September 21, 2025 • 41 mins
It was a special teams kind of day with blocked kicks, kickoff returns and so much more. As the wild Week 3 Sunday slate comes to an end, our trio of Stuckey, Kendra Middleton and Brandon Kravitz are back to discuss another compelling day of NFL football. Together they get into their biggest wins, worst losses, and keep an eye on what's to come in the NFL with some early lines for next week.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Sunday in week three is wrapping up.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to the Favorites.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I am your host, Brandon Kravitz, joined by my fellow
capadres Kendrew Middleton, and the Prime Minister himself, Stucky is
with us. We have a lot to discuss. The Colts
look legit, the Packers. They're drive to the super Bowl,
perhaps as a flat tire after losing to the Cleveland
Browns and the Rams plus three. My god, bless your heart,
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you poor poor soul. If you were sitting on that
ticket me, uh yeah, Stucky, let's start right there, good lord,
I mean that was painful.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
They were driving to win the game.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And even if they missed the kick, if you were
sitting on the plus three, it would have sucked for
our three musketeers parlay, which once again got ripped to
shreds because we took the money line and we had
a bear, we had a Rams win.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Sitting right there.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
They were up twenty six to seven at one point
in this game before getting out scored by twenty six
in the second half. Walk me through your feelings in
the moment as they don't just miss the kick, it's blocked,
and then Jordan Davis unnecessarily runs it all the way
down the field and scores a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, of course, the ball is like sitting perfectly right
there and he takes it all the way back. I mean, yeah,
fucking sucked. There's no two words about. It's a gutpoint,
you know. I mean, like, you don't even think about
that happening. And I've been betting for twenty years. I've
had countless bad beats just like that. I had Washington
plus seven against the Eagles like seven years ago, when
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Carson Wentz was the quarterback for the Eagles and Washington
stepped out of bounds with one second to go at midfield,
and then the next play they were down four to
the next play, they fumble it gets bounces right new
Eagles hands, and he runs it fifty yards for a
touchdown and they win by ten or eleven. So I've
seen it all. It was awful. Not only were they up,
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they were up twenty six to seven. They had they
had two field goals blocked in the fourth quarter. When
you have, what is this a high school team? Two
field goals blocked, by the way, the last one there
was leverage on it. Broncos fan should be pissed and
after and they were. They were covering for forty minutes
and nine seconds, however long it took uh Davis to
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they would cover the entire game and then plus whatever
seconds it took for Davis to run. I mean, will
probably be the worst beat of the NFL year. I
gotta have one a week. Apparently it was awful. But
I will say the one thing I'm most mad about
is the NFL. One of the reasons I love I
like this game is I said, there's gonna be a
touch push in this game where the Eagles false start
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as they do every time, and they're gonna call it
because they came out and they said, we're gonna we're
gonna officiate it closer. They went on the whole You
could the whole world could see it. They went off
false started. It was one of the clearest ones that's
ever happened. On a fourth and one would have been
a field goal. Nope, they don't call it. And then
the Eagles get a touch on that was four f
three points literally four three points that they gave the Eagles,
which obviously ended up mattering. But they had twenty two
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yard thirty three yards at the half and you're down
twenty six to seven and there one there. One touchdown
came from a gift is gift wrap on a push
push and then the the interception before then absolutely outrageous
and the Rams at least they called it on the Saints.
The poor old Saints get the push pushed false star
on them and they're down thirty.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Good job should have been up by like thirty in
the first half. They kept settling for field goals and
they still had that big lead. This from our production staff.
The Rams led by nineteen points, were plus three and
a half entering the game. Teams that have led by
nineteen or more is three and a half point dogs
one eighty five and five against the spread the last
twenty years entering today one eighty five and five and
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uh and now we have we've added another l to
that list. Ken, it was awful your your thoughts on
the on the situation.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I just was more shocked. I just haven't seen I
agree with Stucky's point that I don't think I've we're
seeing anything like that outside of a high school game.
I kind of had checked out for a minute because
I was like, Okay, Wow, the Rams really moving up
on my list of you know teams that I'm really
in on right now. And I guess I should never
count the Eagles out. Never count the Eagles out. They're
super Bowl champions, they deserve the respect. But AJ Brown's
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coming out game for the season happened today, just chaos.
I guess also too, Like, while I did kind of
move the Rams up, I still think that they deserve
their flowers for how they played. They should not have
let them come back in the second half the way
that they did. But also, you can't put up zero
points in a fourth quarter against a Super Bowl champion
and expect to walk out of there with a win
no matter how many points you're up by.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I don't need to win. I just needed to cover
that was Yeah, it was It's sung, but whatever. You
gotta have a short term memory betting the NFL. Those
are gonna happen. It was nice to having that happen
after the Kelsey drop the week before against the Eagles.
But it is what it is. There's miss there's miss kicks.
By the way, I'm now banned it push. I was like, not,
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I was team, don't ban plays. I'm not if you're
not gonna call if you're not gonna I mean, if
you're if you say you're gonna officiate it closely, and
then the next week the very next push push you
see for this team, they fall start and you don't
call it ban it. It's just it's outrageous. There's no
way to stop it if the guards are shooting out
like that. But or you could just officiate it, right
but if if they can, if they're too incompetent, then
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just ban it.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
But the blockfoil hat in the drawer.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
No, I'm just saying, if they can't officiate it, they
should have a breath hanging from a cord or something
up top. That's like, if they that they can't figure
that out, then whatever, then just then just ban it.
But I don't know what was with all the field
goal blocks today. You had the Browns coming back against
the Packers, the Jets uh get a return on a
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block a field goal, and then the Tampa Bay Locks
obviously go down the field and score to win another
game by two. But that was the field goals We're
crazy today? And then we just two more game winners
at the at the bell crazy day of field goals.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, we had dick Er the kicker.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I was on the on the Broncos plus two and
a half, lost by half a point. Because of that,
Mac Jones gets a walk off. They beat the Arizona
Cardinals that was down to essentially a pick them there
by kickoff between those two. How about these fraudulent Falcons,
Ladies and gentlemen, Can we talk about them for a second.
I'm starting to make my list of teams. There's so
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much to bet on every single week. I like to
try and shrink my board. I did a horrible job
of that today.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But it's still early.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
We're in the first month of the season, so I'm
not going to be too hard on myself for having
way too many bets in the Action app. But as
we start to progress, there are certain teams that are
just hands off for me. The Atlanta Falcons are going
to start to enter into that range. And I was
not on this game at all, but Pennix is ass
I think, oh my god, and the Carolina Panthers had
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two hundred and twenty four yards of offense.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They didn't even do anything.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Sad Cats one hundred yards and lost by and lost
thirty nothing. Uh yeah, ridiculous. But I wouldn't say they're ass.
I still I still like the fat It's one week.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
You can't over react to shut out by the fucking
Panthers is crazy, big dog, They're on the no backboard.
You cannot get shut out by the motherfucking Panthers. Anybody
to respect you.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Teams off a shutout, By the way, I always like
the best teams off a shut I mean, look, last
week they dominated the Vikings. Everyone's like, all the Vikings
are terrible, and then the Vikings win forty eight. This
is just the NFL. There's just weeks that teams are
gonna look like this. Are the Packers now asked the
Browns are good? Now? This is just this is just
what happens in the NFL. The Packers need to get
their offensive line healthy. By the way, I think Tom
played one snap and then I think Banks went out
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and they they're the Browns defensive line for a third
straight week, completely dominated the game anything.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And that's the thing with the Browns. You know, I
know you were on Cleveland. Good for you. I sat
that game out, but Cleveland was clearly the right side. Mean,
not only did they cover, they won the damn game,
but they have an elite unit. They have one of
the best defensive lines in football right now. They're the
most dominant defensive line in the NFL. They would have
won that game by double digits if their offense had
any sort of a pulse.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Those are the kind of teams.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
That I can back bad teams, but I can't back
bad teams that that have quarterback play that's gonna hold
them back and don't have enough identifiable qualities that I
feel like I can make money off of you. And
that's where that's where Atlanta falls a little short for me.
You give up thirty to the Carolina Panthers and your
Michael Pennix looks terrible. He can't move, he's not accurate,
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he's throwing pick sixes. That's the kind of guy that
I'm I'm just just cross him off my list.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Throw the Raiders on there.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You're gonna cross off every team by the end of
the year. If you do this at.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Six, well, I can can I at least put them
in time out? You know?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah? You can definitely put teams in bet jail. Bet
jail is a real joke.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I'll be betting them next week against Washington at home.
Catching I don't know three plus the Yeah, like it
was just a bad game, bad divisional game. They came out,
they were in a daze, like games like this just happened.
Speaking of a date, there were some weird games today.
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Your thoughts on the Jags kinda? The Jags game was
super bizarre.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
The Jags game was really weird. I don't even know
how to feel about this team. The Drops are beyond
out of control. I was about to lose my shit
about BTJ until he had that big catch in the
fourth quarter. I don't know how to feel about this team.
The defense is incredible. I really like the defense. Josh
I hate calling him Josh heines Allen because it just
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feels yucky, but I guess he's Josh heines Allen now.
He was lights out today. I just the offense really
concerns me. The Drops are getting out of control. Finally,
finally a win against the Texans at home whatever, I'll
take it. Disgusting game. I'm not happy about it, but
a wins a win, whatever. Tomorrow's victory Monday. The offense
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needs to get their shit together. I can't. I can't
live like this week to week. It's going to give
me a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
What are they doing with Travis Hunter. I think he's.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Sad, so I kind of freaked out when Diana Rossini
was like talking shit about him this week on the internet.
But I just don't think that he's good. He can't
play both ways. I think that you should just stick
to defense and call it a day. Like there. I
think that they're expecting too much out of him. Obviously,
he's a new dad, probably exhausted. Whatever, stick to defense.
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I wanted them, no, it's a boy. I wanted them
to take armand Membu trade back, take Membo. I hated
that they traded up, gave up the picks that they did. Whatever,
he's exciting, he's a cool kid. Whatever. Didn't like the pick.
I just I think he's doing too much and it's
stressing him out.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Thirty seven snaps on all offense, forty three on defense.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He had one catch in this match.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I think that they're making a their number the number
two overall pick Okay at wide receiver and Okay at dB,
and he's.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Having a mid off for both sides of the ball.
Hick a lane, stay there. This is why people don't
do this in the NFL. I don't care how athletic
you are, you have a ceiling at one position. Just
get over it. Give it up. This isn't college football. Please,
for the love of God, line up on defense and
call it a day.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Stucky. Why is why are the Texans broken offensively?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
They can't score their offensive line stakes again, they didn't
address it. Their offensive coordinator was supposed to be better,
but they're not doing anything really new schematically to try
and compensate for some of their efficiency. So it's it's
a mess. Uh there. I can't see them making the
playoffs with this with his roster. The offense is just
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too broken and the division is better overall.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Old AFC baby Jacks.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Jaggs, I like the Jags do, have to figure out
their offense like the drops, the random they tried to
jag that game, the.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Bad they were jagging off. They were jagging the bad
Lawrence pick.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
That happens way too often. But the defense has significantly improved.
Just schematically, they're not It wasn't like last year, and
they're just running mand A Man with a group that
can't play Manda Man. They're also getting some overdue positive
regression in the turnover department. They got they had like
five six interceptions all of last year. They have six
already this year. Uh, so yeah, they're they're and part
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of that is because it's just a better called defense schematically,
So yeah, they're doing some nice things. The Colts obviously
look really good. But the Titans are just a disaster.
Happen They the cod like they I'll give them a
pass and that the roster was decimated by injuries today,
so they and they ended up wearing like no sweat.
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Sweat just got put on ir crushes. They're rundy, like
they give up, like they're rundy with with him without him,
as massive dead injuries in the secondary, they were missing
their oh it's like right side of the offensive line.
But at least coach competently Callahan's the worst coach in
the NFL, Like it's not even close. Uh this guy
he has he is, yet he has two wins now
over like Huntley And was that that game in overtime
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and then some other meaningless game and maybe in overtime too.
Uh maybe it was against the Patriots in overtime. That's it.
And every end of the half, the end of the
half field goals, they take it to lay of game
on fourth and one and then have to kick a
sixty two yarder and then miss miss it. Obviously, sixty
two yarder outdoors not easy. You got to call time
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out there. But if you just go for it, you're
the Titans, Like what do you do? It's fourth and one?
And then the Colts obviously get the ball at midfield
and then go and score before the half. Like the
whole operation is so incompetent. It's it's it's frankly like,
just how how is this an NFL run to billion
dollar franchises? Run this clowness? It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Let's talk about the cold schedule for a second, because
I think they might only lose five games the rest
of the season, if even that many. Obviously the Rams
probably gonna be their first l next week. Then they're
home against the Raiders. They've got the Cardinals, gonna lose
to the Chargers, Titans, Steelers, Falcons, gonna lose to the Chiefs.
Split with the Texans probably Jags, Seahawks forty nine ers
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are injury, injury and injury hell right now, Jags again, Texans.
I think they split with the Jags, split with the Texans, loose,
Chiefs lose Rams Chargers, maybe even split those, like they
might lose only five games this year if they can,
I do too. I'm not saying I think that the
wheels fall off at some point, they turn into a
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pumpkin whatever you want to call it, but there is
something to be said. There is a team every single
year that has some crazy turnaround, and I.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Slash year they won fourteen before that, like definitely improved.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, there's always these these worse to first and crazy turnarounds.
It could be the Cults, but just to pump the
brakes a little bit, they beat the Dolphins and the Titans,
and then they beat the Broncos because of a leverage penalty,
like they could easily be two and one.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Argument, it made that defense on the Broncos look like ass.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yes, but they also made Bonnicks and that offense look
really good. So that the two teams that they could
easily be two and one with wins over the Dolphins
and Titans. So I need to see more, but it's
definitely encouraging. If I was a Colts fan, I'd be
super exciting, super excited. They look like they have a
real shot to win this division. But I don't know,
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I say they probably finished around like nine times.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I think it's crazy that the Texans are zero to three,
Like who had that on their Bengo card, because if
you did, I there's no way you did. I don't
believe that.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, they're they're cooked.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
The thing with Indianapolis is that they've shown already that
they can beat up on bad teams and they and
what Kendrew's pointing out is that they have a lot
of bad teams on their schedule, so.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
They don't Jags have a tough, fucking tough schedule through
the rest of the year. I mean, there's no way
in hell it's it's the Colts. I'm telling you, it's
the Colts. The Jag schedule is way too tough. They're
still way too incompetent. It is the Colt's division.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Well, the Texans have the hardest schedule in the division.
So now that they're zero and three, Bolts, look, they
could they could have they could be three and oh
is the crazy thing with the Texans. But their offense
just can't when you need it.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It's not gonnaic.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, because they've lost three games by thirteen combined points.
I mean, like, look at the Bucks. The Bucks have
won three games by six points total, but they were
in it. But now with that first place schedule the
Texans this week they should get a win over the
Titans at home. They're laying seven and a half. I
don't know how you bet the Titans anymore. Maybe I've
learned my lesson, but I don't know how you lay
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seven and a half with the Texans offense.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Are they in jail? Put them in jail, stucky jail?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
After at though, they got the Ravens, the Niners, the Broncos,
the Bills, the Chiefs like all coming up on their schedule,
So the Texans are in trouble.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
The Texans. By the way, tell me which side I
want to vote here? Which side is the more disgusting side?
The Texans minus seven or the Titans plus seven next
week in Houston? Because they're both gross equally gross on
either side.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I think the Texans cover next week. Honestly, I think
it's I don't really You could give me whatever the
number would be, I'd probably take it for them next
week because they're at home revenge game. It's the Titans.
They're going to beat up on little brother. I'm honestly
the Texans might be in bet jail, but I might.
I might overthrow the guard and bet on the Texans
next week. I'm not even joking.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Post some bail for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I'm not even kidding, like Darren Holme against a terrible team.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It is at home. That's a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
The Titans have lost against the spread ten straight home games.
Now they're on the road, so I think Tennessee might
actually be the side.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I don't know. I mean, these these injuries are bad,
like they showed again today the sweat brownly like that.
They're their offensive line injuries. They need to get their
offensive line at least. They need Zeidler back at the
bare minimum. But they're so poorly coached, like Callahan's gonna
cost them like six points to game minimum, like it's
since it's it's absolutely insane. Uh speaking of insane, by
the way, you it depends on if there's a hawk
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like I can't. I couldn't like seven and a half.
But I don't think I'm betting the Bightons, which means
they'll cover.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I in seventeen against the spread in the last twenty
for the Titans.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
So for the record, they goes on on the road, either.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Thirteen of them. What, by the way, you got Broncos Bran,
you have Broncos plus two and a half? Did you
could have got a three? When did you bet that?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I bet that on Friday.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I think I was intrigued by the even money aspect
to it. I'm obsessed with pricing within the line itself,
and I didn't think that was ever gonna get to three.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'm not I'm not willing to pay for half points.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I'm more likely to I'll pay for a half points,
but I would I'd be more likely to sell a
pack two.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
And a half usually, like watch it's not usually, just
as I'm not saying this specific scenario, which just for
anyone out there. If it's like, if the line's sitting
at two and a half or five and a half,
and you like the dog, might as well wait most
times to see if a three or a six ever pops.
But speaking of insane the Kendrick, I'm sure you watched
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this one closely. The Patriots Steelers, I mean the classic
classic Steelers game. How many times did I do? Only
I lost count? How many times the Patriots fumbled? How
many times they got right? At the goal line and fumbled.
There was a stretch. This was the Steelers about fourteen
nothing in the early in the second quarter. This was
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These were their next six drives, three plays five yards,
one play negative one yard, end of half, three play
zero yards, interception, three plays negative two yards, three plays
three yards, five plays twenty two yards. They went basically
two and a half quarters with twenty total yards while
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the Patriots were driving up and down the field and
then just turning it over, not converting on fourth downs.
Just a classic Steelers victory. I don't know what was
going on with New England today. They just could note
onto the ball.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I just can't believe Aaron Rodgers finally won a game
at Gillette and it was this version of Aaron Rodgers
as this is currently constructed. I don't know. This game
kind of went how I expected it to. I didn't
the one thing I didn't expect. I expected for a
Mike Vraebel led defense to have a little bit more
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poise than they did towards the end of that game.
But what I finally convinced my coworkers on yesterday up
here was that I thought the Patriots run game was
the only saving grace for them, and they absolutely shit
the bed today. Like I thought that that run game
was the only shot that the Patriots had it winning today,
and boy did they ship the bed good for Aaron
Rodgers Classic Steelers game felt like, you know, a sloppier
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version of you know, the Patriots Steelers of old when
you just look at the scoreboard. But god was it ugly.
Like I'll tell you what, New England Sports Radio is
going to lose their shit on Monday. Every single show
open to close is going to have a field day
with this game. It's going to I honestly saw Patriots
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fans on Twitter calling for Mike Vrabel to be fired already.
It is week three.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, I just still know what have we not learned
about Ramondre Stevenson. This guy's had fumble issues since he
entered the NFL. You drafted a running back in the
second round. He looked amazing in the preseason, and then
they buried him behind Antonio Gibson. Both Stevenson and Gibson
were in charge of most of those fumbles, and it
took him And then finally Vrabel came around and he
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played Henderson at the end of the game. Who did
not fumble in this game. By the way, he's.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Got your lead guy going for it. There's no excuse
he should have been after he had that kick return
in the preseason. He should have been your guy, right
that No, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Final box score that game is for typical Steelers game
three and sixty nine yards, Steelers two oh three yards
per play five point two to four point one. Patriots
five turnovers, four lost fumbles, two for four in the
red zone, Steelers three for three in the red zone.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Hitting on the Patriots is my personality. Sorry, yeah, that's just.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
That's that was a bad loss, bad home loss. Can't
can't lose that game with the way that they were
dominating for long stretches. But credit to credit the Steelers,
but all the Bengals love out there.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
That got squashed Carson Wentz revenge.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Tour and they were the public side today too. I
wrote down all the public sides and then a lot
of a lot of these teams did end up covering Panthers,
Bears Bills on Thursday, Commanders, Eagles.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Jets, Bills did not cover sir.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Oh that's right, Yeah, I mean I don't know my
Dolphins covered.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah, I mean I can't an.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't know if I'm gonna have it in time
for the Tuesday show, but I will. I will wear
whatever shirt is thrust upon me. I'll wear it before.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Before we get He was being nice to you with
the options.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah I might, I might have to search again tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
But I wanted you to wear the shirt that said
chair Liquor with butterflies on it, so.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I'll be nice.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Isaiah Rodgers, by the way, I had the game of
the day he I mean may it was like one
defensive player of the year and a half. If you can,
if you could do that, he did it. He had.
I saw on the broadcast they said he had PFF's
first ninety nine point nine rating for a game. He
was dominant. And yeah, there's just it turns out there's
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not much of a drop off between McCarthy and Wentz. Now,
granted that's one game, but I didn't think that going
in with helping.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I still think Wentz is better and could.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Be McCarthy could could be that bad. And Browning.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I think he's gonna play again.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, yeah, he has to.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I do too.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I think he plays maybe two more games, and if
he shits the bet again, there's they can't not throw
Carson Wentz out there. If this is the difference between
the two of them in this division, like they have
a window.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah, I mean you got it. But yeah, they're gonna
put him back out there. He's their franchise quarterback. But
uh yeah, the Bengals, the Vikings defense is the story.
I mean, the Bengals couldn't do anything. They were they
were putting the ground. There was stay had five turnovers.
You're not gonna win many games with five turnovers. But
they only as three point three yards per play. It
was God, it was a disgusting Bengals effort. But credits
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to Flora is that defense and Wentz And yeah, thirty
eight point win in that one.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Here's another question of well, then, now that we've discussed
the Steelers and their ugly win and the Vikings and
they're perfect fens, what do we do with the London game.
Pittsburgh Steelers Minnesota Vikings nine thirty on the East Coast
on Sunday, Week four. The Steelers are plus one and
a half. They're listed as the home team. There's no
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home team. It's neutral.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It feels like an overreaction to back the the Kings had.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Both teams benefited from five turnovers today and now they're
playing each other. My first thoughts on the game, I
have no idea. I have to dig into both of
those games a lot deeper because they were just both
of those games were so weird. So what is the
early line on that is one.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
And a half Vikings.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I have experienced London games time and time again as
a Jaguars fan. I'll tell you what I'm doing. Whoever
gets there first to adjust to the time change is
who I'm betting on. I have been through many a
London game. That seems to be the strategy. I'm sure
Evan Abrams can do some research because he is our king,
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But from my memory, genuinely, whoever gets there first, I'm
pretty sure gets the advantage.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah, that is something I pay attention to. I'll look
to see if the teams have different approaches for the
travel schedule. Be the first of two straight international games
for for the Vikings. But a lot of injuries on
both teams actually to monitor too, so that one that's
wait and see. We'll talk about that later in the week.
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I don't I don't have any strong feel right off
the bat, but there's there's certainly a lot.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
To track whoever gets there first.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
For me, yeah, I like that angle. I think if
the Steelers pass rush can fluster Carson Wentz in a
way that Cincinnati was clearly not able to early, look
for me would be Pittsburgh on that one.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yeah, which makes the Minnesota offensive line injuries key, like
are they going to be healthy? Are they going to
get healthier? So it's just the Steelers defense has injuries too,
So there's there's definitely a lot to keep.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, but can Aaron Rodgers at this point in his
career with just basically DK Metcalf put up points against
that Vikings defense right now? That's my question.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, that's gonna be No, theos office does not look great.
Uh they got away with one today, but yeah, no,
no feel initially, let me see week four. I do
like the Giants tonight, I'm one the Giants. I feel
like I'm on an island with that one.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But I'm on that. I'm with you. I'm on the
Giants as well. I got the six.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I feel like I hate what it has gone up to,
but I think that there's no way the Chiefs don't
kick ass tonight in my opinion, well, I think there.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Is a chance.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Done.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I'm done two units on the day, one unit on
the Giants. So it's this is the worst feeling. Is
the sports better when you're just you're just fighting to
go down one? You know, there's like nothing really in
it other than not losing more. But I just just
leave it where it's at. Don't see.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
By the way, I haven't covered as more than a
five point favorite and six hundred in twenty days. I
think they're zero and eight against the spread. Evan can
you look that up? When's the last time the Chiefs
is Evan on here? I think he is. Yeah, when's
the last time the Chiefs covered as a favorite of
five or more points? I think it's been like six
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hundred days? And how many over that stretch did they
not cover? Worthy's not playing? This team still can't. I
mean now that I'm saying this game is but the star,
I'm gonna look Dumb's me like seventeen nothing in the
first quarter. They can't get margin on teams, and the
weakest part of the Giants is their secondary, Like they
can cover these Chiefs receivers.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Worthy still out yeah, I mean like they.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Just I think the Chiefs will probably win. But when
the Chiefs win, they went by like three. That's just
who this team is until they get fully healthy on
the offense. And I'm curious to see if that Giants
defensive line. It would be a good test. We'll see
where the Chiefs offensive line is.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
What do you got, evan six or more twelve December
of twenty three, I don't. I think it's a twelve
twenty one twenty three.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Yeah, last time they've covered a spread of six or
more was December thirty first, twenty twenty three against the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
So how many days again, that's like six hundred.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Days basically, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
What are they against the spread as a favorite of
five or more over that span of six or more?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Well, I even I looked at six, I'm looking at
five or more. Now it's three six. They've lost their
last six against the spread. It looks like, yeah, it's terrible.
I mean, Mahomes doesn't cover it's.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
This big of a favorite. Let's see, just so hard by.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
The way, Oh, so I was gonna I was gonna
add to it because this should also terrify you if
you're on the chief side. They're getting fifty six percent
of the bets right now. They're close to reaching that
sixty percent threshold, which has been a killer for the
public so far this season. Uh the Chiefs favored by
nearly a full uh touchdown six with five and a
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half to end on where you're getting it right now?
And it's the public side, and it's a primetime game.
Usually these primetime games get pretty ugly. It's definitely Giants
or nothing.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Yeah, chaperon, you get a sex. You can get d
kay as best price in market. Had draftings so wonderful
one of that the Giants with us, And now that
we've jinxed it, maybe you don't, but.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Don't put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby and you can.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Right on like s kareem hunt anytime touchdown. I know that.
But yeah, that's Do you guys have anything you're looking
at next week? Off the bat?
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Let me scroll through these. I can the Jags being
favor or the forty nine ers being favored by five
and a half against the Jags to open is crazy.
It's at four and a half three and a half
some places, but with Mac Jones probably playing, that's nuts
to me still, Yeah, but it is Is.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
It going to be Jones? Because party was close, so
I don't know the four nine ers. Bosa got hurt too,
that's worth noting. Yeah, he hurt his knee. Yeah, I
mean if it was Jones, I'd take the three and
a half. Anything over three, I should.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Say, honestly, probably the Seahawks. I like the Seahawks number
to start playing the Cardinals. The Cardinals are trash and
the Seahawks are so much better than people I think
people are giving them credit for right now. I even
with sharbon Ay hurt, Like, I think that Kenneth Walker
can carry that even though he's so injury prone. Cooper
Cup looks better than I thought that he would js.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Since playing like one of the best receivers in the league.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
That offense were hating on Cooper Cup heading into this season.
Sam Darnold also revenge tour.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I I think initially not I think initially, I Kendra,
I hate to disagree with you, but I think I
initially disagreed. I mean the Seahawks. The Cardinals had a
bunch of injuries worth I gotta keep track of. But
like the Seahawks today, team's off thirty point wins usually
a decent fade for what it's worth a dierent automatic bets.
But the Seahawks won by thirty one today. There was
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a point in time when Rattler Rattler in the first
half went twenty two of twenty nine for one to
fifty five, no interceptions, and the Saints were down thirty
eight to six, and the Seahawks had one hundred and
fifty passing yards in the first half. Did that was?
I'm curious to see how their special teams get graded.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
The defense today.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yes, but the Saints' special teams was was one of
the worst special teams performances I've ever seen. Like you're talking,
they gave they got a punt blocked right for the
first time and since twenty eleven, it was the longest
active streak in the NFL that's gone. They had. They
gave up a long punt was it a punt return
touchdown to Horton. They kept giving up long returns and
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then the saddest they would kick the saddest field goals
I've seen all day in the day of excitement. The
Saints were so sad. It was thirty five to three
and they tried towards the end of the first half.
They ended up making another field but to cut the
third but they tried like a twenty yard field goal
down thirty five to three, and they missed it. One
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of the saddest moments they probably of the entire season.
But that so that was kind of this leading Like
the Seahawks just had so much go their way on
special teams. So you know, the offense still is. It's
not like an it was an offensive explosion. I mean
the total yards were like three twenty to two eighty
five in that game. I mean they were impressive. But
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again it was the Saints, so and then the Cardinals.
That was an ugly game against the forty nine.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Moment of silence for James Connor. I think he's done
for the season. He got carted off. It looked like
the ankle snapped.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Did you guys watch the videos? There's no, he's not.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Next week is the Super Bowl for haters though, aka myself,
because it's the Panthers and the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
How do you not want to be on the sad
cats plus four and a half against his Patriots too?
They do not And it's not even about backing the pants.
There's which is a lot of fun at this juncture,
But the Patriots should not be four and a half
point favorites against anybody? Come on, are we serious with
this number?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I might hear you guys all show. I think I
might bet the Patriots.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
I think I might too. I hate to say it,
like you're on the.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Patriots, you're gonna fade him every week?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
You already I need to, But I just there's no
way the Panthers beat the bag out of anybody, and
come we need to beat the bag.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
All they need to do is cover four and a half.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I know, but that's what I'm saying, is like it
would be so Panthers for them to just shit the
bed next week after having a showing like this.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I'm not trying to I'm not rushing to the window
to bet the team that just won by thirty and
shut a team out. But I have a I have
a strict rule to not bet irresponsible favorites, and boy,
the Patriots fit that bill.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
So do the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
By the way, Monday Night Football, they're two and a
half point favorites against the Jets. Torod Taylor was an
improvement from justin Fields as predicted by Stu. Yeah, exactly.
And this is the fire me game for Mike McDaniels.
They lose this, he's gone. So that's you know, they
weren't gonna fire him after losing to the Bills. That's
a respectable team to lose to. Even if they weren't
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to cover the spread and keep it tight.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
I don't think they were gonna let run around so
the fourth you can't fire that man. After that, Mike
mccackey's lives to see another day.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I don't want him to get fired. It's just the
reality of the situation. If they lose to the Jets
at home in prime time, he's done.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, he has been great and like the league has
kind of figured out a lot of what he does.
But this isn't his fault. This is the GM on down.
This is a oh ye, poorly constructed roster. The moves
that they make make no sense. The drafting is bad,
Like they just need to blow it up. And I
mean they really need entirely new management and people running
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that team. But that's that's the story of another day.
Can we talk about the Bears though? The Bears look competent.
Caleb Williams looked great. Now, granted it was the Cowboys defense,
which is atrocious and Ebra Flu's got embarrassed in his
return to Soldier Field, but Williams look good. The Bears
defense it's still not great, but there was some improvement
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there with all backup defensive backs. I will say, in fairness,
I bet the Bears smaller. One of the things I
was worried about, obviously was their backup corners against Pickens
and Lamb Lamb getting hurt was huge, like just just
massive in that game. Uh. But yeah, the Bears. The
Bears look confident. Give some hope. You go ow in three,
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like you go in three that who's going three? Or
now like the Texans are owing three historically you're talking
one percent chance to make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yea, it's are owing three sense, and the Chiefs or
the Giants will be too. I gotta say, Ben Johnson
absolutely mushroom stamped with the freaking play calling today. The
kitchen sink game, dog through everything out there. It was awesome, entertaining.
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Not only did Caleb Williams look good, they look like
they took a huge step in the right direction offensively
this week, just as a whole. I was very impressed.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
He looked like the number one overall pick and that
was the biggest That's the biggest thing that you needed,
Ben Johnson to get out of this scene was just
to make Caleb Williams look like the dude he had
two ninety eight four touchdowns just throwing the ball deep.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
And though, okay, sorry, well, I was just gonna all
I was gonna do is pat myself on the back
because I was the only one that came through on
the three muskets here parlay with that one.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, I'm so mad atladd McConkey. It's actually unreal. I
am in lad mcconkee, bet jail, even though he's score
next week.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah, we're also not going to talk about this three
monstcuts probably any more, because that means we have to
think about the rams, and I don't want to think
about the rams anymore.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
That one got that one got blown up early.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Do you know who? Uh look bad? That? I was Bonnicks.
He missed countless wide open passes on the field. Credit
to Mark Parker's get another win there. Three and Zer
now head to the Giants, and if you're a Broncos fan,
pain the last two weeks end on walk off field goals.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
So it's crazy because their defense looked so bad last
week and looked incredible this week. I have them in
fantasy and I know we're not a fantasy football show,
but I stupidly after last week panicked and changed out
my defense, and I should have. But their defense gonna
have to hold this team together. If Bonix really is
going to go through a sophomore slump, it's going to
have to be on them. They're going to have to
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be the defense that everybody predicted them to be at
the beginning of the season. But the Chargers looked damn good.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Yeah, their defense is good. I mean, Herbert's obviously good.
They got their most accurate kicker in NFL history. They
got a lot of things working their way. But you
could see today the injuries for the Chargers on the
offensive line start to show.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
They got the Ashi Harry game.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah, and but like Sallyer was in there getting destroyed
because I think Beckton came out and then obviously they
lost their starting tackle before the year, and you you
started to see that day because Herbert was under a
ton of pressure. Obviously those teams don't have to pass
Rush of Denver, but a slight concern if you're a
Charges fan, but obviously happy to be three to oh
with the Giants coming up. So yeah, they're there, rightful
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favorite in that division.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Any final thoughts before we step aside for what should
be a pretty entertaining Sunday night football game.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Next week looks ugly gambling wise, that's my thought. Next
week looks like the Trenches might shrink.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
The board, drink the board. I'm yelling this to myself.
I had way too many, way too many bets in
the app this week. I need to we need to
slow it down, especially thought.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
It's a I'm gonna just beg and hope that the
gambling gods listened to me through the first three weeks.
Some of the beats that I've had, like, can I
have some joy? Like just some joy At the end
of the game, I guess that the Jets was a
joyous moment, but I thought that was locked up. And
then of course the Bucks scramble forty yards and then
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come up one short, one yard short of the first continues, Yeah,
there the Eagles, the Eagles and the Bucks and the
Luck Bowl next week. I assume that's going. Whoever has
the ball last will win. I don't bet the if
I if I don't bet against the Eagles, they'll call
like seven push penalties.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Then I think we need to hate.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I think we need to hate bet against the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I mean, wake up in the second half, but it's
still they were running like the same two routes, but
it's there's still war. Calling is still bad.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, we're at war with the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
This is not worth the Bucks too, though, So I
don't know. I might have to stay away from that one.
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
We'll be back w Maconkey.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Yes, and the Patriots, well, unless you might bet the
Patriots this week. Stunning that if you bet the Patriots
against the Panthers. But no, I don't know that. That's
that's all I thought. I have go Giants, Go Giants,
and we'll be back during the week to talk Week four.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
That's right Tuesday afternoon, right here on the Action Network
YouTube page for Kendri Middleton. Stucky. I'm Brandon Kravitz. We
got Week four coming up next week. We'll get you
all set with that. Good luck with your bets tonight,
Go Giants. We'll see you back here next time on
the Favorites podcast presented by Draft Cakes.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
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Sunday in week three is wrapping up.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to the Favorites.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I am your host, Brandon Kravitz, joined by my fellow
capadres Kendrew Middleton, and the Prime Minister himself, Stucky is
with us. We have a lot to discuss. The Colts
look legit, the Packers. They're drive to the super Bowl,
perhaps as a flat tire after losing to the Cleveland
Browns and the Rams plus three. My god, bless your heart,
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you poor poor soul. If you were sitting on that
ticket me, uh yeah, Stucky, let's start right there, good lord,
I mean that was painful.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
They were driving to win the game.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
And even if they missed the kick, if you were
sitting on the plus three, it would have sucked for
our three musketeers parlay, which once again got ripped to
shreds because we took the money line and we had
a bear, we had a Rams win.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Sitting right there.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
They were up twenty six to seven at one point
in this game before getting out scored by twenty six
in the second half. Walk me through your feelings in
the moment as they don't just miss the kick, it's blocked,
and then Jordan Davis unnecessarily runs it all the way
down the field and scores a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, of course, the ball is like sitting perfectly right
there and he takes it all the way back. I mean, yeah,
fucking sucked. There's no two words about. It's a gutpoint,
you know. I mean, like, you don't even think about
that happening. And I've been betting for twenty years. I've
had countless bad beats just like that. I had Washington
plus seven against the Eagles like seven years ago, when
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Carson Wentz was the quarterback for the Eagles and Washington
stepped out of bounds with one second to go at midfield,
and then the next play they were down four to
the next play, they fumble it gets bounces right new
Eagles hands, and he runs it fifty yards for a
touchdown and they win by ten or eleven. So I've
seen it all. It was awful. Not only were they up,
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they were up twenty six to seven. They had they
had two field goals blocked in the fourth quarter. When
you have, what is this a high school team? Two
field goals blocked, by the way, the last one there
was leverage on it. Broncos fan should be pissed and
after and they were. They were covering for forty minutes
and nine seconds, however long it took uh Davis to
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they would cover the entire game and then plus whatever
seconds it took for Davis to run. I mean, will
probably be the worst beat of the NFL year. I
gotta have one a week. Apparently it was awful. But
I will say the one thing I'm most mad about
is the NFL. One of the reasons I love I
like this game is I said, there's gonna be a
touch push in this game where the Eagles false start
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as they do every time, and they're gonna call it
because they came out and they said, we're gonna we're
gonna officiate it closer. They went on the whole You
could the whole world could see it. They went off
false started. It was one of the clearest ones that's
ever happened. On a fourth and one would have been
a field goal. Nope, they don't call it. And then
the Eagles get a touch on that was four f
three points literally four three points that they gave the Eagles,
which obviously ended up mattering. But they had twenty two
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yard thirty three yards at the half and you're down
twenty six to seven and there one there. One touchdown
came from a gift is gift wrap on a push
push and then the the interception before then absolutely outrageous
and the Rams at least they called it on the Saints.
The poor old Saints get the push pushed false star
on them and they're down thirty.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Good job should have been up by like thirty in
the first half. They kept settling for field goals and
they still had that big lead. This from our production staff.
The Rams led by nineteen points, were plus three and
a half entering the game. Teams that have led by
nineteen or more is three and a half point dogs
one eighty five and five against the spread the last
twenty years entering today one eighty five and five and
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uh and now we have we've added another l to
that list. Ken, it was awful your your thoughts on
the on the situation.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
I just was more shocked. I just haven't seen I
agree with Stucky's point that I don't think I've we're
seeing anything like that outside of a high school game.
I kind of had checked out for a minute because
I was like, Okay, Wow, the Rams really moving up
on my list of you know teams that I'm really
in on right now. And I guess I should never
count the Eagles out. Never count the Eagles out. They're
super Bowl champions, they deserve the respect. But AJ Brown's
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coming out game for the season happened today, just chaos.
I guess also too, Like, while I did kind of
move the Rams up, I still think that they deserve
their flowers for how they played. They should not have
let them come back in the second half the way
that they did. But also, you can't put up zero
points in a fourth quarter against a Super Bowl champion
and expect to walk out of there with a win
no matter how many points you're up by.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
I don't need to win. I just needed to cover
that was Yeah, it was It's sung, but whatever. You
gotta have a short term memory betting the NFL. Those
are gonna happen. It was nice to having that happen
after the Kelsey drop the week before against the Eagles.
But it is what it is. There's miss there's miss kicks.
By the way, I'm now banned it push. I was like, not,
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I was team, don't ban plays. I'm not if you're
not gonna call if you're not gonna I mean, if
you're if you say you're gonna officiate it closely, and
then the next week the very next push push you
see for this team, they fall start and you don't
call it ban it. It's just it's outrageous. There's no
way to stop it if the guards are shooting out
like that. But or you could just officiate it, right
but if if they can, if they're too incompetent, then
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just ban it.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
But the blockfoil hat in the drawer.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
No, I'm just saying, if they can't officiate it, they
should have a breath hanging from a cord or something
up top. That's like, if they that they can't figure
that out, then whatever, then just then just ban it.
But I don't know what was with all the field
goal blocks today. You had the Browns coming back against
the Packers, the Jets uh get a return on a
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block a field goal, and then the Tampa Bay Locks
obviously go down the field and score to win another
game by two. But that was the field goals We're
crazy today? And then we just two more game winners
at the at the bell crazy day of field goals.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, we had dick Er the kicker.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I was on the on the Broncos plus two and
a half, lost by half a point. Because of that,
Mac Jones gets a walk off. They beat the Arizona
Cardinals that was down to essentially a pick them there
by kickoff between those two. How about these fraudulent Falcons,
Ladies and gentlemen, Can we talk about them for a second.
I'm starting to make my list of teams. There's so
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much to bet on every single week. I like to
try and shrink my board. I did a horrible job
of that today.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But it's still early.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
We're in the first month of the season, so I'm
not going to be too hard on myself for having
way too many bets in the Action app. But as
we start to progress, there are certain teams that are
just hands off for me. The Atlanta Falcons are going
to start to enter into that range. And I was
not on this game at all, but Pennix is ass
I think, oh my god, and the Carolina Panthers had
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two hundred and twenty four yards of offense.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
They didn't even do anything.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Sad Cats one hundred yards and lost by and lost
thirty nothing. Uh yeah, ridiculous. But I wouldn't say they're ass.
I still I still like the fat It's one week.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
You can't over react to shut out by the fucking
Panthers is crazy, big dog, They're on the no backboard.
You cannot get shut out by the motherfucking Panthers. Anybody
to respect you.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Teams off a shutout, By the way, I always like
the best teams off a shut I mean, look, last
week they dominated the Vikings. Everyone's like, all the Vikings
are terrible, and then the Vikings win forty eight. This
is just the NFL. There's just weeks that teams are
gonna look like this. Are the Packers now asked the
Browns are good? Now? This is just this is just
what happens in the NFL. The Packers need to get
their offensive line healthy. By the way, I think Tom
played one snap and then I think Banks went out
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and they they're the Browns defensive line for a third
straight week, completely dominated the game anything.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
And that's the thing with the Browns. You know, I
know you were on Cleveland. Good for you. I sat
that game out, but Cleveland was clearly the right side. Mean,
not only did they cover, they won the damn game,
but they have an elite unit. They have one of
the best defensive lines in football right now. They're the
most dominant defensive line in the NFL. They would have
won that game by double digits if their offense had
any sort of a pulse.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Those are the kind of teams.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
That I can back bad teams, but I can't back
bad teams that that have quarterback play that's gonna hold
them back and don't have enough identifiable qualities that I
feel like I can make money off of you. And
that's where that's where Atlanta falls a little short for me.
You give up thirty to the Carolina Panthers and your
Michael Pennix looks terrible. He can't move, he's not accurate,
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he's throwing pick sixes. That's the kind of guy that
I'm I'm just just cross him off my list.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Throw the Raiders on there.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
You're gonna cross off every team by the end of
the year. If you do this at.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Six, well, I can can I at least put them
in time out? You know?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah? You can definitely put teams in bet jail. Bet
jail is a real joke.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I'll be betting them next week against Washington at home.
Catching I don't know three plus the Yeah, like it
was just a bad game, bad divisional game. They came out,
they were in a daze, like games like this just happened.
Speaking of a date, there were some weird games today.
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Your thoughts on the Jags kinda? The Jags game was
super bizarre.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
The Jags game was really weird. I don't even know
how to feel about this team. The Drops are beyond
out of control. I was about to lose my shit
about BTJ until he had that big catch in the
fourth quarter. I don't know how to feel about this team.
The defense is incredible. I really like the defense. Josh
I hate calling him Josh heines Allen because it just
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feels yucky, but I guess he's Josh heines Allen now.
He was lights out today. I just the offense really
concerns me. The Drops are getting out of control. Finally,
finally a win against the Texans at home whatever, I'll
take it. Disgusting game. I'm not happy about it, but
a wins a win, whatever. Tomorrow's victory Monday. The offense
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needs to get their shit together. I can't. I can't
live like this week to week. It's going to give
me a heart attack.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
What are they doing with Travis Hunter. I think he's.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Sad, so I kind of freaked out when Diana Rossini
was like talking shit about him this week on the internet.
But I just don't think that he's good. He can't
play both ways. I think that you should just stick
to defense and call it a day. Like there. I
think that they're expecting too much out of him. Obviously,
he's a new dad, probably exhausted. Whatever, stick to defense.
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I wanted them, no, it's a boy. I wanted them
to take armand Membu trade back, take Membo. I hated
that they traded up, gave up the picks that they did. Whatever,
he's exciting, he's a cool kid. Whatever. Didn't like the pick.
I just I think he's doing too much and it's
stressing him out.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Thirty seven snaps on all offense, forty three on defense.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He had one catch in this match.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I think that they're making a their number the number
two overall pick Okay at wide receiver and Okay at dB,
and he's.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Having a mid off for both sides of the ball.
Hick a lane, stay there. This is why people don't
do this in the NFL. I don't care how athletic
you are, you have a ceiling at one position. Just
get over it. Give it up. This isn't college football. Please,
for the love of God, line up on defense and
call it a day.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Stucky. Why is why are the Texans broken offensively?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
They can't score their offensive line stakes again, they didn't
address it. Their offensive coordinator was supposed to be better,
but they're not doing anything really new schematically to try
and compensate for some of their efficiency. So it's it's
a mess. Uh there. I can't see them making the
playoffs with this with his roster. The offense is just
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too broken and the division is better overall.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Old AFC baby Jacks.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Jaggs, I like the Jags do, have to figure out
their offense like the drops, the random they tried to
jag that game, the.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Bad they were jagging off. They were jagging the bad
Lawrence pick.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
That happens way too often. But the defense has significantly improved.
Just schematically, they're not It wasn't like last year, and
they're just running mand A Man with a group that
can't play Manda Man. They're also getting some overdue positive
regression in the turnover department. They got they had like
five six interceptions all of last year. They have six
already this year. Uh, so yeah, they're they're and part
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of that is because it's just a better called defense schematically,
So yeah, they're doing some nice things. The Colts obviously
look really good. But the Titans are just a disaster.
Happen They the cod like they I'll give them a
pass and that the roster was decimated by injuries today,
so they and they ended up wearing like no sweat.
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Sweat just got put on ir crushes. They're rundy, like
they give up, like they're rundy with with him without him,
as massive dead injuries in the secondary, they were missing
their oh it's like right side of the offensive line.
But at least coach competently Callahan's the worst coach in
the NFL, Like it's not even close. Uh this guy
he has he is, yet he has two wins now
over like Huntley And was that that game in overtime
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and then some other meaningless game and maybe in overtime too.
Uh maybe it was against the Patriots in overtime. That's it.
And every end of the half, the end of the
half field goals, they take it to lay of game
on fourth and one and then have to kick a
sixty two yarder and then miss miss it. Obviously, sixty
two yarder outdoors not easy. You got to call time
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out there. But if you just go for it, you're
the Titans, Like what do you do? It's fourth and one?
And then the Colts obviously get the ball at midfield
and then go and score before the half. Like the
whole operation is so incompetent. It's it's it's frankly like,
just how how is this an NFL run to billion
dollar franchises? Run this clowness? It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Let's talk about the cold schedule for a second, because
I think they might only lose five games the rest
of the season, if even that many. Obviously the Rams
probably gonna be their first l next week. Then they're
home against the Raiders. They've got the Cardinals, gonna lose
to the Chargers, Titans, Steelers, Falcons, gonna lose to the Chiefs.
Split with the Texans probably Jags, Seahawks forty nine ers
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are injury, injury and injury hell right now, Jags again, Texans.
I think they split with the Jags, split with the Texans, loose,
Chiefs lose Rams Chargers, maybe even split those, like they
might lose only five games this year if they can,
I do too. I'm not saying I think that the
wheels fall off at some point, they turn into a
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pumpkin whatever you want to call it, but there is
something to be said. There is a team every single
year that has some crazy turnaround, and I.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Slash year they won fourteen before that, like definitely improved.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Yeah, there's always these these worse to first and crazy turnarounds.
It could be the Cults, but just to pump the
brakes a little bit, they beat the Dolphins and the Titans,
and then they beat the Broncos because of a leverage penalty,
like they could easily be two and one.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Argument, it made that defense on the Broncos look like ass.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yes, but they also made Bonnicks and that offense look
really good. So that the two teams that they could
easily be two and one with wins over the Dolphins
and Titans. So I need to see more, but it's
definitely encouraging. If I was a Colts fan, I'd be
super exciting, super excited. They look like they have a
real shot to win this division. But I don't know,
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I say they probably finished around like nine times.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
I think it's crazy that the Texans are zero to three,
Like who had that on their Bengo card, because if
you did, I there's no way you did. I don't
believe that.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Yeah, they're they're cooked.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
The thing with Indianapolis is that they've shown already that
they can beat up on bad teams and they and
what Kendrew's pointing out is that they have a lot
of bad teams on their schedule, so.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
They don't Jags have a tough, fucking tough schedule through
the rest of the year. I mean, there's no way
in hell it's it's the Colts. I'm telling you, it's
the Colts. The Jag schedule is way too tough. They're
still way too incompetent. It is the Colt's division.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Well, the Texans have the hardest schedule in the division.
So now that they're zero and three, Bolts, look, they
could they could have they could be three and oh
is the crazy thing with the Texans. But their offense
just can't when you need it.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
It's not gonnaic.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Yeah, because they've lost three games by thirteen combined points.
I mean, like, look at the Bucks. The Bucks have
won three games by six points total, but they were
in it. But now with that first place schedule the
Texans this week they should get a win over the
Titans at home. They're laying seven and a half. I
don't know how you bet the Titans anymore. Maybe I've
learned my lesson, but I don't know how you lay
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seven and a half with the Texans offense.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Are they in jail? Put them in jail, stucky jail?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
After at though, they got the Ravens, the Niners, the Broncos,
the Bills, the Chiefs like all coming up on their schedule,
So the Texans are in trouble.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
The Texans. By the way, tell me which side I
want to vote here? Which side is the more disgusting side?
The Texans minus seven or the Titans plus seven next
week in Houston? Because they're both gross equally gross on
either side.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I think the Texans cover next week. Honestly, I think
it's I don't really You could give me whatever the
number would be, I'd probably take it for them next
week because they're at home revenge game. It's the Titans.
They're going to beat up on little brother. I'm honestly
the Texans might be in bet jail, but I might.
I might overthrow the guard and bet on the Texans
next week. I'm not even joking.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Post some bail for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
I'm not even kidding, like Darren Holme against a terrible team.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It is at home. That's a bigger problem.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
The Titans have lost against the spread ten straight home games.
Now they're on the road, so I think Tennessee might
actually be the side.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I don't know. I mean, these these injuries are bad,
like they showed again today the sweat brownly like that.
They're their offensive line injuries. They need to get their
offensive line at least. They need Zeidler back at the
bare minimum. But they're so poorly coached, like Callahan's gonna
cost them like six points to game minimum, like it's
since it's it's absolutely insane. Uh speaking of insane, by
the way, you it depends on if there's a hawk
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like I can't. I couldn't like seven and a half.
But I don't think I'm betting the Bightons, which means
they'll cover.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I in seventeen against the spread in the last twenty
for the Titans.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
So for the record, they goes on on the road, either.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Thirteen of them. What, by the way, you got Broncos Bran,
you have Broncos plus two and a half? Did you
could have got a three? When did you bet that?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I bet that on Friday.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I think I was intrigued by the even money aspect
to it. I'm obsessed with pricing within the line itself,
and I didn't think that was ever gonna get to three.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
I'm not I'm not willing to pay for half points.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I'm more likely to I'll pay for a half points,
but I would I'd be more likely to sell a
pack two.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
And a half usually, like watch it's not usually, just
as I'm not saying this specific scenario, which just for
anyone out there. If it's like, if the line's sitting
at two and a half or five and a half,
and you like the dog, might as well wait most
times to see if a three or a six ever pops.
But speaking of insane the Kendrick, I'm sure you watched
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this one closely. The Patriots Steelers, I mean the classic
classic Steelers game. How many times did I do? Only
I lost count? How many times the Patriots fumbled? How
many times they got right? At the goal line and fumbled.
There was a stretch. This was the Steelers about fourteen
nothing in the early in the second quarter. This was
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These were their next six drives, three plays five yards,
one play negative one yard, end of half, three play
zero yards, interception, three plays negative two yards, three plays
three yards, five plays twenty two yards. They went basically
two and a half quarters with twenty total yards while
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the Patriots were driving up and down the field and
then just turning it over, not converting on fourth downs.
Just a classic Steelers victory. I don't know what was
going on with New England today. They just could note
onto the ball.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
I just can't believe Aaron Rodgers finally won a game
at Gillette and it was this version of Aaron Rodgers
as this is currently constructed. I don't know. This game
kind of went how I expected it to. I didn't
the one thing I didn't expect. I expected for a
Mike Vraebel led defense to have a little bit more
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poise than they did towards the end of that game.
But what I finally convinced my coworkers on yesterday up
here was that I thought the Patriots run game was
the only saving grace for them, and they absolutely shit
the bed today. Like I thought that that run game
was the only shot that the Patriots had it winning today,
and boy did they ship the bed good for Aaron
Rodgers Classic Steelers game felt like, you know, a sloppier
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version of you know, the Patriots Steelers of old when
you just look at the scoreboard. But god was it ugly.
Like I'll tell you what, New England Sports Radio is
going to lose their shit on Monday. Every single show
open to close is going to have a field day
with this game. It's going to I honestly saw Patriots
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fans on Twitter calling for Mike Vrabel to be fired already.
It is week three.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, I just still know what have we not learned
about Ramondre Stevenson. This guy's had fumble issues since he
entered the NFL. You drafted a running back in the
second round. He looked amazing in the preseason, and then
they buried him behind Antonio Gibson. Both Stevenson and Gibson
were in charge of most of those fumbles, and it
took him And then finally Vrabel came around and he
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played Henderson at the end of the game. Who did
not fumble in this game. By the way, he's.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Got your lead guy going for it. There's no excuse
he should have been after he had that kick return
in the preseason. He should have been your guy, right
that No, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Final box score that game is for typical Steelers game
three and sixty nine yards, Steelers two oh three yards
per play five point two to four point one. Patriots
five turnovers, four lost fumbles, two for four in the
red zone, Steelers three for three in the red zone.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Hitting on the Patriots is my personality. Sorry, yeah, that's just.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
That's that was a bad loss, bad home loss. Can't
can't lose that game with the way that they were
dominating for long stretches. But credit to credit the Steelers,
but all the Bengals love out there.
Speaker 4 (22:44):
That got squashed Carson Wentz revenge.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Tour and they were the public side today too. I
wrote down all the public sides and then a lot
of a lot of these teams did end up covering Panthers,
Bears Bills on Thursday, Commanders, Eagles.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Jets, Bills did not cover sir.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Oh that's right, Yeah, I mean I don't know my
Dolphins covered.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah, I mean I can't an.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
I don't know if I'm gonna have it in time
for the Tuesday show, but I will. I will wear
whatever shirt is thrust upon me. I'll wear it before.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Before we get He was being nice to you with
the options.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah I might, I might have to search again tonight.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
But I wanted you to wear the shirt that said
chair Liquor with butterflies on it, so.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I'll be nice.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Isaiah Rodgers, by the way, I had the game of
the day he I mean may it was like one
defensive player of the year and a half. If you can,
if you could do that, he did it. He had.
I saw on the broadcast they said he had PFF's
first ninety nine point nine rating for a game. He
was dominant. And yeah, there's just it turns out there's
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not much of a drop off between McCarthy and Wentz. Now,
granted that's one game, but I didn't think that going
in with helping.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I still think Wentz is better and could.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Be McCarthy could could be that bad. And Browning.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I think he's gonna play again.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Yeah, yeah, he has to.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I do too.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I think he plays maybe two more games, and if
he shits the bet again, there's they can't not throw
Carson Wentz out there. If this is the difference between
the two of them in this division, like they have
a window.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah, I mean you got it. But yeah, they're gonna
put him back out there. He's their franchise quarterback. But
uh yeah, the Bengals, the Vikings defense is the story.
I mean, the Bengals couldn't do anything. They were they
were putting the ground. There was stay had five turnovers.
You're not gonna win many games with five turnovers. But
they only as three point three yards per play. It
was God, it was a disgusting Bengals effort. But credits
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to Flora is that defense and Wentz And yeah, thirty
eight point win in that one.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Here's another question of well, then, now that we've discussed
the Steelers and their ugly win and the Vikings and
they're perfect fens, what do we do with the London game.
Pittsburgh Steelers Minnesota Vikings nine thirty on the East Coast
on Sunday, Week four. The Steelers are plus one and
a half. They're listed as the home team. There's no
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home team. It's neutral.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
It feels like an overreaction to back the the Kings had.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Both teams benefited from five turnovers today and now they're
playing each other. My first thoughts on the game, I
have no idea. I have to dig into both of
those games a lot deeper because they were just both
of those games were so weird. So what is the
early line on that is one.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
And a half Vikings.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I have experienced London games time and time again as
a Jaguars fan. I'll tell you what I'm doing. Whoever
gets there first to adjust to the time change is
who I'm betting on. I have been through many a
London game. That seems to be the strategy. I'm sure
Evan Abrams can do some research because he is our king,
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But from my memory, genuinely, whoever gets there first, I'm
pretty sure gets the advantage.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah, that is something I pay attention to. I'll look
to see if the teams have different approaches for the
travel schedule. Be the first of two straight international games
for for the Vikings. But a lot of injuries on
both teams actually to monitor too, so that one that's
wait and see. We'll talk about that later in the week.
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I don't I don't have any strong feel right off
the bat, but there's there's certainly a lot.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
To track whoever gets there first.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
For me, yeah, I like that angle. I think if
the Steelers pass rush can fluster Carson Wentz in a
way that Cincinnati was clearly not able to early, look
for me would be Pittsburgh on that one.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yeah, which makes the Minnesota offensive line injuries key, like
are they going to be healthy? Are they going to
get healthier? So it's just the Steelers defense has injuries too,
So there's there's definitely a lot to keep.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, but can Aaron Rodgers at this point in his
career with just basically DK Metcalf put up points against
that Vikings defense right now? That's my question.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, that's gonna be No, theos office does not look great.
Uh they got away with one today, but yeah, no,
no feel initially, let me see week four. I do
like the Giants tonight, I'm one the Giants. I feel
like I'm on an island with that one.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
But I'm on that. I'm with you. I'm on the
Giants as well. I got the six.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I feel like I hate what it has gone up to,
but I think that there's no way the Chiefs don't
kick ass tonight in my opinion, well, I think there.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Is a chance.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Done.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I'm done two units on the day, one unit on
the Giants. So it's this is the worst feeling. Is
the sports better when you're just you're just fighting to
go down one? You know, there's like nothing really in
it other than not losing more. But I just just
leave it where it's at. Don't see.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
By the way, I haven't covered as more than a
five point favorite and six hundred in twenty days. I
think they're zero and eight against the spread. Evan can
you look that up? When's the last time the Chiefs
is Evan on here? I think he is. Yeah, when's
the last time the Chiefs covered as a favorite of
five or more points? I think it's been like six
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hundred days? And how many over that stretch did they
not cover? Worthy's not playing? This team still can't. I
mean now that I'm saying this game is but the star,
I'm gonna look Dumb's me like seventeen nothing in the
first quarter. They can't get margin on teams, and the
weakest part of the Giants is their secondary, Like they
can cover these Chiefs receivers.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Worthy still out yeah, I mean like they.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Just I think the Chiefs will probably win. But when
the Chiefs win, they went by like three. That's just
who this team is until they get fully healthy on
the offense. And I'm curious to see if that Giants
defensive line. It would be a good test. We'll see
where the Chiefs offensive line is.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
What do you got, evan six or more twelve December
of twenty three, I don't. I think it's a twelve
twenty one twenty three.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Yeah, last time they've covered a spread of six or
more was December thirty first, twenty twenty three against the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
So how many days again, that's like six hundred.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Days basically, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
What are they against the spread as a favorite of
five or more over that span of six or more?
Speaker 5 (29:21):
Well, I even I looked at six, I'm looking at
five or more. Now it's three six. They've lost their
last six against the spread. It looks like, yeah, it's terrible.
I mean, Mahomes doesn't cover it's.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
This big of a favorite. Let's see, just so hard by.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
The way, Oh, so I was gonna I was gonna
add to it because this should also terrify you if
you're on the chief side. They're getting fifty six percent
of the bets right now. They're close to reaching that
sixty percent threshold, which has been a killer for the
public so far this season. Uh the Chiefs favored by
nearly a full uh touchdown six with five and a
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half to end on where you're getting it right now?
And it's the public side, and it's a primetime game.
Usually these primetime games get pretty ugly. It's definitely Giants
or nothing.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Yeah, chaperon, you get a sex. You can get d
kay as best price in market. Had draftings so wonderful
one of that the Giants with us, And now that
we've jinxed it, maybe you don't, but.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Don't put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby and you can.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Right on like s kareem hunt anytime touchdown. I know that.
But yeah, that's Do you guys have anything you're looking
at next week? Off the bat?
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Let me scroll through these. I can the Jags being
favor or the forty nine ers being favored by five
and a half against the Jags to open is crazy.
It's at four and a half three and a half
some places, but with Mac Jones probably playing, that's nuts
to me still, Yeah, but it is Is.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
It going to be Jones? Because party was close, so
I don't know the four nine ers. Bosa got hurt too,
that's worth noting. Yeah, he hurt his knee. Yeah, I
mean if it was Jones, I'd take the three and
a half. Anything over three, I should.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Say, honestly, probably the Seahawks. I like the Seahawks number
to start playing the Cardinals. The Cardinals are trash and
the Seahawks are so much better than people I think
people are giving them credit for right now. I even
with sharbon Ay hurt, Like, I think that Kenneth Walker
can carry that even though he's so injury prone. Cooper
Cup looks better than I thought that he would js.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Since playing like one of the best receivers in the league.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
That offense were hating on Cooper Cup heading into this season.
Sam Darnold also revenge tour.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I I think initially not I think initially, I Kendra,
I hate to disagree with you, but I think I
initially disagreed. I mean the Seahawks. The Cardinals had a
bunch of injuries worth I gotta keep track of. But
like the Seahawks today, team's off thirty point wins usually
a decent fade for what it's worth a dierent automatic bets.
But the Seahawks won by thirty one today. There was
(32:01):
a point in time when Rattler Rattler in the first
half went twenty two of twenty nine for one to
fifty five, no interceptions, and the Saints were down thirty
eight to six, and the Seahawks had one hundred and
fifty passing yards in the first half. Did that was?
I'm curious to see how their special teams get graded.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
The defense today.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Yes, but the Saints' special teams was was one of
the worst special teams performances I've ever seen. Like you're talking,
they gave they got a punt blocked right for the
first time and since twenty eleven, it was the longest
active streak in the NFL that's gone. They had. They
gave up a long punt was it a punt return
touchdown to Horton. They kept giving up long returns and
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then the saddest they would kick the saddest field goals
I've seen all day in the day of excitement. The
Saints were so sad. It was thirty five to three
and they tried towards the end of the first half.
They ended up making another field but to cut the
third but they tried like a twenty yard field goal
down thirty five to three, and they missed it. One
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of the saddest moments they probably of the entire season.
But that so that was kind of this leading Like
the Seahawks just had so much go their way on
special teams. So you know, the offense still is. It's
not like an it was an offensive explosion. I mean
the total yards were like three twenty to two eighty
five in that game. I mean they were impressive. But
(33:26):
again it was the Saints, so and then the Cardinals.
That was an ugly game against the forty nine.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Moment of silence for James Connor. I think he's done
for the season. He got carted off. It looked like
the ankle snapped.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Did you guys watch the videos? There's no, he's not.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Next week is the Super Bowl for haters though, aka myself,
because it's the Panthers and the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
How do you not want to be on the sad
cats plus four and a half against his Patriots too?
They do not And it's not even about backing the pants.
There's which is a lot of fun at this juncture,
But the Patriots should not be four and a half
point favorites against anybody? Come on, are we serious with
this number?
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I might hear you guys all show. I think I
might bet the Patriots.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
I think I might too. I hate to say it,
like you're on the.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Patriots, you're gonna fade him every week?
Speaker 4 (34:17):
You already I need to, But I just there's no
way the Panthers beat the bag out of anybody, and
come we need to beat the bag.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
All they need to do is cover four and a half.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I know, but that's what I'm saying, is like it
would be so Panthers for them to just shit the
bed next week after having a showing like this.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
I'm not trying to I'm not rushing to the window
to bet the team that just won by thirty and
shut a team out. But I have a I have
a strict rule to not bet irresponsible favorites, and boy,
the Patriots fit that bill.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
So do the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
By the way, Monday Night Football, they're two and a
half point favorites against the Jets. Torod Taylor was an
improvement from justin Fields as predicted by Stu. Yeah, exactly.
And this is the fire me game for Mike McDaniels.
They lose this, he's gone. So that's you know, they
weren't gonna fire him after losing to the Bills. That's
a respectable team to lose to. Even if they weren't
(35:11):
to cover the spread and keep it tight.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
I don't think they were gonna let run around so
the fourth you can't fire that man. After that, Mike
mccackey's lives to see another day.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I don't want him to get fired. It's just the
reality of the situation. If they lose to the Jets
at home in prime time, he's done.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Yeah, he has been great and like the league has
kind of figured out a lot of what he does.
But this isn't his fault. This is the GM on down.
This is a oh ye, poorly constructed roster. The moves
that they make make no sense. The drafting is bad,
Like they just need to blow it up. And I
mean they really need entirely new management and people running
(35:51):
that team. But that's that's the story of another day.
Can we talk about the Bears though? The Bears look competent.
Caleb Williams looked great. Now, granted it was the Cowboys defense,
which is atrocious and Ebra Flu's got embarrassed in his
return to Soldier Field, but Williams look good. The Bears
defense it's still not great, but there was some improvement
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there with all backup defensive backs. I will say, in fairness,
I bet the Bears smaller. One of the things I
was worried about, obviously was their backup corners against Pickens
and Lamb Lamb getting hurt was huge, like just just
massive in that game. Uh. But yeah, the Bears. The
Bears look confident. Give some hope. You go ow in three,
(36:34):
like you go in three that who's going three? Or
now like the Texans are owing three historically you're talking
one percent chance to make the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Yea, it's are owing three sense, and the Chiefs or
the Giants will be too. I gotta say, Ben Johnson
absolutely mushroom stamped with the freaking play calling today. The
kitchen sink game, dog through everything out there. It was awesome, entertaining.
(37:03):
Not only did Caleb Williams look good, they look like
they took a huge step in the right direction offensively
this week, just as a whole. I was very impressed.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
He looked like the number one overall pick and that
was the biggest That's the biggest thing that you needed,
Ben Johnson to get out of this scene was just
to make Caleb Williams look like the dude he had
two ninety eight four touchdowns just throwing the ball deep.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
And though, okay, sorry, well, I was just gonna all
I was gonna do is pat myself on the back
because I was the only one that came through on
the three muskets here parlay with that one.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, I'm so mad atladd McConkey. It's actually unreal. I
am in lad mcconkee, bet jail, even though he's score
next week.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Yeah, we're also not going to talk about this three
monstcuts probably any more, because that means we have to
think about the rams, and I don't want to think
about the rams anymore.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
That one got that one got blown up early.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
Do you know who? Uh look bad? That? I was Bonnicks.
He missed countless wide open passes on the field. Credit
to Mark Parker's get another win there. Three and Zer
now head to the Giants, and if you're a Broncos fan,
pain the last two weeks end on walk off field goals.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
So it's crazy because their defense looked so bad last
week and looked incredible this week. I have them in
fantasy and I know we're not a fantasy football show,
but I stupidly after last week panicked and changed out
my defense, and I should have. But their defense gonna
have to hold this team together. If Bonix really is
going to go through a sophomore slump, it's going to
have to be on them. They're going to have to
(38:33):
be the defense that everybody predicted them to be at
the beginning of the season. But the Chargers looked damn good.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Yeah, their defense is good. I mean, Herbert's obviously good.
They got their most accurate kicker in NFL history. They
got a lot of things working their way. But you
could see today the injuries for the Chargers on the
offensive line start to show.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
They got the Ashi Harry game.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah, and but like Sallyer was in there getting destroyed
because I think Beckton came out and then obviously they
lost their starting tackle before the year, and you you
started to see that day because Herbert was under a
ton of pressure. Obviously those teams don't have to pass
Rush of Denver, but a slight concern if you're a
Charges fan, but obviously happy to be three to oh
with the Giants coming up. So yeah, they're there, rightful
(39:18):
favorite in that division.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Any final thoughts before we step aside for what should
be a pretty entertaining Sunday night football game.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Next week looks ugly gambling wise, that's my thought. Next
week looks like the Trenches might shrink.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
The board, drink the board. I'm yelling this to myself.
I had way too many, way too many bets in
the app this week. I need to we need to
slow it down, especially thought.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
It's a I'm gonna just beg and hope that the
gambling gods listened to me through the first three weeks.
Some of the beats that I've had, like, can I
have some joy? Like just some joy At the end
of the game, I guess that the Jets was a
joyous moment, but I thought that was locked up. And
then of course the Bucks scramble forty yards and then
(40:04):
come up one short, one yard short of the first continues, Yeah,
there the Eagles, the Eagles and the Bucks and the
Luck Bowl next week. I assume that's going. Whoever has
the ball last will win. I don't bet the if
I if I don't bet against the Eagles, they'll call
like seven push penalties.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Then I think we need to hate.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
I think we need to hate bet against the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I mean, wake up in the second half, but it's
still they were running like the same two routes, but
it's there's still war. Calling is still bad.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Yeah, we're at war with the Eagles.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
This is not worth the Bucks too, though, So I
don't know. I might have to stay away from that one.
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
We'll be back w Maconkey.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Yes, and the Patriots, well, unless you might bet the
Patriots this week. Stunning that if you bet the Patriots
against the Panthers. But no, I don't know that. That's
that's all I thought. I have go Giants, Go Giants,
and we'll be back during the week to talk Week four.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
That's right Tuesday afternoon, right here on the Action Network
YouTube page for Kendri Middleton. Stucky. I'm Brandon Kravitz. We
got Week four coming up next week. We'll get you
all set with that. Good luck with your bets tonight,
Go Giants. We'll see you back here next time on
the Favorites podcast presented by Draft Cakes.
Speaker 4 (41:31):
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