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On today's part of my take, week 16, we got a recap of every single game whose back of the week fastest two minutes playoff implications up the ass. We literally spent all day watching football, just throwing, lobbing playoff scenarios at each other, trying to figure it out. That's what we don't need. No nerd. We don't need we don't need Steve Kornacki telling us what to do. We we have our dumb brains in the playoffs.

I need my two hands, one computer on the playoff machine, the other on five. Thirty eighth playoff simulator like Alicia Keys playing both at the same time. Get all the scenarios right. I feel like I'm ready, but I feel like once I learn a new thing, I forget the last. But it's also fun to like unravel the new thing. Like, I didn't even realize.

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Today is Monday, December 28th, and it is week 16.

Kids in era. No kids here, 15 kids in your plus one sweet 16. I didn't do well in Spanish class.

We start in Las Vegas where Toure was playing like pool and the Dolphins played two tours of cool chairs with their quarterbacks, bringing in Ryan Fitzpatrick, Mahomes and a no look pass to win the game. Josh Jacobs Marley kept the chains moving, but it was the ghost of glutens past that haunted the Raiders on Saturday night as a coach watched his team suffer another late season collapse. Jason footprint's in the Sanders was carried by Jesus above the crossbars. As dolphins get there one step closer to the playoffs.

Dolphins twenty six.

The Raiders twenty five in Pittsburgh, where Phillip Three Rivers met the Steelers for a game with all the playoff implications. Ben Goslins Burger was brooding in the first half, but then found the cure and the second for a furious Steelers comeback. James Joyce Connor wrote another chapter on the Steelers Odyssey and look away Joe Buck as Michael Jackson, Tomlin as a Steelers moonwalking into the playoffs as Big Ben took a look in the mirror and saw an AFC North champion party, the gold party for in Jacksonville, where the Bears win.

Big, big looking so good. I want to suck on your daddy's Dick Butkus with just me and my mitsch, me and my mitsch. Mike Vladimir Glenanne passed away and left the Russian attack stollen Jimmy two times. Graham played basketball in college, played basketball in college, and caught a pair of scores in the blowout. In a touching tribute to their former general manager and coach, Tom Coughlin, the Jaguars are officially on the clock for the number one pick.

One week early bears. Forty one Jaguars. Seventeen. Yep. What did someone shit in the Jacuzzi?

Because the Browns got in the hot tub time machine to relive some old school misery in the Meadowlands on Sunday. Jameson Irish Whiskey Crowder threw up a shot in the first half to get the Jets going and they never look back. The Browns receivers went mask off, putting their future in jeopardy as the LA Browns James Junior are smashing like on their fifth loss of the year just twenty three, the Browns sixteen and Kansas City, where my good friends Dan Libertador Quinn and Matt Mike Ryan Ruys will no longer be seen on ESPN come January as the Falcons have been eliminated from the playoffs while former chief Larry Johnson stays woke.

These chiefs slept, walked through the first three quarters of the game, almost fumbling away an easy win fumble. The kicker from the ateam missed the tee shot wide right to bring the game to overtime, leaving fans shouting I pity the CU Chiefs clinch the one seed seventeen fourteen over to Baltimore, where J.K. Rowling Dobbins was very offensive towards Martinez, Peppers, Crowder and the rest of the Giants pronounced Wayne Gallman. Mo couldn't stop the Giants offense from having IBS and pooping all over themselves.

Ravens fans feeling like they're taking a super dose of MDMA as everyone all over Baltimore is throwing up the ex as Dez Bryant finds the end zone again. Go Ravens. Twenty seven Giants starting.

Oh, oh, sorry, where were we? I was just dropping off some of the little swami's at the swimming pool, if you know what I mean. Oh yeah. Box forty seven. Lines seven.

I'm down to Washington, where T. Dwayne Haskins was in love with a stripper but is unable to hit up Taylor Hinoki car, kakapo couldn't fix the football team's muffled punt. And Teddy Roosevelt Bridgewater has Washington's fans missing their cousins or at the very least, a leader whose legs don't work. Mr. Smith, please report to Washington. The Panthers take down the football team sticking in the NFC East where Jalen hurts so good, hurts no good. And Jalen played like a Hertz rent to Carson.

Wentz and Eagles fans are confused on who they want to be. Their quarterback, Michael Scott McCarthy, smashed a watermelon, making everyone who bet on the Eagles feel like ignorant sluts. And the Cowboys, unlike their owner, are very much alive heading into week seventeen as Michael Gallop in these guts fuck the Eagles secondary all afternoon long. The Eagles, the Cowboys, a lot. The Eagles, a little stand on the corner.

Jameis Winston it down and no such a fine side to see. It's somehow my Lord bowstring Alvin scores and stopping. Come on. Come on. You, your choose tell. Deep freeze, get his ribs removed. He's looking smart. Saints go marching. All right.

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OK, week sixteen. The Packers might be a decent football team. Packers in the snow inactivating that's cheap. Also Aaron Rodgers went too fast for one of the refs tonight. That's cheating. He did hit a hard count on the officials and then the next time that they got the ball they snapped it before Mike Vrabel could take a look at the replay for a challenge flag. So, yeah, OK, so, yes, Aaron Rodgers is a very good player, very good MVP.

So might say everyone's turning this into like a oh, Patrick Mahomes had these numbers, Aaron. Actually know what I saw a little bit of tonight for the first time in a long time off, Aaron Rodgers was going through these speed bumps like Patrick Mahomes is going through. The media would turn on Aaron Rodgers immediately. So you have to look at everything good that Aaron Rodgers does through a prism of what if it happened to another good player.

Aaron Rodgers is the MVP. It sucks. If I had a vote, I wouldn't vote for him, but I don't have a vote.

So I have to just sit here and say he is most likely going to win the MVP. It's probably deserved. The Packers look awesome.

Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. The Titans are I don't know what I mean, they're kind of what we think, like they're just they can look explosive sometimes, but their defense is not good. This was the fraud bowl. It was a fraud bowl. And the Titans, unfortunately, lost the fraud bowl. I don't believe in the Titans. But then you say to yourself, oh, but Derrick Henry, just fucking jam it down someone's throat.

I just don't think their defense can hang.

Their defense can't hang like they just can't go. They have no pass rush. They have zero pass and they just don't get off of the field on third down. So I do think it was cheating. I opted out of this game as soon as the Packers started kicking the shit out of them.

I have to back in when the Titans made a five five point game.

But the the the snow was cheating and the Packers look really good and whatever.

That's that's big of you, though, to admit that they looked really good. What do you think? Do you think that it would be appropriate of me to use a connection that I have to try to get the Titans better with the pass rush? Better on defense?

Yes. No, no. Do it. Not for the Titans. Yeah. So Clay Matthews wants to come back and play. OK, do it. Mike Vrabel. Yeah. You're listening to the show right now. Yeah. This is me networking with Clay Matthews, whom I played Call of Duty with the other night. OK, he said he's in pretty good shape now if we can get you at least three roughing the passer penalties at the worst possible.

Now, Mike Vrabel, if this means that you're going to cut a boy to bring in Clay Matthews, please ignore everything I just said. Don't do it. Don't do it. But if it means that Clay can stick around. Well, no. You want to. Taylor, that's fine. Yeah, you can cut Taylor. Yeah. That's why he won't mind.

Don't, don't don't cut the ball. The boy with the terrible haircut who also had. Yeah. The pinky fucking will Compton. I mean. Well, like, I get what he was doing because he unveiled the Peaky Blinders look after. But you got to do the Peaky Blinders look first.

No, it was the big reveal. You know nothing about showmanship, but this is boys being boys. This was a guy haircut on its own. Like I actually said to myself, did he cut his own hair? Yeah. No, he might. He might have. Yeah, I think actually he did. It looked like I don't want to say it was a ball cut. It was more like a yamaka.

It was like when they were teasing Tim Tebow. Yeah. Well reverse. Yeah. Reverse but. But it was that bad. It was, it was pretty bad but but yeah. Don't cut that also Halloween was like two months ago. Who cares. Man.

It's called cost playing cat. I know I shouldn't be hating it.

Listen, his look was the definition of tough.

When I saw that I said to myself, I saw his Instagram, I was like, damn, he looks tough.

I think you're legally allowed to kill somebody if you're dressed, if you got like a pocket watch hanging out, I couldn't pull it off. It's definitely not. You look like a bootlegger from the twenties.

You know, he looked tough, real. And then I'd also like to bring if we're talking about cheating Davante Adams clits or cheating, too. Yup. Chris, that gave them the MVP. Get to actually know what if you did have a vote, if this podcast had a collective MVP vote, I think right now we'd have to get behind college where he is the pro football focus guy. That's I'm going to trust what he says.

Yes, the Packers are good. The Titans are not I don't know what else to say.

It'd be fun of Traktor. Seeto got two hundred thirty three yards next week. Got to I don't think probably not get there.

Yeah but we have the entire week sixteen board to go down. We're going to go through all of the different playoff scenarios. Read the Magic Johnson tweet one last time. Well which one.

Because you put another one out though this is probably the one that you were talking about is why you don't even have to watch. I think Aaron Rodgers is going to win MVP, though I don't how the Packers have been dominate all season from start to finish because Patrick, there you go, talking about Patrick Mahomes. Do the other one to the other.

With the Packers having home field advantage in the playoffs, they will be tough to beat because of the cold weather and the snow exclamation point.

That was the exact moment that I was worried about the Packers making a deep run. Yeah, they're going to be tough shoes.

Magic Johnson has figured out the key to to to the Packers success. And he just lets it out there like that.

I'm like, fuck, it's amazing because I've spent, like, all day today going over all the playoff pictures and all the scenarios. And the more I learn about it, the less I know about it. It's like the universe or vagina. And when Magic Johnson just comes out and he just spilled the beans, like that's like it was that easy all along. Yeah.

He just I've been reporting this for six years. You just tweeted it and that was.

Yeah. That was so sad about one of the Trumps. Yeah. I went and he tweeted it. Yeah.

That was one of the first times that Trump Donald Trump was definitely not going to be president anymore back in like 2016.

He just went and tweeted it. All right, let's get to the rest of the week, 16 slate. We're starting we're going back in time all the way to Christmas Day. Vikings thirty three Saints, 52 who never even felt that close like.

No, you said that the Vikings scored. How many points? Thirty three. You see, if if you had asked me offhand how many they scored on Christmas Day, I would have said like ten points.

The quote of the game was in like the first quarter.

I want to say it was Troy Aikman just straight up said this Vikings defense isn't really good. Yeah. So when you when you have an announcer, just submit that straight up. You know, it's going to be a long day for them. And Alvin Kamara, six touchdowns. I started him or I was going up against him in nineteen of my twenty four fantasy championship was so bad he ruined my Christmas.

But yeah, the Saints like this was this is the Saints recipe. And I know obviously the Vikings defense is that bad.

So you can't be like a just score six rushing, seven rushing touchdowns. Right, because Taysom had one, got six.

Taysom Hill came in, pulled one away. And that's one of those situations where when you're watching the game, you know that Sean Payton is trying to get somebody paid with that touchdown. Yeah, he's a big like I can see why players want to go play for him because he's like his own little mini down there. He's like his own little bank where if he knows that one of his guys is standing to get like some sort of incentive in his contract, Sean Payton will get that guy paid.

Oh, yeah. Owners like up in the booth, like, God damn it, Sean did it again. Cost me other like five hundred thousand dollars. But yeah.

Sean Payton, it was weird when he put Tassimo in for that touchdown, but then he made it up to everybody. But I wanted like a little reward for watching that game. Like give me a little bit of history. Sean Payton. Right. Let me see. Some guy gets seven touchdowns on Christmas Day.

I there should be a Christmas Day football game every single year. I know that's impossible because Christmas, unlike Blake Bortles, you know, it does move around in the calendar, not the date we had today.

We had a game on every single day of the week this year. Yeah, it was great. But so it was great to have, especially because there was a lot of blow outs in the NBA.

But the Saints I, I'm a I'm a, you know, like an old record. I'm beating it to beat the dead horse. I don't want to get too far into it, but I still believe that Drew Brees is what holds back.

He looks he definitely looks limited. He's had a lot of yards. But in the first half, he had a couple of throws. He had you know what? He had the head scratchers, the head scratching his head.

And I the the Saints are really, really good football team. It's this and I'm not saying Drew Brees can't just, like, have a month where he throws back time, takes a couple of shots and all of a sudden he's back to old Drew Brees.

But there it feels like we're just heading on a collision course to a big game where Drew Brees needs to make like five to six huge throws. And it's just not exactly the same as it used to be.

If the Saints can play against those Vikings, then, yes, they will win every single game because Mike Zimmer was just on the sidelines hating his football team. Oh, he usually reserves that sort of hate for for his quarterbacks, really. But Troy Aikman, hate of the Vikings defense is something Troy Aikman usually reserves towards, like Doug Gottlieb. Right. Or Skip Bayless firing off at the hip about something. But there are really, really stinky defense, really bad defense.

And Dan Bailey still employed. I don't know why still missing kicks, but, yeah, the the Saints are really, really good. The Saints are really, really good. I mean, we we we can go through this. We're going to go through all of our playoff scenarios. But I absolutely put the Saints in Super Bowl contender. Yeah. Like Traunch.

Whether Drew Brees can get them there, I don't know, truck in the NFC, they are one of the teams, FC kind of like weirdly loaded because who else is in your Super Bowl?

Because I feel like the NFC. Yeah, the Seahawks, obviously the Seahawks. And I guess we can go to that. We go to the next game right now. But I guess if the Bucs could play the Lions every every day, if the Bucs could play the Lions in every round of the playoffs, they are my prohibitive Super Bowl favorite.

Yeah, I mean, it's a major Asterix game because they you. Count that as a flip a switch game for the Bucs offense. You know what, forget everything that happened. I don't I don't know what it was, but everything finally clicked for this box off. Yes, they were firing on all cylinders. Weird how they were involved. They got Antonio Brown involved. They got Mike Evans involved. Everything. Leonard Fournette looked like he had two working legs.

Yep. And a soul this week. So I don't know what it was, but something about that offense this week, Matt, Patricia must have been sitting at home just like firing up his own little old takes exposed Twitter account, just like retweeting everybody that was talking shit about his defense earlier in the year. Because say what you want about Matt, Patricia and I will, and I'll continue to do so in the future. But at least he was a coach on defense.

Well, they didn't have coaches. Yeah, no one coach didn't actually have coaches.

We had two weird covid situations. The Browns wide receiver corps and the Lions coaches. They had who is it? Evan Rothstein. And there was someone else who was coaching that was like, what? What is going on?

I was shocked to learn that the Lions had coaches.

It kind of it was kind of like a choose your own adventure, like what would happen if you had to coach an NFL team, right? Well, you lose forty seven to seven and the only touchdown would be a quick return.

Yeah, well, at least we got to see like a little mizu off at the end. We got chased in Blaine transshipped Daniels just he's not meant to be playing. He's meant to just be chillin. You pay Chase Daniels six million dollars a year to be a good dude, like a fun guy to hang out with in the locker room. In the locker room. Yeah. Not to, like, mess up the chemistry of the team. You don't play standard six million dollars to go out on the field and play against the bucks.

No, you don't. So my question to you is this is Bruce Arians did the right thing by benching Tom Brady at halftime. Tom Brady had twenty two for twenty seven, three hundred and forty eight yards, four touchdowns in one half of football.

They were just scoring whatever they want. We even had Robock Gronk, which was fucking sick.

I think it's actually more insulting to bench or quarterback at halftime, then less insulting like it is the right thing to do in sportsmanship and be like, hey, we don't want to get injured. We also don't want to score too much, which, by the way, this over was an absolute travesty. If you had this over, I apologize. That was just two overs in in that stadium in two weeks to the Mac championship game in this game where it was two extra points missed and also a field goal when a team scores.

Forty seven, the overshared hit that should be in law. Like if I were president, I'd make that a law. If team scores forty seven in the NFL, the hits, no matter why, not take out some of your defensive starters to.

Yeah. Like be consistent on both sides of the ball. Be like, hey, if you're still watching, at least I'm going to treat you to a few points. Right.

But don't you think it is like it's sneaky, more insulting to be like, hey, we don't need our starting quarterback for an entire half of this game?

Yeah, absolutely. And as a as a viewer, I tuned in to watch Tom Brady play. I've seen Blaine Gabbert play.

The blame game was electric. One for his first pass was a touchdown pass. Yeah, I think that my biggest takeaway from this game is kind of like it's gone along with a story of the Lions season, which is I feel bad for Matthew Stafford. Yup. He got hurt again. He's a tough guy and I'm just spending most of my energy when it comes to the Lions thinking about where I'd like to see Matt Stafford go like a list of teams that Matt Stafford could not turn into a contender.

All is going well. It's pretty much the Lions and the Falcons because no one can really. Yeah. Work magic with the baby. The maybe the but the Jets are Tuno and the Jets are the worst team in the NFL.

Hatsune.

Yeah, but yeah, I feel like Matt Stafford next year. I want to see him go somewhere fun somewhere where he can you know, he can thrive for a little bit.

He the problem with Matt Sapers, he did sign that long term deal with the training, know how many years he has left. And I kind of respect that. Like, I know some people like, well, he's not a winner because he he signed on to be with this terrible organization sorry, Lions fans, but I like I like to just get your money, have your life, maybe, you know, put up a Hall of Fame career in my eyes, stat wise.

But the bucks. Let's talk about the bucks real quick. So the bucks first time in the playoffs since 2007, that was the second longest playoff drought. The Browns being the longest. So it's crazy. Twenty seven who started that game?

Twenty seven for the bucks that against the Giants. Giants won the Super Bowl that year. Phil Simms.

Jefferson. Yeah. Oh really. Yeah. Fussiest started that game for the bucks. And it also was the last time that Jon Gruden went to the playoffs, which we'll talk about Jon Gruden in a minute.

That was the start of Jon Gruden just collecting quarterbacks. Yeah. That season that he brought in, like Jeff Popsy brought in Jake Plummer, who I think was there for like two weeks. It was like, I'd rather go play handball it. But, yeah, that was that was the end of the one Super Bowl Gruden dynasty in Tampa. Yes.

And so so the other stat, which is crazy, just to even like see it written out, is that the Bucs made the playoffs the first time since 2007 and the Patriots missed the playoffs for the first time since 2008. Tom Brady is a playoff machine, that is. Crazy, yeah, that's I mean, that's nuts to think that it's been that long. Honestly, like for the bucks, it doesn't feel like it's been that long. Yeah, I don't think of the books when I think of, like, the biggest losing franchises.

But you forget that the Rex Ryan years in New York were actually not bad.

Well, it kind of it kind of it kind of like proves what one Super Bowl can do for a franchise, because you're right. You don't think the Bucs losers put the bucks really are losers with, you know, they're losers. And then they had a five year stretch where they were winners, but like, they were really, really bad for a really long time in the cream circles. They've been really bad pretty much the last 15 years. But they're back in the playoffs.

Happy for Bucs fans, Stephen Shea, that's pretty much who we're talking about. Shout out, Stephen. I know you're listening right now. Hopefully we did the ads correctly. I'm happy for you.

I still don't believe in the Bucs fully because I don't think that they can just flip the switch. The it still feels like a team that you're going to like. We're going to we're going to watch a playoff game and they're going to struggle to move the ball. And I'm like, how is this happening?

They have all of these guys, the Bucs are going to get to play against probably an NFC East team in the playoffs.

Yeah, that'll be nice to play the Saints defense there. And they have to play the Packers there. They have to go if yeah. If the if the Bucs have to go to Lambeau and is Magic Johnson taught us in the playoffs in Green Bay, it's actually going to be very cold and possibly also snow. That's going to be an issue for Tom Brady, who says that he will never move back up to the northern United States.

Right. So credit to the Bucs. So first time since 2007. That's awesome. Any playoff drought that gets eliminated is cool. And then the Lions. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that's tough. Bad stuff. It's really bad.

Have they have they said who they're interviewing yet. I know some teams are starting to do the thing where they they tweet out who they, they've just completed an interview with. I like that when teams keep me posted on. Yeah. Like every team in the NFL so far that has a coaching vacancy, I think has interviewed Marvin Lewis.

Yes. Yes. Marvin Lewis is a hot name for some reason back on the streets, very hot. I probably because of Marvin Lewis. Marvin Lewis is putting his own name out there. Hugh Jackson probably.

He's bringing out that. He's bringing Hue Jackson with him. It's a package deal.

I don't understand why interim head coaches Darrell Bevell had the one game bounce, the dead cat bounce, where an interim head coach comes in, does well for a game to beat the Bears. If I were an interim head coach, I would you pretty much. They always win their first game because guys just try really hard.

I just fake a heart attack after that and be like, yeah, go out on top and have them carry me off and then just be like, I'm out, I'm out. I'm one of those coach. I'm out. Jim Tomsula should have quit after the first game.

Jim Tomsula doesn't quit anything though, is one to know. Yeah. So, yeah, I think that what teams should do is they should just stick with the hot hand when it's interim head coach, just like if you won your last game, boom, you're in are just cycling in and out like there's nothing to stop the lines from it. It's pretty much what they're forced to do at this point. Right. Just like have a new coach every week, a celebrity coach, have Kid Rock, have Eminem.

I like that. Have Detroit on. Detroit on could get Detroit done is an analytics guy.

I sat with him for a game. He was crunching numbers and he was just like, we're fucked.

Yeah. No, no, it's very smart. He was like we're statistically we're we're back in this thing when they were like they were like five and nine or five and eight. And he's like, listen, if we win this one and then we win the next one and then the next one and then a bunch of teams lose, we're back.

Yeah, it should be a fucking fan contest, pretty much where it's like season ticket holders are now eligible to become head coaches, right? For one game. Yes. One week, the caller with the strongest take on local sports talk radio should get the opportunity to put his money where his mouth is. That's to get down on the sidelines.

That's genius. All right. So the next Saturday game, the Amazon game, shout out everyone who is probably pissed off because they didn't have Amazon Prime. What are you doing? I it is a sad realization when I realized that, like, my entire life is living in fear that there will be a game I gambled on and I cannot watch.

Oh, it's so like it's the residual effect of AMI Oklahoma. Yes.

Yes. So I so I like people were treated like, dude, you probably don't have Amazon Prime because I'm a very staunch cable cable cable. So I need to be up to date. I have every streaming app, I follow sports, I have FUBU, TV or Foubert TV. I have fucking the Facebook live when I need to watch the game. I've watched games on shit that you don't even know exists. Pluto TV. I'm naming shit like I've watched games on all these.

What's the one that they're like. CONCACAF is always on PNB in sports, BMB in sports. They like to be in fuck. Yeah. I was watching Mexican soccer a few few months ago because I had I had money on the game. So I love my life is just living in fear that there will be someday I'll wake up, have action on a game and not be able to watch it. So yes, I had Amazon Prime. It was kind of weird.

It was just like, would you say about the host?

The host was like the best way to describe him would be like he's he's like a robot version of Chris Fowler or like, you know, ESPN has the machine that they just crank out Rece Davis one by one by one. Yeah. He's like, if you left, Chris. In the Davis machine for like two days, he's overdone, he's overdone, it's like, OK, this is too much tall, polished white guy, dark hair, sportscasting in a giant studio.

Senator piped into my. Yeah. Being called business up. He'll by him for half price. Yeah. He's the robot dog. Yeah, the Davis machine. I agree with that. His name is Rete. Yeah, right. Yeah, exactly. I mean there was a glitch. No offense to rat but he seems nice but yeah. Yeah but he's. Yeah it seems like if Jake Moreish had like seven head injuries. Yeah. And and didn't know anything.

A computer chip. Yeah. And a computer chip that like one of his professors at Syracuse had installed in them and like how to be a sports broadcaster. That's what this was like. It was, it was weird.

This is going to suck. One is like a button. Yeah. I mean he was he shut out. Right. You seem like a nice guy. So you seem like a nice guy to teach. But yeah, it was all frankly, it felt like the right two teams to be playing in an Amazon game. Yes. They're both futurists. They're both kind of like high tech and weird, like hot coaches.

And they also like in the in the future in the NFL, everyone will share a stadium. Yep. Which is what the Cardinals in the Forty Niners mean. It's the we work of stadium, right? Yeah. We're going to be playing games around the clock.

You disrupted the national football. Yeah. And a stadium in the clouds. Yeah. But yeah. So the Amazon game is this the future of of Amazon is going to buy the NFL eventually.

Yeah. Yeah. Like don't get ready for this.

You think it was a one off. It is not. Amazon is going to buy the entire NFL.

I mean there'd be power move if they had the entire Sunday ticket now. And there's so many people that don't understand streaming that watch like they just got caught up on how to operate their DirecTV remote last season. They just memorize what the red zone channel number is. They just memorized where to find their team every Sunday. They probably don't even use the entire Sunday ticket package. They just know the channel that their team is usually on and that they're going to be so confused when everything is streaming.

Yes. Oh, yes.

Very, very confused. All right. So this game, though, George Kittles back. I fucking love George Kittle, the hot mike when he said, I fucking love the Bears. This game was big for the Bears playoff destiny. Let's talk, though, real quick about Kliff Kingsbury. Yep. Kliff Kingsbury. Are we sure he's good?

No, we're not. I think we established that that I don't think he is good at all. Actually, I am sure that he's not good.

I it's kind of amazing when you when you look back at Cliff Kingsbury's entire resume and you realize like, oh, attractive people do really run this world. Like if you are a good looking guy and you can walk into Hawkgirl and you can walk into a meeting and wow. Someone you can fail upwards all the way. Kliff Kingsbury was 35 and 40 as a head coach at Texas Tech.

He had two winning seasons out of six. He was nineteen and thirty five in conference. And now you're probably saying, Hey, big cat like, OK, Texas Tech's hard to win at. Well, Mike Leach had ten straight winning.

Another very good looking guy, Tommy Tuberville went twenty and seventeen at Texas Tech. I personally went nine and three, seven and two in conference. Not to brag. Baylor Game eight eight eight. A little bit of a weed brownie, whatever shit happens. OK, so the cook Kingsbury like he's never been good. I don't get it.

No, it was very bizarre when they hired him and he, he was never like he was interviewed to be a coordinator I think a couple of years ago. Right. Yes. And mean if he that he had a job as U.S. offensive coordinator and then they hired his. But his interviewing or his NFL experience comes from like doing one interview to be the offensive coordinator for an NFL team. Right. That's his experience in the NFL. Then he comes to the league.

He's not he hasn't really one where he's been at. And this is honestly kind of what I expect. But I feel like the main reason that I don't like the Cardinals is because they don't fit into what my identity of the cardinals should be with Kliff Kingsbury. Like their defense is too good, their defense.

Schultz has done a great job, just kept them alive. But what I'm saying is, like I think I would appreciate Kliff Kingsbury more if their defense kind of stunk and they were just in shoot outs all the time. And it reminded me of a big twelve game. Right. So if they if they were giving up like thirty five points a game, but their defenses like top fifteen I think top twelve. So it doesn't really jive with that identity that I have where I'm like, OK, I'm going to tune in to a Cardinals game and she's going to get points fast.

Right. And so cooking's very not very good. The Cardinals needed this game. And on the other side of the sideline, cash in hand is incredible. Cash in hand is winning games with backups, backups. C.J. Better, who Billy said had swag. I'll give him that. I was wrong. He was right because I just need the Niners to win against George Kittle. Jeff Wilson was like the third string running back. And I like Robert Solow.

It is Robert Solecism season. Everyone's going to be talking about him. But that guy put Kliff Kingsbury in a fucking box, dude, and I'll tell you who the real MVP this game was, was Robert Solís hold back guy. Yeah, there are. A couple instances where he got out onto the field like 20, 30 yards and just got dragged backwards like he was on a bungee cord, like he was trying to do some wind sprints with a parachute on his back.

It was amazing.

And again, we're not we're not like geniuses, football geniuses.

We just like just very good looking. And we're right. Exactly. But it just feels like when you have Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins, your offense should win games against the 49ers who have nothing to play for in a bunch of back.

Yeah, well, DeAndre Hopkins, I like how it's got to be Kliff Kingsbury who's leaking out like DeAndre Hopkins is not putting in the effort at practice that that's necessary. Right. Which is why we're not passing the ball. I think DeAndre Hopkins is one of maybe like three or four players in the NFL that you don't really need a super high level of effort from him in practice because whatever it's like Davante Adams Clits, DeAndre Hopkins hands, there's something weird about them that just makes them so much better than everybody else that plays that position.

Agreed. Agreed. All right. So anything else in this game?

No, no, I don't think so. Amazon game is strange. Honestly, it's pretty much what I expected this game.

I took me like 15 minutes to get the closed captions off, which drove me insane.

All right. How do you get those captions on the Internet? I don't do that just because I watch all my I watch every movie ever. With closed captioning, so you're like reading a book while you watch a movie, you you realize I sound completely defeats the entire point of watching you. All right. Here, here's where all of this is. I started it once. I started watching Peaky Blinders, what, like five years ago?

Because you couldn't understand a word they said you realize, especially with, like, cell phone and you're watching.

I have three TVs, so I'm watching two games underneath. You miss so much shit if you're just, like, passively listening when you also have to do a little bit of reading, you pick up everything.

So I'll stand by it. I don't care. I watch every single movie I call my old guy. I am whatever. I watch every single movie now with closed captions because I feel like I pick up everything that is really weird.

I don't think it's that weird. I think there's more people come out of the woodwork and be like same. And I mean, again, I'm not like young. I didn't do this when I was twenty three, but with 36, I think it's too many words for football.

Football is a story. Now say football. I turned it off for football.

Yeah, but it was on because of the move. We have to turn it on Amazon.

Well it's the only time eventually you'll get, you'll forget how to turn it off and then you'll have to call over like your younger neighbor to see if they know I operate the TV. I tried and then I realized there was just a button. But yeah, no, I had it on for movies. The only time I watch a football game on Amazon is once a year until Amazon buys the whole thing. And then, yeah, back to movies.

All right. Dolphins, Raiders. Saturday night. Fitz Magic. What a fuck in that game was so boring. And then Ryan Fitzpatrick came in and it just everything changed.

And like both sides, he just something about him makes everything more fun and awesome. And it was chaotic and crazy. And I don't know what they do it too. But I have a quote for you from Jon Gruden. So Jon Gruden was criticized for the end of the game situation where they don't score a touchdown. They leave Ryan Fitzpatrick like fifteen seconds. I have no problem with it because, like, you need basically what happened to happen. I don't want a crazy play in a facemask.

Otherwise you're giving him, I don't know, like 45 seconds.

I don't have a problem with it, but I, I know who does have a problem with it in retrospect. As Jon Gruden.

Well, no, he doesn't. I guess he doesn't know because this is I actually agree with Jon Gruden. It's damned if you do. Damned if you don't, because they they scored too early against the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes killed them. So here's the part where Jon Gruden is like fucked in the head. His decision making is right there. He essentially compared Ryan Fitzpatrick to Patrick Mahomes. He said we did that against Kansas City. Honestly, we scored with one one fifteen left and Mahomes went down and beat us.

I didn't want Vince Fitzpatrick to have the ball. He's a gunslinger. He's hot. That's all I can say. So he's just putting Ryan Fitzpatrick in home.

He's basically saying to the same guy, OK, but if you score a touchdown, then you take the field goal. You take that off the table. What do you mean?

So. Yeah, yeah. Right.

So it's actually forty five seconds. Yeah. But he's saying he did. He did. He is right. He's, he's the opposite earlier in the year and it burned him that way.

I agree with what he said right there, but I bet you anything. Jon Gruden will never take another knee in that situation again. But he lost doing it the other way. So that's how Jon Gruden operates. It's like he learns his most recent lesson. So he's using the lesson that he learned from the chiefs against the Dolphins. Next time this happens to him, he's going to be using the lesson that he learned against the dolphins, against the next person.

He's going to score a touchdown. He's going to be sick to himself driving laps around a Legion stadium at night like he just beat the Chiefs. But he's just going to be, like, pounding the steering wheel, listening to radar love and being like, God damn it, I didn't play football. I wasn't true to myself. I should have scored a touchdown instead of kicking a field goal.

I agree with you there. And I think that Jon Gruden like that, that decision I have no problem with. Let's talk about everything else. Jon Gruden, like his offense was over ten on third down. There were one four four touchdowns in the red zone. He's now had two teams back to back years, start six and four, lose four out of five. Yeah, two times, I think back to back. You think we warned you about this like a month and a half ago right before this started.

Like Jon Gruden, I feel like he is a coach. We're at the start of the year right after training camp. First of all, you're happy that he hasn't killed you? Don't not happy with me. He's gonna knock on wood if you're with me. He's doing that weird dance in the locker room where he does like the Macarena. Yeah. And then after about a couple of months, you're like, God damn it, this guy is is he serious?

This is what he's like all the time, right? Like all the time. All the time. And then you start to get like a little worn down. Plus you've got Derek Carr who who is like a theUN. Gradually, the way that I feel, I feel bad for Derek Carr. I feel like every time something good happens to him, he gets his guts ripped out or is not chopped off the very next week and something bad happens to him.

I just he he's kind of in my Ryan Tannehill. Your thing with Ryan Tannehill, where it's like Derek Carr could play great and I'll still like. But it's Derek Carr. Yeah. Is there a car? And eventually it won't it won't work out. But so the Jon Gruden. So so like I said, four to five. Two years in a row down the stretch, he's sixty three and 80 since the Super Bowl win, I don't understand, like why doesn't he get.

It's just because everyone likes them, it's crazy he doesn't get any criticism for like this, this team everyone was talking about the Raiders being like, oh, watch out for the Raiders, watch out for the Raiders. They got a lot of pieces. Their defense isn't great, but they got a lot of pieces on offense, Wolf.

Your job is the offense. The best thing that happened to Jon Gruden was getting replaced by Jason Witten when he left the booth, because then everybody was like, man, I really miss Jon Gruden. He knew what he knew what he was talking about when it came to football. Also, every time he throws a spider to weave in and out there, it's just fun to say. Yeah, and it reminds us of Groomes. Yes, we like that.

And we like him as a personality. What I want him coaching my football team for ten million dollars a year. Probably not. Probably not. But going back to Fitzpatrick for a second, I actually think that Ryan Fitzpatrick should be in the Hall of Fame. Yeah, I think he should be a Hall of Famer. Not just that memorable, not just because the bust would be legendary with the beard in it, but because, like, he's provided so many great memories and so many weird things have happened in and around Ryan Fitzpatrick's body.

So he could be like, OK, if he doesn't have the stats to get you there. We put in contributors to the game every year should if he's not a player, he should be a contributor to the game and get into the NFL.

Absolutely. Absolutely. He I don't know what they do with Toure. It's very odd that you've benched your starting quarterback, who you drafted fifth overall twice now in like a month and a half. And Brian is still like, yeah, is our starter until we need to win the game. And then Ryan Fitzpatrick is coming into play.

And like I was seeing some Dolphins fans make excuses for Tua and obviously he's young. I'm not going to give up on him because of just this year. But it's crazy how much better the offense looks when he is when Fitzpatricks in verse two, I think Kurt was Kurt Warner was doing the game. He actually had the perfect explanation for it. That, too, is is waiting for guys to get Alabama open, not NFL open. Where is Ryan Fitzpatrick?

Well, he'll throw to guys who are fully covered.

Yeah, he's used to turn the guys who are Halvard open, which is double teams. Right.

So he like to is waiting for these guys to be streaking down the field wide open, which doesn't happen in the NFL that way. And I don't know. I mean, he's too is like he's like a better version, better learned version of Josh Rosen at this point where it's like his stats.

If you just look at his stats like, oh my God, he's seventy five percent. Yeah, go away. But it was for seventy yards and he threw the ball twenty times.

I actually have no problem with what Floras is doing with the quarterbacks. I think it's, it's interesting and it's definitely something that isn't repeated by any other coach. But I guess he's got a sense in the locker room where he's just going to go with the hot hand no matter what's happening, gets away. And it seems like neither Fitzpatrick nor to A really have a problem with it. So it's like, why is this any different than any other position?

Probably because the quarterback is generally the leader of your offense and it's good to have a rhythm going. But if neither guy like the best thing that you can have for Ryan Fitzpatrick is a quick is a quick pull for him and put in another guy when Fitzpatrick starts to do bad Fitzpatrick stuff. Right. Because when he's doing Fitz magic stuff, it's the best thing ever. It's like every drug combined into one. And you're like, this guy can win.

This is a dynasty of one rocket you can have as my quarterback. But when he starts doing the really weird interceptions and fumbling the ball and it looks like the wheels are coming off, like having a guy that's able to come in there and not be awful is actually great. Yeah, I think Fitzpatrick would probably admit, like, yeah, sometimes I do some strange shit. That's when I get fucked up in the head. Listen, when you strap yourself into the Fitzpatrick roller coaster, sometimes you're going to have to pull the lever and take a break.

You can't ride that roller coaster. It's sure season at a time. It's true.

All right. I just looked it up, too. It was seventeen for twenty two on Saturday night. How many yards? 1994. Yeah, that's insane.

Yeah, it's four point three yards.

And he had a touchdown, which was really just a dump off to Myles Gaskin, who made a nice play.

Yeah. I mean they should honestly have Fitzy Anta in there at the same time. Yeah. A double quarterback like one right handed, one left handed.

And Trent Copeland thinks he's special. Who jumped over Trent over things that Trent Duffy.

No, Trent over trains to us. So I actually I can I'm OK with him having his guys back.

But some of the things he's been saying about too is like what I mean to it looks OK, but he looks OK.

I'm firmly in the two will be OK. I know again I'm not giving up on him.

I don't think he looks OK though right now. Look, I don't think it said seventy four, twenty two for ninety four yards in today's NFL is crazy.

It's not. No it's actually like pretty tough.

Ryan Fitzpatrick was nine for 13 for 182 yards. He threw it half the amount of times for double the yards.

I also think that Fitz plays so much better when he's uncomfortable that like if teams just sat back and again, I have no stats whatsoever to back any of this up. So, I mean, it's probably true because I'm saying it. But like, when he's playing against. It seems like blitzing the shit out of him, he's taking hits, he's getting his head ripped off sideways like that last pass that he threw, I actually expected Ryan Fitzpatrick to complete that pass.

Yes, because his head was looking backwards through it. Yeah. It's when he's like when he's got too much time and he starts to get bored and like a dog that you leave alone and it just goes nuts and eats the doorframes off your apartment because you're not at home. Like that's when Fitzpatrick gets in trouble and he tries to like create a little bit of chaos for himself. But when it's when it's tough on him, then he's really good.

So, yeah, I don't know, maybe maybe next game against the bill is right. Maybe Fitzpatrick goes out there, he's going to have like a good revenge quarter against the bills.

Well, he's not going to play as of right now or two is still starter. Who's a starter. That's why I point to as a starter. It's a very bizarre situation.

We're not going to get this over in this Packers Titans game. It's going to be a travesty. Yeah, the Titans stink. We talked about that. That's time trouble for you. All right. Falcons chiefs, you know, the Chiefs have ten comeback wins this season. I didn't come back win being just that they were down and losing at some point. But that does feel weird, right?

It does. But I mean, that's what they did in the playoffs last year. Thanks for coming out, Chiefs.

Yeah, thanks for coming out, Chiefs. It's just crazy because they're that good, but they've been down in pretty much every single game.

This game was weird because they they just looked bad against the Falcons and Patrick Mahomes did not look sharp. And then yet still they can flip the switch to get the ball down late. Patrick Mahomes threw a pick that wasn't caught, which I know that sounds weird, but that's exactly what the play was like. It was a bad pass. It was an interception.

He just couldn't catch it. And then the chiefs win. And I want to give credit to Raheem Morris because I looked it up. Dan Quinn, this is the same team, Dan Quinn, when he was the coach of the Falcons, five games, thirty two point two points per game, they were giving up. Raheem Morris has been coaching the Falcons for now. Ten games, twenty point nine points. So twelve points better. Yeah, that's crazy.

Yes. Same fucking guy change like they held the chiefs under twenty point ten point is like an offensive.

Oh, no, wait. He's actually like a defensive mastermind. Right.

I've got to talk about the chiefs. I think the chiefs are getting too cute with it. I think as a football.

Well, that fourth down is the cutest thing you've ever seen.

I think there are too cute. They're playing too cute football out there. That fan, are they too cute to win in the playoffs?

Like, I don't know. They used to be exactly the right amount of cute, but now it's like they've gone and Hathway and all I need is an Emma Stone. Yep. And it's just overboard. I agree. Much cuteness.

There is a little bit of cuteness that Andy Reid in his thong mask and daisy shorts running around touchdown that that the two cute moment happened right when they did the fourth and one fake where Patrick Mahomes is running down the field as a wide receiver in a game that didn't really matter. I mean, obviously, they got the one seed, but they could have won their last one of their last two.

That was a too cute moment. That was like, what are you guys doing? Why are you even risking Mahomes getting hurt here, what? Fourth and one? Why not just run the football? Like what is going on? So I agree with you, too. Cute. Yeah. And also, you play the Falcons. Why are you doing your best trick plays against the Falcons?

Well, the Falcons were getting exactly the right amount of cute. They were nailing the cuteness in the first half. Yeah. So the Falcons, they I think we both had this sense in this game that this was going to be a close one. This might be like a letdown game for the Chiefs, because this the Falcons, you go in against the Falcons. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. You expect to win this game by infinity points if you're the Chiefs.

But the the Falcons, I guess they're showing they might be frisky, maybe frisky down the stretch. Raheem Remorse could get the head coaching gig. I don't know how you know how Arthur Blank, he works. He's like, this guy is in house.

No, I know. I know. He deserves he deserves an interview because he's gotten the Falcons to a point where no one thought they would be.

And that's just competent football. Arthur Blank is a big this guy knows everybody's name in the facility. They all seem to like him. Drew, let's keep him around and see what seems like a likable guy.

Travis Kelce broke the record for most yards in a season for a tight end. OK, fourteen, maybe. Grunstein Yeah.

What about Matt Ryan? Here's George Kittles record from two years ago. Right. And it should be his from this year. Correct.

But he got he got hurt. Matt Ryan is definitely the most sack, the most. There is one play today where he did like one and a half spin moves and it looked like a drunk man, junior like barrel roll out of an automobile.

Matt Ryan's entire, like, offense at this point is snap the ball look to try to throw it to Calvin Ridley, then look to see who who can sack him the least hard. Yeah.

Yeah.

It's the opposite of Ryan Fitzpatrick who's like try to throw it to anybody and then run at the biggest guy that you see just who can who is who is going to not hurt me when when they inevitably sack me, which happens like six times a game.

Now, all the cute, too cute stuff that we've said about the chiefs. I still think that they're probably going to they're going to, like, walk to the Supreme Court. Well, I get up for the bills. That's actually the only thing you could say about that. She's at this point is I actually and the two cute like is kind of tongue in cheek, but I actually agree with you. But the chief's the only way they will lose is if they, like, sleepwalk for just a little bit too long.

You don't mean like if they get caught just a little bit because they do kind of play this this wire act where it's like, oh, well, they'll just flip the switch and Patrick Mahomes will bail them out. And he does bail them out because he is the best quarterback by a long shot.

But you could see that happening like like, oh, shit, it's the second half. And I guess this is kind of stupid to even say the way they won the Super Bowl. They basically did this in every single game where they were behind.

But eventually you can get caught. It's like, oh, fuck, maybe. Oh, that interception did get caught. Now what do we do?

We were saying earlier how it was a good thing that the chiefs lost earlier in the year to the Raiders because then they got a little wake up call. They didn't have to worry about all the talk of and coming down the stretch. Yeah, I think the chiefs need to lose again. I think they need another wake up call. They think they hit the snooze button on the season, which took them into week seventeen. I think they need to lose against the Chargers next week.

And I think the Chargers could beat I think they probably won't start any. Yeah, but that I don't know. Does that count?

Yeah, that is that's still like a wake up call. Yeah, that counts. That counts. Who's their backup quarterback?

Find out she's a backup quarterback. I don't think that you can Google it like. Oh, Chad, honey. Chad, honey. OK, let's go. Chad, honey. All right. Yeah, no, I think they'll probably lose the Chargers because they won't try and they'll hit everyone.

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OK, next up, Browns Jets who? Boy.

So the Browns had no wide receivers. They had a walk through in the parking garage attached to their hotel. And it's like it was like thirty degrees this morning in New York City there in New Jersey.

But eight, 15 a.m. they had a walk through basically Baker Mayfield during a break, the ice with all the wide receivers that he had to throw to this. There was a moment in time and we can laugh about it now because let's just sit let's just set the stage here. The Browns controlled their own destiny. If the Browns win week seventeen, the Browns are in the playoffs. Doomsday scenario is not there. In that case, the Browns hold it all in their hands.

There was a situation where the Browns could potentially like go eleven and five and somehow miss it and be like, what the fuck happened? No, the Browns can win. And there there was a moment, though, where it was the most Browns thing ever to be losing to the Jets, to have no wide receivers, to have the Colts up big on the Steelers and to have that eleven point five doomsday scenario be a very real possibility. Thank God the Colts ended up losing for the Browns sake because the Browns can now still win and get in.

But, man, was that that was like almost the most Browns thing ever. There was like a two hour window on Sunday afternoon where if you're a Browns fan, you were freaking the fuck out.

Like you're just checking things off the list of everything that you've you've kept in, like your worst case scenario binder for the last two weeks. And it's all happened in slowmo and it's all continuing to happen. You're like, this is we're just going to be fucked. Yeah. We're going to look back on that Raiders game that we played when it was like eleven degrees outside in the Gropple and. And we're going to be like, damn, we should have won that game, are you going to look back at another, like the shit game with Lamar Jackson where he had diarrhea?

You to look back on that and be like, if we had just got one more, then we would be able to control our own destiny. But you're right. The good news is like I think you win in your end when you know it's a special day in there and you do win and you're in. But then most scenarios have you playing the Steelers the very next week. That's only the first round of playoffs.

I don't think the Steelers are going to play. I don't think the Steelers are going to, like, try.

Oh, you don't think so against the Browns? I think they've had so many injuries this year. Why would they risk? Because Big Ben is trying to get that title back, knowing that he can be the most winning quarterback.

I know of first energy state, not only Mike Tomlin, that I don't think he's going to let him. I don't think Mike Tomlin is going to let Big Ben do that. Why would you risk any injuries in week seventeen when you've kind of limped in, like for the Steelers?

If you're from the Steelers perspective, we could actually just do this this these games in tandem. The only other note I had from the Browns Jets game is you probably should extend Adam Gase.

Yeah, absolutely. And when he's on the sideline, it's very funny to watch Adam Gase on the sideline because much like Jason Garrett never really coached on the sideline, he was always clapping. Adam Gates is always reading a book. Yeah, he's just like he's like an old man at a baseball game keeping score. I don't know what he's writing. The dude from the professor from the FSU game.

Yeah. Sitting up in the stands reading a book in a blowout. I was going to say to him, I was going to say is like Johnny Moxon reading Slaughterhouse Five inside of his playbook from Varsity Blues.

But whatever he's doing and by the way, definitely Owens, what's it called? Infinite Jest. Yeah. He doesn't go around with it chest.

And it's sitting in a prominent place in his house. And he likes when people are like, oh, Infinite Jest, like, yeah. You know, I picked it up.

I haven't had time recently. And I'm not saying this because I also have Infinite Jest and I also have never read it.

But yes, that's what dumb people do, is they buy Infinite Jest and they display it in there. It's actually a genius thing. We should we should make a book that everyone's like, damn, this is this is a book like you want to talk about a book. This is a fucking but like, listen, you listen.

This is one book I would say that catch 22 is on that list. That one's short, though. You can really catch wait too long. Oh, I'm thinking of what's the fucking Holden Caulfield.

What's that catcher catching the rye on that one short.

It's basically every book that you said you read in high school. It's got to be over like five hundred pages because no one's reading a book over 500 pages, let's be honest. So you buy it just to have it so people can be like, whoa. And the best part about having Infinite Jest is no one's actually ever read the book. So when they come over and they see it, they know like they can't be like, oh yeah.

What's your favorite character from Infinite Jest? Because they also haven't read it.

It's more just a mutual admiration of like we both consider ourselves smart people because we both possess Infinite Jest.

He's got the unabridged works of William Shakespeare character. He's got every Jane Austen novel.

It's a greatest fraud book of all time.

It really is. I, I, you know, that was a genius. That was a genius move to write a book that no one actually was going to read, but everyone respected as the smart guy book.

But whatever he's reading on the sideline, it's fascinating to watch him during a game, just like staring down into his own hands all game. And it's worked. Listen, the Jets are hot men. The Jets are the hottest team in football going right now. And then can you imagine can you just imagine for one second the type of blitzes that Dr. Heat would have drawn up against a team with no wide receivers? Yes. I mean, these are like his two children going to head to head against each other.

He probably sat at home, like doing it in his mind. Yeah. Oh, we would have killed Greg. I told him, you know, all his weaknesses.

Yeah, but so the Browns, like, that's a toss out game. You got everything in front of you. That game sucked, but you also got fucked by covid. It is crazy. Like the weird like the Broncos having to play with with the guy off the street, the Lions having to coach with no coach or play with no coaches rescheduling some games, but not others. Whatever you got screw. But it doesn't matter because you can win and get in.

But let's talk about Colts. Steelers because Colts, Steelers was these two games were basically like, you know, cousins or sisters or brothers, like they were paired together in all playoff implications because Colts, Steelers, the Colts were kicking the shit out of the Steelers.

We even said out loud, we're like, damn, the Steelers are really, really bad. Like they we've never seen a team go eleven and go to eleven and five and look this bat then second half happened.

Their defense woke up. They decided to start bombing down the field with Big Ben. He woke up and the Steelers all of a sudden, like they still can't run the ball at all. They actually there was a moment, I think at the end when they all they needed was one yard at, like the midfield and they punted because they're like, nope, yeah, we can't get this yard.

No chance. You know what Tom was going to, like, watch that film be like if you don't get if you can't get one yard, you don't deserve to win. Yeah. And he's just going to tell the guys, like in my book you guys lost last week. Yeah. That's how I can see the Steelers come. Out next week and actually playing Hardison, just running the ball the entire time, just being like, but it won't work.

No, it's not going to work no matter what, but they're going to be like we're going to run the ball and get four yards. The first time he's going to get himself into as many fourth and one situations as possible. Yes. Next week, just to prove to himself, like we can get one yard eventually and they probably won't be able to do it. Like the Steelers. I tweeted out that they are they the worst eleven and three team in any sport in history.

And I think they still might be. But the second half, the Steelers, they came back for the Mariners. They know somebody tweeted. I mean, the Mariners did start eleven and three and then ended up with 68 wins this season. So I think that team is probably the worst 11 and three team in the history of sports. And the Steelers might be second because, like, I don't I don't see the Steelers being able to win in the playoffs.

Maybe if they play the Browns at home, maybe so.

I don't know. They yeah, they all want to know since Juju Smith Schuster stopped dancing. They are want to know. Yeah.

Unbelievable that we live in a time where like there was a press release being like I have decided for, for all my teammates and my team, I will stop dancing on ticktock on logos before going well.

Our problem wasn't with the fact that he was dancing. It was with the problem that his dance sucked well and he was doing a logo. It was a song. It was a soft dance. If it was maybe if it was like a kick ass team dance and get his team involved. Right. And did a mosh pit, then maybe they'd be sick, like get the boys amped up and ready to go. Playing renegade fans, Colin Cowardness has Seward careers for way less.

Yeah, but he was like he was bouncing around like a rabbit on the midfield logo in that case, like, yeah, I think you should probably switch to a harder dance. So I'm back to the Steelers. Like chances. They do feel very broken. But that second half, you're watching it, you're like, oh yeah, this is the Steelers. Their pass rush is on fire. Their defense is playing lights out. Big Ben, they're actually throwing it downfield instead of not being able to run the combo of not being able to run and throwing only short passes really makes you a limited offense.

So they were bombing it like he kind of had a little pep in his step. I don't know. I, I don't know what to make of the Steelers. I think they still could be frisky. I don't trust them.

If Big Ben stops throwing passes that will get his wide receivers spinal injuries, then, yes, that they could do something. But he's like, I don't know what it is about his passes. Yeah, he's been in hospital like little floaters. Yeah. He's been leading his guys into danger, I guess, with their defense.

If their defense, like, fires it up, I, I could I could see a moment where we wake up and it's it's like Steelers chiefs in the AFC championship game and the Steelers are like ten point underdogs. Yeah.

But I could if you have a defense that can play that well, I'll give you a shot against anyone. And the jerseys.

The uniforms. Right. Jerseys you team colors and pigpen like being like, oh, he's going to fucking you know, one last ride with Big Ben. I'm probably going to bet on the Steelers in the playoffs. They're probably going to break my heart. Yeah. And lose dramatically. But I don't know. There is something about him that you wouldn't necessarily be surprised if they won, you know, one or two games in the playoffs.

But I mean, unless the Chiefs are still sleepwalking, know in a month I did you see the Tom quote, the grapes won. Yeah, it is my line between drinking wine and squash. And he's my baby Brown of the week.

Yeah. Yeah, he that's that's a great quote from is it a fine line.

I feel like it takes months to make wine after you.

Yeah it is. Definitely takes a lot of time. The Colts. Wow.

Who I was getting, I was getting harassed online in the first half by Colts fans on the Internet demanding that I respect the Colts as a true Super Bowl contender.

They were like, look at these Colts. We can do it all. Guess what? The Colts are as of right now out of the playoffs. If the Colts don't get some help in week seventeen, they will be out of the playoffs. They need the Ravens, the Dolphins or the Browns to lose for them to get into the playoffs.

Put the banner up, up twenty one seven at halftime against the Steelers in week sixteen.

I mean, you can't like you got to win the game with with offense. They didn't they had no offense in the second half. And I love Phil Rivers, but this is when you have a quarterback that has negative mobility. Now, like if the pass rush starts going, it's, you know what I mean? Like, it used to always be after the Giants beat the Patriots, the Super Bowl is like, well, that's the key you just got to get.

You got Rushworth four and you've got to get home and then he can beat everyone. Well, yeah, that's true. But now in today's NFL, like, there are a lot of quarterbacks that can beat you even if you do get home because they have legs and they can move.

Oh, Philip Rivers definitely has like the shortest clock in the pocket. He is his pocket clock is like two seconds. And if he doesn't get rid of it, he panics. He and it'll either take a sack or he'll just, like, immediately throw it out of bounds. Calling him statuesque is actually like an insult to statues.

Statues have more mobility than Philip Rivers at this point. Again, we love Phil Rivers. We've always been a Phil Rivers podcast. I want him to to give. Back in the playoffs, and I'm conflicted because I think if we had to rank it, I think we both agree, like Brown's getting the playoffs. Number one, you want the Browns to get the playoffs. Sorry, everyone else. But if I had to go number two, I think maybe Phil Rivers getting to the playoffs.

I kind of want Phil Rivers in the playoffs.

Yeah, I'd go I'd lean Titans, OK, and get the boy. And I think they're, you know, they are they 100 percent think they're in. I think it's between the Dolphins, the Ravens, the Browns and the Colts. I want the Browns to go in number one. I think I want the Colts to go number two, because I do want the Colts to I want fielders to be in the playoffs. I want to see Phil Rivers in a playoff situation.

I love Jonathan Taylor. Like I don't have any ill will against the Colts. What I've said about them all year, I think it's been very fair there when they're playing with a lead, when they're like everything's humming and they can protect the rivers, they look like a really good team. But it can it can kind of be like a house of cards pretty quick.

Titans are ninety four percent. And so, yeah, they're pretty much I think they're pretty much in. So, yeah. Phil Rivers that I don't know what that was basically doomsday for the Colts that you have that type of lead, you're rocking and rolling, you win and you're basically now you control your own destiny to what the fuck just happened. We lost that game. How did that happen? It did happen that quickly, too. It felt like we just looked up and boom, the Steelers were winning.

Do you think there was a halftime speech that Mike Tomlin gave or you think it was like a players only meeting at halftime?

I think I think Big Ben just walked in and was like, let's just fucking let's just go.

I think he might have threatened to retire. Big Ben might have been like, hey, listen, if we don't make the playoffs this year, I could honestly see Big Ben walking away from the NFL if they lost their last five games, if the Steelers went eleven or no and then ended up eleven and five, limped into the playoffs, lost, I could see Big Ben retiring, like for he would retire for what he would say would be for good.

Yeah. And then he'd probably come back and like early August and be like, I'm ready to strap it on one more time.

You know what it was? It's like it's like a parent taking away a cell phone from their kid, from their teenager and being like, oh, I'm not going to give it back.

He was doing that with the walking boot. And he's like, I'm going to put it on. I'm going to put it on. And it was like, no, Ben, don't please. We really want to win this game. It's like if you guys don't start catching my fucking floaters, I'm putting this boot on and I'm going home. I mean, that would work on me. Yes. I'd be like, we need I would like to see Philip Rivers and Big Ben both for at least one more NFL season.

You give me give me that in the playoffs somehow. Some way. All right. Bears, Jaguars, Bears. Kick the shit out of the Jaguars.

It felt good that Nagy is officially coming back. I'm conflicted, but I do not care.

The Bears scored thirty points thirty plus points in four straight games, first time since 1965 to just like make myself feel like shit.

The Packers have done that twice this year. Yeah. Four game stretches.

Thirty two points. The Bears the Bears offense is good luck. It's time to. Yeah, we played some bad defenses. I'm realistic. It's time to to face the music. And that's the fact that not only is Matt Nagy coming back, but Mitch Robiskie is going to be there next. I don't I don't know about that.

I still don't know about that. I think that negates Mr. Miski. And I think that that's more self-loathing where he just can't, like, vocalize that he hates himself.

Matt Nagy, I'm talking about now, you said it yourself, that Matt Nagy is like the most emotional. Yeah, he's he's too emotional. I bet you Matt Nagy really feels bad for what he's done to Mitch. And he looks at Mitchell's failure as being like a direct reflection of him as a coach and the only way that he can feel good about himself. And finally for him to be you again is if you were to take Mitch and turn them into like an above average quarterback, which he's been the last couple of weeks.

Listen, I I'm taking a realistic, pragmatic approach to this this week.

Seventeen into everything that the bears have in front of them. I don't think Matt Nagy's a great coach. I, I truly don't. I mean, just the fact I think I said this last week, but just the fact that Nick Foles started as many games as he did behind this offensive line, I should tell you, the Matt Nagy doesn't know how to assess the quarterback situation. Mitch Robiskie is a far better quarterback in these circumstances than Nick Foles.

That's just a fact I'm happy for. It's risky.

We still had an all time risky interception where I even said it out loud because it was just the two of us all day watching games.

And he, when he turned in, scrambled. This is like five seconds before he threw the interception. I was like, don't throw this, Mitch. Another five seconds went by. More guys got more covered. He found a spot on the field where there were the most amount of players and then threw it there.

I've never seen that many players in one quarter of the end zone in my entire life. He was playing five there. Probably, yeah. There were probably like seven or eight players within maybe like five square yards. Yes. Each other. And it was five hundred. He was throwing up like a jackpot, OK. And it was a bad I don't even know what the concept of that play was because it looked like the entire design. Was to flow to that corner of the end zone and then have Mitch do exactly what Mitch did, it was it was baffling.

So I I'm not thrilled that Matt Nagy's coming back. It is what it is. There's nothing we can do about it. I know the bears are flawed football team.

They're flawed organization. They're not a great organization. But if you if you told me Week one that the Bears would be playing in a meaningful football game, week 17 to get into the playoffs and be in the playoffs, I'd take it. And that's what being a fan is.

I don't care about all the noise around it. I don't care about the flaws and the dysfunction and the fact that I think that they're broken going forward and they're going to have a hard time sustaining any time of type of success because they don't have a quarterback, they don't have a coach.

I trust all that garbage. Throw it out. They could get in the playoffs. They can get in the playoffs if they win in week 17 or maybe if they lose, the Cardinals lose two.

But getting in the playoffs, like I know I've seen this like, oh, why would you want to get in the playoffs and get the shit kicked out of you so that you get a better, you know, a worse draft pick?

What are you talking about? Being in the playoffs is all like that's what you root for, for when you start the season being like, let's get into the playoffs, get a fucking seat at the table. Right. Chip in a chair. Right.

Unless unless you're like the Chiefs or the Saints or the Packers and it's like, well, what purpose is there for getting into playoffs? Because it kicks ass and makes you feel like a winner and it makes you feel good. It makes you feel personally better about yourself crazy. You can have Bill, which sucks worse than anything is having a team that you invest an entire year or more into and then having them not get into the playoffs. And then you're like, well, that was that was a wasted year.

If you do get into the playoffs, you feel great if you're great for at least a week. And then depending on how bad you get your ass kicked in the first round, then you might start to be like once you sober up. So right now, like, if you're if we're comparing this to a night out on the town, you're on beer. No, like, don't get carried on eight or nine. I'm not talking soup. I'm talking to brewskies.

And you're on beer eight or nine and you're fucking you're having the time of your life. You're dancin like shout just came on. You took your shoes off again, soulful with it out there. And then once you lose in the playoffs, that's when you take like you have the Long Island iced tea towards you in the night.

And then you go throw up and I got to call Cadigan the next day, like, fall asleep in the cab. Yeah, you fall asleep on the way home. The Uber driver, he goes a long way and then your phone lose your phone and then like you found out that you got broken up with overnight. You wake up the next day and you're like, shit. You know what? Probably shouldn't have gone for that extra round. But guess what?

It was a fun night. It was worth it. It was going. It was a kick. Oh, I agree. Yeah.

You might even roll over and you're like, oh, I don't know who that is. And then maybe you're surprised.

Oh, it's Coyote Park. I didn't get smashed again.

But then yeah it's that's why you root for a team is you like to play right.

You rooflines, you can make the playoffs and there's, there's two camps and people will say that I'm being a hypocrite but I'm not. I'll explain it. So I call out a lot of teams for I don't trust this team. I don't think the Super Bowl contender, I'll trust the Bucs. The bucks are better than the Bears, even though the Bears beat him head to head. But I had the bears are not a Super Bowl contender. But once you accept that I'm officially in, well, crazy shit could happen.

Yeah, I'm in. Crazy shit could happen moed. I mean, who the fuck knows crazy shit could happen. The ball bounces your way for four straight games. Who the fuck knows crazy shit could happen. Let's just have fun. Enjoy the ride. Is there a more likely than not chance that the bears get absolutely face fucked in the playoffs? Of course there is.

I would almost put my life on it, but I don't care because I'm going to be rooting for crazy shit to happen. And that's the fun of it.

Now, week seventeen, I'm very, very nervous because I didn't realize until that fucking door came on NBC and told me that the Packers actually do, in fact, have to play for the one seed that, like, ruined my entire mood, because now Aaron Rodgers is going to play. And Aaron Rodgers, he personally loves to kill the bears. He loves to do it.

I know it. I can I can sense it. Everything he says, everything he does. I'm very nervous about week 17. Yeah, I would be, too, but because primetime. Listen, you're rooting for crazy stuff to happen. Crazier stuff has happened before. Like it would not be would not shock me. Oh, it would surprise me. It would probably make me a little concerned for your well-being.

Just thank God it is not a primetime game. Yeah. That's all I was rooting for is for it not to be primetime because then it wouldn't have been a choice and it gets lost.

I know this kind of loser talk, but I've spent the day going through all the situations.

If the Rams beat the Cardinals, it doesn't matter. The Bears would be in the playoffs. So and I think those games will happen concurrently.

So we don't know. I think that I think the Rams need to sign Blake Bortles get him back up because right now they're going to go with a guy named Wolfer. He is Goff officially how Goff is probably out because he dislocated his thumb and it might be broken but they get they can still sign Blake Bortles right now he's trying to make the playoffs.

How amazing would that be if if one week you've got George Kittle, George Kittle, George coming back for the Rams, George Hill comes back, he's like, I love the Bears. I did this for Big Cat. And then Blake Bortles goes to the Rams. He knows, he knows that playbook front and back. That's all that guy did when he was in Los Angeles was he studied football. He lived and he breathed it. And he comes back to the Rams, beats the Cardinals to get you into the playoffs.

And then in his post game, he's like, I love the Bears.

I like what you're saying. It can happen. What you're saying. Crazy stuff is happening. Why not? Why not? Yeah.

Good for you for not getting the primetime slot. That would be nice for whatever team has it.

How we'll get to that. All right. Giants, Ravens, the Giants are somehow still alive, somehow, someway still alive. And we like this game was on. We had all six games on. But I feel like I didn't watch any of this game because the Ravens were just kicking the show. The Giants from literally the beginning. The Ravens, you know, the Ravens have rushed for one hundred plus yards in thirty eight straight games.

That's insane. Yeah, it makes sense. That's insane. The opposite. This drag race. It makes sense.

I don't know if it's better that than the than the ambulance. Well, we'll get the ambulance sirens a second after these guys. But the Giants were it's really a game that they like expected to lose anyways. Yeah. They're still no harm, no foul for the Giants. The Giants are very much alive in the NFC East right now. But I actually think that this is it's good that the Ravens aren't taking up too much of the air right now for the Ravens because having zero expectations going into the playoffs is probably a good place for them to be.

I've seen how it goes the other way.

I think I think the Ravens officially have become the team no one wants to play. Oh, yeah.

Well, I think that the team that no one wants to play, team no one's talking about, we cast them off.

And now I think they are officially the team.

No one wants to play in the playoffs.

I really do, which is their security.

Looks like they might be playing probably the Titans. This is going to make no sense. And Ravens fans, we've had our back and forth, but I believe in the Ravens far more this year than last year. I think that last year, if one seed all the hype in the world MVP, how can you beat this team? Oh, they lost the Titans by a billion at home this year. No one wants to play them. They're hot at the right time.

I think the Ravens could beat the Chiefs. I think it's the Ravens know the Ravens and the bills. You know, those are the two teams that I would have been a fun player that can actually beat the Chiefs. Yeah, it's going to be fun for sure. Especially like depends if the chiefs get into chiefs mode from last year and start like, oh, they get woken up every game. That's what happens with the chiefs. And they just go down like by ten points that end up winning fifty to ten.

If that doesn't happen again, if they are like a more down to earth team, then yeah, the Ravens and the Bills are the two teams that can beat him. But I, I would also be a little bit afraid if I were the Ravens about playing the Titans. I just feel like I feel like they're scars there. Yeah. Oh absolutely.

I just there's a team no one wants to play games and it's, you know, once played. All right. Bengals Texans. Who cares? Brandon Allen, good game. Like the Texans have done a nice thing for the NFL where if you play them, you look awesome and you might be able to get some money like Brandon home looked awesome. Yeah. Texans defense is that bad.

JJ, what is making sportswriter's bust a load with this postgame speech that he gave, what he was talking about how if you're a pro in this in this league, how can you show up to work and not lift hard and not study hard and not practice hard when you've got guys coming up to you on the street and saying, hey, we're still here for you, we still love you, still going to root for you on Sunday, he wasn't wrong about anything that he said, but it made every sportswriter just like bust.

Yeah, severe and sticky, the stickiest of the nuts into their own into their own trousers. But the only take they had besides JJ was post game was that the Bengals, the Bengals might be saving Zach Taylor's job. Yeah. Oh, no, I think. I think it's officially does say they're they did Bengals, the Bengals might be getting themselves into watchout, no. Yeah, offseason dark horse like look how they finish the season. Oh, they've added a, you know, top five pick.

Joe Boros is going to be back like they might be people might be talking about the Bengals.

I think if Joe Burrow's injury had happened like a month before, he's without a leg. He's walking without a limp right now. He's looking good. But I feel like he's probably he might not start at the beginning of the season, in which case they wouldn't be the surprise team. There would be the team like they might get hot and watch for that team.

Every year there's a team that finishes strong.

It's the Jets. You have to watch out for the Jets next year. Zach Taylor's job. Yeah, I think it is safe. It the fact that he won these last couple of games is huge. But just like the Bengals ownership, they don't like coaching searches. Yeah, it's expensive. You have to fly guys in and out of town, set them up in hotels. They just got like a practice field two years ago. Right. So they don't want they're not there are what we call cheap.

Yes. A cheap organization.

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OK, next up, Broncos, Chargers also. Who cares? Who cares about this game, Jerry?

Judy, you almost say something nice about Drew Lock. Jerry, Jerry, Judy fucked over, Drew Lock.

Jerry Judy's also an impossible name to say without sounding like you're drunk.

Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. He fifteen targets. Six catches. He dropped like a couple of easy ones. Can't do that when Drew Lock is having a hard enough time. Now I'm saying something mean about you having a hard enough time completing passes. You can't be dropping them. And Vic Fangio is back. So I like hearing that because I do think he's a good well, he's not great head coach, but I think he you know, we've established.

Yeah. Know he's a he's a defensive, incredible defensive coach. Kind of stinks that offense. But that's OK. I think said some of the other stuff.

I kind of I like teams giving their guys at least three years.

I think two years is always a little like quick. Yeah. Three oh three.

You kind of know what you got. There are some times where it's the second year and like, yeah, you can, you can tell for sure sometimes after that second. Yeah.

Well I mean that was Marc Trestman. Yeah. Mark Preston. You knew you didn't want him back totally like give him more time to implement.

But they haven't they. Unless you, unless you are at the helm of an absolute clown show like Marc Trestman was like Vic Fangio, they've had some injuries. They haven't been a clown show.

They've been competitive in games. They haven't had any internal fighting.

So, yeah, why not keep them for another year?

Yeah, sure. Bring back to the Chargers, by the way, have put together a couple of wins. The Chargers have looked like sneakily competent, which they almost lost this game.

This was a game where you looked up. I even said that out loud. I was like, what the fuck just happened?

Because the Chargers were in cruise control. And then all of a sudden you look up and they need a drive to win the game. Also, McManus had the double Ninu double doing. Yeah, he doing back to back. He doing there was a. Five yard penalty rekick doit, again, that's very rare, it's almost impossible. I said this at the same post, right? Yeah, I tweeted this and you got tagged a lot of that.

I said, I fucking hate all kickers on Saturday.

I think there's something about watching non-stop football for like five days straight where it just feels like every kick is ass. Kickers are the worst. We are very people. Yeah, we're terrible human beings. We think that we've got a very important job and we get paid a lot of money to do it. If you were to make a football team, that would pay a lot of money and yeah, we suck all the suck. Every kicker except for Justin Tucker sucks pretty much and sometimes he sucks.

Oh cuz yeah he was awesome and then he sucked. What was this. Young hoka young young young when you were young. When you're young. Why Bubba. Young way. I thought it was young. Young. Oh whoa. I think I was right.

I don't know. Am I pronouncing it. Oh it's spelled. I get that is a young way. I think it's young Waku. Oh I'm, I'm a fanatic.

You are. You're a big reader. Yeah. On closed captioning it says young ho is it. Yeah it's young way. I think this is why they can't take any days off.

Goddamn it. That's that's how you say it.

But yeah, the bottom line is every kicker sucks. We all suck. Occasionally we'll kind of wake up and and have a good moment, but it's just like pauses in our sucking that take you out of that focus. So I agree with you.

Kickers suck young way young. Oh, I guess I've been saying it wrong. My bad. My apologies.

Let's see if Jake Marsh's a week face time. Wow.

If he if he doesn't get this right away because I mean, I'm an idiot. I don't, I can't. I can't fucking say Alvin Kamara. His name is not Kamara, it's Kamara.

And I always I get in my own head, I'm like, don't say, hey, how do you say the kicker from Atlanta's name Young the way I see young ho. So agree to disagree. Yeah, it's definitely yeah, but I see young Hoso agree to disagree, I agree and disagree. OK, how do you say the running back for the Chiefs Clyde Edwards elected?

Oh, nice. All right. Thanks, Jake.

Wow. Why did you want you pronunciation shamed me.

No, just it sounded at first like you said Yahoo coo. If it sounded like you were trying to pronounce in Dominican Soo's name and pick out one, I can't do and. Yeah, but you're right. You're right about the figures. Listen, I'm not going to I'm not going to be the guy who's out here trying to pretend like kickers are cool just because I have kicked something in my life, they suck. You suck on behalf of all kickers.

And you know what? We're not we're not going to apologize for something that's just I don't need an apology. I just want to say it. And I was wrong to say it. I don't need an apology.

Actually, I'd actually prefer not to get an apology. Yeah, because guess what? I'd have to be nice if kicker's apologized, then we wouldn't suck. Yeah. Then I'd also have to be like, oh, you apologize. I feel bad. All right.

Next up, Panthers Washington football team WAPs. Yeah. You know what?

We control our own destiny. That's true. I got a statistic for you. Yeah. Five you have five is five wins away from Super Bowl. There you go. Five wins. We win five games. That's all we got to do. It was buried. There is one. Well, I know you lost six games in a row. You haven't won five games in a row. The season to start. What was that, five and five and one.

Correct. So it could happen. We just have five wins, five wins to go and we're there. Today was awful. Today was like Dwayne Haskins. He's so pissed he might be the worst quarterback in the NFL. Well, in Hateable, I'm talking about starters. I'm talking about backup. Yeah, he's bad. He's hateable. But just hold on. He probably should get his captaincy back because him walking out there to support Hinoki, which was very bizarre, like back in the game of he I think you know what I think he did?

I think he was trying to do the thing where he's like, you know what? If you're the real starter, you can run out to the field, take your spot back. Yeah. And if they believe in you, then Taylor Hinoki will agree to go to the bench calmly and let you throw for that like fourth and eighteen. I think he was trying to sub himself back in. And Hinoki, a guy that we just pulled off the practice squad last week was like, no, go sit back down.

He's like, yes, I will. I go sit back down.

He's he stinks. Dwayne Haskins.

He is he is very bad. I would rather I would rather have Hinoki. I would rather have anyone, Josh Johnson, anyone, Mark Sanchez, anyone. All of these Washington Football League watchers. Yeah. Yeah. Hell yes. Give me a better offer.

Yeah. The the dude I would rather have Alex Smith on one leg not allowed to use his second leg.

Dak Prescott in a scooter. Yeah. Motoring around there. Yeah.

No, you and Haskins, he looked, he looked so bad in the first time as someone who, you know, my team is kind of fucking kind of an offensive juggernaut as of late. But as someone who's watched some very bad offensive football, it's not your fault.

It's the worst it is the worst thing to watch a defense be so goddamn good and the offense just not help whatsoever. Chase Young is so good that I'm shocked when he doesn't get a strip sack. Yeah. What happened? Why didn't he get a strip sack on this point?

It felt like a disappointment in the first quarter when he didn't get much pressure and then he starts making a name for himself in the second quarter. But yeah, it's like what happened? How do they make Chase Young disappear? The defense is is fucking dominant. I wish that there were a way for Chase Young to play quarterback also and to have all those guys on the line be like offensive linemen at times. You know what? Logan Thomas in a quarterback.

Yeah, he he got drafted by the Cardinals to be a quarterback. It wouldn't he would not have been worse than Dwayne Haskins was. And the football team is not built to come from behind. We're not no, we don't have an offense. And you we're we're more meant to observe from behind, much like the pictures of Dwayne Haskins, that surface, you go backwards whenever you need to go forwards.

Yeah, I've noticed that we've I've watched too much Washington football team we can throw for a two yard games.

No, but every time you need like that that play the Dwayne Haskins came out to kind of pump up to Taylor Hinoki I think it was fourth and goal from like the twenty.

Yeah. You guys always go backwards in crucial spots. We do.

But Heinicke, you look good coming off the bench. So I feel like I feel like it's got to be hinoki. Granted, it was against probably a very soft prevent defense at the time, but. Right. He looked OK. He looked way better than Haskins.

You need to you know, you need to do is you need to the the Washington football team needs to like treat week seventy, which is Sunday Night Football, which is scary. So the NFC East is crazy because the Eagles are the Giants. The Cowboys play winner of that game can go in the playoffs. If the Washington football team loses, one of those teams can go to playoffs six and ten.

If the Washington football team was, I think the Washington football team should treat week seventeen like a bullpen game.

They should just be throwing the quarterbacks out there for. Drives at a time to the tank. Whatever happened, yeah, like if he gets hot, he stays. Yes, he's if they punt next guy and just be like the Tampa Bay Rays.

Yeah, absolutely. Why not? Why? I worked out well for them. Yeah. I mean, like, perfect for them. Listen, I am not opposed to any of these things. I think we have any number of options who are not wild the whole time. Yeah, dude. Run chasing out the wildcat probably be better. He's got a good ball security. Yeah, fine. I think also from the Eagles I'd probably benched Jalen Hurts in week 17.

Throw Carson Wentz out there.

Want that. No. Yeah. I no know why. You got to see what you have in the future for Carson Wentz. He might be the guy. Oh no, no, no, no.

You think Carson Wentz comes in and plays the game next game? Carson Wentz plays will be his best game ever. I don't think so. Whether it's week seventeen or week one. Actually, he has so much pent up. Like everyone doubts me, everyone hates me. I'm going to. You do not want Carson Wentz.

I think that Carson Wentz comes in, plays the most Carson Wentz game. No, he if he plays in this game, I think he sacks himself into the into the pylon.

Oh no. Oh no, no, no. Yeah. If he, if he plays in this game he will be lights out. All right.

Well maybe he start now you're starting to make me doubt my own coping mechanism. Why don't you do not. Because he has so he's think about it this way. Like the Eagles have nothing to play for. Carson Wentz has everything to play for. You don't want that. Like that's actually. Is that a possibility? He's hurt, right? Is he. I think he might be a little banged up. Like you do not want the guy who got benched, who now is playing for every he's playing for his future.

You don't want that the.

No, no, no, no. All right.

Well, hurts hurts scares me more than Carson Wentz. I think Hurts is obviously like a much better quarterback right now than Carson Wentz.

I don't think that here's here's the thing that I don't want games. I don't think that Carson Wentz is attitude right now. And his like his will is the problem because Carson Wentz has been trying very hard for the last year. It's just that the more he tries, the worse he gets.

Yeah, but I like Carson Wentz and when he's cool as a cucumber, you want Jalen hurts in this game.

You want. I don't know because I Gillanders is like I was talking to myself back into it.

No dude, I know it has everything in his and he has, he's going to be thinking about his fucking unborn kids being like I'm playing for you. Yeah.

But I don't know if he's that young, is going to look at me be like, remember when we push this guy's shit in week one and they're going to do it again?

Wentz I think play his Carson Wentz falls off Carson Wentz plays his worst when he's playing his balls off. No, when he tries to do too much and he's like, oh, a submarine interception is Doug Peterson has got nothing to lose, too. So he's going to be like, fuck it. Let's just open up the playbook for you.

Carson and Jalen hurts. We'll talk. Let's let's go to the Eagles Cowboys game.

Jalen Hurts is a work in progress. That was the Eagles looked awesome and then they sucked. Sucked in any gold might be back. Yeah. Is gotten back. He looks good. I think you're burying the lead really on the story, which is that Mike McCarthy smashed another watermelon.

I didn't want to bring it up because I now own two of my life with Mike McCarthy Watermelon Game. I have several questions about the watermelons. This fucking guy went smashing watermelons and beating me. I've lost so much fucking money to these stupid watermelons.

It's Mike McCarthy smashes another watermelon before next week. Guess what? The football team is definitely losing and the Cowboys are definitely winning. And they're getting in that. Oh, that's how the watermelon man works. No, because I suspect what happened was when Mike McCarthy smashed that watermelon before the Vikings game, I think it came out later in the news that he did that he got a bunch of people being like, hey, Mike McCarthy, you're not a fat slob.

Like, you're kind of a genius. And he was like, you know what? I am a genius. Then he goes to the store and he stacks up on watermelons because watermelons are out of season. Right. You can't go to the store and it doesn't matter.

Smashing watermelons are different. He probably didn't need them for taste. I don't think you can get one at the store. No, but I think he went to the store and stocked up on water. You can paint the pumpkin and has like an entire, like, corner of his garage, maybe entire room in his house that his wife is mad at him for. That's just ceiling to floor stacked with watermelons because he's like, if I have to give a spark to my team, this is the one thing that I know how to do.

Watermelons work.

I think, Judge, if Joe Judge is smart, he spends all week not preparing for the Cowboys, but buying every single watermelon in the New York area.

I will help you. I will help because I hate these watermelon games. I've lost so much money to the fucking watermelons and the fact that they told us at half time, they come out of the come out of the fucking halftime like. Yeah. Breaking news. Mike McCarthy smashed another watermelon. God fucking damn it, dude, I can't win when the coach smashes a watermelon on the night before the game. I cannot there is a zero percent chance of beating a watermelon team like they beat the Vikings.

They beat the fucking Eagles and the Cowboys suck. And two of their five wins this year, six wins. A third of their wins are watermelon wins. Yeah, it's bullshit. I'm telling he's going to. The watermelon, again, he's going to fly with the watermelon, he's going to put it under his shirt top and he's going to he's going to look like he's pregnant. Emmett's going through security and they're going be like, sir, what is that?

He's like, I'm with child. You know what? Please don't judge me. And he's going to bring it up to New York, is going to smash another watermelon and the Cowboys are going to win. The worst part is I can actually I can see it.

I can visualize the room. Mike McCarthy talking to the boys before the big game on a Saturday night. And I can I can feel the energy and I can see Mike McCarthy like fumbling around underneath the table in some like Marriott Dining Hall and and then just put watermelon on the table and the place drops. Then he smashes it and the place erupts again. And it's like the most electric moment ever. Fucking Mike McCarthy. You think it's the goddamn water?

I don't think it matters. I, I think it's seedless. I think it's absolutely because I don't think Mike McCarthy could smash a seated watermelon.

It's like and he's like the best coach of all time. Lombardi, Belichick, Gallagher, I'm telling you. I'm telling you this is going to end poorly if he smashes another one. So, yes, if you if you know anyone that sells watermelons or Harverson, do not we should put up pictures of Mike McCarthy at every watermelon stand in the tri state area, but do not sell to this man.

I hate this guy. Can't beat can't own two watermelon, can't eat it. I bet way too much on watermelon.

It was unbeknownst to myself. It was nice to see Deshawn Jackson. We it everyone yelling like don't drop the ball dude.

He caught one pass for like eighty five yards up on the defense I looked at. I thought it was a replay of like Deshawn Jackson from 2009. I was like Oh holy shit, there's this.

No, twenty years from now Deshawn Jackson will come in catchin eighty five yard pass and that immediately hurt his abdomen or something and be like well he's out for next week's.

Yeah. I mean it's a pretty good gig. And to be honest with you, I kind of understand where he's coming from, not wanting to score and to like stretch that last yard out for as long as you can because everything that happens after you score is anticlimactic. Right? Like it's not you no longer have that rush. So, like, yeah, he's just addicted to edging. He just loves edging so much. And then he'll he'll do it for a good like five seconds.

Then he gets in and say, OK, I guess I have to go back to the bench now and probably not catch another touchdown for the next five years. Yep. But that that last yard has got to be electric.

It was awesome. Eagles secondary. So bad actually that so going back to the Washington football team because these games are also paired, I, I feel pretty good for your chances just because the Eagles secondary is that bad like that they showed that one stat of that one guy. It was brutal.

It would be nice. It's a hundred and fifty yards against them. Yeah.

It'd be nice if we had a quarterback that could throw a ball into the secondary man.

So how what do you say in your confidence level? I just like it too.

Well, we'll be on a live stream also tonight. I'm going to bet I'm going to bet on the Washington football team in solidarity. I'll be asked Carson Wentz, please. And you're getting face FOX.

I'll be honest. I have no idea what's going on with Alex Smith. We need we do need somebody to break down exactly what's happening with his leg. I don't know. I don't know what's happened. It's his bad leg, you know, things that he has cramps.

OK, someone was explaining today that it was like the muscle that they grafted onto the front of his leg that's now cramping up and so. Well, that none of that sounds good. No, I need I need, like, a TV chef to break it down because it sounds like they're talking about, like a Cowes meat. Right. In which part is I need Guy Fieri being like the calf is just falling off the bone, kimosabe. It's out of bounds flavor because, like, there's no injury specialist that can tell me except for probably his own doctor what's happening.

But if it's not Alex Smith, if it's like Taylor Hinoki, I'm my confidence levels that are two out of three and Dwayne Haskins is in Haskins one negative five.

Yeah. And for the yards that he goes back. Yes.

And then Logan Thomas, probably one point five Wildcat Wildcat back up to a two. And then you've got Martez, we've got a Steven Monta as a rookie and he'd probably be at about a one point five. So I'm not feeling very confident. I don't know if there's watermelon involved, just like just fuck me, just fuck me. Just shove the watermelon up my ass. Save save me some time, save you a whole mess that you're going to have to clean up in that hotel.

Mike McCarthy, just stick it right up my ass.

Instead of that, I want to go to the watermelon game. I want to go to I want to go see I want to see what what is the bane of my existence. I forgot. I like Steve Mantas in Colorado. I liked him. Yeah.

I mean, he I think he's the only one who's got. Yeah. He'd be the first Mexican American starting quarterback in the NFL.

I think. I don't think that's I think it is. Is it bringing not guess what, Washington football team least racist franchise in the NFL. There it is without Jeff Garcia, fucking Mark Sanchez Foreclosuregate. Mark Sanchez and Tony Romo. Where is he? Mexican. Yeah. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah, he thought he was Italian. Yeah. Was like a mike to read. Oh, yes, I know he's yeah, Jim Plunkett, it's been a lot.

But that you what Phuket that was that was wrong of me. It's the first ever. First ever.

Yeah. There you go. Yeah, you got it. You got it. All right. Last up, Rams Seahawks Jared Goff has had to pop his own thumb back in. So why doesn't everyone shut the fuck up about him not being good?

A great guy. And this is I mean, Blake Bortles can save your life. I'm so used to.

And and and I'm mad because sometimes you get a take. Right. But your time is wrong. I times my Seahawks defense is going to turn a corner take wrong. I did it like somewhere in the middle of the season. They had a couple more games where they gave up a shitload of points.

I think the bills game, they have officially turned the corner. The Seahawks defense has five straight games now where team has scored twenty points or four fewer against them. And they didn't the Rams didn't score a touchdown like the Seahawks have gone. They're kind of in the Ravens category of we forgot about him because their defense was so bad and they had a couple stinkers in there. They now especially the fact they can get the one seed, they flip the switch and.

Well, to be fair to their defense, yes, they stunk at the beginning of the year. They've seemed to flip that switch, but they've also played some pretty shitty offenses except for the Los Angeles Rams. Yeah. With The Hurt Jared Goff. Well, the Jets are in hyperdrive to Jet. Well, I think it's fair to ask, did the Jets give the blueprint to beating the Rams as a big time blueprint game?

Yeah, no, the the I this is a dumb thought, but I've actually crossed my mind. Like, what's stopping? I guess the government is the answer to this, but just go with me here for a second. What's stopping a team from going like last second, fuck them up. All fans in the stadium.

Like, what if the Seahawks are in the NFC chip? What does he get? The one seed NFC champ flashmob. Don't tell anyone. And then, boom, you show up and they're like, you know what, we know this is risky, but we want to go to the super.

They can't arrest all of us. And it would be it would I mean, they would win the game because I do I do think that, like, players and teams aren't used to fans, that it would be a shock to get a lot of states have exemptions for religious activities.

So if you were to call it the Church of the Twelve's, yeah, I've just let everybody show up that it's crossed my mind that, like, some team could just pull that out last second and be like, oh, well, guess what, packed house, loud as fuck. Like Rodgers.

I mean, his entire game is cheating at this point.

I think I think you can tweet out a flashmob and just arrange for people to show up. Yeah, I think whatever whatever the Chargers have is contagious and the Rams have caught it.

That's my theory that I'm working with, because the play towards the end of the game where the Rams put the ball down and the Seahawks picked it up and started running with it, the guy didn't get touched on the Rams, that that was a play that the Chargers would make. Yes, that was I can spot a Chargers play from anywhere. Yeah, that's the Chargers play. There were a bunch of plays actually in this game that remind me very much of something that the Chargers would have done.

The Rams have kind of taken on that personality of the room. I don't know what it is. I don't like it. And I guess maybe the Chargers have taken on some of the Rams personality swung the other way on it.

It's crazy that the Colts and the Rams could not make the playoffs. And you would, you know, couple of weeks ago been like, those are two teams that are going to be a tough out.

I think. I think the Rams still make it.

Yeah, no, but they there's a way that they cannot. Yeah. You know. Yeah, no, I do too. But who's starting for quarterback and hopefully their defense can shut down. I mean, I don't trust the Cardinals right now. That game is going to be weird. I'm going to take the honor in that game right now.

Well if it's Wolfert against against the Cardinals.

Yeah. Just the way that those two teams are playing and like knowing each other very well, I don't know. That's why I want the Rams in the playoffs. Not at the expense. Not the Bears.

Wait, no, no, no. If the Rams when you're good, right. Yeah. Yes, I want I want the Rams very bad for quack quack. Correct. No, but if the Bears lose and the Cardinals win, the Rams will go to the playoffs. So that would be the Bears. I want the Bears and I want the Bears in the playoffs. And also the Rams can come along, too.

I'm excited for these playoffs. I hope they they stick with seven teams because it does make it does feel just I don't know what people are complaining about.

Oh, we're going to get a mediocre team into the playoffs. Guess what? It's more football. Yeah. You were actively rooting against more. I want you to know for for your own sake so you can hear it out loud what you are advocating. And that's one less NFL football game. Right. So just so you know, we're on the same page here. If you're still comfortable with that position, then I guess do you? But you and I, we will go in different parts of that carets.

I mean, I've been watching. Every bowl game, I don't know people I don't know how people don't watch every bowl game, coastal Carolina losing was I ended up hating that team.

I don't know why. I think it was because they just faked injuries all the time. But, yeah, I ended up hating that team.

That was a weird ending, too. All right, let's do football guy this weekend who's back of the week and we'll send everyone on their way. Baby Brown of the week. We because it's only it's only you and I and Bubba here, Billy and Jake and Hank, they all get a vacation. We're here because we wouldn't miss a show. So just if you're looking for like, hey, who's the hero of this podcast? Well, we just named the three three of us, Bubba.

Take a bow. Yeah, Bubba, take a bow. Yup. Three of us. That will work no matter what everyone else, like whatever.

Not vacation really has worked very hard to really are needed. Billy actually sent us an animal fact, like he sent us one line and was like, boom, my job's done. He probably said to the people, I think he's with his family. He probably was like, Hey guys, I got a little work I got to do today. I'm going to need a few hours. And then he sat in his room playing Call of Duty and then at the very end sent us a half assed Popsicle stick animal.

He was like, oh, there's probably just Googled animal facts or just typed it in the Twitter search. I'm actually going to look it up on Twitter and see if he still is us from anybody.

Billy's not seeing the show right now, is he not? No know. Well, he might be because you gave him credit earlier. I did, yeah. Somebody might tell him to listen when I give him.

Oh, the swag thing. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So Baby Brown will just do your baby brother.

Well, Baby Brown was going to be Mike Tomlin. Yeah. Because of the one comment. I would also say whatever is currently inside Larissa's uterus would qualify as baby Brown. Yes.

OK, yes. That so so that will be our big of the week.

Let's see how this plays.

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All right, let's do football guy the week football guy of the week. So we have for Jake Marshall sent us. Jake Marshall did a lot more than Billy. No surprise. Football guy. The Week nominees, Giants head coach Joe Judge leading up to Sunday's Ravens game. He said, With all due respect, let's forget about Christmas. That was pretty funny.

I like that Ohio State. OK, tight end coach Kevin Wilson said he was stuck in the office and missed out on his 25th anniversary with his wife by tweeting, missed out on a great night with my lovely bride. Got some great triple option place.

I love it. I love it. And she knows what she signed up for.

The fact that he's a triple option coach is so much better. Yes. In fact, I like some great new triple, but there hasn't been a new triple option play in fifty years.

Listen, she knows she knows that when you're when you're the coach's wife, you know, you get you get to call the plays at home. Yep. He's staying in the in the facility. He's still calling the plays.

That's how it works out for him. Coach Bill Cowher when tweeting about the unfortunate passing of Kevin Green, he said heaven just got better on defense.

That was such a great quote. Yeah. And listen to Bill Keller today. Talk about just the NFL in general and hearing his. He has been in Pittsburgh in, what, fifteen years. He's a name, by the way. He's trying to float his name. Yeah. Bill Keller is a great name to float out the back out the retread coach that's going to come back. Yeah, he still has the most perfect pick. Pittsburgh accent. Yeah, it's beautiful to listen to, but that's such a great heaven.

Just got better on defense. Haven't I always like it when the accident just happened.

Heaven's going to start is going to switch to the fourth three. I love it when they toss out like they accidentally use the word hell because they can't get out of their football vernacular. They're like heaven just got a hell of a defensive end. Wouldn't want to wouldn't want to be a quarterback in heaven right now.

Kevin Greene, just past. All right. And the Titans Center, Ben Jones did not let a Green Bay snowstorm stop him from walking out on the field barefoot and saying a prayer to honor his brother, which he does before every game.

I was going to make fun of it. And then the prayer thing. Very nice. Yeah. Yeah, that's very nice.

That is a football. It's a very football guy thing to do to see bad weather and be like less close and manly.

All right. So those are our football guys. The week we'll tweeted out, I don't know how Kevin Green doesn't win this. The Bill Cowher quote. That is just such a great like that Bill Cowher.

That's that's the eulogy. Yes, it is. Yeah.

He got just up in heaven actually beating the shit out of. Yeah. Out of like Otto Graham.

Yeah. Is actually pissed because they were going to do Kevin Green's eulogy and Bill Cowwarr just stole their final their finishing line. Yeah. Like that was going to be the final line of the eulogy that brought down the house.

It would be sick, though, because we don't know what heaven is if you just get up there and like me, it's all twenty two. But if the thing that you it's no football is what.

If you get up there and your job, which is to be super violent, you get to go up there and just start kicking the shit out of it butt because it makes you happy, right? Yes. Yes. All right.

So vote for football guy, the week football guy the week. We will tweet it. We'll blog it. Football guy of the week. All right. Let's do let's finish up the show. Who's back the week brought to you by our friends at McDonald's. The McRib is officially back.

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All right, Bubba, let's finish up the show. What do you got? My who's back is our boy, Chet Hanks. Oh, boo yah.

God, yeah. Come on.

So I saw he's doing a 60 day challenge where we're improving our mind, body and soul. Oh, so I don't yeah. I don't really know what that pertains, but I'm assuming we're going to get some workout stuff, some life advice. Some motivation.

Yeah. Sounds good to me. Yeah. Where do I sign up for this and how much. I don't know. The only bad news is we're going to be starting on day three. What do you mean. He started he started it on Saturday, which is a wild move.

No, that's a good move. I started I talked to my whose back's kind of related. I'm we're doing hardbodies in twenty twenty one. Yeah. I had two years ago.

You're the corps this year was twenty push ups, twenty squats every single day for twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty one hardbodies.

What does that mean. We're just going to get heart healthy. However you want to get hard. Get hard. I mean I'm going to you can by the end of twenty, twenty one you will be able to bounce a quarter off my abs and ass.

I'm in. I need to get my back hard first dude. It's everything like we to have a hard mind.

Yeah. What about mine. That's the thing is. Yes. Does the mindset grow the the hardness from the inside out.

It's all going to be like people are going to be like these aren't soft podcasters, these are fucking hard ass men. Last of the heart.

You know, what were the first of the nouhad correct. The next generation of being hard. We're going to be so join me anyone who's trying to better themselves. We're doing a little runway diet from tomorrow, Monday or today, Monday to Thursday. Monday is not going to work for. No, it's a listen. This is long and hard.

I'm telling you, I'm being honest. I'm giving you a hard mindset. Right? It's a pre diet. So this is going to be the you're going to shock your body for the next four days to try to prepare yourself for January 4th. That's when we start. But this is just a pre diet to be like, hey, baby, maybe things are going to be changing around here in the old tummy.

I'm going to have a hard time falling into any sort of diet when the bills are playing Monday Night Football right off the top. That's an issue with me.

I just think about it. Maybe do a salad for lunch. OK, OK, tell for lunch. My dinner was two sleeves of crackers, a block of cheese and two ice cream cones.

That's that's soft. No, that's soft. That's paleo. No, that's soft. I need to get hard. OK, I'm going to get hardbodies in twenty twenty.

I'm going to get hard during the day tomorrow.

I'll be perfect. Just, just. And you're going to be a little soft. Do me a favor next four days. Shake your body in some way. Let it know that shit's about to get real around here on January 4th or shortly.

They're just jetways have any sort. The slogan or name for his his system is, well, in the system, no need to work on that. Yeah, no, no. Our body is gone. All right. What about I've taken that Jamaican me hardbody body.

No, don't let go. Don't get a confused jetways softball.

I might do it. I might do a shattered, shattered glass so hard. Are you kidding me?

I'm going to get a tattoo. Part of my hardbody. Twenty twenty one chat Housatonic. Yeah, I know. I'm going to catch up.

He can't he, he has like his whole bodies covered in tattoos on blank canvas which would rather be probably said hey yeah no I'd rather sweet fuck that to get his dad like a never mind.

Is that what I'm talking about.

OK, you sly documented. You got me. You're good. You're good. You all right year. Who's back.

My who's back of the week is the man trophy. Yeah. We have the finalist for the trophy. We teased it last week. We said Jacoby Buchannan from Army the Buchanon Ball. He was our first finalist. He's nominated.

The other nominees are Tori Carter from LSU.

I think he's been nominated twice before. This is a third third nomination for Tori Carter from LSU. Always a bridesmaid, never the bride. We also have Mason Stokey from Wisconsin. OK, yeah, Ben Mason, we got a couple of masons out there, Ben Mason from Michigan. He's a recurring winner, the ultimate trophy. And then finally, we've got three Masons. Holy shit, Mason week from from BYU. Yep. So we've got three Masons.

That's spooky. Jacoby Cannon and then Tory Carter. Those are the nominees as voted on by our esteemed Lomond Council. Shout out to Chevy, the Chevy Silverado, the official sponsor of the Lumen Trophy and the official sponsor of Fullbacks Everywhere for putting this all together. We're very excited. We will be announcing the winner of the Lomond Trophy, I believe, right before the Heisman Trophy.

Yes, we had to sneak in there and steal Trevor Lawrence, win Zaha, steal some thunder from Trevor Lawrence. So again, if Jacoby Buchanan, Tory Carter, Mason, Stokey, Ben Mason and Mason wake, that's incredible. Let's go. Mason, the name of fullbacks, the name of Chevy Silverado, still Chevy Silverado, the toughest grittiest truck in the biz. I love it.

It's going to be a great night. Magical night.

We always do the pigs in a blanket. Well, no, we do the chicken wing shit. What did. That's January. I said if you go back and you listen to the tape, I said January 4th or shortly thereafter.

What about Tuesday day? Well, no, I'm saying shortly thereafter is January 6th. OK, so we're good. OK, good. Yeah. I always put the shortly thereafter in there as a legal loophole to get me out of my own diets.

Very smart. All right, let's see. We do a no. Shall we fake it and say that we got it right. Oh no, no, we would never do that.

Just so everyone knows we would never do that.

I shouldn't have said that because now give me like you're going to fake now I'll keep get on us. All right.

One hundred eight fifty two.

Oh. He's broken. Oh, OK, good. That would have been hard. I rely on that 400 hundred hundred hundred. Wait, what did you say, Bubba?

Fifty two fifty two oh oh oh shit, before, beforehand champion.

That's I mean people could see it, it is 50 50 to fuck Jake in the face of the new game. Yeah. Yeah. New fucking carjacker's.

You get it. Yeah. We should get a belt in crowd for you to wear.

Now Bubba will you be keeping the number. Now, OK, great. Yeah, exactly. Exactly theft, if you take a very nice of you, I'm sorry, it sucks that we didn't have a full house, but it still was awesome.

I still got a pick 52 anyways. Yeah, it was awesome because guess what?

Fuck everyone else. You know what? Maybe that's the end of the game. No, actually, we'll keep doing it.

I mean, addicted to that sort of karma. You showed up for work. You. Yeah, sure.

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Oh, also, Billy said, yeah, lambskin was used for condoms until recently. A really nice factor to know about condoms. Nerd.

And we got that. Take me up. Oh. I don't know what to say. Today is a day to find away, I'll be coming for your love, Charlotte, with your lover. Need. Oh, good.

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