The Fifth Hour: BENNY VS. THE PENNY (Week 16)

of Hot takes break free for something special. The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere back in the podcast Jojo The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G Radio and we are ready to dive in two week sixteen of Benny Versus the Penny. Are you prepared, Danny G. Yeah, Ben, I am still as an NFL fan. I'm still on cloud nine from that Vegas trip last Sunday. We will get into that. We will have a frame bite frame breakdown on this

Saturday podcast. We'll find out did you think about leaving? Did you stay to the end We'll go, We'll get to all of that. As you were at you talk about your first Raider game, one of the most memorable, like we'll remember for the rest of our lives. And you happen to be at that game. You're talking about good timing. My god, Danny, check put baby, it's almost as good as what you've been doing this season with your picks. You show off. Well, let's see if that continue.

Let's strike up the band right now here we go. Welcome players, You're welcome. It's time now Benny versus the penny? All right, Benny versus the penny before we get to the week sixteen card and all the games on Saturday. That's right, Saturday and sun Day. It's a walky weekend because of the Christmas holiday, so we got a bunch of games on Saturday and a few games on Sunday, so not the usual Sunday monsoon of the NFL. It's mostly on Saturday. So we'll get to the pis quickly.

But last week a full card, sixteen games on the NFL schedule, and how did we do well. We got off to a very good start on the early part of the television window, and we cooled off a little bit in the late part. But overall, another ten wan weekend. So ten five and one against the spread. That's a six sixties seven winning percentage. The penny went, unfortunately for you, Danny, five ten and one, so not not a particularly memorable

week for the Penny. That's a three thirty three winning percentage, half the side of the devil and overall on the year. If you look at the season totals on your podcast, you can see right there the graphics will get out the telestrator here. So Penny, that would be me hundred and thirty two wins, eighties, six losses, and six ties. That works out to a six or six winning percentage to penny, still under five hundred. We've only got a

few weeks to go. The Penny's gotta get its act together here, Danny to finish at five hundred, the penny one hundred three wins, one seventeen losses and four ties. After that five ten in one week, so that works out to wait four winning percentage. A couple of good weeks, the penny can get to five hundred, which is what you'd expect the penny to be at Mathematically alive, Ben, Penny needs you to lose out for the rest of the season. The Penny needs to win every game. Uh,

we need to get that. I'm doing the numbers. We need to get the penny at least a five hundred. That will make the bit reasonable. But the penny's got to make up four games in three weeks. So my computer like mind tells me, if the penny can make up five and a half games a week, will that being I think it's gonna be six games? Was six games a week? The penny's gonna make up six games a week above five, Okay, so the penny is gonna

have to go. There's sixteen games every week, so the penny is gonna have to go with twelve and six or twelve and four something along like that every week. Yeah, you can stop doing the math now. Anyway, we'll get to it. Here we go. Are you ready? Are you ready? Here we go? Yeah, let's do it all right. We'll start out with the New York Giants Christmas Eve in the morning Giants and Minnesota Giants eight five and one, Minnesota eleven and three. It's on Fox with Adam Amin

and Mark Slavor. They have the call Vikings open to four point favorite. They're favored by four and a half. It's lucky. There's a dome in Minnesota. Temperature sunny and one degree at kickoff outside US Banks Stadiu him most people betting on the Vikings in this game. But I'm gonna take the Giants here. Minnesota's defense is so lousy. How lousy are they? They're so lousy. I don't trust them against anyone, even a subpart. Danny Dimes will find

open receivers in the Vikings soft secondary. They are cream cheese in the secondary. And these teams are closer than their records indicate. The Giants are still fighting for a playoffs. About the Vikings at eleven and three, he have a shot at the number one overall record, although they need a lot of things to go their way because they

already lost to Philadelphia. But Minnesota coming off that thirty three point come back against the Colts, now they play the Giants, but they have the Packers and a key divisional game, key rivalry game for them next week. So I'm gonna take the Giants and the points. Vikings twenty seven and the Giants six the final, and the penny is going with Danny Jimes and the Giants. Alright, so we agree on that. We move on now. This is

a game that has no redeeming quality whatsoever. Danny New Orleans five and nine at Cleveland six and eight on CBS with Spirodidas and Jay feely. The Browns opened a three point favorite at home, and they are still favored by three. This line has stayed flat with the gambling market and most people betting on the Cleveland Browns in this game is going to be a dome team in bad weather, not snowing or rainy, but cloudy and ten degrees at kick off in Cleveland and northern Ohio there

and some of the numbers here. The Saints one in five against the spread with Dennis Allen as the coach. Andy Dalton has not been particularly great there. Although here's an odd quirk I found when I was handicapping the game getting ready for this. In Andy Dalton's career last ten games against the Browns, most of those granted with the Cincinnati ben Gals back in the day. But Dalton eight and two against the spread against the Cleveland Browns, And this is a game I flip flopped on. I'm

not gonna lie to you. When I originally started handicapping the game, I was gonna take the Cleveland Browns. The more I dove down the rabbit hole, I went the other way and I flip flop. So I'm taking the Saints. The pick is on the Saints. And here's why I flip flop. Cleveland is absolutely feeling it. You've got Nick Chubb who's got a bad foot, defensive tackle Miles Garrett who's been sick, both listed as questionable for this game.

You've also got Jadevion Clowney and you're old guy A Marie Cooper from the Raiders there who are also on the injured list. So you are down some major tanks and some major torpedoes here. And while the Saints blow, they still have a shot to win the division and make the playoffs. At five at night, it makes no sense. It's illogical. It's gonna be an ugly game, god awful game, terrible game, blah blah blah blah blah, but I love

getting some points. This will be a field goal game, so the most likely outcome is a field goal difference here. So if the Saints win, you obviously win the money, but if the Browns win by a field goal, you get your money back. Saint's nineteen Brown sixteen the final. The penny is going the other direction, taking the Browns, and we move on on Benny versus the penny man versus an adamant object. As we handicap every game. We're doing this for years. Tell a friend Detroit seven and

seven and they take on Carolina five and nine. It's on Fox with Fox Sports Radio alumnus Chris Myers and Robert Smith. They have the call. The Lions opened up a two and a half point favorite, and they are favored by three on the road. Detroit a road favorite, and many people think this is a free money game. Just been on Detroit, your guarantee you'd win. In downtown Charlotte, Sonny and thirty degrees at kickoff at Bank of America Stadium where our friend black Steve the Second, we'll be

watching on TV unless he's not so. The Lions are seven and oh. Their last seven games against the spread, they have been a wagon and I believe that stops here. I'm gonna take the Panthers in this game, and the main analysis. I'm gonna keep it simple here. I love the Lions. I think the Lions are great. I hope I'm wrong on this. I hope the Lions win the game by three touchdowns. But I simply do not trust Jared Goff. You know why, Danny, I saw this guy

with the rams and cold weather. He gets into the fetal position, and he starts, he sucks his thumb. He's Frosty the Snowman at quarterback and it ain't good. Five and nine against the spread and cold weather games, and many of those games have been completely lopsided with no offense from Jared Golf, and I just can't get that out of my mind. Maybe maybe it's different now he's in Detroit and all that stuff, But until I see this guy go out in a cold weather game and

play well, I'm on the other side here. I simply do not trust Jared Golf. I like the Lions defense, and I know Sam Donald's a mistake prone ballplayer and all that, but man, oh man, do I think this is going to be an ugly game, cold weather game? The Panthers are coming off a loss to the Steelers last week. They can run the ball, uh and they're gonna have to because of Sam Donald. And I hope I'm wrong on this, but the Panthers twenty and the

Detroit Lions seventeen will be the final. And the penny says, too bad, your rams don't have any picks left to trade to get Golf back. Ben going with the Lions. I think they're good on that. The only way golf comes back is if if Sean McVeigh is doing TV, or if he's a he's the Grand Pool Ball on Fox Sports Radio, maybe they'll they'll bring golf back, all right? Next up, that is the game I'm interested in, not that I'm not interested in these other games, but what

a matchup. You got Cincinnati ten and four at New England seven and seven. The team you just saw last week Danny the Patriots on CBS, Iron Eagle and Charles Davis have the call and the ben Gals. The worm has turned Cincinnati favored in New England. Holy Tom Brady Batman the Bengals at three point favor They opened at that. The line has stayed the same at three and another one of these games. Everyone's loading up on Cincinnati. They

think this is easy money, cold weather game. That's what you get in late December at Gillette Stadium, sunny and thirty four degrees at kickoff. And the Bengals, how about this Joe Burrow last twenty five games, they've been a root and twot in success with Joe Burrow twenty and five against the spread in the last twenty five starts for Burrow. But I'm gonna take the Patriots in this game. I love the Pats as a home dog. I wish it was three and a half. I wish it wasn't three.

I wish I was getting some more that the line had gone up to three and a half. It's back down to three, but I'm taking the Patriots. No time for a ah we suck hangover after the Patriots absolutely blew it. The most bone headed playoff's seen in this era of the NFL. So New England's gotta shake it off and they've they've got to play with desperation. They went out there likely a playoff team. They lose one

of these games and that's it. So it's last chest, last chance saloon for the Patriots to go up, up and away and and make the playoffs. Three tough games. It starts with this game. New England's defense is the real deal here, and that's really the basis of my wager. I'm not gonna sit here and dance or round on Mac Jones. I think he sucks, but the defense is good and Joe Burrow can be rattled, and Bill Belichick is a ninja with mind games and all that. A

Jedi mind trick here Burrow has been playing great. The turnover bug is lurking though in the weeds. Patriots is a home dog a wise play there ten and five against the spread. Their last fifteen is a home doog. I'll take Belichick and the theme is a nineteen seventies discos theme, Danny Staying Alive, Staying Alive. I'll take the Patriots twenty six and the Bengals twenty three, and the Penny says that that stiff arm has scarred Mac Jones for life with the Bengals. God was that? Oh my god?

And I know we'll talk about on a Saturday podcast, but holy Connoli, Oh my god, Jez ran over. I'm like like a little sister. It was. It was abusive. If you're just tuning in, I don't know how you would just be tuning in. You probably had to listen to all the other bullcrap until we got to this point. But I should have mentioned the beginning. If you're new to the Betty Versus the Penny bit, the home team

is heads Danny. The road team is tells you're the flipper of the Penny because you traveled by planes trans and automobiles and and so that's why we do road team tales. And you sit on your took us in the home team, you use your head. Okay, simple right, yes, correct a bundo. Alright. We move on now to sweet home Chicago. What a great city of family in Chicago and Buffalo. The Bills Mafia, they are arriving. They actually roll arrived earlier, a couple of days earlier because of

the weather in Buffalo. But the Bills eleven and three. And if you're dyslexic, this is the perfect matchup because Chicago is three and eleven and it's on CBS with Greg Gumble and Adam arch Aletta. The Bills a opened up a ten point favorite, but wonders will never see says they're lying down to eight. Buffalo is still favored by eight and mostly cloudy. The temperature will be five degrees at kickoff at Soldier Field. The wind chill will

be below freezing, you know, way below. It's actually below freezing at kickoff. It's gonna below zero. That's what I'm trying to say. If the man could talk, hat Soldier Field. Bills have not been great lately with Josh Allen two and five against the spread their last seven, so they've been unable to meet expectations with the gambling market as

they stamp around on the field. And the Bears quietly over their last seven games, not that they're winning many of these games with five and two against the spread, so they've been able to outproduce the gambling market. And I believe that happens again here. I'm gonna take Chicago, Oh yee, a little faith in Buffalo. This is a sandwich game for the Bills. They're coming off a key

divisional prime time matchup with the Dolphin last Saturday. They have the ben Gals in an a f C hierarchy showdown in since coming up on a Monday night in week seventeen. So I don't sense much of an edge here in this game, and Buffalo will likely jump out to an early lead. They've got a couple of starting lineman that are injured. Justin Fields is always a backdoor

cover possibility. He can bake up a storm. He did it last week Danny in Philadelphia or in Chicago's just against Philadelphia, the Eagles were covering the number, big number, and you've got a late touchdown by Justin Fields and a backdoor cover, the dreaded backdoor cover if you better favorite. And the Bears are a bunch of average joes, but I believe they will make enough second half place. The hoodwink the points bread, So I'm taking the Bills to win,

but the Bears to get the back door cover. Bills twenty four, Bears seventeen, and the frigid monsters in the Midway Home Stadium. In the Penny lands on heads. That means cheating off your paper taking Chicago did again, lollygagging around. Bad job by the penny. I don't blame the penny. Looking at the records overall, I don't blame the penny. The penny has sucked balls, Danny this year. It has not been good, all right. Next up Houston one, twelve and one at Tennessee seven and seven on CBS with

Andrew Catalan and James Lofton. The Titans opened up a nine point favorite, and they are favored by only three. And we'll tell you why that line change in a minute. Most people betting on the Titans in this game at Nissan Stadium in downtown Nashville, the house that Clay Travis built, Although they're getting a new stadium. So so that'll be the house that he built. But our man Clay Fox Sports Radio and miss and the guy that Danny worked with, he Clay spent a lot of money on Titans tickets

over the years. Yes, he's not getting those for free as he's paying for those. Yeah, that that ain't cheap. Uh So listen, I'm gonna take the texts in this game. The reason we've seen the line change if you have not been paying attention, if you're out hanging out with country bumpkins Houston. Uh they've they've they've shown some fighting. Now everyone's waiting for the bottom to fall out here

for Lovey Smith. Last two weeks against supposed powerhouse teams in the Chiefs and Cowboys, they have been nail biers. Overtime game with k C last week. Cowboys games should have been you know, should have could have would have gone to Houston. They blew it in the end. I like to grind I expect more of that from Davis Mills and the c squad, mainly because the Titans are the thirty second ranked past defense, so the worst in the NFL. So there's gonna be some yards to be

had there for Davis Mills. He had a backbreaking fumble in overtime. He also had three touchdowns his first three touchdown game against Kansas City last week. The Titans, though the reason the line changed they do not have Ryan Tannehill and he will I'll be playing, you know, likely the rest of the year. Here. Pat Ankle done for the season, and that means Malik Willis, who bangs in the wind, who's not ready for prime time, is back under center. So it's all about Derrick Henry and no

one else down. Willis started the game when these teams played earlier this year and attempted ten passes the entire game. Part of the reason is because Derrick Henry ran for over two hundred yards in that game. Now, if that happens here, obviously the Titans win this game easily. But the way Tennessee is playing, with all the injuries they lead the NFL and injuries, I just don't sense that that's gonna go the way it went before. The sequel will not be the equal, and I will take the

Texans to upset the Titans. Holy crap, Texas twenty and the Titans sixteen. The final and the penny says what you're talking about Willis like that for going with the Titans. Oh man, Malik Willis has not shown anything. I mean, I feel bad for the guy. They were hyping him up in the preseason, Danny, and he has been absolute stiff. Hopefully he shows something here. He looked great a liberty. He's he had liberty anymore. Right here, You're not at

liberty anymore. Uh. He's like, I know, but you gotta you gotta show me something, you know, as as Sherry Glamville taught me when I was a little boy, Danny, the NFL is not for long. If you play like that, then congratulations. All right. Next up Seattle at Kansas City, the Seahawks circling the wagons. What has gone on there? Seven and seven? Kansas City, eleven and three. It's on Fox, Kevin Coogler and Mark Sanchez. The Chiefs opened up a nine and a half point favorite. They're favored by ten

in this game. And I will have multiple friends that will be an Arrowhead Stadium, my radio friends I go on there, going on with him every third day. Bob and Josh will be on the feet, one will be on the field during the sidelines. He's gonna freeze his ass off. Josh Clingler and my friend Bob will be in a luxury box, so he will be fine. He's a big morning guy. Uh. Everyone's been on Kansas City

this game. Three degrees mostly sunny, three degrees that kick off at Arrowhead, a chamber of commerce type of day, and I am gonna go against the grain on this one a bit. Kansas City has blown the last couple of games, is big favorites. I'm gonna take the Chiefs though. I think this is the week they put it all together here and they say addio s muchachos to the Seattle Seahawks. Kansas City has failed against the Texas le

Broncos back to back to come. Remember that that big lead against Lebroncos twenty seven to nothing or something like that, and they blew it in that game. Last week they had to go to overtime against Houston. So I expect a blowout City over a ragged Seattle team that has no defense. They also don't have Tyler Lockett. Not expect to play bad hand he had surgery and Kenneth Walker at the time we're doing this podcast. Danny, He's got a bad ankle. He has not been able to practice

all week long. And so you've got Geno Smith roaming around throwing the ball to himself. Good luck. Uh, this just has a blowout city all over it. Patrick Mahomes fattening up his stats. Chiefs thirty three and the Seahawks seventeen. And I very rarely lay the big number, Danny. So this is a rare exception to one of my one of my rules. The penny wants to take advantage of that landing on tails band. That means thinking it can make up some ground on you by going with the Seahawks. Alright,

good luck on that. Normally I would take Seattle, but I saw the injury chart and I just think this is a cold weather Seattle is just gonna gonna freeze over there in the conditions where it's like Siberia. All right. Next up Atlanta five and nine at Baltimore nine and five. It's on Fox. The pitch perfect. Kenny Albert and Jonathan Filma have the call. Ravens opened up a six and ap point favored. They are favored by seven eighty five

per cent of the wagers on Baltimore. The numbers we have at M ANDT Bank Stadium in the House that Sports with Coleman Build and Greg the realtor in Baltimore. So the weather is gonna be frightful. The Falcons quarterback is frightful. But I'm taking at Lanta anyway. I'm going crazy here, Danny j I'm taking the Falcons. And here's why, uh Lamar Jackson bad me. Doesn't look like he's gonna play. He missed his eighth straight practice the other day and

I don't think he's practiced at all here. So well, you've got him out wide receiver Devin Dubern a bad foot. He gone, things are so bad? How bad are they? And it's so bad in Baltimore. The Poets, the dead Poets have turned to Sammy Watkins as the guiding light at receiver. They picked him off, picked him up off the waiver wire, your boy from the Rams. He's used my phone, Danny, he has used the mallophone. But he

has been miserable in Green Bay. The Ravens, also their backup quarterback, was checking this out on the injury report. Tyler Huntley added to the injury report midweek with the right shoulder injury. If he's unable to play or if he gets knocked out of this game somebody named Anthony Brown. I'd rather have Charlie Brown is going to be the quarterback.

Now the Falcons have nothing either at the quarterback, so this isn't actually an even matchup because the Falcons quarterback Desmond Ritter, Holy crap, uh man uh he they said he wasn't scared of a moment. That was what the Atlanta Falcons were saying. Well, he might have been scared of the moment, but he played like a salad, a tird salad against the Saints. Now I didn't have Atlanta, and I won that bet because of a late touchdown

on the back door cover. But no passing game. This game is going to be uh uh late with the Capital you and I just can't lay that many points with the Ravens. They've got a better defense than the Falcons, They've got the running game. They should be able to rotate running running backs in. But this is too many points. I'm stubborn. Ravens sixteen, Falcons twelve the final and the penny says Sammy Watkins is gonna have to t d

s going with the Ravens. All right, we'll ring the bell next late games, late games now on the Saturday card, Washington seven, six and one at San Francisco. Of course, they'll be played in Santa Clara ten and four on CBS with Kevin Harlan and Trent Green. They have the call. The Niners opened a six point favorite. They are favored by seven and another one of these games. Everyone loading up on the forty Niners free money game. Fill up your bank account, fill up your four oh one k.

Here you go. And I've learned over the years that is generally the wrong way. When everyone's going one direction, you gotta go the other direction. It's a horror of horrors if you go with a mob at Levi's Stadium, mild temperatures in Santa Clara's sixty degrees at kickoff. I'm taking Washington in this game. They will siphon off a victory.

The Commandos under Ron Rivera have been a very good West Coast team actually prior to Ron Rivera also seven one in two their last ten games against the spread when they've had to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast over two thousand miles of travel, So they've been a great team far away from their homestead in land Over Maryland, and even with last week's tobacco against the I asked some questionable officiating at the end

of that game. The Commanders are five and two against the spread with Taylor Heineke, and I like brock Purty. He's been very good. Magic carpet ride has continued for him. It did last week. He's actually the second ranked quarterback in the league behind Trevor Lawrence since he took over over the last three weeks. But dinged up still expected to play this game, and I have a hunch on this the Commander's defense will be the top unit that

brock Purty's played even in these games. It's not like it's not like the forty Niners have been, you know, completely running from from beginning to end their offense without any kind of of of hiccups here, So I listen to the Washington defense is pretty good. I think this point spreads just too inflated. The value, the point spread value is on the side of the Commanders and they are playing for their playoff lives. The Niners have already

wrapped up a playoff birth. They're playing for seating the Commanders. If they want to get in the playoffs, they gotta pull an upset here. They will not actually win the game. But if you've been on Washington with the points, you'll be on the right side of it, because as the forty Niners went at sixteen over the Commanders and the Pennies going the other direction taking the forty Niners. Alright, we move on to the final game on the late portion,

late portion of the television window on Saturday. That's Philadelphia and Dallas. Philadelphia thirteen and one, Dallas ten and four. It's on Fox with Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen at the wheel. That's the eight team. Why is why is the eight team doing this game? It's a it's a good game and be it's the Cowboys and the Cowboys. That's guaranteed to be the top rated game this weekend in the NFL, and everyone in TV knows it, and so it's a boon for TV people. Cowboys opened up

a one point favorite. They are favored by five in this game, and most people betting on Dallas at a t n T stadium. Jerry's World sunny in thirty degrees at kickoff, and I'm want to take the Eagles in this game. I know Jalen Hurts is out. That's why the line movie he's got a bump shoulder. He's expected to mistance game. At the time we are doing Benny versus the Penny Gardner Minshoe midshoe mania, he takes over

and I have a case of Minshew mania. This guy should be starting for some crap team like the Texans or maybe the Titans next year. But I expect the Eagles offense to be clicking even without Jalen Hurst. The Cowboys defense, their stats are inflated. We saw them absolutely proved to be frauds when they lost their way in Jacksonville last week. Blew that big lead, couldn't get it done. Watching them try to stop Trevor Lawrence was as effective

as as milking a bull late in that game. And if you look at the Cowboy offens last month or so, they're twenty three at stopping the past and they're actually worse than the Texans and the l A Rams. The spread on this game is out of whack, Eagles thirty and the Cowboys the final, and the Penny landing on heads for the third time in a row. Going with the home team. The Cowboys alright, A lot of favorites. When you when you land on that side of the penny,

the best laid plans of mice men and pennies. Next up the final game on Christmas Eve on Saturday, and that is in Pittsburgh, Hey A and Las Vegas, Vegas, Vegas, Vegas six and eight in Pittsburgh. Also six and eightis on the NFL network. Rich Eisen and Kurt Warner will have the call for something. They should have called you, Danny. You could have been the third man in the booth there with Warner right, you would have traveled the pits.

But when your wife have allowed you to travel the Pittsburgh for that game, Yeah, yeah, you could have done the game. You're doing very eloquent in the broadcast. We've but the Raiders getting most of the money here. Steelers a two and a half point favorite. They opened it one and a half and another frigid night of football. It's a fun time of the year if you like cold weather games. Sixty uh said money on the Raiders.

But the forecast here ten degrees. That kick off at the former Hinz Field, which now is named after some kind of insurance company. The Raiders have done very well against the Steelers with Mike Tomlin last seven games. The Raiders are six and one against the spread against the Mike Tomlin Steelers. But that's the good news the bad news. It's a vicious cycle. And the Raiders are three and twelve against the spread their last fifteen games against teams

that have a losing record like the Steelers. And we mentioned earlier how great Washington has been when they go from east coast to west. So the opposite that would be the Raiders when they travel from the friendly confines of lost wages Nevada and travel more Thans or more there. Two and eight against the spread their last ten and I want to take the Steelers in this game, very similar to my logic on Jared Goff. I don't trust Derek Carr in cold weather. I don't think he's going

to handle this very well. I do love t J. Watt and that Steeler defense, And not that I'm a big emotion guy when it comes to betting on NFL games, but it's gonna be quite the scene. As they were honoring the immaculate reception and Frank o'harris just passed away unexpectedly a few days ago. It's gonna be a madhouse. There the the raw emotion in favor of Pittsburgh, but that'll wear off once the game kicks off. I just

trust the Steelers defense. They are a top ten defense with t J. Watt, and we know that your guy Derek Carr does not handle that well. And the cold weather on top of it. Steelers twenty three and the Raiders the final and the penny learned from last week, but you didn't going with the Raiders. Remember John Madden took it to his grave saying that ball was on the ground. Yeah, well I'll find it. What are you

planning a special party for this game, Danny? Are you any kind of It's It's a holiday, so you gotta be with family. I would think Christmas. I'm gonna find a way to watch this game band no matter where I'm at, no matter what family is doing, this game will either be on my phone or on the big screen. If you need me to send you a link, I might know a guy that has a link. So if you want to let me know and I might be

able to hook you up. I know a guy who knows a guy who knows that a Russian guy, Russian, Ukrainian, maybe some island just north of Australia. I don't know, say Nooniesia, you know somewhere I don't who knows? All right, Next up, let's get to the Sunday part of the card, and only a few games on Sunday as these are showcased games. The Green Bay Packers six and eight at Miami eight and six. It's on Fox on Christmas Day. Joe Davis and Darryl moose Johnson have the call. The

Dolphins opened a three and a point favorite. They're favored by three and a half. Still a lot of money on the Packers in this game at hard Rock Stadium. Mostly cloudy and uh temperatures will be mild in Miami by Miami standards for this game. But I'm gonna take the Packers. I'm gonna take the Packers in this game. Miami returns home three game skid to a tongue of my Lord and forget about winning the m v P Award. He's the twenty fourth ranked quarterback over the last month,

behind Kenny Pickett and Zack Wilson. Neither one of them has been all that good either. The Dolphins defense, though, that's the main reason to like the cheese heads. In this game, the defense has struggled to stop the passing attack that the Packers offense should be efficient with Aaron Rodgers, they've started to click recently. I think this line is

a little too high. You're getting the hook there with the Green Bay Packers the three and a half and I always love that, and the Packers they gotta win out Austin their only These teams are not dead yet, but they're on life support and they're about to have the last supper if their fortune does not change, and they're gonna go down fighting purely and simply though they're not good enough in the end, I'm taking the Packers plus the points, but the Dolphins win the game thirty

seven the final and the penny lands on tails for the second time in a row. Going with the Packers al right. Next up a game that has no redeeming value at all other than from a gambling standpoint, Danny. That would be the Denver l a matchup Denver four in ten the Rams four and ten. It's on CBS with essentially on Nickelodeon as well as one of those Nickelodeon games where Iron Eagle, Oh yeah, you're gonna get

slimed if you score a touchdown. Yeah, yeah, I and Eagle the son of the Great, his father who's been amazing here, Nate Burlson. They also they have the call there on Eagle the Clipper. Yeah, I believe right. So is that there's his kid? Right? Uh So? Anyway, Uh, the Rams, this game open to picking. The Rams are a one point favorite, and we're gonna rock and roll with the Broncos. It's so far stadium. I'm not betting

on the Rams. You're kidding me. Uh. The reason behind me betting against the Rams, Baker Mayfield was back to being the Duke of Puke in the Monday night football game. And I know the weather is gonna better, and Baker is usually okay in good weather. Uh. He goes against though, the star of the show and that is the Broncos defense. They are the only elite unit in this game. The Rams offense not elite. The Rams defense without Aaron Donald

not elite special teams. No, the Rams are playing a bunch of lift drivers and Uber Eats delivery guys in their defense. It's it's an absolute mess. I expect multiple turnovers from from Baker Mayfield that offensive line for the Rams is all messed up, and not that it's gonna lead to a massive wind, but as you said, the Rams will end up covered in slime and good heavens.

But Russell Wilson, who has expected to play in this game back in the wind com Broncos twenty and the Rams sixteen the final and the Penny says the Rams should get slimed a lot because they'll be in the end zone more than the Broncoes. Kenny says, shame on, you bend your ms. Listen. Maybe maybe I'll be wrong. This would be the week that all all goes to hell right here, and I'll be crying like a baby. Next up, Sunday Night football, Tampa Bay six and eight

at Arizona four and ten. It's on and be see the Peacock with Mike Dirico and Chris Collinsworth as the Buccaneers opened up a three point favorite there favored by seven and a half in this game and a lot of the money coming on Tampa Bay at State Farm Stadium. And this is one of those games where I will cover my eyes, I will try not to puke in my mouth, but I am gonna take the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in this game. I will lay the massive number. The Bucks have been an absolute dog food team. I

realized that. But they have met their equal in the Arizona Cardinals. Colt McCoy the backup concussion. He's likely out for the rest of the year. That means someone named Trace McSorley, yeah, is getting tossed into the incinerator. I would rather have Marty McSorley as my quarterback. This guy is a Mama luke. He's an absolute bum dog with fleas however you want to say it. Uh. And I expect the Buccaneers defense to flour ish. I would be surprised if the Cardinals do anything at all on offense

for most of this game. And Tom Brady had a great first half against the Bengals last week and then had those turnovers all and the Cardinals defense is not that great. Injury ravage Cardinals secondary. Let may be this. Let me be be very clear here, Nay. If Tampa does not win this game by ten or more points minimum, if I own the Bucks, I fired Todd Bowls on Christmas night at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. That's how big a disparity there is between trace McSorley and the

Buccaneer defense Buccaneers twenty three and the Cardinals thirteen. The final and the Penny says, I may be made out of fake copper nowadays, but let's keep it real. The Bucks are the easy winner here, all right. So we agree on that. Now we get to the final game, the final game this Christmas weekend of Benny versus the Penny, the soft underbelly of the NFL that would be in Indianapolis. You're talking about opportunity for the Chargers. This is like

one of those games you show up, you're collected. When Chargers eight and six Indianapolis four nine and one is on ESPN Slash ABC with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. The line Chargers open up a two and apt point favorite. This speaks volumes to where the Colts are. The Chargers are a five point favorite, five point favorite in this game of the money on the Chargers at Lucas Oil Stadium. It's a dome, which is a good thing because it's gonna be cloudy and twenty one degrees outside at kickoff.

I'm taking the Colts. I'm shooting for the mode. I'm taking the Colts in this game. And let me explain why, Justin Herbert, twenty games in his career as a favorite of three or more, seven and thirteen against the spread in that spot, Indianapolis did lose Jonathan Taylor for the seas in, so they got a bunch of second rate backups. Zack Moss and Dion Jackson will carry the running backload and Matt Ryan bench hey Gon sent to the Principal's

office the penalty box. And so we have Nick Foles, remember him, He's back starting Nick Foles, who, yeah, yeah, he did something a couple of years ago in the playoffs. I forget what, but a generic brand quarterback. He will not make as many mistakes as Matt Ryan, who was always on dangerous ground. And that little thought bubble above

my head here, I just don't trust the Chargers. The Chargers are like a chocolate Christmas Santa that you expect to be rock solid milk chocolate, and it's actually hollow. And I just don't trust them. They're they're able to to move the ball with a passing attack and all that, but Justin Herbert, when you expect the Charges to do well, they don't. When you don't expect him to do much. They do pretty well, and this is too many points here.

Even with all of the issues that the Colts have, including playing like gutless pukes last week against the Vikings in the second half, Chargers will not cover the spread Chargers twenty six, Colts three, the final and the perfect ending here as the Penny is going with the Chargers, all right, So we disagree on that. And that is every game all weekend long on Saturday and Sunday on this Christmas weekend Hanukka Weekend edition of Benny Versus the Penny.

So good luck. Remember money management, Danny. You don't want to get crazy here. Pick your spots. Don't bet every game, but pick the ones you like and good luck. Right, see see how you do. See if you can out fox the wise guys. But now you just can't leave. We listen. Have a great weekend. We'll have original podcast. This is a test run. We we point this out, Danny. If the podcast do well, future holiday weekends will have podcast. If not, we'll go back to some evergreen programming, or

we'll just take the weekend. We'll be dark on the podcast. We'll see what kind of impact the podcast. You and I could have just been dipping chips and some baba ganoose. That's right, Yes, still broadcasting. Yeah. I have a great rest of your day on Friday. If you're listening through this on Saturday morning, we'll have another podcast coming your way a little bit later. Have a wonderful rest of your day and happy Holidays. Later, skater to make funny. What's you think about the Wizard