Parlays, Incentives & Resolutions | NFL Week 18
The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast
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4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year! The Favorites is back for another look at NFL Week 18! Action Network experts Kendra Middleton, Stuckey and Brandon Kravitz look at player props, totals and sides while discussing where they see value in the betting market. With only a few meaningful games on the slate, the crew puts together a few parlays for the Saturday games. Plus, they play Action or Distraction, discuss which sports they can and can't live without and put together another 2 Kings and a Queen Parlay with help from 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. |
| 0:12.5 | The Crown is yours. |
| 0:14.1 | Happy Friday. |
| 0:15.2 | Happy 2026 NFL, Week 18 is upon us. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Brandon Kravitz, joined by my two faves and your two faves, |
| 0:23.5 | the prime minister of degenerate nation, Stucky and the queen of the pod, Ms. Kendra Middleton. |
| 0:29.7 | You guys look as young as you did in 2025. On today's episode, we're going to submit our |
| 0:35.3 | official plays for the week. We've got our stat of the day of evan abrams coming up in a moment two kings in a queen parley we've |
| 0:42.8 | got some sling tv nominations to get to as well three games that kendra has excluded from the |
| 0:50.6 | rundown chiefs raiders cowboys giants vik, Sianara. Kenja, are we sticking |
| 0:57.6 | with that? These games not to be discussed. Dead to me. He who shall not be named. Yeah, I'm good |
| 1:05.5 | with that. Let's kick things off with Evans' shripply unbelievable stat of the week straight from |
| 1:10.1 | the primer. The 13 and 3 Seahawks |
| 1:12.9 | and the 12 and 4 San Francisco 49ers. They play Saturday night for the NFC West Crowns. Since |
| 1:20.0 | 1990, this is just the second week 17 or week 18 divisional matchup in which both teams have a |
| 1:26.7 | 75% win percentage. The other was last |
| 1:30.4 | year. The Vikings and the Lions week 18 game also featuring Sam Darnold in a game that was |
| 1:37.6 | won by the Detroit Lions. Darnold's stat line in that game, 18 of 41, 166 yards with a QB rating of 55. |
| 1:47.9 | Stucky, should we be concerned about a Sam Darnold pressure spot meltdown type of game? |
| 1:56.4 | No, I wouldn't say a meltdown. |
| 1:59.0 | I mean, in that game, he was under a ton of pressure. |
| 2:04.8 | But the 49ers are incapable of generating any pressure. |
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