The Absolute Wildest | NFL Wild Card Weekend Recap
The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast
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4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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The Favorites is back to recap the NFL Wild Card Weekend slate! It's a crossover episode with our sister show, The Action Network Podcast! Action Network NFL experts Stuckey and Evan Abrams team up to discuss the good, the bad, the ugly and the absolutely wild from the weekend. From coin-flip games to more coin-flip games, the guys get into it all! Plus, a quick look at Monday Night Football and Brandon Anderson stops by for his Hot Read plays for the Divisional round. We'll be back on Tuesday for more NFL betting content right here on The Favorites!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the favorites presented by Draft Kings. |
| 0:12.9 | We're also on the Action Hour podcast feed. |
| 0:15.3 | If you are listening to us there, it is a crossover episode. |
| 0:18.8 | Wherever you're listening or watching, thank you for tuning in. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm your host, Evan Abrams, and I am joined by the one and only Stucky for our NFL |
| 0:25.8 | Recap Show for Wild Car Weekend. |
| 0:28.2 | Just a ridiculous, ridiculous weekend of five great games. |
| 0:31.3 | Obviously, still have Houston and Pittsburgh coming up on Monday night, and we will |
| 0:34.9 | touch on that a little bit later. |
| 0:37.4 | We also have Brandon Anderson's Hot Read before we get out of here, so we'll get his opinion |
| 0:41.3 | too. |
| 0:42.3 | But before we get started, I will just give you exactly what I just tweeted out, which is we |
| 0:47.5 | see some opening lines for the divisional round. |
| 0:49.5 | And it looks like Bill's Broncos kind of going a little bit between. |
| 0:53.5 | I see the Bill's favorite in some |
| 0:54.8 | of those spots. If they were to close as a favorite in Denver, it would be the fourth time in the |
| 1:01.3 | last 40 years. We had seen a divisional round team off of a buy at home close as an underdog, |
| 1:08.3 | and I can read it right now. The last would have been the Eagles in 2018 against the Falcons, |
| 1:12.8 | the Niners in 2012 and the Saints, and then the Panthers, |
| 1:16.5 | 96, 97. |
| 1:17.7 | And in all three of those positions, the home team came away with the win. |
| 1:22.7 | So we will see kind of how the market puts together the spread in that one over the next week. |
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