January 13, 2023 • 33 mins
Ben Maller & Danny G. have a special NFL Playoffs broadcast for you, as the popular BENNY VS. THE PENNY takes over the Friday podcast! Every Super Wild Card Weekend game is picked against the spread, with Maller-style analysis! Will man beat an inanimate object?
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Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and greeting salutations.
And you have arrived at the one stop shop that
is the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallor and Danny G.
Radio two guys. Is enough for me, and it is
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time for a playoff playoffs edition of Benny Versus the Penny.
We strike up the band right now. Welcome players, You're welcome,
are you? It's time now Penny versus the Penny? All
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right here, we are back at it. Danny G. Represent
even though the Raiders aren't in the playoffs, you have
a full Raider gear on. You are prepared. You're acting
as the Raiders are in the postseason. Danny G. You're prepared, sir.
And even though your Rams aren't in the postseason, you
are in full monstrel exposed gear. That's right. But I'm
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honoring the Montreal exposed. As you know, that's an M.
It looks weird, but that's an M for Mallard. It
might look like Montreal, but it's actually an M for Mallard.
And this is the latest vision. This is old school.
This is the red, white and blue. You can't see
this if you're listening to the podcast because there's no photos.
But yeah, I like this. It's a slid looking at
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h So before we get to the playoffs, Danny, we
must look back. We closed out the regular season. I
was very concerned last week when we did the podcast.
I had El Stinko in Week seventeen, a debacle, my
worst week of the season in Week seventeen and went
five and ten against the spread, and that was brutal.
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The penny wasn't much better than me, but but beat
me that week, and back to back week's Week sixteen
and Week seventeen, the penny head to head beat me,
and so we we looked ahead to eight Week eighteen.
How did Week a teen turning and Danny turn out
a lot of disagreement between myself and you representing the penny. Yeah,
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I did the penny get you again? No, In fact,
what I did is I took out my benny blowtorch
and I burned up everything. There were sixteen games on
the card last weekend and went eleven and five, but
really eleven and four because I had the wrong side
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in the Raider Chiefs game. I had Raiders in that game.
They did not come close to covering the spread and
that so ended up going to eleven and five. Overall,
that's a six eight eight winning percentage the penny. All
that disagreement, bringing up the caboo springing up the rear
of the train, the penny went three and thirteen. That
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is tied for the worst mark the penny had back
in week three of the season when the penny went
three and thirteen as well. Yeah, you looked like Dak
Prescott against Washington in that game last week. Holy Canoli.
That was bad. So here the penny is in the pofs.
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I know, it's amazing the play. You can't you can't
go away from the penny no matter what the penny
makes it. So overall, as we put the bowl on
the regular season, it's a brand new season. We're gonna
start fresh in the playoffs. Playoffs, so we start fresh
but we look back at the final regular of season numbers.
Been doing Benny versus the Penny for a long time.
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I'll date myself if I say how long. But this
was a fairy tale type of season, a Disney esque
happy ending type season. Not a lot of walking on eggshells.
So all the games we bet on terrestrial radio on
Thursday and on the podcast on Friday. And here's how
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it turned out. Hundred and fifty six wins, hundred and
nine losses, and six ties against the spread. That works
out to a five eight nine winning percentage. And that
is the top winning percentage I believe I've had ever
at doing this and the penny, don't ask, don't ask.
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The penny won a hundred twenty four games, lost, a
hundred and forty three tied four. That's a four sixty
three winning percentage. The penny was nineteen games under five hundred.
And if you're not a gambler and not someone that's
up on the numbers, the way this works, there's a
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lot of peaks and valleys when you're gambling, but you
have to end up on a a winning percentage of
fifty two point four in order to win money. As
a sports better what whatever you bet how many games.
The less you bet, the better your chances. But you
have to win more than fifty two point four percent
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of your bets to make up the difference because of
the juice. So we we did that. Now we told
you not to bet on every game. Hopefully you picked
and choose the right games. But we had a lot
of double digit win weeks this year, and head to head,
the Penny did not beat me very off. We tied
in week one. Week two went to the Penny, but
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after that we rolled off a bunch of wins in
a row. It was three weeks in a row. We one.
I can give you the final totals at another time,
but we move on, Danny. It's the playoffs and really
quick though, just to clarify, because your microphone broke up
a little bit, you said juice. Yeah, well the what
the juice? You have to win a certain amount because
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of the vig on the games, and so, uh, it's
fifty two point four percent because if you break even,
the house is going to to win, right. Yeah. And
for those that are uneducated on that, if you're just
kind of casually listening, you're like, hey, I just want
to listen to something. But I'm not really a gambler
and all that stuff. Um, So, the theory is that
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the house should not care. They don't really care who
wins the game as long as the money's even on
both sides, because in a perfect world, they would not
care about the outcome because they don't really worry about
the results as long as they the big they earn
their profits on that, and the big it's it's short
for vigor ish or juice. It's the edge of the
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house as the most of the time is less than
five percent. Uh, and so it's not it's not that much,
but the margins are then and all that, and so
they just want to get even money on most of
the games. But as long as you are able to win,
as we said, over fifty two point four percent, you
will compensate for the house and their advantage in that.
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All right, So that let's get to the games at hand.
It's wild card weekend. They're calling it super wild Card weekend.
It does not seem super to me. I don't know
about you, Danny, it does not seem super to me.
There's a lot of bad quarterbacks that we're gonna be
saying this weekend. But we'll start out and and the
Heads versus Tales. Danny representing the Penny. Home team is Heads,
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road team is Tales. That's how we've done it all
season law, all season long, and we've done that way
for years without that way for years, so we can
continue doing that and away we go. So we've got Seattle,
who went nine and eight during the regular season at
San Francisco thirteen and four. It's on Fox. This is
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the game that kicks off the weekend with Joe Davis
and Darryl Moose. Johnston forty Niners opened up a ten
point favorite, and they're favored by anywhere from nine and
a half of ten. We have the number at ten
and the handle on this game about of the action
in favor of the home team, the forty Niners at
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Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. Heavy rain expected in this game,
temperatures in the fifties as the West Coast continues to
get battered. I'm sure we'll talk more about the weather
on the Saturday podcast, as we both experienced some rather
interesting conditions this past week here with these bombs cyclones
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and the atmospheric river and all that crap, but it's
gonna be bad at least that's the forecast we have
here for the fort and the Seahawks. Some of the trends,
some of the numbers in this game. Kyle Shanahan five
and one against the spread in playoff games forty nine
ers seven and one against the spread at home as
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a favorite this season, five straight covers. If you go
back to past thirty seasons, wild card home favorites of
at least nine points or better are eleven and oh
against the spread. But on the other side, you look
at Seattle here, they've done very well head to head
with the forty nine games above five against the spread
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the last matchups. That goes way back to the glory
days of Seattle. The key thing here though, for me,
when I'm looking at this game, I'm looking at Brock Purty,
who's played very well, But do you trust him? And
I'm gonna take the Seattle Seahawks here because I do
not completely have faith that Brock Prity is gonna play
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a clean game and locked down a massive point spread here.
I'll give you a couple of reasons why. A the
stigma of being a rookie. If you look at the comps,
they're not very good. The only rookie quarterback to be
at least a seven point favorite in the playoffs since
two thousand is Ben Roethlisberger, and that was almost twenty
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years ago in twenty four, which is shocking that it
was almost twenty years ago, but it was, and so
this is a rare situation. The forecast, as we mentioned,
calls for the atmospheric river to rain down in the
Bay and that should lead to mistakes, and mistakes generally
lead two point spreads being covered. Now, I'm not a
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big believer in the Seahawks. They've fallen on hard times
and Geno Smith has had a lot of turnovers lately,
but the double digit line and the possibility of a
back door cover that garbage time late dry by Gino
Smith where the forty Niners played prevent defense and Gino
brings it down the field gets that late touchdown. I'm
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also on the side against the public and on the
side of the wise guys, the sharps, who generally do
the heavy lifting. So this is too many points. Forty Niners,
twenty four Seahawks. Ring the bell at seventeen, and right
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off the bat, the penny disagreeing with you going with
the Niners for a blowout? All right, next game up
on the Saturday wild Card schedule. These games being played
in a vacuum on Saturday. Just two games on Saturday.
The l A Chargers ten and seven this year at
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Jacksonville nine and eight on and be see with Al
Michaels and Tony Dungee. The Chargers end up a two
and a half point favorite, and they are favored by
two in this game, almost six. I think that Jacksonville
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is gonna burn through the electrical grid. The Chargers bring
a t I a a bank field. Very cold temperatures,
this game being played at night, temperatures in the forties
for Jacksonville. It's a little chili, little chili there. Some
of the numbers on this game, some of the key
points here. Chargers. They were a six and a half
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point home favorite when these teams played back in Week three.
Jacksonville won that game thirty eight to ten. Before that game,
l A had covered their last nine meetings with Jacksonville.
Trevor Lawrence last seven games two and five against the spread.
Doug Peterson back in the playoffs after his run to
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glory in Philadelphia, the Nick Foles playoff run years in
five and one in his coaching career against the spread
in the playoffs, five and oh against the spread as
an underdog, and Jacksonville as an underdog seven and five
outright one more win. If they win this game, they
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would match the record for the most wins in a
single season regular and postseason as an underdog. And there's
some teams you gotta go back. Washington did it before.
That was that out of nowhere Patriot team in when
Tom Brady came on the scene. Then you gotta go
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back to a Joe Montana forty niner team in the
early eighties and the New York Giants also in the
early nineteen eighties. So those are some of the numbers
on this And in the past five seasons there have
been too home underdogs in playoff games. Both of them
happened in that pandemic year when old fans were at
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the stadiums in since home underdogs six and two against
the spread. But that will go the other way here.
I'm gonna take the Chargers in this game. The secret
ingredient in this one is the defense linebacker Joey Bosa.
He did not play back in Week three, Jacksonville was
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able to run for a hundred and fifty one yards.
In that game. They had James Robinson, who they later
traded to the Jets of Travy Travis E. T N
who's the featured back now. But the thirty eight points misleading.
You put Bosa and Khalil Mack who still got a
little gas in the tank together, that's a peanut, butter
and jelly situation for the Charger defense. Here. Now my
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evidence on this. With Bosa on the field, the Chargers
are allowing when he plays the entire game and he's healthy,
they're allowing less than eighteen points per game, seventeen point seven.
When he's been hurt, missed the game, or been hobbled,
they're giving up twenty three and a half points per game.
That means the Charger defense is almost a touchdown worse
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when Boss hurt as opposed to when he plays the matchup.
I give a slight edge to Herbert, but we don't
really know neither one of these guys, Trevor Lawrence or
Justin Herbert's played in the playoffs. One of them will
likely take a ride on the vomit comment. But I'm
gonna take the Chargers in this game. Low scoring, close
game charges a slight favorite, Chargers twenty four behind Austin
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Ekeler and the Jags twenty. The final look at that
heads again means another disagreement, the Penny going with the Jags.
All right, We'll see how this turns out for the Penny.
Next up, wild Card Weekend on Sunday, as we try
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to sync up on this Miami nine and NAT during
the regular season. Off to the Races with their third
string quarterback at Buffalo third, teen and three. It's on CBS.
This is the big game for Jim Nance. The high
falutin Tony Romo will be there as well. The Bills
opened up an eleven point favorite that has skyrocketed up
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the thirteen points, a team point favorite in a playoff game,
and just about everyone betting on Buffalo in this game
they think it's free money. In the weather, no snow.
If you're you're hoping for snow here, you're not gonna
get that. At high Mark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York,
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temperatures in the high twenties low thirties at kickoff in
this game, and some of the numbers here Buffalo. They
were a four point road favorite back in Week three
when they played at Miami, and a seven and a
half point hope favorite in Week fifteen, and this time
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there were a thirteen point five, so they've they've almost
gone double that. Miami owen four against the spread their
last four playoff games, going back many many years, different coaches,
different quarterbacks, and the Dolphins have done very well against
divisional appochs. They are too and oh against the spread
against Buffalo, But I say that ends here. I am
taking the Bills Mafia to drop a horsehead in this game,
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and I generally avoid heavy favorites, but turns out the
sky is the limit for the Dolphins here with both
to a tongue of Bloa and Teddy Bridgewater out Miami,
turning their lonely hearts to sky. Lure Thompson, see what
I did there, Danny. The sky is the is the limit.
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But this is a demolition situation. A rookie seventh round
pick who was wicked bad, wicked bad in the regular season,
and that's out of hill. I want to die, and
I always try to find a way to take the underdog,
and I looked at this and I looked at this
and I'm like, wa, wait a minute, Skyler Thompson is
being tossed out where the Buffalo roame. What could possibly
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go wrong? It is going to take a defensive game
of the ages for the Dolphins and Josh Allen to
have food poisoning with multiple turnovers for this game to
be close. And you just have the sense Buffalo is
gonna come out jump out by a couple of touchdowns.
Miami then will be a one dimensional team. And this
thing just starts piling on top of It's like a
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dog pile as far as points are concerned, and the
Buffalo Bills end up eating dolphin flavored sushi. Final score
Bills thirty four Dolphins ten the final and the penny says, someway, somehow,
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that Dolphins defense is gonna loom large going with the
Dolphins to cover that defense is gonna have to score
multiple touchdowns in order for this to be a cover.
That's how bad Skyler Thompson is. Terrible. Third down quarterback
man alive? All right? Next up the New York Giants
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nine seven and one at minnis So thirteen and four.
It's on Fox with Kevin Burkhard and Greg Olsen. The
Vikings opened up a three point favorite. They have stayed
a three point favorite. As we give you the blow
by blow account of what should happen in this game
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on Sunday with our friends in the Twin Cities locked
and loaded at US Bank Stadium. Now, we've talked a
lot on the radio show on the overnight and we've
we've mentioned that we're not big fans of the Vikings
or the Giants, so this is a tough game for
us to handicap. Most of the money A slight lean
is on the Giant, not most a slight lying on
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the Giants. Some of the numbers on this game. Minnesota
was a four and a half point favorite at home
back in Week sixteen. The Vikings won that game by
a field goal. The Giants led the NFL this year
for gamblers thirteen and four against the spread. If you
just bet every Giants game against the number, blindly just
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picked the Giants, you went thirteen and four, seven and
one on the road against the spread. New York's covered
four straight games and four straight road games. So those
are all positive numbers, and the numbers are not great
for the Vikings at all. I can give you all
kinds of negative numbers will move on. I'm i am
gonna take the Vikings in this game, though, I'm gonna
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take Minnesota. Uh, and maybe all look like a blithering
idiot by the time this is all done. But something
is gonna give your Both these teams were outscored during
the regular season. It's only the third matchup in playoff
history outside of a strike gear where you've had two
teams that both were outscored meeting in the playoffs, and
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one of those was back in the eighties, the other
was about twenty years ago. In the NFL, You've got
Daniel Jones, who stinks, versus Kirk Cousins, who also has
b O or halitosis. I should say so it's a
lounge act situation at quarterback. I am leaning towards the
Vikings in this game. I just think that these stage
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fright is gonna be there for Daniel Jones. There'll be
some mistakes. Really. The thing that does give me pause.
Minnesota's defense is ranked thirty one in yards per game.
They're allowing twenty five points per game, and they just
a couple of weeks ago allowed the Giants to go
up and down and all around and it was not good,
and so that does scare me a little bit. However,
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I want to take Minnesota twenty six and the Giants
twenty the final. And I'm not sure if this is unprecedented, Ben,
but you see here Tales that means the Penny is
going against you again picking the Giants. All right, we
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disagree again. So far, it's been a royal disagreement, a
royal disagreement on this edition of Benny Versus the Penny.
A right. Next up, the last game on wild Card Sunday,
but not the last game on wild Card weekend, as
we dust off our crystal ball to take a look
at Baltimore ten and seven at Cincinnati twelve and four.
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The Bengals this game on and be you see, it's
a home game for Chris Colinsworth, Mike Terrico traveling from
his home in Michigan for this particular game. Bengals opened
up a six and a half point favorite, and they
are favored by seven, so a full touchdown favorite for
the Ben Gals. Most people think this is free money,
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it's a broken a t M machine, as they're loading
up on the Bengals in this game. Mostly clear in
the House that justin in Cincinnati and just Josh Build
mostly clear forty one degrees that kick off at the
former Paul Brown Stadium now Baltimore one. The matchup back
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in Week five, nineteen seventeen, they were three point favorites,
so they didn't cover the spread. Cincinnati won the last
game seven to sixteen, but they were eleven and alf
point favorites, so they failed to cover the spread. Both times.
The road dog covered despite losing outright. For whatever that's worth,
Cincinnati those covered five straight playoff games, including that four
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and no run last season, so that was all last year.
And then there was obviously a different Paul of Wax
with Marvin Lewis back in the day. But Baltimore nine
and eight outright as a playoff underdog, they are, fun fact,
one of two teams in the Super Bowl era that
have a winning record over five as a playoff underdog.
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It's Baltimore and the New York Giants. Those are the
two that have a winning record. So handicapping this game
originally was going to be a lot harder. It became
a lot easier. And I want to take the Cincinnati
ben Gals. It's killing season. And then I believe raven
is on the menu for the Bengals here. Lamar Jackson's
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not walking through that door, and I ain't gonna wager
on Baltimore. I've seen the backups that got flotsam and jetsam,
Tyler Huntley and Anthony Brown. It sounds like Anthony Brown
is gonna be the guy playing here. Baltimore will be
bringing a musket to the proverbial gunfight. Outside of injury
the Joe Burrow, this game will be a blue out
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last week since he scored twenty one points directly off
turnovers from Anthony Brown, two interceptions and a fumble which
was returned for a touchdown. And these things end up
snowballing in the playoffs. As much as I wanted to
find a way to take the Ravens, because I do
like John Harbaugh, usually in these situations, I cannot lean
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out on that branch. It's a it's a flimsy branch
with Anthony Brown. The Ravens are gonna go down, down, down, down, down,
down down. Cincinnati gets the easy win seven to sixteen
as they take down the third string quarterback and Baltimore,
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that's gonna be your final seven sixteen and finally we
have an agreement as the Pennies, also riding with sinc Alright,
last game, last game to bet on here the beacon
of ratings, not the beacon of light, the beacon of
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rating ings. It is wild card Monday. They started this
not that long ago, an island game all buy. It's lonesome,
bringing up the rear of the playoff schedule. It will
be the highest rated game. Gay wrongteed this weekend Dallas
twelve and five, and they travel to Tampa Bay eight
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and nine. It's on a B C with Joe Buck
and Troy Aikman, and the Cowboys opened up a three
point favorite. They are favored by two and a half
in this game. Most people loading up on the Buccaneers,
even though their season looked like they were on the
brink of disaster and temperatures mild at Raymond James Stadium
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on Monday night, temperatures forecast to be in the sixties,
clear skies at kickoff. Dallas has been a dreadful bet
here in January. They are two and thirteen against the
spread their la last fifteen games, and then the Tampa
Bay to twelve and one, though against the spread their
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last uh their last fifteen games this season, with Tom
Brady one six and one at Raymond James Stadium in
their last eight matchups. There, I can give you all
kinds of numbers. Dallas has been terrible in the playoffs
since The Cowboys, even with those Super Bowl wins, are
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back in the nineties, are three and ten against the spread.
Owen four since for Gamblers. But I am going to
cover my eyes, I'm gonna cover my mouth and hold
my nose, and I'm gonna take the Dallas Cowboys. They
have not been a road favorite in the playoffs since
nine six at Carolina. And as much as I don't
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have a lot of love for the Cowboys, I have
less love for Tom Brady and the Buccaneers. And people
are wrapped up in this romance with Tom Brady, this, that,
and the other thing. These are two teams that are
doing the downward dog. Cowboys were two and two their
last four games. Buccaneers have not won a game by
more than six points since Week two. Their offense their
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offenses past twenty three points only twice all season. But
yet every time I bring up these numbers, says yeah,
but yeah, but you have it, you have it. Tom Brady.
You have it, Tom Brady, He's got the magic wand
Tom Brady, I don't know about that. Danny didn't he
lose forty five million dollars on ft X. I think
I read that this week that in stock options he
lost forty five million, with ft actually talking about having
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a bad, bad couple of weeks. Uh, So, listen, Brady
has had a wonderful career. He did also lose to
Matthew Stafford last year at Raymond James Stadium. You experts
told me he's got the magic touch. There's no way
Matthew Stafford's gonna be Tom Brady in a play off game.
And then, as I remember, tom Brady went out there
and sucked for se of that game and then made
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a few players in the fourth quarter as the Bucks
frantically tried to come back. That has been the m
O on Tom Brady. He's been good for a quarter
or a half, usually it's the third quarter of the
fourth quarter, and he's been bad at the beginning of
these games, uh for the most part. And I in
no way am endorsing Dak Prescott because he's he's he's
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a wobbly and as inconsistent as Tom Brady, and certainly
in big games he's been terrible. But I am betting
on Michael Parsons to get a key strip sack and
Travon Diggs to get an interception here as he gambles.
I'm betting on the Cowboy defense, which has been shaky,
to step up here and polish the apple and polished
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the trophy and and get a win. So I'm gonna
take the Cowboys twenty three and the buck can Ears
seventeen the final at Raymond James Stadium. The Penny says,
you could take that rag and polish a turn with
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the Bucks. A lot of disagreement. The only game we
agreed on, I believe, was the Bengals and the Ravens.
Everything else is disagreement city. So that is it. It
is a shorter podcast, there's only six games, but we're
doing this every week all the way through the Super Bowl.
And I know some are very excited that this is
gonna come to an end, Danny, because they want to
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hear the interviews, which I know you're excited about having
to work with me to book those things that'll that'll
go well, Uh could possibly go wrong with that? I
can't wait for Brian Billick. Brian bill Brian Billick. I
can't wait for hacks Out to return. That's what I
can't wait. It'll be hack Saw every other week. Now.
I love Hacksaw. We gotta get him on here. We'll
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just go through my old radio friends like we did
a couple of years ago. This roll through the old
Rolodecks radio people. I know you'll be holding your breath
for that. And if you would like to recommend someone
that you think, you gotta be realistic. We did this
before Danny when West of the four oh five was
on the podcast and people were like, what do you
get Tom Cruise on the podcast? You know that'd be interesting. Yeah,
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don't be the asshole if it's somebody that you think
is in our realm. We I tried, Oh god, what's
the guy's name. I'm having a mental block. Uh, the
guy that did dirty jobs? Mike row Yeah. I tried
to get Mike Rowan and his publicist was all gung
ho and then totally flamed out and bailed and ghosted me. Uh.
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Micro's publicist ghost to me. I would have loved to
get him on. There's a few other people, although the
last year we did go on a bit of a
run um. We had a couple of Hall of famers.
We had Joey Chestnut. Oh that was that was wonderful. Yeah,
we gotta get you. That's gotta be a yearly thing.
Brent Musburger, that was a big one. You got on there, baby.
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It was so nice to her uncle Brent. It was great.
He was hanging out at his ranch in Montana and
telling stories. And I love the story that Musburger told
about the gambling when he said you're looking live that
was a secret dog whistle for the professional gamblers. That
is outstanding. That is just wonderful in so many different ways. Anyway,
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so weok at more sportscasters and I like doing that. Man,
We'll get Joe buck On track him down, see how
the ESPN thing went. We can can have some of
the the different voices of the game. We'll go back
to the drawing board on that. But we do have
Benny Versus the Penny every Friday through the Super Bowl
and tomorrow, Oh Danny on the Saturday podcast. What a
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what an amazing podcast we have in store. Never before
told stories that we will we will go into the
bag of story, storytelling like you've never heard before. On
the fifth hour. It is our proprietary blend are our
kfc R eleven herbs and spices that we will have
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on that podcast, which we're fined up for. It's gonna
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it's good. And Marcel also said noodles and noodles, so
if that's your food pick, congratulations. All right, have a
great rest, have a great rest of your Friday, enjoy
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the NFL playoffs. If you listen to this on Saturday,
or whenever you listen to this, have a great day.
We'll catch you next time later. Skater polic
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Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and greeting salutations.
And you have arrived at the one stop shop that
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Radio two guys. Is enough for me, and it is
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time for a playoff playoffs edition of Benny Versus the Penny.
We strike up the band right now. Welcome players, You're welcome,
are you? It's time now Penny versus the Penny? All
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right here, we are back at it. Danny G. Represent
even though the Raiders aren't in the playoffs, you have
a full Raider gear on. You are prepared. You're acting
as the Raiders are in the postseason. Danny G. You're prepared, sir.
And even though your Rams aren't in the postseason, you
are in full monstrel exposed gear. That's right. But I'm
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honoring the Montreal exposed. As you know, that's an M.
It looks weird, but that's an M for Mallard. It
might look like Montreal, but it's actually an M for Mallard.
And this is the latest vision. This is old school.
This is the red, white and blue. You can't see
this if you're listening to the podcast because there's no photos.
But yeah, I like this. It's a slid looking at
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h So before we get to the playoffs, Danny, we
must look back. We closed out the regular season. I
was very concerned last week when we did the podcast.
I had El Stinko in Week seventeen, a debacle, my
worst week of the season in Week seventeen and went
five and ten against the spread, and that was brutal.
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The penny wasn't much better than me, but but beat
me that week, and back to back week's Week sixteen
and Week seventeen, the penny head to head beat me,
and so we we looked ahead to eight Week eighteen.
How did Week a teen turning and Danny turn out
a lot of disagreement between myself and you representing the penny. Yeah,
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I did the penny get you again? No, In fact,
what I did is I took out my benny blowtorch
and I burned up everything. There were sixteen games on
the card last weekend and went eleven and five, but
really eleven and four because I had the wrong side
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in the Raider Chiefs game. I had Raiders in that game.
They did not come close to covering the spread and
that so ended up going to eleven and five. Overall,
that's a six eight eight winning percentage the penny. All
that disagreement, bringing up the caboo springing up the rear
of the train, the penny went three and thirteen. That
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is tied for the worst mark the penny had back
in week three of the season when the penny went
three and thirteen as well. Yeah, you looked like Dak
Prescott against Washington in that game last week. Holy Canoli.
That was bad. So here the penny is in the pofs.
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I know, it's amazing the play. You can't you can't
go away from the penny no matter what the penny
makes it. So overall, as we put the bowl on
the regular season, it's a brand new season. We're gonna
start fresh in the playoffs. Playoffs, so we start fresh
but we look back at the final regular of season numbers.
Been doing Benny versus the Penny for a long time.
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I'll date myself if I say how long. But this
was a fairy tale type of season, a Disney esque
happy ending type season. Not a lot of walking on eggshells.
So all the games we bet on terrestrial radio on
Thursday and on the podcast on Friday. And here's how
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it turned out. Hundred and fifty six wins, hundred and
nine losses, and six ties against the spread. That works
out to a five eight nine winning percentage. And that
is the top winning percentage I believe I've had ever
at doing this and the penny, don't ask, don't ask.
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The penny won a hundred twenty four games, lost, a
hundred and forty three tied four. That's a four sixty
three winning percentage. The penny was nineteen games under five hundred.
And if you're not a gambler and not someone that's
up on the numbers, the way this works, there's a
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lot of peaks and valleys when you're gambling, but you
have to end up on a a winning percentage of
fifty two point four in order to win money. As
a sports better what whatever you bet how many games.
The less you bet, the better your chances. But you
have to win more than fifty two point four percent
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of your bets to make up the difference because of
the juice. So we we did that. Now we told
you not to bet on every game. Hopefully you picked
and choose the right games. But we had a lot
of double digit win weeks this year, and head to head,
the Penny did not beat me very off. We tied
in week one. Week two went to the Penny, but
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after that we rolled off a bunch of wins in
a row. It was three weeks in a row. We one.
I can give you the final totals at another time,
but we move on, Danny. It's the playoffs and really
quick though, just to clarify, because your microphone broke up
a little bit, you said juice. Yeah, well the what
the juice? You have to win a certain amount because
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of the vig on the games, and so, uh, it's
fifty two point four percent because if you break even,
the house is going to to win, right. Yeah. And
for those that are uneducated on that, if you're just
kind of casually listening, you're like, hey, I just want
to listen to something. But I'm not really a gambler
and all that stuff. Um, So, the theory is that
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the house should not care. They don't really care who
wins the game as long as the money's even on
both sides, because in a perfect world, they would not
care about the outcome because they don't really worry about
the results as long as they the big they earn
their profits on that, and the big it's it's short
for vigor ish or juice. It's the edge of the
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house as the most of the time is less than
five percent. Uh, and so it's not it's not that much,
but the margins are then and all that, and so
they just want to get even money on most of
the games. But as long as you are able to win,
as we said, over fifty two point four percent, you
will compensate for the house and their advantage in that.
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All right, So that let's get to the games at hand.
It's wild card weekend. They're calling it super wild Card weekend.
It does not seem super to me. I don't know
about you, Danny, it does not seem super to me.
There's a lot of bad quarterbacks that we're gonna be
saying this weekend. But we'll start out and and the
Heads versus Tales. Danny representing the Penny. Home team is Heads,
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road team is Tales. That's how we've done it all
season law, all season long, and we've done that way
for years without that way for years, so we can
continue doing that and away we go. So we've got Seattle,
who went nine and eight during the regular season at
San Francisco thirteen and four. It's on Fox. This is
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the game that kicks off the weekend with Joe Davis
and Darryl Moose. Johnston forty Niners opened up a ten
point favorite, and they're favored by anywhere from nine and
a half of ten. We have the number at ten
and the handle on this game about of the action
in favor of the home team, the forty Niners at
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Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. Heavy rain expected in this game,
temperatures in the fifties as the West Coast continues to
get battered. I'm sure we'll talk more about the weather
on the Saturday podcast, as we both experienced some rather
interesting conditions this past week here with these bombs cyclones
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and the atmospheric river and all that crap, but it's
gonna be bad at least that's the forecast we have
here for the fort and the Seahawks. Some of the trends,
some of the numbers in this game. Kyle Shanahan five
and one against the spread in playoff games forty nine
ers seven and one against the spread at home as
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a favorite this season, five straight covers. If you go
back to past thirty seasons, wild card home favorites of
at least nine points or better are eleven and oh
against the spread. But on the other side, you look
at Seattle here, they've done very well head to head
with the forty nine games above five against the spread
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the last matchups. That goes way back to the glory
days of Seattle. The key thing here though, for me,
when I'm looking at this game, I'm looking at Brock Purty,
who's played very well, But do you trust him? And
I'm gonna take the Seattle Seahawks here because I do
not completely have faith that Brock Prity is gonna play
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a clean game and locked down a massive point spread here.
I'll give you a couple of reasons why. A the
stigma of being a rookie. If you look at the comps,
they're not very good. The only rookie quarterback to be
at least a seven point favorite in the playoffs since
two thousand is Ben Roethlisberger, and that was almost twenty
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years ago in twenty four, which is shocking that it
was almost twenty years ago, but it was, and so
this is a rare situation. The forecast, as we mentioned,
calls for the atmospheric river to rain down in the
Bay and that should lead to mistakes, and mistakes generally
lead two point spreads being covered. Now, I'm not a
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big believer in the Seahawks. They've fallen on hard times
and Geno Smith has had a lot of turnovers lately,
but the double digit line and the possibility of a
back door cover that garbage time late dry by Gino
Smith where the forty Niners played prevent defense and Gino
brings it down the field gets that late touchdown. I'm
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also on the side against the public and on the
side of the wise guys, the sharps, who generally do
the heavy lifting. So this is too many points. Forty Niners,
twenty four Seahawks. Ring the bell at seventeen, and right
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off the bat, the penny disagreeing with you going with
the Niners for a blowout? All right, next game up
on the Saturday wild Card schedule. These games being played
in a vacuum on Saturday. Just two games on Saturday.
The l A Chargers ten and seven this year at
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Jacksonville nine and eight on and be see with Al
Michaels and Tony Dungee. The Chargers end up a two
and a half point favorite, and they are favored by
two in this game, almost six. I think that Jacksonville
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is gonna burn through the electrical grid. The Chargers bring
a t I a a bank field. Very cold temperatures,
this game being played at night, temperatures in the forties
for Jacksonville. It's a little chili, little chili there. Some
of the numbers on this game, some of the key
points here. Chargers. They were a six and a half
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point home favorite when these teams played back in Week three.
Jacksonville won that game thirty eight to ten. Before that game,
l A had covered their last nine meetings with Jacksonville.
Trevor Lawrence last seven games two and five against the spread.
Doug Peterson back in the playoffs after his run to
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glory in Philadelphia, the Nick Foles playoff run years in
five and one in his coaching career against the spread
in the playoffs, five and oh against the spread as
an underdog, and Jacksonville as an underdog seven and five
outright one more win. If they win this game, they
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would match the record for the most wins in a
single season regular and postseason as an underdog. And there's
some teams you gotta go back. Washington did it before.
That was that out of nowhere Patriot team in when
Tom Brady came on the scene. Then you gotta go
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back to a Joe Montana forty niner team in the
early eighties and the New York Giants also in the
early nineteen eighties. So those are some of the numbers
on this And in the past five seasons there have
been too home underdogs in playoff games. Both of them
happened in that pandemic year when old fans were at
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the stadiums in since home underdogs six and two against
the spread. But that will go the other way here.
I'm gonna take the Chargers in this game. The secret
ingredient in this one is the defense linebacker Joey Bosa.
He did not play back in Week three, Jacksonville was
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able to run for a hundred and fifty one yards.
In that game. They had James Robinson, who they later
traded to the Jets of Travy Travis E. T N
who's the featured back now. But the thirty eight points misleading.
You put Bosa and Khalil Mack who still got a
little gas in the tank together, that's a peanut, butter
and jelly situation for the Charger defense. Here. Now my
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evidence on this. With Bosa on the field, the Chargers
are allowing when he plays the entire game and he's healthy,
they're allowing less than eighteen points per game, seventeen point seven.
When he's been hurt, missed the game, or been hobbled,
they're giving up twenty three and a half points per game.
That means the Charger defense is almost a touchdown worse
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when Boss hurt as opposed to when he plays the matchup.
I give a slight edge to Herbert, but we don't
really know neither one of these guys, Trevor Lawrence or
Justin Herbert's played in the playoffs. One of them will
likely take a ride on the vomit comment. But I'm
gonna take the Chargers in this game. Low scoring, close
game charges a slight favorite, Chargers twenty four behind Austin
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Ekeler and the Jags twenty. The final look at that
heads again means another disagreement, the Penny going with the Jags.
All right, We'll see how this turns out for the Penny.
Next up, wild Card Weekend on Sunday, as we try
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to sync up on this Miami nine and NAT during
the regular season. Off to the Races with their third
string quarterback at Buffalo third, teen and three. It's on CBS.
This is the big game for Jim Nance. The high
falutin Tony Romo will be there as well. The Bills
opened up an eleven point favorite that has skyrocketed up
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the thirteen points, a team point favorite in a playoff game,
and just about everyone betting on Buffalo in this game
they think it's free money. In the weather, no snow.
If you're you're hoping for snow here, you're not gonna
get that. At high Mark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York,
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temperatures in the high twenties low thirties at kickoff in
this game, and some of the numbers here Buffalo. They
were a four point road favorite back in Week three
when they played at Miami, and a seven and a
half point hope favorite in Week fifteen, and this time
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there were a thirteen point five, so they've they've almost
gone double that. Miami owen four against the spread their
last four playoff games, going back many many years, different coaches,
different quarterbacks, and the Dolphins have done very well against
divisional appochs. They are too and oh against the spread
against Buffalo, But I say that ends here. I am
taking the Bills Mafia to drop a horsehead in this game,
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and I generally avoid heavy favorites, but turns out the
sky is the limit for the Dolphins here with both
to a tongue of Bloa and Teddy Bridgewater out Miami,
turning their lonely hearts to sky. Lure Thompson, see what
I did there, Danny. The sky is the is the limit.
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But this is a demolition situation. A rookie seventh round
pick who was wicked bad, wicked bad in the regular season,
and that's out of hill. I want to die, and
I always try to find a way to take the underdog,
and I looked at this and I looked at this
and I'm like, wa, wait a minute, Skyler Thompson is
being tossed out where the Buffalo roame. What could possibly
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go wrong? It is going to take a defensive game
of the ages for the Dolphins and Josh Allen to
have food poisoning with multiple turnovers for this game to
be close. And you just have the sense Buffalo is
gonna come out jump out by a couple of touchdowns.
Miami then will be a one dimensional team. And this
thing just starts piling on top of It's like a
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dog pile as far as points are concerned, and the
Buffalo Bills end up eating dolphin flavored sushi. Final score
Bills thirty four Dolphins ten the final and the penny says, someway, somehow,
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that Dolphins defense is gonna loom large going with the
Dolphins to cover that defense is gonna have to score
multiple touchdowns in order for this to be a cover.
That's how bad Skyler Thompson is. Terrible. Third down quarterback
man alive? All right? Next up the New York Giants
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nine seven and one at minnis So thirteen and four.
It's on Fox with Kevin Burkhard and Greg Olsen. The
Vikings opened up a three point favorite. They have stayed
a three point favorite. As we give you the blow
by blow account of what should happen in this game
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on Sunday with our friends in the Twin Cities locked
and loaded at US Bank Stadium. Now, we've talked a
lot on the radio show on the overnight and we've
we've mentioned that we're not big fans of the Vikings
or the Giants, so this is a tough game for
us to handicap. Most of the money A slight lean
is on the Giant, not most a slight lying on
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the Giants. Some of the numbers on this game. Minnesota
was a four and a half point favorite at home
back in Week sixteen. The Vikings won that game by
a field goal. The Giants led the NFL this year
for gamblers thirteen and four against the spread. If you
just bet every Giants game against the number, blindly just
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picked the Giants, you went thirteen and four, seven and
one on the road against the spread. New York's covered
four straight games and four straight road games. So those
are all positive numbers, and the numbers are not great
for the Vikings at all. I can give you all
kinds of negative numbers will move on. I'm i am
gonna take the Vikings in this game, though, I'm gonna
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take Minnesota. Uh, and maybe all look like a blithering
idiot by the time this is all done. But something
is gonna give your Both these teams were outscored during
the regular season. It's only the third matchup in playoff
history outside of a strike gear where you've had two
teams that both were outscored meeting in the playoffs, and
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one of those was back in the eighties, the other
was about twenty years ago. In the NFL, You've got
Daniel Jones, who stinks, versus Kirk Cousins, who also has
b O or halitosis. I should say so it's a
lounge act situation at quarterback. I am leaning towards the
Vikings in this game. I just think that these stage
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fright is gonna be there for Daniel Jones. There'll be
some mistakes. Really. The thing that does give me pause.
Minnesota's defense is ranked thirty one in yards per game.
They're allowing twenty five points per game, and they just
a couple of weeks ago allowed the Giants to go
up and down and all around and it was not good,
and so that does scare me a little bit. However,
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I want to take Minnesota twenty six and the Giants
twenty the final. And I'm not sure if this is unprecedented, Ben,
but you see here Tales that means the Penny is
going against you again picking the Giants. All right, we
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disagree again. So far, it's been a royal disagreement, a
royal disagreement on this edition of Benny Versus the Penny.
A right. Next up, the last game on wild Card Sunday,
but not the last game on wild Card weekend, as
we dust off our crystal ball to take a look
at Baltimore ten and seven at Cincinnati twelve and four.
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The Bengals this game on and be you see, it's
a home game for Chris Colinsworth, Mike Terrico traveling from
his home in Michigan for this particular game. Bengals opened
up a six and a half point favorite, and they
are favored by seven, so a full touchdown favorite for
the Ben Gals. Most people think this is free money,
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it's a broken a t M machine, as they're loading
up on the Bengals in this game. Mostly clear in
the House that justin in Cincinnati and just Josh Build
mostly clear forty one degrees that kick off at the
former Paul Brown Stadium now Baltimore one. The matchup back
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in Week five, nineteen seventeen, they were three point favorites,
so they didn't cover the spread. Cincinnati won the last
game seven to sixteen, but they were eleven and alf
point favorites, so they failed to cover the spread. Both times.
The road dog covered despite losing outright. For whatever that's worth,
Cincinnati those covered five straight playoff games, including that four
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and no run last season, so that was all last year.
And then there was obviously a different Paul of Wax
with Marvin Lewis back in the day. But Baltimore nine
and eight outright as a playoff underdog, they are, fun fact,
one of two teams in the Super Bowl era that
have a winning record over five as a playoff underdog.
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It's Baltimore and the New York Giants. Those are the
two that have a winning record. So handicapping this game
originally was going to be a lot harder. It became
a lot easier. And I want to take the Cincinnati
ben Gals. It's killing season. And then I believe raven
is on the menu for the Bengals here. Lamar Jackson's
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not walking through that door, and I ain't gonna wager
on Baltimore. I've seen the backups that got flotsam and jetsam,
Tyler Huntley and Anthony Brown. It sounds like Anthony Brown
is gonna be the guy playing here. Baltimore will be
bringing a musket to the proverbial gunfight. Outside of injury
the Joe Burrow, this game will be a blue out
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last week since he scored twenty one points directly off
turnovers from Anthony Brown, two interceptions and a fumble which
was returned for a touchdown. And these things end up
snowballing in the playoffs. As much as I wanted to
find a way to take the Ravens, because I do
like John Harbaugh, usually in these situations, I cannot lean
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out on that branch. It's a it's a flimsy branch
with Anthony Brown. The Ravens are gonna go down, down, down, down, down,
down down. Cincinnati gets the easy win seven to sixteen
as they take down the third string quarterback and Baltimore,
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that's gonna be your final seven sixteen and finally we
have an agreement as the Pennies, also riding with sinc Alright,
last game, last game to bet on here the beacon
of ratings, not the beacon of light, the beacon of
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rating ings. It is wild card Monday. They started this
not that long ago, an island game all buy. It's lonesome,
bringing up the rear of the playoff schedule. It will
be the highest rated game. Gay wrongteed this weekend Dallas
twelve and five, and they travel to Tampa Bay eight
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and nine. It's on a B C with Joe Buck
and Troy Aikman, and the Cowboys opened up a three
point favorite. They are favored by two and a half
in this game. Most people loading up on the Buccaneers,
even though their season looked like they were on the
brink of disaster and temperatures mild at Raymond James Stadium
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on Monday night, temperatures forecast to be in the sixties,
clear skies at kickoff. Dallas has been a dreadful bet
here in January. They are two and thirteen against the
spread their la last fifteen games, and then the Tampa
Bay to twelve and one, though against the spread their
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last uh their last fifteen games this season, with Tom
Brady one six and one at Raymond James Stadium in
their last eight matchups. There, I can give you all
kinds of numbers. Dallas has been terrible in the playoffs
since The Cowboys, even with those Super Bowl wins, are
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back in the nineties, are three and ten against the spread.
Owen four since for Gamblers. But I am going to
cover my eyes, I'm gonna cover my mouth and hold
my nose, and I'm gonna take the Dallas Cowboys. They
have not been a road favorite in the playoffs since
nine six at Carolina. And as much as I don't
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have a lot of love for the Cowboys, I have
less love for Tom Brady and the Buccaneers. And people
are wrapped up in this romance with Tom Brady, this, that,
and the other thing. These are two teams that are
doing the downward dog. Cowboys were two and two their
last four games. Buccaneers have not won a game by
more than six points since Week two. Their offense their
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offenses past twenty three points only twice all season. But
yet every time I bring up these numbers, says yeah,
but yeah, but you have it, you have it. Tom Brady.
You have it, Tom Brady, He's got the magic wand
Tom Brady, I don't know about that. Danny didn't he
lose forty five million dollars on ft X. I think
I read that this week that in stock options he
lost forty five million, with ft actually talking about having
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a bad, bad couple of weeks. Uh, So, listen, Brady
has had a wonderful career. He did also lose to
Matthew Stafford last year at Raymond James Stadium. You experts
told me he's got the magic touch. There's no way
Matthew Stafford's gonna be Tom Brady in a play off game.
And then, as I remember, tom Brady went out there
and sucked for se of that game and then made
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a few players in the fourth quarter as the Bucks
frantically tried to come back. That has been the m
O on Tom Brady. He's been good for a quarter
or a half, usually it's the third quarter of the
fourth quarter, and he's been bad at the beginning of
these games, uh for the most part. And I in
no way am endorsing Dak Prescott because he's he's he's
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a wobbly and as inconsistent as Tom Brady, and certainly
in big games he's been terrible. But I am betting
on Michael Parsons to get a key strip sack and
Travon Diggs to get an interception here as he gambles.
I'm betting on the Cowboy defense, which has been shaky,
to step up here and polish the apple and polished
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the trophy and and get a win. So I'm gonna
take the Cowboys twenty three and the buck can Ears
seventeen the final at Raymond James Stadium. The Penny says,
you could take that rag and polish a turn with
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the Bucks. A lot of disagreement. The only game we
agreed on, I believe, was the Bengals and the Ravens.
Everything else is disagreement city. So that is it. It
is a shorter podcast, there's only six games, but we're
doing this every week all the way through the Super Bowl.
And I know some are very excited that this is
gonna come to an end, Danny, because they want to
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hear the interviews, which I know you're excited about having
to work with me to book those things that'll that'll
go well, Uh could possibly go wrong with that? I
can't wait for Brian Billick. Brian bill Brian Billick. I
can't wait for hacks Out to return. That's what I
can't wait. It'll be hack Saw every other week. Now.
I love Hacksaw. We gotta get him on here. We'll
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just go through my old radio friends like we did
a couple of years ago. This roll through the old
Rolodecks radio people. I know you'll be holding your breath
for that. And if you would like to recommend someone
that you think, you gotta be realistic. We did this
before Danny when West of the four oh five was
on the podcast and people were like, what do you
get Tom Cruise on the podcast? You know that'd be interesting. Yeah,
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don't be the asshole if it's somebody that you think
is in our realm. We I tried, Oh god, what's
the guy's name. I'm having a mental block. Uh, the
guy that did dirty jobs? Mike row Yeah. I tried
to get Mike Rowan and his publicist was all gung
ho and then totally flamed out and bailed and ghosted me. Uh.
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Micro's publicist ghost to me. I would have loved to
get him on. There's a few other people, although the
last year we did go on a bit of a
run um. We had a couple of Hall of famers.
We had Joey Chestnut. Oh that was that was wonderful. Yeah,
we gotta get you. That's gotta be a yearly thing.
Brent Musburger, that was a big one. You got on there, baby.
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It was so nice to her uncle Brent. It was great.
He was hanging out at his ranch in Montana and
telling stories. And I love the story that Musburger told
about the gambling when he said you're looking live that
was a secret dog whistle for the professional gamblers. That
is outstanding. That is just wonderful in so many different ways. Anyway,
(32:31):
so weok at more sportscasters and I like doing that. Man,
We'll get Joe buck On track him down, see how
the ESPN thing went. We can can have some of
the the different voices of the game. We'll go back
to the drawing board on that. But we do have
Benny Versus the Penny every Friday through the Super Bowl
and tomorrow, Oh Danny on the Saturday podcast. What a
(32:54):
what an amazing podcast we have in store. Never before
told stories that we will we will go into the
bag of story, storytelling like you've never heard before. On
the fifth hour. It is our proprietary blend are our
kfc R eleven herbs and spices that we will have
(33:16):
on that podcast, which we're fined up for. It's gonna
be fine. It's exclusive material. In fact, I saw a
tweet from Marcel this morning promoting it, so you know
it's good. And Marcel also said noodles and noodles, so
if that's your food pick, congratulations. All right, have a
great rest, have a great rest of your Friday, enjoy
(33:38):
the NFL playoffs. If you listen to this on Saturday,
or whenever you listen to this, have a great day.
We'll catch you next time later. Skater polic
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