The Fifth Hour: BENNY VS. THE PENNY (Week 13)

with Ben Maller and back. He's an honest man now, Danny g Radio, who were this cheap piece of titanium? Means I'm never gonna cheat. That means you can't look at any other women. That means you can't watch porn anymore. It's all over now, Danny h Congratulations. We will have in depth team coverage on the Fifth Hour. We will span from California to Oceania with our in depth team coverage every morsel people are dying to know, Danny, did you have any cold feet at the last minute? Did

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now penny versus the penny. All right, Before we get to Week thirteen in the NFL, let's take a look back to Week twelve. And it was awkward, Danny, without your last couple of weeks we've had. We had Alex. He did a great job. But Alex is more into anime than football, and uh and so that you know, that's just his Michigan as he loves the anime. If we had like an anime, pick them, that would have been been really good. But he handled it well. He

was a professional, kept his head down, kept going. So in Week twelve, which was the Thanksgiving festivities, I had a middling week. I did not have a great week. I did not lose. There were sixteen games. I went eight and eight against the spread. So it really depends if you picked the right games. Were pretty happy with me to pick the wrong games you don't like me, and I lost several heartbreaking games. The Ravens were in

control against Jacksonville, they took it on the chin. I'd go down the list of the bad beats because there were tons. Uh. I think. I think there were three, possibly four games that were in the bag, and then in the late stages of the fourth quarter it went the opposite way. And then that happens. It's why we call it gambling. And I also won a couple of games I shouldn't have won, so I don't think it even out. I should have probably had a ten, ten and six type week, but ended up eight and eight

but still five. And the Penny shockingly also went eight and eight day, so we we had the same exact record, and that I don't I think that happened in week one. I believe yeah, week one. I'm looking at the notes I wrote down here ten and six and ten and six in week one. So we're eight and eight this week, and I have not a knock on wood had a losing week since week two. Since week two, have not had a losing week overall, Benny versus the Penny. If you look at the KI run the graphics on the

fifth hour. Here you see the screen. If you look at the screen here, you see that I have a hundred and six wins, sixty nine losses, and five ties. That's a six oh six winning percentage. The penny eight six ninety four and three, so under five four s winning percentage. The penny has not been above five hundred since all the way back in week number six, so it's been it's been a while. Will this be the

week for the penny? Probably not, But please tell me that last week you did not take your boy Geno Smith over Josh Jacobs. Uh No, No, I had the Raiders, Actually did the Raiders, So I did did go that direction. Anyway, let's get to it here. We're gonna know we're not gonna talk about Kyler Murray, Alligator Arms Murray or the Carolina Panthers because they are not playing. So they're the two teams that are on the by. And if you're new to the show and you're saying, what the hell

is this, I don't understand. It is very simple, very simple. I moonlight handicapping games. It's something I've done for a long time. I like it, like crunching the numbers and seeing what has happened, trying to project the forecast on what's gonna happen. It's man versus inanimant object representing the penny, because the penny does not speak. Is the great Danny g As we've gone through here, and who can pick

more winners? The home team is Heads, the road team is Tales because you travel on your tail sitting and you took us via plane, trains and automobiles. And so here we go. Early games, New York Jets at the Minnesota Vikings, and the Jets come in seven and four Minnesota nine and two overall. It on CBS with Iron Eagle and Charles Davis. Now, the Vikings opened a three point favorite. The line has stayed flat. Minnesota with the bounce back last week and they beat the Patriots even

though New England had a very successful day offensively. But the Vikings bounced back after that debacle the previous week, and the money a big lean almost on the Jets. Temperatures outside in Minnesota being the thirties but weather controlled at US Banks Stadium, climate controlled, and I want to take the Jets in this game. Now, I'm not completely sold on Mike White. He's got that generic name, but so far he's had a dynamic game. Uh and the reason why I like the Jets though he's he's just

been what the doctor ordered. Anybody but Zach Wilson. You wonder how much of this last week was because the Bears played a bunch of backups and guys that should be delivering sandwiches. On defense. Minnesota is an upgrade, but I'm not sure they're that huge and upgrade. Even though they've got the sexy nine and two records. The Vikings that have won, by my account, four games that they

could have should have would have loss. So it's much different if the Vikings are sitting here with five or six wins as opposed to nine wins, and the Vikings have a couple of starters injured on defense and the Purple People Eaters are ranked thirty feet in total defense, so everyone's putting up big yardage against the Minnesota defense. Despite the nine wins over the last month, the Viking

defense ranked thirty second. And I love the matchup of Sauce Gardner as he's gonna shadow box Justin Jefferson, the star receiver from the Minnesota Vikings. The Jets have a better defense, They have a top five defense and a quarterback who is not gonna f things up. I'm taking the Jets as a small underdog. Jets thirty and the Vikings eight, and the penny picks right off the bat. The penny going against you taking the Vikings alright, the Vikings is the pick. We move on now to Baltimore,

Panic City. That would be Denver three and eight at Baltimore seven and four. It's on CBS with Kevin Harlan and Trent Green on the call. The Ravens opened up a big six and a half point favorite in this game. And let me get the freshest line here as I gotta click refresh on this to see the latest line, and it has stayed all the way up at eight. So an eight point line in favor of the Ravens. As most everyone is betting on Baltimore, they think that

this is free money on the Ravens. And there's no way that the Brocos can compete here at M ANDT Bank Stadium, the house that sports with Coleman built, it's cloudy fifty two degrees at kickoff. Now, Lamar Jackson's Ravens. You look at all the winds they've piled up with Lamar, but from a gambling standpoint, they have been particularly great

at home, and certainly not as a home favorite. Lamar Jackson seven and fifteen against the spread as a home favorite of three and a half or more, not counting Week one, and recently the Ravens are oh four and one against the spread at home. That's this season. There four and two against the spread on the road. They did lose last week and that late loss to Jacksonville. And then you look at the other side. Russell Wilson.

Much of this he built in Seattle, but russ as an underdog in his career twenty eight and fourteen against the spread. I'm gonna do the unthinkable, the unimaginable. I'm gonna dig a hole and bunker down with the Broncos getting eight points. Russell Wilson has guided a historically bad Bronco offense. They're the worst offense in football. But the defense has held its own and so I'm really I'm playing my confidence game. It's worth pondering the Bronco defense

because the Ravens have their own issues. They blew the lead against the very blah Jacksonville team. The value is on the side of the of Denver because Lamar Jackson, I can give you all kinds of numbers here, but he is not played well. This is supposed to be a money grab season. It hasn't happened. But the main reason to have a little more faith in Denver is

the left tackle of the Ravens is hobbled. Ronnie Stanley has got a bad ankle, and at the time we are recording Benny versus de Penny, it looks like he's not going to play. And if he does play, how affective will he be? So a lot of juggling on that offensive line here. Baltimore has been so dependent on Justin tucker Field goals. I don't doubt that that the Ravens will will win this particular game, but I don't trust that the touchdowns are gonna be there for Lamar

Jackson and the Broncos. I'm not gonna sit here and up sell there their offense with nuggets and wisdom because there aren't many. Uh. They're bad, Uh, they're they're in quicksand but anytime you get over a touchdown, you gotta take it. So I'll take the Broncos plus the eight Ravens twenty three and The Broncos seventeen the final and it looks like the Penny also wishes it was invited

to Wilson's birthday party. Going with the Broncos, I don't understand who invites the entire staff to their birthday party. Isn't that a little weird? Your unlimited birthday seating? I mean, we have parties. We're gonna have a Christmas party. I guess ugly sweater party coming up. I'll wear the Hanocker thing. But we don't invite everyone at my work or my wife's work. We invite people that we we like and people that were around, and you know, usually people we've

known for a while. That's usually how it works. I thought, I it's odd whoever is not there automatically hates you exactly exactly, you know. And there's some people I stopped inviting because I did invite him every year and they never showed up. And so I said, all right, they don't want to come there. Rather than have them say they don't want to make it or make some bullshit excuse up where they can't go, I'll just not invite them. Uh, and then they don't have to do it, all right?

Next up Pittsburgh four and seven and Atlanta Falcons at five and seven. It's on CBS with Andrew Catalan and James lofton the Game Open to pick them Falcons at one point favorite at home the Mercedes Benz Stadium, the place that Jerome Drenovitch Well likely being attendance or old friends Roome Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association lives in suburban Atlantic is a huge Pittsburgh Steeler fan. I gotta think he'll be there at this game. I haven't texted him,

but I'm assuming he's gonna be there. And most people betting on Pittsburgh and I can give you numbers on this, but I'm gonna take the Steelers here. I'm gonna take the Steelers in this game, and I actually like Pittsburgh a lot. The logic behind this pick me explain why I'm going with the Pittsburgh football team. The Steelers have found a little something. In the last month or so. T J. Watt has come back, the defense has been

wonderful Pittsburgh. Overall, they ranked twenty five in total defense, but the last month there are top ten defense in the NFL. And that recipe that Mike Tomlin has been cooking up. I'm giving it the chef's kiss here because you've got defense, the ability to run the ball, and error free football. In big moment from Kenny Pickett, you don't lose a lot. That's a sweet pill to swallow. You don't lose a lot with that. And that's been

the way it's gone here lately for Pittsburgh. Kenny Pickett's got three straight games with no turnovers and now he goes against a whipped cream soft Atlanta defense. You got Pittsburgh who's top ten in rushing yards per carry. The Falcons are a one trick pony. They can run the ball, but Pittsburgh has been pretty good against the run over the last month. The Steelers are sixth and run defense their fourth over the last month. So everything, every indicator

we look at says Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pittsburg. The Ysers so Yanser's twenty four and the Falcons twenty. The final land the Penny and my penny is still on island time band going with Marcus Mariota and the Falcons. Okay, bad pick by the Penny, but I'll take it. I'll take that. That's a win. For me. The next up as we grind on on Benny versus the Penny, another game that I have a strong opinion on. We pick every game. Some games I like more then others. Tennessee

seven and four at Philadelphia ten and one. It's on Fox with Kevin Burcott and Greg Olsen. This is the big game on Fox in the early television window. And Philadelphia has been a whole different beast this season with that ten and one record only one hiccup along the way. The Eagles opened a six and a half point favorite. They are favored by five. The Titans getting most of the money and sunny, no really bad weather. It's gonna be fine, sunny with temperatures in the forties at Lincoln

Financial Field. And I love of the Titans. This was one of my strong players this week. And here's why you remember the Washington Commanders when they were able to win against Philadelphia. How do they do that? They won that with a power running game and a defense that was able to make some plays to stop the run. Those are the same ingredients that Tennessee brings to the table.

Mike Rabels, coming off a loss, you like the Titans a little more coming off a loss Rabel twenty one and seven against the spread as an underdog of three or more points, and you look at everything, every indicator. The Eagles that great record, but the defense is showing some signs are cracking. The Birds are ranked second overall, but the last three weeks they've been in the middle of the pack defensively. They've actually their number sixteen, behind

the Cardinals and the Falcons over the last month. And this is a value pick because you get the Titan power running game against an injured, mangled Eagle defense signing guys like a Dominican su off their lazy boy cheers in Philadelphia. Also without their strong safety c J. Gardner Johnson, he's dinged up. So Tennessee can slow the run with a solid d. They will do that and they will be able to run the ball against the bird Brains. Titans upset City lost number two scrub down the Birds.

Titans twenty seven, Eagles twenty four the final and I think you both are the bird brains. Penny also going with the Titans. You watch out, Danny, because the smack in the face from the Titans to the Eagles huge, huge, Next up, Jacksonville four and seven, at Detroit four and seven on Fox our friend part of the Fox Bus Radio hum Not Association, Chris Myers and Robert Smith. They have the call from ford Field. This game opened Lions

by one. It is a pick them. Most people betting on Jacksonville cloudy in the thirties in Detroit, but inside ford Field, it's all good. It's all good in the neighborhood. So I'm gonna take the Lions in this game. And here's why we're talking. Uh, you know, you're talking about a matchup of two even teams, same record. But we liked the Detroit side mainly because of Aiden Hutchinson, who We've been hyping this guy up and he's been wonderful,

especially for for gamblers. Grabs your attention. The Lions are roaring on that side of the ball. They are shot against Buffalo on Thanksgiving to win that game, so it's a mini by. They've got a little extra time coming into this game. Statistically, they were terrible early in the season, but another one of these teams. Over the last month, they have been clicking, licking. The run defense is a concern,

but Jacksonville they're not a heavy run team. They haven't been that over the year this season and uh, Trevor et En is supposed to come back, how effective will he be? Trevor Lawrence has stacked three good games in row, rather quietly, six touchdowns, a passer rating of a hundred and sixteenes averaging almost nine yards per templar last month. That's really good. But he goes against the Motor City kiddies here. I'm gonna stand with them, and I also like the Lions to be able to move the ball.

They're the better team here talent wise. With Jamal Williams, the powerback, Amon Ross st Brown as playmakers for Jared Goff, this will be nip and tuck. The only red flag here the Lions offensive line dealing with the creeping crud, and there could be without two starters, which obviously scares you a lot with backups playing, and you don't want to get rick rolled by the backups. But I will take the Lions in a pickum four Jags twenty three the final, and the Penny go in the other direction,

taking the Jags alright. Disagreement on that, We press on on Benny versus the Penny, don't forget On the Saturday podcast, we cut the cheese with Danny g All wedding coverage, have other well, have other nonsense, but it's all we can get to insider information, Global exclusives. Coaster ride of a wedding that you had, Danny. They do call the Road to Hannah the road to divorce, all right? Next up Washington seven and five at the New York Football

Giants seven and four. It's on Fox with Kenny Albert and Jonathan Vilma. A home game where Kenny, who lives in the New York area, he gets to call a game at home. I'm gonna take the Commanders in this game. Now, Washington is a two and a half point favor. They opened as a pick them. Most people are betting on the Giants. It will be in the forties at MetLife Stadium. Washington's found a little pixie dust with Taylor Heineke, who

statistically is not very good. There's nothing to really get excited about, but he's carved a niche here of winning football. Like teams more confident on offense, they just are our click a licking with with this guy quarterback. Now, the Giants have been very good with Brian Dable this season. They're eight and three against the spread. But as as I said, I'm taking Washington the Commandos. They've been a

bit of a wagon of late. The Commander's defense ranked ain't oh, we're all in the big season, but second over all the last month, and they should be able to run the ball down the throats. They will be able to run the ball down the throats with the Giants. With Brian Robinson and Antonio Gibson, yin and yang, they crossed the rubicon here. Also, the Big Blue offensive line is battling a bunch of injuries and illness. They've got

the creeping crud. Also, three starters, the right tackle, left guard, and center all circled on the injury report. So good luck slowing down Montez Sweet and those other gladiators for the Washington football team. Final score the team formerly known as the Redskins with all their baggage three and the Giants seventeen. The final is Danny Dimes going down here a terrible record against the spread as a favorite. I

know they'ren underdog, but the Giants go down. The penny says, fuck Robinson and those ridiculously ugly big hats going with the Giants. Do you see how much of those things cost by the way, probably eight oh, you're close. Seventy five dollars is the beginning price for those oversighted good guests. Yeah, the uglier things are, the more expensive they seem to be. I have never seen anyone where one of those sets,

have you ever? Like randomly, there's people wear hats all over l A where we are millions and millions of people, I've never seen anyone in a hat like. No, I don't think we're gonna see that either. Because somebody might pose with it at their house as a joke, I

don't think anybody would actually walk out in public wearing one. Well, they claim they've sold their sales went up two thousand percent, but that might mean they went from no sales to like half a sale, you know, And it doesn't necessarily mean that that there's a ton of people buying it. If I had a TV show or something like that, I'd probably buy one because it'd be a good gag thing to wear exactly. But outside of that, I mean, yeah,

it is a that's a tough look. You imagine getting on a plane having somebody how about if you're how about if you're at a ball game and the person in front of you's got the giant funny hat on Jesus, especially your team, big old ram Horns, you'd really look like a ram head. I mean you might have to slap him in the back of the head. You might have to to break their head open. All right, Next up Cleveland four and seven and Houston one, nine and one.

Normally we just skate over this game, but it's not your normal Houston Cleveland game. It's on CBS Spireaudidas and Jay Feely have the call as the Shaun Watson goes into the scene of the crime. The Lions. Then the Browns opened a five point favorite, but all the way up the seven, which I don't get. The Browns are not a good team him and most people think this is free money. All you have to do is put a couple of bucks down on Cleveland and you'll get

your money back. Over the action in favor of the Brown Backer bandwagon. Light rain in Houston, temperatures in the seventies at NRG Stadium, which is a dome, so it doesn't matter. The Texans have dropped three straight against the spread. The Browns they they as a franchise, are oh and seven against the spread against Houston. And if you really really want to dig deep here, how about this stat the Browns the last fifteen games as a favorite, the

Cleveland Browns are two twelve and one. So I'm gonna cover my eyes. I'm gonna hold my nose here and bet on the jibrones from Houston. I'm taking the texts. I know you're laugh at me. All you want, I don't. From a gambling standpoint, the smart play is on the Texans now. I know they've gotten absolutely dusted the last couple of games, and Kyle Allen is terrible. I'm I'm counting on him improving because otherwise, forget about it. Last week the Texans could be fumbled twice and tossed a

pair of interceptions. Now he was able to recover the fumbles, but those killed drives. That's how you fall behind thirty and nothing to the Dolphins and Houston. They have really airmailed it in these last couple of games, and so do they have fight. This is a big game for the organization, for ownership, for the fans of Houston. It's personal.

That's personal. With Deshaun Watson, the creepy quarterback, he hasn't played a regular season game in seven hundred days since January of Everyone says, oh, he's the beacon of light. I say he is the doom of darkness. Uh. And and how rusty is he going to be having not played in that time, You gotta think there's gonna be a lot of rush. Now, Cleveland could just run the ball student body right, student body left with Chubb and the running game, but the Texans also should be able

to run the ball against a subpart Cleveland defense. Damian Pierce is the one saving grace. He has to hit the ground running. I say he will. Houston is without one of their starting defensive backs and a linebacker dinged up on the injury report. The Browns are gonna win this game. The Shawn's not gonna play very well. The Texans are gonna have the lead and shock some people early on. They'll give it up late. Browns twenty four and the Texans twenty. They'll cover that seven points spread.

And the penny loves a good cleaning, loves a good shine. Going with Cleve lends all right, Cleveland, it is next up for us. We head to the Windy City, sweet home, Chicago, the birthplace of the Blues, where green Bay four and eight takes on Chicago three and nine. Both these teams nibbling at the very bottom of the division. They're in a nip and tuck fight here. It's on Fox with Adam Aman and Mark Slavery. They have to call Packers open to two and a half point favorite, their favorite

by four and a half. Most people betting on the Packers cloudy in thirty six degrees. That kick off at Soldier Field. Now we are handicapping every game against the spread. This game is rather impossible to handicap because of the injury report. The Packers have covered seven straight games against the Bears. But Green Bay everyone thinks the Packers put them down as a favorite. No, no big deal. Uh well this will warm your heart if you're a Packer hater.

Green Bay their last seven games as a favorite. They are one in six against the spread their last seven games. Now where I come from, that's not good. So here's the way this is gonna work. We're recording this right now. My pick on Benny versus the Penny, the green Bay Packers. But remember Aaron Rodgers got bad ribs. He's thinged up, gonna start good stats stuffing opportunity to Bears defense sucks.

But at broadcast time, Justin Fields. The reason you can't really have a confident opinion on this game is Justin field status is listed as questionable. His non throwing shoulder is messed up. We would bet on Chicago at plus four and a half if we knew Justin Fields was going to play, but we don't know that, and we will not know that. We don't expect until much closer to the to the kickoff, although something may come down late Friday afternoon, but at this time, at the time

we're doing this, there's no information out fields. He's got a bum shoulder. It's his non throwing shoulder has been dinged up from all the running. So it is more likely than not that Trevor Simeon, who's also dinged up, or Tim Boyle who uh that one of those guys end up starting this game for the Chicago Bears, who played the Packers back in Week two and lost by seventeen points in that game, and people will go back and they're like, wow, seventeen point loss, what's going on

with that? Blah blah blah blah blah uh and and the Bears were able to hang around in that game. Really, there was a couple of mistakes in the second quarter that flipped the game around, and they still had a chance to cover in the fourth quarter. But it's the Bears offensively are a much better team now than they were in Week two. If Justin Fields is playing so again, we're assuming he's not going to play Packers twenty three

Bears seventeen the finals. The Bears take one right to the kisser, all right, and the Penny picks a Penny lands on tails again going with the Packers. Let's get to the late television window now and Benny versus the Penny. Seattle six and five. They've been tearing up the dance floor on Sundays and the L A r i Am is at three and eight. It's on Fox with Kevin Coogler and Mark Sanchez. The Seahawks open to three and a point favorite. They are favored by seven and a

half and quite the stir around the NFL. What has happened to the once mighty l A Rams as they have fallen apart, coming apart of the seams and then some may in oh Man, Seattle, that big favorite here at SOFI stadium light rain. It never rains in l A light rain projected in the forecast on Sunday at so FI. I'm gonna take the Rams. Why, I'm a glutton for punishment the Seahawks. Let me be clear, Danny, the Seahawks should win this game by twenty. Everyone's betting

on Seattle to win this game by twenty. The Rams don't have Aaron Donald, Cooper Cup, Matthew Stafford, he gone Alan Robinson and more. The Rams are Hamlet without the Prince. But regardless of that, I always say, Danny, I gotta stick to my gambling principles. And and over the years I have come out ahead more times than not, even when it looks ridiculous to the unwashed masses. And everyone googse on me, and they pointed me like Nelson from the Simpsons, and they say, just like that. But I'm

I'm taking the Rams. And anytime you get a touchdowner more in a divisional game, you take the points. You don't ask questions. Now, Sean mcveigh's team has been the worst in football against the spread. There like a Pop Warner team. Last week. I know they had Aaron Donald, but they a bunch of guys out. They actually made plays in the red zone, and they it took a late field goal by some Huckleberry kicker for the Chiefs to cover the spread. So the Rams hung around last week.

Seattle's defense is ranked thirty in the league. We saw your Raiders and Josh Jacobs have a field day. Unfortunately, the Rams are not dangerous at running the football. That is, that is not the fruit of their labor. But adversities create create opportunities. There are guys in the Rams who, if they play well this week, we'll have a job in the NFL next year, possibly just based on this game. So I love the scratching claw approach and also think

Seattle is starting to slip a little bit. So I will take the Seahawks to win the game, but not cover the spread. Seahawks twenty three, Rams sixteen. They're gonna need a Geno Smith interception and fumble to make that happen. And the Penny loves how you talked to yourself into that one. Go to Seattle straight up. Yeah, this whole Penny thing is sometimes it's therapy. It's my couch, my fainting couch, and and I try to shoot the lights

out all right. Next up, Miami, Miami, Miami, as they say, head west, young man, and so the Dolphins that long roady as they traveled by stagecoach from South Florida all the way out to the Bay Area Santa Clara of the site as the Dolphins eight and three, forty Niners seven and four, as the Niners hotter than a pistol. Last couple of games. It's on Fox with Joe Davis and Darryl moose Johnston. The Niners opened a four and a half point favorite. They are favored by four at

this point. The the Dolphins getting a lot of the money here now. Rainy light, rainy damp conditions that kick off temperatures in the fifties, and if you're living in Miami, you're used to temperatures in the eighties, so that's gonna seem like it's in the thirties at Levi's Stadium. The Dolphins have not been a good road team, although to a ton of about Looa missed several of those games. Dolphins are one three and one against the spread without

their their quarterback in most of those games. Miami also have a They have a winning record with two overall Dolphins against the forty niner team that had been so bad at home, but lately the last ten games dollar forty Niners are seven and three against spread. That being said, the pick is in and I want to take the Dolphin. And here's why we have the game within the game here as I played Dr Phil, the mental side of this, You've got Mike McDaniel, the protege versus Kyle Shanahan, the coach.

Miami's the right side for me. I like getting four points with the Dolphins. You're getting over a field goal, and the most likely outcome for this game is a field goal. And so if you get over a field goal, if the Niners win by a field goal, the Dolphins win the bet. And obviously the Dolphins win straight up. It doesn't matter you win the win the game. I do not expect either one of these teams to blow the other. To Smith of Rings, the forty Niner defense

has been great. They had to shut out last week. They will not have a shutout this week against the Cheetah Tyreek Hill and company. Unlike the Saints, that Dolphins actually have a competent offense and San Francisco's got some injuries piling up. Elijah Mitchell dinged up out of the rest of the regular season. Also, Christian McCaffrey was on the injury report. No shock there, Deebo Samuel has missed

some time in practice and whatnot. Now, the Dolphins have their own problems as they are on the Highway to Hell. Their offensive line left tackle Toron Armstead, he's dinged up on the injury report, and so that's a bad, bad sign. But nonetheless, I'm gonna take the Dolphins twenty three and the Niners twenty the final, and the Penny says, be on the lookout for Cavino and Riches mugs on TV, as they'll be at this game cheering on the Niners, just like the Penny here landing on Edds. Okay, now

are they going in the crowd? Are they gonna be media freeloaders? They paid for their tickets, in fact, that was a big topic on the show. They opted to get better seats and share a hotel room, and they got a lot of crap as two grown men share in one room. Yeah, that's awkward. Are they just going by themselves? They're not bringing their significant others anything like that. It's like a guy's road trip because Rich is a big Niners fan, and Cono is just gonna put up

with it, I think pretty much. Yeah, okay, all right, and taking one for the team, right, taking one for the team. I got you, all right? Next up? Like you. They like to cut corners with budget. Oh you gotta do it, man, I'm sorry, No, I mean they don't call it being a cheap skate. Covino says it's balling on a budget. Wait till you hear the Saturday Podcast. I got a lecture, Danny, because I'm such a tight wad. I got a lecture, and I'll explain what I got

a lecture about on the on the Saturday Podcast. Let's keep going here with this. The Chargers, the l A Chargers will show Me your Lightning Bolt at six and five, and the Los Vegas Football team four and seven on CBS with Greg Gumble and Adam Marchiletta. I gotta know where is Danny? Gans Charges are one point favorite. They opened a three point favorite. The Raiders aren't going to make the playoffs. Are you okay with them winning? Or would you rather they lose? No? I like the little

wind streak they're on right now. Ben. If you were gonna tank for a pick, then you should have lost those two close games. So might as well keep rolling right now? All right, you're in the wind come and the Raiders actually come to Los Angeles coming up? Are you gonna try to sneak in there? Is that possible? You know? Maybe that is possible. Yeah, if I find a good ticket, Yeah, you can take the great public transportation to Englewood. Nothing will that will happen to that.

Or save money on parking, you can, well you can park on someone's lawn and then you come back and maybe see what's left in your car and your cozy up to that. But the Raiders have won their last two. They beat the Broncos and the Seahawks following a three game losing streets. So they win a couple of road games. Now they go back home and the Raiders at home this season, they are two and two. They're two and five on the road, two and two at home, And

I'm gonna take the charges. Most of the money is on the Raiders in this game. But I'll tell you why. I I backed the passing attack justin Herbert will be able to matriculate the ball down the field. The blind spot on defense is the run defense that ranked thirty seconds. That's why many people think this is free money that Josh Jacobs is unstoppable and he's fifth among all running backs and yards per carry. And the issue here those the Chargers got their guys back. They've gotten their guys

back from injury. And when you look at the Chargers depth chart, when you handicap a game and you go through the depth chart, you're like about who's healthy, who's not healthy? And pretty much every week you look at the Chargers and it's all read, it's all red ink on the smartphone or the laptop that you're looking at, You're like, oh man, you got all these backup guys playing and saying I like backups to a point. I

don't love me the backups. And I'm looking at this weekend and there are three guys dinged up on the on the Charges offense. Mike Williams, there's read on his name, Corey Lindsley, the center is injured, and Trade Pipkins, the right tackle, also on the injury reports. So the Charges are gonna be playing some rookies, They're gonna be playing some backups, But I don't care justin Herbert since he

got some of his guys back. On offense, He's got five touchdowns, one interception, passer rating of a hundred and eleven the last two weeks against the Chiefs and the Cardinals and the and the the Chargers from a gambling standpoint as a road team for whatever reason, you can use your amateur psychology to explain why this is. But the Chargers are four and two against the spread on

the road. They're just two and three at home. This game in Sin City lost wages Nevada Chargers seven and the writers twenty four and the penny agreeing with you going with the Chargers. Alright, Chargers, it is next up. We get to the last game in the early television actually late television window before the Sunday night game. That's Kansas City at Cincinnati and it's on CBS. This is the big game for CBS. Time to make the donuts for Tony Romo and Jim Nance. They have the call there.

Chiefs opened a two and a half point favorite. They are favored by one and a half. Have light rain temperatures in the upper thirties at the former Paul Brown Stadium. Lately, the Chiefs have had to say uncle when they've been playing the Bengals has not gone well in recent games. The Chiefs overall have been a bad bet. Their last ten games, they have a losing record three six and

one against the spread. Chiefs are trying to cover consecutive regular season games for the first time since last December. They covered late on that Shmendricks field goal against the Rams, barely covered that big line against the Rams. They're trying to cover another spread here. Here's a weird quirk. Andy Reid's a Hall of Fame coach, first ballot Hall of Famer. One of the teams that he has had issues with,

certainly from a gambling standpoint, the Bengals. Andy Reid is one and seven against the spread his last eight versus say see, like, how do you explain that. I know, the last couple of years since he's had a good team, but before that not so much. But any read has just not done well as he feels very little, very very small against the Bengals. But I am gonna take the Chiefs in this game. Very rarely do you get the rampaging Chiefs with this kind of line. Patrick Mahomes

had some issues in the red zone. Last week's essentially a pick him game. It's a one and a half point line. Bengals are coming off an impressive win. They come back. They've really played well in the second half against the Titans last week. Now they crank things up against cansa city. We trust this game will be closed in the fourth quarter, like all of these games seem to be. No one's gonna run out in front and

hide and that's it. Uh. Cincinnati, They've been really good at home three and one this season, but don't count the ends. The City Chiefs on the road there four and one on the road. I'm taking the Chiefs thirty three and the Bengals thirty the final and the Penny Lands on the Bungles, the Bungals the pig. All right. Next up, we head now to Jerry's World, where Sunday Night Football's got Indianapolis four seven and one. Four seven and one the record of the Colts as they take

on the Dallas Cowboys at eight and three. It's on nb CEE with Mike Tariko and Chris Collinsworth. They have the call. As Indianapolis losers of five of their last six games, they were three two and one at one point. But they have fallen apart here and they are the laughing stock at the end. Fell after what happened in the first half against Pittsburgh on Monday night, as they

could not do anything on offense. Matt Ryan had a passer rating of fourteen at halftime, played one good quarter in the third quarter, and then bungled the clock at the end of the game. The Cowboys opened a nine and app point favorite. They're favored by eleven. And I'm gonna go against the public which thinks this is all free money again with Dallas go on the other one and I Am going to take the Indianapolis Colts in

this game as Dallas with that sexy record and all that. Uh, Indianapolis is not a good team, but uh, they've shown a little punchback when they've had a really bad performance. Most teams do that. Most teams don't have back to back sneakers. It's imperative that Jonathan Taylor yet cooking early. If he's not cooking, if he doesn't have the ingredients in the kitchen. The formula to hang around here is some long, methodical drives hide Matt Ryan, who has gotten

progressively worse. He's broken down as the games have gone on here the three games that he's played here, he's looked worse and worse and worse here for Andy, reaching rock bottom against the Steelers. But now you've got a cowboy defense that you look at all the big names on the Cowboys like oh Man, but there is a bit of the creeping crud that is going around this time of the year, and so the Dallas Cowboys, who's

gonna show up? And again, at the time we are doing this, at the time we are putting Benny versus the penny together, the information we have, you should follow this all the up. Be a good gambler, follow us all the way up to the kickoff of the game on Sunday, and most bets are made right before games anyway, that's when most of the money comes in. The sharp money comes in early in the week, the the casual

money comes in later. But there's two starters on defense, Jonathan Hankins and Anthony Barr, who both are circled in red on the injury report for the Cowboys. Couple of offensive players on the offensive line also some issues we're hearing. But you're getting double digits it's a prime time game, a chance to get some credibility back for Jeff Saturday and the Colts and a glamor match up against the Cowboys.

And this is also a lull and schedule. You're not gonna get up to play the Colt it's not very good. And after this you've got the Texans, so you're not gonna get up for that. So Dallas knows they can be lethargic and win this game. And that's exactly what's gonna happen. Keep an eye out for the back door cover, the late touchdown pass that nobody sees coming that wins the bet Cowboys thirty and the Colts twenty two, the final which means Indie covers the bet, they seize them all.

And the penny cheating off of your paper on this one going with indeed, Well, listen, I uh, I'm honored that you would try to cheat off my pay for penny. I appreciate that. All right, Next up, last game, last game on Benny versus the Penny. Hallelujah, hallelujah. And we have New Orleans at four and eight at Tampa Bay five and six. It's on ESPN with Joe Buck and

Troy Aikman. They have the call, some people saying that Aikman was aloof last week as he tried to describe the Indianapolis Colts and what they were doing on offense. He didn't seem to enjoy it. I don't know how much football you watched in Hawaii. The games started some really weird times there. Yeah, it's it's awkward. You're like, you gotta be on the beach, you know, you know what, We're watching football when they're kicking off the games on

Monday both mondays. I was there. I wasn't sure if an NFL network replay was on or if it was an actual Monday night football game, because you're right, it's on in the daytime. Yes, it's like four. Is it four o'clock in the afternoon or is it three o'clockock? Wow? How can we say across the pond for England, but we don't say across the pond in Hawaii. Shouldn't it be the same thing. It's just the Pacific pond. The Atlantic is the Eastern Pond. I don't get it. I

never thought of that before. You all right, here we go. Buccaneers a four point favorite. They opened it six and a half. Money's pretty even on this game. The Bucks let a game slip away last week in Cleveland, Clear Skies seventy two degrees that kick off at Raymond James Stadium, and New Orleans they have done very well head to head. They've covered each of the last four games in Tampa and the Buccaneers finally got a cover in that game they played at the beginning of the year, early in

the season. That was a believe it, Jamis Winston game for for the Saints. He's out Andy Dalton in and how embarrassing for New Orleans. I know the Niners are good defensively, but a professional football team should never be shut out. And if you go back and look at the first matchup with Jamis Winston, who's clearly in the penalty box for the New Orleans Saints and they're coaching staff, for whatever that's worth. If you if you look at the way the game played out going to the fourth quarter,

the game was a three three game. It was a three three game going to the fourth quarter, and then all kinds of weird stuff happened. There was a Jamis Winston pick six which extended the lead. There was a field goal. Brady did complete a big pass in that game. But Dennis Allen, who's not a good head coach, he has he has figured out something with Tom Brady, and I'm I'm going with the New Orleans Saints in this game. Tom Brady has been very good at moving the ball

between the twenties. They've not been good in the red zone. Tampa is in the red zone, scoring percentage, the red box. New Orleans they've actually been better, they just don't have a lot of chances in the red zone. And a storm is a bruin. If Tom Brady loses to Andy Dalton at home in this game, I'm not picking the Saints to win, but you're getting over a field goal.

These teams are very, very even, and I'm gonna take the Saints plus the points Buccaneers twenty and the New Orleans Saints the Preachers seventeen and the Penny says that Dennis Allen has the most punchable face in all of the NFL. Going with the Bucks, all right, the Bucks it is. We'll get out of here on that. Don't forget. I think we're gonna sit. Download records for the Saturday podcast. The Tomorrow's podcast. This is unbelievable, Harvey Levin. The people

over a TMZ. They're gonna be listening. Everyone's gonna want to hear the insider information Radar online. They will be monitoring the podcast. You name it. Page six of the New York Post. This is one of the great celebrity radio weddings that we've had in sometime, and we're the show that has all the coverage. I can how are we going to get all this information into one podcast? I don't know how we're gonna do it. And let me just say this. The first week I was in Hawaii, Ben,

there was a threesome involved on the trip. I'm not man not saying I was part of it. I'm not blowing the story yet. You're gonna you're gonna be like Tisher. I don't know if you heard Tisher was telling sex stories on the podcast. No, I didn't hear about that. We went third Rail with Tysher. Yeah, he was telling like the pent House forums stories. But anyway, all right, we'll get out anything to promote Danny. How many of those were true? Though? Who do you really want to know?

There's no video. I don't think God only knows all right, who knows. Anyway, there are a bunch of hose in anime, so some of that wouldn't surprise me. Yeah, you think the wild ladies of anime. All right, we'll get out of here, have a great rest of your day, and we will catch you on our Saturday fun in the podcast Dojo later. Scatter population