Super Wild Card Weekend, Lions First Playoff Win In 32 Years, Cowboys Get Embarrassed And Hank Calls In From Dallas

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On today's Pardon My Take Super Wild Card Weekend Recap, we only had four games.

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Hank is going to join us from Dallas.

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What happened to his knee or ankle or whatever appendage happened to swing very hard into that wall. It's going to be great to hear from him.
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Today is Monday, January 15th, and it's Super Wild Card Weekend. What? What? What? What? Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, the playoffs.
The playoffs. Playoffs? Playing for Lombardi.
Talking about playoffs. We start in Houston where Joe Biden Flacco got confused multiple times and couldn't remember which team to throw to as Father Time continues to be undefeated.
Talking lying dog-faced pony soldiers here. The Texans put Cleveland in the funny papers as Dalton Charles Schultz made the Charlie Browns defense look like a joke.
And speaking of comics, Stephen Nelson-Muntz said, Ha ha! As he ran back a touchdown for 84 yards. Texans fans are in la-la land as D'Amico Ryan Gosling has the upstart team driving to the second round.
Texans 45, Browns 14. In the frozen tundra of Kansas City, it felt like it was 30 below, which was also to his quarterback rating.
Speaking of, Tuna Tagovaiola got the rest of the Dolphins caught up in the net to get slaughtered. Rasheed Condoleezza Rice preemptively invaded Miami's secondary, scoring a touchdown and racking up 130 yards.
And meanwhile, Mike McDaniel Day-Lewis needs to put down the weed and pick up the meth in acting to teach his team how to play man football. Another collapse for the mutterfutting Dolphins.
Chiefs, 35. Dolphins, 7.
We have a special guest in the Big D. We're going to take it down to our reporter who's on the scene, Henry Lockwood.
This is A.I. Hank Lockwood.
I'm in the Big D where Jordan Love was in the air. As Romeo and Juliet Dobbs said, who cares about the age difference to all the haters who said the Green Bay Packers couldn't win because they had the youngest team in the league.
Dak Jones needed an Alabama field sobriety test

the way he was driving the ball down the field,

hoping to lure future Dallas Cowboys legend Bill Belichick,

who seems to prefer bad quarterbacks these days.

People are looking at Dak and saying that motherfucker isn't real,

just like the lighthouse.

There is a long list of Cowboys playoff collapses,

enough to make an entire Mount Rushmore,

and this one definitely belongs on it,

even though I wouldn't pick it in Mount Rushmore season, I am sadly very bad at choosing Mount Rushmore's Packers 48 Cowboys 32. We finished in Detroit where the lions had the eye of the tiger.
Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan Campbell. Puka Nakuanan tried to kidnap the governor of Michigan's heart,

going for 181 yards and a touchdown.

But it's hard beating Goff in the playoffs when going up against his former team,

as the Detroit Lions, after 34 long years, have finally won a playoff game.

Congratulations, Detroit.

The Lions, 31.

The Rams, Detroit. The Lions, 31.
The Rams, 23. And that was Fastest Two Minutes for Super Wild Card Weekend.
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Not in the books. Two-thirds of the way done.
We watched football all weekend. It was pretty great.
It was pretty great. Most of the games stunk until the end.
Yeah, the last game was incredible. We're going to get to every game we're going to have hank on zoom uh his report from from dallas coming up uh real hank is yeah real hank we will talk also about the bills stealers being moved and max is uh he's been waiting waiting all weekend to give us his preview of eagles bucks but let's get into it let's talk ball because it was still even the blowout games had storylines and we'll start chronological order Texans 45 Browns 14 Joe Flacco has turned back into a pumpkin it was sad to see the clock struck midnight on Joe Flacco it was a great story while it lasted it was very much Linsanity we had Linsanity in a bottle yep for Italians and older people yes it was great, and then it kind of all fell apart.
Then Flacco kind of became Flacco. It was, yeah, like the Browns' defense was horrific, which we saw that maybe there was some leaks on the road this year, but C.J.
Stroud, which we'll get to, like just carved them up. But it was sad to see Joe Flacco.
Like you thought we talked ourselves into it on this show magical run joe flacco maybe going to to baltimore winning a game there but yeah the the first pick six um i actually don't think that was a bad you knew going into the game that joe flacco was going to throw an interception you just hoped that you would be able to tackle the guy before he ran it back for a touchdown. The first pick six was like, that wasn't a terrible interception.
It was just you had to tackle him and not give up six points. The second one was really, really bad, and it happened in back-to-back plays, and it was just like all the air came out of the Browns from that point on.
It's such a funny feeling when somebody throws a pick six and you know that it's going to be a six even before they catch it. That was the second one.
Yeah. The second one was like, okay, that's just going to be a touchdown for the Texans.
First one was a little bit longer. Nobody was able to catch up to him.
And it was fitting because he's in Houston. He turned kind of into Matt Schaub.
Yeah. In the house of the Texans.
And it was, though, like Joe Flacco did not do enough for them to win the game, but the Browns' defense was what just like fell apart.

Like, because they couldn't stop C.J. Stroud at all.

I know two pick sixes, but even if you take out the two pick sixes,

the Texans probably win easily.

Yeah.

Because it felt like C.J. Stroud could do whatever he wanted.

Yeah, the Browns' defense on the road has stunk pretty much all year,

almost all year long.

Their home defense has been like the best in the league by far.

But then you add in the road thing and it becomes – like we probably should have seen it coming a little bit more than we did, but we got caught up in flack sanity. We got caught up in flack.
Maybe a trend here, Jim Schwartz and Dan Quinn being like, I don't really want to move. Yeah.
So we'll just submit a really bad performance, and then next year we'll try to win a Super Bowl. So was Jim Schwartz actually getting those same discussions around his name that Dan Quinn was? I feel like he wasn't.
No, I don't think he was. He was bad enough as a head coach where people still remember, like, say what you want about Dan Quinn, but he was up 28-3 in a Super Bowl at one point.
Yeah. And then yada, yada, yada.
Jim Schwartz doesn't strike me as a guy who's great at the shaking hands and playing nicey-nice. No, no.
He doesn't kiss ass. He probably just tells you how.
He's one of those guys. Everyone has that one friend who's like, I just tell it like it is.
No, dude, you might be a dick. Kind of makes you an asshole sometimes.
My problem is I'm just brutally honest all the time. Sorry I just can't hold my tongue and I have to tell the truth.
Yeah, they always say, like, you know me. I couldn't keep my mouth shut, right? Well, no, you can.
Yeah, you can. You definitely can keep your mouth shut.
So, yeah, Schwartz probably not. He's not enough of a kiss ass.
He eats ass. He doesn't kiss it.
And he's probably not going to be a head coach I wouldn't imagine next year. I also feel like they're probably – how old is Jim Schwartz now? He's got to be in his late 50s.
He's definitely not too old to be a head coach but he he's got a lot of football years on 57 nails seven okay yeah um it would take a special type of franchise to be like you know what 57 year old Jim Schwartz let's give it a shot yeah and who knows what's going to happen with Mike McCarthy in Dallas because we're recording this at 11 o'clock central time um after games are over, that domino might fall pretty quickly. And then, depending on what happens with the Eagles, those might be two big coaching openings that we didn't necessarily see coming, which would probably be way more attractive than some of the other ones that are out there.
So Schwartz might get one of the second-tier jobs. And as it goes for the Browns, we had, we had Zoopy who is a great video editor and producer here at Barstool.
And then our friend Jeff D. Lowe, we're sitting front and center for the game.
And I, I could sense sadness, but I also think there was a feeling of like this. How are we even here? They made the playoffs with their JV team.
Right. Like they, they, they were saying to each other at the end of the game, they're like, next time we watch Browns football, Nick Chubb will be playing.
Stuff like that. So, I mean, they did have the most injuries.
And to get to the playoffs, whenever you get to the playoffs and you lose in that fashion, it sucks. But in the suck meter, I feel like the Browns were playing on some borrowed money.
And it was a very fun season that looked like it had ended like 17 different times. There was different points throughout the Browns season where it was like, that's a wrap.
This guy got injured. Our entire offensive line got injured.
Deshaun Watson got injured. Oh, Miles Garrett got banged up, and he's playing through something.
Nick Chubb's out. And they were still there.
You'd wish for the Browns fans that they could have continued the ride, But I feel like the future is bright as long as you figure out a way to just have Deshaun Watson never play. Yeah, have him, for whatever reason, have it work out where he doesn't have to throw the football, and you can have somebody that steps in for a salary of like $600,000 a year every season take you to the playoffs.
And they are going to get kind of the most additions in free agency this offseason.

Yeah.

Just getting all their own players back.

And with Myles Garrett, you can even say, like, yeah, the defense stunk, but also Myles Garrett has been injured

for the last, like, month, month and a half.

Yeah.

So he hasn't really done shit since Thanksgiving.

Right.

And he's hopefully going to be fully healthy, ready to go next year.

And as long as they keep Jeremiah Owusu-Koromoa.

Yep.

Did I say that right, Jake? You nailed that. You nailed it.
Pretty much. Close.
Pretty much. How do I say it, Jake? I have.
Oh. Oh, so you don't know.
No, I have it right here. No, no.
I'm planning a TikTok. But PFT did that off the dome.
The hardest name to pronounce on every name. PFT did it off the dome.
And you said off your dome that it was incorrect. Yeah, because it's Coromo.
Dome check.

What did he say?

Coromo?

I think he said Caromo.

No, I said Coromo.

Coromo.

I'll give you A+. Thanks.

But as long as they wrap him up long term, that dude is awesome.

He's awesome.

The Browns also, very weird year because the pendulum swung as far as it could swing in

terms of rooting for a quarterback in Deshaun Watson that you kind of always are like, he's a really bad guy, to rooting for the greatest story ever in Joe Flacco and the guy who everyone wants to root for. Yeah.
And now I feel like there's a little bit of, shit, we got to go. Yeah, Deshaun Watson's better than Joe Flacco right now.
Maybe. Maybe.
But you also have to go back to rooting for Deshaun Watson after rooting for the nicest guy in the world in Joe Flacco. Well, fun fact, Joe Flacco has now thrown as many touchdown passes for the Browns as Deshaun Watson has.
That is a fun fact. Is that a fun fact? And this was, you got the full Joe Flacco experience because the old debate on whether or not he's elite goes back to Joe having games and stretches that he puts it together like we saw where he's just like, oh, fuck, this guy can throw the football a mile, and then he'll have a game like this where he just pretty much quits after the first quarter and is like, okay, it's not here today.
I'm not elite today, but my eliteness will come back in. It's Baldinger's cat, being elite and not elite at the same time.
Yeah, so I don't know. I hope that's not the last time we saw Joe Flacco play football because that would be a bummer because we like watching Joe Flacco play football.
He needs to run it back. He needs to run it back.
Joe, you got one more on you. You do.
Absolutely. Some team with a good offensive line should have Joe Flacco.
Why isn't he like the backup quarterback in San Francisco? Or just the backup quarterback, like the first one taken. Like if one starter goes down, Joe should be the first domino.
He should just be on waiver wires. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay, we got to talk about the Texans, though, because this was the Texans' coronation as next up.
I think that's officially – it's officially happened. We'll see how the rest of the playoffs go for them.
But the conversation is now when you talk about, like, the AFC, and it's Burrow, and it's Allen, and it's Mahomes, it's Lamar. C.J.
Stroud and the Texans and how good they are this quickly is insane. Like, and C.J.
Stroud was incredible. That defense was also incredible.
Will Anderson was out of this world good. Derek Stingley just completely shut down Amari Cooper.
Like, they have a bunch of young guys, and I think the Texans are next up. I think they're the team that everyone's like, hey, the future, the next five, ten years, you're going to have to deal with the Texans.
I'm going to say this. Sky's the limit for C.J.
Stroud. How about that? Listen, he was so, so good.
It's crazy because it really is like you can look at stats, and the stats are very, very good, but it's such an eye test an eye test with cj stroud we'll have like three or four times a game where it's he's so calm and he stands in there and he'll be like back footed getting smashed by a defensive lineman and he'll throw an absolute rope to like the perfect placement yeah and like how is this guy seeing this he processes it so fast fuck that stupid test stupid test. And the Texans, like, that was, they just demolished the Browns.
It wasn't even close. It was close for that first half, and then the second half started, and it was over.
He throws the ropes, but he also throws the prettiest little touch passes. Yeah.
He's got such good touch, Deshaun Watson probably wants a massage from him. And it was insane, the little, like was dropping these high passes into like just let your guy run under it if your guy has a step on another guy throw it up in the air and it's it was beautiful to watch and I think now it's our responsibility as media figures to uh set some unrealistic expectations for CJ Stroud what what would be um a over two and a half Super Bowls how many super bowls can he win in order for his career to not be a disappointment over two and a half super yeah you gotta get hammering the over you gotta get three or else you suck or else this or else you should have been bad from the get-go but you were so good at the start now you have to get three super bowls you have to play in houston for 13 years yeah 13 or 14 years probably um yeah three Super Bowls and probably 11 Pro Bowls but it is it is crazy though to consider that like okay so you traded Deshaun Watson who again it needs repeating like the Deshaun Watson shit the timeline is Deshaun Watson kind of wanted out before that yeah it was weird how it went down like remember when the report first came out about like all these masseuses it was like right after Deshaun Watson made it known that he wanted he was playing hardball yeah with the Texans and then these allegations came out we're like what the fuck so they're probably related some something happened that was correlated there but Deshaun Watson wanted out he was your franchise quarterback you thought you were going to be in a great place for 10 years you were next up yeah like it was Hey, Lamar, Deshaun Watson wanted out.
He was your franchise quarterback. You thought you were going to be in a great place for 10 years.
You were next up. It was, hey, Lamar, Deshaun, Mahomes, all these guys, the AFC.
Then you're back to just being the worst team in the league. And just like that, it's why the NFL is the best because all it takes is just one draft pick or a couple draft picks because, like I said, Stingley and Will Anderson were incredible.
But a couple draft picks and the fortunes of your franchise can completely turn. And that's what's happening in Houston.
They have the right coach. They have an incredible quarterback.
They have a young defense. The sky is the limit.
Like, Texans fans went from the depths of hell to back up on top almost instantly. And now the AFC – that was going to be Trevor Lawrence's division.
Not so fast. Yeah.
I mean, all it took was two years of Davis mills. Yeah.
And that's all you had to suffer. Who got in, in this game, who got in for a little bit.
Yeah. So you had to suffer through two years of Davis mills.
Now you're back. And the future is like the brightest it possibly could be as a Texas fan.
And even if you lose in the next round, which I'm not saying that you're going to because i think i've learned a lesson about cj stroud which is uh i'm i'm not going to doubt him yeah i'm not going to doubt him ever no because he's i think he's like that fucking good he is that good and not to brag but we called it yeah stroud boys stand up boys he uh i actually think cj stroud you could make the argument now I went and looked back, might have the most impressive rookie year for a quarterback. So there's obviously some names out there, like Justin Herbert was very good his rookie year.
His team wasn't great. Kyler, Dak.
Brock Purdy got to the UFC championship game, kind of. Yeah.
RG3, incredible rookie year. Russ, Cam, Big Ben won a playoff game his rookie year.
He also went 13-0. And Dan Marino also had an incredible rookie year.
But C.J. Stroud now is 23 touchdowns, 5 interceptions, 4,000 yards plus, and he has a playoff win.
I think he's in the conversation for best rookie year for a quarterback. Yeah, I would agree with that.
I mean, being around for RG3's rookie year, he had like eight weeks where he was unbelievable. And then it ended in a much more horrific fashion than I could have ever imagined.
Cam Newton had an awesome rookie year. Cam Newton had an awesome rookie year.
He had 21 touchdowns, 17 interceptions, so didn't take care of the ball the same way. And his team was 6-10.
And I know, obviously, on a bad team if you're high draft pick you're gonna probably play on a bad team but cj stroud has them yeah with a playoff win now big playoff wins actually because last week was a playoff game true fact uh big ben's rookie year was so funny too when he went 13 and 0 13 you know his teammates publicly questioned his ability to lead the team yeah when he took it over they're like well no'm not excited that Big Ben's starting for us. Why would I be excited about that? He's a rookie.
And then they were just like, Ben, just hand the ball off. Yeah.
Every single play, just hand the ball. Yeah, he had 2,600 yards in 13 games.
Yeah. And 17 touchdowns, 11 interceptions.
And he won a playoff game. But, yeah, I think it's a real discussion that he – by the way, I should say Cam did break the record.
He had 14 rushing touchdowns his rookie year. In terms of play in the regular season and now winning a playoff game as a rookie quarterback, I think C.J.
Stroud might be it. I think the conversation might end with C.J.
Stroud as the best rookie season in its totality in the NFL. Yeah, I'd be so pumped if I was a Texans fan.
So pumped. Don't let anybody tell you anything no no you you have our full permission to just be like the biggest dickhead all week yeah if you work with somebody that's a titans fan if you work with someone who's a colts fan or really any team in the afc besides the chiefs and the bills and the ravens um talk all the shit yeah just don't do it real dickhead don't do it with any astia on.
No. Because that's the- You'll open yourself up.
You got to remember, yeah, like I think like, oh, I kind of feel bad for Rockets fans because James Harden fucked them over as a franchise. But it's like, wait, but the Astros.
We'll just keep it to Texans. Yeah, no Astros jerseys, no Ted Cruz hats, and then you should be good to go.
Yeah, the Texans. A couple notes on, funny notes on the broadcast.
I know your friend was calling the game uh he did a great job he did a great job a couple notes though and it I don't think it was his fault he's fed a lot of stuff uh it did make me laugh when he said that uh they talked to Nico Collins and asked him uh what the difference was between last year and this year and he cited yoga not going from Davis Mills cj stroud but yoga but yoga he's more flexible yoga definitely helped is more flexible the quarterback plays the same but he's he's able to stretch his joints out seem like a very obvious cj stroud's my quarterback now yeah namaste yeah and then the other one that was funny was and and this is i hate to do this because michigan fans have had a of a week, but it was very funny when they said on the broadcast, C.J. Stroud, he stepped up his game in his two biggest games in his college career, and they cited the Utah Rose Bowl and the Georgia loss in the playoff just completely – The Michigan loss.
Just pretending the two Michigan losses didn't happen. Well, postseason.
Yeah, but still, like, you can't say the biggest game for Ohio State is the Utah Rose Bowl. I would actually make the argument that the Ohio State-Michigan game is a postseason game.
Yeah. I mean, the last few years.
Yeah, it has been. Yeah.
Yeah. So, those were funny, though.
But to his defense, that Utah-Ohio State game was awesome. That was an awesome game.
It was so good. That was a great game.
And the Georgia game was great. But it was funny because Michigan fans were like, wait, what? You can't say that he steps up his game in the big moments and then just forget that game.
He's so good. He's so goddamn good.
I want that. So bad.
So bad. How much do you think it would take for the Texans to trade C.J.
Stroud right now? Okay, so I had a hypothetical package. We had this debate last week.
How many teams say no? Yeah, but I'm saying what is the hypothetical package for C.J. Stroud? I think it's Mahomes and three first-round picks.
Mahomes and two first-round picks. In fact, in his first year, you have another three years to build an entire team.
Your window is completely open now. You can go spend all this money, stack your roster.'t have to pay cj stroud for another three years i think i i don't think that there's a package you could put together he's that good i think you'd say no i want our guy yeah even when we get to uh the packers game and jordan love has been i think their numbers were actually almost identical today yeah it was like four yards off yeah they were they were exact same completions and everything.
It was, yes, Jordan Love was 16 for 21, 272 yards, three touchdowns. C.J.
Stroud was 16 for 21, 274 yards, three touchdowns. But even Jordan Love, you had to pay.
Like he's now, you had to pay him. C.J.
Stroud is the rare, it's crazy. A true freshman.
I didn't mention Andrew Luck also also had a good rookie year he had a very good year but yeah led him to the playoffs this is and who knows i mean they're probably although i'm thinking back to it like they played the ravens i think week one so cj stroud's first start and i remember the ravens won by i think it was like 26 to 9 or something I remember thinking like, ooh, the Texans kind of stayed in this game a little bit. I'm done doubting C.J.
Stroud. It's also a good reminder going into next year.
We should probably set a reminder for ourselves about this one. Don't judge rookie quarterbacks on how they play in the preseason.
Yeah, or first game, or first month. Yeah, he was not very good.
Or first three years. Yeah.
Do you guys want it week one? Yeah, yeah. Because there's a good chance that Big Ken and I both have rookie quarterbacks.
Week one, Friday, preseason. Yeah, can you remind us, like, hey, don't judge them if they play poorly.
But, yeah, if they play poorly. If it's good.
If it's good, then, yes, overreact, please. Yeah, then you have to overreact.
Yeah. Remind us to overreact, actually, if if they complete a pass this also um it really is like i want it so bad and it makes me think about my own situation probably makes you think about your own situation as well pft like seeing cj stroud play football that's a no doubt guy you don't have to we've had the discussion many times if you ever have to ask yourself and or convince yourself even a little bit the answer is no yeah because cj stroud there is no debate there is no like oh is he is he not no he is we see it with our own two eyes i wonder if david tepper watched this game you think he did no probably no i don't think he did oh i was one off 25-9 was uh the final score week one when the ravens playeds played the Texans that might be the worst situation to get thrown into as a rookie too your very first game yeah the Ravens go on the road to Baltimore to Baltimore have fun it's gonna be a fun game yeah it was the first time that was a Gami yeah great they're haunting us even in you remember every Gami's the pictures right behind him.
I can actually see the CJ Stroud one.

That's a different one.

Oh.

Do we have a line yet for this game?

Whose line is it anyway?

What's the spread?

I'm going to say Baltimore.

Ravens seven and a half.

Eight.

Yeah.

We don't have a line.

Can we find a line?

Can you find a line?

Is this game set?

Oh, no, it's not set. It's not set.
It's not set. Oh, yeah.
There's only one set game, which is Packers-Niners. Yeah.
Which that has to be like Niners-10 or something. Yeah, it's nine and a half.
Okay, so congrats to the Texans. Sorry to Browns fans.
Also, Bobby Sloick probably going to get a job. Yeah, Sloick.
He's going to get a lot of interviews. But does he do a Ben Johnson where he's like, you know what? Maybe I should stay.
Maybe like there's what CJ Stroud going into next season is going to be probably the fourth or fifth like odds for, for the MVP. Yeah.
It's a, it's a, it won't be that crazy. Like, so you'd be like, Oh, maybe I'll just be offensive coordinator.
offensive coordinator, the MVP. If I were Bobby Slocke, I would just keep turning down head coaching jobs until they can't stand it anymore.
And they're like, this guy has to be awesome. Right.
Because he said no to head coaching jobs so many times. Right.
That's the strategy right there. And Domingo Ryan's awesome.
But then you never take one. You just stay a coordinator.
Also, we should get credit for that because I think we were throwing Domingo Ryan's name around before he became a head coach. Yep.
He should be a head coach. Next up.
Yep. Yeah.
It was our own Rooney rule, internal. Mm-hmm.
Just to throw it out there. No, you have to throw out a defensive head coach.
Yes, exactly. Exactly.
Just to show everyone that we, you know. No ball.
Defensive and offensive coach is the same. I think it's about time that we used to almost interview more defensive head coaches than offensive head coaches because they've had it so bad for so long.
It really does show if you hire a defensive head coach, it's not the worst thing. You just got to nail the offensive coordinator.
That's really all it is. And preferably you have to have an offensive coordinator that has really good future offensive coordinator friends that he comes along with.
Yes, but that's it. Because a lot of defensive head coaches are like, oh man, why did we hire we hire another defensive head coach well if he gets a great offense coordinator who the fuck cares

yeah so if you get a great offense coordinator then you have to be prepared to lose them in one or two years that's a really good and it's an awesome problem to have i would love to be in that situation because we keep losing it out the other end yeah when they get fired uh okay next game. Chiefs 26, Dolphins 7.
Oh man, man the candy ass uniform showed up in a big big big way those pants were a big blinking aqua warning sign being like not not ready for negative 30 degree wind chills right now that was it was like invading russia in the winter time it was so bad the dolphins are so bad they are The game would have probably been a little bit different if it was in the friendly confines of Miami where it was probably going to be 60 degrees. But you just took one look at Tua when he went on the field.
You're like, oh, this guy doesn't want to be here. And I don't blame him.
You should not be outside when it's that cold. But I also don't think that it would have been different in Miami.
The Dolphins finished this season seven games versus playoff teams. Actually, let me do it the other way around.
Eleven games versus non-playoff teams. They were 10-1 plus 196-point differential.
Seven games versus playoff teams. They were 1-6 minus 110-point differential.
Yep. They were always this team.
I think it would have been different if it was Miami. I don't think it would have been.
Maybe they don't win. The Chiefs would have scored more because Mecole Hardman wouldn't have just stopped running routes five times.
That was weird, right? There were some players on both sides of the ball that just didn't want to be outside. Yeah.
They were like, I want to go home. And it was Mecole Hardman that gave up on a route.
There was a perfect pass. He thought he got held, right? right yeah and so he just stopped and looked for a call in the middle of the play and then there was elliot on uh on the dolphin side that just did not look like he wanted to tackle anybody at all and again i don't blame you like that it probably sucked being out in that weather but it definitely affected you know who it didn't affect at all was andy reed yeah andy reed with the icicle mustache credible it looked like he just finished off frosty the snowman it was it was uh the one of the best football guy sites of all time just getting icicles building up on your upper lip and you're so focused on calling plays yeah that you don't even wipe your mouth off he probably i mean he needed to get a full towel when he got into the locker room.
Probably blow-dried.

He probably blow-dried his mustache.

Dripping everywhere.

So the question is, what do the Dolphins do?

Because I like Tua, but this has now been a couple years.

And obviously last year he didn't – I mean, Skylar Thompson played better in the cold in the one playoff game.

Yeah.

The Dolphins played in.

It's been 20 years since they've won a playoff game.

Do you say, well, we had so many defensive injuries, which is true. The Dolphins were just a shell of themselves defensively by the end of the year.
They lost their best players on almost every single level. Or do you say we've got to figure something out because – and maybe it's Mike McDaniel play calling.
Mike McDaniel, he's a great coach, but how many stupid screens and they just don't have that second level of, hey, the elements are here. We've got to just run the ball down your throat or we've got to play a different way.
Even the passing plays that they're running, like you're saying, all the screens out to the side, they were afraid of the middle of the field, which isn't like the Dolphins have been all year long.

Right. Because they have thrown the ball to the middle of the field a little bit.

And the Chiefs defense was incredible, so we've got to give them credit.

They were all over the place.

I have to assume that there was something about the conditions

that made him not want to throw the ball like a normal human being would.

But you can't.

So is the answer for the Dolphins that they have to get home for the advantage?

Yes.

That's the only way that they're going to win. Spin uh losing the division was actually good for you because now you get to play an easier schedule next year which should be which should be now maybe you can play 13 teams that don't make the playoffs yeah you get home field advantage to the super bowl yeah i don't know what the answer is for the dolphins but it does feel i i would assume you know you had a pretty successful season you were playing for the division last week of the season, which was actually kind of a collapse and you shouldn't have been in there.
But your team is good. You have good players.
But it feels like if they just run exactly the same thing back, they're going to just have the same thing happen when they play a team that has more grit and piss and vinegar to them. Mike Vrabel in the fourth quarter of a game if they had closed out that game against Tennessee might be a different story would have been hosting the bills probably yeah yeah so I yeah I don't know if you blow they're not in blow it up mode they're not but it would take it feel like it would take balls to blow I feel like Mike McDaniel is uh too nice of a guy and he's probably close enough friends with some of the players on the team, or at least they've formed that relationship, which is good that you want a coach to have, but I feel like he doesn't have the balls to blow it up right now.
It's not blow it up. It's definitely not blow it up because you can't blow up a team that has that much talent and they won, what, 10 games, 11 games? 10 games? 11-6.
11-6. You can't blow up an 11-win team, especially when it feels like they're on the rise.
But what are the tweaks that make you not be a team that can't play other good teams? I don't know the answer to that. Got to add some pieces.
Got to add some pieces and free agency. You got to add some toughness.
I know that sounds very, we're like minimizing everything, but the Dolphins do lack toughness. Yeah.
How could you add toughness in one offseason? Richie Incognito. Yeah, bring him home.
Bring him back. Bring him home.
That's actually a very good way to add toughness. Sometimes you got to go backwards to go forward.
Bill Romanowski, linebackers coach. I love that.
Danny Woodhead, running back consultant. These are ways to bring toughness.
Yeah, John Kuhn. Just have John Kuhn in the building.
Yeah, just to hang out. Just have Frank in there and just rip every player yeah change the logo yeah change the logo bring back the dolphin that's wearing the helmet yeah and then put the dolphin on that on the helmet of that dolphin yeah they need to do something different something's got to change that's the name of the dolphin yeah td and he was stolen nace ventura pet stolen in Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.
That's facts. Well, his name was Snowflake in that movie.
That's facts. Bring back Ray Finkel.
Also, okay, here's one easy one they could do. Get Chase Claypool off your team.
Yeah. Okay, so Chase Claypool, here are the numbers.
The Steelers, the season they traded Chase Claypool, before they traded him, they were 2-6. After they traded him, they were 7-2.
The Bears then got Chase Claypool. Before they got Chase Claypool, they were 3-5.
While having Chase Claypool on the team, they were 1-13. The minute they got rid of him, they were 6-5.
1-13. And then the Dolphins started the season 6-2, traded and two traded for chase claypool finished five and five yeah probably got to get him off your team not good probably that might be the simple fix what is the what's his career war i don't know i want to i want to know which is plus minus the one in 13 stretch for the bears with chase claypool and i don't think he was even active for the one which was against the the Reds.
Yeah. Commanders this year.
He was out there. Yeah.
Here's what you do in free agency. You add Chris Jones.
Oh, you just get Chris Jones from the chiefs. That would actually be really nice.
That would be very, very smart. If you could get him on the team.
What about, what about this? Let me just dingle this one out here. Dingle.
I like that. Dingle it.
I don't know. I don't think I've heard that before.
Yeah. Dangle dingling.
I think you mean dangle. I'm dangling in front of him.
I'm dingling. I'm dingling.
It's like I'm ringing a bell and I'm seeing if you react. Dingle.
It's like Hank in a cold pool. A dingle.
Yeah, dingle, dingle. Kirk Cousins.
Yeah. Mighty Dolphin.
Ooh. I don't hate it.
I think I would kick the tires on Kirk. I really like Tua, and I wish it didn't go that way in the last two games.
Because the last two games, the Dolphins offense in the second half against the Bills, and then all Saturday night, just did nothing. You know who would be really good? And one broken play to Tyreek.
You know who would be really good in that offense? Joe Flacco. Mm-hmm.
Joe Flacco would be... Cheetah would not be able to outrun a Joe Flacco pass.
I actually know exactly what they need to do. This is a real one because we've thrown out some fake ones, although Richie Incognito was a real one.
Yep. The Dolphins desperately need like a big athletic tight end, like a dude.
Yeah. It feels like that is missing from their game, kind of like what the Bills had before they got Dawson Knox and Dal and dalton kincaid now they have that middle middle of the field but like they need they need one of those guys trade up maybe run the be able to run the ball trade up catch the ball in the middle brock bowers yeah it does feel like if they had that their offense would would be a little more cohesive because it the dolphins are are pretty much predicated on like you got to hit those big shots and on saturday night they were they were none.
And their running game was so good this year. That's what makes it even more frustrating.
Baldi told us they never had, like, a physical run. A power run.
Yeah. Yeah.
And HM was so good. No, they're soft running.
And then he got hurt. I want to see training camp fights from the Dolphins next year.
I want to see just an angry football team. Yeah.
If they're angry, then they could win a Super Bowl. They should build an igloo or a reverse dome.
Yeah. Practice in the cold.
Do training camp in Mystery Alaska. Yeah.
I like that. All right.
We got to talk about the Chiefs, though. The dangerous Chiefs, who are very dangerous.
That was basically everything that all Chiefs fans were like, just wait, just wait, just wait. Rasheed Rice, just wait worked because he had eight catches for 130 yards and a touchdown, which I think that combo was a record for all of 24 hours until Puka Nakua played his first playoff game.
That was a rookie record. But Patrick Mahomes is now 12-3 in the playoffs.
and 3 in the playoffs he's played six seasons first season he was I'm not counting because he didn't play he played that week 17 games 12 and 3 in the playoffs Patrick Mahomes has more playoff wins than Troy Aikman Patrick Mahomes has the same amount of playoff wins as Aaron Rodgers and he's one one playoff win away from tying Ben Roethlisberger and Brett Favre. Patrick Mahomes, again, 12 playoff wins in six seasons.
Peyton Manning got his 12th playoff win in his 17th and final season. John Elway got his 12th playoff win in his 16th and final season.
He has 12 playoff wins in six seasons. He's 12-3.
It's insane. Every single year, it's Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs.
Do it on the road, though, Pat. Oh, we should have.
Do it on the road. He's an Arrowhead merchant.
We should have put a disclaimer here for all the Chiefs fans that think we never say anything nice about Patrick Mahomes. Please don't listen to this next clip because it will just ruin everything that you've thought about us.
The running disclaimer for Patrick Mahomes on this show is that everything that we say, every word that comes out of my mouth, it could be prefaced by Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback in the NFL, but, and then I say whatever I'm going to say anyway. Right.
Because it's understood he's the best quarterback in the NFL. Again, six seasons, 12 playoff wins.
It's not even like a question anymore. Like, he obviously, people will expect him to get to Brady in terms of Super Bowls, but like, he's going to pass some of the best quarterbacks of all time in his sixth or seventh season.
It's insane. Yeah, and there's a reason why he hasn't had to go on the road is because he's really fucking good in the regular too yeah so they don't have to worry about that did you see after the game the exchange between tua and patrick mahomes yeah tua went up to patrick mahomes and he said hey man great game um you want to do a jersey swap can i have your jersey and mahomes looked at him was like uh you know what i'm supposed to give this to somebody else hang on you know what know what? I'm supposed to give this to somebody else.
Can I send you one instead? So he's going to mail to a different jersey. You have to have that locked down.
You can't. You can't ask for it after a playoff loss where you get completely embarrassed.
Well, there's that, but also you have to know that if you do ask for it, you're going to get the jersey. Yeah.
It's like asking a hot chick to homecoming you have to know that the answer is yes before you embarrass you can't you can't you can't propose unless you know the answer is going to be yes exactly and he did it on the jumbotron he did on the jumbotron and my homes he was polite but he said i've already promised this to somebody else i just you should ask for the helmet as god's cracked that so that is fucking tough right there by the Holmes. It was so cold outside that their equipment was breaking.
His helmet shatters. And he keeps playing.
And they're like, hey, no, you have to get your helmet switched out. And that right there is why I'm not a football player.
Yeah. I could not do that.
My helmet wouldn't have shattered. Yeah, too much.
I would have been standing on the sideline. Well, you would avoid the big hit.
You'd be in the end zone. My helmet would be on the heated chair on the sideline.
You'd be taken off because you just scored another 99-yard touchdown. It's crazy, though, because the Chiefs are so alive in these playoffs.
It would not stun me whatsoever. After all this happened this season, it's still Patrick Mahomes.
He's still the guy that you trust more than any

other quarterback in the NFL but you saw a couple of those passes at Kelsey Kelsey had a couple big drops Kelsey looks old but if Rasheed Rice is going to start being good like Rasheed Rice has been good I should I should say that he has he has come along this season and you've seen it like he has grown a lot as a receiver so if Rasheed Rice is like now is my coming out party now I'm going to be a world beater, like that is what their offense is needed.

And Pacheco just runs so fucking pacheco was built for that game last night pacheco weather pacheco actually like i think there was a dolphins that didn't want to tackle him just seeing him stomp around yeah he was the only one that was getting any traction in the ground because he was just stomping like tiny little knives into it yeah he probably broke the coils underneath i love it I love it. He just moon stomps.
He curb stomps the ground when he runs. And it's very funny because sometimes he does it for no real reason.
Like the best. The best is when Isaiah Pacheco gets in the open field and then he just starts stomping the ground upright while he's running away from somebody.
You're like, yeah, that's not how physics work. You're supposed to be like leaning forward and running um but yeah he was he was ready for the cold and i think that rasheed rice is uh he's the one guy on the chiefs where he's the one pass catcher that hasn't fucked up badly enough this year that it's cost them a game yeah he's been at least consistent across the board and he's young yeah everybody else has been like well that guy can't trust him he has an excuse yeah all these other guys don't have an excuse.
I think I trust Rasheed Rice. Right.
I don't trust MVS. Travis Kelsey, he's still...
Oh, Hardman, I don't trust. He's still very good.
Travis Kelsey's still really good, but he has a lot of drops now. Yeah.
Tired fingers. Yeah, very tired fingers.
What'd you think about the box, Jake? I saw the swag surfing. Yeah.
Taylor was into that. Yeah.
The box was blurred out a little bit. Yeah.
It was very cold. It was a foggy glass.
Yeah. For the kids at home.
She wore a jacket that was made by Kyle Juszczyk's wife. Oh, yeah.
Juszczyk. Can you please say her name? Say her name, Jake.
Yeah. I have to look it up.
I will say that. You said it.
Christian Juszczyk. Yeah.
Okay. Christian Juszczyk's wife.
She makes everyone's jackets. And shout out Kyle because he's ride or die.
He was just replying to everyone online. I think Kyle might.
Made by my wife. That's awesome.
Yeah, no, sick. He might be the wife guy of the year.
Yeah. He was replying to every tweet that was going viral.
He was just like, yeah, my wife made that. And then he would tag his wife and everyone.
Yeah, he made a jacket for someone on the Lion's side. Yeah, she made it.
Taylor whatever that guy's. No.
Lautner. There it is.
Okay. Taylor Lautner? I don't know who he is.
Team Jacob. What? Team Jacob.
What's it called? Twilight? Twilight. Oh, okay.
Twilight reference. Team Jacob.
But yeah, so she made that jacket today. And then Jushek was gassing her up too.

Yes.

He was like, yeah, she did this one too.

Yeah.

I want one.

Yeah, I want one too.

Please, Kyle.

Who would be the funniest player to get a jacket like that made of?

Jameis Winston?

I would like one that's just Justin Fields and Caleb Williams.

Split?

Yeah.

Duo one?

Yeah.

I like both of them.

Yeah.

Yeah, I want one that's just a second overall pick.

Ooh, I'll take first overall pick.

Back-to-back first overall pick.

Yeah.

Give me that.

Ray Lewis would be pretty funny.

Yeah, that was an ass-kicking. And they did it defensively.
They did it with Mahomes being Mahomes. I still just can't get over.
12 playoff wins in six seasons is a joke. I mean, Brady's the only one who's come close.
Brady, I think Brady surpassed it because he obviously won three Super Bowls in his first four years. So it really is Brady then Mahomes.
Like, he will pass everyone. He's four away from Montana.
It's crazy. He's out of this world good and when you talk about big playoff moments, he's the number one trust guy.
It must be so, so nice to be a Kansas City fan. God damn.
He even had that big run. He does those runs in the playoffs.
He gets faster. Patrick Mahomes' runs in the playoffs have never not worked.
They work and they always and they always go for about seven to nine yards farther than you think they're going to go for. He's also the best quarterback at running out of bounds.
Yeah. When he sticks the ball out he'll just like tuck it out at the last second.
Yeah. Always gets you an extra like yard yard and a half at the very end of it and he'll also do a thing where he'll like run to the sideline and then teams will assume that he's going to go out of bounds.
Then cuts back in yeah and doesn't get hit at all and goes down on his own terms yeah really good really good performance by my homes i think the chief we said like a few weeks ago that the chiefs are in a position where now they actually do have doubters well yeah but now they now they can actually harvest all that right all that doubt and because they've done it in the past when they've had to invent people that say that they can't win now they're 100% right when they say that everyone's overlooking them and they have been overlooked and you're and the people who do that are just as dumb as the people who decide to pick the Broncos or the Raiders or the Chargers to win the AFC West every single August yes like I yes the Chiefs could lose next week they can lose the AFC championship losing the the super bowl i'm not gonna be the one who's being like the chiefs are dead and we should we should count them out of the playoffs because it's patrick mahomes you know what's crazy is if you if you talk about like is this season a disappointment and for the browns it's not uh for the texans it's not for the dolphins it is for the chiefs depending how they play next week i could see a world where the Chiefs lose in a close game and Kansas City fans aren't like super dejected about it because you know what you have you know what you have to fix I do think though the Chiefs are and this is a compliment to them they are kind of in that Patriots zone where it's like AFC championship is like marked on their calendar every year they're also in the zone what have they been to to? Five straight? Six straight? You're right. You're in the right straight? You don't want to waste.
Every year since 2018. Yeah, so six straight.
You don't want to waste a year in the homes. Right.
So that's where the disappointment would be. But in terms of how far can this team go, you know that there's some flaws in the team.
Your defense is great. You've got real problems at wide receiver.
If you compete next week and you play well, you score a few points. Oh, I think there's this.
You're going to be pissed off. Don't get me wrong.
Yeah, Hank's here. I think, Hank, am I right? That's loser talk.
Oh, shut up, Hank. Hank, I am right, though.
The Chiefs fans have every right now. They have it penciled in like playoff start in the AFC championship game.
Yeah, you have the best quarterback in the world. You have one of the best coaches in the world.
It's very similar to the Patriots. You have a banged-up team.
You have injuries. You don't have the best receivers.
That sounds like the Patriots run, but you still expect to go to the Super Bowl. And if you lost when the Patriots did lose in the divisional round, you're like, that was a huge disappointment.
Huge. And if you get to the AFC championship game, you lose the AFC championship game those games are tight those games are tough but you have to get to the AFC championship game yeah Mahomes and Andy Reid there's no excuse yeah I I do think that's how they and it's again it's it's a credit to them that that is what the standard is like the standard is has gotten so high that they can every year be like hey we will be playing in the last weekend in january every single year but if you go back if you rewind like five weeks you weren't you were looking at a team and you're like i don't expect us to win a super but that happened to the patriots a bunch of times too they would win super bowls those years where it's like oh yeah everyone's written us off and they just find a way to round it no receivers yeah i just think my my theory is that uh your team at least isn't constructed to a point right now where you're expecting to win the super bowl no they're not they're not a superpower like they've been other years but they have patch from homes and that makes them the most dangerous team in every playoffs they're in but hank we want to we want to use your time wisely yeah wait h, Hank, we should do some ads first.
Let's do two ads, and then we'll – Sorry, yeah, no, I couldn't – I was – I could not help myself when PFT was like – I couldn't – Yeah, it was. I was happy you were here for that.
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Okay. Packers 48, Cowboys 32.
We have Hank in Dallas. He's sitting in a basement, it looks like, with a sign saying, wish you would, would behind him.
Hank can we just quickly talk about the game and then I want to hear all your thoughts. Is that okay? Of course.
Okay. I'm here for you guys.
I want to start with just real quick the Packers. Jordan Love is really fucking good.
I've just accepted the fact that he's probably a future hall of famer um i'm hoping that i'm hoping it's just one super bowl like the last two guys um but i also am starting to kind of connect some dots and uh aaron rogers won super bowl was uh week 17 the bears uh lost to the packers the bears were in the playoffs already bears lost to the packers Packers were able to get in with that week 17 the Bears lost to the Packers the Bears were in the playoffs already, Bears lost to the Packers Packers were able to get in with that week 17 win went on a miracle run to win the Super Bowl as the sixth seed the Bears lost to the Packers in week 17 or 18 this year Packers get in, last seed Jordan Love okay, I've done the dots connecting and it doesn't look. But either way, the Packers were awesome today.
They kicked the shit out of the Cowboys. Jordan Love is so calm, cool, collected.
Everything we said for C.J. Stroud goes for Jordan Love.
Like, he's – you can just see it with your eyes. It's just there.
Yeah. His back foot throws, his calmness in the pocket, moving around.
He has just gone to the Aaron rogers factory and just remade aaron rogers so he had the first perfect playoff passer rating in the history of the stat today which is crazy which is stroud didn't which is nuts yeah i mean going back to aaron's chats from last friday he said that stat really doesn't take everything into account that's important but still it's a big number and he's the first person to ever have that big number in the playoffs. Obviously played really well.
The Packers now have two playoff wins. We talked about this on Friday too.
The Packers have two playoff wins in Dallas at AT&T Stadium. The Dallas Cowboys also have two wins in the playoffs at AT&T Stadium.
Three. Three.
They won a Super Bowl there.

Yeah, it's technically three wins in the venue.

So against the Cowboys.

They have two.

They won.

They beat the Steelers there. But they beat the Steelers there.

So really, yeah.

They have three.

They won the biggest thing there.

They own that building.

They literally own that building.

It's crazy.

Yeah, but Jordan Love, to your point,

he is the most calm person that you've ever seen.

He is staying

completely medium the entire time you can get guys in his face he's making throws off his back feet where he releases and you're like oh that's a bad throw and then it just travels 35 yards on a rope right it's crazy it's nuts and the Packers defense played great like they were obviously that's the the side of the uh the part of their team that everyone was saying like well their defense is trash. I know that they gave

up a lot of yards in the second half in garbage time.

They made Dak look terrible in the first half. Pick six, another interception.
They got him a short field and a touchdown. I'm not going to let myself get worried until if they beat the 49ers, I will officially be worried because the 49ers are my savior.
They do kick the shit out of the Packers every single time they play them uh so I'm not that worried but this is we were talking about wins of a season now the Texans have a win of a season the Browns have a win of a season even though they lost the Dolphins have a loss of a season Packers have a resounding success of a season this is a rebuilding year and they just went and won a playoff game as a seven seed uh it's yeah they're they're good like Jordan Love love is going to be good for a really long time i have to just come to grips with it and i have to be like hopefully the bears could somehow find someone better because there's no other way around it he's a really good quarterback and it hurts me to say it yeah and you know who's also a really good quarterback dak prescott 400 yards passing i feel like you have to extend the guy right he shows up in the playoffs he delivers when it when it matters. He doesn't play defense, Big Cat.
Dak Prescott, you got to give him a massive, massive contract extension and keep him in that division for the next seven years. Am I right, Max? 100%.
If you look at that stat line today, how could you think otherwise? You couldn't. What, do you have 400 yards? 400 yards, three touchdowns.
He had three touchdowns and two interceptions, so that's more touchdowns than interceptions. He's a gunslinger.
He's going to take chances and throw a couple bad ones that he gets unlucky on. Yeah, it was the Dallas defense that really let him down, not Dak Prescott.
Dak showed up, and I think that people need to put more respect on Dak Prescott's name and keep him around. That man is the face of your franchise.
um they don't grow Dax on trees there's one person who disagrees with us not Hank Lockwood who's shaking his head who's a noted Cowboys fan Skip Bayless had this to say after the game get rid of Dak Prescott enough of the suffering he was a fourth rounder for a reason that's that's mean that's mean to bring up your draft grade uh I threw his jersey away for a reason he's now two and five in the playoffs big moment loser not a dallas cowboy quarterback fourth rounder for a reason you don't do that he is bring up bring up his crew what's draft what skip's doing is saying like we were right about dak yeah the media was right about dak skip got bodied by his smart trash can it It was awesome. He did his annual, I'm going to throw my cowboy's paraphernalia away, and his smart trash can just kept on closing on him after every time he tossed something away and he had to go frustratingly open it again while Ernestine was held under hostage, taking yet again another video.
It's very concerning to me that Skip no longer has the groin level microwave in his in his kitchen he has like an uh upstairs microwave he has to go into the cabinets terrible backsplash by the way bad backsplash the kitchen needs a lot of work also skip uh be a man burn your fucking shit well i'm so sick of you just taking it out of the trash and doing it again next year be a man and burn it so he's two and five two. Dak is 2-5 in his playoff career.
I'm pretty sure that Skip Bayless has thrown away the same jersey five times. Five times.
Five times. Fun stat, though, about Dak.
It's kind of a hater stat. I personally consider myself to be a Dak stan.
I like Dak Prescott. I'd like to see him stay around for a while.
Love him. He is 2-5 in his playoff career.
He's tied for the lowest postseason quarterback win percentage in the Super Bowl era with a minimum of five starts. I'd also like to play a quick game that I just invented right now called Dr.
Fiction. Okay.
You want to play? Yeah. Alright, so Dr.
Fiction. Dak Prescott has as many playoff wins as Nick Foles.
Fiction. That would be fiction.
It's fiction because Dak and Tony Romo combined have as many playoff wins as Nick Foles does. Dr.
Fiction. Dak had over a half-yard passing in the first quarter.
That's fiction. That's fiction.
Yeah. The under-cached on that one.
Yeah, cached the tickets. Dr.
Fiction. The Dallas Cowboys are the first team to win 12 games in three straight seasons and fail to make the conference championship in any of those years that is fact that's that's that that one's a dact okay yeah they have not made the conference championship in 29 years i believe yeah yeah i think so not since they went to the super bowl yeah i think it's 29 years they it's been a long ass time for the cowboys every year we about the Cowboys.
Watch out for the Cowboys. And then they're bounced.
And this one is 7.5-point favorites against the Packers, who are the 7th seed at home, where they had not lost this year. Dr.
Fiction, the Cowboys had not lost this year. Dacked.
Dacked. They had not lost this year at home.
They got absolutely pantsed, looked like idiots. Little boy play little boy ass play i do i i think most people are agreeing with us now that dak like this is enough now where it's like okay something's up one and six against the spread as as a uh playoff quarterback two and five overall and i said this one and six against the spread and Max just, I had never heard this before, but Max, or no, sorry, it was Stephen Che.
Stephen Che was like, well, they stole all of our signs last year. I didn't know that that was something that the Bucs community was claiming.
That sounds like something Stephen Che read on a message board. Yeah, so I guess we'll put an asterisk on his one, but if you watch that game and you say that Dak was not the problem, yes, the defense sucked.
The Cowboys defense sucked. Jordan Love carved him up.
Dak Prescott, how he came out in that game, it was over. Like he looked so bad to start the game.
And two interceptions in the first half, he put them in such a hole that there was no chance they were coming back. And then when they're down

25 points or whatever it was,

he's tossing the ball all over the

yard. You can pretend that that

wasn't a Dak loss. That was a Dak

loss. He did not show up to start

the game, and they got punched in the mouth

and they could never recover. And Jerry Jones was

so upset after the first quarter.

He was slamming his paper around up in the booth,

turning around, getting Bill Belichick on the phone. mccarthy's out mike mccarthy's got to be done uh or as as jerry jones said last week we're gonna take this on a game-by-game basis yeah so we have one game to go on in the playoffs busiest cat in texas i would say that mike mccarthy uh did not really show up for this one either greg olson did say we love greg olson he's a great announcer.
Good friend of the show. But this was idiotic of him.
He said that people would be calling Mike McCarthy right away to hire him. I think he said falling over themselves.
Falling over themselves. I think there's going to be a little cooling off period with Mike McCarthy because this was a like you just can't look.
They looked so bad. So bad on offense and defense.
Couldn't run the ball. They haven't been able to run the ball really all year.
And the Packers just took it to them. Like, they ran it down their throat.
The Cowboys are the quintessential frontrunners. Yeah, build the offense around Jake Ferguson.
Yeah. And CeeDee Lamb.
Badger. Although, there was some people saying that CeeDee and Dak were mad at each other during this game, mad at each other going into the game.
I don't know if I'd buy that. I feel like Dak just played poorly today.
He played poorly. You know what he did? And I don't know if this is – I hope I'm not getting got, but the Louis Vuitton thing.
Oh, yeah. I've got the quote right here.
That was so bad. Go ahead.
Give it to us. So Dak Prescott has set up – That makes sense.
Dak Prescott has set up reminders for himself about reaching this year's Super Bowl. I've got a lot of Louis Vuitton stuff.
It's because of the LV is Las Vegas. If I look at my bag, it's all LV.
Literally, I just went and got my girl a bag the other day. I'm like, the only one I'm getting is one of these ones with the LV logo on it.
That was an easy, simple reminder. So I think there's some Louis Vuitton bags that don't have LV on them.
Either way, there was too much pressure in his house by the bags. The bags were too much for him.
He was just staring at reminders of how his season will be a disappointment if he doesn't make the Super Bowl all year long. Yeah, he should have gotten, I don't know, what's a brand that's WC? Wildcard.
Try to win the win the wild card once. And now he has to throw out all those bags.
He has to throw them all out. Like, if you keep those bags, then you're the biggest fraud of all time.
The only reason you got those bags is because they say Las Vegas. Yes.
Nothing to do with anything else. Give them to your lineman.
So they got to go anywhere else but your house. If he keeps those bags, he's the biggest fraud of all time.
Also, shout out our guy Stink, Mark Schlereth, who called this all the way back in september when uh jerry jones traded for trey lanson didn't tell anyone um stink said uh that that's not how you run an organization and that they suck and uh he said back in september oh they may win a bunch of regular season games because they're talented but they'll get in the playoffs and they'll shit in their helmets like they do every year.

That's the Cowboys.

That's a perfect quote.

Stink's right.

Stink was right.

No, shit in their helmets.

Okay, so the important thing here.

Hank, you're Cowboys.

You went down to Dallas.

You were so excited to get to Jerry's World,

to see your Cowboys in action. Tell us, how did the game go from your point of view? I have never seen in person witness someone have the yips like Dak had the yips.
Obviously, I wasn't watching the broadcast. I was watching the game.
The first interception was a terrible throw, and it was like you could, you know, we had good seats. You could see it happen in front of you, and you're like – you could see he was telegraphing the pass.
It was a bad throw, poorly thrown ball, got intercepted. It was like that was a bad throw.
He got sacked on the third down when he just didn't get rid of the ball. He held onto it for too long, got sacked, and it was like he has the yips.
Before he even threw the pick six, I was talking to the people around me. I was likeac has the yips he can't throw like he literally cannot throw the defense didn't show up but dac prescott he had the yips there was no other way to describe it after like after the interception and after watching him get sacked when like he had a bunch of opportunities to throw the ball away and he just held on to it and got sacked it was like he doesn't like he he doesn't know what's going on right now yeah there was a look and there was a look on his face after the first pick where you could see him thinking oh no it's happening again and then once you start thinking that way then it's going to happen again and again and again so what do you do he was missing he was cd lamb dropped like he had that one drop early like that was bad juju but he was missing everything it was it wasn't even like they were it was never close it was never close there was one holding call on micah parsons in that first packers drive that was like how they missed his call but everything else the packers just shit on them yeah so how um as a as a die Cowboys fan, what do you think the future of the team,

what do they got to do?

I think you got to get rid of Dak.

Okay.

You can't pay Dak, CD, and Parsons.

Okay.

You got to get rid of Dak.

You got to get Bill Belichick in there.

Clean house.

Let him run the show.

And if they don't do that, I don't know. If they don't get't get belichick guys i don't know if i can be a cowboy he uh this was this was it was a tough it was a tough i was also like not death threats but i'm not going to say that cowboys fans were the most welcoming to me oh at the end of the game what happened like at halftime people were people were they weren't they weren't nice i'll tell you that what were they saying you were wearing a dak jersey i was wearing a dak jersey and they were like dude like why are you here like this is all your fault i was like did you remind the cowboys have never lost a playoff game until lockwood gun did you also remind them that like stay in the concourse dude that's what you did for the patriots right and i was like yeah and so i did i was like all right i'll try it that didn't work either yeah did you remind them that it wasn't like being like it wasn't friendly he was like basically like he didn't block the entryway or like back to my seats but he kind of like stepped in front of me it was like you're staying in the concourse right and i was like what do you mean that's what you did for the patriots and i was like all right yeah i guess yeah like i didn't i didn't feel that way i didn't you know the patriots times i did it it was it was a feeling thing it was like i you know someone from above was speaking to me being like go on this concourse i didn't get that feeling but i felt obligated to because this guy basically like threatened me if i didn't wait like god you're saying that god told you to stay on the concourse? Yeah.
It was just like, you got to see what happens if you go on this concourse and good things happen. So, Hank, I got something good for you.
For the Patriots games, not today. Our eSports reporter, Darren Revell.
By the way, shout out Darren Revell. I know MLK Day is a big day for him.
Hopefully he can show us all his paraphernalia and collectibles. I like paraphernalia.
I like paraphernalia. Like it's bongs.
I got a bong signed by MLK. Oh, he does.
He literally does. He's like, look, I have this sheet that MLK signed his name so he could get his mail when he was arrested.
He's like, look at this, guys. Isn't this cool? Either way, yeah.
So, Darren Revell, let's see some of that stuff. MLK Day, I know it's a big day for you.
You have over nine. Over nine? I think it's over nine.
That's funny. On today of all days.
Also, see, Big Cat's trying to be a hater on revel right now but he's forgetting the fact that revel

very clearly stated he has many black many black friends on today of all days uh either way he did

have a good scoop our esports reporter this will make you cheer you up uh hank he tweeted soon

after bill belichick was let go from the browns in 1996 he ran into jerry jones at a ski resort

i can coach belichick belichick told jones if you ever get an opportunity don't forget about me

Thank you. from the Browns in 1996, he ran into Jerry Jones at a ski resort.
I can coach, Belichick told Jones, if you ever get an opportunity, don't forget about me. Jones said on radio in 2019 that he often thought about that conversation.
Also, Bill Belichick is single, so Jerry Jones and Bill Belichick are just getting on the bus together. Getting the scrippers up there.
Yeah, just going crazy. The thing that people aren't talking about, I was kind of talking to the people around me, and I said it.
It just hit me, and I said it. And then the more you say it, the more you believe it.
But McDaniels is available, too. Wait, what? Yeah.
Oh, to bring in with Belichick? Yes. You don't mean as a head coach.
You don't mean as a head coach. No.
Oh, check and McDaniels together.

Yeah.

Together.

And you're back.

Bill O'Brien probably too.

And Dak Prescott.

No, but like Bill O'Brien, but McDaniels and Belichick,

like they were dominant.

Yeah.

You can't deny that.

It honestly wouldn't be the worst idea. Bill O'Brien was part of the coaching staff,

but he was never like when he was offensive coordinator,

he wasn't as good.

Belichick and McDaniels, head coach, offensive coordinator,

were literally like the greatest tandem in coaching history.

It'd be so funny if they did that.

They're both available.

And they like get to a Super Bowl.

Jerry Jones has the money.

And then Josh McDaniels gets hired again as a head coach somewhere else.

Yeah, someone would do that.

That'd be awesome.

All right, well, Hank, we got some other important stuff

we want to talk to you about.

So you went to the game with our friend tiffany gomez um how was that

it was fun we had a way to get to town as a cowboys fan what's it like leaving in the third quarter

we actually stayed

but i don't i don't i don't i'm not going to call anyone out specifically uh but we did we'll i'm sure we'll get into the pool thing we did make the bet and then tiffany was like if the packers cover this on their own i'll also jump in the pool so we stayed because we're like maybe the packers are gonna get 54 points on their own right who left after the game was over you were about to say somebody left and yeah no we stayed i'm saying we stayed yeah but and you know cowboys fan die hard we stayed and then pictures were like let's take some pictures and in my head i was like if i just watched the patriots get fucking waxed the last thing i would be doing is taking pictures but there was there was a lot of pictures being taken by cowboys fans down on the field after that performance which was stunning it was well it's jerry world you gotta go you gotta go see it it was sometimes the stadium is bigger than the team uh okay so this pool we stayed for the whole game so explain the pool bet for us so we were in the game and tiffany was her idea like, we've got to do a bet. And I said, she was like, what should we do? Because it's 30 degrees.
It's colder now. And obviously, growing up in Massachusetts, being in Chicago now, it's way, way, way colder.
25 degrees is cold, but it's not that cold. People in Dallas were freaking out.
Tiffany was freaking out. She's like, it's like it's so cold it's so cold it's so cold we should do a bet where one of us has to jump in the pool uh and i you know as you guys know i've been doing the ice ice ice ice buckets whatever you call cold tubs ice buckets yep cold tubs so i was like sure ice bucket challenge yeah yeah the ice bucket challenge every day and i was's do over under.
But we kind of were talking about it. We didn't make it official until I think it was after the Packers score their second touchdown.
So I just looked at whatever the live total was, which was 54. And I told her, I was like, pick over under.
Like, it's your choice. The total is 54.
You pick over and I'll pick whatever you want. I'll take the opposite.
And she picked over. Obviously, that cash.
There's 80 points scored. Yeah.
So she thought there would be a lot of scoring going on this weekend. You weren't quite so sure there would be as much scoring.
Well, I just said whatever you take, I'll take the opposite. Okay.
All right. Nice.
So then the pool bet happens. So you have to jump into the pool.
Let's put the clip in. And I actually want to put it in for even podcast listeners because if you haven't seen the clip, this should make go watch the clip because uh you won't get to see it if you're listening to this but you'll get to hear it and you have to go watch it um Hank jumps in this pool and Hank I gotta say so so Max and PFT came running in they're like you gotta watch this video I didn't know what was gonna happen but the minute you said I'm gonna run on hardwood floors with wet feet, I was like, oh, I think I know where this is going, but then it's even a better plot twist.
So let's play it. Cowboys lost.
Everything lost. Over.
Hit. I want to die.
It's 30. It's 20 degrees in Dallas.
This pool is probably colder. 14.
14 degrees. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
So he's running. They're throwing towels on him.
Yep. He's drying off his jeans.
Here comes the problem. He's going on hardwood floors with wet feet.
Here he goes. And if you're listening to the podcast,

like I said, go watch the video because that sound you just heard

was Hank slipping on the floor and his knee going into the drywall

and putting the biggest dent.

It looks like a frat boy after losing some beer pong

just fist through the drywall. Hank, talk us through this moment, please.
Yeah, you just watched the clip. As you can see, in my head, I was like, I'm going to dry off before I go into the inside.
And Tiffany was behind me. She was like, just go.
Just go in. She said that in the clip.
She's like, just run in. So I was like, all right, I'm i'm just gonna sprint get to the showers as quick as i can and i didn't realize like i i'd hurt and i think my scream got blocked by the sound of the wall because i thought i screamed pretty loud but and then i just ran into the shower after and i was in the shower and i was like did i did i actually fuck up the wall like and they're like oh yeah oh yeah uh my knee is pretty fucking sore and yeah it was it was

it was i guess it was good i don't know it was it was i mean it was i'm just content factor it's

an all-time it's an all-time video so i assume being the gentleman you are you've been plastering

tiffany's walls since then?

Yeah.

We're going to go to Home Depot tomorrow.

Got it.

Got it.

Are you going to...

By the way, my flight got canceled.

Oh.

Oh, shit.

I'm not even joking.

Shit.

You're going to be in Dallas until Tuesday.

You're going to have to...

Damn.

I have no choice.

You could use some cock. Yeah, that could work on the wall.
Have you thought about cocking your wall? Yeah, I don't know. We're going to take care of it.
Okay. Take care of it.
Nice. Yeah.
What did it feel like hitting Tiffany's back wall? It hurt. It hurt a lot.
My knee is sore. Yeah.
My favorite part of the video, besides all of it, was after you hit the wall, and then she's following you with the camera, and then you just dip out. You just dip the fuck out, because it looks like you realize what happened.
It was freezing. It looks like you realize what happened, and you were like, I'm just going to sprint to the bathroom and pretend this never happened, and maybe just leave out the back door, and then she won't see me ever again.
Yeah. Yeah didn't know that i i said i got in the shower and i was like is the is the wall actually fucked up is she mad i obviously felt it but i didn't know if there was like my knee just really hurt or if i actually put a hole in it is she mad is she upset with you no she's i mean she's probably still laughing like she's i mean it was hilarious is it it's an all-time video thing that's ever happened hank it's such a good video i i immediately texted dave and i said that this is that it was a milton hank move to have that happen that was a milton hank uh and he he hasn't replied he might have gone to bed i like contemplated calling him to be like you have to watch this video because it was so good.
And the remakes, like, I'm going to watch this video I would say probably 500 more times in the next week. The remakes are great.
I think memes did the video because I said I felt like I was doing a Looney Tunes. I like slid.
I felt in the moment like I slipped on my feet like 10 times. Oh, memes immediately rushed to his and just started just fucking firing off remake he's like i got i got five hours of work in front of me right now it's just so perfect so um hank last question for you um our investigative uh reporter uh jersey jerry did you see this tweet i did see our investigative reporter, Jersey Jerry, he's, he's probably the best investigative reporter out there.
He said, just doing some detective work, Henry, it seems to me like this is Ms. Gomez recent emoji use.
So she posted a picture of her converse text conversation with her mother. And one of the emojis that's frequently used is the eggplant emoji so jerry was wondering i'm not wondering pft's not wondering jerry's wondering can you confirm if this eggplant emoji was used in text with you uh it was not using text with me no okay okay i don't know i don't know who it was but it was not me okay maybe to her

friends being like hank's coming over yeah i just i just know it wasn't me maybe that's maybe she

just has you saved in her phone as the eggplant yeah who knows jerry's jerry's on the case i'm

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10 out of 10. Great time.
Experience as a Cowboys fan today. It tried me.
I got to really think some things. If they don't get Belichick, like I think this might be it.
I'll say that. Yeah.
Well, they're like they they're fucking terrible. The Cowboys fans were not nice to me.
And Dak Prescott's horrible. Literally is a quarterback that can't throw.
He had the yips. He could not throw.
He could not throw. Every drive, it was like, this guy doesn't think he can make a completion.
And then he didn't. And then he threw.
The pick six was bad. The first interception was bad.
it was like this guy doesn't think he can make a completion and and then he didn't and then he was through like the pick six was bad the first interception was bad it was it was it was stunning stunning stunning stuff to see i don't know how cowboys fans can get up for this team yeah it's it's a rough every year belichick and they do need mcdaniels and the beautiful thing about cowboys fans is they do and they will continue to get up for this game

every year they're they're the best front runners in the world like in training camp next year we're going to say exactly what's going to happen to the cowboys and they're gonna be like fuck you guys dallas is back title town this year's different you see what we did to the giants yeah and it's going to be awesome and i'm going to love every second of it now h Hank, there was a report today that Arthur Blank's private jet flew up to Boston, and then it then flew, I believe, to the Virgin Islands, potentially with Bill Belichick on an interview. So if Belichick goes to the Falcons, would you become a Falcons fan? No, I mean, not like – it's the same as Brady and the Buc and the bucks like whatever team belichick coaches for i'll i will they'll be my secondary team if he becomes oh that was secondary team to dallas yeah that'll be yeah your secondary team dallas it needs to be if he goes to the if he goes to the falcons i'll root for bill belichick if he goes to the cowboys i will be a fucking diehard cowboyick.
If he goes to the Cowboys, I will be a fucking diehard Cowboys fan.

Well, you already are.

You'll continue to be a diehard Cowboys fan.

In fact, if Belichick goes to the Eagles,

I'm mandating it that you have to be a Cowboys fan next year.

I'm so happy this story arc.

Belichick's not going to the Eagles.

Fuck the Eagles.

Fuck their fans.

I'm so happy this story arc. Belichick's not going to the Eagles.
Fuck the Eagles. Fuck their fans.
I'm so happy this story arc has happened for you. Because it's like you needed a full.
Do you want to lose, Max, or do you want Belichick? Do you want to win or do you want Belichick? He thinks they could lose in the divisional round and still fire Sirianni. If they lose in the divisional round, I still think they fire Sirianni.
Yeah, he thinks that. But, Hank, this story arc is so great for you.
Would you rather make it to the NFC Championship or get Bill Belichick? NFC Championship. You needed a humbling, and becoming a diehard Cowboys fan has been a perfect humbling for you.
Yeah, I was, because I did, I guess this was after Thursday's show and we were talking about Belichick and I went home and I got more of my feels after the show Thursday. I watched like a 28 to 3, like the one hour long recap where it's like most of the important plays, but it's still a long version of the game.
And I was like, holy shit. And so when the Cowboys were down a lot, even at halftime, we can still come back.
I was explaining it to the guy next to me. He was a Cowboys fan.
And he was like, dude, you're talking about Brady and Belichick. We're not doing this.
I was like, we get the ball back. We score.
Three and out. Score.
Then it's 13 points. And there's plenty of time.
We're so in this. He told me point blank point blank he's like this is not happening no it wasn't no it was never happening that hit me i was like yeah no this this isn't happening yeah yeah well um i mean if being humbled is uh getting invited to go down and spend a lovely weekend in dallas and i consider this a great humbling weekend for you yeah and weekend slash week because i don't like my i'd want to check in for my flight it was like you can't check until 6 0 5 a.m tomorrow meaning it's 6 0 5 a.m tuesday another night but it was booked for tomorrow morning good luck like yeah good luck hank well hank uh please please uh tell tiff hello.
Give our best. I will.
Yeah, give her your best, too. I will give her your guys' best.
Okay. I appreciate that.
Yeah. Thanks, Hank.
But thank you, Hank, and thank you for reporting on scene in Dallas. I know how important it was for you to get down there for this game.
And I know that... Yeah, thank you guys for the opportunity.
You hate

the fact that your flight got delayed

and that you won't be back

for another day, but...

What are you going to do all day?

God gives its toughest battles to

its strongest warriors, or whatever the hell that saying is.

Yeah, I don't know.

She's got a cool golf cart. I'll probably ride around on that okay video games okay uh watch the bills yeah i want if you want if you want to feel bad for me i put all my bets in before i left chicago props spreads games like 13 bets between the Chiefs, Texans cowboys lions oh and 13 really every single

bet like nothing every game spread every game total a bunch of props a bunch of parlays

nothing hey did i see that you signed the wall that you broke

yeah you autographed it i did as a sports business reporter how can i get my hands on that

Thank you. Hank, did I see that you signed the wall that you broke? Yeah.
You autographed it? I did.

As a sports business reporter, how can I get my hands on that?

Her wall?

You want to-

Signed wall.

Signed wall.

We should sell that to Ravel.

Goes for a lot of money.

We'll trade it to him for the handcuffs that MLK had when he was arrested or something.

Yeah, I don't know, Jake.

You might have to come down and carve it out yourself.

Oh, okay.

All right.

You want to go carve out Tiff's wall?

All right.

Maybe Hank can bring it back for me.

Yeah, Hank will carve it out of the wall.

Bring back a piece of that wall, Hank.

No problem.

All right, Hank, thank you.

All right, miss you guys.

All right, love you, Hank.

Miss you too.

We'll see you on Tuesday, maybe Wednesday. Who knows? These flights are fickle.
Yeah, I'll let you know. All right.
Miss you guys. All right.
Love you, Hank. Miss you too.
We'll see you on Tuesday.

Maybe Wednesday.

Who knows?

These flights are fickle.

Yeah, I'll let you know.

All right, you're out.

Maybe never.

I'll let you know.

Maybe never.

Oh, wait, wait.

Can we talk?

I mean, yeah.

We'll talk about it Tuesday.

Oh, he just started.

Yeah, yeah.

He stopped the recording.

Southwest is crazy.

Save it for Tuesday or Fyre Fest.

I've never taken Southwest before.

It's fucking crazy.

The boarding process is...

No, I love it. It's barbaric.'s yeah it is yeah it's insane all right all right bye hank good luck okay that was henry lockwood who knows who's the best he's may never see him he's gonna live down there yeah mr texas we may never see him again uh all right, last game.
Lions 24, Rams 23.

The Detroit Lions have done it.

First time in 32 years winning a playoff game.

They mentioned on the broadcast for the first time ever,

Lions fans can text message each other saying we just want a playoff game

because text messages weren't invented until after the Lions' last playoff win.

That was an awesome, awesome atmosphere, game, everything.

It was so, you could just feel the electricity watching it on TV.

It felt like a college game at the start of it.

It was so loud.

So loud.

People were crying at the end of the game.

So much emotion.

They booed the fuck out of Matt Stafford.

Which I like.

I like it, too.

I like it, too.

He kind of deserves to be booed in that situation.

Yeah, it's not that you— I don't think that they were necessarily saying, like, fuck you to Matt Stafford as much because most Lions fans will say, like, we appreciate Matt Stafford and the way that he played when he was in town for such a long time. But it almost gave more of a statement to Jared Goff that, like, Jared Goff is our guy.
We don't want Matt Stafford. We want Jared.
We chose him. It was also just – it's a simple, like, you're now in the playoff game.
Matt Stafford is what's standing in front of you in winning a playoff game for the first time in 32 years. You should boo him.
Yeah, I don't think it was a, like, mean boo. It was just you're the guy who's standing in front of us.
You're the guy who can stop us from winning this game. And it was a crazy game because the first half felt like neither team could ever get a stop.
Shootout. And then the second half, both teams made defensive adjustments and it grinded down.
Puka Nakua was out of this world good. Like, he's insane.
I don't know what else to say. He could not be guarded.
Every single time he caught a ball, he got yards out for the catch. He's not afraid of getting fucked up.
He got fucked up multiple times. Matt Stafford got fucked up.
I can't believe Matt Stafford didn't come out of that game with a concussion. Yeah, whatever the NFL's concussion check is might need a little bit of work.
Some people have said in the past that the NFL'sfl's concussion policy would have cleared jfk to reenter the parade afterwards yes this is one of those situations because you could see his eyes roll up in the back of his head for a split second now if i'm being generous maybe maybe matt stafford got the wind knocked out of him really hard and he was taking like a big gasp that like paralyzed his entire body maybe but i think to watched on TV, we're like, get this guy out of the game. Keep him out of the game.
He's really, really badly hurt. Yeah.
But then we've seen that from Matt Stafford before. He's a tough motherfucker.
Yeah. He's crazy.
He just insists on coming back in. But, yeah, the Lions defense, Aiden Hutchinson, holy shit.
Yeah. They stepped up.
They made stops when they needed to make stops um i know there were some weird flag calls that people were asking for uh i also think shot mcveigh just like shot mcveigh is an incredible coach one of the best coaches in the league he can't figure out clock management i don't know why they punted there with one timeout i don't know how they got one timeout going to the last four minutes of the game but punting there made no sense to me. Yes, it's a good lesson for every coach that five yards, what would you rather have? Five yards in the third quarter? Yeah.
Or would you have another timeout at the end of the game? Right. Or, yeah, right.
Like, don't get your play in? Okay, fine. Take the penalty.
Yeah, it's five yards. Timeout, but still, like.
Sean McVay can find five yards behind his ear. I actually thought that Dan Campbell messed up by declining the penalty or accepting the penalty because i was like now the rams are going to go for it twice here never in my wildest dreams that i think that sean sean mcveigh would punt with one timeout left i think it was about the field goal play i think they didn't want to give up a field goal right then because then the rams take the lead right so i yeah i know that but i'm saying like I it was it was it would have been a 51 yard or the Rams have not been able to kick field goals all year and I thought I thought that accepting the penalty now the Rams are going to have two plays to get 14 yards or whatever it was and they drop something underneath get a few yards then go for it on fourth down I just never even I never even had it enter my brain that they would punt there yeah i thought they were giving them two plays right the you could have even even taken a field goal from the like 60 yard distance 61 yard distance and it would have been a better play than punting the ball there yeah because you ended up getting what like 30 yards of field position shifted and you have one time out you have one time out left two first downs in the two minute morning and they fucked up the two minute warning by taking it after the two minute warning they did do that yeah i i agree i would say at the time like yes accept the penalty because you need to knock them out of field goal range yeah and you need to give your defense a chance to keep them out of field goal range which they eventually ended up doing uh but yeah the the timeouts and everything at the end of the game it seemed like dan campbell was like way for that type of stuff than Sean McVay was Yeah, I just was texting with my good friend Detroit Don

I wanted to give him a call, he said he's up

So let's just call him real quick for a quick boots on the ground

How it was, because he's a long-suffering Lions fan

And he's season ticket holder

Hello

Detroit Don, the man

Alright, give it to us

What was tonight like? Sum it up for us

Thank you. He's season ticket holder.
Hello. Detroit Don, the man.
All right, give it to us. What was tonight like? Sum it up for us.
Oh, my God. Listen, we're feeling on top of the earth right now.
There is no question. The emotion in that place after that game ended, it's, you know, just 30 years of pent-up frustration just released you know um i love it what about did you cry yeah there did i'm not gonna lie there were tears tears all throughout that building what about superfan did he cry superfan i think was trying to withhold but i think behind no shades those shades there was some tears for sure.
Strong men. Strong men.
So you get another home game, Detroit Don. You're going to that one too, right? Oh, was it zero degrees when we walked out of the building today? Yeah, hell yeah, we're going to be there.
Yeah. All right, who would you rather play, Philadelphia or Tampa Bay? You know what? Super fan of me, we're talking about that we don't care yeah that's the right answer I love it did you did you did you boo Stafford no we you know what we uh he didn't get a warm uh reception uh Jared Goff actually the the fans were like chanting Jared Goff's name a couple different times in the pregame uh and so it was pretty cool.
Stafford didn't get a lot of hatred. But they didn't cheer him at all.
And I saw Stafford's post-game comments. I don't know if you guys saw that.
What did he say? He was kind of dicky. They asked him, they said Sean McVay, they were talking, they were interviewing Stafford,

but they said Sean McVay had just been up at the podium and said, you know, he was happy for, you know, Goff,

and, you know, his old quarterback in the set,

and they asked Stafford what he's, you know,

if he was happy for Detroit,

and he was very short answer and says he was happy for the players oh yeah oh yeah it was it was not pretty well you guys have a tough ass team and I'm happy for you man I know how you know your division rivals but like there's something about sports 32 years it's it's fucking cool grown men crying I love it I appreciate that man and've been down there with us in the hard times hey listen let me tell you that this girl that just disappeared like she was a season ticket holder right behind us and she just she just appeared today at the game and we're like where the hell we call her sprinkles we're like where the hell have you been at sprinkles she says if you guys remember on the hail mary pass she says i will not come back to another game till we make the playoffs oh true today she showed up she that was the first time you'd seen sprinkles since that game i went to yeah and so she even said she says yeah we were all in that bar that barstools uh video says yeah we didn't really you just like disappeared for you know? And we kind of forgot about her a little bit. I'm not going to lie.
But Sprinkle showed up at the game. Oh, that's awesome.
She was a slobbing, sobbing mess at the end of that game. It was really cool.
So she's had season tickets since then and just hasn't shown up no she must sell them or give them to family

you know oh my god it's like a family reunion seeing sprinkles you thought she was gone forever it was crazy well you know tin man that sits next to me that's all silver faced and all that when he came down and saw her he was like he was like a ghost when he saw her it's like We were all shocked when we were down there.

She was just sitting there, you know?

Oh, that's great. Well, Don, thank you so much.
Congrats again, man. We're happy for you guys.
We know how long of a road it's been, and good luck next week. Thank you, buddy.
I appreciate that. All right.
Talk soon, man. Hey, by the way, you're going.
I don't know if you saw, but PFT and I said that if the Lions go to the Super Bowl, you guys are going. Hey, that's awesome.
Yeah. Let's just keep going.
Let's keep this train rolling. Yes, I love it.
All right, see ya. See ya, big guy.
All right. Sprinkles, that's incredible.
Yeah, shout out Sprinkles. Nothing like having a grudge and staying committed to it.
This part of the Lions stadium is the funniest part in the world because it's all these season ticket holders that all dress up like tin man you heard him say that and they're just they're the most diehard people in the world and that's so great sprinkles just i'm not coming back and then just showing up they probably thought she died yeah i just i feel sprinkles i feel like secondhand happiness for all of detroit yeah saying. If you can't get behind Detroit Lions winning a playoff game, your heart's dead.
It's cold. It's black.
It's rotten. Unless you're a Rams fan, in which case I understand.
But, I mean, this is like it's a transcendent moment in sports. Getting to see the collective weight of the world getting lifted off of the entire city.
It's, you know, the Lions are in the Bears division. I don't like the Lions.
I want to beat the Lions every time I play them. But if you can't be happy for sports fans and also just be like, that's what it's all about.
You watch sports. You give all your energy.
You give your time, your money, everything to have these type of moments, to have these type of nights where, like, the 32 years of suffering all kind of wash away. And I know it's just one win.
They got to keep going. And I would say all Lions fans are like, we got to win a Super Bowl.
But having that first step has to be the best feeling in the world. And it's like, if you can't be happy for that, then you're not a sports fan.
Yeah. You just can't.
You can't. Like, you shouldn't watch sports if you can't just't just like remove yourself for a second and be like what they just experienced tonight is what every sports fan should want to experience and it's cool to watch it's what makes sports great and the fact that dan campbell was the coach to do it it's a perfect fit it is it's such a good fit he was on the own 16 team now he's your coach and i i read a tweet from our friend isaac who's up in detroit and he said that when dan campbell got the job he spent i think a day or two calling long-suffering lions fans yeah they did a contest and he won it and just telling them what he was going to do how much their fandom was appreciated by the team how he understands the pain that they've been through what they're looking for like it's it's just a great story.
It's a guy that, like, he has embraced Detroit. Detroit's embraced him.
And, like, sometimes being just, like, a tough-ass dude is what a city needs to get over that huge, huge hump. He was on the 0-16 Lions.
Yeah. And going back to hard knocks, we were like, yeah, I'm all in on Dan Campbell to the slow start that they had right afterwards.
But just him crying at the podium, all of it. The entire story of the Detroit Lions and specifically the Dan Campbell era of the Detroit Lions has been such a cool story to watch.
And I hope it doesn't stop. I hope they keep winning.
I would love nothing more than to see the Lions in the Super Bowl. It's also kind of back to what I was talking about with the big flip with Michigan fans who are having a hell of a week, Michigan Wolverine fans and Lion fans.
The whole reason, even in the darkest time of whatever fan base you're a part of, whatever team you're rooting for, the whole reason you stick with them is because you feel like this type of moment could happen at any point. Yeah.
And it happened. So it's like, this is awesome.
This is great for them. It finally happened.
You tell all those times when you have terrible teams or you have terrible losses, you get in the car after and you're like, someday it's going to flip. Someday we're going to win a big game.
Someday we're going to have a moment of like pure joy and, you know, sports happiness. And they got it tonight.
And you just, it's awesome. I'm happy for Detroit, Tom.
I'm happy for Sprinkles. Shout out Sprinkles coming back.
What a story. What do you think Sprinkles' outfit is? Glitter? Probably a shitload of glitter.
I should probably find it, yeah. I also like the idea of the Tin Man looking like he's seen a ghost.
Yeah. So, Big Cat, that's right behind you.
That was the game, her last game, right? Yeah, she was probably right over there. It's the whole – yeah, that's the last game.
I mean, it's still like the luckiest Barstool video I've ever done where if you haven't seen the original videos, Detroit Don and Superfan got kicked out of a game for standing on defense on the third down. And maybe they were doing other things, but whatever.
They were standing on defense. That's what they're saying.
So they did a press conference, just the two of them, in front of like a brick background like somewhere in Detroit, just disgusted that they got kicked out. And Superfan has a tattoo of their season tickets, like the seat number and the row number.
And I was in Detroit for the MAAC championship, which was on Friday, and the Lions and the Packers were playing on Thursday night, and I hate Aaron Rodgers. I was like, fuck it.
I'm just going to go try to beat Aaron Rodgers with these guys. Bought the ticket next to them.
Did not talk to them. They showed up, and it was me and Gaz, and I was just like, hey, I hate the Packers.
Can we watch this game with you? And they're like, fuck yeah. And then Aaron Rodgers threw a Hail Mary right in our face, and their soul came out of their body.
And Sprinkles retired for six years. Yeah.
But it was one of the luckiest Barstool videos I've ever been able to be a part of. Because to be able to get a ticket right next to them.
Have them do a thing where they say they're season tickets. Get a ticket right next to them.
Happen to be in Detroit for the MAAC championship. And then have a Hail Mary happen right in their face.
Man, I'm just happy for Lions lions fans i hope they suck next year because i hope the bears are better but right now fuck it i'm happy for lions fans yeah and i hope you win next weekend i hope you win the weekend after that i hope you win the super bowl yeah it'd be incredible it'd be a hell of a story you see the uh the dream blunt rotation before the game no it's barry sanders eminem i think big sean there's somebody else there they had they had like all the stars down oh Calvin Johnson came back okay so they saw his reply to the tweet and they're like Calvin Johnson come back for the playoff game it's just cool seeing Detroit like that yeah it really is yeah they're they're passionate sports fans and they've they've been kicked down a bunch so um and yeah this was a this was also like the Lions especially in that first half they just played man football they just ran it down their throat play action like they were hitting everything i know that it was tough in the second half but they they eked out the win yeah and they detroit had i think a pretty reasonable uh complaint against the refs on that false start that they called where they should have extended that drive that should have been a first down but then almost immediately right after that they had the pass interference that wasn't called on the rams yeah the puka got his jersey tugged at the end of the game yeah so ultimately i don't i don't think that this would be a blame it on the refs game but you ended up overcoming anyway so it doesn't matter um it's just a good time good time to be a sportsman because you look at you're like that that's gonna be me one day yeah right that's what i'm. You can't see yourself.
If your team stinks and you can't see yourself in what Lions fans are going through today, then give up. Yep.
Because that's the hope at the end of the tunnel. Okay, so perfect segue.
Because the Lions, it is the ultimate ball don't lie moment. The Lions win this game.
The Cowboys lose. The Lions do get their second playoff game at home, which is what they were basically robbed of when the refs fucked up in Dallas a couple weeks ago.
So now the Lions are going to host the winner of the Bucs and the Eagles, a game we have not previewed. Max? Mr.
Cat? Go ahead. What do you want me to say? Whatever you're feeling This is the preview You said let's do it on Monday Sunday Let's do it on Sunday I'm going to start with this Actually I'll start with this Okay You can start with that Okay You start with this Let's see Let's find this What was it? Quez Watkins And This is such a weird thing That you're obsessed with I'm not obsessed with it at all i saw it and i was like what is going on it was weird it's a weird thing it's something that every single team okay ready pft you can decide if it's weird i don't know what it is so i don't know if it's weird let me turn your mic quez walk-ins says jalen hurts texted him when that phone rings be ready to answer quez says he texted him back shit i've been ready.
Quez, that's our mindset. He's got trust in me to go make plays, and I'm going to go do that.
Why didn't he just call him then? What? He texted him. Because the phone wasn't supposed to ring then.
But he's saying, be ready for my phone call? No, he's saying when the phone rings, like, greatness on the other end. Got it.
When greatness is calling, don't be afraid to pick up the call. Shit, I've been ready.
Yeah, it's next man up. It's just another way of saying next man up.
Are you saying that he's hurt? Are you saying that Jalen? No, I'm saying AJ Brown is hurt. But it sounds like they're just on text messages.
Like, I wouldn't call someone. I'd just text them.
So is he going to text them and he's going to be ready? I mean, you guys are looking way too much into the wording of this. I think it's weirder that this got out.
Well, Quez Watkins said it. I know, but that's...
It's not news. Private text messages.
It's just not news. Sounds like it's news.
It's a quarterback saying... I'm reading it off a news site.
It's a quarterback... Yes, that's because everything is news because it's NFL playoffs and they're looking for everything to talk about.
I think Quez was just trying to brag that Jalen Hurts had his number. But shouldn't have Jalen Hurts called Quez Watkins and be like, hey, next time I call, be ready.
No one calls under the age of 38 anymore. That's what I'm saying.
That's why he should have said when the text message comes, be ready. He'd be like, shit, I've been ready.
Okay. This is great pregame analysis.
It's the dumbest story and quote, but it bothered Max so bad when I brought it up

that I had to bring it up again.

Well, no.

You were like, what's the deal with that Quez Watkins quote?

I'm like, what?

Yeah, a quarterback telling a backup to be ready when the starter is.

No, he texted him.

That would actually concern me more given Jalen Hurts finger injuries.

I don't want my quarterback texting a guy.

I don't know. I just feel like texting someone being like, I'm going to call.
Just call. It was metaphor.
Oh. But it was used on a real phone.
You got it. Who cares? This is the worst.
This is the worst pregame analysis ever. You know what? Max always says that when we're making really good points.
This is a horrible point. No, you always interrupt the best parts of part of my take to be like, this is stupid.
And now Quez Watkins has to sit there and be waiting for a call? You got a text saying, you ready for the call. Don't you see how great this segment is, Max? I hate you.
Okay. I have a quote here.
Jalen Hurts says that he hasn't thrown a football since injuring his finger on Sunday. He acknowledges that going back into the game was a bad idea physically and the pain hurt more last week.
He said everything is a challenge when you have a finger out of place. What day was that quote? That was last Thursday? Last Friday? Yeah, I think he threw a little bit on Friday.
He threw over the weekend? Well, they practiced on Friday. Okay.
Are you concerned about his finger, especially given his significant downturn in completion percentage,

completions, attempts, yards per attempt, passing touchdowns, increase in interceptions,

deep throws, and turnover-worthy plays when it's raining?

Yes.

You are concerned?

The answer is yes. I'm concerned about his finger.

Okay.

Okay. So, A.J.
Brown out. Correct out he decided he want to go to a boxing match instead atlantic city he wanted to go to ac oh i don't know i mean what's up with that sounds like he's not ready for a call no he is he said he'll be back if if the eagles advance he would be back for the divisional round he said not weird that he's not going to the game he He could be going to the game.
The game's not until Monday night. Oh, okay.
He was just... When was he in Atlantic City? Was that Saturday or Sunday? It was Friday night.
Oh, it was Friday night, okay. Oh, okay.
Off night. I think so.
I think it was Friday night. Watching Sam Laporta play on his fucked up knee tonight, were you like, why isn't A.J.
Brown playing? Yes. Okay.
But, you know, every injury is different. I'm not going to judge.
We should actually just pause for a second and give Sam Laporta a shitload of credit. Oh, yeah.
For playing on that because. On a touchdown.
If you saw the injury that happened to him last week, you thought your first reaction was ACL, MCL, PCL out for a long time. It's insane that he was playing, but he also had like the biggest knee brace that I've ever seen covering his knee.
We should also give credit to the moon. We forgot to do that.
Oh, yeah. Moon came through again.
The waxing crescent. I'm pulling up the stat right now.
The moon was a waxing crescent the last time the Lions won a playoff game. The moon on Sunday will be a waxing crescent.
It was a waxing crescent. Detroit Lions won again, and Detroit Lions' official Twitter account says wax on.
So we'll have to do a moon update for next week and see what's going on with that. But the Eagles, Max, Tampa Bay, you guys should kill the Buccaneers.
Incorrect. It's a three-point line.
You should kill them. Your favorites.
We are favorites. Road favorites.
Which is an interesting number. I think that they shouldn't be.
The fact that A.J. Brown was ruled out and it went from two and a half to three is interesting.
Well, Baker's banged up too, right? Wait, but Quez Watkins is getting the call, though. But did you factor in the Quez? Right, right.
I forgot about the call. I will say this.
The Cowboys losing has changed everything. You are so happy today.
It has changed everything. The entire vibe of Philadelphia.
It's because your rival lost. Correct.
Okay. I would love for you.
Yeah, no, I kept on saying when the Cowboys, as fun as it was to watch the Cowboys lose, I kept on being like, now's the time I want the Cowboys to come back and win, because that would be so awesome if the Packers lost. But they lost in such hilarious in such hilarious fashion too i know but they would have been even more hilarious fashion than a packers loss if they lost when they were up like 28 right i was rooting i was saying that the gambling game to everyone's like now let's watch the cowboys i understand it was it was one of those situations where i got outweighed there there was a lot of you know cowboys haters that wanted to see them die i i stepped aside but yeah no you're right and it also like nothing the eagles can do tomorrow is worse than what the cowboys did today that's loser talk no it's not and actually i'm saying that more of like a lot of pressure has been taken taken off out of that lot i don't know if that's the case that is the case you're because dallas was so bad oh that's weird that is weird point.
That is weird, Max. That's weirder than the Quez Watkins call.
No, it's not. That's very weird, Max.
So you think they're going to play free now that the Cowboys lost? Yes. Let me tell you this, Max.
The Eagles were the laughingstock of the entire league for the last four weeks. The players do not give a fuck that the Cowboys lost.
You are so wrong if the players care that the Cowboys lost. You think that the Eagles watch the Cowboys lose, and they're like, oh, thank God.
Now people won't talk shit about us. They're not going to say it out loud, but inside of their head, yes.
I don't like where your head's at, Max. So you need the Steelers to win, too.
Max, you're not ready for this weekend. You guys don't.
You're crazy if you don't think that. You're not ready for this game tomorrow.
You have to win. Those are moral victories win I think you're talking about What the fans feel Not what the players feel That also goes into it There is a lot of Bad shit that has been going on in that locker room For the past couple weeks And the Eagles have been the laughing stock of the league For the past five weeks That is a fact They had a very weird hype video that the team put out.
Yes. There is a bad juju that has been going on in that locker room and in the city of Philadelphia for five weeks now.
The hype video that they put out with Jason Kelsey, and he does the narration of it, and he starts it out by saying, like, we're very frustrated. You're frustrated.
It was, like, the most downer hype video ever. Yes.
Yeah. But it was like the most real hype video ever because if they did anything else, it would have come off as like, what the fuck are they doing? Because they read the vibe of the entire city and were like, we have to acknowledge what is going on here or else everyone will come after us and be being like, this is not what we want to see right now.
Right um you feel good going into this game you know for i don't but take off the headphones for a sec i want to talk to the listeners please take off the headphones can you hear me right now can you jake can you guys hear me you can i mean i'm. I'm going to hear this.
Okay. For the listeners, the way this is set up now, we need the Eagles to win.
And we need the Eagles to win because Max said something. He slipped up on the walk to the studio from the gambling cave.
We do a little walk. It's kind of like the NBA.
When they enter the arena. We all have music.
Get your fits off. Yeah, we get our fits off.
Max said, we can beat the Lions. The Lions just won their Super Bowl.
So we need the Eagles to win because Max will be all the way back in. If the Eagles had had to play the 49ers next week, Max would been like whatever we're going to slaughter it doesn't matter we win we lose who cares now he is so close to being all the way back in and if he's all the way back in he is so close to getting sad depressed Max sitting on this couch while we laugh at him he also also was saying that he way would rather play the Lions than the Rams.
Right. Not way.
But I heard everything you just said, and I don't care about saying it. If the Eagles win, I don't think that the Eagles are going to win tomorrow because, number one, they're very banged up.
They haven't looked good in the past five weeks. What about the Cowboys losing? No.
What's nothing to... What about Todd Bowles? You're going up against Todd Bowles.
There's nothing to point to the fact that the Eagles are going to win tomorrow. There's no factors that are...
What about the phone call? What about the fact that you've got a better roster? Jalen Carter. With all the injuries, I don't even know if that's true right now.
What about the hype video?us slay back was darius slay is back that's ray lewis but aj brown is out right and jalen hurts is playing with one hand is devontae smith throwing hand that's not good that's not good devontae smith is back oh however i am not scared to say that if they do win tomorrow and look competent doing so, I will be all the way back.

Oh, so we need it. So everyone needs it.
We're going to be streaming. Tune in.
But I'm expecting them to lose, and when they lose, it's fire Sirianni and everything else that I have been saying. But I'm not scared to say that if they win tomorrow and look competent doing so, I'm all the way back.
And then all you've got to do is win one game in San Francisco. Because A.J.
Brown has said he would be back for the divisional game.

Reed Blankenship will be back for the divisional game.

Reed Blankenship is still day-to-day.

It's still game-time decision for tomorrow.

But the Lions just won the Super Bowl.

What about this, Max?

What about you beat the Lions next week?

And then we would just get crushed by the Niners.

And then the Packers beat the Niners. And then NFC Championship at the link.
Think about that. I'm not worried about that.
I'm worried about... Like, I'm very worried about beating the Bucs tomorrow.
Like, I do not... If I had to choose, like, with my life on the line, I think the Eagles will tomorrow.
But the future of the playoffs will change for me if they win. So did this game become a must win? Yes.
It switched. Yeah, no, it flipped.
No, because if they lose, then I'm like, okay, Sirianni sucks to blow up the team, bring in Belichick, make Hank's life a living hell that would be the best yeah so like it would be the best if you got Belichick I'm just saying my number one is like now I really want to win tomorrow but I can be talked into like oh yeah they were never going to win that game okay but if they do win tomorrow and look confident in doing so I'm all the way and i'm telling everyone that right now i it's sad that i'm thinking that and people are going to be like oh max you're such an idiot like this team sucks you know this team sucks and i do know this team sucks but they are giving me a chance if that if they win tomorrow it's like they don't have to go to they don't have to go to san francisco anymore or yeah i division i think you guys i i don't think that i think baker mayfield's injuries are a little bit more than we realize he looks not more than jalen hurts but he looked bad in the panthers game like he pressure up the middle jalen carter yeah no i mean the the team has played very. You see how quickly I got him back in?

No.

And then he's like, yeah.

Wait, no.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No.

I don't know.

I know the game's going to start tomorrow.

I'm going to be like, we're going to – Stephen Shea.

That's the other thing.

Stephen –

Yeah, no.

You're up against –

I'm up against the worst.

He's a mental assassin.

He's been called a mental assassin.

He's a mental assassin.

There's no one like him. I'm just more excited for the game tomorrow.
Okay. Now you're more excited.
So now we're building them back. I think you're going to smoke them.
I don't. I still gun to my head if I choose.
They are going to lose. They are not a good football team right now.
But if they look all right, there's a path. The path is opened.
There was no path. There is a path now.
There is a path now there is a path but I still think that they're gonna lose there is a path now all right so uh last thing before we get to who's back of the week so tune into our stream tomorrow night I I think I'm gonna bet the Eagles I don't I'm on the Eagles yeah yeah I I don't know I just think the Bucs have beaten a lot of NFC South teams that, I don't know. Neither team's very good.
No, neither team is good. So here's what it is.
Whichever team loses, if you bet on that team, you're going to feel extra dumb. Because it will just confirm, oh yeah, that team wasn't good.
And then whatever team wins, you'll be like, oh, maybe they got something. That's just really how it's going to we're not we're gonna walk away if the eagles beat the bucks we'll be like the bucks were never good and if the bucks beat the eagles be like the eagles all-time collapse they stink that's gonna be it from october from big cat jake if the bucks make the playoffs tell me to bet against them okay then i will that's the todd bulls factor yeah yeah well i will be doing so uh okay last thing uh the bill's stealers game is on monday afternoon people were very upset about this they moved it for weather i feel like most people understand at this point that it's not because when it first happened there was a lot of people were very upset and i get being upset that you wanted to see a weird weather game because we all want to see weird weather games.
I'm pretty sure they canceled the game or moved the game because of people getting to the stadium is the problem. Yes.
Not the actual players playing in the game. Correct.
Correct. Right.
It had nothing to do with the players. Maybe a little bit to do with the fans in the stadium, but it was mostly the snow on the highways.
Was there like a stay-at-home order there was a travel ban uh starting at 9 p.m on saturday night i think it went all the way through sunday also buffalo is one of the weirdest weather cities like ever in that you could be standing in buffalo and it could be sunny and you could be standing in orchard park and it could be like you know hell has frozen it's the Yeah. Lake of the year.
Lake effect is crazy. Also, people were very mad at me that I pointed out it is a federal holiday on Monday.
We're still working. A lot of people do work.
A lot of people don't work on MLK Day. Yeah.
It's like I looked it up. It was 50-50.
Somebody said, it might have been Che that said maybe they're going to do this every year. I don't think so.
I don't think they are because the NFL would like to get ratings.

Yeah.

And games on Sunday get probably four times as many ratings.

Correct.

In the middle of the day on Monday.

And I know that we have the best job in the world.

So it's like I was like bonus football.

And there are people that have to work.

There's also people that have to work on Sundays.

Yeah.

There's people that have to work on Sundays.

People that have to work on Mondays.

I just had a bunch of people replying to me about their own personal situation being like, I have to work on Sundays. Yeah.
There's people who have to work on Sundays. People have to work on Mondays.
It's called pre- I just had a bunch of people replying to me about their own personal situation being like, I have to work, so it's bullshit. And then other people being like, I don't have to work.
This is awesome. Again, I think it's probably 50-50.
Also, it starts at 4.30 and you can stream every game from your phone now. Yeah.
So if you got to just steal from your boss, steal from your boss and watch the game on your phone. Like, it actually sucks the worst for Steelers because the Steelers, I would think that in a weird weather game, that would help them out way more than...
Steelers fans were very upset. Yeah, it felt targeted towards them.
Yeah, targeted towards them. If there's a way the Steelers are going to win, it could be a 13-10 game played in the snow.
Right. That, to me, feels like something that could very likely happen.
I guess they told people to stay at home because if you go out in that weather and you get covered by the snow, you get stuck, then they can't have people that go out and rescue you. Correct.
Like, it's very hard to get to you on the highway. So, no, stay at home, and then we'll do the game on Monday.
Hopefully the lake will calm down. It's an interesting dynamic when people are like, the governor shouldn't have anything to do with this and get the government out of this and then if they got stuck on the side of the highway they would have to call first responders to help them yeah i wish that that cuomo was still the governor and he gave one of his his powerpoint press conferences was nipple his nipple ring protruding disgusting yeah no i i it sucked because i i i was you know sunday came around i was like ready for three of football.
But I also understand that if it's like people could potentially be stranded in their cars and like first responders could be taxed where you have people who have emergencies who can't be reached because the stadium. Whatever.
We'll get through it. It was still going to play the game.
It was funny that they had Bills fans come out to help shovel snow in the stadium, and then they turned it into an open-air amusement park for Bills fans. Yeah, Bills Mafia.
They were sliding down the poles and shit. It was great.
It reminded me of when they do Bark at the Park. Yeah.
Sometimes water parks will have a dog weekend at the very end of the summer, and the dogs just go fucking nuts. That's what Bills Mafia was doing inside the stadium today.
Yeah. It rocked.
But yeah, imagine this. Imagine Andrew Cuomo getting on TV, issuing the order.
He's like, this is very serious weather. Stay home.
Look how cold it is outside. And then he just licks his nipple ring and his tongue gets stuck to it.
Yeah. Like, be careful out there, guys.
While outside, don't try to put your tongue in your assistant's asshole. Yeah.
Please, be safe. But yeah, I mean, again, I know that we have a job to watch sports, so I'm very lucky.
I'm excited for bonus football. It sucks for some people who have to work, but there's also a lot of people that aren't working on Monday.
What are you going to say, Max? It's also hilarious. They're cucking the NBA.
Oh, again. Yes, yes.
NBA just gets fucked. It's now Christmas and MLK Day, both NBA days that have NFL taken over.
See ya. NFL just flexing on them.
Yeah, I don't think this will be something they just do, because it did feel like an incomplete Super Wild Card weekend, only having four games. Yeah, it was weird.
Next weekend, I think, is my favorite football weekend of the year. Yeah.
Divisional round. So much playoff football.
That's some great matchups. Well, one set, but some potential great matchups.
I want to, I mean. Don't look ahead.
Don't do it. Don't look ahead.
Don't. I was going to say Steelers-Ravens.
Okay, yeah. Steelers-Ravens.
Steelers-Ravens. These two teams don't like each other.
By the way. I nailed all four picks.
Steelers-Ravens. What about CJ Stroud up against the young gun versus the old gun? CJ Stroud versus Mahomes, even though Mahomes isn't old? Yep.
These are some great matchups. Yep, that's what we meant.
We got the Eagles going to the Lions. That's going to happen.
Congrats, Max. Congrats, Max.
Good job, Max. Nope.
Oh, man, you're so down on the Eagles. All right, let's see who's back of the week, and we'll wrap up the show.
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Okay.

And ESPN dating dating back to 1997, has been submitting fake names for Emmys, getting trophies for Emmys, and then giving them to honor talent who were not eligible to receive the awards. What the fuck? Yeah.
So they got caught. I don't know how they got caught.
I have a theory of how how they got caught though um the way that it's set up is certain production members and behind the scenes people are eligible for certain emmys and like the host of a show would not be eligible to receive that trophy okay for that show um my theory is that some of the hosts do like uh office shots from their homes okay and have the emmys behind them yes and somebody from the emmy award saw them they're like wait this person never won an emmy from us and then called espn they did an investigation uh apparently i believe it was stephanie drooly at espn she was the executive in charge of it um they submitted dozens and dozens and dozens of fake names to the emmy's and handed them out. That's crazy.
They would make up a name, get the trophy, and then they'd be like, here you go, on-air talent. Here's your Emmy statue.
And the person would just have an Emmy that they didn't earn. I want one.
Yeah. Anyone can get an Emmy now.
What the fuck? Yeah. Pretty wild stuff.
So read the full article is on The Athletic. It came out last Thursday.
It's wild stuff. That's insane.
It's nice to see phonies being recognized as phonies sometimes. I want to give ESPN an Emmy for being the phoniest.
Wait, so they're just fake Emmys behind everyone we're watching? Well, they're real Emmy trophies. But they're fake.
They didn't win them. But they did not win those awards.
Yeah, we need to get some fake Emmys. We should.
Can we? Jake, find us some Emmys. Do you want me to submit us for awards? No, no, no.
I don't want to win a real Emmy. It's like Amazon.
Yeah, I just want an Emmy. I want a replica.
A really good looking replica. Okay.
Get like maybe like 12. Just tell me.
I'll give you my credit card. Get like 12 fake Emmys.
Got it. We'll just sprinkle them everywhere.
Yeah. Jeff D.
Lowe's is real. Damn, there's those Emmys.
Jeff D. Lowe's is real.
d lowes is real is it well i thought it was because wasn't he working at abc so c espn yeah jeff d lowes is the oh i need to take a closer look at that trophy and see exactly who's made out to i want to i want to get some fake emmys we need to get some yeah just fake oscars yeah well get us an an Oscar, too. Emmys and Oscars? Yeah.
Aren't the Oscars tonight? Something's tonight. I wouldn't mind a Lombardi.
Get us a Lombardi. Maybe an AVN award.
Oh, might be a little expensive. Get an AVN and get a Moon Man, too.
Mm-hmm. Oh, we tried to get some Agrocrack.
We should really get some Agrocrack. Yeah.
Yeah, we want to get...'s get a whole trophy case. Oh, the Emmys are tonight.
Yeah, let's get a whole trophy case. Let's get a whole trophy case.
We'll put it maybe over there and just be like, look at all of our trophies. Okay.
My Who's Back of the Week is Jerry Reinsdorf being the absolute worst. So this was obviously a story I think a lot of people saw, but the Bulls did their ring of honor.
They invented a ring of honor uh very half-assed the whole production because they decided to do this uh in december um and they're like hey ring of honor night in the middle of january steve kerr will be back with the warriors we're gonna do ring of honor night um you know the normal the the guys that you think of when you think of the bulls franchise you know michael jordan and scotty pippen and Dennis Rodman, oh, they won't be there. But it's the Ring of Honor night.
So they put it all together. Again, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Dennis Rodman were not in attendance, which is like that right there should have been there's no Ring of Honor night.
They should have called up MJ and said, what date works for you? Do you want us to play it in your backyard in Florida? We'll play the game in your backyard. Michael jordan is the bulls like it's so crazy they did that so they do the whole thing uh at halftime and they had for uh people who have passed away they had a family member sit in for them jerry kraus passed away a few years ago his widow felma kraus sat in uh jerry reinsdorf knew what was going to happen because jerry kraus Krause used to get booed at the ring ceremonies when the Bulls were winning championships.
And you also had the last dance come out, which was basically Jerry Krause couldn't talk for himself because he was already passed away and he gets, you know, seward some more. Jerry Reinsdorf has Jerry Krause's picture shown, the fans boo, and then they show Thelma Krause crying.
And yeah, the fans probably should be like, hey, this guy's been dead. We can just be like, hey, he did a lot of good things.
I know that there's the end of the Bulls dynasty. There was a lot of back and forth and everything.
And Jerry Krause has been painted as the bad guy, probably for a lot of things that he did to break it up. Either way, Jerry Reinsdorf is the one that everyone should be mad at.
He's a fucking half-ass owner. He's bullshit.
He's trying to, like, grab the glory of the one time that he had a good team because Michael Jordan was the best player of all time. And sell tickets that way.
And then he shows Jerry Kraus' face, which, again, he knew that it was going to get booed and then thelma thelma cruises that kraus is there uh crying jerry reinsdorf is the one to blame i know fans probably shouldn't have booed but jerry reinsdorf is the one who's an asshole so they did not boo his widow they were booing the picture of jerry kraus picture jerry kraus while his widow was on the wood it was very easy to just not show jerry Krause's picture and just be like, Thelma Krause is here, next person. Or just don't, you know what I mean? Like, don't even say, just say, Jerry Krause's widow is here.
Like, move on instantly. Instead, he set it up.
And again, the fans shouldn't have booed, so I'm not, like, absolving the fans. But I think that the real blame should be Jerry Reinsdorf for putting together a half-ass thing and he hasn't actually tried to win a championship since Michael Jordan left and they you know they'll trot out and be like well Derrick Rose got hurt couldn't seen that coming he's a fucking asshole and he the whole night was a debacle and it was his fault and I think Phil Jackson's ovation was cut short like just an F minus ring of honor from start to finish.
One thing despised owners love more than anything else is having somebody else that's despised more than you are. And he did.
Because you can always play into that. Yeah.
And the whole, I mean, Last Dance was obviously, it was Michael Jordan's telling of it. And it was an awesome documentary.
But Jerry Reinsdorf got to get a say. And guess who didn't? Jerry Krause because he'd passed away.
It's like kind of a crazy thing to do. Max, I think you know where I'm going with this.
Oh, yeah. What would they say about Philadelphia fans if they did this? Why don't you ask the Chicago Bulls play-by-play announcer? Well, no.
Yeah, people ripped. Philly was big mad about that.
Oh, people ripped Bulls fans for this. Ripped them.
It was like trending on Twitter for 24 hours.

I mean, I get it.

They shouldn't have booed.

But the real enemy here or the real bad guy here is Jerry Reinsdorf.

That's my bigger point.

Like, shouldn't have booed that moment.

Jerry Reinsdorf is the one who fucked everything up.

But do you know what I'm talking about?

No, what are you talking about?

The play-by-play guy went on a rant.

Are you talking about Stacey King?

Yeah. He went on a rant about how bad it was that the bulls fans did that and then he was like we're not philly we're chicago that's funny so philly philly twitter got a hold of that and was and they were really mad stacy king says yeah that's the worst thing i've ever seen that's stupid to bring in philly yeah i don't think it was the worst thing that that was the other thing is like that was what was pissing me off the next day so much with so many people going after the fans and fans were dumb fans are fans they're fanatics they're stupid the real enemy here the real guy who fucked this up was Jerry Reinsdorf that's the one who you should be going after he how do you do a ring of honor ceremony without Michael Jordan yeah it yeah it's insane that that part is definitely a very solid point it's like the ring of honor is null and void if everybody that should be in the ring of honor is not there it's not a ring of honor like yeah you think of the bulls you think of michael jordan scotty pippen you think of those teams from the 90s and uh to have those two it's like it's a bigger deal that they're doing a ring of honor without those guys exactly actually having the ring of honor because they threw a half-ass thing together at last minute and they're like this will work and then they screwed it up the entire time but you also can't boo a guy who's dead and then have his widow there crying well yeah you could but again i agree with you jerry reinesdorf knew that if you showed jerry kra's picture, they'd boo.
Yeah. He knew that.
Because they booed him in the ring ceremonies. And the last dance happened.
And that's a whole new generation of Bulls fans that saw it. And they're like, oh, Jerry Krause really fucked this up.
So the question is, how do they have the ring of honor? Do they not put Krause in? No, they put him in. They just say, and here's Thelma Krause.
Guarantee they don't yeah yeah you're probably right it's I mean it was it was but they would probably they would probably have to show a picture of Jerry Krause when they're like here's Thelma Krause Jerry Krause's widow they should have done they should have done Tony Kukoc right after and then they're like are they booing or are they saying yeah yeah yeah that's probably a good like they or they should have done they should have had you know what they really should have done wanted to fucking do it, if I ran the Bulls, I would have had a ring of honor, and it would have been, okay, Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen can't get there? All right. Marcus Jordan and Larsa Pippen will be there.
Yeah, Larsa should have been there. And they'll just make out.
For sure. For the entire halftime.
We'll watch him. I was going to say, watch him.
Fuck, I didn't want to say that. I had trouble with that with Taylor Swift.
It was a joke. And I guess my final point is I don't – Bulls fans should not have booed.
Jerry Reinsdorf is the asshole behind all of this. He is one of the worst owners in sports for sure, between the White Sox and the Bulls.
And he cries poor and he's like he i mean his quotes about everything like oh when is it you know these he did uh he was like a crypto con a few months ago and was like everyone says these franchises are worth billions of dollars like that's not real like it's just theoretical it's like no they actually are they get sold all the time for billions of dollars it's also very funny that he said that at a crypto con right. Right.
And it might have been. I don't know if it was a CryptoCon.
I'm going to say it was a CryptoCon. Jerry Rysdorf getting into crypto is awesome to think about, though.
It's just the whole thing is a joke. And he's not a serious owner of either White Sox or the Bulls.
And all he cares about is that he made his money and he can sell merch off the 90s Bulls and the 05 White Sox and be like, well, we won once. Worst type of owner.
Win once and then be like, well, we did that once. It's fine.
Fucking worst. All right.
Sorry. It was.
It was. Sorry, Max, that you got involved in that.
Stacey King shouldn't have said that. It's okay.
He said New York, too. He goes, that's not Chicago.
That's New York. Philly.
So, it's okay. You would have booted her.
For sure. Hey, love New York too He goes that's not Chicago That's New York, Philly So You would have booted her For sure They love New York in with Philly That's the thing It's like fans are crazy I don't Yeah no That was another thing That I looked at Is that like Fans will always be Right Very Like passionate fans Will always be Find something to be angry about And like Sometimes It's not good.
And sometimes it comes off in poor taste, and you just have to kind of accept that. If Thelma Krause wasn't there and also in tears, it wouldn't have been a story.
And that's where Jerry Reinsdorf fucked it up. I think if she wasn't in tears, I think it was not a story.
But that's where Jerry Reinsdorf fucked it up. He set it up to fail because fans are fans, and fans are going to be dumb and great.
That's what we do as fans. We do stupid shit.
We do great things. It is what it is.
The owner is the one who set this whole thing up, and it sucked. Okay.
Also, the Bulls got outscored 48-20 in the third quarter after booing Thelma Krause. Balled online.
All right, Jake. My Who's Back of the Week is Dwayne Wade.
So similar type of announcement, but this is all positive. They're building a statue.
Nice. They announced it today, Pat Riley, first statue in franchise history.
All right. Statues are weird, aren't they? It's like the banner, and then the banner on steroids is the statue.

Yeah, but just as a general concept, statues.

It's a weird thing to do.

I'm just going to build a dude out of a rock that people can look at after you die.

Yeah, except he only retired like five years ago.

Yeah, which is weird.

You very rarely get a statue of a living person.

I guess in sports it probably happens more often.

Yeah.

But yeah, if there's anybody from the history of the Heat that deserves a statue, probably him. Yeah, definitely.
Also, this is probably – Maybe Jason Williams. Yeah.
What do you think, Jake? I've never asked this. The Heat have MJ's number retired.
Yeah, they do. Respect.
That's one of the weirdest moves ever. Respect.
The Heat have MJ's number. This is Bulger.
It's hanging in the wrapper. It always is like the most cucked move of all time.
I think it's a close second, but the most cucked move in basketball is the New York Knicks wearing the Jumpman logo on some of their uniforms. Yeah.
That's pretty bad. Yeah, Pye Riley explained it was made as a sign of respect of what Jordan has done for the game.
I mean, I like that, but it's also like, I don't know. Philly wouldn't do that, right? They don't hang banners in Philly.
That's true. Also, Hank probably would have mentioned this as his who's back, but he's a new coach.
I'm sure we'll dive into it more when he's back. What do you mean? The Patriots.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Gerard Mayo.

Yes.

People are very mad that I mess up the name. I apologize.

I said Gerard Mayo.

Yeah, Gerard Mayo.

I apologize.

I apologize.

I apologize.

Probably a good call, I guess.

A lot of people are saying that he's been destined to be a head coach.

So, I don't know.

I would have liked to see Vrabel.

Yeah.

But Mike Tomlin says he might go spend time with his family, talk it over. Mike Vrabel used to play for the Steelers.
People forget. Mike Tomlin of Pittsburgh? Mike Vrabel would be the perfect Steelers coach.
He would be their coach for 40 years. All right.
Good show, boys. Great show.
Any show you can get Hank live from Dallas.

Detroit Don with sprinkles.

Yeah.

It's a great show.

All right.

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21 for Shane. What was your number, Max? 20.
It's 20 every day. 80.
80. 80.
80. Good luck to Max.
Good luck, Max. Good luck Good luck Max You're going to do a time capsule Max after the game? Good luck Evan Pug too Eagles fan Do you think that even if we win we should do it too? No not if you win No definitely not if you win Only if we lose Stand by for that Yeah It would be nice for like a five minute time capsule Just to get all of Max and then we could talk about the game on Tuesday.

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