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Speaker 1: Hello and happy holidays everyone. I'm Pat Fitzmorris, managing editor

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Speaker 1: of Betting Pros and Fantasy Pros, and in just a minute,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to run through my favorite Week sixteen player prop.

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Speaker 1: We went seven to one last week. We are twenty

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Speaker 1: two and seven over the past four weeks. That's what

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Speaker 1: we call a heater. Boys and girls, We're now sixty

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Speaker 1: five and forty on the season. That's a sixty one

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Speaker 1: point nine percent winning percentage. I do not want to

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Speaker 1: blow my own horn, but enough of that, gambler. The

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Speaker 1: god of wagering does not look kindly upon Braggadocio, so

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to shut up and get to the

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Speaker 1: Week sixteen picks. All odds are courtesy of DraftKings as

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Speaker 1: of Thursday afternoon. So let's start with Aaron Rodgers under

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty one point five passing yards on

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day. Rogers is averaging just two hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: point nine passing yards per game this season, and he

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Speaker 1: has cleared this number in only two games out of

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Speaker 1: fourteen this year. He's averaging six point eight yards per

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Speaker 1: pass attempt. That is the second lowest mark in his

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Speaker 1: fifteen years as the Packers starter. Yes, Rogers is facing

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Speaker 1: a Miami defense that's giving up two hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: eight point four passing yards a game and a league

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Speaker 1: high eight point three yards per pass attempt. But even

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Speaker 1: with the emergence of rookie wide receiver Christian Watson as

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Speaker 1: a playmaker, the Green Bay passing game just simply does

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Speaker 1: not have the quick strike capability it used to have

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Speaker 1: before they traded Devonte Adams to the Raiders in the offseason.

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Speaker 1: So I think this is going to be a leisurely

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Speaker 1: paced game. With the Packers ranking thirtieth in offensive pace

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Speaker 1: and the Dolphins ranking seventeenth and fewer offensive plays. A

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Speaker 1: slower pace means fewer offensive plays than usual, and that's

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Speaker 1: a small but important edge for the people betting player props.

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Speaker 1: So I would lean towards some of the unders in

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Speaker 1: Packers Dolphins because of the pace of play. All Right,

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton under one hundred and fifty one point five

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Speaker 1: passing yards. This has very little to do with Andy

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Speaker 1: Dalton being a backup caliber quarterback and very little to

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Speaker 1: do with the rejuvenated Browns offense, which is actually second

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Speaker 1: in DVA against the pass since Week eleven Browns defense

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Speaker 1: was getting smoked earlier in the year, but they have

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Speaker 1: really tightened things up. This is mostly about weather conditions

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland on Saturday, which are going to be ugly

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Speaker 1: to say the least. The temperature is going to hover

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Speaker 1: around thirteen degrees. They are expecting wins, sustained wins twenty

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Speaker 1: five to thirty five miles an hour, gusting up to

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Speaker 1: fifty miles an hour. Those are not great passing conditions.

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Speaker 1: There's also a chance of snow, by the way, not

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Speaker 1: great passing conditions. We're not going to see a lot

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Speaker 1: of passing in Saints Brown's because of the fierce wins.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I suspect that the Saints are going to

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Speaker 1: run a lot of the wildcat with Taysom Hill operating

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Speaker 1: at quarterback and mostly running out of that. So I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if we saw like fewer than twenty,

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Speaker 1: maybe even fewer than fifteen passing attempts for Andy Dalton.

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Speaker 1: If this passing yardage prop were even twenty yards lower

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Speaker 1: at one hundred and thirty one and a half, I

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Speaker 1: would still bet the under on it, all right. Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen over forty eight point five rushing yards and much

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Speaker 1: like the under an eighty Dalton passing yardage, this is

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Speaker 1: weather related. Bill's Bears is going to be played in

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Speaker 1: some inhospitable weather conditions in Chicago. The forecast eleven degrees

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Speaker 1: with wins of twenty to thirty miles per hour. Passing

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Speaker 1: conditions suboptimal, and I would expect Alan to do quite

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Speaker 1: a bit of running. He runs quite a bit anyway.

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Speaker 1: He has topped this number in four of his last

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Speaker 1: seven games, and Alan ran for seventy seven yards last

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Speaker 1: opposing quarterbacks this season eighty eight, and has given up

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Speaker 1: thirty one yards. So Josh Allen, I think goes soaring

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Speaker 1: over forty eight point five rushing yards. Isaiah Picchecko over

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Speaker 1: sixty eight point five rushing yards. Pachecko has topped this

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Speaker 1: Seattle defense that has just been getting steamrolled in the

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Speaker 1: And yes, weather is probably going to be a factor

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Speaker 1: well for PA. Check out. All right, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: continuing on with more player props, Joe Mixon under sixty

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Speaker 1: point five rushing yards. Over the first five games of

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Speaker 1: the season, Mixon averaged nineteen point two carries a game.

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Speaker 1: He was used in bell Cow type fashion, but over

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Speaker 1: the seven games that Mixon has played since, he's averaged

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Speaker 1: just twelve point four carries a game. The Bengals are

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Speaker 1: He's cutting into Mixon's workload, and Mixon has cleared this

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Speaker 1: his last five. Now, the Bengals face the Patriots, who

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Speaker 1: have given up eighty one point two rushing yards per

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Speaker 1: the league. I think Joe Mixon finishes with under sixty

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Speaker 1: last five games. He's been trending up. So why do

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Speaker 1: I like the under here? Well, he's got a Week

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Speaker 1: airtight run defense is giving up a league low fifty

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Speaker 1: about matchup. The Falcons are facing a vicious Raiders run

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Speaker 1: run dye is really tough. Tyler Algier finishes with under

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Speaker 1: fifty six point five rushing yards. Now here's my favorite

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Speaker 1: player prop of the week. Travis Kelcey over seventy five

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Speaker 1: point five yards. Yes, this seems like low hanging fruit.

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Speaker 1: Kelsey is averaging eighty one point seven receiving yards per

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Speaker 1: Seattle defense is giving up. Well, they just gave up

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Speaker 1: many big plays by opposing tight ends. Expect the very

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Speaker 1: insultingly low yardage prop seventy five point five receiving yards.

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey is going to go soaring over that George

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Speaker 1: Kittle under forty four point five receiving yards. Yes, the

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Speaker 1: aforementioned George Kittle. He racked up ninety three yards against

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Speaker 1: Seattle last week, but he's not facing Seattle this week.

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Speaker 1: He is facing Washington, and the Commanders are allowing a

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Speaker 1: tight ends, and they ranked third in DVA against tight ends.

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Speaker 1: Kittle has cleared this number in only two of his

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Speaker 1: Chase Young is making his twenty twenty two debut, coming

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Speaker 1: asked George Kittle to stay in and block a little

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Speaker 1: more than usual. He maybe runs fewer routes than he's

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Speaker 1: the under here George Kittle under forty four point five

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Speaker 1: rushing yards, and finally, Jalen Wattle over sixty three point

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Speaker 1: Just to recap this week's picks, Aaron Rodgers under two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one point five passing yards, Andy Dalton

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen over forty eight point five rushing yards, Isaiah

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Speaker 1: point five rushing yards, Travis Kelcey over seventy five point

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Speaker 1: from all of us at Betting Pros, hope you have

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Speaker 1: a joyous and festive weekend and be careful on those

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Speaker 1: snowy roads, my friends. We'll be back again next week

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Speaker 1: with more player props. Merry Christmas to all, and to

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