JCS: Sports with Brandon Kravitz 10/12/2026

Brandon Kravitz, from 96.9 The Game, talks sports, including going this weekend's NFL games along with tonight's Monday Night Football game, UCF football, the Cavs beat Magic in preseason action, and more.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Kravitz.

Speaker 2: Good job, Brandon Kravitz! Yay!

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Speaker 2: That thing is 28 seconds long. Yeah. That's a 28-second

Speaker 2: long intro, buddy. So good. So thick.

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Speaker 4: to see you i'm doing good sorry i had to

Speaker 4: skip out on you guys last week you got hairy

Speaker 4: yeah no worries it's going around man everybody's got a

Speaker 4: little something something jack got a little something something for

Speaker 4: a couple days my wife got a little something something

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Speaker 5: And i was the third one in the house so

Speaker 5: my kid got sick first then my wife got sick

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Speaker 5: little bit like I'm good.

Speaker 2: I'm good. You guys need to work on that immune system.

Speaker 2: I'm a man. Then you're not good. And then all

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Speaker 5: No doubt. I look back and I'm like, my six-year-old

Speaker 5: felt like this.

Speaker 2: How is he moving? Functioning. How can I move on Tuesday?

Speaker 4: Well, because of your intro, we only have 30 seconds left.

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Speaker 2: My God.

Speaker 4: In the NFL this weekend was kind of an interesting weekend.

Speaker 4: And you and I discussed this last week, like, There

Speaker 4: is no rhyme or reason to who wins in the

Speaker 4: NFL anymore. I mean, it's the most bizarre thing. You'll

Speaker 4: have teams that look like they're for real. You look

Speaker 4: at the Browns, you're like, oh, man, wow, the Browns

Speaker 4: are for real. Then they get beat by the Jets.

Speaker 4: Then the Bucs can't win. Then they beat the Cowboys

Speaker 4: at home, and I'd be beat the piss out of them.

Speaker 4: Not even funny.

Speaker 2: So when you look at the league right now, what

Speaker 2: are you thinking?

Speaker 5: It feels like trying to predict what happens in this

Speaker 5: league is like trying to keep a marble on a

Speaker 5: porcelain plate while riding a unicycle. That's how hard it

Speaker 5: is to balance what you see. It's, it's an old adage.

Speaker 5: I'm talking about the NFL. It's a week to week league.

Speaker 5: And no matter how many times you hear it, no

Speaker 5: matter how many times you experience it, it's still kind

Speaker 5: of smacks you in the face, but it very much is.

Speaker 5: And all these guys are professionals. They, they, They get paid,

Speaker 5: even the bad teams, to show up and perform. And

Speaker 5: so if you're not playing at your best or you're

Speaker 5: a little under the weather, like the Saints were sick.

Speaker 5: The report came out before the game against the Vikings

Speaker 5: that the entire team had an illness. Well, we're talking

Speaker 5: about things going around. They played quite poorly against the

Speaker 5: Minnesota Vikings. The Eagles were dealing with a load of injuries. Uh,

Speaker 5: they're starting right tackle. One of the best offensive linemen

Speaker 5: in the game retired abruptly before the game, uh, Saquon

Speaker 5: Barkley's out. They go to London to take on the

Speaker 5: Jags who are familiar with that location.

Speaker 2: And they went a lot there too.

Speaker 1: Yeah.

Speaker 5: And if not for a coaching blunder by the Philadelphia

Speaker 5: Eagles at the end of that game, they would, they

Speaker 5: would have beat the Jaguars. So, you know, sometimes it

Speaker 5: can be a prediction when, when you know of these

Speaker 5: injuries and illnesses and things like that.

Speaker 4: But it's just so tough to predict. And the best

Speaker 4: game of the year, I think, so far coming up tonight.

Speaker 4: I mean, the Rams and the Bills is going to

Speaker 4: be such a great game in L.A. I mean, and

Speaker 4: we'll find out now if the Buffalo is an elite.

Speaker 4: And we'll find out if the Rams have anything. And,

Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's kind of down to like

Speaker 4: maybe three or four teams now that we know for

Speaker 4: a fact are going to be tough to beat every

Speaker 4: single week. I would say the two playing tonight, I'd

Speaker 4: say the Chiefs are pretty good right now.

Speaker 2: Yep, and the 49ers. Oh, my God, the 49ers. The

Speaker 2: 49ers go into Seattle tonight.

Speaker 5: The 49ers have now bagged maybe the two most impressive

Speaker 5: wins of the season. If we were grading victories, they

Speaker 5: beat the Rams. They beat the snot out of the

Speaker 5: Rams in Australia. And then they go on the road

Speaker 5: to Seattle.

Speaker 2: One of the toughest places in the NFL to play.

Speaker 2: No doubt.

Speaker 5: And Seattle has the ball. They're down by three. They've

Speaker 5: got the ball with a minute left. They're driving fast.

Speaker 5: And Sam Darnold kind of overthrows Jackson Smith and Jigba

Speaker 5: a little bit. That's still a catch that JSN usually makes.

Speaker 5: He drops it. And then, I mean, it comes down

Speaker 5: to inches with Cooper Cup leaning over the first down line.

Speaker 2: They don't give it to him.

Speaker 5: Turnover on downs. But the huge, I think one of

Speaker 5: the biggest assists for the 49ers is has been the

Speaker 5: addition of Mike Evans. He has made such a difference

Speaker 5: for this team. He's got Brock Purdy looking like an

Speaker 5: MVP right now. And not only is he making an

Speaker 5: impact to the 49ers, the loss of Mike Evans has

Speaker 5: made a huge impact for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Their defense,

Speaker 5: as we learned on Thursday, is not the problem. Their

Speaker 5: issue is their offense. If they still had Mike Evans,

Speaker 5: I think he'd be worth an extra win or two, which,

Speaker 5: by the way, if they had that, they'd be in

Speaker 5: first place of their division.

Speaker 4: Pretty good running game over there. They have two good

Speaker 4: backs over there, Irving and what's the other guy's name?

Speaker 4: I can't remember his name ever.

Speaker 2: Kenneth Gainwell. Yeah, Gainwell.

Speaker 4: They're playing great. I mean, the line seems to be

Speaker 4: holding up okay, but they have no passing game. And

Speaker 4: the problem is you don't have the ability to do

Speaker 4: play action or anything like that. Everybody hones in on

Speaker 4: the run and it's really difficult to score points.

Speaker 2: Yeah.

Speaker 5: And with the backup quarterback, they're one of the worst

Speaker 5: third down teams in the league. I think that's a

Speaker 5: really good predictor for offensive successes. Who's able to convert.

Speaker 5: Everybody's going to face third downs, but what do you

Speaker 5: do when you get there? The bucks have been one

Speaker 5: of the worst teams in the league with that. And

Speaker 5: the elixir for them was playing against the Cowboys. Whose

Speaker 5: defense was, I thought it was going to be better

Speaker 5: this year. It's not, it's the same, same old Cowboys,

Speaker 5: good offense, bad defense. And they just, They just fell

Speaker 5: asleep at the wheel on Thursday night. Who do you

Speaker 5: like tonight? I like the Rams tonight. I think this

Speaker 5: is a night where they reestablish being the Super Bowl

Speaker 5: favorites that they came into the season. as most thought

Speaker 5: they would be. The big issue for the Bills is

Speaker 5: that they've let everybody they play throw on.

Speaker 2: Them at will.

Speaker 4: Their secondary is not stopping anybody. You can have all

Speaker 4: the Josh Allens you want, but if your defense is

Speaker 4: just like a sieve, it's not going to matter. He's

Speaker 4: going to have to score every possession to keep up.

Speaker 5: Allen has to be perfect, and as good as Josh

Speaker 5: Allen is, he can be turnover prone. So if he

Speaker 5: starts turning the ball over, we know the Rams are

Speaker 5: going to be able to score on this Bills team.

Speaker 5: I think it's one of those days where the home

Speaker 5: team puts their– I think they're going to put the

Speaker 5: throttle on Buffalo.

Speaker 4: The key for me with guys like this and the

Speaker 4: guys like Lamar is this. When these teams get into

Speaker 4: third quarter, and if they're behind by 10 points– the

Speaker 4: quarterbacks seem to take it upon themselves to force plays

Speaker 4: to get something going, to let the team know that

Speaker 4: they're there for it. It's happened with the Ravens so often,

Speaker 4: and now it's starting to happen a little bit with

Speaker 4: this guy. He feels like he has to put the

Speaker 4: entire team on his back if they're behind in the

Speaker 4: end of the third quarter going into the fourth quarter,

Speaker 4: and they make some very kind of pushed decisions or

Speaker 4: hero decisions that really don't need to be made. And

Speaker 4: we'll see if he can kind of get beyond that tonight.

Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 5: That's been one of the big issues for Ravens. for

Speaker 5: him is that because the defense has always been a problem,

Speaker 5: he enters hero mode. We saw that with Joe Burrow

Speaker 5: a week ago. He did the exact same thing where

Speaker 5: he just felt like he had to put up all

Speaker 5: these points in order for the team to win, and

Speaker 5: they bounced back big. They took on the Miami Dolphins

Speaker 5: this past weekend, and the score was 31-24. It really

Speaker 5: wasn't that close. Miami scores at the very end of

Speaker 5: the game to make it look slightly more appealing.

Speaker 2: And to ruin spreads, yeah.

Speaker 5: And to ruin some spreads, depending on which side of

Speaker 5: that you may have landed on. I'm having a really

Speaker 5: hard time watching the Miami dolphins, but Hey, how about this? Okay.

Speaker 5: As we bounce around the league, I was crapping all

Speaker 5: over Deb's green Bay Packers a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 5: I left them like many for dead. And this team

Speaker 5: now is sitting at three and two. They're going to

Speaker 5: get Micah Parsons back sooner rather than later. I don't

Speaker 5: think he's going to play on Sunday though. That would

Speaker 5: be theater because they play the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Yeah. That would be cool.

Speaker 5: 31-7, they just thumped the Chicago Bears. And honestly, it

Speaker 5: could have been worse. There was a moment in the

Speaker 5: second quarter, it was 14-7, Jordan Love throws a deep ball, touchdown,

Speaker 5: refs throw a flag, call it back. They run almost

Speaker 5: the exact same play, offensive pass interference, they called it back.

Speaker 5: A third time. They go deep to Christian Watson, their

Speaker 5: star wide receiver, and he throws a touchdown pass. It

Speaker 5: was like they scored 21 points in a span.

Speaker 2: Of two seconds.

Speaker 5: And it was just whatever they wanted to do. So

Speaker 5: they're back on track. That's really cool to see. They'll

Speaker 5: be on Sunday night football next week. The Houston Texans

Speaker 5: finally picked up a win. They won 26 to three

Speaker 5: against the lowly Tennessee Titans, but a big one in London.

Speaker 5: The Jags are parked in England. And the Texans will

Speaker 5: be flying over Sunday morning. Big divisional game.

Speaker 2: Advantage Jacksonville being there already for sure.

Speaker 5: Definitely advantage Jacksonville, but I did not like how easily.

Speaker 5: the Eagles got after Trevor Lawrence in that game. I

Speaker 5: think the Jags offensive line could be a problem. That's

Speaker 5: the problem. It is the problem.

Speaker 4: I mean, you can watch that team and say it

Speaker 4: clicks everywhere, but they are not protecting this guy. He's

Speaker 4: getting way too much heat, especially this deep in his career.

Speaker 4: They just haven't built a line that keeps this guy

Speaker 4: safe yet. And they're not running the ball well. So

Speaker 4: they're a good team, but they've got some holes.

Speaker 2: We want to get into UCF football real quick.

Speaker 5: So UCF, second week in a row, on the road,

Speaker 5: tight game, fourth quarter, and their opponent just ends up

Speaker 5: rolling from there. Drew Mestamaker is the quarterback at Oklahoma State.

Speaker 5: The guy doesn't make many mistakes. He's probably going to

Speaker 5: be a first-round quarterback in the NFL draft. And UCF fumbled.

Speaker 5: It turned into a touchdown for Oklahoma State, and it

Speaker 5: was a rout from there. They're still waiting to get

Speaker 5: Alonzo Barnett back. And that's their starting quarterback right now.

Speaker 5: It just kind of feels like Matt watching UCF. It's

Speaker 5: really unfortunate the way their season has unfolded.

Speaker 2: And then Orlando magic start. I mean, I mean, no

Speaker 2: preseason has started.

Speaker 5: There were two games into the preseason. They lost yesterday

Speaker 5: to the calves. Doesn't matter.

Speaker 2: Preseason.

Speaker 5: I am on my first magic broadcast of the year. Wow.

Speaker 2: Tomorrow night.

Speaker 5: We're doing the magic calves home game. So I'll be

Speaker 5: at the Kia center for that one. But yeah, I'm

Speaker 5: excited to see what the team is able to produce the,

Speaker 5: Basketball season always comes out of absolutely nowhere.

Speaker 1: Yeah, nowhere.

Speaker 2: I just saw that. I just saw on TV. I

Speaker 2: was like, oh, yeah, it's Orlando playing the Cavs. I'm like, what?

Speaker 2: Get out of here. That's so weird. They're watching playoff baseball.

Speaker 2: Get out of here. I mean, I work it. I

Speaker 2: live it. I love it. And every year I go, wait, what? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: Sneaks up on you like crazy.

Speaker 5: Tomorrow night, if you want to listen to the pregame show,

Speaker 5: it'll be on 96.9 The Game at 630.

Speaker 2: Always good seeing you. Where can they find your betting info?

Speaker 5: Yes, at Brandon Kravitz across Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. If

Speaker 5: you want to follow the weekly betting show that I do,

Speaker 5: there's a couple of them. The favorites on Mondays and Thursdays,

Speaker 5: that's where I lock in my best bets against the spread.

Speaker 5: And then if you look inside the state, the Florida line,

Speaker 5: you can find that podcast wherever you download them. where

Speaker 5: I cover only the teams inside the state of Florida.

Speaker 2: Always good to see you, buddy. There he is, Brandon Kravitz, guys.

Speaker 1: Yay!

Speaker 4: Let's take a little break. Ray Trindley up next with

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