Playoff Preview, Rest vs. Records, and Blind Ranking the Best Plays of the NFL Season | Ep 118

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Speaker 1 Being in company with a guy like Tony G has got to be just like surreal, but I got to say, fuck that, dude. You're the fucking receiving touchdown leader in Kansas City.
Chiefs, fucking history.

Speaker 1 Welcome back to New Heights, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 Happy motherfucking new year. How about that?

Speaker 1 Is it too late to say that? No, it's great. It is great.
It is. I haven't seen you guys in so long.
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Speaker 1 Jason, tell the people what we got coming up. We're back.
Yes, yes. I hope the 92%ers have loved the holidays and a Happy New Year's.
But what's the cutoff for saying Happy New Year?

Speaker 1 Just whenever you see somebody within the month of January, I think is a good happy new year. Man, it's maybe two weeks.

Speaker 1 I think we're like two weeks.

Speaker 1 You got to be within the same week of the Happy New Year. No.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 I'm a big general, like,

Speaker 1 yeah, yeah, and Happy New Year. Happy New Year.
It's the 10th. I mean, we still got a good 50 weeks left.
We got a lot. Yeah.
Yeah. All right.
I don't know what else to go with it for that. All right.

Speaker 1 Today we are going to talk about what we've been up to, wrap up last week of the NFL regular season. Look ahead to the wild card.
So much to talk about. So much.

Speaker 1 And also, we're going to try and rank the plays of the year. Ooh.
All right. Guard rank them things.
Let's see how that goes. I like that.
We did that for the Christmas movies. Ended up pretty good.

Speaker 1 All right. All right.

Speaker 1 As always.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 new news.

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We're dropping some new merch from homage. Yes, we are.
It's our ultimate fan favorites collection.

Speaker 1 I think we got Jets Jake here. He's got some of these shirts.
He was in town for the first taping of the late night show. Yep.
As a water boy. And now

Speaker 1 he's going to show us some of these shirts. How about that? Oh, is this Vanna White or is this Jets Jake?

Speaker 1 I know which one I think is better looking.

Speaker 1 There we go. Out of the house.
Couple options. Couple options for out of the house.
Dude, I love those. I love those.
What do we got? Nice. What else we got? A little new heights.

Speaker 1 Cool, nice. Club 92.
Shout out to all our Club 92 members. We're bringing back some fan favorites.
We got the beard. Ooh, yeah.

Speaker 1 That's Travis. No, that's you, Jason.
Stop. Stop it.

Speaker 1 My beard isn't that dark.

Speaker 1 El Trevedor.

Speaker 1 El Trevidor. And then we got what you're wearing.
Oh, what I'm wearing? Oh, New Heights Film Club. Yes, sir.
I like this. Oh, that one's sweet.
I want that one.

Speaker 1 Do I get any of these? They didn't tell me if you were getting them or not. I'll check the mail.
They're at your house. Oh, nice.
Well, as you just said,

Speaker 1 yeah, this is our ultimate fan favorites collection. The official shirt of Leaving the House.
Is this official? You did?

Speaker 1 Do we need a shirt for staying the fuck inside the house? As is all of Kansas City right now because of this crazy snowstorm.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm kind of sick of that. I'm already sick of it.
So, no, I'm going to say, no, we need more out-of-the-house t-shirts, more out-of-the-house mentalities

Speaker 1 to

Speaker 1 keep this city thriving. You know, it's playoff football.
We got to get the fuck out of the house. I'm with that.
I'm with that.

Speaker 1 You can check out our ultimate fan collection right now at homage.com slash new heights. You heard the man.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 let's catch up on some holiday stuff. Did you guys watch any of the college football playoffs? This is Brandon asking us.

Speaker 1 Jason, did you watch any of the college football playoffs? I am not going to lie. I've watched none of the football playoffs for nice.

Speaker 1 Did you watch any of the holiday football NFL games? I did watch a lot of the holiday football NFL games. Nice.
Including the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, you did.
That was a good one.

Speaker 1 That was a good one. That was a fun one.
Very good one. By the way, you had a new pair of cleats on.
We talked about this. New pair of cleats.
There was a new pair of cleats. Same pair of cleats.

Speaker 1 It was a solid red. No, that was a different pair.
Oh, a different colorway. Nice.

Speaker 1 Same cleats. Different colorway.

Speaker 1 It looked like a little bit higher top. I think it was a different pair of cleats.

Speaker 1 A little bit more of a boo? Yeah. You're hilarious.
I'm pretty sure Jordan makes them the exact same when they make them. They just switch the color out.
But no, I hear what you're saying.

Speaker 1 Sometimes it's doesn't make a difference. You think I looked a little lighter? A little quicker? You looked pretty quick out there.
You had some good agile.

Speaker 1 Somebody said it looks like I'm moving in slow motion. That's a different cleat right there.
That's the exact same cleat that I've been wearing all year. No, that's look at that.
It's shinier.

Speaker 1 It's got like a plastic

Speaker 1 plastic around it. It's padded and leather, baby.
Ain't nothing like a Jordan 11 with some padded leather on it. Let's keep those up.
Let's keep wearing those.

Speaker 1 You don't like the other ones? Yeah, no.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, they didn't like you either.
How about those Texas Longhorns?

Speaker 1 we know who put that in the rundown to shout out to the longhorns i'm not a longhorn hater i got some friends and and 92 percenters want to know uh did you watch the mayo bowl jason your favorite i watched the clips of all the ridiculousness from the mayo bowl but i did not watch the mayo the dukes mayo bowl itself uh i think interim brandon has a video the patented that's not

Speaker 1 get it off the screen

Speaker 1 Wow. I mean, it's just a waste.
Oh, I'm sweating. Get it off the screen.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's in his hair. What do you think, countries that are struggling? Ah, not again.

Speaker 1 What do you think, countries that are that are like struggling for

Speaker 1 like food?

Speaker 1 Watch something like that and it's just like

Speaker 1 how many eggs went into that

Speaker 1 water cooler of mayonnaise that we just decided to dump all over somebody's head? I mean, that's what dad mentioned all our childhood is that there's kids starving.

Speaker 1 Starving in China, which I think China is a lot different spot than it was when we were kids. But I think, I don't know if that one still works.
There's kids starving in every country at some level.

Speaker 1 I think that's probably true. That's probably accurate.
That's just kind of how the world goes, unfortunately. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But it's our job to help them by eating all our food. At least that's the message dad.

Speaker 1 That was what we were told.

Speaker 1 To be grateful. Anyways, no, we did not watch the Mayo Bowl.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of funny bits that they do with mayonnaise, though. I got to admit to that.
No, the best was the Pop-Tar bowl.

Speaker 1 Can we get out of Mayo?

Speaker 1 God. What the fuck is that? They're like bobbing for something.

Speaker 1 What are they bobbing for?

Speaker 1 I'm not going to lie, man. I love mayonnaise.
This is fucking gross.

Speaker 1 Like, it is just...

Speaker 1 It's very hard to...

Speaker 1 Get this shit out of here, man. God damn it.
Oh, my gosh.

Speaker 1 It is fucking...

Speaker 1 We're going in face first. Could you imagine getting that shit up your nose? Man-oh, man.

Speaker 1 God damn it. I'm going to shut the fucking computer down if you do anything more with Mayo.
I mean, that's not a challenge you want to do.

Speaker 1 I feel like we got another Mayo thing coming up, but that's...

Speaker 1 I don't want to know any more. I'm kind of over it too, but now I just kind of want to see.

Speaker 1 All right, that's it. All right.
That's the last of the Mayo. All right, man.

Speaker 1 What the fuck is that? Those potatoes. They were getting potatoes out of there? It's fascinating.

Speaker 1 I don't know where to even go. Brandon said the Pop-Tart bowl was good, though.
I thought they had the coolest mascots. The The mascot was fucking around.

Speaker 1 They had the unveiling of it, like the ripping of the foil. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What was your favorite Pop-Tart growing up?

Speaker 1 Pop-free for Pop-Tart. If we're not counting toaster Strudel.
No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 I'm talking flavor of like the out-of-the-wrapper Pop-Tart, Silver Rock. I mean, listen, it's hard to go wrong with the strawberry, but the brown, the...
Fuck, that's so good. The brown, what was it?

Speaker 1 The brown sugar one was like a nice change up. I didn't like it all the time, but when I had had strawberry too many times in a row, it was like a good little switch-up.
It was a nice curveball. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Was that what that was? Was it brown sugar? I think it was brown sugar, right? It was, there was, there was a brown sugar one. I think there was a s'mores one.

Speaker 1 I don't fuck with s'mores. For some reason, I am not a big

Speaker 1 s'mores guy. No, not flavored.
And really, if I'm being honest, not even like making them. It's just the messy.
I just get marshmallow all over my beard. Yeah, it's fun by a campfire, though.

Speaker 1 Dude, there was the sneaky one that came in as we were just like getting too old to eat Pop-Tarts every day. You got to go the blueberry one,

Speaker 1 Wildberry. Wildberry, yeah.
It was purple with purple icing. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Dude. It's a good one.
It's a very good one. Fucking crack.

Speaker 1 Could you imagine a childhood without those? I don't know. By the way, I saw one of the most disturbing videos ever of somebody torching Oreos.
Torching? I saw that. I saw it where it's just like...

Speaker 1 It's basically flame retardant. Are you fucking kidding me? Listen, man.
So what happens

Speaker 1 when you eat heavily processed food, it's pretty resistant. It's a resistant material.

Speaker 1 It was torching an Oreo for like fucking 30 seconds.

Speaker 1 And the Oreo did not fucking even catch on fire. No, it was like a heat shield.
It like deflected it.

Speaker 1 It looked like the Oreo was entering Earth's atmosphere. And it was just like plummeting and was not disintegrating.
It was just fighting off.

Speaker 1 Basically,

Speaker 1 it was a comet.

Speaker 1 If you threw an Oreo out of the space station, eventually

Speaker 1 it would land. It wouldn't burn up in Earth's orbit, which is crazy to think about.
They should just cover the space shuttles.

Speaker 1 I don't know why. I can't eat them now.
I can't. I feel like I'm just doing

Speaker 1 something so bad to my body. And I used to eat them by the fucking sleeve.
Bro, by the sleeve.

Speaker 1 Moving on, Jason is officially a late night TV host. That's right.
They call call it late night.

Speaker 1 They call it late night premiered last weekend. Yes, it did.
That it did. How'd it go, dude? How'd it feel to be live? Well, it just, you know, did it look at the camera and played to the audience.

Speaker 1 It did everything that every late night show told me not to do. So that was perfect.

Speaker 1 No, it was good. I mean, listen, I think

Speaker 1 we had Charles Barkley. Fuck yeah, you did.
Lil Dickie

Speaker 1 and Brian Baldinger. The crowd was electric.

Speaker 1 I love that. It was a lot of fun in the venue.
And you do that in Philly, right? We do it in Philly. Yep.
Union Transfer. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, we tried some delightfully stupid comedy bits that were fun to try. And we did some panel discussions.

Speaker 1 And we had a fan contest for chug and beer to see who won who got some tickets to the Super Bowl. I love that, man.
I don't know. I'm learning.
It was a good experience.

Speaker 1 I talked to my man Scott Van Pelt, and he was, you know, just like, it's exciting to start something new, right?

Speaker 1 And you're, you're, you, you've worked a lot to get there, and then you, you just keep on figuring it out. So it was a, it was a great time.
The guests were fantastic. The crowd was into it.

Speaker 1 So I just want to thank everybody because I had a blast. As long as you're having fun doing it, man, that's all I've done.

Speaker 1 Listen, all I'm doing, I can't say it on this because the Will Farrell thing comes out on Friday, but we're going full set. That's all I felt.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Listen, everybody loves when Jason goes full set.

Speaker 1 We got Joe Buck and Michelle Beisnerbuck coming on the show this week. Oh, it's gonna be awesome.
So that was fun.

Speaker 1 Man,

Speaker 1 you have to ask them about what happened at the U.S. Super Bowl

Speaker 1 in 2019. We're not getting into this.

Speaker 1 I felt so bad, dude.

Speaker 1 Get me out of here, man. Sorry about that, Joe.
I love you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and

Speaker 1 is this, are we catching up with what are uh

Speaker 1 what did I? I went, uh, i didn't do anything for new year's uh stuck working on new year's eve and new year's and

Speaker 1 yeah that's all i got well you went to new york i did go to new york i had some delicious food and got to see the big city which i fucking absolutely love love the big city all right well uh last bit of new news we're back with not just one episode this week with two oh yeah that's right you're gonna get two new episodes of new heights this week this friday we will drop a guest episode with the one and only Will Farrell.

Speaker 1 Ah, favorite part of the combo. I do know.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Dude, I mean,

Speaker 1 I think his advice struck both of us as like gold. Yeah.
And

Speaker 1 we'll let you guys catch up on that if they didn't already just completely delete it out of the scene.

Speaker 1 It was so fun to reminisce about all the characters he's played, like, and to hear how he got started in it and

Speaker 1 and just advice on you know how to be successful and funny let's not kid ourselves the best part of the show was him answering some of our new heights call-ins voice gear um you're right it was and you guys are not gonna wanna you're not gonna want to miss that we got to see will ferrell in action in person off the cuff we got to see

Speaker 1 you know

Speaker 1 Anyways, okay, I don't want to talk.

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Moving on to bold topics to wrap up week 18 in the NFL.

Speaker 1 All righty, week 18.

Speaker 1 The Kansas City Chiefs are in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, here's what the Chiefs have been up to since we recorded our last episode. Travis is now the all-time leader in receiving touchdowns for the Kansas City Chiefs.
How's it feel, Bubba? Huh?

Speaker 1 It feels about the same as when I was tied with Tony G in touchdowns.

Speaker 1 I've been very, you know, I feel like towards the end of your career,

Speaker 1 when you hit these milestones of, you know, anybody playing past 10 years is going to hit some type of milestone, whether it's games played or whatever it is statistically.

Speaker 1 And, you know, it's cool, but I'm. It's cool being recognized for, you know, whether it's just greatness of being out there on the field or touchdowns or something stats or something like that.

Speaker 1 But I feel like I'm in such a mode of like trying to be, trying to be better than I was yesterday. I've just, I'm always thinking of, I need to be better.
I need to be better.

Speaker 1 That when I pass or I do something like this, where I hit a, a big milestone in my career, I'm just like, yeah, but I, I need to be better than that.

Speaker 1 I need to be, you know, I'm, I'm not about to sit here and, and think about, you know,

Speaker 1 how far I've come when I'm, I'm still striving to go somewhere that's even greater than where I'm at. Over the past, like when I first got in the league, stats were fucked.
I mean, that's everything.

Speaker 1 That's how I judged somebody's, you know,

Speaker 1 greatness. And I think it just goes so much further than that for me now.

Speaker 1 You know, not necessarily because I'm not putting up the same stats as I used to, but more so is I know how to influence a game more than just what the stat book says. Sure.

Speaker 1 And I've kind of pride myself on that now. And

Speaker 1 it's just, it's, when I, when I see that I've achieved stats like this, it's kind of like, yeah, man, it's cool to, it's cool to be in the conversations of the great ones like Tony Gonzalez.

Speaker 1 And don't get me wrong, this is only what Tony accumulated in Kansas City. I'm still like another 100 or 40 touchdowns away from catching his all-time

Speaker 1 career touchdown record or touchdowns.

Speaker 1 It's cool to be in conversations with him, knowing that he's been the guy that I've set at the top that I've been chasing in terms of his greatness every single day.

Speaker 1 I remember the legend of Tony when I first got here, just trying to fill his shoes in terms of how hard of a worker he was.

Speaker 1 Everyone raved about, you know, the time he spent in the building, the focus he had on his nutrition,

Speaker 1 the amount of hours and the amount of catches that he had on the jugs before practice, after practice, when guys weren't in the building and things like that. And it's just the legend of him was

Speaker 1 so unachievable that I just started to like every single day try and become that version of myself.

Speaker 1 Just spend the time in the building. Find ways to keep getting better and find ways to, you know, be the best version of yourself.
And I'm just so fortunate that I had Tony G

Speaker 1 sitting on top of the pedestal and trying to fill his shoes my entire career because I think that helped me motivate myself and helped me really appreciate the situation I was in here in Kansas City.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, listen, I think...

Speaker 1 I think you and I are both on the same page with stats. I mean, you coined the whole term LeBron stat.

Speaker 1 I think that they can be very misleading at times and not telling the whole picture. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, being in company with a guy like Tony G has got to be just like incredibly surreal, especially from like watching him play and knowing how dominant he was. But I got to say, fuck that, dude.

Speaker 1 You're the fucking touchdown, receiving touchdown leader in Kansas City Chiefs. Fucking history.
That's fucking crazy.

Speaker 1 that's an entire franchise's history you're the number one receiving and i know that it's been building up so it's not like you know it's come out of nowhere but i think when you look back to being a third-round pick when you look back to like in college you know you know having struggles or whatever playing quarterback then going to tight end it's just been a crazy career arc yeah and it's something that i think is awesome and i couldn't be more proud of you for having that record shout out to tony formerly having it.

Speaker 1 And obviously, he went on to have more successful things in other teams, but I ain't shortchanging this shit worth one goddamn second. This ain't a LeBron stat.

Speaker 1 This is a Travis Kelsey stat, and it's fucking dope. I appreciate you, brother.
Tony G said he'd pay the fine if you did this. You went up and dunked in Tony G fashion on the goalpost.

Speaker 1 Sort of. Did you get fined?

Speaker 1 Did the NFL determine it to be a dunk?

Speaker 1 That's the real question. Who cares what anybody else says? Did John Runyon say it's a fine? He did.
Yeah, they all did. They said since I touched the goalpost,

Speaker 1 it was a fine, yeah. When you were doing it, were you trying to throw it up to avoid the fine or were you trying to dunk it? Trying to get my fucking old ass up there, man.
Shit.

Speaker 1 Fourth quarter of the game, my fucking legs are tired after like a

Speaker 1 10-play drive. I'm over here trying to just like, I'm just like, screw it.
I'm going to send it one time for

Speaker 1 old time's sake, man.

Speaker 1 That looked like a Jason Kelsey attempted Doug right there. Yeah, that was me slapping the backboard.
That wasn't me actually flushing it.

Speaker 1 It was the McAfee said it best. It was the angle.
I got to come around. I got to hit that thing straight on.
It was a funny angle. It was a funny angle.
You went from the baseline.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was back in the day when I actually had

Speaker 1 bounce, man. I could no matter what angle it was.
You got some clips for sure. Yeah, I don't know where they are, but they're out there somewhere.
They're on a VHS tape somewhere.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the NFL has announced that it is a $14,069.

Speaker 1 Is that in honor of John Runyon? The $69 at the end?

Speaker 1 $14,069 for unsportsmanlike conduct. I think repeat offender.
I think I'm a repeat offender. That's why it's so high.
Ah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That'll get you in America.
That's where they get you. Yeah, that'll get you.
They get you on the repeat offender in America. Oh, and Tony, last thing, you don't have to do that, dude.

Speaker 1 It was so cool to hear you even say it, dude, But you don't have to help me pay that fine. It's all going to good cause.
And Jason said he'd pay it. I did not say that.

Speaker 1 Dude, you literally just said it. No.
We've recorded everything. So

Speaker 1 we can definitely. Please play it back where I have said that.
All right. We'll love to see it.
We'll do.

Speaker 1 Good thing there's AI. The Chiefs also clinched the number one seed in the AFC,

Speaker 1 resting their starters or the majority of them in week 18. Was there ever a chance you guys are going to play in the game? I don't know why I'm asking this.

Speaker 1 Well, our offensive line started the first drive, and then we kind of

Speaker 1 the whole offensive line started? Just about, except for

Speaker 1 Tooney? No, Tooney was not there. The fuck, why'd they do that? Huh? Why'd they do that? Oh, it's because Humphreys is back, and they wanted them to get like a.
I'm not sure why they did it.

Speaker 1 Listen, I'm not. I'm just...
I'm just here. They might have.
Did you know why that it happened? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was about to say, yeah, no, I mean, either way, it doesn't fucking matter whether they played one snap or no snaps. We got our fucking asses kicked, and that wasn't a fun game to be a part of.

Speaker 1 Well, there's there's some people alleging that it was a purposeful letting get your ass kicked. I ain't scared of fucking nobody.
I'm not alleged.

Speaker 1 I wanted them in the fucking players.

Speaker 1 I want to slay every dragon one by one, like Mortal Kombat. I don't even want this to be like we play the lowest seed.
Just give me the best teams. I'm not, Trevis.
I'm just telling you. AFC, NFC.

Speaker 1 Give me all of them. Mortal Kombat style.
I'll go through every fucking one of them, just giving them my best fucking effort.

Speaker 1 I ain't scared of a single soul, man. You didn't want to see the Bangles in Burrowhead or in Cincinnati? I'll play them at the Walmart parking lot.

Speaker 1 I don't give a shit.

Speaker 1 We can have our own game in the offseason.

Speaker 1 We really duke it out again.

Speaker 1 Listen, I love competing against the greatest. The Bengals were a fun-ass fucking team to watch there towards the end of the season.

Speaker 1 And it's a shame they didn't make it in the playoffs because it would have made the playoffs that much fucking crazier and that much more fun. Did you see they fired Lou and Rumo?

Speaker 1 I don't know what the fuck is going on over there.

Speaker 1 That was a wild, wild move I did not see coming because I thought that, you know, from the outside, their defense was playing really fucking good towards the end of the year.

Speaker 1 They definitely played better. I just think Lou,

Speaker 1 I don't think they had the horses on defense that they've had in the past. And Lou got handcuffed.
I don't know that it made sense.

Speaker 1 He's proven how good of a decoordinator he is with good players, but whatever. I'm with you, dude.
I'm with you. I've always respected the hell out of him.

Speaker 1 I've also respected a lot of the players on that side of the ball,

Speaker 1 you know, given who they had this year. I mean, Burrow put up over like, what, like 4,000-something yards? Like, it was something crazy.
He had a great year. Chase and T.

Speaker 1 That was one of the wackiest years of football I've ever seen from a team that I thought was crazy. 10 times better than what their record showed.

Speaker 1 And I know that just playing against them. Yeah, we didn't fucking throw any game.
All right. Guys were out there competing their ass offs, trying to get a win.

Speaker 1 Unfortunately, we just, you know, we couldn't put drives together. We couldn't stop Denver.

Speaker 1 And it just, it wasn't a, it wasn't a fun game to be a part of. And I'm just sitting here on the sideline like, hey, boys,

Speaker 1 don't let this shit ruin our fucking mojo. When

Speaker 1 we got everybody rolling, and, you know,

Speaker 1 it's go time.

Speaker 1 We got to flip that switch and know we're the biggest, baddest team out there. Well, I mean, you guys went 15 and one, so you guys technically are the biggest, baddest team in the NFL.
15-2.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, I forgot. So now you are tied with Detroit.
92%ers reached out and asked us,

Speaker 1 please write the script for this week, a section Travis can talk about being stuck in a plane.

Speaker 1 I want to know what it was like in there with grown men, probably two bathrooms.

Speaker 1 I guarantee Travis will just say, I was asleep. How did you know? I mean, Jesus Christ, she called it.
I'd text you right at the beginning of it. You text me right after you guys took off.

Speaker 1 Dude, I was fucking. When I get on these planes, I eat my Chick-fil-A and I fucking recline my seat.
I put on my headphones and I fucking I'm out. I could sleep at a fucking rock concert.

Speaker 1 It doesn't matter where I'm at. I don't know how I got this trait, but I am literally,

Speaker 1 I have the ability to sleep anywhere at any time.

Speaker 1 As long as I'm comfortable, I can just shut it down. I was out for about three hours on the runway.
While everybody was

Speaker 1 kicking it, having a grand old time. I heard some old linemen were wrestling.
I heard everybody's telling war stories and having a good old time.

Speaker 1 And I woke up as the plane was taking off and I was like, what the fuck? It feels like I've been asleep for forever. And I looked at the time and I'm just like, where the fuck? What just happened?

Speaker 1 Right. And yeah, I got briefed.
And I think there might be some pics and some videos of me just absolutely

Speaker 1 just completely knocked out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Somebody might have got me. They might have sniped me.
I think the more frustrating part was not being able to come back to Kansas City. We had to stay in Denver for another night.

Speaker 1 Not that Denver isn't a beautiful city, and I don't love Denver because I do find that city really cool.

Speaker 1 But it's not fun sitting around in a hotel room. You guys didn't go out and celebrate? Dude, if I would have been stuck in Denver,

Speaker 1 vibes weren't

Speaker 1 real high. We just got waxed like 38-0.

Speaker 1 So, you know, we kind of felt bad for some of the young guys and some of the guys that, you know, were we were rooting for to try and have a good game. And Coach Reed doesn't fucking like losing.

Speaker 1 I know going out and fucking having a grand old time and maybe getting caught on a video doing something stupid wasn't the best idea. So we all just kind of hung out and just grabbed dinner together.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, congrats.
You guys have the bye.

Speaker 1 Much needed rest. It's coming at dude.
The bye in the playoffs makes such a big deal. So that's

Speaker 1 huge. It is huge.
It is huge. But it's a lot of time off.

Speaker 1 I've had already, I think, a week and a half, almost two weeks by tomorrow.

Speaker 1 So it's like Wednesday game. Yeah.
Yeah. So hopefully we can we can get into some in in in the shells,

Speaker 1 put our helmets and pads on over the weekend, get some get some good contact in and work our craft and get find out who we're playing next week. Fuck yeah.
You're ready to rock and roll, baby.

Speaker 1 Nothing better than playoff football, man. It punched our ticket to the dance and now it's time to fucking dance, baby.

Speaker 1 I love this shit. I fucking love it.
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Speaker 1 Let's keep this thing moving to the rest of week 18, an action-packed week 18 that decided some teams on whether whether or not they were going to Cancun or fucking going to going to the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Eagles also rested their starters instead of trying to get Saquon to break the NFL

Speaker 1 single-season rushing record, which

Speaker 1 somehow

Speaker 1 created some controversy.

Speaker 1 Barkley only needed 101 yards to break it. I don't think you guys realize how fucking hard it is to get 100 yards rushing in the NFL.
It is not just like, oh, you put him out there, he'll get it.

Speaker 1 Like, that's just not how that happens. Yeah, he would have got it.
The New York Giants, Trev, he would have fucking blew that thing out the door. Yeah, but instead, the Giants came to fucking play.

Speaker 1 Good point. I think he definitely gets it if he plays, but

Speaker 1 you can't, I think, look at Baltimore.

Speaker 1 Did they release what Zay Flower's injury is yet? Did they release whether he's coming back? for the first week. They said that it's not season ending, but that

Speaker 1 it is a serious issue. So they don't know if he's, they said it's,

Speaker 1 I think it's a doubt that he'll play this week, but hopes that he'll play next week if they advance. I mean, listen, I think, did I want Barkley to go for the record? You're goddamn right.

Speaker 1 I think it would have been awesome to watch it happen because it's a fucking rushing record. Why would I not want to watch that happen? But I think that it's the right move to not play him.

Speaker 1 It's all the same as an Astridge.

Speaker 1 Why would I have an Astridge? Why? Because it's 17 games. He said it in less carries.
He's got 40 less carries than Dickerson did. See, no, you're right.
Yes, he does. He got me.
He got me. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And if he would have had the same amount of carries Dickerson would have had through 16 games, he would have set the record there too. And we don't put an asterisk next to Dickerson, who broke O.J.

Speaker 1 Simpson's record at 14 games or whatever it was, who broke Jim Brown's at 12 or whatever that was. I just, dude, I think the rushing record is awesome, but I think it's obviously the right call.

Speaker 1 He gets hurt. You got to put the O-lineman out there.
One of those guys gets hurt. The aspirations of the team are a Super Bowl.
They are not just like sneaking in. They are legit contenders.

Speaker 1 And it's, you know, they needed this buy. They didn't get it from being the number one seed.
If they would have had the buy wrapped up, I could see maybe making the argument to go for it.

Speaker 1 But because they didn't, they got to rest. They got to get healthy and make, they got four games now left to try and go get a Super Bowl, right?

Speaker 1 Well, one at a time, but they got to put their best feet forward. They're starting to play great ball right now.
They're rolling. They did put their backups in and still.

Speaker 1 beat the breaks off of the Giants. The other thing that I want to say about Saquon in this, and

Speaker 1 I do think the rushing title is the coolest record in football. I don't think there's anything better.

Speaker 1 And I don't know if it's because we grew up in Cleveland with Jim Brown, but like there's something about the rushing title record in the NFL, like

Speaker 1 passing yards leader, don't give a crap, receiving yards leader. Why?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I mean, it's cool, but it's not cool as rushing yards leader in a season.
I don't know why it's not, but it's not. And maybe it's because of all the yards alignment.

Speaker 1 You earn more of every yard. Yeah, like there's something about it that is cooler.
Like you're the baddest dude in the NFL if you got that

Speaker 1 stat. And

Speaker 1 he had a chance to set that record. He had a chance to do it in the city of Philadelphia for the Eagles.
And he had a chance to do it against a team that literally did not pay, like did not value him.

Speaker 1 They let him walk

Speaker 1 against a bunch of fans that were burning his jersey just earlier that year. Like he's playing in the game before.
They're burning his jersey in the parking lot.

Speaker 1 Like this could have been an all-time storyline, historic moment in the NFL. So yes, I would have loved to have seen it, but it's the right call.
It's the right call. I want to emphasize that.

Speaker 1 It still is a storyline. And honestly, if

Speaker 1 you're not going to go to the game, what's the storyline? What's the storyline? It's a slap in the face that he didn't even have to play in the game.

Speaker 1 That's true. That's true, but it's not the storyline.
This is why we should have kept it at 16 games.

Speaker 1 Looking back at the rushing titles, there's so many guys. There's a few guys that have broken 2,000 yards and you forget that they even, like, Derrick Henry broke 2,000 yards.

Speaker 1 I didn't even remember that Derrick Henry did it until we started talking about it this week. You're insane.
I'm pretty sure I played him. That's why.
Yeah. Then freaking,

Speaker 1 he almost did it again this year. I think he's the first back to ever have over like 1950 or something, two, yeah, something like that.
Did Chris Johnson do it? Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, I remember all of these.

Speaker 1 Like, I just feel like none of these get, but none of these are like notable. I'm just being honest.
Like, everybody thinks that's easy. I'm just being honest.

Speaker 1 Adrian Peterson is the only one because he was like seven yards away. Dude, when Chris Johnson was, dude, that year was insane.

Speaker 1 You're pretty sure it was an insane year, but it's not historic because he didn't break the record. I think it is.
That's all I'm saying. Unless you get the record, it's just another great year.

Speaker 1 You get the record,

Speaker 1 you're the baddest dude on the planet ever to play the game. Regardless of what everybody says about 17 games, 16 games, you get, hey, I got the all-time record, brother.
But either way.

Speaker 1 I hear what you're saying. I think all those years were equally as memorable as this one.
Yeah, they are. Equally memorable is in not being historic.
What?

Speaker 1 You think people are just going to not remember Saquon's story of going to a new team? They're going to remember it, but they're not going to remember it as if it was the record-breaking year.

Speaker 1 Like, it's not going to be, it's not going to be this heralded season by the entire NFL standard. Yeah.
It's just not going to be that now. Yeah.
Which is whatever. I mean,

Speaker 1 that's the point of the record being the record. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And eventually, though, the record will get broken.

Speaker 1 And the more important thing for Nick Siriani and his entire job, the entire staff's job, the entire organization, the entire city's job is to try and put themselves in the best position to win a Super Bowl because that's the ultimate goal.

Speaker 1 And I get that. I'm not negating that.
All I'm saying is it would have been fucking awesome to have that record. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 And I would have loved to see the Eagles have it, Saquon have it, and Jeff Stoutland and the O-line have it. That would have been something that would have been cool.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 Maybe if, you know, Jason Kelsey was out there, he would have got it in the seventh, 16 games he played. Listen, Cam Jergens did just fine.
A matter of fact, Cam Jergens made a Pro Bowl. If

Speaker 1 Jergy's a fucking dog. Yes, he is.

Speaker 1 I fucking love watching those dudes, man. Three Eagles, Cam Jugens, Jalen Carter, and Zach Bond also made their first Pro Bowl.
Shout out to the boys making their first. Yeah, baby.

Speaker 1 Jason, how's it feel to see the Kelsey replacement get his recognition? I don't. I'm not calling him Kelsey replacement.
I think it's awesome.

Speaker 1 Listen, we've known Cam Jugens as a great player in the Eagles organization. He's got all the tools.
He's athletic. He's strong.

Speaker 1 He's got long arms. He's big.
He's smart. He's explosive.

Speaker 1 I fully anticipated Cam having a phenomenal year. And now he's been awarded the Pro Bowl, which is amazing.
It's hard to do that your first year. Like usually it takes you,

Speaker 1 you know, you usually get it on your second year, but he's had that good of a year. The line has been that good.
Saquon was the rushing leader, like all of these things. And he's been dominant.

Speaker 1 Like he is a big reason this number is where it is at. And I think he's rightfully been awarded the Pro Bowl.
So I could not be happier for Cam.

Speaker 1 Listen, there's similar traits, but everybody's going to be their own unique player. And he can't try and be anybody else than Cam Jugens.
And that's the way every player has got to play the game. And

Speaker 1 there are things that he is much better at than I ever was at.

Speaker 1 And like, there's always going to be every player is unique, no matter how similar the traits are. He's the the replacement for anybody that ever played center for the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 1 Like, I just don't think that that's the way you look at the job. You look at the job like

Speaker 1 he's the starting center for the Philadelphia Eagles this year. Next man up.
You know,

Speaker 1 how are we going to move forward with a line that operates successfully?

Speaker 1 And I think Cam's done a phenomenal job of, you know, being Cam Jergens, the dog that he is, and the tremendous player and teammate that he is. So couldn't be more proud for him.

Speaker 1 I got to say, very happy for Cam, Lane Johnson, Lana Dickerson. It's a fucking joke that Jordan Malada didn't get the Pro Bowl.

Speaker 1 And listen, there's great tackles in this league, and I don't know who he would have made it over. I'm not trying to make that statement because there's Lane, Tristan Wurfs, and,

Speaker 1 oh my God, the third one's a great player, too. Sewell.
Sewell, Penney. Gosh, why did I blank on that? So, like, it's in good company.

Speaker 1 But I think Jordan Malat has been the best tackle in the NFL this year. He's so freaking good.
But anyways, they should have had four guys in there, which is crazy to think about.

Speaker 1 That's how good these guys have been. Yeah, I hear you, man.
Everybody that's in it, as far as I'm concerned, deserves it because they got voted. That's the way the thing works.

Speaker 1 It's in some ways a popularity contest, but it's also reflective on who you are as a player and what your career has been and season.

Speaker 1 I don't believe in this like snub. Like, there's so many snubs every year

Speaker 1 because there's so many guys that deserve to go. And unfortunately, there's only so many slots.
Moving on, it's officially playoff season. Let's talk a little about wild card weekend.

Speaker 1 Okay, playoff picture. Are we going to display this graphic, intern, Brandon, so that people can see it? Okay.

Speaker 1 So, obviously, the Chiefs have the buy. Detroit Lions have the buy.
Dude, by the way, I was a little bit,

Speaker 1 I was kind of questioning Dan Campbell's decision to play his starters versus the 49ers. I'm like, why did he do that? Like, they're going to be on a short week.

Speaker 1 Now they're going to have to play a lot of people. You're talking about like the Christmas.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like they're going to be on a short short week now. Then they're going to have to play the Vikings who are peaking right now.
And then they might not get a buy.

Speaker 1 And they go out and beat the living Donkey Dick out of the Minnesota Vikings. Like just pummel them.
Nothing.

Speaker 1 I'm like, okay, well, I should just shut the fuck up because Dan Campbell's clearly got this shit figured out. He's got to figure it out.
Yeah. He's got it.
Kansas City Chiefs with the bye.

Speaker 1 Detroit Lions with the bye. Eagles, the number two seed in the NFC, face the Green Bay.
Packers at home. The Buffalo Bills are number two seed in the the AFC West face the Broncos at home.

Speaker 1 Packers in Washington had some interesting things shake out to see who was going to be the six or the seven seed.

Speaker 1 Bucks moved up to the three seed because L.A. lost.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So there was a little bit of shuffling here. What team are you most surprised didn't make it? Surprise?

Speaker 1 I think going into the season, the team I'm most surprised didn't make it is probably the Bengals with Joe Burrow, T. Higgins,

Speaker 1 Chase, Healthy.

Speaker 1 You know, you thought maybe you thought they'd probably be in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 The team I'm most surprised made it in his first year as the coach. I'm the most surprised with the Chargers.
Maybe Broncos.

Speaker 1 I'm not really surprised that, I mean, after playing the Broncos earlier in the year. I'm talking about early in the season.
From the speed of the season.

Speaker 1 Because obviously, all of these guys aren't surprising that they made it as the course went on. But before the season started, which teams has surprised you the most? The most?

Speaker 1 Actually, I'm going to take this back. Washington is the most surprising to me.
Yeah, I mean, the two rookie quarterbacks, Washington and Denver. Denver? Yep.

Speaker 1 Honestly, I didn't, I didn't, I don't know why. I didn't think Minnesota was going to be, you know, that

Speaker 1 dominant? Yeah, that dominant.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 Samuel Jones playing as

Speaker 1 Tayloff. Yeah.
Just playing Washington over the last few seasons. And I mean this

Speaker 1 with so much respect for Dan Quinn.

Speaker 1 And even respect, like I think

Speaker 1 Rivera is a phenomenal coach as well.

Speaker 1 But that team with like the whole organizational thing happening with Dan Snyder, they felt like it was going to take some time to rebuild that culture and chemistry there in Washington.

Speaker 1 And it just goes to show when you hire a great head coach and you get a, you hit on a rookie quarterback like that who's playing at this level, how fast it can happen.

Speaker 1 Like they're already in the playoffs. I do think that they lack some of the pieces to really compete for the Super Bowl this year.
That's my own opinion.

Speaker 1 But I think it's remarkable that they're in the playoffs that quickly. And it's a testament to Dan Quinn,

Speaker 1 Kingsbury, and all those players.

Speaker 1 They went out and hired some, they went out and signed some really good veterans, Bobby Wagner, Zach Ertz. Ertz.
I just think that they really did a good job of getting pieces

Speaker 1 to help shape that culture with some veteran guys, bringing in the right coaches, hitting on draft picks. And

Speaker 1 it's just been a remarkable year for the for the uh commanders 100 i'm right there with you bigger rookie surprise i'd probably say bo nicks man i think jaden daniels won well heisman winner um you kind of saw

Speaker 1 the flashes yeah you saw the flashes um not that bo nicks didn't have any flashes i just think no but there are a lot more to your credit there sorry i did not mean to cut you up no there were a lot more people doubting the bone's pick than the jaden daniels pick so i think that that's the reality of it when you look back on it though man i mean you watch Bo Nicks in college, man.

Speaker 1 The dude's fucking bald. And I'm telling you, the moment I saw him fired up on the sideline, throwing it back at Sean Payton, I love that.
I mean, in the right amount, like it can't be all the time.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And there is something about it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, who knows how fiery that even was, but you already know who cares. All I know is that he cares.
That's why I like to see it. You don't give a fuck.

Speaker 1 Because, like, you know, not that it's the right way to handle it. You got to be controlled as a quarterback and you got to be poised so you can't do it too much.

Speaker 1 But every once in a while, in the right moment to do that, it's like, oh, okay. And it's not like over the top.
It's not a ridiculous amount. It's just like you could tell he wants to win games.

Speaker 1 He wants to be great. And that's a huge part of it.
And if it is over the fucking top, realize it in the fucking moment.

Speaker 1 Talk to whoever you just went above and beyond with and fucking get it right. And let them know, listen, man, I just fucking want this shit.
I'm with you. I'm with you.
He's a killer, man.

Speaker 1 And you could tell he's competitive as hell. And, dude, when you take great traits and you take a competitive individual, usually that leads to a good football player.
I hear you.

Speaker 1 Okay, of the teams with home games, what's the toughest place for a playoff game to play at? Ooh, that's a good one. I mean, listen, I think you got to go arrowhead.
I will say. No, this is wild card.

Speaker 1 This is wild card. Okay, if we're just going this round, Buffalo's obviously got...
crazy home field advantage, one from the fans, but also two from the weather.

Speaker 1 I'm a homer. I'm going to be a homer.
I think the link is a hard place to fucking win a playoff game in. And I think it's been a lot of time.

Speaker 1 Out of all these games, the link is probably the one that I think is fucking.

Speaker 1 It's fucking loud.

Speaker 1 It's cold because it's in the northeast. So some of these southern teams come up, although Green Bay is not going to be dealing with too much.
They're not going to be nervous about the cold.

Speaker 1 I think the Link is hard to win a football game in. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Especially a playoff game. I mean, we lost in Tampa Bay last year, but I think it's, I'd probably go Buffalo or the Link are my top two.
What's harder? The Link or Arrowhead? I mean, Arrowhead.

Speaker 1 Let's move on. Let's move on.

Speaker 1 Let's move on. Don't even go.

Speaker 1 You want to fucking step in the business. I think it's you, I think it's you.
I think it's you. I think it's you.
All right.

Speaker 1 It's like the loudest, nicest stadium in the world or the almost loudest, and you just got a fun bunch of

Speaker 1 people are just going to tear you apart.

Speaker 1 Bunch of motherfuckers. You're going to throw rocks at the buses.
All right. Hypothetical.
Please don't do that, Philadelphians. Hypothetical.
All the games are on at once.

Speaker 1 What games are the YouTube TV quad box?

Speaker 1 Okay, well, this is

Speaker 1 a hyperbolic. Shout out to YouTube TV and the quad box.
No doubt. No doubt.
I'm going.

Speaker 1 I think that Bucs Washington game is going to be fun to watch. I think that fucking Vikings Rams game is going to be fun to watch.

Speaker 1 As much as I think Buffalo is a...

Speaker 1 you know, is a better team. I think Denver right now is

Speaker 1 playing really fucking good football. So I'll probably watch that one.
And

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 1 for me, the game that I'll probably end up playing the winner of is the Chargers versus Houston game. So I'm going to watch that one.
Oh, man. I don't even know.

Speaker 1 I'll probably, so I'll definitely watch Eagles, Green Bay.

Speaker 1 They're going to fucking blow him out. I'm not going to watch that game.
I mean, dude,

Speaker 1 Green Bay is surprising. Matt LaFleur sometimes can dial up some stuff.
Dude, I got all the respect in them. Yeah.
I just don't see it. Jordan Love, when he's on, he can sling it.

Speaker 1 I think that game, I don't think it's going to be a blowout, but I do think the Eagles will win.

Speaker 1 I'm definitely watching Baltimore versus Steelers because I'm an AFC North kind of guy, and I think that that matchup is always intense, even though the Steelers are floundering right now.

Speaker 1 Like they are struggling. They're limping to the finish line, but I can't help myself.
Bills, Broncos, and

Speaker 1 I'm probably watching Tampa Bay, Washington. Really? Yeah, I mean, the Vikings LA one is interesting to me.
The one that I'm definitely not watching is Houston versus Chargers. I don't know why.

Speaker 1 That one's like not even, that's the least interesting game to me. Is that fair?

Speaker 1 I'm watching it because I think that's

Speaker 1 the only teams I'm going to play. Yeah.
Yeah, right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, this is assumed. Just based off the seating.
The reality is I'm watching all of these games because playoff football is the fucking best.

Speaker 1 But if they all played at once and I have to watch only four, that's probably the four I'm going. That's probably the best way you can answer that.
Yeah. All right.

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I'm kidding. I'm back.
And we're doing some blind rankings of plays of the year. That's right.
Alrighty,

Speaker 1 let's move on. And we want to take a minute to recognize some of the most incredible moments from the regular season

Speaker 1 this year. And what better way to do that than our new favorite game, Blind Rankings? Yeah.

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All right,

Speaker 1 here's how it works. In case you missed us doing this on Christmas episode, we'll blindly rank 10 of the best plays from the NFL season.

Speaker 1 And this is as about true blind ranking as possible because I really don't remember a lot of the great plays.

Speaker 1 We are only discussing the season. We will only see one play at a time and place it on the list before seeing the next one.

Speaker 1 So one by one, we'll just throw it one through 10 on where we think it resides. And

Speaker 1 one change,

Speaker 1 me and Jason will have one veto each. All right, so we can veto each other one time.
You can veto the play. Like we can say, like, it doesn't belong in the top 10.

Speaker 1 I'll give you one veto each if this is not a top 10 play. I have backups ready to go.
One change is me and Jason will be able to veto one play out of the entire top 10.

Speaker 1 So if we think this play is dog shit and Brandon did a terrible job of bringing 10 plays in, we will...

Speaker 1 They can hear me on this recording. Oh, they can.
Perfect. Nice.

Speaker 1 I just really hope I remember these plays. All right.
Let's take a look at the first play then, Brandon.

Speaker 1 First play from week 16, Lions, Bears. Ooh, oh my.
The fake stumble. Oh.

Speaker 1 It's pretty good. It's pretty good.
I mean, the only reason I want to, I want to almost veto this because, like, I don't think the stumble affected fucking anything. Like,

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 can we rewind it? Let me see what the linebackers do. Does anybody react to this thing? I mean, they definitely don't react.
They definitely don't just retreat. You know what? All right.

Speaker 1 I'll leave it in there. I mean, if you're not going to be able to do that, you knew the ball ball ball, though.
The entire sideline was screaming too.

Speaker 1 I think it deserves to be up there just for the creativity and the amount of like bought in from like everybody, including the sideline. Jared Goff.
All of that. Jared Goff, that's a great trip.

Speaker 1 It looks like he's. It looked like he was falling.
Yeah. It almost looked like the week before where he did fall to win the game on fourth down.

Speaker 1 I just think that the lateral to Penne Sewell is a much better Lions play that never ended up going in. The lateral to the tackle, the hook and lateral to the

Speaker 1 right tackle ball. All right, anyways.
Okay, where do we think this is? We can't put it too high. You can throw it at 10.
I think 10 is a solid. Right? It didn't determine a game.

Speaker 1 Like, it's a fun trick play, but it wasn't like that. I'm with you.
We'll go 10. 10.
Throw it in. 10.

Speaker 1 Lions had a Lions

Speaker 1 had some awesome plays, so I think there's going to be another Lions clip up here. It better be.
Pretty soon. Play number two from week 13, Bills, Niners.

Speaker 1 Oh, this is a great one. Lateral.
This is a good one. I love this one.
Just backyard ball right here. The old snow game.
And Josh, this was the first time a player ever threw and ran.

Speaker 1 He had a completion and a receiving touchdown. Yes, all in the same plate, right? Yeah.
And it was the first time that's ever happened. Yep.

Speaker 1 I think you got to put this in. No, no, no, no, no.
No, it's not. No, it's not.
Marcus Mariota did it against the Chiefs in the playoffs. He threw a ball

Speaker 1 to

Speaker 1 somebody. Darrell Rivas smacked it down, and he then caught it and went into the end zone.
Yeah, but

Speaker 1 that's not a rushing touchdown. If he smacked it down, right? No, this was a receiving touchdown.
This is a receiving touchdown. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, either way. Rare the semantics.
Semantics.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I think this is an awesome play.

Speaker 1 I think.

Speaker 1 Can't go too high. Can't go too high.
Can't go too high. I mean, they're winning 21 to 3.
This is just a bit of a bad thing. I think you're beating the piss out of them.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's only the first half, though. That's a good play.
It says third quarter, right? Third quarter. It's second half.
Okay, let's go.

Speaker 1 What do you think? Three or four, maybe?

Speaker 1 No, let's throw this at five. Let's not get too bold.
I'll go five. I'll go five.
Let's not get too bold. Yeah, leave some space.
Leave some space. I think there were some other.

Speaker 1 There were some other Josh Allen plays this year. I could feel it.
Week 10, Broncos, Chiefs. I mean, dude.
That was fucking electric. Yes, it was.

Speaker 1 I mean, dude, you got to play that. You didn't even let us watch the entire thing.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 blocked!

Speaker 1 The chooses one!

Speaker 1 Kevin Harlan on it, too, dude.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Harlan, man. It's so good.
It is so good. So epic, dude.
His voice, he might be one of my favorite. I mean, he's up there as one of my favorites.
He is really good.

Speaker 1 Dude, honestly, a little bias, but

Speaker 1 I think that goes above Josh Allen's lateral. I kind of agree.
It's a dude blocking a field goal to win a game

Speaker 1 as a walk-off and not only kind of getting lucky, but they knew exactly what they were doing. They knew where, like, it was thought out.

Speaker 1 I'm pretty sure Chanel called it, like, said, like, we're going to go block this.

Speaker 1 He did. So all around, I think it's just a fucking crazy play.

Speaker 1 There were a few big block field goals this season, though. So I don't know if

Speaker 1 do you want to go four or three on this?

Speaker 1 Or do you want to go higher? I think it's either four or six. It's either four or six.
I'll let you call it.

Speaker 1 Just because it ended up in the only reason the Chiefs won the game, and Josh Allen lateral was like up 21-3, I'll put it at four. If we're going four or six, I'll go four.
All right.

Speaker 1 From week 12, Cowboys, Commanders, $99

Speaker 1 kick return. Oh, my God.
I mean, it's

Speaker 1 Turpin is fast.

Speaker 1 Hit that B button.

Speaker 1 Hit that B button on him. Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 Dude, this was electric. It's a dope play.
I mean, this has got to be up there. This has got to be up there.
Three or two. It's got to be up there.

Speaker 1 If not one. I don't know.
I can't remember what play would be better this season. You think this is

Speaker 1 better than that block kick to win the game? Dude, a kick return with three minutes left in the game?

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, it's a dope play.

Speaker 1 He fumbles the ball. He picks that shit up on the one-yard line with everybody 10 yards from him.
All right, I'll go three. I'll go three.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 I don't think it's as good as a Josh Allen play, if I'm being honest, right? I'll go three. You're insane.
Week eight, Washington Bears.

Speaker 1 Walk off. Yeah.
Well, it's the

Speaker 1 fuck up. The only reason I can't give this one that high is because, like, it's an insane amount of luck, and the Bears fucked it up more than they even got it right.
So, it's like

Speaker 1 that's a good shot taken. Listen, he did his job.
He did his job. He was the tip guy.

Speaker 1 He was right where he needed to be.

Speaker 1 This is teach tape right here if you're in a football locker room. And it was to win the game.
So, it's, I mean,

Speaker 1 I have a nice, solid

Speaker 1 sounds good. Seven sounds good.
From week 15.

Speaker 1 Let's go. I believe this is.

Speaker 1 You can just put the Saquon hurdle at one already. There it is.
That's the one I was thinking of. I do.

Speaker 1 I do love a big man.

Speaker 1 Stiff arm. Oh, that was electric.
Oh, I mean, it's a great play. It is a great play.

Speaker 1 It's so good. It's so good.
Dude, a big man pick. Are you kidding me? Is that a pick or is that a fucking

Speaker 1 fucking strip? Yeah. Oh, that stiff arm.
Do you know how hard it is to stiff arm a 300-pound fucking offensive lineman? I just love he hits him with the shushush at the beginning of that.

Speaker 1 Go back to the start of that. Get the shishush in there.
Bink, bink. He goes right here.

Speaker 1 He hits it. And then right away, he gets the ball.
Oh, shishush.

Speaker 1 Gets it.

Speaker 1 Set up the ball. Set up the block.
Hit the highway. Oh, so good.
God damn, that's good. It's a great play, but we can't put it up.

Speaker 1 We got to hold two and six. I think eight is a solid spot.
I think it's an eight or nine play. Nice.
All right. From week nine, Jets, Texans.
Week nine, what happened on this play?

Speaker 1 Oh, this catch was great. That's a great catch.
That didn't count. It wasn't a catch.
Jet Jake, Jets Jake, rule. It counted.
His shin goes down. Yeah, I thought he got overturned, right? It did.

Speaker 1 It did. It counted.
It counted his what was it? His shin. His shin was down.

Speaker 1 They called it a touchdown eventually. I mean, fuck.
If that's a catch, that's a two.

Speaker 1 You got to throw it at two. That's a fucking insane catch.
God damn, that's insane. I mean, if that's in the for a touchdown, too, god damn, that's nasty.
We're going two? Yeah, we got to go two.

Speaker 1 That was a fucking unbelievable. That's yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.
You've been waiting for it. From week nine.

Speaker 1 Hold on. Eagles.
Jags.

Speaker 1 Slide.

Speaker 1 Number one.

Speaker 1 There's no way there's anything. That's fucking crazy.

Speaker 1 It's so crazy. I could watch this shit all day.
This is fucking shit. Jump over somebody backwards.
The spin move alone would have been in the top 10 in this list. Oh, God.
All right. Keep it going.

Speaker 1 Yeah, week five. This is Saints, Chiefs.
Oh, Serbinky. They'll go nine.
I love the play. Serbink.

Speaker 1 Get him on the hub. Look at it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I fucking love that dude, man.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Serbink.

Speaker 1 Top 10 play of the year. I go nine on Serbank.
It's right below the sweat play. I feel like that's a good spot for it.
All right, and this will be number six, if it holds.

Speaker 1 This is from week 16, Chargers, Broncos. Chargers, Broncos.
The free kick.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'll veto the kid. Veto.
God damn it.

Speaker 1 Genius use of this strategy, but no. Veto.
Okay, it's out. It's out.
Who's using their veto? I'll use it. This shit was buns.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 The guy just did a practice kick that he said more about Sol Freaking. Listen, you only see it every 60 years.

Speaker 1 It was a great job by Harbaugh to utilize a stupid rule.

Speaker 1 Okay, we are going to our first backup play of the year. It is from week 16, Bengals, Browns.
It is the Burrow Horizontal TD. I mean, that was a fucking hell of a throw.
I want to veto this one, too.

Speaker 1 This isn't that like. Yeah, shout out to Joey B.
it's a great i mean listen joe deserves to be up here but

Speaker 1 i don't know if that's the one that's not better than the washington hail mary so i gotta veto it and hope that something better than these than these ones are in there i mean i know one bangles play right now that's better than go every

Speaker 1 all right well let's get to our their next two alternates next two alternates give me a give me a break here you got how is lamar jackson not on here anywhere it wasn't on the list that i stole from dude you're ridiculous his fucking touchdown like the one that he had where he stiff arm armed

Speaker 1 with the Bengals? Yes, that one should definitely be on here. And this would be the perfect slot for it.
All right, do it.

Speaker 1 We can't. Brandon, that's not how the blind ranking works.

Speaker 1 I'll give you one. I'll give you one.
I'll give you one. No, give us it.
Let's see here. Let's see what you put up here now.

Speaker 1 What are we stuck with? From week two, Vikings, Niners, 99-yard touchdown reception. Jefferson.
I mean, it's electric. Yeah, I think this is good.
I'm fine with this. As a number six?

Speaker 1 I mean, it can be up there. I don't know if it's.

Speaker 1 I think we're leaving out some other top 10 plays. We 100% are, but it's a blind range.

Speaker 1 We presented. I feel very good about this list.
I feel better about this list now. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm with you, though. The Josh Allen lateral probably could have been a little higher.
Very solid. Solid list.

Speaker 1 Some plays that could have probably been up here. We just talked about the Lamar play.
Bengals cornerback interception week two against us.

Speaker 1 I don't know how the the fuck Britt even caught that fucking ball. I'm still confused on how he caught that fucking ball.

Speaker 1 That was one of the best interceptions I've ever seen in my life. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Other than that,

Speaker 1 shout out to everybody. Please send any play that we missed to at JChat85 on Twitter.
And who knows? We'll do this again.

Speaker 1 Good luck with that one. Good luck, buddy.
His DMs are open, guys. Get in there.
Let him know what he got wrong. They're not open.

Speaker 1 They're not open. And that was Blind Rankings brought to you by Intuit TurboTax.
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Speaker 1 Before we get out of here, let's answer some not dumb questions that came in to the New Heights hotline. That's right.
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Speaker 1 our guy, Ryan Reynolds. All right.

Speaker 2 Hello, brothers. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas. I have a very, very important question to ask.

Speaker 2 I'm here watching

Speaker 2 some football and hanging out with family and we started talking and I have a very, very important question to ask. And I think you two are the only ones that can answer.

Speaker 2 What happened to the jockstrap?

Speaker 1 Seriously.

Speaker 2 I don't think you boys wear them anymore. You just see everything hanging and moving and running and oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 What happened to the jockstrap?

Speaker 2 All right. Take care.

Speaker 1 Not as awareness

Speaker 1 immensely. It's a A lot of fun.
Bye. Not as aware as this woman at what's going on with the genitals throughout the game, but watch the game for you.
Whatever you watch the game for.

Speaker 1 I'm not here to judge why someone's watching the game and whether or not they're checking out which guy's got what jock straps on.

Speaker 1 What happened to the jockstrap is they invented compression shorts, and they're just way more efficient at holding everything in place and better.

Speaker 1 And it eliminates the chafing that could possibly go on. Correct.
But I think that's a good thing. So it's like you knock out two birds with one stone.

Speaker 1 You've got to fucking gold powder your gooch in your thighs every fucking day. You could just throw on some compression shorts.
I still wore the jockstrap.

Speaker 1 There was something I liked about the jockstrap. Nice.
I mean, I only wore it on game day, though. And I would walk around the locker room making my pre-workout and nothing but my jockstrap.

Speaker 1 And I thought it was funny.

Speaker 1 So maybe that's the reason I wore it.

Speaker 1 I also thought it like cupped my butt cheek nice and it made my butt look better. I didn't realize you were going for a nice look.

Speaker 1 I needed help because I don't have a great ass.

Speaker 1 All right. There you go.
I think, yeah, the compression shorts came in. Yeah, a little bit better.

Speaker 1 Nobody's. Well, it also, not a lot of guys wear cups anymore.
And the jockstrap was initially to hold the cup.

Speaker 1 Well, that's how we always use it, but I do think the jockstrap was also utilized before compression shorts to hold the junk. But once you have compressor shorts, you didn't need that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I hear you. All righty.
Glad we could help you out. By the way, get your mind out of the.
What was that woman's name? Do we remember? No, she just said Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 Merry Christmas to you. Just watch some football.
You know, you get a free.

Speaker 1 She's acting like she's not happy about it.

Speaker 1 It's so disturbing seeing everybody's

Speaker 1 junk just jump around on the TV.

Speaker 1 All of this phallic meat bouncing from thigh to thigh.

Speaker 1 I'm going to throw one at you that I just hate this question, and I hate people who ask it. So I want to see how you guys feel.
Perfect. Hey, guys.
This is William from Montgomery. William Montgomery?

Speaker 1 Montgomery.

Speaker 1 What your opinion is on fall weddings. Fall weddings.
Me and my girlfriend have talked about

Speaker 1 getting married.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 she wants a fall wedding. And I told her, good luck with that.
I'm

Speaker 1 gonna play a football game

Speaker 1 so I just wanted to know what you guys' opinion on that is that's appreciated

Speaker 1 sounds like this marriage is gonna work out great

Speaker 1 I actually don't know

Speaker 1 people who have gotten married in the fall because the all the weddings I've been to and all my friends always do it in the summer I guess yeah we can't go usually I think Jason's pretty spot on with you guys got to be more in sync on things you got to be willing to, you know, find a weekend where the team isn't playing anybody good, maybe.

Speaker 1 Also, if you really do have a problem with that, maybe it's in her best interest to not have it in the fall so that she knows you're invested in the anniversary every time it comes around.

Speaker 1 I think you guys should duke that out. I don't think we have any say on what you should be doing here.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 yeah, I mean, I've seen weddings in fucking February. I've seen weddings everywhere but the fall.
So I'm not sure if the fall is a good wedding season.

Speaker 1 Brother, I'm going to tell you right now: do the fall and the wedding and avoid this frivolous fighting that means absolutely fucking nothing. You can watch the football game

Speaker 1 another,

Speaker 1 like record it and watch it again. Like, I don't know what you want me to say.
Like, there are certain things that are more important than football.

Speaker 1 And if the wedding isn't more important than football, we got some bigger issues here. Like, I get what you're saying.
You can do it another time. Just speaking from

Speaker 1 unless we got a big parlay unless we got a big parlay

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 we gotta fucking sweetie we gotta make this money that's how we pay for the wedding unless that's how you're paying for the wedding how do we pay for the booze at the wedding if i can't make sure this parlay hits i just don't get there's a lot of days in the fall that there's not football we can't find a might name one

Speaker 1 well depending on whether he goes to college and uh nfl games on sunday like you can go on a friday you can have a wedding on a Friday. Yeah, but

Speaker 1 it's a weekend thing.

Speaker 1 It's a little inconsistent. It's a formal weekend.

Speaker 1 Don't make my friends have to not go.

Speaker 1 Everybody's got season tickets, all right? Don't make my friends have to choose whether or not they have to sell their seat their tickets that week.

Speaker 1 There's a lot more important things than footballs, and weddings happen to be one of them. And not arguing with your wife is high up there with more important than football.

Speaker 1 So I would just do the wedding whenever she wants to

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 that's kind of your job now.

Speaker 1 Football is live. Football is live.
All righty, that was No Dumb Questions brought to you by Mint Mobile. And that wraps up another episode of New Heights.
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Speaker 1 We appreciate you guys, except for Brandon. You keep putting us in terrible situations.
No, no, no. I don't know.
I disagree. I disagree.
I disagree. I disagree.
Okay. Thank you, Brandon.

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