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FINAL NFL Wild Card Weekend Bets: Rams-Panthers, Packers-Bears, Niners-Eagles, Chargers-Patriots and more
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Chad Millman
By Hard Rock Bet. We are part of the Volume Podcast Network. This is the show that makes the square sharper and makes the wise guys pay attention. I am Chad Millman. I am joined as always by my co host, my companion, my compadre, my BFF Professional Better Simon Hunter. Hello Simon.
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Simon Hunter
How you doing Chad? I had a great night, but obviously. Let me hear about your great night first. Everyone's dying to know I know you posted some stuff to social media and it was very fun following along. So what went on yesterday with you?
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Chad Millman
Oh, my God, dude. So obviously I'm in a hotel in Atlanta right now, so I can't scream because it's still early in the morning on Saturday. Look, the whole day in Atlanta yesterday, it felt like being in Bloomington.
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Chad Millman
There were. There were no Oregon Ducks fans. It was Hoosiers everywhere. And I spent the entire day. I told you, I came down. My buddy Matt, this is a guy who, you know, we've been best friends since second grade. We've gone to Cubs World Series, we've gone to Bears Super Bowls. We've gone to. He went to Indiana with me. We've been to so many Indiana football and basketball, basketball games. We used to go to Bears games growing up because his family had season tickets. So like, we had been to a lot of sporting events together. The whole town was dressed in red. Everywhere you went, it was just call and response all day. Who, who, who, who? Yours. Like everywhere people were giddy, absolutely giddy. And then when you got to the game, we saw a guy who we went to college with, who's from Atlanta, who comes to Falcons games, and he's like, there is never this kind of electricity in the stadium. It was truly like being at a home game in Bloomington. And on that first pick, the DeAndre Pond's interception for a touchdown. I swear to God, we were levitating like, I have never jumped so high. Again and again and again. Nobody could feel their feet on the ground. It was truly glorious, absolutely glorious. Like the buzz in that stadium. We've talked about like the top five sporting events before. This was unparalleled, like, because it's your team. Because we had ridiculous seats. We were ninth row, 30 yard line on the Indiana sideline, and we were, you know, two sections over from the band and the whole stadium is in red. And you're. You're hearing your fight song, which you've sung a thousand times. And at the end, everyone, 70,000 people, because there may 5,000 Ducks fans yelling IU. And the whole thing just echoes. Glorious. The greatest communal event you could possibly imagine. And then as soon as the Ducks scored that touchdown, Matt and I looked at each other and you got to remember we went to the Bears Colts super bowl in Miami, and we're sitting next to each other and Devin Hester runs it back for a touchdown. The opening kickoff. And then the Bears end up losing that game. They get Peyton Manning Whatever. We're like Devin fucking Hester. But then we get the second touchdown and it's relief and then the fumble and the third touchdown and it's disbelief and like the rest of the game was truly unbelievable. So now we move on to Miami. Who, who, who, who's yours? It's just truly remarkable. Like one of the, one of the most incredible in person live event experiences I've ever had.
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Simon Hunter
Yeah, from a betting standpoint, it was really fun. Just, you know, once again on the island, everyone was going crazy about this line going from three and a half to three. And I told you I knew some really smart guys waiting for the threes and took position. Got it. I, like I said, I told you I took a bunch of adjusted lines on Indiana. I just, I've loved this team, you know, not that I had a read on it, but like I've always talked about this signetti coaching. It's insane. The defensive stuff was insane. They knew exactly what play. Oregon was your one. I'm waiting for the spy gauge. I'm waiting for the spy gate chat because it was too incredible how well their coach prepared. But yeah, for me, yesterday was a crazy day just because it was my birthday.
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Chad Millman
Happy birthday.
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Simon Hunter
Thank you, brother. I, I basically always do the same thing. I go see a terrible movie. Someone that's. If you have a birthday in January, your whole childhood, you know, there's always terrible action movies in January. It's the month they come out. So, you know, had a bunch of people were like, you want to come party? You want to go out? You want to do anything? It was like, no, I'm gonna go see a terrible movie and then I'll come back, hopefully win some money. This Indiana team. So it was a good night. I saw Primate horrible movie if anyone's ever heard of it. Oh yeah, classic story of family gets monkey, monkey kills everyone in the house. Yeah, just your standard movie. But yeah, that, that football game really was, you know, all timers, especially not just better than them because I'm a fan of you and your friend. It's like I love this team and. Yeah, well actually we'll talk way more about. Obviously we're pressed on time here, but yeah, that, that the. What is it, 10 days now? Nine days until they play the next one. Was it on a Monday. So yeah, yeah, plenty of time to talk more Hoosiers. But man, what a time to be a fan of that team.
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Chad Millman
Listen, I posted a couple things on Twitter at Chad Millman or on Instagram Norman Sea. You can see Some of the pre game festivities, some of the post game feelings. It was proud of Indiana, Prada, Hoosier Nation. They showed up, they traveled, they really did. Now we got to get to work Simon and there's some karma on the agenda that we're going to have to talk about. This is wild card weekend version of our strip down in the room eavesdropping Sharper Square episode. We're going to try to nail down our final five picks. A lot of injury news, a lot of line moves. Reminder, you can see the dynamic contest lines. We are playing at the free Sharper Square football pick them contest. If you signed up to play@sharpersquare.the volume.com follow me and Simon, Chad and Simon BFFs Chad, Simon BFFs totals and sides in the contest this week. So these are the games we're zeroing in on. First one up, Los Angeles Rams ten and a half point favorites at the Carolina Panthers. Adams is playing. It's been holding a ten and a half. This was Chad's choice. That's how much I love this Rams team is. I am willing to fade a Panthers team in a spot. We have never faded a Panthers team in our history together.
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Simon Hunter
Yeah, this is definitely.
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Chad Millman
Can I drag you with me?
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Simon Hunter
No, you cannot. I'm trying not to let you just because it's, there's just other games I'd much prefer on the board if we're betting sides here total wise. If you want to do the under for this game I, I'm happy to invest.
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Chad Millman
I got a strong opinion on the under two. Like it. You know the weather in the southeast right now is pretty terrible. I'm not even sure I'm getting out of Atlanta because of tornado warnings and.
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Simon Hunter
Honestly that is my only fear about the Rams. Chad, if this was good weather I would be all over with you because I, I think we talked a little bit about like I had this model out of 13 so I, I do like the Rams a lot here with devonte Adams back and totally see the Panthers not living up to this moment and kind of laying an egg here. Especially Bryce Young. We've seen him just in certain games. He, he just is totally out of it, lays eggs and you know, as much as your big time throws you want to say he made in that Bucks game last week he really only had about a quarter and a half of good football. So this just feels like a total mismatch of the unexpiring, inexperienced, you know, Panther team you're playing against a really legit Rams team but it's the weather that's scaring me here where some teams, I think it's going to benefit them. We're going to talk about that coming up. But I don't know the Rams, they've just been such a pass heavy offense. It's. It's going to be kind of interesting to see if they're going to lean to the run here. So like I said, I'm betting it with you. I am actually shocked with it that I'm betting it with you betting this Rams. But yeah, if I had to make a pick I'd rather do the total here. I know that's not what we're used to here. We usually just do sides but I just with the weather included, I just feel like the safer bet here is the total on the under.
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Chad Millman
Simon, I have no ego in this. Our goal 5 0. If we can't get to a consensus that we love this pick, we'll move.
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Simon Hunter
On, we'll come back.
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Chad Millman
I love the total too, so I'm happy to play the total, especially with the weather. We'll get back to it. Green Bay at Chicago under 44 and a half. We're going to talk about the side in a minute but I do want to talk about the total for a second because all week long we've been hesitant to go all in on the packers. But this, the total is something that we have agreed on. We both played the under 44 and a half. The. The. The weather is supposed to be rainy in the morning, but it's supposed to be clear and cold by the time the game kicks off.
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Simon Hunter
Yeah, I'm sorry to do this to you, Chad. I absolutely love the packers here. I really.
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Chad Millman
We're not talking about that yet.
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Simon Hunter
What do you want to talk about the total still?
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Chad Millman
Yes, I want to talk about the total. I'm building up to it.
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Simon Hunter
Well, I'm on the under with you. Nothing's changed. It was what, 46. Now it's down to 45, 44 and a half. So yeah, I like the under. It's another game of the weather outdoors. We've talked about it. Just blindly bet these unders outdoor totals. It's might not hit this year but continuously long term they will hit. It's just a nice bet where people overestimate offense. They don't understand the pressure level. And yeah this game, we don't know it might snow, it might rain, whatever it might be. It's. It's two offenses are I think are going to be very slow and Boring today.
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Chad Millman
All right, Matt Mitchell, since you've already got packers minus one on the board here, we'll go into the packers side. Uh, it's really one and a half in most places. Um, this is going to be our Rock and a hard place bet of the week. Presented by Hard Rock Bet. Simon, I know you like the packers here, and I just want to say I'm in a 24 hour window here where I just watched Indiana dominate in such a way that the only comps are Yale from 1885 for how well they've been playing. I saw some stat where, like, Indiana has won more games by 30 points in a season while doing something else than any team in history except for the 1885 Yale football team yesterday. Walking to the game, because you know how these things go. As fans, we're fans. At the end of the day, we're walking to the game. And Matt and I, who obviously are massive Bears fans as well, we came to the conclusion that it's highly unlikely the gods would allow us to go 2 and O this weekend. We decided we were willing to sacrifice the Bears because the Bears are on the upswing. Whereas, like, who knows when the Hoosiers can do this again. That college football is fickle, right? So I have zero expectations the Bears are winning this game. So if you tell me right now we got to put the packers in and it's all of a sudden one of your favorites. I can't crazy fight you on it.
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Simon Hunter
Yeah, I got it. We got to do it. I. I just, I'm having a lot of these other games I'm wavering a little bit on, but this one, not so much. If anything, I've gotten more confidence as the week has gone along here, especially with Green Bay just talking to different bookmakers, talking to different people. It's just all Bears money. They can't stop taking Bears money. And I get it, right? If you're just a normal fan, you're walking in there and you're seeing the number two seed at home as a home dog now. It's just been never any amount of money the last four days pouring in on the spares team. And you know, one of the sharper books I know has popped the two, two and a half on this packers team. So there's still really, really smart professional money coming on this packers team even this late. And I know it's. It's lining up though, just like yesterday. I mean, I knew there was plenty of really respected guys I know on the other side of Indiana, right They're hammering Oregon. I'm sure they all their smart reasons end up being a really dumb bet. But we literally call a sharp trap where it's like these pros think they're getting a great number. Dude, you're off by 35 points. You look like an idiot. So that's definitely a fear here. We've seen this Bears team, right? They don't turn the ball over. If they get turnovers, they will win. I mean, that is the formula right there. That's what you do when you have not that talented of a defense. You protect the ball offensively and you get turnovers on big swings defensively. But this packers team, the fact that they are so healthy and everything I've read is that this is like the healthiest they've been in six weeks. So, you know, we've seen it time and time again. They lean into Jacobs in the run game and that's. That. That's going to be their strength here. And I, I really am interested to see what the, the Bears have due because, you know, they played already twice this year. In both games, the packers dominated those games. So yeah, it's. I gave up the stat. It's just really hard to win first time as a starter. And that's, that's working against Caleb. And hey, miracles do happen. You remember last year, the Bucks, they blew that game against Washington, right. They just. If you. Yeah, you say all the time, the pressure gets that big, teams tend to mess that up. So I see a window for the spares. But I'm telling you, if they play this game 100 times, it feels like 60, 65 of the time, Green Bay wins this game. So unfortunately, the line has flipped. It'd been great if we still had gotten Green Bay as a plus one dog, but anything under two to me is a good value here on this backer side.
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Chad Millman
I mean, I can accept it. And the people who are betting the Bears just don't know the karma that they're facing right now. Whereas Indiana and Bears fans, that Venn diagram, they fully understand it. San Francisco at Philadelphia. The under 44 and a half. I'm talking about the under because this line has now pushed up to six. We've been talking about the Eagles as a side since they were -3 on Sunday. We talked about it on Tuesday at 4 and 4 and a half. We talked about it again at 4 and 4 and a half. The value in the side is gone. Whereas we still both like the under 44 and a half. San Francisco, Philly, Trent Williams is confident he'll play for the Niners. Lane Johnson practiced all week is still questionable but he has practiced for the first time in nearly two months. Something about Trent Williams playing actually makes me like the under a little bit more because it does make the Niners run game a little bit better.
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Simon Hunter
Yeah. And this number has moved to six here in Jersey at Hard Rocks. Yeah, I mean the five and a half. There's one book left with it. I'm not gonna fight you to order it because obviously I've not bet the eagles at the 6. I bet every other number but the 6. So you're right in theory like we got burned last year. It might have been the Rams game basically covering the entire game in the Rams back door. Back the door, the six and a half. So you're probably right in your theory that this numbers move too much and just go with the total like another game. We like the under. I don't know if it's good that Trent Williams is back and that affects the total towards the ender but I also think he's playing on a bum leg. Like he has not taken any real practice reps. He basically was just doing light jogging and some field work yesterday on the side and he's just to me one of the toughest guys. Right. He's not going to miss this game. So whatever he needs to get done, he's going to be out there. But it's going to be 80% of a real Trent Williams. So not ideal for them facing an Eagles team that has three guys in the top eight and pressure rate this season on their defensive line. So you know, it's like I've talked about all week. It just feels like a great match for an Eagles team that I do not trust their offense at all. But this just feels like a great, great dominant performance for them defensively with Vic and people have seen those stats, right Shane, I believe he's played him four times. The most points his career Shannon offensive scored against vic is like 13 points. So he's just always struggled in this matchup and against Vic's defense wherever Vic has been. So yeah Chad, still still love the Eagles. Still take away I had to at the minus six. But like we were saying here, it's the value shifted to so much. We feel like the safer bet here.
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Chad Millman
Is the under Los Angeles Chargers holding strong as three and a half point underdogs at the New England Patriots. There was a tweet this morning Matt, Matt Mitchell sent along to us that Bailey Zappi has more wins against teams that are over.500 in his career than Drake May does. This was our brass balls. And there's still 60% of the money or the bats coming in on the Patriots. And this number has not budged from three and a half. No one likes fading an MVP candidate, but when he's playing in his first playoff game, every trend tells you this is a bad spot to back the favorite, especially when he's playing a quarterback who has been covering as a dog consistently. So I still love the Chargers here.
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Simon Hunter
I do, too. And I have heard a lot from Patriots fans that basically, a little bit of, you know, you shouldn't be doubting us. It's not our fault. Our schedule. No, like I've said a million times, no one's blaming them for playing well, the schedule. It's more so that it just feels like they're unproven and we want to see it before putting money into it. And like Chad said, we have all these trends backing the Chargers versus this. This Patriots team. It's just historically not a favorable spot for them. And, you know, if. If this was May season five and he already played three or four playoff games. Yes, I would love to back him here against Herbert. Herbert melts in the playoffs. We keep talking about that, but it feels like it's lined up with Herbert that this is a favorable match for him. I know. You know, the injuries are still hitting this Patriots team. I think it was a Tongan on their defensive line. Their bestie lineman, who's the best against the run, is going to miss this game. Like, they do have guys still out here. And I think Hampton might actually tough it out and play who I thought.
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Chad Millman
He says he's playing.
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Simon Hunter
Yeah. Tough. Tough. Son of a. Like he was already in a walking boot three days ago. So we know the weakness of this Chargers team. We're gonna live and die with it. It's this offensive line. If Herbert's getting torched, Rabel's got the right game plan. We'll get burned here. But me and Chad are suckers for these type of numbers. We loved it right away.
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Chad Millman
Suckers.
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Simon Hunter
If anything, it gives us even more confident. Like you're saying here, it hasn't budged at all. Despite all this money coming on this Patriots team, A couple books did touch four, but immediately went back down. So, you know, like we always talk about, this is a late Sunday game. We'll see if the public absolutely gets crushed. And they're chasing pretty heavy. Maybe they come in heavier on the pitch. So we do get some Force popping. But I have no issue grabbing the three and a half still now I, I like, I'm looking at it right now. Some books are starting to juice it up. You're starting to get minus 115, minus 118s on it. So you can still get the 105s, the minus 110s on the, the minus three and a half. I would grab it now. Or plus three and a half on the chargers. I would grab it now.
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Chad Millman
Simon says this week was the Pittsburgh Steelers plus three and a half, hosting the Houston Texans. This line is down to three. Could get down to two and a half. It's juiced in a direction where it could get down to two and a half. We both loved it at three and a half. You talked about still liking it at 3. I don't really have any reason to back away from this game. Like, I think the Steelers win this game outright.
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Simon Hunter
Yeah. And I'm not gonna, I, I want to save some time so we can do the Jags and Bills a little bit. But this one, I just really quickly, I'm, I'm right there with you. This was a no brainer. Even if it's two and a half to our contest. Obviously not ideal, but that's how much I believe in this Steelers team. I would take it if we had to if it's two and a half, but I'm hoping we still get the hook at the three and a half.
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Chad Millman
Let's get to the other game that had been sort of in that one and a half to one and a half range on either side. The Bills basically been favorites all week. They are now trending to being pick them. It's minus one at Hard Rock. Bet against Jacksonville. You said that you'd bet the plus one and a half in either side.
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Chad Millman
Where are you feeling right now about this side? Knowing that Matt Mitchell's confidence is greater than Kurt Signetti when he is on the sideline 30 yards away from anybody else on his own sideline while watching a play.
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Ed Helms
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Simon Hunter
Yeah, we talk about I've mainly put most of my investment into the over here and the Jacks first half and if I'm not going to take a position on Buffalo now and I'm just going to stick with the Jags. Especially now the lines flipping. There's still like one or two big books out there with plus one and a half, but like you said, Hard Rock, especially here in Jersey, they've, they flipped. Now they're minus one on this Jags team. So I, I just can't wait for this game. It's. I mean all these games are great, but this to me is the best. Like, this feels like this has real ramifications for the AFC that could potentially make a big run. And you know, it's the old what's going to bend or break here is the run game of this Jackson, who hasn't given up a 75 yard rusher all season, gonna go against the number one rushing offense in all football and who's gonna win that, right? Is Joe Brady gonna have this offense in the scheme, in the right mindset to run over this Jags team that you can say, well, who have their, who have they faced? They play Jonathan Taylor twice a year. Like what are we doing here? Like, they've faced plenty of good running backs this season. Don't act like they've just had a, a cakewalk. This Jags run defense. So that's what I can't wait to see. And you know, the, the Josh Allen haters, Chad, they are dying for him to lose this game. They've already.
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Chad Millman
Oh yeah.
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Simon Hunter
Lined up. There is no excuse because these other quarterbacks have been knocked out, as if that has any effect on Josh Allen's legacy. But I think this is the game that's going to show up that it matters having a number one receiver. And I'm really to see how the Jags react because they got some great receivers on their side and that's why I'm taking the over here. It's just feels like it's gonna be a game where they're gonna get up early and Josh Allen's gonna have to pull a miracle to try to pull from behind. So yeah, I, I like the Jags first half, obviously like the total and the over. It's the only over, I bet. And it's also come down as well because it's. I think they're supposed to get bad weather as well. So another game where, you know, could be really sloppy playing conditions, which team will that favor? Who knows?
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Chad Millman
So let's think about this for a second because heading into today we liked the Rams as a side and we like the Bears as a total. It sounds like we might want to Flip those and go. Rams under 45 and a half and packers minus one and a half. In addition to, I think, Eagles under 44 and a half. Chargers plus three and a half. Steelers in the contest. We can get them at three and a half.
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Simon Hunter
Even if you switch out the other ones, you can still get three and a half.
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Chad Millman
Yeah. As of this morning.
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Simon Hunter
Yeah. So again, if you. If you really believe in the Rams, I'm. I bet it. I will support it. If. I mean, I know it's. It's your play this week. I got no issue with it. But, yeah, for my one switch. And I'll. I'll. I'll throw my hat in the ring on that Green Bay side.
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Chad Millman
All right, then here's what we're gonna do. We're keeping the Rams. Rams minus ten and a half.
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Simon Hunter
Okay.
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Chad Millman
I want to keep them. And we'll take out the packers under. And we'll put in packers minus one and a half. So our final five are going to be the Packers. It's minus two and a half in the contest. Yeah.
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Simon Hunter
Sheesh. I mean, I guess we'll do it. If I get burned, if it lands on two, I'm gonna feel like such an idiot.
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Chad Millman
Well, I'm taking the Rams at minus ten and a half. I'm gonna feel like an idiot, too. Packers minus two and a half. Rams minus ten and a half. Chargers plus three and a half. Steelers plus three and a half. And the Eagles, Niners under 44 and a half.
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Simon Hunter
All right, brother.
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Chad Millman
This has been Sharper Square, part of the Volume podcast network. We'll be back on Sharper Square on Monday night before the Steelers Texans game. We're going to review what happened over the weekend and preview that game, see where we land. We will be putting that in the contest so we'll have some outstanding business to attend to. Watch or listen on YouTube at Sharper Square. Like this video. Subscribe to the channel. Also download us to Spotify, Apple pods, wherever you get your pods rate. Review. Subscribe. Leave us five stars. Say whatever you want. Feedback is a gift. Until next time. Love you.
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