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Simon Hunter (2:54)

Welcome to Sharper Square, presented by Hard Rock Bat. We are part of the Volume Podcast network. This is the show that makes the squares sharper and makes the wise guys pay attention. I am Chad Millman. I am Joyce. As always find my cook 1995 my BFF professional better Simon Hunter. Hello Simon.

Chad Millman (3:16)

Chad. What a day yesterday was for both of us.

Simon Hunter (3:20)

Dude, I'm gobsmacked. This isn't what happens to the Bears. We're the team that double doinks. We're the team that gets fourth and one from the two and snaps it over the head of our seventh round five foot five running back. We are not the team that comes from 10 down in the final two minutes, recovers an onside kick and then throws a bomb where the quarterback is so casual about it while the ball is in the air, he stuffs his hands and into his hand warmers because he knows he just dropped it in to the basket. Where the team that trades up to get Mitch Trubisky and passes over Patrick Mahomes. This is just not. This is not the Bears.

Chad Millman (4:17)

Yeah, they had us for about 3/4 there. It was the same old Bears. And I'm. I know you're in the same spot as me. I was just cursing their name. I couldn't believe I walked into it, even though I said a million times I wasn't going to. But I just fell in love with this Bears team all year because of what happened in that final two minutes. This whole year, every time I bet on this team, they leave me scratching my head for three quarters and all of a sudden that fourth magical fourth quarter comes around and I think it's an NFL record right now. They've won six games. They've been trailing in the two minutes left in the game. They've won six of them. It's crazy. It's a crazy identity like we always talk about all the time in NFL. There's the time the talent level is so high, just the coaching can make the biggest difference and everything overall. And the biggest to me is just the Ben Johnson belief these guys consistently believe in themselves. So can't believe it on the other side. If you are Green Bay. Talk about having horrible injury luck, season from hell. Just everything rolled into one. Green Bay totally outplayed the Bears for three quarters and know with their backup in there and it just totally fell apart there by the seams. Their secondary is just so banged up, you're waiting for Caleb to get away with these deep ball throws and they just couldn't find it. And eventually, like we said, the game kept going. And that that throw in the overtime, like everyone keeps saying, ice in his veins. It was incredible. It really was like as someone just sitting there as a fan, did not see that coming. Really did think it was a handoff. I was just like the defense, I bid on it and he had the perfect read right. The safety bit, I think they said it was 0.6 inches or feet maybe or something saying like that of separation between D.J. and the cornerback. Like tight, tight window.

Simon Hunter (5:59)

Oh yeah.

Chad Millman (5:59)

Just all time throw by Caleb. So yeah, everyone even only people weren't screaming were Green Bay fans. Anyone that's a football fan, you're going absolutely crazy. That was an all time moment.

Simon Hunter (6:09)

It also is just an indication of how much penalties make a difference in this game. Don't forget bears had a third and 20 and they were sacked and they weren't going to even be able to kick a field goal. And Caleb, the defensive lineman for the packers pulled on his face max as he was going down. And the Bears get a first out and they kick the field goal and all of a sudden they're only down seven and they get the onside kick. Like it just these, these penalties and that was not a penalty that shouldn't have been called it. It just goes to show you how every single little mistake has a huge, huge impact on the game and how it can swing momentum. What a crazy, what a crazy 48 hours of football from Thursday Night Football to Saturday Night Football. You and I were reeling at the end of that Bears game because we had been on the commanders. That was a tough beat. Just with Mariota going down. They looked like they were going to be able to be competitive in that game. Josh Johnson comes in. No longer the case. But we got to move on to Sunday, brother. Let's get to it. This is the semi strip down in the room eavesdropping version of Sharper Square. We're going to make some regretful, utterly human decisions and and get to our final five. You can see the dynamic lines that Simon and I are playing at the free Sharper Square Pro football pick them contest. If you sign up to play in the contest that was sharp or square.the volume.com we are Chad and Simon. BFFs were 6 and 4 on the year in that contest since it started. Are you ready, brother?

Chad Millman (7:46)

I'm ready.

Simon Hunter (7:47)

All right. So these are the games that we had zeroed in on the other day. I think we're still debating where we're going to land. First one up, Tampa Bay at Carolina. Carolina plus three and a half. I feel like we've been waiting our entire lives together to bet Carolina as an Underdog with the hook at home with a chance to play meaningful football. Here we are. Are we sticking with it?

Chad Millman (8:16)

Oh, yeah, no doubt. This is a spot that's been good to us all year back in Carolina, especially after a loss, right? I think they're 60 against the spread, 5 and 1 straight up. So it's been a team that tends to bounce back off season. On the flip side, this Bucs team, even at their fully healthy height of their powers to start the year, Baker, playing out of his mind, they kept squeaking out wins, right? Every time they'd win, it would be by a handful of points. They've had a couple blowouts this year, but it's really been few and far in between. I gave you that crazy stat. There are six straight weeks now they haven't covered. So seeing the professionals and the public alike coming on the Bucs is not that surprising. Right? They are due. They are. They did get all their guys back. They are healthy at this point. But we keep talking about the Bryce Young, this Panthers team, they play possum, right? They played dead the following week. All of a sudden, Bryce Young just can't miss guys, and their run game is just out of their control. It's. It's just so up and down, this team. And the Bucks, they've been a questionable defense all season. We've talked about that. Like, anytime they need a defense to get a stop, they cannot get a stop. And it reared its ugly head last week. And I know they're trying to say it's all good. They're working through stuff. And, you know, Mike Evans says, you know, I was just emotional at the time. Cooler heads prevailed. A guy like him walking off the field yelling 3rd and 28 multiple times as he walks through heads in the locker room. I don't know if the vibes could be any worse for this Bucks team. They're just reeling in so many bad ways. So I know the Panthers, it's. It's crazy. Especially the hard rock. Like, they moved off the three. There's tons of threes out there. I've. I'm all on. On the threes. And, you know, if you're forced to take two and a half, I wouldn't let it scare me off. But this just feels like such a number spot for this Panthers team where this should be a pick. But the general public just. You know what? We think it's just like this Bucks team. We're waiting for them to be this dominant playoff team. They've been these last three years, and they just have not been that team. So I'm, I'm interested to see where this number ends up. Like you said, in the contest we have three and a half. I, I wonder if people can still play that now. I think this could keep heading to two and a half. So if you can't get a three and a half, I'd lock it in now. I think this will be two and a half by kickoff.

Simon Hunter (10:14)

Bryce Young the most fourth quarter overtime touchdowns since 20 or comeback wins since 2023. And this is when he does it as an underdog. The final minutes. Dave Canales makes risky calls. Bryce Young follows through. That's what we're betting on today with the Carolina Panthers. They are in J Buffalo Bills -10 and a half at the Cleveland Browns. Simon this is going to be our rock in a hard place bet of the week. Presented by hard rock bet.

Chad Millman (10:50)

I want to rock.

Simon Hunter (10:55)

Surprise, surprise. We are going against all of our instincts. We are going against everything we have ever done. We are doing something that is so anti this show. We are betting against the huge home underdog. We are betting against the dominant defense. We are betting against the dominant defense at home with the generational hall of Fame player who is on pace to set a single season sack record. Miles Garrett. The Cleveland Browns. We are fading the dog pound, the energy, the will of the fans in Cleveland or betting Josh Allen with the hook at ten and a half rocking.

Chad Millman (11:37)

Yeah, I love this game. It's by far one of our more public players of the entire season. Doesn't get more publicness. Like you just said, it's a huge road favorite. Everyone you've talked to, they're all in on this. Bill's team right between the parlays, the money lines, everyone's just piling on it and it's for good reason. Like we've talked about, it's a unique spot, right. Josh Allen tends to do really well against really dominant defenses. And you know, to me this feels like a price from a month or two ago, right? This is feels like the number they're giving this, this brown seam is their home field advantage from what we were betting, you know, a couple months ago that just has not been the same, especially this past month where their run defense has been suspect and very, very poor. Against great teams and you know, even bad teams, I should say. But against really good teams like you saw with the Bears last week. Teams that have a good run schemes tend to dominate this Cleveland team lately. So try not to overthink this one. Right. I have it In a model at 13, if you're back in the Browns here, Right. You really need to lean into the elements and all these things that bounce your way where I just can't see it. Right. It's Josh Allen. This is. He's used to playing this type of weather. He's not going to be scared off by lake effect type of weather. And defensively, as many questions we do have about this Bills team, can Shador Sanders in that run game really take advantage of it? I don't know if they can. Right. It's going to be an interesting game. That's really the matchup we're both going to be worried about. Right. How does this Bill's defense too? Because they've had games where they've just totally laid down and you know, even that Patriots game, you know, I want to say laid down, but there was a, there was a minute there. It's just like, oh my God, they can't stop the pass or the rush. Like what can they. What can the Bills take away from a team right now? So I'll be interesting how they bounce back here, but offensively I just. This feels like the exact game where Josh Allen, you know, maybe thirst for 150, but the run game runs for 200 with him and Cook. So I, I love this matchup.

Simon Hunter (13:22)

Yeah, this is really a bet against Shador Sanders in this Browns offense because being able to score enough points to keep it close, we just haven't seen the evidence that they can do that on a consistent basis. There's more games like what they did against the Bears than what they did in desperation against the Titans a few weeks ago at home. So we're going with the Buffalo Bills the publicly, publicly, publicly play the season for us. Jacksonville plus three and a half at Denver. We're on the Jags. You and I were talking before we came on the air. There's a couple games where this thing had been sitting at three and now all of a sudden we're starting to see professional money move it to three and a half. And this is one of those games. We're taking the other side. We're betting Jacksonville. I can't believe. We're betting Trevor Lawrence. Like, it's bonix. Trevor Lawrence. We don't like either of them. So all of a sudden we're taking the hook with the quarterback that I guess we're going to live with. Like, is this. Are we betting on Jacoby Myers here? Like, what are we doing?

Chad Millman (14:34)

Yeah, we're really playing the number and I think we've seen a little bit of a theme here these last, you know, 48 hours. Like we talked about, these really good teams and playoff teams, when they play each other this late in the season, there is no letdown or give up in either side and these teams play to the final whistle. And it's been incredibly close games. I mean this, if the Bears had gone for two, which I thought they were going to, that would have been another one point game just like that Seahawks rain game. So this is another game that I feel like is going to be incredibly close. Could mean you get blown out here by the Broncos because they do have such a dominant defense. Sure. But I don't know if they face the type of offense where the Jags are running here, which, you know, the Jags have just been playing at another level. You can say, well, they've had, they've had easy competition. Yes. But they've put up over 40 points in back to back weeks. They've been dominant and it's been really impressive. And we've talked about it, this run scheme they've had there, it's really opened up the pass offense. And your guy Myers, who just got a big payday, he's changed the offense. He's what they thought Travis Hunter would be for them on offense. Right. He opens up the doors for so many different players and you know, you just look at this scheme wise, I just think this Jaguars team could be in this game competitively the entire way. On the flip side, the Broncos, I know Bo Nicks has been playing really well, but we've seen him have these up and down games and this feels like another spot where he could easily have a low game and a jax team that like I talked about, they haven't given up more than 70, 75 yards rushing this season. So it's going to be on Bo Nix. He's going to have to beat them with his arm and it's going to be interesting if he's going to be able to do that back to back weeks because last week he had a lot of throws. I feel like he got away with it. And you know, that's what we said. We got Bo Nix last week. We're doubling down. We're saying there's no way he's gonna do it to us again. So I really, really. It is about the number. If this is two and a half, I wouldn't have really forced us to take this one. But three and a half, I can't avoid it. And we've seen a move right every Book we talked Thursday was three. It's three and a half everywhere. So like Chad said, the pros have come in, they've taken a position on Denver. I think they're taking it a bad number. I think they should be two and.

Simon Hunter (16:36)

A half to Pittsburgh at Detroit. We're taking Detroit minus six and a half. I like, I know we wanted to not fade Mike Tomlin and we feel sort of burned by not having done it a couple weeks ago against the Ravens in that spot. I think we've both come to believe this is a little bit of a different game and a different scenario for this Pittsburgh team and that their defense just isn't playing as well as it has been. And this is a good opportunity. If Detroit is minus seven, by the way, at Hard Rock right now, it's six and a half in our contest. So anyone who's been playing it has been getting six and a half. But the, the opportunity for the Lions to dominate in the run game here I think is what we're really leaning into.

Chad Millman (17:29)

Yeah, they have been good for us. These lines in the bounce back spot this year, just like Carolina and they're. They have a little bit more history on their side with this in this exact spot. Read the lines. After a loss, we know the numbers. Campbell is 14:1 against the spread. Right. He usually gets his guys up to bounce back. And this is another game where I am honestly shocked. It's not up to minus seven, seven and a half on this Lions team.

Simon Hunter (17:49)

It is seven and a half in the contest, by the way. It's just moved to seven and a.

Chad Millman (17:53)

Half, which just seems right. Right. This morning I expected a lot of public money to be coming on the slides team. Even though you know, if you're. If someone's going to tweet out. Most likely the number one bet on underdog this week is the Steelers money line. That to me makes sense, right? I know pros who are taking a position on the Steelers money line here because of what Chad just said, like Tomlin in these type of spots, he tends to have some voodoo type of tricks. But we've talked about all the things for the Lions here, right? This is an indoor game. They don't have the elements like the Steelers kind of need. This is gonna be a track meet. So can the Steelers offense give up, keep up? That's what it's going to come down to me. It's like can they keep up with this line's offense, which this season, shockingly, they're going to be the number two, number One team for yards and points, most likely at end of the season. They've just been on an absolute tear. It's just the defensive injuries that flood them down. So Ken Rogers take advantage of it perhaps. But me and Chad, once again, we have an amazing number, especially the minus six and a half. And there is one very public book out there still with a six and a half, which is pretty interesting. But yeah, we know this. This Lions team, the Bills probably gonna be the two most bet on numbers and sides for the general public. So very public place here. But it really is all about the number. And yeah, the six and a half. I just can't avoid it. I love the lines here.

Simon Hunter (19:06)

We're gonna have to make a call because if the line is six and a half in the contest and there's something that we want to be or seven and a half in the contest, if there's something we want to be playing, we might want to have to evaluate because now it's seven and a half. I say that because we talked about New England and Baltimore this week. New England was three and a half in the contest, and we like New England. This was Chad's choice. And a lot of professional money coming in on the Ravens in the past 48 hours. So that's making me a little bit nervous about sticking with the. Sticking with the New England Patriots. Yeah.

Chad Millman (19:48)

And we kind of knew this, though. Chad, this is probably going to be the biggest public dog this week. Right. It's just. I think the general public is just like us. The Bills have not passed any type of eye test this entire season. And it's just something that's off with Lamar. I just. There. There's questions for me with Lamar, and he did use his legs more last week, but it really felt like that was a. Joe Burrow gave them that game away. Like they were in that game in every way. Their defense was getting stops and he just totally messed up in multiple positions. Kept getting a little more short fields and eventually that run game took over the Patriots. Variable. They've been stout against the run. So I guess the Patriots are due for a really bad letdown game this season. They haven't had it since, what, week one against the Raiders. Like, it's just they did have a.

Simon Hunter (20:35)

Letdown in the second half against the Bills. I mean, they completely.

Chad Millman (20:38)

That's who they are, though, right? You know, you gave those stats, Chad. You. I mean, that's who they are. They're a team that dominates first halfs and totally get outplayed. Technically, what I think three or their three or their four close losses this year have come and when they just have not played well at all in the second half and got out outpaced. So you know it's it's what we talked about a little bit on Thursday though. I think the pros are looking at this as Raven's been there done that proven team. I gave you that Stella Moore.

Simon Hunter (21:04)

Yeah.

Chad Millman (21:04)

Never lost. He's 600 in these two weeks week 15 and 16. It's it's crazy. Like that really is one of the more impressive stats you can give a guy for being that dominant in the month of December. So you know we'll go back to the well, our variable. Well I know it's the biggest public dog this week, but I think the public's right on this read like this. The the Ravens could win this game but to me by more than a field goal. They're going to need so many things to bounce their win. So many things go wrong for this team. So we know New England has a ton of injuries but Drake may playing from behind in that run game. I think they're going to always going to be in this game. So we'll take that hook with the plus three and a half.

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All right, so the one game we've loved all week, Simon says it was the New York Giants plus three against the Minnesota Vikings. And it's not in our contest play right now because in the contest it's been two and a half. Do we want to take anything out? Are we moving away from the Patriots? Is that making us nervous? Is there a Jacksonville play that would want us make us want to take out? Is there? Do we want to take out Jacksonville and put in the Giants we're not getting as good of a number, but are we nervous about any of these plays that makes us want to put the Giants in?

Chad Millman (28:29)

No, it's really. It's really about the number. If it was three and a half, honestly, I could be talked into it because then we're really in business there. Just like a couple of these other games where it's like, you know, looking back, yeah, should we probably switch New England out? But I was never going to get there. Like, they got me with the hook. It's just too good to be true. So this one's so much more that this is. But I talked on Tuesday. I knew this was going to be a pro spot, right? The pros going to come in on this. It's a unique team in Minnesota that, you know, they're not an outdoor team. They're not great in the elements. It's not that bad, honestly, here in Jersey. It's not really like, it's freezing cold.

Simon Hunter (29:00)

No, it's fine. No, it's fine.

Chad Millman (29:03)

It honestly is. That's not something you really hang your hat on. But it is a unique spot in the fact that it is JJ out in the elements in a game that he's going to need to be passing in the swirling winds of that field. And we've seen it.

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Chad Millman (29:15)

This Giants team identity is using their legs, right? Either darts legs or the running backs. They don't really want to be passing the ball too much downfield. They've been that way ever since they lost number one receiver. So it's. It's a game I do like. Chad, there is one game we have not talked about that I do love. And you know, this Giants game, I throw in the blender of a bunch of games that I was hoping you'd come in on. Like, I was hoping you come in and be like, well, Tennessee three and a half. We have to take it that that's gone. It's two and a half everywhere. I thought maybe you'd be on Dallas, but now that Dallas has nothing to play for, I can see you're probably not too excited to be betting big money on a Dallas team that no one really knows how they're going to play that game. So there's a lot of games we did like that are kind of falling by the wayside here. But the game we have not talked much about, that I think is probably the sharpest line this week. It's got to be that Colts 49ers game. Colts five and a half. I know it's throwing A little wrench in the Mammoths you probably didn't see coming. But the, this is the definition of a rallying spot for this Colts team. The flip side, the Niners, how do we not want to fade them? This is a team that hasn't played a legit team in a month. Like, I mean people probably forget the last thing they played that was legit was LA. They lost 42 to 26. This is not Cold's office is not going anywhere close to LA's offense, but they can run the ball. So they're basically coming off a four win streak of Arizona, Carolina, which that Carolina game was very flukey in my opinion. That Cleveland game, which we always said that was a very special teams game and then they beat Tennessee. Like this is to me the peak of this Niners team. Like, I think they're going to lose this game. I think the Bears are going to beat them.

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Chad Millman (30:51)

I know. I think it's all about the fall apart for this Niners team. And it really comes back to. I've talked about these injuries to this defense. I have no doubt about the Niners offense, the defense. I think they're dead last in sack and pressures this season. Like they can get away with it against these bad teams, but against good teams, the Colts to me are still a good team. They just had some really bad luck obviously with all these injuries and I know sauce isn't going to play either. That's a big deal. But I think the Colts, they have this scheme to keep this game close and kind of keep the Niners off field, never letting that offense get into rhythm. And it's, it really comes back to that Jonathan Taylor scheme. So you know, it's. There's a bunch of stupid stats. If you want to dive, we don't have to dive too much into it. But this Colts team, they've actually owned this Niners team throughout the years. If you go back all the way to what is that, 2013, they've won four straight against the Niners. Doesn't matter who the Niners coaches have been, who the scheme has been, they've always kind of dominated this matchup. And if you go back and look, I think the last night played was 21. I love the way Shane Steich and his scheme is against this type of solid defense. And you go back and watch again, that wasn't that dominant of a team at 21. It really is about the run game and it's just there's something this Colts team can do that gives Salah's defenses problems. So I know it's, it's a tough sell. I don't know if I'm going to get us in there because we could have had six and a half earlier in the week. But I want people to know, don't let this five and a half scare you off. It could get to six, but I think the pros will keep hitting this one. This feels like a really bad spot in a matchup for this Niners team.

Simon Hunter (32:16)

So if we take something out because we've entered the contest, I put my picks in, our picks in on Tuesday because I want to get the best of the lines on some numbers and that included six and a half on Detroit. So if we're going to go back in and put this in for say, New England, then we're going to have to go to seven and a half in Detroit. Is it worth it? Do we like three and a half for New England better than five and a half for Indy with Philip Rivers?

Chad Millman (32:47)

Like I said, Chad, I, I can't get talked out of the New England one because it just, I think it's such a good number and it's such a good variable spot. But I'm. That's. I'm hoping you're the clear mind here and you'd be like, no new one's got injuries. We got to switch them out. The Colts are. This is the spot. But you know, we got the six and a half two on the lines. It's just. I can't get there. I feel like we should just leave it as is.

Simon Hunter (33:06)

Yeah, I don't want to put the Colts in and Philip Rivers because maybe everything you're saying is right and it probably is you. You may have turned me around. Maybe I'll bet the Colts on on Monday night.

Chad Millman (33:19)

Not a man. You gotta do it.

Simon Hunter (33:21)

But I love Vrabel. Like I'm, I'm in the same way. I'm betting on Ben Johnson. I'm betting on Mike Vrabel, especially betting on Mike Vrabel after a collapse like last week. They know what their issues have been. They're smart enough to figure them out in the second half. They've seen it all season and now they've got tangible evidence. They didn't get to sneak by against a bad team like this is something they got to fix. I think they're going to do it. So let's leave the Patriots in there.

Chad Millman (33:51)

All right, let's do it.

Simon Hunter (33:52)

All right. So then our final five is going to be Tampa Bay at Carolina. We're going with Carolina plus three and a half. Buffalo at Cleveland we're going with Buffalo minus ten and a half. Jacksonville at Denver we're going with Jacksonville three and a half. Pittsburgh at Detroit we're going with Detroit. It's seven and a half now, but we got it at six and a half in the contest. New England plus three and a half in the contest at Baltimore. That is it. Our last ones out. It feels like our last ones out are going to be really Minnesota at the New York Giants plus two and a half. We also had a couple conversations about Arizona, but it's a two and a half in the contest for the Raiders at 14 and a half. We didn't get to it. We're going to be watching it. At least I am because I did bet the Raiders 14 and a half at Houston. Okay, this has been Sharper Square part of the Volume Podcast network. We're going to be back On Sharper Square YouTube tonight after the late afternoon games. Tune in live. We'll answer your questions. We'll review all the misery and heartache of the day. Watch or listen on YouTube at Sharper Square. Like the video? Subscribe to the channel. Download some Spotify Apple Pods wherever you get your pods. Rate, Review, Subscribe. Leave us five stars. Say whatever you want. Feedback is the gift. Until next time. Love you.

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