Wild Card Weekend picks against the spread
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🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The most wonderful time of the year may be behind us, but the most wonderful time of the NFL season is just beginning. The playoffs are here, with Saturday kicking the first ever six-game Wild Card weekend.
Michael Beller and Vic Tafur are back to dive into their top plays against the spread. The guys get into all six games this weekend, discussing leans for all six, while highlighting the ones on which they'll actually be placing wagers. They also discuss their favorite futures bets for the postseason.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.0 | What's up and welcome into the athletic fantasy football podcast. |
| 0:22.3 | We are approaching Wild Card Weekend, and that is exactly what we are going to get into on this episode. |
| 0:27.9 | Get into it from a gambling perspective. |
| 0:30.6 | Our favorite plays against the spread for the wild card round. |
| 0:34.8 | I am Michael Beller. |
| 0:35.7 | I am joined, of course, by Vic Tafer. Vic, this is our |
| 0:38.9 | first show together since turning the calendar from 2020 over to 2021. So let me wish you a |
| 0:44.4 | happy new year here on January 7th. How you doing? Good, man. Back at you. Yeah, I guess we survived |
| 0:49.9 | the regular season. I will try and thrive in the playoffs. There we go. |
| 0:54.9 | Exactly. |
| 0:55.5 | That's exactly what we're going to try to do here over the next couple of weeks. |
| 0:58.7 | Vic and I will be coming at you every week leading into a weekend where there are games. |
| 1:03.1 | So we will also take that week off in between the championship round and the Super Bowl, |
| 1:06.9 | but we still have four episodes of this coming at yet, all starting right here, |
| 1:11.3 | right now. First, since the playoffs haven't yet started, I thought it would be fun, Vic, |
| 1:15.1 | if we did some pre-season or some full playoff long predictions, looking at what we think the |
| 1:21.9 | AFC championship, NFC championship Super Bowl are going to be, and then using that to determine if there are any |
| 1:28.6 | futures that we might want to put a little bit of money on before the playoffs kickoff on |
| 1:33.0 | Saturday. So first let's do that. Give me what you have happening in those championship rounds |
| 1:38.4 | and the Super Bowl. Well, I kind of want to go as the Chiefs. The odds are not very good. They're |
| 1:43.6 | only, what, plus 200. I think they haven't been really themselves as late. But they haven't covered, I think, in seven straight weeks. They're winning all these close games. Obviously, confident they have enough to get by, but it's not probably a good strategy going into a playoffs where he's more to be hitting on all cylinders. So I think I'm going to go with some value instead. I probably go with the bills. They're plus 700 in the AFC. I'm going to just go crazy and go with the Rams, they're plus 300 in the NFC. So that is, so you've got, so those are your futures plays. Those are the plays you'd be interested in the futures. The Rams are plus 1,200 to win the NFC and then they're plus 3,000 for the Super Bowl. |
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