We're back on the early edge and it's time to take an early look at some wild card matchups and some best bets with Danny Brasco and Mike McClure. Danny, let's start with you. You know how we do. We go to our favorite side, our favorite total. We'll have some game and team total props, things of that nature. Start us off with your favorite side on wildcard weekend. I'm laying the big numbers. see ya. Give me Rams minus 10. This is already moving up to 10 and a half. I'm okay with it. I might honestly all ladder up the spread maybe to minus 19 and a half because I think St. Louis, L.A. runs away with this one. This is the best offense in the NFL versus a team that just doesn't deserve to be

in the playoffs right now. You take a look at the Panthers. They had a negative 69 point differential

this season. That's the worst for any playoff team ever. Just for context, the New York football

Giants had a negative 58 point differential. That's how ugly some of these Panthers games

have been. They put up 14 or less in nine games this season. They've really won some feisty kind of defensively focused games. That ain't happening against the Rams, who are just going to put up a number that they can't keep up with here. They didn't win once as favorites this season. She's kind of goes to show the quality of this Carolina Panthers team. Really, really an awkward, funky season. But again, in this first meeting where the Panthers curiously beat them, it was one of Matt Stafford's worst games in the season, a couple fluky interceptions. That's just not happening again. I think they put the beat down on them the second time around and just prove that they're not even in the same class. I got this one, maybe Rams, 41 to 7.

Wow. 41 to see, I mean, listen, you know, I bet mostly player props been doing pretty well in

that department of the last couple of years. My sides haven't been as good. One of the last sides I

bet was the Rams laying the points. So I'm a little skittish when it comes to the Rams laying

points in Carolina. With all of that said, I totally understand the argument. Mike, I think one of the

most compelling matchups is this Packers Bears matchup. And I'm very curious as to what side

you're on here. This is one of your favorite sides as well. Yeah, pretty much a pickum here,

minus 108 on both sides. I like the Packers to go on the road and beat this Bears team.

Unfortunately, I know the Bears have had a great season, still a little fluky in terms of how the results of shaken out versus where they grayed out on a lot of the metrics that I care about.

So when I look at this particular matchup, the rest advantage on the side of Green Bay,

a team that really kind of needed it with some of the injuries that they had, that was big here.

They got the opportunity to arrest everyone, knowing the situation that they were very likely to walk into.

And now the fact that it's a divisional

opponent, one that you've already put a ton of time and energy into scouting throughout the

course of not only this regular season, but every regular season, that is significant to me,

particularly in what we're likely to see in terms of the weather here. This is going to be a

rain and snow game, very cold at night on Saturday

in Chicago. And while you would think that helps a home team that's used to playing in those

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