Chad Millman and Simon Hunter dive into their betting results from NFL Week 13, checking in on the gambling action after a tremendous Sunday of post-Thanksgiving NFL action. Plus, we get all their early NFL Week 14 picks, predictions, best bets and leans. Games recapped today include Shadeur Sanders and the Cleveland Browns falling flat against Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers and a win by the resurgent Houston Texans as they traveled to Indianapolis to vanquish the Colts. They discuss Matt Stafford as the LA Rams' upset loss to Bryce Young and the Carolina Panthers, as well as Tyrod Taylor and the New York Jets squeezing past Kirk Cousins and the Atlanta Falcons. We'll hear a quick word about the big game that took place in The Steel City between an injured Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers as they suffered a loss at the hands of Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. Plus, we'll hear about Trevor Lawrence helping his Jacksonville Jaguars roar past the Tennessee Titans. All of this, plus their Shame On You and Heroes of the Week, all in one prime time episode! #Volume
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0:13:00 - 49ERS VS. BROWNS RECAP
0:19:00 - FALCONS VS. JETS RECAP
0:24:35 - BILLS VS. STEELERS RECAP
0:44:55 - RAMS VS. PANTHERS RECAP
0:47:52 - SHAME ON YOU, HERO OF THE WEEK
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Sharper Square, presented by hard Rock bet. We
are part of the Volume podcast Network. This is the
betting show that makes the square sharper and makes the
wise guys pay attention. I am Chad Millman. I am
joined as always by my co host, my companion Mike
and Padre, my BFF professional better Simon Hunter Eto Simon.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, mister first place Bears. How are we doing?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We feel you know, it's so pathetic. I thought to
myself today. The football teams that I love the most,
the Chicago Bears and the Indiana Hoosiers, are two of
the best teams in all of the land.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They are a combined twenty one and three, and one
of them is undefeated and playing for the Big Ten
title this weekend. Feels pretty good, pretty pretty pretty good, Simon.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I would say people that figure exact deprescription, people that
are Bears fans and the fans. Even though it's only
November thirtieth, who cares. It's like I would could care less.
It's I know it's a little early, but expectations wise
did not see either of these scenarios happening as we
head Intocember here, So I would say, pretty pretty insane
times for both those fan bases. And like you said,
(01:22):
it's every game that we've been talking for a months
about the spairits every game is must see now. The
fact they're in control of their own destiny, home field
throughout the playoffs. Come on, who cares? What's their points there?
French one plus nine? Who cares? It's it's what we
love about football. Titans. What was that four or five
years ago they got they got the one seed. It
can happen, right, So with Ryan Tannehill, Yeah, with Ryan
(01:43):
Tannel exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I've watched more tiktoks of Ben Jonson taking his shirt
off so the entire city of Chicago could get free
Wiener Circle. Then I care to admit I just love
the spirit. I love the way he's galvanizing this team
and the city is behind him, and he's he turned
himself that night, that night when he took off his
shirt so the entire city could get free hot dogs.
(02:07):
I think he made himself a hero for the rest
of his life in that town.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
He understood this is the magic of Ben Johnson.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
He understands who he's coaching for, not just the team
and the players, but for the city itself.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
He totally gets it. He's bought in.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
He understands the connection, he understands the people, like I
am all in on this all in the other night,
I'm so in. I'm so in the other night at Thanksgiving,
we were sitting around the table and my dad was
asking my younger son, who goes to Maryland, where the
other kids from his pledge class. He just finished pledging fraternity.
(02:48):
He's been, you know, went through Hell Week and whatever,
and he has. My dad was asking where the other
kids from, and he was naming all the places they're
from a lot of Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
et cetera, et cetera. My dad's I go, No. One
from Chicago, and I tapped him. I'm like, I tapped
my son. I'm like, well, you're from Chicago. I forgot
(03:10):
he was born and raised in Connecticut. Because I'm thinking
so much about the Bears right now, I just assumed
we were in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I'm so im mature right now. I have about fifty
Williams or free Weeny jokes lined up, and I'm not
gonna say any of them.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Love your Class Act our final five Today we're in
the Houston Texans plus four and a half. That's a win.
Cleveland plus five and a half. That's a loss.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The New York j e Ts Jet Jet Jets.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Plus two and a half. Miraculous win. Pittsburgh plus three
and a half, it's a loss. We got the New
York Giants plus seven and a half.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Our last one's out one of the Tennessee Titans plus
six and a half. Thanks freaking God. Three teams today
basically played one sided football with no offensive support whatsoever.
We bet on two of them, the Steelers and the Browns.
The Steelers, Browns, and Seahawks combined for fifteen points. None
(04:09):
of them scored any points in the second half. That
includes the Seahawks, who were shut out. Oh boy, we're
going to talk about that game too a little bit
because it was. It was devastating to watch. If you're
a Vikings fan right now. This season, the Jets won
on a last second kick. This season, there have been
more game winning scores in the final two minutes or
(04:30):
overtime than any other season in NFL history. Nick Folk
won with a fifty six yard game winning kick. Thank God,
because you've challenged me on the Jets versus the Titans,
and I decided to own the responsibility of putting the
Jets in. Simon, I told you I'd be the only
one watching that Jets Falcons game, and it was.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It was miserable. I'm just going to tell you that
you ready to get into.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It, Yeah, let's get into it.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Apples at Houston.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Houston was a late entry for us, Like we hadn't
really talked about the Texans at all. If anything, we
were going we were leaning towards the Colts, but we
came around as the week went on. Too much news
about Daniel Jones and his injured leg.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
C J.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Stroud was playing. That was never really a factor to me.
It was really about the injuries to Daniel Jones. The
guy just hasn't been as good the last couple of weeks,
and it turns out it is because he might be
playing on a broken leg. Great game, great win for
the Texans, Simon, great great win.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, and crazy to turn around their season they've had.
But we talked earlier the year it couldn't keep going right,
they couldn't keep losing. They have such a great defense,
and like you said, it's Colts. We started on that side,
and I feel like it was the right side and
the more as we went along and you heard the
injury news that that should flip everyone right, And really
did that number move a ton four and a half
all the way down to three by kickoff? And yeah,
(06:03):
the Texans, you know, they try to give it away
a couple of different times, but like you said, Daniel
Jones just simply couldn't take advantage of it. So yeah,
I think jj wadteed a great stat, simple stat, but
it is a great step. They've won every game basically
where Jonathan Taylor scores and they're one and three when
he doesn't. So that just makes sense for that cold team.
Like we talked early the year, he was their MVP.
(06:25):
He was so dominant and they could go as far
as he can take them. But I said it right
back to he's their MVP, but they still need Daniel
Jones to make those plays, and right now he's not
been making them like you said he was making them
to start the year. They've kind of falling apart. And
this Texans defense once again just stepped up every time
we need him. Step on that game they kind of
did for us, and you know it was great having
the CJ back, you know, as great as David Smills
(06:48):
was for them, right, winning games and going three and oh,
this was a real test and this is like a
divisional setting type of game like that. Both teams took
this as a playoff game. So CJ really stepped up
for a game. He was coming in kind of cold,
and it's some big time throws and you know that
it sucks for the Colts. They went all in, right,
they went and got sauce, and you saw in that
(07:09):
game he went out and not as if he was
this game changer, but it was a big deal, Like
that's that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, I think it was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I actually think it was a big deal because that
CJ stroud, he was okay, Like, there are so many
issues with this offense, and I don't know, We're now
going two seasons in a row where the Texans are
so far removed from the explosive downfield dangerous passing attack
with CJ being so accurate on long passes that they
(07:38):
were in his rookie season. A lot of reasons for that, right,
there's offensive line reasons, there's running game issues, there's play
calling issues, receivers have been heard, they haven't.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Had the full compliment. But there were times today when CJ.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Stroud did get the ball downfield, especially some good throws
to Nico Collins, and that those could have been plays
where Sauce Gardner was defending and they wouldn't have had
that chance. But you still look at this Texans offense
and they are just dreadful in the red zone. There's
no creativity, there's no misdirection. They run the ball into
(08:13):
the middle of the offensive line, they wait to get
third and long, and then they have to kick a
field goal. They can't even convert on short yardist situations.
They were at the fifteen late in the game. They
could have gone up twenty three to sixteen. They had
a third and one, they run directly into the middle
of the line, don't get it, go forward and fourth down,
same exact play. They didn't even try to change it
(08:34):
up and did it again. So this offensive play calling
that is happening in Houston is going to be the
death now for them as they get into the postseason.
Their defense is great them, the Browns, the Vikings like
those are great defenses that are so hampered by offenses
(08:56):
at varying levels. It's got to be so frustrating to
watch if you're a Texans.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Fan right now.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, like their offenses up and down, But I mean,
they do enough every week to win, so it's hard
to get too upset with it. Where all of these
teams you just mentioned, My god, are they just totally
lost offensively?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So sad? It is so sad.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Let's talk about the Cleveland Browns. Let's talk about the
fact they were five and a half point underdogs to
the Niners. Let's talk about the fact that the Niners.
What was the final score, like twenty six to eight
or something like that. I'm going to give you a
stat Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
The Niners scoring drives. Four of their five scoring drives
started on the Browns forty, the Browns eighteen, the Browns
twenty six, and the Browns fourteen. They had one scoring
drive of the five scoring drives they had where was
(10:00):
I think thirty seven seconds left in the first half,
and they drove down the field of the four yard
line on a miracle one handed catch by Kittle just
outside the five yard line I think, and that allowed
them to kick the field goal. Other than that, everything
they did was on a short field. How are the Browns,
(10:21):
who were awesome supposed to be defending that they can't
do it?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, honestly, I was going to do shame on the
special teams of the Browns team, but I got someone else.
I want a shame. But I agree with you, by
the way, it felt like that's what caused us the
game in every aspect, right. The special teams, you know,
they give up that punt. I think they got down
to the fifteen and then or twenty they put it
(10:47):
in and that's how they get their touchdowns. They get,
you know, a couple of plays here and there that
dictate the game. Where like you said, defensively, they're doing
their part, they're holding up. This was really you know,
even though brock Pretty this stat sheet, it's not anything special.
When sixty eight one touchdown to me, he had a
(11:07):
bunch of sacks he got out of that. It shows
why Pretty is a start in the league. Right. What
makes him special and something she can do his pocket presence,
because he should have got got and it wasn't like
he took big plays, either threw it away or did
a check down anything like that. But it was just
a very veteran play that kept them basically in the
game where Sanders every time took the sack, just every time,
(11:31):
and you saw about five different things happen in this game.
You were like, this is why he dropped, not just
because this person eye in the draft, his wind up
in certain spots. It's like, dude, you cannot wind up
when the pocket's closing on you just got to throw
it from up top. You cannot draw from your hip
back up to the air. It's gonna get knocked out.
You're gonna get sacked. And him get running from these
(11:52):
the linemen, Like he got caught multiple times from behind
that You're like, that's not even one of the edge guys.
That's a d tackle catching them that he's not able
to outrun. So he was just bad today, and you know,
and it was a game where you kind of need
him to show up a little bit, and he missed
guys in a couple of spots. And you know, we
knew going in there was supposed to be bad weather.
I don't really think the weather was that effective, Like
(12:13):
it felt like there was no passes. I got taken
by the wind. They were kicking field goals, kicking extra points.
So yeah, just a game where honestly think if special
teams showed up for this Browns team would have been
a totally different game. Like I felt like the defense
when they were in you know, good spots kind of
got stops and held their own. It's just like you said, impossible,
and you kept getting a great field position to that
(12:35):
team on the forty nine ers and they eventually just
wear you out. That's that's what they did as a team.
They wear you out, and that's what happened. This game
so sucked. I had to watch the whole game because
we were always kind of in it with our number,
like they were just like we always like you were
a touchdown away, and then you know, in that fourth
quarter kind of opened up, we were dead. So yeah, bad, bad,
better on this Browns team. And you know, should have
(12:56):
known better than the back this Browns team after a
huge road win coming back, Sanders just totally laid a
nug in the spot.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So uh.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
There were two special teams players that you're talking about
that I noted, and they were kind of.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Back to back.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
The first was off of a kickoff after the Niners
had scored that The Browns are totally.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Still in the game. Uh, the ball is sailing out
of bounds and the Niners kick returner.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Catches it on the sideline at the five yard line,
and it catches it so close to the sideline that
his momentum.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Carries him out of bounds. So now the Browns, no.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
There's even just there's a rule chat which is again, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Right, that's right. It goes out of bounds. It goes
to the forty not even that.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
If you stick your foot out of bounce and your
other foot in bounce and just stand there and catch
it like he could have done, that can that is
considered out of bounds.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Right, That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's one of the easiest tricks that more guys do.
And like you just said, he did the opposite. He
trying to keep both saving us. Yeah, he's saving the ball,
catching it when it was silent with his feet.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So now the Browns are backed up and they have
to basically punt from their goal line, and of course
the defense stops the Niners at midfield. So now the
Niners have to punt, and the Niners punt returner has
the ball go through his arms, fumbles it. Then Niners
get the I mean the Browns the fumble it, the
(14:20):
Niners get the ball back and then they score a touchdown.
It's like, what are the Browns supposed to do? There's
nothing they can do. This poor team, Like they're so
good on defense.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Here's what's interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
After the game, the Browns defenders ripped Juwan Jennings for comments.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I don't know what the comments are.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's not reported that he had during the game that
they said, cross the line.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
To a player.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh, is that what it was?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, apparently like one of the guys were down and
he was saying stuff and he was highing behind his
offensive lineman. I think the exact quote from the guy
he was talking about said, I see why he got
punching the balls last week.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I'm shock he has been punching the mouth yet. I
was like, damn, what did this guy say? I'm with you,
That's what.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Like, it's interesting to me for the second week in row,
Juwan Jennings is in the middle of something with another
team where they're calling him out.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
That's leading to some action.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Last week, Yeah, we need more devo receivers. We had
a nice run there in the mid two thousands. They've
kind of faded here a little bit. AJ's trying to
give us one. AJ Brown's given it a little bit
of one. But nice you see someone else picking up
the slack here. And just like pole psychopath in Jennings.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I mean, look, DK Metcalf tried to be one for
years and now he's wasted in Pittsburgh. We'll get to
that in a second. Atlanta at the New York Jets.
This is the one sign in New York Jets plus
two and a half. This was an ugly game, back
and forth, back and forth, and then all of a
sudden in the second half, it got a little bit rowdy.
(15:49):
I was feeling great, Like the Jets were covered to
fumble at the Falcons one, they score a touchdown, they
were holding up. They got a touchdown to tie the
game from ad n Im from Tyrod Taylor to add
An I Mitchell a fifty two yard touchdown pass fourteen
fourteen Like this game?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Did you watch any of this game?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Of course? I bet it. It was our we gave
it out. My whole issue it.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Was our brass boss.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah. My own issue was it was just we didn't
have a good number. No, it was three and a
half would have been a no brainer. We took that.
My only issue was we were taking a bad number
two and a half and it could have bit us
a thousand different ways. Right, But, like we always say,
these stupid games, you just got to trust these ugly
dogs sometimes and there's no way, there's no way to
(16:33):
break it down, like they this is an insane game.
The fact that you know they scored seven points in
the first half and they got us twenty the second half.
It's jests team fifty yard bombs and you know pun
returns getting down to the ten or kick returns down
to the ten and them getting stopped only getting three
Like we we lived and died so many times.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And missed field goals going both ways.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, and just I I know people who work for
teams and ownerships, and you can tell when a code
which is just doing his own thing because he's like,
I don't really care what the ownership or whoever's telling
me what to do, Like I am, I'm just playing
for my own job. I want to play for wins.
He's been told, I am for sure that he needs
(17:12):
to go for two in those exact spots like when
he gets a touchdown with two minutes left, Yes, Aaron
Glenn here, like he has been told, I am sure
he needs to go for two in that exact scenario,
because it's great they go up one, they're gonna win,
or even better, they're they lost now because they're down
by one point and he'd kicked the extra point. I
oh my god, all right, me and Chat gonna hold
(17:34):
onto this one here. And I think Kirk got it twice.
He got it, punted, got it back and then God
bless Kirk. He's just so bad. They got it. He
had a couple opportunities. He kind of burned us and
he really didn't. And yeah, it's exactly what we talked about,
though we faded it because it's like Kirk is now
a favorite on the road. This is the exact moment
to go against.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Him without Drake London, without Drake London, and I do
think that mattered, Like there were times late in the
game he just didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Have anyone he can rely on.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It's play fine, but Darnold Mooney was kind of non existent.
And at the end of the game he alligator armed
a catch that would have been really significant. That Guy
Sills number eighty seven on the Falcons. He dropped a
pass on that final drive where they could have put
themselves closer into field goal range.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
It was exciting. It was truly awesome to watch this game.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I never felt like I actually never felt like the
Jets were out of it, and.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Just the whole time was like, my god, is this
two and a half gonna burn us? That was like
just that, Like you just said, all the mitsfield goals.
I was like, it's it's not landing on the two
and a half like I thought it was going to.
I really thought it was gonna be a one or
two point game, and it kept staying on the three.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
What was I loved?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I thought he might go for for two. What's interesting
to me that you just say is he's being told
to go for two. I would go for two, like
if I were a coach in that situation.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's what I'm saying. Though he's just in his mind though,
he's like, no, I'm playing for my own record now,
like I'm not playing to get you a better draft pick.
I'm trying to win. And you know, if you're trying
to win and play for a playoff spot, of course,
you kick the extra point there. The Jets are not
that team. They won the number one pick, Like, what
are we doing here? So I just thought it was
(19:22):
really interesting that he that he kicked that because I
thought it was really telling where it's all okay, Maybe
him and the organization are not on the same pitch.
I thought they were. I thought they would bring him
back next year if he keeps winning. I don't know
if you can't, like they're he's.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Saving saying he keeps winning, they're going to have to
fire him because he's.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Not listening to him. But I'm with you, it's good
he's winning. But it's like, you need a top pick,
don't you Like? I mean, I can't wait for the
Austin talk these quarterbacks, but there might only be one
or two good ones coming out. So this game right here,
Atlanta might be you know, this might dictate a Landa
having a draft pick above the Jets. Now, it's just
a really unique spot.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
It's and I think they're obviously going to get rid
of Raheem Morris. Yeah, who's now there. They've lost something
like seven in a row. They're three and nine on
the year.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Michael the fourth fourth quarterback taking in a draft and
he's on his fifth knee surgery.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, and he's not even going to be back until
the middle of the year. Like this team all of
a sudden goes from looking like it had potential to
being in the middle of a rebuild, like complete start
again next year because when Pennix comes back, what are
you going to have?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I would love that job as a coach though, Like,
you got a good line, you could have a high
pick to get a quarterback, and you have all the
weapons like you have Drake, you have the running back.
I don't know, I have all the spots that are
coming up. Like there's there's gonna be some ugly coaching opportunities.
This feels like a pretty good one.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
We're gonna have a little bit more about uh Tyrod
Taylor and the Jets in a minute. Buffalo at Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh plus three and a half.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Dude, this first half was so.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Freaking ugly and chippy, and the whole game got ugly
and chippy. Cam Hayward constantly in Josh Allen's face. There
were multiple personal foul calls that weren't even part of
the play. They were after the play, with people acting
like idiots, like this was such an ugly game, and
(21:33):
then the wheels came off for the Steelers as soon
as the second half started, Aaron Rodgers getting literally bloodied
and having to leave the game. That to me was
sort of the perfect example of what this game became
for the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I know, like tease us chat it felt so good
that first half.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
It was all so real, so real.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, it was just exactly like we know, Pittsburgh's a
shitty team, but you saw that first half. That's how
they win and steal these games, right, They play really
good defense, keep guys in front of them, steal the ball,
get turnovers, offensively, play smart, play simple. But my god,
Rogers probably should not have played this week. He was
just nothing first out there, and whatever happened at halftime,
(22:21):
I mean, I can't get over how bad it started
for us. Where like you said, he came out, what
is there fourteen to fifty five on the clock, so
it's literally the first NUW first play. Yeah, he gets
hit stripsack Like you said, bloody knows they have they
kick it off right away, no commercial break, right, this's
just well there's.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Strip sack and the Bills score.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So it goes from being seven to three Steelers at
the half, they have the ball, they could drive down
the field potentially score, and instead it's now ten to
seven Bills. Aaron Rodgers is out of the game, Mason
Rudolph is in the game, and for a second I
said to myself, maybe it'll be better.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
And again at the halftime, I think it was minus
three and a half Pittsburgh. So it's not like the
books thought the Bills were about to come back, like
like you said, it was a good spot for Pittsburgh
to be in. Mason comes in throws a pick. Obviously,
even then, I'm still not freaking out at this point.
It's like, Okay, we'll see their defensive beginning yards, but
they've been holding them to three. And it really did
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come down that fourth down play like we've seen it.
I mean, you know, we didn't talk about the things
Ginning game, but that Green Bay game against the lines
dictated by fourth down touchdowns like these are huge flips,
not just the totals obviously, but the spreads. Definitely a
fifth just for the Bills momentum wise. And you know,
if if I would have came to before the game,
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it said, hey, let's fade Josh Allen here. He's only
gonna throw it for one hundred and twenty three yards.
You would sign up for that. One hundred and twenty
three yards and a touch at an interception and a touchdown.
You're not used to the Bills winning that way with
him on the road. But we saw something we've never
seen before, which is historical. You know what was it?
Two hundred and fifty yards rushing, most.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Rushing yards against a Steelers team at home in fifty years.
The last time it happened, by the way, Buffalo Bills
against the Steelers fifty years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
And I told you the Eagles against your Bears gave
up the most rushing yards in Eagles history since nineteen
sixty two. So we had two franchises at home give
up the most rushing yards they ever had. This is again,
it's stuper corny. We've been talking about. It's not the
football we are used to from the two thousands to
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what it's become now. The running back, not that it's
the Eagles blueprint, right, They didn't invent leaning into the
run depending on the run, but all these teams have
leaned into it, and we've seen a total shift in
the league, where you know, teams got small to catch
up with speed to stop these spread offenses. And now
you're seeing teams like the Bills, who you saw they
couldnot pass block. Those two tackles in there, could not
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plast blocking. Know they could do they could run block.
Those are the big ass human beings. And when you're
just moving guys like they were, I mean, Romo is
losing his mind. The Steelers would not bring in a
corner to cover the edge. I feel like any time
Cooks wanted to go outside and pick up ten you
could get.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
He would just he would like jump jump, run, jump cut,
go right Tony Romo diagrammed it eight thousand times.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
By the end of the third quarter, the Steelers finally
had a drive to start the fourth quarter, and of
course they got down to fourth and two outside the ten,
and their creative play calling, not running misdirection, not trying
to throw over the top of the defense. It was
basically run into the middle of the defensive line out
of shotgun. So of course they turned the ball over
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on downs. Before that series, the Bills had three hundred
total yards. The Steelers had ninety total yards. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And it's a bad Bills defense. This is not a
great Bill's defense. So that's the most alarming part of it.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Josh Allen and Aaron Rodgers in the first half combined,
what do they have? Five MVPs between the two of
them combined, they were twelve of twenty five for one
hundred and four total yards. Six to twelve for Josh Allen,
six of thirteen for Aaron Rodgers, fifty yards for Josh Allen,
fifty four yards for Aaron Rodgers. I mean, it was atrocious,
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atrocious football.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But congrats to the Bills.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You know they did a huge win, huge, huge win
for the Bills, and congrass Josh Allen NFL record seventy
sixth rushing touchdown. That's the most rushing touchdowns by a
quarterback in NFL history passing.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Do you knew who he passed?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I do not. Fran Tarkenton, Cam Newton. There you go.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
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Speaker 3 (28:55):
A couple of.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Questions our YouTube viewer, who's in the chat right now
at another shot. He wants to know if we can
stop betting the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I'm with another.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Shot, like I felt like we had been getting away
with it. We've lost the mojo on the Mike Tomlin spots.
This is not a very good team. Their defense is
giving up the most yardage they've given up in the
Mike Tomlin era. The offense is as unimaginative as ever,
and Aaron Rodgers is injured and hobbled. What are we
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doing with the Steelers team? I feel like we got
to jump off this bandwagon here.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, it's hard. I'm with the guy, but it's just
there's certain spots where they just fills up the gray
under Valley and we'll eventually have to jump on them.
But yeah, for contest wise, if we can avoid the
rest of the year, I'm with the guy. I'd be
very happy not to have them in our contest.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Well, look, and next week I think they have to
buy Next week, don't they?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah, No, they're playing Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
They're six and a half point underdogs at the Ravens.
No doubt they're gonna tempt us with exactly when we
want to walk away, they're going to pull us back
in with an ugly game against a struggling Ravens team
and a big number where we're going to be off
the bandwagon. And of course that's going to be one
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we want to bet the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I on losing half my money on that Ravens money line.
Just yeah, it's going to say how the Ravens lose
that and that that spot against a one armed quarterback
and Aaron Rodgers came to hand the ball off properly.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Right now, This is an interesting question too, and then
we've got one more, but I want to go to
this one first. Joe Connolly wants to know, excluding the
old Guard Baltimore, Buffalo, Kansas City, which team in the
AFC do we think is most likely to take over
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that position and get to the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Right now, it's a ton of unproven guys that's top
of the AFC.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So, I mean, it's not Indy anymore like Daniel hobbled
I'm Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, I would say, if I'm still a betting man,
you're just hoping the Bills get in there. You feel
comfortable with the Bills. I still see a path for
the Chiefs. But if the Chiefs don't make it, the
Bills don't make it, and I'm forced to pick teams
out of everybody, probably gonna end up on Denver. They
just they have a coach who's done it before, and
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that's a big deal when the rest of the coaches
he's going against, you know, Hardball obviously has but it's
it's it's a unique spot. With this Embers team, They're
probably gonna have the best defense left in the playoffs.
So yeah, that's that's why New England's a fun team because,
like I said, I mean, guys again took it as offense.
They just give me the major. Drake makes the major.
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Carson Wentz vibes the year he med that MVP run
of just really athletic in the pocket, great deep ball
thrower in the offense. That's humming. They they might have
known any better like that. That's what's so fun about
New England. They might not know any better, and they
get the right matchups, they also could make that run.
So yeah, I would say any team would be exciting.
Unless you're a Jags fan. It's just like you're waiting
for the You're waiting for the shooter to drop. So yeah,
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for right now leading their division, Ravens Denver, New England,
I think all those fan bases should be really excited
because the Bills the Chiefs said they're not they're not
a lock to make the playoffs. Yet it's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Also, I would say the Texans, if they can figure
out any offensive.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
You just buried them.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
You just buried them.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
But like the problem is, you talk about defense, right
Like I when I was when I was thinking about
the answer to that question, I was thinking the Broncos
first and foremost because they've got such a good defense.
But bo Nicks is unreliable, and as much as Sean
Payton is a coaching genius, he still has to figure
out ways to manage bow Knicks in really specific situations
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and hope that bow Nicks can execute on his vision.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
He needs to be the perfect avatar for whatever Sean
page and is trying to call in any scenario. The
Texas defense is just as good, you know. The Texas
defense could be even better than the Broncos defense. They've
got an incredible pass rush, they've got a great secondary,
they keep teams from scoring points like this is a
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really historically great defense potentially, and they got the same thing.
But I think that there's probably more trust in CJ
and less trust in what they can do offensively because
of their play calling, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I do think you just have high expectations for both though,
like not to be the backer of bow Knicks, but
he's had some impressive fourth quarter comebacks this season that
I'd give him a ton of respect to that Houston
defense you just talked about. He had two huge drives.
We lost that bet. He scored eleven points against that
dominant Houston defense on the road and burned us. He
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beat us, yet we had Houston. So I agree with you.
I don't like them or trust them. But whatever the
magic did was this kid in the fourth quarter. He
has nothing for three quarters and he shows up in
these big moments. So I don't know. It's just like
I'm trying to think of, like the Gid asked a
really good question like this, We're an untrod of water
right now, and I don't know. I just still I'd
rather take Drake may or Bow over Lamar beuse I've
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just seen Lamar choke so many times in the playoffs,
So I just have an a hard time trust Lamore
even I feel like that's probably the easy answer.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
One of the other questions that we just got from
Matt Mitchell that came in from Joe connolly was about
JJ McCarthy. His question was, and I want to sit
now because I want to lead into talking about that
Minnesota game for a second. His question was, would JJ
McCarthy ask for a trade? JJ McCarthy is not asking
for a trade. The Vikings might decide to trade JJ
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McCarthy because they just don't think he's good enough and
they're going to try to figure out can they get
Mac Jones, you know, someone who can play within Kevin
O'Connell's system and actually deliver the ball to Justin Jefferson
delivered the ball to Jordan Addison. I thought, you know,
in the game today, Minnesota is a twelve point underdog.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
And if not for all of the.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Turnovers and Max Brosmer not really knowing the difference between
a Viking's uniform and a Seahawks uniform, they keep that
game close. I know you're gonna say I'm crazy, but
the only touchdown the Vikings the Seahawks scored of the
first nineteen points they scored was a pick six where
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Brosmer on a fourth and one was about to go
down and underhanded it directly to a Seahawks player, Ernest Jones,
who ran it back ninety years for a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Their defense was in Donald's.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Grill all day, including two sacks and two forced fumbles
in the first twenty minutes of the game.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah, and it's another reason why a lot of people
have pauls about Sam Dono, because certain teams know how
to play them, and they can look very foolish and uncomfortable,
and once you get the little rattled, it doesn't really
go away. So I don't I'm not hating you read,
but the whole reason I wouldn't let us touch this
when it's just like, dude, I told you, I try
to watch film on this kid. I'm just like, this
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kid looks like he's about to die today. So I
need to turn this off because I'm going to talk
myself out of this in a second. And you know,
even when he did have good throws, you knew what
the deal was going to be. He was gonna be
highly inconsistent. It's his first start in a really, you know,
terrible environment to be in. And he's not a first
round pick. He's not a kid that's been playing sec
football his whole life. Man, this is not that type
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of situation. So you know, him throwing four picks, taking
four sacks, it's against arguably the best defense, number two,
number three defense in all football right now. So, like
you said, it's your theory about taking Minnesota sound. They
did defensively what they were supposed to do. It's just
you got a total zero from the unknown at the
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quarterback position, which we said going into there's just no
way to account for what this kid's going to do.
That's why that number fluctuated so much this week. I
mean we talked this morning. A couple of books had
at eleven, a couple of books already had at thirteen.
So it really depended on what sharp group hit, what
book and which side they're on, And it was just
no one really knew. You're really betting the unknown there.
But the thing you did know is two really good defenses.
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We're going to play this game. So as bad as
Sam Donald was, he was a veteran quarterback there. He
didn't put his team. He wasn't throwing pick sixes on
fourth down like a rookie quarterback for the Yeah, so
just brutal. If you did beck Minnesota like you said
it was, the theory was right, but my god, got
a total zero at the quarterback. And Uh, to answer
the JJ McCarthy question like you did, he ain't going anywhere.
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He's gonna be there. I talked about it. I think
they'll go get a veteran so someone to challenge him.
If they keep losing, get a high enough draft pick.
Maybe Kse does fire another one and try to get
in a quarterback he likes. But to me, they just
go to the veteran route, someone to challenge him. See
if he takes that year two, year three Jrump. If
he doesn't, you know, they're gonna eat it. They made
a huge mistake moving on from Sam Donald and you
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saw them hugging embrace after the game, like I'm sure
he whispered to him, just miss you, but like I
just he knows you fucked up. Yeah, that's the tough part.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Greg Olson and Joe Davis. They did their best to
glaze Max Brosmer.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Like before the kid threw a pass, they were talking
about this kid, he could be Brock Purdy. They were
making actual comparisons to Brock Purdy. The first pass, which
was a little bit out of reach of Jordan Addison,
they were blaming it all on Jordan Addison for not
catching it off his fingertips when he.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Was diving for the ball.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Like, they did their best to make everybody interested. And
then it was punt punt, punt pick. That was basically
the first four series for the Minnesota Vikings. All Right,
we have to talk about the Carolina Panthers plus ten
and a half Stafford. Two early picks, including a pick
six six lead changes the Panthers are down twenty eight,
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twenty four, fourth down from their own forty three. Bryce
Young kids tedtor Roa McMillan for the touchdown. Are you
kidding me? Carolina wins this game thirty on twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Bryce Young give him tons of flowers. He isn't consistent,
we know that, but he set the NFI record most
comeback wins started his career. I believe he's at eleven now,
at the youngest stage. I think I think he just
beat like Josh Allen by like thirty days. So, you know,
obviously totally different spectrum. Josh Allen's are freaking all freaks.
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But that thing we talk all.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
The time, the things so is Bryce Young by the way,
in some ways right.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
But the thing you can't you can't scout, you can't coach,
you can't teach, is that clutchness, that ice in your veins.
No problem driving the field the end of the games,
and that fourth down touched him. That was big time.
That was a risky, risky play that paid off huge
and a game where we we we said we were
gonna about the money line. We threw a little on it.
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Wish you were more confident in the number obviously, and
you know, we talked the Rams were due for a stinker,
more so Stafford was. But even he bounced back like
he threw those two egregious picks and it was fourteen fourteen,
like he wasn't in that bad of a spot after
really playing so poor, you know, red zone red red
zone turnovers, it pick sixes, and there was just everything
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going wrong. Like this is such a good Rams team,
but it's it's incredible what this offensive Bryce Shung's done.
And they you know, looking at all the different team
schedules and how the season's gonna end, they're probably my
number two team right now. That's like, I really cannot
wait to see what happens these next five weeks. So
they basically have this bye week Chad, then they're at
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New Orleans. Then it's Tampa, Seattle, Tampa. I mean, oh
my god, is that a juggernaut to finish the season.
So I love it. It's like, you know, a team
that normally believes in we joked coming into the year,
they're win total six and a half. They've hit it.
They now their seventh win, a team we never quit on.
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We always loved. It's been like a long two three
years with them, But this is always the team we envisioned, right,
are really good offense with Bryce Seung pushing the ball
downfield in uh you know, can they go three and
one in those next four games? Chad? I don't think so.
This might be as good as it gets. But you know,
they have a win against a really good Green Bay team.
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I went against a really good Rams team, you know,
win against Dallas like I'm looking at right now. They
just they've won some games against good teams that I
wouldn't count them out. I think they could shock the
world and somehow fit you know, which would be crazy
them stealing it from Baker with them winning this division,
I think it's not out of the world yet.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Simon.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I want to go to shame on you right now
because it is connected to the Carolina Panthers. Shame on you,
Chad Milman. Simon, Who do we love more than anyone
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else in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Barry Milman?
Speaker 3 (42:06):
No, the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Yeah, who have.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
We invested in more than any other team in the
NFL the.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Past several years?
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Panthers?
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Who did we say we loved in this spot against
a Rams team that was at peak value against a
Panthers team that was coming off of a prime time
loss in which it did not look very good but
still had a chance.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
To cover a Panthers.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
We went to a whole breakdown of why we liked
the Panthers on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
We were both in we both loved it.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
I stupidly, stupidly mentioned some defensive back issues. They were
going to be without defensive backs because of injuries and suspensions.
The guy who knocked Juwan Jennings in the night was
going to be out this game. In that instant, we
walked away from the game, did not go back to it.
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It's like we looked for an excuse not to bet
on the Carolina Panthers. There's ten and a half point
home dogs when we have almost beten the Panthers. There's
ten and a half point home dogs in every single
scenario for the past seven years, no matter who the
quarterback was, and yet somehow we didn't do it when
they were primed to win outright. Shame on me, Shame
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on Chad Milman.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Simon happened to.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
The best of this. Chad. I'm gonna go with I was.
I said I was gonna do Brown Special teams because
they burned us bad today. But shame I keep going
back to the wall, But shame too, these NFL referees
On Thanksgiving. I'm trying to watch these games with family members,
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and all people can talk about are how horrible is
refs are, how rigid is for gambling? All this bs
and I just can't take it. They have to let
either call down the New York thing or let these
coaches have one challenge, any call, whatever it may be.
People were losing their minds. I mean you probably what
I'm talking about. This is Troy Lions Green Bay game,
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letting that coach call the time out what was clearly
a false start. Do you have a camerangles there's just
nothing left up to imagination. You have every angle, every sound.
It's all people talking to the rest of the Thanksgiving
around on the other way, where it's like, damn it,
these are great games. All these games are so good,
and now I have to defend the Shield, which I
will do. I am a mouthpiece for the Shield. I
love the NFL no matter what, but my god, they
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make it hard. In those type of scenarios where you
just have multiple games with bad referee calls are dictating
these games. I mean that Dallas game that was a
bad game as well, Like people were really complaining about it.
But it's hard to complay too much because it feels
like the Chiefs have gotten every call for the last
five years. So it just instead of everyone talking about
the games, it became a thing about the refs, and
it's just I can't take it any more. NFL on you
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from l a coaches challenge. These calls just won a game.
It's just some of these calls just turn the whole game.
They can't leave up the rest addicted these games. It's
just too much money, too much speculation now by the
general public. They got to earn the trust back of everyone.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Who is your hero of the week? Man?
Speaker 2 (45:21):
I mean, I feel like we are our own heroes
because we didn't put any of the Thanksgiving games or
that Black Friday game into it. I almost try to
talk to you out of the Browns. Unfortunately, I loved it,
but we are ice cold on our Tuesday's Picks Chads Choice,
Simon says, I'm dying here with Simon says, that's why
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I didn't even text Chad people honestly about Sunday or
I should say Friday's game, because I was like this,
this bet has taking on so much water right now,
I can't even we had a good number of six
and a half in the contest. I don't want to
make you try to put it in. I just ice
gold with my pick, so apologies, people, we are our
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own heroes of woiding these picks. But for myself, I'm
killing myself with you, Simon says, and I'm betting these
it's good numbers. But yeah, luckily, contest, we should be
sitting here two and three. You saved us with the Jets,
probably could be one and four, got the Giants left
to get us back to three and two and keep
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us one step closer. If we hit it, we'll be
up to fifty nine percent for the season.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
I love how you both shamed yourself and made yourself
the hero at the same time for being ice cold
in the picks, but being smart enough not to put.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
The we're heroes from We're self aware enough. We don't
have the egos Chad, we're heroes.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
We are self aware. My hero of the week Tyrod Taylor. Look,
he was the reason we bet the game. He did
exactly what we were hoping he would do. He had
that team moving down the field. He ran for the
game time touchdown on a broken play where it looked
like they had nothing going and it was going to
end twenty four to seventeen. He scrambled for the yardage
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to put them in rain for the game winning field goal.
He had a passing touchdown, He had a rushing touchdown.
Tyrod Taylor, you are the reason we are two and
two right now. You are the reason I won my
Jets bet at plus two and a half plus three
and on the money line, I thank you.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Tyrod Taylor, you are a hero.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
He is quietly becoming the Teddy Bridgewater of covering. He
is seven and one is his last eight starts against the screen,
just undervaled every time by the public, and finds a
way like we said, I never in my wild streams slow.
He'd be throwing fifty yard bombs in that game in
the rain keeping us that cover.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Simon says, like you said, was Philadelphia minus six and
a half. Chetch choice was Cleveland plus five and a half.
Ugh brass Balls New York Jets plus two and a half.
Bully for US Rock on a hard place was New
York Giants plus seven and a half. We forgot to
do sharp versus Square this week in the rush to
do a lot of other stuff in today's show. I'm
kind of glad because I'm getting my ass kicked in
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that the favorite parlay Seattle minus five and a half
at won, La Chargers one, Miami at won, Tampa Bay one,
Los Angeles Rams underdog parlay, Pittsburgh lost, Cleveland lost, Jets one,
Houston one, Tennessee lost.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
Simon, what are.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Some early leans if you've had a chance to look,
If you haven't, I have two that I noticed right away.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
I mean, are we supposed to go back and take
the Jets again at plus yes? Yeah, I mean that's insane.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
I immediately put that down.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
We might have like a Northeast Northeastern crazy snowstorm up
here in the Northeast when this game is happening, So
we're getting two outdoors potentially in the weather. Let's grab
that early plus three in case that is true and
this number moves a ton. There's like again, there's a
couple of games I do like, but I'm just interesting
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where the line's gonna go in them, because it feels
like I'm getting a bad number, but I'm probably gonna
be on the Chiefs. They're at home in prime time
right now. They're at minus four, minus four and a
half against Houston. I know people are gonna be like, well,
you just tried to fit. You gave us the exact
same spot last name. We're trying to fit Houston on
the road. I am like Chad just keeps saying their
offense is dysfunctional. They can't keep getting away with it.
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I think this is a nice spot to back this
Chiefs team that I think the public is fining leave
them for dead like they've been going. They've been backing
them every week and they've been losing them for every week.
So that's the number I'm gonna be on. I'm not
gonna jump and make people take it right now, but
I'm gonna grab them minus four just in case it
does move. And another game that I like, but I
could see it moving. Colts. They're minus one and a half.
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I'm worried it might flip because I just don't know
if if Jones got more banged up, they and they're
gonna sit them out, this could move. I'm gonna roll
the dice on the early risk and just take it
now in case he is all kid to go. I
could I could see this game up to the minus
two and a half on the Colts as a favorite
on the road.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Jets was the very first game I noticed. And by
the way, as we're talking, that line has moved to
two and a half almost everywhere. There is one three
that I can see that is still out there, but
that's juice to minus one eighteen right now.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
Interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Also, the Cowboys had been three and a half point
underdogs on the road at Detroit for Thursday night when
we started the show. That number is now down to
Detroit minus three. The other game that stood out to
me expectations are that Jaden Daniels is going to play
next week. Washington is on the road at Minnesota and
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they are one and a half point underdogs right now.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
I bet it, but I feel back because I'm super biasing.
I already talked about I'm heavy in the Commanders tonight.
You know, I put them another contest them in. It
was one of my five favorite bets, and these last
two games, I'm really big on them tonight, Commanders and
the Giants, And I think I talked about doctor Nick
gave out. They're both huge luck discrepancy, so it should
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be a type of game where the bounces should go
their way. And I think the Commanders tonight up at
six and a half. I like your early read. I'll
grab that plus one and a half. Now, it doesn't
matter who the quarterback is for Minnesota, right, we're really
banking on even if you know it's Mariota. Once again,
if they cover tonight, that that number one flip, they'll
be a favorite Mario to plays well tonight. So I
like that early read by you, all right.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hello, mister first place Bears. How are we doing?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
We feel you know, it's so pathetic. I thought to
myself today. The football teams that I love the most,
the Chicago Bears and the Indiana Hoosiers, are two of
the best teams in all of the land.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
They are a combined twenty one and three, and one
of them is undefeated and playing for the Big Ten
title this weekend. Feels pretty good, pretty pretty pretty good, Simon.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I would say people that figure exact deprescription, people that
are Bears fans and the fans. Even though it's only
November thirtieth, who cares. It's like I would could care less.
It's I know it's a little early, but expectations wise
did not see either of these scenarios happening as we
head Intocember here, So I would say, pretty pretty insane
times for both those fan bases. And like you said,
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it's every game that we've been talking for a months
about the spairits every game is must see now. The
fact they're in control of their own destiny, home field
throughout the playoffs. Come on, who cares? What's their points there?
French one plus nine? Who cares? It's it's what we
love about football. Titans. What was that four or five
years ago they got they got the one seed. It
can happen, right, So with Ryan Tannehill, Yeah, with Ryan
(01:43):
Tannel exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I've watched more tiktoks of Ben Jonson taking his shirt
off so the entire city of Chicago could get free
Wiener Circle. Then I care to admit I just love
the spirit. I love the way he's galvanizing this team
and the city is behind him, and he's he turned
himself that night, that night when he took off his
shirt so the entire city could get free hot dogs.
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I think he made himself a hero for the rest
of his life in that town.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
He understood this is the magic of Ben Johnson.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
He understands who he's coaching for, not just the team
and the players, but for the city itself.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
He totally gets it. He's bought in.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
He understands the connection, he understands the people, like I
am all in on this all in the other night,
I'm so in. I'm so in the other night at Thanksgiving,
we were sitting around the table and my dad was
asking my younger son, who goes to Maryland, where the
other kids from his pledge class. He just finished pledging fraternity.
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He's been, you know, went through Hell Week and whatever,
and he has. My dad was asking where the other
kids from, and he was naming all the places they're
from a lot of Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
et cetera, et cetera. My dad's I go, No. One
from Chicago, and I tapped him. I'm like, I tapped
my son. I'm like, well, you're from Chicago. I forgot
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he was born and raised in Connecticut. Because I'm thinking
so much about the Bears right now, I just assumed
we were in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I'm so im mature right now. I have about fifty
Williams or free Weeny jokes lined up, and I'm not
gonna say any of them.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Love your Class Act our final five Today we're in
the Houston Texans plus four and a half. That's a win.
Cleveland plus five and a half. That's a loss.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The New York j e Ts Jet Jet Jets.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Plus two and a half. Miraculous win. Pittsburgh plus three
and a half, it's a loss. We got the New
York Giants plus seven and a half.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Our last one's out one of the Tennessee Titans plus
six and a half. Thanks freaking God. Three teams today
basically played one sided football with no offensive support whatsoever.
We bet on two of them, the Steelers and the Browns.
The Steelers, Browns, and Seahawks combined for fifteen points. None
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of them scored any points in the second half. That
includes the Seahawks, who were shut out. Oh boy, we're
going to talk about that game too a little bit
because it was. It was devastating to watch. If you're
a Vikings fan right now. This season, the Jets won
on a last second kick. This season, there have been
more game winning scores in the final two minutes or
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overtime than any other season in NFL history. Nick Folk
won with a fifty six yard game winning kick. Thank God,
because you've challenged me on the Jets versus the Titans,
and I decided to own the responsibility of putting the
Jets in. Simon, I told you I'd be the only
one watching that Jets Falcons game, and it was.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
It was miserable. I'm just going to tell you that
you ready to get into.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It, Yeah, let's get into it.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Apples at Houston.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Houston was a late entry for us, Like we hadn't
really talked about the Texans at all. If anything, we
were going we were leaning towards the Colts, but we
came around as the week went on. Too much news
about Daniel Jones and his injured leg.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
C J.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Stroud was playing. That was never really a factor to me.
It was really about the injuries to Daniel Jones. The
guy just hasn't been as good the last couple of weeks,
and it turns out it is because he might be
playing on a broken leg. Great game, great win for
the Texans, Simon, great great win.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, and crazy to turn around their season they've had.
But we talked earlier the year it couldn't keep going right,
they couldn't keep losing. They have such a great defense,
and like you said, it's Colts. We started on that side,
and I feel like it was the right side and
the more as we went along and you heard the
injury news that that should flip everyone right, And really
did that number move a ton four and a half
all the way down to three by kickoff? And yeah,
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the Texans, you know, they try to give it away
a couple of different times, but like you said, Daniel
Jones just simply couldn't take advantage of it. So yeah,
I think jj wadteed a great stat, simple stat, but
it is a great step. They've won every game basically
where Jonathan Taylor scores and they're one and three when
he doesn't. So that just makes sense for that cold team.
Like we talked early the year, he was their MVP.
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He was so dominant and they could go as far
as he can take them. But I said it right
back to he's their MVP, but they still need Daniel
Jones to make those plays, and right now he's not
been making them like you said he was making them
to start the year. They've kind of falling apart. And
this Texans defense once again just stepped up every time
we need him. Step on that game they kind of
did for us, and you know it was great having
the CJ back, you know, as great as David Smills
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was for them, right, winning games and going three and oh,
this was a real test and this is like a
divisional setting type of game like that. Both teams took
this as a playoff game. So CJ really stepped up
for a game. He was coming in kind of cold,
and it's some big time throws and you know that
it sucks for the Colts. They went all in, right,
they went and got sauce, and you saw in that
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game he went out and not as if he was
this game changer, but it was a big deal, Like
that's that's a lot.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, I think it was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I actually think it was a big deal because that
CJ stroud, he was okay, Like, there are so many
issues with this offense, and I don't know, We're now
going two seasons in a row where the Texans are
so far removed from the explosive downfield dangerous passing attack
with CJ being so accurate on long passes that they
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were in his rookie season. A lot of reasons for that, right,
there's offensive line reasons, there's running game issues, there's play
calling issues, receivers have been heard, they haven't.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Had the full compliment. But there were times today when CJ.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Stroud did get the ball downfield, especially some good throws
to Nico Collins, and that those could have been plays
where Sauce Gardner was defending and they wouldn't have had
that chance. But you still look at this Texans offense
and they are just dreadful in the red zone. There's
no creativity, there's no misdirection. They run the ball into
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the middle of the offensive line, they wait to get
third and long, and then they have to kick a
field goal. They can't even convert on short yardist situations.
They were at the fifteen late in the game. They
could have gone up twenty three to sixteen. They had
a third and one, they run directly into the middle
of the line, don't get it, go forward and fourth down,
same exact play. They didn't even try to change it
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up and did it again. So this offensive play calling
that is happening in Houston is going to be the
death now for them as they get into the postseason.
Their defense is great them, the Browns, the Vikings like
those are great defenses that are so hampered by offenses
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at varying levels. It's got to be so frustrating to
watch if you're a Texans.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Fan right now.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, like their offenses up and down, But I mean,
they do enough every week to win, so it's hard
to get too upset with it. Where all of these
teams you just mentioned, My god, are they just totally
lost offensively?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So sad? It is so sad.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Let's talk about the Cleveland Browns. Let's talk about the
fact they were five and a half point underdogs to
the Niners. Let's talk about the fact that the Niners.
What was the final score, like twenty six to eight
or something like that. I'm going to give you a
stat Okay, are you ready?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:36):
The Niners scoring drives. Four of their five scoring drives
started on the Browns forty, the Browns eighteen, the Browns
twenty six, and the Browns fourteen. They had one scoring
drive of the five scoring drives they had where was
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I think thirty seven seconds left in the first half,
and they drove down the field of the four yard
line on a miracle one handed catch by Kittle just
outside the five yard line I think, and that allowed
them to kick the field goal. Other than that, everything
they did was on a short field. How are the Browns,
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who were awesome supposed to be defending that they can't
do it?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, honestly, I was going to do shame on the
special teams of the Browns team, but I got someone else.
I want a shame. But I agree with you, by
the way, it felt like that's what caused us the
game in every aspect, right. The special teams, you know,
they give up that punt. I think they got down
to the fifteen and then or twenty they put it
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in and that's how they get their touchdowns. They get,
you know, a couple of plays here and there that
dictate the game. Where like you said, defensively, they're doing
their part, they're holding up. This was really you know,
even though brock Pretty this stat sheet, it's not anything special.
When sixty eight one touchdown to me, he had a
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bunch of sacks he got out of that. It shows
why Pretty is a start in the league. Right. What
makes him special and something she can do his pocket presence,
because he should have got got and it wasn't like
he took big plays, either threw it away or did
a check down anything like that. But it was just
a very veteran play that kept them basically in the
game where Sanders every time took the sack, just every time,
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and you saw about five different things happen in this game.
You were like, this is why he dropped, not just
because this person eye in the draft, his wind up
in certain spots. It's like, dude, you cannot wind up
when the pocket's closing on you just got to throw
it from up top. You cannot draw from your hip
back up to the air. It's gonna get knocked out.
You're gonna get sacked. And him get running from these
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the linemen, Like he got caught multiple times from behind
that You're like, that's not even one of the edge guys.
That's a d tackle catching them that he's not able
to outrun. So he was just bad today, and you know,
and it was a game where you kind of need
him to show up a little bit, and he missed
guys in a couple of spots. And you know, we
knew going in there was supposed to be bad weather.
I don't really think the weather was that effective, Like
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it felt like there was no passes. I got taken
by the wind. They were kicking field goals, kicking extra points.
So yeah, just a game where honestly think if special
teams showed up for this Browns team would have been
a totally different game. Like I felt like the defense
when they were in you know, good spots kind of
got stops and held their own. It's just like you said, impossible,
and you kept getting a great field position to that
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team on the forty nine ers and they eventually just
wear you out. That's that's what they did as a team.
They wear you out, and that's what happened. This game
so sucked. I had to watch the whole game because
we were always kind of in it with our number,
like they were just like we always like you were
a touchdown away, and then you know, in that fourth
quarter kind of opened up, we were dead. So yeah, bad, bad,
better on this Browns team. And you know, should have
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known better than the back this Browns team after a
huge road win coming back, Sanders just totally laid a
nug in the spot.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
So uh.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
There were two special teams players that you're talking about
that I noted, and they were kind of.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Back to back.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
The first was off of a kickoff after the Niners
had scored that The Browns are totally.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Still in the game. Uh, the ball is sailing out
of bounds and the Niners kick returner.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Catches it on the sideline at the five yard line,
and it catches it so close to the sideline that
his momentum.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Carries him out of bounds. So now the Browns, no.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
There's even just there's a rule chat which is again, that's.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Right, that's right. It goes out of bounds. It goes
to the forty not even that.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
If you stick your foot out of bounce and your
other foot in bounce and just stand there and catch
it like he could have done, that can that is
considered out of bounds.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Right, That's what I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
That's one of the easiest tricks that more guys do.
And like you just said, he did the opposite. He
trying to keep both saving us. Yeah, he's saving the ball,
catching it when it was silent with his feet.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
So now the Browns are backed up and they have
to basically punt from their goal line, and of course
the defense stops the Niners at midfield. So now the
Niners have to punt, and the Niners punt returner has
the ball go through his arms, fumbles it. Then Niners
get the I mean the Browns the fumble it, the
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Niners get the ball back and then they score a touchdown.
It's like, what are the Browns supposed to do? There's
nothing they can do. This poor team, Like they're so
good on defense.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Here's what's interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
After the game, the Browns defenders ripped Juwan Jennings for comments.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I don't know what the comments are.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's not reported that he had during the game that
they said, cross the line.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
To a player.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh, is that what it was?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, apparently like one of the guys were down and
he was saying stuff and he was highing behind his
offensive lineman. I think the exact quote from the guy
he was talking about said, I see why he got
punching the balls last week.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
That's what I was gonna say.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
I'm shock he has been punching the mouth yet. I
was like, damn, what did this guy say? I'm with you,
That's what.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
I was going to say.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Like, it's interesting to me for the second week in row,
Juwan Jennings is in the middle of something with another
team where they're calling him out.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
That's leading to some action.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Last week, Yeah, we need more devo receivers. We had
a nice run there in the mid two thousands. They've
kind of faded here a little bit. AJ's trying to
give us one. AJ Brown's given it a little bit
of one. But nice you see someone else picking up
the slack here. And just like pole psychopath in Jennings.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
I mean, look, DK Metcalf tried to be one for
years and now he's wasted in Pittsburgh. We'll get to
that in a second. Atlanta at the New York Jets.
This is the one sign in New York Jets plus
two and a half. This was an ugly game, back
and forth, back and forth, and then all of a
sudden in the second half, it got a little bit rowdy.
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I was feeling great, Like the Jets were covered to
fumble at the Falcons one, they score a touchdown, they
were holding up. They got a touchdown to tie the
game from ad n Im from Tyrod Taylor to add
An I Mitchell a fifty two yard touchdown pass fourteen
fourteen Like this game?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Did you watch any of this game?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Of course? I bet it. It was our we gave
it out. My whole issue it.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Was our brass boss.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Yeah. My own issue was it was just we didn't
have a good number. No, it was three and a
half would have been a no brainer. We took that.
My only issue was we were taking a bad number
two and a half and it could have bit us
a thousand different ways. Right, But, like we always say,
these stupid games, you just got to trust these ugly
dogs sometimes and there's no way, there's no way to
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break it down, like they this is an insane game.
The fact that you know they scored seven points in
the first half and they got us twenty the second half.
It's jests team fifty yard bombs and you know pun
returns getting down to the ten or kick returns down
to the ten and them getting stopped only getting three
Like we we lived and died so many times.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
And missed field goals going both ways.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, and just I I know people who work for
teams and ownerships, and you can tell when a code
which is just doing his own thing because he's like,
I don't really care what the ownership or whoever's telling
me what to do, Like I am, I'm just playing
for my own job. I want to play for wins.
He's been told, I am for sure that he needs
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to go for two in those exact spots like when
he gets a touchdown with two minutes left, Yes, Aaron
Glenn here, like he has been told, I am sure
he needs to go for two in that exact scenario,
because it's great they go up one, they're gonna win,
or even better, they're they lost now because they're down
by one point and he'd kicked the extra point. I
oh my god, all right, me and Chat gonna hold
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onto this one here. And I think Kirk got it twice.
He got it, punted, got it back and then God
bless Kirk. He's just so bad. They got it. He
had a couple opportunities. He kind of burned us and
he really didn't. And yeah, it's exactly what we talked about,
though we faded it because it's like Kirk is now
a favorite on the road. This is the exact moment
to go against.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Him without Drake London, without Drake London, and I do
think that mattered, Like there were times late in the
game he just didn't.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Have anyone he can rely on.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
It's play fine, but Darnold Mooney was kind of non existent.
And at the end of the game he alligator armed
a catch that would have been really significant. That Guy
Sills number eighty seven on the Falcons. He dropped a
pass on that final drive where they could have put
themselves closer into field goal range.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
It was exciting. It was truly awesome to watch this game.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
I never felt like I actually never felt like the
Jets were out of it, and.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Just the whole time was like, my god, is this
two and a half gonna burn us? That was like
just that, Like you just said, all the mitsfield goals.
I was like, it's it's not landing on the two
and a half like I thought it was going to.
I really thought it was gonna be a one or
two point game, and it kept staying on the three.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
What was I loved?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
I thought he might go for for two. What's interesting
to me that you just say is he's being told
to go for two. I would go for two, like
if I were a coach in that situation.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
That's what I'm saying. Though he's just in his mind though,
he's like, no, I'm playing for my own record now,
like I'm not playing to get you a better draft pick.
I'm trying to win. And you know, if you're trying
to win and play for a playoff spot, of course,
you kick the extra point there. The Jets are not
that team. They won the number one pick, Like, what
are we doing here? So I just thought it was
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really interesting that he that he kicked that because I
thought it was really telling where it's all okay, Maybe
him and the organization are not on the same pitch.
I thought they were. I thought they would bring him
back next year if he keeps winning. I don't know
if you can't, like they're he's.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Saving saying he keeps winning, they're going to have to
fire him because he's.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Not listening to him. But I'm with you, it's good
he's winning. But it's like, you need a top pick,
don't you Like? I mean, I can't wait for the
Austin talk these quarterbacks, but there might only be one
or two good ones coming out. So this game right here,
Atlanta might be you know, this might dictate a Landa
having a draft pick above the Jets. Now, it's just
a really unique spot.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
It's and I think they're obviously going to get rid
of Raheem Morris. Yeah, who's now there. They've lost something
like seven in a row. They're three and nine on
the year.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Michael the fourth fourth quarterback taking in a draft and
he's on his fifth knee surgery.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, and he's not even going to be back until
the middle of the year. Like this team all of
a sudden goes from looking like it had potential to
being in the middle of a rebuild, like complete start
again next year because when Pennix comes back, what are
you going to have?
Speaker 2 (20:37):
I would love that job as a coach though, Like,
you got a good line, you could have a high
pick to get a quarterback, and you have all the
weapons like you have Drake, you have the running back.
I don't know, I have all the spots that are
coming up. Like there's there's gonna be some ugly coaching opportunities.
This feels like a pretty good one.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
We're gonna have a little bit more about uh Tyrod
Taylor and the Jets in a minute. Buffalo at Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh plus three and a half.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Dude, this first half was so.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Freaking ugly and chippy, and the whole game got ugly
and chippy. Cam Hayward constantly in Josh Allen's face. There
were multiple personal foul calls that weren't even part of
the play. They were after the play, with people acting
like idiots, like this was such an ugly game, and
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then the wheels came off for the Steelers as soon
as the second half started, Aaron Rodgers getting literally bloodied
and having to leave the game. That to me was
sort of the perfect example of what this game became
for the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I know, like tease us chat it felt so good
that first half.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
It was all so real, so real.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah, it was just exactly like we know, Pittsburgh's a
shitty team, but you saw that first half. That's how
they win and steal these games, right, They play really
good defense, keep guys in front of them, steal the ball,
get turnovers, offensively, play smart, play simple. But my god,
Rogers probably should not have played this week. He was
just nothing first out there, and whatever happened at halftime,
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I mean, I can't get over how bad it started
for us. Where like you said, he came out, what
is there fourteen to fifty five on the clock, so
it's literally the first NUW first play. Yeah, he gets
hit stripsack Like you said, bloody knows they have they
kick it off right away, no commercial break, right, this's
just well there's.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Strip sack and the Bills score.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
So it goes from being seven to three Steelers at
the half, they have the ball, they could drive down
the field potentially score, and instead it's now ten to
seven Bills. Aaron Rodgers is out of the game, Mason
Rudolph is in the game, and for a second I
said to myself, maybe it'll be better.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
And again at the halftime, I think it was minus
three and a half Pittsburgh. So it's not like the
books thought the Bills were about to come back, like
like you said, it was a good spot for Pittsburgh
to be in. Mason comes in throws a pick. Obviously,
even then, I'm still not freaking out at this point.
It's like, Okay, we'll see their defensive beginning yards, but
they've been holding them to three. And it really did
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come down that fourth down play like we've seen it.
I mean, you know, we didn't talk about the things
Ginning game, but that Green Bay game against the lines
dictated by fourth down touchdowns like these are huge flips,
not just the totals obviously, but the spreads. Definitely a
fifth just for the Bills momentum wise. And you know,
if if I would have came to before the game,
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it said, hey, let's fade Josh Allen here. He's only
gonna throw it for one hundred and twenty three yards.
You would sign up for that. One hundred and twenty
three yards and a touch at an interception and a touchdown.
You're not used to the Bills winning that way with
him on the road. But we saw something we've never
seen before, which is historical. You know what was it?
Two hundred and fifty yards rushing, most.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Rushing yards against a Steelers team at home in fifty years.
The last time it happened, by the way, Buffalo Bills
against the Steelers fifty years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
And I told you the Eagles against your Bears gave
up the most rushing yards in Eagles history since nineteen
sixty two. So we had two franchises at home give
up the most rushing yards they ever had. This is again,
it's stuper corny. We've been talking about. It's not the
football we are used to from the two thousands to
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what it's become now. The running back, not that it's
the Eagles blueprint, right, They didn't invent leaning into the
run depending on the run, but all these teams have
leaned into it, and we've seen a total shift in
the league, where you know, teams got small to catch
up with speed to stop these spread offenses. And now
you're seeing teams like the Bills, who you saw they
couldnot pass block. Those two tackles in there, could not
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plast blocking. Know they could do they could run block.
Those are the big ass human beings. And when you're
just moving guys like they were, I mean, Romo is
losing his mind. The Steelers would not bring in a
corner to cover the edge. I feel like any time
Cooks wanted to go outside and pick up ten you
could get.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
He would just he would like jump jump, run, jump cut,
go right Tony Romo diagrammed it eight thousand times.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
By the end of the third quarter, the Steelers finally
had a drive to start the fourth quarter, and of
course they got down to fourth and two outside the ten,
and their creative play calling, not running misdirection, not trying
to throw over the top of the defense. It was
basically run into the middle of the defensive line out
of shotgun. So of course they turned the ball over
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on downs. Before that series, the Bills had three hundred
total yards. The Steelers had ninety total yards. That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And it's a bad Bills defense. This is not a
great Bill's defense. So that's the most alarming part of it.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Josh Allen and Aaron Rodgers in the first half combined,
what do they have? Five MVPs between the two of
them combined, they were twelve of twenty five for one
hundred and four total yards. Six to twelve for Josh Allen,
six of thirteen for Aaron Rodgers, fifty yards for Josh Allen,
fifty four yards for Aaron Rodgers. I mean, it was atrocious,
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atrocious football.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But congrats to the Bills.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You know they did a huge win, huge, huge win
for the Bills, and congrass Josh Allen NFL record seventy
sixth rushing touchdown. That's the most rushing touchdowns by a
quarterback in NFL history passing.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Do you knew who he passed?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
I do not. Fran Tarkenton, Cam Newton. There you go.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
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Speaker 3 (28:55):
A couple of.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Questions our YouTube viewer, who's in the chat right now
at another shot. He wants to know if we can
stop betting the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I'm with another.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Shot, like I felt like we had been getting away
with it. We've lost the mojo on the Mike Tomlin spots.
This is not a very good team. Their defense is
giving up the most yardage they've given up in the
Mike Tomlin era. The offense is as unimaginative as ever,
and Aaron Rodgers is injured and hobbled. What are we
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doing with the Steelers team? I feel like we got
to jump off this bandwagon here.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yeah, it's hard. I'm with the guy, but it's just
there's certain spots where they just fills up the gray
under Valley and we'll eventually have to jump on them.
But yeah, for contest wise, if we can avoid the
rest of the year, I'm with the guy. I'd be
very happy not to have them in our contest.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Well, look, and next week I think they have to
buy Next week, don't they?
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Yeah, No, they're playing Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
They're six and a half point underdogs at the Ravens.
No doubt they're gonna tempt us with exactly when we
want to walk away, they're going to pull us back
in with an ugly game against a struggling Ravens team
and a big number where we're going to be off
the bandwagon. And of course that's going to be one
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we want to bet the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
I on losing half my money on that Ravens money line.
Just yeah, it's going to say how the Ravens lose
that and that that spot against a one armed quarterback
and Aaron Rodgers came to hand the ball off properly.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Right now, This is an interesting question too, and then
we've got one more, but I want to go to
this one first. Joe Connolly wants to know, excluding the
old Guard Baltimore, Buffalo, Kansas City, which team in the
AFC do we think is most likely to take over
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that position and get to the super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
Right now, it's a ton of unproven guys that's top
of the AFC.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
So, I mean, it's not Indy anymore like Daniel hobbled
I'm Jacksonville.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, I would say, if I'm still a betting man,
you're just hoping the Bills get in there. You feel
comfortable with the Bills. I still see a path for
the Chiefs. But if the Chiefs don't make it, the
Bills don't make it, and I'm forced to pick teams
out of everybody, probably gonna end up on Denver. They
just they have a coach who's done it before, and
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that's a big deal when the rest of the coaches
he's going against, you know, Hardball obviously has but it's
it's it's a unique spot. With this Embers team, They're
probably gonna have the best defense left in the playoffs.
So yeah, that's that's why New England's a fun team because,
like I said, I mean, guys again took it as offense.
They just give me the major. Drake makes the major.
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Carson Wentz vibes the year he med that MVP run
of just really athletic in the pocket, great deep ball
thrower in the offense. That's humming. They they might have
known any better like that. That's what's so fun about
New England. They might not know any better, and they
get the right matchups, they also could make that run.
So yeah, I would say any team would be exciting.
Unless you're a Jags fan. It's just like you're waiting
for the You're waiting for the shooter to drop. So yeah,
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for right now leading their division, Ravens Denver, New England,
I think all those fan bases should be really excited
because the Bills the Chiefs said they're not they're not
a lock to make the playoffs. Yet it's really interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Also, I would say the Texans, if they can figure
out any offensive.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
You just buried them.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
You just buried them.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
But like the problem is, you talk about defense, right
Like I when I was when I was thinking about
the answer to that question, I was thinking the Broncos
first and foremost because they've got such a good defense.
But bo Nicks is unreliable, and as much as Sean
Payton is a coaching genius, he still has to figure
out ways to manage bow Knicks in really specific situations
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and hope that bow Nicks can execute on his vision.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
He needs to be the perfect avatar for whatever Sean
page and is trying to call in any scenario. The
Texas defense is just as good, you know. The Texas
defense could be even better than the Broncos defense. They've
got an incredible pass rush, they've got a great secondary,
they keep teams from scoring points like this is a
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really historically great defense potentially, and they got the same thing.
But I think that there's probably more trust in CJ
and less trust in what they can do offensively because
of their play calling, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I do think you just have high expectations for both though,
like not to be the backer of bow Knicks, but
he's had some impressive fourth quarter comebacks this season that
I'd give him a ton of respect to that Houston
defense you just talked about. He had two huge drives.
We lost that bet. He scored eleven points against that
dominant Houston defense on the road and burned us. He
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beat us, yet we had Houston. So I agree with you.
I don't like them or trust them. But whatever the
magic did was this kid in the fourth quarter. He
has nothing for three quarters and he shows up in
these big moments. So I don't know. It's just like
I'm trying to think of, like the Gid asked a
really good question like this, We're an untrod of water
right now, and I don't know. I just still I'd
rather take Drake may or Bow over Lamar beuse I've
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just seen Lamar choke so many times in the playoffs,
So I just have an a hard time trust Lamore
even I feel like that's probably the easy answer.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
One of the other questions that we just got from
Matt Mitchell that came in from Joe connolly was about
JJ McCarthy. His question was, and I want to sit
now because I want to lead into talking about that
Minnesota game for a second. His question was, would JJ
McCarthy ask for a trade? JJ McCarthy is not asking
for a trade. The Vikings might decide to trade JJ
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McCarthy because they just don't think he's good enough and
they're going to try to figure out can they get
Mac Jones, you know, someone who can play within Kevin
O'Connell's system and actually deliver the ball to Justin Jefferson
delivered the ball to Jordan Addison. I thought, you know,
in the game today, Minnesota is a twelve point underdog.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
And if not for all of the.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Turnovers and Max Brosmer not really knowing the difference between
a Viking's uniform and a Seahawks uniform, they keep that
game close. I know you're gonna say I'm crazy, but
the only touchdown the Vikings the Seahawks scored of the
first nineteen points they scored was a pick six where
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Brosmer on a fourth and one was about to go
down and underhanded it directly to a Seahawks player, Ernest Jones,
who ran it back ninety years for a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Their defense was in Donald's.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Grill all day, including two sacks and two forced fumbles
in the first twenty minutes of the game.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah, and it's another reason why a lot of people
have pauls about Sam Dono, because certain teams know how
to play them, and they can look very foolish and uncomfortable,
and once you get the little rattled, it doesn't really
go away. So I don't I'm not hating you read,
but the whole reason I wouldn't let us touch this
when it's just like, dude, I told you, I try
to watch film on this kid. I'm just like, this
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kid looks like he's about to die today. So I
need to turn this off because I'm going to talk
myself out of this in a second. And you know,
even when he did have good throws, you knew what
the deal was going to be. He was gonna be
highly inconsistent. It's his first start in a really, you know,
terrible environment to be in. And he's not a first
round pick. He's not a kid that's been playing sec
football his whole life. Man, this is not that type
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of situation. So you know, him throwing four picks, taking
four sacks, it's against arguably the best defense, number two,
number three defense in all football right now. So, like
you said, it's your theory about taking Minnesota sound. They
did defensively what they were supposed to do. It's just
you got a total zero from the unknown at the
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quarterback position, which we said going into there's just no
way to account for what this kid's going to do.
That's why that number fluctuated so much this week. I
mean we talked this morning. A couple of books had
at eleven, a couple of books already had at thirteen.
So it really depended on what sharp group hit, what
book and which side they're on, And it was just
no one really knew. You're really betting the unknown there.
But the thing you did know is two really good defenses.
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We're going to play this game. So as bad as
Sam Donald was, he was a veteran quarterback there. He
didn't put his team. He wasn't throwing pick sixes on
fourth down like a rookie quarterback for the Yeah, so
just brutal. If you did beck Minnesota like you said
it was, the theory was right, but my god, got
a total zero at the quarterback. And Uh, to answer
the JJ McCarthy question like you did, he ain't going anywhere.
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He's gonna be there. I talked about it. I think
they'll go get a veteran so someone to challenge him.
If they keep losing, get a high enough draft pick.
Maybe Kse does fire another one and try to get
in a quarterback he likes. But to me, they just
go to the veteran route, someone to challenge him. See
if he takes that year two, year three Jrump. If
he doesn't, you know, they're gonna eat it. They made
a huge mistake moving on from Sam Donald and you
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saw them hugging embrace after the game, like I'm sure
he whispered to him, just miss you, but like I
just he knows you fucked up. Yeah, that's the tough part.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Greg Olson and Joe Davis. They did their best to
glaze Max Brosmer.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Like before the kid threw a pass, they were talking
about this kid, he could be Brock Purdy. They were
making actual comparisons to Brock Purdy. The first pass, which
was a little bit out of reach of Jordan Addison,
they were blaming it all on Jordan Addison for not
catching it off his fingertips when he.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
Was diving for the ball.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Like, they did their best to make everybody interested. And
then it was punt punt, punt pick. That was basically
the first four series for the Minnesota Vikings. All Right,
we have to talk about the Carolina Panthers plus ten
and a half Stafford. Two early picks, including a pick
six six lead changes the Panthers are down twenty eight,
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twenty four, fourth down from their own forty three. Bryce
Young kids tedtor Roa McMillan for the touchdown. Are you
kidding me? Carolina wins this game thirty on twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Bryce Young give him tons of flowers. He isn't consistent,
we know that, but he set the NFI record most
comeback wins started his career. I believe he's at eleven now,
at the youngest stage. I think I think he just
beat like Josh Allen by like thirty days. So, you know,
obviously totally different spectrum. Josh Allen's are freaking all freaks.
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But that thing we talk all.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
The time, the things so is Bryce Young by the way,
in some ways right.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
But the thing you can't you can't scout, you can't coach,
you can't teach, is that clutchness, that ice in your veins.
No problem driving the field the end of the games,
and that fourth down touched him. That was big time.
That was a risky, risky play that paid off huge
and a game where we we we said we were
gonna about the money line. We threw a little on it.
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Wish you were more confident in the number obviously, and
you know, we talked the Rams were due for a stinker,
more so Stafford was. But even he bounced back like
he threw those two egregious picks and it was fourteen fourteen,
like he wasn't in that bad of a spot after
really playing so poor, you know, red zone red red
zone turnovers, it pick sixes, and there was just everything
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going wrong. Like this is such a good Rams team,
but it's it's incredible what this offensive Bryce Shung's done.
And they you know, looking at all the different team
schedules and how the season's gonna end, they're probably my
number two team right now. That's like, I really cannot
wait to see what happens these next five weeks. So
they basically have this bye week Chad, then they're at
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New Orleans. Then it's Tampa, Seattle, Tampa. I mean, oh
my god, is that a juggernaut to finish the season.
So I love it. It's like, you know, a team
that normally believes in we joked coming into the year,
they're win total six and a half. They've hit it.
They now their seventh win, a team we never quit on.
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We always loved. It's been like a long two three
years with them, But this is always the team we envisioned, right,
are really good offense with Bryce Seung pushing the ball
downfield in uh you know, can they go three and
one in those next four games? Chad? I don't think so.
This might be as good as it gets. But you know,
they have a win against a really good Green Bay team.
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I went against a really good Rams team, you know,
win against Dallas like I'm looking at right now. They
just they've won some games against good teams that I
wouldn't count them out. I think they could shock the
world and somehow fit you know, which would be crazy
them stealing it from Baker with them winning this division,
I think it's not out of the world yet.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
Simon.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
I want to go to shame on you right now
because it is connected to the Carolina Panthers. Shame on you,
Chad Milman. Simon, Who do we love more than anyone
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else in the NFL?
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Barry Milman?
Speaker 3 (42:06):
No, the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Yeah, who have.
Speaker 1 (42:10):
We invested in more than any other team in the
NFL the.
Speaker 3 (42:13):
Past several years?
Speaker 2 (42:14):
Panthers?
Speaker 1 (42:18):
Who did we say we loved in this spot against
a Rams team that was at peak value against a
Panthers team that was coming off of a prime time
loss in which it did not look very good but
still had a chance.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
To cover a Panthers.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
We went to a whole breakdown of why we liked
the Panthers on Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
We were both in we both loved it.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
I stupidly, stupidly mentioned some defensive back issues. They were
going to be without defensive backs because of injuries and suspensions.
The guy who knocked Juwan Jennings in the night was
going to be out this game. In that instant, we
walked away from the game, did not go back to it.
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It's like we looked for an excuse not to bet
on the Carolina Panthers. There's ten and a half point
home dogs when we have almost beten the Panthers. There's
ten and a half point home dogs in every single
scenario for the past seven years, no matter who the
quarterback was, and yet somehow we didn't do it when
they were primed to win outright. Shame on me, Shame
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on Chad Milman.
Speaker 3 (43:34):
Simon happened to.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
The best of this. Chad. I'm gonna go with I was.
I said I was gonna do Brown Special teams because
they burned us bad today. But shame I keep going
back to the wall, But shame too, these NFL referees
On Thanksgiving. I'm trying to watch these games with family members,
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and all people can talk about are how horrible is
refs are, how rigid is for gambling? All this bs
and I just can't take it. They have to let
either call down the New York thing or let these
coaches have one challenge, any call, whatever it may be.
People were losing their minds. I mean you probably what
I'm talking about. This is Troy Lions Green Bay game,
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letting that coach call the time out what was clearly
a false start. Do you have a camerangles there's just
nothing left up to imagination. You have every angle, every sound.
It's all people talking to the rest of the Thanksgiving
around on the other way, where it's like, damn it,
these are great games. All these games are so good,
and now I have to defend the Shield, which I
will do. I am a mouthpiece for the Shield. I
love the NFL no matter what, but my god, they
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make it hard. In those type of scenarios where you
just have multiple games with bad referee calls are dictating
these games. I mean that Dallas game that was a
bad game as well, Like people were really complaining about it.
But it's hard to complay too much because it feels
like the Chiefs have gotten every call for the last
five years. So it just instead of everyone talking about
the games, it became a thing about the refs, and
it's just I can't take it any more. NFL on you
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from l a coaches challenge. These calls just won a game.
It's just some of these calls just turn the whole game.
They can't leave up the rest addicted these games. It's
just too much money, too much speculation now by the
general public. They got to earn the trust back of everyone.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Who is your hero of the week? Man?
Speaker 2 (45:21):
I mean, I feel like we are our own heroes
because we didn't put any of the Thanksgiving games or
that Black Friday game into it. I almost try to
talk to you out of the Browns. Unfortunately, I loved it,
but we are ice cold on our Tuesday's Picks Chads Choice,
Simon says, I'm dying here with Simon says, that's why
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I didn't even text Chad people honestly about Sunday or
I should say Friday's game, because I was like this,
this bet has taking on so much water right now,
I can't even we had a good number of six
and a half in the contest. I don't want to
make you try to put it in. I just ice
gold with my pick, so apologies, people, we are our
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own heroes of woiding these picks. But for myself, I'm
killing myself with you, Simon says, and I'm betting these
it's good numbers. But yeah, luckily, contest, we should be
sitting here two and three. You saved us with the Jets,
probably could be one and four, got the Giants left
to get us back to three and two and keep
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us one step closer. If we hit it, we'll be
up to fifty nine percent for the season.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
I love how you both shamed yourself and made yourself
the hero at the same time for being ice cold
in the picks, but being smart enough not to put.
Speaker 2 (46:41):
The we're heroes from We're self aware enough. We don't
have the egos Chad, we're heroes.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
We are self aware. My hero of the week Tyrod Taylor. Look,
he was the reason we bet the game. He did
exactly what we were hoping he would do. He had
that team moving down the field. He ran for the
game time touchdown on a broken play where it looked
like they had nothing going and it was going to
end twenty four to seventeen. He scrambled for the yardage
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to put them in rain for the game winning field goal.
He had a passing touchdown, He had a rushing touchdown.
Tyrod Taylor, you are the reason we are two and
two right now. You are the reason I won my
Jets bet at plus two and a half plus three
and on the money line, I thank you.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Tyrod Taylor, you are a hero.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
He is quietly becoming the Teddy Bridgewater of covering. He
is seven and one is his last eight starts against the screen,
just undervaled every time by the public, and finds a
way like we said, I never in my wild streams slow.
He'd be throwing fifty yard bombs in that game in
the rain keeping us that cover.
Speaker 1 (47:44):
Simon says, like you said, was Philadelphia minus six and
a half. Chetch choice was Cleveland plus five and a half.
Ugh brass Balls New York Jets plus two and a half.
Bully for US Rock on a hard place was New
York Giants plus seven and a half. We forgot to
do sharp versus Square this week in the rush to
do a lot of other stuff in today's show. I'm
kind of glad because I'm getting my ass kicked in
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that the favorite parlay Seattle minus five and a half
at won, La Chargers one, Miami at won, Tampa Bay one,
Los Angeles Rams underdog parlay, Pittsburgh lost, Cleveland lost, Jets one,
Houston one, Tennessee lost.
Speaker 3 (48:25):
Simon, what are.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Some early leans if you've had a chance to look,
If you haven't, I have two that I noticed right away.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
I mean, are we supposed to go back and take
the Jets again at plus yes? Yeah, I mean that's insane.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
I immediately put that down.
Speaker 2 (48:43):
We might have like a Northeast Northeastern crazy snowstorm up
here in the Northeast when this game is happening, So
we're getting two outdoors potentially in the weather. Let's grab
that early plus three in case that is true and
this number moves a ton. There's like again, there's a
couple of games I do like, but I'm just interesting
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where the line's gonna go in them, because it feels
like I'm getting a bad number, but I'm probably gonna
be on the Chiefs. They're at home in prime time
right now. They're at minus four, minus four and a
half against Houston. I know people are gonna be like, well,
you just tried to fit. You gave us the exact
same spot last name. We're trying to fit Houston on
the road. I am like Chad just keeps saying their
offense is dysfunctional. They can't keep getting away with it.
(49:25):
I think this is a nice spot to back this
Chiefs team that I think the public is fining leave
them for dead like they've been going. They've been backing
them every week and they've been losing them for every week.
So that's the number I'm gonna be on. I'm not
gonna jump and make people take it right now, but
I'm gonna grab them minus four just in case it
does move. And another game that I like, but I
could see it moving. Colts. They're minus one and a half.
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I'm worried it might flip because I just don't know
if if Jones got more banged up, they and they're
gonna sit them out, this could move. I'm gonna roll
the dice on the early risk and just take it
now in case he is all kid to go. I
could I could see this game up to the minus
two and a half on the Colts as a favorite
on the road.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Jets was the very first game I noticed. And by
the way, as we're talking, that line has moved to
two and a half almost everywhere. There is one three
that I can see that is still out there, but
that's juice to minus one eighteen right now.
Speaker 3 (50:24):
Interesting to me.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
Also, the Cowboys had been three and a half point
underdogs on the road at Detroit for Thursday night when
we started the show. That number is now down to
Detroit minus three. The other game that stood out to
me expectations are that Jaden Daniels is going to play
next week. Washington is on the road at Minnesota and
(50:48):
they are one and a half point underdogs right now.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
I bet it, but I feel back because I'm super biasing.
I already talked about I'm heavy in the Commanders tonight.
You know, I put them another contest them in. It
was one of my five favorite bets, and these last
two games, I'm really big on them tonight, Commanders and
the Giants, And I think I talked about doctor Nick
gave out. They're both huge luck discrepancy, so it should
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be a type of game where the bounces should go
their way. And I think the Commanders tonight up at
six and a half. I like your early read. I'll
grab that plus one and a half. Now, it doesn't
matter who the quarterback is for Minnesota, right, we're really
banking on even if you know it's Mariota. Once again,
if they cover tonight, that that number one flip, they'll
be a favorite Mario to plays well tonight. So I
like that early read by you, all right.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
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Speaker 3 (53:13):
After them Monday night football games ends, all right.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
We won with the Texans, we lost with the Browns.
We won with the Jets, we lost with the Steelers.
We got the Giants plus seven and a half tomorrow night.
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