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Part of my take, yeah, part of my take, yeah, part of my take, yeah, part of my take, yeah, part of my take, yeah, part of my take. Welcome to of my take Today is Monday, November 6th Week 9 We start week 8, 9 Wait, it's not week eight.
Nine. Are you saying nine or nine? Nine.
Okay. In week nine, we had a rematch of World War II where U.S.
invaded Germany and they brought their fat man and little boy with Andy Reid and Mike McDaniels. Kansas City came out to a dominating lead and had the Dolphins surrounded but left them off the hook like Dunkirk

in the second half. Raheem

spicy brown Mostert had

the Chiefs in a pretzel, one of those huge

German ones that rocks, but it was

too little, too elate

as the quarterback left a third and

ten throw short and the Chiefs

escaped the bunker with a win. Chiefs

21, Dolphins 14. Whip! Whip! Back to America, real America, Houston, Texas, where the Stroud Boys had an uprising, while Tampa Bay tried to stop the count late in the fourth.
Tank, for whom the Deltolls, it tolls for the Tampa, found his hemming way into the end zone twice. Houston was cooking up a storm on their food network as Dalton Brown combined for 16 catches and 283 yards, leaving Todd on the toilet bowls.
Texans, 39. The Bucs, 37.
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. In Atlanta, where the Vikings season had a Jaron Hall pass after they were forced to start the rookie, but oh my God, that's stone cold Josh Dobbs music.
As God is my witness, Josh Dobbs is back. Josh Calvin and Dobbs in relief had the Falcons defense looking like paper tigers, and he put defenders in the funny papers time and time again.
Januna Matata said there will be no worries for the rest of your days if you own Kyle Pitts in fantasy. After he scored a long touchdown to put the Falcons up, but the Falcons forgot about Brandon Pow Pow Pow Wheels as he activated his little electronic motor for the winning score.
Vikings 31, Falcons 28. Huh? Huh? Just times as a quarterback after three days.
Just times. Tell me.
Up to Baltimore, where Michael Keaton Mitchell was looking dope and sick as he hit the multiplicity button on yards. The Seahawks were on a hot streak, but seemed to have run out of luck at the Kajino, busting out broke in another game.
Odell Beckham blew out the candles for his birthday and then celebrated by blowing out the back of the Seahawks

as he forced it into their end zone.

Michael Jackson, Smith, and Jigba will be moonwalking back to Seattle

as the Seahawks are bad.

They're bad.

And they really, really know it.

They're bad.

Ravens 37.

The Seahawks 3.

Out in the desert where it was Tony P and LV

showing off positive masculinity as Antonio Pierce felt and touched his players before the game. The Giants aren't good, but they have some fellas like Tommy two times DeVito.
We call him Tommy two times because he throws interceptions two times. Here's a pick.
Here's a pick. Josh Jacob Gyllenhaal nightrawled his way to a two scores as the Raiders

broke the back of the Giants' season.

The Raiders!

30,

Giants 6,

the New York Football Giants,

and the Las Vegas

Raiders!

We go up to Green Bay, where

Sean Timothy McVay's plans blew up at his face, and Puka Neckless Nakua looked like a shell of himself. Andrews Hot Carlson took a dump all over the Rams' face, kicking for two field goals, and Rams fans watching their backup play felt like they were ripping balls on heikadelics, watching Brett fumble snaps and throw picks.
Return of the mat, LaFleur is back up in the game, playing with his favorite R&B, Aaron Jones again, as the Packers beat the Rams 20-3. Over to New England.
Joe Sly, the science guy, started off the scoring with a first-quarter field goal, and Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill. Belichick had no answer for Brian Jackie Robinson, who broke the goal line barrier in the second quarter for seven.

Hunter Henry Lockwood was flying high after scoring this weekend

and Ramondre the Giant Stevenson was asking the crowd,

does anybody want a peanut?

After rushing in for a touchdown of his own.

Late in the quarter, Mac Jones was picked off by Jartavius Martin Garrix,

who was high on life after stealing the win. Now he can say officially, just like the motherfucker on that plane, the lighthouse is not real.
Washington 20, Patriots 17. That was incredible.
Boom. Thanks, boom.
That was the best boomer ever, boom. Thanks, boom.
I'm teach. Over to Philadelphia, where the Cowboys play in a house of pain.
Dak it up, Dak it in. Let me begin.
I came to win. Step out of bounds.
That's a sin. As Dak did his best impression of Jerry Jones hitting the white lines a little too early as he stepped out on a costly two-point conversion.
Jalen, heart's so good. You know your knee don't feel like it should, Jalen.
Heart's so good. Played a heroic second half, but it was the Eagles defense that played like cougars, tackling a lamb to finish the game.
The Eagles 28, the Cowboys 23. Standing on a corner, Jameis Winston down in Nola Such a fine sight to see It's Taysom Hill, my lord, running for a score And throwing for a score, running Chagos D Come on, Bay-gen, get off the pavement Justin's coming back, and you haven't gotten paid yet.
Saints go marching 24-17. And that is week nine.
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Okay. That was a great boomers, Hank.
Maybe Boomer of the Year. People are saying.
I'm honored. Did you work on that? You came on that all on your own.
That's all me. I love you.
It was a pure Henry. Yes.
So week nine in the books, we're going to talk about Bengals bills at the end because we are in the middle of the fourth quarter right now. Looks like the Bengals are going to win after a very costly Dalton Kincaid fumble.
But let's get into week nine. Let's get into week nine.
I feel like we really found out who the absolute worst teams in the league are this week. And also more questions at the top than I had going into it, I feel like.
I disagree. Oh, okay.
I think we found out who the best teams are. We do have.
Yeah, there's a couple of very, very good teams. I'm more talking.
Yeah, I'm more talking Cowboys Eagles. I'm still very confused how that went.
But let's get into the games. Let's start with the game in Germany.
Dolphins 21 or sorry, Chiefs 21, Dolphins 14. The Miami Dolphins are officially F-R-A-U-D-S frauds.
They're not real. Not real.
They're going to continue. They got some very winnable games coming up.
And then the times where they play against the good teams, I think we're going to see more of the same. Yeah, when they play Kennesaw State in two weeks, they'll probably put up 100.
And then they got to play Alabama, and it's not going to look good. So the Dolphins are now versus teams with a losing record, 5-0, with a combined score 234-125.
So almost doubling up the score. the Dolphins versus teams with a winning record 234 to 125.

So almost doubling up the score.

The Dolphins versus teams with a winning record are 0-3,

100 for their opponent, 51 for them.

When they play a good defense, they kind of turtle a little bit.

And I think the Chiefs are a really good defense.

I think the Chiefs are a top-five defense, which is crazy to say,

but I think that that's the scariest part about the Chiefs is that their offense still doesn't look like peak Mahomes because I think in the second half they went completely to sleep. I think they have 46 yards total in the second half, but their defense is very much legit, held two to under 200 yards, held the Dolphins scoreless in the first half.
Even after all the sleep, nothing has made – or the travel, nothing has made me more mad at myself than putting that much weight behind the travel because I was front and center on the Dolphins or frauds and hammer against them when they play any good team. And the travel, the fact the Chiefs went on Thursday got me me off that scent me up to this.
Andy Reed, we should have made so much money betting the chiefs. Andy Reed beat time.
Yeah, we can. That's he's so good of a coach that he beat time.
Andy Reed versus seconds is a battle for the ages. And he came out on top again.
It was, it was really two halves though. First half you had Tyreek Hill and his fumble.
That was returned for the touch. That was the first of the game where it's, I mean, Tyreek, former chief, talking a lot of shit going into this game, gets stripped, loses the ball.
They return it. They rugby it back for a touchdown.
And at that point, it felt like the Chiefs were going to like just dominate and put them away like, you know, 40 to 47, 40 to 14, something like that. And then the second half, the Chiefs looked like they were the ones that were asleep.
The Dolphins' defense played well. And I think if you are a Dolphins fan, today's not a great day because you need to beat one good team to feel like you are a true Super Bowl contender because guess what? When you get to the playoffs, all you do is play good teams.
It doesn't matter who you play in the playoffs. If you're a Dolphins fan, you are going to be officially nervous as shit right for that first game right but the dolphins defense did like they looked good in the second half they they the chiefs did basically nothing in the second half but it's the fact that they just whenever the dolphins that high flying greatest show on uh surf is what they're calling it goes up against a decent defense it gets stymied and looks completely different yeah and i love watching isaiah pacheco run with the ball where he looks like he's just splashing through puddles just stopping yeah every single time he takes a step very very very very much like a vertical runner to the point where i guarantee you his high school football coach or definitely greg shano at one point he's like why are you running so scared out there yeah you know why why are you so upright get your head down hit somebody but it's fun to watch them play and uh the chiefs are for real for real yeah we can definitely say that their defense is good enough to keep them close in any sort of game and then you have patrick mahomes as your quarterback they're almost not fair what what's going to happen is the the chiefs defense is so good this year that they are going to keep them at the top of the afc for just long enough for Patrick Mahomes to figure it out with his new receivers.
That's what's going to happen. We're going to get to late December, and it's going to be like, ooh, Rasheed Rice and Patrick Mahomes are figuring it out together.
Ooh, Kadarius Toney isn't the worst player in the world anymore. Like, that story, if we could predict a story, Aaron Andrews sitting down with Patrick Mahomes late December being like, how did you guys all get on the same page?

You know what it always is? And it's going to be like, fuck, they're doing it again.

It's always video games.

Yeah.

You know, I just had to dazzle my house.

We just played video games for a while.

It's just something like that.

I have a question.

That was the Tua and who was it on the third and 10?

Was that Waddle or was that Tyreek? I'm not sure who that was. The pass that went short.
That was just miscommunication, right? That wasn't Tua trying to throw as hard as he can. I don't think that was possibly Tua trying to hit him in stride.
Okay, good, good, good, good. I'm going to apologize for Tua.
I think it was an option route. I'm going to make an excuse for Tua and say that he was not trying to lead him on that pass because if he did, Tommy DeVito would have thrown that ball better it was the Tebow like pass you know the famous one in the wind in a Broncos yeah it was it was a bad pass so yeah the the the two MVP obviously takes a ding uh probably had taken a ding a couple couple weeks ago against the Eagles but the Dolphins they just have to beat a good team they have to and until that happens, I don't think it's unfair to be like, yeah, they're a decent team.
But a Super Bowl contender? I don't think so. And now, who do they got? Who's their next? You know what, though? They don't have a lot of tests.
Home against the Raiders after the bye. Yeah, they might fraud themselves into actually becoming a little bit of an angry team.
Because everyone now is going to be saying that they're frauds. they got a lot of bulletin boards to look at like if if you're the dolphins you don't now is not the time where you want to listen to what the media is saying about you after loss you actually should though because every every morning show in america is going to be like they're frauds they're fraudulent they can't beat a good team and and those people saying that are right by the way but the only way you can get yourself out of this fraud hole is by listening to it and getting pissed off enough at it that you commit yourself to no longer being a fraud.
And look, I actually want to spin it positively for the Dolphins because I am a member of Tune On. And I don't there's no reason for like there's no ill will I have against the Dolphins.
I would like them to be a really good team that can beat other really good teams because I think the league would be more fun for it yeah so let's let's do positives that have going forward I think your defense is getting better healthier a chain will come back eventually you're gonna get faster you're gonna get faster uh your schedule is not that tough so like the idea that this is maybe gonna slip like it did last year which was more because of injury with tatua i don't think that's gonna happen like i think the dog i can confidently say the dolphins are gonna be in the playoffs i'm not worried that much uh but yeah just figure out a way to beat a really good team mike butaniels go go into your spreadsheets cook something up hit that vape figure it out try try a new. So I have one question coming out of this game.
Is Mike McDaniels too cute? He does get a little cute. Some hiding behind some other coaches trying to avoid the cameras.
The press conferences. The sunglasses.
Does Mike McDaniels maybe need to get a neck tat? Maybe a teardrop tat and be like, I'm going to be hard hardcore coach and not the cute coach that everyone's fallen in love with because if you can't beat the good teams the too cute thing does it starts he does need to bring back the double hoop earrings that would be a good start doesn't he like that was a good look for him when he was a ball boy in denver like you don't fuck with that guy just do something mike mcdaniel to not be as cute as you have been because you're so fucking cute I want to put you in my back pocket you're so cute Mike McDaniel he goes like from uh looking like a weed smoker to a weed dealer yeah if he puts the earrings back in maybe gets like a white Jetta yeah the white Jetta is not that fearsome well that's like a cute that's like a high school school, like, you got enough money dealing weed that you can lease a white Jetta. Maybe like a Honda Civic SI with, like, manual, put some bucket seats, some racing seats in there, put a huge fucking spoiler on the back of it.
Yeah, I don't know. Just something to heart.
Maybe Mike McDaniel just needs to beat someone up. So I actually think that they might be in a better place if they had lost last week to the Patriots, if they were on a three-game losing streak.
Because Mike McDaniel has said, like, I can't, when I got to the NFL as a head coach, I couldn't wait for my first three-game losing streak because that's when you know that you have to get the guys together. He had it last year, yeah.
He had it last year. He rallied them together.
This is like win-loss, win-loss, their last four. If you had a losing losing streak, then you circle the wagon.
So Mike McDaniel has not started coaching yet. Not yet.
Not until he loses three in a row. Yeah.
And I'm looking at the schedule right now. They're not going to lose.
Well, no, they might. They might lose to the Cowboys, Ravens, and Bills to close out the season.
And the Jets. I still think the Jets are going to be a tough game for them on Black Friday.
That would be great. At New York.
If they lost to the Jets the cowboys and the ravens then they circle the wagons play the bills yeah week 17 or 18 i guess snowballs snowballs cold well no that's at home so yeah moderate rainy miami yeah that's yeah okay yeah not cold at all humid not cold at all uh okay let's play a fun game before we get to the next game called what where is the next Chiefs loss going to happen and how much will people freak out about it because I think we're in agreement that the Chiefs and we'll get to the Ravens because the Ravens have been playing incredible football but the Chiefs are the best team in the AFC and what they basically do is they'll just find a couple losses here and there where everyone could be like, what's wrong with the Chiefs? We did it last week when they we actually were pretty good. We were like, nothing's wrong with the Chiefs.
They're fine. So what's the next what's the next Chiefs loss that people will be like, oh, no, are the Chiefs in trouble? I think they might lose to the Bills in Buffalo December 10th.
OK, that's going to be like the Bills Super Bowl. That's going to be a must win for the Bills at that at that point okay so they're going to bring their best game um i don't know chiefs fans out there will get very pissed off to hear that because they fucking hate the buffalo bills yeah and they get disgusted when anybody mentions the bills in the same breath as the chiefs but that's going to be a very hard game to play i i could see them losing to the packers in a fluky game no yeah just in a weird in lambo maybe it it's cold something stupid happens Patrick Mahomes gets COVID again maybe the Raiders if the Raiders get another interim head coach yeah I don't know there's gonna be you know what's good you know what's gonna happen the the Chiefs will lose one more inexplicable type game and everyone will say oh no Barry Chiefs and is there the Chiefs have some problems or the Chiefs can the chiefs be had yeah no the chiefs will probably win the super bowl so um andy reed did have the quote of the week though and this was before the game and uh the the german press was just talking about football what it means to america what it means to him okay what he's been through yeah and andy said if we could just figure out how to get all the countries to play football we wouldn't have war yeah.
Yeah. Which makes sense.
Just like solve this on the field. Yeah.
Step out on the gridiron like a man. Instead of lobbing missiles at people, like, let's just go out there.
Let's just play some ball. This is like the old, remember when we learned it? McDonald's.
Yeah, the McDonald's. It's not true.
Yeah. No two countries that have McDonald's have ever fought a war against each other.
That was the greatest lie that we learned as kids. No, and it does not make sense.
It's factually inaccurate. Although the McDonald's in Iraq, they were actually called, I think they were like McDonald's or something like that.
They were like fake McDonald's. But you couldn't even say that about football, American football either, because countries that have American football have actually fought a war against each other.
Right. America.
Right. In the 1800s.
Right. It was kind of a big deal.
Yes. But I kind of agree with Andy.
I don't necessarily agree that it would solve world peace, but it would make for some great rivalry games. I would say it would solve world peace for 18 Sundays a year.
Like that's the thing. You can't fight a war on NFL Sunday.
It's like saying, yeah, football is the great peacemaker. You never see Raiders fans fighting its Chiefs fans.
Yeah. Right? Because we're all here to watch football together.
No one's ever seen an Eagles fan or a Chargers fan. If anything, it would start more wars, I think.
Yeah. But they would just be fought with like bottles.
Bottles, flares. And dudes that don't have the higher ground that think that they can just punch up against like 16 of the team they're playing.
Just guys wearing throwback jerseys from like the year 1975 that they bought online from like an illegal sweatshop in China. Did ditch the camouflage and grab your finest pair of jean shorts.
We're enlisting in the army. Can you imagine if the United States military had dudes wearing the ravens camo shorts just running up hills charging and fighting never lose wouldn't fuck with them never lose never lose all right so yeah the um the dolphins are frauds they're frauds it's chiefs are very what it is chiefs are still very very good yeah yeah chiefs are very very very very good and i wish i really wish that the Chiefs had just gone on Tuesday because I would have won a lot more money and my day would have started off in a lot better place.
I would not have bet on the Dolphins at all if there wasn't such a huge difference in travel. But I guess we learned that once we find something and we latch on to it, we'll just get obsessed with that thing until we're proven wrong.
The amount of times I think I've figured it it's it's incredible i still think it was right bet yeah no but yeah uh okay next up maybe the best team in football right now ravens 37 seahawks three this was an ass kicking that was it was a biblical ass kicking it was not even like 37 three yes you obviously see that score and you're like ass kicking. But then you look at the numbers and it was a biblical ass kicking.
It was not even like 37-3. Yes, you obviously see that score and you're like ass kicking.

But then you look at the numbers and it was insane.

The Ravens had 29 first downs to the Seahawks 6.

The Ravens had 515 yards to the Seahawks 151.

The Ravens had 298 rushing yards.

So the Ravens almost had double the amount of just rushing yards than the Seahawks total yards it was never close it was an ass kicking through and through and even kind of the reverse of what we were talking about the Dolphins the Ravens have now played three teams who are above 500 one of them was the Browns when I think Deshaun was out is that right I? I believe, or maybe he got injured in that game. Yeah, I forget if you played that or not.
So the scores of the Ravens games against teams over 500, 28-3 against Cleveland, 38-6 against Detroit, 37-3 against Seattle. Yeah, two teams that are leading the divisions, or were leading their divisions, Seahawks and Lions, combined score of 75-9 against those two teams.
The Ravens had four sacks today. That leads the league.
They also had pressure on 54.5% of the dropbacks. That's crazy.
It's insane. Their defensive back, Geno Stone, he got his sixth interception of the year.
Geno to Geno. Probably first time ever.
Probably, I would imagine. That's the first time or that he's still leading the league right now and they got another weapon at running back yeah so it seems like whoever the ravens put in at running back is going to be great keaton mitchell was the guy today from ecu from ecu he's a pirate he had nine carries 138 yards that's a 15.3 average per carry he had a touchdown fun fact about keaton mitchell he's from ecu undrafted right he was projected to go like middle of the draft he fell out for some reason i think he was like a second team all-american in college uh so he was undrafted ravens free agent his dad was also an undrafted free agent signed by who the baltimore ravens that would have been funny if you were like the San Diego Chargers.
Yeah, he he blocked a kick in the playoffs against the Titans and returned it for a touchdown. That was the winning score as the Ravens went on to win the Super Bowl.
Wow. Now his son first one.
Yeah. So that makes that makes you feel very, very old.
Yeah, that his son now was an undrafted free agent. That's lighting up the Seahawks in the NFL.
And, and it just is crazy. The Ravens have figured out their running game because that was a lot of the talk.
Once Dobbins went down, it's like, okay, they, they still probably need someone here because they do like to run the football. And now they get this kid, Keaton Mitchell out of nowhere.
Who's like the perfect complimentary piece to Gus Edwards, who is clearly the goal line back. And yeah, the Ravens, I mean, their defense, I didn't know.
Hand up. I'm just going to say it.
I thought Kyle Van Nooy retired. Oh, you did? Yeah.
Well, I think he signed recently with the Ravens. I knew that he was around at least for a few weeks.
But I don't think he started the season with the Ravens. Calvin Noyem.
We'll look him up. He had sacks on back-to-back plays.
How old do you think Calvin Noyem is? He's young. He's only 32.
That's crazy. I did not know that.
Yeah, it's very Van Noyem. Let's see.
2020. Yeah, he's played seven games.
Oh, okay. So he did play the whole season.
So maybe I did know that. Either way, I was like, wait, Calvin Noyes on the Ravens? Because I thought he was...
Where was he last year? Was he on the Lions? No. Was he back on the Patriots? He was on the Chargers.
Chargers, that's right. Okay, that's where I got it.
He got lost in my mind when we went to the Chargers. You know what it is about Calvin Noyes? I think he streams so much that you think he's retired.
That you're like, oh, this guy's not playing anymore. And he tweets a lot.
Yeah. He tweets a lot.
He's too online to be playing still. But no, he's playing the full schedule.
I would just like to admit, right now, the Baltimore Ravens, I think they are the best team in the NFL. I think the Ravens are the most complete team.
He did sign in late September. Okay.
A little vindication. Didn't start the season.
Yeah, he didn't start the season. But the way that the Ravens play against good teams, I think they're the best team in the league.
They still have to figure out. It doesn't feel like their offense is fully clicking.
Like Lamar, he was good today, but he wasn't lighting the world. I thought he was pretty good.
No, I know. He didn't throw any touchdown passes.
The stat sheet doesn't really tell how good Lamar was today. He also got a little dinged up.
He was 21 for 26. That's pretty good.
No, he was good. He just didn't throw deep that much.
Yeah, it wasn't like, oh, it wasn't the game against the Lions. When a quarterback throws for 80 yards to their tight end and he's their number one receiver, Yeah.
Then you lose track of how good he was because he also completed nine passes to Mark Andrews. Yeah.
Listen, I've been on the Ravens since before the season started. I have them 18 to 1.
Like, I thought the Ravens have everything. Their defense is nasty.
Yeah, the Ravens are extremely good. Seahawks, I don't know what we can take away from this because we saw the Lions get their ass kicked by the Ravens.
And it turns out the Lions are still pretty good. So I don't know that I'm ready to bury the Seahawks I don't know what we can take away from this because we saw the Lions get their ass kicked by the by the Ravens and it turns out the lines are still pretty good so I don't know that I'm ready to bury the Seahawks yet but I am you are gonna bury him I'm not gonna bury the Seahawks I'm done with Gino yeah I've had enough Gino I think I'm good with Gino like I know that people will tell me I'm wrong because the tape says something different I I just feel like Gino has last year.
He had a very good year and now he's kind of gone back to Gino, which is OK. But like I never really feel a ton of trust in Gino.
I'm never like, man, Gino is going to really go out there and win this game. He might bounce back.
Gino always bounces back. You're writing him off.
I am writing him off. You're writing him off, and he ain't right back.
I'm good with it. I think he's okay.
I'm not saying he's bad. I will never feel trust in Gino to be like, you can go win this big, big game.
Right. I agree with that, but I'm not ready to bury them.
I still think that they could. You know, their team is talented.
In the NFC, they're probably going to make the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And this is a year where I think a lot of people were writing the Seahawks off. Like, oh, they're going to roll with Geno? Okay, we'll see how that gets you.
I think that this is, they're a perfectly fine team. I think it really comes down to like Geno doesn't, whenever there's a lot of pressure.
And yeah, obviously you can say this for every quarterback, but whenever there's a lot of pressure, it just feels like Gino doesn't whenever there's a lot of pressure and yeah obviously you can say this for every quarterback but whenever there's a lot of pressure it just feels like Gino doesn't have any solutions you know what I mean like that doesn't feel like there's it's just a problem that there is no way out of and at the end of the day he's always going to be the guy that got his jaw broke by his teammate yeah I maybe I'm maybe I'm being mean I do think the Seahawks are a very talented team and I am not going to just say one game means that you suck all of a sudden. But, yeah, I think I'm just good with Geno.
I think I'm good with Geno. Some people telling me that Geno is somehow way, way different than he was.
I think Geno is like a 20 to 15 caliber NFL quarterback. I think he's just the exact Geno where it's like, yeah,'s got a lot better players around him now and there's games where he can look great but at the end of the day, would you put your life, would you trust your life with Geno Smith? I would not trust my life with Geno Smith.
I would not trust my life with Geno Smith. I would trust it with Lamar.
I would trust it with Lamar. On certain occasions.
For sure. Yeah.
Until you get to the playoffs and a team tries to do some weird scheme. Was it the Chargers? Was it Anthony Lynn? What quarterbacks? That put nine defensive backs out there.
Yeah, what quarterbacks did you trust your life with? I think it's Patrick Mahomes. It might be Jalen Hurts.
I think Joe Burrow. And Joe Burrow.
I think that might be it. Life, yeah.
You put your life on the line for it. I would with those three guys for sure.
I think those are the three guys that I would only. Yeah.
Not Dak. Definitely not Dak.
I just want to say not Dak for the record. Kirk Cousins before he got hurt.
Yeah. As weird as it sounds.
Maybe Josh Dobbs in relief only. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't know.
It's a very, very short list. But yeah, no, Gino's not that list.
I'm wondering what Seahawks fans will say about that. Because again, I do think they're a good team.
I think I'm just done with Gino. I think I'm just good with it.
I'm like, he's good at times, but I don't want to be told that Gino is something totally different than what he has always been. I might trust CJ Stroud in my life.
It's getting there. It's getting closer.
It's getting closer. Do you think that Jim Harbaugh and John Harbaugh share any sort of advanced scouting tips with each other? Because this looked like a game where the Ravens had all their signals.
That's true. Well, Connor Stallions is doing the job right now.
He resigned. He did not get fired.
he resigned um and also ride or die guy and also jim harbaugh had no advanced knowledge of what connor stallions was doing behind the scenes i believe that jim harbaugh shouldn't be punished whatsoever when it goes to the nfl i do love connor stallions though i love the fact that he's like you know what i don't want to be a distraction to the team i didn't i didn't do anything they didn't ask me to do anything i'm out like the best fall guy you could ever for ever ever uh okay next game vikings falcons josh dobbs what a fucking performance josh dobbs i i have to apologize because when josh dobbs came in i was like i'm like josh job isn't good the cardinals his last month with the Cardinals was not looking great. Josh Dobbs came in safety strip sack.
And then he was like, wait, I'm Josh Dobbs and I'm going to win this game and played out of his mind after that. Yeah.
And the story coming out of it afterwards that Josh Dobbs. So Kevin Seifert from ESPN tweeted that Josh Dobbs didn't take a single rep with offense in practice this week.
No snaps from his center. Garrett Bradbury had never thrown passes to any of the guys on the team and didn't know most of their names and said afterward, that's for next week.
And when he, when Jaron Hall got concussed, they huddled really quick and they they went over the five main cadences, and that was it. And then Josh Dobbs came out and absolutely, like after that bumpy start, torched the Falcons, made big play after big play, finished with 158 yards, two touchdowns, 66 yards rushing, and another touchdown.
That was awesome. That was an awesome game to watch.
Josh Dobbs, that was awesome. maybe he should just jump from team to team i would love that every team should be so lucky to root for one week of josh jobs exactly one week of them it was great and then probably nothing more than that jordan addison said that uh josh dobbs didn't know the plays because obviously he had only been there for a couple days and so he had to ask josh dobbs was asking the receivers in the h, like, what are you doing on that side of the field so that I know? Yeah.
And they would tell him what he was doing. He took like two snaps on the sideline from the center.
Kevin O'Connell was translating calls and mapping out the plays in the middle of the huddle while the play clock was going. It's crazy.
Josh Dobbs said that this was like learning French and suddenly taking a Spanish test. It's a completely different language.
And Dobbs says that now he has proved that he should be a starter in the NFL. I don't know if like full-time starter, but I think like spot starter.
Yeah, I mean, we did watch you for two months with the Cardinals. I think what we've learned about Josh Dobbs is he is the best guy that you could ever have to come on the field in the middle of a game or maybe to do like one start for your team he also just seems like the best guy period great guy yeah and he's and he's an astronaut basically he's an astronaut basically that fourth and seven so josh dobs played played stunk at the start first two series played great after that and then the game goes back and forth the falcons score late.
Josh Dobbs gets the ball with two minutes, has to go 75 yards, including a fourth and seven with 40 seconds left that he ripped off. He basically shrugged off a defender who was at his feet and then ran for 22 yards in a first down.
Gets the game-winning touchdown with like 20 seconds left. It was awesome.
It was like that was prime witching hour, just great fun to watch. And we'd have the conversation like, how come you can't get a Josh Dobbs jersey in the Minnesota Vikings team store? Yeah, it's a good question.
It should be there. It's a good question.
And like looking back on it, the Cardinals were probably trying to tell us something like, we don't want to rip off our fans selling his jersey because we're probably going to ship him away in a couple weeks. It's also just very funny to think of Josh Dobbs on the plane ride home from Atlanta and being like, man, that was a sick touchdown pass.
What's your name again? Yeah. I'm Brandon.
I want to hear the Madden stories about him. I want to hear how he has to learn his teammates' names by playing Madden.
Yeah. That'd be sick.
also had well his dobs he's the only player to go two games for two different teams back to back with three touchdowns in each yeah pretty impressive arthur smith is uh i think we can now say that bijon robinson is in his doghouse firmly he fumbled and then arthur smith was like see that's why that's why i don't use you that's why i don't use you it's like the wired or tired meme is uh not paying running backs on the second contract and then the wired meme is arthur smith not giving his court his running back enough carries to begin with to let them even deserve a second big contract yes yes it's um it's weird seeing bijon he just is never in the red zone packages. He's not like, yeah, like what did you say? Six carries in the second half? Yeah.
He had six carries in the second half. Like Arthur Smith, we're fans of Arthur Smith.
We're friends with Arthur Smith. His seat is getting a little warm.
Because this is a game he should have won. When Jaron Hall gets concussed in the first quarter and josh dobbs who doesn't know his teammates names comes in you should win that game and on top of that taylor heineke unfortunately we're big taylor heineke guys but he kind of had a desmond ritter type game where he did some nice things and then he also had that interception.
There was a terrible interception in the third quarter that gave the Vikings a ton of life. So it's like the Falcons feel like they're just moving in like they're treading water right now.
I'm not going to put this on the offense. I'm not going to put on Taylor Haneke.
The defense. Oh, this is bad.
Had some big problems today. And I thought that the defense was good.
I like going into this game. I thought the falcons had like a i'll say this a stout defense you can't game plan for josh tops you can't there's no there's no doing it yeah there's no tape on him with those receivers it was crazy yeah it was crazy to watch he was just it felt like i was watching a big college football game where the quarterback is you know when you watch we'll talk about on wednesday when you watch a college football game and the quarterback's just better than everyone so like if he needs to run for a first down if he needs to throw for like he just big play after big play that's what it felt like watching Josh Dobbs against the Falcons defense yeah it was honestly very very fun yeah shout out Josh Dobbs also here's a fun fact if the playoff started today the Minnesota Vikings would be the.
Crazy. So now Jordan Addison should keep playing.
Keep playing. Yeah, keep playing.
We're back on. Okay, don't sit out the rest of the year.
One and four to five and four. And they have their one and a half games back from the Lions, and they have both their games against the Lions coming up.
So like out of nowhere, the Vikings with Kirk Cousins playing great football and then getting hurt and being out for the year. And now Josh Dobbs, they still have Nick Mullins coming back as well.
Like you got to ride Josh Dobbs. Oh, yeah, you know, but I'm just saying like I'm saying more.
They have enough quarterbacks that more of them can get injured because it feels like the Vikings have the injury bug to anyone whose name we know. Their emergency quarterback today was Cam Akers.
Yes. Cam Akers tore his Achilles.
Yeah. So, yeah, there's something going on up there.
It's the drummer from Spinal Tap. Yeah.
So if you're a Vikings fan, you have to do that. We need to fire our strength and conditioning coach.
Yes. We're getting all these Achilles injuries at the quarterback position.
Yeah. And didn't KJ Osborne get knocked out of the game too? Yeah, that was bad.
Which is like, Josh Jobs did this without Justin Jefferson and K.J. Osborne.
So you'd think the Vikings are going to get a little healthier. And, I mean, what if the Vikings make the playoffs? My pinky.
They could. They could very easily make the playoffs.
Arthur Smith, just a little word of advice here. You still have another thing that you can do to try to get yourself off the hot seat.
And that's just have one game where you just load up Bijan and Kyle Pitts and Drake London for a fuckload of yards and points. And whatever happens, you win.
Then you can say like, oh, well, they figured something on offense. Now their playmakers are getting involved.
Just like force feed them. Or Bijan fumbles like three times.
Everyone's like, oh, the coach is smarter smarter than us yep and then everyone blames the gm for using the draft pick on a running back and again we're not calling for arthur smith's job we like arthur smith i'm saying that it's clear that falcons fans are people are getting a little antsy i think yeah because the nfc south is very winnable and again you went up against a guy who just met his teammates uh you should win that game yeah you should win that game yeah i mean the the falcons are in just as good a position to make the playoffs as the vikings are though yeah yeah i don't know someone has to get that seventh seat yeah it's going to be someone it's a but not actually they aren't because the vikings are a game ahead and they have the tiebreaker they got got the tiebreaker, but it's definitely not said and done.

The Falcons could very easily make the playoffs.

Yes, yes.

Okay, next game.

Texans 39, Bucs 37.

Holy shit, C.J. Stroud.

What a game.

He is incredible.

He had 470 yards, five touchdowns.

He led them on a game-winning drive with 40 seconds left they needed to or no they they need a touchdown yeah they needed a touchdown the score of this game which we'll get to the score of gami in a minute but the score of this game got all screwed up because uh kimi fairbairn hurt himself in the first half so the texans spent the second half scoring touchdowns and not getting two-point conversions and then finally they got to a point where they're like we should probably kick a field goal and they got uh dare agun bawale who's a badger came out running back first running back to kick a field goal in like 40 years nailed it and so the game was like weird to whenever a kick kicker gets injured, it's so much fun. Oh, I love it.
The kickoffs, everything about it. Everything becomes weird.
So this game got very weird, but CJ Stroud was out of this world good. He was so good.
We're very rarely right about things on this show, but standing up and standing by for the Stroud boys was a great call on our part. I think we should be recognized for that.
It will get to Bryce Young, but I don't know. I don't remember a one-two pick being decided this quickly.
No. No, I really don't.
I can't think of one either. I thought Bryce Young would struggle this year and maybe get better, and I guess there's time for that.
But C.J. Stroud looks – C.J.
Stroud's the top 10 quarterback. And there's some people,

I think Edward or tweeted out like this should put all the naysayers to bed.

Those who said the Texans screwed up the first round of the draft.

People were never mad at the Texans for taking CJ Stroud.

No,

again with,

he was like very clearly the number two quarterback in that draft.

They were mad because then they moved up again and they took the defense.

Yeah.

Well,

Anderson.

Yeah.

And that was a little bit questionable for some people, but no CJ stroud is awesome that those are both rookie records that you mentioned 470 yards that's number one all time for rookies and five touchdowns that ties a rookie record it's also the only rookie in nfl history nfl history the only rookie in nfl history to have a game where they go for over 400 yards, four plus TDs, no interceptions.

It's pretty good.

That's pretty good.

He's a gunslinger now because he's not afraid to throw picks.

I wanted to say, I think we touched on this on Friday, how the Texans love to run the ball on first down.

They do it more than any other team.

Thankfully, they realize the Bucs' rush defense actually actually is good they only ran the ball 17 times today credit to the texans for being like hey cj stroud's really goddamn good let's let him win this game well it's because the uh the bucks i think they're like two or three in the nfl in terms of how much they blitz yeah so they're able to stop the run when they And Vita Veya is also a big key to that, too. But CJ Stroud is awesome against the Blitz, it turns out.
We told you this. He's awesome all the time.
He's awesome all the time. He was awesome in college.
It's like, shouldn't be a surprise. You know what? Ohio State quarterbacks are actually great in the NFL.
They're great. They're next up.
Yeah, that's a new crew right there. Kyle McCord.
Everybody. The Bucs on the other side of this thing.

I kind of like it when teams like the Bucs and the Rams, they get their Super Bowl, and

then they just completely fall apart.

But they hold on.

Yeah.

You hold on to it.

You rent a Super Bowl.

You go all out.

You recognize where your window is, and you say, you know what?

Fuck it.

We're going to give our fans one chance to really do something, and then we're just going to be crummy for the next five years afterwards right because if you have super bowl winning players you hold on to some of them too long because you're like these guys want a super bowl yeah but you forget about the fact that there's some other very key players that uh are now no longer with the team and you can't expect baker mayfield to do with the same roster what Tom Brady did with this roster. And the Bucs' past defense was atrocious.
Yeah. They got absolutely torched.
But I like it. It's good for us long-suffering fan bases to see, like, okay, if you go all in on your window, you're just going to come back to us.
Just come on back and be shitty with us. And there's no regrets.
No. Flags fly forever.
But,, it's true. Like the Bucs were like, hey, we won a Super Bowl.
Now we're getting a little older. Let's just plug and play a couple of these key positions and hope it works out.
Because you have to think some of your older players that were on that Super Bowl, they're going to get into the Ring of Honor one day. They're going to be invited back for every ceremony.
It's like, oh, members of the Super Bowl winning Bucs. So you can't cut them the year after after you don't want to leave a bad taste in their mouth this is a relationship that the front office knows like oh we're gonna have to see you like once a year for the next 20 years so i i guess if it's between you and like a second year guy that's on the bubble we're just gonna get rid of him and and it goes even down to just being like oh yeah uh todd bowles will be our coach.
Yeah. He stinks.
Zero percent. Zero percent.
He goes for it on toss-up situations. And Stephen Shea, our friend, who's a diehard Bucs fan, who's slowly coming to grips with the Bucs stink because they've now lost four straight.
They started the season three and one. He rightfully was very angry at Todd Bowles because Todd Bowles was like 40 seconds left.
They fumbled the ball. Todd Bowles used.
They recovered the fumble. They recovered the fumble.
Todd Bowles used a timeout, his last timeout. Yep.
And then took a shot at the end zone on the next play, scored a touchdown, but left the Texans with 40 seconds left to be enough time. Too much time for CJ Stroud.
I think it went between like 55 seconds down to 40 seconds after the touchdown. Some situation where it was about a 15 second swing.
And in that part of the game, like, yeah, you don't need to call a timeout. You've got four shots at the end zone you're going to take.
Don't call a timeout, then take a shot at the end zone. Wait to maybe run the ball and then take a shot at the end zone.
And they could have tried to kick a field you want that timeout in case you need to in case you get tackled inbounds you take a sack you have to kick a field goal call timeout get your guys out on the field todd bowles is a bird brain todd bowles is a bad coach um nice guy poor steven shea he's he he rides with the bucks so hard he even said uh when the bucks had five seconds left 70 yards from the end zone, and they started the lateral play. He's like, ooh, I like how this is looking.
He's like, really, Steven? The left guard just coughed up the football backwards, 10 yards down the line of scrimmage. It was hopeless.
It was hopeless. But CJ Stroud, man, he's the real deal.
If you're a Texans fan fan you really just went through hell and and escaped pretty quickly yeah because the deshaun thing was hell and you had mills mafia yeah and now you you have all the hope in the world and you got draft picks coming up next year and you have the coach yeah like texans you might want to buy all the stock in texans because if you're a Texans fan, the hope meter is completely full

and it's like this is now, hey, if you could somehow sneak into the playoffs,

you don't even have to make the playoffs this year.

Yeah, the real life hack is...

Tank Dell is awesome.

The life hack isn't necessarily drafting well.

It's hoping the people in front of you draft really poorly.

Right.

And that you're just given a gift.

Right.

And so you got a gift. You get a Panthers or a Bears in front of you.
Enjoy. right and that you're just given a gift right and so you got a gift you get a panthers or a bears in front of you enjoy it enjoy this gift yeah um all right jake you got a scorgami i did congratulations thank you appreciate it i'm not gonna be i've reassessed uh i did a little reassessment of my own protocols uh we're getting to that part of the season where i'm like low on sleep maybe a little irritable from time to time uh i'm not going to yuck your yum i'm gonna let you enjoy score gammies uh i'm gonna put aside the fact that you you don't bet on any of the games or even really root for anything except weird scores to happen and just be like congratulations thank you yeah i root for all I appreciate that.
Handshakes. Yeah, yeah.
How much of Big Cat, you changing your tune on this is the fact that Jake wasn't around to cheer on the score. 100%.
100%. If in the middle of the witching hour and I was sweating out bets and Jake said, hey, can someone take a picture of me in front of the TV while I'm dying with every bet? I would have 100% been like, fuck Scorigamis.
After last week's interaction, I would have gone to the PMT studio and taken a picture. But I realized I was too harsh.
We want you to be you. I want you to be you.
And also realize that it's not a you problem that he's upset with you about Scorigamis. It's not your problem.
It's when he's sweating out a bet, when he's losing in all likelihood, like losing a bet coming down to the end, and then he sees somebody else. It doesn't matter what they're happy about.
No, if someone's happy about their other bet, I'm fine with that. Another bet, yeah.
But if it's you getting your picture taken in front of numbers, then he's going to be like, well, my numbers. My numbers didn't do anything.
My numbers are bad. Why are your numbers good? And your numbers didn't win you anything, but it did win you something.

Happiness.

And that's what I realized.

So I apologize.

I appreciate the change of perspective.

I do think there's too many of them.

I'll stay with that.

You can have that.

Way too many of them.

This was a good score.

It was.

Because I don't like it when they're numbers that you think would have happened before.

And then you get excited about a 20 to 11 score gami or something.

When it's a game where it's 37, 39 yeah 39 37 texans when when you see that score it's like those are some funky ass numbers and the fact that it happened there was no alert for this well no this one was all at the end this one was cool because it was directly related to fairbairn getting hurt right and then them kneeling the the two-point conversion because they had to because they had to and they didn't want to give up like a pick or any kind of weird play happening so yeah this scorigami I actually kind of enjoyed like that was thanks it also was because you weren't taking the picture in front of me but I did enjoy it I did enjoy it dare ugunbowale yep the badger the badger that came on kicked a field goal I think it was ayarder. Yep.
Bad look for kickers because anyone can step in and do their job. That's bad.
But very cool to watch, especially watching the reactions from the coaches on the sideline who were just so pumped to see him make a field goal. It also shows that on kickoffs, if you have a guy like, who's the guy in the Chiefs? Is it Reed? There's safety who's got a fucking cannon on his leg.
If you have a guy that can kick the ball deep and kick it relatively straight, having another dude out there that can make a tackle is such a big advantage to you. Such a big advantage.
It lets you cover the kick so much better. Otherwise, you're essentially running like a 10 on 11 wildcat return.
Yes. Where they've got the numbers on you.
So if you've got a guy that can kick it remotely deep and he also happens to be a defensive player, that's a good thing. Yeah.
Jake, just wondering, how many Scorigamis are left? Just so I can prepare myself in this new world. Well, no, but like, let's say that.
Under 50s. Like, each side has under 50.
Under 50s, there's like 100. But most of them are in the 40s.
Under 30, there's like 10 realistic ones. Okay.
With the winning team under 30. How pumped were you for this one? It was great because it came out of nowhere.
Yeah. And you were by a TV? Yeah, I had just gotten home for the witching hour.
Thank God. Is that why you got home? Just in case? Yeah, just in case.
Because if you had missed the picture, I would have counted it. And you would have loved that.
No, I'm fine with you taking a picture somewhere else. Yeah.
Yeah. I want you to be happy.
I did feel like I was being a little bit hard. And look, people should find enjoyment however they want to be the guy being like, you shouldn't enjoy that.
That's stupid. That's lame.
I was being lame. I was being a lame ass grumpy pants.
It's all right. But I've changed.
So in the future, you can do it. What's the protocol? You can do it.
All right. I won't be annoying about it.
No, no, you can do it. Here's the deal.
You can you can do. I don't think you're trying to be annoying.
You can do anything. You can do it.
You can do anything you want. You can.
If it makes you happy. Do it.
right i can also if it makes me happy to be like fuck you jake of course i will say it in the moment but yeah yeah you can do it i know it's not personal yeah yeah it never was personal never it's more i had to score gammies thing there's been too many it's like my type of thing is this the most in a year it's gotta be it's gotta be also when you did down a gammie the other day that was that was like we have too many i'll admit it i'll admit it This has got to be a It's got to be. Also, when you did downagami the other day.
That was a reach. We have too many gamis.
I'll admit it. I'll admit it.
This has got to be a record. First and 23.
Jake was like, is there such thing as downagami? There was also a first and one. Now you got it in my head, which I don't hate.
It's very Jake, and that's okay. There's just unlimited agamis if you translate it to any part of life.
I know, but it was a reach. When he said down was like i have to stop this now otherwise we're gonna gami everything but jake you be you i apologize i will continue being myself yes i appreciate the support do you think there's too many though there's been a lot we're on a run there's been a lot you know what it is you're on pace for agami gami oh what's the most in a year i don't know i'll have to do the research do the research all right research.
All right. This is actually something I would like to know.
Yeah. I'm interested in this.
How many, it'd have to be like maybe in the last 20 years, because obviously you're one of the NFL. Oh, gee.
Oh, that's it. Yeah.
Yeah. I would have been standing in front of every TV first season in the NFL.
And we only would have had one TV. Yep.
We only had one game. Keep in mind.
We also have 16 more regular season games and like two or three more postseason games. That's true.
More football, more Gammies. Exactly.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm happy for you. Thank you.
Yeah. Okay, so this game ruled.
This is my game of the early slate. It was awesome.
We had a great witching hour. Listen, the football was great today.
We've had some weeks where it's like you get one or two good games and the rest are just shit. There was action happening everywhere.
And it was funny because we went into this weekend being like Chiefs, Dolphins, Seahawks, Seahawks, Ravens. These are the big games, and it's where you don't expect it.
I don't know if you guys had Red Zone on here, but watching at home, Scott Hanson, they had a side-by-side of baker's fourth in game and dobbs is fourth in game they both scrambled ran for the same exact time on red zone oh that's wild yeah we had all the games on right i figured but i don't know if there was a red zone box but it was so sick yeah that is sick um okay should we take a break and then we get to the other four games, which weren't as good?

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Okay. The big one.
Commanders and Patriots. Hank, sit up.
Sit up, Henry. Adjust your posture, Hank.
Adjust your posture. Look professional.
I'll just be moderator here. I'll let you guys do whatever you want.
The Commanders 20, Patriots 17, Sam Howell looked awesome. Yep.
PFT. Except for that one touchdown.
Well, it was a touchdown. He threw it into the end zone.
Yes. Hank, thank you for calling on me.
I had a question for you. Trivia question.
Yes. What do you think Sam Howell is record-wise against Super Bowl-winning coaches? I'm going to guess he is 4-0.
No, he's 3-0. 3-0.
He beat Sean Payton. That was dirty what you just did.
He beat Sean Payton. He beat our good friend Bill Belichick, and he beat Mike McCarthy.
So 3-0. Sam Howell, he's like a little mini Tua back there.
Stud? He is a stud Sam Howell is firmly the guy he's my guy, he's our guy, he's the guy in DC I actually feel very very good about the future of this team right now and it might be like week to week I can get down on them sometimes but the last two games that Sam Howell's played I think they have most passing yards in the nfl over two game span um sam how is without a doubt the guy very happy with him top 15 quarterback top 15 quarterback in the nfl i would say top 12 top 12 quarterback and guess where he is that's like when ravelle says i own upwards of nine pieces of merchandise i think he is a top 12 quarterback in the NFL. I am very excited about the future of this team.
In fact, I'm now talking myself back in the playoffs. Someone's got to get that seventh spot.
And Max, you better watch out. If you get the two seed and the commanders get the seven seed, you don't want to play us again, Max.
No, you don't want to do it. I don't want to do it., Hank, I'll let you have the floor because I know you watched the game.
By the way, the top 12, the qualifiers that were used was quite something to watch. Right now.
It was right now. So, it was like eliminating Matt Stafford, Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rodgers.
They're not playing right now, are they? All these guys. Current starting quarterbacks.
It was like literally like the last two weeks. Current starting quarterbacks in the nfl top 12 because who you had one that was wild that you said i had a couple that were wild yeah that were just wild um what were they you want them over to sean yes even though we took contracts out yep okay do you know yes yep the stafford one was because Stafford one was i was like if he plays next week pft was like yeah i'd take sam howell over matt stafford yes i would i would still do that next week i would not that might be insane i actually think that matt stafford is great and very underrated still as a quarterback somehow but i changed quickly you have a future on the rams total.
I do over seven and a half, but that was before Matt Stafford got hurt. Okay, he's hurt.
He's got a dislocated thumb big cat. I want my quarterback with two great thumbs.
Hey, I was a mid off gross game to watch. Patriots are very uninspiring per usual.
I wouldn't say that the Patriots are mid. No, they're actually the worst team in the AFC.
Isn't mid like a battle of average teams? Yeah, it is. Hank's mid is doing a lot of work on that.
Hank, fact or fiction, they're the worst team in the AFC. Well, mids is the worst type of weed.
No, it's actually one of the best. No, it is.
No, mid is average. That's mids.
No. You don't know what mids is.
You don't know what mids is. What about oregano? That's the worst type of weed.
That's bunk. Okay, so the Patriots are bunk.
I guess, yeah. The Patriots are ass.
Hey, fact or fiction are the worst team in the AFC? Fact? Yeah. Record-wise, they are the worst.
Well, in fact, that's fact. Statistical fact.
Statistical fact. Good for the draft position, which at this point is all I'm rooting for.
You are right now. I did want to get that lighthouse on the board.
I didn't want to have to admit that the lighthouse is not. Yeah, we've got work to do there.
You right now are taking Brock Bowers. Oh, Baby Gron exciting.
That's pretty exciting. Baby Gronk.

But I have to admit the Lighthouse is not real.

I have to make a PowerPoint presentation, which is just more work, which sucks.

You have to admit what we all knew.

Although the team did release a really cool video today of a drone panning up from a water,

federally funded, and you could see the Lighthouse in the background which i got some tips uh from the inside was not uh coincidence yeah so it was interesting because you showed me that video acting like it was proving something and the drone starts off like 100 feet in the air and then goes up 200 feet in the air so i don't know i don't think you can see it from the waterway Yeah. Well, you just yawned in our face.
I think you knew the lighthouse was fake all along. And you're like, defend the wall, Patriots Hank kind of came out a little bit.
It should be a relief. You can just admit it.
Not really. It's like I have nothing to root for.
I said we got to rebuild around the lighthouse. The lighthouse was kind of like, that was my super bowl this year and now you don't have anything i actually think gronk could shotgun the lighthouse that's how flimsy and and tasteless it is do you think there's a chance that bill belichick watched sam howell was like top 12 quarterback i thought so i want to coach this guy he had he was looking he was looking real hard when sam howell was on the field i don't think so i don't think he's going to go coach the Washington, whatever the fuck they're called, next year.
You think he hates the lighthouse? I bet he does. That's like some Mickey Mouse shit.
It's only been bad memories. Yeah, Belichick doesn't like publicity stunts like that.
He likes football. He likes a football team.
Well, nobody. If only there was a team that had been called the football team at one point he could work with.
He's obviously a big fan of the troops, service members.

He knows the importance of things like lighthouses for the Navy and things of that nature.

So I'm sure he's a supporter, yeah.

Well, what about a team that's literally called the Commanders that's stationed like, I don't know, 30 minutes away from the Naval Academy?

Fact or fiction, they're not going to use that name because Josh Harris hasn't been wearing the merch. That's a fact, but also they're really close to Naval Academy.
So fact or fiction, he the Naval Academy factor fiction. They're not going to use that name because Josh Harris has been wearing the merch.
That's a fact, but also they're, they're really close to Naval Academy. So factor fiction, he loves Naval Academy.
Fact. That's a fact.
That's a fact check. I did like Ron Rivera in the post game.
You know, a lot of coaches are like victory Monday. We're doing, we're taking work off Rivera in true.
I'm already fired. And I know what guy fashion goes.
We're doing victory Monday. Everybody's like, yeah.
He's like, end Victory Tuesday. No work till Wednesday.
Nice. That's what I would do if I was in his shoes right now.
I'd be like, you know what? Let's just not. Nobody show up to work till Friday.
Yeah, we're good. We're good here.
We don't really need to do this. PFT, how many wins do you think the commanders need to get to to get the seventh seed now that you're back into playoff mode?

I think nine.

Okay.

Should we should we take a look?

Go through the schedule.

Give me their wins.

Yep.

Go through the schedule.

All right.

At Seahawks.

Win.

Now they're five.

Now they're five.

Giants at home.

Win.

They struggle with the Giants.

That wasn't Tommy DeVito, though.

Okay.

At Cowboys. Loss.
Okay. So there's still a credit to me for being realistic Dolphins loss okay well Dolphins suck against good teams are we good you wouldn't we're not we're not we're not uh at Rams that's a win yeah win yeah uh Jets.
I'm going to say loss. We don't play well at MetLife.
This is bad for you. We don't play well at MetLife.
Niners. Lost.
Cowboys. Win.
Sam Howell beat them at home last year. That's eight wins.
We'll find another one. And you also gave yourself a win at the Seahawks.
Yeah. Okay.
So we'll be. Yeah.
There's what? Hang on. No, we're going to make the playoffs.
I looked at the schedule and I was like, wait. Why are you bringing Matthew to this? I'm just asking.
Let's find it. I gave that take for my balls, not for my brain.
Let's find it. Okay.
I think the Dolphins might be a win. Say the schedule again.
All right. At Seahawks.
Win. Okay.
So now you're at five.

Yeah.

Oh, I know what I'm going to do.

Giants at home.

Yeah, win.

Okay.

At Cowboys.

Loss.

Okay.

Dolphins.

Loss.

In December.

At home.

At home.

No, I'm going to be honest and say loss.

At Rams.

Win.

At Jets.

Win.

Okay, there it is.

Yep.

Niners.

Loss.

Cowboys.

Win. Wait, that's still late.
How Niners. Loss.
Cowboys. Win.

Wait, that's still late.

How do we do that?

How do we do that?

You have Jets.

This is going to be some great podcasting.

All right, do it.

Fuck it.

Run it back.

All right, here we go.

You have four wins right now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, I'm counting.

At Seahawks.

Win.

Giants.

Win.

At Cowboys.

Loss.

Dolphins.

Loss. At Rams.
Win. At Jets.
Win. At Cowboys.
Loss. Dolphins.
Loss. At Rams.
Win. At Jets.
Win. Niners.
Loss. Cowboys, there's the nine.
That's nine. That's nine.
And we're in the playoffs as the 17th, right where we want to be. Going up to the bank.
Going up to the bank and taking on. Oh, you have your tiebreaker against the Falcons.
Could you stop saying that the Eagles are the one seed in the NFC right now? I don't know why you have just magically put them at the NFC. Oh, I want this so bad.
You should have lost the Cowboys. I want this so bad.
You'll win the football. I might put a future on the Commanders to make the playoffs just because I want this so bad.
I'm so far ahead that I'm going to put a future on the Commanders to win a playoff game because they're going to play the Eagles. So next week's a must win.
Must win. Because when you the schedule you have to win next yeah and if we lose that then i'll just switch either the dolphins game or uh the at dallas game yeah a must win yeah yeah it's that easy yeah it's a must win yeah the niners might be the minor niners might be in first place in the nfc by time.
Okay. Commanders in the playoffs.

It could happen.

Hank, you want to do your schedule?

Sure.

Okay. Hold on.

Let me pull it up.

You have two wins right now.

Patriots?

The Patriots have two wins.

Oh, this one's going to test everyone's football fandom next week in Germany against the Colts. When? At Giants.
When? At Chargers. When? Okay.
At Steelers. When? You still think you're mid.
Chiefs. When so you wow so you guys are gonna finish nine and eight same as the commanders that's pretty good all right today was a true mid-off 2-9 18.
They're both going to have like six wins this season. Oh, man.
No, I mean, I could be talking to the commanders. Ron Rivera is probably giving a Monday and Tuesday off so we can go do job interviews somewhere.
That's a classic move. But I am feeling good.
I'm feeling good about the future of the franchise just because. Same how.
You have a good quarterback. The defensive line looked good today.
You have draft picks. We got draft picks.
We got a new owner, new name probably, new stadium in the next four years. You might have gotten your groove back.
I did. I did.
If you're buying stock, you should buy stock in Washington right now. Is there a chance the Patriots are really bad? Oh, they're very bad, yeah.
And you won by three. Yeah, that's a possibility.
I mean, have you listened to me react to any Commander's win before on this show? It's the same thing. I get excited, but I can't change who I am.
No, you can't. I feel good about this win.
I feel good about having a quarterback that can throw the ball. Yeah.
It's been so long since I've had that. It's huge.
If you beat the Cowboys twice, you could maybe even finish second in the NFC. Who knows? Yeah, who knows? All right.
Cowboys first. Commander second.
Eagles third. Eagles third.
All right. Packers, Rams.
This game stunk. Brett Rippon.
I mean, the Rams stink anyway, but then when you put in Brett Rippon, they're extra stinky. Yeah, he was hilarious, but not in a fun, hilarious way.
He wasn't funny enough. Like a sad.
He did have a very funny fumble. Yeah.
And the Packers, Jordan Love looked good. They finally ran the ball, which I think every Packers fan on the face of the earth has been asking them to do.
Aaron Jones ran the ball 20 times effectively. And yeah, this game was not fun to watch, but good for the Packers.
So I'm going to turn this over to a recurring guest to part of my take, actually, Samuel L. Jackson.
Because he had the best take on this game. He said, at what point do we start the Rams coaching conversation? Oh! I think you just did, Samuel L.
I think you just did. Whoa, he's on TV right there.
That's wild. That is wild.
I would like to say that Samuel brings up a good point, although I don't think that we should talk about firing Sean McVay because Sean McVay is, without a doubt, probably a top five coach in the NFL. But I do think that he should be allowed to work remotely with a newborn.
Like at this game, did he really need to show up for this game? No. He could have done this all on zoom and just chill it at his house where he does it's like when they do the

draft and the rams don't have any picks that's how sean mcfay should coach the rams when they play in

a game and he doesn't have a starting quarterback yeah i'd agree let him work from home i should i

i want to remind everyone because this is um always tough when a team wins a couple games to start the

season and everyone's like oh they might be good the rams were not supposed to be good this year

Thank you. is always tough when a team wins a couple games to start the season and everyone's like, ooh, they might be good.
The Rams were not supposed to be good this year. They weren't.
They were not supposed to be in the playoffs. I think their win total was like six and a half preseason.
So it's not really surprising that they stink. They stink.
What did it for me was watching Matt Stafford play because when he's healthy and he plays, he's still really, really good. Yeah.
And he can get you to win some games that you should not win just with some ridiculous throws. So I'm not ready to put the Rams at the bottom of the barrel when Matt Stafford's playing.
When he's not playing, they're very, very bad. Yeah, I think they're unwatchable.
I think they're pretty bad even when he's playing. But yeah, I i i thought they were going to be bad going into this year and they won a couple games early that everyone was like watch out for the rams they're kind of what we expected so i don't think sean mcveigh's job should be his his seat should be hot no because if you even let him know that he's just going to go to tv yeah and the packers good for the Packers.
Let's see. Their draft pick went down to the seventh pick today.
So good win. You need those wins.
Someone's got to get the seventh seed. It's a win where on Sunday you're watching it.
If you're a Packers fan, you're like, hell yeah. All right.
We went up to Lambeau. Got a win.
Saw a bunch of guys in the stands wearing their deer hunting outfits that they wear when the season starts. That's always fun.
I think it starts next weekend. Oh, next weekend? Yeah, next weekend.
Okay, next weekend you'll see a lot of camo up in the stands. I don't want people to clown you.
A lot of real tree. Thank you.
Yeah, don't want another mistake of... No, I was doing a bit like when we do daylight savings time every year.
That's right. We always say that hunting season starts one week early.
Yes, yes. But yeah, if you're a Packers fan, today was fun because you got to see when, but then you're going to sit down on Monday and be like, I really wish we had not won that game.
Yeah, but Jordan Love did look better. Yeah.
Better. He does.
He, like, I think he spent too much time with Aaron Rodgers. You think so? Yeah.
Got a contact high? No. Some of his movements are Aaron Rodgers-esque.
Like, I can throw this ball from any angle kind of thing or, backpedaling it's like but you're not Aaron Rogers watching him run the Aaron Rogers hard count is tough right I don't know that's just a working theory that I have I don't know if Packers fans are gonna say I'm really stupid but there's just a couple times where it's like he's almost doing an imitation of Aaron Rogers until he releases the throw and it's like wait that throw is not Aaron Rogers It's like a really shitty cover of a song that you love. Right.
Right. Maybe I'm way off.
Maybe I'm just seeing it with hater glasses on. You might be.
I think that's a distinct possibility. I think Packers fans might silently agree with it.
I don't think that real fans of the team think that Jordan Love is the future. No, but he won the game today, so they probably should give him more time.
Yeah, probably give him more time. All right.

Another stinky game.

Browns, 27 Cardinals, zero Clayton tune.

Poor Clayton tune.

What I mean to start your career against the Browns and this defense. He was sacked seven times.

He threw two picks.

The Browns, the Cardinals offense had 58 net offensive yards.

They were one for 12 from third down and the Browns got their first shutout

See you next time. two picks the brown the cardinals offense had 58 net offensive yards they were one for 12 from third down and the browns got their first shutout since 2007 yeah they had 17 net yards passing 41 yards rushing seven sacks three turnovers the browns at home four and one uh Stefanski improves to 18 and seven after a loss.
They always win after they lose. And if you're a Browns fan that's like, run the damn ball, Stefanski, you got your wish today.
You got funted. One of them had 20 carries.
One of them had 13. And they both averaged like 2.2 yards per carry.
But it was about just like running the ball, establishing the run, killing the clock, knowing that the Cardinals are not nearly good enough to beat you with that defense so you just play like keep away yeah and that's what they did they absolutely smothered them it was never a doubt um deshaun back looked bad to start started to kind of find himself later you know touchdown pass off a helmet really got him that one was crazy but he did also throw a Nice ball to Amari Cooper later in the game. I guess if you're – well, Browns fans, in perfect Browns fashion, you kill the Cardinals.
First shutout since 2007. Deshaun comes back, starts to kind of feel like he's finding his legs, and then your star offensive lineman Jedrick Willis gets carted off.
Yeah, that wasn't – It's just like this is with the the whole Brown season. Whenever they have a little bit of happiness, it's like, nope, let's smash it real quick.
And so you talked about the roller coaster Brown season. I think the schedule makers designed it that way.
Yeah, because if you look at their next series of games, like they are probably going to lose to the Ravens. They are probably going to beat the Steelers.
And oh, then they have the they'll probably win that game too but they're they're pretty much designed to go win loss win loss win loss with a couple back-to-back wins sprinkled in yeah yeah it's it's torturous Brown season because when they when their defense is playing well and Deshaun is back and looks okay it's like wow this could be a playoff team like a very good team and then whenever they have that moment like a catastrophic injury happens to one of their best players and they go fall back down to earth they're like here's some pj walker yeah yeah it's tough it's very tough if you're the cardinals now and you got kyler coming back yeah do you think kyler really wants to wants to be back well the cardinals are really really. They've lost four out of the last five games by double digits, and the only one they didn't was that Ravens game where they snuck in the back door.
They're really, really bad, but I think Kyler might be playing for his job. I think he is.
He's playing for a contract. He's playing for a job.
He's playing for his job with the Arizona Cardinals, which you could make the argument he doesn't want that job anymore.

I think he's playing for a job in terms of a contract, like a starting caliber contract.

But he just signed one.

Well, what's his extension?

Didn't he sign one?

Remember the whole video game thing? Yeah, the whole video game thing.

But what's their out on that?

Let's see.

Because NFL contracts aren't real.

No, of course.

But usually for a quarterback, two to three years is probably very real.

His potential out is not until 2028 okay then he yeah he is playing for six years 219 million dollars or no five years 230 million dollar contract i completely forgot about that contract extension so he's not playing for a contract but i do think he is playing for his job on the arizona cardinals because if he comes doesn't play well, they have the number one pick. We've seen it before.
They moved on from Josh Rosen after one year. Obviously, Kyler Murray is way better than Josh Rosen, but it's not crazy to think they'd be like, all right, let's draft Caleb Williams and trade Kyler Murray somewhere.
Or Drake May. But the question is, if you're Kyler Murray, do you want your job on the Cardinals? I don't know.
I think I'd want my job somewhere else. That's what I'm saying.
Like if you're kyler murray do you want your job on the cardinals i don't know i think i'd want my job somewhere else that's what i'm saying like if you're kyler murray do you want to come back and play right now i i probably wouldn't but he's wait can they can they uh look into his screen time that he's been doing on his ipad i think that i think well he's been hurt well so if he doesn't come back if he's not activated fully i don't think i think that's it for the season so yeah that'd be weird it would be but i think he has too much pride let's think about from the perspective of if the cardinals truly believe that kyler murray is their future guy which i don't think that they necessarily totally believe that right now correct but if they did would you want kyler murray as the cardinals to come back and risk injury in a season that's already gone you probably wouldn't right but kyler murray he doesn't want to come back and play because he probably doesn't want to get injured and risk his chances of being a starting quarterback for not the cardinals i think football players want to play football is he a football player i Or is he a baseball player? That's a good question. If Kyler Murray comes back, I think the Cardinals can win a couple games.
See how confident that knee is. Yeah.
Yeah, it's a mess, though. It is a mess.
Either way, it's a mess. It's a mess.
It's a mess. And I actually feel bad for Jonathan Gannon because it's a mess.
I think Jonathan Gannon is actually doing the perfect job in what they wanted him to do. Yeah.
Yeah. Just be bad.
Knowing that Kyler was going to be out until November at the start of the season, they are in full-on tank mode. And again, you got to live off that Cowboys win for like a month and a half.
Yeah. It's great.
Everyone's like, man, the Cardinals are frisky. Yeah.
You got an entire Monday's worth of Skip Bayless being super, super pissed off at the Cowboys because of you. Yeah, that's worth anything.
Yeah. Okay, next, last game of the early slate, Saints 24, Bears 17.
We don't have to spend a lot of time on this. I would just say that kind of pathetic that the Saints only won by seven when they had the Bears turn the ball over five times.
I actually agree with you because I don't think I've ever seen a team run more plays in the fourth quarter, like deep inside their opponent's territory and not score points in the Saints today. Kind of pathetic.
Kind of pathetic. Yeah.
The Bears had five turnovers. They missed.
They doinked a kick and they only lost by seven. Yeah.
Kind of pathetic. And also, I don't think Derek Carr got sacked.
Kind of pathetic. That is pretty pathetic.

This was a Taysom Hill game, though.

Taysom was one for one passing, three yards and a touchdown.

He had 11 carries for 52 yards. And as we know about Taysom Hill, I think when he carries the ball seven times in a game, they're 18 and one.

Yeah.

The Saints are.

And then he had four receptions for 16 yards and a touchdown.

So this was they built the entire offense out of Taysom Hill today, which is great to watch. It does work.
I still don't know how the saints didn't blow out the bears. It's, it seemed like they should be winning by like 20 points for the entire fourth.
Well, Tyson patient was really good. If you only do the first three quarters.
Yep. It was 15 for 19, 201 yards, two TVs in a pick.
Yeah. You can hang the banner to big fourth quarter.
was three for 11 19 yards two picks yeah it was bad fourth quarter had some really bad interceptions maybe you didn't know the game was four quarters but you can hang the banner you extended montez sweat yeah which okay real quick i understand the bears are a joke i make fun of the bears more than anyone they're a joke of of a franchise. They make terrible mistakes at every turn.
There are moments where I have to push back because people just like, it's free clicks to dunk on the Bears. And the amount of people that move the goalpost with Montez Sweat, where Montez Sweat said one thing when they asked him, have you thought about your extension? He's like, I haven't even found a house to build or house to sleep in yet.
And everyone was like, ha, they're not going to resign him. Like the whole internet did this and dunked on the bears.
And then what happens a day later, they resign them to exactly what we thought was going to happen. And everyone just moves the goalposts to be like overpay.
Can't believe they did that. You can't, you can't do, you can't have it every single way.
You can't always be dunking on the bears when you tell us that it's a bad move because he's not going to resign. And then the minute he resigns being like, ah, you guys paid him too much.
Yeah. It was bullshit.
When I saw that he had the quote of like, oh, I haven't thought about the extension. It just gave me a 5% chance of him doing the thing that.
I wasn't even talking about you specifically. It was the whole internet.
There's a of people i i all from day one right when the trade happened i i told you they're going to resign him this would be the worst move in the history of football if they signed him as a rental for a team that's not going to do anything this year and then paid a second round pick for him and then lost him in free agency that's that's a level of incompetence that i don't think any franchise is capable of right now i it was just hoping that he would use the Bears for like seven weeks and then be like, you know what? I'm a commander at heart. I'm going to resign with the commanders.
And I get it. I get it.
The Bears are easy clicks. They're easy to make fun of.
I make fun of them a lot. But there definitely are points in time where I have to be like, shut up, everyone.
Like, you can't just keep dunking on the bears when they actually make good

moves for the longterm.

And you just have to find a way to like change the narrative to be like,

ha,

the bears suck.

The bears do suck,

but this was a good move.

They,

they,

they finally got a defensive player that they needed desperately.

Cause we don't,

when you have a really bad team,

you need to upgrade every position.

So they upgraded a position. Yeah.
And he's good. And he's.
And they should sign Jalen Johnson next. And the Bears still stink.
And guess what? America, you get to watch the Bears versus Panthers on Thursday night. That's a real test.
Between that and the Germany game on Sunday. It's a must win for the Bears.
No, it is. Yeah, because we have the Panthers pick.
Oh, yeah. We have to win.
We have to win this game. Update on the Saints coin.
I think that now is officially the time where we should start respecting the Saints coin because it's 9-0. Yeah.
So the Saints coin had this as a win. They did the thing where they flip a coin for every game on the schedule.
It hasn't lost yet. And then they have next weekend the Vikings as a win.
This Saints coin, I think, could be legit. Yeah, it could be legit.
We're watching it. Last thing.
I'm just going to say this real quick. I'm not.
I think Ryan Poles has made some mistakes. Eber flues, Chase Claypool.
But Montez Sweat was a smart move. And you have to just admit that him getting DJ Moore in the Carolina Panthers first round pick was pick was a great fucking haul yeah like people will say that he's incompetent you can't just pretend those two things didn't happen um i'm just gonna get you right no right it's very good i'm gonna get you ready for the counter argument to that big cat go ahead counter argument to that oh they're gonna screw up the picks they have some more picks oh that's usually what people say that's a good counter argument yeah that is it is is fair.
And it's probably true. Would CJ Stroud have been available with that pick? Well, I mean, I don't know.
You can't. I'm getting you ready.
I'm getting you ready. No, I know.
I know. People will start saying that.
Oh, you could take a CJ Stroud. I don't know.
You had to keep like if Justin Fields, I don't. That one is a little bit of a stretch to me.
Do the Patrick Mahomes all you want because that's fair. But that one's a little bit of a stretch.
Because in reality, I don't think that the Bears were going to give up on Justin Fields at that point. Right, and also the plan was, like, if Justin Fields ended up being the guy, everything, the whole table was set.
Like, because then you had two picks and a franchise quarterback. So that's worth trying to take that risk.
Yeah, they got a good haul. Yeah, they definitely did.
Also, CJ Stroud probably would have been terrible with the Bears because everyone's terrible with the Bears. See, I can say that the Bears suck.
You just can't. Shout out to Dennis Allen because he has five wins now.
Do you know what his previous record was in terms of his fastest time to five wins in the season? It had to be like week 13. Week 15.

Okay.

It was week 15.

So Dennis Allen is still bad.

Again, the Saints should be embarrassed that they only won by seven.

But he figured out how to just make the entire offense Taysom Hill.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I wish we could put Tyson Bajant and Justin Fields into the same quarterback

and just make it one.

You want to combine the right parts, though.

I want to combine Tyson Bajant's.in's his tattoos no his like decisiveness and like i'm gonna throw the football and then maybe give him justin field's arm strength and uh running a bill justin field's arm strength but with um tyson bajin's dad the arm wrestler yes to have like a super strong yeah yes um because tyson bajin he sees something he's like i'm gonna throw it here and it doesn't always work because he doesn't really have that strong of an arm but he he sees and he throws it i think tyson bajin has made himself a lot of money in these past couple weeks because he hasn't played bad enough to be like oh that guy can't be a backup quarterback yeah he he's established himself as he the only thing is the tattoos he almost he might have too many tattoos and the fourth quarter and too much moxie. Well, I mean, if you're looking for a backup quarterback, like you're going to get a guy that's going to throw.
That's kind of it's par for the course of the backup guy. Yeah, he's a gun.
But I think he's made himself some money and might have a decent career as a backup quarterback. Maybe.
Now, Hank, as to your mid off point, the NFC South is is a mid-off yep it is the biggest mid-off in the history of i think the saints they always are kind of yeah i think the saints are the best team but i don't know yeah i struggled to beat the bears when they got five turnovers i can be convinced otherwise i can be talked into any team that's not the panthers um from that division on a week-by-week basis. Yeah.
I would actually, I got to look that up.

Maybe, Jake, you can look that up for me for tomorrow.

What is the closest score, final score, when a team had the turnover margin won by five?

Because that is pretty remarkable.

Yeah.

5-0, and they only lost by seven.

Yeah.

Okay.

We'll do the afternoon games.

We're going to take one more break, and we'll finish up with the afternoon games. Hey, it's Rhea from Tricks in the Office.
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Okay, afternoon games. Raiders 30, Giants 6.
The big story before this game was Jay Glazer's report that the final days of Josh McDaniels went exactly how you expected the final days of Josh McDaniels to go. They had a team meeting.
All the players voiced how much they hated Josh McDaniels. Yep.
Then Josh McDaniels, sensing that he was losing the room, asked Antonio Pierce to stand in front of the locker room and kind of rally the guys. He talked about culture.
He talked about his Giants teams winning Super Bowls. He talked about his Giants team beating the Patriots in the Super Bowl, which were coached by Josh McDaniels.
And then afterward, Josh McDaniels says, don't talk about the Patriots. Yeah.
And that's just the perfect Josh McDaniels. I don't know if it's true.
I would assume it is because Jay Glazer, but Joshua Daniels being that butthurt about a guy trying to rally the troops and being like, don't talk about the Patriots like that. For another coach, you might think that he was like joking, being like, Hey, why, why you got to come at me like that with Josh McDaniels? I believe it.
I believe any story. It's like the urban Meyer Jaguar situation when there's a story written in six months in the athletic and it talks about all the stuff that went wrong in Vegas.
I'm going to eat that shit up. It's going to be great.
You could you could say anything. And I will 100% believe that Josh McDaniels actually did it and was responsible for it in Las Vegas.
Yes. Yes.
100%. So the bounce back happened because the Raiders, when when you lose when you fire a guy like josh mcdaniels every team should actually hire josh mcdaniels for a game just so you can fire him because i bet you the team would perform that much better uh you could tell just like right off the jump the giants stink but the raiders were playing with a lot more purpose like a lot more energy if you could feel it uh and they completely killed the giants obviously january jones gets hurt again which sucks and tommy devito comes in and he threw back-to-back interceptions on back-to-back passes but he did score a touchdown he looked better score touchdown he went 15 for 20 for 175 yards he looked better in the second half when he first got in it seemed like it was going to be another like negative two net passing yards yeah for old tommy d for old td um the raiders i i like to bounce back with antonio pierce he's a good interim coach i don't know if his interim magic is going to carry over because he was like super conservative He wasn't animated enough for my liking for an interim coach on the sidelines.
I think the Raiders should get a new interim coach every single week for the rest of the season. I like that.
I think they should bring in anyone that's ever been. Bring Bisaccia back.
Will Compton. Will Compton.
Bring the boy in. Rob Ryan should get a chance to be an interim coach for them.

Coach O.

Coach O.

A Ouija board that has a connection to Al Davis.

That's just like throw it deep to our fast guy.

Tom Cable.

Yep.

Bring back all these guys.

All the legends of the game.

Dan Campbell probably do it on their buy votes this week.

Dan Campbell probably do it.

Yeah.

He probably wouldn't give a shit. Bring in all the interim coach all-stars and get one week of emotion out of them john gruden oh maybe john gruden or the mustache yeah gruden would be awesome yeah that would be sick do the ask madden play calling for one week have john madden coach your team yeah look yeah virtual john madden to actually figure out how to coach your team art shell you could bring back ai john madden except it's just uh it's would you mark davis dressed up as john madden on the sidelines hugh jackson no i wouldn't have a former raider i don't wish that upon any man art shell yeah yeah lane kiffin yeah once the old miss season's over why not i i do think antonio pierce was conservative but when tommy devito comes in the game uh you can be as conservative as you want you go into just I live when Tommy DeVito came in the game it was in the middle of the first quarter I live bet the Giants under 12 and a half points which was a thrill it's like one big play and I'm fucked yeah and I was never really fucked in situations like that I feel for Saquon Barkley that's just like well I'm just gonna they're just gonna hand me the ball repeatedly.
The Raiders had not scored 21 points in a game all season. In the first half, they scored 21 points.
In the first half, offensive genius Antonio Pierce really shows up Josh McDaniels. I love it.
Is Aiden O'Connell the best Aiden athlete ever in American sports? I'm trying to think of other Aidens. He's the best Aiden quarterback.

I'm just going to type in to Google Aiden and see what autocorrect.

I think he's the only Aiden quarterback ever.

I looked that up.

Aiden Fauci.

I mean, there's got.

Oh, let's say that.

We'll leave that.

Aiden Hutchinson.

Aiden Hutchinson.

Yeah, he's probably.

I think he might.

Yeah.

He's the only Aiden quarterback I could find.

I think so. So he might be the best.
I'm just going to say NFL players named Aiden. Players.
Aiden Hutchinson is a good answer. I think he's number one Aiden right now.
I think we might get a bunch of Aiden's coming up. Yeah.
It feels like a name. They're going to be like the Jalen's.
Yeah. Like 10 years from now.
Yeah. I think that's going to happen.
But so he was the first. He was the first's a groundbreaker yeah he broke the aiden barrier he did but uh yeah the raiders they're they're so they were feeling it like the change so much because it really does it probably is the greatest feeling in the world to have josh mcdaniel's not your life anymore is it just by every account he's just a terrible person to be around um there was a report.
There was a picture that went viral. It was an angle of Mark Davis walking on the field, and someone had reported that his bowl cut was gone.
Thank God it's not. No, it's just creeping further back.
It was the side, yeah. But that was the vibes going into this game for the Raiders.
They mean business to such a level that Mark Davis changed his Davis changes hair yeah I don't think that's ever gonna happen no no I was I actually went I saw it and I got so heartbroken that I went trying to find more pictures like thank God well the only way that would be believable is because he's got a he's got a nice new girlfriend she looks lovely she's always in his box and if she convinced him to cutian singer right i don't she's a very she's famous in her own right yep uh she's a model she's got was a vsco is that what's in her profile hank is that what the kids have you hit that up hank yep yeah um maybe a girl could convince him but i still think that mark davis is too strong i don't even think so yeah he'd just be like all right you're not for me these hoes can't change me yeah yeah this listen i'm a package deal yeah the bowl cut comes with the package it's part of his allure it is he's he's mysterious like if you were to date a guy like that um i don't think that the bowl cut would be the thing that would be a deal breaker right and it's also like when you see mark davis and he has a lot of money i know he doesn't have a lot of money, but he has a lot of money because he owns a Raiders, which he might not be able to own because he might not be able to pay the taxes. That's enough money.
Yeah, he doesn't have enough money. He has money.
Theoretically, he owns a professional NFL team. He theoretically has a lot of money.
And then has that haircut you're like this guy's a freak

he knows something he's he's he's probably the craziest dresses in all white yeah he peacocks that's what he does right because it makes no sense no a man with that money theoretically should get a better haircut but he doesn't and that's why he's so alluring uh okay yeah that's our recap of the game uh colts 27 panthers 13

you And that's why he's so alluring. Okay, yeah, that's our recap of the game.

Colts 27, Panthers 13.

The Panthers might be the saddest organization in the NFL right now. Okay, so I was sitting down thinking about this because I think if we do the bleakest future draft all over again right now,

I think the Panthers are number one because you've got – you just spent a number one overall pick on a quarterback that who knows if he's going to be good or not. But at this moment, you can't help but just focus all your attention on Houston.
You want C.J. Stroud to start sucking immediately if you're a Panthers fan.
Yeah, you have the wrong guy will devastate you as someone who's done that many times before. a wrong guy will devastate you and you paid a first round pick and dj more for it yeah and uh you don't really like your owner don't care for him too much micromanager micromanager frank reich is your head coach and you just hired him so you're probably not going to fire him this year it's rare but it has happened before where you fire a guy after one year um you're you're not you're not too happy with the state of affairs in charlotte right now yeah price young had three picks two pick sixes kenny moore the second had both the pick sixes which is awesome and then jim ursay stunted on you after the game video of the year from mr incredible singing along dancing along to meek mill in the locker room that was it was all time yeah i i i can't stop watching it mr ursay is the people's owner love him or hate him uh he's going to put out content for you yeah and uh this this was an all-time video for him also the colts i'm happy they won because uh they keep their frisky tag yeah if you're three and six it's hard to be frisky.
If you're four and five, you are frisky. Yeah, and Minchie one is on the road, is in Charlotte.
Yeah, he didn't light it up, but it doesn't matter. He didn't turn the ball over, which was huge.
But yeah, their defense, the two pick sixes, the first one, there was like 40 seconds left in the first half, right? And he threw a pick six. That was tough.
Yeah. That was tough.
So yeah, i think panthers fans might have it the worst right now it's it's bad you don't even get to do the we can't wait for the draft yeah it's it's bad when jim ursa is just just dropping his ass on you after the game wrong guy every time cj stroud plays well it's a again any panthers fans want to reach out i've been through it i can talk you through it um when cj stroud wins like two super bowls and goes to six seven straight afc championship games um and you're already one past bryce young on another guy that's not good we can talk you can blame tepper you can blame david tepper taking him out for dinner being impressed with order of the scallops. That's when he decided that it was going to be Bryce Young.
When you trade up, you got to get the right guy. Yep.
Again, speaking from experience, you got to get the right guy. You got to get the right guy.
All right. Last game.
Cowboys, 28. Eagles, 23.
Eagles, 7-1 is Max 8 and 1 Cowboys blew this game 10 different ways but the Eagles win escape it felt like an escape game that's fine yeah escape for sure i'm i'm willing to admit escape like i weirdly watched this game i had the eagles i was happy they covered but i also walked away being like maybe the cowboys are for real because they actually played well offensively like dak had a good game if he hadn't stepped out on that two-point conversion yeah that was tough uh but yeah like I didn't think that the – I'm not down on the Cowboys after that game, which is weird to say because the Cowboys feels like they haven't won one of those games in a while. It's also the perfect Dak game because he played so well.
He played pretty well. No, he played very well.
He was 29-44, 374, three touchdowns. Yeah, he played pretty well.
And then he does the one thing that gives everybody all the ammo that they need to be like, look at Dak Prescott. He can't win a big game because he has this brain fart and steps out of bounds.
I would never have stepped out of bounds. The delay of the game was also very bad.
Yeah, the delay of the game was bad. But Max, so you, the reason why I say survived is because the Cowboys felt like everyone was open all day yeah secondary is a problem secondary is a lot of injuries big big problem but the offense is the offense is still really good they went into a little bit of let's not lose instead of let's win mode they went up 11 in the in the the second half, and it was like they kind of packed it in a little.
It was like, let's run the football, and let's just keep trying. Because the Eagles are, you say this all the time, the Eagles are very good at running the football, and when they're up.
Shortening games. And eating clock, and just the game goes to nowhere.
It wasn't working. That wasn't happening, and they they weren't adjusting they were still trying to play like that same style football of like let's just eat eat a ton of clock this drive eat a ton of clock this drive and then they just kept getting three and outs they had bad field position because of stops so you can't be like too upset about those but the secondary is a problem the offense is not Eagles are 8-1, and we just beat the Cowboys.
Here's a nice – because, yeah, you're 8-1. You're top of the NFC.
But a little bit of a silver lining. I think when the Eagles do lose in the playoffs in devastating fashion, you'll at least be like, I kind of saw this one coming.
There's a lot.

Teams get hot at different times. And right now we're 8-1 and the Eagles are not hot.
Right. I think that's fair.
That's a good assessment. That's true.
You're 8-1 and you haven't even peaked yet. Jalen Hurts is obviously playing hurt.
I wouldn't say injured. I would say he's hurt.
So he doesn't or does look like himself? he's playing like

he's hurt so he doesn't or does look like himself um he's playing like he's not running he's not running like himself right now he took a shot to his knee today that i was amazed he wasn't injured from he's a tough mother he is very tough yeah and and we have a bye we have a bye next week and then go beat the chiefs on monday night football is the bye's going to be a great game. Is the buy coming to you at a good time?

Couldn't be coming at a better time.

I think it's a perfect time.

You guys are 1-0 against the buy this year.

Yeah.

Huge.

Next week, the Eagles win.

They win with a buy.

Buy should be player of the week for you.

Yeah, for sure.

Where's the game against the Chiefs?

I think it's Arrowhead.

Oh, tough place to play.

Yeah, no, that's going to be a tough game.

That's a measuring stick game.

Tough place to play.

Yeah.

I wish we could do whose line is it anyway,

although they're on a buy two next week, so maybe.

Oh, let's see.

Can we do whose line is it anyway?

I'm going to say Chiefs.

You probably can.

Chiefs two and a half.

I would say Chiefs four. I would say Chiefs three and a half.
And it's going to get bet down to three. I would say maybe three.
One and a half. Three is my final answer.
Do you have it? Do we know how to look? I'm looking, but it's not immediately available. Shout out Jerry Jones, by the way.
Next week's schedule is not looking good. Jerry Jones went back to the well.
And after the Rangers won a World Series, he referred to World Series as being, it's the absolute glory hole to have that elusive win to be the champion. Jerry, like two years ago, was like, I want me some glory hole.
Jerry knows exactly what a glory hole is, by the way. But his PR people had to come in and clean it up and be like,

no, he's not talking about sticking your dick through a hole in a bathroom stall.

He's just talking about having a window.

That's what he's talking about, his window.

No, Jerry Jones knows exactly what a glory hole is.

He is a big glory hole guy.

Huge glory hole guy.

Guys, next week, we're going to have to.

What do you got, Jake?

Oh, did you sign on the line?

I don't see anything official, but some people on Twitter are saying Chiefs minus three, but nothing official. Next week, we're going to struggle.
We're going to be fine. We're going to find a way.
But it just dawned on me that Chiefs, Eagles, and Dolphins are on a bye. Those are three teams that are fun to watch.
Let's see. We got the best game is Niners-Jags Browns-Ravens not bad yeah but it's a good split we got morning and six and four yeah that's true Lions-Chargers would be fun we'll have fun no matter what we always do Max any on G-string gate? I don't know if that could have been angles.
If people missed it, Eagles coach kind of had to jump out of the way of a play and his pants started to creep down a little bit and it looked like he was wearing a red G-string. You know, I'm not going to knock a guy superstition sometimes.

Oh, superstition. Got it.

Or it might be like a turnover chain thing.

Yeah.

Where you get to wear that if you're the best coach in the building that we

also Dallas Goddard broke his arm.

Is that actually officially broke?

So better than a sprain.

Yeah.

Can you sprain your for?

Oh, yeah.

You can sprain anything. Sprain anything, dude.
Sure. I don't know if that's true.
So how long is he out for? It didn't say. It was expected.
I'm going to guess six weeks. Better than a sprain.
MRI tomorrow, Monday. Better than a sprain.
Oh, if he's having an MRI, he might also have a sprain. That might be a double whammy.
Broke and a sprain?

I don't know.

I don't know the answer to that question.

Five weeks coming at a great time.

Five weeks coming at a great time.

Get the boys healthy.

Get the boys rested.

And you're 8-1.

Yeah.

You're up a game and a half on the rest of the NFC because the Lions didn't play today.

But you could lose.

Yeah.

That's true. The Chiefs just lost to the fucking Broncos.
That's true. That's true.
Didn't play today. But you could lose.
Yeah. Anyone could.

That's true.

Anyone could lose. The Chiefs just lost to the fucking Broncos.

That's true.

That's true.

Would you say, where would you power rank the entire NFL, though?

Would you say the Eagles are one?

I wouldn't.

Who would?

Where?

I'd put the Chiefs one.

The Chiefs just lost to the fucking Broncos.

I know.

I put Ravens one.

Patrick Holmes was sick.

Ravens one, Chiefs two. Jalen Hurts is playing on one fucking leg.
I put Chiefs one, Ravens two, Eagles three. You guys are so recency biased out the fucking ass.
Yeah. No duh, dude.
That's literally the NFL media. Well, that's literally this show.
The Texans just lost to the Panthers last week. P.T.
just said the Commanders are going to go go to the fucking playoffs and Sam Howell's a top 12 quarterback. And they're going to beat the Eagles.
What are we talking about? I'm in on the top 12 quarterback. Me and BFT were on the same spot.
What are we talking about right now? Listen, I will have no better ally in this whole Sam Howell thing than Max because Sam Howell's played like two of his best games ever. He plays so good against the Eagles.
So you're going to be in my hole. You don't want to see him in the playoffs.
Max is in my hole. Yeah, you don't want to see us.
You don't want to see us, Max. Imagine that.
What if Sam Hill beats you in the first round of the playoffs, Max? That would suck. I could see it happening, though.
I do think the Eagles are very good. I just think that they are weird-ish.
They're not dominant. That's the thing.
But their record's dominant. I don don't know what Weirdish is doing a lot of work for me here.

You guys talk about each team and you're like,

oh, this team hasn't beaten a good team.

What have the Eagles not done?

They're very good.

What have they not done for you to not be sold on them?

You lost the Jets.

Okay.

I felt like the Cowboys, if that game had gone five more minutes.

You're like, we haven't beat good teams. We beat the Cowboys.
No, I never said you didn't beat good teams. No, but that's what you say about other teams.
Right, but the Eagles have beaten good teams. Correct.
Right. So what are you getting mad about? I don't know why you think that the Eagles are bad.
I don't think they're bad. I think they're very good.
Do you think that something's a little off? Jalen Hurts playing on one fucking leg. Okay.

Do you agree with me PFT?

I think most Eagles fans agree with me.

Something's just a little bit off.

Secondary.

I think, you know what?

Secondary.

That's a good answer.

Max, how about this?

Max is mad.

So who has a bye week next week?

The Eagles, Dolphins, Chiefs, Rams.

Okay, so I'm going to say that even if the ravens beat the browns next week no here's what i'll do next week after the bye i think the bye is coming at a better time for the eagles than it is for the chiefs i'm going to catapult the eagles over the chiefs after the bye week in my power rankings because i think the eagles are going to do better on the bye week that's good get healthier Get healthier than the Chiefs will. The Chiefs are already extended by because they play Monday Night Football.
Exactly. So the Chiefs are going to make their they're going to be fine with the bye week.
They'll still be great when they come back. Eagles are really going to use this bye week to springboard up my power rankings.
Is that fair, Max? Sure. I mean, he's very upset.
Yeah, you're in your feelings. Why are you? I'm not.
I'm not. You not you gave the right answer the secondary is the thing you guys won yes the Eagles won yeah you guys think that they lost no I just thought that like I was shocked with how easy the Cowboys were able to get first downs at the end of the game you were too we were sitting next to each other like you kept on screaming everything's open they're always open you did say that they don't deserve to win this game well then you said that he did but then the Cowboys also didn't deserve to win the game so no one deserved because yeah I mean they got back-to-back penalties yeah I think Max it's because you had this game against the Cowboys where the Cowboys could have very easily at least tied,

potentially won the game if Dak didn't just step out of bounds

on that scramble to the right.

And also the games against the Commanders where they looked like they were

at least deserving to be on the same field in the same conversation.

Those three close wins that you had that didn't really feel like great wins, that's got you feeling a little bit... What about the Dolphins? Yeah, it was a great game.
It was a great game. You were just talking about how good the Chiefs are because of how they played against the Dolphins today.
No, I think the Chiefs are good because they're really good. The Chiefs lost the Broncos last week.
I think the Chiefs are really good because they've won Super Bowls. Max, right now you are a top three team in the NFL.
I had you three. You want me to put you one? I'll put you one No, wait until after the bye I'll put you one I'm going to put you one Juggernaut The Eagles do have a gauntlet after the bye Chiefs, Bills, Niners, Cowboys, Seahawks I'm going to bet on the Eagles to win the Super Bowl after this stretch because they're going to lose a couple of these games.

And that's fine, Max.

That's fine.

Yes, that's fine.

Like, if you lose in Arrowhead on Monday Night Football,

like, you're not, you're going to be like, oh, the Eagles stink.

I thought it would be wrong of us to be like, damn, the Eagles,

like, they crushed the Cowboys. What if they beat the Chiefs?

I actually think they will.

Then I'll be like, Eagles are the best team in football.

I think they might beat the Chiefs. 100% I like, Eagles are the best team in football.
I think they might beat the Chiefs.

100% I would say they're the best team in football.

All right, fuck it.

Whatever.

Do you think it's fair that I have the Chiefs as the best team in football

because they are the defending Super Bowl champs?

Well, I mean, who do they play in the Super Bowl?

That's true.

They never beat a good team in the Super Bowl.

End scene. That was true.
They never beat a good team in the Super Bowl. End scene.
That was great. You know what I love about Max? He took off his headphones.
He took off his headphones. I have to go pee.
They're 8-1. He took off his headphones.
Here's what I love about Max is he is actually the voice of anyone that listens to the show and gets mad at us for not respecting their team enough. Right.
Like, Max, gonna be mad because we're not respecting his team enough because he thinks he's an eagles fan they're eight and one he's like you guys should be saying they're the best team in football right we just i i don't think that they're the best man there right now there's a little bit off and it's probably the secondary and jalen hurts also having a little bit of a gimpy leg and uh i just wasn't gonna walk away from-Cowboys game being like, Eagles dominate that. You can't.
That was a good game. Eagles are the better team right now.
I don't trust Dak in a big moment. I do trust Jalen Hurts.
About that game is the Cowboys were one yard away, Big Cat. They were one yard away.
They were one yard away. I mean, that was a terrible last play they called.
Also, Max is going to take a piss right now. The Eagles are really good.

Yeah, they're very good.

They're really fucking good. They're the best team in the NFC by far.

Yeah, I would agree with that.

I think the Niners have some big-time issues.

If you want to talk issues defensively, the Niners have a lot of issues.

Who are the other complete teams in the NFC?

The Lions?

The Lions, but I would take the Eagles over them all day.

The Lions got both raced by the Ravens.

The Eagles are the best team in the NFC.

It's not even a question in my mind.

Yeah, I agree with that. I wish Max could hear this.
Except I can't wait till we beat them in the playoffs. Imagine how great that would be.
It's never going to happen. I am going to bet the Eagles to win the Super Bowl after they lose a couple of these games because they do have a gauntlet.
And I saw this before the season. I was like 7-1 makes no sense.
Let's wait till they lose a couple of these. Max is going to hate that you, Max is back Max, we just said a lot of things.
So that's why I think they're so overrated, Big Cat I thought you said it was N-seen. Also, the Eagles are 5-2 and 2 against the spread Okay So Good Above expectations of the spread spread yeah they're better than vegas max you have a good team be happy with a good team i can't express that enough to you be happy that you have a good team some people are saying best team in the nfc we're not some are i don't know what that means okay uh you'll figure it out when you listen back to the podcast.
Do you listen when you upload? No. No chance.
To the show? No chance. Yes, I go back and edit the show.
Oh, yeah. Okay.
Hank. Yeah.
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That's www.nobullproject.com backslash barstool for 30% off. Are the Bengals really fucking good? Because I think they are.
Yes, they are. I would agree with that.
I would like to see them put together maybe four quarters of offense, although they did last week, but they're really fucking good. The Bengals are for real they got themselves into a hole at the start of the season they're out of the hole yeah the bangles we can now say officially official out of the hole um joe burrow is moving around like he used to he's using his feet he had a nasty cut on his finger tonight yeah fingazi that thing was bleeding so bad he was just sucking the blood out of it um they're really good yeah they they beat the bills just like straight up just kicked them in the teeth tonight so um if you are a bangles doubter if you thought that what you saw in the first couple weeks is going to be an indication of the team nope nope they're back yeah and i think the bills are uh perfectly middle of the pack team.
I don't think they're very good.

Yeah.

They're not bad.

They're just perfectly like put them somewhere in that.

Well, I guess they could win the AFC East because they do have the win over the Dolphins.

Yeah.

But I don't know.

But maybe they can figure it out defensively and become a team that no one wants to play

in the playoffs.

But I don't see it right now.

I don't think that the Bills have at all this year at any point deserved of being like the juggernauts that we thought that they were at the start of the season right now. They're just not a very good team.
They're not. And if the playoffs started right now, the bills would not make the playoffs.
Yeah, there's not a good team. They might.
They, I still think that they have the capability of, I'm not going to say flipping the switch. they're not good enough to flip a switch anymore oh but they need to round into shape the bills have a tough schedule the bills might not make the playoffs that would be a shame i would not like that i would not i'm not even being sarcastic no i think that would be a shame they so they play the broncos next they should win that at home they play the jets who they always struggle with at home.
Then they have to play at Eagles, at Chiefs versus Cowboys. At Chargers, if you want to throw in the Chargers.
That's a pretty tough four games. Yeah.
The Bills, yeah, they might be the team that no one wants to play in the playoffs. That's about their ceiling.
Well, because they're not in the playoffs. Right.
Right. So you wouldn't want to play them.
Right. Because then you'd also not be in the playoffs.
Right. Okay.
So there it is. Bills, the team, no one wants to play in the playoffs.
Things got out of hand tonight with the referee, with the flags. Oh, so much.
It was so bad. And I hate it when they bring on their little referees that are in the command center.
When you get Terry McAuliffe to come out to explain what like explain what the refs did wrong and then they're like actually the refs did everything right that intentional grounding call was so bad yeah the only one with any soul is dean blandino yeah he'll actually say yeah this is they they this one up italian you can trust he's a real paisan but the rest of them terry mcauliffe he's just like well you know you know chris to uh your untrained eye it might look like an egregiously bad intentional grounding but i'm here to tell you why it was the right call to make and then uh i don't really care what you say yeah and i hate it dude the afc playoffs are gonna be awesome just looking at it right now the fact the bills aren't in the playoffs right now is crazy and it's gonna be like there are some really good teams in the afc and the And the Bengals are the seventh seed right now they're the team no one wants to play yeah for sure they are definitely the team no one wants to play all right who's back of the week hank you've had enough time to figure it out uh yeah my who's back luke i have multiple the first one is the nba play-in tournament yeah yeah gross courts courts are disgusting it's way too early in the season to do it. I was, you know, I knew it was coming, but six games in is way too early.
I still don't fully understand the format and the courts are discussed. There's a group stage where they're now playing for seating in it.
I don't get it that much. I didn't have a problem with the courts, though.
It was like whatever. They were tough to look at.
It's a Friday. We got weird courts out there.
They're disgusting. It was tough to watch.
It looks like a Sun Belt. It looks like a shitty Sun Belt game.
Like NIU has that court. It felt personal, Hank.
Also, they're playing against Michigan State tonight. NBA, Michigan State's going to be good this year.
NBA doesn't really start for me till Christmas Day. Yeah, that's kind of what I'm saying.
I thought it was going to be closer then when the tournament would start, get the hype going. But to just do it six games in really threw me for a loop.
Yeah, it was weird seeing that out of nowhere. I did buy League Pass, though.
Big step in my life. First time ever purchasing League Pass

just so I can watch Jordan Poole

be the most ridiculous basketball player of all

time. It's the best when you get the feed of the

Jumbotron commercials.

Can't beat it. My other

who's back, you guys are wearing them.

I was wearing them on Thursday.

I got Tiffany to wear one. We were twinning

ugly sweaters. You guys are so

cute together. Yeah, they're on sale today.

20% off.

Yeah, that's fact.

20% off today. I think it might be a one

or two day sale. A bunch of

cool ugly sweaters. Get them in time for the holidays.

It's a one day sale. One day sale.
One day.

I'm wearing Max right now on my

on my ugly sweater. It says all I want

for Christmas is

a win. Oh,

all I want for Christmas. Max is mad at us.
I can

tell Max. Max, I'm repping you.
He's mad

I don for Christmas. Max is mad at us.
I can tell Max. Max, I'm repping.
He's mad at us. I'm not mad.
You're mad. You're mad at us.
Ugly sweaters. Buy your ugly sweaters.
Kevin James. Kevin James.
Guy. I got the Stella Blue one.
Coffee. Buy the ugly sweaters.
Max, I'm not saying that. 20% off, 24 hours.
I'm not saying that you're ugly. I'm saying that the sweater is ugly, even though it just happens to have your face on.
I didn't think that until you just said it. All right, cool.
I want to make sure that you weren't thinking that. Max, don't be bad at us.
When you listen back, when you went to the bathroom, we said some nice things about the Eagles. Yeah, I think you said bad things.
No, it's actually good things. We actually reversed it on you.
Old switcheroo. Now I don't know if you're reversing it on me now.

Yeah. Just listen.
Guess what? Yeah. All right.
Thank you, Jake. It was bad.
He would never lie. Who am I going to try? That's the angel and the demon on your shoulder is Jake and memes.
I wonder which one's telling the truth. Yeah.
All right, Pifty, who's your who's back? My who's back of the week is Uganda. Yeah.
So Donnie and Billy are overseas in Uganda right now. Billy, to some extent, I don't know, is coaching the Uganda national football team.
Well, he's doing so in a boot because he broke his foot in a pickup basketball game before he left. And I read Billy's pre-draft analysis of Will Levis.
So he knows football. He's right.
He's dead on target with what he said about Will Levis. Don't let the haters fool you.
They are going to be over there. I think the game is next Sunday, and it's Uganda against Kenya.
Last time those two countries played, throughout the record books, I think Uganda lost 6-0. So Billy's installing some new offensive plays.
They're bringing part of my cheesesteak over there. I was talking to Donnie earlier in the week, and and i was like you guys have to figure out some sort of like a turnover chain theme thing for them like if they make a good play they should get to do something cool on the sidelines um they came up with the turnover steak because it's part of my cheesesteak where they're going to put a stake in the ground the player's going to get to use a sledgehammer and pound into the ground love it when they get a turnover someone may probably billy i would imagine um but i'm very much looking forward to the content that donnie and billy have over there because it's going to be it's going to be incredible yes so we worked on their playbook too billy's got all sorts of ideas that he's going to try to implement one day and i feel bad for the quarterback um who has a great name what's that guy's name again i'm going to look it up but uh yeah billy's going to try to coach this guy up in about like eight hours and tell him all the things to do yeah we'll let donnie i don't know when the graphics coming out but it's it's one of the funniest graphics i've ever seen the uh it's just you know part of it's it's billy and donnie on on in the ground in africa coaching football on the on the name of cheesesteaks i'm excited in the ground boots on the ground in Africa literally on the name of cheesesteaks.
I'm excited. In the ground.
Boots on the ground in Africa.

Literally.

On the name of cheesesteaks.

And that's truly what it's all about, cheesesteaks and football.

Yeah.

That's why this podcast started.

This guy's name is something like.

Grow the game.

It's something like William Twist or something.

Although a cooler name than that.

I know his last name is Twist, who's the quarterback for Uganda.

Pretty cool name.

Love it.

Love it.

I can't wait to watch this. All right.
My's back i have two college basketball's back yep monday there's like 100 games i've already made like 20 bets 113 d1 versus d1 games love it sick love it uh and i'm gonna make a ton of bets and this is one of my favorite times of year right around thanksgiving when we start watching college basketball in the middle of the day uh so college basketball is back also the new office is back because we're gonna unveil it 10 a.m yep central yep so 11 a.m eastern on the viva la stool youtube youtube so we have held this back uh everyone did a really good job of not showing videos, mostly.

Agreed.

And so we are going to...

We just passed inspection.

Yeah, we just passed inspection.

We're going to show everyone the office, everything that's involved.

And then we're going to start.

I think the first official new stream is going to be Thursday afternoon.

We're going to play dodgeball with the whole office.

Will and Taylor will be here as well.

It's going to be great.

It's going to be like a four-team dodgeball tournament.

Hank's got the golf simulator up and running,

and he's spending all of his time there for content.

For content.

Which we haven't been on the stream yet.

It is actually incredible.

I love the golf simulator.

Everything's incredible.

And then I think Friday we're going to follow it up with a Wiffleball home run derby. Yeah, it's exciting.
Finally, day has finally come. Yeah.
Viva Stool YouTube for the office stuff. That will be the vlogs, behind the scenes, day-to-day interaction, stool streams back.
Yep. That will be where all the athletic activities and sports go on that channel.
Tune in. Stay tuned.
pumped, pumped for everyone to see it. It is.
I all business. Pete did a good job.
Great job. Yeah.
Parking. Good job.
Let's not get him too hyped. He did a good job.
But yeah, it's going to be awesome. I'll say this.
The internet works. The internet works very well.
If you want to get excited about one thing in this new office is that the Wi-Fi is good. He did it.
And he gave us a walk-in freezer, which I think is something that he's keeping when the internet breaks. It's a cooler.
Cooler. It's a freezer.
Cooler. It's a cooler.
I think it's like above freezing in there. Oh, so it's not even.
It's cold enough where all business Pete could put a dead body in there if he had to. But I think what he's going to do is the internet's going to break.
He's like, but I got you that freezer. Yeah.
The real question is who will the first significant injury be? Knock on wood. I mean, it's...
I went to the doctor on Friday. The question has to be asked.
For my Evan injury. So when Pug got me in my ribs, I thought it was fractured because I heard like a pop.

Went to the doctor, gave me an x-ray.

No fracture, but they said separated cartilage.

Damn, so no dog.

There wasn't a dog in there either.

No, there was no dog.

No dog.

The official diagnosis was, you're a bitch.

Sir, please leave urgent care immediately.

Okay. So yeah, get excited for that.
We're very excited. Obviously, it's been a weird 24-hour stream coming, too.
Probably in the next couple weeks. Yeah.
It's been a weird six months or whatever, this entire transition process. But we're finally, it's like when we unveil it on Monday, 10 Central, 11 Eastern, it's all systems go.
And we're ready to go. And we appreciate everyone bearing with us through all of it.
We're very excited. It's going to be incredible for everyone.
Okay, Jake, finish us off. Also, Max, stop being mad at us.
My who's back of the week is the D.C. Pickleball team.
Yeah. Champions of MLP Dallas tournament.
We did it. Oh, wait.
Is that the whole league?

No, it's a tournament. Oh, we won a tournament, though.
Yeah, yeah. We won a tournament.

What? How many teams?

There was 24.

They were drinking cell blue coffee, ice

coffee, cold

brew coffee afterwards. Yeah.

Thank you to them. So shout out to DC Pickleball.

Huge win. Huge.
And

yeah, first of many. Yes.

It was revenge, too, because they lost to Orlando

Squeeze in September. I hate the Orlando

Thank you. So thank you to them.
So shout out to DC Pickleball. Huge win.
Huge. And yeah, first of many.
Yes. It was revenge too because they lost to Orlando Squeeze in September.
I hate the Orlando Squeeze. In Atlanta.
And then they faced off again in the championship. I fucking hate the Orlando Squeeze.
And we beat them 3-0 in the championship game. Fuck yes.
Statement win. I can't.
When I see, like if I meet someone on the street and they're like,'m an orlando squeeze guy spit on them yeah we gotta do it i i said it when i was at the uh me and jerry stayed in and watched wrestling practice at wisconsin for like an hour and a half a couple weekends ago and the coach was talking about coming i was like yeah we should host a regional like i i'm just kind of obsessed with trying to host events at the office. But an official pickleball sanctioned match would be great.
Would be incredible. Can you do that on hardwood? I don't know.
Yeah, I think if we put a mat down. Okay.
I want to host a basketball team, college or NBA, to come just do a practice. College team.
Maybe Danny Hurley. We dunk play de paul like host a dunk contest also the hoops are 10 5 that's we gotta fix are they for real yeah i can tell how can we fix that i don't we gotta get the guy to come and lower him but yeah okay i couldn't touch him that's how i know that's why my shots been off yeah okay except when i played you.
I beat Hank 7-0 in one-on-one today.

Is that true?

Yep.

Yeah.

I was what?

7-0, Hank?

I was winners.

I didn't miss. I literally didn't miss.

I didn't miss.

We also got to do, like, we've talked about this,

but Shane is in this room and other people.

No respect for the ground rules of of shooting around oh yeah oh people who don't give change are scumbags lowlifes and

pieces of shit i put them next to orange squeeze fans orlando orlando squeeze what i say orange

same thing yeah um yeah there should be ground rules if it's a layup obviously you don't get

you don't get your change for that but anything outside the key right you miss a shot

Thank you. say orange same thing yeah um yeah there should be ground rules if it's a layup obviously you don't get you don't get your change for that but anything outside the key right you miss a shot and then you get a layup and then you give the ball back yeah people are just you know taking balls and shooting them like it's anarchy out there except i have there's been times that i will continue to do this i specifically say hey can you rebound for me real? Like, like halftime of a game and I'll just get like 10 threes up and then I'll say, thank you.
That's fair. Yeah.
Someone asked me, can you rebound for me real quick? I'll do it. What I'm looking forward to the most about this court is seeing how, like there's going to be some prizes, some surprises and how shockingly unathletic certain people that work here are.
Yeah. That's the fun of it.
It's the best. People are going to be like, oh, I thought this is Barstool Sports.
Yeah, we're all regular guys, except Titus is really fucking good. All right.
Good show, boys. Good show.
We're officially halfway through the NFL season. I hate that.
I'm okay with it. I feel like we're chugging along.
Hank, have you ever gotten this? No. That's too bad.
Have you? Numbers. 17, 18, 23.
What was your number? 21. Why'd you change from 31? I got a reason.
Someone gave you a number. Someone gave me a a number Is the number real? The person who gave it to you? What? We're about to find out 18 Or is the number not fucking real? We're about to find out Shane 10 8 8 17 21 18 20 10 for Shane pug 22 22 and then what was yours memes three memes has never gotten it in any form or fashion that's a fact the first to get it? It's going to be an electric moment It sure will be 55 Do one more because it's going to be a long show Yeah, why not Yeah, let's do one more official Everyone has to stick stick with their numbers.
Okay. Fair? Yeah.
Official.

This counts.

Can we repeat numbers?

17.

17 for Big Cut?

8.

8 PFT.

Oh, I didn't even realize.

Hank, 21.

I'm wearing a 21 Savage shirt.

Oh, wow.

J.K. Teen.

Max, 20.

Memes, 3.

Evan, 22.

Shane.

Shane is 10.

Shane's 10.

Do something funny.

Let's go.

This one counts. This one counts.
3. 3.
Shane. Shane is 10.
Shane's 10. All right.
Do something funny. Let's go.
This one counts.

This one counts.

3, 3, 3.

50.

Fuck me.

I thought that was a 5.

I thought it was a 2 from back here.

Love you guys. Bye.
Today is our day to find you. Shine it away.
I'm coming for your love of grace.

Shine it away.

I'm coming for your love of grace.

Take me on me.

Take me on me.

Take me on me.

Take me, I'll be gone Take me, I'll be gone Take me, I'll be gone Take me, I'll be gone Take me, I'll be right back. I'll be there.
Thank you. Take me on, take me on Take me on, take me on

Take me on, take me on

Take me on, take me on

Take me on, take me on

Take me on, take me on Thank you. Take care.