THE WINDOW: Sports Betting Podcast

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) works his way through a rare loss by Canada in “best-on-best” hockey, and why it was far more a victory for the U.S. than a particularly harrowing defeat for Team Canada worthy of any tears. What should have been an all-time classic sporting event was undermined by going to 3-on-3 overtime, but the gol...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) has an assortment of topics as part of the transition from NFL to College Basketball season, with the Winter Olympics diverting attention for a couple weeks.  As we put a wrap on the NFL season, the Sam Darnold story is more about organizations, and while the Patriots-Seahawks matchup was a surprise fr...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) is joined by friend of THE WINDOW, Sheldon Alexander ( @ShelAlexander ) to look back at Super Bowl LX between the Seahawks and Patriots.  The Seahawks win the championship convincingly, but Matt and Sheldon dig in to what did and didn’t happen in a “boring” first half and why some plays quietly went Sa...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by discussing Part 1 of THE WINDOW’s Super Bowl betting preview, discussing why he’s landed on one side after sitting down to put the handicap together and where he stands on the total. Then Matt goes behind the paywall for a look at the Super Bowl MVP markets, detailing what his process...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by looking back at the NFL’s Conference Championship Sunday starting with the AFC title game. Sean Payton’s taking flak for going for it on fourth down in a situation that you would go for it 100% of the time. So, why aren’t we hearing about Mike Vrabel’s decision to go for it in the sam...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by looking back at Monday’s National Championship game between Miami and Indiana, and why the game actually “made sense.” The Hurricanes (+8.5) gets home along with a trio of player props, and a highly-profitable anytime touchdown portfolio that included Fernando Mendoza’s iconic, post-H...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by looking back at Wild Card Weekend. The Rams-Panthers game looked to be the game of the day, as Carolina showed that, yet again, you can’t go against the valuable side in NFL betting, but at least we know what that looks like. A miss on the total was made up for with a trio of anytime...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by telling the story of his run into, and out of, the money in the 2025 Circa Million Contest. How “bad beats” in games like Ravens-Bills, Rams-Eagles, Buccaneers-Texans, Packers-Bears, Panthers-Buccaneers, and Saints-Falcons, re-framed what the bar was for bad luck in a season that left...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by looking back a week loaded with gut-punch bad beats in College Football, as a trio of betting catastrophes colored the Bowl-betting experience, and why commiserating on an historically brutal beat in the New Mexico Bowl is the best way to move past shocking disappointment.  Then it’s...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by looking back the first round of the College Football Playoff, and how what looked like a shutdown performance from the Oklahoma defense turned into Alabama comeback, the mess that was Miami’s win at Texas A&M, and why one “G5” team would have been too many THIS year. Part I of the...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by getting right into Week 15 in the NFL, starting with the mess that was the Falcons-Bucs on Thursday night, why player props get figuratively and literally harder to find at the end of the season, the blowouts throughout the 1pm games, and the Bills comeback win over the Patriots shaki...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by lamenting Caleb Williams coming one play short of a point-spread cover and a potential win. If the Bears and Bengals had come through, the Round-robin Underdog Moneyline Parlay would have hit in a big way, but Joe Burrow’s earned more of a leash. From there, Matt runs through “Right o...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by looking at the final College Football Playoff rankings and how we got here, with arguments in the streets, starting with Indiana at No. 1.  The Heisman trophy might have been decided on a 4th down decision without Fernando Mendoza OR Diego Pavia on the field.  Almost all the arguments...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by weighing in all things college football after the conclusion to the regular season, including but not limited to — why Steve Sarkisian is ALMOST right about the disservice that college football and the College Football Playoff Committee is doing by making the Longhorns Week 1 trip to...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by breaking down a Monday Night Football game that had him as irritated as any game all season, given how close it was to being a big winner had some plays been executed in a way we should expect from NFL quarterbacks. Then Matt goes down the scoreboard in Week 12 to determine what we we...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by discussing what “Priors” are in sports betting, and how it’s about as simple of a concept as you can imagine.  Through 10 weeks of NFL play, it’s time to move on from what our preseason expectations were for some of the NFL’s supposedly elite teams, while also opening up to the possib...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by talking about a run of 12 straight ATS winners in college football, wondering aloud why THE WINDOW is sports betting’s best kept secret, and a reminder that things like that are not normal, or promised. Matt starts “Right or Wrong” for Week 10 with a look back at a disappointing match...

In this week’s episode of  THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast , Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by discussing his experience at Game 7 of the World Series, and what it would have meant to the city whose team fell short.  To accompany the story of Saturday’s game, here’s the view of the two crucial plays in the bottom of the 9th, and two similar but different “sounds.” Then it’s tim...

In this week’s episode of THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast, Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show with a vibe check on Toronto’s first World Series appearance in 32 years, after a brutal Game 3 loss in 18 innings.  Matt goes over the games of Week 7 in the NFL in “Right or Wrong,” where we hit on the only two underdogs to win outright, but largely moved money around. A week after hitti...

In this week’s episode of THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast, Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by talking about the Blue Jays making the World Series and a reminder of what it’s like to be an old-school sports fan, even if you’re relationship with a team can be more complicated than blind loyalty.  Then, perhaps burying the lede, Matt looks back at the biggest hit of the season, as...

In this week’s episode of THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast, Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show by looking at the Jets and Dolphins — two teams that are being mocked on Monday, but who both covered on Sunday. How are we supposed to handicap bad teams when there are so many of them in the NFL?  “What’s up with the Eagles” is a question we’ve heard a lot, and it was no more deserving t...

In this week’s episode of THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast, Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) opens the show exactly the way you might expect, by breaking down the experience of losing THE WINDOW’s entry in the Circa Survivor contest on the absurdity that was the Cardinals choke-job to the Titans.  Matt goes down the board of NFL games in Week 5, looking back at whether the handicap for the game...

In this week’s episode of THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast, Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) it’s more about celebrating ( Seahawks-Cardinals ) AND commiserating ( MNF games ) than one side or the other, after a mix-and-match weekend in both college football and the NFL. The Jets give away a winnable game, while the Bengals prove they might be worse than we ever thought possible, with or without...

In this week’s episode of THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast, Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) takes a well-earned victory lap after nailing the Lions-Ravens game, even if he got bit by the internet bug in Monday’s email blast.  Lions +4.5, moneyline, Goff under pass attempts, Jackson over passing+rushing, TeSlaa under receiving yards, St. Brown touchdown, and Bateman touchdown all got home to sal...

In this week’s episode of THE WINDOW: Sports betting podcast, Matt Russell ( @mrussauthentic ) is exhausted, as he looks back at the Cowboys win over the Giants saving the Survivor season, and a laundry list of games that could have gone either way against the spread in Week 2 of the NFL: Brian Thomas drops the ball Travis Kelce drops the ball, the refs don’t notice obvious false starts Denver’s s...