00:00Short week for both teams. Neither has looked particularly good, and yet we're still seeing odds somewhere around as low
00:10as four and a half earlier today.
00:12Then we're starting to see fives back in the marketplace, and that's pretty much it.
00:17Between four and a half and five with the total right around that 43, 43 and a half.
00:23Yeah, very key number in totals in the NFL, and four and a half or five at this point.
00:29There's no real difference. If you like Green Bay, you're likely laying it at either four and a half or
00:35five.
00:36I can't figure out which way Craig Mish is going to go in this game, but I bet you he
00:42likes Pittsburgh this weekend,
00:43but that's a conversation for another day. In the meantime, Craig, I mean, listen, four, it opened as much as
00:52seven,
00:52and now we're seeing four and a half, so there's been a lot of money and a lot of push
00:58towards Atlanta here tonight.
01:00Yeah, I think we've reached that point in the NFL season where things are going to start to take shape
01:06a little bit,
01:07and that means Thursday night football officially returns tonight.
01:10You know, we had opening week of the NFL. Then we had the Rock'em Sock'em Robot Challenge between
01:17Detroit and Buffalo, right?
01:20Like, well, that was a big one, and now we've settled into thanks so much for the Falcons and Packers
01:25on Thursday night.
01:26So Packers are a better team, Joe. Falcons are likely not going anywhere this season but are going to give
01:34some teams some trouble
01:35because they do have enough talent on both sides of the ball to do that.
01:39But the Packers literally are ranking near the bottom in every offensive category over their last six or seven games,
01:46offensive line, blocking, running, throwing, et cetera.
01:50And they've also been chased down in a number of games and lost late last year.
01:55Now, the good news for the Packers is, you know, it is Pennix's first game.
02:00He didn't have a preseason. He didn't have a training camp.
02:03And you would assume there'd be some rust there.
02:07And, you know, the Packers' defense, I think, has an opportunity tonight to not just sack the quarterback,
02:11to maybe even pick up a score.
02:13But that being said, I sort of think that that money is moving on the right side here.
02:18And I think the Falcons probably have their best effort of the season because, quite frankly,
02:23it couldn't get any worse from what we've seen the last two weeks.
02:26The Falcons benching their quarterback, Cooper Rush, and putting in Jack Strand,
02:32who immediately threw an interception tonight.
02:33At least they have Pennix to start and rush to the backup.
02:37But all of these props tonight are really interesting with Pennix.
02:40The one in particular that catches my mind is the rushing prop for him.
02:43He doesn't usually rush the ball. He doesn't run a ton.
02:46But I don't think he's going to run at all tonight.
02:48Like, I think this is going to be a very, very careful quarterback.
02:54London, I do think, will have his first big game of the season.
02:57I do think that is coming.
02:59And I'm really focused on him because I do think he's one of the elite receivers in the NFL.
03:05He was very good with Pennix.
03:07I do think that number is a little low at 65 and a half.
03:10Receptions, I'm not as interested in because it does seem like the Falcons reporters
03:15are saying to look out for Kyle Pitts this week as far as catching the ball more often with Pennix
03:20back.
03:21So, Pitts, I like the over on receptions.
03:23And I think I like London on his prop in terms of the yards.
03:28But this is not one of my favorite games of the week, Joe.
03:31So, and honestly, this is one of those games where I'm going to watch probably, you know, some plays tonight.
03:37Like, I don't see myself start to finish involved in this,
03:40especially with some teams potentially clinching some baseball stuff tonight.
03:44I got to keep an eye on that before the weekend.
03:48Yeah, we're going to learn a little something about the rest of the way here for some of these teams.
03:52Atlanta is going to be the first team.
03:55We know the chance of them making the postseason coming out of that NFC if they do lose this game
04:01tonight.
04:02Well, it's been over 30 years since the team's actually done it.
04:05So, they would need an awful lot of help from an awful lot of other teams if they're going to
04:11get this thing back on track.
04:12Green Bay, it feels like we're just trying to weather the stormer a little bit.
04:19They've got plenty of offensive line injuries.
04:22Heck, we were hearing about how Tucker Kraft, they were thinking about putting him on the offensive line
04:27as they're basically, some of their starters just aren't healthy.
04:31And that's a bit of a problem.
04:33We know the running game without Josh Jacobs here, and who knows when or if he'll get back on the
04:41playing field anytime soon.
04:42But they're trying to get Micah Parsons, you know, ready to go here in a couple of weeks.
04:47Hargrave's another one, too.
04:49They've been great against the run when he's on the field.
04:53The problem is he's a game-time decision.
04:55So, if he's not clogging up the middle, dare I say that B. John Robinson might have an opportunity to
05:02gain some yards here tonight.
05:04But the only way that happens is if Michael Penix Jr. can throw the ball down the field.
05:11I think if they can do that, then that should open up the running game.
05:16I think everyone's overreacting to Atlanta having to run a play in the red zone, yada, yada, yada.
05:21Well, they haven't had the starting quarterback either.
05:23Something tells me this number is at 43, 43 and a half right now, Craig.
05:29I would not be shocked if both these teams, because I don't like either defense.
05:33It wouldn't shock me if both these teams put up enough points to get this thing flying over the 43
05:38points here tonight.
