Benny vs The Penny, Round 1

Let's get into it, as Marcel would say, welcome players, You're welcome. Are you up for more? Mallar? Mayhap it's time now penny versus the penny? Yes, it is on the fifth Hour worth Ben Maller and David Gascon. That's right. They wanted to find some one who would annrymally. They picked Gascon. There he is right over there. We will

attempt to buck the odds. Gascon. We will cut the cards if you will, literally flipping a coin here, shooting for the moon, as the old expression goes out, and gambling. This used to be, as as Arnie says, on the weekends, you know, the great Arnie Spaniard. You know, it used to be just for entertainment purposes only, But now we don't have to say that because gambling on sports is now in the mainstream and it's a good hobby. A lot of guys like to do it. So I'm excited

about this. And I've always mentioned my love affair for casinos and how much I enjoy the casino because the concept, the business concept of the casino is is it's just I just think it's a fantastic thing because from the business perspective, people who go to casinos, no, the deck is stacked against them. The odds are against them. They're gonna win, right, You know that when I love gambling too, but you want a casino, you're not. You know, the

odds are against you. And yet even though people like you and I know we're gonna lose money, we still enjoy it. It's fun. It's a recreational type activity, and human beings love games of chance, of course, and uh, you know, and not that this is you know, you think in sports. One of the cool things about sports, guest guys, we think we have inside information, right because we know if you're a cowboy fan, you know everything

about Dak Prescott or everything about Zeke Elliott. If you're Bears fan, you're you're nuanced on Mitch Robinsky and the Bears defense and so yeah, so it's it's but anyway, we'll get into it. And the first game up, guest Gon is the Atlanta Minnesota game. We did the Thursday night game, which was last night the Bears and Packers. Oh boy, how about that outcome? We we put that on the podcast. You can go back and hear the pick on the radio show podcast. Not the Fifth Hour

with Ben Maller because four hours are not enough. So Atlanta at Minnesota. This is a Fox game. Tom Brenneman and Chris Bielman will be in the at Fox box. That rocks and the Vikings opened a four and a half point favorite. They're currently favorite by four. The pick for me in this game is the Vikings, and I'll give you my my logic behind that. Minnesota Now they

are my pick to click. As Hawk Carrolson, the old White Sox broadcaster, would say, as the surprise team in the NFL this year, I believe they will have a boomerang type season. They will bounce back and be a playoff team. I like Mike Zimmer's club. He needs a big year here. They were very bad last year compared to expectations. I love the foundation the Vikings have with

their defense. That's a top five defense. That's the bedrock of the Vikings, and I expect them to to mess around with Matt Ryan, and Matt Ryan usually gets his numbers in the end. It's a dome game, so it's not a weather game you have to worry about for the Falcons when you look into that kind of stuff. But but Zimmer has been absolutely money from a from

a gambling perspective in the last few years. The last fourteen times in these spots, last fourteen times a Mike Zimmer coach team has had extra time to prepare, prepare, like the entire off season. His teams have a seven fourteen winning percentage. They're ten and four in a similar spot to this. That tells you what has happened, not what's going to happen. And then secondly, the Falcons. The main reason to pick the Vikings here is a I don't normally like the bet favorites. I try to if

if it's even I'll take the underdog. But the Falcons are a defensively challenge squad. Uh. They have negligence all over that side of the field. Atlanta ranked thirty in pressure last season, twenty nine in past defense. It's hard to pick the Falcons to go into a hostile environment when when they don't have the weaponry defensively like they'll score some points even though the Vikings have a good defense. Uh. We'll see how the new offensive line does for the Vikings.

They made a couple of changes minor changes window dressing on the offensive line, But it really comes down to Kirk Cousins, who simply has to be better and stop being Charlie checked down. You've got the weapons that the Falcons don't have a good defense. You can sling the ball around to Adam Feelings, Deefon Diggs and Dalvin Cook in the backfield. Have them work their magic. Final score, it'll be the Vikings thirty four, Falcons twenty three. What

about the coin here, guess Penny likes the Falcons. No, No, the penny did not land on the side of the Falcons. I did, I do? I believe you were doctoring the penny results. Why would you pick the Falcons? That's a bad pick, all right. Next up Washington at Philadelphia. This game is a Fox game. Kevin Burkhardt and Charles Davis, the voice of Madden, will be calling the game. The Eagles opened an eight and a half point favorite. They

are a double digit favorite. This is the biggest point spread as we are recording this on the fifth Hour with Ben Mallory, as we're doing this in real time. This is the biggest point spread in the NFL this weekend. Uh, And I am going to be a contrarian here. I'm gonna take the Washington d Skins plus ten points in this particular game. And I'll tell you why. First of all, Uh, the Eagles. I get that they're loaded. I I am

also optimistic the Eagles will have a great season. We don't know yet if these jigsaw puzzle pieces are gonna fit together. Philadelphia had thirty percent of its roster turnover from last year's playoff team. They have plausibly better players in Philly, but they haven't really played together in a real game. Philadelphia showed complete apathy like many of these teams did in the preseason. So we don't know. We think we know, but we don't know. It's also the

first rodeo for Carson Wentz, who's consistently been injured. Here, the Eagles have no backup quarterback. They don't, uh, you know, so the old guy who's a high school coach, and the Eagles also have questions on the back side of their defense. Now. Secondly, the Redskins already bad team. They it is dysfunction junction. That's obvious. Uh. They're kind of like a division in one double a team. It's the way I would look at the at the red Skins.

They got holes all over the roster. I love Darius Guys. I think this guy is gonna be great, you know, if you can do that on a bad team. But that said, even bad teams can hang around. There's this perception, well, you're gonna be a bad team, you're gonna get blown out. You know. Usually bad teams lose close games. Good teams win close games. And case keenum, he's good for at least a couple of decent quarters of football with his moxie and all that. He only takes you so far.

And in general, one of my beliefs as a gamblers, anytime you get over a touchdown in a divisional game, you've got to take it. This is the divisional game. These teams played each other twice a year. You take the points. Getting double digits in an NFL game when most games are decided by a touchdown, unless hail to the Redskins, hail to covering. So the pick here is Washington. The final score, Philly is gonna win the game, but

the Redskins are gonna cover. Philly twenty seven Washington twenty three. Penny picking guest on here, it's Penny likes the Redskins. Also really yeah, copying my work there, guests bad telling you there. Next up as we do Benny versus the Penny on the fifth hour Buffalo and the j E t s Suck Suck, Suck, suck suck. This game is a CBS game. Kevin Harlan and Rich Gett. You Kevin Harland guy. You like Kevin Harlan of course right between the eyes. Yeah. I like Harlan. I like his energy.

He's a good radio guy too. I've interviewed him before. He's a good he seems like a good dude. Yeah, he seems like a guy. Wasn't his dad a GM in the NFL? Dad's a GM and his daughter is now a sports coster too, So it runs in the family. There you go, the family business. But the Buffalo and the Jets. The Jets open to three and a half point favorite. The Jets are currently a three point favorite. The pick here, the pick is in, and I'm gonna take Buffalo. I I'm taking the Bills here, and I'll

tell you why. Uh to start with, I am not sold on the Jets. I'm not. Every year my entire life, the same thing happens. It's the typical New York hyperbo lee. The Jets go out sign a couple of players, draft some hotshot guy in the top ten of the draft, and then we're off to the races. How great Gang Green is gonna be? And this year they added Levian Bell for example. He arrived and they're talking about the resurgence of Sam Donald in year two and he played

well at the end of last year. They also signed pretty good linebacker from the Ravens, C. J. Moseley, who they brought over. And there's some other defensive pickups along the way. And so the media is like, well, the Jets are ten wind they could they could flirt with ten wins. I'm not buying it. I am in a Missouri State motto. I'm in a show me state of mind here with the Jets, I just don't think they're as good as the hyperer. The Jets have a shaky

pass defense. Uh and in pass catch, I think even the pass catcher is the bigger problem. They they appear to be a work in progress. And the other thing you're picking the Bills is not a vote of confidence for Josh Allen. Like that guy Robbie the Mariner fan, who's a kool Aid drinking Josh Allen sickophan. I am not endorsing Josh Allen. He is the compass rose type of quarterback, which I despise. He throws it all over the place. You don't know where it's gonna go. Uh

is helter skelter and all that throwing the ball. But I am gonna ride with the Bills defense. The Bills defense is legit. Buffalo had the second ranked defense in the NFL owing the Ravens last year allowed less yards per game. Than Buffalo. Didn't that hard to believe and wrap your head around. But the defense has been upgraded. They added a top ten pick, a guy who I

think it's gonna be pretty good. You know, as much as I care about defensive, big fat guys defensively in Ed Oliver, who's added to that defense, And so they made a couple of other changes. I believe the Bills win this game outright. As a live dog in a divisional game, I'm gonna take the Buffalo Bills twenty three, the Jets twenty your final score, and the Penny picking on Benny versus the Penny. Oh Man, Sam, I am at home. Penny has the New York Jets. Really, Jets sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks.

You gonna have a quarterback to win this league? Pen. Don't we need Levian Bell to have a rude introduction to the Wouldn't it be better if like Levian Bell fumbles three times and the you know what I mean, Like he just said it runs for thirty yards and just has a trying experience. I think that would be better for the talk radio show. Yeah, and don't forget time Montgomery. It's his backup. So if Montgomery just like walks off the field for some unknown reason, that would

be perfect for your Jets. Open up there. I'm right there with you and Sam Donald. You know, usually support the USC football program. Donald's like, know not, I need to see more. He's gonna have a great relationship with Adam Gates moving forward in nineteen Yeah, crazy eyes Adam Gaze. That's right, he's making his Jets coaching debut. We gotta we gotta mention that, all right. Next up Baltimore at Miami. We gotta keep the train moving, Gascon, stay with me.

Baltimore at Miami is a CBS game. Andrew Catalan is that his name? You're a TV guy? And James Lofton? How about James Lofton? How James gotta be in his sixties? Now do anything? It sounds good to everything on there. He's good man. You guys had like a longer career TV than he had did playing list a long time, didn't he stopped playing in the late eighties, early nineties something like that. Uh well, I remember with the Packers Packers,

and I think he played with the Raiders. I think I don't know he bounced around, But anyway, that's the bad. That's the TV broadcast crew. The game is in Miami. It is going to be toasty, toasty, as it usually is in South Florida. Early in the year. The Ravens opened up a four point favorite, and this is all the way up to six and a half after the Dolphins traded away their their top offensive lineman, one of their better receivers at least last year, Kenny Stills, uh

Laramie tons of both traded to the Texans. Right, but for the year. Uh So, I'm gonna actually again be a contrary in here. I'm gonna take the Dolphins, all right, And the thinking behind this the Ravens I believe will win the game. But the value is the Dolphins. Yes they are a bad team, Yes they management is trying to tank the season. I don't disagree with any of that, but it's the season opener. And Ryan Fitzpatrick has a

way of getting guys to play for him. He's got some kind of that Swengali effect where he's able to get guys to play for Most NFL games are decided, as I've said earlier, by a touchdown or less, and even bad teams are able to lose close games on a regular basis. And so you're talking about home field being worth three points, generally down the middle three points, and so the Ravens are six and that point so

Vegas and the people that set the lines. In my mind and my warped behind, maybe I'm wrong in this, but they they believe the Ravens are nine and a half points better than the Dolphins, even on the line six and a half. I disagree with that. I don't trust Lamar Jackson until I see him be more than a one trick pony. Much like Josh Allen we talked

about earlier in Buffalo. The key for the Dolphins in this particular game is obvious, right, you try to win the turnover battle Fitzpatrick, that's one of his bugaboos, turning the ball over. But you also simply put eight nine man fronts and you dare Lamar Jackson to throw the ball down the field that it matriculate the ball down the field. As the late Hank Stram used to stay back in the day when I was a kid listening to him on the radio, that the Dolphin players will

show some fight early in the year. Eventually they'll wake up one day and they'll realize, oh crap, we're terrible, and then that and then that's a different conversation. But again, too many points here for a road team with a one dimensional runnee one trick pony quarterback in Lamar Jackson. The final score, Ravens win the game, but Dolphins win the money. Baltimore twenty four, Miami twenty The Penny picks Penny going at the home Dog likes Miami as well.

Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Didn't the penny pick the Redskins? Also? Right? Yeah, look at that. There's value and the pennies listening? All right? Next up, next game on the board. Here we have Kansas City at Jacksonville and this is a CBS game. Iron Eagle and Dan Fouts calling this game they are in now. Isn't Fouts one of those guys for CBS.

If he's doing the game, it's not one of the top games. Isn't that he's on that list? Yeah? But you should be nice because I An Eagle's son actually now calls basketball for your l A Clippers. So yeah, eyes will be on this for you, I know for several reasons. I heard about that. And he's young, right, he's like so young, Whipper snapper. That's right, straight out of college from Syracuse to the hardwood court in the NBA. Good for him, that's right. I hope he's a nice guy.

I will reserve judgment to like, Hey, hear him and be meet him if he's if he's if he's a doode to me, I'll kill him. But if he's nice to me, I'll be very you know, I was like, people are nice. I've always had a good relationship with the Clipper broadcasters over the years. They love me. I wonder why not. Yeah, well, you're a fanboy. No I'm not. I am an objective observer of greatness. It also helps that you're like three ft taller than everybody else in

that broadcasting team too. Wow, how about you anyway? Listen, Kansas City's a focus guest gun. All right, it's the fifth Hour with it's Penny versus the Pen. It's all about picking games. Kansas City at Jacksonville. The line on this game opened up Chiefs a five and half point favorite. They are down. The money is coming in on Jacksonville.

This has been adjusted two points in. Kansas City, who was in the ANC Championship game last year's now three and a half point favorite on the road again hot weather in Jacksonville. The conditions not not the greatest, but it's early season football. It's normally how it is. I am gonna take Kansas City in this game. I did consider Jacksonville. I did try to come up because they're a home dog. I love home dogs. There's a lot of value in that. But I I couldn't put myself

that far over the edge to actually pick Jacksonville. So I'm gonna take Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes he did have his worst game. I think one of the reasons people are betting on Jacksonville. He had his worst game last season against Jacksonville in Kansas City, and now this is the rematch situation. I do believe in zigging when everyone else zaggs if you will, but it does have

its limits. There's an exception to every rule, and when handicapping this particular game, when looking at the numbers in this particular name, I could not come up with a scenario in which Jacksonville was able to score enough, like outside of five turnovers. Even if Mahomes throws let's just say three interceptions, Kansas City should still overwhelm jack Inville. The Chiefs have scored twenty five or more points in

twenty one consecutive games. That goes before Patrick Mahomes goes back to twenty seventeens, the longest streak ever in the NFL. I don't see that ending here. I believe they will get over twenty five points, and if that is correct, I don't see a scenario Jacksonville can keep up. Now. I know the counter argument is, hey, the Chiefs blow on defense. I've got a high flying offense. There's a huge talent gap though, between the defense and the offense.

And there's also on this in this game, there's a talent gap between the Chiefs high flying offense. Uh and and Jackson And jackson has got some big name players on defense. They think they're gonna be pretty good. But the offensive thing. Nick Foles is essentially a caretaker of an offense. His magic pixie dust is in Philadelphia. He ain't in Jacksonville. He's not He's not gonna be a difference maker. Uh For for Jacksonville. He's a game manager.

And Patrick Mahomes is like an oil painting. Uh So, I would expect Kansas City to jump out by mid second quarter to a nice lead and then not look back in the second half because Jacksonville, their whole strategy, I would imagine, is gonna be grounded, pound, run the football and all that and try to beat into that Swiss cheese defense of of Kansas City. But I don't think it's gonna work. I think jackson will score because the Chiefs don't have a great defense. But I'm gonna

take Kansas City. Your final score Kansas City thirty four, Jacksonville twenty four, and the penny picks. The betting public took Jacksonville, but Benny and the penny go of Kansas City, Kansall City. You ever been to Kansas City. I have. I've actually been there twice for Chiefs Broncos Sunday Night football. Look at you your big Bronco apology. I love Kansas CITYBECU is awesome. It is an amazing food city. It's a nice kind of I like. I like the vibe.

I'm down with Kansas City. I heard you're a big Larry Johnson and end too. That's part of the reason why I like Kansas City. He was my favorite Chiefs player when and he's a very normal human being. I don't know what you're talking about. I think he has a great social media presence, is he Also he's not a fashionist. He doesn't like the catwalks, so we know he's not a fashions Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show week days at two am

Eastern eleven p m. Pacific. You're listening to the fifth hour with Ben Maller. We're picking NFL games against the spread. And this is our first edition of Benny Versus De Penny. There's another podcast up on this channel that we we did either before this or after this. You'll have to figure out which. But uh so, so this is the This is gonna be the weekly thing here during football season. We might even mix it in into some college sometimes if if we are so inclined for big college games

of the weekend. But we're gonna start This is just football. This is NFL football, is what it is. I'm so excited about that. And tell a friend about it. If you have a buddy who's a degenerate gambler wants to hear opinions on games and what people think is gonna happen. When what an inadamant object object like a penny thinks

as well, Now we will mix it. I do this on the radio show when I've done this for the last time many years, so I figured since I can't get answers unfortunately on Twitter, but I'll still give you the question and you can kind of let that marinate in your head. So here's the mini pop quiz here to test your football knowledge. Who was the quarterback who led his team to the biggest road comeback in NFL history?

All right, again, that's the question. I will give you the answer coming up here in uh in a little bit. But who is the quarterback who led his team to the biggest road comeback in NFL history? Uh, the answer coming up here in a bit. This is a regular season now. Meanwhile, next game up Tennessee at Cleveland. It is a CBS game, and this is the big game over at CBS this week. This is the game that is in vogue. Uh. This is the craze of their

their channel over there. They have the Cleveland Browns. They're buying into the Live Cleveland and Tennessee. They think this is the top game they got on their channel. So we'll see if that's correct. The Browns at home opened a five point favorite. Cleveland's now a five and a half. Hey, by the way, before we get into the games, do you have any quirky things like Jim nance who likes eating his toast cooked a certain way and he has a photo. Do you do anything thing like that? A

couple of things. Energy drinks always three hours before kickoff or before opening tip. Always an energy drink. Yeah, I have to do. You have to have snacks at a certain time and the all that. Like no, but I remember listening to Vince Gully. He used to say that he would suck on jelly ranchers during games or just before first pitch so his mouth would stay somewhat I guess dry, so he wouldn't have to drink water, because that's the worst thing. You have to go drink water

and then go to the restaurant right after. Bob Miller told me a great story one time where he had a name dropping just we're in l a right. Bob Millier told me at back in the day he had to go to the restroom and could not. He was in Philadelphia at the Spectrum and actually used like a gatorade bottle underneath the desk to go to the restroom and then like, manager, let me tell you something. I don't want to be sexist guesst Gump, but it is

a a competitive advantage the mail anatomy provide. Has that ever happened to you during the live show? Uh no, I did vomit one time in the studio and vomited in the studio. Yeah, but you're not really an alcohol drinker. So was it bad food? No, I had. I had like the flu. And this is years ago. And the funniest thing about it gas gun hand the god my engineer was on the weekend overnight. My engineer didn't even notice.

He did not even notice I vomited and he's on the other side of the glass and he didn't even realize that I had done that because I had. I was very ill, and I never used sick days of for whatever reason, I just don't do it, and so I like to get everyone sick sick that I work with it. So but anyway, I showed up and I

was just I shouldn't have been there. It was a bad job by me, and uh yeah, I vomited in the In the strategy, we should do a separate addition of this podcast, making note of this guest count because you're the you gotta keep track of this crap broadcast

tales from the Naked City of broadcasting. I got. I got some good Scully stories, Ross Porter's stories when I did stuff with the Dodgers years ago, and uh, we tell some of the famous lines about the great Ralph Lawler, who, by the way, the Clipper broadcaster, just retired in the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame this weekend. Ralph sent me a message there in Springfield, mass and so that's that's pretty cool for him. So I'm happy for Ralph, who you talk about polishing turds. I mean that guy, man,

you're putting lipstick on a pig. And he did that for years with just morbid Clipper teams and always had a smile on his face. And and now the Clippers are finally good, really good, and he's gone just absolut that's like Vince Scully, right, Vince Scully retires and all this on. The Dodgers are back to back World Series runs and well it actually started with Scully. But seventh straight, uh seven straight division titles. They're about to win the

probable this weekend, they'll win their seventh division title. So I'm making a note of this Tales from broadcasters, Sales from the Naked City of broadcast. So you'll have all Yeah, Vince Scully stories, Ralph Law, Ralph Urban. Do you have any Ralph Urban stories too that you can? Sure? You gotta bring his? Why are you gonna bring record Ralph into this? Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at Fox Sports Radio dot com and within the I Heart

Radio app search f s R to listen live. Let's get back. We gotta get back to the games. We gotta get back to the games. All Right's Ben Ben Benny versus the Penny here on the fifth Hour with Ben Mallard, part of the I Heart Podcast Network. Doesn't that sounds like like your steak, Like it's well done? This is like medium. Well, yeah, I mean I like him, it is. My Hearts podcasts have been you know, let's be honest here, there are a podcast monster. People love

these podcasts that I Hearts putting out. Yeah, I mean they're they're going all right, So Tennessee at Cleveland the Browns of five and a half point favorite, and I'm gonna take Tennessee here now I I I love the Browns. I think the Browns are gonna be great. I believe in that, but I'm not so sure this week and number one Freddie Kitchens, he's making his debut, is the big cohuna there the head coach Odell Beckham gets his first dance with the Browns here. This is a hype game.

We mentioned CBS is sending their top crew with Nance and Romo to the game. Uh. But you know everyone around Cleveland is all about the hype. And I buy into the hype. But this is not a good spot for the Brownies, and I'll tell you why. Even though they are at home, the Titans present a litany of problems here. The positive is home cooking. The Browns did go five into their last seven games last year, but this this Tennessee team is is gonna be a fringe

playoff team again this particular year. Loved their defense, loved the Titans defense. Uh. And in the second thing to me the numbers two. I believe this game should be about three. The Browns should be about a three point favorite. Uh. The extra two and a half points, in my eyes, are a direct result of hyperbole. And so if I'm right on this that the gambling market has bumped this up to five and a half as a result of inflation because of public perception. I like to bet against that,

and the value is on Tennessee. I expect Baker Mayfield to have uh some issues that Tennessee has gotta again a very good defense here. Uh they'll, they'll, they'll put the Browns in some tough spots. The problem I have with Tennessee is Marcus Mariota and the Titans offense, which looks to be riding the short bus again uh this season, So you gotta you're gonna have to do something on office. The Browns have a bunch of names on defense, first round picks and all that. But I am gonna take

the Browns to win. But I'm gonna take the Titans to cover Browns. Titans twenty four Penny picks. Penny settles down and goes with the road team as well. Tennessee. Al Right, we agree. Now, I gave you a pop quiz earlier. I gotta pay the pay that off. Who was the quarterback who led his team to the biggest road comeback in NFL history? Do you have a guest, guest, I'm gonna take an educated guest and I'll say it's

your favorite quarterback one Peyton Manning with the Indianapolis Colts. No, you should know me better than this guest, Gunn And I'm not gonna put any kind of pro Peyton Manning propagand out. Okay, that's wrong with you. Now, this is great. This is I love this when the answer is an obscure person. The greatest road comeback in NFL history. Brian Hoyer engineered it. Brian Hoyer who did it while playing for the Cleveland Browns. This is only five years ago.

This is back in the Cleveland Browns were down three against the Tennessee Titans, the matchup we just talked about. It was the second quarter, twenty five point comeback. That is the largest comeback by a road team in NFL history. And Brian Hoyer, who's still lurking with the Colts. Uh, he was the guy that did it. That's that's wild, man. It is unbelievable. I was just that Manning game against

the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on money. Yeah. Yeah, that was the last five minutes of the Monday night game, right, And I remember that al Michaels lost his mind, and that a couple of coins too. What you're talking about? Uh? Next up on the fifth hour with Ben Maller, it's the Los Angeles Rams and the Carolina Panthers. It's on Fox my former radio colleagues, someone who actually respected and appreciated the great Chris Myers. I kid because I care.

We'll be calling this game and Darryl moose Johnson, the old Dallas Cowboys SI by side. They will be waxing poetic in the Fox box. That rocks. The Rams opened up a two and a half point favorite. Rams are favorite by two. Uh. I am going to take Carolina in this game, and I'm gonna hold my nose while I do it as a Ram apologist, but I'm gonna take the Panthers. Uh. And I'll walk you through this now. First of all, the Rams have been a great road

team under Sean McVeigh. It's a small sample size, but their ten and two straight up in the last twelve roadies. So the ten and two, that's a very good record, not and not against the spread. But overall, they have to get rid of the stigma from the Super Bowl loss. Everyone seems to think that teams are now going to figure out the Rams offense. I don't buy that. No team teams. I don't doubt teams are gonna try to copy what Belichick did in the Super Bowl. It's whether

they they're able to pull it off. And and now that the Rams have to adjust and McVeigh has got to adjust, and Golf's gotta figure it out with McVeigh leading him by the caller to figure it out. But I'm not sure what to expect out of the Gates. The Rams as they usually do, didn't show anything in the preseason. I wouldn't think they're this is gonna be a little bit better. Secondly, you know Carolina has a

better defense. I don't think I'm going out in a limb saying that the Panthers have a defense they believe is gonna be an elite defense. They fell apart near the end last year, but everyone's healthy for the most part to start the year, and they think they're gonna mess with with Jered gb I I don't expect much from Cam Newton. I think this is a close game, is a back and forth type of game. Uh and

home underdogs cover the spread more often than not. I know I've picked a couple of road favorites here, but in this spot, two good teams. I'm gonna take Carolina to cover. But spoiler alert, I don't think they win the game. I think this is a one point game. And I know the public almost always bets on road favorites, and there's a lot of people that love the Rams here even though it's gone down by a half point. So Rams thirty one Panthers thirty in a thriller. That's right,

that's right. You can ram it all day. You can ram it discussing, but the penny goes with you and the Carolina Panthers. All right, So we agree on that it's amazing. Cam Newton, through divine interventions, able to play here. And he heard his ankle in that exhibition game a couple of weeks back, did a whole monologue about how he might not play. Was it pretty good? There was a great monel. I give it like a six six on the monologue school scale of what wow? Really you know,

I mean you are replaceable? Understand that? I mean everybody is, yeah, yeah, they might put well, I got replaced by a can of soup. Nine, I got fired from the radio show and they put on your fighting for like six hours. Weren't you for like thirty days? I was? It was six months and twenty six days. I was in radio purgatory and uh, and then I had to fill in. I worked. We should talk about that sometime. We used to be a separate podcast on Radio Story. So we're

coming up with ideas as we go. Here. Guess I know I used to listen to you twenty or thirty years ago. Stop that you are such a liar. You are lying, you bombastic schmuck. Alright, seez I guess we can curse you know what? You are an asshole? There I said it. You're an asshole, all right. Anyway, let's get to the late games now spending versus the Pennyman versus medal Uh, the late games. Santa Clara. This is a late game Santa Clara at Tampa Bay. They don't

play in San Francisco. They play in Santa Clara. By the way, I'll be spending some time not far from Santa Clara this weekend. That's right, surprise. Yeah. Anyway, Santa Clara at Tampa Bay. It is on Fox. You better watch Friend of the show. Good dude, I love this guy. Kenny Albert on the Fox Box that rocks and ron Da Barber. We'll have to add some Kenny albert stories there, but it's great Kenny. I was introduced by to him

by Sports with Coleman, my radio friend in Baltimore. And every time Kenny comes to Los Angeles and does uh, whether it's a hockey game or a uh, you know, boxing match or whatever. You know. He has a lot of basketball. He doesn't knicks, and I'll go say hello to Kenny, will catch up. It's pretty cool. He's a good guy. Kenny does everything football, basketball, baseball, hockey, Olympics. Guy's hustling man. Kenny albert Is, He's hustling. He spent

a lot of time at LaGuardia and JFK there. He lives in the New York area, flying all over the place. All right. So Santa Clara at Tampa Bay Bucks open to two and a half point favorite. They are currently favorite by one. I am not drinking the kool aid on the Niners. I'm gonna take the Buccaneers in this game. And I'll walk you through this now. To me, your guest is as good as mine. At which Jimmy Garoppolo is gonna show up. He had a very mixed performance

in the exhibition game. Is hard to get a good read on that small sample size against vanilla defenses. He looked to me the game I watched the forty Niners played against I think it was the Broncos, he looked like damaged goods. So until I see something tangible from this guy and say that Garoppolo is gonna be back as a and X factors as a real impact player for the for the forty Niners, I I just can't go there. And and we we will get a good look at him against the middle of the Roadbucks defense

this weekend. I'm just not optimistic. The Niners made a few changes around their offense. We'll see if it in Bruce. But the key is Jimmy Garoppolo. And secondly, Bruce Arians making his triumphant return, taking an amazing modern medical miracle as he had to retire for health reasons in Arizona and in a year he's back, an amazing comeback. But Bruce Arians making his his debut on the sidelines with

the Buccaneers. He's supposed to be the quarterback whisper, and if that's true, then Jamis Winston is gonna be really good, right. The bulk of Tampa's roster, I believe I would compare it to deep Doo Doo. That's what I could would compare the roster there in Carolina. It's a food bar group. I expect lots of points to be scored in this game. The forty Niners looking at what should happen this year. The weak spot in their defenses in the secondary. Uh

last year they were horrifical. They give up the most passing touchdowns. Last season they had the fewest interceptions. I don't see a lot of big name changes there that I'm excited about, so it does not appear to me that they're all that much better defensively, which makes this a terrible matchup. It's gonna be hot, humid, nasty weather in Tampa, as it normally is earlier in the year. Jamis Winston should should slice them up? Should slice them

being the forty Niners defense up in this game. And by the way, the forecast, just to prove that I'm not making this up, ninety one degrees and nice and humid, sweaty weather. And that's not Bay Area weather in well, it is the Bay Area weather in the Bay like Tampa and St. Pete. But in the other Bay area, the West Coast Bay area, not not so much. Your final score Bucks thirty five forty niners, thirty two Penny picks West Coast to East Coast. Team. Penny is picking

the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Alright, Penny picking Tampa Bay Bay. Exciting. Now, uh, let me give you another football quiz here, pop football quiz, And here it is Baker Mayfield of the Cleveland Bounds. He has touchdown passes in all thirteen games he has started, trailing only for as far as career opening streaks. He's trailing only Hall of Famer Kurt Warner and Blank. Those are the only two players that have had longer weeks to start their career of touchdown passes per game. Again,

Baker Mayfield touchdown past all thirteen starts. He trails only Kurt Warner and Blank among the players who started there their career uh for as touchdowns per game. So that's the question. The answer coming up in a bit. Next up, Detroit at Arizona. It's on Fox. Now, this is the game here. Guesscon that they don't think it's gonna be very good, you know how I know that. I know because you got the E List broadcast career. Right. Yeah, my guy Dick Stockton that I grew up with, Dick Stockton.

I love the man. We've I used to do the Blitz on Sundays where it was one of one of my favorite parts of that. We got to talk to Dick Stockton every couple of weeks, and I love the guy. I hear his voice. I flashed back to when I was twelve years old he was doing a big Celtic Laker game or something like that, or a baseball game. Uh, it's just it's nostalgia for me. He's lost a little off as fastball, but he's still doing I loved it.

Fox still sends him out there because people lampoon Dick Stockton. People are very cruel, these these young people on social media. How if you know about that? Uh and and so, I I love that Stockton still gets to do the game. But he's doing he does the worst games he does. But at least, if you're looking at this game as a football fan, at least you get two quarterbacks that have big arms. I know you hate Kyler Murray, but at least has a strong emotion hates a strong emotion,

the confidence in him. You call him a mini me, you call alligator arms alligator arms. I've used that line like that grasshopper, I think tall as a grasshopper definicate on a starting quarterback of a National Football League. Alright, shut up, So Destroit Arizona the game open to pick him. The Lions are a two and a half point favorite. And just to prove that I am not some kind of hater here, I am actually gonna take the Cardinals

in this game. I I have to come to terms with this, but I'm gonna take the Cardinals in this game. And I'll tell you why. Kyler Murray, as you said, he begins lie as a starter in the NFL. We'll see if if alligator Arms Murray has some beginners luck here. I don't expect much. Detroit. I believe will win the game, but I cannot bet on the Lions as a road dog. I have a stigma when it comes to the Lions as a road dog. I just cannot cannot do it. Will not do it. Don't want to be a party

to it. Don't trust Matthew Stafford in these spots. Now that's it. I love the Lions defense. Like the Lions uh defense should be one of the top defenses in the NFL. They added Trade Flowers from the Patriots, and they've got Damon Snack Harrison. I love the nickname Snacks, big run stuffer up front they got from the Giants. Darius Slay is there in the secondary, pretty good player. They have the makings of one of the better defense.

I mean, they've got some some centerpiece players there as the cornerstones of that defense, so I think they'll be very good. But yet I'm picking Arizona to cover the spread. This is a game that features two bad teams. This should be a pick them game and open to pick them. If it was a pick him, I would take the Lions. But I don't want to give any points at all with with Matthew Stafford, I don't. I do not. We'll see what Cliff Kingsbury and his millennial coaching style will turn.

I I would like to see, like before halftime, maybe like mid second quarter, Kingsbury has all the players pull out their electronic devices and they can update the Graham like if they're trailing, wouldn't that be great? Like everyone has their phones on the bench and they all right, you gotta post something on the Graham because we're losing by two touchdowns to the Lions. Wonderful might have to do like a workout video in between breaks then, right,

is that's what they usually do? Or like hey look at me eat something? Hashtag yeah they have Yeah, they have a snack. They have a snack break where they get granola bars and juice boxes orange peels. Like playing peewee football. Over under on how many sacks for over under? On how many sacks for the quarterback of the Cardinals Kyler Murray. I'm gonna say four and a half. Oh as that's the over. I'll take the over. I believe he will be sacked regularly. Deer in the headlights situation

over fair enough? All right, I gotta pay off the final score. By the way, we'll get the penny pick. I'm taking the Lions to win, but the Cardinals to cover. So Lions sixteen, Cardinals fourteen in a Dick Stockton spectacular. Uh penny likes the home team from the Desert Arizona as well. All right, let's get back to that payoff. We'll pay off that football quiz. Baker Mayfield touchdown past all thirteen starts, trailing only on the all time list

to start their careers. Kurt Warner and Blank. Now Kurt Warner, who's a Hall of Famer. He had twenty three consecutive games with a touchdown. That's number one. Who's number two? Guest? Go on, you gotta guest. Now you're listening to the podcast. I can't read your answers on the air because, uh, I don't know if you know this, this was already recorded. But you just lock it in your head and then you can pack yourself on the back if you got it right. What's what's the your answer? I'm gonna go

with another Arizona quarterback, Jake the Snake Plumber. Jake the Snake Plumber, fine, fine man who also he pulled the Andrew Luck. He quit Jake Plumber. He pulled the Andrew Luck before it was Andrew Like what you used to call it? The Jake Plumber? Uh no, the correct answer. Here's a quarterback that was good, but nobody remembers Brad Johnson. Oh my, remember Brad Johnson. He did this with the Vikings when he started his career. But he he won

a Super Bowl with Jon Gruden and the Buccaneers. But he was their quarterback when they beat the Raiders and the Superpens. Right, yeah, so Brad Johnson, he had fifteen games in a row to start his career with the touchdown pass. So that is the answer, right next time, Just just for clarity to you said they Detroit Arizona game, You'd never want to give Matthew Stafford points, right, I never wanted to lay points with That's what I meant

to say. You trying to be a schmuck. But people are coming here, people are gonna be making money off of you, so I want to make sure that they get their accurate information. I know, it's just life and death. This is very important what we're doing here. It's people Taco Bell with the money that they went him from these transactions. We're doing earth shattering podcast is what we're doing here. But my theory, guess on is I'm pretty lucy goosey when it comes us. I believe the listener

is smart. You think the listeners in it. I know the listener knows that. Um. The way I do radio is I'm kind of in the ballpark. You know, I'm close and you have to figure out what I meant that's how I do. I think the Ryle people up like that anyway. All right, Next up Cincinnati at Seattle, Spirodidas at one point the voice of the Lakers and the Knicks. I don't think he's the voice of either of them now. But Spirodidas and Adam arch Aletta are calling this game on CBS. You know, I worked with

Adam Marcealletta at NBC years ago. He was one of the commentators they had. I heard you quit from television from that. Uh no, they the show got canceled. I was so bad at TV. The entire show got canceled. Yeah that's embarrassing. Yeah, I mean no one watched that show. I loved it. That was great TV money. Man. I flew me back to Connecticut. Every month I got a blast. Was it was it daytime or nighttime radio? Uh? It was no, I'm a TV There's that the one thing

I hated. But we should do another podcast about the TVs? How many have Well, we gotta do this every week, man, I need content. Dude, all right, come on, we can't waste all our material right now. I can't give a keynote addressed on everything that's happened in the first podcast and then I'm gonnavite you back to Saddleback College for a keynote speaking session. They will never allow me, but I don't know what happened. I mean, I would love to come back as big man on campus, you know,

teach the young broadcasters it Saddleback. Uh. They never bring me. They never bring me back. I think they're embarrassed by me. As Saddleback College they got. But if you're if you're in southern California, that is a handed gud. That's a great place. I don't even change. They have a college radio station there and the radio pro. That's a good place to learn your radio and and and put your chops in in radio. I did. And you know anyway, Uh,

shameless plug. What's next? See a Cincinnati at Seattle? As I said, I was Spirodidas and Adam Marshallett of Seahawks opened a nine point favorite. They are currently a nine and a half point favorite to pick. Here is the Cincinnati Bengals. I'm gonna take the Cincinnati Bengals, and I'll tell you why. The Seahawks are clearly the better team. They invigorated their locker room with the trade they acquire Jadevian Clowney and all that nice way to energize your

locker room before the season. I'm skeptical. I'm a skeptical how good clown he's gonna be right away? I guess we'll find out. The Bengals are a very poor team. They look like a dumpster fire. There's a lot of positive vibrations in the Pacific Northwest, and Pete Carroll normally is on the happy sauce anyway, and Russell Wilson and friends very happy. But Cincinnati, these are the Bengals who are back to your daddy's Bengals, like Zach Taylor is making his debut as an NFL head coach here with

zero zero buzz. Right, there's no no evidence at all all that this is going to go well. They have a bunch of bit players. They've got a roster that is a mix of chopped liver and mince meat. Uh, that's what they've got round Chuck is what the Bengals appear to be. But even that, even even when that said, I still believe that Cincinnati is the right side in this game. Even though the Bengals will wish they had

Marvin Lewis back. Uh so so even with that, but Andy Dalton has been regularly shell shocked in hostile environments like Seattle in the past. Nevertheless, both teams are healthy. Nobody gets up for the Bengals. This is not a featured game for the Seahawks. And you're you're getting almost ten points. I know A J. Green is not playing. The Bengals are are shorthanded. But you run Joe Mix

and Giovanni Bernard. You run these guys into the ground and play, you know, you play keep away here as much as you can, try to keep the game short. I'm gonna take the Seahawks thirty one, Bengals twenty three. Ben and the Penny agree with the red Rifle. He's going with the road team, going with the road team. Alright, very very sly. Penny has tailed you in the last six picks. I think, Ben, is that right? But that's that's a good job. Yeah, that's a that's a good

job by the by the penny, absolutely all right. It is the it is the maiden voyage here, if Benny versus the Penny, we're picking every NFL game against the number. Next up, Indianapolis at the Los Angeles Chargers. You've got Greg Gumble and Trent Green. This is CBS game. Charges opened up a six and a half point favorite. The Chargers, actually the Charges opening three and a half point favorere they that bumped up to six and a half as the Charges favorite by six and a half. The the

pick here is the Colts. But take the Colts in this game, even though, again the Colts I believe will not be a great team this year. The value was on the side of Indianapolis. Life begins after the death of Andrew lux career this week. Uh. And you know, Jacoby Brissette very poor quarterback statistically when he's played in the NFL. You can expect lots of incomplete passes, a

lot of mistakes here. India is going to have it just they're gonna be tipped on their side here when they when they look at how this is gonna go, uh offensively so, but I believe they will become a ball control team with Marlon Mack running. Uh. And you know the elite defense. Uh, that's the recipe that I am counting on uh for for Indianapolis to keep the game's close. I think their defense is still pretty good. They can't run the ball the offensive line. Secondly, the

Charges are talented. They have suffered a couple of freaky injuries in training camp. And we'll see how Austin Ekeler and the running game, the ensemble backfield does. They got a bunch of supporting actors there who met have trivialized, who are now getting the opportunity to be a top headliner in the drawing card for the for the running games. So I think they'll be fine running the ball. I

don't know. I mean, Melvin Gordon is better than Austin Ekeler, but I don't think he's that much better than Austin Ekeler and Melvin Gordon's personna and On Grotta. So even with the shortcomings of Jacoby Brissette, this is too many points, all right. There's not a six and a half point spread between the Chargers and the Colts. You're getting almost

a touchdown with a good defensive team. Understand they're on the road, but I will take the dog now that again, the Charges are gonna win the game, but they're not going to cover the spreads of the values with the Indianapolis Colts. Chargers thirty Colts twenty four, No luck needed penny going with the Colts as well. Alright, going with the Colts as well. It is Benny versus the Penny as we continue, as we roll on here on the fifth hour with Ben Malley, this is the extended dance remix.

I just found out we're doing the Stendard Dance remix here. And I love that we're doing Benny Versus the Penny on the podcast because normally I would have already been over if this had been the radio show, we would have already been done by the clos for the clock. Ben Mallay, Rn, I don't have to be about the clock on the podcast, right I can. I can take

as long as I want. Now, is it accurate and fair to say that you should thank me for this because I actually had proposed this to last year, and that your listeners should go to the podcast version of Benny Versus the Penny? Is that fair to say? First of all, you know you're a fisherman, you're fishing for compan Secondly, this is my idea. All right, this is my idea. It's your segment, but I don't know if it was your idea. You're more of a mainstream radio

guy as opposed to multimedia guy. Uh. According to the people that download the radio podcast, Uh, screw you. You had all your your your lackeys subscribe to the podcast teaser and all of a sudden give five star reviews. Oh my god, I laughed, my ass. I I was showing everybody. I said, you can't believe what these idiots wrote on these reviews. I mean comparing me to Howard Stern and his prime and I mean it was hilarious.

I think it's it's the funniest thing. And that was one of the coolest things the Mallan militia, the p Ones have done there for the podcast. There was no content Gascon as you know, and yet we had. I I think it was like seventy five reviews, all of them five star reviewsed, not not a single one star. Ready it was the best five fifth hour in podcast history. One. I mean, it was just it was just great, possibly the greatest, possibly the best podcast ever. Just might be

another person rode. Uh, it's pretty pretty funny. Uh So I think your best social media tweet too, was following the guy that responded to you and said I'll pass And he said, much like Pete Carroll, you're in the wrong right now. Yeah, they come back with that, but yeah, thanks, and listen, you know, just because we've gotten a lot of reviews, now we actually have content, like you're listening

to contest, so don't stop. I mean, that's one of the things the big corporate muckety MUCKs and the big shots that keep track of this crap. Uh, they like to look at those reviews. It makes them feel good about themselves and stuff. It makes me good feel good about myself. So uh yeah, be great, you know, And I know you're disingenuous, but you can still post a nice review. It's good. I don't care. But of course, now with Benny versus the opinion, I know you said

he might do some college football. Should you do anything or at least allow the listeners to pick a conference and maybe you do one game from that conference per week. And I think maybe we could do what you love doing polls. We could do like a poll on on Twitter, like which college game? You know, we could do like one college game or two college games, like like this weekend, the big college game is what L s U and Texas. I think in the Big Game this week, Texas is

a dog at home. That's right, yeah, alright, So we're not picking that game because we gotta get back to football, right Otherwise they're gonna kick us out of this little podcast duty that wins, you're gonna you know, you're gonna have hell hell to pay. All right? Next up, what's the next time? Giants and Cowboys? Yes, yes, all right, Giants and Cowboys on Fox. You better watch now, this is the big game on Fox. Joe Buck and Troy a in the Fox box that Rocks calling this game.

The Cowboys opened up a seven and a half point favorite. They were favored by seven. Now I am gonna go against one of my gambling beliefs here. I have often signed the pledge. I've told you about this earlier in the podcast. I love teams that are home dogs. And in addition, I don't like putting, uh, you know, a touchdown up for anybody in a divisional game. Normally the rule is divisional game touchdown or more. You take the team getting the touchdown because divisional games are closed. This

is the exception of the rule. I'm gonna take the Cowboys here and Zeke Elliott I don't know if he's gonna play. We don't know yet. As we're doing the podcast, we don't know how much he's gonna play. Even if he does play, the guy could go out there first play pop as Achilles and be out for the year. That's possible. We've seen that kind of stuff before because who God knows what he was doing in Cabo. But this the reason to pick the Cowboys to cover a

seven point number. The Giants are like the ugly redheaded step children of the NFL. Dallas can win this game with their defense alone. The Giants won't even break twenty points. They will be everyone's homecoming opponent until proven otherwise, and really until they changed quarterbacks. And meanwhile, Dak Prescott game manager. But that's all you have to be against the team Like the Giants. Big Blue was a middling past defense team statistically last season. I don't think they're gonna be

much better. I know Pat Shermer who's still hanging around on the sidelines there. Uh, he doesn't have enough body spray to get the stench away from Eli Manning and and On the radio show this week, we had a story. I did a monologue which was critically lampooned by some of the militia because they didn't like what I was talking about. But they said that of all the quarterbacks, the one that hurts their team the most via the point spread is Eli Manning, and I I would agree

with that. He is a net negative for the Giants. So you're gonna struggle to run the ball, you fall behind. If the Cowboys jump ahead like fourteen, the nothing you're gonna be able to run the ball with Sequon Barkley fifty times in the game. I mean, good luck. That doesn't seem like a winning formula to me. You're gonna have to throw, which means Eli is gonna get intercepted and turnovers stacked the score. Uh. You know, if the Giants played Daniel Jones in this game, Not that I

don't think Daniel, you know, I'm not. I'm not completely sold on Daniel Jones, but I'd rather see what he can do than Eli Manning. I would certainly take the Giants plus seven, but they're by all accounts they're not doing that. Man Manning's gonna play the entire game unless he gets hurt. Uh. Final score Cowboys twenty seven, Giants sixteen, and the Penny picks. Finally, some dissension. The penny is

going with the road team, the New York Giants. Alright, I enjoy that dumpster diving the Giants in the deep water. If you are deep, all right? Next up, Sunday Night Football. That's right, Sunday Night Football. You got the Patriots a six point favorite. They opened as a six and a half point favorite. I'm gonna take New England here. It's another one of those games. Usually you tried. It's not a divisional game, but usually you try to anytime you

get close to a touchdown you take the points. But early in the year, in this spot, I'm gonna take the Patriots. First of all, the Steelers are lacking the wild factor on office. They're lacking the dynamic, electric playmakers that they have typically had over the years. Like this trap door opened up and uh, it's problems that old Elvis song. Right, we were caught in a trap. Uh. And the Steelers have lost their big guys offensively, with Antonio Brown going out of Levan Bell was their last year,

but they thought he might come back. So they are dependent on Juju Smith, Schuster being the man and some other guys who we have no idea. They're anonymous becoming good. If I'm Mike Tomlin, I am paranoid going into this season because because of the unknown and and plus Tomlin teams and any anyway have have regularly failed to cover against Belichick coach teams. The Steelers under Tomlin against Belichick.

I think the numbers two and five the last seven times they've played in Foxboro, so they verily rarely win the money in Foxborough the Steelers do. Secondly, this will be the ground and pound run right, run, left, run up the gut version of the Patriots. I in mixed with a short, short passing game, but I think more running. Uh. And they have to they have to hide Tom Brady at this point in his career and limit the amount of throws put him on a pitch count if you will,

or the longevity of the entire season. And I love the Patriots defense. I really think this is gonna be a top defensive squad. Patriots have gotten off to some slow starts, even in this twenty year run of Dynasty. This had been a week link defensively for the Steelers, and you know, or for the Patriots. Rather last year I thought they weren't very good. They got better as the year went on, But the odds indicate that the

value is with Tom Brady. Even as a six point favorite Sunday Night football, tom Brady has a six thirty three winning percentage in Sunday night games. It's a nighttime Foxborough Al Michael's barking Away Patriots thirty six and the Steelers twenty four penny Going the opposite way, going Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburg Steelers. Have you ever been to Pittsburgh? I've been there once. Yes, Have you been to Primani Brothers? What the hell is that? Oh? It's guesscan you we're losing listeners.

And this one of the great local dives in Pittsburgh, Permanti Brothers. And there's there's a bunch of it. It's a rest where you don't need. It's not healthy, but they they're the sandwich. They make these chicken sandwiches and stuff used to put that. They put all the ingredients on the sandwich. They put French fries on there. It's it's really good. And I went to the one I met Pete in Pittsburgh. Uh, we should do another podcast about meeting listeners. But I met Pete and Pete and Pittsburgh,

and uh, it was like one in the morning. I was driving from Philadelphia to Buffalo and I went through. I wastrive from New York. Yeah, I was in Philly. I drove all over the East Coast, but anyway, I drove through Pittsburgh. I was only there for like two days. And I met Pete in Pittsburgh and a couple other listeners, the bread Man, the dough Boy, like one in the morning in the Steel District, that Permanti Brothers. We had sandwiches and old stories. It was a lot of fun.

I'm a man of the people, man, I'm a man of the people. I forget the names, but give me some good spots in Boston when I'm out there with Blind Scott. Oh yeah, man, I love I've been in Boston a lot over the years, like for radio stuff. But there's some really good, really good restaurants there in in Boston as well. Alright, so what are we doing here? The next game? Alright, Monday night football, Monday Night. Well, yeah, this is the showcase game of the weekend. This is

the sexy game. This is the the game that has the sex appeal, the charisma, the alert, the drawing power, it's on Monday night, Houston at New Orleans. Is this the game Bookers doing? And this is per for you because obviously you being a a anti Deshaun Watson uh sportscaster radio hack. Well again, I am a truth teller and I believe that Deshan Watson is overady. We'll find out.

You know what It's defining moment as a professional quarterback is in a playoff game, down twenty one points against the Colts when they got a first down signalings like he was the referee. What a dope. That's the equivalent of doing a sack dance when you're down in the fourth quarter. It was just just great, just completely tone deaf, completely clueless. So what a dumb dumb Anyway, listen, Houston, New Orleans. The Saints open and nine point favorite in

this game. The Saints are a seven point favorite right now, and much like I picked the Cardinals even though I despised Kyler Murray, the pick here is the Houston Texas. I'm gonna take Houston. I'll tell you my logic behind this. This game projects to be a track meet. It is the highest I believe over under the numbers. I'm looking at here, the highest over under on the weekend, and they are expecting Drew Brees and Deshaun Watson to have

the old back and forth pinball gallery type of game. Touchdowns, they're touchdowns over there, touchdowns in the air everywhere, and field goals super Dome. Now, the main reason I like the Texans and I'm lean to them is you're getting seven points, which I love. I love getting a decent team, not a great team, Houston, but a decent team with a touchdown. And I don't know what you got with Drew Brees. He's forty years old. He had a free fall which many people seem to have swept under the rug.

Four games he played in the regular season for the Saints last year, Drew Brees had three touchdowns, three interceptions. He had a passer rating under eighty five. And the most damning stat, right as I tried to to pile on here, Drew Brees the most damning stat. The last four games he played last season, he averaged six point four yards per attempt. That is anemic, is what it is.

And so you're going against a decent defense. Texans have a pretty good pass rush, or at least they're supposed to have a pretty good pass fresh even with the Clowney being gone. So there's the unknown. And you also have Laramie Tunzl who's making his debut, supposedly gonna protect the Shawn Watson was I believe Deshaun Watson his bad internal clock is the reason that he led the NFL in sacks last year. He suffers from the pandemic that

is pocket panic. Now that's set the Saints again. They have issues in their secondary as well here, namely defensive back the other side of Marshawn Lattimore. That is a weak spot for the Saints, and New Orleans traditionally has been a team to bet against earlier in the year. Now, what's my evidence? Al Right? New Orleans has started under Sean Payton since the last five years up until this year. Obviously, don't played last twelve games first, first or second week

of the year. The Saints are one and eleven against the spread. They have started slow. Last year they lost to the Amish Rifle and the Buccaneers. So the pick here now again, this is the case where the Saints are gonna win this game. They're gonna lose out right, They're gonna win but there it's gonna be a back and forth close game. New Orleans thirty eight, Houston already

four penny picks. Penny going at the Houston Texans. Alright, so the Penny not trying to upstage me, not trying to outshine me, agreeing with me, which is a very nice Ben not looking at the board. Off the top of your head, what do you think the second highest point total is for this weekend? You just mentioned Houston and New Orleans with think, yeah, that's that's good here, um, let me think you we'll have Rams Carolina. No, no,

believe it or not, it's Kansas City in Jacksonville. They're well, yeah, because Kansas City scores are a ton of points, so they're going forty. They might have to. Yeah, alright, last game. We have reached the finish line. We have reached the finish line. And this the maiden Voyage of Benny Versus the Penny is a podcast only Hey, let us know by the well, we'll give you the email and all that stuff at the end when you know no one actually listens to the end of a podcast. But well,

we'll give you the ways you can contact us. But the Monday Night Football game of the late game here Denver at Oakland alright, opened up a three point favorite. They are currently a one and a half point favorite. I'm gonna take the Raiders. I'm gonna take the Silver and Black against Gascon's Denver Broncos here. Uh, and I really think there's a good spot for Oakland, Like either one of these teams is all that good. The Broncos are are on offense, They're gonna be a dog's lunch,

messy and lean complete passes. Joe Flacco is going to give John Elway a lesson in the law of diminishing returns. Uh, what are you thinking here with this Flacco guy? I mean, unless you send him to the guy or clinic for some of those happy pills that other Bronco quarterbacks have gotten. Wink wink, not not. I just don't see a scenario where he has this great career renaissance in Denver. And

Elway clearly has amnesia with his comments about Flacco. He has just just slurped up and given a bubble bath to Joe flat Go. And Flacco was guilty of grand larceny for impersonating a good quarterback after he won the Super Bowl in Baltimore, and he got replaced by a guy that can't even throw the ball at a running quarterback.

The Broncos should go on Amazon. Here's what they should do and buy some buy some deodorant themselves there, because they got to cover up that stank from their office, and their defense is gonna be pretty good to me. The other part of this, the one stumbling block here is Derek Carr, right, second tier quarterback, but better than the third tier quarterback like Joe Flaccos. He got a

little bit better quarterback here. They the Raiders. They made some change against some young guys playing this game, and last year with a different roster, the Raiders were in most of the games. They faded in the second half. If they're in the game, I believe they will win the game. They expect this to be a close game. Neither team all that good. I will take and the Denver Broncos twenty three and the Penny picks for the final game. Last, but not least, Penn ain't going with

the Denver Broncos. All right, the Denver Broncos. There it is. And thus that concludes the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller on Yes, Yes, the Benny versus the Penny because four hours are not enough and this actually was over an hour by the way, that was should we do the fifth and sixth hour? I, you know, for for me, as I donate my time to not only you, but to this this multimedia company. I don't think so I'm doing this pro bono, so you don't do anything pro bono. Yeah,

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that is it. So guess we've survived. It's a it's it's the main voyage, as you mentioned, and it's a start to a it's like you and William chatting it right, You guys have re established a new and better relationship than you did in years past, a new frontier. I

mean I worked. I got here to Fox Sports Radio back in two thousand and fourteen, and you started and when two thousand and two, two three now I started in the end of when I started, no member of two thousand actually okay, yeah, so I am closing in next year opens Collide and I'm really excited about this. Happy for you and uh yeah, I mean you got to twenty hours a week but now you get to put a cherry on top of this. I think it'll be like one. That's a good gambling number one, right,

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