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I have just been getting nostalgic around here as we say our goodbyes show within a show, a very aggressive, too aggressive. But Mike is fired up because his Browns matter in a way that they have not. You spent last season laughing at him and he's going to be able to laugh at you this season because the Browns are playoff trending.

He's going to have the last laugh. Until I miss the playoffs at 11 five in a pandemic expanded showcase of the playoffs, that would be very Brownes to go 11 and five and missed the playoffs when the playoffs have been expanded. And that's in play.

A student, you have nothing to laugh at because your could do is laughter and that's it. You can't laugh at anybody because your jets were the story yesterday. You could go ahead and celebrate the top of the food chain. If you want Chiefs and ST, I'm going to celebrate the bottom of the food chain. And very soon on January 5th, you will be able to get 10 hours of coverage here on ESPN Radio dissecting what it is that the Jets did daily.

Mike Greenberg, Bart Scott, Keyshawn Johnson. You could talk jets and what they did yesterday. Strogatz was legitimately hurt by yesterday.

I was hurt. I'm still hurt. I am sad. I spent my evening last night looking at Justin Fields. Every game he's played, every snap he's taken. I read topics Qaisi evaluation, Mel Kiper, not a big difference. Did you know between Trevor Lards adjusted fields? I am trying to get to a good place with Justin Fields. That was devastated. I am telling you that felt as bad as any win has felt in terms of feeling good for me.

Getting to a couple of AFC championship games with Mark. You'll wait a minute. Ah, that was pain. Are you trying to say that that's as bad as the Jets have hurt me? Don't tell me about as good as they've made me feel the jets exist to make you feel bad. It's why you always say you hate them. Yes. Are you alleging with a lack of perspective, I'd like you. Can we put together a top five list real quick of Stewart and the times that the Jets have made him feel the worst?

Because I feel like you've selected ten things for this top five list, but I'd like you to get it to tighten it up here so we could do it by the end of the segment. I have a definitive number one that's being up to nothing at the half on the road, 97 in Denver with Keyshawn and testimony.

We lost that game. That's that's that's a definitive No.

One. But fumble is probably.

Yeah, but fumbles and Belichick agreeing to be our coach, then deciding a day later he did not want to be our coach. And then taking the New England job is up there designing on the napkin.

He resign on a napkin or he took the job on a napkin or something like that? Yeah.

Yeah, it was on a napkin. And Sal Alosi is somewhere in there. So so so was the selection of Ken O'Brien over Dan Marino, now a Locy, this special teams coach, do you think people know him by name?

Geno Smith getting his jaw broken.

Right. Marino in the face, the fake spike agent to win a couple of interceptions. Don Shula watering down the Orange Bowl field to the Dolphins of a slower track to play on Rex Ryan's foot fetish. Wrecked right above the Mark Sanchez Sanchez tied to victim Mark Sanchez was the Sanchez. Still calling him Sanjaya. Nothing better has come along not knowing if Sam Darnel is good or not. Case googly eyes, Gregg Williams defense. His eyes. I mean, the GM that hired gays, gays firing that GM and then hiring his own GM and that GM is not going to want to fire gays, I mean.

Having no idea who the owner is ruined, Le'Veon Bell Revis. Well. Naismith on Monday Night Football name into the Hall of Fame, to be quite honest. Smith and pantyhose name with trying to one year our backup quarterback was a punter to.

The year we kind of needed a backup quarterback, we were good that year, and that is who got his top five, top five, the worst the Jets have ever made me feel.

All right. I got to stop the show for just a second for just a fraction of a second, because in getting nostalgic and and saying our goodbyes here and, you know, hugging the mothership here on our way out the door, I have to make the public complaint right now that I believe that ESPN is trying to squeeze us with how cold it is in here and turning off the televisions and and not having a printer that works like, come on, ESPN, we're almost getting to the ending, holding each other, hugging each other.

Strogatz is bringing three jackets into work. We think we're physically being frozen out. The lights are going out around here because somebody didn't pay the TELLA the television bills. Come on, hold on. ESPN get to the ending with me here. Do not free physically freeze us out of our own building. My teeth are chattering. They have been for ten days. Come on ESPN just we can all get to the end of this together lovingly. Mind I leave here every day.

My hands and my feet are frozen. I don't live in winter. We have five days of winter in Miami. There are parts of my closet I haven't been through since nineteen eighty nine. Why is it so cold in here, Mike? I mean, it's unbelievable. Now more lights are going off. Yeah, lights, everything.

Are you guys kidding me? Come on, ESPN, we got a couple we got six terrestrial hours left. Is someone going to unplug like our electricity before it ends here? Trying to avoid that are going to fit in a tick tock by the end of this.

So the air's working. It's just so cold and we have no control over.

Working too well. And also part of it is the studios always used to be so cramped. There were 30 people in here.

No, Mike, this is as cold as it's ever been, though. This is and I'm not saying sort of symbolically, I'm saying we just turn it up.

No, because I've been asking for a thermostat here, Chris.

I've been asking for ten days and nobody knows who's in charge. We just realized that piece by piece, the Disney infrastructure, this sloppy jalopy is being taken apart right in front of you. Like we're going to wheezed to the finish line with, like a wheel flying off the car and into the ocean. The sloppy jalopies got nothing like I'm physically in a meat locker right now saying, Disney, don't take my air.

This say it's the coldest it's ever put in here. By far.

I'm sure the air there was so much warmer when we were at Disney.

I really don't think the thermostat was a line item.

What, you think the satellite TV is worth? Yes. Why is that for sure? Why are there no lines? Why are there no lights in your studio there? Sentence without your teeth? Chattering OK, I'm freezing.

I've left here my my feet in my hands when I leave here. Feel like they're covered in ice. I've asked Danny several times about it. He's like, I don't work for you anymore.

I mean, what's it going to be like? That one lonely shell when we come back January 4th, is anything going to be on?

Are we going to be doing it in the dark? Well, Mike, what kind of confidence, what kind of confidence do you have that we have the infrastructure right now to do anything after January 4th? You want to do something on the 5th, you're married to doing something on the fifth, we may have to do something along the 8th, but Dan wants to do something on the Fed.

Yeah, I know. I've made that known. It's a very aggressive timetable. Chris, what are you laughing at?

So you think this sloppy jalopy is immediately going to, like, try and take off January 5th and careen into a ditch and not be able to get on the air?

It's like a whack a mole and you think you got something for the fifth and then something else.

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I say, come on, C, I'm not going to do the show in the dark. We're going to do the show in the dark the rest of the way. All right. ESPN plus the shows in the dark. I don't know. Just let me know. Just keep them off. It works better if I'm railing against the lights. We need an enemy.

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The guy went on to make hundreds of millions of dollars.

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I mean, there's a hundred things in it. I mean, you give me the Marine billboards. I'm sorry. Wait, hold on. Hold on.

Hold that Reed couldn't have been any any less heartfelt that read you you paused scared of like seven different spots in that read. And it didn't sound at all like that was coming from your heart. It sounded like you were reading very poorly. It sounded like you would read if you were not a professional broadcast.

It was. I owe everyone an apology. I mean, I'm sorry and I owe you two dollars. I mean, I'm blaming everyone. That's that's totally on me.

I'm just there's there's a lot of billboards. Where are the two dollars? I don't have any money. Unfortunately, there's money on the car.

No, no, that no, you said you said earlier in the show we're even on that you now owed three more dollars. How? You owe three more dollars once and I and you don't have money. So it's three dollars IOU. You, Mike three dollars. Got his weekend observations are coming up in about ten minutes. I love that this late in life, Dan Rather wants to get into the hot take game, he has twice had strong opinions on the sports conversations of the weekend, which were Randy Moss saying that the best receivers are him, T.O. We're going out here with the dumbest stuff, two guys where we're ending our ESPN reign here with the dumbest of stuff.

The it is Randy Moss saying I'm the best theos, the second best Jerry Rice's third. And Dan Rather says none. Yeah.

And then some of you are we're already old enough to do this one. People are blaspheming Tim Duncan saying Anthony Davis might be better than Tim Duncan. And then all of a sudden you sit down whippersnapper. I know that you think there's Tim Duncan, just an assistant coach over here for the Spurs, but there's no way Anthony Davis can be considered as good as Tim Duncan, even though he's bigger than Tim Duncan and does things from range that Tim Duncan could never have done.

The big fundamental.

Yeah, the quaint two point shot. I just had a conversation off the glass. Listen, I just had a conversation. Forgot this was funny. The guy who is cited in sports, if I tell people in sports, hey, give me an athlete. Most likely to be metrics and data driven because he's smart and he cares about getting advantages in every small place, very high on that list is going to be Shane Battier. OK, yeah. Yeah.

And I was talking to Shane Battier about regrets and he's like, I'm the smart basketball player. I'm the guy from Duke. We were in the post trying to get to. I should have been shooting 15 times a game from three, like, what was what was I doing? And it makes me wonder, stigmatises you see what's happening in Philadelphia with the Eagles. Are we seeing now the evolution of that position and things in real time where people are deciding because Jalen Hurts is super limited right now.

But they gave Carson Wentz all this money for three years. He's never had a four touchdown game. Jalen Hurts had a four touchdown game yesterday.

What does any of this have to do with Tim Duncan? The big fundamental and totally fair, totally fair, but Dan Rather says that Tim Duncan, he's right, is better than Anthony Davis. He's right. I'm just liking that. Dan Rather wants in on these conversations. Dan Rather is here is the final word. Mike, I'm totally good. Are we good getting Dan Rather? It's been a long time since we used to talk to Dan Rather all the time.

I'm totally good having Dan Rather close out his career by being the guy who just settled sports debates for us because he's Dan Rather, like the last stop. Where to go.

We haven't talked to Dan Rather in how many years. He's a he's a he's a treasure. He's an international and national treasure. Why don't we have Dan Rather on?

Because he's not on TV anymore. And no. No Superman. Right.

I used to email HD net, but I think Dan just wants to have Rather because he's an old friend of the show.

Do you remember HD Net? It was a channel and its whole draw was it's in HD. Yeah, and so Dan Rather's not on television anymore, and so what are you saying, that when the elevator pitch are you saying to me as we look over this particular cliff, that when you're not on television anymore, people don't want to talk to you or listen to what you have to say anymore?

Take note. I hadn't considered that. What have we done?

To God, we can do God's favorite time of the day. Observations are next. You do agree with rather that, right? I mean thunking. Donkin, one Beeble Championship's Anthony Davis had to go to LeBron to win his championship, you know, do you agree with that? That's all I want to now say.

You're trying to get me into a sports argument. I don't care is what I would say to you. Whether Tebow is better than Randy Moss is better than Jerry Rice. How do we get from Duncan to Jalen hurt?

It's a good point. It's a good point. Well, through Shane Battier, clearly.

Oh, right. I forgot that bridge.

I was the Shane Battier Bridge. How did you not see it? Don Lemon tart, Aaron Rodgers, can you give me an example of if we were scientifically testing your accuracy, something that you could do that's ridiculous, that people don't understand the accuracy of it?

Strogatz Did you see the two Hail Marys last year?

Why not you?

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Oh, that's just how they get out of here. Listen to her just giggling as she scurries out of football. She does have football team through godson's weekend observations. Don't get emotional, but this is the second to last, the second to last through Godse weekend observations that will ever appear at ESPN, the penultimate. We have only two more of these. I have to keep doing these still ghazi's weekend observations.

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Goodbye, Trevor Lawrence. Hello. Justin Fields, Jimbo Fisher said something's wrong if Texas A&M isn't in the college football playoff. He's right, Jimbo. What's wrong is when you played Alabama, your team lost fifty two to twenty four. A committee of so-called experts sat there, watched the Big Ten championship game and said, without question, Ohio State is one of the four best teams in the country. Get out of here. Oh, how Ohio State.

Rather than worrying about your logo being on the field, how about you worry about your opponents on the field? Yes. He told you was before the game. They ended up winning poorly. It worked out. He told you anyone aurally good luck beating Clemson. Let me know what happens. I won't be watching. If you looked up Oklahoma football in the dictionary, the definition would be eight and two big twelve champs. That should close the book on Notre Dame.

It really should. I was reading that.

That was that was the that was I'm not saying that was the highlight of the weekend right there, pouring it in the face of Notre Dame fans. All right, you guys, get out of here. You and Brian Kelly. Yeah, Brian, we know you won't play in the playoffs unless families are allowed to be there, OK? Now, none of you are allowed to be there. All of you get out of here. You and your families take a walk.

But there ain't no of course, there it is. We're just making it up. We're just pretending as if they deserve to be there more than coastal Carolina, Cincinnati or San Jose State. They only deserve to be there more because Brian Kelly, bloated religious school. Brian Kelly, before worrying about whether or not the parents can attend your playoff game, here's an idea. Make the playoffs. I'm sorry I took that joke from you. Stole my thunder.

That's all right. That's a good observation. You and I had the same observation, but it makes me feel good bills starting to peak at the right time. Then Josh Allen nailed it. I don't want to put too much pressure on Charlie Woods, but I think he might be better than his dad, Chris Cody, the old Charlie Woods.

An apology. I feel like you do.

Just saying his dad was a lot better at age five, Ohio State, the rare win that kind of felt like a loss report once. Not interested in being a backup, Carson. Here's some advice. When you get a chance to start again, don't suck. Really. Go Rudy Gobert. What happened there. Good advice. I mean it is right.

If he follows your advice he will be better off than he is right now. Seems like he's a long ways away from starting again doesn't it. Yes. Rudy Gobert signed a two hundred and five million dollar contract over the weekend. Speaking of coming a long way, he's come a very long way since George Sedano wanted him suspended for testing positive for covid-19 Great Entertainer of the Year.

I want to take on the one incident.

On one hand Rudy Gobert suspended for getting the virus and then everyone got it Karakas it the mystery continues Brads business trip Baker Mayfield Good dude Matt Ryan Deja vu Is it still Antonio Brown's fault too. Would you blame the Dolphins if they still had no clue that would you Dana. I would not. OK, good.

If you really watch college football this season, I mean really watch paid attention, you watch like I have. You know, the Florida Gators are one of the four best teams in the country. Florida still wouldn't beat Notre Dame, though. Florida would beat Ohio State. And if give it another opportunity, perhaps Florida would beat the University of Alabama. Can't stop anybody. They can't be stopped either, though. That's true. Yeah. The Dolphins have more than enough to move up to number two in the draft.

Just say Army Air Force Ten seven. That's football.

You are longing for the thirty seven passing yards of Army Navy the other day.

And now Air Force started swinging the ball around ten seven at football at LSU, the rare fifty burger with a side of meaningless Mississippi state, the rare fifty burger with a side of even more meaningless Penn State, the rare fifty burger with a side of the most meaningless in the history of college football. Don't allow parents. I'm begging you. It's the only shot we have of Brian Kelly and Notre Dame not showing up again. You stole my thunder. I'm sorry.

Actually, they proved Saturday they are plenty capable of not showing up on their own. Oh, James Vardy had himself a party. Don't look now, but here comes Leicester City. The Foxes party party is Jamie Vardy.

What did I say? Call them James already. Big game. James Gore.

Quite honestly, I'm stunned. You've got Leicester City, so I usually like their food. Right, Gore? Yeah. Happy now do me a favor. Run three point six yards at a time into a brick wall. Sorry, because he's the guy he didn't want to go at sixteen. Everyone else did. Yeah, he had a game yesterday. College Football Committee. I have a committee who ranks things I'm not going to watch on TV. Guess who was number one this week.

Your playoff more to lead. Please wonder what the big debate on social media regarding Aqib Talib was about. And I wonder who was having it. Joe Banner took to Twitter to criticize a to lead Joe Banner. Criticizing how someone is on TV is almost as laughable as Joe Banner criticizing a front office on how to build a team. Dan. You know what the see and Carson one stands for no clipboard o clipboard when the Titans did what the Titans do, I don't know what that means, but it just felt like the Titans did what the Titans do.

Great. It appears the Chiefs also have a defense. Sean Payton, I warned you. Dangerous game fire mikveh. The Jets win was the worst loss in franchise history. The Jaguars just wanted it more. Wait a second. Does that mean the Jets were trying to beat the Raiders? Aaron Rodgers has forty touchdowns and four interceptions. Trevor Lawrence, enjoy living in London. Better than Jacksonville, though, which is slightly better than hell. I had better speak to hell or brielle's than those other weekend observations.

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On time they finally got it done correctly one time in the history of the show. What are we going to do for an encore next week? Don Lemon tart, why do people still use yellow highlighters, pink highlighters, purple highlighters, blue highlighters, green highlighters, orange highlighters? Why are people using yellow highlighters more?

It's this this is. Are you another one? I love T.J. Carletti. So does. Oh, to God, the best. This is what I do, I yell fire emoji, fireworks, flames, boom.

Derek Jeter, I made him a New Yorker Moreland's. I don't have much else than this. We probably shouldn't have broke ten minutes early. Last segment really threw off the clocks here. Now we have to fill for another 15 minutes.

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ESPN Radio is presented by Progressive Insurance News from the Dan Labrada Show Nation. Someone has just hit us up on the Dr Pepper Twitter feed. Joe W. Jim and. At Jol, she updates us where Dan Rather is currently employ the same channel, but with a different name as it's no longer called HD Net. It is now called Axis TV and rather is still on it. Billy, are you ashamed of the rejoinder that we just played, I feel like you were not very confident listening to your own voice, you seemed to shrink a little bit, feeling like the thing that was being played in the rejoin there didn't hold up.

Where was that shame I saw in your face? Absolutely.

I mean, it happens to me a lot when I hear things, I'm like, that was not the best. I get ashamed a lot when I hear rejoined, et cetera. But that was I mean, two of the worst impressions in the history of this show was my Azeez and Chris J. Kalat and then the two of them together. Oh, what a perfect storm. No wonder they canceled the local hour from live radio.

And I think Roy's a shame because he clearly told me that was pronounced access TV and I gave it access TV. Sorry. Right.

Speak for yourself. Yeah, I don't think Chris. I don't think Chris. Chris was beaming during he looked a bit radiant listening to his deejay. Kalid, I feel like you're dragging him into your shame when he's not ashamed of his impersonation.

He has. That's the God's gift of not really, you know, feeling when things are not going well.

The great Chris, I will tell you who I miss. We have not heard in way too long from Dr. Phil. I your your Dr. Phil.. I believe that that is your impersonation. In fact, we've gotten away entirely from all of your impersonations. But, Billy, I had meant to ask you, you were making fun of Chris because he bought a book. You and him have a funny dynamic. What what were you surprised that he bought a book?

He was telling us the other day that he bought a book and that he had read 68 pages of the book. And we ask him what you what you learned? What's the book about? He's like, honestly, not that much so far. It's been a lot of building up. I'm like, I feel like the book can build up in less than sixty eight pages because you're not because he was telling us it's such a great book. I'm going to learn so much because Chris has a side hustle going on right now and I'm not sure if he wants us to reveal what that is.

So this book is helping him study for that side hustle. And I'm like, OK, like this.

No, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait. I want to know. Yes, we got to stop right there. What what is it?

I'm all right. Listen, I am fine with a good side.

Is there. Yes. Yes. Cameo, if you're listening to God's ears open for business on side hustles. But Billy, I need this now. You can't tell the audience you can't do what you just did to the audience. What is the side hustle?

Well, I mean, I feel like it's Chris's side hustle to reveal. He's hinted at it in the past. But what's the book, Billy?

Just just call me Chris Buffett. Chris Buffett, you've got an entrepreneurial call, you Chris Buffet. Yeah, it's easy. You walked right into that. Really? Did you spell it? You spell it as buffet. What is the side? Hustle, please visit buffet. I just I've just been learning about the stock market.

I'm interested in the stock market. That's it. With overseas trading, which seems dangerous day trading, it just seems like gambling. It seems like another way to gamble, you guys.

It's it's just gambling that's allowed. It's gambling that makes you less dirty than when you go to the poker room and cocaine and legalized gambling when you're betting the ponies in Australia because you don't think Bill is right, though I've gotten up to like 79 pages after the weekend and it's going well.

We should do we should like reading. You know, Chris, the oafs, Chris, the oafs gambling show is what it is that we need to know, need to do, because Chris tried to hone in. Mike, what happened here? I think he's ruined it. I mean, again, was to open one for us this week. But now Chris is asking for stuff. And what happened here? I don't want him near the secret juju.

Remember GK? We did it on a local our we wanted to start feeding G.K, but GECAS pick lined up with Mackays Pinck so he didn't pay G.K and not a winner with them.

I got it. I know I don't like it. Don't like it.