NFL Week 18, Playoffs Are Set, Lions Get The 1 Seed, Bengals Bounced + Who's Back Of The Week

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Speaker 19 Week 18 in the NFL, and we finally have a playoff bracket to talk about.

Speaker 1 We had a lot of games, a lot of meaningless games.

Speaker 24 We're going to talk about all of them.

Speaker 25 We had coach firings.

Speaker 26 Hank is going to get a new coach.

Speaker 28 We had some coach not firings.

Speaker 29 Coach not firings.

Speaker 30 We had some changes at the top of the

Speaker 32 draft.

Speaker 29 We're going to start with fastest two minutes.

Speaker 33 We'll do who's back of the week as well.

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Speaker 45 Today is Monday, January 6th,

Speaker 10 week 18.

Speaker 10 What?

Speaker 10 What?

Speaker 50 It's the last week of the regular season, teams.

Speaker 52 Let us be the last to wish you a happy 2024 NFL League year.

Speaker 53 We start in Pittsburgh where Mike Tomlin thought he had a job job for life after Pat Fryermuth, Bader Ginsburg, scored a second-half touchdown to bring the Steelers back.

Speaker 53 Jamar Chase Ventura and Alrighty Higgins, Jim carried the offense on a cold night in the Steel City.

Speaker 53 In an episode of Rube Paul's drag race, Queen had a sack, but it wasn't enough as Russ Wilson thought he had unlimited timeouts in the end, only to go out as sad as possible.

Speaker 58 Bengals, 19.

Speaker 59 Steelers, 17. What? Whoop! Whoop!

Speaker 52 We go down to Tampa, where Mike Evans Gate escaped blanket coverage and caught a comet from Baker to hit his 11th straight season with 1,000 yards. Take

Speaker 52 a big bite out of Jerry Ryson's legacy.

Speaker 52 Clyde, the fresh prince of L Air, slapped the rock a few times with 32 yards on eight carries, while Princess Diana Spencer Rattler failed many drives with tunnel vision as he was chased around all day by his coach Darren Paparinsi as the Saints fall in their finale.

Speaker 52 The Bucs 27. The Saints don't go marching.

Speaker 10 19. Up to the frozen tundra.

Speaker 39 It was a tough day for guys who are known for Jordan love.

Speaker 61 As Matt LaFleur had to put in his backup, Malik Willis and Skip Bayless was named in a lawsuit.

Speaker 38 1.5 mil T.

Speaker 51 Huh?

Speaker 52 I can't believe

Speaker 52 you get turned down for 1.5 mil.

Speaker 52 How gross is your dick?

Speaker 61 Speaking of the backup, Malik Phyllis had a fat, ugly day at the office. Keenan Alan Wrench said, watch this six-point play.
Psych as he threw a horrendous interception.

Speaker 53 But the Bears fought hard as Cairo made everyone's sphincter tighten up as he lined up for the game winning.

Speaker 39 He gyps shot.

Speaker 52 Bears 24. Packers 22.

Speaker 10 Who's your daddy?

Speaker 52 We go down to Dallas where Marcus the Virgin Mary Oda went untouched for a big run to put the commanders in scoring possession, making Dan Quinn look like a wise man for wresting Jesus Christ.

Speaker 52 Trey Lance Bass said, it's going to be my to win this game. But at the end, it was a Cowboys saying bye-bye to Mike McCarthy.

Speaker 52 Zach Burtz earning every dollar this year, scoring his seventh touchdown on the season.

Speaker 10 And the Commanders are ready for the playoffs. The playoffs? Playoffs?

Speaker 52 Commanders, 23. Cowboys, 19.

Speaker 10 We head to Philadelphia where Max was on the scene.

Speaker 65 We head to Philadelphia where Siriani was saying, Tanner, Mikiki, do you love me?

Speaker 66 Are we thriving? Now we told the league you are arriving and they want you, but I need you. You're all QB2, QB2.

Speaker 67 Jahan G. Spotson was absolutely fucking the Giants D all game as he went on to have his best game of the season.

Speaker 67 One of the lone bright spots for the Giants had to have been Tyrone Tracy Chapman, who was saying saying that I could be a fast star, but I need a ticket to get me out of here.

Speaker 66 Poor guy.

Speaker 68 Eagles 20, Giants 13.

Speaker 57 Dice Rax.

Speaker 61 We head to Foxborough where Hank is with us.

Speaker 51 We head to Foxborough where Hank is with us.

Speaker 69 Mitchell Trubisky

Speaker 69 was looking sexy in the red zone after a touchdown pass to Keon Amako Man.

Speaker 69 Bazooka Joe Chi Min was the bringer of light, rushing rushing for a score and throwing another to Keyshawn Derulo

Speaker 71 Boute

Speaker 71 in the third or in the third quarter.

Speaker 69 James Toomini Cook scored a TD and Tyler

Speaker 71 Bassman

Speaker 10 Bassman

Speaker 10 intentionally missed a bunch of the balloons

Speaker 69 three Joey slide for a white guy. Field goals gave the path to lead in the first quarter in the fourth overall pick.
Bats win 23-16.

Speaker 71 I got a cold boom.

Speaker 10 You got a cold teach.

Speaker 68 All right. We go to

Speaker 72 Meadowlands where Mead's huge win.

Speaker 52 Jeff Obrook's the guy.

Speaker 10 Huge win.

Speaker 74 In MetLife, Rodgers was feeling horny as he hooked up with Tyler Boglin for his

Speaker 76 500th touchdown pass of his career.

Speaker 75 Ash Ketchamal Davis had two picks to help set up Alan Lecharizard as he burned the Dolphins defense with a fiery 13-yard touchdown catch. Tyreek Hank Hill said, damn it, Bobby, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 10 I'm out of here.

Speaker 75 As he had two two receptions for 20 yards.

Speaker 75 Devontae Adam Sandler collected with Aaron Rodgers for one last touchdown, but fast-forwarded a little too much as time ran out on the Jets disaster of a season. Jets 32, Miami 20.

Speaker 61 Thanks, memes. In Atlanta, where cornerback Michael Jackson took a look at the young Peenix matchup and said, I got to get a pick.
Panthers 44, Falcons 38.

Speaker 10 Some sprung.

Speaker 52 In Mile High, where Car son of Sam Wentz looked like he was getting getting play calls from his dog as Bow Thugs and Harmony Knicks pulled out his Dougis Ruggish bone in the Chiefs' face as the Bengals pray and they pray and they pray and they pray every day, every day, every day.

Speaker 52 But we'll see them at the crossroads after being bounced from the playoffs.

Speaker 52 Marvin Jesse Mims saved Broncos from a die job as he played great, playing the end zone twice on the way to a dominating win.

Speaker 10 The Bruoccos 38. The Chiefs, zero points.
Gooseg, zero points.

Speaker 80 Standing on the corner, Jameis Winston, Cuyahoga. Such a fine sight to see.

Speaker 51 It's DTR up against Lamar.

Speaker 77 No more Browns football mercilessly.

Speaker 10 That's a rappy. It's Bailey output.

Speaker 51 This Cleveland team has been

Speaker 10 really crappy.

Speaker 82 The Ravens win the AFC North 35-10.

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Speaker 33 Okay, week 18 in the books, boys, and we're going to do a little different this week.

Speaker 55 We're going to break it up in conferences to break down the playoff picture and the games we watched on Sunday.

Speaker 89 We're going to start with the AFC.

Speaker 90 We are set with our AFC playoff schedule.

Speaker 79 By the way, if at any point during this show, because we're taping it in part so we can watch the entirety of Sunday Night Football, if they release a schedule, please do breaking news because I know that

Speaker 18 I would say the majority of America, the minute the playoffs are set, spends the next hour just googling and typing into what's the app called?

Speaker 28 X.com, the everything app.

Speaker 34 It's all happening on X.

Speaker 57 They just type in

Speaker 16 playoff schedule over and over and over again until someone.

Speaker 84 And wasn't there a guy we found last year that

Speaker 44 his hobby is to predict it?

Speaker 28 He predicts every schedule, yeah. Well, on X, you are the media, and our darling Jake Marsh has released his prediction.
So we can just say Jake's predictions right now.

Speaker 98 We can.

Speaker 45 And then

Speaker 45 we could judge them after.

Speaker 28 Let's judge them afterwards. Okay.

Speaker 51 All right.

Speaker 73 So this is before Sunday night football.

Speaker 28 Yes, we don't know. We don't know yet.
He's got 4.30 on prime on Saturday. The prime game.
The Chargers at the Texans.

Speaker 85 That is like...

Speaker 99 That's basically like getting space.

Speaker 45 Yeah, you get a freebie.

Speaker 28 But he took a shot on this by saying that that's going to be on Prime. Okay.

Speaker 12 But yeah. No, I think that stuff's...

Speaker 40 I think it might be sick.

Speaker 44 I think that's the shit that Jake knows that we don't know.

Speaker 28 We don't know. Yeah, yeah.
You think for sure.

Speaker 12 He would not take a gamble on a network on this.

Speaker 28 Is it going to be Al Michaels?

Speaker 23 So we're subjecting Al Michaels to the Houston Texans game probably I took a I took a guess this morning when I was doing my fantasy corner and all the replies were like dude technically this game has to be this because the broadcast is like all right I'm out I'm out

Speaker 28 I want to just say like I want to be able to predict the times and then the matchups yeah no Jake definitely looked all this is definitely he did his homework yeah no he does his homework yeah travel schedules Jake is reminding the teacher to assign homework to everybody else well let me throw out a question here.

Speaker 60 Did Jake do all the travel schedules?

Speaker 93 Because is Kirk Herb Street calling?

Speaker 31 Oh, I guess that's in Texas. Fucking, he did it again.

Speaker 1 He's calling Friday night, Ohio State, Texas.

Speaker 45 You think in Dallas, he's just going to go right over to Houston for Saturday.

Speaker 28 You think Jake doesn't know Kirk Herb Street's travel schedule?

Speaker 28 He's probably got dog-friendly flights that can take him from city to city. Yeah.

Speaker 104 Okay. 8 p.m.

Speaker 28 Saturday. Commanders at Bucks.
Okay.

Speaker 58 Do you want that?

Speaker 12 I don't think that's.

Speaker 105 I think he's wrong as well there.

Speaker 28 I don't care. Anyone, anytime, anywhere.
All right, I love that for you.

Speaker 77 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Sunday, 1 p.m., Broncos at the Bills.

Speaker 42 I think that's the second layup on the schedule.

Speaker 18 I think those, the first game and that game are almost guaranteed.

Speaker 28 Yes, I mean, especially the Texans.

Speaker 28 If you're a Houston Texans fan, for the last like 10 years, you can just pencil in what you're going to be doing at 3:30 in the afternoon on that Saturday in January.

Speaker 109 I might, by the way, I think I saw the line open at 7.5.

Speaker 86 If it's seven or even six and a half, I might game of the year the Bills.

Speaker 60 I think the Bills are going to fucking demolish the Broncos.

Speaker 91 You don't think so, Hank?

Speaker 76 Hungry Dog?

Speaker 113 I think the Bills are going to fucking demolish the Bills.

Speaker 21 The Broncos have been showing some fight.

Speaker 42 All right, we'll talk about it.

Speaker 73 They're actually the first game we're going to talk to.

Speaker 28 4.30, the afternoon game. Packers at the Eagles.

Speaker 101 Packers at the Eagles, the Packs.

Speaker 10 Okay.

Speaker 28 8 p.m., Steelers-Ravens. Yep.

Speaker 114 That would be awesome. That sounds about right.

Speaker 115 That would be awesome.

Speaker 28 Hopefully, the Ravens just wear their clean black uniforms for that game. Yep.
That's what America wants. Yep.

Speaker 28 And then we've got Monday, the loser of the Vikings-Lions game at the Rams Monday Night Football.

Speaker 116 Okay.

Speaker 73 So, I mean, those are his predictions.

Speaker 23 We'll get the final by the end of the show. But let's get into it.
So we're going to start with the AFC, the entire AFC picture and all the games from the AFC today.

Speaker 84 We have to set the stage, Chiefs the one-seed, Bills the two seed, Ravens the three seed, Texans four, Chargers five, Ravens six, or sorry, Steelers six, Broncos seven.

Speaker 40 And we'll start with the game that kind of

Speaker 45 took all the intrigue out of Sunday.

Speaker 119 Broncos 38, Chiefs 0.

Speaker 23 I went into this game being like, hey, maybe Carson Wentz will show us something and keep this.

Speaker 1 I didn't think, I never thought the Chiefs were going to win.

Speaker 3 I thought the Chiefs might cover 11.5.

Speaker 26 That was stupid of me.

Speaker 28 He's bad. Carson Carson Wentz made me believe that this might be Patrick Mahomes' best season ever.
Yeah.

Speaker 28 That's how bad the Chiefs look today. Yes.
Carson Wentz took the job a little too seriously.

Speaker 28 You could see when he was rolling up to the game and he was dressed like he was the magician opening an act for Mumford and son. Yeah.

Speaker 28 That this was going to be an all-time shitty game from Carson Wentz.

Speaker 38 What was he wearing?

Speaker 28 He had the suspenders. He had the like weird, like 1920s style cap on.
He had

Speaker 28 the best way to put it, when I saw him, I thought to myself, this looks like your most arrested friend, what he would wear to his wedding to make people think that he had class for four hours.

Speaker 28 Right, right.

Speaker 31 Like, I really class this up.

Speaker 28 Like, check this out. I've got leather suspenders on.

Speaker 58 Oh, yeah. I'm looking at him right now.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 111 He, yeah, and he rented a Land Rover to drive around for four hours to be like, damn, I really did.

Speaker 98 English.

Speaker 84 He basically is like, I'm going to look like an English countryside man.

Speaker 28 Carson Wentz ruined America's Sunday again.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 1 He was trying a little too hard.

Speaker 107 Oh, this is the Max

Speaker 59 memes is so good.

Speaker 7 How many pictures do you think?

Speaker 122 Actually, it was FSU Brando that did it.

Speaker 44 Uh, shout out FSU Brando.

Speaker 73 But yeah, Carson Wentz, um,

Speaker 6 he, who's the uh, Sherlock Holmes.

Speaker 87 He was basically like, if I could be the backup for Sherlock Holmes, the musical.

Speaker 28 Yeah, the understudy.

Speaker 60 Yeah, the understudy.

Speaker 85 I'll do that, and I'll show up like that.

Speaker 84 Uh, not exactly exuding confidence.

Speaker 58 Carson Wentz made this game just, it was never, I mean, it was more Bo Nick's was phenomenal and and the Broncos came out and they didn't fuck around.

Speaker 85 And I think that they should wear those uniforms all the time

Speaker 107 because those are the not fuck around uniforms. But yeah, Carson Wentz.

Speaker 28 It was Carson to Carson, Carson Wentz to Carson Steele.

Speaker 7 Yeah, and Carson, Carson to Carson, their stat line.

Speaker 126 Carson Wentz was 10 for 17 for 98 yards.

Speaker 31 Carson Steele was eight rushes for 25 yards.

Speaker 28 Okay, your Carson power rankings. I got Carson Steele one,

Speaker 28 Johnny Carson two,

Speaker 28 and and then Carson Wentz three for how they performed.

Speaker 51 Okay, so I've got. Carson Daley.

Speaker 81 Yeah, I was going to say Carson Daly.

Speaker 128 I have Carson Daly one.

Speaker 45 Carson Steele, two.

Speaker 84 Carson Wentz.

Speaker 120 No, Johnny Carson, three.

Speaker 28 Johnny Carson had a better day. Carson Palmer.

Speaker 10 Carson Palmer, four. Carson City.

Speaker 46 Carson City,

Speaker 57 five.

Speaker 90 Hmm, what other Carsons we got?

Speaker 114 Ben Carson.

Speaker 126 Ben Carson, six.

Speaker 28 Tomorrow, Monday, oh, January 6th, that's a top day for Ben Carson.

Speaker 129 Yeah, Yeah, Carson Beck.

Speaker 45 Yeah. Seven.

Speaker 32 He just declared for the draft.

Speaker 98 Yep.

Speaker 85 That doesn't mean he's going to get drafted, but he declared for the draft.

Speaker 28 Yeah, this was a big weekend for Carson.

Speaker 77 Except for Wentz.

Speaker 131 I'm at seven.

Speaker 107 I'm trying to think.

Speaker 120 Are there any others?

Speaker 18 I guess I'll just then go seven Carson Wentz.

Speaker 9 Carson Kelly hit 240 this year with nine home runs.

Speaker 45 Okay. Okay.
That's pretty good. Yep.

Speaker 9 That's pretty good.

Speaker 21 Okay. So

Speaker 132 put him seven, and then eight would be Carson Beck.

Speaker 1 There's You know what?

Speaker 10 Put eight Carson

Speaker 33 just parentheses, TikToker.

Speaker 129 You know, there is one.

Speaker 77 Yeah, probably.

Speaker 93 I don't fucking know whoever could be last name or whatever.

Speaker 120 I don't fucking know, but there's definitely a famous TikToker named Carson.

Speaker 28 Carson Wentz needs to be, he's relegated to the Carson Championship Division. Yeah, so

Speaker 73 Carson Wentz will be number nine Carson for me.

Speaker 22 Yep.

Speaker 90 That feels right. Dash.

Speaker 1 As for the Broncos, congratulations to the Broncos for making the playoffs.

Speaker 73 It's actually an awesome story.

Speaker 60 So

Speaker 1 this is the first time they've been in the playoffs in eight years.

Speaker 73 They were, this is a franchise that, what, 18 months ago,

Speaker 134 you know, two years, less than two years ago, was like, where are we going?

Speaker 85 Because it was Russell Wilson on a terrible contract, Nathaniel Hackett for 13 games or whatever it was getting fired.

Speaker 74 They had no way out.

Speaker 40 And then they get Sean Payton, and it wasn't great last year, but. Sean Payton, I owe you an apology.

Speaker 56 You're a hell of a coach.

Speaker 74 Bo Nix, I owe you an apology.

Speaker 4 You had a phenomenal rookie season, and the Denver Broncos are back in the playoffs.

Speaker 29 And if you're a Broncos fan, this has to feel awesome because

Speaker 84 there are certain teams in these playoffs, and we'll get to it and we'll talk about it all week.

Speaker 129 Like, Lamar Jackson and the Ravens have the most pressure of any team ever.

Speaker 84 Bills and Josh Allen as well.

Speaker 138 The Broncos are on gravy train.

Speaker 84 And I know that doesn't mean that they're not going to try to win

Speaker 30 playoff games and get to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 But if you're a Broncos fan, getting to the playoffs in the first year of Bo Knicks and having your franchise turn around, get out from under Russell Wilson, turn around this fast, have the future look this bright, have your defense be phenomenal, like whatever happens in the playoffs, next year in the offseason is going to be a great time just getting pumped for Broncos football.

Speaker 28 Yeah, this season is a clear win for the Denver Broncos. Clear win.

Speaker 140 Clear win. You've already won.

Speaker 28 Congratulations. Yeah, but it's going to be tough going to Buffalo.
I don't envy them for that, but it doesn't matter. Like, you are playing with zero pressure in this game.
Yeah.

Speaker 28 So, yeah, they shut out the Chiefs.

Speaker 84 Shut them out.

Speaker 28 Kit Carson Wentz off TV forever.

Speaker 83 Didn't even make it.

Speaker 8 Like, we went into today and we knew all the playoff iterations.

Speaker 30 And obviously, we'll get to the Bengals Saturday night game.

Speaker 23 Like, they were still alive, and the Jets and Dolphins had implications.

Speaker 30 I just wanted this game to be

Speaker 24 like a little bit of drama, but the Broncos were just too good.

Speaker 64 And it's all credit to the Broncos because

Speaker 96 there is a world where the pressure of that game, a win and get in for the Broncos, they have weird shit happen.

Speaker 57 And you just knew it was their day on, I think it was the second or third touchdown pass by Bo Knicks where it hit six different hands from the Chiefs.

Speaker 97 They got the Chiefs magic.

Speaker 51 Yeah, they got the Chiefs magic.

Speaker 28 That's some shit that would happen to the Kansas City Chiefs if Patrick Mahomes threw that pass.

Speaker 80 But this also is set up.

Speaker 22 The Chiefs,

Speaker 85 you know, they're set up for the playoffs.

Speaker 30 I know they're going to have, whatever, 25 days off or whatever it might be if they play on a Saturday or Sunday, 24 days off.

Speaker 96 They'll win their first game

Speaker 141 in the divisional round.

Speaker 93 Do you guys all agree?

Speaker 96 It will be either the Texans, Chargers, Ravens, Broncos.

Speaker 8 If I had to say the only team that I would say

Speaker 5 the Chargers, just because it's division and third time, because the Broncos

Speaker 28 beat a team three times.

Speaker 7 Well, the Ravens, they wouldn't play the Ravens until the AFC championship.

Speaker 45 The Broncos, obviously, in division, third time, but this game wasn't.

Speaker 85 The Chiefs didn't have their starters play.

Speaker 28 The game was over before they even touched down in Denver, right? Because Kansas City was delayed so much. Yeah.
They didn't take off till like, what, 7 p.m. last night to get there?

Speaker 30 Well, the game was over when Carson Wentz, his wife put out the, you know,

Speaker 87 whatever the fuck that was.

Speaker 28 The game was over when he set foot inside Ben's warehouse. Yeah.

Speaker 45 Yeah, and he was like, you know what?

Speaker 85 Give me all the accoutrements.

Speaker 14 I want a vest.

Speaker 51 I want a hat.

Speaker 37 Chargers could, oh, oh, you're going to do that now.

Speaker 143 Harbaugh. Hank.

Speaker 20 Okay, Hank.

Speaker 49 Hank, get it.

Speaker 90 Trolling.

Speaker 28 Tough to beat a team three times.

Speaker 77 Trolling, trolling, trolling. No,

Speaker 12 I said when they won that Thursday night game, and I said they look good.

Speaker 101 Yeah, they can make a move.

Speaker 40 But yeah, credit to Sean Payton and Broncos fans.

Speaker 74 You should be over the moon because

Speaker 136 the future is just so bright.

Speaker 92 And it just has to feel so good knowing that you turned it all around that quickly.

Speaker 77 And eight years, I've said it a million times before, but like the Broncos were one of those franchises that was the gold standard and just they never really had bad years.

Speaker 30 And I think they're one of the only teams that hasn't picked number one overall.

Speaker 144 They, you know, won Super Bowls with John Elway, won one with Peyton Manning.

Speaker 45 We're always like in the mix.

Speaker 136 So these eight years have been very tough for the Broncos.

Speaker 96 And now it feels like you're starting a new, opening up a new window of, hey, we're going to be back to what we were.

Speaker 8 We're going to be in the playoff picture year in and year out.

Speaker 113 You got new ownership turned everything around.

Speaker 28 Yeah, the Walton money. And the Walmart money.
Yeah.

Speaker 101 That Walmart money.

Speaker 28 Yeah, I am happy for Broncos fans. This has been big for them.
And Bonex, thank God Sean Payton looked inside his backpack.

Speaker 76 Yes.

Speaker 28 And was like, what's in the bag?

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 45 Yeah, no, I mean, Denver is a football town.

Speaker 97 They love their fucking Broncos.

Speaker 145 And if they wear those uniforms every day, like every game,

Speaker 23 every time I see them in the uniforms, like, man, I kind of love the Broncos.

Speaker 28 But those uniforms are so good that all it does is make me mad they don't wear them every week. Exactly.
That's how good they are. And it's just something that's not really

Speaker 10 high.

Speaker 24 Those are playoff uniforms.

Speaker 145 I don't know, though.

Speaker 23 On the road, you don't get to decide.

Speaker 6 The Bills will probably wear

Speaker 101 blue, right?

Speaker 28 I would assume the Bills will wear blue, yeah.

Speaker 21 So they'll have to wear white.

Speaker 101 The Broncos will.

Speaker 109 Yeah. So that sucks.

Speaker 51 Maybe just do the people playing uniforms.

Speaker 74 I mean, the helmets? Just go with the helmets.

Speaker 28 Yeah, you can go, yeah, the blue helmets, all white jerseys. Yeah.

Speaker 18 Okay, next game.

Speaker 45 Bengals 19, Steelers 17.

Speaker 23 So this obviously happened Saturday night.

Speaker 94 The Broncos game made this irrelevant, but for 24 more hours, the Bengals were alive.

Speaker 95 They are not alive anymore.

Speaker 23 They did not make it to the playoffs.

Speaker 71 They ended the season with a win, kind of hot, but that's got to be one of the most frustrating seasons for a fan base

Speaker 93 I can remember in a long time.

Speaker 30 And not like frustrating, you know, the Jets or the Bears or the Giants.

Speaker 44 Like, you had Joe Burrow in an all-time season, Jamar Chase, who got the triple crown, and you just didn't get a shot at the playoffs.

Speaker 30 And it's like a what what-if in your head.

Speaker 149 I don't think they would have done a lot of damage because that defense, even though the defense has been playing better,

Speaker 26 that what if would drive me insane.

Speaker 28 Yeah, we can say right now, Chiefs really dodged a bullet by getting Bengals bounced. Yeah, the Bengals just weren't a very good team.
They just weren't.

Speaker 28 You have to be able to play defense and stop somebody occasionally. How weird does that week one game look now? Yeah.
Week one, Bengals lose to the Patriots.

Speaker 28 That cost the Patriots the number one pick overall in the draft.

Speaker 28 And it also kept the Bengals out of the playoffs.

Speaker 57 Kept the Bengals out of the playoffs.

Speaker 133 And the weird part about the Bengals season on Saturday night against the Steelers, it was their defense that saved them because, you know, that first drive was on easy mode for Joe Burrow.

Speaker 30 And then they didn't score.

Speaker 26 They didn't get a touchdown again.

Speaker 30 And Trey Hendrickson was an absolute monster.

Speaker 22 They came up with stop after stop.

Speaker 23 He had three and a half sacks.

Speaker 22 He gets the season record. So

Speaker 18 he 17.5 sacks on the season, leads the league.

Speaker 5 I still, every time I watch him, especially in the cold without gloves on, I get very intimidated.

Speaker 84 And yeah, I don't know what, like, to have your defense finally play that type of game, it's like, god damn it, everything just, nothing worked at the right time for the Bengals.

Speaker 133 They just ran out of time on everything.

Speaker 28 When was the last time a team finished with the best passer, most yards, the top receiver, and the top sack person and missed the playoffs?

Speaker 141 I mean, I'm just going to assume the Chargers.

Speaker 28 Probably Chargers. 2011?

Speaker 96 Yes, or eight or whatever.

Speaker 28 Yeah, whatever that year was. Yeah.

Speaker 58 But

Speaker 1 it's extra.

Speaker 96 Like, if you're the Bengals, it already was frustrating knowing you needed a lot of help this weekend.

Speaker 96 But then to have a game like Saturday night where your defense finally bowed up and made stop after stop and your defense has looked a little bit better down the stretch.

Speaker 132 Nope.

Speaker 28 Not going to happen. Not going to happen.

Speaker 28 Pickens put up, I think, one catch for zero yards in this game. Was so bad.
Look, checked out.

Speaker 1 Not on the same page.

Speaker 28 Yeah, not on the same page, it turns out. Who gets the blame for that deep pass? I think Russ missed him on that one.
Russ didn't play well either.

Speaker 137 I think Russ missed him.

Speaker 132 It was very funny because I was watching, I went to Derek Rose night, and then I came home and I got the last three minutes of the Bengals Steelers game.

Speaker 30 And I was watching in bed, and my wife was like, Who are you talking about who's not on the same page as Russ?

Speaker 122 And as she said it, it was that pass that would have won them the game.

Speaker 97 And I was like, it was that guy.

Speaker 85 And he laid there and he was so frustrated.

Speaker 31 And he dropped.

Speaker 44 Yeah, he had one catch for zero yards, six targets. Yep.

Speaker 28 I think three drops.

Speaker 1 I don't know what the Steelers, the Steelers just do the same season every year.

Speaker 133 And it's obviously the reason for it is that since Rothlessberger, they've been in just complete quarterback purgatory, or they've been taking shots at guys, you know, year after year.

Speaker 96 But

Speaker 96 they've lost four in a row.

Speaker 8 Three out of four of them were to legit playoff teams, the fourth being the Bengals.

Speaker 58 They look like completely lost on offense.

Speaker 79 They did kind of fix it on defense, finally, but I don't, this is what happens every single year.

Speaker 153 That third and one and fourth and one at the end of the first half when they couldn't get a yard.

Speaker 58 Yep.

Speaker 84 Like, they're just not a threat.

Speaker 28 Yeah, they're not a threat. And

Speaker 28 by always being right around 500, but a little bit better than 500, they do miss on the opportunity to get quarterbacks. So they're probably going to do another bridge quarterback.

Speaker 76 Yeah. Or Rodgers.

Speaker 28 Or, yeah, maybe Rodgers, Kirk Cousins. I don't know.
I don't know who you're going to bring in, but they're not going to be in a position to draft one, at least one that's any good.

Speaker 28 And so it's like you're going to see the exact same Steelers season repeat itself over and over again in the future.

Speaker 116 Yeah,

Speaker 23 I saw a meme.

Speaker 97 It was like two hallways.

Speaker 8 Like Steelers start well, Steelers start poorly, and then both of the hallways led to 10 and 6 bounce in the first round of the playoffs.

Speaker 110 Yeah.

Speaker 97 And that's just what it is every year.

Speaker 28 But the thing is, they could beat the Ravens. The Ravens are obviously a much, much better team right now.
And on paper, it seems like the Ravens should dog welcome.

Speaker 139 But it could because of the Tomlinson.

Speaker 28 It's the Tomlin, Steelers Ravens thing. Yeah, it is.

Speaker 140 And they were, if Russ doesn't fumble in that game a couple weeks ago, like going in, they would be up 14-7.

Speaker 7 They already beat the Ravens once this year.

Speaker 74 I don't think they're going to beat the Ravens because I just don't know where the offense is going to come from.

Speaker 140 But maybe it's one of those weird Lamar throws a couple picks and you get a lucky fumble.

Speaker 28 I saw a highlight reel of Lamar Jackson's interceptions this year. I think he's thrown what?

Speaker 77 Four. Four of them? Four.

Speaker 28 And I think three of the four were like tipped balls that weren't really his fault, like either deflected off his teammate's hand or something like that.

Speaker 28 Lamar's just not turning the ball over this year. But in a weird way, although you'd like to see, if you're the Steelers, you would much rather go play against the Chargers or something like that.

Speaker 28 I guess it wouldn't be the Chargers. Texans.
The Texans. You would much rather play against the Texans.

Speaker 28 But I feel like they have a decent chance against the Ravens.

Speaker 45 If you're a Ravens fan, the Steelers are not the team you wanted to see.

Speaker 127 No, and I'm not saying that the Steelers are anywhere near as good as the Ravens.

Speaker 21 The Ravens are far, far better than the Steelers.

Speaker 44 It's just the familiarity and how these teams always play has to scare you because it's just a

Speaker 26 single elimination, a fluke bounce, and the Steelers are the best of fluke bounce.

Speaker 1 But I just, I feel bad for Steelers fans, not in a way that, like,

Speaker 26 not when Billy said he felt bad for us.

Speaker 99 I feel bad in the fact that

Speaker 120 You can't complain if you're a Steelers fan because you go to the playoffs routinely and Mike Tomlin never goes under 500, but you can complain because it's so frustrating living in this purgatory.

Speaker 30 And I understand, like, as much as I love Mike Tomlin, when Steelers fans are like, I'm sick of this, get me off this ride, I'm starting to realize, like, yeah, they're actually right to be able to complain here.

Speaker 28 You're good at Jason.

Speaker 28 You're good, and you're good enough to know how you lack that one thing that will put you into being a very good team. Yeah, they're good-ish.
You're good-ish, and you're always going to be good-ish.

Speaker 28 You're going to play teams hard, but you're probably not going to do anything in the playoffs.

Speaker 84 You're going to win a couple games you didn't expect to win during the course of the season.

Speaker 30 You're going to lose a couple games you didn't expect to lose, and then you're going to end up with a six or seven seed and then lose in the playoffs.

Speaker 28 There's only one way to break this if you're the Steelers and you're getting your bridge quarterback, and you want a guy that's going to take chances, and if it goes well, it's going to be electric, but completely reset the identity of what your offense has been, and that's Jameis Winston.

Speaker 28 You get Jameis in there, worst-case scenario, you finish with a bad enough record where maybe you could draft a better quarterback.

Speaker 63 I like that. Although

Speaker 28 if things go right, it's completely different. It is like, is the antidote to everything that you've been in the last four seasons?

Speaker 99 I like that a lot.

Speaker 28 Jameis. Jameis in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 86 Jameis in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 141 Get it done.

Speaker 44 Do you think the Bengals re-signed T. Higgins?

Speaker 51 No.

Speaker 85 I was leaning no,

Speaker 30 and it's probably still no.

Speaker 23 But Joe Burrow, as like, that was as direct as you can get.

Speaker 42 Like, you don't let that guy out the door. Yeah.

Speaker 90 And Joe Burrow is your franchise quarterback.

Speaker 51 Maybe.

Speaker 28 I mean, you should. Maybe.
I want to be very clear. I'm not saying that you shouldn't.
Will they? I don't think that they will, especially if

Speaker 28 they do move from Zach Taylor, which is, I guess it's a possibility. I don't think they will.
I mean, how much of that of this season can you put on the head coach, though?

Speaker 28 He would be one of the best coaches to be fired.

Speaker 148 Yeah.

Speaker 23 He definitely gets blamed for this season.

Speaker 28 So it's a pretty big failure. Yeah.
Given the talent that you have and the expectations, he's got to get some of it.

Speaker 21 And listen, we love Joe Burrow, friend of the program, but this does feel

Speaker 136 the famous window speech he gave.

Speaker 30 Remember when he's like, the window's always open when I'm here?

Speaker 22 This feels like a cursed season from that.

Speaker 95 Yeah.

Speaker 112 Where it's like, no, because you can have the windows not always open because it's the NFL and the ball bounces wrong a couple games and you're having a career year and still out of the playoffs.

Speaker 101 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Yeah, it's tough.

Speaker 80 They should this is why this is why we need NFL Bulls.

Speaker 51 He also

Speaker 28 told the burglars that his window is always open.

Speaker 76 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 130 We should have...

Speaker 73 This is why we need NFL Bulls.

Speaker 60 I'd watch the Bengals in the Pop-Tarts bowl.

Speaker 136 Yeah. I mean, just give it to us.

Speaker 28 Okay, so Bengals, who would you have them play in a bowl?

Speaker 82 I would have in a bowl.

Speaker 153 Maybe the Falcons.

Speaker 97 The

Speaker 42 Falcons would be a good one.

Speaker 12 Four-hunters.

Speaker 24 Bengals Cardinals?

Speaker 34 Bengals Seahawks.

Speaker 76 And the Pop-Tarts would be good. That would be a good game.

Speaker 77 Bengals Panthers.

Speaker 28 Bengals Panthers would be fun. Lil Andy Dalton Revenge.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 115 Yeah, I'd watch that bowl game.

Speaker 96 Give us one bowl game.

Speaker 23 Do it, you know, I don't know, Thursday night after the first round so that we can still have Thursday night football and have it be for, I don't know,

Speaker 30 $10 million extra in cap space.

Speaker 97 You don't think the Bengals would do that?

Speaker 28 I don't think they would use that cap space.

Speaker 87 We're still not re-signing the team.

Speaker 51 They have it.

Speaker 28 Can you trade cap space? Because I think the Bengals would do that.

Speaker 58 Okay, next game.

Speaker 45 Chargers 34, Raiders, 20.

Speaker 32 So this is the other consequential game.

Speaker 45 So the Steelers losing and the Chargers winning.

Speaker 30 The Chargers get the five seed.

Speaker 132 They go to Houston on wild card, super wild card weekend.

Speaker 55 This was the Chargers finishing 11-6 on the season.

Speaker 23 Incredible turnaround.

Speaker 55 Quentin Johnson was insane in this game.

Speaker 30 I think he finished with 13 catches, 186 yards, making awesome catches.

Speaker 7 And the Chargers finished the season strong.

Speaker 101 Feel like, Hank, they could beat the Texans.

Speaker 58 They're favored against the Texans.

Speaker 112 Like they will beat the Texans.

Speaker 26 And then they'd have to go to Arrowhead.

Speaker 101 I would ride them.

Speaker 21 What's wrong with you right now?

Speaker 12 I'm sick.

Speaker 76 You are?

Speaker 12 Yeah, can't you hear?

Speaker 23 Yeah, I guess I didn't really notice because you were.

Speaker 89 Is that

Speaker 80 why you've been a little chippy today?

Speaker 130 Because you're on medicine?

Speaker 76 Are you a little loopy?

Speaker 51 A little loopy.

Speaker 72 You have been a little.

Speaker 1 Have you noticed Hank's been a little like.

Speaker 28 Hank was very feisty.

Speaker 88 Yeah.

Speaker 9 He's been sneezing more aggressively than any man has ever sneezed before today.

Speaker 22 Is that true?

Speaker 51 Are you being a bitch if I sneeze?

Speaker 12 No, not sneezing. I'm not bitching.
I just, I like didn't want to be sneezing in front of everyone.

Speaker 102 Is that a handkerchief?

Speaker 28 Three hours. It's a towel.
Yeah. He's got a towel.
She's got a cum towel?

Speaker 14 Oh, that's stooze towel.

Speaker 12 Stooze cum towel.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think the Chargers

Speaker 133 could make some noise.

Speaker 45 I think they're officially in my make some noise category.

Speaker 28 I mean, the way Herbert's playing, yes. Yeah.
He's playing really well. Yeah.
He's running with the ball well.

Speaker 28 I'm not going to put anything past Harbaugh.

Speaker 28 Jim Harbaugh can 100% beat the Texans. Yes.

Speaker 128 What do we think about what the Raiders are going to do?

Speaker 73 Brock Powers, by the way, finished over 1,000 yards.

Speaker 23 Phenomenal season.

Speaker 28 Rookie record for Joe Connell.

Speaker 107 I kind of think

Speaker 45 he might be a bridge quarterback in place.

Speaker 28 He might be good enough for the Raiders to go into next season and be like, you know what?

Speaker 28 Let's just run it back and let's have AOC and Gardner Minshew battle it out this postseason or this offseason. We'll see who's going to be QB1.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 129 Do you think they're going to fire Antonio Pierce?

Speaker 28 I think they might because I think Tom Brady, like your good friend Mike Florio was saying, is

Speaker 28 going to be leaning a lot more heavily into decision-making than his 1% stake ownership would lead you to believe.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 44 Is there a chance Mike Vrable can coach three different teams at the same time?

Speaker 28 Yeah, Mike can do it. Yeah.

Speaker 112 Yeah, he absolutely can do it.

Speaker 49 But

Speaker 130 actually, can you grab Shane?

Speaker 26 Shane is our Chargers fan.

Speaker 22 He said he might go to this game.

Speaker 45 He said he might go to this game if it's the Saturday afternoon game.

Speaker 18 And I was like, dude, it's the Saturday afternoon game.

Speaker 121 Don't worry about it.

Speaker 28 346 yards.

Speaker 14 That's a haul.

Speaker 12 Oh, no, it's in Texas still.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 157 But he's never been to a Chargers game.

Speaker 28 He's never been to Texas.

Speaker 133 Never been to Texas.

Speaker 18 Never been on an airplane.

Speaker 28 He's never seen a football game live. Yeah.

Speaker 45 He's actually never touched a football.

Speaker 12 Houston Airport. God help you.

Speaker 140 God help you.

Speaker 124 All right, Shane. What's up?

Speaker 130 Chargers talk.

Speaker 21 Real quick for the people.

Speaker 44 Shane is a die-hard Chargers fan. He's wearing

Speaker 44 one of his finest Chargers

Speaker 64 Charger stretchers.

Speaker 44 I didn't realize you were sick.

Speaker 26 Changes my whole perspective on today.

Speaker 28 Do you have a fever?

Speaker 26 I thought you were in a good mood today.

Speaker 110 I didn't realize you were just fucking doped up on Nyquil or Dayquil or whatever the fuck you're taking.

Speaker 101 We're all going to get sick.

Speaker 28 Emergency?

Speaker 130 Shane, how are we feeling about the Chargers?

Speaker 159 I feel great.

Speaker 160 Everything that needed to happen happened.

Speaker 121 Yep.

Speaker 133 And are you going to beat the Texans?

Speaker 159 Yeah.

Speaker 140 Are you going to go to the game?

Speaker 76 I'll try to.

Speaker 149 What does that mean?

Speaker 28 I'll see. I mean, it's a Saturday.

Speaker 161 Football game's on. I have to work.

Speaker 101 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 44 It's going to be on Saturday.

Speaker 112 I hope it's on Saturday.

Speaker 101 No, it's already three.

Speaker 51 Oh, we're telling you right now, it's Saturday.

Speaker 95 They already announced it? Yeah.

Speaker 28 Basically.

Speaker 28 No? It's the Texans.

Speaker 1 It's going to be Saturday, Shane.

Speaker 158 It'll be a good game. What are we talking about?

Speaker 141 It's, Shane, it's going to be Saturday.

Speaker 116 Okay.

Speaker 59 So, are you going to go?

Speaker 28 I will try.

Speaker 139 You need to go.

Speaker 49 Game time will send you.

Speaker 98 Come on.

Speaker 160 I I mean, that'd be awesome.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 160 First game.

Speaker 64 So

Speaker 2 what are the keys to the playoffs for the Chargers?

Speaker 9 Well, biggest key was just like five seed.

Speaker 28 Like Ravens, no chance, but

Speaker 160 I don't know. Just got to not fall apart on offense.

Speaker 51 Okay.

Speaker 149 That's good. That's a good team.
Score points.

Speaker 116 Give up little points.

Speaker 87 Give up little points. Yes.

Speaker 58 Like field goals, safeties. Yes.

Speaker 76 Those type of points. Can I give you some tips?

Speaker 28 No touchdowns.

Speaker 28 You got to run the football and then you got to stop the run. And then we got to pass occasionally.

Speaker 77 Little points. Win appropriate.

Speaker 56 I don't think I've ever heard little points, but I like it.

Speaker 146 Little points.

Speaker 146 Okay.

Speaker 84 Thank you, Shane.

Speaker 30 Shane is one of our hard-working guys on PMT, also Italian.

Speaker 60 We get too many Italians here.

Speaker 28 Way too many.

Speaker 44 Way too many Italians.

Speaker 28 Is he really Italian?

Speaker 112 Yes. He's got blonde hair.

Speaker 28 Yeah, blonde hair. I don't know.

Speaker 114 Northern Italian.

Speaker 112 He's got a vowel in his last name, doesn't he?

Speaker 20 He does. American.

Speaker 28 Everybody has a vowel in their last name.

Speaker 102 We need more Italians.

Speaker 28 No, it's the last thing we need.

Speaker 110 Yeah.

Speaker 146 Okay.

Speaker 5 Next up, Ravens, 35, Browns, 10.

Speaker 46 The Cleveland Browns got the second pick in the draft, which kind of was out of nowhere.

Speaker 30 Like, they were

Speaker 45 going into the season.

Speaker 85 I don't think anyone thought they were going to be a great team, but no one thought they were going to be the second pick.

Speaker 44 And then Deshaun showed up and he was terrible.

Speaker 133 And then Jameis showed up and we're like, oh, they're definitely not going to be the second pick because he's going to win a a couple games.

Speaker 30 And then they went to the saddest quarterback duo of all time in Bailey Zappi and DTR.

Speaker 42 That bummed me out watching that game.

Speaker 28 So they scored 10 points, which is actually an improvement of what we've seen from the Browns in the last three weeks. They've now scored 26 points in four games.

Speaker 28 So is that six and a half points per game? Yes. Under the DTR/slash Bailey Zappi two-headed monster.
Yes. And then Ken Dorsey got fired.
for not being able to squeeze blood out of his stone. Yep.

Speaker 28 For not being able to activate DTR appropriately.

Speaker 28 But getting fired by the Browns as a coach,

Speaker 28 that's a prestigious group that you can count yourself among. Yeah.
Right? Because didn't Belchek, was he fired? Everyone can get away from

Speaker 28 the Browns. Sabin was probably fired by the Browns.

Speaker 84 Yeah, when you get fired by the Browns, they probably give you like a nice Rolex.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 141 Like, thank you for your service.

Speaker 28 We appreciate it. Hugh Jackson shows up first at those meetings, probably.

Speaker 77 Hey, guys. Yeah.

Speaker 28 We're all great coaches. Hey, what's up, guys?

Speaker 77 Oh, yeah. We're all awesome.

Speaker 59 Yeah. Oh, yeah.
I won one game in two years.

Speaker 120 But if you talk to Mike Silver, he'll tell you I got a raw deal.

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 28 But yeah, the season's over for the Browns. You're probably glad.
It's probably a good thing for you guys.

Speaker 28 The Ravens just looked like they were just, they were going to continue to be nearly unstoppable.

Speaker 28 It's like on easy mode for Lamar right now.

Speaker 146 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Although Zay Flower is getting injured. How injured is he? Just an update on that.

Speaker 74 I know there was an MRI scheduled.

Speaker 110 I don't know what happened with the MRI.

Speaker 127 But yes, that is very, very significant.

Speaker 28 This is a big part. Although Bateman looks pretty good, too.

Speaker 110 Yeah.

Speaker 87 And Mark Andrews is like fully, fully back.

Speaker 30 Because I know there was that stretch of the season where it was like, what's up with Mark Andrews?

Speaker 85 Is Isaiah likely the guy?

Speaker 92 No, Mark Andrews is the guy.

Speaker 130 Let's see.

Speaker 84 Can we find anything about Zay Flowers?

Speaker 31 Look it up, Max, while we talk about the game.

Speaker 91 Lamar is probably going to win the MVP.

Speaker 28 I don't know. It's close.

Speaker 1 It's an awesome MVP.

Speaker 119 I hope it's Josh.

Speaker 148 Lamar,

Speaker 30 so he's the first player in NFL history to have 4,000 yards passing and 900-plus rushing yards in the same season.

Speaker 28 He's also the first player in history to have over 40 touchdowns with under five interceptions.

Speaker 133 41 and 4 is what he finished with.

Speaker 30 He was insane all season.

Speaker 1 It is one of the coolest MVP races we've had because it's such a good MVP race that the guy who has 2,000 yards rushing is like not even talked about.

Speaker 28 Yeah, so if you're a Ravens fan, are you more confident going to this postseason than you were last year?

Speaker 58 You have to be because of Derrick Henry.

Speaker 28 But you don't have homefield.

Speaker 162 You don't have homefield, but you have to be because of Derrick Henry and what he did this year.

Speaker 1 Derrick Henry, statistically, probably had his best season.

Speaker 44 I know he had a 2,000-yard season, but he carried the ball, I think, 60 or 70 more times that season.

Speaker 81 He turned 31 on Saturday, and he had 1,921 yards and 16 touchdowns.

Speaker 2 It's insane what he did this year.

Speaker 28 That is crazy also to think that Derrick Henry is just 31. Yeah.
Because in running back years, he might as well be like 60.

Speaker 85 But he had an incredible season, and I think the presence of Derrick, you can't refuse to run the ball like they did last year against the Chiefs when Derrick Henry's in your backfield.

Speaker 163 That's just a fact.

Speaker 125 It's almost

Speaker 30 you put Derrick Henry there so that you have to remind yourself all the time, oh, yeah, who's that guy who's standing on the sideline who's a beast that no one can tackle?

Speaker 29 Oh, yeah, we should probably run him.

Speaker 28 Yeah, that's why you get the biggest guy you can find to be your bell cow running back because it's impossible to ignore Derrick Henry. Right.

Speaker 71 So, yeah, I think

Speaker 7 I think you feel more confident going in this year.

Speaker 21 I think you are still, though,

Speaker 23 very nervous because

Speaker 30 this is the most important playoffs in Lamar's career, I think.

Speaker 40 Because he's going to be coming off what most likely is going to be

Speaker 126 three straight MVPs or two straight and then his third.

Speaker 28 I think it's two straight

Speaker 113 overall. His third overall, yeah.
And you have everything.

Speaker 65 I know you'd have home field.

Speaker 28 It might be his best season, and he's skinny.

Speaker 126 Yeah, and you have everything. And

Speaker 92 the defense of the ravens has played a lot better in the in the in the back half of the season i know their secondary was a worry for a while it's gotten a lot better so yeah i think this is the i if you had to do the maybe let's do that on wednesday let's do pressure rankings which team has the most pressure i like that i think i think it would be the ravens i think lamar jackson has the most pressure i would agree i think i think if you don't win it this year in baltimore you're like we're never going to get it done if you don't at least get to the super bowl super bowls can go 50-50 you know it's one game If they don't get to the Super Bowl, if they lose to the Bills or the Chiefs, there's going to be a lot of questions.

Speaker 26 What are you thinking, Max?

Speaker 9 They have such a tough road.

Speaker 65 I know, but that's...

Speaker 91 They have to go.

Speaker 10 But they're a really good team.

Speaker 48 They're then on the road to Kansas City.

Speaker 58 But they're a really good team.

Speaker 43 And

Speaker 105 last year, they obviously had home field advantage. They blew that.

Speaker 5 They've blown home field advantage a couple times as the one seed.

Speaker 154 You don't think that they're number one in pressure rankings?

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Would you say the Eagles have have more pressure?

Speaker 164 I personally think the Eagles have more pressure.

Speaker 101 I do not think the Eagles have more pressure.

Speaker 93 I think the Ravens have the most pressure because Derrick Henry is also not getting younger.

Speaker 95 And Lamar, again, Lamar is the best player in the NFL right now, playing the best football.

Speaker 60 He's going to win an MVP, most likely. I hope it's Josh.

Speaker 10 But

Speaker 58 you got to do it.

Speaker 3 He hasn't been to a Super Bowl.

Speaker 45 I think it's 1-2.

Speaker 21 Lamar Josh for most pressure in these playoffs.

Speaker 28 I think Josh has more pressure.

Speaker 28 Yeah, I was going to say, I think the Bills and the Ravens are just about the exact because they're both fighting the same battle, which is to finally be able to beat the Chiefs.

Speaker 134 Yeah, the only reason I would say the Bills don't have as much pressure is just because this was supposed to be a mini-rebuild year.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but you flip the roster.

Speaker 131 The Ravens have nine Pro Bowlers.

Speaker 28 But once you're there, though,

Speaker 51 once you're there, and you've had

Speaker 28 a season as the Bills have had. I agree.

Speaker 28 I think

Speaker 28 the Bills are definitely as nervous as they've ever been.

Speaker 23 Last year, they might have had more pressure because that was the end of that

Speaker 10 roster. And they're home.

Speaker 20 I know.

Speaker 51 The Bills are going to be home in that game and favored.

Speaker 148 We'll save it for pressure rankings on Wednesday.

Speaker 97 We'll have a debate.

Speaker 42 Maybe we'll go to Supreme Debate.

Speaker 28 I don't know if we want to go there.

Speaker 149 We can think about it. It depends on how sick Hank is.

Speaker 28 Well, I don't know. I would skip Bayless Method.
Supreme Debate. That's why Hank got this job, actually.

Speaker 158 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Paid him a half million dollars. Fuck me.

Speaker 28 He no.

Speaker 41 Oh, by the way, Michael Pierce, that interception was awesome.

Speaker 107 But the bus ran out of gas. Yep.

Speaker 2 I really wish he had tried to give us a little bit more.

Speaker 28 What is that?

Speaker 59 I just, I, he's so big.

Speaker 67 Him running was so funny.

Speaker 51 I think he kneeled right away.

Speaker 28 I think it was perfect, though, the way that it he was just like, fuck this. Yeah.
He was like, I'm already tired. My plays are usually over after four and a half seconds.

Speaker 28 You can't expect me to run with this football.

Speaker 49 Who do the Browns take with the number two pick?

Speaker 28 Maybe Cam Ward.

Speaker 144 I'll say it. I don't know.

Speaker 22 I don't know if I would take Shador one or two.

Speaker 156 I know you're not supposed to say that here, but I'm going to say it.

Speaker 85 I think I would take Cam Ward before.

Speaker 28 I would take Cam Ward. I have Cam Ward ahead of Shador.

Speaker 90 I do ward. I do, too.

Speaker 28 But I got Travis Hunter number one overall. Yeah.

Speaker 84 I also think that this is not a good QB draft.

Speaker 41 That maybe you just take a really... There's some really good players in this draft that are just not QBs.

Speaker 28 I got Cam Scatabu number one overall

Speaker 28 number two.

Speaker 114 I've got Tyler Crowe.

Speaker 28 Actually, no, I don't. I have Hunter is two,

Speaker 28 and then I've got Cam Ward, then Shadur. Okay.
That's my top four. Nice.

Speaker 149 So you don't have Ash and Genty?

Speaker 28 I don't have Ash and Genti on there. Okay.

Speaker 84 No.

Speaker 84 All right.

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Speaker 122 Okay, uh, oh, before we talk, Patriots, Bills, Breaking Moose,

Speaker 10 Breaking Moose,

Speaker 30 Breaking Moose, we do have our playoff schedule.

Speaker 132 So

Speaker 26 Jake Marsh went four for six.

Speaker 97 Pretty good.

Speaker 110 He's beating himself up a little bit, but

Speaker 10 we were exactly right.

Speaker 88 Chargers and Texans are going to kick it off on Saturday

Speaker 25 at 4:30 Eastern, 3:30 Central.

Speaker 28 So somebody posted the history of the Texans in this time slot. And 2011, Saturday, 3:30.
2012, Saturday, 3:30. 2015, Saturday, 3.30.
2016, Saturday, 3.30. 2018, Saturday, 3.30.
2019, Saturday, 3.30.

Speaker 28 2023, Saturday, 3.30. 2024, Saturday, 3.30.

Speaker 12 Have they won like two of those games, too? Like, I feel like they don't.

Speaker 28 They beat the Bengals in one of them. Because the Bengals used to be the king of the Saturday, 330, and they passed the torch.

Speaker 26 They beat the Raiders in the one that Derek Carr got hurt right before.

Speaker 132 And

Speaker 130 who the fuck started that game?

Speaker 28 it was i think an ex-Michigan oh yes yeah it was uh was it a Cooper no it was a Michigan State quarterback fuck I think Cook yes Connor Cook Connor Cook um but yeah Shane doesn't know ball to be like oh the schedule's released are you sure it's Saturday at three yeah it is it's the Texans it was always Saturday it's the Texans uh you know what part of my take is the first report the Houston Texans will play on wild card weekend yes in 2026 Saturday, 3.30.

Speaker 28 Yes.

Speaker 130 So we're starting off with the Chargers at the Texans.

Speaker 88 Then we're doing Steelers at Ravens Saturday night, which I love.

Speaker 26 The Broncos at the Bills, the early game on Sunday, which we all said was a guarantee.

Speaker 45 Those are the two guarantees.

Speaker 94 The early Texans, early Broncos at Bills.

Speaker 25 Then it is Packers at Eagles.

Speaker 162 Max afternoon spot.

Speaker 76 Are you feeling okay?

Speaker 139 You like it?

Speaker 76 Yeah, Yeah, it's a good spot.

Speaker 88 And then, PFT, you have the night game on Sunday.

Speaker 28 I was a little surprised for the night game on Sunday.

Speaker 42 I thought you were going to get the Monday night game, to be honest.

Speaker 28 I thought Monday night was a possibility. I thought Saturday night.
Sunday, it's like that's the game that they think America wants to watch the most. Yeah, it's NBC.

Speaker 28 That's Jaden.

Speaker 88 Yeah, and then we have the Minnesota Vikings going to the LA Rams on Monday night for the super wild card weekend.

Speaker 122 So we're very excited.

Speaker 30 I'm very excited for football.

Speaker 161 And we have Thursday and Friday football, too.

Speaker 1 Okay, Patriots at Bills. Patriots win.

Speaker 129 They blow their shot at the number one pick.

Speaker 90 It was very clear.

Speaker 85 We had this debate, I feel like, about the Bills maybe throwing it.

Speaker 23 And you're like, I don't know if they will.

Speaker 48 They did. They did.
They did.

Speaker 28 They started Josh Allen, Hank.

Speaker 32 They did start Josh Allen for a play.

Speaker 30 That's 115 straight starts.

Speaker 136 I think the moment where I was like, yeah, they're not trying to win this game was when they punted from the Patriots' 35-yard line.

Speaker 12 The missed field goal to keep it so that it was basically a two-point game instead of a three-point game, the miss extra points, sorry.

Speaker 12 And then they took out Mitch.

Speaker 105 Yeah, yeah. They took out Mitch, put in Mike White.

Speaker 23 We had Mike White sighting.

Speaker 24 Joe Milton.

Speaker 28 Joe Milton. Bazooka Joe came out today.

Speaker 24 Joe Milton looked awesome.

Speaker 51 You can't play Bazooka Joe.

Speaker 85 You get a chance to play.

Speaker 12 You ball out. Yeah.

Speaker 28 That's what you do. When he scored that rushing touchdown, then he did a casual backflip in the end zone afterwards.

Speaker 28 Man, you might have two great quarterbacks.

Speaker 97 He had a couple.

Speaker 12 Yeah, he had a couple passes across his body that were throwing like 150 miles an hour. He's got a cannon.

Speaker 28 We are still in phase one of the Joe Milton experience.

Speaker 12 He was playing against backups, but still.

Speaker 72 Yeah, but still, it's Joe Milton.

Speaker 40 He can, he can bomb it.

Speaker 87 So, uh, and then the big story is maybe an hour and a half after the game ended, uh, the Patriots officially fired Gerard Mayo.

Speaker 136 So he's a one-and-done coach.

Speaker 26 Uh, pretty crazy because I was it in like September, Robert Kraft said on a broadcast that he basically picked Gerard Mayo to be the next head coach five years ago.

Speaker 44 Yeah.

Speaker 163 I mean, Hank, you wanted this to happen.

Speaker 120 I feel like this was a smart decision.

Speaker 12 I do think it was a smart decision.

Speaker 12 I also think that they wouldn't have done it as quickly as they did if they didn't know that they are getting the coach that they want, which I believe is Mike Vrabel.

Speaker 28 And the fact that Mike Vrabel had just interviewed with the Jets, he was going to interview with the Bears. On Wednesday.

Speaker 120 On Wednesday.

Speaker 28 It felt like Robert Kraft was like, I have to make this decision now because Mike's my guy.

Speaker 12 I guess he also interviewed with the Jets and then shortly after changed his Twitter picture, profile picture, which he's not a very active Twitter user, to a picture of him when he was playing for the Patriots.

Speaker 24 Mike Vrabel did. Yeah.

Speaker 130 He has a Twitter?

Speaker 10 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 51 Oh, yeah. Really? Oh, yeah.
Oh, I knew that. Coach Rabel.

Speaker 28 I think there's a good chance that

Speaker 28 Mike Vrabel went into that interview and just said, fuck you guys. I'm a Patriot.
Yeah.

Speaker 51 And then left.

Speaker 171 He actually probably went in there and got a bunch of info on how they run.

Speaker 30 So he's like, I'm going to be a division foe in a matter of hours.

Speaker 28 He could have got their info on how they run with the latest Madden update. Yeah.

Speaker 22 Or just, or just followed Brick on Instagram.

Speaker 114 Yeah.

Speaker 28 So the note that Robert Kraft dropped,

Speaker 28 it was a lengthy breakup note that he published for the world. Did you have a chance to read it?

Speaker 12 I did not.

Speaker 28 Oh, you didn't? You should read it. It's like Robert Kraft opened up his diary.
The one part that stuck out to me was when he said,

Speaker 143 Is Robert Kraft on X the Everything out?

Speaker 28 He is not, but the New England Patriots are. And they released this.
It's not that lengthy.

Speaker 28 It was three paragraphs

Speaker 51 i mean it's too long for you to 25

Speaker 12 dude it's that's lengthy like i am not a reader and this didn't make this wasn't like i'm not reading this shit well you didn't read it i'm sick i was i what didn't even i didn't see it

Speaker 9 oh yeah i'm sick hank why don't you read it and then we'll we'll put it in like 600 speed

Speaker 12 after the game today i informed about

Speaker 12 you personally this was one of the best teams i've ever made i had no girard for 17 years he earned my respect and admiration as a rookie in 2008 and throughout his career for his play on the field.

Speaker 12 His leadership in the locker room and the way he conducted himself in our community. When he joined our coaching staff, his leadership was even more evident as I saw how the players responded to him.

Speaker 12 When the other team started requesting an interview, I feared I would lose him and committed to making him our next head coach. So it basically sounds like that.
He was just

Speaker 114 hired him because he was scared.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 28 The fact that he included this in the statement was like, that's tough. I'm trying to escape blame for this.
The only reason I hired him was because I thought somebody else would hire him.

Speaker 28 That was my mistake.

Speaker 12 Winning our season over on the road at Cincinnati strengthened my conviction. So they weren't.

Speaker 51 That was it.

Speaker 38 We're good.

Speaker 12 We beat Joe Burr on the Bagels.

Speaker 105 Dynasty back on.

Speaker 12 Since buying the team, I've always considered myself and my family as custodians of a public asset.

Speaker 102 That's a big time support.

Speaker 37 You got the gist of it.

Speaker 123 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 96 So you are going to get Mike Vrabel.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 58 It was basically everyone, every

Speaker 26 fan base that had an opening dreamed of Mike Vrabel.

Speaker 95 I did that.

Speaker 28 I know Memes did that. If you have an opening, you want Mike inside that opening.
Yeah.

Speaker 120 Even the Raiders did that, and they don't even have an opening.

Speaker 156 And then this happened. It's like, well, there goes that.

Speaker 26 So Mike Rabel will be the next coach of the New England Patriots. Do you want to report it first?

Speaker 110 Per Henry Lockwood?

Speaker 12 No, I'll let the things play out.

Speaker 12 I don't want to jump the guns.

Speaker 51 All right, that's me.

Speaker 76 Me and Big Cat will do it. Yeah.

Speaker 101 Per part of the AFT and Big Cat.

Speaker 77 No, per Henry Lockwood.

Speaker 28 Hank doesn't want to report it.

Speaker 140 No, I know, but you can write whatever you want on a

Speaker 28 report.

Speaker 77 Good report, Hank.

Speaker 21 Per Henry Lockwood.

Speaker 12 I don't get why they didn't.

Speaker 37 Is he going to be the next head coach? I think so.

Speaker 70 Of the Patriots.

Speaker 12 I am of the belief that the answer to that question is that.

Speaker 51 Okay, so per Henry Lockwood. Yeah.

Speaker 37 That's the put it out. Per Henry.

Speaker 51 Per Henry Lockwood's beliefs.

Speaker 10 Belief system.

Speaker 154 Memes is the one.

Speaker 73 So I wanted Mike Vrabel as the coach of the Bears, but I also am in a spot, and we'll get to the Bears Packers.

Speaker 108 I've already mentally moved on from Vrabel and Ben Johnson because I've heard some things through through the grapevine that the Bears are going to end up with like Brian Flores or the DC of the Dolphins or maybe the Lions.

Speaker 26 Some random college coach that no one's thinking about.

Speaker 156 And it's like, oh, okay, this is awesome.

Speaker 102 So I had already moved on.

Speaker 95 I had already moved on.

Speaker 167 Memes, though, memes is a little upset because memes

Speaker 120 was very confident that he was going to get Mike Rabel.

Speaker 23 And not only was he confident he was going to get Mike Rabel, now he has to deal with the fact that Mike Rabel is going to be going against him in the AFC East.

Speaker 16 Memes.

Speaker 47 Damn.

Speaker 36 Nothing's confirmed yet.

Speaker 101 Okay. Well, no, Hank did.

Speaker 51 So you're not in denial.

Speaker 28 No. Are you denying Hank's belief?

Speaker 101 No.

Speaker 28 It sounds like you are, though.

Speaker 172 Oh, I'm denying that nothing is official yet, per me.

Speaker 32 Mike Vrabel's interest in the Jets was just a smokescreen to pressure the Patriots to make a move at head coaches.

Speaker 158 Yep.

Speaker 51 Makes sense.

Speaker 118 You were used. Damn.

Speaker 65 Used and abused. Yeah,

Speaker 65 you were a rebound.

Speaker 28 Mike Vrabel went on a date with you, took a picture, popped it on Instagram. His ex is like,

Speaker 28 let's get back together.

Speaker 42 Go back to that one.

Speaker 87 Go back to that one.

Speaker 129 Was told that Mike Vrabel's dalliance with the Jets

Speaker 41 was to put pressure on the Patriots to make a move with a young, incredibly promising QB who improved every week and despite very little talent.

Speaker 163 Did Drake May write this?

Speaker 76 No, it's Jake May.

Speaker 101 Additi Quinhuaba.

Speaker 149 He's got more cap space than anyone in Statehouse.

Speaker 10 Of course,

Speaker 127 what is this tweet?

Speaker 51 There's no way that was close to being this guy.

Speaker 97 I just think of Jake.

Speaker 12 He says it so confidently.

Speaker 143 Diddy cleanhole back.

Speaker 81 So you're going to get just

Speaker 154 Hank, just report that Mike Rabel's going to be your next coach so that other teams don't even interview him.

Speaker 71 No,

Speaker 12 I don't want to set this franchise back for years by cursing it.

Speaker 58 Okay.

Speaker 42 But would you say overall, I mean, it feels like you've come out of this bad season outside of obviously...

Speaker 27 blowing the number one pick today.

Speaker 42 Pretty damn good.

Speaker 45 You got a lot of cap space.

Speaker 81 You got Drake May, and you have Mike Rabel.

Speaker 12 There's also a decent to be on decent chance that the writing was on the wall and Mayo, like,

Speaker 12 was gunning for everything to win that game.

Speaker 28 In which case, why would you let him coach this game?

Speaker 12 That doesn't make sense. Sold Lovey Smith.
That does not matter.

Speaker 70 My gut tells me that the writing was on the wall, and

Speaker 12 players probably had an idea. He definitely had an idea.
But yeah, they should have just done it before the game.

Speaker 28 The fact that Schefter said it before the game tells me that somebody knew. People had talked about it.

Speaker 28 And then to let him go out there, coach the game, win the game, cost you the first overall pick, and all that could have gone along with it for a trade. That's kind of a weird decision.

Speaker 28 But yeah, it's the first Patriots coach to be fired after his first season

Speaker 28 since

Speaker 114 Rod Rust.

Speaker 14 Roddy.

Speaker 28 Oh, Rod Rust in 1990.

Speaker 106 It doesn't happen often, the one and dones.

Speaker 140 It's probably, you know.

Speaker 163 It's probably been, what, like 10 of them in the last 20 years or so?

Speaker 136 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Get rid of a coach one season too early instead of one season too late.

Speaker 163 And it's actually hard to remember him.

Speaker 111 Steve Wilkes.

Speaker 63 Oh,

Speaker 28 what's the guy from the Browns? Chudzinski?

Speaker 28 Yeah. Did he get one?

Speaker 162 Nathaniel Hackett.

Speaker 28 Freddie Kitchens?

Speaker 162 Was he

Speaker 162 interim?

Speaker 26 I think he was interim. Wasn't he?

Speaker 28 No, Freddie was

Speaker 76 head coach.

Speaker 16 Shit.

Speaker 100 We're going head coach.

Speaker 76 What'd you guys do? One in Duns. Two years of Tressman.

Speaker 98 Frank Wright.

Speaker 20 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 120 He had two years for Tressman. Let's see who else.

Speaker 37 Oh, was there another one in the Cardinals?

Speaker 121 Shit.

Speaker 149 The Cardinals. No, I don't think so.

Speaker 100 Oh, this is good. The one in Duns.

Speaker 100 Can we get any more?

Speaker 121 I don't pay for this.

Speaker 97 One in Duns.

Speaker 40 Was McAdoo?

Speaker 130 No, he had two years.

Speaker 76 Yeah, he had a couple of years.

Speaker 28 He had two years.

Speaker 12 If you could have started this season and said that. Jeff Saturday.
Drake May is going to play well.

Speaker 102 Jeff Saturday.

Speaker 28 He was like one week in Duns.

Speaker 12 He's going to be leading all the grafts. He's going to be at the head of the grafts, graft talk.

Speaker 12 The Patriots are going to have the fourth overall pick, and Mike Vrable is going to be our coach going in 2025. That's a win of a season.
You cannot write up a better season. Hank finished.

Speaker 12 So I don't. The first pick sucks, but again, you got to look at the big picture.

Speaker 28 The Patriots finished with the second worst record, and they also had probably a very positive season

Speaker 28 at the same time.

Speaker 42 Yeah, the arrow's pointing up for you.

Speaker 12 That biggles.

Speaker 12 I wish I could give that win to the players.

Speaker 51 Oh, that's huge.

Speaker 21 If you're listening to Cincinnati, Hank can't, but he would love to.

Speaker 96 If he could, he would love to give you that win.

Speaker 28 Put you in the playoffs.

Speaker 136 That sucks for Gerard Mayo.

Speaker 3 But also, kind of, like in a weird way,

Speaker 134 it was

Speaker 105 like you don't want to be the guy who follows the guy.

Speaker 120 And now they got the buffer guy.

Speaker 26 It's kind of what you did with Cam Newton, although Mac Jones wasn't the guy after that.

Speaker 45 But the buffer guy is always a good guy.

Speaker 79 Because then he's just like, oh, yeah, there was a guy in between.

Speaker 12 It is not so bad. Being a bad team in the NFL is hard, and I'm just happy that we're kind of have a path outward.
Like,

Speaker 12 it's tough to just, you know, lose week after week going to these.

Speaker 144 Memes, talk, turn on your mic and they're still bad.

Speaker 78 They are still bad.

Speaker 172 You still don't have a head coach.

Speaker 141 Mike Vrabel could be coaching anybody. There's

Speaker 49 Nick's in denial. He could be in Jacksonville.

Speaker 172 He could be in Jacksonville.

Speaker 172 A lot of places.

Speaker 154 It's better to just move on mentally,

Speaker 86 memes.

Speaker 12 But you would say whoever gets Mike Vrabel that they're going to be on the right path forward.

Speaker 172 Depending on the correct roster.

Speaker 113 Mike Vrabel in Tennessee inherited a good roster.

Speaker 9 How does the Patriots cap space look like?

Speaker 12 Ooh, good question, Max.

Speaker 108 $130 million.

Speaker 102 How was his free agent a lot?

Speaker 28 How was whose? How was his free agent signings?

Speaker 172 How was it drafting?

Speaker 76 Will Compton. I've heard of him.

Speaker 28 That has a lot to do with the GM, too. Yeah, that's the GM channel.

Speaker 50 No,

Speaker 172 Mike Varable.

Speaker 167 Listen, memes, you're going to get Aaron Glenn.

Speaker 23 He did a great job tonight.

Speaker 36 It'll be fine.

Speaker 158 Yeah, he's a good guy. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 155 Rex Ryan.

Speaker 10 Ron Rivera.

Speaker 28 Yeah, the names go on.

Speaker 2 You see, memes is...

Speaker 30 I feel like memes is always one step behind me in the process where it's like, I went through this process and I was like, we're not getting Ben Johnson.

Speaker 31 We're not getting Mike Rabel.

Speaker 9 You and Memes will never be on the same thought process ever with your team.

Speaker 68 I understand.

Speaker 1 I'm saying I'm one step ahead of him.

Speaker 65 No, but he'll never get to your step.

Speaker 26 Right, right.

Speaker 10 He could never win.

Speaker 9 He'll never accept that the Jets suck. Right.

Speaker 58 We had this discussion the other night where he was like, the difference between me and you is you were in denial.

Speaker 23 And memes is like, yeah.

Speaker 130 I was like, dude, you're still in denial. And he's like, what?

Speaker 42 We could have won 11 games. We could have won 11.

Speaker 12 One season away from what, memes?

Speaker 65 Success. Okay.

Speaker 28 All right, here we go. The one and dones.
We got Reich. We got, oh, Lovey Smith was one and done.
Yep.

Speaker 99 Hackett, Cully.

Speaker 145 Couldn't pick Cully out of a lineup.

Speaker 28 Urban Meyer. You remember his collars?

Speaker 94 He always had unusual collars.

Speaker 28 Yeah. Max just clicked away from that.
Very helpful graphic we had up.

Speaker 97 Yeah, being one and done.

Speaker 48 Look at David Cully.

Speaker 28 Fred Kitchens, Chip Kelly.

Speaker 45 Like all these guys,

Speaker 86 do you even say that you used to be a head coach?

Speaker 129 Obviously, some of them are different.

Speaker 26 You know, Chip Kelly and Urban Meyer are different. Lovey Smith is different because they coached somewhere else for a very long time.
But

Speaker 6 if you're Steve Wilkes, if you're

Speaker 22 David Culley,

Speaker 23 do you say to someone, like, yeah, I was a head coach in the NFL?

Speaker 101 And they're like, wait, what?

Speaker 28 I think that if you're a David Culley or a Steve Wilkes, and when the time comes and you pass away, it's probably not the first thing that's mentioned about you. No.
Like former Texans coach?

Speaker 28 Probably not.

Speaker 10 No.

Speaker 137 Okay, you know what, memes? Since you're talking about it.

Speaker 28 I'd truthfully forgotten that Chip Kelly was the coach of the 49ers. Yeah.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 97 He didn't go well. No.

Speaker 169 He was, what, two years at the Eagles and then 49ers?

Speaker 9 I want to say three years with the Eagles.

Speaker 44 Might have been three years, yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, so memes, since we're talking about it, let's talk about your big win.

Speaker 96 You had a huge win.

Speaker 32 Massive win.

Speaker 1 Jets 32.

Speaker 157 Dolphins 20.

Speaker 32 Aaron Rodgers throws his 500th career touchdown, throws three touchdowns.

Speaker 130 Look good.

Speaker 168 Ulbrick might be having, he might have something cooking, memes.

Speaker 172 We were headed in the right direction.

Speaker 172 I was kind of freaking out during this game because I thought we were going to fall to number nine,

Speaker 159 but

Speaker 97 it was a good win.

Speaker 172 Oh, we just fell, we fell one pick, so it was a good win.

Speaker 28 It was a good win.

Speaker 112 It was a good win. It wasn't a terrible win.

Speaker 28 It wasn't as bad as the win could have been.

Speaker 172 No, I thought we were falling the nine, and it would have been the worst.

Speaker 121 It would have been a horrible win.

Speaker 28 So, Aaron Rodgers looked good. Do you think maybe give him an extension? He's going to be a lame duck quarterback next year.

Speaker 172 Jets fans probably won't like this. I would do another year.
Yeah, you would.

Speaker 49 This is the denial part.

Speaker 173 Well, there's no other options.

Speaker 172 If you lay out all the options, it's just get a young guy in, let Aaron Rodgers teach him.

Speaker 51 Oh, because he's notoriously good at that.

Speaker 172 Yeah, but you just try to go for it next year.

Speaker 116 Okay.

Speaker 172 Because if you say with Aaron Rodgers' stat line that he had this season, top 15 quarterback,

Speaker 172 that he played this well, you would think they won more than five games.

Speaker 28 Top 15 quarterback is that's quite a line to draw.

Speaker 159 Yeah, but

Speaker 22 do you think he wants to come back to the Jets?

Speaker 170 No.

Speaker 51 Florio told us exactly what was going to happen.

Speaker 125 He wants

Speaker 10 dick.

Speaker 6 Florio laid it out.

Speaker 156 Aaron Rodgers doesn't want to have to beg to come back.

Speaker 129 He wants to be told, he wants the Jets to break up with him,

Speaker 26 and then he can go somewhere else.

Speaker 172 But if you get Mike Vrabel or Aaron Glenn in there,

Speaker 1 Mike Vrabel's not going to coach the Jets, dude.

Speaker 12 But

Speaker 148 anything could happen.

Speaker 23 The big story, though, from this game is the Dolphins obviously to it in play.

Speaker 94 So

Speaker 136 it didn't matter because the Broncos ended up winning so easily and so quickly.

Speaker 42 But they would have, they had a chance to win and get in if the Broncos had lost.

Speaker 19 And then after the game, Tyreek Hill

Speaker 71 said that he, I just got to do what's best for me and my family.

Speaker 162 If that's here or wherever the case may be, I'm going to open that door for myself.

Speaker 156 I'm opening the door.

Speaker 14 I'm out, bro.

Speaker 67 Yep.

Speaker 108 It was great playing here, but at the end of the day, bro, I got to do what's best for my career.

Speaker 26 I'm too much of a competitor to just be out there.

Speaker 28 Do you think that's best for his considerably large family for him to just be like,

Speaker 28 I'm going to leave the state? I'm out. You guys can move with me if you want.

Speaker 30 It's the first time he hasn't been in the playoffs, so he's dealing with that.

Speaker 108 Emotional right after a game.

Speaker 120 I am going to make a guess that someone's going to sit down, Tyreek Hill, and be like, you see all these zeros that they gave you?

Speaker 44 You should stay with the Dolphins.

Speaker 120 He's like, all right, fine, I'm back in.

Speaker 28 Maybe, maybe. And that's kind of what Mike McDaniel said afterwards: he's probably very emotional.
So I'm not going to talk to him right now. I'll talk to him in a couple of days.

Speaker 28 But that's as definitive as an answer as I've heard where he's like, I'm out.

Speaker 91 That is also what I feel like he does that shit all the time.

Speaker 80 Like, did he do he tweets cryptically about shit like that sometimes?

Speaker 168 Where I don't know.

Speaker 44 I'm not surprised by Tyree Kill

Speaker 161 saying that.

Speaker 28 I need to go go coach

Speaker 28 yeah i need to go coach i think he might have meant like coach get me out of here yeah so we'll see how that goes but the dolphins are back and and and then stephen ross uh declared that everyone is safe everyone's safe stability is important stability is important i mean they they did have they had a decent second half of the season i would say if you're the dolphins you

Speaker 149 It's probably worth taking one more shot at this iteration.

Speaker 156 I would also say that you probably want to invest very heavily in a backup quarterback.

Speaker 28 Yeah, so their plan going into the season was like the Raiders' plan going in with their starting quarterback, which is like, you're really going to do that? We're going to do Skylar Thompson again.

Speaker 28 Yeah. We're going to do Snoop Huntley.
That's going to be your solution. Get a good backup.
Like, hope that Tua stays healthy. Yeah, they should run it back, I think.

Speaker 28 Mike McDaniel is a very good coach.

Speaker 159 Yeah.

Speaker 28 And they got better in the second half of the season, but it does continue what happened after that whomping of the Broncos, where the Broncos just kept improving and the Dolphins just kept getting worse.

Speaker 23 Yeah, they kept on getting worse.

Speaker 24 I'm also, I'm happy the Broncos are in the playoffs and not the Dolphins.

Speaker 109 I said this, I know Dolphins fans were upset,

Speaker 156 but I just didn't really want to see Tyler Huntley have to go to Buffalo and play a playoff game.

Speaker 94 And they'll say, oh, well, we only lost by three with Skylar Thompson.

Speaker 109 That's fine.

Speaker 121 I still would prefer Bo Nicks.

Speaker 28 Yeah, it's probably better for you that you don't have to go through that. Yeah.
Just move on. Yeah.

Speaker 14 Okay.

Speaker 150 Other last two games in the AFC, Texans 23, Titans 14.

Speaker 28 Wait, there was one other thing from Aaron Rodgers. Oh, yeah.
Post-game presser.

Speaker 28 They read him a report at the press conference saying that people close to you have said that you're likely to retire after the season. And his answer was people said they were close to me,

Speaker 28 which is a great turnaround on him. Like, nobody's close to me.
Yeah. I like that.
He's so mysterious.

Speaker 58 I do like that.

Speaker 28 So I guess it's not a no.

Speaker 101 Yeah.

Speaker 130 But I don't think there.

Speaker 45 yeah,

Speaker 149 I wouldn't guess there's more than like

Speaker 120 no, there's probably no one close to him.

Speaker 28 Yeah, probably no one super close.

Speaker 150 Well, I watched some of his Netflix.

Speaker 51 I kind of want to do an IOS

Speaker 163 Devontae Adams, maybe, but not really.

Speaker 110 They did walk off the field again together.

Speaker 28 That was kind of nice because they did that last time with the Packers.

Speaker 42 Who knows?

Speaker 136 I think he's got one or two more years left.

Speaker 42 It would be hilarious if he found a way to get to the Vikings.

Speaker 112 I think that's pretty crowded, but it it would be very funny.

Speaker 28 Are the Steelers?

Speaker 94 Steelers?

Speaker 134 Titans would be a bummer.

Speaker 28 I could see it, though.

Speaker 109 I don't think so.

Speaker 100 I think he's got to go to a team with a really good defense and just be a game manager.

Speaker 51 Vikings?

Speaker 22 Memes is going to say that's the Jets.

Speaker 76 We could just load up on defense.

Speaker 1 We're going to say that's the Jets.

Speaker 28 Load up on defense. What about the San Francisco 49ers?

Speaker 28 It's coming home.

Speaker 31 We talked to Flori about that.

Speaker 9 Meems won't stop talking about the Jets winning the Super Bowl.

Speaker 9 Ever since we got off the Jets, our mics have been muted, and he just keeps saying

Speaker 172 if they load up, Peyton Manning's Super Bowl year,

Speaker 172 he had nine touchdowns, 13 interceptions.

Speaker 161 He had a horrible year, and he was a game manager, and he got him to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 62 That defense

Speaker 43 is a little bit quarterback.

Speaker 172 No, no, no, no. I'm saying if you take Aaron Rodgers with his stats right now, you load up on defense, top 15,

Speaker 141 you have a chance to do it.

Speaker 137 Where are you getting a young Von Miller?

Speaker 172 We have Jermaine Johnson coming back.

Speaker 103 Von Miller was out of this world.

Speaker 26 You could draft someone.

Speaker 1 He was a defensive player of the year.

Speaker 154 You have a defensive player of the year?

Speaker 172 Oh, you never know. Will McDonald, Jermaine Johnson.

Speaker 116 Okay.

Speaker 28 I believe.

Speaker 12 If Sauce doesn't hit the links this offseason and

Speaker 14 preps.

Speaker 51 No, he bounced back after Arizona.

Speaker 172 He had a good second half of the year.

Speaker 81 Okay.

Speaker 81 All right.

Speaker 174 Texans 23, Titans 14. The Titans finished 2-15 against the spread.

Speaker 32 That is a, that's about as shocking of a stat as you can have.

Speaker 12 Yeah, Degas has got to be pissed.

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 51 2-15.

Speaker 1 2-15 against the spread.

Speaker 26 The Titans also got the number one pick, which that was kind of out of nowhere.

Speaker 30 Like, that wasn't a team that was going into the season.

Speaker 140 You would have said they would be the number one pick.

Speaker 81 And now they have it.

Speaker 2 And they're probably going to pick a quarterback because they did both today, Will Levis and Mason Rudolph, and it

Speaker 99 didn't work out.

Speaker 168 And the Texans did a little warm-up.

Speaker 150 They had CJ Stroud in for one drive, six for six, 50 yards.

Speaker 120 Joe Mixon carried the ball like five times, 30 yards, touchdown, boom, they're ready to go.

Speaker 28 Playoffs. Damian Pierce with a huge game today.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 114 So they're like, what was it, 80-yard run?

Speaker 28 Yeah, would he end up with like 170-something yards? Yeah.

Speaker 28 I've always liked Damian Pierce, but I understand that he hasn't been the player that a lot of people expect him to be, but I still think he's a nice running back when Mixon's not getting it done.

Speaker 28 Yeah. I would like to see them use Pierce a little bit more often.

Speaker 121 But

Speaker 28 yeah, this game was not really anything, nothing really noteworthy happened. Davis Mills landed on his neck.
Yeah. That was pretty entertaining.

Speaker 30 The Titans wore the Oilers jerseys.

Speaker 136 Those are always awesome, but they shouldn't get to wear them.

Speaker 28 They shouldn't get to wear them. And they got to know at this point, karma's not on your side when you wear those in Houston.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 120 I think Schefter said Brian Callahan is safe, which I'm happy he is.

Speaker 27 I don't think he should be a one and done.

Speaker 136 But yeah, this was just a bad team and a very

Speaker 22 like season to forget for the Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 87 They feel like a little bit of a lost franchise.

Speaker 76 Yeah, yeah. Well,

Speaker 28 they have to figure out quarterback. Yeah.
But they're in a position where they can do that.

Speaker 130 Yeah.

Speaker 146 Okay.

Speaker 44 Last in the AFC, Colts 26, Jaguars 23.

Speaker 103 I'm going to say it.

Speaker 1 I think Doug Peterson never lost the locker room.

Speaker 80 They actually fought pretty hard in this game.

Speaker 58 He's going to get fired.

Speaker 1 It would be be funny if they just forgot to fire him because he should have, we all thought he was going to get fired, what, two months ago?

Speaker 97 Yeah, after their bye week.

Speaker 62 But I don't think he lost the locker room.

Speaker 2 I mean, they played an OT game in week 18 where the season's been over for months and months and months.

Speaker 87 He might not have lost the locker room.

Speaker 28 I bet there was some radical transparency going on in that locker room. I bet you Doug Peterson after the bye was like, guys, just so you know, I'm fired.

Speaker 159 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Okay, I'm not coming back. Just keep trying.
But keep trying, and remember that you might get signed to a better team if you play well on this team. Yeah.
Also, Brian Thomas Jr., you're awesome.

Speaker 28 Yeah, he had a... Keep doing you.

Speaker 149 Broke the rookie record 11 games of 75-plus yards.

Speaker 136 He's awesome.

Speaker 44 Mac Jones took a hilarious sack, third and six

Speaker 156 in overtime.

Speaker 30 He took a 16-yard sack where he just was spinning backwards. That was very funny.

Speaker 156 Also, this might have been it for Joe Flacco.

Speaker 120 Yeah, this is.

Speaker 26 And he went out with a win if he did.

Speaker 28 I think he said he wants to play next year. Good.
I want you to play next year too, Joe.

Speaker 144 He actually should be the backup in Miami.

Speaker 28 That's not a bad idea. Yeah.
So, did you see the fan of the game that they had today? Yeah, Seth. This is our Colts guy.

Speaker 72 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 28 They brought him up before the game. I think they played his fight song on the Jumbotron before the game.
Yeah. Great job by Mr.
Ursay. But then Mr.

Speaker 28 Ursay ruined all that goodwill because after the game put out a statement saying that everybody's safe. Yeah.

Speaker 87 Everyone's safe.

Speaker 85 Chris Ballard is getting his job, keeping his job.

Speaker 1 I thought Shane Seyken would be safe.

Speaker 149 The Chris Ballard thing is insane.

Speaker 28 He's rasputin. Yeah.
He's got got Jim. He's the only guy that filters stuff out that goes to and from Jim.
So he knows exactly what to tell Jim Ursa to make him feel good about everything.

Speaker 28 He knows the right buttons to press, and then he's got a very safe job because if you can make Jim Ursay love you, or at least think that he can't go on without you,

Speaker 28 then you're just not going to go anywhere. Yeah.

Speaker 31 So I would be very frustrated if I was a Colts fan.

Speaker 163 I feel bad for Colts fans.

Speaker 109 Chris Ballard is,

Speaker 67 I don't know, it just feels like a mess, and you're just going to keep going with with the mess because they just are good enough to win seven or eight games, and you can look at it sideways and be like, oh, not too far.

Speaker 29 Anthony Richardson is not the answer.

Speaker 26 I've been saying that for a very long time.

Speaker 120 I think most Colts fans agree.

Speaker 28 If Flacco had played every game this season, do you think that they would have had a couple more wins?

Speaker 123 No,

Speaker 132 probably not. I mean,

Speaker 29 he went two and four.

Speaker 88 Yeah. So I don't know if you can say Flacco was the answer.

Speaker 28 Well, he wasn't the answer, but he might have been an improvement over Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 170 But he wasn't record-wise.

Speaker 28 And we could be talking yoffs.

Speaker 136 But he wasn't record-wise.

Speaker 112 Yeah.

Speaker 28 But there were some game. You remember Anthony Richardson lost some very winnable games.

Speaker 113 For sure.

Speaker 73 For sure.

Speaker 42 But Joe Flacco also.

Speaker 12 He also had a couple game-winning drives. Lost.

Speaker 95 Yeah, he did.

Speaker 42 He had a couple of really nice ones.

Speaker 106 I mean,

Speaker 97 who knows? Maybe he'll figure it out. I just...

Speaker 93 I've never been the biggest fan.

Speaker 21 I am rooting for him to figure it out a little bit because it does feel like the whole world's coming at him, and that sucks.

Speaker 28 Seems like a nice guy.

Speaker 23 Seems like a nice guy and the stories are not great.

Speaker 42 And I also want to give a little credit to the Colts.

Speaker 64 I don't remember the last time I've seen exactly this, but if you look at the box score, Jonathan Taylor was the only one to have a carry for the Colts and he had 34 of them.

Speaker 28 I love that. Yeah, that is cool.

Speaker 97 34 for 177.

Speaker 30 Not a single carry by anyone else.

Speaker 24 I love that.

Speaker 28 I thought that Flacco ran with the ball one time. It wasn't.

Speaker 101 It was a penalty problem.

Speaker 156 Yeah, and I think it might have even been a sack because he didn't get there.

Speaker 123 Okay.

Speaker 92 But yeah, it was just a cool stat to look at that Jonathan Taylor.

Speaker 21 That's a real bell cow.

Speaker 116 Look at that.

Speaker 10 Look at that.

Speaker 58 You don't see that very often. It's clean.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's as clean as it gets.

Speaker 28 That's a clean-ass box score.

Speaker 1 Joe Flacco threw all the passes.

Speaker 58 Jonathan Taylor ran all the balls.

Speaker 156 Man, the Colts are a bummer.

Speaker 90 And the Jags are a bummer, too.

Speaker 26 But the Jags are going to get Ben Johnson.

Speaker 109 I've resigned myself to that. I think that's exactly what's going to happen.

Speaker 28 And you're going to get Trevor Lawrence back?

Speaker 116 What do you mean?

Speaker 27 They're going to get Trevor Lawrence. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 99 They're going to get Trevor Lawrence back, and they're going to get Ben Johnson.

Speaker 32 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 112 So good for them.

Speaker 115 Happy for the Jags.

Speaker 146 Okay.

Speaker 29 Should we do NFC?

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Speaker 167 Okay, NFC, we have the Lions at number one seed.

Speaker 150 The Eagles two, Bucs three, Rams four,

Speaker 25 Vikings five, Commanders six, Packers seven, and we'll start with the Sunday night football game.

Speaker 19 Lions 31, Vikings nine.

Speaker 156 That was an absolute ass-kicking by the Lions,

Speaker 19 both defensively and then in the second half offensively.

Speaker 136 Jameer Gibbs, especially, four touchdowns.

Speaker 78 He is so goddamn good.

Speaker 26 And the Lions win the NFC North.

Speaker 127 They, you know,

Speaker 126 I don't want to say deserved, but the Lions were...

Speaker 105 That was, I mean, after watching that game, they deserved it because they throttled the Vikings.

Speaker 103 The Vikings' offense looked abysmal tonight.

Speaker 28 Yeah, the Vikings tried to do the Dan Campbell thing, and they thought, like a lot of us, you have to score touchdowns to win this game.

Speaker 28 So they, instead of kicking field goals, I think turned the ball over on downs twice inside like the five-yard line. Yep.

Speaker 28 It seemed like Kevin O'Connell was thinking to himself, like, in order to beat Dan, I have to become Dan.

Speaker 42 And Sam Darnold was bad tonight. He was really bad.

Speaker 28 And he's usually very good against the Blitz, but he was not tonight. He was

Speaker 28 terrible against the Blitz.

Speaker 101 Yeah.

Speaker 144 Overthrowing,

Speaker 132 just didn't see it.

Speaker 85 It looked like he could not see it. And Alex Anzalone coming back felt like it was a big boost for the Lions defense.

Speaker 28 Do you see his arm? Yeah. Anzalone's arm with all the stitches on it.
It's crazy. It's absolutely insane.
It looks like he turned his forearm into a football. Yeah.

Speaker 28 It's crazy. What do you say? Like, everybody wants to be a dog until you have to do dog shit? Yeah.
He did some dog shit tonight. Yeah.

Speaker 111 That's a hard quote.

Speaker 12 That is a very hard quote.

Speaker 28 I'd like to say that at some point in my life. Yeah.

Speaker 150 But the Lions now have home field advantage, and the Vikings have to go on the road to the Rams.

Speaker 26 I am officially back to worried about my pinky because the Vikings were not inspiring tonight.

Speaker 26 Now, you could make the argument, and I thought about it after, you know, when you're watching a game, you're like, man, I feel stupid for this.

Speaker 158 The way the Vikings celebrated after winning the Packers game, it did feel like they maybe got a little ahead of themselves like we did it.

Speaker 58 And this game, I mean, it wasn't, I know it was close in the first half, but it wasn't close in the fact that the Vikings...

Speaker 23 They just couldn't make a big play when they needed to at any point.

Speaker 28 Yeah, the run game was okay.

Speaker 1 The Cam Akers had that big run, and then what happens?

Speaker 45 Like they can't score.

Speaker 32 It's just it was time and time again.

Speaker 2 They weren't able to make a big play.

Speaker 37 What would they have two times they got

Speaker 1 turnover on downs within the Lions five-yard line?

Speaker 154 They just couldn't make a big play.

Speaker 28 Yeah, they tried to beat them in the first half by saying we're going to have to get six every time we're down here. And then

Speaker 28 the Lions will break off big plays against you. It's just a matter of when.

Speaker 28 They tried to do the thing in the first half where they're like, okay, Gibbs, we're going to spell him for a little bit with, what was it, Patrick?

Speaker 77 Reynolds. Reynolds, my bad.

Speaker 28 Yeah, Reynolds. And then they thought to themselves, why are we doing this? We don't have to have like a two-running back system.
Let's just feed Gibbs. Yeah.

Speaker 89 No, Gibbs was

Speaker 162 139 yards rushing, 31 yards receiving, four touchdowns.

Speaker 26 He did whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted to do it.

Speaker 156 And it's a lot of credit to Aaron Glenn, future coach for Memes.

Speaker 26 I felt like he had a perfect defensive scheme for Sam Darnold, and it just, he was never comfortable, and it never felt like the Vikings could get any type of momentum.

Speaker 167 Like, I don't remember, we watched that whole game.

Speaker 45 Do you remember more than I mean, they had that Cam Akers run all the way down, they had a, they had the Jared Goff interception at like the 50-yard line, they almost had another pick six from Jared.

Speaker 23 Yeah, but I don't remember any drive where it felt like the Vikings went down the field and it was like play after play.

Speaker 132 They were hitting it and found a rhythm.

Speaker 140 They had no rhythm.

Speaker 28 Their rhythm was like occasional passes to Naylor. Yeah.
And besides that, they weren't really doing a whole lot.

Speaker 58 Are you, now that the Lions have home field advantage,

Speaker 163 Max, were you kind of hoping for the Vikings to be the one with the home field advantage?

Speaker 10 Okay, so

Speaker 50 how does this change your

Speaker 173 Lions also

Speaker 9 they really turned it on in the second half, but in the first half they looked very beatable.

Speaker 1 But their defense was always there.

Speaker 6 Their defense played their best.

Speaker 91 That was the best defensive performance the Lions have had had in a long time.

Speaker 54 Aaron Donald had three.

Speaker 54 How many times is that?

Speaker 54 Sam Darnold had...

Speaker 9 How many times did you just miss a wide open guy in the end zone?

Speaker 130 But it was part of the pressure. Like, he was so...

Speaker 67 But Sam Darnold,

Speaker 67 Sam Darnold sucked.

Speaker 168 But it's still, like, you, I'm giving credit to the Lions and the fact that they have had some really bad defensive performances in the last month, and they've been very injured.

Speaker 170 This was a very good defensive performance by the Lions.

Speaker 26 Would you not agree?

Speaker 40 They had him just just completely flustered.

Speaker 162 What did he end up?

Speaker 103 18 for 41.

Speaker 119 Do you think Sam Darnold cost himself some money tonight?

Speaker 28 He might have, but at the same time, it's like one game.

Speaker 104 Well, it's basically.

Speaker 28 It's an important game.

Speaker 140 I don't think he costs himself money tonight, but it could be if he has a bad game next Monday.

Speaker 26 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Because then it's like, because this was a playoff.

Speaker 28 It made you think a little bit.

Speaker 65 Yeah.

Speaker 45 It made you think, oh, shit, that wasn't good.

Speaker 28 Yeah, I don't think that we can look at this and be like, Sam Darnold is back into a pumpkin.

Speaker 140 No, but if Monday night, if

Speaker 120 let's just say Vikings fans probably aren't feeling super easy right now.

Speaker 28 No, I mean they lost to the Rams.

Speaker 175 I know.

Speaker 140 I'm saying they don't feel easy right now.

Speaker 87 They went to sleep not feeling easy.

Speaker 26 And I'm telling you, Vikings kicker,

Speaker 167 his face, negative confidence. I know he kicked it Alabama, but it's just negative confidence.

Speaker 129 He did kick a couple in the first half.

Speaker 120 He kicked a couple, and then at the end of the half, he kicked it out of bounds with 20 seconds left, and the Lions were able to get three points out of it.

Speaker 45 And then he missed a 52-yarder later on in the game.

Speaker 28 He missed it badly, too. Badly.
And then you could tell he was thinking about it. Right.

Speaker 136 And you could also tell he was like, damn, this is late for a school night. Yeah.

Speaker 175 I need to get home.

Speaker 28 He is facebook.

Speaker 28 You've got to have a kicker that has at least the ability to grow a beard. Yeah.
So, yeah,

Speaker 28 it looked like Aaron Glenn had the answers. like written down before the game even started.
Right. Like it was never even an option that was going to be close.

Speaker 40 That shot of him sitting on the sideline.

Speaker 28 Yeah, he sat down.

Speaker 1 He was just hanging out. Yeah.

Speaker 2 He's like, this is so easy.

Speaker 28 He's like, we got this.

Speaker 163 I got Sam Darnold in my back pocket.

Speaker 28 Because I feel like even though Sam is good typically against the Blitz, not all Blitzes are created equal.

Speaker 115 Yeah, so what is it saying for Terry and Arnold's possible fibula?

Speaker 169 Possible fibula

Speaker 156 external rotation of ankle worry for high ankle sprain, but officially a foot. Well, he does have a foot.

Speaker 109 That is officially a foot.

Speaker 94 But they also have the buy now.

Speaker 32 And their second round matchup, how would would you feel about going to the Lions?

Speaker 28 Anybody, anytime, anywhere. I like that.

Speaker 136 That's smart. That's smart.

Speaker 58 And it could be the Vikings going back to the Lions.

Speaker 28 That is true.

Speaker 132 Very true.

Speaker 97 I mean, if everyone holds serve except for the Vikings or the Rams.

Speaker 12 That's what Dan Campbell said to O'Connell after the game.

Speaker 28 What did he say? He said C in two weeks.

Speaker 111 Oh.

Speaker 10 Wow.

Speaker 26 NFC North Pride.

Speaker 28 That's disrespectful.

Speaker 19 That's good for you, Max. That means the Eagles won.

Speaker 48 Yeah, I would take that win.

Speaker 23 Dan Campbell said you were going to win.

Speaker 42 Dan Campbell's a winner.

Speaker 157 What a season for the Lions.

Speaker 88 15-2.

Speaker 9 Do you think that he was going to go for that?

Speaker 116 No, I don't.

Speaker 26 I actually don't.

Speaker 45 Dan Campbell's crazy.

Speaker 23 So what Max is asking is there was a moment in the game with about six minutes left, and the Lions were up 15 points, and it was fourth and two from the six-yard line-ish,

Speaker 149 the Vikings' six-yard line.

Speaker 156 The Lions got to the line of scrimmage like they were going for it, got the Vikings to go off sides.

Speaker 89 I actually think he was going to kick the field goal there.

Speaker 28 Yeah, he was not going to go for it.

Speaker 65 You don't know that. No, he was just going to go.

Speaker 51 I know I don't. You don't know that.

Speaker 10 I didn't say I know I don't know.

Speaker 68 No, PFT.

Speaker 48 PFT said it.

Speaker 65 I know it. No, you don't.

Speaker 28 I know they were not going to go for it. They changed their entire cadence.
Did you hear the broadcast?

Speaker 9 Yeah, but they could have

Speaker 9 called the timeout and then gone for it. Dan Campbell has definitely done that before.

Speaker 28 No, because it would have been to make it an 18-point lead, Max.

Speaker 51 I weren't going to go for it.

Speaker 9 Dan Campbell does dumb shit all the time like that.

Speaker 28 No, he does winning shit.

Speaker 149 He's a winner. He's 15 and 2.

Speaker 9 Has he won a Super Bowl?

Speaker 97 No. He does winning shit.

Speaker 9 Does he have the highest winning percentage in the NFL?

Speaker 28 This season.

Speaker 9 Yeah. Out of current active NFL head coaches.
This season.

Speaker 80 Did you just learn a new stat?

Speaker 54 No, I've already said that.

Speaker 9 I said this last week. Okay.
So if you want to talk about regular season winning, Nick Siriani is a winner.

Speaker 20 So, yeah.

Speaker 9 Dan Campbell's a good regular season winner. So is Nick Siriani.
Let's see what happens in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 But Dan Campbell also took over a dumpster fire of a team.

Speaker 129 Nick Siriani took over a team that had won a Super Bowl two years before.

Speaker 9 Yeah, and then they were coming off a dumpster fire every year that led to

Speaker 51 hiring a vad coach. You're talking about the

Speaker 113 Detroit Lions.

Speaker 92 I mean, Dan Campbell went 3-13 his first year on a terrible team that has rebuilt everything.

Speaker 45 Dan Campbell's a better winner than a broken broker.

Speaker 9 You can't say that a guy is a bona fide winner until he wins a Super Bowl.

Speaker 54 How many times are we going to say it?

Speaker 9 We say it about every other guy in every other other sport. Win a Super Bowl, then you're a winner.

Speaker 51 He's a winner.

Speaker 9 Win a Super Bowl, then you're a winner. Hank, what are your thoughts about the regular season win?

Speaker 28 You got the one seed. Don't mean shit.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 101 Thank you. All right.

Speaker 106 Win a Super Bowl, and then you're a winner.

Speaker 42 So there's barely any winners.

Speaker 9 Bill Belichick, winner.

Speaker 167 Sean McVay.

Speaker 9 Sean McVay, winner.

Speaker 155 Okay.

Speaker 9 Mike Tomlin, winner.

Speaker 28 Mike McCarthy.

Speaker 45 Mike Tomlin. Is there an expiration on that?

Speaker 9 No, winner.

Speaker 3 Okay, because it does feel like there could be an expiration on like Kevin Ollie Reed, winner.

Speaker 28 Kevin Ollie, winner. Yeah.

Speaker 9 Like, those are, but, like, you get, you, you can't just say someone's a good coach because they're a winner, Doug Peter, and then they've never won a sword.

Speaker 1 I don't even remember how this debate started.

Speaker 28 Max is getting overly emotional because he's afraid of the Lions. Okay.
And so he's trying to do it. No, no, no.

Speaker 135 It just said

Speaker 9 Dan Campbell does the same shit as Nick Siriani, but for some reason,

Speaker 51 for some reason, Dan Campbell.

Speaker 51 People

Speaker 9 because he's a winner.

Speaker 1 No, Dan Campbell does it consistently, and he has like, he.

Speaker 67 So does Nick Siriani?

Speaker 10 No,

Speaker 45 you know that Nick Siriani chooses when and when not to do it.

Speaker 1 He does stuff sometimes where he kind of loses his mind.

Speaker 67 So does Dan Campbell.

Speaker 80 You know, but it's always consistent.

Speaker 1 I had made this argument a million times. Dan Campbell is crazy, but

Speaker 48 then you think that he should have gone for it today. No, he was.

Speaker 80 No,

Speaker 9 if you're saying that, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 No, because it actually made sense to kick it there, to go up three scores.

Speaker 9 He does shit that doesn't make sense all the time.

Speaker 68 When has he done that?

Speaker 54 I can't remember the exact name.

Speaker 9 Literally last time.

Speaker 68 Who kept kept going up three scores.

Speaker 58 He might have.

Speaker 54 I don't know. Do you have a time?

Speaker 9 No, but there was something in that,

Speaker 9 I think, what was it, the Bills game late in the fourth quarter where we were like,

Speaker 37 yeah, he kicked the

Speaker 51 on-site kick.

Speaker 9 That wasn't it.

Speaker 28 Are you talking about it against the Cowboys?

Speaker 9 No,

Speaker 9 it was a Sunday night game.

Speaker 141 Are you fine?

Speaker 24 Do a little homework and come back to us, okay?

Speaker 28 Max, why are you so upset that we're lavishing praise on Dan Campbell for getting

Speaker 51 Detroit Lions?

Speaker 68 everyone's an enemy right now it's playoffs correct everyone's an enemy okay yeah

Speaker 81 everyone everyone everyone's an enemy it's playoffs

Speaker 40 except actually there's only one team that's not an enemy for you

Speaker 9 the commanders well they could be if they make it to the yeah but you're right there you're just assuming that they're not going to make no no

Speaker 42 no no i'm saying that at least for a few weeks you don't have to like the commanders and you guys can't play each other for at least two weeks no everyone's an enemy but you can't play each other for two weeks you know who's not an an enemy?

Speaker 141 Bears.

Speaker 9 You know who's not an enemy? Jets. You know who's not an enemy?

Speaker 135 Patriots.

Speaker 9 Those aren't enemies.

Speaker 106 You know what? Fine. Fuck it.

Speaker 40 I'm not going to give you the blueprint on how to beat the Packers.

Speaker 132 Fair. You shouldn't have done that.

Speaker 73 I could have told you all the secrets because that's all I do is beat the Packers.

Speaker 116 All right.

Speaker 120 That was good talk about the Lions.

Speaker 10 We were talking about the Lions.

Speaker 28 Yeah, so the Lions.

Speaker 28 We said a lot of nice things about the Lions until Max had to just fall over you.

Speaker 51 So if you're a Lions.

Speaker 68 He's in playoff mode. I love it.

Speaker 28 Let the fucking Detroit Lions fans enjoy a one seed, Max. They're 15 and 16.

Speaker 9 All it was doing was just asking the question of whether he was going to go for it, and then this conversation.

Speaker 154 I do not think he was going to go for it.

Speaker 58 I do not think he was going to go for it.

Speaker 48 Yeah,

Speaker 9 also, this is just a hypothetical that has no answer. So that was a stupid thing.

Speaker 28 Yeah, you're saying, like,

Speaker 28 if it hadn't worked, which would, you have to, Max, you have to be consistent, right? We've talked about this.

Speaker 28 If you're going to criticize him, you have to compliment him for going with it and having a plan where it worked.

Speaker 77 That did work. Yeah, it did work.
That did work.

Speaker 94 And listen, if the Lions defense can play like that, and the Vikings offense is good.

Speaker 58 If the Lions defense can play like that, they are.

Speaker 1 That was the perfect.

Speaker 23 If you asked the Lions fan before the game, that was the perfect way for that night to end.

Speaker 150 Win the NFC North and do it with your defense looking good.

Speaker 45 You didn't want to win a game, another game where it was 45-42, and you're like going into the playoffs being like, look at what happened against the Bills.

Speaker 26 Look at what happened with the Niners game with a bunch of backups and they were just going up and down the field.

Speaker 60 That was, that felt good.

Speaker 130 And they didn't do it with huge chunk plays either.

Speaker 117 Yeah.

Speaker 28 They did just by grinding them down. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 120 So credit to the Lions.

Speaker 130 One seed, deserved it, 15 wins.

Speaker 105 Sucks for the Vikings winning 14 games and having to go on the road.

Speaker 89 But that's just how good the NFC North was this year.

Speaker 28 Yeah, so they're going to go to Los Angeles on Monday night.

Speaker 10 I'm worried.

Speaker 28 I'm a little bit worried, too.

Speaker 120 This is a Sam Darnold face mask game.

Speaker 28 We can talk about the Rams when we talk about the Rams, but that's another thing.

Speaker 123 Yeah, I'm worried.

Speaker 14 I'm just worried. Okay, so

Speaker 150 the other thing we had to decide besides seeding in the NFC today was the Bucs.

Speaker 29 Bucs 27, Saints 19.

Speaker 23 Bucs win the NFC South.

Speaker 30 Bucs get the three seed.

Speaker 108 Gonna take on your commanders, PFT.

Speaker 144 This was a weird game because the Bucs for the first two and a half quarters looked like they thought they could just show up and win this game without even trying.

Speaker 26 They looked like garbage to start the game.

Speaker 28 It was very sloppy.

Speaker 31 And then Baker Mayfield had back-to-back drives that ended the game essentially, where they went 12 plays, 82 yards, 12 plays, 94 yards, touchdown, touchdown.

Speaker 128 They let,

Speaker 21 I guess the Bucs were correct in the strategy of like, hey, Spencer Spencer Rattler can't play four quarters where he's good.

Speaker 87 And that was correct.

Speaker 26 But the Bucs looked slow, finished strong, and then we had Mike Evans get his thousandth yard, which now makes him tied for Jerry Rice 11 seasons, thousand yards.

Speaker 120 Pretty awesome accomplishment. He's in Hall of Fame wide receiver.

Speaker 42 Very, very cool.

Speaker 28 The last play of the game, though, where they hit Mike Evans on that.

Speaker 28 You like that? I do. I didn't like it.
$3 million.

Speaker 30 I like it.

Speaker 28 Yeah, it's okay. I get that.
I get that part of it.

Speaker 28 But also, what I don't like is it looked like the guy on the Saints that was matched up against him was like, yeah, just run your five-yard out.

Speaker 28 I'm going to turn around and go downfield like you're running a deep route, and then we'll turn around and tackle you.

Speaker 105 If this was Mike Evans, two things. One, if this is Mike Evans' second year in the league, third year in the league, I'd be like, that's bullshit.

Speaker 108 He's been in the league for over a decade.

Speaker 136 He's a veteran, seems like an awesome dude.

Speaker 31 I'm okay with it for five yards.

Speaker 44 And the second thing, the more important thing, I'm okay with it because he missed, what, four or five games for injury?

Speaker 32 Yeah.

Speaker 26 If he had played all 17 games and they needed that shit to get him a thousand yards, I'd be like, oh, come on, dude.

Speaker 42 But

Speaker 163 how many games did he end up missing or not playing?

Speaker 40 Because that, like, he would have gotten a thousand yards if he didn't get injured.

Speaker 45 Yeah, I know injuries are part of the game, but that does change it a little bit.

Speaker 28 And he was only, what, like, five yards away from him. He was five yards away.

Speaker 45 It wasn't like, you know, he needed 100 yards.

Speaker 28 Maybe I'm old school, big cat. I don't like the idea of a guy letting you have yards.
Four, five. You got to fight for every yard of this league.

Speaker 45 So he played 13 games because he got injured in one of them, I believe.

Speaker 22 So, so, yeah,

Speaker 168 he missed four games.

Speaker 167 He would have had it easily if he hadn't gotten injured.

Speaker 146 I'm okay with it. I don't know.

Speaker 24 Three million bucks, dude.

Speaker 28 Yeah, I'm happy for him to make the money. I'm curious to know what Jerry Rice's thoughts are.

Speaker 160 I don't know.

Speaker 28 Mark Gasser. We have to ask Jerry Rice.
He wants those yards back? Yeah.

Speaker 19 Yeah,

Speaker 19 I had no problem with it.

Speaker 45 I mean, the only argument I would consider is, like, it technically is a very dumb thing because what if tragedy happens and you throw a pick and your playoffs are on the line?

Speaker 28 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, it could have caused that part makes sense.
I just, I would have liked it a lot more if the Saints had at least pretended to play defense on it.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 77 Done a little something-something.

Speaker 28 Otherwise, it just looked like it's scripted play.

Speaker 111 Are we looking at me like that for Max?

Speaker 141 Nothing, continue. You found something?

Speaker 48 Yeah, I found exactly what I was talking about.

Speaker 34 Okay, so go ahead.

Speaker 9 Against the Packers.

Speaker 120 Okay.

Speaker 121 On green.

Speaker 10 Wait, no. Oh, no.
Oh, no.

Speaker 37 No, you can't cut it.

Speaker 51 Do not cut this.

Speaker 45 Do not cut this. No,

Speaker 9 what I really was going to say was

Speaker 9 in that same game, it didn't work out. They were up three points

Speaker 9 at the beginning.

Speaker 9 We're at the very end of the third quarter, went for it at a fourth down, and they're on their own 30, didn't get it, gave up a touchdown, gave up the lead, but the Lions came back and won.

Speaker 51 Okay, but that has also

Speaker 45 been on their own 30.

Speaker 48 But that's not

Speaker 37 the same as what we're talking about.

Speaker 28 And kicking a field goal to make it 18 points.

Speaker 24 Good segment. Oh, man.

Speaker 48 Well, that's why

Speaker 10 I didn't even.

Speaker 68 I didn't want to talk about this.

Speaker 9 You said you looked at me, and then I looked at the ball.

Speaker 12 I thought exactly what I was talking about.

Speaker 71 Good work, Max.

Speaker 48 I'm cutting all of that. No, you're not.

Speaker 48 No, you're not. Yes, I am.

Speaker 51 You can't do anything about it.

Speaker 140 There's nothing I can do about it, and I wouldn't know if you cut it or didn't.

Speaker 112 So that sucks.

Speaker 83 Other two dogs.

Speaker 150 Jalen McMillan is awesome.

Speaker 28 Yeah, he's very good. He's really good.
And I still love Bucky.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Bucky's awesome.

Speaker 140 You got to get in war mode.

Speaker 123 Don't compliment them too much.

Speaker 10 I can compliment them.

Speaker 51 I'll compliment him.

Speaker 169 You don't.

Speaker 28 Great player. Don't.

Speaker 113 Just a rookie, though.

Speaker 82 They brought the duck back.

Speaker 105 Did you see that?

Speaker 3 Playing the game. That game?

Speaker 34 I did see that. The duck was there.

Speaker 45 You got to.

Speaker 51 You got to get ready for that.

Speaker 77 You might have to go down and kill that duck.

Speaker 28 I think we got to sign Carson Wentz to be the backup down there and execute that fucking duck.

Speaker 142 Yes.

Speaker 64 What the hell do the Saints do?

Speaker 51 Have the Saints.

Speaker 118 Who's going to take the Saints' head coaching job?

Speaker 28 I don't know. I don't know who's going to get the Saints job.

Speaker 28 It could be a real wild card of a hire.

Speaker 149 I feel like there has been every open job has had someone name attached, except for the Saints.

Speaker 150 They're just going to get whoever's left.

Speaker 28 I'm thinking it's going to be somebody very boring.

Speaker 51 Drew Brees.

Speaker 28 Give it a shot. Yeah, why not?

Speaker 34 He's boring.

Speaker 28 What about Coach O?

Speaker 158 Coach O would be sick.

Speaker 158 Yeah, Coach O on the Saints.

Speaker 65 So sick.

Speaker 28 I mean, okay, here's what I'll say about the Buccaneers. Congrats to them.
Was it five straight playoff appearances? Bit of an NFC South Berchant, those Buccaneers.

Speaker 26 If you ask Stephen Shea, they're one of the most dominant teams of the first half of this decade.

Speaker 28 The NFC South has been so fucking bad outside of the Tom Brady years. Great for the Bucs.
Good job. You won a Super Bowl with Tom Brady at the end of his career.
That's awesome for you.

Speaker 28 The NFC South has been so bad year in, year out.

Speaker 157 Panthers.

Speaker 12 What about him? Cam Newton?

Speaker 120 No, he's talking about the last five years. Yeah, last five years.

Speaker 28 A bit of an NFC South merchant, if we're being honest.

Speaker 32 Yeah, even Tom Brees last year.

Speaker 167 What did they finish 9-8?

Speaker 28 And then they did beat us in the playoffs.

Speaker 97 No, no, no.

Speaker 51 That was the year they lost to Cowboys on Monday Night Football in 2020.

Speaker 28 But I do like Baker. I'm going to have to turn on Baker this week.

Speaker 22 He's such a dog.

Speaker 162 He ends the season with 4,499 yards, 44 total touchdowns, 71.4% completion percentage.

Speaker 44 He's awesome.

Speaker 26 He did the thing today where he ran over a guy and then stepped over him and basically started an entire fight between both teams while walking away.

Speaker 28 Yeah, he was like, keep talking about me while I'm gone.

Speaker 45 Yeah, he was the Joker meme with the

Speaker 28 walking away from the children's house.

Speaker 24 Yeah, it was a hospital blowing up.

Speaker 22 He's like, this is what I just started.

Speaker 28 Yeah, Baker scares me a little bit, I'll be honest.

Speaker 26 Jalen McMillan also should probably put his guns away for the playoffs.

Speaker 28 Yeah, so that was an interesting moment because he did the first down sign, but they thought he had like trigger fingers or at least a handgun as one of his hands.

Speaker 28 But he actually had his fingers taped together from an injury. Yes.
Then he goes up to the ref and shows him, it's not a gun, my fingers were just taped together. Yeah.
Is that an excuse?

Speaker 85 No, because they kept the penalty.

Speaker 28 Yeah, it's not an excuse. Yeah.
Also, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would never allow guns in their stadium. No.
Besides the Giant handguns. Absolutely not.

Speaker 45 All right, so are you worried?

Speaker 6 Are you ready?

Speaker 20 You wanted the Bucs.

Speaker 42 No, you said you wanted the Bucks.

Speaker 28 I wanted any, but I really wanted the Eagles. I'm bummed out that we're not going to get the Eagles.
I wanted that.

Speaker 28 The Rams concern me because Sean McVay concerns me.

Speaker 24 The Bucs also,

Speaker 136 I mean, we saw it in that game against the Cowboys on Sunday night football.

Speaker 22 Like, they don't, I feel like they don't rush the passer great, so that should give Jaden a lot of time.

Speaker 28 They're good at stopping the run, though. They are good at stopping the problem.
Todd Bowles kind of a bird brain when it comes to making decisions about things. That was

Speaker 140 one play that sticks in my mind from this game today: Clyde Edwards-Alaire got a little bit of daylight, and he ran into Vita Vey, and Vita Vey didn't even tackle him.

Speaker 118 He just stood with his belly out.

Speaker 45 Yeah. And he literally ran into him and fell backwards.

Speaker 28 Yeah, Vita Vey does concern me a lot.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 156 He's a monster.

Speaker 19 Another guy doesn't wear gloves.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 50 Scary.

Speaker 60 So,

Speaker 169 I mean, you guys can win this game. It's a three-point spread.

Speaker 28 Three-point spread. Also, Mike Evans, great player.
Very happy that he got a thousand yards. That was very nice to see.
I was cheering super hard for that.

Speaker 28 Marshawn Lattimore kind of has a history of locking him down

Speaker 28 and getting him kicked out of games.

Speaker 135 I forgot about that.

Speaker 28 They like to fight. They like to fight a lot.
I think the stats are that historically, Marshawn Lattimore limits him to like three catches per game and something like 47 yards per game.

Speaker 28 So that's good if Lattimore plays.

Speaker 101 Okay.

Speaker 28 Keys to the victory. Keys to the victory.

Speaker 77 Lattimore plays.

Speaker 76 Bring Carson with a shotgun.

Speaker 28 Well, he didn't play today. Okay.

Speaker 58 But, I mean, you guys sat.

Speaker 28 Jaden half the game. He's a Bucs specialist.
Yeah. He'll be back.
Okay.

Speaker 23 Next up

Speaker 23 in the NFC South.

Speaker 144 So the Bucs looked like they were going to maybe blow this, but it turns out the Falcons were going to blow it on their own anyway.

Speaker 4 Panthers 44, Falcons 38.

Speaker 140 Bryce Young was incredible.

Speaker 31 Five total touchdowns, 250 yards.

Speaker 33 Did you see he did the Steph Curry lookaway?

Speaker 96 Yeah.

Speaker 29 So he threw a touchdown pass, and before the pass was even caught, he turned around and started celebrating.

Speaker 28 I like that we've reached a point in the Bryce Young reclamation where he's like stunting on people now. Yeah.
Like, what a turnaround that's been, literally in this game.

Speaker 40 Yeah, he had, so since he got benched, when he came back, he's had 20 total touchdowns, six interceptions,

Speaker 162 2,100 yards, and 61% completion percentage.

Speaker 120 And Dave Canalis said, after the game, we've got our guy.

Speaker 1 And I'm happy for Bryce Young.

Speaker 80 I'm happy for the Panthers that this season was going in such a bad direction.

Speaker 58 And Dave Canalis, coach of the year, should probably get some credit.

Speaker 28 Yeah, so is O'Connell still your coach of the year?

Speaker 162 Not after tonight. I think it's Dave Canalis.

Speaker 28 What about Dan Campbell?

Speaker 87 It might be Jeff Olbrook.

Speaker 28 Mine might be Dan Campbell.

Speaker 32 Mine might be Jeff Olbrook.

Speaker 28 I just love how consistent he is.

Speaker 34 Yeah, he's a winner.

Speaker 97 Dan Campbell's a winner. A winner.

Speaker 123 But yeah,

Speaker 51 the

Speaker 24 Panthers, arrows pointing up.

Speaker 51 And the Falcons, I don't fucking know where their arrows are pointing because they're just the Falcons.

Speaker 28 Yeah, but I feel like Pennix is the guy.

Speaker 2 You're ready to say it already? I think he's the guy.

Speaker 28 I'm ready to see

Speaker 28 right now. I think he's the guy.
Okay.

Speaker 42 Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 59 I need to see more games.

Speaker 23 I'm just...

Speaker 105 They're just the Falcons.

Speaker 51 Drake London is the guy.

Speaker 58 How do you know?

Speaker 137 You need to win this game.

Speaker 137 They lose the two games in ridiculous fashion the last two weeks.

Speaker 23 They fought all the way back into the division.

Speaker 31 They're just the Falcons. They are the Falcons.

Speaker 154 They're just the most frustrating organization to look at from afar.

Speaker 28 Yeah, but I think they're overall

Speaker 28 this season, it turned around a little bit. You got more exciting.
You got a better glimpse of the future. You saw that Kirk Cousins is not the guy.

Speaker 4 You can move forward.

Speaker 40 But that's even the Falcons.

Speaker 140 The fact that they did

Speaker 57 Kirk Cousins

Speaker 167 signing and Michael Pennix drafting, we said at the time, made no sense.

Speaker 162 It looks even dumber now because you could.

Speaker 150 Maybe if Kirk Cousins plays two years and brings Michael Pennix along and you get to the playoffs with Kirk Cousins, you can tell yourself, hey, that was actually good in the long run.

Speaker 163 None of that happened, and you just wasted all that money and

Speaker 30 took Michael Pennix, who I'm not ready to say he's the guy.

Speaker 32 They're just the most frustrating organization.

Speaker 28 So, do you think that it's going to be any sort of possibility that Kirk Cousins plays next year for the Falcons? No.

Speaker 130 I mean, why would you?

Speaker 28 If you're Kirk Cousins or if you're the Falcons? If you're the Falcons. The only explanation would be that the Achilles is like a two-year recovery.

Speaker 31 But why would you, why would you like, he probably wants to start.

Speaker 44 There's no reason to start him.

Speaker 120 You drafted Michael Pennix.

Speaker 175 You already went to him.

Speaker 2 He is your guy now.

Speaker 28 Because weird stuff happens. I mean, the Falcons are a weird organization.

Speaker 23 They are very much a weird organization, but that would be insane if they were like, hey, Michael Penix, you're not our starter next year.

Speaker 28 Open competition.

Speaker 65 That would be nuts.

Speaker 29 It would be crazy.

Speaker 128 No, I think

Speaker 31 they'll probably try to...

Speaker 14 unload him somewhere, trade him.

Speaker 144 I don't know where.

Speaker 97 Maybe he's the Raiders.

Speaker 28 I guess the reason why I still kind of like the Falcons is because they've got good, good, very good players on offense.

Speaker 155 Yeah, they draft number one.

Speaker 10 Awesome.

Speaker 51 Drake London. Drake London, awesome.

Speaker 28 Michael Pinnix, some are saying he looks like the guy.

Speaker 22 Kyle Pitts, whatever.

Speaker 155 Yeah, he's there.

Speaker 28 Yeah. Good offensive line.

Speaker 10 Yeah, but

Speaker 26 no, I just.

Speaker 136 The Falcons' arrows pointed, I don't know, because they're the Falcons, is what I'm trying to say.

Speaker 112 Yeah.

Speaker 45 Okay, Commanders 23, Cowboys, 19.

Speaker 26 Marcus Mariota played the second half of this game, won this game with no time left, basically.

Speaker 97 That had to feel good.

Speaker 28 Yeah, it was great. Terry McLaurin set the commander's record, the franchise record for most touchdowns in the year with that last touchdown catch.

Speaker 28 I'm just very happy for Terry, and this season has just been like 12 wins is unreal. Yeah.
Never in a million years did I think 12 wins.

Speaker 28 And I was looking at the roster and how far this team has turned around in a very, very short amount of time, which is why anytime a coach tells you four years for a rebuild, they're full of shit.

Speaker 28 Don't listen to that coach.

Speaker 28 We have 13 total Pro Bowlers this year. So that obviously includes the selections and then the alternates after that.

Speaker 28 Out of those 13, how many of those guys do you think were brought in under the Ron Rivera era?

Speaker 28 One. Zero.

Speaker 28 None of them. Ten of them are brand new this year.

Speaker 28 First year with the team.

Speaker 58 Wait, who brought in Terry?

Speaker 28 Terry, I believe that was Jay Gruden. Okay.
I think he drafted Terry.

Speaker 76 Okay.

Speaker 28 So yeah, the turnaround has been just unreal, and I feel like this has been a dream season.

Speaker 28 I hope that Jaden's okay. They said that he had leg soreness after the game.

Speaker 149 Oh, I thought he was just being, I thought he was just sitting in because it's like, this is kind of crazy.

Speaker 22 He was getting hit

Speaker 149 a decent amount.

Speaker 141 That would look super sharp.

Speaker 28 Yeah, that's what concerns me is the first half, our offensive line wasn't great.

Speaker 28 The center or backup center wasn't really able to handle Michael Parkinson or Micah Parsons when they hired, they lined him up. right over top of him.
Jaden got killed a little bit. His leg was sore.

Speaker 28 He said he would have played if it meant something. Okay.
But it kind of did mean something. Yeah.
And then he didn't play. And then Marcus looked pretty good.

Speaker 162 Are you bummed that you don't get to play the Eagles?

Speaker 28 I'm so bummed. I wanted the Eagles, but it's anyone, anytime, anywhere.
That's what I say.

Speaker 44 Were you rooting for the Bears against the Packers or no?

Speaker 28 I was rooting for my friend Big Cat. Yeah, he was being a good friend.

Speaker 149 You should try it sometime.

Speaker 114 Simultaneous wins was great.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 28 It was like within five seconds of each other.

Speaker 9 We had, oh, did we even mention we had the PMC?

Speaker 65 Oh, yeah. We all won a game today.

Speaker 105 That was pretty insane.

Speaker 1 I don't think that's ever happened.

Speaker 81 Yeah. That's awesome.

Speaker 9 Some AWI looked it up and said it was the first time since 2017.

Speaker 51 Wow.

Speaker 42 But that would have been just three.

Speaker 48 I don't know.

Speaker 48 2017.

Speaker 9 I didn't do too much research. Someone just said 2017.

Speaker 24 I mean, getting five teams.

Speaker 26 Next year, we got to do that every single week.

Speaker 28 We got to do the parlay. Money line parlay on them?

Speaker 48 That's crazy. Oh, my God.

Speaker 9 I'd lose so much money.

Speaker 72 But it would have won a lot today.

Speaker 76 Would it have?

Speaker 167 Yeah, the Bears were 10-point underdogs.

Speaker 51 Yeah, true, true, true.

Speaker 28 And Max, I'll honestly answer your question. I was rooting for the Bears.
I was. I was doing it to support Big Cat, and also because theoretically,

Speaker 28 theoretically, the Commanders could host the NFC Championship game now.

Speaker 28 In theory.

Speaker 2 And I actually, you missed this part, Max, but PFT whispered to me at one point.

Speaker 30 He's like, hey, I want the Bears to win this game so that you can share all the secrets with Max on how to beat the Packers.

Speaker 101 Yeah.

Speaker 9 He said that.

Speaker 48 Oh, shit, now you said you won't do that anymore.

Speaker 28 Yeah, so now

Speaker 26 you should try out being a good friend once in a a while.

Speaker 9 By the way, Dan Campbell went for it on fourth down in a tie game with 30 seconds to go.

Speaker 23 Again, that's not

Speaker 23 going to go.

Speaker 9 That's what I was trying to find.

Speaker 76 What? Earlier when the segment got cut?

Speaker 1 Oh, now you got to bring the segment back.

Speaker 79 Nope. Yeah.

Speaker 23 Max tried to.

Speaker 58 No, you got to leave that in.

Speaker 9 I'll leave some of it in. Okay.

Speaker 28 I'm sure we'll have another update about Dan Campbell's coaching errors.

Speaker 48 No, it wasn't an error.

Speaker 51 He got it. Oh, yeah, okay.

Speaker 162 And it was a tie game with 30 seconds left?

Speaker 9 Tie game with 30 seconds.

Speaker 28 And did they win?

Speaker 48 Correct. And where was the ball?

Speaker 9 This is the whole. Yeah, whatever.

Speaker 54 So is Nick Siriani.

Speaker 28 I got a question for you guys about the Commanders because I'm blinded by them.

Speaker 28 Again, I feel like this whole thing's been a dream because it's crazy from the owner to the head coach to the quarterback, all this shit. I have a question for you guys.

Speaker 28 Are the Commanders a likable team?

Speaker 151 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 26 Because I think I thought you were going to ask a different question that Hank was going to have a hard time answering.

Speaker 51 Okay.

Speaker 51 Ask the question.

Speaker 38 I think the Commandos are a likable team.

Speaker 70 I root for them. I do think Jaden smiles a little too much.

Speaker 106 He's starting to bother me a little bit.

Speaker 3 But I think they're a likable team.

Speaker 23 I like Dan Quinn.

Speaker 126 Terry McLaurin,

Speaker 140 I like Brian Robinson.

Speaker 38 It's similar to the Lions.

Speaker 51 Louvu.

Speaker 51 That's a guy.

Speaker 28 Louvu's awesome.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 12 They've obviously won. They've won.

Speaker 87 Yeah.

Speaker 12 They've won Super Bowl, so it's a little different than the Lions, but it's like teams that have been bad for a long time.

Speaker 70 Yeah, once they're done.

Speaker 76 No, they're likable.

Speaker 70 You root for them.

Speaker 28 Because I have no frame of reference as to whether. I guess guess the only thing I can point to is that we're playing in the Sunday night game, which means that somebody wants to watch us.

Speaker 103 Yeah, I mean, that's Jaden Daniels.

Speaker 28 Jaden Daniels.

Speaker 168 Yeah, he's had an incredible season.

Speaker 169 That's the Sunday Night Game.

Speaker 120 I thought you were going to ask a very different question.

Speaker 28 Okay, ask the question I was going to ask.

Speaker 118 Should I ask it to you or Hank?

Speaker 76 Ask it to Hank.

Speaker 51 Okay, Hank. Ask it to him first.

Speaker 10 Ask the hit first.

Speaker 129 Do you think the Washington Commanders are good?

Speaker 10 No.

Speaker 51 Hank turned to me in the middle of the Cowboys Commanders game.

Speaker 127 He goes, they fucking

Speaker 10 stink.

Speaker 38 Oh, I was thinking about the Saints game, too.

Speaker 51 I was like, the last few games we've been watching, like, they have been struggling against really bad teams.

Speaker 28 Here's the thing about the Commanders, though. We're not that good, but Jaden Daniels finds a way to do things at the end of games.
And today was Mariota.

Speaker 28 But if you look at since the Hail Mary game, we've scored like a million times in the last minute, minute and a half of games. Yeah.
And just

Speaker 28 craziest innings. Mac, I think it was a million times that we scored.
The Commanders are... Less than a million.
I honestly don't think that the Commanders are a great football team.

Speaker 28 We might not even be very good.

Speaker 76 But you're in the playoffs.

Speaker 65 But you know what we are?

Speaker 28 Is we're winners. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 9 And we figure out ways to

Speaker 28 figure out ways.

Speaker 51 Dan Quinn's a winner. We figure out ways.

Speaker 28 He was a Super Bowl winning at one-time head coach.

Speaker 10 Yes.

Speaker 101 That's fast.

Speaker 28 And something happens at the end of games where time slows down for usually Jaden, in this case Marcus,

Speaker 28 and it just ends up working out somehow. I don't know how they do it.
I don't think that that they're a very good team, but they're so fun to watch.

Speaker 12 Against bad teams. Against bad teams.

Speaker 28 Well, the Eagles, the Eagles are a good team. True.

Speaker 12 Well, they're playing Kenny Pickett.

Speaker 104 Yeah.

Speaker 28 The Eagles are a good team.

Speaker 70 We'll see how many people.

Speaker 10 I hope they have with Pennsylvania.

Speaker 9 What was the scorer when Jalen Hurts went out?

Speaker 28 Does Kenny Pickett play defense?

Speaker 65 That's true. Good point.

Speaker 28 Is the Eagles' defense good?

Speaker 120 That's a good point.

Speaker 77 Okay, that's a good point.

Speaker 37 But they could have, if Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 124 Go ahead, Max.

Speaker 9 No.

Speaker 44 Commanders.

Speaker 28 He's still trying to find Dan Campbell's stats. No, I already found.

Speaker 135 I found the one.

Speaker 12 The one exactly you're saying? No, I was wrong.

Speaker 9 By the way, it was the one I was exactly when I was saying, but I got mixed up and whatever.

Speaker 14 What?

Speaker 9 I got nervous when I went to say the one that I was actually saying, I was like, oh, that was actually a good idea, but I didn't realize it was tied when he went for it on

Speaker 102 there.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Max, do you think the commanders are good?

Speaker 48 Yeah, no, I think they're.

Speaker 163 To be honest, Max.

Speaker 9 I think they're.

Speaker 81 I mean, they're definitely... They're a playoff.

Speaker 9 I think that they could beat the Bucs.

Speaker 44 Yes, I would agree.

Speaker 4 The Bucs

Speaker 9 yeah, I think they're good enough to win a to win a playoff game.

Speaker 135 Here's the thing: I don't think there's anywhere near Super Bowl contenders.

Speaker 28 I think that they're one of two things is going to happen against the Bucs. One, we're going to win in the last 45 seconds of the game.
Some crazy shit's going to happen.

Speaker 28 Todd Bowles will probably screw something up in terms of a timeout or like a go-forward strategy because he's no Dan Campbell.

Speaker 28 And then we somehow figure out a way to win a game that we were losing by 17 points in the first half. That's option number one.
Option number two is we lose by like 25 points.

Speaker 28 Because we're not good, but we win and we're fun.

Speaker 32 Wait, would you win in option one, you said?

Speaker 28 Yeah, option one is we win.

Speaker 150 So Commander's Moneyline or Bucks alternate spread?

Speaker 28 Yeah, that would not be a bad bet.

Speaker 68 I'm going to have to do that.

Speaker 28 But I love this team. Equal amounts.
I love this team. Yeah.
Mike McCarthy, they asked him after the game what he thought about his future. Did you hear his quote?

Speaker 17 No.

Speaker 28 He said, I don't like to talk about myself, but I'll just be clear. I'm a winner.
I know how to win.

Speaker 70 Max?

Speaker 51 He said, I'm actually.

Speaker 50 Mike McCarthy is a winner.

Speaker 28 He said, I won a Super Bowl in this building, as a matter of fact. Yeah.

Speaker 9 I'm actually going to compliment. The Steelers don't really, or the Commanders don't really get blown out of games.

Speaker 116 No.

Speaker 135 So, like, I don't agree with that.

Speaker 9 I think it's going to be a

Speaker 28 Bucs blew us out.

Speaker 48 But week one,

Speaker 68 the Ravens.

Speaker 51 Oh, no. That was.

Speaker 10 Yeah, we lost.

Speaker 51 I think they lost by one score.

Speaker 28 They lost by seven points.

Speaker 9 Yeah. So, like, I don't think that that's necessarily,

Speaker 9 I feel like that would be going out on a limb to say that it's going to be a blowout or the Commanders win.

Speaker 28 I just think that there's a good chance that the Bucs get up on an early lead against us, and then if a couple things don't break our way, then it's going to be pretty ugly in the second half.

Speaker 28 But there's an equally good chance where we're losing by 17, and we end up winning by two.

Speaker 9 I think it's going to be a competitive game.

Speaker 173 I don't know necessarily who's going to win.

Speaker 9 I think the commanders can win that game.

Speaker 28 Yeah. There was a great moment in this game.
It reminded me a lot of

Speaker 28 the Bears Hail Mary, where your cornerback started celebrating and waving goodbye to the crowd.

Speaker 28 Malik Hooker on fourth down put his hand up to be like, we got this stop against Marcus Mariota as Marcus Mariota still had the ball and was running like 30 yards downfield.

Speaker 28 That was a great screenshot to look at.

Speaker 31 We also had a cheerleader get absolutely domed by a kickoff.

Speaker 84 That should count as a point.

Speaker 28 She got smoked.

Speaker 111 Yeah, that should count as a point. Disagree.

Speaker 135 Why? It's be funny.

Speaker 9 I think hitting women shouldn't count as a point.

Speaker 126 I didn't say women. I said cheerleaders.

Speaker 174 True, there are many.

Speaker 45 I never said the gender of the cheerleader.

Speaker 28 The Dallas Cowboys historically have... Could be.

Speaker 140 Could be.

Speaker 24 You don't know.

Speaker 169 You don't know.

Speaker 29 Cheerleaders come in all shapes and sizes. Yeah,

Speaker 28 that was a crazy, crazy kick. That was

Speaker 28 Aubrey, right? Yeah.

Speaker 28 And doesn't Evan McPherson, or is it the other Bengals kicker that got hit?

Speaker 109 Evan McPherson, I think, has his girlfriend or fiancé's on.

Speaker 28 On the cow, but that was not her that got hit.

Speaker 156 I don't think so.

Speaker 28 But yeah, that was crazy. It was like a bullet.

Speaker 51 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 147 And then they zoomed in on her.

Speaker 28 She wore that like a champ.

Speaker 135 She did.

Speaker 114 She did.

Speaker 28 Shout out to Tress Way asking her if she was okay.

Speaker 22 Great guy. That is awesome.

Speaker 28 Great job, Tress. Great job, Tress.

Speaker 103 All right, anything else in this game? No, I think that's ready for the Offs.

Speaker 28 I think that I'm ready for the Offs.

Speaker 28 This, much like the Broncos season, this whole season was a win, no matter what happens. Yeah, definitely.
Obviously, I want to win in the playoffs. But yeah, this is been a great year.

Speaker 51 Map out a road.

Speaker 28 Okay, here's the road.

Speaker 167 Because I know you've done it in your head.

Speaker 105 Yeah, we beat the Bucks. You might as well do it for us.

Speaker 28 Okay, so we beat the Bucs.

Speaker 28 Okay.

Speaker 28 Then the Packers beat the Eagles, which would break my heart because I want to see

Speaker 28 against the Eagles at some point.

Speaker 156 That would legit break my heart because I would have

Speaker 93 robbed of getting to cheer for the Eagles' demise.

Speaker 28 But that's part of the road. Part of the road is we somehow take over homefield's vantage.

Speaker 28 All right, so that happens, and then

Speaker 80 what was that phase?

Speaker 9 There's a way that you said that. I feel like there's going to be a part of you rooting for the Packers.

Speaker 4 Absolutely not.

Speaker 58 Max, I can be more clear.

Speaker 19 You need to end the Packers, and then I'll root against you.

Speaker 169 I am 110% Eagles on Saturday

Speaker 48 or Sunday. You and Hank.

Speaker 167 It couldn't be more clear.

Speaker 148 If the Packers beat you,

Speaker 162 if the packers beat you and i i'm not even allowed to make fun of you for losing that's tort that's the worst thing y'all make fun of me no i no because you should be like you the packers

Speaker 28 all right here's the path okay we beat the bucks then we've got the packers beating the eagles okay then we have uh the i'm gonna say the vikings beating the rams and then you've got the vibe the rams sorry so all the all the all upsets yeah five six seven and then you've got the lions

Speaker 28 They would have to play the Packers. The Packers beat the Lions.

Speaker 2 You beat the Vikings.

Speaker 28 We beat the Vikings. Okay.

Speaker 114 That's possible.

Speaker 43 It's possible. It's not crazy.

Speaker 28 And then we beat the Packers in the NFC Championship game at home.

Speaker 12 Cinderella.

Speaker 28 Cinderella story.

Speaker 71 Who do you play the Super Bowl?

Speaker 28 Then the Super Bowl, we played against the Steelers.

Speaker 10 Houston Texans.

Speaker 28 We played Texans in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 28 They changed the kickoff time to 3.30. Oh, nice.
And then we take out the Texans. That's huge.
No, there's probably no chance.

Speaker 77 No, that's a path.

Speaker 28 I'm just happy. I'm just happy with that.

Speaker 9 I think the NFC

Speaker 9 kind of is a path.

Speaker 51 It's wide open.

Speaker 9 That didn't sound that crazy, what you just said.

Speaker 28 Would it be crazy to say that the Packers beat the Eagles?

Speaker 10 No.

Speaker 28 Not crazy. Would it be crazy to say that the Vikings beat the Rams? No.
No, not crazy. Would it be crazy to say that the Packers beat the Lions? No.

Speaker 101 Maybe.

Speaker 54 No, I don't think so.

Speaker 102 not that crazy no playoffs you don't think

Speaker 9 i mean maybe if dan campbell gets stopped on fourth and one in that in that game that it just happened that's a good point

Speaker 9 has he ever done that no yep it was a tie game went for it on fourth and one crazy so there's there's a path however remote it might be there's a path it's the playoffs memes is frustrated about something god knows well memes just is such a different fan that he thinks that like the jets are winning you're talking too down on yourself mark sanchez done as a rookie jane daniels is a lot better that's true going to tampa you beat tampa you're starting to talk like groodin right now yeah why why why are you trying to pittsburgh

Speaker 28 then you go up to detroit rank your favorite memes voices mine is number one hank hill i didn't know you had that in no that was good that was great and then two we got we got pitts we got grudin memes yeah yeah uh yeah no listen it's get your confidence it's it's a possibility it's a i i am confident that we can beat the bucks there's definitely a way that we beat the bucks uh but there's a lot of good teams in the n NFC.

Speaker 10 But they all have flaws.

Speaker 51 I just really want to.

Speaker 72 They all have flaws.

Speaker 40 That's the biggest thing.

Speaker 26 They all have flaws. Yeah, I know you really wanted the Eagles.

Speaker 30 I'm sorry for you.

Speaker 28 Pisses me off. You wanted the Eagles.

Speaker 175 I knew you did, too. Yeah.

Speaker 71 All right, before we wrap up with the last four games.

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Speaker 14 Okay.

Speaker 150 The Seahawks Rams, Seahawks 30, Rams 25.

Speaker 73 Rams sat everyone.

Speaker 45 Jimmy G

Speaker 108 played.

Speaker 26 The Rams were actually pretty live in this game.

Speaker 167 They had a chance to win it at the end.

Speaker 142 And

Speaker 147 they had like a fourth and three on the 10-yard line with 30 seconds left.

Speaker 90 So Jimmy G still got it a little bit.

Speaker 28 So what was Sean McVay thinking going on this week? He just didn't think it was important to have to avoid the Lions or the Vikings at all?

Speaker 26 Yeah, no, he was just like, want to rest my guys.

Speaker 28 It's kind of a weird move, though, isn't it?

Speaker 108 I think he's been there, done that. Play whoever you play.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Because, I mean, ultimately, who would you rather play in the playoffs, the Commanders or maybe the Lions?

Speaker 26 Yeah, I think he just wanted to.

Speaker 140 I think he wanted to get healthy.

Speaker 82 Because he's got an old quarterback.

Speaker 28 So, this is what concerns me about that move: I feel like Sean McVay knows something.

Speaker 26 Yeah, no, I'm nervous about the Rams now, especially watching the Vikings play against the Lions.

Speaker 156 I'm back to nervous about my Pinky.

Speaker 28 Yeah, they weren't good today, and some of that has to do with Jimmy G, a quarterback.

Speaker 28 But they almost won the game. They almost won the game.
Yeah. In the Geno incentives game, which he hit all three of them, by the way.
Oh, easily. He got $6 million in incentives today.
Good for Geno.

Speaker 28 But the fact that Sean McVay did not care about winning this game makes me think that the Rams are going to be very dangerous.

Speaker 121 Yeah, I'd agree.

Speaker 28 Because if you were desperate,

Speaker 28 if you had doubts in your team, you would be like, we need every edge we can get.

Speaker 101 Yep.

Speaker 28 Let's go out there and win this game and try to avoid a great team from the north.

Speaker 42 I guess you also don't, I mean, you don't know how the other games are going to go, although they had already played.

Speaker 28 No, if they had won,

Speaker 2 they would be the three-seed.

Speaker 28 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 103 I was saying you didn't know,

Speaker 149 like, going before the game, if the Packers had won and the Commanders had lost, it would have been the Packers.

Speaker 51 So,

Speaker 23 you know, and you're setting a plan.

Speaker 79 for going forward probably days before being like, this is what we're going to do.

Speaker 125 So you're just not concerned at all.

Speaker 101 Yeah, so that plan.

Speaker 28 That's what makes me concerned about the Rams. Yeah.

Speaker 23 And as for the Seahawks, year one under Mike McDonald, it wasn't terrible.

Speaker 104 No.

Speaker 137 I mean, they won 10 games.

Speaker 28 It was very frustrating. It was extremely frustrating.
I felt like you could have won at least two or three more.

Speaker 3 They had that, that, that, I mean, the fact that the Seahawks, they kind of have a similar setup as the Bengals.

Speaker 130 They look back, they lost to the Giants.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 124 Like, how did that happen?

Speaker 28 Yeah, the Colts and the Seahawks lost to the Giants.

Speaker 6 Like,

Speaker 6 how do you let that happen?

Speaker 64 And so, because other than that, they lost to teams that were, you know,

Speaker 87 they lost to the Lions, understandable.

Speaker 73 They lost to the 49ers before that everyone got injured, understandable.

Speaker 150 They lost to the Bills and the Rams, the Packers and the Vikings.

Speaker 92 Those are all not terrible losses.

Speaker 44 So if you look at the Seahawks season, it really just comes down to you don't lose that Giants game.

Speaker 140 You're in the playoffs year one in Mike McDonald.

Speaker 42 And so I don't know.

Speaker 144 I feel like arrow pointing slightly up for this.

Speaker 51 I think you're happy overall, but you're also very frustrated.

Speaker 28 Yes.

Speaker 146 Okay.

Speaker 28 So Rams. Because I think they would, when they moved on from Pete Carroll, they, at the very least, wanted a coach that would attempt to run the ball.
Yeah. And which they did a little bit today.

Speaker 28 But Mike McDonald, he failed that part of the test, year one.

Speaker 124 How did the Rams see?

Speaker 120 I mean, listen, Sean McVay, Kevin O'Connell, they know each other.

Speaker 88 Those guys know each other.

Speaker 120 It's funny, too, because that was kind of the launching off point for the Rams season.

Speaker 21 Remember, that was early on in the season.

Speaker 150 They were 2-4.

Speaker 122 And it's like, if they don't win this game, they're pretty much dead, which turned out to be true.

Speaker 167 They needed to win that game.

Speaker 23 And they won that game.

Speaker 136 It was a Thursday night game, and Stafford carved up

Speaker 108 the Vikings' defense.

Speaker 23 I think that was the game that everyone came back right before.

Speaker 108 You know, like it was like,

Speaker 108 we didn't know if Puka was going to play or not, and then he played right, like it was announced right before, and then he carved him up.

Speaker 100 It's going to be be an interesting matchup.

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Interesting matchup. I think I like the Rams.

Speaker 120 Yeah, I probably like the Rams, too.

Speaker 156 All right.

Speaker 150 Cardinals, 47, 49ers, 24.

Speaker 28 You got anything on this game? Nope.

Speaker 29 Josh Dobbs played.

Speaker 28 He did play. Yep.
Kyler looked okay.

Speaker 63 Yep.

Speaker 77 Trey McBride didn't catch a touchdown or no?

Speaker 28 Trey McBride did get a touchdown. All he does is score touchdowns.
Yes. And he also had an awesome play where he carried Fred Warner like a backpack.
Oh, that's cool.

Speaker 77 Yeah.

Speaker 26 Season from hell for the 49ers over.

Speaker 28 Yes, six and eleven. So what do you do if you're the 49ers?

Speaker 6 You see how bad Brock Purdy's hurt,

Speaker 42 and then you go from there.

Speaker 28 And Christian McCaffrey?

Speaker 116 Walls?

Speaker 143 He'll be back. Okay.

Speaker 28 Okay. What about Debo? What do you do with Debo? Cut.

Speaker 28 You cut your wide back?

Speaker 140 I don't know if cut is, I don't know what his contract is.

Speaker 30 I'd say you move on from Debo.

Speaker 28 You find a way to move on from that contract. Yes.
Yeah. That one you move on.
You get Ayuk back next year.

Speaker 93 Ayuk comes back.

Speaker 44 Debo's a little older.

Speaker 120 Also felt like there was times where Kyle Shanahan tried to spam Debo.

Speaker 26 So maybe you just got to, it might be better for Kyle Shanahan to not have Debo in his life.

Speaker 28 Because he's always thinking, I want more Debo. What if I use Debo for this play? Yeah.

Speaker 60 Like this run,

Speaker 34 this sweep, what if I Debo'd it?

Speaker 28 You'll get Trenton Williams back. Yeah.

Speaker 130 It'll be good. Yeah.

Speaker 28 Fred Warner's still good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think the 49ers will be a buy-on team next year.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 2 They had a bad year. They had a season from hell.

Speaker 30 They get to rest up.

Speaker 157 They don't have to play deep into January.

Speaker 28 Kittle's going to be fresh.

Speaker 25 Kittle's going to be fresh.

Speaker 49 They'll get a higher draft pick.

Speaker 112 They'll be fine.

Speaker 26 John Lynch is a very good GM.

Speaker 100 Kyle Shannon's a very good coach.

Speaker 28 I don't like that the 49ers were such a bummer to watch because say what you want about them in the past, they've always been fun. Yeah.
And they were not fun this year.

Speaker 136 But they definitely have to, I think their roster is like on the older side, that they have to make some hard decisions and kind of reset.

Speaker 140 But it can be done very quickly.

Speaker 28 Look at the Bills. And what do the Cardinals do?

Speaker 90 I hope next year's different.

Speaker 10 Okay.

Speaker 72 I don't really know.

Speaker 23 I'm not the biggest Kyler guy.

Speaker 28 I think they should keep him around. I think that

Speaker 28 you stay rolling with Kyler for a little bit because at least they have... Like, I know what the Cardinals are in my head.

Speaker 28 And it's Kyler Murray scampering around having two games where he looks awesome a couple games where he looks just awful and then that's all the mental headspace you have to have on the Cardinals Kyler's not a confetti quarterback oh

Speaker 136 can you close your eyes and see confetti coming up coming down on Kyler

Speaker 28 no maybe on a game show or something

Speaker 28 because like think about it like there's so much confetti then you're like where'd Kyler go can't find him gets lost in it yeah and esports like a dog going into a leaf pile I love those videos of the dogs going into the snow.

Speaker 28 Like, you could actually measure snow by taking Kyler outside and by just tossing him.

Speaker 90 I watched a video where a dog, there was a GoPro

Speaker 78 attached to the dog, and he ran from the house.

Speaker 2 It looked like an Italian villa or something.

Speaker 100 He ran from the house all the way down these windy rocks and jumped into the ocean.

Speaker 28 Probably the Mediterranean. Yeah, that was a good one.

Speaker 156 And it was like two and a half minutes long. It's like, that dog has the best life of all time.

Speaker 28 That dog was all gas, no brakes. Yeah.

Speaker 73 And so that's what we would do with the Cardinals season.

Speaker 26 Get a GoPro, move to Italy, put on Kyler, and just run down to the water every single day.

Speaker 101 Yeah, pretty good.

Speaker 146 Good plan.

Speaker 146 Okay.

Speaker 136 Last two games.

Speaker 105 You want to do Eagles Giants?

Speaker 26 We can skip it. Eagles 20, Giants, 13.

Speaker 40 Well, we.

Speaker 32 I guess the only question I'd have about Eagles Giants is: is Jalen Hurts out of concussion protocol?

Speaker 132 Nope.

Speaker 10 Uh-oh.

Speaker 28 So what does that mean?

Speaker 73 You're less than seven days away from your first-round playoff game.

Speaker 9 He went through a walkthrough yesterday.

Speaker 9 And the end of the line for Eagles Packers just moved to full point.

Speaker 56 To where?

Speaker 9 Four and a half. Okay.

Speaker 28 Okay, so that means he's probably going to play.

Speaker 16 Or it means someone bet a lot of money on the Eagles?

Speaker 48 Probably

Speaker 121 the former.

Speaker 90 That he's going to play.

Speaker 9 I get former and ladder meetings.

Speaker 48 I do too.

Speaker 48 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Ladder is the most recent one.

Speaker 48 Yep, probably the latter.

Speaker 28 So you think somebody bet a lot of money on the Eagles?

Speaker 37 Not that he cleared concussion protocol.

Speaker 9 I just don't think that they're going to say that he cleared concussion protocol at 1045.

Speaker 98 Right.

Speaker 111 But do you think he will clear concussion protocol?

Speaker 48 Yes.

Speaker 28 In my heart of hearts. Do you wish Saquon had played?

Speaker 121 No.

Speaker 10 Because

Speaker 48 he's healthy, and the offensive line is healthy.

Speaker 12 And you saw a lot of people get injured today.

Speaker 51 On the Eagles?

Speaker 9 No, on other playoff teams.

Speaker 42 What about Tanner McKee?

Speaker 140 Tanner McKinley?

Speaker 135 He's the QB2 of the future. He's so

Speaker 51 good.

Speaker 58 That's good. You got that figured out.

Speaker 9 Yep, he's so good.

Speaker 23 So, Kenny and then Tanner McKee for the playoffs.

Speaker 48 So good.

Speaker 9 Tanner McKee is so good.

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 90 I hope Jalen Hurts clears concussion protocol.

Speaker 28 Same.

Speaker 161 Same.

Speaker 28 Well, no, I want to take that back. I hope that he clears it whenever it's good for his body and his brain and his mind to clear it.
Not a second earlier.

Speaker 48 Me too.

Speaker 10 Agreed.

Speaker 30 I hope Jalen Hurts clears concussion protocol, but not until like Friday, because I'd like to see Max's brain just be like, what does this mean?

Speaker 9 See, that's how there's a part of you. Like, if you were really rooting against the Packers this weekend, you wouldn't say that.

Speaker 34 Why?

Speaker 51 Okay, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday.

Speaker 9 You would want them never to be able to do that.

Speaker 2 I'd like at least two more days of him not clearing Concussion Protocol.

Speaker 24 I'd like at least one more report where they say he has not cleared concussion protocols.

Speaker 9 You want one more show for me to be nervous.

Speaker 51 I want you to sweat.

Speaker 28 I want you to become an expert in concussion protocol at some point this week because you're so nervous.

Speaker 168 If Jalen Hurts doesn't clear concussion protocol, will you give us permission to concuss you and put you in protocol?

Speaker 9 I already have a history of concussion.

Speaker 111 Okay, so we won't do that.

Speaker 28 We will not do that. I think we should just give Max the concussion test before every show.

Speaker 112 Yeah, that would be a good idea. Baseline.

Speaker 120 Giants,

Speaker 97 what even pick do they have now?

Speaker 76 Fourth?

Speaker 89 They still might get Shador.

Speaker 51 They could. Third.

Speaker 51 Third.

Speaker 34 Yeah.

Speaker 28 They could get Shador. They could get Cam Wart.

Speaker 101 Yeah.

Speaker 28 And I don't know if they're going to bring back Dable.

Speaker 28 Things seem to be trending towards not. Yeah.
And again, we talk about when they had Ben McAdoo and Mara said that they would not fire Ben McAdoo. Then two weeks later, they fired Ben McAdoo.
Yeah.

Speaker 28 Did the same thing with Joe Judge. This season, they said they're not going to fire Brian Dable.

Speaker 28 It's not necessarily a good thing to get a vote of confidence from Mr. Mara.

Speaker 120 Yes, from Mr. Mara.

Speaker 28 So

Speaker 28 if they do fire Dable,

Speaker 28 what about this plan?

Speaker 28 Sark.

Speaker 28 And then you just wait for Arch.

Speaker 28 You do one season of tanking.

Speaker 28 If you look at the schedule that the Giants have to play next year, not easy. Yeah.
They have to play the AFC North.

Speaker 30 Well, that's because they're also the Giants.

Speaker 127 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 28 But they also have to play the AFC West. Okay.
So a lot of good teams. And then, so that's six playoff teams right there between those two divisions.

Speaker 45 Are we sure Arch is worth tanking for?

Speaker 28 Then you tank a little bit.

Speaker 28 You should tank for somebody. Agreed.
If Arch Manning is not worth tanking for, if you're the Giants, then who is?

Speaker 32 I don't know.

Speaker 30 I'm just asking the question because if Arch Manning was worth tanking for,

Speaker 23 I would have thought Arch Manning would be playing in the playoffs.

Speaker 28 Right now? Yeah. Well, it's because Sark is keeping him fresh because he's going to become the Giants coach, then tank, and then draft Arch.

Speaker 120 Because I'm also kind of done watching Quinn Ewers.

Speaker 70 I'm not.

Speaker 20 I am.

Speaker 175 I'm done watching Quinn Dewars.

Speaker 65 I'd rather watch Arch.

Speaker 28 But if you're a Giants fan, that should get your blood going a little bit, right? Yeah. Like just picturing a Manning jersey.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 58 Wait, what does it have right now?

Speaker 162 It has them taking Travis Hunter.

Speaker 10 Okay.

Speaker 1 Abdul Carter to the Jets.

Speaker 49 Way to go.

Speaker 149 Kelvin Banks.

Speaker 21 Offensive tackle. I like that.

Speaker 1 Ash and Jenny for sure is going to be a cowboy.

Speaker 32 That is the most cowboys pick ever.

Speaker 42 Oh, my God. He's going to run for like 1,500 yards, and they're going to go to the playoffs.

Speaker 30 They're like, everything's fixed. That is the most Cowboys thing ever.

Speaker 163 Oh, McMillan is a stud from Arizona.

Speaker 136 Love that.

Speaker 147 That would be nice. Just what we need.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 146 Okay.

Speaker 174 Last game.

Speaker 126 Bears 24. Packers 22.

Speaker 33 What can I say? We beat the Packers.

Speaker 149 That's what we do.

Speaker 28 Packers specialists. That's what we do.

Speaker 2 We beat the Packers.

Speaker 128 Fake punt.

Speaker 99 Or not fake punt.

Speaker 99 The fake punt catch was awesome.

Speaker 28 That was a great play.

Speaker 1 The Keenan Allen interception, awesome.

Speaker 28 So funny. That was a very funny play.

Speaker 168 Almost bears the fuck out of this game with the fumble late.

Speaker 17 And then

Speaker 58 the Packers, I don't know what they were doing on defense at the end of the game, but

Speaker 126 that's just the difference between good organizations and bad organizations.

Speaker 83 Bears find ways to win these games.

Speaker 28 Caleb got clotheslined so hard on that final drive. Yeah.

Speaker 58 Yeah,

Speaker 73 he got horse collar tackled.

Speaker 92 But yeah, Kill made it through a ball perfectly to DJ Moore, Kairos Santos, Revenge.

Speaker 105 Fun fact for you, the Bears and the Packers in the vaunted NFC North both one and five, and the Packers needed a block field goal to win that one game.

Speaker 157 I can't remember who was against because the Bears owned the Packers.

Speaker 28 In 2025, the Packers have never beaten the Chicago Bears.

Speaker 32 Listen, I know we dropped like two spots, maybe three spots in the draft order.

Speaker 134 I was saying it before.

Speaker 2 My oldest is five and a half.

Speaker 29 He's halfway through kindergarten. He has never been alive for the Bears to beat the Packers.

Speaker 77 So this was kind of nice.

Speaker 2 It was nice to beat the Packers.

Speaker 28 I told you you could do this, and you were being a negative Nelly.

Speaker 58 Well, I mean, we needed a lot of things to go right, including

Speaker 108 to completely fake them out with that punt return.

Speaker 16 We needed Jordan Love to go out.

Speaker 111 We needed the Packers to...

Speaker 26 play the dumbest defense I've ever seen.

Speaker 45 But I'm happy for Caleb Williams to end on a high note.

Speaker 96 Feels good.

Speaker 24 A lot of things to work on.

Speaker 149 The organization is not in a good place, but we own the Packers.

Speaker 28 Trending up or trending down.

Speaker 37 Trending down.

Speaker 21 Trending very far down.

Speaker 28 That should make the Packers feel awful.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Even after you beat them, you're like, yeah, we're not in a good spot. Here's the thing.

Speaker 33 I know Packers fans will tell themselves, well, we just screwed you out of a couple picks in the draft.

Speaker 74 It bothers Packers fans to no end because they love beating the Bears.

Speaker 45 They love beating the Bears all the the time.

Speaker 150 And we haven't beaten them since 2018.

Speaker 144 And we haven't won a Road Sunday game in 20, you know, in three years.

Speaker 51 We're the Packers' daddy.

Speaker 12 Is this like an Ohio State situation where even if they win the Super Bowl, it's kind of a lost season because they didn't beat the Bears?

Speaker 150 I'd rather them not win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 108 I'll say that right now.

Speaker 97 I do not want the Packers to win the Super Bowl, but good question, Hank.

Speaker 58 We are the Packers' daddy, though.

Speaker 28 We own them. Could this be a moment where, you know, for the last five years, all you've wanted is to beat the Packers, but at what cost?

Speaker 81 No, I mean,

Speaker 42 I've just wanted them to be good.

Speaker 97 Yeah.

Speaker 111 And they're not good, but we beat the Packers.

Speaker 30 So, and it's great that it happened at the last game of the season, so I can just be like, hey,

Speaker 101 we're on a winning streak.

Speaker 26 I will do a clock, you know, somewhere in the summer where it's like it's been 200 and whatever, 50 days.

Speaker 28 You got to hope that they're scheduling it for super late in the season. Yeah.
So you can't.

Speaker 68 Or not.

Speaker 91 Let's not even schedule next year. Yeah.

Speaker 37 Let's just, we'll, we'll do it the year after.

Speaker 28 What if you just destroyed the entire franchise? Yeah.

Speaker 148 It bothers the Packers.

Speaker 64 They lost the Bears. I love it.

Speaker 42 I fucking love it. So

Speaker 134 Caleb's rookie season, his numbers,

Speaker 41 he leads the Chicago Bears franchise history in total yards.

Speaker 167 So he did that in one year.

Speaker 10 Also says,

Speaker 147 I mean,

Speaker 170 we have never had a quarterback, Hank.

Speaker 112 That's how it's possible.

Speaker 28 Wait, say that stat again?

Speaker 45 He leads, he has the most total yards, so rushing and receiving passing in Bears franchise history in one season.

Speaker 28 That's pretty good.

Speaker 32 4,030.

Speaker 156 I think Jay had like 4,000 and I don't know,

Speaker 144 five or something one year.

Speaker 76 I see the guy.

Speaker 51 We're working on it.

Speaker 70 Wait, one year all time?

Speaker 12 All time and for one season.

Speaker 76 For one season.

Speaker 70 Oh, okay. I thought you were talking about

Speaker 51 for all time.

Speaker 156 One season.

Speaker 140 Yeah, and he ended with, you know, 3,500.

Speaker 26 Now, if you told me before this season that he had 3,500 yards and 20 touchdowns and six interceptions, I would have been like, holy shit, we're in the playoffs.

Speaker 82 Didn't go that way.

Speaker 81 Didn't go the way I thought it would.

Speaker 153 A lot to work on. Caleb's got a lot to work on.
The Bears have a lot to work on.

Speaker 103 I don't, I have more confidence in Caleb working on the things than the Bears working on the things because everything that I've read and heard, the Bears are going to hire Brian Flores.

Speaker 45 They're probably not even going to interview Ben Johnson.

Speaker 147 Mike Frabel is going to be the Patriots head coach.

Speaker 26 Ryan Poles is going to keep his job, and that's going to be an awkward, I don't know what's going to happen, where he's got one year, and then

Speaker 30 the new coach is like, hey, this guy,

Speaker 79 whatever.

Speaker 1 Another time, another day, the Bears beat the Packers, we own the Packers.

Speaker 28 I have some advice for the McCasky family. You got to at least.
Don't swear. Okay, to dearest McCasky family, I hope this missive finds you well.

Speaker 149 Yeah, by the way, happy birthday to Virginia, 102 years old.

Speaker 28 Happy birthday to Virginia, sweet Virginia.

Speaker 28 Very happy to have you around for hopefully many more trips around the sun. Yeah.

Speaker 77 West Virginia.

Speaker 28 Yeah, this is to Virginia.

Speaker 88 No, I couldn't.

Speaker 149 I reflexively said no when you said, hope to have you around for many more.

Speaker 103 I shouldn't have said that.

Speaker 103 Happy birthday.

Speaker 28 We're glad you're not dead. I am glad you're not dead.

Speaker 10 No.

Speaker 51 I am. Oh, okay.

Speaker 49 I'm glad you're not dead. Again, happy birthday, Virginia.

Speaker 28 And Miss Virginia, excuse me, Miss Mrs. McCasky? Wood, yeah.
Wait, is it a Mrs. or is it a Miss? Is there a Mr.
McCasky?

Speaker 112 No, I mean, her husband died like a long ago.

Speaker 10 Oh, 102.

Speaker 51 What did you say, Hank?

Speaker 72 What? Yeah.

Speaker 101 Trying to be nice.

Speaker 38 Happy birthday.

Speaker 130 She got a lot of money.

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Okay, anyways,

Speaker 28 you have to at least pretend to interview Ben Johnson. Yeah.
You have to.

Speaker 51 She's not cheat.

Speaker 80 Address this to George.

Speaker 28 Mr. McCasky.

Speaker 85 George, her son.

Speaker 51 Her son.

Speaker 10 Her full-grown adult son.

Speaker 28 Her seven-year-old.

Speaker 37 Who doesn't swear? Yes.

Speaker 28 Mr. McCasky, you have to at least pretend to interview Ben Johnson.
Yes. Just at the very minimum,

Speaker 28 get him on a Zoom call. Yes.

Speaker 28 And then you can say, we didn't think that

Speaker 28 his vision for the future of this offense aligned with Chicago Bears' values. Yes.
But you can't just hire Brian Flores because Ryan Pohl says, this is my buddy. Yes.

Speaker 130 What are you laughing about back there?

Speaker 44 I just looked at a picture of her where she looks so old, and then underneath it, it said 1999.

Speaker 141 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Like, that's insane.

Speaker 1 That was when she, that's when she fired her other idiot son.

Speaker 28 What is that guy doing now?

Speaker 156 Michael McCasky.

Speaker 124 Wait, I think he might have died.

Speaker 10 No.

Speaker 110 No.

Speaker 100 I'm thinking of someone else.

Speaker 49 Yes,

Speaker 34 he died.

Speaker 102 No. He died.

Speaker 146 He died.

Speaker 56 But,

Speaker 20 yeah.

Speaker 153 They're a mess.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to think about it today. Today's about beating the Packers.

Speaker 28 Listen, you have to at least pretend to interview Ben Johnson. and, yes, give Brian Flores an interview, but also let's not forget about the 40th anniversary of your vaunted 1985 Chicago Bears team.

Speaker 28 And what better way to move forward as a franchise than by honoring that season and by bringing back a small piece of it, dual head coaches Jeff Fisher and Ron Rivera.

Speaker 156 That would be fun.

Speaker 147 She was 62 years old when that happened.

Speaker 51 She was old enough. She was so old.

Speaker 28 When the Chicago Bears won the Super Bowl, she was old enough to be confused by the rap in the Super Bowl shuffle. Yes.

Speaker 51 Probably offended, yeah.

Speaker 28 This isn't music.

Speaker 64 No, seriously, happy birthday.

Speaker 1 I don't think she's doing, like, she's a sweet old lady.

Speaker 24 It's not her fault anymore.

Speaker 149 I mean, I guess it kind of is because she hired her son and whatever.

Speaker 28 Today's about beating the Packers.

Speaker 51 Nice mom.

Speaker 124 Today's about beating the Packers. Great mom.

Speaker 162 Well, she she fired one of her sons.

Speaker 63 Smart move.

Speaker 19 Today's about beating the Packers.

Speaker 25 We beat the Packers. We are the Packers' daddy.

Speaker 120 Packers fans,

Speaker 101 you're 0-1 in the last one.

Speaker 24 Max, I'm going to give you the blueprint on how to beat the Packers.

Speaker 51 Hell yeah. Thank you.

Speaker 101 We're back.

Speaker 24 We're back. I'm going to do it.

Speaker 28 Are the Packers better with Malik Willis at quarterback? Yes.

Speaker 91 Jordan Love just throws off his back foot. That's all he does.

Speaker 28 He's really good at it.

Speaker 127 He is good at it.

Speaker 10 I do. Is Christian Watson hurt?

Speaker 9 Christian Watson, it looks like he's out. Jordan Love is.

Speaker 103 That's actually significant.

Speaker 78 That does suck for the Packers because he is their field stretcher.

Speaker 28 And I do think that when Malik Willis gets in the game, LaFleur gets more invested in the coaching. Yeah.
Where he's like, I really have to get in my bag.

Speaker 28 And he calls more creative shit, does things a little bit more unorthodox. They're more fun to watch, I think, when Willis is playing.
Yeah.

Speaker 26 By the way, did you guys...

Speaker 168 I think I did mention this, but

Speaker 157 the Bears have the same division record as the Packers.

Speaker 28 One and five. One and five.

Speaker 76 And I think technically in division, they get the tiebreaker on head-to-head point differential because we beat them by two and they beat us by one.

Speaker 51 Oh, that's big.

Speaker 38 So this season.

Speaker 81 So on aggregate, yeah,

Speaker 3 that's correct.

Speaker 26 We beat them by two and they beat us by one. So, yeah.

Speaker 10 So like going on the Packers in the NFC North.

Speaker 28 Yeah, on college football division rules. Yes.
You finished in third place in the division. Correct.
Packers finished in third place.

Speaker 43 Congrats.

Speaker 140 Anyone could beat up all the other teams.

Speaker 101 Yeah, in the big big north.

Speaker 97 Anyone, literally anyone could, you know, beat teams like the Colts.

Speaker 101 They could do that.

Speaker 101 But, or the Cardinals.

Speaker 120 But not everyone can just fight in the NFC North and win on a technicality.

Speaker 28 Is Thomas Brown the guy?

Speaker 175 No.

Speaker 45 They're going to interview him for a head coaching job, which is nice.

Speaker 44 It's good.

Speaker 175 He's doing that. It's good.

Speaker 71 But no, definitely not.

Speaker 106 They fucked Thomas Brown over.

Speaker 45 They made him, he was doing fine.

Speaker 2 There was a three-game stretch where Caleb looked more confident because he was up in the booth being the OC.

Speaker 27 And then they're like, hey, dude, you did pretty good for three games, which

Speaker 40 he started the season not as the OC,

Speaker 2 became the OC, three weeks later, became the head coach.

Speaker 105 They fucked that guy over.

Speaker 28 He did such a good job at being OC that they promoted him.

Speaker 6 They just, that was really stupid and very Bears-like.

Speaker 2 But yeah, the future is as grim as possible.

Speaker 26 I'm not going to get my, I've said this before, I'm not going to get myself excited.

Speaker 29 What are you going to say?

Speaker 127 What were you saying, saying, memes?

Speaker 71 Vrabel.

Speaker 117 No, Vrabel's the coach of the Patriots.

Speaker 134 Chicago.

Speaker 28 Maybe the Jets.

Speaker 105 I'm not going to let myself get excited until they actually show me on the field.

Speaker 171 He hasn't signed.

Speaker 28 Yeah. Like, to my knowledge, he hasn't even interviewed with the Patriots yet.

Speaker 12 Me neither. Yeah, I don't think he has.

Speaker 28 But he has interviewed with the Jets. So really, the only job he could take right now is with the Jets.
Yeah.

Speaker 12 That is true. The top of his big board is probably Jets.
Jets.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 89 On his Etsy board.

Speaker 26 I'm not going to let myself get excited in the offseason and talk myself into something that they have proven time and time against they can't deliver.

Speaker 156 I will spend the offseason talking about how we're 1-0 against the Packers in the last one.

Speaker 45 And that's fine. You know what I am?

Speaker 1 I'm based in facts now.

Speaker 45 I'm based in results.

Speaker 23 I'm a results-based guy.

Speaker 18 I'm not going to talk about hypotheticals and who we add, an offensive lineman and a coach, and we're like, oh, you know, the Bears are going to be great.

Speaker 42 No, no, no.

Speaker 14 Facts.

Speaker 17 1-0 in last one against Packers.

Speaker 28 This year. Undefeated this year, right? Yep.

Speaker 10 Facts.

Speaker 103 Not a lot of teams can say that.

Speaker 149 I guess the Super Bowl champion.

Speaker 28 Actually, all of us can.

Speaker 30 Yeah, all of us can say it.

Speaker 112 And also the Super Bowl champ will be able to say that for sure.

Speaker 170 Actually,

Speaker 136 unless one of you wins the Super Bowl,

Speaker 25 yeah, I guess memes, Hank, and I are going to finish 2025 or start 2525 without a loss.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Whenever they say only one team finishes with a win in their last game, that's actually not true. No.

Speaker 112 There's a lot of teams. Yeah.

Speaker 157 16 of them.

Speaker 97 What do you you say, Max?

Speaker 76 Well, we all started in 2025 without a loss.

Speaker 140 Yeah, no, that's what we're saying. But

Speaker 175 you guys are the only ones who have a chance to lose in 2025, which actually I'm happy I don't have a chance to lose so far in 2025.

Speaker 120 You understand that? Yep. No.

Speaker 48 No, that made no sense.

Speaker 144 It makes perfect sense.

Speaker 114 He's saying

Speaker 28 he's happy that they don't have a playoff game that he could lose. Yeah.

Speaker 37 Because big capital games.

Speaker 51 I'm going to stay 1-0 for the next nine months.

Speaker 28 You would rather not even in 2025.

Speaker 23 There's a good chance you guys are not going to be, you're going to take at least one loss.

Speaker 28 No, I'm a winner. I'm not going to lose.
Okay.

Speaker 10 That's a spirit.

Speaker 159 Yeah.

Speaker 28 Anybody anytime anywhere? I wish, I wish we could. Fuck, I just wish we could change the bracket and play against the Eagles.

Speaker 28 Nothing would make me happier.

Speaker 96 Oh, I know you're rooting hard for it, too.

Speaker 102 You root really hard for it.

Speaker 146 Okay.

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Speaker 73 My robot question is:

Speaker 84 who ended up losing the PICS competition?

Speaker 12 Good question.

Speaker 38 Great question that would be me oh oh max you lost yep that's a shame i have a question i have a robot question yeah hank go ahead robot question hit us

Speaker 87 well i guess for do you want to clarify what the what the punishment is the punishment is the loser of the picks picks competition this year has to uh go to an awl's bachelor party and get drunk with awls which isn't really a punishment it's actually a reward but uh some of us don't love traveling when we don't have to work.

Speaker 109 So that's the punishment this year.

Speaker 12 So I was thinking about this last night and, you know, even just past week, obviously with the new year and the show and how much we appreciate our fans. And I was just thinking, like,

Speaker 12 we have non-male

Speaker 12 AWL fans. That's a good point.
Like, we did just pigeonhole this. True, you know, contest into just bachelor parties.
Yeah. What about the female AWLs and bachelorettes?

Speaker 10 Yeah. Good point.

Speaker 9 It sounds like a good idea for another punishment, but it's a shame that this one is a bachelor party. No, no,

Speaker 28 that's a good point. This is also a bachelor party.

Speaker 114 I'm just thinking out loud.

Speaker 12 It's like, do not, do not, do you not care about our female fans?

Speaker 76 No, no, I do.

Speaker 48 I care about our female fans.

Speaker 10 I agree.

Speaker 9 This sounds like a great idea for another punishment that we can do.

Speaker 48 But why? But like, we could.

Speaker 9 It's a shame that we already made this one a bachelor party.

Speaker 48 I wish we didn't.

Speaker 10 I wish we didn't. We could vote.
Yeah, we could vote.

Speaker 51 Oh, no, yeah.

Speaker 9 For our next punishment, we can do that.

Speaker 51 No, we could vote right now for this one.

Speaker 12 Are you saying you wouldn't want to hang out with our female like you wouldn't want to go to the house?

Speaker 9 No, I just want to

Speaker 9 lodge by

Speaker 54 obliged to

Speaker 51 what you were doing.

Speaker 1 What is that word you're saying?

Speaker 80 I don't know.

Speaker 9 Oblig. I want to oblige to the punishment.

Speaker 51 Is that what you think the word is?

Speaker 54 I want to oblige to the punishment.

Speaker 9 And unfortunately, we said this was a bachelor party.

Speaker 68 What about now?

Speaker 1 Would we leave open those fucking freaks and weirdos that do a combined bachelor and bachelorette party?

Speaker 51 No, I say they're out. Yeah.

Speaker 10 They're out.

Speaker 58 If you're listening to this show right now and you do that, stop listening to the show.

Speaker 26 This show's not for you.

Speaker 12 And if you're a female,

Speaker 12 we care about you.

Speaker 51 Unless you're

Speaker 51 fiancé made you do the combined, then you're offering a lot of things.

Speaker 28 If I had lost, I would say it's going to be equal to opportunity because I think that we should shine more light on some of the female AWLs out there that sometimes listen to the show.

Speaker 28 Yeah, Yeah, I don't want to think.

Speaker 68 Oh, am I the only one?

Speaker 51 You want to let them know? I think that we should do that. It sounds like you guys want to ask him.

Speaker 149 Can I ask a question?

Speaker 81 I want to role play real quick.

Speaker 71 Like, I lost.

Speaker 99 Hank asked me

Speaker 12 if I would do that. Hey, Big Cat.
Like, I know we said bachelor party, but I was kind of thinking last.

Speaker 70 Oh, wait, are you thinking bachelorette party?

Speaker 10 Yeah, I was supposed to think.

Speaker 51 I'm in.

Speaker 51 See? Go.

Speaker 1 That's how I would act because I love our female listeners.

Speaker 57 Yasqueen. Max.

Speaker 28 I'm in. I have a question, Max.
Max.

Speaker 51 Max.

Speaker 10 Real back question. PFT.

Speaker 28 Why are you afraid of girls? Yeah.

Speaker 38 They're scary.

Speaker 38 Good answer.

Speaker 28 Fair point.

Speaker 1 All right, so bachelor and bachelorette parties.

Speaker 79 You can get your hair done.

Speaker 1 Everyone submit even bachelorette parties?

Speaker 54 You can submit anything.

Speaker 80 But we were the ones deciding where you go.

Speaker 9 Correct. On the bachelor party, that was the punishment.

Speaker 51 Okay.

Speaker 51 Anywhere?

Speaker 28 Yeah, anywhere. And it sounds like there's no time limit.
Yeah.

Speaker 9 So it could be like, well, Well, I can't miss work.

Speaker 48 No, it's not.

Speaker 51 Well, no, you can. I can't.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can.

Speaker 49 We're saying you can right now.

Speaker 51 I can cover it. Also,

Speaker 28 if you're one of those bachelor parties that likes to do an activity instead of like the whole going out and drinking and getting drunk all the time, if you're doing like

Speaker 28 a group marathon or something like that, like we're all going to travel together and compete in this endurance race, that's cool too.

Speaker 12 Yeah, we're definitely in for Japanese AWLs. Don't feel like you're too like we care about you guys too.
Yeah, don't

Speaker 51 need

Speaker 77 Shout out.

Speaker 9 Tokyo's probably. Japan's probably fun.
Yeah.

Speaker 63 Also,

Speaker 28 is memes, does he have to go to a retirement party? Yes.

Speaker 51 So we need to finish second place.

Speaker 120 Yeah, we got to find that.

Speaker 28 Or a divorce hearing.

Speaker 120 Or a divorce hearing.

Speaker 111 I would prefer a divorce hearing. I think that'd be funnier.

Speaker 28 Memes in the back like Harbaugh at Judge Judy.

Speaker 147 I still think the funeral wasn't that crazy, but whatever. We'll not do that.

Speaker 32 So, Max, congrats.

Speaker 1 We had quite a testy Saturday.

Speaker 31 I know.

Speaker 54 I was,

Speaker 9 I don't know why I was so upset.

Speaker 81 He lost every punishment.

Speaker 51 It's like, dude,

Speaker 12 PFG had to drive across country.

Speaker 135 I wanted to drive across a country.

Speaker 70 60 minutes of stand-up.

Speaker 28 This is my punishment, and I did it.

Speaker 12 Memes still hasn't gotten over doing 15 minutes of stand-up. It changed him forever.

Speaker 10 Yeah, actually.

Speaker 70 No, yeah.

Speaker 9 No, I was just pissed.

Speaker 9 I was just pissed in the way that I lost because I was looking forward to

Speaker 9 getting riled up for Sunday and wanting to. It was more so that I lost than I was about the actual punishment.

Speaker 154 Because you lost on the push.

Speaker 54 It was the only way I could have possibly lost on Saturday night.

Speaker 9 And that's what it was. Yep.

Speaker 171 And you kept on leaving the group chat over and over.

Speaker 130 We had to keep adding you back.

Speaker 30 You were getting very upset.

Speaker 9 Yeah, no, I shouldn't have done that.

Speaker 9 I'm excited. I'm excited to make friends with some AWLs.

Speaker 48 I love that.

Speaker 51 I'm excited. Male or girl.

Speaker 9 Yep. The bachelor party is going to be great.

Speaker 157 If you're listening to this and you want to invite Max Max to your bachelorette party, just maybe put like a

Speaker 10 also

Speaker 48 there's no way that any bachelorette party would want me there.

Speaker 72 I just circled it.

Speaker 51 No way.

Speaker 37 Challenge accepted.

Speaker 51 Are you challenging them?

Speaker 10 No, no.

Speaker 72 Are you challenging the AWLs?

Speaker 9 I'm not challenging them. I am not.

Speaker 28 There would be a Bachelorette who's maybe her fiancé is a big AWL and she wants to make him jealous. Invite Max from part of the table.

Speaker 26 I would love to see the face of some of the girls being like, this is the worst stripper ever.

Speaker 51 Why did you bring him?

Speaker 77 He walks in a boot.

Speaker 51 I gotta, yeah.

Speaker 48 Okay.

Speaker 48 So

Speaker 117 we'll get it set up.

Speaker 163 I'm excited for you, Max.

Speaker 103 Yeah, that'll be good. We're gonna pick something good.

Speaker 12 And I'm doing the nine-daughter stream. Yeah.

Speaker 51 Yeah.

Speaker 30 In two weeks. Yeah, and I'm getting a tattoo.
Probably actually this week.

Speaker 28 Because I think we have a tattoo artist coming in. And I'm going to get a perm.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 48 And I'm going to.

Speaker 1 The baseball thing, Max hurt his foot.

Speaker 134 Yeah,

Speaker 48 that really threw a wrench into things. We're going to do that.

Speaker 101 We're going to do that.

Speaker 146 Okay.

Speaker 40 Should we finish up with Who's Back of the Week?

Speaker 87 Who's Back of the Week?

Speaker 51 Henry.

Speaker 76 Who's Back of the Week?

Speaker 12 No ad. My Who's Back of the Week.
I got a couple. I think I'll save one for PFC.
I'm guessing he's going to take it. My other one, L'Angelo Ball.

Speaker 71 Go on.

Speaker 12 Not in the NBA, but he is a charting. He's basically got the number one song in the country right now.
Is he good?

Speaker 76 It's really good.

Speaker 102 It's a young?

Speaker 12 It's a song I've been putting for the Jumpsuit January songs. Oh, it's one of those songs that it is popular.
At first,

Speaker 12 he put out a clip of it, and

Speaker 12 all the youth were saying, This song would have been a banger in 2005, kind of making fun of how it sounded like an old school song, which is one of those moments for me where I realized, like, I am definitely old because this is like the music that I like.

Speaker 12 Like, when I was, you know, way younger and like stealing my brother's iPod to listen to music, it was like this type of music. But now people are just ironically, not unironically enjoying the song.

Speaker 12 Like, he put it out on streaming. It's got 2 million views on YouTube.
People actually like the song, and it's a good song.

Speaker 76 Is his dad still kicking?

Speaker 28 What's his dad up to?

Speaker 12 He's still kicking.

Speaker 28 Haven't heard much from him.

Speaker 72 Yeah, I don't think he's right about that, but

Speaker 12 he did what he said he was going to do. He got his sons to the league.

Speaker 12 Jello didn't pan out, but now he's panning out as a rapper.

Speaker 12 And then Lonzo, he put, or he,

Speaker 12 another clip came out last night from the Bulls' locker room where Lonzo was playing a different unreleased song, and now that's going to be a hit. Oh, hell yeah.
So, Jell-O's just

Speaker 12 low-key, just going to be a

Speaker 12 famous rapper, yeah.

Speaker 28 What's the name of the song?

Speaker 12 Tweakin'.

Speaker 155 Okay.

Speaker 104 And you love it.

Speaker 12 I love it. I love Tweakin'.

Speaker 77 And you listen to songs hard when you listen to songs.

Speaker 70 I have listened to this song.

Speaker 28 Should Billy Strings be worried?

Speaker 12 I would love it.

Speaker 12 I said to my friend, I would like to see the BBBB crossover. Quadruple B.

Speaker 12 Big baller brand Billy. Big Baller Billy.

Speaker 155 Okay. Good who's back?

Speaker 28 Baller strings. Yeah.
Balls.

Speaker 142 PFT.

Speaker 28 Hank, who was your other who's back?

Speaker 130 Because I have two.

Speaker 112 USA.

Speaker 114 Oh, it was a good one. You can do that.
Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 28 Hockey?

Speaker 12 We won the

Speaker 12 World, whatever.

Speaker 10 Oh, World Championship. Yes.

Speaker 28 Yeah, yeah. Ryan Leonard, MVP.

Speaker 51 Love that.

Speaker 28 My Who's Back.

Speaker 12 In Canada, I can't even make it to the fucking championship.

Speaker 28 That's very sad.

Speaker 114 Wow.

Speaker 123 And we lost a prime minute.

Speaker 154 What is Max listening to?

Speaker 9 I was listening to the song. I had never heard it.

Speaker 149 Oh, I thought you were listening to

Speaker 28 who's back of the week is Luke Littler.

Speaker 52 Darts is back.

Speaker 28 Luke Littler, we have a new world champion in Darts. He's 17 years old.
He beat Michael Van Gerwin in the finals. Smoked him.

Speaker 113 Smoked him, Michael Van Gerwin. And crushed him.

Speaker 28 Absolutely dominated him. This guy's a unit.
They call him Luke the Nuke. He's a big boy.

Speaker 89 Wait, so Luke the Nuke, he's 17?

Speaker 103 17. So he looks like he's

Speaker 51 30.

Speaker 72 By the way.

Speaker 114 Wait,

Speaker 28 Have you seen the clips of the old school, the Penn State football players from the 1980s?

Speaker 51 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 28 I don't know what was going on in the world, but if you were 20 years old in the year 1988, you looked like you were 50.

Speaker 91 Yes, absolutely.

Speaker 49 They all is smoking.

Speaker 28 Smoking, yeah. Smoking in bars.

Speaker 81 That was why everyone looked so much older.

Speaker 154 Wait, so Luke Nuke is 17?

Speaker 28 He's 17.

Speaker 1 So he's just going to be the best darts player for the next 40 years?

Speaker 28 He's the next Michael Van Gerwen. So

Speaker 28 in the speech that Van Gerwin gave after the darts were over, he said, you know what they say, a star comes along once every 17 years.

Speaker 28 Basically, in his congratulation speech, he was reminding everybody that he was a star, and he is a star.

Speaker 28 But now, 17 years after that, when Michael Van Gerwin was 17 years old, now another 17-year-old has taken the crown.

Speaker 102 Luke the Nuke.

Speaker 20 Luke the Nuke.

Speaker 76 Fucking love.

Speaker 22 He's a beast. Love it.

Speaker 76 British.

Speaker 130 That was a championship?

Speaker 28 That was a championship. Absolutely crushed him in the championship, too.
Look at him.

Speaker 48 We should try and get him on.

Speaker 28 He's sleeping on a stroke.

Speaker 85 You should do that, producer.

Speaker 101 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 51 That's a great text.

Speaker 10 Josh will get him.

Speaker 28 Look at that haircut.

Speaker 149 Yes, we should get him on for sure, especially before you're nine-darter, Hank.

Speaker 27 That would be great. Yeah.

Speaker 97 That'd be a great interview.

Speaker 28 My other who's back was going to be Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 34 Ah, Jimmy.

Speaker 139 Back in the news. Wait, what'd he do, PFT?

Speaker 28 He's not happy. He pulled a Tyreek Hill, and he's not happy being in Miami.

Speaker 154 Well, no, Tyreek Hill pulled a Jimmy Hill.

Speaker 28 Yeah, it is the Jimmy Butler. So Jimmy Butler, I'm shocked that Jimmy Butler is no longer happy.
On a team? On a team. He is on a team.

Speaker 37 No way.

Speaker 28 He doesn't want to be on the team anymore, and he's making a very public demand to be traded from that team or move on. Is this redemption for Shams?

Speaker 20 Yeah. Kind of.

Speaker 136 I just, this is, I mean, Jimmy Butler just, he's ready to move on.

Speaker 120 Yeah.

Speaker 76 Back to the Sixers?

Speaker 9 No, but there was a report that they tried to do that in the offseason.

Speaker 28 The Sixers did? Yep.

Speaker 48 They couldn't get a deal. For Paul George, they tried to get Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 28 Maybe now they could. Super team.

Speaker 48 No, I don't think it would work.

Speaker 20 Yeah, I can't believe it. I don't think it would work.

Speaker 28 He wants to go to a contender.

Speaker 9 He wants to come to Philly.

Speaker 28 He wants to go to contender.

Speaker 9 The Sixers beat the Nets yesterday.

Speaker 10 Oh,

Speaker 51 the Nets are really good. Yeah.

Speaker 10 Yep.

Speaker 9 They looked not so great against the Warriors.

Speaker 28 I don't know.

Speaker 63 I like Jay Butt.

Speaker 28 I like Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 108 I mean, as a player, sure, but as a guy in the locker room, it doesn't feel like...

Speaker 42 Well, he's

Speaker 28 been pretty good in Miami.

Speaker 105 Yeah, but at some point, if this is your fourth team.

Speaker 116 Yeah.

Speaker 28 It might be you? Yeah, I think it's probably him. But he was relatively good in Miami.
Yeah.

Speaker 10 Of course, he went to the finals twice.

Speaker 51 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 28 But I'm saying, like, as a teammate, he seemed to be a good teammate for a while. But I feel like Jim,

Speaker 28 he's on the downside. Yeah.

Speaker 51 It's not getting better.

Speaker 150 It's actually kind of nice that Miami has to deal with this for once.

Speaker 103 Yeah.

Speaker 26 Like their players being like, I want out of Miami.

Speaker 45 Everyone always wants to leave wherever they are to go to Miami.

Speaker 28 Well, Dwayne Wade wanted out of Miami. That's true.

Speaker 123 Okay, My Who's Back.

Speaker 28 You probably saw that statue and was like, is this if this is how they treat their superstars? Yeah.

Speaker 32 My Who's Back is Derek Rose because Derek Rose night, I was attending, I attended it Saturday night.

Speaker 26 Awesome ceremony.

Speaker 103 Very cool.

Speaker 152 Made me kind of sad because it was like, oh, I remember when it was cool to have a team and players that were fun to root for.

Speaker 73 Very, very fun. Also, very bold that they are retiring his number next year.

Speaker 100 So they'll just do another Derrick Rose night.

Speaker 56 But it was very cool.

Speaker 26 Derrick Rose means a lot to Chicago and it was like, it was a very emotional night.

Speaker 45 Joe Keem spoke very well.

Speaker 97 So it was cool.

Speaker 12 Steachy gave to his son too. Or like about a Christian.

Speaker 70 Yeah, you want to be good or great?

Speaker 37 Yeah. It's awesome.

Speaker 28 So they retired his number last night, but they're going to retire it again next year?

Speaker 45 They didn't retire his number.

Speaker 26 They announced they're going to retire his number next year. On Derrick Rose night.

Speaker 51 Right before Derrick Rose night.

Speaker 77 Okay.

Speaker 42 So they can do another Derrick Rose night.

Speaker 28 What prevented them from retiring his his number last night?

Speaker 42 They weren't returning.

Speaker 28 It takes a while to get the banner.

Speaker 58 But it was a cool night.

Speaker 45 It was fun.

Speaker 26 I actually thought it was going to be the highlight of Chicago Sports 2025 on January 4th.

Speaker 156 Turns out we ended up beating the Packers.

Speaker 123 So

Speaker 92 kind of having a hot 2025 so far.

Speaker 28 That's a pretty good two-day span.

Speaker 58 Yeah, and they beat the Knicks.

Speaker 28 I love that they're waiting a year to retire. Yeah.
Because they're going to bring them back and do the exact same thing. Exact same.
Except with the banner.

Speaker 106 And I'll probably go again. Yeah.

Speaker 58 Because it was fun. And I like it.

Speaker 1 The United Center was packed.

Speaker 105 The highlight packages they were playing.

Speaker 58 All the old guys were back. Lal Dang.

Speaker 23 Joe Keem. Like, all these guys were there.

Speaker 45 It was very cool.

Speaker 87 It was a cool ceremony, cool night.

Speaker 23 The Bulls actually did it correctly. Unlike last year when they invited everyone back and

Speaker 26 no one came.

Speaker 21 And then they booed Jerry Krauss's widow.

Speaker 77 Oh, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 103 Well, that wasn't.

Speaker 37 They didn't booed Jerry Kraus's widow.

Speaker 26 They booed Jerry Krauss on the Jumbotron because the Bulls are idiots and they should have realized if they put him up, that was going to happen.

Speaker 112 Whatever.

Speaker 24 Either way.

Speaker 73 And then my other who's back is Fox Sports.

Speaker 20 Yeah.

Speaker 14 What happened?

Speaker 112 They got some stuff going on.

Speaker 28 Lawsuit. Did you read any of it?

Speaker 87 I read a little bit of it.

Speaker 63 It's interesting.

Speaker 62 It's just a lawsuit, so we don't know.

Speaker 51 Allegations.

Speaker 1 It's a civil lawsuit.

Speaker 28 But apparently, allegedly, Skip Bayless... tried to pay a co-worker one and a half million dollars to sleep with him.

Speaker 100 That seems like a lot of money.

Speaker 28 And she said, No,

Speaker 28 that's got to make you in a real, real down-bad mindset. Yeah.

Speaker 28 1.5? 1.5. 1.5.
Allegedly. Do you think he started? Did he start with 1.5?

Speaker 103 Yeah,

Speaker 30 I think that you just say that, and you're just like, that's the number.

Speaker 28 Like, you couldn't just say a million? I'll give you a million bucks.

Speaker 90 That is quite a lawsuit.

Speaker 97 We'll see how that goes.

Speaker 30 And I saw Joy Taylor was in the mix there.

Speaker 23 Listen,

Speaker 78 my statement here is I'm going to wait and see how it goes.

Speaker 71 But

Speaker 26 I saw Emmanuel Acho having to delete tweets.

Speaker 111 That's very funny.

Speaker 51 That was very funny to me.

Speaker 28 Did you see the video that he put out? Yeah, that was.

Speaker 45 Oh, he put out his tweets.

Speaker 71 No.

Speaker 123 It's an old video.

Speaker 97 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 12 That's the video from 2022. Yeah, it's the old video where he deleted after.

Speaker 58 Yeah, which is like, dude, people are going to figure that out.

Speaker 79 I just.

Speaker 26 Emmanuel Acho doesn't like us. I'm not the biggest fan of his.

Speaker 28 He's a weirdo.

Speaker 120 It would just be very funny to watch him have to squirm a little bit.

Speaker 28 I think Emmanuel Acho is the weirdest person on television. Yeah.
He's very strange. Yeah, in the video, he was like just talking about how great Joy Taylor was, kind of out of nowhere.
Yeah.

Speaker 28 And then he deleted that video because he's like, people are going to find this and repost it. Which is so weird.
Which is just streisanding himself. Yes, exactly.

Speaker 23 We'll see. We'll see how that goes.

Speaker 59 I don't know.

Speaker 42 That was a bombshell.

Speaker 44 Skip obviously is just tweeting and not.

Speaker 28 addressing anything at all because he doesn't follow anybody on Twitter. Yeah.

Speaker 45 I also don't know how you do address it other than with lawyers, right?

Speaker 28 Yeah, you probably shouldn't address it.

Speaker 109 Yeah, probably should just let it play out.

Speaker 162 Also, Colin Coward seems like

Speaker 40 whatever happens with this lawsuit, he was like exonerated.

Speaker 51 Yeah, no creepy stuff about it.

Speaker 50 He's not a creep.

Speaker 28 I want to say for the record:

Speaker 28 I would have taken $1.5 million to sleep with Skip Aielis.

Speaker 27 You would have taken $0

Speaker 127 with Skip?

Speaker 28 Yeah, one night with Skip.

Speaker 10 You probably all tonight.

Speaker 51 Your pillow talk? Yeah.

Speaker 142 Okay, let's wrap up.

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