Sharp or Square - FINAL NFL Wild Card Weekend Bets: Rams-Panthers, Packers-Bears, Niners-Eagles, Chargers-Patriots and more
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.3 • 10K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
NFL Wild Card Weekend is almost underway! As the 2026 NFL playoffs kick off, betting expert Chad Millman and professional sports gambler Simon Hunter deliver their final five picks for their SHARP OR SQUARE PRO FOOTBALL PICK 'EM CONTEST at https://sharporsquare.thevolume.com/ as our audience competes for a fabulous grand prize trip to South Florida, courtesy of our sponsor Hard Rock Bet!
NFL betting picks and predictions provided today include their best bets for today's two NFC Wild Card games. First up is Bryce Young and the Carolina Panthers, who host Matt Stafford and the favored L.A. Rams in Charlotte. After the sun sets in the Windy City, NFL bettors will enjoy Jordan Love returning from injury for the Green Bay Packers as they look to defeat Caleb Williams and the rival Chicago Bears to advance to the Divisional Round. Who will cover the spread in a coaching matchup of Matt LeFleur against Ben Johnson? Is this chilly game destined for the under?
Moving on to betting picks and predictions for the Sunday slate, we hear our host's opinions on Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills as small road favorites against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Led by red-hot quarterback Trevor Lawrence, will the Jaguars overcome a foreboding trend? The franchise is 0-19 in games with totals higher than 49. With a total climbing north of 51, can coach Liam Coen elevate his team to glory? In the City of Brotherly Love, Jalen Hurts and the reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles square off against Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers at Lincoln Financial Field. With so much interest in the under in that game, is it becoming a sneaky over situation for gamblers?
And on Sunday night, quarterback Justin Herbert leads the L.A. Chargers to Foxboro to take on Drake Maye and the New England Patriots. Coaches Jim Harbaugh and Mike Vrabel are certainly familiar with one another, but who gets the edge? And finally, today's episode wraps up with a breakdown of Monday's game between the Houston Texans and Pittsburgh Steelers, as C.J. Stroud looks to hand Aaron Rodgers a Wild Card defeat in what may be the final game of his career. All their final and official betting picks, all in one fast-paced episode! #Volume
0:03:00 - OREGON VS. INDIANA RECAP
0:09:25 - LOS ANGELES RAMS VS. CAROLINA PANTHERS
0:11:35 - GREEN BAY PACKERS VS. CHICAGO BEARS
0:17:10 - SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS VS. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
0:19:25 - LOS ANGELES CHARGERS VS. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
0:22:05 - HOUSTON TEXANS VS. PITTSBURGH STEELERS
0:27:20 - BUFFALO BILLS VS. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
0:31:10 - OFFICIAL WILD CARD WEEKEND CONTEST PICKS
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | Welcome to Sharper Square, presented by Hard Rock Bet. |
| 0:09.0 | We are part of the volume podcast network. |
| 0:11.2 | This is the show that makes the square sharper and makes the wise guys. |
| 0:15.0 | Pay attention. |
| 0:16.4 | I am Chad Milman. |
| 0:17.6 | I am joined, as always, by my co-host, my companion, my confadre, my BFF professional |
| 0:22.9 | better, Simon Hunter. Hello, Simon. Hey doing, Chad. I had a great night, but obviously, |
| 0:31.6 | let me hear about your great night first. Everyone's dying to know. I know you posted some stuff |
| 0:35.7 | to social media, and it was very fun following along. So what went on yesterday with you? Oh, my God, dude. So obviously, I'm in a hotel in Atlanta right now, so I can't scream because it's still early in the morning on Saturday. Look, the whole day in Atlanta yesterday, it felt like being in Bloomington. You know, you got to get him charged up. |
| 0:55.3 | There were no Oregon Ducks fans. |
| 0:57.8 | It was Hoosiers everywhere. |
| 1:00.2 | And I spent the entire day, I told you I came down my buddy, Matt. |
| 1:03.2 | And this is a guy who, you know, we've been best friends since second grade. |
| 1:08.4 | We've gone to Cubs World Series. We've gone to Bears Super Bowls. |
| 1:12.8 | We've gone to, he went to Indiana with me. We've been to so many Indiana football and basketball |
| 1:17.9 | games. We used to go to Bears games growing up because his family had season tickets. So like, |
| 1:23.9 | we have been to a lot of sporting events together. The whole town was dressed in red. |
| 1:28.5 | Everywhere you went, it was just call and response all day. |
| 1:32.0 | Who, who, who, who's yours? |
| 1:33.9 | Like, everywhere. |
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