The Fifth Hour: BENNY VS. THE PENNY (WEEK 10)

we promoted this on terrestrial radio during the week. It's Benny versus the Petty and here it is yet again. Strike up the band, Welcome players, You're welcome. Are you up? It's time now Penny versus the Penny. Love that sound, Love that sound. And right over there, the penny has yet to speak. So the representative of the Penny, the honorable Danny G Radio, the voice and the face of the Penny. Hello, Danny Yo, Good morning Benny. And you know I might sound a little stuffed up. I've been

fighting off a cold the past couple of days. So the Penny it's like being on the I R. Although the Penny has had a horrible, sickly season completely, not just this weekend, yes, a bedraggled, exhausted, stressed out Penny,

a very unusual season so far. Before we get to the games at hand here in week ten, we must look back to week nine, and I want to think my fact checkers like David in winter Park, Florida with Roscoe the Parrot, and Rob in Vegas, and several others you know who you are, who emailed me every week to make sure that I'm giving out the right record and no bogus records, thinking that I'm somehow inflating the records. But the great thing about this podcast, Danny, is everything

is available. All of the audio content is available in the archives, So if you think I'm full of bullshit, you can go back and listen to any of the shows and crunch the numbers yourself. So back in week nine, we'll start out with the Penny. Now, the Penny, on a losing streak, needed to bounce back, and it did not go well for the Penny. There were a total of thirteen games on the card. A bunch of teams had buys last week. The Penny went somehow three nine

and one against the sprint. Is that is terrible, absolutely sucks, devoid of matter. Yeah, that is the second worst week the penny has had. Nothing can quite top Week three, where the penny went three and thirteen against the spread. Uh that that only picking three winners out of sixteen games back in week three. But here in Week nine, last week, the penny went three nine and one. That's a two fifty winning percentage. Now, how did I do.

Let's get to the point, please, my reign of terror continuing over the penny thirteen games, I went eight three and two, So a couple of games finished in a push, but eight three and two a seven twenty seven winning percentage, which is actually my highest one week winning percentage all season if you go by that metric. And overall, now the penny every game picking flipping the penny, Danny g you do it. No, no, bull bull bull crap. Right, you're flipping the penny badly, But that's good for you.

You know you're probably gonna want to sign me to a long term contract. I know you're my good luck charm. After I had all these other people do the penny over the years, and I got whacked most of the time. But you come in here, Danny, and all of a sudden, I'm like, I'm gonna get my my my smoke phone. I'm gonna give out my picks, my number or something. You like boats. Listen up, Yeah, I'll get a boat driveway after my gambling tip. You don't have a boat

in your driveway, I wanna get you. You're gonna have a mistress and a boat at a new house south of France. So uh so some anyway, the Penny overall is sixty four seventy two and three on the year. Every game against the spread, that's a four seventy one winning percentage, which when you consider the Penny had two weeks where they were sixteen games under five right there, that's pretty much the difference. But uh four seventy one

winning percentage. I had to double check on this, and Roscoe the Parrot, David, Rob, Mike, all you guys can go back and check. But I am eighty fifty one and five against the spread, and my computer like brain tells me that that is twenty nine games above five, six eleven winning percentage so far this NFL season. So remember that the number that you're looking for here to make money. You have to win more than fifty two

point four percent to make money and to make that work. Otherwise, because of the way the juice is set up, you'll burn out. It will not go well. So let's get to it now. It is week ten, and we will not be talking about the Ravens. The Ben Gals are not playing, the Jets are not playing in the Patriots are not playing. All those teams on the bye week. Here in week number ten, and we start out with

the early, early, early game. And if you're the Seattle Seahawks, it is extremely early, as this game will be played in Germany, Seattle six and three versus Tampa Bay four and five on the year, it's on the NFL network. Rich Eisen who used to work at our place, and Kurt Warner, Michael Urban, the playmaker, Steve Mariucci, all of them getting their expenses paid. In Munich, Germany, where this game will be played, the Buccaneers opened a one and

a half point favorite in the neutral site. They are favored by three slight lean on the money to the Bucks after they beat the Rams last week. Temperatures in the fifties at the stadium there in Munich, Germany, where they will be playing Tampa Bay, Oh six and one this season against the spread with Todd Bowls and Tom Brady and the Seattle Seahawks. What the heck are they

doing right there in Seattle? They have been wonderful with Gino Smith nine and three going back to last year with Gino Smith as the starting quarterback and six and one against the spread their last seven games as an underdog of seven or less. The pig is in. I wanna take Seattle in this game. The Seahawks have a better defense, they have a better quarterback. Gino Smith has actually played better than Tom Brady. Never thought I'd say

that sentence. Welcome to Bizarro world, and you mix in what what I'd like to think is the secret weapon here, Kenneth Walker and the running game Kenneth Walker the second or third wherever it is, and the running game here. This is the right side of the game. The the only thing that scares you a little bit. The only red flag is the start time body clockwise. This game will be kicking off at six thirty am body clock times. Seattle are all those twelves is gonna get up and

have bacon and sausage and scrambled eggs and watched the game. Hudos. The NFL doesn't care about that. I'm sure there's people all over Germany clamoring for this game, unless they're not. But that said, the Twelves have covered four straight games for the first time since the last time they covered five straight games, and they're about to get that done

here Seahawks twenty four. Back to the lost column for the Buccaneers seventeen seventeen Seattle with the win and the penny picks and the penny is going with Tom Brady and the Bucks. Alright, so disagreement on that game. Out of the gates, I saw it seemed like the penny was dancing around there, Danny. I looked. I looked up, and I thought the penny had gone rogue. Maybe a jailbreak for the penny the haggard penny decided to take off. Is that true? Because the penny rolled off the table. Okay,

bad job by the penny. Come on, by the way, I went with what was on the floor though, So all is fair, All is fair in love war and benny versus the penny. Next up the shambolic Jacksonville Jacks, who did beat the Raiders last week three and six at Kansas City six and two. It's on CBS with Jim Nance and Tony Romo. Jim Nance and Tony Romo calling a Jacksonville game, but it is Kansas City. The Chiefs opened at nine and ap point favorite. They were favored by nine and a half. This, of course, the

home Kansas City of the Ben Mallard Chicken Fingers. The landing in the Greater Kansas City areare in Liberty, Missouri, just down the street from where the Chiefs play, not that far away, a few miles away. Most of the handle on this game in favor of the Chiefs, Sunny temperatures in the forties at kick off at Arrowhead Stadium, and some of the numbers on this when Kansas City has been a terrible home team. They're owing four for

Gamblers at home this season. And if you go back the last eleven home games started by Patrick Mahomes three and eight against the spread, that tells you what has happened, doesn't tell you what's gonna happen. Just like Trevor Lawrence two and eight his last ten games starting on the road. So something's gotta give in this game. I'm gonna take Jacksonville. I like the Jags. This is a quarterback mismatch. We

understand that Mahome is much better than Trevor Lawrence. He should take Lawrence behind the wood shed and the individual matchup. That's it. Trevor Lawrence is better and Malik Willis the Titans quarterback last week. Didn't even try to throw the ball last week. But we're taking the Jags mainly because we like the running game. Travis e t n the running back out of Clempson. Clempson, this guy has been

a bell cow. Now. I was a little scared because Doug Peterson said they're gonna roll back the amount of carriers don't want to work the guy tour What are you saving him for? I don't understand. What are you saving him for? A rainy day in the summer? Makes no sense. But Kansas City's run defense blows and I'm counting on some long, methodical drives here for Jacksonville. You're gonna have to convert some third downs. This game will

be much closer than it's supposed to be. The Chiefs are just two and five against the spread since week two. It's also a sandwich game for Kansas City. They played in prime time against the Titans last week at home. Next week they got flexed. Their game against the Chargers in the Hood in Inglewood is a primetime game, so this is a sandwich game between two primetime games and a road trip out to l A. Chiefs will win

the game, but this is way too many points. Chiefs twenty seven, Jags twenty the final and the penny is going with the Jags, alright, so we agree on that one. Next up Houston one six and one, Boy is that ugly? And the New York Giants six and two. It's on CBS with I An Eagle and Charles Davis. Charles Davis, we've had him on this podcast. The Giants opened up a six point favorite. They are favored by five. The money is pretty even. Temperatures in the forties, cloudy at

MetLife Stadium in Jersey for kickoff. Houston has been very

good for gamblers on the road. They suck overall, but they've played well enough within the margins, as unorganized as they are, to keep the games closed there five and two against the spread, their last seven on the road nine and six, with Davis Mills starting their last fifteen and if this line ends up the way it's looking at Giants by five, this will be just the sixth time in the Super Bowl era we're a team with at least a seven winning percentage like the Giants, is

a home favorite of less than a touchdown against the team as bad as the Texans are. But I'm gonna take the Texas anyway. We like Houston this week for a couple of reasons. The Giants little bit zok coming off the bye week, and the Texans have a big time running back who's not that well known, Damian Pierce. We had the Texans their last game against Philadelphia. They covered for us. Damian Pierce banged up, got a chest problem, a shoulder problem. Everyone's dinged up at this point in

the NFL. But the kryptonite for the Giants is their run defense. They have been slobber chops on that side of the defense their thirty one and run defense this year. Last four weeks, they're dead last in the NFL, allowing six point three yards per carry. The problem, the fly in the ointment here is that Houston also blows at stopping the runs, So both teams should be able to move the ball at will with their running backs to Kwan, Barkley and Pierce. The quarterbacks are pretty much awah. Danny

Dimes stinks and so does Davis Mills. But I'm counting on some long, time consuming drives. Eat the clock, eat the clock, eat the clock, and keep the game low scoring. Giants will win, but they won't cover that five point line. Giants twenty three, Texans twenty another heartbreaking boss for Houston, and the Penny agrees with you, going with the Texans to cover all right. Next up for US, we jump right into Norlands three and six at Pittsburgh two and six.

It is on Fox with Adam Amin and Mark slay Rith. This game looking like a debacle when you look at the records here, when you put these teams together, you don't want to look at the records because if you looked at the records, you wouldn't want to watch the game. But the Saints opened a two point road favorite, and that seems like a bad dream. But they are favored by one and a half. Pretty much everyone and their uncle betting on the Steelers, which scares me a little bit.

The stadium formerly known as Heinz Field, mostly cloudy temperatures in the thirties, so you can tell we're getting close to the Thanksgiving with these temperatures. And Dennis Allen has been miserable with the Saints, just like he was with

the Raiders. Three and six against the spread New Orleans this year, and Andy Dalton all those games over the years against the Steelers and Pittsburgh loving the fact that the cataclysmic Andy Dalton's walking in Steelers are eight and two against the spread their last ten against an Andy

Dalton quarterback team. Mike Tomlin, check out some of these numbers, fourteen and four, fourteen four and two, I should say fourteen four and two as a home underdog, they're thirteen and seven out right in those games, seven oh and two against the spread the last five seasons as a home underdog. This is a special gift. New Orleans is oh and three on the road this year. They're one in five on the season when the line is between

plus three or minus three. There is nothing that indicates you should bet on the on the on the Saints, and maybe all look like a donkey when this is all done, but I'm gonna go with the public on this. I'm taking the Steelers. Andy Dalton stinks. I can't believe the Saints team We're able to shut out the Raiders a few weeks ago. That blows my mind. Uh, the Steelers are arrested coming off the by. They're getting some guys back. It's gonna be a chilly afternoon for the Yensers.

That does not vote well for the red peace shooter, not the red rifle. He's a peace shooter. And T J. Watt is expected back, the defensive stalwart back from injured reserve for the Black and Yellow. The Steelers are going to get more of their running game with Jalen Warren, which I think is actually an upgrade because they haven't got much running game going at all. Steelers in a low scoring defensive struggle twenty with Kenny Pickett and the

Saints with Andy Dalton ten your final. The Penny says you're crazy to go with the public. Penny's going with the Saints. Well, that is actually true. Usually it turns out to be a nightmare when you go with the public. It's insomnia inducing experience. But well, we'll think the public's right for once and we'll see how that works out. Speaking of insomnia, Detroit and Chicago, you talk about restlessness. Doub Bears suddenly a hot team because of last week.

More than that minute. Detroit though two and six, Chicago three and six. It's on Fox with Kevin Coogler and Mark Sanchez. Sanchiz, the butt fumble guy, will have the call there on Fox. The Bears opened a one and a half point favorite both these teams. The Exxon Valdis they're spilling oil all over the place, and the Bears have a three point favorite. Now, as I said, open one and a half the public betting on that very

flammable Bears team. It is going to be mostly cloudy thirty six degrees at kickoff at Soldier Field, and I'm gonna take the Lions here. Detroit has been a great underdog there ten four and one against the spread. As an underdog, They've covered six straight divisional games as a dog. I don't get the overreaction of Justin Fields slicing up the Dolphin defense because the Lions also sliced up the Dolphins defense. It was a great day for Fields. He

showed some razmatazz, some highlight plays. Was great to watch. That wonderful. If he could only get some some throwing going and complete some some more passes, but the Lions rushed defense has played much better recently. They were thirteen in the NFL over the last month. The key to this game, though, is the interior for the Detroit Lions. Aidan Hutchinson, the top pick for Detroit total stud in the middle. Lions getting some guys back, while the Bears

again without ro Kwan Smith and Robert Quinn. They were both traded before the deadline, and the struggle is real. I love the Lion getting three points here. A regression to the mean for Justin Fields. If he's not able to run wild like the Dickens, he's gonna have to throw the ball and that boats well for the Lions because they'll get pressure on Justin Field. With Aidan Hutchinson and friends, Lions get their third win of the year. Lions twenty six, Bears twenty three the final, and the

penny is going with the Justin Fields hype. Don't buy the hype. Don't buy the hype. Alright, next up here Cleveland three and five at Miami, Miami, Miami. It's on CBS Miami. Six and three on CBS with Greg Gumble and Adam Marcelta. Dolphins started the year with three wins. They then had three losses, and now they won three in a row. Dolphins opened up a five and a

half point favorite. They are a three and a half point favorite right now, and many people think the Browns are just going to be cannon fodder in this game. Mostly sunny temperatures in the low eighties at kickoff at hard Rock Stadium. As Cleveland has been very good against Miami.

They don't play that often, but Cleveland seven and one against the spread their last day against the Dolphins, and the Browns winning record with Jacobe Brissette as the starting quarterback five and three against the spread with Brissette under center. Cleveland also has been a great dog. They've been a live dog. Are our eleven four eleven and four? The record last fifteen has an underdog three and one this season.

As a dog, I'm taking Cleveland in this game. The Browns defense has bounced back the last couple of weeks. They also get defensive back Denzel Award back from concussion protocol. The plan best laid plans of mice and men is for him to bird dog Tyreek Hill, slow Tyreek down a little bit, pressure to a tongue of by law mess up the pocket there with Miles Garrett forced him to check down to others, disrupt the passing game. Miles Garrett like the Tasmanian Devil and on offense just a

study diet of time consuming runs. With Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt. We saw what Chicago's uh Chicago's office was able to do running the ball against that Miami defense. The Dolphins obviously making that a point of emphasis this week, but can you fix it that quickly? Bradley Chubb coming over from the Broncos, He'll be a second game here. Dolphins win, but they don't cover the spread. Dolphins. Brown is going to be the final on Sunday and the

penny is going with two and the Dolphins alright. Next up Minnesota seven and one at Buffalo six and two. It's on Fox with Joe Davis and Darryl Moose Johnston. They have the call. The Buffalo Bills opened up a nine and a half point favorite, but they that line now down to three and a half because of a key injury, rain and possible snow in this game. So

we could have a snow game in Buffalo. Temperatures in the low thirties at high Mark Stadium there in Orchard Park, New York, So Minnesota, owing four their last four games against the spread as a dog. This is their second game as an underdog this season, so a couple of games last year, a couple of games uh this year. Now and Buffalo lost last week. They were ten an a half point favorite. They lost the game outright to

the Jets, very embarrassing. The reason this game is impossible to handicap is because at the time we are doing this, we do not know the status of Josh Allen. He's got a bum elbow. His status is up in the air. There are some people that are convinced he's not going to play. Others say he will play. But either way, go bold or go home. Do I think the Vikings are gonna bulldoze the Bills in this game because Josh Allen might not play. No, No, I did not. I

do not believe that. In fact, I'm going the other way. I'm going with a Buffalo rome. I'm taking the Bills here to corral the Viking ship. I do not expect Josh Allen to play. I do like the idea of a good Buffalo team with a backup quarterback rallying around their backup quarterback for a couple of weeks, case Keenum can get the job done. You don't want to play him long term, right because teams eventually will be able to neutralize him, and they can, they can cancel him out.

But for a couple of weeks, why not, you can get it done. Let Josh allen and heal his elbow. The main reason to like the Bills, though, is von Miller and the defense in the face of Kirk Cousins wishing he was on a dinghy out in the snow on Lake Erie. There the pressure is what breaks pipes. It also breaks kirk Ins and the chance of snow. It's gonna be nasty. Even though Cousins lives in Minnesota, he plays in a dome. I don't see this going

well for the Viking offense. I expect the Buffalo Bills to rally back here, rallied back, and they will be the ones that disarmed the Vikings Bills thirty Vikings twenty three the final and the petting says, go pound some snow going with the Vikings out there, you Penny how there you will be blood stained by the time this ends next up Denver the den Broncos at three and five and Tennessee five and three. It's on CBS with

Andrew Catalan and James Lofton. They have the call and a lot of blame going on in the Mile High City. As the Broncos thought they would be great, it has been blasphemy. On the field. The Titans opened up a one an app point favorite. They are favored by two and a half now at Nissan Stadium, the house that Clay Travis built there in Nashville, sunny and forty five degrees at kick off. The Titans five and all against the spread versus teams with losing records of this season.

Tennessee also has covered six straight games. That is the longest active streak in the NFL, the Titans longest streak since oh eight, that's when they covered eight straight games. And I'm gonna take the Titans. And now Ryan Taniel may or may not play. He's got a bad ankle. He did practice limited trending towards playing after missing the last couple of games. But I don't think it matters. And I'll tell you why Taniel is not a difference maker.

He's better than Malik will is but the bread and butter of Tennessee when you put them under the microscope. The bread and butter is all about the run game, heavy run approach. Here, Derrick Henry to the left, Derrick Henry to the right, Derrick Henry, up the gut and do it again. The Titans will score enough just by running the ball. The Broncos not so much. Russell Wilson has been serving up lumpy mashed potatoes and sloppy Joe's

a lot of unforced errors. The Broncos of the dumbest team in America, a lot of people that need to be held responsible for how bad they have been. They've been racking up the penalties here, so I expect Tennessee's defense is pretty good. They were able to contain the Chiefs last week from scoring too many points. I say they have similar success here. Between the twenties. The Broncos will be able to move the ball, but that's about it.

Titans twenty three Broncos seventeen. The final and the penny actually agrees with you on this one. Going with the Titans, all right, So we agree there. We move on now the late games, and in Annapolis at three five and one at Las Vegas two and six. It's all on a city. As with Kevin Harlan and Trent Green, they have to call. The Raiders opened a three and app point favorite, but everyone seems to agree that the Colts new coach is fraudulent and so that he should be outlawed.

The Raiders a six point favorite. A team that has lost back to back to the Saints and Jags on the road comes home and is a six point favorite. Say it ain't so, I don't understand. I don't get it. Indian Apples. I know they've been bad recently. They're owing three of their past three games against the spread. Oh and two was Sam Ellinger the quarterback. But the Raiders, your Raiders. Danny g three and thirteen their last sixteen games, is a favorite and Derek Carr is just terrible in

this situation. It's he's just not authorized to play when favorite. And Josh McDaniels, going back to his days in Denver, he's got a losing record when his team has been favored, and he's one in three. The Raiders with McDaniels outright against the spread, wind favored by at least six points. I'm taking that Colts. I know that's for boating. I know that's that's unauthorized, and I'm gonna get in trouble. It's just honorable all that, but I'm taking the Colts here.

The circus visits Vegas, and what better town for the circus than Vegas. With Jeff Saturday who skipped to the front of line, he got one of those golden tickets Danny g came up with to go to the front of the line there, uh for the Colts. It's gonna be fascinating to see how this plays out Saturday in a Sunday rather in a motivational type situation where Jeff Saturday is that raw raw type coach. He's the spokesman for Jim er say, he'll stay out of the way.

That's how I see this going in my crystal ball. The Raiders have lost the Trevor Lawrence who has not been very good, Andy Dalton who stinks back to back weeks. They have the big names but little game on defense, and Sam Ellinger has been bad. I'm not gonna sugarcoat this, but he's not gonna face that much pressure in this game. Despite the names on the Raiders of not getting to the other quarterback. They're not putting pressure on the other team.

And and Vegas has shown that they don't fight for Josh mcdanne's. They don't scratch and claw. They take a quarter off here, a half off there. Derek Carr continues to be a dog with fleas. His numbers aren't that bad, but he's fraudulent. He's a bootleg quarterback. And so I am going to go with Jeff Saturday. I didn't think i'd say that, uh, And I'm gonna take that mainly of the Colts defense because they are not They are not uh bad, They're They're not terrible. They're pretty good

actually on that side of the ball. They held the Patriots to basically two yards last week, but the turnovers killed them. So I'm gonna take the Colts and the Raiders four the final for Jink's sake. I almost wish the penny would agree with you, Ben, but the penny says, if Jeff Saturday beats Josh McDaniels on Sunday, we are

living in an side down world going with Vegas. Now, as a spokesman for the Raiders, Danny G can you confirm or deny that if the Raiders lose to Jeff Saturday, who a couple of days ago was putting makeup on

in Bristol, Connecticut. If the Raiders moves to Jeff Saturday, his his coach to team that Josh McDaniel should be on the first flight out of the airport in Vegas back to Boston to work with Bill Belichick and the Patriots, unless Mark Davis and him in those closed door meetings were actually joking around having a bourbon talking about the number one draft pick. Okay, so you're already eyeing the

the number one to the Raiser. I'm not as a fan, I'm not, but who knows what they're doing behind closed doors. The way they take quarters and has off, it almost looks like they're trying to tank. Yeah, it's it's crazy. The second half last week, well, the entire game against New Orleans, but the second half last week is in that first half, as you saw, they were tearing them apart, the Jags apart through the air. So why in the second half did they try to establish a ground game?

They went away from the past. Yeah, well, they tried to run out the clock, right, they tried to run out the clock and they ended up. They ran, they ran the prevent offense. Well, at this time, the Raiders would have the number three pick in the draft. Danny, if Josh McDaniels doesn't get fired after this game, then

they are trying to get draft position. Or Mark Davis just wants to save his money for p F Changs and doesn't want to worry about having to pay Gruden and pay this guy and whoever else they hire and all that. Man Or he's just worried about his money overall, which is why he goes to PF Chang's. Well, PF change is it's a medium price to Chinese food for us. Yeah, for us. If we were billionaires, or at least we owned five billion dollar teams, there's no way we'd be

going to p F Changs. Come on, I'm my I'm a man of the people, daddy. You know, I'm a man of the people. I'm a simple like. Damn it. I could afford extra lettuce wraps. I know I can get extra egg rolls. I mean it, signed me up. Come on, I get all that Beijing b for whatever it is. They're the Yeah, alright. Next up for US Arizona three and six at the l A I am is at three and five. It's on Fox. Friend of the Show, the Great Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma have

the call. The Rams opened up a three point favorite that went all the way down to one because of injury, slight lean on the money of the Rams Sunny and in the sixties at so Far Stadium in the Hood in Inglewood, the Rams eleven and one outright and against the spread against Arizona including the playoffs under Sean McVeigh

seven and one against Cliff Kingsbury. So this has been a huge mismatch in favor of the Rams Arizona eight and one outright and against the spread as a road underdog since the start of last season, and the Rams have been miserable at home and on the road, all of their shortcomings. It's it's like it's like a vampire seeing sunlight. What has happened in the Rams here. It's been Brtal that said, I want to take the ramps now. The reason that the lines that won is because Matthew

Stafford's in the concussion protocol. And again at the time we are doing Benny versus the Penny, this might change, but at the time we're doing this. It's up in the air where their Stafford's gonna play, But there's also no guaranteed Kyler Murray's gonna play. Has got a hip injury. Both of them frazzled, which means we could see John Woolford versus Colt McCoy that that could be the matchup here in a battle of lounge jacks. Now the wheels

have completely fallen off of the Rams offense. They have Cooper Cup and nobody else, a lot of wartz, a lot of malls, a lot of imperfections there. Now the defense is still legit. That's the main reason I've bet on this game. Aaron Donald, J. Ramsey and the defense are are doing their job. The offense under Sean McVeigh and they're on hiatus this year. Alligator arms. Murray has been pukedtastic in his career against the Rams. He's more

worried about video games than he is game tape. And this is going to be an aesthetically unpleasing game, but the Rams will pull it out. Rams sixteen and the Cardinals thirteen the final. This is an easy agreement going with the Rams, all right, So if so fact, though we both have guaranteed the Rams. It's in the bag. It's in the bag. What's wrong with your quarterback? By the way, well, he's weighed down because of the Lombardi Trophy. It's hard to play. No, I mean, what's wrong with them?

He's got he's got a concussion. He's in the concussion protocol. So of course watching the Rams, I have a concussion watching the Rams. So we both have that. M All right, next up, down, Thank you. I'll be here all week all weekend. Alright. Uh. Dallas is six and two. They're playing green Bay three and six and Aaron Rodgers being called out as a phony. This game on Fox. Kevin Burkhart and Greg Olsen. It's the big game on Fox. Why because you put the Dallas Cowboys on TV. If

you build it, they will come. And boyd to the fans come when Dallas is on TV. These are two iconic franchises. At the Frozen Pundra where I visited earlier this year, is pretty cool being in Green Bay. Crazy scene there, crazy scene in Green Bay with the way that's set up. It's just a small little Wisconsin town. This massive monstrosity lambeau Field right in the middle. Cowboys opened a three point road favorite. They are favored by five and the handle on this game. About seventy of

the money's on the Cowboys. Temperatures in the low thirties at bow Field, so it's getting to the frozen tunder time there in Green Bay. Aaron Rodgers five one and one against the spread in his career as a home underdog. He's that's that includes the playoffs, so only six but seven times, seven times in his career has been a home underdog. Rogers has never been more than a three point home dog. So this line is at five right now. So this is uncharted territory for Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay.

Dallas has been wonderful as a favorite. Their thirteen and three as a favorite since the start of last season, five and oh against the spread as a road favorite, Road Warriors. From Mike McCarthy, I've seen the numbers, I've seen all the data. Everything says bet on Dallas. Don't even ask any questions. Green Bay's a peewee football team at this point right it's it's embarrassing dollars to doughnuts. You've got to take the Cowboys in a landslide way.

But I say now, I am gonna take the Limburger cheeseheads the green Bay Packers. The Packers were were wretched uh last week with the mistakes against the Lions, and they've been miserable if the one of the longest losing streaks in the NFL. But there's actually value here getting this many points and Aaron Rodgers at home. Green Bay should be able to move the ball between the twenties even with that pass rush from the Cowboys. The issues have been in the red zone lately. The Packers injury

report is through the roof. They've got Sammy Watkins who's dinged up. Alan Lazard's got a shoulder, Aaron Jones and ankle offensive linemen are in the injury tent over there. I've seen all that. Next man up, do your job. I don't like Dak Prescott in a cold weather game

in Wisconsin. That seems like risky business. If it looks too easy, it is, and it looks way too easy for the powder puff Green Bay Packers to just lose this game out right, So I say no, I think they will hang around, hang around, and there's a slim chance to actually win the game out right. But that castaways in the left behind players, the misfits in Green Bay who are playing. We'll keep this close with Aaron Rodgers Cowboys. We'll win, but they won't cover the spread.

Cowboys Packers twenty four the final, and the penny says, you enjoy your moldy cheese, Ben going with the Cowboys. Nothing better than when you. I make the pizza, the mallard pizza, the garlic onion pizza. I make, and every once in a while, I'll get the dough and I'll have the tomato sauce and I'll get the pie ready. I'll get the sauce on the dough, and then I'll go to grab the mozzarella cheese and you pull it out. You open the mozzarella cheese up and you see that

those weird colors of mold growing on the cheese. Boy, that's a bad feeling, man, that's a bad, bad, bad feeling, all right. Next up Sunday Night football, the l A Chargers at five and three San Francisco slash Standa Claire at four and four on and be see with Mike Tariko and Chris Collinsworth on the peacock. They've got the call the line on this game. The forty Niners opened

a three and a point favorite. They are all the way up to seven and the money slight lean to the team from northern California at Levi's Stadium, clear Skies fifty four degrees at kickoff Sunday evening in San Francisco. The The Niners are five and oh against the spread their last five games as a home favorite. There two and oh this season, but historically Kyle Shannon and has been a walking talking debacle as a home favorite. Eight

sixteen and two is a home favorite. Overall. The Chargers have been a great road play their four and oh against the spread on the road. They lived a charmed life last week as it was fumball and then fumble as Atlanta and and the Chargers exchanged fumbles in that wild ending at the end of that game, which helped the Chargers out. I'm gonna take the Chargers here. The Chargers can come close to matching the Niners and talent. People think I'm crazy to say that, but I believe

the point spread is haywire. Even with all the injuries the Chargers have had, there's value with l A Justin Herbert. I'll take him over Jimmy Garoppolo. Certainly they're right there. Belly to belly, Austin Ekeler is a better player than Christian McCaffrey. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. So at worst that's a wash. And then you've got Deebo Samuel who's got a bad hammy and Keenan Allen who's also got a bad hammy, although it sounds like Keenan Allen may not play yet again, he's the Kawuahi

Leonard or the Anthony Davis or the Chargers. So either way, I understand there's a bunch of guys you've never heard of, Joshua Palmer, DeAndre Carter who are playing white out in this game and supposed to be key participants. But if I'm coaching the Chargers, I ride and die with Austin Ekeler. Run Eckler, throw to Heckler, Gerald Everett to tight end can be effective in the passing game. Chargers with a stunner in Sunday Night Football, they not only cover, they

win the game outright. Upset City, Upset City, thirty nine Chargers over the Niners, and the penny says, you're full of it going with the Niners alright, last game here, last game Monday Night Football Washington four and five at Philadelphia eight and oh it's on ESPN with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. They have the call, Will this be a rags to riches story for Ron Rivera and the team formerly known as the Redskins? Well probably not, but the line on this game the Eagles are eleven point favorite.

And then they opened up at tenant app aren't they cloudy? Temperatures in the thirties that kickoff at the Link in South Philly, the house that Tony Bruno built. Philadelphia five one and one against the spread their last seven at home with Jalen Hurts and Nick Sirianni. But the Washington football team has been very good, getting touchdown or more there eight five and two against the spread the last fifteen. In that situation, however, Monday Night Football has been a

pit of horrors. As you you go back and there are eleven games under over the last what's that a pit of horrors? Okay, well, well that would be that would be a different, that would be something different. But but yeah, since since oh seven, double digit favorites on Monday Night Football are nine and twenty one against the spread. I just love getting over a touchdown. I'm gonna take the Commanders here in this game, a divisional game. The

Commanders blown out their first meeting. Remember Carson Wentz played in that game. Now it's Taylor Heineke, he's in charge. It's been a great bet Heineck for gamblers there against the spread. Washington has been a competitive team pretty much every game. The Commandos are seven two and one against the spread with Heinech their last ten with him starting, and Jalen Hurts. He has been great for the Eagles,

and Philadelphia is the more talented team here. But it's very hard to blow out of team twice in the same season. And I have a golden rule, and I follow the golden rule. Anytime you get a touchdown or more in a divisional game, you take the points. You don't ask a lot of questions, you don't make a lot of small talk, and you get the hell out of there. You take the points and you'll be happy.

And it doesn't seem likely, right unless Washington uses some kind of witchcraft will win the game out right, But you can can right, you're gonna over over ten points. You gotta take those points. Most of these NFL games are are nipping talk. I'm gonna take the eagle to win the game, but the commanders to take the money. Eagles thirty three Washington the final, and the penny says fly Eagles fly. All right, we'll see if the penny ate it's lucky charms or or possibly you have flu

like symptoms the penny. So maybe maybe the luck's not on the side of the penny. With those flu like symptoms, you might want to wear a mask, penny, you might want to wear a mask. All right, So there it is. Good luck. May all your bets be winning ones. And remember every week, every Friday, Holidays, you name it penny versus the penny, man versus coin, a human being versus an adamant object. We'll find out who can pick more

winners than very well to start the year. That means nothing this week, and we hope, I hope it continues here. It's been a great year so far. Not for the penny. I hope that continues, but for me. And we'll get out on that note. Have a great weekend. Don't forget We've got two fresh original podcast original audio content. You can't get it anywhere else only here on the fifth hour on Saturday, and then again the mailbag on Sunday. So a lot of a lot of talking throughout the

weekend and we'll get to all that. We'll talk to you, then see you tomorrow. Asta pasta population