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Mahomes Swears, Jets Despair, Wallets Repair
The scoreboard got loud, but the trenches told the truth. We open on the wildest swings from Week 7—Rams torching the Jags after a late London flight, Miami misfiring into three-pick chaos, and the Jets wobbling through another identity crisis—then zoom in on what actually decides games: line play, early-down efficiency, and turnover discipline. From there, we face the tough one head-on: Pittsburgh’s defense, built to be the solution, became the problem. Rodgers looked sharp and protected, yet the Steelers’ secondary gave up leverage and YAC while the front lost gaps. We break down where it unraveled and what must change to keep games in the teens instead of track meets.
There’s room for joy too. Patrick Mahomes’ hot-mic fourth-and-one was more than a viral moment—it was veteran cadence used as a weapon. That tiny edge, repeated on money downs, flips win probability in ways box scores miss. We connect those dots to the Broncos’ 33-point fourth quarter and explain why tempo, short fields, and scripted shots can snowball into “clutch” when the foundation is right. Then we turn the page to Week 8 with a cleaner board: quarterback stability, trench edge, and turnover risk drive our selections, not vibes.
We go game-by-game on the biggest matchups, but plant a flag on a three-leg moneyline parlay designed to reduce paths to failure: Buffalo over Carolina, New England at home over Cleveland, and San Francisco as a short dog against Houston. It’s a blend of defensive teeth, healthier skill talent, and urgency spots that historically cash at a higher clip. Finally, we dig into Packers at Steelers—the narrative heat around Rodgers’ all-32 milestone, the tactical keys for Pittsburgh’s defense to rebound, and the most likely late-game script if the run game and coverage fits settle in.
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SPEAKER_02:Yeah, there you go. Welcome. I gotta go. Mom's whistling.
SPEAKER_04:Gotta go. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome back to the Brother League Bat. We're in season two, episode twelve. I'm with one of my brothers, Grant. Grant, how are you doing?
SPEAKER_01:I'm doing fine, Jack.
SPEAKER_04:I must say, I turned this. I turned the session in and it wasn't recording yet, and I was doing some stuff and came back, and just to see you in those glasses made my night. They showed up in the mail. Not to mention how how crystal clear your camera is. So it helps.
SPEAKER_01:They showed up in the mail, and Kim was like, what are these? And I was like, I don't know. Let's take a look. I opened the box and I was like, seven dollars well spent. And she's like, What are those? I was like, I bought them for Jack.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. What are these? These, this is this is gonna make it. This is gonna bump our viewers from 300 something people viewing this reel to possibly 300 million. Seventh in and stretch. All right. Let's go through let's go through some week seven here. Um I'm gonna I'm gonna skip over uh Thursday night football real quick so I can have a moment to vent. Um Rams.
SPEAKER_01:You mean?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, how about this? Rams traveled to London and just torched the Jaguars. And then I read or listened, um they went down super late. They like they were they were like spending time in Baltimore for the week. Yep. And then just like traveled over on Saturday.
SPEAKER_01:And then they came out Camden Yards, I believe.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, and they just came out and just absolutely torched the Jags. Stafford had five. You don't bet against those chiclets, let me tell you. You do not. And then he threw three of them to Devontae Adams. So good day for Stafford.
SPEAKER_01:All these young coaches in the league, don't let's not forget about Sean McVay. Because this guy's this guy's trust me. My wife does not forget he's his playbook is tighter than a trust fund kid's prenup.
SPEAKER_04:There you go. I like that.
SPEAKER_01:Let's not leave him out.
SPEAKER_04:I like that. Um Eagles sneak away against the Vikings, tight game. Um, 28-22. Patriots, uh, like we said, Rabel's gonna go into Tennessee and he's gonna say, Hey, why'd you get rid of me? And sure enough, 31-13. Um Panthers and Jets, no more. If you took under 19 and a half on this game, it hit. It was 13 to 6.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, Fields gets benched, it's rough. I mean, the Jets right now, they're wobblier than a stripper's heels after a double shift. Like, they can't figure out what they do. It's it's brutal.
SPEAKER_04:It's brutal. And I will say, after the two years that Rogers was there, and they're like, he's the problem, he's the problem. Clearly, he's the problem. Yeah. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:Maybe they put a couple Doritos in the locker room, you know. Yeah. Jesus.
SPEAKER_04:Uh, Browns. Here's another team. Browns defeat the Dolphins. Tua is just throwing the ball to the wrong team. The entire game. I mean, they look horrendous. He threw for a hundred yards for three interceptions. That's it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, holy cow. That's rough. It's rough. Uh, Seahawks are oh no, it jumped. I'm sorry. Um, Saints and Bears. The Bears game was nice to watch. We had like a 17-point lead at one point. It was nice to watch. Couple a little too many turnovers for my liking.
SPEAKER_01:Um but overall, I'm I'm not on the Bears. Yeah, like the Bears got too many turnovers, you're saying? Oh no.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, yes, they gave they gave the ball away too much for my liking. I mean, they're taking the ball away, which is awesome from a defensive side. Um, I think Rattler threw three. But I mean, like balls on the ground, Williams throwing picks. He's he's doing less of that, which is awesome, but still you'd you'd still like to see it tighten up. That's just I'm I'm pulling it strings here, but I mean, you're not you're not gonna win games against better NFC teams if you're giving the ball away more than more than twice.
SPEAKER_01:Right. I mean, I I don't know. I haven't I haven't seen someone trying to run and cover up the ball since you know mom walked in on a teenager in his bedroom kind of thing. Yeah, like knocking. There were a lot of balls dropping.
SPEAKER_04:Would you just knock. Just knock. Get a clue. Um yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Good luck having that conversation.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Sorry about Chiefs. Chiefs, uh, 31 Raiders, goose egg. Um, that was just a thrashing, which I'll get back to a funny moment in that game in a second. Colts dominate the Chargers, which we dominated. Yep, we called it. Uh Broncos and Giants. You want to talk about a letdown? The Broncos score 33 points in the fourth quarter to win. Holy. Holy. That's impressive. I mean, I don't even know what I don't even know what else to say.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, it's a good number.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, uh they're gonna be really good if they could play more than one quarter. Yeah. New York looks better. They do. Yeah. Um, I'm becoming a fan of Jackson Dart. Scataboo is just a unit. I think he's gonna have some serious health issues in like two years, but that's not my issue. Packers sneak one out 27-23 against the Cardinals. Cowboys spank the commanders. Jane Daniels goes down with a hamstring injury. Uh, they said it's not too major, but he will not be playing this week. Niners over the Falcons 20-10. Um, Pennix just looked um like a rookie. And then we got Lions over the Bucs. It was the first game where Baker Mayfield looked uncomfortable the entire game. 24-9, and then the Seahawks over the Texans 27 to 19. That game got much closer towards the end, but the Seahawks dominated that game. Um, I mean, Darnold is just finding JSN all over the field. He had eight receptions for 123 in the touchdown.
SPEAKER_01:So it was um it was interesting watching Baker Mayfield run all over the place. It was like he was he was trying to dodge defenders like he was running away from child support, like all over. He was uncomfortable the whole game.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, it was um it was bad. And then let's talk a little bit about Thursday night football because we here on the Burly Dubette were Steelers fans. Grant your grandfathered in. Um, or maybe Uncle Den. You're godfathered in. We'll say that, your godfathered in. Um high hopes. And I'm gonna pull up the stats real quick just so I don't get it wrong. Rogers doing everything he needs to be doing. 23 for 34, 249, four touchdowns, one bad pick that was like a long punt, um, which throwing in a double coverage. I mean and Tom were talking. We'd like that he had confidence in him, but you probably could have checked it down. And then another weird, I don't know how that guy got the ball from DK Metcalf. And we'll go from there. Um, but our offensive line looked good. Rogers was just buzzing around in the back. Um, didn't really get touched too much. Jalen Warren ran for 127. Pat Fryermouth, five receptions, 111 for two touchdowns. Johnu Smith for a touchdown, darn know Washington for a touchdown. So big, big tight ends. But here you go. Here's the big one. Joey Flacco, 31 for 47, 342, three touchdowns. Here, it gets better. Chase Brown. They couldn't run the football for the first six weeks of football, and he had 11 carries for 108 yards, averaging almost 10. So that was our defensive line looked like they were just getting manhandled. And here's the big one Jamar Chase, 16 receptions for 161 and a touchdown. T. Higgins, six receptions, 96 yards, one touchdown. So that's it. I uh I got nothing. It was just disheartening, especially they spend so much money on this defensive unit, and they're and all preseason, every commentator, every analyst was like, as long as Rogers is half of what he was. And to be honest, dude, he's playing every bit of what he is.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:And he's being let down by the unit that's supposed to be the unit. So you know, hopefully, I'll say this and then we'll move on. Hopefully, it's a they wear it on the chin and they make their adjustments because if I was Tarot Austin, that defensive coordinator, I would be my ass would be hot because my seat is for sure.
SPEAKER_01:They just they got manhandled. Man handled like their defense looked so bad. I mean, kudos to Joe Flacco and the Brown and not the Bronx, the Bengals for putting together pretty good game, good game plan. That offensive line was holding stronger than a gold digger's grip on a sugar daddy, and they just manhandled the Steelers. Like, and I mean, it's not like Joe Flacco is Johnny Speedway, right? He's not running away, he's paint manning. He can move a little bit, but like he's Aaron Rodgers now.
SPEAKER_04:They just and he never was a he was a drop back, read the coverage, and throw. Like that's who he was. So I I was just like, they just spent all this money on these set on these secondary guys, these DB, they're like, oh, we're we're gonna be able to play man coverage and shut these guys down.
SPEAKER_03:Oh no, you're not. No, you're not. Oh, buddy, you're not.
SPEAKER_04:And we saw a little bit of that when they played played in Ireland. Yeah, Jefferson and Addison, they both go for over a hundred. Addison, obviously, with that that last bomb that got cut short. Um, but jeez, like holy cow, man. It's just let's just move on and and go to the next game. Um I will bring up one funny thing and then we'll move on to our picks for the week. Um, if you didn't see in the Chiefs game, in the Raiders game, did you see this? The fourth and one play? Which man, you didn't see it? Patrick Mahomes. Tell me which one? It was like in the first quarter, fourth and one, you know, they come to the line, and it's your typical trying to get them to jump off sides. So he's like, hot, hot, hot, hot. And then you hear him on the hot mic, he goes, It fucking never fucking works, man. Yeah. And then he goes, hot hot, and they so he like caught the defense off and they got the first down. But the commentators were absolutely they're like, oh god. Hot mic. Mike, um we shouldn't have to know there. Yeah, you know, his little like Kermit the Frog, like he's like, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha fucking fucking works, fucking man. Like just dropping F-bombs like crazy person, and then they got it. So I was like, all right, tip my hat to that for sure. Um that's great. It was it was awesome. I saw it. I was like, that is that is amazing. It was like last year when Jameis Winston was doing the same thing.
SPEAKER_03:He's like, uh, he's like, come on, someone jump off sides because he's got that little southern twang to him, right? He's like, someone jump off damn.
SPEAKER_04:He's damn. But I like that moment. It was good. Um that's about it for week.
SPEAKER_01:It's almost like a bet, oven. Like you go to your offensive line and go, hey, I'm gonna I'm gonna have a conversation with myself. Here's what it's gonna look like. Let's practice it. You don't jump. Can you imagine?
SPEAKER_04:Can you do a little hairy carry under center? Hey!
SPEAKER_02:I've got the ball! One? Two? Huh? Why am I saying hunt? I should be going to the sunglass hunt. Carol? Carol, are you there? Ball too. I got we got a whole glass of bedwass. If the moon were made of barbecue spare ribs.
SPEAKER_04:Would you eat? No one's jumping. That'd be good. Alright, let's move. Let's move on to um next character. Our suggestions. Yeah. No, let's move on to our picks for the week. We got week eight. And let me tell you, very highly anticipated weeks. There you go, baby. You and these zingers. Alright. You run it through. I'll see if I guess what we picked. Whoa. This is a good one.
SPEAKER_01:I should probably put it back. Okay. So game game number one.
SPEAKER_04:Or do you wanna do you wanna go through our stats first? So last week?
SPEAKER_02:Sure. Do a quick little highlight here, eh? Hey.
SPEAKER_01:Alright. You ready? This is a good one. Week seven. Eagles are still fumbling around like a teenager looking for the bra strap. But our stats are pretty solid. 66.67% on the week last week, so 10 for 15. So we tied week six. So we're back. We're back in the positives, 62% overall. So you bet a thousand dollars. 62% of the time, you're gonna get it back. The other time, you're gonna be working an extra shift.
SPEAKER_04:That's fine.
SPEAKER_01:Overall, we are looking pretty solid. Thursday night football has kind of turned into a little bit of a shit show. Four for seven on that, 57%. Afternoon games are the top category. The 12 PMers were just barely touching 70% on that one. Evening games right after 65%. Sunday night football still brutal. So let's uh let's stay away from that one, like hand foot, and mouth disease. Yeah. Uh Monday night football is making a little bit of a return. 4 for 10. It's coming back, Jack. Overall, we're pretty solid. We're looking good.
SPEAKER_02:We're looking good. So let's make it better.
SPEAKER_04:Let's try to go 12 for 15 this week. Let's try to bump this. Oh god. I believe. Well, let's just try to do better percentage-wise. Yeah. Try to get the 70s.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I we haven't been in the 70s since I stopped playing on hole 13. Um it was week three. We were 75%. Okay. Let's get back to week three numbers. Yeah. Alright. Chargers, Vikings. We got the We got the Chargers.
SPEAKER_04:Chargers, the Jets, Bengals. We got, uh, I hate even saying it. Give me Joe Flacco against that awful Jets team.
SPEAKER_01:Offensive line, pretty good. Um, wouldn't it be so funny, by the way, if the Jets cracked the Bengal code? That would probably make Tom so mad. I know, I definitely would.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. Well, I probably wouldn't. No, he'd probably love it. Let the Bengals lose. Anytime an AFC North team loses, he's happy. It's all good. As long as it's not the Steelers. Bears, Ravens. See, we sat here and said we want to pick the Yeah, we want to pick the Bears if Lamar's on the bench. If Lamar comes back and he's healthy, I think we have I think we have to push our heart aside and choose the Ravens for the pod.
SPEAKER_01:So that's where we went. We went Ravens to learn.
SPEAKER_04:We're gonna go, we're gonna go with Ravens if if Lamar's healthy. And he's suited up today in practice. So today's Wednesday, October 22nd. They also took out the run as much?
SPEAKER_01:Are you gonna tell him about the vending machines in the locker room? You can. I love that. They took out the vending machines, the basketball hoops, the ping pong tables, the down towels out of the locker room. They're gone. Because they're playing so bad.
SPEAKER_04:It's business.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they're ready to go.
SPEAKER_04:It's not a spa day anymore, boys. It's not an all-inclusive in Baltimore.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:It's time to start winning. Stop enjoying the city of Baltimore. Yeah, seriously. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:We know it's summer hit. Yeah. Hashtag murders. Um, Falcons, Dolphins. Falcons. Dolphins look atrocious. I think Mike is gone after this week. I'm surprised he's not already gone. He looked a little tipsy. He just looks coped out. Yeah. Um yeah, so we got Falcons. They're all Patriots, Browns. Taking the Patriots and Drake May. Drakey May. Eagles, Giants.
SPEAKER_04:As much as I'm digging Jackson Darton.
SPEAKER_01:Scataboo-boopalalal. Taking the Eagles. Ooh, James and the not giant Peach, Eagles that way. Bills, Panthers. Gotta take the Bills.
SPEAKER_04:Panthers play good at home, but I think the Bills need to come out. They need to run up the score. They need to run them up and fill them in.
SPEAKER_02:Run them up, fill them in, boys. See some sportsmanship here, yeah? Let's get focused here now. What? Huh? Me? Me?
SPEAKER_01:He's best four to six I've ever seen. Alright, but back on track. Texans, Niners. Taking the Niners.
SPEAKER_04:Hard to bet. Hard to bet against the Niners right now. They're playing with all their backups and they're just they're focused here now. They're focused. Um I mean they are. They're they're dogs on the road. Yeah. But I mean, Mac Jones coming out, Mackey boy. And I mean, Christian McCaffrey's playing like Christian McCaffrey from five years ago. So he had almost 200 yards from scrimmage last game. So Houston, I I'm sticking with the Niners.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, Mac Jones' spirals is tighter than the Cougars Botox at a yacht party. So Yeah, baby. It is tight. You can't say much. Uh I said Botox, right? Yeah. Okay, good. That could have gone the wrong way.
SPEAKER_04:Hey. Saints, Buccaneers. I'm taking the Buccaneers. Uh bad loss. Bad loss for Baker on the road. Gotta go down to the bayou and and shut down the Saints. The Saints, they played decent against the Bears. They just had too many turnovers. Um, I mean, you you can't you can't win by giving the team, you know, the ball. Like you just can't do it. So I'm gonna say the Bucks. Sharing is carrying for you. Even though I think they just lost Mike Evans. Um, he's out. A concussion, I think. And he landed on a shoulder, funny too. He's just poor guy. But they should have Emika Abuka back. So Broncos. Keep throwing a dot. Cowboys are playing good football. Jack Prescott's playing MVP level. Broncos are finding ways to win. They're in the mile high. They're playing in Denver. I'm going with the Broncos. I will say this. The Broncos, the Cowboys are playing probably the best defense this week that they've played. And the Broncos are playing like the worst defense that they're playing. Like the Cowboys give up a lot of points. And the Broncos, last week they gave up a lot of points, but I think our boy Sean Payton from the Eastern Illinois University will figure that out.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, the Cowboys, they put up a ton of yards. I mean, the amount of times that Jerry Jones gets up and down, the guy does more squats than anyone else I've ever seen. He's gonna have aneurysm. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Um, all right, on to the Colts, Titans. Colts by a million. I I did see um like you can do team total points. So if you take them for like four touchdowns, so 28 points, it's in like the minus low 200s. So if you want to throw that in somewhere, I like that. Yeah. But right now the spread is like 14 points. That's just that's a lot of points to give up for me, you know? Yeah. But I mean, Danny Dimes is just he's playing like he's never played before. Jonathan Taylor right now is the best running back in football. And if and if you're arguing with me, show me some evidence. I mean, you're gonna say CMC, there's gonna be a couple guys, but I'm like, man, like, what isn't he doing? And then they got they just have a lot of weapons, and he's using all of his weapons. Like Jonathan Taylor last game against the Chargers runs for 94, has three touchdowns. Tyler Warren catches four times for 70 yards for a touchdown. Pittman has seven receptions with a touchdown, 60 yards. Jonathan Taylor caught three times. Pierce caught it five times. Like they're they're just giving the ball to everybody.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:And like, I mean, at yeah, at halftime, they're up 23 to three.
SPEAKER_02:Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_04:So you're like, all right, now we just have to not lose every quarter or tie, and the game's over. You know, it's like we can just start running the football with who? Oh, we're gonna give the football to Jonathan Taylor. Okay. Their offensive line, solid. I mean, they're dangerous right now. Six and one.
SPEAKER_01:Shout out to St. Elmo's Steakhouse. There you go. All right.
SPEAKER_04:Um I will say fun stadium, fun stadium to go to as well. I would agree. Minneapolis. I would agree. Chiefs, commanders, Chiefs. Monday night football. I mean it's gonna be the Chiefs. They're they got their they got all their weapons back, they're figuring it out. Um, you still have an MVP quarterback, their defense is top ten in the league with yard yards per game, points allowed. And then if if you're starting Mariota against the Chiefs, give me the Chiefs by I don't know, ten. Hey man.
SPEAKER_02:It never works against the connection. It's not working. It's not working. Oh come on, man.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, so I like that. And then the final one. Did you s did you save oh you saved, you skipped Sunday?
SPEAKER_01:Uh yeah, because I knew you were gonna just you know, just go on like a senior center rant here. No, I'll leave it short and sweet. You got the Packers against the Green Bay Packers. All right. Pack, I don't I I So before Jack says anything, he picked the Packers to win. Oh, a silence. Oh. I was just trying to get ahead of that. Please continue.
SPEAKER_04:Because yeah, I'm just gonna ignore that. You're lucky we're on video and you can see my eyes just What's that, Jax?
SPEAKER_01:Stop talking. What?
SPEAKER_04:What?
SPEAKER_01:Tom's gonna why are you holding up a sign? What? Yeah, huh? Kill me. Huh?
SPEAKER_04:Um Packers four and one and one, Steelers four and two. Storyline is Rogers playing his old team. Um, Packers coming in to Accursure Stadium in Pittsburgh. Difficult place to play if you're on the road. I will say the one game I went to in Pittsburgh, they played the Packers. I think we had Kenny Pickett as a quarterback. Actually, I I don't even remember it might have been Kenny Pickett. And we won um with against Jordan Love. I I don't know. I don't know. I'm I'm picking the Steelers. You you said Packers earlier, and I said we're gonna debate this on the podcast. I I don't I don't want to say that they're gonna win, and then we come on the pod next week and you'll be like, oh, they fucking they lost again.
SPEAKER_01:Um if they play 10% better, if if I don't say the Steelers and the Steelers win, Tom is gonna drive to my house and say, I'm gonna light your house on fire.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, starting with the Tesla. Um it I don't want to say it's a revenge game for Aaron.
SPEAKER_01:Because So do you know what happens if he wins this game, Aaron Rodgers?
SPEAKER_04:He yeah, he's beaten every team in the NFL. He becomes like him. Yeah, sorry, him, Brady, Breeze, Peyton, um, Peyton Manning. There might be one more, or those might be it. Um I think maybe there's a one or two. I just I I think he's I all I'll say is this. I'm hoping it's a tighter game defensively. So we're not sitting here going, what on God's green earth is happening with this this steel curtain? What is happening? Um I I will say Jordan Love's a little bit more mobile than Joe Flacco, but they they seem to take down Lamar. Well, I I don't know. You you gotta figure it out defensively. You kind of got a mini bye week here. I'll end it by saying I hope they play for their quarterback, knowing he's gonna say, like, oh, it's just another game. It's just another week, it's just another game. But like deep down, you want to win. Like, you you don't want to lose to your old team that you played for for 18 seasons. You don't want to do that. So I hope everyone rallies around that and they play with a little bit more of a chip and they remember last week and they go, We that's not gonna happen again. But I mean, they got Josh Jacobs, they're getting Christian Watson back, most likely. If he doesn't come back, he's on the IR for the rest of the year. So I think they're they're gonna get him active. And you got Jordan Love, who's gonna want to be like, this is why they replaced you with me. So it you got two sides here. Um I love that Pittsburgh are underdogs. I kind of like that they lost last week now, knowing that this game was next, because I I hope they come out with you gotta get focused, right? You gotta run them up and you gotta fill them in. That's that's it. You gotta run them up and you gotta fill them in. You that's it. We will never lose. This team will never lose again. You you just you gotta do your job. No, everybody has a role, everybody does their job. And if Aaron can play half as good as he played last week and the defense plays like they should, I think the Steelers win.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I'm pretty sure. I will say this. I'm pretty sure the defense missed that meeting where it's like, okay, guys, we're gonna win if everyone does their job. And the defense is like, what's that?
SPEAKER_02:Wait, huh?
SPEAKER_04:Wait, hang on, hang on. We're playing with the ping pong tables that Baltimore sent over. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:We just found these basketball hoops.
SPEAKER_04:I I always love betting the Steelers when they're dogs because I love that. I hate when they when I look on this on the stat sheet and it's like, oh, Steelers are minus 270 and they're giving up six and a half points. Like, I don't I don't like that. So as a fan, I will hammer the money line. I'll do a couple stupid bets like I always do. I feel like I boost. Now we're just going to go down a betting tangent. I feel like I boost my account. So like today I won some money and I sent you it. I was like, I'm going to do a little hockey bet. I've done a little first per first period under. I won like four bucks. So I like do that throughout the week. I get to Thursday. I'll hit like one or two. I'll get to Saturday. Frank, my buddy, will send me a bunch of his stuff. I'll tail some of his stuff. My account will go up like 40, 50 bucks. And then I just sit there like this.
SPEAKER_03:And I'm like, what ridiculous parlay? Excuse me, parlays can I put together and lose this 40 or 50 bucks? You know? Like, it's every it's every freaking week, man.
SPEAKER_04:It's every week. And and I'll always do a couple player props that'll, you know, I'll throw some receiving yards, some rushing yards, some other things. No, no money lines, no overs, unders, just to see if the player props hit. And it'll be around plus 100, plus 150. And like I'll put 10 down. And that usually hits. Like I've been pretty good with that. And then I just sit there and like, oh, okay, now Sunday. Yes. Yeah. So I'll say Steelers win. I'll give you a predicted score.
SPEAKER_01:300 yards.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. On the ground or on the bench. I think the over. I think I don't know. Green Bay's defense is good. The over and under right now is sitting at 45. I'm going to say final score. I will say 20 31-28 steelers. They win by throw. No. I take it back. Let's do 23, 2317 Steelers. And of course, Pittsburgh will be defending the last two minutes, and they'll need a stop because Green Bay will have to score a touchdown. So it will be a typical, and we will be trailing at half. So we'll be trailing at half. It'll be, God only knows, 10 to frickin' three at the half, and we'll just be like shaking our frickin' heads and pulling out our hair and going every week we do this. And then it'll be in the fourth quarter and we'll be up like six, and we won't have the ball, and we'll turn to our defense and go, show me 200 million dollars worth of defense. Because it's almost 200 million dollars. 200 frickin' million dollars. Money well spent. And it it'll just be a nasty headache of a game. It's just how it goes. That's it's just how it goes. And when we were watching it last week last week, we're losing in the fourth, you know, we're down, and then we come back. And I'm like, this is why I like watching majors in in golf tournaments. Because it's a little bit more relaxed. You got shot for shot. Uh yeah. It's like trading blows. It's not just like this this huge roller coaster, right? It's just insanity.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, God forbid. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I'm saying Steelers win by less than a field goal or no more than three. And I I'd say, I'd say defense comes what I would love, what I would love, Aaron Rodgers throws for 250 and four touchdowns. That would be great. Because I'm gonna put that bet in. It's like plus eighteen hundred, and I'll throw that four dollars hockey bet that I won. Because I'm like, I want I would love for an old man to come out and go, I can't believe you guys and let me retire in green and yellow. Like I like, I kind of like that story. And you know, we grew up Bears fans, so it's like everyone's always like, Oh, I hate Raymond Rogers. Like, okay, like calm down. Like, it's it's fine. I like the story behind everything else. Like, dude, he's 41, he's still slinging. Give him his moment. Give him his moment. I'm gonna say no interceptions. He has like five or six incompletions, throws for over 250, close to 300 and four touchdowns.
SPEAKER_01:And his still looks like it was literally just taken out of the box.
SPEAKER_04:It's like this.
SPEAKER_01:Like his helmet, like you look at everyone else's helmet, it's like a matte finish, and you look at Aaron Rodgers and you're like, that's an old guy in a football helmet. It's like if you and I took a helmet and put it on. I see it's super shiny. He was wearing a different one last week, and I was like, this he looks like a bobblehead.
SPEAKER_04:And it's like Yeah, I love that their patients were just like this. Um all right, moving on. I'm excited. Uh, we're taking the kids to uh the Jack-O-Lantern world in in Lake Zurich. So I texted Tom. I was like, hey, text him on Monday. I was like, hey, um we have tickets and it starts at 7 p.m. and I can't meet up with you for the game. He's like, dude, it's fine. He's like, it's fine. Um I I think he said it's fine because we were winning and I was at work on Thursday night football, and when I got there, we started to lose. So I think he's like, just keep your mojo over there, dude. Right. Um don't look at me. Yeah. So I told Aim, I was like, Yeah, what time's the tickets? Because it's like a timed thing. It's right, you like you they can't have everyone enter at the same time. So she's like, it's at seven. I'm like, okay. She's like, maybe we can get in early. I'm like, game starts at 720. It's fine. You're gonna be tailgating at six. Yep. Well, yeah, and I'm three minutes away.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Oh yeah, it's not it won't be bad, but I was just like, oh, we have we have tickets to that. And it we wanted to do it close to Halloween. We wanted to do it later in the month because it's darker earlier, right? So it's like we want to give them that experience. And we brought him when he was like a baby, so it was more like our experience. So it'll be like fun. But I was like, damn, dude.
SPEAKER_03:Like, damn.
SPEAKER_04:I screwed up those dates.
SPEAKER_01:Uh so I think to celebrate the occasion, it might be a good night for the Town Lee family to get some brand new ethnic food in a different neighborhood, right? Just to see what happens. Your n your night might suddenly open up. I mean, sure, you'll be sitting on a donut all the way to see Tom. I gotta pull off the road again. I'll be there. This is number 14. I've got jewel bags left. Did you bring the travel toilet? And I'm gonna have to sell the car when I get there. Are these seats down? Why are the seats down?
SPEAKER_04:Don't don't lift those up. Yeah, so it'll be good. See the second half, it'll be fine. We're going with John and Lori, so it'll be it'll be fun. It'll be fun regardless. Um I'll make I'll make Trip wear his his TJ Watt yellow jersey, so we'll be we'll be all good. Nice. Um all right, let's move on. This week, let's get to the let's get to the brotherly bet. Uh last week, risky bet, and we knew that, and we warned you guys. This week we're taking we're going back, we're going back on track, right? We're gonna try to give you the winner, the thing that we think's gonna hit. Taking Buffalo, we're taking New England, and we're taking San Francisco all on the money line. Buffalo's sitting at minus 390, New England's minus 360, and the Niners are dogs on the road, but they're plus 105 and they're playing good football. So Buffalo plays Carolina, they're seven-point favorites. Okay. The Patriots are playing at home, which I love. They're seven-point favorites against the Browns. And then you have San Francisco traveling to Houston. Not a far, not a far flight. It's not, we're not going from east or west coast to east coast, so I'm okay with that. Houston's minus one and a half point favorites in San Francisco's plus 105 on the money line. Throw it all together plus 229. Get him in. So if you bet 500 bucks. You want me to do it? Do some fun, quick math.
SPEAKER_01:Sure. Tom Max.
SPEAKER_04:I already put my my bet in. So if you put 500, if you put 500 down, Frank Marcy this week.$1,700, baby.$1,700. We're a quarter of the way to Disney at that point.
SPEAKER_01:Made it all the way to the Buckeys in Alabama.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, baby. Ooh. Don't get me started. Puddin. Pudding. Alright, you got anything else for us, Grant? All good. Alright. Well, hey, folks, thanks for tuning in here at the Brotherly Bet. Throw those glasses back on, Grant.
SPEAKER_02:Thanks for stopping by. Everybody. What show is this? Carol's home. Carol? Carol? Who is Carol? I think she's my nurse. Alright. We're your host. I'm Jack. Harry Terry. And we'll see you later.
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