Early Breakdowns & New Hires | NFL Conference Championships
The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
And then there were four! The Favorites is back for an early look at the AFC and NFC Championship games! The Denver Broncos and New England Patriots will face off in Denver with no Bo Nix in the AFC and the Seattle Seahawks will host the Los Angeles Rams in the NFC. Will it be coaching, defense or something else that gets these teams another win? Action Network hosts Brandon Kravitz, Kendra Middleton and Stuckey discuss each game along with some other news and notes from around the league. Plus, the crew each plants their flag early on a play they like this weekend and dives into some nuggets from the weekly NFL Primer, courtesy of Action Director of Research Evan Abrams, delivering everything needed to start betting the NFL each week. Jump in and enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the favorites presented by Draft Kings. The Crown is yours. We are an action network podcast. I'm Brandon Kravitz back at it with my peoples. The first lady of the pod. Kendra Middleton, the prime |
| 0:22.1 | minister of degenerate nation, Stucky, whose college football season just ended. On today's |
| 0:28.3 | episode, we've got our plant the flag game for the conference championship games. Kendra's |
| 0:32.8 | deepest, darkest thoughts and Evans Tuesday primer. You can't start a betting week without it. |
| 0:39.0 | Only three games left. |
| 0:42.3 | Kendra, is it time to rejoice or is it time to cry? |
| 0:48.0 | I thought that I was going to be excited to get a break |
| 0:50.9 | and for the weather to get warmer and everything. |
| 0:53.0 | But last week when there was no football on like the normal prime time slots, |
| 0:58.2 | I got really sad. |
| 0:59.5 | So I'm going to go with sad just because I do miss football when it's not on. |
| 1:04.0 | But I also miss the routine of football when it's not on. |
| 1:07.9 | Yeah, tend to agree with that. |
| 1:09.6 | I miss the full slates. We've got two great games left and then |
| 1:13.4 | a two-week build-up for what will hopefully be a game that doesn't involve Jared Stedham or any |
| 1:20.2 | backup quarterback action. Stucky, what about you? How do you reconcile with this time of year? Any |
| 1:26.9 | emotions flowing through that |
| 1:28.3 | noggin? I mean, it's stunning to watch like a national title. Just one |
| 1:36.2 | football game. The commercials are just in. Incessant. Yeah. Especially because you're |
| 1:42.3 | used to watching like a million games at once, but it's college basketball season for me. |
| 1:47.5 | So I'll have that feeling in April. |
| 1:54.5 | So I just kind of shift my, like the preparation now for football games is so much easier. |
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