Ryan Fitzpatrick Talking Conference Championships, Stavros Halkios And The Ravens Loss, Ohio State Wins The Natty, Bears Get Ben Johnson And Tensions Are Mounting

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, Ohio State wins the national championship. College football season is finally done.
I want to talk about that game.

Speaker 1 Marcus Freeman, we might need to talk to him about numbers.

Speaker 7 We have some coach hiring.

Speaker 1 Ben Johnson to the Bears. Aaron Glenn to the Jets.
Memes, has it happened? Maybe.

Speaker 1 We have no? Maybe.

Speaker 7 Memes told me at 2 p.m. It was going to be official.
It is now 3 p.m.

Speaker 1 Okay, so hot seat, cool throne. We have our good friend Ryan Fitzpatrick on the show talking about the championship Sunday games.

Speaker 1 And then we also have our good friend Stav Stavi Baby talking about the Ravens.

Speaker 1 He's doing his duty. He's coming on the show after another heartbreaking loss.

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Speaker 1 Today is Wednesday, January 22nd, and the Ohio State Buckeyes are national champions and Ryan Day. The national championships and Ryan Day

Speaker 1 has saved face,

Speaker 1 and they, even though the scoreboard looked a little closer, they dominated most of that game, let Notre Dame back in, but Ohio State has done it. $20 million roster.
Incredible team.

Speaker 1 One blemish on the record. Otherwise, they, you know, kick the shit.
I mean, they kicked the shit out of everyone in the playoffs. Texas was a closer game.

Speaker 7 Two blemishes, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, yeah, the Oregon game by one

Speaker 1 in Otsen, and then they avenged it by a lot. By a ton.
That one doesn't really count as much. But yeah, Ohio State was an awesome team, and they played awesome football down the stretch.

Speaker 1 And the new 12-team playoff, we finally have our first national champion from it.

Speaker 7 So let's look at the rest of the top 25 that just came out.

Speaker 7 Number two, Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 Okay. Beat them.

Speaker 7 Number three, Oregon. Womped them.
Yep. Number four, Texas.
Beat/slash whomped them.

Speaker 1 I don't count as a womp it.

Speaker 7 Wamp if you look at the final score, beat if you watch the game.

Speaker 1 If you watch the game, it was Texas had a chance to tie it

Speaker 1 with two minutes left. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Penn State

Speaker 1 beat them. Beat slash them.
Not

Speaker 1 beat them. They beat them by seven.

Speaker 7 They beat a lot of really good teams, and they had a very tough path to go through this playoff. You can't point to Ohio State and say anything about Asterix, Mickey Mouse, whatever.

Speaker 7 They were the best team in this playoff. Yeah.
Best team.

Speaker 7 They do have that big, expensive roster, but to their credit, most of those guys, most of the money from the roster is going to guys that stayed around.

Speaker 7 So it's like, hey, come back to OSU instead of trying to declare for the draft. We'll pay you some money while you're here.

Speaker 7 They did make a big addition at safety, obviously, but it's a, yeah, it's a team that's been there for a long time. And credit to them.

Speaker 7 What a crazy season Ohio State had.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, if you had asked anyone at the end of November, like, is this team going to go on a run and do what they did in the playoff?

Speaker 1 I obviously was there somewhere deep down, but you also were like, they're on the ropes because what happened against Michigan was insane.

Speaker 1 But man,

Speaker 1 that four-game stretch that they went through there, they were so good. And

Speaker 1 they're just a really, really, really good football team. Ryan Day proved the haters wrong in the fact that he can win a national title.

Speaker 1 Will Howard, happy for Will Howard because I know that I've not been the number one Will Howard rider. I think he's a good quarterback.
I didn't know if he was a great quarterback.

Speaker 1 He was playing great. I mean,

Speaker 1 that play at the end where Ohio State, the fourth quarter, I think we all watched it. The first three quarters, you're like, Notre Dame shouldn't be on the field with Ohio State.

Speaker 1 Notre Dame gets a fumble, goes and scores. They get back in the game.
They're fighting, which they deserve a ton of credit for.

Speaker 1 And then Ohio State has the ball up eight at the end of the game, and it looked like they were kind of turtling a little bit, running just Will Howard right into the line and hoping to punt and be okay.

Speaker 7 It was like, give the ball to Will Howard, don't even let him pitch the ball, don't let him hand the ball off, don't let him throw the ball, don't even let him get tackled.

Speaker 7 Just give the ball, snap the ball to Will Howard, have him run to the right and fall down.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then they call up to play the 50-yard pass of Jeremiah Smith. That was gutsy, ballsy, and Chip Kelly.
Chip Kelly was in his bag.

Speaker 1 That first touchdown of Jeremiah Smith was one of the coolest plays where he had the whole side of the field completely wide open in a short-yardage situation. I think it was on like the 10-yard line.

Speaker 1 But yeah,

Speaker 1 that was a ballsy-gutsy call, and Ryan Day proved that he's not going to piss down his legs, and he's a national champion forever.

Speaker 7 That call to Jeremiah Smith was the same call, kind of, as they did, I think, to Tony in the Super Bowl, where you move your guy in motion, have him fake like he's going to run a reverse or a jet sweep or something like that, send him back out, and he's going to be a step ahead in a short-yarded situation.

Speaker 7 Get him the ball.

Speaker 10 It works all the time.

Speaker 1 Well, it's a great call, but it's also a testament to Jeremiah Smith and how insanely athletic he is.

Speaker 1 Because if you watch that play and how he's able to stop on a dime, no one else has that stop and start that he does.

Speaker 1 So even if you play it perfectly and you're tracking him, you're still going to lose on that play.

Speaker 1 And yeah, he's an incredible talent.

Speaker 7 And then when Notre Dame was tracking him across the field, he goes in motion, and there's two guys that are like, oh, fuck, he's in motion. I'm going to start running as fast as I can.

Speaker 7 And then, boom, left it wide open. On that last series of the game for Ohio State, when they're going down the field and they're doing the conservative shit with Will Howard, just give them the ball.

Speaker 7 Do you think that Chip Kelly decided to do that to set up the deep shot? He's like, make them think that we're getting conservative, and then that's going to open it up.

Speaker 1 No, I just assume that deep shot was probably an option play for Will Howard where it was like, hey, get to the line.

Speaker 1 If Jeremiah Smith is one-on-one on the outside with no safety help, that's where you should go.

Speaker 1 If they're playing something else, if they're playing zone or something else,

Speaker 1 then probably just run it again into the line, and we'll hope our defense can get a stop.

Speaker 7 That's what I thought last night. Then I woke up this morning and I thought to myself, did Chip Kelly just fake out all of America?

Speaker 7 Because we all bought into the narrative of Ohio State getting too conservative and just kind of pissing away the game at the very end.

Speaker 7 He might have just fooled everybody and said, we're going to make you think that we're doing that. Yeah.
And then bomb it deep.

Speaker 7 The very first drive of the game for Notre Dame.

Speaker 7 Did you think it was going to be a game after that?

Speaker 1 I thought it was a perfect start because it was a 10-minute touchdown drive. I did not think that it was sustainable for Riley Leonard to carry the ball nine times on a

Speaker 1 10-minute drive and get the absolute shit kicked out of him time and time again. But

Speaker 1 if you ask a Notre Dame fan, what's the perfect drive? Obviously, maybe not Riley Leonard getting nine carries, but what's the perfect drive to start?

Speaker 1 It's 10 minutes bully ball, completely erase the first quarter and score a touchdown.

Speaker 7 They did. They erased the first quarter.
Yeah. But then Ohio State gets the ball and they score in like three minutes.
Right. And then you're like, what was all that work for?

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. So, I mean, Ohio State was just the better team.
And I thought, I said going into it, I was like, if Notre Dame can be plus two or three on the turnovers, they will have a shot.

Speaker 1 I think they were plus one. So they needed a couple more of those.
They really couldn't.

Speaker 1 It was a bad fit for Notre Dame in the fact that they play man coverage a lot, and that's what Ohio State just absolutely eats alive. And they were trying to switch to zone.

Speaker 1 And it's just like they didn't really feel like they had the answers to all the problems that Ohio State's offense was throwing at them. And Ohio State's defense is elite.

Speaker 1 I mean, Jeremiah Love was, what do you have, four carries? Yeah. Like, he, I mean, he, they're just an elite, elite defense top to bottom.

Speaker 7 And they're they were never able to really run the ball. Yeah, no, outside of that first drive where they went like all gas, no breaks.
That doesn't mean that you can't steer. Right.
And they didn't.

Speaker 7 They just were going to crash into everybody. And then Jeremiah Love was just not part of the game at all.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
So, and Notre Dame, like I said, Notre Dame deserves credit for fighting because I think we all were in the same boat. We're like, this sucks.
This is a dud. They did put a little bit.

Speaker 1 Now, did he get hurt? Because he had four rushes for three yards. He might have gotten hurt.
I bet on him.

Speaker 7 I was monitoring him very closely. I don't know if he got hurt or not.

Speaker 1 Riley Leonard had 17 rushes. But

Speaker 1 credit to Notre Dame for making it a game there at the end where it was like you had to at least be paying attention when they cut it to eight now. Or sorry, they cut it to five.
And then

Speaker 1 Ohio State kicked a field goal.

Speaker 1 Our guy, Marcus Freeman, who we like, great coach, incredible run. I do think Notre Dame's future is very bright, and they'll be back in this spot.

Speaker 1 They've got a good quarterback coming in, all these things.

Speaker 1 I don't know what he was doing with that field goal kick.

Speaker 7 I was shocked.

Speaker 1 So, for people who didn't watch the game, I'm assuming everyone watched the game.

Speaker 1 Notre Dame was down 16 with nine minutes left on the nine-yard line, and he brought out the field goal unit, missed the field goal because they rushed him out, but trying to make a two-score game, a two-score game.

Speaker 1 And there were some people who were like, oh, well, now Notre Dame can win with two touchdowns if they hit this field goal.

Speaker 1 It still didn't make sense because you were saying you needed, with nine minutes left, you needed two full touchdown drives and two stops of Ohio State. I would always take

Speaker 1 trying to get nine yards over that. Yeah.
And they're like, well, what about the two-point conversion?

Speaker 1 I still, like, you have to play, if you kick that, attempt that field goal, you have to play a perfect end of the game to have everything go your way to have a chance to even win that game.

Speaker 7 I'm going to play Devil's Advocate for Notre Dame. Would it be Jesus, Christ's advocate? Yeah.

Speaker 1 For Notre Dame.

Speaker 7 Did you see the plays that they were calling and how effective they were earlier in that situation? Yeah,

Speaker 1 they still don't.

Speaker 7 I'm playing this advocate real quick.

Speaker 7 They didn't even sniff the end zone. They were getting overpowered.
It didn't look like they had a hope on fourth down of scoring a touch.

Speaker 7 It would basically be throw the ball up, hope that somehow a miracle happens, you come down with it.

Speaker 7 It was not, although their two-point plays were really good.

Speaker 7 This was, you know, it would have been a nine-yard touchdown, but they didn't look like they were in rhythm at all to score a touchdown on that.

Speaker 7 So Marcus Freeman was probably just like, yeah, you know what, screw it. Let's just take some points here.
But then in that situation, you have to still go down the field twice to score touchdowns.

Speaker 1 And get two stops.

Speaker 7 I hated the field goal call. I thought it was bad, but I thought that probably had something to do with it.

Speaker 7 If they were close on one of their previous plays, if they looked like they ran a play that worked out anywhere near what they had practiced, they probably would have been like, Yeah, okay, let's take a shot at the end zone.

Speaker 7 But it was just, it was a bad series.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we got to talk math with him. It's just a two-score game to a two-score game.
I don't know. You just, you got a chance there.
Uh,

Speaker 1 I still would rather figure out your best play, and if you don't get it,

Speaker 1 okay, but at least you went out on your sword.

Speaker 1 Bringing out the field goal kicker and rushing him out and having him miss the kick was just the worst possible scenario.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it was karma. Yeah.
And then I saw people posting the stats of whether or not you should go for it, the plus or minus was, and it was a toss-up.

Speaker 7 But I'm pretty sure that on those toss-ups, they don't take into account the two-point conversion, too. Yeah.
Like, obviously, if you're down by 16,

Speaker 7 then it's not the same as being down by 14 in that model. It's a national championship.

Speaker 1 It's a national championship.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I think you got to go for it.

Speaker 1 You got to go for it. You got to be aggressive.
You got to just go. I mean,

Speaker 1 again, you just, and what ended up happening was Ohio State ended up getting another field goal to make it a two-score game again. But it's just like, I don't know, you just got to go for it there.

Speaker 1 You got to, I know it sucks. I know your offense had no real answers, but you got to go for it.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 1 Ohio State, yeah, I mean, incredible season. Ryan Day, is he going to get a contract extension?

Speaker 7 I was going to ask you, do you think Ryan Day's job is safe?

Speaker 1 I would say it's safe. Yeah, probably.
But

Speaker 1 how do we think Ohio State fans, like, this is one of those things where you're national to champions and it's awesome.

Speaker 1 But it's still got to probably bother you that Michigan fans are like, but you couldn't beat us.

Speaker 7 That's the thing.

Speaker 7 Like, I've listened to a lot of sports talk today, and every single time I've been hearing somebody talk about Ohio State, when they bring it up, within two sentences, the word Michigan is used.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 7 And that's, it's not an asterisk. You guys won the national championship.
Ohio State was the best team in college football. I don't think that you can argue that.
They were the best.

Speaker 7 They proved it through a tournament. They beat all the other top-ranked teams in the tournament.
Crazy route that they took.

Speaker 7 But people are always going to say Michigan after they talk about this title.

Speaker 7 And you have to just embrace that if you're Ohio State and say, yeah, we experienced the lowest low that you could possibly have for our team during a season.

Speaker 7 And then we responded and we were better than everybody in the country.

Speaker 1 And they might not win the national title if they don't lose to Michigan. Like, there's a world where that might have galvanized them and refocused them.

Speaker 1 And they did change, you know, how they ran the ball, some of their play calling,

Speaker 1 letting Will Howard, you know, throw it deep to Jeremiah Smith more. So there is that world that like that was actually the thing that pushed them to win a national title.

Speaker 1 They probably would have won it anyway, but it also hurts because

Speaker 1 the what,

Speaker 1 you know, Ryan Day, Urban Meyer, and then Woody Hayes.

Speaker 1 Woody Hayes, the most famous probably in football lore of all the Ohio State coaches, has a famous quote: you can't claim a national championship without winning the game.

Speaker 1 The only meaningful statistic is the number of times you beat Michigan.

Speaker 7 That's probably because it had never happened before.

Speaker 1 Well, and also, it was a different world where you literally would just claim national titles. Yeah, it's ours.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and you technically, like, you probably can't because if you have one loss, you can't claim a national title.

Speaker 7 So, what we're saying is a different world. And Woody Hayes, he co-signs on this.

Speaker 7 Co-national champions, Michigan and Ohio State.

Speaker 1 Michigan and Ohio State.

Speaker 7 What this has really done is this is just the ultimate build-up to that game next year.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. It's going to be incredible.
I can't wait. And that Big Ten is kind of where football lies now, two in a row.

Speaker 1 And it's, I mean, I know there's the theory that now that the schools in the north can start paying everyone over the table,

Speaker 1 it makes it a little bit different than what was happening in the SEC. But if you're an SEC fan, you got to be like, shit.
And it's very cool.

Speaker 1 It's cool for sports just in general that Michigan went out, had a 15-0 season, and then that game happened where Michigan beats Ohio State and Ohio State, like both of the premier programs in the Big Ten just put their nuts on the table and won back-to-back titles.

Speaker 7 It is kind of crazy. Yeah.
It's good for football. Great for football.
You know what's not good for football was having that game last night.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 That was bad. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, it should be, it should be January 10th should be the latest they play the national champion.

Speaker 7 We didn't, we didn't feel like it was even college football season anymore at that point. It was like, oh yeah, the most important game of all is tonight.
We forgot.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can't have it. You can't have four NFL teams left and still not have a national title champion for college football.
It just feels weird. It feels off.

Speaker 7 Stupid. It was cool seeing those two schools on the field, though, for a national title.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and credit to Ohio State.

Speaker 1 They were an incredible, incredible team. And at their best, they're up there.
I think they could take anyone.

Speaker 1 But in Ryan Day, I'm happy that he can still live without having his house be TP'd and people calling and harassing him. He's got a little bit back.

Speaker 1 Although there's probably going to be some crazy Ohio State fans who are like, that wasn't enough.

Speaker 7 Maybe just order pizza to his house.

Speaker 1 If he loses to, imagine if he does this again next year. If he loses to Michigan and then wins another national title.
That's just his thing.

Speaker 7 I saw people having the debate, like, how many losses in a row would you take to Michigan for one national title? What's the math on that? But that's more interesting.

Speaker 7 Like, how many national titles in a row would you want to win losing to Michigan every year?

Speaker 7 Because if you're Ohio State this year, you're like, fuck yeah, I'll take that deal with the national champions. If it happens again next year, then you're like, okay, yeah, pretty cool, back-to-back.

Speaker 7 But then if it's ever, I think maybe by three, you're like, I would just like to beat Michigan.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I brought this up after they lost to Michigan, and you guys both told me if you gave them that deal, they'd all say no.

Speaker 1 I mean, the what? To lose to Michigan every year?

Speaker 3 You said they say, fuck yeah, I take that deal. You lose to Michigan, win the national title.

Speaker 7 After they lost to

Speaker 3 Michigan, I was like, if they win the national title, does it not matter? You're like, no, it doesn't matter because they lost to Michigan.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think it's still.

Speaker 3 So, like, I'm saying before the season, if you had given them that deal, they would have said no.

Speaker 1 I think there's some Ohio State fans that would be like,

Speaker 1 we want to beat Michigan.

Speaker 7 I think after that Michigan game.

Speaker 10 No, but before the season.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 You said you're going to lose to Michigan, but win the national title.

Speaker 1 I think there's some Ohio State.

Speaker 3 Maybe they lost to Michigan. You guys both told me that they would have said, we will not take that deal.
We have to beat Michigan.

Speaker 7 I think I'd also like to say...

Speaker 3 What do you think it is now, though, now that they've actually won the title?

Speaker 1 I think they got to beat Michigan next year.

Speaker 7 I think I was wrong right after to say that you would not take the deal. I think that after the fact, it felt so low for them.

Speaker 7 But the way that it's played out and the way that they battled back from that, I've changed my mind.

Speaker 7 I think that Ohio State fans are just as proud of this season as they are of a lot of their others where they do beat Michigan. So I think I was wrong about that.

Speaker 7 Hand up, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a shitload of ammunition for people out there to fire back whenever you talk about that. That's gonna

Speaker 7 be the story of this championship for the rest of your lives. When you say, Yeah, we won this game, we won the national title.
There will be somebody that says, Yeah, but you lost to Michigan.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, and I think that rivalry matters to such an insane point to those fans that, as awesome as the national title was, and it's awesome, there's just a small part of them like, damn, that Michigan game really did suck.

Speaker 1 And that, that we know that, like, in the workings of the rivalry, if you know Michigan fans, if you work with Michigan fans, if you have friends in Michigan fans, like, they'll always just bring it up.

Speaker 1 And they always kind of got that on you because that's just how college football. Now, you could say that this is also probably what PFT was saying, like, probably an overreaction to that game.

Speaker 1 It also is an overreaction to the way the new 12-team playoff works.

Speaker 1 Because in all years past, in the 100-plus years of that rivalry, if Ohio State loses that game, they don't have a chance to win a national title.

Speaker 1 This was literally the first year where this possibly could happen.

Speaker 7 That's what I was saying with Woody Hayes. It's like he said that because

Speaker 1 it couldn't happen. Yeah, they chose.
Yeah, they chose. Yeah, you can't claim it.

Speaker 1 So this is the new normal a little bit, which I'll hand up.

Speaker 1 I've seen people argue this point when they argue against a 12-team playoff that some of the rivalries games can maybe have a little bit of a diminished meaning because of that.

Speaker 1 That does suck a little bit.

Speaker 1 That you can go and lose to your rival and then still go win a national title like that. That has never happened in college.
Like I was thinking about the kick-six.

Speaker 1 Alabama would have probably went and won a national title.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 that game would have meant nothing.

Speaker 7 The loss to Michigan truly the start of the championship DVD. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But it was a great football season.
College football season. You got to do it earlier, though.

Speaker 7 How good does that Indiana loss to Ohio State look now, huh?

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 They lost by a decent amount, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Signetti. Signetti.
And yeah, he only lost by 10 in Notre Dame.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he kicks people's asses. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. Any other last college football thoughts? Penn State next year, Max?

Speaker 2 Penn State should be good next year?

Speaker 1 No, I'm just saying it went Michigan. Yeah.
Ohio State.

Speaker 2 I was looking at the best part of when a college season ends, you got to look at the way too early top 25 next year.

Speaker 1 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 Penn State number three. Penn State number three.
Who's won? Ohio State? Ohio State. Number two?

Speaker 1 Texas. Okay.

Speaker 1 Give us the top 10.

Speaker 2 Notre Dame, number four. Okay.

Speaker 2 Georgia, number five. Yeah.
Oregon, six. Yeah.
Clemson, seven. Yeah.
LSU, eight.

Speaker 2 BYU, nine.

Speaker 2 And South Carolina, 10.

Speaker 1 I think you could just. According to the ESPN.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you could have pulled that out of your ass like at any point in the last four years and just put those teams in.

Speaker 1 South Carolina's a little bit of a wild.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you got to have BYU. Mix it up a little bit.

Speaker 7 LSU, I'm sure that'll end well.

Speaker 1 Congrats to Ohio State, though.

Speaker 1 Okay, what else we got?

Speaker 7 Any coach hirings? Well, there was also the tragic golf cart accident

Speaker 7 in the tunnel afterwards when that lady was driving Ryan Day. Who else was in that golf cart?

Speaker 1 I think Will Howard was in there.

Speaker 7 Will Howard was in there, and the lady, she just drives directly into the wall.

Speaker 1 Couldn't see the wall. Came out of nowhere.

Speaker 7 Yeah, exactly. It wasn't painted yellow or anything.
It was a hazard. She drove directly into it.
She was probably a Georgia alumni. Yeah.
But yeah, it was a very, very funny.

Speaker 7 Watch her steer.

Speaker 1 Bang. She just didn't see the wall.
Ohio State coaches and golf carts. Name a better duo.

Speaker 7 Always works. Yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 I mean, she drove it in so bad you couldn't even reverse it. That's true.
That's when you really felt like it was. Yeah, the cops had to come and they just started walking.

Speaker 1 They're like, all right, never mind. We're out of here.

Speaker 7 It does rock to be able to just ride around golf carts.

Speaker 7 That's my dream.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 7 You want her to release a statement? I would.

Speaker 1 How did she even think

Speaker 7 for the record? Hank wants to know. So make sure to follow her on Instagram, Hank.
What is her Instagram? Because Hank would like to follow her for the statement.

Speaker 3 Yeah, link me up.

Speaker 1 Link them up.

Speaker 1 I'll do some journalism. Okay,

Speaker 1 what else you got? Anything else?

Speaker 7 Some coaching hires.

Speaker 1 Oh, really? Who got hired? You said the Jets.

Speaker 3 Oh, wait, it's 3 o'clock.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's after 3.

Speaker 7 It's after 3. Congratulations, Big Cat.

Speaker 1 On what?

Speaker 7 Ben Johnson.

Speaker 1 I'm staying a six out of 10.

Speaker 1 That's such a lot.

Speaker 7 Yeah, such a lot. That's the first thing I went.
So Big Cat's not a six out of 10 because I was in the gambling cave, and the first thing Big Cat says to me is like, the Bears just got Ben Johnson.

Speaker 7 Big Cat is all the way back. No, I'm six out of 10.

Speaker 1 I don't blame him. There's still a lot of work to be done.

Speaker 7 This is the move that you have to. This is what I was talking about with Mike McCarthy versus Ben Johnson.
With Mike McCarthy.

Speaker 1 I'm very wrong again. Yeah.
Very wrong.

Speaker 7 Mike McCarthy, safe hire, hire, probably gets you to the playoffs, probably have you guys win a couple games. Ben Johnson is a guy that can turn Caleb Williams into a superstar quarterback.

Speaker 1 Here's, okay, I'm not going to, because people are going to want me to get ahead of myself, not going to get ahead of myself. This is what I'm very, very happy.

Speaker 1 I'm a six out of 10 happy, which is as high as my happiness meter can go.

Speaker 1 Ben Johnson picking the Bears and the Bears. paying the money that they're going to pay Ben Johnson is a significant shift in everything the Bears usually do.
And that's, you know,

Speaker 1 they don't usually pay a coach. I think the report was $14 million, which is for a first-time head coach.
It's insane.

Speaker 1 Ben Johnson was the hottest ticket in the last two coaching hirings cycles. He was the guy who was hand-selecting which interviews he won.

Speaker 1 The Jaguars, the Raiders, I know the Jets probably wanted him. He didn't do an interview with them.
Like, all these teams wanted Ben Johnson.

Speaker 1 He picked the Bears, which makes me think that he thinks Caleb Williams is special, which makes me very happy.

Speaker 1 And for all the shit I give George McCasky and the McCasky family and the Bears' ownership,

Speaker 1 they went and got the number one guy on the market who, and they paid him top dollar, and that's very anti-Bears. So I'm six out of 10 happy.
A lot of work to be done. Got to get an offensive line.

Speaker 1 Got to get more defensive line. Got to get Caleb Wright.

Speaker 1 But I believe in Ben Johnson, and I'm very happy.

Speaker 7 I heard one suggestion. Memes heard the same thing on the radio this morning: draft Ashton Genty in the first round.
What do you think about that?

Speaker 1 I've seen that as well. The Bears need a lot of help everywhere.

Speaker 1 So, if they want to do Ashton Genty and he wants to, and we want to get freaky with it, I trust in Ben Johnson, and I'm back trusting in Ryan Poles as well because I did not think that the Bears were going to be able to get Ben Johnson.

Speaker 1 I thought that they had screwed it up. I thought no one would pick the Bears.

Speaker 1 Ben Johnson, I saw a report that Ben Johnson wanted the Bears' job last year, but he agreed to stay for one last year with Dan Campbell to finish this thing out.

Speaker 1 And that's why the Bears ended up keeping Eberflus because they're like, we don't want to fire him now and lose out on Ben Johnson next year.

Speaker 1 This also might just be a fan fiction thing in my head that I've made up.

Speaker 7 I was going to suggest maybe, maybe it might be.

Speaker 1 But a six out of 10, I remain.

Speaker 7 He was like, he had his eye on this. Is his dream job?

Speaker 1 The Bears have a lot of work to do, and Ben Johnson isn't going to be able to fix everything. But but it was.

Speaker 1 It's.

Speaker 1 I'm saying a six out of 10. That's what I was going to say.
You know what's crazy? I was going to say something else, but I'm saying it's six out of 10.

Speaker 7 You know what's crazy is you're older than Ben Johnson.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Ben Johnson. I mean, that's a lot of coaches now.
Yeah, you are too, buddy. We're older than like every coach here.
Yeah. It's getting bad.

Speaker 7 Scary hours.

Speaker 3 Not me.

Speaker 7 Just wait. Close.

Speaker 1 How old's Ben Johnson?

Speaker 7 He is 38.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 We're about to be 40. Does that count as boy genius? It could be.
Is Ben Johnson a boy genius? He might be. I think he is.

Speaker 3 I think for NFL coaches under 40 is.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he's boy genius. You have your own boy genius.
Boy genius. And he must love Caleb if he's if he's signing up to coach against the Lions twice a year, coach against Kevin O'Connell twice a year.

Speaker 1 The Alliance fans are very upset.

Speaker 7 Coach against

Speaker 7 Louis twice a year.

Speaker 1 He was going to leave anyway. I know it's a divisional guy, but or divisional rival, but he was going to leave anyway.

Speaker 3 The reason you lost the the game, though, basically being a crazy play called by, like, that, that makes it sting that much worse. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Yeah. It's like.

Speaker 1 Well, no, that's not why they lost the game.

Speaker 7 It's like he trashed.

Speaker 1 But if you're a Lions fan, Coping. Like, you, like, that.

Speaker 3 That was the defining play of the game.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 You had a really nice house with him. He threw a party, trashed the house, and left.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm very six out of ten. I'm as six out of ten as you could get.

Speaker 1 Would you guys agree? Memes has been policing me.

Speaker 2 I mean, earlier you said I'm a six out of ten because I have to be a six out of ten.

Speaker 1 If you took the restrictor plate off, are you asking what I'd be?

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 2 I'm willing to let you

Speaker 1 say you're

Speaker 1 not. Yeah, you should.
No, no. Hank, are you willing to?

Speaker 2 I'm willing to.

Speaker 3 Be upfront, like, be honest with our listeners.

Speaker 7 Because the takeaway right now is Big Cat grades the coaching hire a 6 out of 10.

Speaker 1 No, that's not how I grade the coaching higher.

Speaker 1 That's not how I'm. Now, Big Woods hired.
I'm saying that's what I'm saying. I said my happiness is what 6 out of 10 is going to be.

Speaker 1 I'm staying 6 out of 10. They have to start winning games.
They have to do a good job of the draft before they get to the end. But they're winning the offseason again.
See, I don't like that.

Speaker 1 I don't want to do... We're not winning any offseason.
You've got to win in the season.

Speaker 2 But I'm willing to say that, like, I'm not holding you to your word on the 6 out of 10. You can say what you really feel.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to say what I really feel, but if I were to say what I was going to really feel,

Speaker 1 If I were going to say it, and again, this is not me saying it, but if I were going to say it, I would say that hiring Ben Johnson literally changes everything about this franchise, and it's all the way back.

Speaker 1 But I didn't say any of that, I stayed a six out of 10 the whole time.

Speaker 2 You can say whatever you want as long as you follow it up with six out of 10.

Speaker 1 Six out of 10. Yeah, I'm saying six.

Speaker 1 It's the

Speaker 1 this hire is so different than what the Bears are usually able to pull off. And he was, and the guy's a fucking boy genius, and he is picking it because of Caleb Williams.

Speaker 1 And the McCaskys, who are notoriously cheap, are paying a ton of money. Everything,

Speaker 1 if we're going to get out of the six out of 10 zone, I'd say literally everything has changed. And the Bears are all the way back.
And one the offseason, I'm probably going to win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 But I'm staying six out of 10. So you got to go and do it on the field before I get excited.

Speaker 7 I love just the idea of George McCasky getting aggressive with it. After all these years, he's like, it's time.

Speaker 1 And I should probably say sorry to Kevin Warren, too, because he probably was the one who had to tell George McCasky, add another zero, dude.

Speaker 1 Like, hey, yeah, actually, you're going to have to move that comma over. Like, you were.
And he's like, what? Yeah. It's not 1.4 million.
It's 14 million.

Speaker 7 I mean, congratulations to Ben Johnson.

Speaker 7 When it comes to getting paid, this was a great, great way he went about it. Just say no to everyone.

Speaker 7 And then they want you more.

Speaker 1 And the Bears are going to go for it on four downs and get aggressive as fuck.

Speaker 3 Yeah, what needs to happen in the next three years for you to maybe go to like seven out of 10?

Speaker 1 Oh, no, I'll go to 10 out of 10 if they start winning football games. I say they have to do it on the field.

Speaker 3 No, but I'm saying in three years, what would you consider success or failure?

Speaker 1 They have to start winning games on the field. They have to start going to the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Playoff football is hard, so it's like, you know, if they go to the playoffs, if they start maybe, you know, beating the Packers, that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 Although Thomas Brown did beat the Packers, he's 1-0 against the Packers.

Speaker 7 Are you going to get to above a 6 out of 10 before the playoffs?

Speaker 1 I'm going to get above 6 out of 10 as soon as they start winning games. Is that going to be week one? Yeah.
Preseason? Yeah. No, not preseason.

Speaker 7 What if they win?

Speaker 1 Last summer, I said some really fucking stupid shit that everyone keeps reminding me of how stupid I sounded. And I did sound really stupid, and I feel stupid.
I'm a moron.

Speaker 1 This summer, I'm not going to say stupid shit. I'm going to say

Speaker 1 I'm excited about things, but I'm not going to let myself get over my skis, and I'm not going to get to a point where I'm like, this is the best situation ever, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1 They got a lot of holes. They got a lot of work to be done.
Caleb's got to get a lot better.

Speaker 1 If they start winning games and Caleb looks better, then we just start ramping it up.

Speaker 7 It's a great hire. I think this is the right hire that they, the best hire they could make.
Congratulations.

Speaker 7 Like a six out of 10 should be a 10 out of 10. If you're a Bears fan.

Speaker 1 It's a million out of 10.

Speaker 1 If I didn't agree to do 6 out of 10.

Speaker 2 Memes is policing me, too.

Speaker 1 Memes is just following me around, just like watching my moves. Like, are you staying 6 out of 10?

Speaker 7 Snake in the grass. Now, Adam Schefter did have a very funny spin on it.

Speaker 1 Shout out Shefty, by the way.

Speaker 1 He came on this show and said, don't follow the pack. Yeah.

Speaker 7 And when everyone was saying that Ben Johnson was going to be on the Raiders, he had a very funny spin about it when he said that the Bears have hired Ben Johnson.

Speaker 7 He said, Ben Johnson has spent the last week putting together a star-studded cast of assistant coaches, and then there was a big picture of Dennis Allen.

Speaker 1 I reacted poorly to that. Dennis Allen's actually a very good defensive coordinator.

Speaker 1 It's also really smart to get a guy who's been in the NFL for a long time and knows how this works as part of your staff. Darren Rizzy might be part of the staff.

Speaker 7 I agree that

Speaker 7 getting an older guy that has coached before, good move. Would you say that it is star-studded with Dennis Allen?

Speaker 1 Not star-studded, but Dennis Allen's a very good defensive coordinator.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 yeah, I mean, star-studded is probably the wrong word. Sounds like Shefty was getting a 10 out of 10 excited.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he was getting really excited.

Speaker 1 I would have said

Speaker 1 very good defensive coordinator. Yep.
And older gentleman, Dennis Allen, is joining the Bears.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Now, Rob Ryan, that's star-studded.
That is star-studded. Shout out, USC.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is star-studded. I'm very excited.

Speaker 7 Six out of 10.

Speaker 1 Million out of 10. Bears are back.

Speaker 7 Six out of 10.

Speaker 1 Aaron Glenn?

Speaker 13 Not yet. Josina Anderson said they're working through some contractual

Speaker 14 moving parts.

Speaker 7 So negotiating.

Speaker 1 Negotiating, yes. Okay.

Speaker 7 Who is going to be your GM?

Speaker 13 The commander's assistant GM.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 Are they going to hire him after the coach?

Speaker 13 I think so. I think they're going to hire him together.

Speaker 1 Lance Newmark?

Speaker 13 Lance Newmark.

Speaker 1 Okay. That's like a Lego.

Speaker 1 All right. Okay.

Speaker 13 That's my only evaluation.

Speaker 1 And how do you feel about those Legos? Yeah, how do you feel about Aaron Glenn?

Speaker 13 If we sign Aaron Glenn, we got the number one guy on the market. Huh? And he was

Speaker 13 number one coach per me.

Speaker 1 Per your interviews.

Speaker 13 No, no, just number one guy out there, number one coaching candidate on the market.

Speaker 7 You did not want Mike Frable.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 You didn't want to interview Benjamin?

Speaker 13 I want whoever we hire, and that's the number one guy.

Speaker 1 I like that. That's smart.

Speaker 7 He's a jet.

Speaker 1 I can't relate because we got the number one guy, but yeah.

Speaker 1 No, we'll see who got the number one guy during the season. That's true.
That's true, memes. That is.
Today could be the best day of your life. Also, looking back, could be the worst.

Speaker 1 Thanks, Memes. Okay.

Speaker 1 In terms of hiring. Same for you, buddy.

Speaker 1 Same for you.

Speaker 7 Congrats, Ben Cat. This might be the worst day of your life.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 same for you.

Speaker 2 Could be the best day.

Speaker 1 Could be the best day.

Speaker 7 And I think Ben Johnson, he said that he turned down the Jaguars because he didn't like how everything was set up. Yeah, with Trent Balky.
He didn't like the setup there.

Speaker 1 That means Trent Balky. That's where

Speaker 1 I'm shocked the Bears did it because the Bears have a similar setup where Ryan Poles is in the last year of his deal, but credit to Ryan Poles, Kevin Warren, McCasky. They did it.

Speaker 1 So you will be happy with Aaron Glenn. I will be happy.
Leader of men.

Speaker 15 Leader of men.

Speaker 13 Get everybody going in the right direction. He's a motivator.

Speaker 7 Lions fans seem to be happy that he's going, but

Speaker 1 I don't care.

Speaker 1 And then we have probably Mike McCarthy, the Saints. Maybe.
Yeah. And then no idea what the Cowboys are going to do.
You got to do Deion.

Speaker 1 Liam Cohen to maybe the Jaguars.

Speaker 7 I think Jerry Jones is shocked at how much head coaches cost now. Yeah.

Speaker 7 He's been out of the market for a little bit.

Speaker 1 He didn't realize it.

Speaker 7 And he's like, wait, he wants $14 million and he's never coached before? Yeah. Oh, I don't think they even talked to Ben Johnson.
Kevin O'Connell

Speaker 1 reached agreement on a multi-year contract extension. At what cost? The cost of having that story leaked right before you had to play the Lions.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Now,

Speaker 7 again,

Speaker 7 we should know NFL coaches' salaries. That should be public.

Speaker 1 I think there's a decent idea of, I know Tomlin is, what, $16 million, $18 million?

Speaker 7 But it should be like, it should be out there.

Speaker 1 Glorio said Ben Johnson was 13 or 14.

Speaker 7 The team should have to tell us, like, they tell us what the extensions are for quarterbacks. Yeah, I agree.
I want to know that.

Speaker 1 I think Andy Reed gets paid 20.

Speaker 7 Yeah, fan bases have a right to know, so they can can choose how much they want to complain to the owner. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What memes? You're looking at us quizzically.

Speaker 13 No, I was just looking. Somebody said Ben Johnson got six.

Speaker 1 Six a year is 15. 15 a year? Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 7 That's a lot of money.

Speaker 1 It is. That the Bears usually don't spend.
What do you think Aaron Glenn's going to get?

Speaker 1 That's probably why this is taking so long. Ah.
He sees his buddy get six for 15. Yeah.

Speaker 7 If you're the Cowboys, you got to get Deion at this point, right? Yeah. You got to make every play to get Deion.

Speaker 1 Just Just have it be fun.

Speaker 7 And then what are the Raiders going to do?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Last thing.
How pulse check between Max and PFT?

Speaker 7 Pulse is strong.

Speaker 1 Max is very nervous.

Speaker 7 52 beats a minute overnight last night. Wow.
I feel pretty good about that.

Speaker 1 Max is mumbling to himself a lot and saying a bunch of shit.

Speaker 2 What does 52 beats a minute mean?

Speaker 1 Pulse. Pulse.

Speaker 2 Was that normal?

Speaker 7 It's pretty good. It does a low.
Pretty, it's it's good low, though. It means that you're you're you're maintaining.

Speaker 3 Mine's probably pretty high, if I had to say.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You're not.

Speaker 1 I don't think you're handling the pressure great.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 2 I feel it more than I've ever felt any pressure before in my life.

Speaker 1 Do you think that we're adding to the pressure at all?

Speaker 2 I have thought about this a lot.

Speaker 2 The difference of my nerves going into this game because

Speaker 2 I work for this company and I work for this show.

Speaker 2 I think about it like if I was just a normal guy that was just an Eagles fan, lived in Philly, butt cracks showing.

Speaker 10 Butt cracks showing,

Speaker 2 like what, where my confidence would be, I think I would be like a confident asshole.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
And that's what we are. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Hank has finally aligned himself with the city of Philadelphia. I think Big Cat's going to too eventually, based on money reasons.

Speaker 1 And also,

Speaker 1 the New Orleans piece that I shout out that one guy who was just like, why doesn't Big Cat just take his kids to New Orleans for the Super Bowl? Didn't think of that. Didn't think of that.

Speaker 7 That sounds like fun.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that sounds like a great time.

Speaker 7 Yeah, but in a way, because everybody is aligning themselves with the Eagles and rooting for the Eagles, that puts way more pressure on Max.

Speaker 1 I don't know if I'm fully aligning with the Eagles. I think I have to figure out what I'm going to do with my Eagles' future if I might cash out.

Speaker 1 Because there's part of me that's just like, if the Commanders win,

Speaker 1 it is also great for the show. So,

Speaker 1 although I did tell Max that I was going to slash his tires, the Eagles didn't win.

Speaker 7 Yeah, so there's a little bit more pressure there.

Speaker 1 I'm fully aligned. And I might have also said that I was going to get his girlfriend to give me a key to his apartment.
I was going to beat him up while he sleeps.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's all fair stuff.

Speaker 7 This is why we watch sports.

Speaker 7 I feel confident in the fact that

Speaker 7 I've accepted the fact it's house money, and I have to kind of put aside

Speaker 1 all the.

Speaker 7 Shut up, Hannah. I have to put aside all the stats, all the roster gazing that you do, and you look at all the dudes that Philly has.
You have to throw that all away.

Speaker 7 None of that really matters right now. What matters is that we have the best quarterback in this game who's capable of doing things that

Speaker 7 other quarterbacks aren't against the Philadelphia Eagles. He's the hottest quarterback in the league right now, and the Eagles have a history.

Speaker 3 It's not the NCAA tournament.

Speaker 7 I think what Jaden kind of is.

Speaker 1 I mean, something is happening.

Speaker 2 I just noticed something.

Speaker 2 PFT, Hank called you a loser, and you said, shut up, Hank. You didn't say, shut the fuck up, Hank.
Yeah. Which makes me think that...

Speaker 7 No, this is Philly. This is Philly Hank.

Speaker 2 Normally, you say, shut the fuck up, Hank. Yeah, this is Philly Hank.
You kind of accepted that when you said, oh,

Speaker 7 Max is.

Speaker 7 I think you're digging, Max.

Speaker 1 I think you're pressing. I mean, how often do you say totally shut the fuck up, Hank? The way Max said that, it's not so far.
Yeah, that's a wind worst. He just wind worsted you.

Speaker 7 This is Philly Hank.

Speaker 1 You might have half accepted.

Speaker 2 The inflection of your voice was not an. It was, shut up, Hank.

Speaker 1 Shut the fuck up, Hank.

Speaker 1 No, Pat.

Speaker 2 Shut the fuck up, Hank,

Speaker 7 is a motto in your bar.

Speaker 1 Usually, when I feel it, you can't.

Speaker 7 Usually, when I scream at Hank and tell him to shut the fuck up, it's because there's like a kernel of really mean truth in whatever Hank has just said. And so I have to just shout him down.

Speaker 1 In this one, I don't think that screws are talking about. I like just doing this now.

Speaker 1 Wind horse.

Speaker 1 So how about that?

Speaker 1 How about it?

Speaker 1 How about it?

Speaker 1 This is a podcast, but this is for the. We're all putting our fingers up.

Speaker 2 I'm just doing the wind horse.

Speaker 1 Do it if you care to address what I just said.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 I was through the fingers off. I was through the fingers.
I was focusing on the fingers. I was focusing on the fingers.
I'm sorry. Say it again.
No, I know. I'm closing your mouth.

Speaker 7 Say it again. No, I said it.
Listen to the podcast. No, come on.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Say it again. We're having fun doing the wind horse.

Speaker 7 Here's the thing. He said, I'm always, I heard you say, I don't care.

Speaker 3 Everything I say is the truth or something like that.

Speaker 7 Yeah, that's exactly what I said.

Speaker 7 It is house money. We're playing with no pressure.
And we're a dangerous team. And you can put all the stats in front of me.
I think you can throw them out. Spreads don't matter in this game.

Speaker 1 Agreed.

Speaker 7 It doesn't. The spread does not matter at all.

Speaker 1 Unless the Eagles win by a field goal.

Speaker 7 Which I don't think that they will.

Speaker 7 But they could.

Speaker 7 I think the Eagles are going to win by a touchdown or more, or the Commanders are going to win by three.

Speaker 3 But you said Eagles first.

Speaker 1 He didn't win or

Speaker 1 no.

Speaker 7 Big Cat just said, I don't see the Eagles winning by a touchdown.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 1 No, I didn't say that.

Speaker 1 I said, unless the Eagles win by three.

Speaker 7 Yeah, so then that's why I said, I see the Eagles winning by more than that or losing outright. Got it.

Speaker 7 It's fine. Hey, this is going to be gang up week.

Speaker 1 I'm not gang. I'm just

Speaker 1 doing wind horse. Gang, gang, gang.

Speaker 7 I'm going to dye my hair blonde and put on a white t-shirt and underpants and sit on on a couch in front of you guys because it's just going to be

Speaker 7 just taking rods from all angles.

Speaker 1 Memes,

Speaker 7 and that's fine.

Speaker 1 I have

Speaker 1 memes.

Speaker 1 I am heavily debating cashing out and betting the commanders because I think the commanders are going to win, though.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you won't do it, and I don't care if you do it or not.

Speaker 1 So when I do it, will you apologize to me?

Speaker 7 No.

Speaker 1 What do you mean you won't do it? I might do it.

Speaker 1 I might do it.

Speaker 7 First of all, what am I going to apologize to you for? Second of all,

Speaker 7 I do not give a fuck who you bet on this week. Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, I'm saying I might not gang up on you.
You can't say you guys are ganging up on me. I'm like, I haven't decided yet.
And then be like, I don't give a fuck. Okay.

Speaker 1 Those are two conflicting things.

Speaker 7 Well, because right now you are betting on the Eagles. That's what you're doing.

Speaker 1 I have a future on the Eagles.

Speaker 7 I'm living in the present.

Speaker 1 I have a future on the Eagles. Listen, if the fingers trigger you, we'll stop doing the fingers.

Speaker 7 You guys can finger whatever you want.

Speaker 3 It's gang week.

Speaker 7 Finger it away, boys.

Speaker 2 No, yeah.

Speaker 1 Obviously,

Speaker 2 you and I are going into this game in two completely separate

Speaker 2 modes of mind.

Speaker 2 Modes of mind.

Speaker 1 Modes of mind. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Word count.

Speaker 1 Yeah, true.

Speaker 2 Word count, I'm done.

Speaker 1 I'm just thinking.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Shut it down.
It would be.

Speaker 2 If the Eagles lose this game, my life is over. If you lose this game, you had a great season.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this is the window.

Speaker 7 This is the start of the window. And we could shut your window.

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 2 I have thought more about that. Our defensive window is just beginning, and that is a real thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but our defense is coming so good and so young.

Speaker 7 And you're going to find out something.

Speaker 7 If we go into your house, though, and beat the Eagles, then there's a new daddy.

Speaker 1 There's no way.

Speaker 7 You don't run this shit anymore if that happens.

Speaker 1 Hank

Speaker 2 might actually be on your side. The way he says everything.

Speaker 1 Look, he's smiling. Oh, you wind up.
Are you smiling? Are you wind horse? Look at him. Look at him.

Speaker 2 Hank, everything that he says,

Speaker 2 there's a

Speaker 1 little word count.

Speaker 7 Max is so paranoid.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 this now makes the previous wind horse seem a little crazy because you're just pointing it at everyone now.

Speaker 7 How come you didn't say fuck, BFT? Usually you say fuck.

Speaker 1 It was a decent point.

Speaker 7 That was a good point.

Speaker 1 The fingers.

Speaker 1 They're funny, though.

Speaker 7 I'm excited. And there's a good chance that the Eagles win this game.

Speaker 7 I'm not delusional. I don't think that the Commanders should be favored in this game.
I think the Eagles have a great team. They're favored for a reason.
But I also feel confident going into it.

Speaker 7 And I felt confident going into the Lions last week. I did.
I felt as a week went on,

Speaker 3 I got more calm.

Speaker 7 So

Speaker 7 let's just see what happens between the lines on Sunday, Max. Yeah.
And may the better team advance the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 But you should be more calm. Work count.
I'm done. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I have to dig into the matchup because I do, there's a chance I bet on the commanders because I do think they're just something. Jaden Dano is so special.
Like, I bet on him against the Lions.

Speaker 1 I wish I had bet Moneyline.

Speaker 1 I would rather just win. I'd rather win my bet than have to look at you and be like, you did it again.

Speaker 7 You better watch tape, buddy.

Speaker 7 Watch

Speaker 7 tape. I'm grinding the tape.

Speaker 1 He's word counting. All right, let's get into ourselves.
Let's do hot seat, cool throne.

Speaker 7 First of all, before we get to that, is Jalen Hurts okay?

Speaker 1 He's got a word count. You're going to have a cool ball.
First of all, that was a 20-minute segment.

Speaker 7 It was a two-part question.

Speaker 1 He's on a word count.

Speaker 7 Yes, is Jalen Hurts fine?

Speaker 7 He's a gamer. Is he okay, hang on?

Speaker 3 He's a gamer. Yep.

Speaker 7 Is Quinyon Mitchell okay?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 2 I've looked into the Chiefs' drugs. I'm trying to get some of the homes drugs for Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 3 TJ Stroud had some of that shit, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 There's drugs out there for him to be fine. I got to find them.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 I'm worried about Big Dom. Big Dom can get anything.

Speaker 1 Okay. Let's kick Joe Shelves Hot C.
Cool to Rollins. Then we have Ryan Fitzpatrick and Stavi on the show.

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Speaker 3 My hot seat is the biz.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 People not respecting it. Players not respecting it.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 This is bad.

Speaker 7 This is bad, big cat. Try not to breathe.
If you have kids at home and they're listening to this podcast, they might not want to listen to this.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. Yes.
Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 After the Notre Dame game lost, Dan Wolcan.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 One of the funniest names ever, considering everything that he talks about stands for.

Speaker 7 He's a guy that has, he covers a sport that he seems to hate.

Speaker 1 Well, that's a lot of college football, but yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 7 But he, well, and actually, that's a lot of journalism.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it is. Like, that's, when people ask, like, how are you able to do this job for as long and still love it? It's like, because we love sports.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 7 A lot of movie critics are like that, too. It's like,

Speaker 1 how could you watch Sports for a Living and cover Sports for a Living and not like it?

Speaker 3 He tweeted, bizarre scenes from the Notre Dame locker room. Players yelling at reporters.
Coaches warning people not to ask certain questions, amateur hour.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 3 No respect for the biz going on in the Notre Dame locker room. After losing the biggest game of their life, what a shocker.

Speaker 7 I can't believe that college football would turn into amateur hour.

Speaker 7 That is absolutely uncomfortable. We're going backwards.
It is a disgrace, guys.

Speaker 3 I mean, if I lost a national championship, the first thing I would be thinking is like, let's answer questions from the media in a respectful way.

Speaker 1 I'd probably, yeah, I'd probably say fuck you to everyone who asked me a question. Yeah, like, what? Like, lose my number, bitch.

Speaker 7 Listen, Dan Wilkin pays your salary. You understand that? You got to treat this man with the utmost respect.

Speaker 1 I think we need to normalize more,

Speaker 1 like, bad losers. Like, that should be fans and

Speaker 1 players. Like,

Speaker 1 let them be sore losers for a minute.

Speaker 1 I saw our friend Shane Gillis was tweeting last night.

Speaker 1 I think Jamie, Joe Rogan's producer is an Ohio State fan and was like, I wouldn't be as salty.

Speaker 1 And then he replied something like, Congrats to Tony Hinchcliffe, Jamie, like the Paul brothers, and every other really likable Ohio State fan out there.

Speaker 1 It's like, let him be salty.

Speaker 1 Fuck it, dude.

Speaker 7 I thought he purposely left young Jamie out.

Speaker 1 Oh, he might have. Just to needle him.
I think, well, I think he deleted that one and then came back and said it. But it's like,

Speaker 1 losing a big game sucks. People should like when people are like, oh, you're acting like a bitch.
Yeah, that's the point. Yeah.
Like, let him act like a bitch.

Speaker 1 You shouldn't act like a bitch like the next day but yeah

Speaker 7 yeah i mean what do you expect when you go into a locker room after a national championship loss yeah what do you honestly like i would be concerned with the team if they were just super respectful and like hey yeah i'm open for questions ask me about field goals yeah ask me about everything ask me about that first drive and whether or not our quarterback was just on e after that after that like 20 play drive to start the game ask me all the questions that you think that i'm going to get pissed off about because i love that about journalism It's the old saying: Show me a sore loser and I'll show you a loser.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 I think we should have like a 24-hour hour shot clock for big games, fans, and players alike. That anything they should be able to say whatever they want and it shouldn't count long-term.

Speaker 1 And then you'd get actually real answers.

Speaker 1 You'd get people being like, fuck that.

Speaker 7 I also think the real irony is that the journalists that complain the most about players not answering their questions, if you question them about anything, they get the most offensive and they're like, fuck you, blocked.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Pete Frisco.
So you're out of here. But the biz.

Speaker 3 Biz, hot seat. Or no, respecting the biz.

Speaker 1 Respecting the biz, yeah. You okay? Yeah.

Speaker 3 My cool throne is the nine darter.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 Time has come.

Speaker 3 So starting this Friday, probably seven or eight o'clock, I will be starting the nine darter journey. Now, it's obviously impossible, physically impossible.

Speaker 3 I could do this nine darter for a thousand years and I would never get a nine darter.

Speaker 7 No one's ever done it before.

Speaker 3 No amateur that I've heard of.

Speaker 3 I've searched some forums and there's people that you know, Reddit threads and stuff where they're like, yeah, I've been in a league for 40 years, never been done.

Speaker 3 Getting a three-darter is hard enough. I've gotten, you know, 33 darters in my life, never come close to getting them twice in a row.

Speaker 3 So the nine darter, I will not be getting nine consecutive darts. If that bothers you, just stop listening.

Speaker 1 Can you explain what the nine darter is again?

Speaker 3 What a regular nine darter is. A nine darter so darts uh is is you started 501 points to start and

Speaker 3 a nine darter is when you go from five o to zero in nine darts so it's a perfect it's three perfect rounds there you couldn't it's an immaculate round basically like there's no that's the least amount of darts you could throw it'd be like shooting you know whatever 18 under par like It's a perfect round.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you're like getting a hole in one on every hole. Yeah,

Speaker 1 this is not, to put it into perspective, because I do think you deserve this, Hank, is like

Speaker 1 it's not like hitting a hole in one one time. It's not

Speaker 1 like some of these, like, you know, hitting a

Speaker 1 65-mile-an-hour fastball out of like a stadium. Like, it would be like trying to hit a 105-mile-an-hour fastball out of a Major League Park.

Speaker 1 It would be like having LeBron guard you and trying to hit a three on his head.

Speaker 7 Or for Hank, like trying to dunk on LeBron.

Speaker 1 Trying to dunk on LeBron. It's shooting under par at Augusta.

Speaker 1 It's not like a oh, I can get one fluky thing to happen here with a hole in one. This will be awesome.
It's it's it's impossible for the regular person. It's not even the three bowling a 300.

Speaker 1 Like I think that you could bowl a 300 eventually. I don't think you could ever get a nine darn.
But it's like it's similar.

Speaker 3 So the we're doing the stream similar to like the bowling of 300 where you couldn't bowl a 300, but after time elapses, then it gets easier and easier.

Speaker 3 So basically, the plan is to do three three darters. So once I get, you know, if I get three triple 20s, then that leg is done.
I like to get two

Speaker 3 three darters.

Speaker 3 And every 12 hours, I can get closer to the dartboard. So I will be living at the office until this is done.
It will be a constant stream from Friday until Sunday before the games.

Speaker 3 And if I'm not done by then, we'll go down for obviously the game stream. We have to record the podcast.
And then I'll start again Monday morning.

Speaker 3 So if it takes me until next week, it takes me until next week. I will not be leaving the office starting Friday until the stream is done.

Speaker 3 and there's you know there's there's some some wrinkles we have where i'm not just gonna be throwing darts all the time because i'll just my arm will will give up but there's challenges and different things where the first and third legs i have to do on my own but the second leg so that way saturday we can have people come in and help out like pft or big cat you know i can i'm not i'm again i'm not physically gonna be able to throw darts for 40 hours straight.

Speaker 3 I might take a break. We might have whoever's in the office come in and they can throw darts as much as they want.
If they get the first two, I always have to hit the third one.

Speaker 3 So, like, there's ways where people can help me

Speaker 3 do a leg,

Speaker 3 but I have to do the first and third legs on my own.

Speaker 3 And then we'll have some challenges and stuff where it's like I might go in the golf simulator for an hour. If I get a hole in one, then I only have to get two out of three darts.

Speaker 3 Like, there's we have challenges.

Speaker 7 Just set up a golf stream.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
I, I, I, listen. No, no, no, I can hate you.
I'm, I'm going to defend you here. Uh, do you hate me?

Speaker 1 What are you going to say? I was going to say, I think this is a really smart way to do it. I think it's going to be fun for the viewers.
Go fighting the Eagles. I hope the Eagles.
I enjoy you.

Speaker 1 I think that

Speaker 1 understanding the whole point is it's a punishment. It's going to suck for Hank.
He's going to live in this office.

Speaker 1 He's making it a way that eventually he can get it, but it still is going to be very, very, very, very difficult.

Speaker 1 So, again, I will back up Hank in the fact that if you have a problem with this, just don't watch. It's going to be awesome.
I think it's going to take him three days probably still.

Speaker 1 If I can get to before, because that's the thing.

Speaker 3 We're going to go down and we have to do the streams and then the podcasts and stuff after. So I won't be like the my best case scenario is finishing before Sunday.

Speaker 3 If we don't finish before Sunday, then I'm then

Speaker 3 in one.

Speaker 7 It is a very, very difficult challenge that you have. And I think the act of throwing a dart, it seems so easy.
But if you do it for 12 hours in a row, your elbow is going to be killing you.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I would have to to start throwing righty. But yeah, every 12 hours, I can get a foot closer.
So I think hopefully by like, you know, worst case scenario, by Tuesday, I'll be close enough for it.

Speaker 1 And we also have, so scheduling wise, it's very, so you're going to be doing it over the weekend.

Speaker 1 Monday night, which we haven't announced, but we are going to have a Doug stream.

Speaker 1 We have one last Doug stream, so I'm going to try to win a national title where I pick, we're going to just play the playoffs.

Speaker 1 And then after the Doug stream, it's going to go straight into the hole-in-one one stream with Jerry and Tate barstool after dark so it could be we could have like streams going on.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we could have and then and then also the case race on Tuesday night. It's gonna be a chaotic week and there could be multiple streams going on at once We could combine them.
It's gonna be fun

Speaker 1 Hank I'm I'm rooting for you. I'm gonna try to come in and help you out at points.
Where are you gonna be doing it on the court?

Speaker 3 We have the the dartboard's mobile so we can do different locations so whenever like I said because I'm not gonna be able to I don't want to just sit in one place So when I want to bring my kids in so that they can play in the office, you can go somewhere else so they can play in the office.

Speaker 1 That's really the important thing here.

Speaker 1 No, I'm going to come in and help.

Speaker 7 Have you done any prep for your dart technique?

Speaker 1 What does that mean? I don't know.

Speaker 7 Like practiced or trained?

Speaker 3 Have I thrown a dart before?

Speaker 7 Like, have you learned anything that you're planning on taking into? I think it's a pretty normal question to be asking.

Speaker 1 Fuck you, PFT. Yeah.
My bad. Why would you ask that?

Speaker 7 Sorry, have you prepared at all for this big challenge that you're going to do?

Speaker 1 That was a normal question. Bad bad question you're you're you're listen

Speaker 1 i see what's going on here i'm going to take a step back oh let me take a step back

Speaker 1 your guard your guard is off let me step in it hasn't been 12 hours yet pft let me step in tank what the fuck it was he was simply asking yes have you have you been like practicing have you been working on it at all which is a

Speaker 3 in pft's defense a completely normal question thank you yeah i've watched some youtube videos of throwing darts i mean it's darts like it's it's.

Speaker 3 You got the advice, fucking Michael Van Gerwin.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I wouldn't. I would prepare for it

Speaker 1 a little bit.

Speaker 7 It sounds like you've prepared for it. How would you prepare?

Speaker 7 It sounds like doing the stuff that you're doing, where you watch YouTube videos, maybe get on the board a couple times and just take some practice, figure out where the elbow goes.

Speaker 1 Me personally, if I had to prepare for this, I'd just get nasty at darts. I'm bad at darts.

Speaker 3 That's the problem. You know what I'm going to say?

Speaker 7 It's because it's the Mount Rushmore punishment.

Speaker 1 Oh, is it? Is Is that what it is?

Speaker 7 Yeah. And he's still a little upset about that.

Speaker 1 Ah.

Speaker 1 Next year. Let's just do no punishment for the Mount Rushmore.
Thank you. I'm going to be rooting for you.

Speaker 7 I want you to do it because you got this. I want you to be out of this mood.

Speaker 1 I genuinely think this is going to be great.

Speaker 3 I was in a good mood until you said, like, I'm trying to, like, what? I have to fucking throw darts for a hundred hours straight. I'm coming up with little one-hour wrinkles.
I mentioned one.

Speaker 1 This is a ghost. This is a ghost.

Speaker 1 The wrinkles are going to make it better.

Speaker 3 Meanwhile, your punishments are like the dumbest shit in the fucking world.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I'm good that we're getting this out. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Yeah, this feels good. I can tell that you're upset.

Speaker 3 Without as a triggering comment.

Speaker 1 I can tell that you're upset.

Speaker 7 You know that somebody was going to make the joke. Wouldn't you rather it come from me?

Speaker 1 Maybe not. I don't really care what other people say.

Speaker 3 Like, I care about what you say.

Speaker 1 I don't care about this room.

Speaker 7 Do you care when I say that I'm rooting for you?

Speaker 3 I don't believe it.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I guess.

Speaker 1 We got to keep everything in the locker room, boys.

Speaker 1 We shouldn't have these type of fights publicly. Okay?

Speaker 7 Let's keep this in the locker room. I think you can do it in the middle.
No one will hear this.

Speaker 1 I think it's going to take you a day and a half.

Speaker 3 I would love to be done before Sunday, but.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. But it is

Speaker 1 hard. Also, with all these streams, as long as you sit.

Speaker 11 I've tried.

Speaker 3 I have been throwing darts for,

Speaker 3 I don't know, probably six or seven hours total in the last month or so. And now

Speaker 3 I haven't come close to a three-darter. So it's like,

Speaker 3 that's my fear. I'm not good at darts.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Okay. Have you thought about getting a little bit drunk?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I think Saturday night we might get weird with it.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 3 I got some, we're going to bring some guests in. That's the thing.
I'm trying to

Speaker 3 spice it up. I'll probably be sleeping on stream and stuff.
But yeah, I think Saturday night after, whatever, 24 hours at that point, there's like my body is, there's no point in,

Speaker 3 I'm just going to get drunk and try.

Speaker 1 Yeah, my recommendation.

Speaker 1 That's where it's like.

Speaker 3 That's where I'm going to be relying on people to hopefully show up and get the two darts. And then that third dart, that will be the moment.

Speaker 7 I would tell you that if you get a a little bit drunk, I would get a little bit drunk earlier than that before your arm gives out because you are better.

Speaker 7 Your coordination is like, I don't know, when I play darts, I always feel like I'm much better after exactly three moves.

Speaker 1 Question? Damn.

Speaker 1 Sleeping on stream? Are you worried about boners?

Speaker 3 I'm worried about sleep talking.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Boners, yeah. Not boners.
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Sleep talking. I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 3 I've already, I think I'm going to do mouth tape, but we'll probably just mute the sound.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 3 i'm a sleep talker it's a it's a i am too major issue in my life okay yeah i'm excited listen if hank gets a boner and his sleep nobody screen grab it yeah please okay

Speaker 7 you're in the locker room too yeah

Speaker 7 good luck hank i'm rooting for you thanks i'm glad that you did some preparation for it i think that was smart thanks yeah yeah you're welcome okay um so i was going to have dan wilkin too but my hot seat instead i guess will just be me and max's hair because we're trying to figure out what our bet is going to be for the Eagles Commanders game.

Speaker 7 And it seems to all be hair-related suggestions that we're having. So we've, Hank, this is actually maybe a good chance for you.
You say my punishments are always way easier.

Speaker 1 Bicket. Shave.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 Because

Speaker 1 the suggestions, the suggestions.

Speaker 3 It wasn't even a punishment, and I did it.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's for a championship. So this is for the ENFC championship game.

Speaker 7 The suggestions that we've been hearing a lot are the loser gets a mullet.

Speaker 3 Which is your suggestion, which you want to do.

Speaker 1 But he's been hearing it a lot. I've been hearing it a lot.

Speaker 7 He's hearing it a lot.

Speaker 1 That's okay.

Speaker 1 He's been hearing it a lot when he is just sitting in his car and his thoughts are telling him things. Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's been a lot of people saying that in his car. I also have a bet that we could do.

Speaker 2 We could do the winner goes to the Super Bowl and the loser doesn't.

Speaker 2 I don't understand why we have to do a bet for this.

Speaker 1 I thought the bet that we talked about on Sunday night was a good one, where the loser has to make a

Speaker 1 Colts banner and put it behind their seat for a year.

Speaker 1 So it's like every time you have a shot on this podcast, there's a banner that says, But you just said the fans want hair, but you don't care about the fans, Max.

Speaker 2 I just don't know. PFT is just like force this.
Max is right.

Speaker 1 The stakes are already

Speaker 1 so high. Right.
There couldn't be higher. I kind of agree with him that you don't need to do.

Speaker 11 Like, it's not like you're not going to care.

Speaker 2 Like, the pinky bet we do as like an extra.

Speaker 1 We don't do the bet. I do it, and it's stupid.

Speaker 2 As a collective, we

Speaker 2 as in podcast.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But

Speaker 2 we're getting into a bet culture that we're just going to

Speaker 1 fuck ourselves because

Speaker 1 I'm not totally disagreeing.

Speaker 3 You're just saying you're going to have to do something, you don't want to have to do that, might be physically.

Speaker 1 This game has a lot of stuff.

Speaker 1 This game already has a lot of stuff. But

Speaker 1 this isn't a podcast.

Speaker 2 It just so happens that these.

Speaker 7 Listen, I understand the stakes could not be higher, but instantly when it was going to be Commander's Eagles, everybody was blowing me up saying, what are you guys going to bet on this game?

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 7 people do want to see a wager on it.

Speaker 1 What about

Speaker 1 the banners?

Speaker 7 The banners could be good.

Speaker 1 I mean, that would hurt both of you significantly because we'll be doing this show in August, and it'd be like right behind you. Every time you see a clip, it says it right behind you.

Speaker 7 I like Big Tone's suggestion. He said...
that it's like from a hire him samurai or a loser has to hire him samurai or judge Brackies.

Speaker 7 That you put your hair in a ponytail, the winner cuts it off with a blade to signal victory over his adversary.

Speaker 7 I like your guys' hair.

Speaker 10 I don't really want either of you.

Speaker 3 I like

Speaker 3 cornrows for a month. That would be funny.
That would make me laugh.

Speaker 1 That would be funny.

Speaker 2 I don't hate cornrows either because

Speaker 3 it doesn't affect you long tangent. You just look ridiculous.

Speaker 1 Yeah, every time you talk, we're just going to be like, what is this?

Speaker 3 You have to do like cornrows with the beads.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. I like that.

Speaker 7 The problem with cornrows for me is that I've got some seedlings that are germinating and sprouting up here. And that could potentially pull the seedlings out.

Speaker 1 Hmm.

Speaker 1 Okay, so

Speaker 1 we'll talk about this.

Speaker 1 On Friday, we'll have a final.

Speaker 3 What did you get yesterday, PFT? Max doesn't want to do anything.

Speaker 2 I would do cornrows. I don't want to do anything.

Speaker 1 He doesn't want to permanently change my hair.

Speaker 2 I don't want to permanently change my hair. Yeah, I've been doing it.
Like, this is my hair.

Speaker 7 The thing about hair is it grows.

Speaker 2 But, like, if we shave the...

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 3 I permanently shave my hair.

Speaker 2 you have a shaved head false very false you have short hair you look at your head look at the side of your head yeah well

Speaker 1 after I after I bicked him back you also chose to do this no you actually said that you said you said if the if the Celtics win a final I will shave my head you did that's insane that is that is so that is true no it's not

Speaker 1 wait what happened I think it's you're a fucking big hat big hat ass Derek White being like oh Hank will shave his head.

Speaker 1 And then Hank was like, sure, if this happens, I'll do it.

Speaker 1 But Big Hat set it up. Well, I asked a question.
You can't ask questions? What? I'll ask a note.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Can't ask.

Speaker 2 Actually, false. I said that if the Sixers won the NBA Finals this year, I would shave my head.

Speaker 1 So, okay.

Speaker 3 Good point.

Speaker 7 So, yeah.

Speaker 1 If the Bulls win the NBA Finals this year, I'll get a...

Speaker 1 No, you know what?

Speaker 1 I'm just out of the pinky bet. I'm not doing anything.
I was, I was going to say, I was, I'd get a dragon tattooed on my back.

Speaker 7 I'll say if the Washington Wizards win the NBA championship, I will get Bub Carrington's face tattooed on my face.

Speaker 1 Okay, nice. Nice.

Speaker 1 All right, wait, so we'll figure this out Friday.

Speaker 2 Yes, we'll do something. We'll do it.

Speaker 1 PMTV will have eyebrows. Memes is saying eyebrows.

Speaker 3 We're about to

Speaker 1 eyebrows is good.

Speaker 2 Does eyebrows come back? Yeah.

Speaker 13 Yeah. Max reacting without eyebrows being crazy.

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Full body wax.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Eyebrows is good.

Speaker 3 Eyebrows is good. Great.

Speaker 7 Eyebrows is really good. I don't like eyebrows.

Speaker 1 Eyebrows is good.

Speaker 7 Wait, you can't even see yours.

Speaker 3 You can't even see yours.

Speaker 7 I don't like eyebrows. I still love my eyebrows.
It's the one part of my body and my calves I feel really good about.

Speaker 7 I'm touching his eyebrows right now.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 And your cool throne?

Speaker 7 My cool throne is bulletin board material. Because Andy Reid is leaning into the bulletin board material hard, which I respect.
You got to do it. You got to find it.

Speaker 7 But he must have a team of people that are out there, and he's put them in a room saying, scour the internet, scour the newspapers, try to find any bulletin board material that you can get so that we can feel like we're underdogs going to this game.

Speaker 7 And that's what a good coach should be doing. He's gotten to the point now where he's just making stuff up, though, because he said, I presume the Bills will probably be favored, but that's all right.

Speaker 7 We'll do our thing. It doesn't matter if it's true or not.
If you tell your team, hey, you're the underdogs, the bills are favored, good. You can just lie about that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 And it's all good. But yeah,

Speaker 7 he's been looking out there.

Speaker 7 And the fans have too, which I, again, full respect. You got to find any motivation where you can get it.
And now Max and I are in a bulletin board war with each other, which is good.

Speaker 7 This is healthy stuff. But it's like every team, you have to feel bad to make yourself work.
I mean, the ultimate bulletin board material was losing to Michigan if you're Ohio State.

Speaker 7 That was the best thing they could have ever hoped for in order to motivate them to galvanize and come together.

Speaker 7 So, yeah, if you're a Chiefs fan, I would just deputize yourself as an internet sleuth, find whatever bulletin board material you can get and send it to the Chiefs because they're scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to find it now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I saw that clip. I was like, this is just not true.

Speaker 7 Not true.

Speaker 1 But it doesn't really matter. Does it matter? Doesn't matter.

Speaker 7 If Andy Reid says it, it's true.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.
My

Speaker 1 hot seat is Carlos Alcaraz because he got fucking worked

Speaker 1 by

Speaker 1 Jokovich, the goat.

Speaker 7 What was your favorite part of the match?

Speaker 1 It was when Djokovic beat him 3-1.

Speaker 1 And Djokovic is 37 years old. And I thought, Big Bad caught Carlos Alcaraz.
No one can beat this guy. He's the fucking next guy.

Speaker 1 Not so fast. Ah.

Speaker 7 What was that one year that he didn't win the Australian Open?

Speaker 1 Because they kicked him out of the country because of his, he didn't want to be vaccinated.

Speaker 7 Holy shit. Getting kicked out of a country rocks.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 That's like the coolest thing that you can do.

Speaker 1 Also, did you see that?

Speaker 1 There was already a little controversy because there was a reporter, like it looked like

Speaker 1 Good Day America, whatever the show is, like for Australia. And he just bashed

Speaker 1 Jokovich and his fans. And then that same...

Speaker 1 TV station wanted to ask him a question after the interview or after his first match. He's like, I'm not answering from you guys.
Like, fuck that.

Speaker 7 Oh, that's my GOAT. Bizarre scenes from the Jokovich locker room.
Deeply unprofessional.

Speaker 1 Amateur hour.

Speaker 7 Amateur hour. So, yeah,

Speaker 7 I love the American.

Speaker 7 What's her name? The American woman that's down there in Australia that's just yelling at the fans.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 7 She's the best. Coco? No, not Coco.

Speaker 7 There's this one lady that's from America. She goes down to Australia and she's like talking shit to the fans.
Like, do you guys mind shutting up while I'm playing? Lisa Leslie.

Speaker 7 They start to boo her and she's like putting her hand up to her ear, like, give me more. She's the best.
Yeah. I love a good tennis troll.
Love it.

Speaker 1 All right. And then my

Speaker 1 other hot seat actually is, I didn't know that. Maybe this happened and I just missed it, but I didn't realize that the Gulf of Mexico is not the Gulf of Mexico anymore.

Speaker 7 Gulf of America.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's fucking badass.

Speaker 2 We just renamed it.

Speaker 7 Yeah, and soon Mars is going to be ours, too.

Speaker 1 Hell yes.

Speaker 7 Let's go. Let's start claiming stars.

Speaker 1 Gulf of America does not sound great. Well, because the thing is, I don't really under

Speaker 7 spring break, then it sounds like way less exotic if you go to the Gulf of America than the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 7 You can go to the Gulf of Mexico and be like, I'm in Destin, but you feel like you're in Cancun. Right.

Speaker 1 And also, doesn't the Gulf of Mexico have a bunch of oil spills? We should probably keep the branding there.

Speaker 7 No, that happened in the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, keep it, keep it, but there's like, I feel like everybody

Speaker 3 in Florida is in the Gulf of Mexico. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's a body of water. Oh.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 All right, so I take it back. I like that.
Okay.

Speaker 7 So, yeah, but yeah, but Gatt to your point, the oil spills happened in the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 1 Like, do we think that's the only thing?

Speaker 7 The Gulf of America has not had an oil spill.

Speaker 1 There's going to be more oil spills. We should probably just keep it Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 7 And then it gets renamed back to Gulf of Mexico for like two weeks during the oil spill.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then my cool throne is Zuck because he was checking out Bezos' wife's tits. And that was the first time I was like, this guy might be a human.
Yeah. That was cool.
He did.

Speaker 7 Good job, Zuck. Was she wearing just like a lace bra?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was like lingerie.

Speaker 7 Okay, let's normalize that. Yeah.
I think I respect her right to wear that. And also taking a peek.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Looks are free.
But it was funny just because Zuck is the last person that I would expect to get caught in 4K doing that.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I don't know if you had a recent software upgrade or whatever. It's like you have to start finding women attractive now.
Yeah. And

Speaker 7 have the capability for lust.

Speaker 1 Good job. Good job, Zuck.
You passed the test. They also were like RFK, there was a clip of her taking off her jacket and RFK passing the test by not looking.

Speaker 1 RFK's probably just going to fuck that later.

Speaker 7 Was that not AI?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 7 Where she took off her jacket?

Speaker 1 Oh, maybe she just took off her jacket, but it was a clip.

Speaker 7 Jess wearing a bra?

Speaker 1 No, it was a clip of her standing in front of RFK and he wasn't looking down. Okay, I got it.
Like he was, she, there was a real clip of her like turning around, putting something down on a chair.

Speaker 1 RFK kept his gaze straight ahead, but knowing RFK, he's just going to hit that later.

Speaker 1 Bezos can't do shit.

Speaker 7 He's looking. He's using that peripheral vision.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's got veggie eyes.

Speaker 7 Trump also said, again, he was going to release the JFK files.

Speaker 3 Oh, that would be sad.

Speaker 7 I'm very excited about that. I think it's a dude that lives basically in Chicago that did it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 He's an old guy and was in the mafia or mafia related.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Jack Ruby was the guy who killed Harvey Oswald, and he had ties to the mafia.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's Mafia, CIA, Cuba co-hit.

Speaker 1 Gonna be interesting. Collab? Yeah, it was collab.

Speaker 7 It's crazy. The most ambitious crossover event of all time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like the mafia came up with it. Cuba did the second verse,

Speaker 1 and then the CIA probably mixed it. Featuring CIA.
Yeah, featuring CIA.

Speaker 7 When I heard that news, I was like,

Speaker 7 mind-blown.

Speaker 1 CIA, how did they get involved?

Speaker 1 They were good dudes.

Speaker 7 This dude was a special forces guy overseas, worked for the CIA and the military back in Vietnam. He was over in Laos, and then he came back here.
He had all the training.

Speaker 7 He helped train the Bay of Pigs operation. That got shot down by Kennedy at the last second.
Then the CIA was pissed at Kennedy. He's one of their special forces guys guys that works for him.

Speaker 7 He goes down, meets up with Lee Harvey Oswald. Lee Harvey Oswald gives him the gun.
It's a whole thing. It's a whole thing.

Speaker 7 But this dude, there is a guy that's confessed to shooting RFK, or excuse me, JFK in the head, and he lives in Illinois. He lives close by.
We got to get that guy.

Speaker 7 He was not the driver.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, the driver did shoot him as well. That did happen.
I watched that replay.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 Gene Sterator would have been like, yep, that was the right call.

Speaker 1 Good.

Speaker 1 That's targeting. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Let's get to our interviews.

Speaker 1 We've got Ryan Fitzpatrick, and then we have our good friend Stavros talking about his Baltimore Ravens, which is painful, but let's hit our interviews and we'll finish up afterwards with pardon your take.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very good friend of the show, recurring guest, 17-year NFL pro. It is Ryan Fitzpatrick.
He's here to talk a little playoff football.

Speaker 1 But before we talk playoff football, I got to know,

Speaker 1 taking off your shirt at the Ravens-Bills game on Sunday, how are you feeling? How long did you have your shirt off? And do you think you actually had anything to do with the win?

Speaker 1 That was like a three-part question there.

Speaker 10 Okay, let's start with the last question. Did I have anything to do with the win? So right before kickoff, shirt off, lead the charge, say the cheer.
The Ravens get the kickoff.

Speaker 10 They go right down and score seven points. So I don't think I had much to do with the win.
Okay.

Speaker 10 My voice is shot. A lot of tailgating,

Speaker 10 a lot of cheering.

Speaker 10 My shirt was off from right before kickoff to when I got into the green room in the back where the fans couldn't see me.

Speaker 10 And then I put four different layers of jackets and coats on with my mittens and my gloves.

Speaker 10 But it was, I mean, electric. The crowd was awesome.

Speaker 10 And it was such a great game. So happy that the Bills are moving on to the conference championship yet again.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it was a great game. Do you think that there's anything different about this Bills team? Because I am leaning very, I know that I shouldn't bet against Patrick Mahomes.
I understand that.

Speaker 7 It's happened before, but I'm feeling like this Bills team might be different this year. Tough environment to go into, but do you see the same thing?

Speaker 7 Do you feel like there's a difference between this team and what we've seen in the past?

Speaker 10 Well, I'll say they look a lot like the Chiefs, right? I mean, they've kind of morphed into this team that doesn't turn the ball over. They're able to possess it.

Speaker 10 And, you know, they don't have a ton of explosives in the last few weeks on offense, but Josh has played really efficient.

Speaker 10 The thing that gets me about Josh now, looking at him now versus like five years ago, he's so patient. When you're watching the game, he's not forcing stuff down the field.
That being said,

Speaker 10 and if you look at the last game with Kansas City, he's going to have to hit some go balls down the sideline. They play a lot of man coverage.
Amari Cooper was involved in that first game.

Speaker 10 He's going to have to be involved again. Keon Coleman's going to have to be involved again.

Speaker 10 So it's been interesting because they sort of have evolved into this team that looks like Kansas City on offense now. But I think it's their time, man.
I mean, Kansas City has been so good.

Speaker 10 Obviously, Patrick Mahomes has been so good, but I think it's their time. They do feel a little bit different this year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, they do run the ball well, the Bills, and it feels like they're very balanced. I'm a little nervous still about that.

Speaker 1 It feels like the Bills' middle-of-the-field defense is not,

Speaker 1 that's where they're vulnerable. And on the other side, there's a Hall of Famer who is now, what, I think we had the stat, 14 straight playoff games where he's had 70 yards or more in Travis Kelsey.

Speaker 1 What,

Speaker 1 from you, when you're watching the games and you're watching maybe the film after,

Speaker 1 what makes him so special and what is he doing that like other tight ends aren't able to do?

Speaker 10 Well, his rules are different than every other tight end in the game. He gets to do whatever he wants.
And that's just something that over time, he and Patrick, I mean, they're so on the same page.

Speaker 10 So, for example, if he's got a 12-yard out route, well, if it doesn't look like it's going to be open, he can turn in or he can run his out route and then stop, or he could just keep running vertical.

Speaker 10 And for me, that would be really difficult because I was so much about like the timing and getting it out when it's supposed to. But with him and Patrick, they're the same mind.
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 10 He's got such a great feel for the game. And even as you've seen maybe his athleticism come back a few notches the last few years, he's still just as effective because of how smart he is.

Speaker 10 And you'll see his own coverage, he's going to get the ball quite a bit because he's going to be able to find those holes.

Speaker 10 Patrick's going to be able to look around the field and then find him over the middle. So it's amazing to see what he's doing.
And of course, you know, the playoffs come.

Speaker 10 He wakes up and is the same old Travis Kelsey again.

Speaker 1 Did you ever play with someone who you gave them their own rules or had any of that like free-flowing, like, hey, we're going to play this a little different where I know that I trust you so much, you're going to make the right decision and you can improvise a little?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 10 So there were two guys. And the first one, if you guys remember, Stevie Johnson in Buffalo.
Yep.

Speaker 10 So we did we did a lot of three-by-one formations and a lot of that, you know, the one was just Stevie on the backside. If it was man-to-man, you know, I was going to throw to him.

Speaker 10 If it was zone coverage, I was going to go to the three-receiver side. So I came up with what we called a you-do-you route.
And I would just give him the Y.

Speaker 10 And that meant, Stevie, you do you, buddy. Whatever you want to do, a slant, a go, a hitch, just get open.

Speaker 10 And he was phenomenal. His releases,

Speaker 10 you know, you talk to guys, you talk to Revis, you talk to Sherm.

Speaker 10 Those are when they say, who gave you the most trouble? You know, they would say Stevie Johnson was one of the guys at the top of the list. He was so difficult to cover.

Speaker 10 And then Brandon Marshall was the other guy, just so smart.

Speaker 10 And some of that with him was like, hey, you can run an in-cut here, but if the safety comes down, go ahead and make it an in and a go up the middle of the field.

Speaker 10 But you have to really trust the guys to be able to do that. So there weren't a whole lot of those guys in my career, but those were two of them for sure.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 And then on the outside for the Chiefs, you have Xavier Worthy, who started off the year a little shaky.

Speaker 7 They would give him the ball in space sometimes and design some plays where they could just use the speed. And then he kind of hit like a lull in the middle of the season.

Speaker 7 He had like the worst sideline awareness for a while as a wide receiver. He was just like, catch the ball one foot down.
Let's get out of bounds.

Speaker 7 But towards the end of the season, he's looked a lot better.

Speaker 7 And it feels like if we're doing like the narrative, if we're looking back and I'm imagining what I'm going to be saying on Monday, I could see a world where I just focus and say, how did the Bills

Speaker 7 let this guy go to Kansas City? How do you make that trade?

Speaker 7 It feels like a big narrative and like the next brick in the wall of sadness for Buffalo to get beat by the guy that you gave to Kansas City.

Speaker 7 But what have you seen from Xavier Worthy this season as it's progressed that shows you that he's becoming a real threat?

Speaker 10 Yeah, well, I could tell you that Buffalo fans are hoping that Keon Coleman has a big game for that reason to kill that narrative.

Speaker 10 But, I mean, Xavier Worthy, perfect situation for him to be in because Andy Reid, he's a mastermind. He's an offensive genius.

Speaker 10 And so that speed and the way they've been able to incorporate him, different ways of getting him the ball. It's obviously not all just down-the-field stuff.

Speaker 10 It's some of the reverses and some of the, you know, cute plays that you can really take advantage of his speed. But

Speaker 10 I think eventually they're going to hope that he evolves into more than just a gadget guy.

Speaker 10 And

Speaker 10 he's shown some potential this year. But as you said, some of the sideline awareness and some of those things that it's going to take to be a true number one receiver, he's just not there yet.

Speaker 10 But I could promise you, when teams are playing the Chiefs, he's one of those guys that they're going to circle and they're going to say, we can't let this guy ruin the game.

Speaker 10 They're going to know where he is on every play.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.

Speaker 1 We're obviously going to talk about the NFC championship game and what Jaden Daniels has been doing.

Speaker 1 But a question just popped in my head that I realized I don't think I've ever asked a quarterback this.

Speaker 1 Jake Elliott has struggled. If you're in that locker, if you're the quarterback of a team and you know your kicker is going through it, what is the mentality in these games?

Speaker 1 And are you just avoiding him altogether?

Speaker 1 Are you thinking to yourself, like, hey, if we're

Speaker 1 at the 35, like we really got to get five more yards because he sucks right now and he's something's going on with his head. How does that affect you as a quarterback?

Speaker 1 I realize that I never really asked that question. It might, the answer might be like, it doesn't affect us at all.

Speaker 10 Well, I mean, it would affect how I go about the week, which is trying to instill confidence in him, letting him know that we still believe in him, you know, letting him know that there's going to be a big kick or a big moment in the game where we're really going to need you.

Speaker 10 And I've got your back. I believe in you 100%.
So it's that part of it, which is the mental part of it.

Speaker 10 And then it is when you're in those offensive meetings, especially with the play caller or the head coach, you have have those discussions of, okay, where are we thinking we're going to go for it?

Speaker 10 You know, if it's fourth and five on the 35, like you said, this is a situation this week, you know, where we could potentially just go. We're going to go for it every time.

Speaker 10 We don't feel comfortable unless he's inside the 45. And even there, you know, points are going to be at a premium this game.
Maybe if it's less than fourth and four, we're going no matter what.

Speaker 10 And you saw that with a team like Detroit this year and, you know, with Washington and how unbelievable they've been on fourth down this year it's a mentality and guys take a lot of pride in it and if you know beforehand okay coach is putting it on us as an offense that's a real motivator for you to get it done as an offense and so that i think that's where i would be a lot of closed door whispers that jake's not going to hear but then outwardly you're trying to you know

Speaker 10 breathe some confidence into him.

Speaker 1 Do you, when you're on the sideline, do you watch the kick? If you know your kicker's struggling, do you watch the kick or do you close your eyes? I think think I'd close my eyes.

Speaker 10 No, no,

Speaker 10 I'm always a kick watcher.

Speaker 1 Always watching that kick. Are there guys that you know like in the in the locker room that are not kick watchers? Like there's a divide.
Like we got our kick watchers and not kick watchers.

Speaker 10 Some K watchers? Yeah, some C watchers and some K watchers. Yeah, usually they go hand in hand.

Speaker 1 If you're a C watcher, you're a K watcher usually, and vice versa. Yeah,

Speaker 7 you know that Jake knows that those conversations are happening. Yeah.
Like you can have the whispers behind closing.

Speaker 3 Oh my God, there's a lot of whispers.

Speaker 10 Well, it's like every conversation you're playing is about him. Yeah.
When you're playing quarterback and you're not playing well, you know, and it's like, am I going to get benched or am I not?

Speaker 10 And those whispers are happening everywhere. And you walk in a room and it goes silent, you know,

Speaker 1 hey, guys.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 10 You know they're happening, but it's those inner demons, man. You got to fight them.
You just got to go out and rely on your technique. And,

Speaker 10 you know, just, I would tell him, you're here for a reason, man. You've made a lot of big kicks in your career.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you got to be careful about gassing them up too much. Like, then he knows, like, this is.
Okay, you just complimented me on my park job that I had this morning. Yeah.
Hey, great job, Jake.

Speaker 7 You split, you really split those lines. Perfect job.

Speaker 1 I also, I would definitely, like, bust balls and be like, you're here for a reason, Jake, and it's because it's way too late to find another kicker. Something like that.

Speaker 1 And then probably just completely go against what I was trying to do. That's like a Tuesday.

Speaker 10 That's a Tuesday conversation. Yeah.

Speaker 7 You're here for a reason. It's because we haven't killed you yet.
Yeah. So you're welcome.
That's how much we believe in you.

Speaker 1 You're here for a reason. The only other free agent out there that could get here in time was Cody Parky.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 But I'm obviously super excited for the NFC Championship game.

Speaker 7 It feels kind of surreal that Washington is in the NFC Championship game this quickly into a turnaround. And I love what they've done.

Speaker 7 All the credit to Adam Peters for getting good veterans, nailing some draft picks,

Speaker 7 and getting Dan Quinn on board. But I was actually watching the tape, Fitzy.
This is how

Speaker 1 my level of preparation.

Speaker 7 I've been grinding the all-22. Last night I watched the Thursday night game that the Commanders played against the Eagles in Philly.

Speaker 7 And I was just watching Jalen Carter the entire time because that guy wrecks everything. He scares me.
And the fact that Sam Cosme, our best offensive lineman, some might say,

Speaker 7 he's out probably for a long time with an ACL, and he lines up directly across from Jalen Carter. So now we've got a backup coming in trying to stop this guy.

Speaker 7 What, as an offense, would you look to do? Because you can't take him out of the game. It's impossible.

Speaker 7 He's going to find a way to make some plays, but what would you do to limit his effectiveness in stopping you?

Speaker 10 Yeah, well, you nailed it. I'm really worried about that matchup, too.
And even with Cosme, I mean, Carter's just been an issue, right? But with Sam being out, that's a big deal.

Speaker 10 I think, you know, they're built for it.

Speaker 10 The way that Cliff Kingsbury runs his offense, getting it out quick, you know, making sure that some of your shot plays or the plays you're going to hold on to the ball a little bit longer happening later in drives.

Speaker 10 I think that's part of it. So getting them gassed a little bit, making sure that

Speaker 10 you're getting your first downs and extending your drives. And then maybe on the sixth play of the drive, okay, Jalen Carter just had four pass rushes in the last five plays.

Speaker 10 Maybe this is one we can hold on to it longer. Those things, they have to go in your head.
And then protection schemes are the same thing. But Philly's really good up front.
So it's not just one guy.

Speaker 10 That's going to be the guy. Obviously, they're going to circle and say we need to know where he is on every play.
But big loss for the commanders.

Speaker 10 But the other equalizers, just Daniels and the way he moves, man. He's so cool and calm back there, escaping the pocket is obviously one of the best things that he does.

Speaker 10 And then when he escapes up inside, taking off and going, you know, I decided we had that Thursday night game, but to look more at the last game that they played,

Speaker 10 I think Jaden Daniels was a little injured kind of in the middle of the season. I don't know if it was a rib or something, but it just looked like something was going on.

Speaker 10 So that last game, I just watched it again this morning from week 16 was unbelievable. Obviously, five touchdown passes, but he ran for 81 yards as well.
That's going to be a huge factor in the game.

Speaker 10 And then just confused at why the Eagles didn't run the ball more in the second half.

Speaker 10 It just, it was kind of a weird game plan after Jalen Hurts went down.

Speaker 10 The commanders are going to have to score a bunch of points to win this game. But the great thing about that is they're explosive and they can.

Speaker 10 And they've showed it and they've scored 40 pun points a bunch of times this year they just did it versus detroit yeah is is um is jalen hurts good

Speaker 1 i think he's good good question but i well there's some times where i don't know but i i do if you ask me come to your head like jalen hurts is good but then sometimes i watch him i'm like wait is he

Speaker 10 yeah i mean you

Speaker 10 you know you get in trouble for making quarterback tear i do all the time especially now that i'm new to twitter oh my god the eagles fans hate me i saw you did i thought i saw you got roasted for saying uh justin herbert's a top 10 quarterback yeah i think i said he's a top eight but not a top five he's not on the mount rush more at the top four and

Speaker 10 oh my god but it's also like then there's restraint of i don't i'm not going to do a victory lap i'm not rooting against the guy and i hate that you know he had the playoff game that he had and they lost but

Speaker 10 But with Jalen Hurts, I go back to the game in the Super Bowl versus the Chiefs. He had one fumble, but other than that, he was lights out that whole game on the biggest stage.
He was unbelievable.

Speaker 10 I think they have struggled a little bit in the rhythm passing game. I think when he has to throw the ball over the middle and not to the outsides, that's where he struggles a little bit more.

Speaker 10 But he's an elite go-ball thrower. He's got a great deep ball.
They've obviously got two guys that can go and get it.

Speaker 10 But the addition of Saquon, you know, it just plays into the strengths of what he is as well.

Speaker 10 Like Jalen Hurts is an elite runner and, you know, he's, we'll see what happens with his knee and how healthy he is when he comes out.

Speaker 10 But Jalen Hurts is the perfect quarterback for that system, for the system they're in.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So that's okay.
That's, I like that answer because I, again, I do think he's good. It's just there are times, it's more, I guess, the Eagles' offense at times is like, what am I watching?

Speaker 1 Because I expect more because they have so much talent everywhere between their offensive line and their, you know, outside guys in Saquon.

Speaker 10 But there's guys, there's quarterbacks. I think we all know who they are.

Speaker 10 We have our top four with Burrow, Allen, Mahomes, and Lamar. Jayden Daniels is now in this conversation: you could pick them up and drop them in any situation in the NFL and they're going to be elite.

Speaker 10 And then there's other guys that you could sprinkle around and put them in the right systems. And I think Tua is like that.
I think Brock's like that. I think Jalen's probably like that.

Speaker 10 Where if you get them in the right spot, then they can be as good as anybody, but you can't necessarily pick them up and drop them in any situation and have them be elite.

Speaker 7 I think that's a fair answer. Yeah, I think it's fair.

Speaker 1 People are going to be very angry at you though. Oh, I'm going to prefer

Speaker 1 that.

Speaker 7 If you put him in with Tua and Brock Purdy, that's sending out a signal to get him to get a good job.

Speaker 1 Those are good quarterbacks. Like, attack me, please.

Speaker 7 Max, what are your thoughts? Those are good quarterbacks, Max. No, I'm fine with what he just said.

Speaker 2 I think that makes sense. He didn't say he's a...

Speaker 2 The rest of the media world right now is painting Jalen Hurts to be the worst quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 1 I think he's good.

Speaker 2 There has never been a team that has more bulletin board material while also being the Super Bowl favorites of the Philadelphia East.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 they're Super Bowl favorites, not because they're the best, like, they're not viewed as the best team.

Speaker 7 What did I just say?

Speaker 1 I know, but you wouldn't be able to do that.

Speaker 7 They're the most likely to make this.

Speaker 1 The Chiefs and the Bills have to play each other. That's why the odds are for the Eagles to be able to get to the end of the year.

Speaker 1 And wouldn't that be giving bulletin board material to the Commanders? Correct. Yeah.
No, no,

Speaker 1 no.

Speaker 1 Ryan, just hold on a second, Ryan. We're having a conversation over here.

Speaker 1 Hey, one. Yeah, that's all made up.

Speaker 10 I don't know how many people have made this comparison, and I'll just dig myself a deeper hole. But what do you think about the Jalen Hurts and Russell Wilson, like a young Russell Wilson comparison?

Speaker 1 I don't hate that. Russell Wilson was good.

Speaker 1 He was good. He was great.

Speaker 10 They're elite go ball throwers. They throw it great down the field.
They're also both very good runners, especially young Russ, and they win. Yeah.

Speaker 7 I like that. And I don't think that the eagles are gonna have jalen hurts throw a slant route at the one yard line in the super bowl that's that's tush push imagine if they didn't tush push yeah

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Speaker 7 So in watching Saquon Barkley, I think that the commanders have done a decent job. Nobody does a great job of stopping Saquon.

Speaker 7 You can't really stop him, especially when that offensive line gets moving to the side and they get start, you know, they start going downhill.

Speaker 1 How do you limit his big plays?

Speaker 7 Is it possible?

Speaker 10 I don't know that it's possible. I think you do go into this game saying, all right, the main focus is going to be on Saquon, but that means you're going to have one-on-ones on the outside.

Speaker 10 And like I just said, he's an elite gold ball thrower. So with Devontae Smith and A.J.
Brown on the outside, it makes it difficult.

Speaker 10 So it's a pick your poison type thing, but I would go into the game saying that. I mean, you have to stop Saquon.
That being said, you know, the other way you combat that is you possess the ball.

Speaker 10 And when you have fourth and sixth or less, you go for it on offense, which is the formula that Washington has pretty much used all year in being really aggressive on fourth down.

Speaker 10 And then they've got to light up the scoreboard. They know going into this game, this isn't going to be the same game that the Buffalo, Kansas City game is.

Speaker 10 That game is going to be 24 to 23, 27 to 22, whatever it's going to be. This one, in order for Washington to win the game, they've got to score 30-plus points and maybe 40 to win this game.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I've been doing a lot of reading about Jaden recently and his use of virtual reality and how he started doing that at LSU. And so that's like a very important part of his prep at LSU.

Speaker 7 That's what kind of changed his whole momentum around was he started doing this virtual reality stuff for like 45 minutes an hour, three days a week, where he would get reps in against a simulated defense.

Speaker 7 And it allowed him to see and think a lot quicker when he was playing on Saturdays.

Speaker 7 And the commanders invested in that same company and now he's just like, he's living in the metaverse three days a week. And by the time he hits the field on Sunday, he's ready to go.

Speaker 7 Have you tried using the virtual reality stuff?

Speaker 10 I did. They started to incorporate it a little bit

Speaker 10 into the NFL my last few years and I didn't like it at all.

Speaker 10 It just what I think maybe it's just what he's grown up with.

Speaker 10 But yeah, it's obviously working and maybe I should have done it more.

Speaker 10 But he also has that thing where if he doesn't like what he sees, he just takes off and runs and nobody can catch him, which is really effective, too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Did you have that? That's a pretty good strategy.

Speaker 10 Yeah. But he between between the way that he throws the deep ball and the way that he processes, there's one play in particular in that last game.
It's cover zero.

Speaker 10 He's got two guys free coming at him. And every quarterback in the league, you're taking the flat route.
You're throwing it. That's your hot throw.

Speaker 10 You've got an unblocked guy he just takes two more steps back the hot throw is covered and then he finds zach eartz on a seven route to the outside he throws it three steps before earth is out of his break right in stride and it's like where what planet is this guy from you know between the athleticism his ability to throw it accurately and now his ability to process the you know the calmness the poise under pressure it's it's unbelievable and something we haven't seen recently he's from the metaverse yeah i got to ask you a question about uh your Twitter account because, and this was like a month ago, but I was heavily invested in an ongoing saga that you had.

Speaker 1 Oh, I was going to ask the same question. Yeah.
I'm happy you're bringing this up.

Speaker 7 You got a shot putt ball stuck in a golf hole and you couldn't get it out. I guess my first question is, why do you have a shot putt ball?

Speaker 10 Yeah, so it's the first time I got something stuck in a hole that I couldn't get it out. And

Speaker 10 my brother lives next door, so his son is becoming a shot putter.

Speaker 10 And so his little shit five-year-old son brought the shot put ball over to our backyard and thought it'd be fun to get it in the hole. It literally was the perfect size.

Speaker 10 It was the perfect size to where it couldn't have been any bigger and fit in there. There was nothing I could do.
And I loved your suggestion, but

Speaker 10 I couldn't put any liquids in there because there's sand underneath the hole and it just would have dissipated underneath the hole.

Speaker 10 So it was an absolute saga that ended like you thought it would, which was brute force and just destroying the fake green and the hole.

Speaker 10 But it was a fun two hours.

Speaker 7 I loved it because it was, you know, Harvard guy, Fitzy, trying to use all the brain power in the world, trying to problem solve this.

Speaker 7 And at the end of the day, sometimes something as simple as a ball getting stuck in a hole, you just have to, you just have to be a man about it.

Speaker 10 Well, that's what I was hoping Elon. I was hoping Elon was going to chime in, you know, like the submarine thing that he did and this whole SpaceX thing.
I don't know what he would have suggested.

Speaker 10 My, my three butter knives and two two by fours and trying to wedge it out of there didn't work. I don't think my wife follows me on Twitter.
I don't think she has an account.

Speaker 10 So she doesn't know that the three butter knives got broken and are still missing.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 10 But it's going to come up one day for sure.

Speaker 1 Now she might be an AWL. Yeah, she listens.
I would have just, I would have just covered up the hole, made a new hole somewhere else and been like, that's it.

Speaker 1 That hole's done. Yeah.
Yeah. Like we're done with that one.

Speaker 10 That was my favorite suggestion that somebody made was like, when are you moving? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why not just be

Speaker 1 imagine, imagine, like, the real estate agent being like, this is an incredible house, great, got great bones, but there's one thing we have to disclose before you sign.

Speaker 1 There's a shop put in the hole in the backyard. It's like, ooh, I don't think so.
Yeah. We're not buying this one.
I'll get the murder house down the street instead.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 It was an incredible saga.

Speaker 1 All right. So do you have, are you picking these games? Do you, do you have, I know that you want the Bills.
I mean, are we going to get maybe a Ryan Fitzpatrick Super Bowl, Bills Commanders?

Speaker 1 That would be, would you be the bell of the ball? Maybe do the coin toss?

Speaker 10 PFT, you know,

Speaker 10 a lot of people are saying, you know, this is the most excitement they've had at quarterback in Washington since 2021.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I would agree.

Speaker 7 That game against

Speaker 7 the Dolphins, man, who can forget? Yeah.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 who.

Speaker 10 Now you guys kind of taught me this. I have my own podcast with Andrew Whitworth, and I just said that the Eagles were going to win, but on here, I could, can I say the commanders?

Speaker 10 Yeah, so then you can play both takes. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Okay, good.

Speaker 10 So I think the Bills are going to win, and let's go with the Commanders, Bills Commanders in the Super Bowl. I love that.

Speaker 1 That's a really good call. Good pick.
Yeah. Yeah.
There you go.

Speaker 1 Another question about the Chiefs Bills game.

Speaker 1 Is there anything that Sean McDermott can do this week leading up to it where he's like, because you don't want to play tentative, but we obviously saw what happened with the Texans where they're going to call those flags.

Speaker 1 Or do you think maybe the NFL's like, man, we can't have these flags again, so we're going to, we're going to make sure that this game doesn't have another controversial call with Patrick Mahomes sliding or running out of bounds late.

Speaker 1 Like, how is that going to play out in your head?

Speaker 10 Well, so it was really funny. The second personal foul, Patrick Mahomes, when he kind of danced around and went down and got crunched by the two guys,

Speaker 10 I'm complaining, like, oh my God, I can't believe he did that. He's baiting him and they're getting the flag.
And, and then my buddy next to me was like, yeah, but Josh does that sometimes too.

Speaker 1 True.

Speaker 1 True.

Speaker 10 But, you know, both these guys have learned how to weaponize that a little bit, which you try to try to take that out of the game in the offseason. But who, do you know who the crew is?

Speaker 10 That's like, it's either Hockey Lee or Cleatman.

Speaker 7 It's Cleat Blake for the AFC.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 10 So, you know, the good thing is these are the best of the best. So Cleat and his crew, they do a great job.

Speaker 10 They're obviously, you know, you go into the game, and as a head coach, you have a list of things you tell the refs beforehand. They're going to say, hey, their tackles leave early.

Speaker 10 You know, Patrick Mahomes isn't running out of bounds. You'll have that checklist of things that you're going to say, we want to alert you to these, and vice versa.

Speaker 10 They'll do the same thing with the Bills, but we got to just hope for the best. You know, these are the best crews that we have.

Speaker 10 These guys both hockey on the other side, other than being very long-winded and liking the spotlight like his father

Speaker 10 and Cleat Blakeman are both very good at what they do.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, we just want, I just want the game to not have any of that bullshit.

Speaker 7 And if it does, I hope it has it equally on both sides. I hope that they officiate the same way for Josh as they do for Patrick.
And in that event, you can just be like, well, it washed out.

Speaker 10 Yeah. And speaking of, you know, calls.

Speaker 10 The last time the Commanders and the Eagles played, Lattimore, was it like three past interferences on A.J. Brown? Yep.
I mean, it just kept happening.

Speaker 10 So hopefully that ends up a little bit better for him this time, too.

Speaker 7 He did look a lot better last week.

Speaker 7 He was a big part of that defense and how they were able to limit some of the big plays to the Lions. So

Speaker 7 I like the commander's secondary and a shocking twist as the season has progressed. I love Mikey Sanders still.

Speaker 7 Marshawn Lattimore is playing a lot better, and Jeremy Chin is back there just hitting the fuck out of people.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he is. So I'm okay with where we're at.
I never thought we'd be a great defense this year. I just wanted us to be kind of middle of the road.
And I think we've officially reached that tier.

Speaker 1 So I'm okay with that.

Speaker 10 And if you're middle of the road on defense, you got to create turnovers, right?

Speaker 10 You got to have some big plays. Because even, you know, going back to the Buffalo game this last weekend, their defense played.
good.

Speaker 10 They didn't play great, but they got three turnovers, you know, and that was the huge difference in the game. So it's like you think back to the Mark Andrews had a catch.
He was wide open.

Speaker 10 Nobody was near him. And then, you know, know, they're driving down to score, but Terrell Bernard comes and punches that ball out.
So opportunistic.

Speaker 10 You know, that's going to be the big word for these defenses because I would say Kansas City and Philly probably have the two best defenses that are left, but the Bills have been very opportunistic this year in the way they forced turnovers.

Speaker 10 And Washington's going to need the same thing versus Philly this weekend. Yep.

Speaker 7 I had one more question for you about the Bills because you danced around the NFL a little bit. You had a lot of flings.
You had a lot of one-night stands in the NFL.

Speaker 7 But the Bills, they were like your long-term relationship, and you settled in nicely there. They paid you a good amount of money.
That must have been pretty cool.

Speaker 7 But it feels like the Bills fans have a different place in your heart from everybody else in the NFL.

Speaker 7 What was the moment where you realized that Bills fans are different and you really like this place?

Speaker 10 Well, I'll say my favorite moment as a Bill was 2011, which was my third year there.

Speaker 10 And

Speaker 10 early in the season, we beat the Patriots at home. And that was when

Speaker 10 I think people on the team that were new really understood

Speaker 10 what the mafia is and how much football means to them because we hadn't beat the Patriots in forever. It had been forever.
Tom Brady obviously owned the Bills, owned the division forever.

Speaker 10 And the appreciation after that game and the tears and the joy from all the fans, that was a moment that I'll never forget where it was like,

Speaker 10 all right, I can mess with these guys. Like, this is, this is, these are my dudes.
These are my people. And there's also just, you know, flying back there for Sunday.
It's like the weather is shitty.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 10 you don't know if it's going to snow two feet or two inches. The wind's blowing.

Speaker 10 It's cold, but everybody's out there in the parking lot with a smile on their face because they live for Bills football. And the Bills went 10-0 at home this year.

Speaker 10 So they rewarded them with a great season. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, it's the best.
We've, We've made a couple trips, obviously, to Buffalo, and we love Josh. And their fan base is, it's just

Speaker 1 the passion and pride in Buffalo. It's really cool to see.
And they're also like,

Speaker 1 if you just laid out what fan base likes to drink beer and eat wings and

Speaker 1 like fart in their Zubas,

Speaker 1 it's a good life. It's a good life.

Speaker 10 Do you guys see the belt in the background here? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 So this guy was in our section. He came over.
I had my three boys with me, 17, 16, and five. And he's like falling over.
He's dressed like Macho Man Randy Savage.

Speaker 10 And he gave my five-year-old that belt. And he was so excited.
And then later he came, one of his buddies came back because I think he was fairly inebriated.

Speaker 10 And he was like, hey, can my friend have his belt back?

Speaker 1 And I was like, hey, I'm sorry.

Speaker 10 My five-year-old was clutching. And he slept with it last night.
You know, I'm like, look, I can get you another belt, but I don't think we're going to get it away from him. You gave it to him.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You can't.

Speaker 1 Taking that away from a five-year-old at a game is like, you just basically should just get back in the car because you're going home anyway. Like, that would be Meltdown City.

Speaker 1 All right, so, Ryan, I got one last question.

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Speaker 1 So you mentioned everyone should go listen to your podcast with Andrew Whitworth. How has it been a year into, you know, or a season into podcasting?

Speaker 1 Do you have a newfound respect for guys like us who've been in the podcast minds for a decade plus now?

Speaker 10 I do. I'd love to pick your brain at some point.
We haven't had any guests yet. We've just kind of,

Speaker 10 I think it's been easier because Thursday night football, you know, talking about our adventures, talking about all these games. As soon as the season ends, we're going to be in a dark place.

Speaker 10 I don't know what to talk about.

Speaker 1 We're not interesting.

Speaker 10 I mean, but I guess the season, you know, football lives on throughout the year, but it's been a lot of fun. I've enjoyed it.
I was hesitant for a while, but I think I found the right guy in Wit.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 10 We're best buddies. He's such an impressive dude.

Speaker 10 You know, very thoughtful, very insightful. And then, you know, I just enjoy hanging out with him.
He's a family guy. He's got four kids.
I've got seven. So that part of it's been really fun too.

Speaker 1 Seven kids.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you've gotten things stuck in holes before. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Cool. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 10 Seven different women too, which is not a good

Speaker 2 what's just kidding. Just kidding.

Speaker 1 Love you lies. Love you lies.
Yeah, everyone, everyone do listen to Fitz and Witt. You can listen anywhere.
What, what is last question?

Speaker 1 What is the amount of kids where it like it becomes enough where they can just fend for themselves? Because I have three, and I feel like three is a bad number where it's like

Speaker 1 they all are relying on me, and I don't have enough of an age difference where the oldest can just take care of the youngest.

Speaker 10 Yeah. And then it depends too, like if your oldest is a boy or a girl, because,

Speaker 10 you know, a

Speaker 10 like, right, a 17-year-old boy is not as good as an 11-year-old girl in terms of taking care of the younger kids, right? I mean, the boys are selfish.

Speaker 10 They're into their cell phones and their friends and sports and farting and their Zubas, like you said.

Speaker 10 So I think for us, once we got to four,

Speaker 10 that was a pretty good number. But really, when we made the decision to go from six to seven, that's when you don't fit in a car anymore.
And you've got to go with like a weird

Speaker 10 kids actually call our van the kidnapper van.

Speaker 10 So when you've got to go with like the weird kidnapper van, when you have, you know, 12 seats and you can kind of bring all their friends to the soccer games and basketball games, that's where we're at right now.

Speaker 1 That's crazy.

Speaker 7 You've become a nonprofit organization. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Yeah,

Speaker 1 you're doing church meetups, like, you know, going and picking people up.

Speaker 10 But we do have two drivers now. So now we're in a whole different realm where, hey, go pick up your sister from soccer practice, go take your friend or your son to the birthday party, whatever it is.

Speaker 10 That's nice.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 And to the point about the podcast, I think what you're doing, it's not having guests might be a good thing for you guys because the listeners want to hear the relationship develop between you.

Speaker 7 And then

Speaker 7 they feel like they're part of a little family. And then you can slowly add on guests after that, in the offseason.
Sometimes

Speaker 7 in May, June, there's not a lot to talk about. Then you start mixing in guests as a treat.
But yeah, no, your podcast is great, and I love watching it. I love listening to it.
So congratulations.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Thank you. Hey, do you know who the long snapper for the Commanders is?

Speaker 7 The Long Snapper for the Commanders is...

Speaker 10 I hate to put you on the spot like this.

Speaker 7 It's not Cheeseman. It used to be Cheeseman.

Speaker 10 No, it used to be Cheeseman. Yeah, he's gone.
He was there when I was there.

Speaker 1 Tyler Ott. Okay.

Speaker 10 Do you know where he went to college?

Speaker 7 I do not.

Speaker 1 Harvard? Harvard.

Speaker 7 We got a Harvard boy snapping long too. That's why you guys have the advantage.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.
That's huge. That's huge.

Speaker 7 The snaps have been really good this year. I don't think so.
They've been good.

Speaker 1 If you don't know his name, that means they've been great.

Speaker 7 I just jinxed it right there. I should have said that.
They did.

Speaker 1 Point for Max. Yeah.
Point for Max. All right.
Well, Ryan, thank you so much for coming on, man. We love, love having you on.
And hopefully, maybe we see you in New Orleans.

Speaker 1 We'll be there for the whole week. So we've got to catch up.

Speaker 10 All right. We'll see you there.

Speaker 1 Thanks, guys.

Speaker 16 Man, I'll tell you what. When you're hungry out there, you start acting like a rookie quarterback in his first game, making bad decisions, messing up the basics, being all out of sorts.

Speaker 16 That's where Snickers comes in, man. That thing is packed.
Roasted peanuts, nugget, caramel, milk chocolate. It's like the MVP of candy bars.

Speaker 16 And when you bite into it, boom, it sorts you out, gets your head back in the game of life, satisfying your hunger.

Speaker 1 Remember this: Snickers handles your hunger so you can handle everything else snickers satisfies man that's a winning play okay before we get to stavi just a quick uh note the first eight minutes of the uh interview not the best audio it comes in fine we we cleaned it up uh riverside which we you use all the time which shout out to people at riverside usually uh no issues we had a little bit issue here it gets better after eight minutes but it's still uh max and everyone on the team cleaned up the first eight minutes so it should be good but just wanted to note that it does get better eight minutes in, and it's Stavi Baby.

Speaker 1 All right, here he is.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on our very, very good friend. It is Stavros Halkius, Stavi Baby.
You can listen to him on Stavi's World. You can see his comedy.
He's on tour. He's got a new movie.

Speaker 1 But his Baltimore Ravens lost again in the playoffs. And

Speaker 1 I love you, Stav, and I didn't want to ask. I waited 24 hours, but it was your appearance last year after they lost in the AFC championship game was so goddamn funny, and our fans loved it so much.

Speaker 11 Fuck you, guys. Fuck you, we cats.

Speaker 1 Shut the fuck up. Okay, I'm sorry, but like,

Speaker 1 all right, all right, you're right. You're right.

Speaker 1 How are you?

Speaker 11 Hey, hold on a second. I'm in fucking Chicago.
I'm like, hey, guys, I got a fucking new movie now. Can I do the fucking show?

Speaker 11 I don't hear. Hey, we can fucking put you on Amos.

Speaker 11 i get a my fucking team loses i go through heart break i immediately get a fucking text you pieces of shit fuck you guys that's not fully true fuck you you said you were gonna come back to do pmt

Speaker 11 yeah fuck you shut the fuck up i know what you what you fucking motherfuckers want

Speaker 7 stavi when i saw you i went first of all i went to your movie which was very very funny

Speaker 1 you did thank you I appreciate the invite.

Speaker 7 I see. And we agreed afterwards, next time you're in town, let's get you on PMT.

Speaker 7 The schedule didn't match up.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 11 I'm sorry. I'm mad, and I'm taking it out on you.

Speaker 17 Okay.

Speaker 1 So, how are you feeling? Bad, big cat. Okay.
Let's talk it out.

Speaker 11 Am I coming to the sorry? Am I echoing? Is something weird happening?

Speaker 7 The mic's cutting out just like a little bit.

Speaker 1 Cutting out a little bit, but I think because it's Riverside, it'll be fine. We got Matt.
Yeah, I think he's just peeking. Oh, you're just peeking because you're yelling too much

Speaker 1 all right so okay so

Speaker 1 let's talk it out i mean that sucked that sucked yes it did

Speaker 11 it was fucking brutal it was like

Speaker 11 i don't fucking know dude i don't even know what to fucking say

Speaker 11 so at the end of the month they're gonna do the nfl honors ceremony lamar jackson might get another mvp is that gonna feel good at all for you to watch that i'm not one of these motherfuckers that thinks lamar was the problem at all look that fucking interception was a duck that was crazy he threw a quarter of his season's interceptions in this game he was awesome and he throws like a no disrespect jameis style interception where it's like who the was he even throwing to that like i thought i was having a stroke the fucking bills guy just caught it like he was fair catching yep i couldn't believe that but it's like okay he got that shit out of his system whatever he comes back when it matters it's slippery what do you want with this fucking guy's from florida florida he doesn't know snow you've seen his high school highlights it's humid but it's not cold the ball slipped out of his hands okay

Speaker 11 and then at the end he takes them down we get the touchdown throws it to andrews and i feel bad for andrews too because he's good but that's a tough one man you do have to catch that one plus the fumble again i feel bad for him but it's like this what three

Speaker 11 turnovers and we could have we were in that game that was he didn't play bad, yeah.

Speaker 11 And then the fucking why the did we throw the ball and when we were with first and goal? Where the fuck did we run it four times? Our whole, but that's the kind of team we are. We have Derrick Henry.

Speaker 11 What the fuck did we bring Derrick Henry in board if we're goal line and they're not gonna throw him the ball? Can somebody explain that to me?

Speaker 11 It's the only time in my life that I wish Greg Roman was our fucking offensive coordinator. That fucking time, you know, that cocksucker would have ran it four times.

Speaker 11 He doesn't even know how to pass in his playbook. But Todd Munkin got fucking cute when we least needed it.
You fuck.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Why didn't you just go? And then if you score that touchdown, whole different fucking game. Whole different fucking game.

Speaker 11 Dude, I don't fuck. It was just like

Speaker 11 it was bad.

Speaker 11 I keep like,

Speaker 1 it's,

Speaker 1 we were good. We didn't even deserve to lose.

Speaker 11 We were fucking good. And where the fuck was the

Speaker 11 when we play in Pittsburgh? I feel like every play, TJ, TJ Watts tackling a fucking running back that we tricked those dumbasses into thinking he was going to get the ball.

Speaker 11 And then Lamar, where the fuck was that?

Speaker 11 That's our superpower. That's what makes Lamar as like even better than the best than Josh Allen, for example.
It's like, yeah, he can throw the ball. Yeah, he can run.

Speaker 11 But also, these motherfuckers don't even know how to defend against a run defense. Where the fuck did that go? I didn't see.

Speaker 1 Now, maybe I missed it.

Speaker 11 You guys are fucking, you guys have the keen eyes that I don't. I don't, you guys are bigger football guys than me.
I am a football guy, but I'm not, I don't watch fucking Maxion or whatever the fuck.

Speaker 1 So maybe I missed one of those fucking plays. First of all, you are a football guy.
Don't ever, don't ever put yourself down like that. I don't like that.
I needed that. Thank you.

Speaker 1 The Lamar thing is tough because

Speaker 1 he is so goddamn good in the regular season that everyone expects that in the playoffs and he has not played at the so goddamn good level in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 So it's like it's his own, it's his own doing that everyone expects this level of like otherworldly quarterback play.

Speaker 1 And the two turnovers, I mean, that fumble was huge. Mark Andrews' fumble

Speaker 1 was the thing that changed the whole game. But

Speaker 1 I don't know. I mean, I guess I would to try to cheer you.
Like, you're still a good team, and you got to just... Go back at it, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yes.

Speaker 11 And look, I know the, like, yes, that fumble was fucking huge. But that is the exact reason Lamar can't have two turnovers.
Because

Speaker 11 as the fucking leader, yeah, your boys are right fuck up, right? And you're the one who has to make up for that. I get that.
And you're right.

Speaker 11 He's never played to the standard that he plays when we're beating, you know, whatever, that game we beat Cincinnati when him and Joe Burrow doing that duel. He didn't play to that.

Speaker 11 I get that to, you know, to suck PFT stock. He didn't play as good as a rookie.
You know what I mean? Like, Jayden, it's tough to even be like, that's the tough counter-argument.

Speaker 11 And I hate how happy this is going to make you, Where it's like, Lamar is the man, but some fucking rookie with his skill set,

Speaker 11 not as good a player yet, if ever, probably not as good, but like had the fucking mentality to just, and he wasn't whatever. He's playing a fucking dome, actually.

Speaker 11 Fuck you, PFD.

Speaker 11 It was the elements that got to him.

Speaker 1 I love that.

Speaker 1 I love that, Stavi.

Speaker 7 You were a second away from giving, and you're like, no, no, I'm not wrong.

Speaker 11 You're wrong. Fuck you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 11 If you was in a dough, if we were in a fucking dome, whole different ballgame, PFT, fuck you.

Speaker 11 But this is the exact conversation we're having about Peyton Manning. Yes, would you rather have Tom Brady? Sure.

Speaker 11 But cool Peyton Manning that fucking makes guys miss and is electrifying and I still have to watch football every week. That's how you know it's a bad loss because I'm fucking Buddhist now.

Speaker 11 I'm like, and it's got me thinking about, well, I'd rather be them than you, for example, big cat. Yes.
You know, now I'm moving against you. Now I'm like, fuck Ben Johnson.

Speaker 11 I'm like, everything's going to go bad for everybody else. Fraud.

Speaker 11 Too many fucking flea flickers. Enjoy that those fucking picks he's going to throw.
Caleb's going to fucking throw next year. Fuck you guys.

Speaker 1 Fuck.

Speaker 11 How the fuck do we lose, dude? And like, like,

Speaker 1 you didn't lose to the Chiefs. That's a little bit of a solace.

Speaker 11 Not if the Chiefs win the fucking Super Bowl. I know.
I know.

Speaker 7 Yeah. So are you going to be rooted for the Bills this weekend?

Speaker 11 That's the hard thing because I have a lot of friends who are Bills fans. It's a fat ditty.

Speaker 11 Okay, I'm rooting maliciously against the Kansas City Chiefs, and I'm rooting.

Speaker 1 There's no malice with the Bills.

Speaker 11 It is like a, I like Buffalo. In the NFT, I could give a fuck.
I mean, you know, whatever. Who cares? Whoever it is, beat the fucking,

Speaker 11 I don't know, just beat it. Whoever does it beats the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it sucks.

Speaker 11 Every time.

Speaker 11 It won't be as bad as last year. Last year destroyed me.

Speaker 11 I was fucking like, I mean, literally, after the Super Bowl, here's what a bender I went on. I mean, you have proof of it.
I've been sober since the Super Bowl.

Speaker 11 After that bender, I was like, what am I doing with my life? I have not smoked weed, drank, taken pills, nothing, because I was so depressed after the Ravens lost to the Chiefs.

Speaker 11 So it literally put me into sobriety. That loss fucked me up so bad.
I watched it. I was in Baltimore.
I had to watch stupid fucking red confetti fall on MNT Bank Stadium. It sucked dick.

Speaker 11 So on some level, nothing is as devastating as that, especially like we're away from the Super Bowl. But like,

Speaker 11 fuck, dude. We were so good.
Yeah. Our offense was so fucking, and then the defense, which was, you know, took some while to fucking come around.
We were looking pretty good.

Speaker 11 There's, you know, a couple guys will get fucking torched every once in a while, but for the most part,

Speaker 11 you know, shout out to fucking Zach Orry. He's figured the shit out.
He's cool.

Speaker 11 I like our guys. I do.
But then I'm also, you know, salary cap. I haven't looked into it.
A team never stays good this long. I'm sure we're in for some bullshit departure.

Speaker 11 And we're a good organization. I get it.
Whatever. But fuck, dude.
You know how it is. You got to win.

Speaker 11 If you're this good a team, you got to fucking win. And I'm happy to have Lamar for the rest.
I don't want him ever going anywhere. Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 11 And we will be good as long as we have him, but fuck.

Speaker 11 Every 12 years, that's the pact we signed with Satan. It's the perfect amount.
It is.

Speaker 1 Every 12, sixth grade.

Speaker 11 I was in sixth grade. I was 25.
It's like, it's the perfect space out, bro. It is.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It is.
Because it's like, that's enough time where you're wanting more. It's a new, it's a new team.
You're like, oh, this could.

Speaker 7 When you were doing your numerology, did you ever take into account the fact that it's only happened twice, so it's not really that much of a pattern?

Speaker 1 It just happened twice before.

Speaker 11 Has it happened only twice, but it's happened, but how long have the fucking Ravens been a franchise? It's pretty quick after that, you fuck.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I'm just saying it's only twice, like if it's three times, then you could say, yeah, it's every 12 years.

Speaker 1 I think it was the 28-year-old quarterback thing. Yeah, the 28-year-old quarterback thing was what I, because I saw that stat and I was like, whoa, this is real.

Speaker 11 It was two pieces of numerology. Thank you, big cat.

Speaker 11 I got you.

Speaker 11 Fucking statistics over there, PFT. Fuck you.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying, like,

Speaker 7 any team that won two Super Bowls, you could be like, yeah. Or if you're a Cubs fan, you could be like, yeah, the Cubs win a World Series every 102 years or whatever the fuck it was.

Speaker 1 Two pieces of numerology. Yeah.
I'll order two.

Speaker 7 How do you feel about Harbaugh now?

Speaker 11 I mean, I ride with Harbaugh, but it is a little like

Speaker 11 because here's the real shit. We shouldn't have been playing in fucking Buffalo.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 11 Why the fuck did we lose to the Raiders?

Speaker 11 I mean, I mean, you look through our fucking schedule. It's like, what the fuck, man? Like, why were we penal?

Speaker 11 I mean, look, the first game, hey, remember that lining up away from the fucking center call that we got 15 fucking times opening night? Did you see that called fucking once after that?

Speaker 11 I mean, these motherfuckers, it was literally like, make up a rule so the Ravens lose to the fucking Chiefs. I didn't see that shit all season called on the Ravens.

Speaker 11 It happened only in opening night, whatever. We'll take that one aside.
But it's like we were a fucking penalized team.

Speaker 11 Weirdly, it's shit that's like poorly coached shit, where it's like, why are we beating ourselves? Why do we almost lose to the fucking shitty Cowboys?

Speaker 11 Why the fuck did we we like why why are we not ready to play and our defense

Speaker 11 like you could blame it on new coordinator you know it was hard to lose it was hard to lose fucking mcdonald but like

Speaker 11 by the end of the season we'd figured that out yeah we figured our defense out it was all the early

Speaker 11 it was not the defensive coordinate the new defensive coordinator that was the problem it was overall coaching shit and i do love harbaugh i do i but it is like

Speaker 11 it's not he's not he's in no way is he on a hot seat but it's like it ain't cold no more you know what i mean it's like let's consider now i take i took out the thermometer i'm looking at thermometers on amazon i haven't even bought it yet but it's like if i need at some point to see the temperature of a seat i'm at least seeing what the best i'm reading reviews on the best thermometer to see how hot the seat is so we're very far away but

Speaker 11 It is poorly coached shit. It is like, why the fuck are we, this is the whole point of a like, doesn't call plays, doesn't do shit.

Speaker 11 He's like a fucking, he's that traditional old school, I'm just managing everything coach. And it's like, well, how the fuck do we lose a lot of games because of penalties if that's the fucking case?

Speaker 11 Yeah. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 And it's like, if we're at home,

Speaker 11 I don't think we lose that game. Who knows about next week, right? Whatever.
But I don't think we fucking lose at home, honestly.

Speaker 7 You got to become just a full-time dome guy. Like, what's the league doing allowing Buffalo to build a stadium? It's dangerous.

Speaker 1 It gets so cold there there, the snow.

Speaker 11 And I have, that's another thing. That's how bad this loss was, where I'm like, we're playing outside.
What is this? The fucking 1910s?

Speaker 11 What the fuck are we doing? Let's play the NBA Finals on a fucking black top next year. Like, it's got me, it's got me being like, it's crazy to have snow games.
What are we talking about?

Speaker 11 The elements can't makes that much of a fucking, can't make that much of a fucking, you know, can't fuck the outcome up.

Speaker 11 Even though that's crazy, snow football is cool, but it's got me considering shit like that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're changing your worldview. All right, so listen, it sucked.
Let's think positives. One, I want to say here and now, because I believe that Lamar will win a Super Bowl at some point.

Speaker 1 I think so too. Thank you.
I think he will win a Super Bowl at some point. This is just, it's been shitty, but like, he's too good.
I just think he'll win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 When he wins a Super Bowl, I'm not saying if, when he wins the Super Bowl for the Ravens, you will be our Monday guest that right after the Super Bowl. You deserve that.
You will get to,

Speaker 1 you will get to, even even if they go to a Super Bowl, you'll be, we'll have you on after the championship son round.

Speaker 1 Also, you're crushing it in life. Like, you made a movie.
Your podcast is huge. Your stand-up is huge.
Like, you got it all right now. You're probably getting mad bitches.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 11 I suppose, big cat, but you know how it goes, man. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, it sucks. There's nothing worse.
The week after a bad loss, it's just like you, you start to question why

Speaker 1 you start to look at the rest of your life and you're like, I have so much shit going for me. Why do I put so much into a game?

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 11 And here's the other thing. The reason I say I'm not as big a football guy is like, because there was moments in my life where I was like, ah,

Speaker 11 you know, do I have to watch this every Sunday? Like, who cares? Like, and then Lamar gets drafted and it was like.

Speaker 11 I was back in harder than I've ever fucking been. I was like, I couldn't believe he fell to us.
It's really, and it's like, why? Why, you motherfucker?

Speaker 11 Why couldn't we have drafted fucking Mitch Trubisky? You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 Then I'd be fine.

Speaker 11 I'd be having good times on Sunday. I'd be fucking at brunch with my pals.
I wouldn't give a fuck. But I'm back in because I love Lamar so much.

Speaker 11 And it's hard, man. I want to be free, big cat, but

Speaker 11 I don't think I ever will be.

Speaker 11 I don't think I ever will be. And I do want to.

Speaker 11 I do want to not be a fan of anything. But unfortunately, this bullshit makes me so sad.

Speaker 1 I know. I think about that.
Like, how cool it would be to just be like, watch the Super Bowl, like, turn it on, and just be like, oh, this is cool. First time I'm seeing these two teams this year.

Speaker 7 Be the guy that doesn't know the rule changes at the Super Bowl. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, explains it to you. Yeah.
Oh, is that Patrick Mahal? He's won a couple of these, right?

Speaker 1 Shit like that. It'd be nice.

Speaker 11 You're like, guys, turn the volume up. There's a Doritos commercial.

Speaker 1 Shout out Doritos. Our sponsor.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 Become a

Speaker 7 sports ball guy. Yeah.
Oh,

Speaker 7 the sports is on TV, huh? And then just look down your nose at everybody. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 It would be nice. I'm sorry, Savi.

Speaker 1 It breaks my heart to see you. I'm happy for you.
I am happy for you.

Speaker 11 That was awesome.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's cool. But I understand what you're saying.

Speaker 7 Like, if you're looking at the Eagles and the Commanders, you probably do want to see the Eagles win because you don't want to see my Lamar get to a Super Bowl.

Speaker 11 Yeah, you just copied. You copied him, dude.
You get your own Lamar? That's bullshit.

Speaker 1 You copy and paste it to Lamar.

Speaker 11 Bullshit, dude. Fuck you.

Speaker 7 I don't know.

Speaker 11 And it's also like, it's also the DC thing with Baltimore, where it's like, DC is a bunch of fucking, I know you're from Virginia, but DC is a bunch of fucking nerds.

Speaker 11 It's a bunch of fucking losers that want to be in politics. It's like every S, every like student government president, Tattletale Lanyard-wearing motherfucker is a DC fan.

Speaker 11 That town sucks, dick. You know, that's where they did pizza, you know, it's like where billionaires molest children with the president.
And it's like, I got to watch that team fucking win.

Speaker 11 I got to watch that team fucking win.

Speaker 11 You know, and Philly, at least, is like, they are our white trash cousin. There's so much similarity to Philadelphia and Baltimore that it's like, I don't know.

Speaker 11 There's a little part of me is like, it would have hurt me to have to face Philly in the fucking, it's like a battle of, it's like the Civil War. It would have been a battle of brothers.

Speaker 1 It's a Hatfield and McCoy's. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Anyway, who knows, man? I just, I can't have the fucking Chiefs win, and they will. They fucking will, man, because that's how the world works.
Because we're in a time where evil prevails.

Speaker 11 Everything is going bad. Fucking Mark Zuckerberg's on TRT stealing all our fucking information as we fucking speak.
They're rolling back civil rights shit.

Speaker 11 The fucking Chiefs are going to win again. We're fucked, dude.
Nothing good is ever going to come.

Speaker 11 We got to hope for like President Travis fucking

Speaker 11 whatever the fuck the Kelsey Kelsey Travis Kelsey Jr.

Speaker 11 The only way we'll fucking have a yeah, he'll be president him and Taylor Swift's son will be elected God

Speaker 11 Emperor of America in fucking 35 years, dude.

Speaker 7 Yeah, well, Savi, I mean, I want to tell you that he gets better.

Speaker 7 At least you have your health.

Speaker 1 Look what a better

Speaker 1 right now. They're still good.

Speaker 11 We're still good,

Speaker 11 but this is tough. Two coming off these two back-to-back.
I know. That's the tough thing.
It's like we are good. And that's what, that's what we are still good.
You know what this is like?

Speaker 11 It's like you have the best girlfriend of all time. Everything's great.
And she just gets drunk, sucks one guy off.

Speaker 1 And I can get past it. I can get past it because everything else is perfect.

Speaker 11 And it was maybe a one-time thing. But

Speaker 11 when it's dark and I'm in my room alone, I'm imagining her sucking that guy's dick.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean?

Speaker 11 And that's what this was. The fumble is sucking a guy's dick.
The drop is sucking a guy's dick. Not running for it on fucking second and goal is sucking a guy's dick.

Speaker 11 And I have to think about that, even though I love my wife, the Ravens. She sucked the guy's cock in Cabo, and I have to fucking live with that.
And you know what?

Speaker 11 She actually did it two years in a row.

Speaker 11 And then she's on thin ice now, now that I think about it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And next year, you're going to be going back to Cabo, and you're like, God damn it.
Oh, we win. We have to win.
Yeah. Can't let her out of my sights.

Speaker 1 Next year, like, I guess we're just swooping it up, bitch. We're just swingers now.

Speaker 11 He's got a gun.

Speaker 11 Next year, it's going to go bad.

Speaker 1 I was actually saying on the yak earlier, you know how they're flagging gun celebrations?

Speaker 1 You know how they flag.

Speaker 1 Got to do it.

Speaker 1 You know how they...

Speaker 1 They flag gun celebrations now in college and the NFL?

Speaker 1 Would they have flagged Mark Andrews after he dropped the ball if he took out a fake gun and shot himself?

Speaker 1 That would have been awesome.

Speaker 1 If he just unloaded the clip in his own head, like, could you flag that? Or you're just like, all right, fair play, man. It's not taunting.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Unless you're including the trauma that the defense would go through watching you shoot yourself.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I want to see someone do it.
I want to see someone do it. That would be good.

Speaker 11 Like a kicker misses a big kick. He's just like, oh,

Speaker 1 shotgun in the mouth.

Speaker 1 His holder takes out the shotgun and hands it to him.

Speaker 11 He just commits set puku.

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 1 That would be awesome. All right.
Well, Stavi, I got one last question for you. Thank you, though, for coming on.
You are a hero. I did wait 24 hours.

Speaker 1 You did, I did. I did.
I appreciate it. I did turn to PFT in the gambling cave as the game was ending, and I was like, I think I'm going to text Stavi.
And I was like, but I'm going to wait 24 hours.

Speaker 1 So I did wait 24 hours.

Speaker 11 I appreciate that. And you know what? You waited 24 hours, but it's like in my mind, you text me the moment the game ended.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
But this day has been so painful.

Speaker 1 But all right, so robot question, R-H-O-P-A-C.com promo code, take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, jockers, shorts.
I'm still laughing about you taking out a gun there.

Speaker 1 All right, let's talk positive. What do you got going on? You're coming to Chicago in April.
So we'll see. I'm coming to Chicago.

Speaker 11 I want you guys to be there.

Speaker 11 Yeah, Chicago Theater. Please come out.
Yeah, I have a huge tour coming out, the Dream Boat tour. It's like over 40 cities.
We're doing a tour bus. It's going to be a big-time tour.

Speaker 11 I'm very excited about that.

Speaker 11 please buy tickets to see me i won't kill myself if some of those if those shows sell out um and yeah that's i mean it's the tour the movie let's start a cult is available on demand and we're working to get it on hulu pretty soon um and yes stavi's world it's really i really want people to see the like to come see me live you know it'll it it's a good show it's a really it's a fun show i promise um and yeah watch the movie we have we have the the

Speaker 11 podcast.

Speaker 11 That's pretty much it, man. I'm gearing up for basically three months of being on the road.

Speaker 11 It's going to be really fucking funny.

Speaker 1 The tour. So

Speaker 1 April 18th, he's going to be in Madison, and then he's coming down to Chicago, April 19th, two shows at Chicago Theater.

Speaker 1 I might just invite myself to go up to Madison, see you there, and then hop on the bus with you. Dude, that'd be fun.

Speaker 11 You're welcome.

Speaker 1 You're welcome to do that. Absolutely.
We would love to have you.

Speaker 7 We'll definitely. Yeah, we'll be out in Chicago, buy tickets, see the movie.

Speaker 11 if you want to see stavi's balls see this movie you do there's there is plenty of nudity mean my nudity on that motherfucker for sure yeah um yeah so yeah that's it so go to stavi.biz for the rest of the dates that's chicago and madison but i start february 21st in in like sacramento and then we we end february or we end may 11th in or May 12th in DC.

Speaker 11 So it's literally like we're doing the west coast, the south, the midwest, and then we're going to come back and hit more of the East Coast in the fall. But yeah, stavi.biz, that's pretty much it.

Speaker 11 Yeah, thanks, guys.

Speaker 11 I actually do feel better.

Speaker 1 Good.

Speaker 11 Having spoken to you, getting it out for real. At least it wasn't festering for two weeks.

Speaker 11 Last year, I really was depressed for two straight weeks.

Speaker 1 That was bad because it was Vegas and everything.

Speaker 1 And just to put a bow on it, Stavi did, when he came here last time, he was like, I'm going to be back in a week, so I'll come on Peter McClure. I know, I know.
I'm fucking with you. you.

Speaker 1 I was like, I remember, I was like, fuck, did we?

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 11 By the way, those guys are funny.

Speaker 11 No shots at them. It was just,

Speaker 11 you know, of course, I get the quick, we can move some shit around when the Ravens lose.

Speaker 1 That's all I'm saying. I did say

Speaker 11 shit when the Ravens lose.

Speaker 1 My text to him was literally like, hey, can you come on tomorrow? We can do anytime.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 11 I last minute even said I moved it two hours just to see how open you really were. And you're like, no problem, man.

Speaker 1 We'll figure it out. You got it, dude.
We also stay here till midnight.

Speaker 7 We could have talked about anything on this podcast. We weren't necessarily just going to talk about the Ravens.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you started talking about the Ravens. We didn't even want to bring you up.

Speaker 1 It had just been too long.

Speaker 1 Fuck you guys.

Speaker 1 All right, we love you, man. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1 Love it. All right.
Pardon your take time.

Speaker 1 Hank. Yeah.

Speaker 3 If everyone's memories were erased and all sports were introduced to the world in the Olympics, what do you think would be the new most popular sport in the world?

Speaker 1 Football. Oh, good question.

Speaker 1 I want to say football.

Speaker 7 But it's going to be flag football, right?

Speaker 13 Maybe flag football.

Speaker 7 But that guy's better than Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 7 That 5-7 quarterback we have.

Speaker 1 Like, monster trucks would be pretty sick. I feel like basketball.
Why?

Speaker 3 Just athletic.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But football rocks.

Speaker 7 It's hard to.

Speaker 3 Football does not rock in the Olympics. Honestly, the question is:

Speaker 3 your memory's going to erase in your first exposure to sports is the Olympics.

Speaker 1 The Olympics.

Speaker 7 I think the answer for somebody that's never seen sports before would be boxing. Boxing would be like, holy shit, these guys are just beating the fuck out of each other.

Speaker 1 Yeah, boxing would be pretty sick.

Speaker 3 Boxing, basketball,

Speaker 3 100-meter dash. I don't know.

Speaker 1 The Olympics are kind of boring if you thought that was the only sports you had. Waterpole?

Speaker 1 Speedwalking? They got rid of it that that's electric break dancing yeah if we did

Speaker 1 break dancing but if we did it right now speedwalking is the funniest by far rugby rugby be up there rugby

Speaker 1 would be i mean yeah you're saying football would be yeah because it's not flag rugby it's it's full-on rugby yeah hockey if we did winter olympics hockey would be enormous because i think it would still it would be less about the individual sports would be team sports people would still want to get behind that i think if they use real swords fencing yep

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 1 Or if they used guns for like duels and stuff, I know they shoot targets. That would be pretty cool.
Yeah. Oh,

Speaker 1 ski jumping. That shit's wild.
When I watch that, it blows my mind every time. I feel like people would be pretty into ski jumping.

Speaker 7 Just being like, how far?

Speaker 1 Because the premise of ski jumping is

Speaker 1 cool in its own right. Like it's

Speaker 1 almost like an activity you would do when you were seven years old in terms of like how high can I go off this jump with my bike except for skis so i i feel like ski jumping would have a good run it's also just an insane sport because you you should die yeah if you jump that far skis off a mountain correct

Speaker 3 not so much as a take but more of a question i didn't write this by the way where the fuck do philly fans get off acting like they're in the sports mecha of the world Max is able to talk trash with all confidence.

Speaker 3 A baseball team that has been around 100 years with two World Series wins, the last one 16 years ago.

Speaker 3 A basketball team who hasn't won since the 80s, and a football team that's won once since the merger. He wants to talk about winners.
Philly is the best team at being second.

Speaker 3 They're the most prideful, obnoxious fans who literally have dick to show for it. So seriously, where does he get off?

Speaker 2 When have I ever said that I'm a winner?

Speaker 3 Didn't you call Philly the city of Champions?

Speaker 1 City of Champions.

Speaker 1 That was, what, five years ago? No. I said loading.
Loading.

Speaker 1 Did you just write this?

Speaker 1 I am a loser.

Speaker 2 How many times do I have to come on this fucking show and tell every person who's listening that I'm a fucking loser?

Speaker 2 Hank, just two weeks ago, you were just yelling at me because I was talking like a loser.

Speaker 2 You said the question like you wrote the question.

Speaker 1 I know he specifically said I did not write this question.

Speaker 7 That's a fact. He did say that.
But he didn't mean it.

Speaker 3 Not that, Max. This week we're winners.
This week we're going to fucking run the ball of PFT's dick hole.

Speaker 1 Let's have.

Speaker 1 Have a good week, Max. I mean, Nova last night.

Speaker 1 Shut up.

Speaker 7 Yeah, what happened? You guys beat DC, right?

Speaker 1 They lost to Georgetown. Oh, no.
His nine-point favorite.

Speaker 7 They're in Washington.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Didn't score for the last five minutes of the game.

Speaker 7 So, I mean, I do respect Philly sports fans because they care this much. Correct.
That's what I

Speaker 7 hate them when I play them. I do not want to go into the link as an opposing fan.
That's what sports should be.

Speaker 7 They do a good job.

Speaker 3 The clip of the link, the guys in the top row of the link celebrating after the Saquon run with the snow coming down is like that is pure sports ecstasy.

Speaker 3 Like that clip alone is why they should never take away, you know, weather games and put everything in domes. Like, that clip

Speaker 3 was just everything.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't think Max says that he's a winner. He's just passionate.
Philly is like,

Speaker 1 but it's also a unique sports city in the fact that

Speaker 1 they are so passionate

Speaker 1 about their teams and like to a level of scumbaggery. I respect it.
I like it.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, you need that. You think about Philly Sports, you've got great fans like Bill Cosby, you've got Eat That Pussy, you've got

Speaker 7 Sandusky. Joe Pa was almost the coach there.
Just like the list goes on.

Speaker 7 Don Vito from Viva LeBam.

Speaker 7 They've got great fans.

Speaker 1 Whatever. What?

Speaker 2 No one even cares about fucking Washington sports.

Speaker 1 I do. Kevin Durant.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wale.

Speaker 7 Magic Johnson. What has he ever done?

Speaker 2 He got AIDS.

Speaker 3 This is an all caps. Head coaching interview should not happen until after the Super Bowl Reason Exhibit A, the motherfucking Detroit Lions.

Speaker 3 Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn both were interviewing the week leading up to the divisional game and it cost them.

Speaker 1 I don't.

Speaker 1 They changed the rule already. It used to be that like this would happen and you could do in-person interviews.
They both did like three-hour zooms.

Speaker 1 I don't think that's the reason why the Lions lost that game. And they have changed it so that January 20th is the first time the coaches can do in-person interviews.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 I think it's okay.

Speaker 1 It sucks.

Speaker 7 There's no way to solve the problem. If you have a good job.

Speaker 1 Well, it kind of already did a little bit.

Speaker 7 But I think it's still an issue. Like, obviously, Ben Johnson was getting his staff together during the week.

Speaker 1 But you think a three-hour Zoom? I mean,

Speaker 1 but getting the staff together. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I get that. I get that.

Speaker 3 That was...

Speaker 3 And it's just copium from losing, but

Speaker 3 I could see Lions fans being... frustrated.

Speaker 1 But I don't think they lost that game because of coaching. No, but I saw that game against five turnovers if their commanders were better.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, you could say that at least one of those turnovers was the Ben Johnson play where he had

Speaker 1 Jameson Williams throwing the ball white shots. Yeah, exactly.
So I understand the. He probably called the play because he forgot that he was calling a game because he was already thinking about his

Speaker 7 new job. I don't think that it's like a massive, massive thing.
There's no way to really fully stop it either because it's going to happen. And this is what you have when you have a good team.

Speaker 7 You're going to lose your coordinators. It sucks.

Speaker 1 So the problem with that is, and here's the only reason why I'd push back, is you are, it's in your mind, you're saying you're protecting the teams obviously going deep.

Speaker 1 And it's like a playoff team, or sorry, a team that misses the playoffs shouldn't get a benefit of being able to hire a coach like quickly in January. But the real loser in all of that is the coach.

Speaker 1 Like if you don't let the coaches of the Super Bowl team even do a Zoom interview, they're never going to get hired because the teams will want to move faster than that.

Speaker 1 So that coach is getting screwed for their own success.

Speaker 7 Maybe you make a rule, you you can't hire a coach until a week after the Super Bowl. But, like, any coach? Any coach.
Okay. I don't know, but I don't think there's a great answer to it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But the coach would lose out. Like, the coach getting the opportunities would lose out

Speaker 1 because they were good at their job. So that's where it would kind of suck.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 1 They already did change it again. They made it better.
Like, the fact that you have to do Zoom to start is pretty good.

Speaker 3 All right, last one. Notre Dame losses are worse than any other team's losses because I can literally blame God for ignoring my prayers.

Speaker 3 What's the point of having a dead cousin if you can't come through for a natty? BYU doesn't count because Mormonism isn't real and God hates Boston College.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 Maybe that's why they don't lose anybody to the transfer portal because you can tell your players, like, hey, if you transfer, you're going to hell.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Texas Christian University, do they have

Speaker 1 this?

Speaker 1 I mean, it's in the name. I don't know.
I don't know the. They did

Speaker 7 pretty good in the national championship, didn't they?

Speaker 1 SMU made it to the playoff. Yeah.
Are the God teams having a moment?

Speaker 7 No, not really, because you lost. Yeah, I...
You lost the Crusade.

Speaker 1 I thought he was going to say because everyone likes to make fun of Notre Dame. But

Speaker 1 I think that would be the more shitty part.

Speaker 7 You can always say that, like, this is God testing you. Yeah.
Or like Bill Belichick said, do your job.

Speaker 1 It would be so funny if

Speaker 1 God were real and ever revealed himself and was like, I've been rooting for this the whole time. Or like, I don't even watch sports, you guys.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 This is like, why the fuck were you guys saying that? Do you know how flooded my inbox was with sports, you idiots?

Speaker 7 Yeah, God, I don't know. Would God be a sports fan?

Speaker 1 I think he's got a lot of, if God exists, I think he's got a lot of other issues working on.

Speaker 7 If I was God, I would fix all the sports.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 1 sorry, Notre Dame fan, but yeah,

Speaker 1 I don't know if it's God that

Speaker 1 had that. I think it was more like not having enough five stars.

Speaker 7 But if you want to go there, that's that's fine. Yeah.
Like, blame who you got to blame. Yeah.

Speaker 1 However, if you cope is completely that's what I was saying earlier. Normalize, like, bad losing.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 Give God some bulletin board material. Yeah.
That's what Martin Luther did when he nailed that shit on the door. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Nailed it right there. All right.

Speaker 1 Good show, boys. Numbers.

Speaker 3 Numbers. Nine.

Speaker 1 Go eight. And God does hate the Jets.
Three,

Speaker 1 eleven,

Speaker 3 five.

Speaker 1 Okay, Shane, Pug,

Speaker 1 Jack, Jack, get Jack.

Speaker 1 Get Jack on.

Speaker 2 45. Jack.

Speaker 1 Jack.

Speaker 1 You said on Sunday, if the Lions lost, it means that Ohio State doesn't win, and we pointed out that those two things have literally nothing to do with each other.

Speaker 1 Ohio State won. Thoughts?

Speaker 1 It was horrible.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Maybe don't make that trade again.
Yeah, I won't. Okay.
All right, Shane.

Speaker 1 21. All right.
memes.

Speaker 11 What was your number again?

Speaker 1 Eight. I have three.

Speaker 1 Seventy.

Speaker 1 Seventy.

Speaker 7 Love you guys.