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Speaker 2The crown is yours.
I'm Brandon Kravitz.
Speaker 1Sitting back sweating a magic Celtics game right now as we speak with the Queen of the Pod, Kendrim Middleton, and our stats guy himself, Evan Abrams, as we react to a week twelve in the NFL Quick Recap on the parlay we did just wrap Cowboys Eagles.
What a comeback from the Dallas Cowboys.
They were down by twenty one, wound up winning on a walk off field goal.
So shout out to Stuckey.
He was the only one that hit.
As far as our three leg parlay goes.
Now, I would have had the Bengals plus seven and a half, but I got bullied into taking their damn money line and so we had that in there.
But it wouldn't have been because Chador Sanders, of all people, roast the parlay more than anybody else.
As he picks up his first win as an NFL quarterback and the Browns take down the Raiders.
That would have been the third leg for us.
Kendra, what do you have to say for yourself?
Speaker 3I think that I feel like the biggest ass had in the world because I told not just our show, but multiple shows, multiple shows, at least three, the words came out of my mouth that this was my favorite play of the week, that Chador sucked.
We were all unanimously like, this is the easiest one of the week.
Speaker 4We don't even need to talk about it.
That's the one we're moving on.
Speaker 3But you know what, Gigi's to the Chador truthers.
I would like to shake Josina Anderson's hand right now.
Speaker 4This is it.
Speaker 3You know what, the NFL needed some primetime on the TV.
Speaker 4They needed some extra dollars.
Speaker 3I bet that we fade the shit out of him next week and it works out for us.
Speaker 1Evan, I saw you share the percentages.
It seemed like the public was not backing down from Shador.
Speaker 2Sanders and they were rewarded.
Speaker 1I think that perhaps, if we're thinking about this from a football perspective, this is why you can't fire guy like Kevin Stefanski.
Think about all of the different quarterbacks that this man has had to coach throughout his time with the Cleveland Browns, and he finds a way to sort of coach around these guys.
And the other piece of this and why outside of the parlay that we had.
Look, if we're if one of us is in, we're all in when it comes to that.
So I will take ownership of it as well, because we have to talk to these things through.
But one of the reasons I did not have this as an individual play is I do not trust Geno Smith with my money as a favorite, and I think that was the web that we stepped into.
But Evan, how do you break this one down?
And were you at all impressed with what you saw from Shador Sanders today?
Speaker 5I mean, I think the story was just on the other side, like you said, ten, I mean, everyone was gambling on Shador being terrible in this game, kind of forgetting the Cleveland's defensive line and.
Speaker 6With Miles Garrett was gonna be the story of the game.
Speaker 5And whenever you try to bank on what's gonna happen on the other side, like when you have a Raiders Browns game and everyone's like, oh, what we saw on a small sample, everyone's gonna bet against Shador.
Well, everyone was betting on Shador in this game.
Everyone's trying to be I guess, like a little fancy and trying to look at the other side.
I mean the money and the tickets, I mean, everything was on Cleveland and the line kind of just stayed still.
Speaker 6So obviously there was a.
Speaker 5Sense of even action there because the line didn't move its ton But honestly, it's Cleveland's defensive line that's the story.
Speaker 2Ridiculous, So full transparency here.
Speaker 1I am also the pregame, halftime and postgame show host for the Orlando Magic on the radio, and I'm doing that job right now as we squeeze this live show in as we speak.
So they're getting blasted by the Celtics right now.
This postgame show will be agony and also a breeze all at the same time.
But because I'm locked in on that with one eye on what's going on in the NFL, I saw that the Cowboys made this comeback.
Speaker 2They're down twenty one.
Speaker 1I would catch a touchdown here and there, and then they end up winning on a walk off Brandon Aubrey field goal.
Speaker 2Evan, how did this happen?
Speaker 1How did the Cowboys come all the way back against Philadelphia today?
Speaker 5I mean, if you just look at the box score, like say you didn't watch the game and you just looked at the play by play the drives for Philly in the second half, Like, tell the it's ridiculous.
I mean literally coming out of the half, and even if you go before that.
So after they score a touchdown to go up twenty one, nothing, it's punt, punt, punt, punt, missfield goal, fumble, punt.
Speaker 6That is how the game ends with Dallas walking off.
Speaker 5So to me, it's the story of the second half on Philly's offense, like literally every single week all they can do is put together one half.
Uh.
Speaker 6But I mean, Kendra, you watch the game, like, what's what are we doing here?
Speaker 5Like, if you're Philly, I think you assumed that the offense was going to be.
Speaker 6The problem in this one.
It's the reason most people like.
Speaker 5The three and the three and a half, But like, second half.
Speaker 6How does that happen?
Speaker 3I think that we can kind of take away from this that the Eagles have moved from giving us nothing from a quarter at the beginning of the year to a quarter and a half, you know, midway through the year, and now as we're like kind of getting to Thanksgiving, it's like pretty much a half that both sides of the ball just go brain dead.
I don't know what it is, but it's continuously gotten worse as the season's gone on.
Speaker 4Saquon is just getting shut down.
I don't know.
Speaker 3I don't like, there's no way the defenses have just figured him out.
But I think that it's just they continuously on both sides of the ball go completely just they can't do anything for two for an entire half.
Speaker 4It's nuts.
Speaker 3There's no other way to put it than they just go brain dead, because there's no way you have that much talent, you're getting that much out of rookie contracts, you're the reigning Super Bowl champions, and you can't figure it out for you know, downs and drives at a time.
Speaker 1We liked Dallas in this game, but and I think this is a good example of sometimes you don't know how your side is going to come to fruition, like how it's gonna play out.
Speaker 2So uh, never give up on a wager.
My friends, the Bears, by.
Speaker 1The way play the Eagles on Black Friday.
The Bears, I wrote down a couple of notes throughout the day.
The Bears are the are the Horseshoe and their ass team.
But I just don't think we can bet against the Bears at this point.
They're just there's always that team that you can't quite quantify it, but they always find a way and they've had things really go their way.
In going up against Mason Rudolph today and then winning by three, you wonder if Aaron Rodgers is out there, is it a different story.
Speaker 2So that's one of the games that we'll end up looking at.
Speaker 4We didn't get, percose Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1So upset you had your yeah, your chance.
Speaker 6Instead we got Chicago too.
I mean, come on, it would have been great, right.
Speaker 1We got a mustached Mason Rudolph who looks like he's on a band list somewhere or pops up as a red dot in your neighborhood.
And then you've got we were just talking about the Cowboys they take on the Chiefs.
That's a big Thanksgiving game that's gonna break ratings, as break records as far as ratings go.
Speaker 2And so we'll break all of.
Speaker 1That down when we get to Tuesday's episode.
Let's hand out our goats and wotes.
Speaker 2How can we.
Speaker 1Not give a goat to Jamir Gibbs two hundred and sixty yards three touchdowns.
Speaker 2Now, the Lions didn't come through for me.
Speaker 1I had them minus ten in this game got incredible closing line value as this one closed north of thirteen, but.
Speaker 2Still as far as.
Speaker 1Gods at the running back position, go I would say Jamir Gibbs is certainly that, and I'll come up with a vote.
Evan, what about you?
Speaker 5Let's see my goat's gotta be probably Miles Garrett.
I would say, I'm gonna go back to that up to eighteen sacks literally legendary at this point in terms of going after the record, so honestly I'm a fan.
Speaker 6Hope he gets it.
Speaker 5Another goat, I would probably say green Bay finally covering a big spread like the defense showed up, I would say instead of goat, it's probably McCarthy as a vote, but we'll we'll leave that aside.
Speaker 3Well about you, Kendra, I was gonna say Shador Truthers, but since we already talked about that, I know that they didn't win.
Speaker 4But I did have the over in this game.
I gotta give it to cam.
Speaker 3Ward, you know, like he went out there and put it up twenty four points against the Seattle Seahawks team Seattle still won with the overhit and he looked way more competent than he has through the you know, a decent stretch of this season against a good team.
Speaker 4I was impressed with him today.
He used his legs a lot.
Good for cam Ward.
Speaker 5I mean, Jackson Smith and Ajigba probably would be like I would say as well.
I believe so thirteen hundred and like seven.
Speaker 4I would like to give it to the losers.
Come on, I'm I'm a Jags fan.
I gotta the obvious ones are there.
You guys took them.
Let me cook, that's fair.
Let me come record.
Speaker 2I do have a quick, humble bragg.
Speaker 1I do have a fantasy team today with Jamiir Gibbs, n jsn on it, and we're eating We're eating fam.
The Titans, by the way, your beloved Titans, Kendra, have covered three straight games now, So perhaps this is a team that we need to start taking financially serious again.
Speaker 4Now the Patriots are in bet yoll are.
Speaker 6We all say this?
Though?
Speaker 5I believe fired head coaches like Post are now five and two, So you're you're completely right, Kendra, nailin it right now.
Speaker 1And I think that it goes back to something that you share in the primer every week when a coach does end up getting acted.
It's not so much about the week that they get fired.
That's when everybody wants to hop in on that team.
It's the weeks that follow, and I think that that's what we're seeing with Tennessee Evan.
Speaker 6Yeah, I think it's some of that.
Speaker 5I mean, I think some people say there's a little little bit of a bounce and a one week bounce, like off of the firing, a little bit of motivation, and you kind of come back to the mean.
I mean, overall, it's easy to look at the sample size as a whole, and usually that first game gets a little bit of a bump.
But kind of nice to see the Giants and Titans at least fighting hard.
But I feel like we can't end the show or even you know, without talking about Jamis.
I mean, what we saw out of him today was absolutely extraordinary.
The only thing that was missing was I was waiting for him to throw a pick six in overtime to blow the cover, because getting us all the way there and then handing the ATS one to Detroit would have been.
Speaker 1The ultimate Well yeah, I kind of needed that, and I did think that it was a possibility hard to get a ten point cover in overtime.
Speaker 2But if anybody can do it, that's what I say, it was going to be him.
Speaker 1I mean, this probably isn't the worst of the day, but for me it was because I think that if the Lions had covered that number against the Giants, I would I would have been in the green instead.
I'm probably gonna finish just south of that.
The Lions defense gave up twenty first half points.
Do you want to give some credit to Jamis?
This is a functional Giants team with him at quarterback.
Who knew well?
I guess a lot of people did, because there's a lot of Jamis truthers that are out there.
But this Lions defense, off of a loss at home, giving up twenty first half points to the Lions or to the Giants, to me is completely unacceptable.
I need a ruling before we hand out our Monday night football parlay.
The Chiefs are still pretty sketchy.
They won the game against the Colts today.
Daniel Jones, I think is mostly to blame for this.
He had zero first downs in the fourth quarter, and in overtime we said that if they don't cover the spread, they're in bet jail.
I wound up pushing on the Chiefs today.
That was my plan at the Flag game.
I got it at three.
They won by three.
So where are they in terms of their parole hearing?
Kendra?
What I do with the Chiefs because they play the Cowboys on Thanksgiving and you know we're betting on that game in some direction.
Speaker 4Oh God, I don't know.
Why are you putting me on the spot about this?
I just I don't.
Speaker 1You're the judge.
This is a parole hearing on the Chiefs.
You are the judge.
Are they in jail.
Speaker 2Or are we letting them out on bond?
Speaker 3I think we let them and the Patriots sit and bet jail for a week.
Speaker 4That's what you get.
You get a week a week in jail, all right.
So I get that it's.
Speaker 3Thanksgiving and everybody wants to bet on the Cowboys for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4So maybe this is tough because it's the Cowboys on Thanksgiving.
I just.
Speaker 1To break the tie because this is what Evan does on this podcast.
Speaker 4By the way, the Chiefs.
Speaker 2The Chiefs are favored by three and a half.
Speaker 1Taking a plus three and a half on a Cowboys team that can definitely score on this Chief squad.
That does sound mighty tasty.
I might hop in on that before the end of the night, Evan, but.
Speaker 6I mean the line, the line was four and a half.
Speaker 5So literally, in the last hour or so, you've seen some money come in on Dallas, especially after the comeback.
So if you wanted Dallas, you most likely wanted Philly to take care of business.
So you know, I could probably see that line coming down even more at this point just seeing what we've seen and what Kansas.
Speaker 6City did today.
Speaker 5The stat honestly from Kansas City's point of view, I mean they played today.
They didn't sack DJ once.
Okay, they lost the turnover battle to nothing, they went one for six in the red zone, trailed by double digits twice, and still won the game.
So it's just like it's an absolute fluke show.
Speaker 6But it's usual Kansas City.
Speaker 5It's nice that the Kansas City from what last year is back where they play like absolute crap.
Speaker 6It's still win the game.
But welcome back.
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Speaker 4The crown is yours.
Speaker 1The Panthers take on the San Francisco forty nine ers on Monday Night Football.
We don't have anything going on Sunday night, so we're just gonna kick our feet up and enjoy Bucks Rams tonight.
Let's get to our fast Pass parlay before we settle in for this NFC showdown.
Two picks each we kick one out three leg parlay Monday Night Football.
Speaker 2Kendra sell Us on.
Speaker 7Something I have, Bryce Young for an anytime interception minus one twenty nine.
Speaker 4I think that that is probably the.
Speaker 3Best thing that I have to offer in this game.
I was looking at Ricky Piersol decided not to go with that.
The other thing I'm going to offer up is going to be the under at forty.
Speaker 4Nine and a half.
Speaker 3I think that the Panthers have a really tough schedule coming up.
I do expect their season over to hit at some point, but I think that this could be a little bit of a look ahead spot at the rest of their season.
Good team getting healthy in the forty nine ers brought you know, brought parties back.
Got to be kind of a little bit of a get right game for them.
Beat up on a bad opponent.
But forty nine and a half from a Panthers team that I'm not sure is going to get a ton of scoring, I just feels high.
Speaker 1I think I'm more in on the anytime int for Bryce Young.
I think this team's gonna be throwing a lot, so I could see him putting the.
Speaker 4Ball in traffic chasing.
Speaker 2Yeah, was like a high scoring game.
Speaker 1I know this is a high total, but I'd be more inclined to take the over in this game Evan, what about you?
Speaker 2Where do you fall on that?
And then what about you as far as a nomination.
Speaker 5Just glad we're on the same page because my first instinct was to take the under.
So if you're going to take the over and I like the under, and we're going to go with the interception, so we'll add the Bryce interception there the two props I.
Speaker 6Was going to look at.
Speaker 5So right now cmc is listed a minus three seventy to score a touchdown in this game.
He was minus four hundred this morning when we did our show.
So at this moment, I think I would be interested in actually like Brian Robinson to.
Speaker 6Score a touchdown.
I see him at like the four range.
Speaker 5So either my two props were Brian Robinson to score a touchdown, or I like tedor or McMillan to go over whatever number you want to find.
I see some number in the sixties.
You want to do sixty plus, I can do that as well.
But those would be the two things I bring to the table.
Speaker 1So I was actually going to go Ted McMillan myself over four and a half receptions?
Is this wise on it?
I guess in some ways this is a correlated parlay.
If we were to go with Tet McMillan over.
Speaker 2Four and a half catches.
Speaker 1Like the receptions sixty three and a half yards and a Bryce Young interception, we're basically saying Young's gonna be airing it out throughout the course of the night.
His number one guy is gonna get targets and he's also gonna give the ball to the opposition.
Are we in on the Bryce to tet to the San Francisco forty nine ers parlay fast pass Monday Night Football action?
Let me see if I can get a quick price on.
Speaker 5That terrible, terrible pass defense.
So Bryce should just try his best and then at some point he'll make a mistake, So I you know, ship it.
Speaker 1Let's go got that now at plus two sixty over on draft Kings, the crown is yours, Tet McMillan's over sixty three and a half receiving yards, over four and a half receptions and Bryce.
Speaker 2Young to throw an int the Favorites.
Speaker 1We'll return on Tuesday after or noon as we look ahead to week thirteen.
It'll be a giant Thanksgiving episode.
We will feast on all of our favorite features from the plant to flag to the Two Kings and a Queen Parlay.
Thanks to Kendrick Middleton, who is somewhere in an apartment right now as we speak.
Evin Abrams, the King himself.
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We'll see you on Tuesday.
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