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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Action Network Podcast. I am your host

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Speaker 2: director of Research here at the Action Network, Evan Abrams,

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Speaker 2: and I am joined as always on the best best episodes.

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Speaker 2: On the recap episodes. Brandon Anderson, how's it going talk

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Speaker 2: to me? You know Vikings. I know you're a fan

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Speaker 2: thirteen and two. We're going to get into that. But

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Speaker 2: what's what's your thoughts going into the week?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 4: Another great Vikings. When I'm here back in the dungeon,

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Speaker 4: the people now who have been I'm following this podcast

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Speaker 4: for a while when I return home to North Dakota

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Speaker 4: with the family for the holidays. Here I am in

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Speaker 4: the dungeon background with the limited internet connection. But this

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Speaker 4: is a Vikings fan home, Vikings fans state. Big win

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Speaker 4: for the Vikings today, really probably the best game of

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Speaker 4: the day. Just back and forth. Really fun one. Not

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Speaker 4: a great slate, but some fun games. So excited to

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Speaker 4: talk about these today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean, now that we

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Speaker 2: have all these Wednesdays and Saturdays and NFL kind of

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Speaker 2: just like fills up every slot. I feel like today,

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Speaker 2: like next weekend Sunday is very light because of all

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Speaker 2: the Saturdays and things going on. So there were some

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Speaker 2: fun games and we were there was a lot of

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Speaker 2: stories about road favorites. But we'll see how that goes.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna start kind of probably with the best game

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Speaker 2: of the day, at least with the Probably the biggest

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Speaker 2: storyline would be Philly at Washington. So Washington comes back

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Speaker 2: to shock Philly. I guess. I mean Kenny Pickett in

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Speaker 2: and the total goes over forty seven. I mean, my

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Speaker 2: Hurts gets concussed, Washington stays alive. I guess barely in

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Speaker 2: the NFC East, considering that Washington has Atlanta and Dallas,

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Speaker 2: and Philly is at home against Dallas and is the Giants.

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Speaker 3: Yeah give that up, Giants.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So you figure they're.

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Speaker 2: Going to grab one of those. But I mean, aside

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Speaker 2: from that, it's probably hurt. So what do you think.

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Speaker 4: Here, Yeah, Washington have to go win out and have

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Speaker 4: Philly lose out. Now, if they did, Washington suddenly is

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Speaker 4: the two seed and Philadelphia drops all the way to

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Speaker 4: the sixth seed. So unlikely it's did in play. The

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Speaker 4: Philly anymore. I think they're down to something like five

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Speaker 4: NFC North champion now, So I'll talk about that in

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Speaker 3: First quarter.

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Speaker 4: We know this about the Eagles that they haven't struggled

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Speaker 4: the first quarter all season. Right up before last week,

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Speaker 4: they've scored seventeen points in the first quarter through thirteen games.

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Speaker 4: Did ten against Pittsburgh. They had twenty one today. Like

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Speaker 4: it's like, oh, this game was cook. Philadelphia is destroying Washington.

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Speaker 4: Even after Jalen Hurts went out, they get another touchdown,

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Speaker 4: You can have your opinion on Jalen Hurts, But we

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Speaker 3: Kenny Pickett's not any.

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Speaker 4: Gut, so I can't really fault you for losing a

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Speaker 4: game that, like frankly, Kenny Pickett played like three and

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Speaker 4: during the second touchdown drive. But to me, the story

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Speaker 4: This defense, the defense that we've been saying is so good.

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Speaker 4: Number one against the run, Number one gets the pass

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Speaker 4: They had not lost since the bye week. The defense

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Speaker 3: They got the lead.

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Speaker 4: This is all Jaden Daniels, a rookie going on the

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Speaker 4: Five touchdowns is a crazy performance to come back, come

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Speaker 4: not going to cut it. Like, you got to have

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Speaker 4: a better plan than that. Again, it's your backup quarterback.

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Speaker 3: They can't do that to me.

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Speaker 4: This is a loss for Philadelphia that is understandable in

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Speaker 4: the moment, But that's gonna have like it's gonna reverbrate

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Speaker 4: And now you're not hosting that game in the NFC Championship.

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Speaker 4: Now you're going to Detroit, where we know how good

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Speaker 4: home field advantages still in football. That's a huge swing.

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Speaker 4: This is a loss for Philadelphia that's gonna really matter

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Speaker 2: Definitely a terrible loss, and obviously hurts is the main story.

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Speaker 2: But I still feel like the past defense, the good rush,

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Speaker 2: it And this was my first note. Is this the

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Speaker 2: you had tons of offense. There was passing all over

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Speaker 2: So I keep looking at like the statistics week in

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Speaker 2: top of that list, and listen, we get it. Minnesota

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Speaker 2: also blew a seventeen to seven lead in this game.

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Speaker 2: I mean they've won thirteen games at this point, but

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Speaker 2: but obviously some miscommunication there, there's some anger there. Obviously

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Speaker 2: Donald's season in some context here. So thirty two passing

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Speaker 2: four seasons with San Francisco, Caroline and the Jets. But

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Speaker 2: a pedigree talk here. So top five picks with thirty

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Speaker 2: which pretty much he's on route. He's about two hundred

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's really not a bad list for what

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Speaker 2: just I'm impressed. And he may not win an award,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of crazy because we've talked about this

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Speaker 4: because of Joe Flacco? I think Sam Darnold would be

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Speaker 4: like minus ten thousand to be Comeback Player of the

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Speaker 4: And here's another crazy thing.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 4: I got the Vikings jersey on. If you change Sam

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Speaker 4: Donald's name to just some other not Sam Donald, and

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Speaker 4: then the Vikings beat the Packers next week and then

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Speaker 4: two as the NFC one seed. That player is the

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Speaker 4: for Sam Donald. I'm not telling you to bet it.

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Speaker 4: I don't think we can quite get there, because it's like,

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Speaker 4: come on, Sam Donald's the MVP. Too many people will

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Speaker 4: think that way. Dudes make him throws Hey, look justin just.

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Speaker 2: He's one hundred to one right now he's one hundred

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Speaker 4: It, I'm just saying, quarterback of the one seed, you

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Speaker 4: one seed. Like that is who we give the MVP two,

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Speaker 4: whatever happens. I saw another crazy stat for you. Justin

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Speaker 4: Number one, Jerry Rice Tory Hold, Calvin John and like

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Speaker 4: all time great receivers. Justin jeffern is seventh all time

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Speaker 4: through six seasons. Here's the crazy part. This is his

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Speaker 4: had the winning touchdown, yells back and forth, back and

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Speaker 2: So Casey finally gets the cover seventeen. I believe it's

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Speaker 2: which is a little worrisome.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it sort of felt like, you know, normally in

437
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Speaker 4: the Steelers Ravens game, we've learned to expect the Mike

438
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Speaker 4: Tomlin vooded sort of felt like the Ravens got the

439
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 4: Tomlin voodoo this time.

440
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Speaker 3: Right.

441
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Speaker 4: We had early in the game, right before halftime, I

442
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,159
Speaker 4: think Russell Wilson goes on a long run down inside

443
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Speaker 4: the five and then gets the fumble popped out and

444
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,360
Speaker 4: they lose the ball there. So that's three or maybe

445
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Speaker 4: seven points off the board, possibly in a lead there,

446
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Speaker 4: and that changes how the game plays out. Then later

447
00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:19,720
Speaker 4: in the game, you mentioned Lamar had the one interception,

448
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,159
Speaker 4: another really bad interception in the red zone. The Ravens

449
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,200
Speaker 4: are driving looking to kind of put the game away.

450
00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 4: They barely get in there and Lamar throws a bad

451
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Speaker 4: pass intercepted, but like a player or two after that,

452
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Speaker 4: Russ gives it right back on the pick six. Just

453
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Speaker 4: a bad play. It was all on him, his mistake.

454
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Speaker 3: Pick six. I had the.

455
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Speaker 4: Under Ama had Steelers, and that one play just like

456
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Speaker 4: shot both of those out the window seventeen seventeen. At

457
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Speaker 4: that point, Baltimore pulls away and goes seventeen to nothing

458
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 4: after that. Now, look, the Ravens were the better team.

459
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Speaker 4: The Staffs are better for the Ravens, they usually are

460
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Speaker 4: in this matchup. Just that if the Tomlin voodoo goes

461
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Speaker 4: the other way as well, it's not going to go

462
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Speaker 4: that well. Derrick Henry looked awesome in this game, ran

463
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Speaker 4: really well for them. The Ravens definitely were the deserving winners.

464
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Speaker 4: They just didn't have This didn't have the typical Steelers

465
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Speaker 4: Ravens voodoo to it. And also I don't know that

466
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Speaker 4: I can take too much away from Pittsburgh.

467
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Speaker 3: Still, no George.

468
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Speaker 4: Pickens, the one offensive weapon that they clearly need to have,

469
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Speaker 4: and for most of the game not three of their

470
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Speaker 4: top four corners, who aren't that good anyways, but you

471
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Speaker 4: definitely don't want to be missing three of your top

472
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Speaker 4: four guys. Pittsburgh does still control their destiny. These teams

473
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Speaker 4: are tied now, but if Pittsburgh wins out, they will

474
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Speaker 4: be the division champion. However, you mentioned Christmas Pittsburgh Kansas City,

475
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Speaker 4: then it's Pittsburgh Cincinnati who might be playing basically a

476
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Speaker 4: playoff game at that point. So all you gotta do

477
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 4: is win out Pittsburgh against Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow.

478
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Speaker 3: Good luck with that.

479
00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 4: Baltimore has that Houston game we've mentioned, and then Cleveland,

480
00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,960
Speaker 4: who's clearly trying to lose at this point, So we

481
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Speaker 4: have to assume maybe Baltimore does win out. If Pittsburgh loses,

482
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Speaker 4: they drop to the five, they might drop to the six.

483
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Speaker 4: We might get this matchup again as the three to six,

484
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Speaker 4: depending on how things go round one of the playoffs.

485
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Speaker 4: So that'd be a fun one. Steelers Ravens, y'allos know

486
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Speaker 4: you're in for an interesting game.

487
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Speaker 2: Well yeah, at this point, I think that's something I'm

488
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 2: rooting for based off of how this one went. Tomlin

489
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Speaker 2: looking for revenge is always going to be an interesting thing,

490
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Speaker 2: especially in that scenario. All right, let's keep rolling here.

491
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Speaker 2: We're gonna go back to the Sunday slate Tampa Bay

492
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Speaker 2: at Dallas Sunday Night football. Dallas wins a game twenty

493
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Speaker 2: six twenty four, covers his four and a half point

494
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 2: home Dogs total goes over forty nine barely in the

495
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Speaker 2: final minutes. I mean, some fun notes here, just going overall.

496
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Speaker 2: So the Buccaneers continue to just start hot in most

497
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Speaker 2: of their games. They did trail early, but scored on

498
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Speaker 2: their first drive. They had eight touchdowns on their first drive,

499
00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 2: ten scores on their first drive. So they've done really

500
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Speaker 2: well this year under Baker getting out of the gate.

501
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Speaker 2: But the story of the first half to me was

502
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay not being able to finish drives, even though

503
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 2: they finished their first one. It was the difference, and

504
00:23:57,040 --> 00:23:58,720
Speaker 2: there was a ton of points in the first half.

505
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 2: We had thirty seven points, and then the game almost

506
00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 2: didn't go over. It was like six minutes left throwing

507
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,719
Speaker 2: interceptions and fumbling all over the place, and people wondering

508
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 2: if this is going to be a horrendous beat or not.

509
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 2: I mean, looking at Dallas, I think the one thing

510
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 2: that was different was their defense was playing much better

511
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 2: than they had been in the past, and that's kind

512
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,160
Speaker 2: of what ended up forcing Baker into an interception, there

513
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,360
Speaker 2: was a bunch of fumbles, There was a bunch of sacks.

514
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Speaker 2: The thing that just continues to be an embarrassment with

515
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Speaker 2: Dallas is the fact that their rush game is atrocious.

516
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 2: They can't like in the first half, Turpin was their

517
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Speaker 2: leader in rushing and then basically by the end of

518
00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 2: the game, Daubdell has you know, almost no rushing yards

519
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 2: at all, and they can't really find anything. And then

520
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 2: you have Saquon and Henry and all these free agent

521
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 2: running backs basically leading the league. Jacob's too, So continues

522
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 2: to be an issue for Dallas. There. The only thing

523
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Speaker 2: I will say about Tampa Bay is just stall after

524
00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 2: stall after stall. It was sacks and fumbles, especially coming

525
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:04,400
Speaker 2: out of the second half. Just no consistency. And that's

526
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Speaker 2: kind of what did them in because I really felt

527
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Speaker 2: like at the end there that kind of got a

528
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Speaker 2: little momentum and then they just kind of gave it

529
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Speaker 2: away again. In terms of the division though, so Tampa

530
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Speaker 2: Bay really needs Atlanta to lose again to get back in.

531
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Speaker 2: So the schedule for Tampa Bay Carolina at Tampa, New

532
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Speaker 2: Orleans of Tampa, so that's it for them. Atlanta's at

533
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Speaker 2: Washington which to be to me, is probably the game

534
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Speaker 2: that Tampa needs for them to drop because Carolina at

535
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Speaker 2: Atlanta in week eighteen, maybe Bryce in them fight, but

536
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Speaker 2: you know, Bryce at Penix that would be a fun one,

537
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Speaker 2: especially with Atlanta needing it. What he got here anything.

538
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that Penix game just got flexed to Sunday night too,

539
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Speaker 4: so that's the one that we'll be talking about leading

540
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Speaker 4: into the show right now.

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Speaker 3: So that'll be a fun one.

542
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Speaker 4: You know, we got the two rookies, Pennix and Jane Daniels,

543
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 4: and then Pennix and effectively the rookie Bryce Young in

544
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Speaker 4: the finale, Carolina controls the death any of this division.

545
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Speaker 4: Carolina plays both these teams the next two weeks, and

546
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Speaker 4: we just talked about how well Panthers are playing right now,

547
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 4: so that will be pretty interesting. Panthers can't win the division,

548
00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,640
Speaker 4: but they might be able to directly determine who well instead.

549
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 2: That Atlanta Washington game two is interesting. So next week,

550
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Speaker 2: Washington is a five point favorite against Pennix in that one,

551
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 2: which would be Yeah, you're right, that is a great

552
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 2: Sunday night football game. Just kind of interesting storylines, especially

553
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,080
Speaker 2: off of last week. All right, So we're gonna go

554
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 2: quick here, We're gonna go Tennessee and Indy. First. Indy

555
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 2: holds on absolutely barely, thirty eight to thirty, covering the

556
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 2: four point spread total goes over forty three. For anyone

557
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 2: like watching this game for the majority of the time

558
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,200
Speaker 2: and being like, oh my god, it's over and then

559
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 2: seeing the score, this one was a shocker to tune

560
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 2: back into from like a historical perspective. Titans two and

561
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 2: thirteen against the spread now this season, that is tied

562
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Speaker 2: for the worst mark for any team against the spread

563
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Speaker 2: in the Super Bowl era. And one just note on

564
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,880
Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor, So twenty nine of two eighteen and three touchdowns.

565
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 2: Only Moster and Le'Veon Bell have done that in the

566
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 2: last decade. So an absolute monster day for him, which

567
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 2: you know, basically got them to win after all the

568
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Speaker 2: points they allowed.

569
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we saw, we all saw what happened

570
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Speaker 4: with Taylor last week. Right, He's going in for the

571
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,439
Speaker 4: touchdown to probably get the big win in Denver, dropped

572
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 4: the ball just at the goal line being an eighty Yet,

573
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,439
Speaker 4: like we all know that's what happened. I had to

574
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 4: be honest, I kind of thought emotionally that this team

575
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 4: might roll over after that, you gave that game away.

576
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 4: That was basically a playoff game. Instead, they came into

577
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 4: the opposite Here is thirty eight to seven before garbage time.

578
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 4: Tennessee got three touchdowns in garbage time, but up until

579
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Speaker 4: that point, thirty eight to seven, Tennessee had one hundred

580
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 4: and eleven yards. The Colts demolished them. Will Levis got

581
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 4: benched for Mason Rudolph. It's like he was never bench

582
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 4: Mason Rudolph through three interceptions. Will Levis can throw three interceptions.

583
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 4: I don't know what's happening with that. The Colts, on

584
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 4: the other hand, I don't know. I was like, well,

585
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 4: can Anthony Richardson show up for a big game? Well,

586
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,719
Speaker 4: you know how you get Anthony Richardson to show up

587
00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,120
Speaker 4: for a big game. Don't have him pass the ball.

588
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 4: He only had seven completions in this game. The cults

589
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 4: were just like, you know what, what if we just

590
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 4: only run? Jonathan Taylor just ran, ran, ran all game long.

591
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 4: They called forty eight rushes and fourteen passes all game

592
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 4: because why bother calling a pass when every run is

593
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 4: working against what had been a pretty good Titans run defense,

594
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 4: and did not show up today, so I thought the

595
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 4: Cults are pretty impressive. To me, the takeaway is the

596
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 4: thirty eight to seven, not the thirty eight thirty. I

597
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 4: know the whole thing counts, but I think that was

598
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 4: mostly garbage time. His Colt defense has quietly played pretty well,

599
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 4: and we'll be coming back to them in the hot

600
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Speaker 4: red later.

601
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't even know what Tennessee does because right

602
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 2: now they're slated for the fourth pick. There's not four quarterbacks.

603
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 2: I don't believe in this draft, and you don't have

604
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 2: on your rosters, so that is a decision for the

605
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 2: future there all right, Rams and Jets. Rams beat the

606
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 2: Jets nineteen to nine in New York. Rams cover the

607
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 2: three point spread on the road, total goes under forty seven.

608
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 2: I mean games are five and one in the last

609
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 2: six games after starting the year one and four. They're

610
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 2: on their way to potentially win the division after a

611
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:11,040
Speaker 2: one and four start, which is really impressive, I believe. Yeah,

612
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 2: last decade, two teams have started one to four and

613
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 2: won the division twenty twenty Washington and twenty fifteen Texans.

614
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 2: And one note for next week, and I wanted to

615
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 2: add this before tossing it to so Rogers through his

616
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 2: four hundred and ninety ninth touchdown pass this week to

617
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Speaker 2: Devonte Adams. It really also feels like he's forcing it

618
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 2: to him because it felt like he was doing it

619
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Speaker 2: all game. I think he wants his five hundreds to

620
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Speaker 2: get five hundred to go to him as well, so

621
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Speaker 2: that will be something I will look for next weekend.

622
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a smart angle. I like that. This game's stunck.

623
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Speaker 4: This game was not fun, and I know because the

624
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 4: Rams were my side of the week and we got it.

625
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 4: We got the Rams, we got one of the alternate

626
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,840
Speaker 4: escalators as well. Did not deserve it. I'm not going

627
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 4: to take credit for that.

628
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Speaker 3: We'll take it. We'll take the win. This was an

629
00:29:58,160 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 3: ugly game.

630
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Speaker 4: I thought the Jets out played the underlying stats had

631
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 4: them out playing them. But in true Jets fashion, three

632
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 4: turnovers on downs, they kicked a field goal on the three,

633
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 4: they missed a field goal, they lost to fumble. They're

634
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 4: two to five on fourth down turnovers. Just just the

635
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 4: Jets season in a nutshell. And the Rams, on the meanwhile,

636
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 4: have nineteen points here against the Rams that they had

637
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 4: to get too late, thirteen points in the fourth quarter,

638
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 4: this game was six to six at one point on

639
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 4: two touchdowns. They both missed the extra point, which is

640
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,400
Speaker 4: just the Jets as stat that you possibly can have,

641
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 4: But basically, the Rams have six points into the fourth

642
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 4: quarter here against the Jets. Don't forget the last game

643
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 4: where they played the Niners on a Thursday night and

644
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 4: didn't get a touchdown in that game.

645
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Speaker 3: They were twelve.

646
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 4: They won both of the games, and now they are

647
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,959
Speaker 4: basically in the driver's seat for the division. But I

648
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 4: think we think of the Rams. I gave the cap

649
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,120
Speaker 4: of the Rams as this dominant offensive team. They have

650
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 4: not been that in these two games. So do we

651
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 4: credit them for having other ways to win and being

652
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 4: able to scrap some things out like this or are

653
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 4: they a little bit overrated? And I'll give you a

654
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 4: spoiler alert. I don't think the Rams are as good

655
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 4: as we're giving them credit for. I would be all

656
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 4: over Cardinals Saturday Night Cardinals in LA for the Rams.

657
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 4: That would have been my number one pick for the

658
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 4: hot read. It's not because I think the Rams are

659
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 4: gonna get the money. I think it's gonna get to

660
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 4: six or even towards seven. It's five and a half.

661
00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 4: Most books right now. I don't need the Cardinals yet,

662
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 4: but I can tell you there's a very good chance

663
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 4: they'll be leading our picks when we get to them

664
00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 4: on the best bets next week, because I think the

665
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 4: Cardinals Kyler as an underdog, has been very dangerous ats

666
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 4: for his career. Matt Stafford has not been great against

667
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 4: other teams in this range, like five hundred competitive sort

668
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 4: of teams. I don't know, man, I the Rams. Maybe

669
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 4: it's because I was stressing on this one because I

670
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 4: had the big pick on the game for today. They're

671
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 4: not impressing right now, and the Jets are not very

672
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 4: good and they barely get over the line they frankly

673
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 4: didn't deserve to here. I'm not sure that the Rams

674
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 4: had that playoff spot locked up just yet. I think

675
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 4: we're gonna get some drama still.

676
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, Unfortunately, Rams Cardinals is like the perfect spot next

677
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 2: week where you have a team just eliminated the other

678
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 2: team absolutely needs it. Not only that, lines already moved

679
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 2: two points three and a half to five and a half,

680
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 2: and I assume you know, once everyone else looks at

681
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 2: the standings and sees the Big Z next to Arizona,

682
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 2: they're gonna be like, Oh, we've got to take the

683
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 2: Rams this week, so I'm assuming that probably gets a

684
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 2: little bit higher. I think you're right, it's a good spot.

685
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 2: All right, let's keep going here. San Francisco Miami. Miami

686
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 2: wins a game twenty nine to seventeen at home. They

687
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 2: covers one and a half point underdogs as San Francisco

688
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 2: ends up closing as a favorite on the road. Total

689
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 2: goes over forty four. I mean, the entire time watching

690
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 2: this game, it just kind of looked like two teams

691
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 2: that weren't making the playoffs, Like legitimately, back and forth.

692
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 2: San Francisco at eleven penalties. They got out rushed by

693
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: eighty yards. They had the only turnover the game, which

694
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 2: is a pretty interception. But I don't necessarily think either

695
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 2: team's defense looked fantastic and having for a little while.

696
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 2: The real difference in the game, with San Francisco scored

697
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 2: seven points in the second half, miss field goal, touchdown, punt, interception,

698
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 2: turnover on downs the crazy one for me, and I

699
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 2: honestly i'd love to hear your thoughts about it. Just quickly.

700
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 2: The Niners are two and thirteen second half ats this year,

701
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 2: three and sixteen second half ats last nineteen games. Last

702
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 2: year fourth quarter ats they were fourteen and five best,

703
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 2: second best mark in the league. I assume to me

704
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 2: it's all the injuries, but they just can't finish in

705
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 2: the red zone. It's coming back to bite them.

706
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, the red zone thing just keeps coming up and

707
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 4: keeps coming up at some point. And it's not just

708
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 4: this year, like that is a Shanahan bugaboo that has

709
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 4: stayed with him.

710
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:50,840
Speaker 3: For his career.

711
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 2: That's fair.

712
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 4: So I do think we're seeing that with some of these,

713
00:33:54,160 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 4: like these fancy offensive coordinators basically Shanahan, McDaniel McVeigh, that

714
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 4: they're manufacturing with more room on the field, they can

715
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 4: do their thing. When it gets a little more condensed,

716
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 4: and those quarterbacks got to make a play, it doesn't.

717
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:09,959
Speaker 3: Work quite as well.

718
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,879
Speaker 4: So at some point that becomes a pattern. Red zone

719
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,959
Speaker 4: is supposed to be mostly noise for the most part.

720
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 4: But we got a lot of data on chan had

721
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 4: those points and it's the same sort of thing year

722
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 4: after year. I don't know about the second half thing

723
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 4: other than it just hasn't been the year in San Francisco.

724
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,520
Speaker 4: They just have so many injuries. It hasn't worked out

725
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 4: for them, and I think too, I would say I'm

726
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 4: guilty of this as much as anyone. I think books

727
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,479
Speaker 4: and betters haven't really cut up to just how much

728
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 4: not the year it is for San Francisco. I think

729
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 4: we continue to think like, oh, well, Deebo's still out there,

730
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 4: and Kittle's still out there, and like Party's playing pretty well.

731
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 4: He is playing better, I think than he had in

732
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 4: previous years. We talked about that early. He's been more

733
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,479
Speaker 4: valuable to the Niners this year, which made him less

734
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 4: valuable relative to the league, because they don't want him

735
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 4: being less valuable, but they have to. They had to

736
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 4: make invaluables, and I think they're like a seventy one

737
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,919
Speaker 4: percent pass ray because they're down to like their fifth

738
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 4: or sixteen running back. We finally made cal Shanahan not

739
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 4: run the ball. There's nobody left to run the ball

740
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 4: in San Francisco anymore. So Yeah, it's San Francisco plays

741
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,680
Speaker 4: next Monday night home against Detroit for the Lions, who

742
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 4: need that game now to stay in their chase for

743
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 4: the one seed. And don't forget who played San Francisco

744
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 4: in Nancy Championship game last year. And had it and

745
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 4: then didn't have it anymore. And if I know Dan

746
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 4: Campbell at all, I promise yet they've been waiting for

747
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 4: this game on the calendar, and San Francisco is not

748
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 4: as good as they have been. Detroit is definitely a

749
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 4: spot I'll be looking hard at for next week because

750
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 4: that is a spot that know the Lions will be

751
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 4: excited to get back after what they gave up last year.

752
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 2: It's gonna be hard to ignore. I think the two

753
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 2: and a half on the first half, which it is

754
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:49,320
Speaker 2: right now as well. Detroit just tying the bow on

755
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 2: San Francisco nine and twelve in their last twenty one

756
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 2: game straight up. So I mean they just that's the

757
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 2: team that they are right now, even going back to

758
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 2: last year, losing a few games, you know, see down

759
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 2: the stretch and here from the ap Shanahan, oh and

760
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 2: forty three now in the regular season in playoffs when

761
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 2: trailing by eight plus points in the fourth quarter. So

762
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 2: the comeback stat, the you know, get back into the

763
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 2: game stat we keep hearing over and over again comes

764
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 2: into play again today, all right, Giants at Falcons. Falcons

765
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 2: win thirty four to seven, covering is nine and a

766
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:27,280
Speaker 2: half point favorites on the closed total under forty three. Obviously,

767
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 2: Pennick's one of the largest lines ever for a quarterback

768
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 2: in his first start. But going from the Giants point

769
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 2: of view, lost ten in a row. Now they are

770
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 2: one to nine ats in those games. They are doing

771
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 2: the tank very very well, as they now have the

772
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 2: number one overall pick.

773
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:44,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, they are alone.

774
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 4: We gave that one out on the preseason Giants worst

775
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 4: record ten to one, so they're controlling their destiny at

776
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 4: this point, two losses away, no more tiebreakers to deal

777
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 4: with this line. If you just look at the score,

778
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 4: you're gonna be like, man, what a debut for Michael Penix.

779
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 4: Yeah he was fine. He didn't make a lot of mistakes.

780
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 4: He didn't wasn't asked to do a whole lot.

781
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 3: It's fun.

782
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 4: You're playing the Giants. It's hard to get a cushier

783
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 4: spot than a home game against the tanking worst team

784
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 4: in the NFL. This point in the season, I thought

785
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 4: Penix was fine. He'd have one interception, clearly, clearly not

786
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 4: his fault. He threw it to Kyle Pits in the

787
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 4: red zone and cal Pits stinks, so he just couldn't

788
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 4: catch it. And like threw it up into the air

789
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 4: to the defender. Basically no touchdowns yet for Penis, I

790
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 4: thought he was, Okay, we're gonna see in in Sunday

791
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 4: night on a national TV game in Washington. Very different setting. Look,

792
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 4: Washington's defense not great. You still got Dan Quinn, you

793
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 4: still got some actual guys trying on that side of

794
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 4: the ball. And it's a road test versus a home game. Here,

795
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 4: it's a real game against a playoff opponent versus a

796
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 4: basically a preseason game against the Giants. The final score

797
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 4: here is basically turnovers. Giants turnover three times, two touchdowns

798
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,240
Speaker 4: for Atlanta's defense. So if you have them in fantasy

799
00:37:57,280 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 4: this week, as you're like defense streamer of the week,

800
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 4: you're probably moving on from that one. Atlanta before this

801
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 4: game was thirty first in DVA the last six weeks.

802
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:08,760
Speaker 3: So what we do now?

803
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:11,360
Speaker 4: They weren't terrible. The only team worse than them was

804
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 4: the Giants, who they just played. So did Michael Pennix

805
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 4: really change all that? Or is this just the Giants?

806
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 4: We don't really know. We're gonna find out some of

807
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 4: that next Sunday Night. Should be a good one.

808
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, at least he got a like an appetizer, right,

809
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 2: Like you couldn't make that first game, Washington. That doesn't

810
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 2: seem fair. So I do think him getting four quarters

811
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 2: at least of some work in a real game will

812
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 2: give him a little bit of a setup, all right.

813
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 2: Detroit at Chicago, Detroit was a game thirty four seventeen,

814
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 2: covering as a seven point road favorite, and I believe

815
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 2: if I look right, I believe the total goes over. Yeah,

816
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 2: total goes over forty seven and a half. So to me,

817
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 2: it's been just the starting point for both of these teams.

818
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 2: So Chicago now with Caleb Williams four and eleven first

819
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 2: half ats war smart for any quarterback in the NFL.

820
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 2: And Detroit on the other side, this is just continues

821
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 2: to be the most ridiculous stat of thirty eight thirteen

822
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 2: and one first half ats last three seasons under Campbell

823
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 2: and from I don't know if you're gonna mention this

824
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 2: with Caleb's it's just crazy. Nine losses without an interception

825
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 2: this year for Caleb Williams, So not turning it over

826
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 2: in that sense, but nine losses without a pick feels

827
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 2: almost impossible.

828
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, And honestly, Caleb, I didn't think it was even

829
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 4: too terrible in this game, three hundred and thirty four yards,

830
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 4: two touchdowns. He ran the ball a little bit. The

831
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 4: problem with the offense this game for Chicago's they couldn't

832
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 4: run the ball to save their lives. They had fifteen

833
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,280
Speaker 4: run plays for a negative zero point eight EPA per play.

834
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 4: That is the first percentile on rushing EPA against the Lions,

835
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 4: who don't forget, are missed. Only McNeil missing, like all

836
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 4: the linebackers, most of the defensive line. To me, the

837
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 4: only story for this game other than the first half

838
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 4: stat that you mentioned is the trick play that you're

839
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 4: gonna see a highlight of it if you haven't yet.

840
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 4: The Lions were so unafraid of the Bears they ran

841
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:11,360
Speaker 4: a trick play called Stumblebum quote unquote that both Jared

842
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 4: Goff and Jamier Gibbs faked falling down just to troll

843
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 4: the Bears, just to leak out the tight end laporter

844
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 4: for the touchdown. You broke that one out up two

845
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 4: scores on Chicago just because you're Ben Johnson like taunting

846
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 4: the Bears, like hey you want me? I just got

847
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,239
Speaker 4: an extra five million dollars out of you on this

848
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 4: play call. That was the only story from this game here?

849
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think he was like, I could save

850
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 2: this for the NFC Championship game, but I might as

851
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 2: well do it against the team who's gonna want to

852
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,959
Speaker 2: hire me. Maybe I'll get a few extra million bucks

853
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 2: out of it. That had to be what he was

854
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 2: thinking that I saw it. They were up like two scorers,

855
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 2: and I was like, Chicago, really, like you didn't wait

856
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 2: for like a big game. But nonetheless, all right, New

857
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 2: England at Buffalo, this is a little wild one. So

858
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 2: Buffalo holds on here twenty four to te they close

859
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 2: his fourteen point favorite total goes under forty eight. New

860
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 2: England leads this game fourteen to nothing. Like if you

861
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 2: went to go get a slice of pizza after the

862
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 2: one o'clock slate, you saw a fourteen nothing score and

863
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,399
Speaker 2: you were pretty surprised there. So New England's first two

864
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 2: drives twenty two plays, one hundred and fifty yards and

865
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 2: two touchdowns up and down the field. Then they go

866
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 2: punt punt, end of half fumble, interception, fumble returned for

867
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 2: a touchdown, punt oh, and then a touchdown drive. So

868
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: I mean, what we learned here, which we seem to

869
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 2: be learning every week, is Drake May shows promise, Drake

870
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 2: May can do some things. And then Drake May is

871
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 2: also a rookie. Seventh straight game with an interception. From

872
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 2: Buffalo's point of view, which is way more important. Thirteen

873
00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 2: penalties really really not good. So yes they held on here,

874
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 2: Yes it's going to be a win in the standings.

875
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 2: Josh seemed off in this one. He also hurt I

876
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 2: believe his pinky slash hand, which is definitely something to

877
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 2: monitor going into the week. But the win is mostly

878
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 2: about just keeping one seed pace. We talked about the

879
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 2: fact they played the Jets next week. This is the

880
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 2: biggest problem Buffalo's defense twenty ninth in EPA per play

881
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 2: since week nine. It's Jacksonville Giants, Jets, Bills. That is

882
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 2: not a list that they can afford to be on

883
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 2: when it comes to playoff time. So they just really

884
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 2: need to definitely figure that out. In their past success

885
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 2: rate dead last in the NFL since that week nine mark,

886
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 2: So to me, that is the biggest issue that going forward.

887
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 2: If we're going to see a Buffalo team that is

888
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 2: going to try to make a run, they got to

889
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 2: start stopping people.

890
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, defense definitely needs to be better, and part of that.

891
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 4: I like DVOA generally more than EPA and success rate

892
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 4: because it takes opponent into play. They have played, you know,

893
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 4: they hit the rams, they played some of these good

894
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 4: teams lately, So that is part of it there. That's

895
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,240
Speaker 4: not the Patriots. That is not what's happening in this game.

896
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 4: This is break May on the road doing the thing.

897
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 3: I think that.

898
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 4: That we're gonna have the forced MVP conversation this week

899
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 4: of like, I don't know, Josh Allen another interception, didn't

900
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 4: have a good game. Look at the stats? Is it

901
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 4: Lamar Jackson? Is it Saquon Barkley? Look at his big game?

902
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 4: First of all, the Josh Allen interception, this game was

903
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,800
Speaker 4: a positive EPA play. It was a third and long.

904
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 4: They gave the ball the team on the one yard line.

905
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 4: That's like the best armpunt you can possibly have in

906
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 4: a game. Allen is the MVP. If they went out,

907
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 4: they're probably gonna win out. It's Jets Patriots. I know

908
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 4: we have to talk about some things.

909
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 2: That was on the player. It was on the corner

910
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 2: best for sure. I mean he caught it in the

911
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 2: end zone, like if it would have went to the twenty.

912
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 2: That's what I was laughing about. It is just the

913
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 2: other guy's dumb decision makes it a positive play for

914
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 2: Allen understood. All right, let's keep going here. Cleveland c

915
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 2: Cleveland at Cincinnati. Cincinnati wins the game twenty four to six,

916
00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 2: covers ten ten point spread, total goes under forty six.

917
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 2: The stat before I handed to you Chases. Now, Jamar

918
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,720
Speaker 2: is another leader for the Triple Crown receptions, receiving yards,

919
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 2: receiving touchdowns. Entering the year, he was top four and

920
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 2: odds in all three categories, so not too much of

921
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 2: a shock. But the names to actually do this Jerry Rice, Sterling, Sharp,

922
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 2: Steve Smith Senior, and Cooper Cup So any of the

923
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,720
Speaker 2: thoughts here on Cleveland and Cincinnati.

924
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Chase was awesome. One hundred of yards

925
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 4: almost and a touchdown. Now he has a touchdown in

926
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 4: eight of ten games with t Higgins on the field,

927
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 4: who also had a touchdown. That one was awesome from

928
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow nearly on his knees, falling down and still

929
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 4: got the ball to t three touchdowns for Burrow.

930
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,959
Speaker 3: All that said, not that impressive of a game.

931
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 4: I mean, they won comfortably, but the Browns are just

932
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 4: kind of tanking here with Dorian Thompson Robinson. The note

933
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 4: I had from this game, there's a fan that got

934
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 4: to kick a field goal. Fan hits a forty yard

935
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 4: field goal and he won pizza for the entire stadium

936
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 4: at this game. That's what happens at Cleveland Cincinnati. That's

937
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 4: what it's about.

938
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 2: Fantastic, great for But honestly, they're getting closer to at

939
00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:08,920
Speaker 2: least a playoff co playoff pre playoff game, so the

940
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 2: fact that they were still in it is pretty fantastic

941
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:15,800
Speaker 2: and ridiculous. All right, last game here, Jaguars Raiders. Raiders

942
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 2: win the game nineteen fourteen. Covers two point favorites. Two

943
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 2: point favorites for the Raiders, but I guess someone has

944
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 2: to be favorite in the game. Total goes under forty

945
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 2: one and a half. Notes are quick here. Brian Thomas

946
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 2: Junior is awesome, just truly fantastic. Some of the things

947
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 2: that you saw him do in this game. Obviously, the

948
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,479
Speaker 2: Jacksonville job is Bigsby over ETN. You continue to see

949
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 2: that week in and week out, even with the fumble.

950
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 2: They trust him and I feel like this one's worth

951
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 2: noting as since going ten and eight ATS and his

952
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 2: rookie year, MATC Jones now eight twenty one to one

953
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 2: ATS since that season, worst mark in the NFL of

954
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 2: any quarterback. From the Raiders point of view, it's just

955
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 2: Brock Bowers eleven receptions for ninety nine yards. He now

956
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 2: has the second most receiving yards and NFL history by

957
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 2: its tight end in the season, motion's Mike Ditka in

958
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 2: sixty one. Uh. That is pretty much the news I mean.

959
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 2: And you continue to watch Bowers. He's not gonna win

960
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year because Jade Daniels is that I

961
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 2: think minus twenty thousand at the moment, so that market

962
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 2: is over. But truthfully, any other year, I think Bowers

963
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 2: actually gets some serious look here, but nothing else to say.

964
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would add one thing, I would fire Antonio

965
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 4: Peers for this when this is a franchise crippling. Yeah,

966
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 4: Antonio appears six number in the.

967
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 2: Sixth spot, now yeah, five or six there at six? Yeah,

968
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 2: honestly that was in my notes as well. This is

969
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 2: the type of loss that for a franchise that absolutely

970
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,879
Speaker 2: needs a quarterback, this just cannot happen Like good on

971
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:49,879
Speaker 2: Doug Peterson for Jaguars. Look like they're number three right now.

972
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 2: He should get a raise. All right, let's go to

973
00:46:52,280 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 2: Monday Night Football. Honestly, I can't even believe this is

974
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 2: Monday Night Football, but it's Saints at Packers right now.

975
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 2: It is a fourteen and a half point spread. This

976
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 2: was actually if I look back, it was as low

977
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,359
Speaker 2: as about twelve and a half, so this has gone

978
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,959
Speaker 2: up two full points at fourteen and a half now.

979
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:22,240
Speaker 2: I mean, the last time we even had a fourteen

980
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:24,760
Speaker 2: point favorite of Monday Night Football was back in twenty twenty.

981
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 2: It was Ben Roethlisberger and Ryan Finley. So it has

982
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,919
Speaker 2: been a minute and New Orleans' biggest dog in any

983
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:36,320
Speaker 2: game since about nineteen ninety nine, if not later or earlier.

984
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,319
Speaker 2: Based off of where this closes, two bets I just

985
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 2: wanted to throw out before I get your opinion here,

986
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 2: just some fun anytime touchdown I thought was Kraft and Rattler.

987
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 2: So Kraft is scored in four of his last eight

988
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:49,879
Speaker 2: and at plus twoint fifty, there's a little value there,

989
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 2: but mostly New Orleans does struggle versus tight ends from

990
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,960
Speaker 2: a DVOA perspective, and craft is one of the more

991
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,080
Speaker 2: targeted tight ends for Green Bay in the red zone,

992
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 2: eleven of five fifteen in terms of targets there. So

993
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,160
Speaker 2: he has done a very good job in Rattler A

994
00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 2: little surprising. Nine is sixty one rushing in his game

995
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 2: so far. He had a rushing touchdown actually in the preseason.

996
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 2: I just think he's going to be under pressure, they're

997
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 2: going to be trailing, and he's going to just try

998
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 2: to make a play at some point in this game,

999
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 2: and at ten to one, it is worth a shot.

1000
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:22,720
Speaker 2: What do you think about this game?

1001
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 3: I think this game stinks.

1002
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:26,919
Speaker 4: I think this is one of the worst games we'll

1003
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 4: possibly have to watch. I think you should not bet

1004
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 4: this game. I think you should go get some last

1005
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 4: minute Christmas shopping done. You should wrap your presence, you should.

1006
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 3: Hang out with the family. You should travel.

1007
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 4: No Derek Carr, no Alvin Kamara, no Chris Olave, no

1008
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 4: Taysom Hill. I think, by the way, the Packers are

1009
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:45,879
Speaker 4: the number one team by DVA over the last six weeks,

1010
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,240
Speaker 4: so in case the Saints aren't missing enough, the Packers

1011
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 4: are balling right now. That said, my numbers can't get

1012
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,720
Speaker 4: there on the Packers being this big of a favorite,

1013
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 4: so I can't get that excited to bet it either.

1014
00:48:57,080 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 4: It's a look ahead spot. Green Bay's got the big

1015
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:02,319
Speaker 4: Minnesota game next week. Green Bay can still move up

1016
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 4: ahead of Minnesota, and they got a short week ahead.

1017
00:49:06,080 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 4: So the Saints have been way better this season in

1018
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,439
Speaker 4: the first half than the second half. They're a top

1019
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 4: ten team season long. In the first half, they're terrible

1020
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,360
Speaker 4: in the second half. Saints are nine and five ATS.

1021
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 4: First half, they're five and nine ATS in the second half.

1022
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,520
Speaker 4: The Packers are nine and five in the second half ATS.

1023
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 4: I don't know that the Packers put this game away early.

1024
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 4: If you must bet this game and don't want to

1025
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 4: just take one of the touchdown long shots, give me

1026
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 4: the Packers second half ATS. We did this with the Bills,

1027
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 4: the big favorite game. We saw them kind of on

1028
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 4: the look ahead spot, come out a little slow. You

1029
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 4: talked about the Patriots lead. Packers second half is a

1030
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 4: minus six and a half. We're getting under the key

1031
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 4: number there.

1032
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 3: I think that's a mistake. I think this line should

1033
00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 3: it be a.

1034
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 4: Seven and a half. With Buffalo, he kind of coasted

1035
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 4: to an easy second half cover. So if you want it,

1036
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 4: Packers second half, but please find something better to do

1037
00:49:57,000 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 4: with your Monday night.

1038
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 2: I was even going to talk about the fact that

1039
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 2: it's plus three point fifteen first quarter money line for

1040
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:08,279
Speaker 2: the Saints and plus four fifty five first half money line.

1041
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 2: I mean, if you were trying to go crazy and

1042
00:50:10,640 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 2: wanted to get an early taste and you thought they

1043
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 2: could stay in the game, those felt interesting. I don't

1044
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 2: even know what it is right now because I was

1045
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 2: attempting to look it up, but a New Orleans halftime

1046
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 2: Green Bay full time would just be something fun to

1047
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 2: potentially have in your back pocket. But aside from that,

1048
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 2: you're right, you can't. You can't be serious about this

1049
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 2: game whatsoever. All right, let's get into your hot reads.

1050
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 2: So let's talk about Week seventeen, two weeks ago in

1051
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 2: the regular season. This is times where bet Labs and

1052
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 2: all these different tools we have kind of light up

1053
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 2: because there's lots of different scenarios and things to make

1054
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 2: this really fun. So what are your thoughts on Week

1055
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:55,800
Speaker 2: seventeen Hot rap bo seven day on ice rights, ice cream,

1056
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 2: soul Train.

1057
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking very much at the AFC Wildcard race

1058
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 4: for my picks here. So let's start with Saturday the

1059
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 4: early game. Give me the Chargers minus four and a half.

1060
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 3: In New England.

1061
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 4: There's one book out there still laying four and a half.

1062
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 4: The others are five and a half, so it's already

1063
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,879
Speaker 4: moving up. Kind of no man's land. Not a huge

1064
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:18,560
Speaker 4: key number there.

1065
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 3: Obviously.

1066
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 4: I'm not all that impressed by the Patriots today. They

1067
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,160
Speaker 4: go up fourteen to nothing. Like you said, I think

1068
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 4: that's just the Bills.

1069
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 3: Kind of coming out flat a little bit.

1070
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:28,800
Speaker 4: Patriots still lose by ten if they don't get a

1071
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 4: garbage touchdown late. I think that's sort of buying some

1072
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 4: time on this line here a little bit. The Chargers

1073
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 4: still need this win. They got to win to clinch

1074
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 4: the playoffs. They want to win to improve their seating.

1075
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 4: They could be the five to six seven seed that

1076
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 4: matters in the AFC. You want the five, you get

1077
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 4: to play Houston. I rather play Houston. You fall to

1078
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,759
Speaker 4: the seventh seed, you might be playing the Bills. You

1079
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:50,879
Speaker 4: don't want the Bills. You definitely want to like move

1080
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 4: up in the standings here, and especially with Denver playing

1081
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 4: a tough schedule down the stretch, is a good spot

1082
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 4: for the Chargers to possibly move up. Baltimore tough schedule.

1083
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 4: They could possibly have lost already by then. Give Charges

1084
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,320
Speaker 4: another chance to move up there. The Chargers are playing

1085
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 4: on long rest here. Don't forget they had the Thursday

1086
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 4: night game against Denver. The Patriots are going to be

1087
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 4: on a short rest because it's a Saturday game with

1088
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 4: a rookie quarterback and a rookie coach who, by the way,

1089
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,719
Speaker 4: Durrad Mayo got the dreaded vote of confidence, which I

1090
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 4: don't know, man, I don't want the vote of confidence

1091
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 4: for my rookie coach. What do you think this team

1092
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:25,479
Speaker 4: was gonna do? I don't think that they're looking that great.

1093
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 4: This coaching set up for a long week with John

1094
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,919
Speaker 4: with Jim Harbaugh, I think is a huge coaching advantage here.

1095
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 4: Harbaugh in bet Labs, I look this up. He is

1096
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 4: sixty four percent ATS career as a favorite in the NFL.

1097
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 4: That's the best of any coach we have in bet

1098
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 4: Labs that has at least fifteen games as a favorite,

1099
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,919
Speaker 4: including when he's favored by six or less twenty six

1100
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 4: and seven ATS, seventy nine percent hit rate, nearly invincible.

1101
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 4: I'm not sure this will qualify because I think this

1102
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,600
Speaker 4: line could possibly get past that margin by the time

1103
00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,400
Speaker 4: we get there, but we're taking it at four and

1104
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 4: a half. Also, Jesse Minter, defensive coach for the Chargers,

1105
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 4: I think is another big advantage. One of the best

1106
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,440
Speaker 4: assistants in the league. He's gonna be the running for

1107
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 4: that assistant award. Extra time to prep for a rookie

1108
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 4: quarterback with all those kind of confusing fronts and everything

1109
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:18,240
Speaker 4: that that mintor defense throws. We just saw it against

1110
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 4: bo Nicks. We saw how that got caught up to

1111
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 4: him the second half.

1112
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:22,759
Speaker 3: I like that here.

1113
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 4: Patriots can't run the ball. The defense I think is

1114
00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,799
Speaker 4: there for the taking. If this line moves up later

1115
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 4: in the week, I wouldn't mind pivoting to just a

1116
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:33,919
Speaker 4: first half play. Chargers are ten and five ats first

1117
00:53:33,960 --> 00:53:36,359
Speaker 4: half Patriots five and ten. But that kind of sets

1118
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 4: up for the full game too. Chargers what they do

1119
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 4: this season, they get the lead, they sit on it,

1120
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 4: they milk the clock out from there.

1121
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 3: So I like Chargers. I actually, by.

1122
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,840
Speaker 4: My numbers make them almost eight point favorites here, so

1123
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 4: getting a lot of value totally on their side of

1124
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 4: the key. So Chargers minus four and a half.

1125
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, up to five and a half in a few places,

1126
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 2: but yeah, those four and a halfs are still out there.

1127
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 2: And it's interesting that the first half is two and

1128
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,759
Speaker 2: a half. So at two and a half to five

1129
00:54:02,800 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 2: and a half, that first half does look a little attractive.

1130
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 2: I will say this. I looked it up before I

1131
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,760
Speaker 2: toss you to your other pick, Saints first half Packers

1132
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 2: full game plus seven fifty, So it's basically the equivalent

1133
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 2: of taking the Saints full game. It's about the same price,

1134
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:18,800
Speaker 2: which is kind of interesting.

1135
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 4: I gotta point that out because if you if you

1136
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 4: do take the Saints first quarter or halftime, I would

1137
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 4: absolutely still take the Packers full time because I know

1138
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 4: you don't really think that those Saints are gonna win

1139
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 4: the game. They can lead early, so at least juice

1140
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:35,399
Speaker 4: your bet what the Packers coming back to win later?

1141
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 3: So I like that.

1142
00:54:36,320 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 4: Look my second hot read, I'm going with a teaser.

1143
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:42,120
Speaker 4: You know I love my just win baby teasers. So

1144
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 4: stay in the AFC Wild Card race. Give me the Colts,

1145
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 4: give me the Dolphins, and more importantly, give me the

1146
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 4: teams they're playing against. So Colts mia seven and a

1147
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 4: half at the Giants, We're gonna tease that down to

1148
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 4: one and a half. Basically, just win, please not by

1149
00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 4: one point, and the Dolphins minus six at the Browns

1150
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 4: will tease that down to a pick them. Now, look,

1151
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,759
Speaker 4: you kind of mentioned this as we talked about the

1152
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 4: Cardinals Rams situation. It's dangerous betting on these teams and

1153
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 4: must win situations. I know you're gonna have trends about

1154
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:14,400
Speaker 4: that in your article coming up. Here's one that I

1155
00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 4: have from Week sixteen forward. Teams that have won forty

1156
00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 4: to sixty percent of their games facing a team eight

1157
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 4: to twenty five percent worse. Those teams are thirty two,

1158
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,479
Speaker 4: seventy four and five ats thirty percent. We just saw

1159
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,640
Speaker 4: the Bucks Sunday night in that spot lose outright to Dallas.

1160
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 4: These lines get inflated. I think the lines are touch

1161
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 4: high already. If you want ats, I think you gotta

1162
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 4: bet the giants of the Browns. I don't want to

1163
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 4: bet the giants of the Browns, so I'm teasing instead

1164
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 4: to just get the win. So why the case for

1165
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 4: the wins? I don't know if I really gonna make

1166
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 4: too much of it. I don't know if I trust

1167
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson on the road, but I do trust the

1168
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,399
Speaker 4: two and thirteen Giants to lose, which is all I'm

1169
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 4: really asking them to do here is just lose, baby.

1170
00:55:56,800 --> 00:55:59,160
Speaker 4: They can tell their destiny for the one seed again

1171
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 4: the culture of thirty. I trust the Colts defense against

1172
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 4: Drew lock against that defense against the offense. I should

1173
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,480
Speaker 4: say of the Giants, they held the Titans one hundred

1174
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 4: and eleven yards.

1175
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:09,839
Speaker 3: Who our garbage time?

1176
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 2: There?

1177
00:56:10,480 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 4: I don't need richardson thrown passes. The Colts have made

1178
00:56:12,719 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 4: it clear they don't need him either. Just run the ball,

1179
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 4: Jonathan Taylor get the job done there. I trust the

1180
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 4: Colts defense and run game. Dolphins have I think been

1181
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 4: in like three or four teasers for me. They might

1182
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 4: be my teaser team of the season. I think that's

1183
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:29,319
Speaker 4: because they're not what we wanted them to be. They're

1184
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,280
Speaker 4: kind of fine though, they're not terrible, and not terrible

1185
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 4: beats the Browns because the Browns are starting the terrible

1186
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 4: Dorian Thompson Robinson, which to me is just like a

1187
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 4: shouting sign we are done winning this season. We would

1188
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 4: like a high draft pick please, And I think they're

1189
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 4: well on the way there. Miami's run defense has been good,

1190
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,400
Speaker 4: so it's only on the passing on Cleveland, Dorrian Thompson

1191
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 4: Robinson is not a passing NFL quarterback. The Browns defense

1192
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:56,919
Speaker 4: is falling off, and the Dolphins can find enough there.

1193
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:00,799
Speaker 4: So I'll make the counter argument here. I'm taking the

1194
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 4: Dolphins and the Colts on the road in cold, gross environments.

1195
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:07,760
Speaker 4: Do I feel good about Richardson and Tua there?

1196
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 3: No, I do not.

1197
00:57:09,440 --> 00:57:12,439
Speaker 4: Here's what I feel good about. I'm taking Drew lock

1198
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 4: in dtr to lose games. I feel good about that

1199
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:20,760
Speaker 4: these franchises are broadcasting to us. We want to lose

1200
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 4: the game. We are trying to tank and lose the game.

1201
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 4: So just win, baby, Colts minus one and a half

1202
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 4: on the teaser, Dolphins down to pick them. Just get

1203
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 4: it over the line, don't pay attention, don't watch. It's

1204
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 4: gonna be ugly. We won't have any notes next week.

1205
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 4: Just when Colts Dolphins teezer.

1206
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, to your point, though, so two of five and

1207
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 2: six ats this year, but he's eight and two in

1208
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 2: a six twenty ties, which kind of says to your point,

1209
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:49,959
Speaker 2: And even looking at the forecast this weekend, forty seven

1210
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,959
Speaker 2: degrees in Cleveland. Might be some wind, might be some rain,

1211
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 2: but forty seven degrees so I think Tua can handle

1212
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 2: forty seven degrees. All right. Before we wrap up, let's

1213
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 2: hear from Patrick Everson from Vegas Insiders and how things

1214
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 2: looked in Las Vegas.

1215
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for having me back, Evan. Always good

1216
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: to be on the Action Network podcast. Patrick Everson recapping

1217
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 1: NFL Week sixteen Odds and Action and Look. The bottom

1218
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: line is, it's another pretty good week for the public,

1219
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: the recreational betters behind the counter. You have favorites going

1220
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 1: into the Monday night game at eleven and four straight up,

1221
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 1: ten and five against the spread, and those marks both

1222
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: are generally good news for the recreational betters, which is,

1223
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: as we've all discussed before, the overwhelming majority of betters.

1224
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: And Tristan Davis at bet MGM, he said, betters continue

1225
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 1: to have a great weekend with the majority of favorites

1226
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: getting the job done. He mentioned that before Sunday Nights

1227
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:53,439
Speaker 1: Buccaneers Cowboys game, and what he said is we will

1228
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: need the Cowboys to forget they officially can't make the playoffs. Well,

1229
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 1: apparently the Cowboys did forget that actually as a home

1230
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: underdog beat Tampa Bay. So that was a result that

1231
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:08,439
Speaker 1: definitely went in favor of the bookmakers, and so too

1232
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: did the Patriots covering against the Buffalo Bills. Patriots led

1233
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 1: that game fourteen zero early. And then, of course, the

1234
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:19,760
Speaker 1: real biggie here on the sportsbook side, one that went

1235
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: against the betters was the Commander's rallying coming back behind

1236
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels to post that remarkable win against the Philadelphia Eagles,

1237
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 1: who had won ten in a row. So what you

1238
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 1: have is, even though the favorites did really well eleven

1239
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:34,800
Speaker 1: and four straight up, ten and five against the spread,

1240
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: a couple of key favorites did not cover, and in

1241
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,680
Speaker 1: the case of the Eagles and the Buccaneers obviously did

1242
00:59:42,680 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: not even win at all. So that blows up money

1243
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:48,360
Speaker 1: line parlays and so forth too. So a little bit

1244
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 1: of a mixed bag. I think it's safe to say

1245
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: that at some of the major books, the public probably

1246
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: still came out ahead overall, as Tristan Davis alluded to

1247
00:59:56,360 --> 01:00:00,959
Speaker 1: at BETAMGM. At BETAMGM, the Lions were the most bet

1248
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 1: team by spread tickets, the most bet team by spread money,

1249
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 1: and the Lions doubled up the Bears thirty four to seventeen.

1250
01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: So the public is happy to keep riding that Detroit

1251
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: Lions train. There was a little bit of a hiccup

1252
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: for Detroit over the last couple of weeks, but they're

1253
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: now winning and covering again. The Bengals were a real

1254
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 1: popular play, and the Bengals won and covered against Cleveland,

1255
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 1: So those two games definitely fell the public's way over

1256
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: at Draft Kings. I know the Lions were a very

1257
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: popular play. I believe they were number one in tickets

1258
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: and money there as well. Yes, there were number one

1259
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 1: and tickets and money, followed in order in tickets by

1260
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 1: the Rams, Bengals, Eagles, and Bills. The Rams got there

1261
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: and covered, the Bengals got there and covered, and in

1262
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 1: money the Lions were file, followed by the Bengals, Eagles, Rams, Bills,

1263
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: same teams, just different order. And as I noted, the

1264
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 1: Bengals got there and the Rams got there. So generally speaking,

1265
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: probably a decent weekend for the public. But there were

1266
01:00:57,320 --> 01:01:00,080
Speaker 1: a couple of books, including the super Book based on

1267
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 1: the Patriots covering in the late window against the Bills

1268
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 1: and then Dallas going out and winning outright Sunday night

1269
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:12,120
Speaker 1: against Tampa. The super Book actually came out ahead for

1270
01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:15,800
Speaker 1: the NFL weekend, and again part of what helped the

1271
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 1: public this weekend was the two games Saturday that both

1272
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: fell the public's way, the Chiefs winning and covering the

1273
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: Ravens winning and covering. Coupled with I've just mentioned this

1274
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,560
Speaker 1: it's not NFL, but the College Football Playoff, all three

1275
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 1: favorites winning cover and there were plenty of parlays that

1276
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: were running to all five favorites on Saturday, the three

1277
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:37,040
Speaker 1: College Football Playoff favorites and the two favorites in the NFL,

1278
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: and those favorites went five and zero against the spread

1279
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 1: and four one are the over, by the way, and

1280
01:01:42,960 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 1: the public loves to bet on the over as well.

1281
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:48,520
Speaker 1: So all in all, probably a pretty good weekend for

1282
01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: the betting public, but it wasn't a runaway by any stretch.

1283
01:01:51,640 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 1: Looking ahead to the Monday night game at BETAMGM. Heading

1284
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: into Monday, not overwhelming action on the Packers, which is

1285
01:01:57,800 --> 01:01:59,320
Speaker 1: a little bit of a surprise, but it's such a

1286
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:03,120
Speaker 1: huge number, their two touchdown favorites taking sixty four percent

1287
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: of spread bets, fifty nine percent of spread money. First

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Speaker 1: off DraftKings is at fourteen and a half now and

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Speaker 1: it's a little more lopsided there, about two to one

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Speaker 1: tickets and almost four to one money on the Packers

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Speaker 1: to cover that number, which doesn't surprise me at all.

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Speaker 1: It's probably going to be super super cold, which is

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Speaker 1: not the Saints type of weather for sure, So you

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Speaker 1: can almost rest assured that the book is going to

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Speaker 1: need the Saints to at least cover the number tomorrow night.

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Speaker 1: And if there are any parlays, moneyline parlays and such

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Speaker 1: still alive, those are going to be running to the

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Speaker 1: Packers as well. So that's your wrap on NFL Week sixteen.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you having me. Merry Christmas to everybody, and we'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you in a week.

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Speaker 2: That has been the Action Network podcast recap episode for

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Speaker 2: Week sixteen. We've got all the bets, went through all

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Speaker 2: the games. We will be back here on Thursday for

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Speaker 2: the Best Bets episode. We will also be back here

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Speaker 2: on Sunday night to recap everything that happened in Week seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Two weeks to go in this beautiful full NFL regular season.

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Speaker 2: Definitely stay with us for all our coverage and check

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Speaker 2: out actionnetwork dot com in the Action Network app. I

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Speaker 2: am Evan Abrams. That is Brandon Anderson, and we will

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Speaker 2: see you soon.

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