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AFC Championship Odds: Chiefs & Bengals are the Top Picks
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9/1/2024
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Let's look at the AFC Championship winner, the odds for the upcoming season.
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Where's the value?
00:11
Where's the value?
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Where's the beef, Matt Stryker?
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It's in the chalk once again, and our producer, Sammy Arnell, was making fun of me about all
00:19
my chalky picks this year, to which I said, what was the Super Bowl again last year?
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What?
00:24
Oh, right.
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It was the 49ers and the Chiefs?
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Oh, yeah.
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I mean, here's where I struggle, and a lot of people, you know, they try so hard to look
00:33
for who's the big long shot or whatever, instead of making big investments in the big favorites
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who are big favorites for a reason.
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Football's a tough game.
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Injuries are going to happen, and when they happen to big-time players, especially the
00:43
quarterback position, the dynamic changes.
00:45
Look at the Cincinnati Bengals last year.
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You lose Joe Burrow, those odds go straight out the window, right?
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Same thing would happen to the Chiefs if they lost Mahomes.
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But in the meantime, I'm going to look at the Chiefs again at, like, what's the number?
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Plus 350?
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Yeah, that's a pretty good investment on a team that is ready, willing, aware of the
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history in front of them.
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The first thing out of Patrick Mahomes' mouth after the Super Bowl last year is, well, now
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it's time to go get that three-peat.
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They know that nobody's ever done it.
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They want it bad.
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The AFC, they've kind of kicked around the last couple years a little bit.
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They really have.
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Now, the Bengals have been competitive.
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The Ravens have been competitive with them at times, too.
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That week one matchup between those two teams is going to be awesome.
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I can't wait to see that.
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Is it going to mean anything in December and January?
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No, of course not, because it's September.
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But it's going to be fun, and people will take too much out of it.
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The Chiefs lost week one last year at home.
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Do you remember?
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To the Detroit Lions.
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Detroit Lions almost went to the, you know, to the big dance themselves.
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They got awfully close last time I checked.
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So yeah.
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It's the only thing that's going to get away.
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Well, look, I'm still on the Chiefs.
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The Ravens, I think the Ravens are more appealing this year because now they can really run
01:58
the football.
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I agree.
02:00
But can they get enough play out of the wide receivers?
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And if Mark Andrews and any weird lingering issues again this year, health-wise, that's
02:06
a problem.
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The Bills, hard pass, sorry, producer Sam.
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Hard pass on the Bills, sorry, Gabe Renzi.
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The Jets.
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Jets have the defense.
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I love betting the Jets to win that division and then betting against them in the first
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home playoff game.
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Is there anything more potentially chefs, kiss, Jets than that?
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But going back to the AFC, there is one team that is a quote-unquote long shot, is really
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interesting.
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And that team is not the Houston Texans, the darling of everybody.
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It's the Cincinnati Bengals.
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Why?
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Because they've got the quarterback that can go into arrowhead and beat Patrick Mahomes.
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Burrow has been that kryptonite.
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And I think that's something to keep in mind.
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So plus $750, these are my two bets, Chiefs, Bengals.
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You got your good, invest a couple of units in that favorite and then take a unit or two
02:57
over onto the Bengals.
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I think you do pretty well.
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And given these numbers, plus $350, plus $550 for Chiefs and Ravens, respectively, I mean,
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look, you could split units almost, are being in a sense, and you can drop half a unit on
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the Texans, just returning the eight to one.
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There's a lot of ways to really make money because of these numbers.
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