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Today is Wednesday, September 18th, and the Philadelphia Eagles are Max.

I don't know.

Oh, you don't know.

Oh, the dreaded.

I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know is a bad place to be.

Yep, not a good place to be.

So you were at the game last night.

Max went to, he got on a rare trip on a plane that did not involve a wedding.

And you went to Philadelphia, Monday Night Football, The Eyes of America on Philadelphia.

Nick Foles' retirement night?

Yeah, they also didn't do anything.

Well, no, they had Jason Kelsey.

What?

It was Nick Foles' retirement night.

But Jason Kelsey was there.

Jason Kelsey is always there on Monday night.

That one Philadelphia Super fan that has a Philly fanatic with the

belly button.

I sat right next to that guy the entire game.

So give us the injury update.

He was very much struggling.

Okay, so torn ACL.

There's no doubt in my mind that man has a torn ACL.

Yeah, wow.

Pro Football Doc said confirmed Torn ACL.

We also took the saddest picture together after the game.

I need to see it.

I don't have it.

I need to see it.

Send it to us.

I don't have it.

I don't

see his phone.

What's his name?

What's his Instagram?

That guy's got to be a legend, right?

Dumphy.

I'll get his exact Instagram handle to give him a

Dumphy215.

I should have known that.

You know what?

Let's do.

before we talk to you, Max, about the Eagles, let's just say that

Kirk Cousins was phenomenal to end the game.

It was like the beginning of the game, it looked like Kirk Cousins was maybe his eyes were not, he wasn't really trusting it.

He was a little slow on a couple of his reads, but then he locked in, let him down the field, incredible drive.

The Falcons are fun.

Bijan Robinson is fucking awesome.

Even in the first half, when Kirk wasn't playing well,

he moves so much faster than other running backs.

It's crazy.

B.

John Robinson is awesome.

Or as Troy Aikman calls him, B.J.

Robinson.

B.J.

Robinson.

Which was an interesting nickname that came up on the fly for him in the fourth quarter.

But yeah, the Falcons, the running game looked pretty decent in the first half.

They had to settle for field goals.

Nick Siriani did not settle for field goals in the first half.

That was a weird move.

And it's funny because Big Cat, Max, you don't have to listen to this part, but we have to figure out because we need to walk a very fine tightrope here of criticizing Nick Siriani for what he did in Monday Night Football without making it seem like it's the exact same criticisms of Dan Campbell in the NFC championship game.

Because I think we reacted to that, like trust in Dan Campbell, he's your guy.

Well, I mean, it's simple.

That the, I think the simple way to do this is that the Lions locker room believes in Dan Campbell, and I don't know if I could say the same for the EFC.

That's a good point.

That's a good point.

So it's totally two different.

It's not like one's the Italian Dan Campbell.

No, it's the mentality of it.

It's not Don Campbell.

Yeah, right.

See, the, but, but the Falcons are very fun, and I actually have a question for you, PFT.

I believe that we officially have to end the narrative that the NFC South is the worst division in football because they have the 2-0 Saints, the 1-1 Falcons, the 2-0 Bucks.

Yes, the Panthers.

We will talk about Bryce Young in a minute.

But

they're a good division now.

So who...

gets to be the worst division in football.

I have

two nominees for you.

Okay, let me think, just off the top of my head.

Well, one you're not going to expect.

Hit me.

The one you maybe expect is the AFC South.

I think they definitely could be a nominee.

The Texans are really good, but the Jaguars have struggled.

The Colts are 0-2.

And the Titans are 0-2.

So they have three 0-2 teams.

NFC East.

The other one is the NFC East.

Well, we're on top of the NFC East right now.

But the other one might be the NFC East because I don't know.

It's basically the Eagles are the swing vote.

If the Eagles,

all politics go through Pennsylvania this fall.

If the Eagles are are considered a good team, I do not think the NFC East

is the worst division in football.

If the Eagles are a bad team,

that might be the worst division in football.

Well, let's get real.

It's basically expected for the Eagles and the Cowboys to be Super Bowl contenders.

Correct.

And then if you get a bonus season out of Washington or out of the New York Giants, then it's like, wow, the NFC Beast is back.

I could say the Giants are probably not going to give us that bonus season.

Probably not that bad.

So I think it's maybe AFC South right now, but it could end up being the NFC East.

It's a possibility.

I mean, I think what happened with the Eagles last night,

they could have won that game a million different ways.

So the Eagles could have won if they had kicked that field goal in the first quarter, which, and it's not hindsight to say it.

I tweeted out at the time that Nick Siriani should be arrested.

Yeah, we were all texting the three of us.

We had a side chat.

I think that just the take that Nick Siriani should be arrested is applicable to all sorts of different things that he does.

But for that field goal in the first half,

you want to take those points in the first quarter.

I think it was a scoreless game at the time.

It was.

Would have liked to have those points.

And And the Eagles, I think they played better than the Falcons for almost all the game.

And then at the end, you could put the game away with Saquon just catching a pass.

You're going to miss one that they could have won on, but continue.

Okay.

Or

hanging on to the touchdown catch that got batted out of his hands.

I think that's Devontae Smith, right?

Not Matthew Judon.

Siriani called up a play to try and get them off sides right before the Saquon catch.

Did a hard count.

Matthew Judon jumped.

Jordan Milata just didn't react.

And then they had to call the timeout.

Jordan Milata didn't fall start to point out the referees.

He made me fall start.

But I mean, the whole goal of that play is to do that, and you got that done, and your brain was just gone because all you have to do is make a little movement.

You got the first down game over.

Here's a crazy idea.

And I don't know if Max has thought about this.

So you mentioned the Saquon drop, which was an egregious drop.

It was a perfect play call,

like called up play, perfect pass, everything.

What about, and this might sound crazy, running the football there.

You know what, big cat, in a situation like this, it would be awesome if the Eagles had a quarterback that was outstanding at handoffs.

Yeah,

because so the argument that people are making today is, well, the play was perfect and Saquon just needs to make the catch, which is true.

But when you do a pass play, there's always a chance that a guy might not catch the ball, therefore stopping the clock.

When you do a run play, yes, I guess you could fumble, but you're doing a run play that then takes another 40 seconds off the clock.

And I'll even get crazy here.

Ready?

Ready for this, Max?

I think you run it twice and you get a first down because you're the Philadelphia Eagles and no one can stop when you run it with your biggest offensive line in football.

Thoughts?

Not going for it on fourth down is worse than the pass play.

But running it twice is the move.

Yes, but if you weren't going to run it twice, so much time off the clock.

So much time.

If you weren't going to run it twice,

everyone keeps

being mad about the pass play.

You draw it up perfectly.

But there's always a chance.

The chance of Saquon dropping that ball in that situation is, I would argue, just as likely of

a fumble like this.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

That was a pitch play.

It was a fucking pitch play.

Max, he should have a fall.

He should have, right?

Here's a couple things.

Max, Max.

No.

Saquon should have fucked the ball.

You're right.

But to say that it's just as likely,

to say it's just as likely as him fumbling is egregious.

It's insane.

It's a psychotic thing to say.

Also,

I think Saquon Barkley

right in stride.

Learn ball.

Learn ball.

Learn ball.

Learn ball.

I think Saquon Barkley has a running back.

Learn ball, Hank.

I think Saquon Barkley has the highest drop percentage of any running back in the world.

16 drops since 2021.

Learn ball.

16 drops since 2021, Max.

I don't give a fuck.

You have to catch that ball.

You have to run that ball.

No.

Yes.

I have have a question for you.

How long did it, if they run that football and kick the field goal, how much time's left on the clock?

No.

How much time did they take for the clock?

Hold on, hold on.

How much time's left on the minute, but hold on.

How much time did it take for them to score?

Hold on, hold on.

We can talk about your defense second.

I'm not saying run it once.

I'm saying run it twice.

And that's what I'm saying.

The fourth down is worse than that play.

Guess what?

If you run it twice and you don't get the first down, not only is more time gone off,

but the Falcons,

the Falcons will very much likely likely play for a field goal instead of a touchdown because that's what teams mostly do and you would have gone to overtime if you don't but that's hindsight and you would that's what do you mean it's hindsight i said in the time when it was happening i was like why aren't you running it yes but but that that's obvious to say when you drop the fall max max you have max

perfect no

before yeah before the play even happened i said i was sitting on my couch being like why are they not running this ball max take 40 seconds off the clock everyone's thinking that.

And it took them a minute to get down the field.

Max, you need to.

That's what I'm.

I agree.

You have to be able to think about two things at the same time.

Two things at the same time.

One is, yes, the play should have worked.

It was.

Wait, wait, wait.

Exactly.

Let me say the second thing you have to think about.

You're thinking really well about that one.

You want a first down.

Yeah, you want a first down.

The other side is that running the football eliminates the possibility of a turnover on downs at that exact point.

You're not going to fumble the ball.

And it's a perfectly normal, sane thing that most coaches would do in that situation.

And 40 seconds go off the clock.

It took a minute.

It doesn't matter.

It still is different pressure.

It doesn't matter.

Because that's a totally different pressure situation.

When you have one minute and one minute and 40 seconds to start your offense, you basically are saying when you have one minute, you cannot, you have to have perfect plays all the way down the field.

And they did.

I understand, Max.

I'm not playing the results.

I'm playing just the fact that in a situation where you have one minute and 40 seconds left, third and three on the five-yard line, you run that ball 100 times times out of 100 to take 40 seconds off the clock.

Yes, it's very easy to say that now.

No, I said it before.

It's very easy to say that now.

I said it before.

I said it before.

Well, then what happened?

If Saquon catches that ball,

which

there's a 95% chance.

And what's his drop right, Pickett?

He's dropped the most passionate.

13%.

60%.

16%.

So it's like that's

not the same.

It's not 100%.

All drops aren't the same, and you know that.

That's true.

In that situation.

It was a hard catch.

People are calling him a loser player.

It was a five-yard pass.

He's never won at the lane.

People were calling him a loser play.

But Max, that's the one.

You have to think about that.

Whenever you call a pass play, even if it's a perfectly executive player,

but there's a pass play down the field going through the middle of the field is way different than a five-yard screen play.

You know that.

But a pass play could always be an incompletion.

And a run play could always be a fumble.

But the chances of it being a fumble are so much lower.

The drop in that situation is low as fuck.

But not as low as a fumble.

Yes, to say that.

Not that different.

Win the game.

max win the game right there come on max don't know what happened to the run now you're the philadelphia eagles you get three yards on two runs very easy to say without actually seeing it very easy i've seen it i've seen them get three yards on two runs very easy to say without actually seeing no no no no you're pretending they were both averaging like four yards

was fair you're pretending like we're playing hindsight but in the moment we were we were freaking that far no max in the moment we were surprising play call when he threw the ball everybody was surprised by it yes but then

that doesn't mean that's hindsight that you want

You've got the look that you want.

Just throwing the ball to the table.

Also, after the game.

You got the look that you're going to do.

Twice, yes.

If you're going to do it twice, I agree.

Nick Siriani.

I'm going to go all the way on four.

Big cat, let me ask you this.

Do you think that it's throwing your quarterback under the bus after the game if you're the head coach of a team that does something exactly like this?

I'm not saying it's the Eagles, but if you're that head coach and you say

there was a mechanism on the third and three pass play where if it's not wide open, Jalen Hurts can sit down and take a sack.

Oh,

is that shirking responsibility for a call?

That's a weird thing to say because it was wide open.

Because it was wide open, right?

So if it wasn't wide open, then you could be like, we talked about this, and if it's not open, take a sack.

But he brought this up for no seeming reason aside just to get the heat off of him after.

No, I mean, I think that that makes sense what he said.

Nick's.

That's not putting blame on anybody else.

That's just.

Can I ask you a question, Max?

What's the issue with the Eagles?

Because this looked like...

They're just.

This looked like everyone going into this season was like, is it going to be the end of the season of the Eagles last year?

This looked very similar to the Cardinals' game.

This looks similar to the Seahawks game where the Eagles felt like the better team and something, they just didn't win.

Correct.

I agree.

So, what's the issue?

They are.

Defensive line, you said?

Defensive line is horrible.

What about offense?

The offense is a mix of

bad coaching and bad quarterback play.

And I'd say

bad quarterback play, huh?

Sometimes I have everything written down.

Okay, all right.

Nice, good.

Was this on your flight you took notes?

Yes.

While you're looking at these notes, a pank had a question.

His hand was raised.

Do you think it was a little early for the booze after the missed fourth down in the first quarter?

Good question.

Oh, no, never too early for booze.

On Jason Kelsey night?

Never too early for booze.

It's five o'clock somewhere.

Okay, that was a stupid question.

Okay, ready?

Yeah, you'd think you were.

I mean, it's Philadelphia.

Like, are you just going to say, oh, like,

that's the way it is in Philadelphia?

Are you surprised that there's booing?

Like, all right, cool.

It was early.

I just thought it was early.

I mean, that's every fucking.

That's fucking life.

That's life in Philadelphia.

Get used to it.

Sounds fun.

That's funny.

Oh, shocking.

Oh, let's have this discussion on a fucking national.

Is Philadelphia dumb for booing on a national podcast?

Coming up next on ESPN.

Philadelphia booze early in the game?

Wow.

I don't think that's the right fan base.

All right.

Good job, Hank.

Nice job, buddy.

Good job.

Good job, buddy.

Okay,

Max took notes.

Max, before you tell us the notes about the game, do you think...

It's not about the game.

It's about the Eagles as a whole.

Okay, Eagles as a whole.

Do you think there was anything said on this podcast on Sunday that people could maybe say was a jinx?

Yeah, the number 20 saying winner.

Yeah.

Because here's a quote from Max at the end of the podcast.

I'll tell you right now.

Oh, I'm a winner.

I don't really know what to do because I'm just a winner.

I'm just a winner.

I'm specifically just a winner.

Title Town.

He's a one-man title town.

We were talking about the lottery ball.

PFT, you wouldn't fucking know.

Well, you also talked a lot of shit about a quarterback handing the ball off.

And guess what?

You probably should have taken some notes.

I did take notes.

Okay, let's hear the notes.

Eagles, are the Eagles good or are the Eagles bad?

Wait, you wrote like a.

This is a title?

No, it's just, I went through each position.

It sounds like a book report.

Yeah, okay, by Max Delinte.

Quarterback.

Sometimes good, lots of sometimes bad, but will still defend forever because that's my life.

Max, what is lots of, sometimes bad?

So I was in the middle of saying lots of times bad, sometimes bad.

So I split the difference and said lots of, sometimes bad.

We need to get a graphic of this memes, but it needs to be in crayon.

Like just Max Delente's breakdown of the Eagles in crayon.

Yes.

Running back.

Bad drop, still very good.

Okay.

That's fair.

Wide receiver room.

Good, but without AJ, bad.

But you got Dotson stinks.

Thank you.

And if Brittany Govey ever gets the second most targets on the team again, I'm going to memes myself.

O-line, good, but bad for not reacting to Judon.

That pissed me off.

Okay.

D-line, mega-bad.

Mega bad?

Don't know.

Linebackers, probably bad, but maybe good.

Secondary, better, but still bad sometimes.

What about C.J.

Gardner?

He's the best troll of all time.

That's a perfect example of that.

All he does is get people to fight him.

The coverage against Darnell Mooney on that deep ball was horrendous.

And then he absolutely stuck Bijan

on fourth down to get the turnover on down.

That was a great task.

He's the perfect example of sometimes good, sometimes bad.

I mean, the move of ripping somebody's mouthpiece off the face mask is awesome.

I'm like, okay, good.

I thought.

No, no, no, he's a troll.

That's what he does.

Yeah.

And then finally, coaching super bad.

Super bad.

Okay, so

that better not be Dom in there.

No, he doesn't count.

Okay.

Okay, but your defense scorer.

I also have another take.

I was pissed off online.

Oh, tell us.

Well, people, like, there was an interview that Sirianni

were going after Dom.

Don't come after John.

Why were they coming after him?

Because they say that he just wants a spotlight, and it's just, we in this room know for a fact that that's not true because how many times have we tried to get him on this show and he says no because he doesn't want the spotlight yeah he's just doing his job if he was if he wanted the spotlight, he would come on this show.

Yeah, and we were furious.

Sure, he will eventually.

We were furious when we found out about Big Dom last year because we were mad that

we didn't know about him already.

Yeah.

It's just the media makes him.

Yeah, we support Big Dom in all of this.

Yes.

I was mad.

Vic Fangio.

Overall thoughts on team.

Talk to me about Vic Fangio real quick, though.

The pre-vent defense.

I think we all agree that in that situation, when you just give up 20 yards to the middle of the field, it's the most, just play normal normal game.

You just need a guy like Hassan Reddick to go get a sack.

Bryce Huff, horrible.

Like, horrendously bad.

Like, he shouldn't be in the game.

He's looking at memes right now.

He's staring at me.

Let's do a handshake.

Like, Bryce Huff for Hassan Reddick right now.

Straight.

In a first rounder.

No.

In a first rounder.

Price went up.

Oh, he got you.

You don't even have a guy, this guy, playing.

It doesn't matter.

Price went up.

Nope.

You guys need a pass rusher?

We have one.

You need a pass rusher.

We do.

And we have your pass.

You have our pass rusher.

We have yours.

But memes needs a pass rusher, and he has a pass rusher.

Yeah, we have one.

But you'll be paying him less than

you're going to have to pay Hasan.

I'm willing to pay Hassan Reddick more, and you can get Bryce Huff for the latter.

Deals get done.

You have to eat Bryce Huff's contract.

Oh, on air.

Well, yes, we will pay.

But also on air.

You will pay Hasan Reddick.

You take Bryce Huff.

No, so we weren't going to pay Bryce Huff.

So you have to eat the contract.

No, but that's because you wanted to pay Hasan Reddick instead.

But you're not paying Hassan Reddick.

We'll settle for a second round pick.

Third.

You eat the contract.

I'll give you a third.

And we get Bryce Huff.

The third that you gave us, you get back.

And we get Dallas Goddard.

No.

I would watch a show that's just fans of NFL teams doing these deals in the offseason.

Dude, I did last offseason, I traded Justin Fields to the Patriots for a second-rounder with Dave.

Fleece.

Would have been incredible.

That would have been great.

All right, ready for overall team?

Yeah.

I revised the overall team maybe 18 times before I came to a final.

This is like a Matting rating number?

No.

It's just a.

Can we put it on the balls scale?

No.

Okay.

It's perfect.

I think it's perfect.

Not terrible.

Not great.

A possibility to still be good, but most likely average.

Oh.

Yeah.

What's average to you, though?

Wild cards.

Yeah, seven seed.

Yeah.

Six seed.

That's a good one.

Most likely that's that because

I went through because I was thinking like this team is bad.

This team is bad.

And then I went through each position group and the coaching.

You have a lot of talent.

And there's still a lot of good.

I think the bad

are just

important stuff.

I think it's a very big deal for that offense.

What?

Missing A.J.

Brown.

Oh, yeah.

It goes from wide receiver room good to wide receiver room.

I may have to memes myself.

Yeah, and it's also like this is what you guys have done is you've paid the quarterback a lot of money.

They have to score more than seven points in the first half.

Like your defense is going to be a little bit, it has taken a step back because you've invested in the offense.

To be fair, it should have been,

if coaching wasn't super bad, it would be 10.

Yeah, that's true.

And now welcome to the one-on-one club.

Yeah.

Everyone's one-on-one.

Yeah, one-on-one.

Yeah, good job.

Except for Shane.

Shane's two and one.

So, yeah, Max, I think that's a pretty fair assessment to say that you're not a good team right now, but you could be a good team.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm leaving the possibility open to be good, but most likely average.

And how was it walking out of that stadium?

Were you chewing on your shirt?

Anything?

I was, no.

I was really mad.

And I'll tell you one thing.

I love AWLs.

They're the best.

Taking pictures after

might be like the first thing after the job.

I did it, but I can't say that I looked happy and all of that.

That's fair.

Yeah, that's fair.

Just tweet them at us.

Do you know how many pictures me and Big Cat have taken after losses?

Yeah.

But that was the first time that I've...

Like, most of the time,

I'm not in the stadium to do that.

That's true.

Most of the time, I'm here, and I just have to do this right after.

But that was a tough situation to just be like,

yes, I will take this picture with you,

but

I'm not going to be a happy-go-lucky guy.

You for sure thought they were going to win that game at the end.

Oh, yeah.

yeah, there's no chance.

There's nobody else thought they were going to win that game.

Who?

Everybody on television?

Yeah.

Everybody on the planet.

Everybody announcing the game.

Yeah.

Everybody that was coming through my TV speakers.

Listen, I like Jason Kelsey.

I like him a lot.

Yeah, Max, you missed this part.

It was a little bit much having him in the booth for like a quarter and a half openly rooting for the Eagles.

I agree with you.

On an ESPN, I feel bad for Falcons fans.

I feel bad, very bad for Falcons fans because they were...

You got to just be put in a tiny little cage and beaten over the head with a stick by ESPN in Philadelphia.

You didn't sign up for that.

You signed up to watch a Monday Night Football game to have Troy and Joe call it pretty fair, but instead the whole evening seemed to turn into a Philadelphia suck fest.

And I get it.

Like you're in Philly.

It's Monday Night Football.

It's a big deal.

You're going to give credit to the fans.

But the real Eagles fans, and Max, I consider you to be a real true Eagles fan.

You guys are just like scumbaggy enough where it's enjoyable, but you also want your opponents to have like a little bit of fear in their heart of like, oh, I'm in Philadelphia.

They're liable to do some crazy shit to me.

It seemed like a Disneyfication of the Philadelphia fan base last night.

And I think that you guys have more edge to you than that.

I didn't, I didn't.

We need someone puking on a kid.

Yeah, exactly.

We need some of that, some of that real dirtbag shit going on, but it was...

They were beating you over the head with Philadelphia last night during the game.

It was like,

I likened it to the Pacers Knicks series when they had Stephen A.

Smith doing like pump-up speech speeches.

If you're a Pacers fan, you're watching that.

You're like, wait, I want to just watch my team play.

If you're a Falcons fan last night, you're like, this is crazy.

Why do I have to do this?

But I do like Jason Kelsey.

It wasn't his fault.

Well, it didn't help that every commercial break was also then just for Jason Kelsey.

Yeah.

Like if ESPN's setting up a desk inside or right outside like Xfinity Live or wherever that place is in Philly, they should be like a little bit afraid that their entire set is going to get vandalized and their microphones get stolen.

Instead, it was just like, hey, we're here for Monday Night Countdown.

Now, watch as Jason Kelsey Crowdsurf, sponsored by Old Spice.

Yeah.

No, I agree.

If I were

like, I don't like, I don't like when Aikman calls Cowboys games and he's not, he's pretty good, but like, still in the back of my head, I'm like, this fucking guy is ruining for the Cowboys.

Yeah, for the record of the game.

So, like, I like Jason Kelsey with that date.

Jason Kelsey's awesome.

Yeah, I, I mean, I love Jason Kelsey with all my life.

Also, the tush push worked.

Also, shout out Campbell's for taking me to the game.

That was

a great event.

Called the hotline.

So

if you're a Falcons fan, this felt like it was a pretty big moment for the franchise.

Oh, it changed your whole season.

This is, it may have changed your entire perspective on football.

Yeah.

Because this is, it was the reverse Falcons thing.

The Eagles turned into the Falcons.

The Falcons had a 0.7%

chance of winning with 156 left in the fourth quarter, and they did it.

That is the seventh most improbable win in the next-gen stats era.

Yeah.

And you got the Chiefs coming on Sunday, so if you'd started 0-2,

that would have been okay.

Now you got to beat the Chiefs to not start 0-3.

No,

that was a season-changing drive by Kirk Cousins.

And the Falcons are, like, it's crazy how much more fun it is when Bijan is getting used a lot.

Like, they are, because remember the last couple of years with Desmond Ritter, and it was just a chore to watch Falcons games.

Now, watching the Falcons on Monday Night Football is like, this team is fun.

Yeah.

It's fun to watch.

And I think Kirk, again, week one was tough for him against the Steelers.

The start of this game, it felt like you were the same thing we saw week one, where it's like, he's just almost like a quarter second too slow on what he's looking at.

But that last drive was just money.

And they were running the two-minute offense.

And he just, Kirk Cousins, primetime, primetime Kirk Cousins, which always says the killer killed you, Max.

Max, you want to give us a little credit for having a side text chain so we didn't involve you?

That wasn't a full side text chain.

It was me, PFT, and Hank.

Well, there was that was going to the full group as well.

Oh, yeah, we did have a moment where we were like, this game's not over.

And because Max was living in real life,

he was like, fuck you guys, because we hadn't seen the interception yet.

And he tried to blame us for trolling him when we literally, you were at the game.

The delays.

I didn't even think about that.

Yeah.

You were so mad at us.

We troll about a lot of stuff.

And it is, I understand why you would think that that's a boy who cried wolf move.

We would do something like that.

I was convinced that the Eagles were going to get a field goal.

Yeah.

Like, they had two timeouts.

Jake Elliott's a really good kicker.

I was convinced.

And when we texted, like, this game's not over,

almost like 10 seconds later, because that's how long the delay is, the interception happened.

My brain is so broken that Dumphy was sitting next to me.

And there was,

I think it was like in the first quarter.

And he was like, fuck, I just got an alert for Darnell Mooney touchdown.

And I believe, like, I thought it.

What?

You're watching the game.

No, I know.

But I'm like so used to like living in that fear of there's like, I'm going to get spoiled.

I was like, fuck.

Like, it took me a quick second to realize that it was a joke.

The game's laughing.

Yes.

Okay.

So that was a great Monday night.

Yeah, that was a great game.

Fun to watch.

Not for all of us, but fun for us to watch.

And I'm excited to watch the Falcons.

I think the NFC South, like I said, is, you can no longer say the NFC South is the worst division in football.

They're They're very good.

They've gotten out of that.

And now we have to go play the other two teams.

Like, I think we'll probably end up 2-2 after the next two weeks.

But, like, who do we have?

The Saints and then the Bucks.

I miss so much sitting next to you for that game.

That was the only thing that I regret.

It would have been great to have it.

I filmed all of my reactions.

Oh, can we see one?

I'll show it to you.

Okay.

I mean,

it's going to get posted.

I have to make a video.

Oh, okay.

All right.

You got the whole video.

All right.

We'll put up the whole video.

Yeah, you have the Saints at Saints at Bucks.

Whew.

It sucks that you lost that week one home game.

Like you

give that up.

I know.

That's bullshit.

Brazil.

I mean,

that was bullshit.

So speaking of the NFC South, we had the news that Andy Dalton is now the quarterback of the Carolina Panthers, and I feel like it is officially over for Bryce Young.

Not really a hot take, but we were talking about it on Sunday.

And you threw that out there.

I was like, the only problem is if you go to Andy Dalton, I don't know if you can ever go back unless there's an injury because Andy Dalton is going to be better than Bryce Young.

Yeah, there's a possibility that you go back.

You might, if you're Dave Canalis, you might be spinning this to Tepper and saying he needs to learn more.

He's not ready.

He's shell-shocked, which that's a fair argument to make.

He's gotten hit a ton, some of which are his fault, but he doesn't look comfortable.

He doesn't look like he has fun.

And you're not going to get any better in this environment.

So, yes, bench him and then maybe put him in later on in the season after the the season's already fully out of hand.

Yeah.

Just see what you have.

I don't know if you can trade the guy given what his contract is going to be in the next couple of years.

I kind of want the Bears to trade for him with like a seventh-round pick just to complete the whole thing.

And I know, obviously, the Bears have their own issues that they're dealing with right now.

But as it stands right now, the trade is Bryce Young, who got benched 18 games into his

career.

And then the Panthers gave the Bears DJ Moore, Darnell Wright, Tyreek Stevenson, Caleb Williams, Torrey Taylor, and we still have a second-round pick next year.

It would be funny just so that after everything is settled and done,

the traffic says the Bears get everything and then the Panthers get a seventh-round pick.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a pretty shocking trade.

Yeah.

I mean, it's

still parts of the trade have to work out for the Bears to be like the worst trade of all time, but there's a potential that it could be the worst trade of all time.

It doesn't look good for the Panthers.

And I went back and I read some articles about how they did the evaluation between C.J.

Stroud and Bryce Young before the draft.

They went out to dinner with both these guys.

When they went out with Bryce they were impressed by his order which was scallops and a salad

which is again if me or Big Cat was in that room and we see the quarterback ordering scallops and a salad

off the big board.

Yep.

I've seen all that.

I don't even have to have dinner with a guy.

I just want to see what he orders for food.

And then

they should start doing that.

Yeah.

At the Combine, they should like when they dinner.

Yeah, they just hand you a menu.

Yeah.

Just be like, what do you want?

What are you getting?

You You can learn a lot about a guy like that.

What does Caleb Williams eat?

He eats healthy.

He eats really healthy.

Justin Fields doesn't eat meat.

I don't know what your point.

The point is there.

I'm just trying to change the topic as fast as possible.

What were you saying about Bryce Young?

I was saying about Bryce Young.

So they evaluate him by taking him to dinner, obviously.

And then between him and C.J.

Stroud, do you remember when Schefter was on our podcast and he talked about the process with Stroud and the Panthers and all that?

Yeah.

Apparently,

Mrs.

Tepper loved C.J.

Stroud.

Oh, no.

Like, loved him.

He calls her Mama Tepp.

Oh, no.

So that's why David Tepper is a text.

And then David Tepper is like, wait, I could have C.J.

Stroud built like a statue.

Seems real close with Mama Tepp

or the short guy.

That's just a real good friend.

He's got a great personality.

Damn.

And so he decided to go with Bryce over that.

I'm not saying, but I am saying.

No, you're not saying that David Tepper made a decision solely on which one is less likely to fuck my wife.

I did not say that.

But people could say that.

People could read into that.

Correct.

I feel bad for Bryce Young.

I thought Bryce Young, I mean, it unfortunately probably puts the limit on height now.

He's officially the floor.

Yeah, we've reached it.

We've reached it.

We pushed it with, you know, Russell Wilson was the first one, and then Kyler Murray.

I think Bryce Young is now the floor of how short you can be as a quarterback.

I always liked him at Alabama, and it just didn't work out.

That's the crazy thing, is he was really, really good at Alabama.

Yeah, like he made some incredible throws.

Yeah.

That 2022 Auburn game, I want to say, the Iron Bowl, I believe they won that game.

Yeah, he did it basically by himself.

He never really figured out that you can't run away from a defensive end from a standstill and get away from in the NFL.

Yeah, it's brutal.

Yeah, I want to see.

There'll be another team, though.

I don't think that he's played his last game.

Yeah, what's that?

Yeah.

Yeah, he was 20 for 30, three touchdowns.

Oh, wait, no, was it that one or was it the one were they in trouble in this game?

Maybe it was 2021.

Either way, yeah, I liked him at I liked him.

Yeah, this is the one.

This is the game where they came back and they won an OT.

Yeah.

He was awesome in that game.

And he made all these big throws in like big time moments.

And he, you know, yeah, it sucks.

Sucks for Bryce Young.

So if you're 6'3, 225, former first-round pick, you will have at least one, possibly, probably two other teams that would take a chance and be like,

I can fix this guy.

Yeah.

But with Bryce Young, since he doesn't look like any other quarterback, I don't know how many other teams are going to be like, have that same mentality.

Like, we can work with him.

He had a bad setup in Carolina.

I think that he'll probably get a chance somewhere else if it doesn't work out.

There'll be one team that picks him up.

I mean, yeah,

probably.

Yeah, I don't know.

They can carry three quarterbacks now, so that helps.

Yeah, I don't think that a team is going to sign Bryce Young as their plan for next season.

I guess the only thing you could say in

not defense, but like, good job, Panthers, is if you're Dave Canalis in that front office, like...

It makes sense if you're going to just cut ties, just do it now.

It's kind of like the Josh Rosen, like, just be like, hey, we made a mistake.

We got to move on.

Don't let the mistake completely derail the next five years where you keep trying this.

Yeah, it's actually good to know that he's not the guy.

Right.

And to make a decision based on that.

Right.

But now we get Andy Dalton.

Now we get Andy Dalton.

Now we get Andy Dalton.

Now, I like Andy Dalton, but he's an older guy.

There is a possibility he gets banged up.

Yeah.

And then you go back to Bryce.

Who's the other

Panthers temperature?

Derek Anderson.

Yeah, let's see.

Who else is the quarterbacks?

Oh, they might not have a third quarterback.

Oh, no.

They got to get a wait.

Who is it?

they don't have one

jack plumber playing the preseason oh okay okay

that could be good louisville quarterback yeah um yeah too bad for for bryce young i mean it's alabama quarterbacks are in a tough spot right now yeah and right now um

if you're looking ahead to the next draft who would be qb1 would it be shadore

probably carson back maybe carson back yeah yeah i would say um yeah we should talk a little college football.

Georgia struggled.

We're going to talk more with Cole Kublick.

Big takeaways were Georgia struggled, but they do this once a year with some team.

We're going to talk when Cole explains it more, but they do it once a year with like a Kentucky or Missouri.

Arch Manning is super fast.

Very fast.

I don't think

Tyreek.

Yeah, I don't think Quinn Ewers' job is in jeopardy, but...

I mean, Quinn Ewers is playing well when he got hurt.

Yeah, but the fans.

No, but the fans get.

They want a championship.

Yeah, they want a championship.

I think Quinn Ewers is the better quarterback, and the fans understand that, but they're living the most arrogant life right now because they're like, fuck it, we got two great quarterbacks on our team.

Yeah.

And then the state of Florida football is a mess outside of Miami.

Well, actually, no, UCF and USF are good.

It's just Florida and Florida State are dumpster fires.

Yeah, Florida is, they're really bad.

Florida's awful.

That game stunk.

Florida State also 0-3 now since the guy refused to eat the dog poop.

Yep.

And LSU struggled too.

LSU should not have won that game.

No, they got a couple of very, very questionable calls go their way.

And South Carolina's quarterback got hurt halfway through the game, which I said, I mean, listen, I went to the Wisconsin-Alabama game.

Find me a team that can beat Alabama with their backup quarterback.

That's a good point.

You can't do it.

It's impossible.

Does that maybe cover up the fact we were never going to win that game?

First quarter.

Who's to say?

Who's to say?

That first quarter.

Dude, listen.

Alabama fans were very nice.

Their life of just going from town to town and just watching their team beat the fuck out of everyone is incredible.

I was sitting next to an Alabama fan at the game and the Badgers went up 3-0 and then Jalen Milro airmailed the third down pass and they missed a field goal.

And

he turned to me and was just like, okay, like it's fine.

Yeah.

And I just knew right then it's like, there was just not even, not like a shit or fuck, can't believe you missed that.

He was just like, all right.

And then it was blank 21-3.

It really is the best way to see the country, isn't it?

Yeah.

Just traveling from town to town, being declared a winner in that town, and then leaving.

They're modern-day Vikings.

It's pretty fun.

It's fucking incredible for them.

So, yeah,

it was not fun to watch that game on Saturday.

I knew I was going to have a bad weekend.

Yeah, there's a blowout.

Yeah.

With Georgia and the game at Kentucky, Mark Stoops kicked the ball away at the end of the game.

I like Mark Stoops.

I think he's a great defensive coach.

He got very conservative with it.

Mark Stoops probably, if somebody had explained to him in the moment the ramifications of kicking the ball away, probably I'd like to think he wouldn't have done it.

You're a 21-point underdog.

Yeah, house money.

Act like it.

Yeah.

Fucking do some crazy-ass shit.

And their kicker's awesome.

Yeah,

that was a nuts.

It feels like Kentucky football is kind of slipping a little under Mark Stoops.

They had a really good run, and now it's starting to slip away from them.

He was the coach at A ⁇ M for like six hours.

Yeah, that's right.

It's kind of right.

So, yeah, how many yards would they have needed?

Like 15, 20 yards to kick a field goal in that moment?

Yeah, something like that.

And they just, they just, oh, so stupid.

Yeah.

So stupid.

If I was a Kentucky fan, I'd be upset because you, Mark Stoops took away what could be a core memory of yours for the rest of your life.

Remember that time we beat Georgia?

Yeah.

It would have been incredible.

And also, look, I think Georgia's still very good,

but...

I don't think that Georgia is the Georgia of old.

No.

I think that they've got some weaknesses, and it's weird that they have guys that just keep getting arrested for speeding offenses.

They just love to drive really fast.

Yeah.

Really, really fast.

We have a weird one coming up on Saturday.

Did you guys see?

So

the Cam Rising is back, who I love Cam Rising, even though he gets hurt whenever I bet him.

But Cam Rising,

Utah's going to Oklahoma State, and Alan Bowman and Cam Rising combined ages 49 years old.

That's crazy.

I think the combined age of Cale Williams versus Anthony Richardson is 44.

It was less, yeah.

Yeah.

It's nuts.

That is pretty, that's pretty crazy.

The Big 12 is going to be a lot.

The TCU UCF game was incredible.

Like, that was, I love the Big 12 football.

They've, they've somehow, with all the conference realignment, they lose Texas and Oklahoma.

They had some other schools.

Big 12 is still like the chaos league that's just so fun to watch.

I think they, if anything, increased what their identity used to be.

Yeah.

Because in the Big 12.

Turn it up.

Yeah, in the Big 12, you'd have the same chaos, like you said, but you'd also have, you'd have the the really good teams at the top that would take away from the chaos because the chaos would get swept under the rug to be like, yeah, these teams are all beating each other up, but Oklahoma is looking like they're going to be for real again this year.

Now we just get to concentrate on the Oklahoma states of the world.

Yes, it's very, very fun.

I'm excited.

This weekend is going to be fun.

We're going to figure out if Michigan is really, really bad and if USC is for real.

That's a big one.

And then Tennessee going to Oklahoma is going to be awesome.

Yeah, Oklahoma's going to be pumped to play that first SEC game.

Tennessee is a wagon.

Them going for an on-site kick up 30 on Kent State.

How, I was having this debate.

The worst thing that's ever happened at Kent State.

Kent State.

Do you think that was fun for Tennessee players?

I think it would be the best time ever.

Yeah, it was very fun because it's not like they just kept the guys in and ran the score up.

They had third stringers beating the shit out of Kent State.

And I think Kenn State, no offense to Kent State, I love Maxion.

I think Kent State is so bad, I don't think they could even injure Tennessee.

Right.

So it's almost like...

But you could get injured if you were on Kent State.

Right.

But I'm saying going into that game, Tennessee basically was like, we get to play a game where we score so many points and there's just really no, there's no chance they could injure us.

Yeah, it's like the mascots playing against the kids.

And I can stiff arm whoever I want.

And shout out to Leto, our guy, Jason Candle, goes into Mississippi State and whoops that ass.

So what was the game?

I forget which one it was, but there's one of these bygame situations where a team has been paid money not to play the by game.

No, so

you might be referring to Wake Forest.

Basically, they got killed by ole Miss, and then after the game, the coach told Lane Kiffin, we're not coming next year.

Cancel it.

So they're going to forfeit that money.

Yeah,

they're like,

we don't want to do this again.

Smart.

Which,

if anyone in Wisconsin doesn't want to go to Tuscaloosa next year, I'm cool with that, too.

Yeah, you can always just not play good a bonus.

Yeah.

And then Hank, your Apple Cup.

Yeah, tough.

There it is.

That was Hank's Apple Cup.

We already did the breakdown, Hank.

The backyard brawl was also awesome.

Pitt is just, they're the cardiac kids this year.

They did it to Cincinnati.

They did it to West Virginia.

They just somehow, they were down 10 with like eight minutes left.

Came back and won that game.

That was awesome.

I love the backyard brawl so much.

So, so much.

And Oregon's back.

Yeah, Oregon's back.

They fixed some stuff on their offensive line, and you could see it.

Like, they were just bullying them.

They looked like not a good football team in the first two weeks.

Yeah.

And then in this game, I think a lot of people expected that trend to continue because it's, you know, much like the Apple Cup rivalry game, Civil War.

They always play you tough, and then Oregon was just like, no, fuck it, we're supposed to be Oregon.

I'm very happy for Washington State.

That's awesome that you get to do that to win that game because

people like Hank, they're all

going to the big conference.

Yeah, they're waving bye to you.

It's like you're driving away down the road and you're like flipping them off out the side of your window and then you just run into a mountain.

Yeah.

My guy, Andre Dollar.

It's great.

It's great.

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By the way,

people are saying I said two different things on Sunday show.

Is my piggy team just the Rams?

Or is it the Falcons?

Because you wouldn't make it the Falcons if they won.

So the Rams?

I think what you're saying is it's the Rams, and if the Falcons lose, you'll add the Falcons.

Right, and they didn't lose.

Yeah, you wouldn't have a pinky team that's one and one.

So if the Los Angeles Rams

win their one and one.

That's what I'm saying.

If that was the...

The Los Angeles Rams are my official pinky team.

If they win the Super Bowl this year, I will cut off the tip.

My pinky also talked to a doctor, and he was like, yeah, you're right.

No doctor will ever do that.

Well, you're good because hot seat is is the rams they their whole team is injured yeah yeah that helps what about a moil do you think somebody that does circumcisions could just cut the tip off well he also told me that i would have to cut some bone yeah because it will

why are you saying yeah

what you were saying never made sense you wanted to just like

get like a like a tipper cut no i want no i wanted to get cut off to where the tip of the bone is he said the nerve endings on the tip of the bone it would be like way more painful to live with.

Okay.

So I would have to get to basically the knuckle.

At that point, you might as well just take the whole pinky off.

I'd like to keep a little bit because I'd like to actually have something I can show people.

You know what's weird, though?

Have you ever noticed cartoon characters?

They only have four fingers.

They've only got a thumb and three fingers.

I don't know why.

Like, five fingers looks weird.

You might look better just having four fingers.

Is this how the guy isn't?

Oh, no, that was how the guy in Glorious Blit Passers ordered the beers.

He gave himself away.

What was your hot seat?

The Rams, because they're all hurt.

Yeah.

It wasn't the Rams.

My original hot seat was Wrexham fans.

Why?

They didn't know who Tom Brady was.

Why wouldn't they?

He went to the...

Well, I mean, he's the greatest quarterback of all time, you'd think.

But you would know all

the greatest Messi?

Ronaldo?

The greatest Messi is Ronaldo.

No, I'm saying like the greatest soccer player of all time.

Yeah.

I would know

the greatest footballers.

But there's a lot of footballers that you know.

Ronaldo.

No, I think Bappé.

I want a graphic of Ronaldo with the an award being the greatest message.

It is.

Hey, put that in the list for the takeies.

Yeah, the greatest message of the year.

The greatest message of the year.

So they didn't,

what happened?

He went to the game.

He has the Birmingham team.

It's in the same

West London.

And they didn't react?

No,

it was a good chant.

It was football fans.

They did a a chant being like, who the fuck are you?

Wait, so they definitely knew who he was.

It was, yeah, it was a little satirical hot seat.

I was.

Got it.

They might not be New England fans because they're the Patriots.

They're named after the team that beat England's ass.

True.

Okay.

And the Rams hot seat.

And the Rams hot seat.

Cool throne?

My cool throne is Indiana football.

Yeah, they're very good.

Rankings came out.

They have a 23%.

Also, with stats, I obviously know not a a math guy, stats guy.

The ESPN fourth down, go for it makes no sense.

It's always go for it

when it just never seems to add up.

The math never seems to add up.

And then

a poll was released where it gave Indiana football a 23% chance to make the college football playoff.

Yeah, that means that I'm counting all of Indiana's wins as James Madison wins.

They took our coach.

They took some of her best players.

Kurt Signetti is a very, very good head coach, and it was a great hire by them.

I'm mad that we still don't have the guy, but you have to look at the schedule that they have.

And when you take a look at their schedule, it's not crazy to think that it could happen.

No, they got the lucky draw of the Big Ten this year, and they're a good football team.

I'm not saying that they're lucky, but they did.

It's going to happen every couple of years where you don't have to play somehow.

They don't have to play USC, Oregon, or Penn State.

Yeah.

So the rest of their schedule, they have Nebraska, Michigan, and Ohio State are the three big games that feel like if they can get through those or go one and two or maybe two and one, which they could do that.

Yeah.

They have a higher percent chance than Michigan and Nebraska to make the playoffs.

Interesting.

Well, Nebraska is probably because Nebraska, I believe Nebraska also plays

Nebraska also plays Ohio State, but I think they also have to go to USC.

Nebraska,

you guys have turned me into a big Nebraska guy.

You're a Washington fan.

Nobody loves Rails.

I'm rooting for Nebraska as well.

Just because you like the weird quarterback?

He is funny.

It's very funny to me.

It's very weird.

Nebraska fans are getting like,

I don't, he's a good quarterback.

Seems like a nice kid.

It's weird.

Those all can exist.

Yeah.

Those all can exist and not.

I'm not like taking a personal shot at him.

Evo was saying that a team should sign him to

be a scout team quarterback.

If you're like in the AFC, if you're in the AFC West, sign Rayola and have him run scout team on Chiefs Week every week.

He should be what he should be is a scout team quarterback for opposing fans.

So like Broncos, because that's when he does his whole welcoming in and everything.

Get the fans ready for Mahomes.

Do you think he's going to date like a Britney lookalike?

Yeah, I would say so.

Okay.

Good job, Hank.

Good job, Hank.

Great job, Hank.

Thanks, guys.

All right, PFT, your hot seat.

My hot seat is Diddy.

Yeah.

Diddy's on the hot seat big team.

What happened?

So he got arrested.

Good.

You should have taken it, Hank.

Why'd you take it?

I was just a little heavy.

Oh.

Did you stand with Diddy?

No.

No.

No.

Disavow.

We disavowed Diddy as this podcast.

He's uninvited from part of my take.

That's a fact.

We won't have him on.

Thank God.

What do we ever do?

We're anti-Nazi, anti-Diddy.

What else are we anti-disavowed something else recently that was very

assassination attempts.

Yeah, assassination attempts.

Well, Hank didn't necessarily.

Yeah, Hank kind of cracked on that.

I disavow assassination attempts.

But you don't have to

realize that.

Yeah, I got you.

I got you.

I got you.

So, yeah, Diddy got arrested.

He got arrested at the Park Hyatt Hotel on 57th Street in New York today.

He's charged with racketeering, sex trafficking, transportation to engage in prostitution.

The charges are tied to freak offs, coerced sex acts that Combs allegedly orchestrated and recorded.

Apparently, they found a thousand bottles of baby oil and lube when they executed the search warrant.

I read some of the

stories, and they're all just horrific.

Yes.

Like horrific, horrific things.

Diddy is a bad guy.

And my take, I don't, this isn't like a wildly original one.

I think Diddy killed Biggie.

Think about it.

Think about it.

Is that a take people have?

Yeah.

Remember when Biggie died?

Hank's nodding like PFT.

You're just repeating something someone said.

Well, no, no.

I've been saying this for a while while now.

But when Biggie died, you remember Diddy was like all over TV?

He did that, the video, I'll be missing you.

Yeah.

Like that,

he made his entire career about Biggie.

That is something that a psychopath.

Didn't he make a whole problem about that?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's something that a psychopath

killer would do about the guy they just murdered.

Yeah.

Just watch this space for more Diddy news.

Okay.

But yeah, his lawyer says that Diddy's cooperating.

That'll be interesting.

Also, some people think that he might be CIA.

Oh.

Something to keep an eye on.

Well, it's like if he's cooperating, what's...

I mean, it's going to be like

Jelaine Maxwell.

Epstein.

Everyone's expecting all these names to come out, which in theory they should.

Like, if he's having all these parties, has all these celebrities, they're participating.

If he's cooperating,

the name should come out, but somehow nothing's going to come out.

Why else would you record all your celebrity friends having sex with people in your house if you weren't going to then use it later on to be like, hey, remember that video that I have of you?

Why don't you do me this favor?

Yeah.

My cool throne is the NHL.

Oh.

Because it's back.

Nice.

NHL training camp.

Same with NBA, I think.

It's back this week.

NBA is a week away.

Okay.

But this week, I think NHL guys are back in training camp.

That seems like a very, very short offseason.

And I think that I kind of agree that the NHL, we shouldn't take any, we shouldn't really discuss the NHL until after Christmas.

Yeah, when Whitney or Biz come on for the first time.

Yeah, but they're back.

So good for those guys.

Yeah.

All right.

My hot seat is

Brittany Mahomes and Taylor Swift's relationship because it might, it's going through a lot of stress.

Yeah.

So Brittany

came out as a Trump supporter, then Taylor came out as a Kamala supporter.

And then

Trump said

he, well, no, he took a shot at Taylor.

It wasn't really a shot.

He wrote, I hate Taylor Swift.

Yeah.

All caps.

Now, apparently, Brittany Mahomes is second-guessing her support of Trump because she's friends with Taylor Swift.

She's second-guessing?

Where is that coming from?

Because I feel like if you were Brittany Mahomes.

There's a report.

This deeply bothered Brittany because Taylor is like a sister to her and she has done absolutely nothing wrong.

Well, if you're Brittany Mahomes, but again, I don't know if Trump full, all he said was, I hate Taylor Swift.

That's not exactly like, was that a shot?

But he also said he

said he appreciated, or he said he likes.

Brittany Mahomes.

Yeah, he shouted her out.

He said, I like Brittany Mahomes more than Taylor Swift.

And then later on he clarified that, no, he does hate Taylor Swift, which I appreciate the balls that it takes to just

take like the largest, craziest fan base and just be like, hey, fuck you.

I wonder if there's any Swifty's on True Social, though.

Get on True Social.

He's got to do it on Twitter.

Yeah, so if they do, if they logged on to True Social, I imagine that Swifty's would take over that website within a couple days.

Yeah.

Brittany Mahomes is learning very quickly that just don't say anything about politics because you're just going to end up in this.

Yeah, so what happened was Britney probably was in that zone where it's like we can disagree on politics and still be friends.

Correct.

And that probably took care of things for like a week or two.

And then Trump started saying Brittany Mahomes' name and saying I hate Twitch.

And saying I hate Taylor Swift.

And then they get together and it's like, what's up with your boy?

Yeah.

What's your boy doing?

Why is he coming at me?

So now she has to make a decision whether or not she's the only person in the history of the world that's had to decide whether she wants to be best friends with Taylor Swift or Donald Trump.

Or yeah, vote for Donald Trump or be best friends with Taylor Swift.

Well, I mean, I could see a world world where if she said, you know what, I hate Taylor too,

she's going to go on the campaign trail with Donald Trump.

Yeah.

They would end up becoming very, very close.

This is a tough decision for her.

She's got to make it wisely.

Yeah.

But yeah, I just, I like the idea of just

posting anything about politics and then having your whole, like everyone just.

being like, you got to decide right now.

Yeah, which one's it going to be?

That sucks.

All right.

And then my cool throne is

Ben Simmons.

Because Ben Simmons reportedly is in camp and or at least training.

He says Ben Simmons is back to playing all-star talent level basketball.

Get ready for this, boys.

Big season loading.

Oh, who reported that?

I don't know.

NBA Central.

Okay, so the Dunk Central.

With Ben Simmons.

Central or Central?

That's Central.

Very important.

Central.

Yes, I'm reading it right now.

It says Central.

It's like Hank when you mix up the PGA Tour and the one that's TV or

Yeah.

So hasn't he always had all-star talent level?

Yes, I would say so.

He definitely has all-star talent.

Oh, he's putting in work.

This is big time, guys.

I think this is the year.

This is the year for Ben Simmons.

He's on the Nets, right?

Still?

No.

Is he on the Nets?

I think he is.

He's doing this.

I think he is.

He's a guy who has not played for so long that we don't even know what team he's on.

He's on the Nets.

Big season loading.

God damn.

I kind of respect Ben Simmons just being like, I've made so much money.

Why would I try?

Yeah.

I mean, he's got a pretty good gig right now, which is just get paid a lot of money and then get a courtside seat to NBA games.

Yeah.

I kind of like that.

Wear cool sweaters and stuff.

Live in Brooklyn is a rich person.

It does look like this is the last

year of his contract.

Oh, it is.

So it would be so funny if he was really good at it.

Oh, he definitely will be.

He gets another contract and then he immediately quits again.

Get him home.

Bring him back to the Sixers, Max.

Oh, he's the final piece, Max.

Process.

I mean, if he was good, you would love him.

Yaboo.

Yabu.

Ben Simmons.

Better human being or basketball player, Max.

Say this again.

Ben Simmons, better basketball player or human being?

Basketball player for sure.

Is he a good man?

For sure.

He's not a good human being?

I mean, to me, he's the worst human being.

He's a pretty bad basketball player.

You don't think he's a good human being because he's not a good basketball player.

Correct.

But I think if he was a better human being, he would be a better basketball player.

Not necessarily.

Yes.

Yeah.

Because he wouldn't be.

I mean, he's an ass.

What he did to Philadelphia.

He's an asshole.

You can't forget PFT.

What he did to Philadelphia.

By being bad at basketball.

Specifically, Matt.

No, but he quit.

Yeah, he didn't.

He absolutely

passed out on that.

He passed up the easy dunk.

Yeah.

Well, and then he was just a huge mental pussy after.

Yeah.

Mental pussy.

Don't want to be called an MP.

mp him and carson went

i'm kind of back in on carson went no don't do this

well he is on the chief patrick mahomes ever got hurt he would and carson went in he would play well he would motherfucker you know that he would i know i know you think that he would yeah and what what i'm doing right now is like i'm fighting an internal war inside my own brain where i could picture him getting back into the game playing well and then me being like god damn i kind of think carson went to a good quarterback yeah i i like it i don't want Patrick Mahomes to ever get hurt, but I would love to see Carson Wentz have like two good games for the Chiefs.

And then this offseason, everyone would be like, that's the guy.

That's the guy.

He's back to 2017.

By the way, PFT, I found a stat for us.

You ready for this?

Sat for us.

You ready for this?

How many did Jalen Hurts throw a touchdown pass last night?

He threw one, right?

Yes, he did.

Devontae Smith, great throw.

Kirk Cousins threw two

or one?

How many of Kirk Cousins?

He threw one.

I think one.

Drake London?

Well, Drake London was the winner.

Yeah.

No, he threw two.

Darnell Moody, the deep ball.

Oh, yeah.

Bear for life.

So here's a stat.

Let me get it.

Passing touchdowns through two weeks.

2019, 105.

2020, 110.

2021, 110.

2022, 105.

2023, 86.

2024, 69.

It's not cool to throw touchdown passes anymore.

Yeah.

The game is changed.

It's actually actually lame.

The game's changed.

Yeah, the game has changed.

That's actually, it's a shocking stat that, you know, two years ago, it was over 100 every single year, and now we're at 69 passing touchdowns.

Do you think that has anything to do with the point of emphasis for tackles to not line up so deep?

I think it probably has to do with the fact that Caleb Williams and Jaden Daniels and Bo Nicks and

who else is playing quarterback right now.

Trick May.

Trake May.

Go point.

Jacob Broussett's playing quarterback.

J.

Brice Young?

Joe May.

Bryce Young's playing quarterback.

I think that probably has to do with it.

Yeah.

Well, listen,

it's great having a quarterback when, you know, if the game's on the line, you can trust him with the ball in his hands to hand it to another guy to get the ball in his hands.

I do love our Sunday night podcast because I always, like, by the time I wake up on Monday, like, around 9 o'clock, I'm like coming into work and everything I said, I'm like, yeah, you kind of overreacted.

Yeah,

it's a couple things.

I'm mad we're Vikings fans.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry, Vikings fans.

I fucked up.

You guys were the ones that fumbled, not the 49ers I got.

I didn't mute the words Vikings and fumble because just a little,

listen, we make a lot of mistakes in this podcast.

Blame the NFL.

10 games happening at the same time is too much football.

So

I got confused trying to remember all the facts.

Was, you know, watching Bears Sunday night.

So yes, I literally had to mute the word Vikings because I was like, I've already apologized.

I can't just have every two tweets be like, hey, you fucking idiot.

Yeah, so that was the other thing is that on it's not just like the overreactions, but we are watching all the games at the exact same time.

And there's only one that we can have sound on.

Otherwise, it's just, it's too much and you can't hear anything.

Yeah.

And I fucked that up.

So we miss details more than occasionally on this show.

Yeah, we try to clean them up.

That was the Bears playing Sunday night football really fucked up our rhythm.

I don't want them to play.

I don't think they have any more Sunday night games.

Do you have a Sunday night game?

We have a Monday night game.

All right, yeah, Monday's fine.

That's perfect.

But Sunday night, because it specifically screws up our prep and getting ready for, you know, we were streaming it.

There were a couple Bengals fans that found out I'm going to go to the game on Monday night, and they were getting into Jaden pretty hard, and they challenged me that if Jaden doesn't have any touchdowns again to the third week, I should shotgun a can of Skyline Chili.

Okay.

And I will accept that.

Okay.

I will accept that.

Also partially because I love eating Skyline Chili once a year.

I was going to say the Bengals fans in the room with us right now?

What?

Like you, you just yeah, you just want you just want to eat chili.

I want that sweet skyline.

You do the best to just eat more chili.

I want that sweet, sweet skyline.

But yeah, either way, and on Thursday night, we're going to stream Hank verse memes, which should be very fun.

Can't wait.

We're going to figure out something.

We've got to figure out something.

We're doing a golden mug for Stella Blue Coffee.

So during the stream, if people buy, we got to figure out something they got to do.

I don't know what.

Maybe Skyline Chili.

Maybe Kiss.

Maybe.

Oh, maybe Kiss.

Maybe Skyline Chili Chuck.

Yeah, there you go.

That would be good.

Loser of the game, if we reached a certain amount of money, will you bring some Skyline back?

I'm going on Monday.

Yeah, I know, but when you go on Monday, we can get back to you.

Yeah, I'll bring some back.

Okay, I'll bring some back.

We'll figure it out.

We'll get a deal on it.

Okay.

Let's get to our interview with Cole Kublick.

Do you think I can bring Skyline on an airplane or is it a liquid?

No.

TSA at Cincinnati probably deals with that question all the time.

All the time.

Yeah.

They probably have like a check your skyline here.

Yeah.

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Okay, here he is, is Cole Kublick

okay we now welcome on uh friend of the program actually is this your first time coming on no first time ever it is yes both big cat and i have been on your show so i guess we assume that it was your first time on ours what the hell sorry cole kubick's been on both of my shows yeah so PFT, we do a college football show.

I didn't think you were really interested in that.

Well,

that's a misconception.

I probably watch like, I'd say 11 hours of college football every week, but I don't watch like five games at the same time.

I watch two games at the same time.

Yeah.

He's not as like Hank's level watching Kent State and Pittsburgh.

Cole Kublick's on the show.

SEC Network, Mac and Cube.

I've actually found a way to listen to his radio show where you can mute Greg McElroy, which is awesome, and just listen to Cole.

But, Cole, we wanted to have you on.

Talk some college ball.

We do that every Wednesday.

I'm pardon my take.

Let's just start with a big picture.

So, So Texas is one now.

Georgia's two.

Are we nervous at all about Georgia after that game against Kentucky?

Or is it, which I happen to think, Georgia does this like once or twice a year.

And it's usually to Kentucky.

It's either like Kentucky or Missouri where they just kind of have a flat game and they still survive, but that happens to them.

They had the, actually, I actually had, my crew was on the call for the one in Lexington.

I think it was maybe 21 or 20.

Stetson Bennett was a quarterback and it was like 9-6.

Yeah.

And I think the first half took seven and a half minutes of real time because all they did is run the ball.

But first off, the Kentucky defense is really good.

You got to give them credit.

Brad White, their D coordinator, solid.

They're deep up front.

Good group of linebackers.

Thought they had a good plan.

It depends when you say worried, big cat, like what's the context of winning a national title?

They're still going to get into the playoff.

And if they get in the playoff, they have the talent to be able to make a run.

I think they're holding Carson Beck back a little bit.

I don't know if that's because they're concerned with protection or maybe the weapons aren't giving them exactly what they want, not working the middle of the field as much.

They're not a ground and pound team offensively.

They've been able to be that in the past and then work in whoever's playing quarterback and use the receivers like last year, Brock Bowers, whatever.

But that offensive line is not what I thought they were going to be.

So they can't just push people around and mash people.

And they're really not that kind of a group on defense.

Now, what they do have.

are freak show monsters on defense that can get you off the edge or get sideline to sideline and just be a problem.

So nobody's running through Georgia.

It's just, I think their trip to the playoffs is going to be a little more difficult.

And if they were to make a run, it's just not going to probably look as dominant or clean as it has in years past.

Yeah, I think worry for Georgia is everyone knows Georgia's schedule is insane.

I don't think anyone thought going into this season, Georgia was going to go undefeated.

I think the worry is those that four-game that everyone has circled where they have to play

at Alabama, they have to play at Texas, they have to play at Ole Miss, they play home against Tennessee.

The worry is that's a one and three, not a two and two or three and one.

Is that, would you, would you say that?

Totally fair.

And when you say that, this is what I don't think most people would think that I think the old miss game, probably the most important game there.

Yeah.

And people are going to say, what the hell?

Like, how?

That's like Bama, Texas number one.

Bama's like, they've been there, and Bama's the team that's essentially had the most success against Kirby Smart since he's been the Georgia head coach.

If you look at the old miss schedule, we had this perception, big cat, coming into the year, 10-2, gets you in, right?

10-2, oh, new playoff, 12-team, 10-2, you're in.

Look at the old miss schedule.

They go 10-2.

I don't think it's a guarantee that they're in.

They got a really good football team this year.

Missouri, same way.

Penn State, same way.

Notre Dame, same way.

I don't think 10-2 just guarantees that you're in the playoff with those schedules.

And if Georgia were to go down to, say, an Alabama or a Texas, not near as big of a deal.

But I think you can go a little bit further in eliminating old miss with maybe a 10-2 similar record if you're Georgia because you had those other games on your schedule that you might get just as much credit for losing those games.

And Ole Miss just isn't going to have those opponents on their schedule.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And Ole Miss is interesting because we're getting ready for SEC's regular season.

And I know there's been some conference games already, but

it's funny looking right now.

It's almost like history just keeps repeating itself.

Josh Heipel and Lane Kiffen have their teams looking like monsters.

Every year they get in the SEC schedule and they lose a couple games.

Do you think that's different?

Do you think these iterations of Tennessee and Ole Miss are different where they can start consistently beating the Alabama and Georgias to get over that hump?

I know Tennessee beat Alabama a couple years ago, but that's the big thing with Ole Miss.

Like, Ole Miss can beat everyone.

Ole Miss can't beat Alabama and Georgia, and that's what they're getting tested with.

Well, let's be real.

Why have they not been able to do that?

Physicality.

Okay, so it's really interesting you bring that up.

We had Tennessee this past weekend, and we pretty much just had Tennessee because Kent State, you know, that one.

But we talked to Joey Halsey, their offensive coordinator, and I said, man, a lot more 12 personnel.

Like, it feels like the downhill run game, more emphasis, extra tight ends.

And he said, we spent the entire offseason essentially, I'm paraphrasing him saying, we know we need to be able to fight different style fights to win a national championship.

And if you go back and watch those old UCF offenses, the early Tennessee offenses under Hypo when he was at Missouri, Like those offenses get bogged down.

And then

it's almost like they just run into a wall if the tempo is not going your way, if you're not hitting the deep balls, and then all of a sudden things just stop.

And where do you go?

You have no counter punch, essentially.

So they wanted to try and bring more physicality to have that counter punch and be able to win a physical style football game.

They have three tight ends that are really good.

They get after your ass.

They can in the run game and then they can help you in the passing game.

The offensive line is fun to watch.

I mean, they got Big Lance Hurt that transferred in from LSU at left tackle.

John Campbell is going to be an early pick in the draft at right tackle.

Cooper Mays is like 27.

He's been playing college football forever at center.

They got a veteran group, and they have depth there and on the defensive line, specifically at D tackle.

And that's what, that's where South Carolina, Kentucky, and like Tennessee were different coming into the year.

And no one really wanted to talk about it or cared about it.

They had interior D-line depth.

You just mentioned Georgia.

They got a couple D-linemen out.

They look human.

Alabama loses a a tackle week one.

Wilson Formby goes in.

They look human.

Like depth is affecting teams in a really different way with the portal.

Tennessee has some depth up front, and that's where they're a little bit different.

So I do think Tennessee is different.

Does that mean they're ready to just go toe-to-toe with Bama and Georgia every week?

I don't know.

And then for Ole Miss, the offensive line's not really there.

But I'm going to tell you this: defensively, this Walter Nolan kid they got from AM, the whole deal with him has been get the light switch to come on all the time, not when he wants it to.

Big cat, he's different, man.

He's a fucking monster inside for ole miss.

And they look like a real SEC defensive line now.

Principal Yumanalayan from Florida off the edge.

JJ Pegise, who does some of the offensive stuff at tight end, like he's turned into a really good defensive lineman.

They look like an SEC D line.

And even front seven, Chris Paul linebacker from Arkansas, they got like we talked to Pete Golden two years ago, and he's like, listen, we need to get longer.

And we need to get thicker all over our defense.

And I think they've done that.

So no matter how you spin it, I can tell you this, they're both a hell of a lot closer than what they have been in years.

Yeah, yeah, we're going to find out a lot about Tennessee this week, but I'm going to wait to, for me, it's not like, how are they going to play against Georgia?

I want to see if they're able to beat Florida because they never beat Florida.

And so if they're able to just like take care of business against a shitty, shitty team like Florida, then I'll start to believe, okay, this could actually happen.

But for whatever reason with Tennessee, it's like that's been one thing that they've just struggled to do, even when Florida's had down years.

But I do like Tennessee a lot.

The quarterback is awesome.

What did Big T say?

He said like they could have scored 150 points last year.

200.

How many points do you think they could have scored against Kent State?

130.

It was 38-0 at the end of the first quarter, and they weren't even, they didn't have their foot on the gas.

Yeah.

I mean,

now it helps when the other team snaps over your quarterback's head three consecutive third downs.

I mean, that's, you know.

Yeah.

A lot of it was Tennessee, but they had some help too.

And quickly on Tennessee, the difference right now, Dylan Sampson.

It's not Nico.

It's not the receivers.

This kid is a lightning rod at tailback.

Explosive play waiting to happen.

And he presses the line of scrimmage, presses his box.

Like this kid is big time.

And they're very different after him.

But Dylan Sampson stays healthy.

Tennessee is going to be a handful.

Yeah, one thing I love about you, Cole, is how passionate you are about just big guys in general.

You just love big dudes.

Thick.

So thickness and length.

Yeah, I'm not even going to break it down to offensive and defensive line.

What college in the country right now has the best, biggest dudes?

Man, probably Alabama right this second.

And honestly, two weeks ago, PFT, I I wouldn't have said that, but they get Proctor back at left tackle.

And everybody knows Proctor's story.

Transferred to Iowa, like hung out in his dorm room for a couple of weeks, and then transferred back to Alabama.

I think he strategically did that, by the way, so we didn't have to go through spring ball.

He gets to Iowa, skips spring ball, and then right after spring ball, wants to come back to.

It's actually a really intelligent move, by the way, if you can pull it off.

Now, I hate the process of moving, so I never would have done that.

But hey, if you get out of 18 practices and pads, like that's good for you, kid.

He had a little something extra this past week against Wisconsin.

Sorry, Big Cat.

Yeah, it was bad.

Tyler Booker is my favorite player to watch in college football.

Like he is an absolute glass eater.

He is the guy that has the most nasty of any offensive linemen in college football.

And I watched Parker Brails for last year.

Washington won the Joe Moore Award.

He was a really good player, but he's got a little extra shit about him this year.

Like he's, he's a little something different.

And I think it's because he's playing next to Booker.

And then now you have Pritchett at right tackle, which was kind of in and out early early on.

Like that group looks like it's about ready to go.

And then on the defensive line, I didn't really know exactly what they had, but LT Overton, AM transfer, looks pretty good.

Tim Smith last week looks pretty good.

Quay Roost off the edge if he gets healthy.

Lost him against Wisconsin.

I'll probably go Bama right now because they also have like Robbie Oots and CJ Dupree, a couple of I call them bonus bigs, like tight ends that can help out and be extra linemen.

So I'd probably go Bama right this second.

Yeah.

What?

So outside of the SEC, Ohio State had a bye week.

They have looked the part outside of like a first, you know, weird quarter against Akron week one.

They haven't played anyone, but they've looked the part.

Penn State had a weird game against,

what was it?

Who'd they play?

Oh, Bowling Green.

And Oregon is now starting to round into form.

You're an SEC guy, but what teams outside of the SEC would you say are that national title contender and that you maybe maybe have been like, wow, they showed me something the first couple of weeks of the season?

Yeah, it's, I mean, Ohio State's their first in Big Hat.

You know, I've talked about them.

I think they're a little bit different than the last five, eight years ago Ohio State teams where they just don't have the MFers in the trenches like they've had before, like the dudes that were just nasty.

But I love Chip Kelly.

I love his offenses.

And just, it's going to take a little while to get it all going.

Now, like, they don't even have like a Cade Stover like they had a a tight end last year, who would just like, I mean, you'd never wanted to see in a back alley.

Dude's like, he gets injured.

By the way, he got injured like farming in the bye week, like bailing hay.

You don't want that dude on your team.

But Quinchon Jutkins, Trayvion Henderson, there's not a better one-two punch at running back in the country.

The receiver room is ridiculous.

And the more comfortable Will Howard gets, like, I've watched him and he looks fine.

He's not super dynamic, but you might not need to be super dynamic in that that offense.

And the defense is going to be solid.

It's like, how much further can the defense go?

And how comfortable does everybody get in an offense that can create space, can get you in the wrong place, can get you going the wrong way?

Because they've got home run hitters, man.

And the good running back.

Yeah, and the good news for Ohio State is they have basically an extended preseason because their first game of the season is until Oregon in October.

That schedule worked out well because they basically can figure it all out to get that finely tuned for when they have to start playing some big-time competition.

They're not the only ones.

I mean, Ole Miss has a freaking

72-mile runway into their season.

Like, Missouri's got a long runway into their season.

So it's not like a Big Ten thing.

Like, you brought up Oregon, big cat.

I've watched them.

It hasn't been clean.

No.

But I tell you this, like, Dylan Gabriel's throwing darks.

Like, he just, they, they just need to find balance offensively, and it's not there yet, but they're going to be dangerous.

I don't know what I think about Penn State right now.

I'm kind of up and down.

Certain times I'll watch them.

I feel pretty good about them.

And then I'm like, man, I don't know.

And I think USC is a major wild card because I didn't expect them to be able to hold up physically against LSU the way that they did.

Now, I'm not saying they're 95 Nebraska or anything yet, but they do look a little different than they have.

And maybe this Miller Moss kid is like the guy.

You know, they got skill.

The Woody Marks kid they got from Mississippi State's a stud.

Like he, he's been great in every system.

He's played and he's played air raid, stretch play.

He can do it all.

He's a good back.

So they got guys.

And maybe USC is a team that once we get down there is going to be there.

And Miami, obviously, is that team.

Tam Ward's a dude.

They're physical on both sides of the line of scrimmage.

And that defense can just run.

USC is going to be that this Michigan game this weekend is going to tell, I think, a lot because I believe in Danton Lynn.

I believe in what they've changed on defense.

Now that Michigan's switching to Orgy and they're going to just try to run it down their throat, probably a lot.

Like, is USC able to play that type of defense where they can tackle

and not give up those explosive runs and stuff like that?

Because if they can go into Michigan and win,

I think they're for real.

But here's the flip side of that, and I love these style games.

So, what's a good performance for the Michigan defense against this offense?

Yeah.

17, 21?

Can Michigan get to that?

Yeah, I don't think so.

I don't think so.

I mean, their offense is very limited, very, very limited.

I'll say this.

The front seven for USC will be okay.

They start getting past that.

I don't think the perimeter guys on the USC defense enjoy tackling very much.

So I would look for, everybody thinks it's just going to be between the tackles.

I would look for Michigan to kind of go outside early, get the defense running a little bit, and try to make some of those DBs tackle early on and then see what they can do between the tackles there.

Because that Michigan O-line is not what it's been the last three, four years either.

Yeah, I think they're going to be better just because of the fact they're not doing the two-quarterback system.

Because if you got a guy that's like Orgy, you put him in, you know he's just going to run the ball.

And if he's playing every single snap, he's going to catch you off guard with maybe a couple passes that you're not expecting.

But when you put him in specifically, it's like, okay, the defense knows exactly what's happening.

And they look really, really bad on offense, especially against Texas.

That game was never close.

So I feel like even though he hasn't been super impressive, the offense might be better because he's just the guy and there's only one guy that's going to be playing.

Yeah, I think what you're saying, PFT, is like, you know who you are.

Yeah.

Like, we're not trying to be something we're not.

We're not trying to be spread pro-style offense, even like we're ground and pound, and we have a guy that can do standing pistol squats and pick up corn kernels for an hour, and so therefore, you should be a good quarterback.

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Let's go down to Florida State real quick.

If we're assigning blame for this season, how much blame are we putting on Mike Norvell and how much are we putting on the guy that did not eat shit after they lost that opening week game to Georgia Tech?

I think it's all on that gentleman, to be honest with you.

I think he jinxed him on the front end to even think he could get away with that.

And then obviously on the back end, he's gone full black cat, like conspiracy theory, put it all on him that he won't do this.

And then to try to disappear with where we are today in social media, to think that you can escape the psychopaths that are going to come try to hunt you down.

It's not possible.

So I think he gets full blame because you knew there was going to be turnover.

Most of us knew that DJ Ueungale was not that guy at quarterback.

And it's a whole new cast of characters.

It's kind of like to be real with you, PFT, I think you blame what college football is today for most of this.

Like,

you're going to hit sometimes, and then you're not going to hit sometimes.

I mean, it's,

you're playing roulette with a lot of transfer portal guys.

Yeah.

And Norvell got what he could, and it hasn't really worked out to what they had a year ago, and they're just not as capable.

Yeah.

I do think it's, it's, I mean, it's ridiculous that we've got copycats now that are saying, you know what, I'll eat this shit for this guy

if he won't do it.

Like, we've got volunteers.

Where's Burt Kreister in this?

This seems like a role that he was born to play, like the FSU fan that will take one for the team.

No, we need that guy.

We need that guy to show his face because it's getting bad.

It's getting really bad down there.

Speaking of that, like, just specifically for big cat, like

how much shit would you eat for Wisconsin to win a national title?

I'd eat a whole shit,

an entire shit, swallow it for a national title in football.

What animal?

A 50-plus-pound dog?

Because I think if you have to eat animal shit, I think horse is the best one to do.

Yeah, probably.

It's mostly hay.

Yeah.

Got some grass.

Yeah, I would consume that

to guarantee a national title.

Yeah, I would.

I mean, now

if horse is at the top of your list, PFT, what's at the bottom?

Like, what's the animal?

Yeah, human, maybe, maybe bat.

Maybe bat shit.

That would be bad.

It feels like there's a lot of parasites in there.

Yeah, that would probably get you really sick.

Yeah, human probably at the bottom end of that.

Yeah.

For sure.

I think it depends greatly on the human.

Yeah.

Yeah, what's their diet?

Like, Max's shit, I never.

No.

Like, Like, if it's that dude hanging out with Caleb on Sundays, like, ain't no way.

No, no, hell no.

Hell no.

Sticking in Florida, what week is Billy Napier going to get fired and who is going to be the new coach at Florida?

I feel like

Florida fans probably are all, or at least boosters are probably all saying it's going to be Lane Kiffin.

I don't know if Lane will ever leave.

He's got a pretty good gig right now with the expectations and the money at Old Miss.

Florida's more money.

But what week is Billy Napier fired and who are they going get?

I think it's complicated because you have an interim president, and if you fire a coach, you then have to do what?

Hire a new coach.

Are you going to let Scott Strickland hire another coach, the athletic director?

And that's what I kind of don't know the answer to.

I think there are some questions about the interim, if you were to make that move right now, because if there's one thing about Billy Napier, and I kind of love this, like he's overly loyal.

So everybody in there, those are his guys.

He doesn't say, ooh, I like what offense that guy runs, or, man, that's a cool defense.

Like those are all his guys.

So sometimes you can kind of say, well, let's get rid of this guy.

Like, let's take Auburn, for example.

You fire Brian Harson and like Carnell Williams was your guy.

Right.

So he can be the interim coach.

Everybody loves that.

You know, he's not trying to go against the system or anything.

He keeps it all under control.

He kind of takes your marching orders.

Like it works.

I don't know if there's a guy that sort of works that way right now.

And then I think there's some other complications.

Like a lot of the NIL stuff has been confusing.

Hasn't gone the way that they want it to.

Like, like we had Staples on the show today, and I know you guys have had Andy on, and we were talking to him about it.

And I asked him this question because Eli Drinkowitz's name comes up.

And I think Drink's a great coach.

I think Kirby Moore is a great offensive coordinator, too, and that helps.

And Blake Baker was a great deal coordinator last year, and they got another good one this year.

But I said, we know which job is better, Florida, Missouri.

Like, we're not going to debate that.

But Andy, like, he goes deep into all the NIL and the government stuff.

I don't really care about that stuff.

I said, which situation is better right now?

And he had to to think about it.

And he's like, man, I think it might be Missouri.

Yeah.

Right now, I'm like the overall situation because like Drinkwood and got the governor involved.

And like they changed laws to help their NIL.

And in Florida, it's a little more complicated.

So I don't know if this is just going to be, hey, we want that guy.

Let's go get him.

And it happens, whether it's Lane, Drink, whoever.

And you're right.

Lane's got a great gig, man.

Like the.

There's been a groundswell of support.

He's getting talent to come in through the port.

It's like we all made fun of him, Portal King thing, but it's working.

Yeah.

Like what part of it hasn't worked so far?

Yeah.

And

I think there's something to be said, especially with the new college football with the NIL and transfer portal, being at a place where the expectations aren't insane does have a benefit if you're a coach where it's like,

I'm not being asked to win

an SEC championship every year.

You know, maybe he gets there with Ole Miss and it's like, you know, he keeps elevating it.

But right now, Ole Miss, if they're in the playoff, that's a successful year and lane kiffen did something they couldn't have conceived of 10 years ago here's the crazier part big cat like what are those expectations even going to be now is it just to get in right like are alabama fans going to be happy with kalen debo if he gets in and they lose round one or or even if they get a bye and then they lose like probably not Are Ole Miss fans happy to get in?

Like, did they then think it should be national title or buck?

We don't know because there's no more division, so you can't kind of hang your hat on that.

Right.

Winning the SEC championship is going to be hard.

And it might be better to be the number three team that doesn't get into the title game.

See, that's one thing I'm really interested in this year with the playoff is like, what happens to these conference championship game losers?

Because we have just like normally thrown those teams to the trash, like Music City Bowl.

Like, trust me, I was on two of those.

Like, I lost two SEC championship games.

We went to the Peach Bowl and we went to the Citrus Bowl, which I guess was a decent one back then.

But like, what's going to happen?

Are those teams in?

yeah are they are we going to keep them elevated in like how they get in or where they're even seated we don't know how that's going to go so even the expectations i think are going to change based on how this playoff goes yeah i think what seems like ole miss if you if you get into the playoffs if you win a playoff game at ole miss they're very very happy with you so i i do think i do think it's a good place for for lane let me put a name out here for you for florida about urban meyer Bring him home.

I don't think, listen, I have a ton of respect for Urban, but I don't think his style of coaching is overly conducive with today's college football.

You mean he's too much of a dick?

He's a grinder.

Yeah.

You can just say that.

Even though he works for Fox.

Yeah.

I don't know.

That's a, I mean, it's fair.

I think that's a small portion of why Sabin walked away.

Like he couldn't coach the guys the way that he wanted to anymore, the way that guys probably need to be coached.

But now you have an out.

Like, I mean, Rick Trickett was my head coach when I, my offensive line coach when I was at Auburn.

Like he referenced me as the dumbest motherfucker he coached every single day for two and a half years.

You can't do that anymore.

It's not the way the world will.

You can't coach because of whoa.

Yeah,

I like that.

You're probably right.

Urban Meyer, I mean, he, at the very tail end of his career in college, he was able to do some of the stuff that works.

He goes to the NFL and now doesn't work there.

Clearly, college football has become more like the NFL when it comes to player empowerment and players having options and not having to eat shit shit all the time if they want to stick around.

So, yeah, you're probably right on that one.

What about Texas?

I love the Longhorns.

Texas and Oregon preseason, those are the two teams that I thought were going to be great.

Sark looks like he can do whatever he wants on offense right now.

And the defense has been better than people thought that it was going to be when it comes to, like, you know, they lost two great players on their defensive line last year.

They've got some landmines, though.

So, what teams in the SEC do you think matchup should give Texas the most problems as they try to run this table here?

From a matchup perspective, PFT, I don't really know if there's a ton that I look at and just say like from a matchup perspective, like that's that's rough.

We would go Georgia in the regular season.

However, if they're as dinged up as they are, like keep in mind, Texas has their whole offensive line back.

Kelvin Banks, left tackle is going to be a top 10 pick.

They have two guys on the bench on their offensive line that have been starters in the past.

So they have depth there.

They addressed the defensive line.

They went and got Bill norton from arizona who signed with georgia originally he's playing good ball they get the edge rusher tray more from utsa they're actually better on the edge than they were a year ago because he's got a little bit more twitch this kid number 11 this true freshman holy hell watch this kid operate like big long fast like can cover ground can rush the passer which side note These true freshmen, man, like it's insane how ready they are right now.

Like the Dylan Stewart kid at South Carolina, obviously Ryan Williams in Alabama.

Ohio State's got a receiver.

It's dumb, man.

Like these guys, like what they're doing.

But I think they're probably more of a matchup problem for anybody else than anybody else is for them because of how versatile they are offensively, the motions they use, the formations.

I want to see them run the ball a little bit more downhill.

They haven't gotten to that yet.

They got a really nice tight end that they can use.

Receivers have juice.

Like Isaiah Bond and those guys can go.

Silas Bolden can go.

I think they're more of a matchup problem PFT for any SEC team than any other SEC team would be for them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that might be with Arch or Quinn.

Yeah, that's the thing.

Like Sark has to be the most confident person in the world because he knows that if something happens, Quinn's had some injuries in the past and he's injured right now.

But if anything major were to happen to him where he had to miss extended time, Arch Manning looks like he's ready to step in right now and win a national championship.

I mean, I will say this.

He did some awesome things.

I was most impressed with his poise.

Like he's backed up in his own end zone, in the gun, five-step drop, sits there, sits there, sits there, knows he's going to take a rib shot, delivers a ball downfield.

We saw a little bit of his legs.

He can move some.

But trust me, there are some things that he didn't see that he's not getting away with against a lot of other teams, but he's young.

That'll come with experience.

What a luxury, though.

Like everybody talks about that like it's a problem.

How's he going to manage it?

How's he going to do it?

That's a luxury, man.

Like to be able to say, this dude's coming in and he's going to be able to manage our offense, especially with how high percentage a lot of their stuff can be.

Quick throws, easy throws, run game.

Sart can dial it back a little bit where it's not having to get through four or five progressions on every snap.

Yeah.

Yeah, and he's fast too, which is crazy.

He's a Manning with speed.

I guess that's Cooper was a faster one, right?

And everyone, yeah, and Arch or Archie, sorry, was fast.

Yeah.

Yeah, but it is weird to see because of Eli and Payton, especially at the end.

He ran, I think, 21 miles per hour.

I think that's how fast they close.

That's not natural for a Manning.

Unfair.

Yeah.

Very unfair.

He said his, I think he said his mom is the one to credit for the speed.

Correct.

Yeah, she did something there.

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So

I give Cole a little shit.

You probably see Cole on SEC Network.

He's calling games.

He's on the sideline.

I call it the Cole Kubic, like pet and animal, eat a random sandwich point of the broadcast when he gets a blowout.

What's the most random animal you've had to interact with and the most random thing you've had to eat when you know the game is slipping away and you're like, shit,

we got 30 more

game minutes to fill and this game sucks.

What's the one that you like think back to?

You're like,

that really sucked.

I didn't really, really love doing that.

I'm so bummed that you missed my interview with Camp Mays, nine-year-old brother of Hayden Cooper Mays in the Tennessee game last week.

That one you knew before, you had to load, you had to load the clip before that game even started.

You knew

what that game was going to be entailing.

Yeah, story time.

Yeah, it's we're going deep in the in the story realm.

The most random item would have been the donut burger in Columbia, South Carolina, because the state fair happens right across the street, literally across the street in the parking lot for a couple of weeks there in Columbia.

But the most random way something happened, and this is serious, Tom and Jordan had made a joke about getting ice cream in the press box when we were in Knoxville during halftime.

And I was like, man, you know, like, could have passed me one.

And like two series later, just a random guy comes walking by.

I get tapped on the back.

I'm watching the game.

I turn around and he hands me an ice cream sandwich.

And I was just like, you know what?

We're going for it.

Yeah.

Ate ice cream sandwich right there.

Animal interacted with.

I told you I was going to try the Gamecock last year.

And the handler literally said, hey,

this can end poorly and most likely will.

You can.

I recommend you don't.

And I was like, you know what?

That guy knows a lot more about cocks than I do.

I take his advice too.

Feels like I should steer clear of that.

So I'll probably go with the giant pig in Fayetteville, like feeding him grapes.

I didn't know pigs would like grapes, but that thing loves grapes, man.

He's massive.

Oh, by the way, I didn't even think about it.

What was it like when you were on the sideline?

I was at that game the tennessee old miss game where they started throwing did you get hit by anything no but the items were interesting the the mustard bottle got a lot of the publicity the golf ball lane held up um

there were there were dip cans there were the little vape canister things yeah uh that you vape out of that those came flying down lighters like a zippo lighter i'm like i think that thing's kind of expensive i don't really have one but i mean i get if they had it on them it was coming down there and so yeah it was so it was an interesting uh set of items that Tennessee fans decided to chunk down that night.

Yeah, you got to be pissed off if you're a Tennessee fan to throw your dip.

Like, you need that dip.

Yeah.

100%.

That's a passionate fanboy.

Especially with the way the game ended.

I mean, Omiss won the game, so you would think you load up after that.

Exactly.

So, Cole, we have not announced the watch list yet for the low man trophy, but I'm curious to know, do you have any names that we should put on the watch list for the watch list for the best collegiate fullbacks in America?

I'm going to put you guys on a couple things here.

I don't know if you've watched UNLV yet.

There's so much fun.

I hope they get the playoff.

That game, they were just bullyballing Kansas on Friday night.

Yes.

Brendan Marion, their offensive coordinator, he calls it the go-go offense.

This would be literally like you two drawing up formations there in studio.

Like some of the shit that you see, it's, I mean, the running backs, literally like two running backs right next to the quarterback.

They have a tight end slash fullback 44.

His name is Christian Moore, I think.

They got him from K-State, which makes a ton of sense.

And he's fun to watch.

So he's kind of a hybrid fullback.

This kid, Caden Luke, 30 from Arizona.

He is a literal Sawblade on the field.

And then, like, this is kind of your year, PFT, because like Arkansas's run into my formation.

So Maddox Lasseter is there.

Like, I think it's kind of coming full circle.

So we are not seeing a ton of it just yet, but those are kind of three that I would throw out there.

Maybe not your old school, traditional Corey Schlesinger fullbacks, but

some guys that are fun to watch.

I I like a literal Sawblade.

Yeah, literal Sawblade coming at you.

I like Brock Lampy, too, from NIU.

Okay.

I was doing the Oklahoma game during that game.

I hadn't gone back and watched it, but yes, I will absolutely go check him out.

Yeah.

I don't get to matching usually until like the end of October.

NIU is, yeah, they basically have,

they're like, they, well, now Wisconsin's down, but they've created Wisconsin Jr.

They have a bunch of offensive linemen from Wisconsin.

I think their AD is an ex-Badger.

So

they're running all that shit and just bullying people.

The Mac's going.

Yeah.

Toledo knocked off Mississippi State.

Like Jason Candle, big win for him.

Yeah.

I love Maxion.

I don't know how you can't love it.

It's the best.

All right, Cole, thank you so much.

You're the best.

And good luck this week.

What game are you on?

I will be on Georgia Southern at Ole Miss, 6:45 on the SEC Network Saturday night.

Okay, so we got to figure out, we got to figure out what we're going to eat or do.

That one, I don't think, is going to be close.

Ole Miss is kind of in that zone of like the Chip Kelly Oregon days where I was coming back from Madison and I bet Ole Miss and I

looked at the score and it was like 14.05 in the first Ole Miss seven, week four, zero.

And I was like, oh, okay, yeah, this is how it's going to go.

That's what they do to teams.

I'll tell you this quickly.

My producer and I were talking, you mentioned like stories, and we were talking back and forth in the Tennessee Kent State game this weekend.

And he wanted me to tell this story about a Tennessee tight end.

And I said, well, they're about to to score.

And there was like 2.15 on the clock.

And it's running down.

I said, we're going to hit the two-minute timeout here.

And we can't.

He goes, there's no two-minute timeout here.

And I was like, what?

It's, there's just like 2.11 now.

They're going to hit that.

Then they're going to score.

I'm not going to have time.

He's like, Cole, it's third quarter.

68.

I was like, 68, nothing.

And I was like,

I mean, I side with you on that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That game, that game was crazy.

Crazy.

All right.

Thanks so much, Cole.

Appreciate it.

Later, Cole.

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Henry, Daniel.

Guys, I'm so happy football's back.

Same.

Football's so back.

Did you have...

Well, yeah.

i'm just happy football's back i was thinking you went through

you lost week one i forgot you won week two yeah i was wondering if you had the same like i i woke up and was in a foul mood and then i picked myself up and was like fucking week two yeah yeah i was in a foul mood

monday after week one just because if you start out with a defense that looks so bad then you just know it's gonna be a long year yeah backs you're gonna be fine tomorrow morning no i'm not yeah because it's gonna be good it's week two we just went from super bowl contenders to like hopefully we make the playoffs and that's that's forever, I think.

I think I have you as a playoff team in my power rankings.

I thought you had us too high.

There's teams below us I think are better.

Okay, well,

it wasn't me.

It was the computer.

That's true.

Did you see my Jaden Daniels ranking?

No, what was it?

I did.

So it was all the rankings, and then there's a tier that just says, Jaden Daniels looks good, Commanders.

Yep.

Anthony Richardson looks good and bad, Colts.

Okay.

And then Bo Nix looks bad, Broncos.

Okay, I like it.

Jayden Daniels looks good.

Hank, you saw the handoff.

I think I was actually fair to everyone.

I said, let's not panic for the Jets.

I said, for you, the Patriots.

Oh, that was mean.

Yeah, that was unfair.

They're frisky and not fun at all.

Overtime is fun.

You did not have fun watching the game.

They're frisky.

They're a frisky team.

That's good.

Being frisky and not fun at all means you're going to win some games.

And then the Bears were, let's not panic, but there's a little panic, but let's not panic.

Hello, big cat PFT, Mr.

Hank.

When is the discussion about Sean Payton, getting Sean Payton the hell out of Denver going to start?

He's washed up.

He can't get around with his silly tactics trying to build the Saints 2.0.

Guess what, buddy?

You're not in that loser division anymore and you can't coast by the regular seasons.

I like this because I think it's about to start.

Silly tactics.

Here's the thing.

Also, did you guys see

the

perk story?

What?

That the bounty gate was like a cover-up?

Are you talking about the interview we did today that you listened to?

I was sorry, I jumped out for some of it.

But are you talking about the part that you listened to?

I must not have listened.

I wasn't in here.

We were literally just talking about that story with somebody who's going to be on the show.

We have a God interview coming with Mike Silver next week, which is very good.

No, no, you don't have to cut it.

I didn't know it.

No, that's a good preview.

Okay.

But did you read about it somewhere or did you read it?

But I think you listened to the interview and then you just said, did you guys hear the story that we read?

I read the story.

Where was the story today?

It wasn't, it was a couple days ago.

I think you listened to it and just no.

Yeah.

We literally had that conversation with Mike Silver.

I read it.

Okay.

That's crazy.

That's a crazy coincidence.

It is.

So keep that.

Yeah, keep it.

Fuck it.

Mike Silver was a great interview.

It's coming on Wednesday next week.

He came in studio.

We did an hour.

He knows so much about football.

Interviewed the craziest things.

He's got a new book out.

I don't think that Hank read about that.

I think he listened to him.

I just promised you that I read about it.

It's crazy.

Maybe he literally might have heard the interview and then you looked it up.

Yeah, that's what I think would happen.

Why would I not just say that?

All right, back to Sean Payton, though.

Sean Payton made a very, very big mistake in the Bo Nicks thing.

If Bo Nix doesn't turn out to be good,

the let me draft a quarterback because it will give me some more years on my leash here is a smart strategy that most coaches do, but you can't be the guy who's like, it's my quarterback.

You got to let the GM say it's his quarterback.

Yeah, who is the GM in Denver right now?

It might be Sean Payton.

It might be Sean Payton.

So that was GM Sean.

I mean, he does have the move where he could fire himself as GM.

Yeah.

Stay as head coach.

But yeah, I think there's bad enough to the point where if the quarterback play doesn't improve, I think you'll have people talking about this here.

It's also getting to a point where the Broncos are

somehow because the Broncos up until this last stretch, so like after Payton retired, the Broncos were one of the model organizations in football.

They had been to a bunch of Super Bowls.

They had won three.

I don't think they ever had, they had a stretch where they didn't have a losing season for a really long time.

I don't think they've ever picked one overall.

They're one of the two or three franchises that have never picked one overall.

And now with the last nine years or so or 10 years, that's starting to wash away and people are being like, the Broncos stink.

And that's never a thing you want to be.

Yeah, the worst thing that could happen for Sean Payton this year is if Russell Wilson starts to play for the Steelers and he plays well.

Yeah.

Then that would be like, okay, let's talk about what Sean's doing.

I'm going to look up the stat.

Teams that have never picked, we'll do trivia, never picked.

It was four days ago at this story.

1-1.

Okay.

You ready for it?

Yeah.

Do you have guesses?

Broncos are one of them.

Broncos would be one.

Have the commanders done it?

The commanders have.

Anyone got any guesses?

1-1 overall.

Think of organizations that have been pretty good, never really, really, really bad.

Are the Steelers?

Nope.

Are you looking at me for a reason?

No.

It's the Broncos, the Ravens, and the Seahawks.

No.

Never held the first pick in the draft.

That's pretty crazy, huh?

That is nuts.

That's a pretty crazy stat.

No, the Eagles have had the first pick, right, Max?

McNabb?

Was McNabb first?

I don't know.

Fun stuff.

My take is that.

Real fun stuff.

My take is that if a football team spent the majority of their money on offensive and defensive linemen and not skilled position players, it'd still be a great team.

The fans wouldn't like it at first since they probably wouldn't be any splashy players and you'd want to get their jersey.

But a team that has an all-pro offensive/slash defensive line would win even with an average QB and average receivers running backs.

It's just that no team would do that because it's not sexy and the fans would not be happy.

The team wants to sell ticket/slash jerseys.

I think that's what Harbaugh's going to try to do.

That's literally what Harbar's doing.

Yeah.

Get elite quarterback and

nothing else special.

I'm looking up, by the way, the Eagles haven't picked one overall in forever, and neither of the commanders.

So they picked one overall in 48 and 62, the commanders.

The Eagles picked one overall last time was 1949.

It's a long time ago.

Yeah.

But yeah, this is what they're going to do.

It's a good strategy.

Yeah.

It's a very good strategy.

But then if you look at what teams win Super Bowls, that's hardly ever the best strategy to have.

No, you're going to need some good teams eventually.

Yeah.

Yeah, for sure.

but i i like this strategy a lot you could have a lot of fun watching football games with a team that's built like that yeah it is the chargers though this year the chargers have no like what what is their josh palmer is there is there one right now right

yeah uh it's quintin right

yeah i mean yeah he was a he was a high draft pick but he wasn't a hardbun draft pick but yeah yeah so chargers look out for the chargers Hey, PMT, I have a question.

If you could go back in time and redo your times,

I guess that meant to to me teams,

your team's biggest blunder.

What would you fix and why?

For me, it's got to be the Bears draft in 2024.

Kelly Williams is not generational, and they should have traded the pick.

Oh, that was mean.

And that also was not a Bears fan because if you wanted to do drafts, wouldn't you just take Patrick Mahomes?

Yeah, that would make sense.

I think every team could say that, yeah.

Yeah, but the Bears had the second pick.

One moment in time for your teams.

I think it would be,

I would, I would probably

murder Dan Snyder's father before he was able to give birth to Dan Snyder.

What would yours be?

I would change a thing.

Yeah.

Bartman,

Double Doink.

Brexit our quarterback.

I don't know.

This guy was just doing this to just make fun of Caleb Williams.

It's week two, buddy.

It's week fucking two.

You wouldn't change anything about the Patriots?

It's week fucking two.

Maybe not draft Aaron Hernandez?

Trade Aaron Hernandez.

The Seahawks.

Honor his request for a trade.

That would have been good.

Do you guys plan on watching that TV show?

Only the last episode because Kirk's in it.

Okay.

Yeah.

Kirk is in it, and I'm very curious what they, because I have to, as a Minifan, I have to know if I have to take up in arms.

Okay.

That's how they just.

Actor playing Kirk.

Yes.

There's an actor that's playing Kirk?

Correct.

Do we know who the actor is?

I don't.

I think we do, but I can't remember.

But yeah, so I'm going to have to have my eyes on that as my duty.

All right, last one.

Hi, boys.

If you could choose to have one sports superpower for a day, what would you choose?

For example, feel what it's like to shoot like Steph, hit a baseball like Barry Bonds, run like Usain Bolt, etc.

Dunk?

Yeah.

Dunking for a day would be

the easiest answer of all.

Oh, Hank.

I think you want to dunk.

Shooting like Steph would be incredible.

Oh, fuck.

Hitting like Barry Bonds is the answer.

I mean,

throwing like Paul Skeens would be pretty sick.

The feeling of hitting a home run.

Like, if you just got that feeling 700 and

whatever

times, that's the best.

That's awesome.

So if one day you woke up and you knew that it was today, like for some reason you woke up, there's a big plaque on your wall, a sign that said, congratulations, Max.

You have been granted one day with the baseball ability of Barry Bonds in his prime.

That's tough.

Okay, so I guess.

No, no, no.

But what would you do?

Would you go to, would you like fly to Philadelphia and meet with the Philly's front office and be like, trust me, I can hit like Barry Bonds today.

Let me play one game.

I'd probably just like find a way to get onto like, I'd probably just take a bunch of BP all day.

Yeah,

can I say a crazy one that you might disagree with?

But in terms of like, yeah, dunking would be awesome.

I think

dunking's probably 1-1 because it's something you could just do and not, you know, you're not going to get signed, but you just dunk for a day.

Shooting would be cool, hitting dingers.

One that I could obviously never imagine myself doing or have even imagined attempting because dunking is something we all thought maybe we could do one day.

Skating like Conor McDavid would be pretty fucking sick.

Yeah.

Like just getting on a blank sheet of ice and just whipping around.

I have another one out of left field that would be super cool.

Surfing like Kelly Slater would be awesome.

If you could just go to like this, most beautiful place in the world and just rip through those barrels.

Oh, that would feel so sick.

Actually, you know what the answer is?

I've got two.

I got another answer.

Okay.

Running like Tyreek Hill.

Because that you could just challenge people to a race that day and just dust them.

And it would be, I mean, just feel.

We've asked guys this on the podcast.

Like, what does it feel like to be that fast?

Okay, mine would be skateboarding.

Like being sick at skateboarding all of a sudden.

Okay.

And you just go around and do sick-ass tricks.

The other would be punching like Mike Tyson.

Oh, that's a good one.

How good would that be?

Just talking shit to everybody?

Just anyone.

Anyone can have a taste today.

That's a really good thing.

You'd walk around.

Just when you're not even punching anybody, you'd walk around with the ability knowing I can kick anybody's ass in this room.

That's a really good one.

That would be fun.

The fact that Hank hasn't said Tiger Woods is crazy.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it's dunking.

Oh, my answer is dunking.

No, but driving like Rory.

I mean, that would be fucking good.

But if you could just

play Tiger Woods, not speeding out of the Prime Tiger Woods, obviously.

I mean, you wouldn't play one round.

You'd be like Hank.

You'd play fucking a whole day of golf.

Yeah.

What about eating like Joey Chestnut?

That would be cool.

It'd be cool.

It'd be cool for a day.

It'd be cool to show off for a day, Max.

Admit it.

Calorie deficit.

Yeah, but if you eat that steak after the game last night, man, I think he deserves that.

That was my guys were so pissed off.

That was like on.

Dude, that was on Sunday night for a while.

You put a fucking cheese steak.

We had a

bullshit.

That's kind of what happened.

Yeah.

But it's Sunday night.

It's a fucking Angelos.

It's perfect.

That's a perfect how you how you get over it.

But Sunday night football, we did actually do our plan.

We ordered salads and then the minute the bears went down, I just was like, fuck this, and went and ate like three slices of pizza.

So you can't.

I saw Max cut the, he said he's only eaten one slice of pizza, and then I walked into the kitchen and he was cutting like a sliver, the smallest sliver you've ever seen.

That's such a

slice of pizza.

That's such a fat guy move that I love, Max.

Yeah, I mean, that one didn't count.

Do you know what move I do, Max?

I rip the bottom half of the pizza and just eat the crust and a little bit of the cheese and everything and be like, that's not a full slice.

But if you do the sliver, then nobody, like, I got caught because Hank saw me doing it, but then nobody else knows that you, because if you do the, I have done the half too.

Well, I'll throw out the bottom half.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Just toss the bottom half.

And that's good.

That's good.

I've done that too.

Just like, I'm just going to take one bite and throw it.

Yeah.

Because then you're like, I'm pretty much just eating crust right now.

Yeah, it's like not a slice of pizza.

I also think that if you eat a slice of pizza super fast, it doesn't affect you the same way.

Yeah.

And if you eat standing up, it's not, that doesn't count.

Yeah, I saw came to the kitchen on Sunday and I was hungry and I was just like, I got to eat it.

I saw you doing that.

And I ate a shameful slice, but tried to eat it so that nobody would see me.

And then Big Cat just walked in and looked at it.

We need to just, listen, we're all working on it.

I did that with a small slice and then Hank saw me.

We're all working on it.

Let's all just be in the trust tree.

I didn't say anything.

No, you didn't say anything.

I did not say a word.

He saw it and I was just like, I'm not going to say a word.

It's like the opposite of see something, say something.

You see something, you don't fucking say a word.

No, I'm happy that Hank said something, though, because that means like if it happens,

like, it means I have to be on alert and that maybe I shouldn't do it.

No, I'm not happy.

You should not be shamed, especially on a Sunday night.

It's hard.

We ordered the salads.

We had great intentions on Sunday night.

All right.

I still think overall the diet's going pretty well.

I've been lifting.

The food that we got Sunday was terrible.

What do you mean, terrible?

Oh, I guess we got the salads.

Yeah, we got salads.

I've been lifting four times a week.

Drying hard.

Same.

I got a chicken cheese steak in a bowl on Sunday.

Like just the chicken, like the chicken steak and cheese and like lettuce.

No bread.

I'm happy for you.

That's good.

And then you got the real deal last night.

Yeah, last night.

Fuck you.

Went to gyms.

You know.

All right, numbers.

Nine,

three,

eight, eleven.

21.

Memes in PFT.

Have you guys ever gotten this?

I've never gotten this.

99.

Oh, Pug.

Damn it, Pug.

Damn it.

That hurts.

That hurts.

That would have been, what, six?

There's something up with the number 99.

It's crazy that it's been picked this many times.

They gave us the report.

When we got this machine, there was a report, and they had weighed every single ball.

And they all weighed with like within like a

001 decimal of each other.

Are you sure there's not another 99 in there right now?

I'm pretty sure.

I see 98.

All right, Pug.

You missed that one.

Might have to go back.

All right, see everyone else.

Love you guys.