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Hey, Pardon My Take, listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. On today's Pardon My Take, we have week 17 in the NFL. We're going to start with fastest two minutes. We got some big-time playoff implications going on. We've got a lot of the seeds set. We also have some fun games that are going to be set up for Week 18. Some things still at stake. We're going to talk a little who's back. We're also maybe do a little college football because we have the quarterfinals coming up in a couple of days. It's all brought to you by our friends at DraftKings, from Monster Slams to Training Threes at the Buzzer. Watching our favorite NBA players is the gift that keeps on giving and playing. Pick six from DraftKings, an official partner of the NBA, is a way to take a shot at even more cash prizes. It's super simple to get started. Select two or more players and choose if they'll have more or less of a stat like points, rebounds, three pointers and more. Track your picks for a shot at huge cash prizes.

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We're talking on the computer. Let's not pull a Jeffrey Tobin.

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We start in Cincinnati in a game with huge play off implications as Bo Sticks proved that the Broncos are for real and isn't a grand illusion as he let the ball sail away, sail away to Marvin Yankee hat with no brims Jr. Who? Who? No cap right up the bill, scoring two touch downs. But it was Joe Spurrow that came out the victor, Duncan on the defense, injecting T-Shot Higgins, who said, Yeah, we may have been gals, but now we are men. And even with the win, there were questionable decisions down the stretch, begging the question, will since he want to transition and remove Sack Taylor? Bengals keep their playoff hopes alive. 30. Broncos, 24.

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We go down to Sofi Stadium, where it's Saturday Night Live with Kyler Bill Murray, and it used to be a lot better with Aaron Norm McDonald. Trey McBridesmaid finally caught the bouquet and got out of the friend zone and into the end zone. But Puka make them acuid and afraid as he pulled their pants down. Marvin William-Henri Harrison hasn't had as sick of an inaugural season as you think he would since he can't catch a cold the way his QB is coughing it up. And Chad Thausen-Reilly dressing is usually pretty solid, but dipped around and missing an extra point, leading to a situation where the cards are driving but needed a countdown and a call-off from the other side. Big Cat's Pinky Bed is still alive. I'll tell you, I'm sorry for picking you off. But Kyler, through the ball and to McBride's mouth. Williamson sells the game and keeps the Rams in the playoffs.

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To Sunday in the Meadowlands, where the winless at home Giants were taking on the Colts without their AR-15, but they did have Joe Tick-Flacko, who went over the Xs and O's in prep all week as he looked like Prince Albert, the way he was tossing balls to wide receiver Phallic pierce, finding a hole in the D time and time again. Typically super bad Giants quarterback Drew Cox must have looked at his notes, but unlike the movie, he never ended up getting the booze from the Giants' faithful. Mcgreek Nabors was the hero of the day as his skills didn't peta out as he had all of the targets kabobbing and weaving through the Colts defense on the way to the victory. The G-men, the G-men. 45, Colts 33.

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We go down to tampon Bay, where it's that time of the youngf as Bryce is back in the flow and the Carolina crampers are looking to stop the bleeding on a bad season as they spotted the Bucks in early TD. And then a touching tribute to my dear friend Jimmy Carter. Dave Panama, Canales, turned it over in a contest some called It Must Lose. And they got boat raced. Jimmy was a great man who came from poverty. And the pun is blocked. And the pun is blocked. Lmao Every day I'm rustling, Every day I'm rustling. Return it for a score. The Bucs win in a blowout. 48, 14.

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And the first time in Fastest 2 Minute's history, we go to someone who's actually at the game, Max, who is at Philly.

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Reporting live from Philadelphia, where 2Kquan Barkley has officially etched his name into the prestigious 2000 Dark Club. Kenny Chiklitz redeemed his performance from last week with two early touch downs and a 24-7 halftime lead. Not a big deal. After an unfortunate injury, Taylor McKeegan Bradley looked like the people's quarterback while throwing his first TD pass of the year. But then, AJ, what can Brown do for you? Express shipped the Memorial Ball into the stands. After we all thought the ball was gone, AJ went to Big Dom Corleone and said, Someday I will call upon you to do a service for me. And that day is today, as Big Don was able to retrieve the ball for AJ to give them a kick. Shout out Big Tom. Eagles went 41, Cowboy 7.

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And now to the status game of the day. Western New York, the Bills and Jets memes was there.

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We head up to Buffalo where Josh Alan was singing, That's Amare, as he finds him in the end zone for a 30-yard pass. The bills weren't done as Keion, I'm a cold man, went up over the Jets secondary to possibly seal the MVP for Allen. To add insult to injury, the Jets let Tyrell, shaving Private Ryan, added a 69-yard shutdown in garbage time. As for the Jets, Aaron Rodgers looked like he was playing dodgeball out there, throwing the ball to the other team and getting unnecessary roughness penalties. He commented after the game, Necessary? Is it necessary for me to drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyway because it's sterile and I like the taste. No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bill.

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Thanks, meams. Down to Jacksonville, where, yes, people actually paid to attend this game. Drug Peterson needed a win in this battle between crack Jones and free Basin, Rudolf. But none of this game rocked. Biden, more time. Peterson won't be a job hunter quite yet. Calvin Coolidge, Brian Thomas Jefferson had a tasteful homage to the late Jimmy Carter, as neither went over 100. And much like our nation's capital, the refs need to lower the flags and let this game end. Jaguars 20, Titans 13.

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We go up to Minneapolis, where the Minnesota Vikings of Leon's sacks were on fire, and they could really use Sam Buddy, Donald, to continue his great season. Jordan, I love sprinkles. Yes, it's Yes, I do? Yes, I do. Was anything but a cupcake as the Vikings took a page out of Gordon Hayward's playbook and kept looking to Addison. Josh, very cool. Jacobs had a nice scouragomy while Malik, Keith Ledger, almost made it a dark night for the Vikings until just in the nick of time, Jefferson helped Minnesota take the top seed like a really tall squirrel. Vikings, 27. Packers, 25.

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Standing on my corner, James, with some Cuyahogas. Such a fine side to see. It's my love.

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This game was proof on board.

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Miami is a lot, technically. Come on, James. His team is Haynes. Rick Johnson, please look up. He's mad in Raiden's.

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Dolphins win 20 to three. Now it passes two minutes via Zoom. We crushed that last part. It was all brought to you by our friends at Chevy. It's that time of the season. Teams are in the playoff on every game counts. Our AWLs know when it counts. You can count on Chevy Silverado, a dependable partner with strength, disability and true grit, whether you're looking for a spacious interior to comfortably get to the game, the functionality, the multiflex tailgate to get the most out of tailgating, or the technology to make driving, towing, and parking all easier, Chevy Silverado has got your Did you know that Chevy is America's most awarded brand for new vehicle quality over the last three years, according to JD Power? Now is a perfect time to get into Silverado or Silverado HD. Our favorite truck, and the official truck apart in my take. Go to chevy. Com to check out all the great offers and even build your own Silverado and visit jdpower. Com/awards for more award details. It's okay, boys. Week 17 in the books. We are watching the Commanders and Falcons. We will update that at the end. Currently, PFT, you guys are down 10, fight all.

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Down 10. Let's just start off by saying that Jaden Daniels threw an interception in the first half I know that Max wanted to see that. Also, Max, have you noticed that we start every NFL Sunday recap by singing the Eagles? Isn't that a little bit of a bias towards Philadelphia by this podcast? Fucking baby.

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There's Cowboys fans out there. You came out hot right there. Max hasn't said anything, but you know he's thinking it.

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He's thinking it. No, I'm on edge because we're down 17-7 and we don't look good. So I'm taking it out of Max. I apologize, Max.

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So we will update because this game actually has a ton of implications, not only for the commanders, but also for the Seahawks and the Rams. The Seahawks are hoping the Falcons win, so they have a shot in week 18. I guess it has some implications for my Pinky as well. But week 17 in the books, and we will recap this game, we also should say this is our first podcast that we've ever done without Jimmy Carter alive. So RIP Jimmy Carter. He went in silence. Do you think it was the Vax that got him?

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I don't know. I think it was probably watching the Titans Jaguars.

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I was actually thinking about that. Imagine. This early slate... There was actually some fun games out of nowhere. The Giants game was ridiculous out of nowhere. But to have that be your last... I think he died exactly at 3:40 PM, so he might not have even seen the Giants win a home game this But to have that be your last NFL Sunday, that's brutal. I feel bad for Jimmy. He actually went too young because he should have made it to the Super Bowl.

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Yeah, that would been nice. I was addicted to actually reading the tributes from all the various different pop culture websites. If you ran an account that had a special logo next to it on Twitter, there was a mandate that you had to post something. So I saw tributes from Trap Ratchet TV Film Discussion, Pop Crave. Here's my favorite Jimmy Carter stat. He outlived one of his obituary writers. I saw that.

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Insane.

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How fucking amazing is that? They wrote the obituary, I think, in 2017, and he just kept going as our good friend Big T put it. Jimmy just needed to stop building houses. So they put him in hospice when he was still working on houses, and he just got down off the roof and was like, Oh, maybe I just should have retired a long time ago and stopped climbing up 20 feet in the air every day and nailing ceiling tiles down in the hot sun.

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There's also a chance he might not be dead because he was famously just not waking up some days. So if tomorrow they're like, Hey, our bad, Jimmy Carter actually still alive, I wouldn't be totally shocked.

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No, it could happen. It could happen. Another great stat about Jimmy, this is from Jeremy Frank. He said that Babe Ruth hit more home runs in Jimmy Carter's lifetime than any currently active player. Right now, Stanton is in the lead with 429.

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Jimmy Carter famously saw Babe Ruth and Hawk Tua.

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Yeah. There's really nothing that we can say about the man that hasn't already been covered by my Francesa earlier when he was just like, Jimmy Carter Dead. Not a great president.

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It's cool, though, when someone dies when they're 100 because it's just free reign to make jokes. A 100 is way too old. Dude, it was way long long past your expiration, dude. You went to four overtimes in Buffalo Wild Wings.

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You don't really want to be 100 years old. Nobody wants to be 100. All your friends are gone. You don't understand anything. I guess you get some sweet discounts on early dinners, though, which is pretty good. But besides that, there's not a whole lot going on. Yeah. Yeah. Rip Jimmy.

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Rip Jimmy. He was a real one. Yeah. And he was an AWL, so one last listen for this episode. So someone please step up and listen twice for Jimmy. All right, let's get into games. So just to set the stage, Hank is living his Ben Mince life right now. He's traveling across country to New Orleans to see his favorite band on New Year's. And he's got flight issues, and then he just texted us and said that his bag is being shipped to Germany. So I don't know when he'll join us. When he does, he will have to do his boomer in monotone and also answer some questions about the Patriots. But let's start with that game. Chargers 40, Patriots 7.

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Just real quick, Jimmy Carter got shipped to Germany, and he still did his job.

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That's true. Well, he didn't do his job today listening to this podcast.

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It's true.

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Chargers 40, Patriots 7. The Los Angeles Chargers are in the playoff. Insane turnaround by Jim Harbaugh, the king of turnarounds. These are Jim Harbaugh. So his last three jobs, he took over the San Francisco 49ers in 2011. The year before he took them over, they were 6 and 10, missed the playoffs. They went 13 and 3, lost in the NFC Championship game. In 2015, he took over Michigan. The year before, braided Hoke, who just didn't wear a headset on the sideline, looked like the dumbest piece of shit ever. Michigan went 5 and 7. He took over the team. They went 10 and 3. This year, he takes over the Chargers who were a dumpster fire. Remember when the Chargers lost last year by 70 to the Raiders? The Chargers were 5 and 12 last year. They're 10 and 6 this year. They got rid of a bunch of their really good players. Jim Harbaugh brings the culture. He brings a change. And all of this is to be said without even noting his most insane turnaround, which took two years, but Stanford football, that he made a real program in two years' time. That's what he does.

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The Chargers are back in the playoffs, and they're a functional team. And I know it makes Hank so mad that the Chargers, if they can win next week and the Stealers lose, could be playing the Texans, which is a very winnable game for this Chargers team.

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Yeah. So I was I was thinking about Jim Harbaugh and his turnarounds, and the thought occurred to me that some NFL coaches might not really... They say they care about winning and they want to win, but Jim Harbaugh needs to win. He has to win. If he doesn't win, then he might as well be dead. That's Jim Harbaugh's reason for waking up in the morning is to win every single encounter that he has. Some people say, I'm addicted to winning. He's actually addicted to winning. If you took winning away from him, he would go through withdrawals. You need to lock in and pat himself.

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You remember when we were with him for training camp, and he gave us that look where we were like, Oh, how are you guys going to be this year? He's like, Hey, we're going through some things. We're changing over the roster. There's a lot of young players that have to... But He gave that look like, I wouldn't bet against Jim Harbaugh. I'm going to do something here. They did. Lad McConkey, outside of Malik Nabors, who we'll get to, and Brian Thomas, Lad McConkey was the eighth receiver picked in the draft. He's third best receiver so far from that draft. He was insane. He went... He's top 15 in receptions, yards, and touch downs in the whole league, not just rookies. It's like everything. J. K. Dobbins got healthy. It feels like the chargers, they're not going to win the Super Bowl, but they could make some noise.

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Because I feel like we've been sent to a lifetime of every time Lad McConkey has a good game, just getting incessant text from Jerry O'Neill. Just being like, Why didn't he do that in week Where was this in week 16? Just a heads up, guys. I drafted in week 16. Sorry. We're just going to be updated on everything with his life via those text. But yeah, the chargers look good. They dominated the Patriots. Wasn't really close. Got a little Stone Smart action going on. And J. K. Dobbins is back.

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Yeah, all the way back.

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That's huge. Massive. Yeah. I mean, depending on the way the postseason schedule shakes out, they might win a game. Who knows? I wouldn't put that in. If they play the Texans, they're playing better football than the Texans right now.

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I don't know if playing the Ravens, that would be very difficult because the Ravens look unstoppable in December. But yeah, If they play the Texans, and then if it breaks out and they play the Texans, then they go maybe play the Chiefs. Hard to beat a team three times. That's true. They're going to lose the Chiefs, but still, I'll say all week, it's hard to beat a team three times, and then the Chiefs will make it look really easy.

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It's one of my favorite things to say. I don't think that it's true. No, it's not. We should look it up. Actually, no, let's not look it up.

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No, I think we did look it up, and it was proven not to be true.

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Yeah, I don't want to know if it's not true, but it's good to say. I mean, there's a lot of tape out there for a hard lot of study now. I don't know. Weirder things have happened, but I guess if he goes up against his brother, then that adds up a whole new dynamic to it. The parents will probably be at that game, and he'll need to win that even more. You never know. Obviously, the Ravens are a much better team than the Chargers, but yeah, great turnaround. It's crazy because with the Chargers, you know exactly what they need to add this offseason. It's very clear that this was not going to be a one-year turnaround, but getting to the playoffs in year one. That's why whenever anybody says it'll take you five years to fully rebuild a football team, they're full of shit.

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Bullshit.

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That's somebody that wants to give themselves a five-year runway to suck ass.

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Well, also this charger's turnaround, if you want to call it that, because they did get rid of a a lot of players, and they've had to get young. But it was all... I mean, it was Justin Herbert, and you needed a coach who was going to bring the most out of Justin Herbert, who... It's not like he was playing bad before Jim Harbar showed up, but he wasn't playing to his full potential. Jim Harbaugh is just... I think if you just are around him enough, you'll just have confidence to be great at your job. When he told us about SpungeBob, he's like, I respect SpungeBob. He's a hero of mine. He just does his job every day. Jim Harbaugh, if you just put him in any setting, everyone's going to work order and get the most out of... They're going to be the most efficient they could be.

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I think he reminds everybody of how much they cared about winning when they were in middle school.

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Yeah.

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That's what I think it is. He never got past that. He was a sore loser from day one. All the guys in the NFL at some point had that same thing in them. A lot of them still do, but some, it's a profession. They go to work, they grind, whatever. But being around a hardball, you're like, Oh, yeah. I only care about showing my teacher how fast I am.

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It's very funny to think now of Jim Harbor losing and going into the locker room and having to take a moment in his office where he just cries. It's like an eight-year-old, he's crying and he's punching things. And he's like, Why didn't we win? It's like, Well, You can't win every time. I was like, No, that's not right. I want to win. That's loser mentality. It's not fair. That's lose or not. Yeah. All right, so we do have questions for Hank that we'll save when he gets on because I feel like Gerard Mayo, he's got to be fired, right? They were going.

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It goes back It goes back to what we talked about the other week, which is I don't think that Kraft wants to fire him because then that would be Kraft admitting that he made a mistake by hiring him in the first place. He looks at the Patriots organization, his legacy as being this very classy place where he thinks of himself like the Steelers, where it's like, We don't fire coaches willy-nilly in New England.

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But you're going to make the same mistake the Bear just made, where it's like keeping a bad head coach around for a young quarterback is not a good thing. I mean, the Patriots did end up winning the weekend because they vaulted into the number one seed, which we'll get to with the Giants game. But yeah, we'll ask Hank what he wants. So the next game, which was awesome, bangles 30, Broncos 24, overtime thriller, We deserve this game. The Bengals stay alive. The Bengals still need help. They need the Broncos and the Dolphins to lose in week 18, and they need to win. But the Bengals, who were, I think, four and eight at one point, are alive, still have playoff shot in week 18 next Sunday. And this was a crazy game because it was basically a microcosm of the Bengals' whole season, where their defense failed them at crazy times. Their Their kicking failed them. Their coach failed them, and Joe Burrow just kept on dragging them out of the mud over and over. He won this game three times. He won this game in regulation, he won this game in overtime, and then he won it for real in overtime after they got the ball back after the miss kick.

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It was insane to watch. And Joe Burrow is... I know he's not going to win MVP, but I think he should absolutely be considered because what he's done... I was looking it up, PFT. So Joe Burrow is going to finish... I think he has 42 breakdown passes right now. He leads the league in countdown passes and yards. There's no quarterback to throw... There's only one quarterback, sorry, to throw 45 or more shutdowns and not win the MVP. And that was Drew Brees in 2011. And the only reason he didn't win it is because Aaron Rodgers threw 45, and he won the MVP. So if he throws three countdown passes in week 18, it's going to be unprecedented that a quarterback had the season he had and didn't end up winning the MVP. And his team is to blame But you could make the argument Lamar and Josh have been incredible. And I selfishly hope Josh wins, but there's no wrong choice. Saquon also, 2,000 yards. Joe Burrow has been doing this on a team where he has no no margin for error, and he has to be this great week in and week out, and no one's going to bail him out.

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I'm just going to say it, Joe Burrow should be the MVP.

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Yeah, I said two months ago, I should have bet it. That's the thing I do. I'm a pussy, and I didn't bet it when I told everyone to bet it.

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I think regardless of if they make the playoffs or not, Joe Burrow should be the MVP. He's been the best player. I know that's not what the award has become, but it should be. Who's to say what the award is? The award is what it says that it is originally, which is the best player the most valuable player in the NFL. How many wins do you think the bangles would have? Who's the most perfectly average... Dak. If the Bengals had Dak Prescott- Cooper Rush. No, not Cooper. He's too good. If they had Dak Prescott, how many wins do you think they'd have this season?

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They would not be playing for a playoff spot in week 18.

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I think they would have lost that game to the Cowboys. Yeah.

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He would have gotten confused. He would have thrown it to the Cowboys.

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Yeah, they would have definitely lost that game to the Cowboys. This was the third game, or excuse me, eighth game with three touch downs and 250 yards in a row?

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In a row.

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But here's the crazy- That's fucking crazy.

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Here's even better of a stat, PFT. He's now done it 10 times this year. There's only four quarterbacks that have ever done that 10 times. 250 yards, three touch downs in a game, 10 times in a year. So 10 games, they did that. The three others are 2007 Tom braided, MVP, 2013, Peyton Manning, MVP, 2018 Patrick Holmes MVP. So again, another unprecedented, if Joe Burrow doesn't win the MVP, all these other guys that had done the exact same thing he did, they were just on better teams. They won the MVP. All his numbers are MVP, his defense has kept it. If the Cincinnati bangles had, if they had won one of those games against the Ravens and had beaten the Patriots week one, they would have what? Ten wins now? So they'd be 10 6, and they would be in the playoffs, would it even be a debate? Like he'd be the MVP?

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No. And regardless of if they make the playoffs or not, I do think he should be the MVP at this point, even though it goes against my Lamar Jackson future. I don't care. I'm willing to stand up and say You can take it. I've been lucky enough. Joe Burrow, he's done everything that you want him to do. I don't want this to be looked at. It's going to be a wasted season if they don't make the playoffs, and there's still a pretty good chance that they don't make the playoffs. Oh, I'd say high chance. It would be the most wasted season, I think, of all time or up there. Because Calvin Johnson, he had 2,000 yards one time with the Lions. I think they won three or four games that season. That was a pretty wasted year. Actually, just Calvin and Barry Sanders, both of them.

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And the Chargers. The Chargers year where they were number one in offense, number one in defense, and last in special teams, and didn't make the playoffs.

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Max Homan, the Ryder Cup. Wasted season.

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Incredible season.

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Robert Lee in the Civil War.

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Crazy. He put up Wilt numbers.

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Wild numbers. Tyrese Maxie this year?

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Yeah. Jared McCain in November. I don't want to get into... This show, we don't do media narratives for awards, right? We never push a certain narrative one way or the other.

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No, we go by the tape.

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We go by the tape. I wrote something down. I'm not even going to read it.

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Can you hold it up to the screen? I'll read it?

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Here, you know what? I'll text to Max. Max should have to read it. Okay. Max will read it. And Ravens fans, this is Max Delente. He's the one who's reading this. All right. Say something nice about the Broncos, even though they suck. And I actually I weirdly want the Broncos to get in the playoff so I can bet everything on the bills against the Broncos.

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Bo Nicks throws the fuck out of the football. When he throws the deep ball, he throws the fuck out of it, and I respect that.

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Yeah, that's true. All right, Max, say this. This is Max Celente saying it, by the way.

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Max Celente here.

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It's getting hot. It's funny watching because we obviously were in the thick of the Heisman race, not having any wager and watching from afar, people are really angry about Josh, Lamar, Joe. It's crazy. Ryan Clark, I think his brain is broken. He's just finding random people online and quote-tweeting all of them to say anything about Lamar. It's like, dude, Everyone knows Lamar is incredible. He's having an incredible season. He's having such an incredible season. Max has a stat for it.

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Yeah, here's a stat. Lamar against the Bengals twice, the Bucks once, and the Giants, which are three of the worst defense in the NFL have 18 Dutch downs and zero interceptions.

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Whoa.

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I don't like that stat. I think that's it. Oh, so he's not supposed to play good against bad teams?

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Yeah, that's a crazy stat, Max. Why would you say that?

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Oh, also, Max- You hate Lamar. Maybe their defenses are so bad because they have to incorporate the stats like what Lamar did to them. Yeah, true. That has a part in it.

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Yeah.

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Maybe if a running back breaks a single-season rushing record, they should be considered for MVP, too.

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Oh, in an extra game?

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And 50 less carries?

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Interesting.

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Oj did that in no less than 14 games.

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Yeah. Eric Dickerson. Sixteen games for Eric Dickerson, so one extra game. Yeah, I don't know what to make. I mean, the Bronco is like, nice season. I still think they'll probably make the playoffs, although I feel like the Chiefs might win that game just out of like... Here's one thing that makes no sense to me. People being like, the Chiefs don't want the Bengals in the playoffs. That makes no sense to me for this reason. If the Bengals were in the playoffs, they would be the seven seed, and the Bills would be the two seed. If the Chiefs had to play the bangles, that would mean the bangles beat the Bills. If you ask the Chiefs, who would you rather play the Bills or the Bangles? It's definitely the bangles. Their defense has been so bad all year. The Bills beat the Chiefs. I know that this like, Burrowhead thing, which, by the way, is not even real because I think the Chiefs have beaten them the last three times they played. If you're a Chiefs fan, I think most Chiefs fans probably think this, go ahead, let the bangles in, because if they If they somehow upset the Bills, that's an easier path.

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Yeah, a million %. They would much rather play that defense than play against the Bills. If you want a team that will give the Chiefs a puzzlingly good game, and it'll come down to the last five minutes and the Chiefs will do something that will piss everybody off and win, then yeah, the bangles, that would be the matchup that you're pointing at right there. In the last week of the season, we got maybe Carson Wents, although I heard that Mahomes is thinking that he might start. I don't know because it's going to be a lot of time off for them.

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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's 25 days.

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I don't disagree with the fact that Andy Reid wants to start Mahomes. I don't think he should play the whole game. I think you're probably going to get a quarter if they're up by two scores or a half of Mahomes, and then it'll be Carson Wins time. And Carson Wins, all I know for a fact is that he will do something that will piss everybody off with the way it impacts the playoff race. Probably going to be a tie. If you put Carson, if he starts that game, plays the whole game, it'll probably be a tie. Everyone's going to get confused. Then something's going to happen where you're going to be like, God damn it, that sucks that Carson wins the start of that game.

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Yes, agreed. Also, I don't know if you want to start Patrick Mahomes against Bronco's defense. Zack Allen had three and a half sacks. Joe Burrow got sacked seven times on Saturday. Twenty-five days is a lot of days. So Memes, you just sent this. The Chiefs are three and a half against the Bengals in their last three. Yeah, they play them tough, but again, the Bills are a more complete team than the Bengals. If you're in a must-win game in week 18 and you need help, something went wrong during that season that makes you not as scary of a team.

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I don't think you want to play Josh Allen or Joe Burrow in the playoffs. But if you have the choice, you're going to take the Cincinnati bangles. It's not really that close.

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I get it. You would maybe have to play the bangles and then also the Ravens, where in another way, you'd Maybe you have to play the... I get it. But I'm just saying, I don't think the Chiefs, as a franchise, are scared of anyone at this point. That's just not how they operate.

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No, they just win games.

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They shouldn't be afraid of anybody. Yeah, they just win games. Okay, Okay. So, yeah, I don't... The Bohnet's drive to tie the game was sick. That was 89 yards in 70 seconds. But the Broncos, they're limping in right now. It's not like they're bad. It's just they've had to play a couple of teams that are better than them, and they've been exposed for that.

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I also think the Broncos are irritating for the casual fan to watch because they cycle their running backs around so confusingly. You have no idea who's going to be getting touches in the red zone, no idea who's going to be getting touches on third down. It's just hard to figure them out. It's like their anonymous crush defense. They thrive on just being interchangeable.

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Also, I love that Zack Taylor was like, Yeah, Chase Brown got hurt, so we had to abandon our plan. It's like, You could have just stuck with the plan, dude. Totally botched that where he scored on the next play and didn't even make the Broncos use their last time out.

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That's the other thing. That ending sequence right there where Chase Brown did the right thing. He went down to what, the two-yard line? Took himself down.

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He got injured doing the right thing. If he had kept on going, he wouldn't have gotten injured.

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That's what I'm saying. So he tries to do the right thing, goes down at the one or the two to kill the clock, let them in with the goal goal if they want, or probably the smarter thing would be run the football, let them burn a time out, and then try to score a touch down afterwards. So he tries to do the right thing, and then they just go ahead and score on the next play anyways. And then the game goes to overtime, and he's injured, and he's watching. He's like, Why the fuck did I did that? It makes no sense. So yeah, Zack Taylor. I don't know. Do you think Zack Taylor, is he safe? How safe is Zack?

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I think he's safe. The bangles have to pay a Tee Higgins. I don't know how much he's going to get paid a lot of money, but if that was Tee Higgins' last home game in Cincinnati, what a way to go out. Because he had three touch downs and just absolutely abused Bradley Moss. You got I feel bad for Bengals fans because this is just... You have a franchise quarterback who's playing MVP level, who's ascended to a different level. You have the best wide receiver in the game, and you have a cheap owner that might not pay for an insane weapon in T. Higgins. And this season is like, you just can't waste seasons like this. And they did. They're just cheap ownership, and it sucks.

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Yeah. So you know what pisses me off is that it's not public information to find NFL coaches salaries. That should be listed. I know it's just like it's not part of the salary cap, so the teams don't have to list it for any competitive reason. And why would a private business owner list how much they're paying somebody if they don't have to? But that's bullshit. Fuck that. We should know. I want to know how much everybody's getting paid because that way, when they do something stupid, you can be like, Oh, you get paid $17 million a season to fuck up the end of the fourth quarter. And I do it for free. I don't know what his extension is right now, but I'm reading that he makes four and a half million per year. So depending on how many more... Not that much.

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No, that's probably the lowest of any NFL head coach. That's about the bare minimum, which shows the cheap ownership.

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It also means that if he's got a couple more years left, they're probably not going to want to fire him because then you have to pay him. Yeah.

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I think Andy Reid makes 20 million, which is actually a bargain when you think about it. Okay. Rams 13, Cardinals 9. The Rams are possibly in without having to play week 18. We're still waiting for the Commanders, Falcon's game to end. But obviously a big win. They need this win. I have I have a couple of statements that might bite me in the ass in a couple of weeks. The first one is, I'm not scared of the Rams. Even though I have my panky on the line, I'm not scared of the Rans. I think their offense is broken.

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Their running game is not.

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Their running game is good, but they are now 11 straight games without scoring in the first quarter. Three out of the last four games, so obviously, the Bills game was insane. Three out of the last four games, I think they've scored I don't know, 13 points a game. And Cooper Cupp has been invisible in three out of the last four games, or four out of the last five games, sorry. Taking out the Bills game, he's caught seven balls for 70 yards in four of the last five games. They start slow. Their defense is good. Their defense made some big plays against the Cardinals down the stretch. I just don't think they're a complete team that can win the Super Bowl, so I'm doubling down.

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I think that might be mostly on Matt Stafford, though. Matt Stafford hasn't played well in the last month. So yeah, Cooper Cup has been invisible. Maku still manages to put up some stats, but Matt Stafford hasn't... When was the last time he threw for even 200 yards?

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Well, he definitely did against the Bills. You got to take out the Bills game because remember, the Bills game was just an insane up and down shootout Big 12 game.

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But yeah, he hasn't been that good since November. I'm not afraid of the Rams in the same way that I'd be afraid of other teams. The Eagles are a way more physical team, and they'll beat the fuck out of you. I would be afraid of what Sean McVeigh is capable of in the playoffs.

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I'd agree with that.

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When he knows that he might have an undermatched team and that he has to do weird shit, that's what I'm afraid of.

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And this also comes down to the seeding, how it's going to most likely work out.

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The NFC is going to be fucked up with the Reesie because the Vikings or the lions are going to be seeded as wild card, but they're going to be better than whoever wins the South and whoever wins the West.

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Right, exactly. And same with the packers you throw in there as well. Oh, big shutdown, not Brian Robinson. That hurts. Chris Rodriguez Jr. The commanders take the lead 20 to 17, 13 minutes left in the fourth quarter. But yeah, I just... Again, this is going to probably bite me in the ass. The other statements coming later that's really going to bite me in the ass. I'll give a preview right now. I'm not worried about the packers at all.

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Okay.okay. Well, then beat them next week.

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How about that? These two statements are going to hurt me. These two statements are going to hurt me.

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Say that after next week, please, because I need you to beat the packers.

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I need this- We're not going to beat the packers, PFT. We're not going to... The bears will be lucky to feel the team next week. Half the guys are probably going to be in Cancun by the time the kickoff comes around.

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Harbaugh would be disgusted. He would spit on you for this attitude.

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Listen, I want to spit on myself. Pause. Cardinals, I just can't quit. I think I said it on Friday, or maybe it was last Monday where I was like, Kyler Murray, I don't know how many more years I can do this. And then he was actually incredible. He made some big-time plays except for throwing an absolute bullet off Trey McBride's face for the interception, which was very funny. And Trey McBride, shout out, got a touch on 98th catch of the season was his first touch down reception. The only The second longest was Quisha in 2001. He had 92 before he caught a countdown pass. But yeah, Kyler Murray is like, there's weeks where I'm just like, I don't want to watch this guy anymore. And then I'm like, yeah, I actually could sell myself on him being the guy. So I don't know. I'm just confused about Kyler at all times.

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They were trying so hard to get that ball to Trey McBride, too. They did it. They ran four or five plays. That was their Super Bowl, was having Trey McBride score a countdown pass. And they tried to go back. That pass was very funny at the end. Kyler, I don't know, because when he's playing at his best, you can't really contain him, and he looks like he's a little magical guy. But then you've gotten so much more of the bad Kyler as the season went on. Maybe Kyler was the one that he needs to absorb the Cliff Kingsbury stats.

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Yeah, because he does. He fates. That team fated, and they should have won that game against the Rams, and the Rams just held on.

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I don't I don't know that Gannon is safe either.

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Pew-pew. He didn't do enough fuck shit. He had the one where he went for it on fourth and 10. I appreciated that, but it was not enough fuck shit for us to give him immunity for life.

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Yeah, his game plan was just Trey McBride. That's what he worked on. I think all week, he just scheme plays for him.

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Yeah. Okay, let's go to Sunday. Eagles 41, Cowboys 7. Our guy Max was there. We got to everything about it. Also, shout out Pug. He was right about Taylor McKee. Three for four, two touch downs. Taylor McKee is electric. He might be the future. The Eagles win the NFC East, continuing the streak 20th consecutive season that we haven't had a repeat winner in the NFC East. Max, you were there. What was it like? You got to meet nick Seriani?

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I did meet nick Seriani. Great guy. Great piez on. Never said a bad word about him. I love nick Seriani.

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Yeah, you guys love him.

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Did you tell me that was Eric? I publicly apologize to nick Seriani two weeks ago. I did not tell him to tell me that was Eric. That's true. It was a quick intro. I thanked him for Thanked him for his service. He is now the first Eagles coach with two 13-win seasons. Very impressive. One of the most winning coaches in the NFL right now. That's a fact, one of whatever. Nick Seriani, my guy.

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What service did you thank him for?

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Being a good football coach.

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Okay. You got in Big Dom. You were with Big Dom, who was our favorite. Big Dom is the best. Big Dom is the best. He gave you a game ball?

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Yeah, Big Dom gave me a game ball. It was a wild day from start to finish. He brought me out onto the field. I watched all of the guys go out for warmups, do their whatever. Another one of Big Dom's friends was just FaceTime with Pete Davidson, and Big Dom brings his friend over, and he was like, Yo, Pete, meet my friend. And then he just showed me the phone and it was just Pete Davidson.

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I was like, What's up, Pete?

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I love Big Dom. That's how the day started. And then he gave me the sickest seats ever, 50-yard line, first row. Eagles go up big in the fourth quarter. Then he just starts acting like Santa Claus. He comes over. He gives me a game ball. He goes to my mom. He gives my mom a team-issued beanie. It was great. It was an unbelievable day. The Eagles beat the shit out of the Cowboys, and Big Dom was just the best, as you could imagine.

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He got a lot of FaceTime today, too. Big Dom was all over the screen after A. J. Brown threw Taylor McKee's first countdown pass into the stands. The camera immediately cut to Big Dom and AJ because AJ was like, I'll give him my jersey. I'll give him my jersey. Big Dom was like, I got this. I'm going to take care of this guy. Don't worry about it. So Max, as fate would have it, my aunt was actually at the game sitting next to the guy that caught that ball from AJ Bryant. No way. Yeah. And so the team security came up to him and was like, Big Dom is going to take care of you. We need that ball back. But Big Dom says he's going to make you good. And the kid was like, Yeah, sure. No problem. I trust Big Dom.

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Yeah. No. I mean, that The Ravel, whatever, the loser. That is a situation that you should give the ball back, I think.

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Yeah. It's Taylor McKee.

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Exactly. The chances of Taylor McKee going on to be this like... Sorry, Pug. Sorry, Pug.

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Tana McKee is the truth.

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Tana McKee, very good quarterback. That was a great drive that he had today. He had two great calls in that drive. Aj Brown caught two of his touch downs, but whatever.

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It seems like all the eagles backup quarterbacks have great relationships with AJ Brown.

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Yeah. No, it's a great quarterback room. We're building a factory.

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But Big Dom is the best. That was awesome that he hooked you guys up, you and your parents. Big Dom is one of those guys. When I grow up, I want to be Big Dom. I know that makes no sense because I'm about to be 40, but I do want to be Big Dom when I grow up.

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Yeah. Max, you know how you say that you'd prefer if Jaden Daniels was not in the division? I would prefer if Big Dom wasn't in the division.

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I love that tape. That's awesome. That rocks.

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He's a problem in the division.

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Yeah, he is. He has put him on any other team.

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Max, did you see Gary Jones went on his radio show after, and he said that an Eagles fan went up to him and said, Keep doing the job you're doing this year, and he was not happy. I love that. I mean, the Cowboys, I should have known because I was like, Oh, maybe the Cowboys are going to be frisky here. The Eagles are Cooper Rush kryptonite. He's played the Eagles three times. He has 373 yards total against the Eagles in three games. Full starts, two touch downs, five interceptions. This game was a laffer. It wasn't even like you guys were pick sixes, and Kenny Picket got hurt, it still didn't matter.

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There was a little bit of a hairy moment there in the first quarter. I mean, it started off with a pick six, but then we stalled. We were getting out. I think at one point, the Cowboys had 150 yards to our 14. It wasn't from start to finish, but we picked it up. And Saquon is Saquon started rolling.

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Yeah. He had a great game. And Kenny Picket actually looked pretty good when he was in. I think he broke his ribs last week. And so they said he had a pain-killing injection shot, and then he took another shot to the ribs. So I don't know. I don't know how long he's going to be out, but you should get Jalen back next week, right?

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Oh, he's going to sit. They got nothing to play for. Yeah, they got the two-seated wrapped up.

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The question is, do you play Saquon next week?

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I would say no.

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He's 101 yards. He's 101 yards from the record. I also say no. But if I had to guess, I think that they will play him.

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They should have kept him in longer this week. I know that doesn't make make any sense because snaps are snaps. But once you're already playing a game, I don't know. My guess is they play him and give him 10 carries and see if he can break one.

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Yeah.

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That feels like what they're going to do.

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I don't want him to play at all. If he gets her and can't play in the playoffs- Don't say that. That's the whole conversation. That's the only thing you can say.

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The only reason I wish they'd play him next week is because it would make that clip of Stephen Chai saying not to draft him in fantasy football even funnier if he then went on to have the all-time greatest season in the history of the sport of football.

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Eric Dickerson has been a salty bitch about it, so I want him to play for that reason, too.

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Yeah, it's like Mercury Morris vibes when Mercury Morris would talk shit about any team that was 12 and 0. But I respect it, too. If you're Eric Dickerson, you don't want your record to be broken. That's not true. When people say that, like Kareem Abdul Jabbar, when he had to give that game, when they stopped the entire NBA to give a ball to LeBron James, nobody with a realistic, a true competitor would not want their record to be broken. They want to be known as the best.

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Here's the only counterpoint, and I feel like if I had a record like that, I'd want it to be broken before I died because you do get a bounce of everyone saying, Wow, Eric Dickerson was incredible. That's an insane record. If I could time it to get my record broken a year or two before I die so that I get all the... Because once you're dead, what does it fucking matter? It's going to get broken, you're going to be dead, and no one's going to be able to say, Hey, you were awesome.

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Okay, so that's a good point because if you're Michael Strahan and you have the single-season rec for Sacks, you're already famous, you're on every fucking TV show in America, you don't want that record to be broken. There's no upside for you. But But if you haven't really done much since you played, you're fading off a little bit, then you get a week of free dinners.

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Right. And you get to go to the game and you get to be like, Oh, young buck. Great job. And if you're Eric Dickerson, you get the added bonus of an extra game. And I know the carries, Max, you mentioned the carries. You had that ready to go. But you could always be like, I didn't play 17 games. So you could be like, Oh, I had the 16-game record.

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It is cool to get 2,000 yards, though, in 16 games.

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Yes. Very cool. Very, very cool. Yeah, I don't know. Saquon did have a funny line after, which is more injury for the Giants when he said it was his first hat and T-shirt game, and he didn't even know that was a thing. That's tough for Giants fans that he was like, I had no idea that a hat and T-shirt game was a thing. Do you think the Cowboys will play Trey Lance next week?

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I mean, they should. Why haven't they?

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I don't know.

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It's a good question. Is Jerry Jones okay? I feel like he's lost his fastball.

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No, Eagles fans are chirping him. He's getting chirped.

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Then he's going on and he's amplifying that.

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Yeah, it's bad.

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I'm worried about Jerry Jones. I don't think he's capable of making his insane decisions anymore. I think that he's just a normal guy that doesn't like to stir the pot too much. I don't like that.

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Yeah, I agree. He's being a little too quiet about everything.

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What are you laughing about, Max?

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I'm just thinking of an Eagles fans are the best. There was this guy behind me at the game today, and every single play was a bullshit call by the refs, and it was a fucking ref show. I remember there was two tackles of Saquon was just running outside, and they just took his legs out, and he just goes, That's a chop block. That's a fucking chop block. I was just having no idea what any of it actually means. But shout out that guy. That guy was the best.

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Shout out that guy. Oh, B-Rob. We need him to score a countdown of the people. All right. Giants, 45. Colts, 33. Who's more mad at this result?

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The Giants.

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But the Colts, too. The Colts were in the pecking order of... Obviously, we've talked about the bangles a lot, but the Colts were going to be in if the Broncos lost in week 18.

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I still think the Giants are more angry about it. If you're a Colts fan, your defense sucked. Your defense was so bad. Juluk carved you up. But you had Joe Flacko, so you can just say, Oh, we had our backup quarterback. In terms of what this means for the future, we can't get the full picture on everything because if AR is in there, he's probably going to run the ball a lot more and limit the possessions a little bit. But yeah, it's bad. It's bad for both teams, don't get me wrong. But for the Giants, this was such a bad win. This might be the worst win of all time.

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Yeah. They went from the first draft pick to the fourth, and they obviously need a quarterback.

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Every other team is picking ahead of them. Yes, Exactly.

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Yeah. It's crazy. They end up winning this game. It does prove that tanking in the NFL is impossible because the quotes from the Giants players after were like, We're not fucking trying to lose. We're out here playing for our jobs. They did avoid becoming the first team ever to lose nine home games in a season. I actually think it could be worse for the Colts if they don't fire Chris Ballard. That would be my statement. Chris Ballard, do you know this? This is a fun stat about Chris Ballard. So he took over the job in 2017. Since 2017, there have been I think it's seven, so seven years, seven winners of the AFC South. The Jaguars have won it twice. The Titans have won it twice. The Texans have won it three times. The Indianapolis Colts have won it zero times. It is the most combustible division that you can win year to year. And Chris Ballard's teams have not won it a single time. And this is another year where, remember the 2021 year where they lost the Jags, a terrible Jags team at the end of the season? They had it last year where they had win and get in game.

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His teams just fall apart. Their defenses fall apart. The Giants were averaging 14 points a game, and they had 45. I know there were some turnovers, but 45 points.

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It was crazy. Malik Nabors couldn't be stopped. The running game looks good. Drew Locke is a Bronco for life. We already knew that, but he's still even more of a Bronco for life for beating the Colts. It's bad. It's a very bad situation for the Colts. But I feel like this was in a... So if they had won this game and then they lost next week, didn't get in, I would think that Chris Ballard had a higher likelihood of sticking around, right?

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Yeah. But the fact that he lose- That's what I'm saying. If this gets rid of Chris Ballard, this is an okay loss for the Colts. Because if you keep Chris Ballard, and they already said the Matthew Richert is going to be their starting quarterback to start next year. So I'd already like to make a prediction. If Chris Ballard sticks around, if they don't change anything for the Colts, I'd like to make a prediction that the Colts will finish 8 or 9 or 9 and 8 and miss the playoffs.

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Yep.

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That's where they're going to be.

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This is one of those shootouts where I thought that the Colts should have gone for two when they scored a touch. I think they were down. What were they down? I think to make it down 9 instead of down 10. Your defense wasn't stopping anybody. Sometimes you got to do weird shit like that. We saw Matt Lafleur tried to do something like that later on in the day. But yeah, bad game for the Colts, bad game for the Giants fans. I know during the game, they were very active. They were very vocal about... They were cheering on their team. They wanted to win. But there's probably a hangover that you had when you're driving out of the stadium and you're like, That was fun, but fuck. I really should have wrapped it up.

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I guess the only thing you could say is maybe, and this is what I would do if I were a Giants fan, be like, It's not the best quarterback class, and we would have to talk ourselves into it, and maybe you get the decision made for you. Also, the Patriots are first pick right now. They already have a quarterback, so you could potentially trade, which sucks. But yeah, it's a bad law. It's a bad win. I mean, it's a bad win. You can't win that game if you're the Giants. I don't know. You just can't win that game.

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There's somewhere, there Somebody's dad, who's a Giants fan that is like, It's okay. It's all right that we lost that. Kam Ward, he sat out the second half of the full game. That's not a giant. It's not New York. Do you think Eli Manning would ever do that? That's not the guy we want.

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Yeah, that's true. I just want to keep speaking up for Colts fans. I know Dan Docketsch, our friend Dan Docketsch is doing it because he's been saying the truth about Chris Ballard for a long time. Chris Ballard, it's insane that he doesn't get more heat. That stat about every other team winning the AFC South twice in his time and him never winning one. And not only that, but this was the first year in his tenure that they had the same starting quarterback from one year to the next. Anthony Richardson technically was a starting quarterback last year, starting quarterback this year. That's all he's been doing is just changing quarterbacks. He's gone through a million. And I know Andrew luck retired, and that was bad. But I feel bad for Colts fans because it feels like this guy is never going to get fired, and you just have soft teams that end up falling apart in the end, especially defensively, at the end of the season.

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Yeah. For the last... How long has it been? Fifteen years with Grigson, even before this? The Colts always have a GM that just He just hangs out with Jim Irsay and gets his trust and then doesn't get any results until somebody that Irsay trusts tell us, Hey, this guy's just taking your money.

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Yeah. It's crazy because you can't... The The Colts had Peyton Manning. If you're a Colts fan, you've had good moments. Then you had Andrew Locke, and that obviously, they couldn't protect him, and he retired early. But I do feel bad for Colts fans because they are the ultimate tease team, where they are always a little bit competitive. They actually, weirdly, do the right thing of... When they have a bad season, they really do bottom out. They had the season to get Andrew luck. They had a 4-12 season and got Anthony Richardson. They do a But they're such a team. They're 8, 9, 9, 8 every single year, and they fall apart like this, and it would drive me nuts. Chris Ballard, I don't know how you have a job. As a national sports podcast, fire Chris Ballard.

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Yeah. Bill Paulian made one good decision, and that was he drafted Payton Manning instead of Ryan Leef. Then he didn't have to make another decision about a quarterback for a very long time. Then every other person that's taken over that right-hand man to Jim Irsay has just been like, Jim, I got this. Don't worry about the outside. I'm going to handle all this. You just go buy another guitar. I'll make everything okay.

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Yeah, exactly right. All right, Bucks Panthers, Bucks 48, Panthers 14. Bucks are back. That was a big statement win just off of a bad game against the Cowboys. I know the Panthers defense. The Panthers were missing everyone. Chuba was out, J. C. Horn was out, Josie Juhal was out. They got absolutely gashed. The big story of this, I had two big stories from this game. Actually, three, Bryce Young is still good, quarterback of the future for the Panthers. Number two is Mike Evans now is 85 yards away from getting 1,000 yards. So I'm hoping for that because we're a big Mike Evans podcast. Number three, the duck that caused the block punt. That was awesome. Get that duck into the Bucks Hall of Fame. So I don't know how you can find that duck, but you need to get that duck, maybe eat it. Maybe eat it before the playoffs.

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I've seen better ducks.

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But PFT, for people who weren't watching this game, I don't blame you. There was a duck on the field. They showed the duck. They were zooming in on the duck. Literally the second after they were zooming in on the duck, they had to go away from the duck because the bucks blocked a punt and got a breakdown out of it. The duck caused that. And then the whole crowd started chanting Ducky, Ducky because they were chanting Bucky earlier because Bucky Irving had an incredible game. Get that duck. If you want to win a Super Bowl, don't eat the duck, actually, now that I'm thinking about it. Get the duck, put it in a mascot bin I don't even know, cage. Have it on the sideline. That duck is vibes that could win you a Super Bowl.

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Okay, listen, I got no problem with the duck. I just wish that the duck had been in the shot, like the live shot when the part was blocked. That would have really sealed the deal for it. I think it's a very good duck. I think as far as ducks go, it's an elite duck. But if you're going to talk like Hall of Fame, let's turn this into our rally squirrel. I would like the duck to have a better sense of camera presence and to know when he's on TV. I agree with you there. It was the magic of television, where great job to the guys in the truck. Guys in the truck put the camera on the duck. They were the ones that spotlighted the duck for us. The duck just... He didn't even know he was on TV, and he flew away when the lights got bright. Yeah.

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So I'll take that. I agree with you there. It would have been cool if the duck had run the punt back with the team.

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They should bring that duck all around Tampa. I want to see that duck at hockey games. I want to give the duck a key to the city. If you give the duck a chance to be great on TV and give him another shot, I think the duck does have something special, but I need to see more film of the duck before I can confirm it as being like a duck of destiny.

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Yeah. Baker is going to end up with... Because the Bucks do have to play next week. Baker is going to end up with 40 plus touch downs and 4,500 yards. What a season.

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So are the Bucks a team that you would not want to play?

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I would say if the Bucks are a team, I do not want to play.

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Okay, so would you rather play the Rams or the Bucks?

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I'd rather play the Rams, I think. I don't know. The Bucks defense is not great, although they have been injured. I know Antoine Winfield was out in this game, and he's very important, but Todd Bulls can dial it up, PFT.

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He can heat up a quarterback. The Rams and the Bucks are just complete polar opposites right now, where the The Rams defense is very good, and the Bucks defense isn't. The Bucks offense is clicking. The Rams defense looks old and slow.

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Yeah. Bucky Irving is awesome, 190 yards from scrimage today. Jalen McMillan is a real deal wide receiver, number two option. Mike Evans looks fine. Yeah, I would probably not want to play the Bucks just because there's just more variance in a shootout and stuff.

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I wouldn't want to play a He'll be pissed off Baker.

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Yeah.

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That's facts.

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He'll be pissed off, for sure.

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And then the Panthers were really injured. And I do think Bryce Young, he made an insane, awesome throw to Adam. The Panthers need to keep Adam Thielen. That they do need to do because that's clearly a connection that works for Bryce Young. That was a smart signing that is now showing that it was smart. You need a guy like that for a young quarterback. And Adam Thielen still got some gas in the tank.

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Adam Thielen's got to be so happy that things just magically turned around. He was in hell.

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When we talked to him, yeah.

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I felt like Adam Thielen was very close to having a ham string injury that lingered on for 10 weeks. I wouldn't blame them the way things were going. But yeah, the minor car accident with Andy Dalton turned around the entire vibe, which sucks because no one's happy that Andy Dalton got into a car accident, but it ended up making entire city happy.

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Yeah. And the Panthers arrow pointing up, which, again, if you had asked us this in October, there's no chance that you'd be enthused about the Panthers season going into next year. I think legitimately, you can be, especially in the NFC South, where that's a division where teams can feel like they can win it out of nowhere. I just want the Bucks in the playoffs. I would like to see the Bucks in the playoffs. I want to see Baker in the playoffs. It's like, no offense to Michael Pennix in the Falcons, but I have personal preferences. I want to see Baker over the Falcons. I want to see Joe Burrow over... Imagine if the Dolphins make it. If the Broncos lose and the Dolphins get in, no offense to the Dolphins fans, but I want to see the bangles. I'm sorry. I want I don't want to see the bangles.

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I would like to see a Baker-Sam-Darnold matchup at some point in the playoffs. Yes.

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Okay, we're going to get to the Jets game, and Hank is about to join us. Before we do that, PFT, you had a couple of quick ads.

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Okay, we're back. I've changed locations. Hank has joined us, and the Washington Commanders are officially in the playoffs. Congratulations, PFT. We watched the end of that game. It was crazy. You're in the playoffs.

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Yoffs, baby. I mean, what a great season. This has been unreal. Yoffs were way outside my expectations. Now, as Hank says, let's go in the whole damn thing.Right, Hank?Yeah.

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Yeah, fuck it.

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Yeah, but Dan Daniels did throw that interception. I wanted to just talk about He had a interception for a little bit. It was a bad pick. Shouldn't have thrown that. Went right to the linebacker. They confused him. He's a rookie. Sometimes mistakes will happen, but you can't make excuses. A simple zone blitz, you should know better as a rookie than to make a pass like that. Oh, yeah. Also, he infinity rushing yards, and we are now 11. You know what? This is our 11th win, right? This is a very important moment for me, Big Cat, because the insult graphic that people like to put up your memes, et cetera, in the offseason of the last time each team has won 11 games. And it's every other team since 2009. And then Washington is in 1991.

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There you go. So that meme is dead.

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We fucking killed a meme today. And we did it in 16 games. So you can't even do that excuse to it. I don't remember ever winning 11 games. I don't. I remember the Super Bowl in 1991, but I don't remember winning 11 games. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel like. Shout out to Zack Hertz, who caught, I think, two balls with his dick, which has got to be a record. Pennex looked good. I want to give credit to Michael Pennex, though.

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Yeah. His drive to tie the The game was awesome. But then Jaden Daniel's drive in overtime was incredible, and you're in the playoffs. That was an incredible drive. That was everything that this whole year has been. He's been insane. Now you're in the playoffs. Hank lost a bet. But he now is all in on Super Bowl. It also changed essentially all of next Sunday because the Rams have clinched the NFC West officially. The Bucks are win and get in. The And then you guys are set. So there was, I don't know, maybe three or four games that were maybe going to be more meaningful. You're in the play- We're not totally set because we just jumped the packers.

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So now we're the six seed. So we would play against the Rams. That's why Big Cat, I need you to beat the packers. We need that. Can you try? Can you try for me, Big Cat? Just one last.

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I know you're underground.

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I'm not worried. I'm not worried about the Rams. They're not that good. You're fine. You could beat the Rams.

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No, I'm saying In order... So there's a possibility that if the packers, if they beat the bears next week, then they're 12 and 5. That means that we would have to beat the cowboys to get the sixth seed and play the Rams. Yeah.

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But you're putting what What's more likely to happen? The Washington Commanders beating Cooper Rush and the Cowboys or the Chicago Bears beating the Green Bay packers? Don't put that on me. You don't need to dig that. I can't handle that. I would like you to chip in.

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You don't need them to.

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I I can't handle that. There's nothing I can do. There's no chipping in. They're not doing anything. They're not even going to show up to the game. You guys are going to beat the Cowboys. You're going to play the Rams. You're going to beat the Rams, and then you're going to play the Eagles. I don't know. What's wrong, Max? Max is putting his hand up.

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I thought I was playing the commanders in the first round.

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No, well, not anymore, buddy.

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Oh, no, Max. Yeah. Now you're going to be playing So wait, who would Max play?

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The packers right now.

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Oh, no. Oh, no.

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But it all comes down to what happens next weekend because if the packers win and we lose, then it's back to commander.

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The game means a lot.

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Yeah, but just win.

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Actually, you know what? No, but just lose because we want Commander's Eagles for the show. I want the Eagles. I want the Eagles, too. Yeah. We want Commander's Eagles for the show, Hank. Come on. So maybe, you know what? Maybe the bears will... I can't even say it with a straight face. They're not going to beat the packers, dude.

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Well, if the bears beat the packers, then we don't get Commander's Eagles first round.

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Oh, yeah. They would be... Okay, so, yeah, so you don't... We need Commander's Eagles. The show needs Commander's Eagles. The show should be rooting for Commander's Eagles. So that means that the show... Now, Max is worried. Max is worried.

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Best case scenario for the show and for you, specifically, would be Commander's Ram's first round, Commander's win. That's true. Eagles's Packer's first round, Eagle's win. That's true. Then you get all the bad juju out of the way, and then we get Commanders eagles. Yes.

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Okay. I can live with that. I can deal with that. That's still not true. Max is heartbroken right now.

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It would be CommandersVikings.

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Oh, yeah. No, it wouldn't be Commanders Vikings. Those are two wild card teams. Yes, it would. Unless the Vikings get the one seat.

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Unless the Vikings... No. Right now, the Vikings have the one seat. That's why I said that.

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Right. Because the lines haven't played yet. Correct.

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Correct.

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No, the Commanders and Eagles are not going to play in the playoffs unless they play in the NFC Championship game. Yeah. Okay. All right.

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We need Commanders Eagles. Yeah, we do.

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All right. So the show- What's that timebreaker? Will be waiting for the Commanders to lose next We can, but I will not be rooting for that.

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Max is so confused right now.

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Max, I thought you wanted the commanders, right?

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Yeah, dude.

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He does want the commanders. The packers are a million times better than the commanders.

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Yeah, keep it up. Yeah, I love this, Max.

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Actually, Max, that's not true because the commanders are the sixth seed right now. How could they be a million times better than the packers when the packers are the seventh seed?

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Good point.

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What is this playoff? I don't know why in my head, I was just- It's so great because Max literally has spent the last month being like, Oh, I'm so stressed out.

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The commanders could be bad for my life and everything. But now it's setting in that he might have to play the the packers, and he is terrified of the packers. Terrified.

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Because I'm going to have you on my side, and you don't... I don't like you on my side in the playoff.

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But I'm going to be on... If this sets up, I'm going to be on both of your sides big time. If the commanders play the Rams, I'm going to be fucking burgundy and gold, and then the Eagles play the packers. We're going to be doing Kelly Green shit. Yeah, that's bad for both of you, actually, now that I'm playing this in my head.

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You might go over to that weekend. So they just announced the schedule for next week.

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The Tangle Web Weave.

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The Browns Ravens for the afternoon game, and then the bangles stealers night game on Saturday.

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On Saturday? Okay.

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That's good. So the Bangles and the Steelers are playing before the other teams that would have an impact on the Bangles season.

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Got it. I like that.

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The other big note is it looks like Yeah. Bear's packers will be playing at the same time as Commander's Cowboys.

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Yeah. They always try to link those up. Then Sunday Night Football, I would assume, would be Vikings-Lions for the one game, right?

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Vikings-lions, and that kicks ass.

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Yeah, that does kick ass because that's such a massive game.

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That's an awesome game.

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Congrats, PFT. That's awesome. That was an insane drive by Jaden Daniels at the end of the game.

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Yeah, his legs were great today. He took some bad shots. That first half play where he got bent over, His knee looked like it popped, and I ran out of the room, screamed, Oh, fuck, ran back in, and somehow when I came back in the room, he was on his feet and smiling. What the fuck? Again, he leads the league in smiles. But that was a true my life flash before my eyes moment. If Dan Snyder was still the owner of the team, they'd be picking pieces of his PCL out of the Sean Taylor statue's face mask. His knee would break if somehow... Somehow every bad has become a good thing for this team.

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The vibes.

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I don't want to touch anything or do anything. But yeah, meaningful playoff football. This is pretty cool. This is pretty cool. So hopefully I get max.

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So, yeah, here's a recap. 12 of the 14 playoff spots are set. In the AFC, Chiefs, Bills, Texans, Ravens, Steelers, and chargers. In the NFC, Lions, Vikings, Packers, Eagles, Commanders, and Rams. The NFC South champion is still to be decided, Bucks and Falcons, Bucks win, they're in. Bucks lose and Falcons win, Falcons are in. And then the Broncos, Dolphins, and Bengals will get the last AFC wild card spot, which, again, no offense to the Dolphins. It has to be Broncos or bangles. I can't. That would be such a bummer if the Broncos lost and the Dolphins won and the Dolphins got in, because I feel like that would surprise a lot of people, too. It's been all about the Bengals. Yeah.

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And then that would be a shit-pumping.

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Yeah. If the Bengals get in, that's just a super-awesome wild card weekend of competitive games because you have two seven seeds that could beat the two seeds in the Bengals versus the Bills and the packers versus the Eagles.

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Yeah.

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He's so confused. He's looking at the numbers. He's crunching the data, and he can't figure it out.

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The number on the left is the wins, and the number on the right is the losses of each team. Right now, it looks like if you look at the standings, the commanders have 11 on the left, and then they got five on the right.

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In max, it's pretty simple. So they have the same record, but the commanders are eight and three in the conference, and the packers are six and five, and that's the tiebreaker. Two teams not in the same division, the tiebreaker is conference.

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Got it.

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You know what, Mekat? If the Eagles had beaten the commanders, that It would have helped a lot, too, huh?

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Would have helped a lot. Would have helped a lot. Yeah. But the packers are better than the commanders. Well, actually, technically, they're not. No, no, PFT, do not concede that point. You're the sixth Seed, the packers are the seventh seed. The commanders are better than the packers.

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We're currently seated higher right now.

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It's not even division winning. It's not like an eight and eight NFC South team is higher. You guys are both wild card teams and you are better than them.

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You know what, though? I want to agree with Max, though. I want to say that the packers are a better team. I want to encourage the hate. I want to encourage the nobody believes in us. I feel like that's a good thing to have on your side going to the playoffs.

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This just got me so juiced up for playoff football. I mean, Packers, Eagles first round. Holy shit. What a game. What a game.

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Max hates that.

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Yeah. It's like, actually, The packers were shit yesterday.

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Imagine that, Max. One of those teams, they started their season with them, and then they ended their season with them. Wow.

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Yeah. All right. Okay. Let's get back to the- Got to be good teams in the play. Got to be good teams in the play.

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But you thought you were going to get to play the commanders first.

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Yeah.

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You got Tana McKee.

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All right. Congrats to PFT, commanders in the playoffs. All right, let's get back to the games. Bills, 40, Jets, 14. Where do you want to start memes? Do you want to start with the Jets coming out? Aaron Rodgers is a bitch.

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Him complaining to Kenny Aboa that he didn't come to the ball when he was wide open for a walk-in shutdown was just the epitome of the jet season.

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Yeah. I was I was going to say, though, Gangster's Paradise, that was quite something.

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Did you see the alternate angle?

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No. What was the alternate angle?

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I want to see every angle of it.

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Josh Allen just staring at him, laughing.

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That's tough. What about Garrett Wilson's quote? Did you see Garrett Wilson's quote? He said, I always feel like we go out there, the vibe feels right. We're ready to play, then we get our asses kicked.

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Yeah, I saw that.

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That was tough.

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Do you want to talk about Sauce Gardner on Instagram telling Tee Higgins not to come to the New York Jets? And then after the game, in his postgame interview, he was like, Yeah, it's frustrating because some guys seem like they're checked out. Oh, man.

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Yeah, but then he did a fact check. He said, We already have K and Garrett, so we don't need T Higgins. But meanwhile, if Aaron Rodgers isn't on the team, then you don't have Devante Adams, so you would need someone like T Higgins to be the same.

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And If Aaron Rodgers is on the team, you don't have Garrett Wilson.

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We might not have Garrett Wilson. The report was, he could request for a trade.

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Could. And he also just went for his third straight year, a thousand yards. He's awesome. You want to keep Garrett Wilson more than Devante Adams?

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Yeah. If it's Garrett Wilson or the other two, you let the other two walk and you let Garrett Wilson pick the Bridge quarterback or whoever else.

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Oh, shit. So now he's the GM. How would you You just fired Brick.

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Brick's gone. We need to think outside the Xbox.

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Mims, what do you think about there's a big free agent coach maybe this offseason has experience working with Aaron Rodgers and making him play to the best of his abilities, Mike McCarthy.

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I'll take Mike McCarthy in a second.

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They won.

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What do you go, 12 and 5 up until this year for the past four seasons?

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Yeah. Did you Would you take McCarthy with no Aaron Rodgers?

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Yes.

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That's good. We're making progress now.

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My entire day during the game was looking up coaches and trying to figure out which quarterbacks are available.

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Yeah, but do you know what you just did? You did a very powerful thing, which is you mentally moved on from having the entire purpose for your next head coach be to make Aaron Rodgers happy, which is good.

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Yeah, I know. He's got to get in line. No more ayahuasca. If he's going to be here, have to lock in. Okay, lock in. I've never seen someone who's so good at football just not want to play football. He's like, I don't take a break. I'll do this. I'll go to Tahoe. Just lock in. You only have a certain amount of football games.

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Tahoe rocks. Tahoe is the outlier.

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Tahoe rocks. Tahoe's in. But lock in the rest of the other weeks. You only have a certain amount of football games in your career. Just lock in for that certain amount of time and then go fuck off to Egypt after.

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Okay, that's fair.

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Is he He's allowed to lock in in the offseason in some random hill in Oregon?

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How much time? Like one day?

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He's locked in. It's like 24 hours.

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Yeah, that's fine. But he's just got to lock in.

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Okay. All right.

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He had the worst QBR since like 2001 of any quarterback today. Yeah, I saw that. Which I feel like those stats are like, they're created to get people talking about things. So obviously, he didn't have a good game. He played very poorly. I don't think Aaron is the worst quarterback in the NFL.

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Yeah, not top five in everything.

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No. Well, today he's top one, most sacks in NFL history.

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That's true. And he also benched himself.

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Yeah, he should have been benched a while before that. I don't think Coach Ulbricht's mic is plugged in. They took your advice, your personal hack it, and just unplugged his.

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Memes, you're in the same spot as me that as much as it hurts to say because I wanted Ibraflus fired, you wanted Zala fired. I think we probably both would have won more games if they didn't fire the coach.

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Oh, 100%.

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Not like a ton more, but maybe two more, which is crazy to say, but it's probably the truth because it somehow got worse after. Usually, you get a little bounce. We got worse after firing the coach.

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Significantly worse. The penalties today were so bad. I just want a coach who comes in and just teaches how not to false start or I'm blanking.

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A legal shift.

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You had 60 penalties today. There's a lot.

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No, it was brutal. Brees Hall would get a 20-yard run, and then it'd be called back for a hold. It was just nonstop. It was an annoying Sunday to describe it.

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Why did they do the boom box right next to Aaron Rodgers going out into the field? I feel like that's more of a defensive thing, get the boys hyped. Instead, you have it right next to Aaron Rodgers' ear.

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Also in that video, Garrett Wilson is nowhere to be found.

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Yeah. I also think PFT, it's also not a 4-11 team thing.

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Yeah, probably.

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But the boys have fun. That doesn't feel like a 4-11 team.

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You got to do whatever you got to do to get mentally ready for a football game. I get it. That's my defense.

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You get to listen to it if you win.

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Yeah, it didn't matter.

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I mean, it was 40 to nothing in this game. By the way, shout out, Mitch. One For one, 69 yards, a countdown. No big deal. Also, Bill's locking the second seed. They don't have to play anyone in week 18. They can get a little mini buy. Also, Josh Allen just tied the record for most rushing touchdowns for the Bills, 65, Thurman Thomas. I hope he wins MVP. My personal choice is him. But I also feel like this MVP discussion is just going to so ugly. And he's been insane this year. And their defense, Bill's defense, looked good. I don't know if that's much the Jets offense look bad, but the Bill's defense did look better than they've looked the last couple of weeks.

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Yeah. Do you think that there's a chance that the quarterbacks split the quarterback vote for MVP, and then the block of guys who are solid Saquon guys, they pull it out?

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Maybe. Three-way MVP?

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I, PFT as well have Lamar, but I feel like Josh Alan locked it up today. I feel like if they won an ugly 14 to three stinker, but he played well, had the stats, I feel like he pretty much locked it up today.

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But before, and Hank had flight issues. We made the case for Joe Burrow earlier in the show because Joe Burrow is doing stuff that literally every time a quarterback has done it, they've won MVP. And he also, after you just said the schedule, Joe O'Neill-Burrow does get a standalone game on Saturday night. If he goes off against the Steelers and it's like the bangles did everything they could, it would be crazy because you could possibly have an MVP that's not even in the playoffs, which doesn't happen anymore.

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Yeah. Has that ever happened?

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It's happened. I got to look it up now. But the MVP sucks now because it's just the quarterback of the one or the two seat. That's just what it is. But yeah, it would be... Having a standalone game week 18, if you're Joe Burrow and you have an entire broadcast where they're talking about you and if you go off, that definitely could help him.

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Yeah. And I think having more games like he had against the shows where everything else around him fails and he's the only one that steps up. If he has to win the game three times in a row again. If Zack Taylor accidentally ices his own kicker, as he's kicking, the field goal goes in, they give him the time out, the second kick misses. If more shit like that happens that he has to come back from and cover up, then that's good for him, too.

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Yeah. Okay. I'm looking it up right now. 97, Lyons went nine and seven, and co-MVP was Barry Sanders. I'm trying to see if there's any other ones. So, yeah, that's probably... I mean, it doesn't happen anymore. That just doesn't happen. You have to win 12, 13 games to win MVP. So Joe Burrow is probably not going to win it. Josh, I hope, wins it. Lamar probably will end up winning it because, again, we talked about this. It's narratives. And Lamar played a couple of standalone games at the end of the season, and that's how it gets decided. Okay, anything else, Memes?

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Did you see the business decision? What? Did you see Aaron Rodgers' business decision on the fumble? No. Yeah, he didn't really die for it.

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I wouldn't, if I were him.

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Yeah, I don't blame him.

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He gone.

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Yeah. The memes, you and I are just the same, where it's just like, get this hell season over with, like, wake me up when we hire a new coach and then wake me up again at the draft.

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Yeah, I saw a bunch of Jets fans getting mad at people for saying, I want the season to be over, which I don't get. Because as soon as the season is over, you get all the new toys, and then you have direction. I just didn't understand I think people just agree.

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No, that makes no sense. I've wanted the season to be over for a month now, month and a half. Since Thanksgiving, I've been like, Get me out of this season. You've probably been longer than that.

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Yeah, and I'm just mad that our tankathon, we're now at seven. I don't understand how it works.

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There's a lot of bad teams.

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It's fucking bullshit. You know what's bullshit about the tankathon and how they decided? If you play a harder schedule, you should get I guess that doesn't make sense because if you play a worse schedule and you have a bad record, that means you really are worse. All right, I get it. I understand it. That makes sense. Strike that from the record. But I got mad about that, too, Memes. We're the same person. We should just sit down and have a long talk when we get back. Okay.

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So we congratulate Hank, though?

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What did Hank do?

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Number one.

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Well, I don't know if they're going to hold on to it. I have a prediction. I think the Cleveland Browns are going to get the number one pick.

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Okay. You think the Ravens backups?

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I think the Ravens... If they start DTAR, I do not think you can win a football game with DTAR. The Bills are going to play the Patriots. The Bills have every... Why wouldn't they try to lose that game? They don't want the Patriots to have the number one pick.

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A little MVP that we know as Mitch Trubisky, one for one today with a He's down 69 yards.

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I understand, but if you're in a division, you don't want to give them the number one pick, and you have the coach trying to keep his job, so he's going to try to win that game with a rookie quarterback. And then the other one is the Titans playing the Texans Texans aren't going to play anyone. Also a rookie coach trying to keep his job, which I don't think he should get fired, but probably trying to keep his job. I think the Browns could get the one. I think it could. I think he could find a way to sneak in there.

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I mean, Hank haven't- I don't think they're crazy at all. Hank, you don't necessarily need the one seed because you've got a quarterback. So if you got the one seed, you would just sell it off. Yeah.

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But I think- Well, you take Travis Hunter.

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No, I think you would trade back.

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Yeah, maybe. Depends on how much. I don't know if this quarterback class would be... People might not be trying to trade multiple number one picks to to trade up in this.

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But you could trade back at least a few spots and get more picks. Again, we learned last year, I don't even know anything about the draft, but today I was thinking about it. There's no world where even if we have the one pick, we're not drafting first.

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Yeah. It just depends on what other teams are behind you and what other teams are willing to do. Because if you're not totally sold on Shador Sanders or Kam Ward, you're not going to trade a future first-round pick move up.

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Yeah, but I feel like when it comes down to it, teams get sold on QBs.

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Yeah, you're probably right.

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They need QBs, they get sold off on QBs, no matter how good or not good they are.

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You'd definitely rather end up with the number one pick than not, because at least you have all the options.

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Then you can sell it for a shitload of money. You'll probably end up trading it to the Raiders. Tom braided will get on the phone with Robert Kraft. True. He'll be like, Tommy, I want to make a deal. I'll give you a discount, Tommy. Yeah. Also, Shadr Sanders tweeted, After the Patriots lost, before the Giants game, thank you God. So maybe he's happy about the Patriots because that means he'll go to the Raiders with Tommy.

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I mean, nick Wright's tweet was ridiculous, but also hilarious.

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Yeah, very funny. Nick Wright tweeted that, Would it be so crazy if the Patriots traded Drake May, drafted Shadr Sanders, Because they traded Drake May, they got another pick. So they trade Drake May to the Titans. They get the one and two pick. They draft Shador Sanders, they draft Travis Hunter, and then Deion is the new head coach.

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That would be crazy.

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I like taking that shot by nick Wright. That was a fun shot. It would never happen, but it's a fun fucking.

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And I feel like Deon has made that happen the whole way.

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So why not? Yeah, why not? By the way- I think it's more likely that Deon takes the Raiders' job, and then they trade with New England, get the first pick, and get Shador. Yeah. Well, let's talk about the Raiders. Raiders, 25, Saints, 10. The Raiders might have a quarterback.

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Yeah, AOC is pretty good.

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Scott Turner's working magic. The Raiders, they got there at like 1:00 in the morning. There was all this flight issue. I said that it might be a Daren Rizzie cry game. They did an insane trick play in the first to go up 7:00 to 6:00, and then the Saints were like, Oh, yeah, I forgot. We suck. We suck dick, and we're going to just suck for the entire second half. Because Spencer Rattler played a pretty good first half, and then it was just like, Yeah, they just can't do anything.

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Yeah, there's been a lot of travel issues getting into New Orleans recently. Sure. And then knows about it. It was very surprising, actually, how good the Raiders looked offensively at times. At times, I say today. Rock Bauer is getting the a rookie record for tight ends, beating Mike Dicca, which has apparently opened a lot of people's eyes to the fact that Mike Dicca was a fucking baller.

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Everybody, the kids, they think Mike Dicca, Coach, smokes cigars inside.

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Mike Dicca farts.

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Yeah. Mike Dicca having... The craziest part about that, and it actually goes back to our previous discussion where Mike Dicca might actually be happy this was broken because everyone would be like, Holy shit, Dicca. To have a record, an NFL record stand since 1961 is insane. In a 14-game season, he just got it broken. That's a crazy record. 1961 is a long-ass time ago. And Dicca had that rookie tight-end record that Brock Bauer broke. Also, shout out to Amir Abdulla. He's been in the league for a decade. I remember watching him at Nebraska being like, Amir Abdullah is a really good running back. He had his career high rushing today, Ten years in the league. Pretty cool.

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I think we can say that AOC has, at the very least, earned himself a high-tier backup spot somewhere.

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Yeah, the Dolphins should pay AOC $6 million a year.

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Yeah, with the understanding that you'll probably start 6-7 games.

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Ten to twelve games.

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Yeah. The Colts, they should sign them.

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Yeah, the Colts should.

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The Jets. Memes, what do you think about AOC on the Jets? Is the town big enough for two Obeseas? No.

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Obeseas. No. Okay. Last early game, Jags 20, Titans 13. God bless anyone who went to this game because I actually... I'll I'll say something nice about this game. I actually enjoyed watching it a little bit because it was a throwback game in the fact that when either quarterback tried to scramble, it was the funniest thing to watch ever. It reminded me of '90s NFL where the quarterbacks could not move whatsoever. And Mac Jones and Mason Rudolf, every time they tucked it and ran, it was like watching the game in slow motion. And I got a little chuckle out of that.

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Yeah, it was nice. I like this game because it ended so fast. I think it was the first of the early slate, and it beat the other games with eight minutes left in the fourth quarter. So good job speeding us through this one. Also- Hank, we should ask Hank for his comments on Jimmy Carter because we talked about President Carter a little bit. He passed away. I think this game killed him. But instead of really doing a recap on it, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the man.

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Not a great President.

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Thank you, Princesa. Okay. Also, two other notes from this game. Brian Thomas is awesome. He's only the fourth rookie receiver ever to go 1,100 yards, 10 TDs. The other three, Odell Beckham, Jamar Chase, and Randy Moss. So pretty good company that he's going to be a pretty damn good pro. And the Titans made history in this game. They are the first team in NFL history to not cover the spread in 14 games in a regular season. Wow. They are 2 and 14 against the spread. That is insane. They make that spread like, you should be able to cover half the spreads.

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Who did they play in the last week?

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They play the Texans, so they could win that game.

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This is a game where they might fuck around and win.

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Yeah, I think they will. That's what is my Brown's theory of the Browns somehow getting the number one pick.

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Yeah. Also, Big Cat, I don't know if you've been able to keep an eye on Max for the last 15 minutes, but he's still trying to figure out these numbers.

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Torture chamber. He can't figure it out.

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It's been 15 minutes of him staring at a screen trying to make numbers change.

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Max, what did you find out? No, I'm just looking. It's fine.

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You're a Cowboys fan in Week 18.

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It's literally, I think I would rather play any other wild card team except for the loser of Vikings.

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So you'd rather play one other wild card team. There's only three wild cards.

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No, I'm including first-round wild card weekend teams in the NFC.

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Okay, but you can only play the wild card teams because you won the division. So the only choices you have are packers, commanders, and Vikings and lions. And you said you would rather play any other team. I get it.

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I wouldn't be saying I would also rather play either Falcons or Bucks, and I I'd also rather play the Rams. Why do I have to play the Packers?

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But the Falcons and the Bucks aren't wild card teams. They won the South. I get it. The Bucs won the South. I understand.

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I don't think you get it. I get that you'd rather I'd rather play division winner, whether it's the Falcons or the Bucks, over the Green Bay Packers, who is a wild card.

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I get that. But that's how the seeding works. You win your division and you're not a wild card. If you don't win your division, then you become a wild card team.

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I'd also rather play the Texans. I'd rather play the Steelers. I'd rather play the Chargers.

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Oh, Max, this is so sad. Come on, I'll get you pumped up. We can beat the packers.

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Yeah, we already did beat the packers. We'll beat them again.

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All right, real quick wrapping up before we talk about Packers, Vikings, Dolphins, 20, Browns, 3. I said this on Friday, but if they keep making DTAR play NFL games, just keep betting against them. I don't know. It's just an ATM. He's not an NFL quarterback.

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What do you think practice is like? Do you think that the team is so bummed out going into Sunday because they've had to practice with him for a week and they just know that we have no shot?

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Yeah, I think so. It's crazy. He's like a nice guy.

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He seems like a nice guy.

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Loved to watch him at UCLA. Awesome college quarterback, not an NFL quarterback.

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It's mean. At this point, it's mean what the Browns are doing to him.

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Yeah, it is. And then Snoopuntley was pretty good. He actually was really good.

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He was okay. He hit Tyreek. Tyreek still alive.

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Yeah. This was such a classic, shitty weather, Cleveland game where the Browns defense hung around as long as they could. And then it was like, Yeah, we don't have any way of winning this game. I think they got stopped in a 10-point game, they got stopped on the 10-yard line. It was just so sad. So sad to watch.

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Miles Garrett played well. That's about it.

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That's it. Okay. Vikings 27, packers 25. Hold on. I'm tweeting out right now, We're currently He's literally taping PMT, and Max just realized the Eagles have to play the packers, and it's broken his brain. Is that fair to say, Max? He's good. He's gone.

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He's trying to find a brain repairing It's broken his brain.

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This is the most defeatest attitude I've ever seen in someone. Max, they have to come to the link.

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I had to pee. Why?

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They have to come to the link.

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No, I know. I feel good. I feel good. I just had to go pee. I feel good.

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Here's what I'll say to you. Vikings 27, packers 25. First of all, the Vikings are awesome. Sam Darnold was incredible today. His one mistake, that interception, next drive went five for five. The end of the game, when they need a first down to end the game, and Kevin O'Neill is trusting Sam Darnold to throw the ball. That says everything about it. It's not Sam Darnold, like Jets Sam Darnold. I know that this is old news, but that was the final piece where it's like, no, they're trusting him in big-time situations to win this game. Even with Cam Akers, who I forgot he was still around, had two huge... Last catch he made was insane, and then he scored that countdown. The Vikings are really good, and I'm excited to watch them play the Lions. Week 18 for the one seat. The one thing that you have to be scared about, if you're a Vikings fan, is the thing you've been scared about your whole life. Because the kicker, I've never seen someone not look like they're up for the big moment more than that guy. He's a Barstool intern, kicking in an NFL game.

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Yeah, he's got the SEC swoop haircut. Looks nervous. He's a little too pale.

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It's crazy. Hank, have you seen this All right, I'm going to send you a picture. I want your reaction. It's torturous for Vikings fans because I really do think their team is good enough to go to the Super Bowl. And then they have this guy, Will Reichard, who kicked for Alabama, and he's a decent kicker. He missed a couple of kicks today, but it's just his face. His face makes me think that he is going to be the guy who makes it- Kick for Bama, though.

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That's a good... At least he's been through it.

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All right. You You got his ass chewed by nick Saban a few times.

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I mean, Hank, that guy's lining up for a big-time kick?

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He's a kicker. It's kickers.

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Still, they showed him on the sideline. He was wearing the metal wedding ring, which I don't think you're supposed to do in case your finger breaks or something. But he's like, I'm never going to get into any physical contact. Listen, I hope that I'm wrong because that would be just so... But Vikings fans have an insanely good team. Their defense is good. Sam Darnal is playing out of his mind. They have one of the best receivers, and that's your kicker. And he missed one, easy one today.

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This guy looks like a perfect mix of Spider and Jack Mac. Yeah. That's what I'm saying.

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He's like, Oh, man. But the Vikings are really good. Kevin O'Neill should be coach of the year.

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He should be coach of the year. Sam Darnold, that was a cool moment when he walked into the locker room after the game and his whole team was waiting for him. You forget how many players on an NFL roster, but he walked in and sound like a full auditorium cheering for him. Then they picked him up on their shoulders. That must be one of the best feelings ever. You win a hard fought game and then all your boys are like, We love you. What's better than that?Not a lot. That's it.

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Nothing. Not a lot. That's it.

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Have you guys ever been picked up on someone's shoulders? In a Rudy-type moment?

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I don't think so, no.

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Ruff and Rottie, you guys picked me up after Ruff and Rottie. That was elite.

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I think I heard my back. Doing that. That was fun. We got to pick our boys up more.

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Yeah, we should start doing that more often because Hank, I remember lifting you up after that. You were very sweaty, but I was mostly just happy that you weren't dead.

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I'll throw this out there because our boy's down right now. He's going through it mentally. I think if the Eagles beat the packers in the first round, we should pick up Max.

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Carry him off?

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Yeah, we should carry him out of the gambling key.

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Yeah, we'll do that.

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Yeah, We're going to do that.

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We're going to do that. Not even the commanders.

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Yeah.

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It's got to be against the packers.

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If the commanders, it'll be a house divided.

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No, we're going to beat the packers.

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We're going to be- How about if it is Eagles's If a Commander's winner of that game gets picked up?

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You can't put that on me in Big Cat Shoulders. No.

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We'll need some help. It's facts.

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Yeah, I would not help pick you up.

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No, PFT.

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If I'll pick them up on one hand.

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Throw me over your shoulder like a stack of potatoes.

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All right, so, Max, here it is, and I alluded this earlier. I'm no longer worried about the packers. They're a good team. I think, though, they're not an elite team. They are 0-5 against the best teams in the NFC. That's the Vikings, the Eagles, and the Lions. They make a lot of... Their offense It looks... Josh Jacobs has been great this year. Jordan Love, and maybe it was Christian Watson being out, but he did not play well until late, and they needed to score fast. It just doesn't look as smooth as you would like it to look going into the playoffs. Also, the whole what's going on with Zahir Alexander. Do you see him after the game? He had the big hat, which I'm pretty sure has not been cool for five years now. He was like, If I was playing in that we would have won that game. That can't really help. That's not something you really want to have a guy who hasn't played in a month, to be saying, post-game.

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Was he wearing the cheese hat?

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No, he was wearing the funny big hat.

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You're Yeah.

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But I think the packers could maybe win a first-round game against an Eagles, but I don't think they can go to the Super Bowl.

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Right. They're a little bit flawed, but they can run the football.

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They can. They can run the football. They start slow, though. They They did it again where they started slow. They scored three points in the first half. It's very... You can't do that in the playoffs. You can't have a slow start in the playoffs. That's happened a lot for them this year where they started slow and they had to play catch up. In an elimination game, you just can't do that for three rounds.

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Yeah, they've got their issue. I don't think that they're an elite team, but I think maybe it's because every time they play a good team, they play them very close.

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They do.

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But they lose. Then I'm like, One or two things go the other way and they win that game. But the one or two things don't go that way.

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Yeah. I did like Lafleur going for it when they were down 11. He went for it for two to make it nine, which I like that. That was a good move by him.

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He's learning. Tom braided was perplexed by that. He had no idea why that was going. He's like, Well, I'm glad that it worked because if it didn't, that'd be bad. But yeah, that's the deal. It worked and it actually put them mathematically where they wanted to be. It was like, I think more coaches should do that, but they had no fucking idea what was going on the broadcast. Also, did you guys listen to Tom braided say the word sacks?

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Yeah. What was that about?

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He says it like, Sacks. You took some bad socks. I think somebody at some point told him that when you say, Sacks, it sounds like you're saying, Sex. So really pronunciate the a part of sacks.

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Can someone play it? He had a tough day. I'll say it. He had a tough day. He started the broadcast and he was like... I think it literally started. I think he was saying something about the packers. Like, The packers have lost to this team, this team. And then he's like, And what was the other team? It's like, How did you do his stat that you didn't even know the other end? I think he's gotten better since the beginning of the season, but today was maybe not his best day.

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Yeah, there was one time where he called out exactly who was going to blitz, even though he wasn't lined up in a blitz formation. And I was like, okay, all right. We're doing something now, Tom. He's getting a lot better. Yeah.

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Do you You have the clip? I want to hear it. Memes, you have it?

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You're muted, Memes.

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Yep, I got it.

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He's held onto the ball quite a bit this season, and he's taken a lot of sacks. Almost 46 sacks. Sacks. It's like a Cali-girl thing. Yeah, like, Sacks. So many socks.

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Why are you taking so many sacks?

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Yeah, Max, you're You're going to beat the packers. Don't worry. You're going to beat the packers. They can't beat good teams.

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But they don't have to play the packers in the playoffs.

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Yeah, but if they do, if the Eagles do have to.

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But the packers are better than the commanders. So why would the Eagles have to play them?

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That's true. And the Vikings, Kevin O'Neill is Coach of the Year, Sam Darnals. I saw there was a report that basically they have to keep him at this point. Maybe franchise tag him. He's been awesome. And again, it was like the end of that game when you need And I know Aaron Jones was hurt, but still, you're like, Sam Darnold is going to win us this game throwing the ball. In situations where most teams are just try to run it up the middle three times and hope they get a first down, Sam Darnold passed twice. And yeah, It was the thing that finally, and I've already believed in Sam Darnold. If you remember, we had that clip from three years ago where you have to, you're like, I'm not done believing in Baker. And I was like, I'm not done believing in Sam Darnold. So I've always had that in my head where I'm like, oh, Sam Darnold. But that drive after the interception, nothing rattles him now. Yeah, he made a bad throw. Okay. And then he went right down the field and was hitting everyone. And it was five for five and scored a snapshot.

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Yeah. It's like they haven't had a whole lot of games where they've gotten Addison, Jefferson, and Hawkinson going at the same time, all the sons. And today, they were all weapons.

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And Naylor.

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Yeah, and Naylor. How about Naylor, huh?

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Yeah. He was awesome.

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Their offense problem. Is Aaron Jones hurt? That was weird when he took himself out of the game.

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Yeah. And then Kam Anchors. Yeah, it was good. Okay. Wait.

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So this is for Sam Darnold, he sets a record now. This is the most wins for a quarterback in his first season with a new team. Oh, wow. It's never been done before. 14 wins. And he wasn't supposed to be the starting quarterback going into this year.

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Yeah.

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I mean, good for him. I wonder how good Daniel Jones is getting just absorbing that room and just being in that building.

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Because right now, I feel like Daniel Jones- They're all talking about that room. Yeah.

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That room. You're like, Daniel Jones.

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Yeah. I feel like that's a good room to be. You get better just by living in the same zip code as Kevin O'Neill.

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Yeah. Kevin O'Neill is the QB whisperer. He's Coach of the Year, and he is going to get paid a lot of money because I think he has two years left on his contract. You got to resign him right now. He's one of the best coaches in the NFL, and he wins all the close games, and the Vikings are a real threat. With the way the lions have been injured, the Vikings, I feel like they might win that game on Sunday and get the one seed, which is crazy.

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They could. They very easily could. So, yeah, this is what was the stat that we said the other week? There have been four or 14 win seasons in the history of the Minnesota Vikings, and KOC has two of them.

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Yeah. Because the '98 season when they went 15 and one, and they lost the NFC Championship game to the Falcons.

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What do you think about the extravagant defensive celebrations for the Vikings?

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Listen, These guys got to have fun, too.

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Yeah. This most recent one felt like it was a minute and a half.

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It was quite extravagant. It was very well planned.

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The entire defense was involved. It's like the movie Basketball, where the reps get involved with the dance, too. It just kept going. I was watching two separate pregame shows today on NFL Network and ESPN, and they both had long features on the Vikings defensive celebrations.

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That's when you know it's gotten pretty out of hand.

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It's gotten pretty out of hand at this point, but I guess they're not going to stop it. So if they're having fun, good job.

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Yeah. Okay, let's wrap up. Before we do Who's Back of the Week, a rowback question. Roback. Com, promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowbackk. Com, promo code take. My roback question is, Hank, did you write a boomer? I did. Can you read it to us in a monotone voice?

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Yeah.

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Okay, great. That's what we were hoping for.

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I wrote that this is a rage boomer, too, so I haven't gone back to it.

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Wait, so what was your your travel day again so people understand?

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I will say this. Listen, I was in... I traveled from San Diego to Houston to New Orleans. Along the way, I had two flights get delayed. My bag got sent to Frankfurt, Germany.

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How does that happen?

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Is it your golf clubs? No, not my golf clubs, but it's close. That's the thing. The people that I was with on the plane were so much more stressed out, and there was a When we landed in Houston, the lady... Because we stopped and we just got stuck on the runway for an hour because there was no open gates. I guess there's construction going on at the airport. It was chaos. When we finally get to a taxi, the lady behind me was like, Does anyone have a connecting flight? And everyone, she was trying to push up. Every single person was like, Yeah. Everyone was on edge. There was a lady in front of me in a wheelchair. I'm taking my time. There was people behind me being like, run. People were on edge, sprinting through the airport, really upset. I was obviously not loving it, but also not perspective. I was like, it's not that serious, not that big a deal. Then I realized my bag got sent to Frankfurt, Germany. I'm pretty sure that the person in front of me was going to Frankfurt, Germany, and when she scanned her thing, they just gave me her tag and put that on my bag.

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I don't really know. That was That's what I came up with, but it's not that big a deal, but it was just a long day. But people sprinting through the airport is a funny people-watching experience. Just people were flying, people were upset. The lady tried to push her way up the flight. So I had a long day, whatever. And then after all that, I was riding my boomer in the cab ride to my hotel.

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Okay.

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What was in your bag that's in Germany?

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Just close. I actually have my boxers and my toiletries with me. It's like all I need to do is go. I need to go buy and I have my laptop and stuff. All the expensive stuff I have with me. The lady did make me check my bag. She was like, Oh, can you just check it? It's a big bag. You have two big bags. I was like, But it's a carry on. She's like, Yeah, but it's a full flight. Just check it. I was like, Where does it go to? She's like, It goes to your final destination. I'm like, All right, whatever. I wish I had Pushed back. Shot that down.

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But this just means that your punishment is that you have to go out in New Orleans and buy sick outfits.

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Yeah, I'm going to go get some fits off tomorrow. Having boxers and I have my toiletries on my laptop and stuff, it's really not too bad. It was just a long... The lady was like, I'm pretty sure... She's like, Well, this isn't your tag. I'm like, It is my tag. It's the tag that gave me. Whatever. It was a long day.

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Okay. Go ahead.

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Monotone? Yeah. Justin Herbert Hoover said, Damn, that was smooth after a jazzy first-quarter breakdown to Darius Miles Davis. Drake Mayflower led a voyage down the field and connected with Itza Mia DeMario Douglas for a countdown. In the second half, Lad McConkey said, I'll be your wish, I'll I'll be your dream, I'll be your fantasy, Championship-winning wide receiver, scoring two touch downs along with 94 yards to make a lot of people very happy. Patriot 7, San Diego Superchargers 40. This team could make some noise in the playoffs, boom.

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I like it. That was good. Hey, if they played the Texans, that was very good. Hank, what did you think about the game? There was a lot of booze. We discussed it earlier, but like, Jirad Mayo, he should be fired.

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That was a good game. For Jamard Mayo getting out of town, that was best case scenario. I was with my brother. It was like, that was what we wanted, where we were with my brother and some of our friends who aren't Patriors fans, and they're like, do you want them to win? We were like, We We want them to get smoked. We want Dregna to play well, but we want them to get smoked to the point where it's like, get him out of town. That's what happened.

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Yeah, PFT.

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Hank, do you think that Mr. Kraft- Minus a concussion. What's that?

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Dregna got another concussion. Yeah.

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Do you think Mr. Kraft was a little bit upset and wanted to call a time out to hate when all the fans were booing his coach?

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He was probably upset, but that's probably a good thing. But yeah.

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Who is he upset at, though? Do you think he was more upset at Mayo or do you think he was more upset as his fans?

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He's probably upset as his fans, but I feel like rich guys, they're surrounded by yes men. It's like, situations like that, they force you to look in the mirror.

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Kraft is in that camp like Jerry Jones, where I think embarrassment actually works.

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That's what I'm saying. They're surrounded by so many yes men that you literally can't look at anyone else but the mirror when it's like, Oh, block. This is bad.

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George McCasky, embarrassment doesn't work because if it did, he would have quit. He would have sold the team a decade ago. But Kraft definitely is like, This is bullshit. Yeah, That was a perfect game for you.

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Minus the concussion.

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Minus the concussion.

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Which he came back. Yeah, he did come back, but two concussions in a year, not ideal.

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That deep ball that he threw to, what's his name? Pop?

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To Mario.

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Yeah, that was an awesome pass. For recognizing like, Hey, free play. Free play, yeah. There's been enough of Drake May where you're excited now, right? Like, this is your guy.

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Yeah, we just got to do it one one more time, and then we control. We have everything.

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You got to lose one more time, which I think you're going to win that game.

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Yeah.

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I just think the Bills are going to... If you're the Bills, you should not start anyone, right, of any significance. I just don't...

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I don't think, and I could be wrong, I don't think that the next season, interdivisional, I feel like that's a fan thing to Do you think Sean McDermott is that five head of a coach to be like, we don't want our interdivisional opponent to get the first pick because that's going to screw us in the future? Even if they think it, they have to game plan to win.

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Here's where it comes to play. I agree with you. I don't think they go into the game being like, we're going to... Because you can't really tank in the NFL. You can't tell guys we're going to try to lose. If it is close at all in the fourth quarter, I think that's when it's like, they'll just run the ball up the middle and be like, it's fine. You know what I mean? Play as conservative as possible and not tank or try to lose, but do everything that lets the Patriots win the game.

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Yeah, because the Giants That game, you're watching, you're like, All right, if they are tanking, they're going to find... But they just kept winning the game.

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No, you can't do it. The only time you can do it is the second half of week 18. That's really it because guys are playing for their jobs. And you also can do it in a situation where it's like you can actively sit all your starters like the bills. The bills aren't tanking, they're playing. You know what I mean? They're playing for something going forward. So it's like they can sit all their starters and be like, We're doing this for safety's sake, and lose that way.

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But I think the issue is that Sean McDermott is a very good coach. Yeah, of course. The backups are going to be playing hard, obviously, because this is their chance to prove something on tape. Also, they will have been coached up by a very good coach who is coaching them to win the game. He's not going to coach them to lose the game, he's going to try to win the game with his second string players. And Jared Mayo is not as good of a coach.

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But he's really trying to win the game.

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He's really trying. But McDermott is, I think, a good enough coach where he could beat the Patriots with very, very hungry second stringers.

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Actually, this is what you should be hoping for, Hank, because Jared Mayo has proven that he's such a bad coach that if he's trying extra hard to win the game, that's probably bad.

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I feel like everyone knows he's just not.

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Right. But if you're trying that hard and you're bad at your job, it's only going to amplify the bad. You don't want someone who's bad at their job trying extra, extra hard payments. You want them to just be.

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Yeah. I would hope that that decision has been made already. I think it was like there's been three coaches that have the number one pick that have actually used it all time. The coach that was the coach the year they ended up with the number one pick, that was still the coach the next year.

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I don't know that stat. I mean, Ibrafus did. Look up that stat. I mean, you might be right, but that seems like it's not enough. Yeah, that doesn't... Well, I guess, well, think about it. All right.

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So- Only three teams drafting number one did it with the same head coach as the previous year, the 77, Tampa Bay Bucks, the '92. This is just an insult stat. No, but this is weird. I guess this is from a Twitter account that...

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Oh, maybe it's because the bears technically had the Panthers pick. Oh, that's probably why. That's exactly why.

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The '77 Tampa Bay Bucks, the '92 Indianapolis Colts, and the '2017 Cleveland Browns. Yeah, that's why. Which is also not potentially a reliable source, but it is the one that I saw.

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Okay, that works. It makes sense. If you have the number one pick, your coach probably is getting fired.

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Oklahoma box 617, I don't know that that's official.

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But the Iberflux thing is that makes sense. It wasn't their pick. It was the Panthers' pick. Yeah.

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So he- Were the three teams, Hank?

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1977, Tampa Bay Bucks, the 1992, Naples Colts in the 2017 Cleveland Browns.

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Did the Cowboys not draft first after they went?

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Again, this is Uncle Buck, 2000. It's 617. So asterisk, asterisk.

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Okay. Asterix. Should we do Who's Back of the Week?

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Yeah.

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I'll just say it. It's 11:40. I ordered $100 a room service when I got in this hotel room 2 hours ago, and it's not here yet. I'm starting to get concerned, and I'm starving.

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That's the who's back of the week?

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No, my other who's back of the Week was Club Hall. I just needed to get that out there because I'm dying inside. My Other Who's Back of the Week was Club Hockey.

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Okay. Oh, because of... What team was it?

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Unlv.

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Yeah.

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A-c-h-a-m-1, which is Club Hockey, which is every college has their actual hockey team and the club hockey team, which is just kids that play in high school that get drunk and play club hockey, which is fun. They beat NCAA D1 defending National Champions, University of Denver, 7 to six.In a shootout.In a shootout, which is like, that is the dream. That is why you play sports. That's what it's all about. A club hockey team beating the reigning D1 national champions is like, that's everything.

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To be fair, I think club hockey is a little bit different than other club sports. I think that there's D1 club is higher. I don't know exactly what it is, but I remember talking to a hockey person who played club hockey.

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Yeah, probably a club hockey person. That's like, yeah, no, club hockey is legit.

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Club baseball is not legit. My roommate played club baseball in Wisconsin.

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I played club baseball.

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Yeah. He'd have a game and he would wake up at noon. Don't you have a game? He'd be like, Yeah, I'm skipping today. I have a lot of friends that play club hockey at UMass.

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They would say it's legit. It is legit, but it's still- It's a crazy upset. It's club hockey.

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Probably like club rugby because a lot of schools don't have varsity rugby teams. Actually, almost all of them don't have varsity rugby teams. But the club level is the highest that you can get besides four schools. So there are good players, and it's probably the same for hockey. If you don't have a varsity program and you're in a good area, you can still probably get good players.

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But it's not like- But UNLV is not really a hockey hotbed, I would imagine.

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I love club hockey. Like, shout out to Clawky. But I'm not going to... It's crazy upside. A club hockey team beating the D1 national champions is an insane story. There's no in the world where it's not.

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It's the only time boys are buzzing. Boys are buzzing for two years off that win.

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Yeah, for life. Sure. For life. Absolutely. All right, PFT, you're who's back.

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We're just talking hockey today because who's back is Alex Ovechkin. He came back from his broken leg, scored two goals in two games. First was a sick empty netter. The second one was more of a real goal. But now he's 25 away from breaking Gretzky's record. My original projection of January 23rd in Edmonton, that's been revised, and I think I'm going to release my game. I'll do it on Wednesdays part of my take. I'll pick out a game on the schedule where he's going to break the record, but he could do it this year.

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Yeah. Friday is part of my take. We don't have a show on Wednesday.

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Good point. Friday is part of my take. Happy New Year.

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Yeah. Happy New Year. All right. My who's back is bowl season. Let's talk about some college football quarterfinals. Also, shout out the Pop Tarts Bowl. That was awesome. Everything they put into that Like the strawberry pop tart coming back from the dead. I saw Eddie and Clem were down there, our guys. It looked like the coolest time. Also, anyone who's upset about Kam Ward is a loser, and they're just basically looking for someone to be angry about. Malik Nabors did the same thing last year. No one was upset about it. He played until he got a record, and then he sat out. I guarantee you that the entire Miami team knew that Kam Ward was going to play until he got the record and then sit. I know that because I bet Iowa State because everyone was talking about how Kam Ward was not going to play the whole game. It was not a surprise that he sat out. And I get it. People are like, Oh, well, you're watching your guy's battle out there. He's also got millions of dollars on the line if he gets hurt, I don't understand it. Are people just coming around to the fact that bowl games are like, they don't really mean anything and it's entertainment and it's stupid, but it's also fun?

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I don't understand I understand that. I don't understand why people were mad at Kim Ward.

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They had a fucking edible mascot on the field.

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Right.

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And we're mad at the guy for sitting out the second, not the whole game. The second half. The second half of that game, which was fun, especially if you bet the over, because I feel like there were 42 points scored in the first six minutes of the game. Yes. So we're mad at a guy for putting literally tens of millions of dollars on the line to not play in the second half. That's exactly right. I saw one guy say they should find them, that the University of Miami should find Cam Ward.

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There's no way that everyone on that team didn't know the plan. It just wasn't. It It would not have been a surprise. Because, again, I somehow heard through the grapevine that that was probably going to happen. How is that? There's just no way. And not only that, if you were a person who complained about the college football playoff being blowouts, and in the same token said, Kam Ward sitting out is bullshit. You make no sense to me because this is what the college football... If you're like, Oh, 12 teams is too many, at least it's more games where guys aren't going to sit out. And I have no problem with Kam Ward sitting out because guess what? These games ultimately don't mean anything when a guy is projected to go top 10 in the NFL draft. He's got to take care of himself. Every single person in that situation would do the same thing. But the college Football Playoff at least makes it so more of these games, this doesn't happen. You can't argue both those sides in my mind.

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That's when it's going to get weird is if somebody does that in a playoff game.

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Well, Bo Pribula. He's transfer portal.

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A little bit different. But if somebody is projected to go high in the draft and doesn't want to risk injury in playoff games, then they sit out. Then I feel like that side would have a little more to complain about because you're playing for a national championship and the rest of your team would probably like to play in a meaningful game. But in the Pop Tarts Bowl, who gives a fuck? He had to sit out.

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Who gives a fuck? I'm shocked he played at all. I know. Well, he wanted the record, which is cool. Also, if you're a Miami player, you get to say that you were on the team that had a record. That's pretty cool. If you're an offensive lineman, you're like, Yeah, I blocked for the record-breaking quarterback. That's pretty awesome. I think that means more probably in 20 years than it does, We didn't win the Pop Tarts Bowl. Although the Pop Tarts Bowl is awesome. All right, so any picks or thoughts?

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I was going to say one other thing from the Bowl weekend, the confetti stuck to Matt Rule's face. I think it's still there. I don't know how they got that many pieces. That was the Badboy Mover game, right?

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No, that was the Pinstripe Bowl.

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Pinstripe Bowl. His daughter looked so embarrassed to be next to him when he had just take him off your face, dad. But that was fun. Good for Raola, good for Will Compton.

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Yeah. Nebraska's back. Go Big Red. All right. So, Max, are you... He's still thinking about the packers. Are you at all worried about Boise State?

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Yes. Yes. Yes, because it's Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl. That is why I'm nervous about State because of history.

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That makes sense. I lost so much on that game when I was, I don't know, I was probably 19 years old. It was like Oklahoma versus Boise State.

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I think Penn State's easy draw is adding to the confusion for Max of how come the Eagles don't get the same easy draw?

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Yeah.

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That's fair.

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I think you'll be okay. I do think Ashton Jenny will do well. I'm rooting for him to do well. The game I'm actually most excited... Well, the Rose Bowl is going to be awesome. I think I'm going to take Ohio State in that game, and it's mostly based on the uniforms that Oregon picked. I didn't really like them. I thought they should have done more classic.

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I love them.

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You love them?

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I love them.

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I don't know. The Rose Bowl. I need classic uniforms, especially Ohio State, Oregon.

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No, with Oregon, it's like the crazier the uniforms are, they're almost more Oregon.

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Yeah, I could see that. I'm going to probably take Ohio State in that game. I'm probably going to take Notre Dame in the Georgia game. Then I'm very excited for Arizona State, Texas, because I don't know if you guys saw Sam Levit basically doing the thing you're not supposed to do with bulletin board material and being like, I'm going to prove that I'm the best quarterback in this game. Something about Arizona State. I feel like they're going to run Sharkwheel to start the game. I don't know. I feel like it could happen.

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Are we counting just a normal wheel route as being Sharkwheel?

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Any wheel route, I'll just say it's Sharkwheel.

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Okay.

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Yeah, that's all. Yeah, it's all it takes. But are you guys... What games? By the way, we're streaming the January first game, so we'll be in the gambling cave for those.

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I'm leaning towards Michigan. Sorry, not Michigan, Georgia. I don't know why it's in Michigan. I'm leaning towards Georgia. Yeah, against Notre Dame. I don't know. I feel like the athletes that they have, especially on defense, when they play well, they're really- So schizophrenic. You just don't know if you're going to get good Georgia or bad Georgia.

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Yeah. Notre Dame's defense is good. And I did lose. I think they lost one of their good defensive linemen, which definitely hurts. I don't know. These games are going to rock. Everyone who complained about the first round, I think we're going to get some great games. I really do.

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I'm going to take the over in Texas, Arizona State, too. Just waiting for points in chaos.

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Yeah, the early game on January first. The fact that Rose Bowl, a classic Rose Bowl, I know they're two big 10 teams, but that's going to be awesome. I'm so excited for that. Anything else? Georgia memes You're going to win this game?

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Yeah.

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Okay. There it is. You heard it here.

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No, I think it's going to be a good game. Notre Dame losing their defensive end is huge.

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Massive. Massive. He's probably the best player.

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I'm a little worried about Mike Bobo. I saw his press conference. I wasn't fired up about that.

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Why? What did he say?

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He gave a pop-up speech to Gunner Stockton that said, I told him to just be him, and I'll be me, and you just be you, and Kerby be Kerby.

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So you just got to be yourself. Would your pop-up speech just saying your names?

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Yeah. No, slightly worried about Mike Bobo, but I think he'll get it done.

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Okay. Anything else? Like I said, we have no show Wednesday. We'll be back in person, though, on Thursday. We'll recap all of the games. We'll have a show on Friday. We'll be back in studio previewing week 18. Congrats again, PFT, on making the playoffs.

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Thank you.

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Max.

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Yes, baby.

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Playing the packers is going to be tough. We can do this, Max.

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I also, through my research, I will be a hard Commander's hater.

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Yeah, you got to be a Cowboys fan. Yeah, you got to be a Cowboys fan.

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I get.

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No, I'm saying- Do your research. No, I'm saying in the Rams Commander's game.

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Why?

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Because then if the Rams win that game, the Eagles would avoid. If the Eagles beat the packers and the Rams beat the commanders, then the Eagles avoid the Vikings or Lions.

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Got it.

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Now I'm back in on that scenario. Yeah, because then the commanders will be the lowest seed still available.

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Correct. The Viking, yes.

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No, I'm not. I'm right. So if the Rams beat the commanders, then and the Eagles win, the seven seed, the packers get eliminated. Correct. The commanders are now the lowest seed, so they would have to play against the-Number one seed.one seed.

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Yeah. Yes. But you could play the Bucks, too, Max.

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No, but I'm saying if the Ram-You got to beat good teams in the playoff.

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Yeah, Max, you got to beat good teams in the playoffs.

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That's something you're starting to realize.

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It's crazy how fast you turned. You got You're going to beat everyone.

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You should be expecting to beat... You're going to play the one seed. You're realistically going to play the one seed at some point, so you're going to have to beat them.

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Listen, you know what I say? Anyone, anytime, anywhere.

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Yeah, that's good, P. F. C. You're ready for the playoff, Max. Yeah, Yeah.

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That's a team that has no aspirations to do anything.

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Except for beat the best teams. Max, you want to be handed a Super Bowl. Max, you want to play against the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl.

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Max, you want to beat You have to root for the Cowboys on Sunday. You realize that? You're a Cowboys fan on Sunday.

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Yeah, I don't know. We'll say no. We'll play who's in front of us. Give me the package. I'm worried about that.

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His brain is fucked right now.

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The one thing that really does suck about this is if the packers beat the Eagles, I am just completely taken all the joy that I would have of a max loss is just completely gone. I'll be as miserable as Max.

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I'll be happy.

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We can do this together, Max. We're going to do this together. I'm going to put a bomb on the Eagles. Let's go to the numbers.

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The packers-Let's go to the numbers.

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Had Bob Salah since the last time they played.

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It's true.

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Jalen Hertz had his worst game against him last year.

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Oh, wow.

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But I'm on your side if you play the packers because he's on there.

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Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Let's kick it to ourselves. Let's do numbers, and we'll see everyone on Friday. Okay, last numbers of the year. Numbers. Three.

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Eleven.

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Twenty-five.

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Seventy. I don't like what you did. Seventy-one.

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Wait, Jack, what was your number? Fifteen. Fifty-four. 54.

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Love you guys. The entire year.