WEBVTT - Benny vs The Penny, Round 1 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.400 If you thought four hours a day dred minutes a 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.200 week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants of 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.840 the old republic, a sole fashion of fairness. He treats 0:00:12.880 --> 0:00:15.760 crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the rich 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:20.160 pill poppers in the penthouse to clearinghouse of hot takes, 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:24.040 break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:32.680 Maller starts right now. It is time to make you money. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.840 We are going to buck the odds the benny versus 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:38.720 the penny segment on the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.839 Let's get into it, as Marcel would say, welcome players, 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:48.800 You're welcome. Are you up for more? Mallar? Mayhap it's 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:54.160 time now penny versus the penny? Yes, it is on 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.560 the fifth Hour worth Ben Maller and David Gascon. That's right. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.000 They wanted to find some one who would annrymally. They 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.680 picked Gascon. There he is right over there. We will 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:06.720 attempt to buck the odds. Gascon. We will cut the 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.640 cards if you will, literally flipping a coin here, shooting 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:15.000 for the moon, as the old expression goes out, and gambling. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.760 This used to be, as as Arnie says, on the weekends, 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.119 you know, the great Arnie Spaniard. You know, it used 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.160 to be just for entertainment purposes only, But now we 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.840 don't have to say that because gambling on sports is 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.800 now in the mainstream and it's a good hobby. A 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.200 lot of guys like to do it. So I'm excited 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.800 about this. And I've always mentioned my love affair for 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.720 casinos and how much I enjoy the casino because the concept, 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.440 the business concept of the casino is is it's just 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:43.360 I just think it's a fantastic thing because from the 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.280 business perspective, people who go to casinos, no, the deck 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.800 is stacked against them. The odds are against them. They're 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.760 gonna win, right, You know that when I love gambling too, 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.440 but you want a casino, you're not. You know, the 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.040 odds are against you. And yet even though people like 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:00.240 you and I know we're gonna lose money, we still 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:05.160 enjoy it. It's fun. It's a recreational type activity, and 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:10.400 human beings love games of chance, of course, and uh, 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.560 you know, and not that this is you know, you 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.120 think in sports. One of the cool things about sports, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.280 guest guys, we think we have inside information, right because 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.160 we know if you're a cowboy fan, you know everything 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.120 about Dak Prescott or everything about Zeke Elliott. If you're 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.920 Bears fan, you're you're nuanced on Mitch Robinsky and the 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.480 Bears defense and so yeah, so it's it's but anyway, 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.960 we'll get into it. And the first game up, guest 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:38.040 Gon is the Atlanta Minnesota game. We did the Thursday 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.120 night game, which was last night the Bears and Packers. 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.840 Oh boy, how about that outcome? We we put that 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.520 on the podcast. You can go back and hear the 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.919 pick on the radio show podcast. Not the Fifth Hour 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.000 with Ben Maller because four hours are not enough. So 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.840 Atlanta at Minnesota. This is a Fox game. Tom Brenneman 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.000 and Chris Bielman will be in the at Fox box. 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:03.120 That rocks and the Vikings opened a four and a 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.600 half point favorite. They're currently favorite by four. The pick 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.359 for me in this game is the Vikings, and I'll 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.080 give you my my logic behind that. Minnesota Now they 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.320 are my pick to click. As Hawk Carrolson, the old 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.360 White Sox broadcaster, would say, as the surprise team in 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:20.640 the NFL this year, I believe they will have a 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.640 boomerang type season. They will bounce back and be a 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.560 playoff team. I like Mike Zimmer's club. He needs a 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:29.120 big year here. They were very bad last year compared 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.960 to expectations. I love the foundation the Vikings have with 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.960 their defense. That's a top five defense. That's the bedrock 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.840 of the Vikings, and I expect them to to mess 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.800 around with Matt Ryan, and Matt Ryan usually gets his 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.760 numbers in the end. It's a dome game, so it's 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.560 not a weather game you have to worry about for 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.400 the Falcons when you look into that kind of stuff. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:53.200 But but Zimmer has been absolutely money from a from 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:57.560 a gambling perspective in the last few years. The last 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.560 fourteen times in these spots, last fourteen times a Mike 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.440 Zimmer coach team has had extra time to prepare, prepare, 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:08.200 like the entire off season. His teams have a seven 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:11.640 fourteen winning percentage. They're ten and four in a similar 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.080 spot to this. That tells you what has happened, not 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.760 what's going to happen. And then secondly, the Falcons. The 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.039 main reason to pick the Vikings here is a I 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.080 don't normally like the bet favorites. I try to if 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.600 if it's even I'll take the underdog. But the Falcons 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:28.159 are a defensively challenge squad. Uh. They have negligence all 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.400 over that side of the field. Atlanta ranked thirty in 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:35.799 pressure last season, twenty nine in past defense. It's hard 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.320 to pick the Falcons to go into a hostile environment 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:45.400 when when they don't have the weaponry defensively like they'll 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:49.080 score some points even though the Vikings have a good defense. Uh. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.800 We'll see how the new offensive line does for the Vikings. 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.200 They made a couple of changes minor changes window dressing 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:57.279 on the offensive line, But it really comes down to 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.440 Kirk Cousins, who simply has to be better and stop 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.520 being Charlie checked down. You've got the weapons that the 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.880 Falcons don't have a good defense. You can sling the 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:08.320 ball around to Adam Feelings, Deefon Diggs and Dalvin Cook 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.440 in the backfield. Have them work their magic. Final score, 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:16.120 it'll be the Vikings thirty four, Falcons twenty three. What 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:24.039 about the coin here, guess Penny likes the Falcons. No, No, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.560 the penny did not land on the side of the Falcons. 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.880 I did, I do? I believe you were doctoring the 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.920 penny results. Why would you pick the Falcons? That's a 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.599 bad pick, all right. Next up Washington at Philadelphia. This 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:38.200 game is a Fox game. Kevin Burkhardt and Charles Davis, 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.800 the voice of Madden, will be calling the game. The 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.039 Eagles opened an eight and a half point favorite. They 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.880 are a double digit favorite. This is the biggest point 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:50.960 spread as we are recording this on the fifth Hour 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:52.960 with Ben Mallory, as we're doing this in real time. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.040 This is the biggest point spread in the NFL this weekend. Uh, 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.680 And I am going to be a contrarian here. I'm 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.400 gonna take the Washington d Skins plus ten points in 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:06.320 this particular game. And I'll tell you why. First of all, Uh, 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.520 the Eagles. I get that they're loaded. I I am 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.479 also optimistic the Eagles will have a great season. We 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.360 don't know yet if these jigsaw puzzle pieces are gonna 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:20.120 fit together. Philadelphia had thirty percent of its roster turnover 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:25.719 from last year's playoff team. They have plausibly better players 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.640 in Philly, but they haven't really played together in a 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.560 real game. Philadelphia showed complete apathy like many of these 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.880 teams did in the preseason. So we don't know. We 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.200 think we know, but we don't know. It's also the 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.640 first rodeo for Carson Wentz, who's consistently been injured. Here, 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.680 the Eagles have no backup quarterback. They don't, uh, you know, 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:47.840 so the old guy who's a high school coach, and 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.560 the Eagles also have questions on the back side of 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.880 their defense. Now. Secondly, the Redskins already bad team. They 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.200 it is dysfunction junction. That's obvious. Uh. They're kind of 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.720 like a division in one double a team. It's the 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.440 way I would look at the at the red Skins. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.000 They got holes all over the roster. I love Darius Guys. 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:08.640 I think this guy is gonna be great, you know, 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.800 if you can do that on a bad team. But 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.640 that said, even bad teams can hang around. There's this perception, well, 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.400 you're gonna be a bad team, you're gonna get blown out. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.679 You know. Usually bad teams lose close games. Good teams 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:24.360 win close games. And case keenum, he's good for at 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.600 least a couple of decent quarters of football with his 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:29.280 moxie and all that. He only takes you so far. 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.720 And in general, one of my beliefs as a gamblers, 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:39.360 anytime you get over a touchdown in a divisional game, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.480 you've got to take it. This is the divisional game. 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:44.480 These teams played each other twice a year. You take 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:47.080 the points. Getting double digits in an NFL game when 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.840 most games are decided by a touchdown, unless hail to 0:07:49.960 --> 0:07:54.560 the Redskins, hail to covering. So the pick here is Washington. 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.400 The final score, Philly is gonna win the game, but 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.960 the Redskins are gonna cover. Philly twenty seven Washington twenty three. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:06.120 Penny picking guest on here, it's Penny likes the Redskins. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:11.240 Also really yeah, copying my work there, guests bad telling 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:16.360 you there. Next up as we do Benny versus the 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.680 Penny on the fifth hour Buffalo and the j E 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.080 t s Suck Suck, Suck, suck suck. This game is 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:26.680 a CBS game. Kevin Harlan and Rich Gett. You Kevin 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.640 Harland guy. You like Kevin Harlan of course right between 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.800 the eyes. Yeah. I like Harlan. I like his energy. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.760 He's a good radio guy too. I've interviewed him before. 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.280 He's a good he seems like a good dude. Yeah, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.520 he seems like a guy. Wasn't his dad a GM 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.199 in the NFL? Dad's a GM and his daughter is 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.400 now a sports coster too, So it runs in the family. 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.440 There you go, the family business. But the Buffalo and 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.800 the Jets. The Jets open to three and a half 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:56.200 point favorite. The Jets are currently a three point favorite. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.360 The pick here, the pick is in, and I'm gonna 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.640 take Buffalo. I I'm taking the Bills here, and I'll 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.840 tell you why. Uh to start with, I am not 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:09.480 sold on the Jets. I'm not. Every year my entire life, 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:14.040 the same thing happens. It's the typical New York hyperbo lee. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.400 The Jets go out sign a couple of players, draft 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.560 some hotshot guy in the top ten of the draft, 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:20.840 and then we're off to the races. How great Gang 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.440 Green is gonna be? And this year they added Levian 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.200 Bell for example. He arrived and they're talking about the 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.920 resurgence of Sam Donald in year two and he played 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.680 well at the end of last year. They also signed 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.320 pretty good linebacker from the Ravens, C. J. Moseley, who 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.839 they brought over. And there's some other defensive pickups along 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:38.880 the way. And so the media is like, well, the 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:40.920 Jets are ten wind they could they could flirt with 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.960 ten wins. I'm not buying it. I am in a 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.400 Missouri State motto. I'm in a show me state of 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.840 mind here with the Jets, I just don't think they're 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.280 as good as the hyperer. The Jets have a shaky 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:56.160 pass defense. Uh and in pass catch, I think even 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.760 the pass catcher is the bigger problem. They they appear 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.320 to be a work in progress. And the other thing 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.840 you're picking the Bills is not a vote of confidence 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.480 for Josh Allen. Like that guy Robbie the Mariner fan, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.839 who's a kool Aid drinking Josh Allen sickophan. I am 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:16.600 not endorsing Josh Allen. He is the compass rose type 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.960 of quarterback, which I despise. He throws it all over 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.120 the place. You don't know where it's gonna go. Uh 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.480 is helter skelter and all that throwing the ball. But 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.360 I am gonna ride with the Bills defense. The Bills 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:28.840 defense is legit. Buffalo had the second ranked defense in 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:32.720 the NFL owing the Ravens last year allowed less yards 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:36.280 per game. Than Buffalo. Didn't that hard to believe and 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.120 wrap your head around. But the defense has been upgraded. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.959 They added a top ten pick, a guy who I 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:43.600 think it's gonna be pretty good. You know, as much 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.319 as I care about defensive, big fat guys defensively in 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.959 Ed Oliver, who's added to that defense, And so they 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.320 made a couple of other changes. I believe the Bills 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.520 win this game outright. As a live dog in a 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.600 divisional game, I'm gonna take the Buffalo Bills twenty three, 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.840 the Jets twenty your final score, and the Penny picking 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.960 on Benny versus the Penny. Oh Man, Sam, I am 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:10.800 at home. Penny has the New York Jets. Really, Jets sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.679 You gonna have a quarterback to win this league? Pen. 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.400 Don't we need Levian Bell to have a rude introduction 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.240 to the Wouldn't it be better if like Levian Bell 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.000 fumbles three times and the you know what I mean, 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:22.599 Like he just said it runs for thirty yards and 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.040 just has a trying experience. I think that would be 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.400 better for the talk radio show. Yeah, and don't forget 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.719 time Montgomery. It's his backup. So if Montgomery just like 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.400 walks off the field for some unknown reason, that would 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:36.080 be perfect for your Jets. Open up there. I'm right 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.760 there with you and Sam Donald. You know, usually support 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:45.280 the USC football program. Donald's like, know not, I need 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.520 to see more. He's gonna have a great relationship with 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.160 Adam Gates moving forward in nineteen Yeah, crazy eyes Adam Gaze. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.680 That's right, he's making his Jets coaching debut. We gotta 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.560 we gotta mention that, all right. Next up Baltimore at Miami. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.480 We gotta keep the train moving, Gascon, stay with me. 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:04.079 Baltimore at Miami is a CBS game. Andrew Catalan is 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.199 that his name? You're a TV guy? And James Lofton? 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.520 How about James Lofton? How James gotta be in his sixties? 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.280 Now do anything? It sounds good to everything on there. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.560 He's good man. You guys had like a longer career 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:19.120 TV than he had did playing list a long time, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.680 didn't he stopped playing in the late eighties, early nineties 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:27.199 something like that. Uh well, I remember with the Packers Packers, 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.360 and I think he played with the Raiders. I think 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.280 I don't know he bounced around, But anyway, that's the bad. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.000 That's the TV broadcast crew. The game is in Miami. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.240 It is going to be toasty, toasty, as it usually 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.800 is in South Florida. Early in the year. The Ravens 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.600 opened up a four point favorite, and this is all 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.559 the way up to six and a half after the 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:53.920 Dolphins traded away their their top offensive lineman, one of 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:57.600 their better receivers at least last year, Kenny Stills, uh 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.920 Laramie tons of both traded to the Texans. Right, but 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.400 for the year. Uh So, I'm gonna actually again be 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.400 a contrary in here. I'm gonna take the Dolphins, all right, 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:10.560 And the thinking behind this the Ravens I believe will 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.360 win the game. But the value is the Dolphins. Yes 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.200 they are a bad team, Yes they management is trying 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.160 to tank the season. I don't disagree with any of that, 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:23.559 but it's the season opener. And Ryan Fitzpatrick has a 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.480 way of getting guys to play for him. He's got 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.160 some kind of that Swengali effect where he's able to 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.080 get guys to play for Most NFL games are decided, 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.000 as I've said earlier, by a touchdown or less, and 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.480 even bad teams are able to lose close games on 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:42.160 a regular basis. And so you're talking about home field 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:46.720 being worth three points, generally down the middle three points, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.880 and so the Ravens are six and that point so 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.040 Vegas and the people that set the lines. In my 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.480 mind and my warped behind, maybe I'm wrong in this, 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.839 but they they believe the Ravens are nine and a 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.240 half points better than the Dolphins, even on the line 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.120 six and a half. I disagree with that. I don't 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.720 trust Lamar Jackson until I see him be more than 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.480 a one trick pony. Much like Josh Allen we talked 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.199 about earlier in Buffalo. The key for the Dolphins in 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.320 this particular game is obvious, right, you try to win 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.000 the turnover battle Fitzpatrick, that's one of his bugaboos, turning 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:21.160 the ball over. But you also simply put eight nine 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.880 man fronts and you dare Lamar Jackson to throw the 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.720 ball down the field that it matriculate the ball down 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.600 the field. As the late Hank Stram used to stay 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:30.840 back in the day when I was a kid listening 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.240 to him on the radio, that the Dolphin players will 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.600 show some fight early in the year. Eventually they'll wake 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:40.120 up one day and they'll realize, oh crap, we're terrible, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.400 and then that and then that's a different conversation. But again, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.240 too many points here for a road team with a 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.680 one dimensional runnee one trick pony quarterback in Lamar Jackson. 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:54.240 The final score, Ravens win the game, but Dolphins win 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:59.600 the money. Baltimore twenty four, Miami twenty The Penny picks 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.000 Penny going at the home Dog likes Miami as well. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.640 Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.840 Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.240 on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.120 Didn't the penny pick the Redskins? Also? Right? Yeah, look 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:20.200 at that. There's value and the pennies listening? All right? 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.520 Next up, next game on the board. Here we have 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:29.040 Kansas City at Jacksonville and this is a CBS game. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:35.400 Iron Eagle and Dan Fouts calling this game they are 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.200 in now. Isn't Fouts one of those guys for CBS. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:39.720 If he's doing the game, it's not one of the 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.120 top games. Isn't that he's on that list? Yeah? But 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.640 you should be nice because I An Eagle's son actually 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.320 now calls basketball for your l A Clippers. So yeah, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:49.920 eyes will be on this for you, I know for 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.120 several reasons. I heard about that. And he's young, right, 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:55.920 he's like so young, Whipper snapper. That's right, straight out 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.360 of college from Syracuse to the hardwood court in the NBA. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.160 Good for him, that's right. I hope he's a nice guy. 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.600 I will reserve judgment to like, Hey, hear him and 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.320 be meet him if he's if he's if he's a 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:06.920 doode to me, I'll kill him. But if he's nice 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:08.400 to me, I'll be very you know, I was like, 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.440 people are nice. I've always had a good relationship with 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.320 the Clipper broadcasters over the years. They love me. I 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.400 wonder why not. Yeah, well, you're a fanboy. No I'm not. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.880 I am an objective observer of greatness. It also helps 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.960 that you're like three ft taller than everybody else in 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.400 that broadcasting team too. Wow, how about you anyway? Listen, 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.040 Kansas City's a focus guest gun. All right, it's the 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:30.960 fifth Hour with it's Penny versus the Pen. It's all 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.360 about picking games. Kansas City at Jacksonville. The line on 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:38.800 this game opened up Chiefs a five and half point favorite. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.560 They are down. The money is coming in on Jacksonville. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.960 This has been adjusted two points in. Kansas City, who 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.920 was in the ANC Championship game last year's now three 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.240 and a half point favorite on the road again hot 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:55.120 weather in Jacksonville. The conditions not not the greatest, but 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.000 it's early season football. It's normally how it is. I 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:01.520 am gonna take Kansas City in this game. I did 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.960 consider Jacksonville. I did try to come up because they're 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.080 a home dog. I love home dogs. There's a lot 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.240 of value in that. But I I couldn't put myself 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:16.080 that far over the edge to actually pick Jacksonville. So 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.280 I'm gonna take Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes he did 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:20.720 have his worst game. I think one of the reasons 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.640 people are betting on Jacksonville. He had his worst game 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:28.000 last season against Jacksonville in Kansas City, and now this 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:32.520 is the rematch situation. I do believe in zigging when 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.960 everyone else zaggs if you will, but it does have 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:38.840 its limits. There's an exception to every rule, and when 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.680 handicapping this particular game, when looking at the numbers in 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.280 this particular name, I could not come up with a 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:51.480 scenario in which Jacksonville was able to score enough, like 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:55.440 outside of five turnovers. Even if Mahomes throws let's just 0:17:55.520 --> 0:18:00.320 say three interceptions, Kansas City should still overwhelm jack Inville. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.840 The Chiefs have scored twenty five or more points in 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:08.120 twenty one consecutive games. That goes before Patrick Mahomes goes 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:14.040 back to twenty seventeens, the longest streak ever in the NFL. 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:16.760 I don't see that ending here. I believe they will 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.199 get over twenty five points, and if that is correct, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.639 I don't see a scenario Jacksonville can keep up. Now. 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.880 I know the counter argument is, hey, the Chiefs blow 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.200 on defense. I've got a high flying offense. There's a 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.919 huge talent gap though, between the defense and the offense. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:31.560 And there's also on this in this game, there's a 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:35.080 talent gap between the Chiefs high flying offense. Uh and 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.040 and Jackson And jackson has got some big name players 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:39.960 on defense. They think they're gonna be pretty good. But 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:44.200 the offensive thing. Nick Foles is essentially a caretaker of 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.800 an offense. His magic pixie dust is in Philadelphia. He 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.440 ain't in Jacksonville. He's not He's not gonna be a 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:55.200 difference maker. Uh For for Jacksonville. He's a game manager. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:59.080 And Patrick Mahomes is like an oil painting. Uh So, 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:02.840 I would expect Kansas City to jump out by mid 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.520 second quarter to a nice lead and then not look 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:10.080 back in the second half because Jacksonville, their whole strategy, 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.080 I would imagine, is gonna be grounded, pound, run the 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.080 football and all that and try to beat into that 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:19.640 Swiss cheese defense of of Kansas City. But I don't 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.040 think it's gonna work. I think jackson will score because 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.640 the Chiefs don't have a great defense. But I'm gonna 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.280 take Kansas City. Your final score Kansas City thirty four, 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:34.240 Jacksonville twenty four, and the penny picks. The betting public 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.680 took Jacksonville, but Benny and the penny go of Kansas City, 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:43.720 Kansall City. You ever been to Kansas City. I have. 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:47.440 I've actually been there twice for Chiefs Broncos Sunday Night football. 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.560 Look at you your big Bronco apology. I love Kansas 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:54.600 CITYBECU is awesome. It is an amazing food city. It's 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.880 a nice kind of I like. I like the vibe. 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.120 I'm down with Kansas City. I heard you're a big 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.000 Larry Johnson and end too. That's part of the reason 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.720 why I like Kansas City. He was my favorite Chiefs 0:20:03.760 --> 0:20:07.440 player when and he's a very normal human being. I 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:08.760 don't know what you're talking about. I think he has 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.639 a great social media presence, is he Also he's not 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:13.760 a fashionist. He doesn't like the catwalks, so we know 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:19.280 he's not a fashions Be sure to catch live editions 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:21.520 of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.800 Eastern eleven p m. Pacific. You're listening to the fifth 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:29.000 hour with Ben Maller. We're picking NFL games against the spread. 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.960 And this is our first edition of Benny Versus De Penny. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.000 There's another podcast up on this channel that we we 0:20:35.119 --> 0:20:37.000 did either before this or after this. You'll have to 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:39.840 figure out which. But uh so, so this is the 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.240 This is gonna be the weekly thing here during football season. 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.280 We might even mix it in into some college sometimes 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.000 if if we are so inclined for big college games 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.440 of the weekend. But we're gonna start This is just football. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.000 This is NFL football, is what it is. I'm so 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.720 excited about that. And tell a friend about it. If 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:57.760 you have a buddy who's a degenerate gambler wants to 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:00.640 hear opinions on games and what people think is gonna happen. 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:04.720 When what an inadamant object object like a penny thinks 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:06.560 as well, Now we will mix it. I do this 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:08.720 on the radio show when I've done this for the 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:12.760 last time many years, so I figured since I can't 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:15.040 get answers unfortunately on Twitter, but I'll still give you 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:17.680 the question and you can kind of let that marinate 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:19.919 in your head. So here's the mini pop quiz here 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:24.160 to test your football knowledge. Who was the quarterback who 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:29.000