Benny vs The Penny, Round 2

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13 & 3

13 wins, 3 losses

13 wins out of 16 games

16 picks and a winning percentage of .813

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Ben Maller starts right now. Welcome players, You're welcome. Are
you up for more? Mallard Mayhem? It's time now Benny
versus the penny again, as we try to buck the

(00:45):
odds here and we give you Benny versus the pain.
We play the speculation game, as we challenge the point
spreads in the National Football League. We're heading into week two,
the full weekend. We all had that game Thursday night.
You know the outcome there between Carol Line and Tampa
Bay in a lightning played game, bad weather. They're at
the beginning of the game anyway there between Carolina and

(01:07):
Tampa Bay. But let's get into this now before we
go to the rest of the week two. Car We
already did that game on the radio show, so we
gotta look ahead to the games on Sunday and Monday night.
How did we do last week? Guests? Gonna get right
on that, Mike. I want you to talk slowly. I
want you to enunciate every word. I want you to

(01:28):
talk proudly because someone had an amazing day against the
penny and against the Vegas bookmakers. One three dash three.
Now you didn't say that, right, You try that again?
One dash three? You think you're funny? Are you very cute?

(01:52):
That is an eight winning percentage. That's better than Belichick,
is better than Greg Papavits. Thank you very much. Let
me take a very three lap here. I'll take a bow. Yeah, absolutely,
all right, now now we can move on. Guess now,
I want to point out now some guys are emailing me.
I One guy said he's gonna bet every one of
these games against the spread because I had such a

(02:13):
good week. That is a that's not a I do
not recommend that. I appreciate your confidence in me, but
I know from past experiences, not that I'm paranoid, but
I have had weeks like this from time to time,
and then like a trap door opens up and I
go down into a pit of flames. So I'm warning
you that the law of averages would say I'm gonna

(02:34):
go back and not be that good this week, but
I am optimistic that I have finally figured out how
to handicap NFL games and this will be how it
goes all year and I will set a new record
for picking games against the spread. So that's my that's my.
What's the closest you've ever gotten to running the table?
I think I lost two games one weekend, so I
went fourteen and two. Uh, this was close, though, This

(02:58):
thirteen and three is close to the the goodest, the
greatest weeken I've ever had. Um, But I mean, you're
not gonna go sixteen for sixteen. I just think that's
un unrealistic. And then most of the year the starting
the bye weeks start. I think what week four, week
five to buy start in the NFL, so there won't
be sixteen games every weekend. But anyway, al right, let's
get to it. First game up here, Indianapolis at Tennessee,

(03:22):
a couple of oh and one teams. It actually will
Tennessee's wont and all they beat Cleveland. Excuse me? What
Tennessee and Indianapolis. The game's on CBS. Spiroudidas and Adam
arch Aletta are gonna be broadcasting this game. The Titans
opened up a five and a half point favorite. They
are favored by three, so it's essentially an even matchup.
You get three points as the home team. Uh, Titans

(03:43):
played great, pulled away late from Cleveland. I am gonna
take Tennessee. That's my pick. I'll take a why all right?
The Titans obviously could not have asked for a better
opening act. They went turbotime in the fourth quarter, close game.
The defense is wonderfully got a nasty ball hawking defense
in Tennessee. How about Cameron Wake who played like King
Kong uh for the Titans the old Miami Dolphin at

(04:06):
two and a half sacks, I had one that that
resulted in a safety against that woe begone Cleveland Brown's team.
And the way I look at the Titsana, I'm not
on the Marcus Mariota bandwagon, but you can cover for
the shortcomings of Marcus Mariota with the power running game.
They've got the power running game there. Uh and the defense.
I mean that's that's a good formula there. Uh. Now

(04:28):
that the concern is that everyone's been kissing the Titans
ask saying how good they looked and all that. Uh,
does that? Does that mean they come back to earth
here this week and regrets to the mean? Secondly, Indian
happens now. I will give Jacobe Brissette credit. I did
not expect him to play well. He did play very
well against the Chargers last week. I don't believe he'll
do it again. I doubt that Marlon Mack a good

(04:52):
running back for the Colts, but you're talking about a
an elite Tennessee Titans defense. Mac had a hundred and
seventy four yards last week. Uh in the game against
the Charges. But this is gonna be a close game.
It's the divisional game. It's only three points here, and
I would I would suspect that the Tennessee Titans will

(05:12):
will be able to score against the Colts defense. The
Charges were able to to move the ball in a
pretty good clip there, So I believe Tennessee will pull
away and it will be the Titans thirty three and
the Colts twenty four. Will be your fun. Penny likes
the times as well. Be sure to catch live editions

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of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. And the I
Heart Radio app. All right. Next up, it's Many versus
the Penny of the l A Chargers of Carson, California,
who beat the Colts last week, take on the Lions,
who are O O and one boy. I hate that
tie thing. It's on CBS. Kevin Harland, Rich Gannon have

(05:54):
the call here of this game. The Chargers opened a
two and a half point favorite. The line he stayed flat.
The pick is in and the pick I'm gonna take
the Charges. I'm gonna take a road favorite. Try to
avoid that, but I'm gonna take the Charges in the spot.
Charges had to work over time. We just talked about
that Colts game last week. Now Detroit is a downgrade
in terms of opponent. The only thing that scares me

(06:16):
about taking the Charges here is the dreaded body clock.
Historically West Coast teams playing that early ten am kickoff
in the Eastern time zone. It messes up your bio
rhythms and all that. This game being played in Detroit.
But the Charges of the better team. They've been a
really good road team this era of Charger football under
Anthony Lynn. They've traveled well pretty much every game they

(06:38):
plays on the road. Because they have no fan base
at the stadium in Cars, a very small fan base.
So uh so for them, they're they're used to it,
and they're they're pretty strong fundamentally, pretty strong fundamentally, So
I liked them in that regard. And the secondly, it's
more a bet against the Lions than anything. The Lions
got off to a pretty good start in the game
against Arizona that they ended up tying. They played very

(06:58):
raggedy football on the fourth quarter. Obviously, they were careless,
they were seemingly incapable of just closing the door. There
was a phantom time out that was called that would
have sealed the game for the Lions, but the coach
called the time out. They would have got a first
down to seal the game. But but I, as I suspected,
Matthew Stafford on the road, uh not good. I like
him better at home. I think he'll be better here

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in this game. But the Chargers are just more talented,
and you'd like to go with the more talented team.
It's not even a field goal points bread and so
I'm gonna take the team that should still be in
San Diego, the l A Chargers. Chargers twenty eight Lions twenty.
Your final bounce back week for Detroit. Penny is going
with the Lions. Uh No, Lions will be oh and

(07:43):
two on their way to a solid five and eleven season.
Technically they'll be oh one and one. If you think that, well, well,
I consider a tie a loss. I know some people don't,
but I consider a tie a loss. That's how I
lived my life. You like ties, you like participation, trop
he's gascon. I know you're into all that stuff, but
I am not. I am not part of it. All right,

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time for our first quiz on Benny versus the penny,
and here it is. Bills running back Devin Singletary average
seventeen point five yards per Russia attempt in his NFL
debut last week, the second highest average by any player
in his first career game since the merger, with a
minimum of at least four carries behind blank. Okay, so,

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Devin Singletary running back for Buffalo average seventeen and a
half yards per Russia attempt in his NFL debut, second
highest average by any player in his first career games
since the merger. Again the criteria minimum four starts of
four carries behind Blank. The answer coming up shortly. Now.
You can't send the answer in on Twitter because you

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know it's a podcast, but you can you can know
whether you got it right or not, so have the
answer in your head. I'll give you the answer in
a second. Next up, speaking of the Bills, Buffalo and
the Giants, It's on cb ask the Bills one and
oh the New York Giants, oh and one. Greg Gubble
and Trent Green have the call on this on television.
The the Bills opened a two and a half point favorite.

(09:10):
The line I have in front of me here at
the current line as we're doing this in real time
is one and a half. So Buffalo Road favorite by
one and a half. I'm I'm gonna go out here
and go somewhere I don't normally go. I'm gonna take
the Buffalo Bills is a small road favorite. I didn't
think I would ever take the Buffalo Bills as a
small road favorite. But I like the moxie the Bills

(09:31):
play with defensively, and it's like they've almost relocated to
New Jersey. Here they're the only team in New York
and in Buffalo. All the other teams in New York
who claimed to be from New York, playing over in
New Jersey, but just across the river there. But the
Bills played the Jets last weekend. They are back at
MetLife Stadium this week against the Giants. Equally bad team
Giants actually worse than the Jets. Uh. Josh Allen continues

(09:54):
to be a disorganized mess for large chunks of the game.
He looks bewildered, discombobulated. Uh. And then there's some kind
of spell that goes over him. And he's been doing
this sporadically where he he then turns into like the
Jim Kelly circa of the early nineties Buffalo Bills, that

(10:14):
vintage of the business. Very bizarre Josh Allen. Just to
prove my point, my evidence here, Josh Allen had a
forty four passer rating, no touchdowns, and two interceptions over
the first three quarters last week against the Jets. He
was Kyler Murray bad. All right, that's how bad. That's bad.
That is bad. And then Josh Allen, the Bill's quarterback,

(10:35):
went turbotime. Had a hundred and forty two point five
passer rating. He was eight of ten a hundred and
two yards in the fourth quarter of the game. For
the for for Buffalo. It's insane how you could be
that bad for the Bulk. And Allen does this all
the time. I Murray played well late in the game,
but for three quarters he was horrible and the Cardinals

(10:55):
should have lost that That game is a shame they tie,
which I consider loss anyway. Uh, how about this fun
fact Josh Allen has thrown for two hundred plus yards
in each of his last six games. How bad have
the Buffalo quarterbacks been. The last Bills quarterback to throw
for two hundred plus yards in seven straight games was
Jim Kelly. I just mentioned Jim. Jim Kelly was the

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last one. You know how old Jim Kelly is right now?
He's he's fifty nine, all right. He hadn't played in
a long time. Uh. In fact, Jim Kelly last played
in NFL game back in and still had that. It's
not three hundred yards, its two hundred yards. That is football,

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and competence is what that is. Now. The second part
of this is we handicapped this game. The Giants. They
committed their own football malpractice in dollars. They played careless,
sloppy football, especially on defense. They turned Dakota Prescott into
Drew Brees. You figured things should get easier because that
Josh Allen's spurred attic with his play here. But when
you are undisciplined and generally untalented, that typically turns every

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quarterback into a legend. So this is this is an
even matchup in terms of offense. I don't think I
don't think the Giants offense is any worse than the
Bills offense. But the key advantage here, the trump card
is the Buffalo Bills defense. As we always say, defense
travels well. Love the Bills defensively, So I'm gonna put
my money, even as a small road favorite. I'm gonna

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take the Buffalo Bills Buffalo nineteen the Giants sixteen Danger Danger.
Penny is going with the home team again in New
York Giants. Alright, tire, you going with the home team.
That's when you've been on bad teams, bad things happen.
That's generally how that works, So good luck. Be sure
to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays

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at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Gotta pay off
the quiz I mentioned Bills running back Devin Singletary Average
seventeen and a half yards rush in his NFL debut.
That's the most of any player in his first career
game since the merger minimum four starts behind Blank. It's
actually second highest behind Blank. Do you have an answer, Gascon,

(13:13):
I'm gonna go with the nobleman here. I'm gonna go
with a former giant as a Dave Meggett. Dave Meggatt. Uh,
I see what you did there, Dave Meggett kind of
a scatback. No, the answer is a former Chicago beart
who had a rather undistinguished NFL career, but he does

(13:36):
have this bizarre obscure record. Khalil Bell. Remember Khalil Bell? Yes,
he wasn't very good in the NFL, was he? I
know he went to u C. L A if I
remember correctly, A gutty little bruin. Yeah. I think he's
in wrestling now. Somebody I read somewhere that he's Uh.

(13:56):
I don't know how this popped up, but he's like
doing stuff with the w w E or like that.
I think. I don't know, maybe maybe I made that up.
I don't know. We got it on Fox now so
we can watch that eventually. Yeah, alright, moving on It's
Benny versus the Penny. Week two of the NFL got
a lot of games to get to Arizona, oh oh
and one at Baltimore. One to know, it's on Fox

(14:19):
someone named Brandon Garden along with Chris Carter and Pete Trigger.
He's the field reporter will be calling this game. You
are aware of Brandon Garden? E A U D I N. Yeah,
he's actually the uh little envious. He's actually the voice
of Madden Football. Oh is that right? Yeah, you know,
along with Charles Davis. Yeah, you know. I used to

(14:41):
work with someone that was a voice over artist on
Madden Football, the great Tony Bruno. No kidding. Yeah, at
one period in the early two thousands, I believe it
was Tony Bruno was They had a sports talk radio
feature in Madden and Bruno was like on the game
that it's pretty you're connected to some really good people
that are high up the food chain. Like, I'm surprised

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you're not. Wow, I mean, this is this is not
about you, guess it's the fifth Hours about me. Okay,
let's go all right. Ravens opened a thirteen and a
point favorite. There down to thirteen. I am going to
take the Cardinals. I hope I am wrong. I would
like to lose this game. I would like the Ravens
to win forty one to nothing. I think that would

(15:23):
be great. But I as a gambler, the gambler in
me who has done this for a few years, knows
that the only way to bet this game is the Cardinals.
Kyler Murray had the most incomplete passes by a rookie
in his first NFL start since the a f L
NFL merger, and now he goes against the team. You
compare the Ravens defense to the Lions defense, moron, I mean,

(15:46):
my gut, the Baltimore defense is is an elite defense.
There are a great defense and all that, and the Lions, Yeah,
I like some of the players they have on defense,
but that's not an all time great defensive football teams.
So you're gonna have to to play much better against
a ferocious defense in on on the road. At first glance,

(16:08):
this is a recipe for disaster, and that certainly explains
the points Bright plus you we'll get to in a minute. Here.
You also have what happened last week. This has all
the ingredients to a blowout in favor of Baltimore. But
I despise betting big favorites. It goes against my gambling pedigree.
I got burned too many times bett in the chalk,

(16:30):
choking on the chalk, as they say in the gambling world. Uh,
so I gotta take Arizona and saying in Baltimore took
advantage of a wounded sea animal. They sliced up the
Dolphins last week, as we said into sushi. Uh in Miami,
they played gutless football. So I don't put too much
stock into Baltimore being so much better than everyone else
that they're gonna score fifty nine points and Lamar Jackson's

(16:53):
gonna be better than Tom Brady and all that. Uh,
that's what the book he wants though, right, But what
the book he wants, They the oddsmakers use the public
perception to their advantage. Like they know that Baltimore is
not you know, they should not be thirteen point favorites
over areas not a thirteen points separate these teams. But
they know they know the public will no matter what

(17:14):
the line is, because Baltimore played so well and the
end team they're gonna put, people are gonna bet on Baltimore.
Lamar Jackson had a game to join the book of Legends.
I would think that that does not happen back to
back weeks. Even though Arizona is not a great defensive
team either. They have their own shortcomings here, but at
least they're gonna be trying something the Miami Dolphins did
not do. They had no ambition, they were they were

(17:36):
completely checked out there going through the motions and and
all those kind of terms that you want to use.
There was a half asked effort, uh and and just
no enthusiasm. No. I believe Arizona will start out with
some enthusiasm, but in the end, in the end, I
will take the Ravens to win, but the Cardinals to
win the money Ravens thirty, Cardinals twenty, and I expect

(18:00):
Kyler Murray to have several more batted passes in a
bunch of incompleation, Penny will follow you all the way
to Kyler Murray and the Arizona Cardinals. All right, we
agree on that. Next up, New England at Miami, another
big point spread game. Patriots one at Old Dolphins, oh
and one many sink the Patriots the most impressive team
in Week one, even more than the Ravens because the
Ravens didn't play a real opponent. The Patriots just schooled

(18:21):
the Steelers games on CBS. I An Eagle and Dan
Fouts have the the call on this. The line. The
Patriots opened a fourteen and a half point favorite. That's
a massive line, and now the Patriots are an eighteen
and a half point favorite. At some places is as
much as nineteen and a half. The line. I have

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the place that I look at the eighteen and a
half in favor of the Patriots. So, uh, here's here's
what I do. I think you know where I'm going
with this. I'm not proud to do it. I'm I'm
ashamed to do it, but I gotta do it. I'm
taking the Miami Dolphins, all right. I'm taking the Dolphins. Now.
I wouldn't bet this game. The only way I would

(19:04):
bet the game is the Dolphins. We have to pick
every game. It's kind of the bit, you know, it's
kind of the stickle I here, we pick every game,
So I will take the Dolphins gun to my head.
First of all, Bill Belichick does not seem like the
type who's gonna run up the score on one of
his former gels. That's really what you have to hope for, right.
You have to hope for it because you gotta work
to win a game by twenty plus points, which is
what's essentially gonna happen have to happen. Here on the service,

(19:25):
it appears that Tom Brady and Antonio Brown, if even plays,
I don't know at the time we're doing this. He's
still eligible to play, is not on any list. Maybe
he will end up on a list by Sunday. But uh,
you know, you pretty much picked the final score. It's
child's play for the Patriots. If if they sleepwalk though
into Miami and don't take the opponents seriously, then we'll

(19:48):
definitely get a cover from the Dolphins. Uh, it's unthinkable
to see Ryan Fitzpatrick and friends actually winning the game.
I don't think that anyway they win the game. So
if a money line bet, you're just taking invest a lot,
but you're guaranteed to win outside of Tom Brady breaking
his ankle on the border. But they can keep it
close if they try, right. If if that's the goal,

(20:09):
that's the aspiration, if they desire that and they put
some work in, you're going to to be competitive. You're
gonna lose by back to back weeks. Also, I saw
this interesting stat. Now, Brian Flores the coach in Miami,
he will be the ninth former assistant coach under Bill Belichick,
and then face Belichick is an NFL head coach. You

(20:31):
know what the other eight opponents have? What their record
is against Belichick? What do you think it is? Gascon
winning percentage? Uh? Eight total games? So yeah, you know,
winning percentage or whatever you want. But I just total
wins versus losses out of eight, I'm gonna go one
and seven. No, surprisingly, I was surprised. I was blown

(20:52):
away by this. The other eight coaches that used to
work for Belichick having a four and four record in
their first meeting, and in all the meetings combined, there's
been twenty one matchups where former Belichick coaches, the disciples
of Belichick have gone against him, and ten and eleven
they're like close to five. I was was there, very

(21:13):
surprised by that. But here's another ridiculous stat about Tom
Brady and the Patriots in Miami. They've lost some games
there since Tom Brady has as many regular season losses
in Miami has as he does in Foxboro. Is that
not insane. They played one game a year there, alright. Anyway,

(21:36):
the other thing on this game, if the Dolphins attempt
to compete, as I said, uh, this will be easy,
you'll feel very good about that. But from a handicapping standpoint,
no travel you can bind that with. You would think
some added motivation. If you have any personal pride and
you make a team that big an underdog, that's a
slap in the face. That's a kick in the nuts.
As a as a home dog like that coming off

(21:58):
a home loss, that's an extra reamly it should be
an extremely dangerous spot, all things being equal. Uh, in
this case, it was a beat down a biblical proportion.
We talked about the Ravens kicking the snot out of them.
It's hard to lose that way back to back, as
we've said. And also the other thing I was trying
to look for something to go with the Dolphins here.
Ryan Fitzpatrick has actually held his own statistically against Belichick

(22:22):
coach teams, and just based on the box score right,
four straight games against New England, two fifty plus passing
yards and two plus touchdown passes and a passer rating
over ninety. Those are pretty good numbers. There, and I'm thinking,
if you get two touchdown passes out of Ryan Fitzpatrick
in this game, at least that will be enough to
cover an almost twenty point line. So I'm gonna close

(22:45):
my eyes, cover my ears, shut my mouth. Uh, and
I'm gonna pick, oh boy, the Dolphins to cover Patriots
thirty eight. Dolphins one been the penny last week, went
with you and took Miami of. This week, not so much.
They're going Patriots. Yeah, that was one of the games
I got wrong last week. I had faith in the Dolphins.

(23:06):
I'm I'm a glutton for punch from them. Back at
it again with the Miami Dolphins. All right. Fox Sports
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(23:26):
hour of course? Alright, So Cardinals white out. Larry Fitzgerald
is coming off his fifty fourth game with at least
eight receptions. That's three more than any other player in
NFL history. Who is behind Larry Fitzgerald Again, Larry Fitzgerald
now fifty four games with at least eight receptions, three
more than any other player in NFL history. Who is

(23:48):
behind Larry Fitzgerald. Uh, we'll give you the answer in
a second. Think about that and we'll give it to you.
See if you're right A Dallas one and all at Washington,
Oh and one. It's all on Fox with Kevin Burkhardt
and Charles Davis and the Fox Box that rocks. The
Cowboys open a seven point favorite, They're currently favorite by four,
and I have the pick here. I'm gonna take the

(24:11):
Redskins in this game. I'm going with Washington. A couple
of reasons why I walk you through my my thought
process here that the Cowboys took the Giants lunch money
last week. We talked about the game earlier here, and
they are writing high and I would believe you played
for the Cowboys right now. You are close to overdosing

(24:31):
on hyperbole. If you watch the Skip Baylors type talk
shows on television, they are just lick lick, scrub scrub. Uh.
The Cowboys here, Dak Prescott had a breakout game. The
Cowboys played about as well as you can play in
pretty much every area of the game, and now Dallas
is being It's an overreaction here. The pendulum has swung

(24:51):
too far. The Dallas is being propped up as the
real deal. This is gonna be the Dak Prescott we
get every week. I disagree. This game should be a
slabber knocker. It should be a this game you like
taking the underdog in a close game. The Redskins are
are a bad opponent. They're not as bad as the Giants,
uh they that. I like the way they play. They
play with some guts and guile there. They certainly played
like that in Philadelphia. The Redskins blew a seventeen point lead.

(25:14):
Imagine how people's heads would have exploded if they had
actually held on and won that game. But for more
than than half the game, they in a hostile environment
in Philly and a good Eagles team. On Eagles team
that's more talented than the Cowboys, the Redskins were right there.
And case Keenum, you know, he is not a great quarterback,
his second tier quarterback. He's the middle of the road,

(25:36):
as they say. But he was the top losing quarterback
in Week one. Statistically, case Keenum, who lost, He had
three yards passing, three touchdowns, no interceptions and was only
sacked one time. It's really good. It's like really really good.
And they still lost the game. Close, lost, late loss.
Although they did, it wasn't that close. They got a

(25:57):
backdoor cover, which I think the Redskins for. Uh, that's
a reason like the Redskins that are open to the
back door cover. I saw Adrian Peterson's gonna slide in
as the starter there as the the geist man already
out one week into his NFL season. He's injury prone,
so it's gonna be Adrian Peterson. Cowboys will have a
tougher time on the road. I like home dogs, division

(26:21):
no games. You're getting some value here. It's not I
like it more if it was seven. But I like
the four and a half Washington still early in the year.
They got some fight in them. Cowboys come back to Earth,
close game, fourth quarter game, Cowboys thirty, Redskins twenty six.
Penny likes the back door action on the Skins taking
Washington much like you like that back door action all right? Uh.

(26:44):
The quizzier guess on the Cardinals Larry Fitzgerald coming off
his fifty four career game with at least eight receptions,
three more than any other player in NFL history who
is second? Do you have an answer? I do, and
I think I know this one actually, all right? Is
it former Brown Dante Stalworth, the Great Dante? Wow? Uh? No,

(27:06):
I know he's your favorite driver because he actually drives
better than you, which is amazing thing. Yea, but yeah, uh,
the answer is Marvin Harrison. Marvin Harrison, who also has
a shady past car wash. Yeah, you know, baseball, bats,
guns in the whole. Why not. You gotta live, you
gotta live the life. Man. Don't judge. Don't judge Marvin Harrison.

(27:28):
I'm sure he's a fine, fine guy. I did a
whole monologue. Remember years ago. One of the things Marvin
Harrison said the Colts I think it was the first
time they were in the Super Bowl with Peyton Manning
that they lost, and Marvin Harrison was like, I wish
we could play this game in an empty stadium with
no fans there. He said that, Remember that? Yeah. I
was like, I was thinking, like, well, is that a

(27:49):
because you really are, you know, an introvert. I'm an introvert?
You really like that? Or is it be that you
just a lot of guys that are that could do
some crazy stuff that you don't want in the crowd,
you know, like bad guys, you know what I mean.
Guess that's a you thinking how guys like you are introverts,
yet you talked for a living. That's that's fascinating. Well,
as I tell my wife all the time, for a
few hours a day, I am an extrovert. But for

(28:10):
the rest of the time, when I'm not on the clock,
I I keep to myself. It's almost like it's staged, right, Uh,
not stage the way I would say it is. You
can't be like this all the time because no one
would want to be around you. You'd be unbearable. And
who wants to be around someone that is unbearable? Right,
I mean, it's just it's detestable, intolerable. Um, So yeah,

(28:32):
I'm not I'm not know. I keep to myself and
then I talked when I'm supposed to talk, and I
shut up unlike you and I'm supposed to shut up alright.
Moving on, Benny Versus the Penny, Jacksonville at Houston. It
is on CBS Jacksonville, Owen one Houston, also oh and one.
They lost the Monday Night thriller Andrew Kitalan was his name,
Catalan Catalan, Andrew Catalan and James Lofton I have the

(28:56):
call there. The Texans opened to three and a half
point favorite, but this line shot all the way up
to nine nine in a divisional game. It's gonna nine
one degrees mostly sunny, but it's a dome. I assume
the dome will be closed. Maybe not if it's open
ninety one degree. Whether they're the pick is in taking Jacksonville,

(29:17):
Taking Jacksonville. Uh, And I'll tell you why, Number one Houston.
I think there's gonna be some hangover from what happened
in New Orleans a Monday night, short week. They blew
a huge opportunity to be the talk of the town
in the NFL. They gave that game away and so
much so. We know they gave that game away because
the guy that got burned for the game winning field

(29:37):
goal and a touchdown the second half, UH, Colvin was
released by Bill O'Brien in a very emotional, uh emotional situation.
Bill O'Brian was like bewildered. He's like, I gotta get
rid of this guy. It's embarrassing. So he just released
the guy with a paid him like seven million hours
to go away. So that tells you the mindset of
the coaching staff. That tells you the mindset of the
locker room. That O'Brien sending the message, I don't care

(30:00):
who the f you are. If you don't do your job,
I'm gonna fire your ass. It so sense to know
what he said. And how about this J. J. Watt,
Much like David Gascon, they have something in common. They're
both guilty of being tardy and absentee. Is um uh
Gascon This podcast being recorded much later than it was

(30:21):
supposed to be because Gascon uh doesn't know how to
book a flight. But now now they are. Now they're
banged up as well. So typically a poor Jaguar team
is just what the doctor ordered. But this line, to
me is inflated. It's inflated. I don't think it's right.
And and secondly, now Jacksonville, I know they're not anywhere
in the same class as Kansas City. I get that,

(30:43):
but that that's the Texans are are as aren't as
good an opponent either, like Garden Minshew Uh. This is
a great unknown here. I'm I'm gambling that Minshew is
going to be okay. I don't think it'll be great,
but I think it'll be okay. That's his first NFL start,
so it's a lot different when you come off the
bench and you're just playing in garbage time as opposed

(31:04):
to being the guy and practicing all week. He is
the main reason that Jacksonville is such a big dog.
The gambling market does not think this guy is that good.
He don't think he can hold his own against the
Texas defense. Minshew is a disciple of Mike Leach. He
actually played one year from Mike Leach, I believe, but
he he bounced around. I like the guy because he's
a Juico guy and all that. Uh. And he played

(31:25):
at Washington State, but he played some other schools and
the one thing I love about him, And we'll see
if it plays out. It certainly played out last week.
The most important skill for any quarterback is what accuracy?
That's right, accuracy exactly. Uh So that's that's his claim
to fame. He he is accurate. He's more accurate than anybody.

(31:47):
So if you get the ball, even bad receivers on Jacksonville,
you get them the ball, give them an opportunity to
make plays. I think that's a good situation. To cultivate
at least covering the point spread. So I like his answers.
This week jackson will come and out showing that fighting spirit.
They got blown off the field by Kansas City last week.
But Nick Foles, there's a shot here. You're talking about

(32:09):
being an overreaction neary talk show guy or podcaster. Nick Foles,
remember you heard here first. Could get Kurt warnered by
Gardner Mitchell about that hot take. Come on, is that
not a hot take. It's a little warm. It's a
little warm. That's a The guy's got the mustache. She

(32:30):
looks like a civil war fighter or something like the
nineteen seventies. Now, my optimism does have his limits. I
look for a bounce back performance for the Jags defense.
They will keep this game close. Divisional games generally are close,
and as I often say, anytime you get over a
touchdown in a divisional game, you know the drill, right,
you take those points. Texans will win, but they will
not cover the nine. Houston seven. Jacksonville twenty penny is

(32:56):
riding in the home opening for the Houston Texans. Keep
an eye on de Shawn Watson. He will be in
the injury tent by halftime. That's usually where he ends up.
All right. Uh, Next up Seattle at Pittsburgh. This is
a big game this weekend. A couple of teams thought
that think they are good. Although I don't have Pittsburgh
feels after their loss in the opener. Seattle did win,
didn't get any style points against the Cincinnati Bengals. It

(33:18):
is on Fox. Kenny Albert and Ronda Barber have the call.
The Steelers opened at three point home favorite at Hines Field.
The line is at four right now in favor of
the black and gold of the Pittsburgh Steelers. I'm gonna
go the other way. The pick is in. I'm gonna
take the Seattle Seahawks. Uh. In this game A couple
of reasons why all right? This game has a cover

(33:40):
your eyes and say any meany mighty mode type of
field too. As far as picking the winner, I don't
think there's a lot separating it seems. I expect Pittsburgh
to play better. I can make compelling arguments both ways.
You like Pittsburgh in the bounce back not normally under
Mike Tom And they don't have two games in a
row like that's really hard. And if you're trying to
have two games, uh in a row like that. Going

(34:00):
to Foxboro has been uh one of the nine circles
of hell. Uh it's a bottomless pit of everlasting fire
for the for the Steelers there and in Brimstone and
all that, they just don't do well in foxborog the
Steelers here, here's the big issue for them. I don't
know how you overcome this. They're lacking playmakers. Ben Roethlisberger looked, old,

(34:20):
you look bad when you lose Juju Smith Schuster was
lacking separation for most of that game until the game
was lopsided. Uh. And and I think it is Dante
mind creef. I believe it is the number two receiver
for the Steelers. I mean, what are we doing here? Uh?
So they can either feel sorry for themselves and powder
or they can come out and put the big boys
boxer shorts on there and CounterPunch. I expect him to CounterPunch.

(34:42):
I don't think it'll be enough, though, because Seattle is
also looking for redemption. That's the second thing here. The Seahawks.
They did win, but it's one of those things. If
you didn't watch the game, you don't know. This was
not a thing of beauty. This was a struggle. The
struggle is real. Uh. And and you know, trying to
decode the Ehawks and say, what the hell was that?
I mean, what are you doing here? You played like

(35:04):
dirty dishes in the sink for most of that game.
You're lucky to win because of some things that went
your way. But it was a a disorganized, muddled, uh,
discombobulated type of Seahawks performance, which is not normally what
happened in Seattle has been very good at beating up
the weaker opponents. That Banks was supposed to be a
weaker opponent, uh, etcetera, etcetera. But anyway, listen, Cincinnati was

(35:27):
able to matriculate the ball down the field at will.
In fact, just to prove my point, how bad was it?
The Bengals had ten more first downs in the Seahawks
last week had almost two hundred more yards of offense. Now,
Chris Carson and the running game never got going. While
Russell Wilson his stat line was good, but I feel
like it was misleading this game. I don't watch every

(35:48):
second on this game. It was in my rotation. I
make my own red zone channel on Sundays, and I
did watch a good chunk of this because I was like, Wow,
the Bengals actually have a shot. So I kept going
back to that game. Uh. And in the end it
was a seesaw game. But in the end, the Bengals
obviously did not get the job done. I expect a better,
stronger performance by Seattle. Were they looking ahead to Pittsburgh

(36:09):
the old the peekaboo uh, and that's why they were
befuddled by the Bengals. I expect them to play better here,
defensively in particular, and take advantage of that week linked
on the Steelers offense Seattle thirty the Steelers twenty four.
Your final penny says time for another quiz. Here's the

(36:31):
quiz I asked. Stunning thirty two point one percent of
my receptions have gone for touchdowns in my young career,
by far, the most among all active players. Who am I?
It's like a mini who am I? Game? Again? A
stunning thirty two point one percent of my receptions have
gone for touchdowns in my young career, by far, the

(36:53):
most among active players. Who am I? Answer? Coming shortly?
See how smart yard? See if you see how you're doing?
To keep track of this all? Right? Next up Santa
Clara at Sincecinnati it's on Fox. Tom Brenneman doesn't have
to go anywhere. He lives in Cincinnati does Red's games.
He's on the Fox box that Rocks. Calling this game.
Chris Spielman will be alongside another former Buckeye right back

(37:16):
in the day, Chris Spielman. So Brennanman and Spielman in
the in the Fox booth. The game opened, the Niners
were actually a one and a half point favorite. Now
the Bengals, though, are a one and a half point
favorite in this game. Gonna be mostly sunny eighty three
degrees at kick off from Paul Brown Stadium. This is
the second back to back a roadie for the forty Niners.

(37:38):
I am gonna take the Bengals here. I'm gonna take
Cincinnati as a small home favorite in this game. I'll
tell you why. Santa Clara that's really really playing in
San Francisco and Santa Clara. And if you know Bay
Area traffic, that is a not a hop, skip and
a jump from the heart of the Bay Area, but
anyway where a lot of the business is done. But uh,
Santa Clara very fortunate to be the beneficiary of football

(38:01):
negligence by Jamis Winston, the doctor Jacko Mr Hyde Jamis Winston,
who literally in figuratively was on his deathbed against the
forty Niners in terms of turnovers, and then the Niners
were the beneficiary of that. Jimmy Garoppolo was not exactly
Steve Young on the other side, He wasn't even Jeff Garcia.
Jimmy g had marginal numbers. Santa Clara had just two

(38:24):
D fifty six yards of all offense against the Buccaneers.
That is not a sustainable formula for winning on the road.
The Niners are also historically horrific in this spot. Recently,
since the forty Niners are one in nine on the
road against a FC opponents. Now that's a trend, but

(38:44):
it's a trend. Who's a friend, h if you believe
in the power of the trend, and be of all
the new coaches in the NFL, who would have predicted
that Zack Taylor's squad would have been the most impressive? Uh,
even though they lost, Right, you don't get credit for
a loss and all that, But the Bengals overachieved considering
what we expected them to do. Many of us I

(39:05):
I'll pick Cincinnati the points if if the Bengals are
able to play anywhere close to that level another week,
they will win this game by a good margin because
the forty Niners are not at the same level talent
wise as Seattle. And here's another fun fact that blew
me away about the Bengals. I read this this week.

(39:27):
Andy Dalton never had four d yards passing in any
NFL game until last week. In the Pit of Vipers
in Seattle he had four eighteen yards. That never had
a fourigner yard game until last week. All these games
been around. It seems like he's been around forever with
the Bengals, although he's been hurt a lot. That was

(39:47):
that was surprising to me. So any way, to me,
this is a value play. The Bengals, small home dog
coming off a premier performance. Desirable pick Bengals thirty, forty
Niners twenty four. The penny also likes the Bengals. That's
just piggybacking my work. I'm doing the hard work here

(40:10):
and then the Pennies just it's like drafting, right, like
Nascar and just kind of drafting and then yeah, blow
right by. Yeah, I don't blame it. Last week? What
was my record again? Guest? And I forgot I have
what's that? How many wins did I have there? I
don't know how you do the math well. I proved

(40:30):
earlier in a different podcast. I'm not good at math well.
I mean you were trying to you trying to get
the billion dollars, and I was like, it's totally flummis.
You were undocumented as thirteen and three. Yeah, that is documented.
It's on the podcast This Day Night Game. I did
that on the radio shot the Magic Radio. Body listens
to that, that listen to this? You are such an egomaniac.

(40:55):
I mean there's no one listening. Okay, I've seen the numbers.
There's no one. We're talking to each other. You know
how many you had for this? The benny versus of
the penny was actually better than anything else we've done
so far. You know what you remind me of? You
remind me of that old Penn and Teller show bullshit
because you're full of bullshit. Okay. I want to point
out that's a line I would use on the radio

(41:15):
show if I was allowed to use the word bullshit.
I think that's a great line. I used to love
the show bullshit that was. It was a wonderful program
and they I wish they would bring that show back.
It's great. I watched some of those old episodes on YouTube.
Was a big fan of the bullshit. I would you
use that on anyone on your staff or just the callers? Oh,
I would use it on well, like Cooper Loop. It
thinks every year before every season, Cooper Loop thinks the

(41:36):
Angels are gonna win the World Series. He thinks the
Broncos are gonna win the Super Bowl, the Lakers are
gonna the Lakers in particular, he's been so wrong about
the Lakers for so many years, like it's uh, it's great.
He was so devastated last year when the Clippers had
a better record than the Lakers, with the Lakers having
Lebron James. It just broke his heart. It just broke
his heart. And so yeah, and I've made a lot

(41:59):
of money. I want like a hundred bucks on a
bet I made with Danny g back when we were
friends before he went down the wrong avenue there. But yeah,
but I you bet against your staff, Well, we had
a bet on the Lakers and Clippers. I think it
was who would have a better record, and he took
the Lakers. I took the Clippers and the I want

(42:20):
you you make you make like ten times the amount
of your staff does, and you're betting against them. That's
a lie. That's not a lie, that a think. Do
you feel good about that? When you go to bed?
Like lay your head on your pillow and yeah, well
I go into my sleep. Number bet is what you
meant to say? Yes, I feel great about it. We
gotta pay off this quiz. Alright, you you gotta make
this a three hour podcast? Is what you're gonna do?

(42:41):
All right? Uh so, A stunning thirty two point one
percent of my receptions have gone for touchdowns in my
young career, by far the most among active players. Who
am I? Do you have an answer? I will go
with the uh, the Cheetah. I'll go with Tyreek Kill.
Tyrekill has a fine fine guesses flaw that it's not right.
I like when you're wrong. It makes me feel better

(43:02):
about myself. The correct answer is a Cincinnati Bengal John Ross.
John check this out the math on this. He's got
twenty eight career receptions and of those twenty eight career receptions, uh,
thirty two point one percent have gone for Touchdow. I
think it's the numbers nine out of twenty eight so

(43:22):
so no other active player with fewer than thirty catches
has more than five touchdowns. His problem, he's always hurt though,
That's his problem. He's a mess. He's always always injured there,
but he's played, He's he's been a touchdown maker. Wait
till Hollywood Brown plays a couple more games for Baltimore.
Well we'll see. I saw he's hurt. He popped up
on the injury list this week. Yeah, well you can

(43:43):
play the Dolphins, Hollywood Brown, man. That guy's gonna break
Jerry Rice's record. My god. I mean, if you really
want to increase the degree of difficulty guests and you
turn on some high powered fans, wouldn't cause more problems
on the Dolphins defense. Okay, anyway, I'm moving on. It's
Penny versus the Penny. Next up for US Minnesota at

(44:05):
Green Bay. It's on Fox. You better watch with Chris
Myers and Darryl Moose Johnston. The Packers opened a three
point favorite. Packer is currently favorite by three the pick
like the Minnesota Vikings, here him, I'm riding the Vikings.
I'm wearing my purple rain outfit right now. Number one.
Uh Aaron Rodgers, I know he looked pretty bad. He

(44:28):
looked like a mortal mire mortal against the Chicago Bears
in the opening. Other than a pretty good second quarter,
he was a no show. Now is that game an aberration?
Or is Aaron Rodgers going to regress as as the
aging process goes for We don't know yet. Chicago is
a very good defense. But guess what spoiler alert as
I like to say, Minnesota I believe has a better defense.

(44:53):
They're gonna be better statistically than the team over there
from Chicago. So Rogers has to have some angst here
and some heartburn looking at the tape with the Vikings
bringing defensively. Now. Secondly, Mike Zimmer had the Vikings playing
old school blue collar football. He said he was gonna
do it. He actually did it in the opener, A

(45:13):
systematic takedown of the Falcons. What's not to like about that?
If you're a Viking fan. They had gotten away from
that last season. They had gone away from their their
core beliefs. Kirk Cousins only attempted ten passes, which is
criminal if you have him in fantasy football. But that's
nineteen seventies style football. In fact, to prove that, I

(45:34):
have some numbers here that you know this actually worked
out well, a couple of things, A couple of stats
that I I wrote down here. Uh, since two thousand
NFL teams are nine and one when attempting ten or
fewer passes in a game, and and the Vikings last
game with ten or fewer past attempts came when David
Gascon just turned thirty years old back in nineteen seventies seven.

(45:56):
That was the last time. So I remember you had
a good birthday nineteen seventy seven. You told me about it.
I wouldn't alive then, but you told me about I'm
at least two decades younger than you. For the record,
that is a lie, a lie again. You're watching the
show bullshit is what you're doing here, all right. Uh
So let's see how this formula works against the Packers.
I I like I like it. The Minnesota defense obviously

(46:21):
played very well in stat LANDA last week. The Packers
also be fair twisted Mitch Drabinski in the Notts. I
like the Vikings with the running game, the smash mouth football,
the ground and pound approach. The Vikings will be depending
depending on that defense, that lunch pail defense, and they
are better than the Packers, and I believe they will
win this game comfortably. Even though it's a divisional game.

(46:43):
They're getting some points here. Vikings thirty three, Packers twenty.
Hate the pick, hate the face. Penny is going with
the Packers. Yeah, well I hate you too. Okay, that's
a lot of hate, a lot of hate. Raide to
go down. You know, you know we're doing this show
with you is like gas hunt, but this is like,
this is like eating a Porterhouse steak, some corn. He's

(47:06):
like going on the Titanic is what? You just know
there's the iceberg, got this somewhere. You don't know when
you're gonna hit it, but you know there's an iceberg
out there. Good for entertainment then, right, yeah, exactly? All right,
moving on, here's another quiz. I'm into these dopey quiz
I think this is increasing the enjoyment of the listener.
Tell me, if you don't like these guys, give me
some feedback, email me Real Fifth Hour with Ben Mallart.

(47:28):
It's f I F T H. I like these things.
If you don't like him, I won't put him in
here because I like these dopey quizzes, and I mean,
that's just how I roll. So if you don't like him,
I'll get room. If you like him, I'll keep him going.
And I even put more in if you want. I
don't care. I'm easier that way. I mean, you can
go on for seven hours with these podcasts. Christian McCaffrey
accounted for fifty seven point one percent of Carolina's yards

(47:50):
in the opener from scrimmage back in week one. Blank
had the second highest percentage of scrimmage yards after Christian
McCaffrey of the Panthers. That's the question. The answer coming
up here in a couple of minutes now the late
television Can you believe it? Yes, we've actually moved now
to the late television window. Oh god, I feel like

(48:12):
we would never have gotten to the late television window.
And did you didn't tell your audience that you forced
me to fly back from a nice getaway to come
here and record this damn thing, You and your stupid penny.
You forced me to come back way elder than I
wanted to, and they need to and I had to
do it. For you and obviously the greater good. Uh well,
I believe we have this thing called free will in

(48:32):
the United States, and you have the latitude to come back,
and I think the request was made that you could
come back at an earlier time. I looked at the website.
You said there were there were no flights, So I
looked at the website. I saw like seven flights that
you could have taken that would have been more. You're
not flexible. You have no flexibility, and you you have
apparently you think you have carte blanche here to do

(48:53):
whatever the hell you want. You're a diva. You're like
Lebron James or Antonio Brown, that's what you are. For
the record Jet Blue, when we had two flights going
in the Long Beach, Yeah, both would have worked out better.
You could have driven for you were I guess in Sacramento.
You could have driven down to Oakland, it's not that
far away, or San Francisco and to the other Bay
area airports. It's like a forty five minute drive. I

(49:14):
don't make the money. You make it costly, like a
hundred dollars just to drive up here to the studio
to come record this damn thing. Just admit your lazy.
All right, you're trying to paint me as some kind
of death spot or something like that. Like I'm like,
it's tyranny. There's no tyranny, alright, there's no I'm not
a schoolyard bully or anything like that. This I expect
the Code of the West. You don't even follow the

(49:34):
Code of the West. Gascon. I gotta team. Well, we'll
have to do that next week on on the other
show that we do the Code of the West, because
I need to go through that because I need people
to live like me with the Code of the West.
Are you done? I'm done. Let's go all right, Kansas
City one to know at Oakland one and oh it's
on CBS. Jim Nance and Tony Romo. This is a

(49:55):
big game for CBS. That's the A team. The Chiefs
opened up a eight and a half point favorite. This
game is up to nine and a half. No, Tyreek Hill,
he's out. Sammy Watkins becomes the man for the team
from the Heartland, and I'm gonna take the Raiders in
this game. Actually, I'm gonna take the Raiders. Short week
home game divisional opponent Patrick Mahomes. This he's gonna be great.

(50:18):
He has been able to overcome the standard in competence
of the defense in Kansas City and get ws. In fact,
he's been remarkable so far in covering UH for that
week spot on the Chiefs Mahomes. Just to make my point, now,
this is straight up. There's been ten games Mahomes has
played quarterback where the Chiefs have allowed twenty six points

(50:41):
or more, ten of them already, He's only been starting
for a little over a year, and ten of them.
His record in those games five and five. Now, just
to prove how good that is. The Seattle Seahawks going
back to I read the status this week, Since the
Seahawks have played fifty seven games where their defense is
of an up twenty six or more points, their record

(51:02):
is five and fifty two. All right, Mahomes five and five,
that's amazing. Now the Chiefs are ten and two against
the Raiders in the Andy Reid Era in ken is
a city, and they've outscored the Raiders by twelve points
per game. That tells you what has happened. It doesn't
tell you what's going to happen. I know I'm taking
a leap of faith here, but The second thing, any

(51:24):
time you get over a touchdown again divisional game, you
know the drill, the formula that I use here, You
would be a fool not to take that. The Raiders
played with some some gusto. I don't know if that's
the right word, but I I liked. I was impressed.
I did not expect that performance, especially from the offensive line.
The Broncos have an amazing defense, at least they're supposed

(51:45):
to have an amazing defense with Von Miller and all that,
and those guys were completely overpowered by the Raider offensive
lines could not to Derek Carr. And you gotta think
that happens again. Derek car is gonna have time here
if you can stop the Broncho goes. I know it's
a simpleton's way to handicap, but you would think you'd
be able to stop Kansas City's weak ass limp limp

(52:06):
biscuit type of pass rush present. So but anyway, and
the other thing here is in Gardner Minshew. Even though
the game was a blowout, he completed eighty eight percent
of his passage. He sent a new record for a
first time playing a quarterback in the end film in
their debut, I expect Derek Carr to hold his own.
This is gonna be a back and forth, the end

(52:27):
of the Yang type situation, dueling pianos. Now in the end,
the Chiefs have more offense and the Chiefs will win,
but the Raiders will score their points and certainly enough
to cover a nine and a half point spread. Kansas
City thirty seven, Oakland one penny going at the home
team like Arrowhead and the Chiefs. Okay, we'll pay off

(52:48):
the question. Christian McCaffrey accounted for fifty seven point one
per cent of Carolina's yards from scrimmage back in week
number one. Blank had the second highest percentage in the NFL.
And we again go to guest Gun because we're not
taking calls on this show. The lines are the lines
are full, unless they're not. We have no phone lines

(53:09):
here in the studio seven seven on podcast. How about this,
Josh Jacobs? What about it? He was good? Josh Jacobs?
Was it was? It was very good? Is that your answer? Yeah,
you're wrong. The correct answer is Dalvin Cook of the
Minnesota Vikings. You know why that is because the Vikings
told them all only ten times. Dalvin Cook had forty

(53:31):
four point four percent of the Vikings yards from scrimmage,
he had a hundred and twenty yards of the two
hundred and seventy the Vikings had, so seconds a right.
Next up New Orleans at Los Angeles, the Rams. Both
teams wanted. Oh, it's on Fox with Joe Buck and

(53:51):
Troy Acmoso. Joe Buck's gotta make that transcontinental. Actually just
across the United States flight uh from Carolina to l
A for this game, Joe Buck And unless he flies
the other way, then it is transcontinental. Uh, just short
fucking tram and we'll call the game. Rams open a
three point favorite, their favorite by three. The public is
all over the Saints. They can't bet the Saints enough.

(54:13):
The numbers I have here is insane. I'm betting against
the public more than anything. I'm gonna take the Rams
favored by three. At home. These teams are relatively equal,
the Rams being the home team. That's you know, they
think the games. Even the Saints have a short week.
Monday night thriller at the super Dome. People are overreacting
to the Rams offensive struggles against Carolina and they still

(54:33):
won the game. They they will be able to score
against the Saints defense. You saw Deshaun Watson move up
and down the field against that New Orleans defense. Jared Golf, Uh,
he's he's got to play better, and there's no question
about it, and I believe he will play better this week.
Golf has a career four and seven record when throwing
under two hundred yards, but when he gets over two

(54:53):
hundred yards, he's twenty one and seven. Now, a lot
of those came early in his career, back in the
Jeff Fisher uh era, and trying to have amnesia and
those of us that like the Rams and forget about
all that, Uh, But yeah, I like the Rams as
a boomerang team. That's a gambling term. I don't know
if you know, but that that's a gambling term here.
But I expect they will rebound here and make a

(55:16):
recovery offensively and at home. You gotta like him. And
then the other thing about New Orleans, Uh, they're not
the same team historically and in this era of of
Saints football away from the Bayou. I understand they had
a good record last year on the road, but they
they also lost to the Cowboys. They played, uh, played
some shaky games there on the road and and nearly

(55:36):
not nearly as intimidating as they are in the great
indoors as they are in the great outdoors. So we
also don't know if Drew Brees will play a complete game.
This is something that you're not supposed to talk about
because he's an a legend and you can't. You know,
he's been canonized, and I get it, he's a Hall
of Famer and all that stuff, but this is something
that needs to be rectified. Last week, he was not

(55:59):
only a quarterback in the first half. He sucked. He
was a no show. He was like David Gascon for
a podcast. He showed up late. Okay, uh he did,
And so he's that gonna become the new normal. Are
the Saints only gonna get a good quarter here and
then a bad quarter, a good half and then a
bad half. If that's the case, it's gonna be a struggle.

(56:20):
There's gonna be a lot of speed bumps here for
New Orleans offensively. So I believe that Breeze will play
more like that. He's not gonna play great the entire game.
We'll have some some bad periods here. I'm gonna take
the rams and the Saints go marching. Even the lost
column twenty two. Right, baby, you got a Rammitt Rammitt, Rammitt,
Rammitt Ramort Rammitt Rammitt ram Penny's going with the Rams.

(56:43):
Good job by the penny, al right, Next up Chicago,
oh and one at the Denver Gascons. Oh in one.
Uh and that is the matchup here. The Bears opened
a pick him, the game open to pick him. The
Bears are now at two and a half point favorite.
It is on Fox with Dick Stockton and Mark Slayer
with you know what that means, right, you know what

(57:03):
that means, Gas, It could be the game of the week.
Now it means it means they don't think it'll be
that good a game that might be a good game.
I love Dick Stockton, but they don't send him to
the to the great He's polishing turds, as we say
every week. But I'm gonna pick the Bears here in
this game as a bounce back team. Uh. And here's why.

(57:25):
The main thing I'm betting against the Broncos. Their defense
was taken to the claims. We talked about that earlier
when we handicapped the radio game. But you talk about humiliation,
it is ridiculous. It's preposterous. It's ludicrous that Vic Fangio,
who's a defensive pedigree guy, is the head coach there.
And they went into Oakland and that defense with Von

(57:50):
Miller and brad Lee chubbing those guys, they did not
have a single quarterback hit or sack. They were shut out.
Derek Carr completed eighty four point six percent of his passes.
That's that's obscene. That that is in subordination. That's a
dereliction of duties by the Broncos defense. They said, well,
they're gonna play better at home and all that stuff.

(58:10):
I understand that counter argument, but I gotta see it.
I gotta see the Bears are a better opponent here,
and even a much maligned quarterback in Mitchell Trobiski can
light you up if you're not hitting the quarterback and
not sacking the quarterback. Now, the second thing here, uh,
this is a good spot. As we talked about for

(58:30):
the bounce back, bounce back. Now for the Bears, the
quarterback matchup here is relatively even. Strobinsky sucks, Joe Flacco sucks.
The ace card here is the Chicago defense defense travels well.
Blah blah blah blah, blah uh. So if if you're
analyzing this, I I think that the Bears will I
know they're gonna bring the defense. I think you'll get
enough offense to get this this victor I expected to

(58:53):
be close. I don't think that they're gonna blow out
the Denver Broncos here, but they will be able to
keep the Broncos off in knots. Expect the low scoring,
slobber knocker type of football game. Chicago Bears nineteen, Broncos ten.
You're fun one in doubt and go at the home team.
Penny's taking the Broncos shocking that the guy flipping the

(59:16):
penny who loves the Denver Broncos don't know what you're
talking about, Coop is not in the building us. From
what I've heard, you are a Bronco guinea up. Alright,
Moving on Sunday Night football Philadelphia one and all at
Atlanta and one. I'm looking forward to watching this game.
It's on NBC. Al Michaels and Chris collins Worth of
a feeling we'll have a Mallard monologue about this game

(59:39):
on our Sunday in the Monday radio show. But the
Eagles the game open to pick them Eagles favorite by
one and a half on the road. Not good to
bet on road favorites, but I'm doing anyway here. Uh
take the better team. I'll take the Philadelphia to get
off that two and oh start in Atlanta. Be o
and two. Uh. The first thought I have on this
game the Eagles. We mentioned it earlier. They were on
the highway to hell against Washington last week, and then

(01:00:00):
they flipped the switch. They saved their their bacon. They're
behind the whole thing. Big plays by Deshaun Watson a
couple of other guys, and that saved the Eagles from
the shame of of losing ian. They steered them away
from going down that direction. But they have to acknowledge
that they did not play well in that game. I
expect a more complete effort here, even in a hostile

(01:00:22):
environment in Atlanta. Carson Wentz's good when he plays. His
problem has been he's always seemingly to get seemingly getting hurt.
But the Eagles did not commit a turnover in week one,
and now they are ten and one under Doug Peterson.
When they play a clean game, and why is that important?
Meaning they don't have a turnover, I'll tell you why

(01:00:43):
it's important. It's obviously important because you have more chance
to win, but the NFL. That's the fourth best record
in the NFL since seen. But more importantly, the Falcons
have forced only fifty seven turnovers since seen. They are
tied for the third fewest in leak. So you have
a team that when they don't turn the ball over,
they have a ten and one record against the team
that often fails to cause a turnover. Do you see

(01:01:05):
the chink in the armor here? I think you. I
think you do? Yes? All right? Do you have to
spell it out for you now? Secondly, no, I'm not
gonna talk about my man Philly Rob, who's such a
Phillies sickophan. He's traveling to this game. Did you know that?
You didn't know that my man Philly Rob, who gives
us these big food parties with cheese steaks and all
these delicious foods, Philly Rob is going to be at

(01:01:26):
the at the game. There's anyway the Falcons played like
they were uninterested. They went through the motions, all that
stuff against the Vikings. We talked about that earlier. Who
won't rehash too much of that. I do expect Atlanta
to play better, uh this week if they have any
kind of pride and they don't know a bunch of
quitters like the Miami Dolphins are tired of playing second fiddle.
But that said, the Eagles are just more talented. And

(01:01:47):
then this is a special Philadelphia Eagles team. I hate
saying that because, uh boy, but I'm gonna take the
Eagles high scoring game. Al Michaels will like it. Uh
And in the end, Philadelphia Eagles thirty eight, Falcon thirty
one Penny likes, does well? Go with the Eagles fly

(01:02:07):
Penny suddenly picking my side because you're not an Eagles
fan or a Falcons fan. Interesting, a little woozy over there,
guests and everything good with you. Yes, everything's good, man.
I just uh, it's it's hard work working with you.
I gotta do a lot of the handiwork. I gotta
do a lot of production, the elements, the writing, the prep,
the writing. Well, yeah, I gotta write up all of
the matchups for you with the broadcasters names and what

(01:02:30):
station it's on. And uh yeah, I mean, I got
a musical instrument here, I'm gonna I'm gonna go get
I got the world's smallest I'm gonna play that for you. Okay,
can I do that? And would you like me to
do that? He does Philip rob really bring you guys dinner?
Is that what he does? Uh? He not only brings
his dinner, he brings us. It's like a three course
meal with Philip Rob. This guy is one of my

(01:02:51):
He's in my top five all time listeners. That just
smother us with good East. Damn. He comes in there.
Philly Robs big fan of show, is a super fan
of the show. He comes in. Last time he came in,
it was for the first game last week, it was
the Green Bay game with Chicago. He came in. The
appetizer was a Philly pretzel. He had pretzels from Wawas
flown into l A. Right, this is a baller. This

(01:03:14):
guy is a baller, Philly Rob. So he sent us
the you know, he brought the pretzels with him, had
him delivered by a friend of his, Elizabeck in Philly.
And so he had the delicious Philly pretzel, which is
just great. Man. I would I would have been I
would have been happy just with that alone. And then
that was the appetizer. Then he brought his Philly cheese
steaks and he had a bag of potato chips as
the side on that. Uh, just just absolutely great. And

(01:03:35):
then for dessert, he brought in, uh these tasty cake
pies because Roberto bitched about the tasty cakes and what.
I don't mind. I liked the tasty cakes, but he
brought in the tasty cake pie. I had the lemon.
I went with the lemon, and he also brought pineapple
juice because I made a joke on the air. Wasn't
even a joke, it was it was Devin Hester. Devin
Hester said that pineapple juice made him faster, so Philly

(01:03:57):
Rob wanted us to be faster. So you know, did
you even need to pretzel with any kind of hot
mustard sauce? Uh? Yeah I did. He did bring some
mustard in. It was good. I mean I I didn't
like mustard when I was a kid, but now as
an adult, I love the mustard. Man, I we don't have.
That's one thing. L A is lacking good pretzels. I mean,
we got we should open a Philly style pretzel shop.

(01:04:18):
We'll make a killing in Los Angeles, right, Yeah, but
you have him coming out here with that, that's first
class service man. You can't. You can't even pray for
something like that. That's good. That was. That was wonderful
by Philly roups. I hope he enjoys the game on Sunday. Right,
we got one more game, alright, one more game Monday
night football Cleveland, Oh and one the Jets also on one.

(01:04:38):
It's on ESPN, Joe test It Tour and Booger Booger
McFarland old the sports radio guy, old NFL player on
the call the Browns. This is crazy to check this
line out. Brown's opened a two and a half point favorite.
You're like, okay, fine, the Browns are favorite by two
and a half on the road. It's a lodd considering

(01:04:59):
how they played in all that, but but fine, so
be it right, Brown's uh favorite? Two? Well, then we
had a quarterback change for the Jets, and the Browns
skyrocketed all the way up, up, up, up, up, and
away to a six and a half point favorite. The
spread I have here, let me let me check to

(01:05:21):
see if I get the most updated point spread in
this particular match, but I believe the line is still
six and a half. Let's see what we have here, ladda, Uh,
the Monday night game. Yeah, still six and a half.
So the public's all over the Cleveland Browns. I was
gonna take the Browns originally, but I this line is

(01:05:41):
too inflated. I'm gonna take the Jets, even with the
backup quarterback now. Now, Cleveland played like a bunch of
just I can't say. I guess I could say the
word I'll clean it up, Mama, Luke's that's my favorite.
Come on. They played like a bunch of a holes. Alright,
they play assholes, schmucks. Played like shit al right, played
like dogship in the opener against the Titans late and again,

(01:06:02):
actually the score was a little misleading. We mentioned the
game was closed. It was like a two point game
midway through the third quarter, and then Baker Mayfield just
decided that he wanted to ship all over the field
there in Cleveland. And because they are the Browns anyway,
was that it was a carnival of stupidity. Eighteen penalties
for a two yards plus three interceptions by Baker Mayfield,

(01:06:24):
who played like vomit. I mean, the Browns just got
beat by thirty at home in a game where they
were five and a half point favorites. That's hard to do,
all right, that's that's like dolphin like to do that.
Now on the flip side, well, I I did pick
the Bills to beat the Jets. I am baffled that
they actually did Buffalo scoring the final seven team. We

(01:06:46):
talked about that earlier. Uh And Sam Donald, who's not
playing in this game. Sam Donald had a passer rating
of sixty five point nine in the fourth quarter collapse,
and now he's out with with mono. He's been put
into quarantine. Now, let me ask you a question, guess,

(01:07:07):
and you would know this because you've spent a lot
of time in the doctor's office. But when I when
I was in school, okay, back in the day, and
they were teaching me about the birds and the bees
and a a little bit about that stuff. And they have
different illnesses that you could pick up. I believe, and
I maybe I'm making this up, but I swear in
one of those like junior high health classes, they talked
about uh motto is being They called it like the

(01:07:30):
kissing disease. They were trying to warn you not to,
you know, make out with too many people because you
could get mono. Yeah, all right, you never kiss you
never had that problem, right, Well, no, no one wanted
to kiss me, so I didn't have to worry about that,
And that's one thing I did not have to worry
about his getting motto. Uh. I'd like to thank the

(01:07:50):
women back in high school because they made sure that
I did not get anywhere near any of that stuff. Okay,
but we don't hear about this in college football. So
it happens in the National Football League. But was the
last time we've ever heard about this in the n
c double A ranks? Well, who's the last NFL player
that had motto? I don't remember. I don't recall this.

(01:08:10):
Has this happened. I don't recall a starting quarterback missing
multiple games because of monto. No, I remember that happening
in the National Hockey League. But that's a sport you
don't cover and you don't really care about. So it's
when the Kings are good. I pay attention to them.
When I was doing stuff in Boston. The boy, it's
about it. I'm gonna go out to some Kings game. Go, oh,

(01:08:31):
we can hang out of the Kings game. If you
want to do that, you actually will go to a game.
Oh yeah, I'll be sitting in the press box. But
I'll go out there. Yeah, we can do that. So
I roll man. You know, the Kings are good people.
They take care of me over there. The Kings, they're
good guys. They roll out the red carpet, first class operational,
the Los Angeles Kings. All right. Anyway, So as yeapping
about Sam Donald, he was he's that with model I
mentioned he was terrible in the fourth quarter. So Paxton

(01:08:54):
Lynch drops in as the starter, your old quarterback. You're
Denver Broncos guest, Trevor Simeon. What's that? Trevor Simeon. Oh,
I have to say, Paxton Lynch, awesome, bad job on me.
I had my Bronco backup quarterbacks mixed up. It's like
it's like in your holster, you're just waiting and take
a shot at the Denver Broncos. Well they're all, they're all.

(01:09:16):
But actually Trevor Simeon is a better option, though, But
how did I have Paxton Lynch? Wow? What the hell
is going on? We better end this soon? Uh, But yeah,
Trevor Simeon dropping in is the start now. I don't
believe much that there's much difference between Schevor Simeon. There
is a big difference between Paxson Lynch and Sam Donald,
but not Trevor Simeon, certainly not four points. Uh. They
will have to ring the bell. Levon bell he had

(01:09:37):
an m R. I looks like he's good to go
here with that shoulder injury. Uh. And really the key
here for the Jets is you gonna run the ball efficiently,
take time off the clock obviously shortened the game, and
continue to play. Hope the Browns continue to play with
his undisciplined style of football. I expect a much crisper
performance from Cleveland this week, but there's no way that
I am ready to lay the six and a half

(01:09:59):
point spread with Cleveland, even with Trevor Simeon on the
other side. So I'm gonna take the Cleveland Browns to win,
but the Jets to cover the spread, but only by
a half point. Brown's twenty six, Jets twenty win it
with the hook. The penny is also going with the Jets,
all right, and that is I think there's no more

(01:10:21):
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