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God bless football, Stu Gotts. How are we doing, guys?

We're doing good, Mike Golick. Thank you. Mike Golick Junior. It's your dad's birthday. And so we gave your dad the gift of a week off from us for for It's a great gift.

First person.

Thing he's gonna get all year.

It's better than I got him, which was nothing. So you guys did me a favor in this. Thank you.

Okay. So it's funny. Billy, me and Mike EA were having this conversation right before you joined the Zoom, right before Gojo joined the Zoom as well. At what age do you stop buying your parents' birthday gifts?

I still buy my parents' birthday gifts. Are you saying at what age of, like, the person the buyer, or what age the person of the receiver?

I asked Mike EA, what do you think Gojo got Mike Golik for his birthday? And Mike EA said, I stopped getting my dad birthday gifts a long time a long time ago.

But is it because is it because of your dad's age, Mike, or is it because of your age?

I think it's because of his age because, like, there's there's nothing I'm gonna get him that he won't just get for himself.

Well, how how old is your dad, if you don't mind me asking?

72. How'd you

think about that? 4. 74.

74. Okay.

Sorry. I forgot how I forgot if my dad was 62 or 63 this morning when we were doing the show at the beginning. And so I just laid it out so he would say it, and then I would remember it on the back end. So happy 62nd birthday, dad.

Mhmm. If if you if you purchase your dad a gift, would he get mad at you? Like, hey. What are you doing? I don't need this.

I don't want this.

No. So here's the thing with me and my dad in gift giving and the way my family's operated in general is we don't like being bound by, oh, it's birthday gift time or, oh, it's Christmas gift time. Like, again, we're fortunate. We've got plenty of stuff, so we don't need anything. It's more if I see something that I know my dad's going to want, I'll get it for him no matter what time of year it is.

And, like, I have something I'm gonna get my dad because he's easy to shop for. Because to your guys' point, my dad will never go buy something himself.

My dad

is wearing clothes that either me and my brother or my mom have gotten him almost 24 hours a day. Because my dad, he'll never ask for anything, Stu Gotts. But what he'll do, like, if he saw this jacket and he liked it, he would never say, oh, I like this jacket. He would walk up, He'd take his 2 fingers, and he'd pinch a little bit of the fabric, and he'd go, oh, this is nice. And then he'd walk away without saying anything else and just expect it to show up eventually on his doorstep at some point.

So I've got a couple of clothing items that because I know I have liked them, and I know he would do that and have that reaction if he saw them, I'm gonna get him eventually. They're just out of stock right now.

So this is nice is really buy me this jacket.

100%. Yeah. 100%.

I, I can't have helped but notice earlier in the week, it seems like 1 of your siblings has once again given your father his favorite gift of all, another grandchild.

Jesus.

Yes. Yeah. My brother and his wife, Jenny, had, their second child, their daughter, Jordan, to join Jackson. A lot of j names in that family. Gonna be a real confusing time around the house when it's time to yell at people.

But, yes, Billy, he, definitely, my brother, shout out to him for continuing to run interference on my life. I don't get questions about getting married anymore. I don't get questions about kids anymore because my brother and sister just keep having them, and my parents are so preoccupied they don't care.

Trust me. The parents are talking about it, though, Mike.

Well, first first of all, congratulations to your father. Congratulations to you, to Jake. Welcome to the world, Jordan.

Yeah.

I was gonna ask, though, and it seems as though the answer's no is now do is the the conversation the pressure on you? Like, when are you gonna deliver us a grandchild? Because they're they're fine. Their hands are full. They have a new 1.

Right.

Oh, Billy, no. It's it's so much worse than that. I'll never forget this moment. This is probably a couple years ago now. Like, my brother already had his son.

My sister might have been pregnant at that point. So maybe this is only like a year or 2 ago. And I was sitting around talking with my mom at 1 point, and she used to give me grief about the kids stuff in the normal playful way that like parents do. And then at 1 point, like, my mom, I was I I made some joke about it, and she goes and it was like this faraway look in her eyes where she's like, me and your father really just want you to find someone. And it was so like, oh, they just want you to have company.

So you're not lonely in a way that was like, oh god. Alright. I might actually need to do this so they don't feel like they failed.

Not for me for them.

Yes. Is is that worse? Is that, like, I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed? Like, the jokes I could take, but I feel like that line was like, ow.

Well, the jokes assume that eventually it's gonna happen, and it's gonna be okay so we can joke. That was like, oh, they're really considering the possibility that I might

just wind up alone. Yeah.

Can can I ask you can I ask you a question, to pivot slightly, but it's it's also along the the lines of sadness here? I also can't help but notice you decorated your set for the holidays with 1 sad stocking behind your head. Yes. Is that is that the extent you're holiday? Gojo with

Golic sign. Yeah. I mean yeah.

And and this is Stu Gots. You got

personal record book.

Okay. There you guys

do that.

Stu Gots book.com. Check that 1 out here.

Thank you. Look at your mom books for me.

Yeah. I write 7 me. I yeah. I wrote 1 part of a book. God bless Stanzic and the work that he did putting all this together, but and everyone else who helped piece this together.

But no. Yeah. This is my so this is my only Billy holiday decoration here. I've got, like, a couple of tchotchkes I bought at Target. I have on my front door so into my apartment, and this was true in my house in Connecticut.

I have 1 door in my house where I have, like, a plush Santa face that hangs off the door handle, but I keep that up year round. I never take it down. Santa is always because he's always watching. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake.

He knows when you're bad or good. So be good for goodness sake. Santa's always watching. I have the small Christmas tree from the Charlie Brown Christmas special in physical form up year round, and then a normal sized tree with a couple of wreaths.

Wait a minute. Hold on a second. The Christmas tree is up year round also.

The small 1. So it's it's about yay high, it's, you know, it's the Charlie Brown 1, the 1 before they decorate it and jig it up there where it's real thin and sparse. So you can't always tell it's Christmassy, but it is.

I I'm starting to, and and I mean this to be helpful, and I know that you're not gonna take this this way. I'm starting to kinda connect these 2 stories. You know what I mean? Like, the inability to find someone. Santa Claus is always watching on your door year round.

We have a Christmas tree year round. Like, I feel like if we make slight minor changes, maybe things will change in a larger way. You know?

You mean to tell me, Billy, that if you were a young lady and you come back and we've just had a great date

and

maybe we're sitting on the couch watching TV and all of a sudden things start to escalate and there's a little bit of kissing, Then if you looked over and all of a sudden locked eyes with a plush Santa Claus on the door handle, that wouldn't do it for you?

I maybe the the sad Charlie Brown tree also is like, okay. What's happening here?

There's also there's also an elf riding a pug underneath the small Christmas tree there as, like, a long ornament

that I just put aside.

Okay. Oh, that's just horrible.

I want your holiday decoration, the Chris Sim jersey.

Well, I have you know what? Now that you mentioned it, I should I spruce up? I I I haven't even considered sprucing up the background for the holidays. Like, I did my decorating, like, in the front of the house. I have very controversial Gojo, and I'm wondering and we'll get to Bill Belichick eventually, maybe.

I'm wondering your thoughts on this because this is kind of like a controversial opinion that some people have on the exterior decorating. How do you feel about inflatables? Some people don't like inflatables. They think inflatables are a cheat code.

So I think inflatables are great for other people, will never be my thing. Like, never has been my thing, never will be. But I appreciate a good inflatable, especially when it because, you know, the cookie cutter ones, you get some people that'll just do, like, the the reindeer or Santa's sleigh or something like that. But when people go above and beyond or have a lot of them, I do appreciate that.

Alright. I

I can't Inflatable tree are you guys talking about

an inflatable tree? Are we No. We're not. I like the inflatable lawn stuff.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Decorations for the lawn. So I was gonna

tell people, go buy a tree and throw it on the truck throw it on the roof of your car and drive it home

for are you a real would you be a Stu Gots, would you be a real tree guy if you were in the game?

Like I'd send someone out to get me a tree. That's what I would tell you. What about what about

you guys? Are you guys real tree or fake tree people?

I am a fake tree person who married into a real tree family and lost all ability to choose for myself.

Wow. So you get you get to clean up the pine needles.

Not only do I get to clean up the pine needles, I get to get my ass up on, Black Friday, drive to the tree farm, and take all those awkward pictures and then get down and cut the tree down and haul it to the car and wrap it up and all that

stuff. I get to

I get to do that knowing full well that I would much rather have the artificial tree. Yeah. Welcome to married life. You should do it, Kolig.

Yeah. I'm

I'm a real I'm a real tree guy, but we don't have tree farms. I went to Home Depot, and I got it out of a tent in a parking lot. Attaboy.

That was

I do it right here. What I did is I went and

I I cut the little wrapping with, like, a, like, a little pocket knife. I cut it. I I

knife. I cut it. I I banged it on the floor

a couple times so it could stretch out. I could see what it looks like. I'm, like,

give it a little spin, a twirl. Good enough. This 1 this one's the 1 we're taking home this year. But, like, on the outside Gojo, and this is why I ask. So and I'll blame my daughters.

That's fine. I have no shame. I'll blame I'll blame infants. It doesn't matter. They won't know.

We we we are an inflatable family, but a thematic inflatable family. Yeah. So I will have outside, and I wonder if I should give all this information because then if you pass by, these are very specific and you'll know where I live.

Oh, yeah.

I have I have a tropical holiday theme going on because it doesn't get very cold down here. So I have a hula dancing santa a Santa outside that actually, like, hula dances. So I have a dancing Santa. I have a flamingo in an inner tube with a Santa hat on and sunglasses. And then this year, I did my inflatable shopping in July, because I said, I'm not daddy's not paying full price for this.

I'm gonna get this when this is on sale and when it's still available. So I started looking. Lo and behold, I found 1. I've now added to the collection, and I didn't realize the size until I inflated it. And that was that was that was part of my problem, but also a pleasant surprise for me and my daughters.

My wife, not so much. Didn't love the surprise as much as I did. Because I inflated it I inflated it inside the house just to show my daughters before I did it outside. And, I hit the ceiling. Hit the ceiling.

Now I have I have low ceilings in the room where I did it, but I got an 8 foot tall an 8 foot tall snowman with sunglasses holding a surfboard and then a giant inflatable palm tree behind said Wow. Oh, yeah. We're super tropical. Super tropical outside.

Gojo, don't you feel like when you go buy Christmas decorations in July, the person's judging you at the counter. No?

No. I did I did on Amazon. This is an Amazon.

Oh, you hid your shame. Judge your shame. Yeah.

There is there is though down here, and I'm assuming there are these there these exist everywhere. There's a year round Christmas store here. It's a bit of

a stretch. Town in America. Yeah. Every country town in America has 1.

Year round Christmas store. I didn't go to it because it's kinda far, and, also, I don't really believe that the stuff is as on sale as they say. I worked in retail. Okay? Guys, let me tell you something about Black Friday sales and about retail.

Oftentimes, and now you'll see it on TikTok and the Internet, same exact price. They'll just put a sticker with, like, new, like, oh my gosh. Look, Christmas balls, new low price. You just move it to the sign, like, oh, this is more expensive than it was last week.

Billy, thank you so much for illuminating what I've assumed for years because I'm the biggest mark known to mankind. The gas stations, when you go inside and you go over to the drink section and it's Powerade and it says, oh, you can get these 2 for $6 or whatever. I never neck no 1 checked what they were before that.

I have no idea if

I'm getting a deal. I just see the little sign. I'm like, well, now I have to buy 2 Powerades for this road trip. I'm just being economical, and I have no idea if I'm saving money.

Here here's another game that that grocery stores in particular will pay.

Okay. Yeah.

And this is this is where I noticed it, and and you They're

kindred spirits, Mike. Yeah. Have you noticed this? We know Mike Gola junior for a while. I've known Billy forever.

You've known Billy for a couple of for, like, a year now. These 2 are kindred spirits. We're the same age, Mikey. I I But, Mikey, they have more in common than me and Gojo have in common than you and Gojo have in common than Gojo has in common with anybody.

You're closer to Gojo's dad's age than you are to his age.

I know. I just don't want to accept it, Billy. Yeah.

Okay. So, Gojo, this is where I realized that that BOGOs are a scam often, which was I buy cookie dough, and sometimes I like to just

eat the cookie dough raw.

You know

what I mean? But not it's not good for you, I guess, because of the eggs in it or something. So now they quote unquote make edible cookie dough that it's fine to eat before you cook. So I will go and I'll buy the cookie dough to just go. And I get the ones that are, like, the precut, like, 20 you this makes 24 cookies.

And I'm like, nope. That makes 24 bite sized snacks for me because I'm not gonna make those into cookies. So I'll go, and I'll buy the edible cookie dough. And, and then I notice on the BOGO, it's like, oh, you know, buy 1 get 1 free. And the price for the buy 1 get 1 free is, like, 549 or something like that.

And it's like, well, hold on a second. 1 of them last week was 369. So I'm buying 1 and getting 1 free, but the 1 that I'm paying for, you've increased the price from 1 week to the next about a 180%. That's how they're getting you on these things. You think you're saving money and, like, you are if you wanted to, but also you're paying, like, a lot more for the 1 than you would normally.

I'm on to the groceries, Cody.

Oh, the grocery store is right. I've listened. I have a a fridge with 10 yogurt packets in it right now for that same reason to get you on this stuff.

Yep. I'm gonna I'm gonna start an Excel dawg, and I'll I'll I'll spare everyone, but I'll share with you on what I found in terms of pricings, Kojo. Don't worry. We're gonna get Gojo in this together.

I love Gojo and the Powerade, 2 for $6 not knowing if 1 is, like, 220.

Dude, no. Move. Like like Like, you should

be getting 2 for 4.50, you know?

Well, the you that okay. That's a whole another thing. Like, it it used to be, like, you could get 2 for, like, 2.50, and now it's, like, 2 for $7. And it's, like, what is happening here? And and don't get me started on shrinkflation where a 24 ounce bottle turned into a 20 ounce bottle.

I'm on to you guys. I know what's going on here. Alright.

The thing that Powerade still has at its disposal, and the only 1 that's really coming for the crown on this is body armor is, especially if you're going on a long drive, very pissable bottle. Like some of these other ones here, not as pissable of a top of the bottle here. Body armor right now, number 1 in the pee power rankings of bottles that you can pee in after you've used them on a long road trip.

I'm not sure that's how they market them, but they could.

They should.

They should.

I don't even know if it's they should, but they could.

I feel like if you put a wide mouth on a beverage that is sold at a gas station, you kinda know what you're doing.

Everyone knows. Got it.

I love you looking at the width of to see just to check to make sure it's it's big enough for you. Yeah.

To be clear, it doesn't have to be that big, but, you know, it's just it's

just comfortable. You don't want

to worry about the splatter, the spray anywhere while you're doing this at 55 miles an hour, which is definitely safe, all that good stuff.

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Gojo, Bill Belichick to North Carolina. What do you think?

I just don't can't believe this is real. Like, I saw the official graphic from North Carolina, but, like, plucking Bill Belichick off the Pat McAfee show, Michael Lombardi, who's, you know, done stuff at DraftKings and the GM shuffle and a Visa and going to be his g it feels surreal in a way. And I'm still trying to figure out Stu Guts what the motivation is for Bill Belichick behind this. In an off season where we thought he'd take another stab at some of these NFL jobs where we thought the Don Shula record was the sole thing preoccupying, and I know Seth Wickersham's got a piece out and it kinda says, hey. That's something, but it's not the only thing, and maybe he felt slighted by the process.

But that's the 1 thing I can't figure out is is Bill Belichick doing this with eyes and going back to the NFL eventually, or is he just gonna kick up his feet and try something completely new at this point in his career and see how it fits?

It's, it's super interesting because if you're gonna go back to the NFL, Mike, I have to think that no NFL teams were interested in Bill Belichick. Like, he Well, like, we made it clear that he was interested in Carroll what was that?

There's only 3 jobs open right now. More are gonna open up more than likely.

No. I know. But I'm thinking, like, Belichick put some the news was out there that he was interested in Carolina. Carolina was interested in him. It sat there for a few days.

I think Bill was probably going through the process. Who's going to call me? Who is going to call me and makes and makes, you know, some sort of assurances that, hey. I know we have a coach now, but at the end of the year, you're gonna be our guy or we're interested, whatever. I don't think he got, anything in the way of that.

And so I think he was forced to go to college. And if you're asking me his motivation, I think his motivation is to make sure his family is secure after he's done coaching, and his name doesn't mean as much as it does right now. Is that is that fair?

I guess it could be, especially with the, you know, the Steve Belichick stuff baked into that where, you know, whether or not you believe the coach in waiting rumors as it seems like he's gonna go there and be the defensive coordinator. And, I mean, listen. 5:5 years $50,000,000 is nothing to shake a stick at. Now Bill Belichick's got more money than God, so I don't think that's really a motivator in all this.

But, the other part

of this too is just these guys are sickos. Like, you guys know this. We've all been around and worked with guys that take the year off coaching and come do this. Not all of them are Nick Saban where, hey. You do it after you totally exhausted your competitive desires in a field that you've dominated here.

Bill Belichick got fired. He got shown the door before he wanted to get out. And so if there is some competitive fire left in there and you've got an outlet for it, then I can understand it because as much as the rest of us would say, man, if I had all that money, I would go just off somewhere and you wouldn't hear from me anymore. These guys crave this in a way that they just can't quit no matter how old they are.

How much of this is that he asked for the moon and stars from UNC thinking there's no way they're gonna give me everything I want? I'll give them a 400 page document that says everything I want how I want the university to run, including making my son the coach in waiting who probably doesn't belong getting that kind of job. But they did it. They're like, yes. Yes.

We'll do all of that. And he's just like, oh, okay. Well, if you're gonna do everything, it reminds me of when Phil Jackson went to the Knicks because they just kept badgering him with money.

That could certainly be a part of all this. And I do think what you mentioned there, the level of control he can have in college where, you know, we before this ever really became real, dad and I were talking about it in the show, and we've made the obvious points now it feels like where it's, hey. The college level has certainly changed structurally, but it's still a place where even with the GMs that are coming into college football and full scouting departments, the head coach in this sport has always wielded a level of power very similar to what Bill enjoyed at the NFL level that's atypical for that level of football. And it certainly doesn't seem like anyone's gonna ever give him that much control over an NFL organization again.

Right.

And so you're right. If he could go down here, ask for that and then some, and they eventually gave it to him, and you still have this desire to maybe coach and stick it to everybody to say, alright. You don't want me up there. That's fine. I'll take North Carolina, this place that in so many people have been talking about it as a dormant power at a basketball school that's got the geographic location working for it, the young alumni base, the resources and stuff, and say, I'll take this place, and I'll do with it what no one's been able to do in the 21st century with that school despite everyone else.

I wouldn't rule that out for a guy that competitive.

Do we have to accept because I mean, clearly, there were no other offers that Bill Belichick may have coached his last game in the NFL. I think we're probably there. Right? Because he's only getting older, Mike. He's gonna spend a couple of years at Carolina.

If they're not gonna hire him now, they're not gonna hire him then.

I do feel the age in that thing because I my initial gut reaction was no. We probably haven't because this still seems like a guy that that record does mean enough to get talked about the way it does and only being 14 shy of tying, 15 shy of beating. But you're right. I mean, he's walking into college football already as the oldest coach there, was in the NFL. All of his peers have been forced out or retired.

Nick Saban, Pete Carroll, Mac Brown at North Carolina. And so, yeah, I I just don't see how if he really is here legitimately and not just gonna dine and dash after 1 year, which if he's got the tie in with his son, I don't know how that would work. All these different things that maybe say he'd be here for at least a few years, then, yeah, I do think it's increasingly hard to imagine an NFL team hiring Bill Belichick in his mid seventies to come there and try and lead your franchise.

Do you think he has an out clause? Like, he can leave whatever the hell he wants. Like, if someone offers him an NFL job in a month, he can get out of there.

I'm I'm sure he could get it figured out just

No. No. Mike, he he probably asked for all that stuff and got it.

It's in the bible. Yeah.

I mean, listen. If it's just a month, Gojo, we could agree. No 1 has ever taught this much Carrollton football in their entire life. Right? Like, they're getting bang for their buck right now.

That's the funniest part about this though is Yes. Because the attention economy is loving this right now, everyone's gonna be like, oh, this is like Dion in Colorado. No. It is not. Like, it is certainly, like, it's a spectacle in the same way, but you're not gonna get Bill Belichick hosting his own talk show on Tuesdays and inside the North Carolina Tar Heels, like, looking the way they had on Amazon Prime.

And just in general, Dion is a showman by nature. That is who he is at his core. Bill Belichick, I mean, maybe we get the version of Bill that lets his hair down now. He's got the young girlfriend. He's away from the NFL and all these parts tied to his legacy.

So maybe he does just relax a little bit, but more than likely, he's gonna be the same guy he's always been, which is not going to grab people by the horns the same way Deion did or piss people off quite frankly as much as Deion did on the front end of his time there.

Billy, can you imagine a 17 year old kid wanting to play for Belichick? Like, is that is that something I guess, if he's the guy that can get you to the NFL, right, he's the guy that can get you to the NFL, gojo kids aren't gonna care as long as he's the guy that can get me to the professional level to to my dreams.

It I it does it does seem weird. Right? And when is the last patriots I mean, it's pre COVID. Right? Their last Super Bowl.

When was their last year that they won the Super Bowl? Because now a 17 year old might have been, what, 11, 12

I'm wondering.

When Bill Belichick was dominating and was Bill Belichick, and even then was, like, on the back end of it. Right? So Right. I I they'll know who Bill Belichick is, obviously. Right?

But I don't know that Bill. I I just He

has the cache. Right?

I can't imagine 19, Billy, for what it's worth.

I cannot imagine Bill Belichick strolling into someone's house to recruit them. Like, that is another part of it. Right? Like, you assume he's gonna put in all the work to get everything done. Right?

He's bringing all these people. He's gonna have his army of consultants and assistant coaches and all that. But, like, I I don't see Bill Belichick just driving around making house visits for some of these recruits and sitting on your couch and be like, we'd love to have your son come play for us. Like, it just I don't see it. I don't I don't know why.

Also, though, like, we used to think that about Nick Saban then would see videos of him doing the Cupid the Cupid shuffle. Right? And, like, he he seems like he liked to have a good time, and he knew how to get the recruits. So we'll see. Maybe this is a new Bill.

We also never thought we were gonna see Bill leaving someone's house on a ring camera. Right?

So, like

That's true. Yep.

Bill gets down.

I think there's a lot we don't know about Belichick. Yeah.

I'm kinda with you.

I'm kinda with you. When you

go on a recruiting trip, bring your girlfriend in your Super Bowl rings.

That's it.

There you go. That's it.

Walking like that.

All 8 of

them. I did wonder, twofold to Billy's point, how much Bill's son and his experience to walk? Because Bill was up at Washington a bunch. Like, he was around there. They talked about it.

Jed Fish, I think, has Belichick ties somewhere in his past, the head coach now at Washington. But then also what Nick Saban's told him, like, Bill and Nick worked together. They obviously have kinda been in lockstep their whole careers, and Nick Saban left for all the reasons that were curious why Bill Belichick would go to college for.

I can't believe there wasn't another offer for Bill Belichick or maybe there was, and Belichick should he just wanted to go to North Carolina. I mean

I I think the I think the 1 big

difference strange.

I think the 1 big difference, though, Gojo, is that, like so Bill's NFL coaching experience is closer to what college is now than Nick Saban's college coaching experience is to what coaching is now. Right? So, like, he's more I I would almost say, like, somewhat more prepared and maybe more equipped for this new NIL environment than old school college coaches were.

Yeah. I would agree in general. And and I think your point, the relative standard of this because that's the thing I've talked about with, like, Kenny Dillingham and Dan Lanning and a bunch of these young coaches who got their 1st head coaching jobs during all this change. Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame, they don't know a world as head coaches without the current things that they're balancing in this job as the standard. If you are Nick Saban and the rest of these coaches that have been around for decades in the sport and have watched it more from this thing you knew how to do very well to something that feels totally foreign.

Yeah. I could understand that. And so Bill coming in without any priors and a skill set that is closer is a reason I thought, hey. This is less far fetched than it originally looked on the surface.

It's also, like, a really strange situation because, like, if you read into kinda how it all played out, it doesn't seem like they ever pursued him. He just kind of was like, you know what? I'd like to coach here.

And this is how cross practice 1

day and just decided he wanted to stay. I mean

This is how I'd like it to go. And I'm gonna give you this manifesto if you believe this is how it went down. I'm gonna give you this manifesto. And if you agree to all these terms, I'm gonna come here. And then some people at the at the university were, like, what?

And then, like, some boosters are like, hell, yeah. And then there seems to have been some disarray even within the the the university as to whether or not he was gonna coach there, who's making this decision. So, like, Bill seems to be coming in, and it's not like he has to conform to some standard because he just created his own. And he just found the people that were gonna pay the bills and make it happen, and they made it happen. So, like, how are you even gonna control this man at this point?

That is the 1 part that worries me, not not being able to control him because, you know, you you ceded control to Bill Belichick for all the things that we've mentioned. But it's the fact that, like, in the NFL, when you look at teams that are bad for a long time and do they have their house in order organizationally, we're watching that play out for the bears in real time right now. And when you hear about the supposed rift or, like, in fighting or how do however you wanna label it between Bubba Cunningham, the athletic director at North Carolina, and their board of trustees not being on the same page on how they wanted to handle the dismount of Mac Brown and not being on the same page for who they were going after for this next candidate. That's what worries me in this day and age where you've got so many cooks in the kitchen between the board of trustees and the athletic director and the collectives all trying to go and govern these things that if you have fracture and dissent among there, I I think those are the programs that are gonna struggle the most in a world now that requires more organization and unity on that level than ever before.

To Billy's point, the way this came about was kinda out of nowhere. Like, Bill Belichick's not going to college. Hey. Bill Belichick might go to college. Oh my god.

Bill Belichick's going to college. If this was more well known, if Bill Belichick was like, I wanna go coach in college

Yes.

How many other of these college teams do you think would have been like, you know what? Maybe we should do this. Maybe we should go get Bill Belichick. Let's get rid of our guy and do that.

Like Florida State?

Yeah. Don't know. I don't know. Florida State?

That I'd well and that 1 like, this this all makes me wonder, like, alright. Now if Bill Belichick is looking at college because remember, we went through all this last summer when Jeff Halfway and a couple of those guys left for NFL jobs, and people are like, oh, look. You're driving out these great leaders from the college game by giving players rights and money, and it's so scary. And we're gonna lose all these great men. And now Bill Belichick's going the opposite direction.

It does make me wonder, like, hey. For Ohio State and all the conversation they've had there about Ryan Day, Mike Vrabel's pie in the sky for them. Like, you talk to Ohio State fans, they want Mike Vrabel bad around there if it's gonna be somebody. And you do wonder now if a guy might look at it and say, alright. This is a little more accessible to me coming from the NFL than it's ever been because of these changes in the sport.

I don't know. Vrabel's still younger. He's probably gonna have plenty of suitors, so I don't know if this would apply to him the same way, but your alma mater can do strange things to you.

I like Pete Carroll going back to USC. How about that? Oh, yes.

As a Notre Dame fan, I hate it.

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Joe, we'll get to, what you're doing with army and navy. That game is this weekend. It's our Super Bowl here. God bless football. It's our national championship.

It's a great game. It's a great tradition. But I am wondering, Joe, you hear the news Bill Belichick is going to the University of North Carolina, and your thoughts are what?

I'm not surprised. Yeah. Everybody everybody obviously thought that he would be, you know, back in professional football. But to me, you know, I I think there was a time back. I I remember coach Shula.

There was a lot of talk about him really wanting the Notre Dame job. I think there are certain jobs in in football that coaches really, really look forward to. Certainly, it's gonna be a heck of a lot less stress than there is in the professional part. I would say that the season is shorter, but now when you start to look at the addition of the playoff games, I mean, we've got colleges playing almost 15 weeks of football. So that really hasn't isn't gonna change that much.

But I I I I think he just it's a new exciting challenge for him. I think that's really what we're looking at. Is it's a different new exciting challenge.

Joe, have you been a fan of of the new college football playoff format? Have you enjoyed this season? Is is are there too many teams for me? There's too many teams, so I'd be interested in your thoughts.

Well, I enjoyed the season. I just I just didn't necessarily like the way they they made the selections. And the reason I say that is I know it's difficult. I know this is the 1st year. I understand that totally.

But from my perspective, if you're an 11 1 football team, you have conference champions getting automatic buys. Well, what happens if you're not in a conference and you're a really good football team? Are you being you know, questions, are you being penalized because you're not in a conference and you have a better record than those that are? And and that's you know, I think that's some of the tweaks they're gonna have to do. But as far as foundationally goes, getting started with a college playoff, this is a great place to start.

Joe, Joe, it's

Joe, 1 of those 11 and 1 teams that you, you mentioned maybe participating in our national championship this weekend, army. And, you you may not like this, Joe, because you do a lot for the armed services you have for the years. It's great what you're doing this weekend. But 1 of 1 of the disgraceful things that you did was in your college career, you beat up the armed services 4 games to none, 3 times.

How dare you thymes, man?

It's incredibly disrespectful. And we get on Mike Gollick senior about this all the time because an argument can be made that your Notre Dame team is to blame for why army is not in this playoff right now. And when we say because we do our own rankings around here, Joe. We say that wins against the armed services should count against your eligibility for the playoffs.

So so if you beat 1 of the academies, it becomes a minus.

Correct. Absolutely correct. Yeah.

It's not Golic. Golic likes to couch it on their, hey. We help them up when we tackle them. But, I mean, they don't want that. So I mean, a lot of wind.

Exactly right.

They they teach us how to keep on fighting no matter what the score is.

Mhmm. Yeah.

They do. They they they teach us to and it this was 1 of the things when playing the academies, and, you know, we were bigger at the time when I was at Notre Dame. I think Mike, you know, probably felt the same way as we were bigger. And as the game went on, we managed to wear wear them down a little bit. But, man, I'll tell you, from the first kickoff to the final whistle, you better be ready for a fight because they are there's no quit in these guys.

They're not giving up. They're gonna keep on coming at you. And that's, you know, all part of the military. And, you know, that's what's so exciting for me being part of the, you know, the army navy game. If army was in the playoffs, would they still play the army navy game?

This this this to me is a is a game that that has to continue. I don't know what would happen if army was in the playoffs, and, you know, we don't have to worry about that right now. But, I mean, the USAA does such a tremendous job with our game here, the army navy game. I'm excited. I've never been to 1.

And I'm looking so forward to the opportunity to be able to, to be there, to to the pageantry, the to see everybody in uniform, to watch these 2 teams play 8 and 3 and 11 and 1. This is gonna be different than, I think, Army Navy games before where basically, they ran the ball a lot. Army wants to control the game. Navy wants to put points up through the air a little bit more. So there's there's so many wonderful things that have are are going on with it.

And it's it's it's really a chance for the country to come together. It's the only game of the weekend, and I think it should remain that way, and that's what makes it special. And these are even men and women that are leaders. Here's the other thing too is, you know, people come up to us as athletes all the time, and they call us heroes. We're not heroes.

We're just and appreciate it. Believe me. But, you know, we're just somebody God gave a gift to, the ability to run, jump, throw, whatever it might be. And from my perspective, those young men and women that are playing in this game and at the academies and those young men and women that are in uniform around the world, those that put that uniform on are out there defending us. And any chance you get to be able to say thank you to someone in a uniform, let them know how much you appreciate them.

So to me, they're the real heroes. Because, see, we go to work and play ball, No matter what it is, you come home. When they go out and do their job, there's no guarantee. And that's why they should be celebrated and appreciated, and it's an honor to be a part of of this particular game.

It's also a cool year because it's in Washington DC, which isn't always in Europe. Obviously, Washington DC legend, we can ask you about the commanders in a little bit later because they've had a surprising season. But you and RG 3, both Washington commanders favorites, are having a cool giveaway that you're doing in conjunction with the game, the recycled rides giveaway.

Yeah. We are. We're what they're doing is, they're retrofitted, vehicles. It's gonna take place 11 o'clock on the National Mall at the National Mall on Friday, tomorrow. And, we're basically giving away vehicles, 1 to Matthew Walker, with the navy and, Caleb Dooley, who's a with the Army National Guard.

And they're gonna be receiving these vehicles, and so much work has gone into it. So many people have contributed to it. Like I say, USAA is is the driving sponsor for this. And it's it's just it's special to be able to provide someone wheels to be able to do the things that they need to do instead of having to figure out a way to get to work. They'll have the opportunity to get in their car and be able to drive.

And like I say, Robert's gonna present to the army, and I get to present to the navy.

Joe, before I get to the commanders, because I know you're excited about the success of the, of the Washington commanders this year being a former Washington commander. Me and Mike Yeh were saying earlier, we have stopped getting our dad's birthday gifts. I don't get him holiday gifts, Mike Yeh. I'm not certain if he gets some holiday gifts. Are we bad people, Joe?

Oh, no. I I think they know how much you love them, and they appreciate it. And the fact that you just don't wanna spend any money on your dad, I mean, that's that's up to you, unfortunately.

Why are you making

me feel bad if I do?

Well, see? Now here's the thing. This is the thing. If I'm making you feel bad, that means that you should get gifts.

Mhmm. So He

gets mad at me.

My my that's okay. Let him get mad. Let him get mad. Believe me. Let me tell you something.

Parents are something special. I've I've lost both both my mom and my dad. And they're, you know, they're just a special part of your life. And to me, eve you know, they'll tell you all the time, don't get me anything. I don't need anything.

I don't want anything. Yep. Okay. Fine. But I'm giving you this anyway because you deserve it.

And do whatever you want with it, but I want you to know I appreciate you. So in all honesty and and not joking around, yeah, I think I think you should give them gifts. I really do. Uh-huh.

Yeah. Yeah. We're bad people.

In that way, you think you're not bad people.

Well, I feel terrible.

You just do.

Honor them that way.

Joe, have have your children stopped giving you gifts yet? No. Okay. Good. I was gonna say the first it seems like the first time is gonna really hurt.

And then after that, they just expect, like, okay. My children are just in grades. They're not gonna give me anything anymore. Terrible. Yeah.

That's what I'm saying. I buy my Joe, for the record, I buy my parents gifts still.

Yeah. Good. Yeah. Good.

I think he does.

Yeah. He's a good person, Joe.

Yeah. I think he will.

What's the greatest gift you've ever received, Joe? Hugs. Hugs. Mhmm. Hugs.

I'll give my dad 1 of those.

Yeah.

I'll get

my out, though. So that's what I do. I don't buy him a gift because I don't as Joe pointed out, I don't wanna spend money on my own dad. So I give him a hug, and I say that's your gift. You know?

Well, that's a gift.

Yeah. It is. You know?

You're right. I feel better now, Joe.

Why why why why attach a price to a gift? Right.

You

know, you can you can a a gift can be knowledge. A gift can be, you know, a hug. A gift can be a look. There's so many ways you can define what a gift is. And to me, you know, I think parents earn the right to be able to get 1 in some way, shape, or form.

A gift can be the team with the 1st pick in the draft, taking Caleb Williams and not Jaden Daniels. Jaden Daniels has been amazing, Joe. How impressed have you been with Jaden Daniels?

Extremely. Extremely impressed. I'm impressed with everything about him. I've had a chance to to be with him at, sat down at lunch with him, get to know the young man a little bit. He's as great a person as we've seen him as a player.

And and he has he has great composure, throws the ball extremely well, and this is something we haven't had in Washington for a while, throws the ball down the field extremely well. And that's that's really what you look for is you're looking for chunk plays in our game. You're not gonna go 10, 11, 12 plays all the time, and it's very difficult to do it on a number of occasions. But if you can get those big plays, which he's able to do, I I think it makes a world of difference. And you gotta give Kliff Kingsbury, I think, a lot of credit.

Yeah. Because, you know, like what Caleb's going through in Chicago, turmoil as a coordinator, turmoil everywhere around him. There's stability with Jay Jaylen Jaden. There's stability in what he's able to do. And I love the way Cliff starts a game with him.

He gets the ball out of his hands. I remember when Peyton Manning first went to the Indianapolis Colts, Tom Moore was the coach. Tom, Pittsburgh coach, now he's in Tampa, still coaching. And I sat with him 1 day. We were doing a, Indianapolis game, and I said, how do you how do you deal with Peyton?

He says, first of all, you have to keep giving him stuff because he continues to want to get better and better and better. You you have to have a a bucket full of things to present to him. But I made my mind up that I didn't wanna get him beat up physically or mentally. So in his 1st year there, the routes were short. He got the ball out of his hands, and he developed the ability to be the hall of famer that he is.

To be able to get the ball out, to be able to not take negative place. And what I see so often now in the you mentioned Caleb in the Chicago situation, managing a game, and people would say, oh, this guy is just a manager. That's not an insult, guys. That's a compliment. Because it means that you're not making you don't start changing plays when there's 30 seconds on the clock.

You don't start throwing the ball into when you have a chance to score, throwing it in places where you're not gonna get a chance to put points on the board. You're sliding to protect yourself. You're getting out of balance. You know, that's a manager. And so if somebody called me a manager of a game, hey.

I'm thrilled because that's my job. If you look definition of a quarterback, manage the game, that's your definition. And and, you know, Brady was a manager.

Yeah.

Peyton He

was he was at the beginning. Right? Brady was a manager at the beginning. People forget that, Joe.

At the end. You know? Even at the end. You know? Yeah.

The the last Peyton won the Super Bowl in Denver. Great defense, but he outmanaged the game over Cam Newton.

Right.

Cam was on the other side of the, you know, he was he was quarterback to Carolina. And, and Peyton managed the way he Peyton couldn't throw like he did when he was younger. He knew that, but he managed it so well. And this is this is just, you know, classic Peyton.

Yep. Joe, we'll get you out of here in a second. We always appreciate the time. I do think I I wanna run I wanna run this by you. If Notre Dame wins the national championship, we at God bless football believe they should then have to play Northern Illinois.

Do you agree? No. Not really.

Already done that. They already didn't no need

Joe. Yeah. You're afraid what's happening here.

I'm not a rearview I'm not a rearview mirror guy. I'm looking through that windshield, seeing where we're going, not what happened behind us.

Right. You kinda wanna get that off the resume, that blemish, though. You know what I'm saying?

Get a second crack at them, double or nothing.

There's no eraser on it. That's the problem. It's there. It's not like you have this giant eraser here. Just, ain't going away.

Alright, Joe. 1 more time on the way out here. Tell us what you're doing, with recycled brides giveaway for the Army Navy game coming up, this weekend.

USAA, who's been actually a title sponsor of for the Army Navy game for over a 100 years, as providing an opportunity for 2 servicemen at this point to be able to receive vehicles. They're they're retrofitted vehicles. And, the presentation will take place on the National Mall at 11 o'clock on Friday 13th, oddly enough. And, they're gonna be given an opportunity to have vehicles because they need rides. And that's basically what USAA is doing is they're providing them an opportunity.

I'll give 1 to, the young man representing the navy, and Robert Griffin the third will do it for the young man representing the army.

That is, that is fine work you're doing, Joe. We always appreciate the time. Happy holidays to you and your family. You look fantastic, man. You really do.

You look amazing.

I appreciate it, guys. Thanks so much. Thanks for taking some time with

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Just another day, Another hard earned dollar.

Just another hard earned dollar. That's right. Alright. Good. Billy's back in normal gear.

Yep. I like that. That's better. You look better.

Got your jersey up.

Jersey's there. Jersey up. Chris,

I I have a question for you. So I saw I saw your normal, I saw your normal co host was out, and you had a fill in co host. And I'm wondering why you never invite us to kinda co host with you when it's time for fill ins on your podcast, you know? Mhmm.

Well, 1, the people who fill in are here in person, so

are you going to fly up? Fly up. Absolutely, Christian. I'll tell you right now. If you invite us to fill in with you on your podcast, we will fly up to NBC to do that with you.

Right. I'd expect it to Lebitard. Yes. We will. Yeah.

Alright. We'll we'll we'll note that. That's

totally the someone.

Also also, it happened, like, very last second. Right? It was 1 of those things where

Yeah. It's a very last second.

Sort of family emergency, and Ahmed Fareed couldn't pull it off. Right? So I joke with him and I've had some jokes. And then he couldn't do it Wednesday too because it kinda spilled over. So my last 2, I haven't done with him, you know, and, I know he's okay.

He's got something he's dealing with, but I've been making fun of him. You know, he drinks energy drinks. So I always jump on him for that. Like, oh, nothing like some good old poison in a bottle. That's the Well,

now hold on a second. Now now you're trying to make us feel bad about the fact

that you guys drinky, drinky, smokey, smokey. I mean Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, man up. Drink your poison like it's meant to be, alcohol. Okay? Okay.

That's how it's supposed to be.

Alright.

Not not like, you know, sour patch infused energy heart attack drink. Yeah. That that to me is like, ugh. Just got you drink energy drinks, you guys? You do that?

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I had a baseball question for him, but you go for

Hold on. Hold on a second.

Your baseball question. Just don't don't I don't wanna hear it.

But hold on a second because, Chris, I I have news for you that I don't think you're aware of not related to baseball. We'll get to baseball in a second. But God bless football, the show that you're on right now, was nominated for Best American Football Podcast and the Sports Podcast Awards. Voting is open now. We would love we would love to get your endorsement.

Tell people to come vote for us so that we could win this award. Do we have your endorsement?

Of course, you got my endorsement. Let's go. I mean, it is a damn good football cast and, football podcast, and and we get a lot of good info even when I'm not here. And then, you know, when I am here, I push us over the top to greatness, the award winnings type of stuff. So, hopefully, we can finish.

Well, I I very much I very much appreciate that, and I appreciate your endorsement because 1 of the other shows that we're going up against is your brother, Matt, and your father, Phil's podcast for the same impact award.

I love it.

You're not part of that podcast, but you're part of this 1. So I'm really on. It's time for us to wage war on the Simses. You know what I mean?

That's right.

Yeah. Them. They've never invited me on their podcast. Them. Let's go.

God bless football. Yeah. Hell, yeah.

Why haven't they invited you? It's terrible. I mean

That's a good that's a good question. I don't know why. It's terrible. It's it's so they don't invite me to a lot of things. Alright?

So, I'm like the outcast of the family. I don't I don't know where I stand there exactly.

Alright. You want baseball or Texas first? Which 1?

Go. They're both depressing. Okay? But damn okay. Go baseball first.

Let's get that out of the way.

Alright. What hurts more I mean, So to leaving hurts, because you're a Yankee fan, but he went to the Mets. And so Oh. I think that that has to make it. Like, that has to compound it by, like, I don't know, 50 times as opposed to him going to the dodgers.

You know?

It add it adds a little extra. It does. I'd actually rather go to the Mets than the dodgers. Okay? I'll I'll just say that I would.

Like, there's a little bit of, like it just hurts more as the Yankee part. Like, I just man, we had something special. I mean, Aaron Judge and and and Sotto's handshake is as cool as it gets and the back to back bombers, and that's just what we're supposed to be, the New York Yankees. So that's where it hurts. I actually don't really care that they went to the Mets.

The Mets will find a way to this whole thing up. I can promise you that a lifetime of watching it other than, like, 2 years in the history of their existence. So that's where I'd be more scared if they went to the Dodgers because the Dodgers, I'd be like, oh, no. But damn. I mean, it does.

It's a new era, man. I mean, the New York Yankees. It's the attendance record every year, got our own channel, and now we don't even have enough money to compete with some of the teams in the NFL and and MLB. Like, that to me is the biggest shock of all. Right?

Like, does the Steinbrenners need to sell the damn thing, and we need to get some hedge funders in there?

Oh my lord.

That's what

we got. To the world series. Such a brat.

Get them back in there. Yeah. Sell them. I'm with you.

Sims, I'm a 100% with you.

They only never have

we don't have enough money for Juan So to, but we'll give an 8 year contract, a record breaking contract to a pitcher who pitches 19 games a year. Brian Anthony free bounce. Incredible.

Day. Like, that was an apology, though. I want promo, and we don't have enough money. When teams like the Dodgers and the Mets can just outbid us every year, yeah, baseball's set up for monopoly capitalism. You were the Yankees.

We got more than you. Deal with it. Alright? That's the way I like my baseball, and I'm not getting it right now. I'm just

I'm with you, Sims.

What? I I'll remind you. You went to the world series a year ago.

I I I I know. I know. We didn't win it, though. Exactly. Going to the world series, that's that's that's that's, you know, that's

You went to the NLCS.

What do you do? So We go to the world series every other year for a century straight. We're not worried about going. Yeah. We we win.

That's what we wanna do.

Going and losing is Tampa Ray Tampa Bay Rays. Exactly. Right. Exactly.

Exactly. Right. Right.

Well said, Billy.

You don't like the current structure of baseball, do you, Sam? The Yankees thrived. Andre.

I know. I know. That's why I don't like it. I don't like that we're not king of that structure still. I like my football equal.

Right.

But I want my baseball unequal. I want the Yankees to be the king of the world at all times, and I'm disappointed with that.

That is so good. Alright. So, put us in the living room. Drinky, drinky, smokey, smokey as Texas was losing to Georgia.

I

had the whole I had my mom and dad were over. Right? I was, actually decorating the Christmas tree that night while it was on. When we went in 6 to 3 at halftime, right, after basically just totally dominating the first half and only being up 6 to 3, I was like, oh, we should be up by 2 touchdowns, 3 touchdowns. I can't believe this.

So that was a hurt. That hurt. But then when Georgia went down and scored, right, the first drive in the Q3 to take the lead, it's just the worst year for this to happen because I work with Maria Taylor who went to Georgia. She hosts the college football show I'm on. She hosts football night in America.

She also is maybe my biggest adversary in talking if you could believe that. Nobody can talk with me except for Maria Taylor. So I have to deal with her. And I'm telling you, like, she's as good as it gets any locker room I've ever been in in anything. So they score.

My family's there. And as soon as they cross the goal line, I go, I go, Maria's gonna FaceTime me. And, I mean, before I can say FaceTime, it's and she's on the phone and harassing me. So of all years of all teams, Georgia, Maria Taylor, She's killing me, and then, you know, she made me put on Georgia gear all Sunday and wear that around the facility. It's just embarrassing.

It really is. I hope we get another shot.

You're so

championship game. Right.

We're gonna go. End your season.

I mean

Well, we're gonna go. National championship, and I told Maria, we're both in it because we thought about going to both matchups. If we go, she's she's way richer than I am. I said, you buy the private plane, and we'll go to the game and enjoy it.

You have a decent path. You have to play Clemson in the 1st round, and then Arizona State, then Oregon if Oregon is still around.

Oregon or Ohio State.

Oregon always loses a dumb 1. Like, every year, and they haven't lost a dumb 1 yet this year, so you wonder if it's gonna happen early on. But, I mean, at the very least

path is the best that it can get. It can't get any better. Right? I mean, we're better than Clemson. We're better than Arizona State.

All you can ask for is, hey. You're gonna have a chance to be in the final 4, and when you get the chance to show yourself, improve yourself. And I still think we're 1 of the best teams in college football, if not the best. We're definitely 1 of the 2 or 3 best. Now we get to decide it on the field.

Chris, you know Belichick very, very well. Your family knows Bill Belichick very, very well. Were you surprised by the news of Bill Belichick going to North Carolina?

Beyond. Beyond surprise. Shocked.

Really?

Right. Yeah. I mean, you know, I said all the same things that you heard Brady and Gronkowski and Edelman say on the pregame of Fox last week. Like, what? Bill Belichick with a bunch of kids talking to parents?

Dad Johnny's dad called. He's not getting enough playoff playing time. Like, what? Bell Belichick? He couldn't even talk to Tom Brady after he won 7 Super Bowls when he was like, hey.

I think we should throw them more. Throw them or you, Tom. Get out of the building. Like, what? Like, that that's to where I yeah.

Am I shocked? I'm beyond shocked. But at the same time, and this is where I guess I'm not a little shocked, I'm not, like, totally shocked that teams in the NFL didn't want them. Right? And that's what you were getting a sense of.

I think there was some forwarding and some talking with Tampa Bay. I think Jacksonville was in in the conversation a little bit, but I think, obviously, they decided they did not want to to go that route. I don't think there was much of a calling for him, his age. Right? How much longer he's gonna coach?

How much is he gonna ask to control in the organization? All of those, I think, were, you know, detractors for hiring Bill Belichick. Let alone this is something that I tell everybody, and I don't know if everybody knows this. It's just that how much the New England coaches, Belichick, and the staff behind them are disliked by the majority of the NFL. You know?

That's where his, like, you know, New England and their chest out and we're the patriots and we win Super Bowls and do all that. It's rubbed a lot of the league the wrong way. You know? I definitely have friends that are like, oh, Belichick. Those people there.

Blah blah blah. Right? It's all, oh, they invented football. They're probably gonna tell us how to, you know, throw the football now. They invented it.

It's all that kind of stuff. You know? And a little bit is because of the way it was run up there in New England. It was very tight lipped. Coaches weren't allowed to talk to other coaches in the pregame and everything there.

And the kind of guys he hired are not necessarily all social guys either way, but I think, you know, you burn as many bridges as he did throughout the NFL with the way he treated people for so long. I think he had a lot of people that were like, I would do anything not to have Bill Belichick in my building. And I think you saw all that kinda come to a pinnacle here.

Interesting. Are you more surprised that he took this job or that the NFL was not interested in Bill?

I think I'm more surprised that he took this job. Right?

Wow.

I I

knew the NFL wasn't interested in Bill, but I guess I still thought there might be 1 team that would go, let's do it. Right? That makes sense. Whatever. Blah blah blah.

And I thought maybe Tampa would be that team with Jason Light being there who also worked in New England at 1 point. And there was some tangible things I heard behind the scenes to think that there was some talk there. But Todd Bowles comes out. I mean, he says he's not retiring. Do that.

Things obviously change on that front. But, yeah, I'm I'm I'm, I think, all in all, surprised with the college thing. Again, here's my thing. The recruiting, right, talking, having to be personable to kids and family. Right?

I think he's like, is he gonna recruit? Again, he better recruit. You better not wait on other people. This is the NIL era. Right?

And and you're North Carolina. You're a basketball school. So you can't just go, oh, I hope Mike Lombardi and other people in my staff will recruit. No. Johnny who's thinking about Ohio State, LSU, and North Carolina, at some point, he's gonna wanna talk to Bill Belichick and hear about it and, like, hear him and, like because he's gonna go, wait.

Wait. Ohio State's offering me $3,000,000. The stadium's way cooler. It's a football school. I'm gonna win the national championship.

All that blah blah blah. Yeah. I know Bill Belichick. I heard of him when I was growing up, but what? Like, what?

So he's gonna have to do that stuff, let alone the coaching hours Stu got.

Yeah.

The brilliance of Stu a a Belichick is his ability to grind film and come up with these creative game plans. In college football, he's gonna have to be elementary for his standards. He won't even get to show you his great wisdom because he's not gonna have enough time to implement this with some of these kids on the college level.

Billy, the good news is that record is staying with Shula, it appears. Like Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. I I I think you're you're you're a dolphin fan, man.

You know?

You're safe. You're safe. Shula's safe. Yep. Shula can Shula can rest easy who, you know, is also 1 that doesn't sound like he's the biggest fan of, Bill Belichick.

Chris, the Tula we've seen the last 4 or 5 weeks, is this the best version of Tula you've seen?

The most efficient? Yeah. I'm not gonna say it's the best. I feel like, you know, those early first year and a half with Mike McDaniel were pretty damn special. And and the fact of the big plays, the way they were executing the offense and all of that.

Now not all of that falls on 2, of course, because people have caught up to the offense and all that. And, you know, what we've said the last few weeks, I think they've changed their philosophy a little bit into, hey. He's our franchise. We're paying him, and we're gonna we're gonna we'll add more plays where we get the ball out of our hands quicker. They're a pain in the ass the way they play that way.

Right? A ball control pass offense, they can chew clock up. If you play zone, they will absolutely pick you apart. There's no doubt about that. And, of course, then if you start to play man to man because you're worried about that, they can still find ways to beat you down the field and find creative ways to get Tyreke and Waddle on the run.

So it's damn good. That's for sure. The Dolphins are you know, it's unfortunate he got hurt because you're a you're a playoff caliber football team that's fighting for their life now just because of that situation.

Chris, I'm wondering how you feel about this because you had a good game on Sunday night. I mean, you had a cute game, Packers, Seahawks, but you don't have a v game. And I don't know why you I don't know why the NFL

What is the game?

What is the game?

Come on. You know what the game is.

I I know. It's you're gonna say Bills Lions, but, you know, I just Eagles Steelers is also pretty big. That's all

I gotta say.

Well, whatever. Regardless, either way, you guys why what did the the NFL let you down by not flexing 1 of these games into Sunday Night Football? Because I feel like Bills Lions is a big 1. Steelers, Eagles,

okay.

Fine. Whatever. But Bills Lions, Chris. I I know. I know.

Josh Allen is so good.

Yeah. Yeah. This just in.

Okay. And he he's like Was that a question? I mean

Like, Josh Allen is 1 of the greatest we've ever seen. Right? I mean, he's 1 of the greatest. Josh Allen is a first ballot hall of famer for for my money. I know he needs the hardware to go along with that, but Josh Allen's 1 of the best quarterbacks I've ever seen in my life.

He's John Elway 30 years later, and, unfortunately, so far, the start of his career is the John Elway story where they just can't win the big game. And it's not because of John Elway. It's because of the rest of the team. And, like, so many times, John Elway went to the Super Bowl and lost, and they're, oh, John Elway can't win the Super Bowl. And then the point was it was like, nobody could have brought those teams to the Super Bowl other than John Elway.

That was it. Because that's where sometimes, you know, people drop the ball on the big picture of what's going on there. Allen's crazy. He's insane. I wish we got that game too.

The the the the flexing stuff, Billy, has become very complicated. I don't really understand all of it. They can protect certain games, CBS and Fox. So I don't know. I'm not complaining.

Ours is pretty damn good. I'll take it. But, yeah, that bills lions game, I I think it'll be a lot like you saw the bills and the Rams last week. It's gonna be a high scoring game. I picked it to be 4138, I believe.

Neither 1 of these defenses will be able to stop the other. The bills defense is not good, and they're definitely not good when McDermott gets put in the bind of you have to stop an equally good run game and pass game. See, he could come up with game plans to stop like, oh, if the team is, like, let's say, Miami, they're really good at throwing the football. I know they're creative running the football, but it's not like they maul you. Right?

They're not gonna maul you. They do it with creativity. So he can hedge on, okay. Yeah. They might get a few good runs or blah blah blah, but we're gonna play to stop the pass because because we don't feel like they're just gonna blow us off the ball all game in the run game.

Right? The Rams can do that. The lions can do that, and the bills can't play man to man. So when teams start to run the ball and they try to play man to man and everybody runs by them. So they're in a tough bind.

They're gonna give up a lot of points this weekend. But with the injuries on the lines and their defense and no big pass rushers on the edge, this is the kind of games Josh Allen can take over. So I expect this 1 to be awesome, Billy, to your point. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm most excited about that game this weekend too.

I I second what you're saying.

To, to what you were saying before, Josh Allen had a game last week that we've never seen from anyone ever. Like, no 1 has had the 3 passing touchdowns, the 3 rushing touchdown. He he was just incredible, And Stu Gots has been making the point all week, and I'm wondering if you will cosign on this. He has said that Sean McDermott, Josh will never win with Sean McDermott as coach.

I I don't I am Chris,

I mean, Chris, that that decision to run the ball on first and goal cost them.

Well, they or

or if

you're gonna run it, just don't call the time out. That I'm with you. I know what you're saying. Get the up off of the quarterback sneak and call another play. The time out was more valuable than anything.

Right? That's your point, and that's where they messed it up. But, yeah, I'm with you. There's there's a 2 or 3 times every year where McDermott kinda has some questionable end of the game decisions. But Billy, I'm a fan of him and his coaching and what he does.

I'm more not a fan of the personnel they've had. That would be my biggest issue. Again, on the defense, who who is there to write home about? Tell me the defense alignment that's gonna ever make a play or the team has to worry about game planning for. Right?

Who is it? Right? Secondary. Can you name a guy in their secondary if I really sit here and talk to you about it? I mean, again, yeah, go ahead, Billy.

Look it up as you're sitting there. That's what you're doing right now. Yeah. A 100%. That's what I mean.

They got Matt Milano, a linebacker, but that's my point, and he's not himself yet. There's not enough dudes there, and that therefore goes into Josh Allen. We gotta outscore against the best teams. Now the differences this year is he's got enough weapons and offense aligned around him to where I do think in these games where we go, oh, Josh Mellon's gotta be superstar and take it over. He can overcome it because there's enough help around him at least on the offensive side of the ball.

I don't think he'll be able to do it this week. He'll keep it close, but I think the lions will win the game.

Chris, are the Eagles the most dysfunctional 11 and 2 team in the history of the NFL?

They're they got some issues. They they they definitely do.

It's crazy, man. Unseating the Eagles of last year,

I think.

Well, this is all what's really coming to light is stuff that really people like myself and a lot of people have known for a while, that there's issues in that locker room. And a lot of them stem around Jalen Hurts. And I I know that from too many people and credible positions. And and I even said on Forio Show the other day. You know, again, he's flown home with the owner on the private plane while the rest of the team goes home on the team plane.

There's just been too many things that like that. He tells them how to run the offense and the offense he wants to run. I mean, he made a quote yesterday that the offense will look how Jalen Hurts wants it to look. That I mean, if that doesn't say at all, I don't know what does. So, yeah, their offense is elementary.

You've heard me. I've been saying that. Then where they get frustrated is when you look at who they've played over the last 8 to 9 games, they've played like the worst defenses in football. If you can pick the worst defenses in football, that's who they've played. Browns, giants, Bengals, Jaguars, Cowboys, Ravens, Panthers.

Okay. The commanders are respectable. The Rams are, like, the 20th something ranked defense in football. So but my point is they know how super talented they are. Right?

When you're on a team like that, the the guys know. And as you've heard me say, it's no doubt the best old line in football. It's those 2 of receivers. It's up there with Waddle and Tyreke for the 2 best tandem in football. Right?

It's the best running back. It's the best defense in football. So it's boiling over because they're going, what? Carolina? What?

We we should be steamrolling them. And I showed that on my podcast yesterday. There's people open. Right? The ball's not being thrown.

The reads are not being made appropriately. Now the good thing is he's not turning the ball over, and that's if he doesn't do that, they're so good. They're still hard to beat with all the problems I'm talking about. But they gotta fix some things on offense. Again, we're holding them to the standard of they gotta try to beat the lions, the Ravens.

Right?

Yep.

Those teams in the Super Bowl. I know they're gonna beat Carolina and some of these other teams when they play b minus football. It's not about that. It's the bigger conversation of winning the Super Bowl that is concerning, I think, with the Eagles altogether.

Who do you like in that game? It is a great game, Steelers and Eagles. Who do you like there?

I I'm gonna take the Eagles. I am. Here's my big thing, especially if Pickens doesn't play. I just think it's gonna be hard for Pittsburgh to move the ball. If Pickens doesn't play, I'm gonna I'm gonna go, woah.

Good luck moving the ball. Because Philly can do everything. Philly can play. They're 1 of the best zone teams in football. They're also 1 of the best man teams in football.

And they're gonna if George Pickens is not there, they're gonna go, oh, we're playing, man. We don't think any of you guys can run away from us. Jalen Carter, in my opinion, is a sneaky defensive MVP, NFL defensive player of the year award. He's he the play up about as much as anybody in football. I don't think they're gonna be able to run the ball.

Now we talked about the concerns with the Eagles offense, and they're not complicated and all that. And the Steelers defense is good, and that's gonna be the big thing. Can the Steelers defense stop that run without having to go all in to stop the run? Right? Can they find ways to stop the run and then help Joey Porter 1 on 1 against AJ Brown outside and some of that?

That's gonna be the real magic of the football game with that, and I don't think so. I just I think the Eagles are another class up from the Steelers talent wise, and I I had them winning 2713 Stugats.

Alright. PFT with Mike Florio, the unbuttoned podcast, and also football night in America, Sunday night football. Final 1 for me here, Chris, are we gonna not care about the Minnesota Vikings right up until the Vikings are playing in the Super Bowl?

I I I mean, I know Debbie. We care. I mean It's the it's the most disrespect at 11 and 2 team I can, you know, ever remember. I'm with you there. I know what you're saying.

Yeah. It's insane.

And no 1

takes them seriously, and I don't know why.

No. I I I I get it. You know, I I think it's, they haven't had as many dominant wins as the Eagles and the Lions and the Ravens and some of the teams that are at the top of football. I think that's part of it. Yeah.

They don't have the shiny, sexy, what everybody deems to be the franchise quarterback. I think there was a question marks about Sam Darnell. Listen. The guy I do pro football talk with, Mike Florio, he's a Vikings fan. He spent 5 weeks saying in the middle of the year going, I think they should trade for Matthew Stafford and put Sam Darnell on the bench.

Right? So it's all of that stuff that just leads to not everybody giving them the love they deserve, and their defense is good, but no marquee star on that side of the ball that I think people can latch on to and talk to. Damn good football team. I expect them to win the wild card round, whatever, wherever that, you know, may end up being. But after that yeah.

And then you get into the the final 4 in the NFC. Right. Okay. Yeah. They can go toe to toe, but I'm certainly I still don't think I'm gonna put them as as far as I think there is a good a team as the Eagles, the lions.

And I think the Packers are more talented too. Not by a lot, but I think they are. But, yeah, we certainly let them fly under the radar a little too much, I think, to your points.

Alright, Chris. We appreciate it. Every single week, PFT with Mike Florio, the unbuttoned podcast, football night in America, and right here, god bless football every single week. Thank you, buddy. Next time you need to fill in, I'll call Billy.

Okay? Mhmm.

Okay. I'll call Billy. Alright. Good luck with the voting. Kick the shit out of that Sims podcast.

Alright, guys? Good luck with that. Vote on god bless football. Okay. Yeah.

Peace out, guys.

See you. Exactly. You're never getting invited to your, Emily Show.

Trying to get him just invited from Christmas now. That's what I'm trying to do.

That'll be great.

See you, man.

Man, the Jets.

Like, it's

What about watch things.

What about them? What about the Jets?

How about Chris?

Well, I

was I was listening to a show preview and the head coaching openings of the off season, and they were just, you know, good job, bad job. Would you if you were a prospective head coach, would you wanna take this job? Who's gonna want the Jets job? Like, that's a tough situation.

But a bunch of people will want that job. No?

That's right.

There's there's a lot of talent. There's just you just have to deal with that only.

Yeah. Anywhere in New York,

there is some talent. There is some talent.

So I suspect that when Carl's got

to go to Carl's got to go to court. So let's

He's dressed up. He is. He's very dressed up. He's ready to go. He's ready to make some picks.

Right, Carl Douglas?

That's exactly right, Stu, guys. Some of us have to dress up for court. You can't just go on a hoodie.

Right. Okay. Speaking of court, Carl, you and I need to speak off air about something. Okay? I'm thinking about suing Major League Baseball.

Alright?

We'll stop. We'll talk.

Okay. Is Mo is Mojo joining today?

We have Mojo's picks and we have Gordy's picks, which is a shame because Gordy went 4 and 1 last week after a 5 and a week the week before. And, and here what's that, Kfeng?

You went 31 and 1. There was a tie last week.

Yeah. The tie asked me.

Okay. Well, yeah.

Notes, Billy. Jordan went 31 and 1. Check this.

I I have him as as 4 and 1, so I'm just gonna give him the 4 and 1 there.

Of course you will, boy. Why why wouldn't you? Ah.

But in doing so, he also he also has extended his lead over K Funk for the final standings here.

How did he how did he get I went undefeated last week, so that's Wow. You did not go undefeated.

You could not have gone undefeated.

You gave extra when Annie jumped over me. That's strange.

Mhmm. Alright. Where is she? Yeah. Where is she?

Hey. You know what's funny, Stu Guts? Is last week, this guy had a 20 minute, like, monolog about how undefeated this and undefeated that, and then I go undefeated, and this guy just starts talking about Gordon.

Well, Carl has to go to court, so we don't have

time for you to get to the pitch here. Here. K. Let's do it.

Carl, lady. Blame me. Blame me. Just blame me. Blame the

black guy.

I swear to life. Yeah.

K, Funk.

And we're used to it. I'm used to it. Listen. We have 1 guy on this battle who has a job. Let's let him get to it.

Right?

That hurts my feelings.

Oh, I'm sorry, Mike. Yeah. Let's, let's get to the games here. We have Ravens at Giants. Giants are well, well, they're a dumpster fire.

They're plus 14a half. They're at home taking on the Ravens. Billy, I'm going to you first for Mojo's picks. Who did Mojo take here? Mojo has the Ravens.

Okay. Who did Gordy take here?

Gordy has the Ravens as well.

Wow. That's a that's a big number. Share Bear going to you here. Ravens at Giants. Giants plus 14a half at home.

What you got?

You know, I'm flying. I'm flying up to New York here

on Friday for the Heisman ceremony on Saturday.

So I'm gonna, I'm gonna go with the Giants. I'm gonna go with the home team, hoping to it's for some some good night, good night fun for the weekend.

Alright. Mike Rollos, who you taking here?

Well, last week, I took the the Eagles to cover a 12 and a half point spread. That didn't work out for me, but they were due for a down game. And I think this week, the Ravens are the opposite. They're coming up, firing off the bye week, so I'm taking the Ravens.

Alright. Carl Douglas, who you taking here? Ravens at Giants? Giants plus 14a half?

That's a lot of points. I lost last week on the points too, Mike, but I'm I agree with you. I'm going with the Ravens off the bye week. I got the ball on my fantasy team.

Alright. Yeah.

Very important. Thank you. K Puck, who do you who do you taking here?

Well, unlike all you guys, I actually took Carolina last week in the points. So, I will I'm gonna give give me 14.

I I can't believe that you're trying to celebrate a tie and and calling it undefeated because you didn't technically lose even though it's a tie.

What is undefeated?

You're celebrating it like you were 5 and o. You weren't 5 and o.

So do

you think the Dolphins

hold on. To Billy's point, do you think the Dolphins would be making such a big deal about the undefeated season if 1 of those games was a tie? The Super Bowl.

All I'm saying is this guy comes on talking about Gordy this, Gordy that. He gave Gordy an extra win for I don't know how he did that. And then and it doesn't even mention that fact that I had no losses last week. It's okay.

He's never been defeated.

It's part of the course. Share Bear had 0 wins. We didn't talk about that. But alright.

I'm sorry. Why would we, though? I mean, Share Bear, we love him.

Oh, John, 1 win. We're not gonna talk about him because it's like

Why why would we do that?

We don't like kicking people when they're down. Right. He's Not here.

Yeah. Well, we have a hockey. We have a hockey.

Kicking when they're down.

Hey. Carl Douglas has to get the court k funk. Alright? Yeah. Colts and Broncos.

Broncos are minus 4 k Funk. Let's go to, let's go to Carl Douglas first. Colts and Broncos Broncos minus 4 at home, Carl.

Broncos are playing a little better. I'll take them and give up the points.

Okay. Mike Rallis, who you taking here? Colts and Broncos Broncos minus 4.

Yep. I'm in lockstep here with Carl, so I'm going Broncos.

Okay. Billy, who did Mojo and Gordy take? They both took the Broncos. Okay. Share Bear, who you taking here?

Hey. I'm taking the Broncos too.

Right. You're hot. I mean, seriously, shit.

On the Broncos. Nice.

K. Funk, are you taking it? Funk?

I'm taking the Colts here. I'm giving the points. Woah. Wow. Yep.

Wow.

I like that. I'm a gator. Stepping out.

Gator. Stepping a Ricard's name like Gator board. Let's do it. Give me the points.

Okay. I will have you know in the next game, which is the game of the weekend, by the way. And there is no 1 better at gambling on this show than Billy Gil.

Stu Gats is better.

That's true.

Yeah. I mean, now Billy Gil is the best. Okay?

Stu's record is impeccable.

I will tell you that earlier today, Billy, I believe, chose the Lions to lose this game. He has the Bills winning the game outright. So it is a big game. It's Bills at Lions. Billy, first, I'm going to you on Mojo and Gordy.

Who did they take?

Mojo has the Lions. Gordy has the Bills.

Wow. So Gordy agreeing with, with Billy. Let's go to ShareBear. ShareBear, who you taking?

I'm actually I was, same thing. I'm agreeing with Gordy and Billy. I'm going with the Bills.

Wow. Incredible. K Funk, who you take it here?

The fucking coin toss.

It's not.

Yeah. It is a coin toss. Come on. This game's tough, man. Give me the Bills.

I mean, it's

minus 2a half, though. I don't know. Alright. Alright. You're taking the Bills here?

Yep.

Okay. Carl, who you taking here?

What's the spread? What's the spread?

Lions minus 2a half, Carl.

Oh, 2a half? Yeah. I went to the game last week and watched my Rams beat the Bills in probably the greatest offensive game of the year. Yep. I'm taking the Lions.

This is the 2 best teams in the league right now. I'm taking the Lions. Give me give me

a point. Alright. Mike Rolles, who you take it?

Yeah. The Lions have been playing with fire a little bit recently, and I think the Bills bounced back from, I mean, a really fun offensive game, but pretty putrid defensive performance. I I when I doubt, I gotta take the points. I'll go Bills.

Take the over take the over too while you're at it.

Yeah. Some bonus advice from you there, k bug?

Is that a lock of the week? Yep.

I'm gonna write that down.

Hold on.

Alright. Yeah.

It's a

it's a defense right

this time.

Wallace is right.

Carl, my biggest bet. Carl, my biggest bet last week was your Rams, man. That was a good

Carl's gotta get to court, Casey.

Hey. Hey. Hey.

Love it. Love it. Great game. Yeah.

Great game. He has no time for you.

Let Carl get to court.

Let's go to the next game here. Packers at Seahawks. Seahawks are plus 2a half at home. I can't figure out the fucking Seahawks, man. They drive me crazy.

Let's go to Mike Rolles first. Michael, you take it here. Packers at Seahawks, Seattle is plus 2a half at home.

Yeah. Heart heartbreaking loss last week for my Cardinals. We're really, you know, really hurt our playoff chances, but there's a sliver of hope. And so I gotta go with my my heart over my head here, and I gotta take the packers. That's who I'm rooting for.

So, I got the packers covering.

Alright. Let's go to Share Bear. Share Bear, who you taking here? Packers at Seahawks. Seahawks plus 2a half.

I have a feeling it's Seattle Space Needle.

It's been a while.

I went against Seattle a couple times, but I'm going with the Space Needle. Exactly. Let's go with Seattle and,

you know, we got we got good it's

probably good weather up there. We're going with them. You

know, they're playing indoors.

Alright. I could've skipped you there.

Are you going to the Heisman, presentations?

Yeah. I'm actually playing pickleball with with, me, Danny, Charlie Ward, Eric Crouch, Tebow, Johnny Rogers, Kim Newton, and then 1 other guy. Let me think who else. 1 1 other, well, 1 other former Heisman I'm playing on Saturday before the thing, and then so it should be pretty cool.

Yes or no from anyone in this group. Charlie Ward is the greatest college quarterback of all time. Mike Rollins? I

mean, other than Tebow or Newton,

but yeah.

No. I disagree. Get out

of here.

No. Tommy Frazier. Tommy Frazier.

Tommy Frazier. He was good.

Okay. He was good.

Carl's getting mad at me. I'm sorry,

Carl. No.

That's too bad. That's

Did everyone pick that, Packers, Seahawks game

to get all

the picks in? No. I didn't pick the game.

No. Carl, did you pick the game? I got sidetracked by Heisman talk. Carl, did you

This is a tough 1, man. The Seahawks let me down. I'm a go with the Packers.

Alright. You're taking the Packers here. Billy, who did Mojo and Gordy take?

Mojo took the Packers. Gordy took the Seahawks. K Funk hasn't picked yet.

Alright. Go ahead, K Funk.

I'm I'm with you real quick. I can't figure out Seattle either. I'll just defensive benefit of the doubt. Give me the Packers.

Alright. Final game. We'll go to Carl first here so we can, he can get out of here. He has he has better things to do. Bears at Vikings.

Vikings are minus 6a half here, Carl. Who you taking?

I'm taking the Vikings. Give him the point. They wouldn't buy a touchdown.

Alright. So the Vikings buy a touchdown. Carl, before you get out of here, would you like to promote your law

firm on the way out?

Certainly. I'm headed right now on behalf of the greatest firm in Southern California, Douglas Hicks Law. We are nationwide. We are worldwide. Douglas Hicks Law.

Happy holidays, everybody. Same

to you, Carl.

Same to you, Carl.

Good luck.

Thank you

very much.

Okay, Carl. I'll talk to you next week about suing Major League Baseball. Okay?

We're talking about it. We're talking about

it. Okay. Bye. Let's let's go to he's in a rush. Let's go to Mike Rawlis here.

Bears at Vikings. Man, it's tough to see you. Mikey A to watch Sam Darnold every single week.

Oh, man. Yeah.

This is tricky. It's hard for us. But the Vikings are 6 and a half point favorites, and it's amazing. The Vikings, as good as they've been, no 1 takes them seriously. So, Mike, who are you taking here?

Vikings minus 6 and a half, with the Bears.

Well, I took the Bears. I thought the Bears might get a little bit of a a bounce, you know, the interim head coach bounce, and they did not last week. So, I mean, that's over. I gotta go with the Vikes here. I mean, the Bears had more I think it was more penalties than yards

in the first half last week. Yep.

5 penalties to 3 yards, something like that. And I just gotta now that Carl's gone and we could take our time a little bit, I gotta throw out an excuse for last week. So last week, I made all of my picks in a British accent. I'm a method actor. Right?

So I'm a method actor. I have to get in the head of a Brit to do that accent. They don't know ball.

You know what

I mean?

They don't know ball, so that's where I went wrong. Right. Only got 1 win, kinda just locked into that 1. But, this week, I'm back in my normal American accent, and I've rolled bikes over theirs.

We're gonna throw that out. No. No. No.

You can

do it in a southern accent where they care about people more than anything. I need southeastern conference.

Well I need

that's what I need now. Alright.

Well acted that next Do you need a second? Do you want No.

Give them a week. Next week. Next week. Give them a week to do this.

Next week, it'll come out with a with a southern accent, but, this is just a little preview for you right here. We're gonna go with the bear. Oh, no. Not not the bear. Sorry.

We're going with the tigers.

Okay. The accent threw you off.

I started to pick wrong again. Jesus.

You just started railing against the bear.

I don't know. I get too

deep into the accent. Yes.

While I

look over that tie, if you want, I could switch your picks from last week, Mike. Yeah.

I might as well. Yeah.

Because he was a different person making the picks.

Yeah. Yes.

I think that's actually that. You

know you know what you know what I'm gonna put? I'm gonna put British Mike, and then that'll just be last week's standings, and then the rest won't go

against you.

British Mike, not great.

And you'll have southern Mike too. You'll have a Nice. Seems to be on board with this. Yeah. Unless he goes 5 and o, and then he wants a Macau for him.

You know?

Right. Yeah. Yeah. Then then same country at least then. You

know what I mean?

K Funk hates us. I mean Yeah.

I mean, I'm I'm too I'm undefeated with 2 chicks at my house.

I'm defeated.

I will I will put that 1 too.

Well, no

one's at your house today. So

Alright. Fine. So last week didn't count for k funk. It just counted for

Oh, good. For 2 chick funk.

Right. Right. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

Now that we got a little now that we got a little time. K funk.

Try. You have the bears and the vikings, k funk.

Yes. Thank you, Billy.

I'll tell you this. Donald will not have 5 touch pass that touch touchdowns this this week for sure. So I'm gonna take the bears. I think their defense is gonna put up a good fight here. Give me the bears.

Alright. You're taking the Bears. Billy, who did Mojo and Gordy take here?

Mojo has the Vikings. Gordy has the Bears.

Alright. We finish up with, with ShareBear. Bears at Vikings. Vikings minus 6a half points.

I and kinda to Raul's strategy of the the interim coach. I feel like it's someone that

takes 2 games. You know? Feel like sometimes the the first game is too quick. So because of that, I like what I saw

with the Bears. Thanksgiving outside the last, you know, possession. I like what Caleb showed, and, I think he

just needs 2 weeks. So, I'm a go

with the Bears. You know? Okay. Alright.

The 2 week interim bounce.

Well, you know, I gotta say that the Thomas Brown has gone from what was he quarterback's coach or passing game coordinator to offensive coordinator and play caller to head coach in a matter of, like, 4 weeks. That's a lot on your plate. So, Cherbert, it might take 2 weeks. It might be a disaster.

Alright. Well, Mike, we look forward to Southern Mike joining us next week. I like the idea of a different accent every

single day.

Yeah. K funk, we love you. We do. I hope you know.

Yeah. Yeah.

I love you guys too.

Maybe Mojo will actually show up next week.

Hold on. He

only had 1 win. So

Carl's gotta get to court, K Funk. Hurry up.

Yeah. Hey, Champagne. Would you like to promote anything on the way out?

I'm good, man. Like I said, I'm happy to be here. So, I'm good to go.

Alright. Enjoy the, Heisman Trophy presentation. Yeah. But You're a baller, Champagne. You really are.

That'd

be nice.

Yep. I

wanna beat

you when

I grow up.

Yeah. Same here. Rawless, anything on the way out?

Rawlessregimen.com. Get a custom program. We'll just tune it to your exact needs.

Alright. And k, Funk, you got anything?

Shout out to this water tomorrow. I am 1 month, no alcohol. I finished my 1 month cleanse.

Yes. Here we go.

You you finished your 1 month cleanse.

What happened the next day?

Well, I don't know. You know what? I might I might keep it for me. I might I might roll it on through New Year's. I feel good.

Let's see. Let's see. Alright.

Well, I'm proud of you, k buddy. K? Thank you. Thank you. Alright.

Alright, guys. We will, we will talk to you next week. This has been great. I look forward to having Mojo and Gordy back hopefully, next week. Stegat here.

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