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NFL betting picks and predictions provided today include their best bets for today's two NFC Wild Card games. First up is Bryce Young and the Carolina Panthers, who host Matt Stafford and the favored L.A. Rams in Charlotte. After the sun sets in the Windy City, NFL bettors will enjoy Jordan Love returning from injury for the Green Bay Packers as they look to defeat Caleb Williams and the rival Chicago Bears to advance to the Divisional Round. Who will cover the spread in a coaching matchup of Matt LeFleur against Ben Johnson? Is this chilly game destined for the under?
Moving on to betting picks and predictions for the Sunday slate, we hear our host's opinions on Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills as small road favorites against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Led by red-hot quarterback Trevor Lawrence, will the Jaguars overcome a foreboding trend? The franchise is 0-19 in games with totals higher than 49. With a total climbing north of 51, can coach Liam Coen elevate his team to glory? In the City of Brotherly Love, Jalen Hurts and the reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles square off against Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers at Lincoln Financial Field. With so much interest in the under in that game, is it becoming a sneaky over situation for gamblers?
And on Sunday night, quarterback Justin Herbert leads the L.A. Chargers to Foxboro to take on Drake Maye and the New England Patriots. Coaches Jim Harbaugh and Mike Vrabel are certainly familiar with one another, but who gets the edge? And finally, today's episode wraps up with a breakdown of Monday's game between the Houston Texans and Pittsburgh Steelers, as C.J. Stroud looks to hand Aaron Rodgers a Wild Card defeat in what may be the final game of his career. All their final and official betting picks, all in one fast-paced episode! #Volume
0:03:00 - OREGON VS. INDIANA RECAP
0:09:25 - LOS ANGELES RAMS VS. CAROLINA PANTHERS
0:11:35 - GREEN BAY PACKERS VS. CHICAGO BEARS
0:17:10 - SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS VS. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
0:19:25 - LOS ANGELES CHARGERS VS. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
0:22:05 - HOUSTON TEXANS VS. PITTSBURGH STEELERS
0:27:20 - BUFFALO BILLS VS. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
0:31:10 - OFFICIAL WILD CARD WEEKEND CONTEST PICKS
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Sharper Square, presented by hard Rock Bet.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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This is the show that makes the square sharper, that
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
I am Chad Milman.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I am joined as as buy, my co host, my companion,
my Cabadre, my BFF, professional better Simon Hunter.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hello, Simon, Hey doing Chad. I had a great night.
But obviously let me hear about your great night. First,
everyone's dying and now I know you posted some stuff
to social media and it was very fun following along.
So what went on yesterday with you?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So obviously I'm in a hotel in Atlanta right now,
so I can't scream because it's still early in the
morning on Saturday. Look the whole day in Atlanta yesterday,
it felt like being in Bloomington.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You know, you gotta get him charged up.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
There were no Oregon Ducks fans. It was Hoosiers everywhere,
and I spent the entire day. I told you, I
came down my buddy Matt, And this is a guy
who you know, We've been best friends since second grade.
We've gone to Cubs World Series, We've gone to Bear's
Super Bowls, we've gone to. He went to Indiana with me.
We've been to so many Indiana football and basketball games.
(01:14):
We used to go to Bears games growing up because
his family had season tickets. So like we have been
to a lot of sporting events together. The whole town
was dressed in red. Everywhere you went.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It was just call and response all day, Who who's yours?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Like everywhere people were giddy, absolutely giddy.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And then when you got to the game.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
We saw a guy who we went to college with,
who's from Atlanta, who comes to Falcons games, and he's like,
there is never this kind of electricity in the stadium.
It was truly like being at a home game in Bloomington.
And on that first pick, the DeAndre Pond's interception for
(01:57):
a touchdown, I swear to god, we were levitating like
I have never jumped so high. Again and again and again.
Nobody could feel their feet on the ground. It was
truly glorious, absolutely glorious. Like the buzz in that stadium.
We've talked about like the top five sporting events before.
(02:18):
This was unparalleled because it's your team. Because we had
ridiculous seats. We were ninth row, thirty yard line on
the Indiana sideline and we were, you know, two sections
over from the band, and the whole stadium is in red,
and you're hearing your fight song, which you've sung a
thousand times, and at the end, everyone seventy thousand people
(02:40):
because there are maybe five thousand Ducks fans yelling I you,
and the whole thing just echoes glorious, the greatest communal event.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You could possibly imagine.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And then as soon as the Ducks scored that touchdown,
Matt and I looked at each other and you got
to remember, we went to the Bear's Colt super Bowl
in Miami, and we're sitting next to each other and
Devin Hester runs it back for a touchdown the opening kickoff,
and then the Bears that m losing that game, they
get Peyton Manning whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
We're like, Devin fucking Hester.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But then we get the second touchdown in its relief,
and then the fumble and the third town touchdown in
its disbelief, and like the rest of the game was
truly unbelievable. So now we move on to Miami, who's yours.
It's just truly remarkable, like one of the one of
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the most incredible in person live event experiences I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, from a betting standpoint, it was really fun. Just
you know, once again on the island, everyone's going crazy
about this line going from green half to three. And
I told you I knew some really smart guys waiting
for the threes and it took position, got it. Like
I said, I told you, I took a bunch of
adjusted lines on Indiana. I just I've loved this team,
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you know, not that I had read on it, but
like I've always talked about this Signetti coaching, it's insane.
The defensive stuff was insane. They knew exactly what play
ore was the one. I'm waiting for the spy gage chet.
I'm waiting for the spy gage check because it was
too incredible how well their coach are prepared. But yeah,
for me yesterday it was a crazy day just because
it was my birthday. Thank you, brother. I basically always
(04:22):
do the same thing. I go see a terrible movie.
Some of that. If you have a birthday in January
your whole childhood, you know, there's always terrible action movies
in January. It's the month they come out, So you know,
had a bunch of people are like you want to
come party, you want to go out, you want to
do anything. It was like, no, I'm gonna go see
a terrible movie and then I'll come back, hopefully once
some mone on this Indiana team. So it was a
good night. I saw Primate, horrible movie if anyone's ever
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heard of it. Classic story of family gets monkey, monkey
kills everyone in the house. Yeah, just your standard movie.
But yeah, that that football game really was all timers,
especially not just bettering them because I'm a fan of
you and your friend. It's like, I love this team
and yeah we'll actually we'll talk way more about Oxford
Press on time here. But yeah, that the what is
(05:08):
it ten days now? Nine days until they play the
next one? Was it on a Monday? So yeah, yeah,
time to talk more hugers. But man, what a time
to be a fan of that team.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I posted a couple of things on Twitter at Chad
Millman or on Instagram noman c. You can see some
of the pregame festivities, some of the post game feelings.
It was proud of Indiana, proudu of who's your nation?
They showed up, they traveled, they really did. Now we
got to get to work Simon, and there's some karma
(05:41):
on the agenda that we're gonna have to talk about.
This is Wildcard weekend version of us stripped down in
the room eavesdropping Sharper Square episode. We're gonna try to
nail down our final five picks. A lot of injury news,
a lot of line moves. Reminder, you can see the
dynamic contest lines we are playing at the free Sharper
(06:02):
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me and Simon, Chad and Simon b f f's Chad
Simon BFFs totals and sides in the contest this week.
So these are the games we're zeroing in on. First
one up Los Angeles Rams ten and a half point favorites.
(06:25):
At the Carolina Panthers Adams is playing. It's been holding
at ten and a half. This was Chad's choice. That's
how much I love this Rams team. Is I am
willing to fade a Panthers team in a spot We've
never faded a Panthers team in our history together.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, this is definitely drag you with me. No you cannot,
I'm trying not to let you just because there's just
other games. I'd much prefer on the board for betting
sides here total wise, if you want to do the
under for this game, I'm happy to invest.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
A strong opinion on the under two. Like you know,
the weather in the Southeast right now is pretty terrible.
I'm not even sure I'm getting out of Atlantic because
the tornado warnings.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And honestly that is my only fear about the Rams jet.
If this was good weather, I would be all over
with you, because I think we talked a little bit
about like I had this model out at thirteen, So
I do like the Rams a lot here with the
Monta Adams back and totally see the Panther is not
living up to this moment and kind of landing egg here.
Especially Bryce Shawn. We've seen him just in certain games.
He just told out of it lays eggs and you know,
(07:28):
as much as your big time throws you want to
see he made in that Bucks game last week, he
really only had about a quarter and a half of
good football. So this just feels like a total mismatch
of the unexperience inexperienced you know, Panther team you're playing
against a really legit RAMS team, but it's the weather
that's scaring me here Where some teams I think it's
going to benefit them. We're going to talk about that
(07:50):
coming up, but I don't know the Rams. They've just
been such a pass heavy offense. It's it's going to
be kind interesting if they're going to lean to their
run here. So, like I said, I'm betting with you.
I am actually shocked with it that I am betting
it with you, betting this Rams. But yeah, if I
had to make a pick, I'd rather do the total here.
I know that's not what we're used to here. We
usually just do sides, but I just put the weather included.
(08:12):
I just feel like the safer bet here is the
total in the under Simon.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I have no ego in this our goal five and oho.
If we can't get to a consensus that we love this.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Pick, we'll move on.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
We'll come back.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I love the total too, so I'm happy to play
the total, especially with the weather. We'll get back to it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Green Bay at Chicago under forty four and a half.
We're going to talk about the side in a minute,
but I do want to talk about the total for
a second because all week long. We've been hesitant to
go all in on the Packers, but the total is
something that we have agreed on. We've both played the
under forty four and a half. The weather is supposed
(08:53):
to be rainy in the morning, but it's supposed to
be clear and cold by the time the game kicks off.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, I'm sorry to do this to you, Chad. I
absolutely love the Packers here.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I really we're not talking about that yet.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
What do you want to talk about the totals? Still?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yes, I want to talk about the total. I'm building
up to it.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, I'm on the underwe you nothing's changed. It was
what forty six now it's down to forty five, forty
four and a half. So yeah, I like the under.
It's another game of the weather outdoors. We've talked about it.
Just blandly bet these unders outdoor totals. It's might not
hit this year, but continuously long term they will hit.
It's just a nice bet where people overestimate offense. They
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don't understand the pressure level. And yeah, this game, we
don't know. It might snow, it might rain, whatever it
might be. It's two offenses are gonna think are gonna
be very slow and boring today.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
All right, Matt Mitchell, since you've already got Packers minus
one on the board here, we'll go into the Packer's side.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's really one and a half in most places.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
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Speaker 2 (10:07):
I want a lot, Simon.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I know you like the Packers here, and I just
want to say I'm an a twenty four hour window
here where I just watched Indiana dominate in such a
way that the only comps are Yale from eighteen eighty
five for how well they've been playing.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I saw some stat where.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Like Indiana has won more games by thirty points in
a season while doing something else than any team in
history except for the eighteen eighty five Yale football team.
Yesterday walking into the game, because you know how these
things go. As fans, we're fans at the end of
the day, we're walking to the game, and Matt and I,
who obviously are massive Bears fans as well, we came
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to the conclusion that it's highly unlikely the gods would
I was to go to and O this weekend. We
decided we were willing to sacrifice the Bears because the
Bears are on the upswing, whereas like, who knows when
the Hoosiers can do this again? The college football is fickle, right,
So I have zero expectations the Bears are winning this game.
(11:17):
So if you tell me right now, we got to
put the Packers in it and all of a sudden
one of your favorites, I can't crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Fight you on it.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, I got it. We gotta do it. I'm just
I'm having a lot of these other games I'm wavering
a little bit on, but this one not so much.
If anything, I've gotten more confidence as the week is
going along here, especially with Green Bay. Just talking to
different bookmakers, talking to different people. It's just all Bears money.
They can't stop taking Bears money. And I get it right,
if you're just a normal fan, you're walking in there
(11:48):
and you're seeing the number two seat at home as
a home dog. Now, it's just been never any amount
of money the last four days pouring in on this
Bears team. And you know, one of the sharper books
I know as pop up to two two and a
half on this Packers team. So there's still really really
smart professional money coming on this Backers team even this late,
(12:08):
and I know it's it's lining up though, just like
that yesterday. I mean, I knew there was plenty of
really respected guys I know on the other side of
Indiana right there hammering Oregon. I'm sure they all their
smart reasons end up being a really dumb bet. But
we literally call a sharp trap where it's like these
pros think they're getting a great number. Dude, you're off
by thirty five points. You look like an idiot. So
(12:30):
that's toff in fear here. We've seen this Bears team,
right they don't turn the ball over. If they get turnovers,
they will win. I mean, that is the formula right there.
That's what you do when you have not that talented
of a defense. You protect the ball offensively and you
get turnovers on big swings defensively. But this Packers team,
the fact that they are so healthy and everything I've
read is that this is like the healthiest they've been
(12:51):
in six weeks, so you know, we've seen it time
and time again. They lean into Jacobs in the run game,
and that's that's to be their strength here. And I
really am interested to see what the the Bears have do,
because you know they've played over twice this year. In
both games the Packers dominated those games. So yeah, it's
I gave up the stat It's just really hard to
(13:13):
win first time as a starter, and that's that's working
against Caleb and Hey, miracles do happen. You remember last
year the Bucks, they blew that game against Washington, right,
they just if you say all the time the pressure
gets that big teams tend to mess that up. So
I see a window for this Bears. But I'm telling you,
if they play this game one hundred times, it feels
like sixty sixty five percent of the time Green Bay
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wins this game. So unfortunately the line has flipped. Have
been great if we still had got Green Bay as
a plus one dog. But anything under two to me
is good value here on this Packer side.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I mean, I can accept it.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And the people who are betting and the Bears just
don't know the karma that they're facing right now. Whereas
Indiana and Bears fans that ven diagram, they fully understand it.
San Francisco at Philadelphia the under forty four and a half.
I'm talking about the under because this line has now
pushed up to six. We've been talking about the Eagles
as the side since they were minus three on Sunday.
(14:10):
We talked about it on Tuesday at four and four
and a half. We talked about it again at four
and four and a half. The value in the side
has gone, whereas we still both like the under forty
four and a half San Francisco at Philly. Trem Williams
is confident he'll play for the Niners. Wayne Johnson practice
all week is still questionable, but he has practice for
the first time in nearly two months. Something about Trem
(14:32):
Williams playing actually makes me like the under a little
bit more because it does make the Niners run game
a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, and this number has moved to six here in
Jersey had hard rocks. Yeah, I mean the five and
a half. There's one book left with it. I'm not
going to fight you, Jorder, because obviously I have not
bet the Eagles at the six. I bet every other
number of both the six. So you're writ in theory
like we got burned last year. It might have been
the Rams game, basically covering the entire game in the
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Rams back door, back the door of the six and
a half. So You're probably right in your theory that
the numbers moved too much and just go with the
total like another game. We like the under. I don't
know if it's good that Trent Williams is back in
that effects the total towards the ender, but I also
think he's playing on a bum leg, like he has
not taken any real practice reps. He basically was just
doing light jogging in some field work yesterday on the
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side and he's just to me, it's one of the
toughest guys, right, He's not going to miss this game,
so whatever he needs to get done, he's gonna be
out there. But it's going to be eighty percent of
a real trend Williams. So that ideal for them, facing
an Eagles team that has three guys in the top
eight and pressure rate this season on their defensive line.
So you know, it's like I've talked about all week,
it just feels like a great match with an Eagles
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team that I do not trust their offense at all,
but it just feels like a great, great dominant performance
for them defensively with Vic and people have seen those stats,
right Shane, and I believe he's played him four times.
The most points in his career of Shannon offensive scored
against Vic is like thirteen points. So he's just always
struggled in this matchup and against Vick's defense to wherever
Vick has been. So yeah, Jen still love the Eagles.
(16:07):
Still take a what I had to at the minus six,
But like we were saying here, it's the value shifted
so much, we feel like to say for a bet
here is the under.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Los Angeles Chargers holding strong has three and a half
point underdogs at the New England Patriots. There was a
tweet this morning Matt Mitchell sent along to us that
Bailey Zappi has more wins against teams that are over
five hundred in his career than Drake made us. This
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was our brass balls And there's still sixty percent of
the money or the bats coming in on the Patriots,
and this number has not budged from three and a half.
No one likes fading an MVP candidate, but when he's
playing in his first playoff game, every trend tells you
this is a bad spot to back the favorite, especially
(16:58):
when he's playing a quarterback who has been covering as
a dog consistently.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
So I still love the chargership.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I do too, and I've heard a lot from Patriots
fans that basically a little bit of you know, you
shouldn't be doubting us. It's not our fault whatever schedule. No,
like I've said a million times, no one's blaming them
for playing well to schedule. So that it just feels
like they're unproven and we want to see it before
putting money into it. And like Chad said, we have
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all these trends backing the Chargers versus this Patriots team.
It's just historically not a favorable spot for them. And
you know, if if this was May season five and
he already played three or four playoff games, yes, I
would love the back of here against Herbert Herbert Meltz
in the playoffs. You keep talking about that, but it
feels like it's lined up with Herbert that this is
a favorable matchup form. I know, you know, the injuries
(17:51):
are still hitting this Patriots team. I think it was
a tonguin on their defensive line. Their best D lineman
who's the best against the run, is going to miss
this game. Like they do have guys still out here,
and I think Hampton might actually tough it out and play.
Oh I thought playing Yeah, tough, tough son of a
bitch like he was living in a walking boot three
days ago. So we know the weakness of this Charger's team.
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We're gonna live and die with it. It's this offensive line.
If Herbert's getting torched, Rabel's got the right game plan,
we'll get burned here. But me and chatter suckers for
these step of numbers, we loved it right away, suckers.
If anything, it gives us even more confident. Like you're
saying here, it doesn't budget at all despite all this
money coming on this Patriers team. A couple of books
did touch four but immediately went back down. So you know,
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like we always talked about this. So late Sunday game,
we'll see if the public absolutely gets crushed and they're
chasing pretty heavy, maybe they come in heavier on the
page so when you get some force popping. But I
have no issue grabbing the three and a half still now,
I like, I'm looking at it right now. Some books
are starting to juice it up. You're starting to get
minus one fifteen minus one eighteen's on it, so you
can still get the one zero five's, the minus one
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tens on the minus three and a half, I would
grab it now, or plus three and a half of
the Chargers, I would grab it now.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Diamond stays.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
This week was the Pittsburgh Steelers plus three and a
half hosting the Houston Texans. This line is down to three,
could get down to two and a half. It's juiced
in a direction where it could get down to two
and a half. We both loved it three and a half.
You talked about still liking it at three. I don't
(19:23):
really have any reason to back away from this game.
I think the Steelers win this game out right.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, and I'm not going to I want to say
sometimes we're in through the Jags and Bills a little bit,
but this one, I just really quickly. I'm right there
with you. This is a no brainer, even if it's
two and a half for our contest, obviously the ideal,
but that's how much I believe in the Steelers team.
I would take it if we had to it if
it's two and a half, but I'm hoping we still
get the hook of three and a half.
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that Matt Mitchell's confidence is greater than Chrit Signetti when
he is on the sideline thirty yards away from anybody
else on his own sideline while watching, I'm really.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Not thinking about the next game.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm thinking about cracking open up beer.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, we talked about, I've mainly put most of my
investment into the over here in the Jacks first half,
and if I'm not going to take a position on
Buffalo now and I'm just gonna stick with the jack
especially now the Lin's flipping. They're still like one or
two big books out there with plus one and a half.
But like you said, hard Rock, especially here in Jersey,
they flipped. Now they're minus one on this Jacks team.
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So I just can't wait for this game. It's I mean,
all these games are great, but this to me is
the best. Like this feels like this has real ramifications
for the AFC that could potentially make a big run.
And you know it's the old uh what's gonna ben
or break? Here is the run game of this Jackson,
who hasn't given up a seventy five yard rusher all season,
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gonna go against the number one rushing offense in all football.
And who's gonna win that? Right? Is Joe Brady gonna
have this offense in the scheme in the right mind
set to run over the Jags team that you can say,
well who they faced. They played Jonathan Taylor twice a year,
Like what are we doing here like they've faced plenty
of good running backs this season. Don't act like they've
just had a cake walk. This Shags run defense, So
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that's what I can't wait to see. And you know,
the the Josh Allen haters, Chad, they are dying for
him to lose this game. They've already lined up. There
is no excuse because these other quarterbacks have been knocked out,
as if that has any effect on Josh Allen's legacy.
But I think this is the game that's gonna show
up that it matters having a number one receiver. And
I'm really to to see how the Jags react because
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they got some great receivers on their side, and that's
why I'm taking the over here. It's just it feels
like it's gonna be a game, but they'renna get up
early and Josh Allen's got to pull the miracles, try
to pull from behind. So yeah, I like the Jags
first half. Obviously like the total and the over. It's
the only over I bet. And it's also come down
as well because it's I think they're supposed to get
bad weather as well, So another game where you know,
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could be really sloppy playing conditions. Which team will that favor?
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So let's think about this for a second, because heading
into today, we like the Rams as a side and
we like the Bears as a total. It sounds like
we might want to flip those and go Rams under
forty five and a half and Packers minus one and
a half. And in addition to I think Eagles under
(25:23):
forty four and a half, Chargers plus three and a
half Steelers in the contest, we can get them at three.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And a half.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Even if you switch out the other ones, you can
still go three and a half.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, as of this morning.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, So again, if you if you really believe in
the Rams, I bet it. I will support it if
I mean, I know it's your play this week. I
got no issue with it. But yeah, for my one
switch and I'll throw my hat on the ring on
that Green Bay side.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
All right.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Then here's what we're gonna do. We're keeping the Rams
Rams minus ten and a half, okay, I want to
keep them, and we'll take out the Packers under them.
We'll put in Packers minus one and a half. So
our final five.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Are going to be the Packers. It's minus two and
a half in the contest.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, peeesh, I mean, I guess we'll do it. If
I get burned. If it lands on two, I'm gonna
feel like such an idiot.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Well, I'm taking the Rams at minus ten and a half.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I'm gonna feel like an idiot too, Packers minus two
and a half, Rams minus ten and a half, Chargers
plus three and a half, Steelers plus three and a half,
and the Eagles Niners under forty four and a half.
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Speaker 3 (27:15):
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It's playoff time.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is the show that makes the square sharper, that
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
I am Chad Milman.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I am joined as as buy, my co host, my companion,
my Cabadre, my BFF, professional better Simon Hunter.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hello, Simon, Hey doing Chad. I had a great night.
But obviously let me hear about your great night. First,
everyone's dying and now I know you posted some stuff
to social media and it was very fun following along.
So what went on yesterday with you?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
So obviously I'm in a hotel in Atlanta right now,
so I can't scream because it's still early in the
morning on Saturday. Look the whole day in Atlanta yesterday,
it felt like being in Bloomington.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
You know, you gotta get him charged up.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
There were no Oregon Ducks fans. It was Hoosiers everywhere,
and I spent the entire day. I told you, I
came down my buddy Matt, And this is a guy
who you know, We've been best friends since second grade.
We've gone to Cubs World Series, We've gone to Bear's
Super Bowls, we've gone to. He went to Indiana with me.
We've been to so many Indiana football and basketball games.
(01:14):
We used to go to Bears games growing up because
his family had season tickets. So like we have been
to a lot of sporting events together. The whole town
was dressed in red. Everywhere you went.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It was just call and response all day, Who who's yours?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Like everywhere people were giddy, absolutely giddy.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And then when you got to the game.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
We saw a guy who we went to college with,
who's from Atlanta, who comes to Falcons games, and he's like,
there is never this kind of electricity in the stadium.
It was truly like being at a home game in Bloomington.
And on that first pick, the DeAndre Pond's interception for
(01:57):
a touchdown, I swear to god, we were levitating like
I have never jumped so high. Again and again and again.
Nobody could feel their feet on the ground. It was
truly glorious, absolutely glorious. Like the buzz in that stadium.
We've talked about like the top five sporting events before.
(02:18):
This was unparalleled because it's your team. Because we had
ridiculous seats. We were ninth row, thirty yard line on
the Indiana sideline and we were, you know, two sections
over from the band, and the whole stadium is in red,
and you're hearing your fight song, which you've sung a
thousand times, and at the end, everyone seventy thousand people
(02:40):
because there are maybe five thousand Ducks fans yelling I you,
and the whole thing just echoes glorious, the greatest communal event.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You could possibly imagine.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
And then as soon as the Ducks scored that touchdown,
Matt and I looked at each other and you got
to remember, we went to the Bear's Colt super Bowl
in Miami, and we're sitting next to each other and
Devin Hester runs it back for a touchdown the opening kickoff,
and then the Bears that m losing that game, they
get Peyton Manning whatever.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
We're like, Devin fucking Hester.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
But then we get the second touchdown in its relief,
and then the fumble and the third town touchdown in
its disbelief, and like the rest of the game was
truly unbelievable. So now we move on to Miami, who's yours.
It's just truly remarkable, like one of the one of
(03:33):
the most incredible in person live event experiences I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, from a betting standpoint, it was really fun. Just
you know, once again on the island, everyone's going crazy
about this line going from green half to three. And
I told you I knew some really smart guys waiting
for the threes and it took position, got it. Like
I said, I told you, I took a bunch of
adjusted lines on Indiana. I just I've loved this team,
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you know, not that I had read on it, but
like I've always talked about this Signetti coaching, it's insane.
The defensive stuff was insane. They knew exactly what play
ore was the one. I'm waiting for the spy gage chet.
I'm waiting for the spy gage check because it was
too incredible how well their coach are prepared. But yeah,
for me yesterday it was a crazy day just because
it was my birthday. Thank you, brother. I basically always
(04:22):
do the same thing. I go see a terrible movie.
Some of that. If you have a birthday in January
your whole childhood, you know, there's always terrible action movies
in January. It's the month they come out, So you know,
had a bunch of people are like you want to
come party, you want to go out, you want to
do anything. It was like, no, I'm gonna go see
a terrible movie and then I'll come back, hopefully once
some mone on this Indiana team. So it was a
good night. I saw Primate, horrible movie if anyone's ever
(04:45):
heard of it. Classic story of family gets monkey, monkey
kills everyone in the house. Yeah, just your standard movie.
But yeah, that that football game really was all timers,
especially not just bettering them because I'm a fan of
you and your friend. It's like, I love this team
and yeah we'll actually we'll talk way more about Oxford
Press on time here. But yeah, that the what is
(05:08):
it ten days now? Nine days until they play the
next one? Was it on a Monday? So yeah, yeah,
time to talk more hugers. But man, what a time
to be a fan of that team.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I posted a couple of things on Twitter at Chad
Millman or on Instagram noman c. You can see some
of the pregame festivities, some of the post game feelings.
It was proud of Indiana, proudu of who's your nation?
They showed up, they traveled, they really did. Now we
got to get to work Simon, and there's some karma
(05:41):
on the agenda that we're gonna have to talk about.
This is Wildcard weekend version of us stripped down in
the room eavesdropping Sharper Square episode. We're gonna try to
nail down our final five picks. A lot of injury news,
a lot of line moves. Reminder, you can see the
dynamic contest lines we are playing at the free Sharper
(06:02):
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me and Simon, Chad and Simon b f f's Chad
Simon BFFs totals and sides in the contest this week.
So these are the games we're zeroing in on. First
one up Los Angeles Rams ten and a half point favorites.
(06:25):
At the Carolina Panthers Adams is playing. It's been holding
at ten and a half. This was Chad's choice. That's
how much I love this Rams team. Is I am
willing to fade a Panthers team in a spot We've
never faded a Panthers team in our history together.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Yeah, this is definitely drag you with me. No you cannot,
I'm trying not to let you just because there's just
other games. I'd much prefer on the board for betting
sides here total wise, if you want to do the
under for this game, I'm happy to invest.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
A strong opinion on the under two. Like you know,
the weather in the Southeast right now is pretty terrible.
I'm not even sure I'm getting out of Atlantic because
the tornado warnings.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And honestly that is my only fear about the Rams jet.
If this was good weather, I would be all over
with you, because I think we talked a little bit
about like I had this model out at thirteen, So
I do like the Rams a lot here with the
Monta Adams back and totally see the Panther is not
living up to this moment and kind of landing egg here.
Especially Bryce Shawn. We've seen him just in certain games.
He just told out of it lays eggs and you know,
(07:28):
as much as your big time throws you want to
see he made in that Bucks game last week, he
really only had about a quarter and a half of
good football. So this just feels like a total mismatch
of the unexperience inexperienced you know, Panther team you're playing
against a really legit RAMS team, but it's the weather
that's scaring me here Where some teams I think it's
going to benefit them. We're going to talk about that
(07:50):
coming up, but I don't know the Rams. They've just
been such a pass heavy offense. It's it's going to
be kind interesting if they're going to lean to their
run here. So, like I said, I'm betting with you.
I am actually shocked with it that I am betting
it with you, betting this Rams. But yeah, if I
had to make a pick, I'd rather do the total here.
I know that's not what we're used to here. We
usually just do sides, but I just put the weather included.
(08:12):
I just feel like the safer bet here is the
total in the under Simon.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I have no ego in this our goal five and oho.
If we can't get to a consensus that we love this.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Pick, we'll move on.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
We'll come back.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I love the total too, so I'm happy to play
the total, especially with the weather. We'll get back to it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Green Bay at Chicago under forty four and a half.
We're going to talk about the side in a minute,
but I do want to talk about the total for
a second because all week long. We've been hesitant to
go all in on the Packers, but the total is
something that we have agreed on. We've both played the
under forty four and a half. The weather is supposed
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to be rainy in the morning, but it's supposed to
be clear and cold by the time the game kicks off.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, I'm sorry to do this to you, Chad. I
absolutely love the Packers here.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I really we're not talking about that yet.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
What do you want to talk about the totals? Still?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yes, I want to talk about the total. I'm building
up to it.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Well, I'm on the underwe you nothing's changed. It was
what forty six now it's down to forty five, forty
four and a half. So yeah, I like the under.
It's another game of the weather outdoors. We've talked about it.
Just blandly bet these unders outdoor totals. It's might not
hit this year, but continuously long term they will hit.
It's just a nice bet where people overestimate offense. They
(09:35):
don't understand the pressure level. And yeah, this game, we
don't know. It might snow, it might rain, whatever it
might be. It's two offenses are gonna think are gonna
be very slow and boring today.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
All right, Matt Mitchell, since you've already got Packers minus
one on the board here, we'll go into the Packer's side.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's really one and a half in most places.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
This is going to be our Rock and a Hard
Plays Bet of the Week presented by Hard Rock Bett.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I want a lot, Simon.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I know you like the Packers here, and I just
want to say I'm an a twenty four hour window
here where I just watched Indiana dominate in such a
way that the only comps are Yale from eighteen eighty
five for how well they've been playing.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I saw some stat where.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Like Indiana has won more games by thirty points in
a season while doing something else than any team in
history except for the eighteen eighty five Yale football team.
Yesterday walking into the game, because you know how these
things go. As fans, we're fans at the end of
the day, we're walking to the game, and Matt and I,
who obviously are massive Bears fans as well, we came
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to the conclusion that it's highly unlikely the gods would
I was to go to and O this weekend. We
decided we were willing to sacrifice the Bears because the
Bears are on the upswing, whereas like, who knows when
the Hoosiers can do this again? The college football is fickle, right,
So I have zero expectations the Bears are winning this game.
(11:17):
So if you tell me right now, we got to
put the Packers in it and all of a sudden
one of your favorites, I can't crazy.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Fight you on it.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah, I got it. We gotta do it. I'm just
I'm having a lot of these other games I'm wavering
a little bit on, but this one not so much.
If anything, I've gotten more confidence as the week is
going along here, especially with Green Bay. Just talking to
different bookmakers, talking to different people. It's just all Bears money.
They can't stop taking Bears money. And I get it right,
if you're just a normal fan, you're walking in there
(11:48):
and you're seeing the number two seat at home as
a home dog. Now, it's just been never any amount
of money the last four days pouring in on this
Bears team. And you know, one of the sharper books
I know as pop up to two two and a
half on this Packers team. So there's still really really
smart professional money coming on this Backers team even this late,
(12:08):
and I know it's it's lining up though, just like
that yesterday. I mean, I knew there was plenty of
really respected guys I know on the other side of
Indiana right there hammering Oregon. I'm sure they all their
smart reasons end up being a really dumb bet. But
we literally call a sharp trap where it's like these
pros think they're getting a great number. Dude, you're off
by thirty five points. You look like an idiot. So
(12:30):
that's toff in fear here. We've seen this Bears team,
right they don't turn the ball over. If they get turnovers,
they will win. I mean, that is the formula right there.
That's what you do when you have not that talented
of a defense. You protect the ball offensively and you
get turnovers on big swings defensively. But this Packers team,
the fact that they are so healthy and everything I've
read is that this is like the healthiest they've been
(12:51):
in six weeks, so you know, we've seen it time
and time again. They lean into Jacobs in the run game,
and that's that's to be their strength here. And I
really am interested to see what the the Bears have do,
because you know they've played over twice this year. In
both games the Packers dominated those games. So yeah, it's
I gave up the stat It's just really hard to
(13:13):
win first time as a starter, and that's that's working
against Caleb and Hey, miracles do happen. You remember last
year the Bucks, they blew that game against Washington, right,
they just if you say all the time the pressure
gets that big teams tend to mess that up. So
I see a window for this Bears. But I'm telling you,
if they play this game one hundred times, it feels
like sixty sixty five percent of the time Green Bay
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wins this game. So unfortunately the line has flipped. Have
been great if we still had got Green Bay as
a plus one dog. But anything under two to me
is good value here on this Packer side.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I mean, I can accept it.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
And the people who are betting and the Bears just
don't know the karma that they're facing right now. Whereas
Indiana and Bears fans that ven diagram, they fully understand it.
San Francisco at Philadelphia the under forty four and a half.
I'm talking about the under because this line has now
pushed up to six. We've been talking about the Eagles
as the side since they were minus three on Sunday.
(14:10):
We talked about it on Tuesday at four and four
and a half. We talked about it again at four
and four and a half. The value in the side
has gone, whereas we still both like the under forty
four and a half San Francisco at Philly. Trem Williams
is confident he'll play for the Niners. Wayne Johnson practice
all week is still questionable, but he has practice for
the first time in nearly two months. Something about Trem
(14:32):
Williams playing actually makes me like the under a little
bit more because it does make the Niners run game
a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Yeah, and this number has moved to six here in
Jersey had hard rocks. Yeah, I mean the five and
a half. There's one book left with it. I'm not
going to fight you, Jorder, because obviously I have not
bet the Eagles at the six. I bet every other
number of both the six. So you're writ in theory
like we got burned last year. It might have been
the Rams game, basically covering the entire game in the
(15:02):
Rams back door, back the door of the six and
a half. So You're probably right in your theory that
the numbers moved too much and just go with the
total like another game. We like the under. I don't
know if it's good that Trent Williams is back in
that effects the total towards the ender, but I also
think he's playing on a bum leg, like he has
not taken any real practice reps. He basically was just
doing light jogging in some field work yesterday on the
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side and he's just to me, it's one of the
toughest guys, right, He's not going to miss this game,
so whatever he needs to get done, he's gonna be
out there. But it's going to be eighty percent of
a real trend Williams. So that ideal for them, facing
an Eagles team that has three guys in the top
eight and pressure rate this season on their defensive line.
So you know, it's like I've talked about all week,
it just feels like a great match with an Eagles
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team that I do not trust their offense at all,
but it just feels like a great, great dominant performance
for them defensively with Vic and people have seen those stats,
right Shane, and I believe he's played him four times.
The most points in his career of Shannon offensive scored
against Vic is like thirteen points. So he's just always
struggled in this matchup and against Vick's defense to wherever
Vick has been. So yeah, Jen still love the Eagles.
(16:07):
Still take a what I had to at the minus six,
But like we were saying here, it's the value shifted
so much, we feel like to say for a bet
here is the under.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Los Angeles Chargers holding strong has three and a half
point underdogs at the New England Patriots. There was a
tweet this morning Matt Mitchell sent along to us that
Bailey Zappi has more wins against teams that are over
five hundred in his career than Drake made us. This
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was our brass balls And there's still sixty percent of
the money or the bats coming in on the Patriots,
and this number has not budged from three and a half.
No one likes fading an MVP candidate, but when he's
playing in his first playoff game, every trend tells you
this is a bad spot to back the favorite, especially
(16:58):
when he's playing a quarterback who has been covering as
a dog consistently.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
So I still love the chargership.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I do too, and I've heard a lot from Patriots
fans that basically a little bit of you know, you
shouldn't be doubting us. It's not our fault whatever schedule. No,
like I've said a million times, no one's blaming them
for playing well to schedule. So that it just feels
like they're unproven and we want to see it before
putting money into it. And like Chad said, we have
(17:28):
all these trends backing the Chargers versus this Patriots team.
It's just historically not a favorable spot for them. And
you know, if if this was May season five and
he already played three or four playoff games, yes, I
would love the back of here against Herbert Herbert Meltz
in the playoffs. You keep talking about that, but it
feels like it's lined up with Herbert that this is
a favorable matchup form. I know, you know, the injuries
(17:51):
are still hitting this Patriots team. I think it was
a tonguin on their defensive line. Their best D lineman
who's the best against the run, is going to miss
this game. Like they do have guys still out here,
and I think Hampton might actually tough it out and play.
Oh I thought playing Yeah, tough, tough son of a
bitch like he was living in a walking boot three
days ago. So we know the weakness of this Charger's team.
(18:12):
We're gonna live and die with it. It's this offensive line.
If Herbert's getting torched, Rabel's got the right game plan,
we'll get burned here. But me and chatter suckers for
these step of numbers, we loved it right away, suckers.
If anything, it gives us even more confident. Like you're
saying here, it doesn't budget at all despite all this
money coming on this Patriers team. A couple of books
did touch four but immediately went back down. So you know,
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like we always talked about this. So late Sunday game,
we'll see if the public absolutely gets crushed and they're
chasing pretty heavy, maybe they come in heavier on the
page so when you get some force popping. But I
have no issue grabbing the three and a half still now,
I like, I'm looking at it right now. Some books
are starting to juice it up. You're starting to get
minus one fifteen minus one eighteen's on it, so you
can still get the one zero five's, the minus one
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tens on the minus three and a half, I would
grab it now, or plus three and a half of
the Chargers, I would grab it now.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Diamond stays.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
This week was the Pittsburgh Steelers plus three and a
half hosting the Houston Texans. This line is down to three,
could get down to two and a half. It's juiced
in a direction where it could get down to two
and a half. We both loved it three and a half.
You talked about still liking it at three. I don't
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really have any reason to back away from this game.
I think the Steelers win this game out right.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah, and I'm not going to I want to say
sometimes we're in through the Jags and Bills a little bit,
but this one, I just really quickly. I'm right there
with you. This is a no brainer, even if it's
two and a half for our contest, obviously the ideal,
but that's how much I believe in the Steelers team.
I would take it if we had to it if
it's two and a half, but I'm hoping we still
get the hook of three and a half.
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and Virginia. Let's get to the other game that had
been sort of in that one and a half to
(21:53):
one and a half range on either side. The Bills
have basically been favorites all week. They are now trending
to being pickam. It's minus one at hard Rock bet
against Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
You said that you'd bet the plus one and a
half in either side.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
It starts in the NFL and they grasped the high
stakes game of a wild card party. Jack's race for
a playoff battle with the Bills. The Bills represent pro
football's establishment and have mastered the game, will survive and advanced,
But the Brown Corp of Buffalo's reign is showing his age.
Can they summon up the staminough for one more run?
(22:36):
It's the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Buffalo Bills AFC Wild
Guard Playoff.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Where are you feeling right now about this side? Knowing
that Matt Mitchell's confidence is greater than Chrit Signetti when
he is on the sideline thirty yards away from anybody
else on his own sideline while watching, I'm really.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Not thinking about the next game.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm thinking about cracking open up beer.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Yeah, we talked about, I've mainly put most of my
investment into the over here in the Jacks first half,
and if I'm not going to take a position on
Buffalo now and I'm just gonna stick with the jack
especially now the Lin's flipping. They're still like one or
two big books out there with plus one and a half.
But like you said, hard Rock, especially here in Jersey,
they flipped. Now they're minus one on this Jacks team.
(23:28):
So I just can't wait for this game. It's I mean,
all these games are great, but this to me is
the best. Like this feels like this has real ramifications
for the AFC that could potentially make a big run.
And you know it's the old uh what's gonna ben
or break? Here is the run game of this Jackson,
who hasn't given up a seventy five yard rusher all season,
(23:51):
gonna go against the number one rushing offense in all football.
And who's gonna win that? Right? Is Joe Brady gonna
have this offense in the scheme in the right mind
set to run over the Jags team that you can say,
well who they faced. They played Jonathan Taylor twice a year,
Like what are we doing here like they've faced plenty
of good running backs this season. Don't act like they've
just had a cake walk. This Shags run defense, So
(24:12):
that's what I can't wait to see. And you know,
the the Josh Allen haters, Chad, they are dying for
him to lose this game. They've already lined up. There
is no excuse because these other quarterbacks have been knocked out,
as if that has any effect on Josh Allen's legacy.
But I think this is the game that's gonna show
up that it matters having a number one receiver. And
I'm really to to see how the Jags react because
(24:34):
they got some great receivers on their side, and that's
why I'm taking the over here. It's just it feels
like it's gonna be a game, but they'renna get up
early and Josh Allen's got to pull the miracles, try
to pull from behind. So yeah, I like the Jags
first half. Obviously like the total and the over. It's
the only over I bet. And it's also come down
as well because it's I think they're supposed to get
bad weather as well, So another game where you know,
(24:56):
could be really sloppy playing conditions. Which team will that favor?
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
So let's think about this for a second, because heading
into today, we like the Rams as a side and
we like the Bears as a total. It sounds like
we might want to flip those and go Rams under
forty five and a half and Packers minus one and
a half. And in addition to I think Eagles under
(25:23):
forty four and a half, Chargers plus three and a
half Steelers in the contest, we can get them at three.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And a half.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Even if you switch out the other ones, you can
still go three and a half.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, as of this morning.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yeah, So again, if you if you really believe in
the Rams, I bet it. I will support it if
I mean, I know it's your play this week. I
got no issue with it. But yeah, for my one
switch and I'll throw my hat on the ring on
that Green Bay side.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
All right.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Then here's what we're gonna do. We're keeping the Rams
Rams minus ten and a half, okay, I want to
keep them, and we'll take out the Packers under them.
We'll put in Packers minus one and a half. So
our final five.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Are going to be the Packers. It's minus two and
a half in the contest.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, peeesh, I mean, I guess we'll do it. If
I get burned. If it lands on two, I'm gonna
feel like such an idiot.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Well, I'm taking the Rams at minus ten and a half.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I'm gonna feel like an idiot too, Packers minus two
and a half, Rams minus ten and a half, Chargers
plus three and a half, Steelers plus three and a half,
and the Eagles Niners under forty four and a half.
All right, brother, this has been Sharper Square, part of
the Volume podcast network. We'll be back on Sharper Square
(26:46):
on Monday night before the Steelers Texans game. We're gonna
review what happened over the weekend and preview that game.
See where we land. We will be putting that in
the contest, so we'll have some outstanding business to attend.
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Speaker 3 (27:15):
Fasten your seat belts.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
It's playoff time.
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