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00:00Let's move on to what could be the two games of the entire weekend and we'll start on this
00:09side of the break.
00:10We have a break coming up in a few minutes and I'll carry this over to the next segment.
00:14Steelers, Eagles, Bills, Lions, huge games for multiple reasons.
00:18And I love the fact that they are inter conference games because they impact so much.
00:25Eagles five and a half point home favorites, 42 and a half over under going up against
00:30the Steelers.
00:31As I mentioned this on Monday night, I like the Steelers a plus five and a half, which
00:33is where I took them earlier in the week.
00:37The Eagles are sitting on, you know, cruising into this, uh, this matchup on a nine game
00:43winning streak.
00:44They are 11 and two.
00:45The Lions are 12 and one.
00:47And as I mentioned, the Bills, Lions matchups up next, I want to put these games together
00:52in terms of talking about them.
00:56This is a losable matchup for the Lions.
00:57It is.
00:58The Bills are a great team.
00:59The Bills are coming off of a loss.
01:00The Lions are a great team.
01:02I think there's a Superbowl preview, but if the Lions were to lose, which I don't think
01:07any, it would shock anyone if the Lions were to lose to the Bills.
01:10This is a coin flip game, essentially the two and a half point spread.
01:14The Lions would then fall to 12 and two.
01:17And if the Eagles were able to win, they would improve to 12 and two.
01:21Now we have a top, we have a tie atop the NFC for the number one seed.
01:25This is why these two games that are happening simultaneously at 425 window on Sunday are
01:30so, so important because the Eagles obviously were fighting for the number one seed.
01:35The Lions want to secure that number one seed.
01:38And now we flip to the Steelers side of things.
01:40The Steelers have a very tough road over the next few weeks, a very tough road while they
01:45are holding down the division right now in terms of the AFC North.
01:51The Ravens have a winnable game against the Giants.
01:53We all know that.
01:54And then the Ravens play the Steelers the following week.
01:57Now the Steelers did win that first match, which they have the head to head victory,
02:00but the Ravens, if they start get going on offense, I think we'd all agree that the Ravens
02:05would be the better team compared to the Steelers.
02:09So then the Ravens pick up another win and now we are tied back atop the AFC North.
02:15Meanwhile, the Steelers have to end the season with the Chiefs and the Bengals.
02:21So I don't want to say that the Steelers season is on the line in this week considering what
02:25they have, you know, coming at the end of the tunnel in the next few weeks, but man,
02:30the Steelers have to keep this game under control.
02:33And that means I will take the points with the Steelers.
02:35I will take the under on this game and stopping Saquon on the ground has to be the number
02:41one priority for the Steelers.
02:43So while this game is an in-state matchup, there's a lot of, you know, just hype around
02:50that wherever it might be the keystone matchup between these teams, it impacts so much.
02:55So if you are a Ravens backer and you have the Ravens to win the division, which are
03:00currently the Ravens are plus 175 to win the division.
03:04And frankly, this is the first time I'm looking at the division odds, at least for the AFC
03:07North.
03:08I kind of love the Ravens.
03:10If they win Steelers lose this week, I think that's, that is very reasonable.
03:14The Steelers lose or any team losing on the road to the Eagles, wouldn't it be a surprise
03:17a team being the Giants also would not be a surprise.
03:20The Ravens will not be plus 175 come Sunday at 1140.
03:25When we are doing the Sunday night recap, which I will be on, we will be going through
03:28this exact scenario.
03:30And I guarantee this, the Ravens, if they win and the Steelers lose, obviously both
03:33things have to happen.
03:34The Ravens will not be plus 175.
03:37And then when they play the following weekend, if the Ravens were to win, the Ravens would
03:41immediately jump towards being the favorite to win the AFC North.
03:45Absolutely.
03:46Considering again, the road that the Steelers have to close out the season, they play the
03:49Eagles this week, the Ravens the following week, then the Chiefs and then the Bengals.
03:53And at that point, the Bengals, they very may well be eliminated from the playoffs at
03:56that point.
03:57There's absolutely no doubt about that could happen, but it's a divisional matchup and
04:01we could still see a spot where Burrow and Chase are hunting to be the league leaders
04:07in passing yards and receiving yards respectively, which is something that they may want to reach
04:12for.
04:13And of course, why not play spoiler a little bit against your division opponent?
04:17So Ravens at plus 175 might be one of the best futures moving forward for the rest of
04:23the season.