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Guaranteed Human. Welcome and everybody to betting pros. It's time to place your bets. This is be Joey P. Joe Pizapia, and this is BP NFL. It's Super Bowl week. And it's time for our best bets. Andrew Erickson and I are here. And for those of you saying that we're homers, only one of us is wearing a Patriot sweatshirt on today's show. But here's a thing. I've seen some of the YouTube comments. I've heard some of the noise. I'm also the guy that was telling you, and I won money on the New York football giants being the Patriots in the Super Bowl. I also won money on the Philadelphia Eagles, if you can believe it or not, being the Patriots in the Super Bowl. This is about one thing. This is about winning, not about who

wins, it's about us winning. That's what it is. It's us against the books. That's what it always is

here. That being said, however we feel about this game is compartmentalized as fans because this is business, Andrew.

It's not personal.

That's how I'm entering this.

I understand that a lot of people, we talk to people on the street in New Orleans,

we had a whole fun thing there.

It was kind of split.

I would say 6040, Seattle people were on.

But the one thing that I'm still tired of hearing about is the Seattle Seahawks defense

and not hearing about the Patriots defense mentioned in similar breath.

Because statistically speaking, Patriot's defense is pretty damn good.

And they have played incredible football the last couple weeks.

And people want to say, well, look at the quarterbacks they played against. You can only play who they put in front of you. But Seattle has allowed 16 or fewer points in six of its past eight games. The Wengland has allowed 16 or fewer points in each of his last five games. Seattle has the six-bent's defense in the NFL in terms of yards per game and a league low 17.2 points per game.

But the Ringland Patriots have an eighth best defense in 2nd92, excuse me, 295.2 yards per game,

18.8 points per game. That's fourth best. So to me, if you want to talk about defense,

this is a much more inclusive conversation, your thoughts. No, I agree. And that's why I know that I don't want to bury the lead here, but our picks as we go to the totals, I like the under, and you like the under in the game at 45 and a half points. It kind of feels like it's a bit in no man's land where a total at this number is not projecting, oh, this is going to be a shootout, because that's usually

when you get to the 48 and a half, 49 and a halfs, or a 50 and a half point total, those numbers usually scream, okay, this game could get kind of nutty here. We could see a lot of points on both sides versus like every Pittsburgh Steelers game where, oh, 39.5 points, this game is going to be a dud or any Cleveland Brown's home game. So kind of teetering the line. So I do think that there's

value here going with the under if you do think that both of these defenses prevail here. I go look. Seattle is the four straight top 10 defense the Patriots have faced in the postseason. And their offense has not looked that great. Now, I know that the weather has played a role in that, but their offense is averaging under 16 points per game. Again, it's boosted overall by that

pick six against the Houston Texans, but offensively, they're not scoring anywhere near

20 points per game. The two defenses have allowed on average this year, 18 points per game.

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