Ugly Holiday Bets, Good/Bad Gifts & Family Arguments | NFL Week 17
The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast
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4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The Favorites is back for an early week look at NFL Week 17! Action Network experts Kendra Middleton, Stuckey and Brandon Kravitz look at player props, sides and totals while discussing where they see value in the betting market for the holiday week. What's the worst gift we've ever received? The NFL has gifted viewers an UGLY Christmas slate but the crew has found a way to bet it! They plants their flag, Evan gets into the primer and another 2 Kings and a Queen Parlay is born. All that and more right here on The Favorites!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the favorites, all part of the Action Network family presented by Draft Kings, The Crown, is yours. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Brandon Kravitz, joined by a couple of Santa's favorite elves on this pre-Christmas |
| 0:21.8 | episode to Super episode. |
| 0:24.3 | Kendra and Stucky are off to, well, off of a great week, week 16, had ourselves a phenomenal |
| 0:33.0 | week of NFL betting and a lot more to get to today. |
| 0:36.2 | We'll plant the flag. |
| 0:37.4 | We'll nominate our two kings and a queen parlay. |
| 0:39.9 | We've got Evans super loaded primer. |
| 0:43.6 | It's an all in one episode. |
| 0:45.6 | We said around Thanksgiving that we learned a lesson to take it easy around the holidays. |
| 0:51.3 | We're distracted. |
| 0:53.0 | We're trying to get plays in early. |
| 0:54.7 | We're forcing it sometimes and sometimes for content reasons as well. |
| 1:00.7 | Kendra, have we learned our lesson or are the Christmas betting cards full? |
| 1:06.2 | I am going to have such a light week of bets for so many reasons. One, it's the holidays. Two, people are on short rest and a lot of these scenarios. Three, I'm sure just like everybody else, you know, players are people too. They have a lot going on in their lives. They have family, friends, kids that they've got stuff to get done for. Holidays, big distraction for for everybody i'm going to go super late this |
| 1:28.7 | week and additionally like there's teams who are playing for nothing and teams who are playing for |
| 1:33.1 | everything and that always gets dicey you always have to decide who's going to you know kind of try |
| 1:37.8 | and take for picks and who's not who's going to who has teams that people need to be playing for |
| 1:42.6 | contracts next season all of those types of things this time of year is so tough. |
| 1:47.5 | Save your bankroll for the playoffs. |
| 1:49.6 | Stuck, you want to hit anybody with the holiday disclaimer? |
| 1:52.2 | Or are you loading up this week? |
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