Northeast Beat with Paul Cassaro and Dan Sohler

In our Second preview of the 2022 season, We take a look at the NFC. We discuss Paul's Cowboys and what expectations he has for them this upcoming season. We are both high on the Eagles and think that will be one of the teams to watch out for this season and anticipate no Super Bowl hangover for the Rams. We discuss the preseason for a bit and our takeaways so far as well as the Zach Wilson injury for the Jets and what that means for them to start the season. Lastly, I discuss my visit to Canton, Ohio for Hall of Fame Induction Weekend and talk about the ceremony, some neat artifacts I saw at the Hall of Fame and some nice moments over the weekend. We will have two more episodes for previewing the preseason. One will be a betting preview show and the other will be a fantasy preview show. Hope you enjoy our latest episode! 

We're back for Season 2. Paul and I revisit our NFL Draft Predictions and review which teams we thought made the best moves of the night. Overall, we did pretty good regarding our picks and had a lot of players pretty similar to the spot where they actually went.  We then start discussing the upcoming NFL Season and the AFC, about 7 weeks out from the regular season. It seems like a time in the conference where it is still the haves and have nots. The AFC North is very unpredictable with the Pittsburgh Steelers without Ben Roethlisberger after nearly 2 decades and it is hard to figure out what to make of them as well as the Cleveland Browns, while the Deshaun Watson suspension figure is weighed.  The Titans and Colts remain the teams to beat in the AFC South. Paul and me both believe the Bills are the team to beat in the AFC (and are my Super Bowl champion) and that the Miami Dolphins should make a major push for the playoffs and that the AFC West might be one of the best divisions in football in years. Enjoy our first of 3 preview episodes. Next one we will take a look at the NFC and then the third one will be a betting preview and we will take a look at some divisional bets, wins totals for NFL and College football and some prop bets. 

Paul and I discuss Sunday's Super Bowl LVI between the 15-5 Los Angeles Rams and 13-7 Cincinnati Bengals.  Paul who has been high on the Bengals all year picks the Bengals to take the final step and win their first Super Bowl. I pick the Rams to win 27-20, We discuss the game and key factors and then delve into a prop bet discussion talking about some of the bets we think are interesting or that we like for the game and I get Paul's take on a lot of the NBA/Super Bowl cross bet props. Should be an exciting game and hope everyone enjoys the game!

Paul and I lead off the episode discussing Tom Brady's potential retirement and how although he's played over 20 years, it still feels sudden and he has more in the tank. We then discuss last week's fantastic games and the greatness of the Bills-Chiefs game, the Rams near collapse and the two games from Saturday and discuss my biggest letdown of the weekend.  We then discuss this week's two Conference Championships. In the AFC, the 10-7 Cincinnati Bengals play at the 12-5 Kansas City Chiefs, who are looking to go to their third straight Super Bowl. In the NFC, the 10-7 San Francisco 49ers take on the 12-5 Los Angeles Rams in a rematch of the classic they played just 3 weeks ago, which clinched the 49ers trip to the playoffs. They can make the final step today by winning the Conference to advance to the Super Bowl.  It should be two great games this weekend, with some fireworks. Enjoy our latest episode! 

We start this week's podcast discussing the Cowboys heartbreaking 23-17 loss to the 49ers on Sunday and Paul's thoughts on the game and his team getting eliminated. We talk about a subpar Wild Card weekend and the big takeaways and disappointments, mainly the Eagles performance against Tampa Bay and the Arizona Cardinals vs. the Los Angeles Rams. We then look to this upcoming weekend's matchups with the AFC being the Cincinnati Bengals at the Tennessee Titans and Buffalo Bills at the Kansas City Chiefs and in the NFC, San Francisco 49ers at the Green Bay Packers and Los Angeles Rams at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Sunday in particular, should be a phenomenal day of football. We then take a look at some content and programming we look forward to doing in the offseason. Hope you enjoy our latest episode! 

Paul and I reconvene after a couple weeks due to the Holidays and my trip to Florida discussing what was a fantastic NFL Week 18 with plenty of drama even though many of the postseason teams were known already. The Los Angeles Chargers-Las Vegas Raiders game was one of the most memorable games in recent league history to close the book on the 2021 NFL regular season and provided great drama as the Chargers stormed back from being down 29-15 to tie it up late and send it into overtime.  Going into the game, it was well known that a tie would advance both teams. The Steelers needed a victory by one in order to make the postseason. Chargers coach Brandon Staley called a timeout before third down which was a decent run play by the Raiders which gave them the yardage they needed to attempt a field goal. It will always remain a question though if he did not call the timeout, would they have attempted a field goal, knowing they are in with a tie. 

We then discuss some of the coaching changes, including the Dolphins controversial decision to move on from Brian Flores.  We break down each NFL Wild Card game and give our predictions and final score for each game. We discuss Georgia-Alabama for a bit and I do wind up getting my pick right at Georgia -2.5 with their 33-18 title victory over Alabama and also give our Super Bowl predictions throughout the course of this episode. Hope everyone enjoys our latest podcast and enjoys the postseason!

Paul and I start the episode discussing my do-or-die matchup in Fantasy Football in a 4 vs. 5 matchup in the standings. We then give our picks for Thursday Night Football with the Chiefs ultimately coming out on top 34-28 against the Chargers with a huge 4th quarter and overtime by Travis Kelce, scoring two touchdowns late. We then discuss the COVID issues running through teams like the Washington Football Team, Cleveland Browns and Los Angeles Rams and what it means moving forward and how we think the NFL handles it. We then get to the other games of the week and pick who we like before finishing with some college football talk and the start of bowl season. Dan talks about some games he is looking forward to, bets he likes and what you can expect from the opening week of the Bowl Games.

We start our Week 13 Podcast with discussion of Paul's Dallas Cowboys on back to back Thursday's looking to bounce back against the New Orleans Saints and Dan predicts the final score right with the Cowboys ultimately prevailing 27-17. We are now on Twitter and you can find us under The Northeast Beat Podcast or our handle @northeastbeat. Follow us for great NFL and College football talk as well as other sports talk and some betting conversation and picks. We then discuss all our picks for Week 13 in the NFL. Paul discusses his latest power rankings and then we conclude with brief college football discussion, what the playoff should look like, intriguing matchups and some bets that I like for this weekend for the Conference Championship games and some FCS Discussion. Dan talks about Eastern Washington-Montana on Friday night potentially being one of the best games this weekend and what to look at moving forward in those playoffs. 

Paul and I discuss the annual Thanksgiving Day Tripleheader with this year's games featuring the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions, the Las Vegas Raiders and Dallas Cowboys and the Buffalo Bills and New Orleans Saints. We believe Thanksgiving is a great chance for the Lions to get their first win of the season against an injured Bears team.  We then talk about Paul's Cowboys and what we anticipate happening in the Cowboys game as well as the nightcap.  We run through the weekend's games and give our thoughts and opinions on each game and what games we are looking forward to the most this weekend. We get into the latest power rankings and I tell Paul where I think he has some of the rankings wrong before we finish the podcast with College Football's final weekend for most teams with the two big games of the weekend being Ohio State-Michigan and Oklahoma-Oklahoma State, with the Cowboys potentially having a long shot to make the playoffs. Hope you enjoy our latest episode and have a great Thanksgiving!