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Speaker 1: It's time for a margarita, all right, Not yet. First,

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we've got a preview Week eighteen up next on bet

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On It. Happy New Year from all of us here

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at Wager Talk. I'm ready to get this party started.

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Marco D'Angelo, Yanni the Great. It is week eighteen in

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college football. We've got some games that are relevant, We've

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got some games that are irrelevant. So I'm gonna throw

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you guys for a loop. I asked Teddy Covers this

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on the opening line report on Monday. He gave me

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a pretty good answer, But I want to hear your opinions. Marco,

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how do you navigate week eighteen. I'm over here trying

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to put in Eagles and Survivor. As I just leave

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the hair salon, I get this text, Hey, there's still

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some plus seven on the Commanders. Eagles gonna rest their stars.

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I pull over on the side of the road. I'm

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putting in a plus seven minus one twenty bet Now

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I'm going, oh wait, I don't know if I want

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to use Eagles and Survivor, and it put my mourning

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into a tail spin.

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Speaker 2: So let our audience know how you.

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Speaker 1: Are navigating week eighteen, because this is a never changing market, right,

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this is not you know, you've been handicapping since before

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I've been alive. We're eighteen in the nineties was different,

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We're eighteen in the two thousands is different in twenty

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twenty five. How on planet Earth do you handicap with

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all of this information that is readily available to everybody else.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, delly, And that's first thing I'll say to

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the survivor point of it. And this is why I

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don't play Survivor. I don't do well in Survivor because

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my whole life is geared around handicapping games with point spreads.

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And in theory, what you did is you save a

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good team for the end of the season. The problem is,

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if you truly do have a good team when you

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get to the last week of the season, more often

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than not, they're not gonna need that game. That's a problem.

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Now from a handicapping standpoint, with point spreads, we look

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at the last week of the season. Vegas knows that

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the public knows who needs to win. You hear the

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must win scenarios all the time. You're gonna pay a

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tariff for every one of those must win situations, So

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be careful blindly betting teams that have to win because

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they just have to win. There's no style points, you

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don't need style points. They just have to win. And

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sometimes they tighten the news a little bit where they

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play to win, you know, not to lose, instead of

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playing to win. And that's not something you want when

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you're laying extra points. But when you do get games

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and there's a few of them this week where the

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two teams that are playing one another have the same goal,

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then you know that's, you know, a regular game, that's

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a game you can handicap with confidence. One last tip

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for you on the games that don't mean squat do not.

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I try to stay away from playing unders in those

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games because the final week of the season, teams that

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don't have anything to play for, and it has to

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be both teams, oftentimes it ends up looking like an

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All star game. Nobody's playing defense. They're just out there.

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They don't want to get hurt, they want to finish

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the season out and they're having like a school yard

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pickup game in the backyard. You'll see points in those games.

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Those are my tips for week eighteen.

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Speaker 1: VR from the Wise Guy perspective. Power ratings mean the

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world right. But power ratings do not quantify situations.

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Speaker 2: So break it down how the wise guys are looking

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at Week eighteen.

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Speaker 1: We have got, i'm would say, a nice handful of games,

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and we're gonna get into those games here coming up,

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but there are.

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Speaker 2: Six games that mean nothing.

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Speaker 4: You got to be very selective, like that's the bottom line,

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because there's just going to be so much randomness to

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those outcomes. And whenever that's the case, you keep going

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further out on that risk curve, but you're not getting

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any added return. You're still laying eleven to ten. That's

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the bottom line. That's why you got to be very cautious.

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And more times than not, very few of us are

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ever going to get out ahead of the information. So

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the sportsbook's already going to have factored any of the

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important information into the betting line. As we say, it's

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already baked into the cake. So knowing this team has

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to win becomes irrelevant. Knowing this team's playing for seating

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position becomes irrelevant. The difficulty is, how do you quantify that?

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What does that work to the betting line? None of

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us know. That's where it becomes a guessing game, and

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anytime you're guessing you're in the disadvantaged position. You're not

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betting from any position to strength. So I urge recreational

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betters to be very elective this week. It's the final week.

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Next week we'll be talking playoffs and everybody will be motivated.

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You've had sixteen, seventeen, eighteen weeks to make money. There's

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still money available in this final week. But you've got

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to be selective. That's the key, and more importantly, try

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to take advantage of the overreactions, because that's what's going

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to happen if you don't get out ahead of the information.

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The best way to take advantage of it is the

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overreaction to the information. For myself, that's what I'm doing,

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and most of the groups that i'm moving for I

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expect the same thing because I'm not seeing much action.

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Like it's already what Wednesday, And I think I have

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one premium I gave out to subscribers and I'm happy

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with that. We've made a lot of profit in twenty

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twenty five, no reason to give it back. So yes,

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stay selective, pick your spots, and take advantage of the overreactions.

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We always think players are worth more than they are weather,

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it's more pertinent than it is. That's that's my approach

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on this final week.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go to you first here on

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some of these meaningful games. Saturday, four thirty pm. Panthers

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two and out point favorites at the Bucks total forty

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four and a half. We all know I got that

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Panthers four to one ticket, and no, I'm not hedging

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that was something I put in earlier to start the season.

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Speaker 2: Marco D'Angelo. In fact, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Gonna double down. I'm gonna tease the Panthers here. But

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it does make me a little nervous because I know

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VR is on the other side with the Buccaneers.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I think this is a line based on a ton

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of recency bias, and I understand the argument. Tampa Bay

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is a team of two seasons, right, they looked really

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good early on of late, they can't get anything right,

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So if you zoom out, it looks like obviously Tampa's designed.

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But recency bias is why I'm seeing the public money

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starting to come in on Carolina. Why this line isn't three,

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Because the bottom line is we're getting Tampa Bay at

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a huge discount based on how bad they've played of late.

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Speaker 5: Let's not forget.

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Speaker 4: Not only have they lost four straight games, they were

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favored in every single one of those games, so the

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market expected them to win.

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Speaker 5: They underperformed. But here's the beauty.

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Speaker 4: Dig a little deeper, and what you're fined is every

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one of those losses came by one score. They lost

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by three at Miami, they lost by three at Carolina,

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they lost by one to Atlanta, and they lost by

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ford to New Orleans.

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Speaker 5: If they would have just gone two and two in

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those games.

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Speaker 4: Or if they would have got lucky and let four

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to o in those games, what would this line be

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against Carolina right now?

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Speaker 5: Even if they would have won the three.

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Speaker 4: And lost that game against Carolina, what would this line

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have been. Let's not forget just December twenty first, Right

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December twenty first, Tampa Bay was a three point favorite

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in Carolina. They are now the two and a half

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point juice favorite at home. There's a ton of recency

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bias there. More importantly, power ratings. That's what I stick

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to Tampa Bay. I have them right now seventeenth in

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my power ratings. I have Carolina twenty ninth in my

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power ratings. So only three teams worse than Carolina. Again,

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this number.

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Speaker 5: Is recency bias.

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Speaker 4: To the max, and we'll take advantage of that by

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taking the much better Tampa Bay team that's had a

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tough string of schedule.

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Speaker 5: Top fifteen offense, top twenty defense.

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Speaker 4: When I look at Carolina, only two teams are less

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efficient offensively, they're barely in the top twenty defensively. Take

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Tampa Bay lay the two and a half. They win

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this game easily, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Marco DiAngelo?

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Speaker 1: Another game that might have some implications from a NFC

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and or Super Bowl perspective. Let's go to Saturday night,

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eight pm. The Seahawks now one and a half point

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favorites at the Niners forty nine and a half, and

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surprise surprise, Kelly wants to tease the Niners.

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Speaker 3: Surprise surprise. And that's no surprise, Kelly. You know where

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I'm gonna go in this one. And I know right

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now the flavor of the month, and it changes every week.

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You know, there's a new darling, and that darling is

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the forty nine ers. And why not you look at

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what they've done. They've won six in a row. Oh wait,

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guess what so has Seattle? But The difference is San

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Francisco is doing it by scoring a ton of points.

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Everybody loves teams that score, and that's what the forty

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nine Ers are. This is a team that has scored

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twenty six or more points in seven of their last

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eight games. In their last three games, they've scored forty two,

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forty eight, and thirty seven points. And you know, everybody

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saw that game Sunday night against the Bears. What an

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epic Sunday night game that was as both teams went

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up and down the field in that one. I can't

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do it because as good as their offense is, the

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problem is they're having to score those points because they're

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giving up the points. And in fairness, you know, I've racked.

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You know, we've made our comments about Chicago this year,

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and I full disclosure, I was on Chicago last week

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against the forty nine ers. But the forty nine Ers

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have not played a tough defense in the last three weeks.

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I know, Chicago leads the league in turnovers, that's about it.

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They needed those turnovers to stay in the games because

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they give up a lot of yards. I am going

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with this defense of the Seahawks, and look at it

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they're the favorite on the road. If San Francisco everybody's

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in love with them, why did Vegas make them a

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home underdog in this game. That's a very telling point

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to start this game, knowing that there's gonna be a

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ton of teasers coming in taking them up over the touchdown.

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A lot of sharp players just are gonna tease numbers, Kelly,

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and that's the number that you're supposed to tease. I

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like the defense of Seattle. They're, you know, top three

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for me in the NFL this year. I'm gonna ride them. Yes,

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I know we gotta worry which Sam Donald are we

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gonna get. But let's be honest. We all talk about

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Sam Donald, and you know the New York Jets. Sam Donald, Well,

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he's played two years now since that, and look at

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what he's done. He had two bad games last year.

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Unfortunately it was the final two of the season, the

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regular season finale and then the playoff game, and then

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he had that bad game against the Rams the first

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time when he threw the four interceptions, but in the

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Rams happened to be two of those three bad games.

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I look for him to have a good game here.

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And the key is they can run the football, give

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me Seattle ball control, better defense. I'm gonna go ahead

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and take them to get the job done. They'll both

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be in the playoffs. It's going to be Seattle with

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the number one seed.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little bit more about seating on

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Sunday night at four twenty five pm.

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Speaker 2: The Lions another.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful team that I'd like to tease at the Bears

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fifty and a half, but.

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Speaker 2: I know you guys don't want me to sit here

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and talk about teasers.

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Speaker 1: But they've done so well this year except for that

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Lions team last week, and of course the Rams, they

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were absolutely and utterly pitiful as road favorites.

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Speaker 2: Now we're asking the Lions to just go in and

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beat the Bears.

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Speaker 1: Remember that team that they just absolutely smoked to start

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the season. Boy, oh boy, would Chicago loved to get

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that one back. Lions have won six of the last

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seven against the Bears, including that week two fifty two

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to twenty one ass whooping gamble against a former offensive

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coordinator and Ben Johnson. This one couldn't have been written

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better by the NFL script writers.

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Speaker 2: And right now, Chicago.

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Speaker 1: They clinched the NFC North last week, and they can

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the NFC. Lions have been absolutely reeling. What is the saying, Oh,

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they don't lose two games in a row, but this

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one is a little disrespectful. You've got Bears wide receiver

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rom A Dunzie, Luther Burden, and the third one I'm

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not even gonna try to pronounce.

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Speaker 2: All listed is questionable.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys heard this through the grapevine,

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but the gold Sheet was talking about how Chicago was

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battling the flu there versus San Francisco on Sunday night

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and members of the team actually had to travel separately. Right,

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So here we are headed back to Soldier Field, with

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Detroit a little extra time to prep for this one

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after playing on Christmas. I don't know, I think the

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Lions getting a little too frisky here with the field goal.

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Bears and survivor, so I think I will not use

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them as my second one. Like I'm actually probably going

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to pivot and use the Chiefs. But we'll get to

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that game never. We're not going to break down that

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god awful one for you.

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Speaker 2: Guys.

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Speaker 1: We've got some other fun ones to bring you here,

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Marco DiAngelo.

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Speaker 2: Before we get into those, can.

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Speaker 1: You let everybody know, speaking of pivoting, we're pivoting from

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Christmas to New Year's here at wager talk dot com.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Kelly, we had that special that we or closed

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out twenty twenty five with where you can get Exmus

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you were able to get something to start the new year.

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Speaker 5: So what do we do.

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Speaker 3: We're extending through Friday, New twenty five. Just type in

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that's a daily package, a weekly package, monthly package. You

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really want to save money, grab your favorite capper and

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buy them for the year at a twenty five percent discount. Guys,

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you've watched the show all year. You know what VR

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and myself have done for you on the show. Grab

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one of us for the season, or grab both of us.

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What a one two punch that would be for you

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for twenty twenty six. But it's good on any caper.

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There's no limit. You can use that cube punt as

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many times as you want through Friday. Take advantage of

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it New twenty five Kelly, that's the special this week.

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Speaker 1: Marco is very humble in that he and VR have

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absolutely rocked this year.

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Speaker 2: I just couldn't figure out the best bet, barking dog.

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They just didn't.

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Speaker 1: They just didn't want to get along. I couldn't ever

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just win both. That being said, you guys shoud jump

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in the comment section, give us that like full thumbs

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up action. Tell us you love us, tell us you

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hate us, and.

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Speaker 2: We will get back to you.

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Speaker 1: Because I'm on everybody's ass on Wader talking about the

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comment section these days.

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Speaker 2: All right, VR, you're up first. You have a total

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for us, and this is kind of interesting.

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Speaker 1: I don't mean to pin you two against each other,

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but Marco said, hey, two teams nothing to play for.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to play an under yet?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got to go under here and listen, I'm

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just going to be straight. I haven't gotten to the window.

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I know you guys love when I say that, but

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I haven't gotten to the window with this. I did

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get to the window with Tampa Bay, the game I

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covered earlier that was a four percent to subscribers we

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got down at minus two and a half, a little

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bit juice going to be selective again. We've made a

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lot of money in NFL, number one in regular season,

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number one in college football. No reason to bleed any

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of that back. But value is going to open up

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between now and Sunday, So rest the short We'll have

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a lot more bets, but just let the market take form.

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Right now, most of the focus is on the college

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football with the playoffs coming up New Year's Eve, New

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Year's Day, so a lot of these lines will move

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in the NFL, so give us a break. On the show,

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We're trying to share as much information as possible, but

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lines are going to move later in the day when

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something to play for. So that's why we've used the

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condensed version of the show. Please give us a break there.

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Throughout the season, we've done as much as we can

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to give as much quality, actionable information as possible until

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we get to the playoffs, and then we resume. With

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that said, let's go under in Cleveland and Cincinnati. And

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here's why.

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Speaker 5: Number One, if you look at the series, it's been

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an under series when these two teams play.

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Speaker 4: That's why this line is lower than what's expected based

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on what they've done recently.

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Speaker 5: Just look at the high scoring for both of these.

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Speaker 4: Teams of late, and I think that's why we're looking

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at higher total than otherwise would be because just based

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Speaker 5: For both these teams.

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Speaker 4: You look at Cleveland, they're a top fifteen team believe

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it or not, defensively, and they've had a top ten

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strength of schedule. And with Cincinnati, it's the offensive side

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that's been their strength. But they're going up against a

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much tougher defense this week, and I think they're gonna

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have some trouble putting up points against Cleveland, something they

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haven't had problems doing the last few weeks. Cleveland it's

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the worst offense, that's the bottom line. There's no offense

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less deficient than Cleveland. And luckily for Cincinnati, that's where

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Speaker 5: Is on the defensive side of the ball.

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Speaker 4: So now they're going up against one of the weakest

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the weakest offenses. So I don't think Cincinnati is going

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to be giving up a lot of points like they have,

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so I expect a much lower scoring game from both

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these teams. We're going to go under forty four and

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a half. The only reason I haven't released the subscribers

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is I haven't seen the market reflect this. In fact,

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i've seen it creep up a little bit, so I

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just need to confirm it before I get to the window.

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But power rating wise, data wise, matchup wise, I do

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like the under. The only thing I do fear is

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what Marco said. Defense does take a lot more effort,

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and when you have nothing to play for, it's hard

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to give effort. But we're gonna go under that forty

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four and a half.

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Speaker 5: That's bad.

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Speaker 1: You guys can catch VR on his steam room this

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Sunday after last call, so we can get all.

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Speaker 2: Of that late steam from the wise guys.

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Speaker 1: You can also catch him Saturday with some college basketball

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with me as well eleven PM at eleven am Eastern

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on Saturday and Sunday. Every once in a while I

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get Marco D'Angelo to join me, but he's been riding

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the deli so high he doesn't feel like putting in

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an overtime for us. On the weekends, Marco are you

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gonna have a Deli video out this weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Kelly, And I've never said no whenever you've asked me.

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You just got to ask h this is a situation

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the Deli. What we did last week is we did

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do the Deli in depth and we gave you three games.

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It was out on Friday last week. And if you

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tuned in, even though a lot of comments didn't like

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the three games I put out, well we went three

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and oho and one of those was Cleveland over Mike

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Pittsburgh Steelers. And I explained why in that one, and

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I'm gonna explain in second when I give you my

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best bet why we're going to against Cleveland this week.

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But check out the Deli. It'll be up Friday morning

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early on wager Talk TV, and we will break down

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some games for you once again and tell you what's

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happening with my late telephone plays. Excuse me, boy, did

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I go be flashback to the nineties, our late web plays.

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Speaker 2: That are sixty years old?

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Speaker 1: Know exactly what Marco is talking about that remember.

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Speaker 3: The commercials when we were against Yeah, all right, well

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here we go. There was a flashback. But hey, you

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know what, Kelly, We're you know, we've you know, changed

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with the times, and we've had our one of our

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best seasons. So maybe something you can relate to him

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like a fine wine. Kelly, I get better with age,

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So check out the deli. We'll have some winners for

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you on Friday. For my best bet, we're gonna go

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to the same game that VR just talked about, Cincinnati

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and Cleveland. And for a lot of the things that

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VR set in there, it actually helps my play. He

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talked about Cincinnati being great offensively but not good defensively,

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and what is the weakness of Cleveland, Well that's moving

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the football. So that's going to bode well for me

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because what has not been a problem has been the

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Cincinnati offense. And ever since Joe Burrow returned, and that

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was five games ago on Thanksgiving Night he returned against Baltimore.

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If you remember, they've now put up thirty two or

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more points in four of the five games since he's returned.

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They're playing hard to build momentum for next year. And

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why are they playing hard Just the fact that Joe

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Burrow rushed his way back when they had virtually no

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shot at the playoffs. They were a team that was

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pure trash all season, but he wanted to come back.

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And if you heard that interview on Thanksgiving night, whenever

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he was asked why did you come back, he says,

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because I want to be out there with my guys

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and that's what a leader is. And they're playing hard.

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I am going to ride them this week offensively. I

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don't see Cleveland making enough stops to slow them down.

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Now the Cleveland side, one of the reasons why I

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don't see them making enough stops is Cleveland played their

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super Bowl last week. Yes, playing the Pittsburgh Steelers, denying

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them the AFC North on their home field was as

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big of a win as you could have for the

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Browns that have absolutely nothing to play for. And that's

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what I talked about on the Delhi last week. I

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told you guys, that's what was going to happen, and

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they did it. I don't see Cleveland coming to play. Yeah,

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you could say, oh, it's an in state rivalry. They

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don't care about Cincinnati, that is their third rival in

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the division. It's Pittsburgh first, then it's Baltimore because if

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you remember, Baltimore was the original Cleveland Browns in the

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franchise before they moved to Baltimore, and then it's Cincinnati.

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This is a game since he once, I'm gonna go

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ahead and lay it with Cincinnati. They are my best

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bet for the show this week. Let's go ahead and

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do it. And the other thing of Cleveland's defense as

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good as they were last week. Remember the Steelers were

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without dk Metcalf, who was their big source of offense

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in the passing game all year, and then their second

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source was Washington, the big tight end. Well, he broke

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his arm early in that game last week, so they

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had nobody to throw the football to last week. Go

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ahead and take Cincinnati. They go out on bring in

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the New Year with a win.

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Speaker 1: I'll take it because I just tease them with Ohio

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State for tonight.

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Speaker 2: Listen, do as I say, not as I do.

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Speaker 1: As Marco said, we missed the boat VR gave you

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guys Ohio State last week. It didn't matter. It already

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moved by the time I went to bet it, and

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I went a little action for New Year's Eve. Okay,

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so we're gonna break some rules. I do have my

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Winton teasers, so it's almost okay. It's not okay, but

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it's almost.

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Speaker 2: It's scars.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to have fun with your friends, you

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want to watch football.

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Speaker 2: That is correct. That is what I did last year.

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Speaker 1: I was over there sweating the Penn State game while

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everybody else was getting hammered, and I was like, nobody

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talked to me.

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Speaker 2: Uh, we had a great time. All right, let's get

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into this one.

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Speaker 1: I went back and forth on a couple of different

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games for best bets, and a lot of things have

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just really moved, probably too far out of whack.

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Speaker 2: I like the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: Initially, that one got absolutely obliterated after the Chargers said, hey,

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we probably don't care, right, So I'm looking for teams

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that care.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure Minnesota cares here, but Green Bay already

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locked into the number seven seed in the playoffs. They

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cannot move out of that spot no matter what happens

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this weekend.

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Speaker 2: The Packers also have lost three straight.

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Speaker 1: Injuries are mounting on both sides of the ball, particularly

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on the defensive side of the ball. It doesn't matter

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whether it's gonna be Malik Willis or Jordan Love, but

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I would like to think the Packers are not gonna

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trot Jordan Love back out there for this football game.

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I mentioned that banged up Packers defense. Yeah, the same

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one that allowed three hundred and seven rushing yards against

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the Ravens last week. You guys are gonna go Kelly.

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You can't lay almost a touchdown here with Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: Are you insane?

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Speaker 1: Max Brosmer had like fifty passing yards and got sacks

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seven times against the Lions and somehow sti't won this

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football game. Well, there's a good chance and maybe JJ McCarthy.

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We'll see what Kevin O'Connell has to say towards the

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end of the week. But this is one team limping

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into the playoffs, one team that would probably like to

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get a win over their divisional rival.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: I like Minnesota lay the six and a half. Green

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Bay is checked out at least until next week. If

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you're gonna check it out, it's that time. We're checking

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out until the wild card round of the playoffs. We're

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gonna take a little break, We're gonna regroup. We're gonna

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find you guys some more winners. Kelly Stewart, Janni, the

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Greek Marco DiAngelo. Until next week, make sure you guys

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check out that college football playoff video. Of course, Mega Show.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you then