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Episode Date: September 9, 2024

WILD things unfolded across the first Sunday slate of the NFL season. Surprise arrests. A shocker in Cincinnati. A miracle cover in Seattle. Panthers buried alive in New Orleans. Sunday of Week 1 had plenty of thrills and chills, and here to recap it all are Action Network NFL betting experts Chad Millman and Simon Hunter. Together they recap their first 3 contest selections, good and the bad, and talk accountability before Sunday Night Football kicks off. And In case you're new to the show, The Favorites $100K Pro Football Pick 'Em Contest is underway for a second season! Presented by bet365, this totally free-to-play contest has over $100,000 in cash prizes up for grabs to our listeners this NFL season. Make just five picks every week to compete for our $40,000 first place prize, plus thousands more up for grabs every week of the regular season. Visit Favorites.ActionNetwork.com to sign up for free and make your Week 1 picks today. And if you missed this week: no problem! All entries have their lowest score dropped after Week 5, so sign up now and compete for the season-long prizes! #Volume  #HerdSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I know everyone in the chat wants to come after us because we have so been all about the Panthers and we got fucking kicked in the dick and then we got stomped and then we got our head smashed in and then someone reached deep deep down our throats. and pulled our stomach out and then squeezed the juices on our face and we melted. That's how disgusting it was. And it wasn't even as bad as what the Panthers did on the field. Shut up! Shut up!

I felt like we were tired in the Panthers. We believe the Panthers bad luck with penalties and turnovers could not continue. We believe the offensive line would be better. Receivers would be better. Coaching would be better. Bryce Young would be better. Simon, everything bad last season for the Panthers was bad in this game. Yeah, when I have family members that I barely talked to that I barely even watched football texting me.

How the hell did you like this Panthers team? I always like, Jesus Christ, this is not where we want to go. I've had a couple of fans reach out to us and they ask us, why don't we simply every week bet against the Panthers and see if that works? Because clearly it would have worked last year and it's off to a hot start this year. I say not to overreact too much to one game, but I think me and you both agree, Bryce Young might be out of this league in a year.

Like this guy doesn't really fit the part. So I know you have a little bit of rant about Bryce Young here, Chad, but I'm with the fans. I don't care that next week we both think there's value on the line. I'm not betting them. I'm not giving them out on this show. So go ahead, Chad. Well, look, right now, Caroline, I think is, what's the line?

It's five and a half at home. They're plus five and a half at home. home against the chargers. Obviously, you look at that number and you have to say to yourself, yeah, there's value on the Panthers. We're not going to recommend that. We're not going to say that. No. Last year, the Panthers average just 4.1 yards per play. That's the worst mark for any team since the Bengals in 2008. They had 3.5 yards per play today. Thank you, Evan, for putting that in our in our chat here. Look,

we can go through the stats and believe all of the things that I said are true about the Panthers, better coaching, better talent around Bryce Young. He's just awful. Like that first, look, first throw, interception.

And it's not like there's no urgency. This is when he's in the pocket. You see guys in the pocket and they have a sense that things are collapsing around them. They start to step up. They're sliding left. They're sliding right. They look like they're trying to put themselves in a position to make a play. He just stands there until it's almost completely collapsed on him.

And because he's so tiny, it's almost impossible for him to make the right play because he's in a position where he's going to make a bad throw because he can't see anything. I know it's like, I'm not trying to make fun of the guy. No. He's just, he's terrible at this. Yeah, it's the same reason like I talked about, you know, last year. I had a second round grade in the guys. If you want to be our first round pick, there's always one thing this guy does great, right? Better than everyone else.

CJ Stroud, the two best things about C.D. Schroeder is his pocket awareness and his accuracy deep down the field. Bryce Young coming out, he was just good at everything, right? Wasn't that what they told us, Chad? And it's like, okay, but what's he great at? And when you watch this stuff, he's not great at anything, right? Doesn't have great pocket awareness. Doesn't have great moving in the pocket. He doesn't have great arm talent, right?

There was guys open today that he was missing. So yeah, I got burned bad today on them for a decent amount of money. And I just, I don't care. We can keep it moving because I don't know wasting more time on them. I'm just totally discussing what I saw today. And I'm hoping tomorrow next week, you know, it's a new team. That was just a one off, right? That's the hope because we actually bet on their futures.

But right now, zero confidence in Brightshone. Here's the problem. And I like to wallow in my misery. Like, I felt so sick all day that about this game and about this bet and how much we touted this team. And like, it just, I'm in agony about it. So I just want to get it all out. Like, they made the Northern Saints who we genuinely believe are not good, right? And their defensive line is older.

Their offensive line isn't as good. Derrick Carr first long pass, 60 yards, touchdown. Derrick Carr looked like a world beater today against this team. Dennis Allen didn't have to be a bad coach because he didn't have to coach. They were up 30 to 3 at halftime. Like the Panthers did everything that the Panthers did the previous year. The game was not out of hand in the first half. and they had a really smartly designed play where they pitched it out.

I think it was Miles Sanders, ran for a first down on a long third down, holding penalty. Comes back, they give the ball back to the Saints. They had, I think they were down 20 to nothing. So like, not over, right? Still first half. If you believe in the team, we believe in the coach, we think they've got some talent. It's not over. fumble on a reverse after they gain a first down.

Like every single time with this team, they're just, like, none of them look like they know how to play. It's like you go to Carolina and you're infected. You're infected with some kind of like panther virus. Yeah. And they're just, when it starts going bad, though, it just goes terrible, right? It's terrible. They don't have any real leadership.

That's probably another issue for this team. Well, speaking of it. terrible. We were on the Giants today at plus one and a half. We almost pulled it out of the contest today and we're going to get to sort of why we didn't in games that we were going to put in all of which were winners today, which is another thing that's making me even more sick. When did Sam Darnold become Sam, I am the man? Because he started 10 for 10. Like I think he had two incompletions the whole game and threw for more than 200 yards, he had, he started 10 for 136 yards in a touchdown.

They had an 11 play 99-yard drive that ended with a fourth down touchdown throw. That's what all world QBs do. Did we see anything here that justified the confidence we had in the Giants? Did we get taken? Did we fool ourselves? Did we misread? Like, are we over two on the teams that we were convinced might have some value? I would say Daniel Jones definitely looked rusty.

And I thought he would be rusty, but I thought overall they'd play better. But yeah, like, you just nailed it. Sam Darnold started the game 10 for 10 and he was on fire. And then he did eventually turn back into a pumpkin. He threw a pick and just, like, the second half, they didn't do anything. Like, they were incredible in the first half. Once they got to pick six off Daniel Jones, it's like, all right, we don't need to do a single thing now. We can just pack it in because they knew that their defense was good enough that they really need to do much, right?

I think that was the most surprising part to me is that, you know, Brian Flores had this defense play amazing last year. I thought naturally they'd regress just because they played so above. Obviously, that's not great lit in the test, right? It's Daniel Jones and his first starter for coming back off a major injury, which, you know, we don't have talking. We'll get to it probably that Pittsburgh game, but like, you saw Kirk Cousinsons. right he looked rusty like coming off major injuries in your first start you play rusty so um yeah love the under in this game love the giants like I just had a game scripted the other way honestly I thought that the giants would be the ones playing well and the the Vikings would

struggle and you know when the game started I think the Vikings you know they got a sack on San Donald then the they got a fumble recovery didn't didn't score a touchdown like kick the field goal and it's just like in the back of mind I'm just thinking yeah like this is This is not a good team, right? So sucks, right? We got caught there with the Giants, but I'm not totally out on them still. It's just, you know, another team that's like,

like you just said, the other teams we talked about, I would have felt way better having a lot of money on those quarterbacks as a dog than I did at any time with Daniel Jones. Like once it started, it's always that realization of just like, this was not the spot to go heavy on Daniel Jones

and this team, right? It's like, why did we not wait and see? but still you know that that that is a tough one where it's like we played the number and we thought we had a good number that's what you said we like we said we didn't switch it out because we thought we had a good number it was never a good number that was just a bad bet no danio jones was what 22 of 42 i think for less than 200 yards average and two picks right and and and average 4.4 yards per completion two picks including the pick six uh and a pick six that he threw in sort of inside the 20, I think, and then inside his own 20.

And then he also threw an interception in the Vikings end zone when the Giants were driving that sort of just ended it. I do think this rages, you know, an interesting coaching question, which we had had a lot during the offseason because Davell, Brian Daibald, the Giants coach, and Kevin O'Connell, the Vikings coach, have been connected since. they started as head coaches a couple years ago. They both were brilliant in one score games. Their rookie coaching years. They got to the playoffs.

They played each other. Brian Dayball wins coach of the year. Brian Daibald goes to Minnesota, beats Kevin O'Connell and the Vikings on the road in the playoffs with Daniel Jones. Last year, there's regression from the Giants because Daniel Jones isn't playing. The Vikings lose their quarterback too,

and they regress significantly less. Now, granted, they had Justin Jefferson. to me this year, this game was supposed to be a little bit about a coaching matchup. Did Kevin O'Connell just completely out-coach Brian Dayball? Or do the Giants just have zero talent on their team, especially in the defensive backfield? You could say that, but it's also just what you talked about, though. Sam Darnal came out hot, man. It's just, I'm not trying to read too much into it because it is week one.

I said that to you, though. I told you, the Giants have a horrible secondary. It's not like the secondary of the Vikings is that much. much better right and Brian Flores made it work so it's like you know I don't want to make make excuses for this Giants team but they just they came out flat the Vikings did not like their offense was humming you just said they went 99 yards like Sam Darnel goes 99 yards you ain't winning your bet that's you're dead so um yeah like you said eat some humble pie here and get back after but it's two games not going to overreact I'll tell you this much the

books respect this Vikings team. I saw a couple lines open, you know, them plus six, them plus five and a half at the 49ers next week, Chad. So definitely an interesting, interesting team that could be a little bit of a sleeper team. Well, I want to talk about that in a minute. So the, you said it about the Giants defensive back. Just one thing. I was watching this game. And the Giants had stopped the Vikings on third down, you know, from the one or whatever. And you're thinking, the Vikings are going to do the smart thing, they're going to go for the field goal. And then they line up to go for it.

And you see Justin Jefferson isolated against the Giants top cornerback, who by the way, might be the 150th rated quarterback according to pro football. Like, honest to God, he's not even on their board. And it was such an easy.

He actually had good coverage there. It was just a good ball. Dude, it was such an easy pitch and catch. Like, why would the Giants leave that guy against a guy who was having one of, an historic career. It just said everything to me about, yeah, that's a dead bet. Dead bet.

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CJ was amazing. He threw for a first down on fourth down from his knees in the first quarter, had just miraculous plays. At one point, like he threw across the field, to cross his body on a third down, like, but going both ways. This was an amazing game. Amazing game.

Amazing game and nothing was breaking right for us in any way. And somehow we still got the cover, which rarely works out for you. And games just aren't breaking away. I mean, we literally. That says something, though. That says something to me about both teams, which we're going to talk about. Yeah, I think it says a lot about Anthony Richardson, honestly. Like, this kid, we all see it.

The talent is incredible. incredible and it is just so raw like it's so raw um you know he he lost that game like he kept a minute but end of the day he is the reason they lost like Shane's like can call it an amazing game like there was multiple times he had wide open guys and then he didn't have open guys and he went for those guys anyway and it worked out for him like he he really was just so up and down in that game but um yeah that missing the open touchdown and throwing the pick right after usually that's you know a 14 point at least 10 point swing in some ways right and um they come down and i i love dameco rinds that's why they're a team i was scared of coming to this year he he don't care like he knows the deal

he's not messing around so like you know they're on they're on fourth and goal i mean i can't remember i mean it might be 5% of the time in my life i've ever seen coaches go for it in that spot, right? You kick the field goal. You're up five. You're talking about the end of the game. They're up 22 nothing. It's late in the fourth quarter. They get stopped on fourth down. And like, T.K. Stroud, such a gamer, they go for it. And we needed them to go for it. Like the gambler's math. Play that out. It's 22 nothing. They kick the field goal. It's 25 nothing. Like we don't like the only option then for the Colts is to score it. touchdown because the field goal won't be enough and they won't have enough time.

But if they don't get the touchdown, then they lose by five and it just feels, you feel even sicker because you know you came within a player too, you know, versus 29. So it's funny on your brain works here where I'm the other way where I wanted them to go for that. I was like they stopped in here. All the momentum is all on the Colts and they will win this game by a field goal. They'll drive the field and they'll kick a field goal here and they'll win this game. So I was happy they went for it and I mean, shame on me. They called the perfect play. Stefan Diggs was going against air. He was wide open in that corner for that touchdown. Like that that's a great, great play by a great player. So yeah, Houston, everything we talk about

coming to the season, they're living up to it. All the pieces they added Joe Mix and Stefan Diggs, they all showed up in a big way. We had questions coming to hear about their defense. None was answered, right? That was such a weird game where it's like, did they do okay against the run? Sure. Do they have issues still in the secondary? Yeah. Clear. I mean, they couldn't stop the deep ball. So Houston, they're exciting, but I still think there's a reason we had a little bit of doubt of them coming to the year. But I think we both agree, right, Chad? They're the best in this division and that was apparent today, right?

They just, they looked like a more mature, more complete team and their coach's confidence in them is incredible. Like, Damika Ryans, we already talked about it. It's just, I love those type of things because that just breeds confidence for that team going forward. So huge, huge, huge divisional win for Houston. And the Colts now, going next week to Green Bay, that's become a must-win game. Like you can't start the year 0-and-2 if you're the Colts. So, yeah, pretty wild that game,

how so many domino pieces fell in that game to set up the rest of the season. Well, look, you said this about Daniel Jones, the same as true for Bryce Young. It's the opposite for Anthony Richardson. You never feel with Anthony Richardson like you're out of the game. the way you do with someone like Daniel Jones or Bryce Young. And you mentioned he missed a wide open touchdown.

He had a throw to Adonai Mitchell that went over his head and then the pick. He did the same thing to Mitchell later in the game. Yeah. And follows it up with a 60-yard bomb into double coverage that gets them back in the game. And then he ends up running. running forward on fourth down, carrying guys into the goal line, backing in, full on, backwards walk, using the glutes, using the hammies, that stuff is paying off. And he gets into the end zone.

And then they kick the extra point. They end up losing 29, 27. We get the cover. So I never, like, we're going to want to continue to bet Anthony Richardson and Shane Steichen because of the plays that he calls all season long. We're just always, the more they lose, the more value. you were going to think there is on the Indianapolis Colts. Here's the thing about C.J. Straub.

They needed him to make a throw. They had like a third down in 11 or something just after the two-minute warning. They convert that play. They win the game. They don't. They got a punt. Indies got an opportunity to run to go down the field and kick a field goal. He throws a dot.

that a guy catches, gets his knee down. That was Nico Collins who had 117 yards. Incredible game. Dude. Like, CJ Stroud is just different. He's just different. He started the game eight for nine. That changes the calculus on everything.

No wonder the Texans are 16 to 1. No wonder I wanted to bet them in all my Super Bowl matchups because he can cover up any weaknesses that the defense has. I mean, he was. Especially for him. That was a bad game by him. honestly, by even his own standards. Like, they were taking threes and he kept saying that.

Like, we can't keep taking these threes. Again, that's why I think D'Amico Ryan's into that game went for that because he was just like, I'm not kicking another field goal in the side of the red zone. We're going for it here. So, look, also had two picks overturned, right? One was ruled. Again, that's why I kept thinking we weren't going to get it, Chad. Like, it just kept not going our way.

Like, this guy picks it, incredible pick. It's like, nope, your heel actually just touched out. And it's like, oh, my God. Can't get you great. And then another one, the guy picked him off in the red zone and they called it back. because they called a penalty on them. All right, so that's why we're one and two. We got the Colts right, dreadful with the Panthers and the Giants.

We're going to move on in the next 24 hours. We're going to start getting excited about next week. Yeah, typical. That was the only two games we got wrong on the 1 p.m. slate. So that was brutal. It was making me sick watching these things. Yeah. We got two games remaining.

We got the lines minus three and a half. That lines now up to five, so we feel good about the number. Jets, we got it. That better work out because that was the reason we did not switch out the Giants because we wanted to keep that three and a half. Right. So what happened was, This morning, Simon and I were going over the slate.

And one of the games, like really the game that we had talked about that we kept looking at and like, why aren't we talking more about this game was Jags at three and a half? So obviously we did bet that game. We didn't take it out because we liked the lines at three and a half. The value was there. And a lot of the lines had changed. Like if we changed up our picks, we would have had to take the lines at four and a half. And we didn't want to lose that because we liked it so much. It's tough.

But the Jags, like, the Jags were so much better. And then Travis Aten fumbles the ball at the two-yard line when they're going up 24 to 7. They kind of lost their way. They only had one pass after that. They, like Trevor Lawrence was brilliant in the first half, ended up with less than 200 yards and 12 completions. Doug Peterson went for it in his own, like, 30-yard line on fourth down with a lot of time left. Like, what happened here? They should have dominated this game.

It's the Miami heat. They put you in the sun when they're in the shade and they cook you. And whatever happened, I have to blame the heat. The man lost his mind. Doug Pearson lost his mind. Trevor Lawrence was really having a good game, honestly. He said in that first half. Dude, when he was in that first half, I'm like, Trevor Lawrence, 22 to 1.

I was passing yard. We got this locked. So that's what happened. No, I just like it just, it was all smooth. And like you said, they got away from their identity in the second half and it's like, I went back and watched. I mean, I guess you could say they were getting

a lot more pressure in the second half, Miami, and maybe that's why, you know, Doug was trying to counter that with running the ball more, but no, that's a classic case of they're just, that's a bad team that lost a bad game, right? Like if they had kind of been a different team this year, that's kind of game you need to close out and win, right? That's a playoff team from last year in Miami.

Yeah. You had him on the ropes the whole game. You're dominating. Like you said, you fumble out of the back of the end zone. Okay, that's a turning point. They come down the field, tire kill, whoever it was, scored a touchdown. Then you bounce back, right?

Then you come back out there. And you drive the field and get at least a field goal there. Like you said, nothing. Like, they three now punted the rest of the game. And, you know, Miami didn't play that well, but they took advantage and they found a way to win. And that's, and in the day, that's what makes great teams for football.

Like, if you just somehow can find a way to win on your worst day, you're a really good team. So yeah, hats off to Miami and just the coaching staff. Like they kept their guys in it. Tua never broke, right? He was struggling as well. He was having a bad game.

Back game. Stuck with it. Like, he was missing open guys too and he stuck with him. And the fourth quarter, he was on point, like making big throws. And, you know, Devon A. Chan, like another guy that, you know, last year

couldn't stay healthy, right, but everyone knows a talent level. He really showed up in that second half as well. I mean, he was running the ball so well. So huge game for Miami, but me and you were pissed because we knew that was a good cover number. That was a good number of three and a half on two what we viewed as equally even teams.

And that number was never in doubt, right? Whatever it was, I think it was a 60-yard field goal to win it by Miami. So yeah, kudos to anyone that took the three and a half. Those games, the Jags and the Colts basically ended back to back. On Red Zone, they were the two box at the end. and I'm like, I need both of these games,

not just for the contest, but just for my slate of bets today. I need them for my lungs. The only thing I can take Salison is that I only went half a unit on the Giants because I just like at the end of the day. I'm jealous. I just wasn't believing.

And like look. But that's the worst thing too. Like we said though, like I meant it in. Even though they were up three, I just regretted it. I was like, why am I so heavy on Daniel Jones? So you made the right move there. But are we going to skip the Tennessee Bears game?

Were we going to get to this Bears game or what, Chad? We're going to talk about it. I just want to say one thing about the Steelers. I'm going to give you your flowers for the Bears. Shame on us. On Tuesday, we're like, we like the Jags and we like the Steelers. Why aren't we doing the Jags and the Steelers? And then all week, we talked about this is a Mike Tomlin makes it ugly,

wins as an underdog game. This is what he has done for 16, 17 years. He is the best coach against the spread as a dog. He is the best coach outright as a dog in the past 20 years. Better than Belichick, better than Sean Payton, better than Mike Vrable, better than all the coaches who have dominated for betters. Let the greatest of all time look at your work. We suck.

And when T. When T. J. While plays, that changes the calculus for everything. Yeah. We are terrible people, non-strategic, stupid, stubborn, blinded by our own biases. We deserve to be one and two right now because we could be three and a. And I think honestly what got me, Chad, was just, again, I overacted too much to it, was the fact that it was unknown who the quarterback was going to be.

and I had questions about their offensive line. And my thinking was, well, I don't know how they're going to keep up with Atlanta. Where we nailed it on Tuesday, where we said this is Kirk Cousin's first start going against the top five defense. Like this was a nightmare scenario to put this guy in, and he failed. Like that's what the worst part was. We capped there perfectly. It was like, did it matter that the offensive line's bad on Pittsburgh and that it was Justin Field?

No. I mean, they can kick five field goals or six field goals and it'll work out for him just because that defense is so. incredibly talented. So that was as Mike Tomlin as it can get, right? I probably do have a talent for understanding people, but is it a talent? It's not. It's listening when they're talking. For real. Coaches like the thing we listen, coaches don't listen. They wait for dudes mouths to stop moving. All heart, all grit, offense was terrible. I mean, it really was at times just horrible. But, you know, with fields, they can run that kind of spread

option right they can run in spread you out and you know not score touchdowns but at least move the ball where Atlanta could not move the ball and when they would jj would pop up and make a huge play and kind of flip the game so yeah brutal brutal even that one off especially because that's like a game we nailed talking about and just a game we always take in that spot but I think it's just tough where it's like you hear so much noise I'm here so much for the peanut gallery that does make you question you're thinking of it over like you know they're right their offensive line is bad and Justin Fields does burn us in these kind of spots and that number did go from two and a half to closing at four and a half by kickoff so um yeah some professionals went in heavy on

Atlanta and they clearly got burned by it but um yeah lesson learned like we we like Pittsburgh in those kind of spots that was one of their easier games they'll have all season uh matchup wise and we definitely missed on it yeah couldn't we have listened to the peanut gallery on the panthers and the giants because i would have rather have listened to him on that and definitely The Giants Vikings won. That was the toughest mess. The peanut galley was heavy on the Vikings. And I was just like, nah, you don't know.

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Listen to Saigon on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I do want to, there's a couple things we've got to say. The Bears, you nailed it. Like, flowers for you. I couldn't get myself there. And for the first half, it looked

like I was 100% right, but I very specifically did not text you. It was not going to say anything because it's a long game. And I literally had no joke. I know, 45 text messages on my bear's text chain from the first half, which I didn't answer because I'm taking notes on the games and I'm freaking out about our bets and I'm trying to keep my cool with all these people in my house.

Like, I just can't engage. Caleb Williams already looked broken. Like, in the second half, he was, it looked like he was literally pushing the ball instead of throwing it. He was leaving the pocket the second, his first read wasn't there. Yeah. Like Keenan Allen's dropping wide open touchdowns. Keenan Allen drop and passes.

The good news is he had a Hall of Fame kneel down. And really, I don't think any bare quarterback has ever looked better kneeling down than Caleb Williams. But this was not a win to be proud of. I would say it is. I mean, a win's a win. I don't care how you get it. But to me it was good, man. You got to see him get humbled.

and he realized like the scrambling back 10 yards is all fun and cue when it works out. When it doesn't work out and you lose 20 yards and take your team out of field goal position and Chicago's letting you know you're an idiot, he needs that. Like this kid, he's had a little bit too good in his life, right? And this is going to be a good year for Caleb Limbs. This is a reason, though, that I mean you were laughing about their win total over nine and a half and just all the hype they're getting. You know, Nick Wright's picking them to go to the Super Bowl.

It's just like you're a rookie. There's a reason we were so enamored with CJ, right? Like CJ going 23 touches on five picks, you don't see that kind of composure from rookies. You see what we saw today from all the rookies, right? Struggling. Like that's another thing I was pissed about is I told you whatever that was two weeks ago. I'm like, we should fade these rookies on the road here just because it is so tough, right? And your first start on the road.

I mean, William showed that at home how tough it is, right? When the fans turned on them on. little bit that first half. I can't imagine what the locker room was like for the Bears, right? I mean, it's 17-0-0 or whatever it was, 17-3. But when I made the bet, my whole point was, I just thought Tennessee was bad. And I thought Will Levis was bad. And it took a while to get there, Chad, right?

It took a little bit for him to do. You know what? He was bad. He was bad. It's just like when it's third and seven, you got no hope with Will Levis. Like, there's a couple of QBs like that. and you know never thought the number would get there right

just because there were in such a hole and it was like well if they get up to 2117 they can cover the four and I can get my three and a half Shaq can get his four and a half no no we'll levest him even better he threw a pick six I think Stucky had the tweet

it was like amazing it was basically how often does the team come back from down 17 to win a game with zero offensive touchdowns I don't know if that's ever happened before that's astonishing It's astonishing. So like you said, Chad, that's good teams win those kind of games.

And I know it's hard for you as a Chicagoan because you've just been through the fucking ringer. But I'd be positive. Like this is exciting going forward because they do have a lot to build on a work on. And that to me is like that was one of the worst offensive performances we'll see this season. I think from Caleb Williams. I think he'll get better. That was just, he said he doesn't get nervous. Dude, you're human.

You clearly get nervous. He was full of jitters in that game and happy feet. So, yeah, I don't know if we'll bet them next week because it's under a touch on right now in Houston at home on Monday night against the Bears. So I will be honest with you, Chad, right now. I did throw a little bit on Houston right now while it's under seven just because I do think

that number's going to go up. All right, well, let's talk about them. So just a reminder, we've got the Lions tonight. We're not going to spend too much time on the Lions because we've talked about them so much. But we are in a lion. Don't bet minus five, though. That feels like that's totally gone value-wise.

Yeah, we were on the lions at three and a half. I've taken them four and a half too, but at five now, it's just like, come on. The Survivor, we had the Bengals. That's a bummer. We also had the Seahawks. So we split in sort of the pools that we're in. We're still alive. We'll keep talking about Survivor.

It's up to five and a half now, Lions at Bet365. Jesus. Jeez. Jesus. The overrunner is 53. I mean, if you missed everything, you embed anything in this game, throw a little on the under. That's a really high number. Um, Nick Giffin likes the under on the first half according to what the

do that thing. Yeah, roll with Nick in his luck rankings. I like that. A couple of week two lines that I just want to get to before we get out of here. You just mentioned Houston five and a half right now. Six and a half. It's up to six and a half over the bears. It could be a lesser book.

Our sponsor's book is six and a half. I just saw Buffalo Miami. Buffalo opened as a one point underdog at Miami. That line, I just saw move to one and a half. I don't know what you're seeing on Bet365 right now. Yeah. I mean, Buffalo's defense might be absolutely dog shit. So I get why the professionals are coming to Miami.

I mean, they're at home on a short week. But yeah, we'll wait for that when I'll talk Tuesday. A couple games that interested me. I know it's terrible to say this. Cincinnati, they're plus six. Obviously, we've got to wait and see what happens. Well, we know what's going to happen. It's Cincinnati plus six.

for a second, I forgot they were playing the chiefs and not the Niners. Cincinnati plus six, like. Probably getting my Simon says, but I already took the six and a half. It's down to six. I'll take the six as well. It's like, if you love the show. Like that line could go up over the course of the week with all the chiefs love. I don't think it will.

I don't know if the pros will let it check because this is already insane. It was three and a half before games kicked off today. Are the Bengals three points worse than they were 12 hours ago? I don't know. It's just, we talk all the time. It's overreaction to week one. Like that game, everything went wrong. They're about to score the go-ahead touchdown.

The guy fumbles into the end zone, right? They get a kick. The guy muffs the punt. Like, it's just, I think the commentator said they only had two fumbles all of last season. They had two in that game. They had two in the first half. Yeah. So that's just a game from hell.

So it's like, me and Chad, I know it's gross, but you have to buy a low in these scenarios. So we, we love Mahon. We always talk about this on our show. We love Mahomes at less than a three point favorite. So if he's two and a half or if he's an underdog, we buy him a homes. We always fade Mahomes when it's over four. We just always do it because he always plays in these close games.

So Chad, you're so right calling this game out for us. This is one of my favorite games that popped up for this early buying. By the way, Evan just threw this one stat into the chat that I need to read to people. And it's Jermaine for a couple of reasons. One, Bet, Bet, five has a few things. an incredible early payout offer.

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We're 66 1-1-1 against the spread. It's 2019. They are now 66-2-1 against the spread. The other game, two other games. Dallas is minus 6. Love it. Right now. I say we grab it.

As soon as I saw that number come out, it's Dallas at home against a bad team. Like we always play Dallas in this spot. And especially that bad team is the same to just put up 50 points or whatever it was. Like if this game, to me, this game, and you'll do your numbers this week, but I feel like this game should be at least a touchdown. I think that's what it'll be.

I think I'll either have at 7 or 7.5. So the fact that you can get 6, 6.6 and a half right now, I would just grab it before it does go to 7, in my opinion. All right. Those were the games. Anything else I'm missing? Yeah, I grabbed Colts minus 3 right now, just in case it is Malik Willis, right?

That's who they're saying. Chad, I know Ryan Tannehill has gotten some buzz. Yep. So that's Ryan Tannenhill coming off of Beach and Bahamas to be their quarterback and playing a game in six days. So it's like either quarterback, whoever it is, I'm feeling confident about this bet, right? So there's a reason Green Bay, I'm going to give up a seventh round pick to get their starting quarterback right now. So yeah, this, I wanted to be on Green Bay because I thought this line would be like six or something. The fact that it's just three right now, I would just grab it because I could see the public coming in this.

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