December 12, 2025 • 9 mins
Lee Sterling of Paramount Sports joins Dave Softy Mahler and Dick Fain to share his best bets of the football weekend including Seahawks vs. Colts and more NFL action.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly visit with gambling expert Lee Sterling.
The Paramount Sports brought to you by bail Breaker Brewing,
wherevery hop has grown in the Yakama Valley family owned
bold and proudly Pacific Northwest. Grab their flagship top cutter
Ipa a centrucyat Find Forward Classic at your local grocery store,
or visit tap rooms in Seattle and Yakama. Now with
(00:23):
Lee Sterling, here's Saffi and Din.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Friday three forty five means one thing, and one thing only,
a chance to talk to the Mayor of South Florida,
the King of South Beach, our friend from Paramount Sports, Andy.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Kapper, Lee Sterling, Lee, how are.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
You man exhausted helping Kim today put up the holiday lights?
This is why I only do it like once every
five years.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, why don't you just take some of that gambling
money that you made over the years and buy yourself
some of those permanent whites that you can, or just
pay somebody to do it every Now you can change
to like the holidays and stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I mean, what the hell?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Man, Like I said, I do it once every five years, Well.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
At least Stirling is with US one and four last week,
but still forty thirty four and one overall having a
very good year on the air. Let's go to the
NFL Buffalo, New England, which is a big game in
the AFC East this weekend. Fields of the Patriots can
kind of wrap up the AFC East championship in some
ways if they can get this thing done against Buffalo.
(01:28):
The love a big lead at that point over the Bills,
and the Bills are at Foxborough giving a point and
a half.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What do you think Bill's New England.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Not so fast? Now? Buffalo is six in the AFC.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
They are two games.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Back, but I think they know they're in the playoffs,
but they want to take a shot at that first
place in the East. And why not here? I know
New England's eleven and two coming off of a bye.
But who have the Patriots beaten? The Saints, Titans, Browns, Falcons,
Jets in Cincinnati even without Joe Burrow. The only team
(02:04):
five hundred that they've beaten or better last nine weeks
was Tampa Bay, who's now sitting at seven and seven,
So I'm not impressed. The first time they played came
down to that last second field goal and the Bills
turned it over once on an interception and two fumbles here.
I don't think that's happening again here. I think Josh
Allen is going to be able to light up New
(02:25):
England here. I like the Bills thirty one to twenty one.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
All right, Well, we potentially could have a Super Bowl
preview green Bay minus two and a half at home
a lambeau Field that gets Denver?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Who do you like?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
You could?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And what's interesting is, you know, I was a little
shocked that green Bay came the favorite. Why all three
really tough, you know, inner division games? And what do
they have next week? They got to play Chicago again.
In Chicago, They're going to be playing at over five
thousand feet That's not easy. How has green Bay done
here as a road favorite last year? Reinstick if you
(03:01):
go back another year three and eight worse, go back
another year four and ten, and go back a fourth
year six and thirteen against the spread? Here, So Denver
defense top three, top four in almost every major statistical category.
The offenses, you know, hasn't been great.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
But they get the job done here. I like Denver.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I think the wrong team's favorite Broncos twenty four to twenty.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Oh hey, by the way, guys, just going back to
that Buffalo New England game, and Dick, you can tell
me if I'm crazy on this, but I think if
the Patriots win, do they win the East this Sunday?
Because if Patriots, Lee would be twelve and two, the
Bills would be nine to five, right with three games
left to play, But the Patriots would sweep They'd sweep Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That'll be it. So if they win this weekend, it's done.
Give me.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Can you imagine before the start of the year the
Patriots and Drake May winning the division with three weeks
to go?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's amazing, Lee.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
How about the Niners and Tennessee San Francisco at home
given twelve and a half against the Titans.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
The Titans I think are in a really bad spot here.
I know that they won last week, but he was
against the Brown Kevinsky, I mean absolutely was he doing
some of the play calls?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
And two?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I mean you're going for two points and you don't
even have quarterback out on a huge here. How the
Titans done after win the last two years? Oh four
to spread forty nine ers score thirty four against the Giants,
forty one against Cards at two games, twenty six points, but.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
He had Jackson put Leon hold way.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I thought for a second, maybe that was coming from
our spot over here, that big in the headsets.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But it's actually his phone. So I don't know what
it is. Man.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Maybe it's because it's three thousand miles away. Maybe we
need to put another quarter of the machine. Maybe we're
running out of time, like those old vibrators he had
on the beds of the vibrating oh, the vibrating back
the vibrators, whenever the hell they're called phallacies, remember those things.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
And the smoke.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I don't know what it is about this freaking phone
with this guy. Man, it's unbelievable. Lee, your phone's breaking.
I pay your phone bill for trying out loud.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Jesus right right, probably with you, going back to going
back to San fran Yes, thirty four against the Giants,
forty one against the Cards.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Twenty and twenty six.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
In the last two against with brock Purty, I mean
he was awful against Carolina and and the last game
against Cleveland was horrible weather.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
So I think the.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Forty nine ers are going to be able to double
up Tennessee here, let's go thirty five to seventeen.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
All right, all right, we are all big Detroit Lions
fans this weekend, but they are six point dogs at
so far against the Rams.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Who do you like?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, I mean he got both quarterbacks played for the
other team for many years.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
We all know that. But the last two games were close,
I mean really close.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
The Lions eat out of twenty four to twenty three
wild card win at home in January twenty twenty four.
Then turn around the first game of last year, and
I mean the Rams took them overtime scores twenty to twenty.
Detroit won the toss, went seventy yards and scored the
touchdown and they hadn't changed the rules yet, so they
(06:17):
won that game.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
So these are one possession games here.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I know Detroit secondary isn't great, but their offense I
think is just a little bit better even than the
Rams here. So and also a couple extra days to
pay off that Thursday night went over Dallas here, rong
team favored Lions pull off the Sun.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah thirty four?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
All right?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Seahawks and Colts On Sunday, Seahawks given thirteen and a
half against who knows who at quarterback. Could be Riley Leonard,
it could be Philip Rivers, but the Hawks are big favorites.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah, I mean they might have to go to Brett
Rippon at one point in this game. It's not a
good sign here. I mean, just look at what Philip Rivers'
is last year, starting twenty three touchdowns but twenty interceptions
and had three fumbles. As a team, there were five
and eleven, two and nine and contests decided by a
touchdown or less. So I just don't think that you
(07:11):
can come back after.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Five years and be able to do well.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I mean this is the defense also the Colts. They're
twenty ninth in passing yards allowed, Seattle's defense and offense
number two in scoring. Offense and defense number two both
sides of the ball here. So if it's Philip Rivers,
I think they're in a deep world to hurt. I
don't think the last a half out there before they
(07:35):
have to pull them here. And Seattle's covered seven of
eight here and should be able to run up the
score here. Blow out City Hawks.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Fifty five, Colts seven.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Wow, all right, fifty seven? So take the over. Two
is what least telling him, all right, game of the week,
Browns and Bears.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
What do you know, Lee, love this game.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's gonna be cold single day, some wind chill below zero.
You want to get the Bears see if they can
come back off that really tough loss last week.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
At Green Bay.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Cleveland should have won last week, so might be competitive.
First five callers called eight hundred, four hundred nine seven
for one, get the game for free.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
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end of the month.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
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and NFL games. And we have a UFC card seven selections,
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Speaker 5 (08:35):
So they switch on over to Paramount.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And also coming up in a couple just at a
little bit of time, Mark James and I were gonna
have picking the locks again, So I'm gonna try to
stay on this roll.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
All right, buddy, great stuff, enjoy the weekend. We'll talk
next Friday.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Man.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
All right, Leex Buffalo, Denver, the Niners, Detroit and Seattle
all against the spread, and the Lions to win straight
up and upset the Rams over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Is that game?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It's so far by the way on Sunday, are they
turning that thing around? Maybe I'll stay down on the
roof of the Lions.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
What the hell, Well, they can turn around easily since
there's only been to be about ten thousand eights, right.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Exactly, we're gonna break. Hugh Millan's gonna join us. Coming
up next on ninety three three KJRFM.
It's time for our weekly visit with gambling expert Lee Sterling.
The Paramount Sports brought to you by bail Breaker Brewing,
wherevery hop has grown in the Yakama Valley family owned
bold and proudly Pacific Northwest. Grab their flagship top cutter
Ipa a centrucyat Find Forward Classic at your local grocery store,
or visit tap rooms in Seattle and Yakama. Now with
(00:23):
Lee Sterling, here's Saffi and Din.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Friday three forty five means one thing, and one thing only,
a chance to talk to the Mayor of South Florida,
the King of South Beach, our friend from Paramount Sports, Andy.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Kapper, Lee Sterling, Lee, how are.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
You man exhausted helping Kim today put up the holiday lights?
This is why I only do it like once every
five years.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, why don't you just take some of that gambling
money that you made over the years and buy yourself
some of those permanent whites that you can, or just
pay somebody to do it every Now you can change
to like the holidays and stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I mean, what the hell?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Man, Like I said, I do it once every five years, Well.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
At least Stirling is with US one and four last week,
but still forty thirty four and one overall having a
very good year on the air. Let's go to the
NFL Buffalo, New England, which is a big game in
the AFC East this weekend. Fields of the Patriots can
kind of wrap up the AFC East championship in some
ways if they can get this thing done against Buffalo.
(01:28):
The love a big lead at that point over the Bills,
and the Bills are at Foxborough giving a point and
a half.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
What do you think Bill's New England.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Not so fast? Now? Buffalo is six in the AFC.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
They are two games.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Back, but I think they know they're in the playoffs,
but they want to take a shot at that first
place in the East. And why not here? I know
New England's eleven and two coming off of a bye.
But who have the Patriots beaten? The Saints, Titans, Browns, Falcons,
Jets in Cincinnati even without Joe Burrow. The only team
(02:04):
five hundred that they've beaten or better last nine weeks
was Tampa Bay, who's now sitting at seven and seven,
So I'm not impressed. The first time they played came
down to that last second field goal and the Bills
turned it over once on an interception and two fumbles here.
I don't think that's happening again here. I think Josh
Allen is going to be able to light up New
(02:25):
England here. I like the Bills thirty one to twenty one.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
All right, Well, we potentially could have a Super Bowl
preview green Bay minus two and a half at home
a lambeau Field that gets Denver?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Who do you like?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
You could?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
And what's interesting is, you know, I was a little
shocked that green Bay came the favorite. Why all three
really tough, you know, inner division games? And what do
they have next week? They got to play Chicago again.
In Chicago, They're going to be playing at over five
thousand feet That's not easy. How has green Bay done
here as a road favorite last year? Reinstick if you
(03:01):
go back another year three and eight worse, go back
another year four and ten, and go back a fourth
year six and thirteen against the spread? Here, So Denver
defense top three, top four in almost every major statistical category.
The offenses, you know, hasn't been great.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
But they get the job done here. I like Denver.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I think the wrong team's favorite Broncos twenty four to twenty.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Oh hey, by the way, guys, just going back to
that Buffalo New England game, and Dick, you can tell
me if I'm crazy on this, but I think if
the Patriots win, do they win the East this Sunday?
Because if Patriots, Lee would be twelve and two, the
Bills would be nine to five, right with three games
left to play, But the Patriots would sweep They'd sweep Buffalo.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That'll be it. So if they win this weekend, it's done.
Give me.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Can you imagine before the start of the year the
Patriots and Drake May winning the division with three weeks
to go?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
It's amazing, Lee.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
How about the Niners and Tennessee San Francisco at home
given twelve and a half against the Titans.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
The Titans I think are in a really bad spot here.
I know that they won last week, but he was
against the Brown Kevinsky, I mean absolutely was he doing
some of the play calls?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
And two?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I mean you're going for two points and you don't
even have quarterback out on a huge here. How the
Titans done after win the last two years? Oh four
to spread forty nine ers score thirty four against the Giants,
forty one against Cards at two games, twenty six points, but.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
He had Jackson put Leon hold way.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
I thought for a second, maybe that was coming from
our spot over here, that big in the headsets.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
But it's actually his phone. So I don't know what
it is. Man.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Maybe it's because it's three thousand miles away. Maybe we
need to put another quarter of the machine. Maybe we're
running out of time, like those old vibrators he had
on the beds of the vibrating oh, the vibrating back
the vibrators, whenever the hell they're called phallacies, remember those things.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
And the smoke.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
I don't know what it is about this freaking phone
with this guy. Man, it's unbelievable. Lee, your phone's breaking.
I pay your phone bill for trying out loud.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Jesus right right, probably with you, going back to going
back to San fran Yes, thirty four against the Giants,
forty one against the Cards.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Twenty and twenty six.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
In the last two against with brock Purty, I mean
he was awful against Carolina and and the last game
against Cleveland was horrible weather.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
So I think the.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Forty nine ers are going to be able to double
up Tennessee here, let's go thirty five to seventeen.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
All right, all right, we are all big Detroit Lions
fans this weekend, but they are six point dogs at
so far against the Rams.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Who do you like?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, I mean he got both quarterbacks played for the
other team for many years.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
We all know that. But the last two games were close,
I mean really close.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
The Lions eat out of twenty four to twenty three
wild card win at home in January twenty twenty four.
Then turn around the first game of last year, and
I mean the Rams took them overtime scores twenty to twenty.
Detroit won the toss, went seventy yards and scored the
touchdown and they hadn't changed the rules yet, so they
(06:17):
won that game.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
So these are one possession games here.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
I know Detroit secondary isn't great, but their offense I
think is just a little bit better even than the
Rams here. So and also a couple extra days to
pay off that Thursday night went over Dallas here, rong
team favored Lions pull off the Sun.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Yeah thirty four?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
All right?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Seahawks and Colts On Sunday, Seahawks given thirteen and a
half against who knows who at quarterback. Could be Riley Leonard,
it could be Philip Rivers, but the Hawks are big favorites.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
What do you think?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Yeah, I mean they might have to go to Brett
Rippon at one point in this game. It's not a
good sign here. I mean, just look at what Philip Rivers'
is last year, starting twenty three touchdowns but twenty interceptions
and had three fumbles. As a team, there were five
and eleven, two and nine and contests decided by a
touchdown or less. So I just don't think that you
(07:11):
can come back after.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Five years and be able to do well.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I mean this is the defense also the Colts. They're
twenty ninth in passing yards allowed, Seattle's defense and offense
number two in scoring. Offense and defense number two both
sides of the ball here. So if it's Philip Rivers,
I think they're in a deep world to hurt. I
don't think the last a half out there before they
(07:35):
have to pull them here. And Seattle's covered seven of
eight here and should be able to run up the
score here. Blow out City Hawks.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Fifty five, Colts seven.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Wow, all right, fifty seven? So take the over. Two
is what least telling him, all right, game of the week,
Browns and Bears.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
What do you know, Lee, love this game.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's gonna be cold single day, some wind chill below zero.
You want to get the Bears see if they can
come back off that really tough loss last week.
Speaker 5 (08:07):
At Green Bay.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Cleveland should have won last week, so might be competitive.
First five callers called eight hundred, four hundred nine seven
for one, get the game for free.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
We got specials in football you can get through the
end of the month.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Use coupon code save one hundred, get all our college
and NFL games. And we have a UFC card seven selections,
just forty seven dollars, including a fifty unit max wager,
last UFC card for the next six weeks.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
So they switch on over to Paramount.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And also coming up in a couple just at a
little bit of time, Mark James and I were gonna
have picking the locks again, So I'm gonna try to
stay on this roll.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
All right, buddy, great stuff, enjoy the weekend. We'll talk
next Friday.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Man.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Thanks guys.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
All right, Leex Buffalo, Denver, the Niners, Detroit and Seattle
all against the spread, and the Lions to win straight
up and upset the Rams over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Is that game?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It's so far by the way on Sunday, are they
turning that thing around? Maybe I'll stay down on the
roof of the Lions.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
What the hell, Well, they can turn around easily since
there's only been to be about ten thousand eights, right.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Exactly, we're gonna break. Hugh Millan's gonna join us. Coming
up next on ninety three three KJRFM.
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