December 2, 2022 • 54 mins
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Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and welcome
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It's all over now, Danny h Congratulations. We will have
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coverage every morsel people are dying to know, Danny, did
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from the wedding and we will answer all of those
burning questions as only we can't here on the Saturday edition. Right,
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so this is today. You know what today is, Danny, Right,
you know what today is. Yeah, time to slide back
into the penny costume. That's right, all right, strike up
the band, here we go. Welcome, players, welcome, It's time
now penny versus the penny. All right, Before we get
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to Week thirteen in the NFL, let's take a look
back to Week twelve. And it was awkward, Danny, without
your last couple of weeks we've had. We had Alex.
He did a great job. But Alex is more into
anime than football, and uh and so that you know,
that's just his Michigan as he loves the anime. If
we had like an anime, pick them, that would have
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been been really good. But he handled it well. He
was a professional, kept his head down, kept going. So
in Week twelve, which was the Thanksgiving festivities, I had
a middling week. I did not have a great week.
I did not lose. There were sixteen games. I went
eight and eight against the spread. So it really depends
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if you picked the right games. Were pretty happy with
me to pick the wrong games you don't like me,
and I lost several heartbreaking games. The Ravens were in
control against Jacksonville, they took it on the chin. I'd
go down the list of the bad beats because there
were tons. Uh. I think. I think there were three,
possibly four games that were in the bag, and then
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in the late stages of the fourth quarter it went
the opposite way. And then that happens. It's why we
call it gambling. And I also won a couple of
games I shouldn't have won, so I don't think it
even out. I should have probably had a ten, ten
and six type week, but ended up eight and eight
but still five. And the Penny shockingly also went eight
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and eight day, so we we had the same exact record,
and that I don't I think that happened in week one.
I believe yeah, week one. I'm looking at the notes
I wrote down here ten and six and ten and
six in week one. So we're eight and eight this week,
and I have not a knock on wood had a
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losing week since week two. Since week two, have not
had a losing week overall, Benny versus the Penny. If
you look at the KI run the graphics on the
fifth hour. Here you see the screen. If you look
at the screen here, you see that I have a
hundred and six wins, sixty nine losses, and five ties.
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That's a six oh six winning percentage. The penny eight
six ninety four and three, so under five four s
winning percentage. The penny has not been above five hundred
since all the way back in week number six, so
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it's been it's been a while. Will this be the
week for the penny? Probably not, But please tell me
that last week you did not take your boy Geno
Smith over Josh Jacobs. Uh No, No, I had the Raiders,
Actually did the Raiders, So I did did go that direction. Anyway,
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let's get to it here. We're gonna know we're not
gonna talk about Kyler Murray, Alligator Arms Murray or the
Carolina Panthers because they are not playing. So they're the
two teams that are on the by. And if you're
new to the show and you're saying, what the hell
is this, I don't understand. It is very simple, very simple.
I moonlight handicapping games. It's something I've done for a
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long time. I like it, like crunching the numbers and
seeing what has happened, trying to project the forecast on
what's gonna happen. It's man versus inanimant object representing the penny,
because the penny does not speak. Is the great Danny
g As we've gone through here, and who can pick
more winners? The home team is Heads, the road team
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is Tales because you travel on your tail sitting and
you took us via plane, trains and automobiles. And so
here we go. Early games, New York Jets at the
Minnesota Vikings, and the Jets come in seven and four
Minnesota nine and two overall. It on CBS with Iron
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Eagle and Charles Davis. Now, the Vikings opened a three
point favorite. The line has stayed flat. Minnesota with the
bounce back last week and they beat the Patriots even
though New England had a very successful day offensively. But
the Vikings bounced back after that debacle the previous week,
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and the money a big lean almost on the Jets.
Temperatures outside in Minnesota being the thirties but weather controlled
at US Banks Stadium, climate controlled, and I want to
take the Jets in this game. Now, I'm not completely
sold on Mike White. He's got that generic name, but
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so far he's had a dynamic game. Uh and the
reason why I like the Jets though he's he's just
been what the doctor ordered. Anybody but Zach Wilson. You
wonder how much of this last week was because the
Bears played a bunch of backups and guys that should
be delivering sandwiches. On defense. Minnesota is an upgrade, but
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I'm not sure they're that huge and upgrade. Even though
they've got the sexy nine and two records. The Vikings
that have won, by my account, four games that they
could have should have would have loss. So it's much
different if the Vikings are sitting here with five or
six wins as opposed to nine wins, and the Vikings
have a couple of starters injured on defense and the
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Purple People Eaters are ranked thirty feet in total defense,
so everyone's putting up big yardage against the Minnesota defense.
Despite the nine wins over the last month, the Viking
defense ranked thirty second. And I love the matchup of
Sauce Gardner as he's gonna shadow box Justin Jefferson, the
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star receiver from the Minnesota Vikings. The Jets have a
better defense, They have a top five defense and a
quarterback who is not gonna f things up. I'm taking
the Jets as a small underdog. Jets thirty and the
Vikings eight, and the penny picks right off the bat.
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The penny going against you taking the Vikings alright, the
Vikings is the pick. We move on now to Baltimore,
Panic City. That would be Denver three and eight at
Baltimore seven and four. It's on CBS with Kevin Harlan
and Trent Green on the call. The Ravens opened up
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a big six and a half point favorite in this game.
And let me get the freshest line here as I
gotta click refresh on this to see the latest line,
and it has stayed all the way up at eight.
So an eight point line in favor of the Ravens.
As most everyone is betting on Baltimore, they think that
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this is free money on the Ravens. And there's no
way that the Brocos can compete here at M ANDT
Bank Stadium, the house that sports with Coleman built, it's
cloudy fifty two degrees at kickoff. Now, Lamar Jackson's Ravens.
You look at all the winds they've piled up with Lamar,
but from a gambling standpoint, they have been particularly great
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at home, and certainly not as a home favorite. Lamar
Jackson seven and fifteen against the spread as a home
favorite of three and a half or more, not counting
Week one, and recently the Ravens are oh four and
one against the spread at home. That's this season. There
four and two against the spread on the road. They
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did lose last week and that late loss to Jacksonville.
And then you look at the other side. Russell Wilson.
Much of this he built in Seattle, but russ as
an underdog in his career twenty eight and fourteen against
the spread. I'm gonna do the unthinkable, the unimaginable. I'm
gonna dig a hole and bunker down with the Broncos
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getting eight points. Russell Wilson has guided a historically bad
Bronco offense. They're the worst offense in football. But the
defense has held its own and so I'm really I'm
playing my confidence game. It's worth pondering the Bronco defense
because the Ravens have their own issues. They blew the
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lead against the very blah Jacksonville team. The value is
on the side of the of Denver because Lamar Jackson,
I can give you all kinds of numbers here, but
he is not played well. This is supposed to be
a money grab season. It hasn't happened. But the main
reason to have a little more faith in Denver is
the left tackle of the Ravens is hobbled. Ronnie Stanley
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has got a bad ankle, and at the time we
are recording Benny versus de Penny, it looks like he's
not going to play. And if he does play, how
affective will he be? So a lot of juggling on
that offensive line here. Baltimore has been so dependent on
Justin tucker Field goals. I don't doubt that that the
Ravens will will win this particular game, but I don't
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trust that the touchdowns are gonna be there for Lamar
Jackson and the Broncos. I'm not gonna sit here and
up sell there their offense with nuggets and wisdom because
there aren't many. Uh. They're bad, Uh, they're they're in
quicksand but anytime you get over a touchdown, you gotta
take it. So I'll take the Broncos plus the eight
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Ravens twenty three and The Broncos seventeen the final and
it looks like the Penny also wishes it was invited
to Wilson's birthday party. Going with the Broncos, I don't
understand who invites the entire staff to their birthday party.
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Isn't that a little weird? Your unlimited birthday seating? I mean,
we have parties. We're gonna have a Christmas party. I
guess ugly sweater party coming up. I'll wear the Hanocker thing.
But we don't invite everyone at my work or my
wife's work. We invite people that we we like and
people that were around, and you know, usually people we've
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known for a while. That's usually how it works. I thought,
I it's odd whoever is not there automatically hates you
exactly exactly, you know. And there's some people I stopped
inviting because I did invite him every year and they
never showed up. And so I said, all right, they
don't want to come there. Rather than have them say
they don't want to make it or make some bullshit
excuse up where they can't go, I'll just not invite them. Uh,
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and then they don't have to do it, all right?
Next up Pittsburgh four and seven and Atlanta Falcons at
five and seven. It's on CBS with Andrew Catalan and
James lofton the Game Open to pick them Falcons at
one point favorite at home the Mercedes Benz Stadium, the
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place that Jerome Drenovitch Well likely being attendance or old
friends Roome Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association lives in suburban
Atlantic is a huge Pittsburgh Steeler fan. I gotta think
he'll be there at this game. I haven't texted him,
but I'm assuming he's gonna be there. And most people
betting on Pittsburgh and I can give you numbers on this,
but I'm gonna take the Steelers here. I'm gonna take
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the Steelers in this game, and I actually like Pittsburgh
a lot. The logic behind this pick me explain why
I'm going with the Pittsburgh football team. The Steelers have
found a little something. In the last month or so.
T J. Watt has come back, the defense has been
wonderful Pittsburgh. Overall, they ranked twenty five in total defense,
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but the last month there are top ten defense in
the NFL. And that recipe that Mike Tomlin has been
cooking up. I'm giving it the chef's kiss here because
you've got defense, the ability to run the ball, and
error free football. In big moment from Kenny Pickett, you
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don't lose a lot. That's a sweet pill to swallow.
You don't lose a lot with that. And that's been
the way it's gone here lately for Pittsburgh. Kenny Pickett's
got three straight games with no turnovers and now he
goes against a whipped cream soft Atlanta defense. You got
Pittsburgh who's top ten in rushing yards per carry. The
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Falcons are a one trick pony. They can run the ball,
but Pittsburgh has been pretty good against the run over
the last month. The Steelers are sixth and run defense
their fourth over the last month. So everything, every indicator
we look at says Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburg. The Ysers
so Yanser's twenty four and the Falcons twenty. The final
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land the Penny and my penny is still on island
time band going with Marcus Mariota and the Falcons. Okay,
bad pick by the Penny, but I'll take it. I'll
take that. That's a win. For me. The next up
as we grind on on Benny versus the Penny, another
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game that I have a strong opinion on. We pick
every game. Some games I like more then others. Tennessee
seven and four at Philadelphia ten and one. It's on
Fox with Kevin Burcott and Greg Olsen. This is the
big game on Fox in the early television window. And
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Philadelphia has been a whole different beast this season with
that ten and one record only one hiccup along the way.
The Eagles opened a six and a half point favorite.
They are favored by five. The Titans getting most of
the money and sunny, no really bad weather. It's gonna
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be fine, sunny with temperatures in the forties at Lincoln
Financial Field. And I love of the Titans. This was
one of my strong players this week. And here's why
you remember the Washington Commanders when they were able to
win against Philadelphia. How do they do that? They won
that with a power running game and a defense that
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was able to make some plays to stop the run.
Those are the same ingredients that Tennessee brings to the table.
Mike Rabels, coming off a loss, you like the Titans
a little more coming off a loss Rabel twenty one
and seven against the spread as an underdog of three
or more points, and you look at everything, every indicator.
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The Eagles that great record, but the defense is showing
some signs are cracking. The Birds are ranked second overall,
but the last three weeks they've been in the middle
of the pack defensively. They've actually their number sixteen, behind
the Cardinals and the Falcons over the last month. And
this is a value pick because you get the Titan
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power running game against an injured, mangled Eagle defense signing
guys like a Dominican su off their lazy boy cheers
in Philadelphia. Also without their strong safety c J. Gardner Johnson,
he's dinged up. So Tennessee can slow the run with
a solid d. They will do that and they will
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be able to run the ball against the bird Brains.
Titans upset City lost number two scrub down the Birds.
Titans twenty seven, Eagles twenty four the final and I
think you both are the bird brains. Penny also going
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with the Titans. You watch out, Danny, because the smack
in the face from the Titans to the Eagles huge, huge,
Next up, Jacksonville four and seven, at Detroit four and
seven on Fox our friend part of the Fox Bus
Radio hum Not Association, Chris Myers and Robert Smith. They
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have the call from ford Field. This game opened Lions
by one. It is a pick them. Most people betting
on Jacksonville cloudy in the thirties in Detroit, but inside
ford Field, it's all good. It's all good in the neighborhood.
So I'm gonna take the Lions in this game. And
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here's why we're talking. Uh, you know, you're talking about
a matchup of two even teams, same record. But we
liked the Detroit side mainly because of Aiden Hutchinson, who
We've been hyping this guy up and he's been wonderful,
especially for for gamblers. Grabs your attention. The Lions are
roaring on that side of the ball. They are shot
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against Buffalo on Thanksgiving to win that game, so it's
a mini by. They've got a little extra time coming
into this game. Statistically, they were terrible early in the season,
but another one of these teams. Over the last month,
they have been clicking, licking. The run defense is a concern,
but Jacksonville they're not a heavy run team. They haven't
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been that over the year this season and uh, Trevor
et En is supposed to come back, how effective will
he be? Trevor Lawrence has stacked three good games in row,
rather quietly, six touchdowns, a passer rating of a hundred
and sixteenes averaging almost nine yards per templar last month.
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That's really good. But he goes against the Motor City
kiddies here. I'm gonna stand with them, and I also
like the Lions to be able to move the ball.
They're the better team here talent wise. With Jamal Williams,
the powerback, Amon Ross st Brown as playmakers for Jared Goff,
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this will be nip and tuck. The only red flag
here the Lions offensive line dealing with the creeping crud,
and there could be without two starters, which obviously scares
you a lot with backups playing, and you don't want
to get rick rolled by the backups. But I will
take the Lions in a pickum four Jags twenty three
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the final, and the Penny go in the other direction,
taking the Jags alright. Disagreement on that, We press on
on Benny versus the Penny, don't forget On the Saturday podcast,
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Road to Hannah the road to divorce, all right? Next
up Washington seven and five at the New York Football
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Giants seven and four. It's on Fox with Kenny Albert
and Jonathan Vilma. A home game where Kenny, who lives
in the New York area, he gets to call a
game at home. I'm gonna take the Commanders in this game. Now,
Washington is a two and a half point favor. They
opened as a pick them. Most people are betting on
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the Giants. It will be in the forties at MetLife Stadium.
Washington's found a little pixie dust with Taylor Heineke, who
statistically is not very good. There's nothing to really get
excited about, but he's carved a niche here of winning football.
Like teams more confident on offense, they just are our
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click a licking with with this guy quarterback. Now, the
Giants have been very good with Brian Dable this season.
They're eight and three against the spread. But as as
I said, I'm taking Washington the Commandos. They've been a
bit of a wagon of late. The Commander's defense ranked
ain't oh, we're all in the big season, but second
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over all the last month, and they should be able
to run the ball down the throats. They will be
able to run the ball down the throats with the Giants.
With Brian Robinson and Antonio Gibson, yin and yang, they
crossed the rubicon here. Also, the Big Blue offensive line
is battling a bunch of injuries and illness. They've got
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the creeping crud. Also, three starters, the right tackle, left guard,
and center all circled on the injury report. So good
luck slowing down Montez Sweet and those other gladiators for
the Washington football team. Final score the team formerly known
as the Redskins with all their baggage three and the
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Giants seventeen. The final is Danny Dimes going down here
a terrible record against the spread as a favorite. I
know they'ren underdog, but the Giants go down. The penny says,
fuck Robinson and those ridiculously ugly big hats going with
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the Giants. Do you see how much of those things
cost by the way, probably eight oh, you're close. Seventy
five dollars is the beginning price for those oversighted good guests. Yeah,
the uglier things are, the more expensive they seem to be.
I have never seen anyone where one of those sets,
have you ever? Like randomly, there's people wear hats all
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over l A where we are millions and millions of people,
I've never seen anyone in a hat like. No, I
don't think we're gonna see that either. Because somebody might
pose with it at their house as a joke, I
don't think anybody would actually walk out in public wearing one. Well,
they claim they've sold their sales went up two thousand percent,
but that might mean they went from no sales to
like half a sale, you know, And it doesn't necessarily
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mean that that there's a ton of people buying it.
If I had a TV show or something like that,
I'd probably buy one because it'd be a good gag
thing to wear exactly. But outside of that, I mean, yeah,
it is a that's a tough look. You imagine getting
on a plane having somebody how about if you're how
about if you're at a ball game and the person
in front of you's got the giant funny hat on Jesus,
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especially your team, big old ram Horns, you'd really look
like a ram head. I mean you might have to
slap him in the back of the head. You might
have to to break their head open. All right, Next
up Cleveland four and seven and Houston one, nine and one.
Normally we just skate over this game, but it's not
your normal Houston Cleveland game. It's on CBS Spireaudidas and
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Jay Feely have the call as the Shaun Watson goes
into the scene of the crime. The Lions. Then the
Browns opened a five point favorite, but all the way
up the seven, which I don't get. The Browns are
not a good team him and most people think this
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is free money. All you have to do is put
a couple of bucks down on Cleveland and you'll get
your money back. Over the action in favor of the
Brown Backer bandwagon. Light rain in Houston, temperatures in the
seventies at NRG Stadium, which is a dome, so it
doesn't matter. The Texans have dropped three straight against the spread.
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The Browns they they as a franchise, are oh and
seven against the spread against Houston. And if you really
really want to dig deep here, how about this stat
the Browns the last fifteen games as a favorite, the
Cleveland Browns are two twelve and one. So I'm gonna
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cover my eyes. I'm gonna hold my nose here and
bet on the jibrones from Houston. I'm taking the texts.
I know you're laugh at me. All you want, I don't.
From a gambling standpoint, the smart play is on the
Texans now. I know they've gotten absolutely dusted the last
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couple of games, and Kyle Allen is terrible. I'm I'm
counting on him improving because otherwise, forget about it. Last
week the Texans could be fumbled twice and tossed a
pair of interceptions. Now he was able to recover the fumbles,
but those killed drives. That's how you fall behind thirty
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and nothing to the Dolphins and Houston. They have really
airmailed it in these last couple of games, and so
do they have fight. This is a big game for
the organization, for ownership, for the fans of Houston. It's personal.
That's personal. With Deshaun Watson, the creepy quarterback, he hasn't
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played a regular season game in seven hundred days since
January of Everyone says, oh, he's the beacon of light.
I say he is the doom of darkness. Uh. And
and how rusty is he going to be having not
played in that time, You gotta think there's gonna be
a lot of rush. Now, Cleveland could just run the
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ball student body right, student body left with Chubb and
the running game, but the Texans also should be able
to run the ball against a subpart Cleveland defense. Damian
Pierce is the one saving grace. He has to hit
the ground running. I say he will. Houston is without
one of their starting defensive backs and a linebacker dinged
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up on the injury report. The Browns are gonna win
this game. The Shawn's not gonna play very well. The
Texans are gonna have the lead and shock some people
early on. They'll give it up late. Browns twenty four
and the Texans twenty. They'll cover that seven points spread.
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And the penny loves a good cleaning, loves a good shine.
Going with Cleve lends all right, Cleveland, it is next
up for us. We head to the Windy City, sweet home, Chicago,
the birthplace of the Blues, where green Bay four and
eight takes on Chicago three and nine. Both these teams
nibbling at the very bottom of the division. They're in
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a nip and tuck fight here. It's on Fox with
Adam Aman and Mark Slavery. They have to call Packers
open to two and a half point favorite, their favorite
by four and a half. Most people betting on the
Packers cloudy in thirty six degrees. That kick off at
Soldier Field. Now we are handicapping every game against the spread.
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This game is rather impossible to handicap because of the
injury report. The Packers have covered seven straight games against
the Bears. But Green Bay everyone thinks the Packers put
them down as a favorite. No, no big deal. Uh
well this will warm your heart if you're a Packer hater.
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Green Bay their last seven games as a favorite. They
are one in six against the spread their last seven games.
Now where I come from, that's not good. So here's
the way this is gonna work. We're recording this right now.
My pick on Benny versus the Penny, the green Bay Packers.
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But remember Aaron Rodgers got bad ribs. He's thinged up,
gonna start good stats stuffing opportunity to Bears defense sucks.
But at broadcast time, Justin Fields. The reason you can't
really have a confident opinion on this game is Justin
field status is listed as questionable. His non throwing shoulder
is messed up. We would bet on Chicago at plus
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four and a half if we knew Justin Fields was
going to play, but we don't know that, and we
will not know that. We don't expect until much closer
to the to the kickoff, although something may come down
late Friday afternoon, but at this time, at the time
we're doing this, there's no information out fields. He's got
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a bum shoulder. It's his non throwing shoulder has been
dinged up from all the running. So it is more
likely than not that Trevor Simeon, who's also dinged up,
or Tim Boyle who uh that one of those guys
end up starting this game for the Chicago Bears, who
played the Packers back in Week two and lost by
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seventeen points in that game, and people will go back
and they're like, wow, seventeen point loss, what's going on
with that? Blah blah blah blah blah uh and and
the Bears were able to hang around in that game. Really,
there was a couple of mistakes in the second quarter
that flipped the game around, and they still had a
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chance to cover in the fourth quarter. But it's the
Bears offensively are a much better team now than they
were in Week two. If Justin Fields is playing so again,
we're assuming he's not going to play Packers twenty three
Bears seventeen the finals. The Bears take one right to
the kisser, all right, and the Penny picks a Penny
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lands on tails again going with the Packers. Let's get
to the late television window now and Benny versus the Penny.
Seattle six and five. They've been tearing up the dance
floor on Sundays and the L A r i Am
is at three and eight. It's on Fox with Kevin
Coogler and Mark Sanchez. The Seahawks open to three and
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a point favorite. They are favored by seven and a
half and quite the stir around the NFL. What has
happened to the once mighty l A Rams as they
have fallen apart, coming apart of the seams and then
some may in oh Man, Seattle, that big favorite here
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at SOFI stadium light rain. It never rains in l
A light rain projected in the forecast on Sunday at
so FI. I'm gonna take the Rams. Why, I'm a
glutton for punishment the Seahawks. Let me be clear, Danny,
the Seahawks should win this game by twenty. Everyone's betting
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on Seattle to win this game by twenty. The Rams
don't have Aaron Donald, Cooper Cup, Matthew Stafford, he gone
Alan Robinson and more. The Rams are Hamlet without the Prince.
But regardless of that, I always say, Danny, I gotta
stick to my gambling principles. And and over the years
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I have come out ahead more times than not, even
when it looks ridiculous to the unwashed masses. And everyone
googse on me, and they pointed me like Nelson from
the Simpsons, and they say, just like that. But I'm
I'm taking the Rams. And anytime you get a touchdowner
more in a divisional game, you take the points. You
don't ask questions. Now, Sean mcveigh's team has been the
worst in football against the spread. There like a Pop
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Warner team. Last week. I know they had Aaron Donald,
but they a bunch of guys out. They actually made
plays in the red zone, and they it took a
late field goal by some Huckleberry kicker for the Chiefs
to cover the spread. So the Rams hung around last week.
Seattle's defense is ranked thirty in the league. We saw
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your Raiders and Josh Jacobs have a field day. Unfortunately,
the Rams are not dangerous at running the football. That is,
that is not the fruit of their labor. But adversities
create create opportunities. There are guys in the Rams who,
if they play well this week, we'll have a job
in the NFL next year, possibly just based on this game.
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So I love the scratching claw approach and also think
Seattle is starting to slip a little bit. So I
will take the Seahawks to win the game, but not
cover the spread. Seahawks twenty three, Rams sixteen. They're gonna
need a Geno Smith interception and fumble to make that happen.
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And the Penny loves how you talked to yourself into
that one. Go to Seattle straight up. Yeah, this whole
Penny thing is sometimes it's therapy. It's my couch, my
fainting couch, and and I try to shoot the lights
out all right. Next up, Miami, Miami, Miami, as they say,
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head west, young man, and so the Dolphins that long
roady as they traveled by stagecoach from South Florida all
the way out to the Bay Area Santa Clara of
the site as the Dolphins eight and three, forty Niners
seven and four, as the Niners hotter than a pistol.
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Last couple of games. It's on Fox with Joe Davis
and Darryl moose Johnston. The Niners opened a four and
a half point favorite. They are favored by four at
this point. The the Dolphins getting a lot of the
money here now. Rainy light, rainy damp conditions that kick
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off temperatures in the fifties, and if you're living in Miami,
you're used to temperatures in the eighties, so that's gonna
seem like it's in the thirties at Levi's Stadium. The
Dolphins have not been a good road team, although to
a ton of about Looa missed several of those games.
Dolphins are one three and one against the spread without
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their their quarterback in most of those games. Miami also
have a They have a winning record with two overall
Dolphins against the forty niner team that had been so
bad at home, but lately the last ten games dollar
forty Niners are seven and three against spread. That being said,
the pick is in and I want to take the Dolphin.
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And here's why we have the game within the game
here as I played Dr Phil, the mental side of this,
You've got Mike McDaniel, the protege versus Kyle Shanahan, the coach.
Miami's the right side for me. I like getting four
points with the Dolphins. You're getting over a field goal,
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and the most likely outcome for this game is a
field goal. And so if you get over a field goal,
if the Niners win by a field goal, the Dolphins
win the bet. And obviously the Dolphins win straight up.
It doesn't matter you win the win the game. I
do not expect either one of these teams to blow
the other. To Smith of Rings, the forty Niner defense
has been great. They had to shut out last week.
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They will not have a shutout this week against the
Cheetah Tyreek Hill and company. Unlike the Saints, that Dolphins
actually have a competent offense and San Francisco's got some
injuries piling up. Elijah Mitchell dinged up out of the
rest of the regular season. Also, Christian McCaffrey was on
the injury report. No shock there, Deebo Samuel has missed
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some time in practice and whatnot. Now, the Dolphins have
their own problems as they are on the Highway to Hell.
Their offensive line left tackle Toron Armstead, he's dinged up
on the injury report, and so that's a bad, bad sign.
But nonetheless, I'm gonna take the Dolphins twenty three and
the Niners twenty the final, and the Penny says, be
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on the lookout for Cavino and Riches mugs on TV,
as they'll be at this game cheering on the Niners,
just like the Penny here landing on Edds. Okay, now
are they going in the crowd? Are they gonna be
media freeloaders? They paid for their tickets, in fact, that
was a big topic on the show. They opted to
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get better seats and share a hotel room, and they
got a lot of crap as two grown men share
in one room. Yeah, that's awkward. Are they just going
by themselves? They're not bringing their significant others anything like that.
It's like a guy's road trip because Rich is a
big Niners fan, and Cono is just gonna put up
with it, I think pretty much. Yeah, okay, all right,
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and taking one for the team, right, taking one for
the team. I got you, all right? Next up? Like you.
They like to cut corners with budget. Oh you gotta
do it, man, I'm sorry, No, I mean they don't
call it being a cheap skate. Covino says it's balling
on a budget. Wait till you hear the Saturday Podcast.
I got a lecture, Danny, because I'm such a tight wad.
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I got a lecture, and I'll explain what I got
a lecture about on the on the Saturday Podcast. Let's
keep going here with this. The Chargers, the l A
Chargers will show Me your Lightning Bolt at six and five,
and the Los Vegas Football team four and seven on
CBS with Greg Gumble and Adam Marchiletta. I gotta know
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where is Danny? Gans Charges are one point favorite. They
opened a three point favorite. The Raiders aren't going to
make the playoffs. Are you okay with them winning? Or
would you rather they lose? No? I like the little
wind streak they're on right now. Ben. If you were
gonna tank for a pick, then you should have lost
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those two close games. So might as well keep rolling
right now? All right, you're in the wind come and
the Raiders actually come to Los Angeles coming up? Are
you gonna try to sneak in there? Is that possible?
You know? Maybe that is possible. Yeah, if I find
a good ticket, Yeah, you can take the great public
transportation to Englewood. Nothing will that will happen to that.
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Or save money on parking, you can, well you can
park on someone's lawn and then you come back and
maybe see what's left in your car and your cozy
up to that. But the Raiders have won their last two.
They beat the Broncos and the Seahawks following a three
game losing streets. So they win a couple of road games.
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Now they go back home and the Raiders at home
this season, they are two and two. They're two and
five on the road, two and two at home, And
I'm gonna take the charges. Most of the money is
on the Raiders in this game. But I'll tell you why.
I I backed the passing attack justin Herbert will be
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able to matriculate the ball down the field. The blind
spot on defense is the run defense that ranked thirty seconds.
That's why many people think this is free money that
Josh Jacobs is unstoppable and he's fifth among all running
backs and yards per carry. And the issue here those
the Chargers got their guys back. They've gotten their guys
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back from injury. And when you look at the Chargers
depth chart, when you handicap a game and you go
through the depth chart, you're like about who's healthy, who's
not healthy? And pretty much every week you look at
the Chargers and it's all read, it's all red ink
on the smartphone or the laptop that you're looking at,
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You're like, oh man, you got all these backup guys
playing and saying I like backups to a point. I
don't love me the backups. And I'm looking at this
weekend and there are three guys dinged up on the
on the Charges offense. Mike Williams, there's read on his name,
Corey Lindsley, the center is injured, and Trade Pipkins, the
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right tackle, also on the injury reports. So the Charges
are gonna be playing some rookies, They're gonna be playing
some backups, But I don't care justin Herbert since he
got some of his guys back. On offense, He's got
five touchdowns, one interception, passer rating of a hundred and
eleven the last two weeks against the Chiefs and the
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Cardinals and the and the the Chargers from a gambling
standpoint as a road team for whatever reason, you can
use your amateur psychology to explain why this is. But
the Chargers are four and two against the spread on
the road. They're just two and three at home. This
game in Sin City lost wages Nevada Chargers seven and
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the writers twenty four and the penny agreeing with you
going with the Chargers. Alright, Chargers, it is next up.
We get to the last game in the early television
actually late television window before the Sunday night game. That's
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Kansas City at Cincinnati and it's on CBS. This is
the big game for CBS. Time to make the donuts
for Tony Romo and Jim Nance. They have the call there.
Chiefs opened a two and a half point favorite. They
are favored by one and a half. Have light rain
temperatures in the upper thirties at the former Paul Brown Stadium. Lately,
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the Chiefs have had to say uncle when they've been
playing the Bengals has not gone well in recent games.
The Chiefs overall have been a bad bet. Their last
ten games, they have a losing record three six and
one against the spread. Chiefs are trying to cover consecutive
regular season games for the first time since last December.
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They covered late on that Shmendricks field goal against the Rams,
barely covered that big line against the Rams. They're trying
to cover another spread here. Here's a weird quirk. Andy
Reid's a Hall of Fame coach, first ballot Hall of Famer.
One of the teams that he has had issues with,
certainly from a gambling standpoint, the Bengals. Andy Reid is
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one and seven against the spread his last eight versus
say see, like, how do you explain that. I know,
the last couple of years since he's had a good team,
but before that not so much. But any read has
just not done well as he feels very little, very
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very small against the Bengals. But I am gonna take
the Chiefs in this game. Very rarely do you get
the rampaging Chiefs with this kind of line. Patrick Mahomes
had some issues in the red zone. Last week's essentially
a pick him game. It's a one and a half
point line. Bengals are coming off an impressive win. They
come back. They've really played well in the second half
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against the Titans last week. Now they crank things up
against cansa city. We trust this game will be closed
in the fourth quarter, like all of these games seem
to be. No one's gonna run out in front and
hide and that's it. Uh. Cincinnati, They've been really good
at home three and one this season, but don't count
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the ends. The City Chiefs on the road there four
and one on the road. I'm taking the Chiefs thirty
three and the Bengals thirty the final and the Penny
Lands on the Bungles, the Bungals the pig. All right.
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Next up, we head now to Jerry's World, where Sunday
Night Football's got Indianapolis four seven and one. Four seven
and one the record of the Colts as they take
on the Dallas Cowboys at eight and three. It's on
nb CEE with Mike Tariko and Chris Collinsworth. They have
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the call. As Indianapolis losers of five of their last
six games, they were three two and one at one point.
But they have fallen apart here and they are the
laughing stock at the end. Fell after what happened in
the first half against Pittsburgh on Monday night, as they
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could not do anything on offense. Matt Ryan had a
passer rating of fourteen at halftime, played one good quarter
in the third quarter, and then bungled the clock at
the end of the game. The Cowboys opened a nine
and app point favorite. They're favored by eleven. And I'm
gonna go against the public which thinks this is all
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free money again with Dallas go on the other one
and I Am going to take the Indianapolis Colts in
this game as Dallas with that sexy record and all that. Uh,
Indianapolis is not a good team, but uh, they've shown
a little punchback when they've had a really bad performance.
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Most teams do that. Most teams don't have back to
back sneakers. It's imperative that Jonathan Taylor yet cooking early.
If he's not cooking, if he doesn't have the ingredients
in the kitchen. The formula to hang around here is
some long, methodical drives hide Matt Ryan, who has gotten
progressively worse. He's broken down as the games have gone
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on here the three games that he's played here, he's
looked worse and worse and worse here for Andy, reaching
rock bottom against the Steelers. But now you've got a
cowboy defense that you look at all the big names
on the Cowboys like oh Man, but there is a
bit of the creeping crud that is going around this
time of the year, and so the Dallas Cowboys, who's
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gonna show up? And again, at the time we are
doing this, at the time we are putting Benny versus
the penny together, the information we have, you should follow
this all the up. Be a good gambler, follow us
all the way up to the kickoff of the game
on Sunday, and most bets are made right before games anyway,
that's when most of the money comes in. The sharp
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money comes in early in the week, the the casual
money comes in later. But there's two starters on defense,
Jonathan Hankins and Anthony Barr, who both are circled in
red on the injury report for the Cowboys. Couple of
offensive players on the offensive line also some issues we're hearing.
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But you're getting double digits it's a prime time game,
a chance to get some credibility back for Jeff Saturday
and the Colts and a glamor match up against the Cowboys.
And this is also a lull and schedule. You're not
gonna get up to play the Colt it's not very good.
And after this you've got the Texans, so you're not
gonna get up for that. So Dallas knows they can
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be lethargic and win this game. And that's exactly what's
gonna happen. Keep an eye out for the back door cover,
the late touchdown pass that nobody sees coming that wins
the bet Cowboys thirty and the Colts twenty two, the
final which means Indie covers the bet, they seize them all.
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And the penny cheating off of your paper on this
one going with indeed, Well, listen, I uh, I'm honored
that you would try to cheat off my pay for penny.
I appreciate that. All right, Next up, last game, last
game on Benny versus the Penny. Hallelujah, hallelujah. And we
have New Orleans at four and eight at Tampa Bay
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five and six. It's on ESPN with Joe Buck and
Troy Aikman. They have the call, some people saying that
Aikman was aloof last week as he tried to describe
the Indianapolis Colts and what they were doing on offense.
He didn't seem to enjoy it. I don't know how
much football you watched in Hawaii. The games started some
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really weird times there. Yeah, it's it's awkward. You're like,
you gotta be on the beach, you know, you know what,
We're watching football when they're kicking off the games on
Monday both mondays. I was there. I wasn't sure if
an NFL network replay was on or if it was
an actual Monday night football game, because you're right, it's
on in the daytime. Yes, it's like four. Is it
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four o'clock in the afternoon or is it three o'clockock? Wow?
How can we say across the pond for England, but
we don't say across the pond in Hawaii. Shouldn't it
be the same thing. It's just the Pacific pond. The
Atlantic is the Eastern Pond. I don't get it. I
never thought of that before. You all right, here we go.
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Buccaneers a four point favorite. They opened it six and
a half. Money's pretty even on this game. The Bucks
let a game slip away last week in Cleveland, Clear
Skies seventy two degrees that kick off at Raymond James Stadium,
and New Orleans they have done very well head to head.
They've covered each of the last four games in Tampa
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and the Buccaneers finally got a cover in that game
they played at the beginning of the year, early in
the season. That was a believe it, Jamis Winston game
for for the Saints. He's out Andy Dalton in and
how embarrassing for New Orleans. I know the Niners are
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good defensively, but a professional football team should never be
shut out. And if you go back and look at
the first matchup with Jamis Winston, who's clearly in the
penalty box for the New Orleans Saints and they're coaching staff,
for whatever that's worth. If you if you look at
the way the game played out going to the fourth quarter,
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the game was a three three game. It was a
three three game going to the fourth quarter, and then
all kinds of weird stuff happened. There was a Jamis
Winston pick six which extended the lead. There was a
field goal. Brady did complete a big pass in that game.
But Dennis Allen, who's not a good head coach, he
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has he has figured out something with Tom Brady, and
I'm I'm going with the New Orleans Saints in this game.
Tom Brady has been very good at moving the ball
between the twenties. They've not been good in the red zone.
Tampa is in the red zone, scoring percentage, the red box.
New Orleans they've actually been better, they just don't have
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a lot of chances in the red zone. And a
storm is a bruin. If Tom Brady loses to Andy
Dalton at home in this game, I'm not picking the
Saints to win, but you're getting over a field goal.
These teams are very, very even, and I'm gonna take
the Saints plus the points Buccaneers twenty and the New
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Orleans Saints the Preachers seventeen and the Penny says that
Dennis Allen has the most punchable face in all of
the NFL. Going with the Bucks, all right, the Bucks
it is. We'll get out of here on that. Don't forget.
I think we're gonna sit. Download records for the Saturday podcast.
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The Tomorrow's podcast. This is unbelievable, Harvey Levin. The people
over a TMZ. They're gonna be listening. Everyone's gonna want
to hear the insider information Radar online. They will be
monitoring the podcast. You name it. Page six of the
New York Post. This is one of the great celebrity
radio weddings that we've had in sometime, and we're the
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show that has all the coverage. I can how are
we going to get all this information into one podcast?
I don't know how we're gonna do it. And let
me just say this. The first week I was in Hawaii, Ben,
there was a threesome involved on the trip. I'm not
man not saying I was part of it. I'm not
blowing the story yet. You're gonna you're gonna be like Tisher.
I don't know if you heard Tisher was telling sex
(53:44):
stories on the podcast. No, I didn't hear about that.
We went third Rail with Tysher. Yeah, he was telling
like the pent House forums stories. But anyway, all right,
we'll get out anything to promote Danny. How many of
those were true? Though? Who do you really want to know?
There's no video. I don't think God only knows all right,
who knows. Anyway, there are a bunch of hose in anime,
(54:05):
so some of that wouldn't surprise me. Yeah, you think
the wild ladies of anime. All right, we'll get out
of here, have a great rest of your day, and
we will catch you on our Saturday fun in the
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burning questions as only we can't here on the Saturday edition. Right,
(01:34):
so this is today. You know what today is, Danny, Right,
you know what today is. Yeah, time to slide back
into the penny costume. That's right, all right, strike up
the band, here we go. Welcome, players, welcome, It's time
now penny versus the penny. All right, Before we get
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to Week thirteen in the NFL, let's take a look
back to Week twelve. And it was awkward, Danny, without
your last couple of weeks we've had. We had Alex.
He did a great job. But Alex is more into
anime than football, and uh and so that you know,
that's just his Michigan as he loves the anime. If
we had like an anime, pick them, that would have
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been been really good. But he handled it well. He
was a professional, kept his head down, kept going. So
in Week twelve, which was the Thanksgiving festivities, I had
a middling week. I did not have a great week.
I did not lose. There were sixteen games. I went
eight and eight against the spread. So it really depends
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if you picked the right games. Were pretty happy with
me to pick the wrong games you don't like me,
and I lost several heartbreaking games. The Ravens were in
control against Jacksonville, they took it on the chin. I'd
go down the list of the bad beats because there
were tons. Uh. I think. I think there were three,
possibly four games that were in the bag, and then
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in the late stages of the fourth quarter it went
the opposite way. And then that happens. It's why we
call it gambling. And I also won a couple of
games I shouldn't have won, so I don't think it
even out. I should have probably had a ten, ten
and six type week, but ended up eight and eight
but still five. And the Penny shockingly also went eight
(03:28):
and eight day, so we we had the same exact record,
and that I don't I think that happened in week one.
I believe yeah, week one. I'm looking at the notes
I wrote down here ten and six and ten and
six in week one. So we're eight and eight this week,
and I have not a knock on wood had a
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losing week since week two. Since week two, have not
had a losing week overall, Benny versus the Penny. If
you look at the KI run the graphics on the
fifth hour. Here you see the screen. If you look
at the screen here, you see that I have a
hundred and six wins, sixty nine losses, and five ties.
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That's a six oh six winning percentage. The penny eight
six ninety four and three, so under five four s
winning percentage. The penny has not been above five hundred
since all the way back in week number six, so
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it's been it's been a while. Will this be the
week for the penny? Probably not, But please tell me
that last week you did not take your boy Geno
Smith over Josh Jacobs. Uh No, No, I had the Raiders,
Actually did the Raiders, So I did did go that direction. Anyway,
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let's get to it here. We're gonna know we're not
gonna talk about Kyler Murray, Alligator Arms Murray or the
Carolina Panthers because they are not playing. So they're the
two teams that are on the by. And if you're
new to the show and you're saying, what the hell
is this, I don't understand. It is very simple, very simple.
I moonlight handicapping games. It's something I've done for a
(05:13):
long time. I like it, like crunching the numbers and
seeing what has happened, trying to project the forecast on
what's gonna happen. It's man versus inanimant object representing the penny,
because the penny does not speak. Is the great Danny
g As we've gone through here, and who can pick
more winners? The home team is Heads, the road team
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is Tales because you travel on your tail sitting and
you took us via plane, trains and automobiles. And so
here we go. Early games, New York Jets at the
Minnesota Vikings, and the Jets come in seven and four
Minnesota nine and two overall. It on CBS with Iron
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Eagle and Charles Davis. Now, the Vikings opened a three
point favorite. The line has stayed flat. Minnesota with the
bounce back last week and they beat the Patriots even
though New England had a very successful day offensively. But
the Vikings bounced back after that debacle the previous week,
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and the money a big lean almost on the Jets.
Temperatures outside in Minnesota being the thirties but weather controlled
at US Banks Stadium, climate controlled, and I want to
take the Jets in this game. Now, I'm not completely
sold on Mike White. He's got that generic name, but
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so far he's had a dynamic game. Uh and the
reason why I like the Jets though he's he's just
been what the doctor ordered. Anybody but Zach Wilson. You
wonder how much of this last week was because the
Bears played a bunch of backups and guys that should
be delivering sandwiches. On defense. Minnesota is an upgrade, but
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I'm not sure they're that huge and upgrade. Even though
they've got the sexy nine and two records. The Vikings
that have won, by my account, four games that they
could have should have would have loss. So it's much
different if the Vikings are sitting here with five or
six wins as opposed to nine wins, and the Vikings
have a couple of starters injured on defense and the
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Purple People Eaters are ranked thirty feet in total defense,
so everyone's putting up big yardage against the Minnesota defense.
Despite the nine wins over the last month, the Viking
defense ranked thirty second. And I love the matchup of
Sauce Gardner as he's gonna shadow box Justin Jefferson, the
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star receiver from the Minnesota Vikings. The Jets have a
better defense, They have a top five defense and a
quarterback who is not gonna f things up. I'm taking
the Jets as a small underdog. Jets thirty and the
Vikings eight, and the penny picks right off the bat.
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The penny going against you taking the Vikings alright, the
Vikings is the pick. We move on now to Baltimore,
Panic City. That would be Denver three and eight at
Baltimore seven and four. It's on CBS with Kevin Harlan
and Trent Green on the call. The Ravens opened up
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a big six and a half point favorite in this game.
And let me get the freshest line here as I
gotta click refresh on this to see the latest line,
and it has stayed all the way up at eight.
So an eight point line in favor of the Ravens.
As most everyone is betting on Baltimore, they think that
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this is free money on the Ravens. And there's no
way that the Brocos can compete here at M ANDT
Bank Stadium, the house that sports with Coleman built, it's
cloudy fifty two degrees at kickoff. Now, Lamar Jackson's Ravens.
You look at all the winds they've piled up with Lamar,
but from a gambling standpoint, they have been particularly great
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at home, and certainly not as a home favorite. Lamar
Jackson seven and fifteen against the spread as a home
favorite of three and a half or more, not counting
Week one, and recently the Ravens are oh four and
one against the spread at home. That's this season. There
four and two against the spread on the road. They
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did lose last week and that late loss to Jacksonville.
And then you look at the other side. Russell Wilson.
Much of this he built in Seattle, but russ as
an underdog in his career twenty eight and fourteen against
the spread. I'm gonna do the unthinkable, the unimaginable. I'm
gonna dig a hole and bunker down with the Broncos
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getting eight points. Russell Wilson has guided a historically bad
Bronco offense. They're the worst offense in football. But the
defense has held its own and so I'm really I'm
playing my confidence game. It's worth pondering the Bronco defense
because the Ravens have their own issues. They blew the
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lead against the very blah Jacksonville team. The value is
on the side of the of Denver because Lamar Jackson,
I can give you all kinds of numbers here, but
he is not played well. This is supposed to be
a money grab season. It hasn't happened. But the main
reason to have a little more faith in Denver is
the left tackle of the Ravens is hobbled. Ronnie Stanley
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has got a bad ankle, and at the time we
are recording Benny versus de Penny, it looks like he's
not going to play. And if he does play, how
affective will he be? So a lot of juggling on
that offensive line here. Baltimore has been so dependent on
Justin tucker Field goals. I don't doubt that that the
Ravens will will win this particular game, but I don't
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trust that the touchdowns are gonna be there for Lamar
Jackson and the Broncos. I'm not gonna sit here and
up sell there their offense with nuggets and wisdom because
there aren't many. Uh. They're bad, Uh, they're they're in
quicksand but anytime you get over a touchdown, you gotta
take it. So I'll take the Broncos plus the eight
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Ravens twenty three and The Broncos seventeen the final and
it looks like the Penny also wishes it was invited
to Wilson's birthday party. Going with the Broncos, I don't
understand who invites the entire staff to their birthday party.
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Isn't that a little weird? Your unlimited birthday seating? I mean,
we have parties. We're gonna have a Christmas party. I
guess ugly sweater party coming up. I'll wear the Hanocker thing.
But we don't invite everyone at my work or my
wife's work. We invite people that we we like and
people that were around, and you know, usually people we've
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known for a while. That's usually how it works. I thought,
I it's odd whoever is not there automatically hates you
exactly exactly, you know. And there's some people I stopped
inviting because I did invite him every year and they
never showed up. And so I said, all right, they
don't want to come there. Rather than have them say
they don't want to make it or make some bullshit
excuse up where they can't go, I'll just not invite them. Uh,
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and then they don't have to do it, all right?
Next up Pittsburgh four and seven and Atlanta Falcons at
five and seven. It's on CBS with Andrew Catalan and
James lofton the Game Open to pick them Falcons at
one point favorite at home the Mercedes Benz Stadium, the
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place that Jerome Drenovitch Well likely being attendance or old
friends Roome Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association lives in suburban
Atlantic is a huge Pittsburgh Steeler fan. I gotta think
he'll be there at this game. I haven't texted him,
but I'm assuming he's gonna be there. And most people
betting on Pittsburgh and I can give you numbers on this,
but I'm gonna take the Steelers here. I'm gonna take
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the Steelers in this game, and I actually like Pittsburgh
a lot. The logic behind this pick me explain why
I'm going with the Pittsburgh football team. The Steelers have
found a little something. In the last month or so.
T J. Watt has come back, the defense has been
wonderful Pittsburgh. Overall, they ranked twenty five in total defense,
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but the last month there are top ten defense in
the NFL. And that recipe that Mike Tomlin has been
cooking up. I'm giving it the chef's kiss here because
you've got defense, the ability to run the ball, and
error free football. In big moment from Kenny Pickett, you
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don't lose a lot. That's a sweet pill to swallow.
You don't lose a lot with that. And that's been
the way it's gone here lately for Pittsburgh. Kenny Pickett's
got three straight games with no turnovers and now he
goes against a whipped cream soft Atlanta defense. You got
Pittsburgh who's top ten in rushing yards per carry. The
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Falcons are a one trick pony. They can run the ball,
but Pittsburgh has been pretty good against the run over
the last month. The Steelers are sixth and run defense
their fourth over the last month. So everything, every indicator
we look at says Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburg. The Ysers
so Yanser's twenty four and the Falcons twenty. The final
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land the Penny and my penny is still on island
time band going with Marcus Mariota and the Falcons. Okay,
bad pick by the Penny, but I'll take it. I'll
take that. That's a win. For me. The next up
as we grind on on Benny versus the Penny, another
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game that I have a strong opinion on. We pick
every game. Some games I like more then others. Tennessee
seven and four at Philadelphia ten and one. It's on
Fox with Kevin Burcott and Greg Olsen. This is the
big game on Fox in the early television window. And
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Philadelphia has been a whole different beast this season with
that ten and one record only one hiccup along the way.
The Eagles opened a six and a half point favorite.
They are favored by five. The Titans getting most of
the money and sunny, no really bad weather. It's gonna
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be fine, sunny with temperatures in the forties at Lincoln
Financial Field. And I love of the Titans. This was
one of my strong players this week. And here's why
you remember the Washington Commanders when they were able to
win against Philadelphia. How do they do that? They won
that with a power running game and a defense that
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was able to make some plays to stop the run.
Those are the same ingredients that Tennessee brings to the table.
Mike Rabels, coming off a loss, you like the Titans
a little more coming off a loss Rabel twenty one
and seven against the spread as an underdog of three
or more points, and you look at everything, every indicator.
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The Eagles that great record, but the defense is showing
some signs are cracking. The Birds are ranked second overall,
but the last three weeks they've been in the middle
of the pack defensively. They've actually their number sixteen, behind
the Cardinals and the Falcons over the last month. And
this is a value pick because you get the Titan
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power running game against an injured, mangled Eagle defense signing
guys like a Dominican su off their lazy boy cheers
in Philadelphia. Also without their strong safety c J. Gardner Johnson,
he's dinged up. So Tennessee can slow the run with
a solid d. They will do that and they will
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be able to run the ball against the bird Brains.
Titans upset City lost number two scrub down the Birds.
Titans twenty seven, Eagles twenty four the final and I
think you both are the bird brains. Penny also going
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with the Titans. You watch out, Danny, because the smack
in the face from the Titans to the Eagles huge, huge,
Next up, Jacksonville four and seven, at Detroit four and
seven on Fox our friend part of the Fox Bus
Radio hum Not Association, Chris Myers and Robert Smith. They
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have the call from ford Field. This game opened Lions
by one. It is a pick them. Most people betting
on Jacksonville cloudy in the thirties in Detroit, but inside
ford Field, it's all good. It's all good in the neighborhood.
So I'm gonna take the Lions in this game. And
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here's why we're talking. Uh, you know, you're talking about
a matchup of two even teams, same record. But we
liked the Detroit side mainly because of Aiden Hutchinson, who
We've been hyping this guy up and he's been wonderful,
especially for for gamblers. Grabs your attention. The Lions are
roaring on that side of the ball. They are shot
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against Buffalo on Thanksgiving to win that game, so it's
a mini by. They've got a little extra time coming
into this game. Statistically, they were terrible early in the season,
but another one of these teams. Over the last month,
they have been clicking, licking. The run defense is a concern,
but Jacksonville they're not a heavy run team. They haven't
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been that over the year this season and uh, Trevor
et En is supposed to come back, how effective will
he be? Trevor Lawrence has stacked three good games in row,
rather quietly, six touchdowns, a passer rating of a hundred
and sixteenes averaging almost nine yards per templar last month.
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That's really good. But he goes against the Motor City
kiddies here. I'm gonna stand with them, and I also
like the Lions to be able to move the ball.
They're the better team here talent wise. With Jamal Williams,
the powerback, Amon Ross st Brown as playmakers for Jared Goff,
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this will be nip and tuck. The only red flag
here the Lions offensive line dealing with the creeping crud,
and there could be without two starters, which obviously scares
you a lot with backups playing, and you don't want
to get rick rolled by the backups. But I will
take the Lions in a pickum four Jags twenty three
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the final, and the Penny go in the other direction,
taking the Jags alright. Disagreement on that, We press on
on Benny versus the Penny, don't forget On the Saturday podcast,
we cut the cheese with Danny g All wedding coverage,
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have other well, have other nonsense, but it's all we
can get to insider information, Global exclusives. Coaster ride of
a wedding that you had, Danny. They do call the
Road to Hannah the road to divorce, all right? Next
up Washington seven and five at the New York Football
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Giants seven and four. It's on Fox with Kenny Albert
and Jonathan Vilma. A home game where Kenny, who lives
in the New York area, he gets to call a
game at home. I'm gonna take the Commanders in this game. Now,
Washington is a two and a half point favor. They
opened as a pick them. Most people are betting on
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the Giants. It will be in the forties at MetLife Stadium.
Washington's found a little pixie dust with Taylor Heineke, who
statistically is not very good. There's nothing to really get
excited about, but he's carved a niche here of winning football.
Like teams more confident on offense, they just are our
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click a licking with with this guy quarterback. Now, the
Giants have been very good with Brian Dable this season.
They're eight and three against the spread. But as as
I said, I'm taking Washington the Commandos. They've been a
bit of a wagon of late. The Commander's defense ranked
ain't oh, we're all in the big season, but second
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over all the last month, and they should be able
to run the ball down the throats. They will be
able to run the ball down the throats with the Giants.
With Brian Robinson and Antonio Gibson, yin and yang, they
crossed the rubicon here. Also, the Big Blue offensive line
is battling a bunch of injuries and illness. They've got
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the creeping crud. Also, three starters, the right tackle, left guard,
and center all circled on the injury report. So good
luck slowing down Montez Sweet and those other gladiators for
the Washington football team. Final score the team formerly known
as the Redskins with all their baggage three and the
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Giants seventeen. The final is Danny Dimes going down here
a terrible record against the spread as a favorite. I
know they'ren underdog, but the Giants go down. The penny says,
fuck Robinson and those ridiculously ugly big hats going with
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the Giants. Do you see how much of those things
cost by the way, probably eight oh, you're close. Seventy
five dollars is the beginning price for those oversighted good guests. Yeah,
the uglier things are, the more expensive they seem to be.
I have never seen anyone where one of those sets,
have you ever? Like randomly, there's people wear hats all
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over l A where we are millions and millions of people,
I've never seen anyone in a hat like. No, I
don't think we're gonna see that either. Because somebody might
pose with it at their house as a joke, I
don't think anybody would actually walk out in public wearing one. Well,
they claim they've sold their sales went up two thousand percent,
but that might mean they went from no sales to
like half a sale, you know, And it doesn't necessarily
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mean that that there's a ton of people buying it.
If I had a TV show or something like that,
I'd probably buy one because it'd be a good gag
thing to wear exactly. But outside of that, I mean, yeah,
it is a that's a tough look. You imagine getting
on a plane having somebody how about if you're how
about if you're at a ball game and the person
in front of you's got the giant funny hat on Jesus,
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especially your team, big old ram Horns, you'd really look
like a ram head. I mean you might have to
slap him in the back of the head. You might
have to to break their head open. All right, Next
up Cleveland four and seven and Houston one, nine and one.
Normally we just skate over this game, but it's not
your normal Houston Cleveland game. It's on CBS Spireaudidas and
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Jay Feely have the call as the Shaun Watson goes
into the scene of the crime. The Lions. Then the
Browns opened a five point favorite, but all the way
up the seven, which I don't get. The Browns are
not a good team him and most people think this
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is free money. All you have to do is put
a couple of bucks down on Cleveland and you'll get
your money back. Over the action in favor of the
Brown Backer bandwagon. Light rain in Houston, temperatures in the
seventies at NRG Stadium, which is a dome, so it
doesn't matter. The Texans have dropped three straight against the spread.
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The Browns they they as a franchise, are oh and
seven against the spread against Houston. And if you really
really want to dig deep here, how about this stat
the Browns the last fifteen games as a favorite, the
Cleveland Browns are two twelve and one. So I'm gonna
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cover my eyes. I'm gonna hold my nose here and
bet on the jibrones from Houston. I'm taking the texts.
I know you're laugh at me. All you want, I don't.
From a gambling standpoint, the smart play is on the
Texans now. I know they've gotten absolutely dusted the last
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couple of games, and Kyle Allen is terrible. I'm I'm
counting on him improving because otherwise, forget about it. Last
week the Texans could be fumbled twice and tossed a
pair of interceptions. Now he was able to recover the fumbles,
but those killed drives. That's how you fall behind thirty
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and nothing to the Dolphins and Houston. They have really
airmailed it in these last couple of games, and so
do they have fight. This is a big game for
the organization, for ownership, for the fans of Houston. It's personal.
That's personal. With Deshaun Watson, the creepy quarterback, he hasn't
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played a regular season game in seven hundred days since
January of Everyone says, oh, he's the beacon of light.
I say he is the doom of darkness. Uh. And
and how rusty is he going to be having not
played in that time, You gotta think there's gonna be
a lot of rush. Now, Cleveland could just run the
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ball student body right, student body left with Chubb and
the running game, but the Texans also should be able
to run the ball against a subpart Cleveland defense. Damian
Pierce is the one saving grace. He has to hit
the ground running. I say he will. Houston is without
one of their starting defensive backs and a linebacker dinged
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up on the injury report. The Browns are gonna win
this game. The Shawn's not gonna play very well. The
Texans are gonna have the lead and shock some people
early on. They'll give it up late. Browns twenty four
and the Texans twenty. They'll cover that seven points spread.
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And the penny loves a good cleaning, loves a good shine.
Going with Cleve lends all right, Cleveland, it is next
up for us. We head to the Windy City, sweet home, Chicago,
the birthplace of the Blues, where green Bay four and
eight takes on Chicago three and nine. Both these teams
nibbling at the very bottom of the division. They're in
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a nip and tuck fight here. It's on Fox with
Adam Aman and Mark Slavery. They have to call Packers
open to two and a half point favorite, their favorite
by four and a half. Most people betting on the
Packers cloudy in thirty six degrees. That kick off at
Soldier Field. Now we are handicapping every game against the spread.
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This game is rather impossible to handicap because of the
injury report. The Packers have covered seven straight games against
the Bears. But Green Bay everyone thinks the Packers put
them down as a favorite. No, no big deal. Uh
well this will warm your heart if you're a Packer hater.
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Green Bay their last seven games as a favorite. They
are one in six against the spread their last seven games.
Now where I come from, that's not good. So here's
the way this is gonna work. We're recording this right now.
My pick on Benny versus the Penny, the green Bay Packers.
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But remember Aaron Rodgers got bad ribs. He's thinged up,
gonna start good stats stuffing opportunity to Bears defense sucks.
But at broadcast time, Justin Fields. The reason you can't
really have a confident opinion on this game is Justin
field status is listed as questionable. His non throwing shoulder
is messed up. We would bet on Chicago at plus
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four and a half if we knew Justin Fields was
going to play, but we don't know that, and we
will not know that. We don't expect until much closer
to the to the kickoff, although something may come down
late Friday afternoon, but at this time, at the time
we're doing this, there's no information out fields. He's got
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a bum shoulder. It's his non throwing shoulder has been
dinged up from all the running. So it is more
likely than not that Trevor Simeon, who's also dinged up,
or Tim Boyle who uh that one of those guys
end up starting this game for the Chicago Bears, who
played the Packers back in Week two and lost by
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seventeen points in that game, and people will go back
and they're like, wow, seventeen point loss, what's going on
with that? Blah blah blah blah blah uh and and
the Bears were able to hang around in that game. Really,
there was a couple of mistakes in the second quarter
that flipped the game around, and they still had a
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chance to cover in the fourth quarter. But it's the
Bears offensively are a much better team now than they
were in Week two. If Justin Fields is playing so again,
we're assuming he's not going to play Packers twenty three
Bears seventeen the finals. The Bears take one right to
the kisser, all right, and the Penny picks a Penny
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lands on tails again going with the Packers. Let's get
to the late television window now and Benny versus the Penny.
Seattle six and five. They've been tearing up the dance
floor on Sundays and the L A r i Am
is at three and eight. It's on Fox with Kevin
Coogler and Mark Sanchez. The Seahawks open to three and
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a point favorite. They are favored by seven and a
half and quite the stir around the NFL. What has
happened to the once mighty l A Rams as they
have fallen apart, coming apart of the seams and then
some may in oh Man, Seattle, that big favorite here
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at SOFI stadium light rain. It never rains in l
A light rain projected in the forecast on Sunday at
so FI. I'm gonna take the Rams. Why, I'm a
glutton for punishment the Seahawks. Let me be clear, Danny,
the Seahawks should win this game by twenty. Everyone's betting
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on Seattle to win this game by twenty. The Rams
don't have Aaron Donald, Cooper Cup, Matthew Stafford, he gone
Alan Robinson and more. The Rams are Hamlet without the Prince.
But regardless of that, I always say, Danny, I gotta
stick to my gambling principles. And and over the years
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I have come out ahead more times than not, even
when it looks ridiculous to the unwashed masses. And everyone
googse on me, and they pointed me like Nelson from
the Simpsons, and they say, just like that. But I'm
I'm taking the Rams. And anytime you get a touchdowner
more in a divisional game, you take the points. You
don't ask questions. Now, Sean mcveigh's team has been the
worst in football against the spread. There like a Pop
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Warner team. Last week. I know they had Aaron Donald,
but they a bunch of guys out. They actually made
plays in the red zone, and they it took a
late field goal by some Huckleberry kicker for the Chiefs
to cover the spread. So the Rams hung around last week.
Seattle's defense is ranked thirty in the league. We saw
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your Raiders and Josh Jacobs have a field day. Unfortunately,
the Rams are not dangerous at running the football. That is,
that is not the fruit of their labor. But adversities
create create opportunities. There are guys in the Rams who,
if they play well this week, we'll have a job
in the NFL next year, possibly just based on this game.
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So I love the scratching claw approach and also think
Seattle is starting to slip a little bit. So I
will take the Seahawks to win the game, but not
cover the spread. Seahawks twenty three, Rams sixteen. They're gonna
need a Geno Smith interception and fumble to make that happen.
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And the Penny loves how you talked to yourself into
that one. Go to Seattle straight up. Yeah, this whole
Penny thing is sometimes it's therapy. It's my couch, my
fainting couch, and and I try to shoot the lights
out all right. Next up, Miami, Miami, Miami, as they say,
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head west, young man, and so the Dolphins that long
roady as they traveled by stagecoach from South Florida all
the way out to the Bay Area Santa Clara of
the site as the Dolphins eight and three, forty Niners
seven and four, as the Niners hotter than a pistol.
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Last couple of games. It's on Fox with Joe Davis
and Darryl moose Johnston. The Niners opened a four and
a half point favorite. They are favored by four at
this point. The the Dolphins getting a lot of the
money here now. Rainy light, rainy damp conditions that kick
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off temperatures in the fifties, and if you're living in Miami,
you're used to temperatures in the eighties, so that's gonna
seem like it's in the thirties at Levi's Stadium. The
Dolphins have not been a good road team, although to
a ton of about Looa missed several of those games.
Dolphins are one three and one against the spread without
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their their quarterback in most of those games. Miami also
have a They have a winning record with two overall
Dolphins against the forty niner team that had been so
bad at home, but lately the last ten games dollar
forty Niners are seven and three against spread. That being said,
the pick is in and I want to take the Dolphin.
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And here's why we have the game within the game
here as I played Dr Phil, the mental side of this,
You've got Mike McDaniel, the protege versus Kyle Shanahan, the coach.
Miami's the right side for me. I like getting four
points with the Dolphins. You're getting over a field goal,
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and the most likely outcome for this game is a
field goal. And so if you get over a field goal,
if the Niners win by a field goal, the Dolphins
win the bet. And obviously the Dolphins win straight up.
It doesn't matter you win the win the game. I
do not expect either one of these teams to blow
the other. To Smith of Rings, the forty Niner defense
has been great. They had to shut out last week.
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They will not have a shutout this week against the
Cheetah Tyreek Hill and company. Unlike the Saints, that Dolphins
actually have a competent offense and San Francisco's got some
injuries piling up. Elijah Mitchell dinged up out of the
rest of the regular season. Also, Christian McCaffrey was on
the injury report. No shock there, Deebo Samuel has missed
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some time in practice and whatnot. Now, the Dolphins have
their own problems as they are on the Highway to Hell.
Their offensive line left tackle Toron Armstead, he's dinged up
on the injury report, and so that's a bad, bad sign.
But nonetheless, I'm gonna take the Dolphins twenty three and
the Niners twenty the final, and the Penny says, be
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on the lookout for Cavino and Riches mugs on TV,
as they'll be at this game cheering on the Niners,
just like the Penny here landing on Edds. Okay, now
are they going in the crowd? Are they gonna be
media freeloaders? They paid for their tickets, in fact, that
was a big topic on the show. They opted to
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get better seats and share a hotel room, and they
got a lot of crap as two grown men share
in one room. Yeah, that's awkward. Are they just going
by themselves? They're not bringing their significant others anything like that.
It's like a guy's road trip because Rich is a
big Niners fan, and Cono is just gonna put up
with it, I think pretty much. Yeah, okay, all right,
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and taking one for the team, right, taking one for
the team. I got you, all right? Next up? Like you.
They like to cut corners with budget. Oh you gotta
do it, man, I'm sorry, No, I mean they don't
call it being a cheap skate. Covino says it's balling
on a budget. Wait till you hear the Saturday Podcast.
I got a lecture, Danny, because I'm such a tight wad.
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I got a lecture, and I'll explain what I got
a lecture about on the on the Saturday Podcast. Let's
keep going here with this. The Chargers, the l A
Chargers will show Me your Lightning Bolt at six and five,
and the Los Vegas Football team four and seven on
CBS with Greg Gumble and Adam Marchiletta. I gotta know
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where is Danny? Gans Charges are one point favorite. They
opened a three point favorite. The Raiders aren't going to
make the playoffs. Are you okay with them winning? Or
would you rather they lose? No? I like the little
wind streak they're on right now. Ben. If you were
gonna tank for a pick, then you should have lost
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those two close games. So might as well keep rolling
right now? All right, you're in the wind come and
the Raiders actually come to Los Angeles coming up? Are
you gonna try to sneak in there? Is that possible?
You know? Maybe that is possible. Yeah, if I find
a good ticket, Yeah, you can take the great public
transportation to Englewood. Nothing will that will happen to that.
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Or save money on parking, you can, well you can
park on someone's lawn and then you come back and
maybe see what's left in your car and your cozy
up to that. But the Raiders have won their last two.
They beat the Broncos and the Seahawks following a three
game losing streets. So they win a couple of road games.
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Now they go back home and the Raiders at home
this season, they are two and two. They're two and
five on the road, two and two at home, And
I'm gonna take the charges. Most of the money is
on the Raiders in this game. But I'll tell you why.
I I backed the passing attack justin Herbert will be
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able to matriculate the ball down the field. The blind
spot on defense is the run defense that ranked thirty seconds.
That's why many people think this is free money that
Josh Jacobs is unstoppable and he's fifth among all running
backs and yards per carry. And the issue here those
the Chargers got their guys back. They've gotten their guys
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back from injury. And when you look at the Chargers
depth chart, when you handicap a game and you go
through the depth chart, you're like about who's healthy, who's
not healthy? And pretty much every week you look at
the Chargers and it's all read, it's all red ink
on the smartphone or the laptop that you're looking at,
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You're like, oh man, you got all these backup guys
playing and saying I like backups to a point. I
don't love me the backups. And I'm looking at this
weekend and there are three guys dinged up on the
on the Charges offense. Mike Williams, there's read on his name,
Corey Lindsley, the center is injured, and Trade Pipkins, the
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right tackle, also on the injury reports. So the Charges
are gonna be playing some rookies, They're gonna be playing
some backups, But I don't care justin Herbert since he
got some of his guys back. On offense, He's got
five touchdowns, one interception, passer rating of a hundred and
eleven the last two weeks against the Chiefs and the
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Cardinals and the and the the Chargers from a gambling
standpoint as a road team for whatever reason, you can
use your amateur psychology to explain why this is. But
the Chargers are four and two against the spread on
the road. They're just two and three at home. This
game in Sin City lost wages Nevada Chargers seven and
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the writers twenty four and the penny agreeing with you
going with the Chargers. Alright, Chargers, it is next up.
We get to the last game in the early television
actually late television window before the Sunday night game. That's
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Kansas City at Cincinnati and it's on CBS. This is
the big game for CBS. Time to make the donuts
for Tony Romo and Jim Nance. They have the call there.
Chiefs opened a two and a half point favorite. They
are favored by one and a half. Have light rain
temperatures in the upper thirties at the former Paul Brown Stadium. Lately,
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the Chiefs have had to say uncle when they've been
playing the Bengals has not gone well in recent games.
The Chiefs overall have been a bad bet. Their last
ten games, they have a losing record three six and
one against the spread. Chiefs are trying to cover consecutive
regular season games for the first time since last December.
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They covered late on that Shmendricks field goal against the Rams,
barely covered that big line against the Rams. They're trying
to cover another spread here. Here's a weird quirk. Andy
Reid's a Hall of Fame coach, first ballot Hall of Famer.
One of the teams that he has had issues with,
certainly from a gambling standpoint, the Bengals. Andy Reid is
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one and seven against the spread his last eight versus
say see, like, how do you explain that. I know,
the last couple of years since he's had a good team,
but before that not so much. But any read has
just not done well as he feels very little, very
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very small against the Bengals. But I am gonna take
the Chiefs in this game. Very rarely do you get
the rampaging Chiefs with this kind of line. Patrick Mahomes
had some issues in the red zone. Last week's essentially
a pick him game. It's a one and a half
point line. Bengals are coming off an impressive win. They
come back. They've really played well in the second half
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against the Titans last week. Now they crank things up
against cansa city. We trust this game will be closed
in the fourth quarter, like all of these games seem
to be. No one's gonna run out in front and
hide and that's it. Uh. Cincinnati, They've been really good
at home three and one this season, but don't count
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the ends. The City Chiefs on the road there four
and one on the road. I'm taking the Chiefs thirty
three and the Bengals thirty the final and the Penny
Lands on the Bungles, the Bungals the pig. All right.
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Next up, we head now to Jerry's World, where Sunday
Night Football's got Indianapolis four seven and one. Four seven
and one the record of the Colts as they take
on the Dallas Cowboys at eight and three. It's on
nb CEE with Mike Tariko and Chris Collinsworth. They have
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the call. As Indianapolis losers of five of their last
six games, they were three two and one at one point.
But they have fallen apart here and they are the
laughing stock at the end. Fell after what happened in
the first half against Pittsburgh on Monday night, as they
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could not do anything on offense. Matt Ryan had a
passer rating of fourteen at halftime, played one good quarter
in the third quarter, and then bungled the clock at
the end of the game. The Cowboys opened a nine
and app point favorite. They're favored by eleven. And I'm
gonna go against the public which thinks this is all
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free money again with Dallas go on the other one
and I Am going to take the Indianapolis Colts in
this game as Dallas with that sexy record and all that. Uh,
Indianapolis is not a good team, but uh, they've shown
a little punchback when they've had a really bad performance.
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Most teams do that. Most teams don't have back to
back sneakers. It's imperative that Jonathan Taylor yet cooking early.
If he's not cooking, if he doesn't have the ingredients
in the kitchen. The formula to hang around here is
some long, methodical drives hide Matt Ryan, who has gotten
progressively worse. He's broken down as the games have gone
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on here the three games that he's played here, he's
looked worse and worse and worse here for Andy, reaching
rock bottom against the Steelers. But now you've got a
cowboy defense that you look at all the big names
on the Cowboys like oh Man, but there is a
bit of the creeping crud that is going around this
time of the year, and so the Dallas Cowboys, who's
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gonna show up? And again, at the time we are
doing this, at the time we are putting Benny versus
the penny together, the information we have, you should follow
this all the up. Be a good gambler, follow us
all the way up to the kickoff of the game
on Sunday, and most bets are made right before games anyway,
that's when most of the money comes in. The sharp
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money comes in early in the week, the the casual
money comes in later. But there's two starters on defense,
Jonathan Hankins and Anthony Barr, who both are circled in
red on the injury report for the Cowboys. Couple of
offensive players on the offensive line also some issues we're hearing.
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But you're getting double digits it's a prime time game,
a chance to get some credibility back for Jeff Saturday
and the Colts and a glamor match up against the Cowboys.
And this is also a lull and schedule. You're not
gonna get up to play the Colt it's not very good.
And after this you've got the Texans, so you're not
gonna get up for that. So Dallas knows they can
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be lethargic and win this game. And that's exactly what's
gonna happen. Keep an eye out for the back door cover,
the late touchdown pass that nobody sees coming that wins
the bet Cowboys thirty and the Colts twenty two, the
final which means Indie covers the bet, they seize them all.
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And the penny cheating off of your paper on this
one going with indeed, Well, listen, I uh, I'm honored
that you would try to cheat off my pay for penny.
I appreciate that. All right, Next up, last game, last
game on Benny versus the Penny. Hallelujah, hallelujah. And we
have New Orleans at four and eight at Tampa Bay
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five and six. It's on ESPN with Joe Buck and
Troy Aikman. They have the call, some people saying that
Aikman was aloof last week as he tried to describe
the Indianapolis Colts and what they were doing on offense.
He didn't seem to enjoy it. I don't know how
much football you watched in Hawaii. The games started some
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really weird times there. Yeah, it's it's awkward. You're like,
you gotta be on the beach, you know, you know what,
We're watching football when they're kicking off the games on
Monday both mondays. I was there. I wasn't sure if
an NFL network replay was on or if it was
an actual Monday night football game, because you're right, it's
on in the daytime. Yes, it's like four. Is it
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four o'clock in the afternoon or is it three o'clockock? Wow?
How can we say across the pond for England, but
we don't say across the pond in Hawaii. Shouldn't it
be the same thing. It's just the Pacific pond. The
Atlantic is the Eastern Pond. I don't get it. I
never thought of that before. You all right, here we go.
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Buccaneers a four point favorite. They opened it six and
a half. Money's pretty even on this game. The Bucks
let a game slip away last week in Cleveland, Clear
Skies seventy two degrees that kick off at Raymond James Stadium,
and New Orleans they have done very well head to head.
They've covered each of the last four games in Tampa
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and the Buccaneers finally got a cover in that game
they played at the beginning of the year, early in
the season. That was a believe it, Jamis Winston game
for for the Saints. He's out Andy Dalton in and
how embarrassing for New Orleans. I know the Niners are
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good defensively, but a professional football team should never be
shut out. And if you go back and look at
the first matchup with Jamis Winston, who's clearly in the
penalty box for the New Orleans Saints and they're coaching staff,
for whatever that's worth. If you if you look at
the way the game played out going to the fourth quarter,
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the game was a three three game. It was a
three three game going to the fourth quarter, and then
all kinds of weird stuff happened. There was a Jamis
Winston pick six which extended the lead. There was a
field goal. Brady did complete a big pass in that game.
But Dennis Allen, who's not a good head coach, he
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has he has figured out something with Tom Brady, and
I'm I'm going with the New Orleans Saints in this game.
Tom Brady has been very good at moving the ball
between the twenties. They've not been good in the red zone.
Tampa is in the red zone, scoring percentage, the red box.
New Orleans they've actually been better, they just don't have
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a lot of chances in the red zone. And a
storm is a bruin. If Tom Brady loses to Andy
Dalton at home in this game, I'm not picking the
Saints to win, but you're getting over a field goal.
These teams are very, very even, and I'm gonna take
the Saints plus the points Buccaneers twenty and the New
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Orleans Saints the Preachers seventeen and the Penny says that
Dennis Allen has the most punchable face in all of
the NFL. Going with the Bucks, all right, the Bucks
it is. We'll get out of here on that. Don't forget.
I think we're gonna sit. Download records for the Saturday podcast.
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The Tomorrow's podcast. This is unbelievable, Harvey Levin. The people
over a TMZ. They're gonna be listening. Everyone's gonna want
to hear the insider information Radar online. They will be
monitoring the podcast. You name it. Page six of the
New York Post. This is one of the great celebrity
radio weddings that we've had in sometime, and we're the
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show that has all the coverage. I can how are
we going to get all this information into one podcast?
I don't know how we're gonna do it. And let
me just say this. The first week I was in Hawaii, Ben,
there was a threesome involved on the trip. I'm not
man not saying I was part of it. I'm not
blowing the story yet. You're gonna you're gonna be like Tisher.
I don't know if you heard Tisher was telling sex
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stories on the podcast. No, I didn't hear about that.
We went third Rail with Tysher. Yeah, he was telling
like the pent House forums stories. But anyway, all right,
we'll get out anything to promote Danny. How many of
those were true? Though? Who do you really want to know?
There's no video. I don't think God only knows all right,
who knows. Anyway, there are a bunch of hose in anime,
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so some of that wouldn't surprise me. Yeah, you think
the wild ladies of anime. All right, we'll get out
of here, have a great rest of your day, and
we will catch you on our Saturday fun in the
podcast Dojo later. Scatter population
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