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He pulled the Eagles, Albatross. He pulled it off the back of his back. He whipped it down. He stomped on it. He pulledto be a big Dom. What a great night. You have a field goal kicker. You're probably the number two favorite to win the Super Bowl. I can't say enough good things. And you look like a pig and shit right now.

Thank you. I think I vowed that Big Dom was not going to be the most obese Italian who had a good Sunday night, and I was right. It was me. It was me after all. A classic beatdown, Simmons. I promised last week I wouldn't make a big deal out of it if this occurred, and I lied because I like everything about this, honestly, except for the calendar. That's the only thing I don't like that I see. I wish this was January and we could get it going because momentum is such a big deal.

Yeah. I can't even figure out how somebody would shit on this other than to say, I mean, there's going to be a point. It will be made on the talk shows tomorrow. Did this game say more about where the Eagles are than where the Cowboys are? Because their defense was so bad. They give up the six touchdowns in a row to the Niners. They come into this game. You go touchdown, field goal, touchdown, touchdown, first half. And for some reason, Collinsworth is making it seem like the Eagles were going to come back. It was a really weird... I felt like the game was over almost immediately. By the time we're headed toward the second quarter, I was like, They're not going to be able to stop you all game. I think the fall of the Eagles defense over this last four weeks has been shocking because we thought at the very least, they were going to be able to push, push, push constantly. They had a solid secondary. And now it just seems like anybody can move the ball up and down the field on them.

Yes.

Unless.

They're playing posum, unless they're doing exactly what I'm worried about. They're laying back a little and say, All right, we still control our own destiny. We got a Cupcake schedule coming up. We're not going to lose to the giants, either of the two times or the Cardinals. Seattle is beat up, but I don't think that's what's going on. But yeah, definitely like what I'm saying here. I would normally be terrified on that Fumble 6 return for a touchdown. But I was like, We still have this in hand? We've hunted once since Thanksgiving. This is a great day. That kicker, that Brandon Aubrey, is like effortless kicks. It looks like he's using 60 % of his leg. He's just meeting... I know he's going to miss three extra points in the wildcard round game in January. He's going to kick it into the cheerleader section. But it really looks like his boot is loaded. They might check the Iron Sheik for loaded boot. It's amazing what's going on.

Yeah, they're bored field goal kicks. He's like, All right, I'll kick another 58-yarder. He's like, I don't want to get hurt. I'll do a couple for your friends. So many good storylines from Dallas being in here. We could start with Jack, who I think is officially in the MVP combo. Although, Purdy, it's got to be at least co-favorites. I refuse to put Purdy over a DAK or vice versa. Really? Purdy was awesome today. Why, though? Purdy, he was six for 6 on Balls 16-plus yards today. He's turned into... They keep comparing him to Kurt Warner, and there's a reason for it because he looks like 1999 Kurt Warner. I know he has the same body, but he's just throwing lasers all over the field. I don't think that's been better than him.

Well, I know. It's not like that doesn't have a great support and cast a lot on defense, too. But it isn't everyone who likes Purdy now, three weeks ago was crying for McAfrey to be MVP? And Debo Samuel has been phenomenal. I mean, that reboot is crazy. Every time he touches the ball, looks like there's no way he's going to get within 10 yards of him. So I don't know how it could be all these things. Daq is plus 150. I'm just saying it's either- two to one.

Yeah, I think that's fair. I saw on Twitter, trint Williams, who I had no idea is one of the great orders of our time, he had a five-minute response to a question about Brock after the game today. And in five minutes, he won me over completely. He was so disdainful with people who were like, Oh, it's all the weapons. It's not what Purdy is doing. And he just calmly picked it apart. It was the best interview I've seen all year. I thought it was great. Did you see it?

It was great. I did. The post-came interview? Yeah, it's fine. I didn't like the subject matter. I think he's wrong about it.

I don't know. Listen, all I'm saying is, Daq versus Purdy, I think, is where we are. I think, Hertz is falling back. Lamar is lingering, but even today, I know they won. He had the fourth quarter drive, but he wasn't amazing in that game.

Fandel has it, Prescott, 150, Purdy, 200, and then Tua, Lamar, and Hertz at eight to one.

Yeah, I think that's fair. And Tyree could have 200 yards tomorrow night and whip himself into that. So we have the dash thing, which you've been through, I would say, a fair amount with dash over the years. I would say it's been a little bit of a roller coaster ride. But he's in right when it feels perfect, then, of course, they get strip sacked and they get a PIC 6. And it's like just... They just had to sprinkle a little dust on it. But for the most part, they look great.

I'm at the part of the roller coaster ride where I'm not quite ready to vomit, but it's coming up. I know it's in three weeks on the downfall.

So we have that. We have, for the first time, I think since we've done this podcast where I don't think Dallas has been a top two team in the League this late in this season. We have the holidays in two weeks. And it got me thinking like all the... Just what would happen? The Super Bowels in Vegas, if Dallas could somehow get there, what is Jerry Jones going to be like over these next four weeks, five weeks, six weeks? Does he do something dumb? Does he embrace it? I don't know. There's just a lot of storylines. Plus, you have the Stephan Gilmore, the amazing resurgence of him. You have Parsons. You have C. D. Lamb. He's moving into the best receiver conversation a little bit, but there's a lot of fun. And then McCarthy, who was coaching, they have no appendix. What a hero. Right.

No appendix. We were worried all his coaching ability was in the appendix. And now that that's gone, we had no idea what to expect today. But yeah, listen, honestly, when you say they're a top two team, I assume you're putting the 49ers at number one, but they're still like 25 points better than the Cowboys and the Eagles. So I can't get too excited about the Vegas Super Bowl. They're still in the NFC, so it's top. The NFC, I have no idea who the best team, but good luck.

Well, one of the great things for you is, let's say somehow you get the NFC East, you'd be the two seed in less than nine or something weird happens. But you'll be playing a soon to be awful seven seed in the NFC, right? If you end up the five seed and you're playing the worst champion, the division.

Champ- The NFC South?

Yeah. Yeah, that team is going to be terrible, too. So you at least know that round one, you're probably going to be favored by between eight to 11 points. So I think you're in a nice spot. Yeah. Warren Sharp, our friend who's on the Friday podcast with House, who helped me out, by the way, with my fan duo, same game, Parlay. That was 13-1 when I made it, but I hit it 11-1 today. That was a monster. He was pro-James Cook. James Cook was a beast. So thank you, Warren Sharp. But he had a tweet. The Cowboys have scored 17 plus first half points in seven straight games. Only one other team in the last 60 years has accomplished that feat, the 2007 Patriots. That's not nothing.

Yeah.

They did well, right? Seven straight. Well, we made it to the Super Bowl. We had to lead with two minutes to go. We had five giants had to hold on the helmet catch to prevent us from winning the Super Bowl. That's fine.

No, it's great. Honestly, you said I've been through a lot with this team. And there were years where we'd go 11 games without scoring a touchdown or a point on the first drive or most of the.

First quarter. You know what? I don't like your demeanor. I don't like your.

Demeanor right now.

I know. You're throwing water. You're throwing water on... I know what you're up to. You're trying not to be too excited, but deep down- I know you have 40 text today where you were having fucking orgasms all over the place. More than that. Just admit it. Just admit you're orgasmic right now.

Okay, I'm orgasmic, but we're still going to get a five C. I don't see any way around it. I don't see it.

Well, what do we have for the rest of the Philly games? What are we looking at?

Phillies are at Seattle next week. I think it's a night game. And then they have the giants twice in Arizona once. They're at least three and one. Probably four and a no against Drew Lock. Who knows?

Well, Seattle, they need that game. They're in a swoon right now. I don't know what to.

Think with that team, honestly.

Yeah, they hung around against the Niners for about, what, 50 minutes? Just long enough to make you worried about your money line, part of they had the Niners in or the teaser. But then it.

Was- Danny Kelly was on Ringerwise, guys. He's a Seattle fan. I think they're amongst the most frustrating team now if you're a fan of that. Frustrating and you thought Gino Smith was going to enter the five top seven quarterbacks in 2023. He tailed off. Even so, you got a decent team. Metcalfe gets thrown... I think he has four or five personal fouls. I have him on my fantasy team, and just the negative yards are crazy with these personal fouls. He got.

Kicked out of there. He's like the Draymond Green of the NFL.

Yeah, but then he likes... He scored last week against the Cowboys like, Oh, that should be happening. Well, he scored today. This should happen all the time. So they're frustrating and they're probably, I don't know, I think they might be the odd man out here, right?

Yeah, you want to do that.

I had a- I don't know. Let's do all the six and seven schedules the rest of the year in the NFC and all the seven and six for the AFC.

Well, how many teams do you think are seven and six or six and seven? Top of your head.

Is it eight?

Thirteen. Oh, it is? In both conferences. Yeah. Oh, wow. 7 and 6 or 6 and 7. There are 13 teams with one of those two records. I'm counting the Packers because whatever happens to them unless they tie. Right. So right now in the NFC, we have Niners, Eagles, Lions, then the crappy NFC South team. Those are our top four. Dallas or Philly is the five seat. And then it goes, right now, Minnesota would be in the playoffs at 7 and six and Green Bay 6 and six probably beat the giants tomorrow. And then we have Seattle at six and 7:00, the Rams at six and seven, the Saints in Atlanta at six and 7:00. And then the very frisky, starting to have ideas, Chicago bears at five and 8:00 saying, Why not us? Chicago, rest of the way. At Cleveland next week, home for Arizona, home for Atlanta at Green Bay potentially could control some destiny. A bunch of the teams play each other. So next week, Green Bay and Tampa are playing each other out of teams that are in this mix. But everything's wide open. And then it gets really good at the end of the year because we got Green Bay against Chicago and we have New Orleans against Atlanta.

So they will lose or leave towns match that weekend. Yeah.

I thought they would wise enough. They had that buy. And I thought someone in the organization would look at their schedule and the draft order and say, Wait a minute. What the hell are we doing? We have all this time off. Let's figure out a way that we could lose. Sure, we're going to get the Panthers pick. They're a number one worst with a bullet, but we could get the third pick, too. But they just keep winning and it's making it interesting. Now it's a decision for the bears or like you were saying earlier, or they can play posum even if they haven't made a decision with the Justin Fields thing. I think they should- Crazy.

Well, I want to talk about the Fields thing, but I think they should go for it. I bet on the bears plus three today. I thought that line should have been even lower. They're in the field. I tweeted about it, and not everybody thought that it was a serious tweet, but I've been really impressed by Fields the last five weeks. I don't know. I know Schroeder and I talked about it a little on Thursday. There's a lot of reasons to not bring him back for year four and just take a rookie. She's basically buying three extra years of rookie cap salary instead of having to pay whatever. But we watched football every Sunday and fields. He moves around. He's confident. He's making throws downfield way better than he did in the first two and a half years of his career. And I think there's a real poise to him now. I think he's confident in the team. I thought he killed the lions today. He was good. He ended up 223 passing, 12 for 58 rushing, no turnovers, which was huge. And the team at least has an identity. And then defensively, they're way better than you would have thought for a team that seemed like they made a couple of dump trades there in the second month of the season.

I think they're good. For the bad teams, I think they're like a good bad team.

I think they're good. I know we're going to do this for everyone. At Browns versus Cardinals versus Falcons at Packers, they're either favored or what? Three-point underdog for any of those? They can win all those games. And by the way, I know this doesn't work because of the salary structure and everything. But is it the worst thing in the world to have two quarterbacks? Everybody has a quarterback hurt by week three. If we can make that work, the bears wouldn't be able to make it work because of the bears. But that could be a consideration, too. But they're fun.

The other piece of this, everybody's thinking, well, would they keep Fields and trade the PIC?

What.

Is Fieldsworth? And is that value going up from other teams that watch this? When there's 12 teams that have a QB in the League? I'll tell you this, he's way better than anybody that passed about over the last four years. And you can design a certain type of team around him. And I think the bears have stumbled into an identity over the last few weeks. I first noticed that that first Detroit game when they almost foiled all the money that we all had on the Detroit line of teasers, and it felt like, Oh, what's Detroit doing? But at the same time, it just felt like the bears also look good, what's happening here? And then it just kept going week after week. They were excellent today. And then on the flip side, you have the Lions. They look great. They look like a Super Bowl contender. They lose 38 to six to Baltimore. They beat Vegas by 12 right before McDaniels gets fired. They barely beat the Chargers by three. And the Chargers move the ball and then the whole game score 38 points. They barely beat Chicago in that game we mentioned that they came from behind and scored 17 points.

Yeah, down 12 but four minutes left.

Lose to Green Bay pretty convincingly. They barely beat the Saints and then they lose to Chicago. But what's interesting here is their last four, home Denver, who's playing well, at Minnesota, at Dallas, home Minnesota. And Green Bay is suddenly lurking behind them two back, but with a legitimate chance to maybe grab the division because Green Bay the rest of the way, they have Tampa this week, at Carolina, at Minnesota, Home Chicago. It's not insane to think that they could win the division, right? They're playing the giants tomorrow night. I'm assuming they win that.

I have the giants winning that game. But you know better than I would. We're going to get to your week. So whatever you think happens this week is probably what's going to happen. I just feel that one of these quarterbacks that we've turned the corner on and Jordan Love look great last week.

But Josh Dobbs, we can't get him out of there fast enough now, and neither could the coach. So he's gone. But we love them. We love them. So the Jordan Loves, the Jake Brownings, who else am I thinking of? Some of the- Minchie. It's going to mention you. I'm just trying to think of someone in the last couple of weeks. Flacko, one or two or all these guys is going to disappoint us. The Lions can't get a stop, though. You're right. They cannot get a stop when they need it.

Yeah. The Bear's rush 30 for 142 against them today. And just week after week, teams are moving the ball on them. And then there's the golf piece of it, too. Like today, he was 20 for 35 for 161, two picks, took four sacks, and he's looking a little more like COVID era first year golf than the guy. We did this segment what, five weeks ago on The Pod? Because Jared Goff, one of the best seven quarterbacks in the League, and he's been in a tail spin since-.

He's got everyone healthy, too. It doesn't make sense. Both his running backs are clean and James and Williams should be good to go, right? I don't understand it.

The Norths, plural, have become the most interesting region in the two conferences. They have North, NFC North. We've had teams hopping over each other, teams looking like they're done, teams going backwards. What happened to Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh basically sets a record by losing the two teams that were eight games below 500 or back to back weeks. It had to happen for.

Like 70 years. Sorry for your win, by the way. I forgot to tell you. I forgot to send my.

Condolences and hatred. I was so upset. I was at the Vegas, the semifinal. I looked down and we're up 14 to three. And my dad's like, My dad's just texted me, WTF? My dad's using modern acronyms. Let's take a break. I want to talk about Bill's Chiefs. So the game of the day, I think, was Bill's which was the, Does anyone actually want to win this bull? And the Chiefs were incredibly upset after the game and during the game because my home is through a tantrum because of the Cedars-Tony being off sides, Kelsey catches a long pass, throws it backwards. It would have been one of the coolest plays.

Perfect play.

And also a new way for the Buffalo Bills to lose a must-win game. I don't think they've had that one on the bingo card yet. And then it gets called and they show the replay. And Tony is so far off sides that you can't even see the football on the camera that's dead even with it. He's basically standing next to the defensive ends. And then after the game, my home is the need to read. And they're like, That's ridiculous. That's never called. They always tell the guy. It's like, Tony's just looking straight ahead. He never looks at the ref. It's a huge fuck up. He already did this a couple of weeks ago. And I thought it was beneath them the way they about this. It was like, He was outside. Sorry. We have rules. One of the rules is you're not allowed to line up on the defensive side of the ball and then make a big play. So I couldn't believe they reacted like that.

I feel bad saying this, and I'll take it back if he comes up tomorrow as a press conference and says, I lost my cool. We got to get focused for the remainder of the season. The Bulls played great and all that stuff. But I lost a little respect for Patrick to Holmes. And I love that guy. I talk about him as a generational quarterback like everybody else does. But during the postgame handshake with Josh, like that's one of the worst calls I've ever seen. All those things you said were true. They do call that. They called it twice last year. They call it 11 times this year. So they definitely call that. And the other thing is, the Holmeses benefited from a bunch of questionable calls over the years. So that's going to happen. And guess what? If he's that far off, it's Cedarius Tony. He screws up in every single way. He drops all your big passes. You should know, if they called him for being off sides, then he was off sides. You're right. You couldn't see the ball. The refs couldn't see the ball, so they had.

To do that. I don't know. They got mad in the postgame press conference that made that point. They're like, We couldn't even see the football who was so far off sides.

Could this be? I feel like as far as maybe they're not a dynasty, the Chiefs, but as far as a team that's close to being a dynasty, they were pretty likable. Everybody hates your team. Everybody hates my team when they were dynasties. The Chiefs, I feel like, avoid that.

Stigma a lot. Avoid it, past tense.

Avoid it between the Taylor Swipp stuff and if he's going to become a Crybaby, it puts him in a different territory, I think.

We're at the 20-minute mark. I'm going to bring basketball into this.

Good. Thanks for waiting.

Yeah. Last year I was doing this whole thing about how Curry and the Homes were like spirit animals during the 2022 finals. Then Homes last year, it's like those guys are so great. They all beat everybody else. This year, the Warriors and the Chiefs are spirit animals in a different way. They just blow fucking dumb ass games in the last five minutes. The Warriors, they've lost six games exactly like how the Chiefs lost today. They lost one to OKC on Friday night. Draymond Fowes, Ched, Holmgren on a three. He makes three. He goes to OT, they lose. Same play a month ago, and Ched hits the three because they don't foul. They can't pull their heads out of their ass. And you look back at the Chiefs, the Chiefs are eight and five. And it feels like they could be like 11 and one. Yeah. Like the Valdez-Scantling play and then this game, and it's just-.

It's not the refs. It's not the refs. It's not the refs. It's all the refs. Yeah, I know. Catch some balls, redirect your anger. I don't get it at all with them.

It was a great win for Buffalo, and it was also the most Buffalo win of all time. I was texting with our friend, Aarau Hawani, during it, who's a diehard Buffalo. Because I was going nuts because we'll talk about the week I had in a second, but I needed Buffalo. I had Buffalo in the Tees. I had them a million dollar-6. I had them in our Picks pool, and they get the ball. So basically, they're up 14-0 in late in the second quarter. And it looks like their crews and Alan throws a pick, Chiefs come down, it's 14-7 half time. It's like, all right. 10-play drive to start the second half, settle for a field goal, 17-7. Casey immediately gets a TD. Buffalo, three and out. Casey, Fumbles on their own, 42. This is it. Buffalo is going to put it away. Nope, they go 3-0 for minus 8. Casey gets the ball back, field goal, 17-17. Buffalo, six and out. Here comes the homes, they're going to win. Guess what? Chiefs, three and out. Atypical for them. That looked like one of those six minutes left, they're going to win the game. No. Buffalo gets ball back, 12-play drive.

But if you look at the last seven plays they ran on the drive, they went for five yards total. They go first down, nothing. Second down, nothing. Third down, incomplete PI. They get the five-yard extension. Now it's 2:12 left. Two-minute warning is coming up. Casey has two timeouts left. The bills are up three. Run the ball. Get to the two-minute warning. This is not rocket science. Just run the ball. Just take a two-minute warning or make the cheap season time out. Now they throw this weird quick screen to dig. He drops it. Cloud stops. Second down. Oh, let's go for a long pass down the sidelines that has a 10 % chance. Now, incomplete. Oh, wait, the clock isn't at the two-minute warning yet.

Right.

Now they have to run a third play. Incomplete. Now we're at the two-minute warning. Now they kick a field goal. It was-.

And while this is all going on, every Tasteless Sean McDermott 9/11 joke is just flooding.

Twitter.

Just because of that.

Crazy speech from four years ago. He brought it on himself. Yeah, he brought it on himself.

Yeah. You want to give the homes two timeouts and two minutes left? Also- Go.

Ahead and take it. -in that seven-play stretch, Davis is wide open in the middle of the field. And Allen doesn't see him and throws it to the left, which is the third time this year where he just completely missed Davis.

Well, that might be PTSD from last week. I mean, I guess the Eagles when they couldn't turn the right way.

They end up only up three. The Cheets get the ball back with just about two minutes left and they start driving down there at midfield. Then the Tony play flips the momentum back. But if you're a Buffalo fan and you're watching that, you're like, If we lose this game, I'm not following sports again. You lose this game on a lateral to Tony? That's how you lose after the 13 seconds game? But anyway.

Because the numbers were perfect and you pointed out you were all over James Cook. But that's exactly the game you need out of James Cook to win. When they lose, it's because Josh Allen is doing too much and he has to turn the ball over, he fumbles, throws. I know he had interception today. But Cook had what? A hundred and thirty, 141 combined yards? That's it, man. That's the game plan. Let that ride. And he still can't beat the Chiefs, but they held on and you can make an argument. They're the best team in the AFC, and they might not make the playoffs.

Right now, they're 11th in the AFC with all the playoff tie breakers. They're not even eighth, ninth, or 10th.

The committee will vote them in, though, right? The committee will tie.

They might, actually. Gabe, Dave, is zero points fantasy-wise. I put up a good say. Diggs, four for 24. And for this season, 993 yards. He's 90 a thousand yet. He's not at 100-yard game since week six. And I forgot he was on the field for 30-minute stretches. Right. Right. And then you watch McDermott. And that 9-11 thing was honestly crazy. I know it was a couple of years ago, but I almost thought that was like an onion story.

Well, that's crazy, too. It didn't come out. It was like 2019 and then came out like Tuesday.

Well, and also why did it come out? It's another thing you think like, Oh, they're setting them up. So they're seven and six. They're hanging around. And I thought they were going to win or come close. I thought it was going to be a one score game. They're the ball for 35, 24. And yet I almost feel worse about them because they're so sloppy. And it's like this team, even if they made the playoffs, what are they going to do?

But everything is relative. What did you see in the AFC that you liked? I know you didn't love the Ravens. We're all calling them frauds on different text chains and everything. So they didn't lose ground at all. But in terms of optics, I don't think they did either.

Yeah, that's Buffalo's best case. Well, what do you like? Right. I like Miami the most, and I thought that way we could go. And I think if they could just get to the playoffs, I think that's the team to beat. Because if he can somehow get the one seed, which they have a really good chance and two games at home, they're great at home. And then you play the Super Bowl and the Dome, like I could just... That seems like- Can I.

Tell you how worried I am that Miami is about to kill us probably on our 20th anniversary of the time they killed us on a three-team teaser on a Monday with a win? Now they're going to kill us with a loss against Tennessee who hasn't scored 30 points in two years. I think I looked it up. I'm a little worried about this teaser coming through.

For the newer listeners in 2004, we won so many straight weeks of three-team teases that I wrote a piece about it on page two, which I think made you mad. But then we kept winning after that and everything crested with the Pat. So we're unbeatable that year and then ended up winning the Super Bowl. And they were the last piece on a Monday night. It was like week 15 or week 16.

I can remember the uniform. Everything.

Yeah. And they were up, I think they're up 10 or 11 with four minutes left and Miami scores. And then, braided, it was like a turnover touchdown or some insane touchdown also Miami won. And we're like, That's it. This is how the greatest gambling streak of all time ends with the dumbest? And we still care. Forget it.

That's it. We can't quit three team teasers either.

No, I did a couple today, to be honest. You mentioned the Ravens. Ram's Ravens was another really fun game. I did one of these for a million dollar picks. I bet that I really feel like they should name after you. They should call it the Sal Special or the Cuz Classic or something like that. You were the first one who was really honed it on the first half and then the game parlay that Fandle has. And you're dealing with the Stealers. And there was one week where it was like 11 to 1 or 12 to 1, and we hopped on it and the odds started to drop them. But I had for a million dollar picks Thursday, rams to win the first half, Ravens to win the game. And it was my most exciting bet of 2023. It was for three and a half hours. The first half, the rams that needed a late field goal to get, we had to hold off the Ravens. I'm like, Oh, my God. I can't believe. Now I still have to win the game. And it goes into overtime. And then- What did you get?

Seven to one?

Yeah, plus 700. And then I get a pump return OT to win it, which I think is the most exciting playing football for the overtime plant return touchdown. Is that the number one play most exciting?

I think so.

I think it is.

In defense or in honor of the great Frank Whitechek, who passed away today at that Music City Miracles- I'm saying.

The best normal play. Yeah, you could have. Yeah.

Did you notice? I felt like they were three blocks in the back on that play. You just saw some lineman going flying like they were all riding in the same wave. Like, Oh, they're going to... What? No, flag, nothing. Oh, he already did his flip. That's a touchdown, 37, 31.

Yeah, the rest had to catch a six o'clock plane. I guess it was a clutch win for Lamar, who was a little up and down during the game, but he had a really nice drive at the end. My big take, Lamar was 24, 43, 316, three touchdowns, one pick.

And he was a little bit of a- And about the same stats. Yeah. Stafford and Lamar are almost exactly the same.

My big takeaway from that game? I think the RAMs are good. I really do. I took the RAMs plus seven and a half. I teased them in real life. And then I had that first half game bet. But in general, I think our offense is legit. Out of all those teams below the San Francisco, Dallas, Philly, Clump, I think they might be my favorite.

Yeah.

I mean- If you're telling me they're going to be healthy when we get to January. But they can Cups a star. Pook is a star. This Kieran Williams is a fucking stud. He's not blazing fast, but he's always making the first guy miss. He's always falling forward. And Stafford looks good. I just like their team.

This team was in salary cap hell. I picked them to be the worst in the League. I'm like, They don't care. They're rebuilding. Sean McVeigh heard his over-under was six and a half, and he was like, Oh, boy. And I think it was like, Oh.

Boy.

That's a little high thing. And then they had two players emerge. When do you have two offensive players emerge? Like Ruki, right? Puku Nukua for the first half, and now he's still great. Then Kieran Williams, like you said, for the last six weeks, that's phenomenal. And Stafford hasn't lost a step. He came in with a spine injury to start the season. There was so much stacked against this team, and they're right in the thick of it. I think the problem is, I want to go over on schedule. They're at San Francisco the last week. All winnable games up until then, they have to hope that doesn't mean anything for San Francisco.

Well, their next three, Home Washington, Home New Orleans, New York giants, and then at San Francisco in a game.

Who knows?

If I had to pick, after you get San Francisco, Philly, Detroit, Dallas, and then the NFC South, whoever that is, I think my two favorites are Green Bay and the Rams and probably the Bears, I think, are the ones that feel like they're at least the arrows pointing up. But the RAM is one injury, maybe it falls apart. But I.

Just- That's where you want to see in there or you think it's.

The best? I'm just thinking that they're teams like if you're the two seed, like if Dallas is the two seed, it's like, Congratulations, you're the two seed. You're playing the RAMs. You're pausing on that one first, but that's not that I'd want to see if they're healthy.

We beat them up already, but- I know you did. Yeah, I know.

Didn't you beat them up with Bret Rippen, though, wasn't it? Was it the full, the Rams thing? Yeah, it was a grand.

Yes. So you're saying get the Vikings out of there is basically what you're saying, right? Vikings and Seattle go away.

We have a decent chance to- I would say, Vikings, Seattle, and any two of the NFC South teams.

Oh, yeah. They have to. Those teams have to go. But yeah, the Vikings are, like I said, we love Dobbs. Not only he almost killed Justin Jefferson. It was another thing. They had to take him out.

That was one of the hardest hits of the year. That wasn't to the head. That was an immediate, Oh, no. Nfc South, we have a three-way, six-and-seven tie. We have the NFC South that we deserve. This is why you hate this division with every part of your body. Today we had the Panther Saints where Cargo's 26 attempts for 110 yards. I was going against them in one of my fantasy leagues. It was the third quarter and he was minus 0.15, and it was the second half of the game.

At one point, he was 12 for 17 for 37 yards. And I watched with our friend, Brad, he went nuts. That's like Air Force numbers or something. You don't ever see that. Right.

Two hundred and seven yards total for them. And they won by because the Panthers offense is so bad and we don't talk about them. Meanwhile, Bucks, Falcons was a much better game. And once again, Atlanta played a game that came down to the very end.

Are you crying?

I had a hiccup. Ritter threw for 347 but made the one dumb mistake that he always makes. But Mayfield, who sucked all game, and then he put together a nice drive and ends up winning the game. Mayfield now is six and 7. He's throwing for 2,790 yards. He's got 18 touchdowns and eight picks. I don't think he's going to come back player of the year, but this was a guy who got waved a year ago.

Yeah. He's on the money. You pointed out a couple of weeks ago there's going to always be that play to Mike Evans. And Mike Evans was.

Barely out of.

The house. He was furious at it. And I like that part of it too, that they're mad that they're not getting it done. Yeah, look, you may... We have that to win the NFC South. We put a substantial amount of money on it. And House is on Ring of the Wise guys. House is on Ring of the Wise guys this morning picking the fall guy. I said, House, we have to... Oh, no, he picked the Panthers. I said, We have to root for the Saints at some point. We have this bet. We have to. And so it worked out for us today, except I think the best team in that division is in the driver's seating that division right now. Buccaneers, six and seven.

Best team almost by default. They seem like they're probably the relatively healthiest of the group. But- Maybe, yeah. -really, really strange. And then you go on the AFC side where we have this seven and six log jam that we mentioned earlier. And one of the teams that really blew it today was the Texans, who they lose to the jets. Now, I watched Ringer, Wise Guys this morning, and how it's got me excited for a jets underdog, Carly, and then somebody else like the Broncos, and I put them together as five to one. So I ended up jumping in on that.

I thought it was a rat line. I thought that nobody should give the jets three points, only three points. I don't care where the game is being played.

I like the jets to at least cover just because I felt like Houston didn't have Tank Del, who isn't a household name. But if you watch The Texans on Sundays, he makes two giant plays a game. They don't have Schultz either. And then you look at the jets, some of their past defense stats, they're a nightmare to throw against. Nobody can do it. So it was like, well, how the Texans then it's like pouring rain. By the way, maybe 25,000 people at that game, should they go on some watch list?

What do you mean?

You're driving in New Jersey to watch The Texans play the jets in the pouring rain. I just feel like we should get everybody's IDs.

For that. Very interesting.

Just put that in some database. We should just follow some of these people.

Yeah, Fireman Edge would be in a straight jacket at this point.

I just don't understand it.

The only thing that bothered me about picking the jets, I like that I'm in that spot too. But I stayed away, I thought it was a rat. We rarely get a glimpse inside the clubhouse. Except if you believe to be true, what happened this week with Zach Wilson basically saying, I don't know if I want to be quarterback at this team. Right. Wow.

That's pretty freaking telling. Like if you were asking Harrison to do something and he wasn't sure, Harrison's not. Yeah, exactly. Zach Wilson is like 24 years old. I don't know if I believe that. I guess it's not true. I don't know if I believe that. I just feel like you can't be a professional athlete. I got to say, he was pretty good in the game. Sure. I thought that was one of the better Zach Wilson games, especially in the second half. He came on. He's certainly better than any Patriot quarterback as of this year. Houston had 10 first downs in 135 yards total and gave up five sacks, and it felt worse than that. The other team that really blew it and is probably done for the year is the Chargers.

Oh, yeah.

Herbert hurts his finger, but they're officially done.

Well, I think their coach is officially official. It might be in a few months. Tomorrow? Yeah. I think so. I mean- It would.

Have made sense four weeks ago.

Would have made more sense a month ago. And now I don't know if they're letting them stick around for the East and Stick era, East and Stick takes him through the last four games.

I'm going to double down on my Justin Herbert check, which I've enjoyed all year. How he's the nerd hero and the results aren't actually there. Justin Herbert, now 30 and 32 for his career. I was thinking if he was a wrestler, his nickname could be Justin 500. Here he is, Justin 500. He's just a 500 quarterback. He's 62 game sample size at this point. Kyle, turn the TikTok camera on. If you're the Chargers, would you trade Justin Herbert for the first pick in the draft?

I think I might. I think I might. Because I think, well, the problem is you talk about draft stock going up or down this year. Fields went up. Herbert's went way down. Herbert was a top five quarterback. Do you put him in the top 10? In fantasy, do you draft him in the top 12 rounds in a snake draft?

I think he became unstardable three weeks ago. But he lost Mike Williams. Their offensive line got decimated. He's got a terrible coaching staff. He's got no home field advantage. I was just thinking if Chicago is the first pick from Carolina, and they're deciding, do we keep Fields? Do we take Caleb Williams? And then the.

Chargers call. Let's do your team. Let's do the Patreons. Do you do it?

No, but let's say the chargers call and say, We'll trade your Herbert right now for the first pick.

Yeah.

But you have five hours to decide because we don't want it to leak. And on the chargers like, is like, Is Caleb Williams going to be better than what Justin Herbert theoretically is right now? Well, what.

Are you worried about if you're the chargers? Losing fans? Yeah, do it.

That's fine. That's part of what I thought about. We live in LA. He's had no impact on LA at all whatsoever, even though he's a top seven quarterback and if they got Caleb Williams, so at least you went to USC and maybe that's somebody you can sell better. Herbert's already on his next contract. I guess that would make the trade that I have some dead cap. I understand it's not like basketball. But I did wonder, if you're the chargers, would you rather just reboot and turn him into somebody like Caleb Williams? My instinct would be no, but it's at least a discussion where it wasn't four weeks ago. I'm sure.

There's- I bet many of the owners would. I think Mark Davis would. If you had Justin Herbert and he was an LA owner, which he was, I don't know how they screwed that up, I think he would send them off like, Yeah, we need new blood in there.

Well, the reason I thought of it was because I was wondering if the Pats got the second pick and the chargers of Drake May, would they call the Pats like, What do you think? Would the Pats do it? Would Bellachick jump in? I would talk myself. All the Justin 500 jokes. It's like, The patron of that Justin. I'm like, I'm in, baby. You look at the advanced stats. This guy is unbelievable. Watch the 22-minute tape. Great decisions. I would flip so fast.

Of course you would, because you have max 230. I don't know if I did the winning percentage right.

I.

Might be close. No, it's less than that. It's 170.

Can we bring in Sarudy for a time-breaker on this? Yeah, let's hear it. Sarudy, the chargers call the bears, and they say you have 5 hours to decide Herbert for the number one pick. Is this a realistic scenario? Do we sound insane?

I think you're insane. I think you're insane. Because Herbert, these.

Two.

Guys like May and.

Especially Caleb's draft stock have gone down. They're not sure things. Herbert, I.

Think there's a lot of guys that they can unlock him and figure this thing out. So I think you're insane.

Okay.

Kylan Moore was supposed to make him better. I know there's a lot of other stuff going on around him.

Yeah. He can't.

Overcome Brandon Staley. He can't. I don't know if anybody can. Yeah.

All right. Thanks, Saruddy. I think Saruddy is right. But I think you still have the meeting. And then you say, you know what? We'll bring in a new coach. Let's look at this. Let's look at this. Mike Williams will be back. We'll use our top seven pick on another right tackle or another good receiver. I mean, one of the problems is it seems like they missed on Quentin Johnson. They spent their first run pick on a receiver. It doesn't do anything.

I think this was his first decent game, wasn't it? I'm not even sure what did he do? Because I think I sat him in that. Miraculously, I still have him in a League. But is part of this they feel bad because the doctor almost killed them a few years ago?

No, the doctor almost killed Tyra Taylor.

Oh, Tyra Taylor. That's right. Oh, okay.

Yeah. What am I thinking? The doctor killed Tyra Taylor, so just the herald to play.

Interesting. Okay.

That was a story I heard. I don't know.

If it's true.

Okay, you're right. Well, two more questions, but let's take a break. Two leftover things for today. Jake Browning's last two weeks, he's 50 for 61 with 629 yards, three touchdowns at a pick, and looks really competent. Is him being this year's purdy, at least in play? Can we at least open the door for that to be a possibility or you're not ready yet?

Yeah, of course, because of the weapons, I think. And they have another Chase who I don't even know about, Chase Brown. That's not Jamar Chase. That's Chase Brown. Three receptions, 80 yards, and a touchdown. But yeah, the foundation's there offensively, right?

Chase Brown, who had a twin brother playing in the Cowboy Singles game.

Who I didn't know about. Right. Yeah. Isn't that great? Yeah. So there you go. Yeah, I think this guy, this is another one, another weird seven seed that I think I'd be excited about as a fan.

Yeah, I'm with you. So right now it's Cleveland at eight and five. They're the five seed. And then we got the way the playoffs shake out. It's Pittsburgh and Indianapolis. We get the six and seven because of all the dumb tie breakers. Houston, Denver, St. Seed, Buffalo behind them. If the AFC playoff started today, it would be Miami versus Indianapolis, Kansas City versus Pittsburgh, and Jacksonville versus Cleveland. My guess is there is no chance in hell, Pittsburgh will end up being one of the seven playoff teams with pitch Trubiski. There's no chance. It's a miracle that that team is seven and six cross them off, probably cross Indy off too.

They play each other. They play each other this week. So we.

Could call that work- Yeah, that'll make that easy. And then Cleveland, Buffalo, St. See, Denver, three of those four.

You have Houston in there?

You have Houston in there? I'm taking Houston out. Really? I don't think they have it. Yeah. I think that Tankdale thing was a deal breaker for them. They were a good, bad team to some degree. Denver is the team. Titan's twice, though. Denver's come on strong. So Houston's got Tennessee, at home Cleveland, Tennessee again in Indianapolis. Denver, though, at Detroit, perfect time to catch them. Home New England, home chargers at Vegas. I could see them winning all of those.

Yeah.

You're getting the charges with an interim coach, probably tanking. And how long is her bird out? Do we know?

I don't think they know. It's a finger injury, right?

And now.

From.

Southern California, Justin 500.

Justin 500? What is he doing? He's retreating. He's retreating it. He took himself out of bounds for no reason.

He won last week, which means he has to lose this week because he is Justin 500.

Well, for a while, they had no touchdown for two weeks, right? It looks like it was going to be. Yeah.

Since his schedule is enticing where they got the home Minnesota at Pittsburgh for the next two. So since he could be 9:00 and 6:00 heading into at KC in week 17, which is no longer a daunting game. It's like, Oh, no, I got to play at Kansas City. Great. And I think 20 teams in the League could go in there and have that be a three-point game with five minutes left.

And what's great and terrible about this year is that last game, week 18, they play the Browns. And it's going to be, Browns are going to be on their third quarterback, which we like, Flacko, I think. And then, Bengals are going to be on their second. And it could mean something to both.

I was thinking with the North, we were talking about how fun the Norths are. The AFC North we've had how many Cleveland starting quarterbacks at this point? Flacko?

This year?

Yeah. D-t-r- D-T-R. Pj Walker. D-s-t. Pj Walker. And then, Dashan. They've had four starting quarterbacks, right? Pittsburgh's had two. Baltimore's had one and then Cincinnati's had two. They've had nine starting quarterbacks. But the NFC South, Atlanta's had two. New Orleans has had two or three, at least two, maybe three. Did Tasun have ever start a game?

Every other. I don't think he really.

Starts now. So there's two. Carolina started Dalton that week, so they've had two. And the only one who's played the whole year is Baker. So between those two divisions, we've had 16 starting quarterbacks plus Tason Hill.

I wonder what... Back to the AFC North, nine starting quarterbacks, if three made the playoffs, they won't. But if three made the playoffs, that would be spectacular. That could never have happened before with.

Nine starting quarterbacks. I think three are probably going to make the playoffs.

No. Oh, but not the Stealers.

No, Stealers. Yeah, I think the other three might make it.

I'm excited.

Because Buffalo, I just don't see Buffalo, they're home for your team this week at the Chargers, home to England, at Miami. That feels like two losses. That puts them at nine and eight. I don't know if that's good enough.

I can't believe we're.

Saying this. And they lose time breakers. Yeah.

Like any of these other teams went into Kansas City. We're like, Yeah, they're going to lose. All these teams we're talking about. We knew the bills would make this close.

The only other one we didn't mention was the Browns, which... Flacko, can you win Come Back Player of the year if you haven't been good for five years? What's the ruling on that? Does he retroactively win the 2019 Come Back Player of the Year? He's the 2023? How do you do that? And why is he better than he was five years ago?

I don't know why. It doesn't make any sense. They don't have anyone really. But it'd be one case if, well, PJ Walker was dropped, right? If either of those guys would be scrambleers in the pocket, I didn't see that out of them. It was such a no-brainer leaving Flacko and who has connections with these receivers. I saw a trend. A lot of the trends I read don't matter. It was like nine and one against the spread in Cleveland. And I was like, Oh, that mad. I don't care if that was a decade ago. Yeah, that's something. Yeah, that's pretty good. He's a little bit scary. I wouldn't want to see him.

In the playoffs. I watched the whole game because I had the Browns. I had the Browns minus $300 million dollar picks, and then I had them as lower lines for everything else. There were four throws where there was just a guy wide open. He threw a grounder. He sold it over the head. It was probably like one-and-a-quarter. But other than that, he was pretty good. He had that great fourth and three throw for the touchdown. And the whole team was so fired up. It seems like the team loves him, which is half the battle with this stuff. I don't know. That was one of my favorite picks because I thought that defense would chase down Trevor Lawrence. They had some offensive line issues. Then the offensive line issues got worse as the game went along. And yet Jacksonville is still almost covered.

I was excited. I locked up bet in Friday, and so did you, probably at minus three. I was excited when it went to one and a half with the starter, Lawrence.

Right. So the Jags are down 10. Browns kick a field goal. There's like a minute 50 left, something like that. And the Browns are driving. They can't get the last first down field goal. And I'm like, Motherfucker. I'm having this great million dollar Picks Day. Here comes the Jags. They're going to get the touchdown to cut it to three. And I'm going to push. What happens? Youtube. I love YouTube. They've been a great partner. L. A. Here, they switched to the.

Chargers game.

I'm like, All right, I'll just put it on YouTube. But it's blacked out on YouTube TV. The game is gone. Stop doing that. There's no more Browns game. And now I'm on ESP and Gamecast, and I have Red Zone up, hoping Red Zone is going to show it. But at the same time, Ram's Ravens is playing. So Red Zone is just showing that. They don't care that the Jags are driving for a cover. This is why they need a gambling channel.

I'll do you one worse. I had the same problem. I went to ESPN. The Jaguars had scored, but it showed that they had the ball at the 13 with a minute 47 left down four. I was like, Oh, shit. What the hell? But they hadn't kicked off yet, right? I was like, Oh. Meanwhile, they did some dumb things, too. They went for two. I don't care what Analytics says anymore, but they're going for two when they scored down 14, and then they're stuck going for two the other way. I'm glad because we covered because of it, but we'll take that. But, guys, take it away for the rest.

Well, they score a touchdown. I think I'm fourth down. And it's now a four-point game, and they're going to kick the PAT and go for the on-side. I'm like, I can't believe I pushed. I had that game perfect. All of a sudden, Lawrence is still on the field. They're showing on Red Zone. Why is he out there? Now they're going for two. I'm like, Oh, my God. I might lose this Brown, this minus three. And then they sack Lawrence. They don't get it. And it's W. And this tied into the day I had today, which was the... Caddy Shaq, the movie that came out 43 years ago. But it has that scene when the Bishop decides to play Bill Marius, the caddy. It's pouring rain. It's like, Should we play another nine? Bill Marius is like, I don't think the hard stuff coming out for a while. And the bishop is just making everything. And then he gets struck by lightning and dies. This was me today with my picks. I literally won everything. I won every million dollar pick. I won every bed in real life. We're in a picks pool that right now I'm 13 and in the picks pool.

The ZFL, Gus has... Nobody's ever gone undefeated for a week. And now I'm going to tomorrow, which I think I'm going to stay with. I'm not going to change my picks, but-.

What do you? I got to know what you have.

Well, I've gone back and forth to Green Bay and the Giants all week. And I'm leaning toward the giants plus six and a half. Yeah, do it. And then the other one, I was just going to lay the points with Miami, but that Miami, Tennessee line sucks. It's like 13 or 14, whatever it is. I have a chance to go and defeat it.

I've been bragging about you to everybody, going 13 and 0. And by the way, if this were the week where they had six buys, you would have been done. You would have been good, right? Right. 13 and 0.

Some of them are not- You mean there's two money and eight games.

But if you would put $100 on the 13 picks by the regular spread, you would have won $447,000. Brother Bright figured this out for us. You would have been a rich man. You would have had $447,000.

Here's what happened. I still won $447,000. What? That's how I went, no.

A million dollar picks. Yeah.

No, no. Million dollar picks. I won almost $2 million. But then I hit that crazy, Bill's parlay for 11:01, the James Cook one. And then the Rams-Ravens line, that one, it was just one of those days. It was like, I mean, how many weeks do we do this where we're like, Oh, it could have been a great day. But then that thing happened. The terrible thing never happened.

We have to find out. It's too early. We have to find out how much it costs Fandle. You gave out an 11-1 same game, Parlay to America?

Yeah, I did.

That's.

Four million.

You think? That's a million bucks. Didn't you do one that was two million? That was far- Yeah. -for the two, for the two, for the two, for the two, for the two. Yeah. For the two? Yeah. For the two? Yeah. For the two?

Yeah. It was the most fun. I had such a good time today, and it made me remember why we like doing this. It brought me back to our roots, the early days when we were winning stuff.

It's great. I knew you had the Cowboys tonight to make it 13 to no. I'm like, oh, he's going to be mad at me. They're going to win by three. And you're.

Going to be pissed off. No, I wasn't worried about the Cowboys. You had all the stats in your favor for that one. It just felt like a perfect matchup. Tomorrow, that giants... I'm with you. It just feels like that line is too high.

You look too good, Jordan Love. Big, barkly game, I think, tomorrow.

It feels like that should be Packers by three and a half. Right now, at least in our league, it's six. But anyway, it was wonderful. I had a great time. You know what, Sal? I put the work in. I hit the rock bottom about five weeks ago. You can roll over or you can roll your sleeves up and get to work. That's what happened.

I think the excitement of the in-season tournament really just rolled over. Let it wash over you and transfer to football.

I think that's what it was.

This is Justin Herbert. Someday he's not going to be Justin 500. He's going to be Justin Herbert again, and he's going to get this. All right, let's do guest lines. Thursday's game is bizarre. You think they'd fire Brandon Staley before this Thursday game? I forgot it was.

A Thursday game.

You're right. Don't they wait?

Yeah, they must have plans.

You think Brandon's like, Hey, could you guys fire me now? I know, in one more week. I mean, he could get his Christmas shopping done.

Do you want to get fired in Vegas? If you got fired after the game, what city would you want to get fired in? London or Vegas?

Well, do you want to be super sad? Because if I'm super sad, I'd want to be in Cleveland.

Is that where you are?

Let's say you're single- The picture of sadness.

You don't have to go straight home. You probably do anyway. So you just want to roll with the sadness in Cleveland.

I'd want to be fired in LA so I could be in my own house. Okay.

Yeah, but you have a house in the 18 cities. You could choose whatever you want.

Well, one of those houses would be great. The Raiders are home. Somehow, even though they played a game that they lost three to nothing, that was only the third game in the last 60 years, which was zero-zero with under three minutes left, I think they have to be favored if Herbert doesn't play. Herbert's not playing, right?

Right. I'll tell you the line suggest he's not playing that.

Okay. I have Raiders favored by one and a half, tick-tock. All right.

I said two, and it's three. A healthy three there, as bad as they were today. Let me ask you this. Is this the first home field advantage that Chargers have? Have you been to that Raiders Stadium? Everybody goes, well, Thursday night is a little weird, I guess. I feel like they could have a lot of fans there, chargers.

You think the chargers would have fans there? The chargers don't have fans at.

Their own games. I know. Did they have a chance here? Because no Raiders fans show up to those games. It's weird.

I think this is an empty... I think this is a sad, maybe 35,000 seats game. Sunday's Marquee game. Your team's involved playing at Buffalo.

We're going to skip the Saturday? You know there's three Saturday games, right? Oh, boy.

Oh, man. I have that in there. I didn't realize it was Saturday. Oh, no.

Three Saturdays.

Jesus. Well, tell me what the games are and I'll just-.

All right, starting off. This is where we get in trouble with the spouses, right? We should be shopping. Thank God for online shopping.

I'm proud about the Saturday games. We called this Don't Get Divorced Saturday. Exactly. That was the running joke from 15 years ago. Yeah.

Every divorce begins with Saturday, football. Yeah, I think so. That's it. But every game is good. We have five, seven, and six teams, and nine and four team. Minnesota at Cincinnati starts it off.

Minnesota at Cincinnati. I had that in the Fairly Watchables initially. Pretty good one. That's going to be Jake... What's his name? Shake Browning?

Browning, again, telling... What's his name?

The guy, Betherick, which is a crappy quarterback? This is like the TNT show where it's like, who you play for? Which a crappy quarterback are you?

nick Mullins. It's nick Mullins.

I thought it was Bethard. Oh, man.

Wrong division.

I have Bengals by two and a half over the Vikings.

I get this one, too. I said four. It's three and a half.

Yeah. It's a lot of respect for Jake Browning.

Yeah.

Do you see, Borough got his family, his suite, treated him.

I saw that.

Yeah. Yeah, it's emotional. Great stuff.

Wait, they cut away to Jake Browning's lady. Is that his wife?

Yeah, that was the thing on social today.

What perverts at CBS?

My God. They really went for it. They gave her a long camera look.

I'm going to get someone to watch this game.

What's the second one?

The second one is 4:30 KIC, I think, Eastern Pittsburgh at Indianapolis. I think we could call this Loser Leaves Town, I think, at this point.

Jesus. I was.

Way off on this.

I had the Colts favorite. I have Colts by one and a half.

You get it. I had the Steeler's favorite. I thought Fandall, Vegas is in love with them. It's Colts by three, so you get it.

I wonder if last week broke to Steeler's because not only is Trubiski just a non-starter. Their new offensive coordinator isn't any better than their old one. Some of the clock management stuff was egregious. And then on top of it, the whole karma thing with TJ-what? Where he clearly got concussed and then they threw him back out there. And at one point, he had tinted shield on his helmet because the lights are bothering him. It's like, What the fuck? Is this 1971? What are you guys doing? So I've carmoized. I don't like this for them.

When Trabiski went back to pass on fourth and two down 21, 18 and threw a bomb that he probably hadn't completed since like, pop water, did you even wait for it to drop or did you just turn around.

And celebrate? Good question. First of all, third and two, they didn't run the ball before the two-minute warning, which I just was stupidified by sitting in my seat watching the Laker game. And then the fourth and two, as soon as I saw the blitz, I was like, oh, my God, the Pets won. Because It what are they? I try to ask Trubiski was going to do anything against that. No way. He's just sending eight guys against him every time. There's no chance. So we did just throw it up for grabs. And it was awful.

When you talk about Justin Herbert, maybe he could be good on that team.

I feel.

Like they have weapons that he could elevate. I don't know. Yeah.

Maybe everyone's right. We've seen shocking QB trades before. When Cutler got traded, that was a bomb, remember?

Yeah. Yeah. Right. I'd like to see them early, though. I don't want to like Matt Ryan going to the cold. You know what I mean? I'd like to.

See- This is an early one, yeah.

Third one is a night game. This is a kick 8:15 PM. Kick Eastern Denver at Detroit. Denver 7 and 6, Detroit 9 and 4.

I had this in the Watchables.

Yeah, we definitely have to watch it now.

It's a huge game. I made picks before all the games today, and this is the one that- Change it. No, I did a second round after the late games, and this was the line that moved the most for me.

I have- It's Detroit.

Yeah, I have lions now by minus three and a half.

That's what I had. It's four and a half.

Initially, I had it at six, and then they stunk again today, so I changed it.

I love the Saturday games. I really do. I think we were robbed this week. I really think the NFL has to run their schedule by us before they spit it out. Why do we have two Monday games? That Dolphins game could have been a Saturday game. We were stuck with that trip to Army Navy. Let's put that on or at night or whatever.

Yeah, they're afraid of the Army-Navy game. I had a lot of TV sports issues this week because the NBA, they have the one game last night. Right? Okay, cool. I get it. You want to focus everyone's attention on this one game. No games today. All right. So you can play one game in two days. What the fuck is going on? And then three weeks later, you're going to have teams playing five games in seven nights? Play games tonight. Then there's 13 games tomorrow. I have no idea why they're not games today.

Well, they think you're a communist if you're watching basketball versus football. So they just want to help people out, why not having that option?

It was a bizarre sports weekend because the O-Tani thing dropped right when there was no sports stuff going on at all. They were in the Army-Navy. And that was a whole reporting fiasco over the weekend. Somebody was saying he was going to the Blue Jays, turned out he had no chance of even... He was in Orange County. I tweeted this. I was pumped that he went to the Dodgers. I want to see him in the playoffs. That's the whole point of having somebody like O-Tani. I want to see him in October. So now at least we know he's going to be in October. They probably not winning the World Series in the Dodgers because they lose every year, but at least we'll see him.

I like it. I'm trying to dig like, We'll see him. We'll see him on TV. But if we want to go to the game, it takes two and a half hours to get out of that lot. So could it be much worse? Sure. Yes, it will be.

Well, not with the $500 million gondola they're doing. Oh, right. That's the idea of all time.

Does that go to Vegas?

It was supposed to be $125 million. Now it's 500 million. But there's a story saying for the listeners, they're putting this gondola almost like a ski lift type situation where you park in East LA and then you ride the gondola and it drops you off right at the Dodge Stadium. This has the potential for more horrible things to happen than I think just about anything. People dangling from the gondlas, people shitting in the gondlas, people trying to live in one of the gondlas. I just can't see how this is ever going to work. And it costs us 500 million.

Yeah, I think we're in trouble.

I don't know. Maybe spend that on the roads.

Justin Herbert can't get out in time.

500 million for the gondlas and Justin 500. For Watchable, I only have one. And I had to squeeze this one in Packer's Bucks. It feels like a fun game. There's real playoff stakes. It's in Green Bay. And I have the Packers favored by four.

All right, you get it. I said 2:00. It's three and a half. Yeah, there's a problem with three competitive Saturday games, right? Now we're left with junk in that early Sunday window. This is the only decent one.

Maybe Sunday is the day to spend some time with.

The family. Yeah, you might be right.

So three and a half for that, huh? Okay.

I have basketball game Sunday.

I had Guest Alliance PTSD when I saw this next one, so I put it in the Fairly Watchables. But I just sawthe chiefs at Pats. I got excited for a split second. I was like, Oh, wait, we're terrible. I have chiefs by seven and a half against the Pats.

Fandel agrees you're terrible because I had eight. It's nine and a half.

They just don't want us to tease it. That's why. I should have known that.

We will. We're going to do it.

Should the chiefs be favored by nine and a half over anyone in the league?

Just this team. I don't know. Where are you- My.

Team has a good defense. My team, every week, gets really hard to move the ball against us.

Yeah. I don't know. I'm trying to think how many points you score because you.

Scored zero against the- But how many points are the Chiefs going to score? They can score more than 20.

Twenty might be enough, right? 20 to 10 gets you right on that number.

Yeah, maybe. Next one for Fairly Watchables, Browns, Bears. This arguably could have been a watchable. It's in Cleveland. Flacko is the starter for the rest of the year. Congrats to him. Justin Fields, the type of quarterback that if you're playing a fast defense, you would want because he can actually get out of trouble, unlike Trevor Lawrence on a high ankle sprint. I have the Browns favored by three and a half.

I said the same thing. It's three. And it's funny. I had this as an automatic win for the Browns and only a three-point favorite. Like weeks ago, when we're looking at the schedule, Oh, my God, they'll get to 10 wins. They still have the bears. Three-point favorite.

49ers at Cardinals is the next one. It's just hard to think that 49ers shouldn't be favored by single digits over any team. And yet, 12 and a half seems too high. I'm going to say 49ers by 11.

Oh, at 11 and a half. It's 13 and a half.

Oh, my God, that's too high.

Would they be to buy? They were decent in that game, Arizona. They lost by 19 the first.

Time they played. There's cheap touchdown potential. That's too high. They don't want you to put them in a three-team team.

Yeah. It's Kyle Murray now. I forget.

The poop fact that has five teams according to my list, starting with Dolphins, jets. This is in Miami. I don't know what happened with the Dolphins schedule during this stretch, but it's really iconic. I just am using the calculus of what the line was this week with Tennessee, which has been between 13 and 14. I'm going to say Dolphins by 13 and a half.

That's a smart way to do it. I said 10 and a half. It is 12 and a half, so you get it. Is this Black Sunday? They beat them on Black Friday at 34 or 13. Have they gotten better? I guess the Jets have gotten better now.

Tim Boyle starting the Black Friday game and one other game and then getting waved was underrated part of the season. I really enjoyed that. Next one is Texins at the Titansans. Man, if this can't get the Texans going, I don't know what will, but I put this on the TikTok sound, Texans one and a half.

Texans one and a half, right? Yeah. Yeah, you still get it. I said, Texas two and a half. Let me check this. Tennessee is one and a half.

Come on.

Let me check this, though.

Does that mean they don't think Strauss is going to play? Yeah, Tennessee one and a half. Wow.

That must be. It must be. They'd play again in a couple of weeks. But we have Tennessee one and a half, 37 and a half. Now, O'Burn, there's high enough that it would suggest Stroud's playing.

Next one, Saints, Giles. I just used what the line was today at the Panthers game in Carolina. And even though it's in New Orleans, I said, Saints by five and a half over the giants.

No, that's cheating using today's lines. I didn't even think of that. I thought it was four and a half. It's six. You get that? Seven to six. You're up seven, six with a few left there.

I'd love to know why they played Derrickar. I'd really love to know. I honestly don't know the answer because I watched We Bet this is a stupid Saint-Stuart and The Division. So I feel like I'm obligated to monitor their gains. And I don't understand why he plays. I don't understand why he's worse than James.

That guy is open. Lave is open. Come on, just hit them. Just connect with that pass. I felt like they're given the Panthers. All right, Panthers. We know you suck. We're going to start a quarterback.

That's had.

Probably two concussions in the last four weeks.

How about it? And a whole bunch of other injuries. Yeah.

They still killed them.

I don't get it. Next one, Falcons at the Panthers. I did it again. I used this week's line as logic. Carolina was favored by getting five and a half against the Saints today, and the Saints and the Falcons are equal. So I'm going to say Falcons by five and a half at Carolina.

Well, I didn't even use that logic. I came up with the same number. It's three. Falcons by three.

Did you guess that correct or you guess.

Five and a half? Yeah, we both had five and a half.

We both had five and a half. Falcons by three?

Yeah. And they beat them already, twenty-four, 10. That's my rat line.

Let's go further. That is the rattiest rat line of the day.

Yeah.

Why isn't that line at least four and a half?

I have no idea. I mean, Atlanta is in a 12-10 game in the fourth quarter or late third quarter every single week. Every single week. So maybe that's it. Maybe they don't... Iwas going to make a case today that Ridder is the worst starting quarterback for division winner in years, but I didn't have the energy to go through it and they hopefully won't win the division.

He throws a nice deep ball and he can run around. He's one of those that's like having a dinner that looks good when it's on the plate and then you eat it and it's not that good. It's like, Oh, my wife made chicken and broccoli and mashed potatoes. That looks delicious. And then it's not good. And it's like, Oh, they were instant mashed potatoes and the chicken's freezer burned. I'm sorry. On paper, it seems like he should be good. And all of his weapons seem like they should be good. Kyle Pits seems like he should be good. And Algeria seems like he should be a batter in red. London is having a good time. Yeah. Bison is super excited. London was awesome today. I was on my bench in every fantasy game.

I had. He's a really bad Red Zone quarterback, isn't he? I feel like as soon as the field changes colors, he gets terrified.

If there was a league where you didn't have to score, but you just got points for anything you did between the 20-yard lines, he would be the best quarterback in the league.

Yeah. The Patriots started that league. They're the only ones in it.

Rams home for Washington. I'm teasing the Rams. I'm just telling you now. I have a Rams by six and a half against Washington. Oh, shit.

I had five and a half. It is, in fact, six and a half. You get it.

I'm teasing them. Damn. I'm telling you right now. I'm teasing the rams. You don't think- I might even do it tomorrow morning.

Now, the commanders screw us every year from weeks 14 to 18 or 17, whatever. You don't think they have another one in them?

No, Robob Ron, he's already packed up his office.

That's it.

He has his printer and a computer, and I don't even think the coffee machine is there anymore. Interesting. All his posters are down. He's done. He's out. All right. But nothing left.

They should be able to pressure how... I don't know. I don't know too, which is an issue.

Somebody went in his office the other day and said, Ron, can I borrow some Scotch tape? I don't have anything. They just took all my.

Stuff out already. He brought it home. Are there Washington fans at this game? You don't care.

At a Rams game?

Yeah.

Why would any Washington fan want to see this team in any location?

Because it's not cold. They don't have to go if you're from the DC area. You don't think a house would be.

This thing? I would want them to get a good pick.

Oh, all right. I forget that you're all on a crazy wavelength. I mean, Sam Howell is fine.

You're so much better than us. You go at least eight, eight every year. You don't know what it's like to have a bad team. You're always good. I'm Jerry Jones as my owner.

That's right. You do a good impression. Everyone complements me on my impression to you. That was pretty damn good. You're doing me there.

Sunday night, we're in Jacksonville.

Wait, there's one more, isn't it? Did you miss Dallas Buffalo? It probably wasn't up when you looked.

At it. Because we jumped to Saturday and I didn't do the Sunday Marquee.

Yeah. All right. That's right.

All right. Sunday Marquee. Yeah, we jumped around. I screwed up. Bad job hosting my own podcast. This is in Dallas. Oh, no, I'm sorry. It's in Buffalo. But I have Dallas favorite. I have in a TikTok zone. I have Dallas by minus one and a half.

I had Dallas by one, and it's Buffalo one and a half. I can't get a feel of how Fandall treats in Vegas Buffalo. I don't get it.

I already have my tease. I'm betting it tonight.

Dallas? Seven and a half?

Dallas and the Rams. Fucking cash that in. Be careful.

Cash that in. Be careful. Just be careful.

Be careful of what?

This Dallas thing.

Just be careful. Dallas thing what?

What do you want me to say? They get up for the Eagles. They're mad. They're pissed off. They lost them. They hate that thing.

Yeah, we were doing good, though. But Buffalo is not blowing at anybody.

It's nine and.

Eight to- Seven and a half?

With two left. You're up.

You're crazy. You were making Super Bowl plans- I know.

-hours an hour ago.

Now.

You're worried about Buffalo? I was not making it. I still say we're a five C, but seven and a half you should be okay.

Sunday night, Ravens at Jags. And I'm putting this in the TikTok zone. It's a TikTok game if I've ever seen one. Ravens, minus one and a half.

We are tied. I said two and a half. It's three and a half.

That's two-and-a-half. That's stupid.

I like this. I'm off a half a point with this Monday game. By the way, real quick. This Jacksonville thing with everybody coming back with the high ankle sprain, which is supposed to knock you out for three weeks. Yeah. Are the other quarterbacks pissed at my homes and Trevor Lawrence like, Hey, we're supposed to have three weeks off from this injury. Why are you idiots fine by Tuesday night? This is our secret.

How about this? I'll go further. I don't think it was a full-fledged high ankle sprain.

Yeah, I guess so.

If I broke my leg, it'd be like, Oh, he broke his leg. He's out for whatever. I always thought high ankle sprain was just cut and dry. You have a high ankle sprain, you're not going to be able to walk for a couple of weeks. You have a walking booth.

Every highlight is of you entering and leaving the stadium with a walking.

No equipment that they have right now is good enough to just turn a high ankle sprain around like that if it's a true high ankle sprain. I think they should call it a semi-high ankle sprain.

Or.

Something.

They need to rename that.

Can you stop licking yourself, please? Thank you.

That's our producer, Murph.

Murph is just going down on himself. That would take me uncomfortable, Murph.

Murph, he's got one more game to pick, and he has a half-the-point margin here. Otherwise, he's going to lose.

I'm getting this, though. Monday night, Eagles at Seattle. Do I have to hit this exact?

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. If you're off by a half, we tie. If you hit it exact, you win.

Eagles minus two and a half.

Oh, not close. I said four. It's four and a half.

Oh, come on. That's stupid.

You just went crazy about how bad Seattle was.

Yeah.

That's dumb.

Come on. Eagle's defense hasn't stopped anybody for a month.

This is nice.

Simmons- They put that in the Vegason. -they put that in the Vegason.

After 15 weeks. I take that.

Murph apologizes for his behavior.

Thanks, Murph. You rattled them just enough.

Did you like the in-season or not?

Yeah, I thought it was fine. I couldn't bet. I lost plenty of money on it. I had the worst teams. I had your guy, I had Tatum and Giannis for MVP. I picked... I don't know. I had the Knicks and spots, but you loved it, right? Here's why I won't like it. If Anthony Davis takes five of the next eight games off.

That'll suck, right?

It'll be like when people protest buying gas for a day. And then it's like, all right, that's over with. Now I need gas and gas sales two days from then the highest ever. So if you could guarantee me that, it's not going to happen. I think this was good, right? It was.

A nice little step. People were down on the Lakers and it was a nice little reminder from them why they have to be taken seriously as an inner circle team. They've been a lot of big games. They're big. Davis has the ceiling. Lebron is who he is. That was a little wake-up call.

But- They went to you and said, One change. You can make one change within reason.

I would have two. I would have the tie-breaker be quarters instead of point differential for getting into the tournament. I didn't like the point differential as much. I think it should be quarters one. And I would do groups, 16 groups of five, 16 groups, so we could have five games in a group instead of four. And then I think the right teams would be in there. The only other thing I would do is it was a little weird how they scheduled the game where it was two o'clock Pacific for the first game and then-.

The.

Semifinals? Then the other one was at 6:00. And I just think they did that wrong. I would have gone... Because on the East Coast, nobody's watching a game at five o'clock. And on the West Coast, it's 2:00 in the afternoon. Either way, it's stupid. I would go four o'clock Pacific. So it's on at seven Eastern time. And then I would go eight o'clock for the second game, and I would put the better game first. And then the second game, eight o'clock Pacific, 11 o'clock ET, so you have to stay up for it. But almost like what we used to have with March Madness way back then. There'll be those late games. There are really fun to stay up for.

That's how I would say. But then would you put it up against Monday, Thursday, and night football? Because that's the other problem in the fall. You got to avoid football.

You're not going to have the final Sunday.

So yeah, they said that, right? But how many good Thursday and football games have we had? It was basically Cowboy Seahawks was the only one we've had. If they're going against Pat Steilers on Thursday, would that have been a problem? That game was horrible. I don't know. How long can they run from football? Grow some fucking chest hair NBA. Oh, wow.

Come.

On.

Bring it on. Bring it on, NBA. See what you got.

Come on. And then have games on Sundays. I just don't understand why there are no games today. That was ridiculous.

Yeah, that is weird.

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All right. So my kid is crazy on Fortnite. He's all the time. I hear him screaming. The words, I'm going to report you, are uttered in my house, screamed in my house more than anything else. I guess you could play Fortnite with your kid. And if there's something weird that goes on, you're playing other kids, and you could scream at them through the TV, through the headset, I'm going to report you. So finally, my wife and I are like, Look, you got to stop with this. Fortnight, it's driving you... And so I'm like, Why don't you play Madden? Play Madden. We all played Madden. We love flag football. You're good at flag football. I think you'd understand and everything else plays better. Right, the plays. Yeah, play Madden. He's like, Well, I do play Madden. I'm like, Okay, play. I'll watch it. I can't just watch. I have to be an asshole, right? So he's playing in the Superpro level, whatever it is, and I'm doing play-by-play. I'm basically telling him what to do through the snarky play-by-play. I'm like, Oh, there's Harrison. Oh, look at this. It seems like he's going to go for it on fourth and 12th.

A questionable decision, to say the least. He's like, Shut up. Will you shut up? Of course, he doesn't on third, I'm fourth and 12th. He loses to the computer. I'm like, All right, you want to win? Play me. I haven't played in years. They added two buttons. I don't even know what the R1, and I'm not sure what to do. Accelerate. I don't know anything. I'm like, You'll beat me. Fine, whatever. We get to the third quarter, I snap back into gear. I remember everything I knew about the buttons and spin move and everything. I'm beating him 13 to seven in the fourth quarter, and he has the ball, but he hasn't scored since the first quarter, and he is getting very upset, very choked up. Archie comes downstairs. Archie's home already. I don't know. He went to school for two months. I don't know how it works. He's back. We dropped him off late September. It was so emotional. It's December '50 is done. Yeah, exactly. He's back. It was $700,000. I'm not even going to say how much, but anyway. He's like, Harrison. Harrison's got no timeouts, and there's 13 seconds left, and the clock's running.

Archie's like, Press Y. Press Y. I guess Y gets you to the line of Scrimage. You call without having to go through the thing and losing time. He drops back. He's the Bangles. He throws a touchdown to Jamar Chase. It's 13:13. He's going crazy. And now I'm pissed off. You're mad at Archie. I'm mad at everybody. I'm like, Go back to school. Who needs you? And he goes for the extra point. And just as he's about to kick it, I knock the control out of his hand onto the third step. And he turns to me, and I've never heard him say this before. And I swear he said it. He says, Fuck you. It's the first time. Now I know the first.

Time you heard- Oh, my God. He broke his fuck you cherry.

That was it. Now, the first time you heard Ben, he was probably four and a half years old.

I was going to say he was like two and a half years old.

Maybe, yeah. But to say you, and so now I'm like, I don't know what to do. I'm enraged. I definitely don't want this to be okay. Archie looks at me. He's like, You deserve it. I'm like, Okay, time out here. You win the dumb game. I don't give a crap. You can't say that to me. I can't have you. He's like, I'm sorry. I just didn't know what else to say, and I wanted to hurt you. I was like, All right. I respect that. So hopefully-.

What a good- This is a great father-son-brother story.

I think so. Yeah, this is good. Good outcome. We'll see if it works. I think it could be all... Who knows if it's true?

Anyway, there you go. That was a really good paracoter.

Thank you. I have problems.

My son, much to your delight, is wrestling now.

Love it.

And loves it and spends all of his time in the house shirtless and doing fake moves. And I don't know how this didn't happen sooner, but the part you didn't tell me about was that people who wrestle, all they want to do is wrestle other people. So I'm just in the kitchen, like getting a drink and Ben comes behind.

We're at a match.

And he's trying to lock up with me and grab my wrist. I'm just trying to get a glass of water. And I've screamed at him like 20 times. The other day, we're leaving the house and he grabs my wife and he's trying to lock up with her. And she's like, Oh, you want to go? And now they're locking up. And he's trying to body-slam her. And I'm like, No, that's your mother. He's just lost his mind. All he wants to do is do moves. And he made us take him to this... There's this fighter store on the corner of La Bre in Beverly. That's a really cool store, actually. It's new because he had to get knee pads and they had one of those actual 200-pound dummies, like a real one. It was like $450. I was like, Can we get this? And I was like, You know what? You're two weeks in for wrestling. I'm not getting you the $450 wrestling dummy. Put a couple of months in. And then the guy's like, Well, if you got it, you'd also have to get the 5 by 10 mat because you don't want to... And so now this is $800.

What happens when he loses one match? He's like, I don't know if I like wrestling anymore. So I was like, We'll come back, put in. Let's see. So anyway, he might be in a match soon. He's debating with the weight class is. But all he does all day is try to fight us.

You could have saved the money and agreed- Thanks for your advice. -of course, anytime. But you could have saved the money at any time. But you could save the money on the takedown dummy if you agreed to be the takedown dummy.

That's what his point was. He could just beat the hell out of you.

Well, the best thing about wrestling is winning an actual match. The second best is wrestling people don't know what they're doing. I mean, he's got superpowers now, and he's like a Jedi that he wants to.

Demonstrate- Well, he was explaining to me that everything is like, first, you got to control the wrist. Right. It's like, Dad, dad, you get the wrist first. And then once you have that, everything else follows. But you got to get the wrist. I'm like, Oh, my God. So now you're grabbing my wrist for the next.

Five years. Cut your wrists off. You'll be fine. That's great.

I have a bonus President corner.

Did you go to.

President corner? No. Friday, I'm flying back.

I'm.

On a 12 o'clock flight. I'm on that Jet Sweet X, which is like this direct L. A. To Vegas flight. It's like a 20C plane.

It's great. It's not too... I'm going to stick up for you here. It's not too here. A lot of times you could get the same fare that Southwest.

It's the same price as the other ones. It's just the fly's in a Burbank, and I don't know what it is, but it's around the same price.

You avoid the airport, which is great.

Yeah, you avoid the airport. So I'm about to leave. I'm excited. I'm like, I'm going to get home by 1:00. There's going to be traffic. I have a bunch of podcasts on this. I'm going to go three-hour power walk. And we're on the plane. And he's like, We're going to be delayed a little bit. And it's like, We're going to be delayed a little more. And all of a sudden, it's like, It's going to be an hour. The President's flying in, so we got to wait. The hour passes. He's like, I have some bad news. We're going to have to get off the plane. Please take your stuff. The flight's been delayed. So now we're all walking off the plane. And as we're doing it, I get a text from Jet SweetX, Your flight's been canceled. So the flight wasn't delayed. It was canceled. And now we're at the gate and we're all mad. And they're like, Yeah, the President came in. All the flights into Vegas have been canceled because they canceled the airspace around the entire city when the President comes in. So he canceled six hours of flights by going into Vegas.

Wow. And I was like, Well, how am I going to get home? And they're like, Well, you're going to get refunded on your flight. I'm like, Cool. I want to go home. So now I'm like home alone. I'm just outside this JetSuiteX airport. I'm like, How the fuck do I get home? And it becomes like a math problem. Like, do I get an Uber? It's like, no, it's going to be some crazy number. Will an Uber even take us? Then I figure out I'm going to rent a car and I'm going to drive back. So within 10 minutes, I'm running a car that's attached to the airport. Within 10 minutes, I have an Uber taking me there. By 2:30, I'm in a Ford Explorer, and I'm driving back to LA.

I'm going to get to 103 miles an hour.

And I'm pissed.

Average. Yeah, you're angry.

So I'm going to Vegas to Burbank, and I'm angry, and I'm in a Ford Explorer, and I stopped at a Starbucks drive-through. What time do you think I got to Burbank?

What time did you leave?

I left at 2:37.

All right. So for anyone listening, this usually takes, if there's no traffic, four and a half hours on a good day. So that would get you there at 7:07. I'll say 6:23.

Oh, interesting. Did you include the.

Starbucks stop? Oh, I'm sorry. I guess I did. How long did you spend at Starbucks? God, yeah. What is it?

It was 6:35.

That's very impressive.

So I caught some luck because there wasn't that much traffic and I was really angry for the first hour. And I was listening to a 1979 police concert at The Police. They have a concert album in Boston that has a lot of energy. So I was listening to that and I was just flying. And then eventually basketball came on and I calmed down a little. And it was this much of a menace. Yeah, four hours. I was home by like, finally got home, I don't know, like 7:15, 7:30, something like that. All right.

So you're voting for Robert F. Kennedy?

You know what? I'm a free agent now. I don't know about being Joe anymore. My feelings were really hurt. Joe ruined my travel plans.

Everyone, whether you like the President or not, is so bummed when the President comes to your city, especially if that city is LA, where the traffic is already off the charts, miserable. And it's like the Olympics coming, but you don't get to enjoy it.

Right?

It's like, Okay, when did he leave? Is he gone? Everything's good?

We're good. And why is it like a six-hour window? If the plane lands and it should be like a two-hour window? Right. I don't like it. There's a lot of upset people in Vegas.

I like President's Corner. That's good.

President's Corner. Hopefully, we don't have to do another one. All right, guys, what do you got to plug?

All right, Against the Lads podcast, a couple of times a week. It's going to be fun. Through The Ringer with Tate, Tuesday morning. Ringer, a wise guy is always fun. Best pregame show in the country, Sunday mornings on Fandle TV and Cousin Sal's winning weekend Friday 10:00 AM Eastern Fandle TV. Phil Sims is my guest. What should I asked him to be a big fan of The Matrix. Phil Sims. Yeah, we're getting some heavy hitters here. Can youin next week?

Yeah. Can you ask him, Deep down, was like 5 % of them rooting a past teller?

Yeah, I am going to ask him that. That's a good question.

Because if past teller wins, it just basically.

Makes.

It seem like you were not doing as good.

I had blood so on and asked them essentially the same question about Tom braided. And he's like, Look, it's human nature. You're not going to be all in on the guy that took your job. I'm like, Oh, all right. I appreciate the honesty.

So There you go. Well, we'll see. Next week, we'll see if we can keep the Dallas Hot Street going, the BS Hot Street going. A lot of Hot.

Streaks right now. You got to let people know. You got to let people know with these last two games, 15 and 0 is unheard of. Get it done. John Simmons. Go get it.

Well, I can't take Tennessee. I got to take Miami at home, right? They're going to.

Score at least 30 points. I have both on the dogs. But you're probably right. I'm not telling you anything.

You're right. Well, now it's going to ruin my day tomorrow because I'm going to be spending... Because I can still change my picks up to a kick-off. Right. And it's all I'm going to think about tomorrow. The 15 and a half. Gus has had ZFL since- Early years, right? Yeah, early. I'm going to say like '92, '93. Nobody's ever done the undefeated. I think it's impossible. Something bad will happen. No, you got it. Now today is done. So today was my perfect day. I threw the perfect game. And then tomorrow it's going to be too hard.

Stop it, baby. You got this. All right. Good job, AU.

Good job, AU. All right, that's it for the podcast. Thanks to Cousin Sal, thanks to Kyle Craton and Steve Sarudy. Don't forget, new Rewatchables is coming Monday night. And then I think my Tuesday podcast might even go up a wee bit sooner on Tuesday. So stay tuned for that. I will see you on the Rewatchables feed on Monday.