The Herd with Colin Cowherd - FantasyPros - Top Predictions & Prop Bets for Super Bowl LX (Ep. 1951)

Episode Date: February 5, 2026

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Starting point is 00:00:30 you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Hello, everybody. Welcome me to the Fantasy Pro's football podcast. I'm Ryan Wormley, joined by Andrew Erickson. We are talking Super Bowl predictions. We're the only show out there that is talking about the Super Bowl this week.
Starting point is 00:00:45 So I'm glad you're with us here to hear what we're talking about. Of course, that's a lie. It's all anybody's talking about. And we are joining the big wave of this content. Erickson, we just saw each other in person, which is a rare opportunity for us here, working for a remote company, but we were in New Orleans together last week. How are you recovering? Feeling good. This is fingers crossed one of the few times that I've traveled and seemingly come back okay without any type of sickness, which usually happens. But as I was telling people before at our team
Starting point is 00:01:16 meeting in our team meetup, I just make sure I prep my body. I start drinking the airbornes. I do the emergencies like a couple days before I got to travel, then throughout the entire travels, and then after I travel and come back, and that seems to be working. Maybe it's all in my mind that I'm just spending money on useless supplements and vitamins that are basically just going in and out of my body. But so far it's working for me, Worm,
Starting point is 00:01:41 I think that prioritizing sleep as well a little bit here on the trips, even if it makes me a bit of a weenie when I have to, you know, go to my hotel bed a little bit earlier than everybody else. You know, that's okay, because I usually feel pretty much better than everybody else the next day.
Starting point is 00:01:55 I definitely had a bit of the, I don't know if they do this the city, but the New Orleans flew some of those mornings. Swamp flew. Swamp flew. Yeah. I mean, that's what happens when your hotel is on Bourbon Street. I think the earliest I went to bed was 2 a.m.
Starting point is 00:02:10 That was my responsible night. I mean, it's so rare that we all get to hang out together that I don't want to, you know, miss any of it. I don't want to go to bed early. So we had some fun in New Orleans. My voice is still recovering days later. But that's a good thing. It's recovering from having too much fun.
Starting point is 00:02:27 Let's jump into these Super Bowl predictions here, Erickson. We both went about three and three in the conference championship round. I included our props in that record just to kind of get more in there. But we both went three and three. We were very, very strong on the Patriots Broncos game. We were weaker. I mean, we said it too going into that episode, right? We felt really good about our bets for Pat's Broncos.
Starting point is 00:02:50 That proved to be correct. We were a lot more of like a coin toss. Like just we got to pick something on Seattle against us. LA and that one, you know, was the better game and was the one that we got wrong, but we were close on those. So like I said, ultimately a 500 week. We have Seahawks first Patriots. Your New England Patriots are in the Super Bowl, Erickson.
Starting point is 00:03:10 It is Seahawks minus four and a half, and the over under is settled at 45 and a half. Before we jump into our actual predictions, just as a fan, how are you feeling about this game? I mean, really excited. I again, Patriots or underdogs, I kind of like that from the perspective of a Patriots fan because so many of these Super Bowls we've been to, it's Belichick, it's Brady. It doesn't, like, you kind of just throw everything out the window because all these guys do in this spot is win for the most part. Again, they didn't win every single Super Bowl, but they were in every single Super Bowl till the end. They had a chance to win all those Super Bowl's. They also had a chance to lose.
Starting point is 00:03:48 All those Super Bowl's too. So this is a little bit of, you know, uncharted waters with Mike Brable and Drake May and a lot of new players that are. are playing in the Super Bowl for the very first time, although the one staple being Josh McDaniels. You know, he was part of a lot of those Super Bowls playing an integral role, especially as the offensive play caller in five of those Super Bowls for the Dominican Patriots, some wins and some losses. But I'm really excited. Sunday can't come early enough. We're doing the live stream, myself, Matt Peralt and Pat Fitzmorest on the betting pro shows. So we're going to be breaking things down at 4 o'clock Eastern time, two and a half hours before kickoff.
Starting point is 00:04:21 Gonna have a lot of bunch of food, watching it with the parents-in-law, the wife. I was going to ask what you're doing for the watch party. Are you the type who, when your team is in the game, you can't be around a ton of other people? I like to limit the amount of people I'm watching it with because I like to be honed. It's usually just like a small collective of friends. It's not going to be like a massive. Again, if I have no interest, like it's just, you know, this team here and this team here, I'd rather go to a big Super Bowl party because then it's just more about having fun.
Starting point is 00:04:47 But this is where, you know, I'm going to be a white knuckle in this game here. Like it's going to be, again, the way that I'm expecting to play out. I think that it's going to be end up being a close. But no, I'm super excited again. Anyone I saw with a Patriot shirt, shirt, hat at the airport on Bourbon Street, didn't matter where I was, went to Florida afterward for a day. I was like, go Pat. And it just felt really good to be like, yeah, we're all into this.
Starting point is 00:05:10 Let's go. See what happens. Do you feel, and I promise, it's not a very long show. So we have plenty of time to get to the predictions. So if people want to skip past as they can. But I just like picking your brain as an actual fan of the team. Do you feel like you, there's almost like less. pressure. There's always pressure when you're in the Super Bowl, right? Like, there's no guarantee
Starting point is 00:05:28 you get back. But you're the underdog. This was a season where, not that the Patriots are fraudulent, but like they played a really easy schedule. Like, very much felt like this was a season where it's like that year-worthy or year-too early. Like, you expect to have this long runway with Rabel and Drake May as this like Super Bowl contending combo for a decade. Like, really, there's no reason that shouldn't be the case for the next decade. So the fact that you're kind of a year too early, this is probably not going to be the best team of the Drake May Vrable era. Like, you will have better opportunities.
Starting point is 00:06:04 And, like, the fact that you have this long runway, like, does that to you make a little less pressure? You said you're going to be white knuckling the game. Is it almost more, like, kind of gravy? And, like, if you win, like, what, like, you're not going to apologize for anything. But if you don't, like, yeah, we're going to be back as a contender next year. And this wasn't the year anyway. Yeah, I would say so.
Starting point is 00:06:22 I think that from a grand scheme, I think yes, it's definitely gravy. But when you're actually watching the game, oh, Patriots are 14-0. Of course. Now it's like, no, we are expecting to win this game, although like the pre-season or the before the game starts, the Patriots don't rock.
Starting point is 00:06:38 So yeah, I like that. They feel like they don't have as much pressure on them. But again, to the point of the Seahawks, I mean, they weren't really viewed as supposed to be here either. So it's just been a really weird year in terms of the contenders. I mean, both of these teams, I believe, were listed longer than 61 odds to win the Super Bowl. Yes, that is correct.
Starting point is 00:06:59 But like 60 to 1 was the shortest of the two, which is crazy. Yeah. So this is really a rare occurrence of teams that really nobody thought would get to the Super Bowl. Again, those that have Seahawks' Patriots exact as Super Bowls, like, I mean, I just kind of tip my hat to you. Like, that's definitely would not have been on my card. So I really liked the Seahawks over was one of my favorite bets. going into the season. I do like the pass over, though, as well, yeah, to your point.
Starting point is 00:07:24 I like both, I like both these teams overs. I liked the Seahawks to make the playoffs and contend for the division. I liked the Patriots to, like, as a good bet to make the playoffs just because of the schedule. I did not view them as a Super Bowl contender. The Seahawks, I liked better, but also did not view them as a Super Bowl contender. But I did view them as a legitimate, like, division contender playoff. Like, I did really like these teams relative to their odds. I did not like them to make the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 00:07:52 All right, we can jump into this here. I do think, by the way, you talked about, like, the Patriots jump out to a lead, how you'll be feeling. I think whichever team, if a team jumps out to a double-digit lead in this game, they're holding on to it. I don't think there's going to be, like, a crazy comeback. In this game, I think the first half is going to really matter. Because I think both these teams are going to be a lot more comfortable if they have
Starting point is 00:08:12 a lead in the second half, even if it's a small one. So I think that's something to keep in mind there. We'll start with the against the spread prediction here. That's kind of the pattern we've been doing. on the show throughout the playoffs here. So again, like I said, it's Seahawks minus four and a half. I'll let you go first.
Starting point is 00:08:29 What is your side on that one? I'm taking the Patriots with the points at plus four and a half. And ultimately, I think that they're going to win this game. That's the best bet that I would have for this game in terms of picking a side. I think that there's a lot of value on the Patriots just to win outright. So although we're just picking against the spread here, I like the Patriots with the points. underdogs have been really good in Super Bowls, last five Super Bowls,
Starting point is 00:08:56 the underwarks have covered straight up. Now, Super Bowl trends are sometimes hard to hold too much weight because so many of those Super Bowls as well, which side was packed from the home? Was he the underdog or was he the favorite? And so some of the Super Bowl trends can be a little bit noisy because it's always been Patriots teams or it's always been Chiefs teams. But I just like, and I think I'm talking about this on our prediction show before the championship games worm, I liked the matchup against Seattle more than.
Starting point is 00:09:21 the one against the Los Angeles Rams. Like that's what I wanted the Patriots to draw specifically because I think that schematically, they match up much better against the Cioxx than the Rams. I think what you look at them, how they match up defensively with what the CX can do on offense. Okay, you have an elite run defense. Both of these defenses have elite run defenses. So if they can shut down Ken Walker with Milton Williams, Christian Barham Moore, Robert Spillane, those guys in the middle, then that makes the CX a little bit more one-dimensional.
Starting point is 00:09:51 that's not necessarily a bad bet when Jackson's Bitha Jigba is the one dimensional piece to your offense in the passing game. But the Patriots have cornerbacks like Christian Gonzalez who maybe not can completely stop it. Again, JSN is getting into an office player of the year most likely for a reason because he's really freaking good. And like Christian Gonzalez, I think is really good. But there are times this year. Again, think back to that Falcons game, Drake London had like three touchdowns in that game. He had a monster performance. So I think that's going to be overblown a tad bit where people are saying,
Starting point is 00:10:21 Oh, yeah, Gonzalez is going to completely shut down JSM. Like, I'm like holding to like 80 yards receiving, right? That'll probably be a win in the book of the Patriots. I think they would take that, especially if they can keep him out of the end zone. So I like that match up there. And then in the interior pass rush, again, going back to Baramore, Milton Williams, that's where the Seahawks offensive line is the weakest, you know, up the middle, center, center, offensive guards.
Starting point is 00:10:45 And if you can pressure Donald up the middle, I think that can create opportunities for him to make mistakes. it makes some turnovers. And on the Patriot side, offensively, we just saw Matthew Stafford throw all over this secondary, especially with the deep ball. What are the Patriots done all year long? It's just toss the deep ball, create explosive chunk plays.
Starting point is 00:11:02 Seattle's 14th and EPA per pass attempt allowed on passes over 20 plus air yards. Again, an elite defense up and down, but I would say they are a little bit vulnerable against deep passes. And you can always bet on Drake made and make some plays with his legs off script. So even if that pass rush for Seattle gets behind the offensive
Starting point is 00:11:20 line for the Patriot, that's definitely one of their biggest weaknesses, especially the way that Will Campbell has played since coming back from his injury, you're going to expect that pass rush to hit home. But if Drake may just make some magical plays with his leg, scrambles, escapes the rush, and is able to move the ball and flick damage downfield, well, that's how you can see this offense creating plays and scoring points here. So I just like see a couple paths where I can buy the side of how the Patriots can win on offense, where they can win on defense, and ultimately that leads me to them taking
Starting point is 00:11:48 them with the points, because I just think that it's too many. Again, the look ahead lines for this were Seattle minus three and a half before the conference champions get conference championship games even played out. And now it's stuck at four and a half. So I don't think we should really look at anything from the conference championships to really change our minds significantly. We already saw Seattle beat the Rams. And I mean, the Denver game was bad weather. There was no Bo Nix. It was kind of more of what I expected to see as we bet last week.
Starting point is 00:12:14 We like the under a lot in that game. So that's my kind of long winded answer of why I like the Patriots here. a spot. So, um, interesting to see what you have to say because you have the Seattle as your pick. I was much stronger on Seattle minus four and a half early and then take, you know, we have this week off, right, to kind of think about it more and play around with it and, and kind of settle into a more official prediction. And I feel less confident about it than I did in the couple of days after we found out the matchup. Ultimately, I am still going with it. And the reason is, I think if this game is close, the Patriots are winning, and I think if this game is not close, the Seahawks are going to win.
Starting point is 00:12:57 Like, like, I don't see a world where the Seahawks win by like two or three points. Like, I don't think the Seahawks are waiting by a field goal. I trust Mike Vrable enough as a tactician and a game manager that late game, like, even with a young quarterback, you know, obviously playing his first Super Bowl, I just have so much faith in that coaching staff that I think Patriots pull it out if it's close. But if it's not close, I think the more likely team to win, and obviously, like, a five-point win wouldn't be a blowout. But, like, the more likely team to win, I think handedly is Seattle because they're just the better team, right? This is by DVOA, a top five team, like in that era since they, like, DVA started tracking, which I don't think is true, right? Like, I think most people watching this team would say, this is not really, like, a top five team ever type of performance. and maybe some of that is just the baggage of Sam Darnold's career
Starting point is 00:13:50 and maybe some of it is just like, you know, the eye test or whatever it is. It doesn't feel like that's true even if the analytics are saying it is. But the Seahawks, like, you talk about like, you know, they're susceptible to the deep ball. I think they're just susceptible to the Rams. Like, like the Matthew Stafford and Sean McVeigh have played this team really well. I think they're the two best teams in football this season. But if you go back to Thanksgiving, the points given up by the Seattle defense are 0, 9, 16, 37, 10, 3, 6, and 27.
Starting point is 00:14:24 The 37 and 27 were both the Rams. Everybody else is scoring 16 points or fewer. And even going back earlier in the year, like, right, that's just since Thanksgiving. You know, those point totals are giving up 22, 21, 24. Those are the biggest numbers, not to the Rams. The only exception besides the Rams this year where they really, like, the defense got shredded was the loss to Tampa Bay. that happened October 5th. That was a very long time ago.
Starting point is 00:14:49 So, like, this defense is very, very good to the point where I'm not looking at what Matthew Stafford did and saying, oh, this is the path for Drake made a replicate it and the Patriots to replicate it. And I'm now worried about the Patriots throwing deep on this defense. I think that is just a McVeigh-Stafford Rams thing where we saw it multiple times this year. They had this defense's number. Nobody else really did outside of the random fluky game.
Starting point is 00:15:16 you know, against Tampa Bay. So I think that the Seahawks have a better chance of winning this game by a touchdown than the Patriots do. And that is the direction I'm leaning. The other thing, too, is there has been some pushback about the Patriots easy schedule narrative, not saying that it wasn't easy, but saying like, well, hey, in the playoffs, like, look at the defenses they've played. The Chargers, really, really good defense. The Texans and Broncos, two of the three best defenses in football, obviously Seahawks being the other one who they're about to play. But Drake May didn't look good in those games. He did enough to win, but they weren't winning on the backs of the offense, like,
Starting point is 00:15:57 stepping up against these really good defenses. So I don't have a lot of confidence that they're going to do the same. Now, there was weather in a couple of those games that will, you know, presumably not be the case in this game. But I'm not looking at this playoff run. Like, well, hey, they beat these really good defenses. Maybe that goes against the scheduling narrative. Like, yeah, the offense didn't do anything in those games.
Starting point is 00:16:17 They won because they were facing Justin Herbert without an offensive line. They were facing the corpse of C.J. Stroud. And they were facing Jared Stidham in a blizzard for half the game. Like, and for as much as I have doubted Sam Darnold in a lot of these other games, like in the playoff run and Week 18 and all that on the show, I'm not going to doubt him anymore, at least in terms of how he will play relative to the quarterbacks, the Patriots have already faced on this playoff run. So I think this is a legitimate step up in competition, not just from what the Patriots have played all season, but from what they've played in the postseason as well.
Starting point is 00:16:53 Not that they're going to be totally unprepared, right? They have two weeks to get ready for it. They know this is a very good team. But, you know, I guess the way I would kind of simplify it is I'm reasonably confident in both run defenses doing a good job against the opposing rushing attacks. And I'm reasonably confident in the Seattle passing defense doing a pretty good job against Drake. and the passing offense. The one that I'm less confident in is the Patriots passing defense against the Seattle passing offense.
Starting point is 00:17:21 That's the matchup that I think will determine this game. And it's a matchup where I am going to give Seattle the edge. And it's enough of an edge that I think if they win, they can win by a touchdown, which obviously easily covers this. Yeah, I agree with you where, to me, it's Seattle blows out the Patriots or the Patriots win by a field goal. Right. That's kind of how I see this game.
Starting point is 00:17:40 So it really goes against, you don't really want to make a pick against the spread. Because that doesn't capture what outcomes we think are actually most likely to happen here. So you change the line to Seahawks to win by seven. Okay, now you're getting much higher payout. Same thing with just betting on the Patriots to win outright. Don't sweat the spread necessarily where you can get more value for your pick and what you actually think is going to happen. Because again, these are sometimes more of like, it feels like a hedge a little bit more. putting the Seahawks at four and a half where the market is undecided, well, we're not really,
Starting point is 00:18:13 we think the CX could maybe kill the pages, but we think they're better. They're obviously better by the field goal, but not enough where like, well, we don't want to make them too much of a favor by a touchdown. Like, that's ludicrous when what are the most often points scored? It's either a field goal or a touchdown. Like, so, I mean, theoretically, they could, you know, play like a team that won by four and a half, but you look up and they won by 10, right? Because that's just the way that some of the.
Starting point is 00:18:39 scoring ends up working. So I agree with you there. Like those are the sides that I would like to lie on. So I just, I like the Patriots of the money line. You like the Seacques to win by, you know, six and a half points. I think that is the right way to approach this particular match. I do want to add just one last thing. I mentioned this on the trip to a bunch of different people. Drake May plays really bad and bad weather. He's played in bad weather. At times this year, that's when he's looked his worse. When they played the Raiders in week one, people forget they lost to the Raiders. It rained in that game. And Drake May did not look good. Like, he looked hardly.
Starting point is 00:19:10 It looked like, oh, no, like Patriots fans were way over their skis. Like, they were never going to take this massive leap. You got to be patient with Drake May in Tampa Bay. That was a road game. It rained at the beginning in the first half. Drake may look terrible. And, yeah, I think that he has struggled a little bit with some of these weather concerns. Now, hoping that's not a factor in the Super Bowl match in Santa Clara.
Starting point is 00:19:31 Hopefully the weather is fine. Just one thing I wanted to kind of layering because you did bring up with the weather in terms of the Patriots offense struggling. I do think that did have a major factor. Obviously playing top five defenses also going to play a role. The other thing, too, and you mentioned the Rams because I know a lot of us looked at last week, oh, this was the Super Bowl. The Rams have been such a good team. And I thought the Rams and Seahawks were probably, yeah, like DVOA-wise, just their
Starting point is 00:19:55 bodies of work were just so excellent this year. I just want to point out how Mike McDonald was brought in to be the Seahawks coach to beat the 49ers to beat the Rams, right? Like that was his main job because, There was no way Seattle was ever going to get to the Super Bowl unless they got through those two offenses. And that's exactly what he was able to do. And he looked how well he performed in rematches against those opponents, 8 and O in terms of same season rematches. So when he got extra time and extra look at a particular offense, specifically when it was Shanahan or Sean McVeigh, like he threw his best punch in that second rematch matchup.
Starting point is 00:20:30 So that's what concerns me about not wanting to overvalue the Seahawks here because they're coming off another big win. against the Los Angeles Rams. Like, again, I don't want to classify this as, oh, well, he's owned these offenses. No, but I think that he has had the upper hand, especially in rematches against those types of teams. And that's not the case here against Drake May and a Josh McDaniels offense that is very much different in terms of how they play offensively. So that was just one thing I wanted to mention. Hey, it's us to Jonas Brothers. And guess what?
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Starting point is 00:24:30 Don't miss out. Try it free for one month now, available on iOS and Android. The other thing that I want to say here, Eric Zinn, and I'm going to loop this into the totals, and I'll go first on this one, is I, like, you talked about Mike McDonald and specifically what he can do against Shanahan and McVeigh. I do think, and I have felt this way basically since he was the Ravens defense coordinator in 2023, I think Mike McDonald is like the chosen one on the defensive side of the ball. Like a lot of people, the Ravens obviously hired Jesse Minter who helped develop this defense with Mike McDonald when they were both working on a weak, Wink Martindale in Baltimore.
Starting point is 00:25:10 So a lot of people like Baltimore fans are like, well, we missed out of McDonald, but we're getting like the other McDonald. Like the guy who helped put this together. I think Jesse Minter is really, really good. I think he's a really defensive coordinator, great defensive play caller. But I think it's sort of like Kevin O'Connell compared to Sean McVeigh. Like there are other really good play callers out there. But McVeigh is like the one. I think Mike McDonald is defensive McVeigh.
Starting point is 00:25:31 I think he is a true savant, genius, sees the game in a different way, even compared to elite defensive play callers. So for that reason, I am inclined to, I think it's a good number. The 45 and a half is the total on the game. I'm taking the under, and a lot of that is driven by, like, Mike Drable is a very good defensive coach too, obviously. And the Patriots defense is playing terrifically well, again, against, you know, maybe not the best offensive, you know, opposition here in the playoffs. But they've been playing really well and deserve credit for that. They've been playing well all season went healthy.
Starting point is 00:26:05 Milton Williams is awesome. They match up well against the Seahawks, I think, particularly on the ground, as you already alluded to. But this is an underpick by me driven almost entirely by McDonald himself. I just think that guy is special. And you're giving him two weeks to game plan for, admittedly, a very, very, very good quarterback, but still a second year quarterback in his first playoff run, who has not played very well.
Starting point is 00:26:26 This is not a perfect team. It's not a good offensive line. And it is a Seahawks defensive front that I think can really take advantage of this offensive line. It is just a stacked, healthy, top to bottom, great elite defense against a good quarterback that doesn't have a lot else going for it. You know, again, there are good players on there, but not in terms of like epic Super Bowl matches going up against the best defensive football types of players to that same degree. and then you take the possibility of a Sam Darnold, you know, clock strikes midnight and everything falls apart. Like that's on the table, even if I'm not betting that to happen, which would, of course, play towards the under as well. So for me, like, again, I do think it's a good line.
Starting point is 00:27:08 I've been burned by taking the under against the Seahawks before because Sam Darnold can just step up and, you know, all of a sudden it's a spiritual under, but it hits the over. But for me, like, I cannot really describe how emphatically I feel that Mike McDonald is just, different in terms of every other defensive-minded football right now. These things are cyclical. I'm not going to say that that's going to last for the next 30 years of dominance. But right now, I think he is head and shoulders ahead of even the second best defensive mind in the sport. And giving him two weeks to prepare for a flawed offense is, I guess, the way to put it, I'm going that direction. The other thing I want to say, and this kind of ties into the spread also is last year I felt like on all these shows, everybody said the same thing.
Starting point is 00:27:51 It was the Eagles are the better team, but the Chiefs have the quarterback. And, you know, Drake May doesn't have the same prestige that Mahomes did going into that Super Bowl. But it is kind of a similar thing of like, well, we like Drake May better than the Sam Darnold, but the Seahawks are the better overall team. I was picking the Eagles. And I was like the only one on a lot of the shows that I did, at least. I know I'm not the only one out there. But on the shows I was doing, I felt like the only one.
Starting point is 00:28:15 And I kind of want to go back to that well. Like, I think the Seahawks are the better team. So even though the Patriots have the better. quarterback like I'm going to trust what I think is the best defensive football which the Eagles were last year and I think that's the Seahawks for Texans this year I think it's the Seahawks right now obviously and so I'm taking the under in addition to the to the Seahawks on the side. I am also taking the under in terms of the total on this game. I think you made a lot of great points about McDonald and I don't want my analysis on him and how great he's done against Shanahan
Starting point is 00:28:48 and McVeigh as a reason to oh yeah well the Patriots are going to score a boatload of points because he can stop those offices, but he can't stop Josh McDaniels because look, like, I don't want to get viewers and listeners confused by that. Fully expect him to throw a ton at Drake Bay and Josh McDaniels. Even though McDaniels has a ton of Super Bowl experience, he is now, I believe this will be his sixth Super Bowl as an office coordinator. Again, he's even coaching more Super Bowls as assistants. He's been with the Patriots since dating back to their first Super Bowl run ever, you know,
Starting point is 00:29:18 in 2001 against the St. Louis Rams. I do think that this is going to be a challenge for the Patriots offense overall, even if Drake May can make a few plays because that's really been the recipe for success for them against all these top tier defenses. Again, Seattle will be the four straight top 10 defense patriots who have faced in the postseason. Their offense in the last three weeks in the playoffs has averaged under 16 points per game. Now, the overall points per game is boosted because they have that one pick six against CJ Stroud, but offensively, like when Drake Bay has been on the field, they have not been going over 16 points.
Starting point is 00:29:51 The two defenses are allowing 18 points per game on average. So the offenses have obviously made a lot of their games goal into higher scoring at 28.6. That's 46.6 points per game in terms of the total. So yeah, I understand why the total is where it is at 45. Again, Seattle games, 46.5 points average. Patriots games, 44.5 points. So this is where the total is coming from. It's taking just the averages from these two teams throughout the entire season.
Starting point is 00:30:19 but as we've talked about it already, the Patriots have played really bad teams for the majority of the season, and their games have then averaged 44.5 points. And what have we seen in recent weeks when they've played tougher defenses? The games have been much lower scoring. So I have yet to find anybody,
Starting point is 00:30:33 again, to your point about what's the consensus, yeah, Ciox's probably going to win, lay the points of Seattle. I have not heard much compelling evidence that this is a shootout. Now, it doesn't mean that the game can't go over the total. Again, turnovers happen, weird things can happen, but I'm not looking up and hearing things where you got to alt bet this game
Starting point is 00:30:53 to go over 60 points or something ridiculous like that. And then if that is the case, it's usually, well, Seahawks are going to put up a 40 burger on the Patriots and they're going to do most of the damage on their side because it's going to turn into a blow it, in which case, I would rather just alternate bet the Seattle Seahawks to win by 10 points rather than bet the game total because I just don't think if this has the ingredients of a shootout, kind of like what you talked about with an elite defensive play. caller on one side with Mike McDonald and I mean, Mike for able to like this is where he comes from. Yes, I know that he has been in the CEO role with the Patriots. He's not calling defensive
Starting point is 00:31:27 plays, but he does have a lot of input on what the defense does. And as a guy who's played in Super Bowls before, we've seen like two defensive, you know, minded head coaches. I think that the first half too, especially they're going to be feeling things out here. So that's actually how I really like approaching this game as well as my official prediction here is actually the first half going under 23 and a half points. So I do like the entire game total to go under 45 and a half points, but I really like the first half game or yeah, the under to go on 23 and a half points in the first half. I think we're going to see plenty of running attempts by both teams between Ken Walker and
Starting point is 00:32:03 Ranjay Stevenson. And we've seen at times both coaches, they don't care how inefficient they've been rushing the football. They're like, nope, we're going to establish the run in the first half regardless if we're only picking up two and a half yards per carrier. Like they will stick to it even if it doesn't seem. like it's working between Ramandre stevenson and ken walker you look at the patriots this year in terms of what they've done towards the total in the first half they're 12 and eight towards the
Starting point is 00:32:27 over in the first half so they have a slightly positive total hit rate over in the first half of games but the seattle seahawks are six and 13 so they have not been a team that's necessarily been a bananza for first half scoring from a total perspective they've done plenty of their own damage scoring in the first halves of games. And then to point back about, I've mentioned it a couple times here before, about Josh McDaniels, right? So he's one of the few guys
Starting point is 00:32:52 that we can kind of look at and see like, okay, well, what is he done trend-wise as the Patriots officer coordinator? So he is three-and-two towards the overall in games in the Super Bowl, and his five Super Bowls as OC, and three-and-two towards the over in the first half. So not really compelling either way.
Starting point is 00:33:08 However, the average in those games is under 20 points per game. So that would put him under the first half, which here is listed at 20. 23 and a half points in the first half of this Super Bowl here. The Patriots haven't scored more than 14 points and first half of Super Bowls called by McDaniels. Four of the five games, they've scored 12 or fewer points in the first half.
Starting point is 00:33:27 So I think that just simply put, you got two defensive-minded head coaches going head-to-head. I think the first quarter we could look up, it could be zero zero or three-zero. A lot of Patriots Super Bowls started out really, really slow. Trust me, I remember all of them. Like, there wasn't a lot of scoring. And I think McDaniels being a carryover from a lot of. of those teams, I think matters. You also have two quarterbacks that have been kind of nursing some injuries, right?
Starting point is 00:33:50 How's the same darnos obliq going to respond? How's Drake-May shoulder going to respond? I think they kind of keep things simple in the beginning, keep it close, and then in the second half, I think you see these teams be a little bit more aggressive if we don't really see one team established dominance. So again, I agree with you. I would be riding with you on the game total going under 45 and a half points, but specifically my prediction, just to be a little bit different here is the first half going under 23.
Starting point is 00:34:12 and a half points. One other thing I wanted to hit on in terms of the under, and sometimes this actually does have an impact, and sometimes it doesn't. I don't know if this will be one of those times. Clint Kubiak is going to be the Raiders head coach. To what degree is there a little bit of distraction? Like obviously you spend your whole life working towards a Super Bowl. Like he is going to be focused and try to win.
Starting point is 00:34:33 But like we have seen this sometimes where like Jonathan Gannon, when the Eagles were in the Super Bowl, going to the Cardinals, like there was a lot of talk about like how. much was he focused on that game planning and was he, or was he thinking about his staff in Arizona? And like, again, sometimes it doesn't matter. Sometimes it does.
Starting point is 00:34:50 To whatever degree it could matter, that's the offensive coordinator. And if he is, you know, at a 90% instead of 100%, just another, you know, direction pointing towards the under. I'm not saying that's a reason solely to take the under.
Starting point is 00:35:03 We already like it. But just, it's in the back of my mind, I guess. No, I think that's a really good point. And I don't have much to add from that angle. but I just think for a person like Kubiak, and again, we're all humans here.
Starting point is 00:35:16 I think it just really sucks that he's kind of put into that position where you want to be all in on your team to win the Super Bowl. But you could nothing. I mean, look, we saw Matt Patricia basically coached one of the worst games ever and still get the head coaching job the next year with Detroit after he got completely destroyed by the Eagles in the Super Bowl. I remember seeing the social media comments about so deline. still have to hire this guy, right? So again, I don't envision that happening with Kubiak. Again, you're a professional. You're able to focus on things, especially with all these athletes and coaches
Starting point is 00:35:51 dealing with distractions on a day-to-day basis. But I do wish that there was more from the league where they could kind of prevent this. And I get that it probably can't go that way because teams need to hire coaches, teams need GMs, teams need to start rebuilding because all the 30, all other 30 teams don't care about this game. Like, they're like, we're trying to get better for next year and get back to the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 00:36:13 So I understand it, but I do think that is another good point from the human element here. Again, a lot of players with Super Bowl experience. I think that matters here as well. So, yeah, just a lot of factors to write. I mean, even if he spends one hour this week thinking about, like, hey, who would make a good defensive coordinator for me in Vegas? That's one hour that he's not thinking about the Patriots. What are the schools like in Vegas?
Starting point is 00:36:32 Because I'm moving my kids. Again, like, his wife calls him up. He's like, hey, like, what are we about this? What do we think about this house? Yeah, I don't be really clear. I'm not saying, like, that Kubiak is being unprofessional or, or, you know, anything remotely. Not am I saying that. I'm just saying it's hard for the human element, not in the back of your mind. Again, it is not a reason to alone for that take the under,
Starting point is 00:36:50 but it is a small point in that. It's like, well, because again, I like the Patriots and I didn't even bring it up. You're the one that brought it up. I want to let everybody know that the winner of the Fantasy Football Championship Belt giveaway is Mr. Minion Money. Please get in touch with our customer support agents at Mailbag at Fantasyprose.com with your mailing address and a screenshot of your YouTube account page while logged in. Once we confirm that, we'll get your prize shipped out. Again, congrats to Mr. Minion Money, and that email address is mailbag at fantasyprose.com. We gave away a fantasy football championship belt in January, Erickson, and we're doing it again for February.
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Starting point is 00:38:25 The attempts is six and a half. I actually don't know how much I like that. It's the rushing yardage of 37 and a half that I like. We have seen like just thinking back to the AFC championship game. Like nothing else is working. What was the best offensive play in that game? It was Drake May running the ball, like with his legs. It's how they clinched the game.
Starting point is 00:38:45 It's a lot of what they did like up to the path to having that lead. Like that is what was effective for them when nothing else was. The Seahawks, like, I didn't actually pull up the numbers in terms of like where they rank against the league. But if you just look at their game logs going back, you know, the last couple of months, unless they were facing a team that had like, because there was a lot of like Kirk Cousins, Philip Rivers, you know, Stafford's not a runner. If it wasn't one of those types of players, there were a lot of rushing yardage totals in the high 20s, mid-30s from guys who had any mobility. And Drake May is very good at it.
Starting point is 00:39:21 And in big games, runs more. And if nothing else is working as kind of not even a break glass in case of emergency, but just still like, hey, this is like what we need to do to win. Even with like the shoulder injury stuff, like how much do you want to, you know, open him up to hits? This is a Super Bowl. He's not going to care about that. So I think that number being in the 30s, if it wasn't like in the 40s, like that's too rich for my blood. That number being in the 30s and a hard rock bet is 37 and a half, which is actually a little lower than you can get it elsewhere. I like the overrun that.
Starting point is 00:39:50 But that is my backup choice. My number one choice that I ended up settling on, Jackson Smith and Jigba over six and a half receptions. This is the best receiver in football this year. It's either him or Puka. Like I think it was probably JSN. They're both awesome. He is the best player on the offense. and I think the Patriots have a better chance of stopping Kenneth Walker on the ground than they do JSN through the air.
Starting point is 00:40:12 So, like, I didn't want to touch the yardage because it was up in the 90s and that just gets, like, it's just really hard to do it when it gets that high. But JSN gets over six and a half receptions most games. Like, unless, like, the game where they shot out the Vikings, they didn't need him that he didn't. But, like, most weeks he's in that seven or eight range. This is the Super Bowl. He's their best player. Like, I just, I'll be very, the world in which he doesn't get to seven receptions is the world where Sam Darnold completely falls apart in terms of to a pumpkin and just can't get him the ball. Because if he, if Sam Darnold is good enough to get him the ball, they are going to get him the ball.
Starting point is 00:40:52 I think, like, JSN, I'm trying to think who else would even mean this conversation. Like, I think he will be the single best player on the field in this game, like relative to his position. So, and again, six and a half, that's not that big of a number for a guy of his caliber and what he's done this season. You talked about him earlier, like going to be offensive player of the year. He's a superstar, and I'm happy to take him at six and a half on the over. Yeah, I think that he's going to have his fair chances to win. The thing with Gonzalez that I think, again, not trying to overblow, O Gonzales is going to lock him down.
Starting point is 00:41:22 I really don't think that's how this game plays out. Again, they're not going to line up on every single snap. This isn't Derell Revis or Stefan Gilmore, where he just follows the same guy everywhere. Now, maybe they do a little bit more shadow coverage with him because they do know that JSN is so heavily involved. as a 35% target share type of player, I don't think the Patriots are just going to throw everything they've done on defense
Starting point is 00:41:42 and just kind of deploy a completely different scheme just because of the one particular matchup. It's a matter of does Gonzalez win the battles in the fourth quarter, right? That's how the Gonzalez edge and works from a handicapping perspective. But from my props perspective, yeah, I think that JSA can still catch eight balls, still go for a lot of yardage. It's just a matter of, do they keep him out of the end zone? Yes or no. and do they limit him on a third or fourth down conversion?
Starting point is 00:42:07 Does Gonzalez create a pass breakup? That is where you're looking to back Gonzalez and the Patriots defense against JSN. I think that's where it shows up, not necessarily in the full counting box score. I did stare at JSN first touchdown score. On Hard Rock bet it's plus 500. I wanted a little more out of it
Starting point is 00:42:24 because I think there are other options. So I couldn't quite get to there. But if I had to bet, I do think he probably scores a touchdown in this game. But first touchdown, I couldn't quite get there. So I went with the receptions. I do like the angle from Seahawks pass catcher as first touchdown because the Patriots, the majority of touchdowns they give up. I believe it's either first or second heist in the NFL is through the air.
Starting point is 00:42:47 Just because you can't run on this defense when they have all their guys healthy with Williams, Tonga, Baramo, Spillane. It's just in Seattle has not been efficient enough on a down-to-down basis to rely on, oh, it's going to be, especially without Charbonate. Because I think that they're, they use him at the goal line for a reason, right? Because he was good at the reds and out the goal. And let's say Walker can't score. But I think it's just a little bit more of a reason to, hey, maybe they throw the ball a little bit more closer to the end zone.
Starting point is 00:43:12 Before I list off my prop, I do want to mention with the Drake May, I had a follow-up question for you. Would you like to wager on Drake May to leave the game in rushing yards? So we did talk about earlier how we don't, we could see a path where both run defense is shut down. Ken Walker, shut down Ramandre. That would mean Drake May would probably be the next. next most likely player to have the most rushing yards unless you see one of these other Henderson breaks off a big run or she he breaks off a big run now would that be a way that you would I know that you said you didn't like it at 40 yards I'm not sure 40 yards would get him to lead
Starting point is 00:43:43 but kind of betting on those more outlandish type of outcomes would that be something you'd sprinkle on at longer shot odds yeah yeah it would depend on what the the odds were but that is intriguing to me like Kenneth Walker has been so good and the fact that there's no Barbonet, like, he will get the lion's share of everything and is capable of breaking off stuff of his own. Like, I get the Patriots run defense is so strong that, like, I'm not, you know, it's like you're going to predict a big Kenneth Walker game. But he has been genuinely awesome in January and we'll get a full workload. And, you know, like, I expected more of a split between Ramandre and Trevion in January. And that's not really been the case.
Starting point is 00:44:22 It's been the Ramandre show. So I, like, the fact that those guys are getting the bulks of the workload, even against really tough run defenses, like I do think one of them will probably leave. the game in rushing. But Drake May, two of the three games of the playoffs, he was over 60. Exactly. Like he has shown a pretty high ceiling that's way above. So again, if you don't like the, I feel like not. I like the angle.
Starting point is 00:44:43 Just to kind of go for and go for the jugular with just like, all right, I'll take him to leave the game in rushing yards at this point. If you don't like just betting the median. Because again, the number's already pretty high, right? Yeah. Where it's like 37, 38 and a half yard. It's like, that's already pretty high numbers. So it's not available on Hard Rock Bet.
Starting point is 00:44:59 So I'm not going to say where it is available because we like a card rock bet but some of the numbers that I'm seeing plus 500 plus 550 plus 600 for Drake May to lead the game and rushing yards and that's a fun bet to sweat I like I like that's not that's a good that's a great call backs don't start off well especially in the first half where it's like oh this is live like that's a bet that can be live especially deep into the third or fourth quarter because that's really at half the time that's half the fun right is my all my bet's not just dead by the time the fourth quarter starts so that's so that's a nice uh dovetails a nicely to my prop bet here that will be live until the clock strikes zero, zero, zero, zero,
Starting point is 00:45:35 zero, zero, three. David on Henderson to go over half a reception. So you kind of hit on it a little bit earlier talking about how this really been the Stevenson show. Trayvon Henderson basically didn't even play in the AFC championship. I believe he played four snaps. So it was all Ramandre, a lot of that had to do with past protection, the bad weather, and the fact that they were just kind of playing bully ball and they were just trying
Starting point is 00:45:57 to protect the football and protect Rick may be very, very conservative. They didn't need Henderson's. explosive element in that game against the Broncos because they were just trying to get out of there with a win. Now, I don't think they'll have that luxury against the Seattle Seahawks. I think they're going to have to find ways to generate big plays because you're not going to methodically move the ball down the field. Their offense has really struggled to consistently deliver scoring drives on a play-by-play basis in the playoffs against some of these really tough defenses. If you look at where they've had 10 plus play scoring drives,
Starting point is 00:46:31 they have two in the last three games total. Seattle has the number one defense on third downs. So, yeah, there's going to be a lot of punts for the Patriots in this matchout, especially if they're not able to convert some of these third downs, which they have not really been doing against some of these tougher defenses. So I think Henderson, he is an easy out for Drake May for them, hey, let's get this guy, ball in space. Look at the Seahawks.
Starting point is 00:46:55 League high, 5.7 catches per game allowed running backs. Number one, in the NFL, no team is allowed more. more running back catches than the Seattle Seahawks. Part of that's because they play a lot of zone coverage. It's part of the reason why they've been so good defensively against specifically wide receivers. But yeah, that's why I like Trayvion Henderson to be a little bit more involved here. Again, he always does to do is catch one pass, right?
Starting point is 00:47:15 And we're going to hit the over here. So it's a very low bar for him to hit. I get why the line is where it is because he was basically not existent. The last matchup really hasn't been involved that much in the playoffs overall. But I think against this specific defense, they're going to need someone like Trayvion and Henderson. And I do like one of the trends, and this is something you can find in the betting pros profit cheat sheet, in terms of the filter, you can, if you move the Patriots to underdogs, you look at the six games where Trayvon Henderson and the paths have been underdogs against the spread, he's six and no towards the over in those games for his receptions. And part of that has to do with, oh, negative game script.
Starting point is 00:47:55 They have to throw the ball in the second half, more dumpoffs to running back. So it makes sense intuitively that in games where they're maybe trailing, that they would get more passes involved to running backs. That's also why Seattle has given up the most passes to running backs because they've been winning for the majority of their games this season. So I really like that. And I think Henderson, too, if you're looking for a fatter payout, I mean, he's got bonkers, long odds just to go over 15 receiving yards. That's almost close to 4 to 1. It's 11 to 1 for him to go for 30 receiving yards. He can do that on one play.
Starting point is 00:48:26 So if you think Henderson does get more involved here, I think there's a lot. a lot of ways to take advantage of, especially with the recency buys of him basically not playing at all in the AFC championship game. So I like him to have a bigger impact offensively. It's a great point by you, not just on this call, which I like, but having a pick for the Super Bowl that is alive late. Like, you either hit early and you're feeling good. Or it's similar to like, like, you know, any player to catch a 50-yard pass in this game,
Starting point is 00:48:56 something like that. Like, you have the whole game. that's on the table. I like stuff like that where you're, you're either hit it early and feeling great or you're like, I got a shot here going late in the game. So I like, and I think it's a good Colin Henderson too.
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Starting point is 00:49:58 What is your hard rock best bet of the week? I'm going to go with the low-hanging fruit. It is a very, very, very juicy fruit because I believe the Henderson over on his receptions prop is close to minus 200. But as our new colleague, Seth Wolcock, always says, you're not drinking the juice if you lose. You only drink the juice if you lose. So we're not going to lose this bed here. Henderson is going to catch at least one pass. I think he's going to catch more than one pass, actually.
Starting point is 00:50:21 So that would be my hard rock best bet of Super Bowl 60 because I'm too much of a coward to make the Patriots my best bet. Yeah, go. Your team is in the Super Bowl. You are picking them to win on the show. You'll just have to check out the betting pro show when I have to pick a non-propping my best bet. I can't believe you are not taking for your best bet your team to win the Super Bowl. That is jaw-dropping.
Starting point is 00:50:47 I want to have fun picking a prop here, but I really can't get away from, I just like the under a lot. and just given the coaches and the teams that we have. And, you know, the fact that the best coaches in this matchup are on the defensive side of the ball and they're getting two weeks to prepare, like, the defenses are both relatively healthy. You know, the offensive line is a lot better in Seattle than it was a year ago, but it's still not like the best offensive line of football. The Patriots offensive line has been a problem when facing really good defenses at times. Like, I just can't get away from the under.
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Starting point is 00:53:28 It was a fun ride. But yeah, that is why I no longer bet on outdoor hockey. So there you go. Fair. All right. We'll go ahead and wrap things up there. I cannot say best of luck to your Patriots, Erickson.
Starting point is 00:53:40 I simply refuse. Like pretty much the entire country, I'll be rooting for Seattle on Sunday. But I hope that you have a good time. And I hope that the Patriots lose, but it's not in such a devastating, crushing fashion that it ruins your will to live. That's what I'm hoping for.
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