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Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now. Welcome players, You're welcome. Are
Speaker 1: you up for more? Mallard Mayhem? It's time now Benny
Speaker 1: versus the penny again, as we try to buck the
Speaker 1: odds here and we give you Benny versus the pain.
Speaker 1: We play the speculation game, as we challenge the point
Speaker 1: spreads in the National Football League. We're heading into week two,
Speaker 1: the full weekend. We all had that game Thursday night.
Speaker 1: You know the outcome there between Carol Line and Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay in a lightning played game, bad weather. They're at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the game anyway there between Carolina and
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. But let's get into this now before we
Speaker 1: go to the rest of the week two. Car We
Speaker 1: already did that game on the radio show, so we
Speaker 1: gotta look ahead to the games on Sunday and Monday night.
Speaker 1: How did we do last week? Guests? Gonna get right
Speaker 1: on that, Mike. I want you to talk slowly. I
Speaker 1: want you to enunciate every word. I want you to
Speaker 1: talk proudly because someone had an amazing day against the
Speaker 1: penny and against the Vegas bookmakers. One three dash three.
Speaker 1: Now you didn't say that, right, You try that again?
Speaker 1: One dash three? You think you're funny? Are you very cute?
Speaker 1: That is an eight winning percentage. That's better than Belichick,
Speaker 1: is better than Greg Papavits. Thank you very much. Let
Speaker 1: me take a very three lap here. I'll take a bow. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: all right, now now we can move on. Guess now,
Speaker 1: I want to point out now some guys are emailing me.
Speaker 1: I One guy said he's gonna bet every one of
Speaker 1: these games against the spread because I had such a
Speaker 1: good week. That is a that's not a I do
Speaker 1: not recommend that. I appreciate your confidence in me, but
Speaker 1: I know from past experiences, not that I'm paranoid, but
Speaker 1: I have had weeks like this from time to time,
Speaker 1: and then like a trap door opens up and I
Speaker 1: go down into a pit of flames. So I'm warning
Speaker 1: you that the law of averages would say I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back and not be that good this week, but
Speaker 1: I am optimistic that I have finally figured out how
Speaker 1: to handicap NFL games and this will be how it
Speaker 1: goes all year and I will set a new record
Speaker 1: for picking games against the spread. So that's my that's my.
Speaker 1: What's the closest you've ever gotten to running the table?
Speaker 1: I think I lost two games one weekend, so I
Speaker 1: went fourteen and two. Uh, this was close, though, This
Speaker 1: thirteen and three is close to the the goodest, the
Speaker 1: greatest weeken I've ever had. Um, But I mean, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna go sixteen for sixteen. I just think that's
Speaker 1: un unrealistic. And then most of the year the starting
Speaker 1: the bye weeks start. I think what week four, week
Speaker 1: five to buy start in the NFL, so there won't
Speaker 1: be sixteen games every weekend. But anyway, al right, let's
Speaker 1: get to it. First game up here, Indianapolis at Tennessee,
Speaker 1: a couple of oh and one teams. It actually will
Speaker 1: Tennessee's wont and all they beat Cleveland. Excuse me? What
Speaker 1: Tennessee and Indianapolis. The game's on CBS. Spiroudidas and Adam
Speaker 1: arch Aletta are gonna be broadcasting this game. The Titans
Speaker 1: opened up a five and a half point favorite. They
Speaker 1: are favored by three, so it's essentially an even matchup.
Speaker 1: You get three points as the home team. Uh, Titans
Speaker 1: played great, pulled away late from Cleveland. I am gonna
Speaker 1: take Tennessee. That's my pick. I'll take a why all right?
Speaker 1: The Titans obviously could not have asked for a better
Speaker 1: opening act. They went turbotime in the fourth quarter, close game.
Speaker 1: The defense is wonderfully got a nasty ball hawking defense
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. How about Cameron Wake who played like King
Speaker 1: Kong uh for the Titans the old Miami Dolphin at
Speaker 1: two and a half sacks, I had one that that
Speaker 1: resulted in a safety against that woe begone Cleveland Brown's team.
Speaker 1: And the way I look at the Titsana, I'm not
Speaker 1: on the Marcus Mariota bandwagon, but you can cover for
Speaker 1: the shortcomings of Marcus Mariota with the power running game.
Speaker 1: They've got the power running game there. Uh and the defense.
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's a good formula there. Uh. Now
Speaker 1: that the concern is that everyone's been kissing the Titans
Speaker 1: ask saying how good they looked and all that. Uh,
Speaker 1: does that? Does that mean they come back to earth
Speaker 1: here this week and regrets to the mean? Secondly, Indian
Speaker 1: happens now. I will give Jacobe Brissette credit. I did
Speaker 1: not expect him to play well. He did play very
Speaker 1: well against the Chargers last week. I don't believe he'll
Speaker 1: do it again. I doubt that Marlon Mack a good
Speaker 1: running back for the Colts, but you're talking about a
Speaker 1: an elite Tennessee Titans defense. Mac had a hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy four yards last week. Uh in the game against
Speaker 1: the Charges. But this is gonna be a close game.
Speaker 1: It's the divisional game. It's only three points here, and
Speaker 1: I would I would suspect that the Tennessee Titans will
Speaker 1: will be able to score against the Colts defense. The
Speaker 1: Charges were able to to move the ball in a
Speaker 1: pretty good clip there, So I believe Tennessee will pull
Speaker 1: away and it will be the Titans thirty three and
Speaker 1: the Colts twenty four. Will be your fun. Penny likes
Speaker 1: the times as well. Be sure to catch live editions
Speaker 1: of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
Speaker 1: eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. And the I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio app. All right. Next up, it's Many versus
Speaker 1: the Penny of the l A Chargers of Carson, California,
Speaker 1: who beat the Colts last week, take on the Lions,
Speaker 1: who are O O and one boy. I hate that
Speaker 1: tie thing. It's on CBS. Kevin Harland, Rich Gannon have
Speaker 1: the call here of this game. The Chargers opened a
Speaker 1: two and a half point favorite. The line he stayed flat.
Speaker 1: The pick is in and the pick I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Charges. I'm gonna take a road favorite. Try to
Speaker 1: avoid that, but I'm gonna take the Charges in the spot.
Speaker 1: Charges had to work over time. We just talked about
Speaker 1: that Colts game last week. Now Detroit is a downgrade
Speaker 1: in terms of opponent. The only thing that scares me
Speaker 1: about taking the Charges here is the dreaded body clock.
Speaker 1: Historically West Coast teams playing that early ten am kickoff
Speaker 1: in the Eastern time zone. It messes up your bio
Speaker 1: rhythms and all that. This game being played in Detroit.
Speaker 1: But the Charges of the better team. They've been a
Speaker 1: really good road team this era of Charger football under
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn. They've traveled well pretty much every game they
Speaker 1: plays on the road. Because they have no fan base
Speaker 1: at the stadium in Cars, a very small fan base.
Speaker 1: So uh so for them, they're they're used to it,
Speaker 1: and they're they're pretty strong fundamentally, pretty strong fundamentally, So
Speaker 1: I liked them in that regard. And the secondly, it's
Speaker 1: more a bet against the Lions than anything. The Lions
Speaker 1: got off to a pretty good start in the game
Speaker 1: against Arizona that they ended up tying. They played very
Speaker 1: raggedy football on the fourth quarter. Obviously, they were careless,
Speaker 1: they were seemingly incapable of just closing the door. There
Speaker 1: was a phantom time out that was called that would
Speaker 1: have sealed the game for the Lions, but the coach
Speaker 1: called the time out. They would have got a first
Speaker 1: down to seal the game. But but I, as I suspected,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford on the road, uh not good. I like
Speaker 1: him better at home. I think he'll be better here
Speaker 1: in this game. But the Chargers are just more talented,
Speaker 1: and you'd like to go with the more talented team.
Speaker 1: It's not even a field goal points bread and so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the team that should still be in
Speaker 1: San Diego, the l A Chargers. Chargers twenty eight Lions twenty.
Speaker 1: Your final bounce back week for Detroit. Penny is going
Speaker 1: with the Lions. Uh No, Lions will be oh and
Speaker 1: two on their way to a solid five and eleven season.
Speaker 1: Technically they'll be oh one and one. If you think that, well, well,
Speaker 1: I consider a tie a loss. I know some people don't,
Speaker 1: but I consider a tie a loss. That's how I
Speaker 1: lived my life. You like ties, you like participation, trop
Speaker 1: he's gascon. I know you're into all that stuff, but
Speaker 1: I am not. I am not part of it. All right,
Speaker 1: time for our first quiz on Benny versus the penny,
Speaker 1: and here it is. Bills running back Devin Singletary average
Speaker 1: seventeen point five yards per Russia attempt in his NFL
Speaker 1: debut last week, the second highest average by any player
Speaker 1: in his first career game since the merger, with a
Speaker 1: minimum of at least four carries behind blank. Okay, so,
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary running back for Buffalo average seventeen and a
Speaker 1: half yards per Russia attempt in his NFL debut, second
Speaker 1: highest average by any player in his first career games
Speaker 1: since the merger. Again the criteria minimum four starts of
Speaker 1: four carries behind Blank. The answer coming up shortly. Now.
Speaker 1: You can't send the answer in on Twitter because you
Speaker 1: know it's a podcast, but you can you can know
Speaker 1: whether you got it right or not, so have the
Speaker 1: answer in your head. I'll give you the answer in
Speaker 1: a second. Next up, speaking of the Bills, Buffalo and
Speaker 1: the Giants, It's on cb ask the Bills one and
Speaker 1: oh the New York Giants, oh and one. Greg Gubble
Speaker 1: and Trent Green have the call on this on television.
Speaker 1: The the Bills opened a two and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: The line I have in front of me here at
Speaker 1: the current line as we're doing this in real time
Speaker 1: is one and a half. So Buffalo Road favorite by
Speaker 1: one and a half. I'm I'm gonna go out here
Speaker 1: and go somewhere I don't normally go. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills is a small road favorite. I didn't
Speaker 1: think I would ever take the Buffalo Bills as a
Speaker 1: small road favorite. But I like the moxie the Bills
Speaker 1: play with defensively, and it's like they've almost relocated to
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Here they're the only team in New York
Speaker 1: and in Buffalo. All the other teams in New York
Speaker 1: who claimed to be from New York, playing over in
Speaker 1: New Jersey, but just across the river there. But the
Speaker 1: Bills played the Jets last weekend. They are back at
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium this week against the Giants. Equally bad team
Speaker 1: Giants actually worse than the Jets. Uh. Josh Allen continues
Speaker 1: to be a disorganized mess for large chunks of the game.
Speaker 1: He looks bewildered, discombobulated. Uh. And then there's some kind
Speaker 1: of spell that goes over him. And he's been doing
Speaker 1: this sporadically where he he then turns into like the
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly circa of the early nineties Buffalo Bills, that
Speaker 1: vintage of the business. Very bizarre Josh Allen. Just to
Speaker 1: prove my point, my evidence here, Josh Allen had a
Speaker 1: forty four passer rating, no touchdowns, and two interceptions over
Speaker 1: the first three quarters last week against the Jets. He
Speaker 1: was Kyler Murray bad. All right, that's how bad. That's bad.
Speaker 1: That is bad. And then Josh Allen, the Bill's quarterback,
Speaker 1: went turbotime. Had a hundred and forty two point five
Speaker 1: passer rating. He was eight of ten a hundred and
Speaker 1: two yards in the fourth quarter of the game. For
Speaker 1: the for for Buffalo. It's insane how you could be
Speaker 1: that bad for the Bulk. And Allen does this all
Speaker 1: the time. I Murray played well late in the game,
Speaker 1: but for three quarters he was horrible and the Cardinals
Speaker 1: should have lost that That game is a shame they tie,
Speaker 1: which I consider loss anyway. Uh, how about this fun
Speaker 1: fact Josh Allen has thrown for two hundred plus yards
Speaker 1: in each of his last six games. How bad have
Speaker 1: the Buffalo quarterbacks been. The last Bills quarterback to throw
Speaker 1: for two hundred plus yards in seven straight games was
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly. I just mentioned Jim. Jim Kelly was the
Speaker 1: last one. You know how old Jim Kelly is right now?
Speaker 1: He's he's fifty nine, all right. He hadn't played in
Speaker 1: a long time. Uh. In fact, Jim Kelly last played
Speaker 1: in NFL game back in and still had that. It's
Speaker 1: not three hundred yards, its two hundred yards. That is football,
Speaker 1: and competence is what that is. Now. The second part
Speaker 1: of this is we handicapped this game. The Giants. They
Speaker 1: committed their own football malpractice in dollars. They played careless,
Speaker 1: sloppy football, especially on defense. They turned Dakota Prescott into
Speaker 1: Drew Brees. You figured things should get easier because that
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's spurred attic with his play here. But when
Speaker 1: you are undisciplined and generally untalented, that typically turns every
Speaker 1: quarterback into a legend. So this is this is an
Speaker 1: even matchup in terms of offense. I don't think I
Speaker 1: don't think the Giants offense is any worse than the
Speaker 1: Bills offense. But the key advantage here, the trump card
Speaker 1: is the Buffalo Bills defense. As we always say, defense
Speaker 1: travels well. Love the Bills defensively, So I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: my money, even as a small road favorite. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the Buffalo Bills Buffalo nineteen the Giants sixteen Danger Danger.
Speaker 1: Penny is going with the home team again in New
Speaker 1: York Giants. Alright, tire, you going with the home team.
Speaker 1: That's when you've been on bad teams, bad things happen.
Speaker 1: That's generally how that works, So good luck. Be sure
Speaker 1: to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays
Speaker 1: at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Gotta pay off
Speaker 1: the quiz I mentioned Bills running back Devin Singletary Average
Speaker 1: seventeen and a half yards rush in his NFL debut.
Speaker 1: That's the most of any player in his first career
Speaker 1: game since the merger minimum four starts behind Blank. It's
Speaker 1: actually second highest behind Blank. Do you have an answer, Gascon,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the nobleman here. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with a former giant as a Dave Meggett. Dave Meggatt. Uh,
Speaker 1: I see what you did there, Dave Meggett kind of
Speaker 1: a scatback. No, the answer is a former Chicago beart
Speaker 1: who had a rather undistinguished NFL career, but he does
Speaker 1: have this bizarre obscure record. Khalil Bell. Remember Khalil Bell? Yes,
Speaker 1: he wasn't very good in the NFL, was he? I
Speaker 1: know he went to u C. L A if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, A gutty little bruin. Yeah. I think he's
Speaker 1: in wrestling now. Somebody I read somewhere that he's Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know how this popped up, but he's like
Speaker 1: doing stuff with the w w E or like that.
Speaker 1: I think. I don't know, maybe maybe I made that up.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We got it on Fox now so
Speaker 1: we can watch that eventually. Yeah, alright, moving on It's
Speaker 1: Benny versus the Penny. Week two of the NFL got
Speaker 1: a lot of games to get to Arizona, oh oh
Speaker 1: and one at Baltimore. One to know, it's on Fox
Speaker 1: someone named Brandon Garden along with Chris Carter and Pete Trigger.
Speaker 1: He's the field reporter will be calling this game. You
Speaker 1: are aware of Brandon Garden? E A U D I N. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's actually the uh little envious. He's actually the voice
Speaker 1: of Madden Football. Oh is that right? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: along with Charles Davis. Yeah, you know. I used to
Speaker 1: work with someone that was a voice over artist on
Speaker 1: Madden Football, the great Tony Bruno. No kidding. Yeah, at
Speaker 1: one period in the early two thousands, I believe it
Speaker 1: was Tony Bruno was They had a sports talk radio
Speaker 1: feature in Madden and Bruno was like on the game
Speaker 1: that it's pretty you're connected to some really good people
Speaker 1: that are high up the food chain. Like, I'm surprised
Speaker 1: you're not. Wow, I mean, this is this is not
Speaker 1: about you, guess it's the fifth Hours about me. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go all right. Ravens opened a thirteen and a
Speaker 1: point favorite. There down to thirteen. I am going to
Speaker 1: take the Cardinals. I hope I am wrong. I would
Speaker 1: like to lose this game. I would like the Ravens
Speaker 1: to win forty one to nothing. I think that would
Speaker 1: be great. But I as a gambler, the gambler in
Speaker 1: me who has done this for a few years, knows
Speaker 1: that the only way to bet this game is the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray had the most incomplete passes by a rookie
Speaker 1: in his first NFL start since the a f L
Speaker 1: NFL merger, and now he goes against the team. You
Speaker 1: compare the Ravens defense to the Lions defense, moron, I mean,
Speaker 1: my gut, the Baltimore defense is is an elite defense.
Speaker 1: There are a great defense and all that, and the Lions, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like some of the players they have on defense,
Speaker 1: but that's not an all time great defensive football teams.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to to play much better against
Speaker 1: a ferocious defense in on on the road. At first glance,
Speaker 1: this is a recipe for disaster, and that certainly explains
Speaker 1: the points Bright plus you we'll get to in a minute. Here.
Speaker 1: You also have what happened last week. This has all
Speaker 1: the ingredients to a blowout in favor of Baltimore. But
Speaker 1: I despise betting big favorites. It goes against my gambling pedigree.
Speaker 1: I got burned too many times bett in the chalk,
Speaker 1: choking on the chalk, as they say in the gambling world. Uh,
Speaker 1: so I gotta take Arizona and saying in Baltimore took
Speaker 1: advantage of a wounded sea animal. They sliced up the
Speaker 1: Dolphins last week, as we said into sushi. Uh in Miami,
Speaker 1: they played gutless football. So I don't put too much
Speaker 1: stock into Baltimore being so much better than everyone else
Speaker 1: that they're gonna score fifty nine points and Lamar Jackson's
Speaker 1: gonna be better than Tom Brady and all that. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's what the book he wants though, right, But what
Speaker 1: the book he wants, They the oddsmakers use the public
Speaker 1: perception to their advantage. Like they know that Baltimore is
Speaker 1: not you know, they should not be thirteen point favorites
Speaker 1: over areas not a thirteen points separate these teams. But
Speaker 1: they know they know the public will no matter what
Speaker 1: the line is, because Baltimore played so well and the
Speaker 1: end team they're gonna put, people are gonna bet on Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson had a game to join the book of Legends.
Speaker 1: I would think that that does not happen back to
Speaker 1: back weeks. Even though Arizona is not a great defensive
Speaker 1: team either. They have their own shortcomings here, but at
Speaker 1: least they're gonna be trying something the Miami Dolphins did
Speaker 1: not do. They had no ambition, they were they were
Speaker 1: completely checked out there going through the motions and and
Speaker 1: all those kind of terms that you want to use.
Speaker 1: There was a half asked effort, uh and and just
Speaker 1: no enthusiasm. No. I believe Arizona will start out with
Speaker 1: some enthusiasm, but in the end, in the end, I
Speaker 1: will take the Ravens to win, but the Cardinals to
Speaker 1: win the money Ravens thirty, Cardinals twenty, and I expect
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray to have several more batted passes in a
Speaker 1: bunch of incompleation, Penny will follow you all the way
Speaker 1: to Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals. All right, we
Speaker 1: agree on that. Next up, New England at Miami, another
Speaker 1: big point spread game. Patriots one at Old Dolphins, oh
Speaker 1: and one many sink the Patriots the most impressive team
Speaker 1: in Week one, even more than the Ravens because the
Speaker 1: Ravens didn't play a real opponent. The Patriots just schooled
Speaker 1: the Steelers games on CBS. I An Eagle and Dan
Speaker 1: Fouts have the the call on this. The line. The
Speaker 1: Patriots opened a fourteen and a half point favorite. That's
Speaker 1: a massive line, and now the Patriots are an eighteen
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite. At some places is as
Speaker 1: much as nineteen and a half. The line. I have
Speaker 1: the place that I look at the eighteen and a
Speaker 1: half in favor of the Patriots. So, uh, here's here's
Speaker 1: what I do. I think you know where I'm going
Speaker 1: with this. I'm not proud to do it. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: ashamed to do it, but I gotta do it. I'm
Speaker 1: taking the Miami Dolphins, all right. I'm taking the Dolphins. Now.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet this game. The only way I would
Speaker 1: bet the game is the Dolphins. We have to pick
Speaker 1: every game. It's kind of the bit, you know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of the stickle I here, we pick every game,
Speaker 1: So I will take the Dolphins gun to my head.
Speaker 1: First of all, Bill Belichick does not seem like the
Speaker 1: type who's gonna run up the score on one of
Speaker 1: his former gels. That's really what you have to hope for, right.
Speaker 1: You have to hope for it because you gotta work
Speaker 1: to win a game by twenty plus points, which is
Speaker 1: what's essentially gonna happen have to happen. Here on the service,
Speaker 1: it appears that Tom Brady and Antonio Brown, if even plays,
Speaker 1: I don't know at the time we're doing this. He's
Speaker 1: still eligible to play, is not on any list. Maybe
Speaker 1: he will end up on a list by Sunday. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you pretty much picked the final score. It's
Speaker 1: child's play for the Patriots. If if they sleepwalk though
Speaker 1: into Miami and don't take the opponents seriously, then we'll
Speaker 1: definitely get a cover from the Dolphins. Uh, it's unthinkable
Speaker 1: to see Ryan Fitzpatrick and friends actually winning the game.
Speaker 1: I don't think that anyway they win the game. So
Speaker 1: if a money line bet, you're just taking invest a lot,
Speaker 1: but you're guaranteed to win outside of Tom Brady breaking
Speaker 1: his ankle on the border. But they can keep it
Speaker 1: close if they try, right. If if that's the goal,
Speaker 1: that's the aspiration, if they desire that and they put
Speaker 1: some work in, you're going to to be competitive. You're
Speaker 1: gonna lose by back to back weeks. Also, I saw
Speaker 1: this interesting stat. Now, Brian Flores the coach in Miami,
Speaker 1: he will be the ninth former assistant coach under Bill Belichick,
Speaker 1: and then face Belichick is an NFL head coach. You
Speaker 1: know what the other eight opponents have? What their record
Speaker 1: is against Belichick? What do you think it is? Gascon
Speaker 1: winning percentage? Uh? Eight total games? So yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: winning percentage or whatever you want. But I just total
Speaker 1: wins versus losses out of eight, I'm gonna go one
Speaker 1: and seven. No, surprisingly, I was surprised. I was blown
Speaker 1: away by this. The other eight coaches that used to
Speaker 1: work for Belichick having a four and four record in
Speaker 1: their first meeting, and in all the meetings combined, there's
Speaker 1: been twenty one matchups where former Belichick coaches, the disciples
Speaker 1: of Belichick have gone against him, and ten and eleven
Speaker 1: they're like close to five. I was was there, very
Speaker 1: surprised by that. But here's another ridiculous stat about Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and the Patriots in Miami. They've lost some games
Speaker 1: there since Tom Brady has as many regular season losses
Speaker 1: in Miami has as he does in Foxboro. Is that
Speaker 1: not insane. They played one game a year there, alright. Anyway,
Speaker 1: the other thing on this game, if the Dolphins attempt
Speaker 1: to compete, as I said, uh, this will be easy,
Speaker 1: you'll feel very good about that. But from a handicapping standpoint,
Speaker 1: no travel you can bind that with. You would think
Speaker 1: some added motivation. If you have any personal pride and
Speaker 1: you make a team that big an underdog, that's a
Speaker 1: slap in the face. That's a kick in the nuts.
Speaker 1: As a as a home dog like that coming off
Speaker 1: a home loss, that's an extra reamly it should be
Speaker 1: an extremely dangerous spot, all things being equal. Uh, in
Speaker 1: this case, it was a beat down a biblical proportion.
Speaker 1: We talked about the Ravens kicking the snot out of them.
Speaker 1: It's hard to lose that way back to back, as
Speaker 1: we've said. And also the other thing I was trying
Speaker 1: to look for something to go with the Dolphins here.
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick has actually held his own statistically against Belichick
Speaker 1: coach teams, and just based on the box score right,
Speaker 1: four straight games against New England, two fifty plus passing
Speaker 1: yards and two plus touchdown passes and a passer rating
Speaker 1: over ninety. Those are pretty good numbers. There, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: if you get two touchdown passes out of Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: in this game, at least that will be enough to
Speaker 1: cover an almost twenty point line. So I'm gonna close
Speaker 1: my eyes, cover my ears, shut my mouth. Uh, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick, oh boy, the Dolphins to cover Patriots
Speaker 1: thirty eight. Dolphins one been the penny last week, went
Speaker 1: with you and took Miami of. This week, not so much.
Speaker 1: They're going Patriots. Yeah, that was one of the games
Speaker 1: I got wrong last week. I had faith in the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a glutton for punch from them. Back at
Speaker 1: it again with the Miami Dolphins. All right. Fox Sports
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Speaker 1: quiz guest. You ready for another quiz on the fifth
Speaker 1: hour of course? Alright, So Cardinals white out. Larry Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: is coming off his fifty fourth game with at least
Speaker 1: eight receptions. That's three more than any other player in
Speaker 1: NFL history. Who is behind Larry Fitzgerald Again, Larry Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: now fifty four games with at least eight receptions, three
Speaker 1: more than any other player in NFL history. Who is
Speaker 1: behind Larry Fitzgerald. Uh, we'll give you the answer in
Speaker 1: a second. Think about that and we'll give it to you.
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Speaker 1: Oh and one. It's all on Fox with Kevin Burkhardt
Speaker 1: and Charles Davis and the Fox Box that rocks. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys open a seven point favorite, They're currently favorite by four,
Speaker 1: and I have the pick here. I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: Redskins in this game. I'm going with Washington. A couple
Speaker 1: of reasons why I walk you through my my thought
Speaker 1: process here that the Cowboys took the Giants lunch money
Speaker 1: last week. We talked about the game earlier here, and
Speaker 1: they are writing high and I would believe you played
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys right now. You are close to overdosing
Speaker 1: on hyperbole. If you watch the Skip Baylors type talk
Speaker 1: shows on television, they are just lick lick, scrub scrub. Uh.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys here, Dak Prescott had a breakout game. The
Speaker 1: Cowboys played about as well as you can play in
Speaker 1: pretty much every area of the game, and now Dallas
Speaker 1: is being It's an overreaction here. The pendulum has swung
Speaker 1: too far. The Dallas is being propped up as the
Speaker 1: real deal. This is gonna be the Dak Prescott we
Speaker 1: get every week. I disagree. This game should be a
Speaker 1: slabber knocker. It should be a this game you like
Speaker 1: taking the underdog in a close game. The Redskins are
Speaker 1: are a bad opponent. They're not as bad as the Giants,
Speaker 1: uh they that. I like the way they play. They
Speaker 1: play with some guts and guile there. They certainly played
Speaker 1: like that in Philadelphia. The Redskins blew a seventeen point lead.
Speaker 1: Imagine how people's heads would have exploded if they had
Speaker 1: actually held on and won that game. But for more
Speaker 1: than than half the game, they in a hostile environment
Speaker 1: in Philly and a good Eagles team. On Eagles team
Speaker 1: that's more talented than the Cowboys, the Redskins were right there.
Speaker 1: And case Keenum, you know, he is not a great quarterback,
Speaker 1: his second tier quarterback. He's the middle of the road,
Speaker 1: as they say. But he was the top losing quarterback
Speaker 1: in Week one. Statistically, case Keenum, who lost, He had
Speaker 1: three yards passing, three touchdowns, no interceptions and was only
Speaker 1: sacked one time. It's really good. It's like really really good.
Speaker 1: And they still lost the game. Close, lost, late loss.
Speaker 1: Although they did, it wasn't that close. They got a
Speaker 1: backdoor cover, which I think the Redskins for. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: a reason like the Redskins that are open to the
Speaker 1: back door cover. I saw Adrian Peterson's gonna slide in
Speaker 1: as the starter there as the the geist man already
Speaker 1: out one week into his NFL season. He's injury prone,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be Adrian Peterson. Cowboys will have a
Speaker 1: tougher time on the road. I like home dogs, division
Speaker 1: no games. You're getting some value here. It's not I
Speaker 1: like it more if it was seven. But I like
Speaker 1: the four and a half Washington still early in the year.
Speaker 1: They got some fight in them. Cowboys come back to Earth,
Speaker 1: close game, fourth quarter game, Cowboys thirty, Redskins twenty six.
Speaker 1: Penny likes the back door action on the Skins taking
Speaker 1: Washington much like you like that back door action all right? Uh.
Speaker 1: The quizzier guess on the Cardinals Larry Fitzgerald coming off
Speaker 1: his fifty four career game with at least eight receptions,
Speaker 1: three more than any other player in NFL history who
Speaker 1: is second? Do you have an answer? I do, and
Speaker 1: I think I know this one actually, all right? Is
Speaker 1: it former Brown Dante Stalworth, the Great Dante? Wow? Uh? No,
Speaker 1: I know he's your favorite driver because he actually drives
Speaker 1: better than you, which is amazing thing. Yea, but yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: the answer is Marvin Harrison. Marvin Harrison, who also has
Speaker 1: a shady past car wash. Yeah, you know, baseball, bats,
Speaker 1: guns in the whole. Why not. You gotta live, you
Speaker 1: gotta live the life. Man. Don't judge. Don't judge Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's a fine, fine guy. I did a
Speaker 1: whole monologue. Remember years ago. One of the things Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison said the Colts I think it was the first
Speaker 1: time they were in the Super Bowl with Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: that they lost, and Marvin Harrison was like, I wish
Speaker 1: we could play this game in an empty stadium with
Speaker 1: no fans there. He said that, Remember that? Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was like, I was thinking, like, well, is that a
Speaker 1: because you really are, you know, an introvert. I'm an introvert?
Speaker 1: You really like that? Or is it be that you
Speaker 1: just a lot of guys that are that could do
Speaker 1: some crazy stuff that you don't want in the crowd,
Speaker 1: you know, like bad guys, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Guess that's a you thinking how guys like you are introverts,
Speaker 1: yet you talked for a living. That's that's fascinating. Well,
Speaker 1: as I tell my wife all the time, for a
Speaker 1: few hours a day, I am an extrovert. But for
Speaker 1: the rest of the time, when I'm not on the clock,
Speaker 1: I I keep to myself. It's almost like it's staged, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: not stage the way I would say it is. You
Speaker 1: can't be like this all the time because no one
Speaker 1: would want to be around you. You'd be unbearable. And
Speaker 1: who wants to be around someone that is unbearable? Right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's detestable, intolerable. Um, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not know. I keep to myself and
Speaker 1: then I talked when I'm supposed to talk, and I
Speaker 1: shut up unlike you and I'm supposed to shut up alright.
Speaker 1: Moving on, Benny Versus the Penny, Jacksonville at Houston. It
Speaker 1: is on CBS Jacksonville, Owen one Houston, also oh and one.
Speaker 1: They lost the Monday Night thriller Andrew Kitalan was his name,
Speaker 1: Catalan Catalan, Andrew Catalan and James Lofton I have the
Speaker 1: call there. The Texans opened to three and a half
Speaker 1: point favorite, but this line shot all the way up
Speaker 1: to nine nine in a divisional game. It's gonna nine
Speaker 1: one degrees mostly sunny, but it's a dome. I assume
Speaker 1: the dome will be closed. Maybe not if it's open
Speaker 1: ninety one degree. Whether they're the pick is in taking Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: Taking Jacksonville. Uh, And I'll tell you why, Number one Houston.
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be some hangover from what happened
Speaker 1: in New Orleans a Monday night, short week. They blew
Speaker 1: a huge opportunity to be the talk of the town
Speaker 1: in the NFL. They gave that game away and so
Speaker 1: much so. We know they gave that game away because
Speaker 1: the guy that got burned for the game winning field
Speaker 1: goal and a touchdown the second half, UH, Colvin was
Speaker 1: released by Bill O'Brien in a very emotional, uh emotional situation.
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brian was like bewildered. He's like, I gotta get
Speaker 1: rid of this guy. It's embarrassing. So he just released
Speaker 1: the guy with a paid him like seven million hours
Speaker 1: to go away. So that tells you the mindset of
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. That tells you the mindset of the
Speaker 1: locker room. That O'Brien sending the message, I don't care
Speaker 1: who the f you are. If you don't do your job,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fire your ass. It so sense to know
Speaker 1: what he said. And how about this J. J. Watt,
Speaker 1: Much like David Gascon, they have something in common. They're
Speaker 1: both guilty of being tardy and absentee. Is um uh
Speaker 1: Gascon This podcast being recorded much later than it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be because Gascon uh doesn't know how to
Speaker 1: book a flight. But now now they are. Now they're
Speaker 1: banged up as well. So typically a poor Jaguar team
Speaker 1: is just what the doctor ordered. But this line, to
Speaker 1: me is inflated. It's inflated. I don't think it's right.
Speaker 1: And and secondly, now Jacksonville, I know they're not anywhere
Speaker 1: in the same class as Kansas City. I get that,
Speaker 1: but that that's the Texans are are as aren't as
Speaker 1: good an opponent either, like Garden Minshew Uh. This is
Speaker 1: a great unknown here. I'm I'm gambling that Minshew is
Speaker 1: going to be okay. I don't think it'll be great,
Speaker 1: but I think it'll be okay. That's his first NFL start,
Speaker 1: so it's a lot different when you come off the
Speaker 1: bench and you're just playing in garbage time as opposed
Speaker 1: to being the guy and practicing all week. He is
Speaker 1: the main reason that Jacksonville is such a big dog.
Speaker 1: The gambling market does not think this guy is that good.
Speaker 1: He don't think he can hold his own against the
Speaker 1: Texas defense. Minshew is a disciple of Mike Leach. He
Speaker 1: actually played one year from Mike Leach, I believe, but
Speaker 1: he he bounced around. I like the guy because he's
Speaker 1: a Juico guy and all that. Uh. And he played
Speaker 1: at Washington State, but he played some other schools and
Speaker 1: the one thing I love about him, And we'll see
Speaker 1: if it plays out. It certainly played out last week.
Speaker 1: The most important skill for any quarterback is what accuracy?
Speaker 1: That's right, accuracy exactly. Uh So that's that's his claim
Speaker 1: to fame. He he is accurate. He's more accurate than anybody.
Speaker 1: So if you get the ball, even bad receivers on Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: you get them the ball, give them an opportunity to
Speaker 1: make plays. I think that's a good situation. To cultivate
Speaker 1: at least covering the point spread. So I like his answers.
Speaker 1: This week jackson will come and out showing that fighting spirit.
Speaker 1: They got blown off the field by Kansas City last week.
Speaker 1: But Nick Foles, there's a shot here. You're talking about
Speaker 1: being an overreaction neary talk show guy or podcaster. Nick Foles,
Speaker 1: remember you heard here first. Could get Kurt warnered by
Speaker 1: Gardner Mitchell about that hot take. Come on, is that
Speaker 1: not a hot take. It's a little warm. It's a
Speaker 1: little warm. That's a The guy's got the mustache. She
Speaker 1: looks like a civil war fighter or something like the
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies. Now, my optimism does have his limits. I
Speaker 1: look for a bounce back performance for the Jags defense.
Speaker 1: They will keep this game close. Divisional games generally are close,
Speaker 1: and as I often say, anytime you get over a
Speaker 1: touchdown in a divisional game, you know the drill, right,
Speaker 1: you take those points. Texans will win, but they will
Speaker 1: not cover the nine. Houston seven. Jacksonville twenty penny is
Speaker 1: riding in the home opening for the Houston Texans. Keep
Speaker 1: an eye on de Shawn Watson. He will be in
Speaker 1: the injury tent by halftime. That's usually where he ends up.
Speaker 1: All right. Uh, Next up Seattle at Pittsburgh. This is
Speaker 1: a big game this weekend. A couple of teams thought
Speaker 1: that think they are good. Although I don't have Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: feels after their loss in the opener. Seattle did win,
Speaker 1: didn't get any style points against the Cincinnati Bengals. It
Speaker 1: is on Fox. Kenny Albert and Ronda Barber have the call.
Speaker 1: The Steelers opened at three point home favorite at Hines Field.
Speaker 1: The line is at four right now in favor of
Speaker 1: the black and gold of the Pittsburgh Steelers. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go the other way. The pick is in. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the Seattle Seahawks. Uh. In this game A couple
Speaker 1: of reasons why all right? This game has a cover
Speaker 1: your eyes and say any meany mighty mode type of
Speaker 1: field too. As far as picking the winner, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a lot separating it seems. I expect Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: to play better. I can make compelling arguments both ways.
Speaker 1: You like Pittsburgh in the bounce back not normally under
Speaker 1: Mike Tom And they don't have two games in a
Speaker 1: row like that's really hard. And if you're trying to
Speaker 1: have two games, uh in a row like that. Going
Speaker 1: to Foxboro has been uh one of the nine circles
Speaker 1: of hell. Uh it's a bottomless pit of everlasting fire
Speaker 1: for the for the Steelers there and in Brimstone and
Speaker 1: all that, they just don't do well in foxborog the
Speaker 1: Steelers here, here's the big issue for them. I don't
Speaker 1: know how you overcome this. They're lacking playmakers. Ben Roethlisberger looked, old,
Speaker 1: you look bad when you lose Juju Smith Schuster was
Speaker 1: lacking separation for most of that game until the game
Speaker 1: was lopsided. Uh. And and I think it is Dante
Speaker 1: mind creef. I believe it is the number two receiver
Speaker 1: for the Steelers. I mean, what are we doing here? Uh?
Speaker 1: So they can either feel sorry for themselves and powder
Speaker 1: or they can come out and put the big boys
Speaker 1: boxer shorts on there and CounterPunch. I expect him to CounterPunch.
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be enough, though, because Seattle is
Speaker 1: also looking for redemption. That's the second thing here. The Seahawks.
Speaker 1: They did win, but it's one of those things. If
Speaker 1: you didn't watch the game, you don't know. This was
Speaker 1: not a thing of beauty. This was a struggle. The
Speaker 1: struggle is real. Uh. And and you know, trying to
Speaker 1: decode the Ehawks and say, what the hell was that?
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you doing here? You played like
Speaker 1: dirty dishes in the sink for most of that game.
Speaker 1: You're lucky to win because of some things that went
Speaker 1: your way. But it was a a disorganized, muddled, uh,
Speaker 1: discombobulated type of Seahawks performance, which is not normally what
Speaker 1: happened in Seattle has been very good at beating up
Speaker 1: the weaker opponents. That Banks was supposed to be a
Speaker 1: weaker opponent, uh, etcetera, etcetera. But anyway, listen, Cincinnati was
Speaker 1: able to matriculate the ball down the field at will.
Speaker 1: In fact, just to prove my point, how bad was it?
Speaker 1: The Bengals had ten more first downs in the Seahawks
Speaker 1: last week had almost two hundred more yards of offense. Now,
Speaker 1: Chris Carson and the running game never got going. While
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson his stat line was good, but I feel
Speaker 1: like it was misleading this game. I don't watch every
Speaker 1: second on this game. It was in my rotation. I
Speaker 1: make my own red zone channel on Sundays, and I
Speaker 1: did watch a good chunk of this because I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: the Bengals actually have a shot. So I kept going
Speaker 1: back to that game. Uh. And in the end it
Speaker 1: was a seesaw game. But in the end, the Bengals
Speaker 1: obviously did not get the job done. I expect a better,
Speaker 1: stronger performance by Seattle. Were they looking ahead to Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: the old the peekaboo uh, and that's why they were
Speaker 1: befuddled by the Bengals. I expect them to play better here,
Speaker 1: defensively in particular, and take advantage of that week linked
Speaker 1: on the Steelers offense Seattle thirty the Steelers twenty four.
Speaker 1: Your final penny says time for another quiz. Here's the
Speaker 1: quiz I asked. Stunning thirty two point one percent of
Speaker 1: my receptions have gone for touchdowns in my young career,
Speaker 1: by far, the most among all active players. Who am I?
Speaker 1: It's like a mini who am I? Game? Again? A
Speaker 1: stunning thirty two point one percent of my receptions have
Speaker 1: gone for touchdowns in my young career, by far, the
Speaker 1: most among active players. Who am I? Answer? Coming shortly?
Speaker 1: See how smart yard? See if you see how you're doing?
Speaker 1: To keep track of this all? Right? Next up Santa
Speaker 1: Clara at Sincecinnati it's on Fox. Tom Brenneman doesn't have
Speaker 1: to go anywhere. He lives in Cincinnati does Red's games.
Speaker 1: He's on the Fox box that Rocks. Calling this game.
Speaker 1: Chris Spielman will be alongside another former Buckeye right back
Speaker 1: in the day, Chris Spielman. So Brennanman and Spielman in
Speaker 1: the in the Fox booth. The game opened, the Niners
Speaker 1: were actually a one and a half point favorite. Now
Speaker 1: the Bengals, though, are a one and a half point
Speaker 1: favorite in this game. Gonna be mostly sunny eighty three
Speaker 1: degrees at kick off from Paul Brown Stadium. This is
Speaker 1: the second back to back a roadie for the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: I am gonna take the Bengals here. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: Cincinnati as a small home favorite in this game. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. Santa Clara that's really really playing in
Speaker 1: San Francisco and Santa Clara. And if you know Bay
Speaker 1: Area traffic, that is a not a hop, skip and
Speaker 1: a jump from the heart of the Bay Area, but
Speaker 1: anyway where a lot of the business is done. But uh,
Speaker 1: Santa Clara very fortunate to be the beneficiary of football
Speaker 1: negligence by Jamis Winston, the doctor Jacko Mr Hyde Jamis Winston,
Speaker 1: who literally in figuratively was on his deathbed against the
Speaker 1: forty Niners in terms of turnovers, and then the Niners
Speaker 1: were the beneficiary of that. Jimmy Garoppolo was not exactly
Speaker 1: Steve Young on the other side, He wasn't even Jeff Garcia.
Speaker 1: Jimmy g had marginal numbers. Santa Clara had just two
Speaker 1: D fifty six yards of all offense against the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: That is not a sustainable formula for winning on the road.
Speaker 1: The Niners are also historically horrific in this spot. Recently,
Speaker 1: since the forty Niners are one in nine on the
Speaker 1: road against a FC opponents. Now that's a trend, but
Speaker 1: it's a trend. Who's a friend, h if you believe
Speaker 1: in the power of the trend, and be of all
Speaker 1: the new coaches in the NFL, who would have predicted
Speaker 1: that Zack Taylor's squad would have been the most impressive? Uh,
Speaker 1: even though they lost, Right, you don't get credit for
Speaker 1: a loss and all that, But the Bengals overachieved considering
Speaker 1: what we expected them to do. Many of us I
Speaker 1: I'll pick Cincinnati the points if if the Bengals are
Speaker 1: able to play anywhere close to that level another week,
Speaker 1: they will win this game by a good margin because
Speaker 1: the forty Niners are not at the same level talent
Speaker 1: wise as Seattle. And here's another fun fact that blew
Speaker 1: me away about the Bengals. I read this this week.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton never had four d yards passing in any
Speaker 1: NFL game until last week. In the Pit of Vipers
Speaker 1: in Seattle he had four eighteen yards. That never had
Speaker 1: a fourigner yard game until last week. All these games
Speaker 1: been around. It seems like he's been around forever with
Speaker 1: the Bengals, although he's been hurt a lot. That was
Speaker 1: that was surprising to me. So any way, to me,
Speaker 1: this is a value play. The Bengals, small home dog
Speaker 1: coming off a premier performance. Desirable pick Bengals thirty, forty
Speaker 1: Niners twenty four. The penny also likes the Bengals. That's
Speaker 1: just piggybacking my work. I'm doing the hard work here
Speaker 1: and then the Pennies just it's like drafting, right, like
Speaker 1: Nascar and just kind of drafting and then yeah, blow
Speaker 1: right by. Yeah, I don't blame it. Last week? What
Speaker 1: was my record again? Guest? And I forgot I have
Speaker 1: what's that? How many wins did I have there? I
Speaker 1: don't know how you do the math well. I proved
Speaker 1: earlier in a different podcast. I'm not good at math well.
Speaker 1: I mean you were trying to you trying to get
Speaker 1: the billion dollars, and I was like, it's totally flummis.
Speaker 1: You were undocumented as thirteen and three. Yeah, that is documented.
Speaker 1: It's on the podcast This Day Night Game. I did
Speaker 1: that on the radio shot the Magic Radio. Body listens
Speaker 1: to that, that listen to this? You are such an egomaniac.
Speaker 1: I mean there's no one listening. Okay, I've seen the numbers.
Speaker 1: There's no one. We're talking to each other. You know
Speaker 1: how many you had for this? The benny versus of
Speaker 1: the penny was actually better than anything else we've done
Speaker 1: so far. You know what you remind me of? You
Speaker 1: remind me of that old Penn and Teller show bullshit
Speaker 1: because you're full of bullshit. Okay. I want to point
Speaker 1: out that's a line I would use on the radio
Speaker 1: show if I was allowed to use the word bullshit.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great line. I used to love
Speaker 1: the show bullshit that was. It was a wonderful program
Speaker 1: and they I wish they would bring that show back.
Speaker 1: It's great. I watched some of those old episodes on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Was a big fan of the bullshit. I would you
Speaker 1: use that on anyone on your staff or just the callers? Oh,
Speaker 1: I would use it on well, like Cooper Loop. It
Speaker 1: thinks every year before every season, Cooper Loop thinks the
Speaker 1: Angels are gonna win the World Series. He thinks the
Speaker 1: Broncos are gonna win the Super Bowl, the Lakers are
Speaker 1: gonna the Lakers in particular, he's been so wrong about
Speaker 1: the Lakers for so many years, like it's uh, it's great.
Speaker 1: He was so devastated last year when the Clippers had
Speaker 1: a better record than the Lakers, with the Lakers having
Speaker 1: Lebron James. It just broke his heart. It just broke
Speaker 1: his heart. And so yeah, and I've made a lot
Speaker 1: of money. I want like a hundred bucks on a
Speaker 1: bet I made with Danny g back when we were
Speaker 1: friends before he went down the wrong avenue there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but I you bet against your staff, Well, we had
Speaker 1: a bet on the Lakers and Clippers. I think it
Speaker 1: was who would have a better record, and he took
Speaker 1: the Lakers. I took the Clippers and the I want
Speaker 1: you you make you make like ten times the amount
Speaker 1: of your staff does, and you're betting against them. That's
Speaker 1: a lie. That's not a lie, that a think. Do
Speaker 1: you feel good about that? When you go to bed?
Speaker 1: Like lay your head on your pillow and yeah, well
Speaker 1: I go into my sleep. Number bet is what you
Speaker 1: meant to say? Yes, I feel great about it. We
Speaker 1: gotta pay off this quiz. Alright, you you gotta make
Speaker 1: this a three hour podcast? Is what you're gonna do?
Speaker 1: All right? Uh so, A stunning thirty two point one
Speaker 1: percent of my receptions have gone for touchdowns in my
Speaker 1: young career, by far the most among active players. Who
Speaker 1: am I? Do you have an answer? I will go
Speaker 1: with the uh, the Cheetah. I'll go with Tyreek Kill.
Speaker 1: Tyrekill has a fine fine guesses flaw that it's not right.
Speaker 1: I like when you're wrong. It makes me feel better
Speaker 1: about myself. The correct answer is a Cincinnati Bengal John Ross.
Speaker 1: John check this out the math on this. He's got
Speaker 1: twenty eight career receptions and of those twenty eight career receptions, uh,
Speaker 1: thirty two point one percent have gone for Touchdow. I
Speaker 1: think it's the numbers nine out of twenty eight so
Speaker 1: so no other active player with fewer than thirty catches
Speaker 1: has more than five touchdowns. His problem, he's always hurt though,
Speaker 1: That's his problem. He's a mess. He's always always injured there,
Speaker 1: but he's played, He's he's been a touchdown maker. Wait
Speaker 1: till Hollywood Brown plays a couple more games for Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Well we'll see. I saw he's hurt. He popped up
Speaker 1: on the injury list this week. Yeah, well you can
Speaker 1: play the Dolphins, Hollywood Brown, man. That guy's gonna break
Speaker 1: Jerry Rice's record. My god. I mean, if you really
Speaker 1: want to increase the degree of difficulty guests and you
Speaker 1: turn on some high powered fans, wouldn't cause more problems
Speaker 1: on the Dolphins defense. Okay, anyway, I'm moving on. It's
Speaker 1: Penny versus the Penny. Next up for US Minnesota at
Speaker 1: Green Bay. It's on Fox. You better watch with Chris
Speaker 1: Myers and Darryl Moose Johnston. The Packers opened a three
Speaker 1: point favorite. Packer is currently favorite by three the pick
Speaker 1: like the Minnesota Vikings, here him, I'm riding the Vikings.
Speaker 1: I'm wearing my purple rain outfit right now. Number one.
Speaker 1: Uh Aaron Rodgers, I know he looked pretty bad. He
Speaker 1: looked like a mortal mire mortal against the Chicago Bears
Speaker 1: in the opening. Other than a pretty good second quarter,
Speaker 1: he was a no show. Now is that game an aberration?
Speaker 1: Or is Aaron Rodgers going to regress as as the
Speaker 1: aging process goes for We don't know yet. Chicago is
Speaker 1: a very good defense. But guess what spoiler alert as
Speaker 1: I like to say, Minnesota I believe has a better defense.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be better statistically than the team over there
Speaker 1: from Chicago. So Rogers has to have some angst here
Speaker 1: and some heartburn looking at the tape with the Vikings
Speaker 1: bringing defensively. Now. Secondly, Mike Zimmer had the Vikings playing
Speaker 1: old school blue collar football. He said he was gonna
Speaker 1: do it. He actually did it in the opener, A
Speaker 1: systematic takedown of the Falcons. What's not to like about that?
Speaker 1: If you're a Viking fan. They had gotten away from
Speaker 1: that last season. They had gone away from their their
Speaker 1: core beliefs. Kirk Cousins only attempted ten passes, which is
Speaker 1: criminal if you have him in fantasy football. But that's
Speaker 1: nineteen seventies style football. In fact, to prove that, I
Speaker 1: have some numbers here that you know this actually worked
Speaker 1: out well, a couple of things, A couple of stats
Speaker 1: that I I wrote down here. Uh, since two thousand
Speaker 1: NFL teams are nine and one when attempting ten or
Speaker 1: fewer passes in a game, and and the Vikings last
Speaker 1: game with ten or fewer past attempts came when David
Speaker 1: Gascon just turned thirty years old back in nineteen seventies seven.
Speaker 1: That was the last time. So I remember you had
Speaker 1: a good birthday nineteen seventy seven. You told me about it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't alive then, but you told me about I'm
Speaker 1: at least two decades younger than you. For the record,
Speaker 1: that is a lie, a lie again. You're watching the
Speaker 1: show bullshit is what you're doing here, all right. Uh
Speaker 1: So let's see how this formula works against the Packers.
Speaker 1: I I like I like it. The Minnesota defense obviously
Speaker 1: played very well in stat LANDA last week. The Packers
Speaker 1: also be fair twisted Mitch Drabinski in the Notts. I
Speaker 1: like the Vikings with the running game, the smash mouth football,
Speaker 1: the ground and pound approach. The Vikings will be depending
Speaker 1: depending on that defense, that lunch pail defense, and they
Speaker 1: are better than the Packers, and I believe they will
Speaker 1: win this game comfortably. Even though it's a divisional game.
Speaker 1: They're getting some points here. Vikings thirty three, Packers twenty.
Speaker 1: Hate the pick, hate the face. Penny is going with
Speaker 1: the Packers. Yeah, well I hate you too. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of hate, a lot of hate. Raide to
Speaker 1: go down. You know, you know we're doing this show
Speaker 1: with you is like gas hunt, but this is like,
Speaker 1: this is like eating a Porterhouse steak, some corn. He's
Speaker 1: like going on the Titanic is what? You just know
Speaker 1: there's the iceberg, got this somewhere. You don't know when
Speaker 1: you're gonna hit it, but you know there's an iceberg
Speaker 1: out there. Good for entertainment then, right, yeah, exactly? All right,
Speaker 1: moving on, here's another quiz. I'm into these dopey quiz
Speaker 1: I think this is increasing the enjoyment of the listener.
Speaker 1: Tell me, if you don't like these guys, give me
Speaker 1: some feedback, email me Real Fifth Hour with Ben Mallart.
Speaker 1: It's f I F T H. I like these things.
Speaker 1: If you don't like him, I won't put him in
Speaker 1: here because I like these dopey quizzes, and I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just how I roll. So if you don't like him,
Speaker 1: I'll get room. If you like him, I'll keep him going.
Speaker 1: And I even put more in if you want. I
Speaker 1: don't care. I'm easier that way. I mean, you can
Speaker 1: go on for seven hours with these podcasts. Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: accounted for fifty seven point one percent of Carolina's yards
Speaker 1: in the opener from scrimmage back in week one. Blank
Speaker 1: had the second highest percentage of scrimmage yards after Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey of the Panthers. That's the question. The answer coming
Speaker 1: up here in a couple of minutes now the late
Speaker 1: television Can you believe it? Yes, we've actually moved now
Speaker 1: to the late television window. Oh god, I feel like
Speaker 1: we would never have gotten to the late television window.
Speaker 1: And did you didn't tell your audience that you forced
Speaker 1: me to fly back from a nice getaway to come
Speaker 1: here and record this damn thing, You and your stupid penny.
Speaker 1: You forced me to come back way elder than I
Speaker 1: wanted to, and they need to and I had to
Speaker 1: do it. For you and obviously the greater good. Uh well,
Speaker 1: I believe we have this thing called free will in
Speaker 1: the United States, and you have the latitude to come back,
Speaker 1: and I think the request was made that you could
Speaker 1: come back at an earlier time. I looked at the website.
Speaker 1: You said there were there were no flights, So I
Speaker 1: looked at the website. I saw like seven flights that
Speaker 1: you could have taken that would have been more. You're
Speaker 1: not flexible. You have no flexibility, and you you have
Speaker 1: apparently you think you have carte blanche here to do
Speaker 1: whatever the hell you want. You're a diva. You're like
Speaker 1: Lebron James or Antonio Brown, that's what you are. For
Speaker 1: the record Jet Blue, when we had two flights going
Speaker 1: in the Long Beach, Yeah, both would have worked out better.
Speaker 1: You could have driven for you were I guess in Sacramento.
Speaker 1: You could have driven down to Oakland, it's not that
Speaker 1: far away, or San Francisco and to the other Bay
Speaker 1: area airports. It's like a forty five minute drive. I
Speaker 1: don't make the money. You make it costly, like a
Speaker 1: hundred dollars just to drive up here to the studio
Speaker 1: to come record this damn thing. Just admit your lazy.
Speaker 1: All right, you're trying to paint me as some kind
Speaker 1: of death spot or something like that. Like I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's tyranny. There's no tyranny, alright, there's no I'm not
Speaker 1: a schoolyard bully or anything like that. This I expect
Speaker 1: the Code of the West. You don't even follow the
Speaker 1: Code of the West. Gascon. I gotta team. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: have to do that next week on on the other
Speaker 1: show that we do the Code of the West, because
Speaker 1: I need to go through that because I need people
Speaker 1: to live like me with the Code of the West.
Speaker 1: Are you done? I'm done. Let's go all right, Kansas
Speaker 1: City one to know at Oakland one and oh it's
Speaker 1: on CBS. Jim Nance and Tony Romo. This is a
Speaker 1: big game for CBS. That's the A team. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: opened up a eight and a half point favorite. This
Speaker 1: game is up to nine and a half. No, Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: he's out. Sammy Watkins becomes the man for the team
Speaker 1: from the Heartland, and I'm gonna take the Raiders in
Speaker 1: this game. Actually, I'm gonna take the Raiders. Short week
Speaker 1: home game divisional opponent Patrick Mahomes. This he's gonna be great.
Speaker 1: He has been able to overcome the standard in competence
Speaker 1: of the defense in Kansas City and get ws. In fact,
Speaker 1: he's been remarkable so far in covering UH for that
Speaker 1: week spot on the Chiefs Mahomes. Just to make my point, now,
Speaker 1: this is straight up. There's been ten games Mahomes has
Speaker 1: played quarterback where the Chiefs have allowed twenty six points
Speaker 1: or more, ten of them already, He's only been starting
Speaker 1: for a little over a year, and ten of them.
Speaker 1: His record in those games five and five. Now, just
Speaker 1: to prove how good that is. The Seattle Seahawks going
Speaker 1: back to I read the status this week, Since the
Speaker 1: Seahawks have played fifty seven games where their defense is
Speaker 1: of an up twenty six or more points, their record
Speaker 1: is five and fifty two. All right, Mahomes five and five,
Speaker 1: that's amazing. Now the Chiefs are ten and two against
Speaker 1: the Raiders in the Andy Reid Era in ken is
Speaker 1: a city, and they've outscored the Raiders by twelve points
Speaker 1: per game. That tells you what has happened. It doesn't
Speaker 1: tell you what's going to happen. I know I'm taking
Speaker 1: a leap of faith here, but The second thing, any
Speaker 1: time you get over a touchdown again divisional game, you
Speaker 1: know the drill, the formula that I use here, You
Speaker 1: would be a fool not to take that. The Raiders
Speaker 1: played with some some gusto. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: the right word, but I I liked. I was impressed.
Speaker 1: I did not expect that performance, especially from the offensive line.
Speaker 1: The Broncos have an amazing defense, at least they're supposed
Speaker 1: to have an amazing defense with Von Miller and all that,
Speaker 1: and those guys were completely overpowered by the Raider offensive
Speaker 1: lines could not to Derek Carr. And you gotta think
Speaker 1: that happens again. Derek car is gonna have time here
Speaker 1: if you can stop the Broncho goes. I know it's
Speaker 1: a simpleton's way to handicap, but you would think you'd
Speaker 1: be able to stop Kansas City's weak ass limp limp
Speaker 1: biscuit type of pass rush present. So but anyway, and
Speaker 1: the other thing here is in Gardner Minshew. Even though
Speaker 1: the game was a blowout, he completed eighty eight percent
Speaker 1: of his passage. He sent a new record for a
Speaker 1: first time playing a quarterback in the end film in
Speaker 1: their debut, I expect Derek Carr to hold his own.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a back and forth, the end
Speaker 1: of the Yang type situation, dueling pianos. Now in the end,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs have more offense and the Chiefs will win,
Speaker 1: but the Raiders will score their points and certainly enough
Speaker 1: to cover a nine and a half point spread. Kansas
Speaker 1: City thirty seven, Oakland one penny going at the home
Speaker 1: team like Arrowhead and the Chiefs. Okay, we'll pay off
Speaker 1: the question. Christian McCaffrey accounted for fifty seven point one
Speaker 1: per cent of Carolina's yards from scrimmage back in week
Speaker 1: number one. Blank had the second highest percentage in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And we again go to guest Gun because we're not
Speaker 1: taking calls on this show. The lines are the lines
Speaker 1: are full, unless they're not. We have no phone lines
Speaker 1: here in the studio seven seven on podcast. How about this,
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs? What about it? He was good? Josh Jacobs?
Speaker 1: Was it was? It was very good? Is that your answer? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're wrong. The correct answer is Dalvin Cook of the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings. You know why that is because the Vikings
Speaker 1: told them all only ten times. Dalvin Cook had forty
Speaker 1: four point four percent of the Vikings yards from scrimmage,
Speaker 1: he had a hundred and twenty yards of the two
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy the Vikings had, so seconds a right.
Speaker 1: Next up New Orleans at Los Angeles, the Rams. Both
Speaker 1: teams wanted. Oh, it's on Fox with Joe Buck and
Speaker 1: Troy Acmoso. Joe Buck's gotta make that transcontinental. Actually just
Speaker 1: across the United States flight uh from Carolina to l
Speaker 1: A for this game, Joe Buck And unless he flies
Speaker 1: the other way, then it is transcontinental. Uh, just short
Speaker 1: fucking tram and we'll call the game. Rams open a
Speaker 1: three point favorite, their favorite by three. The public is
Speaker 1: all over the Saints. They can't bet the Saints enough.
Speaker 1: The numbers I have here is insane. I'm betting against
Speaker 1: the public more than anything. I'm gonna take the Rams
Speaker 1: favored by three. At home. These teams are relatively equal,
Speaker 1: the Rams being the home team. That's you know, they
Speaker 1: think the games. Even the Saints have a short week.
Speaker 1: Monday night thriller at the super Dome. People are overreacting
Speaker 1: to the Rams offensive struggles against Carolina and they still
Speaker 1: won the game. They they will be able to score
Speaker 1: against the Saints defense. You saw Deshaun Watson move up
Speaker 1: and down the field against that New Orleans defense. Jared Golf, Uh,
Speaker 1: he's he's got to play better, and there's no question
Speaker 1: about it, and I believe he will play better this week.
Speaker 1: Golf has a career four and seven record when throwing
Speaker 1: under two hundred yards, but when he gets over two
Speaker 1: hundred yards, he's twenty one and seven. Now, a lot
Speaker 1: of those came early in his career, back in the
Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher uh era, and trying to have amnesia and
Speaker 1: those of us that like the Rams and forget about
Speaker 1: all that, Uh, But yeah, I like the Rams as
Speaker 1: a boomerang team. That's a gambling term. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you know, but that that's a gambling term here.
Speaker 1: But I expect they will rebound here and make a
Speaker 1: recovery offensively and at home. You gotta like him. And
Speaker 1: then the other thing about New Orleans, Uh, they're not
Speaker 1: the same team historically and in this era of of
Speaker 1: Saints football away from the Bayou. I understand they had
Speaker 1: a good record last year on the road, but they
Speaker 1: they also lost to the Cowboys. They played, uh, played
Speaker 1: some shaky games there on the road and and nearly
Speaker 1: not nearly as intimidating as they are in the great
Speaker 1: indoors as they are in the great outdoors. So we
Speaker 1: also don't know if Drew Brees will play a complete game.
Speaker 1: This is something that you're not supposed to talk about
Speaker 1: because he's an a legend and you can't. You know,
Speaker 1: he's been canonized, and I get it, he's a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer and all that stuff, but this is something
Speaker 1: that needs to be rectified. Last week, he was not
Speaker 1: only a quarterback in the first half. He sucked. He
Speaker 1: was a no show. He was like David Gascon for
Speaker 1: a podcast. He showed up late. Okay, uh he did,
Speaker 1: And so he's that gonna become the new normal. Are
Speaker 1: the Saints only gonna get a good quarter here and
Speaker 1: then a bad quarter, a good half and then a
Speaker 1: bad half. If that's the case, it's gonna be a struggle.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of speed bumps here for
Speaker 1: New Orleans offensively. So I believe that Breeze will play
Speaker 1: more like that. He's not gonna play great the entire game.
Speaker 1: We'll have some some bad periods here. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the rams and the Saints go marching. Even the lost
Speaker 1: column twenty two. Right, baby, you got a Rammitt Rammitt, Rammitt,
Speaker 1: Rammitt Ramort Rammitt Rammitt ram Penny's going with the Rams.
Speaker 1: Good job by the penny, al right, Next up Chicago,
Speaker 1: oh and one at the Denver Gascons. Oh in one.
Speaker 1: Uh and that is the matchup here. The Bears opened
Speaker 1: a pick him, the game open to pick him. The
Speaker 1: Bears are now at two and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: It is on Fox with Dick Stockton and Mark Slayer
Speaker 1: with you know what that means, right, you know what
Speaker 1: that means, Gas, It could be the game of the week.
Speaker 1: Now it means it means they don't think it'll be
Speaker 1: that good a game that might be a good game.
Speaker 1: I love Dick Stockton, but they don't send him to
Speaker 1: the to the great He's polishing turds, as we say
Speaker 1: every week. But I'm gonna pick the Bears here in
Speaker 1: this game as a bounce back team. Uh. And here's why.
Speaker 1: The main thing I'm betting against the Broncos. Their defense
Speaker 1: was taken to the claims. We talked about that earlier
Speaker 1: when we handicapped the radio game. But you talk about humiliation,
Speaker 1: it is ridiculous. It's preposterous. It's ludicrous that Vic Fangio,
Speaker 1: who's a defensive pedigree guy, is the head coach there.
Speaker 1: And they went into Oakland and that defense with Von
Speaker 1: Miller and brad Lee chubbing those guys, they did not
Speaker 1: have a single quarterback hit or sack. They were shut out.
Speaker 1: Derek Carr completed eighty four point six percent of his passes.
Speaker 1: That's that's obscene. That that is in subordination. That's a
Speaker 1: dereliction of duties by the Broncos defense. They said, well,
Speaker 1: they're gonna play better at home and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I understand that counter argument, but I gotta see it.
Speaker 1: I gotta see the Bears are a better opponent here,
Speaker 1: and even a much maligned quarterback in Mitchell Trobiski can
Speaker 1: light you up if you're not hitting the quarterback and
Speaker 1: not sacking the quarterback. Now, the second thing here, uh,
Speaker 1: this is a good spot. As we talked about for
Speaker 1: the bounce back, bounce back. Now for the Bears, the
Speaker 1: quarterback matchup here is relatively even. Strobinsky sucks, Joe Flacco sucks.
Speaker 1: The ace card here is the Chicago defense defense travels well.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah blah, blah uh. So if if you're
Speaker 1: analyzing this, I I think that the Bears will I
Speaker 1: know they're gonna bring the defense. I think you'll get
Speaker 1: enough offense to get this this victor I expected to
Speaker 1: be close. I don't think that they're gonna blow out
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos here, but they will be able to
Speaker 1: keep the Broncos off in knots. Expect the low scoring,
Speaker 1: slobber knocker type of football game. Chicago Bears nineteen, Broncos ten.
Speaker 1: You're fun one in doubt and go at the home team.
Speaker 1: Penny's taking the Broncos shocking that the guy flipping the
Speaker 1: penny who loves the Denver Broncos don't know what you're
Speaker 1: talking about, Coop is not in the building us. From
Speaker 1: what I've heard, you are a Bronco guinea up. Alright,
Speaker 1: Moving on Sunday Night football Philadelphia one and all at
Speaker 1: Atlanta and one. I'm looking forward to watching this game.
Speaker 1: It's on NBC. Al Michaels and Chris collins Worth of
Speaker 1: a feeling we'll have a Mallard monologue about this game
Speaker 1: on our Sunday in the Monday radio show. But the
Speaker 1: Eagles the game open to pick them Eagles favorite by
Speaker 1: one and a half on the road. Not good to
Speaker 1: bet on road favorites, but I'm doing anyway here. Uh
Speaker 1: take the better team. I'll take the Philadelphia to get
Speaker 1: off that two and oh start in Atlanta. Be o
Speaker 1: and two. Uh. The first thought I have on this
Speaker 1: game the Eagles. We mentioned it earlier. They were on
Speaker 1: the highway to hell against Washington last week, and then
Speaker 1: they flipped the switch. They saved their their bacon. They're
Speaker 1: behind the whole thing. Big plays by Deshaun Watson a
Speaker 1: couple of other guys, and that saved the Eagles from
Speaker 1: the shame of of losing ian. They steered them away
Speaker 1: from going down that direction. But they have to acknowledge
Speaker 1: that they did not play well in that game. I
Speaker 1: expect a more complete effort here, even in a hostile
Speaker 1: environment in Atlanta. Carson Wentz's good when he plays. His
Speaker 1: problem has been he's always seemingly to get seemingly getting hurt.
Speaker 1: But the Eagles did not commit a turnover in week one,
Speaker 1: and now they are ten and one under Doug Peterson.
Speaker 1: When they play a clean game, and why is that important?
Speaker 1: Meaning they don't have a turnover, I'll tell you why
Speaker 1: it's important. It's obviously important because you have more chance
Speaker 1: to win, but the NFL. That's the fourth best record
Speaker 1: in the NFL since seen. But more importantly, the Falcons
Speaker 1: have forced only fifty seven turnovers since seen. They are
Speaker 1: tied for the third fewest in leak. So you have
Speaker 1: a team that when they don't turn the ball over,
Speaker 1: they have a ten and one record against the team
Speaker 1: that often fails to cause a turnover. Do you see
Speaker 1: the chink in the armor here? I think you. I
Speaker 1: think you do? Yes? All right? Do you have to
Speaker 1: spell it out for you now? Secondly, no, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna talk about my man Philly Rob, who's such a
Speaker 1: Phillies sickophan. He's traveling to this game. Did you know that?
Speaker 1: You didn't know that my man Philly Rob, who gives
Speaker 1: us these big food parties with cheese steaks and all
Speaker 1: these delicious foods, Philly Rob is going to be at
Speaker 1: the at the game. There's anyway the Falcons played like
Speaker 1: they were uninterested. They went through the motions, all that
Speaker 1: stuff against the Vikings. We talked about that earlier. Who
Speaker 1: won't rehash too much of that. I do expect Atlanta
Speaker 1: to play better, uh this week if they have any
Speaker 1: kind of pride and they don't know a bunch of
Speaker 1: quitters like the Miami Dolphins are tired of playing second fiddle.
Speaker 1: But that said, the Eagles are just more talented. And
Speaker 1: then this is a special Philadelphia Eagles team. I hate
Speaker 1: saying that because, uh boy, but I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: Eagles high scoring game. Al Michaels will like it. Uh
Speaker 1: And in the end, Philadelphia Eagles thirty eight, Falcon thirty
Speaker 1: one Penny likes, does well? Go with the Eagles fly
Speaker 1: Penny suddenly picking my side because you're not an Eagles
Speaker 1: fan or a Falcons fan. Interesting, a little woozy over there,
Speaker 1: guests and everything good with you. Yes, everything's good, man.
Speaker 1: I just uh, it's it's hard work working with you.
Speaker 1: I gotta do a lot of the handiwork. I gotta
Speaker 1: do a lot of production, the elements, the writing, the prep,
Speaker 1: the writing. Well, yeah, I gotta write up all of
Speaker 1: the matchups for you with the broadcasters names and what
Speaker 1: station it's on. And uh yeah, I mean, I got
Speaker 1: a musical instrument here, I'm gonna I'm gonna go get
Speaker 1: I got the world's smallest I'm gonna play that for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: can I do that? And would you like me to
Speaker 1: do that? He does Philip rob really bring you guys dinner?
Speaker 1: Is that what he does? Uh? He not only brings
Speaker 1: his dinner, he brings us. It's like a three course
Speaker 1: meal with Philip Rob. This guy is one of my
Speaker 1: He's in my top five all time listeners. That just
Speaker 1: smother us with good East. Damn. He comes in there.
Speaker 1: Philly Robs big fan of show, is a super fan
Speaker 1: of the show. He comes in. Last time he came in,
Speaker 1: it was for the first game last week, it was
Speaker 1: the Green Bay game with Chicago. He came in. The
Speaker 1: appetizer was a Philly pretzel. He had pretzels from Wawas
Speaker 1: flown into l A. Right, this is a baller. This
Speaker 1: guy is a baller, Philly Rob. So he sent us
Speaker 1: the you know, he brought the pretzels with him, had
Speaker 1: him delivered by a friend of his, Elizabeck in Philly.
Speaker 1: And so he had the delicious Philly pretzel, which is
Speaker 1: just great. Man. I would I would have been I
Speaker 1: would have been happy just with that alone. And then
Speaker 1: that was the appetizer. Then he brought his Philly cheese
Speaker 1: steaks and he had a bag of potato chips as
Speaker 1: the side on that. Uh, just just absolutely great. And
Speaker 1: then for dessert, he brought in, uh these tasty cake
Speaker 1: pies because Roberto bitched about the tasty cakes and what.
Speaker 1: I don't mind. I liked the tasty cakes, but he
Speaker 1: brought in the tasty cake pie. I had the lemon.
Speaker 1: I went with the lemon, and he also brought pineapple
Speaker 1: juice because I made a joke on the air. Wasn't
Speaker 1: even a joke, it was it was Devin Hester. Devin
Speaker 1: Hester said that pineapple juice made him faster, so Philly
Speaker 1: Rob wanted us to be faster. So you know, did
Speaker 1: you even need to pretzel with any kind of hot
Speaker 1: mustard sauce? Uh? Yeah I did. He did bring some
Speaker 1: mustard in. It was good. I mean I I didn't
Speaker 1: like mustard when I was a kid, but now as
Speaker 1: an adult, I love the mustard. Man, I we don't have.
Speaker 1: That's one thing. L A is lacking good pretzels. I mean,
Speaker 1: we got we should open a Philly style pretzel shop.
Speaker 1: We'll make a killing in Los Angeles, right, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you have him coming out here with that, that's first
Speaker 1: class service man. You can't. You can't even pray for
Speaker 1: something like that. That's good. That was. That was wonderful
Speaker 1: by Philly roups. I hope he enjoys the game on Sunday. Right,
Speaker 1: we got one more game, alright, one more game Monday
Speaker 1: night football Cleveland, Oh and one the Jets also on one.
Speaker 1: It's on ESPN, Joe test It Tour and Booger Booger
Speaker 1: McFarland old the sports radio guy, old NFL player on
Speaker 1: the call the Browns. This is crazy to check this
Speaker 1: line out. Brown's opened a two and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: You're like, okay, fine, the Browns are favorite by two
Speaker 1: and a half on the road. It's a lodd considering
Speaker 1: how they played in all that, but but fine, so
Speaker 1: be it right, Brown's uh favorite? Two? Well, then we
Speaker 1: had a quarterback change for the Jets, and the Browns
Speaker 1: skyrocketed all the way up, up, up, up, up, and
Speaker 1: away to a six and a half point favorite. The
Speaker 1: spread I have here, let me let me check to
Speaker 1: see if I get the most updated point spread in
Speaker 1: this particular match, but I believe the line is still
Speaker 1: six and a half. Let's see what we have here, ladda, Uh,
Speaker 1: the Monday night game. Yeah, still six and a half.
Speaker 1: So the public's all over the Cleveland Browns. I was
Speaker 1: gonna take the Browns originally, but I this line is
Speaker 1: too inflated. I'm gonna take the Jets, even with the
Speaker 1: backup quarterback now. Now, Cleveland played like a bunch of
Speaker 1: just I can't say. I guess I could say the
Speaker 1: word I'll clean it up, Mama, Luke's that's my favorite.
Speaker 1: Come on. They played like a bunch of a holes. Alright,
Speaker 1: they play assholes, schmucks. Played like shit al right, played
Speaker 1: like dogship in the opener against the Titans late and again,
Speaker 1: actually the score was a little misleading. We mentioned the
Speaker 1: game was closed. It was like a two point game
Speaker 1: midway through the third quarter, and then Baker Mayfield just
Speaker 1: decided that he wanted to ship all over the field
Speaker 1: there in Cleveland. And because they are the Browns anyway,
Speaker 1: was that it was a carnival of stupidity. Eighteen penalties
Speaker 1: for a two yards plus three interceptions by Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: who played like vomit. I mean, the Browns just got
Speaker 1: beat by thirty at home in a game where they
Speaker 1: were five and a half point favorites. That's hard to do,
Speaker 1: all right, that's that's like dolphin like to do that.
Speaker 1: Now on the flip side, well, I I did pick
Speaker 1: the Bills to beat the Jets. I am baffled that
Speaker 1: they actually did Buffalo scoring the final seven team. We
Speaker 1: talked about that earlier. Uh And Sam Donald, who's not
Speaker 1: playing in this game. Sam Donald had a passer rating
Speaker 1: of sixty five point nine in the fourth quarter collapse,
Speaker 1: and now he's out with with mono. He's been put
Speaker 1: into quarantine. Now, let me ask you a question, guess,
Speaker 1: and you would know this because you've spent a lot
Speaker 1: of time in the doctor's office. But when I when
Speaker 1: I was in school, okay, back in the day, and
Speaker 1: they were teaching me about the birds and the bees
Speaker 1: and a a little bit about that stuff. And they have
Speaker 1: different illnesses that you could pick up. I believe, and
Speaker 1: I maybe I'm making this up, but I swear in
Speaker 1: one of those like junior high health classes, they talked
Speaker 1: about uh motto is being They called it like the
Speaker 1: kissing disease. They were trying to warn you not to,
Speaker 1: you know, make out with too many people because you
Speaker 1: could get mono. Yeah, all right, you never kiss you
Speaker 1: never had that problem, right, Well, no, no one wanted
Speaker 1: to kiss me, so I didn't have to worry about that,
Speaker 1: And that's one thing I did not have to worry
Speaker 1: about his getting motto. Uh. I'd like to thank the
Speaker 1: women back in high school because they made sure that
Speaker 1: I did not get anywhere near any of that stuff. Okay,
Speaker 1: but we don't hear about this in college football. So
Speaker 1: it happens in the National Football League. But was the
Speaker 1: last time we've ever heard about this in the n
Speaker 1: c double A ranks? Well, who's the last NFL player
Speaker 1: that had motto? I don't remember. I don't recall this.
Speaker 1: Has this happened. I don't recall a starting quarterback missing
Speaker 1: multiple games because of monto. No, I remember that happening
Speaker 1: in the National Hockey League. But that's a sport you
Speaker 1: don't cover and you don't really care about. So it's
Speaker 1: when the Kings are good. I pay attention to them.
Speaker 1: When I was doing stuff in Boston. The boy, it's
Speaker 1: about it. I'm gonna go out to some Kings game. Go, oh,
Speaker 1: we can hang out of the Kings game. If you
Speaker 1: want to do that, you actually will go to a game.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'll be sitting in the press box. But
Speaker 1: I'll go out there. Yeah, we can do that. So
Speaker 1: I roll man. You know, the Kings are good people.
Speaker 1: They take care of me over there. The Kings, they're
Speaker 1: good guys. They roll out the red carpet, first class operational,
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Kings. All right. Anyway, So as yeapping
Speaker 1: about Sam Donald, he was he's that with model I
Speaker 1: mentioned he was terrible in the fourth quarter. So Paxton
Speaker 1: Lynch drops in as the starter, your old quarterback. You're
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos guest, Trevor Simeon. What's that? Trevor Simeon. Oh,
Speaker 1: I have to say, Paxton Lynch, awesome, bad job on me.
Speaker 1: I had my Bronco backup quarterbacks mixed up. It's like
Speaker 1: it's like in your holster, you're just waiting and take
Speaker 1: a shot at the Denver Broncos. Well they're all, they're all.
Speaker 1: But actually Trevor Simeon is a better option, though, But
Speaker 1: how did I have Paxton Lynch? Wow? What the hell
Speaker 1: is going on? We better end this soon? Uh, But yeah,
Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon dropping in is the start now. I don't
Speaker 1: believe much that there's much difference between Schevor Simeon. There
Speaker 1: is a big difference between Paxson Lynch and Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: but not Trevor Simeon, certainly not four points. Uh. They
Speaker 1: will have to ring the bell. Levon bell he had
Speaker 1: an m R. I looks like he's good to go
Speaker 1: here with that shoulder injury. Uh. And really the key
Speaker 1: here for the Jets is you gonna run the ball efficiently,
Speaker 1: take time off the clock obviously shortened the game, and
Speaker 1: continue to play. Hope the Browns continue to play with
Speaker 1: his undisciplined style of football. I expect a much crisper
Speaker 1: performance from Cleveland this week, but there's no way that
Speaker 1: I am ready to lay the six and a half
Speaker 1: point spread with Cleveland, even with Trevor Simeon on the
Speaker 1: other side. So I'm gonna take the Cleveland Browns to win,
Speaker 1: but the Jets to cover the spread, but only by
Speaker 1: a half point. Brown's twenty six, Jets twenty win it
Speaker 1: with the hook. The penny is also going with the Jets,
Speaker 1: all right, and that is I think there's no more
Speaker 1: games to us for us to handicap Guescon. So that's it.
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