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Welcome in what driving the GR episode 408, our Christmas week gambling show and this episode of what's Right in the Grind is presented to you by Boost Mobile. A reminder to everyone. Enjoy your holiday season and give us a gift by subscribing to the show on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify. If you want to give us a review or a like that would be great but the subscriptions are what help us out the absolute most. Any of the above are nice but again the subscription description to the best and a reminder, all our lines are from Hard Rock BET Demanze. You had a great teaser last week. I had a three and two week but it was an extra gratifying three and two because we had three underdogs and all three underdogs one outright. As we said on the show we thought they would so let's go through those picks last week and and again I'm putting on a brave face because yes, I as I talked about in yesterday's show, I did tie my three underdog underdog picks as moneyline picks and then added one of my losing favorite picks as a moneyline pick, Tampa Bay for what would have been a beautiful more than 20 to one parlay and Baker ruined me. But the five picks last week were titans plus three and a half at Kansas against Kansas City in Tennessee. I told you guys the Chiefs were going to struggle to score 10 points. They scored nine and looked terrible. Tampa -3 at Carolina 1 of the worst losses of the year. The end of the first half it looked like they were going to hold Carolina to a field goal. They gave up a touchdown and then the end of the game. Baker threw the game away. Dallas -2 against the Chargers. Bad pick. Was on the wrong side. Bad job by me. Jacksonville plus three at Denver all over that one. New England plus three at Baltimore that one. I guess you could say I got a little lucky because they were down 11. But it's the Ravens. They love blowing big leads. That puts us on the season 40, 38 and two. We are back above.500 solidly again, two games. And by the way, when we post my picks this week, graphically try to include in there my season long record. Because while 40, 38 and 2 might not sound good compared to some of the other podcasts out there that are publishing their five weekly picks and their records on the year, folks would move mountains to be two games above.500. So we're feeling great about that. Daman hit another winning teaser. We'll talk about that shortly. But before we get to this week's games, Damanze let me talk to you guys about our friends at Hard Rock Bet to where I bet on sports during the holiday season. 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Terms and conditions apply. Concern about gambling in Florida? Call 1888 admit it in Indiana if you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1809 with it gambling problem call 1-800- gambler in Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee or Virginia. All right damanze Full disclosure for the audience. We are recording this on a Tuesday so we have no injury reports. We there we are firing basically almost a full week out into some of these games. So it's a little cliche, it's not always true, but a rule of NFL gambling historically has been bet favorites early and dogs late. What that means is if you think you like a favorite it usually makes sense to try to bet them early in the week. And if you like an underdog, it makes more sense to bet them close to closer to kickoff because lines typically move towards the favorite. So if the if you like a team that's laying six and a half, you bet it early because it's more likely to go to seven than go to six. And if you like a team that's getting three and a half you you wait because it's more likely to go to four than the three. And so we we stayed true to that this week with going favorite heavy in our actual picks we will go over the stay aways and so these are going to be quick because some of these are as simple as we don't know the injury situation of the quarterbacks but let's go to our first stay away demons a one of the Christmas games.