Michigan Wins The National Title, NFL Playoffs With Brian Baldinger, Coach Firings And The Weird Flyers Hockey Story

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On today's Pardon My Take, we have our good friend Brian Baldinger on the show talking playoff football. We're getting ready for this weekend.
We're also going to talk Michigan national title on Monday night. Hail to the vict victors we got some coach firings we got hot seat cool throne we have a hockey situation in philadelphia that we've tasked max max to explain to us which i'm very excited for because i've kept myself completely out of the loop i i saw two retweets on the situation okay this is the most i've ever prepared on the show love that love that love that people are punching air right now like if i was a producer i'd fucking prepare segments all the time for these guys uh and then we have guys on chicks like hank used to remember hank used to write the whole script for this show time ever had one of those days when it's just too cold to keep working nah neither has ariat ariat work jackets and boots are packed with all the cold stopping waterproof protection

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Today is Wednesday, January 10th. And boys, the world has been restored.
The Big Ten is back on top. Michigan Wolverines are your 2023-24 national champions in college football.
And our close personal friend Jim Harbaugh has finally done it. He can sit at the big boy table now.
He's done it. You think he popped some celebratory milk last night? Absolutely.
Popped it like champagne, slammed it back. He deserves to because a lot of people said bad things about Coach Harbaugh.
I'm not talking about this year. Before this year, they said pretty much what you just indicated, that he's not allowed at the big boy's table.
I heard Paul Feinbaum today do something I've never heard Paul Feinbaum do. He admitted he was wrong.
Yeah. Paul Feinbaum said, I've never been wrong about anything as much as I've been wrong about Harbaugh and Michigan.
They held opponents to, I believe, 10.4 points per game this year. They held every single team under 25 points for the first time in 150 years.
That's before the before the forward pass yeah so that's before michigan was playing doctors and physicians in 1900 and counting it to their total wins they probably played their freshman team against their like seniors and grad students beat the freshman team they're like that's another national another win thousand 150 years ago minnesota did that it hasn't been done since it It's Michigan's first solo national title since 1948. They were – so we talked about this in the preview on Sunday night, and I was like, Michael Penix is by far and away the best quarterback that Michigan defense has faced.
So who knows? Maybe Michigan's defense has not been – that was wrong. Michigan's defense was so good.
That tackling – they tackle you to death. That's all they all they do like they missed one tackle all night I think it was on the first drive every other pass was either contested or if a guy catches it there's a bunch of Michigan Wolverines jumping all over you and the thing like Harbaugh did it his way that's the part that I love for Jim Harbaugh because you've seen college football change.

You need the five stars, spread offense, all this stuff.

Harbaugh said, no, I'm going to build it in the mold of how I love football.

I'm going to build a team that leans on you for quarter after quarter after quarter,

and then in the fourth quarter you're going to be like no moss,

and we break it wide open.

And I feel bad for Washington because this is maybe the peak of screenshots of holding. Yeah.
There were some bad no calls, and I do think the call was a little ticky-tacky on the Michael Penix to Dunze down that big 30-yard gain, their only big play of the game that got called back. But Washington fans, as much as it sucks right now, I just want to say this.
Michigan was always going to win that game. That is what Michigan does.
They make you think it's close, and then when you get to the fourth quarter and you're just so sick of getting the ball shoved down your throat and their defense just keeps tackling everyone, they basically bend your will and Harbaugh gets his way. And that's just what they've done all season, what they've done basically for the last three years outside the Georgia and TCU game.
And that is what happened last night. So as much as it sucks for Washington, I really truly believe Michigan was the best team by a large margin in college football this year.
They were, and Pennix had a bad night last night too. So we said some very nice things about Pennix after the semifinal game.
I had to community notes notes a couple people online to remind them exactly what we said and what we did not say uh penix had like the game of a lifetime in the semi-finals he was incredible he stunk last night he wasn't good at all and the defense was getting pressure on him he wasn't super comfortable the windows weren't there but the windows weren't really there against texas that much either he just found them he just had perfectly placed balls um yeah he had to play a perfect game last night and he didn't for their only chance for washington to win he was bad he was he was not good he missed he missed probably three or four like throws that he he should have hit and it was also just like michigan again it was a seven point game i was happy it was close you know, there was times where it was, like, pretty ugly guys dropping balls. But Michigan just always has you, like, strangled, and they're just going to slowly strangle the life out of you, and that's what happened last night.
Like, we kept on saying when we were watching, like, Washington get their big shot. They get their big shot.
It just never came. Washington got back in the game.
Yeah. They were in the game to start the second half, and then the immediate turnover right after halftime.
Then at that point the game was over. Washington's defense played great.
They gave them shot after shot after shot to try to tie that game. Yeah, after the first quarter, it felt like Michigan could just do whatever they wanted as long as they ran the ball.
I think they could have won that game easily without throwing a single pass. They were...
The first two runs by the backup running back... Donovan Edwards.
Edwards. It looked like Washington didn't have linebackers on the field.
It looked like they could just do that. If he hesitated for half of a second, he could just bounce it to the outside.
Didn't matter which side he was going to go to. And then all the linebackers would get swallowed up in the middle of the field, and he just had 40 yards of daylight in front of him.
It seemed like it was over right after it started. But with Washington hanging around, you were like, well, maybe Pen do something maybe he can start playing well in the second half but I don't think I don't think that the game there was never a doubt in my mind as to which team was better after the second drive of the game right it was that that's in Michigan like that's just they they play such fundamentally sound football where it's like they're not going to beat themselves they're going to block the fuck out of you and then they're going to tackle you and then they're going to run it down your throat until you're like, I don't want to play anymore.
And you're right. Michigan ran the ball 38 times for 303 yards, eight yards a carry.
Also, I know that whenever there's a national title, the quarterback gets a lot of the accolades. J.J.
McCarthy, there's some J.J. McCarthy haters out there.
I understand that because he's not Michael Penix. He didn't have a season like Michael Penix.
He didn't have a season like Jaden Daniels. He's not going to electrify you with his throws.
But he is one of those guys that just makes the big plays when they have to be made. That third and eight scramble.
The run, yeah. They were on their own eight-yard line, and he ran.
They didn't even score on that drive, but it flipped all field position. Those were the type of plays that J.J.
McCarthy, even I think when they went from seven points to a 14-point game, he had that big pass on first down. Not like the flashiest quarterback.
I think he probably should stay another year. Yeah, I think he is.
And his mental health is A-OK. We learned about his mental health more than any storyline in the last two weeks.

He grounds himself before every game.

He takes his shoes off, and he goes and he meditates underneath the goalpost.

It's very Liver King-like.

He's grounding his body.

Yeah, it's basically the verbal meme, the arms shaking.

It's Taylor Swift and J.J. McCarthy's mental health,

and it's just whenever a broadcaster has a lull in the conversation.

Oh, I thought you were going to say J.J. McCarthy, Taylor Swift, handshake, wishing I could see their feet on national television all the time.
That too. That too.
But, yeah, it was a true Jim Harbaugh national champion. They did it his way because there was that time when the argument was, okay, Michigan can't beat Ohio State.
They don't have the same dudes as Ohio State, Georgia, Alabama, these upper echelon teams. Then the last couple years it was Michigan has created themselves to a point where they can beat Ohio State, but they can't beat the Georgia and Alabamas.
Like Ohio State's better equipped to win those type of games. Last year when Georgia almost lost to Ohio State, now he's finally come all the way where it's like, no, he built a team that can just bully everyone in the country.
And he did it. He's got the big bullies right now and they deserve to win credit to Michigan.
And I do like coach Harbaugh. I think he's hilarious.
He's a funny guy. College football is better with figures like him in it.
Yep. I also think this proves that cheaters win.
Like in the, in the long cheats all right this is not just michigan every school every major school in the country they cheat in certain ways michigan found a hilarious over the top absolutely ridiculous way to cheat yes the last couple years and they won cheat if you can cheat and cheat better than anybody really college football is about who is the best at cheating. And Michigan was really fucking good at cheating.
They were really good. And Hank, you're our number one expert on cheating.
What do you think Michigan fans should say when people say, oh, this is a tainted national title? They are just mad that Michigan was doing well. It's something that everyone else in college football is doing.
People just tried to make us think about Michigan, but as the facts have proven, every other team doing it as well and connor stallions rocks yes i he is the most they're just mad that connor stallions was the best at it yeah and he also like hate us because they ain't really really good at cheating like and he's funny he went to the naval academy to learn how to cheat he cared so much about like connor stallions was the big winner last night because connor stallions manifesto turned out true. He wrote a manifesto and saw it through.
He did it. Yeah, he literally did it.
He might be the first person to ever write a manifesto, accomplish all the goals in their manifesto, and not end up in prison. Right.
Yeah. He went from a vacuum cleaner salesman to a manifesto checkmark.
I would hire Conor Stallions to do any job in the world. I wish Barstow would hire him.
I wish that was still on the table. I would like to just give him an office, black out the glass, and just be like, he's our own Ernie Adams.
We don't ask him questions. He's just like, hey, I've done some research.
This other show is doing this. You guys got to do this.
I want you to take down Bleacher Report one and for all. Yeah.
Like, I want Conor Stallions on my side. But, yeah, it was – I don't really really people who are like oh this is tainted not tainted uh they well not only that but they they won the teams that they played penn state ohio state uh alabama washington all happened post connor stallion yes um so it's like and they they basically spent an entire season being like it's us against the the world, while also saying they were America's team.
They are. I mean, cheating and getting away with it.
There's nothing more American than that. Yeah, you could see in that locker room, there was quotes like, guys are like, the haters are crying right now.
Like, that locker room, they had it all together because, like, the whole world was against them. We also – I'm thinking real quick about that run that you just mentioned at the end of the year, too.
They played great teams going down the stretch. Yeah.
Iowa, I forgot. Sorry, I should mention Iowa.
They were ranked number 20 at the time. Big Ten West champ.
Not only did they win all those games against great teams, I think they covered every spread. They, yeah.
Yeah, they did. I think the last time they didn't cover the spread was against Purdue.
I don't know know why i know that oh no maryland they didn't cover maryland in the sandwich box they played penn state maryland ohio state yeah so they're really fucking good yeah no they're really really good that was 15 and oh seeing 15 and oh too it's just feels way different than when when we saw it back in the day like you know 12 and 0 national title it's that's a big number 15 wins is a lot and and next year will be 16 right i think it would be yeah whoever wins the national title will be 16 and up i have a fun little fact here for you big cat or 17 if a team that doesn't get a bye yeah that's true yep good point jake um so the last time that peyton manning and tom brady were not in the nfl playoffs do you know when that was uh had to be like 1999 it was 98 98 michigan was also reigning champions that year interesting co-champions i should wow so what does that fact tell us it went michigan it just took tom brady a long time to win another one michigan tom brady michigan so it's like tom brady has been a champion for oh yeah yeah 24 years yes and and we should say uh be gracious uh people here at barstool sports our boss dave portnoy michigan alum um he went five whole years without uh winning a title it was tough and in those five years i think our friend nick torani put it perfectly in those five years he made like 400 million dollars so it's been tough for him it's been really hard so but he is he is he is the drought is over for dave maybe you'll finally sell some merch around here celtics made it to the finals yeah ruins yeah he's had heartbreak yeah he's had heartbreak but here he is but yeah michigan i mean it's i'm just happy for jim harbaugh i i love jim harbaugh even even memes was posting the old uh harbaugh clip when we had him on the show talking about how Spongebob is a hero of his. Yeah, Spongebob's a hero.
He talks a lot about World War II as well. We're going to get him back on the show for sure.
We actually, so I wanted to mention real quick. I wish, the one thing I wish we had was the, we played in his scramble in the face of disgust.
It was me, you, PFT, Tony Scheffler. This is before I was taking golf seriously as a side gig.
You've gotten much better, right? Yeah, I can actually hit the ball. What's your lowest round? You were wearing jeans.
I was wearing jeans. I think as a foursome, we were like plus five, plus six through like 12 holes.
And he came around in a golf cart. He's like, hey, what's up, guys? How's it going? What's your score? We're like plus five in the look of disgust.
He didn't even hide it. He would just like almost look like he wanted to puke and drove away.
Yeah, I think he said he's like, you guys are playing scramble rules, right? Like there's something not computing here. How bad are you guys? He was ready to play last night too in the pregame drills when he was catching passes for his quarterback.
He was wearing the cleats. He just has his gloves on.
He is. He is, like, and he said it.
He gets to sit at the big boy table, which you know, like, in a weird way, I think, obviously, winning for Michigan was big. But, like, just the fact that he can sit down and be like, all right, you got a Super Bowl.
I got a national title. Yeah.
Like, it does matter for him. Who's at the big boy table now? Well, his dad won a national title.
He said that. His quote was – hold on.
I have some Jim Harbaugh quotes that I wanted to go through. He said, I can now sit at the big person's table in my family.
Jack Harbaugh won the national championship. My brother won a Super Bowl.
It's good to be at the big person's table from now on. Also, some great quotes from Jim Harbaugh last night.
After the game, it was like, did he just win the national title or is he on LSD? Because he just looked up in the confetti and he said, there's a story in every one of these pieces of confetti. It's like, I can feel the air.
Yeah. I can taste colors.
The universe is connected. That piece of confetti was once a mighty tree in the biggest forest on the earth.
Yes. He also, this is, I guess, a new mantra, which I think the team, the team, the team.
Shout out Bo Schembechler because that really is the greatest mantra to come up with. Yeah.
Which you can tell, like, Jim Harbaugh, like, Bo Schem, I know that it sounds cheesy, but Bo Schembechler, what he instilled in Jim Harbaugh, like, it is a whole Michigan thing, cult thing that they've got going on that works. But he said, what's good for the B is good for the Hive, and what's good for the Hive is good for the B.
Not as cool as the team, the team, the team, but still. It's all for one, one for all.
Yeah, and then the ultimate Jim Harbaugh quote from last night, he said, someday when they throw dirt over the top of me, if somebody who is eulogizing me, who is on this team or one of my teammates when I was playing at Michigan, if they would simply say he was a Michigan man, that would mean everything to me. I got chills.
I got chills thinking about it. He's the best.
That's all he wants. He just wants someone to be like, and he was a Michigan man.
It's also nice to see somebody experiencing their peak and knowing that they're in their peak at the moment.

That is like a transcendent drug to be like,

well, it's not getting any better than this.

I want to be known for this exact thing that I did right now.

Right, and it's also the Michigan win.

There is something that happens in sports fandom.

I call it the flip, the big flip.

When a team is down and they have a rival

who just rubs their face in it for a very long time,

it's as bad as it can get.

Thank you. the flip, the big flip.
When a team is down and they have a rival who just rubs their face in it for a very long time, it's as bad as it can get. But the reason why you keep coming back is because the flip is always on the horizon.
So like Ohio State fans have spent 20 years being like, this is the new normal. Michigan sucks.
We're awesome. We win national titles.
We beat them every year. And then the flip happened and all that like new normal is now evaporated and Michigan's on top.
And that's what keeps you coming back as a sports fan. You're like, as bad as it could be right now, the flip may happen at any point.
And I'm not saying this just because I think about it pretty much every day as it relates to Bears Packers, but it is like, that is the, if you're a team, if you root for a team that sucks and that gets just shit on the big flip is always there for you and that's what Michigan did the last three years what they what they have to do is Ohio State has to flip it back right soon because if you don't flip it back soon then you have to wait a long time because then the expectation because correct like in the back of everybody's mind I think there's still kids that are getting recruited right now to go to college that still remember the dominance of Ohio State. Right.
And we're supposed to win this game every single year. But if you wait too long, if you wait like seven more years, then you have to get guys that have the DNA to flip.
Right. They don't have the flip ingrained in them already.
It is a way to make yourself feel better if you root for a team that doesn't win because you can just tell your rival like at some point the big flip will happen and that should terrify you because there is no worse feeling as an Ohio State fan waking up today where you thought that like you obviously knew that Michigan would eventually probably figure it out but if you go 10 15 20 years where Michigan sucks you think in your head the back of your head you're like maybe we just will beat them every year from now until eternity. And you know, though, that little piece of your feeling, oh, the big flip could happen and everything could turn.
Yeah, out of fan bases that had been considered to be long-suffering or underdogs, I don't know that I would put Michigan in that pile. No, because it's mostly them and Ohio State.
That's been their underdog situation. It hasn't been like Michigan's the lovable loser.
The Rich Rod and Brady Hoke years were very, very bad. But they're not lovable losers.
No, Michigan has an unfounded arrogance to them as a fan base that is disgusting and makes everyone else want to puke. So, yeah, I agree.
They're not lovable losers. I'm just talking as it relates to rivalries and sports fandom.
If you're stuck in a situation where it's like, will we ever get back over this team? Will we ever get back on top of the mountain? The big flip is what wakes you up in the morning. And Michigan got it.
They did it. Congrats to Coach Harbaugh.
I think this means he's going to go. Yeah.
Talk to Baldy a little bit. Did you see that one quote? There was one quote that he had with SVP that was a little interesting.
He said that SVP, I can't remember what he asked him, but he said that he decided to move spring ball from February to March. So that's weird that he's thinking of this schedule.
He's probably planning ahead so that the next coach comes in, doesn't get as much practice. So we talked to our friend Sam Schwartstein he played for coach harbaugh and i brought up the uh the sleep thing that harbaugh had where it's like the night before the night before that's really your night before sleep that you play on and sam was saying that they had a big game on the east coast against wake forest and this is out at stanford and so the entire week coach had them waking up at like three in the morning practicing at four in the morning.
He switched their clocks on the West Coast. It's like staying at the Greenbrier, except he was out in Palo Alto.
He's like, okay, you're waking up at 3 o'clock, you're practicing at 4, and then on the plane ride over, he was going up and down the aisles, waking up every player that was sleeping, being like, you're not allowed to sleep yet, we have to conquer sleep. Then when we conquer sleep, we beat our opponent.
Then us yeah but still like biohacking biohacking coach harbaugh has a bright future in biohacking we also missed one uh quote from harbaugh before the game uh a reporter asked him like what do you guys do to prepare and he said that he has the whole team sit down and they watch nature documentaries about wolves and his quote was we allow ourselves to devolve into a pack of wolves that's what we want to channel probably nature's greatest fighting unit oh i like i love that awesome i love that just sitting that's that's the billy football method yeah just watching nature slaughter each other yeah exactly tap into that primal so he is a primal the one one thing that I would say to Coach Harbaugh, because we do consider him a friend, I would wait on the tattoo. So he said that he's getting a tattoo.
He told the team he was going to get a tattoo of 15-0. The last time a coach got a tattoo after winning a national title, Patino, our good friend Rick Patino got it vacated.
And that is on the table here. Yeah.
I don't know. I actually think I was reading some report yesterday that said in order to vacate a national title, they have to take that away from them before the end of the game.
But that's not what happened with Louisville at all. I know, but this is college football.
But college basketball would be the same. No, I don't think so.
I don't think so i because i was reading a report yesterday that had that brought up that exact same scenario i feel like they could take it away at any time and it doesn't mean anything the vacated national title is the dumbest thing in sports you have to take down the banner yeah it's like who cares every fan lived it every rick patino's got a tattoo yeah who cares i'm gonna look this up because i'm pretty sure in college football the rules are different. I feel like that was, you read that from like a Go Blue message board person being like, as long as it hits zero we're good.
No, no, no. Statue of limitations are over.
Let's see. I'll pull it up.
But yeah. Congrats to Michigan.
Congrats to Jim Harbaugh. We will try to get him on again soon.
What were you going to say Jake? Can we do some box talk? You guys see that box? Yeah. It was a great box last night.
We were laughing about it when we saw your tweet on the gambling stream because everyone was like, what is Jake talking about this box? Like, listen, you got to know Jake Marsh. Yeah.
The game is not really important. It's what's going on around the game.
But the storylines outside of it are equally as great. I liked your tweet because I am, but we definitely will do a box of the year.
So talk to us about the box. Okay, so this box will be one of the nominees.
It'll be Michael Jordan, Stephen A. Smith, Derek Jeter and I didn't recognize Travis Scott because I don't know pop culture.
Spike Lee was in there too, I think. Okay, you couldn't really tell from the angle.
Michael Rubin. You saw him in PFT.
Yeah, I did. I thought.
So we have that box. I think it was actually Michael michael rubens white party was that that box yeah i just assumed that michael rubens presence was there yeah so that was a good box we have uh taylor swift's box at chiefs games with travis kelsey okay or excuse me donna kelsey uh-huh or you could take the one from uh met life she was with uh ryan reynolds and blake lively that's a good box yeah we have uh jimmy butler and the biebers andvers and Coco Goff's box.
Okay, now, Jake, I'm confused because that's Coco Goff's box. Yeah.
But Taylor Swift, it's her box when she's at Arrowhead. Is it not Travis Kelsey's box? It sounds like you just want to bring up Taylor Swift's box.
Oh, so technically Travis Kelsey's box. We've always thought of it as Travis Kelsey's box, but you're such a pervert.
You're like, how can I say Taylor Swift's box on part of my take? It meant to be Travis Kelsey's box. Got it.
Yeah. Box of the year.
Taylor Swift and Taylor Swift's mom. Excuse me, Travis Kelsey's mom in Travis Kelsey's box.
Oh, that's freaky. It actually might be Donna Kelsey's box.
Yeah. It could be.
Which Travis Kelsey was in at one point. Yeah.
And so is Jason Kelsey. Right.
That's actually maybe the best box ever. That is the number one box.
Great box. And then our fourth nominee will be Joe Burrow's box with Jake Brown.
Oh, yeah. It's a good box.
So that's a little sneak peek for the 2024 take-ies. That's your first category.
What about Kodak Black at the Panthers game? Oh, yeah. That was two years ago, right? What about Brooks when he didn't sleep? Yeah, that's awesome.
That was a great box. I've seen a lot of good boxes over the years.
But nothing really. Wait, are we calling it Taylor Swift's box? No, no, no.
Travis Kelce's box. That was a mistake on mine.
Got it. But, yeah, stay tuned.
It was good boxes. This summer.
Yeah. Yeah, no, when you follow it up with we're going to have to do box of the year, I thought that was a very good idea.
Okay, did you find out if they can vacate it? I'm looking it up. Why Michigan football's college football national title won't be tainted.
That seems like an opinion piece. It does seem like it.
I mean, you could be right. It would be weird if it was different rules for college basketball and college football because it would be the NCAA taking away both places.
It's the college football playoff. Oh, maybe ESPN.
So it's not – I don't think it's NCAA. I think it's college football playoff, right? But they could take away – I guess they could take away the AP votes and the coaches' votes.
They might do that. Yeah.
So I don't know. The answer is I don't know if it's going to be vacant.
Get the tattoo. Get the tattoo.
I would love it. What if he got a neck tattoo? I want him to just get a tattoo of a ribeye.
Just steak? Yeah. Just like right on his bicep.
You should get the wolf tattoo, like the howling wolves across his chest. Yes.
Yes. That would be great.
Be a wolf. That's what Taylor Luan always says.
True. Noted Michigan alum.
Yes. People are asking, is this the year of Harbaugh? Because now we have John going in the playoffs.
So if you were to put truth serum in Jim Harbaugh's arm, maybe when he was getting the tattoo, he does not want his brother to get another Super Bowl, right? I mean, his brother was there on the sidelines. It was a wild scene before the game.
They hugged each other. I've been speculating that maybe they're sharing Connor Stallions this year year yeah uh i think that jim if you were to make him be honest he doesn't want his brother to have two so it's a competing thoughts because i i my knee-jerk reaction is i agree with you but then if john wins a super bowl then they get to be like year of harbaugh like harbaugh's run football yeah or doyle rule yeah so you kind of get that where it's like their powers combined but then like you can't tell the story of 2024 without harbaugh it's the year of harbaugh it's the year of harbaugh but then jim goes to the nfl maybe and then now he's got two superbowls that he has yeah does he not get to go to the big is there a bigger boys table i actually he might get to dine alone at the king's table that would be great if John Harbaugh like won a super bowl and then thanksgiving next year like had an extra like a like the phil jackson pillow that he used to sit on yeah and just be like no i don't i don't think you understand i have two there might be a dad's favorite chair yeah and then he gets that i think that i think that jim probably doesn't want his brother to have two before he gets one yeah probably because then now he's like oh now i have to win two deep down but then but then he knows if he does win two and his brother doesn't have a single college football natty yeah then he's king harbaugh yeah but i think it does go back to like if you add if you hit him with true serum we we would normally think of a human being with true serum would be like uh you know very open and selfish to like what, you know, yeah, it's my brother, but I want to have the moment.
I think if you hit Jim Harbaugh with truth serum, he would be like, my goal in life is for the Harbaugh's to run football. You know what I mean? Like he's like, what do you want? Like if you could have any wish in the world, it's like Harbaugh's, we rename football Harbaugh't i don't even think that there's such a thing as truth serum for him i think his blood is true he just tells the truth all the time he said they were innocent said they were innocent he stood up that's why they're able to stand up for themselves so vociferously was because he knew that the truth was on their side yeah yeah exactly twin peaks is the best in the game here historic rival tip off with shareable bites, and every shot you take is a game winner.
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We have coach firings. The Shocker, Mike Vrabel fired by the Titans.
I don't know. I think that's a really stupid move by the Titans.
I was going to say dumb as shit, but I'll take stupid, and I think anybody in this room would like to have Coach Vrabel as their coach next year, right? We can say that. Well, I don't understand.
So I guess, oh, the last two years haven't gone great. Mike Vrabel has had insane amounts of success with Ryan Tannehill as quarterback quarterback yeah find me another coach could get the ryan tannahill to the afc championship game like he's never had a good quarterback they were the one seed in 2021 yeah last year they traded away aj brown and a bunch of good players yep and this year they had a bunch of dog shit going on tannahill had one of the biggest cap hits i think in the NFL as the quarterback and um then they were still competitive yeah like they didn't quit Vrabel's an awesome coach and maybe the funniest part maybe also the most relatable part of the story um Diana Rossini reported this the Titans believe trading Vrabel was too complicated and would take too long per sources they wanted to move quickly.
I was told Vrabel never asked ownership for a trade

or asked out of Tennessee.

That means that the Titans just didn't want to do paperwork,

which I completely understand.

Yes.

Like, if they wanted to, they could have sat down

and probably gotten like a,

I don't know what coaches go for these days.

Last trade was a long time ago.

I think that was probably John Gruden.

Yeah.

But you can trade coaches in the NFL.

No, wait, Sean Payton.

He got traded?

Didn't the Saints get a pick for him? Maybe like... Was he not still under contract? No, he took a year off.
Remember he went to Fox? Yeah, I know, but I feel like he still had a year. I don't know if that was a trade necessarily, but the point is in the NFL you can trade coaches.
And the owner of the Titans, Amy Adams Strunk, basically just didn't want to do the paperwork and the legwork and waste time trying to pull off a trade, which I completely understand that point of view. Yes.
Also, I can understand that that's probably not how you want to run an NFL franchise. Yes.
The... Yeah, I think the...
Oh, no, wait. I think the Saints had to trade, or the Saints got a couple picks.
The Saints will receive the Broncos' 23 first-round pick and 24 second-round pick for Peyton.

And the Saints' 24 third-round pick.

It's big.

Yeah, it is big.

Huge.

But yeah, I agree.

The paperwork is daunting.

I mean, imagine that.

You have to probably call 30 other teams.

And also, you have to – how would you –

like if they did a trade, Bill Belichick is the GM of the Patriots. Yeah.
Do you call Bill Belichick and be like, hey, we want to trade you Mike Vrabel when you get fired? Bill Belichick would probably say, let's do a trade. I will trade you Bill Belichick.
Yeah. For Mike Vrabel.
That would be interesting. But here's the thing is you don't make the Titans pay anything because then he was going to go to Tennessee and he wants all his draft picks.
Hank. But he's not GM anymore, maybe.
Yeah. Mike Vrabel.
Has this opened the door? Would love to have Mike Vrabel as the coach of the Patriots. You have a coach.
We do have a coach. Never talk about another man's job.
There hasn't been a lot of news. There was all these reports, fan fiction articles.
He's getting his chest puffed out again. You just said you wanted Mike Vrabel.
Well, because you guys... You fired Belichick.
You guys made me do a fucking solo podcast based off of a fake article. Maybe an overreaction.
Hand up. Yeah.
You guys were like, go do a solo podcast, which has never been done in the history of the show based off of rumor and speculation you personally just now ran bill belichick out of town after all he's done you guys you guys gaslit me into believing that i forgot we made you do that yeah you guys gaslit me into believing that there was no uh world where belichick wasn't gonna be the coach pft makes photoshops he you know i did not make a change chain to his desk and forces him to not leave the office until like 10 bill belichick photoshops are done that's what i do but hey because somehow also that this coach firing day has passed me about check is really laughing very hard because that's exactly what you do to them and correct didn't say that yeah oh it's not i don't make them do anything i'm the best boss in the world oh maybe you should have made max push the button that time yeah that was that was a mistake come on um but i told him i i'm always down to edit whenever he wants to do a soul eagles pod but yeah now you want variable and you've you've written i just don't know like again i'm used to winning i'm used to you know late draft picks i don't understand the draft i don't understand like coaching carousel nonsense if belichick's gone when's it happening experts it could happen anytime what what's today's date theick's gone, when's it happening? Experts? It could happen at any time. What's today's date? The 8th, 9th.
No, what's the day? Sorry. Tuesday, January 9th.
Okay, did anyone get fired today? Yeah, like Rable did. Oh, shit.
So there's no rules for Black Monday. Also, Ron Rivera got fired on Sunday.
So did Arthur Smith. Oh, Rivera on Monday.
I think it was Monday morning. Arthur Smith on Sunday.
Ron Rivera got fired in November. Also, multiple coaches got fired before.
Yeah. Yeah.
So Black Monday is fluid, Hank. Try to be fluid for once in your life.
So here's the thing. If Belichick does get fired.
Belichick said that he has a meeting with Robert Kraft once a week, they go over what happened last week, plan for the future. They just haven't had that meeting yet.
What if it happens by tomorrow morning? That would be great. Hank oh you'd have to do solo pod i hope he gets fired right before we leave you want him though you want to keep him of course yeah he's the greatest coach of all time he got you in this mess he can get you out of it yeah he said he's willing to take a lesser role with the team which i feel like is that would that would be bizarre so funny if his lesser role was to not be the coach anymore but still be the gm yeah bring vable and his coach him as gm get the boys back together get the boys back together i i it is crazy like vrabel if he wants to coach next year he should be number one option for every team who's looking for a coach yes Yes.
Yeah, Vrabel is a big name out there.

Would you rather have Vrabel or Belichick, PFT?

Oh, man.

I mean, Vrabel has some Belichick in him.

He learned under Belichick.

So I feel like if I get Vrabel, I'm getting Bill Belichick and Mike Vrabel.

Also, yeah, like Belichick has how many rings?

Six.

But how many of them has he – I mean, some of those are Mike Vrabel's rings.

Whose rings are they?

As head coach? Well, Mike Vrabel was rings. Whose rings are they? As head coach?

Well, Mike Vrabel was a player.

Players make plays.

True.

Caught touchdowns in the Super Bowl.

So those are actually his.

So it's three to three.

Yeah, they're ours.

It's a collective thing.

I just think it's dumb as shit to fire Mike Vrabel right now.

Agreed.

It's so stupid.

There was another report that came out about it.

Will Compton and Taylor Wan both said that it was politics and Game of Thrones type things happening. I believe that because I think they got a new GM last year, right? So he probably is like, I want to pick my guy.
I want to pick my guy. Crable was probably too big of an alpha for him.
They also have a new stadium coming, right? Aren't they building one? The house that Levis built. Yeah, you always got to look for a new coach then.
Yeah. Did you see the report about Russell Wilsonson though in his contract no so there's a chance russell goes back to the broncos oh that'll be awkward it'd be very awkward so george patton their gm said that uh he never told russell that he had to take a pay cut or he was going to be cut or anything like that or excuse me readjust his injury guarantee um he said that he went to rus Russell with a creative and good faith idea for how to restructure his contract.
So he's like completely spinning this into being like, that's not what I said. What I actually just tried to do was have a mid-contract renegotiation with him.
Just a thought. He's saying, I didn't do that, but I did it, but it was good.
So all you people that are saying it's bad, it was actually in good faith that I asked him to readjust his contract. He just did his family.
Ha ha. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey, wouldn't it be crazy if you readjusted your injury guarantee for after this season so it made it easier for us to cut you? Ha ha ha. Yeah, can you just give me $37 million back? Ha ha.
Yeah. JK.
Yeah. And then wait for the bubbles to come back at you and then he said that the benching Russell Wilson getting benched was actually unrelated to that oh Sean Sean Payton benched him uh for because I guess he thought Jared Stidham was the guy okay so they're they're in damage control and if I'm the Broncos I you have to think is it going to be worse for us if we get hammered and fines and um the nfl does you know that sounds like a lawsuit talk yeah it seems like the cover your ass move would to be like we're actually just gonna have russell stick around for next year yeah that that would be smart then maybe trade him after a couple weeks yeah to who whoever gets their quarterback gets their quarterback injured.
The UFL? Which happens every year.

Yeah.

Right?

Yeah, that's true.

He just waited out and then trade him and be like, no, we wanted him to play.

Trade him back to Seattle.

Flip him.

I don't think that.

I think people would probably be pretty upset.

Very upset.

Very upset.

And then, so far we've had Mike Frabel, dumb firing.

Arthur Smith, dumb firing because we're friends with him and we won't say anything more about that. Ron Rivera, good firing.
Great, great. The firing of the year.
Anyone else? And then we obviously had the McDaniels, Staley, Frank Wright. That's it.
It's only six right now. We still have.
I feel like we're going to get to eight. We might.
We've got some postseason guys. Dennis Allen, how have you not been fired? So Shannon Sharp said that he would have cut Jameis Winston for mutiny.
Then you get a real mutiny. Then you get a serious mutiny because all of his guys have his back.
All the players down there have his back. Which, actually, if you're the Saints, you probably want a lot of your current players gone somehow.
Get you out of cap hell. Get you out of cap hell.
Okay, now I'm doing some serious fan fiction. Harbaugh to the NFL, he brings in Jameis Winston because he knows he doesn't have a sex addiction.
Not addicted to sex, Jameis Winston. I think Jameis is going to get blacklisted.
He makes Jameis wear glasses, even though he got LASIK. Yeah.
Rex specs. The transition lenses.
You think Jameis got blacklisted? He's going to get. Blackball, do you mean? Blackball.
He's been blackballed. Yeah.
They made no mention about how they forced him to play on four cracked vertebrae and a torn peri-oneal tendon. None of that.
I'll say this right now. If Jameis Winston doesn't get another job in the NFL, he has a job for life at Barstool.
I don't know how we're going to financially make that work, but I'm going to say it right now. Just to be a dude.
Yeah, just be a vibes

guy. If he was

just the vibes guy in the office,

imagine walking in at like 8 in the

morning and Jameis is just like, let's

go eat a dub. Yeah.
He does his workouts

with us? Yeah. Oh my god, that'd be

insane. We could make money

off of that. We could pay his salary.

For sure. Workouts.
Just a live stream

of his workouts every day. Alright, Jameis, you have a job for life but no jamis should not be black bold no he did the right thing maybe maybe from the wrong formation but he did the right thing i think i think most teams would be like that that was a great teammate move because also not most coaches right but dennis allen's a fucking idiot most coaches probably formation dennis allen's idiot yeah uh what do you think you think about Arthur Smith and Vrabes teaming up again? That would be good.
People are saying it. Yeah, I'd be good with that.
But what do you think? What's the over-under? So we're at six right now, and what do you think? If I give you over-under a seven and a half? I think over, maybe? Belichick getting fired yesterday or no. I don't know.
You tell us. You just fired him.
They're going to do a mutual separation. I do not think that Belichick will be the coach in New England next year.
I don't think he'll get fired. Okay.
I think they will mutually. It feels like there's so much smoke, right? I agree.
I just. I think it would be stupid.
I think you should keep him. but it does feel like there's so much smoke right i agree i just i think it would be stupid i think you should keep them but it does feel like there's there was so much talk about it that at this point craft might be just he's like taking time almost as like uh we're really thinking about it hard but he's already made his mind up eber floos will he be the coach next coach next year? I don't know.
It's been very quiet, House Hall. He should not be the coach.
I agree, but I think he is. So Ryan Pulse, whatever he decides.
Would you rather have Iberflus or Harbaugh as your coach? Would you rather have Iberflus or Mike Vrabel as your coach? I made free Harbaugh to Chicago merch. I've tweeted that hype video a billion times.
I watched it when I was sitting. This is a sad thing I'm about to say, folks.
I got home last night at like 11 p.m. in my car, in my garage, put the garage down, keep the car on, which wasn't smart.
People are probably like, is like is he suicidal no and then i watched the video that i made of harbaugh to chicago yeah you got to by myself in my car and i got excited i would take vrabel in a heartbeat yeah in a fucking heartbeat there's almost every coach that's this is like the biggest stack of coaches that we have that teams should be excited about in the offseason. And it's also like Vrabel would instill man football.

I want a culture change.

Yeah.

You got to either trust that the culture is going the right way or you need a culture

change.

I would like Vrabel or Harbaugh.

Yes, very much so.

I think Harbaugh is going to go to the Chargers or the Raiders.

Eagles.

What the fuck?

You and PFT just showed up in the Harbaugh shit.

You have a coach.

Yeah.

You do too.

Yeah, Max does. You have a coach.
You're in the playoffs. You were in the Super Bowl last year.
You can't fucking do this. God damn it.
Listen, Big Cat. You can't spoil if you're favorites.
Right now, you're married. You got a spouse.
The expiration date is not expired. You are married to Matt Eberflus.
I'm out here single ready to mingle. I want to go on a nice long walk with my coach wife, and whoops, she fell off a cliff.
Trial separation? My bad. I was saying, hey, honey, just go take a picture.
Go, Matt. Go out there.
A little bit farther. Sorry.
I'm single. I'm like Casey Anthony right now.
I'm looking for somebody to tame me. Yeah, but you have the worst package.
Yeah, that's why. Casey Anthony.
Yes, correct. Oh, no.
I would say that my package right now is outstanding. No, PFT is going to the bar.
He's putting on the Spanx. He's got a lot of makeup on.
He's like, I'm hoping that someone gets drunk enough to take me home. No, but that was me three years ago.
I mean, I had Dan Snyder, and I had all this shit going on, the worst stadium in the NFL. Now, I just came into some money.
I'm like, I'm an older woman. Maybe my parents just died, left me a shitload of money.
I got a really nice house. Everything's on the up and up.
I'm so fertile. I still got my figure.
I still got my figure, Max. But it's going to take a little bit of time for that house to put all the furniture in it.
To clean that house? Big Cat and I got houses that are ready to go. No, my house is spectacular.
No, it's not. It's a brand new house.
I just got a new house. It's a brand new house.
This feels like a Colin Coward segment. Yeah.
Because it's about divorce? No, just to be an analogy. I feel like, though, if you went to your brand new house and you did an inspection, you'd be like, wait, they didn't build this house correctly.
But guess what? I'm having my new house built in an even better part of town, and it's going to be awesome. Yeah, but we can also see the new house.
You don't even have a last name. The person who built the new house also has a house down the street, and that house isn't doing much better than it was.
Well, my house will be fine once it gets built, and I also have – we're going to change our name entirely, so if you don't like the name, it's gone. I really feel like I should be – I got a tremendous package to offer.
Also, cap. I got so much cap.
The owner of your house, you'd be like, hey – Good one, Hank. The owner of your house, you'd be like, wait, has he ever built a house before? He's like, oh, yeah.
A few years ago, he said that he was building this enormous mansion that was going to be the most incredible house we've ever seen. And then it ended up being just the same house.
Which is just the same house. It's just losing the Celtics every year.
I knew. I thought you were going that way.
He's built two houses before. Sixes are bad.
He's got two houses. And we've.
Are you talking about. Are you talking about the mother.
Mother fun devils. Yeah.
I'm talking about the devils. Jack Hughes.
Ever heard of him. And we broke his broke his neck.
And we. And we processed it.
We did the process. Some Canadian website.
Yeah. It'll be fantastic.
Just just come visit. Just come for a long weekend.
And you can. You know.
Come. Have.
Have a night with me, have a night with Josh Harris, have a long night with Magic Johnson. That'll be nice.
Okay. And then we'll see how you're walking the next day.
One night in Magic. Okay.
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Barstool Golf Time app now. Should we transition to Max? What do you got for us? All right, ready? Yeah, so this is, for people who don't know know there's something going on with the Philadelphia Flyers we don't really know what I've seen some tweets I saw Witt had to like apologize to someone this is a Bison Witt there I love it when they get in their Big J game and just start attacking journalists and did they make a mistake this time no I think they the only tweet I saw was Whit said someone was someone's dad, but it's not his dad.
That was a while ago. Oh, okay.
They were using that as credibility for him talking on it now. Oh, that's bullshit.
We stand with Whit and Biz, obviously, but I just saw that one tweet where Whit was like, turns out he's not his dad. I was like, wait, what is Whit into right now? Biz is attacking people people's haircuts.
Fuck yes. Yeah, the Biz tweet is so funny.
Also, R.A. got involved, too, for a little bit.
That's the secret weapon. That's how you know shit's getting.
R.A. is the dude from, he's the Irish dude from Braveheart, where he just shows up.
He's like, it's my island. My fucking island.
Yeah, and he's just like, well, this guy's crazy, but we want him on our side. All right, ready? Yep.
All right, 2002, Flyers drafted Cutter. What? Or 2022.
Let's take this back to the Big Bang, Max. 2002.
Fuck, not off to a hot start. Not off to a hot start.
2022, Flyers drafted Cutter Gauthier fifth overall. Then he went to Boston College.
Didn't know you could do that in hockey. You could draft someone and they still go to college.
I kind of like that. They should put that in other sports.
They used to. Like Larry Bird.
Do you know that they can also, guys who play a full college hockey season can then just go right to the playoffs. That happens.
Very cool. They should do that in other sports.
He kind of rose up the prospect rankings in the past two years,

and the climax of that was a couple weeks ago.

He led Team USA in points when they won the World Juniors.

That was like last week.

So everyone in Philly was super excited.

They were like, this guy just led USA to a gold.

He's about to be the future of our franchise for forever.

Fast forward to last night, out of nowhere, bombshell trade,

Gautier, Cutter, to the Ducks.

Wait, he's American?

He is American.

His name is what?

Cutter Gautier.

I look at pronunciation.

Joey T-H-E.

Q-A-T-A-R.

It looks like gothier, G-A-R-T-A. Okay.
But I looked up pronunciation. I'm happy we got him on our side.
Okay, so he gets traded. He gets traded last night out of nowhere.
There was a video circulating when he was in juniors. They were asking all their players, their favorite teams growing up, and he was like, I'm Cutter, play for the Flyers, don't know how that's gonna work out oh he was uh he grew up a huge syndicated penguins so like in his like draft day like you know they all wear like that jerseys and the hats as soon as they get drafted they're like who's your biggest like idol growing up and it was sydney crosby and everyone in philly was like yeah this is a little a little weird.
Like, why would you say Sidney Crosby? He's a huge Flyers rival. What Flyers fan should he say? Eric Kondross? No, but whatever.
People were like, that's weird. You shouldn't have said that.
But it was, like, for the most part, kept under wraps since he told the team that he didn't want to play for them like three months after he was drafted. What a diehard fan.
So apparently he was drafted by the Flyers on draft that day. He goes, I'm built to be a Flyer.
I want to be a Flyer. Then a few months later said he never wants to play in Philly, ghosted every phone call from Danny Rear, the GM.
Apparently over juniors, the front office of the Flyers flew to Sweden to meet with him and try and work everything out. He refused to meet with them, didn't even see them when they were in Sweden for the juniors.
He was on a mission over there. He had a job to do.
Yes. And then it turns out that the rumor is that he just doesn't want to play for Tortorella.
He thinks that he's too much of an old-fashioned, hard-ass coach. That was going to be my speculation.
This could all just boil down strictly to two words, John Tortorella. And that's what it's looking like.
And then Torts was asked about it last night. Great quote.
I don't know Cutter from a hole in the wall. Awesome.
He's like, I'm worried about this team and Drysdale, who the guy they got back, is coming in. Torts' MBS handshake.
Yes. Okay.
Philly Twitter freaks out last night, as you can imagine. Like, death threats.
Like, bad. Like, very bad Philly Twitter came out last night.
You went full Philly. I did not go full Philly.
Well, Philly. Philly went, like, full, full Philly.
You, Max, you have to understand, like, when we talk to you, this is us talking to Philadelphia. But not this Philadelphia.
Would the representative from Philadelphia please stand up? That's you. Okay, that would be me.
So you guys went full Philly on him? Yes. The delegation of Philadelphia fans.
Max. There's a Philly, there's a Flyers reporter.
I can tell this is right where Max is getting confused. No, there's a Flyers reporter.
He's confused for the first word. But this is where it really got confusing because you could tell his cadence slowed down.
He had the beginning nail. No, I think I still got it.
Okay. Well, this is where the chicklets guys.
All right. So after you threatened his life, what happened? No.
After you threw batteries at his mom. We haven't even got to the threatening of lives.
Just like fucked up shit. Oh, that's coming? Okay.
Oh, Jimmy Hayes is getting involved okay so this guy fucked up aunt aunt sanfilippo who's a flyers reporter okay went on a podcast like all as the shit was going on he goes i talked to somebody within the organization and kevin hayes had his fingerprints all over this okay what because apparently kevin hayes and cutter that was like Cut's only relationship within the team he like went on a podcast i guess like a couple years ago and they talked like are you friends with anyone on the team the only person he said is kevin hayes so that is why i guess some people thought were like okay maybe and kevin hayes plays for the blues yeah he plays for the blues where did kevin hayes go to Hayes go to college, Max? Don't know. Boston College.
Boston. Oh.
Same place. Bam.
That makes sense. Yeah.
That makes sense. Not at the same time, or they just both went to Boston College.
So I was looking at this in real time. So I saw that podcast clip.
What does that mean? Like, as it was going down on Twitter, at first I saw the podcast clip of Cutter being like, Kevin Hayes is my only friend on the Flyers. Kevin Hayes leaves.
Whatever. And then this guy says, I talked to somebody within the organization.
It's Kevin Hayes. He tries to confirm what people are saying on Twitter.
Then the Chicklets guys get involved and start saying- They're defending Kevin Hayes. Start defending Kevin Hayes.
Wiz tweets, I just talked to Hayes. Wiz.
What? What'd I say? Wiz. Wiz.
Slow down, Max. Wiz wit.
Wiz wit. That's where I was going.
Raul. Raul.
I was thinking cheesesteaks. Raul Wizenet.
Wit tweets, I just talked to Hazy. Can we do a mock-up of what Raul Wizenet looks like? Okay.
Man, big ears, big nose. Okay.
Mustache, probably. I need to say the tweet.
I'm on a roll. I just talked to Hayes.
You're not. I'm on a roll.
I just talked to Hayes asking his opinion on the guy he said was behind Cutter Gautier requesting a trade. He started laughing and said, whoever this is is a complete clown, and anyone who thinks I had anything to do with this doesn't have a brain.
Then a blues reporter also had a conversation with Hayes, and he goes, yeah, I think it's it's complete bullshit honestly I think those two guys acted like a complete pieces of shit to be honest making shit up now I'm going to bed and waking up with death death threats and people wanting my family dead okay so this aunt San Filippo guy correct that guy he's a reporter in Philadelphia uh yeah he has like a podcast it sounds like guy Cuz. Yeah.
Cuzzo. Is this Cuz? Yes.
So wait, which side do you... All right, keep going.
Well, that's basically it. All right.
So apparently like Philly... People also are saying they're happy that...
Cutter. Hayes' brother was dead.
What? No, so that's like the family... Want my family dead, and then he went on to say like...
People were saying stuff like shit about his dead brother. great not good not good not disavow so which side do you land on though what do you mean cutter or the flyers uh seems like the flyers oh wait yeah so you're you're against weeks or not weeks hayes no hayes had nothing to do with it no but you're saying that the flyers are in the right.
They're in the right. That he got talked out of the organization.
The team of the Flyers are in the right for trading him. Right, but are you team like Flyers that's misinformation that Kevin Hayes had something to do with it? Kevin Hayes had nothing to do with it.
Okay, and that Cutter Gautier is like Malkatent? Like which side? You're anti-Cutter. Right.
Anti-cutter. Okay.
I think we're pro-cutter. No, he's anti-cutter.
No, no, no. No, because he's friends with Kevin Hayes.
But Kevin Hayes said he had nothing to do with it. I'm pro-Kevin Hayes.
We're anti-anyone. But if you're pro-Kevin Hayes, don't you have to be pro-cutter because they're best friends.
No. Yeah, yeah.
No. Kevin Hayes said he had nothing to do with it.
Yeah. No, I agree.
And we're very much anti the guy who made up the report about Kevin Hayes. I'm pro-Hayes.
I'm pro- We're pro-Hayes, pro-Cutters. I'm pro-Hayes.
No. Pro-Cutter.
Fuck Cutter. And pro-Flyers.
All right. Well, I'm going to call Whit.
I think everybody's in the right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right. I'm going to call Whit.
Is Wiz? Is Wiz Whit. This picture's unbelievable.
Hello? Hey wow so we're breaking down this entire uh flyers shit right now on the podcast what stuff the fly the flyers and cutter go t a or whatever oh yeah yeah what do you mean what stuff it's like all you've been talking about the last two days you cut out but i don't have good service at my house okay i won your Wi-Fi bill. Yeah, you'd think you'd be able to afford that.

Maybe less golf.

Do you want me to answer the question?

Okay.

All right.

So, Max just broke down the whole thing to us.

All we want to know is, can we be pro-cutter, pro-Kevin Hayes, anti-flyers?

Is that the right spot to be in?

That is the perfect.

Okay.

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

Perfect.

Philadelphia is just full

of such scumbags and

dirtballs and measles

and it's the worst city in the country

and I hate everything about it and I

always have. Okay, so I think we cleared

up. Besides the people from Philly that listen to Chick-fil-A.

Those guys are cool.

And the AWLs who are from Philly.

And producers that are from Philly.

No, we don't care about you, Max.

Thank you, Witt. Also, Jersey Jerry

was practicing his first hockey

He's just going to be a good one. And the AWLs who are from Philly.
And producers that are from Philly. No, we don't care about you, Max.
All right. Thank you, Whit.
Also, Jersey Jerry was practicing his first hockey skills challenge. I think he broke his collarbone.
Yep, Jerry McDavid. I can't wait to see you.
See ya. Bye.
Okay. So we're good.
Yeah, so we're fine. Pro cutter.
Pro Kevin Hayes. Fuck the Flyers.
I don't have a problem with the Flyers. I think that everybody- Sounds like they're doing misinformation on this poor kid.
I'm anti the person that made up the story. Yes, that is abundantly clear.
But the story came from someone in the Flyers organization. No, it wasn't in the organization.
He was like, he's a blogger. No, but Max, you think that Ant just made it up? I think he made it up.
No. Yeah, I actually agree now.
I think he made it up. Ant got the scoop from the Flyers.
I'm pro-Flyers trading him. That makes sense.
But it sounds like the Flyers are maybe doing a little damage control here and sourcing stuff. This guy said he's making – Hayes himself said that that guy was making shit up.
You don't think he talked to anyone on the Flyers? Didn't he say according to a source? Yeah, so I think – Yeah, but I i think that that was bullshit there's probably some guy on the flyers that's pissed off that cutter doesn't want to play for them and then he does some dot connecting and then he calls his boy aunt he's like aunt you're never gonna believe the scoop and then aunt runs with it it sounds to me like the flyers well kind of ratted him out i'm anti that guy as well okay so we could be pro flyers but anti the guy who's putting out misinformation, which might be Mr. Flyer himself.
Is there a Mr. Flyer? Danny Breer, GM of the Flyers.
Has he asked himself why the Flyers are such a shit organization that he doesn't want to play for them, Max? That's a good question. Yeah, this type of thing would never happen in D.C.
No, Flyers are doing pretty good this year, and they shouldn't be good. That was other information that I got.
Oh. But it is kind of embarrassing for you.
Like the Blackhawks have never had a scandal. Memes laugh too quickly at that.
Not with any of their prospects. I forgot about that.
Not good, not good. You are now Mr.
Flyer, and they're being good this year. They're good this year.
They're better than they should be. They were supposed to be the second.
Chief told me they have the second worst roster in the NHL. Blackhawks have the worst.
But they were in second place. I think they had a little bit of a.
Not in second place. Well, so here's what I'm going to say.
They were at one point. Memes, back me up.
Max. Memes, back me up.
At one point. At one point.
The Metropolitan Division. Max, as a follow-up to this, I love the passion.
You said yourself, this is the most prep you've ever done for this show. I think as a follow-up, Max, you have to now follow the Flyers, and hopefully they don't lose in terrible fashion in the playoffs.

Yep.

I got to learn some guys' names.

I was looking at the roster last night.

I think there was like three that were coming to the night. So forget Cutter Gauthier's name.

Well, that guy was never on the team.

Where did he get traded to?

The Ducks.

Oh.

That's nice life.

Quack.

Yeah.

I mean, that guy's a – Cutter's a pussy. That's a fact.
No, we're pro-Cutter. No, we're anti-Cutter.
No. I'm anti-Cutter.
No, because he's friends with Kevin Hayes, who's friends with us. No.
But I think I can be pro-Kevin Hayes anti-Cutter. Why are you against this guy wanting to play for Philadelphia? Like, it seems like – But he told Philly that he wanted to play for Philly and then changed his mind two months later.
An athlete did a cliche answer? I'd never heard that. No, but.
What did you want him to say? Going through draft prep. I don't want to play here? Yeah.
Guys do that all the time. You know shit.
Do they? They just want to get drafted. Yes.
Isn't that what Eli did? Well, yeah. Eli's dad.
A long time ago. Yeah.
Well, all right. Well,, you said, who does that? I just gave you an answer.
Bam.

Okay.

Well, this guy just said, yeah, I'll play for whoever drafts me.

You drafted him.

And then I actually understand his point of view.

If you know it's not going to be a fit, if you don't want to play for torts,

and you know that it's not a fit, why not just be like, hey, please stay? And if one of your close friends tells you this organization sucks.

Or maybe doesn't even tell you that. On draft day, Danny Breer is the one who said this, that he was told by him on draft day, I am built to be a Flyer, I want to be a Flyer, before they drafted him.
This is a quote from who? From Danny Breer, who's the GM of the Flyers. The GM said that he really wanted to be a Flyer.
Because he's about to draft this kid, and he wants everyone to think that it's okay. No.
He said that. What? Yeah.
We're saying Danny Breer probably lied. Yeah.
I wish I knew more about this, because this guy's bad. Cutter, pussy.
Okay. For sure.
Philly's coming back out. But every Philly fan who's been mean to Kevin Hayes is a piece of shit, garbage, low-life human being.
I would also like Max saying, cut her pussy on the soundboard. Thank you.
Thanks. Appreciate that.
All right. That was good, Max.
I'm proud of you. Thanks.
You did a lot of research. I know it was taxing.
I can tell. I was excited.
Yeah. It was fun.
Sometimes you get ahead of your words i know whiz sometimes you get behind your words and i said 2002 i whiz in 2002 those were my two slip-ups for sure would you almost rather the uh the flyers be inconsequential so you don't have to worry about them uh no it was kind of fun i was like excited to read about the drama and like kind of get some philly for for like an hour hour and a half. And then the Kevin Hayes shit started, and I was like,

yeah, I don't want to be looped in with that.

In your real life, do you want to expend any emotional energy

on the Flyers when it's Sixers season?

No.

Yeah.

Playoffs.

Also, Flyers don't get enough credit for having a very unique color

in pro sports.

Orange, black.

Yeah, you don't really see that hue of orange in pro sports.

Kind of the Bengals.

A little bit, but the Bengals are just as much black as orange, right?

I'm talking about the actual jerseys.

They pop.

The Flyers have a good logo, too.

Yeah, they pop.

San Francisco Giants meme said.

Yes, but that also is a little bit more.

The Flyers have a lot more orange.

It's called Flyers Orange.

The Flyers have a ton of orange. CMS 172c thanks jake very cool okay good job max uh let's do hot seat cool throw and then we'll get to baldy talk some more football it's brought to you by our friends at coors light hot seat cool throw and brought to you by coors light when you're juggling work family and life in general things can feel chaotic that's why Coors Light helps you find moments to reset and refresh all year long.

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One of the coolest logos. Okay, Hank, hot seat, cool throne.
The hot seat is the NBA. Yeah.
They're doing some funky shit with the Celtics. Only team without double-digit losses.
Last night against the Pacers, as I'm sure most people are watching during the national championship game. Jalen Brown had a game-tying shot attempt that they called a foul.
They reviewed the tape. He clearly got hit in the head.
They reversed it, gave the Pacers the ball back. Celtics lose by one.
Very questionable. Jalen Brown, who is the head of the Players Association was going after them and then LeBron James who is a known speaker of facts went out of his way on Twitter to say see what I'm saying JB clearly got hit in the back of the head they reviewed the play just to reverse it and say he didn't man what good ass game to have an ending like that and y'all see why I'd be going ape shit out there when it happens very questionable you know very very questionable it's a bad call when hank i saw him quote tweet lebron saying facts yeah and love facts and when lebron's dropping the gorilla emoji and then the poop emoji yeah ape shit yeah uh so yeah very very questionable very very questionable also makes no sense lebron got he got fou that one play.
Remember? Was that Tatum that got him on the arm? On that layup? And Pat Bev took the camera? Yeah. That was hilarious.
That play, that was very funny. Did you get his back then, Hank? But it's one thing...
Yeah, I said that was one of the funniest things of all time. I'd Pat Bev for sure.
But it's one thing to knock all foul. That happens, you know, even like last night with the holding and stuff like that if you if you call it or don't call it whatever if you go to the tape look at a clear foul and then reverse it very questionable um fact or fiction fact would we ever find out how long Tyrese Halberton's out for that That was, oh, did you see him get, like, carried off? He did the splits.
Yeah. Lord, carry him now.
Maybe he pooped himself like Paul Pierce. That was bad.
That felt like a groin. Very, very bad.
And then my cool throne is movies that are catered directly to me in the past couple days. You got a whale movie coming out? There was no.
That would really, that would be the trifecta. Apple TV is coming out with a documentary called The Dynasty of the New England Patriots.
Belichick's in it. Brady's in it.
The whole crew is in it. Because, you know, there's been, sometimes it's like the Brady documentary, but Belichick's not in it.
When is it coming out? I don't know. February, I think.
There was a working theory someone had online. I can't remember who it was, so I apologize, that Kraft was waiting to fire Belichick to the end of the season so he could put it at the end of the documentary.
Friday, February 16th. That actually, when I saw this, this came out today, Tuesday, the trailer, that made me think that it was over for some reason.
It was just like Belichick's in it, Brady's in because there are there's has there has been documentaries you know the past few years where some of them are in it some of them aren't in it but this one being everyone made me feel like this is kind of like the the closing chapter yeah the eras tour movie yeah but to be you know what taylor swift did she then re-released the movie with bonus features on it later maybe they release the movie belichick comes back then they re-release it next year with all the footage from the next season yes the bonus footage of the 6 and 11 yeah yeah i'm excited for that and then on sunday seven wins yeah although i might have got caught on this one uh should be good 21 savage there's people being like who who wants a 21 savage movie me this is this is me it was it's lucas from stranger things playing young 21 savage donald glover playing old 21 savage it's called the american dream they said it's coming out july 4th i mean i couldn't be more excited for that in my life love donald glover love 21 savage that trailer was weird but then today 21 savage announces album which is also called uh the american dream so there's a chance that it was just like an album promo rollout. That looked like it was a movie, yeah.
So that would suck. Because I was so excited for the movie.
Because I saw people being like, no one wants this. Who wants a 21 Savage movie? I do.
21 Savage, Donald Glover, that's literally catered directly to me. Yeah.
So I hope it's real. I'm leaning towards it not being real and it just being towards, like, an album rollout thing, but I'm hoping it's real.
Okay. I would want to see a Tekashi 6ix9ine biopic.
That would be interesting. Yeah.
He's a good fellow. He's a rat.
Crazy shit. Okay, good job, Link.
My hot seat is The Sopranos. Yes.
sopranos yeah sopranos are on the hot seat because they're releasing uh on tiktok a 25 second and under per episode summary so they're literally just releasing part of my take they're doing part of my take i just don't i don't know how you would include the entire scene where tony kills christopher by suffocating in the car after they get into the accident. Was that before or after Adriana got caught? I think that was after she got caught.
Are you talking about when Silvio drove her out to the woods and then took her out of the car and shot her in the head because she was a rat? Or how do you do the scene where Bobby Bacala gets shot in the train shop, the toy train shop? That one hurt me. Phil Leotardo's head got rolled over? Yeah, it was tough.
Cracked his head. Yeah.
Splattered it. Or the one at the end where in the very last scene where it cuts to black and you don't know if Tony died or not.
They're going to have to fill this all in. They're going to have to fill this in.
I don't know if you can do that in 25 seconds or less. Hank, will you be watching? I would actually like you to watch and give us a review.
It's 20 seconds. All right.
Each episode. I'll do what I did the first time and get to season three and then you'll spoil it we would never spoil we would never spoil it for you okay i'm excited for that my other hot seat is boeing boeing airplanes did you see the uh the news about the one 737 9 max it had a door that got blown out it had an explosive decompressor characterization at 16,000 feet, and everybody was buckled in.
It was before you were allowed to unbuckle and go to the bathroom. But if people were walking down the aisle when that happened, people could have been sucked out of the window and just thrown out 16,000 feet, fall to earth, die.
But nobody was... What do you mean? What if they land in water? Good point, Harry.
What about the two people sitting next to the window? They were buckled up. I thought it was...
No, I think it was an open seat. I think it was...
I think that was a conspiracy theory that people are throwing out there now. What? That it was...
There was two people who just didn't show up for the flight. Oh, is that true? Jake, where did you hear this? I saw somewhere on Twitter that it was an open seat, the one right next to the window.
Yeah, no, I don't think so. I think that if you're buckled up and that happens,

chances are you're probably going to stay in your seat.

It's going to suck a lot of stuff out. Why does it have an open seat?

Like the iPhone got sucked out.

I think two people's iPhones got down.

So they found the door.

Boeing was also the maker of the 737 8 Max

that had all those crashes a few years ago.

So if it's, I don't know what kind of flights we have planned soon,

but if it's Boeing, I ain't going.

I'm out on Boeing.

How do you know before?

You can find out.

Oh, okay.

I don't want to fly on a Boeing anytime soon.

What's the other one um you've got a couple other airbus airbus your big competitor airbus uh my cool throne is uh mac jones mac jones of the cool throne he put on seven to eight pounds of muscle in the last couple weeks wow we put that report on fat so he might be back no muscle no muscle muscle like like everybody else the seven to eight pounds that we put on over the holidays it's all muscle it's all muscle not fat um so mac jones looking for he's looking for a landing spot next year much like boeing yeah yeah uh okay my hot seat is ea sports i don't this sort of is a rumor just read rumors, and I'm like, oh, that's a fact. We were supposed to possibly get an announcement about when the NCAA football game was coming out last night, and we didn't.
So I'm mad. I want to know.
Doug's is coming back whenever it comes back. I'm getting back in the lab.
Where the fuck is this game? Is it going to come out this offseason? They said this summer, but remember, it was delayed a year already. Yeah.
Suspect. Yeah, something weird is going to...
I just hope that they don't fuck around with it too much. Just give us the exact same game.
Don't make it like Madden, where it's hard to control the players. Give us the exact same game as...
It's just going to be Madden. As 2014, but let us...
I said don't. Let us do modern NIL shit.
Do you not understand what I just said? I said don't. But they will.
But I said don't. But they will.
Okay, well, if they're listening to this, don't, please. My cool throw is the Memphis Grizzlies.
Unfortunately, John Moran is out for the year. Torn labrum.
Sucks. But...
Big Cat, is that a shooting arm? That was a Mincy joke. That was great last night.
Mincy was like, I was going to say that. Yeah, so we found out about John Moran on the live stream, and I was like, I wonder if that's a shooting arm.
And then Mincy goes, oh, I was about to say, I wonder if it's a shooting arm. I was like, PFC, you got to give him a few seconds.
Credit to Mincy. Mincy had it first, I will say.
But not the worst thing because the Grizzlies are bad, and they are one of the worst teams in the league right now, so maybe you get a really good draft pick. That's how you got to think with these things.
It sucks. It sucks, though.
It sucks, but if you get a lottery pick out of this, someone to pair with John Morant, that's pretty cool. Have you seen the lottery this year, though? We got, what, a Euro guy? We got two Euro guys, an Aussie guy, and that's about it.
Cooper Flag next up. Yep.
Next year. Sag for flag.
Yeah. That's what you got to do.
All right. Hot seat, Colterone, Jake.
My hot seat is Nike. After 27 years, Tiger Woods is a free agent.
Yes. Apparel-wise.
I was a little confused by the people who were like, this is so devastating, all the memories. Tiger Woods is the memories, not Nike.
Golf fans are weird. I just didn't really understand that.
Yeah, I get it. He was wearing a Nike shirt when he hit all those shots, but it was Tiger Woods.
It's the swooshes, big cat. When I think of Tiger Woods, I think best golfer ever.
I'm not like Nike. When I think of Tiger Woods, I think of father to best golfer ever, Charlie Woods.
I wonder if Nike needs room in their budget for Charlie. Yeah.
So he had Tiger at it. Were you one of these people who was like, man, end of an era? No, I think he should join either Team Roback or the Barstool store.
Yeah. I was saying, like, what if he won the Masters next year in an Anish shirt year in an anus shirt that'd be great be awesome yeah we have great golf shirts on our store i thought i thought he should go to big dogs that'd be great right we've seen the meme they haven't done anything with it um i had a meeting about it too big dogs is fantastic if you can't run with big dogs stay on the porch i i literally had a meeting with them i was like i want to buy it and it.
And they were just like, we were rebranding. And I was like, to what? Getting in on the Tiger Woods? Big Dog's work.
That meme came out of nowhere. Yeah.
Big Dog meme from Tiger Woods. Yeah.
I feel like that's got to be an industry plant. My theory was because when Nike first announced it, that they were moving on, they never officially said, we're done doing business with Tiger Woods.
It was all like, we'd like to thank tiger for all the work that he's done with us looking forward to the next chap things like that is there any chance they just make a tiger

woods brand like jordan brand oh they could yeah that he owns and then and then either that or

uniglow uniglow yeah what's that that's like the chinese one that red red yeah freder has it yeah

okay you saw my brunch right yeah i did it's awesome i did um brunch once where else

I'm just kidding. Uniglow? Yeah.
What's that? That's like the Chinese one that Roger Federer has it. Yeah.
Okay. You saw him at brunch, right? Yeah, I did.
That's awesome. I did.
I saw him at brunch once. Where else could he go? Yeah, Tiger Woods.
Listen, Tiger Woods should just make his own brand. Yeah.
Just be called Tiger Woods brand. Yeah.
I like it. And speaking of Tiger, my cool throne is our friends at Foreplay.
They have a video with Tiger coming out today. Very happy for them.
So check that out. It's their white whale.
Big, big moment for them. Go watch the video.
I know that, like, Riggs, Frankie, Trent, Rapport, Lurch, I don't know if he's in the video, but, like, they're all the biggest Tiger fans ever. Yeah, Trent said today that he would never be a golfer if it wasn't for Tiger Woods.
The podcast would not exist. I mean, I think that's a lot of golfers in the world.
Yeah, sure.

That's awesome.

I wouldn't be a golfer if it wasn't for foreplay.

Yeah.

They inspired me by getting inspired by Tiger.

You also wouldn't be a golfer if you never realized that golf is a way to get out of work.

No, I just like to golf.

Oh, okay.

It does numbies.

Good times with the boys.

It does numbies.

It does do numbies.

But yeah, go watch it because it's going to be great. Okay, let's get to Brian Baldinger.
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Baldy, we're here. It is playoff football time.
I'm actually going to let you lead us in the first question. What is the game you're most excited for, the matchup you're most excited to watch?

The Rams.

The Rams coming to Detroit.

Because that's like, you know, this is number two seed, six seed,

you know, it's like, or seven seed.

I mean, this game to me has upset written all over it.

And I think because of the way the Rams are playing,

I mean, even the way they played against San Francisco, forget about them winning the game and Carson Wentz. Just the way they played the game up front on the offensive line, they played their starters up front.
They got a good days of work. We talk about Puka as, you know, this sensational rookie, which he is.
That guy's blocking is unbelievable. And they asked the receivers to block like tight ends at the line, and it really helps in the run game.
They did it two years ago. Cooper Cupp was excellent.
Robert Woods, all these guys that played on the edge. If you play for the Rams, you're going to block at the point of attack.
And the way that they do it, it's crafty, but it's really effective. And that showed up on Sunday.
Yeah. So the Rams uh the the side of the ball that doesn't get talked about their defense what are you seeing because it's a lot of guys that people don't know it's a young defense it's supposed to be a rebuilding year what are they doing that gives you confidence that the Rams can win the game maybe on Sunday night but also make be a dangerous team in the NFC playoffs and make a little run here? Well, you got to look at these rookies, Kobe Turner, Byron Young, young guys like Bobby Brown.
Like people don't know those names, but all they do is they line up every week and they play and all they're doing is gotten better. And so they still do a lot of things moving Aaron Donald around.
He's still Aaron Donald. Like if you don't cut him off on the backside, he's going to make every tackle.
He's going to be around the quarterback. He's going to be like just that nasty freaking gnat you can't get rid of.
He's there. But they attack.
They attack. They play a lot of different coverages.
They're good enough on the outside. You're not going to shut teams down on the outside.
But they're good enough with Witherspoon and what they have, Kobe Bryant. they're good enough on the outside you're not going to shut teams down on the outside but they're good enough with witherspoon and what they have kobe bryant uh they're good enough up on the outside because they can still pressure you on the inside so they they do that and then you know they just got this coach that just knows how to like you know if he was if we were playing pickup basketball you'd want him on your side he just knows how to organize like he's demanding and yet at the same time like he's encouraging like all the things you got to do to be a great coach he definitely insists on being skins right off the bat he claimed that one um would would you say that they've changed something about their team like i feel like a month month and a half in the season nobody was really impressed with the r that much.
And then they got dangerous. They got hot.
So what changed? Kyron Williams. So if you look at Kyron now, he didn't play last week.
But, you know, he leads all running backs, including McCaffrey, with 95 yards a game. Like, that guy is just a total back.
And I know he's fifth round out of Notre Dame. And guys I know that watch Notre Dame football never thought he was going to be this guy.
But he's everything you want in a running back. I think he's the best running back McVay's had.
And so not that it's a long list or anything, but this guy is a difference maker. And what you see now is like Stafford's underneath the center.
I like my quarterback under center. I don't want him in shotgun every play.
But he's under center. A lot of play action.
Demarcus Robinson has come in, given him a big lift down the stretch. And so they've got four guys, Tutu Atwell, Higby.
They've got enough to go carve you up. But now the running game has really taken over.
Yeah, and Kyron Williams' blocking is also out of this world good. He is everything.
No, you're doing your film study. Because that guy, you you got to protect your quarterback they're going to like there's an old thing like the bob the back on backer like we're going to blitz our backer because he's going to beat the running back well okay that guy's stout now he's going to get right underneath your chin give you a little chin music like he's excellent at uh in protection yeah yeah.
Yeah. I'm very excited for that game as well.
Bouncing around, the Eagles, their defense has been much maligned. That has been the story.
I have been of the mindset that their offense is really what's letting them down because it just looks clunky. It has felt like there's been no rhythm.
I know they're dealing with injuries now. What is it, though, when you're watching scheme-wise or when you're just sitting down and looking at the tape, what are they doing wrong and why do they feel so different than last year on the offense? I feel like if I was playing defense against the Eagles that I would just be calling their plays out.
Honestly, I know guys at the bar in South Philly that are calling the same plays out. Like they're just very predictable.
That's one. And then like, look, they played Wink Martindale last week against the Giants.
All Wink does is pressure you. Like he was pressuring Aaron Rodgers in preseason when the Jets, you know, played the Giants.
So, and they acted like they weren't prepared for because they had no like when they came after him Isaiah Simmons coming free like they had no answer like what's your answer what should Jalen Hurts do if they've got a free hitter coming out is there a hot read is there a sight adjust is somebody cutting the route off like their answer is Jalen getting out of the pocket and scrambling and running which was a disaster last week they didn't make one good play down the field and so they look on like underwhelming and underprepared for what these teams are going to do to him and look that's all todd bowles does like that guy's throwing up pressures right now in tampa like they better be ready for it because i don't think Tampa's a great team, but I know

what Todd Bowles can do and what he has done. And, you know, it's like the old saying, like, sometimes you get the bull, but sometimes the bull gets you.
Well, the bull's getting the Eagles offense right now, and they better be ready for it because it's coming. I don't care who's playing receiver.
It doesn't make any difference. Jalen needs an out if they're going to come after him the way they can, whether it's single blitzes or overload pressures or zone pressures.
Like they have every single pressure you can get to speed up the quarterback's process. Yeah.
So it sounds like you're saying it's mostly the coaching and not not the player's execution. Well, I think it's the coaches from a standpoint like like javon hardrave came out yesterday the day before and said he couldn't believe the difference between how they practice in san francisco and how they practice in philly no nobody wants to hear this in philadelphia but he said we practice so much harder in san francisco because i couldn't even believe it like in philly like we were just getting you we were fresh for game day.
And I think some of that shows up. I think some of that shows up.
And I'm not here to criticize Nick. Nick had a team in the Super Bowl last year.
He got a 4-11-1 team in the playoffs the next year. He's done some great things.
But I don't know how demanding they are of some of these players. And sometimes you just got to play football.
That's a fact. That's the only just, that's the only recipe is you got to play some more football.
Uh, I got a crazy stat for you and I want to know, uh, what you're seeing. And if there's a remedy, if the remedy maybe is Mike McCarthy has to do a better job advocating for his guys.
Did you know that Micah Parsons has not had a holding penalty called on him in the last 11 games and he's getting a ton of pressures but there's been no holding penalties what is it is it that he's so fast that he can't be held or is it that Mike McCarthy needs to be like hey you guys got to start looking for this because my guy gets held and he's dominant so I play so I'm going to answer the question because I do a video of Micah every week sometimes Micah just stands stands up there and he goes, look, don't ask him. Just go watch Baldy's videos and he'll show you what I did.
The guy, there's nobody else that compares to Micah in this league. Nobody is as freakishly fast, changes direction.
The guy was a great wrestler. Like he's a cat on a marble table.
Like you can't get him off his feet. So, but, you know, when I played with Reggie Whitegie white they held reggie all the time and so they didn't throw the flag you know and so what happens though is go and look on the other side and see if they're calling holding calls against terrence steel or you know tyron smith like sometimes they just even it out right and they don't because mike is so i don't know like that'd be the next stat to look at how many holding calls they're actually getting on that side of the ball because sometimes it just sort of cancels out yeah but i think mike it does win there's this weird thing right now because i know everybody's screenshots these holds and like i did one on uh max crosby yesterday i'm like this is ridiculous like they got two guys just literally arms around them.
And there's the umpire right there. Nothing's coming out.
But I think sometimes there's this thing. And TJ Watt was telling me this year that when these guys do this arm under rip move and they're turning the corner and these guys got them like by an arm like this around their neck, they're not calling it.
Right. But if you got it, it's a clear hole.
So there's a fine line between a hold because sometimes there isn't a hold and they call a hold on some stupid things. And some things look flagrant and they don't call it.
But still, 11 weeks and Mike is not getting a holding call. That's absurd.
It's crazy. I looked at it and I was like, wait, maybe he's just so fast no one can hold him.
They can't get their hands on him. No, they can get their hands on him.
That's part of the problem. They get their hands on him.
It's kind of slow. You got to do a better job acting.
Just start to flail the arms and just fall down. Yeah, but I hate that, though.
Like, that's the flop thing, right? And I see guys get it. The guys are getting it.
Yeah. They're getting that call.
Yeah. But I hate that flop thing, man.
Yeah. I hate it.
if i if somebody did that to me like i'd i'd be on them like hard give them something to flop about on the next play yeah yeah yeah um i want to go out to kansas city real quick we got the dolphins the chiefs it's going to be like 10 degrees out there it's going to feel like it's zero degrees uh everything seems to be going against the dolphins right now i saw a crazy stat too earlier today that said that the uh the patriots actually beat more teams above 500 than the dolphins did this season which is crazy to think about i mean the dolphins they they blew some teams out but they haven't really beaten any good teams yet um do they have any chance going to kansas city and beating pat mahomes they do like if they if they get their 4x100-meter relay team healthy of Tyreek and Waddle and Achan and Moser, if they're reasonably healthy, like, that speed changes things. First of all, Tua gets rid of the ball a lot faster when all those guys are out there.
And then you look at the things that Mike McDaniel does, and they're so subtle, but just some of the, even the play that they ran last week over and over where two is like faking a handoff and there's nobody to fake it to yet. The defense is biting on the face.
And then he's flipping it behind him to the back going the other way. Like they got a lot of yards on that play last week.
Like he's going to have some new plays, some new formations. He just does.
He's just, he's just innovative. He's like, okay, what do we have this week? Who are we going against? Oh, they corner cap blitz more than anybody in the league in Kansas City.
Spags is coming after us with his corners. Well, we're going to catch them on one of these corner blitzes, and there's going to be nobody out there with one of these track stars to go run.
So I actually am as down on the Dolphins. I I know the stats and I know the teams they've beaten.

But I'm not as down on them as other people are because I know when this thing clicks,

like I don't care what defense you're in,

they can make you look bad.

Yeah.

Now, this is a dumb question,

but I'm wondering if you've ever seen it.

When you're watching film study,

can you tell when a team can't deal with the cold?

Because we have obviously a theory with the Dolphins,

the candy-ass uniforms going into the cold.

It just doesn't look like cold-weather football. Can you tell that a team like, oh, that guy, he doesn't really want to be out there.
That guy, he's maybe not feeling comfortable. Can you see that? Is that a factor? I think it's more of a factor with teams and tackling.
If they want they want to be as aggressive tackling, that's, that's what I would look for. You can see it.
You can see it. Cause some guys don't want to, you know, it's a business decision or, you know, I can't, my hands are numb.
Like I'm, I'm just going to throw my body in there and I'm not going to wrap up. I think you see it more on defense.
I was one of those idiots, um, that refused to ever put a long sleeve shirt on no matter how cold it was. I like that.
Like I was just a mentality, like I'm not going to be cold. Like I remember Reggie White told me the story one time, like he was playing the state championship in Tennessee and, you know, he was from an inner city school and, and they played this bunch of country kids that were in tearaway jerseys.
And they came out there on a field where it was 18 degrees outside.

And he knew that we were going to get beat.

Like, these kids just handle the cold better than we did.

Some guys just bundle up.

And they got the Vaseline on themselves.

And they got their gloves on.

And they got their fanny packs on and their hand warmers.

And you're like, it is football.

Like, your body's going to get – it's not going to feel it. the adrenaline's running right you're not gonna feel the cold yeah that's the mentality of just saying i'm i'm better than the cold and you start the game and you're one and oh against the cold you've already beaten the cold the other guys getting their ass kicked like you know like bud grant never allowed heaters on a sideline with a sort of like yeah like this is and bud grant never Grant never wore a jacket.
You know, like he set the tone. And there is a mentality to that when, like I hear it might be as cold as 17 below in Kansas City with the windshield.
Yeah. So who knows? I mean, we get fascinated by temperatures and stuff.
But look, the ground could be frozen. Maybe that's a factor.
Yeah. Like, do you have any footing? Like, you know, there's a lot of factors that go into it.
How the wind blowing how's it going to affect the ball like i always think this windy conditions to me are worse than freezing conditions because you can't hear when it's windy you can't hear signals you can't hear snap counts you can't hear the quarterback you see these guys they're turning their ears their ear hole to whoever's speaking to them so be otherwise the wind just basically clouds all the sound. I also feel like Andy Reid against McDaniel in the cold.
Like Andy's built for the cold. Andy doesn't get cold.
He'd wear shorts if he could. Yeah, he wears shorts every single practice.
McDaniel's going to be bundled up. He's going to have six coats on.
Yeah, but he's going to have his off-whites on. Yeah, that's true.
They're traveling. That is true.
That's very true. So I want to talk about some of the job openings in the NFL right now.
What are the most attractive openings? Well, I think the Chargers is attractive. I mean, it's a good place to live.
You've got a quarterback that I don't think we've seen the best of. So I think that's always a starting point.
Quarterbacks get coaches fired when they can't play and they can't perform so that's like the death of a coach but i think you know the chargers jumps out at me a team that has vastly under performed that needs a dose of toughness all the way around um like that team i think could be fixed up pretty quickly yeah i'd agree with that i it does feel like if you if you're signing up for Justin Herbert, that's a pretty good bet for a coach coming in. But counterpoint, couldn't having a quarterback like Justin Herbert, if you don't have things available around him, if you don't have cap space, which they kind of don't, if you don't have necessarily the most support from ownership, couldn't having a pretty good quarterback be a detriment in the fact that it would it would get you fired more quickly well i mean i'm coming in there and packing a running game i'm gonna i'm gonna you know i'm gonna find runners i'm gonna find you know if i have to upgrade right tackle different positions like i'm gonna get the running game going with the chargers just the way the rams did and it's gonna make life for justin herbert a lot better no matter who he's throwing to right now.
Yeah. All right.
Another dumb question. Joe Flacco, Josh Allen.
I'm mentioning those two names because this is the dumb question. Obviously, you don't want turnovers, but if you're the Browns and you're the Bills, is there a part of you that's like, this is what our guy is.
We can live with one, maybe two, but because we know the upside and then pushing the ball down the field will get us two, maybe three. Is that ever a thought or is it you guys got to take care of the ball better because it's playoff football and we can't have these mistakes anymore? I'm with you.
I'm with you. And I don't think it's a dumb question.
Like, I think you've just got to, you have to attack. You can't play fearful.
You can't play not to turn the ball over you have to attack and that's what both of them do and i think like the the first interception that josh allen threw to dave davis is a option route he threw it one way the receiver went the other way that's going to happen just going to happen when you're throwing the ball on timing um you got to live with it the second one where he's rolling to his right look the line broke down he was flushed and he makes his throw in the end zone elliot intercepts it i just have to live with it yeah because he made so many other great plays freaking knuckles are bleeding out there he's leaving it on the field like i just think you have to live with it same thing with joe joe's gonna throw some interceptions um you just gotta tell your defense like you go do your job you know either get off the field limit to a field goal no matter where you are like you got to play transition defense but he's going to help win us the game too with his rocket arm and how he sees the field and i don't know and joke who seems like he's always open he's going to find him so i would say live with it yeah and don't live in fear of it yeah Yeah. Yeah, no, I agree.
I mean, there is definitely – we were joking earlier in the season. C.J.
Stroud obviously is an incredible season, but when he had that stretch where he didn't throw an interception, I was like, I kind of like my guy to throw one every now and then because you know that he's taking risks. That doesn't really apply for C.J.
because he does push the ball downfield. But you see sometimes where quarterbacks were like, oh, no interceptions.
Like, yeah, but was he ever taking risks?

Right.

No, I mean, look at Mahomes.

Look at how Mahomes plays.

Like, he turns the ball over.

He doesn't fumble a lot, but he throws interceptions.

But, like, look at all the plays that he makes.

And so, to me, I mean, that was the problem, honestly, with that.

Exactly what you're describing was what Alex Smith was.

Alex Smith was a very good quarterback, good leader, prepared, made good plays, but he wouldn't make the big play because he didn't want to turn it over, and he was cognizant of that. And so there's been quarterbacks that have played.
They don't win championships like that. You have to attack.
You're going to have to make – and the bigger the game gets, you know, from wild card, divisional, championship, the bigger the game gets, the bigger the throws you have to make because you're going to see better defenses in tighter spots and more pressure moments. Yeah.
I think Alex Smith went, what, like a year and a half without throwing a touchdown to a wide receiver at one point? Yeah. It was an insane stat.
That's not a good stat. It's not, but they were winning football games somehow, but never any real important ones.
What about Baltimore? So you were just talking about the difference in the playoffs, and as you play better teams, the windows get a little bit tighter to fit into. With Lamar, the knock against him so far has been he's not really able to do in the playoffs.
Do you think this is the year that Lamar Jackson, the Ravens, they can put it together, get to the Super Bowl? I do. I do think it is.
We're going to see, you know, it's always that thing of rest versus rust, you know, at this time of year when you're sitting and not playing. So he's going to go basically three weeks without playing a football game.
And you're going to come out and, you know, the last time we saw him, he was awesome. So I think the difference this year with him is I used to say, even when he was winning the MVP, unanimously winning the MVP and he was running for all these yards.
I'm like, I don't care if you beat Cincinnati 35 to three, like you got to work on the passing game. And they weren't working on the passing game.
And under the old offensive coordinator, they were just winning games. Like, I think they've really improved the passing game.
These receivers are all involved. Even the loss, in some ways, the loss of Mark Andrews, as hard as it is for that team to overcome such a great player, it has forced Lamar to go elsewhere with the ball.
And he's finding Rashad Bateman now and Aguilar and Likely. And he's thrown the way.
There was a time, I remember he did this breakdown on him a couple years ago, and he had thrown like six interceptions in a short period of span. And all of the interceptions were passes to Andrews.
Like he was forcing it to him. And now I feel like Lamar is actually seeing the field better and getting the ball to different guys in different parts of the field, including Zay Jones and Odell Beckham and the whole group.
So he's improved to the point where he should win playoff games now and a lot of playoff games. Yeah.
This might be an easy answer because it might just be the two one seeds, but this has been on my mind after watching the national championship on Monday night because I thought the thing that was most remarkable was Michigan tackling. They were so good at tackling.
I think they missed one tackle all night. All they did was if you catch the ball, you're tackled.
And, like, sometimes football is that easy where the team that tackles better can win the game. So give me the best tackling team in the AFC and the NFC.
I think the 49ers is the best tackling team. I mean, it just starts with Fred Warner.
Like, he's just a machine, a tackling machine, but

Dre Greenlaw, like Bosa,

they're excellent tacklers. You don't get

anything beyond, when they hit

you, the play ends. And so

I think they're an excellent tackling team.

Baltimore's just a great defensive team.

They play defense a little bit different than everybody

else. Like, this matchup zone is very

difficult to figure out. You don't know what

they're going to do and who's really going to stick to you

until the ball's snapped. But they give you a lot

I'm sorry. They play defense a little bit different than everybody else.
Like this matchup zone is very difficult to figure out. You don't know what they're going to do and who's really going to stick to you until the ball's snapped.
But they give you a lot of looks. But Roquan's not missing a tackle.
He's just not. And so I think the two number one seeds are number one seeds for a reason.
Isn't it funny too because the linebacker position has kind of – there's been a little bit of a phase out just in terms of pay and obviously roquan was a bear and then you know the bears were like we're going to go different direction but it is so funny when you when you get down to it's like the teams with these elite linebackers still matter so much because of the tackling and the tone they set no doubt and the impact they make in them like you said the most valuable real estate in a football game is the middle of the field. And that's where the middle linebackers live.
And when you're a middle linebacker, look, Fred Warner's not the fastest one, but his decision-making is as fast as anybody. So he's always flying to the ball.
And then Roquan might be the fastest. So when your middle linebacker is fast, your defense looks faster.
Like they just, you know, if you make a mistake and teams make mistakes, whether it's in communication or breakdowns, whatever, like you can clean up the mistakes quicker. And that's what those guys do.
And I think that we have missed out on the linebacker play. Philadelphia desperately needs linebackers.
Their best linebacker starts with the Chicago Bears and TJ Edwards. You know, that's still their best linebacker and they they made a decision not to pay him and they have paid for it all year yeah yeah what about the Dallas Cowboys so the the book on them is you can you can run the ball against them you know preferably if they're not at home if they're on the road you can beat them but you got the Packers coming to town do the Packers have a chance I'll ask you this way which seven seed has a better chance at winning in the first round the steelers or the packers good question thank you the steelers going into buffalo without tj watt it's they're going to be challenged and the way buffalo plays defense i think mason rudolph is going to struggle a little bit i would say the packers because aaron jones right now missed about a month in the middle of the season, but nobody's run for more yards last three weeks than Aaron Jones.
That guy's an unbelievable player. Like that draft of McCaffrey and Fournette and all those guys that came out, Camara, like nobody scored more touchdowns in this league than Aaron Jones over that span of time.
That guy doesn't miss a hole and he's fresh as can be right. So feel like and the last time aaron jones went he's from el paso texas he owes his prides himself the 915 in el paso but the last time he went to dallas he did something nobody's ever done in the history of the cowboys he ran for four touchdowns against like just a big deal some of these kids come back to texas all their friends and family are in the stands like that kids dallas has their hands full with Aaron Jones.
Like, just a big deal some of these kids come back to Texas. All their friends and family are in the stands.

Like, that kid's... Dallas has their hands full with Aaron Jones.
Now,

Jordan Love and defense, all this other

stuff is real. It's going to be a great game.

But if you ask me who has a better chance

of an upset, I'd say Green Bay has a better

chance. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, they are alive, and Jordan Love

is playing incredible football. It's much

to my chagrin. It's a fact.
He looks like Aaron Rodgers in some of the throws that he makes. It's crazy.
Over and over again. Over and over.
In fact, he threw a couple plays last week in Chicago. It was classic Aaron Rodgers.
It was these smoke routes with the corners 10 yards off. To hell with it.
I'm just getting it out there to Jaden Reed, let him go get six yards. Yeah.
You know you know, you get 12 men on the field, like the ball's being snapped. Like some of the little tricks that Aaron had, he's adopted.
He's using them. Yeah.
So we talked about the Rams. Let's talk about the Lions real quick because the Lions, obviously, their defense has been the big issue this year.
They did get a little healthy. They got Aleem McNeil back, who's very important.
They got C.J. Gardner-Johnson back.
Do you do you think the rams or the lions sorry can kind of put it back together defensively i thought they were pretty good against the cowboys on that saturday night game do you do you see are you optimistic that this is a team it's funny we always go back to that colts team that won the super bowl where they were terrible on defense then they just it clicked and bob sanders and all that stuff is there something that could be happening there for the Lions where you could see it kind of come back together? I can see it, but I haven't seen enough of it to just convincingly say it. Right.
I haven't seen it enough. You think about Thanksgiving Day against Green Bay and they got carved up.
So you just look at it. They went to Baltimore and they didn't show up, you know? And so you just see some of these games where they just get picked apart.
And this passing game, you know, the passing game has to be as precise as any diamond cutter out there. So like, that's how the Rams passing game is and how it operates right now.
You know, they better, they better play really fast. I know uh if you are to melifon will mental fault for new if i'm pronouncing his name right he's made a big difference he's come in there got a lot of takeaways they look a lot better when they're taking a ball away when they're not taking it away they look very susceptible yeah yeah uh i i do love your film breakdowns i love how excited you get about guys there are some guys that you just watch and you're like, that's a baldy guy.

So give me a guy that's in the playoffs right now, maybe not a superstar,

but a guy that you've personally gotten excited about.

Like this left guard.

Like left guards are people too, let's face it.

Right?

So this left guard of the Rams are rookie Steve Avila.

He's from TCU.

I nicknamed him the Y because all he does is just watch stuff up. Like he's, he's, he's, he's, he's super wide and he's super powerful.
And like, I just watched him last week, take, watch him take Javon Hargrave, who's in the pro bowl, like right off the ball. Like it's hard to find earth movers.
Like I watched Steve Avila, 73 left guard. And I go, that guy's going to play football in this league for 10 years.
And we're probably never going to mention his name because he's just he doesn't commit penalties doesn't make bad plays he's steady as can be exactly what you want and yet like he's so young he's like he plays a good pad level he gets underneath guys and he just moves people and they're hard to find yeah I like that the wad that's a that's a great nickname. I also want to know from your perspective as an offensive lineman, what are the mechanics of reporting? Did the Lions do anything wrong against the Cowboys by trying to confuse either the opponent? They had an interesting substitution, but it seemed to me like it was pretty straightforward.
It was. It was.
I you know, that would go and play tight end at times. You know, in certain situations, I'd go from guard to tight end.
I had to go report. Nothing like that's 40 years ago, 30 years ago.
Like, none of that has changed. You go to the referee, you report, you, like, make sure he sees you.
And that's what Taylor Decker did. Now, what was, you know, were all the other guys necessary to be there? You know, probably not.
But at the same time, maybe that was some subterfuge on Detroit's part, but only one guy reported. Like, I'm eligible.
so you can have all these different because ben johnson has all these different formations in detroit all the time so sometimes you you just go i've never seen that before it happens all the time

but like in that situation, he reported Brad Allen reported the different guy reporting. So he didn't get it right from the very beginning, whether it was just because he'd already poured in the game, he was just writing it down.
He wasn't really paying attention. I'm not here to let the referees have a tough job, but I, that to me was about as clear cut as you can get.
Yeah, yeah. All right, so I got one last question.
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Give me your Super Bowl and then maybe give me the, ooh, this could be crazy Super Bowl. You see it.
So who you actually think? And then give us a crazy one where it's like these two teams, people aren't really talking about them. They could be there in February.
Good enough. I'll give you just chalk.
San Francisco, Baltimore. Because I think they've been the two best teams all year.
So that's how I'm thinking. But if you want to get crazy here, I'd go Rams.
I'd go Rams right now, and I'll go real crazy. I'll go Rams, Miami Dolphins.
Ooh, okay. That is crazy.
That is crazy. You're crazy, Baldy.
That is crazy. Dolphins having to win two cold games and then a third maybe? That's crazy.
Well, you know, sometimes players just need to have that carrot dangling in front of them. Like Tyree Kill going in there to Kansas City.
First of all, he's motivated to begin with. I don't think the cold weather is going to bother him.
I don't know how his legs are right now. He was was a candidate until three weeks ago for the mvp of the league so and who knows what happens but like that guy is going to be he's going to like there's nothing more that a player needs than to go show the team that you made the biggest mistake of your life yeah that's true that's true i have one last last question here so we both want coach harbaugh as our coach for next year.
Well, PFT decided this last night. I've wanted Coach Harbaugh forever.
Well, I love Coach Harbaugh. Always have loved the man.
And if we can't get Belichick, I think Harbaugh would be a great addition to the commanders. Do you think that Harbaugh is more or less likely to leave Michigan after winning a national championship? Oh, he's gone.
He's gone. He's going to win a Super Bowl championship.
It's already, like, his mind's already, like, they might celebrate today and have some fun in Ann Arbor. They should.
But I think he's on his way to the NFL. Wow.
Okay. Alright, well, Baldy, thank you as always.
Playoff football. We'll talk to you again maybe before the Super Bowl.
Love having you on. Appreciate everything, and we'll see you soon.
All right, thanks, guys. Thanks for having me, man.
Okay, let's wrap up with some guys on chicks. Friday show, by the way, we're going to talk some more football.
I think we're going to have a short Italian writer on the show. He's going to have to answer for his misdeeds.

Mike Florio?

No.

I said short, not short face.

Hmm.

And maybe also, I'll say this, I'll tease it this way,

an answer to a question we have asked many, many times.

Another football person.

Hmm.

Yeah.

What was that look? We're going to find out the answer to DVOA. Got it.
Yeah. Hey, part of my take draft gods.
I've been with my boyfriend for a little over two years. We haven't really talked about marriage, but we live together and I think we're probably headed in that direction.
How do I tell him if he ever does want to propose that I don't want an engagement ring because I think they're kind of a waste of money? I'm worried it's too forward to tell him that if marriage isn't on its horizon currently. Or, what if it is and he already bought the ring? Should I just let the cards fall where they may? Ryan Polis is running the number one pick through Big Cat.
I figured I should do the same with my important question. Yeah.
So I think... You might be overthinking this a little bit.
I i think all you have to do is just be like i don't want an engagement ring and he'll be like awesome yeah you could you could do a soft launch too you could just be like you see this person got engaged engagement rings are so tacky i would never wear one that's pretty easy or watch blood diamond together yeah like oh i can't believe all this all this stuff that goes on across the world for diamonds. I would never want one of those.
I wouldn't go direct, though, and say I don't want an engagement ring because then he's going to freak out and be like, what the fuck? I don't think so. I didn't even think about it.
I wasn't even thinking about an engagement ring. I don't think so.
I think after two years, it's an appropriate amount of time to just put that out there. Guys are dumb.
Soon. Guys are dumb.
You got to remember, no, I'm saying he might not. He might just be like, yeah, this is my girlfriend.
She's going to be my girlfriend for a really long time. I think two years is long enough, though, to say, I don't want an engagement ring.
And then he'll be like, good, you weren't going to get one. Yeah, then win-win.
We're breaking up. Also, just get a dog, and then that gets the whole thing going faster, too.
Hello, Big Cat and PFT. My boyfriend and I go to Ohio State, both huge Ohio State fans.
We are both seniors, so we've never seen a win against Michigan while being at school here. However, my boyfriend is also a diehard Lions fan.
He keeps talking about after that Michigan National Championship that if the Lions lose this playoff game to Stafford, he'll be done with sports. I guess I'm asking, what should I do for him? Should I comfort him and watch with him or let him watch alone? I'm just scared if they do lose, how crushed he'll be.
Blumpkin. Give him a sympathy, Blumpkin.
This might be a game that you start with him, and then if it's going well, just slowly inch your way out of the room and let him be alone with his thoughts at the end because he's going to be in a dark place. Yeah, you've got to read the room.
Read the room, try to figure out where it's going. Yeah, that sucks because he probably knows a lot of people that are Michigan fans that are rubbing and facing it.
But then they... Yeah, that's bad.

You have to prepare for the worst.

So I would say if they lose that game, get ready to just have him stay home from work,

call in seamless Uber Eats, take care of all his food.

He's just going to be locked in a dark, sad room and be sad for a long time.

That's a tough week.

Yeah. Tough, tough week.'s a tough week.
Yeah.

Tough, tough week.

Tough, tough.

To Stafford, too.

You know what?

Just win the game.

Just win the game.

How about that?

Restore the roar.

Win the game.

It's also a Jared Goff revenge game.

I don't know if people are talking about that.

No, that's a fact.

Big time.

Buy him tickets to the game.

But if they lose.

But you won't have to deal with being around him.

Buy him two tickets to the game. He'll have collectives in his room.
He's a with being around him. Buy him two tickets to the game.

He'll have a collective misery.

He's a college student.

Yeah, buy him two tickets to the game.

Think she's got money like that?

Sell some blood plasma.

Do what we all did.

Sell some cum.

Buy two tickets to the game.

Can girls sell cum?

Yeah.

It's probably worth way more than guy cum.

Yeah, squirt.

Yeah.

It's a popular soda.

Take a bath and then put the bath water into bottles and then sell that online. Sell some feet pics.
Hey, PMT. I recently asked my ex-boyfriend if he thought one of his best friends would be interested in going to a co-ed volleyball league with some of my friends.
The question seemed to backfire once he said IDK and i wish someone would ask me to do those type of things before ghosting me i'll add i broke up with him and it was a little messy wait what say start that again sorry wait it's she asked her ex-boyfriend oh if he thought one of his friends oh would want to play on a co-ed volleyball terrible person her and her girlfriend. Terrible person.
Was I wrong for asking if his good friend wanted to play on our team? Terrible person. Yeah, it seems like you should have at least asked, like, hey, do you and this person want to play? It is a very tricky situation.
And she broke up with him. Co-ed sports are fun, and you get in your, like, 20s.
It's like, hey, let's play some co-ed sports, go to the bar the bar after but then you do run the risk like i know that i've been on softball teams where one of my teammates broke up with his girlfriend his girlfriend was good at softball and we're like can we still have her on the team you can't but you think about it he's definitely also thinking in the back of his head you're asking me for my friend to join your team so that you can hook up with him. Yeah.
100%. But also he's really good at volleyball for sure.

She's definitely also doing it

because he's probably a ringer at volleyball.

Yeah, he's probably tall and strong.

Hey, can I have your tall, strong friend's number

so I can ask him to play volleyball with me?

Me and my girlfriend?

Yeah.

Can carry a woman?

Yeah, toss her around.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's fucked up.

All right, last one.

How big of an age gap is too big?

I'm 32 and I've been seeing a guy who's 24.

I don't feel like I'm a huge deal, but he asked me if I remember 9-11. I do.
He doesn't. And that kind of sent me into a spiral.
Is this Sean McDermott? Am I overthinking? Hank, what do you think is too big of an age gap? Yeah. I think 10 years years.
That's too much? Less than 10. Anything less than 10.
Does it matter if it's like it would 24 to 32, is that a bigger eight years than 30 to 38? No, definitely. I think anything within 10 is perfect.
Do you think that also like the age gap doesn't matter as much if you guys root for the same football team? Yeah, I mean, listen, age truly is just a number as long as above 18. Well, you can't say that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I literally don't let me finish.
You can't say that. You can't say that, Hank.
You can't say that. A clip that 10 years does matter sometimes.
You didn't let me finish. You didn't let me finish.
I literally said age is just a number as long as it's above 18. Like, you guys cut me off.
Thanks on his Wander Franco shit. Yeah.
You guys cut me off. I actually, this is kind of like, I feel like the older woman.
That was fucked up. You said it.
You cut me off. An older woman to younger guy.
Don't clip that. That's no big deal.
Yeah, eight years? Yeah. Eight years.
The 9-11 thing is true. I remember I moved- A nine-year-old and 11-year-old dating?

No, 9-11.

I moved to Williamsburg into an apartment that had an overview of New York City, and my roommate

was 40.

I think I was 22, and he was showing me the apartment.

It was a random roommate, and the view was sick, and I was like, I don't know why I said

this.

This makes me sound bad, but I don't know why. I still don't know why I said this because it was like a small talk it was the first time I met this guy and I was like damn it must have been crazy up here on 9-11 because you could see everything happening and he goes it was I was like holy fuck dude you're so old because I was in third grade so I can see that sending you in a spiral.
Yeah, but you got to lean into it. Eight years is enough for different cultural things.
I mean, you're eight years younger. You dropped Ed, Ed, and Eddie.
Love Ed, and Eddie. No idea what that was when you said that.
Yeah, you're really into 21 Savage. You did the Monsters, Inc.
one. Jerry dropped that.
And I was like, everyone was laughing. And I was just like, I don't know what they're talking about.

Yeah, eight years is big.

I'd say that, like, the eight-year age difference, like, me and Big Cat are almost 39.

And Hank is 30.

Sometimes Hank is just so immature.

Yeah.

So immature.

But also, his young body is supple.

Yeah, he does have a good beard for 30. He's got that young bull energy that keeps us young.
Also, he's 30 and he's strong, and he works in a job that's flexible that allows him to travel a lot, which is a big bonus if you're looking at a 30-year-old and you're 38 or 39. PFT and I have had discussions where we're like, you know, we're getting up there.
Hank's getting up there because you were our young guy for a while do we need to go out and look for a young boy and then we had to stop and be like wait we've talked about what did we just say we've talked about getting a young a young boy yeah yeah we've talked about procuring a young boy doing some sort of talent search for a young boy it's got to be the younger the better yeah 2019 young boy talent search would be such a fucking we might do that this summer uh yeah and yeah the logo be just like a mustache and sunglasses yeah young boy are you a young boy yeah we're looking for you we want you we want you as young as possible come meet with us yeah we'll get it all on camera young boy tells we could use young boy yeah? We could use a young boy. Yeah, I'm down for some youth.

Yeah.

I mean, Max isn't a little boy.

Although it's like we watched Billy.

We saw how that turned out.

No, there's downsides to a young boy.

It's like getting a puppy.

The puppy's going to annoy you sometimes.

But it still keeps you young.

True.

Yeah.

Yeah, what's crazy is Hank is about the same age that we were when we started the podcast.

I pulled up a video of you the other day. Who's you? big how we were talking about the horse jumping video uh and i pulled that up and you said you're 28 in it and that sent me for a spiral shit and i was thinking about telling a story uh in my stand-up set from your 30th birthday which when i said it was out and i was like fuck his 30th birthday.
Like, I thought you were so old then. I know.
That was a long time ago. You should tell that story, though.
I'm going to. Damn.
It's a good story. I don't even know the story.
Tune into the stand-up to find out. Do you know the story? I know the story.
It's the first time I met. There's a good reason why maybe me or Big Cat would not remember the story and why it's a lot of things I've never been told yeah a lot of things going on that night some might say the reason why I work at this company to this day yeah okay now I'm remembering yeah okay yeah tell the story fuck it I don't care yeah bleep that don't keep it but ble it, cut it, cut it, cut it, cut it, cut it, cut it, cut it.
Bleep that.

Don't keep it, but bleep it.

And then you'll hear the story.

Yeah.

Okay.

Good show, boys.

Numbers.

8.

40.

3.

18.

20.

71.

8, 8, 8, 8.

99, Pug.

10.

Pug, I got bad news for you.

Shane's a young whippersnapper.

My one pick tonight, Georgetown plus seven and a half.

It's ugly.

Ugly.

Ugly.

Go Pirates.

They're so bad, but I looked at it and I was like,

Seton Hall's won two big games.

We'll find out.

Okay.

Okay. okay okay 10 10 shane welcome to the winner circle right shane shane if you don if you don't know Shane, Shane from the most famous A that's ever been drawn.
Shane. Hello.
Shane. Shane.
Shane. So Shane is a Chargers fan.
He's also young. He's young.
Yep. He's a young, supple Chargers fan.
Justin Herbert. Justin Herbert.
Number 10. Shane, yeah, is the famous graphic designer behind the greatest a that's ever been produced i actually would like a one-of-one shirt that just said shane with a i can do for this moment that'd be great that sounds good yeah that'd be great so shane uh anything else shane also is like shane has not tried a lot of things in life and it's fun to watch him was it did you have Chinese food for the first time? He grew up without internet on a farm.
Yeah. Like Chick-fil-A, Chipotle.
Yeah. I didn't have to.
I went to New York City. Yeah.
Chipotle. I remember that first order.
Yeah. He never had milk that wasn't.
Sucked from the cow? What? Is that true, Shane? Shane, how are you a Chargers fan? Just grew up, and LT was just the best. The best.
The best. He didn't really have a lot of sports around him, so he kind of picked his teams.
Yeah, the closest to me was the Patriots, and I wasn't going to be a Patriots fan. No offense.
I mean, Chargers is great. We need Chargers representation.
Yeah, for sure. We might have to have you start.
Shane also, he sits in here on Sunday nights and when we bring up the Chargers he just shakes his head the whole time. He's just like this sucks.
He's the Photoshop guy. Yeah.
He's responsible for every Photoshop. Congratulations Shane.
Especially the ones that make us look fat. Shane works very hard.
So yeah and we'll now Shane maybe we'll get some more Chargers thoughts from you going forward because people now are going to be like, wait, you've had a Chargers fan? So you can speak up for your people.

Sounds good.

Yeah.

Okay.

Good job, Shane.

Hell yeah.

Good job, Shane.

Proud of you, Shane.

Proud of you.

Proud of you, Shane.

All right.

See everyone on Friday. Love you guys.
I'm to say I'm saved anyway. Today's another day to find you shining away.
I'll be coming for your love again. Talking away.
I don't know what I'm to say I'm saved anyway. Today's another day to find you shining away.
I'll be coming for your love of dreams. Take on me.
Take me on. I'll be gone.
Take me on tears. Take on me.
Take me. I keep dancing on my own We must say our sentence But at least I will it away Learn and learn and if life is okay Say after me Life's no better to be safe than sorry Life's no better to be safe than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry, than sorry I'll be gone.
Let I want you.

Take on me.

Take me on.

I'll be gone. Let I want you.