Speaker 1: Welcome players, You're welcome. It's time now, Penny Penny, that
Speaker 1: it is. We are back at it in another weekend
Speaker 1: of NFL predictions for you from us, absolutely free, no
Speaker 1: number to call, no amount of money. We're not gonna
Speaker 1: ask for your credit card, none of that. It is
Speaker 1: free handicapping advice from an amateur who's been doing this
Speaker 1: for many, many, many years. Trying not to trip over
Speaker 1: my tongue. Week five in the NFL. We will not
Speaker 1: talk about the Miami Dolphins. We will not talk about
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions because they are both not playing. They
Speaker 1: have the bye week this week. But before we get ahead,
Speaker 1: we must look back. Now. David Gascon he's with me.
Speaker 1: He doesn't say much during this he doesn't like this podcast.
Speaker 1: He doesn't talk very much. Maybe today he'll talk more
Speaker 1: on Benny versus the Penny. He's the voice of the penny.
Speaker 1: So how did we do last week against the spread?
Speaker 1: David gas guy, And you've been you've been lights out,
Speaker 1: ben Um twelve up and just three down in a
Speaker 1: week number four? And might I add not to pat
Speaker 1: myself on the back, I went eight and oh I
Speaker 1: believe in the early television wind. Yeah, I didn't get wrong.
Speaker 1: In fact, my guy, a long time Malla militia man,
Speaker 1: supermarket Steve, who I consider him a friend because I've
Speaker 1: met him in person, him and his wife there and
Speaker 1: wonderful time. But supermarket Steve, who actually has the Mallard
Speaker 1: brand on his name tag at the grocery store he
Speaker 1: works at. He hit gascon a five team parlor based
Speaker 1: off our picks from last week. How cool is that
Speaker 1: he ran like he went like a grand on a
Speaker 1: fifty dollar bet hitting the five team parlay. That's pretty good. Now,
Speaker 1: which which games did you lose big on? I think
Speaker 1: Dallas was the I like how you're focusing on the
Speaker 1: negative like that. I lost the Monday night. I picked
Speaker 1: the Bengals because I'm an idiot. I didn't think Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: is that good. But I didn't realize the Bengals were
Speaker 1: that bad. Uh Now I do, and they seemed uninterested.
Speaker 1: The Cowboy game I got wrong. I was embarrassing Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott all of a sudden's back to being Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: And then the other one was the Viking game. I
Speaker 1: was wrong on that, but that that's it. Other than that,
Speaker 1: every game we got right. Man, you're yeah, when you
Speaker 1: when I woke up and I started looking at these games,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you started hitting, hitting, hitting. It's
Speaker 1: it's similar to Week one, and it's also similar week
Speaker 1: number three. So even you've been carving it up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: In fact, my all my record, I did the math
Speaker 1: because I know you wouldn't give me any credit my
Speaker 1: season total. We've picked sixty three NFL games on radio
Speaker 1: or on the podcast because I do the Thursday game
Speaker 1: on radio, and out of those sixty three, we are
Speaker 1: forty three and twenty. That is a six eighty three
Speaker 1: winning percentage against the spread. Documented That's that's nuts of fame.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna last, right, I mean this is I
Speaker 1: don't I don't particularly like the card this week. I
Speaker 1: liked last week a lot. I don't love the card
Speaker 1: this week. I feel like they've adjusted the point spreads enough. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of those one of those things like
Speaker 1: a seesaw. You know, I'm going back and forth on
Speaker 1: a number of the games which I don't like. Uh.
Speaker 1: In my experience also with picking these NFL games is
Speaker 1: that oftentimes, uh, you know, in the early TV window,
Speaker 1: I'll be winning a couple of bets and then I'll
Speaker 1: a couple of games will turn around in the fourth
Speaker 1: quarter and I'll lose, and then I'll win a couple
Speaker 1: of games that I'm losing. You know, Normally, that's what happens,
Speaker 1: very chaotic, that last half hour, last hour of the
Speaker 1: early television window, and there's a bunch of games ending
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And but but last week was wonderful.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the games. What do you say? Alright?
Speaker 1: First game up Baltimore two and two at Pittsburgh oh
Speaker 1: and three. Actually, uh, one in three, rather won Monday nights,
Speaker 1: so they're one in three. This game is on CBS.
Speaker 1: Uh I an Eagle whose kid is now the voice
Speaker 1: of the Clippers and he just graduated from Syracuse. I
Speaker 1: don't Guesscon's happy about that. And Dan Fouts they were
Speaker 1: gonna broadcast this game on CBS. The Ravens opened a
Speaker 1: three point favorite. There are three and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: It will be light rain, temperatures in the mid sixties
Speaker 1: at Hines Field at kickoff. I'm gonna take the Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Steelers in this game. And this is one of those
Speaker 1: games I went back and forth on I am not
Speaker 1: a believer in Lamar Jackson. I know he was handed
Speaker 1: the m v P number one after he sliced up
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and turned them into sushi. Unfortunately, the season
Speaker 1: did not end for Lamar Jackson, and that is the
Speaker 1: only game that Ravens will play with the Dolphins because
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson rather quietly, has gotten less productive pretty much
Speaker 1: every game last three weeks. His passer rating combined is
Speaker 1: eighty nine point three. That ain't great. Uh, and he's
Speaker 1: averaged less than seven yards per attempt over the last
Speaker 1: three games. So the numbers were inflated because of that
Speaker 1: Miami game, which I understand. You know, I guess bad
Speaker 1: teams you inflate the numbers, but he is he has
Speaker 1: put up garden variety numbers Lamar Jackson. Now, John Harbaugh's
Speaker 1: team is looking to bounce back after that embarrassment against Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and normally I like teams in a bounce back situation,
Speaker 1: and the Steelers coming off a win and all that.
Speaker 1: But I looked it up and the Ravens have only
Speaker 1: a five record under John Harball as a road favorite.
Speaker 1: That ain't all that good. And when you're favorite on
Speaker 1: the road. Uh. Secondly, if this game was in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: I could be swayed to take the Ravens, but it's
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh that matters. Uh. And even a ramshackled Mason
Speaker 1: Rudolph a k A captain checkdown, he will be good enough.
Speaker 1: Just don't make the big mistake. And the Ravens, I mean,
Speaker 1: the dirty little secret here is the Ravens. Because they
Speaker 1: used to be great on defense. People still think they're
Speaker 1: great on defense. They're not. The last three weeks this
Speaker 1: blew me away. It's my main reason for taking this
Speaker 1: Steelers over the Ravens and getting points as a home dog.
Speaker 1: The last three weeks again after the Miami game, the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens defensively have allowed three yards per game. That
Speaker 1: is dead last in the NFL. They are the worst
Speaker 1: team in the NFL the last three weeks allowing yards.
Speaker 1: Now they need to play Kansas City, that is fair,
Speaker 1: but they played Cleveland in that stretch and Arizona. I mean,
Speaker 1: come on. So final score Steelers twenty six, Ravens three
Speaker 1: penny lanks. You will go at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Tremendous
Speaker 1: insight from the Penny and from Gascon on this particular game.
Speaker 1: Good job by you. It's just all about you. If
Speaker 1: Benny versus a penny alright, Chicago at Oakland the Bears
Speaker 1: three and one A right as two and to. This
Speaker 1: game is being played in London. It's a Raider home game,
Speaker 1: so they're playing it in London. It is on Fox.
Speaker 1: You better watch. You know who's calling this game, did
Speaker 1: you see? Uh? Yes, our guy Dick, Dick Stockton. They
Speaker 1: have sent him out of the country. He is in London.
Speaker 1: He will call Raiders Bears with Mark slay Writh on Fox. Now.
Speaker 1: The Bears opened a six point favorite. That line is
Speaker 1: at five and a half. As we're doing this in
Speaker 1: real time. The forecast for Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London
Speaker 1: where they're playing this game rain showers, which is cliche
Speaker 1: for London and also fifty six degrees at kick off.
Speaker 1: So they say, now the pig is in and I
Speaker 1: am gonna take the radius. Now, this is one of
Speaker 1: those where I gotta cover my nose, uh and and whatnot,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna take the The Bears should win this
Speaker 1: game by thirty points. First of all, I get it.
Speaker 1: I'm not against that, but strange things tend to happen
Speaker 1: in jolly Old London. Uh. And the Raiders are coming
Speaker 1: off a very impressive win against Indie for them. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they are road warriors, right, vagabonds around the NFL.
Speaker 1: And I understand the Bears have the top unit on
Speaker 1: the field here, that the Bears defense is wonderful, And
Speaker 1: this is a Khalil Mack revenge game. You know he
Speaker 1: had even though he's downplaying it, he had this game circle.
Speaker 1: I mean, right, guess imagine Khalil Mack like how excited
Speaker 1: he was to see this on the schedule every year.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've all lost jobs in this business and
Speaker 1: we love to get revenge, right, vengeance, pound of flesh,
Speaker 1: And this is Khalil max opportunity to do that. And
Speaker 1: then the Raiders are without Vontes Perfect uh and a
Speaker 1: couple of other injuries there. Uh. But Chicago's going with
Speaker 1: Chase Daniel, which is not not a real downgrade because
Speaker 1: Turbiski had been terrible. So I expect the Bears to
Speaker 1: run that remedial passing game uh and all that. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and Max should play a very good game. But
Speaker 1: you're talking about getting almost a touchdown five and a
Speaker 1: half points with a suspect offense in Chicago and the
Speaker 1: Raiders have been playing above their their level. They've they've
Speaker 1: outkicked their coverage, if you will, lately, because they've they've
Speaker 1: been playing pretty well. The key for the Raiders here
Speaker 1: in this game is obviously to establish the run, which
Speaker 1: is seems to be near impossible. But if they want
Speaker 1: to keep this game close, Josh Jacobs, it's gonna have
Speaker 1: to make Gate Khalil Mack and that pass rush. It's
Speaker 1: hard to be a good pass rushing team if you're
Speaker 1: running uh and and and the other reason here, this
Speaker 1: is probably the main reason I'm taking the Raiders is
Speaker 1: to be the contrary and and one thing I've learned
Speaker 1: over the years, when the public bets a game one way,
Speaker 1: you want to go the other way. When they zig,
Speaker 1: you want to zag. And the public is absolutely hammering
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. The gambling market is all about the Bears.
Speaker 1: The line has despite that, it hasn't skyrocket. And that's
Speaker 1: the odd thing about this. I mean, from what the
Speaker 1: information I have access to, there's a ton of wagers
Speaker 1: on the Chicago Bears. It's one of the most bet
Speaker 1: games of the weekend, and yet the line, which probably
Speaker 1: should be No. Seven or eight or something like that
Speaker 1: for in favor of Chicago, because their defense is again
Speaker 1: at five and a half. So I'm gonna say something
Speaker 1: flukey happens here. Uh, those European bio rhythms get messed
Speaker 1: up and the Raiders keep it close. Bears will win
Speaker 1: the game, but it'll be close. Chicago twenty and alright,
Speaker 1: Penny going back to mac occasions with you also going
Speaker 1: Derek Carrent the Raiders. Alright, next up on Benny versus
Speaker 1: the Penny Arizona oh three and one at Cincinnati oh
Speaker 1: and four. If you would have asked me before we
Speaker 1: did this, who is gonna call this game? I would
Speaker 1: have said this is a Dick Stockton special, right, But
Speaker 1: he's not. He's obviously in the game in London. This
Speaker 1: is a Tom brennanan Chris Spielman broadcast. It's on Fox.
Speaker 1: At least Brenneman doesn't have to travel. He lives in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: so he doesn't for going a plane. That's the positive there.
Speaker 1: The Bengals opened up a four and a half point favorite.
Speaker 1: They are favored by three and a half and would
Speaker 1: fall in the air. A rain will be in the
Speaker 1: air at kickoff at Paul Brown Stadium, seventy two degrees
Speaker 1: and rainshower. You know what that is. But if it
Speaker 1: was a little cold, there would be good football. Whether
Speaker 1: it's football and they're like a light rain falling and right,
Speaker 1: guess of course yes not out here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Will we see sprinkles and it's mass panic, but yes
Speaker 1: it's football weather. Yeah, alright, so that's the forecast. I
Speaker 1: am gonna go with alligator arms, Kyler Murray and Arizona
Speaker 1: this week. So I'm on the Cardinals plus three and
Speaker 1: a half. What a horrible matchup, Tom Brenneman, You're talking
Speaker 1: about putting lipstick on a pig uh and uh and
Speaker 1: playing putting uh, perfume on a on a smelly goat
Speaker 1: with flies all over. The Bengals started four and one
Speaker 1: last year. Did you know that under Marvin Lewis they
Speaker 1: were four and one last year? I do not remember that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Since then they have played fifteen games and Cincinnati has
Speaker 1: gone two and thirteen. That is the worst record in
Speaker 1: the NFL this week six of last season. Nobody is worse.
Speaker 1: And in that same time, not to be outdone, the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals are two twelve and one so if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for the tie, they'd have the same exact record
Speaker 1: over the last you know, the last handful of games here.
Speaker 1: Uh Arizona is the third worst team in the NFL
Speaker 1: record wise here, so it's a it's a it's a
Speaker 1: horseshit matchup. Cincinnati was castrated by the Steelers. We referenced
Speaker 1: that game here a few minutes ago by a backup
Speaker 1: scrub order back who just threw short passes, and Cincinnati
Speaker 1: was bothered. They don't want to they don't want to.
Speaker 1: They were they didn't want to play the game. They
Speaker 1: were annoyed they had to be there. They didn't tackle,
Speaker 1: they didn't play with any discipline. They were lethargic, they
Speaker 1: were uninterested, a lot of game quitters. You ever heard
Speaker 1: that term game quitters? No, it's it's players who to
Speaker 1: the untrained. I seemed like they are trying to win,
Speaker 1: have really given up. And the Bengals have a lot
Speaker 1: of guys, at least on that night that did. And
Speaker 1: Arizona the other thing here, Arizona is a bad football
Speaker 1: team and they are a bunch of bad embres, and
Speaker 1: not in a good way. Kyler Murray has been nothing
Speaker 1: spectacular he has not turned NFL on its side like
Speaker 1: some were predicting. One guy in the NFL network said
Speaker 1: he was gonna have a Patrick Mahomes like impact on
Speaker 1: the NFL. That guy should be fired. But this is
Speaker 1: a weekend where you would expect Kyler Murray to have
Speaker 1: some success. Why the Bengals defense is much of low
Speaker 1: first alright, bunch of loafers, and these teams are essentially equals.
Speaker 1: Now I realized Cincinnati the bounce back. They're gonna want
Speaker 1: to play better. They embarrass themselves, and this is a
Speaker 1: winnable game. And Andy Dalton has played very well against
Speaker 1: bad teams. I understand all that. But all things being equal,
Speaker 1: if it's too horseshit teams right in a crap tastic classic,
Speaker 1: this would be the crap Craptastic Bowl Gascon. I like
Speaker 1: getting the points, uh, and so I actually believe Cincinnati
Speaker 1: is gonna win the game, but this will be a
Speaker 1: late field goal. Bengals Cardinals twelve. Is it painting taking
Speaker 1: Arizona because the penny did as well? Well? No, I
Speaker 1: can win money. I mean, I I think Arizona is
Speaker 1: gonna lose. But there's two equal teams. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you think I just go out of mind? Who cares
Speaker 1: about the Cardinals? I don't care about the Cardinals. You
Speaker 1: care about six people. You can care about Kyler Murray. Well,
Speaker 1: I just point out his his horrible play. That's it.
Speaker 1: And no one else brings that up. Nobody else calls
Speaker 1: him a oompa loompa and alligator arms, And what's wrong
Speaker 1: with that? Am I wrong? Yeah? Yeah, you're wrong. You
Speaker 1: publicly depicate on him during the over nine hours of
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. And I was a fan of Mighty
Speaker 1: Mouse when I was a kid. It's kind of cool,
Speaker 1: you know what it is. It's inspirational that the NFL
Speaker 1: is allowing a pop orner sized player to play, because
Speaker 1: normally they have restrictions on that. If you're of a
Speaker 1: certain size, you can't play. But uh, there he goes
Speaker 1: very diminutive. I like that's one of those I like
Speaker 1: the terms people use when they want to say someone's
Speaker 1: uh short, they say at least diminutive, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and things like that. But you can't say midget anymore.
Speaker 1: You can't what a dwarf. You can do that, you know.
Speaker 1: I guess it's politically incorrect now to say that what
Speaker 1: a petite. You can say that srimp pocket size, the
Speaker 1: pint sized pockets something. He's in the pocket size quarterback,
Speaker 1: the teny weeny, itty bitty little quarterback, you're an asshole.
Speaker 1: Let's go all right, but anyway moving, let's get trivial.
Speaker 1: You want to get trivial alright? Carolina Panthers quarterback Kyler
Speaker 1: Kyle Kyle Allen just became the third quarterback in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl Era to win his first three career starts
Speaker 1: on the road. He joined Patrick Mahomes and blank and
Speaker 1: the answer to let's get trivial coming up in a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes. You might want to write that down.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that coming up in a minute. Jacksonville
Speaker 1: at Carolina Jacks two and two Panthers two and two.
Speaker 1: It's on CBS with Andrew Catalan and James lofton. The
Speaker 1: Panthers opened a three point favorite. The line is currently
Speaker 1: at three and a half as we're doing this in
Speaker 1: real time. Line could change, but it's a three and
Speaker 1: a half right now. The forecast at Bank of America
Speaker 1: Stadium cloudy and seventy eight degrees at kickoff, so no
Speaker 1: no weather being a factor in this game. The pick
Speaker 1: is in. I'm taking Jacksonville. I like Minshew mania, my guy,
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew. I have a thing for accurate quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: he has been one of the most accurate quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the NFL. This was always the argument for Jacksonville in
Speaker 1: the blank Boardles era was that if only Blake Boardles
Speaker 1: would not be so ignorant and turn the ball over
Speaker 1: and be so unaware, Jacksonville could win a bunch of games,
Speaker 1: and they really did because he was rarely able to
Speaker 1: do that. But so far, all Gardner Minshew has really done.
Speaker 1: It's just be accurate on short passes and not turn
Speaker 1: the ball over, and Jacksonville has won their last couple
Speaker 1: of games. It's amazing how that works. I know it's
Speaker 1: only a small sample size. He is third in the
Speaker 1: NFL in accuracy. It's seventy eight percent according to the
Speaker 1: NFL research on his throws. Seventy percent of his throws
Speaker 1: are accurate. Now that's not as completion percentage, but some
Speaker 1: of those are dropped passes that bring the percentage down. Uh.
Speaker 1: And he has only thrown one pass according to NFL
Speaker 1: statistics NFL stats that had has been deemed interceptible. Only
Speaker 1: one uh and So Jacksonville has now gone twenty six
Speaker 1: consecutive drives without a turnover. That is the second longest
Speaker 1: active streak in the NFL. So I love that about Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I think that continues here. Some people are very excited
Speaker 1: about Carolina. They they played better lately. I am not
Speaker 1: all in on the Panthers. I do like Kyle Allen,
Speaker 1: talked about him, did a monologue on him on the
Speaker 1: radio show. I've been impressed and he has defied expectations.
Speaker 1: I thought this guy would be pretty bad. He's been wonderful.
Speaker 1: I actually like him. But the reason to take Jacksonville
Speaker 1: is that Saxonville defense and the one bugaboo for Kyle Allen.
Speaker 1: He doesn't make a lot of bad throws either. He's
Speaker 1: pretty accurate as far as his passes, but he does
Speaker 1: have small hands, apparently because he has five fumbles in
Speaker 1: two games of playing this season, which is a lot.
Speaker 1: Uh and so you figure Jacksonville will be able to
Speaker 1: get to him and then a fumbler too, that you
Speaker 1: can turn the game on his side. But I like
Speaker 1: getting Jacksonville plus over a field goal, Jags will win
Speaker 1: the game out right in Carolina seven to six over
Speaker 1: the Panthers, going the other way, going with the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: Would you grow a mustache like Gardner Minshew? I would. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can, though. My my facial
Speaker 1: hair goes all over the place. I got a good beard,
Speaker 1: go team, but I don't know about a mustache. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you had the beard for a while. Yeah, we were.
Speaker 1: People were giving you change because we thought we were
Speaker 1: homeless at work. I grow a great beard. You smelled
Speaker 1: you had a beard, and I smell fantastic. Why if
Speaker 1: you can grow a beard, why wouldn't you be able
Speaker 1: to throw a mustache grow a mustache. Okay, there's a
Speaker 1: way to grow a mustache, and there's a way to
Speaker 1: grow a mustache like Gardner Minshew has a fantastic mustache.
Speaker 1: My dad has a good one. Tom Selleck has a
Speaker 1: good one. Jeff Kent had a great one. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Your dad, I mean, I've not met
Speaker 1: your dad, but I've seen photos of him and he
Speaker 1: when he was running the L A p. D Man,
Speaker 1: he had the biggest burly mustache. I mean, my god,
Speaker 1: you're you got his d n A unless you were adopted.
Speaker 1: I mean you've got the d n A man. You
Speaker 1: know what I need. I need like a Val Kilmer
Speaker 1: from Tombstone mustache when he played Doc Holiday. That's your
Speaker 1: that's your move there. That's a great mustache. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Can you grow mustache like that? No? No,
Speaker 1: I do not have that ability. I can't even really
Speaker 1: grow a beard. You got a lot of gray and
Speaker 1: you're got what you have a lot of gray and
Speaker 1: your goatee. No, I don't you do. And that's pepper
Speaker 1: and you and my wife told me a salt and
Speaker 1: pepper your and your face is pale white, so it
Speaker 1: almost looks like you have no facial hair. Wow, So
Speaker 1: like we could give you as it was the asshole
Speaker 1: segment on the podcast, I didn't know is that is
Speaker 1: that on your list? Is that your production? We can't
Speaker 1: do the hair and club from me with your goatee
Speaker 1: and mustache. Let's do this. You're gonna serve me ranch
Speaker 1: dressing now? Is that what you're gonna do? We can
Speaker 1: do that. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Speaker 1: Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm
Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio
Speaker 1: app let's get trivial the answer. Panthers quarterback Kyle Allen
Speaker 1: became the third quarterback in the Super Bowl, ear to
Speaker 1: win his first three career starts on the road. He
Speaker 1: joins Patrick Mahomes and blank, go ahead. Yes, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say Tom Brady. No, not Tom Brady, try again, Ben Roethlisberger. No,
Speaker 1: this actually goes back to the nineteen eighties. Jeff Hosta,
Speaker 1: Oh ship, that was not my mind too. No, it
Speaker 1: was not. Swear to god, you talk about mustaches. Yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: Jeff hast the Giants, Yeah, and he was. That's one
Speaker 1: of the great backup stories of my youth that Jeff
Speaker 1: Hassteddler broke out. Uh and Phil Simms got hurt. Everyone
Speaker 1: wrote off the Giants with Parcels and Hosta. They're played
Speaker 1: pretty well at I don't know how good he actually was.
Speaker 1: My memories he played well. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: was actually that good. But a long time ago, our memories,
Speaker 1: we remember what we remember what actually happened are off
Speaker 1: in two things. That's why in court, if you just
Speaker 1: if you convict someone off, eye witness testimony a little shaky,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, little shaky. Alright. Minnesota you have more
Speaker 1: than that. Minnesota two and two at the New York
Speaker 1: Giants two and two. It's on Fox. You better watch
Speaker 1: Sam Rosen, who lives in the New York area, doesn't
Speaker 1: have to get on a plane, and Charles Davis, the
Speaker 1: voice of Madden Football, and they call this game now.
Speaker 1: The Vikings opened up five and a half point favorites.
Speaker 1: This line has stayed the same, so Minnesota is a
Speaker 1: five and a half point road favorite. This game will
Speaker 1: be played at MetLife Stadium, mostly cloudy in New Jersey
Speaker 1: and degrees that kick off there in the Tri state
Speaker 1: area for Giants and Vikings. The pick is in. I'm
Speaker 1: taking the Giants. I went back and forth in this
Speaker 1: game Kirk Cousins, and the passing offense is in such
Speaker 1: a sad state of affairs. The guy is issuing me
Speaker 1: a Colpus on his radio show. I struggled, went back
Speaker 1: and forth. Uh, this was a cover your eyes and
Speaker 1: say any meany Mighty Mo type of game for me.
Speaker 1: But ultimately I landed on the underdog. Went in doubt.
Speaker 1: I often throw the underdog out and I'm on the
Speaker 1: side of New York and the Giants are not as
Speaker 1: good as the Vikings. The Viking should win this game,
Speaker 1: but Cousins gun shy. He's got the yips. Plus it's
Speaker 1: hard to cover a spread like this on the road. Uh,
Speaker 1: it is, It is difficult. And secondly, the main concern
Speaker 1: with the Giants is that defense. It is no good.
Speaker 1: It sucks, it's chopped liver, it's mits meat and all that.
Speaker 1: The Vikings are are half of a good team, right,
Speaker 1: and the half that they're good at is the defense. Uh.
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer is a master, He's a maestro defensively, and
Speaker 1: I would imagine that he's gonna cause a lot of
Speaker 1: issues for Danny Dimes. And that's gonna be a problem
Speaker 1: here for Daniel Jones. And and he's a guy that
Speaker 1: has a bugaboo of putting the bug on the rug.
Speaker 1: He fumbles a lot, that's his m O. And that
Speaker 1: limits your ability to swash buckles. So even though Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins has been feasting on bad teams in his career,
Speaker 1: and I believe the Giants are a bad team, I
Speaker 1: gotta see it to believe it. And so like the
Speaker 1: Giants as a home dog, I'm on that side. And
Speaker 1: also betting against the public because the public is loading
Speaker 1: up on the Vikings. So I believe Minnesota will win
Speaker 1: this game, but they won't cover the spread Vikings thirty
Speaker 1: Giants depending. Also like Daniel Jones going with the Giants
Speaker 1: all right? Next up New England at Washington four and
Speaker 1: oh versus Oh and four. It's on CBS with Greg
Speaker 1: Gumble and Trent Green. Did you see that audio that
Speaker 1: funhouse ad about Gumble a couple of weeks ago. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: there's some audio that you sent me. Is that the
Speaker 1: same thing from w f A n um Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: from w and they were the overnight guy, the schmooze
Speaker 1: I believe it is his name there, and he went
Speaker 1: on a rant about what a dick Greg Gumble was
Speaker 1: on how much I mean, it was hilarious. It was
Speaker 1: a wonderful radio. Uh. And I've never met Gumble, but
Speaker 1: he he does seem like that kind of a guy,
Speaker 1: you know, really, Yeah, the vibe I get from him, right, No, No,
Speaker 1: I see, I guess it's just two different uh. I
Speaker 1: mean the brothers. Brian Gumble got a lot of flak
Speaker 1: for his calls in the NFL network when it first
Speaker 1: started on Thursday Night. But Brian Gumble, I remember, just
Speaker 1: I mean, he called a lot of NBA games too,
Speaker 1: especially back in the mid nineties. I always thought he
Speaker 1: was just a regular guy. Well Brian Gumble, this is
Speaker 1: Greg we're talking about. But Brian Gumble didn't he does
Speaker 1: the HBO thing right and whatever that show on hboes
Speaker 1: And I would say, what a douche bag because he
Speaker 1: would have those reading glasses on and he and you know,
Speaker 1: he did it for effect, and I was like, what
Speaker 1: an asshole? You know, I mean, you know, he made
Speaker 1: it seem like he was surprised by something he had
Speaker 1: just read, when you know that's all choreographed and scripted
Speaker 1: and and it's all planned out by producers and all
Speaker 1: that stuff. But anyway, Uh, get back to the game.
Speaker 1: New England and Washington Patriots opened a thirteen point favorite.
Speaker 1: They are favored by fifteen and a half. The forecast
Speaker 1: calls for mostly cloudy seventy three degrees that kick off
Speaker 1: at FedEx Field. Now, this is another one of those
Speaker 1: games where logic you have to throw out as a gambler. Right,
Speaker 1: occasionally this has to happen. I'm taking the Washington Redskins.
Speaker 1: Don't tell anybody, don't bet the game, but I'm taking
Speaker 1: the Redskins. Now, the NFL needs to hire Woodsie the
Speaker 1: Owl to give the Redskins a pep talk. You don't
Speaker 1: want to know why they need to hire Woodsie the
Speaker 1: Owl to give the Redskins the pep talk? Tell me,
Speaker 1: because why the who are you doing? Were you surprised
Speaker 1: I went to you? Yeah? Of course this is the
Speaker 1: this is the Benny versus the Penny segments. So oftentimes
Speaker 1: it's all about Benny. You wanna wanna have longer? Don't well?
Speaker 1: Temper a tantion from them, and you feel free to
Speaker 1: chime and you ask. It doesn't have to be like this.
Speaker 1: But uh no, But Woodsy the Owl, when I was
Speaker 1: a kid, I remember his slogan. His catchphrase was give
Speaker 1: a who don't pollut? And the Redskins have polluted the
Speaker 1: NFL pretty much every week here throwing trash all around
Speaker 1: the field with their pathetic place. So they would see
Speaker 1: the Owl to give him some advice here. Uh, we
Speaker 1: don't even know who's playing quarterback as we're doing this
Speaker 1: for Washington. They don't even know. It might be Colt McCoy,
Speaker 1: could be Dwayne Haskins, maybe even Case Keen of at
Speaker 1: least at the time that we're doing this have all
Speaker 1: been mentioned, that said, and it doesn't really matter now Haskins.
Speaker 1: If it's Haskins, I would not bet on the Redskins,
Speaker 1: all right, So, but if it's not, I believe it
Speaker 1: will be Coult McCoy. He can do enough in garbage time.
Speaker 1: You gotta take Washington getting over two touchdowns at home.
Speaker 1: And the other thing. The Patriots, their defense is wonderful,
Speaker 1: historically good. I get all that. In fact, New England
Speaker 1: and the Chicago Bears the only teams since two thousand
Speaker 1: with fifteen or more sacks and ten or more interceptions
Speaker 1: in the first four games. So they are off to
Speaker 1: an amazing start. But the stats say that Washington, you
Speaker 1: know they're gonna have problems on office. Again. I understand
Speaker 1: that Patriots have been wonderful at being up bad teams,
Speaker 1: but to me, this is a go through the motions
Speaker 1: type of week, cutting corners, even a Belichick team coming
Speaker 1: off a win against Buffalo. Plus we've got Pete Cabo
Speaker 1: for the for the Patriots, right, will they get caught
Speaker 1: peeking ahead because they play in week six Thursday Night Football?
Speaker 1: You know what that means? Gas God, Well, not necessarily
Speaker 1: trap game. But you gotta play a game in four days,
Speaker 1: so you're you're already thicking ahead to that game. You're
Speaker 1: not fully focused on the job, the task at hand, right.
Speaker 1: That's that's my hope. Anyway, And they played Danny Dimes
Speaker 1: and the Giants next week. Now there's no chance the
Speaker 1: Redskins win this game. This will be the eighteen time
Speaker 1: in NFL history the four NO team will match up
Speaker 1: against an Owen four team. The four NO team has
Speaker 1: a fifteen and two records. When is the last time?
Speaker 1: Pick a year? Gas, God, it's not official? Uh question,
Speaker 1: when's the last time and oh and four team beat
Speaker 1: a four and O team? I'm gonna say ninet no
Speaker 1: go back further? Oh uh nope. Nineteen seventy five the
Speaker 1: Owen four Green Bay Packers of nineteen beat the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Who's playing quarterback for the cow You were a kid
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy five? Who was playing quarterback for the Cowboys?
Speaker 1: Was that was it? Or who is the was it? Morton?
Speaker 1: I don't remember, I don't matter. But anyway, final score,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna close my eyes, cover my ears, and shut
Speaker 1: my mouth. Take the double digit foam dog even a
Speaker 1: bad team Patriots pretty six rest Oh man, that is dangerous.
Speaker 1: It is the let's go and see what the penny
Speaker 1: says here. Penny likes. Penny is going with the Patriots
Speaker 1: on this one. Oh is that right? That's a lot
Speaker 1: of That's a lot of chalk. Don't choke on the chalk.
Speaker 1: But just think about what you've done earlier the season.
Speaker 1: You've backed Miami twice with two bad quarterbacks, and now
Speaker 1: you're back in the Skins with three bad quarterbacks on
Speaker 1: the roster. By the way, I was right. Roger Staubach
Speaker 1: was the quarterback of the Cowboys in nineteen You're at
Speaker 1: what eight ninet at the time. What you're eighteen nineteen
Speaker 1: years of age at the time. Are you having a stroke?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you okay? All right? That was Tom
Speaker 1: Landry for the He was the Cowboy coach, and Bart's
Speaker 1: Star was coaching the green Bay Pack, the great Bart Star.
Speaker 1: Green Bay had John Hadel as their quarterback against Roger Staubach.
Speaker 1: Stobok was terrible. He in that game. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the box score here, sixteen two one yards, no touchdowns,
Speaker 1: an interception. He had a passer rating a fifty eight
Speaker 1: point seven and ironically the Packer quarterback was even worse,
Speaker 1: but he had a touchdown pass. So what other notable
Speaker 1: figures when that game? Running backs or wide receivers. Who else?
Speaker 1: Do we have some names that have stood the test
Speaker 1: of time. Preston Pearson, there's a blast in the past.
Speaker 1: He was the running back for the for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: the Packers. There was that there was a bad era
Speaker 1: of Packer football that was like in between Lombardi and
Speaker 1: then they became good again with Brett Farve and whatnot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't see. I don't recognize any of these names
Speaker 1: on on Green Bay. I mean John Hadel is the
Speaker 1: only one that I recognize. That's it. I'm I'm also
Speaker 1: looking at some of these other cowboys at Golden Richards.
Speaker 1: Never heard of him. I heard Drew Pearson, I've heard
Speaker 1: of him. You heard Drew Pierson? All right? Moving on?
Speaker 1: It is Benny versus the penny man versus metal man
Speaker 1: versus coin. Let's get trivial. Which NFL coach had the
Speaker 1: ninth best record in his first twenty two games as
Speaker 1: a coach, only to have the thirty five best record
Speaker 1: after the next twenty nine games of his coaching career.
Speaker 1: Did you understand that? Gas guys, Yes, And I have
Speaker 1: the answer for you. Is it? Wayne Fonts? Well, no,
Speaker 1: I have to wait. You have so you have no patience.
Speaker 1: You have to wait. I'll give you the answer because
Speaker 1: I took all the tease. It's a podcast tease, all right. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Jets oh and three. They had the bye week Philadelphia
Speaker 1: two and two. It's on CBS. Kevin Harlan and Rich
Speaker 1: Gannon have the call. Now the line on this game.
Speaker 1: Philly opened a thirteen point favorite. They are favorite now
Speaker 1: by two touchdowns fourteen points at Lincoln Financial Field. The
Speaker 1: forecast calls for seventy one degrees mostly cloudy, no rain
Speaker 1: at kickoff in Philly. Uh And this is another one
Speaker 1: of those games. As a gambler, you have to be
Speaker 1: the countrarian. You have to go against the public occasionally. Uh.
Speaker 1: And everyone is loaded up, loaded up on Philly because
Speaker 1: of their performance as an overreaction. The pendulum has swung
Speaker 1: too far because of their performance against the Packers. And
Speaker 1: we were on Philly against the Packers last week. But
Speaker 1: I'm not on them. I'm gonna take the Jets here reluctantly. Uh.
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz played wonderfully. Uh, not statistically great, but that yeah,
Speaker 1: had many big passes the The Eagles actually won the
Speaker 1: game on the ground. Though they annihilated the Packer front line,
Speaker 1: they won the game in the trenches. Their offensive line
Speaker 1: for Philly badly outplayed the green Bay defensive line. And
Speaker 1: I get the Jets are a bad team, uh, but
Speaker 1: they are better against the run than green Bay, for
Speaker 1: whatever that's worth. And you're going you're gonna be up
Speaker 1: up against Carson wins to cover a massive number. And
Speaker 1: he has been spotty. I think of him as an
Speaker 1: above average quarterback, but he has not been consistently good.
Speaker 1: He's gotten off to some slow starts in some of
Speaker 1: these games. He's been a bit of a castaway on
Speaker 1: a deserted island at times. Uh. And he's also had
Speaker 1: to deal with the incompetence of his receiving corps. Thirteen
Speaker 1: thirteens robbed passes from Philadelphia pass catchers. That is the
Speaker 1: most of any quarterback in the NFL after the first
Speaker 1: four weeks. Shout out Nelson Aglar. Uh. Secondly, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna sit here and tell you that the Jets are
Speaker 1: gonna win this game. They simply have to hustle. Uh,
Speaker 1: they have to work hard and compete. If they do that,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna lose by two touchdowns. Now Philly has
Speaker 1: to prove to me that they are are not sandbag
Speaker 1: and this looks like a sandbag and kind of go
Speaker 1: through the motion situation here. They struggle against a bad
Speaker 1: team earlier in the year, the Redskins. They struggle against
Speaker 1: a bad team, the Falcons. They lost that game on
Speaker 1: the road. They also lost at home to the Lions.
Speaker 1: So I put the Redskins obviously the worse than those teams.
Speaker 1: But they're in that same category. Are the Are the
Speaker 1: Jets rather just are bad? Jets? Are bad? Luke Falk
Speaker 1: who apparently is gonna play, although I guess there's a
Speaker 1: chance it's time we're doing this. They say Sam Donald
Speaker 1: could still play. I'm not seeing that he's not. Maybe
Speaker 1: he will not play, But as we were recording the podcast,
Speaker 1: they say it's it's it's likely gonna be Luke fault
Speaker 1: Falk who's gonna play. And there's also C. J. Mosley,
Speaker 1: banged up, a key player who's missed three straight games
Speaker 1: and he couldn't. I guess he's missed too. He might
Speaker 1: miss his third straight game with injury. There for the Jets,
Speaker 1: But I mean, the recipe here is to try to
Speaker 1: jump start Levian Bell, and if he plays well and
Speaker 1: scores a couple of touchdowns, that's all it's gonna take
Speaker 1: for the Jets to hang around. I don't trust Luke Falk.
Speaker 1: He sucks. He shouldn't be playing quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I don't. The Jets are owing two when scoring a
Speaker 1: non offensive touchdown this year, which is ade because I
Speaker 1: think they have to score on special teams and defense
Speaker 1: and whatnot. Oh and two, the rest of the NFL
Speaker 1: is twelve and two in that scenario. So Eagles will
Speaker 1: win this game, but they will not cover the number.
Speaker 1: Philly thirty the Jets seventeen. Ugly, Penny's going with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been to a Philadelphia Eagles game in Philly? No,
Speaker 1: I've I've always wanted to go to Philadelphia. Have been
Speaker 1: there one time, and uh, I was actually on the
Speaker 1: eve of the Super Bowl and they beat the Patriots
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Yeah, I was in Philly before,
Speaker 1: but I was during baseball season with the Dodgers and
Speaker 1: we went the Phillies games. But I did not, have
Speaker 1: not been too to the Eagles. I love that complex
Speaker 1: though they have down in Philadelphia. It's gorgeous. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's all right. The basketball, baseball, football teams are
Speaker 1: all right next to each other. It's pretty neat. Have
Speaker 1: you been with Sixers game or a Flyers game? I
Speaker 1: have not. I've only been the Phillies games. Uh And
Speaker 1: I love the fanatic and all and of not. My
Speaker 1: my friend Lee Kleine, the Prince of Darkness, used to
Speaker 1: live in Philly and he was an Eagle season ticket
Speaker 1: holder back at the Vet, back in the back in
Speaker 1: the day. So he's told some he's regaled me in
Speaker 1: some stories about being an Eagle season ticket holder back
Speaker 1: in the day. Let's get trivial the answer the question,
Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes ago, which NFL coach had
Speaker 1: the ninth best record after his first twenty two games
Speaker 1: only to have the thirty five best record after the
Speaker 1: next twenty nine games of his coaching career. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with Bobby Ross. Bobby Ross, Uh No, that's not
Speaker 1: a bad guess, because Bobby Ross was good with the
Speaker 1: Charges and then man, he coached the Lions and was
Speaker 1: a mess. Uh, the answer. I was in an elevator
Speaker 1: with Bobby Ross one time in San Diego. I was
Speaker 1: at a Podre game. This is true story. I'manna Podre businessman.
Speaker 1: Specially used to call back in those days, back when
Speaker 1: Bip Roberts was playing for the Podre. I used to
Speaker 1: love those. So I would go to the Podre game.
Speaker 1: They played like a one o'clock game on a Thursday.
Speaker 1: And then I go down to the radio station. So
Speaker 1: I got there and I would get credentials or whatever. Uh.
Speaker 1: Usually when I was doing this, but I was at
Speaker 1: the game, I was in the elevator. The Chargers at
Speaker 1: that time, the old San Diego Chargers practiced at Jack
Speaker 1: Murphy Stadium. They had their practice facility at the stadium.
Speaker 1: And I got in the elevator and Bobby Ross, covered
Speaker 1: in sweat, had just come off the practice field and
Speaker 1: they had practice from like ten to noon or something
Speaker 1: like that. And he came off the practice field and
Speaker 1: he was in the elevator. It was cool. I said hello,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't really in a mood to talk. You
Speaker 1: want to talk anyway, But the answer is Adam Gaze
Speaker 1: of the Jets with the Dolphins fourteen and eight his
Speaker 1: first twenty two games. I still remember there was a
Speaker 1: columnist in Miami that wrote that that he was the
Speaker 1: next Don Shula after the first handful of the games.
Speaker 1: How how how inaccurate was that thinking? Anyway, since then,
Speaker 1: Adam Gaze is nine and twenty his teams that is
Speaker 1: a three ten winning percentage. That is thirty five in
Speaker 1: the NFL in that span, so week eight of twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen to week four of this year, he is his
Speaker 1: teams are the thirty five best or worst, depending on
Speaker 1: how you look at it. It's awful. That's Hugh Jackson
Speaker 1: type of maneuvering for him. Well, it's actually it's better
Speaker 1: than Hugh Jackson. He would win like two games and
Speaker 1: some keep his job somehow. Yeah yeah it photos of
Speaker 1: farm animals or whatever. He was. He was a good guy,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a good guy and all that. Adam Gaze, though,
Speaker 1: that guy is quite the character. What a crazy eyes
Speaker 1: just a weirdough right, I mean it looks like in
Speaker 1: these press conferences, I don't even met him. Maybe he's normal,
Speaker 1: but he looks like a weirdo. God he was. He
Speaker 1: was really good in Denver and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: just gets hot like everybody else. The offensive he wasn't
Speaker 1: good and that is overblown. Is a product of Peyton.
Speaker 1: There you go being on performance enhancing drugs from a
Speaker 1: guyer clinic, according to the documentary The Dark Side, which
Speaker 1: is on YouTube, and you being a Bronco apologist, you
Speaker 1: blabber mouth over there. Uh was great with the though
Speaker 1: he was not Peyton Manning. He had to send a
Speaker 1: check to Peyton Manning because Peyton Peyton licked that guy's
Speaker 1: toes and said how great he was, and in the
Speaker 1: NFL media took that and celebrated him. I don't mean
Speaker 1: the guy knows what he's doing. I think he was great.
Speaker 1: Peyton's Place which is on ESPN Plus, that's a great
Speaker 1: feature that has Peyton Manning breaking down plays and the
Speaker 1: history of the National Football League. He threw seven touchdowns
Speaker 1: in that game against Baltimore and their Week one performance.
Speaker 1: He came back from that neck injury. I remember how
Speaker 1: disgusted you were to me sent me that link to
Speaker 1: the Guy Clinic documentary. That thing was just it was
Speaker 1: all propaganda, that's all it was. It was. It was wonderful.
Speaker 1: I recommend it still on YouTube. It's called The Dark Side.
Speaker 1: It's a documentary about the performance financing drugs of Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1: He has mentioned there his wife was, according to the documentary,
Speaker 1: a drug mule and they passed the drugs through her
Speaker 1: and Peyton was using H G H and uh. I
Speaker 1: remember I had somebody tell me when Peyton was injured
Speaker 1: with the Colts that Jim Mercy was told by his
Speaker 1: medical people that Peyton would never play again, that this
Speaker 1: was a career ending injury, that he had essentially a
Speaker 1: screw loose in his neck. And uh, and he was
Speaker 1: never gonna play again, and that's part of the reason
Speaker 1: the Colts tanked to get Andrew Luck And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I don't know what kind of pixie
Speaker 1: dust they have that guy or clinic. According to the documentary,
Speaker 1: Uh and uh man, I mean Peyton double Nichols. It
Speaker 1: was insane modern medicine. I love it. Eight well, slept well,
Speaker 1: had the surgeries, and then he was back at it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I mean hate We gotta move on
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay two and two at New Orleans three and one.
Speaker 1: It's on Fox. My former radio colleague Chris Myers has
Speaker 1: the call, and Darryl Moose Johnson. The Moose Saints opened
Speaker 1: a six and a half point favorite. They are down
Speaker 1: to three and a half. That's a three point line
Speaker 1: move in favor of confidence for Tampa Bay. And I
Speaker 1: do not believe this. I don't. Sorry, my my guy, T. J. Reeves.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take New Orleans. I'm gonna take the Saints here.
Speaker 1: First of all, the Saints have already done more than
Speaker 1: I expected without Drew Brees. This is one of the
Speaker 1: games I had circled. They have to win right at
Speaker 1: home against what I believe is a second rate Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay team. And you know, New Orleans is lucky because
Speaker 1: they simply out competed Seattle, outcompeted them, won the statuet,
Speaker 1: out physical them, out tough them, uh and and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And yet they lost because they turned the ball over.
Speaker 1: And then the Saints they came back last week and
Speaker 1: they were the ones that out physical the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: and rough them up and tossed them around and all
Speaker 1: that and won the game in the trenches. Now, secondly,
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers are are feeling good. They have been celebrated.
Speaker 1: I did a podcast interview with my man T. J. Reeves.
Speaker 1: This week. Who's the Bucks sideline guy former Fox Sports
Speaker 1: radio guy. I love t J. And he's all excited
Speaker 1: about the Buccaneers and all that. I don't buy it,
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater. Listen the opposition here. He's not good, but
Speaker 1: he has shown that he's not gonna make the big
Speaker 1: mistake here. And Jameis Winston has proven he rarely has
Speaker 1: back to back good games. He painted the Mona Lisa
Speaker 1: at the Coliseum in Los Angeles and just dethroned Debald
Speaker 1: castrated the Rams in that game. But but also, the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers got twenty eight points off Ram mistakes, twenty eight
Speaker 1: points off turnovers, So the Saints aren't gonna do that.
Speaker 1: They have a pretty good defense. I am a doubting
Speaker 1: Thomas on on Tampa and and it seems like the
Speaker 1: public is all in. They believe the Buccaneers have figured
Speaker 1: something out with Bruce Arians. I don't Saints thirty bucks
Speaker 1: plenty impending going that way as well. Go with the Saints.
Speaker 1: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Miller
Speaker 1: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Saints
Speaker 1: Go Marching into the wind Column. Next up Atlanta one
Speaker 1: in three at Houston Tuns. It's on Fox. Friend of
Speaker 1: the show, a Miler Militia man, Hetty Albert from the
Speaker 1: NFL on Fox and ron Da Barber have the call
Speaker 1: the line on this game. The Texas opened to four
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite. They are favored by five
Speaker 1: in this game. Now the forecast it's a retractable roof,
Speaker 1: but the roof might be open mostly sunny eighties seven
Speaker 1: degrees at kick off at n r G Stadium in Houston.
Speaker 1: The pick, I'm gonna take the Texas. Now. The reason
Speaker 1: here is mostly a pick against Atlanta because not only
Speaker 1: are the Falcons a horrible team, they are an embarrassment.
Speaker 1: And uh, I don't know that we can do enough
Speaker 1: justice to how bad I feel this Falcon team is. Now,
Speaker 1: I realized they won a game and all that, but
Speaker 1: the the defense is gonna provide little resistance to the
Speaker 1: Shaun Watson. Over the last three weeks, Atlanta has the
Speaker 1: most penalties in the NFL, not Cleveland, Atlanta. They've been
Speaker 1: a mistake filled mess, uh and whatnot. And uh so
Speaker 1: I expect Watson to have a bounce back game here,
Speaker 1: mainly because there will not be a lot of pressure
Speaker 1: from Atlanta's defense, and and the numbers for Atlanta are
Speaker 1: not horrific defensively, but the numbers are skewed, and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. Because Kirk Cousins only attempted tend passes.
Speaker 1: So the passing stats are not that bad for the Falcons,
Speaker 1: but I believe they suck. Falcons also recently have been
Speaker 1: an embarrassment against the a f C. You said, well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Every year is different, every game is different,
Speaker 1: but the this number is disportionate to reality. Last twelve
Speaker 1: games Atlanta has played against AFC opponents, they are one
Speaker 1: and eleven. That is the worst inner conference winning percentage
Speaker 1: in the NFL in that stretch, one an eleven, and
Speaker 1: and so anyway, listen, Matt Ryan gets some yards, so
Speaker 1: put up some points with Julio Jones. But I just
Speaker 1: don't believe a mistake filled second rate Falcons team is
Speaker 1: gonna win this game. That Eagle win was a fluke
Speaker 1: and Philly should have won that game, but a drop
Speaker 1: passed by Nelson Agilar and one of the other players
Speaker 1: for the Eagles cost them the game. Atlanta is in.
Speaker 1: They're a dog, but they're a doghouse type. They're living
Speaker 1: in a doghouse, so I will take outside of Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson shifting the bed here. I'm all in with my
Speaker 1: Houston Texas, Me and Chris and Houston. Uh, Texans twenty six,
Speaker 1: Falcons seventeen. I'm good to see you that way. Penny
Speaker 1: is also going with the Texans, all right. Next up
Speaker 1: Buffalo three and one at Tennessee two and two. It's
Speaker 1: on CBS, Spirodidas and Adam arch Aletta, my former TV friend.
Speaker 1: They are calling this game that Titan has opened a
Speaker 1: one point favorite. Tennessee is favored by three. The forecast
Speaker 1: in Nashville at Nissan Stadium with Clay Travis in the Tendants,
Speaker 1: thunderstorms and seventies six degrees at kickoff. Isn't Clay a
Speaker 1: Titans season ticket holder? He always talks about the Titans
Speaker 1: way too much and yeah and the Titans yeah, because
Speaker 1: there's one one team that has a national following, it
Speaker 1: is the Tennessee title. But to be fair, I would
Speaker 1: do the same thing. I think if I lived in
Speaker 1: Nashville and it was a Titans season ticket older and
Speaker 1: did a radio show, I would talk about the Titans
Speaker 1: a lot. I don't. But anyway, the pick gonna take
Speaker 1: Buffalo in this game. Now, this is not an attractive matchup.
Speaker 1: Buffalo is shorthanded. But I'm gonna ride the Bills defense
Speaker 1: because I believe they are too legit quit. Uh. They
Speaker 1: will find a way, find a way here against a
Speaker 1: wayward Tennessee team, and they will put Marcus Mariota into
Speaker 1: some awkward lockdown situations. Buffalo held Tom Brady to nine
Speaker 1: points of offense last week. The Patriots got a touchdown
Speaker 1: on special teams, but nine points of offense from the
Speaker 1: Patriot offense. And and this is a matchup that is
Speaker 1: a mismatch. The Bill's defense is elite, their secondary in
Speaker 1: particular is outstanding. And the Tennessee Titans have a garbage
Speaker 1: passing game, bad receivers, second rate receivers. Marcus Mariota's a
Speaker 1: second rate quarterback. His numbers are misleading. Uh. And Buffalo
Speaker 1: is also good against the run. So he said, well,
Speaker 1: Tennessee'll just run with Derrick Henry. No, they won't, not
Speaker 1: with a lot of success. Now, the main reason people
Speaker 1: are betting on Tennessee is because the Titans. Right now,
Speaker 1: we're preparing for both Josh Allen and Matt Barkley and
Speaker 1: there's a good chance Matt Barkley is gonna start because
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is in the concussion protocol. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play Devil's advocate here, and I'm gonna go against the
Speaker 1: public because I don't think it really matters. You know why.
Speaker 1: You know the reason why guess gon is because Matt
Speaker 1: Barkley is like a waste paper basket kind of guy.
Speaker 1: But Josh Allen's rotten eggs, so it doesn't matter. I mean,
Speaker 1: both these guys are inaccurate, So I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a much of a downgrade whether Barkley plays or Alan plays.
Speaker 1: And both these guys need some old spice deodoran here.
Speaker 1: The Bill's quarterbacks are the flotsam and jetsam of the NFL.
Speaker 1: So uh, this pick is on Defense Bill sixteen Titans ten.
Speaker 1: Like the way you're thinking Penny's going with the Bills
Speaker 1: as well. Have you ever been to Nashville. I've never been,
Speaker 1: as a bucket list man, I kid you not, though
Speaker 1: every time I've looked for flights to go to Nashville
Speaker 1: out of Los Angeles, we're talking about four dollars round trip.
Speaker 1: I can get Yeah, I can get a cheaper flight
Speaker 1: heading to New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, d C, or even
Speaker 1: Boston compared to Nashville. Well, that's odd because a Nashville
Speaker 1: is one of the top hip hipster cities in the
Speaker 1: United States. It's the Jewel of the South, they call
Speaker 1: it now and uh. Addition to that, you also have
Speaker 1: the fact that a lot of people in the music
Speaker 1: business in Nashville, the country music business, fly to l A.
Speaker 1: But some of the a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: airline carriers they'll make stops to get to Nashville. So
Speaker 1: no direct flights, not not a lot of direct flights. Now,
Speaker 1: I I flew into well, I fled somewhere and I
Speaker 1: had to I'd fly to Atlanta and live like back.
Speaker 1: I always hated that. Yeah, when you fly past the
Speaker 1: destination and then come back. I mean, it's so stupid.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like I'm gonna drive by where I
Speaker 1: need to be and then drive back to where I
Speaker 1: need to be. It's like that happens here in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles all the time on the freeway. That's true. All right,
Speaker 1: Late games, late TV window Denver, you're Broncos oh and four,
Speaker 1: how appropriate you're a fan of an oh and four
Speaker 1: team and the l A charges it two and two.
Speaker 1: It's on CBS. Mr Burnt Toast, Jim Nance and Tony
Speaker 1: Romo have the call. Here now the line on this game.
Speaker 1: The Chargers opened a six and a point favorite. The
Speaker 1: line has stayed the same. It will be sunny in
Speaker 1: seventy eight degrees, as it always is in the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles area where they're calling now, Dignity Health Sports Park.
Speaker 1: How dumban name is that? Huh? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I want you to say it one more time with
Speaker 1: your busted tongue, Dignity Health Sports Park. You like that?
Speaker 1: I like that you are not? You know, a good
Speaker 1: colleague would have said, you know, Mali, I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: a little more during Anni versus the past. I know
Speaker 1: you're struggling. You've gotta burnt tongue. Uh not you not
Speaker 1: that you are? You haven't said don't. I'm gonna jump
Speaker 1: in and help out because this guy has got his
Speaker 1: tongue is loose. He's he's babbling like a wind bag,
Speaker 1: and he's dying and all that stuff, but not Gascon.
Speaker 1: Gascon's like he's he's he's a child. He's having a
Speaker 1: temper tangient. I don't get to talking talking, even though
Speaker 1: I'm allowing you to talk more, dummy. This is the
Speaker 1: difference between being injured and being hurt. So ratt Now
Speaker 1: you're just a little banged up, so keep going. I
Speaker 1: should get a purple metal for working with you. All right, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick is in. I'm gonna take the Broncos.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the Broncos. Here and a couple of
Speaker 1: reasons why this. Le Broncos are your your classical crappy team.
Speaker 1: They're bad, but close right four games. I believe they
Speaker 1: lost by twenty three points total in these four games,
Speaker 1: so the point spread is too tempting for me to
Speaker 1: pass up. The Chargers haven't done anything to deserve this
Speaker 1: big a number if you look at their body of
Speaker 1: the work this year, they have not been as good
Speaker 1: as last year. They had an overtime win against the
Speaker 1: Colts a product of a byproduct of Adam been a
Speaker 1: Terry missing some kicks, uh, and they lost to the Texans.
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers also lost to the Lions as well, and
Speaker 1: then last week the Miami game. Who cares the Dolphins
Speaker 1: aren't an NFL team, They're an amateur team. They're they're
Speaker 1: like an inner mural team. The Miami Dolphins and Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1: We gave you some of the numbers last week. He
Speaker 1: has played his worst football overall in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and I figured this game will be close. I listen.
Speaker 1: I don't believe jump ball Joe is any good the
Speaker 1: Bronco quarterback, but I do think this will still be
Speaker 1: a close game. Division Rivals. You're getting almost a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Plus the Chargers at Dignity Health Sports Park have no
Speaker 1: home field advantage. I I anticipate, at least if this
Speaker 1: is like the last couple of years, this will be
Speaker 1: Mile High Stadium West at sea level right. Yes, I
Speaker 1: mean they'll be a bunch of Bronco face. Then that's
Speaker 1: always the case in the West. They're all Raiders, all Chiefs,
Speaker 1: are all Broncos when the Charges play. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the Charges to win, but not cover the spread.
Speaker 1: Another painful, agonizing loss for Gagon's favorite team, Chargers Broncos
Speaker 1: twenty three, same wins, well, depending on what the Broncos all. Right,
Speaker 1: next up, let's see what do we have here. We've
Speaker 1: got let's get trivia. You wanna get trivites. All right,
Speaker 1: Derek Carr and Jamis Winston have the two worst road
Speaker 1: records in the NFL since the start of the seventeen season.
Speaker 1: Who is the third worst behind Derek Carr and Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston on the road? Okay, all think about that al right?
Speaker 1: Next up green Bay at Dallas. This is the prize
Speaker 1: of the weekend big game on Fox. They will have
Speaker 1: the top ratings of any game on Sunday, will be
Speaker 1: Dallas and green Bay to national followings. Joe Buck and
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman. How much does Joe Buck hate this week?
Speaker 1: He's got to go from Seattle to Dallas. At least
Speaker 1: Aikman's going home. He lives in the Dallas area, right, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: but it's got Major League Baseball on deck two though, right, uh,
Speaker 1: He's no, he's not as far as I know. He's
Speaker 1: not leaving this weekend, though maybe next week. It doesn't.
Speaker 1: He leave for the NLCS in the World Series, not
Speaker 1: the first round. That's right, Yeah, that's true because he
Speaker 1: got TBS and Fox that handle those games. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: but listen to the game is actually in Arlington. But
Speaker 1: the Cowboys open to four point favorite, their favorite by
Speaker 1: three and a half partly sunny nine new one degrees.
Speaker 1: I know they got a roof at a T and
Speaker 1: T Stadium, but that's the weather outside at kickoff in
Speaker 1: the the Arlington, Texas area. I am gonna take the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers here. I got the pack. I don't
Speaker 1: love the pack, but I got the pack. My main
Speaker 1: concern is the Packers have been ravaged by injuries here.
Speaker 1: The big one is the safety blanket for Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: The only only see were worth his salt is Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: who's got turf toe, and by the way, he's unlikely
Speaker 1: to play at the time we're doing this. I've determined
Speaker 1: Gascon that turf toe is like biting your tongue. It's
Speaker 1: something that shouldn't be a problem, but is a problem.
Speaker 1: You know, right, Yeah, it's don't be don't bite on
Speaker 1: pizza too hard you want to have a turf toe
Speaker 1: in your mouth. It is shut up. It is odd
Speaker 1: to me. One of the weird things. And there's a
Speaker 1: lot of weird stuff about life and being human and
Speaker 1: all that, but some of the very small things that
Speaker 1: should not be that big a deal that cause a
Speaker 1: great amount of pain to your body. It's it's weird,
Speaker 1: like even like little paper cuts can be so annoying, right,
Speaker 1: Uh and and and uh a pimple on your ass
Speaker 1: trying to sit down to be very annoying. Am I wrong?
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? I've never had that problem. But if
Speaker 1: you can, if you can enlighten us a little bit. Well,
Speaker 1: that's not what she said, but I have. I've heard
Speaker 1: that you have had that. So you're looking into my
Speaker 1: sex life. I appreciate that. But you've had a lot
Speaker 1: of partners who'd like to send me emails. Let me
Speaker 1: know whether you're good or bad. Not that I care.
Speaker 1: It doesn't really affect me. I'm not interested in that.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't go to that side. What does
Speaker 1: the audience said, is it thumbs up or thumbs down? Then,
Speaker 1: since you're getting emails, you're like a hollow bunny, good
Speaker 1: on the outside but not on the inside. All right, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm taking green bad. We gotta pick up the pace
Speaker 1: on this. We're taking way too long. Uh. The main
Speaker 1: concern here is the is the injury to Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: I said, And the Packers have been exposed defensively. They
Speaker 1: are twenty nine in the NFL and allowing yards per
Speaker 1: carry at five yards per carries even worse lately. The
Speaker 1: Philadelphia game was atrocious. Is a red flag. Obviously Dallas
Speaker 1: is a run heavy team. Here they are at home
Speaker 1: looking to bounce back. That's all good stuff. It's also
Speaker 1: a Randall Cobb revenge game, former Packer now with the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: But the main reason there's two things I like that
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna take Green Bay. I'm betting against dark Prescott,
Speaker 1: who has morphed into the guy he had been last year.
Speaker 1: After that fast start, he has regressed, in fact, the
Speaker 1: last two weeks against better competition. Uh, and he hasn't
Speaker 1: been unable to take advantage. He is the twenty fourth
Speaker 1: ranked quarterback and his passer rating is eighty two point one.
Speaker 1: He was really bad. He was the reason the Cowboys
Speaker 1: lost the game in New Orleans. He and Zeke Helly.
Speaker 1: Zeke didn't play well either, and I expect Zeke to
Speaker 1: have a big game here. But listen, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers better quarterback, although he hasn't played better lately,
Speaker 1: but better quarterback than Dak Scott throwing. I don't care
Speaker 1: if it's the key Stone Cops and Barnum and Bailey's
Speaker 1: clown college catching passes. But you're getting Brett Farve, Brett
Speaker 1: farting Aaron Rodgers. There's a Fordian slip Aaron Rodgers against
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and over a field goal, you've got that hook.
Speaker 1: That three and a half Cowboys secondary not that good.
Speaker 1: I believe Dallas is overvalued here. There's always a lot
Speaker 1: of Cowboy money. Cowboys are one of the most popular
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL, so I think it's overstated where
Speaker 1: the Cowboys actually are. So I'm gonna take the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers thirty and the Dallas Cowboys. Penny likes the
Speaker 1: home team, and this one going the Cowboys. Hey, by
Speaker 1: the way, here's a fun fact. The quarterbacks of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys have beaten this year to get those three
Speaker 1: wins are a combined Owen set and Eli Manning has
Speaker 1: already been benched in case Keenum, some saying he will
Speaker 1: be bench this weekend. They're claiming he's hurt, but some
Speaker 1: think he's just being so wow. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: trivial the answer we mentioned. Derek Carr and Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: have the two worst road records in the NFL. Since
Speaker 1: the start of the seventeen season. Who is the third
Speaker 1: worst quarterback? Wins and losses, wins and losses, wins and
Speaker 1: mother blanket losses on the road? How about Matt Ryan?
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Falcons not bad? Matt Ryan is a standout
Speaker 1: at home and normally looks like he's at the bar
Speaker 1: in a gutter outside the bar when he plays on
Speaker 1: the road. It's some watering hole. But it's not the
Speaker 1: correct answer. This blew me away. It was counter what
Speaker 1: I just said, Aaron Rock The last thirteen road games
Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers has played in and started Green Bay
Speaker 1: is three and ten. Uh. Only Derek Carr four and
Speaker 1: fourteen and Jamis Winston have had worse records on the
Speaker 1: road the last three years. That's at least ten roads starts.
Speaker 1: But how do you explain that, man, that's why Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy's gone. Well, it hasn't gotten much better this year
Speaker 1: though they haven't. They don't have a lot of weapons anyway.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but this is one of those things I
Speaker 1: often use this line when I do these stupid monologues
Speaker 1: at night. But the legend of liberty valids right and uh,
Speaker 1: And the line on this is that when the legend
Speaker 1: becomes the fact, you go with the legend, right, and
Speaker 1: the legend of Aaron Rodgers is this guy is wonderful.
Speaker 1: It's also the other thing, which is pretty much another
Speaker 1: way of saying the man who shot Liberty Vounts is
Speaker 1: the Tigerbell effect. You know what the Tinkerbell effect is
Speaker 1: If enough people believe hard enough that like fairies exist. Right,
Speaker 1: if enough people believe that that fairies exist, they do
Speaker 1: right because people believe it. Um anyway, But yeah, Rogers
Speaker 1: is I'm picking him. I'm I'm an idiot. I'm picking him.
Speaker 1: At least it's not the Miami Dolphins of the sit Tonight.
Speaker 1: Bengals are back in this week, so it's all good.
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Speaker 1: Sunday night football in Annapolis two and two at cannesas City.
Speaker 1: And they come into this game four and oh it's
Speaker 1: on NBC with Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth calling the game.
Speaker 1: Chiefs opened up an eight and a point favorite. They
Speaker 1: are an eleven point favorite at Arrowhead. The forecast in
Speaker 1: Kansas City calls for a fifty seven degree weather at kickoff.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna take the Colts to cover. I like
Speaker 1: the Colts to to keep this game closed. And he
Speaker 1: got caught looking ahead. First of all, they lost to
Speaker 1: the Raiders. That was a Peaka booz situation. Now, what
Speaker 1: is the first rule of the Peeka boat. If you
Speaker 1: get caught peeking ahead and you don't win the game,
Speaker 1: it does happen. It is imperative that you win the game.
Speaker 1: You were circling and looking ahead too. So this is now,
Speaker 1: I don't believe he'll actually win the game. I think
Speaker 1: let's keep it close. And Jacoby bar said, while he
Speaker 1: hasn't been great, he has held his own and he
Speaker 1: he's tied for the NFL lead and touchdown passes with
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and has actually been better than Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: throwing touchdown passes the first four games the year. Doesn't
Speaker 1: the culture danged up? T Y Hilton's got a bad quad,
Speaker 1: Belik Hooker, the great defensive players got a knee injury.
Speaker 1: Marlon mack is battling an ankle injury. UH some of
Speaker 1: those guys might not play. I believe Mac will play,
Speaker 1: but they're all in the injury tent with varying degrees
Speaker 1: of problems. But the second thing here, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: back to Mahomes speaking about of Patrick Mahomes. Uh, he
Speaker 1: was a mere mortal last week against Matt Patricia and
Speaker 1: the Lions. And as my friend Bob Fesco, the great
Speaker 1: morning guy in Kansas City, I go on with him
Speaker 1: every Thursday now on six ten Sports in k C.
Speaker 1: And and he brought up an interesting point that I
Speaker 1: did not think about. And we were talking about Matt
Speaker 1: Patricia and and Matt Patricia's really the guy that solved
Speaker 1: the Rams quarterback Jared Goff up until playing Matt Patricia's defense,
Speaker 1: Jared Golf was a top notch, top ten quarterback in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And ever, that's the point of d marcation.
Speaker 1: Ever since then, Matt Patricia the rocket scientists cooked something
Speaker 1: up and everyone's been copying that, and Jared Goff has
Speaker 1: sucked pretty much the entire time. And so Bob brought
Speaker 1: up a good point. Did Matt Patricia give the formula
Speaker 1: the secret recipe of eleven herbs and spices to slow
Speaker 1: down Patrick Rohomes, and we won't know that for a
Speaker 1: couple more weeks to see if you see that he
Speaker 1: see how this goes? Uh? But Mahomes had an eighty
Speaker 1: point eight passer rating and a seven point four yards
Speaker 1: per attempt, which is very very potest pedestrian. He he
Speaker 1: has lost a bunch of yards overall this year on
Speaker 1: penalties and whatnot. But I expect you need to mimic
Speaker 1: the blueprint of Matt Patricia this week. Anytime you get
Speaker 1: over a touchdown with two good teams. And I believe
Speaker 1: the Colts are good, not great. The Chiefs are a
Speaker 1: great team. I'm gonna take the Chiefs to win, but
Speaker 1: not cover Kansas City thirty four Indianapolis. Penny likes, you too,
Speaker 1: will go with the Colts last one. Now we allowed.
Speaker 1: I actually can't mention the thing that you don't want
Speaker 1: to mention on the air what you'll be doing on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Definitely not. We'll wait till, we'll wait till next week. Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: look at that valve silence there. Monday Night football Cleveland
Speaker 1: two and two at Santa Clara three, and oh it's
Speaker 1: on ESPN with Booger McFarland and Joe Testa Tour. What
Speaker 1: a hard Oh he is, right, I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: he's the testators, like the definition of every cliche about
Speaker 1: a sportscaster. Like I watched Joe test It Tour and
Speaker 1: I think I'm watching a parody on Saturday Night Live
Speaker 1: of of how a play by play guy should be.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's a nice enough guy and all that,
Speaker 1: but he is such a such a cliche filled machine.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like Jim Lampley's like that, or at
Speaker 1: least he used to be. Uh, well, I will never
Speaker 1: say I love Lampley. I did a radio show with
Speaker 1: Lampley one time, and uh I love lamps. Yeah I don't.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard him call a game in a long time. Anyway,
Speaker 1: he doesn't do that anymore, right, No, he doesn't. But
Speaker 1: I'm just referring to boxing matches and boxes. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I love the way he calls a match. But people
Speaker 1: crush him all the time on social media. Oh yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: he gets the Joe Buck treatment because they think he's
Speaker 1: siding with one of the fighters, like people think Joe
Speaker 1: Buck is Uh. I think he's a Cardinal fan because
Speaker 1: his dad when the Dodgers and Cardinals play like if
Speaker 1: they that could be the NLCS matchup this year. Not
Speaker 1: to get off the reservation. We could have Cardinals and
Speaker 1: Dodgers in the NLCS. And and Joe Buck is like
Speaker 1: a cardinal broadcaster. He's not, he really is not anymore.
Speaker 1: But anyway, forty Niners are a three and a half
Speaker 1: point favorite in this game. It is sunny in seventy
Speaker 1: nine degrees at kickoff late afternoon early evening to get
Speaker 1: Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. The pick is in. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take the Cleveland Browns in this game. The forty
Speaker 1: Niners are coming off a bye week. So my theory,
Speaker 1: I like the human psychology of gambling. My theory is
Speaker 1: that the forty Niners have been regaled and how good
Speaker 1: they are and they are basking in the afterglow of
Speaker 1: that three and oh start right. Plus, this is another
Speaker 1: one of those peekabooth situations. Who do the forty Niners
Speaker 1: played next week? Who do they have guests on on
Speaker 1: the schedules? You know they have they have the l
Speaker 1: A Rams That is correct. That is a big game.
Speaker 1: I actually might go to this game. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I might go to the RAM and I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be allowed to get in since you
Speaker 1: got denied last week, but we'll talk about that today
Speaker 1: on this national podcast. Wow, you are what a what
Speaker 1: a passive aggressive asshole? I mean, God, do not Pasco?
Speaker 1: Do not collect your tuner dollars? Do you do? You
Speaker 1: realize the rams cost you an injured tongue and you
Speaker 1: did not even acknowledge that on the radio. That's a
Speaker 1: good point. If I had gone to the ramp, I
Speaker 1: likely would not have bitten into my tongue and I
Speaker 1: would have been fine. Uh. I didn't realize that, So
Speaker 1: I should I should pull against the Rams from now
Speaker 1: on because they injured my tongue. And the funny thing,
Speaker 1: guest Scott, I've had this tongue injury all week. I
Speaker 1: have done extra sidework in addition to show. I did
Speaker 1: T J Reeves podcast. I did like a twenty minute
Speaker 1: block on his podcast. I did my radio spot in
Speaker 1: Kansas City. I did turn down one in Miami because
Speaker 1: I just said I didn't want to do it. I
Speaker 1: was like too much. But but I've done like so
Speaker 1: much extra stuff. What am I doing? Did you go
Speaker 1: down under two with Darcy. Yeah, I was on in
Speaker 1: New Zealand on Monday Night with Darcy waldergrag Yeah, uh
Speaker 1: that was. That was. But anyway, we're gonna wrap this up. Jimmy,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Aroppolo has he hasn't been any special, uh, but
Speaker 1: now he hasn't had a lot of problems that the
Speaker 1: receivers for the Forts have only had two errors. According
Speaker 1: to the Advanced Statistics of the NFL that they provide us,
Speaker 1: Garoppolo is right in the middle of the Bell curve.
Speaker 1: Hadn't been terrible, but he's fifteenth in the NFL, which
Speaker 1: is which isn't all that good. The Browns, this is odd.
Speaker 1: They have scored only twenty six points into home games,
Speaker 1: both losses, but have scored sixty three points in two
Speaker 1: road games, both of them wins against the Jets and
Speaker 1: the Ravens. H Baker Mayfield had a coming out party
Speaker 1: for nineteen last week in Baltimore. He was marvelous. The
Speaker 1: Browns low Nick shubble lub lub on the ground, wonderful.
Speaker 1: Can we have an ENCORET now I'm pigging. I'm pigging.
Speaker 1: The Browns is a live underdog. The thing that scares
Speaker 1: me is geography and going to the West coast, your
Speaker 1: bio rhythms get messed up and all that. But this
Speaker 1: is a primetime game. Odell Beckham normally is the center
Speaker 1: of attention in these primetime games. I expect him to
Speaker 1: make a couple of big plays. Cleveland's defense, even though
Speaker 1: they're banged up, and that is a factor here. Who
Speaker 1: plays and who doesn't play. The backups did a pretty
Speaker 1: good job last week against Lamar Jackson. Uh So I
Speaker 1: am still confident in Cleveland. I feel like they have
Speaker 1: the better defense, and I'd rather have Baker Mayfield than Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: If Mayfield plays the way he did last week, he's
Speaker 1: the better quarterback. You're getting over a field goal. Close teams,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's much separating the Browns and Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Santa Clara Penny going with the tongue and the Browns
Speaker 1: all right there, it is Benny versus the Penny. Week
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Speaker 1: just a disclaimer because I got an email this week saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bet every one of your games this week.
Speaker 1: Don't do that. Don't do that. No, this podcast is
Speaker 1: designed to give you advice. You shouldn't use it as
Speaker 1: the gospel. Now. If you agree with me, my advice
Speaker 1: has always been over the years, if I have I
Speaker 1: handicap a game and you my thoughts line up with
Speaker 1: your thoughts, then you should bet the game. But there's
Speaker 1: no way on God's green earth that you're gonna agree
Speaker 1: with all these picks. But but anyway, there it is.
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