Speaker 1: Welcome into the opening line report.
Speaker 2: Crazy Monday in between Christmas in New Year's What day
is it? I know a day is because it's Monday morning,
and every single Monday morning I hang out here with
Teddy Covers. If there's any banging in the background, if
there's any annoyances, I apologize guys, because there are still
a lot of people in my house. I need them
to leave because we got to get down to business. Teddycovers,
I hope you had a wonderful week of festivities with
your friends and family. I have had a really great time,
but now it's time for them to go home.
Speaker 3: Sure, anytime people come to visit, you'd like to see them,
and you like it when they leave, you know it's
good to go. But the clients and I enjoyed yesterday
to in o NFL sweep. It'spent a good run in
December in the NFL. I think ten and four over
the last four weeks. So we're making money and that's
my job, so good. It's good when we do our
job correctly.
Speaker 2: It is good when we do our job correctly. I've
got lots of questions for you in regards to week eighteen.
I know you want to talk on some season win
till as well. But while we wait for everybody to
kind of get in here this morning, get into the comments,
give us some likes, and of course shout out to
those wager Talk insiders. This morning, I wanted to ask
you about Monday Night football every week, I say, Teddy,
do you got a free play up? Do you have
a premium play? What's kind of going on for Week seventeen.
We've got the Rams just a little over a touchdown
at the Falcons.
Speaker 3: So I have a free play video up right now
on my homepage Wagertalk dot com. You can go to
my homepage directly wt dot buzzbackslash TC. I've got a
free play up fortnight with the Rams and the Falcons.
I made a case for the over in the ballgame.
We're seeing right now money coming in for the side
in this ballgame, a lot of Falcons money in the
last twenty four hours or so, taking out to most
of many of the seven and a half and eight
and eight and a halfs that were out there down
to seven at most books. So we've seen Falcons money
and I made a case for the over. Check out
again my homepagell bet Dot Buzz, Backslash TC to get
that rationale or just watch wader Talk all day today.
I'm gonna be on wade You Talk today that starts
in an hour. I'm gonna be on Wadeer Talk Last
Call that is I believe four pm Pacific time tonight,
So we'll break down that game multiple times before this
day is through. I've already broke it down once if
you need to watch it right now.
Speaker 1: Six pm Eastern, three pm Pacific.
Speaker 2: I'm told for you guys, Yes, Era Lapsine's actually going
to be hosting for Joe Madden tonight so that I
can get the rest of these people out of my house.
Speaker 1: And get new guests for New Year's I this is
a problem, Teddy.
Speaker 2: Whenever you move from one vacation spot to another, your
house seems to always be a hotel. All jokes aside,
let's before we get go ahead, Teddy.
Speaker 3: So, I was gonna say, I lived in Michigan for
a decade before I moved out to Vegas. And when
you move from one place to another other than Michigan,
maybe like three people visited me family, family only, and
then you moved to Vegas. All of a sudden. Every
one you've ever known is like, Hey, can I crash
in your couch? Hey, I'm going to sleep in your
spare bedroom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and here we are.
Speaker 2: I actually just found out have to buy a new
air mattress because mine has a hole in it.
Speaker 1: So happy New Year and Kelly, ah shocker.
Speaker 2: All jokes aside, Teddy, we are going to get into
this NFL Week eighteen. I'm gonna ask you lots of
annoying questions that either the audience wants to know, that
I want to know, or that I think are wager
talk betters want to know.
Speaker 1: But first, you wanted to touch on some season win totals.
Speaker 2: When we were about to start the show, you said, hey,
we've got X number and play and I said, wow.
Speaker 1: We have good job Vegas, and.
Speaker 2: He said, well, not really, that's pretty standard coming into
Week eighteen.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, last week of the season, and there's six
week right now, there are thirteen overs that have cashed,
thirteen unders that have cashed. When it comes to season
win totals, I'm a sheet back here from the summer
from the Westgates seper book. But there are still six
in play. Atlanta over under eight Buffalo over under eleven
and a half, Dallas over under eight, Green Bay over
under nine and a half, Minnesota over under eight and
a half, who'd have thought that a month ago, and
Philadelphia over under eleven and a half, all six of
those coming down to week eighteen. But everything else is
a done deal in the NFL win total marketplace. Unfortunately,
this was not a great year. My client said, I
am that regard. We will finish with a losing season
two and four. But all my stuff was decided early
by basically by November first. It was a done deal
by December first. Everything could either cash or not cash,
so I had right sides and wrong sides. Unfortunately, Seattle
under was the wrong side, New England under was a
wrong side. Raiders over Arizona over. Not my best work
this summer, unfortunately. That said, we did cash with Cincy under,
we cast with Washington under, and we'll come back next year,
so help me. I expect to do better a year
from now. Obviously, the long term track record what well overs.
It's close to two out of three over twenty something years.
Not the first losing season I've had, but I've never
head back to back losing seasons I don't expect you
next year.
Speaker 2: We're playing the long game here on wager Talk.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about.
Speaker 2: The long game that is Week eighteen. So I just
tease the rams. I know you guys are sick of
hearing it, but they just keep cashing. Teasers have been
really good to me this year. So that's said, all right,
I'm gonna start looking ahead to next week. I text
the list of teasers to my gambling group chat and
Era Elapsecene chimes in. She goes, man, there's a lot
of irrelevant games.
Speaker 1: I said, whoa, you think.
Speaker 2: Broncos Chargers is irrelevant? Well, yeah, because the AFC West
has already locked up. I'm like, no, no, no, these
two teams still hate each other. There's still a lot
to play for.
Speaker 1: Or am I wrong, Teddy?
Speaker 2: A lot of these teams gonna sandbag at Week eighteen
rest their starters.
Speaker 1: Kind of go through your process on how you handicap
Week eighteen and what our.
Speaker 2: Audience should be looking for when they're handicapping Week eighteen.
Speaker 3: Sure, Week eighteens a minefield. It's like we three of
the preseason where you have to do your you know,
you can't just go oh, starters are going for a cause,
got series or two, you know, and then week three
of the prese and you have to dig and figure
out who's playing in the second half and what the
coordinators are trying to accomplish. Week eighteen in the NFL
is comparable to that. It is not the type of
week that I tend to pepper the board with wagers.
If I find two or three good bets this week,
I'll be very very happy. So how do you tread
in Week eighteen? Slowly and carefully? That being said, the
markets are gonna go nuts, all right, what we're gonna
talk about this morning? Week eighteen. You see, I've seen
two touchdown line moves, and oftentimes the best bets in
Week eighteen are betting against the overreactions from the betting
mark plays, Oh, this team cares and that team sitting starters,
and then all of a sudden, you have a two
touchdown spread and a game ends up being decided by
a field goal. That happens year in, year out. This
is a week where pay attention to the information, but
always remember the point spread is the great equalizer.
Speaker 2: And that's why we're here, because we want you guys
to get the best of the number that is the
opening number here, Teddy's gonna tell you, hey, if you
like the over, got our emergency betting alert light ready
to go.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we've got a couple of those.
Speaker 2: Even though it is towards the end of the season
with Teddy, we had two games flexed to Saturday, so
let's get to those first. Tell me that Carolina Panthers
are gonna win so I can cash my four to
one NFC South ticket.
Speaker 3: Well, let's start with this, okay, So for Week eighteen
and moving forward. Every week during the regular season, we
talk about lookhead lines. Lookhead lines have come and gone,
although we may see I'm gonna look to see if
I can find matchup lines when it comes to the playoffs,
so we'll see potential matchups if I can find something,
so we have a sense of what the look at
would have been. That being said, I know look at
lines this week. I didn't see any books that posted
numbers prior to action finishing yesterday. Obviously, with the Week
eighteen with teams motivation in question all over the place,
I'm not surprised we never see look a headlines for
a Week eight team. When it comes to Carolina and
Tampa Bay. However, what I do have for all of
these games is my powering number. And my powering number
for these games is real simple, team A, team B
home field. It is not factoring in this guy's gonna
sit starters, this team's got motivation, et cetera, et cetera.
It's just team A, team B home field. When there
are issues with a quarterback or something like that, I'll
talk about it. In this instance, Carolina Tampa Bay, my
powering number has the bucks minus two and a half.
The market's open three and forty three and a half
last night, and what are we seeing today? Three forty
three and a half. Leading indicator books are pointing down.
Though you know, I'm seeing a three even money in
the global marketplace right now, which tells us that I
don't expect this line to go up. And obouls see
my number is only two and a half for Tampa.
But when you look at Caroline, I mean the loss
to Seattle yesterday is why I don't trust Carolina as
a playoff team. It's why the markets trust Caroline is
a playoff team. Six or eight losses have come by
double digits, and against playoff teams, they've gotten killed. The
Pats beating by twenty nine, the Bills beating by twenty one,
the Seahawks beating by seventeen. That was only because they
threw a pick six. You know, throw an internet from
the end zone would have been worse than that. And
of course Carolina's offense didn't work in any of those games.
They had ten first downs, one hundred and thirty nine
total yards two point seven yards per play yesterday in
two turnovers. You know, Carolina is five and one after
a loss of this season. Dave Canalis quote, we definitely
feel the missed opportunity, but at the same time, we
know what's in front of us. It's clearly defined that
we have to get over the fact that we missed
it opportunity with the Bucks losing that game, but our
focus has to go to the next one pretty quickly.
This was an interesting quote and I thought it was
worth bringing up here from Bryce Young after the game,
and I wont I'm trying to read between the lines.
It felt like this is a shot at the coaching staff,
the offsitive coaching staff in Carolina, and it kind of
surprised me. Bryce Young after the Seahawks macked them yesterday.
Quote credit to them. They made adjustments to the game
plan and did a better job of executing it. We're
gonna go up against different schemes and teams that are
gonna make adjustments. We need to be able to react
to that and counter it. We'll watch the film, listen,
learn and grow from it. Carolina has been very good
off a loss the season is the biggest game the
fans have played in several years. As for Tampa, I
mean Baker at three forty six yesterday, seven point nine
yards for passdempt two touchdowns, but they turned the ball
over two interceptions for Baker yesterday, minus three for Tampa.
The defense didn't force any turnovers. Last week when they
lost to Carolina, the defense didn't force any turnovers. The
week before versus Atlanta, the defense didn't force any turnovers.
So you have a defense that's clearly not forcing turnovers
right now. Tama's got no running game. Sixteen carries fifty
three yards yesterday. They can't run. They can't win one
in seven straight up since they're six and two start
and the last four losses or the Bucks have all
come to teams that are below five hundred favored by
minus three or higher the last five games a row
and five against the spread in those contests, and Mayfield
that's own an interception in every one of them. You know,
Mike Evans, the Hall of Famer at wide receiver quote,
we didn't deserve the win. They played like David Chance
for the playoffs. We played like we're ready to go
home again. One and seven, last eight, they're laying here.
They can still clinch their fifth consecutive division title, their
sixth raight playoff birth. All they got to do is
win this game. That'll force a tie. You know, Todd
Bowles quote, Everything is possible and you've got a chance
to play. We just need to put it together in play,
and that takes work. We work hard. We do it
right in practice. Can't explain it in the game. We
definitely as coaches and players need to look ourselves in
the mirror. The betting marketplace is respecting Tampa in this
point spread range, either that or as disrespecting the Carolina
team that has not shown the ability to beat quality foes.
But at one and seven their last eight right now,
Tampa's not a quality foe.
Speaker 1: I agree. I've been betting against them for weeks now.
Speaker 2: But my one love lost yesterday in the Westgate Super
Contest was that Panthers team Seattle came to play in
that second half, especially on the defensive side of the ball.
Now they're playing a Niners team off a nice Sunday
night football come behind win over the Bears.
Speaker 3: Sure, and just real quick, that's seven o'clock Eastern time, Like,
why the hell were they doing last call at three
o'clock for a game to start at five pint fifty?
Speaker 1: Listen? I mentioned this morning, I got an energy drink
for a reason.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get the focus going. We're gonna get our
act together, Teddy. Let's head over to San Francisco, the
home of the Super Bowl. Teddy, this game means a
hell of a lot to both of these teams.
Speaker 1: Break down this one for us.
Speaker 3: My powering number Seattle minus one. The betting markets opened
San Francisco minus one. Right now we're seeing minus one.
We're seeing pickums. They can get a one and a
half with the Seahawks, can get a one and a
half with the Rams for Monday morning. Whatever side do
you like right now, it's a good time to bet it.
I'll leave it at that. There is a market opinion
and market volatility on this ball game. As for the
Sea Bags, look what they do yesterday, workmanlike one hundred
and sixty three rushing yards, no catch as long as
than eighteen yards, all Donald dink and dunk, which doesn't
necessarily bode well for the playoff, and Donald another bad
ren zone interception that kept it being a worst blowout.
Seattle twenty eight giveaways this season. That's the second most
in the NFL. That too does not bode well for
the postseason. But this Seahawks defense has been dynamite. They
held the Panthers to ten first downs one hundred and
thirty nine total yards, which does bode well for the playoffs.
And again, you know they won what the thirteen games,
six straight, and they still need to win this game
to secure the number one seed. De Marcus Lawrence, defensive
lineman quote, We're gonna make sure we take care of business.
It's in our hand. The only thing we have to
do is grasp it. Same story every week McDonald the
head coach, Same story every week. We didn't flinch. I
beg emstince this week was can we deck plays in
all three phases? Because they have to do so about
the second half. We did a great job. Certainly Seattle
from a defensive standpoint, they're a lot better than San Francisco.
And we saw that forty nine Ers defense get absolutely
lit up again last night by Caleb Williams. Luckily for them,
the Bears run out and ran out of time. Uh,
but this is no Super Bowl caliber defense right now.
That being said, brock perty is in sick form. Dude.
He couldn't be stopped by Indy and he couldn't be
stopped hits the better defense in Chicago last night, except
for the pick six opened the game. But I mean,
when you start a game five to five in the
red zone, they were six and nine on third downs,
one on one on four downs. They don't punt munch
right now. And that's, you know, is the matchup between
the unstoppable offense and the unstoppable defense in Seattle. In general,
in these matchups, I tend to look to the team
with the better defense, not the better offense.
Speaker 2: All right, Both teams that have well, I don't know,
not lived up to expectations.
Speaker 1: Pas.
Speaker 2: Obviously, I had some injuries in the quarterback position. As
of late down the stretch, Vikings have struggled with injuries
in that position all season long. Does this line indicate
that Malik Willis just isn't going to be serviceable enough
to go into Minnesota and be able to get this win.
Speaker 3: So my line for the game with Willis at QB,
this is a no love line is pick them. What
From a powering standpoint, it's pick them all right? The
Minnesota is laying six and a half.
Speaker 1: All right, it's appalling. I saw this and I thought
that can be right? What am I missing here?
Speaker 3: Let's talk about why? All right? The Packers defense just
allowed three hundred rushing yards. Meanwhile, Manny Wilson and Josh
Jacobs got nineteen on the ground together. You know, Derrick
Henry just rushed for the most ever by a visiting
player at lambeau Field. It's the second straight week that
Green Bay lost despite not punting. Only six other teams
in the history of the NFL have gone back to
back weeks without punting. Those six teams when a combined
twelve and zero in those games, the Packers are zero
and two. They're issues on the defense side of the
football right now for green Bay? All right, you know,
Matt Laflorida is a humbling knight. Give Baltimore a ton
of credit. They'ven came in here and we're complete control
of the whole game. Now we have a Packers defense
that's real iffy. All right. They have no chance to
win the NFC North. They will start the playoffs on
the road, and from all indications, everybody's sitting. Milik Willis
is probably gonna sit in this ball game, all right.
They got five different guys set, you know, with season
ending injuries last week, Alton Jenkins and Tucker Craft and
Michael Parsons thought that Wyatt John Fitzpatrick. And then during
the game they lost st Anderson the safety and defensive
lineman heard his achilles and Kamal Hayden hurt his ankle.
They were all carted to the locker room and Nate
Hobbs had a knee injury and to be Dantavian Wicks
was evaluated from cussion. This is a very banged up
football team. And Matt Lafleur said, quote, I haven't decided
how I'm gonna handle the reguarstee and the finale. That won't
change our playoff positioning. The markets expecting green Bay to
sit everybody as for the Vikings. I mean, if you
want to late points with Max Brosmer at qv knock
yourself out. I have a good time. Brosmer went nine
to sixteen for fifty one yards. He had seven sacks
from minus forty eight yards. That leaves the net three
of passing yards, the fewest net passing yards by a
winning team in the NFL since two thousand and six.
The only other teams that have ever won games with
fewer than net ten passing yards over the last forty sorry,
over the last forty years the nineteen eighty seven Saint
Louis Cardinals and the two thousand and six Houston Texans.
It doesn't happen very often. They had eleven first downs,
but they were plus six and turnovers. When you're plus
six and turnovers, you're gonna win some games. Vikings four
and oh straight up three one against spread since dropping
a four and eight. But they played Washington, Dallas, the
g Men, and the Lions, no playoff teams in that group.
You know. The other issue for Minnesota is that is
that Kevin O'Connell, head coach, said we may have JJ
McCarthy back this week. Quote. He's doing well with ext
time until next week. We'll see. It's going to come
down to just grip strength in his ability to grip
the football and throw it. I would love to get
him one more opportunity this year. I look forward to
seeing how JJ progress is here early in the week.
I will see if we can have him. So Minnesota
trying to get McCarthy back in the lineup Green Bay.
It's gonna be third. It's just gonna be you know,
everyone that they don't care if they get hurt this
week for the Packers. Hence, even though my powering says
pick them, the markets are six and a half, and
I'm not looking to play the dog.
Speaker 1: And he's not looking to play the dog.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, if it gets high enough, maybe I
will tease Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Let's up.
Speaker 3: Let me jump on teasers for Week eighteen. Okay, where
it's a high volatility week. There are teams that aren't
gonna show up. There's gonna be more blow, there's gonna
be more variants from the point spread than usual, and
teasers are at their best when games finish close to
the point spread, and this is one of those weeks
where games are likely to fall further away from the
point it's not gonna be your typical bell curve. It's
gonna be much flatter.
Speaker 1: So noted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, programming note, teaser note, We've got one more note
from Teddy coming to make us better. Better is here
on wager talk is Philip River is gonna be starting
for the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 1: He's done right. So we're gonna.
Speaker 2: See Riley Leonard on the road at the Houston Texans.
Texans nice cruise yesterday. This is a team that I
didn't necessarily think would be as good as they are.
Speaker 1: CJ.
Speaker 2: Stroud second year kind of struggled. Third year has shown
some real moments of greatness, but he did start to
like kind of just have we're that oft installed there.
On Saturday versus the Chargers, Teddy kind of talk about
this Houston Texans team and what we should expect to
see from them come Sunday.
Speaker 3: Sure powering number Texans ten and a half. The market's
open ten and forty last night, and that's what we're
seeing today, ten and forty. There are some ten and
a half popping up. I no for emergency betting alerts today.
I'm not sure what we're gonna right now. The markets
haven't done a damn thing. I mean, they really have it.
You know, sometimes it's the odds logic live on screen
is painted black on a Monday morning. This is not
one of those mornings. What will happen throughout the course
of the week is a coach and make an announcement
in the market. Bone you know, the market you'll see
literally the games gets deemed a touchdown plus in week eighteen.
So I'm not sure how much we're gonna have for
EBAs this morning mergy betting alerts. That being said, be
aware the markets will move and they'll go crazy throughout
the course of the week. Philip Rivers quote, I told
you guys, who wasn't gonna have any regrets about coming back?
And I don't other than us not winning. There's been
an afflute plath for three. If I go back and say,
all right, now you know everything is going to happen,
what do you do, I'd still do it all again.
It's been absolutely awesome. So yeah, I mean, if it's
the last one, it's the last one, and it really
looks like that would be his last start, you know,
Riley Leonard. One would expect him to start in the
season finale and of course rivers what he finished with
sixty three percent completions, five hundred and forty four yards,
four touchdowns, three picks, and the Colts won OZ one
three in those games. You know, they said he's gonna
go home to Fair Hope, Alabama and continue his place
as a head coach for Saint Michael's Catholic quote, I'll
be right back on the sidelines coaching. I'm sure many
watching probably said that's where you belong, though. It was
a pretty funny line. Riley Leonard likely to get to
start here. Indy a team that you know, again, they had.
They had a great first half of the season. They've
certainly been on the wrong side of everything over the
second half. As for the Texans, they've won eight in
a row. They clinched their third consecutive playoff birth the
first time in franchise history. The defense had five secs
against the Church. To Mike O'Ryan's quote, these guys have
been playing lights out all year, every single game. But
the way the d line showed up today with sack
after sack really putting pressure on the quarterback. It was
really cool to see a lot of different guys get
a sack They entered the week as the NFL leader
in yards allowed, and they held the Chargers under their
average in that ball game as well. Justin Herbert, I
like the quotes of the opposing team. They're very good.
We got nothing but respect for them, the way they compete,
fly around and play for each other. Will Anderson quote
man our brand of ball is really one word, and
that swarm. Whatever may happen, good or bad, everybody's just swarming.
I think we've been brainwashed to swarm. We see that
from the Texans this week. Not a lot to play
for the markets certainly telling Houston. You know again, when
it comes to playoff positioning, you talk about motivators getting
in the playoffs a big motivator. Getting a week off
next week could be a decent motivator. Moving from the
number four seed to the number three seed is no
motivator at all. Houston doesn't have a whole lot to
play for this week, and they're still taking money because
nobody trusting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I kind of don't blame anybody. I think
you probably just stay away from some of these games, Teddy.
Next up, Dolphins, do they have a chance to play
spoiler in regard to getting the Patriots not getting the buy.
This is where things get really convoluted for me, because
I'm sitting here doing power ratings with you. We're talking
about different things, but then there are situational factors that
do matter.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Teams want to buy, they want to have home field advantage, right,
And we'll kind of get into some more of these
games here in a minute, but again these are still
divisional rivals. Dolphins off a nice went over the bucks,
yet they're catching ten and a half at the Patriots
this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my powering number as New England minus nine. The
market's open ten and forty five and a half. Last
night we've seen nothing but Dolphins money. I'm seeing eleven
and eleven and a half forty five and a half
right now. So I started nothing with Patriots money. I
said Dolphins money. I did not mean Dolphins money. I
meant page nothing with Patriots money. The ten and a
half eleven all getting bought up this morning. And Miami
again two and seven, start, five and two since Mike
McDaniel saved his job again. Same thing last year two
and six start, then six and two. They did lose
Week eighteen at the Jets, a cold Weather game they
lost by doubles digits, and the Jets were awful last
year too, so Miami once it came down to that
Week eighteen finale, there wasn't anything left in the tank yesterday.
One hundred and forty five rushing yards, Queen youwers, one
hundred and seventy two passing yards, no picks viewers quote.
We're not playing for a Super Bowl, but we did
a really good job of coming out here and playing
for each other, playing for our last names, and playing
for the organization, showing that when university strikes, we're going
to respond. Impressive win yesterday against the Bucks team that's
basically in free fall right now. As for New England,
obviously they're playing in theory for the number one seed.
They're tied with the Broncos same record at thirteen and three,
but Denver currently hold the tie breaker. Drake May, I
mean the Patriots scored touchdowns in their first six possessions
against the Jets yesterday. Then again, the Jets defense, we'll
talk about them later. They're not stopping anyone. But May
was basically perfect. Nineteen to twenty one, two fifty six,
five touchdowns, no picks. They had one hundred and fifty
three rushing yards fifty five rushing yards that includes the
Josh Dobbs Neil downs at the end of the ball game.
Finished the regular season undefeated on the road, won the
AFC East title for the first time to two thousand
and nine, you know, after the Bills lost, and now
in theory, they're playing for the number one seed here,
although Denver, like I said, holds a tie breaker, So
in that sense, the markets are going to price New
England as a quote must win team. I'm not surprised
we've seen Patriots money despite the Dolphins' recent success. Again,
Miami's track record in this particular Week eighteen season of
an alley game last year wasn't all that good?
Speaker 1: All right? Definitely, two teams with nothing to play for.
The Kansas City Chiefs are.
Speaker 2: Taking on the Las Vegas Raiders. You mentioned teasers this
last couple weeks and the Raiders, well, I did have
giants and some of them I ended up teasing Raiders
and a couple others going for that quote unquote elusive
middle and boy did the Raider I mean from almost
out of the gate. Gino Smith just does what he does,
and he turns the ball over and I knew that
was the end of it.
Speaker 1: Giants got a nice comfortable went on the road.
Speaker 2: But this Chiefs team has just been sleepwalking through it
as well, kind of trying to make some sense of
this one, Teddy.
Speaker 3: So this is a very menifiguring for the Raiders because
they gotta lose. Very good point, they gotta lose, and
they played yesterday like an organization that understood that it
was much better for them to lose than to win.
And the Giants were the better team and all of that.
Kansas City my powering numbers is the Chiefs won. This
is with the Raiders having to lose. This is with
the Raiders at the very bottom of my power ratings. Well,
the Jets are worse, but the Raiders, I think are
thirty first. I've got Kansas City one and a half
and the markets opened six and a half and thirty
five and a half last night, which tells us how
much the markets think the Raiders want to lose this game.
We've seen a little bit of over money thirty six
and a half popping thirty seventh and a half, and
certainly from the sixth and a half that were widely
available last night. It's down to five to five and
a half today. So we have seen a little bit
of Raiders money and a little bit of over money.
But I can't you know. I mean, when you put
Max Crosby and Brock Bauers and Jeremy Chin on injured
reserve and none of them really want to be on
injured reserve, You're like, yeah, you guys, just get better
for next year. That tells you what the Raiders the
organizationally are doing, you know, Pete Carroll, that's what we
look like without those guys playing. Unfortunately, they're that value brought.
Everyone tried everything they could, but that just wasn't enough.
You know, Gino Smith's getting booed in pregame introductions. That's
not a good sign. Kenny Pickett replaced him. He wasn't
very good the Raiders, you know, and Smith has a
league high seventeen interceptions. All right, Raiders want the number
one pick. The Raiders need the number one pick. Course,
the last time the Raiders had the number one pick,
they took JaMarcus Russell with the number one overall pick.
So even when you yet what you want, it doesn't
necessarily mean that you get what you want, but they
want to be at the top of the Mendoza sweepstakes.
I believe whether it's the more Mendoze or whoever, it's
the number one overall pick, the Raiders want that guy.
They do not want to win this game in the market.
They're telling us that whether the Chiefs are capable of
winning it by margins another question entirely. You know, Chris Oladucon,
is you know one of three third string quarterbacks to
play on Christmas Day? And of course the third string
quarterbacks on Christmas Day go three and oats and there's
a justin big of a drop off between second stringers
or third stringers. In many cases there is between first
and second stringers. But the markets adjusted too much for
these ballgames. That's the three and oats for the third
string qbs. But oliduken camp play. You know he was
thirty twenty two passteps for sixty six yards. That's all
you need to know. At one hundred and thirty nine
total yards of offense, it's not gonna win you many
NFL games even with they played clean, only two penalties,
no turnovers. But again they only have the ball for
twenty minutes and then after the game, Travis Kelcey, you
feel the generations have had happiness and the love the
fans have. It's a beautiful thing, man. It's something I
know all Church forever, whether it's coming out of the tunnel,
I'm just making a big play for them. That's why
we love Arrowhead. Not playing at Arrowhead this week, Kelsey's
probably his last game. Chiefs not a team I'm comfortable
laying a price with Raiders, Not a team that wants
to win the game. This, Kelly is the epitome of
a stay away game.
Speaker 1: At least in my opinion, I could not agree more.
Speaker 2: Bears needed to get the win last night to be
the number one overall seed in the NFC.
Speaker 1: I believe they did not get the win.
Speaker 2: Now they played the Lions, who just oh my on Christmas,
I you know, I had to watch with my family
that has a bunch of Bears fans, and boy did
they enjoy that one. Unfortunately, I lost all of my
Lions teasers. But now I'm gonna tease the Lions again
this week because I can't help myself.
Speaker 3: Teddy knocking sou so. My part of the number is
the Bears minus four and a half the markets open
one and a half slash two last night before the
and boy, there was various on this total. There were
forty eight and a half, there were forty nine and
a half, there were fifty and a halfs and everything
in between. What we're seeing today is Bears two and
a half, fifty and a half the prevailing total. There
are forty nine and a half's out there. And you know,
I mean for the Lions, they have an offensive line problem.
That's what the issue is. Down the stretch second Street week.
They couldn't run the football at all. If they can't run,
the offense doesn't work. Thirty carried sixty eight rushing yards,
you know, got through two picks, had five sacks, had
four fumbles. You know, the defense isn't getting stops. The
offensive can't stop, can't protect anything gough. You know. Obviously
six turnovers is an offensive line problem. That's what the
problem is. When you turn them all over six times,
it's on the ol you know. And of course they
had eight turnovers three weeks sixteen. That was the fewest
in the league. The starting left tackle deck Or Taylor
is ruled inactive one of more, you know, and he's
someone who status you want to check this week's Jarrett
goff about missing the playoffs. It sucks. Will reflecting the
whole seat after next week, but yeah, it sucks. As
for the Bears, I mean, the defense was aftutely gashed
by brock Purty. They did a pick six in the
first play of the game, but they're doing that every week.
This is the defense that's loaded with playmakers. That being said,
they couldn't get stops on third down, they couln't get
stops on fourth down, they couldn't get stop in the
red zone, and they came basically, you know, that was
a wild back and forth game where they came two
yards away from maybe winning the NFC. I do wonder
about Chicago's motivation here, clearly sort of the betting markets.
With the Bears only late in two and a half,
I would expect Johnson and company the name starters and oh,
by the way, to sit some starters. And by the way,
the first winning between the two teams this year was
probably the best game the Lions played with you know,
they annihilated Chicago. Different story now, obviously late in the season,
but I'm playing outdoors. But when it comes to a
team that appears to match up well with another one.
Detroit has matched up well with the Bears of Late Teddy.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna let you talk about this Jets defense
that you already alluded.
Speaker 1: To and how poor they are.
Speaker 2: But you know what it looked really poor yesterday was
the Bills offensively. I was not impressed at all with
that team. Is that more of a testament to the
Eagles defense or was it just a really bad off
game for the Bills.
Speaker 3: Well, the fact that there was a forty mile a
hour win and there was sleep driving everyone's face certainly
had something to do with you, You know, the offensive
struggles for Buffalo, and Buffalo did everything right to win
the game at the end. Josh Allen is just human.
He missed a pass that they'll make. You know, Josh
Allen hits that two point conversion pass. I don't know
about ninety nine out of one hundred, but ninety five
out of one hundred, they'll hit that pass. You just
missed it yesterday at the end of it, I mean,
and afterwards he was passed. They kept on the cameras
kept on flashing, and Josh Allen the bench, and they
kept on dropping f bombs every time they flashed, and
they don't flash over. They flashed two minutes later. You
know he was really he was kicking stuff and you
want your quarterback that man. I liked it. I like
that competitive fire from Josh Jallen powering number Bills minus seventeen.
It's ball game against the Jets. Got the Jets power
rated pretty low right now. The market's open eleven eleven,
eleven and a half and forty last night nothing but
Jets money. We're seeing eight and a halfs now thirty
nine and a half. We don't know what we're gonna
see from the Bills this week. I know we're gonna
see from the Jets. And that's a defense that just
can't get stops, you know. I mean they fired defense
warner Steve Wilks. And it doesn't matter. You have a
touchdowns in the first six series. Yesterday, you have a
touchdown in the first three series. I believe each of
the previous three games. Aaron Glenn quote. I always talk
about it. We come out and play with effort. Today
was probably the one time I feel like I ever
wasn't as good as I would want it to be.
And that's just me. Not bsing you guys. Of course,
there's rumors swirling about Glenn's job security right now. The
Jets have been outscored by one hundred and seven points
in December, all four losses coming by at least twenty
three points, only the second team in the Super Bowl
era to lose four straight games by twenty three points
or more. They joined the nineteen seventy two New England
Patriots in that regard. I think they were the Boston
Patriots back then. You know, they've had two straight season
with multiple losing streaks of at least four games. They're
playing with an undrafted rookie free agent as their quarterback.
I'm not expecting the Jets in Week eighteen to show
up play great game. That being said, the Patriots, you know,
I mean, there's sorry the Bills. They clinched the playoff
berth already. They dropped to the number seven seed when
the fourth quarter rally went shorge. They were shut off
for fifty five minutes yesterday. You know, Josh Allen Coote,
it just comes down to I was executing making one
more play than they did. Obviously, we saw that we
didn't make that last play. I didn't make that last play.
At least he took it on himself worth noting, lots
of injuries for Buffalo and they're gonna be starting the
postseason on the road, you know, Terrelle Bernard got hurt,
the Kwan Jones and Jordan Phillips and Jordan poyerd didn't play,
Dalton Kincaid missed another game. Anyone who's got any lingering
injuries for Buffalo is likely to sit in this ballgame.
Next week's game a thousand times more important than this
week's game. So if the Jets have anything in them,
And again, why are we seeing Jets money from eleven
and a half down eight and a half because Buffalo
ain't got nothing to play for. And in theory, in theory,
if Aaron Glenn wants this job again next year, it's
supposed to be a spot where the Jets show up.
Speaker 2: Okay, don't tease the Buffalo Bills. That's what I heard
from Teddy right there. Can't help myself sometimes, All right,
let's keep this.
Speaker 1: One moving along.
Speaker 2: And the NFL could not have scripted this one better.
The Ravens taking on the Steelers for the AFC North
in a coveted playoff spot.
Speaker 1: Kind of funny.
Speaker 2: How this one ended up playing out for a raven
team that has just been decimated all season long, Teddy,
I don't know what to make of this Ravens team
for a better part of the season. I was frustrated
if I had money on them. I did end up
teasing them, of course, versus the Packers, and they ran
Derrick Henry. Just seems so easy.
Speaker 1: Just run Derek and you're gonna win football games.
Speaker 3: My powering number is Baltimore minus one. At Pittsburgh. The
markets open three and forty two and a half last night,
we're seeing today three and a half popping up. We're
seeing threes with juices. There is a lot of support
for the Ravens, even though my powering number says it
should like you should be looking at the Pittsburgh side
of this equation. Why the support for Baltimore. Lamar Jackson
is expected to play. He got ruled out just for
a kickoff on Saturday, but Lamar Jackson is supposed to
be back for this one. Derrick Henry thirty six for
two sixteen. That's a shitload of carries for late December
and his career high in that regard. Do you want
your aging running back off of thirty six effort this
late in the year. You know, Ravens coach John Harbaugh
quote one of the greatest performances they've ever seen. You know,
they had thirty first downs, ten or fourteen on third downs,
plus two in turnovers. Their sports are gonna win that game.
The defense for Baltimore, by the way, still all out
eight point two yards per play. That's not good. As
for Pittsburgh, though I wrote this, I wrote hit in
my note from the Steelers Jess Say quote, remember this
for the playoffs if necessary. Aaron Rodgers in Cole versus
a good pass rush is bet against quarterback four point
three yards per play against versus Cleveland, he got only
sacked twice, But Aaron Rodgers wasn't interested in being hit.
Was the ex actually hanging tough in the pocket. And
right now they're without DK Metcalf. You know he's got
the two game suspension. The tight end Darnold Washington has
been a monster for Rodgers and the Steelers passing game.
He broke his arm last week or yesterday. He's not
gonna play. Calvin Austin's got a hamstering issue. He's sitting.
You know, he had Marcus Valdez Scantling and Adam Thielen,
two guys that can't separate when they're the number three
receiver that we're trying to separate yesterday, and obviously they
struggled in the passing game. Oer for three on fourth downs.
Mike Tomlin quote, I don't think we played poorly. I
thought the game was kind of unfolding in a way
that you would anticipate, but we never made that signature
play that kind of got us over the hump. Aaron
Rodgers quote, I have full confidence we'll go home and
win next week. We've handled diversity well and we've had
to play our best ball. We did other than today,
so you know, Pittsburgh's confident. Rodgers is someone who I've
got my concerns about. But Baltimore the markets part of
my expresion. The markets had a hard run for Baltimore
all year. It had a nice little payoff for them
mid season. But this number to me feels a little
bit high.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, Teddy, of course they have Baltimore was
right up there in the mix to win the Super Bowl.
Yet again, we expect those postseason pitfalls from this team,
not in October.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I get why Ariel Epstein is reeling
right now.
Speaker 2: But that team is very frustrating, especially from a well,
we'll call it is a favorite perspective, Teddy. Before we
keep it going in the AFC North, let everybody know
what to expect from you to partner up throughout the
rest of the NFL season. We've got Week eighteen, we've
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We're gonna be right here on the Wager Talking YouTube
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Speaker 1: Monday with you guys.
Speaker 2: But Teddy, what what should people that are looking to
partner up with you expect?
Speaker 1: Are you?
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a futures bet? Do you have a certain thing you
like to look for in the playoffs? Kind of break
it down so that if people want to join you,
they know what they're gonna get.
Speaker 3: It's real simple, all right. What are you gonna get
is sides and totals every week. You know, I'm not
a huge prop guy. If you want a bunch of
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That's my area of expertise in the NFL leans on
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And for many betters, the reason that they win or
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Speaker 2: Teddy I know we're trying to get through week eighteen,
but now you got me in triggued.
Speaker 1: Do you have any futures pending left.
Speaker 3: For anything we see the wins?
Speaker 1: No super Bowl futures, no nothing, correct.
Speaker 3: I think I've got some division title stuff I have
to look at. I didn't look at it last night.
But the futures that I bet or I never. I
don't like the bets that one team wins and thirty
one teams lose, all right, I don't like those bets.
I like the bet where it's two choices.
Speaker 1: You know, it makes sense to me.
Speaker 2: Let's stay in the AFC North brown Shooter Sanders two
interceptions yesterday, but they got the job done.
Speaker 1: Bengals. Are we gonna see Joe Burrow for four quarters here?
Speaker 3: So the Marcus don't? The market seem to think so?
And I from the quotes yesterday, I thought so. Two
my priworing numbers since he minus eight, the markets opened
seven and forty four and a half last night. We're
seeing seven and a half's out there and forty five today,
and those are Joe Burrow is gonna play type of
numbers you talk about, you do or Standers? Sanders was
this good or better than Aaron Rodgers yesterday? You know,
the offfensive line kent open holes for the running game.
They had won rushing first down all day, and I
think that came in a Sanders scramble. But they still
won the game, which is a credit to their defense
and the credit to not screwing up too much even
with the standers two pick his quote. It felt good
getting win overall, especially with the team we won against.
I think it's been bittersweet because I feel like the
offense we got to do our part. I got to
do my part a bit more. I can't be happy
with only thirteen points on the board. It's a mature
quote in that regard. That's for Cincinnati. I mean Chase
Brown one hundred yards rushing, Joe Burrow three hundred yards
passing thirty seven points. This is what this offense was
supposed to look like. Same story in the Miami game
the previous week. You know, this offense scored thirty plus
for the last five weeks. They just said that one
shot out of Baltimore that kind of ruined their season.
You know, twenty nine to twelve, first down edge, five
to five in the red zone, forty one minutes of possession.
I mean, what's the most frustrating as a better you hate?
This makes me crazy. You're stopping first down, you're stopping
second down, and then you can't get off the field
and third and long, you know not different coaches and
since the ten to fifteen on third down, one on
one on fourth down, Zach Taylor quote, he's playing like
I know Joe to play. It's fun to watch. We
all just want to finish the season the right way.
Last year, the Bengals were four and eight. They closed
out the season on a five game winning streak to
finish nine and eight. This year, the Bengals were four
and ten. They won back to back games, and they
appear to be very interested in this one. I do
expect Burrow to suit up, so to the betting markets.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 2: I got the answer I needed, and that means I
have permission to tease the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 1: He didn't say it, guys, but I know that's what
that means.
Speaker 2: Let's go to the Dallas Cowboys at the New York Giants.
Cowboys got it done on Christmas at least, and the
teasers that back door was open and that was like
a sleep sleepwalking second half. As I mentioned, the New
York Giants went to Las Vegas, and you know, I
got a text from Buddy and he's like, Kelly, one
quarterback here cares and the other doesn't.
Speaker 1: I gotta would agree with that.
Speaker 2: Jackson Dark showed that he cared yesterday. He wants to
win for his team. They didn't care that the New
York Giants wonted the overall pick. But I don't know,
talk to me about this one here. The Cowboys essentially
not to play for the New York Giants, definitely nothing
to play for.
Speaker 3: Look, sorry, my powering number has Dallas minus three and
a half. The market's opened five slash five and a
half and fifty two last night. Looking at the Odds
logic live outstream right now, I'm seeing five and a half,
a couple of five still out there, fifty two and
a half the prevailing total. Dak Prescott, you know talking
about you know, he got sex six times, got hurried
eleven times by Washington, but first time all year, eating
complete sixty percent of his passes. But from everything that
Prescott's saying, quote, there's a big difference between finishing eight
eight and one versus seven to nine in one. Not
just for people that have Dallas futures. We talked about earlier.
Dak Prescott quote, a lot of pride, and I think
that's another reason I want to play in the season
of me being healthy. I've never had in all my
life career a season under five hundred. That tie is
going to come into play. Really well, it's a huge difference.
It's one of those things. It's just pride. It's pride. Honestly,
winning helps everything. Just finishing off a win two of
them would be great for us. Of course, Prescott's owned
the Giants fourteen straight wins for Dallas. Against the g Men,
they needed a overtime a sixty four yard field goals
the course overtime when they won in Week two. But
Dallas it certainly appears to take this game seriously. And
of course, the Cowboys coming off a game where they
ran eighty seven off of the plays to forty one
for opponents for the Washington that ballgame. Brian Schottenheimer quote,
I never worry about these guys effort. I really don't.
These guys are built differently, man. I had no question
we come up and play hard. I thought, we're hitting
on all similars offensively early on. The markets expect Dallas
to show up, play hard in this ballgame, like three
in a row. I was reading these Jackson Dark quotes
about how we never had a losing streak like this,
and every week he said he wanted to win a game.
And now yesterday they won a game. You know, Mike
Kafka got his first win as an interim head coach.
They had one hundred and fifty five yards in the
ground and no turnovers. Defense had four sacks. I'll give
up ten points. That's how you win. That being said,
now they're coming off of wins, this exhale spot for
the g men. The markets seemed to think, so nothing
but Dallas money. And again my powering number says three
and a half. The marketers are at five and a
half here. And still even with that discrepancy, I can
only look at the Dallas side of the equation.
Speaker 2: All right, Commanders at the Eagles, I mentioned the Commanders, well,
had a fighting shot there in the second half of
that game on Christmas also Eagles. I thought it was
a crazy second half. I'll just leave it at that. Teddy,
there was a stack going around. That was basically like
Jalen Hurts did not complete a pass and they still
won the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, powering number here is. I'm sorry we were at
Washington Philly, but I got Philly minus twelve as a
powering number. The marketers at seven and a half and
forty two and a half last night, and we're seeing
eight and eight and a half and nines as we speak,
even nine and a half in prominent global books. So
there has been Philly money that makes it closer to
my priory number than the initial number. Initial align on
this boggame. And I think it has to do with
nobody wants but peop look concerned about Washington. You know
what again, Dallas ran eighty seven plays Washington ran forty one.
You know that's that's the Washington defense. Doves get extra rest.
They played Thursday on Christmas Day, and you know, with
Josh Johnson a tenth career start, first since twenty twenty one,
they moved to football Debo's playing, mclaurin's playing to Ja
Cory Krosky Merritt's playing. They gave eight point six yards
per carry. You know that's not quick teams type of number.
Of course, that might have something to do with Dallas's defense.
That being said, I mean the Phillies Eagles didn't get
twenty yards of offense in the second half on the
road versus Super Bowl contender the week after Clinton Division title.
They had won first down in five punts after halftime,
but they still won the game. It still speaks vous
about the defense. And when we're looking at this year
where many of the top content have been eliminated or
don't look as good, Phillies are defending champs. Man, they
deserve to be Super Bowl favorites. They must be the
super Bowl favorite or the team, you know, with the
lowest odds going to the postseason. Nick Sirianni quote, winnings
hard in this league. I'm always going to enjoy a
win nine to zero straight up. This season went Hurts
throws for fewer than two hundred yards. It tells us
the last thing Philly wants to do is be in shootouts,
and yesterday's game certainly wasn't that. That being said, how
much the Eagles have to play for this week, We'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a little nervous because in my splash contest
I have them available for survivor and I'm thinking, Oh,
I don't know if I really want to use that
team or not. Saints been rocking and rolling Teddy since
you and I spoke about them on the show. Titans
yesterday could not get it down with a valiant effort.
They now take on the Falcons, who played tonight on
Monday Night Football.
Speaker 3: Yeah, powering number here is Atlanta minus two. I saw
two and a half and forty threes out there last night.
Obviously Atlanta plays this evening, so how the Falcons look
tonight is likely to affect where this what direction this
point spread moves between now and kickoff. You know, there's
no path for Atlanta to win the NFC South even
they win the last two games. There's six and nine.
They're currently sitting in the number twelve seed. Panthers and
the Bucks tie. Carolina still wins it with any tiebreaker,
and they have the better divisional record than Atlanta. So
it's playing out the string for the Falcons. Although I
only play out the string. You don't mind beating a
divisional opponent, but anysterious in the imagination. As for the Saints,
clients and I cast a five percent big ticket with
New Orleans yesterday. It was not the right side, but
it got there. They're playing and winning football two and
ten start now four and oh the last four. Yesterday
they came from behind to win on the road. Tyler
Shuck back to back three hundred yard games. Pro Bowl
stat line twenty two to twenty seven, three thirty three,
twelve point three yards per past, the two touchdowns, no picks.
The team on offense eight point one yards per play.
The defense allowed four point seven. They overcame a turnover
in the end zone. You know, Chase youngis sack fumble
six on camp Ward and it's working. I like the
quotes from the other team talking about the one team,
Titans guard Peter s Keronsky talking about the Saints as
an example of how to bounce back. Quote, they didn't
get down to themselves. They came back and moved the
football in the fourth quarner and got the lead. We've
got to be able to respond to that. Of course,
celto throwing Tennessee under the bus. But the Saints right
now are a team that's playing well above their power rating.
They have been for weeks, and who's been backing them
has been making good money with New Orleans.
Speaker 2: All right, A few more games to go. Let's hit on,
let me get my notes ready to go. Broncos, Chargers,
Teddy Cardinals.
Speaker 1: H yes, I'm sorry, Cardinals. Rams up next.
Speaker 2: Rams currently sitting at a six week Monday night football.
They play tonight. Now, what do they need to play
for against the Cardinals.
Speaker 3: So that's a good question. Well no, well no, after tonight?
Speaker 1: Got it? Okay? Confused? I apologize, guys.
Speaker 3: That's fine. My powering number again. Rams at full strength,
Carlo's at full strength is LA fifteen. The market's open
thirteen and a half and fifty last night thirteen and
a half. The markets went give me Arizona nine and
a half right now for LA And obviously we'll see
how much they have to play for based on the
results of tonight's ballgame, But the markets seem to think
win or lose, it's not a big issue for the
Rams next week. You know, they're currently the number six
seed because San Francisco won. There would be the fifth
seed if they lost, and the number five sheet is
worth something because then you get to face the Bucks
Panthers winner. That's the lowest ranked playoff team in either conference.
So the five set in the NFC is worth fighting for.
But again when we talk about players, players don't care.
They don't. That's for Arizona. I mean, thirteen carriers for
forty two yards per set got stacked four times. This
office of line isn't even holding up against Cincinnati, which
is bad news against la who's got a pretty good DL.
And again, you know they couldn't get stops on third down.
They couldn't get stops on fourth down. Fifth time in
the last eight games, all losses for Arizona. They'd give
it up thirty seven points or more. And the only
bright spot was Trey McBride said the NFL record for
most receptions by a tight end a single season, which
is worth nothing to the betting marketplace, no betting implications.
I shouldn't even mention it.
Speaker 2: All right, Broncos Chargers, Teddy, I know we're up against it.
Give me ninety seconds on this one.
Speaker 3: Powering number Denver minus two. The markets opened. There were
sevens last night, seven and a halfs. There were eight
and a half, there were six and a halfs. The
total was the thirty eight and a half, thirty nine,
thirty nine and a half, forty forty and a half.
When you see that type of variance on a Sunday night. Man,
it doesn't matter which side you like. Sometimes you just
make a bet like I could. Let's take them in
as the number. Now we're seeing seven and a half
eight out there for Denver, thirty nine to forty revealing total,
so there's still a favor of variance. You know, Denver
held Casey to three point three yards per play, one
hundred and thirty nine total yards, twenty minutes of possession.
You know, they won the NFC AFC West title already.
And for the Chargers, they got out game by more
than the yard per play. They had five red zone
trips on the score, two touchdowns. There's still seven to
two straight up their last nine, but lots of injuries
for La still and the markets not convinced. The Chargers
are going to be playing everyone in this game at Denver.
Denver neath this wind to lock up the number one seed.
The Chargers don't need it for anything. They need to
get held Denver.
Speaker 2: Broncos and Teasers, thank you for confirming that, Teddy Covers.
Speaker 1: Let's get this last game going.
Speaker 2: Here before Andy Lang and Dan Alexander here on wager
Talk today. Teddy Titans we mentioned try to put up
a valiant effort but failed. Jags get the win, but
no cover. No, I take that back. They did end
up covering late yesterday. That is right, Jacksonville lay in
a huge number here.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, if you had the Jags yesterday rather for two,
it is cover in that regard. He did not look
like you were the right side at any point in
that ball game until the end. My party number has
the Jags thirteen against the Titans. The markets are sitting
at eleven and a half, twelve, twelve and a half
right now, and of course the Jaggs enter Week eighteen
live for the number one seed in the AFC. Liam
Cohen is live for Coach of the Year. Could have
two first year coaches winning because Ben Johnson's probably live Chicago,
Rabel's probably gonna win, but still Liam Cohen is live
in that regard. Defense playing well three point seven yards
for play a while they forced two turnovers, they're not
two sacked. They ran the football on hundred yards on
the ground, but in the four yards per carry, and
Trevor Lawrence looks like the guy we thought he was
gonna be. His Jacke with an on overall pick his quote.
We're a very confident group. We feel like why not us,
feel like it should be us. We got to go
out and finish the job next week against Tennessee. It's
a huge game, a division game to win the AFC South.
We've got the CONFI I said, when we play well,
we can beat anyone who cares, who thinks who is
the best team. Wicks every chance to prove it, will
have our shot. Liam Cohen last quote. I know we're
running out of time, but I have to give this
quote quote. We haven't addressed making the playoffs as a team.
We haven't talked about goals, about the division, the conference,
the super Bowl, none of that. We're focused on being
one zero this week and keeping the mindset as singular
as we can. Those are bet On quotes for Jacksonville
against the bottom feeder the final week of the season.
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