Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody?
Speaker 2: Welcome into another episode of Profit Picks. If you are new,
we do always start to show by being transparent and
uh everything that whatever I won on Wednesday, I gave
it all back and a little bit. I went oh
and four yesterday, oh into in college, oh into in NBA.
So not a good day for me, and UH need
to do better, Fino. Hopefully yesterday was better for you.
Speaker 3: Got lucky ski in college football had a halftime play,
first half play on old miss up and over ten
and a half points field goal and the last play
of that half got it there. Split in college hoop
two and two, so I went three and two and
I had to postponed game. I had to play on
the Bulls game which had that moisture on the floor,
and it never got played, so that one was a push.
So three and two overall, small profit will take it.
Speaker 1: All right. We have a lot of games today.
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily have opinions on all of them, and
I did not make banners.
Speaker 1: Today, so I'll start at the top. You know, if
we don't have anything, we'll go quick.
Speaker 2: And you know we don't have the most time today either,
So I started the top New Orleans and Washington. It
is a game that's appellon to me. It opened minus
one and a half for the Pelicans, looks like minus
three or three and a half or two. It's all
over the place. We'll call it three for the Pelicans
right now. Total went up from two thirty nine and
a half to two forty two. And as far as
the injury report, Murphy's questionable, Alvarado's out, Sadee Bay out,
Herb Jones out, Murray out for Washington, Trey Young will
not be available with More's out, so we know there's
no more CJ. McCollum over there, no more Kisspert the Wizards.
They have been playing good basketball lately, Rob, you know,
I don't know. I wanted to think that that won't
continue very much and in their future, like this trade
that happened. I don't think they're too interested in winning
too many more games, you know. I think they'll be
very happy if they can get a nice draft pick
to go along with some of these young pieces and
Trey Young for next year. That makes me want to
bet the Pelicans. But I don't like the thought of
not having Trey Murphy. I think he's pretty important into
what they do. I do still feel like Repelicans can
win if he's not playing, but you know, to be
laying the price right here, right now on the road,
I would want to have him inn, so lean towards Pelicans.
What do you think about Heels and Wizards?
Speaker 3: Pretty much a grease skin, like you say, When I
looked at this game, that thought popped into my head.
We did talk off air yesterday about your view on
the remainder of Washington season, and like I say, that
popped into my head quick. I would almost like to
play the Washington side just because the number is where
it is, but I can't do it without CJ. McCollum,
veteran leadership and whatnot. I think that's a big minus
at this point in time. You mentioned the other side
where you have now I'm spazing on his name forty
two the other night though, when he played Trey Murphy.
So don't like either way. Looked at the total though
to forty two. To me, it could be an up
and down game. See a lot of points. New Orleans
has been that way. Washington not so much though as
of late, so that held me back. No play a
lot of ifs, a lot of maybes in this game,
but no real play.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, this is one where I'm gonna wait. If
Trey or if last win he gets rolled in or out,
that is when I'll probably make my decision. And if
it takes too long for him to get rolled in
or out because I'm getting my haircut and I can't
wait any longer, then I'm probably just gonna push the button,
because I do think the Wizards are not interested in winning.
Speaker 1: Philly and Orlando.
Speaker 2: Opened up one and a half for Philly looks like
four now total open two twenty six and a half
looks like two twenty seven as far as injuries, and
b have them listened as probable, but I should probably
refresh this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's probable.
Speaker 2: Orlando, you have Richardson questionable, no sugs, neither of the
Wagners and Castleton also out. This Magic team, Rob you know,
I've caught him pretty good the last couple of times,
and that's really how they've been playing. They've been just
winning one lose one win and one lose one. The
first thing that comes to my mind when I saw
these teams on the schedule today is I remember earlier
in the season, the Sixers got a spanking, an absolute
beat down by like forty to the Magic. So when
you lose by that big of a margin, you don't forget,
you know, they see the Magic tonight, they're gonna remember
that ass open they got robbed, you know.
Speaker 1: So I think that's motivation enough.
Speaker 2: As well as the Sixers playing good basketball right now.
Speaker 1: I mean they've won.
Speaker 2: I think they've either won or covered for the last
five game something like that. And the Magic, like I said,
they have been inconsistent, haven't been playing their best, and
they're unhealthy right now. So all of those things, fourth
game and six nights coming off an overtime game for
the Magic, I think the Sixers are the right side here.
Speaker 1: Anything from you on Sixers Magic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, completely agree. Here's ski the Magic schedule, and I
won't go into it in depth. With the Magic schedule
for three weeks now has been all over the place,
road for five games, back home for two, back on
the road for three, back home for one, play back
to backs this week, third and four nights. It's just
and they win the other night on a bank shot
with like a second left in the game in overtime.
So I don't know if they're quite ready to be
fully healthy. The other night was the first time Philadelphia
had everybody back, all their pieces on the floor. And
to your point about the earlier meeting, Orlando scored fifty
one points in the second quarter of that game, and
Philly does remember. It's been all over the place the
last couple of days as far as talk radio is concerned.
So I too like Philadelphia. It has shot up considerably
now from one to four seems like a big jump.
But Orlando's just not in good form right now, and
they have to be tired at this point in time.
Their schedule has just been brutal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we pretty much agree here. I'm just wanting
to make sure I feel like there was something else
I wanted to mention, but maybe, well, you know what,
the Magic. I'm looking at their free throw right allow,
Yet they have been following a lot. I definitely see
Maxie and them getting to the line, and the Sixers
been killing it in the mid range, and Magic had
been second worst defending the mid range lately. So a
lot of things just line up for me for the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Tonight, Raptors and Celtics. Here, Ralbno opened up eight and
a half. Looks like ten.
Speaker 2: We'll call it that total came down a little bit
from two twenty four. It came down more, but looks
like it came back up a little bit here. We'll
call it two twenty three and a half. As far
as the injuries, Scottie Barnes is doubtful, Ingram is questionable.
Ya coperdos out for Boston.
Speaker 1: But not is out.
Speaker 2: I I like, I like the first half in this game,
you know, and I'm gonna go with let me just
double check the current lines, my bad current lines on
first half. You can get a little better than I
did on that. You can get one o eight and
a half. I like, I like the under on this one.
And I mean you can start off with, you know,
just recent performance as far as like Celtics six and
one to the first half over last seven Raptors on
the season as road dog six and three to the
first half under.
Speaker 1: Looking at matchup wise a little bit in this one.
Speaker 2: Boston, we know what they like to do, Ralph, you
know they're gonna chuck them up from downtown number one.
As far as attempts from the above the break three
on the season over the last five games, you look
at Toronto they pretty much match up well there, they're
number one, I'm sorry, the number three on the season
and number seven over the last five games. As far
as defending above the break, three, I'm looking at the
Raptors offense lately. I mean they've been ice code at
least from three, and on the season, they haven't been
a good three point shooting team. So combination of those
things you got both teams bottom ten and paced last
five games the Raptors top five defensive graded team in
that same span. I like first half under I can't
really talk to you off the full game, but I
do like the first half more anything you like here.
Raptors in Boston.
Speaker 3: Didn't play. But I do think it's a lot missing
for Toronto if in fact you don't have Ingram, Barnes
and Perdle, the wing defense and the rim defense. I'll
say this, I think that the Toronto team total could
be in jeopardy here, probably an underplay Boston for what
it's worth. In the standings are only one game ahead Toronto,
so Boston probably takes this seriously. Not that Toronto won't.
I just think that Boston has more manpower and Boston
has the home floor here on a Friday night to
take it seriously. That being said, even though I think
Boston wants to create some separation between these two in
the standings, I can't lay ten and a half ten
ten and a half with Boston here. So maybe if
it takes on a little bit of a serious nature
for Boston, maybe the Toronto team total under which right
now sits, that's been bent down to one oh seven
someone oh six and a half, so looks like that's
going down as well.
Speaker 2: I uh, I I think that Boston is more focused
on tomorrow's game versus First, But I mean I think
they'll look at the Raptors and just think that they
can win.
Speaker 1: But I could be mistaken.
Speaker 2: We shall see, dropping Dime says he feels like Celtics
could go over there total No Barnes really hurts. We
shall see how focused will the Celtics be on tonight?
Will they come in you know, let's see. I don't
think if it's a performance tonight personally Clippers and Nets.
I want absolutely nothing to do with this game.
Speaker 1: Rock you know.
Speaker 2: But it opened minus three and it looks like four
and a half now. Total came down from two nineteen
to two fourteen and a half, any interest Clippers and Nets.
Speaker 3: I looked at la early Ski obviously playing a lot better.
Nets got a banged up, tired Magic team the other
night and made it close. I don't know if they
can make it that close here. Didn't bet it, but
I would say I initially looked at Lac to get
the job done. You're up to four and a half now,
still could get it done. I still might get there
with the Clippers.
Speaker 2: All right, Thunder and Grizzlies, this has to be some
injuries here. Thunder open minus three and a half, it's
like five and a half. What is going on here?
Crusoe Sga Hardenstein, chack caseon Wallace, Jalen Williams all out,
the Grizzlies same long. I mean, this is a past
injury list alone for both teams. Is just a pass, Robino?
Is there anything you want to do with the OKAC
and Memphis?
Speaker 3: There's there's nine names on the Memphis injured report right here.
It's the same every day and then the key of
course Moran out for them. So no, really nothing to do.
And okay, see we've said it a couple of times
this week. Ski, they're just not playing really good right now,
just not playing good enough to trust them to lay
on the road.
Speaker 2: All right, New York and Phoenix opening the minus two
for New York down to minus one. Total came down
from two thirty one and a half to two twenty eight.
Yaboucelli is questionable. Art shouting both out for Phoenix. Ooh yeah,
Jalen Green are out. I talked about the Knicks whatever,
Josh Hart still feel that same way. Knicks on the
Road haven't been great. Phoenix has been playing well, but
it is their fourth game and six nights, and I
feel like they shot really well last game. You could
get some regression here. That's what makes me nervous. But
Phoenix are passed for me in this game. You know,
how do you see it?
Speaker 3: Yeah? They caught because I had him the other night, Phoenix,
and they caught Memphis in a back to back when
Memphis had won a game by one point the night before.
I think it was a pretty taxing effort for Memphis.
So Phoenix did what they were supposed to do. It's
a lot of line movement in that game towards the Suns.
Nix on the road obviously, I tried it on Monday
or Tuesday against Detroit. They got absolutely slammed again on
the road. I shouldn't say slammed again, but they lost
again on the road, and it's you know, the home
road dichotomy for them is a real thing this year.
So for me, the way Phoenix is playing as of late,
very very good. Probably get up for this one. Nick's
coming in on a Friday night. I would assume you
get a really good effort out of Phoenix here. We'll
see if they can stay away from some Dylan Brooks
technical files. But if I had to play, I would
play Phoenix.
Speaker 2: Atlanta and Denver opened up minus two and a half
and down to.
Speaker 1: One or pick them.
Speaker 2: Total also came down from two thirty seven and a
half as low as two thirty three.
Speaker 1: For the Nuggets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Bron Brown, Gordon Murray all probable, Jones questionable, Bates Johnson,
Jokis Valentnis all out for Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Doesn't look like we're.
Speaker 2: Gonna see cj or chisfurt out there tonight. But I mean,
I have to think this is an at least in
the Atlanta spot Nuggets.
Speaker 1: They've been on the road forever.
Speaker 3: Rolb.
Speaker 2: You know, I feel like they've been on the road
since maybe before Christmas. Yeah, Nuggets first came home after
a seven game road trip. So that's a flash spot
if I've ever seen one, right there, Rob, you know,
as well as the injuries that they have. I know
they're getting some guys back, but they don't get.
Speaker 1: The same guy. For Atlanta, I feel like it's good energy.
Speaker 2: Now. You know, they're already winning without trade, and now
everybody's setting their roles because the trade has been made.
I would be taking Atlanta or nothing in this game,
and I would have to agree if I like Atlanta,
I would have to agree with the total coming down
because Atlanta, I mean, you know, when Tray's not on
the court, they're very, very capable defensively, top five defensive
redit team last five games. Actually, they can probably put
up some points on Denver because Denver's defense is not great.
But I trust Atlanta's defense. So either Atlanta or Denver
team total under one way or the other. That's how
I'm looking to play this game. What do you think?
Speaker 3: So we'll go ahead and form a parlay because I
bet already, but I bet Atlanta team total over one
sixteen and a half. Couple of reasons. I mean, Atlanta's
played with this lineup a lot this year and they've
still been able to score without Trey Young and Denver.
As we've mentioned time and time again, just give up
a lot of points. Seven games on the road, first
one back home. Don't know where the energy level is
going to be. I just feel like Atlanta to get
to one seventeen against this particular team in this particular
situation isn't asking much one side. I'm not going to say,
you know, they sat around and hip hit per Trey
Young's out of here, but certainly they're a little bit
more cohesive. I think now that he's gone and all
the drama surrounding him is done with. I think over
one sixteen and a half is just too soft of
a number. Ski and I get the benefit of it
because it opened one seventeen and a half, and as
the full game total comes down, they have to adjust
the team totals as well. So they even picked up
a point when they, you know, pushed Atlanta down for
no fault of Atlanta's that that number came down. Just
because Trey Young's out of town doesn't mean they can't score.
So I like Atlanta over one, sixteen and a half.
Speaker 2: All right, Houston and Portland. We just saw this the
other day. Open six looks like six and a half
total open two twenty and a half looks like two
twenty one, two twenty one and a half. Injuries, let's
get over there. Crawford, Sengoon, van Fleet, all out, Drew, doubtful,
Jeremy Grant, School, Murray, tybo Wesley all out Portland. We
said that this is their all right home dog. They
went out right last game.
Speaker 1: Now it's a chance.
Speaker 2: For Houston to get a little bit of quick revenge.
I just don't trust Houston right now without Shingoon. That's
really what it is like. I worry about the shooting
for Houston. I just worry about I worry about the scoring.
It's not I don't trust Houston without Shinhun. That's what
it boils down to. So it's Portland or nothing for
me again here, what do you think?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: I think just the five concern I mean, no Shangon,
no ats covers oh and three. The last three games
one oh four, one hundred and one o two scored
by Houston. So everything you're saying backed up by numbers.
The Portland home underdog trend. You know, we pointed out
a couple of times, you just reinforced it. It's hard,
you know, because you'd like to my initial reaction as
a better as well, Houston will come back in a
second of back to backs and beat this team and cover.
But they're just not showing you the capability. Right now,
Portland continues to show you the capability to cover as
a home underdog. Could Houston win by three, four, five
or six? I Portland slides under the number. Absolutely. I
didn't play it a little too conflicted, but I could
understand the Portland side here. And certainly you know you
talk about Jokich Alta Shangon all he does, and the
drop off from an offensive standpoint is just so significant
when you go from Shangun to Steven Adams. Other than
grab some rebounds and commits six files, Steven Adams has
no other purpose on the floor. So and'll I won't play.
I could see both sides.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: What do we have left Golden State, Sacramento? I mean,
fourteen and a half. Not going to see me betting
this game?
Speaker 1: Probably no. So I'll ask you are you doing anything
over there in the bay?
Speaker 3: I may get to over. I think Over is probably
a pretty good spot there. Played the Golden State game
over at the other night, got by by you know,
a point or a half a point, I think it
was two thirty two and a half, got to two
thirty two thirty three. But I could see that again.
I could see a lot of offense in that game,
So for me, it would probably be over two thirty
and a half.
Speaker 2: All right, So in the Bucks and Lakers open two
and a half looks like three told them. Not a
whole lot of movement there really questionable? So is Lebron
still know Reeves or Thiero No Taarraine prance for the
Bucks is I would like Steve really back in at least,
you know, I really just haven't been trusting this Lakers
team without Rullian Reeves. So I still don't think I
trust them here tonight. I mean, they could win, but
I wouldn't want to put my money on it, you know.
I think I would prefer the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Or maybe just Over.
Speaker 2: I mean, don't trust the Lakers defense at all. I
don't think the Bucks will be able to stop Luca
and company from scoring either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably just Over in this game.
Speaker 3: You know, what do you think? Yeah, I agree with that.
That's you know. I played Milwaukee Golden State over the
other night, Milwaukee. I went through Orlando's schedule real quick.
But their schedule has been bad too. Five roads come
home for two. Now they're in the third straight road
game on a four game trip. They've been on the
road a lot defense one one, one twenty two of
the last three games one fourteen win thirteen before that,
but all those games really high scoring. I don't know.
For me, it would have to be over or nothing.
I think both offense. Giannis had a monster day the
other day, and uh, I'm not really sure how they're
going to defend him here tonight, So probably be an
overplay for me.
Speaker 2: All Right, that's the NBA car for today. I think
we did a pretty good job. Didn't take too long.
Speaker 1: NFL playoffs are here.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess we could talk a little bit
rop you know, I'm really gonna be making my bettend
and shoring in my opinions as the day goes on today,
but I'll throw this out there.
Speaker 1: The Chargers, you know, usually start there. I think.
Speaker 2: New England, New England. Correct, all help me out here, Rob,
you know New England's secondary is not good right, No.
Speaker 3: It has been for most of you. And the run
defense now is going south to okay.
Speaker 2: I was thinking the run defense was okay, but the
run defense is no worse. So, and I don't think
their d line is great, Like, they're not going to
be abusing the Chargers, so the Chargers should be able
to put up their fair share of points. On the
flip side, I don't think New England has They don't
have a great run game.
Speaker 1: And the Chargers. That's how you beat them. You run
on the Chargers.
Speaker 2: The Chargers pass defenses, you know, it's a little bit better.
That's how That's how I would attack the Chargers. I
would run against them as a Charger fan.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this.
Speaker 2: This is what I've seen for years. So I think
the Chargers have an easier time scoring than New England.
I want to lean Chargers here. Maybe Chargers teams total.
I think it's Chargers and points.
Speaker 1: What do you think? You know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I took the Chargers plus three and a half
ski because I got the additional half. A point could
be a field goal game either way. And it gets
hard with the Chargers because they're the ultimate break your
heart team in these situations. But I think if they
break your heart, it'll be by three. To your point,
the Chargers, and I mean you got to read between
the lines a little bit, but there were multiple reports
that they wanted New England in this game, and for
one of the facts that you just mentioned, because New
England's pass rush has not been good all season long,
and the Chargers choice, with a banged up offensive line
that hasn't been able to pass protect for Justin Herbert
was do we want to go to Jacksonville or do
we want to go play a team that can't really
rush the passer. It fits into our you know, our weakness.
So they wanted to come here for that reason. I
think it's a smart move at least when you're handicapping,
and it makes for a good matchup and an advantage
here with la more than a field goal. You're talking about,
you know, a New England team that beat one team
with a winning record all year long, and they're in
here with a I mean, there's some experienced guys on
the team because they had some offseason acquisitions, but your
quarterback's a second year guy. There's a lot of young
players that haven't been here before. So for me, as
long as it was gonna be three and a half,
which is what I got, I took Chargers plus.
Speaker 2: All right, Jacksonville and Buffalo. I'm pretty sure you know,
Jacksonville has a solid run game. I mean, I'm sorry,
solid run defense. Buffalo has a good run game. We'll
see who's gonna win that battle.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day for me, you know,
and this couldn't be just simplifying it too much.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't think the Bills are a great team,
but I damn sure, no, Josh Allen is better than
Trevor Lawrence. And I'm not putting my money on Trevor
Lawrence over Josh Allen in the playoffs. This is the
one time there's no home little Marder. I mean, I
think you get a really good game out of him
at least, so I want to get there with the
Bill an he thaws from you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I played over to me. It was the one
game that looks like it's going to be up and
down the field. You're absolute right. Jacksonville walks in with
the number one rush defense, Buffalo with the number one
rush offense. Something's got to give, but Buffalo always finds
a way with Josh Allen to score their points. I
don't care how it's done. I had somebody mentioned to
me this week that Jacksonville is really weak against tight ends.
Josh Allen and his tight ends Dawson Knox, et cetera.
They're really good in helping the offense get their share.
So I don't think Buffalo is going to have a problem,
so to speak, scoring, but I don't like their defense whatsoever.
I mean, their run defense has been I'll go ahead
and say it's been ass for quite a while. I
think they've given. They're giving up like one hundred and
thirty seven a game on the ground and Trevor Trevor
at ten and that Jacksonville running game has come around.
That's what's made them better second half of the year.
Lawrence can still make some plays with his legs and
his arm. I think he's a little more confident now
with this head coach, a little better play calling, etcetera, etcetera.
So I don't know. SKI fifty two is a key
number when you're betting totals games land there, but I
think this one's going to get beyond that, So I
bet over fifty one and a half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 2: I could see points Chicago and Green Bay. I'll be
very straightforward. I don't trust Green Bay at all.
Speaker 1: I do not trust that.
Speaker 2: Like their defense shell of what they were, you know,
no more Parsons. The offense, the receivers just drop everything.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: Crap the injuries as well. Like, there's nothing to like
for the Green Bay side for me, there's nothing to
like about that team right now.
Speaker 3: For me.
Speaker 2: For Chicago, I do like Ben Johnson. I like the
way he's been running the offense, running the ball down
your throat. The offensive line is good, running back is good.
And I think they can run on that Packers team
the way they've been running on everybody else. So I
think they can control the game like that. I don't
think Klea Williams has to do too much. I would
be picking the Bears here.
Speaker 3: Any DAWs from you, Well, it's the toughest game for me.
I didn't bet yet. In the back of my mind,
I still see a revenge angle for Green Bay, which
lost that wacky ass game like three weeks ago to
the Bears where the Bears had no business even winning
on side kick recoveries, et cetera, et cetera, coming from
nowhere to score three touchdowns in the fourth quarter and overtime.
Whatever it was, that was a horrible loss for Green
Bay in the game that they had Chicago wired. And
then I watched last week when Chicago has a chance
to lock up the number two seed and have multiple
home games and they can't score a point for three
and a half quarters against Detroit, which has nothing but
an injury list on the defensive side, couldn't do anything.
It's almost as if and I sort of give that
half a pass, Ski, because it's almost as if Dan
Campbell and the Lions know what Ben Johnson's gonna call.
They beat him solid twice this year. So maybe it's
just a Lions thing that the Bears couldn't get over,
because you're right, they've showed instances. They've ran all over
Philly with their offensive line in one game, and that's
not easy to do. Out of Williams is going to
make a couple of plays. Caleb Williams might hurt you
with a couple of plays. There's some projected snow. Matt
Lafleur is on the hot seat. I don't know. I
went back and forth with this one. No play yet.
Maybe I'll get somewhere. It looks like looks like all
the pick'ems are going now in Green Bay's back to
being a solid one all the way across the board
one one and a half. So that's a long winded
way of saying, I don't have a play on that game.
Speaker 1: Don't let don't let Casey see you doing that. Case
He'll fire you up in that chat. I don't know
if you saw yesterday. It was one game you're talking
about like that yesterday? He does not having Street all right? Uh,
Sam Fran and Philly, this one is a little tougher
for me. But I just I don't trust san Fran.
That's kind of what it what it boils down to.
Speaker 2: I don't feel very strong about this one, but I
just think I trust the Eagles more than I trust
san Fran. Like or help me out here, Robno, the
Eagles are healthy, right, Like the defensive line is healthy.
Speaker 1: They got us. Is Lane Johnson playing Lane Johnson's playing
Philly is healthy?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're the BRD. I think they
can win this by a touchdown. So can you talking
me off of the Eagles in this one.
Speaker 3: You know, here about thirty miles or thirty minutes away
from Philadelphia, ski all the talk all week long, you'll
probably remember this last time San Francisco was here for
a playoff game. Maybe it's like three years ago. The
Eagles knocked Rock Party out in the very first quarter.
It was a game where Eagles went to the super
Bowl and San Francisco did nothing but bitch and moan
for eighteen minutes afterwards about how they would have won
if they had their quarterback. And the Eagles remember all
this stuff, especially the fan base remembers all this stuff,
so the Eagles will be fired up here. It was,
I'll say real quick, it was the first game I played.
San Francisco's defense has been abysmal for lack of a
better word, for about ten weeks now, and it's mostly
due to injuries. And they lost two more linebackers against
Seattle the other night the winters went out. Probably won't play,
missing the other guy's name right now off the top
of my head, but you got two linebackers that weren't
even starters to begin with that might not play. People
are gonna say Phillies offense has been inconsistent all year long,
but sometimes the perfect remedy for that is a defense.
They can't stop Anyboddy and so behind that offensive line
with Barkley Hurts, et cetera, et cetera. I like greena
excuse me, Phillies team total over twenty four and a half.
Don't necessarily want to lay points against Christian McCaffrey and
at Frisco offense because it's been real good and they
may be able to keep up. But I don't know
how they're going to stop Philadelphia from scoring here unless
Philadelphia shoots themselves in the foot.
Speaker 2: Interesting, it's going to take a little bit more for
me to get there with that game, only other one
on the weekend here, Robbie knowas Rams and Panthers, you
know clearly, I mean, for one, it stands out to
me this is the one road team laying all these points,
double digits for the road team here in a wildcard round.
Pretty interesting, But the Rams aren't clearly the better team.
I gotta ask you, how good? How good is that
Rams defense? I mean, Rams run defense?
Speaker 3: So funny because when I was thinking about what I
was going to say, I'm gonna use your phrase from
basketball all the time. I can't trust you delay points
if I can't get stops and the Rams aren't getting
a lot of stops. Le these two teams played once
already this year. Carolina won the game right here on
this field by three points I think thirty one to
twenty eight, and they got to thirty one. They had
to pick six to help out. But Ski they had
eight drives in that game Carolina did, and five of
those went for thirty seven or more yards. Four of
them went for sixty or more yards against the Ram defense.
All four were scores. So you know ten and a half.
So lot LA's going to score. We know that, but
it's a lot to ask when you can't stop anybody
to cover ten and a half. And to add something
to this game, the weather forecast now is for thunderstorms
right in this timeframe from four to nine o'clock tomorrow
night in Charlotte, North Carolina. Game starts four thirty. Keep
an eye on the weather because that could be. We
saw was the Carolina game last week, right, It was
played in the pouring rain and the ball was slippery
and whatnot. So I think it was against Tampa, right,
they had the Tampa game We'll see what the weather
brings in the morning.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: That's that's the NFL for this weekend. Still a little
bit of work for me to do. But we did
talk out these games. Oh, I think we can wrap
it up here now, you know, before we go to
Best But I will put this one up here most.
I mean, it's a good time to do it. But Ravino,
we can does include everything, right, So if you did
just want to rock for the weekend, you know NFL
playoffs going on shorterres.
Speaker 1: Well, you can.
Speaker 2: I don't keep up with college football anymore. I'm done Texas. Sorry,
I'm done Ravina. College football is on there. You know,
NBA college basketball is that good stuff. You can be
involved for just forty nine bucks for the weekend and
then you know, the same thing we talked about yesterday.
You can get a seven day all access pass for
just sixty nine bucks. Comes out to less than ten
dollars per day. If I'm gonna pick you know you
no myself. Those are the ways to do it, are
good ways to do it. Now, you know, I'm gonna
go ahead and move it on over to Best Bets.
I will ask you if there's anything else you'd like
to promote, and if you have a best bet for
the show, we love to hear it.
Speaker 1: If you don't, all good, Well.
Speaker 3: What I like is the fact that you got rules.
Texas is sorry. I'm done with I'm out a rule
real quick. Just you did from a couple of things.
I'll just say one more time, guys, back to back
number one finishes in NFL playoffs. So if you are
interested in selection packages the Weekend Warrior, you'll get all
the NFL with that, and plus other sports as well,
NBA College Hoop, in college football best bet tonight we
talked about it Ski. I'm not gonna go through the
analysis again, but I like the Hawks to score over
one sixteen and a half tonight. I think that's a
pretty easy ask from them. Should be a pretty cohesive unit.
So give me Hawks team total over one sixteen and
a half.
Speaker 2: All right, good stuff from Vino for myself.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a giving out my stuff here today.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: I like a few already. I'm gonna mix more. I'll
go with uh, i'm'll go with and again.
Speaker 2: You know I understand Scottie Barnes defensele how you know
it could hurt this play, but I'm going with the
first half under inter Raptors and the Celtics game.
Speaker 1: I do have.
Speaker 2: I'll share this for anybody who wants to listen. It's
going back to twenty twenty three. It's pretty much when
you have a division home team who didn't have to
travel and has been playing a couple of undergames recently.
You know they are about seventy five percent to the
first half under.
Speaker 1: So I like that for this game.
Speaker 2: Also, just I talked about the recent form, talked about
three point matchup in the defense, talked about how ice
code the Raptors have been shooting. Yes, you're gonna miss
some defense without Scottie Barnes. You're also gonna miss some offense.
You haveage nineteen points per game and ingram is on
the injury report question but as well. I mean that's
another twenty points she could be missing if he's out.
So combination of all those things, both teams playing bottom
ten paced last five games, that leads me to I'm
chopping in a half first half under one O eight.
Speaker 1: All Right, we know.
Speaker 2: Always appreciate you taking time to do the show. I'm
gonna get some uh. I guess we'll actual. You know,
I don't get to eat yet, I don't get to
get me rest, don't get to do anything yet, but.
Speaker 3: I do it.
Speaker 1: I did enjoy doing the show, and you help my process.
So always gonna let you know.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you chat, appreciate you guys tapping into great
cappers in there. We're all just trying to help each
other win. If you enjoyed the show, hit the like
button for us, and yeah, man, good luck on all
your best this weekend. Enjoy your weekend and we will
catch you guys on Monday