The Favorites - NFL Week 1 Betting Preview
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
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🗓️ 3 September 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
NFL Week 1 has finally arrived! Kickoff of a new season looms large, so Action Network NFL betting experts Chad Millman and Simon Hunter return to talk through every game on a loaded Week 1 slate. Can the Eagles win in Brazil? Can the Ravens exact revenge in Kansas City? Are the Bills on upset alert?
Together Chad and Simon give out their Foxhole, Simon Says and Executive Decision picks of the week. Plus, we hear about the games they are eyeballing as their final five selections in their HUGE annual NFL pick 'em contest.
In case you're new to the show, The Favorites $100K Pro Football Pick 'Em Contest has offically launched for a second season! Presented by bet365, this totally free-to-play contest has over $100,000 in cash prizes up for grabs to our listeners this NFL season.
Make just five picks every week to compete for our $40,000 first place prize, plus thousands more up for grabs every week of the regular season. Visit Favorites.ActionNetwork.com to sign up for free and make your Week 1 picks today. #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 Bet365. |
| 0:18.0 | We are part of the volume podcast network. I am Chad Millman, |
| 0:22.5 | chief content officer of the Action Network. I'm smiling. We are live from our Tommy John |
| 0:30.5 | home studios. That's right. We have stepped up into the big leagues with our friends at Tommy John. I'm joined, as always, by my co-host, my |
| 0:43.1 | companion, my compadre, my BFF professional better. Simon Hunter. Hello, Simon. Hello, Chad. |
| 0:51.3 | I was wondering why I look so good and sounds so clean. Now I know, Tommy John Studios. |
| 0:56.5 | That's right. But listen, we could talk about Tommy John all day. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah. We've finally arrived at week one of the NFL season. For those of you who are new here, |
| 1:06.3 | every week, we record three episodes of this show. It's live only on the Action Network YouTube channel |
| 1:14.6 | and in the Action Network app. Subscribe to the YouTube channel. That's where you're going to get |
| 1:21.3 | our information in the moment. Sometimes these lines move, so you want to check it out. Every Tuesday at |
| 1:28.2 | 1.30, Simon and I do our betting preview episodes. We go through every game on the slate. |
| 1:33.6 | We do our Foxhole pick, our executive decision pick, our Simon Says pick. Every Thursday, |
| 1:38.7 | 11 a.m. Eastern, we do our best bets episode. That's where Simon and I narrowed down to our top five picks for |
| 1:46.5 | our huge free to play, $100,000 pro football pick them contest. We also on that Thursday do a round |
| 1:55.9 | sharp calls. That's where we get input from the wise guys who listen to the Tuesday show. |
| 2:00.2 | They might have critiques. |
| 2:01.2 | They might agree with us. |
| 2:02.6 | We also do our new Tommy John, big balls bet of the week, our underdog money line, |
| 2:11.7 | Harley and more. |
| 2:13.5 | And then on Sunday, 7.30 Eastern, we do our NFL recap show. |
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