven
Speaker 1: and most everyone betting on the Niners in this game
Speaker 1: at Levi's Stadium, but I'm not. I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: Saints in this game. Saints have been a terrible team
Speaker 1: on the road this season. They're own for New Orleans
Speaker 1: on the road. But Kyle shanahan and has not been
Speaker 1: great as a favorite as a home favorite eight seventeen
Speaker 1: and two of at least at eight. As an eight
Speaker 1: point favorite, the Niners are four, seven and one now.
Speaker 1: He was wearing a smile last week in Mexico in
Speaker 1: Mexico City, as the forty Niners were big favorites, and
Speaker 1: they didn't have to put a lot of work in
Speaker 1: because the Cardinals blow and they were able to have
Speaker 1: their beautiful blowout win, and the Niners are a beauty
Speaker 1: pageant winner. The national media is kissing their ass. They're
Speaker 1: getting loads of national talking head support, and it is
Speaker 1: tempting to lay the big line. But I'm gonna stay
Speaker 1: disciplined here. I know New Orleans as a lousy team.
Speaker 1: I get that this is a lopsided game on the
Speaker 1: depth chart on your phone, Andy Dalton against the NFL's
Speaker 1: top defense. That is a want to get away situation.
Speaker 1: It's enough to give you heartburn and anxiety. Nevertheless, there
Speaker 1: is a path here, all right, there is a path
Speaker 1: to cover. What do you need? I'll tell you. You
Speaker 1: gotta have Alvin Kamara break a couple of big runs,
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry make a couple of players on third down
Speaker 1: in the passing game, have some Jimmy G mistakes, and
Speaker 1: that that's usually what you get every couple of games.
Speaker 1: Jimmy G's got one or two interceptions that that ends
Speaker 1: the drive, a couple of sacks, those are all the ingredients.
Speaker 1: Big special teams play that doesn't win you the game
Speaker 1: per se, but it keeps you in. That's what the
Speaker 1: that's what matters, right, keeps you in the game. Getting
Speaker 1: over a touchdown. The Niners coming off an easy win
Speaker 1: against the team that quit in Arizona, traveling back from Mexico.
Speaker 1: You're not getting up for the New Orleans Saints. It's
Speaker 1: a home game. You've got bigger fish to fry down
Speaker 1: the word down the road. So I am going to
Speaker 1: take with the kindest regards to the forty Niners, who
Speaker 1: are my pick to click in the NFC, but not
Speaker 1: to cover the spread here as I will take the
Speaker 1: Niners thirty and the New Orleans Saints the final. The
Speaker 1: penny ben is going tails, so the penny agrees with
Speaker 1: me on that game. We're gonna take New Orleans. Next up,
Speaker 1: we hit your ride to Phila Delphia, where the cheese
Speaker 1: steak is fresh, not for you, for the rest of us,
Speaker 1: chief steak is fresh, and the tasty cakes are wonderful,
Speaker 1: and all the hustle bustle of the Delaware Valley, Green
Speaker 1: Bay four and seven, Philadelphia nine and one on and
Speaker 1: Bean c looks like everyone in Green Bay's run out
Speaker 1: of patients here. What a hot mess, Mike to Rico
Speaker 1: Chris Collinsworth have the call Eagles a six and ap
Speaker 1: point favorite. They opened as a six point favorite, and
Speaker 1: watching the green Bay Packers you will laugh till you
Speaker 1: cry watching the Packers play this season, mostly clear temperatures
Speaker 1: in the low fifties at Lincoln Financial Field at kickoff.
Speaker 1: The numbers on this one green Bay seven and all
Speaker 1: against the spread their last seven on Sunday Night football,
Speaker 1: most of those games, it seems at lambeau Field, Philadelphia
Speaker 1: oh and three against the line the last three games.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers as an underdog of seven or better at
Speaker 1: six and a half right now, but four and one
Speaker 1: against the spread. I'm gonna take the Packers in this game.
Speaker 1: Packers have lost six of seven straight up, but they
Speaker 1: don't have to win the game to win the money.
Speaker 1: You can hang around, hang around, and something has gone
Speaker 1: wonky with the Philadelphia Eagles. The very lucky to win
Speaker 1: last week did not cover against Indianapolis and Washington. What
Speaker 1: they were able to do is lay out the blueprint
Speaker 1: on how to be successful against Philly. What you have
Speaker 1: to do a lot of ground and pound some tricks
Speaker 1: you can use on defense to get an honest buck
Speaker 1: performance out of your defense. There and slow down Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts confused him and and taste taste a little slice
Speaker 1: of success against a nine and one now Philadelphia Eagles team.
Speaker 1: So this is a big week for Aaron Jones and
Speaker 1: a J. Dillon, the running game, the offensive line for
Speaker 1: Green Bay. All these teams dinged up right now. Eagles
Speaker 1: twenty six eat g l eat as he goes and
Speaker 1: the Packers twenty two the final and we passed the
Speaker 1: baton over the the penny on Benny versus the penny Ben.
Speaker 1: The penny is going heads this time, So the penny
Speaker 1: going with the home team, the Philadelphia Eagles, laying the
Speaker 1: six and a half in that game. Next up, Monday
Speaker 1: Night football, Pittsburgh three and seven at Indianapolis four six
Speaker 1: and one on a b C with Joe Back and
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman. The Colts opened a three point favorite. The
Speaker 1: line has stayed the same most the money the handle
Speaker 1: on the Pittsburgh Steelers. Mostly cloudy outside and the temperatures
Speaker 1: in the forties in Indianapolis on Monday night. Lucas Oil
Speaker 1: Stadium the site in Indianapolis one and four against the
Speaker 1: spread as a favorite this season. Some his history gambling
Speaker 1: history in this game. Jeff Saturday on Sunday seeking to
Speaker 1: become the second coach in the last thirty seasons to
Speaker 1: cover each of their first three career games as head
Speaker 1: coach after taking over midseason. The only other one to
Speaker 1: do it Jason Garrett clap on, clap off the clapper,
Speaker 1: Jason Garrett five and oh against the spread to start
Speaker 1: his career with Dallas Cowboys. And I say Jeff Saturday
Speaker 1: does not get her done, does not get her done here.
Speaker 1: And I want to take the Indianapolis Colts opponent, the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers. Pittsburgh and any they're similar. There's only one
Speaker 1: game really that separates these two teams. I expect a
Speaker 1: lukewarm performance by the Colts after the excitement of that
Speaker 1: first game with Jeff Saturday and then they had a
Speaker 1: gut punch loss to the Eagles late last week. I
Speaker 1: expected more from t J. Watt against the Bengals. He
Speaker 1: did not help me out. Cincinnati put a thirty seven
Speaker 1: burger on the Steelers defense. But on a positive note,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh scored thirty points a season high with Kenny Pickett
Speaker 1: against Cincinnati last week Steelers twenty four and the Colts
Speaker 1: twenty three, the final and for the final time here
Speaker 1: in week number twelve, the penny is on the clock
Speaker 1: and the penny picks. Can you pick it? Ben? It
Speaker 1: went tails tails, It is so the penny going with
Speaker 1: the road team agreeing with me on Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: in that particular game. And that will conclude. That will
Speaker 1: conclude this edition of Benny Versus the Penny. Bravo, Bravo.
Speaker 1: It is Friday, so I assume you'll be back later
Speaker 1: today Alex in the FSR studio. Are you off? Yes,
Speaker 1: you're off off yesterday, off for Thanksgiving, Ben, But back
Speaker 1: on Friday, all right? And you know who's in a
Speaker 1: Rob Parker and chris Per shardin. Are they taking the day? Well?
Speaker 1: I thought I was talking to Rob Parker right now.
Speaker 1: I see the little corner It says Parker Parker radio listening.
Speaker 1: I'm already got so many jobs, my man, I can't
Speaker 1: even count. He's a TV star. That's Professor Parker to you.
Speaker 1: So off Thursday, Mr Sam himself, Iowa Sam will be
Speaker 1: taking over for me Thursday yes, and then today I'm back.
Speaker 1: So back Friday, all right, very good, and we will
Speaker 1: have two fresh original podcast all holiday weekend by request.
Speaker 1: We did this last year. We had some some good
Speaker 1: download numbers and so we realized there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of original audio. There's a lot of backup guys getting
Speaker 1: their shot and all that stuff on the radio, and
Speaker 1: a lot of the podcasts take the weekend off. But
Speaker 1: we are gluttons for punishment, So here we are. Have
Speaker 1: a great rest of your day and we'll catch you
Speaker 1: on the next edition of The Fifth Hour.