Benny vs The Penny, Round 8

call that a game. And uh Ravens and Cowboys are not playing this weekend, So no bashing of Dakota Prescott or Lamar Jackson. We don't have that. But before we look ahead, we must look back. Now. I will be giving you marginal handicapping advice on these games. And before we look back, I just want to tell you that the way I in my head that this is supposed to work. Just so you understand, if you're a new listener and don't go falling down a rabbit hole, I'm

gonna handicap each game. You shouldn't just bet blindly every one of these games. That I like, but if you have an opinion on a game and I agree with you, then I would say, well, that's probably something you should go with. That's probably something you should go because we agree on that. So that's how I would advise you to handle this, and and that's that's the best way

to do it. And if you win a lot of money, send us a little bit because as we we know, David Gascon at the craps table or playing cards, you you got a little taste, right, a little taste. Yeah, I'm more so of a craps guy, but black chack. If if I'm hot with a dealer and I'm only heads up, I will tip out no matter what. It's always questionable when people are on first or second base. But yeah, man, let's do this thing. Right. You've been You've been close to white hot as one can be.

It's we're now a week eight, but you've had your plus five hundred every week except for one, I believe. Yeah, Yeah, I've been good. I mean I'm waiting for that apocalyptic weekend where I go all right like that everybody else. I know I will funk everyone over if I do that. But I I mean, this is unrelievable. But we've made it almost to the midway point of the season. And I normally practice strategic incompetence, but I've had no malpractice

picking these games so far. It's crazy. It's wild. Has this been the best you've ever been since starting Benny versus A Penny? I mean you've asked that before. I don't. I try to forget every year, you know, and every show. Um, but I would say, yes, this is the most sustained success that I have had. Um. And I'm not blowing smoke. It is. It's wild, this is a dream. This is actually this like sage advice I'm giving out here. It

is right. I mean, I mean, I'm not I'm not bullshit, and I mean this is I I uh, you know, intelligent advice from a wise experienced person like myself. Let's get to work. So I was ten and four last week, right, ten and four again, that's a seven fourteen winning percentage if you bet every game. Let's get to it. The New York Giants two and five at the Detroit Lions to three and one. It's on Fox. You better watch with Kenny Albert and Charles Davis, one of the voices

of Madden Football. Doesn't it seem that Kenny Albert does either a Giants or a Jets game every weekend? Yeah, it does. And he mixes in a little hockey and a little baseball too, so well, he's the only guy that does every major professional sport in America. Yeah, and he does boxing, which is great. And uh, I think the only thing I haven't heard him on his tennis. And he's a Mallard militia guy. So I liked it.

We need he doesn't like you. Wow, I need to meet him first of all, then he'll definitely not like you. The Lions open a seven and a point favorite. They are currently a six and a point favorite. Will be mostly cloudy in Detroit fifty seven degrees, but it's a dome at Ford Field. I'm gonna take the Lions in this game. And I don't generally lean towards the favorite. This is a good spot. They say that styles make fights, and this is a huge mismatch Stylistically, the Lions what

do they do? They throw the ball deep with Matthew Stafford. The Giants what do they do? They don't defend the big pass. They don't Matthew Stafford is second in deep passing attempts. He's seventh in air yards. The Giants on the other side are out of thirty two in stopping deep passes. You know what, that is a mismatch situation. Meanwhile, you've got the growing pains of Daniel Jones trying to keep up with the Jones Jones is he was sacked

eight times last week against the Cardinals. Cardinals, and since taking over as a starter in Week three, he has taken eighteen sacks. That's tied with Joe Flacco for the second most in the NFL. So I'm saying, even the Lions defense is not very good, it's still gonna have an opportunity to mess around with Daniel Jones. And and suddenly the Lions have played the toughest edule in the NFL so far. Do you know that they played the toughest schedule in the NFL? Packers and Vikings and whatnot,

all these good teams. Now they get to feast on a cream puff and this is one of those get back on track games. The only concern here for me and and I did think about this and handicapped this in is the locker room destroy traded one of the more popular players to Seattle in a surprising trade, and so will we see a Dolphin like revolt where some of the other players are like, screw this organization and

and in the trade deadlines next Tuesday. It shouldn't matter, though, because the Giants have been held under two seventy net yards in three straight games, first time since three and only the Jets have had a longer such streak. Even the Dolphins have been more productive than the Giants as far as that's concerned. Lions twenty four, Giants Tenure Final. I'm penny thanks to the way you're thinking going Lions all right? Next up, Tampa Bay two and four at

Tennessee three and four. It's on Fox. You better watch. Kevin Coogler and Matt Millen, who has a new heart, are calling this game. The Titans open to two and a half point favorite. The line has stayed the same at two and a half and your forecast for our friend Clay Travis, who's a Titan season ticket older. At Nissan Stadium in Nashville, cloudy and gloomy and sixty degrees that kick off for Tampa and Tennessee. H Now, I'm

gonna take the Titans here small favorite at home. First of all, the main wager here is against Jamis Winston, who is a mistake prone mess against even second rate defenses. The Titans have one of the top defenses in the NFL. They bring the beef Tennessee. They're filled with some monsters up front and really up and down the defensive side. Their fourth in the NFL and scoring defense the Tennessee Titans,

and they've allowed just sixteen points per game. This is a bad matchup for Jamis Winston, a guy that turns the ball over a lot, although sporadically he has a masterpiece mixed in now. Secondly, I don't love Ryan Tanhill. I don't even like Ryan Tanhill, but he had obviously been an upgrade over Marcus Mariota. Tells you what kind of deep dark place Mariota was in at quarterback for the Titans. In the last two games, Ryan Tannehill has

completed eight of his passes. Now, one of those games he came in as the backup and then he started the last game. Uh, not that it should have mattered, because the Chargers did gag away that game. Shout out Melvin Gordon. But this week is really not even about Ryan Tannehill. It's all about Derrick Henry in the running

game for the Tennessee Tits. Now, why is that Tampa Bay is allowing two point eight nine yards per Russia tempt best in the NFL, but seven point seven per passing tips, so they they're twenty one in the NFL. So there, if Henry can get through an open up the passing game, Tannehill will have an opportunity. The Buccaneers have five games this season defensively allowing thirty points or more and are still tied for the most in the NFL, even though they had to buy They're tied with the Dolphins.

I don't think that game will This game will be where Tennessee gets into the thirties. But they should win a workman like effort. Here Titans twenty three Buccaneers, Benny, I like this spot for you to Penny's going with the Titans. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the I Heart Radio app al Right. Next up the l A Chargers of Carson, California, formerly of San Diego, that reminds me ben Y Can,

because I know you do. You do some trivia during this Benny trivial, Yes you do. Can. I ask this week that I can pick the Dick Stockton game. I'm gonna find Dick stock didn't one of these games because okay, oh yeah, okay, that's good. All right. Well do you think Dick Stockton is doing this game? It's Chargers Bears. Chargers Bears. No, he's not, he is not. Uh. The l A Chargers two and five at Chicago three and three. It's on Fox. Tom Brenneman and Chris Spielman have the

call and the line on this game. The Bears opened five and a half. It is now four and a half in favor of the home team. It's gonna be mostly cloudy fifty four degrees at Soldier Fields, Chicago for the kickoff. Now, I'm gonna take the Chargers in this game. I'm gonna take the charge. Now, these are two teams that can't get out of their own shadow. Here a flawed football teams, careless bungling misdeeds of football. Uh. Both these teams were supposed to be top teams in the NFL.

Neither one is Uh, it's embarrassing, but I'm gonna take the Chargers. It's really more bet against the Bears. The Bears have been unable to build up any kind of head of steam here. They are a pedestrian in team, held back by the incompetence of Mitchell Trubisky and to some degree the offensive line. Although I don't blame the fat guys. I don't do fat shaming. But Chicago is sixth defensively their first and special teams according to the

Advanced Statistics in the NFL twenty five and offense. And this is another opportunity you would think for the Bears to get out of the doll drums against the Charger team that's also struggling to find success. I just I don't see it, you know. And be the professional gamblers, the Whales, the Sharps, uh, they're known as the Sharps. They are loading up on the Chargers, and so again I'm more going against the Bears. I'm also writing the

big time gamblers here. A loss in this game would leave the Bolts with a winless October that has not happened since two thousand when they were one. In fifteen, I believe Ryan Leaf was the quarterback at that time, and so the Charges are entering a saviors season situation. The Bears are also in that spot because they're in the NFC and in the division with the Vikings and the Green Bay Packers, so they're in a uh, pretty

difficult situation right now. L A is the thirteenth seed in the a f C, only the top six get in. They got a shot still, though it's not over for the Chargers, even though the eyeball test says they have no chance. Houston is the last team in the playoffs right now in the a f C. There four and three. The Chargers are two and five, so there are already two games back in the lost column and really three games back of Houston because they lost head to head

to the Houston Texans. But this is a very workable matchup. Philip Rivers historically has been great as a road underdog of three and a half or more, has got a six seventies six winning percentage in his career, and the Bears are missing their starting tackles. I believe in this or two of their offensive linemen are out in this game, and so I expect the Bears to yet again sync through the Soldier Field, Turf Chargers twenty seven, Bears twenty go on the other way on this one. Penny is

going with the Bears. That's Penny versus the Penny. Next up, Seattle five and two at Atlanta one in six. It's on Fox, all right, guess on go ahead? And this is not a Stockton game either, not a Dick Stockton game. You're correct. He is a Sam Rosen Rande Barber game. They've got the call. Sam does hockey too, right, doesn't do the Rangers? Does the Rangers? Yeah? So him and Kenny Albert do Rangers Devils and then they do some NBC games as well. Yeah, but Sam doesn't do baseball thing, No,

he does not. Good guys said we we shta have him on the Blitz when I did that. Nice guy, all right. So anyway, Seattle Atlanta Seahawks opened at three and a half point favorite. They're still favored by three and a half. Mostly cloudy in Atlanta sixties seven at kickoff. But again, it's a dome. I believe it's a retractable rule, so it could be could be open. I'm gonna take the Seahawks here as a small road favorite. I don't really like home underdogs. I tried to find an angle

for Atlantic, couldn't do it. Maybe you're a better gambler than me, and you can find an angle for Atlanta. At first glance, this point spread seemed for gazy. The Falcons just got blown out by the Rams. Matt Ryan is dinged up, and they have started to unload veteran players. They traded Mohammed Sanu to the Patriots earlier in in the week, and in the Seahawks, you know the many reasons for Like in Seattle, this is a hungry team. They coughed up a game at home to the Ravens.

Something doesn't pass the smell test. Now, my theory is history. Seattle has not been a great road team. Matt Ryan has dominated head to head against some good Seattle teams. He's five and two all time, including the postseason sixteen touchdowns foreign receptions against the Seahawks. He's really done well. No matter who's played defense for Seattle, this is not

a great defensive team for the Seahawks. Now. Secondly, Russell Wilson, you would assume will be locked in the entire Seahawks team is gonna be locked in because of the loss last week. Wilson also check this out after a loss in his Seahawks career, as long as he's not favored by ten or more points, which is not here. Russell Wilson has a six eighty winning percentage against the spread the following week after a Seattle loss. That is wonderful. That is great, and the Seahawks can can really jump

out and boat race Atlanta. The Falcons are doing these come to Jesus meetings and all that, trying to figure things out with their head coach, and it's a mess. So if Seattle loses game, Pete Carrolls will be fired. Seahawks thirty, Falcons twenty. The dirty birds have given up. Penny is gone with the Seahawks as well. Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two a m. Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Alright, let's get trivial. You want to get trivial. All right, let's

get trivial. Levian Bell and Leonard for Nett, are accounting for fifty four point seven percent and fifty point nine percent of their team's total touches this season. Two of the four players currently over fifty who are the other two. The answer answer coming up? All right, Next up, New York Jets one in five at Jacksonville three and four. It's on CBS. Spiroa Adidas and Adam Archiletta have the call. The Jags opened to four point favorite. They are a

six and a half point favorite. Sweet baby Jesus Wow. All right, light Light reign eighty four degrees that kick off at that corporately named stadium with a swimming pool in the end zone there in Jacksonville. H boy, I hate to do this, but I you know, sometimes in life, you gotta you gotta do it. I'm taking the Jets. I'm taking the Jets. I'm not proud of it. Um. First of all, yeah, I don't wonder what's going on

with Donald, obviously, I mean that's the story here. Do you either nail biting, the cold sweats, the stomach clenching and all that. That's Sam Donald. Um. And how does Sam Donald respond after Ghost Week? Uh? Traumatic life changing experience. Uh? The Jets house of cards came tumbling down in that game against the Patriots, and so it's a short week.

Doesn't have a lot of time here, a lot of time to recover and and you know, Sam Donald, according to the advanced stats, has been forty four point seven percent worse than an average quarterback. That's how bad he has been since he came back from the mono and whatnot. And in Jacksonville's defense, has a chance here, I I

know this to seize the opportunity. Historically they don't. The Jags are eight and fifteen against the spread, his favorites of six and a half or more and in their twelve and twenty two is home favorites in the last thirty four games. I just don't trust Jacksonville. I was on Jacksonville last week. I they were trailing going to the fourth quarter against the Bengals. I know it was a road game. Uh And and the Jacks also have a big game against the Texans next week in London,

so it's a peek a boost spot also. And secondly, as much as I have Minshew mania, my man Gardner Minshew is cooled off. He is not playing as well as he did early in his run in Jacksonville. He's still better than Dak Prescott the last four weeks. But um, maybe he he should get a mega contract Gardner Minshew because he's better than but Minshew was only three point seven percent above an average quarterback. How about that Jacksonville in the middle of the pack defensively, the twelfth in

the NFL. The Jags are the first team to rush for at least nine hundred yards through seven games while rushing for just one touchdown since nineteen seventies seven. Uh, how the setting is that like Leonard for net you know, the big Star Bowl running back, and he doesn't get

in the end zone on the ground very often. Now, no team has ranked in the top three in yards per rush and bottom three and rushing touchdowns for a full season since And so my main thinking here is that Jacksonville shouldn't be favored by six and a half against anybody. And you're gonna if the Jets have anything, anything at all, you gotta think they bring it here. This is a game you should compete. I'm I don't believe the Jets will actually win the game, but you've

gotta be a contrarian. There's some line value in this because there's not that much separating the Jets and jackson Even though it sounds seems ridiculous to say that Jacksonville twenty four the Jets twenty The couple. Pett is gonna say they went out right going with the Jets as well, and Ben, as you were making that proclamat about the Jets covering Patriots trading defensive and Michael Bennett to the Dallas Cowboys for seventh round picks. So just the heads

up as you factor in everything, all right with this weekend? Well, Michael Bennett got suspended and now they've traded him here, and I don't think that's a a big loss. He had done anything as a Patriots. Let's get trivial the answer I said, Levian Bell and Leonard four Nett are accounting for fifty four point seven and fifty nine percent of their team's total touches this season. Two of the

four players currently over, who are the other two? Gascon you want to give a shot, I'm gonna go with se Kwon Barkley and the underrated Chase Edmonds of your Arizona Cardinals. My Arizona. Uh No, that is incorrect. The correct answer you're over to Christian McCaffrey of Carolina and Nick Chubble loub Loub the Cleveland Browns running back. They're gonna be in a world of pain coming up alright, moving on Philadelphia three and four at Buffalo five one.

It's on Fox. Who's calling this game? Not Dick Stockton, Mark Slat is on the call with somebody. No, Well, it's Chris Myers and Darryl moose Johnson. I'm over two. The you're over for two. Bills opened a one and a half point favorite, their favorite body two. It's starting to get into Buffalo weather. No snow but rain showers and fifty seven degrees at kick off at New Era of Field and Orchard Park, New York. It's another one. I picked the Jets last. I'm taking the Eagles. I'm

taking the Eagles. I'm taking Philly. Uh And And here's my thinking. Everyone and their mother is waiting for the Eagles to play with a sense of urgency. They can't fight their way out of a paper bag right now. Blah blah blah blah blah. And I've seen no evidence that Doug Peterson will get this group focused. It was a fiasco in Dallas last week. Phillies past defense has been like the filling in the tasty cake. Uh. They are so soft they have they have allowed seven ceebers

to top a hundred yards against them. Now that said, this is a value play because I think people are overreacting to both the Bills and to the Eagles, because Buffalo was trailing themselves late against the Miami Dolphins last week. And you know, Philadelphia, they're terrible, but they're not as

terrible as they played the last couple of weeks. They've had a couple of stink bombs here and be The Bills are a zero sum team, meaning that they have the number three defense in the NFL, but they give that up because they have the compass Rows at quarterback and Josh Allen, who can't seem to put a whole game together. He sucked against the Dolphins until the fourth quarter.

The Bills actually, as I said, they trailed going to the fourth quarter against Miami, a team that's not even trying um and so that should be worth a loss or at least half a loss. So again, these things equal themselves out. But this is almost a must win game for the Eagles in the NFC NFC East. You don't want to get too far away from the Cowboys because you got another game with him. I expect a

better effort here, but we have said that before. The Eagles have a six eleven winning percentage against the spread his road underdogs in recent years with Doug Peterson. I believe Philly wins the game outright Philadelphia twenty four, Bills twenty three going against Bills Mafia, Penny not going with the Bills. 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 good luck, Let's get trivial. Let's get trivial. Jerry or Rice and Blank are the only players from a non D one school to average five or more receptions per game in their NFL careers. Only two. I know the other one. All right, we'll give me the answer to SAC. Next up, Cincinnati, oh and seven at the l A Rams. You can ram it all day, you can ram it all night. You can ram ram it out night. Right. Four and three.

The Rams are four and three. This game is in London. It's not a Dick Stockton game because it's on CBS. Greg Gumble and Trent Green have the call. The Rams open and nine point favorite. They are favored by thirteen thirteen. The Rams, who had lost three games in a row favorite playing. That's how bad the Bengals are. Whether at Wembley Stadium, where this game is gonna be played clear in forty seven degrees at kickoff on Sunday, Ian London. I'm gonna take the Rams here. I'm gonna take the

Rams in this game. I don't like betting big favorites. I don't. I don't like doing it at all. First of all, this is a classic teacher versus pupil matchup Sean McVeigh versus his protege in Zach Taylor of the Bengals, and the turns out the sequel is not the equals. So far, the Sean McVeigh coaching tree has been mostly poison ivy uh, it's not gone's so well all. I guess technically the guy in in Green Bay La Fleur is on the Sean McVeigh spectrum um, even though he

went somewhere else after that. And all that, but that the Rams have won all nine regular season games against AMC opponents since Sean McVeigh took over. Check this out. If the Rams win on Sunday, they would become the He would become Sean McGray the first head coach since the merger to win his first ten games against the opposite conference, and I see no reason to think the Rams won't win the game. You could say they might not cover the SPREP, but I see no reason that

they're not gonna win the game. Secondly, the Rams edition of Jalen Ramsey worked out wonderfully. Uh and according to Football Outsiders, they have the NFL's fourth best defense. They're now getting better with Jalen Ramsey. The Rams defense has not allowed a rush of ten or more yards on any of their opponent's last sixty two rushing attempts. That is the longest streak by any NFL team this season the Rams, and it's the longest streak by a Ram

team the last twenty five years. They were back in the in Anaheim, playing as the l A Rams of Anaheim back then. Now on the other side, the Bengals. Check this out. The Bengals have allowed at least two hundred rushing yards and two ounter net passing yards in each of the last three games. How bad is that? I'll tell you first team to do it in three straight games since the nineteen fifty New York Yankees of the NFL. About that, uh, And in Andy Dalton, who

won his first eight starts. He was a fun fact about Dalton. He won his first eight starts, but this year he is oh and seven as a starter. So should the Bengals lose this weekend, Andy Dalton becomes the first quarterback in NFL history to both start a season eight and oh and oh and eight at some point in in in his career. And now, I hope you forget that because that will probably be a who am

I game question in a couple of weeks. But the Bengals are down four starting offensive linemen to above average edge rushers and a couple of defensive backs that are important for them. So it's a mess. I mean, the only thing that worries these London and sometimes weird things happen in these London games. But Rams forty Bengals, Tan, damn run? How you cutting off this again? Playing again?

Petties going with the Rams m a night? Yeah? You know Ram, All right, what's the answer to Let's get trivial. We'll keep the train moving here. We gotta getty up. Jerry Rice and Blank. I see Jerry Rice like Pat Summer. All that's my homage to Pat Summer. If he sounded he guy sounds like a doucheback San Jerry when I used to watch games when I was a younger, and and Jerry Rice will be playing, and Pat summer All and John Madden the big star broadcasters that era, Jerry

Rice and the forty niners. Anyway, what's the answer here? Rice and mother Schmoe are the only players from non D one schools to average at least five or more receptions per game in their career. I'm gonna go with the Rod Smith. That's a good guess, but it's incorrect. Come on the correct answer, Cooper Cup. She played in Eastern Washington, and he and Jerry Rice so the only ones that went to non they call it FBS schools. Now, yeah, Now in Eastern Washington is uh, it's almost similar to

Boise State. The smurf turf there. Eastern Washington has the red turf. Oh is that right? Yeah? Yeah, I can look at the specks in that stadium. You look at it, it's bleeding red. It is bright bright red. That didn't they ban that the n c a A. Now, the grandfather didn't Boise Maybe they grandfather in Eastern Washington, but I think they dress it up, but it doesn't rest. It's not gonna be green fake maybe any color you want, purple,

it can be black, it can but whatever. You know, how cool would a blackfield look with the with the white lines on that pop? I know this is a from sport for your l A Clipper is an opening nine against Lakers. Their new court looks pretty nice. It almost looks like street ball. Yeah, yeah, it's all right. I had like their logos and I hate the logo. I still wear. I have a hat. I wear the old logo because I like that better. In the new logo. I don't even so dumb for the new logo. They

gotta change it. You know, they got Kawhi Leonard. Now it's a dumb logo anyway. Arizona three, three and one at Orleans six and one. It's on CBS. Kevin Harlan and rich Gannon have the call. Now. The Saints opened is seven and a half point favorite. They were five favored by ten in this game. This is one of my five Star mallar Walks of the week. It'll be sunny and outside the Dome in New Orleans. It will probably be about seventy two. Inside the Mercedes Bends super Dome.

I'm taking the Saints here. I love New Orleans, I love him, love him even a ten point favorite. Let me tell you why Kyler Murray is getting tossed into a pit of warm gumbo. Murray passed for I believe a hundred and four yards last week against the Giants. The Giants, they got like ten guys on the field defensively.

And now this Pop Warner all star goes against the varsity in Nolin's things are going to get out of hand, armor getting Like in Arizona, they can hang with the pond scum of the NFL, but against the top defenses, they simply don't match up. Now, what's my evidence. The two best teams Arizona has played Carolina in Seattle, and both those teams took the Cardinals behind the wood shed and just whipped the hell out of him, pumbled them

into submission. They also trailed the Lions Detroit imploded in the fourth quarter of that game, and and the Ravens, who I don't even think are that great, defensively by double digits. Now conversely, listen, I'll give him credit. They were able to beat the Cardinals. The Giants, Falcons and Bengals. But spoiler alert, every one beats the Giants, Falcons and Bengals. Those teams combined are three and eighteen. That's a one

three winning percentage. So this is another one of those big mismatch situations and beat Nobody has been able to find a rhythm against the Saints defense. They will put pressure on alligator Arms Murray and he will be like butter melting. And and while Teddy Bridgewater has kept the motor going there and and outplayed any reasonable expectation at quarterback that I had for him and many other people had for him. They thought, well, maybe he'll be okay.

He's been better than okay. And now he goes against the limburger cheese defense of the NFL. The Cardinals have allowed twenty one or more points intense straight games. That's the longest active streak in the NFL. Arizona simply does not belong in the same stadium as the New Orleans Saints. Arizona thirty. Actually, wait, let me do that again. Guess guy, Saints thirty Cardinals zero. I'm a skip the wrong score.

I would have been at you're calling a shutout. Yes, Penny is going with the Arizona Cardinals, who are flying high right now, winners of three in row. I am predicting a shutout, is what I am doing. I'm calling my no props to Kyler Murray for By the way, Mike Harmon just sent me a photo of the chair that I hit golf. He just sent me a photo that I wish you hit a person. That would have

been a lot cooler with happy Gilmore and me. Yeah, it would have been good if I was handcuffed and taking the jail, that would have be good, all right, Denver two and five. By the who did the penny pick? I wasn't listening petty pick Keyler Murray and then god Alligator on the winners of three in a row. Fun sized all right, it's like your kid, you get those fun sized candy bars. Car Chase Edmonds, Kyler Murray, who gives a ship, let's go quit hitting on him? A right,

Denver two and five. In Annapolis four and two, it's on CBS. I an eagle whose kid is the voice of the Clippers now actually sounds good? Uh? And Dan Fouts, I know you're excited about anyway, they have the call the Colts open to five point favorite, their favorite by five and a half. It'll be cloudy in fifty six degrees at kickoff at Lucas Oil Stadium Dome. Broncos are the pick here. I'm sorry, guess I'm taking your Broncos.

Here's why, Contrarian pick I admitted many believe this will be another nail on the coffin for Joe Flacco as Broncos quarterback. He never got his bearings last week against the Chiefs, who brought the bull rush, and now he goes against a much better defensive team in Indy. Denver has scored twenty four points or fewer in sixteen straight games,

easily the longest active streak in the NFL for offensive incompetence. Nevertheless, I like the psychological gambling and the angles of psych in this and and there are a lot of good angles here to think the bron Ancos can hang around. They play, you know, they play this game after an embarrassment against Kansas, and I don't walk you through this. The Broncos just humiliated on a national TV game against the division rival. They've had some extra time to practice

and try to figure this out and recover. The Colts, meanwhile, are coming off a very big win for them in division against Houston. Alright, So those are all angles here that you have to keep an eye on. Number two, Jacobe bra said, he takes center stage again this week. He has been a touchdown throwing machine and and and just dominating for fantasy football players. And I get that India has any Indie has a better team, but I keep going back to the mental part of this, and

every indicator says to go with the Broncos. And remember the Colts just a less than a month ago lost at home to the Raiders, who are not that great a team. So if you lose to the Raiders at home, you can certainly lose the le Broncos at home. So be the contrarian. Go against the public consensus. Nobody is betting on the Broncos this week, So you bet on the Broncos to cover Coults a wind, but they won't cover the spread Indie four denver one, depending on that way,

Go with the Broncos. I like the dramatic, pregnant pause there for effect. That was nice of you to do that. We don't have the best equipment here at times, and so sometimes a microphone might fall off an arm or wow, it's an amateur hour. You want me to talk to one of the executives that I hart? We're best friends? Now, yeah, if you can. I'd also need some glass for my car, can you help? Al Right? Next up late game, alright, three and three at Houston four and three. It's on CBS.

Andrew Catalan and James Lofton have the call. The Texans opened a six and a half point favorite. They are favored by six and a half and I picked a bunch of bad teams here recently, so I'm gonna keep that train moving and take the Raiders in this game. Now, it's sunny, seventies, six degrees that kick off in the Dome in Houston, but a lot of these domes these days are retractable roof stadiums now. Now a couple of reasons why I like the Raiders. I don't love him,

but I like the Raiders. I'm gonna that's the right side to pick. Uh. Number one. To say the Raiders had a tough time in Green Bay is like saying that CNN only mildly disagrees with Donald Trump. The Oakland past defensive game. Uh, they gave up six touchdowns to Aaron Rodgers. John Gruden had such a visceral reaction to this,

he snapped and he shook up the locker room. He sent Gary and Connolly, the former Ohio State Buckeye defensive back, to the Texans the team, Hello, they're playing this way. You think John Gruden is going to target Connolly? He must think this guy's so bad. I want to throw the ball every time whoever he's lined up against. Now, you know, Connie's gonna know all of the Raiders plays,

all their defensive say they're gonna change everything. The Raiders are gonna have to change everything gascon because of this Uman. That's that's ridiculous. But I'm still picking the Raiders. The Raiders allowed the second most passing yards per game this season, two nine behind the Buccaneers. The Texans are just behind that, and they're allowing the fourth fourth most past yards per game in the NFL. So I believe this will be a back and forth type of game, one of those

pinball give and take situations. Now again, in theory, the second thing, Gary Connolly should know all of the secrets where the bodies are buried for John Gruden and the Raiders. But obviously the Raiders think this guy is the village idiot and it won't come back to bite them in the ass and all that. So we'll find out if that's true. And Derek Carr, here's a fun fact. Derek Carr leads the NFL in completion percentage seventy four point one percent. He's on pace to have the second highest

completion percentage in NFL history among qualified quarterbacks. But it's meaningless. The reason it's meaningless it's it's not for a lot of yards yards per intense is what five It's not very good at all. I don't I don't have it in front of me. But it's not it's not good at all. Uh Now, listen, I'm hot and cold on the Raiders. I'm hot and cold the Raidors, and this week I'm I'm gonna give them another swing. I like the Texans to bounce back, but I just expect this

to be back and forth. And Deshaun Watson goes against the marshmallow defense uh in in the Raiders. But again, I think the car will be able to move the ball. Loved Jacobs, the running back here. Houston lost in Indianapolis last week, so you figure they'll get a better effort this week. But here's the thing. Since seventeen of the twenty three games the Texans have played have been decided by seven points or less, it's almost a seven point line here, and they generally play up. We're down to

their opponent. That's been the bill O'Brien, m O. So I say, they played down to the Raiders, and I'm gonna take the Texans thirty Raiders seven as we getty up the penny going with the Houston Texans. Getty up, Getty up, Getty up. Caroline at four and two at Santa Clara six and oh, and who do you think is doing this game? I think this is a Dick Stockton game. You are correct, by the process of elimination, you win the Dick Stockton game. Uh, it's on Fox.

This is actually a good game. Though they must have scheduled them before they realized that this would be a good game. Six And if they had known this would have been the matchup, they would have had someone else to the game. But what we love Dick Dick Stockton, how I said his last name. So on Fox, Dick Stockton and Mark Slayworth have the call. Forty Niners opened a six and a half point favorite. There are five and a half point favorite right now as we're doing this.

It's gonna be sunny in seventy two at kickoff. You ever been to Levi's Stadium? No never, you have not? No never? Interesting. Uh, san Francisco native has been. I know it's not really in San Francisco. I'm gonna take the Panthers in this game. I've been riding the Kyle Allen tru Chu train. True, true, I love that choo choo train. I'm the conductor he is. He's hanging onto

the starting job. They're pushing back Cam Newton. If the Panthers win this game, and assuming plausibly that Kyle Allen's part of the reason for that, which you have to think he will be. Uh. If they beat the forty niners and knocked them out of the ranks of the unbeaten, then Cam Newton can go on vacation. The job is is Kyle Allen's. Those are the stakes this week for the Panthers. Secondly, Jimmy Garoppolo has been, let's just say,

not pulling his weight. I talked to somebody this week that is an NFL type who has worked in the NFL playing in the NFL, who said that he does not think the Niners are completely committed to Garoppolo. They don't think he can be the guy, and that he thinks even if the Niners have this great record and all that that Garoppolo, they could opt out of the contract after you, so keep that file that away. I can't, I can't. I see what you do. He's trying to

be like that Philadelphia radio guy. They say, hey, who's the who's the source on the Eagles? He said, I was on Jeffrey. I'm not gonna do it. But how will Jimmy Garoppolo do? Will he find salvation against that covered two Panthers defense? Probably not keeping Mike Carolina leads the NFL with twenty seven sacks, the most by any team over the its first six games in the last six years. The forty Niners just picked up Emmanuel Sanders from your Broncos. Uh, and this is a that's a

pretty good addition. Uh. He's a middle aged receiver, so take that for what it's worth. But they have mixed feelings about this game. The Niners are good, but I'm not sure they're as good as their record indicates they are, and I think that you gotta factor that in here. And as we've seen in the World Series, nobody's invincible, right the Astros thought they were bullet proof, they're not. Uh, you like the hungry your team that would be Carolina,

still trying to fight back. They won four in a row, but they got off that only two star plus Santa Clara had two offensive tackles out of the lineup, I believe. And the Niners, here's the psychology part, the peekaboo. The Niners have to play on Thursday Night Football this upcoming weeks, so they get caught peeking ahead. I'm gonna take the Carolina Panthers seven, the forty Niners. Niners will be unbeatenmore killing them with Kyle Allen as well, and the Carolina

Panthers all right. Next up, let's get trivial. Chris Godwin and Michael Thomas and Blank are the only wide receivers with multiple ten catch hundred yard games this season. Chris Godwin of of Tampa, Michael Thomas of New Orleans and Blank only receivers to have multiple ten cash hundred yard game this season. Next up, Cleveland at New England we gotta get you up, so I won't spend too much time on this. It's on CBS. This is the big game for them. Jim Nance and Tony Romo. Patriots an

eleven point favorite. They are favored by thirteen. Now it'll be a typically rainy, gloomy day in Foxboro, sixty one degrees that kick off at Gillette Stadium. And I hate doing it because I don't like these big favorites, but there's value here the New Englands Patriots on the right side. Hey, it is expected that Mohammed Sanu, at least at the time we're doing this, will make his Patriot debut after the trade from the Falcons earlier this week. All New

England needs is an average offense. They have a historically good defense and we all know that. Seven and all New England has recorded twenty two takeaways eighteen interceptions. They've given up only one touchdown pass this season. The Patriots opponents have a passer rainting of thirty five point six. The league bridge is ninety one point four. That's that's freaky town, that's nuts. You know, this is just a mismach. Baker Mayfield is going to have to play the game.

Of his life, and it's still likely won't matter. The Patriots in a different universe. They were the parallel universe than the than the Patriots, who are just pretenders, or the Browns rather, who are just pretenders. Bill Belichick versus Freddie Kitchens. Please, that's like Albert Einstein versus a newborn baby. Uh. Come on. The only reason to even have a tepid interest in Cleveland is the rest factor. They had a

bye week. The Patriots played on Monday night. But the way I look at it, uh, this is like a It was like a half day for the Patriots because they were up so big against the Jets. Patriots will win this game thirty one to nine. You're fine, Penny, going with the dog in this one, going with the Cleveland Browns. Let's get trivia. What's the answer? I said, Chris Godwin, Michael Thomas, and Blank are the only receivers with multiple ten catch hundred yard games this season. I'm

gonna go with Julian Edelman. Julian Edelman. Uh No, Edelman rarely gets a hundred yards. He usually gets a lot of catches, but not a hundreyards. The correct answer Tyler Boyd of the Cincinnati Bank. About that for a fun fact. Wow. Interesting, you don't see him that impressed. Now, he had one good game that was against apparently said two good games Sunday night, Green Bay six and one, Kansas City five and two. It's on inby Peacock. Al Michaels and Chris

Collinsworth have the call. The Green Bay Packers opened up a four point actually the Chiefs opened up a four point favorite. Then Mahomes got hurt. So the Packers are four and app point road favorites. It'll be clear fifty three degrees at kick off from Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday night. I am gonna take the Chiefs. I don't like saying that loudly, but I'm gonna take the Chiefs. Is a live home dog. First of all, there is a phrase that we say about injured tea tames, Beware of the

wounded bear. Now that is the reason to like Kansas City. Without Patrick Holmes, They're still dangerous, right And you think Green Bay is gonna be like, oh, they can't, you know, come on, I mean they can't do anything on offense without without their quarterback. Here over recent years, teams that are a plus teams playing with a backup quarterback in the first start have been very profitable for gamblers, and

there's a couple of reasons for that. A lot of it is the public just does not want to bet on backup quarterbacks and they think that team is gonna fall apart. And I'm not gonna tell you that Matt Moore is a good quarterback. He's not at all. As he starts for Kansas City, Mahomes being out. In fact, at age thirty five, mahomes the oldest Chiefs player to start at quarterback since do you know who Jim written? Just Damon Heward oh Man, Yeah, daven heard over a

decade ago. So I'm not gonna tell you that this is an upgrade. It's obviously not um And I know a lot of people are just gonna be on the packers. But all Matt Moore has to do is throw the ball out to these They've got a bunch of track guys that should be running in the Olympics on Kansas City on the outside with Tyreek Kill who can be the creator and all that just don't screw it up. Now. Obviously Kansas City is not gonna have the deep passing game,

but they can. They can throw intermediate short passes and have some success. Now. Secondly, the Packers just brutalized. They bludgeoned the Raiders last week. You don't typically have two games like that back to back weeks. Aaron Rodgers looked like a Greek god last week, but that's the exception to the rule. He's mostly been so I expect things to come back and regrets to the meat here. The Chiefs defense is obviously not that good either. They played

very well against the A Chop Liver Broncos team. But the Packers are getting so much public money and love being on the side of the house, the side of the bookie. So I'm gonna take the Packers to win, but not cover. Packers twenty seven, Chiefs twenty six, depending on with Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. Last game Monday Night Football, Miami oh N six at Pittsburgh two and four. It's the Booger Bowl. Booger McFarland and Joe Tessa Tour

have the call. Now. The Steelers open sixteen point favorites. They are fourteen point favorites. The reason they're fourteen point favorites is because idiots are betting on the Dolphins. Go figure a fool and his money are soon parted. Here. It's gonna be fifty six partly cloudy at kickoff in hines Field, Pittsburgh on Sunday night. I'm gonna take these Steelers and I don't like doing it because it's a big number. But another flatulent spectacular from Monday Night Football.

This game should be played to to punish and torture people in in like prison camps. Uh, you either get thirty days in jail or you have to watch the Dolphins play. Uh the Steelers now again. I my my instincts my DNA gueston is to not bet on large favorites, but the Dolphins aren't even trying. Uh. And I look at all the number her. Pittsburgh's won seventeen straight home games on Monday Night football. You think they're gonna lose,

They're gonna win. So will they cover the spread? They have not lost at home on Monday Night football since they won the best winning percentage in the NFL history on Monday Night and under Mike Tomlin their fourteen and two in Monday Night Football and have won seven consecutive games. It's just insane. That's a trend. It's a very good trend.

Are you watching this game live? Well, I have a show, so I'm hoping there'll be a World Series game, although I don't know there will be, but you know, I'll watch, but I'll be watching trying to find an angle. Guess count all right, the line should actually be much higher than this. The the computers that predict the point spread like the Steelers as much as an eighteen point favorite, So you're getting an extra four points based on that. The Dolphins are like a bad Beer League team, um

playing against professionals. This is not a great vintage of Pittsburgh and it doesn't really matter whether it's Mason Rudolph or Devlin Hodgres under center. I will close my eyes, I will cover my ears, I will shut my mouth literally and take the Steelers in prime time, blindly in the Booger Bowl. Steelers thirty, Dolphins ten penny. Not messing around either, going with the Pittsburgh Steelers and that is

a rap. Thank you, Gascon. I appreciate your fine, fine help and just flipping the coin and slaving away for Ben Malla. Slaving away for pennies on the dollar be some kind of compensation ungrateful. Guess, guys, I'm not even getting answered the big leagues. You're not in the minor leagues anymore with the leagues, been on the big league platform for quite a la. Thank you very much. I don't know about that. The people that have heard you

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