TNF Week 16 Preview: Herbert vs. Nix Quarterback Battle

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00:03Thursday night props for Thursday night football to start week number 16 around the National

00:08Football League.

00:09The Broncos and the Bolts tonight in Los Angeles.

00:12It's the Chargers and the Broncos DRS.

00:15Let's talk about each quarterback here Justin Herbert dealing with a litany of injuries

00:20the last few weeks ankle knee hip.

00:24He's been a little bit banged up.

00:26He did not finish the blowout last week against the Buccaneers expected to play tonight.

00:31How effective is he going to be?

00:33That remains the question for Bo Nix.

00:36Last week wasn't great.

00:38He did throw three interceptions in only 132 yards, but did have three touchdown tosses

00:45to lead Denver back in a big win over the Indianapolis Colts.

00:49Their props are pretty similar 223 and a hook for Nix 228 and a half right now for

00:56Herbert.

00:57But Donnie as you have said, you look at the prop market.

01:00You must look at the total.

01:01It's 41 and a half on this short week.

01:04Would you go over any of those quarterback numbers you see there?

01:09You're getting good price points here.

01:10And the reason why I would lean towards the quarterback over the running game, which we'll

01:13get to because I don't think that we're going to have a sustained running game from either

01:16side to be honest.

01:17They're two solid defenses, but it's not as if Saquon Barkley is showing up on one

01:22side of the field.

01:23And, you know, you take a look on the other side, any plethora of great running backs

01:25like a Derrick Henry on the other side, you're going to have a mixed match of a couple of

01:29guys getting in there.

01:30So taking those running back props, which we'll get to probably not as appetizing.

01:34But again, Herbert 228 and a half sounds decent.

01:38But when you look at the past couple of games, it's like, yeah, that's why it's 228.

01:41Any other year, it's like just Herbert 228.

01:43They're going to air it out with all the wideouts they have in the play calling there.

01:46That's not the case anymore.

01:48They're more, you know what?

01:49Let's play good defense.

01:50Let's make the plays when we need to.

01:51And let's not extend ourselves.

01:52Same thing with Bo Nix 223 and a half.

01:54You said it last week, like, hey, look at all the points they put up.

01:56The production wasn't really needed from Bo Nix's side.

01:59But if I were looking to overs in this game, which a lot of positions, I'm not looking

02:03forward to that.

02:04It's probably the quarterback position.

02:06It's not a ton of yards, 225 on either side, basically putting in the ballpark for both

02:10of these quarterbacks covering.

02:11And as I just told you, I don't think we're going to get running backs, 17 carries for

02:16a buck 25, stealing the show here.

02:18If you're going to move the football tonight, it's probably going to be through the air.

02:21So if there were overs to take, you're probably looking at it from the quarterback position.

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