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

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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 welcome back to New Heights ladies and gentlemen happy motherfucking new year how about that, are you too late to say that? no, it's great I haven't seen you guys in so long Wondery Show, that's what this this is a wondery show produced by wave sports and entertainment if you didn't know and a big thanks to our presenting sponsor audible because who doesn't like to listen audible start listening today when you sign up for a free 30-day trial what audible.com slash new heights check it out we're your hosts i'm travis kelsey my big brother jason kelsey out of cleveland heights ohio heights tigers till we die yes sir uh cincinnati bearcats as well subscribe on youtube wherever you get your podcast wondry plus is our favorite and uh follow the show on all social media at new heights show with one s jason tell the people what we got coming up we're back yes yes i hope the 92 percenters have loved the holidays um and a happy new year's uh but what's the cutoff for saying happy new year just whenever you see somebody within the month of january i think it's a good happy new mass maybe two weeks a little far maybe a week and a half two weeks you got to be within the same week of the happy new year no no i'm a big general like yeah yeah happy new year happy new year that'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 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. So much to talk about.
And also, we're going to try and rank the plays of the year. Ooh.
Blind rank them things. Let's see how that goes.
I like that. We did that for the Christmas movies.
Ended up pretty good. All right.
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Yes, we are. It's our ultimate fan favorites collection.
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. Yeah.
As a water boy. And now he's going to show us some of these shirts how about that oh is this vanna white or is this jets jay i know which one i think is better looking there we go out of the house 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 hats.

Club 92.

Oh, nice.

A little Club 92.

So that's all our Club 92 members.

We're bringing back some fan favorites.

We got the beard.

Ooh, yeah.

Is that?

That's Travis or this man?

No, that's you, Jason.

Stop.

Stop it.

My beard isn't that dark. El Trevidor.
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. Do I get any of these? They didn't tell me if you were getting it or not.
I'll check oh nice well as you just said uh yeah this is our ultimate fan favorites collection the official shirt of leaving the house is this official you did 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 um yeah i'm kind of sick of that i'm already sick of it so no i'm gonna say no we need more out of the out of the house more out of the house more out of the house mentalities yeah uh to to keep this city thriving you know it's playoff football we gotta get the fuck out of the house i'm i'm with that i'm with that you can check out our ultimate fan collection right now at homage.com slash new heights you heard the man yeah let's uh let's catch up on some holiday stuff did you guys watch any of the college football playoffs this is brandon asking us uh jason did you watch any of the college football playoffs i am not gonna lie i've watched none of the football playoffs for nice 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. 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's a new pair of cleats.
Same pair of cleats. It was a solid red.
No, it was a different pair. Oh, a different colorway.
Nice. It looked like- Same cleats, different color.
It looked like a little bit higher top. I think it was a different pair of cleats.
A little bit more of a boot. 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 now I hear what you're saying.

Sometimes the color makes a difference.

You think I looked a little lighter, a little quicker?

You looked pretty quick out there.

You had some good agile.

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, look, that's shinier.

It's got plastic around it.

It's patent leather, baby. Ain't nothing like a Jordan 11 with some patent leather on it.
Let's keep those up. Let's keep wearing those.
You don't like the other ones? Yeah, no. Yeah, well, they didn't like you either.
How about those Texas Longhorns? We know who put that in the fucking rundown. Shout out to the Longhorns.
I'm not a Longhorn hater. I got some friends and shit.
92%ers want to know, 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

Duke's Mayo Bowl itself.

I think interim Brandon has a video.

The patented.

That's not me.

Oh, get it off the screen.

Wow.

I mean, it's just a waste.

I'm sweating.

Get it off the screen.

Oh, it's in his hair.

What do you think countries that are struggling?

Not again.

What do you think countries that are struggling? Not again. What are the countries that are struggling for food? Watch something like that.
It's just like, how many eggs went into that water cooler of mayonnaise that we decided to dump all over somebody's head? I mean, that's what Dad mentioned all our childhood, is that there's kids

starving. Starving in China, which I think China

is a lot different spot than it was when we

were kids, but

I don't know if that one still works. I think there's kids

starving in every country at

some level. I think that's probably true.

That's probably accurate. That's just kind of how

the world goes, unfortunately.

Yeah. But it's

our job to help them

by eating all our food. At least that's the the message dad that's that was what we were told to be grateful anyways no we did not watch the meal well i mean there's a lot of funny bits that they did with mayonnaise though i gotta admit to that no the best was the the pop-tart bowl can we get out of the may can we get out of mayo god what the is that? They're like bobbing for something.
What are they bobbing for? I'm not gonna lie, man. I love mayonnaise.
This is fucking gross. Like it is just it's very hard to get this shit out of here, god damn it oh my gosh it is fucking you're going in face first could you imagine getting this shit up your nose man oh man god damn it i'm gonna shut the fucking computer down if you do anything more with mayo i mean that's not a challenge you want to do i feel like we got another mayo thing coming up that's i don't want to know anymore i'm kind of over it too but now i just kind of want to see all right that's it all right that's the last of the mayo.
All right, man. What the fuck is that?

Those potatoes.

They were getting potatoes out of there.

It's fascinating.

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 mascot was fucking around.

They had the unveiling of it, like the ripping of the foil.

Yeah.

What was your favorite Pop-Tart grown-up?

What flavor? My favorite Pop-Tart, if we're not counting Toaster strudel no no no no no we're talking i'm talking flavor of like the out of the wrapper pop-tart silver i mean listen it's hard to go wrong with the strawberry but the brown the fuck is so good the brown uh what was it 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 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.

Was that what that was?

Was it brown sugar?

I think it was brown sugar, right?

It was.

There was a brown sugar one.

I think there was a s'mores one.

I don't fuck with s'mores.

For some reason, I am not a big.

You're not a s'mores guy? S'mores guy.

No, not flavored.

And really, if I'm being honest, not even like making them. It's just the messy just the messy i just get marshmallow over my beard yeah it's fun by a campfire though dude there's the sneaky one that came in as we were just like getting too old for to eat pop tarts every day you got the blueberry one which the uh wild berry wild berry yeah it was the purple with the purple icing yeah.
Dude. It's a good one.

It was a very good one.

Fucking crack.

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 where it's just like, it's basically flame retardant.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Listen, man. That's what happens when you eat heavily processed food.
It's pretty resistant. It's a resistant material.
It was torching an Oreo for like fucking 30 seconds. And the Oreo did not fucking even catch on fire.
No, it was like a heat shield. It deflected it.

It looked like the Oreo was entering Earth's atmosphere.

And it was just like plummeting and it was not disintegrating.

It was just fighting off.

Basically, it was a comet.

If you threw an Oreo out of the space station, eventually it would land.

It wouldn't burn up in Earth's orbit, which is crazy to think about they should just cover uh the space shuttles i i don't know why i can't eat them now i can't i feel like i'm just doing so bad something so bad to my body and i used to eat them by the fucking sleeve yeah right the sleeve yeah moving on jason is officially a Late night TV host. That's right.
They call it late night. 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? Oh, I just didn't look at the camera and played to the audience.
I did everything that every late night show told me not to do. So that was perfect.
No, it was good. I mean, listen, I think we had Charles Barkley.
Fuck yeah, you did. Lil Dicky.
Yeah. And Brian Baldinger.
The crowd was electric. 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. I mean, we tried some delightfully stupid comedy bits that were fun to try.
And we did some panel discussions and we had a fan contest for chugging 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. I talked to my man, Scott Van Pelt, and he was just like, it's exciting to start something new, right? And you've worked a lot to get there, and then you just keep on figuring it out.
So it was a great time. The guests were fantastic.
The crowd was into it. 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'm doing. Listen, all I'm doing, I can't say it on this because the Will Ferrell thing comes out on Friday, but we're going full set.
That's all I know. Oh, yeah.
Listen, everybody loves him when Jason goes full set. We got Joe Buck and Michelle Beisner Buck coming on the show this week.
Oh, it's going to be awesome. So, that'll be fun.
Man, you have to ask him about what happened at the super bowl come on 2019 we're not getting into this it felt so bad dude get me out of here man sorry about that joe i love you um yeah and uh is this are we catching up with what are uh 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 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 and new heights this week this friday we will drop a guest episode with the one and only will ferrell favorite part of the combo i I don't know. I don't know.
Dude, I mean, I think his advice struck both of us as like gold. Yeah.
And we'll let you guys catch up on that if they didn't already just completely delete it out of the scene. It was so fun to reminisce about all the characters he's played, like, and to hear how he got started in it 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 voicemails.
You're right. And you guys are not going to want to miss that.
We got to see Will Ferrell in action, in person, off the cuff. We got to see, you know.
Anyways, okay, I don't want to say. No, no, no, no.
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Moving on to bold topics to wrap up week 18 in the NFL. All right, week 18 the kansas city chiefs are in the playoffs yeah so uh 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 it feels about the same as when I was tied with Tony G.
I've been very, you know, I feel like towards the end of your career, 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. And, you know, it's cool, but it's cool, like 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.
But I feel like I'm sitting in such a mode of like 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. That when I pass or I do something like this, where I hit a big milestone in my career, I'm just like, yeah, but I need to be better than that.
I need to be, you know, I'm not about to sit here and think about, you know, how far I've come when 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. That's how I judged somebody's, you know, greatness.
And I think it just goes so much further than that for me now. 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. And I and i've kind of pride myself on that now and it's um it's just it's what 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 and don't get me wrong this is only what tony accumulated in kansas city this I'm still like another hundred or 40 touchdowns away from catching his all

time. This is only what Tony accumulated in Kansas City.
I'm still like another 140 touchdowns away from catching his all-time career touchdown record or touchdowns. 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.
I remember the legend of Tony when I first got here just just trying to fill his shoes in terms of how hard of a worker he was. Everyone raved about, you know, the time he spent in the building, the focus he had on his nutrition, 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 so unachievable that I just started to like every single day try and become that version of myself. Just spend the time in the building, find ways to keep getting better and find ways to be the best version of yourself.
And I'm just so fortunate that I had Tony G 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. Yeah.
I mean, listen, I think you and I are both on the same page with stats. I mean, you coined the whole term LeBron stat.
I think that they can be very misleading at times and not telling the whole picture. Yeah.
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.
You're the fucking touchdown, receiving touchdown leader in Kansas City. Chiefs fucking history.
That's fucking crazy. That's entire franchise's history.
You're the number one receiving. And I know that it's been building up.
So it's not like it's come out of nowhere. But I think when you look back to being a third-round pick, when you look back to in college having struggles or whatever, playing quarterback, then going to tight end, it's just been a crazy career arc.
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 for formerly having it and obviously he went on to have more successful things and other teams but i ain't shortchanging this shit worth one goddamn second this ain't a lebron stat 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.

So... 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.
Sort of. Did you get fined? Of course I did.
Did the NFL determine it to be a dunk? That's the real question. Who cares what anybody else is? Did John Runyon say it's a fine? He did, yeah.
They all did. They said sincepost just touching 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 i started to get my fucking old ass up there man shit fourth quarter of the game i was fucking legs are tired after like a like a 10 play drive i'm over here trying to just like i'm just like screw it i'm gonna send it one time for old for old time's sake man that that looked like a j-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 old time's sake, man.
That looked like a Jason Kelsey attempted dunk right there. Yeah, that was me slapping the backboard.
That wasn't me actually flushing it, man. 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 yeah it was back in the day when i actually had when i had bounce man i could never matter what angle it was we got some clips for sure i don't know where they are but they're out there somewhere they're on a vhs tape somewhere yeah the nfl has announced that it is a uh 14,069 is that in honor of john runyon the 69 at the end 14,000 14,069 dollars Is that in honor of John Runyon? The 69 at the end?

$14,069 for unsportsmanlike conduct.

I think repeat offender.

I think I'm a repeat offender.

That's why it's so high.

Ah.

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.

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 dude you literally just said it no we've recorded everything so please we can definitely please play it back where i have said that all right we'll love to see it we'll do thing there's AI. The Chiefs also clinched the number one seed in the AFC.
Resting their starters, or the majority of them, in week 18. Was there ever a chance you guys were going to play in the game? I don't know why I'm asking this.
Well, our offensive line started the first drive, and then we kind of – The whole offensive line started? Just about, except for – Tooney?oney was out there the fuck why'd they do that huh why'd they do that oh it's because their uh humphries is back and they wanted them to like get like a i'm not sure why they did it listen i'm not i'm just i'm just here they might have you know why that it happened yeah i was about to say yeah no i mean either way it doesn't fucking matter whether they played snap or no snaps. We got our fucking asses kicked, and that wasn't a fun game to be a part of.

Well, 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 alleging this.

I wanted them in the fucking playoffs.

I'm not alleging this.

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.'m not travis i'm just telling you afc nfc give me all of them mortal combat style i'll go through every fucking one of them just giving them my best fucking effort i ain't scared of a single soul man you didn't want to see the bangles in burrow head or in cincinnati i'll play them at the walmart parking lot i don't give a shit.
We can have our own game in the offseason. We really duke it out again.
Listen, I love competing against the greatest. The Bengals were a fun-ass fucking team to watch there towards the end of the season.
And it's a shame they didn't make it in the playoffs because they would have made the playoffs that much fucking crazier and that much more fun. Did you see they fired Lou and Rumo? I don't know what the fuck is going on over there.
That was a wild, wild move I did not see coming because I thought that from the outside, their defense was playing really fucking good towards the end of the year. They definitely played better.
I just think Lou, 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.
He's proven how good of a D coordinator 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.
I've also respected a lot of the players on that side of the ball, you know, given who they had this year. I mean, Burrow put up over like, what like 4,000 something yards.
It was something crazy.

He had a great year.

Chase and T.

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.

And I know that just playing against them.

But yeah, we didn't fucking throw any game.

All right.

Guys were out there competing their ass off, trying to get a win.

Unfortunately, we just, you know, we couldn't, you know, put drives together. We couldn't stop Denver.
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, don't let this shit ruin our fucking mojo.
When we got our we got we got everybody rolling and, you know, it's it's go time. We got to flip that switch and know we're the biggest, baddest team out there.
Well, I mean, you guys went 15-1, so you guys technically are the biggest, baddest team in the NFL record-wise. 15-2.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. So now you are tied with Detroit.
92%ers reached out and asked us, please write the script for this week, a sectionvis can talk about being stuck in a plane i want to know what it was like in there with grown men probably two bathrooms i guarantee travis will just say i was asleep how did you know i mean jesus christ she called i'd text you right at the beginning of it you text me after you guys took off. Dude, I was fucking...
When I get on these planes, I eat

my Chick-fil-A, and I fucking recline

my seat, and I put on my headphones, and I

fucking... I'm out.
I could sleep

at a fucking rock concert. It doesn't matter

where I'm at. I don't know how I got

this trait, but I am

literally... I have the ability

to sleep anywhere at any time.

As long as I'm comfortable, I can just shut it it down i was out for about three hours on the runway while everybody was 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 and i woke up as the plane was taking off and i was like what the fuck it feels like i like I've been asleep for forever. And I looked at the time and I'm just like, where the fuck? What just happened? Right.
And yeah, got briefed. And I think there's, there might be some pics and some videos of me just absolutely.
Just completely knocked out. Yeah.
Somebody might've got me. They might've sniped me.
I think the more frustrating part with not being able to come back to Kansas City, we had to stay in Denver for another night. Not that Denver isn't a beautiful city, and I don't love Denver, because I do find that city really cool.
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, I would have been out.
Vibes weren't real high. We just got waxed like 38-0.
him. So, you know, we kind of felt bad for some of the young guys and some of the guys that we were rooting for to try and have a good game.
And Coach Reed doesn't fucking like losing. 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.

All right.

Well, congrats.

You guys have Dubai.

Much-needed rest.

It's coming at Dubai in the playoffs makes such a big deal.

So that's huge.

It is huge.

It is huge, but it's a lot of time off.

I've had already, I think, a week and a half, almost two weeks by tomorrow. Because of the Wednesday game? Yeah.
Yeah. So hopefully we can get in the shells, put our helmets and pads on over the weekend, get some good contact in, and work our craft and find out who we're playing next week.
Fuck yeah. You're ready to rock and roll, baby.
Nothing better than playoff football, man. I punched our ticket to the dance, and now it's time to fucking dance, baby.
I love this shit. I fucking love it.
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Eagles also rested their starters instead of trying to get Saquon to break the NFL single season rushing record, which somehow created some controversy. 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.
That's just not how that happens yeah he would have got it the new york giants traff he would have fucking blew that thing out the door yeah but instead the giants came right good point i think he definitely gets it if he plays but i i you can't i think look about did they did they release what zay flower's injury they release whether he's coming back for the first week? They said that it's not season ending, but that it is a serious issue. So they don't know if he's, they said it's, 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, what did I want Barkley to go for the record? You're goddamn right. 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. It's always going to have an asterisk against.
Why would I have an asterisk? 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.

Yeah.

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 OJ 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.

He gets hurt.

You got to put the O-lineman out there. One of those guys get hurt.
The aspirations of the team are a Super Bowl. They are not just like sneaking in.
They're legit contenders. 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.
But because they didn't, they got a risk. They got to get healthy and make, they got four games now left to try and go get a Super Bowl, right? 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 beat the brakes off of the Giants. The other thing that I want to say about Saquon in this, and I do think the rushing

title is the coolest record in football.

I don't think there's anything better. And I don't know

it's because we grew up in Cleveland with Jim Brown, but

there's something about the rushing title record

in the NFL, like

passing yards leader, don't give a

crap. Receiving yards leader,

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 yards leader in a season i don't know why it's not but it's not and maybe it's because of 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 that's that and i hear you 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. They let him walk in a bunch of, 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. 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. It still is a storyline.
And honestly, if, yeah, I think it's more, what's the storyline? I think it's a slap in the face that he didn't even have to play in the game. What's, that's true.
That's true, but it's not the storyline. This is why we should have kept it at 16 games.
Looking back at the rushing titles, there's so many guys, there's a few guys that have broken 2 000 yards you forget that they even like derrick henry broke 2 000 yards 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 uh uh he almost did again this year i think he's the first back to ever have over like 1950 or something to yeah something like that did chris johnson do it yes yeah i mean i remember all of these like i just feel like none of these get but none of these are like notable i'm just being honest like everybody's crazy i'm just being honest adrian peterson's the only one because he was like seven yards away to chris when chris johnson was dude that that year was insane. You're crazy.
Nobody's saying it was an insane year, but it's not historic because he didn't break the record. I think it was more than – Unless you get the record, it's just another great year.
You get the record, you're the best – you're the baddest dude on the planet ever to play the game. Regardless of what anybody says about 17 games, 16 games, you get – hey,time record brother but either way i hear what you're saying i think all those years were equally as memorable as this one yeah they are equally memorable as in not being historic what do 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 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 that's that's the point of the record being the record yeah yeah and eventually though the record will get broken and the more important thing for nick sirianni and his job, the entire staff's job, the entire organization, the entire city's job is to try and put themselves in the best position and win a Super Bowl because that's the ultimate goal.
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.
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.

Maybe if, you know, Jason

Kelsey was out there, he would have got it in the

16 games he played. Listen, Cam

Juergens did just fine. As a matter of fact, Cam Juergens

made the Pro Bowl if we're...

Juergens is a fucking dog. Yes,

he is. I fucking love

watching those dudes, man. Three Eagles,

Cam Juergens, Jalen Carter, and

Zach Bond also made their first Pro Bowl. Shout out to the boys making their first.
Yeah, baby. Jason, how does 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.
Listen, we've known Cam Juergens is a great player in the Eagles organization. He's got all the tools.
He's athletic. He's strong.
He's got long arms. He's big.
He's smart. He's explosive.
I fully anticipated Cam having a phenomenal year. And now he's been, you know, awarded the Pro Bowl, which is amazing.
It's hard to do that your first year. Like, usually it takes you, you know, you usually get 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. He has a big reason this number is where it is at, and I think he's rightfully been awarded the Pro Bowl.
So could not be happier for Cam. 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 Juergens. And that's the way every player's got to play the game.
And there are things that he is much better at than I ever was at. And there's always going to be – every player is unique, no matter how similar the traits are.
He's the replacement for anybody that ever played center for the Philadelphia Eagles. I just don't think that that's the way you look at the job.
You look at the job like he's the starting center for the Philadelphia Eagles this year. Next man up.
How are we going to move forward with a line that operates successfully? I think Cam's done a phenomenal job, being Cam Juergens, the dog that he is, and the tremendous player and teammate that he is. So couldn't be more proud for him.
I got to say, very happy for Cam, Lane Johnson, Landon Dickerson. It's a fucking joke that Jordan Milata didn't get the Pro Bowl.
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 Wirfs, and oh my god, the third one's a great player too.
Sewell. Gosh, why did I blank on that? It's in good company, but I think Jordan Mala 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.

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.

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.

I don't believe in this like snub.

Like there's so many snubs every year 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.

Okay.

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it?

Okay.

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Kansas City Chiefs with the bye. Detroit Lions with the bye.
Eagles, the number two seed in the NFC, face the Green Bay. Packers at home.
The Buffalo Bills, the number two seed in the AFC West, face the Broncos at home. Packers in Washington had some interesting things shake out to see who was going to be the six or the seven seedth seed.
Bucks moved up to the 3th seed because LA lost. Yeah.
So there was a little bit of shuffling here. What team are you most surprised didn't make it? Surprise? I think going into the season, the team I'm most surprised didn't make it was probably the Bengals with Joe Burrow, Tee Higgins, Chase, healthy.
You thought they'd probably be in the playoffs. 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. I'm not really surprised.
I mean, after playing the Broncos earlier in the year. I'm talking about early in the season.
From the beginning? 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? 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. Honestly, I don't know why.
I didn't think Minnesota was going to be that big. Yeah, that dominant.
I mean, Sam Darnold's playing his tail off. Yeah.
Just playing Washington over the last few seasons. And I mean this with so much respect for Dan Quinn.
And even respect, like I think Rivera is a phenomenal coach as well. 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.
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. Like they're already in the playoffs.
I do think that they lack some of the pieces to really compete for the Superbowl this year. That's my own opinion.
But I think it's remarkable that they're in the playoffs that quickly. And it's a testament to Dan Quinn, Kingsbury and all those players.
They went out and hired some, they went out and signed some really good veterans, Bobbybury, and all those players.

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 to help shape

that culture with some veteran guys, bringing in the right coaches,

hitting on draft picks, and it's just been a remarkable year for the for the uh commanders 100 i'm right there with you bigger rookie surprise i probably say bo nicks man i think jayden daniels one heisman winner um you kind of saw 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. No, but there are a lot more, to your credit,

sorry, I did not mean to cut you up.

No.

There are a lot more people doubting the Bo Nix pick

than the Jaden Daniels pick.

So I think that's the reality of it.

When you look back on it, though, man,

I mean, you watched Bo Nix in college, man.

That dude can fucking ball.

And I'm telling you, the moment I saw him fired up

on the sideline throwing it back at Sean Payton, I love that. in the right amount like it can't be all the time yeah and there's something about throwing yeah you know 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 because like you know not that it's the right way to hand you got to be controlled as quarterback and you got to be poised.
So you can't do it too much. 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. 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.
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 yeah i'm with you i'm with you he's a killer man and he you can 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 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 think you got to go arrowhead. I will say.
No, this is wild card. 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.
I'm a homer. I'm going to be a homerer i think the link is a hard place to fucking win a playoff game in and i think it's out of all these games the link is probably the one that i think it is it's fucking loud yeah um 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 i think the link is hard to win a football game in.
Yeah, 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 gets a fucking rock and talk. Let's move on.
Don't even go. You want to fucking – you want to step into the loudest stadium in the world? I think it's equal.
It's like the loudest, nicest stadium in the world or the almost loudest. And you just got a bunch of.
People are just going to tear you apart. A bunch of motherfuckers.
You're going to throw rocks at the buses. All right.
Hypothetical. Please don't do that, Philadelphia.
Hypothetical. All the games are on at once.
What games are the YouTube TV quad box? Okay, well, this is a hypothetical. Shout out to YouTube TV and the quad box.
No doubt. No doubt.
I'm going. 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. As much as I think Buffalo is a, you know, is a better team.
I think Denver right now is, is playing really fucking good football. So I'll probably watch that one.
And I think for me, the game that I'll probably end up like 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.
I'll probably, so I'll definitely watch Eagles green Bay. No, they're going to fucking blow them out.
I'm not going to watch that game. I mean, do you green Bay, green Bay surprised him at the floor.
Sometimes can dial up some stuff. I got all the respect in them.
Yeah. I just don't see it Jordan Love, when he's on, he can sling it.
I think that game, I don't think it's going to be a blowout, but I do think the Eagles win. 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.
They are struggling. They're limping to the finish line, but I can't help myself.
Bills, Broncos, and 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. That one's like not even – that's the least interesting game to me.
Is that fair? I'm watching it because I think that's probably the two teams I'm going to play. Yeah, right.
Yeah. Well, this is – Just based off the seating.
The reality is I'm watching all of these games because playoff football is the fucking best. But if they all played it once and I have to watch only four, that's probably the forum goal.
That's probably the best way you can answer that. Yeah.
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One change, me and Jason will have one veto each. Alright, so we can veto each other one time.
You can veto the play. We can say it doesn't belong in the top 10.
I'll give you one veto each of 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. So if we think this

play is dog shit and Brandon did a terrible

job of bringing 10 plays in

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me on this recording. Oh, they can't

perfect. Nice.

I just really hope I remember these plays. All right.
Let uh let's take a look at the first play then brandon first play from week 16 lions bears oh oh my the fake stumble oh it's pretty good it's pretty good i mean the only reason i want to i want to almost veto this because I don't think the stumble affected fucking anything. Like, I mean, 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, I'll leave it in there. I mean, it's low, though.
You hear the ball, ball, ball that the entire sideline was screaming to? 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, Jared Goff, that's a great trip.
It looks like he's falling. 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.
I just think that the lateral to Penny Sewell is a much better Lions play that never ended up going in. The lateral to the tackle, the hook and lateral to the right tackle.
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. It's a fun trick play, but it wasn't like that.
with you we'll go 10 10 throw it in 10 lions had a line at some awesome plays so i think there's gonna be another lions clip up here it better be pretty soon play number two from week 13 bills niners oh this is a great lateral this is a good one this just backyard ball right here to the old snow game. And Josh, this was the first time a player ever through and ran.
He had a completion and a receiving touchdown. Yes.
All in the same play, right? Yeah. And it was the first time that's ever happened.
Yep. I think you got to put.
No, no, no, no, no, no, it's not. No, it not marcus mariotta did it against the chiefs in the playoffs he threw a ball uh to somebody darrell revis smacked it down and he then caught it and went into the end zone yeah but that's not a this is a that's not a rushing touchdown if he smacked it down right no this was a receiving thought.
This was a receiving touchdown. Oh, yeah.
Okay, either way, rare that this happens. Semantics.
Yeah. I think this is an awesome play.
I think – Can't go too high. Can't go too high.
Can't go too high. I mean, they're winning 21-3.
Is it just a heads-up play? They're beating the piss out of them. Yeah, it's only the first half, though.
It's a good play. It says third quarter right there.
Third quarter. It's second half.
Okay, let's go. What do you think? Three or four, maybe? What? Maybe four.
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 this is a dope play, though.
There were some other Josh Allen plays this year. I could feel it.
Week 10, Broncos Chiefs. Oh, that was fucking electric yes it was

I mean

you gotta play that you didn't

even let us watch the entire thing

Kevin Harlan on it too

dude

shout out to Harlan man

so good it is so epic dude his boy he might be one of my I mean, he's up there as one of my favorites. He is really good.
Dude, honestly, a little bias, but I think, 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, like as a walk-off and not only like kind of getting lucky but like they like knew exactly what they're doing they knew where like it was like thought out i'm pretty sure chanel called it like said like we're gonna go block this he did so all around i think it's just a fucking crazy play there were a few there were a few big block field goals uh this season though so i don't know if I'm just being biased. Do you want to go 4-3 on this? Or do you want to go higher? I think it's either 4-6.
It's either 4-6. I'll let you call it.
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 4.
If we're going four or six, I'll go four. All right.
From week 12, Cowboys, Commanders, 99-yard kick return. Oh, my God.
I mean, it's a turpin is fast. Hit that B button.
Hit that B button on him. Oh, shit.
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, if not one. I don't know.
I can't remember what play would be better this season. You think this is better than that block kick to win the game? Dude, a kick return with three minutes left in the game? Yeah.
I mean, it's a dope play. 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.
I don't think it's as good as a Josh Allen play, if I'm being honest. I'll go three.
You're insane. Week eight, Washington Bears.
Walk off? Yeah. Oh, yeah.
It's the the 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 that's a good shot taken listen he did his job he did He did his job. He was right where he needed to be.

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.

Yeah, I'll give it a nice solid seven or eight.

Seven sounds good.

Seven sounds good.

From week 15.

Let's go.

I believe this is. You can just put the Saquon hurdle at one already.
There it is. That's what I was thinking of.
I do love a big man. Oh, that was electric.
I mean, it's a great play. It is a great play.
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 strip? Yeah. Oh, that's stiff.
Do you know how hard it is to stiff arm a 300 pound fucking offensive lineman? I just love to hit some of the shush at the beginning of that. Go back to the start of that.
Get that shush in there. Bink, bink.
He goes right here. He hits it.
And then right away, he gets the ball up. Shush Sniffy.
Set up the block. Hit the highway.
So good. God damn, that's good.
It's a great play, but we can't put it up. 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? Oh, this

catch was great. That's a great catch.

It didn't count. It wasn't a catch.

Jets Jake. Jets Jake rule.

It counted. His shin goes down.

Yeah, I thought it got overturned, right?

It did. It counted.

It counted his what was it? His shin.

His shin was down.

They called it a touchdown

eventually i mean if that's a catch that's a two that's 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 to yeah we got to go to that was a fucking unbelievable that's yeah Alright, you've been waiting for it

From week 9 Yeah, we got to go to that was a fucking unbelievable. That's yeah.
You're right. Yeah.
All right. You've been waiting for it from week nine.
Hold on. Eagles.
Jags. Slide.
Number one. There's no there's no way there's any crazy.
It's so crazy. I could watch this shit all day.
This is fucking poetry.

You jump over somebody backwards.

The spin move alone would have been in the

top ten of this list.

Oh, God. Alright, keep it going.

Yeah, week five. This is

Saints Chiefs.

Oh, Sir Binky.

I'll go nine. I love the play.

Sir Bink!

Get up on the hop.

Look at him.

Yeah.

I fucking love that dude, man.

Shout out to SirBank.

Top 10 play of the year.

I go nine on SirBank.

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.

This is from week 16, Chargers, Broncoscos. Chargers Broncos.
The free kick. Yeah, we'll veto this.
God damn it. Genius use of this strategy, but no.
Veto. Okay, it's out.
It's out. Who's using the veto? I'll use it.
This shit was buns. Alright.
The guy just did a practice kick that he did in warm-ups all friggin' day. Listen, you only see it every 60 years.
It was a great job by Harbaugh to utilize a stupid rule, but. 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. This isn't that, like...

Yeah, shout out to Joey B.

I mean, listen, Joe deserves to be up here, but...

I don't know if that's the one.

That's not better than the Washington Hail Mary,

so I got to veto it and hope that something

better than these ones are in there.

I mean, I know one Bengals play

right now that's better than...

Thank you. that's not better than the Washington Hail Mary.
So I got to veto it and hope that something better than these, than these ones are in there.

I mean,

I know one Bengals play right now.

That's better than go ahead.

All right,

well,

let's get to our 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 against the Bengals.

Yes.

That one should definitely be on here.

And this would be the perfect slot for it. Alright, do it.
We can't. Brandon, that's not how the blind ranking works.
I'll give you one. I'll give you one.
No, give us your fucking shitty play. What you put up here all right, all right.
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. Is it number six? I mean, it can be up there.
I don't know if it's – I think we're leaving out some other top ten plays. We 100% are, but it's a blind ranking we presented i feel very good about this list i feel better about this list now yeah yeah i'm with you though the josh allen lateral probably could have been a little higher very solid solid list some plays some plays that could have probably been up here we just talked about the lamar play bangles cornerback interception week two against us i don't know how the fuck Britt even caught that fucking ball.
I'm still confused on how he caught that fucking ball. That was one of the best interceptions I've ever seen in my life.
Yeah. Yeah.
Other than that, shout out to everybody. Please send any play that we missed to at Jchat85 on Twitter.
And we're not going to do this again. Good luck with that one.
Good luck, buddy. His DMS are open guys.
Get in there. Let him know he got wrong.
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All right. Hello, brothers.
Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.
I have a very, very important question to ask. I'm here watching 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.
What happened to the jockstrap? Seriously, I don't think you boys wear them anymore. You just see everything hanging and moving and running and oh my goodness oh my goodness what happened to the jockstrom all right take care not as aware immensely it's a lot of fun bye not as aware as this woman at uh what's going on with the genitals throughout the game but uh you know watch the game for whatever you watch the game for you know 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 or what happened to the jock strap is they invented compression shorts and they're just way more efficient at holding everything in place and better and it eliminates the chafing that could possibly go on correct but i so it's like you knock out two birds with one stone you got a fucking gold powder your gooch and your your thighs every fucking day you could just throw on some compression shorts i still wore the jock strap i like there's something i liked about the jock strap 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 jock strap and i and I thought it was funny.
So maybe that's the reason I wore it.

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.

I needed help because I don't have a great ass, so.

All right, there you go.

I think, yeah, the compression shorts came in. Yeah, nobody is well and also the not a lot of guys wear cups anymore and the jock strap was initially to hold the the cup well that's how we always use it but i do think there the jock strap was also utilized before compression shorts to hold the junk but once you have compression shorts shorts, you didn't need that.
Yeah, I hear you. All righty.
Glad we could help you out. By the way, get your mind out of it.
What was that woman's name? Do we remember? No, she just said Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you.
Just watch some football. You know, you get a free.
She's acting like she's not happy about it. It's so disturbing seeing everybody's junk just jump around on the TV.
All of this phallic meat bouncing from thigh to thigh. 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? Montgomery where? I just wanted to know what your opinion is on fall weddings. Fall weddings? Me and my girlfriend have talked about getting married.
Talked about it. And she wants a fall wedding.
And I told her, good luck with that. I'm going to be at a football game um so i just wanted to know you guys's opinion on that is appreciate it sounds like this marriage is gonna work out great i actually don't know 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 find a weekend where the team isn't playing anybody good, maybe.
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. I think you guys should duke that out.
I don't think we have any say on what you should be doing here. And 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 brother i'm gonna 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 another like record it and watch it again like i don't know what you want me to say like there's certain things that are more important than football 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 uh unless we got a big parlay unless we got a big parlay and we got a fucking sweetie we got to 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 light name one 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 fr Friday.
Yeah, but it's a weekend thing. It's a little inconsiderate for travel.
Don't make my friends have to not go. Everybody's got season tickets, all right? Don't make my friends have to choose whether or not they have to sell their tickets that week.
There's a lot more important things in footballs, and weddings happen to be one of them. And not arguing with your wife is high up there with more important than football.

So I would just do the wedding whenever she wants to because that's kind of your job now.

Football is life.

Football is life.

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I disagree.

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