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On today's part of my take, we have Washington Commander's head with Coach Dan Quinn, in person from the Combine. We had a great time with Coach Quinn. I feel optimistic for you, PFT.

I'm excited. He said a couple of things. Actually, the first thing that he said before we went on the air was, What words am I allowed to say on this show? We're like, Yeah, say, Fuck, Dan. Say, Fuck.

And he did. But yeah, he's a football guy through and through.

You guys made some ground, too.

I have finally had my first good night of sleep in nine years, 10 years almost, because Dan Quinn and I finally made peace. We got a great interview with him. We're going to talk a little basketball over the weekend. We have Who's Back of the Week. We have Hank's Number One Patriot. I also have caught up on the documentary. I have some thoughts.

Yeah, the Aaron Hernandez episode was- Something. A lot of football. It was a football documentary.

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Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. Today is Monday, March fourth, and LeBron James has hit 40,000 points.

Oh, wow. I'm very excited about that. Guess how many he has in college? It's zero because Kaitlyn Clarke set the real record Yeah, she did.

She had a hell of a record. She also said it in a very Kaitlyn Clarke way with a flop and a technical foul.

Yep, two free throws. Yes. At the end of the first half, if you happen to bet Kaitlyn Clarke to break the record in the third quarter, like I believe most of America did, that's unfortunate.

Yeah, but still an incredible performance by Kaitlyn Clarke. Going to the WMBA still has some college basketball left. The Big Ten tournament for the women's college basketball is going to be better than the Big Ten men's tournament. I'll just say that right now.

It might be.

Because the Big Ten men's bad basketball, my own team included. But LeBron, 40,000 points. You want to hear a whoa?

Yep.

Okay. This is from Ben Goliver. Lakers, LeBron James, the first NBA player to score 40,000 points. James scored his first 10,000 points in the exact same number of games as it took him to go from 30,000 to 40,000. So the first 10K was in 368 games. 10k to 20K was 358 games. 20k to 30K was 381. Slowed down a little. 30k to 40K, 368 games. That's pretty impressive. That's insane. That's a weird quirk, but insane. His longevity is unmatched. What else can you say?

I think the best-LeBron James. The best take on this comes from, I think, who we all expected to have the best take on this, Antonio Brown.

I was going to say LeBron James, too. Okay. All right, go with Antonio Brown's take.

Antonio Brown's take was he put up a picture of LeBron James holding 40,000 on a piece of paper, and then he just said, How many crackers work at Barstool Sports?

Oh, nice.

#ctespn.

Yes, that is the best take. Lebron also had a take. He said, To be quite honest with you, everybody wanted to see me fail when I got to the league. Everybody was just like, It's no way he's going to be able to exceed the expectations I've put upon him. Is that true? I don't think so. I don't think everyone wanted him to fail.

I don't know that anybody wanted The media wanted him to succeed. Correct. That's a good job by us by saying LeBron James will be the best player ever. Yeah.

Hank, did you want him to fail? Not right away. Not right away. Definitely not right away.

When did you start wanting LeBron to fail?

When he became an enemy of yours.

Probably 2011.

Yeah. So you had a long time not rooting for him to fail, and you're his biggest hater.

I'm trying to think. When they beat, I think it was the first year of the Super team, they rigged the game six against Celtics in the playoffs.

Oh, they did?

And then ever since then. They rigged it. Rigged it. Rael Rondot got smoked in the head on a layup underneath the basket. Didn't call foul. Rigged it. Rigged it. Loss of series. And being rigged. That Truly, I remember waiting the game ended. I was like, I can't wait to hear Steven. I can't wait to hear them. They're going to go on about this. This is going to be the biggest controversy in sports history.

Nobody said anything.

Nobody said anything. Rigged.

The craziest thing about LeBron, 40,000 points is I don't I don't think anyone's going to hit it. Even though the scoring is crazy in the NBA right now, I was looking at it, and Luka has 10,000 points in six years. But to say Luca can play to be 40 years old with his body, no offense to his body, would be a jump.

I was going to say I don't know what his maintenance technique is, but I don't think he keeps his body in as good shape as that, James.

Kevin Durant is going to hit 30,000 points within the next year or so, but he's in his mid-30s, has some injuries, Steph is, I think, around 30,000 points, but again, also old. I mean, Wemby, but I don't know how a seven-footer is going to play to be 40.

I was watching Wemby play today, and if he can hit step-back threes, then maybe he could do it because I mean, he's on pace in one year. Wimby, he's a fucking freak.

Yeah, but it really goes to show.

Jason Tatum?

Jason Tatum. How many points is Jason Tatum? 11,000. He has 11,000. And how many seasons?

He's 26.

Okay. Yeah, Okay, there we go. We'll throw Jason Tatum in there. Happy Hank? Yeah. Yeah.

He could play for a while.

Either way, this is about LeBron. It's insane what he's been able to do for as long as he's been able to do it. I'm not a big, huge LeBron fan. Everyone knows that. I don't think anyone on this podcast is a huge LeBron fan. But I also feel like we've done at least an okay job respecting the fact that he is an insane, insane basketball talent who is people We'll say he's the best of all time. I have him, too, which is... I think the gap between two and three is huge. It's crazy that he's been doing it for this long, and I don't think we'll see anyone like 40,000 points, even though when I first saw it, this is how stupid my brain is. I was like, 40,000 points doesn't seem like a lot of points because he's been playing for so long. It's so many goddamn points.

It just gets to the point where if you see a number like 40,000, all these numbers are so big that you lose track of just how much it is. Right. Like, 40,000 is an astronomical number. But I had no idea where he was until he set this milestone. I just assumed he scored a shitload of points. Lebron James' score of a shitload of points was my metric that I had. I'm not a huge LeBron James fan, but what I love about LeBron is how crazy he makes people and how much he contributes to the sports media, just screaming at each other's culture. A lot of people say, Oh, I don't like that about sports TV. Yeah, but you watch. That's the thing. It's entertainment. That's one of my favorite things about sports TV is you just get grown men on stage that get ready. How many people do you think have been, I'll say, killed in a debate that started about LeBron James?

At least a handful.

I would say probably four or five people have died over an argument about whether or not he's good at basketball. That's what I love about LeBron James.

It's insane. He is in the history of the NBA as well. When you think about it, the growth of the NBA, obviously Bird and Magic in the '80s took the NBA to a point where it used to be the finals was tape delayed in some parts of the country. Mj put the NBA on a completely different level, a global level. He became an icon around the world. Then after, MJ was like, Well, where do we go now? Yeah, Kobe was there, but Kobe was also, I think when LeBron was a rookie, I think that was right around Kobe's trial. Lebron stepped in and has basically carried the NBA for the last 20 years. It's crazy. I know that there's has been a lot of other superstars, but LeBron James has been the focal point of basically every NBA season for 20 years. It's insane what he's done. It's not like he's doing it right now at 39 as an old LeBron. He's not the same LeBron at the height of his powers. But that game he had the other night when they came back against the Clippers, and he's like, I'm going to guard Kawhi, and I'm going to hit a bunch of threes.

He's still very, very, very good. It's not one of those records where he's 39 years old, he sucks, he's on a bad team, and he's just putting up empty stats. He's still one of the best players in the NBA right now, and it's crazy. It's just nuts to watch it night in and night out. I know This is all painful for Hank to hear. He gave me a little look like, Dude, just stop talking about him.

They're probably not even going to make the play. So they'll sneak in. They'll rig it so he gets to play in the playing game.

Well, here's what's great about LeBron James. He's not a threat. If you don't like LeBron James, When he loses in the playoffs, you're going to miss that when he's gone. When he retires, you might not miss LeBron James in the NBA, Hank, but you will very dearly miss. If they get swept in the playoffs this year, the joy that will just course through your body as you get to talk about how funny it is to watch him not win a payoff series, that will be something that you will look back on and be like, Fuck, there was really some good times that I had when he stunk.

Also, he will definitely make the play-in and could very well likely make the playoffs. The West is very compact. They're six games ahead of the Jazz for the 10th spot, and they're only three games away from the Suns at the sixth spot. So he's going to be in at least a play-in game. Yeah. He will.

Yeah. Also, you don't need to worry about LeBron this part. The Celtics are basically already in the champions.

No, I would love to play the Lakers.

Hey, can I give you something that you could say that I didn't say because I was trying to be nice and not do a LeBron hate thing because 40,000 points is insanely impressive. I am actually, as a sports fan, in awe of what LeBron has accomplished.

He's actively trying to get his coach fired.

Well, no, I was going to give you a little stat that you can just throw around that I didn't say. I want credit for not saying it.

Not you.

Lebron James has 40,000 points. He's led the league in scoring once. Michael Jordan led the league in scoring 10 times.

Interesting.

I didn't say it, though. I did not say that stat. So credit to me for not saying it, but you can tell that to anyone else. Also, just a little stat out there for everyone. If DeMarroja Rosen scores 16,998 points game, he'll have as many as LeBron. That's pretty good. So striking distance.

It could be a possibility. He's right there. Do you see what his son, Bronnie, is saying about his NBA prospects?

He's going to wait and see, right?

Well, he's not basing whether or not he wants to come out of college on his projected draft stock. He's basing it on what teams are interested in him. So that's interesting. So I'm guessing that just means where his dad is going to end up.

Yes, that would make sense. I mean, he is on a USC team that has been bad this year, although I might put a future on them to win the Pac-12. They're playing good ball right now. I watched the majority of the game on Saturday against Washington, and that, the Isiah Collier is awesome. Took over that game. If Bronnie Jr had done what Isiah Collier had done, it would have actually taken away the limelight of LeBron James's 40,000 because he was that good. But yeah, we'll see. I mean, call me a sucker, call me maybe soft because I'm a father of three, but I want to see Bronnie be on LeBron's team because it would just be cool. I saw an old clip the other day, retweeted on my timeline of Ken Griffy Jr. Hitting a home run and Ken Griffy Jr. Hitting a home run right after him. It was like, That's fucking awesome.

Yeah, they went back to back. I still remember where I was when I saw that news. It would be incredible to see LeBron yelling at his son on the same team.

It also would suck to be Bronnie on a team with LeBron because everyone would look at you being like, Well, you're only here because your dad.

Your dad's the coach. Sucks so much.

Yeah. He actually, Bronnie would finally I've realized what it's like for every nepotism guy out there working at a corporate job being like, I'm here because my dad gave me.

What's one of the best parts about getting to the NBA? I would imagine you're 19, 20, 21 years old. You have millions of dollars of cash. You want to go out and party a little bit. Yeah.

You don't want to drive one around- He won't have millions of dollars of cash. Well, he will because he's LeBron's son.

You don't want your dad being around in a circumstance like that.

I'd like to podcast long enough to podcast my son.

There you go.

I'll just have him on when he's seven and he's tired. But yeah, it's an incredible performance. I mean, incredible career, incredible moment, 40,000 points. You're right, PFT. What he is for the sports ecosystem is incredible because even this 10-minute segment of sucking LeBron off, there's going to be some AWLs who are like, What the fuck? I thought this was a safe space. Why are you guys doing this? Why are you betraying me right now? Then the other one is going to be like, You didn't say it enough. It will piss off people no matter what. That's what LeBron James does for us.

For everybody out there that's sick of us glazing LeBron, I have one stat for LeBron for you guys. Lebron James is the first player in NBA history to score 40,000 points who also sucks. So there you go. Okay.

Boom.

Have that.

He stinks, but he's great. Then Kaitlyn Clarke, yeah, did it to Pete Maravich. Pete Maravich, that was actually It was really one of those moments where it was incredible for Kaitlyn Clarke, but Kaitlyn Clarke has done so much for the women's college basketball game. It was nice to see Pete Marevich get some flowers where everyone went and looked up Pete Marevich stats, and they're like, This dude had this many points in three years and no three-point line?

No three-point line. The dude was a chucker. He shot the ball, and he was a great passer, too, but he took a lot of shots.

He had five assists a game.

He took a lot of shots, and he's got some great highlights, too. If you want to go back, every time people are like, Oh, if Kyrie Irving got in the same gym as Bob Coozie, Coozie would just spontaneously combust into flames. Marevich could play a little bit. Marevich could give some of these guys a run for their money.

I do think that Victor Wembenyama, it would be funny to have James Naesmith watch a video of him.

Yeah. Well, if he did, he'd be like, The rim needs to be 15 feet tall. Yeah.

Also, he only would have been able to watch half a season because if James Naesmith was still alive, he would have died when he watched the All-Star Game. Yeah. This is an abomination. Okay, what else we got in the sports I have some combine notes.

I just wanted to congratulate Hank, honestly, about winning the NBA Finals this year. Oh, yeah. The Celtics win by 52. The game was over in the first quarter. At the end of the first, it was done. They didn't want to guard you. They were just dominant.

It was crazy that it was, I think it was 22-21 at one point, and then I looked back at the score and I was like, Wait, the Celtics are up by 30? How did this happen?

This is their third win this season of 50 or more points. No team has ever done that in the history of the NBA.

Eleven in a row.

Is this a championship or or Bust this year? Oh, yeah. This has been building to this point.

It's been Championship or Bust.

But it really is this year.

It has been Championship or Bust since the season started.

I've said it. Oh, no, no. But I'm saying the past few seasons, it's not been Championship or Bust. This is the first year it feels like, okay, the Celtics have been. They've been to a final. They've been to some conference finals. You have to win it all this year. If you don't, it's a failure.

It's a bust.

If there are no injuries and we don't win the championship, yeah.

You have to get a soul patch, right?

Yeah. No.

What about a cat named Soul Patch?

No.

Also, when they win, I will shave my head. Okay, that's fair.

Jalen Brunson, I think, avoided catastrophic injury.

Yeah, so I was talking to Memes about this.

Why are you so upset about it, Big Cat?

I like watching Jalen Brunson play basketball.

Memes was despondent over this. You were upset?

I just said, Fuck, that sucks. Listen, the Bulls suck. I don't want them to even be in the play-in. I love watching basketball. I start thinking about the NBA truly right after March Madness. Jalen Brunson is one of those guys that I love watching play basketball. The way he commands a game, the way he can control a game from the point guard position, he's a throwback. I was legitimately bummed when I saw that he was hurt and potentially out for the rest of the year. I want to watch him play play off basketball.

The way that the play looked-Sorry for liking Jalen Brunson.

I'm just curious. I'm just curious. No, Vs up. I was just curious. I'm just curious. I'm just curious.

Everybody was saying it looked like it was a noncontact injury, and it looked like it was something real bad. Real bad because it almost looked like he heard it when he was taking off. His leg did a weird movement in midair. He's like, Oh, fuck, I'm hurt. Then he falls down twice, gets carried off the court. Everybody was like, Oh, shit, this is an Achilles. This is maybe, I don't know, ACL or some fracture. And then they say, Oh, he has a knee contusion. So I told Memes. I was like, That's good news, Memes. It's good news that Jelen Brunson appears to have avoided catastrophic injury, but also, a bitch. A bitch because to fall down twice. He's a tough guy. To fall down twice? He's a tough guy. I've had some catastrophic foot injuries, and I haven't missed a podcast. He's a dog.

Memes, are you okay now? Do you think it's going to be okay? It would have been another Fleming curse.

Yeah, we're all the way back now.

Okay. We're all the way back. So he's fine? He's fine. I did type in Achilles right away because it reminded me of Aaron Rodgers. I think he bumped knees on the screen. I just love whenever the doctors come out of the woodwork and be like, Oh, he just hit this nerve that makes your knee feel like it's dead for a minute.

It's a nerve, yeah. A peroneal or something. According to me, he just hit this nerve that I looked up 10 seconds ago, and I'm now an expert on.

Is it a peroneal?

I don't know. A parochial nerve?

No, it Someone said peroneal nerve. I've learned all my science from injuries and then finding out, googling the person's name instantly. That's how I know about the human anatomy.

Yeah. I guess he's okay. He's probably not going to miss much time. But at the moment, Knicks fans were like, Well, there it goes. They were so happy, so excited.

I mean, the Knicks aren't going to win. They're not going to go to the final or anything because I just don't think they will. But I want to see Jelen Brunson play playoff basketball because he is one of those dogs.

I want to see the Garden play playoff basketball.

Yeah, I went to a game last year. It was electric.

The Mecca.

Okay. Other things. Well, I don't think I can make a future bet on this because the price isn't great, but I just think the Nugs are going to win again.

Yeah, it feels like it. I'm ready for it. It feels like they're just-I think it's back to back. There's a lot of fun stuff going on in the league right now. A lot of teams that you want to take and win. The Clippers actually might be able to win. I'll tell you why. Here's why the Clippers might be able to beat the Nuggets. Because Tonight, James Harden, I think he had four points, went 0 for 10 shooting. Vintage James Harden in the playoff mode, and they won.

Okay.

So maybe they're learning how to win with playoff James in the regular season.

The extent of the Clippers discussion could just be like, They got to stay healthy because they have all the health guys. Their healthiest guy, Russell Westbrook, broke his hand. That's the one guy you could say he's not going to get hurt.

They've got weird health guys, too. Kawhi with mystery injuries.

Kawhi just saying... Kawhi just sitting on the bench, and they're like, Yeah, he's out for the next three years, but we don't know why.

Yeah, he's unplugged right now, so he doesn't have battery, so he can't be in. You got Kawhi, weird injury guy. Paul George, I guess he said some weird... Yeah, he said weird injuries.

He's pretty healthy, though.

I count him. When he is injured, it's usually in a weird way. Then James Harden, who's sometimes just too fat to play.

It's injury laziness.

Injury, laziness, strip club.

Yeah, no dog.

No dog in them. No dog in them. But if they can win with James Harden scoring four points, and I think their bench was the part of the team that carried them tonight, was looking at the box score, I think that every starter had negative and plus minus, and four out of the five guys were double digits in minus. And so their bench came on. So maybe the Clippers, maybe it's the Clippers here.

Okay. No. Nuggets. Hank, since we're doing NBA talk, who scares you the most in the East?

Bucks, Pepev.

Yeah? Not the Heat? No, never. What? I mean, what happened last year?Different.

Team.okay..

Never is a ridiculous thing for you to say. Never is a crazy thing to say about the heat. They're doing the same thing they do every year where they have not been good, and now they're starting to play well. And it was like, Uh-oh, here they come.

I'm not worried about the heat. I am worried about the Bucks.

Okay. Yeah, just because Giannis at any point could physically decide, Hey, I'm bigger and stronger.

I feel like we've just been robbed, too, of getting to laugh at Embiid running out of gas in the playoffs again.

No, he's going to be back, though. Is he? Yeah, I think so. Max was excited about that.

I think he's going to be back, but I don't know.

I feel like we've been robbed. It sucks. Yeah.

It It feels-Well, once he realized he wasn't going to get MVP, he just quit.

I mean, he got hurt. That's true. The game that he got hurt in, there has never been a guy who was more hurt playing that game.

That's true. I saw Kirk Coy- All the Sixers won their last two games.

Two big wins.

Tyrese Max, he's a beast. I saw Kirk Colesbury, our good friend, had a graphic. We have an MVP problem with Americans. We don't win MVPs anymore. Is that true? We have not won an MVP this decade. Since 2018, we haven't won an MVP. I don't know Where are our next MVP is coming from?Tatum.

Jason Tateum.

Jason Tateum has got to step up.

Well, he's playing team basketball. He's not doing the...

But who would you expect to win the next MVP? Cooper Flag. Or Tateum?

Tateum should win.

But Luka probably will because Luka has the stat.

Well, and the European bias. Right.

That's what I'm saying, the European bias. It's Embiid, it's Jokić twice, and Yannis. Yannis twice. So, yeah, we need to take back the MVP. Hey, how are we going to do this, boys? Cooper Flag?

It's Cooper Flag. The answer to every basketball problem is Cooper Flag.

It doesn't help that the Euros got an alien that's playing basketball in San Antonio. I know.

I would love to just somehow wipe the next two years I love Cooper playing at Duke out of my memory. Right now, I love Cooper. I love Cooper Flag, but he'll get a weird haircut when he goes there, and you're going to hate his face, and he's going to be on TV all the time, and then he's going to do something very Duke-like while he's there. Then the Brotherhood is going to in and defend him, and Jay Billis is going to stand on the table for him.

Man, I wanted it so bad last night. Even though I don't like Alabama basketball, I wanted them to win and rush the court because Jay Billis was calling that game. By the way, Hank, congrats to Kyle Filipowski. I actually think we should take away Joe Flacko's Comeback Player of the Year. Give it to Kyle Filipowski retroactively to go from a catastrophic ankle, knee, soreness, injury just seven days ago and then do Windmill dunks. Forget Tomar Hamlin. Kyle Filipowski is the real story here.

Take notes, Jalen.

That was insane, dude.

He's a hero. He's a hero.

Also- Sunday Motivation, I posted. It's one thing to have something like that happen where it's like, I think the doctor said, Kyle Filipowski may never walk again. And then just seven days later, he's windmill dunking. It's just, I don't know. That's what you're crazy, man.

I honestly think that That gives some hope to Hank for being able to dunk. If Kyle Filipowski can battle back from that injury, Hank, you're basically fully healthy right now. Imagine what you can do on this body. That's true.

Maybe we should storm the court on Hank.

Oh, nobody out there Google what happened after the Clemson Duke football game when Duke beat them. Nobody googled that and see what the fans did to the field. I don't want people to look that up because it could have devastating consequences. Oh, no. To Jay Oh, no.

That'll be bad. By the way, in college basketball, I told Max before this, but I've done it again. I bet on Villanova 150 to one. I looked at the prices. What's a way I could win half a million dollars? Oh, Vilanova. They probably won't even make the tournament.

Yeah, that's not true. They're minus 240 to make the tournament.

Oh, let's go. Okay. Make the tournament or the first four?

What happens if they play Wisconsin?

I believe it's going to be the first four. Wisconsin is bad. They sink. It's over. I'm not even They've actually done me a favor of just getting it to such a bad level where I'm- Are they going to make the tournament? Yeah, they still will. They're actually, I think, one of eight teams in the country to not... Well, they probably don't have a winning record anymore in quad one, two. They don't have any quad three or four losses. So not too shabby. No quad three, four losses, baby. I love the quad system when it works in your favor because it's basically... I was like, How is Michigan not a quad three or four loss? If it's a If you play away, the team has to be ranked outside of 250 net ranking, which is hard to do.

That's very hard to do.

I'm going to be just fucking banging the table for the quads.

I'm all on board with the Tennessee volunteers. They're really good. I'm officially all in.

That was an impressive win by them.

It was two impressive wins back to back, Auburn and Alabama.

Yeah, Auburn is not as much of a... Alabama at home is a fucking beast.

They still came from behind against Auburn, and then they came from behind against Alabama. Then they have South Carolina, which is going to be tough, and then Kentucky, which is going to be... They're ending the SEC schedule like the hardest that you can do. It's going to be awesome. I'm going to bet the over, and it's going to be great. I think Rick Barnes. I think this is the year for Rick Barnes. This is the year.

Ricky B. Yeah, we're getting ready for March. It feels good. It feels real good. Okay, anything else in basketball? I had a couple of combine notes that I wanted to share with you guys. Before we do that, a quick word from sponsor at Peloton. It's time to get in shape, everyone, wherever you're beginning and wherever you want to be. Peloton encourages you to just start. Peloton helps you start no matter what your level you're at, wherever you're starting. There's thousands of classes. To get you moving, whether that's beginner or advanced rides. Feel Good Live, DJ rides, or even artist-themed rides, they've got you covered. I am the owner of a Peloton bike and treadmill. Love them both. No jokes there. Get started with a One Peloton bike or bike plus. Rental by visiting onepeloton. Com/bike/rentals. That's www. Onepeloton. Com/bike/rentals. Terms apply. This really is, if you're trying to get in shape, If you know it's someone like myself who it's hard to get to the gym, it's hard to get yourself up and motivated, Peloton gets you motivated when you sit on that bike seat or you're on that treadmill because you got the classes right there.

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Yeah, JJ McCarthy is that one guy. There's always one dude every single year that the further away they get from playing football, the better of a football player they become. J. J. Mccarthy isn't now being talked about going in the top five, top six.

Even though he then went and missed a lot of throws.

Even though it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because the tape, you can throw the tape out. Forget the system he played in college. What you saw at the combine, throw that out. They just think that he's got the skillset.

It's worked to his advantage that he wasn't asked to do a ton at Michigan because what he was asked to do, he did very, very well, and they won a lot of games in a national title.

What I'm putting What I'm a lot of stock in this year is the footage that's coming out of the players practicing, warming up in the hallways of-Yeah, Michael Penix. Michael Penix was throwing dimes. Jj McCarthy was throwing to Blake Coram and throwing absolute seeds to him. I feel like that is the new... The scouts are behind the scenes watching them warm up in the hotel lobbies. Yes. This guy's got all the tools.

Okay. I agree with you. Although the couple of throws I saw were... There was two throws that he was just airmailed it and just missed a guy on an easy 15-yard The next note I had. This is a really dumb thought because we watch college football all year. We know these guys. Then they come out and they do the combine, and we have to remember, I think Pete Prisco put it perfectly, the tape, the tape, the tape, the tape. You got to watch the tape. Joe Milton is a franchise quarterback. Because that fucking throw was so awesome.

Yeah, he is. I said, If I'm a GM, I'm drafting this guy one-one overall. And that's the thing with Joe Milton is, you All you need to know about Joe Milton and the most impressive tape out there besides this one pass that he had today, which was like 75 yards, half a step into it.

And he said he was like, bang as it was up there.

Go back and watch Joe Milton before the Orange Bowl, before last season's Orange Bowl, it's Tennessee against Clemson. It's the orangest Orange Bowl ever. They asked Joe to throw an orange as far as he could. He threw an orange 106 yards. That's the only stat that I need. This man can throw fruit farther anybody else that's ever lived. Give me that guy.

He can't throw for fucking... You got no chance to complete a pass 20 yards and in, but holy shit. If he's got to throw it 70 yards, he's your guy. Why wouldn't a team... Because now, don't we have the expanded rosters with the quarterbacks, why wouldn't you take Joe Milton and be like, he's just our designated Hale Mary guy?

He's our third down quarterback. Yeah. Like, air it out, worst case scenario, you just punted the ball 77 yards.

I want him to be good so bad, but I've watched so much Joe Milton, both at Michigan and Tennessee, to know that that's not the case. But still, when he throws that ball like he did at the combine, I'm like, this fucking guy rocks, and he has it.

If football was played with an orange, Joe Milton would be the best person to ever step on a field.

No one would see it coming if you took Joe. I don't want you to do this, but no one would see it coming.

You'd sneak attack the whole league if we took Joe Milton number one. And his name's Bazooka Joe. Joe Milton rocks. I want to see him in the I want to see him. Fuck it. If your team is not going to be very good, just have him tank for you, but at least he's going to throw some bombs. Yeah, it'd be fun.

Xavier worthy broke the record 4-2, 1-40. That was pretty cool.

It was very cool, very fast. John Brown was the guy that had the record beforehand, I believe. Was it? Right? I think it was John Brown from the Giants. John Ross. John Ross. John Ross.

Yeah, John Ross from University of Washington. That's right. That's another one where I'm like, How can you not draft that guy?

Yeah, John Brown- You can outrun everyone. Did the Harpers Ferry raid. Very close, guys. Again, I see that guy run, and I think to myself, Well, there's two teams that are going to get him. One, very easy, the Raiders. It's going to be the Ouija board that they keep in the war room. They're going to ask Al Davis who to draft, and it's going to say Xavier. The second team, the Chiefs. You know the Chiefs are going to get a guy like that, and we're going to be like, How did we let that guy go the Chiefs?

Yeah. For Xavier worthy, it's the difference between being out of the league in three years or winning four Super Bowl and everyone saying you're one of the best receivers ever.

Yeah, that's all that that is. No pressure, Xavier worthy. Get a Chiefs tattoo right now, tattooed on your forehead so the Raiders don't take you.

Have Archie Manning legally adopt you and then have him hold the league hostage and be like, We're only going to the Chiefs.

We're going to the Chiefs. Going to the Chiefs. This There's a couple of other big things that happened at the Combine this weekend. The first was Tyler Owens from Texas Tech. So he said that he doesn't believe in space. I don't believe in space. I'm real religious, so I think we're alone right now. I don't think there's other planets and other stuff like that.

I don't believe in Tyler Owens because I watched this clip and he had a smirk on his face. He knew what he was doing? It felt like he knew what he was doing because now we're talking about Tyler Owens, and he was being talked about when he said it. I'm on to you, Tyler Owens. I don't believe in you. The fact That's what I'm saying. The fact that he- Motherfucker's not real.

So he goes on to explain, I used to believe in the heliocentric thing. We used to revolve around the sun and stuff. He must be in Ryan Rusillo podcast, listener. The fact that he knew the word heliocentric and used it correctly tells me he actually knows what space is and he believes in it.

That's NBA, though. He might be an NBA fan.

What do you mean?

That's a lot of NBA- Oh, heliocentric. Broadcasters talk about heliocentric basketball, like Luka is a heliocentric basketball player where it all revolves around him.

But he defined it. He said, We used to revolve around the sun and stuff.

And then the rest of the quote was, And Luca.

And then I started seeing flat Earth stuff, and I was like, That's interesting. And they started bringing up some valid points. Yeah. So I don't know. I actually think it's not a bad thing to say that you don't believe in space, you don't believe in the round Earth theory, if you want to get a free ride on a rocket ship, because there's always one guy where NASA's like, Yeah, fuck you. We'll show you. We'll take you up to space, and you can get a look at it. Like, Yeah, you know what? I also believe that space is fake. Nasa helped me prove myself wrong.

But like you and Xavier were, usually the guys who say they don't believe in space are scared of heights and don't want to go there.

That's not true. It's a completely different scenario. Not afraid of flying, not afraid of being inside of a tall building. I just don't like being out in the open. You don't think you'd get a little fucked up looking out at space? No, I don't think the difference between being 5'10, which I am, and being 6 feet tall is big enough to have an impact of me being 70,000 feet above the field. I don't know, man.

I saw you on the Empire State Building.

I know. Every time I think about it, I start to sweat. I went out and I got the Apple Vision Pro, which I might return because there's really no real reason to use it. Yeah.

Can I just say this? I know this isn't a widebody, but I think that anyone who buys the Apple Vision Pro who's not a nerd is a porn guy.

You can't watch porn on it. That's the thing, though.

Allegedly. Nice. You're smart. Smart to say it that way. Look it up.

It was like all anybody wrote about before the Apple Vision Pro came out.

I'm sure, and you haven't found a way through it.

You can't watch porn. I've put it on three times. One time, I watched the-Porn or? No, non-porn. I've watched I have a Patriots documentary on it, and I sat in the middle of Joshua tree, and it was an outstanding immersive experience. The second one that I did, they have an immersive highline walking video that you can be in where you're above the fjords in Norway, and you look down into the sides and shit. That fucked you up. That fucked me up. I was like, I'm taking this back.

Bring it in.

I want to see it. They don't have flight simulators on there?

Not yet, no. That's what I asked. I bought it, and then after the person handed it to me, I was like, These things got flight sims on there yet? He was like, No But there's a lot of exciting new apps that will be coming out soon.

Can you bring it in so I can test it out?

See if you can watch porn on it.

Yeah, I'll find a way to watch it.

Okay. Absolutely. Go back door on it?

Yeah, no, I got... Listen, we got ways to watch porn on this. All All technology advances are led by porn.

That's a fact. That's a fact. It is a fact. So we'll find a way. Or the NBA that tries to bring back 3D basketball games every single year, and everyone's like, This sucks. The problem with a Vision Pro is anytime you wear it, you're an absolute nerd. It's the most antisocial thing that you can ever do because you just put it on and then you sit down, and I'm making pinching motions and dragging stuff around. Jerking off. And Blake sitting next to me on the couch is like, What the fuck are you doing? It looks like you're just... Is there something flying around the room? Yeah. He hates it, so I'm probably going to take it back.

Okay. Wait, where were we? Oh, we were still in combine. Oh, yeah.

I got another combine. Tyler Owens, tight end. He says that he keeps his hands strong by massaging cows. He works on a farm. Pervert. He'll just massage a cow's back for hours on end to strengthen his hands up.

What happened to the good old rice bucket?

I don't know. This is the new rice bucket, the leather bucket.

Yeah. Then we also had the Wyoming guy with the mullet who ran a 5:0, 40, which is awesome. Lineman, he looked cool. If I was an NFL GM, I wouldn't watch any of the tape. I just watched the combine. I'd have the Wyoming guy blocking for Joe Milton, throwing it to Xavierworthy.Super.

Bowl.tell me how you stop that.

How do you stop that? That's a championship team. Okay, speaking of championship teams, Henry. Yep. So, dynasty. If you haven't been watching, the Patriot's documentary. It's six episodes in. The last two episodes were Tom Brady's…2008. Acl, and then Aaron Hernandez. Before you give us your number one Patriot of all time, actually, just give it to us. Braided. Okay, that was great. This documentary, I think it's having the reverse effect that Robert Kraft thought it was going to have. He planned this documentary to get into the Hall of Fame, and it's so clearly slanted towards Robert Kraft, but it's so slanted towards Robert Kraft that it's completely making me hate Robert Kraft.

And unnecessarily, they're going over the top to slant it.

They blamed Aaron Hernández on Bill Belichick. Basically made it like Robert Kraft was trying to save him. One piece that was crazy, that glossed over, Robert Kraft telling the story about how after Aaron Hernandez had killed Oden Lloyd, he went into the locker room and saw him working out, Aaron Hernandez, and was like, Tell me if you did it. If you did it, we'll find the best lawyer in the world. He was basically like, Just let me know that if you're a murderer, we'll defend you.

Well, he said, Aaron, tell me, did you do it? Because if you did it and you had a really good reason to do it, then I trust you, and I'll get you the best defense attorney possible to get you off. Right. That's crazy. Then he was upset with Aaron when Aaron lied to him about being in Rhode Island the day of it. But it was very clearly like, Robert Kraft was very close with Aaron Hernández the entire time. When they talk about the trade that Aaron wanted from Belichick, and he wanted to go to the West Coast, and Belichick said no, they definitely pointed at that and said, Bill Belichick is responsible for the murder of- The globe guy basically said that.

Which is crazy because Aaron Hernández had already committed a murder.

Two, double murder. It's a double murder. Allegedly, he's not guilty of those. Yeah, that's true. He did that shit. He did that.

Bill Belichick did what every NFL coach in the league would have done being like, Why would I trade this incredible tight end that we drafted who has been just ripping up the league? He's three years into his career, and I told him, do you need help? Do you need the personal security? He said, No, I want to trade. Why would you trade him? If he's going to be vague about it. So this entire documentary, though, is like Robert Kraft trying to basically take all the credit for the Patriot's success, holding Bill Belichick hostage in these interviews because he was like, I'm not talking about this. I can't even believe Bill Belichick sat down for this.

He's got to be mad. There's no way that these episodes are coming out the way he thought they were going to.

But who? Belichick or Kraft? Oh, no. I think Belichick knows exactly how these were going to come across. I think he knows when he sat down that it was going to be a Robert Kraft spin zone. I think he banked on people having a brain in their skull like us and watching it and being like, What is Robert Kraft doing?

Do you think that Bill Belichick would have ever sat down for these interviews if they had filmed them after the scene was over and after he was no longer the coach? Because I don't think he would have. Probably not. I think they filmed it, obviously, when he was the coach. Robert Kraft was like, Hey, I want you to sit down for this interview. He was like, Okay, you're my boss.

It's so over the top slanted towards Robert Kraft that everyone is watching it being like, This is clearly almost propaganda at this point, and I don't believe it. They're not letting Belichick... Belichick was smart, actually, how he did it. He's participating in the fact that he's sitting there, but he's not actually participating in any of it because he's just giving non-answers, and he's letting the world decide, and the world is deciding that they're just basically doing a hit piece on Bill Belichick.

Yeah, he's there to talk football. They're not really showing a lot of football.

The last two episodes have had no football whatsoever.

Who is responsible for the football success is Bill Belichick and Tom braided. Robert Kraft is responsible for the organization, so they've basically been like, Let's do a documentary about Robert Kraft and call it Patriot's Dynasties.

They basically did the Matt Castle episode to be like, Yeah, Bill Belichick was a good coach. He got them to 11:05 just so they could absolutely rip them down in the next one. It's weird. The whole Matt Castle episode, it's called Dinacy. Good season, whatever, 11:05. They didn't even make the playoffs. In the 20-year Dinacy run, that was one of a few seasons to not make the playoffs. Why highlight an entire episode on that?

Well, the only thing I'll say about that is you can't do the entire documentary just being like, We won, and then we again, and then we won again, just because it's not that interesting. You have to show the low points.

But they showed two Super Bowl in 10 minutes, and then they did a full episode of Matt Castle, full episode of Aaron Hernandez. I agree.

They didn't show any of the run-up of them getting back to the Super Bowl against the Giants. No. It was just like, blah, blah, blah. The Giants beat us again in the Super Bowl. Also, crazy part with the Matt Cassel- The Ms.

Field Gold in the AFC Championship, that Raven game was crazy. There was a lot of crazy games in those seasons, too.

They did show some good football. I I take it back. They showed some good football in the Matt Castle episode. There was some interesting stuff about how they used him in a different way than they used Tom braided. But one of the craziest parts that I never knew, when Tom braided tours ACL, he tried to come back and play. He goes out on the practice field. He's like, Fuck, it just tape my knee up. I'm going to play an entire season on a torn ACL. And then the training staff had to pull him aside and be like, Tom, you cannot do this. That was nuts. But it goes to show you Tom braided was definitely thinking, I could very easily lose my job due to this injury the same way that Bledso loss is to mine. But crazy that he went out there. He showed up to work the next week like, No, I'm still the quarterback. Tape it up.

Yeah, no, that was nuts. I thought the same thing. I was like, That's insane that he tried to do it. But Hank, you can't do the documentary and just show the good stuff. But I agree, they just don't. They've slanted it so far to just the bad stuff and just the bad Belichick stuff where it's like, spygate. It's been four episodes with very little football. Lossover Super Bowl, Spygate. Bill Belichick basically was holding Aaron Hernández's hand when he shot Oden Lloyd. It's crazy. I think it's having the reverse effect, though. I think anyone who's watching it, who's watching it with just unbiased perspective, I'm watching it and being like, This is so slanted towards Robert Kraft. He looks like a dick.

I think they're going to yada, yada, yada, the second dynasty, too, and then focus on the Belichick-Beleichek-Deflaking is going to get a lot.

Yeah.

That's going to be a full episode at least. You can see. Hold on, I'll look it up.

Well, one of the thumbnails is Belichick, and it says, Everyone's mad because Belichick keeps a player out of a big game, which alludes to Malcolm Butler. But how are they going to talk about that?

I don't know. I don't know how they're going to address that, but 28 to 3 is going to have an entire episode.

Probably not. They're probably going to be like, And the Patriots came back, 28 to 3.

That would be very funny if they were doing a story about the dynasty of the Patriots, and they spent 30 seconds on that football game.

So episode 7 is Deflate Gate. It's under pressure, and it says it's basically Deflate Gate. Episode 8 is Score to settle with Jimmy Garoppolo nipping at his heels in a coach that may not have his back. Braided Stage is one of the greatest comebacks in sports history.

So It's going to be braided versus Belichick.

Breaking point is tensions boil over when Belichick makes a questionable decision on the biggest stage. That's Malcolm Butler end game after a decade long run, the dynasty crumbles. So, yeah, this is just no pro Belichick whatsoever.

No Malcolm Butler.

Because, again, it's Deflategate, Jimmy Garoppolo, Belichick, benching Malcolm Butler, and then the end of the dynasty.

I think that most people that understand the complexities behind how the documentary was set up would probably take that same point of view. But I think 99% of people that watch it are just going to be like, Wow, Belichick's a real dick, because they don't understand that it's a Robert Kraft documentary.

I think no.

Like an unbiased view that does not I have any idea how this whole thing was set up. Is he going to watch it.

I don't know, dude. That Aaron Hernandez one, that's when it flipped for me.

But he comes off as such a dick because he's not answering the questions. He's basically saying, I don't want to talk about any of the things that you're discussing in the documentary. People that don't know how this interview was set up and how the dynamics behind Kraft and Belichick are going to watch and be like, Yeah, Coach is just a dick.

Yeah, but these are NFL fans.

A dick and a murderer.

Yeah, but these are NFL fans. They know who Belichick is. Maybe Maybe because we cover the NFL and we know all these stories so well, but I just watch it and I'm like, That Aaron Hernana in this episode was crazy to me.

It was crazy. If you're going to call one coach a murderer, it should be Urban Meyer in that situation.

And they glossed over that.

They did. He was a fixer. There were three things that happened to Aaron when he was at Florida that they did not discuss. Yeah, they had a fixer. They had a fixer. They brought up a fixer basically saying we had a lawyer that would just pay people off to drop charges.

Yeah. Who's your honorable mention?

Aaron Hernandez. If they're going to give him a full episode.

Yeah. I also wanted to- Or Grunk.

They're like, Grunk got drafted.

Aaron Hernandez. The story of Grunk getting in trouble within five minutes was great.

That is funny, yeah, because he was dancing on the stage too long. They're like, All right, Crock, get off.

Even the draft shots where they're making sure that Robert Kraft's in all of these videos, it's just crazy to me. Ernie Adams, by the way, is a star of it. Oh, for sure. Just because every time he opens his mouth, he's great.

For sure, the star.

Well, he also said the Seattle thing. No one else said we should have traded him to the Seattle Seahawks.

I remember that story.

You just threw that in there.

I remember that story, though, when it was happening.

Might have been happening.

Don't you remember that story when it was happening?

I mean, I'll never forget when we were with Zultan Mesco.

Yeah, we were with Zultan Mesco- Every single time. The day that Aaron Hernandez got arrested.

With the helicopter. We were filming a- The picture in the white shirt and orange shorts.

We were filming a punt video not too far from Foxborough. We saw the helicopter in the air. We saw the helicopter and we were like, Hey, this is Aaron Hernandez. Because obviously, it was leading up to it. He had been questioning all that stuff, and he just was like, Yeah, that dude's pretty crazy. I mean, even the Wes Walker story.

Yeah. Everyone in the locker room knew.

Yeah, Wes Walker being like, He's going to say some fucked up shit.

Just ignore it. He's going to stand up and like, Jack off at his own locker. He's going to say the most outlandish shit. I wanted more examples of what's the weird over-the-line stuff that he was saying at the time that everybody knew about.

But Deon Branch even said when he was like, I should have known. It seems like Aaron Hernández was basically talking about murdering people in the locker room. But that should have been- Everyone in the locker room knew Zultan Mesko did not blink.

Yeah, but the thing is, not every guy who has issues ends up being a murderer. But this happens in every locker room in America because if a guy is that good, he gets excused for things. It's like, Well, he's weird, but he scores touch downs.

I'd also like to take this opportunity to educate audience about something. If you did watch the documentary, you were misled about a pretty significant fact that we want to correct here. They said that Aaron Hernandez was the first serial killer in the history of the NFL. That's not true. That's not true. There was a man by the name of Randall Woodfield that played for-For who? The Green Bay Packers. Played for the Green Bay Packers, I believe in the '70s. He's also known as the I-5 killer. He killed, they suspect, up to 41 people. Wow. And that's all on the hands of-For the packers? For every owner.

He killed 41 people for the packers?

He killed 41 people. For the packers? He was a packer. I don't know if that was his job at the time. Sounds like he was working- His roster spot was knife, but he killed up to 41 people. Yeah, so he is the only serial killer in the history of the NFL because Hernández's convictions got vacated because he was appealing them when he offed himself.

Bad guy, for sure, Aaron Hernández.

This is an interesting sentence.

The Rooky Symposium when Chris Carter was like, If you guys are smoking that kush, you're going to keep smoking that kush. He was like, Hell, yeah. That was funny.

It's always funny, too, just looking back 10 years.

And he was sitting next to the Pounsi brothers.

15 years ago in America, if you smoked weed, people would be like, You might kill somebody. Yeah.

I think that was the Chris Carter Fall guy symposium. He got under a lot of shit for being like, You should have a fall guy. They should have probably showed that part. Aaron Hernández. They should have shown Chris Carter saying that, and Aaron Hernández sleeping during it. I'm like, Well, we didn't have a fall guy.

Yeah, that Boston Globe guy was unbelievable.Unbelievable. Which guy? Shocking quote. The guy, he was the one that said Belichick Basically murdered. Yeah.

And Robert Kraft being like, We let down the whole community. Basically, trying to… They set it up so perfectly. Belichick killed him, and then Robert Kraft apologizing to everyone.

And Jonathan Kraft being like, I couldn't wait. I had to cut him. Yeah.

Like, Okay, this is crazy. The whole thing, that was nuts. Okay, let's get you who's back. Then we have Dan Quinn. Great interview with Dan Quinn. Who's back in the week? It's brought to you by our friends at Coors Life. From day-to-day annoyances to the big stuff life throws your way. It's easy to get worked up, but there's a better way, a chiller way. Turn that canceled concert into a parking lot dance party. Too cold for an ocean swim. Play volleyball and light a bonfire instead. That's choosing chill. When you choose chill, reach for Coors Light When the mountains turn blue, it's as cold as the Rockies. When you choose to rise above it all, choose chill. Choose Coors Light. Get Coors Light delivered straight to your door with Instacart by going to coorslight. Com/take. Celebrate responsibly. Coors Brewing Company, Golden, Colorado. The weather has been incredible this weekend. We had some 60 degrees sunny days in Chicago. That is Coors Light drinking season. Oh, yeah. I felt it. Okay, Hank, your Who's Back of the week?

My who's back of the week is March.

It Yeah, this is March.

Thirteen years ago, a friend from college had his engagement party in March. I was unable to attend. He was angry and the relationship was never the same, but I always felt that he wasn't truly a great guy. Then, Kemba Walker happened. Life always has a way of working itself out.

Yeah, that is from John Rostein. I had that as well on my who's back. I'm going to say something crazy. I think John Rostein is right here. Engagement party is a joke.

For guys.

For guys? Yeah. That's a fucking joke.

Is an engagement party just for a guy or a girl? I would assume it's for both of them, right?

You have a wedding.

Yeah. It's so optional.

Engagement party is the most optional thing in the world. Engagement Party is a fucking bullshit thing that no one should even have or be invited to. John Rosteen deserves credit here. He made the right choice. Kemba Walker happened. Why are you shaking your head, Max?

I'm not.

Okay. Yeah, because- You agree. Engagement parties are a joke.

Yeah, no, I don't care about engagement parties.

No one should. It's just another way for the bride to be to show off to all her friends who aren't engaged yet. Look, I That one.

And get gifs. Yeah, you get gifs at it?

I think engagement party is like, if someone gets engaged, you tell all your friends around, Let's go to a bar. Yes. Let's have a- Sure. You go out for beers. That's an engagement.

If someone doesn't show up, especially John Rothstein, who has to work for March, although this might have been before he was working in college basketball. Either way, engagement party, bullshit. I stand with John Rothstein. People were roasting him. That was just a very John Rothstein thing to say.

Yeah. Did you expect John Rothstein to attend your engagement party during March? Yeah.

I'm going to go one further. John Rothstein was right. This guy's a fucking schmuck. He's a schmuck. What did he say? I never had a good feeling about the guy.

What did he say? I never thought he was...

I never thought he...

I always felt that he wasn't truly be a great guy.

Because he didn't respect college basketball.

Imagine being that guy reading that tweet, being like, What the fuck?

Yeah, dude, an engagement party, if you're a guy, there's no chance you're asking your friends with a straight face, Hey, would you want to come to my engagement party? In March.

In March. Conference Championship Week.

But Max is right. And per usual, I've always said that about Max. He's got great taste and things. You invite your boys to go out for some beers, and then you have a good time. Yeah.

John Rosteen was 100% right. The replies, though, were great. The first reply was, I divorce my wife so I could watch March Madness. Best decision I ever made. Wives are temporary. March is forever. Fact. It is March. It's fucking March.

It's very March right now.

It's so March.

It's like May in Chicago.

This is the most March that it's ever been. It's so March. It's so March. It's ever been. It rocks.

The other one, My wife went into labor right when the Thursday first round games tipped off in 2019. I told her I was busy watching March. Luckily, her boyfriend was able to drive her to the hospital. Lsu, Yale was more important.

Yep.

This is March.

You should just lie and say every year that you got a vasectomy during March. It's like it's a yearly thing. You have to get it reupped, so I can't leave my couch. This is March.

Okay.

My Who's Back of the Week is Artificial Intelligence in the NFL. Okay. There is a potential rule change that's going to be happening, maybe as early as next year, but probably the year after that. The NFL in a few different has been experimenting with measuring down in distance using the Hawk-Eye technology that they use for tennis. Okay. Meaning the chain gangs will be no more. I don't like it. I don't like it at all. And I'll tell you why. People are always like, Oh, we're measuring this billion-dollar industry with a chain and sticks held by old retired guys on the sidelines? Yeah, that's part of why it rocks. It's cool that we have a fucking chain that they have to sprint out onto the field and look because, here's what makes it cool, if you If they have a rooting interest in that game and they bring the chain gang out there, it's like another play that happens that you get to celebrate. When they're a little bit short, if you're on defense, you get that bump, you get that extra crowd boost, you freak out on your couch and you're off the TV. Yeah, fuck, yeah, we stopped you, bitch.

You get excited about that shit. If you make the first down, that's like another play that you just got a first down on. Couldn't agree more. If it's all Hawk-Eye technology, sometimes the technology is too good to the point where it feels like you're not watching human beings play sport Yeah.

I mean, I've said this a million times. I'll say it again. If you put AI into sports and you make robot umps and robot referees, you are depriving men of somewhere between 50 and 75 % of the conversations they have with each other. You can't do that. The world will crumble. If we can't complain about the refs, what the fuck are we going to talk about?

Nothing. Yeah. And the chain gang thing is people always get upset. I can't believe we got that bad spot. We got the chains coming out. We're still using this technology. Yeah, we are, and it's awesome. I understand that it's something that you want to complain about if your team doesn't get a first down where you think that you should get a first down. But it's fun. This is one of the things that makes sports fun.

Think about a world where your team loses a huge, massive game, and you can't go online afterwards and share a bunch of screenshots for weeks and weeks and weeks showing how your team was actually held more than them, or this call was wrong. That's not a world I want to live in. That's how we cope as men. We have to have a coping mechanism. When things don't go our way, you don't say, Well, my team is bad. You say, Well, the ref screwed us.

We're also going to have to look into the histories behind the people that work for the Hawk-Eye technology because people will be like, Oh, they grew up in Boston. They're a Patriots fan. Oh, they grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. They're a Panthers fan. And they're going to use that to explain why their best- David Tepper has funded them. That weekend, yeah. Maybe this guy worked for a company that David Tepper bought out and then bulldozed to the ground at some point. They've got a beef against David Tepper.

Did you see the new kickoff rules they're throwing out there?

They're going to do the XFL, it sounds like. Sam Schwartzstein. Yeah, they're going to do Sam.

I actually like it.

We should call that the Sam Rule.

It's the Sam Rule. From what I understand. Well, I don't like the on-side kick thing where you can only do it when you're down and you have to declare that you're doing it.

I don't mind it because they're bringing back being allowed to overload which side of the field you have players on, which is why we haven't had any on-side kick recoveries in the last two years, it feels like.

But the sneak attack on-side kick is awesome.

It is fun, yeah.

We shouldn't take that away. The new kickoff rule, though, I like. It's essentially, if I understand it correctly, the kickoff team is kicking from the 40. You have to kick it. Any touchback is the 35.

If it lands in the end zone, it's a 35. But if it lands between, I want to say, the 35 and the goal line and then rolls into the end zone, it's a 20-yard touch. So you want kickers to land the ball in the field of play and then have it roll. Yeah.

They're basically essentially trying to get kickoff returns back in the game, but less violent. So it's not 60 yards of guys running at each other. It's 30 yards of guys running at each other. And teams will have an incentive to run it back more so that they...

Yeah, I'm in for it. Yeah, I'm in for that. I like what they're doing to the onside kick, except I agree, I think you should be allowed to sneak attack people.

You have to be able to sneak attack. Okay, who's back in the week is Sydney Sweeney. She was on SNL. Yeah. She was great. She was really good. I saw her thanking everyone. People are saying, Is Sydney Sweeney bringing back tits?

Were they ever gone?

Well, there's been, I don't know, what would you say, a decade run where asses have been number one.

Max hates tits.

He does. He hates fucking them. He hates looking at them. But people are saying Sydney Sweeney might be... We might look back in history and be like, When did Tits come back? Sydney Sweeney.

I also love the fact that there was a new nutritionist online that tried to take credit for Sydney Sweeney's diet, and Sydney Sweeney had to be like, I've never met this woman before. Don't listen to her. Her diet is not what we're all thinking of. If there was a diet that made that happen, then that would be something special. But I don't think anyone concerned about her diet.

I saw a great meme. It was like, They fill us with garbage, and it was like all the milk products that we get given now. Then they give us solutions, and it's like soy milk and everything. Then it says, They deprive us of what we need. It's just Sydney Sweeney's tits.

I looked at some of those tweets today, and an insane, a preposterous number of bookmarked on any Sydney Sweeney post ever.

I mean, I have a couple of bookmarked.

Yeah. If you're looking for bookmarked engagement. I highly recommend posting Sydney Sweeney.

Let me see. Where's that one that I bookmarked?

What is the purpose of bookmarking something?

For this exact reason.

Oh, my God.Oh, my God. Why don't you just smash the like button?

Well, because then you have to scroll back much farther.

Okay, so bookmark is like a super like. It's a super secret like.

Yeah, my bookmarks are very funny. It's Sydney Sweeney. It's Lion's Head Coach Dan Campbell on his fourth down decisions. Oh, this one hurts. Wisconsin won't make it to the Sweet 16 this year. I'll delete my Twitter if they do that. I'm going to unbookmark because I won't need to go back to that. It's a Dan Hurley clip, and that's about it. Yeah.

Okay. All my bookmarks are when I got into a bookmark battle with Hank.

Hank. Oh, here's one. Hank, who's Aiden Ross?

Streamer.

Why the fuck is he in the news every day? Explain it to Hank. Hank hot in the streets.

He came up playing NBA 2K, and then he started doing IRL streams, having rappers over his house, doing free styles, went Super Viral doing that. Okay. Signed a big deal with Kick.

Okay. Is a partial I don't know what that is.

It's a rival streaming service with Twitch, Rumble, YouTube, all the... It's one of those. Signed a big deal with them. He's a part owner of the entire platform, so he's also helping get other kick creators on there. I think he has an army of people that make clips for him, so his clips go everywhere.

But I feel like he's always in beef or getting scammed or something.

He got scammed by 21 Savage. He got scammed by Playboy Cardi. That's his thing. He does. He's had a lot of his success doing streams with rappers, but then it's blown up and he's gotten scammed a couple of times. But for him, getting scammed also plays because it's like- That's all I see. It's all his views.

He gets scammed every other day.

He gets like 100,000 people watching him.

Okay.

I'm looking back through my bookmarks right now. How can I possibly have bookmarks that happened in 2021? The bookmark wasn't around then, right?

I don't know. Maybe it was.

Because my first bookmark- I think it It was.

It wasn't an Elon thing.

Is Ajay Titties saying, Babe, what the fuck does bonk mean?

There you go.

That's a bookmark. I bookmarked it.

Twitter has just become a minefield. I don't even know what... The bots have become so good, you just don't know if they're real or not.

They're all AI.

Yeah, they're repeating things that you say, but in a way that you think it's a real reply.

I saw this one guy who was like, Man, the engagement on the site is off the charts. How awesome is this? He was just scrolling through Twitter and then clicking reply and had an AI button next to it, and it would just generate a reply. And he did that for like 30 seconds. He's like, Isn't this cool? Everyone was like, No, dude, you're actively killing the Internet. Yeah.

What the hell? It's a minefield. What do you got, Hank? You got some of your bookmarks?

Matthew Stafford is 6-2 against the spread as a visitor on Monday Night Football. And then my other one is-This is good.

This is guys read their bookmarks.

If you dunk a basketball, I'll name My first born, Henry Lockwood Rozier. I don't care what my baby mama say. I'll sign that motherfucker while she got a commission.I.

Like that.That's good.

Wait, this one. I have one, Five workouts for bigger biceps. I'm going to use that at some point. How to last longer before ejaculating tips on how to last longer in bed. That's from 2011. Oh, that's when the tweet was. Kegel training to stop ejaculating fast in two weeks.

Is that guy something?

Yeah.

Or like men's health? I got a lot of those. Yeah.

15-minute dumbbell arms workout to build muscles.

Okay. Have you been doing the treadmill and watching games?

No. I have four TVs in my gym, though, so that's good. That's What the heck? I'm going to start doing it.

It was so nice outside, though. You can have the nicest home gym, and you just look outside and you're like, If I work out, I should be working out outside. Then you just never work out.

I'm focused on diet right now. Donnie has been cooking me meals, just trying to eat clean. We'll work out when we lose some pounds.

Speaking of this interview coming up, I have a bookmark from Hank Lockwood sent on February first, 2024, when Schefter announced that the commanders are hiring Dan Quinn. It just says, Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, Nothing because you wanted every other coach. No, I didn't. Dan Quinn is my first.

Okay, let's get to our interview then. It's a good interview. Yeah, Dan Quinn.

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Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is head coach Coach of the Washington Commanders, Dan Quinn. Coach, all-time football guy. Let's just start there. You're one of our favorite football guys. It feels like every time we see you when you're on the Cowboys or the Falcons, there's Dan Quinn with his hat backwards. Just loving football. So thank you for joining us. Congratulations on getting the job. You're going to be part of this show now because obviously, PFT is a huge Commanders fan. What is the First, you're what? A month in? What's the first thing that you've done to change the football culture and bring the Dan Quinn football culture to Washington?

I'm pumped about it. And one, it's cool to be on your guy's show, man. And as we're getting into it, We just want to make sure we can set a team that helped create a nightmare for other people, man. When you play us, you say, These guys are fucking bringing it. And the attitude, the intensity to swagger that goes with that, that's what I'm setting out do. And so it starts with personnel, and that's why it's cool to be with Adam. He's a lead at it in terms of finding the right people with the right fit to do it. And then on the personnel, the scheme side, the coaching side, I thought it was cool to see how many people wanted to be a part of this. And so the amount of coaches that we were able to attract, some that we couldn't add to it. But that told me a lot about what the organization means to say people were wanting to be a part of it. Then the third The piece is like that play style, the attitude that you play with, the hitting, the physicality, the ball-hawking, the explosive plays. So all three of those things are going to be what's going to make our team that.

And then once that comes into place, then we put the gas on it, man.

I like it. And I like just think about being a nightmare.

That's a cool visual to have. When somebody comes to play, it's like, Man, this is going to be a hard game, bro. You better bring your shit. And it's going to be a fight. And so that's what I want us to be. That doesn't mean you're going to win everyone. But it does mean that Hey, man, you better be ready. These guys finish. They're aggressive. And if we can create that identity, the wins will follow.

I like that. I like that. Very important question for me right off the bat. The backwards hat. When did you decide to go with the backwards hat? What was that decision like in your mind when you're like, Okay, I'm going to be a defense coordinator for Dallas. I'm going to flip the hat backwards. We're turning over a new page right now. And then the follow up to that is, are we keeping the backwards hat this year on the sidelines?

Yeah, I think somehow the hat is definitely taking on a life of its own, which I was unaware of.

Colin Cowerd hates it. Yeah.

Okay. Have you seen over the top?

Yes, of course you have.

Because I always assume when you go backwards-That's when it's going on.

It's on right now. So I would say I probably been doing it my whole life. Sometimes it's backward. I'd say maybe 70 %, but not all the time. And that's just how I like to wear them. And so it's what I do and how I do it. So, yeah, that's how we play. Okay.

I like that. And on a serious note, when you were figuring out what you want to do for your next step, I know you had We had some interviews last year. You had other teams interested this year. You said in your introductory press conference that you're waiting for the right position with the right alignment to open up. What does that mean? What was it about the commander's job this offseason that separated itself from all the There were opportunities that were up there?

You know what's cool, PFT? All 32 of them are different, and they're all awesome. And there's only 32 of these things in the whole world, and so that is badass. But having done one before, I also know I have to find the right fit for me, too, to be at my very best. And so I was looking for a really specific thing. And if I didn't find it, I wasn't going to have to go chase it. I was happy doing what I was doing. But if there was a space that could create from ownership to general manager and allowing us to create that identity I was talking about, you'd be crazy not to take that up. And so it just so happens that when all this alignment came, it's like, that's it. That's the one. And so going through that process, you're guarded, but you're like, damn, you want this one to happen because you know you can help create it there and to have the chance to do it like a historic franchise where football means a lot to this community. I grew up watching the NFC East. I grew up in New Jersey.

I remember seeing games and watching games. And so knowing how important this franchise is to the NFL and to the community, that meant something to me, too. So every once in a while, when the stars aligned, man, you got to fucking go let it rip. This was my to go do that.

It's a football town, too. It hasn't been recently as much. That's all right. The opportunity is definitely there in DC to be the one team that ties the entire community together. I think it's a great opportunity, too. I really think it's like a sleeping giant. When you said, I like to do hard shit with tough people, what's the quote you like to say?

Yeah, I like to do hard shit with good people.

Hard shit with good people. This is hard shit. That's the best. I like doing good shit with hard people, too. Yeah.

Hard shit. Both things are good. Yeah.

All right. I'm going to bring up a bad memory, and I would assume when people say they're going to bring up a bad memory with you, you're thinking Super Bowl. This is not a Super Bowl question. This is a bad memory for me, specifically because I am a gambler. I want to take you back to 2015. I want to take you back to, I think it was week nine or 10. You're playing the San Francisco 49ers. Do you remember what happened in that game? Yes. Why did you kick a field goal on the one-yard line?

Yeah, no shit, right?

I was so upset. I actually went back and I looked at my-How much do I owe you? Listen, I looked back at my blog, and I'll say this. I was at least... I defended you a little.

Can I tell you why it was going to go?

Okay, yeah. All right.

So we had a fantastic place kicker, Matt Bryant.

You were down four with four minutes left on the one-yard line.

So I thought, We'll kick it. We'll stop him. We'll go drive it again. Matt will kick it again. So it was pretty easy for me to see it at the time.Made no sense.That's because you weren't there.

Yeah. All right.

So here's what I wrote.How much do I owe you?

This is what I wrote. And I defended you a little bit. You shouldn't. I Started the blog with Dan Quinn shouldn't be fired. He is just in year one. There you go. But he should have to take the most rigorous neurological exams known to man. Also, he should 100% be fired.

Well, the first part was definitely fair. I think what happens as you're going through it, those are scars you have.

Yeah, me too. I still have that scar.

I think that's why sometimes you're better on your second lap. I had to go through those and make the mistakes and say, I ain't ever doing that again. Yeah.

Okay. Can I get that promise from you? Oh, yeah. All right. If you're ever down four on the one yard line again, under four minutes, you will not kick a field roll. That's right.

There we go. That feels good.

But no, on a serious note, yeah, I regret it that. I had a clear vision. We weren't exactly crushing it in. So we had got stopped three other times at the one. So it wasn't like, okay, let's just slam it again. So there was a thought to say, kick it, stop them, go. And they weren't hitting that. It wasn't like a shootout of a game. So I thought, okay, this plan. Then when you don't hit it, it's a scar that you're there. But you do have to learn from those. And I say, when you go through and you make mistakes, I'm not doing that again. But you do have to go through them. It sucks, but you did, and I did.

I feel like this is a healing moment. I finally can put this to bed because I also didn't tell you that probably for the next five years, anytime a team was like, fourth and one on the one, I'd be like, Dan Quinn would kick it here. So I did do that as well. But it brings up a good point that I actually wanted to ask a serious question. A lot of head coaches, the second time around, they have a lot more success because they did learn. So is there one specific thing that you learned at your time in Atlanta that you're like, this is what I'm going to do different, and we're going to be better off for it?

Yeah, I would say there's way more than just one specific thing. But I think that's why you have that space to do that, where I had three years to say, What would this look like? What would this look like from staffing to personnel to however you want to think about it? You can slice it in a lot of different ways, but having specific plans in place just for that reason alone. So there's a ton of them, but those are all the lessons you go through and say, All right, man, when I get this chance, if it happens again, I am missing that.

Yeah.

I believe you when you say that, too. It's funny that Big Cat brought up the field goal thing because I was talking to Sean, the PR guy for the commanders beforehand, and he was like, What questions you think you're going to talk to? I was like, I think Big Cat is going to bring up this one field goal in a time. I get it. In 2015.

He sounds like he didn't harden his heart, but he definitely did. Yeah.

No, I was carrying it around. It was a wait. I feel like I'm going to sleep well for the first time in eight years.

Yeah, safe place. I feel like we're in a good space right now.

Yeah, you promised me. I've got a little visual exercise here that I was hoping we could do together, Coach. Got it. So I print out a picture here. These are two guys. Well, really three guys. But the guy on your left here, that's Drake, right? And the guy on your left here, his name is Caleb. So just looking at Caleb and Drake, which guy do you like more?

I would say Drake.

Oh, you like Drake more than Caleb. And the fat guy in the middle, his name is Jane Daniels. Yeah.

So you still like Drake? I can't even see it, honestly.

Yeah, but you said Drake. Drake really jumped off the page. Drake wearing the blue right now.

I think he just had a little more swag, look a little tougher. Okay. I've been drawn to more toughness. Okay, that's a good thing. Maybe you guys like khakis. I don't know. That's not my thing. That's a good answer.

How involved are you right now in the scouting process and the draft process? Is that going to be Primarily Adam's call, or is that going to be a combined call? Is it going to be a group decision, or is ownership involved in that?

Well, it's definitely Adam's first. That's his superpower. The best thing when you see a coach and a general manager working together is knowing what players you need to fit the system. That's been one of Adam's strengths. Wherever he's been, whatever the team needs, that's what he's going to find. It's not like this is the only type of quarterback or the only type of receiver. I think the best of the best do that, to say, Hey, this is what the team needs and how to fit them in. I like being part of that process. I've always liked the scouting side of coaching. I think if I wasn't coaching, I would want to do something like that because I like seeing how you could feature a player, what unique stuff they have, and how do we put them into the offense or the defense in a return game that's unique. So when you have and you can find those players, what would we do and how would we feature that player? And that's the fun part of coaching. Yeah.

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One other part that I assume is fun of coaching is you don't get enough credit your coaching tree. You've got a lot of guys who coached under you, Atlanta, who now have head coaching jobs. I'd have to imagine that's one of the best feelings to be able to have guys come along and then go fulfill their dreams throughout the league.

Absolutely. Because if you played some small part in that, to share a philosophy, share a lesson, share something, allow them to do their thing, I absolutely in that. And there'll be a number on this staff as well. Yeah, that's cool. That's here in Washington that's going to rock it. But I am super proud to see some of these guys at league meetings, Kyle, Matt, Rahim, Mike. I'm sure we all have a beer together and hang out. But those times, that's a really cool thing. I'm super proud of those guys.

Were your feelings hurt a little bit when Tony Pollard didn't know that you took the job for Like a week? No.

I love Tony. That was crazy. Yeah. And he's an awesome dude, man. Now, he is rock solid. So Tony would have to have a lot of bad days to not be cool with me. Okay.

That's good. Have you been in touch with your players on Dallas to be like, Hey, I look forward to kicking your ass twice a year?

No. When I left, I texted him before I took the job just to say, Man, a big piece of why I got this job is because of you guys. And so I wanted to make I shared that gratitude with them because I wouldn't have been in this spot to have chances had it not been for them. I chose to go back to Dallas because of them as well the previous season. So I wanted to go fight for that and see where we could take it. It didn't work out at the end, but I did want to show my gratitude for them. There's some good dudes that I'll be connected with for life on that. I love that part of the game, those relationships. And wherever it was, there's still people on every team that I keep up with, and there'll be a lot from this one as well.

So speaking of your coaching tree and all the guys in the league, when you're coaching against them, and this is going to be a very dumb question, but this is how my brain works because I'm a dumb person. If you're coaching against someone that you know very well, do you ever outsmart yourself where you're like, I'm going to do this because I think they're going to do that, but they know that I'm going to do that because I know that they're going to do that, and then you just get in a circle?

You could. I think I know that you know that I know that. Well, I would say, you guys cover football. So what's awesome about football, it's always changing and evolving. So Things that any of us did two years ago, four years ago, six years ago, whatever, 10 years ago, it evolves and changes. And so I think that's a really cool thing about our game, that nothing's staying the same. And so this formation looks like this. It's playing different. This disguise looks like this, but it's playing different. And so you enjoy competing against guys that you know. But as far as like, don't do this in this scenario because they're going to think that you're going to do that. No, I've done that, and it's way better to let the players do their thing and let it rip.

So off of that, and this is maybe a nerdy football question, but is there a specific time that you remember making an adjustment in a game where you were like, That was the adjustment I made and that won us the game? Is there maybe a game that sticks out in your mind? Yeah, we did that and everything worked after that.

I think you have to sometimes, and so much is now going into analytics and scouting and all the different stuff. Sometimes you have to absolutely throw an entirely new wrinkle at to somebody. You put four linebackers on the field as opposed to three and like, why are they doing that? And so sometimes you just need to do something a little different that it presents different, but it may It might even be that different for you, but it looks way different for the offense or vice versa for the defense. Those are called unscouted looks. And so those are things like, They ain't never shown that. And so those happen. And if you do those in those critical moments where They think, Hey, every third and sixth, they blitz, or every short yard, they do this. But if you throw some unscouted looks in, that's usually when those moments come. You got to practice. It can't be something that's like, Hey, put eight guys on the right side and see what happens. It has to be sound and good. But if you have those unscouted looks like, Yeah, they fooled me there. Something they hadn't done. So sometimes you work on those for weeks and weeks, but you keep it in your back pocket as you're telling the team, Yep, this one's ready.

Nope, this one's not ready yet. We're going to keep it in the for a little while. And then when you're ready, then you can let it rip. But those are unscouted looks of things you haven't shown, and it's not as traditional as you would have done.

We're not getting 11 safeties on the field at the same time.

Yeah, right on. It's like some things are just weird, and that wouldn't work.

And They might call a time out because what the hell is this? Yeah.

Those things help. You can do it in any phase, but you do have to have those things ready. That's sometimes time out. Why they call it? So at least they had to burn one. They had to get out of a look. So And that's an offense getting out of a bad play or defense, something like that. And so sometimes making an offense or a defense use a time out, especially if it's their last one, that's a really big deal in a game where they have no more timeouts left. So you can take strategy down to any level. And if you give those looks, those things help.

Send the punt return team out there on third down. They're like, Wait, so are you punting right now?

Call time. Is it fourth down?

Yeah. No, you do some cool shit on defense for sure. When you were in Seattle with Pete Carroll, he He seemed to have a type for his defensive coordinators. He liked guys that had shaved heads with goatees. Was that your idea or did he make you shave your head?

No, you had to have it.

No, that look does go back quite a bit. I saw some pictures of you playing at Salisbury, and you looked like a psycho.

I wish the Internet wasn't... I thought that we were safe. No, you looked like you were a psycho linebacker in college.

Can you confirm that? Were you crazy?

Yes, of course. Back then, it was all bench press, how much you could do. And that was it. We didn't have sports performance training. So it was just having fun and kicking ass. And so I had a blast there. It was great. I did football on track. But it was that day of football and today's day of football is a little different.

How much could you bench?

Yeah, that's a New Jersey question.

Okay.

Can you work out? Yeah. How much you bench? Where do you live? Yeah. My cousin Tony does. He does 405.

What is the max?

405. 405. Yeah. You were a psycho. You were crazy. You You probably gave some pretty fired up pregame speeches.

I don't know about that. But all those experiences, man, like coming up and having fun with everybody, those are cool things.

When you were coaching the Falcons, could you feel when Arthur He came down on the sideline? No.

We could. Yeah. No, he was always down. I knew he was there.

He was hovering like, Hey, what's he doing?

That was his thing. He was just trying to show he was in. So at the end of the game, he'd come down. I knew there was a time he did. I didn't know when it was, but that was just his way. Everybody's got their way to show, Hey, I'm here with you. The hardest parts, best parts, all that. And so that was his thing. Yeah. That's where it stemmed from him just wanting to show like, Hey, I'm right here with you at the fight. So I thought So I thought it was actually cool.

Is there going to be anything different with your relationship with Cliff, your OC now that you just got, as opposed to your relationship with Kyle when you were in Atlanta? Is that something that you learned from in the past, or is that something you thought worked well in the past that you want to keep going?

Yeah, I think it's super important, how can I best support all the guys? From an offensive guy, I can give some insight as the defense is, what they're playing, some of the rules are, how they're doing it. So that's how I would help when I went to the quarterback room or they were talking about a certain blitz. I've enjoyed that through the years. But that's my role to make sure the play style and the standard is what we want it to be and how it looks, because like I said, I got to make sure that part's right. All phases. Sprinting off the ball, getting after it, being explosive, finishing plays. I'll make sure I have my part into that.

Some unsolicited advice, you can take it or leave it. If you get a chance to talk to Cliff, say as a defensive guy, you know what keeps me up at night is when offenses do planned downfield laterals. After you make a catch, a reception downfield. That's always open rugby style. Pitch it off as you're about to get tackled. There are lanes and channels that open up as a defense swarms to the ball carrier, pitch it out to the side, explosive play.

I've been trying to-It doesn't sound unsolicited. It sounds like you're pretty solicited.

It's very solicited. I am trying my best to get this in the brains of as many football guys as possible because I truly believe that it could be the next wrinkle. I mean, we've seen it a couple of times. It happens. Travis, Kelsey always looks for it. But it is something where defenses are coached to sworn to the ball, where you open up lanes for people downfield that could have an explosion in the back.

Like anything, when you emphasize something and you practice it, that's when you get better at it. And so for me, studying rugby, there's lots of good tackling that goes, but the precision passing when you do it. So if anything, if you add in, which I think is a good idea, you just got to practice it, man. You can't expect to do something in the game because you tried it once. So if it is what you do, you got to get it on all the time and get those things going because things like that are good if you have a player unique who can spin it and throw it because you can't just lateral it and not have it be where it's supposed to be. It's like passing, one foot right in front of the numbers. That's where you want the ball. And same thing if you're going to lateral to somebody, I want it one foot right in front of the numbers. So if you could get to that detail doing it, then you're on it.

Sounds like you've thought about it.

Yeah, you have.

I like that.

I got some more unsolicited advice for you.

Un or solicited.

It's all solicited. Have you thought about the fake punt-punt?

So like a rugby style?

No. So you snap it and then you look like you're faking the punt, and then you lateral, and then you punt.

But wouldn't the guys be downfield some?

Well, yeah. They're like, Oh, shit, they're faking it. But then you actually end up still punting.

Yeah, let's see some more diagrams on that.

It sounds like it confused you a little. So it might work.

Okay, here's a good one. This is more of an in-game scenario for you, though, right? In-game? Okay. Yeah. Let's say, hypothetically, it's the NFC Championship game, and you're down what? 8 points? Eight points. You're down eight points, and it's fourth and goal.

Fourth and goal from the seven?

From the seven-yard line. You're down eight points. Would you kick a field goal? I think there's what? Two minutes? Yeah.

A little over A little over two minutes left. Playing against the best quarterback of all time.

Yeah, the best quarterback to ever exist is on the other team. Would you kick a field goal, try to get a defense to stop, and then get the ball back and try to score a shutdown, or would you try to score a snapshot?

Did you give me time or any of that stuff? Or does that not matter? Because you're saying...

Yeah, so I'd say- Do you have timeouts?

Two or three timeouts?

Three timeouts? It was N7. Yeah, I think you'd probably kick it there. You'd kick it there? Yeah. We've been over this. Don't kick it. Not the one. You were at the one.

Okay, all right. That's fine. That's fine.

That's why I asked at the seven.

That's fine.

That was a Matt Lafleur question.

That's fair.

Seven is different. Inside, you got to go.

Yeah. Well, this is eight.

You know what I'm saying? You were at the seven.

Yeah, fair. That's fair. That's right.

All right. Well, I have one last question. It is the rowback question. Robobeack. Com, promo code, take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowback. Com. How many times does 23 come up in your head? Just randomly.

I hate to ask that. It's been a minute, Okay. All right. That's good. That was once a scar. Not once a wound, now it's a scar. Like I said, there's all things that you'd like to do different. But that's certainly not going to define me as a coach or in my life or anything. I like that. I'll tell you what, playing in the Super Bowl is as fun as it gets. And so I'd rather be on that stage every motherfucking year and to put yourself out there to do it. And I very much look forward to proving that moment to go win it.

I like that answer. Also, last question for me. You're down 14 and you score, let's say there's five minutes left. Do you go for two?

Yes.

Yes. That's our guy right there. That's our guy. That's a great coach. That's a great coach.

Small math. I don't need it. Yes, small math matters. No decimals, that stuff. No algebra, right? I like it.

Yeah, no letters.

It's actually the only math we've ever understood. So we don't understand analytics whatsoever. So we basically just preach it because it's the only math equation we've ever understood.

There you go. Makes sense to me.

Well, thank you, Coach. We appreciate Whatever you need from me, I'm here for you. That he means that. Consider me some shadowy member of the organization.

Whatever you need.

Dirty work, anything.

You need to kill a guy?

You'll do it. You're my guy. I would kill a guy for you.

You'll pop the trunk if it has to go down?

I would press a button. I would press a button that would kill you.

He's your fault guy.

That's actually a great point. If you can either ask me to do a chore or if you have to blame somebody for something, put it all on me and I'll eat that. Be like, This asshole, PFT, told me to do it. I have no idea what he's talking about.

That's solid, man.

My mistake was trusting my guy, P. F.

If your analytics department ever fails you, he is your analytics.

That's solid brotherhood right there.

I'll eat it. Listen, we're on the right path. Adam Schefter last year said that we were in the Super Bowl. That's a step in the right direction. We got Dan Quinn. We got Cliff. The draft goes through us, basically, at number two. I'm pumped, man.

Yeah, we are too, man.

Left hand up. That's what we do in DC, by the way. You go left hand up. And you flex. That's That's hard.

Yeah, that's hard. That's hard. Well, thank you, Coach, so much. Best of luck. I'm happy you gave me that promise.

I feel like this is going to be good. Leave me your account. I'll put some Bitcoin in there.

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Okay, let's wrap up with the Monday reading. Found this one on the New York Post. It's titled Just Two Cans of Soda Per Week is Too Much.

They did this on purpose.

Even if you exercise, study.

The study claims that two cans of soda is too much.Yeah. That's two cans of soda in a week.

Oh, a full week. In a week, not a flight. In a week. Workouts are rendered worthless by soda consumption, scientists warn. Drinking just two 12oz cans of pop per week can effectively erase the heart health gains made during exercise. According to a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, pharmacologists at the Université Laval in Quebec City analyze health data from approximately 100,000 adults over 30 years to find the damage done by sugar-sweetened beverages can't be overcome with the average recommended workout quota about 150 minutes every week. They said, Max, are you working on 150 minutes a week? No. Are you drinking more than two sodas a week?

Honestly, yes.

Probably not. Yes. No, that's a lie.

Max, come on.

I don't drink that much soda. Max. I would argue I drink the least amount of soda on this podcast.

What are you talking about, Max?

Max. You guys, whatever.

You had two on a flight.

Yeah, Max. It might have been three. Are you saying that the New York Post did this on purpose on a 30-year study about two sodas?

Yes. The New York Post is just obsessed with Sports, and they knew exactly what was going to happen when they posted this article.

They wrote a vaguely unintentional headline that had something to do with you for this. Yes.

How many replies were about the fucking soda?

I don't know. I didn't see the replies.

I did. It was in my fucking mentions all week.

I love that the New York Post might just be getting into the max content business.

I mean, that's all New York Post does.

Wait, is Was it the New York Post?

You think you drink less soda than Big Cat and PFT?

I will drink a soda on a plane.

Is that the only time?

Yeah. I mean, I drink beer, which is obviously worse.

I think I do about two sodas a week.

I think two sodas a week sounds accurate.

But I don't do 150 minutes of workout a week.

No, this week I'm getting back, though. Full week.

All right, let's go.

This week, I'm back.

The moral of this The whole study and every study that you ever read is that- That's an enormous sweet. Anything that you drink or eat in life is bad for you. Yes. It changes on a week-to-week basis, according to the most recent study that's published by the New York Post.

Red meat has been bad and great for you 100 times over.

Yeah. Red wine, terrible for you. Also might make you live forever. Yeah.

Coffee is the same way. They do a study about coffee, and they're like, People who drink coffee live forever. And then the next one, Coffee's bad for you. It's crazy. Coffee's It's great for you.

They do the same thing with sex stuff in headlines, too. People that have sex X amount of times per week, live 20 years long.

People ejaculate within five seconds, live forever.

Actually, it's like if you look at the evolutionary aspect behind coming fast, it makes sense. You get in, you get out. We're alpha males. Before you get chased down by like-It's not pleasure, it's business. If there's a velociraptor that's running after you, you have to nut in less than five seconds.

The Canadian team noted that two sodas every seven days could be considered relatively low by many consumers, yet still presented significant health risks, Max. Yeah. You know what? Let's have a big week. This is our last week. We have a relatively great week. We actually have Diana Rossini coming on Wednesday, and then we have Pat Bev, which we taped on Saturday. Not looking for a shout out for working on Saturday, but we did work on Saturday. Coming Friday, so we have big interviews coming this week. We don't have to travel. We can all work out. All of our toilets are working in our apartments or houses.

Everyone, all of our apartments are in great shape right now. Great shape.

Shane, you good? Wait, Max, you're not raising your hand.

Pug, is there shitwater on the floor of yours?

This isn't Firefest. It's not shitwater, it's clean water.

We're not doing fire. You don't do firefest. What happened, Max? You have shit water in your house?

It's clean water.

You clogged your toilet and you came home to your house flooded? It's not a clogged toilet. Okay, let's start from the beginning. This is just what it is. Did you come home to your house flooded?

Yes. Clean water from the back of the toilet.

Wait, wait, wait. Where was the water coming? All right, so-Yes, the back of the toilet.

Hold on, hold on. Which if you know anything about plumbing- Step by step, did you come home to your house flooded? Yes.

Was the source of the water the toilet? No. The back of the toilet. No, no, no, no, no. Answer the question. Was the source of the water the toilet?

The clean water from the toilet. Just say yes or no.

That's the answer. Was the source of the water the toilet?

I I gave you the answer.

Just say yes or no. I gave you your answer. Top of the toilet. Was the source of the water the toilet? Back. Was the source of the water the toilet? Answer the question yes or no, sir.

Sure.

Max- All right, I rest my case.

I have another question for you. Would you take an empty glass of water, dip it into the back of your own toilet, and then drink that water?

No, but it is clean water. Everyone knows that it's clean water. Why would you drink it then? I won't do it because you... I won't do that. But it clean water.

Why not, Max? I'm confused. It's clean water.

You upper decked your own toilet?

No, there's an issue with my toilet. This is not a thing. From dumps? From too big a dump? No, there was an issue with the make of my toilet in my apartment. It broke. Clean water was coming out of the top of my toilet.

If we had the toilet in here right now, we could talk to the toilet. Would the toilet say that he's stressed?

The toilet was under normal stress.

Would the toilet say, Yeah, my job sucks a lot, and it's really been taking a toll on me, and that's why I decided to malfunction in the back?

Would he say that?

Numbers. Max's toilet would want to kill itself.

It sucked. I It's stuck.

I wish you could get Max's toilet better help. If that toilet could talk.

Imagine Max walking in the bathroom. It's an old toilet. Oh, God.

I had the building man in the room. Not again. And apologizes. He's like, Yeah, this is an old part in the back of your toilet. We should have had this replaced, and then they replaced it.

And then they got on the radio and they're like, Big dumper in 206. Over.

So it's shitwater.

It's not shitwater.

It's water that you wouldn't drink because it has maybe...How.

Bad was the flooding?Not shitwater.How bad was the flooding?It sucked.

I had to throw out all the carpets in my-Because there was shit water on them? It's clean water. It's clean water.

You guys know nothing. Where are you getting carpets from?

I need to get a carpet. Memes, can I get a quote card that just says, Max, when you came home, was your apartment flooded? Yes. Was the source of the water, toilet? Yes. I just need that on a quote card. I never said that. You said, Sure.

I never said it. You said, I never said that.

You said, Sure. I said sure. I said back, clean water. You said, Sure, though. Yeah, you said, Sure. He's just nodding along like, he's got you there.

What does your apartment smell like now, Max?

It was clean water. What was the water smell like?

The The thing is, you guys know what I'm talking about. That's not my question.

You know what I'm talking about, and you know that the back of the toilet is clean water.

I was asking you what it smelled like. I asked you to open in the question. You're thinking I'm setting you up.

Is there at least a second where you thought it was a dump?

No, because I've been having this issue with the back of the toilet all fucking week. So I knew exactly what the issue was. No, it was a part in the back of the toilet.

You don't dump in the back of the toilet.

I know.

I don't think you know that.

I was trying to help you. I was saying that to Big Cat. I don't know.

I just assume everything that you guys say is just trying to get under my skin. I know.

So, Max, how much work do you think the little socket is that goes in and out and stops the plug? Would you say that maybe it's got a lot of miles on it?

It's literally just flushing. It's literally flushing anything.

But when you hit it, I bet you were a hard flusher.

We're not allowed to piss. We're not allowed to piss in this fucking show.

Hardest working socket in America. We're not allowed We're not like that.Mac smashes the handle. I piss in the sink, so don't look at me.

It's literally that. See, that's the thing. You know what the problem was.

That's what I'm talking about.

That's the exact problem was that socket that you flush.

The gasket, yeah. But I'm saying that when you hit your handle to suck down your meaty logs, you probably smashed that. Yeah.

It's stressed. It's stressed.

It's just an old toilet.

That poor toilet.

You guys are such a fucking war.

They put it down. They put it down.

It's true war. They put it down. It's a true war. They put it down of its misery. Max's Toilet's President's age.

It's the meme of the guy coming back from Vietnam. That's Max's Toilet. So a lot of helicopters in the background.

You do volunteer this information.

Verbal meme.

But this isn't an embarrassing thing.

No, if you just say the words, My toilet flooded in my apartment floor.

But it has nothing to do with me at all. Everyone listening knows, but Big Cat's fucking dumb ass brain who just loves to just get on this fucking airwaves and be like, Look how fat Max is. Look how much he has. How could I spin this on the show to make Max look like a fucking asshole? It was just a bad part of my day. It's a bad part. Sometimes you come in to work and you have a shitty part of your day and you just want to talk about something that sucks.

Wait, so it was shitty?

I love you, Verbal meme. It's the blonde lady on the couch, and that's Max's toilet. Then all the African-American gentlemen around her are Max, Max, Max, Max, Max My toilet flutter.

Where do you think that goes? He's got the cans on. Pug, can you agree with me, Pug?

Hey, Big Cat, hypothetically, if you drank a lot of soda and that corrosive energy was going through your body, it would probably dissolve some of the rubber around the gasket, right? Yeah.

Pug, what do you think?Put on Pug.20. Completely agree, Pug. Max, I haven't said numbers yet, so that you now have to go last.

Numbers.

I'm going to go 20. 40.

3. Come on, 20.

Pug? 99, Pug. Shane?

21.

Okay, I'll go 77. Max?

I don't think. 32.

I've got to root for you here, Max.

Come on, 20.

Fifty-five. Fifty-five. God damn it, would that have been great if it was 20?

Love you guys. I'm talking away.

I don't know what I'm meant to say I say it anyway. Today is my day to find you shying away. I'll be coming for your love, okay? I'll be coming for your love of king. Take on me. Take me on.

I'll be coming for your love, okay? It's the better to be safe than sorry. I'll be still a little way. I'll be gone. And I'll take your turn. All the things that you say, yeah, is it liable? Just to play my worries away. You're all things I thought to remember.

You're shying away.

I'll be coming for you anyway. You're shying I'll be coming for you anyway. Take on me. Take me on. I'll be gone. In a.