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Episode Date: December 28, 2025

Sunday kickoff approaches for NFL Week 17, and betting expert Chad Millman and professional sports gambler Simon Hunter deliver their final five against the spread contest bets for their SHARP OR SQUARE PRO FOOTBALL PICK 'EM CONTEST at https://sharporsquare.thevolume.com/ as our audience competes for a fabulous grand prize trip to South Florida, courtesy of our sponsor Hard Rock Bet!  NFL betting picks and predictions provided today include their best bets for a matchup between Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers facing Shedeur Sanders and the underdog Cleveland Browns, plus Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills facing the defending champion Philadelphia Eagles. Later, the guys discuss if the New York Giants will tank their game against the Las Vegas Raiders to keep pace for the #1 pick in the NFL Draft. Plus, will Caleb Williams continue the Chicago Bears' remarkable run against the San Francisco 49ers? And is Tyler Shough enough to lead the New Orleans Saints to victory versus the Tennessee Titans? All their final and official betting picks, all in one fast-paced episode! #Volume 0:00:00 - START 0:01:44 - SEATTLE SEAHAWKS VS. CAROLINA PANTHERS 0:03:20 - NEW ORLEANS SAINTS VS. TENNESSEE TITANS 0:05:45 - PITTSBURGH STEELERS VS. CLEVELAND BROWNS 0:08:30 - PHILADELPHIA EAGLES VS. BUFFALO BILLS 0:11:10 - CHICAGO BEARS VS. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS 0:16:25 - NEW YORK GIANTS VS. LAS VEGAS RAIDERS 0:19:45 - NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS VS. NEW YORK JETS 0:23:30 - OFFICIAL NFL WEEK 17 CONTEST PICKS -- All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet Subscribe to Sharp or Square for gambling advice, best bets, and predictions from sports betting experts Chad Millman and Simon Hunter. Follow on all platforms: https://www.instagram.com/sharporsquare/ https://x.com/SharporSquare_See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hello, Simon. Chad, how we doing? Brother, I've passed the bad to worst. I had a good run, let my legacy be the Texans covering and winning. I think I'm on the other side of it. I don't sound like it. Definitely not feeling perfect, but I will feel better if we have a great day today, brother. Well, maybe you being an NFC North champ will make you feel a little better as well.

NFC North champion Chicago Bears. We're going to get to them in so many of their games. This is the semi stripped down in the room version of Sharper Square. We're going to make some terrible decisions today. But hope everybody enjoys the ride. Remember, you can see the dynamic contest lines Simon and I are playing at the first. free sharp or square pro football. Pick them contest if you've signed up to play at sharp or square.

That the volume.com. You can be tracking Simon and I in the contest. Chad and Simon BFFs is our name. Are you ready, brother? Let's do it. All right. First one up. Seattle is minus seven at Carolina.

The best line we can get in the contest because the contest only plays half point lines is seven and a half. this was Simon says, I think we're leaning into it. We're taking a shot. Lots of tickets on the Panthers. So I like fading the public here. This is clearly going to be the public dog of the week. Yeah, and we have a, you know, we do have a favorite that's very public that we like.

So at least we have one favorite that everyone just absolutely hates. And that's always a nice spot to be like you just said. It's never good to really be hammering the public dog. It does hit that we talk about time. It does sound true. But for this matchup, there is, I think people are always, overlooking this game a lot where there is a reason this number is so high that the Seattle's defense is dominant probably the best defensive Panthers will play all season and we've seen

this Panther team you know they have been up and down but when they've faced really good defenses or at least really good play callers they're struggling I mean I just keep thinking back that's solid game for the 49ers right I think they have nine total points and it's just you know it's a lot to ask her Bryce young and I talk a lot to the time about this it's the human element to how are they not looking ahead to the books next week I mean how How can they not be thinking about that? So, yeah, it's painful to do it, Chad. Painful to go against our Carolina Panthers here,

but I really like this match with the Seahawks team. And it's another game where they're going to show why they right now are the one seed. They're just a really dominant team. It's so well coached. So this feels like a great match for the Seahawks. Yeah, the Seahawks have been playing great all year. This is a good chance for them to reaffirm their position at top the conference, the NFC.

New Orleans at Tennessee. This number is down to where. one and a half. And this is a good example of why it's important to listen to every show. This line opened New Orleans minus three. We talked about it on Tuesday on the show, betting Tennessee plus three. If you were betting the contest, like we said, these are dynamic lines. If you were betting the contest a week, you were getting Tennessee plus two and a half. We currently have Tennessee plus two and a half in the contest. I still love it. This is the side of the wise guys, Tennessee. This is the sharp side. All the tickets are on New Orleans. So we do

have some reverse line movement here with the public coming in on New Orleans and the professionals batting Tennessee. Yeah, and I hate to say that this doesn't feel like a game where the line is going to matter. I just would be shocked seeing this number land on two. Just because it's two rookie quarterbacks. I'm expecting a lot of chaos, a lot of dumb stuff. So yeah, I wouldn't let the one and a half scare you off if you are like, you do love Tennessee. And that's, And like you said, Thursday, Tuesday, all the shows we've talked about Tennessee. That was the professional side.

And we saw the number continuing to come down. I am shocked because it's so early in the morning here that it is already down to one and a half. I thought this would still be two, maybe three, getting closer to kickoff than the professionals hit it. But it looks like someone was busy overnight, using all their money from the Ravens, Texans wins. So pretty shocking to see it down to one and a half.

And like Chad said, the Saints, probably the biggest. second biggest public side right now behind the Jaguars. It's just a ton of money hammering that side. So, yeah, it pains me because Shucks my guy, but I've been saying it all week with Chad. It's this feels like a Tennessee spot, a Tennessee number. They shouldn't have been a dog.

This should have been a pick or maybe a small favorite on Tennessee. It's just the Saints, the Shuck hype has reached peak level after that huge win last week against the Jets. So it's, again, if he wins this, it's another respect to him. This feels like a total letdown spot for him. And we've seen Tennessee, like Chad talked about, they fired their head coach since then, you know,

five and three against the spread. They've won three games, though, in that mix. Like, they've just been a totally different team. So it's a nice time for us to get back on this Tennessee train. Mike McCoy, they call him the master, master Mike McCoy. Pittsburgh at Cleveland, another line that's moving in the direction of the Steelers

since the Ravens won last night, everyone now, I think there had been some hedging on this. People have been betting Cleveland because they thought, all right, if the Ravens lose without Lamar Jackson, then the Steelers might rest starters because they will have wrapped up the AFC North. Now we know that's not going to be the case.

So we can expect Pittsburgh to play all of its players. We had been betting Cleveland long before the expectation of that that they wouldn't be playing starters because we're going back to our roots. We're back in Cleveland at home with a great defense that we hope returns to being a great defense. And we're fading the Steelers in a road favorite anti-mic Tomlin, rah, ra spot. I will say it makes me a little nervous. I think the line has moved from three to three and a half because the public has been

coming in on the Steelers. But you never feel good betting the Browns. You never feel good. I do think that's a Mason Rudolph, Aaron Rogers move too, right? If this was, you know, guaranteed Roger wasn't going to play, it wasn't going to be Mason Rudolph.

Probably would have kept going down. Probably would be two and a half to do if I kick. The live movement feels, feels right to me, right? You're getting Pittsburgh a much better team with the better quarterback. And like Chad's saying here,

it's never a good feeling back in the Browns here, but told you, we have history with this one. We always blindly bet the Browns at home here. And, you know, It's crazy. For the last five, they won outright against the Pittsburgh Steelers in this exact spot. And we talk about time divisionally, these teams kind of have to throw the records out. Certain teams match up well against other teams. And we've seen that time and time again.

So, yeah, well, it would be brutal when we're sitting here Sunday night and Pittsburgh rolls by 30, of course. But we also saw it coming in a sense that we've been worried about this Browns team quitting for months here. And they did show life last week. It's part of the reason we were buying back in this week. And, you know, just look at the matchup as well, the Browns are going to be able to run the ball against Pittsburgh. I know Pittsburgh's defense has been better, but they still are down Watt. They're still down a couple guys on the D line. And I do look at this Brown team that is their identity of the day, right? It's not Shador.

It's that run game being consistent for them. So it's going to be interesting to see what they do now in this matchup. And I don't know about you, Chad, but the fact that it's backed up a three and a half, honestly, makes me feel better. I'm just glad everyone to listen to this can get the hook because, you know, it's going to be a hook. it would have been pretty cheap if we woke up this morning it's two and a half if you couldn't get that because I do think this game does feel like it's going to land right on three. Yeah, no, totally agree.

Philadelphia at Buffalo, this is a line that's been moving as well. The Buffalo Bill's currently two point favorites at Hard Rock. It was down to one on Thursday. A lot of that I think is because we were unsure of Josh Allen's status with his injured foot. He came out and said he's good to go. He's playing. The Buffalo Bills, Simon, are going to be our rock in a hard place, hard rock,

bet of the week. Look, we've been betting into this all week, basically since Sunday. We've been leaning towards the bills. It got down to one. I bet it even more at one. I bet the bills on the money line just to get a little bit of a better price. But expecting Josh Allen to play. So now we just have to contend with the fact the Eagles rush defense is really what we're betting against, right?

We're betting against them, not being able to contain a mobile quarterback and hoping that a mobile quarterback can be effective even when he's injured. We're hoping that James Cook and the rest of that Bill's offense can effectively run the ball against a 22nd ranked rush defense. It's not going to be through the passing game. The Eagles past defense had just been getting better and better. and the bills really don't have the weapons to take advantage of sort of the lack of outside corner depth for the Eagles. Well, I'm moving back in our direction. So I kind of feel good about that. Yeah, and this is the game I was always going to hate for us because I knew this is going to be by far our biggest public play, right?

This is all public money. I think the public has the same view as we did. It's just the bills feel like they're going to be the more desperate team. I don't know. There's something about this Eagles team I have a Trist's all season. Normally, I would love the Eagles in the spot, right? It's Jill and Hertz as an underdog. You can overlook a little bit, right?

Especially looking at multiple different books here, he's getting less than 20% of the money. That's usually when the Eagles burn these type of teams, but we've already seen it, right? The Eagles have a couple guys that are going to sit here. Lane Johnson stills him back. It's supposed to be freezing rain and really bad weather in this matchup as well. And this is like what we always talked about.

It's Josh Allen at home in bad weather. Even if we're down 14, it's just going to be like that spot where you never feel like we're dead. We always are going to believe he's going to be able to get us back into especially any number under a three. So really about playing the number here, like Chad said, it's running up to two and a half. There is one one and a half left out there. The two is not going to scare me up any either. So anything can get under three, I would take it here on the bills at home. For the last game we've leaned into before we get to some that we're still considering,

the Chicago Bears plus three and a half at the San Francisco 49ers, the Sunday night game. It's moved to three at Hard Rock, but a lot of three and a halfs out there. Yeah. I don't know. I feel like we're stepping in it a little bit. I will tell you,

I have so many futures tied to the Niners making the Super Bowl. that part of me almost needs them to win this game to get the number one seed and have a chance to play against Seattle for the number one seed. And the Bears having wrapped up the division makes me feel like maybe I want to root for my bet here, my future's bet. But at the end of the day, we're getting the hook for the Bears that have a great running game and we're leaning into their magic a little bit. I got to tell you, I'm just tailing you on this one.

That's really what it is. Well, your dream might come true, buddy. This is why we play the spread. The foreign hours can win. We can win our bet. So you can get the best of both worlds. That's what I'm hoping. I am shocked to hear you say this nonsense.

You have a chance of the one seed. What is wrong with you right now? You are a beaten down Bears fan. Oh my God. It's COVID. The one seat. I can't get over what you just said. We're not getting the one seat.

There's no chance. I mean, every Bears fan was left this team for dead. I feels like in week five or six. And now they have potential to be the one seat. So I can't fault you for not believing. It's what your organization usually does let you down. But I keep telling you, it gets a new age. And as great as this foreign nurse team has been, we've given them a ton of props.

They have to get bit eventually by this defense. The defense is horrible. They have no, they have zero pass rush. It's, it's alarming when you break down the numbers how bad their defensive line is. It's just been a total mute point. And Sala just, I mean, even, you know, it's the coach of the year of race is so brutal like shanahan i see why people want to give it to him what he's done this year oh yeah it's been incredible between mac jones you know steps in they don't

miss a beat purdy comes back once again they don't miss a beat like it's incredible how he's made that locker room hold together while losing fred warner and bosa so um i get why you're scared of this four-ninner's team right we know this is a juggernaut and uh the bears this feels like a david and Goliath. It feels like most people in general public do not believe what you're saying to. They just do not believe the Bears in this spot. And the money does reflect that this, the Chad said, the ton of money, especially since that game yesterday, since the Bears clinch, the North has just come and pouring in on this Snyder's team. So another game I'm happy. We're getting a great number, three and a half on this Bears team. I think this is a game

where they could easily went outright. They just matchup-wise, I love their offense against this four-n-nors defense. And we talked about, I think defensively, they're going to have a lot of schemes and stuff they can do against Shannon's offense that they're going to hide like they've been doing all year hiding their safeties put them in a weird spots where they get these crazy turnovers and I like that here for this bear's defense so couldn't have asked for a better Sunday night game just two teams fighting for the number one seed NFL nailed it uh all right let's take a quick break uh and hear from hard rock bat and then we're going to discuss which teams we might want to put in to replace some of these guaranteed losers we got today's show is brought to you by our

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Simon, the New York Giants are visiting the Las Vegas Raiders. And after the show, we recorded on Friday, where we were starting to lean pretty heavily into the Raiders, mainly because the Giants were going to have Andrew Thomas and Max Crosby was supposed to be lining up opposite whoever that new left tackle would be. It was announced Max Crosby would no longer be playing this year. And then he just left the facility because he's so. pissed about it because he's maniacal and I love that about him. This line moved from Raiders plus a half to Raiders plus two and a half. I want to bring it up because of the Crosby kerfuffle.

No reason for me to play it anymore. That's fair. And yeah, I love just some guy the front office thinks he can go to maybe one of the best physically talented athletes in all of us for and be like, hey, we're sitting you for two games. You've been banged up all year. Enjoy it. You deserve it. We'll put you on IR without thinking this psychopath is going to be like, dude, this is my life's work. Why would I not want to play in this game? So he's been trolling the hell out of them.

I think he posted on Instagram videos of him shooting basketball is off one foot and him like dunking and stuff. Just trolling them. So Max Crosby, Bears would love you. I know the, oh, my God. We would love you. Everyone is licking their chomps right now being like, dude, this man's going to force his way out.

Like, it's just all the money works as well. Everyone's doving at all the money. I think it's like a really small dead cap hit for this Raiders team. So I think this is someone that wants Crosby to be on a good team. This is like a dream scenario for me. It's like he's going to force his way out. In my COVID haze the past 48 to 72 hours, I did run through multiple scenarios to get Max Crosby to the Bears.

I think I have one. I want to talk about it on Tuesday show. I'm going to save it. I'm going to save it. I'm going to save it for the show. But yeah, for this game, I think nothing's changed for me, right? It's two horrible teams. I'm just going to bank on the trends because there's no real read for me on this game.

Like Chad just said, both teams are, they're tank off in right now. Both teams are sitting star players. I saw multiple people posted on social media of all the Giants players out like 11 o'clock midnight last night, walking around Vegas and doing stuff. So it's just a very weird spot where I don't know. know how serious either team's taking this one because both front offices clearly they're trying to tank. So it's a bizarre game, but I like, I just can't get over that it's, it's Pete Carroll, a veteran coach who I think knows his job's done. I think he's going to try to win this game.

And now I'm getting even better odds. Like they're plus two and a half now. So it's a sucker bet. You know what? Just take the money line. Yeah, you can. You know me. I'm a big stick on the two and a half, but the money line is plus 130 plus 125. Not a bad bet either, but crazy. I'm looking at right now the splits. All the money, all the tickets are coming on the Giants. And I can't believe there are, people are hammering the Giants in the spot. So, yeah, kind of a funny game.

And I get why the lines move, right? Max Crosby, probably worth a point and a half two points to this Raiders team. Yeah, for sure. So live movement makes total sense. The last game I want to talk about. Yeah. Because I can't believe we haven't spent. more time on it is the Patriots visiting the Jets and the Jets are 13 and a half point underdogs.

This is like, this should be a blind bet for us. And like the Jets, a smash spot of a home dog in the division of nearly two touchdowns against a Patriots team. I don't know if you saw the clips from Mike Frable's press conference other day, but he opened basically going through a list of players who would not be playing. That included Milt Williams, defensive tackle, Trayvion, Hendon. running back. Now, since then, Mac Hollins is out as well. So, like, I know the Patriots have stuff to play for, but 13 and a half points on the road at an end of season game, I just want to

make the case that we should be having a serious conversation about this. In an unsurious world, in an unserious moment for the Jets, we should be having a conversation, a serious conversation. about betting the Jets. No, I don't hate your read, but I do want people understand there's a huge difference between this and that Chiefs game, right? The Chiefs, they have the coaching, they have the pedigree, they have the veteran players that have done it before. The Jets literally have none of what I just said.

They have none of that. So that's my biggest issue. Like the quarterback, you know, the Chiefs could have made it work. They can make this third string, never played a snap NFL and make it work. The Jets have simply not made it. So, you know, me and you got off the Jets train at the right time, right? We jumped as soon as Taylor got hurt, Tyrod, it was our guy. He was covering machine for us.

I think the last game we really bet on it. Maybe we did bet the next game after that, but he won that Atlanta game, right? They won 27, 24, something like that. The three games since then, Shad, they got blown out 34 to 10. They got blown out 48 to 20, and they got blown out by the Saints last week, 29 to 6. So I do think your theory and your reasoning is right. Normally this would be a spot to take a Jets, but I just think they've totally quit on the season

and they just have horrible coaching. So I cannot put money to it. And I think your read is right to the Patriots. It's not being talked about enough. I mean, maybe I'll bring it up now. But like Chad said, the injuries, it's a big deal. A lot of the guys are missing.

I think that Mack Holland's injury is going to be a huge deal for them in the playoffs. It feels like any time they need a full. first downer of a big play. Matt Collins has been that guy for Drake made this season. So really shocking to see they put him on the IRA. I think it was like a dominal injury. Just popped up out of nowhere. All of a sudden, this guy is out now for four games for the Patriots. So yeah, you're right about maybe we'll look into this more in the Patriots and the playoffs that this is going to be a big downgrade because of all the injuries they've had. But I think they're making the right decision here sitting a bunch of people just trying to get right because I just don't

know if the one seed's really at this point. So yeah, I don't hear your reach at. I just, I can't back a jetsy. I'm that totally worried they've quit. Mack Holland was actually only a few catches away from a pretty big bonus. I think he's like four catches from getting a $400,000 bonus. Something that I want to do on

Tuesday as well, in addition to dissecting the bears trade for Max Crosby is we need to give people a list of the players who are close to incentives in their contracts in the final game of the season. So people can be paying attention to that and think about how they might want to play those games. All right.

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