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handicap these NFL games. Try I think I can predict what's gonna happen in the NFL games. Uh, and what should work. If you're a gambler, you know, you got to do your own homework and then if everything matches up. If everything matches up, then uh, then we're good. All right, then you should probably bet that game. I guess God is the voice of the coin. He will not say much, right, guess skun Well, I will not say much. But I have a great message to convey to you from from

somebody else. Okay, your better half was actually spying on us and listening to the podcast, and she said, in a quote you never bug end quote, I never bug, I never bug until she's lying. That's pretty quickly. Are you putting your own sidiself to cut yourself on the back? I thought it was a narciss thought it was really kind of your better half to say that about me.

Flout her for the words and the compliment. I can use a lot more of those, and some of get must from from must have must have had a blind moment there, a blind moment and a blind moment. Also, Yes, uh, have you thought about what we're doing for weeks seventeen, because that's usually one like weeks seventeen, a week one a usually the dangerous times of the year to bet. I usually don't bet week seventeen, So I mean we

can do it. I find it impossible. And uh, there's only a couple of games where both teams are trying if you don't know the motivation. I don't think you can bet on a game, you know, And a lot of these teams, you know, it's like what they're gonna play their backups are they're really trying to win the game, and they're just gonna rest everyone, And so yeah, we'll worry about that then, but I assume we'll probably not do it for week seventeen. Maybe we'll only do it

for a couple of games that matter. Like you're like your game will matter, You're Seattle, San Francisco. Games shouldn't matter. I suppose that that should. You know absolutely, you know in theory now matter depending if Seattle loses this weekend to Carolina, that would change things. But we'll we'll find out. All right, Let's get to the games here, Tampa Bay six and seven at Detroit three, nine and one, and we'll play the Dick Stockton game. It's on Fox. Is

this the Dick Stockton game? The game? Yeah, this is it at Detroit. That is correct. You win the Dick Stockton game. Right off the back. Dick Stockton and Mark Slayer to have the call. The Buccaneers. They opened a four point favorite, their favorite by three and a half. It'll be cloudy thirty degrees at Ford Field in Detroit, Al those domes so don't really matter. I'm gonna take the Lions in this game. And I'll tell you why two bad teams you take the points, especially when the

road team his favorite. I don't trust either one of these teams. The Buccaneers is over a field goal favorite just does not pass the test from me. Tampa Bay didn't all of a sudden become a good team. They're a bad team. Now there you can say they're an average team. They're six and seven and all that. But the main reason again but better against the Buccaneers is the cloud around Jamis Winston. He's got a mangled thumb. Now he's gonna give it the old college try here,

But how effective is he gonna be? And Winston already when his thumb is not messed up, is a mistake filled mess. So you know there's the questions about his health if he gets knocked out of the game, and that means Ryan Griffin is the backup. Good luck on that. Also, Tampa has not been good as a road favorite in recent years. They have a three oh eight winning percentage when favorite on the road in recent seasons. And secondly, the Lions have lost six straight, so why would I

bet on the lines? And and David Blow has played like David Blow a lot of this time. I expect Blow to have a fine performance this week. The reason the Buccaneers secondaries a dog's lunch Tampa's thirty feet in passing yards allowed. Only Arizona has been worse. So I'm gonna bank on a couple of things. I'm gonna bank on Jamis Winston throwing a couple of interceptions at least with a couple of fumbles. And I'm also gonna bank on that Tampa secondary being like cookie dough and the

Lions being able to move the ball. I believe Detroit wins this game, and everyone's betting on the on the Buccaneers, and I don't get it. These are two bad teams. Lions twenty three bucks, twenty penny is good with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All right. Next up Philadelphia six and seven at Washington three and ten. Uh, let's say six and seven, Yes, six and seven and in three intent. So it's it's on Fox. Tom Brennanman and Chris Spielman

have the call. The Eagles opened up a six point favorite, and they are still a six point favorite on the road at FedEx Field, cloudy and forty eight degrees at kick off in land Over, Maryland. I'm gonna take the Redskins in this game, and there's a couple of reasons why. First of all, Philadelphia brings the mash unit to FedEx Field. The right tackle lane. Johnson's got a bad ankle. He is not expected to come back this week. I don't

not play again. Al Sean Jeffrey has done for the year, which means Carson Wentz will be without his safety blanket protection on the offensive line. He'll have a bunch of rejects he's got to throw the ball to again. Philadelphia has guys like Boston Scott who actually played well against the Giants. J j R. Seaga Whiteside at white Out. These are nobody's who are gonna have to play like somebody's in order to win the game. And secondly, the Eagles have lost to the Giants a couple of weeks ago.

They had a scratch and claw game against the Giants and the Monday night game had to come from behind in the second half and go to overtime to win. Plus it's a short week. All the pressures on the Eagles to win this game. The Redskins, they still have some moxie, they still have some fight to him. They can run the ball with Adrian Peterson, Chris Thompson. I would assume we get a lot of work here as well. And this rookie Terry McLaren, the wide receiver has been

pretty good. This game is gonna be ugly, It is gonna be close, and Philadelphia has not really taken the wood to anybody in a long time. And remember these teams played way back in the opener and Washington had a seven team point lead at one point against Philadelphia. That was a healthy Philadelphia team. Eagles twenty, Redskins seventeen. That's a cover for Washington. Penny is going with the Eagles on this one. That's a bad job by the

Penny alright. Next up Chicago at green Bay. We expedite the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallard podcast, which is all about the NFL. And the next up the Chicago Bears the Monsters of the Midway at seven and six of the Green Bay Packers at ten and three. It is on Fox. You better watch Kevin Burkhart and Charles Davis. The Packers opened a seven point favorite. They are currently favored by four and a half. This is gonna be

the coldest game of the weekend. It's gonna be cloudy in eighteen degrees at lambeau Field at kickoff for these two rivals, that'll go at it. I'm gonna take the Bears here plus the four and a half. Mitch Drabinsky has he turned the corner. I'm not so sure about that. I think that's more about playing crappy teams like the Cowboys and Lions, pathetic teams like that who are disgraceful. We will see how things go this week at Lambeau.

But if you look at the full body of work, the Bears have gone three and out on thirty one of their drives this season, highest in the NFL. That is a direct reflection and a referendum on both the head coach, Matt Naggy offensive genius, and Mitch Drabinsky, the quarterback now be the Packers, and Rod the ambassador of Bakersfield,

one of the senior Malla militia guys. So Rod called up uh the other day this week and we talked about the pack He loves the Packers, and we agreed that despite their ten and three record, this has been built on like a hill of marshmallows. It there's no there's no stability here Green Bay. What's my havnes? Green Bay is twenty second in defense. The Falcon and Redskins have been better defensively this year than the Packers. The

cheese Kurds are twenty three in total offense. The Browns, the much malign Brown's Jacksonville, with two different quarterbacks, have been more efficient on offense. Holy Aaron Rodgers Batman. So what I'm trying to tell you is they're doing this with smoking mirrors here, much like Seattle has done it with smoking mirrors. It's going to be a nasty arctic day on the frozen tundra of lambeau Field. And I expect this to be a close to the vest game

both teams because of the weather. And you're not gonna open up the playbook here. Uh. And green Bay also has a big game, a key game coming up with the Vikings next week, which could determine the winner of the NFC North likely will be the NFC North Championship game. So it's a peek a boo spot Packers will win, but they won't cover green Bay the Bears twenty three. Ben going the opposite way again, Go green Bay Packers. That's about job by the penny. Next up New England

ten and three at Cincinnati one and twelve. It's on CBS with Andrew Catalan and James lofton The Patriots opened a ten and a half point favorite. As we're doing this, the Patriots are a nine and a half point favorite. The weather sunny and thirty five degrees at kick off at Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. I'm gonna take the Bengals plus the nine and a half and my my logic mindus until the Patriots find that mojo and deliver the hammer to someone again. I haven't done this

in so long, specifically on offense. I just can't lay over a touchdown with the Patriots the way their their offense has fallen on hard times. Tom Brady has completed just fifty of his past is the last four games. That's the lowest in a four game span in his entire career. He's playing the worst football of his life. He is on pace for just twenty three touchdown passes, which would be the lowest in a sixteen game season since three way back in the day early in his career.

And he's also dinged up. So you toss in the fact he's got the three stooges at wide receiver there and a revolving door of an offensive line. Uh, good times here, now, I don't I don't trust the Bengals. The Bengals go against a good Patriots defense, but they've been able to move the ball between the twenties with Andy Dalton, and that gets you into field goal range. And if you're kicking up field goals, you can beat the Patriots the way their offense is going right now.

Now everyone has gotten healthy against the Bengals defense. So that does scare me a little bit. But again, I could be completely wrong here. Patriots can win by thirty points, but I don't buy it. Without offense, Patriots will win, but they won't cover New England Cincinnati fourteen. Oh boy, Penny's going with the Patriots. Yeah, well, the Chalky mc chalk bet the favorites. That's what the public does, and real professional gamblers are willing to go off the grid.

Next upting, what's that? We're getting trivia? No went off? We went off? Time for it? Oh, you're so lazy looking Shut up? You want me to trivia? Okay, if you want me to do it, I'll do it. You want me to do it, smart ass? You want me to do it. You want to get you want to get trivial, all right, I'll get trivial. Schmuck, I'm gonna get trivia. Okay, your old school questions there usually Alright, we'll only do a couple though. All Right, I am the only player in the NFL this season with ten

plus sacks and two interceptions. All right, and the answer coming up here. Next up, Houston eight and five at Tennessee. Also eight and five. It's on CBS with Jim Nance and Tony Romo. This is a game I am looking forward to watching this weekend. The Titans open a one and alf point favorite, Tennessee favored by three. It'll be cloudy and forty five degrees at kickoff at Nissan Stadium. I'm gonna take the Titans in this game as a small home favorite. First of all, Deshaun Watson is like

a kaleidoscope. You don't know what you're gonna get. He tosses up a masterpiece a couple of weeks in a row. Everyone's saying how great he is, and then he has a finger painting performance. Last week against the Broncos, it was a public disaster until garbage time. The Texans blew a gimme a home game against a losing team with a rookie quarterback, and now they travel. They got caught looking ahead. Now they traveled into a bee hive in Nashville.

The public, though, is loading up on Houston. I'm not feeling I'm not feeling it. And secondly, Ryan Tannehill and and Derrick Henry have been an amazing combo. Now I keep thinking that this is a temporary situation. This is a house of cards situation. It's all gonna be coming come tumbling down, but it hasn't yet. Then I bet against Tennessee last week, and I thought they'd be caught looking ahead. But Tannehill and Henry are as good as

peanut butter and jelly as a combo. I mean by land, by air, by sea Tennessee right now, their defense is starting to click. Has been clicking here. Tennessee has been an acid rain on the opposition. And this is a the first of two the final part of the year, Tennessee in Houston to a f C South showdown games. I am going with the home team here. Tennessee. They are the more complete team. They've got the quarterback who's just been amazing. Of late Titans thirty Texans twenty three.

A penny's going that way as well. Tennessee Titans al right. Next up, all right to pay off the answer on the Alright, NFL player the only one this season to have ten or more sacks and two interceptions. I'm gonna say it's t J. Watt of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Is that your final answer? Is my final answer? But you're sure you don't want to change your hands? I am positive it is t J. Lot of the Pittsburgh stools around boxer. Uh, really giving yourself your own applause, unbeliever.

You got a little toy, though, little little toy. I'm glad that you want to get trivial and uh, I responded in kind, Yeah, okay, Uh fascinating. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Miller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app. Al Right, Next up, Schmuck Seattle ten in three at Carolina five and eight. It's on Fox. Friend of the show, Kenny Albert, the

voice of the New York Rangers the New York States. Yeah, Kenny was in town and I could have hung out with him at the King's Rangers game. Unfortunately I didn't get the message till late, and I had. I was unable to attend, so I could have spent a night hanging out with the great Kenny Albert. But next time, next time, we'll hang on. Yes we US three. No no no, no, h Kenny Albert, Rodney Barber have the call. The game is in Carolina at Bank of American Stadium.

The Seahawks open a four an app point road favorite. They are favored by six mostly cloudy fifty degrees that kick off. Seattle lost last week to the Rams. I tried to find a reason to take Carolina. I love home dogs, getting almost a touchdown. I couldn't find one reason to pick the Carolina Panthers. I'm gonna take the Seahawks here all day. Russell Wilson now he has been flea bitten of late last four weeks. Russell Wilson is the twenty second ranked quarterback in the NFL. Ryan Fitzpatrick

has been better. Russ has had only four touchdowns and four in receptions since that mid November against the forty Niners. The Eagles, Vikings, and Rams are the opponents in that stretch, and they have been able to bottle up Russell Wilson. Seattle in general has been using these Jedi mine tricks. To win these games by the skin on their chinny chin chin close to the vest is an understatement. Now that said, this is a good situation for Pete Carroll's guys.

The Panthers have no motivation. They are a rudderless ship. They're floating out without an engine in the Atlantic. They lay more eggs than a chicken farm. I don't know how many other ways I can say. Ron Rivera clearly wasn't the only problem there. They fired him. They went out and got pull locks by Atlanta. This is a big bounce back week for the Seahawks. We need them to win. We've got the Mallard Man March coming to Seattle for that forty niner game in week seventeen. But

Carolina's fatal flaw is they don't stop the run. The Seahawks are a ground and pound team with Chris Carson uh and the other running backs there. So he's in center square Chris Carson Seahawks Panthers thirteen. Penny is going the other way, going with the Carolina Panthers. Alright, very very good. Uh, that's a year. What's next year on Benny versus the Penny Denver five and eight at Kansas City nine and four. It's on CBS. Iron Eagle and

Dan Fouts have the call. The Chiefs opened a fourteen point favorite in this game, and they've been bent down to nine and a half. It's gonna be mostly cloudy twenty six degrees at kickoff at Arrowhead Stadium in Consas City. I wanna take the Broncos in this game. I just think this is too many points. The Chiefs are coming off their Super Bowl win against the Patriots. They are being celebrated and canonised with tributes in Kansas City for

beating the Belichickian dynasty. And this has the ingredients many of the ingredients of a handcake special, meaning a flat performance, a low energy effort, even though it's a divisional game and all that. Plus Patrick Mahomes has an injured hand. The Chiefs have won three straight games despite the worst statistical stretch of Patrick mahomes career last three games. Mahomes has sixty passing yards, just three touchdowns, and a passer

rating below eighty. All of those numbers are career lows for any three game span of Patrick mahomes career, so he's playing as bad as he's ever played in the NFL, and the Chiefs are still winning most of these games. I get that. At secondly, this is a revenge spot for Denver. They were humiliated, they were mocked and kicked in the nuts back in the game in the Mile High City the first time these teams played. The jury is still out on Drew Lock. I am not convinced

that he is the second coming of John Elway. Yet he looked great with sensational last week and when I saw him play against the Texans um but he's not proven, and now he has the enormous task of playing in his old backyard. He's from, uh, just a spit ball away from Kansas City and Arrowheads, the stadium he used to go to as a kid. So I think he'll be okay. He's not gonna be as good as he

was last week. Chiefs though, win, but don't cover Chiefs twenty eight Broncos twenty four penny Else to go with the Denver Broncos, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven p m. Pacific. All Right. Next up the Miami Dolphins at three and ten at the New York Football Giants at two and eleven and it's on CBS with Spiro Adidas and Adam arch Aletta the line. The Giants opened three and a half, their favored by three and

a half right now. The weather in New jery zy this weekend on Sunday, cloudy forty six degrees at kick off at MetLife statement, this is a very difficult game to handicap. I look at this like a week seventeen game to handicap. I'm gonna take the Dolphins because they're the better team. Um, but I don't love the pick u. Both of these teams staked first of all, Uh, this could be the last chance to bet against Eli Manning, so I want to do that before he rides off

in the sunset. We believe he's gonna start again. Manning had a couple of fluke throws in the first half before he settled in to serving up vomit for the Giants that the vomit commet Elijah. Manning had twenty four yards passing in the second half, which included overtime, although the Giants didn't get the ball in overtime, but still just in the second half. That's not an error. I

expect a similar performance, a duplicate if you will, this week. Secondly, the last four games, Ryan fitzpa Drick has not been terrible. He's been in the middle of the pack. He's got a better quarterback rating we talked about this than Russell Wilson. He's been better than Patrick Mahomes. Both these teams are tanking. That's why it's hard to handicap the game because ownership and management wants them to lose. The winner will actually upset the front office because the master plan is to

get that number, you know, high, not number one. There. I think I think these the Giants have a chance. The Dolphins really don't have a realistic chance at the number one pick because of their wins, So the Giants need to keep losing here. They have a shot if Cincinnati can win one more game here to to get into a tie and possibly take the top spot. But I love betting against the dynamic duo of Elijah Manning and Pat Shermer in a game that should be broadcast

on like c SPAN or something like that. Dolphins Giants thirteen pen You go with the New York Football Giants in this on Alright, let's get to the late television window. And this is a classic Jacksonville four and nine in Oakland six and seven. You throw out the records in this game. You know why you throw out the records because they're combined ten and sixteen. Because if you looked at the records, you wouldn't watch the game. It's on CBS. Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon in the former Raider have

the call. Now. The Raiders opened a four and app point favorite. They are now a six and a point favorite. Partly sunny and fifty four degrees that kick off at the coliseum. And I am gonna take the alrightus, I'm gonna lay the six and a half. I'm gonna go against every gambling pointer. I look at everything I look at here. The Jags and Raiders are the football version of cow flatulence. It's like two cows farting out in the meadow. All right. They're bad for the environment, the

green greenhouse gas effect. Jacksonville has managed to go completely a wall under Doug Morone in recent weeks. He's on the hot seat. He's likely gonna be fired. The Jags have allowed a staggering nine sixty eight rushing yards there past five games. That's the most they've ever allowed in a five game span in franchise history. And they've had some bad teams in Jacksonville. This ain't their first rodeo

with bad football. This is a full chair Nobyl reactor for situation for the defense here and and you can bind that with the offense that has been bed wedding and grinding their teeth of late. It's not a pretty picture. Now. The second thing for the Raiders, can they take advantage of that that really pathetic run defense. Well, that's an open question. Josh Jacobs missed the game last week. He's got a shoulder injury. Uh. He has been licking his

lips thinking about playing. It sounds like he's gonna play. John Gruden better throw away the passing offense and run, run, run, run, run and run some more. All right, make Jacksonville stop your stable of running backs. The Raiders also shook up the roster. They shook up the locker room after three straight blowout losses. They brought in some new faces, trying to change the culture around the Raiders on the fly.

But this is a litmus test to see who's gonna gonna get you more fight in this game, I believe it will be the Raiders, and the main reason I'm betting on the Raiders this is the final game ever at the Colisseum in Oakland after forty one seasons of football, broken up by a trip to Los Angeles. Um. But I expect the Raiders with all the pomp and circumstance and all the tributes and all that nonsense that I hate the cornball stuff. Uh, the Raiders will blow out

the Jacks. Raiders thirty Jacksonville ten penny is going with the Oakland Raiders. You know what I'd rather do than watch this game? What would you rather? I'd rather listen to your friend Chris and Houston with a with a quick take. No, I wouldn't know that guy's actually awful. Never mind that guys sucks. So you realize that you

hadn't gotten your gratuitous cheap shot at at him. So you're like, I gotta I gotta get my cheap shot in right now, and before the podcast and a cheap shot, you had to pivot and wow, well it's a new that's a new low for you. Gag on, that's a new low. I got plenty of little to get, could you turn off your damn phone. Please, my my phone is off. Phone. People are blowing you up. Have a little respect for what we're doing. Respect late for this

podcast and on the entire time. I would think it would be rude of people to send me messages while I am doing the podcast. That's a bad job by them. I don't know why that. Yeah, uh huh. 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. All right, moving on, you want to do another trivial or you're alright, uh, all right, Uh.

We're looking for the name of a quarterback who had five starts in a season in which they completed at least eighty percent of their passes, the most by any quarterback in a season in NFL history. That goes back to nineteen fifties. Since that they start keep keeping track of that. That stat they started keeping track of that st Cleveland six and seven at Arizona three, nine and one. It's on CBS with Tom McCarthy and Jay Feeley. The

Browns open to two and a half point favorite. They are currently favorite by two and a half sunny sixty two degrees at kickoff at State Farm Stadium in the Valley of the Sun. I'm gonna take the Browns in this game, and I'm going with the public here, and I'll tell you why. First of all, I'm counting on Baker Mayfield showing up and giving me a good effort here. Everyone gets healthy against the Cardinals past defense, their thirty

second in the NFL. The Cardinals have allowed twenty one or more points in each of their thirteen games this season. You know, many teams in NFL history have allowed that many three uh and and it's embarrassed. And that includes, by the way, the Browns that allowed twenty one plus points in more consecutive games to beginning season. However, Baker Mayfield's dinged up. He's got a hand injury. He was slightly off his game for the Browns last week. He's

been slightly off his game most of the year. But come on, you're playing the worst past defense in the NFL. You gotta get right against this team. Secondly, I don't hear a lot of braggadocious conversation from Gagon over there about the umpa loompa Kyler Murray, who is now playing like vomit. He's playing like Peter number one pick in the draft. My ass alligator arms Murray the last four weeks is the thirty first ranked quarterback in the NFL.

Keep in mind there's only thirty two teams, and he's he's been even worse the last two weeks. His passer rating at sixty point five. He looked like he needed police protection against the Rams. Last week he was in over his head. He was drowning. And the Cardinals you partly that and stack that on the fact that they can't stop anybody. I'm taking the Browns, Browns thirty, Cardinals twenty penny will not let you to fame Kylie Murray, and it's going with the Arizona Cardinals. All right, let's

get trivial here. You wanted to do trivial, so we'll get trivial. Uh. Looking at the name of the quarterback five starts in a season in which that quarterback completed at least of their passes, most by any quarterback in any season in NFL. His I'm gonna go with the middle reliever Tommy Maddox. Wow, terrible guests because it exposes you for not knowing about modern football. The answer is

Kirk Cousins. This season with the Minnesota Vikings. By sorry, speaking of that, Minnesota nine and four at the l A Charge It's five and eight. It's on CBS with Greg Gumbel and Trent Green. The Vikings a two and a half point favorite. They opened a three point favorite. The weather sunny in sixty degrees. That kick off in l A at Dignity Health Sports Park, which will be Minnesota West. It will be the Purple people Eaters overtaking

the stadium. I'm gonna take the Chargers here, all right, I'm gonna take the Chargers here and uh and I'll tell you why. First of all, on the surface, the Vikings have the better team. They must keep winning to make the Plus, this is a let down situation. I'll tell you why. The Chargers are not a team that inspires a lot of motivation. The Vikings, I predict, will be sleepwalking in La La Land. Plus they have an

epic showdown with the Packers next week. So I don't normally talk about trends also, but I gotta I got the mother of all trends here about Mike Zimmer and the Vikings. This is actually pre date Zimmer Minnesota. Their last eleven games played in the Mountain and Pacific time zone the last decade has a one in ten record. They are oh ninety one. They've got to not only win the game, they gotta win the game by more

than a field goal the cover of the spread. That's the second worst record in the NFL over the last decade. You know're the only team that's been worst. Guest gun no, I will. Who do you think? Jacksonville? That's it? Jacksonville is the only team is more. Jacksonville's one eleven on the West coast the last last ten years. UM. So I clearly they traveled by stagecoach the Vikings um and they get like typhoid fever or something like that. The Chargers are nine in three UH in the in the

NFL in December here under Anthony Lynn. So they've got a very good record. That's actually tied for the best record in the NFL over that span. So here's what I do. I guess throw to Austin Ekeler, let him run wild. UH, mix it up a little bit, put pressure on the Vikings. Chargers win the game outright. The l A Chargers twenty seven, Vikings twenty penny going up tempo with the Minnesota Vacking's all right. Next up Atlanta four and nine at Santa clar eleven two, eleven and two.

It's on Fox and Chris Myers Daryl Johnson have the call. Forty Niners on eleven point favor. They opened eleven and a half, mostly sunny, fifty five degrees that kick off at Levi's Stadium. I'm gonna take the Alkins in this particular game. Jimmy Garoppolo coming off two emotional heavyweight fights against the Ravens lost and against the Saints that's a win. So it's human nature for the Niners to exhale against

a tomato can. And that's just human nature. And if you don't play with an age, if you don't play with the sharpness, you don't cover a double digit point spread, which we have in this game. That's just a fact, Jack, or whatever your name is. Plus, Santa Clara closes out their season with the Rams and the forty Niners, two key divisional matchups coming up to close out the year. Now. Secondly, Mattie Ice and the Falcons have actually played better of late.

They have They've also done pretty well against against mostly second right teams. But they've been able to move the ball and put points up. And that's all you have to do. You just kind of put up some points. Here with Julio Owns and whatnot, we're talking about a double digit line. The Falcons have had two hundred five plays of at least ten yards this season, third most in the NFL. That'll be enough. I'll get field goals, I get a few touchdowns. Forty Niners thirty Falcons twenty.

That's a cover for Atlanta Pentney going with Santa Clara. All right. Next up, the l A ra Am send the Dallas Cowboys Rams, damn right, Rams six and seven. It's on Fox with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Suddenly the sky is not falling around the Rams. Rams a one point favorite in this game. The Cowboys opened a four point favorite, and it's all now. The Rams have become a one point favorite. The public's betting on the Rams,

but so are the wise guys. And Uh, it's gonna be partly partly sunny or partly cloudy, depending on you look at it. Uh sixty two degrees at kickoff and a T and T Stadium in Arlington Jerry's world. I'm gonna take the Rams in this game. The Rams will either win big or lose big. I believe they will win big. And that has been the pattern this season. Nine of the rams thirteen games have been decided by double digits. Six wins three losses, tied with Jacksonville for

the most in the NFL. The Good Book says, when the Cowboys play a team with a winning record, you bet against the Cowboys. When the Cowboys play a team that has a losing record, and then you you give it a shot, even though they did lose to the Jets earlier this year. The Cowboys if they play somebody that has a pulse and doesn't normally go well. Uh and and then Dak Prescott also has put up some

zombie status. He's leading the NFL in passing yards plays played like a junior varsity quarterback last week for the Cowboys until garbage time in Chicago is a little extra arrest for the Cowboys. But they're a hot mess. Rams defense has been nasty. Jared Golf the much more line, Jared Golf is snapped out of the funk of late and the Rams have found something I think they keep it going this week Rams thirty four, how Boys seventeen penny also go with the Los Angeles Rams. All right?

Next up Sunday Night football, Buffalo nine and four, Pittsburgh eight and five. It's on CBS with Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth. What are what are you mumbling over there? Yeah? I'm actually looking forward to this game. I am looking forward to this game also. Yeah, but you're not excited about Collinsworth? Is that? No? No, I'm excited, just uh, you know, I just wish Buffalo didn't lose last week. Yeah. Well, the Steelers opened a two point favorite. The they they

actually open at one point favorite. These Steelers are favored by two now mostly clear thirty one degrees. That kick off at Hines Field. The public is saying, here we go Buffalo. I'm not like that though. I'm gonna take the Pittsburgh Steelers in this spot, and I'll tell you why. A Josh Allen I said he had turned the corner and then he did a face plant. It was like a vaudeville comedy act last week against the Ravens, and a trapdoor opened up and he got zonked and fell

down into a pit of alligators. He's trying to bounce back. He sucked at a time you cannot suck, which was during the first three quarters of the game against the Ravens. He finished with a hundred and forty six yards passing. Most of that came on one big pass play, and even with that, the bill still had a chance to beat the Ravens in the fourth quarter. And this is also what's called a popular cherry game. You know what, it's a popular cherry game. Guess gun No, please explain

it to me. This is the first prime time start of Josh Allen's career, and I think it's the first prime time game for Buffalo since what like ten years ago or fifteen years ago against New England back when they had black and white television. They were vanished off what is VHS? Yes, Actlee, So, uh, how will he do Josh Allen against t J. Watt and a very good Steelers defense, an elite Steelers defense. I think they're number one in scoring defense. Josh Allen has never thrown

for three d yards in an NFL game? Did you know that that? Uh? He is a run pass combo guy who has been a ratic uh, and you knows I love the Steelers defense. I'm I'm betting my hat on the Steeler defense here. Bud Dupree and Cameron Haywards should be righting the grill of Josh Allen. And there's

also this weird, kind of like fun fact thing. I read that Mike Tomlin and Sean McDermott, the two coaches here, are former teammates under the great Jimmy Laycock at William and Mary, So these guys know each I don't go way back back in the day. The Steelers are nine and six on Sunday Night football at Hines Field under Mike Tomlin. Duck Hodges is three and oh as his starter, and he's completing about seventy of his passes. The guy has been ridiculously good at these high percentage passes. He's

been very accurate. It's working. The formula is working. I don't trust Josh Allen. I normally been on the bills, but I'm not doing it this week. Pittsburgh at home twenty four Buffalo six. Penny says that is a loser. Go with the Buffalo Bills, all right. Next up, Monday Night Football, Indianapolis six and seven, at New Orleans ten and three. It's on ESPN with Joe Testa, Tore and

the Booger Everyone's favorite booger, Booger McFarland. The Saints opened a nine point favorite, and they are currently favored by nine. Thunderstorms in the Bayou for Monday Night, but it's in a dome, so don't worry about it. At the super Dome, the Colts are the pick. Now. The Saints are back belly aching about the referees. They feel like there's this great global conspiracy against them. They got jobbed against the forty Niners last week and they've been raising Holy Hell again,

so they're a slightly distracted team. Drew Brees and Michael Thomas are certainly friends, part of a superior team and all that stuff. New Orleans is coming off an emotional game, a hard fought game. They lost the forty Niners at home, and now they're playing a team that has a losing wreck and the Colts now they're gonna obviously need all

hands on deck. That the injury report will determine a lot of this, whether t Y Hilton plays or doesn't play, and several other key players, Jacobe Brissette also scares the hell out of me. I'm betting on the Colts. But Brisett. Remember when he got off that quick start, and but he's been exposed. He had fourteen touchdown passes and three interceptions and a passer rating of a hundred and one

the first six games of the year he played. Since then, that the last six games Brissette has played, he has four touchdowns and three interceptions in a passer rating of eighty two. Uh and so I expect more of that against the Saints here. But Indianapolis can run the ball a little bit. They're a feisty team. They've got a little bit of moxie still left in him. I expect

a much better effort by the Colts this week. In general, you don't want to be embarrassed on national television, and I believe they will not be embarrassed on national television. I'll take New Orleans thirty and Indianapolis. Te Ben Penny is going with the Saints. Going with the Saints, all right, That is it. We put the baby to bed there and now we do another successful podcast. Well, I don't know how we'll find out how successful it is. Guests

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