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where Sam Darnold is out as QB1 for the Seahawks. He will not be playing in Week 9. And is this a medical decision disguised as a football decision or a football decision disguised as a medical decision? You make the call. And how would you categorize Texans defensive star Will Anderson Jr. praising Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert, who has been by any measurement horrific for the Chargers. They have the worst offense in the NFL. He's one of the worst rated quarterbacks in the National Football League. And yet you've got defensive star Will Anderson Jr.
licking the toes of Justin Herbert. And in Philadelphia, is Eagles quarterback Joe Milton getting a legitimate opportunity to become an NFL starter, or is he being set up to fail as he takes over as the starter in the Delaware Valley? All that and more right now. It's feast or famine. It's hour number two.
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They said, hey, we need to know what's going on with this Fox 1 thing. I said, don't worry about it. NFL Week 9 is here. I told them. I said, NFL Week 9 is here. Packers versus Patriots. It's Sunday's America's Game of the Week. That just means a little more. That just means a little more when it's Sunday's America's Game of the Week. Streaming live on Fox 1. Miss it live and you're just watching a highlight. Catch every play as it happens. Packers, Patriots, live on Fox 1. So make sure to check that out. I'll remind you about that a little bit later this hour. But I'll leave.
Our lead story from the Pacific Northwest. We're still waiting for the 12s to check in, the front runners, guys like J.J. and Renton and Nostradinas and Crying Craig and all the rest who have gone into hiding. I don't blame you. I don't blame you the way things went the other night. But our lead is from the Seattle area where Sam Darnold. Hey, go on. Sam Darnold out, out for the Week 9 game against the division rival Cardinals, the Arizona Cardinals. Seattle calling it a quad injury.
Wink, wink, nod, nod, suffered against Chicago. That means backup Drew Locke. If he is able to play, and I was reading the injury report, and he is on the injury report, if he is able to play, he will take over as he helped Seattle win a couple of games earlier this season. However, there is a conspiracy theory making the rounds, and that got my attention. I don't know if you heard about this or not. Perhaps not. It does tie into something we talked about in a previous episode of the show. There are some factions that believe that Sam Darnold...
is damaged but not damaged goods enough to miss the game. Meaning, as a starting quarterback in the NFL, you're supposed to play with bumps and bruises and you have to keep going out there and playing. That's the expectation. That he could battle through and play. Instead, Coach Mike McDonald is being accused of using the injury as a camouflage to cover up the good old-fashioned soft benching of Sam Darnold. And that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
We know Sam Darnold is out this week for the Seahawks. They're claiming it's a quad injury. Is this a medical decision disguised as a football decision or a football decision disguised as a medical decision? So my observation is I've got grade three, IHOP, and vanishing hitchhiker. And we will combine all of these things together, and we are going to take your breath away. And we're going to do that because we're going to punch you in the gut is what we're going to do. No, I'm kidding. Maybe I'm not. I don't know. All right. Number one. Number one. Number one. Number one. All right.
So as the good doctor of overnight talk radio, do we not have the greatest callers? My God, what an hour that was last hour. As the good doctor of overnight talk radio, we went to the medical journal. We studied the medical journal. If you look at page 37, page 37 of the medical journal, we are diagnosing Sam Darnold with a grade three case of clipboard-itis. Clipboard-itis for Sam Darnold. Now Smart Money says the Seahawks are simply treating their fans like idiots. That's what they're doing here. This is the oldest magic trick around.
The rabbit out of the hat, but in the NFL lexicon, when the coach doesn't want to make an unpopular announcement, doesn't want to shame someone, they use the trainer as the bad guy, as the fall guy. Trucker Joe knows about that. Mike McDonald does not have the stomach to bench the Super Bowl winning coach. How embarrassing is this? Sam Darnold proving with every game what a fluke that was. One of the most outrageous championships in the history of the NFL. Sam Darnold. Sam, this is the real Sam Darnold. This is it.
But you don't want to embarrass him because he won a little Super Bowl thing, that hunk of metal. And so they are leaning into this soft tissue thing, a quad injury. We went and we referenced our... Our research, we went back and looked at some of the stuff we could kind of dig around, soft tissue injuries. The quad injury is a direct relative of the lower back injury, which is very popular, and the hammy tightness. Oh, my hammy! It's going to go whammy! That's what's going on with Kyler, Alligator Arms Murray, in Minnesota. This is Seattle's Sam Darnold, though, with the quad injury. Football's version of calling in sick on a Monday morning after a three-day bender. He's like, I got my quad thing. Oh, yeah. All right, so Darnold's numbers have completely cratered.
He is the 29th quarterback in the NFL, according to the statistics. He is ranked worse. Then Jacoby Brissett, who was just demoted in Arizona to third-string status and is in the process of being relocated to hang out with Sports with Coleman, our friend in Baltimore. Then you've got Malik Willis, who stinks in Miami, and that's it. That's all. Those are the only quarterbacks that are, well, not the only ones, but they're the ones that are ahead of him. They're like, whoa, my God, Sam Darnold is behind those guys. There's a couple players behind Sam Darnold, but Willis and Brissett, that really gets your attention. Nevertheless.
We believe what's going on here is Sam Darnold gets to use the diplomatic passport for immunity, at least from public shame. Shame. Shame. Because he got that little Lombardi thing. And somewhere there, Drew Locke is like, I'm going to be able to play. It's going to be OK. And I'll make sure to send the Seahawks medical staff and the coaching staff a massive edible arrangements basket. And I'm going to get out there and get it done. And if not, the Seattle football team will be on to their third string quarterback. All right, page two. To Houston. Houston, we have a problem.
Outrageous commentary from Texans pass rusher Will Anderson Jr. What? Yes, Will Anderson Jr. Raising some eyebrows, he declared that the Chargers quarterback, Justin Herbert, is playing out of his mind. Now, we actually have the audio on this, I believe. I hope we do. I don't know if we do or not. I think we do. Anyway, here is, I believe, Will Anderson Jr. Listen to this commentary about the Chargers quarterback, Justin Herbert. We're quiet.
Yeah, he's still a really great running back. That's why I don't play sound here. You talk about a big guy who has a big arm that can run around, that can throw the ball deep, makes a lot of plays with his legs. He's still a very respectable player in this league, and we have a ton of respect for them. As far as scheme, we're going to probably see a lot of bounce. McDonald's, he's went against his defense a lot of times, coached against his defense at San Fran, I believe. So we know what to expect a little bit. But Herbert, man, he's playing out of his mind. They have a really great solid O-line as well, and it's really good running backs that can get downhill, that can hit the perimeter. So it's going to be a good challenge for us. Yeah, a real good challenge. Anderson, as you heard, playing out of his mind. He was talking about Justin Herbert there, insisting that Herbert remains an elite talent.
And really great quarterback in this league. Oh, my God. So Houston does play L.A. this weekend, as we mentioned. So the question, how would you categorize Texans defensive star Will Anderson Jr. praising Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert? All right, so part of me wants to give Will Anderson a pass because he's busy on Sunday. He's not watching the Chargers because the Texans play on Sunday, so he's not watching the L.A. Chargers. But Will Anderson is giving Justin Herbert a verbal massage with a complimentary hot stone treatment is what he's doing. This is a textbook case of what we called back in the day Lou Holt syndrome.
This ancient football ritual of turning your suck bag opponent into a recreation of the 1985 Chicago Bears before kickoff. Kill them with kindness. Kill them with kindness. Smother them with compliments. Give them so much sugar that they develop diabetes before the opening whistle. Now, the Chargers are 0-7. They are at the very bottom. They are dead last in scoring in the NFL. They're averaging 14 points a game. This is junior varsity football.
And yet Will Anderson came out there and claimed that Justin Herbert is playing out of his mind. Apparently we're grading quarterbacks on a curve. So generous. How generous is it? It is so generous. It's become a complete circle. If that's playing out of your mind, what is Josh Allen doing in Buffalo? Performing open heart surgery with one hand and solving nuclear fusion with the other hand. That's what he's doing.
Everybody's elite. Everybody's so special. And nobody gets judged on their performance. That's it. That's classic Lou Holtz syndrome. Just once, I would like a player to admit that the other guy stinks. That guy's a bum. That guy's a bum. Instead, we get Will Anderson, who's pouring so much syrup.
on the Justin Herbert pancakes that the people over at IHOP are considering legal action. There's going to be a supply chain shortage of syrup. All right, now final point. To Philadelphia we go. The pipeline of quarterbacks, the changing of the guard. As the Eagles, E-A-G-L-E-S, suck, suck, suck. The Eagles have decided to bench Tanner McKee, the pride of Irvine, California. Tanner McKee being benched for backup Joe Milton III. Not to be confused with Joe Milton II or Joe Milton I. That'll be against the Gigantes of football, the Giants.
That's after the Philadelphia football team has now lost six straight games. Six straight games. So you've got Coach Nick Sirianni insisting. Back on Monday, that McKee was his guy. I stand by my guy. That was the little weasel. Yeah, little weasel, Nick Sirianni. And then 48 hours later, psych, he did the old okey-doke and decides to go to Joe Milton, the backup quarterback. McKee went 0-3 as a starter. He had just two touchdown passes and a couple of interceptions. The offense managed 45 points in three games, which I'm told is not good. Milton was signed off the Cowboys practice squad back in mid-October, and now he is the man for the moment in the Delaware Valley. So the question.
Is Eagles quarterback Joe Milton getting a legitimate opportunity to become an NFL starter, or is he being set up to fail? You make the call. So the way I approach this, and I'm going for a bit of a tangent here, Mr. Macho Man, Nick Sirianni, has officially entered the throw spaghetti at the wall phase of his Eagle coaching career. He's got a big handful of those spaghetti noodles, and there's a little marinara, and he's tossing it against the wall to see what's going to stick. This is the Hollywood casting call for Joe Milton.
That's it. It's American pigskin idol. They might as well bring in Ryan Seacrest as the quarterback coach there and make some magic. The Eagles are simply providing the stage. All right, you get to go on the stage. The lighting and the complimentary humiliation.
For several years, we have been hearing about Joe Milton, who's going to go out there and try to impress 31 other teams. Joe Milton, the legend of this guy, it's an urban legend. He's like the vanishing hitchhiker of the NFL. Everyone has heard stories about Joe Milton. Very few have actually seen him play in the NFL. He played a lot in college football, but the Bazooka Joe legend has attracted a cult following.
It's the story. Bazooka Joe, Joe Milton, his arm is a campfire story told by NFL fans, coaches, and scouts. They say that he can throw a football over them mountains, right over them mountains out there. And Milton has an arm like a rocket launcher. Of course, the problem is that doesn't really matter.
I'd much rather have a very accurate passer between the line of scrimmage or behind the line of scrimmage and, say, eight yards past the line of scrimmage. That is a much more valuable skill than throwing Hail Mary passes and just cranking up Bazooka Joe and chucking the ball down the field. That is not nearly as important as the ability to complete the basic pass, but you already knew that. And so the question is, can he hit a target that is not... 45 yards down the field. Joe Milton is the football equivalent of a monster truck with no steering wheel. What good is that? You watch him throw a football. The legend on the Internet is this guy throws the ball 70, 75 yards. And you think, my God, this guy's unbelievable. Those dopes like Danny in Nashville, who is a fan of Tennessee. Milton spent some time at Tennessee. He's like, oh, my God, Joe Milton. So you watch him throw the ball. You're like, wow, this guy's unbelievable. And then you ask him to complete a seven-yard slant. And suddenly you're negotiating with the laws of physics.
So the iconic baseball movie, Major League, where Serrano was up there and they were throwing fastballs and he was hitting the ball a million miles. I throw him some curveballs, throw him some breaking balls. Swing and miss, swing and miss, swing and miss, swing and miss, swing and miss. Jumping through hoops. Swing and miss, swing and miss, swing and miss, swing and miss. It is the Ben Maller Show. Hopefully not a swing and miss as we're hanging out together here on the overnight. And you can be part of this show right now if you are so inclined. If you are as lethal as a barracuda, you can call up at 877-99 on Fox. That's 877-996-6369.
Also on X, at Ben Maller. That's at Ben Maller if you'd like to be part of the program. Later this hour, we have Benny versus the Penny as Week 9 in the NFL kicks off on a Thursday night. And I'm sure Al Michaels is very excited about that. He went out and had some nice seafood in Baltimore, some biscuits as well. They had a great time, and now he's going to call an NFL game that will likely be over, everyone seems to think, by the midway point of the second quarter.
if not that late into the game. But Benny versus the Penny a little bit later. Also, the instant trivia will be coming your way. We'll take your calls. And straight ahead, Hello Dolly! Hello Dolly! What is that about? We'll get to it, and we will do it next. Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Welcome to Football Doesn't Lie. Hi, I'm Bill Parcells. And I'm Catherine Zatzora. I have a lot of experience in the game of football, Catherine. And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week, we're going to talk about the NFL slate through the lens of Bill's expertise as he coaches me from novice fan to football expert over the course of the season. You know, I'm looking forward to this show, Catherine, and hopefully we can give our audience a little in-depth look into the inner sanctum of pro football that they can't get anywhere else. Tune in every Thursday for unfiltered stories from Coach Parcells, analysis on the state of the modern game, and education on how football really works. Continuity is very important, but what happens...
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This is going to determine the fate of nations and economies and the future of humanity. Listen to The Builders on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. The Ben Mellor Show on Fox Sports Radio as we continue on. Thank you for hanging out with us on the overnight. Get back to it later this hour. Benny versus the Penny will make its triumphant return and get you ready for Week 9. But we know NFL Week 9 is here. The Packers versus the Patriots. Sunday is America's Game of the Week.
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Cannot wait to handicap the Jacksonville-Baltimore game. That is what Benny versus the Penny was made for. The line on DraftKings, Jacksonville is a 10-point road favorite. When's the last time Jacksonville was a 10-point road favorite? I'm going to have to look that up. I bet you it's been a minute. I bet you it's been a minute.
Man, oh, man. All right. JJ from Renton writes in. He says, you're not getting paid for tonight, Ben. Can't even drive your ass to work, he says. All right. So JJ complaining the Baltimore freeloader account says, trust me, Al Michaels did not eat biscuits in Baltimore. Probably had an overcooked steak with some jumbo lump crab cakes. Although a source told me once Al ordered crab cakes in L.A., that's a no-no. Meanwhile, that's Peter. What's Peter the dog going to eat? What are the Benny versus the Penny odds on Peter the dog? Peter's going to eat better than I am.
Peter Herbstreet's going to eat better than me. Guaranteed. 100%. Al, and the thing about Al Michaels, he's part of the brotherhood of well done. The well done brotherhood. Pukanakua, Al Michaels, Kenny Albert, and myself. We enjoy a hearty meal, well done food. And we have that in common. Fergdog writes in, says Sam Darnold sucks. I heard a stat recently that he committed an NFL high 28 turnovers since the start of last season. I wonder where you heard that from. If I was coaching the Seahawks, I'd lock Darnold in a dungeon and throw away the key. It's a good idea.
Not a burner says Al Michaels had a decent Thursday night football game this season. Yeah, we've had some. Some decent games. I'm trying to think off the top of my head. What's been the top game? I'd have to go and look. I don't have the Thursday night schedule in front of me. We had a couple of good matchups that lived up to the billing and whatnot. All right, let's go to the phones, and let's say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Let's go to Mojo Risen, who's in the Bay Area. Hello, Mojo Risen. Wild child, full of grace, the savior of the human race. Listen to the Ben Maller Show is never a disgrace. Mr. Godfather of Overnight Radio, how are you, Mr. Ben? It's been so long since I called in.
I miss you guys. I listen all the time. I want to call in, but I got to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning. So here I am just like, oh, man. I just told myself I took a nap earlier. I powered through. I'm calling in to talk to my favorite overnight, the godfather, Mr. Ben Baller. Hey, that's dedication. I respect the hustle. It's not easy working the morning shit. That was the worst. I worked morning radio for a year. It was the worst year of my life. I hated it. I couldn't stand. I'm not a morning person. I just can't. I'm much more awake at night. The money's much better. Technically, I'm not either, but you know what, man?
I've worked 6 to 2.30, so honestly, I've done it almost my whole life, and I love it because I get off in the afternoon, I get home by 3, and I got the whole afternoon to watch all the sports, you know, like recently when you had the baseball. And a quick congratulations to the Golden State Valkyries. I was down here in the Bay Area. They had that big parade every day today in San Francisco. The weather was spectacular. You know, you've got to give them credit. You know, and only in their second year, I think it's the fastest team in any sports history to win a championship. So let's congratulate the Valkyries, and, you know, they did a great job.
this kind of stuff. But my main reason for calling in, Ben, is I have to agree with everything that you ever say on the radio, especially when it comes to the Raiders. Gen T, I'm going to be the first one to say it. Gen T is a bust. I mean, at the sixth pick, like if you would have got him in the fifth or the sixth round, okay, fine. But at the sixth pick, this guy, he can't run. Like people say, oh, give him a break. He's going to be good. No, he's already in his second year. If he can't run by now, he ain't ever going to be able to run. And not that the Raiders offensive line is that great, because honestly, they're really not. And they're really just a fraud. I'm going to be the first one to say that the diehard Raiders, even though we're 4-4, they're mainly a disgrace.
said, the only reason they won is because they played all the worst teams than them. The Jets, Miami, you know, the Chargers, which going into the season, they had the fifth best. So I don't know how they're 0-7. But, you know, that stuff happens. You know, the injuries, whatever, you know. But I agree with everything you say, man. The Raiders, they're not a good team. I mean, their defense is terrible. Like, if they can't stop the Jets, what's going to happen this weekend against the 49ers? Which, by the way, I think that besides your team, I think they still have a chance to get there. The best teams in the NFC are probably the Niners and, believe it or not, Chicago. And in the AFC, Buffalo's there.
Jacksonville, the team that's going to be playing tonight. Those are the teams that I think I'll stick to those. Someone will end up in the Super Bowl. I predicted earlier in the season that you're Rams and Coops. It could still happen because the Rams are really good. They really are a good team. They just started out slow. They've had so many injuries. Garrett hasn't even played. Donald's still working his way back. They've got Puka and Stafford at quarterback. He's one of the better quarterbacks in NFL history. When you think of all the best quarterbacks ever, will people mention Stafford? He kind of deserves it. He's been good.
Stafford's not going to get mentioned among the all-time greats. He won't. He'd have to win multiple Super Bowls here coming up for that. Get some sleep. Mojo Rising, you need to sleep, my man. Come on, you've got to get up in a few hours. All right, be well. There is a Mojo Rising. Checking in from the Bay Area. Some Mojo potatoes sound good.
Yeah. Is there a bad potato? Unless it's covered in worms. That's a fantastic point. Thank you. That's my take of the day right there. Because you can make alcohol out of potatoes. You can have potatoes au gratin. You can have wedge potatoes. You can have curly fries. Twice baked potatoes. That's right. Tater tots. I could get rid of a lot of other things if I had the vegetable. I feel like because the way you shape the vegetable and the way you cook the vegetable and you can make a drink out of it, it really is the perfect food, the potato. Right? I mean, seriously. Even its cousin is delicious, the sweet potato.
Not as big a fan of sweet potatoes. Wait, you say not a fan of the sweet potato? Not as big a fan. I feel like they're trying to market it. They try to market it as a healthy potato. As a healthy thing. And I don't know that it's actually all that healthy. I'm not sure about that. Anyway, let's go back to calls. It is a call-in show. And we'll say hello to Tim, who's in Austin, Texas. What's going on, Tim? Welcome. You're on the Ben Maller Show. Man, y'all getting me through my work night. I just want to say I appreciate y'all. I love Lorena. I love Coop. I love you, Ben. I love you guys. You make me laugh while I'm at work. So much appreciated.
gas that you have on. Well, thank you. What kind of work do you do there in Austin? I do quality control for this company called XQ. We, I guess, supply the interior car parts for Tesla and Range Rover. Oh, okay. All right. Got to make sure everything's working properly and people aren't getting duds. I got you. Yeah, pretty much. Can I ask you a question? Lorena would like to ask you a question. Is that okay? All right, Lorena, I've gotten permission. You can now ask my friend Tim a question. You said you work for Range Rover, right?
Oh, okay, that's good. Nice interior. Luxury. I feel like you were trying to blame Tim on that, Lorena. That's a bad job. I just wanted to know if it was a common thing that happened. That's kind of a jerk move by you, Lorena. You gotta have somebody to blame, right? Like how we blame Sam Darnold for the losses in Seattle.
Well, you've got to have a fall guy. Right, Tim? You've got to have a fall guy. The key to employment is to know who to blame and not yourself. You've got to blame somebody else. That's the key. All right. Well, thanks for listening, Tim. Be safe, man. Enjoy. Call anytime. We're here. I like that you called. It wasn't a newbie night. That's pretty cool because normally these guys only call in on newbie night. They don't call in other than that. Well, hello, Dolly. How about this one? The Nashville Predators. You know what that is? What sport is that, Lorena? The Nashville Predators.
Yeah. Just take a guess. Go ahead. Let's go with ice hockey. Whoa. Oh, look at you. Sporty Lorena. Yeah, I think so. The Nashville Predators. Are you going to fly to Nashville on Saturday? This Saturday, a couple days away. They're playing the St. Louis Blues and they are going to honor.
Who else but Dolly Parton, the native daughter of the Nashville area, the state of Tennessee. So Dolly Parton will be honored. They'll have special jerseys. Players are going to be wearing a hometown remix jersey during warm-ups featuring Dolly on the nameplate instead of the surnames. They're also going to be wearing a butterfly patch, a commemorative patch. I'm sure they will not be charging for that at the gift shop. Gold butterfly, which was, I guess, Dolly Parton's symbol, going back to the 70s. And the goaltender for the Nashville Predators, Yusei Saros.
will be wearing a specially designed mask featuring a portrait of Dolly Parton. Aw, that's sweet. All that's going on. It is. But it's also, I don't want to trash it. And this is the part where I trash it, Lorena. See, I don't want to trash it. And this is the part where I say, wait a minute here. What are we doing here? You know, Dollywood on ice and all that. Because I look at this and I'm like, well, it's...
It's a marketing gimmick. Like, it's cool. I'm not disagreeing. It's cool, but it is a marketing gimmick, right? It's a heartfelt tribute, which has morphed into, hey, a marketing thing. I'm pretty confident they'll be selling some Dolly stuff at the gift shop. Don't you have to get permission, too? Like, maybe they did. Even though Dolly's dead, people own her rights, right? Because, like, Michael Jackson, people have been dead for a while. They still make money off their likeness. Their families do, right? I'm not sure how all that works, but there you go. So Dolly Parton, big celebration there. There's jerseys and the sticker, the patch, the whole thing. And she's got the airport, too.
Is that actually happening? Yeah, they renamed it. They've already done it? They already did it. It's done. Oh, I didn't realize that. Okay. I thought that takes a long time to do that. I didn't realize you could do that that quick. Really? The expert out of the process. I think she's wrong. I'm not wrong. The guy who owns the airport said it. They already renamed it. It's in the process of being renamed. I know, but you understand there's like federal red tape when you change the name of an airport. Around the world, people fly to Nashville. So it's like the whole world has to be on. Anyway.
We got Benny versus the Penny. Benny versus the Penny. We'll get to that coming up. And here's the Insta trivia with at least 140 scrimmage yards this weekend. Lions running back Jameer Gibbs would join Jim Brown, Christian McCaffrey, and Blank as the only players under age 25 to record at least 140 scrimmage yards in six of their team's first eight games of a season. That is the Insta trivia. You know the answer. On X, at Ben Maller. We'll get to that. We will do it.
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It's time now for Benny versus the Penny. Let's do it. Benny versus the Penny. Week 9 kicks off on a Thursday night in Maryland. The Jaguars, the road team, taking on Baltimore. DraftKings has this game at minus 10.
in favor of the road team the Jaguars that is a massive point spread for the road team it's on Amazon Al Michaels Kirk Herbstreet and Peter the dog Peter Herbstreet the dog will be there should rain at some point tonight in Baltimore temperatures of the 60s for this particular game and I tried my darndest to come up with a reason to take Baltimore I'm a points whore I love taking points 10 points is a huge amount of points in an NFL game so I crunched all the numbers I looked at every possible scenario and I'm taking Jacksonville. I'm laying the 10. I would either bet on Jacksonville or not bet this game. We bet every game on Benny versus the Penny. So I'll lay the 10 points. If I lose, I'm fine losing. I just can't bet on Joe Faniato and the Ravens, the undrafted rookie. This is a huge mismatch. Trevor Lawrence facing a Baltimore team that is lacking their quarterback. The Ravens managed 10 points in their loss to Baltimore. Their offense is on life support. And you look around here. Baltimore has also been a betting disaster. They're 2-6 against the spread. 0-3 against the spread at home. Jacksonville, 4-3 against the spread. But they're an NFL best 10-4 as a favorite.
Going back to 2025, the Jags defensively have been pretty good at stopping the run. So if you neutralize Derrick Henry, you figure you're in pretty good shape. The only thing that'll kill Jacksonville is turnovers. And Trevor Lawrence does have that bug from time to time. Jacksonville leads the NFL, though, in turnover differential so far this season. Again, every key indicator, everything says, take Jacksonville, lay the points. That's the way to do it. And there's really not much else to think about in this game. You know, Ravens, if you get some turnovers and some special teams plays, they can hang around for a while. This is a really good matchup for Trevor Lawrence and Jacksonville. Koopa Loop is representing the penny. And who does the penny like in this game?
Ben, we have a disagreement. The Penny is going with the Ravens. All right. Good luck to the Penny. Godspeed. Jacksonville should win this game at minimum 27 to 10. It should be worse than that. Minimum 27 to 10. Jags will win that game tonight. There is Benny versus the Penny. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.