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The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

Goats, Woats & A Clear Playoff Picture | NFL Week 18 Recap

The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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News, Sports News, Football, Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Favorites is back to recap the NFL Week 18 Sunday slate! Brandon Kravitz, Stuckey and Kendra Middleton went live on Action Network's YouTube page to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly from the day. The crew discusses their GOATs/WOATs and more, including a new sack record from Miles Garrett and some pre-season type lineups teams sent out on the field today. Plus, the playoff bracket is almost entirely filled out as we get a quick look at Sunday Night Football where the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens put everything on the line. We'll be back on Tuesday for more NFL betting content! 

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0:00.0

Sunday Week 18 is wrapping up.

0:12.3

We've got the entire, well, almost the entire playoff bracket sorted out.

0:17.0

Welcome to the favorites presented by Draft Kings.

0:19.9

I'm your host, Brandon Kravitz, joined by my fellow cappers, Kendra Middleton and Stucky. We've got our

0:25.9

goats and wotes queued up, our biggest takeaways from the final week of the season,

0:30.2

some lessons learned on the season as a whole. And we've got playoff odds for the

0:36.6

wild card round in the NFL.

0:39.2

Final parlay of the regular season fell short by one.

0:43.2

The Bengals not only failed to cover, they failed to win against the Cleveland

0:47.6

Browns to end the season.

0:48.7

We just saw the bears lose to the lions that opened the door for the Eagles.

0:53.9

All they had to do was beat Josh Johnson and the commanders that opened the door for the eagles all they had to do was beat joss johnson

0:56.0

and the commanders to claim the two seed but they took an l to washington now philly will host the

1:03.5

san francisco 49ers and the bears will host the packers clearly the eagles didn't care that much. I could go on for days,

1:11.6

but let's welcome in the crew here.

1:13.7

Kendra,

1:14.2

how was your Sunday from a profitability perspective?

1:17.7

And how much are you looking forward to this Jags,

1:20.9

bills game in the wild card round?

1:24.3

The only thing that I had money on today was the Bengals and they broke my heart.

1:30.8

So yeah, we'll get into our ghosts and woes, but pretty much Joe Burrow is my will.

1:37.3

I can't even wait.

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