The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Sharp or Square - NFL Week 2 Reaction to Eagles-Chiefs, Giants-Cowboys & more + early leans for NFL Week 3

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

Expert bettor Chad Millman and professional sports gambler Simon Hunter share their live reactions to the NFL Week 2 results. Which players stood out in Week 2? Which teams are true contenders this NFL season? They discuss all the big games: Jalen Hurts and Patrick Mahomes facing off in a Super Bowl rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, the overtime slugfest between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys, and much more. All this and more in today's Sharp or Square live reaction show! All lines provided by Hard Rock Bet. 2:00— Cold open / show intro 3:32 — Giants–Cowboys reactions 11:00 — Bills–Jets reactions 13:50 — Rams–Titans reactions 17:21 — Colts–Broncos reactions 23:52 — Eagles–Chiefs reactions 34:10 — Quick review of bets 34:50 — Seahawks–Steelers reactions 37:30 — Early leans: slate intro 37:54 — Early lean: Steelers at Patriots 39:03 — Early lean: Jets at Buccaneers 39:41 — Early lean: Chiefs at Giants 42:02 — Early lean: Rams at Eagles 43:28 — Early lean: Colts at Titans 44:32 — Early lean: Falcons at Panthers 47:15 — Early lean: Packers at Browns 47:54 — Early lean: Texans at Jaguars 48:52 — Final review & wrap-upSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I am joined as always by my co-host, my BFF, my companion, compadre professional better Simon Hunter hello Soimann Chad how we doing wow what a wild insane crazy roller coaster amazing fun heart attack day in the NFL a rare week for us in which all of our picks were Sunday games we went two and three on the day. And I feel like it's the greatest two and three we've ever had. And I feel like last year, this would have been 0 and 5. Do you know what I mean? Rough start to the early day. Oh and 3. Titans plus 5 and a half. Jets, six and a half. Cowboys five and a half. Rallied in the afternoon with the Colts and the Eagles. By the way, favorites today, 10 and 3 outright. Our new feature of MoneyLine favorites,

it's because the NFL is all about favorites winning, actually cashed money line round robin favorites. We will review the entire day. We will get to the end of the show. We will do our early liens for next week. Already a couple games that are flashing red that we're going to be taking a look at. Dude, Simon, let's get into it. First game up, Giants at Cowboys. We had Cowboys minus five and a half.

I mean, the first half, I felt like we were in it only because the Giants basically had more penalties than anything else. And in the end, it was just a back and forth game with two bad defenses, bad defensive backfields, not great coaching, a game with nearly a thousand yards of offense, 500 yards passing from Russell Wilson, his career. You're high. How often do you think the Cowboys would have liked Micah Parsons today instead of Trayvon Diggs, who they gave a record setting contract to a couple of years ago? Because right after the game, Jerry Jones announced they're signing to Davy and Clowny, because that's going to fix anything. Simon.

Bonkers. Yeah. And our guy, Dak, saved our lives, putting up 40 points in the kicker. Cowboys, you know, we joke, but it feels like we later looked. We used all of our luck up for Survivor here in week, too. I mean, that was an insane game that we won 10 different times and lost 10 different times. And that's the best. This is why we love football.

It's any given Sunday, never would have believed Russell Wilson was going to throw for 450 yards. I know how banged up, obviously, you know, with bland out in the secondary. But Cowboys, oh, my God. Like, unreal, you knew two. He was only going to throw deep. and the safety was still biting on stuff and letting neighbors get behind them at the end there to get that touchdown.

But you're just like me. I'm sick in the head where I wanted them to score chat because in my mind I go, all right, they kick the three. Yep. We get the ball in O2. Yeah. Because I'm still thinking about our contest.

Even though I care about Survivor's number one, you know, contest right now, we need to steal like random wins. We can get it. So that was one of those where like, you're probably the same boat. halftime. I just,

because we talked about, this was a game the bookmakers were basically saying, go ahead, but as much as you won the Cowboys, they're not covering

over this four and a half and they were dead on with their number. And, yeah, the, you know, Cowboys,

horrible team, bad team, we're done with them. Like, I can't believe we have them. We survived the Cowboys. I know. And,

you know, I heard from you people, but this is like the classic case of, like, don't freak out before the game's over. You never know. It's football. It's chaos. You never know.

But I get it because there was a minute there for a while. I was just like, there's no way the Cowboys are in this game. It's just all going wrong. And Dak just showed up in this game in a major way. Never gave up even when it was going wrong for them. And, yeah, again, sucks. Obviously, we wouldn't have a winning week in the contest. But this is the one of the games that felt like it was dead from the get-go.

Like there's other game, the Jets, obviously. So those two games felt like both right away, I felt like we were dead on those. I disagree on the Cowboys. I kept thinking like the Giants are shooting themselves in the foot. The penalties, yeah. And we're going to get a chance. There was a series where the Cowboys were in the Red Zone in the first half. The Giants had four penalties on two plays.

They had a personal foul. They had a pass interference. they had something else on one play, which all got offset because C.D. Lamb was so immature. He started taunting after the pass interference, so it all got offset. And then on the next play, they had like an off-sides. And the Cowboys scored a touchdown in that series, so it didn't matter. But this game, unlike you.

Two bad teams, right? I mean, that's like incredible, though. Like the whole Russell Wilson, thrown for four, 50s. like we should have died today. I'm sure Cardinal people are feeling the exact same way where, like you just said, we could have won this game by 20.

Wouldn't have been shocked. I'm with you doing that same thing where it's like there's a couple drives there and you thought, okay, if they can just put them away, but the Giants offense, it was incredible how good they were. So, yeah. Couldn't put them away.

But yeah, I'm so glad Survivor came through. I'm sorry, everybody. Next week we'll be a little easier, but I just wanted to get the Cowboys. This is a great spot for them. there was no way they were going to lose them. Proved us right. Dak, 14 straight wins against the Giants,

and we'll see you next year in Survivor, Dak. There was a moment when they were driving, and they scored that touchdown to go up. I forgot what it was, like 3430. Yeah. I'm like, couldn't they just kick the field goal? And we'd be going to overtime. And when they actually went to overtime,

because they settled for a Brandon Aubrey, 64-yard field goal, and this dude strokes it as if it's just the eighth tea at his muni on a Saturday with his buddies drinking a beer. Right. It's good from like 75. It was pretty insane. Yeah, it was nuts.

It was incredible. That game, there were, I think, 26 penalties for, no, no, I'm not even kidding. Hold on you look at it exactly. I think it was 26 penalties, 25 penalties for 26 yards. The Cowboys had 32 first downs. Here's one. The Giants averaged 10 yards per passing attempt. I mean, are you kidding me?

Yeah. They made Russell Wilson look like the trending towards Hollow Flame player that everyone thought he was. when he was with the Seahawks and just winning those games. It was, wow. Yeah, he was great. It was so exhilarating. They gave Trayvon Diggs $100 million two years ago.

Micah Parsons, they gave him away. Give him away. As a Cowboys hitter, which I think most of the nation is, it's good days ahead everyone. It is good days ahead. Yeah, they were, like, I'm so glad we're done with that. That is just on another level with those weapons, but their defense is atrocious. So glad we are done with Survivor.

I actually had Cowboys, I think I said on the show on Thursday. Maybe I said it today. I was going with Cowboys and Cardinals in Survivor. I just wanted them out of the way. I do not have to worry about it the rest of the year. I got, what is it, 16 weeks, and hopefully I only got good teams I got to choose from the rest of the year. I'm bummed we lost the game. I'm glad we locked out the Broncos too.

Like we're done with the Broncos, done with the Cowboys. I'm happy on both those. Done with that. That's right. That's totally right. So, you know, and I think I got the commanders out of the way in the first week, because I'm in two pools. Look, I'm bummed we lost the game.

I'm bummer two and three. Yeah, terrible bit. But I feel euphoric about how things ended. We'll talk about sort of how we got here in a minute, but Buffalo at New York, everybody was on the wrong side. here. Like this game moved to five and a half before kickoff. And in the first half, it really did feel like the Jets defense was holding it together, but their offense was incompetent. Justin Fields was behind every throw, leaving yards on the field, leaving opportunities on the field. Eventually,

he got knocked out of the game with a potential concussion towards the end when it was out of reach. Meanwhile, Josh Allen literally breaks his nose on a play, comes out, goes back in, demolishes this team. Miss Reed. Well, I like Buffalo minus six and a half last week and slowly came to the other side. All in all, the entire professional market was on the wrong side here. Yep. This life bad and bad team is, honestly, there's not much saying this game. You nailed it.

Justin Field's terrible from the get-go. That's what I mean. I felt like it was a dead bet after the first drive because it just looked so dysfunctional. And, you know, I was never going to get out of this one. As soon as that Oliver went out, I was all in. And every, like Chad said, this number moved. And yeah, once again, chalk, it's a good time to bet chalk right now. And that's why we're trying to force in some chalk bets.

And yeah, definitely a bad read, bad miss. and, you know, Justin Fields getting hurt. It's, I don't matter. The offense, but Terrad Taylor is the backup. That's not that big of a downgrade. I think we agree. So we'll see going forward with the Jets. That might be a by-low opportunity of this team,

but you saw what they look like on their worst day against a very, very well-coached, disciplined team. And, you know, Josh Allen, he had an okay day, but it's the system they have that, right? The cook, the running back, Yeah. He's just such a major factor for him where he, like Chad said, he can break his nose and they don't need him to be Superman the rest of the game.

Like I loved how smart he was the rest of the game, stepping out of balance, not taking hits he didn't need to. Yeah, just a really good team. And like Chad said, we stepped in and just another bad bet. All the favorites who opened at six and a, who closed at six and a half or higher, Detroit, Baltimore, Buffalo, and the Cardinals. Three of those games blowouts from start to finish. One of them blow out for 55 minutes of the game until they let it go, talking about the Cardinals

against the Panthers. Look, what was frustrating was, let's talk about L.A. at Tennessee for a second because we also loved Tennessee all week, really because we loved Cam Ward. And there was a point in the early third quarter where I made a note, it's a weird day when the only

quarterback you're comfortable can actually keep you in the game with a chance to cover right now is Cam Ward. And then right after that, things fell apart. Because in the first half... You're the one that jinxed us. I was wondering who it was. I jinxed us. Because I think it was what,

1613 when you wrote that note? No, I think it was like... I had a lead there with the ball. I think it was actually in the first half. Yeah. And they were losing in the first half. And then they had that incredible play at the end of the first half. On that drive to score the touchdown to tie it at 10, Cam Ward, like, he threw the ball away once instead of getting sacked.

He scrambled but kept his eyes downfield, made a nice throw, and then made the, this is why you choose him number one overall throw, where he scrambled basically for 11 seconds and threw the ball across his body and across the field, 50 yards, do a guy and led him perfectly to the corner of the end zone and he scored a touchdown. And then the very next place, Stafford throws an interception

and the Titans kick a field goal. They're up 1310 at half. Like, we're rolling. And then what happened? I would say Stafford got in a groove, right? Yeah. Like, that's really what it felt like and then came through,

was it a no he fumbled right he fumbled in it he fumbled they they were down by four and they had the ball in the fourth quarter and he fumbled and that was sort of it like so I'm saying at that point they're up three Stafford gets a touchdown cam gets the ball back fumbles there they get another one like you just said

that that right there you kind of knew it was a dead back because now you need Cam to drive the whole field got touchdown and hope that Stafford doesn't you know drive the field at least get a field goal so Once again, been bad teams here. I know I'm with you.

It was brutal because that was the one game I felt really good about, like you said. And I was like, okay, we'll go one and two. Maybe we can get lucky with Dallas to go two and one here to start the day. And, you know, I'm sitting here, 0 and 3. And luckily nearby I had a family party I could go through just for an hour, eat good food and take my mind off our day. Because people are coming up asking how my day was. I just lied and said good.

because no one wants to hear you. You tell them your own three, and you need the Eagles for your lungs. And the Colts. Yeah, and the Colts. So, yeah, that was a tough part there, brother. We're sitting there O and 3, and I was just like, man, this is not how we wanted to go.

And I was like, oh, and 5. Again, we've never gone to O'N 5. Chad said, you know, he was worried about it. I've never feared the O and 5 because we haven't gone to O'N 5. But it definitely crosses your mind when you start the day, O and 3, that it's a possibility. But I was just like one of these guys are going to cover. But I'm not going to lie, the Eagles bet.

I was scared all week about it, didn't feel very confident about it once we started 0-and-3. We're just like, I am not seeing the board. And, yeah, we'll talk about the next two games. Well, look, what's frustrating is that we were never coming off those games. You know, we'll talk about the game that we sort of left out and that we put this next game that I want to talk about in as the default fifth. but that is the Indianapolis Colts at plus two and a half hosting the Broncos.

If we had lost this game, this one actually would have hurt. It probably would have hurt more than any of the other games. Really? You know, it would have hurt, but it would have been like. No, no, I mean, any of the other games today. A, because we kind of put it in because it was the game we felt least bad about. and we talked ourselves out of a game that I will get to that did win early in the day.

And so that would have frustrated me. And then if you looked at the numbers in this game, like the Colts truly dominated this game. Like they... They're a good team. Like, this was our last game in by default. And in the, through like the first three and a half quarters, I think the Colts had

400, close to 400 yards that Broncos had about 250. Danny Jones average 12.4 yards per attempt in the first half. They had more first downs. They had more time of possession. Their problem was in the entire game, and this was true to the end,

they couldn't get the ball in the end zone. They were two of seven in the red zone on touchdowns. And so the Broncos just kept winning because they were scoring touchdowns and the Colts were kicking field goals. And that would have killed me if we lost this game because they played better and couldn't get the ball in the end zone.

That's what it would have made me upset. Yeah, that's another case though where it's like I love what we do because we're just playing the number on a model and you're trying to paint the storyline in your mind of how this game will go. And not that I thought the Broncos defense wouldn't show up, but we talked.

I just thought they were a little overrated. The Cam Ward did have opportunities. I was thinking of myself, if Daniel Jones is pretty comparable in this offense, which again, he showed it today. He is he'll be able to move the ball against them. And you nailed it, though. The Broncos showed why they're top defense in the red zone to me.

Like, as bad as you said he did, I thought they did what they could in certain spots where, yeah, the Broncos were just a good defense, but, you know, between the running back, you know, Warren, the kid they drafted at a Penn State, like there were a lot of weapons. Yeah, Taylor just, you know, he stepped up and Warren stepped up. And good bet.

Just a game, I'm glad that we stuck to it because it was a good number. And, you know, we talk all the time, two and a half. I know it's stupid. I just beat into the ground. But when he hit, when he missed that field goal, I think he hit the post, the Denver kicker.

Well, last for 42 yards. Yeah. 15 left. I knew, I mean, it's sick, but I knew in the back of my mind the coach were going to miss their field goal. And he did, got the penalty. What was it? The guy jumped over the center or something stupid.

I think we were on here. So I don't really know the call. But it's the best. Lined up again, now the culture, 2 and O. And, I mean, couldn't ask for a bigger win to set the tone for your season against a Broncos team. Like we said, if they win that game, you know, they could be in the driver's team, right? like that would have been such a huge win for them and yeah again it's not getting always pretty

I was betting these dogs but people saw us this morning we worked through it we're trying to find because there's a bunch of games we like and like you said it's weird when we do a show that we tell people what to do on Tuesday and even if we don't love it come Sunday we're kind of stuck where it's like shouldn't we trust what we liked on Tuesday and what the fans have bet on the show so yeah I'm again glad I liked it glad you brought it up again about putting it back in and, you know, definitely saved their ass going to and through with that one at the end there. Yeah, that will let's miss. That was a miracle. And it felt like the gods were smiling on us because we deserved it. We deserved it after a really hard morning.

I disagree because the Cowboys game. We should not be alive and survivor. So, maybe that's true. But here's what I love. I think Kenny Albert was on the play-by-play for that Colts Broncos game. And before, they've got this kicker who's, you know, from Notre Dame. I can't remember his name, Spader maybe. And Spader or Shader or something like that. And he's never missed a kick. He's had nine kicks before today.

He had never mixed the kick, right? So Kenny Albert, no fear. Before his 36-yard field goal early in the game or late in the game, he's like, and he's never missed a kick. And then he nails it. And then before the 60-something yarder that he tried, he's like, never missed a kick. And of course he misses it. But then he gets the chance to do it again.

And he nailed it. Good for him for having a perfect record. Here's what I don't get. I'm sure you were watching the end of that game. Shane Steichen, that play calling was strange. Like I know why they were trying to control the ball and run out the clock, but they had a third and seven. they were still outside the 40 and instead of at least trying

to throw some kind of pass safe pass to get them a little bit more yardage and they had a time out to stop the clock they just went with one more run that actually lost them yardage like I'm not he was pretty aggressive during the game and I was impressed like went for it a couple times and fourth down at midfield

but that was some strange play calling to me and has to be analytics because Dallas did the same exact thing for their character and it was like bizarre to me because it was like why would you just do that to kick a 64 yarder like you said why not try to get a 10 yard catch or something

get under 60 just we're in a new age it's like weird times all of it's weird like that whole thing with the kickers today like you said I can't believe how lucky we got with the field goals like we talk all the time that usually goes the other way for us

and today we we got really lucky with the kickers all right well let's talk about Let's close the circle here. We'll start with the insane Cowboys game. We'll end with, and I want to give you your flowers. You stuck to your guns all week on the Fedulele-Eagles minus one-and-a-half of the Kansas City Chiefs. This line was Eagles plus one plus one-and-a-half last week. You highlighted it then, even when it flipped, which we hate to do, you pounded the table all week long and said,

we're going to take it. We got sharp calls from the wise guys. They're on the chiefs. They're on the chiefs. How do you not take the chiefs? You trusted your number. You trusted your gut. You trusted your eye for talent.

You made us make this play. Eagles gave us a little bit of a sweat because they were pretty sloppy in the first half. But in the end, it played out exactly the way you thought was going to play out. Their roster was just too good. Yeah. And at the end of the day, it's the same. Eagles. They were incredibly boring. Hurts, I think at one point they said he didn't have a pass

further downfield than like six or seven yards. Six yards. Yeah, just so boring, so conservative because they just know the other team will eventually make a mistake and that's how they will win the game, almost by double digits. Like, yeah, easily could have won by 10. God bless Mahomes and live betting. As soon as it got the nine and a half, 10, I'm sure everyone in the world bet that number because he just he'll never give up, he'll never die. That's why we love Mahomes. He's the best. You know,

this is why I love betting though, because I make this number three, like you said, pound the table, it lands right, 2017. Didn't know how I was going to get the three but I got there. And, you know, I'd talk about I had sleepless nights betting this number this week because it's like, why am I so

heavy on this game? There's so many other games. Why am I picking this spot? And I think anyone that bet it's all play out, the way we thought it would, right? The no, that not having a number one, number two receiver, it was just so on the homes, right?

He did it with his legs. Travis Kelsey had his moments, but that pick, that's got to go on Kelsey, right? Hit him right in the hands. He messes up. Cuba, the safety takes it,

you know, 30 yards at the back of the Eagles end zone and takes it 30 yards and, you know, flip the game for us. So, yeah, another game where we needed it bad, you know, two and three week. But yeah, we'll talk about the upcoming lines here.

I think we might finally hit the breaking point that the chiefs who are 0 and 2 straight up against the spread. They probably have value at this point. So I get it. Again, I told you, the amount of calls I got about all the trends, but I said that number of that line was fishy. And it felt like the pros stepped right into it. That I was a little bit of a trap. Same what we did with the Jets. Yep.

And like you said, it was a number. remember that it was a lot of Eagles and then came Sunday a lot of Chiefs when he did show up. So it wasn't his lops out as I thought I was going to be. And yeah, we needed it and thank God it came through. This was crazy. The Chiefs were driving. It was 1310. The Chiefs were in the red zone driving for the go-head score or a field goal to tie it. And Patrick Mahomes throws a pass to Travis Kelsey. He can't get his arms around it. It gets deflected. Eagles intercept it. That's the game-changing play, right? They go on, they score the touchdown, they take the 10.8. It's sure going to pick six, but they're lucky they have a tackle that's 18 miles per hour.

Second, literally in Red Zone, the second after that happened, they go to the Broncos Colts game. Bonix driving to put them further ahead either can be a touchdown or a field goal, but they're going to extend their lead. They're up 28, 26. Throws a pass, deflected, intercepted by the Colts literally back-to-back plays in red zone this is why it is so much fun to watch football on a Sunday afternoon whether you're winning or losing because there are game-changing bet-changing stomach-turning plays non-freakin stop it's the best again there's no again there's another sport like and I try to explain it to my family over in England and they've come around right like they they have come around they see what we're talking about

but there's just another sport that matches what Chad just talked about. There was only three games this afternoon, and they all ended up being one possession games, all three of them. So it's just the best product, the NFL. Those guys, everybody. Before we get to our early liens and break down

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They're scrolling in right now. So we are going to get to those. A lot of them about next week's games. But a couple things just to finally review. Simon, good for us that we didn't get suckered by the Saints. We talked about it for a hot second this morning. We didn't get suckered all week by the massive Browns line. It would have been a game that we probably would have wanted to play, but it didn't feel right.

It felt like a spot where the Ravens were going to crush. You like the Jags. I like the Bengals this morning. Wow, that was a crazy one, Bengals cover. You like the Pats. I like Miami. Pats covered. The game that we talked ourselves out of was Seattle.

And I loved that game all week. It was my Chad loves love. We really talked ourselves out of it because it was at two and a half. They had some injuries in the defensive backfield. Obviously, that was a mistake to talk ourselves out of it. They were the better team than the Steelers. I feel like the Steelers might have some issues. And that's going to be a team that we sort of got to think about a little bit as we go forward

because already I'm looking ahead. I don't want to talk about it yet. But like, they're not that good right now. Yeah, just injuries. A lot of these teams are just, it's crazy how many teams are banged. up early on here but um honestly i think the cx are just good like i agree that's is good and really good sam darnald i guess at the end of the day is probably their only true weakness right like he's going to be the reason they win or lose at the end the day like they have two running backs

that are pretty solid and an offensive line that seems like they are just better than what they were last year but that defense is just really good and you know they got lucky right a lot of of things bounced their way in that game but i think you know i'm just saying that they were clearly of the better team than pittsburgh got uh and um like you wish you was three and a half in the contest would have been a no-brainer easy play but it was two and a half we didn't want to force it in on a bad line and yeah that was a fun game i think it was 14 14 and they just rolled them from that point forward so see all ex fans i'd be pretty excited like you're a division i mean obviously the rams are really good but you know it's you never know like that's the type of game

you need to win to be a for real team. And, you know, that was a number I wish we had played. But yeah, hopefully people bet the three, three and a half we talked about this morning. Well, look, at the end of the day, I don't think it would have made a difference. Like the game that it would have replaced was probably the Colts. So we still would have been two and three, right? We just, we were blind. We were not coming off the Eagles.

We were not coming off the Cowboys. We were not coming off the Jets. We were not coming off the Titans. We were locked into our ways. we were inflexible for whatever that means. We liked what we had. So the only game this was replacing was the Colts. So we didn't lose a game by not having the Seahawks in there.

That's fair. Okay. Simon says is the Vikings. That game is tonight. Crazy game. Lots of injuries for the Vikings. It's going to be an interesting game. Chad Love's Love was Seattle that covered.

Brass Balls was Tennessee. that lost rock in a hard place that was Philadelphia we won Simon you got some early leans what was our Sharper square bets did I take Vikings in that too Sharper square you had the Patriots and I had the Jets I think oh okay so you were square I was sharp once again let's go yeah exactly Patriots I love it what it was I was feeling I was feeling it on Thursday that's great you were you had the Patriots I love them I just a variable man I'm telling you, Chad. You got to get back on it.

We love Rable. He's our guy. I think I look. Well, so we can talk about it. I was going to look at some of the comments for a second, but then you're bringing it up. So one of my early leads next week, I just foreshadowed Pittsburgh at New England. Open New England one and a half. Already down to one at Hard Rockbet.

Yeah. Not uncomfortable with that play. I am because I know we're going to want to take Pittsburgh once they're a dog. So we can take New England now. because I agree. I feel like you're right. That's where the value is. Yeah.

I'm not saying it has to be a game that we're playing in the contest. I'm just saying early lean, early luck. I bet you if this gets the two and a half two or one and a half in our contest with Tomlin, it's kind of a nice spot, honestly, for them. Because as good as New England looked, I told you, Chad, you know, am I feeling on Miami? That is the dead of the deadest of dead team. So, yeah. I like your early read though.

To me, you're right. It was plus one and a half when we first got on this call. Now they're already down to plus one. So early money coming on to anyone. One of the other early liens I had was the Jets plus six and a half right now at Hard Rock. It opened at seven. So it's moving in their direction. I don't know that I, it's back to seven.

Back to seven. I don't know if I care that much if it's just me. Let's keep it moving. pass on that. You're crazy. You're starting with that one. Here's a question from the audience. You just brought it up. Do we go hard on Kansas City? Kansas City plus three. Or Kansas City in week three.

It can't be over, but the giant season can be over. So how hard do we go on the Chiefs this week? Like, what are we thinking with the opening line? Or you want me to look what the opening line is? What's the opening line on the Chiefs? in week three um so like hard rock took it down it was we'll just go off what it was five and it was five and a half so what do you think it reopens at that's what's going to be interesting right like i honestly i would i would take that chief's number you there's no way

russal wilson doing he just did against a spaggs defense yeah and like i just said if you loved my homes in that spot, you have to love him even more in this spot against the Giants. Like, that was the first time in his career. He lost three games in a row. He's obviously never been owed to in his career. They have a bunch of little miscues offensively. And you see how big it's not having number one number two receiver. He needs weapons, right? He can't rely on his old tight end to make big plays and big moments. So yeah, it's an early number out. If Worthy gets cleared, can easily see this jump up to six, six and a half. So I get why they took it down because I bet you they just got hit hard.

Because five and a half, it's, I get the number, but the Giants, don't overreact the Giants Cowboys game. You agree? Totally agree. I feel like out of that game, I can't really take anything from it. It was such a weird game. I'll give a little credit to Russell Wilson. I'm sure you will too. He made the throws. Yeah, but I felt like he was, I felt like he was in practice.

That's fair. He was throwing against, well, it felt like air. Yeah. You know, it's like he was just like, it was a practice session for him. I got him problems. I left him for dead. I can't, I could not believe he was just making me eat every word. He was incredible. Clearly, we both left him for dead because we went all in on the Cowboys, including our survivor pick. So clearly we left him for dead. By the way, that first question about Kansas City was from Vitalis. Here's another question.

Mouadib 69. Rams Money Line on the Eagles next week. What do you think? I probably wouldn't. I mean, I could see this. I think it's a good read, right? Four and a half, which is what I opened it a couple of books. I don't hate taking that.

I mean, Hard Rock's already at plus four. So it looks like early money here is on the Rams. So I don't mind that taking that position. Because Eagles, you know, offensively, they just don't look like in any type of rhythm where, you know, took the Rams a little bit to get going. But once they did, you see it's just like Puka Adams combo with Williams in the backfield.

Stafford's right. It's a very formal offense. But, yeah, this, basically that they've gone against Houston, anemic offense, the Rams, and then Tennessee's offense. It's a big step up here with this Eagles team. So we'll see. You know, it's a good number.

I'll agree with your early read here. I wouldn't do money line, but I would take the four and a half if you want to grab that right now in the Rams. Looking at the lines right now. I have one more game to bring up, but I'm hesitant to do it. So just give me some of yours,

and maybe it'll be one that I like. And so I won't feel like an idiot. Just grabbing it, early and then we'll see how it plays out the rest of the week. Colts are minus three right now at the hard rock against Tennessee on the road. If that goes down, okay, great, we'll flip because we want to be on Tennessee anyway, but if it goes up, we have a great number on the three. There's no way this doesn't go down.

Like to me, this is going up to three and a half four. I can't believe you can get minus three right now on this Colts team. And I'll dive in and maybe have some weird history on the road in Tennessee. It's like a bad spot or something because I cannot believe. just from what we see from this Colts team. I know they have injuries in their secondary, but, you know, they just seem like a top-tier team right now.

And we saw Tennessee, they're just, there's so many little poorly coach things they do. Like there was a bunch of stuff. We didn't even talk about their game of penalties they got, where they were, like, getting off the field, and they would just make these stupid penalties. Like we said, they're just not a well-coached team.

So I grabbed the Colts right away with that one. We jumped on here, the minus three. Atlanta's minus three and a half against the Carolina Panthers. I'm going to grab that one too, just in case if they light up this Vikings team, this one will go up. Like that Panthers game is going to throw people off.

Like Chad said, they got all their points when Arizona's defense was basically banged up in the secondary and playing to prevent defense. And it's just a total overreaction. I can't believe that number is three and a half. It's just everything I've seen from the Panthers, They just cannot stop the run.

I mean, they're terrible against the run, their defense. So another early line I'll grab there. And, you know, it's, I don't know your view on it, but I just can't see us playing Panthers. Well, it's funny you bring it up because I didn't want to talk about the Panthers and the Cardinals. Because Bryce Young was, he would look, he was great when they were out of the game. And as I was watching this, I was saying to myself, Garbage time, garbage time, garbage time.

Don't believe what you see. Don't get too excited. He was actually the Bryce Young that we got really excited about in the second half of last year, where he was scrambling comfortably, keeping his eyes downfield, making accurate throws, keeping his team in the game. But the Cardinals rushed for basically the entire second half. All of their defensive backs were out of the game. So I was trying to remind myself, this is not real.

It's like a horror movie. This is not real. Right. This is not real. So I agree. Like I'm thinking about Bryce Young for 55 minutes, not for the last five. Yeah. And it's a, like I joked with you, but I don't know why I just thought the Cardinals were going to lose that game for some reason where I hit the six and a half on the Panthers.

You know, just, it's just, again, being in sports, because you talk to people enough and you hear what they're saying and you get convinced. yourself. That's my issue with that Panthers team is I can get sucked in on it where it's like I was so glad we didn't have them in the contest because I think they were down 20 to three. I'm like, yeah, I wouldn't be killing me right now if I had been like, we got to do it. But I just, where's the upset? I've just been trying to find the upset for Survivor. And, you know, it's just not happening right now. It's two straight weeks. Everyone's surviving. The upsets just aren't happening. But yeah, it's great that our first week doing it, We went five for five, the money line run Robin.

And I know people did R5, and they threw the Ravens in there just to get even more picks out of it. So, yeah, it's, if you like Bettenchalk on the money lines, you are in heaven. It's just a crazy, weird time right now with the new kickoff rules, the fourth down stuff. It's just the best teams or the best quarterback just keep winning for the most part. Last game I want to mention, which I was going to bring up, it's what I was just referencing, and you didn't bring it up. but Stephen Martinez in the chat brought it up. Green Bay at Cleveland plus eight and a half. I kind of like Cleveland here?

I have to take Cleveland plus eight and a half. Right? Yeah. But we'll save that because I have allowed to say about Green Bay. And yeah, if you're a fan of that team, drink the Kool-Ain. Be all in. Enjoy the hype.

The Packers. Yeah, if you're a Packers fan. Totally. You guys deserve it. Like their first two games, they look like. the best team, the NFC. So, but yeah, again, that game will break down more. Just before we get out of here,

if you want to grab Houston, me and Chad haven't really talked about the game that much this week. They're playing the Bucks at home. They're minus two and a half. Their look ahead right now is against the Jaguars. They're plus one against that Jacksonville team. That I think is going to struggle offensively against that Houston defense.

And if they do beat the Bucks tonight, this could easily flip to Houston being a favorite on the road against Jacksonville. That's how bad they looked against the backup quarterback today. So if you just want to grab the early line, that's where I'm looking for Houston, just in case. Again, I don't have a major position on them against the Bucks because I just, I'm unsure about CJA and their offense. But if they do light them up and win at home, I can see this number moving. So just the early game before you get out of here.

The last one, just for T.C., who is asking who wins with the Jets and the Bucks, we talked about it. I tried to mention it. Simon made me stop talking about it. I was leaning jets. We both think the bucks will win the game. There you go. That's for TC. Final review of the games, just so everyone knows from the beginning. We lost the Cowboys minus five and a half.

We lost the Titans plus five and a half. We lost the Jets plus six and a half. We won with the Colts plus two and a half, and we won with the Eagles. minus one and a half of our five favorite picks from this morning. Dude, I think we've done it all. We'll be back. This has been Sharper Square presented by Hard Rock Vet, part of the volume podcast network.

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