November 15, 2019 • 49 mins
An undefeated week has Benny locked & loaded for a thrilling Week 11, but the fellas have a little extra something for the loyal audience. Ben leaves one booth for another and that leaves running mate with a little less job security than before.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome players, You're welcome. It's time now Betty Versus the Penny.
That it is. We are in Week eleven of the
NFL season. Betty versus the Penny. Every single NFL game
against the spread, all the numbers, all that for your
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dancing and dining pleasure. We will not talk about the Packers, Giants,
the Seahawks, and the Titans because they ain't playing. We
already gave you the pick on the radio of the
Cleveland Pittsburgh game, which was played back on Thursday night.
So the way this works. At his meet Ben along
with David Gascon who is dying, dying, to make an
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announcement before we actually get to Betty versus the Penny,
guestcon right, you know you want to do this before
because most people don't listen to the whole podcast. Right,
most people don't listen to the whole podcast. But I
thought this was a part of Benny Versus the Penny. Oh,
are we okay? All right? Yeah, we'll do that, right.
So here's the thing. All right, so before we get
to the actual NFL games, you want to hear guesscan
is recommending that we discussed this Friday night. I you
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didn't hear the other podcast Friday Night. I have been
dragged back. I've been on television in a fair amount
of time, and I will be doing some television. I
will be doing some television on Friday Night, and it'll
be uh a high school game for Fox, right, so
you better watch that's right? Yeah, And I'm the color commentary.
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I'm I'm adding the flavor. You're I'm flavor flavor. We're
gonna bring out a gold chain. Now. I sat next
to one time in a lake again. That guy's a trip.
It's a trip, man. I don't know. It's not even cool.
He's not even a cool guy anymore. Right, come on,
I don't know. He's still name dropping anyway. I learned
it from you. All Right, So there's a there's a
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high school game Friday night. It's Jay Sarah versus Santennas,
a Southern California high school game. And you can actually
watch this on what is the Fox Sports go app guest. Yeah,
so I mean, and so the way I'm thinking about this,
if a lot of malle militia people watch like they might,
they might bring me back. Right, this could become a
regular thing. What do you want to do ask Ben
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during the game. Yeah, if it's a boring game, we'll
do ask Ben. That'd be great. We'll take questions from
like I'll put Doc Mike on, We'll get Lance the
bus Driver, We'll get J. Scoop from Seattle, Bill and Iowa. Yeah.
You want me to plug your fucking show during Justin
and Cincinnati? Yeah? Yeah, I want you to introduce me
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a man that has been blocked by Deshaun Watson and
Dominican su William Shatner. And yeah, I still got to
figure the open and how I'm gonna introduce you. So
I understand, well, listen to handicap the game now, all right,
So there's no points spread as far as I know
in high school football. I don't think they put point
spreads out of high school football. But I would imagine
Centennial looking at the stats and the records, I would
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think Centennial high powered offense to several blue chip recruits
there on that team. The J Sarah team, a younger team,
I would think Centennial's favored by like seven to ten points. However,
I think there's value with Jay Sarah here guscot so
to handicap the game. To pick is in I'm gonna
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take Jay Sarah to cover the points, but Centennial wins
the game, but Jay Sarah will be able to cover
the points. But I love this running But I was
watching some videos. I've never even heard of this guy,
Chris Street this running back for Jay Sarah. Who's uh
he's he looks like Darren Sprawls to me, a little
small guy with these huge thighs that runs through you
can't even see him, and then and then he just
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bulls you over, and uh, I guess he's going to
cal right where beast Mode win. So I think the
key obviously, when you're on the road in a hostile environment.
I learned this from the NFL Gas Scout. You have
to yeah, play conservant, run the ball, take time off
the clock right and they have a great running back. Now,
obviously Centennial is gonna bottle up and try to stop
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Chris Stewart and and and force Jay Sarah to to
win the game through the air. But I I love
that this guy has been been great and uh, I
think you can you can hang around, keep the game close,
playoff game guys will be nervous. So I'm gonna take
Jay Sarah plus the points to cover the spread against Centennial.
But Centennial will win the game at Husky Stadium, which
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I thought was in Seattle, but apparently it's in Corona, California.
I had no idea. How about that for a handicapping job. Guest,
you didn't give the temperature. You didn't give the broadcasters.
It'll be seventy five degrees that kick off. And to
make sure they spell my name right. All right, they
gotta spell my name correct. Please. You forgot the score too,
I forgot the score. Ah, the final score, alright, the
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final score will be Centennial thirty eight. J Sarah one
that boom and the penny Picksennial. Oh we have disagreement.
I just picked underdogs. Yes, that's what I do. I
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pick underdogs. I'm an underdog player. That's what that's how
I roll. Plus, I gotta I gotta pick my o C. Guys.
You know Jay Sarah, which was a high school I'm
so old that didn't even exist. But this this conference
they're in, it just blew me away. When I was
doing some research here and I saw modern day in St.
John Bosco and all the Santa Margarite. When I was
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in high school, we played Santa Margaritya and they were amazing.
Brian Finneran who was a receiver for the Atlanta Falcons.
He had a twin brother. He played at Santa Margarita.
We played them my senior year in high school. I
believe we lost that game, just kicked our ass and
uh so that was that was kind of cool. I
bet you didn't think that in you'd be handicapping a
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a prep game. No, I have not done a high
school game since I was at like Saddleback College. This
is this is crazy, but I'm actually kind of excited
about because, as my wife says, you have to go
outside your comfort zone from time to times. So I'll
just have fun and it'll be fun. We'll have a
good time with it. And remember we need the Mallard
Militia because I think if the Mallard Militia watches this,
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because they can count how many people are watching the scream,
that that will encourage them to uh maybe pay us
more and and use me. Again. I don't want to
do it every week, but once in a while. I
think it would be fun. Once they play once a week.
What you very busy man, I'm a very busy man,
guest gun very very busy. All right, are we done
with that? Then we actually get to the NFL games
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that people wanted to hear. Yes, you could, of course,
be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific
on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app.
Right now, before we look ahead, we must look back.
I did not lose a game last week, and we
tend guest God, not a single incorrect pick. It's the
first time in my life I've gotten every game correct.
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Thank you very much. Where's my congratulatory tweet? I had
a perfect week last week. That's right, perfection. I'd like
to give an applause to the nurses, the doctors, dance tsiologists,
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everyone that was able to get you in the upright
position and eventually out of the hospital with it. Well,
it's good I didn't get like staff infection or gang
green or something like that. You hear these stories about
people who go to the hospital. You're like, oh man,
especially out of Cleveland, right, wasn't like a span of
three or four players and a two year span. Yeah, Yeah,
it was Tampa Bay. It was Tampa Bay that had that. Yeah,
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had a big all right. Uh so it's we go, Levin.
We did the Thursday game on the radio, so we'll
start out with Dallas at Detroit. Now, the way this
works on the handicapping side, we break down every game.
We give you some information on every game, and and
then if you if you agree the way it should work.
If you agree, you do your own work, and if
we line up, that's a game you should probably been on.
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So Dallas five for Detroit three five and one. It's
on Fox with Kevin Burkhardt and Charles Davis. I'm sorry
this is not a Dick Stockton game, guesscon. But you've
got the Cowboys who opened up a two and a
half point favorite. They have skyrocketed all the way up
to six and a half as a road favorite. It's sunny,
thirty three degrees outside of ford Field, Detroit at kickoff
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on Sunday afternoon, the early TV window. The pick is
in and I am taking the Detroit Lions. I am
taking the Lions here now, Matt Patricia and Detroit are
going to attempt to do what everyone does against the
Cowboys and stop Zeke Elliott and forced Dak Prescott to
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beat them. Even if they are successful, it won't matter.
Why is that because it's it's looking like Matthew Stafford
he's gonna miss this start, which means Jeff Driskell we'll
get another opportunity to start for Detroit. In his first
start with the Lions, his claim to fame as he
ran for thirty seven yards and uh. And the reason
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that's interesting is because he led the Lions and rushing.
He's the fifth different player the last five games to
lead the Lions and rushing. That's not good, especially only
had thirty seven yards. Now now, Secondly, the Lions Achilles
Heel happens to be in their second there and so
while they would like to force Dak Prescott to beat them,
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I think we all know that that likely is something
that Dak will be able to do. Everyone is polarizing
the Detroit Lions defense. Detroit is twenty eight in past defense.
They're allowing two hundred and seventy two yards per game. Uh. Now,
the reason I'm taking the Lions. Uh. You know, Jason
Garrett's team lost to the Jets, so anything is possible.
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If you lose to the Jets and you're the Cowboys,
you can certainly lose to the Lions, who I believe
are about the same maybe a little better than the Jets. Right,
and the beleaguered Cowboy coach you figure out even he
can't screw it up. But then you're like, well, I
think this game will be a closer game. I love
home dogs. I like the home doggie and the Cowboys
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they have a much more important game for them against
the Patriots. So this is a peek a boo game
where Dallas. You figure they'll be focused because they lost
to the Vikings last week and they've not been playing
very well lately. But it's a much bigger game with
the Cowboys next week with a lot of national flavor
to it. There's no national flavor to this Dallas Detroit game.
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So the Cowboys will win, but they won't cover the spread.
Cowboys twenty eight. Jeff Drisco on the Lions twenty four.
Penny does not like your decision. Go on with the
Dallas Cowboys, all right? Next up New Orleans at Tampa Bay.
The Saints seven and two, the Bucks are three and six.
It's on Fox, and are we playing the Dick Stockton game? Yeah?
We can, Uh, this is not a Dick Stockton game.
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That is correct. It is a Tom Brennaman Chris Spielman game.
They will have a call down the line on this game.
The Saints open and up a five point favorite. There
a five and a half point favorite. The New Orleans
Saints favorite by five and a half here. The weather
mostly sunny, sixty five degrees. That kick off at Raymond
James Stadium. For Bruce Arians my brother from a different mother.
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We wear the same hat. Uh, And I'm gonna take
the Buccaneers here. And I admit this is not one
of my greater picks, but I I I'm just feeling
the bucketeers, and I'll tell you why. Drew Brees not
only did you look old against the foulcon's last week,
but he also apparently has some kind of rib problem.
And I believe he's so stubborn he's just gonna continue
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playing and try to play through it because he doesn't
want to go to the bench and then have Teddy
Bridgewater light up the scoreboard again. So something bizarro is
happening here. I would agree with most casual people that
the on paper, the Saints should win this game by
forty points, but they still got to play the game
it's a road matchup. Generally, that's problematic over this great
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run of Saints football. They're not nearly as lethal outside
the Buyou as they are in Louisiana. Most teams are
not as good on the road as at home. But
the Saints also, as road favorites by four or more points,
have a three eight five winning percentage under Sean Payton
in the recent years. And that's that's also something the factory,
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and that's not great. Road favorites generally not a great
formula to make a lot of money. And secondly, Tampa,
now they're not a good team. They should be able
to stop the running game. Alvin Kamara uh that they've
been effective against run because no one's even trying to run.
Everyone can throw against The Bucks have the NFL's worst
pass defense. They're allowing two point nine yards per game.
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So for me, I'm gonna need Jamis winst did to
make a bunch of big plays. He's also throwing a
bunch of big past numbers up. In fact, Winston has
got the longest active streak of three D plus passing
games four straight. Divisional games are generally close by nature.
I am gonna cover my eyes here, and I'm gonna
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take the Buccaneers to hang around, hang around, take that
home dog divisional game. It's not seven points, but it's
five and a half Saints twenty six bucks, twenty three
penny going that way, going with the Buccaneers. So do
we have time to get trivial? Should we knock trivial
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stuff out of there? Yeah? You know, I have a
question for you, but I'll ask you when we come
to that game in in d C. But yeah, let's
get trivial day, all right. Matt Ryan needs two hundred
fifty four yards to surpass Blank for the tenth most
passing yards in NFL history. Mattie Ice, he needs two
hundred fifty four yards this weekend to pass Blank for
the most or the tenth most passing yards in NFL history.
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Give me the answer in a couple of minutes. Here,
speaking of Atlanta, the Falcons two and seven Carolina five
and four. Is this the Dick Stockton game? It is not.
You are wrong, you lose the Stockton This is the
game our friend Dick and Mark lay Writh have the
call on Fox. I bet you Dick Stockton wishes he
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was doing the Prep Zone game on Friday. But he's
not he's not allowed to do it. I think his
paychecks probably a little bit heavier. I do not think.
I do not think that at all. Anyway, this and
the Panthers opened a seven point favorite. Carolina is favored
by five and a half. The weather here mostly sunny,
fifty two degrees. That kick off at Bank of America
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Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. It's a divisional matchup. The
Falcons are my pick. I'm gonna take Atlanta here, uh
And I'll give you my logic behind it now. Obviously,
Christian McCaffrey a is a great player. He's been MR consistent.
He's gone seven straight games with a rushing touchdown. He'll
get his numbers here against Atlanta. But I am banking
on the Falcons trying to build on what they did
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last week and not just being satisfied that was their
super Bowl. They won a game against the Saints. They're
gonna come back and commit, commit to the thing as
they did last week. They changed the defensive play calling
and I don't know who the guy is. I don't
have his name everybody, but they took it away from
the head coach and it obviously worked. The Saints had
nine points. That's it. Nine points. Now, this is a
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game that you would figure Atlanta, if they follow those
same principles, should be able to attack Kyle Allen, who
cooled off a bit after playing pretty well the first
couple of weeks. He's been okay, but he's he hasn't
gotten better, hasn't got better? Now be the big difference
is defensive tenacity if you look at the numbers, but
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you can. The Panthers lead the NFL and sacks they've
got the most by any team through nine games since
the Chiefs back in the Falcons. They are thirty in sacks,
which means that Kyle Allen should have plenty of time
to do his theam his thing. But Atlanta had six
sacks against the Saints last week. So that's why I'm
saying you gotta throw the numbers out because if that
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Atlanta team shows up, if you get six sacks against
the Aints, you should be able to get four or
five sacks against Carolina using simpleton knowledge. Uh so uh.
Despite all that, there is also a Peaka boo situation
for for Carolina, they have a key NFC South matchup
with the new Orleans Saints next week, and they're they're
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still thinking Carolina they can catch New Orleans in the division.
New Orleans is seven and two, Carolina is five and four.
Carolina wins this game, they get the six wins. Let's
say New Orleans stumbles in Tampa and all of a sudden,
next week's matchup becomes unbelievably important and can shake up
the NFC South. So when you got the peek a
boo situation and all that, and Atlanta team feeling pretty good,
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hopefully they don't just pack it and start sucking their
thumb in the fetal position. I am going to take
the Carolina Panthers to win, but I'm gonna take the
Falcons to cover. So I had the pregnant pause there.
It's all good because you don't look pregnant anymore. He's
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going with the Panthers. I feel pregnant, though I do alright.
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Let's get trivial. Matt Ryan needs two or at fifty
four yards to surpass Blank for the tenth most passing
yards at NFL history. Fill in the blank, gust guard,
show me your lightning bull? Does it? Dan Fouts? Dan
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Founts a great name. Nineteen seventies, eighties Chargers football, San
Diego Chargers. I love the San Diego Chargers. Uh No,
correct answer? Warren move Hall of Famer Warren moves. The
Oilers and a bunch of other teams bounced around Chiefs.
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I think you played with the Seahawks also at the
and is he still a Seahawks broadcaster? Who knows Jacksonville
four and five at Indianapolis five and four? It's on CBS.
Andrew Catalan and James Lofton have the call. Now. The
Colts opened at three and a half point favorite. They
are favorite now by two and a half to be
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mostly cloudy forty one degrees at kickoff at Lucas Oil Stadium,
and the pig is in. I'm gonna take Jacksonville in
this game. Now. A couple of things. Number one, Nick
Foles pays back. I don't know if that's a good
thing or not. I like Gardner Minshew, but Minshew mania
ran out of gas. You know that whole thing. Is
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it a fat or is it a trend? Well, it
appears that Minshew mania was a fad, not a trend. Unfortunately,
Hopefully he'll be back at some point. I like the guy,
but he did not play as well. The more he played,
the more teams figured him out. I have no idea
what to expect from Nick Foles. He's a second rate
quarterback in my book, who had an out of body
experience in Philadelphia. If the Colts had a losing record,
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I was certainly like Jacksonville more in this game. The
Jags are four and oh against teams with a winning
percentage or lower, but oh in five against teams that
are currently above five hundred, where Indianapolis is five and four.
And you look at the numbers recently, it's not been good.
The Jags are just two and seven against divisional opponents
since the start of last year, and uh, the only
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teams worse have been the Bengals and the Jets. It's
not good now. The second thing here for Indy it
appears that Jacobe Brissette, who has had a knee problem,
didn't play last week. He's expected to start, at least
as the time we're recording the podcast, he's gonna start,
and that's a relief because Brian Hoyer completely screwed up
against the Dolphins. Hoyer has lost all all of his
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last ten starts with four different teams. And you lose
the Dolphins. I mean, what are you doing? And you're
at home and you've got that roster. I know, Vinitary
has messed up and all that. The Colts roster has
been crippled. It's not Brissette's coming back, but there's a
bunch of other guys that are either playing injured or
not playing at all on both sides of the ball.
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So I'm not that confident in nick Folds two point oh.
But the fact that the Colts roster is dinged up
and Jacobe Brissette likely will not be quite himself with
the knee and all that, I am all about that action. Boss.
Jacksonville will win this game out right. People say, what's
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wrong with the Colts? How do they lose back to
back to back? Here, I'll take Jacksonville Colt sixteen. Penny
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s R to listen live. It is Benny versus the Penny,
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Babylon b Right, how you said, yeah, you love that
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I know. Yeah. I don't even have to read it
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Denver three and six at Minnesota seven and three. It's
on CBS. My tribute to Pat Summer All Kevin Harlan
and Rich Gannon have the call. The Vikings opened up
a ten and a half point favorite. They are currently
favored by ten and a half. It's gonna be cloudy
in thirty six in the Twin Cities outside of US
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Banks Stadium, would be fine inside the dome. I'm gonna
take the Broncos your Bronchos in this game. Now. First
of all, Denver was able to squeeze past Cleveland, and
it wasn't even really a squeeze past because they were
leading by I think it was twelve points going to
the fourth quarter in that game. That was Brandon Allen's
maiden voyage in Denver and they then had to buy
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a week and now they get another chance to Alan
does to show that he's not a bum. Good luck,
because Drew Lock is lurking in the shadows there. He's
gonna be the guy locked and eventually ends up taking over.
But Alan, with a very con servative or medial game plan,
was surprisingly solid. Uh they only attempted twenty passes, he
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completed twelve of them. He had a couple of touchdowns,
no interceptions. The issue here is obviously gonna be much
harder against the Vikings defense than it is against the
Browns defense, and also Vic Fangio's team, the Fatal Fly.
I would really like the Broncos more if they were
able to create mistakes. The Broncos have not forced a
single turnover in six games this season. That so there's
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only three games they forced to turn over. That is
tied for the most zero takeaway games in any season
in franchise history. This is historically bad Bronco defense, and
for as far as forcing turnovers. Now. The second thing
here Minnesota. My main reason for taking the Broncos is
more against me, so I love Minnesota. They should win
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the game, but Minnesota has been celebrated, not as much
as the Ravens, but close all week for beating the
Cowboys in the Sunday night game. That's great, but I
suspect they are going to have trouble focusing. They're gonna
be caught looking in the mirror at how beautiful they look. Uh,
and they don't because everyone's been kissing their ass here
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and as a result, I expect them to not fully
be prepared in this game is a classical letdown spot
against the team with a losing record. The Broncos defense,
while they haven't forced turnovers, they've been pretty good against
the past and all Denver has to do is find
a little success with Philip Lindsay running the ball and
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they will cover the number. It's a double digit line.
Here's a fun fact that Broncos are nine and two
when Philip Lindsley rushes for at least seventy yards when
he doesn't when he's held under seventy their own thirteen.
That's my fun fact. It's a good fact. Thank you,
Vikings twenty seven Broncos twenty some odor reason the penny
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is going with the Broncos too. Yeah, I think I
know the reason for that. But we will not say.
Next up the Jets, j E T s Suck Suck, Suck,
Suck Suck two and seven and Washington. Now, see, here's
the question I have for you today since you were
on vacation last week at the hospital. Yeah, I had
to pay homage to you, So I like to not
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to do the podcasts Um, I told you to do
the podcast. I didn't want to. Well, I actually I
did want to. What you wanted me to do the
podcast with you from the hospital gurney, I did. Yes,
you wanted me to wear my hospital gown like the movie. Yeah,
but I also have a I have a female friend
based in New York. Congratulations, you have a female and
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uh I was gonna have her come on and be
alongside me for the journey, but she is a huge
Jets fan and a huge utah Utes fans. So um,
so I need to get permission from you that next
time you're in the hospital, we can do this without you.
Oh yeah, I don't. Well, I might be in the
hospital next week. Who know. No, last time I brought
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you on the air with me, I lost a job.
So I lost a job. Ye remember two thousand six, right,
we were in baker We mean, that's right, we're in Bakersfield.
Brought you in the air, and then I lost a job,
like the whole team franchise closed down. Yeah, that that
was what was a horrible night. It was oppressively hot.
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You put me in the cool zone where it I'm
meeting listeners. It dripped the thing, the cooling fan dripped
down and it made it look like I peed my
pants and I'm meeting listeners with this wet spot because
the fan thing broke. And uh yeah, good times, good times.
Hard to believe that team is not around. That's where
they ought to make the Houston. I think it was
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our friend in Bakersfield, Rod in Bakersfield who pointed this
out there to me the other day. He said, they,
the Major League Baseball people should force the Astros to
move to Bakersfield for a couple of years and play
with the sun in center field, and they have to
play day games with the sun in center field, and
then the other team can play and they can have
their at bats at night when the sun goes down.
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That'd be perfect. Yeah, alright, Jets are two and seven,
Washington's one and eight. It's on Fox. You better watch
this had Dick Stockton written all over. You know who's
doing this game? This is gonna be come on, come on,
come on, I'm gonna say Mark Schlareth and uh, who
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does Schlath work with? No? He Schlarth works with Dick Stockton.
So um, no answer. This is someone that you you like,
this person Kenny Albert. There you go, plots and fans.
How did this game? Because it's a New York team,
doesn't it seem like Kenny Albert? He he does like
the Giants or the Jets. Every other week he's doing
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a New York Day And I don't normally do the
Jets on Fox, but this for some reason, even though
his games in Washington, it's a Fox game. Well that's right,
because he does like the Capitol's a lot he does
the Rangers. Yeah, okay. I I text my Buddy Sports
with Coleman, who were mutual friends with Kenny Albert, and
like every night Kenny is in a different city, it's insane,
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like and I'm I'm asking, like, how does he remember
what hotel room is in? You know, I would not remember.
I always have to take a photo with my phone
and and Kenny Albert, I don't believe he's there yet,
but Kenny Albert likely is. Remember that movie with George Clooney,
like ten years ago, up in the air with ten
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million frequent flyer Miles. Kenny Albert's gotta be closing in
on ten million frequent flyer miles. It's insane. We need
to have dinner with them. I need that. I need
to pick his brain. Well, he's gonna be in Vegas
next weekend for a fight. You want to go to
Vegas for the fight? I doubt when you get are
you gonna be allowed to go? I don't know about that. Yeah,
I'm not sure about that. If a check, see if
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I'm put on probation or not have allowed out the
terms of the probation. This so the Jets are two
and seven. Washington's wonted eight on Fox the We could
probably get really good tickets because Kenya hook is up.
Not from your buddy Tom Looney, No from him, not
from Redskins opened up a one and appoint favorite their
favorite by one mostly Cloudie forty one a kickoff at
FedEx Field. I'm taking the Jets j e ts Jets
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Jets debt. Now, I don't love this pick because it's
two bad teams. Both these teams have been unsatisfactory and inadequate,
and that's an understatement, but you take the lesser of
two evils here and you go with it. Yet, Sam
Donald will not see any ghosts this week against the
Redskins defense, even though they're getting some guys back. I
saw that Adam Gaze received a vote of confidence for
some reason for the Jets, and uh, good luck on that.
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Now part be the rookie Dwayne Haskets. He is going
to now be the Redskins starter for the rest of
the year. He provided in all out comedy of errors
in some of these games he's played in. Now. I
loved Haskins in Ohio State, but he has that's call
call it is. He's been a dirty diaper in the NFL.
Washington now they are coming off a bye week, so
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they had a little extra rest. I lost a Buffalo
nine back in Week nine. Washington has failed to get
to ten points in any of their last three games.
They've gone a month without scoring a touchdown. Very impressive.
The only concern is that the public is loading up
on the Jets. I'm never comfortable being on the side
of Joe Schmo. But it is two bad teams. The
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Jets should win this game. I'm gonna take the Jets
thirteen Redskins nine in honor of Felix the Cat. We're
going with the j E T s Jets, Jets, Jets
all my old producer, Felix the Cat. Very nice of you.
I had a producer named Felix. Did you get fired? Uh? No,
he left. He's about to have a kid though. He's
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h knocked up the old lady there. It's coming out
in January. Yeah, this Felix is a little bit different.
Oh yeah, I guess so. All right, Buffalo six and
three at Miami two and seven. It's on CBS, Spiroudidas
and Adam arch Aletta. We'll be putting lipstick on pigs
calling this game. The Bills open up a seven and
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a half point favorite. They are favored by six. It
will be partly sunny seventies seven degrees at kickoff at
hard Rock Stadium in South Florida. I'm gonna take the
Bills here. And I don't normally like betting favorites. I
try to avoid betting favorites. But the Dolphins blow for
Borough or Tank for two a campaigns have taken a
beating here with back to back wins, and if they
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have any hopes here of maintaining that top three or
four pick status, they gotta get back to the losing ways.
Brian Flores could be fired they keep winning. He's going
against the franchise business charter here in Miami. I believe
it is back to reality this week. Ryan Fitzpatrick and
friends have been playing above their means lately. There will
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assuredly be a bunch of Buffalo Bills fans here from
Western New York. I think this will be like a
Charger game, where there's more fans of the other team.
The only concern is the great equalizer of turn over
sin Josh Allen is the compass rose. He you don't
know where he's throwing the ball. The receivers don't know
where he's throwing the ball. But Miami has not been
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very good at forcing mistakes. This is one of those
odd things. For example, last week they had three takeaways
the Dolphins in Indie that almost doubled their entire season
total of takeaways in one game last week, and that
was because Brian Hoyer played there. And then at thirteen
takeaways nearly tripling their season total to seven. They went
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seven to twenty. Uh, there's a lot of numbers. I'm
gonna ride with Buffalo and they should win this game comfortably.
Bills thirty four Dolphins twenty. Penny is going that way,
going with the Buffalo Bills in the mafia al right.
Next up Houston six and three at Baltimore seven and two.
It's on CBS with Iron Eagle and Dan Fouts, who
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was already referenced in this show. The Ravens opened up
a four point of actually a five point favorite, their
favorite by four. Now cloudy and forty three degrees. That
kick off at M ANDT Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland,
with Sports with Coleman, our friend in attendance. I'm gonna
take the Texans in this game, and I'll tell you
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my logic behind it. Now. First of all, Lamar Jackson
has the cleanest took us and the cleanest toes in
all of the NFL. Because the media has just been
lick lick lick. They've been giving him a bubble bath
and all because he feasted on the Bungles. Now he
fattened up his stats like a turkey before Thanksgiving, and
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we pointed this out on the radio show, but this
is an amazing factory. I know you don't listen to
the radio show, guest gun, but Lamar Jackson is the
greatest quarterback in NFL history. Against the worst of the worst.
He is mortal against average to above average teams. Now
my evidence against the Dolphins and Bengals, he has average
in two games almost fifteen yards per attempt, eight touchdowns
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know own receptions. Against the seven other opponents the Ravens
have played as a passing quarterback, Lamar Jackson's averaging less
than seven yards per attempts, seven touchdowns, five in or
sept Now, I'm not here to sing the praises of
the Houston Texans, but they're certainly better a playoff team
right now, and they're better than the Dolphins and the
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Bankers now. And the other thing Houston is coming off
a bye. They had a win over Jacksonville in London,
so they've had a little bit of extra time. This
is a good matchup for Deshaun Watson, who I have
been critical of over the years. Watson is one of
the better quarterbacks in the NFL. Against the Blitz, what
are the Ravens do on defense blanche blaze, blitze, blaze, bledze,
bledze blitz. Uh, they blitz more than any other team
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in the NFL. And this should be another close game.
The numbers only four points here in this game. The
the Texans are one of two teams that has not
lost by more than seven points over the last two seasons.
So you think maybe monster teaser or something like that.
The other team, by the ways, the Chiefs. But here's
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another spot we say, just is this where Lamar Jackson
uh gets caught shamelessly staring at his reflection in the
mirror himself after that big victory last week? And uh,
I say a little of that does happen. Plus they
have a West coast trip. The Ravens play the Rams
next week in a primetime game. I'm gonna take the
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Texans to win the game outright, Houston thirty seven Baltimore
thirty six penny going that way as well with the
Houston Texans al right. Next up Arizona three six and
one at Santa Clara eight and A. We start the
late portion of the television window here with this game.
Late games, we don't have any no more trivia from
you I have more What the hell, we only have
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three more games left. We'll relax, Okay, all right, I
know that people want to use the studio, so anyway,
it's it's on Fox. Chris Myers, my former colleague, a
respected member of the broadcast community, and Darryl moose Johnston,
former Cowboy, have the call. Now. The game opened up
the Niners and up fourteen point favorites down to eleven.
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So the Niners are favorite by eleven. Mostly sunny sixty
nine degrees that kick off at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara,
where the Niners play their home games. The pick is in.
I'm gonna take the Cardinals. And here's why. It is
not a mortal sin to lose to the Seahawks. But
if the Niners start losing this, if they lose this game,
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that becomes a problem. Now I think that the Niners,
you figure, should win the game. They need to get
their mojo back against an inferior opponent. Jimmy Garoppolo has
been fine against the lightweight of the NFL. He had
good numbers when these teams played a few weeks ago.
Uh and Arizona is twenty seven in scoring defense, so
it's not like they have a ball hawking amazing defense.
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They don't. But the Niners are still shorthanded. They have
no George Kiddle this week. Who knows what, if anything,
Emmanuel Sanders will be able to provide. It sounds like
he'll be playing, but it could change between now and
the the kickoffs, so keep an eye on that. The
other thing, Kyler Murray Alligator Arms. Murray has been great
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in garbage time. Of this guy's passing touchdowns and of
alligator Arms Murray's yards have come when the Cardinals have
trailed by multiple scores, and he's got a ninety eight
point to passer rating in those games, so he's very
comfortable when the Cardinals are way behind. And then when
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the Cardinals are ahead, which doesn't happen all that often,
he's got a passer rating of below seventy nine, so
his numbers have been inflated by the Cardinals being down
and teams playing a soft defense against him. I expect
even more dumpster diving here the old backdoor cover. Any
time you get over seven points in a divisional game,
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you don't ask questions to take the points. I love
the double digit dogs and I will take the forty
Niners to win thirty three. The Cardinals will cover penny
going with the team from the Desert Arizona Cardinals. Al Right,
next up, we'll get trivial in honor of Gascon. You
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should get this because you're a Broco fan boy. Broncos
quarterback Brandon Allen became the first quarterback with a touchdown
pass of seventy five plus yards in his first career
start since blank. All Right, the answer coming up here
in a couple of minutes. Next game up for US
New England eight and one at Philadelphia five and four.
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It's on CBS with Jim Nance and Tony Roman. Is
a big game for CBS. Patriots open to three point favorite,
their favorite by three and a Half's gonna be cloudy,
thirty nine degrees on Broad Street, just off Broad Street
there in southfiliate Lincoln Financial Field. The Eagles the Burdens.
I'm gonna take the Eagles in this game. And here's why.
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Now you assume the Patriots are gonna buy ounce back
in a big way coming off a bye week after
being molly wopped by the Ravens. Bill Belichick getting extra
time often has been lethal, but the Eagles also are
coming off a bye week, so both teams are coming
in even in this and they should get a big
boost as well. Doug Peterson twelve and seven against the
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spread when having extra time to prepare for an opponent.
Now that the reason to like Philly is home dog,
and the Eagles have a pretty good pass rush. The
Patriot offensive line not very good. So Tom Brady who
will cover for the offensive line by throwing the ball quickly,
but he's gonna be under siege. Okay, he's gonna Unesta
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is now. Secondly, Philly should be able to control the
line of scrimmage on offense as well. They have a
pretty good offensive line. Carson Wentz is obviously not a
dual threat quarterback. Sorry if you think he's like Lamar Jackson,
he's not. Uh and Lamar gave him fits the last
game the Patriots played. But the Eagles can run the
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ball effectively with Jordan Howard and Uh Sanders. I believe
they'll be able to run the ball a little bit
in this game. And I just have to see the Patriots,
after that stank in Baltimore, come out and just kick
the snot out of somebody. They gotta show me that
before I get back to the Patriot bandwagon, because the
Eagles are not a bad team. Uh So there's like
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an average NFL team. I'm gonna take the Eagles to
win the game, out right. Eagles thirty Patriots seven Fly Eagles,
Fly Fly Eagles on the road to victory. All right,
let's get trivial. The answer Bronco's quarterback Brandon at in
the first QB with a touchdown pass of seventy five
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plus yards in his first career starts since blank. I'm
gonna go with Dante Culpepper, good name Vikings, Randy Moss,
big touchdown passes back in the day before he needed
a medicine man um no. The correct answer, r G three,
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Robert Griffin the third when he had that breakout rookie season.
His first game he had an eighty eight yard touchdown
pass back in twenty twelve. Back all right, Next up Cincinnati,
oh and nine at Oakland, don't do it. Five and four.
It's on CBS with Greg Gumbel and Trent Green. The
Raiders open an eight point favorite, their favorite by ten
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and a half sixty seven degrees in the Bay Area
kickoff at Ring Central Colisseum not corporately named at all.
I just called the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum. The pick
is in gascon. Don't do it, don't do it. Bang Gals,
Betting Gals, Bend Gals, Betton Gals. I'm taking the Bengals
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the Bungles, I am. First of all, listen the Raiders.
You assume I was like, they can't screw this up ride.
Come on, this is a show up to win situation here.
Just don't commit penalties. Well, the Raiders lead the NFL
and penalties per game, so it's possible. Now you would
think Derek Carr will make enough plays here to win
this game against a second rate Bengals defense. This is
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a big points all right. Now. I'm not gonna sit
here and tell you that Ryan Finley is any good
that you've been better off with Brian Finley playing quarterback
if your Cincinnati. He looked completely overmatched against the Ravens
a very small sample size. Guys can obviously get better
from the first start to the second start, because once
the Raider defense looks at that tape, they're gonna start
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laughing and say, we don't have to do anything. This
guy sucks and uh now, Finley's trying to audition for
the Bengals starting job in twenty but really he's just
ensuring them that they get a shot at Joe Burrow
in the April draft. Now that said, I'm gonna take
two points here for two reasons. The Raiders have yet
to beat anyone by more than eight points, and they
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played some bad teams. Plus, over the long run, betting
on double digit dogs has proven to be a pretty
good gambling strategy and it's been very effective for me.
Plus the Bengals, even though they're they're terrible now, they
were decent in recent years. Over the last decade. They
are four and one in California. The Cincinnati Bengals have
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a foreign run record against the teams in California, they've
done very well. Raiders will win, but they won't cover.
Raiders twenty eight Bengals twenty. Penny's going with the Raiders,
all right. That just got a pain you as a
Bronco fan. I'm not a fan. I'm just an observer.
You're an observer, yeah, an independent observer. Not putting any
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money on the Bengals. Something you have died over several weeks,
have taken the Dolphins well yeah, but then the Dolphins
all of a sudden started covering. I bet on the
Dolphins the last three weeks. I would have won won
all those games, all right? Next up Sunday Night football, Chicago,
four and five at the l A. A A. R i
Ums five and four. It's on and be see you
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think al Michaels can join us on Friday. He's calling
this game, so he's not traveling anywhere that high school
game we're doing. That'd be great. Yeah, al Michael's and
Chris Collinsworth on the Peacock Network, The Rams opened a
seven and a half point favorite. There you brought you
brought this up? Should we do it? Open like they
do it? Like? Should I wear a sweater like al
Michael's then slide you in? Yeah? You know what we should?
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I would. I'd like to do it. Can I slide in?
I would that? That's a great idea. Guess we we
gotta do that. You got let's do it? Can we
do it? We can't. I want to slide in and
I'll have this goofy smile on my face too, like
Chris Collinsworth, this goofy, creepy smile. I gotta do it.
We gotta do it. Come on, think of the rate
people will be tuning in just for the open, guest
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on to see me slide in like Collinsworth, you come on,
how are you on stand ups? Are you good on opens?
I haven't done one in like ten years? But yeah,
I mean it's all right. I mean it's pretty simple, right,
just throw a bunch of cliches out there and all
that and uh yeah, well, I remember when I was
in college and we used to do the saddleback football
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and basketballs. This guy Brad Hoysteff who I worked with,
and Brad it was always funny because he was the
play by playgoun. I was the color commentator, and he
would say something and I said, that's right, Brad, you know,
because he'd lead me into something with some stat you know,
that's right. So that's the key when your color commentator,
whatever you say, guest, like, you'll lead me into an
answer about the running back for Jay Sarah, Right, this
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high school kid, that's right, David. He's a great player,
you know, Like that's how you do it. We just
don't be like what's his name? Was it money in
Major League? Oh? He just doesn't talk at all. Yours
like dye to my color money. Yeah, well we'll see
get that flops white going anyway? Bears and Rams, Bears
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and Rams here, you know clear, seventy two Sunday night,
late evening at the Colosseum in Los Angeles at kickoffs. Now,
I love the Rams, I'm all about the Rams. But
there's no way in hell I'm betting on the Rams
this week. Uh No. I hope they win. I hope
I lose this bet, but I'm taking the Chicago Bears.
Uh And, and I'll tell you why. First of all,
it is impossible for me, having watched the Rams, to
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take the Rams and lay this number. Jared Goff has
eight interceptions seven fumbles over his last seven games. Chicago's
got a ball hawking, opportunistic defense led by Khalil Mack.
The Rams have a battered and broken offensive line. This
is a recipe for a whole lot of mistakes, right,
a whole lot of mistakes. Now. Secondly, the Rams defense
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has been fine. It's the offense that is is broken.
In my opinion, statistically, they haven't been that bad. The
Rams have the NFL's number one defense over the last
three weeks. Did you know that, yeah, number one. Last
three weeks, they're allowing just twelve points per game, and
they're gonna have to play like that to have a
shot here. Mitch Rubisky is no good I know that. Uh,
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and the l A offense has been more of the
middle of the Bell curve in recent weeks. And history
is not on the side of the Rams. The Rams
have lost six of seven to Chicago. And check this out.
I looked it up because I know, being a Ram
fan over the years, that they always seem to lose
against the Bears. And it turns out that the Rams
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have a three ninety nine winning percentage historically against Chicago.
That is their worst record against any NFC opponent enfranchise history.
They have not been worse against anybody other than the Bears.
So I hope I'm wrong, but I'm gonna take Chicago
twenty four the Rams twenty. No way, the pain is
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going with the Rams either going to Chicago Bears, Dog Bears.
Al Right, next up, Monday Night Football. I wanna tell
you I'm watching that game. I'm pulling for the Rams,
even though I picked the Bears. Alright, Monday Night Football,
Cansa City six and four at Mexico, the Mexico Chargers,
the l A Chargers of as Teca Stadium. Yes, the
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games in Mexico City. It's on ESPN. So Booger, imagine
going through customs with a name Booger. Joe Testator and
Booger McFarland have the call. I was taking some notes
from Joe Testator, who's a walking, talking cliche gascout, so
I might use some of his material. Don't do that.
He's a bit of a hardough uh. Anyway, that the
Chiefs opened a three point favorite. They are favored by four.
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It'll be mostly cloudy in Mexico City, sixty five degrees
at kickoff. We don't have a lot of time, so
I'm just I'm gonna take the Chiefs in this game.
Taking Kansas City a couple of reasons why a Kansas City.
Kansas City blew a game against the Titans last week.
The Chargers are of a similar pedigree, so you would
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expect Patrick Mahomes to slice up the injury ravaged Chargers
secondary in this game. But the key is obviously in
the game you limit the turnovers there. That's the key
in all these games with the Chargers are a mash unit.
They're hobbled, twisted, mutilated, all of that. They need a
witch doctor themselves at this particular point. And be while
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Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson have gotten a lot of
love from the media, do you know Philip Rivers is
the quarterback that is actually ad libbed for an NFL
leading ten created receptions? How about that pretty good number?
That is pretty good by Philip Rivers, one of the
advanced statistics from the NFL. Uh. Listen, the Chiefs, if
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you lose to the Titans, you can lose to the Charges,
as we said, but I think this is a field
good situation. If the Charges win this game, they're right
back in the divisional race. The Raiders are right back
in the thick of it right there as well, because
you figure they're gonna beat the Bengals. So the Chiefs
there's this is actually a big pressure spot because if
you lose, the Ramifications are are huge Chiefs thirty three
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Chargers twenty three penny not cough upon a mash unit.
But we'll go with the l A California Chargers of
San Diego. There you go, and that is it. That
is a wrap for this edition of benny versus the penny.
Good luck, hope you want a lot of money. If
you win a lot of money, remember us if you
lose a lot of money. This is just for entertainment
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purposes only. We're not held responsible for your bad picks
at all. We'll be back in the Magic Radio Box
on Sunday night on the West coast at eleven o'clock
and that would be of course two am in the East,
and we'll talk about all these NFL games in the
post mortem. Have a great weekend, be safe. I'll try
to avoid the hospital, so we'll do it again next week. Thanks.
Welcome players, You're welcome. It's time now Betty Versus the Penny.
That it is. We are in Week eleven of the
NFL season. Betty versus the Penny. Every single NFL game
against the spread, all the numbers, all that for your
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dancing and dining pleasure. We will not talk about the Packers, Giants,
the Seahawks, and the Titans because they ain't playing. We
already gave you the pick on the radio of the
Cleveland Pittsburgh game, which was played back on Thursday night.
So the way this works. At his meet Ben along
with David Gascon who is dying, dying, to make an
(00:45):
announcement before we actually get to Betty versus the Penny,
guestcon right, you know you want to do this before
because most people don't listen to the whole podcast. Right,
most people don't listen to the whole podcast. But I
thought this was a part of Benny Versus the Penny. Oh,
are we okay? All right? Yeah, we'll do that, right.
So here's the thing. All right, so before we get
to the actual NFL games, you want to hear guesscan
is recommending that we discussed this Friday night. I you
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didn't hear the other podcast Friday Night. I have been
dragged back. I've been on television in a fair amount
of time, and I will be doing some television. I
will be doing some television on Friday Night, and it'll
be uh a high school game for Fox, right, so
you better watch that's right? Yeah, And I'm the color commentary.
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I'm I'm adding the flavor. You're I'm flavor flavor. We're
gonna bring out a gold chain. Now. I sat next
to one time in a lake again. That guy's a trip.
It's a trip, man. I don't know. It's not even cool.
He's not even a cool guy anymore. Right, come on,
I don't know. He's still name dropping anyway. I learned
it from you. All Right, So there's a there's a
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high school game Friday night. It's Jay Sarah versus Santennas,
a Southern California high school game. And you can actually
watch this on what is the Fox Sports go app guest. Yeah,
so I mean, and so the way I'm thinking about this,
if a lot of malle militia people watch like they might,
they might bring me back. Right, this could become a
regular thing. What do you want to do ask Ben
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during the game. Yeah, if it's a boring game, we'll
do ask Ben. That'd be great. We'll take questions from
like I'll put Doc Mike on, We'll get Lance the
bus Driver, We'll get J. Scoop from Seattle, Bill and Iowa. Yeah.
You want me to plug your fucking show during Justin
and Cincinnati? Yeah? Yeah, I want you to introduce me
(02:35):
a man that has been blocked by Deshaun Watson and
Dominican su William Shatner. And yeah, I still got to
figure the open and how I'm gonna introduce you. So
I understand, well, listen to handicap the game now, all right,
So there's no points spread as far as I know
in high school football. I don't think they put point
spreads out of high school football. But I would imagine
Centennial looking at the stats and the records, I would
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think Centennial high powered offense to several blue chip recruits
there on that team. The J Sarah team, a younger team,
I would think Centennial's favored by like seven to ten points. However,
I think there's value with Jay Sarah here guscot so
to handicap the game. To pick is in I'm gonna
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take Jay Sarah to cover the points, but Centennial wins
the game, but Jay Sarah will be able to cover
the points. But I love this running But I was
watching some videos. I've never even heard of this guy,
Chris Street this running back for Jay Sarah. Who's uh
he's he looks like Darren Sprawls to me, a little
small guy with these huge thighs that runs through you
can't even see him, and then and then he just
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bulls you over, and uh, I guess he's going to
cal right where beast Mode win. So I think the
key obviously, when you're on the road in a hostile environment.
I learned this from the NFL Gas Scout. You have
to yeah, play conservant, run the ball, take time off
the clock right and they have a great running back. Now,
obviously Centennial is gonna bottle up and try to stop
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Chris Stewart and and and force Jay Sarah to to
win the game through the air. But I I love
that this guy has been been great and uh, I
think you can you can hang around, keep the game close,
playoff game guys will be nervous. So I'm gonna take
Jay Sarah plus the points to cover the spread against Centennial.
But Centennial will win the game at Husky Stadium, which
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I thought was in Seattle, but apparently it's in Corona, California.
I had no idea. How about that for a handicapping job. Guest,
you didn't give the temperature. You didn't give the broadcasters.
It'll be seventy five degrees that kick off. And to
make sure they spell my name right. All right, they
gotta spell my name correct. Please. You forgot the score too,
I forgot the score. Ah, the final score, alright, the
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final score will be Centennial thirty eight. J Sarah one
that boom and the penny Picksennial. Oh we have disagreement.
I just picked underdogs. Yes, that's what I do. I
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pick underdogs. I'm an underdog player. That's what that's how
I roll. Plus, I gotta I gotta pick my o C. Guys.
You know Jay Sarah, which was a high school I'm
so old that didn't even exist. But this this conference
they're in, it just blew me away. When I was
doing some research here and I saw modern day in St.
John Bosco and all the Santa Margarite. When I was
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in high school, we played Santa Margaritya and they were amazing.
Brian Finneran who was a receiver for the Atlanta Falcons.
He had a twin brother. He played at Santa Margarita.
We played them my senior year in high school. I
believe we lost that game, just kicked our ass and
uh so that was that was kind of cool. I
bet you didn't think that in you'd be handicapping a
(05:50):
a prep game. No, I have not done a high
school game since I was at like Saddleback College. This
is this is crazy, but I'm actually kind of excited
about because, as my wife says, you have to go
outside your comfort zone from time to times. So I'll
just have fun and it'll be fun. We'll have a
good time with it. And remember we need the Mallard
Militia because I think if the Mallard Militia watches this,
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because they can count how many people are watching the scream,
that that will encourage them to uh maybe pay us
more and and use me. Again. I don't want to
do it every week, but once in a while. I
think it would be fun. Once they play once a week.
What you very busy man, I'm a very busy man,
guest gun very very busy. All right, are we done
with that? Then we actually get to the NFL games
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that people wanted to hear. Yes, you could, of course,
be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific
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Right now, before we look ahead, we must look back.
I did not lose a game last week, and we
tend guest God, not a single incorrect pick. It's the
first time in my life I've gotten every game correct.
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Thank you very much. Where's my congratulatory tweet? I had
a perfect week last week. That's right, perfection. I'd like
to give an applause to the nurses, the doctors, dance tsiologists,
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everyone that was able to get you in the upright
position and eventually out of the hospital with it. Well,
it's good I didn't get like staff infection or gang
green or something like that. You hear these stories about
people who go to the hospital. You're like, oh man,
especially out of Cleveland, right, wasn't like a span of
three or four players and a two year span. Yeah, Yeah,
it was Tampa Bay. It was Tampa Bay that had that. Yeah,
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had a big all right. Uh so it's we go, Levin.
We did the Thursday game on the radio, so we'll
start out with Dallas at Detroit. Now, the way this
works on the handicapping side, we break down every game.
We give you some information on every game, and and
then if you if you agree the way it should work.
If you agree, you do your own work, and if
we line up, that's a game you should probably been on.
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So Dallas five for Detroit three five and one. It's
on Fox with Kevin Burkhardt and Charles Davis. I'm sorry
this is not a Dick Stockton game, guesscon. But you've
got the Cowboys who opened up a two and a
half point favorite. They have skyrocketed all the way up
to six and a half as a road favorite. It's sunny,
thirty three degrees outside of ford Field, Detroit at kickoff
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on Sunday afternoon, the early TV window. The pick is
in and I am taking the Detroit Lions. I am
taking the Lions here now, Matt Patricia and Detroit are
going to attempt to do what everyone does against the
Cowboys and stop Zeke Elliott and forced Dak Prescott to
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beat them. Even if they are successful, it won't matter.
Why is that because it's it's looking like Matthew Stafford
he's gonna miss this start, which means Jeff Driskell we'll
get another opportunity to start for Detroit. In his first
start with the Lions, his claim to fame as he
ran for thirty seven yards and uh. And the reason
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that's interesting is because he led the Lions and rushing.
He's the fifth different player the last five games to
lead the Lions and rushing. That's not good, especially only
had thirty seven yards. Now now, Secondly, the Lions Achilles
Heel happens to be in their second there and so
while they would like to force Dak Prescott to beat them,
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I think we all know that that likely is something
that Dak will be able to do. Everyone is polarizing
the Detroit Lions defense. Detroit is twenty eight in past defense.
They're allowing two hundred and seventy two yards per game. Uh. Now,
the reason I'm taking the Lions. Uh. You know, Jason
Garrett's team lost to the Jets, so anything is possible.
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If you lose to the Jets and you're the Cowboys,
you can certainly lose to the Lions, who I believe
are about the same maybe a little better than the Jets. Right,
and the beleaguered Cowboy coach you figure out even he
can't screw it up. But then you're like, well, I
think this game will be a closer game. I love
home dogs. I like the home doggie and the Cowboys
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they have a much more important game for them against
the Patriots. So this is a peek a boo game
where Dallas. You figure they'll be focused because they lost
to the Vikings last week and they've not been playing
very well lately. But it's a much bigger game with
the Cowboys next week with a lot of national flavor
to it. There's no national flavor to this Dallas Detroit game.
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So the Cowboys will win, but they won't cover the spread.
Cowboys twenty eight. Jeff Drisco on the Lions twenty four.
Penny does not like your decision. Go on with the
Dallas Cowboys, all right? Next up New Orleans at Tampa Bay.
The Saints seven and two, the Bucks are three and six.
It's on Fox, and are we playing the Dick Stockton game? Yeah?
We can, Uh, this is not a Dick Stockton game.
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That is correct. It is a Tom Brennaman Chris Spielman game.
They will have a call down the line on this game.
The Saints open and up a five point favorite. There
a five and a half point favorite. The New Orleans
Saints favorite by five and a half here. The weather
mostly sunny, sixty five degrees. That kick off at Raymond
James Stadium. For Bruce Arians my brother from a different mother.
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We wear the same hat. Uh, And I'm gonna take
the Buccaneers here. And I admit this is not one
of my greater picks, but I I I'm just feeling
the bucketeers, and I'll tell you why. Drew Brees not
only did you look old against the foulcon's last week,
but he also apparently has some kind of rib problem.
And I believe he's so stubborn he's just gonna continue
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playing and try to play through it because he doesn't
want to go to the bench and then have Teddy
Bridgewater light up the scoreboard again. So something bizarro is
happening here. I would agree with most casual people that
the on paper, the Saints should win this game by
forty points, but they still got to play the game
it's a road matchup. Generally, that's problematic over this great
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run of Saints football. They're not nearly as lethal outside
the Buyou as they are in Louisiana. Most teams are
not as good on the road as at home. But
the Saints also, as road favorites by four or more points,
have a three eight five winning percentage under Sean Payton
in the recent years. And that's that's also something the factory,
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and that's not great. Road favorites generally not a great
formula to make a lot of money. And secondly, Tampa,
now they're not a good team. They should be able
to stop the running game. Alvin Kamara uh that they've
been effective against run because no one's even trying to run.
Everyone can throw against The Bucks have the NFL's worst
pass defense. They're allowing two point nine yards per game.
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So for me, I'm gonna need Jamis winst did to
make a bunch of big plays. He's also throwing a
bunch of big past numbers up. In fact, Winston has
got the longest active streak of three D plus passing
games four straight. Divisional games are generally close by nature.
I am gonna cover my eyes here, and I'm gonna
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take the Buccaneers to hang around, hang around, take that
home dog divisional game. It's not seven points, but it's
five and a half Saints twenty six bucks, twenty three
penny going that way, going with the Buccaneers. So do
we have time to get trivial? Should we knock trivial
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stuff out of there? Yeah? You know, I have a
question for you, but I'll ask you when we come
to that game in in d C. But yeah, let's
get trivial day, all right. Matt Ryan needs two hundred
fifty four yards to surpass Blank for the tenth most
passing yards in NFL history. Mattie Ice, he needs two
hundred fifty four yards this weekend to pass Blank for
the most or the tenth most passing yards in NFL history.
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Give me the answer in a couple of minutes. Here,
speaking of Atlanta, the Falcons two and seven Carolina five
and four. Is this the Dick Stockton game? It is not.
You are wrong, you lose the Stockton This is the
game our friend Dick and Mark lay Writh have the
call on Fox. I bet you Dick Stockton wishes he
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was doing the Prep Zone game on Friday. But he's
not he's not allowed to do it. I think his
paychecks probably a little bit heavier. I do not think.
I do not think that at all. Anyway, this and
the Panthers opened a seven point favorite. Carolina is favored
by five and a half. The weather here mostly sunny,
fifty two degrees. That kick off at Bank of America
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Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. It's a divisional matchup. The
Falcons are my pick. I'm gonna take Atlanta here, uh
And I'll give you my logic behind it now. Obviously,
Christian McCaffrey a is a great player. He's been MR consistent.
He's gone seven straight games with a rushing touchdown. He'll
get his numbers here against Atlanta. But I am banking
on the Falcons trying to build on what they did
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last week and not just being satisfied that was their
super Bowl. They won a game against the Saints. They're
gonna come back and commit, commit to the thing as
they did last week. They changed the defensive play calling
and I don't know who the guy is. I don't
have his name everybody, but they took it away from
the head coach and it obviously worked. The Saints had
nine points. That's it. Nine points. Now, this is a
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game that you would figure Atlanta, if they follow those
same principles, should be able to attack Kyle Allen, who
cooled off a bit after playing pretty well the first
couple of weeks. He's been okay, but he's he hasn't
gotten better, hasn't got better? Now be the big difference
is defensive tenacity if you look at the numbers, but
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you can. The Panthers lead the NFL and sacks they've
got the most by any team through nine games since
the Chiefs back in the Falcons. They are thirty in sacks,
which means that Kyle Allen should have plenty of time
to do his theam his thing. But Atlanta had six
sacks against the Saints last week. So that's why I'm
saying you gotta throw the numbers out because if that
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Atlanta team shows up, if you get six sacks against
the Aints, you should be able to get four or
five sacks against Carolina using simpleton knowledge. Uh so uh.
Despite all that, there is also a Peaka boo situation
for for Carolina, they have a key NFC South matchup
with the new Orleans Saints next week, and they're they're
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still thinking Carolina they can catch New Orleans in the division.
New Orleans is seven and two, Carolina is five and four.
Carolina wins this game, they get the six wins. Let's
say New Orleans stumbles in Tampa and all of a sudden,
next week's matchup becomes unbelievably important and can shake up
the NFC South. So when you got the peek a
boo situation and all that, and Atlanta team feeling pretty good,
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hopefully they don't just pack it and start sucking their
thumb in the fetal position. I am going to take
the Carolina Panthers to win, but I'm gonna take the
Falcons to cover. So I had the pregnant pause there.
It's all good because you don't look pregnant anymore. He's
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going with the Panthers. I feel pregnant, though I do alright.
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Show week days at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Let's get trivial. Matt Ryan needs two or at fifty
four yards to surpass Blank for the tenth most passing
yards at NFL history. Fill in the blank, gust guard,
show me your lightning bull? Does it? Dan Fouts? Dan
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Founts a great name. Nineteen seventies, eighties Chargers football, San
Diego Chargers. I love the San Diego Chargers. Uh No,
correct answer? Warren move Hall of Famer Warren moves. The
Oilers and a bunch of other teams bounced around Chiefs.
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I think you played with the Seahawks also at the
and is he still a Seahawks broadcaster? Who knows Jacksonville
four and five at Indianapolis five and four? It's on CBS.
Andrew Catalan and James Lofton have the call. Now. The
Colts opened at three and a half point favorite. They
are favorite now by two and a half to be
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mostly cloudy forty one degrees at kickoff at Lucas Oil Stadium,
and the pig is in. I'm gonna take Jacksonville in
this game. Now. A couple of things. Number one, Nick
Foles pays back. I don't know if that's a good
thing or not. I like Gardner Minshew, but Minshew mania
ran out of gas. You know that whole thing. Is
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it a fat or is it a trend? Well, it
appears that Minshew mania was a fad, not a trend. Unfortunately,
Hopefully he'll be back at some point. I like the guy,
but he did not play as well. The more he played,
the more teams figured him out. I have no idea
what to expect from Nick Foles. He's a second rate
quarterback in my book, who had an out of body
experience in Philadelphia. If the Colts had a losing record,
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I was certainly like Jacksonville more in this game. The
Jags are four and oh against teams with a winning
percentage or lower, but oh in five against teams that
are currently above five hundred, where Indianapolis is five and four.
And you look at the numbers recently, it's not been good.
The Jags are just two and seven against divisional opponents
since the start of last year, and uh, the only
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teams worse have been the Bengals and the Jets. It's
not good now. The second thing here for Indy it
appears that Jacobe Brissette, who has had a knee problem,
didn't play last week. He's expected to start, at least
as the time we're recording the podcast, he's gonna start,
and that's a relief because Brian Hoyer completely screwed up
against the Dolphins. Hoyer has lost all all of his
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last ten starts with four different teams. And you lose
the Dolphins. I mean, what are you doing? And you're
at home and you've got that roster. I know, Vinitary
has messed up and all that. The Colts roster has
been crippled. It's not Brissette's coming back, but there's a
bunch of other guys that are either playing injured or
not playing at all on both sides of the ball.
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So I'm not that confident in nick Folds two point oh.
But the fact that the Colts roster is dinged up
and Jacobe Brissette likely will not be quite himself with
the knee and all that, I am all about that action. Boss.
Jacksonville will win this game out right. People say, what's
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wrong with the Colts? How do they lose back to
back to back? Here, I'll take Jacksonville Colt sixteen. Penny
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I know. Yeah. I don't even have to read it
because anything on there you send it's it's fascinating. All right,
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Denver three and six at Minnesota seven and three. It's
on CBS. My tribute to Pat Summer All Kevin Harlan
and Rich Gannon have the call. The Vikings opened up
a ten and a half point favorite. They are currently
favored by ten and a half. It's gonna be cloudy
in thirty six in the Twin Cities outside of US
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Banks Stadium, would be fine inside the dome. I'm gonna
take the Broncos your Bronchos in this game. Now. First
of all, Denver was able to squeeze past Cleveland, and
it wasn't even really a squeeze past because they were
leading by I think it was twelve points going to
the fourth quarter in that game. That was Brandon Allen's
maiden voyage in Denver and they then had to buy
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a week and now they get another chance to Alan
does to show that he's not a bum. Good luck,
because Drew Lock is lurking in the shadows there. He's
gonna be the guy locked and eventually ends up taking over.
But Alan, with a very con servative or medial game plan,
was surprisingly solid. Uh they only attempted twenty passes, he
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completed twelve of them. He had a couple of touchdowns,
no interceptions. The issue here is obviously gonna be much
harder against the Vikings defense than it is against the
Browns defense, and also Vic Fangio's team, the Fatal Fly.
I would really like the Broncos more if they were
able to create mistakes. The Broncos have not forced a
single turnover in six games this season. That so there's
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only three games they forced to turn over. That is
tied for the most zero takeaway games in any season
in franchise history. This is historically bad Bronco defense, and
for as far as forcing turnovers. Now. The second thing
here Minnesota. My main reason for taking the Broncos is
more against me, so I love Minnesota. They should win
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the game, but Minnesota has been celebrated, not as much
as the Ravens, but close all week for beating the
Cowboys in the Sunday night game. That's great, but I
suspect they are going to have trouble focusing. They're gonna
be caught looking in the mirror at how beautiful they look. Uh,
and they don't because everyone's been kissing their ass here
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and as a result, I expect them to not fully
be prepared in this game is a classical letdown spot
against the team with a losing record. The Broncos defense,
while they haven't forced turnovers, they've been pretty good against
the past and all Denver has to do is find
a little success with Philip Lindsay running the ball and
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they will cover the number. It's a double digit line.
Here's a fun fact that Broncos are nine and two
when Philip Lindsley rushes for at least seventy yards when
he doesn't when he's held under seventy their own thirteen.
That's my fun fact. It's a good fact. Thank you,
Vikings twenty seven Broncos twenty some odor reason the penny
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is going with the Broncos too. Yeah, I think I
know the reason for that. But we will not say.
Next up the Jets, j E T s Suck Suck, Suck,
Suck Suck two and seven and Washington. Now, see, here's
the question I have for you today since you were
on vacation last week at the hospital. Yeah, I had
to pay homage to you, So I like to not
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to do the podcasts Um, I told you to do
the podcast. I didn't want to. Well, I actually I
did want to. What you wanted me to do the
podcast with you from the hospital gurney, I did. Yes,
you wanted me to wear my hospital gown like the movie. Yeah,
but I also have a I have a female friend
based in New York. Congratulations, you have a female and
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uh I was gonna have her come on and be
alongside me for the journey, but she is a huge
Jets fan and a huge utah Utes fans. So um,
so I need to get permission from you that next
time you're in the hospital, we can do this without you.
Oh yeah, I don't. Well, I might be in the
hospital next week. Who know. No, last time I brought
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you on the air with me, I lost a job.
So I lost a job. Ye remember two thousand six, right,
we were in baker We mean, that's right, we're in Bakersfield.
Brought you in the air, and then I lost a job,
like the whole team franchise closed down. Yeah, that that
was what was a horrible night. It was oppressively hot.
(25:18):
You put me in the cool zone where it I'm
meeting listeners. It dripped the thing, the cooling fan dripped
down and it made it look like I peed my
pants and I'm meeting listeners with this wet spot because
the fan thing broke. And uh yeah, good times, good times.
Hard to believe that team is not around. That's where
they ought to make the Houston. I think it was
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our friend in Bakersfield, Rod in Bakersfield who pointed this
out there to me the other day. He said, they,
the Major League Baseball people should force the Astros to
move to Bakersfield for a couple of years and play
with the sun in center field, and they have to
play day games with the sun in center field, and
then the other team can play and they can have
their at bats at night when the sun goes down.
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That'd be perfect. Yeah, alright, Jets are two and seven,
Washington's one and eight. It's on Fox. You better watch
this had Dick Stockton written all over. You know who's
doing this game? This is gonna be come on, come on,
come on, I'm gonna say Mark Schlareth and uh, who
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does Schlath work with? No? He Schlarth works with Dick Stockton.
So um, no answer. This is someone that you you like,
this person Kenny Albert. There you go, plots and fans.
How did this game? Because it's a New York team,
doesn't it seem like Kenny Albert? He he does like
the Giants or the Jets. Every other week he's doing
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a New York Day And I don't normally do the
Jets on Fox, but this for some reason, even though
his games in Washington, it's a Fox game. Well that's right,
because he does like the Capitol's a lot he does
the Rangers. Yeah, okay. I I text my Buddy Sports
with Coleman, who were mutual friends with Kenny Albert, and
like every night Kenny is in a different city, it's insane,
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like and I'm I'm asking, like, how does he remember
what hotel room is in? You know, I would not remember.
I always have to take a photo with my phone
and and Kenny Albert, I don't believe he's there yet,
but Kenny Albert likely is. Remember that movie with George Clooney,
like ten years ago, up in the air with ten
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million frequent flyer Miles. Kenny Albert's gotta be closing in
on ten million frequent flyer miles. It's insane. We need
to have dinner with them. I need that. I need
to pick his brain. Well, he's gonna be in Vegas
next weekend for a fight. You want to go to
Vegas for the fight? I doubt when you get are
you gonna be allowed to go? I don't know about that. Yeah,
I'm not sure about that. If a check, see if
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I'm put on probation or not have allowed out the
terms of the probation. This so the Jets are two
and seven. Washington's wonted eight on Fox the We could
probably get really good tickets because Kenya hook is up.
Not from your buddy Tom Looney, No from him, not
from Redskins opened up a one and appoint favorite their
favorite by one mostly Cloudie forty one a kickoff at
FedEx Field. I'm taking the Jets j e ts Jets
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Jets debt. Now, I don't love this pick because it's
two bad teams. Both these teams have been unsatisfactory and inadequate,
and that's an understatement, but you take the lesser of
two evils here and you go with it. Yet, Sam
Donald will not see any ghosts this week against the
Redskins defense, even though they're getting some guys back. I
saw that Adam Gaze received a vote of confidence for
some reason for the Jets, and uh, good luck on that.
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Now part be the rookie Dwayne Haskets. He is going
to now be the Redskins starter for the rest of
the year. He provided in all out comedy of errors
in some of these games he's played in. Now. I
loved Haskins in Ohio State, but he has that's call
call it is. He's been a dirty diaper in the NFL.
Washington now they are coming off a bye week, so
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they had a little extra rest. I lost a Buffalo
nine back in Week nine. Washington has failed to get
to ten points in any of their last three games.
They've gone a month without scoring a touchdown. Very impressive.
The only concern is that the public is loading up
on the Jets. I'm never comfortable being on the side
of Joe Schmo. But it is two bad teams. The
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Jets should win this game. I'm gonna take the Jets
thirteen Redskins nine in honor of Felix the Cat. We're
going with the j E T s Jets, Jets, Jets
all my old producer, Felix the Cat. Very nice of you.
I had a producer named Felix. Did you get fired? Uh? No,
he left. He's about to have a kid though. He's
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h knocked up the old lady there. It's coming out
in January. Yeah, this Felix is a little bit different.
Oh yeah, I guess so. All right, Buffalo six and
three at Miami two and seven. It's on CBS, Spiroudidas
and Adam arch Aletta. We'll be putting lipstick on pigs
calling this game. The Bills open up a seven and
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a half point favorite. They are favored by six. It
will be partly sunny seventies seven degrees at kickoff at
hard Rock Stadium in South Florida. I'm gonna take the
Bills here. And I don't normally like betting favorites. I
try to avoid betting favorites. But the Dolphins blow for
Borough or Tank for two a campaigns have taken a
beating here with back to back wins, and if they
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have any hopes here of maintaining that top three or
four pick status, they gotta get back to the losing ways.
Brian Flores could be fired they keep winning. He's going
against the franchise business charter here in Miami. I believe
it is back to reality this week. Ryan Fitzpatrick and
friends have been playing above their means lately. There will
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assuredly be a bunch of Buffalo Bills fans here from
Western New York. I think this will be like a
Charger game, where there's more fans of the other team.
The only concern is the great equalizer of turn over
sin Josh Allen is the compass rose. He you don't
know where he's throwing the ball. The receivers don't know
where he's throwing the ball. But Miami has not been
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very good at forcing mistakes. This is one of those
odd things. For example, last week they had three takeaways
the Dolphins in Indie that almost doubled their entire season
total of takeaways in one game last week, and that
was because Brian Hoyer played there. And then at thirteen
takeaways nearly tripling their season total to seven. They went
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seven to twenty. Uh, there's a lot of numbers. I'm
gonna ride with Buffalo and they should win this game comfortably.
Bills thirty four Dolphins twenty. Penny is going that way,
going with the Buffalo Bills in the mafia al right.
Next up Houston six and three at Baltimore seven and two.
It's on CBS with Iron Eagle and Dan Fouts, who
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was already referenced in this show. The Ravens opened up
a four point of actually a five point favorite, their
favorite by four. Now cloudy and forty three degrees. That
kick off at M ANDT Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland,
with Sports with Coleman, our friend in attendance. I'm gonna
take the Texans in this game, and I'll tell you
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my logic behind it. Now. First of all, Lamar Jackson
has the cleanest took us and the cleanest toes in
all of the NFL. Because the media has just been
lick lick lick. They've been giving him a bubble bath
and all because he feasted on the Bungles. Now he
fattened up his stats like a turkey before Thanksgiving, and
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we pointed this out on the radio show, but this
is an amazing factory. I know you don't listen to
the radio show, guest gun, but Lamar Jackson is the
greatest quarterback in NFL history. Against the worst of the worst.
He is mortal against average to above average teams. Now
my evidence against the Dolphins and Bengals, he has average
in two games almost fifteen yards per attempt, eight touchdowns
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know own receptions. Against the seven other opponents the Ravens
have played as a passing quarterback, Lamar Jackson's averaging less
than seven yards per attempts, seven touchdowns, five in or
sept Now, I'm not here to sing the praises of
the Houston Texans, but they're certainly better a playoff team
right now, and they're better than the Dolphins and the
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Bankers now. And the other thing Houston is coming off
a bye. They had a win over Jacksonville in London,
so they've had a little bit of extra time. This
is a good matchup for Deshaun Watson, who I have
been critical of over the years. Watson is one of
the better quarterbacks in the NFL. Against the Blitz, what
are the Ravens do on defense blanche blaze, blitze, blaze, bledze,
bledze blitz. Uh, they blitz more than any other team
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in the NFL. And this should be another close game.
The numbers only four points here in this game. The
the Texans are one of two teams that has not
lost by more than seven points over the last two seasons.
So you think maybe monster teaser or something like that.
The other team, by the ways, the Chiefs. But here's
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another spot we say, just is this where Lamar Jackson
uh gets caught shamelessly staring at his reflection in the
mirror himself after that big victory last week? And uh,
I say a little of that does happen. Plus they
have a West coast trip. The Ravens play the Rams
next week in a primetime game. I'm gonna take the
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Texans to win the game outright, Houston thirty seven Baltimore
thirty six penny going that way as well with the
Houston Texans al right. Next up Arizona three six and
one at Santa Clara eight and A. We start the
late portion of the television window here with this game.
Late games, we don't have any no more trivia from
you I have more What the hell, we only have
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three more games left. We'll relax, Okay, all right, I
know that people want to use the studio, so anyway,
it's it's on Fox. Chris Myers, my former colleague, a
respected member of the broadcast community, and Darryl moose Johnston,
former Cowboy, have the call. Now. The game opened up
the Niners and up fourteen point favorites down to eleven.
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So the Niners are favorite by eleven. Mostly sunny sixty
nine degrees that kick off at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara,
where the Niners play their home games. The pick is in.
I'm gonna take the Cardinals. And here's why. It is
not a mortal sin to lose to the Seahawks. But
if the Niners start losing this, if they lose this game,
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that becomes a problem. Now I think that the Niners,
you figure, should win the game. They need to get
their mojo back against an inferior opponent. Jimmy Garoppolo has
been fine against the lightweight of the NFL. He had
good numbers when these teams played a few weeks ago.
Uh and Arizona is twenty seven in scoring defense, so
it's not like they have a ball hawking amazing defense.
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They don't. But the Niners are still shorthanded. They have
no George Kiddle this week. Who knows what, if anything,
Emmanuel Sanders will be able to provide. It sounds like
he'll be playing, but it could change between now and
the the kickoffs, so keep an eye on that. The
other thing, Kyler Murray Alligator Arms. Murray has been great
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in garbage time. Of this guy's passing touchdowns and of
alligator Arms Murray's yards have come when the Cardinals have
trailed by multiple scores, and he's got a ninety eight
point to passer rating in those games, so he's very
comfortable when the Cardinals are way behind. And then when
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the Cardinals are ahead, which doesn't happen all that often,
he's got a passer rating of below seventy nine, so
his numbers have been inflated by the Cardinals being down
and teams playing a soft defense against him. I expect
even more dumpster diving here the old backdoor cover. Any
time you get over seven points in a divisional game,
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you don't ask questions to take the points. I love
the double digit dogs and I will take the forty
Niners to win thirty three. The Cardinals will cover penny
going with the team from the Desert Arizona Cardinals. Al Right,
next up, we'll get trivial in honor of Gascon. You
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should get this because you're a Broco fan boy. Broncos
quarterback Brandon Allen became the first quarterback with a touchdown
pass of seventy five plus yards in his first career
start since blank. All Right, the answer coming up here
in a couple of minutes. Next game up for US
New England eight and one at Philadelphia five and four.
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It's on CBS with Jim Nance and Tony Roman. Is
a big game for CBS. Patriots open to three point favorite,
their favorite by three and a Half's gonna be cloudy,
thirty nine degrees on Broad Street, just off Broad Street
there in southfiliate Lincoln Financial Field. The Eagles the Burdens.
I'm gonna take the Eagles in this game. And here's why.
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Now you assume the Patriots are gonna buy ounce back
in a big way coming off a bye week after
being molly wopped by the Ravens. Bill Belichick getting extra
time often has been lethal, but the Eagles also are
coming off a bye week, so both teams are coming
in even in this and they should get a big
boost as well. Doug Peterson twelve and seven against the
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spread when having extra time to prepare for an opponent.
Now that the reason to like Philly is home dog,
and the Eagles have a pretty good pass rush. The
Patriot offensive line not very good. So Tom Brady who
will cover for the offensive line by throwing the ball quickly,
but he's gonna be under siege. Okay, he's gonna Unesta
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is now. Secondly, Philly should be able to control the
line of scrimmage on offense as well. They have a
pretty good offensive line. Carson Wentz is obviously not a
dual threat quarterback. Sorry if you think he's like Lamar Jackson,
he's not. Uh and Lamar gave him fits the last
game the Patriots played. But the Eagles can run the
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ball effectively with Jordan Howard and Uh Sanders. I believe
they'll be able to run the ball a little bit
in this game. And I just have to see the Patriots,
after that stank in Baltimore, come out and just kick
the snot out of somebody. They gotta show me that
before I get back to the Patriot bandwagon, because the
Eagles are not a bad team. Uh So there's like
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an average NFL team. I'm gonna take the Eagles to
win the game, out right. Eagles thirty Patriots seven Fly Eagles,
Fly Fly Eagles on the road to victory. All right,
let's get trivial. The answer Bronco's quarterback Brandon at in
the first QB with a touchdown pass of seventy five
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plus yards in his first career starts since blank. I'm
gonna go with Dante Culpepper, good name Vikings, Randy Moss,
big touchdown passes back in the day before he needed
a medicine man um no. The correct answer, r G three,
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Robert Griffin the third when he had that breakout rookie season.
His first game he had an eighty eight yard touchdown
pass back in twenty twelve. Back all right, Next up Cincinnati,
oh and nine at Oakland, don't do it. Five and four.
It's on CBS with Greg Gumbel and Trent Green. The
Raiders open an eight point favorite, their favorite by ten
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and a half sixty seven degrees in the Bay Area
kickoff at Ring Central Colisseum not corporately named at all.
I just called the Oakland Alameda County Coliseum. The pick
is in gascon. Don't do it, don't do it. Bang Gals,
Betting Gals, Bend Gals, Betton Gals. I'm taking the Bengals
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the Bungles, I am. First of all, listen the Raiders.
You assume I was like, they can't screw this up ride.
Come on, this is a show up to win situation here.
Just don't commit penalties. Well, the Raiders lead the NFL
and penalties per game, so it's possible. Now you would
think Derek Carr will make enough plays here to win
this game against a second rate Bengals defense. This is
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a big points all right. Now. I'm not gonna sit
here and tell you that Ryan Finley is any good
that you've been better off with Brian Finley playing quarterback
if your Cincinnati. He looked completely overmatched against the Ravens
a very small sample size. Guys can obviously get better
from the first start to the second start, because once
the Raider defense looks at that tape, they're gonna start
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laughing and say, we don't have to do anything. This
guy sucks and uh now, Finley's trying to audition for
the Bengals starting job in twenty but really he's just
ensuring them that they get a shot at Joe Burrow
in the April draft. Now that said, I'm gonna take
two points here for two reasons. The Raiders have yet
to beat anyone by more than eight points, and they
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played some bad teams. Plus, over the long run, betting
on double digit dogs has proven to be a pretty
good gambling strategy and it's been very effective for me.
Plus the Bengals, even though they're they're terrible now, they
were decent in recent years. Over the last decade. They
are four and one in California. The Cincinnati Bengals have
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a foreign run record against the teams in California, they've
done very well. Raiders will win, but they won't cover.
Raiders twenty eight Bengals twenty. Penny's going with the Raiders,
all right. That just got a pain you as a
Bronco fan. I'm not a fan. I'm just an observer.
You're an observer, yeah, an independent observer. Not putting any
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money on the Bengals. Something you have died over several weeks,
have taken the Dolphins well yeah, but then the Dolphins
all of a sudden started covering. I bet on the
Dolphins the last three weeks. I would have won won
all those games, all right? Next up Sunday Night football, Chicago,
four and five at the l A. A A. R i
Ums five and four. It's on and be see you
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think al Michaels can join us on Friday. He's calling
this game, so he's not traveling anywhere that high school
game we're doing. That'd be great. Yeah, al Michael's and
Chris Collinsworth on the Peacock Network, The Rams opened a
seven and a half point favorite. There you brought you
brought this up? Should we do it? Open like they
do it? Like? Should I wear a sweater like al
Michael's then slide you in? Yeah? You know what we should?
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I would. I'd like to do it. Can I slide in?
I would that? That's a great idea. Guess we we
gotta do that. You got let's do it? Can we
do it? We can't. I want to slide in and
I'll have this goofy smile on my face too, like
Chris Collinsworth, this goofy, creepy smile. I gotta do it.
We gotta do it. Come on, think of the rate
people will be tuning in just for the open, guest
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on to see me slide in like Collinsworth, you come on,
how are you on stand ups? Are you good on opens?
I haven't done one in like ten years? But yeah,
I mean it's all right. I mean it's pretty simple, right,
just throw a bunch of cliches out there and all
that and uh yeah, well, I remember when I was
in college and we used to do the saddleback football
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and basketballs. This guy Brad Hoysteff who I worked with,
and Brad it was always funny because he was the
play by playgoun. I was the color commentator, and he
would say something and I said, that's right, Brad, you know,
because he'd lead me into something with some stat you know,
that's right. So that's the key when your color commentator,
whatever you say, guest, like, you'll lead me into an
answer about the running back for Jay Sarah, Right, this
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high school kid, that's right, David. He's a great player,
you know, Like that's how you do it. We just
don't be like what's his name? Was it money in
Major League? Oh? He just doesn't talk at all. Yours
like dye to my color money. Yeah, well we'll see
get that flops white going anyway? Bears and Rams, Bears
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and Rams here, you know clear, seventy two Sunday night,
late evening at the Colosseum in Los Angeles at kickoffs. Now,
I love the Rams, I'm all about the Rams. But
there's no way in hell I'm betting on the Rams
this week. Uh No. I hope they win. I hope
I lose this bet, but I'm taking the Chicago Bears.
Uh And, and I'll tell you why. First of all,
it is impossible for me, having watched the Rams, to
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take the Rams and lay this number. Jared Goff has
eight interceptions seven fumbles over his last seven games. Chicago's
got a ball hawking, opportunistic defense led by Khalil Mack.
The Rams have a battered and broken offensive line. This
is a recipe for a whole lot of mistakes, right,
a whole lot of mistakes. Now. Secondly, the Rams defense
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has been fine. It's the offense that is is broken.
In my opinion, statistically, they haven't been that bad. The
Rams have the NFL's number one defense over the last
three weeks. Did you know that, yeah, number one. Last
three weeks, they're allowing just twelve points per game, and
they're gonna have to play like that to have a
shot here. Mitch Rubisky is no good I know that. Uh,
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and the l A offense has been more of the
middle of the Bell curve in recent weeks. And history
is not on the side of the Rams. The Rams
have lost six of seven to Chicago. And check this out.
I looked it up because I know, being a Ram
fan over the years, that they always seem to lose
against the Bears. And it turns out that the Rams
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have a three ninety nine winning percentage historically against Chicago.
That is their worst record against any NFC opponent enfranchise history.
They have not been worse against anybody other than the Bears.
So I hope I'm wrong, but I'm gonna take Chicago
twenty four the Rams twenty. No way, the pain is
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going with the Rams either going to Chicago Bears, Dog Bears.
Al Right, next up, Monday Night Football. I wanna tell
you I'm watching that game. I'm pulling for the Rams,
even though I picked the Bears. Alright, Monday Night Football,
Cansa City six and four at Mexico, the Mexico Chargers,
the l A Chargers of as Teca Stadium. Yes, the
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games in Mexico City. It's on ESPN. So Booger, imagine
going through customs with a name Booger. Joe Testator and
Booger McFarland have the call. I was taking some notes
from Joe Testator, who's a walking, talking cliche gascout, so
I might use some of his material. Don't do that.
He's a bit of a hardough uh. Anyway, that the
Chiefs opened a three point favorite. They are favored by four.
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It'll be mostly cloudy in Mexico City, sixty five degrees
at kickoff. We don't have a lot of time, so
I'm just I'm gonna take the Chiefs in this game.
Taking Kansas City a couple of reasons why a Kansas City.
Kansas City blew a game against the Titans last week.
The Chargers are of a similar pedigree, so you would
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expect Patrick Mahomes to slice up the injury ravaged Chargers
secondary in this game. But the key is obviously in
the game you limit the turnovers there. That's the key
in all these games with the Chargers are a mash unit.
They're hobbled, twisted, mutilated, all of that. They need a
witch doctor themselves at this particular point. And be while
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Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson have gotten a lot of
love from the media, do you know Philip Rivers is
the quarterback that is actually ad libbed for an NFL
leading ten created receptions? How about that pretty good number?
That is pretty good by Philip Rivers, one of the
advanced statistics from the NFL. Uh. Listen, the Chiefs, if
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you lose to the Titans, you can lose to the Charges,
as we said, but I think this is a field
good situation. If the Charges win this game, they're right
back in the divisional race. The Raiders are right back
in the thick of it right there as well, because
you figure they're gonna beat the Bengals. So the Chiefs
there's this is actually a big pressure spot because if
you lose, the Ramifications are are huge Chiefs thirty three
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Chargers twenty three penny not cough upon a mash unit.
But we'll go with the l A California Chargers of
San Diego. There you go, and that is it. That
is a wrap for this edition of benny versus the penny.
Good luck, hope you want a lot of money. If
you win a lot of money, remember us if you
lose a lot of money. This is just for entertainment
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purposes only. We're not held responsible for your bad picks
at all. We'll be back in the Magic Radio Box
on Sunday night on the West coast at eleven o'clock
and that would be of course two am in the East,
and we'll talk about all these NFL games in the
post mortem. Have a great weekend, be safe. I'll try
to avoid the hospital, so we'll do it again next week. Thanks.
Host
Ben Maller
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