Chiefs: Gearing Up for Yet Another Super Bowl Showdown

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00:03 The Chiefs and the 49ers with San Francisco a point and

00:06 a half favorite, the over under 47 and a half.

00:10 You talk about the buildup, we still have ten days away,

00:13 about a week and a half until Super Bowl Sunday in Las Vegas.

00:17 Craig, when do you get in your Super Bowl bets?

00:19 >> Yeah, I think, look, for me, it's mostly prop stuff.

00:25 I do think because there are hundreds of props on this game,

00:31 that there are edges to be had going in.

00:33 I just simply don't think, Ben,

00:35 they're the same edges that we saw potentially, maybe, I don't know,

00:40 six, seven years ago.

00:41 And the reason why I'm kind of thin now, usually, on these Super Bowls,

00:45 is since sports betting has been legalized, and since DraftKings and

00:49 FanDuel have had props basically every week,

00:54 I just think that the odds makers, the bookmakers are just so

00:57 sharp now with these props.

00:58 Once upon a time, the only props that we really used to look at were the Super Bowl,

01:03 and there were like hundreds and hundreds.

01:04 And at the Westgate, they'd come out Sunday night, and

01:07 people would line up to get the very best odds in Las Vegas.

01:10 It's no longer the case anymore.

01:12 So I think at that time, it's not that the books allowed you to win bets,

01:16 I'm not saying that.

01:18 But what I used to say on my radio shows and

01:20 TV shows before sports betting was legalized,

01:23 were the Super Bowl props were like Pringles.

01:26 And you know why I would say that, obviously, because you can't bet just one,

01:30 right?

01:30 Nobody could walk into that sports book and say, give me Shane Vereen over

01:35 three and a half receptions, have a great night.

01:38 Nobody could do it.

01:39 It was like this prop and that prop.

01:41 And I think they knew that at that time.

01:43 So they made them very enticing.

01:45 I just don't think the advantages are there like they have been in the past.

01:49 But make no mistake about it,

01:50 the two things that we talked about earlier in the week, the first half over,

01:54 and the game over.

01:55 I do feel like the referees have called a lighter game in the playoffs in general,

02:02 outside of calling all those personal fouls against the Baltimore Ravens,

02:04 which obviously were right there, I mean, they were happening right in front of them.

02:07 What were they supposed to do, not call those?

02:09 But beyond that, no holding, no PIs.

02:12 So I do think there's gonna be a lot of scoring in the game.

02:14 And Ben, as you alluded to earlier in the week too, I'm not usually an over guy.

02:17 I usually feel like there's a lot more value on unders.

02:21 >> Let them play, Craig, as we like to say here.

02:24 Let the players decide it on the field.

02:26 Let me ask you this question,

02:27 because Ben and I were going back and forth on a previous segment.

02:29 If we take a look at the line right now at Fandul,

02:31 it's minus one and a half as a favor toward San Francisco, and

02:34 the total at 47 and a half.

02:36 If I had to ask you which one of those lines is going to move first,

02:40 the one and a half or the 47 and a half at Fandul, what would be your decision on that?

02:46 >> Yeah, I do think that probably by the time that the game kicks off,

02:51 it'll be down to one.

02:52 That would be my guess, is that San Francisco will be one point favor.

02:56 I think the general better, the novice better,

03:01 the way that the money is gonna come in just in general on this books,

03:04 is the same way it comes in on Notre Dame.

03:07 It's the same way it has come in on Alabama through the years.

03:10 It's the same way it comes in through the Dallas Cowboys.

03:12 There's a lot of people who are gonna bet on the Super Bowl,

03:15 who have never bet before.

03:16 There are a lot of people who are gonna watch the Super Bowl that generally don't,

03:20 but they know who Patrick Mahomes is, and they know who Travis Kelsey is.

03:24 And therefore, it's just easier to root for in that space.

03:28 So I do think that comes down, Donnie, to one.

03:31 But I gotta tell you, I thought Baltimore, I thought that line was gonna go

03:36 the other way toward the Chiefs last week, and it did not.

03:38 So call me crazy, maybe I'll be wrong on this one too.

03:41 Total seems really solid for where it is, 47 and a half.

03:44 I don't see that moving all that much, yeah.

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