How To Bet The Games No One Wants | NFL Week 18
The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast
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4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The Favorites is back for an early look at a rough NFL Week 18! Action Network hosts Brandon Kravitz, Kendra Middleton and Stuckey discuss all the games they don't want to watch this week and how to bet them. With so much still in the air, who ends up which seed in the playoffs and how will all that impact motivation in Week 18? Plus, the crew each plants their flag early on a game in NFL Week 18, we've got some great College Football Playoff matchups on the horizon and some nuggets from the weekly NFL Primer courtesy of Action Director of Research Evan Abrams, delivering everything needed to start digging into the betting week. Jump in and enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the favorites presented by Draft Kings. |
| 0:12.6 | The Crown is yours. |
| 0:14.2 | We are an Action Network podcast and the regular season in the NFL is wrapping up. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Brandon Kravitz back at it on this fine Tuesday morning. |
| 0:23.0 | The first lady of the pod, Kendra Middleton, is with us, the prime minister of D-Gen Nation, |
| 0:27.9 | Stucky as well, who is ready to run through the machinations that are involved in week 18 in the NFL. |
| 0:35.2 | We've got our plant the flag game for week 18. No more Thursday night football, so no preview to get to there. |
| 0:40.8 | But we've got scenarios galore. |
| 0:43.1 | And of course, the main event, Evans Tuesday Primer live as of right now on actionnetwork.com. |
| 0:51.0 | Here's what we know as far as I understand it. The Broncos clinched the |
| 0:56.5 | AFC West. The Patriots have clinched the AFC East. The Texans, Chargers, and Bills all share |
| 1:03.2 | the same record. They are locked in to the playoffs, but not necessarily into their specific seating. |
| 1:09.6 | The Bears have clinched the NFC North. The Eagles have clinched the NFC North. |
| 1:11.7 | The Eagles have clinched the NFC East. |
| 1:14.1 | The Seahawks and 49ers fight it out for the one seat on Saturday. |
| 1:17.7 | And the Packers are locked in to the seven spot. |
| 1:21.9 | Stucky, did I nail this? |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.6 | I mean, those are the certainties. |
| 1:26.5 | I mean, to run through everything, to give everyone, like, a high level, I'll try to do |
| 1:31.4 | it in, like, two minutes. |
| 1:33.9 | So Denver is yours, my friend. |
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