WEBVTT - Benny vs The Penny, Round 5 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:12.080 Welcome players, You're welcome. It's time now, Penny Penny, that 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:16.040 it is. We are back at it in another weekend 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:21.239 of NFL predictions for you from us, absolutely free, no 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.560 number to call, no amount of money. We're not gonna 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.040 ask for your credit card, none of that. It is 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:31.880 free handicapping advice from an amateur who's been doing this 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.440 for many, many, many years. Trying not to trip over 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.559 my tongue. Week five in the NFL. We will not 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.120 talk about the Miami Dolphins. We will not talk about 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.879 the Detroit Lions because they are both not playing. They 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.080 have the bye week this week. But before we get ahead, 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.760 we must look back. Now. David Gascon he's with me. 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.280 He doesn't say much during this he doesn't like this podcast. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.640 He doesn't talk very much. Maybe today he'll talk more 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.360 on Benny versus the Penny. He's the voice of the penny. 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:03.480 So how did we do last week against the spread? 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.960 David gas guy, And you've been you've been lights out, 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.480 ben Um twelve up and just three down in a 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:14.560 week number four? And might I add not to pat 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:19.360 myself on the back, I went eight and oh I 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:25.679 believe in the early television wind. Yeah, I didn't get wrong. 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:31.760 In fact, my guy, a long time Malla militia man, 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.720 supermarket Steve, who I consider him a friend because I've 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.959 met him in person, him and his wife there and 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.600 wonderful time. But supermarket Steve, who actually has the Mallard 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.880 brand on his name tag at the grocery store he 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:52.480 works at. He hit gascon a five team parlor based 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.440 off our picks from last week. How cool is that 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.240 he ran like he went like a grand on a 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.640 fifty dollar bet hitting the five team parlay. That's pretty good. Now, 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.560 which which games did you lose big on? I think 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.280 Dallas was the I like how you're focusing on the 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.600 negative like that. I lost the Monday night. I picked 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.079 the Bengals because I'm an idiot. I didn't think Pittsburgh 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:17.600 is that good. But I didn't realize the Bengals were 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.560 that bad. Uh Now I do, and they seemed uninterested. 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.160 The Cowboy game I got wrong. I was embarrassing Dak 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.880 Prescott all of a sudden's back to being Dak Prescott. 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.800 And then the other one was the Viking game. I 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.800 was wrong on that, but that that's it. Other than that, 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.400 every game we got right. Man, you're yeah, when you 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.000 when I woke up and I started looking at these games, 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.839 all of a sudden, you started hitting, hitting, hitting. It's 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.320 it's similar to Week one, and it's also similar week 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.679 number three. So even you've been carving it up. Yeah. 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:49.720 In fact, my all my record, I did the math 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.160 because I know you wouldn't give me any credit my 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.840 season total. We've picked sixty three NFL games on radio 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:58.919 or on the podcast because I do the Thursday game 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:02.000 on radio, and out of those sixty three, we are 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.400 forty three and twenty. That is a six eighty three 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:10.839 winning percentage against the spread. Documented That's that's nuts of fame. 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.519 It's not gonna last, right, I mean this is I 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.120 don't I don't particularly like the card this week. I 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.360 liked last week a lot. I don't love the card 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.679 this week. I feel like they've adjusted the point spreads enough. Uh. 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.280 And it's kind of those one of those things like 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.000 a seesaw. You know, I'm going back and forth on 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.920 a number of the games which I don't like. Uh. 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:31.240 In my experience also with picking these NFL games is 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.720 that oftentimes, uh, you know, in the early TV window, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.800 I'll be winning a couple of bets and then I'll 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:38.960 a couple of games will turn around in the fourth 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.240 quarter and I'll lose, and then I'll win a couple 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.120 of games that I'm losing. You know, Normally, that's what happens, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:50.720 very chaotic, that last half hour, last hour of the 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.280 early television window, and there's a bunch of games ending 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.480 and all that stuff. And but but last week was wonderful. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.520 All right, let's get to the games. What do you say? Alright? 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:03.320 First game up Baltimore two and two at Pittsburgh oh 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:06.720 and three. Actually, uh, one in three, rather won Monday nights, 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.000 so they're one in three. This game is on CBS. 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.240 Uh I an Eagle whose kid is now the voice 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.240 of the Clippers and he just graduated from Syracuse. I 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:20.280 don't Guesscon's happy about that. And Dan Fouts they were 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.680 gonna broadcast this game on CBS. The Ravens opened a 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.320 three point favorite. There are three and a half point favorite. 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.560 It will be light rain, temperatures in the mid sixties 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:34.120 at Hines Field at kickoff. I'm gonna take the Pittsburgh 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.120 Steelers in this game. And this is one of those 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.040 games I went back and forth on I am not 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:42.000 a believer in Lamar Jackson. I know he was handed 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.080 the m v P number one after he sliced up 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:49.200 the Dolphins and turned them into sushi. Unfortunately, the season 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.960 did not end for Lamar Jackson, and that is the 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.560 only game that Ravens will play with the Dolphins because 0:04:54.800 --> 0:05:00.320 Lamar Jackson rather quietly, has gotten less productive pretty much 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:04.520 every game last three weeks. His passer rating combined is 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:08.200 eighty nine point three. That ain't great. Uh, and he's 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.320 averaged less than seven yards per attempt over the last 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.680 three games. So the numbers were inflated because of that 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.880 Miami game, which I understand. You know, I guess bad 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.719 teams you inflate the numbers, but he is he has 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.000 put up garden variety numbers Lamar Jackson. Now, John Harbaugh's 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.640 team is looking to bounce back after that embarrassment against Cleveland, 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.040 and normally I like teams in a bounce back situation, 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.360 and the Steelers coming off a win and all that. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.640 But I looked it up and the Ravens have only 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.640 a five record under John Harball as a road favorite. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.200 That ain't all that good. And when you're favorite on 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.840 the road. Uh. Secondly, if this game was in Baltimore. 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.200 I could be swayed to take the Ravens, but it's 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:53.560 in Pittsburgh that matters. Uh. And even a ramshackled Mason 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:59.440 Rudolph a k A captain checkdown, he will be good enough. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.200 Just don't make the big mistake. And the Ravens, I mean, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.640 the dirty little secret here is the Ravens. Because they 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:07.720 used to be great on defense. People still think they're 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.920 great on defense. They're not. The last three weeks this 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.240 blew me away. It's my main reason for taking this 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.440 Steelers over the Ravens and getting points as a home dog. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:23.440 The last three weeks again after the Miami game, the 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:29.000 Baltimore Ravens defensively have allowed three yards per game. That 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.279 is dead last in the NFL. They are the worst 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.640 team in the NFL the last three weeks allowing yards. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.119 Now they need to play Kansas City, that is fair, 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:41.880 but they played Cleveland in that stretch and Arizona. I mean, 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:48.080 come on. So final score Steelers twenty six, Ravens three 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.960 penny lanks. You will go at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Tremendous 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.200 insight from the Penny and from Gascon on this particular game. 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.720 Good job by you. It's just all about you. If 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:06.159 Benny versus a penny alright, Chicago at Oakland the Bears 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.560 three and one A right as two and to. This 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.520 game is being played in London. It's a Raider home game, 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.640 so they're playing it in London. It is on Fox. 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.400 You better watch. You know who's calling this game, did 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:24.640 you see? Uh? Yes, our guy Dick, Dick Stockton. They 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.160 have sent him out of the country. He is in London. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.640 He will call Raiders Bears with Mark slay Writh on Fox. Now. 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.800 The Bears opened a six point favorite. That line is 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.240 at five and a half. As we're doing this in 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:43.360 real time. The forecast for Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.480 where they're playing this game rain showers, which is cliche 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.840 for London and also fifty six degrees at kick off. 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.680 So they say, now the pig is in and I 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.480 am gonna take the radius. Now, this is one of 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.320 those where I gotta cover my nose, uh and and whatnot, 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.160 but I'm gonna take the The Bears should win this 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.320 game by thirty points. First of all, I get it. 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.840 I'm not against that, but strange things tend to happen 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.880 in jolly Old London. Uh. And the Raiders are coming 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:16.480 off a very impressive win against Indie for them. Uh. 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:21.560 And they are road warriors, right, vagabonds around the NFL. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.840 And I understand the Bears have the top unit on 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:28.120 the field here, that the Bears defense is wonderful, And 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.560 this is a Khalil Mack revenge game. You know he 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.200 had even though he's downplaying it, he had this game circle. 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:37.280 I mean, right, guess imagine Khalil Mack like how excited 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.880 he was to see this on the schedule every year. 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.679 I mean, we've all lost jobs in this business and 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.000 we love to get revenge, right, vengeance, pound of flesh, 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.360 And this is Khalil max opportunity to do that. And 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.040 then the Raiders are without Vontes Perfect uh and a 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:56.480 couple of other injuries there. Uh. But Chicago's going with 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:00.760 Chase Daniel, which is not not a real downgrade because 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.559 Turbiski had been terrible. So I expect the Bears to 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:09.000 run that remedial passing game uh and all that. Uh. 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.960 And and Max should play a very good game. But 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.640 you're talking about getting almost a touchdown five and a 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.400 half points with a suspect offense in Chicago and the 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.320 Raiders have been playing above their their level. They've they've 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.240 outkicked their coverage, if you will, lately, because they've they've 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.480 been playing pretty well. The key for the Raiders here 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.920 in this game is obviously to establish the run, which 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.600 is seems to be near impossible. But if they want 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.360 to keep this game close, Josh Jacobs, it's gonna have 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.360 to make Gate Khalil Mack and that pass rush. It's 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.480 hard to be a good pass rushing team if you're 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.240 running uh and and and the other reason here, this 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.240 is probably the main reason I'm taking the Raiders is 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.400 to be the contrary and and one thing I've learned 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.240 over the years, when the public bets a game one way, 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:58.920 you want to go the other way. When they zig, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.240 you want to zag. And the public is absolutely hammering 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.520 the Chicago Bears. The gambling market is all about the Bears. 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.640 The line has despite that, it hasn't skyrocket. And that's 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.680 the odd thing about this. I mean, from what the 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.800 information I have access to, there's a ton of wagers 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:17.640 on the Chicago Bears. It's one of the most bet 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.840 games of the weekend, and yet the line, which probably 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.400 should be No. Seven or eight or something like that 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:30.720 for in favor of Chicago, because their defense is again 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.960 at five and a half. So I'm gonna say something 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:37.160 flukey happens here. Uh, those European bio rhythms get messed 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.160 up and the Raiders keep it close. Bears will win 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:45.040 the game, but it'll be close. Chicago twenty and alright, 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.320 Penny going back to mac occasions with you also going 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.000 Derek Carrent the Raiders. Alright, next up on Benny versus 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.440 the Penny Arizona oh three and one at Cincinnati oh 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.760 and four. If you would have asked me before we 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.720 did this, who is gonna call this game? I would 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.080 have said this is a Dick Stockton special, right, But 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.240 he's not. He's obviously in the game in London. This 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:14.560 is a Tom brennanan Chris Spielman broadcast. It's on Fox. 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:18.000 At least Brenneman doesn't have to travel. He lives in Cincinnati, 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.840 so he doesn't for going a plane. That's the positive there. 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.480 The Bengals opened up a four and a half point favorite. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.760 They are favored by three and a half and would 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.640 fall in the air. A rain will be in the 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:36.280 air at kickoff at Paul Brown Stadium, seventy two degrees 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.560 and rainshower. You know what that is. But if it 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.160 was a little cold, there would be good football. Whether 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.800 it's football and they're like a light rain falling and right, 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.520 guess of course yes not out here in Los Angeles. 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.880 Will we see sprinkles and it's mass panic, but yes 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.040 it's football weather. Yeah, alright, so that's the forecast. I 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:55.520 am gonna go with alligator arms, Kyler Murray and Arizona 0:11:55.960 --> 0:12:00.080 this week. So I'm on the Cardinals plus three and 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.400 a half. What a horrible matchup, Tom Brenneman, You're talking 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:06.600 about putting lipstick on a pig uh and uh and 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:11.080 playing putting uh, perfume on a on a smelly goat 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.320 with flies all over. The Bengals started four and one 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.400 last year. Did you know that under Marvin Lewis they 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.720 were four and one last year? I do not remember that. Yeah. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.400 Since then they have played fifteen games and Cincinnati has 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.599 gone two and thirteen. That is the worst record in 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.360 the NFL this week six of last season. Nobody is worse. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.840 And in that same time, not to be outdone, the 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.400 Arizona Cardinals are two twelve and one so if it 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.360 wasn't for the tie, they'd have the same exact record 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.360 over the last you know, the last handful of games here. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.680 Uh Arizona is the third worst team in the NFL 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.319 record wise here, so it's a it's a it's a 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:56.680 horseshit matchup. Cincinnati was castrated by the Steelers. We referenced 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.280 that game here a few minutes ago by a backup 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:04.360 scrub order back who just threw short passes, and Cincinnati 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:05.920 was bothered. They don't want to they don't want to. 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:07.920 They were they didn't want to play the game. They 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.840 were annoyed they had to be there. They didn't tackle, 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.679 they didn't play with any discipline. They were lethargic, they 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:18.360 were uninterested, a lot of game quitters. You ever heard 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:23.200 that term game quitters? No, it's it's players who to 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.800 the untrained. I seemed like they are trying to win, 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.840 have really given up. And the Bengals have a lot 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.640 of guys, at least on that night that did. And 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.720 Arizona the other thing here, Arizona is a bad football 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:37.520 team and they are a bunch of bad embres, and 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.240 not in a good way. Kyler Murray has been nothing 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.040 spectacular he has not turned NFL on its side like 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.920 some were predicting. One guy in the NFL network said 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:49.240 he was gonna have a Patrick Mahomes like impact on 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.520 the NFL. That guy should be fired. But this is 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.560 a weekend where you would expect Kyler Murray to have 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.959 some success. Why the Bengals defense is much of low 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.400 first alright, bunch of loafers, and these teams are essentially equals. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.600 Now I realized Cincinnati the bounce back. They're gonna want 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.400 to play better. They embarrass themselves, and this is a 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.720 winnable game. And Andy Dalton has played very well against 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.720 bad teams. I understand all that. But all things being equal, 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:20.640 if it's too horseshit teams right in a crap tastic classic, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:26.360 this would be the crap Craptastic Bowl Gascon. I like 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.880 getting the points, uh, and so I actually believe Cincinnati 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.120 is gonna win the game, but this will be a 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:39.000 late field goal. Bengals Cardinals twelve. Is it painting taking 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.040 Arizona because the penny did as well? Well? No, I 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.600 can win money. I mean, I I think Arizona is 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.960 gonna lose. But there's two equal teams. I mean, you know, 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:49.880 you think I just go out of mind? Who cares 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.880 about the Cardinals? I don't care about the Cardinals. You 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.400 care about six people. You can care about Kyler Murray. Well, 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.000 I just point out his his horrible play. That's it. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.720 And no one else brings that up. Nobody else calls 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.000 him a oompa loompa and alligator arms, And what's wrong 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.080 with that? Am I wrong? Yeah? Yeah, you're wrong. You 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.280 publicly depicate on him during the over nine hours of 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.360 Fox Sports Radio. And I was a fan of Mighty 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.240 Mouse when I was a kid. It's kind of cool, 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.200 you know what it is. It's inspirational that the NFL 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.520 is allowing a pop orner sized player to play, because 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.440 normally they have restrictions on that. If you're of a 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.120 certain size, you can't play. But uh, there he goes 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.040 very diminutive. I like that's one of those I like 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:28.040 the terms people use when they want to say someone's 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.640 uh short, they say at least diminutive, uh, you know, 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.120 and things like that. But you can't say midget anymore. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:38.280 You can't what a dwarf. You can do that, you know. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.440 I guess it's politically incorrect now to say that what 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:45.360 a petite. You can say that srimp pocket size, the 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:51.320 pint sized pockets something. He's in the pocket size quarterback, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.840 the teny weeny, itty bitty little quarterback, you're an asshole. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:16:00.720 Let's go all right, but anyway moving, let's get trivial. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:05.080 You want to get trivial alright? Carolina Panthers quarterback Kyler 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:10.160 Kyle Kyle Allen just became the third quarterback in the 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:14.120 Super Bowl Era to win his first three career starts 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:19.720 on the road. He joined Patrick Mahomes and blank and 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.520 the answer to let's get trivial coming up in a 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.040 couple of minutes. You might want to write that down. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:26.640 We'll get to that coming up in a minute. Jacksonville 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:30.720 at Carolina Jacks two and two Panthers two and two. 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:35.800 It's on CBS with Andrew Catalan and James lofton. The 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.520 Panthers opened a three point favorite. The line is currently 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.040 at three and a half as we're doing this in 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.920 real time. Line could change, but it's a three and 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.760 a half right now. The forecast at Bank of America 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:51.000 Stadium cloudy and seventy eight degrees at kickoff, so no 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:53.440 no weather being a factor in this game. The pick 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:58.520 is in. I'm taking Jacksonville. I like Minshew mania, my guy, 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:03.080 Gardner Minshew. I have a thing for accurate quarterbacks and 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.040 he has been one of the most accurate quarterbacks in 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.879 the NFL. This was always the argument for Jacksonville in 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:13.280 the blank Boardles era was that if only Blake Boardles 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.280 would not be so ignorant and turn the ball over 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.359 and be so unaware, Jacksonville could win a bunch of games, 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:23.000 and they really did because he was rarely able to 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:27.760 do that. But so far, all Gardner Minshew has really done. 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.720 It's just be accurate on short passes and not turn 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.440 the ball over, and Jacksonville has won their last couple 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.359 of games. It's amazing how that works. I know it's 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:38.560 only a small sample size. He is third in the 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:43.000 NFL in accuracy. It's seventy eight percent according to the 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.200 NFL research on his throws. Seventy percent of his throws 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.280 are accurate. Now that's not as completion percentage, but some 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.880 of those are dropped passes that bring the percentage down. Uh. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:57.240 And he has only thrown one pass according to NFL 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:01.960 statistics NFL stats that had has been deemed interceptible. Only 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:06.240 one uh and So Jacksonville has now gone twenty six 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.520 consecutive drives without a turnover. That is the second longest 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:13.640 active streak in the NFL. So I love that about Jacksonville. 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.800 I think that continues here. Some people are very excited 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.840 about Carolina. They they played better lately. I am not 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.760 all in on the Panthers. I do like Kyle Allen, 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:25.680 talked about him, did a monologue on him on the 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:30.480 radio show. I've been impressed and he has defied expectations. 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.000 I thought this guy would be pretty bad. He's been wonderful. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.560 I actually like him. But the reason to take Jacksonville 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:42.080 is that Saxonville defense and the one bugaboo for Kyle Allen. 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:43.960 He doesn't make a lot of bad throws either. He's 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:48.640 pretty accurate as far as his passes, but he does 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:52.679 have small hands, apparently because he has five fumbles in 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.840 two games of playing this season, which is a lot. 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:59.280 Uh and so you figure Jacksonville will be able to 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.560 get to him and then a fumbler too, that you 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.280 can turn the game on his side. But I like 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.880 getting Jacksonville plus over a field goal, Jags will win 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:14.440 the game out right in Carolina seven to six over 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:19.800 the Panthers, going the other way, going with the Carolina Panthers. 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.960 Would you grow a mustache like Gardner Minshew? I would. Yeah, 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:26.080 I don't know if I can, though. My my facial 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.600 hair goes all over the place. I got a good beard, 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.240 go team, but I don't know about a mustache. Yeah, 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.280 you had the beard for a while. Yeah, we were. 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.560 People were giving you change because we thought we were 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.960 homeless at work. I grow a great beard. You smelled 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.920 you had a beard, and I smell fantastic. Why if 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:45.640 you can grow a beard, why wouldn't you be able 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.639 to throw a mustache grow a mustache. Okay, there's a 0:19:48.640 --> 0:19:50.480 way to grow a mustache, and there's a way to 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.119 grow a mustache like Gardner Minshew has a fantastic mustache. 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:56.800 My dad has a good one. Tom Selleck has a 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:58.800 good one. Jeff Kent had a great one. Yeah, that's 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.200 what I'm saying. Your dad, I mean, I've not met 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:02.800 your dad, but I've seen photos of him and he 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:04.560 when he was running the L A p. D Man, 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:08.840 he had the biggest burly mustache. I mean, my god, 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.320 you're you got his d n A unless you were adopted. 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.040 I mean you've got the d n A man. You 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:14.920 know what I need. I need like a Val Kilmer 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:19.399 from Tombstone mustache when he played Doc Holiday. That's your 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.760 that's your move there. That's a great mustache. Yeah, I 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:25.760 don't know. Can you grow mustache like that? No? No, 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:30.400 I do not have that ability. I can't even really 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:32.399 grow a beard. You got a lot of gray and 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.920 you're got what you have a lot of gray and 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.639 your goatee. No, I don't you do. And that's pepper 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:41.560 and you and my wife told me a salt and 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:44.000 pepper your and your face is pale white, so it 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:48.280 almost looks like you have no facial hair. Wow, So 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:50.520 like we could give you as it was the asshole 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.199 segment on the podcast, I didn't know is that is 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:55.280 that on your list? Is that your production? We can't 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:57.080 do the hair and club from me with your goatee 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.880 and mustache. Let's do this. You're gonna serve me ranch 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.160 dressing now? Is that what you're gonna do? We can 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:06.119 do that. Be sure to catch live editions of The 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:09.320 Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.920 Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:16.800 app let's get trivial the answer. Panthers quarterback Kyle Allen 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:19.399 became the third quarterback in the Super Bowl, ear to 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:23.040 win his first three career starts on the road. He 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:27.480 joins Patrick Mahomes and blank, go ahead. Yes, I'm gonna 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:34.919 say Tom Brady. No, not Tom Brady, try again, Ben Roethlisberger. No, 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:38.640 this actually goes back to the nineteen eighties. Jeff Hosta, 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.600 Oh ship, that was not my mind too. No, it 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:45.520 was not. Swear to god, you talk about mustaches. Yes, Uh, 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:49.719 Jeff hast the Giants, Yeah, and he was. That's one 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.840 of the great backup stories of my youth that Jeff 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:57.160 Hassteddler broke out. Uh and Phil Simms got hurt. Everyone 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.440 wrote off the Giants with Parcels and Hosta. They're played 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:02.959 pretty well at I don't know how good he actually was. 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:04.560 My memories he played well. I don't know if he 0:22:04.600 --> 0:22:07.840 was actually that good. But a long time ago, our memories, 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:10.119 we remember what we remember what actually happened are off 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:13.000 in two things. That's why in court, if you just 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:17.160 if you convict someone off, eye witness testimony a little shaky, 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.840 in my opinion, little shaky. Alright. Minnesota you have more 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:23.400 than that. Minnesota two and two at the New York 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:27.680 Giants two and two. It's on Fox. You better watch 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.080 Sam Rosen, who lives in the New York area, doesn't 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.320 have to get on a plane, and Charles Davis, the 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:36.399 voice of Madden Football, and they call this game now. 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:38.800 The Vikings opened up five and a half point favorites. 0:22:38.880 --> 0:22:40.679