Benny vs The Penny, Round 5

the Detroit Lions because they are both not playing. They have the bye week this week. But before we get ahead, we must look back. Now. David Gascon he's with me. He doesn't say much during this he doesn't like this podcast. He doesn't talk very much. Maybe today he'll talk more on Benny versus the Penny. He's the voice of the penny. So how did we do last week against the spread? David gas guy, And you've been you've been lights out, ben Um twelve up and just three down in a

week number four? And might I add not to pat myself on the back, I went eight and oh I believe in the early television wind. Yeah, I didn't get wrong. In fact, my guy, a long time Malla militia man, supermarket Steve, who I consider him a friend because I've met him in person, him and his wife there and wonderful time. But supermarket Steve, who actually has the Mallard brand on his name tag at the grocery store he works at. He hit gascon a five team parlor based

off our picks from last week. How cool is that he ran like he went like a grand on a fifty dollar bet hitting the five team parlay. That's pretty good. Now, which which games did you lose big on? I think Dallas was the I like how you're focusing on the negative like that. I lost the Monday night. I picked the Bengals because I'm an idiot. I didn't think Pittsburgh is that good. But I didn't realize the Bengals were that bad. Uh Now I do, and they seemed uninterested.

The Cowboy game I got wrong. I was embarrassing Dak Prescott all of a sudden's back to being Dak Prescott. And then the other one was the Viking game. I was wrong on that, but that that's it. Other than that, every game we got right. Man, you're yeah, when you when I woke up and I started looking at these games, all of a sudden, you started hitting, hitting, hitting. It's it's similar to Week one, and it's also similar week number three. So even you've been carving it up. Yeah.

In fact, my all my record, I did the math because I know you wouldn't give me any credit my season total. We've picked sixty three NFL games on radio or on the podcast because I do the Thursday game on radio, and out of those sixty three, we are forty three and twenty. That is a six eighty three winning percentage against the spread. Documented That's that's nuts of fame. It's not gonna last, right, I mean this is I don't I don't particularly like the card this week. I

liked last week a lot. I don't love the card this week. I feel like they've adjusted the point spreads enough. Uh. And it's kind of those one of those things like a seesaw. You know, I'm going back and forth on

a number of the games which I don't like. Uh. In my experience also with picking these NFL games is that oftentimes, uh, you know, in the early TV window, I'll be winning a couple of bets and then I'll a couple of games will turn around in the fourth quarter and I'll lose, and then I'll win a couple of games that I'm losing. You know, Normally, that's what happens, very chaotic, that last half hour, last hour of the early television window, and there's a bunch of games ending

and all that stuff. And but but last week was wonderful. All right, let's get to the games. What do you say? Alright? First game up Baltimore two and two at Pittsburgh oh and three. Actually, uh, one in three, rather won Monday nights, so they're one in three. This game is on CBS. Uh I an Eagle whose kid is now the voice of the Clippers and he just graduated from Syracuse. I don't Guesscon's happy about that. And Dan Fouts they were gonna broadcast this game on CBS. The Ravens opened a

three point favorite. There are three and a half point favorite. It will be light rain, temperatures in the mid sixties at Hines Field at kickoff. I'm gonna take the Pittsburgh Steelers in this game. And this is one of those games I went back and forth on I am not a believer in Lamar Jackson. I know he was handed the m v P number one after he sliced up

the Dolphins and turned them into sushi. Unfortunately, the season did not end for Lamar Jackson, and that is the only game that Ravens will play with the Dolphins because Lamar Jackson rather quietly, has gotten less productive pretty much every game last three weeks. His passer rating combined is eighty nine point three. That ain't great. Uh, and he's averaged less than seven yards per attempt over the last three games. So the numbers were inflated because of that

Miami game, which I understand. You know, I guess bad teams you inflate the numbers, but he is he has put up garden variety numbers Lamar Jackson. Now, John Harbaugh's team is looking to bounce back after that embarrassment against Cleveland, and normally I like teams in a bounce back situation, and the Steelers coming off a win and all that. But I looked it up and the Ravens have only a five record under John Harball as a road favorite. That ain't all that good. And when you're favorite on

the road. Uh. Secondly, if this game was in Baltimore. I could be swayed to take the Ravens, but it's in Pittsburgh that matters. Uh. And even a ramshackled Mason Rudolph a k A captain checkdown, he will be good enough. Just don't make the big mistake. And the Ravens, I mean, the dirty little secret here is the Ravens. Because they used to be great on defense. People still think they're great on defense. They're not. The last three weeks this

blew me away. It's my main reason for taking this Steelers over the Ravens and getting points as a home dog. The last three weeks again after the Miami game, the Baltimore Ravens defensively have allowed three yards per game. That is dead last in the NFL. They are the worst team in the NFL the last three weeks allowing yards. Now they need to play Kansas City, that is fair, but they played Cleveland in that stretch and Arizona. I mean, come on. So final score Steelers twenty six, Ravens three

penny lanks. You will go at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Tremendous insight from the Penny and from Gascon on this particular game. Good job by you. It's just all about you. If Benny versus a penny alright, Chicago at Oakland the Bears three and one A right as two and to. This game is being played in London. It's a Raider home game, so they're playing it in London. It is on Fox. You better watch. You know who's calling this game, did you see? Uh? Yes, our guy Dick, Dick Stockton. They

have sent him out of the country. He is in London. He will call Raiders Bears with Mark slay Writh on Fox. Now. The Bears opened a six point favorite. That line is at five and a half. As we're doing this in real time. The forecast for Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London where they're playing this game rain showers, which is cliche for London and also fifty six degrees at kick off. So they say, now the pig is in and I

am gonna take the radius. Now, this is one of those where I gotta cover my nose, uh and and whatnot, but I'm gonna take the The Bears should win this game by thirty points. First of all, I get it. I'm not against that, but strange things tend to happen in jolly Old London. Uh. And the Raiders are coming off a very impressive win against Indie for them. Uh. And they are road warriors, right, vagabonds around the NFL.

And I understand the Bears have the top unit on the field here, that the Bears defense is wonderful, And this is a Khalil Mack revenge game. You know he had even though he's downplaying it, he had this game circle. I mean, right, guess imagine Khalil Mack like how excited he was to see this on the schedule every year. I mean, we've all lost jobs in this business and we love to get revenge, right, vengeance, pound of flesh,

And this is Khalil max opportunity to do that. And then the Raiders are without Vontes Perfect uh and a couple of other injuries there. Uh. But Chicago's going with Chase Daniel, which is not not a real downgrade because Turbiski had been terrible. So I expect the Bears to run that remedial passing game uh and all that. Uh. And and Max should play a very good game. But you're talking about getting almost a touchdown five and a half points with a suspect offense in Chicago and the

Raiders have been playing above their their level. They've they've outkicked their coverage, if you will, lately, because they've they've been playing pretty well. The key for the Raiders here in this game is obviously to establish the run, which is seems to be near impossible. But if they want to keep this game close, Josh Jacobs, it's gonna have

to make Gate Khalil Mack and that pass rush. It's hard to be a good pass rushing team if you're running uh and and and the other reason here, this is probably the main reason I'm taking the Raiders is to be the contrary and and one thing I've learned over the years, when the public bets a game one way, you want to go the other way. When they zig, you want to zag. And the public is absolutely hammering the Chicago Bears. The gambling market is all about the Bears.

The line has despite that, it hasn't skyrocket. And that's the odd thing about this. I mean, from what the information I have access to, there's a ton of wagers on the Chicago Bears. It's one of the most bet games of the weekend, and yet the line, which probably should be No. Seven or eight or something like that for in favor of Chicago, because their defense is again at five and a half. So I'm gonna say something flukey happens here. Uh, those European bio rhythms get messed

up and the Raiders keep it close. Bears will win the game, but it'll be close. Chicago twenty and alright, Penny going back to mac occasions with you also going Derek Carrent the Raiders. Alright, next up on Benny versus the Penny Arizona oh three and one at Cincinnati oh and four. If you would have asked me before we did this, who is gonna call this game? I would have said this is a Dick Stockton special, right, But he's not. He's obviously in the game in London. This

is a Tom brennanan Chris Spielman broadcast. It's on Fox. At least Brenneman doesn't have to travel. He lives in Cincinnati, so he doesn't for going a plane. That's the positive there. The Bengals opened up a four and a half point favorite. They are favored by three and a half and would fall in the air. A rain will be in the air at kickoff at Paul Brown Stadium, seventy two degrees and rainshower. You know what that is. But if it

was a little cold, there would be good football. Whether it's football and they're like a light rain falling and right, guess of course yes not out here in Los Angeles. Will we see sprinkles and it's mass panic, but yes it's football weather. Yeah, alright, so that's the forecast. I am gonna go with alligator arms, Kyler Murray and Arizona this week. So I'm on the Cardinals plus three and

a half. What a horrible matchup, Tom Brenneman, You're talking about putting lipstick on a pig uh and uh and playing putting uh, perfume on a on a smelly goat with flies all over. The Bengals started four and one last year. Did you know that under Marvin Lewis they were four and one last year? I do not remember that. Yeah. Since then they have played fifteen games and Cincinnati has gone two and thirteen. That is the worst record in the NFL this week six of last season. Nobody is worse.

And in that same time, not to be outdone, the Arizona Cardinals are two twelve and one so if it wasn't for the tie, they'd have the same exact record over the last you know, the last handful of games here. Uh Arizona is the third worst team in the NFL record wise here, so it's a it's a it's a horseshit matchup. Cincinnati was castrated by the Steelers. We referenced that game here a few minutes ago by a backup scrub order back who just threw short passes, and Cincinnati

was bothered. They don't want to they don't want to. They were they didn't want to play the game. They were annoyed they had to be there. They didn't tackle, they didn't play with any discipline. They were lethargic, they were uninterested, a lot of game quitters. You ever heard that term game quitters? No, it's it's players who to the untrained. I seemed like they are trying to win, have really given up. And the Bengals have a lot

of guys, at least on that night that did. And Arizona the other thing here, Arizona is a bad football team and they are a bunch of bad embres, and not in a good way. Kyler Murray has been nothing spectacular he has not turned NFL on its side like some were predicting. One guy in the NFL network said he was gonna have a Patrick Mahomes like impact on the NFL. That guy should be fired. But this is a weekend where you would expect Kyler Murray to have

some success. Why the Bengals defense is much of low first alright, bunch of loafers, and these teams are essentially equals. Now I realized Cincinnati the bounce back. They're gonna want to play better. They embarrass themselves, and this is a winnable game. And Andy Dalton has played very well against bad teams. I understand all that. But all things being equal, if it's too horseshit teams right in a crap tastic classic,

this would be the crap Craptastic Bowl Gascon. I like getting the points, uh, and so I actually believe Cincinnati is gonna win the game, but this will be a late field goal. Bengals Cardinals twelve. Is it painting taking Arizona because the penny did as well? Well? No, I can win money. I mean, I I think Arizona is gonna lose. But there's two equal teams. I mean, you know, you think I just go out of mind? Who cares about the Cardinals? I don't care about the Cardinals. You

care about six people. You can care about Kyler Murray. Well, I just point out his his horrible play. That's it. And no one else brings that up. Nobody else calls him a oompa loompa and alligator arms, And what's wrong with that? Am I wrong? Yeah? Yeah, you're wrong. You publicly depicate on him during the over nine hours of Fox Sports Radio. And I was a fan of Mighty Mouse when I was a kid. It's kind of cool,

you know what it is. It's inspirational that the NFL is allowing a pop orner sized player to play, because normally they have restrictions on that. If you're of a certain size, you can't play. But uh, there he goes very diminutive. I like that's one of those I like the terms people use when they want to say someone's uh short, they say at least diminutive, uh, you know, and things like that. But you can't say midget anymore. You can't what a dwarf. You can do that, you know.

I guess it's politically incorrect now to say that what a petite. You can say that srimp pocket size, the pint sized pockets something. He's in the pocket size quarterback, the teny weeny, itty bitty little quarterback, you're an asshole. Let's go all right, but anyway moving, let's get trivial. You want to get trivial alright? Carolina Panthers quarterback Kyler Kyle Kyle Allen just became the third quarterback in the Super Bowl Era to win his first three career starts

on the road. He joined Patrick Mahomes and blank and the answer to let's get trivial coming up in a couple of minutes. You might want to write that down. We'll get to that coming up in a minute. Jacksonville at Carolina Jacks two and two Panthers two and two. It's on CBS with Andrew Catalan and James lofton. The Panthers opened a three point favorite. The line is currently at three and a half as we're doing this in real time. Line could change, but it's a three and

a half right now. The forecast at Bank of America Stadium cloudy and seventy eight degrees at kickoff, so no no weather being a factor in this game. The pick is in. I'm taking Jacksonville. I like Minshew mania, my guy, Gardner Minshew. I have a thing for accurate quarterbacks and he has been one of the most accurate quarterbacks in

the NFL. This was always the argument for Jacksonville in the blank Boardles era was that if only Blake Boardles would not be so ignorant and turn the ball over and be so unaware, Jacksonville could win a bunch of games, and they really did because he was rarely able to do that. But so far, all Gardner Minshew has really done. It's just be accurate on short passes and not turn the ball over, and Jacksonville has won their last couple of games. It's amazing how that works. I know it's

only a small sample size. He is third in the NFL in accuracy. It's seventy eight percent according to the NFL research on his throws. Seventy percent of his throws are accurate. Now that's not as completion percentage, but some of those are dropped passes that bring the percentage down. Uh. And he has only thrown one pass according to NFL statistics NFL stats that had has been deemed interceptible. Only one uh and So Jacksonville has now gone twenty six

consecutive drives without a turnover. That is the second longest active streak in the NFL. So I love that about Jacksonville. I think that continues here. Some people are very excited about Carolina. They they played better lately. I am not all in on the Panthers. I do like Kyle Allen, talked about him, did a monologue on him on the radio show. I've been impressed and he has defied expectations. I thought this guy would be pretty bad. He's been wonderful.

I actually like him. But the reason to take Jacksonville is that Saxonville defense and the one bugaboo for Kyle Allen. He doesn't make a lot of bad throws either. He's pretty accurate as far as his passes, but he does have small hands, apparently because he has five fumbles in two games of playing this season, which is a lot. Uh and so you figure Jacksonville will be able to get to him and then a fumbler too, that you

can turn the game on his side. But I like getting Jacksonville plus over a field goal, Jags will win the game out right in Carolina seven to six over the Panthers, going the other way, going with the Carolina Panthers. Would you grow a mustache like Gardner Minshew? I would. Yeah, I don't know if I can, though. My my facial hair goes all over the place. I got a good beard, go team, but I don't know about a mustache. Yeah, you had the beard for a while. Yeah, we were.

People were giving you change because we thought we were homeless at work. I grow a great beard. You smelled you had a beard, and I smell fantastic. Why if you can grow a beard, why wouldn't you be able to throw a mustache grow a mustache. Okay, there's a way to grow a mustache, and there's a way to grow a mustache like Gardner Minshew has a fantastic mustache. My dad has a good one. Tom Selleck has a good one. Jeff Kent had a great one. Yeah, that's

what I'm saying. Your dad, I mean, I've not met your dad, but I've seen photos of him and he when he was running the L A p. D Man, he had the biggest burly mustache. I mean, my god, you're you got his d n A unless you were adopted. I mean you've got the d n A man. You know what I need. I need like a Val Kilmer from Tombstone mustache when he played Doc Holiday. That's your that's your move there. That's a great mustache. Yeah, I don't know. Can you grow mustache like that? No? No,

I do not have that ability. I can't even really grow a beard. You got a lot of gray and you're got what you have a lot of gray and your goatee. No, I don't you do. And that's pepper and you and my wife told me a salt and pepper your and your face is pale white, so it almost looks like you have no facial hair. Wow, So like we could give you as it was the asshole segment on the podcast, I didn't know is that is

that on your list? Is that your production? We can't do the hair and club from me with your goatee and mustache. Let's do this. You're gonna serve me ranch dressing now? Is that what you're gonna do? We can do that. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app let's get trivial the answer. Panthers quarterback Kyle Allen became the third quarterback in the Super Bowl, ear to

win his first three career starts on the road. He joins Patrick Mahomes and blank, go ahead. Yes, I'm gonna say Tom Brady. No, not Tom Brady, try again, Ben Roethlisberger. No, this actually goes back to the nineteen eighties. Jeff Hosta, Oh ship, that was not my mind too. No, it was not. Swear to god, you talk about mustaches. Yes, Uh, Jeff hast the Giants, Yeah, and he was. That's one of the great backup stories of my youth that Jeff Hassteddler broke out. Uh and Phil Simms got hurt. Everyone

wrote off the Giants with Parcels and Hosta. They're played pretty well at I don't know how good he actually was. My memories he played well. I don't know if he was actually that good. But a long time ago, our memories, we remember what we remember what actually happened are off in two things. That's why in court, if you just if you convict someone off, eye witness testimony a little shaky, in my opinion, little shaky. Alright. Minnesota you have more

than that. Minnesota two and two at the New York Giants two and two. It's on Fox. You better watch Sam Rosen, who lives in the New York area, doesn't have to get on a plane, and Charles Davis, the voice of Madden Football, and they call this game now. The Vikings opened up five and a half point favorites. This line has stayed the same, so Minnesota is a

five and a half point road favorite. This game will be played at MetLife Stadium, mostly cloudy in New Jersey and degrees that kick off there in the Tri state area for Giants and Vikings. The pick is in. I'm taking the Giants. I went back and forth in this game Kirk Cousins, and the passing offense is in such a sad state of affairs. The guy is issuing me a Colpus on his radio show. I struggled, went back and forth. Uh, this was a cover your eyes and say any meany Mighty Mo type of game for me.

But ultimately I landed on the underdog. Went in doubt. I often throw the underdog out and I'm on the side of New York and the Giants are not as good as the Vikings. The Viking should win this game, but Cousins gun shy. He's got the yips. Plus it's hard to cover a spread like this on the road. Uh, it is, It is difficult. And secondly, the main concern with the Giants is that defense. It is no good. It sucks, it's chopped liver, it's mits meat and all that.

The Vikings are are half of a good team, right, and the half that they're good at is the defense. Uh. Mike Zimmer is a master, He's a maestro defensively, and I would imagine that he's gonna cause a lot of issues for Danny Dimes. And that's gonna be a problem here for Daniel Jones. And and he's a guy that has a bugaboo of putting the bug on the rug. He fumbles a lot, that's his m O. And that

limits your ability to swash buckles. So even though Kirk Cousins has been feasting on bad teams in his career, and I believe the Giants are a bad team, I gotta see it to believe it. And so like the Giants as a home dog, I'm on that side. And also betting against the public because the public is loading up on the Vikings. So I believe Minnesota will win this game, but they won't cover the spread Vikings thirty Giants depending. Also like Daniel Jones going with the Giants

all right? Next up New England at Washington four and oh versus Oh and four. It's on CBS with Greg Gumble and Trent Green. Did you see that audio that funhouse ad about Gumble a couple of weeks ago. Uh, well, there's some audio that you sent me. Is that the same thing from w f A n um Yeah, Yeah, from w and they were the overnight guy, the schmooze I believe it is his name there, and he went on a rant about what a dick Greg Gumble was on how much I mean, it was hilarious. It was

a wonderful radio. Uh. And I've never met Gumble, but he he does seem like that kind of a guy, you know, really, Yeah, the vibe I get from him, right, No, No, I see, I guess it's just two different uh. I mean the brothers. Brian Gumble got a lot of flak for his calls in the NFL network when it first started on Thursday Night. But Brian Gumble, I remember, just I mean, he called a lot of NBA games too, especially back in the mid nineties. I always thought he

was just a regular guy. Well Brian Gumble, this is Greg we're talking about. But Brian Gumble didn't he does the HBO thing right and whatever that show on hboes And I would say, what a douche bag because he would have those reading glasses on and he and you know, he did it for effect, and I was like, what

an asshole? You know, I mean, you know, he made it seem like he was surprised by something he had just read, when you know that's all choreographed and scripted and and it's all planned out by producers and all that stuff. But anyway, Uh, get back to the game. New England and Washington Patriots opened a thirteen point favorite. They are favored by fifteen and a half. The forecast calls for mostly cloudy seventy three degrees that kick off at FedEx Field. Now, this is another one of those

games where logic you have to throw out as a gambler. Right, occasionally this has to happen. I'm taking the Washington Redskins. Don't tell anybody, don't bet the game, but I'm taking the Redskins. Now, the NFL needs to hire Woodsie the Owl to give the Redskins a pep talk. You don't want to know why they need to hire Woodsie the Owl to give the Redskins the pep talk? Tell me, because why the who are you doing? Were you surprised I went to you? Yeah? Of course this is the

this is the Benny versus the Penny segments. So oftentimes it's all about Benny. You wanna wanna have longer? Don't well? Temper a tantion from them, and you feel free to chime and you ask. It doesn't have to be like this. But uh no, But Woodsy the Owl, when I was a kid, I remember his slogan. His catchphrase was give a who don't pollut? And the Redskins have polluted the NFL pretty much every week here throwing trash all around the field with their pathetic place. So they would see

the Owl to give him some advice here. Uh, we don't even know who's playing quarterback as we're doing this for Washington. They don't even know. It might be Colt McCoy, could be Dwayne Haskins, maybe even Case Keen of at least at the time that we're doing this have all been mentioned, that said, and it doesn't really matter now Haskins. If it's Haskins, I would not bet on the Redskins, all right, So, but if it's not, I believe it will be Coult McCoy. He can do enough in garbage time.

You gotta take Washington getting over two touchdowns at home. And the other thing. The Patriots, their defense is wonderful, historically good. I get all that. In fact, New England and the Chicago Bears the only teams since two thousand with fifteen or more sacks and ten or more interceptions in the first four games. So they are off to an amazing start. But the stats say that Washington, you

know they're gonna have problems on office. Again. I understand that Patriots have been wonderful at being up bad teams, but to me, this is a go through the motions type of week, cutting corners, even a Belichick team coming off a win against Buffalo. Plus we've got Pete Cabo for the for the Patriots, right, will they get caught peeking ahead because they play in week six Thursday Night Football? You know what that means? Gas God, Well, not necessarily

trap game. But you gotta play a game in four days, so you're you're already thicking ahead to that game. You're not fully focused on the job, the task at hand, right. That's that's my hope. Anyway, And they played Danny Dimes and the Giants next week. Now there's no chance the Redskins win this game. This will be the eighteen time in NFL history the four NO team will match up against an Owen four team. The four NO team has a fifteen and two records. When is the last time?

Pick a year? Gas, God, it's not official? Uh question, when's the last time and oh and four team beat a four and O team? I'm gonna say ninet no go back further? Oh uh nope. Nineteen seventy five the Owen four Green Bay Packers of nineteen beat the Dallas Cowboys. Who's playing quarterback for the cow You were a kid in nineteen seventy five? Who was playing quarterback for the Cowboys? Was that was it? Or who is the was it? Morton?

I don't remember, I don't matter. But anyway, final score, I'm gonna close my eyes, cover my ears, and shut my mouth. Take the double digit foam dog even a bad team Patriots pretty six rest Oh man, that is dangerous. It is the let's go and see what the penny says here. Penny likes. Penny is going with the Patriots on this one. Oh is that right? That's a lot of That's a lot of chalk. Don't choke on the chalk. But just think about what you've done earlier the season.

You've backed Miami twice with two bad quarterbacks, and now you're back in the Skins with three bad quarterbacks on the roster. By the way, I was right. Roger Staubach was the quarterback of the Cowboys in nineteen You're at what eight ninet at the time. What you're eighteen nineteen years of age at the time. Are you having a stroke? Are you? Are you okay? All right? That was Tom Landry for the He was the Cowboy coach, and Bart's Star was coaching the green Bay Pack, the great Bart Star.

Green Bay had John Hadel as their quarterback against Roger Staubach. Stobok was terrible. He in that game. I'm looking at the box score here, sixteen two one yards, no touchdowns, an interception. He had a passer rating a fifty eight point seven and ironically the Packer quarterback was even worse, but he had a touchdown pass. So what other notable figures when that game? Running backs or wide receivers. Who else? Do we have some names that have stood the test

of time. Preston Pearson, there's a blast in the past. He was the running back for the for the Cowboys the Packers. There was that there was a bad era of Packer football that was like in between Lombardi and then they became good again with Brett Farve and whatnot. Yeah, I don't see. I don't recognize any of these names on on Green Bay. I mean John Hadel is the only one that I recognize. That's it. I'm I'm also looking at some of these other cowboys at Golden Richards.

Never heard of him. I heard Drew Pearson, I've heard of him. You heard Drew Pierson? All right? Moving on? It is Benny versus the penny man versus metal man versus coin. Let's get trivial. Which NFL coach had the ninth best record in his first twenty two games as a coach, only to have the thirty five best record after the next twenty nine games of his coaching career. Did you understand that? Gas guys, Yes, And I have the answer for you. Is it? Wayne Fonts? Well, no,

I have to wait. You have so you have no patience. You have to wait. I'll give you the answer because I took all the tease. It's a podcast tease, all right. Anyway, Jets oh and three. They had the bye week Philadelphia two and two. It's on CBS. Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon have the call. Now the line on this game. Philly opened a thirteen point favorite. They are favorite now

by two touchdowns fourteen points at Lincoln Financial Field. The forecast calls for seventy one degrees mostly cloudy, no rain at kickoff in Philly. Uh And this is another one of those games. As a gambler, you have to be the countrarian. You have to go against the public occasionally. Uh. And everyone is loaded up, loaded up on Philly because of their performance as an overreaction. The pendulum has swung too far because of their performance against the Packers. And

we were on Philly against the Packers last week. But I'm not on them. I'm gonna take the Jets here reluctantly. Uh. Carson Wentz played wonderfully. Uh, not statistically great, but that yeah, had many big passes the The Eagles actually won the game on the ground. Though they annihilated the Packer front line, they won the game in the trenches. Their offensive line

for Philly badly outplayed the green Bay defensive line. And I get the Jets are a bad team, uh, but they are better against the run than green Bay, for whatever that's worth. And you're going you're gonna be up up against Carson wins to cover a massive number. And he has been spotty. I think of him as an above average quarterback, but he has not been consistently good. He's gotten off to some slow starts in some of these games. He's been a bit of a castaway on

a deserted island at times. Uh. And he's also had to deal with the incompetence of his receiving corps. Thirteen thirteens robbed passes from Philadelphia pass catchers. That is the most of any quarterback in the NFL after the first four weeks. Shout out Nelson Aglar. Uh. Secondly, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that the Jets are gonna win this game. They simply have to hustle. Uh, they have to work hard and compete. If they do that,

you're not gonna lose by two touchdowns. Now Philly has to prove to me that they are are not sandbag and this looks like a sandbag and kind of go through the motion situation here. They struggle against a bad team earlier in the year, the Redskins. They struggle against a bad team, the Falcons. They lost that game on the road. They also lost at home to the Lions. So I put the Redskins obviously the worse than those teams. But they're in that same category. Are the Are the

Jets rather just are bad? Jets? Are bad? Luke Falk who apparently is gonna play, although I guess there's a chance it's time we're doing this. They say Sam Donald could still play. I'm not seeing that he's not. Maybe he will not play, But as we were recording the podcast, they say it's it's it's likely gonna be Luke fault Falk who's gonna play. And there's also C. J. Mosley, banged up, a key player who's missed three straight games and he couldn't. I guess he's missed too. He might

miss his third straight game with injury. There for the Jets, But I mean, the recipe here is to try to jump start Levian Bell, and if he plays well and scores a couple of touchdowns, that's all it's gonna take for the Jets to hang around. I don't trust Luke Falk. He sucks. He shouldn't be playing quarterback in the NFL. I don't. The Jets are owing two when scoring a non offensive touchdown this year, which is ade because I think they have to score on special teams and defense

and whatnot. Oh and two, the rest of the NFL is twelve and two in that scenario. So Eagles will win this game, but they will not cover the number. Philly thirty the Jets seventeen. Ugly, Penny's going with the Eagles. Have you ever been to a Philadelphia Eagles game in Philly? No, I've I've always wanted to go to Philadelphia. Have been there one time, and uh, I was actually on the eve of the Super Bowl and they beat the Patriots

a couple of years ago. Yeah, I was in Philly before, but I was during baseball season with the Dodgers and we went the Phillies games. But I did not, have not been too to the Eagles. I love that complex though they have down in Philadelphia. It's gorgeous. Yeah, I mean it's all right. The basketball, baseball, football teams are all right next to each other. It's pretty neat. Have you been with Sixers game or a Flyers game? I have not. I've only been the Phillies games. Uh And

I love the fanatic and all and of not. My my friend Lee Kleine, the Prince of Darkness, used to live in Philly and he was an Eagle season ticket holder back at the Vet, back in the back in the day. So he's told some he's regaled me in some stories about being an Eagle season ticket holder back

in the day. Let's get trivial the answer the question, just a couple of minutes ago, which NFL coach had the ninth best record after his first twenty two games only to have the thirty five best record after the next twenty nine games of his coaching career. I'm gonna go with Bobby Ross. Bobby Ross, Uh No, that's not a bad guess, because Bobby Ross was good with the Charges and then man, he coached the Lions and was a mess. Uh, the answer. I was in an elevator

with Bobby Ross one time in San Diego. I was at a Podre game. This is true story. I'manna Podre businessman. Specially used to call back in those days, back when Bip Roberts was playing for the Podre. I used to love those. So I would go to the Podre game. They played like a one o'clock game on a Thursday. And then I go down to the radio station. So I got there and I would get credentials or whatever. Uh. Usually when I was doing this, but I was at

the game, I was in the elevator. The Chargers at that time, the old San Diego Chargers practiced at Jack Murphy Stadium. They had their practice facility at the stadium. And I got in the elevator and Bobby Ross, covered in sweat, had just come off the practice field and they had practice from like ten to noon or something like that. And he came off the practice field and he was in the elevator. It was cool. I said hello,

but he wasn't really in a mood to talk. You want to talk anyway, But the answer is Adam Gaze of the Jets with the Dolphins fourteen and eight his first twenty two games. I still remember there was a columnist in Miami that wrote that that he was the next Don Shula after the first handful of the games. How how how inaccurate was that thinking? Anyway, since then, Adam Gaze is nine and twenty his teams that is

a three ten winning percentage. That is thirty five in the NFL in that span, so week eight of twenty seventeen to week four of this year, he is his teams are the thirty five best or worst, depending on how you look at it. It's awful. That's Hugh Jackson type of maneuvering for him. Well, it's actually it's better than Hugh Jackson. He would win like two games and some keep his job somehow. Yeah yeah it photos of farm animals or whatever. He was. He was a good guy,

you know, he's a good guy and all that. Adam Gaze, though, that guy is quite the character. What a crazy eyes just a weirdough right, I mean it looks like in these press conferences, I don't even met him. Maybe he's normal, but he looks like a weirdo. God he was. He was really good in Denver and all of a sudden just gets hot like everybody else. The offensive he wasn't good and that is overblown. Is a product of Peyton.

There you go being on performance enhancing drugs from a guyer clinic, according to the documentary The Dark Side, which is on YouTube, and you being a Bronco apologist, you blabber mouth over there. Uh was great with the though he was not Peyton Manning. He had to send a check to Peyton Manning because Peyton Peyton licked that guy's toes and said how great he was, and in the NFL media took that and celebrated him. I don't mean the guy knows what he's doing. I think he was great.

Peyton's Place which is on ESPN Plus, that's a great feature that has Peyton Manning breaking down plays and the history of the National Football League. He threw seven touchdowns in that game against Baltimore and their Week one performance. He came back from that neck injury. I remember how disgusted you were to me sent me that link to the Guy Clinic documentary. That thing was just it was all propaganda, that's all it was. It was. It was wonderful.

I recommend it still on YouTube. It's called The Dark Side. It's a documentary about the performance financing drugs of Peyton Manning. He has mentioned there his wife was, according to the documentary, a drug mule and they passed the drugs through her

and Peyton was using H G H and uh. I remember I had somebody tell me when Peyton was injured with the Colts that Jim Mercy was told by his medical people that Peyton would never play again, that this was a career ending injury, that he had essentially a screw loose in his neck. And uh, and he was never gonna play again, and that's part of the reason the Colts tanked to get Andrew Luck And then all of a sudden, I don't know what kind of pixie

dust they have that guy or clinic. According to the documentary, Uh and uh man, I mean Peyton double Nichols. It was insane modern medicine. I love it. Eight well, slept well, had the surgeries, and then he was back at it. So yeah, yeah, I mean hate We gotta move on Tampa Bay two and two at New Orleans three and one. It's on Fox. My former radio colleague Chris Myers has the call, and Darryl Moose Johnson. The Moose Saints opened a six and a half point favorite. They are down

to three and a half. That's a three point line move in favor of confidence for Tampa Bay. And I do not believe this. I don't. Sorry, my my guy, T. J. Reeves. I'm gonna take New Orleans. I'm gonna take the Saints here. First of all, the Saints have already done more than I expected without Drew Brees. This is one of the games I had circled. They have to win right at home against what I believe is a second rate Tampa

Bay team. And you know, New Orleans is lucky because they simply out competed Seattle, outcompeted them, won the statuet, out physical them, out tough them, uh and and whatnot. And yet they lost because they turned the ball over. And then the Saints they came back last week and they were the ones that out physical the Dallas Cowboys and rough them up and tossed them around and all that and won the game in the trenches. Now, secondly,

the Buccaneers are are feeling good. They have been celebrated. I did a podcast interview with my man T. J. Reeves. This week. Who's the Bucks sideline guy former Fox Sports radio guy. I love t J. And he's all excited about the Buccaneers and all that. I don't buy it, Teddy Bridgewater. Listen the opposition here. He's not good, but he has shown that he's not gonna make the big mistake here. And Jameis Winston has proven he rarely has

back to back good games. He painted the Mona Lisa at the Coliseum in Los Angeles and just dethroned Debald castrated the Rams in that game. But but also, the Buccaneers got twenty eight points off Ram mistakes, twenty eight points off turnovers, So the Saints aren't gonna do that. They have a pretty good defense. I am a doubting Thomas on on Tampa and and it seems like the public is all in. They believe the Buccaneers have figured something out with Bruce Arians. I don't Saints thirty bucks

plenty impending going that way as well. Go with the Saints. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Miller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Saints Go Marching into the wind Column. Next up Atlanta one in three at Houston Tuns. It's on Fox. Friend of the show, a Miler Militia man, Hetty Albert from the NFL on Fox and ron Da Barber have the call the line on this game. The Texas opened to four and a half point favorite. They are favored by five

in this game. Now the forecast it's a retractable roof, but the roof might be open mostly sunny eighties seven degrees at kick off at n r G Stadium in Houston. The pick, I'm gonna take the Texas. Now. The reason here is mostly a pick against Atlanta because not only are the Falcons a horrible team, they are an embarrassment. And uh, I don't know that we can do enough

justice to how bad I feel this Falcon team is. Now, I realized they won a game and all that, but the the defense is gonna provide little resistance to the Shaun Watson. Over the last three weeks, Atlanta has the most penalties in the NFL, not Cleveland, Atlanta. They've been

a mistake filled mess, uh and whatnot. And uh so I expect Watson to have a bounce back game here, mainly because there will not be a lot of pressure from Atlanta's defense, and and the numbers for Atlanta are not horrific defensively, but the numbers are skewed, and I'll tell you why. Because Kirk Cousins only attempted tend passes. So the passing stats are not that bad for the Falcons, but I believe they suck. Falcons also recently have been an embarrassment against the a f C. You said, well,

it doesn't matter. Every year is different, every game is different, but the this number is disportionate to reality. Last twelve games Atlanta has played against AFC opponents, they are one and eleven. That is the worst inner conference winning percentage in the NFL in that stretch, one an eleven, and and so anyway, listen, Matt Ryan gets some yards, so put up some points with Julio Jones. But I just don't believe a mistake filled second rate Falcons team is

gonna win this game. That Eagle win was a fluke and Philly should have won that game, but a drop passed by Nelson Agilar and one of the other players for the Eagles cost them the game. Atlanta is in. They're a dog, but they're a doghouse type. They're living in a doghouse, so I will take outside of Deshaun Watson shifting the bed here. I'm all in with my Houston Texas, Me and Chris and Houston. Uh, Texans twenty six, Falcons seventeen. I'm good to see you that way. Penny

is also going with the Texans, all right. Next up Buffalo three and one at Tennessee two and two. It's on CBS, Spirodidas and Adam arch Aletta, my former TV friend. They are calling this game that Titan has opened a one point favorite. Tennessee is favored by three. The forecast in Nashville at Nissan Stadium with Clay Travis in the Tendants, thunderstorms and seventies six degrees at kickoff. Isn't Clay a

Titans season ticket holder? He always talks about the Titans way too much and yeah and the Titans yeah, because there's one one team that has a national following, it is the Tennessee title. But to be fair, I would do the same thing. I think if I lived in Nashville and it was a Titans season ticket older and did a radio show, I would talk about the Titans a lot. I don't. But anyway, the pick gonna take Buffalo in this game. Now, this is not an attractive matchup.

Buffalo is shorthanded. But I'm gonna ride the Bills defense because I believe they are too legit quit. Uh. They will find a way, find a way here against a wayward Tennessee team, and they will put Marcus Mariota into some awkward lockdown situations. Buffalo held Tom Brady to nine points of offense last week. The Patriots got a touchdown on special teams, but nine points of offense from the Patriot offense. And and this is a matchup that is

a mismatch. The Bill's defense is elite, their secondary in particular is outstanding. And the Tennessee Titans have a garbage passing game, bad receivers, second rate receivers. Marcus Mariota's a second rate quarterback. His numbers are misleading. Uh. And Buffalo is also good against the run. So he said, well, Tennessee'll just run with Derrick Henry. No, they won't, not with a lot of success. Now, the main reason people

are betting on Tennessee is because the Titans. Right now, we're preparing for both Josh Allen and Matt Barkley and there's a good chance Matt Barkley is gonna start because Josh Allen is in the concussion protocol. But I'm gonna play Devil's advocate here, and I'm gonna go against the public because I don't think it really matters. You know why. You know the reason why guess gon is because Matt Barkley is like a waste paper basket kind of guy.

But Josh Allen's rotten eggs, so it doesn't matter. I mean, both these guys are inaccurate, So I don't think there's a much of a downgrade whether Barkley plays or Alan plays. And both these guys need some old spice deodoran here. The Bill's quarterbacks are the flotsam and jetsam of the NFL. So uh, this pick is on Defense Bill sixteen Titans ten. Like the way you're thinking Penny's going with the Bills

as well. Have you ever been to Nashville. I've never been, as a bucket list man, I kid you not, though every time I've looked for flights to go to Nashville out of Los Angeles, we're talking about four dollars round trip. I can get Yeah, I can get a cheaper flight heading to New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, d C, or even Boston compared to Nashville. Well, that's odd because a Nashville is one of the top hip hipster cities in the United States. It's the Jewel of the South, they call

it now and uh. Addition to that, you also have the fact that a lot of people in the music business in Nashville, the country music business, fly to l A. But some of the a lot of a lot of airline carriers they'll make stops to get to Nashville. So no direct flights, not not a lot of direct flights. Now, I I flew into well, I fled somewhere and I had to I'd fly to Atlanta and live like back. I always hated that. Yeah, when you fly past the destination and then come back. I mean, it's so stupid.

It's like it's like I'm gonna drive by where I need to be and then drive back to where I need to be. It's like that happens here in Los Angeles all the time on the freeway. That's true. All right, Late games, late TV window Denver, you're Broncos oh and four, how appropriate you're a fan of an oh and four team and the l A charges it two and two. It's on CBS. Mr Burnt Toast, Jim Nance and Tony Romo have the call. Here now the line on this game. The Chargers opened a six and a point favorite. The

line has stayed the same. It will be sunny in seventy eight degrees, as it always is in the Los Angeles area where they're calling now, Dignity Health Sports Park. How dumban name is that? Huh? I don't know, but I want you to say it one more time with your busted tongue, Dignity Health Sports Park. You like that? I like that you are not? You know, a good colleague would have said, you know, Mali, I'm gonna talk a little more during Anni versus the past. I know

you're struggling. You've gotta burnt tongue. Uh not you not that you are? You haven't said don't. I'm gonna jump in and help out because this guy has got his tongue is loose. He's he's babbling like a wind bag, and he's dying and all that stuff, but not Gascon. Gascon's like he's he's he's a child. He's having a temper tangient. I don't get to talking talking, even though I'm allowing you to talk more, dummy. This is the difference between being injured and being hurt. So ratt Now

you're just a little banged up, so keep going. I should get a purple metal for working with you. All right, listen, I'm gonna pick is in. I'm gonna take the Broncos. I'm gonna take the Broncos. Here and a couple of reasons why this. Le Broncos are your your classical crappy team. They're bad, but close right four games. I believe they lost by twenty three points total in these four games, so the point spread is too tempting for me to

pass up. The Chargers haven't done anything to deserve this big a number if you look at their body of the work this year, they have not been as good as last year. They had an overtime win against the Colts a product of a byproduct of Adam been a Terry missing some kicks, uh, and they lost to the Texans. Philip Rivers also lost to the Lions as well, and then last week the Miami game. Who cares the Dolphins aren't an NFL team, They're an amateur team. They're they're

like an inner mural team. The Miami Dolphins and Philip Rivers. We gave you some of the numbers last week. He has played his worst football overall in the fourth quarter, and I figured this game will be close. I listen. I don't believe jump ball Joe is any good the Bronco quarterback, but I do think this will still be a close game. Division Rivals. You're getting almost a touchdown. Plus the Chargers at Dignity Health Sports Park have no

home field advantage. I I anticipate, at least if this is like the last couple of years, this will be Mile High Stadium West at sea level right. Yes, I mean they'll be a bunch of Bronco face. Then that's always the case in the West. They're all Raiders, all Chiefs, are all Broncos when the Charges play. But I'm gonna take the Charges to win, but not cover the spread. Another painful, agonizing loss for Gagon's favorite team, Chargers Broncos

twenty three, same wins, well, depending on what the Broncos all. Right, next up, let's see what do we have here. We've got let's get trivia. You wanna get trivites. All right, Derek Carr and Jamis Winston have the two worst road records in the NFL since the start of the seventeen season. Who is the third worst behind Derek Carr and Jamis Winston on the road? Okay, all think about that al right? Next up green Bay at Dallas. This is the prize

of the weekend big game on Fox. They will have the top ratings of any game on Sunday, will be Dallas and green Bay to national followings. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. How much does Joe Buck hate this week? He's got to go from Seattle to Dallas. At least Aikman's going home. He lives in the Dallas area, right, yeah, absolutely, but it's got Major League Baseball on deck two though, right, uh, He's no, he's not as far as I know. He's not leaving this weekend, though maybe next week. It doesn't.

He leave for the NLCS in the World Series, not the first round. That's right, Yeah, that's true because he got TBS and Fox that handle those games. Yeah. Um, but listen to the game is actually in Arlington. But the Cowboys open to four point favorite, their favorite by three and a half partly sunny nine new one degrees. I know they got a roof at a T and T Stadium, but that's the weather outside at kickoff in the the Arlington, Texas area. I am gonna take the

Green Bay Packers here. I got the pack. I don't love the pack, but I got the pack. My main concern is the Packers have been ravaged by injuries here. The big one is the safety blanket for Aaron Rodgers. The only only see were worth his salt is Davante Adams, who's got turf toe, and by the way, he's unlikely to play at the time we're doing this. I've determined Gascon that turf toe is like biting your tongue. It's something that shouldn't be a problem, but is a problem.

You know, right, Yeah, it's don't be don't bite on pizza too hard you want to have a turf toe in your mouth. It is shut up. It is odd to me. One of the weird things. And there's a lot of weird stuff about life and being human and all that, but some of the very small things that should not be that big a deal that cause a great amount of pain to your body. It's it's weird, like even like little paper cuts can be so annoying, right, Uh and and and uh a pimple on your ass

trying to sit down to be very annoying. Am I wrong? Am I wrong? I've never had that problem. But if you can, if you can enlighten us a little bit. Well, that's not what she said, but I have. I've heard that you have had that. So you're looking into my sex life. I appreciate that. But you've had a lot of partners who'd like to send me emails. Let me know whether you're good or bad. Not that I care. It doesn't really affect me. I'm not interested in that. I don't I don't go to that side. What does

the audience said, is it thumbs up or thumbs down? Then, since you're getting emails, you're like a hollow bunny, good on the outside but not on the inside. All right, listen, I'm taking green bad. We gotta pick up the pace on this. We're taking way too long. Uh. The main concern here is the is the injury to Davante Adams, I said, And the Packers have been exposed defensively. They are twenty nine in the NFL and allowing yards per carry at five yards per carries even worse lately. The

Philadelphia game was atrocious. Is a red flag. Obviously Dallas is a run heavy team. Here they are at home looking to bounce back. That's all good stuff. It's also a Randall Cobb revenge game, former Packer now with the Cowboys. But the main reason there's two things I like that that I'm gonna take Green Bay. I'm betting against dark Prescott, who has morphed into the guy he had been last year. After that fast start, he has regressed, in fact, the

last two weeks against better competition. Uh, and he hasn't been unable to take advantage. He is the twenty fourth ranked quarterback and his passer rating is eighty two point one. He was really bad. He was the reason the Cowboys lost the game in New Orleans. He and Zeke Helly. Zeke didn't play well either, and I expect Zeke to have a big game here. But listen, here's the thing. Aaron Rodgers better quarterback, although he hasn't played better lately,

but better quarterback than Dak Scott throwing. I don't care if it's the key Stone Cops and Barnum and Bailey's clown college catching passes. But you're getting Brett Farve, Brett farting Aaron Rodgers. There's a Fordian slip Aaron Rodgers against Dak Prescott and over a field goal, you've got that hook. That three and a half Cowboys secondary not that good. I believe Dallas is overvalued here. There's always a lot

of Cowboy money. Cowboys are one of the most popular teams in the NFL, so I think it's overstated where the Cowboys actually are. So I'm gonna take the Green Bay Packers thirty and the Dallas Cowboys. Penny likes the home team, and this one going the Cowboys. Hey, by the way, here's a fun fact. The quarterbacks of the Dallas Cowboys have beaten this year to get those three wins are a combined Owen set and Eli Manning has already been benched in case Keenum, some saying he will

be bench this weekend. They're claiming he's hurt, but some think he's just being so wow. All right, let's get trivial the answer we mentioned. Derek Carr and Jamis Winston have the two worst road records in the NFL. Since the start of the seventeen season. Who is the third worst quarterback? Wins and losses, wins and losses, wins and mother blanket losses on the road? How about Matt Ryan?

The Atlanta Falcons not bad? Matt Ryan is a standout at home and normally looks like he's at the bar in a gutter outside the bar when he plays on the road. It's some watering hole. But it's not the correct answer. This blew me away. It was counter what I just said, Aaron Rock The last thirteen road games that Aaron Rodgers has played in and started Green Bay is three and ten. Uh. Only Derek Carr four and fourteen and Jamis Winston have had worse records on the

road the last three years. That's at least ten roads starts. But how do you explain that, man, that's why Mike McCarthy's gone. Well, it hasn't gotten much better this year though they haven't. They don't have a lot of weapons anyway. So yeah, but this is one of those things I often use this line when I do these stupid monologues

at night. But the legend of liberty valids right and uh, And the line on this is that when the legend becomes the fact, you go with the legend, right, and the legend of Aaron Rodgers is this guy is wonderful. It's also the other thing, which is pretty much another way of saying the man who shot Liberty Vounts is the Tigerbell effect. You know what the Tinkerbell effect is

If enough people believe hard enough that like fairies exist. Right, if enough people believe that that fairies exist, they do right because people believe it. Um anyway, But yeah, Rogers is I'm picking him. I'm I'm an idiot. I'm picking him. At least it's not the Miami Dolphins of the sit Tonight. Bengals are back in this week, so it's all good. 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. Al Right, Next up, Sunday night football in Annapolis two and two at cannesas City. And they come into this game four and oh it's on NBC with Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth calling the game. Chiefs opened up an eight and a point favorite. They are an eleven point favorite at Arrowhead. The forecast in Kansas City calls for a fifty seven degree weather at kickoff. And I'm gonna take the Colts to cover. I like the Colts to to keep this game closed. And he

got caught looking ahead. First of all, they lost to the Raiders. That was a Peaka booz situation. Now, what is the first rule of the Peeka boat. If you get caught peeking ahead and you don't win the game, it does happen. It is imperative that you win the game. You were circling and looking ahead too. So this is now, I don't believe he'll actually win the game. I think

let's keep it close. And Jacoby bar said, while he hasn't been great, he has held his own and he he's tied for the NFL lead and touchdown passes with Lamar Jackson and has actually been better than Patrick Mahomes throwing touchdown passes the first four games the year. Doesn't the culture danged up? T Y Hilton's got a bad quad, Belik Hooker, the great defensive players got a knee injury. Marlon mack is battling an ankle injury. UH some of

those guys might not play. I believe Mac will play, but they're all in the injury tent with varying degrees of problems. But the second thing here, I'm gonna go back to Mahomes speaking about of Patrick Mahomes. Uh, he was a mere mortal last week against Matt Patricia and the Lions. And as my friend Bob Fesco, the great morning guy in Kansas City, I go on with him every Thursday now on six ten Sports in k C. And and he brought up an interesting point that I

did not think about. And we were talking about Matt Patricia and and Matt Patricia's really the guy that solved the Rams quarterback Jared Goff up until playing Matt Patricia's defense, Jared Golf was a top notch, top ten quarterback in the NFL. And ever, that's the point of d marcation. Ever since then, Matt Patricia the rocket scientists cooked something up and everyone's been copying that, and Jared Goff has sucked pretty much the entire time. And so Bob brought

up a good point. Did Matt Patricia give the formula the secret recipe of eleven herbs and spices to slow down Patrick Rohomes, and we won't know that for a couple more weeks to see if you see that he see how this goes? Uh? But Mahomes had an eighty point eight passer rating and a seven point four yards per attempt, which is very very potest pedestrian. He he has lost a bunch of yards overall this year on penalties and whatnot. But I expect you need to mimic

the blueprint of Matt Patricia this week. Anytime you get over a touchdown with two good teams. And I believe the Colts are good, not great. The Chiefs are a great team. I'm gonna take the Chiefs to win, but not cover Kansas City thirty four Indianapolis. Penny likes, you too, will go with the Colts last one. Now we allowed. I actually can't mention the thing that you don't want to mention on the air what you'll be doing on Sunday.

Definitely not. We'll wait till, we'll wait till next week. Alright, alright, look at that valve silence there. Monday Night football Cleveland two and two at Santa Clara three, and oh it's on ESPN with Booger McFarland and Joe Testa Tour. What a hard Oh he is, right, I mean, come on, he's the testators, like the definition of every cliche about a sportscaster. Like I watched Joe test It Tour and I think I'm watching a parody on Saturday Night Live of of how a play by play guy should be.

I'm sure he's a nice enough guy and all that, but he is such a such a cliche filled machine. Do you feel like Jim Lampley's like that, or at least he used to be. Uh, well, I will never say I love Lampley. I did a radio show with Lampley one time, and uh I love lamps. Yeah I don't. I haven't heard him call a game in a long time. Anyway, he doesn't do that anymore, right, No, he doesn't. But I'm just referring to boxing matches and boxes. Yeah, I mean, I love the way he calls a match. But people

crush him all the time on social media. Oh yeah, Well, he gets the Joe Buck treatment because they think he's siding with one of the fighters, like people think Joe Buck is Uh. I think he's a Cardinal fan because his dad when the Dodgers and Cardinals play like if they that could be the NLCS matchup this year. Not to get off the reservation. We could have Cardinals and Dodgers in the NLCS. And and Joe Buck is like a cardinal broadcaster. He's not, he really is not anymore.

But anyway, forty Niners are a three and a half point favorite in this game. It is sunny in seventy nine degrees at kickoff late afternoon early evening to get Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. The pick is in. I'm gonna take the Cleveland Browns in this game. The forty Niners are coming off a bye week. So my theory, I like the human psychology of gambling. My theory is that the forty Niners have been regaled and how good they are and they are basking in the afterglow of

that three and oh start right. Plus, this is another one of those peekabooth situations. Who do the forty Niners played next week? Who do they have guests on on the schedules? You know they have they have the l A Rams That is correct. That is a big game. I actually might go to this game. I don't know. I might go to the RAM and I don't know if you're gonna be allowed to get in since you got denied last week, but we'll talk about that today on this national podcast. Wow, you are what a what

a passive aggressive asshole? I mean, God, do not Pasco? Do not collect your tuner dollars? Do you do? You realize the rams cost you an injured tongue and you did not even acknowledge that on the radio. That's a good point. If I had gone to the ramp, I likely would not have bitten into my tongue and I would have been fine. Uh. I didn't realize that, So I should I should pull against the Rams from now on because they injured my tongue. And the funny thing,

guest Scott, I've had this tongue injury all week. I have done extra sidework in addition to show. I did T J Reeves podcast. I did like a twenty minute block on his podcast. I did my radio spot in Kansas City. I did turn down one in Miami because I just said I didn't want to do it. I was like too much. But but I've done like so much extra stuff. What am I doing? Did you go down under two with Darcy. Yeah, I was on in New Zealand on Monday Night with Darcy waldergrag Yeah, uh

that was. That was. But anyway, we're gonna wrap this up. Jimmy, Jimmy Aroppolo has he hasn't been any special, uh, but now he hasn't had a lot of problems that the receivers for the Forts have only had two errors. According to the Advanced Statistics of the NFL that they provide us, Garoppolo is right in the middle of the Bell curve. Hadn't been terrible, but he's fifteenth in the NFL, which is which isn't all that good. The Browns, this is odd.

They have scored only twenty six points into home games, both losses, but have scored sixty three points in two road games, both of them wins against the Jets and the Ravens. H Baker Mayfield had a coming out party for nineteen last week in Baltimore. He was marvelous. The Browns low Nick shubble lub lub on the ground, wonderful. Can we have an ENCORET now I'm pigging. I'm pigging. The Browns is a live underdog. The thing that scares me is geography and going to the West coast, your

bio rhythms get messed up and all that. But this is a primetime game. Odell Beckham normally is the center of attention in these primetime games. I expect him to make a couple of big plays. Cleveland's defense, even though they're banged up, and that is a factor here. Who plays and who doesn't play. The backups did a pretty good job last week against Lamar Jackson. Uh So I

am still confident in Cleveland. I feel like they have the better defense, and I'd rather have Baker Mayfield than Garoppolo. If Mayfield plays the way he did last week, he's the better quarterback. You're getting over a field goal. Close teams, I don't think there's much separating the Browns and Cleveland. Santa Clara Penny going with the tongue and the Browns all right there, it is Benny versus the Penny. Week five is in the book. Thank you for being loyal

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