The Favorites - Best Bets NFL Week 2
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Can the Cowboys roll the Saints at home? Is Burrow healthy enough to shock Kansas City? Action Network NFL betting experts Chad Millman and Simon Hunter return to give out their favorite bets across the NF slate. Together they give out their boosted underdog moneyline parlay, their Big Balls Bet of the Week presented by Tommy John, play a round of Scooch Roulette and so much more.
Plus, they narrow down their five picks in the free Favorites Podcast $100,000 Pro Football Pick 'Em Contest, which is STILL available for sign-up at favorites.actionnetwork.com
We even get a Last Word segment with Action Network Director of Research Evan Abrams. #Volume #Herd
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the favorites, the podcast, presented by Beth 365. |
| 0:17.3 | We are part of the volume podcast network. |
| 0:20.3 | I am Chad Millman, chief content officer of the |
| 0:22.6 | Action Network. I am live from the Tommy John studio here in my hotel room in Oxford, Mississippi. |
| 0:34.0 | We'll get to that. And I'm joined, as always, by my co-host, my companion, my confadre, my BFF professional better, Simon, Hunter. Hello, Simon. Hello, Chad. How we doing? Brother, I'm going to tell you a quick story. I'm in Oxford. What are you doing in Oxford? I'm in Oxford because a good buddy in mine, his name is Wright Thompson. Brilliant writer. He's been to ESPN for a long time. |
| 0:57.2 | He's written some of the most legendary stories for ESPN, from the Johnny Mansell story to the Tiger Woods story to the Michael Jordan story. |
| 1:05.0 | We once together came up with an idea that he would do an entire issue of USP in the magazine about how sports |
| 1:12.1 | help New Orleans heal after Katrina, the 10 years after Katrina. He's got a big book coming out |
| 1:17.2 | called The Barn. It's not about sports. It's about Emmett Till, the murder of Emmett Till here in |
| 1:22.8 | Mississippi, and where it right is from. So a bunch of us flew down to Mississippi to surprise him for a mini book party, right? |
| 1:33.1 | And we were hanging out at Wrights last night. |
| 1:37.5 | And if you are someone who likes long-form storytelling and magazine writing going back to the GQ Esquire Days for an audience that today is ever shrinking. |
| 1:48.8 | But back then, like, it was, you know, what you wanted to be and do with your life, |
| 1:54.0 | which I was lucky enough to get to do in different ways as an editor. |
| 2:00.0 | It was a great night. A bunch of us were hanging out at writes, telling old |
| 2:03.0 | stories, whatever. But this is a group that goes pretty hard. And it was late at night when I got |
| 2:10.2 | back to my hotel. And as you know, I'm basically blind when I take out my contacts. |
| 2:17.4 | Cannot see a thing. Get to my hotel |
| 2:19.4 | last night. All the lights are on. And when you get into a hotel, like the nightstand lights are |
| 2:24.3 | on and they have different switches and overhead lights have different switches and hallway lights |
| 2:28.6 | have switches and bathrooms have switches. I take on my contacts before I turned off any of the |
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