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What we saw today was what we've been waiting for the entire season. They turn a corner, they flip the switch. I was going to say they there turned a corner, flipped the switch.

I'm not sure which one it might just be. The uniform is more than likely. It's because it got Dunlop rushing the passer and they cheated because Dunlap's wearing number forty three.

Yeah. And he looks like a running back. It makes no sense. Yeah but it's. Yeah it's like when you watch a college player like Jadeveon Clowney in college, I was like, that guy is not going to be good the next level because he wears two or two. Yeah I was right. He's not good anymore.

Mm hmm. But yes, this was this was a I wouldn't say it was a full on Seahawks weird game.

No, no. It was. Let's give credit to Seahawks did not play a weird game for the first time in primetime.

And as long as I've been watching football, it was more of a I think we're right. The Kingsbury's kind of a limbo. I don't really understand what Kliff Kingsbury was doing at the end of the game. I don't know why they were throwing to the end zone like three times in a row when all they needed was to just keep moving like they had enough time.

Well, it's because Kingsbury is a member and he remembers what happened last week. And he's like, let's just keep doing that.

Yeah. Let's actually move back and try to get a Hail Mary. But I yeah, the Seahawks had like a decent game. They ran the ball, OK? I mean, neither defence is like great, but it feels like this was more of a must win for the Seahawks. And they answered the bell didn't lose three in a row, three in a row. Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll in there. Well, you know, their time together are now eight no after two losses.

So we've never lost three in a row. I didn't know that. Yeah.

So that stat is alive.

And that's also a mark of a really good football team, really good coach football team and a really good quarterback. I'm not going to say. Do you think Russell Wilson's MVP back on. No, no. Sonder ninety Sachsenhausen is when you run the ball for one hundred sixty five yards.

Yeah, I think that, you know, he had a good game for sure, and he should have had a second touchdown to Dick Metcalf.

JP Metcalf is what you're doing because he peepee his hands.

Not great. Right in the face. Yeah, right in the face. Right second once. But the first one, to his credit, had you had a nice touchdown catch and then he drew an assault.

That was an all time boneheaded play all time fourth down, just like taking a swing, a do not forget about the situational awareness in the game of it being fourth and one, but if you try to fight DK Metcalf, you should be suspended just for your own health. Yes, because you need to get your brain examined. Yes. Yes, I agree.

He's a scary big dude who's very, very muscular. But yeah. So Seahawks back on track. Cardinals, I don't know what color.

Like he definitely wasn't healthy like he was. His shoulder looked it looked like he was bothering me all night in color. Murray, we said this before, but Calamar is the type of guy that when it's not working, he's just short. Yeah. And tonight he was short. I think he was definitely hurt.

They were shoving ice packs. He wasn't terrible. It's just which is never a good sign for a quarterback. Yeah, he wasn't bad. But against that Seahawks defense, you expect more. You got to eat a little bit if you're Cuyler Murray. Right.

I got a dumb question.

Does Russell Wilson have like a specific like Holder for his mouthpiece inside of the top of his face guard? I wouldn't be surprised.

Is that customized? Because it's always in the exact same spot. Yeah, puts it in. And then he takes out a second before the snap. A little cup holder.

My second hot take was I don't think that quarterbacks with visors will win a Super Bowl.

Ever has a quarterback with a visor won a Super Bowl ever.

I believe you played quarterback Flacco in high school. Did not. Where does it Foles had that visor for?

He was good into content. Either way. I just I feel like it gets smudgy. Right. Definitely gets smudgy.

It's a weird look. Did Cam Newton have advisory Super Bowls?

He did business. Yeah. Oh, Iser. He lost. Yeah. I'm trying to think. Yeah, you're right. I think you're right to say. You understand how divisive? Yeah, he's a I think you're right. Yeah. All right. Should we talk a little real quick NBA draft about sneeze? But I'm not holding back.

No, you're not. God bless you. I got it. I held my sneeze back. Anthony Edwards. I retract. My God bless you. Now we're going to talk about some fake news on the other side of this ad coming up with Jason MacIntire. Joe, Judge put that story that Anthony Edwards brought his own food. Benihana was hilarious.

Also all time weird interview for Anthony Edwards to be like, yeah, I actually like football more because you can celebrate and stuff, but I like that.

I actually like the Anthony tells me that he's smart, that he likes football more the football games.

Also never, never set expectations too high. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then things go wrong. You know, he, he, he set himself up perfectly.

Congrats Big. You didn't get over the top end but you got a flower delivery guy, which is really cool.

You know, the you got you got six best player on a bad college team. No, the bulls are so you know, the it was OK to want to know how to do flowers. The goals are so good.

If anyone dies on the bulls next year, they'll have they'll have a great spread these days. But he's like the guy from the town that's. Yeah, that guy was a bad person. A florist. Yes.

So he's so he's going to give heroin to everybody, correct? That is, if he doesn't do the opponents, he might have a chance. No. The bulls are so good at drafting seven. They just took what they thought was like the seventh best player at four. Yeah.

So and then but I'm not you can't be a fireguard parks guy and then immediately trash the new front.

And then Klay Thompson, unfortunately, looks like he has an Achilles injury, as first reported on Twitter many times by Hank. Hank was very excited to break that news.

Yeah, I got a I got a news breaking rush hand up. It's I mean, it happened on this show before. It was because we were recording mid recording the podcast and I got a random text shows like kind of a joke with the people in the room where I was like, oh, breaking news, guys. And then I read it and I was like, should we tweeted?

It's like, sure, let's tweet it. Let's see, you know, a tweet from the fancy podcast. And then Sham's tweeted it like a minute later. I was like, oh, shit. We were we were on it. If you turned out it was his Achilles, not his ACL.

So I'm sorry. And, you know, I hope for the best for Klay Thompson.

Yeah. Unless you can get cloud from tweeting out another injury of his, in which case you'll do that.

No, see, that's the thing. It was it was you guys know the news breaking high. I don't know what you're talking about. It's a it's a very real thing. Wow.

This is sad. You know, it was this is like you got it on his other my dog. This is like it wasn't you.

But were you before before Leroy broke news, we used to break news as a unit. You guys were the ones that got me. You guys were the ones that gave me my first. We put the spike in you.

Yes. Yes. All right. Well, if you want to, you can have Norm's dick have its own Twitter account, and it actually.

Oh, but the rules talking about that dogs are so confusing as, yeah, that dog's dick is the most off limit dog dick in the history.

And then next thing you know, we're selling post. It would be very funny. Watch. It's coming. If Adam Schefter had to say like as first reported by by Norm Hanks Hanks dogs dick.

Yeah. Norman's Dick Norman's penis. You can never fill the shoes. I'm sorry.

I don't know. Just let me know what the rules are or anything else. The ball. What.

Oh, that is awkward that he's going to Charlotte and LaVar Ball so that it could be Michael Jordan one on one. I mean, they got to play one on one, they have to play one on one. And Michael Jordan will make LaVar Ball cry and yeah, that will be topping. I am a little sad but whatever.

He's also like twenty two. That's what you can do to yourself. Can you say that I, I start watching the Knicks again. Oh look at you.

Look at you. Billy believed they were unwatchable. Billy Roundball Fair-weather fan.

Maybe we can get them in the studio sports but your Obi Toppin would come in for a podcast.

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OK, we can preview. We got Warren Sharpe coming up so we could talk some football with him as well.

Before we get into the games, though, Joe Judge got in a fight with Mark Colombo. Not true, but we're going to choose to believe it's true. Joe Judge, football guy of the year.

It would be a lot cooler if it was true. And I really hope that there's still some element of truth to it. But apparently he fired Colombo and then Colombo took exception to that. Then basically they titty bumped. There was some disputation of it saying that they might not be even in the same building. Yeah. So it might have happened on Zoom in which case was he didn't like the reaction button, the fist emoji.

I don't know exactly what happened. I just saw the story. Mark Colombo, by the way, Bear for life, but he is, I think, six, eight. I don't know how much he weighs now, but let's call it 280 now.

Big fucking guy. So show judge, just the idea that Joe Judge would possibly go at an offensive lineman, a former offensive lineman, now offensive line coach means it. Joe Judge has officially changed the culture for the New York Giants, and they are a goodish football team. Am I crazy to think that it's a good sign that you've got your coach that's willing to fight his assistant? Yes, I can. Probably with tennis balls taped to his hands.

I like that because if I was if I was a Giants player, I look at Joe Judge and he's not really much to be afraid of.

Yeah, but just knowing he has a little bit of craziness to him, you kind of respect that. So I hope that it's true. As far as coaches go, I would probably have rank Joe Judge towards the bottom.

I think that but until I learn that he might have gotten a fistfight with Columbo, I would say I could probably beat up Joe Judge.

Yeah, but now that I'm thinking about it, he is he is a true football guy and like running wind sprints. He Joe Judge, let's say this Joe Judge would not win a fight against Mark Colombo door.

Joe Judge probably wouldn't wouldn't win a fight against a lot of people. Joe Judge would never be scared of getting into a fight.

Yeah, I'm not afraid to get my ass kicked.

He is he would relish the opportunity to get a little bit a little bit of blood on his nose via an offensive lineman, six, eight, 300 pounds.

I'm officially taking Joe Judge off my list of NFL head coaches. I think I could beat up. I think the only people that are on the list right now. I want to say, Zach Taylor, I think I could beat up Zach Taylor. Yep. I think I could trip Romeo Crennel with the Pete Carroll and his twin at the same time. Yeah, yeah.

They're old. I think he kills a biter, though. They're very old. But I could not beat up Kyle Shanahan.

I used to have him on my list, but I feel like he's too flexible.

Andy Reid, you could just kind of run around with maybe a thin rope and just like lasso him and then he'd topple over.

I think if I got in a fight with Andy Reid, I would just I would get close to him and I'd just be like, I can't stay mad at you.

And you end up hugging him. I could beat up Matt Nagy for sure. Yeah, just shoot. That play sucks. I could not beat up Jon Gruden because Deuce is right next to him and also just about us.

Yeah, well, Deuce's like his pit bull that he has, like on a leash next to him ready to attack at any given time.

Bruce Arians take we pretty much just take all the old. I would just I would just hide all the liquor from Bruce Arians and let the dogs take care. I think that actually would be bad. He'd probably get so angry that he'd fuck, you know, his body would go into into a state of convulsion. Yeah, that's a seizure. All right. Let's do some games real quick. Anything we want to talk about. Let's start Eagles. Browns.

Oh, I'm going to say about this game is this feels like a game that the Eagles are going to win for no reason other than that they have to win a game that's important. At some point along this way, I looked up.

The weather is still going to be Cleveland. Whether. So they've got God on their side right now, but doesn't it feel like the Eagles, eventually they have to win an important?

We keep saying that and I think probably they might be my falcons of twenty, whatever, 17, 16 it was where they haven't played their best game yet. Eventually the Eagles have to play a good game. I don't think it's this week. OK, I like Nick Chubb too much. Yeah. Even though he fucked us over. All right. Falcons. Saints Jamous. Yep. James Jim James is going to eat this weekend. I don't care.

I just let him. The only thing I'm worried about is that that Sean Payton says we need James to run Drew Brees office. No, you need James to be James.

Well, I don't like is that they've got Michael Thomas back and they're trying to incorporate him a lot into the game plan. I can't think of a wide receiver that fits Jameis Winston skillset less than Michael. Correct. Just running slants, just going as close to linebackers as possible.

Pat. Yeah, stay just tell him I know that your captain slant runs straight down field. Go deep. Go deep. All right. Bengals Washington football team, kind of a who cares game, but maybe the Washington football team wins and then all of a sudden they are back.

This is one of those games where both teams have it circled on their calendar at the start of the year as a surefire win. Yes. Yes.

Same with this one. Lions, Panthers. I feel like both teams are like, OK, this is going to be a win. Probably not, although no, Tedy.

And also, how do you handicap Matthew Stafford's wife going viral? That's true. And then apologizing. PJ Reviver, PJ Walker, NFL legend, getting the start. I think he was on the Houston Roughnecks, right? Yeah. The the second best team in the NFL.

I like I like the Panthers in this. OK, like root.

I think Matt Ruelas is a much, much better coach.

I mean, you can always.

Matt, Patricia, stupidity can always surprise you always. This is another example of how we're losing mats when it comes to the quarterback position. But we're getting tons of mats on the head coaching staff. Yeah, even out the universe.

You don't say that I'm hard on our friends.

Where does that where does that. You're not Patricia's broadcast. Yeah, you did that the whole time. So the scrolling rating or our posture.

Mm hmm. He did. I've got great posture. I don't hate him. I just think he's a defensive coordinator. That's curious. I was just checking.

I think that Matt Patricia is without a doubt the dumbest rocket science on the face of the earth right now.

Can I say something that's very depressing, but I'm going to say it and I fully believe it. Well, so this. If the Lions win this game, my itty bitty run would would come true. So they would be five and five on Thanksgiving Day. But I think if the bears lose on next Sunday to the Packers, I'm officially in. I know the Bears can't get a good draft pick, but rooting for the easiest schedule. OK, that's good.

That's the I north to get the easiest schedule. That will now be my new slam dunk. Well, they get a quarterback that things could bounce, you know, their way back in twenty twenty one. Big spin zone Steelers Jags.

Just a reminder, because it needs to be said the Steelers are one in ten. Against the spread is a double digit road favorite under Mike Tomlin.

So Jake Lutin, we're doing the gluten dance.

Godet, you just got to take the Jags against the spread. I'm starting to embrace the fact that the Steelers are fun.

We'll talk a little bit about that with with Warren Sharp and a little bit.

But the Steelers are a fun offensive football team, and it's taken me like probably two and a half years of them actually being electric on offense for me to accept that.

Yes, Titans, Ravens, this is the official wheels fall off bowl because the loser of this game, the Titans, go and play at the Colts.

The Ravens go and play at the Steelers.

The loser of this game will be facing three losses in a row right in their fucking face.

The loser of the game is absolutely fraud. I actually think I think Baltimore wins and I think they win easily because the Tennessee Titans, they just stink.

They're just as I've been I listen, I got a lot of shit for saying that back in September I was wrong.

I'm man enough to admit that I was wrong about the Tennessee Titans. They stink right now unless they turn into feed tractor seeto. It is tractor SEATO season, right.

Are we are we going with December? November. November should be. Yes.

Typically when trying to be place, Campbell, if he's not playing, that's a problem. That's a problem. Patriots. Texans.

Hank, easy. Are you worried at all that the Patriots are part of my. I can't lose Parlette. No.

Are you sure? Can't lose probably has lost a lot recently. It's due, I think, as a Patriots runaway. Ten plus.

OK, they can't lose parlay real quick. I'm going back to the roots. It's all money lines. No fucking around with anything. It's the Patriots.

It's the Chargers. It's the Vikings in the Chiefs.

We got to hold right now. You love that opposite of all. We have a hold and yeah.

You love it. That's probably when it's a safety. The Vikings play the Cowboys.

That's probably one. And the chiefs, the chiefs are my thing that I think is the best can't lose part of the season. Wow. I like the positivity.

I like pretty much every other underdog.

It's also set up that, oh, wow, that safety was huge for the point. Spread huge. Hank. Sorry, Billy. Sorry.

Very happy about that safety. Ecstatic about it.

We're going to we're going to time travel.

You're going to hear us talking about the end of this. Give the game at the beginning of the game. All right. Next up, Dolphins at Denver.

I kind of like the Broncos in this. OK, I have a couple of stats in the altitude.

Has two ever played this far above sea level in his life? Oh, good question.

Oxygen? Yeah, I do not know. Two stats for you. Denver. This is just a stupid stat, but I love stupid stat. Denver, only ten against the spread since two thousand five when hosting Florida teams.

OK, significant is significant significance because when you think about how great Tampa, Miami and Jacksonville have been over the last ten years, that's a stupid, stupid stat. But think about it like Tua grew up in Hawaii. Yep. They have mountains and the SCC, they've got volcanoes.

I don't think they have any football fields on top of them.

You could toss around.

We'll have to see if they do have a football stadium on top of an active volcano there. Yeah, they he played in Alabama. Obviously, there's no real wet. Rocky Top is probably the highest elevation. You're not going to fact check it, but it sounds true. Yeah. And now he's in South Florida. Yeah. I think this is his first time dealing with low oxygen.

OK, years ago the Nattie was in Santa Clara. No, no, that's not close to Colorado. I'm going to. No, not at all. That's very close to sea level. Very close. Very close. They should just take the four or five.

They should put one of one of those little oxygen meters on his finger during the game because I've been sucker dips below ninety.

Yes. And then here's that number two. So since two thousand six, that's when Cuba was created.

Drew Lock is on pace for the four hundred and twenty sixth out of four hundred fifty sixth worst Cuba ever of any quarterback.

Yes, there's even four hundred fifty six Cuba's ranked. So I think there's a you know have to play a certain amount of games. And Drew I could be for twenty six out of four fifteen.

I'd do the fourth quarter only he's number one much higher. He's not much higher.

Trulock Garbage time king also he's still going to be hung over from watching the easy Gucci Mane versus Yes I jets' Chargers Justin Herberts hair that I didn't mind it.

I did not mind Justin Herbert's hair.

He looks his hair was his was the defining thing. His hair was like, oh, you know, his hair looks cool. I like that now. Good hair. Looks like he plays Clint Eastwood son in a movie set in the fifties. I like that. He looks he looks like a bully. Troubled youth. Yeah, he looks like what I would say. He looks like the older brother in Stand by me right now. I like it.

And I respect the fact that he had his strength and conditioning Coach Buzz's had with clippers and he didn't go. That changes. They didn't go to the team doctor, which is smart because his head would have looked like John F. Kennedy's afterwards. That's smart. Yeah, that's smart.

OK, Packers. Colts what? Billy he kind of looks like Brandon Darcy.

He did a little bit. He had a little bit of a vibe of, like, this kid, you know, like he kidnapped a five year old, bashed his head in rock.

But all business, though. Yeah. Put all this in. Justin Herbert to wrestle mania, please. Packers. Colts. This is actually just I'm excited for this game. It's a big test. I think this is a we will find out who is a good team out of these two teams.

I feel like I've been saying that every week about the Colts. Yeah, but this is a real like I do think the Colts have issues. We'll have issues with Aaron Rodgers, but vice versa. I think the Packers defense is going to have some issues with the Colts offensive line. I just I'm excited to watch this game.

And it's a late game. Hank, you have four late games. Is that OK? That's great. OK, Cowboys, Viking.

I'm going to withhold judgment until I know if the roof's open or closed in that roof close to me like the Colts roof open. I like the Packers.

Totally fair. Cowboys, Vikings, Vikings better win by a hundred because I have them in my can't lose Parli and also to get the truck. This might be elected on game. This might be the Bears.

Yeah. I mean, sure. It also I do think there is this is one of my dumb theories, but I do think when you play a good defense and then you play a bad defense, everything just looks easier and everything feels easier. So I think the Vikings will have a lot easier time.

Hmm. I don't know. I like the Vikings taking the Vikings.

Yeah, no, I am to. All right. And then last Chiefs, Raiders, the bus game. So the Chiefs took I'm sorry, the Raiders took Vic. Three laps around Arrowhead when they beat the chiefs and apparently the chiefs are perturbed by that, I do think that Andy Reid off by and this is right when we're going to start being like, oh, yeah, the chiefs are way better than everyone. This is a game where Patrick Mahomes throws for five touchdowns.

Right.

It's the start of the chiefs being like, yeah, they're the best team in the league.

They're going to be three touchdowns this week where it's going to take you three seconds after plays over to be like, is that Michael Hardman or is that one of the other guys? That looks exactly like Michael had wide open guys?

Yeah, I did love Jon Gruden in I didn't realize this in real time, but against the Broncos on last Sunday, he ran the ball 11 straight times.

Yeah, he loves that. That's awesome. He loves it. But that's I don't think that's going to work against.

No, I just respect anyone who does. I respect any coach does. OK, I like the fact that Jon Gruden did tell his bus driver to just circle the safe circle like that. That is that's the ultimate. They're like, Jon, we're going to miss our flight, not just keep circling back to important around the soak this shit in like buzzards around around a carcass.

That was a big win where you support to the Al Michaels Vegas preferences because their first NBC got switched the bucks. That's true.

True. Oh, yeah. Is this the first time we're going to get to see a Legion stadium and night at night we are week two.

We had. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the Raiders. Saints. Yeah. That was Monday, right. That's Michael. That's when I played last weekend.

Yes. Yes. So I'm excited for that game. Great Sunday coming up. Great Sunday and just throwing in extra. If Wisconsin loses Northwestern, I will be blocking Darren Rovell.

I think that's more than one for you.

And I'm excited for Bedlam and I'm excited for Indiana to get still get hyped. I'm just excited once.

I'm excited to see the name Phoenix on the screen multiple times on Saturday. Just do it. What a great name that Phoenix Jr. Do it once. Do it once. All right.

Let's get to Fantasy Canadians, a little new spin and then we will have Warren Sharp and bust.

It should be, you know what it should be fantasy. Like a fantasy aid. It's all right. Let's do it. Hankey, does he have a last name?

Hey, how are you? This just buster to me always will be. Got to get back in his voice or eat boys. It's my name is Spinner Mason. Spinner Spinmeisters, Spinster Indorama. My stardom is salt, salt, salt. It's going to get a little snowy here in the coming five, ten months because it's always snowing up here in Canada.

Yeah. Yeah. Some salt put on the road not to give them a place. Nah not too much salt. And you can't get home. Can't get off. You drink honkytonk can't get a good edge with your skate there. My Sidahmed. Yeah. Melvin Gordon Gordon taking already have a big name. He's not much of a driver so they're going up against the Dolphins defense this week. He's on your team, he's a big name but you want to put him on your bench.

That sounds like real fantasy advice there.

Sleeper is Avril Lavigne. Oh which one were you talking here. The original. Ah, the new. The original. The original is from Canada. She's ah she's our home. She's our big died about ten years ago but I got impaled on check progress cat. No no no. Avril Lavigne. She is my sleeper. She's a beautiful queen. What's your accent. Manitoba. Now I'm losing it. I'm always earth. Oh yeah. OK, thank you.

There. What's your name again.

Spiner. Mean spirited by real Canadians. Know what that means.

Oh shit. Did you just do something cool to here. It's one of these sexy things. Not old guy. I don't know. I don't have the intercourse and you better like meet spinner's being or not one of the biggest playboys in Canada's history. Oh wow. Hey nice. I'm Bahi. Hey Partners. I'm Wayne McMillan. Now I'm starting this week. I'm starting flapjacks. You're not good at coming up with big names. I'm going to go to Wayne Martin Flapjacks now.

There's gold. I actually said he had a great need. We need to do it because I got a great Wayne McMillan man, we call it. We got flapjacks on the menu this weekend at the Wayne House. We call them fluffy syrup and you flip them, turn them into your favorite shapes. Just a real treat for the whole family. Make a maple leaf. All of them make us silver dollars shape, you name it. It's always good to follow up on Chouf.

Nice little child. Oh, poutine.

I'm I'm sitting Canadian Thanksgiving. Take a seat now. We've had our turn. We had our turn in October. Now it's time to smile for our neighbors down south when they put the kournikova's on the square bulbs and all the all the graphics on the local news channel on the transmission's there. It's good to celebrate and to share Thanksgiving with our neighbors to the South America. I think they canceled that bullshit. Yeah, I heard about my sleeper's Chase Claypoole.

He's Canadian, you know that. Yeah, I did. Oh, Chaser's Canadian. We don't call him a Steeler. We call him a borrower. That's a little Canadian. Humor translates to running from a pool to play. Good one spinner. You talk about a trading on this guy. I hate to go ice fishing next to him. Spinster. All right. My, my. What's up, guys, of Graham Borden, a Grammy, Gore Graham, are you of name Gordo?

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I support all the Canadian guys in the NFL, especially the ones that aren't in the NFL.

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What my system is Timbits. You got to make sure that you get your weight down a little bit before Thanksgiving here. So maybe cut out the Timbits this weekend. No, thank you. I'll take a pass on your on your system. And then my sleeper is I don't sleep on this one guy's bedroom. It's a little bit of crazy. It's crazy. Down in Oklahoma, they do this game called Bedlam. They all get wild and crazy. But that's going to be a great game on Saturday.

So I'm not sleeping on that one. If you don't take the over and bedlam, you're a die hard sucker. Yeah, you're a real poo poo pants. Hey, how are you guys? It's Bill Muskat from Saskatchewan. My stardom is poutine. You know, get a little poutine. Put the gravy on it. You don't sound Canadian there. You sound like my start on schedule. And Roughriders, are you Russian? Are you find a balance between the Russian and Russian agent.

I'm thirty of my sleeper is the Vancouver Love Team, which is just a couple negril. That sounds tasty. Now sleepy. Stay healthy. That's Michael Vick. Yeah, it's a nice warm teaspoonful Nyquil that'll here. What else ails you. Sleep like a baby. There it is. I think the food's getting cold here.

I'm getting a phone call. I should pick it up. Hello there. Hello there. Okay, we'll be right down. OK. OK, see you soon. All right. Well, I guess we're going to have to eat the food. Yeah, let's. That's Canadian fantasy Canadians fancy knucks fantasy Kanaks. Let's though we'll see if that works. I don't know.

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OK, we now welcome on our good friend Warren Sharp at Sharp Football. You can find him on Twitter, his sharp football analysis, dotcom, sharp football stats, dotcom. He's got a podcast on the Wringers guys on NBC Sports.

He's all over the place. We're going to talk a little football. We're going to kind of you know, we do this every month, catch up with what's going on. So let's start with and we're going to tape we're taping this on Thursday and we're going to run on Friday. So it's before the game tonight, the Seahawks Cardinals game. But let's start there. Obviously, this can all sound outdated, but if you're we've been talking about it.

Russell Wilson has not looked great the last few weeks. The Seahawks defense is abysmal. What is the fix for the Seahawks and is there a fix?

So I don't know the fix on defense. I do know that the last time that they played the Arizona Cardinals, they did not. Jamal Adams, so Jamal Adams being there might help a little bit. You obviously have to try to do your best to contain Collamore and prevent him from running the football and doing damage on the ground. So, Jamal, they could try to use Jamal as like a little bit of a spy because they have been playing him down in the box a little bit more.

But it's tough on that side of the ball. I really don't know if there is a legitimate fix because their personnel are bad. So I don't know really what you can do to fix your personnel issues. What you can do offensively, though, is help your defense a little bit by making that opposing offense more predictable. And that's you've got to get these leads and maintain them. And they've obviously struggled to do that since they came off the bye.

I remember them heading into the bye and they were undefeated. And I was like, wow, they've got to early bye. It's only week six. I wonder how they're going to deal with that because they were rolling up until that point. And, you know, they said, well, we like it. We like because we think we're going to get guys back healthy. But they've dropped three out of last four games since they came off that by the only win was over the forty Niners who were terrible, very injured, and Jimmy G left that game.

He was playing hurt to start with, as it turned out, and he ends up leaving that game. I think part of the part of their defense is going to look a little bit better when you get past this Arizona game, because once you're done with this Arizona game, you're going to play four teams, three to three of which are from the NFC East. That should make your defense look a lot better. The Eagles, the Giants and the Washington football team.

You also have the Jets sprinkled into a little Adam Glass action. So I think the defense is going to look a little bit better from that perspective. Offensively, they look good. Their last game out against the Arizona Cardinals in the first half, especially, they had a 10 point lead at halftime, only had three third down attempts and like 18 first downs, which is really good. We want to stay out of third down. But the problem for that game later on and then for the last couple opponents is that one of the things that teams are doing for doing against Seattle is not crowding the box on early downs.

They're daring the Seahawks to run the football. So they're playing coverage and they're like, we know you guys have changed up this year. You want to pass the ball a lot more on early downs. Fine. We're going to flood the coverage. We're going to dare you to run the football. And it's going to be up to Pete Carroll and to Russell Wilson as to how much they do want to say, fine, we loved running, but we loved passing, but we got opportunities to run the ball here.

So that'll be interesting to see tonight against the Cardinals as well as over the next couple of games.

So when it comes to the running game, they've been minus Chris Carson for a while. He's a really good running back. I've had like a weird little obsession with Chris Carson ever since he was drafted. I always thought since that first preseason preseason game, like this guy is a top ten running back in the NFL when he's healthy, he's not healthy that often. But is the reason the Seahawks aren't running the football because they don't have Chris Carson, his backups are like that significant of a drop off or as Pete Carroll just taken the whole like let Russ Cook thing and just over adapt it in.

That pendulum is going to take a while to swing back.

Well, I don't know how will I hope it takes a while. The swing back. I hope it's not something that happens suddenly because this is what they needed to do for a while now. I mean, last year in the postseason, Chris Carson was also injured and they were still running the ball in the playoff game with Travis Homer and Marshawn Lynch. I mean, I don't know what they were even thinking at that point in time. And it's crazy to imagine that that team still was run heavy on the road in Green Bay in the postseason, and now they completely flipped the switch.

But I've been begging for them to do this exact thing for a couple of years now is is you've got one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. Let him throw the ball on early downs. You need to try to build lead, stop trying to come back in the fourth quarter. So without Carson, yes, runs are less efficient. It's still, though, it doesn't necessarily matter the exact running back. And we see that with the Carolina Panthers, with Christian McCaffrey and how well Mike Davis has been doing.

More of an impetus is on when you call the run. And if you call a run in a smart situation to run the ball, which is when the box is light or down in the red zone or in short yardage situations, that is when you're going to have the most production. It doesn't necessarily matter who the back is. Some guys are obviously more talented than others, better at breaking tackles than others. So you might get a little bit more production there.

But I think that as long as they're calling runs, when it's efficient to run the football and not running into stack boxes on first down, they still should be somewhat successful. But you're right, getting Chris Carson back will make a difference for them.

I want to talk about the Steelers real quick, because I feel like when we talk about the Steelers, we always give a lot of credit to their defense and their defense is good and they've been good for a while, but they're sneaky.

Kind of a fun offensive football team. And you don't always think about that when you talk about Pittsburgh Steelers offense. You know, back in the day, it was just like give the ball the running back, get four yards, repeat until you win by, you know, twenty to seventeen. But they're putting up points. Has Mike Tomlin done anything significantly different in his play calling this year as opposed to years past? See, throwing away, you know, the games that Ben Roethlisberger wasn't the quarterback last year.

Yeah, well, they brought in a guy named Matt Canada and you guys know him from college because I know you guys are college football hounds. And so Matt can really go with Preece. That motion out there still hardly using any play action. I still don't quite understand how they can't improve that usage because they're one of the worst teams in the NFL, but actually using it. And then when they use it, it's basically like a throw away type situation.

They could design some things to make that part of the game plan a little bit more efficient. But what they are doing more of is a lot more press that motion and they've got more wide receivers out on the football field because they've got some good wide receivers. They're actually healthy right now. So that's when you would want to use them. And so Ben's becoming more of like a facilitator and distributor of the football is working out really well for that offense.

Granted, they haven't played to stifle competition. But let's just take you know, we talked about the play calling of the Seattle Seahawks. And I focus a lot on play calling because players definitely help win and lose games. But game plans themselves can help win or lose games before the games even start. And one of the things that I loved about the Steelers from what I saw last week is you guys remember Ben Roethlisberger had those double knee. Whatever happened to him in the Dallas Cowboys game where I love the picture, that big cat always tweets out where Ben's wrapped up with the ace bandages and icepacks all over himself any time he starts talking about his injuries.

But he left the game for a little while, comes back, wins the game in Dallas. But he's dealing with these double knee injury. Then he's on the covid list due to close contact. So he's not even at the facility. He's not even practicing the entire week. Now, some coaches may take those two things and say, well, maybe we should design a little bit more of a run heavy game plan. And then other coaches might also look at the weather forecast and say it looks like it's actually going to be pretty windy.

There are some gusts here in the forecast against the Bengals last Sunday in Pittsburgh. Maybe we should factor that in along with our quarterback not even being in the facility and design and more run heavy game plan. But you know what the Steelers offense did? They went. Seventy five percent of their plays were passes through the first three quarters of that game. They were up twenty two to seven at halftime. And even in the third quarter of that game against the Bengals, they still pass the ball on seventy six percent of their offensive plays.

This shows me that they know a run game is not great and we're not going to force the issue. Their pass defense sucks. We're going to pass the ball because we've got a good quarterback that we trust. And Ben with Ben was playing well and they continue to pass. So I think that's a perfect example of designing a smart, intelligent game plan before the game even happens, not getting scared, not doing the conservative thing, but attacking the opponent's weakness, which is the Bengals pass defense and their pass rush, which is terrible, which I think is going to help Alex Smith a lot this week.

I'm actually excited to watch your Washington football team this week, but I think the Steelers are a legitimate team and right now they are in a dogfight with the Kansas City Chiefs for that single possession of that first round by there's only one this season and only one of these two teams is going to get it. There's only one lost between them thus far. Great rematch game Sunday night in Las Vegas for the Chiefs. And obviously, the Steelers need to avoid a look ahead against the Jacksonville Jaguars team because next Thursday they host on Thanksgiving the Baltimore Ravens.

That game is going to be massive, obviously, for their ability to win the division as well as futures in general and then getting the first round. Bye. They can't afford to look past lowly jaguars to to take on the Baltimore Ravens on Thanksgiving.

Matt, Canada was the guy who who put up seventy against Nebraska in the Big Ten championship game when he was offensive coordinator for Wisconsin for a single year. He basically took the play calling away from Brett Beelman. They put up seventy on Nebraska. All right. So you mentioned the Ravens. I assume you heard the interview where Lamar Jackson essentially said, like, defenses are calling out our plays beforehand. Do you see that with Greg Roman? Because something similar happened in San Francisco when they were explosive, new, innovative with Colin Kaepernick, then it kind of regressed a little.

Is that happening right now or is it more that they just don't have the talent wide receivers, missing pieces on offensive line, et cetera, et cetera?

Well, it's a combination. I think they need to change their philosophy a little bit. I wanted to see the start of the season a little bit more ability for Lamar to come to the line of scrimmage inaudible based upon how many men were in the box. And if he's not getting favorable looks, get out of those plays. But so often Lamar comes to the line and just, you know, they they just call the play that whatever's been called, regardless of how the defense appears to be matching up with them.

So that would help. But I do sense a little bit of the predictability, but sometimes it's like the defensive players are just guessing. Right. And it's not necessarily giving them that big of an advantage, but it's enough to make the quarterback frustrated, you know, which I think that Lamar is. The other thing that defenses are doing differently this year is they're playing a lot more man coverage. And so they're daring. They're trying to. Give extra defenders the ability to get into the box as necessary and making Lamar beat them in man coverage.

LA is great in zone when he can use some moves, play actions and find guys in the gaps in the zone and hit them. But in man coverage is a lot more difficult when guys aren't reacting to the play action. And it's also a lot more of a challenge for him because you're down some of the key blockers that you have in the run game. So your runs are no longer being quite as productive. They actually need to be passing the ball.

More on first down. They have one of the highest run rates on first down. Lamar, I mean, this may surprise you because it surprised me. If you look at the numbers themselves, Lamar has better efficiency when he passes the ball on first downs this year than he did last year. But the team is running the ball more this year and the runs are far less efficient than they were last year. They've they're down a run blocking tight end.

Boyle, who just got hurt recently, they were down multiple offensive linemen because some got hurt. Some work here for this season. Yanda wasn't here. So they've got new pieces there that weren't there to start the season as well as last year. And it's something that they're going to have to overcome. But I think this offense is still a work in progress, trying to make up for some of those losses in personnel and adjust to the adjustments that the defenses have made to try to slow them down.

Makes sense. What about down in New Orleans? This week is going to be interesting because Drew Brees is out with a shoulder injury, right? Correct. Yes.

Shoulder and a really bad shoulder injury. Maybe, maybe Sean Payton, maybe. Maybe a bruised rib. But this is it's interesting because they've got obviously Jameis and Taysom. And last year we saw something similar where Teddy came in and he was the guy. It was like a mixture of Teddy and then Taysom. And it was like it was a little conservative at times with Teddy. But are they going to see this matchup with the Falcons and be like, we're going to let James Cook or whatever the Jamous eat?

Are they going to let James eat against this Falcons defense or is it going to be pretty conservative?

Well, I will tell you, interestingly, today, Alvin Kamara was not at practice, and I heard that he was limited on Wednesday with an ankle. So it's going to be interesting if he can go because that he's the type of guy, even though he's running back, completely changes the game plan. Right. Like, you can try to work around not having Michael Thomas as a receiver, but Alvin Kamara does too much in both the run in the past that it will be very difficult.

So I'm still optimistic that he's going to play. I've heard nothing to say otherwise, but any time a guy practices one day and then the next day, he does not practice, not necessarily great sign for his availability. But we'll we'll pretend for the purposes of this discussion that Kamara is up there because we haven't heard. Yeah, he's not it is going to be much different having a quarterback like Jameis than than Teddy, because I feel like Teddy really follows in line, falls in line with what the coach wants to see happen, where he wants the read to be, where he wants that ball thrown and pretty much like managing the offense the right way.

Whereas I feel like Jameis wants to prove himself a little bit more.

I know. Yeah. Yes. Jameis is a wild stallion. Yes. That's a very diplomatic way of putting him himself.

Teddy listens to his coaches and will make good throws and sees linebackers.

And Jamieson's Jamous, this is Jamous. I'm excited to see Jamous in a full game with the lasic, though, because we see a totally new a new eyelid gets turned over here and we get to see a much better Jamous.

But there's no doubt they're going to have to dial things back a little bit more, because you're right, you can't if you don't have Drew there, you can't turn the ball over. And this Falcons defense, that's secondary. They're young to start the season. Then they had a bunch of injuries. Some guys missed some time with covid issues as well. They're getting healthy and they're really playing hard under their interim head coach. And I think they're doing a really good job, much different defense right now than they were at the middle point of the season.

And it's not going to be a step over for Drew for the Saints without Drew Brees to really take it to him.

Yeah, remorse. I mean, they are playing a lot better defense. Give us and you're going to make some people mad. But that's OK. Give us your fraud alert teams. Give us a couple teams that their record is probably looking OK, but there's some suspect things going on. And it can be it can be simply that they just don't have enough to get to the Super Bowl. So it's not saying they're not going to get to the playoffs or they're going to, you know, you know, not whatever they can get to the playoffs.

But you see some things that are going to rear their ugly heads when the rubber meets the road and they get to January football.

Well, it's more difficult right now because it was a lot easier a month ago. I did call out the Tennessee Titans. At that point in time, I got some. After that, as soon as they won a game and then they really haven't looked all that great since that point in time, right. So I'm not going to come back and say I was right. But I do think the Titans are a team that needs to change their philosophy a little bit when it comes to run.

Pass when they go up against a good run defense. Throw the ball a little bit more on early downs and you may see that it opens things up for Derrick Henry later in the game. He always seems to turn it off later in the game anyway. But don't get yourself in a hole like they were doing at some points to the Colts. Remember that game last Thursday against the Colts? They came out and they threw the ball on the first drive to work the ball down the field.

They had three first down passes to work the ball down the field. Only one Derrick Henry run the entire drive put up seven points. After that, they went 60 percent on the rest of the way and their runs were not very effective at all. They got themselves in a hole in same type of thing happened against the Pittsburgh Steelers. So this is a team when you're talking about can they go the distance in the AFC in the postseason when you might be facing some teams like that, like the Colts or like the Steelers?

You've got to come out throwing the ball a little bit more. So I still am going to keep them up there. The Raiders are an interesting team. I can't wait to see what happens this week. I mean, everybody's so upset with this bus situation. And I think this bus situation is one of the best thing that's happened this season because we get like a little rivalry. And and then we got Gruden blaming the bus driver. I mean, I'm sure you guys have discussed this a fair amount or will, but this has been a crazy situation in Denver, I'm sorry, in in Vegas this weekend.

But I think that this team. I don't know, I like car, they had some edges with car in the game against the Chiefs the last go around because of the way that the Chiefs defense was playing, they were daring car to throw over the top and he was beating them and he was doing that. I still don't think that this team is a team that's going to go far in the postseason, even though they're six and three a team in the NFC.

I would probably say the same thing to we obviously should at some point. Packers, did you just whisper to the Bears or the Bears out front?

They suck the entire big difference. The entire premise of asking you this question was to get you to say the Packers are soft and that the Giants can beat them in the playoffs.

Packers, I think this game. So I do want to talk about the Bears with you because they suck.

Warren, I just want to talk to you about the play calling with Matt Nagy and Laser. But with regard to the Packers, this is going to be a fascinating game this weekend. Will or won't Davante Adams be able to play? I think that their defense I know they get a couple of quarters back, but I think their defense is somewhat soft and finesse a little bit. I think that you can have some success on this defense. Offensively, though, if Aaron Rodgers gets protection against the Colts, the Colter set up to stop the run and they're set up to like with their great linebackers of stopping maybe your tight ends or your running back passes.

But if you have Adams up and if you have Lazard back and playing, I don't know, at least forty five percent of their snaps, he's going to be on account. He's not one hundred percent healthy, but they're going to be able to attack this Colts defense in a way that most offenses that have played the Colts haven't. So I don't think the Colts have this top five defense that no offense is going to have success against. We saw with Baker Mayfield was able to do against these guys.

I think the Packers should be able to have a little bit of success through the air here. But in general, I do think that the Packers, while still a very good team, our team, that probably will have a little bit of difficulty when it gets late in the season, like OK with the Bears.

It's interesting because you said Matt Lazar, I don't know those affiliations. I don't know if that was a Freudian slip, because when I was watching the game, I was like, they gave a play calling. And it looks exactly like Matt Nagy's play calling. So are they the same person or was there actually a difference between Negi and Laser's play going on on primetime?

I was actually more frustrated with what I saw on primetime than I was with Matt Nagy, and I was frustrated shit with what I saw from Matt Nagy. Like, this is a team that goes out and drafts tight ends. They bring in tight ends. They have a shitload of tight ends on this squad. And if you look at the data, it clearly shows that they're significantly better passing the ball from twelve personnel. What is twelve personnel do? It gives the appearance of of a potential run one run an extra tight end to have in there one running back to tight ends.

You're exactly right. And those tight ends can help in pass pro at times.

And you're Graham good for Jimmy Graham. You don't reconsider when you do the twelve personnel. Are we counting Jimmy Graham or is that eleven and a half personnel.

It sort of is eleven and a half because he does not line up in line to run block very often or to even pass pro. But the point remains that these guys are great when they throw out a twelve and they're terrible when they throw out of eleven. And so what did they do on in the game on a Monday night? Thirty three drop backs. Only three times did they have less than three wide receivers out on the field. My mind was completely blown by how heavy they went to three wide receivers.

When you're three wide receivers aren't even great beyond Allen Robinson and you're much better passing the ball from twelve. The other thing that I want these guys to do, cat and just pay attention to it the rest of the way, because I know you and I were talking back and forth during the game. The whole concept of play action and throwing the ball behind the line of scrimmage is unsuccessful. It does not work. Play action gets the linebackers to hesitate in their drop to come up and stop the run, to keep their eyes in the backfield.

When you then throw the ball in front of those linebackers close to the line of scrimmage, short of the line of scrimmage or close to those linebackers are already headed in that direction. The efficiency is much worse. The goal? The play action needs to be possible above the linebackers heads, and that's what they weren't doing. Every single pass was play action, throw it short and the defense rallies up and smothers them. I didn't understand what the bears are doing, but I will just tell you this.

Don't absol absolve Matt Nagy just because Bill Lazarre didn't do a good job calling plays the play calling was a problem before. It's still a problem. Just because two guys don't call plays well does not make the first guy right. And yes, the team needs a lot of help. And yes, the GM is to blame for most of this. But I still feel like this team is wasting a defense completely. And I wanted to see what their offense would be able to do with good play calling.

I thought that was going to be Monday night against the Vikings. Unfortunately, it was not know.

They think they stink. All right. I had one last question. The final questions brought to you by Cross Country Mortgage, America's crazy good mortgage company. Go to Scullin's dotcom slash take to learn. More about your future home buying experience or refinancing needs, equal housing opportunity, give us now the vice versa. So a team that is maybe not great record wise, but you could see them having a good November, December stretch and getting into the playoffs and everything like, whoa, that was kind of crazy where that came from.

Yeah, unfortunately, there really there are really only a couple of teams that stand out, so they're pretty obvious to anybody. It's going to be the Minnesota Vikings could continue this run. Now, I was on their under before the season started. I was not surprised at all that they started that way. They do have a somewhat easy stretch for several weeks. And so that's a team that could obviously continue doing what they do. This Dallas Cowboys game, though, a lot of interesting components in this game because you've got a lot of familiarity here.

Remember, Mike Zimmer used to coach Andy Dalton, who's your Cowboys quarterback. Remember that Mike McCarthy, who's now Dallas head coach for years, went up against Mike Zimmer's defense in Minnesota. So you've got a lot of familiarity between multiple people involved here that have key roles in deciding the outcome of this game. But if Dallas can stop the run, their defense has to do a lot better. Their fifth worst, stopping the run on the season and they can stop the run here.

I really think that they're going to be able to exploit some things in this Vikings defense that other teams that have played Minnesota recently have been unable to do. But I'll still throw the Vikings on this list, and then I could easily go and say the New England Patriots could get back on track. But I'm still going to stick with the Philadelphia Eagles, even though they are a disaster and lost that game to the New York Giants. My belief still with the Eagles is that if you simplify life for Carson, Wentz reduced the amount of deeper drops where he's running all around in the pocket and trying to do all these complicated things.

Just drop back and throw the ball, let the receivers do some work after they catch it, get it into their hands, get it out of your hands. They've got Myles Sanders back. He was a big a big upgrade. You could see it right away. The punch that he provides running the football that they didn't have without him, multiple other guys along the offensive line or back. You're going to have your tight ends back. Zach Ertz will be back soon.

We already have. Dallas got hurt back in the fold. Jalen ragers back. So I just think they're getting healthy at the right time. So they're a team that obviously has a losing record. I think they're still a game up on in the NFC due to their record. Right now it has to be five and one and yeah, the tie. So this could be a definitely a team that we're going to see hosting a playoff game. And all I can tell you is this.

The other teams in the NFC playoffs are not going to want to go on the road. The wildcard teams are not going to want to go on the road to Philly in the postseason when they're playing healthy, when they're healthy and playing hopefully better than they are now and have to deal with facing the Eagles there in the postseason.

It's interesting they're going to play the Giants. So, yeah, we think, Josh, you've got the Giants. There is Danny Dimps. Yeah, good ish.

But I like kind of the stat that you alluded to, like the less time that Carson Wentz has the ball in his hands over the course of a football game, the more likely the Eagles are to win, like there are some quarterbacks that you think of, like Ben Roethlisberger is probably the exact opposite. The longer he holds on to it and buys time back there, probably the more points they end up scoring. Both wins that I like that idea.

It's like if you can just get the ball out of his hands and into somebody else's hands, it's safer and their offense is probably going to be better off for it. I do.

The same thing is true for the four for Washington not to interrupt you, but just to share this week, because that's your team. Alex Smith. I've studied his drop backs over the last couple of weeks as a starter and he's taken a lot of three and five step drops from shotgun. And those are very inefficient for him. The defense has a lot of time to pressure the pressure. It's like forty, forty five percent when he's dropping back. And we know I mean, he's coming back from a horrendous injury.

I'm shocked he's even playing like he is and be able to run around like he is. I think it's almost a miracle. But you're inviting pressure when you do that and you have a lot of receivers on that team that are really good after that catch. So the goal for them should just be to get the ball out of his hands quickly. It does have to be deep balls down the field. Dial a few of those up. Yes, but a lot of shorter passes.

Now, the Bengals have been very good defending running backs out of the backfield. So you're probably not going to see quite as many like McKissic has just been eating targets left and right. This guy is a maniac because of how much Alex Smith dumps the ball to him. But I wonder if they're going to get a little bit more to the wide receivers and a lot of personnel on these quicker drops. Get it out of Alex Smith's hand, because one of the things he has not lost his brain is decision making, his ability to manage that offense.

So utilize that and get the ball out of his hands quickly to minimize the impact of his legs on the game.

I like it. Yeah. Use Terry MacLaurin, underrated guy. Yes. Yes, very.

Yes. Are any anything else we should look for this weekend? Maybe you don't want to give us a pick, but give us a pill.

Actually, actually, actually I'm giving away everything we have. This is the one week of the season that I do a free week. So if you just go to sharp football analysis, dotcom, click the banner at the top, every single thing on the site is free. So all the fantasy we got right up on all the games already and then all of my betting recommendations are going to be posted there as well. So there's a few games I really liked.

One of the games that I really liked, I actually like the over in this Washington game. It was at forty five. It's now up to forty seven, but the rest of the games are up there on the site. But I think Washington should have some success throwing the ball, moving the ball on the Bengals. And we know Joey covers like Joe but is just going to be chucking the ball a ton as long as he can deal with that pass rush, as long as he can get the ball out of his hands quickly.

I mean, I can't see them scoring too few points to not send this game over that total love.

Is there one player out there? And this is just strictly to make us sound smart, like one guy that we should look at who has been underused this year, that you think if their team focuses in and is able to get the ball in that person's hand for the rest of the year, you're going to see an improvement in the offense.

Wow, that's a good question. So I would have to go with a couple of. A team or two that I thought was going to do better and. Hmmm, well, I don't know this one on you, you sprung this one on me, I would say the Minnesota Vikings need to throw a little bit more to their tight ends. We saw what Irv Smith was able to do in his last game out he missed last week, but he caught a couple of tight ends.

Tight ends are a great weapon for Kirk Cousins. And but I will just say this again and we'll stick with that team.

You can't throw the ball too little to Justin Jefferson, too much to Justin Jefferson.

This dude is a complete freak and it just sickens me. And I'm actually I'm glad my brain finally got here because it sickens me to see this offense run the ball first down after first down with Dalvin Cook picking up three yards, the defense knows they're going to run the football here. Meanwhile, you got this young buck, Justin Jefferson, who is just destroying dudes on the perimeter of the field, taking short passes, turn them into big gains, catching deep balls, running great routes.

This guy needs to be featured more prominently in this offense. You necessarily need to take away targets from Thielen just throw the ball more to him and stop running the ball on first downs with Dalvin Cook. That's my advice for the Minnesota Vikings.

I like it. All right, so Warren, thank you as always. Sharp, sharp football analysis.

Dotcom if you want freaking recommendations free week over in in the Washington football team versus the Bengals and go check out the rest of them. Warren, thank you. We appreciate it. And we'll talk to you soon. Sounds good. Thanks, guys.

Thanks, man.

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OK, we now welcome on a very, very special guest. It is James Buster Cawley, one of the co-founders of Dave and Busters, the most famous place in the world in the world. My favorite. Yeah, your favorite. So I don't even know where to start, I guess. I mean, we're kind of awestruck, but let's start here. So first, let me say I'm just to be on the program. I'm I'm now I'm now I got to be a fan forever.

Right. That's it. So I'm happy to be here and I'm happy to always happy to talk about Dave Buster's, whatever you want to talk about.

OK, all right. So let's start from the beginning. Let's just can you just give us the beginning, like how it all started and how it all evolved into being the coolest place for games and fun and eats of all time?

Yeah, well, Dave, Dave and I started out as business partners and along the way became best friends. And he is godfather to his children. He's godfather to mine. You know, we started out I think it's important that we started out as business partners first because a lot of times people start out as friends in the fall and now his business partner. So we kind of had to prove up now and we sort of grow up together, but we had to prove up to each other in order to have this partnership last for as long as it did so in and out.

We we had two places next to each other in Little Rock, Arkansas, and he founded the first was called Slick Willy. And Slick Willie's was a big a big ass. Really fine. Cool how. Beer, pizza, you know, games early on, electronic games, shuffleboard, the whole thing. So sort of a success insurance. He came to me and said, hey, I want to open a place next door to it. And so we opened a restaurant called Buster's that was, you know, had full bar, lots of food.

It was a pretty hip restaurant. Early on. We were in an old an old train station right right down the street from the Arkansas state capitol. So crowd wise, we had all kinds of people. And in those days, you couldn't have a liquor license and have pool tables. So, so Slick Willie's and Busters had to be separate. No common door, but there was a walkway between the two. And in our infinite wisdom, we sat at the bar and watch our guest go from one place to the other.

They go over to Slick Willy for, you know, intense games that come to busters to eat, drink and back and forth, et cetera. So we thought, hey, you know. What we need to do is we need to put these two places together, you know, put them on a bigger scale, put them in a bigger market and and and launch this thing on the what we want to do is something that we could replicate. Right.

So we wanted to be sure that we had something for everybody to do. And we were trying to do something that had never been done before, which is take the amusements business, the games part of it, and mix it with the traditional restaurant business and have that be a seamless presentation of, you know, fun and games and and good food and good Bahri and good sports. And the sports part got to be a much bigger deal for us.

It started out as a big deal, but got much bigger with time in our. So we decided that we would try to replicate our success in Little Rock. And so we went around trying to raise money and we looked at different locations all over the country, chasing deals, trying to get people to back us. We had good reputations with good business reputations and had been successful. And so while we probably got thrown out of more banks than most people have ever been into, we finally figured out how to get the backing.

And we did our first. Dave and Busters in Dallas, Texas, right, which we thought Dallas was like the perfect business town, it wasn't that far from where we were. We understood the market, we thought. And so in nineteen eighty two, we opened the very first one, I'd like to say worked up pretty genius just next to each other, like, hey, yeah.

This kind of work. And I love any story like that that begins with a company that kind of evolves out of how to kind of sneak around a law that many would find unjust. You work your way around it and eventually lead to something great innovation.

He and I both started out in the business waiting tables, and along the way he was a dealer and a blackjack dealer in Vegas. And, you know, just we we were sort of early on in the hospitality business when, you know, early rock and roll restaurant bar business, USSI, whatever. So we decided we build this. We try to put together this this combination that would make us so competitive that that, you know, it's a tough business that the bar, restaurant, sports bar, you name it, anything that's in the hospitality business is really difficult.

You got sort of there are sort of three ways to go in our in our industry. You either make it big, you lose your ass. And the vast majority of places are in the middle. The sort of you work really, really hard for forever and kind of do OK. Right. So we have sort of course, we wanted to be in the top category of doing something with hit. I mean, as in a major hit, as in something we could do over and over again.

Well, that's all well and good, but you've got to get the first one, right? Right. So, you know, while it was a pretty revolutionary concept at the time and the concept is basically while the appearance is different today, the concept is basically the same. That combination of the combination of games, bar sports, good food, good service on and on. Right. So ta ta ta. We felt like to make it so that it would be very difficult for anyone to copy us.

We had to make it big. And so we saw our first place was was forty thousand square feet and it was in an old warehouse in kind of a reasonably it was a pretty good neighborhood, but it's down the street from a bunch of restaurants. But we sort of had to make the corner to get to us as though it was in a viable area. But we weren't in that. We weren't we weren't up there with everybody else. So easy to see.

So in order to in trying to figure out a way to to get people's attention, all the things that we could buy on credit, because, I mean, the radio stations forget it, they won't catch. And was a we bought a huge American flag and one hundred foot flagpole. Right. And we put it out in front of our place, put the flag on because you didn't have to have a sign permit. Right. We were actually in the flight path of one of the of Love Field local airport.

So many hundred feet was as tall as we could. We could take it without getting in trouble with it, with the Fed. So we put the flagpole out there, lit it at night. Right. And I don't know, maybe it was just maybe it was maybe it was gave us the confidence somehow or another the stars came into alignment. I can't explain it, but it it started to happen. And when once it started happening, then it started happening big time and then it hit and then it rolled on from there.

I know it's the best billboard that you could put up is a 100 foot flagpole. You went as high as you could without not going to plan sky dream. I like that one, too.

Well, it was an angel. You know, that's one thing about about being a visionary, right? People say guy's a visionary. Well, let me tell you about my feeling on that one. People have said, well, you know, you guys have great idea of your visionary. Well, guess what? The difference between being a visionary and a fool is success. Yeah.

You know, if I like that, if it happens, you're you're you're a visionary. You're brilliant, right? Whatever doesn't happen, you're an asshole. So I really in our industries like going for it on fourth down.

Yes. Oh, thank goodness. In our business in those days because it wasn't anything like it and it was so damn big. It was a piece of work and thank goodness it worked.

The million dollar question is you guys had to come up with the most important marketing aspect was the name. It's Dave and Buster's, not Buster's and Dave's. How did you decide whose name went for coin flip? Right.

Well, we actually Dave and I actually didn't name Dave Buster's. Oh, no, no, it's true story. I don't know how many times it's been told publicly, but. A very dear friend of ours who did all our did all the graphics work for Dave and Buster's eventually came once we got big enough, he came and work for the company and ran our whole our whole marketing deal, et cetera. But he was a great graphics artist, and he actually is the one that as we were knocking around ideas over what are we going to call it.

We had the we had the rights to some other names, etc. and of course, you know, doing your own place, what you anything you can think of might be something that might work. You think whatever. And our friend, whose name is Dennis Payne, said, listen, man, why don't we just keep it simple? You mean, how about this? How about we just we did he did the first restaurant. You called it Busters.

How about this when we just do David Buster's. And so he he he actually drew up the first logo, which first time we saw it, we said, that's it. That's perfect. So it was somebody else smarter than us, I think who who came up with a name and it's, you know, and it stops. So I read that it was a coin flip.

So we myth debunking that myth.

We are that's that's that's in that category. Mythical legend, sir. OK.

All right. Because I was my question was going to be, would you call heads or tails?

Well, you know, Dave was the gambler of the two of us, so I probably would have let him call it and I'd back him up no matter what. Hap got it.

Got it. And it's one of those things that I guess if history was different, it was Buster and Dave would be like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. But Dave and Buster's just always feels correct. I think it hits right.

Like even Buster's is good because Dave is, you know, the normal name. And then Buster, let's you know, it's going to be a fun time. Yeah. Listen, boss, how'd you get the nickname Buster?

Because that's our friend thought that they had more of a natural sound to it. Yeah.

How did you get the nickname Buster to begin with? Well, that's interesting.

I it's been from birth. Right. And it turns out that it was my father's best friend at the time was named Buster. My my my real given name is James Winston. Correlate. Right. And for me a funny story about that is I. When I was about to go relieve high school, go to college, I want to I didn't know what I want to do and I know I want to be a business person. I want to be a businessman.

Man, right now, I'm going to go into business doing something. And so I went to my father and said, so listen, Dad, I'm thinking about when I'm going off to college now people are going to call me something different if I start calling myself something different. So I'm thinking about something more distinguished. This whole buster thing is, you know, I just didn't you know, I mean, I think that, like, Jay Winston would be good or maybe G.W. or how about James Dubi or what do you think?

What do you think? And he said, well, I'll tell you what, I gave you the name Buster because I figured that if you did right by the name, people would remember you. If you did it wrong by the name, people would remember you and you'd have to you'd have to live it. Right. Because you're like he said, you made a lot of GMs and Bobs and whatnot, but you're not going to meet very many busters.

Yeah. So I said, yes, sir.

And that was the end of the conversation. So I love. So it stuck. And it's a damn good thing that it did because I don't think it had. We call it anything other in my name, anything other than Buster's, it probably never would have worked.

So I love the fact that your name is James Winston, like the quarterback. Yeah, that's perfect. But there's also like a perfect name for anyone in the hospitality business, too, like a bartender or a restaurant owner like Buster, you know, I mean, it feels like you're walking into a place, you know, it's like, hey, there's lobster.

Easy to remember. Absolutely. Yeah. What what's your favorite game of all time in Dave and Buster's?

Well, I'm pretty mercenary about all that, really. I'm my my favorite game was always whatever it took in the most money. So what was that. My sport. My sport is the bar business right now. My, my, my businesses, the bar business. And so whatever is good for the bar business, that's what I'm, that's what I that's my preference. So but I guess overall for me personally, I was a big pinball guy.

Right. All right. So later on, as far as the golf is concerned, probably one of the things that we did, I think better than anybody else in the world ever been since then that won't be done again was a game called Daytona, which was an eight player Daytona 500 simulator. Stumpage was magnificent there.

Only after that I forget how many have more. But when it was licensed with the Daytona Raceway people the Japanese got so many copies of, you know, they were like, I don't know, like four or five hundred maybe if that maybe because these things were huge and they they were very expensive. Right. Which made it cool because not just anybody, not just any little joint could. Do you know David on a five hundred. Yeah. Yeah.

We, we had one in each one of our stores and eventually we had to because the way it was licensed we had to buy motherboards from games that had been cast out or whatever from other people in order to be able to because we couldn't get a license to do. They would gear up and build the games for us. But we did. We had to have the original motherboards out of the original games in order for them to be licensed by the Daytona 500 people.

Right. So we kept that alive for years. And it was a and it's a great competitive game, great team sport challenge kind of thing. Get a lot of get some friends together and race. I mean, that's that's probably my all time favorite.

Yeah. What about. So I love air hockey, I like playing air hockey and I don't mean to tell you your business, but I feel like an air hockey table that has chairs on either end would just rake the cash in because the worst part about playing hockey is you have to stand up for a while and it's tough to drink a beer while you're playing air hockey. But if you had an Iraqi table that had a beer holder and a nice, comfortable chair you could sit at, I feel like that's a million dollar idea right there.

You can take that or leave it.

Well, since I'm not a six, I'm not responsible anymore. I'll take.

OK, done. Have you has anyone told you about the famous pastor guy from the Internet that we talked about a few months ago?

It's a matter of fact. It's a matter of fact. I was watching that just before. I want to get a feel for this. I was watching it just before we came on air. And I'd like to meet this guy. Yeah, actually, I'd like to meet his girlfriend. Yes.

Yes. Maybe give him some free maybe give the girlfriend some free gift certificates for life. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, is there a can you do that.

Can you make like a like a wave a wand over make happen like a Dave and Buster's like black card where it's like it's the only superpower I have.

Yeah.

We can, we have one. What do we have to do to get one now? No, not yet, but, you know, we just met. I mean, it doesn't have to actually do anything. But if I just had, like, a metallic card that I kept in my pocket that said, like, lifetime member Dave in Boston. Yeah. Do you have what is that? I want that I could walk in any David Buster's, and it's just like free rein.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

This is actually this is actually what this one has a few miles on it. But I picked it because it's one of my favorite favorite cards, favorite design section. So yeah. But now these things work in. All over the place now, you put coupons on them, game points, you know, critics of all kinds of crazy. I love it.

I want one word I can, like, just show up at any time, like 4:00 in the morning, be like open this, Dave and Busters, I'm here now.

You need to be there about closing time to be there. Not really. We don't do that anymore. Yeah, there was a time, but we're not we're not in it. Yeah.

Do you still go like secret shopping at Dave and Buster's do? Absolutely not.

Absolutely no. I'm afraid they'll put me to work. Yeah. So besides, nobody's going to do it exactly the way I would do it or they would do it. Not to mention both of us would do it. So, you know, they're there.

I know what you think about the always sunny episode about Dave and Buster's the only one. Did you watch the Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode about Dave and Busters? You ever seen that?

I heard about it and I've seen the clips, yes.

OK, what did you think about that?

When when you guys crossed, that was like, fantastic. Yeah, that's Philadelphia. Philadelphia was our first big national hit. Right. We started out in Dallas and then we did Dallas second store in Dallas, one in Houston and in rapid succession, Houston, Atlanta and Philadelphia and Philadelphia is will always be one of my most favorite stores because it was a massive, massive hit. And it is to this day, when we opened it, it was we opened it in the middle of a very rare blizzard in Philadelphia.

And people stood in line for blocks, the biggest store we ever built. Seventy thousand square feet on a pier that that sticks out into the out into the Gulf, the Columbus River, and used to be a cruise ship used to dock there back in the day, whatever. And it was turned into a big warehouse. We took it, split it into two floors, did parking on the bottom and and our store, Dave Buster's on top escalators.

I mean, it was it's still a spectacular store. I know that one of the one of the biggest, not only physically, but one of the biggest stores by revenue. So anything from Philadelphia, I'm good with it. Phillies always got to that's where that Philadelphia put Dambusters on that on the national map over. Hey, this is not just a down south Sunbelt kind of thing this summer to work anywhere, you know.

Yeah. I mean, it sounds like you've had a lot of success, obviously, with your business. There have to have been some missteps, some ones that you wish you could have taken back or some roads that you that you tried to go down or tried to implement a new thing that didn't work. What's the what's the craziest thing that you thought might work in this restaurant that ended up being like a learning lesson for you?

I tell you one thing that that's that's been one of the best things that ever happened to us was sort of listen to what our customers want. Right. And you can't can't give everybody what they want all the time right now. But, you know, if you listen to them, generally speaking, sooner or later, they're going to they're going to they're going to show you what their preferences are. And originally, we weren't big in the party business as is in private party rooms.

Right. So we had we had an excess. We had too many too many tables in the original store and we had no private. Party rooms at all. And then one afternoon on the theme of your guest will help you figure out what to do. A group came in in the middle of the afternoon and I will get a call from the folks at our front desk who said, hey, we got a guy here that wants to rent, know, half a dozen tables, but he wants to have a meeting.

They're not going to play to begin with. I have a meeting first. Long story short, it turned out it was a it was a sales meeting. Right. And an awards ceremony for a sales team from Xerox line. And so we thought, bam, second perfect private parties. We need to be in this business. So we so we went out, borrowed some more money somehow and built this first big private events room that we call the showroom.

Right. And it had a stage in it, tiered seating, real, real curtains. I mean, it looked like a theater, right. And it was for private parties. And that ended up being it ended up being like 20 percent of our total business was private.

It sounds like it was the Dondi Awards that inspired you to do this. Yeah.

From day one, we didn't think of it. It was as we just sort of follow the we just started did what we did originally. We just sort of followed the lead from the customers and, you know, took it from there.

Are there are you ever worried about Dave and Buster's sharks like the Busters guy guys who come in, advantaged players who can basically rob you blind by winning games?

There are there have been incidents of that we used to have. No, no, no.

It's just a funny idea. Like for someone who's incredible, like pop a shot to be like, I'm going to take Dave and Busters for everything.

Well, you know, there are some people that are just naturally good at this stuff. Right. And then there are some people that figure out how to figure out how to either run a small con or beat you at your own game. Right. And we had for a period of time, a, this is true. And this is back in the day. I'm sure they're all fine, upstanding Americans now. But they were their Band of Gypsys, right?

They were like, when we get the call on Monday, Man Gypsys hit us on Sunday night, that kind of thing. Right. I mean, and we get wiped out. And we had some we had the same guys in to figure out how these guys were beating us right along the way. The system's got better, but where we could actually sort of use the technology to keep people from getting to us as much. Originally, all the games were or coin trip.

Right. And we we meant it our own money. We had Dave and Buster's chips. It really were chips, right? They were like coins. The chips were they were fabulous because when you when you put them in the game, it just is like Vegas. You had that sound when you went to the machine to to buy chips. I mean, they would Klank out, you know, it's like you want it up at a slot machine.

Right. And Dave was convinced that that was part of the buzz, you know, the part of the the energy and the excitement of playing it. Dambusters was playing with these chips and getting them out of that machine. The Internet just like winning. You know, it's like I put my money and I won right off the bat. Now I'm going to go out, play them. So we were very reluctant, even though we knew would be a smart thing to do or we thought it would be.

We were really scared about switching over to. Now we've got the silent technology of this. Are people really going to believe there's something on this card? I mean, today, you give somebody a car, they'll believe anything. Right? But when it went from something I hold in my hand to well, it's actually on this card, you know, that was we weren't really too sure what was going to happen. We just took the risk. And when we when we started asking our customers, so what do you think you is?

It's OK. You good with it? You know how many Mr. Chips? They were like, oh, man, this is great. And I all these chips around anymore champagne, you know, it's easy. It's fun, it's more fun. We're like halleluja. Right. So that was like a huge leap forward. It was like to the aviation business, it would be like going from aeroplanes to jets. I mean, after that. And it was we could we could we could we could get so much so much better home and a lot of what actually happened and when did it happen, what time of day and all that stuff, you know.

So that's crazy. That's crazy. This has been fantastic. I guess my only last question is you guys did at one point in your history, you did like a mock electric chair. Was that a mistake or was that something you were cool?

That was that was what they deemed to be a. That was a that was a you know, gave them something they're going to talk about, what the hell, you're up, you got your family in from out of town. And so what are you going to take and what are we going to do? And, you know, it's just one of those it was just one of those things that that it was that one was an oddity.

OK, we did a lot of things that were that were grander, more, more, more fun.

But that one just there's something I don't know why, but for some reason, people sort of just they're in all of that, the whole deal.

And some people actually thought it was fun or funny, etc. And I always wondered about it, but yeah, it would vibrate and there would be like fake smoke that come out.

Yeah, exactly. They would have their picture taken and stuff. But whatever makes them happy was pretty much and we tried to approach how we did what we did. And what I want to tell you in looking through your stuff, I saw some some Mark Cuban interview. And I mean, you know, he's a Dallas guy and I mean, he's one of my heroes. Right. So congrats on having OK, as a recurrent guest. I mean, he's he's one of the most I can remember meeting him Tuesday when I met him just before just the season that he bought the Mavericks.

Right. And he and. He's he's done so much for the city of Dallas, for the game of basketball, for American entrepreneurs and business, period. You guys mean besides being brilliant, I mean, he's just he's just done a lot of stuff and he hits it.

Well, we'll get him into it. Dave and Busters, when everything's, you know, coronaviruses kind of goes away, we get a vaccine. We'll get Mark Cuban in a Dave and Busters with you in exchange for the lifetime cards that you will give me and you.

But luckily for me, I already know Mark, so. Yeah, well, we'll get him. OK, we'll do the whole thing together. We'll get it. And then you'll just slide the card. Could you just.

Yeah. Basically you just name your price to get that card. Yeah. I'll pay name the price for the card will pay. Oh wow.

I don't know. I'd have to, I'd have to confer. I don't know. I could go to.

I know you've been doing more more like leaning into sports recently. Do you guys have a sports gambling partner for winning? Sports gambling becomes legal nationwide because we would like to extend the services of the high school sports book.

It's it's an ever evolving concept. So, you know, you are in the sport book business and who knows where the future might take all of us.

That wasn't a no, no, no, no. That was not a no. Well, absolutely not. Yeah, absolutely. We never say never and rarely say no.

There we go. We appreciate your time, though. It's been awesome. And we definitely do want to go to a Dave and Buster's with you at some point.

Well, pick a town. OK, done. Maybe do fucking wouldn't that be great.

Hey, if you've got a plane I'll go anywhere ok.

Yeah. Maybe we'll get on a bus. We're going to do with like wheels up. We are we going to a different bus and every single state. Yeah. How many states are you guys in. Many like, I don't know, twenty seven thirty. That's great. That's great.

We must be a plus Puerto Rico, you know, and I think it's a fact that no state has ever gone to war with another state that had a Dave and Busters in it.

That's an absolute fact. We really sort of sort of did Dambusters as a public service. Yeah.

Thank you. I appreciate that. Exactly. All right. Well, thank you, everybody. Yeah, that's us. Thank you so much. We appreciate it.

And we'll be in touch. Yes. Yes. This was actually a lot more fun than I thought it was there.

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OK, let's wrap up the show Fire Fest of the Week and Billies parlays the week ahead.

Billy, actually I'll start with my fire fest because it can then go to you. Billy, my fire fest is our strongest guy is kind of weak. So I listen back to the clip with Rosillo and I also noticed I don't know if you noticed this, Billy actually said hovering around two eighty five, which means he doesn't bench to eighty five, which to eighty five is embarrassing.

I haven't maxed since I was at college and you know the whole lot. We're in a pandemic, right. Yeah. Listen, I'm still if I'm not that strong right.

To eighty five is you know what. Not a good look. My guy big. Yikes. I just hate it when people say that on Twitter. Big yikes. My God. To eighty five anywhere. A guy that spent four years in a weight program in high school and then three years in a weight program in college.

Yes. I don't know about that one. So that's my fire first. I'm very sad about it. It is what it is. Our big strong guy is not big enough to get sidebar.

Yeah, I heard that Billy is actually a vegetarian. Oh, well, it makes sense.

I don't know the football thing. A little strength, you know. You like that Billy are strong. Went on a diet and stopped eating meat. Skinny Billy on the street.

I also just hit Hail Mary to tie the game at the end of the game. That was awesome.

There were two separate threads that were started on bodybuilding.com forums this week that said that football word on the street was he was asking people vegetarian references.

Are you kidding me? No, I'm serious to by building for him is sick again, like all my information. Life advice there.

Yeah, but science and math and everything from them, right before you get into your can't probably have you learn anything about profits in the past.

Oh yeah. No they, I did. The profits were calculated into the equation. The, the problem was that it was a sum equation, not a product equation. I saw.

And the discussion, some guy said he was an actuary and was basically like, Billy, everything you said is wrong. No, OK, I believe that he was in action.

So Billy, you just got someone signing the Times.

Did you sign with him in there? Like he's basically explained to you that if you have one hundred dollars and you win twenty two dollars, you don't want to go into know this is a glaring mistake.

I'm not suggesting the math. That's what Billy said.

I just go there. Yeah. Yeah. I checked the spreadsheet and realized that that wasn't the reason why I was wrong.

The reason was because some odds were put as a sum and not a product anyway. Profit. This is a big part of making.

This is I can't win Charlie for this week.

Now, remember, you choose the five games and you choose the five underdogs that are most closest to like being fifty percent of the pick them. So, for example, the Bengals this week already lost everyone, right?

Angrily No accidents. Rams for Houston Falcons. That's the can't win parlay. So you put 12 percent of your money on that could totally loss already could happen.

Parlay Bengals, Houston Falcons, you put eight percent.

Why don't you just also having parlance the Packers, Rams, Houston, seven percent just in case. Parlay Bengals, Packers, Falcons statistical analysis. Parlay Bengals. Packers, Rams. Billy Top Parlay.

Washington called twenty one percent in 10 percent on the bill, like you take down this number for me and put the bottom hinge, do a parlay, Buccaneers, Patriots, Philly and you bottom line, do all the other teams, Washington football team, Colts, Buccaneers, Patriots, Saints, four percent on each of those, nine percent on the Saints.

Then on the reverse parlay that you put nothing because it's statistically supposed to not hit. But it hit last week. Still won money.

Billy, let me ask you, does this formula make watching football just go?

Well, you don't know who you're rooting for. No fun watching.

You don't plugged in thirty two outcomes. And then you can once each outcome happens, you see how much money you stand on winning in that moment.

This is big time vegetarian. It's not vegetarian. It's not vegetarian. There's going to be a villain. And you love Mako. What have you done with my boy.

I know this is just go to add. It takes the pain to eat. You'll see all the math, the profits, it's all calculated. It's kind of cool.

Put this number down, write this number down. One 800 gambler won it.

But there's this makes no sense.

It makes it not even fun. It is fun. I don't even know who you're rooting for because I'm rooting for those five underdogs hit in.

The more that they hit, the more that you make. But if they don't hit, you also make money. No, you don't. You you I guarantee with this strategy you will not lose all of your money.

Correct. The highest amount of money you will lose on one hundred dollar bet. So you will only the highest you will lose is eighty six percent of all your money, which is not one hundred, which is better than most people.

When it sounds to me like there's a better than 50 percent chance that you lose money, it also just has a fifty percent likelihood of being positive.

It also sounds like you want to basically walk away from somebody being like, but I didn't lose it all. I lost eighty six percent of it, but not all.

You go to the roulette table and just put a little bit on every single number. You know, you can also you could go one every five.

You wouldn't lose it all. Yeah, exactly one of these hits, you're going to make money still. So what's your fire first? Because mine is listening to that?

Um, yeah, everyone's cheered me for saying I banished to a five currently hovering around Mad Max in college was plus three hundred. You said hovering around.

I read it to ninety five hundred, you know, for, for my max because we didn't do one right Max. That's a good point that Hank made. What if you knew that you could bench over 300 pounds, you would know that it was like three or five. Three fifteen. You would you either hit like two guys on the wall.

It depends on the multiplier, because when you write the max, that's OK.

Too much math, Billy. Yeah, you're Billy. You're Manola. You're suspended from doing math for the next week. Yeah. No, no. We're taking away your calculator.

Wait until this hits this weekend.

OK, well, why don't you come in on a Sunday and we're coming back because I don't have school. All right. We'll see you on Sunday and we'll be on the side.

How many have to hit for this to be like for this to be good?

Some like it. Only one of them has to hit. But that's how you calculate his money. Yeah, but you also win money anyway, right? The profit thing.

All right. It's not the profit. What is it? What's your favorite PFC? My favorite first. It's actually for some other people that that aren't me, but it is a true fire fest. I read today that there are three hundred thousand people currently stranded on cruise ships that have been on Kruno in the middle of the ocean since March.

No, no, that's not true.

Three hundred and three hundred thousand, including, I think 50000. Hey, I'm looking this up.

I think there's like three thousand people. So wait, wait. Spin zone. No shopin zone vacation. They've been on extended vacation. No chance.

Three hundred thousand people. And I also read that there are going around the ocean somewhere.

Is that turnover. God damn it. The Seahawks are a joke. This fucking.

Oh no they I mean it's plus this story. Right. Why would you run that play.

Yeah but now Arizona is about to score. Yeah. Well oh they're going to score on this drive. Shut up, Billy. God damn it, Bill.

He's excited because he's winning bets and I'm losing.

But there are also the cruise industry is looking for cruise passengers to go on board their ships as guinea pigs, OK, to just see if it's possible to reopen the cruise industry right now.

So they're trying to get thousands of people to sign up to be a passenger on a cruise so that they can test the new coronavirus protocols. They're even calling them guinea pigs.

And there's no way. Three hundred thousand people, though, like, no way. That's what I read. Well, I we have people on a website called Barstool Sports.

Why they asked in my cab, why are they asking for more people if there's already people on chips?

So here's where it says good question. As of September, there were still three hundred thousand people worldwide stuck on ships, fifty of which are Americans.

But like I said, two hundred ninety thousand are like actual like fishermen only only fifty three hundred thousand.

So many. Oh, it's a ton of people. I've never I've never really understood the allure of cruises.

I want to cruise on a is a lot of software.

That's what I learned about the grandma and grandpa. Bingo. Yeah. Yeah that's true. I feel like it's a fun unlimited soft serve ice. That's a crazy stat. I believe you, but I don't feel like I let you. It's the stat is so this was also in The New York Post who sometimes the New York Post writes articles just for the tweet, just so they can tweet it out and get like 5000, quote, tweet dunks on it.

Right. With the same people making the same joke every time. So it might be one of those situations where they're embellishing it a little bit. But Jesus Christ, I just go on a cruise ship right now, forget about the coronavirus. Who would go on a cruise during football season. How about the of people who are fucking working on the cruise that are stuck there?

That's the people I really feel bad for, not the idiots that went like, hey, I'm going to go on vacation or how about the people who have to work?

You know what? This pandemic has probably affected magicians more than anybody else. And you can't you can't go. Yeah. And look at comedians. Yeah. You can't go on a cruise ship. And while people can't really do a zoom magic show, it's true. It's the thoughts and prayers. If you're a comedian or if you're a magician that listens to part of my take, our thoughts are with you.

Yes. All right, Hank, we'll wrap it up and then we'll hit the balls. Yeah, we're playing this among a stream at four o'clock, and I'm a little nervous about it.

If we're being completely honest. We got this, bro. Why are you worried about it?

We're just it's it's not us. It's more just like, you know, it was like Kashyap asked us to play. They said, we'll fill the hole, catch up, catch up. And then they proceeded to give us like the biggest names in gaming, people that have played hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours of this game. So that's why I'm just a little like we're good at being SUS right now.

You're so, so, so sorry. You're so, so mean.

Can we find if there's anything that me and Big Cat are really good at, is doing stuff that we have no idea and doing what we're doing?

Confidently and then lying about how good we're doing it. My understanding is those are the most important. We got this amongst us.

We got this amongst us. All right.

They did say if we get over 20000, they're going to give away a shitload of money. OK, 20000 viewers. No, Billy, not you. Not to you. All right. Numbers twenty eight. Someone's going to get it today. 80 percent say. I feel like someone's going to get it today. 20. I'm feeling good about it.

73 civilians. 69 nine. Twenty two.

What is it? Well, you said eight 20s, so I'm always I'm right. What do you say to them? What do you say, Jake? Eighteen oh oh twenty three was there but none of us had twenty three point ninety two.

Ninety two it Albert Haynesworth ninety to love you guys. Billy fun fact. Oh forget hats use litter boxes, conscienceless the naked cover up.

OK, you want to talk about the highway. That's the fun animal fact is suffered because the park let me know what has become a problem. Meat eater Billy would always have a fun. Well I'm not. I totally eat meat. This vegetarian slander is egregious. So if I'm a vegetarian, pfft.

He has a personal stylist says jokingly, I don't look up to 60 days of. The cover of a. Coming to a level three take on. Take me out of. Let's say on set in Feedstuff. Is is saying to me, is it dangerous?

It's taken me. Take me. I'll be gone. You all got to remember Shayan. I'll be coming for you anyway. I'll be coming for you anyway.

They got me taken here. I'll be gone.