The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Sharp or Square - FINAL WEEK 18 BETS - Bears-Lions, Ravens-Steelers, Packers-Vikings, Cardinals-Rams, Jets-Bills and more

Episode Date: January 4, 2026

Kickoff approaches for the final Sunday slate of the NFL regular season 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 for NFL Week 18 include their best bets for a matchup between Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers facing Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens, plus Josh Allen extending his ironman streak for the Buffalo Bills in what is likely their final game in Highmark Stadium versus the Jets. Later, the guys discuss if the New York Giants will be ready against the flailing Dallas Cowboys and Dak Prescott. Plus, will Caleb Williams continue the Chicago Bears' remarkable run against the Jared Goff and the eliminated Detroit Lions? And is Tyler Shough enough to lead the New Orleans Saints to victory versus the Atlanta Falcons? Is J.J. McCarthy ready to lead the Minnesota Vikings to a blowout win over the injured Green Bay Packers? All their final and official betting picks, all in one fast-paced episode! #Volume 0:03:00 - START 0:04:00 - CAROLINA PANTHERS VS. TAMPA BAY BUCS RECAP 0:05:30 - SEATTLE SEAHAWKS VS. SAN FRANCISCO 49ER RECAP 0:07:30 - NEW ORLEANS SANTS VS. ATLANTA FALCONS 0:10:45 - CLEVELAND BROWNS VS. CINCINNATI BENGALS 0:13:30 - DETROIT LIONS VS. CHICAGO BEARS 0:16:20 - ARIZONA CARDINALS VS. LA RAMS 0:18:20 - BALTIMORE RAVENS VS. PITTSBURGH STEELERS 0:26:00 - WASHINGTON COMMANDERS VS. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES 0:28:10 - DALLAS COWBOYS VS. NEW YORK GIANTS 0:31:00 - OFFICIAL WEEK 18 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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I am joined as always by my BFF, my companion, my compadre, my co-host, Professional Better, Simon Hunter. Hello. So, Simon. Chad, what a week of football we've had, my friend. Dude, we can talk about the Indiana Hoosiers. I appreciate everyone giving their love, attention, good karma, good vibes to the Hoosiers. I will be going to Atlanta next week. Wow.

The Hoosiers. Good man. Game for the final four game for the Hoosiers against Oregon. Bigger news. The Panthers, 40, they come through for us on the brass. balls. It kind of played out, no joke, exactly as we expected it to, Bryce Young in the clutch at the end of the game, making at least one play in the exact moment he needed to make the play. This is why we've loved the Panthers. It's why we bet the Panthers. He's done this

so many times. They had that great graphic that he's had more fourth quarter OT wins than any quarterback in the NFL since 23, 12 of them, 12 of their 14 wins in that time frame had been comebacks. It was the full Bryce Young Carolina Panthers experience and we got it with the brass balls. Yeah, bizarre game. I don't know about you when you flipped on the TV thing, you saw it was torrential downpouring. I was like, oh my God. I was a little worried. Yeah, this is going to be quite experience. But it's also a reminder why we don't want domes. It's just there's something about games in the elements in, you know, late December, early January. That's just, it's just the best.

But, yeah, this, this book steam, I don't know what they're going to do in the off season. I don't know if they're going to keep Todd Bowles, but in a must win game, you have Mike Evans having two catches. You have Godwin with one catch and a mecca book with one catch for eight yards. I mean, it's so broken there. I don't know what they need to do. But the first drive, Baker couldn't miss.

Guys were wide open. And the rest of the game was just a brutal struggle. So, yeah, very happy we covered, very emotional game. Unfortunately, I was on the 49ers side, and that did not come. That was a Purdy's worst game. I think I've seen him play in his career. I think that's the only time Shanehan has ever only scored three points as an offense. And I don't know about you.

I literally thought we were in that game the whole first half. And then basically they sacks Sam Darnold before the first half ended. And Shanahan did call any of his timeouts. I know, it was so weird. And I was like, oh, my God, this man has no confidence right now in this offense. So tons of props to Seattle's defense. They were the best unit coming into the game. They showed up, you know, anytime we hold, you hold Seattle's office at 13 points.

You think, all right, we should probably win or cover this game. No, we got the worst game possible. So one-on-one on the Saturdays, hopefully we can bounce back today come Sunday. No Trent Williams killed the Niners. That line moved to three before kickoff. By the way, I know you were worried about this. Rico Dowdo had 10 yards rushing. He did need seven to get to his million dollar bonus in total scrimmage yards.

He also had 25 yards receiving. Did not get his anytime touchdown. So he didn't get his $250,000 bonus. He did get the million though. So good for the Panthers to still be in it. Good for Rico Dowdo. Let's get into it. This is the strip down in the room.

eavesdropping version of Sharper Square. We're going to make some tough decisions today. You guys are going to hear it all. And then we will recap it later tonight. You can see the dynamic contest lines. Simon and I are playing at the free Sharper Square pro football pickum contest. If you signed up to play at sharpersquare. Dot thevolume.com, you can follow Simon and I,

Chad and Simon BFFs. So remember, these lines are dynamic. They open on Tuesday. You can play them at any time between Tuesday and Sunday. So some of these lines we're talking about, there have been crazy moves. If you were smart, you've been keeping track and paying attention, and you either put picks in early and then you make changes later in the week or you're playing the lines as they stand today.

Are you ready, brother? Let's go. All right. First one up, New Orleans plus three and a half at Atlanta. We're kind of on this in honor of the Tyler Shuck for a million dollars game. it has real meaning now because if the Falcons win, the Panthers are in the playoffs, if the Saints win, the Bucks are in the playoffs.

Chris Oliva is out, so that worries us. How do you think? Tetrault and McMillan had a really good game yesterday and obviously had that catch that put them in a position to score at the end of the game. His odds for rookie of the year have improved since last night. So it's a longer number for, Tyler Shuck right now.

How are you watching this game since you have significant opportunities in Tyler Shuck, rookie of the year futures right now? Yeah. And like I said, coming to the game, if they won the division, you know, Carolina wins the division,

it'd be hard not to give the Tet, especially the fact that he went over a thousand yards. Yeah, he's over a thousand yards now, too. Yeah, and it's just in a very, very weak rookie class,

he is the only one that really consistently played well. Yeah. entire season. For a team in contention. Yeah. So it's his award. And this type of game where a Shuck needs basically to throw for, I don't know, 350, two touchdowns, no picks and win the game.

That's basically the only way I could see him kind of pulling it out here just because he does have the opportunity. The last thing people see tends to be the way a lot of these voters vote. So he does show up and play really well, win this game. I could see him give it to him. But you just said it's all stacked against him here. He's been against Atlanta team that is probably the healthiest they'd been in five, six weeks, defensively, offensively.

And unfortunately for him, he's missing Olaabe. So that's why this number has gone up to three and a half. So, yeah, we're taking it. We have this number locked in. It's just a tough week with these dogs. Like, a lot of these dogs, I do like them. But it's going to interesting to just see how this one plays out where I could see the Atlanta Falcons be much more committed to this game than I can see the Saints.

Yes. I'm excited to see how this one. one starts just because we're lucky enough chat we get a big 7-0 start lead by the saints i'll feel much more comfortable and throw down by 14 going at a half time it just feels the type of game if they're down here i know which confidence i have in the saints team where on the flip side with alana you know as good as they've been they're another team that have been totally upside down up and down i should say this season so um you know we'll see kirk cousins is a big three and a half point favorite it's a lot of points for kirk to be catching these he's been much better

They've been much better with Kirk Cousins the last five weeks than they were in the beginning of the season with Michael Pennix. And now they'll be full, they'll have Drake London, they'll have Kyle Pitts, left Bijan. Their defense have been playing much, much better. Interesting matchup. There's two games in here that I'm pretty nervous about that we're going to talk about in the first five that we have locked in right now. Cleveland is Cincinnati. Cincinnati minus seven and a half. Simon?

this is going to be our Rock and our Heart plays Bet of the Week presented by Hard Rock Bet. We know the Bengals defense is suspect, but we are always going to bet against the Browns

on the road, and I will say it again. Joe Burrow, the past five games, take away that Joe's in his feelings game against the Ravens where it felt like he was a ghost, and they lost 24-0.

They're averaging nearly 40 points a game. And we know that they are the kind of team and franchise that talks about building on success. And we know they like to win out at the end of the year so they can go into next year feeling good. They have talked about it. So Joe is going to go out there, backyard it up. He loves playing ball.

He's got Jamar Chase. He's going to try to light it up as much as he can. I'm on the Bengals at the 7, I think. I'm also big on the bangles. and the Rams money line today. We're going with the Bengals. I think we're both in the same place with this one. We think this is a total opening up,

put up big numbers with heading to the offseason type of team for this Bengals. You see it every year, right? These teams, that's our worry with the Lanner right now. These teams, they peak late in the season. They want to finish on a high note. The Bengals line up for all those things. On the flip side, Cleveland,

I gave out that stat. Since last year, after a win, last two seasons, they're always. and six against the spread after a straight-up win. So it's just the team that does not handle success well. And we joked it's all about the sack, right? I can just easily see this, Miles Garrett getting the sack, and then I'm totally shutting him down defensively.

And once he's out, that just, I mean, it's kind of neutralized their pass for us. So it'll be a really interesting matchup, but I just cannot see Cleveland's offense keeping up with the Sincere offense. I think they're already down now. So they're down their star rookie running back and their star rookie tight end. Harrow fan. Yeah, it's all on Sanders here.

So just a bad spot for them. So, yeah, we, we love this one. And I hope people can hear this and get it now. This is just like all these other favorites going up way, going up high. This is going to get up to minus eight, minus eight and a half by kickoff, I think. I just think tons of money, just like you said, the money line parlayes are going to be factoring between the Bengals, the Rams, all these teams. It's going to drive a lot of these lines up. You can still get Bengals seven and a half at Hard Rock, but a lot of other books now are popping up eight, eight and a half.

have another game that's making us a little bit nervous. Detroit Lions, it's plus three at Hard Rock Bad. It's three and a half in most places and in our contest. They're visiting the Chicago Bears. All the conversation about the Bears right now, can Caleb Williams get 270 yards to get to 4,000 yards? I know Ben Johnson doesn't give a shit about that. He's going to play the game plan that's going to give them the most chances at winning this game

and confirming their seating position. We know they've got a little bit of an advantage. They've got to be thinking about that because the Eagles are going to be resting starters. So money has been coming in, at least at Hard Rock, on the Lions. The line has moved from three and a half down to three. We are on the Lions here.

I woke up this morning, I'm like, why are we on the Lions? I have no feeling for this game right now. You know we're supposed to be, though. this is as low as it can get for this Lions team. I just don't know when. That's right. It's a buy low spot.

It is the definition of one. And it's the definition of selling this Bears team that, like I said all year, it's been so impressive what they've done with just a rag-tapped up a group on that defense, right? They've had an insane amount of injuries. Yes. And I think you still lead to league in turnover margin.

Like it's just incredible what they've done. They've been such a risk-reward type of defense. And, yeah, if you're a Bears fan, I think you have the same mentality I do. You just need to outscore this Lions team. That's what this is going to be all about, just because the Lions are going to lay it all out there, right? Their Achilles' heel this season has been that offensive line.

Do you guys that can really make a difference on that defensive line? We do not. And that's the issue there. So I can see this being like the old days of the Lions. Like, Man Campbell is going to try to run the ball 35 times. He just seems hell-bent on running the ball in this game and setting the tone and into the off-season with his team. So, yeah, the lines, you know, I can't get over how at this point of a year it is,

but they know it's been the injuries. So for this Bears team, can they live up to this moment, chat, after having such a letdown? And that's Sunday night game, right? They lost the one C. Now they're playing for the T's still a huge deal, right? They're still going to get up for that. But I'm really interesting how this young team handles that. And that's why I'm banking this Detroit team, especially with the number.

And it's all money, all the tickets, everything is pouring in on this Bears team right now. now. Like I'm looking at a couple different books. 80% of the money is on this Bears team. So, you know, I get where the public's coming from. The Lions have their last time we saw them play. I think, but they have five turnovers against the Vikings. Terrible themselves. Terrible.

But it's the number, Chad. If it was two and a half two, you could have talked me into this Bears team, but a three, three and a half, come on. You got to take the lines. The Bears, even against bad teams this year, they just play close games. It's just who they are. They play these type of close games. So give me the three in the hook with this.

line's team. All right, fine. Arizona at the Los Angeles Rams, crazy line move in this one. We've been talking about the Rams all week. Hopefully people were listening. The line had been seven last Sunday. We were betting at seven, seven and a half. We have locked it in at seven and a half in the contest. This is going to be the pivot point game for us this week about changes we want to make because the line is now 13 and a half. So we're getting a massive, massive advantage. We're getting a great number in the contest. We've been betting it at 7, 7.5 a week.

I would not recommend anyone better to 13.5. So we're not saying take the Rams right now, put them in some money line parlays. But how are we not loving this right now? Yeah, love it. Like I said, though, I think I said if there's a show. I don't hate if this number got up to what it is at now. 13, 13 and a half, just because what I talked about, this is the type of game where McVeigh,

I can never see him, you know, running the clock out. I just think he wants to just get this offense and then best rhythm he can possibly get, which is just putting up a ton of points. And I gave you my whole Stafford pitch about MVP. Yeah. He needs to get the three touchdowns. And he joins that magical club of Braden Aaron Rogers of 45 touchdowns under 10 interceptions, both won MVP.

So there are some weird numbers here where the Rams are going to try to go after it, But you're right. The scary part is this number of jumps six points because what they're playing for the fifth seat now. Yeah, exactly. Right. Kind of an insane movement. just because you're six points of value here. You know, my only other regret is we didn't take the Vikings,

but this one. Me too. Yeah, I regret that as well. My bad. Baltimore at Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh plus three and a half. Lamar is playing. This line hasn't budged. Lamar hasn't looked good all season,

struggling running the ball. He's now coming off a back injury. It's a rah-rah Mike Tomlin spot. The other day, we were thinking maybe we like it more that Lamar is playing instead of Snoop Huntley because we don't know how healthy he's going to be. And there's a lot of drama going on in the Ravens right now. End of the day, I'll say it again. I don't think this Ravens defense is very good.

So to me, that's the on-field value in getting the hook for the Steelers at three and a half. Yeah, and there actually is a little bit of line. I mean like Hard Rock in Jersey now has moved the four. So like I said, I think I said that on Thursday show that if Lamar does get cleared, you could get some four, four and a halfs. The way it's looking now, I do think we get there by kickoff. I just think the public will keep coming on the Ravens and just keep betting this number up. So I do think you might be able to get a four if you're patient here on the Steelers if that's

what you want. But, you know, this is another game where you try to make sense of it and you're going to drive yourself crazy. These matches never make sense. You just need to take the dogs. And me and Chad, we paid dearly. I still look back. I cannot believe we took.

I can't believe we did it as a five and a half point favorite. But even we get burned here, it's a long-term winner. You just take this position on Pittsburgh. And you really are banking on their defense to show up. That's what we're hanging our hat on just because we know without DK, it's going to be hard to move the ball for the steas. You just saw that. Like, Rogers not a half his safety valve.

That's a big deal. In his career, you go through all of Rogers history. He always had a dominant number one. You could say, well, he makes them the dominant number one. Yes, no one's disagreeing with you. He made Jordy Nelson, Devante Adams, you know, James Jones, all these guys work. I just, you saw last week, like three straight throws MVS, not the position of me and chat want to be in, but it's the exact scenario.

Like, I think he had a great quote Aaron Rogers. He said, how many times have I played back-to-back bad games, which I look through it? In his old age, he has had a couple back-to-back stinkers, but this exact type of matchup, like a playoff to make the playoff at home as a dog. You know, Roger's only been in this spot one of their time his career and he won. So I know it's tough because he's an aging guy and, you know, you're now taking away his number one receiver,

but it's the Tomlin voodoo. It's the Tomlin voodoo. It's a weird game, too. I talked to Pittsburgh to their fans. They want to lose this because they want to get rid of Tomlin. I think they want Freeman, the guy from, what is it, Notre Dame? He's not leaving Notre Dame. I don't know.

I don't want to get too hard into college coach. I know how protective you are about your college coach. But if I'm the Raiders, Fernando Mendoza, I'm throwing the book at your head coach. I do not care what his price is. I'm getting the coach and the quarterback. But for this game, yeah, I just, you know, if we could get four and a half,

if people are going to listen to live and you can get four and a half now because it is dynamic lines and their lines are moving, obviously we'd much rather be there, but I'm not scared off not only having the three and a half. I think that's a perfectly fine number. We give the stats, whenever it's three or above underdog in this exact matchup, it's 71% success rate, cover rate, it should say,

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when we thought Jalen Hertz might be starting, and he is not, it is going to be Tanner McKee, the backup from Stanford, the game was about seven. now it's four. It was four and a half when it was reposted with Tanner McKee, so it's moved down. The Eagles love Tanner McKee. He hasn't played, you know, any game since Week 18 last year.

You even intimated the other day on the show on Thursday that as a fan and someone who's paying close attention, you like Tanner McKee, so all of a sudden it feels like the Eagles are in play for us. Yeah, and it's unfortunate, like we said, it's tough for us to move any guys out because we have such good numbers. But I love the Eagles here for this matchup just because it's a lot of the guys I thought we're going to sit aren't going to sit, right?

They're playing a lot of people because they have to because of injuries and, you know, key starters on the defense and all the offense, you know, Tanner, we talked a little bit about it. I think he would be one of the 32 starters in this league. I just think everything about him reminds me of Nick Foles. He's just this really tall, strong, deep ball thrower, and he's really tough to take down the pocket the flip side with Washington i thought it was going to be marriota that's why i think the number kind of fluctuated where it was so low as it was and um now it's come out that he's

not i'm going to play it's going to be josh johnson here so yeah it's it's a number that's going up like you can get the four right now at hard rock every other book is four and a half and a couple books have already moved to five so it's just another line on bed and i like the eagles here like this matchup and um if this is you know a close game heading in to the fourth, you know, I think that favors this Eagles team. And in many ways, I just think defensively, when you have Vic calling these plays, he can turn up to another level. And like I said, Braynor Graham's playing, like a lot of vets are still playing for

this Eagles team, especially on the defensive side. They just don't have enough bodies to fill in. So, yeah, give me an Eagles team against the Washington. It's literally playing for nothing. They've had their bags packed for two months now. I mean, just total, total loss season. And I just have a hard time thinking you're going to get up for this game. Dallas Cowboys at the New York Giants.

This number is three and a half in a lot of places, but it's down to three at Hard Rock. We know the Cowboys are going to be going all out. It's a chance to end the season, completely mediocre, but Dak has been playing great. Pickens is playing for a new contract. They've got no reason to sit people. Their defense is bad no matter who they play. The Giants, there's real repercussions if they win this game because they can drop from, second overall pick to as low as seventh, depending on what else happens in the league today.

If you're the Giants, there's zero incentive to put a team on the field today. And the Cowboys have all the incentive in the world to want to end the season strong and feel like they have something to build on for next year. We talked about the Cowboys on Thursday. We talked about liking the Cowboys. We can't see why the money is coming in on the Giants. We both feel like we're missing something in the 72 hours. since we did the show on Thursday, what are we missing?

Because the money is still coming in on the Giants. Yeah, and I'm so glad you put this in the contest, though, just because it's just, this is Seattle 49ers all over again. The pros I talked to, they're all on the opposite side of me. I don't know what side you were on for this one, but. I like the Cowboys. Well, yeah, I think we're definitely missed something because it's been, like you just said,

it's been bet down all the way to three. Yeah. Like every book now is popping three this morning. So really respected money. It's coming to the Giants because right now it's all the money, all the tickets are on the Cowboys. And it's just a matchup I don't get because the Cowboys have just owned the Giants in this division.

I mean, just going through even their last five, six games, I think the last game they played this season was in September, and it was that crazy Russ game. I don't know if you remember. Russ put up 37 points, and the Cowboys went 40 to 37. That's right. I'm like a 70-yard field goal by Aldbury.

Last year, Cowboys beat him 27-20, 20 to 15. Two years ago, they beat him 49 to 17 and 40 to nothing. So they just tend to dominate and beat up the Giants team. And I don't know. Like you said, I'm completely blind spot to this game. I just don't know what people are seeing. Where I look at the secondary of the Giants, it's like this should be a field day for Dak.

Like he should just be passing against air offensively. Like I said, they struggle against running quarterbacks. Maybe that's what they're hanging on their head on. Dart, keeping him in this game. He's been playing well since he's come back from the injury. Yeah, I just totally missing here. So I'm with Chad. I'm going to be with the public.

I'm going to take the three on the Cowboys now because I think that's such a key number. But my God, this is crazy. It's been bent down this much. Just I don't know, like you said, what they're expecting professional-wise of this Giants team, but maybe they really do think Dak will falter. And Jackson Dart will keep this one close. All right. So right now, our official five, New Orleans plus three and a half,

Cincinnati minus seven and a half, Detroit plus three and a half, Rams minus seven and a half, and Steelers plus three and a half. If we decide to make a change, we're going to have to, we're going to lose the Rams number. So we're really going to have to put two games in because we're not going to take the Rams at 13 and a half. So if we want to get rid of the Saints, if we want to get rid of the Lions, we really got to figure out, all right, there's multiple games we're going to have to change out.

Do you know what I mean? Yeah. And would it be for the Eagles and the Cowboys? Do you know what like? That's the thing. I'm not too crazy about them either. I'm not loving changing out what we have or the options that are currently available.

I'll let it ride. We have, what, one good line on the Rams, the rest are kind of what they are. I don't mind the Bengals line. And like, I don't mind. the Steelers line at all. To me, the biggest fears are the Saints and the Lions. Which is fair. Yeah, I would say the only worries me is honestly the Saints, but I like our five. All right. Final five, once again, Saints plus three and a half. Cincinnati Bengals minus seven and a half.

Detroit Lions plus three and a half. Rams minus seven and a half. It's now with 13. Dynamic lines. We put these picks in earlier in the week just to lock some things. in and we got the Steelers tonight in the game to decide it all for the AOC North plus three and a half. This has been Sharper Square. Part of the volume podcast network. We will be back on Sharper Square tonight after the late afternoon games to recap all the misery and glory of the day. That will be live. Watch or listen on YouTube at Sharp or Square.

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