 Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Sossman. Once again, joined by our own game, Marensi and Gabe. You're hot, man. Well, you're only as good as your next pick, Greg. So let's get right down to business and let's start off with the New York football giants. What a difference a week could make. The only thing more lifeless than the New York giant football team has been the atmosphere around the Giants facility and at MetLife Stadium. This is the first time in years the Giants fans are gonna be in a parking lot before the contest, getting fired up for a football game that they are actually favored in and a game that they can actually win as it's Danny Dimes time right now. If there's anybody, if there's anybody that can play through the hype, it's Daniel Jones. The kids got ice in his veins. I don't think that we're gonna be looking at a letdown situation here. Now listen, the New York Giants defense still has problems, but we saw that they made plays when they had to. It's contagious when everybody on the team knows they now have a quarterback that can make enough plays to win football games. And I expect the New York Giants to win this football game. I don't understand the number here. It's come down. It's down to two and a half right now. Why? Because Case Keenum is gonna be playing. You know what, guys? Since that first half that the Washington Redskins surprised the Philadelphia Eagles in week one, they've been outscored 84-33. All right, through three games, the Washington Redskins have the third worst point differential in the National Football League. And oh yeah, it's a short week for Washington. They played on Monday night. What are their numbers like when playing on a short week? They're one in 12 against the spread after a Monday night football game when playing against a division opponent. Although I have a feeling that the Redskins are one in 12 against the spread in a lot of situational roles. It's a short week. It's a short price. You know what that equals, Greg? A short walk to the window at the Meadowlands. Give me the New York Giants to win this football game. Gabe starts us off on the right foot, taking the Giants this week. Once again, he was all over Danny Dimes last week and he continues to ride that giant momentum. Oh, next, we now get to the Chicago Bears. Tough one between the Bears and Vikings this week. What do you think about this one, Gabe? Usually I don't like picking on Mike Zimmer, but for those of you that pay attention to our weekly tidbits, we keep telling you the dominance of the Minnesota Vikings and Coach Zimmer against non-division opponents. Last week, one of our best bets of the week was laying that big point spread with Minnesota. Normally I don't like laying nine points, but we have a good read on this Minnesota Viking team. So they're dominant, man. They're now 38, 14, and two against the spread against non-division opponents. But I'll tell you what, over the last three years, they're just 10, seven, and one straight up within the division. They've already lost a divisional tilt, and let's throw out the trends and let's just talk about this from an eyeball test. One thing that we all know about Kirk Cousins is he hasn't clicked with Minnesota. Another thing that we know is they don't trust them. There's a reason why they're running the football 61% of the time, which is by far the most international football league. Well, that's good when you're playing against the Falcons. That's cute when you're playing against the Raiders and it'll work. How are you gonna do this? You can't just count on Dalvin Cook here, guys. Chicago Bears have a second ranked rush defense in the national football league. They're gonna take Cook away. They're gonna force Kirk Cousins to beat them. And Minnesota's offensive line ranked 27th in past rushing efficiency, or I should say past blocking efficiency. It's a bad combination here. Yeah, I get it. It's tough when you see the Bears' offense and Mitrobisky, but I'll tell you one thing about Mitrobisky, he's 10-5-1 against the spread as a starting quarterback in Chicago, making 11-5-1 against the spread as the Chicago Bears beat the Vikings again. Again, the Bears get the job done against Mike Zimmer and the Minnesota Vikings. Game all over Chicago here this weekend. And as he said, Kirk Cousins and the Vikings just haven't clicked. So why they're still not clicking? Make some money by beating the Bears. On next game, we get to a big-time matchup between two undefeated teams. It's Matt Patricia's Lions and Patrick Mulholl's against the Chiefs. You made some money betting on Matt Patricia this year. I know it hasn't felt good, but you made money doing it. Yeah, I have, and it's very strange. It doesn't feel like the Lions are undefeated because as someone that had the Lions on the money line to win against the Arizona Cardinals in week one, it really feels like a loss. I remember even last week they were talking about undefeated teams in the NFL and they were talking about the Detroit Lions. I'm like, they're not undefeated. They lost to the Cardinals. No, no, they didn't. It just felt like a loss, but I'll tell you what. Sunday evening, they will have a loss. They're playing at Kansas City Chiefs. You know, it's the first time Mahomes is ever gonna be playing indoors. Think about this. Think about the numbers that he's put up in bad weather, man, in Kansas City. Hell, it wasn't even good weather last week. There's gonna be a fast track in Detroit and oh yeah. Looks like Darius Slay is gonna be out of this football game. Now it's tough, guys. We're still a couple of days out so you gotta monitor the injury situation, but Darius Slay, as in practice, Mike Daniels. I don't think Mike Daniels gonna play either. We're talking about two of the best offenders on the Detroit Lions. This Kansas City Chief offense, they're unstoppable, all right? They're averaging 33.7 points per game and it's actually sort of more than that. They got bored against the Raiders and mailed it in week two. I'm expecting the Chiefs to get into the high 30s. Probably, you know, 38, 42, maybe 45 points. First thing that jumped out of me was the over in this football game. Both teams are two and one of the over on the season and even if Detroit had Darius Slay and Mike Daniels, they're not gonna stop this Kansas City Chief offense and Matt Stafford will be able to move the football as well. They're averaging 22 points a game. They score 27 points exact in two of their three football games. I like the over of this game and ultimately I think the Kansas City Chiefs are just gonna be too much. Detroit will trade touchdowns for a while but when it's all said and done and you add up all the points scored, Kansas City will be up by more than six and a half points. Give me the Kansas City Chiefs and give me the over and how about this as far as Mahomes is concerned? Mahomes now 10 and three against the spread against non-division opponents as well. Make it 11 and three against the spread. Chiefs cover game goes over the number. Over the number for Chiefs and Lions and most importantly, the Chiefs are covering as well. Patrick Mahomes in a dome may be unstoppable. We haven't seen it yet but this Sunday it's gonna be a whole lot of points in Detroit. Continuing on Gabe, we get to the Seattle Seahawks who play a brand of football that is old fashioned but not the brand that they necessarily want to because they wanna run the ball more. They haven't been able to because their defense not so good. You're buying the Seattle Seahawks this weekend. I am Greg and you know what? I hate betting on a team one week and then against them the next week because if I liked them last week I must have thought there was something positive and they had some traits that I like about them and one of the few games that I was wrong with last week was Arizona and Carolina. I underestimated Kyle Allen and I'll take the heat for that. I did underestimate it but the fact of the matter is Arizona just don't have enough talent on the defensive side of the football. Offensively, people have figured out what they're trying to do. They don't have enough explosiveness. There's not enough talent on either side of the football quite frankly and it's a bad week for Arizona to get to Seattle. I think Seattle are gonna be in a bad mood after losing last week as evident by their numbers and we've talked about how teams respond off of a loss while Pete Carroll and Russell Wilson respond great off of a loss, 14-5-2 against the spread off of a loss in a game in which they were favored. Seattle understand that this isn't the same old NFC West division anymore. San Francisco are a competitive football team and you've got the LA Rams who are the defending NFC conference champions as well. Seattle understand the importance of every division football game. I expect them to win rather handily. They're gonna cover the five points here and we talk about it guys. Normally years ago, I wouldn't lay nine points. I wouldn't lay seven points. I don't wanna lay five points. Let's tease it. Let's put it in a parlay, blah, blah, blah. That's all loser talk, all right? Point spreads are for pansies. If you like something, take the underdog on a money line and if you like the team, don't worry about it, just lay the points and again. You're taking points as comfort, all right? If you're looking for comfort, get a blanket and a dog, all right? This is betting on football. There ain't no comfort here. I'm gonna lay the five points. Arizona's in trouble. Seattle gets it done. Teaser talk is for the losers. There's no reason to do it. You wanna buy a team, you go right ahead and for Gabe, that team this week, Seattle against an Arizona team that doesn't have enough to get by. The Seahawks minus five is the pick. Let's move to Sunday Night Football, Gabe. It's the Saints and the Cowboys. Doc Prescott, Teddy Bridgewater from New Orleans. They are home dogs in this one. What do you think? Well, this is a classic example of which we're gonna throw the points out and we're gonna take the New Orleans Saints on the money line. I like Dallas and a lot of people laughed at me when I told people a couple of weeks before the season started that Dallas Cowboys at 13 to one to win the NFC was probably the best bet on the board. And I didn't mean that they were the best team on the board but great value for a Cowboy team that's as good as anybody else in this conference or are they? All right, they're three and O but really let's take a step back and look at who they played against. They played against Eli Manning and the New York Giants not Daniel Jones and the New York Giants but Eli Manning and the New York Giants. They played against the Washington Redskins who are 0-3 and have been outscored 84-33 since that hot first half against the Philadelphia Eagles. And oh yeah, the Cowboys played against the worst team in the national football league in the Miami Dolphins and how bad are the dolphins guys? Through three weeks, the Miami Dolphins have the worst point differential of any team in the NFL since. And you guys know I love my trends. I don't usually go back this far, Greg. 1950, that's right. The Dolphins have been outscored by 117 points. That's the largest point differential through three weeks of any team since 1950. So color me not impressed with who Dallas has played. Meanwhile, who are the New Orleans Saints played? Well, they opened up with that tough and crazy game against the Houston Texans. Oh yeah, they had to go to Los Angeles to play the defending FC Conference champion at Los Angeles Rams and they lost Drew Brees in that game. And oh yeah, in week three, they went into the Pacific Northwest, but it's easy to win up there. Seattle always lose at home. You couldn't find more polar opposite situations here. The Dallas Cowboys basically played a candy-ass non-conference schedule. They're like a college football team that's feasted on Murray State, Albaleen Christian. Meanwhile, the New Orleans Saints, these guys are playing the Alabama's in the world. They're playing the Clemsons of the world and it's gonna show on Sunday night. First step up in class for the Polk's so far this year. Teddy Bridgewater, now 24 and seven, Greg, as a starter in a national football league. He actually has a higher winning percentage starting games than Drew Brees does. Teddy Bridgewater is a winner. Alvin Camara is a badass and the Superdome is gonna be super crazy on Sunday night football. Dallas Cowboys lose the first time this year. Take the Saints on the money line, plus 134. Dallas is falling in New Orleans to a winner in Teddy Bridgewater. The competition hasn't been great for Dallas thus far. This time against New Orleans, it's a step up. And they handle it, Gabe says no. That's a new for us here on The Fan, you'll hurry up. Gabe is scorching hot, follow his picks. You wanna be a winner. We appreciate the time, have a great weekend. We'll see you back here next week.