A Numbers Game | January 7, 2026 | Hour 3

0:00The numbers told the story of the allies down. Swarmdoll's idiots who believe in analytics. This is a numbers game with Gill I like Xander. Our number three of a numbers game at Viesin, these sports venting network, Viesin.com game, plus I hard radio, YouTube TV, and of course, Series X and Channel. 158's Gill I like Xander. It's Kelly Bedland, as well here from Circa Resort Casino. Still to come this hour, Kelly. When it's become sort of a weird annual throw-in tradition for us, a feel-goal kicker breakdown. Oh, yeah. Wild Card Week. Yeah, we didn't get to that already. You know why? Because we never talk about feel-goal kickers. How many of these games come down to the kickers? Yeah. And maybe if you know all things being equal, it's just a little, another little data point in your handicap. I enjoy when you sent that over this morning, and I kind of chuckled at it and then I had to tell Danny before the show too, I was like, yeah, I forgot this for a couple of like an annual throw-in. He does. We always get the one, too. He's like, why are you breaking down feel-goal kickers? I don't know, because they feel like. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, he always joins us at this time

1:00of week, and we are always thrilled to have him. The playoffs, by the way, are here. Warren Sharp has a special sale for recent listeners this week and get all of his wild car weekend betting recommendations for just $19 and 99 cents. That's an 80% discount. And as an extra gift, you'll get all of his college playoff semi-final bets as well. To claim the offer, go to sharp.football and click the top link. Here he is right now in the flesh, courtesy of the progressive guest line. It's Warren Sharp from just outside the, or somewhere inside the DMV. How you doing, Warren? I'm doing good. Better than a lot of these coaches after Black Monday, you know, getting canned, left and right. But it's really interesting, Gil, because, you know, last year in the cycle, we had some really, like, elite candidates, right? Like, guys that, obviously, offensive gurus, like you're Ben Johnson, who is there, and people are scrambling finally. Liam Cohen, especially, like, we don't really have that this year. We've got a lot of openings, but I don't really know what to do. We've got a lot of openings, but I don't really think that we have that guy that's just, like, you know, so elite that you got to go

2:00get him and he might change your whole franchise's direction. This is interesting to me, because you and I, we briefly chatted just off air, you mean Kelly, about John Harbaugh now being available. And John Harbaugh is agent, if you're to believe him said, hey, within 45 minutes, we got calls from seven teams. And again, noteworthy is Adam Schefter pointed out. There's only six vacancies so someone with a coach, if you're to believe him, called and inquired about John Harbaugh, share your thoughts if you would about this. I know that John Harbaugh has won a Super Bowl. I know that John Harbaugh leads the Ravens to the playoffs in six of the last eight years. What is it specifically about John Harbaugh? That would make him a great coach for your team. That would change the trajectory of your team. Obviously, if you've got a good team, you're not getting a new coach. So you're a bad team. You get John Harbaugh and then what? You get John Harbaugh and then what? What is it specifically about John Harbaugh? That would make him a great coach for your team. That would change the trajectory of your team. That would make him a great coach. You get John Harbaugh and then what? What magically is going to happen? He doesn't call plays

3:00offensively. He doesn't have some sort of a scheme or system that he's going to bring in. He's going to elevate your team. He doesn't call plays defensively. If you don't have a good quarterback, what is he going to do? And I've harped on this for several years and I tweeted it out again yesterday. John Harbaugh was almost fired after the 2017 season by the Ravens. They had missed the playoffs the last three years in a row prior to that season. And the owner, Biscotti, considered firing John Harbaugh at that point in time. They decided to keep him on for the 2018 season. They were sitting with a four win, five lost record with Joe Flacco at the helm. And they decided, you know what, like Joe Flacco got hurt, we have to start Lamar Jackson. Mar Jackson goes six and one down the stretch, gets them into the playoffs that year. He gets them into the playoffs in six of the seven next years. And basically saved John Harbaugh's job was the performance of Lamar Jackson and Lamar

4:01Jackson being brilliant, winning MVP awards, etc. Lamar Jackson obviously is the type of quarterback who changes the direction of a franchise. If you're able to draft a guy like Lamar, especially late in the first round, you've got a good general manager who brings some other talent around him. You can change your direction. How much of that was John Harbaugh? And in fact, I would say that, you know, when you've got a good quarterback and you've got a decent team, it's got to be the coach that gets you to the final, you know, the final level. Like you look at the Buffalo Bills, I have the same type of opinion with Sean McDermott. It's like Josh Allen's giving you every single thing that he can give you. Why are you not getting to that next level? I don't know that is Josh Allen needs to be better. He's elite. Maybe it's the coach that needs to come up with a few little tweaks in some of the matchups, in some of the biggest games in the playoffs to get you over that hump, just like Andy Reed has done previously. So I just think that, you know, I think John Harbaugh is a very respectable coach. I think he's a, he's a, he's a, he may be a good guy.

5:02But what exactly should make him be like head and tail, you know, night and day, the best coach in this cycle? I find myself nodding to most of that one. I agree. When you're a, when you're a guy who got the head coaching job from a special teams, right, special, special teams coordinator position, I think it's only, it only follows that you have to say to yourself, well, I mean, the CEO coach, right, the Mike Tomlins of the world, they, there is a, I mean, some people will subscribe to that model, but what is John Harbaugh's specific skill set beyond that is an interesting question. If you were last thing on this, if you were one of the, one of the guys making the decisions on one of these teams with a vacancy, who's the first guy you interview? Well, if it's one of the coaches that was fired, I'm looking at Kevin Sifansky. I think the circumstances that he was working with in buff in Cleveland were terrible for years or the worst franchises in the entire NFL. I think that he, from a play calling perspective and from an X's and O's perspective, does

6:03have the edge over a lot of these other candidates. Now, he's not the knock it out of the park home run type guy like Ben Johnson was, maybe even like Liam Cohen was, but I do think that he's a guy that I would want to bring in and talk to from the cycle. I also find it interesting. I don't know that he's necessarily, you know, head coach right away type material. But if you're talking about offense wins games in 2026 and beyond, the fact that I haven't heard Brian Dable's mentioned at all, they mentioned it all, I think he's really a good creator of offense and a play caller of offense, maybe not from a head coach, you perspective, but if I'm looking for somebody to pair with a coach to bring in to call my offense, I'm definitely looking to get Brian Dable's name on my list as well. I wonder if Brian Dable doesn't end up as the OC and DC in Washington, the OC and because he, he seemed to love Jaden Daniels on that, on that hard knock show, was it the hard knock show? Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know. I'd be interesting to see. Okay. As far as wild car weekend is concerned, we just mentioned the offer for just 1999, all of

7:05your plays, wild car weekend, including the college football semis, I'm curious right now as we do this on a Wednesday morning, what's the game that you feel like and not holding you do this, but right now you feel like you have the most conviction on. So I put it bluntly, I haven't bet anything yet, which is, which is a little bit atypical. Sometimes I'll come in early in the week Monday morning, I'll have some, I'll work all night Sunday, get some things lined up and, and, and look to fire early. There's some things I'm waiting to, to shape up a little bit for this week. And definitely, I was a little surprised with the availability and massive market that we were getting for player props on Monday, I mean, like pretty much anything that I was looking at that was already lined and is available. So I'm definitely going to be pivoting towards the player prop market very soon. The one game that I find to be really intriguing from a matchup perspective and a philosophy perspective is that Jaguar's Buffalo Bills game, because you do have a situation where

8:08Josh Allen and this Buffalo Bills team has been starting out very slowly in a lot of their games down the stretch. They're actually below average in points per game scored in the first half of games. And they've liked to play a little bit more conservatively, but they're going up against a Jacksonville Jaguar's team that has the second highest pace of play over the last like six games, and is the second highest pass rate over the last six or so games, and with Jacobi Myers in this passing attack really taken off, like, this is a Jaguar's team that will come in and try to put up points on an opponent and do so quickly and early. And that might put Josh Allen, if this Bills team comes out and starts a little bit slowly, like they've been prone to do, playing from a position of deficit and position of weakness. And all of a sudden, when you got Josh Allen with no Joe burrow to get past, no patch from a home to get past, and everybody's talking about, I know he's on the road, but it's like, this is Josh Allen's year. They cannot afford to go down in Jacksonville and lose this game.

9:08I mean, the narrative around Josh Allen without those guys in his way is this is his year to get through to the Super Bowl and try to win it, and they can't afford to start slowly here. And I think with the offensive philosophy that they're going to try to approach this game with another interesting tidbit about this game, Gil, I haven't heard anybody mention yet, but I went back to 2020 when the Bills offense really took off. That's when Brian Debel came in and had Josh Allen like throwing the ball all over the field. They became a past first offense in 2020 and Josh Allen's career took off and so did the Bills ceiling. From 2020 through present, the Buffalo Bills have played 12 playoff games. I want you to guess how many of those games have not been in Buffalo or Kansas City. Oh, wow. Zero. No, no, that's not true. Zero. Is that right? Zero. Come on. The only two venues that the Buffalo Bills have played their last 12 playoff games or last five years has been Buffalo or Kansas City.

10:10And every time they've gone to Kansas City, they've lost in the playoffs. So they've taken three trips to Kansas City. Their other nine games have been at home. So this team is not that familiar with going out on the road, going to play elsewhere in a venue that's not quite as familiar. Let alone going to Florida now. Fortunately for them, I think that whether it's only supposed to be in the 60s, maybe a little bit cloudy. So it's not like 80 degrees in sunny. We'll see if that forecast holds true for this game. But I mean, that's another opportunity for them to just be playing in a different venue. I know they whooped the Jacksonville Jaguars last year in Buffalo, but they also went down to Jacksonville two or three years ago and lost nine to six to the Jaguars. And then they played Jacksonville the next year over in London and lost to Jacksonville as well in London. So they did beat them last year by heavy margin at home. But this is not a familiar situation for Buffalo B traveling on the road to someplace other than Kansas City in the postseason. You know, you this wasn't the main point of what you were just talking about, but you

11:11know, we don't make enough of you brought up Jacobi Myers. That trade deadline move to get him. And I would say even Seattle Rashid Shahid showed up finally after a few games and he's been a factor. Some really stealth, great moves by some of these teams that ended up in the playoffs. Jacobi Myers maybe taking advantage of those Raiders, I mean, the Raiders are a disaster in all our respects. Warren, always a pleasure, man, enjoy the weekend. Thank you so much. Good luck to us. You too. You got it. Warren Sharp, everybody at Sharp Football, that's where you can check out all of his stuff, fascinating stuff there from the about the bills, I should say, I would not have guest zero, but yeah, that's the case. Coming back on a numbers game at Visa, these sports betting that one, you're here because you want an edge. That's what separates listeners from winners, but let's be real mindset alone doesn't get bets home pros win because they've got the tools, the data and the discipline. And now so can you. Visa programs you access to the same real time insights, the sharps use, no secrets, no fluff, just actionable info that moves markets, tap the link and see why serious betters

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13:12He's going, so saying without saying he says Drake May for MVP and puk off at the player there. That's what he got out of it. Everybody's reading the TV again, he's just one motor, Teddy Rack. I thought he did a great job with the, with the, with the, with everything, but with the MVP of splitting like, hey, there's going to, it's going to be so close. It's going to give him the case for either side. Absolutely did it well. Teddy Rack, a big daddy rack. He says, don't sleep on frosted flakes and cinnamon toes crunch. Chris Hartman, Gil, why is there a mockery of McCarthy versus Harbaugh? They're separated by six wins and one loss. Each has a superbowl in career, in their career a decade and a half ago, neither should be sought after. To be honest, they always have a quizzical look on their face during the game. I think that's what Warren was kind of getting at. Billy Charlotte, ball, Kelly's 100% correct, peanut butter, captain, crunch, best cereal on the planet. However, I listened to a drug counselor addressing students so they compared the consistency of myth to said cereal and the razor like damage that peanut butter, peanut butter, captain, crunch, does the roof of your mouth, captain, crunch, forget peanut butter, captain, crunch, period. I was like, yes, would destroy the roof of your, roof of your mouth.

14:15All captain, crunch, cereals, there should be a warning on your absolute, absolutely right. Larry fresh. There's not like a real story though. That's incredible. They actually had a drug counselor compare that to, no, no, obviously that part up or not. Larry fresh. I like the way you do declare, thank you for that. He's reciting guy lyrics, but putting our numbers game lingo in there. I like the way you do declare when we're listening to a numbers game. My guy remix. Thank you, Larry fresh. Bobby Getty's. I got in pocket. Drake May, 100 to one MVP, CMC offensive player of the year, 30 to one, B. Jean offensive player of the year, 75 to one, Dart offensive rookie of the year, 40 to one. Gill, I'm starting to think the CLV store is in the basement of the sushi place and that's why you won't give it out. I'll give you half my winnings if you show me because I didn't think these are going to are getting home. Well, I'm responsible for the B. Jean part of that, not the rest. Lawrence Carter. He's doing a 10 point T zero over there at MGM for even money. What's he doing? He's doing you get to 10 points for even money over there. I guess that's what he's doing. Rams, Bears, Jags and Eagles is how he's going.

15:16K flow, K flow, Ren's who helped us out with so much of the survivor stuff. It's just running an hour behind the show this morning, but just ate a bowl of frosted flakes and it was great. As great as May has been this year, Stafford's MVP narrative, age, numbers, only two career probals, questionable status for week one, back issues during the preseason, hard to imagine that's excluded. God, I'm trying to rush to make a bet right now, Gill. And of course, it's like, hey, update your app. Joe C714, Puka 18 to one on Bolvada for offensive player there. They still have it up. John Blum got Puka 18 to one for offensive player there in far away place. Let's go drive into miserable grain rain from Portland to Seattle. Thanks for making the trip go a little faster. Thank you, John. Appreciate it. Colin Murphy with coach of the year. So up in the air, Kalshi has a 49 to one on a tie. Might be worth a sprinkle, sprinkle me, sprinkle me, sprinkle me. Might be for comeback as well, which is also 49 to one. The rare tie he's betting on when wins I did tweet back to Colin on that one when we had many ties.

16:17I don't know if that number is juicy enough to really consider. I agree. I agree. I mean, the other thing I don't I understand the sentiment. I legit don't know the answer to this, right? But like we had I remember the year right it was Peyton and McNair got co MVPs. Remember that? Yeah. But like I don't even know if the voting system was the same back then, I don't either. Let's let's clean up some loose ends here. I just went on this whole thing. Yes, should about okay, seeing about SGA. If you missed the show yesterday, I went on a long rant about SGA has not played nonstop basketball. Basically since the beginning of the 2021 season. And then these losses, I don't know. I think you can kind of draw a line like it at some point. This dude is the least load managed guy ever because his body's got to give out. What's the, what's his status for tonight's game? Got downgraded questionable about an hour ago, sorry, if you're not working that one in, but yeah, he's got, he's got a canee, a canee that he's dealing with. You never want a canee. And that is on top of Alex Kruso and Isaiah Hardenstein being out already for this team. The Hardenstein, like that we, you know, like when he got added to the team, felt like

17:21it was immediately made a big deal about like, okay, it adds another big man that check and play off of and this defense is so much better. But then like, I don't, I feel like it's been barely brought up when he's been out of these games with his lost, right? That's right. He is like, we all recognize him as a important role player when you brought him in. He's been out now. Like that's part of the problem. Hardenstein. And they are now a 17 and a half 18 point favorite at home tonight against the very, very pesky Utah Jazz. All right. And by the way, we'll get into the whip around here in a minute. But I just wanted to point out that sometimes when I'm doing seven, so we had Greg Peterson on earlier. And you don't hear from Kelly. It's not that Kelly has left the room. Kelly just goes on a deep dive on stuff. I didn't hear a word Greg said today. And so I love you, Greg. I didn't hear a word. We mentioned earlier that people are sending around Nigel Ceeley was one of the people, but there's tons of people are sending around this video of some lady, a color lady, some lady who somehow bought her way in as a wild card on some low level tennis tournament. The Egyptian Hyar Abdelkater.

18:23I'm sure you're pronunciation. I'm sure. I'm the spot on, right? Spot on. Anyway, she bought her way and she can barely, she doesn't even know how to toss the ball and hit. There's video. She lost six love, six love. No surprise. I imagine being the other player like, are we getting it? She made 20 faults in just 37 minutes. She did win three points. Oh. All of them mistakes by the opponent. Apparently she was lining up on the wrong side for service. The opponent had to walk her through basically the entire time like you need to stand over there. Anyway, what was your deep dive about? Okay. Okay. Hold on. So are you deep diving about it? Pull up whole article here. Despite the lack of a match practice, you apparently received a wild card for the tournament which caused astonishment and ridicule in the tennis world, right? So my question, when we first heard about this, was how do you get this? Like, can you just pay for this? Do you have to play? Right? I say a wrinkled walked by our production manager. I think that's his title, whatever. We don't know. He may not work here. The big cheese. Maybe he just hangs out here. Maybe he just, he might just hang out in the mornings. I mean, I want to get, I want to get Isaiah or someone on the crew like into a tennis tournament

19:25and have the same exact thing happen because that would be wildly funny. What's the cause? Now, the problem is, okay, here's the thing. Really? This is from former players, okay? To play in the ITF futures tournament, okay, which she did. This is an ITF futures tournament. You need to have an IPIN kill, an international players identification number from the ITF. That will cost you a total of $65. Then you have to enter the tournament that you want to play in, which will cost you $50. This is cheap as hell, right? Now, what people can't figure out about this specifics is that will get you into the qualifier, the qualifier. She didn't have to play a quality. People can't figure out why she didn't have to play some type of qualifier. So that's what happened. Me to really rig this thing, I would have to buy multiple entries and hope that they meet each other somehow in qualifiers and then we have a walkover situation. It's like a guy who buys a hundred survivor entries and then you get it. Right. Exactly. That's how we would have to gain it. Right now, the interesting note though, she earned, received $297 American dollars for

20:30that match, even losing a match at that level will still get you money. So if you're doing out the whole cost of what it's going to take me to get wild card entrance into a tournament, as long as they lose, they're still making money. Deeper dive than I wanted, but I appreciate your thoroughness. Hey, man, I'm just trying to figure out how we can get, I just say a wrinkle into a tennis tournament. Yeah, if you ever wonder what Kelly was doing here during when Greg, Greg's on. There you go. Shall we do a little whip around college football style to begin with? Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. Whip around. The guys check in on all the NFL line movement, injury updates and get their thoughts on every game on the board. It's the Wednesday whip around. Cool. Um, let's do the college games first, we'll add the bonus college games here tomorrow night. Miami and Ole Miss Miami, now a three point favorite extra juice versus Ole Miss. I bought this down to two and a half on Monday morning, um, three now. It's mainly three and a half. Let's put it this way. This one to me as great as I think Miami is and I do think it's a great match up for

21:32Miami with that defense against a great Ole Miss. I mean, Trinidad Chambliss is awesome, but I do think those those men amongst boys and that Miami defense is a great match up against Ole Miss, but I'm a little more concerned about this one than I am the other one. Like, is there a scenario where I can see Ole Miss rising up and doing this? I can. But I do agree. I do believe Miami should be the favorite here, um, but it's, it's not without trepidation. Unlike the other game Friday night between the Hoosiers and Oregon, which Oregon has taken some money in this game and I just, I just don't understand. Let's put it this way. I don't think it's justified, right? I bet Indiana minus four early early early in the week. I got the worst of it. By the way, I bet some minus three on top of it yesterday. Now it's minus three and a half. To me, this comes down to if these Indiana Hoosiers had on a different uniform this year, right? Forget Alabama. Let's say they run a SEC team. Yeah. Nobody would be putting money on Oregon here. I really believe this.

22:32Like, they're still the brand bias and college footballs such that I still think it's affecting markets against Indiana when there's no chance it should. I know it's tough to beat teams back to back. That's what everybody's going to tell you. But I think Indiana, this is why I bet I'm tend to want to win it all. I think they are the best team in college football. I said when they beat Oregon the first time. I don't think there's a team out there that they can't beat. I think they will. I think they win this one handily. Okay. Two comments real quick. Do you think this is de facto national championship game? No. Okay. I do not at all. Do we see Miami Ole Miss get to where do we close on both of these games right where they are currently? Yeah. Okay. Might move. Till before kickoff. But I think we end up right where we are. Coming back with the NFL portion next. A numbers game on FESET, the sports betting network. Numbers game. Circa, Gill, Kelly, Radio's Gill, Alexander, Television's Kelly, Bill and everybody.

23:37Right. You can follow Kelly on Twitter at, uh, Kale Bidelon, K-E-L-L-E-Y, B-Y-D-L-O-N. Nailed it. Thank you. We get tweets, Ben Handorf. I feel off of work and loving the live ANG. We forgot to mention yesterday, but Drew Segment should be intro with Country Club and as the husband of a locally famous bar manager slash cocktail maven, Drew is spot on. Also, who doesn't have a trusted importer? I can't think of anyone, Ben. He also says, Hey, Kelly, how are you able to bottle the rage when staring at Warren's Christmas tree here on January 7th? You know what? So just a great tweet because you're right. It does. Warren, by the way, tweets back in feces up, he goes inexcusable by me. Yeah, he was embarrassed as they should have intended to have that thing at the curb for days. We've been too busy with these NFL college football playoff games. Apologies. You know what, Warren, Warren was looking sharp this morning. He was. I thought he was dressed very. I liked what he was wearing. No. That distracted me more than the Christmas tree, I guess. You're into him.

24:37Tim Bowers says, I don't want Todd to feel left out, could we get a wine recommendation from him as well? Can't wait for Todd and Drew on the Megapod this week. Megapod tomorrow, with Drew Dinsett, can't wait. James Fessler among the many trying to read between the lines on Aaron Schatz's ballot earlier as one of the award voters. He says, Ted Romek Millen, play elevated young and got Caroline in the playoffs. That's for offensive rookie of the year. He thinks Ty Warren is second behind Mick Millen. Harold Fanon, junior third, four and five, two random offensive linemen because he's not drawn to shiny counting stats. It may be. You might be right. This is from Chad Lasso. Can you explain how the order book works on Kalshi looking at betting it on Puka for offense player of the year in that way to bat and that way to buy caught my eye. Thanks. The order book. Bro, I don't know. We're in sports. We're sports fan mode. Yeah. You did a good straighter. That's not it. I'm maybe I could I could be missing something on Kalshi, but I'm not sure.

25:40I think you could. You did that. You're betting in. I think that is to put an order in right if it hits a certain price. Oh, I think that's what that is, but I'm not sure like a buyer, a put in stock market. Rick roll 515 interesting pool years ago, man, four fell as each through and $100 drew one of the bottom five preseason Vegas odds teams to win the Super Bowl $50 each year. Until one wins it. If I have the excuse me, I have the Texans. Teachers have Seahawks Jaguars and bears. First time four of the five teams are in. Oh, that is pretty interesting. You get that? Say it again. So $100 to hear in his four buddies, they throw in $100 at the beginning of the year and draw each draws one of the bottom five preseason Vegas odds teams is four of the five or in the playoffs. Texans, Seahawks, Jags and Bears, where there's four of the bottom five, though, really? Okay. Super Bowl odds. They were down there. I'm not sure there are four bottom five, but maybe where they were looking. But like, you know how that works beginning of the year, they could have all, like,

26:41there's probably six teams tied with the same odds at the bottom, you know? Mike Rouse, do we know if odds were posted on the tennis match in question? That's a good point. Jeff Isaacs, my wife played college tennis and I was basketball. She's got me to play against her and I legit look like that woman who bought her way to the tournament. Tennis is hard. Tennis is the greatest combo of physical and mental. Danny, Danny keeps yelling. He can beat Isaiah. I'm like, I don't want anybody who's good. Isaiah said he's never played before. That's why I'm trying to enter him. Brian M. What you should do is enter Ben Wilson for the tournament in Vegas, get tickets and make poster boards that say, egos lander. That's true. I should. And Brandon fear. Maybe she got last in her fantasy football league. That's true. That's true about that player. Oh, man. I love the detail that she ended up making money through this entire thing. And Rick Olier with my thoughts, he goes, you can buy your way into professional tennis tournaments now. Totti. Now's your time to shine. Talking about that wish. That's wild, man. Shout out. Shout out real quick before we get to the NFL. The crew. I don't know why they're talking about a path there, but underrated gambling movie, Hardball.

27:42Never seen it. Brought up by the show like six weeks ago. Apparently nobody remembers. Keanu Reeves, man. He said, uh, massive gambling. Dead. He has to go coach like an inner city baseball team. Woo. This is one of two movies. Go lost another bit. Two movies. I will add this note. The crew will think this is funny. This is one of two movies that I can vividly remember my mother crying at a certain point. And me thinking it was odd. Really? It was odd that she was crying in this way. There's a sad moment in the film, okay? But the other movie would be Transformers. She got very emotional during the first viewing of Transformers during when one of the robot cars was dying. Yeah. Yeah. She's a complex person. Wow. So close. Come to town this weekend. Bring your mom home. Yeah. So be here this weekend. Uh, back to the whip around Rams Panthers to kick off NFL wild car weekend. Rams are up to an 11 point favorite. Uh, Will was on the show. Will Hill earlier, he's on the Rams land the number. We had Andy Molitor on earlier in the week. He said he can't get to that number. If anything, it's the Panthers, plus the points.

28:44I'm with, I'm with Andy. I have not made a bet in this game. Total 46 and a half. But if anything, man, could I, could I see a Rams bought? I could. But boy, it's really disrespectful to the Panthers. Panthers beat the Rams earlier this year. Yeah. I don't know what you're thinking. I have nothing in the game. I did see somebody tweet this at us earlier. Yeah. When this went above 10, 10 point. He's a little crazy. 10 point teaser thoughts did enter my head. Packers at Bears. We are back to the pan to the Packers being a favorite here. This is flip flopped all week long. Packers now a one and a half point favorite after being a one and a half point dog on the other side. Expect this to continue to go back and forth. Yep. One might. Total 46. I'm on the bears. It's a hunch play for me. I have bears minus one, by the way. I just feel like the bears magic carpet ride lasts one more week. And I have a feeling that the Packers rest last week comes back to nip them in the butt.

29:46I have both sides teased up. I think we get a close game, good game in that one. I think it could either either way or either side. I don't think it would shock me. I have both teased with the Jacksonville Jaguar. And like you said, I think there is opportunity to do that this week. I don't think that's the last time we see that number bounce, bounce between favorites. Bill Jaguars. I'm on the Jaguars. I bet I'm on the, on the money line minus 108 during guessing lines. I thought this line was disrespectful that the bills were favored. I guess that the Jaguars would be the only thing that worries me is I'm not the only one who felt that way. Every human being on earth feels appears to feel that way. Yeah. I jumped on it to immediately. That was the other teased are like both of those teasers. I just mentioned tied into the Jags up to seven and a half. And I bet Jags money line to it's, uh, yeah, man, that's the one. It's the one, right? Multiple people have said like that was the one that surprised me on the openers, legit surprised me. Uh, where are the numbers at? Yep.

30:46You know what? And if we lose it, I'll speak for myself. If we lose it, I'll be happy to see Josh Allen advance in the playoffs and hopefully gives us a good run tip of the cap. In addition for me to being on the bears and the Jags, I'm also on the Niners, but I got the worst of this. I got Niners plus three and a half. I thought it was going to come the other way. And I think it did for a tick to three. If I'm not mistaken, uh, it's back to four and a half now in favor of the Eagles who are looking to flip the switch and make another Super Bowl run. They are after all. This just didn't Kelly. The defending champion. There were, uh, yeah, there was some cheap threes. Like I got three on open at Eagles, uh, one, uh, one 15. So I'm, I'm on Philly side, um, the other thing, the other one I was bringing up real quick is just keep an eye. If you are betting bears, packers, keep an eye on the weather there, uh, as we get closer that game looks like it is going to be very, very big chance of rain at least. Oh boy, colder with periods of snow and rain becoming breezy in the afternoon, wind gusts up to 31 miles an hour right now.

31:47That's in Philly yet. This knows Chicago. Change Chicago. Oh boy. Oh boy. Last game of the three on Sunday, Chargers Patriots. I have said this before of all the games. This is the most fascinating one to me. I am on the Chargers plus the points. I am on the Chargers on the money line as I made those bets Monday morning on guessing lines. I have been weekly higher than the market is on the Chargers. I think their defense is really good. I think it's well disciplined. Uh, they don't make any mistakes on that defense, typically, um, second, third best defense at worst in the AFC playoffs behind the Texans and the Broncos. Second best quarter back in the AFC playoffs. If I give you Josh Allen, I'll take Justin Herbert second and the Patriot schedule was just as easy as could be air and shots had historically easy, though he did said the two teams that had the easier schedules ended up getting to the Super Bowl. So there's that. But I am on the Chargers one game. That's the one game. I've got nothing in. Don't expect to be involved. That the only way I would get involved in that game is if the New England dropped

32:50to three somehow. And I would be on the New England side. I don't have any. I don't have anything in the Rams Panthers at the beginning of the wild car weekend. Oh, yeah. And I don't have anything at the end of Monday night football. Texas are three point favorites now hosting. I'm assuming you're traveling to play Pittsburgh at Acre share. Dan, Dan, uh, minus three in favor of the Texans. I'm going to guess there's a lot of people out there like me that if you bet the Ravens last week at this same number, you're probably on the Texans as well. I think I'm getting a better team than what I bet on last week at the same exact number. Yeah. I'm in on Houston. Boy, this would not shock me if the Steelers put up pulled off an upset. It's the Steelers at home Monday night. I am. It's going to be a brutal, brutal environment for CJ Stroud to go in and pick up a win. But man, that Texans defense is so good. It is by way 39 and a half the total. What's the total in that bearers Packers game right now? Uh, like that. We're five fish 45 and a half right now 45 and a half. We're seeing consensus on that. So it's early still. It's like it's, man, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, doesn't get any better

33:54than that. Uh, we'll come back. We'll break down the field goal kickers on all these. A little bit of a quirky, quirky numbers game tradition before the playoffs begin. And we'll recap all the bets coming back on a numbers game at Visa. He sports betting network. I love our listeners so much because they clarify, you know, they follow up on everything that we're talking about. Ryan M. Poichett says, I think the spoiler alert isn't needed for hardball since it came out September 10th, 2001, Gill hasn't seen it yet. Okay. I don't want him to be spoilt. Wait, hardball came out the day before 9-11. Wow. Oh, wow.

34:55So that's there explains why I haven't seen it, maybe there's a lot of stuff that would have been a Monday came out on a Monday. Yeah. Jesse. Jesse Welch for anybody who has ever had it. They will say that the Oreos O's cereal is hands down the best ever. That's the Oreos O's cereal hands down the best ever, but it's only ever available at random times. Oh, have you ever had a cereal that you love that disappeared off the shelves? Never to be remade again? No. I do. Honeybunches of oats used to have just oats. Really, bro. It was crack. You know what's gone. You know what's amazing is that you just brought that up. My next question for you was going to be like, all right, once we, you know, throw out the good to bad cereal. So what's the steadiest, most reliable? You just said it. Honeybunches of oats? Honeybunches of oats. I would have said raisin brand of solid cereal. Oh, and Rick Rolf, 505, crack one, clarifies about what we were questioning. He goes, just to clarify, says, those were the bottom five teams.

35:55The pool that I was in the year was 2021. We've had to stick with those teams since until one of them wins the Super Bowl. They're stuck with those teams. This is even better than I like. So he stuck with those teams, adding $50 to the pot every year till forever until one wins the Super Bowl. Wow. They win. The pot, he says, I believe, is $1500 now. Oh, that's a great contest. Yeah, you guys are cool. Let's hang out. Rackman Jones says 18 years. He's probably listening on the list. I hope you add more teams every year than two. No, no, no, no, no, no. They just have those five teams. That's it. Here you go. You could up that by 50 bucks and then do another one. DJ and Southern Jenna Kelly. Your mom was right to cry when G baby died in a hard ball, but having a hard time picturing anyone crying at any scene and any Michael Bay film. Satisfying. I remember was when they stopped casting Megan Fox. Happy New Year's, by the way, he says, it was it was a disappointing day when she got left out. Yeah. Second film. Second film, I believe you. Yeah. Yeah. You're the only person I can see back there. Okay, don't give me that weird look. All right.

36:55You're the only person I can see their face. I might be looking for a nod or something from you. Brian Schaefer adds. Niners line is moving towards Philly because the Niners injuries pierce all in Trent highly unlikely to play. And if they do, what are they going to give with their injuries? He says, Niners D's going to make the Eagles offense look like the 91 skins. Brian, thanks for putting it in language. I can understand. Jack O'Lequire kill after hearing Kelly Chicago weather report for Saturday. Glad, Lauren. I'll be down in Papa, no beach during on the bears from there. Go bears. Florida's such a great place to be when the rest of the country is frozen over. So nice. Bish triple Q in the last 10 years teams that play in a dome are one in 14 on the road in the playoffs when the temperatures below 40 chargers heading to Gillette on Sunday. And it's supposed to be it's supposed to be below 30. Did the chargers really play in a dome, though? Because there is air on the side, I guess a good question. I was just going to ask that. Um, okay. Ladies and gentlemen, a bit of a strange, oh, should we give the picks real quick? Yeah, yeah, let's let's recap the picks real quick.

37:57Again, um, my plays, I am on the bears minus one for the Packers. I'm on the Jags money line versus the bills. I'm on the Niners plus three and a half of the Eagles. I'm on the chargers plus three and a half of the Patriots. I'm on the Chargers money line at the Patriots. Those are all made earlier this week again for tennis plays. As has been the case all week. Now the tours, both tours are in Australia. They're all I handicapped them after the show. Picks will be up by around 6 p.m. Eastern, by the way, my two tennis futures, though, that I did make Yannick sinner to win three grand slams exactly at plus four 50. Ega Shviontech, the goat to win two grand slams at plus three 50. Got to win two exactly, Ega. If you win three, though, I'll still love you. And then I got Puka offense, I got a Puka offensive player of the year that I made on the show today at Calci at plus 1328. Um, B. John, by the way, Brian Flora is also be the Ravens next head coach. I made right before the show plus 488.

38:57And then the, these are bets I've already had B. John offensive player. They are 150 to one Mike McDonald coach of the year nine to one. Let's go. Super Bowl finalist chargers Rams 28 to one. Super Bowl finalist chargers, nine or 66 to one. And in the end of the win, the college football playoff at 10 to one. Let's go fighting West Reynolds is you. West Reynolds will be joining us from the area of the game once again on Friday. He's he's following the Indiana like they're the grateful dead. He sure is. I like it. Where are they playing? No, why am I completely blanking on where that game is at? Is that the fiesta or is that the other? No, fiesta is the other one. Lerda, what are they already down on South Florida for the original? I'm sorry, man. Atlanta is land. Thank you so much. I knew Florida Florida didn't celebrate. Yeah. Okay, mind NBA bets, a couple of totals for me tonight. I may have just made this one. Clippers nicks over 222 and a half. Looks like we are going to have James Hardin playing in this game. Just a little low on the total for me and that one.

39:59And then the other one rockets blazer. I'm going under 225 and a half. No shame, no Jeremy Grant in this game. Since December 14th, Houston 11th best defensive rating in Portland's about middle of the road. I think there's a Houston size is going to be tough for some of the blazer scores to match up with. And this is big trendy game. I really wasn't expecting this skill, but the total has gone under and five the last six for Houston eight of the last 10 for Portland. So on a couple of totals tonight, if you don't follow my NBA betting regularly, totals are always lower less bet than side. So that's it for me so far. I am looking at the Celtics number. It's down to eight and a half. I will probably be in on Boston tonight. I will be up at Vison.com if I end up pulling the trigger on that. Okay. NFL this weekend Packers and bears both sides teased up with the jaguars. And then I have the Jags money line Eagles laying three at 115 and then the Texans laying three. Joe C on Twitter says, if you've been to sofa, it's basically a dome.

41:00Oh, I've been to so far. K pop concert took Gracie there twice, namely group twice, not twice. A will Hills best bets Rams minus 10 and a half at the Panthers name of the group is twice. Yeah, okay. Rams minus 10 and a half at Panthers. Chargers plus three and a half of the Patriots. These are will so he's laying the points with the Rams. He's taking them with the chargers and they call it football semis. He has taken the points in both games, Ole Miss and Oregon. Thursday night, Friday night can't wait. That's from Will. And then Aaron shots did have one plate. Did he owe Greg Peterson's fat five? We got to do Greg Peterson's fat five. Yeah, I'll roll through Aaron's real quick. Aaron's three, laying three and a half. He likes the Patriots and that came against the chargers and then Nick Whale. And on one prop tonight's defon castle over 17 and a half points against the Lakers. Greg Peterson, we don't have his five. Greg Peterson's fat five. There we go. Oklahoma Mississippi state under 159 and a half. Rice, Wichita State under 142 and a half. Crate and plus the points versus Villanova. Washington Purdue under 152 and a half, three unders from Greg.

42:02And then a su plus 18 and a half versus a j debons and BYU. All right. I ready to do it. Jagers, what's kickers? Real quick, little little strange numbers game tradition. Again, but so many of these games end up, you know, resting on the foot of the place. Kakers, we might as well look at their stats. Rams Carolina, advantage Rams. Harrison Mevis, 12 of 13 this year, field goals. One for one from behind from 50 plus, never missed an extra point. Ryan Fitzgerald probably among the worst stats of the remaining kickers that are available. So advantage Rams, when it comes to the place kickers, he's only kicked five from 50 plus. I feel like I see him lining up that far ever week. Ryan Fitzgerald, yeah, two of five from 50 plus, 24 of 29 overall. And he's missed three extra points. So advantage Rams there, Packers, Bears. This is dead even, I would say Brandon McManus is 24 of 30 Cairo Santos is 25 of 30. McManus, three of five 50 plus Santos, four of six 50 plus.

43:02Santos is 39 for 39 extra points. McManus, 32 of 33. So that's kind of a dead heat by the way, exactly like the spread itself, right? As closely landed game as there is. Now Buffalo and Jacksonville's the biggest contrast of the mall. Cam little 30 of 34, but eight of 10 from 50 plus, including two bombs from 60 plus, I believe he's awesome. 50 of 51 on the extra points. Buffalo's got a problem. They had to sign Matthew right to the practice squad because Matt Prader might not be a go after he got hurt quad injury. Wasn't he hurt earlier in the year two? Yes. Remember it was Tyler Bass, their legacy kicker who got hurt in the preseason. Then you went to Prader. Then they went to was it badly in between and that's back to Prader. And now it could be Matthew right. But anyway, they don't compare to Cam little and then San Francisco Philly, advantage San Francisco, Eddie Pinero, 28 of 29, including six of seven from 50 plus. As Ms. Forex, your points though.

44:03Jake Elliott's had a tough year, 20 of 27, four of eight from 50 plus. So advantage nineers again, just one little element to add to your handicap. Chargers Patriots, Cam Dicker over Boris Hollis, but you know what? It's not as big of a gap as you would think. Boris Hollis has been great four of four from 50 plus, 53 of 55 extra points. He has missed five field goals. Dicker, of course, Dicker, the kicker is only missed three and he's five of six from 50 plus. And then Houston Pittsburgh. It's kind of even Chris Boswell would be the guy you would go to because of the 50 plus. He's nine of 11 50 plus. That's probably the differentiator, but Kami fair bear, nothing wrong with him. And then the two by teams, which of course don't play this week, talking about Seattle and Denver. Those are kind of even a show, I would say, between the two number one seats, which although Jason Myers is in a seven field goal attempts, but he is nine of 12 from behind 50. So 50 plus. So that one's kind of even you're missing an L will biggest, biggest contrast.

45:03Jacksonville Buffalo feels like if that game comes down to the wire, which kicker you can trust, Cam little is the answer. Prop points. Next, enjoy from Jason.