Benny vs The Penny, Round 14

A troubling week for Ben has him searching for some light as he stumbles his way to the finish line. It wasn't the prettiest of weeks against the Penny, but we come down the stretch with money to be made. The week doesn't offer a lot of great matchups, but there are some trends you can't discount. Step inside and follow along as Ben tries to take you to pay dirt.

Follow Ben on Twitter @BenMaller and David @DavidJGascon

Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome. Players, You're welcome. It's time now Penny versus the Penny,
and that it is a week fourteen in the NFL.
We already picked the Thursday night game on the radio,
so obviously you know the outcome from Soldier Field, Chicago
with the Cowboys and the Bears and all the drama

(00:23):
around the Cowboys win or lose. But we get to
the card on Sunday in the NFL, and I'm excited
to be here now on Benny Versus the Penny. A disclaimer,
this is marginal handicapping of NFL games. All right, we
handicapping games. You should use this as a tool. You

(00:44):
should not blindly bet every one of these games, but
you should handicap the games themselves. If both of our
thoughts line up, then that's probably a game you should
bet on now representing the Penny. Unfortunately, because we couldn't
find anybody else, David guesscon maybe I should have a
little bit more influence on our listeners selecting games. What

(01:05):
about that, Well, you're more than welcome if you want to,
you know, Mr big shot, pick the games. We'll see
how you do if you want to do that. But
that that's it's Benny versus the penny. It's not Benny
versus gag On, you know, just saying, uh, well, we
can talk about that in if we bring this thing
back for another season. Yeah, well we'll see about that.
But all right, well let's get to the games here

(01:27):
and we'll see what happens this week. In Week fourteen,
will start out. You don't want to look back at
last week? No, I'm good. I don't live in the
I don't live in the rear view mirror. I look ahead,
I look out the front window. I don't look at
I don't look back what I do. Let's let's get
to work. But let's get to work, alright. I have

(01:47):
a winning record overall this season, and uh you know,
some weeks are better than another weeks. All right, Well,
then we'll start with Baltimore tenant two at Buffalo nine
and three. It's on CBS with Iron Eagle, the dad
of the Clippers, l A Clippers radio guy, and Dan Fouts.
They have the call on CBS. The Ravens opened a

(02:08):
seven point favorite. They are favored by six. I was
hoping for a like a lake effect blizzard type situation,
but it's not gonna happen. The forecast calls for mostly
cloudy forty two degrees. As we are recording this podcast
at New Era of Field in Orchard Park, New York.
The pick is in and I'm gonna take Buffalo. Here

(02:30):
we go, Buffalo. I'm taking the Bills in this game.
A couple of reasons why now. Listen, Lamar Jackson and
Josh Allen. These guys have combined for over four rushing yards,
so this is the most combined rushing yards on a
season by opposing quarterbacks in the same game in NFL history.
And they said that styles make fights with these quarterbacks.
While certainly Lamar Jackson has been better than Josh Allen,

(02:53):
they are similar of nature here. And I am starting
to come around on Josh Allen. I'm in a show
me state of mind with with Josh Allen, and I'm
starting to come around here. Uh and and and and
the reason here's here's the reason I am coming around.
It's because he's playing well. Eleven touchdowns and one interception

(03:16):
in a ninety eight point seven quarterback rading over his
last seven games. Now that is against some Tomato Cans, Cleveland,
Washington teams like that mixed in there. But he's been
good and and in years you know last year not
years pasted. Last year. Uh, he was not good even
against the bad teams. He was a mistake filled mess.

(03:36):
We called him the compass Rose because he threw the ball.
You never knew where it was going, north, southeast, west,
you name it, the ball go anywhere. And it's not
like that now. And he's going to have to be
effective obviously to to compete with Baltimore in this game.
The way the Ravens have been playing all year. The
Bills are one win away from ten, a ten win season,

(03:58):
first time that will happen when they get there since
nineteen ninety nine, the last time the Bills won at
least ten of their first thirteen games nineteen nine one.
What's the last time? That's? I mean before I was
a live guest guy. And that's how long ago that was,
back when Buffalo was going to the super Bowl every year.
You're like sixty years old. What are you talking about?

(04:20):
That's a lie. I'm ay, I'm not even a millennial.
I'm gen Z. I'm the new generation gen Z. Yeah.
Uh number two, all right, on this game, Buffalo is
the right side. Now, why is Buffalo the right side.
I like the mental aspect of this. I liked looking
at the morale of teams and and I often based
my bets based on that and nothing else. For example,

(04:41):
this week, you look for for spots, you look for angles,
and historically these angles have worked out very well. Right,
they've worked out very very well. And as we do
betty versus the penny, I look for motivation. I look
for who is motivated here? Uh, you know, you have
to bet on bad teams occasionally, but public perception plays

(05:04):
in this. Our team's overvalued. But in the case of
the Ravens, all right, there's a lot of criteria that
fits betting against the Ravens this week because they're coming
off a very important even though it was in primetime,
it was a key game last week, and against the
forty Niners, a right possible Super Bowl preview, and they
barely won that game. They won in the time ran out.

(05:27):
Are they gonna have anything left in the tank? Plus,
and this is the other thing here, when you look
ahead to the NFL schedule and you start peeking ahead
and you say, well, this is the Ravens and the
Buffalo Bills. Let's see what happens in week fifteen. Well,
the Ravens play Thursday and night there in the next
week's Thursday game, and so are they distracted And they're like, oh,

(05:50):
we gotta play another game in a few days and
and and all that. So you wonder how that's gonna
play out. And I love the Bills defense. To me,
the Bills defense is it's like a poor man's version
of the forty Niners defense. That gives you hope you
can contain, not stop, but contain Lamar Jackson. Guys like
Ed Oliver upfront, Jerry Hughes, those guys, big fat guys

(06:11):
are gonna have to gonna play a wonderful I'm gonna
play wonder there. I bottle them up. You're not gonna
stop Lamar Jackson, but just slow him down. The forty
Niners slowed him down. You only had a hundred yards passing.
He had a hundred yards of rushing, but only a
hundred yards passing last week. And if you look at
the Ravens as a road favorite by almost a touchdown
under John Harbaugh, the Ravens have just a four hundred

(06:32):
four oh nine winning percentage as road favorites. This point
spread is inflated by a couple of points. I think
Buffalo wins the game outright, it is. It's a reality
check for the Ravens. Bills seven Ravens. You're final. Penny
likes what you're drinking. Going with the Bills as well.

(06:53):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox,
Awards Radio, and the I Heart Radio app. Al Right,
next up Washington three and nine at Green Bay nine
and three is on Fox. Are we playing the Dick
Stockton game this week? Or yeah? But I don't think
it'll be stuck on this game? Uh No, I like

(07:14):
he said, stuck on this game. That would be Kenny
Albert with Ronda barbera friend of the show, Kenny Albert,
Mallar Militiaman Kenny Albert. Yeah. Packers opened a fourteen and
a half point favorite. They are favored by thirteen and
a half. It will be cloudy and thirty nine degrees
that they started play kickoff at Lambo Field, just down

(07:35):
the road from Appleton, Wisconsin, where my my brother decided
to move and leave me in the dust. I am
gonna take the Washington Redskins plus thirteen and a half. Now,
I am not betting on Dwayne Haskins. This is one
of the weird things about wins and losses, wings and
mother blanket losses. Dwayne Haskets is riding a two game

(07:58):
winning streaks, so he's clearly figured out how to play
quarterback in the NFL. Unless he hasn't. The Redskins have
been able to win in spite of their quarterback. And
the Redskins have and I give him credit because they
even though they're a terrible team, they have in many
of these games scratched and clawed and attempted to compete.
And they did did that against the Lions and Jeff
driscoll and Carolina and Josh Allen last week. Despite Haskins

(08:22):
completing less than fifty percent of his passes, no touchdowns,
one interception, he had a passer rating in those two
games of less than sixty and yards per attempt barely
over five. But the reason I like the Redskins here
is they have the ability to run the ball. Darius
guys look like a video game character. He was like
a joystick running around there. A hundred and twenty nine

(08:43):
yards against Carolina on ten carries average twelve point nine
yards and carry even that old child, the beater, Adrian
Peterson had a big game last week. Now that was
against Carolina, But I don't think Green Bay's defense is
any better than Carolina's defense. It's all about motivation, and
you know Aaron Rodgers should have a mass of day.
I'll find Davante Adams all over the place here, and

(09:04):
I saw that Davante Adams is second in the NFL
to Michael Toomps of the Saints. And share of targets,
which is the most important stat for receivers. What percentage
of the targets do I get? He's getting almost thirty
one percent of the targets in the Green Bay Packers offense.
But you know, Aaron Rodgers also has been pretty good
and and this is a key thing for the winning

(09:25):
doubt throw it out. He leads the NFL with twenty
nine throwaways. Uh So I'm taking the points here because
I think the Redskins will be able to run the ball.
I love double diget dogs. The Redskins, if you look
at this on the surface, should lose this game by
thirty points. Well, I think we can all agree on that.
But like I said, they've shown some fight. They've they've
shown the ability to to push the shove, to scratch

(09:48):
the claw, all that stuff, and and punch back, even
though they're in not as good talented, not not as
talented as as these other teams are playing. Uh. And
also the Packers, this is a weird spot. The Packers
had a game against a bad Giants team last week.
Now they have a game against the bad Redskins team
this week, but then after that two key divisional games
in the NFC North against the Bears and Vikings. So

(10:10):
this is kind of those one of those go through
the motions type situation. Packers thirty, Redskins seventeen. That is
a cover. He can lose by thirteen and still win
the bet. Penny is going the other way with the
Green Bay Packers. All right, Next up Denver four and
eight at Houston. It's on CBS. Houston comes in eight
and four. Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon have the call here.

(10:34):
Texans opened up a seven and a half point favorite,
but after they beat the Patriots, this went all the
way up to nine and a half against your Broncos
Gascon It's a Dome in Houston, partly Cloudy's seventy degrees
at kickoff in this game to pick is in and
I'm going with your Broncos. Giskin, take your Broncos here

(10:56):
plus the nine and a half. This is a classic
sandwich game. Again we look for those angles and gambling.
There's a sandwich game for Deshaun Watson and friends, the Texans.
What kind of energy are they gonna have here? You
you don't have to have great energy to win the game,
but you gotta get really good energy to cover the
point spread. Houston beat the Patriots Sunday night. Al Michael's

(11:17):
Chris collins Worth through there, and they have had their
ass kissed the entire week. Oh my god, the Texas
are great. They're a threat to win the NFC. Blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. You know who
they play next week? Because I know who they play
next week. I have not like Kansas City. No, you
gotta look at next week's schedule in your hand to
kept these games. It's an amateur move by you. I
wasn't camp of the game the Texans play and the Titans.

(11:41):
That is a massively important game in the a f
C South. So you're gonna get up for that game. Uh,
and and be for me. The key here is not
actually Drew Lock, although he simply has to manage the game.
The Texas defense is they've got several week spots us specifically,
it's stopping the run. So I look at Philip Lindsay

(12:03):
and Royce Freeman, guys like that. Uh, these guys are
gonna have to step up. Houston has allowed. Check this out.
They have a lot of hundred and ninety two rushing
yards per game since Week ten, since they're bye week.
That's the worst in the NFL. They have the worst
run defense in the NFL since Week ten. And so yeah,
and I'm not excited about a rookie quarterback and and
Lock and all that stuff, but they'll run a dumbed

(12:25):
down playbook in this game. And you know the defense
has enough guys with Von Miller and others that you
can rattle the cage of Deshaun Watson. You just have
to stay within arms length. You just have to keep
it a one score game. Most of these games are
one score And if you look at both these teams
since in Houston has played twenty games decided by seven
points or fewer, tied with the Steelers for the most

(12:48):
of the NFL, and the Broncos have had four games
this season decided by a field goal in the final
thirty seconds of regulations. So they played close and this
will be close. Also Texans twenty seven Broncos Penny also
go in that way with the Broncos. Alright, so we agree. Now,

(13:11):
I took out for time reasons, gag On. I took
out Let's get trivial, Z Well, I wasn't being lazy.
I mean, I have the questions, but I I deemed
the fact that you know, we're doing the podcast and
you usually have somewhere to go. You're kind of half
hearted during Benny versus the Penny, So I thought we'd
speed up. But if you want a question, I'll give

(13:32):
you a question. You want to get trivial, usually work
a nine hour shift right after this, so, yeah, it's
being half hard. Some of us have to prepare for
a network radio show, produced the show and come up
with the content, and yeah, uh, I'll give you let's
get trivial, give you a question. So Philip Lindsley of
your Denver Broncos has two thousand, two hundred and twenty

(13:55):
seven yards from scrimmage over his first two NFL seasons.
Since the merger, only two undrafted players have had more
scrimmage yards over their first two seasons. They are Aryan
Foster of the Texans and blank fill in the blank.
The answer coming up here on let's get trivial this podcast,

(14:16):
which is very trivial. Why do you sign like that.
I wasn't siding, I was laughing. It sounded like a sigh. Well,
by the way, how much better does the audio sound
this week? My god? I think my I think my
audience sounds great even though I'm sick. I'm you know,
still golden pipes of all. Right, hold on, let me

(14:38):
get my little violet. Lord can play a little violin.
And you know it's misconduct. It's to say that you
just you're showing incompetence, is what you're doing here. And
I know that you often have a deliberate indifference when
you do these podcasts, But my god, is it deliberate? Yeah? Absolutely,

(15:00):
don't hide it very well. You know, my poker face
is not working on on podcasts. It leaves a lot
to be this listen, we got san Francisco and New Orleans.
Let's go all right, let's get to it. Uh, you know,
let's we're on on the Bible belt, you asshole. I
would we I don't want you to curse. All right,

(15:20):
Santa Clara Tennant two at New Orleans Tenant two. It's
on Fox one. Kevin Burkhardt Charles Davis on the call.
That is correct, Kevin Burkhout Charles Davis have the call
on Fox. The Saints opened a three point favorite and
they are favorite by three at the time we are
recording this podcast live to tape or digital or whatever. Uh.

(15:43):
The Mercedes Bend Superdome covered, but outside it will be
sixty four degrees in New Orleans at kickoff. The pick
is in and I am gonna take the Saints in
this game. And this should be a slobber knocker NFC
play off positioning on the line. Neither team has any
wiggle room. We know the situation here. The forty Niners

(16:06):
are in a cat fight pawing at Seattle, and the Niners,
uh their situations. They gotta win. They they are looking
at if they don't win the division, having to play
on wild Card weekend. And the Saints also are in
a situation where if they stumble, they could they could
really f this up here. And they're in some in
the in stranger danger zone themselves. So there's a lot

(16:28):
of pressure on both sides. That makes for a good
football game, obviously, and both teams very good at getting
into the quarterback. In fact, the Niners defense forty five
sacks of the season, second most in in the NFL.
But you gotta start to question, and I don't think
the Niners are gonna win this game. You start to
question Kyle Shannon, and he got called out last week
for game management. His decision against the Ravens late did

(16:51):
not go so well on a fourth down play call,
decided to pass when the Niners were averaging six yards
per carry. Now, it is no in to lose the Seattle,
to lose to Baltimore. These are good football teams. But
if you continue to lose to every good team you play,
then that becomes a different conversation. People start to question

(17:14):
whether or not you're just a paper tiger. I don't
really count the green Bay win for the Niners because
green Bay didn't show up that particular night, and they
don't think green Bay is that good anyway. Uh. The
other thing to like about the New Orleans Saints here,
they are at home. It's only a three point line,
it's an even line. The public, according to the information
I have, is loading up on the forty niners, like

(17:36):
of the bets are on the side of Jimmy Garoppolo.
Uh and uh, I don't think that that that, to me,
is the wrong side. I think that that's a red flag.
I'll go with the gumbo guys here. The Saints also
had a little extra time. Remember they played Thanksgiving nights,
so they had a couple of extra days, for whatever
that's worth. And Sean Payton, much like Belichick and these

(17:59):
other coaches that have been around a long time, I
have a really good record and when they get a
little extra time, a little extra time there, they don't
they don't lollygag. They actually prepare for these games here.
So I will take Nolans thirty three and Santa Clara
twenty three. Penny is going the other way with San Francisco.

(18:25):
All right, you want the answer to the let's get tribute?
All right? So Philip, no, go ahead. I was gonna say,
Philip Lindsley h two thousand two twenty seven scrimmage yards
two seasons. That is the There's only been two undrafted
players since the merger that have had more Arian Foster
and Blank. I think I know who this is, right?

(18:47):
Is it Tim Ryan, your friend the guy that you
advised before he appears on radio shows on what to say? Uh? No,
it is not Tim Ryan. It is not the correct
the answer from the mid nineteen eighties Cleveland Browns, the
Mac Attack Kevin Mack, big brooding running back Kevin Mack

(19:08):
in the nineteen eighties. If you're if you're a fan
of tech Mobile like I was, Kevin Mack and Ernest
Biner were fantastic with the Cleveland Browns back in the day. Yeah, yeah,
he was. He was decent the Browns, you know that,
really effective teams. And then that would be I was
like thirty years ago though, so brutal Kevin Mack. By

(19:30):
the way, you know what he's doing now insurance? Uh
he actually has a LinkedIn page? And uh did Kevin Mack? Well,
I was just curious. I always wonder what these like,
what these people do when there when they're done? You
know what they I don't it's not letting me click

(19:52):
on it. So I guess we won't know what he's doing.
But he he's fifty seven years old, so maybe he's retired.
I don't know he's what what the Battlemount? I clicked
on it and then have to log in, and I
don't remember my log in because I don't I don't
go on they're very often, so I can show his title,
though it doesn't show us. I don't know. Maybe I'm
doing it wrong, right, all right, anyway, let's move on.

(20:13):
All right? Edit that out of the podcast, right that one?
Nobody will hear that? Yes, okay. Next up, we will
talk about two anemic feeble franchises that are a train wreck.
They have been on the wrong side with Cincinnati Bengals
ineptitude and clumbiness. Uh, the Cleveland Browns have been decrepit

(20:36):
for years and Cincinnati one in eleven Cleveland five and seven.
It's on CBS. Now, this game is so unimportant? How
unimportant is it? Gas Gun? It is still unimportant. We've
got Spirodidas on the call. Even better, Beth Muwens has
the call for CBS with Tike Barber. That's the play

(20:57):
by play and color commentator team for the seven people
that will watch this game in the state of Ohio.
The Browns opened to ten and a half point favorite.
They're favorite by eight. I don't understand this point spread
at all. I don't. It's gonna be mostly cloudy forty
eight degrees that kicked off the mistake by the lake
at First Energy Stadium in beautiful Cleveland. I am gonna

(21:20):
take the ben Gals in this game. I'm gonna take Cincinnati.
We were on the Bengals last week. I'm gonna be
on them again. And the main reason behind this pick
is the Browns had a lead in Pittsburgh. It was
a stay alive game, staying alive, staying alive, and they choked.
They lost to waterfowl. That guy Duck Hodges who started

(21:42):
opening up the playbook in the second half. Now Cleveland's
got a hobble Baker Mayfield, but Mama didn't, didn't raise
no woos. And you know what kind of energy are
they gonna have? And with Andy Dalton, he's horrible, but
compared to what they had, he's great. It's like a
poor man's Boomeriscias. And compared to the Finley who had

(22:04):
been playing quarterback prior. And so the Browns are all
but dead. I the Civil War of Ohio football. I
don't know how up they players get for that. I
expect them to come out flat as a pancake. Nobody
gets up for the Bungles. Cincinnati has been called how
about this though? He's a fun fact. They've been called
for eighty one penalties and only five penalty yards, both

(22:28):
fewest in the NFL. Does that mean the Bengals are
the most well coached team in the NFL because they
don't make unforced mistakes and they had some good games
earlier this year? I think you're tying. You took them
in Week one right at Seattle. Yes, they covered the
spread almost won the game against Seattle. Yeah, but but
you know that they're not well coached. I believe that
it's like euthanasia. The officials just want the game to end,

(22:49):
so they don't call fouls and take them on. You
know what I'm saying. It's like, there are plenty of
penalties to call. But yeah, shout out Ethan Asia and
the Cincinnati Bengals. Yes, all right, any time you get
over to touch down in a divisual game, what is
the golden rule here? Gascon? You take the large dog.
That's right. You don't ask questions. You take the points here,
especially when motivation is lacking for the favorite. Brown's will win,

(23:11):
but they won't cover the spread. Brown Bengals twenty. I
wouldn't be shocked if Prevelan wins out like or be
shocked that you actually capped this game. But the Pennings
going with the Bengals as well. Yeah, I should have
just given the pick. That would have been what a
good person does. But I'm bad at this. All right,
Carolina five and seven at Atlanta three and nine. It's
on Fox. You better watch, all right. That is correct.

(23:37):
This is not Dick. This is not Dick Stockton. Uh,
it is not. The game is being broadcast by Chris
mars Hey, how's my my hair? Right? Kid? Because I care?
And Darryl moose Johnson, the old cowboy from back in
the the nineteen nineties. They have the call here now.
The Falcons opened a one point favorite. They are favorite
by two. Cloudy outside the dome in Atlanta forty eight degrees,

(24:00):
but obviously perfect conditions inside. I'm gonna take the home team.
I'm gonna take the Falcons as a small home favorite.
The Panthers begin life in the twilight Zone without Ron Rivera.
And this will go one of two ways. They will
rally back and play with pride, using the that whacking
of the coaches motivation, try to win one for the

(24:21):
interim coach, or they will continue to spiral out of control.
I am betting on the ladder uh that to happen here.
This is a hot mess. It's not just the Redskins game.
That was the cherry on top of the ship Sunday,
no attention to detail. The Panthers have allowed a hundred
and eighties seven points in their last six games, tied

(24:42):
for the second most in a six game span in
franchise history. So that gets your defensive minded coach fired,
Ron Rivera. That's why you got fired here. And it's
been a couple of years of bad football. Now the Falcons.
If you look at this game on the surface, you'd say, well,
this is a good spot to bet on Carolina because
the Falcons actually kicked the snot out of Carolina a

(25:05):
couple of weeks ago, and in a normal gambling parlance,
is a revenge game, right, the team was embarrassed Carolina.
They're gonna come back, But I just don't think they've
got any guts left. I don't think they've got any fight.
I think they've got nothing. They're spineless. Uh and maybe
maybe I'll be proven wrong here. But it's function at

(25:25):
quarterback Kyle Allen, who looked really good four and oh
the first four games he started for Cam Newton. Since then,
he's gone one in five and his passer rating is
seventy two. He's he's just not giving them a chance
in most of these games to win. And even though
Atlanta one three back in week eleven, I'm gonna take

(25:47):
the Falcons again. I believe Falcons will win by double digits.
I'll take Atlanta twenty eight. Carolina. Penny is going with
the A T L. All Right. Next up, Detroit at Minnesota.
Detroit at Minnesota, it's on Fox. You better watch. This

(26:09):
is the home of Dick Stockton this weekend. All right.
So you are going all in on Dick Stockton, going
to Minnesota, the Twin Cities, to US Banks Stadium to
call vikings and lines. It's got to be this and
see that this season Arizona. So I'll go with this one.
It's not the Dick Stockton game. This is a Tom

(26:29):
Brenneman game, Tom Brenneman and Chris Spielman. We'll be in
the Fox box that rocks to call a game again.
Alliance team that looks like Death Warmed Over most of
the time, and the Vikings. Let's handicap again. Now. The
Vikings opened a fourteen point favorite, their favorite by twelve
and a half, partly sunny thirty three degrees that kick

(26:53):
off for this game. I'm taking the Lions, I'm taking
the lines. Now let me let me walk you through this. Now.
On at first glancer Kirk Cousins, you would say, is
licking his chops. He can have an oil painting against
the Lions secondary. Because everyone's putting up numbers. It would
seem against the Lions secondary, they're setting records. It's everyone's

(27:14):
homecoming opponent, the Motor City kiddies. So this game should
be for Minnesota like Monopoly, show up pastco collect a
win for for the Vikings. The question is the point spread.
That is a massive number, twelve and a half points.
In an NFL game, we're most decided by one score
or less. The Vikings have they have been much better

(27:37):
at home. All four of the Vikings losses have come
on the road, and in the five home games they
are averaging almost thirty points per game. That's the second
most in the NFL. Only the forty Niners have average
more points at home. So that's all good stuff. And
I realized secondly that the Lions are a bad team.
But here's the key here. As insignificant, as messed up

(28:01):
and worthless as the broken down Lions have been, they
haven't quit on Matt Patrician, they haven't given up on
Matt Patricia. The Lion is lost to the Bears by
four points on Thanksgiving and the Bears had to come back.
That's the fifth consecutive loss that the Lions have had,
and and that each decided by one score eight points

(28:23):
or less. The line in this game is twelve and
a half. Now that does certainly bode well. You would
say patternicity and all that, but you know that's part
of the problem. Here link for patterns. But things don't
always repeat, as you know from flipping a coin and
all that. But over the long term, betting on double
digit underdogs, we all we often preach about this. If

(28:43):
you're a sports gambler, it is a really good strategy. Historically,
you've won a high clip of those games betting on
inferior teams, especially in divisional games. So I am going
with the undrafted rookie quarterback out of Purdue, David Blow.
Hopefully he doesn't play like David Blow. So in Blow
we trust, not in Blow, we trust Vikings thirty lions

(29:06):
twenty they come in to Sprague. I don't even know
what that means, Ben, but the penny is going with
the Minisota Vikings. Well, let me help you out. What
do you need? It's it's like it's like I told
you when you first started in radio, don't let a
falling star fall on you. And and is A is
a one trick pony after what he did last week

(29:27):
and the lost to Chicago. So yeah, double digit favorite,
give me the penny. That is the Minista Vikings. Alright,
I think the other phrases don't let your mouth right
checks you. You can't actually cash with your body, right,
that's from Top Gun. Right, it's a great linee Are
they remaking that movie they just suck. Probably it's probably
gonna make it a chick flick, right, that's what they're

(29:49):
like with Ghostbusters. Everything a chicklick. There's that sentiment that
the No Time to Die, the latest of five movies
with Daniel Craig is James Bond would be like that.
I saw the trailer a couple of day as ago
and it does not look anything sort of like that.
So I'm thankful for this. This will be the last
one for for Commander Bond, as as Daniel Craig. But no,

(30:09):
I don't think the Top Gun movie will be anything
like that. So alright, moving on. You want to get
trivial again, Yeah, I guess we get time. Did you
did you actually write a question or now? No, I'm prepared, man,
I was a boy scout. No, well, I mean, did
you actually write it or did you take it from
one of your listeners that writes questions for your fear show? Yeah?

(30:31):
Very funny, Yeah, yeah, exactly. Uh no, this was something
I came up with. I do take questions though, because
it makes it easier people saying questions in but I
don't think they really write content. You know what I'm saying.
You know what the boy scout motto is. I used
to have this patch when I was a boy scout.
Be prepared. That's right, you gotta be prepared, gotta be

(30:51):
an honorable citizen, representative, the community and all that. Anyway,
here it is so Davante Parker of the Miami Dolphins.
He's got three receiving yards since week eleven, sixties six
more receiving yards than any other player in the NFL.
Blank blank is second. Again. Since week eleven, DeVante Parker

(31:14):
of the Dolphins has been lighting up fantasy football with
sixties six more receiving yards at any other pass catcher
in the NFL in that span. Blank is second. Okay, okay,
did you get the question? All right? Next up? Amazing
how this works? Guess it's almost like we prepared it
this way. Choreographed Miami three and nine at the Jets

(31:35):
for at eight. It's on CUBAZ with Tom McCarthy and
Jay Feely. Jets opened to seven and alf point favorite,
their favorite by five and a half, partly sunny forty
one degrees in New Jersey at kickoff at MetLife Stadium.
The Dolphins are the pick. I don't quite understand the
point spread on this. This is to me an even matchup.

(31:55):
These are a couple of lightweights oozing with garbage. They
might as well play this in the swamp lands of
New Jersey, which I think they are. The Jets and
Dolphins check this out. This season are worst and second
worst in yards per play. They are the bottom of
the barrel, is what they are. They're the slop at

(32:16):
the very bottom. Ryan Fitzpatrick is kind of like a
broken water heater at quarter for the Dolphins. He runs
hot and cold and sporadically at that. The Jets do
not have much gusto on defense. They don't put a
lot of pressure on imposing quarterbacks, which does give you
hope that fits magic can find the aforementioned DeVante Parker,

(32:38):
who looked like Jerry Rice last week against Philadelphia. Now secondly,
back at the start of training camp, Adam Gaze pumped
his chest out with his crazy eyes and said the
Jets would be playing meaningful games in December. Guess what
he's Pinocchio. He was lying, all right, He's absolutely lying.
I expect Gang Green to play like zombies on Zanix.

(33:01):
Uh this. They were essentially eliminated last week against the Bengals.
I expect a lifeless performance here. You don't cover a
five and a half point line with a lifeless performance.
Give me Miami to shock the world. They get their
fourth win of the year. They're not supposed to win
four games. Dolphins twenty, Jets seventeen. Penny is going with
the New York Jets in this one. Be sure to

(33:23):
catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at
two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Let's play off the
Let's get trivio. It's a scout law, you know, have
a slogan Scout Law and all that stuff. Requirements. Uh
here it is so DeVante Parker. We mentioned three eighty
receiving yards since week eleven sixties, six more receiving yards
than any other pass catcher in the NFL in that span.

(33:45):
Blank is second. So I got on this one because
of what is on decks. I'm gonna say it is
Chris Godwin. No, it's incorrect. Mike Evans is also incorrect.
What the yes? Correct the answer? Calvin Ridley boom boom, boom,

(34:12):
baby boom, baby boom baby boom. Calvin really three nineteen
receiving yards since we go eleven second to Davante park
I thought it would be like Michael Thomas or you know,
one of the big name past catchers, or what's the
guy in Houston that catches all the past, DeAndre Hopkins,
DeAndrea Hopkins, like those guys put up monster. No, yeah, alright, anyway,

(34:35):
moving on, And you didn't mention Tampa Bay Indianapolis six
and six. That's why I thought, like, you know, choreographed,
I got sabotaged trying to talk Tampa Bay five and seven.
It's on CBS. Spiro Adidas, former Laker and Nick played
by play Guy and Adam Archoletta, who's claim to fame
is not playing in the NFL with the St. Louis Rams,

(34:56):
it is working with me at the NBC Sports Network
years ago. That's the high light of his broadcasting career.
He's now slumming with Spirodidas. The Buccaneers opened a one
point favorite. Tampa's now favored by three. It'll be mostly sunny,
seventies six degrees that kick off at Raymond James Stadium,
and I am gonna take the Pirates the Buccaneers to

(35:19):
take the win. Here a couple of reasons why I
keep bringing this up, and I'm the only one that
does this in sports talk radio or podcasting. The Indianapolis
Colts at the beginning of the year, we're braggadocious they
thought they had found a diamond in the rough and
Jacoby Brissette manna from heaven. Andrew Luck retires, don't worry,
slide on over, baby, Jacoby Brissette. And the first of

(35:42):
the season he was really good and he was a
diamond in the rough. And the last part of the
year he has been a cubic Zirconia is what he
has been right after that fast start. Now, injury is
a part of it. There's not a lot of playmakers.
But even so, there's no need to sugarcoat this. Jacoby
Brissette the last three weeks, two touchdowns, three interceptions, less

(36:04):
than seven yards per attempt, a passer rating of under eighty. Bad.
He has been bad. Uh. He is not moving mountains.
He is not shifting the balance of power in the
direction of the Indianapolis Colts. Here and what had been
a brass ring a great opportunity. Uh he he is

(36:25):
blowing it. And Indianapolis is going to have to consider
in the off season making a change at quarterback because
he does not appear to be anything more than a
band aid unless he plays better down the stretch. The
other thing, I like Tampa Bay for several reasons. That
the Bucks are bipolar. They've scored a hundred and ninety
four first half points this season, third most of the NFL,

(36:47):
but in the second half halftime adjustments, they've given up
a hundred and ninety one points, the second most points
allowed in the NFL in the second half. So hot
and cold. Jamis Winston is a rare bird. He is
gonna throw for close to five thousand yards and thirty
touchdowns and still be considered an abject failure at quarterback
because of all the negative plays. It's outlandish. We did

(37:10):
a monologue this week about Winston and Bruce Arians and
his comments and all that. I would expect another gaggle
of mistakes this week, but Indies defense has been so
torn apart with injury and ineffective play, I'm skeptical they
can take advantage of late the Buccaneers have been the
better team. Bruce Arians team has been better than Indianapolis.

(37:31):
The Colts are one in four their last five games
and Tampa Bay is three and one in their last
four games. Give me the box, thirty four Colts twenty four.
Penny is going to Indianapolis Colts. All right, Now we
get to the late television window, which excites you, guests,
because that means there's only a few games left, right,

(37:52):
they only have a few late games, actually more late
games this week because we got left, so we should
hurry up. Is that what you're saying. Yeah, I mean
you you cap some really bad football games. So that's
the great thing about the podcast. I'll teach you about podcasting.
You have a lot of time. You don't on radio.
We have limited time. See if we were doing the
radio show, I would have not even handicapped the Jets

(38:12):
game or the Bengals game. But because we're on podcast,
I can I can go along. I could be very
very blosequacious. I mean usually in shows too, you have
a copy that you need to read, and you have
advertisers and spots. That's true. We have no advertisers. I
cannot refute that statement. I I'd like to debunk that

(38:34):
guest guy. There are commercials, but we don't have any libages.
We gotta get this like the sleep number of people
to sponsor this, or we should just get one of
your thousand militia members that actually is showcasing you in
Seattle in a couple of weeks to sponsor the show. Yeah,
by the way, before we move on, if you didn't
listen to the other podcast, we're doing a Mallard Man
March in Seattle December twenty nine. I'm flying into Seattle.

(38:55):
The Mallard Militia has stepped up here. They want me
to be there. They've been at You're very generous nations.
I will be there. I'm fired up. It's gonna be fun.
But we're looking for a place if if you live
in Seattle and you're one of our KJR listeners who
just listen on I Heart Media. We're looking for like
a restaurant bar, kind of near the stadium December. We
want to go out and have a little get together.

(39:16):
Have I don't know how many people are gonna show up,
maybe like three people, but it could be a lot
more than that. Uh and so we want to have that.
We're looking for a place in CM. Yeah. Full disclosure,
Ben has had a Mallary Militia member pay for a
flight pay for a hotel. That's not that's not totally true.
You're embellishing. You're embellishing that I will cover many of

(39:36):
the costs associated with the trip, but not all of them.
You can cover the free pretzels to cover the free
cocktails of the fight. I don't know that the Seahawks
will credential me. I have put in a request to
get a credential, but I don't know that they're going
to give me credentials anything. Like the Los Angeles Rams,
they will not credential you. Yeah, I stopped the Rams

(39:57):
turned me down for a credential, so I haven't even
bothered it. And plus the Rams have been so bad
at home, I like, I don't want to go anyway.
But but anyway, back to what the l A Chargers
four and eight at Jacksonville four and eight. It's on Fox.
You better watch who's doing this game? Man? This is uh,
this is a dog of a game. Wait, it's it's
on Fox. Yeah. This is one of those rare occurrences.

(40:19):
You know, every once in a a while CBS does an
NFC game and Fox does an a f C game.
This is it because no Bye weeks. So this has
to be Dick Stockton, right ding Ning Ning ning Ning. Yes,
it is the great Dick Stockton, which is good because
Dick lives in like Fort Lauderdale, I believe, in the
Miami area, so this is an easy trip for him
to fly up like on a on a commuter plane
from Miami to Jacksonville. H So, Dick Stockton, Mark Slayworth

(40:42):
have the call Chargers open at one point road favorite.
They are currently favored by three and light rain sixties
seven degrees at kickoff in Jacksonville at t I A
a bank field. The pick is in. I'm taking Jacksonville
won't spend too much time on this game. Jacksonville's on
back to Gardner Minshew. While he certainly has not been

(41:03):
as good as he was earlier, I'm still a believer
in minshew mania. I like the guy's story. And on
the other side, Philip Rivers turtle mistakes up the wazoo
and those are obstacles and that's a dilemma for the
Chargers to have to overcome. Rivers has five touchdowns eight
interceptions in the last three games he's played. I'm not

(41:27):
betting on that guy's a road favorite. And in the
other the Charges should not be favorite in this game.
I look for Klaius Campbell and some of those big
guys for for Jacksonville can get to the quarterback to
wreck havoc on Philip Rivers. Now, the one thing that
gives me pause. Here is Jacksonville has been an abomination

(41:47):
at stopping the runs. So you look at Melvin Gordon said,
this guy could have a monster game for the Chargers.
But where's the motivation. The Chargers lost in Denver. They're
all but dead. Jacksonville seven, Los Angeles. The Bolts West
Coast team going East Coast. Penny is going to Jacks.

(42:10):
But it is a late start, so usually it's an
early start. You say, you bet against the West Coast team.
But as you know, as an expert like I am,
I I look at Coost things now not get it,
I get it. Just step all over. Man's fine. It
was like when you called me yesterday to ask how
is doing? Because I wasn't feeling well, and you proceed
to talk about yourself for like the twenty minutes of

(42:32):
the conversation. All right, I gotta go hang up. Yeah,
it's it's beny Well. I couldn't I couldn't believe what
I was hearing because you were complaining. I gotta cool,
I gotta go. What do you I mean? What do
you ninety years old? I know you're older than me,
but my god, around some sick people getting the wrong women. Well,
you're a sick bastard, is what you want? Alright. How anyway,

(42:54):
Kansas City eight and four at New England ten and two.
It's on c b S. This is the big game
for CBS. Jim Nance and Tony Romo have the call,
and the Patriots open to four point favorite, their favorite
by three. The weather partly cloudy, thirty four degrees. That
kick off at Gillette Stadium in beautiful Foxboro, where the
traffic piles up. The pick is in and I am

(43:17):
a glutton for punishment here Gascon, but I'm gonna do it.
I am gonna take the Patriots. First of all, Tom
Brady and the Pats offense continues to be flummixed on
a regular basis. But there's opportunity here, there's value with

(43:37):
the Patriots. They are seventeenth in yards per game over
the last three weeks, very mediocre, and a lot of
that came in garbage time last week against the Houston Texas.
The Chiefs. I don't believe in the Chiefs. They're a
mixed bag on defense. They've got some some guys that
have shown flashes of being very effective, but overall, you
are what your record says you are in Kansas City,

(43:58):
is the twenty five ranked defense in the NFL, and
even as mediocre as Brady has been this year, he
has had his big games against the worst of the worst.
That's how it usually works defensively, and so Brady, even
in this season of decline against substandard defenses, has been
closer to the quarterback that he has been his entire career.

(44:19):
And Secondly, Patrick Mahomes has quietly not been playing up
to the m v P standard he had last year.
His numbers have leveled off the last two weeks against
generic defenses and the Charges and the Raiders. Patty Mahomes
just two touchdowns, one interception, a passer rating of seventies seven,
and the most troubling stat about Mahomes his yards per

(44:41):
attempt with all those fast playmakers on offense, five point
eight yards per attempt, and now you go against the
ball hawking New England defense. Everyone has been writing the
eulogy for the Patriots all week after they lost to
the Texas. I even dabbled in that a little bit,
but I'm not a sucker. Home cooking is the perfect elixir,

(45:02):
at least for this week. Patriots will rise on up
out of the Grave Patriots thirty one Chiefs shocking thirty
one point for New England. Penny likes the way you're
thinking going through New England Patriots. Fox Sports Radio has
the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all
of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and

(45:25):
within the I Heart Radio app search f s R
to listen live. All right, Penny versus the Penny. Next up,
Pittsburgh seven and five at Arizona three, eight and one.
It's on CBS. What burtle game? Yeah, this is not
a great game. Andrew Catalan and James Lofton have the call.
Game open to pick on. Pittsburgh's a three point favorite

(45:49):
on the road to be cloudy, but this is a dome,
so it doesn't matter in Glendale, Arizona. Now, this is
a game I went back and forth on, but I
decided to The final decision was to take Pittsburgh in
the game him as a small road favorite. Tyler Murray
finally started to play like the Pop Warner All star
we thought he was gonna be hit rock bottom last week.
Looked like you should be playing baseball in Double A

(46:10):
for the Oakland Athletics. Uh, it doesn't take a Rhodes
scholar to know he has been just an ordinary quarterback,
and certainly over the last six weeks, Kyler Murray has
an eighty nine point four passer in he's been sacked
twenty times, that's the most in the NFL in the
last six games, and throwing for just six point three
yards per attempt, which is appropriate. It's fun size, it's

(46:31):
the lumpa size and unable to stretch the defense. It's
hard to trust him against a very good Pittsburgh defense
that should be able to maul that offensive line for Arizona,
and you look at those big guys on defense. Arizona
features a defense that's as soft as cookie dough. I
love cookie dough, but I can go right through cookie dough.
The Cardinals have allowed at least twenty one points in

(46:54):
every game this season. They're only the seventh team all
time to allow twenty one or more points the first
twelve games of the season. This is a huge mismatch.
Duck Hodges the sensation of the Steeler nation there unless
he's not. He's won his first two starts. He's completing
over seventy of his passes. Why is he doing that?
That remedial passing attack that game manager offense, especially early

(47:18):
in games. To Mike Tomlin's credit, he's actually coaching this year.
They're not throwing the ball down the field early, and
then as the game progresses he picks his spots and
they start getting more aggressive as the game of involves Pittsburgh. Listen,
it's worked out. This is an offense put together with
spit and duck tape essentially, but it's working. They're not

(47:40):
cutting corners. And again, my confidence is on the defense.
It's on Cameron Hayward, It's on t J. Watt, It's
on Minca Fitzpatrick and those guys messing with the aforementioned
Kyler Murray Alligator Arms, Murray Steelers, twenty six Cardinals. Hen
Penny is not down for your guillotine radio. Go with

(48:02):
the Arizona Cardinals again. I know you love the little
man and there's reasons for that, but I just I like,
is that the hell is wrong with you? Do You
like the pip squeak, You like the grasshopper, the itsy
bitsy little spider, you enjoy that? Um, I like big potatoes,

(48:24):
you like small potatoes. You want to go on, I'll
see you on if you want. I'll see you next
week when the penny proves to be correct with Arizona.
All right, we will find out over under on Kyler
Murray's passer rating against Pittsburgh, I will say under, I
will say, I will say Arizona wins the game out right.
No passer rating for alligator arms Murray. It'll be it'll

(48:45):
be ninety. Okay, I'm going under. He's barely bigger than
a garden. So if they made a movie about his life,
it would be gett shorty to be the No matter
how short he might be his statue, Kyler Murray is
still taller than you. And he sits on and he
sits on his wallet. This is this is comedy gold here.

(49:05):
Guess these are great lines. And you are not and
you're not helping out here, You're not. I know you're
not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but these are
good lines, said I am the brightest crawn in your box,
Ben Mallory, Especially when you've got a bunch of rods
and tools and your kid. Well in in fast food parlance,
you're a few fries short of a happy, fucking disgusting.

(49:33):
This is as all right, let's get to another bad game.
Tennessee seven and five at Oakland six and six. It's
on CBS. Greg Gumbel and Trent Green have the call
the Titans a three point road favorite. The line has
stayed the same light rain in Northern California at the
Coliseum fifty six degrees at kick off. Now, I'm gonna

(49:55):
go off the reservation here, I'm gonna take the Raiders.
This is a good spot for the Raiders. This is
this is a week where your wonders. Ryan Tannehill's glass
slipper gonna turned back into a crappy shoe at midnight.
The Titans quarterback, he has been playing out of his body.
Joel Montana, like, you expect a regression to the mean

(50:16):
here at some point, will he finally do? Will he
finally do the Tannehill three step, one step forward, two
steps back and that regression. It hasn't happened so far.
Maybe he made a deal with the devil. Now history
actually favors the Raiders. I know you don't bet on
trends usually, but the Titans franchise going back to the

(50:37):
days they wore the powdered blues with the the Houston
Oilers love me blue. They have played fourteen games at
the Colisseum in Oakland. The franchise is three and eleven,
including the playoffs. That's the fifth worst record by any
team at at that particular stadium. Now, all the optimism, secondly,
and all the good will around John Gruden has been

(50:58):
flushed down the toilet. Oakland is who we thought they
were a pretender instead of a contender. And the Raiders
had a golden opportunity right they They were sitting on
an oil mine, uh an oil well rather, and they blew.
The Raiders of late have been on the fast pass
to the slaughterhouse. And how bad the last two games

(51:21):
they've lost by thirty or more points, only the second
time in franchise history a Raider team has lost back
to back. And they've had some really bad Raider teams
over the last fifteen years or so. So I'm gonna
make a small play on Oakland because I expect pride
to kick in. Plus, this is a bad gambling spot
for Tennessee. They're coming off a big divisional win against Indianapolis.

(51:44):
Now they have to travel to the West Coast. Nobody
gets up to play the Raiders these days, and next
week they play the Texans. That's a key divisional game
that could decide the winner of the division. Raiders twenty
four Titans twenty three. Did Derrick Henry magically fall into

(52:05):
a black hole because Penny is going with the Tennessee
Titans in this one? Well, listen, you take Tennessee. That's
what the public is doing. I am betting against the public.
You like betting, You like group think. I don't. I
think for myself. I'm an individualist. You believe in the
power of the group thing, which is fine. That's your prerogative.
You can certainly do that if you want hang out

(52:25):
with sprinkles the crowd. I I don't believe in the
band wagon effect like you do. I mean, you'll be
in Seattle in two weeks with the band wagon effect
in the play. So hanging out with the people, the
working class, the hard working members of the Mallem militia,
the underappreciated fans of the show, the super fans of

(52:45):
the show that would be better appreciated if you had
a better time slot. How about that. It's a micro
cosm of our world, is what it is. I mean,
just think people have asked you to be on a
different time slot. Your wife has begged you to be
on a different time slot, and that's a lie. You
have not propelled yourself to a higher time slot. Uh yeah, Okay, Well,

(53:06):
speaking of Seattle, the they're in l A. But I'm
not going to this game Seattle Sunday Night football tennant too.
I go to Seattle to watch the Seahawks. I don't
need him come to l A. Seattle ten and two
at the l A RAM seven and five. It's on
in b se Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth have the
call Rams open to three point favorite at last report.
As we're doing this in real time on tape, Rams

(53:29):
Ury two and a half point favorite, So you might
want to check that line, see if there's any movement.
Light rain on Sunday evening at the Coliseum sixty one degrees.
It never rains in l A, although it's supposed to
rain this weekend in Los Angeles. I'm gonna take the
Seahawks in this game, my Seattle Seahawks. Uh. And here's why.
Jared Golf, he has played okay against bad teams and

(53:50):
has sucked out right against good teams. Is that gonna
change this week? He actually had success in Seattle relatives success,
I think you get a big third quarter if I
remember correctly. Uh And in defense of Jared Goff, he
has tied for the NFL lead of having the most
receiver errors according to the Advanced Statistics with seven. But

(54:13):
this is just a bad match up. The Seahawks have
forced twenty seven turnovers this season, including fifteen during this
last five game winning streak that they've been on. And
you look at you say, well, the Rams make a
lot of mistakes, all right. And the Rams have scored
an average of just thirteen and a half points in
their last four home games. They've been pretty putrid at

(54:36):
the L. A. Memorial Colis seems they wind down the
home schedule and they have that new stadium in the
hood in Inglewood next week. To give you a comparison,
the Rams on the road have been much more efficient
and even their previous ten home games since last season
prior to the last four, they averaged thirty six points
per game. Expect to see more, Todd Gurley. It will

(54:57):
continue to be a charmed life for Russell Wilson and friends.
Despite a tenant to record, Seattle has outscored the opponent
by thirty six points. Our friend R. J. Bell pointed
this out. In NFL history, they're the first team to
win their first twelve games by not outscoring their opponents

(55:17):
by more than three points per game, so that I
expect that to continue this week. I just don't trust
the Rams. I wouldn't mind the Rams winning. I think
that would be good. That would be a good story
because I believe the forty Niners are gonna lose in
New Orleans and that would certainly even things up and
keep things squared up in the NFC West. But my money,

(55:39):
my wallet is gonna be on the Seahawks, and I
hope I lose Seahawks twenty three or I am Penny
is going with the Los Angeles Rams night. Damn right, man,
you can't but not you. But I'm just I'm just saying,
adults listening this podcast, keep it really PG third at

(56:03):
least really Yeah, I think so. Would you classify your
your listeners children, adolescents of the earth, hardworking lickers. Boot lickers,
roll up their sleeves, hard respect, hard work. They know
when they hear a Picasso of audio posers. Of course,

(56:23):
last week I was Picassio of audio without a microphone
because of somebody not to talk about that. I was
Mozart without his piano. Last I was an appraiser and
I came into your studio, I would probably appraise your gear,
probably closer to twelve thou dollars my the studio I
broadcast from here. Yeah, yeah, and mine had probably appraised

(56:44):
it for like three fifty three fifty dollars. Kind of
equipment I'm working with. That's because you're cheap and you're
you're realizing that I sound better than you, that the audio.
I am going to be a assistant producer to Curis,
who's the producer at I Heeart Media, and I will
help cure us out any we gotta get the last game.
I know you gotta get out of there, right, You're
gonna go so you have something to do. You're gonna complain.

(57:05):
I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna go somewhere. Blood blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah. Are you done yet?
I'll be done in two minutes. Monday Night football, the
New York Giants to and ten in the Philadelphia Eagles
five and seven. When they get together, you throw out
the records because if you looked at the records, you
wouldn't want to watch the game. It's on ESPN, Joe
test It Tour and Booger McFarland, the Great Booger McFarland,

(57:28):
and I can't wait to hear him talk about the
miracle of the Meadowlands and get the team wrong and
all that. Eagles, Eagles open eight point favorite there eight
and a half point favorites. Light rain in this game.
Also at kick off at the link, and he's I'm
gonna take the ge Man, I'm gonna take the Giants.
Here Eli Manning returning at quarterback for the Giants for

(57:50):
the injured Daniel Jones, which means another chance to update
his highlight reel, which is similar to super Duper Football
Follies when he plays a lot of fumbles, drops to
flog it passes, bobbled passes, players slipping, falling, anything that
can will go wrong. Absolutely, and that's the way it's

(58:11):
gone for Pat Shermer. The Giants are ten and thirty four.
Since ten and thirty four, worst record of the NFL.
If you find Big Blues running back, please let Pat
Shermer and the coaching staff know. So Kwan Barkley has
failed to get to a hundred yards in seven consecutive games.
Now he is dinged up, but the production is not there.

(58:34):
He got to a hundred yards half of his first
eighteen games, and now he has this long stretch of
seven games without getting there. Hasn't scored a touchdown in
four consecutive games after never previously going more than two
in a row without one. But the main reason to
take the Giants despite all that negativity is the fact
that the Eagles are also miserable. Right. The Eagles are

(58:58):
a there are a hot mess themselves. Uh, and they've
been reckless and irresponsible, and there are a bunch of
dumb dumbs. They've been burned three weeks in a row
on trick plays. The only reason teams run trick plays
is because they believe the other team is not prepared
and they're asleep at the switch and they can sneak
it by them. Otherwise, you would never run a trick

(59:19):
play because any defense worth their salt paying attention can
easily stop the trickeration. It's insanity. I don't know what
the hell is going on with Doug Peterson, but this
is incompetent football. Now, This should be a game the
Eagles get back on track, they should win. They're not
in harm's way. But I am not gonna lay over
a touchdown in a divisional game when I don't think

(59:41):
there's much difference between Philly the way they're playing and
the Giants, even with the rotting carcass of Elijah Manning.
Eagles win, but don't cover the spread Philly the Giants.
Penny is on the same page as do you go
with the New York Giants? And that is it. We

(01:00:03):
put the baby to bed Gascon and hopefully the audio
is better this week. We'll find out. Let us know.
Do you want some good news, what kind of good news? Well,
our podcast numbers have sword to six digits, which is
really Yeah, that's a lot. That is. There's great news.
Despite the fact that I've been marketing by myself, I've

(01:00:27):
worked with a partner that has taken a week off
to spend time on vacation. On my deathbed, I was
literally on my death dying. Get over it. Yeah, the
microphone is mightier than the sword. That's the saying. It's
an old saying. The pen is mightier than the sword. No, no,
the microphone. I don't use a pen I use it's
the hair on your chinney chin chin, don't start with that.
It's it's either the hair or the skin. They're interchangeable.

(01:00:51):
I'm telling you I don't know. I should, yes, I
should get a random applause for for reaching that mark
six digits on down and you can say either by
the skin or the hair on that city teams may
are you giving your self applause? Is that? What is
that what I'm hearing here? I try to deserve the

(01:01:12):
paddle back for the job. Well, yet again you prove
you are the narcissist. You are pretentious, you are the princess.
That is what you are. You're living up to your billing.
Here is what you are. The job will have done.
Uh yeah, overly dramatic and self absorbed. You're like Lebron James.

(01:01:32):
All right, thank you, guess n We'll be back on
the radio this weekend. Try the other podcast. If you
only listen to this podcast, we have another podcast up
for you, which is pretty much us just playing grab
bass for an hour and and half or whatever that is.
Have a great week and be safe. We'll catch you
on the radio next week.