Apps, Pickles & Mentalism | NFL Conference Championships
The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Favorites is back for another look at the NFC and AFC Championship Games! Action Network experts Stuckey, Kendra Middleton and Brandon Kravitz look at player props, totals and sides while discussing where they see value in the betting market. With only two games on the slate this weekend, the crew dives into their top plays, discuss apps they can't live without and decide if there's much of a drop off from Nix to Stidham in Denver. Plus, they play Action or Distraction, Kendra's in a pickle and another 2 Kings and a Queen Parlay is created on DraftKings with help from Action Network's Director of Research, Evan Abrams. All that and more right here on The Favorites!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the favorites presented by Draft Kings. The Crown is yours. The conference title games are upon us. |
| 0:17.4 | We have all the info that you need to get set for all of that and get some bets |
| 0:22.9 | in pocket today as well. I'm Brandon Kravitz joined by my favorites crew, the prime minister |
| 0:28.5 | of degenerate nation. Stucky, the queen of the pod, Ms. Kendra Middleton. On today's episode, |
| 0:35.1 | we've got action or distraction coming up in moments. |
| 0:37.7 | Stuckey's random question of the week. Two kings and a queen parley courtesy of draft |
| 0:43.2 | kings. But let's head straight to the primer for our shrimply unbelievable stat of the week. |
| 0:50.1 | Two teams off of overtime, the Broncos and the Rams off of an overtime win in the divisional round last week. |
| 0:58.0 | Since 2015, teams off of OT facing a team that was not are winning at a rate of just 43.9%, |
| 1:06.6 | 46% of those games against the spread. |
| 1:09.6 | So slight tick up ATS. |
| 1:11.9 | This season, those teams went 10 and 18 straight up, 11 and 17 against the spread. |
| 1:17.2 | But that counts in season games for the regular season, looking specifically at the playoffs. |
| 1:22.4 | When a team is off of an overtime win in the post season and And it's playing obviously another playoff game in |
| 1:28.4 | the next round. They are 0 and five straight up one and four ATS since 2015 and losing by |
| 1:34.7 | a healthy margin as well. Kendra, how much do you factor in overtime impact into this weekend's games as you look at the Broncos and the Rams. |
| 1:48.1 | I definitely think it matters because at this point in this season, |
| 1:51.2 | nobody, no team is perfectly healthy. |
| 1:53.2 | No player is perfectly healthy. |
| 1:54.7 | And the more minutes and the more time and the more snaps downs, |
| 1:58.3 | everything that you have on your body matters. |
| 2:00.7 | We've seen kind of the, I pointed maybe towards the exhaustion, towards the Eagles this year, |
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