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Today is Friday, October 4th.

Speaker 1 And boys, it is officially the best month of sports because holy shit was Thursday night awesome. We had playoff baseball drama.
We had an incredible Thursday night football game.

Speaker 1 Kirk Cousins is back.

Speaker 4 It's Kirktober.

Speaker 1 Remember that? It's Kirktober.

Speaker 1 I feel like we should start with the playoff baseball just because,

Speaker 1 now let's do football. That was an awesome game.
I can't believe the Bucs blew it. And Kirk Cousins threw for the most yards in Atlanta Falcons history

Speaker 1 509.

Speaker 4 Yeah, the Falcons have become the Seahawks. Everything that the Seahawks have been for the last 10 years, I feel like it's just utter chaos anytime the Falcons take the field.

Speaker 4 Their last four games have been all insane going down to the end. I do think they play the Seahawks too in two weeks, which is going to be just a fun game.
That'll be a fun game.

Speaker 4 Kirk is the first player in NFL history with a 450-yard passing game for three different teams now. Wow.
With the Commies, the Vikings, and now with the Falcons.

Speaker 4 And he did the Taylor Swift dance after the one that was flagging and surfing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he did that one.

Speaker 4 It was nice to see Kirk just like, for some reason, at the start of every game and at the end of every game, Kirk Cousins has been awesome this year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was,

Speaker 1 it looked like the Bucs had that game. They had that game.

Speaker 1 All they needed to do was not have, they had two times where they had that game because they had the fumble, who was a Bucky Irving fumbled, where if he just goes down and they get a field goal, maybe it changes it or, you know, get one first down to win the game.

Speaker 1 Then they have the penalty, the holding penalty. It backs them out of field goal range where all they they needed was a first down.

Speaker 1 After the Falcons, which I think was correct, go for it on fourth and 15. Yes.
And that's why you go for it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because you know, listen, they didn't get it, but you knew that you needed at least, you needed a stop no matter what, whether it be you punt it and you need a stop, or you go for it on fourth and 15 and they, and they you don't get it.

Speaker 1 You're going to need a stop, at least hold them to a field goal. But yeah, that was an incredible game.
The Falcons, like the last play, just broken tackles everywhere.

Speaker 1 Feels like the Bucs Bucs just ran out of gas. Their offense stalled out in the second half after an explosive first half.

Speaker 1 And fuck, man, whenever we get a good Thursday night football game, it's like bonus football.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Al Michaels woke up tonight. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Even Al had a good time. So, yeah, that possession that you talked about when the Bucs got it back, it was after the fourth and 15 play.

Speaker 4 Maybe Raheem Morris is a secret genius because he had Kirk throw an interception that was basically as good as a really, really shitty punt.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 And then they shanked punt. A shanked punt.
Then they got the ball. The Bucs got the ball with with one minute, 41 seconds left in the fourth.
It was on the 28-yard line.

Speaker 4 And then they somehow backed up out of field goal range. Had to punt it.
Punt goes through the end zone because of the field position they got from going for it on fourth and 15.

Speaker 4 Sometimes it's the right move. You just say, fuck it.
You know what? Let's try to get it. We have a lot of plays in our playbook for fourth and 15.

Speaker 1 It was the right move in that situation because, again,

Speaker 1 if you punt there, you're going to need to stop regardless. And

Speaker 1 like, I just

Speaker 1 give yourself a chance to maybe get a first down down there. They didn't get it, but

Speaker 1 they still won the game.

Speaker 4 We should give some credit to Mike Evans, too. Had a 100th touchdown tonight.

Speaker 1 He is going to go down.

Speaker 1 We did this all last year, but to remind everyone, if Mike Evans plays another four years at this level, he's going to go down like top five, six in touchdowns and receiving yards.

Speaker 1 He's just so consistently awesome. Mike Evans deserves all the credit in that respect.
But yeah, Kirk Cousins, that last drive.

Speaker 1 And I'll say this, too, the fourth and 15, Kirk Cousins,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 that was the interception, right? Yep. Didn't throw it

Speaker 1 in front of the sticks. That's true, yeah.
That's it. He didn't check down.
He didn't check down. Like he was like, fuck it, I need a first down.
I need 15 yards. We're not going to check this down.

Speaker 1 Good job, Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 4 Kirk might not agree with the science behind this, but he is evolving.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It was, ah, man, what a fun game.
I mean, the first half was just an absolute shootout.

Speaker 1 I don't know what happened to the Bucs offense in the second half because it did just kind of sputter.

Speaker 1 All they needed was if they had just scored a single touchdown in the second half instead of getting two field goals, they'd win this game in regulation.

Speaker 4 Well, also, maybe if Raheem Morris had tried to kick a field goal at the end of the first half.

Speaker 1 Yeah, true. It was so fun.
That was such a fun game of football. Yeah, I love it.
I love football. I love football.

Speaker 4 It's the best. It's the best sport in the world.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And then we had opposite the football was Pete Alonso being the hero that the Mets have always wanted.

Speaker 4 That they always knew was inside him. Thankfully, Mets fans never gave up on Pete.

Speaker 1 He was, I mean, he strikes out there, and he's definitely not a Met next year. And now I feel like you can't, you have to give him all the money.
So it's just based off a home run.

Speaker 4 It's very hard to get something trending within the span of one baseball at bat, but double play was trending when Pete Alonso got up to the plate because everybody thought, okay, here comes the season-ending double play from Pete Alonso.

Speaker 4 Goes oppo oppo with it. He was sitting on a changeup.
Also, credit, was it Lindor that had the at-bat before him? Yeah. I'll say this about that at bat.
Landor let off the inning.

Speaker 1 Lindor led off the inning.

Speaker 4 And you know what? It was a great piece of hitting.

Speaker 1 I mean, Lindor's await. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, but it was a great.

Speaker 4 But it was a great piece of hitting. Fought.
Learned ball. It was a great at-bat.

Speaker 1 Lindor's awesome. I mean, Lindor's just awesome.
And now Max has to be. So the craziest stat, which I still don't believe because I've been playing baseball for fucking ever.

Speaker 1 That was the first time someone hit a

Speaker 1 down, hit a go-ahead home run in the ninth inning of an elimination game. Yeah.
That's or ninth inning or later. Yeah.
Isn't that crazy, Max?

Speaker 4 Not elimination game. I thought you guys did it.
Not elimination game. No, elimination game.

Speaker 1 I thought it was elimination.

Speaker 4 No, it's winner take all.

Speaker 1 Yeah, whatever. It's an elimination.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but no, one team could be eliminated and not have a game.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, well, you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
I'm not talking about game six. I'm saying, yeah.

Speaker 4 Got it. Yeah.
Yeah, double elimination game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 No, it's never happened before. It's crazy stat.

Speaker 1 When they said it, we couldn't believe it. Well, it's basically only a game three, game five, or game seven.
Correct. What was the big moment in the Cubs in the Cubs? It was Rajee Davis.

Speaker 1 It was the eighth inning, and they tied it.

Speaker 1 Okay. They tied it.

Speaker 1 Joe Carter was in game six.

Speaker 4 And there have been.

Speaker 1 But that wasn't a winner-take-all. Right.
Well, no, that was, yeah, that was game six. It came in.
But that wouldn't count for the. Correct.
Correct. Yeah.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 there have been base hits that have gone, that have taken a team from losing to winning in the ninth inning of a winner-take-all game that weren't home runs, but never just a dinger.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. Yeah.
That's a crazy stat. They've been playing baseball for fucking 7,000 years, but I guess they didn't really have.
They only played...

Speaker 1 Isn't that crazy that they used to just have the World Series? Yeah.

Speaker 1 You'd win the Penny.

Speaker 4 If you won the Pennant, it was a huge deal.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you were just in the World Series.

Speaker 1 But now, the Mets

Speaker 4 would have loved that

Speaker 1 Yeah, people are mad that we keep calling the Mets Team of Destiny because their payroll is very big. That doesn't, it doesn't.

Speaker 1 Team of Destiny, I know the Tigers are also, they're the AL Team of Destiny,

Speaker 1 but the Mets, the way they keep winning games is ridiculous. And

Speaker 1 they just,

Speaker 1 like, Max has been saying it for weeks now. Like, he'll just see a hit that will get fielded by the shortstop.
He'd be like, that would have gone through for the Mets.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's the kind of stuff that's going through his head now.

Speaker 4 The Oh My God song, too. They've got their own song that their own player made.
Yeah. It's pretty good.
It's pretty good vibe for the Mets. It's great.

Speaker 1 Pitbull is coming in there.

Speaker 1 Is he really?

Speaker 4 It's very hard to get America to root for the Mets. Really, any team from New York, it's tough to get, like, you know, coast to coast.
Okay, this is a fun team behind them.

Speaker 4 But yeah, Max, I feel like most neutral observers are going to be like, these Mets are fun.

Speaker 1 Are you afraid? No, people.

Speaker 1 People aren't fucking mad about that.

Speaker 4 You afraid?

Speaker 1 What people think, I don't care.

Speaker 1 I don't think there's ever a team people can root for from New York, like outside of New York. I'm saying that

Speaker 1 people are going to look at the Mets for the making of the market.

Speaker 4 In this series, I think people are going to look at the Mets and be like, that's a fun team.

Speaker 1 I guess, but it's not, I guess. Yeah.
So, but you're afraid because they're playing great baseball, right? The Phillies are better than the Mets at every aspect of the game. They have a better lineup.

Speaker 1 They have a better starting pitching. They have a better bullpen.
Doesn't matter. But doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 But they're just the team right now. I know.

Speaker 1 The Phillies have been that team in the past

Speaker 1 and it ran out of juice. So I'm just hoping that

Speaker 1 the day off tomorrow kills the juice. Oh

Speaker 1 what happens if the Mets wake up on Saturday and the juice is still there? Then it's trouble. I think it's going to go five.
I think it's going to go five. And with my track record, I probably

Speaker 1 stream it five with

Speaker 1 meek Phil and Frank in my face, and it's just going to be another

Speaker 1 problem. It's just going to be another screenshot that'll live on forever.
Yeah,

Speaker 4 Frank's going to tell you nine times the Mets have lost already and then they're going to win.

Speaker 1 And I'm going to keep telling him to shut up. Is there going to be multiple moments where you and Frank are doing the same thing, and we can be like, Yeah, early onset Fleming?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 it's going to go five. we get these Phillies? The Phillies are going to go up 2-1.
I'm going to be comfortable. I'm going to be like, okay, we're going to win this.
It's all good.

Speaker 1 We're going to get past the Mets. We're going to be up in game four.

Speaker 1 And then it's going to be, and then the Mets are going to have a heroic comeback in game four. And then game five, they're just going to smoke us.
And it's going to be,

Speaker 1 it'll be like 4-0 Mets in game five. That's how it's going to go.
Wow.

Speaker 4 I hope that's going to happen to you.

Speaker 1 Memes, you're a Mets fan. How are you feeling?

Speaker 3 I'm fired up.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was freaking out you're gonna you gonna take down Maxie

Speaker 1 I don't know we already agreed to watch in separate rooms oh what I don't agree I don't agree now is that is that to preserve the relationship yeah well we can't Sunday we're gonna be streaming all day Sunday you guys have to watch it in the same room

Speaker 1 What's going on?

Speaker 4 He leaned up to the mic to say something.

Speaker 1 Who? All right, wait, hold on. I have a question.
Who is

Speaker 1 this more for you, Max, or for memes? I feel like it might be more for Max because memes is low-key, like, would get physical.

Speaker 1 I don't think it would ever get physical. No, it wouldn't get physical.
I just don't want it to be awkward and uncomfortable. And I don't want to know what you're doing.
What do you, what, where?

Speaker 3 I think we just yell at each other.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's one thing, like, Hank's a piece of shit.
I deal with Hank, and then I know he's a piece of shit, and I can walk away being like, there's a piece of shit.

Speaker 1 Memes is like, we sit next to each other, and it's, we work together and we're kind of like partners back here.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 1 But the tension would be great. Sounds like it'd be a great viewing experience.
Sounds like it's something that people want to see. Content producers, right?

Speaker 1 Thinking about good content to produce.

Speaker 4 Oh, that's a good point, Hank. Yeah,

Speaker 1 you shouldn't have said this on the air. Yeah, like, okay, think about it.

Speaker 4 Think about it if it weren't.

Speaker 1 If it weren't you two, okay?

Speaker 4 If it was two other people on this podcast and they were exactly like you guys, you would probably want those clips, right?

Speaker 1 Correct. Say if PFT and I were playing in the NFC championship game, we're like, we love each other.
No, but me and Big Cat are playing in the game.

Speaker 1 He went to the game. He had to go to a wedding, you idiot.

Speaker 1 You know about weddings.

Speaker 1 Dumb-dumb.

Speaker 4 Big cat, if you and I were playing against each other in the NFC, we'd probably watch it in separate rooms and not really have any cameras on to preserve our relationship. No, right?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I'd be an excuse.

Speaker 1 No one would ever, yeah, people wouldn't needle us the whole time, and it wouldn't be the most stressful thing of our lives.

Speaker 1 It wouldn't be like going back to Rajay Davis when the the Cubs won the World Series and Dave showed up to game seven in a full Cleveland Indians uniform.

Speaker 1 You know that he doesn't actually

Speaker 1 deal with that stuff.

Speaker 1 For some reason, Hank, I think we should set up to Hank.

Speaker 4 I think we should ask the listeners if they would like to

Speaker 1 max and memes. Yeah, they can cut it.
We will have no idea.

Speaker 1 Real quick, do an ad in the middle of this video. We will have literally no idea.
If you can hear this, they didn't cut it. Help us.
We'll give you Sunday. Sunday.
So I'm all asking for Sunday.

Speaker 1 I'm not asking for Tuesday or Wednesday. Sunday's a deal.

Speaker 1 Tuesday. What? I want Tuesday.
You want Tuesday? All right. Hank wants Tuesday.

Speaker 1 Saturday, Saturday, fine.

Speaker 1 Game one's fine.

Speaker 4 I have a question, Max. Yep.
When are you going to put on the Phillies overalls that you got?

Speaker 1 Not

Speaker 1 game one. That's not game one.
You said it was a must-win.

Speaker 4 Wait, fact and fiction, you said it was a must-win.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 it's not a game one.

Speaker 4 But it's a must-win.

Speaker 4 Correct. But it's not important enough to put it.
It sounds like it's not a must-win, then.

Speaker 1 It's not game one. Are you going to watch at a bar at home? It's a good question.

Speaker 1 A bar is tough because it's college football Saturday.

Speaker 1 Because no bar is going to be giving the baseball game anyway.

Speaker 4 I bet Hank knows some bars that don't play college football.

Speaker 1 That was a good one, though.

Speaker 4 A really shitty bar with a bartender wears suspenders and makes it drop that you're absolutely going to hate.

Speaker 1 My best case scenario is finding a bar that no one wants to go to. All right, so Saturday, you guys are fine to watch a part.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Sunday, we're going to be streaming.

Speaker 1 That's fine. You guys can sit on opposite sides of the bar.
Okay, yeah, that's good. That's good.
That's good.

Speaker 1 And then Tuesday. We can do this couch.
Tuesday, we can do this couch. We'll just do clips.
We're not the couch. Yeah.
Yeah, because we're going to record after.

Speaker 1 Sure. Okay.
But not the couch.

Speaker 1 um oh maxi are you afraid of getting bing-bonged maxie i always get bing-bonged no he's it's literally just that it's it's the villanova game that we watched with shane gillis here that has has him like why wouldn't we watch in the cave this this room has him bothered i mean oh every i don't win in any room there's no good room every room ends in disaster for me and it always ends in like

Speaker 4 should we watch outside

Speaker 1 we don't have it where are we where is somewhere the FT's roof Yeah, we can watch on my roof.

Speaker 1 That's outside. There's no room.

Speaker 4 Max is not allowed inside. Max, an outside cat.
Oh, just like lay a little tray of snacks out for him, a saucer of milk.

Speaker 1 Put him on the side. I will say Saturday morning's going to come.
I'm going to be like, Phil's in three. Yeah, of course, of course.
You're scared right now. The Mets are playing.

Speaker 1 Baseball is the craziest sport where it's just like, if you're hot at the right time, you can just ride it. I mean, last year we saw it with the Diamondbacks and the Rangers.

Speaker 1 We do have, so the other three three series, the Padres,

Speaker 1 it's not a sweep. You can't say it's a sweep.

Speaker 4 I guess it's a two-game sweep, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, but would you say it two games or a sweep?

Speaker 1 You have to win two. I think you have to.

Speaker 4 I think if it's a series and the other team doesn't win.

Speaker 1 I just think they won the series.

Speaker 4 Do we see any fans that brought Brooms to the game?

Speaker 1 I'm not sure. I just don't, I don't feel comfortable calling winning two games a sweep.

Speaker 4 I think you just have to say a two-game sweep.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So the Padres made quick work of the Braves.
Hank and I have futures on the Padres. We're rooting for the Padres.
We're all on board. Pods, baby.

Speaker 4 Wait, when did you guys get Padres' futures?

Speaker 1 I did mine late. A month and a half ago.
Dumb. He's had his for a while.

Speaker 4 Fuck. I wish I knew that you guys still had it.

Speaker 1 I literally did it the worst times.

Speaker 4 I got my Padres future in like, I want to say mid-August. And you can't.
And I cashed it out to put on Travis Hunter for Heisman, which, by the way, is a bet because

Speaker 1 Travis Hunter, if we haven't mentioned it, I don't know if you've heard us say it before, but Travis Hunter is. They have a bye week this week, so people are probably going to forget it.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to forget it. We're not going to forget Travis Hunter.
It is the Heisman Trolls.

Speaker 4 I'm going to be watching the Padres play baseball. And I'm going to be like, you know what? That future I cashed out on.
I'm actually happy that I did because I invested it. I made money.

Speaker 4 Now I'm rolling that over. Invest in Travis Hunter.
He's not getting injured this weekend.

Speaker 1 No, he's his bye week.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, the Padres play the Dodgers. The Tigers, which are the other, that's the other great story in these playoffs.

Speaker 1 I mean, what was the, what is it, like, 0.2% chance to make the playoffs in August?

Speaker 1 And any team that beats the Astros gets a special place in everyone's heart. I haven't forgotten.

Speaker 4 A lot of people have forgotten. No.
Not me. I'm not going to forgive.
Never. I'm not going to forget because they ducked out.
They lucked out during the COVID year

Speaker 4 where they didn't have fans there to give them shit. But yeah, the Tigers,

Speaker 4 they're among the lowest payrolls in baseball, which is crazy. They're the youngest team in Major League.

Speaker 1 Let's look up payrolls.

Speaker 4 And also, let's look up how much younger the Tigers are than every other team.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then we had and then so it's the AL Central and the Yankees in, in, in the AL playoffs now because the Royals beat the Orioles, who the Orioles.

Speaker 1 Listen, you got to score more than one run in two games.

Speaker 4 I'd like to retract what I said about maybe America finding the Mets fun to root for, just looking at their payroll. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's see, that's where I draw the line. It's like they're not fun to root for, but you have to, they undoubtedly have Team of Destiny vibes.
And I don't think payroll matters for Team of Destiny.

Speaker 1 Memes also already said, like, a lot of the guys who are playing are not big money guys. Correct.
Like, their top players are pennies on the dollar. Right.

Speaker 1 All right. So go scroll down.
Scroll down. This is actually awesome.
So the Royals are the 20th payroll.

Speaker 1 The Guardians are the 23rd payroll. And the Tigers are the 26th.
That's awesome. So

Speaker 1 the entire AL Central still alive in the playoffs. Everyone who made it from the AL Central.
And now they've got to take down the Yankees. And Yankees fans are cocky right now.

Speaker 4 We've got to look up and see how much money we owe Gary Sinise's foundation for Paul Skeens.

Speaker 1 Yes, I think it's a decent amount. I think it's a lot.
A lot of memes. We looked at some of that.

Speaker 1 Memes just said that Josh Hayter, who blew the game for the Astros, makes more money than the entire payroll of the Tigers. The Tigers.
I love those.

Speaker 1 I love those.

Speaker 1 By the way, did you guys see that? That sounded like a Revelle tweet.

Speaker 1 Did you guys see he has a guy? Yeah.

Speaker 1 So Ravel has a guy who monitors the internet for him at all times.

Speaker 4 And he sends him emails of like, hey, here's stuff that people are talking about on Twitter.

Speaker 1 Emails are interesting stuff. Text is something that you should attend to pretty quickly.
And then there's a agreement that if a phone call happens, it's something like Woge retiring, he says.

Speaker 4 Something or that's the biggest thing.

Speaker 1 Imagine being Ravel's guy.

Speaker 4 I would love to see examples of times where his guy has emailed him something and Ravel is like, this should have been a text. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know this.

Speaker 4 Yeah, wait. The guy that caught Shohei Otani's 45th home run this year was escorted out by security? That's a call.
You have to call him.

Speaker 1 That's a call. That's absolutely a call.

Speaker 1 What a night of sports, though. What a night of sport.
October's the best. Do you think it's going to be? We started.
What is it, memes?

Speaker 1 Today is the first day where you have 57 days in a row of football? 55.

Speaker 1 Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 We're truly living in the best times, boys.

Speaker 4 It is the best, so don't take it for granted. Just remember where we were back in June and July.
We would have sucked a dick for one football game.

Speaker 1 And now we have football. And now we all are football.

Speaker 4 Do you think Ravel's guy calls him on the morning of November 22nd and is like, hey, just quick reminder, you have to put JFK's brains on the timeline.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, definitely. Definitely.
And MLK Day gets a, hey, here's all your memorabilia.

Speaker 4 No, MLK, you have to go to his house. The guy has to go to his door, knock on his door, and be like, hey, remember, today is the day that you prove how unraced you are.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. Many.
Do you ever do Mount Rushmore months? Yeah, I think we did.

Speaker 4 That's what I was just trying to do. October's great.

Speaker 1 October's 1-1.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Okay, Mr. Fucking Summer Boy.
October is 1-1.

Speaker 4 October's so good.

Speaker 1 October has

Speaker 1 everything.

Speaker 4 I've become more of an October boy.

Speaker 1 What about June? I've always been an October boy. About what? June.
June can fucking take a hike compared to October.

Speaker 4 I kind of stand with Donnie on Jaloon, the month that he made up. It goes from June 15th to July 15th.

Speaker 1 Now, there's also all four sports. All four sports.
The weather is perfect.

Speaker 1 It's just the best. Halloween, the funnest holiday.
Halloween is the funnest holiday. What?

Speaker 4 You don't think so? I'm a Thanksgiving guy myself.

Speaker 1 I mean, I like Thanksgiving more than Halloween. Yeah, I'm aware.
In terms of funnest, though. Actually, I shouldn't say that.
Were you going to say St. Patrick's Day?

Speaker 1 I was going to say Memorial Day, but then I was like, That's the funnest holiday? That's the funnest holiday? Memorial Day weekend is the best weekend of the year. Hank?

Speaker 1 No. Start of the summer?

Speaker 1 I like July 4th. So wait.
But July 4th is like summer's almost over. No.
No, it's not. Memorial Day weekend is the Friday night.

Speaker 1 I hate people like you, Max that say the 4th of July is the first day of the year. We each get three picks.
We each get three picks.

Speaker 4 Quick My Rush War. I said, I hate people like you, Max that say that the 4th of July is the start of the end of summer.

Speaker 1 No, that's me. That's how we're going to go.
Yeah, hit the fast forward. All right, you ready? I'm disrespectful.

Speaker 1 Mount Rushmore, months. I'll take October first.

Speaker 1 We'll go round, snake draft, three picks each.

Speaker 4 Well, I'm going to lose because I'm going to go.

Speaker 1 You go second. No, you get it.
Well, you get the snake. Hank's going to lose.
Watch me. Okay.

Speaker 1 October.

Speaker 4 I'm going to go

Speaker 4 September.

Speaker 1 I will go.

Speaker 1 I will go June.

Speaker 1 I will take July

Speaker 1 and May okay

Speaker 1 I will take March

Speaker 1 shit

Speaker 1 I love March March my favorite

Speaker 4 June and July both off the calendar huh still one summer month it seems

Speaker 4 I'm going to take

Speaker 1 November that's what I would have taken all right I'll take my list. Fuck.
I'll take December. Holidays, just getting drunk.

Speaker 1 Fuck, what's left? Do I go August or is April still there?

Speaker 4 April's on the board.

Speaker 4 The Masters.

Speaker 1 Hello, friends. Yeah, March Madness, weather turns.

Speaker 4 I'll take April. I'm taking August.

Speaker 1 It's fine. It's too hot.

Speaker 1 January or February, the last two, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's an easy pick.

Speaker 1 It's an easy pick

Speaker 1 shorter. It doesn't feel as bad.

Speaker 4 No, I think February is like.

Speaker 1 February is definitely last year. January, you get the playoffs every single weekend.
Like every weekend of January is fun because you've got meaningful, important playoff football games.

Speaker 1 You don't mean I disagree. No, there's one month of the year that people agree to go sober, and that's January.

Speaker 1 That was what

Speaker 1 I've done in my head.

Speaker 4 No,

Speaker 4 sometimes you do sober.

Speaker 1 How many fucking years have you gone sober in January? He didn't say he did it. I didn't say it.
No one has. Everyone agrees.

Speaker 1 No one does that. A lot of people do that.
A lot of people do that. All right.
So you also get President's Day weekend

Speaker 1 in February. That doesn't matter.
You can go skiing. Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. So, recap, memes, have shaman.
Also, funniest holiday is January 1st.

Speaker 1 College football playoffs, NFL playoffs. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 January 1st is one of the most depressing days of the year. Besides football, it is.

Speaker 4 New Year's Eve stinks. I think New Year's Eve is a terrible holiday.

Speaker 4 Here's what you do on New Year's Eve. No, even when I was

Speaker 1 younger than you,

Speaker 1 you're old.

Speaker 4 When you go out to a bar on New Year's Eve, what you do is you pay $100 to go to the crowdest bar that you've ever been in in your life. Then you have to wait about 45 minutes to get a beer.

Speaker 4 And then the beer's really small. And then you have to go to the back of the line, try to find the bathroom, then get back in line and go back to the bar and wait for another 30 minutes.

Speaker 1 It's a bad holiday.

Speaker 1 What were your picks? So Shane's got to make the graphic. I had.
Well, I mean,

Speaker 1 we got fucked.

Speaker 1 You guys got the first two picks, and we got the last two picks.

Speaker 4 I actually think I bottled my first pick, so I gave you guys. You did with September

Speaker 1 to go back to the next one. That was cool.
Yeah, that was a mid-round. It's kind of like in the middle of like.

Speaker 4 Pick football's back.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but it's kind of in the middle of, like, is it hot? Is it cold? I got July.

Speaker 1 May.

Speaker 1 January. Yeah, that's pretty good.
Oh, that's it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, that's why we couldn't do. That's why the draft is going to be be lopsided because there's only three, we only could do three each.
Yeah. Not a true amount rush more.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We'll still make a graphic. Yeah, what was yours? I did June, March, February.

Speaker 4 That's tough. February's bad when January was on.
What was yours?

Speaker 1 I had September,

Speaker 4 November,

Speaker 4 and August.

Speaker 1 I like November.

Speaker 4 November's good, dude.

Speaker 1 Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving rocks.
I had October, December, December, April. December's a fun month because no one gives a fuck.
October is a good one. You easily brought it.

Speaker 1 I guess you'll see.

Speaker 1 I'm pretty good at these.

Speaker 1 It's not a Mount Rushmore. It was a good bonus for me.
It was on

Speaker 1 no way. It was also a fun Mount Rushmore bonus of having PFT have the whole calendar except October and just going September.

Speaker 1 And we all were like, what?

Speaker 4 Honestly, the real reason I picked it is because I had a great September.

Speaker 1 There's There's literally a song that says, wake me up when September happens.

Speaker 1 It's true. Oh, okay, cool.

Speaker 4 So we're going to base all of our takes on Billy Joe lyrics.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Okay, that's fair.

Speaker 1 Definitely.

Speaker 1 Okay, anything else?

Speaker 4 We also have a great song by Earth, Wind, and Fire.

Speaker 1 Do you remember

Speaker 1 the 21st night of September?

Speaker 1 Buddy, yeah.

Speaker 1 Do we have anything else?

Speaker 1 That was just a fun night of sports. I'm buzzing off sports.
You guys feel the same way? October's very own.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 What did you say? October's very own.

Speaker 1 October's very own?

Speaker 1 Do you know who that is? No.

Speaker 1 Drake. Oh.

Speaker 1 We don't.

Speaker 1 We don't Kendrick guys over here. I know, but

Speaker 1 you're not like us.

Speaker 1 That's a fact. But you picked October.
Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah.

Speaker 1 I'm going to fuck him up.

Speaker 1 All right, let's kick it to ourselves for a preview. Certified pedophile.

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Speaker 4 Okay, boys, week five.

Speaker 1 Yes. Bye weeks.
London.

Speaker 4 Bye weeks are here.

Speaker 1 London is here.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say right now, it's not my favorite slate in the fact that there are some tough games to pick, but I do love the setup that we have a morning game in London.

Speaker 1 We have six games in the first slate. four games in the second slate and a Sunday night football.

Speaker 1 That is perfect amount of football watching where you can actually watch every game and not just be like, oh, eight, nine games at noon and we're just everywhere and don't know what's going on.

Speaker 1 I love how this day tapers out. It's a good mix for sure.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I hate it when there's all the games in the early slate, and then we just get three, and then two of them are stinkers in the afternoon. I think it's set up for a good day of football.

Speaker 4 I like the England game the first time it happens because it's something different. It's something new, and you get breakfast and football, which is wonderful.

Speaker 4 Are we going to get the simulcast with like the Toy Story animated character?

Speaker 1 I don't think so.

Speaker 1 I don't think so.

Speaker 4 Remember when they had animated Booger in the booth

Speaker 4 discussing the game? That was awesome.

Speaker 4 This is going to be fun, though, because I think the Vikings are undefeated in London, right?

Speaker 1 Yes, we have Jets at Vikings, and the Vikings are 3-0.

Speaker 4 3-0 there. Both teams did the stupid thing, and they're traveling on Thursday, practicing on Friday.
They should have gone early in the week, but time zones, remember.

Speaker 1 Vikings are going further.

Speaker 4 Vikings are going a little bit further, and they're going one hour further, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 So this is the ultimate East Coast game for the Vikings, who haven't been to England since the year 1065.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Vikings, by the way,

Speaker 1 have only been trailing this season for three minutes and 26 seconds.

Speaker 1 That's pretty crazy. That was also the crazy part is that was week one against the Giants when they're 3-0.
So they have been dominating everyone.

Speaker 1 I feel like

Speaker 1 this might be where you have to try to start fading them. Now, the Jets have a lot going on.
We have Cadence Gate. Memes is back.

Speaker 1 I'd like memes to maybe address Cadencegate because after the game on Sunday,

Speaker 1 Aaron Rodgers said, said we'll just have to go you know maybe it's on them Salah

Speaker 1 then said

Speaker 1 what was his exact quote he said we've

Speaker 1 I think he said there's no problem and there's no there's no there's no cadence issue yeah yeah there's no cadence issue which means there's definitely a cadence issue

Speaker 1 memes

Speaker 1 there's a cadence issue with the Jets right now

Speaker 3 I don't think there's a cadence issue what do you mean

Speaker 3 there's just not one that's just how he plays what about their false starts, though? This is just an outlier for the first four weeks because the first three were fine.

Speaker 1 Now week four is a problem.

Speaker 1 Here's Salah's exact quote. He sounds like Danny Boykan right now.
There is no cadence issue. There never was a cadence issue.
It was created.

Speaker 4 At no time did I get attacked by a cadence.

Speaker 1 If I got attacked by a cadence, I'd be high tailing out of here like Carl Lewis. And also, just on the record, Aaron Rodgers never had swine flu.

Speaker 4 We don't know that. He's been immunized.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 Memes, this reminds me when you have Aaron Rodgers saying one thing, Robert Salah saying the other. Kind of reminds me of a little trip to Egypt.

Speaker 4 No. Do you think Aaron Rodgers is going to stop by the British Museum and see all the Egyptian artifacts that he didn't get to see while he was in Cairo? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think he probably during minicamp.

Speaker 4 He'll probably go on a little fact-finding tour, figure out what's going on with Princess Kate, too.

Speaker 1 Do you think they could have probably figured out the cadence during minicamp?

Speaker 4 That might be an issue they could have worked on together.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so memes, this cadence issue, it's an issue. Or are you saying that what Florio said, or sorry, Salah said, there is no cadence issue, there never was a cadence issue, it was created.

Speaker 1 Is that Salah talking, or is that one of your many Florios maybe taking out of context, even though he was very clear saying there's no cadence issue, there never was a cadence issue?

Speaker 3 No,

Speaker 1 that's clearly Bob. That's Bob? That's Bob.
You're out on Bob. I've noticed now that you're not calling him Robert.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm out on Bob. Bob Sala? Now, the question is, is Rodgers out on Bob?

Speaker 3 No, they're still good. I think it's week to week.
There was a video after the Patriots game where they hugged immediately, but they never put that out.

Speaker 1 There's where the Florios come in.

Speaker 3 Because Jets PR, they should have put that out immediately, but instead they just waited to put in the YouTube episode of One Jets Drive and just never put it out online.

Speaker 1 They didn't try to hug.

Speaker 4 The very dishonest media not telling the full picture about that.

Speaker 3 No,

Speaker 3 you got to get that out, clip it, put it out immediately, be like, they love each other.

Speaker 4 Yeah, look at this hug.

Speaker 1 They clearly love each other.

Speaker 4 So, memes, let me ask you this, though. Aaron Rodgers' knee, is that an issue?

Speaker 3 I believe that's an issue.

Speaker 1 That is an issue.

Speaker 4 He's got a swollen knee, and I don't think that a long plane ride helps with swollen knees.

Speaker 1 Let me ask you another question, memes. Is there, so Devontae Adams, obviously in the news, wants to be traded.

Speaker 1 A lot of teams have said, you know, I saw the Chiefs are obviously in the market, but they're not going to probably do it in division.

Speaker 1 There was the Steelers. The Cowboys came out and said they're not interested.
Thank you, Cowboys. No one asked you.

Speaker 4 Well, they don't have any money left over.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but that was very Jerry Jones to be like, hey, we're not interested. We didn't fucking ask.

Speaker 4 It'd be very funny, though, if Jerry Jones, just a week after saying, like, we wanted Derrick Henry, but couldn't get him because we're poor.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 And he's like, yeah, you know what? A big name-wide receiver, we'll make it happen. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Saints, Dark Horse. Devontae Adams, Derek Carr, Fresno State.
And then you have the Jets where everyone thinks he will eventually end up.

Speaker 1 Is Is there a possibility, memes, that Devontae Adams trading for Devontae Adams is kind of like

Speaker 1 having a kid to save the marriage? Just add another guy. Yeah.
We'll be fine. Just add another guy, and we'll be fine.

Speaker 4 This will make Aaron happy. Yeah.
This finishes off Aaron's wish list.

Speaker 1 This will change my wandering eye to other coaches if I have Devontae Adams. Just get me Devontae Adams, and I swear to God, I'll never bring up Cadence again.

Speaker 3 And if you get Devontae Adams, you could get yourself Aaron Rodgers for a couple more years.

Speaker 1 Okay. Oh, interesting.

Speaker 4 Because he'll be happy.

Speaker 1 What about Robert Salah? He won't have many years. Okay.

Speaker 4 Memes,

Speaker 4 do you want Aaron Rodgers for another four years? Yes.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
Quarterback. I've seen enough.
He's just the worst. He's off to his worst start in his career.

Speaker 1 We had a tough schedule. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Tough schedule. All right.
So how are you feeling about this game?

Speaker 3 I'm nervous. The Vikings are the best team in the NFL.
Sam Darnold, potential revenge game, even though we already had it one time.

Speaker 3 But it's a bounce back. There won't be any rain.
And the Jets normally.

Speaker 4 It's in London, England.

Speaker 1 Well, the game's not on Sunday morning.

Speaker 4 Sunday afternoon. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Sunday morning here.

Speaker 1 Okay. But the game's not.

Speaker 1 We're here. The game's in London.
Excuse me.

Speaker 3 Sunday afternoon in London. There won't be rain.

Speaker 4 Are we sure?

Speaker 4 Positive. So the thing about that stadium, it's at Tottenham Stadium, right?

Speaker 1 I'm going to look it up right now.

Speaker 4 It's at the Hotspurs Stadium, and the way that thing is set up, they've got an opening in the roof above the field. So all the fans, you don't get rained on if you're a fan.

Speaker 4 But the field will get slick. This is the same field that last year, I think the Bills said it was like playing on fucking cement.
I think that's the direct quote.

Speaker 1 It was not good.

Speaker 4 So what they do is the NFL, we know the NFL first and foremost protected shield. They care about player safety.
100%. Paramount to them.

Speaker 4 So when they send teams over to England to play on grass soccer fields, what they do is they have them remove the grass soccer field and install field turf.

Speaker 4 So they're going to be playing on a slick stadium, maybe, or a slick field.

Speaker 1 Okay, chance of precipitation on Sunday at Tottenham Stadium is

Speaker 1 35, no, 50%.

Speaker 1 That feels like it could be rain.

Speaker 3 Could be rain, but 50% chance. It's just 50% of the area.

Speaker 1 True.

Speaker 1 True. Good point, memes.

Speaker 4 Only half the field will get rained on.

Speaker 1 Good point memes. Half the area.
Half the area.

Speaker 3 You just got to hope our area doesn't get wet.

Speaker 1 I think what really all cadence, Rain, Salah, Devontae Adams, all that aside, I think the thing that's scary to you and should be is that the Vikings defense is a fucking monster unit right now, and Brian Flores has them playing incredible ball, and you have a quarterback who has a gimpy leg.

Speaker 3 He has a gimpy leg, but he is a 20-year veteran, so he might be able to find the holes and where to exploit the defense.

Speaker 4 When you said that you've played a tough schedule, where did the Broncos at home fall in that one?

Speaker 1 Good question, PFT. And also the Patriots at home while you were talking about it.

Speaker 3 The Broncos were number two hardest.

Speaker 1 Broncos defense is good. Yeah, they are.

Speaker 4 They're the only team that blitzes more than the Vikings, I think.

Speaker 4 And that didn't go well. No, it did not.

Speaker 1 Cadence.

Speaker 3 Patriots were humming off two games. They won one, went to overtime with the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 They were humming.

Speaker 1 I would agree. That was a humming Patriots that you faced.

Speaker 3 Titans, Will Levis, most electric player in sports.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 So he's played the Titans, the Patriots, the Broncos. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So when he says tough schedule, he's meaning they've started the season with the 49ers. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And Robert Salat and Nathaniel Hackett are your coaches, so that's just tough in general, too.

Speaker 1 I just, so

Speaker 1 I'm in a tough spot with the Vikings because I do believe the Vikings are very good.

Speaker 1 Also, memes, can you do me a favor and find on Grit Week, we did our NFL futures, and I believe I picked the Vikings over six and a half, and Max laughed in my face.

Speaker 1 100%. Yep.

Speaker 1 Can you find that video for me? I was wrong. I picked the Vikings under six and a half.
And then I laughed in my face. Okay.
You laughed in my face. So can we find that video real quick?

Speaker 1 I just want to watch that. You can just find it and we'll put it up.
Um, but anyway, I believe in the Vikings, I think they're a very good team.

Speaker 1 I just, in the back of my head, I'm like, at some point, they'll have a stinker, and I don't want to be involved when they do.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you don't want to miss on that.

Speaker 1 And I don't know if it's this week because this does feel like it's the Vikings have been underdogs. They've been underdogs, I think, three out of the four games.

Speaker 1 They've won outright, obviously, three out of four, or they've won all their games. They're now favorites.
The Jets look like shit's going on. Old quarterback, tough knee.
Everything says Vikings.

Speaker 4 That's why I might take the Jets. So I kind of agree with that, where it's the Vikings off a big win against the Packers.

Speaker 4 They dominated the first half, but Grenard said that they're actually, in film study, they're treating this as a loss. Oh, I love that.

Speaker 4 They're just pretending that they lost last week to the Packers because the second half was so bad. I love that.
So I like that, too.

Speaker 4 But I do agree that if you're just looking at trends and the Jets, after losing that 10-9 game at home to the Broncos, they can't look any worse than they did last week.

Speaker 4 Everybody has a fresh memory of how bad the Jets were. Everyone has a fresh memory of how good the Vikings were.
Right.

Speaker 4 This seems like the right time to flip it on everybody. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So that's what you got going for you right now, memes. The flip.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and historically with Bob Slaw teams, lose to the Broncos in a horrible fashion, one of the worst games of all time.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Beat the best team in the NFL next week.

Speaker 4 The best team in the NFL? Are you crowning the Vikings? Yes.

Speaker 1 Chiefs, not.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 The two, the three Super Bowls wasn't enough?

Speaker 3 No, that was last year.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right, all right, fair, fair, fair, fair.

Speaker 4 This is a crazy stat I came across.

Speaker 4 So when Darnold is targeting Justin Jefferson under the blitz, when they blitz Darnold, he's nine for nine, 227 yards, two touchdowns, no picks, and a perfect passer rating.

Speaker 1 Justin Jefferson is the best wide receiver in the league, and it's not close. I agree.
I know that not close is a stupid thing to say. He has scored in every single game this year.

Speaker 1 He is so goddamn good that it's to me, it's not close right now.

Speaker 4 Thought experiment: if Tyreek Hill was on the Vikings and Justin Jefferson was getting passes thrown to him by Snoop Huntley, do you think we might be saying the same thing about Tyreek Hill?

Speaker 1 No, I think Justin Jefferson would still be scoring somehow. Okay, he's that good.
He's that goddamn good.

Speaker 1 What were you gonna say, memes?

Speaker 3 I just sent the video.

Speaker 1 Oh, oh, just play it on here. I'd like to watch it.

Speaker 1 Can I trust Tree real quick?

Speaker 1 Because we're not right pretty much ever. I may have watched our Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold clip like a hundred times.

Speaker 4 It's so good to see, right?

Speaker 1 It's so good to see. Fucking nailed it.
The fact that it's those two guys and they're having this year, it was just...

Speaker 1 I need to stop because it's like, it's kind of fucking my head up where I'm like, do I know ball?

Speaker 4 So this is actually the perfect case of

Speaker 4 the Jets versus the Vikings. We're high on ourselves because of our Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield take.

Speaker 4 So now is the exact time you should fade us because we're reading our own press clippings, which are also reported by ourselves. Yeah, which you shouldn't do.

Speaker 1 All right, so here's the clip of Max, dumb, dumb Max,

Speaker 1 saying that the Vikings were going to go under six and a half.

Speaker 1 You literally just said about how wrong you are. Oh, you said under six and a half.
Yes.

Speaker 1 There's no audio. I know.
I'm getting to the part. Oh,

Speaker 1 okay. Look at us.
We're looking just a little bit. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We look great out there.

Speaker 1 Grit week's the best. I want to do grit week again soon.

Speaker 4 Maybe like next August. We got nice tans, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Eagles under 10 and a half. Good job, PFT.
Oh, no, wait. I don't know what my pick was.

Speaker 4 I think I flipped mine. This is a problem.

Speaker 1 I don't know what my pick was.

Speaker 1 Here we go. They're unhappy with the coach already.
Nothing's going to work out in DC. Excuse me's going to work out in D.C.
Nothing's going to work out.

Speaker 1 Nothing's going to work out in D.C. for the Eagles when we beat their ass.

Speaker 1 All right, my pick for the under. Don't click that.
Indianapolis Colts.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. I think the AFC South is gonna be pretty good this year.
Jaguars bounce back. Oh,

Speaker 1 maybe sneaky.

Speaker 1 Yeah, sneaky.

Speaker 1 Under eight and a half wins for the Colts.

Speaker 4 My pick's gonna be the Seahawks of seven and a half.

Speaker 1 I don't think oh, hey. You say under? Under.
Under seven. All these picks suck.
The Eagles is pretty good, six and a half wins. I think the division's gonna be real.
That's their line. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love that over

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm gonna take the Vikings under six and a half wins. I think the division is gonna be really tough.
They're gonna have a rookie quarterback. I think it's gonna be a rebuilding process.

Speaker 4 Vikings aren't gonna be there under six and a half for the Vikings. You didn't count on Sam Darnall.

Speaker 1 Well, Sam Darnold wasn't

Speaker 1 so that was that was hit or miss. Yeah, I mean, all of all of us had bad picks.
Listen, the Colts are the Colts started 0-2. The Colts started 0-2.

Speaker 1 If we had played this two weeks ago, I would look like a genius. Actually,

Speaker 1 Hank's under 7.5 for Seahawks. Yeah, that was a bad pick.
Yeah. That's all right.
We're bad. Okay.

Speaker 1 Let's go to the next game.

Speaker 1 Ravens at Bengals. This one, I believe we can all agree, even though all of our teams are playing, that one should be middle sound.

Speaker 4 Yes, I love this one. So

Speaker 4 we always forget to remind ourselves that Lamar Jackson is really good against the NFC. We should also remind ourselves Lamar Jackson 8-1 against the Bengals.

Speaker 1 Yes, he kind of owns the Bengals.

Speaker 1 Did you guys see the thought starter that was floating around the internet this week, which I thought was very interesting, that Derrick Henry might be the last running back to go into the Hall of Fame, which was like, whoa, is that true?

Speaker 1 And then I started looking at it, and it could be true.

Speaker 4 No, it's not true. Okay, so different thoughts.

Speaker 1 So we'll say that's not true. Here's a different one that I want to throw out there.
Derrick Henry is 18 yards away from 10,000 yards.

Speaker 1 He could be the last running back we see get 10,000 yards, which is crazy.

Speaker 4 Lamar.

Speaker 1 Lamar is actually probably going to do it.

Speaker 1 But the list, Zeke is a thousand yards away. I don't know if Zeke has that much left.

Speaker 4 I wouldn't say that Zeke's a Hall of Famer.

Speaker 1 No, to get 10,000 yards.

Speaker 1 Nick Chubb is at 6,500 yards. Obviously, a bunch of injuries.
He'd probably have to play three or four more years at peak Nick Chubb.

Speaker 1 And then it goes to like Kamara, who's getting up there in age, Christian McCaffrey, who might, the walls might have him retired,

Speaker 1 Saquon. Like, how many more years is Saquon going to play?

Speaker 1 Four. So if he plays four years and what is he? He's he hasn't gone over a thousand and five yards.
He's 56.50 right now. So, he'd have to get

Speaker 1 to go over a thousand yards for those four years. Like, it's kind of crazy to see.

Speaker 1 The actual, the only answer that I'm looking at when I'm looking at all of these is possibly Jonathan Taylor because he's got, he's halfway there. He's only 25 years old.

Speaker 1 If he just stays like a bell cow for another five years, he could get there.

Speaker 1 But it's nuts to look at and realize that Derrick Henry, when he gets to 10,000 yards, he'll be 32nd all time, and we might not see a lot of 10,000 yards guys, you know, ever again.

Speaker 4 What about Bijan?

Speaker 1 Bijan doesn't get enough runs. I know.

Speaker 4 Give Bijan the opportunity to get in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 The other crazy thing about Derrick Henry is if he, so he's 18 yards away from 10,000 yards. This is all just we should respect Derrick Henry more because it might be the last of a dying breed.

Speaker 1 He's 18 yards away from 10,000. He's five touchdowns away from 100.
If he gets 10,000 yards and 100 touchdowns, he'll only be the ninth guy ever in history to do it as a running back.

Speaker 1 And all the other eight guys are in the Hall of Fame. So he's definitely going to be in the Hall of Fame if he hits that.

Speaker 1 Barry Sanders finished with 99 touchdowns. Sean Alexander finished with 9,500 yards.

Speaker 4 I'm going to call my shot next running back after Henry into the Hall of Fame, Genty.

Speaker 4 Okay. From Boise State.
You're going to go that far? I'm going to go that far. Okay.
He's that good.

Speaker 1 I like that. I like that.

Speaker 4 But no, I don't think he's going to be the last running back.

Speaker 4 He benefited definitely from being in those Titans offenses for years, which the game plan was just let Derrick Henry eat and let him cook the entire time.

Speaker 1 And you know what's the craziest part about Derrick Henry? His first two years in the league weren't like Derrick Henry, Derrick Henry.

Speaker 1 You know, his first year in the league in 2016, he had 490 yards, and his second year, he had 744 yards. So if they had started using him then, it's crazy, though.

Speaker 1 He's still so fast. It feels like the Ravens have figured out, like, hey, we're not going to run the Titans' offense.

Speaker 1 We're not going to run him, you know, 35 times a game, but we can run him in an effective way. And this game comes down to me.

Speaker 1 The Bengals' defense is an atrocity right now. A lot of it due to injury.
Trey Hendrickson might be out again, or he got injured. He might be out.

Speaker 1 Their defensive line is

Speaker 1 a mass unit right now. They're going to get guys back eventually, but I just feel like the Ravens are going to be able to run the ball down their throat.

Speaker 1 Joe Burrow is going to be in this game because the offense is not a concern, but I think it's just a bad time to have to play the Ravens. The Ravens also

Speaker 1 are, according to Aaron Schatz, our friend, recurring guest, they are the second-best team, two and two team of all time. Okay.
So, two and two teams.

Speaker 1 Obviously, they're basically way better than their record says they are.

Speaker 4 But that's kind of what we said, even when they were over. Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 I looked at the Ravens. Let's back it up.

Speaker 4 I looked at the Ravens right now as being a 2-0 team. Yeah.
Their season started week three.

Speaker 1 Are the Bengals one of the best one and three teams of the world?

Speaker 4 I think they might be, yeah, in the top 5%.

Speaker 1 I don't know if they would be because their defense is probably dinging them pretty bad. It's pretty much that the Ravens have statistically won all four of their games, but they lost two of them.

Speaker 1 Now, this all, did you see Jason Kelsey said that stats are numbers, numbers are nerds, nerds are for losers?

Speaker 4 Oh, I like that. Yeah.
That's a good one. That's a good way of explaining the entire equation.
Yeah, he just said

Speaker 4 he dumbed it down.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, yeah.

Speaker 4 Well, Raheem Morris dumbed it down. He just said stats are for losers, but this shows us the steps in that equation to get there.
Yeah, a number has never won a Super Bowl. No.

Speaker 4 Think about it that way.

Speaker 1 I just,

Speaker 1 I want to take the Bengals because of the spot and desperation and all of that. I just,

Speaker 1 I'm nervous that their defense is just going to get rolled over.

Speaker 4 Their run defense, it's 31st in the league in run-stop win rate.

Speaker 4 I don't know what that stat actually means, but that tells me that their defense can't stop the run, and that's what the Ravens want to do. Also, we should appreciate Kyle Van Noy more.

Speaker 1 Kyle Van Noy is

Speaker 4 AFC Defensive Player of the Month.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Pretty wild, right?

Speaker 4 AWL, too. AWL.

Speaker 1 I saw him at the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 Six sacks.

Speaker 1 He's like, keep doing what you're doing, guys. Yeah.
Yeah. But this is going to be a great game.
I'm very excited for this game. I also think I'm going to throw something out there.

Speaker 1 You guys ready for this? Let's go on DraftKings real quick. I'm going to look it up.
This one might be crazy, but I'm just going to say it, and you guys can decide if I'm stupid, if

Speaker 1 this is

Speaker 1 an idiotic thing to suggest. But right now,

Speaker 1 where is he? Where is he? I'm looking for him. Joe Burrow, 22-1 to win MVP.

Speaker 4 That's kind of wild. He did have that locked-in look this week.
He was all business at the press conference.

Speaker 1 They would probably have to win. That's a donation.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
Well,

Speaker 1 I forgot I said anything.

Speaker 1 In my opinion.

Speaker 4 If the Bengals make the playoffs, it would probably be because Joe had his best season.

Speaker 1 They probably would have to win the AFC North. That's the problem.
Yeah. They would probably have to win the the AFC North.

Speaker 1 So you're right in that, Hank, that it would be a donation unless they win the AFC North.

Speaker 1 But I think their offense, like he's going to, if their defense stays as bad as it is, he's going to have to play a style of football that is going to put up crazy numbers.

Speaker 4 They've got a couple hopes in this game. One is the fact that...
Well, they are 1-3, but the Ravens, they're 2-2, so they're only one game away from him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're obviously two games back from the Steelers.

Speaker 4 Yes, this would be a big win for the Bengals. Joe looked locked in.
And also, if Lamar gets his hands on Skyline Chili before the game, that butt is not holding up. No, definitely not.

Speaker 4 I give it like a quarter.

Speaker 1 Joe Burrow so far is 978 yards, seven touchdowns, one interception. Pretty damn good start.
Pretty damn good to start.

Speaker 4 So they have 67 points in the last two games. The Bengals do.

Speaker 4 And they've got 36 plays, gaining 10 yards or more, which is the most a Bengals team has had in any two-game stretch since Super Bowl season.

Speaker 1 Starting to see it, Hank. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I guess it's... So the thing that I'm struggling with is, I think the Ravens are going to win this game.

Speaker 1 If you think the Bengals are going to win this game, you should take 22 to 1 right now because it will go down if they win this game, right?

Speaker 1 Like if the Bengals win this game and they're now 2-3 and they beat the Ravens, I would imagine Joe Burrow's MVP odds on DraftKings would be like 15 to 1.

Speaker 4 Yeah, they go up quite a bit. Right.

Speaker 1 So that would be the play.

Speaker 4 I'm going to call it must win for the Bengals.

Speaker 1 Must win for the Bengals.

Speaker 4 Can't lose? Can't lose for the Ravens.

Speaker 1 Can't lose for the Ravens.

Speaker 1 What are you going to say?

Speaker 1 I was just looking at MVP odds. Did you take Jaden Daniels when I sent that the other day?

Speaker 4 No, I did not.

Speaker 1 It's gone, it was at 65 to 1. Now it's 25 to 1.

Speaker 4 I hate this whenever Max tries to just shoehorn in great Jaden Daniels stats in this podcast.

Speaker 1 I mean, all I tried to do is just tell you to take the best.

Speaker 4 Max, enough about Jaden. We know you love Jaden.
We know you think about him all the time, and you watch all his highlights, and then you say crazy stuff about him when the microphones are off.

Speaker 4 I'm sick of it, Max, from you.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's such a jump. Sick of Jenny.
That was after the game.

Speaker 4 I don't like hearing all these Jaden stats. I'm sick of it.
I don't like thinking about about the Super Bowls with Jaden.

Speaker 1 My bad, my bad.

Speaker 1 All right, well, let's talk about that game. Browns and Commanders.

Speaker 1 PFT, I was

Speaker 1 thinking this was an easy bet on the Commanders,

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 something breaking news recently has made me switch my opinion.

Speaker 4 Is it the picture of Jaden Daniels that he did with Mike Vick? It is not. Because for me, I saw the jersey exchange.
It was Jaden and Mike Vick signed each other's jerseys, held them up smiling.

Speaker 4 That makes me think that Swagger from Cleveland is going to have something to say about this game.

Speaker 1 No. He's not going to like that.
Here's what made me change my opinion.

Speaker 1 Mad Dog, your producer for Macro Dosing,

Speaker 1 tweeted out an hour ago, whoever stole my Buffalo chicken wrap from the Chicago HQ fridge, I hope your football teams all lose this weekend and none of your bets hit. Now, Mad Dog is a Browns fan.

Speaker 4 She is, but she doesn't.

Speaker 4 This iteration of the Browns doesn't really do it for her. I'll put it that way.

Speaker 1 She is a Browns fan, though.

Speaker 1 We have found the culprit. The culprit is intern Jacob, who is a Commanders fan.

Speaker 4 I disavow. That's tough.

Speaker 1 The fact that they're playing each other and she said that.

Speaker 4 Well, he has to take Browns' money line.

Speaker 1 That's nuts that that just happened. I'm going to.

Speaker 1 To have a theft in the office like that, which is savage behavior, and then have the two, the teams, she's wishing that that person's teams lose all their games, and it so happens that her team is going up against his team, which is your team.

Speaker 1 That's bad vibes. I don't like it.

Speaker 4 I'm going to make Jacob bet the Browns money line because she said, I hope all your bets lose. Yeah.
So the only way to combat this is to

Speaker 4 hope that he misses that one. Good point.
I disavow Jacob. Mad Dog, I will buy you sandwiches for the rest of the week.

Speaker 1 No, I've already given my ruling. Jacob's buying her lunch all week next week.
Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 1 It's Friday. Yeah.
Yeah,

Speaker 4 I was including Saturday, Sunday.

Speaker 1 But yeah.

Speaker 1 She's getting lunch all next week.

Speaker 4 Okay, that makes me feel bad. Also, if we're taking the logic that we had with the Vikings and the Jets, this would be the time to bet on the Browns, right? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Because the Commanders can't look any better than they have. And the hook.

Speaker 1 The Browns are just sitting there.

Speaker 4 Worse.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think the Commanders win this game, but I think there's a chance the Browns might muck it up. The Commanders have played not great defenses.
The Browns are a better than a not-great defense.

Speaker 1 Nick Chubb is back. I don't know if you like the Browns are the worst vibe team in the NFL right now.
Nick Chubb seems like an awesome dude. When he came back to practice, everyone was pumped.

Speaker 4 But he's not going to to play this weekend, right? No, but just being a three-week window to activate him off the pump.

Speaker 1 Being back at practice, though, like everyone's like, what's up, 2-4? Oh, here comes Nick Chubb. That's got to help.

Speaker 1 The Browns are such a bad vibes team. This tweet from Greg Rosenthal, I copied it because I was just like, holy shit.
The Browns are spending more cash in 2024 than any team in the NFL.

Speaker 1 They're the league's second oldest team, and they are dead last in total DVOA because of their number 32-ranked offense. That is as

Speaker 1 most money, oldest, dead last.

Speaker 4 Yeah, especially when you consider that their defense should be good. Yeah.
To be total DVOA in last place is it's terrible. It's very bad things.

Speaker 1 So their offense is last in DVOA, which brings their whole rating down.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 Like, that's what's crazy is their defense is good enough where you think that no matter how bad that offense is, they'd still be, you know, like middle of the pack or so overall.

Speaker 4 They've been very, very tough to watch.

Speaker 4 And you know how a couple weeks ago, I think it was after, maybe after the Bucs game, I said, I get defensive of the commanders like they're my baby, where I can call them ugly, but then I get offended when other people say, like, oh, your baby's ugly.

Speaker 4 You're not allowed to say that.

Speaker 4 I've actually kind of reached the other end of it where now you've got people going so far over the top praising the commanders that I'm like, it's kind of weird how much you love my baby.

Speaker 4 Chill out, dude. Yeah.
So Damian Woody this week already proclaimed Jaden Daniels to be the best quarterback in the NFC.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Chill out, man. Chill out.
Chill out. I get to think that.
I don't get to say it out loud yet, but just know. Well, you've said it it out loud.
I'm thinking it.

Speaker 4 I've actually said worse. Worse, way worse.

Speaker 1 And you said you would only trade him for Patrick Mahomes on the air, so that would mean that everyone in the NFC, he's better than.

Speaker 4 No, that's for like future.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but he's better than...

Speaker 1 The only cornerback you trade him for is an AFC.

Speaker 4 But that's taking into account the entire future.

Speaker 4 God. Like right now, including the salary that we pay him.

Speaker 1 But you don't understand the deductive reasoning there.

Speaker 4 I do understand the deductive reasoning. However, I'm going to save...

Speaker 4 if we win this weekend, I'm going to say some reckless shit. Okay.
I'm going to say some very

Speaker 4 reckless stuff. But it does feel like the time when the Commanders are at their highest, the Browns are at their lowest.
So I am nervous going into this weekend.

Speaker 1 Can I throw out one other thing? And this is, I think it's different now because he's just the OC and not the head coach.

Speaker 1 But we did have a narrative the last few years where we would always just bet on Cliff Kingsbury in September and then start fading him.

Speaker 4 Yep, after October, he's not, he has a very

Speaker 1 bad record.

Speaker 4 I don't know if that's going to be the case.

Speaker 1 I don't think it is.

Speaker 4 As As a coordinator,

Speaker 4 he's a guy that should just be a coordinator for life and be like the best coordinator. Agreed.
And for whatever reason, he develops great relationships with whoever his quarterback is. They love him.

Speaker 4 I'm partly saying this just so that no other team tries to hire him as a head coach, which some other team will definitely try to do as well. 100%.

Speaker 4 But yeah, I'm not confident going in this weekend, but I am excited because my days are better when I get to watch Jaden.

Speaker 1 Yes. All right, next game.
Colts and Jaguars.

Speaker 1 This week in Doug Peterson saying quotes that he doesn't realize are terrible to say out loud that we all look at him and like, huh? He

Speaker 1 said on Wednesday,

Speaker 1 I have not lost the locker room.

Speaker 4 When you have to say that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So a reporter asked, and he said, I would know. I talk to those guys every day.
I see them every day and no. I have not lost the locker room.

Speaker 4 I know exactly where that locker room is.

Speaker 1 And there are guys in there that I talk to all the time. So

Speaker 4 I can't have lost them. Right.

Speaker 1 If you see me wandering the halls, then you know I've lost the locker room.

Speaker 4 Maybe he's lost the front office.

Speaker 1 Well, no, he and Shad Khan have great football conversations before and after every game this year. That's great.

Speaker 4 So he's micromanaging you.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Can I say something? I think even though we have Joe Flacco coming up and I love Joe Flacco, I think this might be the get-right spot for the Jaguars.

Speaker 4 So here's a fun stat. The Colts have not won a road game against the Jaguars since when?

Speaker 4 Any guesses?

Speaker 4 How long? How many years has it been?

Speaker 1 Eight years.

Speaker 1 Longer. 2014.
Whoa.

Speaker 4 They have not won in Jacksonville since 2014.

Speaker 4 Also, Tom Coughlin this weekend is getting inducted into the Jags Ring of Fame.

Speaker 1 Oh, I love that.

Speaker 4 Which that provides a big boost for the Jaguars. They're going to show up early for the game.
Also, why the fuck isn't Tom Coughlin already in the Jaguars Ring of Fame?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 4 He should have been in there years ago.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they might have just opened it.

Speaker 4 That's true.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it feels like they just opened it. I also think for this game specifically,

Speaker 1 in terms of slump busters for Trevor Lawrence, Gus Bradley is the perfect one because Gus Bradley is

Speaker 1 the he is probably the poster child, the right place, right time.

Speaker 1 He was with the Seahawks as their defensive coordinator right at the start of the Legion of Boom when all those guys got drafted, then used that to get a head coaching job.

Speaker 1 Then he's been, you know, was terrible as a head coach, and now he's been around everywhere. But like he, those defenses with that talent, everyone's like, damn, this guy can coach.

Speaker 1 Famously, Jalen Ramsey said, Gus Bradley never changes anything.

Speaker 1 Week one, the plays that we're calling are the same as week 17. We don't change anything.
We don't adjust. We just run our defense.

Speaker 1 The Jaguars in the last four years have scored 24, 27, 31, 37 against Gus Bradley's defense. I think this is where Trevor Lawrence is like, hey, I know what they're going to do.

Speaker 1 I'm just going to get right.

Speaker 4 Gus Bradley does not have a great record in Jacksonville either. Overall, that's a coach.
Correct.

Speaker 1 So I,

Speaker 1 like, as much as I love Joe Flacco, again, I'm rooting for Joe. I probably won't bet this game, but if I had to gun in my head, I think I would go with the Jaguars.

Speaker 4 So I like the Jaguars, too, just because that's 10 years. The Colts haven't won there in 10 years.

Speaker 1 Last defeated team as well. Yes, that's true.

Speaker 4 The last defeated team. I like the Jags this weekend, although I do think that Doug is going to be gone during the season.
Yeah, I think he might be a mid-season firing.

Speaker 1 I mean, every single quote, he's doing, he's basically writing the book for quotes that you don't want to hear from a head coach where he's like, yeah, we've had productive talks with the owner.

Speaker 4 No speeches.

Speaker 1 No more speeches. No rah-rah.

Speaker 1 That's a weird question that you'd ask about my seat being warm. Yeah.
I haven't lost the locker room.

Speaker 4 I haven't lost a locker room.

Speaker 4 We can call the plays, but the players ultimately have to go out there and execute them.

Speaker 1 I would love to just hand like a blind resume to Doug Peterson of these quotes he said in the last three weeks, and he probably would look at it and say, whoa, that coach is in trouble.

Speaker 4 That guy's fired. He's like, Doug, that's you.
That guy's fired. That's you, buddy.
That's some Marvin Harrison or not Marvin Lewis-ass conversation that he had right before he went out.

Speaker 4 Yeah, uh, it's yeah, I think this is the weekend for the Jaguars. Love the Jaguars this weekend, even though I don't think that they're as bad as their record says.

Speaker 4 I think that Trevor Lawrence played good enough last week where I can be like, I can see the vision there, I can see it happening.

Speaker 1 He missed those. That one miss was so bad, though.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's true. He also had a drop in the end zone.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he, oh, he dropped one?

Speaker 4 Uh, no, it's his player, his His player. So I remember back, it was Justin Fields' rookie season, I think, which was also Trevor Lawrence's, right? Correct.

Speaker 4 I said I would take Justin Fields' career over Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 4 Am I low-key right about that?

Speaker 1 Jury's out because technically right now, I mean, like Justin Field being on his second team would say that Trevor Lawrence, he just got paid a shitload of money. Yeah.

Speaker 4 He did get paid a lot. Yeah, in terms of money.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, if you're talking about actual career, not just football career, but like his, you know, how much money you get paid, it's definitely Trevor Lawrence right now because he's the only one who got the new contract.

Speaker 4 I'll say this: I'm not as wrong as many thought that I was.

Speaker 1 I would agree with that.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's absolutely right. And I take that as a win.
That's almost better than being right.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 it is funny looking back right now at the 2021 draft. Obviously, these guys still got to play a lot,

Speaker 1 but the 2021 draft, you ready for this? Trevor Lawrence, one. Zach Wilson, two.
Trey Lance, three.

Speaker 1 Kyle Pitts, four.

Speaker 1 And then you get a great, a great list of guys. Jamar Chase, Jalen Waddell, Panay Sewell, JC Horn, Patrick Statan, Devontae Smith, and then Justin Fields and Mac Jones at 15.

Speaker 1 There are so many good players like Michael Parsons, Rashawn Slater in between Justin Fields and Mac Jones.

Speaker 1 It's basically just

Speaker 1 the quarterbacks, man. Bad year to have to pick a quarterback.

Speaker 4 Yeah, and you thought that it was a great year, too, at the time.

Speaker 4 Hank, do you think this makes it more or less likely that Bill Belichick coaches in Jacksonville if they're putting Tom Coughlin in the Ring of Fame?

Speaker 1 Less likely, I agree.

Speaker 4 Less likely, yeah. He doesn't want to look up at that name all the time.

Speaker 1 All right, Bills Texans, another great game. Very excited for this game.
How much weight are we putting behind the H-Town Blue uniforms?

Speaker 4 A pretty significant amount, I think.

Speaker 1 I don't know if I love the helmets. Have you seen them?

Speaker 4 I don't know the helmets.

Speaker 1 So these are the first time the Texans have ever worn them. They're debuting their H-Town Blues.
Here it is. PFT.

Speaker 1 H-Town Blues.

Speaker 1 That's kind of nice. They're nice, but I don't know.
I can't. I've just been staring at these uniforms for the last three days.
This is the extent of the analysis we do on this show.

Speaker 4 Those are the exact uniforms that look awesome if you win, and they look like dog shit if you lose.

Speaker 1 I just don't know if I like the script H. Are you looking at them, Hank? I'm trying to find them.
Hey, just search H-Town Blues. I don't know.

Speaker 4 What would happen if they just came out wearing the Oilers uniforms? That would be sick. It's unannounced.
I bet them.

Speaker 1 I do actually think the Bills are going to win this game.

Speaker 1 Oh, they're not blue. They are blue.
They look black. They're H-town blue.
They're H-town blue.

Speaker 1 They're H-town blue. I don't like these.

Speaker 1 I thought they were going to be like the

Speaker 1 old school blue. Yeah.
Do you think Stephon Diggs is the one guy, if you're like, he's got a revenge game that you don't want to bet on his team? Because he's going to be like, C.J.

Speaker 1 Stroud, you better throw it to me 25 times today.

Speaker 4 I was thinking their offense is just going to be get the ball to Stephon Diggs as as much as possible.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and he's going to be really pissed.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Bills. So

Speaker 1 I think it's going to be a great game. Both these teams, I feel like, are deep playoff run teams, but the Bills' run defense got gashed against the Ravens.
Josh Allen did not have a good game.

Speaker 1 I think they get a bounce back, and the Bills' past defense has been good, and that's what the Texans want to do. So

Speaker 1 I think I lean the Bills.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I think I like the Bills, too. I think they're going to be able to run the ball also.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I think Joe Brady is just going to to lean into Cook and just be like, okay, we're going to take what we give you.

Speaker 4 I think CJ is that game against the game last week that he had against Jacksonville in the second half, the comeback,

Speaker 4 that told me, okay, let's remember C.J. Stroud.

Speaker 1 And Nico Collins.

Speaker 4 Just remember C.J. Stroud.
He's still very, very good.

Speaker 1 C.J. Stroud and Nico Collins is a deadly, deadly combo.
Is that the best

Speaker 1 quarterback wide receiver?

Speaker 4 Sam Donald, Justin Jefferson.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Sam Donald, Justin Jefferson. I forgot.
Sam Donald, Justin. Maybe the Aaron Rodgers, Devontae Adams.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that might happen, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Joe Burrow. Yeah, Jamar Burrow, Jamar Chase is going to be there.
They're lighting it up. Okay.

Speaker 1 Next game, Panthers at Bears.

Speaker 1 This is the next five games are going to tell the story of the Bears season.

Speaker 1 Hank, so you can hold me to this because I know that you love twisting the knife when I go on the roller coaster. The Bears' next five games, if they go four and one, it's Yoffs.

Speaker 1 If they go three and two, it's maybe offs, but probably not. But I'm right in that middle.
Anything worse than three and two, it's on to next year.

Speaker 1 Okay?

Speaker 1 Hold myself to it. This is the start of the soft part of the schedule that they have to win because then they have a gauntlet to end the season.
So

Speaker 1 they play the

Speaker 1 Panthers this week, Jaguars, Commander's going to be a tough game, Cardinals, Patriots.

Speaker 4 That's the next five games. I think you got three wins in there.

Speaker 1 Have to win three. Don't win three, it's on to next year because then we start playing.

Speaker 1 We play all the division games, six of them, and then the only non-division games are the Seahawks and the 49ers.

Speaker 4 Also, you got a chance for a double win in this game. So if you beat the Panthers and the second-round pick that you get from the Panthers in the draft this year, it gets better.

Speaker 1 Just like last year. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I do love that Andy Dalton is like getting to, you know, it's like one of those situations where it's like, oh, I wish that I could be at my own funeral so I could see all the nice things people say about me I feel like Andy Dalton's like retiring while still playing because some of his quotes are like looking back he said this week that he didn't like the red rifle nickname But he grew to like it as years passed feel a little bad about that red rifle is a good nickname.

Speaker 1 He didn't like it So he's like talking about it. It's almost like he's doing his retirement speeches like in the media week to week.

Speaker 4 He's having an exit interview with the media.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's like, I didn't like it. I'm starting to grow on it.
He also said that the Bears are actually one of the three teams.

Speaker 1 So the three teams that he has not beaten in the NFL, he played for all three. The Bears, the Cowboys, and the Panthers.
He's never beaten those three teams.

Speaker 4 How many times has he played the Bears?

Speaker 1 He's played the Bears twice. Okay.

Speaker 4 So he probably wants to win this one just to have that

Speaker 4 revenge game against the Bears. Although I feel like the Bears didn't treat him badly.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 4 It's not like this is the Mike Linen situation.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, he knew who he was getting into. It was...
Andy Alton, Nick Foles, Mitch, a little this, a little of that. Carousel.

Speaker 4 Yeah, do you think DeAndre Swift is fixed?

Speaker 1 We got to keep being mean to him, so no.

Speaker 4 Okay, not fixed yet.

Speaker 1 Not fixed yet.

Speaker 1 But yeah, must win.

Speaker 4 Must win for the Bears. Carolina's run defense is one of the worst in the NFL.

Speaker 4 So that's why I ask about DeAndre Swift because I feel like if you get DeAndre Swift from last week, then things go a lot better for you.

Speaker 1 I think I saw that Shy Tuttle, their nose tackle, might be back, which I just wanted to say his name because his name is awesome. Shy Tuttle.

Speaker 1 But yeah, must win for the Bears.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to waver on that. If on Sunday night the Bears lose and we do this show, I'm going to be very upset and be like, you just blew a great opportunity to get above 500.

Speaker 4 I think you have this. I think that we're all in love from the Panthers looking not as bad as they did look.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, which was, yeah. They basically did the, what's the movie where the girl is like a nerd and then

Speaker 1 she takes off the glasses. That's what the Panthers did with Annie Dalton.

Speaker 4 Any Don's Sorry. Princess Diaries.

Speaker 1 Princess Diaries?

Speaker 4 The Taming of the Shrew.

Speaker 1 Who was that, Ann Hathaway?

Speaker 1 I always liked Ann Hathaway. I hated her.
Really?

Speaker 4 But then I started to like her when I saw her wearing a Danny Woodhead jersey. She did? Yeah, yeah, she's a big Danny Woodhead fan.

Speaker 1 Shout out Danny Woodhead. He qualified for the four-ball.

Speaker 1 Oh, really?

Speaker 1 What is that? I know he is always trying to play in the

Speaker 1 U.S. Open qualifiers and stuff.
He's gotten close. He qualified, I believe, for the four-ball in New Jersey.

Speaker 4 The four-ball at what?

Speaker 1 Golf. I think it's like a.

Speaker 1 I don't know what he did.

Speaker 4 Four-ball tournament?

Speaker 1 It's like a

Speaker 1 four-ball USGA thing. I don't know.
Go to his. Yeah, there it is.
Ticket punched. So thankful we're able to get through to the USGA four-ball where we will play in Jersey.

Speaker 1 Can't wait to go back to where we lived two years to complete. Thank God allowed Willie and I to pull through.
Thanks to Paul and Kobe for looping. Love that.
Yeah. Let's go to Annie.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 But yeah, Ann Hathaway. I just thought she was annoying.
Yeah, okay. I just thought she was very annoying.
That's fine. We all have those people.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why do you have that tweet up, Max?

Speaker 1 Meme sent me. That was just the last

Speaker 1 meme. What was the tweet? That was from

Speaker 1 a PNV. Takeies.

Speaker 1 That was a PNV tweet. Yeah,

Speaker 1 it's fine. All right, next game.

Speaker 1 Dolphins and Patriots. Oh, my God, this game stinks.

Speaker 4 More Snoop Baby.

Speaker 1 Hank, this is gross. David Andrews, you had already had a bad offensive line.
David Andrews out for the season sucks. I feel like he might be done, too.
Yeah, he might be done. Legend.

Speaker 1 Great career. I mean, this game, Hank.
Hope it's not. Jalen Phillips also out.

Speaker 1 What's the record for punts?

Speaker 1 You calling it?

Speaker 1 We have no offensive line. We didn't have one before.
Now we lost, like, the captain of our team in offensive line center.

Speaker 4 So it's a 35. Is it still 35 and a half points for the over-under?

Speaker 1 I believe so. The Dolphins haven't won a road game straight up with a backup quarterback since Matt Moore in 2016, and they've had a lot of chances.

Speaker 4 Yikes.

Speaker 1 Their backup quarterbacks that have started in that span are Skylar Thompson, Teddy Bridgewater, Jacoby Roussett, Josh Rosen, Brock Osweller, Matt Moore, and Tyler Huntley.

Speaker 1 They've had a lot of backups. Mike McDaniel also looks like he is

Speaker 1 depressed.

Speaker 4 He looks like a scientist in a movie that stayed up until 3 a.m.

Speaker 1 for the last three nights trying to find an equation that just a chemistry reaction that just won't happen for him can i also say that i've been laughing a little bit about the memes that have been going around about mike mcdaniels and uh mike mcdaniel and uh tua have you guys seen some of them no

Speaker 1 there was one where they were it looked like a make-a-wish thing where they were doing a wheelchair out to a kid in a football uniform to like take a snap in a game and it was like mike mcdaniel bringing out tua please do this because he can't play tyler huntley anymore for me or skylar thompson uh Yeah.

Speaker 4 Poor taste.

Speaker 1 Poor taste, everyone who's doing that. But is that any of those that you see?

Speaker 4 So this is, it's tied with the Raiders-Broncos for being the lowest over-under of the year.

Speaker 4 I feel like it's going to go way under 35.5.

Speaker 1 9-3?

Speaker 4 This is a tough game. The only thing is, Huntley might be able to run with the ball on broken plays because the Patriots' defense is not always great against that.

Speaker 1 Would you be excited if they all of a sudden were like Drake May? No. Okay.

Speaker 4 You don't want to see Drake.

Speaker 1 It doesn't matter who our quarterback is. They're going to have no time to throw.
Right.

Speaker 1 And the injury risk is obviously high. Right.

Speaker 1 But do you want to see him get his feet wet?

Speaker 1 No. Okay.

Speaker 4 Are you going to watch this game?

Speaker 1 If it's on in the gaming case. There's only six games.
Okay. So, unfortunately, yeah, I will.
It will be on a big TV.

Speaker 4 Give me your... What's your reaction going to be if you win?

Speaker 1 You'll be excited. Yeah, because fucking, we work with the Dolphins fan Nikki Smokes are so annoying, and it'll be great to rub it in his face.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think what I'm going to do for this game is I'm going to flip a coin right before the game, and I'm just going to bet it, whichever side it goes. I'm going to bet the over.

Speaker 1 I love that.

Speaker 1 I love that.

Speaker 4 I might do.

Speaker 1 I might do that with you. Fuck it.

Speaker 4 You know what I might do? I might do. It will be over in the first quarter.
I might do the live unders as they keep getting lower and lower.

Speaker 1 You want to see 17 and a half?

Speaker 4 See how low I can go with it by the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 Hey, let's bet this over. Yeah.
Fuck it.

Speaker 1 It's so low.

Speaker 1 What's the path to get there?

Speaker 4 Pick six.

Speaker 1 Even still. Running, return for a touchdown.
Pick six. A regular touchdown.
Safety.

Speaker 1 Three field goals.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 another touchdown. Shit.

Speaker 4 I feel like you need two defensive scores in this game.

Speaker 1 That's a lot.

Speaker 1 That's a lot. It can happen.
Maybe we just bet that.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Raiders, Broncos, afternoon slate. uh

Speaker 1 no davante adams he is obviously said he was gonna the the the news broke this week he's open to a trade it's also very interesting because how his contract works is uh i think you can basically cut him for free after this year and if you trade for him every single week he gets paid close to a million dollars i think it's like nine hundred thousand dollars so it kind of makes sense for a team that wants to trade for him to wait a couple weeks because this is just the Raiders are paying it.

Speaker 1 If you trade for him in three weeks, you save $3 million. The price is going down

Speaker 4 for what you have to pay for. Would you trade Devontae Adams in the division? No.
Would you trade him to the Chiefs? No. But Counterpoint, the Raiders are probably, what,

Speaker 4 three years out from contending? I still think

Speaker 4 you can't do it. And by the time those three years goes by,

Speaker 4 135.

Speaker 1 If it was the best offer?

Speaker 4 Yeah, the best offer. Let's just say they offer a second-round pick.

Speaker 4 Everybody else is offering like a third and a fifth yeah i think you'd have to maybe a first rounder first rounder you would never do that but yeah you'd have to do it you'd have to listen to him i'll tell you this al davis would never do this never never but if you just blow him away with an offer i feel like you have to listen to him um antonio pierce is uh under a show cause now that ruling just came down so from college football oh from arizona state from arizona state allegedly he took a recruit's parents out to a strip club is that wrong

Speaker 1 is that wrong no that's vibes.

Speaker 4 Why are you not allowed to do that? I'm assuming they're above the age of 18. Yeah.
I think physically they have to be. Correct.
So it's just guys being dudes. What's wrong with that? No problem.

Speaker 4 Is there a difference between taking them out for lunch and then going to a place that has lunch and also entertainment? No. I don't think there is either.
No. I think that's fucked up.

Speaker 1 I think I hate this game because I feel like the Broncos are going to win, but they're going to win by two.

Speaker 4 I like the Raiders.

Speaker 4 So they're 8-0 against Denver in Las Vegas. Yes.

Speaker 1 No, they're playing in Denver.

Speaker 4 Yes, they're 8-0 against Denver since they left Oakland. Sorry, since they became the Las Vegas Raiders.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I see what you're saying. Yeah, since they're...
But that's in both places. They've won eight straight against the Broncos.
Correct.

Speaker 1 I think they've won 10 out of 11 as well. Yes, it's kind of relocated.

Speaker 4 They own them right now.

Speaker 4 But the Broncos looked so shitty last week.

Speaker 1 But their defense, man, their defense is good.

Speaker 1 And I think, like, when you have Devontae Adams out, and then you have a locked down cornerback, one of the best in the league, Patrick Stutton, now going up against their second option, everything gets easier.

Speaker 1 I just don't know how you move the ball against this Broncos defense.

Speaker 1 If you want to say, hey, how do the Broncos move the ball, period? That's a fair counterpoint.

Speaker 1 But I just, I think the Broncos' defense is going to win this game.

Speaker 4 Do we have Max back? Is Crosby playing this?

Speaker 1 I believe he's going to try to play.

Speaker 4 I like that. I also know Denver Blitz is a shitload.
Gardner Mitchie pretty good against the Blitz.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 this is another game that's tough. There's a tough week.
Tough week. Tough week.
As our good friend Ben Mintz says, no bet. The line makers made it right.

Speaker 4 Sometimes the best bet is not making a bet. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Cardinals at 49ers.

Speaker 1 I actually don't know if this is a you want to feel old, but T.O.'s son was signed to the practice squad of the 49ers this week.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I feel old.

Speaker 1 I don't know. T.O.'s kind of old.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but T.O.'s also a guy that I feel like could play football still. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Tariq Owens is signed to the practice squad.

Speaker 4 They're getting all the sons, huh? Yeah.

Speaker 1 They got them all.

Speaker 1 I kind of want to take the Cardinals.

Speaker 4 So Brock Purdy is 3-0 against Arizona. Arizona's lost four straight to the Niners.

Speaker 1 All right, here's a stat for you. I got two stats for you.

Speaker 1 Teams to lose by 17 plus points versus teams who won by a 17-point margin the previous week are 60%

Speaker 1 in the last 20 years. Teams to lose by 28 plus points the previous week and our dogs of four plus points in their next game are 62%.

Speaker 4 So this might line up with our theory that the Cardinals are just saving all their good plays for divisional opponents.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying there's

Speaker 1 you just over like it's the overreact game. Just come back in the middle.
Just come right back in the middle. That was from Pet Labs.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Marvin Harrison Jr., he was good in divisional games, so that might be their formula. It's like, let's save this guy and only go to him in the games that really, really matter.

Speaker 1 Really, really matter.

Speaker 4 And this one really, really matters.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 But the 49ers' offense has been really good. Fred Warner has an ankle.

Speaker 4 He's got two. Yep.

Speaker 1 But he has an ankle. He's got an ankle.

Speaker 4 Christian McCaffrey not back this week.

Speaker 1 He has two Achilles.

Speaker 4 Well, he's got one that's worse than the other, but he does have two Achilles.

Speaker 1 He has two legs that might. We don't know if they.
Can we see a video of him walking?

Speaker 4 Is he at the game? Is he going to this game?

Speaker 1 That would be funny

Speaker 1 if the 49ers were like, hey, Germany? No.

Speaker 1 The 49ers were like, hey, we wanted Christian McCaffrey on his birthday to come out and see the flyover, and it was just Jimmy Carter. Yeah, yeah, this is what he looks like now.

Speaker 4 Jimmy, he might actually be dead. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 Sad.

Speaker 1 And it sucks because he would have been a Taktua fan.

Speaker 4 For sure. 100%.
He looked like he was getting that Hawk Tua.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Mouth open.
Catches some flies. They can't.
Don't bring him out.

Speaker 4 Don't get cameras around him.

Speaker 1 Don't get cameras around. The guy's 100 years old.
Living to...

Speaker 1 I'm of the mindset that anything over 90,

Speaker 1 all jokes are, like, you can joke about anything because you've lived an incredible life. But still,

Speaker 1 don't bring him out.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we didn't need to see that. The flyover.
Who falls asleep during a flyover?

Speaker 1 Well, I think they had to do a flyover because that's the only direction you can look. It's so hard.
It's so hard to.

Speaker 1 They couldn't have done like a marching band. You wouldn't be able to see it.

Speaker 4 Can you imagine falling asleep and you've got jets just breaking a sound barry over your face? Well, he's never awake.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 4 Hank, is Christian still in Germany?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I don't believe so.
Okay, so I think it was back and forth.

Speaker 4 I would like to see him at this game because he might not be alive, actually.

Speaker 1 We haven't seen him. I'd like to see him as well.
Same.

Speaker 1 Okay, wrapping up, we got a few more games. Packers at Rams.
I think this is the Packers

Speaker 1 look like one of the best teams in the NFL game.

Speaker 4 Unfortunately. The Rams still very, very injured.
Their defense is

Speaker 4 not very good. Jordan Love should be better better this week.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And I just, I don't know what the Rams just, yeah, they need some guys back.

Speaker 4 I think this is a major.

Speaker 4 It's a teacher-pupil game, right?

Speaker 4 Yeah. And I feel like sometimes the pupil has to go out there, and he's prepared for a kitchen sink.
He knows what's in McVay's sink. Yep.
He's seen that sink. He's reloaded it.

Speaker 4 He's cleaned that sink out. His job working under McVay was probably do the dishes.
Yeah. Like, come on, bitch.
I like the Packers in this game, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Rams, yeah, let me look up the Rams injury report. It's probably just still a mess, an absolute mess.
Because Cooper Cup, although Cooper Cup, they said that he's getting closer maybe. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they just keep losing guys.

Speaker 1 They have a couple guys who opened up their 21 practice day window. By the way, I forgot to mention this at the beginning.
Remember TJ Hawkinson? Yeah. Yeah, his practice window opened.
Oh, good.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Good to the Vikings.
So the Vikings are going to be even better.

Speaker 4 They're going to get better. Yeah.
The Packers do have an issue. They got a kicker problem.

Speaker 4 Big big time they've got a kicker problem so around the league kickers have made a higher field goal percentage on kicks over 50 yards that's 75

Speaker 4 it's a higher percentage than bayden narvison braden narvison has made on all of his kicks okay he's at 69.2 he hasn't tried one from beyond 50 yards and he's the only kicker to miss a field goal from inside 40 yards this season Yeah, so they got a kicking issue in it.

Speaker 1 They got a kicking issue.

Speaker 4 I don't think it's going to matter this week, but they do have a kicking issue.

Speaker 1 Put a pin in that one. Put a big pin in it.
All right, Giants at Seahawks. I want to take the Giants so bad, but if Malik Neighbors doesn't play, I don't know how they move the ball.

Speaker 4 What's the point of watching a Giants game if you're a Giants fan if Malik Neighbors isn't out there? Zero.

Speaker 1 Is there zero?

Speaker 4 I don't think that there's a point to it.

Speaker 1 Zero point. There is zero point.
I don't, I, the Seahawks, like, this is, this should be, they played a

Speaker 1 crazy Monday night game, a lot of snaps, all this shit. You should want to take the Giants, but if you, if you watch this game and Malik Naberson on the field, what are they going to do?

Speaker 4 Yeah, and the Seahawks have been pretty good against everybody except for that game against Detroit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, their defense

Speaker 1 is hurt. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Daniel Jones, fun stat for him on deep passes. I'm talking like 20-plus yards downfield.
Okay.

Speaker 1 I like what you're talking about.

Speaker 4 He's thrown 13 passes this year. How many of them do you think he's completed?

Speaker 1 13 deep passes over 20 yards.

Speaker 1 10. Two.

Speaker 4 Damn. He's completed two passes.

Speaker 1 So close. Over 20 yards.
So close.

Speaker 4 And he's got one pick on those two. So 16.5 passer rating when he's going downfield.

Speaker 1 Damn, I was right there. You were right there.

Speaker 1 He was right there. I was only eight off

Speaker 1 when the total was 13.

Speaker 4 Dable's looking good, though. Again, every time I talk about the Giants, I have to mention how good Brian Dable looks.
He looks good. Real good.

Speaker 1 He's getting too skinny. All right, last game.
Cowboys at Steelers. Great, great color matchup.
Love, love when these two teams just feel like football.

Speaker 1 Feel like we might get a double renegade on a Sunday night against the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 Cowboys are hurt. Michael Parsons not going to play right?

Speaker 4 I don't think he's going to play.

Speaker 1 Demarcus Lawrence not going to play right?

Speaker 4 I don't think he's going to play. But again, we're taping this early Thursday, so sure.
Now, Big Kid, I have a question for you. Yeah.
This is earlier pose, I think, by Chris Canty.

Speaker 4 Do you think the Cowboys should start tanking?

Speaker 1 For what?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Do you know what the date is currently? Do you know how many games of football we've played? Do you know what their record is?

Speaker 4 It feels like it might be early to start the tanking conversation.

Speaker 1 The only team that I could say confidently that should tank as of right now

Speaker 1 is the Miami Dolphins. Yeah.
I think that's the only team I would say you should tank because you're going to need a situation.

Speaker 1 You're going to, like, if you get the first pick and you have your roster, like, oh, you put in Shadur Sanders or Carson Beck or someone who you want to draft, because

Speaker 1 you can't say that he's going to go through a whole season. So that'd be the only team.

Speaker 1 Maybe after this week we add some more Panthers, but Panthers andy Daltons like trying.

Speaker 4 But the perfect thing for the Panthers is losing games where you score like 30 points. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, so Panthers and Dolphins, and then we should update the tank list as we go along. Because if the Jaguars lose again, they should start tanking.

Speaker 4 Yeah, here's why I don't want the Cowboys to tank, because if they start tanking, that means that the Cowboys won't make the playoffs and lose in the first round again. Right.
We need to see that.

Speaker 4 Like, Chris Canty, what are you putting out there into the universe?

Speaker 4 If anything, we should hope that the Cowboys, all their momentum changes entirely. Yeah.
I want to see them get their hopes up a little bit.

Speaker 4 You see Jerry landing the helicopter at practice? So funny. That was awesome.
Jerry Jones flew into Cowboys practice on the helicopter and landed it. right next to the door to go inside the office.

Speaker 4 Like he had the helicopter fly to the corner real close to the building when it landed just so that Jerry could get out and walk right into the facility. Yeah.
That's a fucking awesome move.

Speaker 1 Did you also see Michael Parsons' quote where it's basically, is it star

Speaker 1 NFL player getting injured for the first time or like 27-year-olds getting their first violent hangover? He said he was humbled by his ankle injury. I figured myself invincible for a while.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's, hey, we know, man. I'm human just now.
Everyone's been there. Literally everyone's been there.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he hadn't missed a game of football in his entire career, right? Yeah. That's kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 It is crazy. So, yeah, he probably won't play.

Speaker 1 And I think Trayvon Diggs and Zeke were limited in practice. And I think DeMarcus Lawrence won't play either.
So I like the Steelers. I think they'll run the ball.

Speaker 4 They've got a couple guys missing on defense, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but I just think they got humbled a little bit by the Colts. Everyone's throwing accolades at their defense.

Speaker 1 And now they're going to get Mike Tomlin, double renegade, Sunday night, terrible towels, Justin Fields, narrative goes.

Speaker 1 I like it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Justin Fields, I actually do think that he might be the starter.

Speaker 4 I think that Tomlins, you know, he's talking about all the words that he's had with his players behind the scenes that he won't share. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I think one of those things in the hot dog is he's told Justin Fields he's the starter.

Speaker 1 Well, it's also

Speaker 1 the, I think Russ's agent is just part of his contract was that Adam Schefter has to tweet every single week an update about Russell Wilson. So what's the everyone talking?

Speaker 4 What's the update on it?

Speaker 1 It was that he's,

Speaker 1 what was it? Let me find it because it's essentially the same tweet every single week that makes me think someone's making him do that because we don't need updates on Russell Wilson. I promise you.

Speaker 4 Not even from the ultimate insider?

Speaker 1 We don't care about Russell Wilson updates. Justin Fields is better than Russell Wilson.

Speaker 1 We don't need it. Steelers are prepared.
This is from October 1st. Steelers are preparing for Justin Fields to start versus the Cowboys as Russell Wilson ups his activity.
Don't care, dude.

Speaker 4 He's getting more active.

Speaker 1 We knew Justin Fields is playing in this game.

Speaker 4 I want to see Russell on the sideline, though, thinking he might play.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Demarcus Lawrence is on the injured reserve, so he's definitely out. Four weeks.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I don't know why they keep telling us. Like, it's going to be week 16.
The Steelers are going to have,

Speaker 1 they're going to be an 11-win team, and Adam Schefter is going to tweet, update on Russell Wilson. He feels like he's almost ready to come back, but Justin Fields will start again.

Speaker 4 Justin Fields right now has momentum with the offense, so they're waiting for Russell to be 110%

Speaker 1 on his return. Better not come back and take this job.

Speaker 4 I think Tomlin has made Justin Fields the secret starting quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 1 I agree with you. Okay, let's do, before we do Fantasy Lab Boys, because we've got a game in England, let's do some picks.

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Speaker 1 I hit mine last week did anyone else on our touchdown parlay I was not in it you three again I did not three again Max did you not hit one no I stink I've yet to hit one okay

Speaker 1 so so Hank PFT and myself

Speaker 1 reminder you can bet it on draft kings we'll have our parlay or touchdown parlay we have we hit it once

Speaker 4 did we hit it the first week I don't think we did. I think we got three.
We got to hit one.

Speaker 4 We got to hit one, boys. The odds are nice and juicy, though.
So if you hit one, that's all you got to do.

Speaker 1 You got to hit one. You're going to have to win what happened.
Okay. You know what? I'll start us off with a winner, Derrick Henry.
I know it's minus 170, but that's the foundation we build off.

Speaker 4 Let's get a win. Let's get one win.
See one go through. I'm going to go with James Conner.
James Conner. Against the Niners.
You don't like that, Hank?

Speaker 1 No, I thought you were going to take my pick. Oh, Hank.

Speaker 4 A different James.

Speaker 1 Hank, we're going to win this week. Guess, based off of that.

Speaker 4 James wins. James Cook.

Speaker 1 Correct. James Cook.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Mike that.

Speaker 1 He is playing the Texans. James Conner, James Cook, Derrick Henry.
We're keeping on the ground this week. Running backs are back.
Ode to the running backs. That's going to be plus 520.

Speaker 1 Let's win this one. Yep.

Speaker 1 Should we change one out so that we can

Speaker 1 get those odds up?

Speaker 1 I do have an idea. Get one through the hoop.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I have an idea. I got an idea.

Speaker 4 Get one through the hoop. What are the odds on DK?

Speaker 1 No, no, no. Get one through the hoop.

Speaker 6 DK's going to score.

Speaker 1 Get one through the hoop. Would you be if you change it? Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 4 But now that he said DK, I'm going to be upset if DK scores and then James Conner doesn't.

Speaker 1 No, it would be Derrick Henry that we take out.

Speaker 4 Let's see what DK is real quick.

Speaker 1 It would be Derrick Henry that we take out to

Speaker 1 bump it up. Fuck.
No, we got to get one through the hoop. If we hit this, we're pushing.
Wait, would you trade it out with James Conner? I think we could do that.

Speaker 4 I think I would.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 that way we have one in the late games. I I mean, DK's only plus 120.

Speaker 4 And what's Connor?

Speaker 1 He's a plus 100, so it probably wouldn't change. But if you want to do it, PFT, just say it.

Speaker 4 No, let's stick with running backs. Stay on the ground.
It would be your

Speaker 4 ground boys.

Speaker 1 It would be. Yeah, it wouldn't change.
Ground and pound. Ground and pound.
Ground and pound. Let's play some fucking man football.
All right, let's do our picks. What are the updated records, memes?

Speaker 1 And who's going first?

Speaker 1 Double question.

Speaker 3 PFT, 4-4.

Speaker 1 four big cat four and four hank three and five me three and five max two five and one nice i was leads this off i was hoping that you were starting with pft and i four and four at like the middle no we're the leaders four and four is good it's just two picks we're the leaders

Speaker 1 hank's up first henry

Speaker 1 I am going to pick. Ooh, it has changed in the 20 minutes since we looked.
Fuck.

Speaker 1 Come on, Hank. Bears minus four.
Love it.

Speaker 1 It was minus three and a half.

Speaker 4 Yeah, went up 30 minutes ago.

Speaker 1 I had that too. Love it.
Love it.

Speaker 3 Go Packers minus three.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Maxie.

Speaker 1 I will go Jags minus two and a half. Fuck.
Ooh.

Speaker 1 Maxie.

Speaker 1 Max, Max, Max.

Speaker 4 Cowboys Steelers over 44.

Speaker 1 Cowboy Steelers over 44. Okay.
I'm going to go with

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 Packers Rams over 48.5.

Speaker 1 Ah, fuck.

Speaker 1 Sorry. Oh, and I have another one.

Speaker 1 It's a tough week, boys. It's a really tough week.
It's a really tough week.

Speaker 1 I'll actually take that one off, Max. You want it? I'll take the Ravens, Bengals over 49.

Speaker 1 And I'll take the Ravens minus 2.5. I'll double up on the game.
I'm going to double up on the game.

Speaker 1 Throw your nuts on the table, double up on the game.

Speaker 4 I don't have anything that I I love. It's a tough week.
Nothing that I love. It's a tough week of football.

Speaker 1 Okay, you know what?

Speaker 4 I'm going to do I'm going to get a little weird with it. Yeah, get weird with it.
I like this number. It's a good number to bet on.
Yes. Plus seven and a half is a solid number, right?

Speaker 4 Because then you're like a touchdown.

Speaker 4 You're always in it.

Speaker 1 If they come out and score a quick touchdown, you're still good.

Speaker 4 We're down by 14 points in the fourth quarter. Guess what? Just get downfield, score a touchdown, we could win.
Cardinals, plus seven and a half at the 49ers.

Speaker 1 I like that.

Speaker 1 I'm I'm going to take the Rams Packers over 48 and a half.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 Sunday Night Football under 44.

Speaker 1 What was your over-under? It was the Ravens Bengals game. I doubled up.
All right, I'm going to go just for personal fun viewing experience on Sunday. Bills, Texans over 47.5.
Let's go.

Speaker 4 I love that. Good one to read for points in.

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Speaker 1 Skringleberry. My stotom this week is Killer Whales.
What's all that about them?

Speaker 1 Killer Whales. They're not bad at all.
They're my stotom. What are they doing? Jalen Brown says the Celtics study killer whales and their hunting habits, and that's their offensive identity.

Speaker 4 That's fucking aura.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 They're gonna offensive identity.

Speaker 1 What if the basketball gets stuck in the blowhole? Then they'll fucking kill the weak teammate and keep the ball moving. No, they'd fucking die, you idiot.

Speaker 4 Ide is free will, isn't it?

Speaker 1 Idget.

Speaker 1 Oh, my sit-em this week is all tight ends. All tight ends.
They're fucking useless. This is the fantasy lad boys, and there's been no good tight ends this year.

Speaker 1 It's a fucking struggle to get any points for the toities.

Speaker 4 You say titans or tight ends? Tight ends. Tight ends.

Speaker 1 Bullocks. Bullocks.

Speaker 1 You hear the one about P. Diddy?

Speaker 1 What's that? He went into jail as a tight end, came out a wide receiver.

Speaker 4 That's very funny. It's amusing indeed.

Speaker 1 And my sleeper this week is Arsenal. They lost a PSG again.
They're fucking their seasons asleep. They suck.

Speaker 1 Oh, the gunners?

Speaker 4 Arsenal's rubbish.

Speaker 1 Ortega out. Ortega out.
Saka.

Speaker 4 We've got sucker.

Speaker 1 No, it's. fucking.
Oh, money, money. No, it's we've got

Speaker 1 sala. Sala.
We got sala.

Speaker 1 Oh, money, money.

Speaker 1 You are my sala,

Speaker 1 the other one was uh,

Speaker 1 fuck. Was it? It was

Speaker 1 you will never look.

Speaker 1 Louis Suarez. Oh, yeah, that's good.

Speaker 1 He scores a goal that makes a cup go wild.

Speaker 1 I just can't get enough. I just can't get enough.

Speaker 1 He bites a guy, and then everyone calls him a cannibal. I just can't get enough.
Chomp, chomp. I just can't get enough.

Speaker 1 He scores a goal and the crowd.

Speaker 1 And I just can't get enough of Suarez.

Speaker 1 Why don't we lose

Speaker 1 it?

Speaker 4 Why don't Americans sing it all when they watch their football on TV? I fucking love it.

Speaker 1 A nice point with the boys and sing some tunes.

Speaker 4 Keep the chance going.

Speaker 4 Credit to the University of Michigan. They sing Mr.
Brightside. I believe they invented that

Speaker 4 as their song. They did.

Speaker 1 Oi. Oi.
I'm Prince Harry. Prince Harry.

Speaker 4 Former Prince Harry. Prince Harry.
Excommunicated Prince Harry.

Speaker 4 My starter this week is Harry Kane. Harry Kane.
On account of there will be a game played in Hotspur Stadium this weekend. Brees Hall struggles to score from one yard out.

Speaker 4 Harry would never have that problem.

Speaker 1 Tap in merchant.

Speaker 4 That's Harry's specialty. Harry.
I'm sitting, my brother, Andrew Dalton, looks exactly like me, Prince Harry.

Speaker 1 Prince Harry, don't call him the Red Rifle.

Speaker 4 I will call him Prince Andrew.

Speaker 1 Prince Andrew, don't call him Prince Andrew.

Speaker 4 That's a good name for it. Well, he's about to get exposed this weekend in very unflattering fashion indeed against the Bears.

Speaker 1 He doesn't sweat. He doesn't sweat.
He doesn't sweat. It couldn't have been him in that picture.

Speaker 4 He doesn't sweat. Just like Prince Andrew, I think Andy Dalton will have a very hard time scoring above 18 this weekend.
Yes.

Speaker 1 About that against the Bears. Lizzie's in a box.

Speaker 1 Liz.

Speaker 1 That's my mom.

Speaker 4 That's my mum.

Speaker 1 Lizzie's in a box.

Speaker 1 Now, Harry, Prince Harry.

Speaker 1 And Prince Andrew is in a box.

Speaker 1 Andy Dalton can't sweat, but he's going to have sweat all over him on Sunday. What is that? Montez.

Speaker 4 Oh, Montez sweat.

Speaker 1 That's very good.

Speaker 4 That's chip chip. That's very...
It's a terrible.

Speaker 4 My sleeper's Bigfoot. Bigfoot.
Absolutely unit. You see he's back he's back there was a video of Bigfoot this week from Oklahoma.

Speaker 4 Oh Oklahoma just chilling up against a tree laying about sniffing some daisies daisies and it looks very real.

Speaker 4 Oh, I believe Bigfoot might be actually he looks kind of like the pops actually looks a little bit like Prince Charles. Yeah, just covered in hair might be alive might not be alive.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Bigfoot's back. It's real.

Speaker 1 Yeah Bigfoot is real. We found him.

Speaker 4 He's a ginger just like me Prince Harry.

Speaker 1 Prince Harry My Star is Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 Oh, hello, guys. My name is Henry Henry.
Hey, Henry. Henry Henry.
My star is.

Speaker 4 Henry II.

Speaker 1 Henry II. My starm is Aaron Rodgers.
He's going to go out there and show everyone who's the real king of England on Sunday.

Speaker 1 Is the game on Sunday? The game's on.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the game's on Sunday. It's going to be a great game.
But Aaron Rodgers, he's going to go out there and he's going to show everyone that his knees are fine and the cadence isn't an issue.

Speaker 4 It's going to be just fine.

Speaker 4 No rain in England scheduled for this weekend. First time in 400 years.

Speaker 1 My Sim is Tim Waltz. That guy's fucking weird.
When they asked him if he went to China, he couldn't answer.

Speaker 4 He takes a lot of notes, innit? What the fuck was that?

Speaker 1 You've been to China? I've never been to China. I think that.
Ask me if I've been to China.

Speaker 4 Have you been to China?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 4 Aank.

Speaker 4 Inerry the Innery.

Speaker 1 Hey, you been to China? No comment. Oh,

Speaker 4 were you at the Tiananmen?

Speaker 4 Were you at the Tiananmen Square massacre?

Speaker 1 No comments.

Speaker 4 It's a bit early to start the tanking conversation.

Speaker 1 Come on now, Henry. Henry Henry.
And my sleeper is Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 4 He's sleeping.

Speaker 1 He's always sleeping.

Speaker 4 He's having a good dream.

Speaker 1 He's having a nice fucking dream out there. Just dreaming about God knows what hammers and nails.
Peanuts and hammers and nails.

Speaker 1 That was great. Yeah, I had a lot of fun doing that.
That was the best. best one.
I had a lot of fun doing that. I had a fucking lot of fun doing that.

Speaker 1 The amount of times that me and memes were laughing in the back, we're just going to cut the music every time that you guys sing your own song. Yeah, do it.
Yeah. And then it goes back.

Speaker 1 You would always go, oy, and then it goes back to the music.

Speaker 4 At one point, I was doing such a heavy British accent. I think I just spat all over myself and all over the mic.
That was a lot of fun. Gave it that hawk to a memes is on fire.

Speaker 1 Memes is on fire. Your defense is terrified.

Speaker 4 Seriously, what would it take to get some good song chants going in American football?

Speaker 1 We just can't do it. We can't do it.

Speaker 4 I think we're all too drunk, which is kind of like up your songs.

Speaker 1 We're drunker than them. We're drunker than them.
No chance.

Speaker 4 We're not allowed to drink in the stands at EPL games.

Speaker 1 But they get fucking...

Speaker 1 A lot of the chanting happens on the way to the game when they're just hammered. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We do some songs. Like what?

Speaker 4 Renegade?

Speaker 1 Renegade. Renegade.
Fly Eagles Fly. Oh,

Speaker 1 the Bengals do. Wear down, too.

Speaker 4 They have a song. It's kind of like their version of Renegade.
I think they do Wayward Sun in between the third and fourth. Oh, that rocks.

Speaker 1 Hail to the commander. Do they do that?

Speaker 4 Our words, hail, victory. Yeah, we scored a touchdown.
Yeah, what? See,

Speaker 1 we do songs that just don't. They're just not

Speaker 1 the best song ever. Yeah, I know, but like, it's more like the made-up songs that you like put your best player in.

Speaker 1 Those are the songs.

Speaker 4 Co-Cubs Go Dr. I guess we do that for boomers.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we do. But I just, yeah, I don't know.
I just, we, you're, we need more songs. Um, all right, let's kick it to an elite quarterback, our good friend, Joe Flacco.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on our good friend, recurring guest. It is Colts quarterback Joe Flacco, elite.

Speaker 1 We're getting this, so this is a carpool interview. That's right.

Speaker 1 You're waiting to pick up your kids.

Speaker 11 Picking up the sixth grader from middle school.

Speaker 1 And you're doing an interview. I think it's our first Carpool interview.
It might be.

Speaker 4 The first time we had you on,

Speaker 4 I think you might have been in your brother's living room or something.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you were in an office.

Speaker 1 Yeah, probably. Yeah.

Speaker 11 I was probably at home or somewhere.

Speaker 1 Not too formal.

Speaker 1 So off a big win against the Steelers. I got a couple questions about that game and then a few other ones.
But the first one is, you get, Anthony Richardson goes down.

Speaker 1 You get in the game. Was there a part of you like, oh, it's the Steelers? Like, I know what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 I can beat these guys. Like, this is just, this is old school, Joe Flacco.

Speaker 11 Oh, man. I think you try to talk yourself into that.

Speaker 11 But there's always that piece of you when you have to get in as a backup that's, you know, a little bit more nervous than you normally are to have to go out there and do it.

Speaker 11 You know, when you go out there in a normal game, you go out there and you either receive the kickoff or you know you're getting it in a couple minutes.

Speaker 11 You go out there, you get your first play over with. But this is a little bit different.
It definitely took me a little bit of time to settle in. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Did you have to get warmed up? Like, how long does that take your body to get warmed up?

Speaker 1 Because for me, when I wake up in the morning, it's like two hours.

Speaker 11 I think the shot of adrenaline that you get is kind of unexplainable.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I was on the sideline. I didn't throw any, I didn't do any warm-up throws.

Speaker 11 Just went out there and your body got your body gets put into that mode pretty quickly when you get hit with that little jolt of energy.

Speaker 4 Yeah, and like Big Cat said, going up against the Steelers, you've done that before.

Speaker 4 Was Big Ben in the building? Was he there?

Speaker 11 Big Ben was in the building. You know,

Speaker 11 I was at my locker and Sam, our other quarterback, you know, mentioned that he saw Big Ben in Pat's box.

Speaker 11 I'm getting poured on right now. I don't know if you guys can hear that.

Speaker 1 No, we're good.

Speaker 1 All right, good.

Speaker 11 He mentioned that Big Ben was in his box. So we come out of the tunnel right where his box was.
And I look over and I see him over there. So I actually went up and said, and said, what's up?

Speaker 11 Now, I don't know Ben that well, but I think when you have, when you've you've played against somebody that much, you just have like a little bit of a natural connection.

Speaker 11 So, it was really cool to see him. I think

Speaker 11 it probably did bring me back to 10 years ago when we were playing those guys.

Speaker 11 It made it a little bit more familiar, I think, for whatever reason.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And you also, a cool part of your win on Sunday is you got $100,000.
So, in your contract, it's if you play 50%

Speaker 1 snaps or more in a win. There you go.
Yeah. So, was there,

Speaker 1 you know what?

Speaker 11 My wife actually just asked me about that with a smile on her face. Did you happen to hit any incentives? And I'm like, listen, I have no idea.

Speaker 11 I don't have a copy of it, and I can't remember what we actually agreed to. So there you go.
I appreciate you telling me.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So, so I guess that answers my question that you weren't, because I mean, $100,000 is not a chump change.
If you're sitting there on the sideline, it's the end of the game.

Speaker 1 You're like, all right, we got to win this game because I've done the snaps. Get me that $100,000.

Speaker 11 That's right, man.

Speaker 11 Hey, listen, $100,000 dollars is a hundred thousand dollars i mean geez like growing up go make a hundred thousand dollars that's a big deal so anytime you get something like that uh you can't take that for granted is that weird that that we know more about how much you get paid than you know

Speaker 11 i don't think so i think that's kind of just the nature of the beast when you get to like professional sports um it's it's a focus for the athlete like while you're doing it and while you're doing that negotiation but it's really never about that you're just trying to make sure that you get the most that you can while you can because you understand that you kind of have to do that.

Speaker 11 Yeah. But then once you like, we're, we're really all doing this because it's the best job in the world and we love to do it.

Speaker 11 Um, I think there's, like I said, during negotiations and a couple other times, there's probably times where that comes into play.

Speaker 11 But once it's done, it's kind of like out of sight, out of mind, and you just go play.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 It was, it was very, very cool to watch you out there. I know you're too nice of a guy.
You won't say it, so we'll say it.

Speaker 4 Big cat, the Browns are morons.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Browns are morons. I didn't know this till

Speaker 1 yesterday or something.

Speaker 1 So the Browns didn't even offer you a contract in the offseason.

Speaker 11 Well, listen, guys, it's a business. You know,

Speaker 11 you never know what to expect.

Speaker 11 You know, and listen,

Speaker 11 I said it last year when I was playing. I mean, I...

Speaker 11 was in a really good headspace and just was able to be super grateful for that experience.

Speaker 11 Cleveland gave me so much. The fact that they were the team that was willing to bring me in last year,

Speaker 11 you know, I don't have any ill, ill, ill feelings towards them. I mean, I'll forever be grateful, to be honest with you, because

Speaker 11 without them signing me, I mean, I'm not, you know, I'm not here this year.

Speaker 11 You can go back to New York in the same way. Like, I would not say I had a very

Speaker 11 enjoyable experience while I was in New York, but they were willing to sign me after I got surgery that fused my neck. And they kept signing me.
I was there for three years.

Speaker 11 Without them,

Speaker 11 I mean, you have to look at it this way if you're me.

Speaker 11 Without them giving me those opportunities, even if they didn't amount to anything, they amounted to me ultimately being in the league that much longer and ended up getting a chance like I did last year.

Speaker 11 And now I'm here this year because of that same thing. So,

Speaker 11 listen, I think there's probably a time where you want to let those negative thoughts creep into your head and get mad at everybody in the world.

Speaker 11 But I think I've been through that. I think when I was younger, I probably had a little bit of that, a little bit more of that in me.
But I've tried to let those things go.

Speaker 11 Listen, Cleveland was unbelievable. The people there, everything about it was unbelievable.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 you're a really nice guy. I would say you don't know what to expect.
I would expect the team that I took to the playoffs to want to re-sign me. So we'll say that part for you.
We got you.

Speaker 1 We got your back. So we got your back.

Speaker 1 I don't know how it worked for you.

Speaker 4 I assume that you talked to a couple different teams, not just the Colts. Would that be fair?

Speaker 11 You know what? My agent thought that there'd be a couple different teams interested, Cleveland being one of them. But the nature of it was that when it came down to it, there really wasn't.

Speaker 11 And to be honest with you, I kind of had the same mindset as I did last year.

Speaker 11 I didn't have an opportunity that I felt really good about. I was at the point where I was willing to sit at home and do the same thing I did last year, but you never know if that's going to happen.

Speaker 11 If it wasn't for the Colts being that one team,

Speaker 11 I don't know, you know, maybe a couple other teams I would have said yes to as well, but just the

Speaker 11 getting, being able to get back into an offensive room with Shane Steichen, just the little bit of time that I was with him in Philly, I just felt like

Speaker 11 he was really good at what he was doing, what he did, and he was going to put the quarterback and the offense and the team in a good situation.

Speaker 11 So I felt like this was one of those teams that I didn't have to wait around and sign with, that I felt comfortable going to.

Speaker 11 And if I did on the off chance, have to go in there and play, it'd be a good situation for me.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, cool. So, have you thought about how long you can play for? Because I want you to play for, I want you to be like 45.
I want you, we need Joe Flacco in the league. We can't lose you.

Speaker 1 I don't care if it's backup on every team, but having you in the league makes the league more fun.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I don't know why that is, but I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 Something about your spiral. Yeah, it's a nice, it's a real nice spiral.

Speaker 4 You almost hit the roof last week. It was awesome.

Speaker 11 I'm having a lot of fun.

Speaker 11 My family's having a lot of fun with it.

Speaker 11 Listen, I want to play as long as I possibly can.

Speaker 11 At some point, my kids are like, I don't care about missing a few things here or there right now with my kids.

Speaker 11 And to be honest with you, there's no really there's no real better schedule than being in a professional football player.

Speaker 11 I mean, you're with your kids way way more than anybody that works a normal job gets to be with them.

Speaker 11 But there's going to be a, there's going to be, there's going to come a point. If I'm fortunate enough to still be playing

Speaker 11 when they get ready to play some high school football, I'm probably going to want to be around to see them play some high school football.

Speaker 11 So, I mean, at 45, they'd be in high school.

Speaker 11 I'd love to say I'd still be playing at that point, but the situation might have to be exactly right. You never know.

Speaker 4 I want it to keep happening, though. I want Big Ben to be like, you know, getting wheeled in on a rascal scooter.
Dude, watching you bend.

Speaker 11 Yeah,

Speaker 11 Ben was thinking I was a little crazy when I went up and said hi to him. You can see it in his eyes.
Like, what are you still doing?

Speaker 11 And

Speaker 11 I was talking to Pat yesterday and I said, listen, I think that he was initially, that was his initial thought.

Speaker 11 But when I got in there and all of a sudden I started to play, it had to bring back a few memories. And

Speaker 11 I'd be willing to bet that he had a few feelings inside. Like, okay, let me throw some pads on and get out there, you know?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I would not be shocked if ben just showed up to the sealers facility on monday morning he was like i'm ready i'm ready to give it another shot key card still works yeah let's go wait so you you mentioned age you had a great line after the game that uh you're eight days older than anthony richardson's mom what so when did you find that out did he bring that up first because that is kind of like crazy to be in a locker room with a guy that could be your son yeah it's it's it's pretty crazy um that's the point I'm at.

Speaker 11 We probably talked about it at some point, and then we were both at our lockers, which are right next to each other one day. And he asked me, Hey, when's your birthday?

Speaker 11 I said, I didn't know where, I didn't know what he was getting at. I said, January.
And he said, January, what? I said, 16th. He said, and then that's when he told me, my mom's January 8th.

Speaker 11 And he was like, 1985, right? And I'm like, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 11 And man, like, I, I, I think that's just incredible. So obviously I go around and I tell everybody I possibly can.

Speaker 1 Wait, I didn't realize you were. Yeah, he's almost

Speaker 1 your birthday. Yeah, your birthday month.
We're January 85 as well. We could be in the NFL still.
Shit.

Speaker 4 My son could be Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 1 Yeah, why do we hang up our cleats?

Speaker 1 There you go.

Speaker 1 I still feel good.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I could get out there. This shoulder's got a few way reps in it.

Speaker 1 Are you going to do what we're doing? Because our big 4-0 is coming up. Are you going to get in the best shape of your life? That's what our plan is.

Speaker 11 You guys sound like guys that haven't been like you're going to be signing up for a triathlon all of a sudden because you haven't had competition in the last 20 years.

Speaker 11 You got to do all this crazy shit that nobody ever actually wants to do. No, I hope I'm, I hope I'm never at that point.
That is not me.

Speaker 11 I'm cool with just going and working out with my trainer and, you know, feeling like I'm doing a good job and staying in shape.

Speaker 11 I got to, dude, if you don't, if you don't keep up with it, like by the time you hit 40, it, it's hard to get out of that, that, that little rut that you're in. So I listen, good, good luck.

Speaker 11 I don't, I think you're going to have to, in my experience, I think you're going to have to stick with it for like a good, solid month and then you'll feel really good about yourself and it'll be easy from that point on i like how you're like hey yeah you guys got to stick with it and you're in the nfl yeah yeah yeah you're right thanks joe

Speaker 11 like whatever shape you're in when you turn 40 that's the shape that you're in for the rest of your life yeah that's probably not you know if you've made it to 40 and you're in pretty decent shape um you know you look around i mean a lot of your friends that are in like when you hit 30 years old you know it's it's just gone to hell you know so if you've made it to 40 then i would say that you have pretty good discipline and you've probably you're probably going to do a pretty good job I hope so.

Speaker 4 I hope you're right. So, Joe, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but there are a lot of Colts fans with Joe Flacco jerseys.
They went out there and bought them right when you signed with the team.

Speaker 4 We did a giveaway because we're season ticket holders, and we gave away two tickets to fans that had Flacco jerseys. And we got like six or seven submissions, which is that's kind of crazy.

Speaker 4 They must have just gone out and bought that like right when you signed.

Speaker 11 Yeah, listen, that's cool. I mean, I don't think those things are just readily available, so you have to kind of special order them, I'm sure.
Listen, my son's one of them.

Speaker 11 At least one of my kids are one of those purchases. You know, every

Speaker 11 freaking place I go to, it's like

Speaker 11 I get off the phone and one minute later, we have to have like all of the gear in the world from that team. So

Speaker 11 I'd like to think that there's more than just family members that bought some, but it might just be all family members.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so how do you like playing with the Colts? Are you familiar with any of the any of the historical things or fascinating things, unique things about that franchise or the fan base?

Speaker 11 Well, listen, I may be. I mean, look, I came from Baltimore.
I mean,

Speaker 11 the cult started in Baltimore. So, when you play with the Ravens, I mean, they do do a good job of honoring the Baltimore Cults legends.

Speaker 11 And there are a lot of those guys that were still around the building. I mean, Lenny Moore was in the building every week, you know.

Speaker 11 So, I think just naturally from being there, it's kind of a unique situation. You do get a little bit of that history.
And it's kind of weird that I've kind of come full circle with this thing.

Speaker 11 I've said it to somebody before, but I've played in Baltimore who came came from cleveland just played in cleveland and now i'm playing in indy who came from baltimore so it's kind of like that little i i've i've completed the little triangle there of all the uh baltimore of all those little teams yeah joe flacco triangle that is fascinating but i was speaking more specifically about the this is our colts theme song that gets put out every week have you had a chance to listen to that no you got to

Speaker 4 find out that'll pump you the up joe here i'll i'll find it i'll find that down and then you also have to learn about you might have a word with mr ursay about this because every week he decides whether or not the roof is going to be open or closed.

Speaker 4 You were drafted in that division at the beginning because you had the arm that could play outdoors. Tell Jim, hey, man, leave the roof open.
This arm's got a few reps in it.

Speaker 11 Yeah, you're still pretty much indoors. We can open up the roof and still feel pretty good about where we're at.

Speaker 1 All right, I'm going to find this for you because this guy, Seth, he does a great job.

Speaker 1 He'll be pumped. He'll be pumped that you listen to it.
All right, here it is.

Speaker 1 This was the theme song for the Steelers game.

Speaker 1 This is our cults. This is our team.
We bleed blue.

Speaker 1 This is our cults. Whether win or lose, we love them.

Speaker 1 For the shoe, meet the Steelers.

Speaker 1 Let's steal another victory.

Speaker 1 This is our team.

Speaker 1 Go cold.

Speaker 1 And then he nays at the end. Pretty awesome, right? Seth's got some good flow.
I love it.

Speaker 11 He makes a new one every week.

Speaker 1 Yeah, every single week. Game specific.
There you go. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Are we going to get more flacco this week? Oh, he might have to work flacco at it.

Speaker 11 I don't know. We're going to have to wait and see.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's a good answer. That was a smart way to answer that.
You don't know.

Speaker 1 We're going to go to the training staff. We're going to figure this out.
You know, all those. Can you throw it farther than Anthony Richardson?

Speaker 11 I don't think so. Shit.

Speaker 1 But we were saying, like, it's the perfect, like, you, like, when Anthony Richardson gets hurt, which we don't want him to get hurt, but you come in, it's not like, oh, now we can't take deep shots.

Speaker 1 We got Flacco.

Speaker 11 Yeah, we want to take those shots down the field. We have to.
I think we got the guys that do it too, man. We got some guys that can run.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 When you went into the game and then came back out of the game, did you think, okay, I'm done for the day? Like nice day at work, clocked in, clocked out?

Speaker 11 At that point, I was probably on a little bit more high alert because you're not really quite sure how he's feeling.

Speaker 11 Obviously, I saw him run off the field and it seemed like he was doing pretty well, but you never know when something like that happens.

Speaker 11 To be honest with you,

Speaker 11 from the very beginning, you're on high alert as a backup because it's a little bit of a different situation. So, yeah, no,

Speaker 11 I was still kind of, I think I might, I don't know if I unbuckled my chin strap. I don't remember really, but

Speaker 11 I'd be willing to bet that I didn't even do that.

Speaker 1 So you're a perfect person to ask this. We were thinking about this on Sunday night when we were watching the Ravens versus the Bills.

Speaker 1 The Ravens, when they go all black uniforms on Sunday night or Monday night, if you were a video game, we said it would be like plus five in strength. Did you feel that

Speaker 1 for the team that like all the hits were just a little bit harder when you were in the all-blacks at night?

Speaker 11 Yeah, for sure. There was something about it, man.

Speaker 11 When you showed up and you had the black jersey in your locker and it was a big game, you're like, it gave you that little extra like nudge of like that little bit extra confidence, like, oh, yeah, like, we're supposed to win this one.

Speaker 11 We're definitely winning. Like, everything's on our side.
So there's something about it, man.

Speaker 11 But that place just in general, like Baltimore

Speaker 11 during a night game, I mean, they do an unbelievable job of,

Speaker 11 you know, really bringing some energy in that stadium. I don't know if you guys have ever been to a game there, but it's got to be one of the best places to play in the league.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I do like it when it's night. You're wearing the all-blacks.
You got all the fans wearing the Baltimore Ravens camo cargo shorts.

Speaker 1 Zobbies like leading the team off the field.

Speaker 11 That's right. That's right.
I forget where I was this year, and I actually saw some of those camo pants. And I don't know why, but oh man, that brings back some stuff right there.

Speaker 4 Yeah, they're the best pants in sports. I'll go and say it.
They are the best pants in football.

Speaker 1 Yes, absolutely. All right, Joe, I had one last question for you.
This has been awesome. We love having you on.

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Speaker 1 So we saw you out in Tahoe.

Speaker 1 I want to ask about your golf game. Also, your hands are massive.
I don't know if you knew that, but when I shook your hand, I was like, what the fuck? I just didn't have a hand.

Speaker 11 It's so funny. People just assume I think I have, I don't, there's no good.
I'm not going to explain my hands.

Speaker 1 I was about to, and I'm like, I don't know how that's going to come. They're just massive.
Yeah, just hold it. How much?

Speaker 1 Yeah, hold on off to the camera.

Speaker 1 Let me see that hand.

Speaker 1 That's a nice hand.

Speaker 11 I actually didn't measure

Speaker 11 at the combine. I don't think I measured like off the charts in hand.
I think I had an average size hand, but

Speaker 11 yeah, my golf game, that's not good.

Speaker 1 I don't play enough. I don't play enough.

Speaker 11 I played terribly out there, but it was a lot of fun. It was a cool experience for sure.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's actually good. I think we shook your hand before we shook Albert Pujol's hand out there.
And that's good for you because Albert Pujul has the biggest, strongest hands and the craziest.

Speaker 1 I thought it was going to be

Speaker 1 my hand.

Speaker 11 Yeah, baseball players in general. I mean, they're up there.
They're swinging a bat. for every almost like who knows how many days a year, but like obviously they play a million games.

Speaker 11 Their forearm and like wrist and hamstrings is probably insane.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Rice bucket.
But yeah, I just was like, oh, my God, like, you almost broke my hand. And you weren't doing anything like abnormal.
She's got massive hands. Just being flacco.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just being flacco. All right.
Well, Joe, thank you.

Speaker 1 Play forever, please. Yeah, please.
We just want to, we want to, because as long as you play, because you're, you're like two weeks older than us.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you guys can keep the dream alive. Yeah, we can keep being like, you know what? Like, we're still out there.
Representation matters. 85 January birthdays.
That's, that's important. There you go.

Speaker 1 All right, man. Thanks so much.
Appreciate it. Thank you, Joe.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I appreciate you guys having me on. Have a good one.

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Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap up. We've got Firefest of the week.
Henry,

Speaker 1 my guy. What's up? Oh, Hank.
Yes. Something popped in my head the other day.
What's up?

Speaker 1 We were talking a lot about dunking. Yep.
And your plan and everything. And it just hit me.
And I was like, oh, man, we've been talking so much about dunking.

Speaker 1 We haven't said

Speaker 1 the two most famous words in this show's history in a while. Catbat.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Let's go.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Let's rip.

Speaker 1 Vanny Woodhead. Oh, yeah.
How's that going? It's going.

Speaker 1 What do you mean going?

Speaker 1 It's definitely not going.

Speaker 1 No, it's not currently going, but there's, you know, things are in the works.

Speaker 4 I got a good mechanic if you want to talk to him. Yeah.
Do you?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 1 Vanny Woodhead.

Speaker 4 What was the last conversations that were had, to use your own phrase?

Speaker 1 I talked internally with our salespeople about how we can package it to make money so that we can get it fixed. Ah, okay, so it sounds like a lot of progress.
Just waiting for some loop backs.

Speaker 1 Loop backs? We got to get some loop backs going on per my last email. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Parking lot, Vanny Woodhead.

Speaker 1 We should up the ante on Vanny and see if Vanny is actually worth getting back on the road.

Speaker 1 And the only way we can do it is we find a mechanic and we have to bring Vanny to the mechanic by towing it with the El Camino.

Speaker 4 That's challenge level impossible.

Speaker 1 Double whim. Probably not going to happen.

Speaker 4 But Vanny, I feel like that's a no-brainer, right? We'll be able to do interviews and Vanny. Just assume the money's already there.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm down for that. I just, that's not really how it works, but.
Okay. Well, explain to us how it works, business guy.
Well, like. Max is just tickled pink back there.

Speaker 1 It's going to cost a lot of money to fix. So if we

Speaker 1 spend that money and then don't make it back.

Speaker 4 Have you reached out to Exhibit yet?

Speaker 1 It takes money to make money. Correct.

Speaker 4 Try hitting up Exhibit. Do a Pimp My Ride.
Run it back.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Probably could. I can't imagine he's that expensive.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know what? We should guilt one of our friends along the way that we've said that owes us for their contract.

Speaker 1 Like Jerry, Jared Hawthorne. I have Josh Allen.
We have Blake Griffin, maybe.

Speaker 1 Weed companies. I was like, what if we just turn it into a dope den? Oh, okay.
I like it. Dope den.
Okay. Build a bong out of the tailpipe.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fill it with water. Make it a gravity bong.
It's gravity bone,

Speaker 1 okay. So, you've really it sounds like there's progress,

Speaker 1 yeah, yeah, how much progress doesn't matter, doesn't matter, progress is progress. How much time do you have on that again? Spring, yeah, spring-summer, it'll happen, spring, summer, yeah.

Speaker 4 But as far as the actual spring in your legs goes for dunking, uh, now is the time where steroids come into play, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna do steroids, we'll see, pussy, yeah, you've changed, pussy, it's just hard to get. Someone's got to be able to get it.

Speaker 1 When I did them the first time, it was just given to me. Yeah, we'll get them.

Speaker 1 Billy Football got them. No.
No.

Speaker 1 Light Switch Lou got him. But Billy.

Speaker 1 Billy would be the plug. Yeah.
Billy's got you. Billy the plug.
Yeah. All right.
Your Fire Fest. My Fire Fest is that I'm a hoarder, and I've come to grips with it.
Welcome. Yeah, no, I've.

Speaker 1 You're in the right place. We talked about it when we were cleaning the studio, and I've been thinking about it, doing it for a while, and I've finally started the process.

Speaker 1 I have been doing it of nuking all my clothes and just starting fresh. Yeah.
Oh, it's the best feeling.

Speaker 1 But in that process, I'm like, take all of these clothes, you know, off the hangers, put them in a place, go through them one by one, like the, what is it, Marie Kondo? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Does it give you joy?

Speaker 1 But there's things I haven't worn since I've moved to Chicago, and I'm still like, ah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 You never know. T-shirts are the hardest.

Speaker 1 Anything. Yeah.
Everything's the hardest. But t-shirts are like, oh, they're sentimental.
I have like some, some, some nicer clothes.

Speaker 1 We don't really dress nice, but I'm like, oh, what if, you know, the one occasion that I need this, which will never happen. Never happen.

Speaker 1 And I, and the only way for me to, like, actually change, you know, get a, get a fresh style would be to, because otherwise I'm just going to wear the same shit, which I've been doing.

Speaker 1 So I'm just trying to get rid of everything, but I've realized I just.

Speaker 4 Why don't you just one day you say, okay, I'm going to do it. Every single t-shirt gone.

Speaker 1 That's what I've been doing. I took everything, I put it on a pile in my room, and I've been going through them one by one.
And that's where I've realized, like,

Speaker 1 I'm making no progress there because I'm keeping all the stuff, even though I haven't worn it. You just got to spread it out.

Speaker 1 Did I ever tell you guys when we lived in New York in my old apartment in Brooklyn, I had a closet that was

Speaker 1 higher than taller than me in terms of how much shit I had in it. When I went to move,

Speaker 1 it was probably eight feet tall, this closet, just full of shit.

Speaker 1 And now that I have a house, the good news is I just have piles in secret places that like are, you know, like there's a little garage pile. There's a little this basement pile.

Speaker 1 You just, you keep them, you keep them spread out and it's harder to pin me down as a hoarder. Yeah, I have an extra bedroom that's turned into a closet.
So you're good. Like, what's in here?

Speaker 1 It's like, ooh. Yeah.
Just a... one giant pile.

Speaker 4 It's also, it's funny sometimes when you're going through your old t-shirts and you see a shirt that you made that's like specifically for 2016.

Speaker 4 It's like Coacho riding a tiger, riding Mike the Tiger. And you're like, what do I do with this?

Speaker 4 And then you think about donating it and you're like, oh shit, what if somebody sees this like PFT football guy shirt where I'm kicking a field goal in the XFL?

Speaker 4 Like somebody sees that in a goodwill and then they're like, man, PFT in hard times. Everyone's giving away his t-shirts.

Speaker 1 You see them everywhere.

Speaker 1 I have that happen here where there's just like producers and behind the scenes guys will just be walking around with old sweatshirts and shirts that I have because I gave away like my whole pile in New York and it's just traveled here.

Speaker 1 So like the other day, there was just a guy walking around with a Wisconsin Taz sweatshirt.

Speaker 4 It's like, that's mine.

Speaker 4 Is there somebody that's like, oh, yeah, someone's wearing that Daniel Ricardo shirt?

Speaker 1 That's the same shirt. I was like, where did you order that shirt? He's like, oh, that's my pile.
Yeah, right. Or a hat.
And I'm like, yeah, that's my hat. I didn't know you were in the dead.

Speaker 1 They're like, no, I just took this from your pile. And someone, that was actually another moment of realization because someone came up to me and was like, hey, can I have this sweatshirt?

Speaker 1 And I was like, no, I want it. And then I was like, wait, I haven't seen that sweatshirt in a video.

Speaker 4 Like, just take it.

Speaker 1 But my initial reaction was like, no, I want that. Even though it's been here, I didn't know it was here.
I haven't thought about it. I didn't try and find it.

Speaker 1 But it's a beautiful thing to dress other men. I'm just dressing other men.
Have you done walking around?

Speaker 4 Just hiring somebody to come to your apartment and just take the clothes. Just be like, you don't need this.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 you want us to stage a robber? We'll stage a robbery. That's probably a problem.
You want us to come and rob you?

Speaker 1 It needs to all be gone. Yeah.

Speaker 4 You can't do it yourself. Just give us your key.

Speaker 1 Oh, I am. And we'll come rob you.

Speaker 1 And you can just be like, oh, well, then you can maybe get insurance fraud.

Speaker 1 Like that.

Speaker 4 What about hoarding spiders? Is that a problem for you, too? Nope.

Speaker 1 Just battling. Battling.
The battle goes. PFT.

Speaker 4 My Fire Fest was on, it was on Tuesday morning. True.
I talked about it on the show.

Speaker 4 So my car got towed. It's at the mechanic.
And I told Hank I have a very deep fear that I still haven't called my mechanic to get a follow-up on what's wrong with it.

Speaker 4 Because my deepest fear is that he's going to be like, yeah, there was no gas in it.

Speaker 1 Oh, man, would you be the biggest asshole of all time?

Speaker 4 I don't think that's what happened.

Speaker 4 So the gas gauge is broken on there, but I filled it up with like $40 worth of gas, and then I drove it, I want to say four times back and forth to the office, and that's it.

Speaker 4 So that would mean that the mileage would have to be about like 2.5 miles per gallon. Could be.

Speaker 1 Could be.

Speaker 4 And that's, it's not unrealistic to think that the mileage on that thing is that bad.

Speaker 4 But yeah, I'm just basically too much of a coward to call my mechanic and find out what's wrong because I'm afraid he's going to make me feel dumb. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That would suck.
Yeah. You'd be the biggest asshole ever.

Speaker 4 I don't think that's what it was, but that's the fear that's preventing me from checking. Yeah, I think you just never, I think you need to, I think he just owns that car now.

Speaker 1 I think you just need to have someone else reach out to your mechanic and be like, hey, I'll call him. And I'll just be like, hey, if it's no gas, let's just not say it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Or do we stage a robbery there to fill up the gas tank?

Speaker 4 Like break in and put gas in my car?

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then if he's like, it was empty, you're like, no, it's not.

Speaker 1 Check it again. You're an idiot.

Speaker 4 Double check. You're a bad mechanic.

Speaker 1 Triple check.

Speaker 4 I don't think that's what the problem was, but there's like a 10% chance that I feel like a big asshole. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's tough. All right.
My Fire Fest. I've alluded to it, but I'm starting to get really anxious about what I'm going to be for Halloween.

Speaker 1 I know you guys probably don't deal with this, but I need to nail my Halloween costume. And my kids keep changing every single day what they want to be.
And I can't base it off of them.

Speaker 1 I have to base it off them, and they keep changing. So what the fuck do I do?

Speaker 4 You don't want to be Batman?

Speaker 1 They're not into Batman. The options right now are

Speaker 1 two days ago, it was Spider-Man, so then I was going to be like, all right, I'll be Doc Ock or Iron Man.

Speaker 1 Did you do Doc Ock, though? Yeah, I have a Doc Ock costume. Yesterday was a Fireman, so I just have to do that again.
Easy.

Speaker 1 This morning it was Super Mario, which I would love to be Bowser, but. Or Wario.
You could be a good Wario. I could be a good Wario.

Speaker 1 But if I buy Wario and then a day before, he's like, hey, we're going to be cops and robbers, or we're going to be firemen, like, what do I do? I just think I have to buy like six costumes.

Speaker 4 I got a, I got a good one for the whole family. Well, can't you?

Speaker 1 Don't you have, isn't your youngest son young enough where you can just give him a costume? Yeah, he'll just be a fucking punch. So you can match with him no matter what.

Speaker 1 Nah, you gotta, you gotta do the you gotta do the kids that are like

Speaker 1 the five and three-year-old are aware of Halloween. They're excited about Halloween.
I gotta, I gotta build it up for them. I have a question.
Yeah. So you keep, do you keep getting all of these?

Speaker 1 No, I have not, but I'm getting anxious because they haven't given me

Speaker 1 the answer to what they want to be for Halloween changes every like 24 hours. Why don't you just be like, okay,

Speaker 1 what do you want to be? We're getting it right now, and this is what you're going to do. They're going to change it again.
My daughter also said she wanted me to be poop.

Speaker 4 That's good. Like, legitimate, just poop?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Go as the poop emoji.
They probably have poop emoji costumes. For sure.
So I might just do that. What about this?

Speaker 4 NBA Photo Day was earlier this week. What if you went as LeBron? And then you had your son go as Bronnie.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 And then one of the other kids dresses up as JJ.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Suit.

Speaker 4 And then the other one's a basketball. I like that.
I think that could work.

Speaker 1 I like that.

Speaker 1 Did you see that

Speaker 1 JJ, there's a DJ at the Lakers practice? It's already happening to our good friend, J.J. Reddick, Will Compton's best friend, Max's mortal enemy.

Speaker 1 They asked, what's the deal with the DJ? He said, that's LeBron's call.

Speaker 1 And he's like, I don't know who's paying for it, but. We have a DJ at practice.

Speaker 4 Apparently, they had a big wine summit before the season started where he was going to lay out what the rules were going to be over a bottle of wine with LeBron, and then LeBron was going to communicate those to the rest of the team so they don't have to waste practice time going over the rules.

Speaker 4 So, in this game of wine telephones,

Speaker 4 I feel like LeBron is just going to give his rules to the team. But JJ can be like, I told LeBron what my rules were.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he feels like he's getting forced to play Bronny. He's getting forced.
I mean, he's probably going to get forced to play Brownie. He's getting forced to have a DJ at the practice.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 JJ was, you know, he came up with Coach K. There's no way he wants a DJ at practice, but that's happening.

Speaker 4 It'd be funny if you made them wear Duke uniforms in practice.

Speaker 1 Or and then took them away.

Speaker 4 So they can take away the letter D.

Speaker 1 I just hope LeBron's nice to our friend JJ. That would be nice.

Speaker 4 I think it'd be good for basketball if they were good.

Speaker 1 He's got a good track record. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I got to figure out what I'm going to be for Halloween. I'll let you guys know.
I don't know. Maybe you guys might have to just.
Maybe just paint your nails.

Speaker 4 Got a Kayla Williams jersey.

Speaker 1 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 4 That'd be cool. I thought Hank was being nice.
I feel like a lot of times.

Speaker 1 I'm looking at him. I'm trying to decide whether I need to go on attack mode or be like,

Speaker 1 good suggestion. Thanks.
Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I had to visually figure it out.

Speaker 4 He goes Eberfloose.

Speaker 1 Get a sick haircut. Just put my head in a toilet.
Just get a sick haircut.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Good show, boys.
Let's do numbers. Memes

Speaker 1 is back. Memes, I didn't say

Speaker 1 that it would be funny if number three was called when you weren't here.

Speaker 3 You didn't?

Speaker 1 I did.

Speaker 1 It would have been funny. It would have been funny if we had number three.
Yeah, that would have sucked.

Speaker 1 Let me go with five. Shane and Pug here.
Shane, see, there's another one. Shane, where'd you get that sweatshirt?

Speaker 1 Where'd you get that sweatshirt? Huh? Where'd you get that sweatshirt?

Speaker 1 Depop.

Speaker 1 Oh, I thought maybe it was a pile. Nope.
I got Shane a Charger sweatshirt from the... They only sell it at the SoFi Stadium, so I hit up my Chargers Connect.

Speaker 1 Shane came to my office, and the way he thanked me, it was like I saved his life. He was just like, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 It was very, it was like a nice moment between us, but it was just like, it's a sweatshirt. Is it sick? It is sick.
It's a sick sweatshirt. I'm just appreciative.
I know, but it was like...

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, I mean, I did because I love you, but like, it was, it was just like, I was like... Borderline tears? It was borderline tears.
He was getting choked up thanking me.

Speaker 1 Shane, how many people did you, he texted me about a connected sofi? I was like, I don't have a connected so-fi.

Speaker 1 I was like, what do you need this for? He's like, there's a sweatshirt there. I can only get it there.
And I was like, all right, man. I guess it was more that you were so appreciative.

Speaker 1 And all it took me to do was just send one simple text. So it was like, yeah, like if it's not a big deal, like I'll do anything for my boys.
But yeah, it was, it was a touching moment.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, it was, it was inconvenient for you. It was not inconvenient at all.
That was my point. All I said was, hey, my producers, who you met, wants this sweatshirt.
Could you send us one?

Speaker 1 And they're like, yeah, no problem.

Speaker 1 Oh, well,

Speaker 1 I'm still thankful. Yeah.
Now he's going to text you all the time. You shouldn't get that.

Speaker 1 I'll get it. I'll get more.
I'll get more for my boys.

Speaker 1 All right. Numbers.
Three.

Speaker 1 Eleven.

Speaker 1 26.

Speaker 1 21. 26.

Speaker 1 16.

Speaker 1 forty-one,

Speaker 1 forty-one.

Speaker 4 Love you guys.