Welcome to Sharp or Square, presented by hard Rock that we are part of the Volume podcast Network.

This is the show that makes the square sharper, makes the wise guys pay attention.

I am Chad Noman.

I am joined as always by my bff, my companion, my capadre professional better Simon Hunter.

Hello, Simon, Chad.

How are we doing long, long, long walk up to the dark and cavernous third floor tonight?

Because Wow, wild day.

Joe Flacco is forty years old.

He throws for four hundred and seventy yards with a bad shoulder.

Kyle Meninge, a rookie seventh round pick from Rutgers in the same game, runs for one hundred and sixty eight yards.

Not even the most exciting things that happened in that game, because it was the Bears winning with a touchdown with seventeen seconds left on a broken tackle.

The Bengals just could not stop anybody.

We also had an NFL record field goal of sixty eight yards in the Jags Raiders game from Jacks kicker Cam Little Simon.

So much exceptional work today, except by US one and four.

On the day we won with the Falcons, we lost with the Chargers the Lions, the Texans, and the Chiefs.

Last ones out were the Panthers, who we decided to leave out in favor of the Falcons, so it wouldn't have made a difference.

The four games we were totally com to.

Ever since Thursday, we're all loose the hers dude rough Rough.

Yeah, we knew it was the trap week, and we somehow took four favorites that we loved and got smoked on all four or one win, like you said, your dog Atlanta that came through.

And it's never a good week where I think we had.

I'm almost positive I had Pittsburgh in with the hook at three and a half.

We switched them out for Carolina, and that switched out Carolina for Atlanta.

All three were.

Winners and we left untouched four straight losers that we will get into.

We will get to our early leans.

We're gonna get to how we did all in all of our picks.

We're gonna get to your live comments from the chat.

I'm sure it'll be blistering today.

All right, let's let's just talk about the one that worked, which was Atlanta plus five and a half in New England.

It didn't look like it was going that well for us.

They were down twenty one to seven in the first half and Drake May kind of looked on third down like he was becoming the scariest and most automatic play in football.

But like always, a freaky fumble leads to a touchdown.

It's twenty one to fourteen at halftime.

I don't know about you, but I still never felt great about the Falcons in that game.

No, we got really lucky, but like we always said, that's why you bet the number and trying not to rationalize normal thinking Pennix.

I mean, he just made so mistakes in that game.

Directly was playing so much better, and he gave us a gift we needed that desperately needed.

That fumble totally flipped the game and you know, London having three touchdowns again, I'm all about it, like that's why you just played the number.

I knew were gonna have to get lucky with this one, but you said it.

You're down, you know, fourteen points need a lot of luck to go away, and I think it was a what a fourth and two they get that final touchdown.

It's it was just one of those days.

So I won't complain and we'll take it.

Glad we got there.

And yeah, like I always say, I try not to be stubborn when smart people are telling me I'm making a mistake and I listen, like I I just that when that the way that game started, That's what I was so scared of, Right that Pannix came out just to not look and Synk looked a little rusty, but yeah, big Big drives by him at the end of the game.

It's he needed the turnovers, right, but you know we didn't.

He didn't make the mistakes.

Drake May did.

Kept in that game.

But once again, this Patriots team, it's it's crazy.

How good they are.

Like another game they won probably shouldn't have won either, Like that's the game you kind of lose every now and then.

And Drake May playing at such a high level.

Vrabel just not letting the guys have a letdown game pretty impressively.

Keep winning these games they probably shouldn't be winning.

Yeah, look they in the second half, they started the second half of the field goal, they're up twenty four to fourteen.

That's when I started to feel a little better because the Falcons did get a stand in that first drive where the Patriots went down the field and then they did stop them from getting in the end zone, forced the field goal.

The rest of the game, the Patriots were interception and then I think three or four punts like they all of a sudden just weren't effective.

And I don't know, you know, if you paid attention or if you noticed if Drake May definitely wasn't as effective as he was in the first half.

But it also seemed like they got a lot more conservative.

They were willing to let Atlanta try to get back into the game, lean on their defense a little bit more.

Christian Gonzalez went out of the game at one point.

But man, the Patriots in the second half started to look like the team that was regressing too closer to what we thought they would be.

But then they get away with the win, and again we put the over under on Vrabel and his coaching wins at like two and a half.

I think he's already at four.

Like the guy is just pulling rabbits out of the hat, you know what I mean.

Yeah, And there was a game that Drake May as well as he played, right, I think over two hundred and fifty yards, two touchdowns.

He had the killer pick.

Yeah, and he had two funnels and only losing one of them.

So, like we said, they a lot of things they try to give away.

Like we talk all the time, it's just really hard to be consistent in this league and not mixed tupe of mistakes, and they still rose above it.

It's like you said, Rabel, it's really impressive what they've done.

And like we keep saying, they have an easy schedule, but it's hard to win these games and they just keep winning.

So yeah, it's it's pretty wild Patriots being the one seed.

It's not outside this realm.

There's a path for them now.

And because again they keep winning these games, trap games they shouldn't win, they keep winning.

That's a really respectful team right now in this Patriots team.

Have you know, none of us are gonna bet them against Mahomes or josh anaeler Moore.

Still, i'd be really excited if as a Patriots fan, you're seeing huge, huge dividends right now, like you said in Vrabel and what he brings to the table with this team and all the wins he steals for you.

Los Angeles Chargers at the Tennessee Titans.

I think I said three times this week do you know what I'm going to say?

No, Three times I said this week, this is the exact spot when we always play the Chargers.

Entity is the exact spot where they always let us down.

I don't think there's a team in the league this year where we are more out of sync with where we are betting them the week that they don't cover, and we are afraid to bet them the weeks that they do cover.

This game, their offense, their defense, and I think gave up ten points.

Yeah, but they gave up a pick six on the second play of their first drive, and then they gave up a punt return, so all of a sudden they're down fourteen to seven.

They should have killed this team.

It shouldn't have even been a sweat, and they still had a chance to cover at the end of the game and let the let the let the Titans sneak in the back door the first time the cover.

The Titans have learned how to sneak through the back door in about two years.

What what are you kidding me, Simon.

Yeah, happens again.

We knew going into this was a public play.

I think the most bet on public teams where number one was the lines number two Colts, number three Patriots, and number four Chargers.

Number five is the Cowboys.

So yeah, we just we said it was a week that the public wasn't get hit hard for some reason.

We have we leaned right into it and thought we were smarter than the books, and we got punished.

Here.

Uh, their defense gave up six points, Chad.

The Tennessee Titans scored twenty total points, so their defense is in the game with the Chargers defense, right.

I was thinking that the second the drive that got through the back door, I was thinking it was a touchdown and it was a field going.

But that's just like sums up, it's the bad luck we have today.

That's just why we always talk about we bet these ugly dogs, because that's the exact game you dream of.

Right.

It's Tennessee outplayed in every aspect, had zero business being in it.

Stupid pick six first play, first drop back of Herbert just nonchalant threw a pick six his first play, and then they have a pun return, like you said, fourteen points.

I don't know about you, but I still believe, because I'm a sucker, that we're going to get out of it and sell find our way.

I totally believed, and we were there.

We were there.

We were there after Joe Alt was carted off the field, and that was my issue.

We were there after Justin Herbert was sacked six times by a team that had twenty nine sacks total in their previous what is it, eight games?

Nine games?

Eight games, and they were still up by ten with four minutes left, and at one point, the Chargers went up by ten on a fifteen play, ninety nine yard drive in which Justin Herbert realized, dude, I'm fucking sick of this.

And he had multiple plays where he just took the ball and ran and didn't even pretend to say it to slide.

He's like, I'm six' five to forty And i'm going to run people.

Over and he, leveled just totally trucked a defensive lineman to get what was, it like a second and nine or something like.

That and then later in that drive had another drive to convert the first down and scored a rushing.

Touchdown like he's just he just had.

It SO i totally believed.

It they just needed to make one, stop one, STOP.

I, Know but, again you can't be mad at the.

Defense they have six points in an entire.

Game it's just it's what the it's how the books makes their.

Money, man the.

Books they knew it was gonna a coin flip come down to, it AND i honestly thought The chargers was gonna absolutely roll and blow them, out and we just you can't predict a pick six and a punt return.

Unfortunately SO i.

Think we had two really really bad bets.

TODAY i think this game In.

HOUSTON i can't get upset about.

It it's just stupid.

Football things just.

Happened guys get, hurt you, know bounces don't go.

Away so, yeah this one.

Sucks we got we got hooked by the, kick but we've been on the other side of that with that dog millions of.

Times so it's just a balancing.

Act.

Here was it a bad bet, though like we we got un.

Lucky that doesn't make it a bad.

BET i, SAID i, said we had two bad bets.

Today that was The chiefs In.

DETROIT i thought this, game AND i thought you.

SAID i thought you said we had two bad bets that were this game And.

Houston now this one's just, Unlucky LIKE i, said it's just what are you gonna?

Do gave up those fourteen points and still the outside, chance and, they just like you, said couldn't get that stop and that late field goal burned.

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Detroit this Was chad's CHOICE i loved it all.

WEEK i was so sure With Brian branch And Kirby joseph coming back AND jj, McCarthy who had looked terrible and who, knows may have been sitting extra weeks because The vikings were worried And Brian flores's rush defense hasn't been very good this.

Year against a juggernaut rushing, offense well that all went to.

Shit yeah, again another game that just lines whatever it, was they just seemed like they never got off the, bus.

Right it seemed like couldn't get, off couldn't convert their.

Jounts, yeah and the bikers just came off.

Line AND i would love to sit here and say we UNDERESTIMATED jj McCarthy and he burned.

Us let's be.

Honest it wasn't like this guy was out of this.

WORLD a lot of this.

STUFF i, MEAN i can think of a handful of third downs that were thirty to ten third and eleven's and he either dumped it off or had like a screen down and the running back picked up the first down against a.

Lion seemed that you should know better when it's a young.

Quarterback And i'm even look at his stats right.

Now he was fourteen to twenty.

Five that's for one hundred and forty three, yards two touchdowns and a.

PICK i, mean that's that should be very beautiful if you're A detroit team at.

Home and like you, said That floryd's defense bad mouthed them as much AS i.

Did you, know tons of.

Pressure on golf and like we always talk, about if you move him off his, spot he's just not a good.

Quarterback when he has time and has you, know everything's working in the, offense he looks very.

Smooth but in this, game he was never, comfortable and like you, said the running game never really got.

Going so, yeah bad.

Bet all around felt dead for the minute the game.

Started just immediately everything was going The vikings way and This lions, team even little things that did go other, way it was just never.

Consistent like you, said they kept failing on third or fourth downs and kept punting a, lot so it was just a bad.

Bet, well look that first, Drive Sam laporta carried you, know five people into the end zone from the five yard line and they looked.

Perfect but then they LET jj McCarthy go right down the field and like you, said he was fourteen of twenty, five AND i think he completed all fourteen of those passes in the first three.

Drives The lions just they kept beating.

Themselves they were four of twelve on third downs and one stat to think, about they're bottom third in the league in third down conversions right.

Now they just have not been the same team when it comes to getting sort of success letting first and second down success get them into position to convert on third.

Down so that's becoming an issue for.

Them and, Yeah Brian flor's defense was all Over Jared goff the whole.

Game every single time he needed to get time to make a, throw he had no time to make a.

Throw and then here was the other.

ISSUE i think the defense a lot had four or five penalties that converted third downs into first downs for The.

Vikings so they were letting a guy who wasn't playing.

Perfectly, AGAIN jj McCarthy was fourteen or twenty five for one hundred and forty.

Three he wasn't a world beater in this.

Game but they.

Won and The lions still had a chance to win this, game but they could not convert at the.

End it's going to be very interesting to look at This lion's team and think about how we handicap them next.

Week becow my head's spinning about.

Them it's so hard to start thinking about these, games like in the two or three hours after the game, ended especially after a horrendous, day BECAUSE i want to love This lion's, team AND i feel like this was not representative of who they.

Are, yeah they just laid it.

Done two really big duds they laid this year That divisional gaming and Screen bay week one in this.

Game so it's maybe this is starting to get a pattern here on this team we need to be aware.

Of maybe it is like for some reason let down against divisional.

Foes but, YEAH i don't.

Know next week that's to be hard to pass on that opening line on That lion's.

TEAM i know it.

IS i was looking ahead to next.

Week, yeah AND i was already struggling With Oh, god of, course this is WHAT i want to.

Do denver At Houston houston minus one and a, half this was our brass, balls and people were wondering why is this our brass?

Balls because it wasn't an easy bet to, make and the entire time during the.

Game during the, game That houston, defense they were.

Outstanding they did everything they could against This broncos, team and they were really making Bo nicks.

Struggle but if you are going to get to the thirty five yard line and have six of eight drives and inside the thirty five yard, line that is not a good.

Look so you got to figure out what you're doing with your offense because you can't win in THE nfl if you're only kicking field.

Goals and that's what The texans did.

Today, yeah IT'S i can't take much from, IT.

Cj with fourteen minutes, Left, yeah in the second, quarter and Our reid was right right the.

Defense it was a great matchup for.

Them like you, said they played really well and.

We still had a ton of opportunities to win this.

Game With Davis mills and he WAS i don't know about how much you watched, him he was, Atrocious like you, said eighty.

Seven yards on offense total in the second half of The Texans.

SIMON i watched every excruciating second of that game because you knew the whole time The broncos were going to get two, touchdowns like they would figure out how to scheme two touchdowns in that, game and THAT i just said to myself at one, Point i'm, like they just need to convert one of these into a, touchdown just, one and they could not do.

It and if they, had they win that.

Game that's.

It their defense was playing so freaking.

Good, Yeah and LIKE i, said once he went down AND i think the books Reopened houston plus four and a half plus three and a, HALF i was just, Like, okay they're already telling us now we're we're gonna need a miracle to cover this, number and we it just never.

Came like you, Said, uh you know that fourth quarter in magic Bow nicks keeps.

Doing it's a real, thing, right he couldn't do anything and they get eleven points in that fourth.

Quarter that's that's a big.

Time.

Uh you, know we were hoping for to steal this.

One but as soon as you went, DOWN i saw that line, MOVE i was, like oh, man it's just it's just not our.

Day this is this is just the.

Terrible spot to be.

In we always talk, about like you, said the field.

Goals it's a new.

Age that's why these teams go for it on fourth and two because it's just you're doing nothing kicking all these field goals and you, know all these quarter was two touchdowns In.

Denver that was.

It, really those are the one two real drives they had the whole.

Game, yeah and that's all it.

Mattered and that you, know last Possession.

DENVER i was praying bo with therew us a.

Pick he had a couple leaving him out, there and he smartly, REALIZED i just need to use my legs in this final, drive and, yeah picked up a couple of big first downs and it was just over for.

Us, so, yeah brutal.

Loss but like just like That chargers, game bad.

Luck IT'S i try TO i try not to get too upset about these.

ONES i get more upset, about like the Horrible riata head On detroit to The.

Chiefs for this, one it's, like what are you going to?

Do that's it's why it's.

Gambling you don't want to put too much because injuries are a part of the.

Game AND i don't know if you can think of another.

GAME i think it was our first game this year we really been burned by our quarterback anymore in the second.

Quarter so we've had some good.

Luck we've been burned by dumb quarterbacks Like Trevor, lawrence but we haven't who who haven't had the full access of their complete mental.

Aptitude but we have not been burned by a quarterback just being out of the.

Game ah and, yeah as soon as that, happened you know it was it was a.

Bummer and because because The texans did everything, right they had The broncos fumble the punt with like thirty seconds left in the first, half deep in their own, Territory texas kick afield.

Goal bonnicks throws a pick in his territory after C.

J stroud is Out texans kick afield.

Goal at the end of the, game The texans defense two great blitz calls Flush bonnicks from the.

Pocket he's got nowhere to.

Go on second and eight and third and, eight they have to punt the ball with a minute thirty.

Left The texans burn thirty seconds on the clock and gain four yards and punt the ball back for The broncos to score the game winning field.

GOAL i will have more on this game when it comes to, shame, shame, shame Because i'm so disappointed in This texans.

Offense whether it WAS.

Cj shroud Or Davis, MILLS i don't think it's either of their.

Fault simon foreshadow hint all, right Can't city At Buffalo This simon, says we both lean into it pretty.

Hard you, know in the first, Half Josh allen fifteen of seventeen for one hundred and seventy six and One Tuddy Cook James cook eleven for sixty.

Four on the, Ground King kaiden knocks the two tight ends four for one oh five and a touchdown in the first.

Half and, look they completely flum mixed The.

Chiefs like, defensively that was the.

Issue we just didn't think they'd be able to Stop Patrick, mahomes who's been playing so.

Well and they Stopped Patrick mahomes who didn't play well and was at one point under fifty percent completion percentage for the first time in his career in a game they.

Struggled this was definitely just felt like A Josh allen.

Game he took over that first.

Staff you, know sons of doubt about him and his, receivers even if his receivers doing much, today those tight, ends those steam routes they, have that's using the sideline with his tight.

Ends all of it was just working for him.

Today and you, know a game in.

Which you hold The bills to seven points in the second.

Half you expect The chiefs to do what they do and come back and win those type of, games but they couldn't score any points in that third.

Quarter they, got you, know the eight points for you, know giving us false hope in that fourth quarter and made it a one possession.

Game and it was, there the opportunity was.

There but you said, It mahomes fifteen to thirty four for two hundred and fifty yards just not going to get the job done, right and that that was a game that you, know as people keep, saying and now it is true five and.

Zero Josh allen against the against The chiefs in the regular, season he lies up to these.

Moments he plays bigger for some reals And mahomes just.

Doesn't and, yeah a, bad, bad bad bad.

Read that's WHY i was so.

Disappointed where it's like you just felt in the first, Half it's Like Josh allen is just on right.

Now, yeah the most telling sign is, like, AGAIN i didn't give up in the first, half but that they get the ball to one with whatever that, is thirty seconds.

Left he always scores.

Those mahomes always gets.

That the double up was right there from the score, there get the ball back to start the second, half they settle for three again from the one three straight players couldn't, score kick a field, goal and then to start the third quarter to get the ball and they're three and.

Out so it just wasn't our night with The.

Chiefs and that was just a terrible.

Read, AGAIN i still think The chiefs are a better, team and you, know This bill's, DEFENSE i still have a lot of questions about.

It but these are the type.

Of games where all the bounces went their way And Josh allen, was you, know not, perfect but twenty three of twenty six two rushing, Touchdowns like it's just he was really in sync with finding the open, guys not forcing the downfield and like you, said another game From cook one hundred and fourteen, yards it's, just you, know When Joe brady's got the run game going like that And josh isn't missing.

GUYS i can't believe they only put up twenty eight.

POINTS i felt like they could have rolled This chiefs team and they let us hang.

Around But malmes couldn't steal This from first chat to, ye that was that was a bad.

Bet, hey this is Producer Matt.

Mitchell if you are new to the, show this is WHERE i jump in when no one asked me, to and say how about Those Buffalo Bills and then insert The Josh allen, alarm much to the delight Of bills fans everywhere and the chagrin of literally everybody.

Else let's hear it For Josh.

Allen baby.

Alert here For Josh.

Allen he's a football.

Player drugs to excuse?

Me?

Touchdown how many quarterbacks have you ever seen hurdle?

Anyone, goodness there's no, fear no.

Way he was Being todown, going oh my.

God the demands to do something about this album reaches man making louder and.

Louder so The, chiefs with The jaguars, winning are actually the currently the eighth seed in the.

A F c.

Because they're behind The jags and now they've lost four.

Games so not, Great, jim not, great not great at.

All now seven and, two The chargers keep, winning The colts are ahead of, them The patriots are ahead of, them The bills are ahead of.

Them not great for them right now The steelers are ahead of.

Them one and four for us, Today simon one and.

Four worst week of the, Year worst.

Week of the year that.

Was you, know you go through these years when you do the five every, week you just try to avoid the one and.

Four we got bid a couple of times this.

Year we've been, close but today we got bid and it stings a little.

Bit, Yeah like we was talking about the ease that can see it where old where we're three and two and unfortunately we've used up a lot of our luck this year and we would do for a one and four.

Week by the, Way i'm thrilled we got one because we could have been oning, Five like we got a fourth and two touchdown that could have been, controversial like they had to review.

It it wasn't a gimme that it was a.

Touchdown SO i feel very, lucky especially, considering you, know we left out The, steelers we left out The, panthers and like in place of The, falcons we could have been oh to five today just.

Easily so if that's the, case BECAUSE i like, OPTIMISM i feel pretty good about being.

Wanted four could have gone so much, worse at least twenty percent.

Worse.

Carolina some of the games we left, out let's talk about them.

Quickly carolina At Green, bay what's wrong with, Us like we knew all week this was not this was too big of a.

Number we should be playing.

This how did we not make?

This how were we not both more insistent about?

This and why wasn't this replacing something?

ELSE i, MEAN i thought we did to give me a minute our hard rock.

Bet, yeah but we should have put in the.

Contest we could have been more.

Forceful like we love The, Panthers we Like Bryce young coming.

Back we knew last week was an.

Anomaly like, yeah like The, packers we played well for twenty minutes last week and all of a, sudden their thirteen point, Favorites, like we just missed.

It, YEAH i Got i'm not gonna beat ourselves off about.

It, uh we were going to take Out pittsburgh Or.

Atlanta so it's like we were just we were never gonna avoid this owned.

Four we just for some reason we were stuck on those four.

Games we loved them Since tuesday and, yeah horrible.

Reads LIKE i, said we talked it was a trap, week and we took four favorites even though we had red flags about three of them that we knew were.

Suspicious we took them, Anyway so that's All i'm gonna own.

It you're not the, Professionally i'm the guy that's LIKE i kept trying to avoid these, traps AND i walked us right into three of, them and, LIKE i felt like such an.

Idiot even once that game's kicked, off it's, like what HAVE i?

Done because this is not where we should be on these.

Spots we should have taken these ugly.

Dogs but, yeah this.

Game you, know as MUCH i want to, SAY i read this one, RIGHT i really thought this was gonna be kind of a shootout and it was the total.

Opposite Green bay just totally stuck in the.

MUD i, Mean Bryce, young what did He i'd have to look it.

UP i think he had eleven completions for one hundred yards chat no.

Joke and it felt like The Carolina panthers, Dominated like their defense played so, well you, know their run game of This panthers, Team like we, Said Rico daddle now he's their number one, back one hundred and thirty yards, rushing two, touchdowns absolute difference.

Maker they just totally all controlled this, game never Let Green bay get in.

Rhythm you, Know Jordan, love he has these weird games where he just does really stupid, things throwing off his back foot and trying to do too.

Much and you see it if he plays it within the floor's, offense it looks.

Incredible once he steps out has to do his own.

Things it's not like his first.

YEAR i remember his first, year he was perfect at it, right he'd always make the right decision when you.

Go outside the.

Play these last couple of, years you just see these dumb turnovers and you, know the game it did feel like it had this vibe of The Green bay was going to figure out and steal this.

Game but like you, said we were, never never going to not cover that, number.

Like that was way too.

Inflated and the fact That panthers wanted out, Right i'm sure you're the.

Same but where that's stun where it's, like we love this, team we read it, Right how did we not have them no moneyliner On robin and how do we not hanmer this one?

More But i'm glad at least this morning we were smart enough to.

Agree we both liked.

It that's why we gave it.

Out it was a one game we didn't fight.

On we totally agreed.

On and, yeah the only negative is if it was thirteen and a.

Half there's a world where maybe we do take out The chargers because you know it was a nine and a half or.

Whatever just you, Know i'm trying to a low to myself thinking we could have gotten.

There BUT i don't think it's a bad.

Mess we were never avoiding.

It there's no way we were not on those four games.

Today but, yeah that's a.

Bummer.

Uh speaking of, bummer, boy DID i love The Jacksonville jaguars this?

Week and YEAH i.

DID i don't, KNOW i don't know if we talked about.

That and you, know they converted A this is this is.

Classic jacks converted a fourth and short inside their five yard line ON i think their first drive of the.

Game, yeah next, play pre snap, Penalty next, Play Trevor lawrence.

Pick he ignored what is supposed to happen on the, play which is a shovel.

Pass it was wide open with blockers in front of, him a little two yard.

Shovel he held it instead threw it into the end zone into any one of three raiders could have picked it, off and that's what.

Happened the rest of the that first half was a clunker Until Cam little hit that sixty eight year field goal and then in the second half in overtime they scored what was it about fifty points.

Combined This jacks, team Like Trevor lawrence is just the fucking.

Worst is just like they're never gonna win anything with.

Him he truly kills them in every single, game every.

Game, yeah but again it's a game that they probably shouldn't have, won and they kind of stole because their kicker hit or they.

Should have won it four different, times but they.

Couldn't they then they couldn't stop.

Anybody the second half was like a track.

Mate, YEAH i JUST i can't get over the fact that kicker made that kick and like this that's.

The league where we're living in.

Now BUT i KNOW i hated that.

Game didn't want to be on The, Raiders LIKE i knew a really smart group had taken that position early on That raiders, team AND i just tried to warn us off of it because it's, like what are they seeing That i'm not?

Seeing BECAUSE i was total agreeing with.

You it's Like Gino smith is a, Corpse like how are they going to keep.

Up with this?

Offense and it seems like the answer is pretty simple it's a guy Named.

Rock, yeah twelve, catch.

Twenty seven, yards three, touchdowns just ultimate game.

CHANGER i think the biggest hat tip you can get in all professional football is after the.

Draft if you Hear sean McVay was trying to trade up to your draft spot.

To take the guy you, took and like all you.

Heard all that whole before his rookie year was That sean McVay loved this, Guy Brock bowers and obviously set that rookie, record you, know came back totally dominated this, game and, yeah a Game i'm just probably.

AVOIDED I i took The, raiders but it's LIKE i hated.

IT i didn't want to watch.

It, unfortunately there's only three late games, today SO i had to watch this.

Game but, man even even in games they should, steal they still they couldn't get that two pointer and steal this.

Game there's just total total train wreck of a season for The.

Raiders and, yeah a week where all the worst teams Covered tennessee covers this team covers The.

Raiders it's it just that's how goes THE.

Nfl, right there's no teams or Like tennessee that year they went was it one fifteen or one in sixteen against the.

Spread bad teams cover ugly.

Spreads, well they.

Had been been going really.

Bad let's talk about The Chicago bears for a, second because Geez, LUISE i think they had like two hundred and sixty yards rushing today and anytime they run the, ball they team to do, really really.

Well and they seem to be, winning not because Of Kayleb william despite that play at the end of the.

Game they're certainly not winning because of their defense When Joe flacco was thrown for four hundred and seventy seventy.

YARDS i don't know how to take it with this.

Team i'm wearing My, bears you, know My bear shirt today BECAUSE i love.

Them BUT i feel like they do everything wrong and somehow they're getting lucky with so many games this.

Year that was a train wreck of a.

Game, yeah you're just tough once, Again like you, Said, caleb he's.

Inconsistent but you see these little moments where you're, like this is why this guy is number one.

Pick it's just Dude lawrence With Trevor.

Lawrence these little moments and you see why the guy was the number one.

Pick but that's not how you win a Super.

Bowl it's.

Not but you're not looking for a Super, bowl and why you keep you should even mention Super.

Bowl FOR i want a Super?

Bowl WELL i got some bad stories where you got.

It if you want to pop in YOUR vhs watch your Super.

Bowl but right, now, brother this this, team it's just one of even mention, It.

Caleb it's all about growing in the.

Offense but like you keep talking, about your head coach is the reason you guys keep winning these.

Games you have no business of winning your run.

GAME i, mean what was that GUY i came pronounced the.

Guy's, name The Kyle.

MENINGE i, mean out of this world one hundred and seventy six yards.

Rushing your whole team is a.

Unit we're averaging seventy point six yards per.

CARRY i love, Too just again A Ben johnson's that you had five different uh, no four different guys have a pass in this.

Game you had a tight end.

Throw the, ball you HAD Dj moore, throwball and you had your backup quarterback throw a.

Ball so it's just, Madness like everything about him is just.

Madness AND.

I don't.

KNOW i love those type of games because they stole it and they covered for you like you.

Had, yeah The flacco had no business bringing it.

Back what do you throw for four hundred and fifty yards or four undred seventy yards four Seventy.

Yeah like, Again i'm the number One joe bro.

HATER i had the.

Guy only person In america had him at ranked number six in my top ten, quarterbacks AND i might even bump him down next.

Year like What flaco is doing with this guy's.

WEAPONS i mean, THIS i feel like this might a lesson to all of, Us, like don't pay if you're gonna pay your number one, receiver your number two receiver or studs crazy, money go get Like Sam.

Darnold don't pay your quarterback crazy.

Money because half of these Throws Joe flack was making he has no business.

Completing it's just raw talent by T higgins and these other.

Pieces so, again as embarrass, FAN i try to be positive the fact That loveland was the one who showed up in this game Where cincinnati is by far the worst team of football graded wise against tight, ends and everybody in the world THAT i know in the fantasy football community was all Over loveland anytime.

Touchdown that was the second touchdown that one to break at the end of that.

Game, so, yeah you, KNOW i get where you're coming.

From caleb's not doing everything perfect because he's still stupid and makes dumb decisions.

Consistently BUT i just how do you not get?

Excited you went from having the loser of losers and justin fields and a joke of a head coach to a quarterback that did make a drive of the game when all hope was, Lost like that was a big boy.

Drive, like let's be, honest, man you're He's he was sitting on the bench for about forty minutes Watching Joe flacco put up fourteen points and get onside kicks and god knows, what and he came out there and his one, opportunity made a couple of big throws and had a couple of big scrambles and got you got those.

Wins SO i get where you're coming.

From BUT i feel like you should be happy you got your money in the cover THAT i thought was dead of.

Dead AND i Told chad before the this, MORNING i told Him i'd catched out my bear's side BECAUSE i just don't trust their.

Defense incredible in a day in which you give up forty two.

Points you guys.

WON i JUST i don't.

Know i'm starting to like The bears slowly bec one of my favorite.

Teams you guys have so many games this year you just steal because your coach.

Is just such a.

Genius SO i can't get over.

It what a win for The.

Bears all, right before we get to our leads and some questions and comments from the people watching right, now one more or, quickly rab Rab Mike, Tomlin rah rah rah.

Rah it's the game we thought they would have last, week The steelers keeping the game, close taking advantage of.

Turnovers Daniel jones finally comes back down to earth a little.

Bit it was never a.

Sweat they were up seventeen to seven at the end of the first.

Half they ended up.

Winning you, said just came down a little, bit a little.

Bit did you see his stats?

Today, well he threw a, pick that's ALL i care about.

It even, better he threw three, Picks, cheff and he had Three he had three, fumbles two for.

Loss so he came back down to.

Earth is that not an incredible stat?

Line it's it's it's great if you like The steelers.

Today exactly WHAT i just can't get.

Over it's like we knew he was gonna have a day where he just blew.

Up but that's, epic epic meltdown type of game.

That's on top of y'all blinking though real, no, no, no.

Gosh, Well i'll talk to you about, It.

Simon are you ready for this week's shame on?

You, shame, shame shame?

It texans offensive Coordinator Nick, cally.

Same on.

You first drive inside the ten yard, line they start with a.

Penalty three straight rush plays for zero yards from the one yard, line and then a penalty leads to a field.

Goal second, drive after an interception of bow knicks at, midfield they're at the two yard.

Line they go rush for no, yards, penalty rush for one, yard sack from the seventeen yard.

Line on a third, down they get sacked for four, yards have to kick a field.

Goal they had something like twelve, thirteen, fourteen fifteen plays inside the red zone, today including multiple plays inside the two yard, line and went backwards more often than they went.

Forwards there is a lack of, imagination a lack of, execution a lack of understanding of your personnel in That texans locker room when it comes to running and executing inside not even the red, zone inside the five yard, line which is why we lost our bet today thanks To texans offensive Coordinator Nick kelly for.

My shame on, You i'll definitely go with myself.

Outside same same SAME.

I JUST i knew coming the week as a trap, week and allow you ask all the time about.

This it's not only That i'm seeing the.

Lines it's again my life were like especially, TODAY i should have went to WHEN i got to the sportsbook this, MORNING i should changed all our bets any Given sunday WHEN i go to the, book especially after like this next, week it will be Empty sunday morning next.

Week these past two, weeks it was packed to the.

Gills everybody in the world had money and was at the book this week because the public had been.

Winning AND i Told CHAD i saw that top four that we were, on literally the four biggest public sides ticket, wise AND i was just, like oh my, god AM i walking us right into?

It AND i just couldn't have wit.

It it's like being in a bad dream that you know what's about to, happen but you cannot control.

It it is truly the worst feeling is it?

Better so it's definitely on.

ME i should have helped us avoid, it at least switched out one of those truck.

FAVORITES i can't believe looking.

BACK i let us Put chargers And detroit and these two huge chalk bards that we always are on the other side of, it and we walked right into.

It so shame on.

Me JUST i gotta be.

BETTER i will be better.

People i'm not gonna give you A Tim tebow.

Moment we will lose, again but next week we'll bounce.

BACK i just embarrassing on my part this.

Week who's your?

Hero my, Hero it's gotta Be.

Chad Chad's Atlanta.

Falcons you saved the.

Dad we were, like if we talk about we were gonna get that win that we could have.

Got we could have got in there With.

Pitch we're cutting in the Other.

Carolina but you were so dugging on.

It and LIKE i told, YOU i never get tons of pros coming up to me being like you're missing the mark here and chat a spot on it where it's like got to the point of being, like holy, SHIT i GUESS i have to Take.

Atlanta AND i told you before and even if it.

LOST i wasn't gonna give you zero shit BECAUSE i was, like these guys are literally boiling me into, this like they're telling me gotta get this, one and this is the spot of spots with this, team and like, you just like you, said when it came down to fourth and, two one handed catch By Drake, LONDON i was just, like so why these guys are?

Pros they just know just play.

The, number doesn't matter how you get, there as long as you get there and you get to the.

Windows so, yeah here of the, Week Chad, Money, Melvin, oh that's so.

Sweet my hero is Actually Drake, london who three touchdowns, today the touchdown that got us the.

Cover but he also was just making every single play when they needed a.

Catch and when we talked about this game all, week we talked about The falcons being different when they Had Drake london in the game more Than Michael, pennix and he was clearly the difference in keeping this game close because every Time pennix needed a, bailout a key third, down the drives at the end of the, game he had a great sideline.

Catch it was Always Drake.

London Drake London Drake london making the play that we needed for our one and only win on the, Day simon, says Was Kansas city minus one and a, Half BIG L chad's, Choice detroit minus eight and a, Half Big al Brass, Balls houston minus one and a, Half BIG L rock in a hard, Place carolina plus.

Thirteen, Yay sharp Versus.

SQUARE i had The, jags you at The chargers were both.

Losers this sucks.

And it's, horseshit But i'm too polite to say anything Because i'm a class.

Act our favorite Parlay Kansas CITY, L HOUSTON L chargers, One DETROIT L jags, one Underdog pittsburgh, One atlanta, Loss buffalo, One giants, Loss broncos.

One we're gonna be better about not having teams on both.

Sides we're gonna have to figure out what that.

Is that was nice.

Today that was my rare win WHERE i faded ourselves and it worked out for.

Me good for.

Us All, right people want to know right, now they're in the.

Chat they want to know who do we think are our Two Super bowl?

Teams now that we are heading Into week.

Ten it feels like way premature to be talking about that because that is just there's so much to, Discover like next week we could be we could be back on The.

Chiefs in two, WEEKS i could be in love with The.

Bears like it's hard to.

Know at this.

POINT i DON'T i don't Buy.

Denver you, know it could be The ravens in four.

Weeks.

Yeah If i'm going to still go With Super bowl teams THAT i actually think can get there for, REAL, Afc, Chiefs, bills If.

Lamar's, right those are those are the three and.

Anyone, ELSE i have my, doubts AND i will fade and take a position against you, know, Football we're due for a fluki team to come out OF.

Afc it's been a long.

Time it feels LIKE i just at the end of the, day The chiefs just played such a high.

Level AND i know you joked a little bit about like what if they've done in their division that honestly changes doesn't change my, opinion.

Doll like people don't.

Understand they went To buffalo with one of the WORST creatd Teams i've ever had and beat a Stacked bills, team and then one of the road and beat A Lamar jackson team that was also, Stacked like they've they've gone on the road and done that before to get to a Super bowl and won That Super.

Bowl so, yeah there was a team that jump out from THE AFC.

NFC i feel Like i'm just dug in on it WHERE i still think It's eagles And, rams just the two teams with the quarterbacks that have been, there done, that AND i trust them in high leverage.

Situations where CAN i get there On seattle On Sam?

Darnold it's gonna be hard for, me, people, honestly CAN i get there On Green?

Bay jordan Of?

Love same?

Thing the only ONE i could see outside getting into this group is The.

Bucks like The, bucks they've historically owned This eagles.

TEAM i know this year The eagles beat, them but again this is just a banged Up if they get right and they keep winning, GAMES i could see them moving into a group with That eagles, team That rams.

Team that you.

KNOW i just all these other teams on the, outside just Like, detroit like we Love.

DETROIT i just it's gonna be hard for me to ever Trust golf in the playoffs where you've seen him kind of lay eggs a couple.

Times in his.

Career so, yeah like you said it is, early but.

It just feels, like of all these teams to get, RIGHT i just if The bucks get healthy in THE, NFC i could see them being being a really tough out later in the, season where right now we're just undervalued.

Them right they're just so banged, up so.

Injured it's just it's hard to really think The bucks could be in the Super bowl at some.

Point BUT i think once they get, right they could be one of those.

Teams two favorites one today The San francisco forty nine.

Ers they beat The giants by.

Ten they were two and a half point favorites Any Los Angeles rams to your, point they were fourteen point favorites at home against The.

Saints this game got to twenty to ten and then The rams poured in two more.

Touchdowns they won thirty four to.

Ten so of all the teams that avoided the trap that we're in a trap, spot The rams are the only ones that stood and delivered against a, really really big.

Number so good for, them which is to your point about why people are so excited about The rams or should be thinking about, them because they.

Are it's like they're doing.

It they're THEY'RE i don't think they're getting discussed enough as a dominant team in THE nfc right.

Now it feels like it's all happening kind of under the.

Radar let's talk early leans For week.

Ten the first game you AND i discussed that we thought was going to be really hard to ignore Was detroit is a three and a half now three point favorite At.

Washington, YEAH i can't believe that's that's where they opened that.

At and this could just be me missing the mark with This washington because you know they're down to two and a half at a lot of books tonight against The.

Seahawks see what happens when they kick.

Off interesting that they would open this on minus, three like they know they're gonna get a ton of public money This lions.

Team, so like you, Said i'm going to grab it just now BECAUSE i do think it will move.

UP i mean it's minus one twenty at most, books so you know it's not the greatest number to be betten, into BUT i still think it's a key, number So i'll grab it out even though we both know this is definite gonna be the public side of this upcoming.

Week.

Uh The Baltimore ravens right now are three and a half point favorites At.

Minnesota that one also stands out to me BECAUSE i don't jj McCarthy just wasn't great.

Today he made good plays when he had to make good.

Plays and The ravens, defense what are we going to?

Get?

Like are they the team that no problem against a Terrible miami?

Team did they improve like they did last year coming off of the bye?

Week that's the wild card to.

Me but, this to me feels like a better team than The.

Vikings.

Yeah and also it's a weird, Line like you just, said where you can get there's minus three's out there hard rock And jeers right now is minus three minus one.

Twenty SO i Know i'm trying, Again i'm trying to not do WHAT i just did last week and take all these ye road.

Favorites but my, god that's that feels like an insane line to open.

With like This ravens, team we've seen.

It when they get, going they.

Dominate AND i don't want to overreact to A vikings team that did stop the run last week Against, detroit where we've seen them be one of the worst run defensive on, Football so Maybe i'm missing.

It And i'll learn more this week about what The vikings.

Did i'll watch the tap about the adjustments they.

Made but this feels like a great Play, lamar who historically is this absolutely DOMINATED nfc.

Team So i'm with.

You if you can get it minus through right how hard, Rock i'm gonna grab that early line.

Two more THAT i am pinpointing right.

NOW i hate to say.

It San francisco forty nine or three point dogs at home against The.

Rams, Yeah i'm not going to bet.

It i'll wait and see THE qb.

Is even Though Mac jones you played really well again, Today.

I'm assuming it's gonna be a prock.

Party that's WHY i assume so to lead into the three right.

Now But i've assumed.

He was gonna be back chatter for about three weeks.

Now, yeah And i'm starting to learning these are these Are mac lines because they keep hanging these numbers like this.

WEEK i thought all week the number was two and a half because it was, like, oh, pretty we'll be, back and he never.

Was he was never really, good even like talked about coming.

Back so you're, again you're.

Right it's another spot like we just talked about three straight games where it's three straight road favorites should just open them on minus three and letting the professionals.

DECIDE i think the pros are going to join you here on this Forty nineers team Shut SO i won't take a take a position on it, yet BUT i do see the professionals coming to the forty niners early.

Year last one for me Is pittsburgh plus three and a half on the road against The.

Chargers this offensive, Line Joe watt was carted.

Off they lost two other guys during the, Game, like how are they gonna Protect Justin?

Herbert that's, true that is.

True that's the game to, Me it's not even About Ryra Mike.

Tomlin it's just they can't Protect Justin.

HERBERT i know This pittsburgh, team, though is so bad in so many different.

Ways like we talked, about they had five turnovers today and they won't buy a.

Touchdown SO.

I, mean you are you're just betting On tomlin as a, dog AND i agree with you that when j'all all went, OUT i know he did drive like you, said he drove the Field herbert to give us one more, touchdown but he had NEVER i mean amount of pressure in his face from A d line that has no guys that can really get.

Pressure so, yeah this maybe this, is like you, said another spot WHERE i just got to hold my, nose Trust tomlin and the number and just back.

That that's good matchup for, them but their secondary is gonna have real issues against what you, know This herbert offense can do right the passing.

ATTACK i, Mean lati mcconkae had a couple of really bad, drops but although the shears just are so in sync right.

Now so, YEAH i don't hate your early read.

There what else are you looking?

At?

Uh just ones that jumped.

OUT I i, MEAN i don't want to do, it BUT i feel like we have To dampa after a bye week minus two and a half at home against The.

PATRIOTS i have to grab that, now DON'T.

I that's, yeah that feels like that's that's a number that can easily move.

Up i'm not.

Gonna i'm not, gonna you, know tell people they have to be betting This caroline is only minus five and a.

Half they've opened my five and a.

Half, NOW i think the public comes in and that number goes up like it's That saints offense as bad as they look today and the rookie did on the, road it's bad Spots like he was his first starts on the road against a really Tough rams.

Team now he's on the road Against caroline team that just plays better at.

Home like that last week we talked about that was a total.

Fluke that was An Andy dolton just total disaster.

GAME i Think Bryce shrunk will bounce back and have a much better game than he did the week before against his Bad saints.

Defense AND i just liked that that's that's under the key number of six really early here in the.

Week uh are we are we just a Back atlanta?

Again atlanta's plus six and a half against the cold.

Team it's, indoors it's.

Indoors, Yeah like it feels like this is the exact spot we're supposed to back This atlanta.

Team So i'm gonna grab that early, here even IF i want to change my position later on.

MORE i look into this, one BUT i can't see my model having The colts to a seven point.

Favorite like there again we talked that they are, good but their defensive.

Suspect they have major questions about the secondary And Daniel jones bounce back spot, yeah of course he should bounce back, here BUT i don't.

Know it feels like a very still an inflated.

Line and the fact that you can get six and a half such a key.

Number i'll grab that earli here and my last one before you get out of.

Here just can't help.

MYSELF i hate it because it's going against my own, Team.

Eagles you can get minus two and a half on Green bay right, NOW.

I think that's that's a pretty good.

Value i'm interested to the professionals do if the pros will come in with the public and hit that.

Line i'm interested if that's that's what the possibility is.

Here oh, yeah you're right That Atlanta colts games In.

GERMANY i BELIEVE i could be, wrong but, no you.

Are that's.

Right that's, right.

It's, international, Right, okay that makes more.

SENSE i, MEAN i already bet, it So i'm already dugging on.

It but, yeah before we get out of, here Just i'm interested with the pros do with That eagles.

LINE i feel like that's a very tempting to the.

Public gonna be a very public.

Dog eagles plus two and a, half And i'm gonna grab The Green bay just in case it does go up to.

Three all, right we will dig in a little bit, more a lot more On tuesday.

Again our one win today The Atlanta falcons plus five and a.

Half we lost with The chiefs minus one and a, half The texas minus one and a, half The chargers minus nine and a, half and The lions minus eight and a.

Half you know, What, simon we get what we, deserve and that's what we deserve.

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