Week 8 NFL Picks with Cynthia Frelund
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🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Gregg Rosenthal and NFL Network's Cynthia Frelund make their picks for Week 8, where Gregg attempts to continue his hot streak while Cynthia looks to get back on track. They talk about Commanders - Chiefs (01:55), Packers - Steelers (04:52), Titans - Colts (08:28), Dolphins - Falcons (12:33), Buccaneers - Saints (16:45) and Bills - Panthers (19:45).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.8 | Welcome to NFL Daily, where we've got a lot of irrational anger about Waymo's. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Greg Rosenthal. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm here in the Chris Wesleyan podcast studio, and I'm with Cynthia Freeland, who is just ranting about the Waymo's taking over Los Angeles. I don't know why, but I have this irrational anger towards them. Like, should I have some sort of tomato or a light fruit? I'm not trying to destroy anything, but I want to throw it at them. I don't know why I just, I can't, I don't know. It just makes me angry. I believe I live in the world, like, epic of Waymos, which is Santa Monica, because they just dropped them on it about a year ago. |
| 0:42.9 | I wanted to hate them. |
| 0:43.9 | I got to say it seems like it's been pretty safe, but I do get a feeling every once in a while I'm at a four-way stop with multiple other Waymos. |
| 0:52.1 | And I just feel like I'm outnumbered. This doesn't seem right. And it's going to be a problem. If you had a tomato, you would throw it up. They're taking over. We're here to make picks every Thursday. And yes, if you're listening to this a little bit early, we heard from you that people just want the show. We're not even going to hold it anymore. We're just putting it out right away before Thursday night football. Or if you're listening to it Friday, great. We make picks against a spread every week. And we were already one and O on Thursday night football. I mean, obviously it hasn't yet, but we know it's going to be perfect. It doesn't matter. Cynthia had a bad week last week. That's okay. It's unfortunate. Happens. I kept my winning street going at two and one for the third straight week. And it could have been three and oh, but I didn't want to go against you with, you know, Denver and the Giants. You texted about it later. You apologized. You shouldn't have apologized. It's still kind of amazing that they won't like that. I've made so many bad picks, but here we go. We've got to keep my winning street going. We're going to get you back on the winning track. I'm going to have you start. Okay. I'm going to just keep it really easy Monday night football. I think that the Chiefs win by a big margin. So I'm seeing 10 and a half. Is that what you're seeing as well? It's gone up. |
| 2:02.1 | I just looked right before we were taping and it's gone up all. by a big margin. So I'm seeing 10.5. Is that what you're seeing as well? |
| 2:00.9 | It's gone up. |
| 2:02.1 | I just looked right before we were taping, and it's gone up all the way to 12, 12. 12 and a half. I don't care. Yeah, I wouldn't either. It's on my list as a maybe. It was probably fourth on my list. I liked four this week. That was one of the four. So I think I'm going to leave it off, even though I'm on the same side as you. |
| 2:17.8 | Right, right. |
| 2:18.2 | Just for a little variety. |
| 2:19.2 | Yeah, a little variety. |
| 2:19.8 | No, I just think we just heard probably that number was driven by the fact that 100% for sure now we don't have Jaden Daniels making the start. Not to say anything against Marcus Mariotta, but who else is playing? Right. Debo and Terry McClure. I think as we're taping, our trending towards back. Maybe. |
| 2:38.0 | But you know what? |
| 2:34.2 | It's not the offense for the commanders. Because one minute, Mariotta has started games this year. He's played well. Obviously, he's not Jane Daniels. I'm not angry about him. Their offense has been okay. It's the defense going up against this Chief's offense. What have you seen out of the either side of the ball there? Patrick Wilms is just throwing it to anyone at will. There's no like funneled through any Travis Kelsey business going on. There's no just one target. Sure, sometimes guys like Hollywood Brown will have two touchdowns at a game. But it's not because he's really making a concerted effort to give a lot of the target share to Hollywood Brown. It's just that that's the busted coverage that happens to be what scores for the team. So I'm just seeing a lot of variety, and that is super hard to defend. We saw that kind of exact same thing against the Cowboys, and look what happened there. So ultimately, I mean, now, in fairness, that game, we didn't know we would be without Debo Samuel, so whatever. They still gave up 44 points. No, no, they still get. I'm just saying the defense, it was like the whole thing was a mess. But, you know, they, they certainly gave the, but maybe one extra possession. So maybe it should have been like 37 to... They're slow, they're old, and I think they can figure it out Washington over the course of the |
| 3:47.9 | season, but the chiefs are at a point now with me that it's going to be tough. I'm almost blind |
| 3:54.9 | take them every week because I just think they're |
| 3:57.7 | right now. People haven't caught up to the fact that they're the best team in football, in my |
| 4:01.7 | opinion, and the best offense in football right now. So that matchup, and they're basically coming |
| 4:07.7 | off a buy. Their defense only played 30 total snaps. And if you look at like the defensive |
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