Will Compton, Week 7 Picks & Preview, Playoff Baseball And Fyre Fest

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have our good friend Will Compton in studio. Last interview in the temporary studio.
Second to last show in the temporary studio. We do the picks and preview.

Speaker 1 We'll talk some playoff baseball.

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Speaker 1 Welcome to Part of My Take. Today is Friday, October 20th, and the Jaguars might be really good.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Super Bowl contenders.

Speaker 1 They flirted with it. They let the Saints, the sad, sad Saints, which

Speaker 1 they are a bummer to watch with Derek Carr. They're so sad.
Yeah, they figured something out in the second half. They moved the ball well, but so sad to watch the Saints play football.

Speaker 1 But the Jaguars,

Speaker 1 again,

Speaker 1 second half got away from them a little bit, but they look good.

Speaker 4 It seemed like their scattering report on defense because their past defense stunt coming into today, I think they were like 31st in the league.

Speaker 4 And Derek Carr didn't really take that much advantage. But their game plan was to just hit Derek Carr in the dick as much as possible in the fourth quarter.
And it worked.

Speaker 4 Pretty good strategy at the end there. Well, he did, to Derek Carr's credit, he did throw what should have been a touchdown pass to Foster Moreau.
It got dropped in the end zone.

Speaker 4 But they are a bummer to watch. Derek Carr, when he screws up, he's just, I get depressed watching him play.
It's sad.

Speaker 4 It's very sad, especially knowing that Jameis Winston is on the bench, ready to go, do all the things that Derek Carr can't or won't even attempt to do.

Speaker 4 And sometimes that's good, sometimes it's very bad. But they would be so much more fun to watch.
With Derek Carr, it seems like they're just, they're just... They're blah.

Speaker 4 They're like super boring.

Speaker 1 They just run. Every play is within five yards of the line of scrimmage.
He had 300 yards on 55 pass attempts. I don't think I've ever seen a team be covered more than the Saints.

Speaker 1 Doesn't it feel like every time you watch the Saints game, he'll throw a pass and there'll be two defenders basically like riding the receiver like they're a backpack.

Speaker 4 The only open guy is Kamara. And he's always open because he's like two yards past the line of scrimmage.
So they throw the ball to him a million times.

Speaker 1 He caught 12 passes.

Speaker 4 He caught 12 passes today. His over-under was four and a half passes.

Speaker 4 What was that stat line he had the other week? 11 catches for like 30 yards.

Speaker 1 It was 13 catches, 33 yards.

Speaker 4 13 catches, 33 yards. He did a little bit better than that today.
Their game plan is throw the ball to Kamara, and then once Derek Carr proves himself to be ineffective at everything else,

Speaker 4 put the ball in Taysom Hill's hands when you really need four yards. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And the Jaguars have won four in a row. Jaguars have won four in a row.

Speaker 4 Five and two looks really good.

Speaker 1 Looks really good.

Speaker 4 That's like, I would almost rather be five and two than five and one. Five and two looks great on this.

Speaker 1 Especially when they were one and two to start the season. They go to the Steelers next, and

Speaker 1 they got the 49ers after that, which will be a big, you know, statement game of, are they for real, for real?

Speaker 4 I'll say measuring stick game.

Speaker 1 Measuring stick game. But the Jaguars are good.
They look good. Like, again, you probably should never let the Saints back in a game.
But when games are played, and

Speaker 1 also the Jaguars did, they probably do have to clean up a little bit of their special teams because we had the insane play where the blocker on the gunner just like ran into his own guy.

Speaker 1 Jacked him up. Jacked him up.
They had another fumble at the 50-yard line. Like the Jaguars, it felt like at points were trying to be the old Jaguars and give the game away.

Speaker 4 Well, they had that one play on special teams where the guy jacked up his own kick returner, and the other one where he ran into the Saints' kick returner way too early.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 It was bad.

Speaker 4 That phase of the game was bad for them.

Speaker 1 They were up.

Speaker 4 Part of this is on us, too. We're like, oh, they let the Saints back in the game.
They were only up 11 points at halftime. So it wasn't like it was a massive lead, but

Speaker 1 huge. Significantly.

Speaker 4 Like they were fucking around with them a little bit in the first half, and it seemed like this was easily the Jaguars night.

Speaker 1 And it became actually a decent game. What are you looking for, Hank?

Speaker 4 I'm just looking at those shoes.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, you like them? Yeah. Yeah.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. Nice shoes.
See? Those golf shoes? No. They're regular run-to-shoes.

Speaker 4 I was just

Speaker 1 staring at my feet. I was like, what's going on? I mean, we don't really have much more to say in this game.
It was

Speaker 1 a bad game that it became a good game.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it was really good in the fourth quarter. But I'm also glad that we got the Saints out of the way on a Thursday so they can't mess up my Sunday.
Right, right. That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, although I just would rather not be able to, like, focusing on one Saints game is, it makes you want to punch yourself in the face.

Speaker 4 But it's a Thursday night game, so you got a standalone game. There's football on during the week.
That's fun, even if it is the Saints.

Speaker 4 I feel like we got the hard part of our weekend out of the way early.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and the craziest part about this Saints team is like, they could definitely still win the NFC South. They could.

Speaker 1 The Saints could be hosting a playoff game. I don't want that.

Speaker 4 So, isn't it crazy? Like, it just dawned on me. The Saints have kind of continued to do the same thing

Speaker 4 after the Drew Brees era that they did during the Drew Brees era.

Speaker 1 They never did a blow-up. They never did a blow-up.
They're still in Cap-Hell.

Speaker 4 They're acting like Drew Brees is still their quarterback, like the good Drew Brees from like five years ago.

Speaker 4 And they're just replacing him with Derek Carr and be like, we'll see if anybody can tell the difference. Well, yeah, I can.
That's not actual real coffee.

Speaker 4 You replace it with Folger's crystals, and it it sucks ass.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah,

Speaker 1 the Saints played the Colts, the Bears, and the Vikings. Next three.

Speaker 1 Those are all very winnable games for the Saints. So watch out.
All right, so the good news is we also had, for the first half of this game, when it was very boring, we had

Speaker 1 playoff baseball, which we should talk about. You know what?

Speaker 4 I didn't catch the final score, actually.

Speaker 1 Let's talk about the second game first, because the Astros are back. The Astros, who would have thought the team that just has been in every ALCS has won multiple World Series,

Speaker 1 a 2-0 lead or a 2-0 deficit in a series doesn't really deter them.

Speaker 4 Yeah, they were mashing tonight. They mashed last night, too.
They looked like the old Astros where their lineup's just too good.

Speaker 4 Even if they have a couple down games, you know that those guys are still capable of getting up there, hitting dingers, hitting triples, playing small ball, doing whatever. They can do it all.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 Scherzer on Wednesday night was not, I mean, we kind of expected that.

Speaker 4 He's been very, very bad in October, the last two seasons.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so the Astros are, I mean, they're going to win this series, right?

Speaker 4 I don't know, because then we're going to fall into the same trap and be like, oh, we wrote the Texas Rangers off.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I guess it is true because the Rangers had not lost a game until Wednesday night.

Speaker 4 Yeah, and now they've lost two.

Speaker 1 And we were like, they'll never lose a game. Then the second they lost one game, I was like, this team fucking stinks.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you know what? I'm going to wait until all the facts come out on this series before I make a judgment on which team is better.

Speaker 1 Yeah, let's wait till all the facts come out and then we'll make a prediction. Yep.

Speaker 1 The other game.

Speaker 4 I didn't catch that score.

Speaker 1 It was 2-1.

Speaker 1 Diamondbacks. Oh, no.
Max

Speaker 1 saved up all that energy for the Phillies, and some are asking, can they win on the road?

Speaker 1 Yes, they can. They won on the road in Atlanta.

Speaker 4 So the answer is yes.

Speaker 1 There's a system tilted. Are you okay?

Speaker 1 I'm okay. I'm good.

Speaker 1 I'm good. Having it be a walk-off, though, do you think the series tilted? No.

Speaker 1 Not at all. No.
The series did not tilt.

Speaker 1 Tomorrow night, a must-win?

Speaker 1 What is going on with you, dude?

Speaker 1 The milkshakes were bad.

Speaker 1 No, the milkshakes were great. They were good.
Your body is bad. My tongue.
Because I'm having the same problems as you. I just aren't, I'm not making the noises.

Speaker 1 I don't know why the noises are coming out right now. Okay, wait, just be quiet for a sec.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah, I'm good.
You think so?

Speaker 1 Better than good. Okay, so.

Speaker 4 Who do you blame tonight, Max?

Speaker 1 The bats didn't show up. The bats didn't show up.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I thought you know what I blame?

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I have an answer.

Speaker 1 I have a nerd nugget.

Speaker 1 Welcome to the club.

Speaker 1 Go ahead, Hank.

Speaker 4 Philly was the first in postseason, the seventh inning double play by Philly was the first in postseason history where there was a 6-4-3 double play with zero outs and a runner on third that didn't score.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's bad base running. But that was

Speaker 1 for the Phillies.

Speaker 1 Oh, no hang.

Speaker 1 Nobody was fucking an idiot. No, the Diamondbacks were the most.

Speaker 4 They were like, how did that guy not score?

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Diamondbacks were the most cowardly.

Speaker 1 You thought that was against the Phillies. Yeah, and then people were like, well, the infield was in.
You still have to at least try to make them think about it.

Speaker 1 They just stood there, and then he had the same thing happen, or not the same thing, but a similar thing in the ninth when, uh what was that play they went he didn't know he didn't advance there was rubbers on second and third and they went home and he didn't advance a third yeah

Speaker 1 it was crazy uh who was the guy that you guys put in and released hank that was the seventh inning or the eighth inning that's bad hank that's really never ryan kirk that wasn't he had he had pitch it was his first time ever pitching that that's just incorrect okay he threw three innings this season

Speaker 1 in the regular season got a milkshake in you three innings yeah so is it you think that's a good strategy well he put a pitch to the season he's thrown like every other game in the playoffs and he's looked really good.

Speaker 1 And he's had like the best stuff out of the bullpen. This is the first time that he was in like a high-leverage situation.

Speaker 1 I don't mind giving the kid a chance. You gave him a chance.
He didn't work out.

Speaker 1 He didn't lose the game at the end of the inning. We were still tied 1-1.
We still had a chance to win the game. Just didn't do it.

Speaker 1 We need to pause for a second and just really soak in the fact that Hank really thought he was about to dunk on Max.

Speaker 1 Well, it wasn't true. Nerd nuggets because nerd nuggets aren't supposed to be negative towards anyone.
Shut up. Yeah, shut up, dude.

Speaker 1 was

Speaker 1 so bad, Hank.

Speaker 1 Hank, you really thought you had something.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's really bad.

Speaker 4 I gotta do some reflection after this one. You didn't watch the game.

Speaker 1 He was feeling himself after his stupid fucking Hagrid tweet. That's a good tweet.
I didn't see that one.

Speaker 4 I gotta look it up so I make sure not to retweet it.

Speaker 1 What went through your head there, Hank?

Speaker 4 I did not see all of the game. So when I saw that tweet, I thought it was in reference to

Speaker 4 the Philadelphia part. I I thought that meant the Phillies on base.
When you say that you did not watch all of the game, how much of the game did you watch?

Speaker 1 Like four innings.

Speaker 6 Oh, you did? Okay. I watched the last four innings.

Speaker 1 This might have been the fastest ML game.

Speaker 1 I've never ever really been a playoff game ever.

Speaker 4 Oh, when Dumbledore says you got to kill Buck Beak.

Speaker 1 Oh, I don't even get it, but it's funny. I accidentally retweeted.
I don't even think it's true.

Speaker 1 What do you mean?

Speaker 1 I don't think that's part of the plot. But listen, Hank has...
What are you talking about? Hank has his own choose your own adventure with

Speaker 1 them. They have to kill Buck Beach.
That derry goes back and saves him

Speaker 1 i jeff yeah they went back in time oh you actually did yeah max

Speaker 1 back to the phillies real quick

Speaker 1 are you in a must-win tomorrow night no have to win one out of the next two have to win one out of the next two we've been here before not really you've been here

Speaker 1 one at the bank and you're good you could win it i would feel comfortable if you win one you got to take one in arizona so this is a got to take one yeah but you got two more games in arizona who's on the bump tomorrow Baseball goes 2-3-2.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I know, but I'm saying, like, you would rather, you want to, it's almost a must-win for this one. You don't want it to go back.

Speaker 1 Right. If you get to a game five, you're already in trouble.
Like, if you get a game five, two, two,

Speaker 1 you're in trouble. If you, no, if you, you have to win one.
If you win game five, you're fine. 100%.

Speaker 4 But if you lose the next, if you lose game four and game four.

Speaker 1 Then game five is a must-win. Yeah.
But even though, even though it's not, we haven't lost. We haven't lost at home.
We're 28-11 lifetime at Citizens Bank Park. Max,

Speaker 1 I'm going to say this to you really as clearly and succinctly as I can. No, you play this.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 What? Go.

Speaker 1 Say this. I am rooting for the Phillies.
I hate when you say that

Speaker 1 because we had this conversation. We had an offline conversation, which I'm fine sharing online.
I'm rooting for the Phillies.

Speaker 1 In totality.

Speaker 1 They have to get to the World Series. But you you want.
Because if they get to the World Series, I will hedge out and then I will root against you.

Speaker 4 Max, here's the thing: Big Cat is rooting for the Phillies, but he's not rooting for you. Right.

Speaker 1 He's rooting against you.

Speaker 4 If you don't understand that, you need to understand this. I'm actually amazed that you haven't picked up

Speaker 4 in the last year and a half.

Speaker 4 This is what Big Cat's doing. He wants to see you miserable, but also

Speaker 1 you need to win that money.

Speaker 4 So Big Cat's willing to go as far as possible.

Speaker 1 I'm going to push you to the the brink.

Speaker 4 Big cat's playing chicken with his own money.

Speaker 1 Correct. Correct.

Speaker 4 I want to see Max more miserable for like two more

Speaker 1 losses. Right.

Speaker 4 And then I'll be happy if they win in seven games.

Speaker 1 Actually, you know what? Because PFT put it perfectly. I actually think Friday and Saturday are must-wins for the Phillies because I won't be around you.

Speaker 1 So I won't actually want, I will actually be rooting for the Phillies on Friday and Saturday night. If it gets to a game six and seven and we're watching it together,

Speaker 1 I'm liable to switch back.

Speaker 1 No, but that is when you're rooting, that is when you're rooting for the Phillies, though. Actually, because you need the Phillies.
Yeah, yeah, but this is where you still don't really

Speaker 1 miss it.

Speaker 4 If it was a game seven and Big Cat's watching it with you,

Speaker 4 Big Cat's brain at that point would turn into

Speaker 4 I get to see Max miserable close up.

Speaker 1 Correct.

Speaker 4 Yeah, okay, it's worth me winning. It's worth me losing my bet to see Max potentially cry.

Speaker 1 But if you can win. You guys are sick.

Speaker 1 I'm just explaining it to you, Max. I am so sick.
I'm demented. Okay, but I am telling you right now, you were tomorrow afternoon.
I'm going to say goodbye to you for the weekend.

Speaker 1 You better come back on Sunday with two wins in the back pocket. You better come back in the World Series.
Because if you don't, and I watch these games with you,

Speaker 1 there's a problem. I have a question.
It's a problem. I have a question.
Yes. Max.
Do you really think if I'm rooting for the Phillies? I just want to say before we get to the business.

Speaker 1 If if we're up 3-2 going home for two games,

Speaker 1 that we're in a bad spot? No, but if you go up

Speaker 4 a spot as 4-1.

Speaker 1 If you're up 3-2 going home

Speaker 1 and you somehow blow that,

Speaker 1 yeah, that would be... That might be worth the bet.

Speaker 1 Also, I was saying this to Max earlier. Could you imagine if they blew two at the bank? Game seven in this series on PMT New Studio opening night? What a way to open the chapter.

Speaker 1 Oh, that would be sick. That's a great point.

Speaker 1 Oh, don't let let him go seven don't let him go that would be iconic that'd be great max like as producer of the show yeah max numbers no one wants no one wants to watch new background

Speaker 1 okay well either way uh go go you know go you are you even coming in tomorrow or you're not coming in tomorrow i'm going i'm going to the new office tomorrow okay so uh so i'm gonna say goodbye to you in like 20 minutes yeah you go and you go and get two more wins okay i would love that and then i'll see you on i'd love nothing more you come back to me on sunday with two wins, and I'll give you a nice big hug.

Speaker 1 Kiss on the lips for the boys. Great.
I do want to win this bet.

Speaker 1 I really love seeing you miserable.

Speaker 4 It's addicting. Game seven from the new studio would be a delight.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. Would it be incredible? Yeah, so new studio, everyone who's watching, please subscribe to the YouTube.
Sunday night, we'll still be here.

Speaker 1 And then Tuesday will be in the brand new Pardon My Take Studio, which I have a prediction. I think people are going to love it.

Speaker 1 The setup setup is great, but I think there will be a little adjustment where people will be like,

Speaker 1 oh,

Speaker 1 it looks too clean. We will mess it up.

Speaker 1 Just don't

Speaker 1 worry about that because I saw it.

Speaker 1 I went the other day and it like, you know, like when you first are going to see it on YouTube, you're definitely going to be like, holy shit, it kind of looks like a TV studio or something.

Speaker 1 Just wait. Yeah.
Don't worry.

Speaker 4 Listen, life finds a way.

Speaker 4 You could give us any room in the world. And if you give us six months in there, there's going to be puke, blood, tears, just junk everywhere.
It'll be great.

Speaker 1 I actually, I'll save it for my Fire Fest. I have a story about this.
Don't you worry. Okay, should we go to picks in preview? Oh, JMU 7-0.

Speaker 4 JMU 7-0, 6-1 against the spread. Yes.
And so we were watching this game on the secondary TV tonight. We didn't get the audio, but apparently the announcers acted like...

Speaker 4 They had been fired by ESPN right before the game. So they just spent the entire game ripping the NCAA

Speaker 4 for everything. Just like being openly hostile to the NCAA.
I like it. Raise awareness.
The Dukes have an opportunity. Yeah.
Could possibly go undefeated.

Speaker 4 I know I'm getting, again, way ahead of myself. I shouldn't do that.
But you can't help but look at the schedule and think,

Speaker 4 we stunk in the first half offensively, but the defense is like world-class. So we can hang with anybody.
It was also just a clinical punting night.

Speaker 4 I think Jay Muse Punter had seven punts, all seven of them downed inside the 20. And I think he had three punts that were downed at the one-yard line.

Speaker 1 There also was a great moment when the Phillies game had ended. It was 2-1 final.
And the Astro game had started. It was 3-1.
And then the JMU Marshall game was 3-2. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So on the scoreboard ticker, you could just see all three.

Speaker 4 The next wrinkle in offensive football and college football is going to be just everyone turns into Iowa. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Smart. Yep.
Smart. Okay.
Let's kick it to ourselves. Picks and preview, and then a great interview with our good friend Will Compton.
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Week seven, boys. I am

Speaker 1 so goddamn excited for this Sunday. And here's why.
Two things. One, the perfect six and four setup.
We have six early games, four late games. The second, I don't know.
I looked at it last night.

Speaker 1 I believe it is still the case. There are eight games, nine if you include the Jaguars Saints game that we just talked about.
So eight games on Sunday that are a field goal or less point spread.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's like almost everyone is minus three, minus two and a half across the board.

Speaker 1 It's going to be chaos. Like, this, if you just go off the gambling lines, these should all be very tightly contested games, very different than last week, which was a lot of crazy big spreads.

Speaker 1 I'm ready for it.

Speaker 4 And you know what? The NFL owes us.

Speaker 4 I feel like the quality of NFL games this year has been down. I don't mean to shit talk you, NFL.
I love you.

Speaker 4 Shout out to Roger Goodell, who just got like an infinity million dollar extension until he dies. Shout out, Roger.
Shout out, Roger. Congratulations, Roger.

Speaker 4 He will now, please clap, Jeb.

Speaker 4 He will last longer than Paul Taglebu, who seemed like he was in office forever as the commissioner. Roger Goodell has the best job in the world.
In the world.

Speaker 4 And goddamn, as much as I hate him, he is the perfect person for this job.

Speaker 4 Just like a soulless robot that gets up there, has no problem with getting shit on by everybody because he either gets shit on by the public or he gets shit on by his bosses, which are all the owners of the teams.

Speaker 4 And he would much rather take shit from just a bunch of people out there that write mean things about him than he would to have Jerry Jones calling him up at like 3 a.m. every night.

Speaker 4 So he's a soulless robot whose job it is to organize a giant orgy of these giant football teams and all these brands to come together and to make as much money as possible for his bosses, the owners.

Speaker 4 And he does a very good job of that. But he is a soulless robot.
Piece of shit.

Speaker 1 He's a human body shield. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He just stands in front of the owners and takes bullets from the media and the fans, and then he turns around and he takes bullets from the other guys, his owner, the owners, his bosses, and he gets paid like $40 million a year.

Speaker 4 He is the shield. He is the shield that protects the shield of the NFL.

Speaker 1 It's actually a 360 shield. Yeah.
Because it's all sides. He's a shield.

Speaker 4 It's a bubble.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, and he's, he's, I also think his temperament is perfect, that he is

Speaker 1 just smart enough to do the job, but also dumb enough to not fully understand where he fucks up and how hated he is.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it might be that he's dumb, or it might just be that he doesn't have any emotions. Yeah.
It just might be like, okay, I fucked up again.

Speaker 1 Well, emotional intelligence is...

Speaker 1 If someone doesn't have emotional intelligence, they could be considered dumb.

Speaker 4 It's a type of intelligence, sure.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he does a very good job of just taking bullets for everybody, being a punching bag, being a robot whose job it is to just say the party line and act like it was his idea when in reality, it's all the owners telling him what to say, and then put it out there for the public.

Speaker 4 He takes all the shit from it. The league keeps making money.
He's very good at it. You know what else he's good at?

Speaker 4 He talks like a lawyer, even though he's not a lawyer. He's boring.
I think if you were to ask people, like, does Roger Goodell have a law degree? Most people would be like, Yeah, he's a lawyer.

Speaker 4 No, he's not a lawyer. He just talks in the specific ways where he says a lot of words, doesn't really tell you what he's trying to do.

Speaker 4 But then he's like, oh, I'm not a lawyer, so I can't get into the details about that.

Speaker 1 He knows when you're talking about a complex issue, the best way to win that is to to be so boring that people just tune you out. Yep.

Speaker 1 Like if you just keep talking and talking and no one and you're not saying anything, be like, all right, I guess what he said. Florio will break it down, but no one else will.

Speaker 1 I would,

Speaker 1 as much as I don't like Goodell,

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 he does kind of fuck over the fans a lot and

Speaker 1 he makes bad decisions. I would absolutely...
For $40 million a year,

Speaker 1 have Jerry Jones hand up my ass while I walk around and know, puppeteer for the NFL. Literally, yeah.

Speaker 4 Literally have his hand in my ass.

Speaker 1 No, it's up his ass.

Speaker 4 Urban Myers, too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's get into some games. First game, best game of the early sleek.
Lions at Ravens. Lions at Ravens.

Speaker 1 This is a who are both these teams game because I know the Lions are very good. I think the Ravens are very good.

Speaker 1 But I'm going to come away from the winner of this game being like, that might be the team. Because

Speaker 1 this is the best game that both these teams are playing.

Speaker 1 so much so I saw this on the action network they are both beating their opponents this season by seven plus points per game and when two teams meet winning by seven plus points per game on the year this late in the season the favorite is 52 78 and two

Speaker 1 last 20 years 11 21 and 1 so that's a pro lions

Speaker 1 uh stat right there I'm excited. I think Jared Goff has been playing.
I know he's our friend, Rebias. I think he's a top five quarterback in terms of this season.

Speaker 1 And I also think Lamar, like, that offense is going to pop at some point. It might be this week because the Lions' secondary is their weakness.
Their rush defense,

Speaker 1 their pass rush has been awesome. So it might be this week.
We might get points in this game. Yeah, I think we might.

Speaker 4 And Jared is playing. I'm going to say he's playing at MVP level right now.
Agreed. He's in the MVP discussion.
We just added him to the conversation right now.

Speaker 4 So it's Jared Goff, Brock Purdy, and Christian McCaffrey. That's who we've included in the MVP conversation so far.

Speaker 4 Huge news going to this game. Huge news.
I don't know if you saw this picture, big cat. Do you know who the MVP was?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I did. I just tweeted it.
Oh, yeah? Okay, yeah.

Speaker 4 Hank, have you seen this?

Speaker 4 Dan Campbell, MVP, slime dripping from his face, holding the trophy, his eyes closed. Looks miserable.
It's an all-time visual from Dan.

Speaker 4 The Lions, if we're being honest,

Speaker 4 everyone says, like, oh, they're the third best team in the NFC. I actually think that they've played as good, if not better, than the Niners and the Eagles this season.

Speaker 1 And it's really like the reason why I'm excited for this game is because

Speaker 1 this is a game that you'll come out of being like, they beat a good opponent, whoever wins.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 you could do the schedule game with the Lions. I know they beat Mahomes in Kansas City week one.
That was tremendous.

Speaker 1 Since then, they haven't played like a total murderer's road. They lost to the Seahawks.
Same with the Ravens. The Ravens have played against quarterbacks.
Kenny Pickett, Gardner Minshew, C.J.

Speaker 1 Stroud in his first NFL start. Ryan Tannehill, DTR.
Like, this is a test. This is going to be the best quarterback that the Ravens play against.

Speaker 1 And outside of Mahomes, the best quarterback the Lions play against. So I'm ready.
I'm ready for this game.

Speaker 4 One of these teams is going to be for real. Actually, both teams can be for real.
Both for real.

Speaker 4 If it's a close game. If it's a three-point win, either way.
You can say, like, both these teams are good. Yeah.
If it's a blowout, we will be very quick to demote that team to the next level.

Speaker 1 Oh, for sure. And the Lions also have the revenge factor of the Justin Tucker kick, which is a, I mean, everyone remembers that game.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Lions in the past have found new and interesting and enticing ways to lose games.

Speaker 4 And when you have the, when you have a kicker break the all-time record for longest field goal against you and it bounces off the upright and goes in, you feel like you've checked off every single square of the bingo card.

Speaker 4 The Seahawks would probably find a weirder way to lose a game. That's the only team that I think has the sadder, weirder

Speaker 4 history. Well, no, Chargers and Falcons both have just sad histories.
Yeah. But Seahawks and Lions find really strange ways to lose games.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 And that seemed like it was the last one that they could possibly check off. So I think it's going to be either a normal loss for the Lions this week or a statement win for the Lions.

Speaker 4 And with the Ravens, I think the Dolphins could, or excuse me, the

Speaker 4 Lions could blow out the Ravens. I don't see the Ravens blowing the Lions out.

Speaker 1 The only reason, like I said, I think it's going to be a good test for the Lions secondary.

Speaker 1 I'm very excited to see that.

Speaker 4 Who do they have running scout team for Lamar on the Lions? Is there somebody they could put at quarterback?

Speaker 1 Monroe probably just does it all. Yeah.
Because he's just like, yeah, I'll stay late.

Speaker 4 I'll do everything. Jameson, maybe.
Put Jameson at scout team quarterback.

Speaker 4 I'm trying to think who else. Hinden Hooker.
He's not as fast.

Speaker 1 Yeah. His knee is still coming back.
All right, Nerd Nugget. Yeah, also, it's weird that they're playing again.
It must be the 17-game schedule because usually AFC versus NFC is every four years.

Speaker 1 That was two years ago. But something's got to give on the ground.
Baltimore's fifth in rushing offense, 145 yards, and the Lions defense is number one against the run, 65 yards. Yeah, no,

Speaker 1 the Lions' front of the defense has been lights out. Very, very good.

Speaker 1 Okay, next up, a battle in the NFC South, Falcons at Bucks.

Speaker 1 I did a little deep dive into where everyone's at with Desmond Ritter in Atlanta. They are very much still in on him.

Speaker 1 Arthur Blank went on radio and was like, look, these are growing pains. Arthur Smith had an entire speech where he said, what happened happened.

Speaker 1 But if you look at it, macro or big picture, there are a lot of things that are expanding. It could be talking about the universe or Desmond Ritter.

Speaker 1 I also, I feel bad for Desmond Ritter. Desmond Ritter said he has trouble falling asleep on Sunday nights if he doesn't watch the game back compiling notes for Monday's film session.

Speaker 1 That's got to suck after a game like he played against Commanders. Yeah.
To have to watch that back, like clockwork orange style.

Speaker 4 You think he watches more of it if he wins or if he loses i don't know it sounds like he's a film rat yeah uh all right so it is it's difficult to learn how to play quarterback in the nfl if we're if we look at the history of the league players aren't that great usually in their first two seasons even the good ones peytan manning peyton manning always say peyton manning sucked his first year he was dog shit this goes back to our justin herbert point he should have sucked more he should have sucked more uh desmond ritter he's he hasn't been awful awful well he was on he was on sunday he was the reason why they lost that game and if you have a good quarterback on that team, that's the problem is if the rest of the team wasn't so good, then nobody would be talking about how he's not playing that well.

Speaker 4 Correct. He is playing at a level where he's hurting the team.
Taylor Haneke probably would be playing at a level where he's helping the team while also hurting it just a little bit.

Speaker 4 But yeah, it's more a product of the team around him is good. And so you just think to yourself, how good could they possibly be?

Speaker 4 Because I actually have, I got the Falcons as my best, worst team in football. And I've got the Bucs as the worst good team.

Speaker 1 oh I think I think this game I think this game might flip that it might flip it yeah I think the Falcons might win and then you might be like they're the worst good team yeah but do you think that's like where we're at right now

Speaker 1 I would flip it right now but yeah you think that the Falcons are a bad good team yeah and I think the Bucs are the best worst team I disagree but I don't think

Speaker 4 the Bucs have not beaten anyone depending on what happens this weekend well yeah so for me it's mostly just that they're three and two instead of three and three right um so it looks better yeah the bucks wins are the vikings bears and saints

Speaker 1 those are not I mean, you could make an argument for the Saints.

Speaker 1 Not saying the Falcons haven't been world beaters either, but they beat the Packers, Texans, and Panthers. If you had to go three on three, I think I would take the Packers, Texans, and Panthers.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, probably. I think the Texans actually might be.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it might be the best of the season. They might be in.
Yeah. Yeah, right.

Speaker 4 The Texans might be the best, worst team in football.

Speaker 1 They're carrying a lot of weight for me in this three-versus three battle that I'm using to try to break down this game.

Speaker 4 But we can say definitively, whoever wins this game will be the best, worst team in football.

Speaker 4 or no, will be the worst, best team in football, yes, and whoever loses will be the worst, best team in football. Yes, got it.

Speaker 4 What I really want to see from the Falcons, just give me a Bijan Robinson game. Yeah, stop splitting up the carries.
Yeah, why are you not giving the ball to him more?

Speaker 4 I want to see, like, was it Algier? Is that the name of the game?

Speaker 1 Yeah, Tyler Algier.

Speaker 4 He's like the Ringo Star. It's like if the Beatles just let Ringo Starr sing all the songs and had Paul McCarty just sit back and play bass.
Let B.

Speaker 4 John Robinson just take over a game, just feed that motherfucker.

Speaker 1 And it's going to be tough to run the ball. The Bucs cannot run the ball, which is a big problem for them and Baker.

Speaker 1 And I think the Bucs are pretty good against the run. So might be a Desmond Ritter Baker Mayfield shootout.
Who can make the more plays?

Speaker 4 Yeah, we can't wait for that.

Speaker 1 I also loved the one last thing.

Speaker 1 I read enough that I'm backing on Desmond Ritter for now, just the fact that I think he knows he sucks.

Speaker 1 And he has a good attitude about it, which is actually pretty big, like, versus maybe like a Zach Wilson last year where it's like, he didn't know he sucked. Everyone knew he sucked.

Speaker 1 He didn't know he sucked.

Speaker 1 A reporter asked Desmond Ritter what happened on

Speaker 1 interception, and Ritter responded with which one. Good.
So I like that. Yeah.
Like a little bit of, I think he knows that he has to play better. And credit to the Arthur.

Speaker 1 It's very easy in the NFL to pull the plug as quickly as possible, first time of emergency. They're trying to see if they can get him on the right path.

Speaker 4 Because I think if you bench Desmond Ritter right now,

Speaker 4 you're done.

Speaker 1 You're over with him. He's not going to be able to do it.
You now are officially in a quarterback.

Speaker 4 You're giving up, and Taylor Heineke is good enough where he could get this team to the playoffs, maybe win a game in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 But is Taylor Haneke going to be the long-term answer for the Falcons? My guess is probably not.

Speaker 4 So the upside to benching Ritter is essentially just getting a worse draft pick this year.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 4 That's what you're going for. So yeah,

Speaker 4 as much as I want to see Taylor Haneke.

Speaker 4 Taylor Heineke play, and as much as I think he gives them a better chance to win, if I'm running the Falcons, I probably probably stay with Ritter just for that reason.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like Ritter's not the answer. I'm fully admitting that.
I think he's doing a good enough job knowing he's not the answer. Yeah.
Which just counts for something.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he's self-aware. He's trying.
I have a fun game to play because when I've been doing those

Speaker 4 NFL squares, you know, the ones where you try to figure out what players have played for multiple teams. I'm by.

Speaker 1 It's just a picture of Jake.

Speaker 4 It's usually just

Speaker 4 Ryan Fitzpatrick. Yeah.
That's always the answer.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 4 whenever the Falcons come up, I can never think of a single linebacker or defensive lineman besides John Abraham, besides John Abraham. Dwight Freeney.
He played for the Falcons? Yeah.

Speaker 4 I forgot about that. Vic Beasley.
Vic.

Speaker 1 Vic Beasley. Beasley.

Speaker 4 Okay. Yeah.
My question was going to be: can you name a defensive lineman or linebacker that has ever played for the Falcons?

Speaker 1 Dwight Freeney did play for the Falcons, right? I'm almost positive. I don't know.

Speaker 4 Like at the end of his career? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I want to say he went there. I think he might have even been.

Speaker 1 Yeah, 2016. Yeah, he was

Speaker 4 four teams in four years.

Speaker 1 I forgot about that after the Colts. I remember it because I was like, oh, shit.

Speaker 1 Falcons are going to be for real with Way Freene.

Speaker 4 To me, it's always just John Abraham. Yeah.
That's the only guy that's ever played defensive line for that team. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right, what's your nerd nugget? This one's actually cool. Are you sure? Yeah.
They're all cool, Jake.

Speaker 4 Don't tell yourself that.

Speaker 1 I'm shoving my chips to the table.

Speaker 1 This better be. So you're stamping this cool.
It better be very cool. I'll be unbiased.
Okay.

Speaker 1 The NFC South is the only division in which all four teams have reached the Super Bowl in the last 15 years. That's very cool.
Yeah, very cool. That's very cool.
Falcons, Bucs. Okay.
Panthers.

Speaker 1 That is very cool. There's one each week where I'm like, whoa, that's actually cool.
Yeah, no, that one was very cool. Thanks.
That one was very cool. Yeah.

Speaker 1 If the Phillies win

Speaker 1 the World Series, the entire NL East will have won a World Series.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 In the 2000s?

Speaker 1 Yeah, except the Mets. Except the Mets.
Yeah, it's a Mets. It's a Mets.

Speaker 4 But the Mets have won a World Series. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 The next game up. Browns Colts.
Browns Colts. P.J.
Walker again, but maybe Deshaun?

Speaker 4 Yeah, Deshaun,

Speaker 4 they tweeted out the eyeball emoji with Deshaun practicing today. So who knows? It's a rotator cuff.
So he said he might need a couple more weeks off, but he's playing today. He's throwing today.

Speaker 1 Fun fact about P.J. Walker, because we lost the Desmond Ritter stat.
P.J. Walker has never lost a home game as a pro.

Speaker 4 That's very interesting.

Speaker 1 They're on the road this week. He's 4-0 in the NFL and 3-0 in the XFL.
I didn't know that. Yeah.
All right,

Speaker 4 shout out P.J. Walker.

Speaker 1 P.J. Walker.

Speaker 1 The story here in this game is like, I know we've talked about it, but the Browns' defense is out of this world. And you had the stat, the 1,000 yards they've given up in five games.

Speaker 1 The other stats I saw that are just insane. They've given up 52 first downs in five games.
They've allowed nine red zone attempts in five games.

Speaker 1 And the opponent's third down conversion rate against the Browns this year is 23.1%.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's pretty good. It's pretty good.
And you're going to win a lot of games like that. They're also, this is a fun fun stat.
The Browns since 2021 are 3-13 after a win.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 1 I actually

Speaker 1 commend that as an organization because

Speaker 1 that's the embodiment of me as a person.

Speaker 1 If I win a bet, I'm like, I'll never lose again. And then I'll get completely blindsided.
Like even when we did the Ryder Cup. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like you, like I did, I remember the first time I was the first match with Frankie, we'd win a hole and then we'd lose the next one right away.

Speaker 1 So, like, once you get up, you're like, I'll always be up.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Jake, let me ask you this. What did you do on the next hole after you got your hole in one?

Speaker 1 Triple bogey. Yeah, there you go.
There it is. I accidentally teed up the ball when I hit it in the middle of the fairway.
What?

Speaker 1 Like, you picked up. I wanted to keep the ball.
And I did. Oh, you hit your hole in one ball.
Oh, yeah. Okay.
Got it. I thought if you teed up your ball in the middle of the fairway.

Speaker 1 No, so if it went OB, I would have lost the ball. Yeah, but

Speaker 4 I just blasted it into the woods. I respect that.

Speaker 1 Let the game have the ball. So thank God I.

Speaker 4 No, you don't need to donate that ball to the club.

Speaker 1 I have it hung up in my apartment.

Speaker 4 But yeah, it's very relatable. You do something awesome and then you just coast.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're just like, I'm going to be good at this forever.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so the Browns,

Speaker 4 if you're looking at the trends, this seems like a trap game, and the Browns tend to take their foot off the gas.

Speaker 4 Also, when we were talking about how good Miles Garrett was the other day when we had Baldy on, I got a text from our good friend Jersey Jerry yesterday.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, no, he was pissed. He actually brought it up in Advisors, and I was like,

Speaker 1 he actually called you out. He was like, and I heard what Eric said, and I was like, what? And he's like, that shit about Miles Garrett.
And I was like, Jerry, that wasn't a diss on TJ Watts.

Speaker 4 No, so here, I'll read the text that I got yesterday from Jersey Jerry around, it was around noon. So he listened to the podcast, I guess, pretty early on in the day.
He said,

Speaker 4 Never realized how big of a Miles Garrett fan you are.

Speaker 1 So I just said,

Speaker 4 I just hit him with a ha-ha reply. And then I said, he's a monster.
And TJ Watt's better overall. Because I knew what he was getting at.
I said, I think TJ Watt is better overall.

Speaker 4 Miles Garrett is scarier. And then he just replied with this picture right here of TJ Watt in a visor.

Speaker 1 The visor looking scary.

Speaker 4 Yeah, bullet mode. I did give it to Jerry.
I said, TJ is a better football player. Overall, I think Miles Garrett is more terrifying.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Especially during spooky season because Miles Garrett loves to go all out for Halloween. He's always got like the most intricate.

Speaker 4 I think last year he he did a Stranger Things theme in his yard. Yeah.
So I'm very much looking forward to what he's going to be doing this week.

Speaker 1 Anthony Richardson, obviously, out for the season. Absolute bummer.
Just total bummer. Hank, did you have a ticket on him? Yep.
Damn. I'm sad.
Gardner Minshew.

Speaker 4 I wish you could just clear those tickets out. I wish there was a way to just like...
Not have to look at it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I agree. I know.
I know.

Speaker 4 I'm

Speaker 4 staring at some really bad bets right now that I have to remind myself of every time I log in. Yeah.
But who knows? Maybe the Vikings will win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, I look at Cubs 100 to 1 every day.
Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 4 This is also alternate helmet weekend for the Colts. They're wearing their black helmets.
Oh,

Speaker 1 Indiana Knights. I don't like these uniforms.
I've seen them. They look like Duke football.

Speaker 4 They do look a little bit like Duke football uniforms, but I don't know. We'll see.
If they win, then

Speaker 4 they might be cool.

Speaker 1 And they should obviously start Sam Ellinger. And then have Gardner Minchin come in.

Speaker 4 Agreed.

Speaker 1 We talked about it, but that should be the way they go. Jake, you're nerd nuggets.

Speaker 1 The Browns have allowed just 1,002 yards so far this season, which is the third fewest allowed by a team through their first five games since 1970.

Speaker 4 I heard that nerd nugget, I think, on Monday and just a minute ago.

Speaker 1 And a minute ago.

Speaker 1 I just read what I wrote.

Speaker 1 Two steps forward, one step back. The cool one was the

Speaker 1 read the cool one again.

Speaker 1 The NFC South is the only division in which all four teams have reached the Super Bowl in the last 15 years. Whoa, that's cool.
But I was like, wait, what about the NFC West?

Speaker 1 But the Cardinals were 0-8. So by the time it'll be 24, so 16 years.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Oh, but right now, as it's right now, I guess.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But it's so possible for it to be beat.

Speaker 4 So the great nerd nugget was wrong?

Speaker 1 Well, it's impossible for it to be wrong, but right now, I guess.

Speaker 4 Unless the Cardinals make the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 In 2023. Yeah.
Yeah. So they can't.
Oh, okay. Gotcha.
Yeah. All right.
Well, they can. No, they can't.

Speaker 4 Because in 2022.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It'll be the last

Speaker 4 Super Bowl in our 30s.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they also can't. Okay.

Speaker 4 I got one other thing. Oh, we should talk about the Colts season ticket giveaway.
So we gave it to the saddest jerseys, the saddest Colt jerseys that we had. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 And I think one dude had a Curtis Painter jersey that he bought.

Speaker 1 Well, there was one guy. I think he's a super fan.
He had like eight of them. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah. He had a Curtis Painter and a Derry Derry.

Speaker 1 Curtis Painter actually was good for the Colts because he got them Andrew Luck. Yeah.

Speaker 4 He had a Hayward Bay Colts jersey. He also had

Speaker 4 another guy had an Austin Collie one, which is pretty sad.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Austin Collie. A lot of concussions.

Speaker 4 Have you guys ever had any sad jerseys

Speaker 4 that you really regret?

Speaker 1 I have a a Javon Kurse, but I think it rocks. Eagles, Javon Kurse.
Yeah, that is cool. He was sick.

Speaker 1 Hank, what were you going to say about Austin Collie?

Speaker 4 I thought he was pretty good.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, I was thinking of Anthony Gonzalez, who got all the concussions. Yeah.
Who's now running? Austin College had a really bad injury.

Speaker 1 Austin Collie also did.

Speaker 4 I think, but he was solid.

Speaker 1 Payment in hospital passes. He loved to do that to his slot receivers.

Speaker 4 His slot receivers, like Stokely, had a few of those. I think

Speaker 4 his tight ends, too, he used to lay Dallas Clark out all the time. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So congrats to Colts fan Cole and Marcus. Love it.
Okay, next game up. Yeah, he had

Speaker 4 600, 500 yards. And then he got hurt.

Speaker 1 Commanders of Giants, Ty God, I think, again.

Speaker 1 Sam Howell sack watch. He took a step back last week.
That's good. He's been sacked 34 times.
He's now on pace for 96. Yeah.
Last week he was on pace for 99. We're going in the right direction.

Speaker 4 Yeah, this is going to be a sack off. It's a sack off this week because we've got Sam Howell, who's leading the league, leading history with 34 sacks.
And then the Giants have given up 33 sacks.

Speaker 4 So Danielle Jones obviously was out. Tarod Taylor had a few of those sacks last week.
But just, it's going to be a sack. It's going to be a sack festival.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 So the good news for the Commanders is I don't think the Giants have gotten more than like five or six sacks this year. They really stink.
Their defensive line is not good besides Thibodeau.

Speaker 4 So maybe Sam Howell will only get like two or three sacks this week. And I was looking at some of the stats behind, because not all sacks are on the offensive line.

Speaker 4 Sam Howell himself takes a lot of sacks. He hangs on to the ball for a long time.
He does. So it's not just like the offensive line is giving up free runners left and right.

Speaker 4 I don't know if that's a trait that quarterbacks can fix over their careers is getting better at getting rid of the ball quicker.

Speaker 1 I think it's, unfortunately, it just has to be an injury to then give them the fear. Yeah.
He has no fear.

Speaker 4 He has no fear. He plays with no fear.
He's a tough motherfucker.

Speaker 1 He's a really tough guy.

Speaker 4 And the Giants are down another offensive lineman because Shane Lemieux tore his biceps during practice on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 Practice injuries are the worst. We've talked about this, but I want to see the injury so I can process it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so it looks to me like this would favor the commanders' defensive line if I'm just looking at who's going to get sacked more this week.

Speaker 1 And also Daniel Jones is in playing who owns the commanders, so that's good.

Speaker 4 Yep.

Speaker 4 The referees that called the Giants Commanders game last year with the pass interference on the last play of the game that wasn't called, they're refing this game. Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 Again, redemption. redemption.
So, yeah, a little bit of a game. Makeup call.
Makeup game.

Speaker 4 Yeah, because the Giants need a makeup call and a passer inference right now.

Speaker 1 Makeup game.

Speaker 1 Okay, nerd nugget. Since entering the league in 2019, commanders, wide receiver Terry McLaurin leads all players in receiving yards against the NFC East.

Speaker 1 He has 1,807 next to CeeDee Lamb, who only has 1,259. That's pretty good.
So no one's better against the NFC East than Terry McLaurin. He does play a lot of games against them.

Speaker 1 Well, so does the Eagle receivers, the Giants receivers, Cowboy receivers. Oh, wait, since what year?

Speaker 1 2019.

Speaker 4 So no A.J. Brown, Brown.
No A.J.

Speaker 1 Brown,

Speaker 1 no Devontae Smith. I don't want to break it.
I don't want to.

Speaker 4 It's a good set, Jake. I like the set.

Speaker 1 No, it's a good set. I'm not creating these on my own.
The teams provide these. Listen, when you have a cool one, let's say it's a really cool one.
I think

Speaker 4 that was a very cool stat. Did you hear how many more yards he had than CeeDee Lamb?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's incredible.

Speaker 1 CeeDee Lamb gets it.

Speaker 4 That's incredible, Jake.

Speaker 4 I like that nerd nugget. Did you know Sam Howell has more completions than Jared Goff and Tua? He has more yards than Trevor Lawrence, and he has more touchdowns than Jalen Hurts or Matt Stafford.

Speaker 4 Sam Howell, I know I was thinking last week, maybe he's just good enough to not be great. I think Sam Howell could be great now.

Speaker 1 Could be great.

Speaker 4 Could be great. Could be great.

Speaker 1 I like it. We're Sam Howell, guys.
All right. Raiders at Bears.
Oh, boy. Tyson Bajant versus Aiden O'Connell.

Speaker 1 Exactly what the people wanted.

Speaker 4 Or is it Brian Hoyer? Do we know?

Speaker 1 I think it's Aiden O'Connell. I'm going to check the game time map.
This one's got to be low. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I like Tyson Bajant. He looks, first of all,

Speaker 1 his dad is a professional arm wrestler, Travis the Beast,

Speaker 1 kind of cool. He does, he, I watched some tape on him, and

Speaker 1 he is a shit talker. Yeah.
He would, he's in the middle of like an arm wrestling match and he'll just say to the guy, like, you should just kill yourself.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I did, I did some research on

Speaker 1 some other stuff.

Speaker 4 I did some research on the beast because his dad seems awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And also just having a dad named Travis, like, you're already cool.

Speaker 4 I didn't think the Travises were dads. Right.

Speaker 1 In West Virginia?

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 If you're putting a money line down on Travis the father sticking around to raise his son, that's got to be like plus 900. Huge.
Travis the Beast badgeant, he is a 35-time national champion. 35-time.

Speaker 4 That doesn't really make too much sense because I think he's like 40. He's 44.
44. So if he won 35, was he winning arm wrestling champions when he was seven?

Speaker 1 Well, he does arm wrestle right and left.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 4 So he's won uh world championships with both his left and right arms in the super heavyweight division and his dad was also a national arm wrestling champion so tyson his uh tyson's dad and grandfather were both national arm wrestling champions which is pretty intimidating and travis owns um some type of medical supplement company that has the coolest name ever it's called vitacelle biologics did you go to his website too yeah I went to his Instagram.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I did.

Speaker 4 I went to his website.

Speaker 1 VitaCel Biologics.

Speaker 1 You just basically mashed together a bunch of words that would make people be like, oh, I got to get in on VitaCel Biologics.

Speaker 4 Are you taking Biologics, Big Cat?

Speaker 1 I'm taking Vitacell Biologics.

Speaker 4 I feel like I need to start taking biologics. His dad also owns an arm wrestling bar in Charlestown, West Virginia called Billy Jacks.
Yes.

Speaker 4 Which that's got to be a very, very dangerous place to wander into, accidentally.

Speaker 1 It's essentially the plot of over-the-top sliced alone incredible movie, except the sun is cool and played in the NFL and not a little fucking wet blanket piece of shit.

Speaker 4 Yeah, what type of music do you think they got on the jukebox and arm wrestling bar? That's just country all the time. You think it's country? I was thinking stained, like new movie.

Speaker 1 Yeah, maybe some of that too. This is the 29th quarterback starting for the Chicago Bears since the year 2000.

Speaker 1 That's a lot of quarterbacks.

Speaker 4 Pretty impressive.

Speaker 1 So the Browns have lead the league with 35 since 2000.

Speaker 4 Who are your top three?

Speaker 1 Cuddy,

Speaker 1 McCown,

Speaker 1 Kyle Orton. Yeah.

Speaker 4 With Rex Grossman.

Speaker 1 Rex Grossman, Chris Chandler was in the mix there. Henry Burris.
There's a lot of Mike Glennon.

Speaker 4 Todd Collins.

Speaker 1 Caleb Haney, Todd Collins. There's

Speaker 1 Kim Miller. There's a lot.
Jason Campbell was in there. Matt Barkley.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of quarterbacks in there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The dynamic duo of Chad Hutchinson and Jonathan Quinn.

Speaker 4 Who could forget?

Speaker 1 That was the Thanksgiving game where they just got fucking obliterated.

Speaker 4 To me, this is going to be basically Max Crosby against the Bears.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 If Max Crosby has a good game, the Raiders win. If he doesn't, I think the Bears win.

Speaker 1 I think Tyson Bajant

Speaker 1 might be good enough to win a game. Yeah.

Speaker 4 There's no tape on there. He's kind of got that.

Speaker 1 He's got that dog in him. He said his quote in the press conference this week was, I've pretty much beat every odds that there was for me, so I've got nothing to lose.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go out there and fight with these guys to the death and try to stack up as many wins as I can until Justin's back.

Speaker 4 He's in fucket mode.

Speaker 1 That is exactly what you want to hear from your backup quarterback.

Speaker 4 They should let his dad be the coach for this week.

Speaker 1 I mean, he would be better than Dweberflues.

Speaker 4 Just shit talking. Yeah, just shit talking against

Speaker 1 McDaniel.

Speaker 1 His dad probably is going to yell at Dweeberflues from the stance.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he should be directly behind. He should be on the 50-yard line first row with a megaphone in his hand.
Yes.

Speaker 1 And then Aiden O'Connell,

Speaker 1 I have a take. I think Aiden O'Connell might be a future starting quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 4 Why is that?

Speaker 1 I saw him against the Chargers. He looked good.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Yeah, he looked all right.
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 They liked him a lot in the draft.

Speaker 1 They've got a chance. He's got a chance against a bad Bears defense.
So the Bears are also going for their first home win since September 25th, 2022. Over a year.

Speaker 4 So, yeah, Jake, what is the get-in price on this game?

Speaker 1 The get-in price is $84.

Speaker 1 Oh, really? $20 off, though, with code PMT.

Speaker 1 $64.

Speaker 4 I would think it would be way lower than that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Still, still nice weather.

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Speaker 4 I should also mention Mark Davis cutting a rug after the Aces won. It was so good.
So good to see him happy. Just dancing up a storm out there.
Back-to-back champs.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so is Mark Davis the best owner in sports? I mean, we knew that Cronky. We knew that already.
Oh, yeah, Stan Cronky. How's Arsenal doing this year? Top of the table.
Top of the table, as always.

Speaker 1 They must be.

Speaker 4 But yeah, that was such a fun video to watch. He was just having such a good time.
It's just good to see him smiling.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was having a great, great time.

Speaker 1 Okay, nerd nugget. The Raiders' defense has only allowed 14 total plays of 20-plus yards yards this season, tied with the Chiefs and 49ers for fewest in the NFL.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they keep everyone in front of them. If the Bears are smart, it's a heavy run game

Speaker 1 because you can run on the Raiders. But yeah, they do a good job of making sure the big plays are not there.

Speaker 4 Okay. Are we getting close to Devontae Adams' trade watch? I think so.
Because they're not throwing him the ball the last couple weeks.

Speaker 1 And he said he was frustrated.

Speaker 4 Yeah, because they're throwing the ball to Josh Jacobs.

Speaker 4 And he might maybe. And they're throwing the ball to

Speaker 4 who's their other reserve. Oh, Jacoby Myers.
They're throwing the ball to those two guys when they have Devontae Adams. So just throw the ball to Devontae Adams.
That's what I would do.

Speaker 1 All right. Last

Speaker 1 early game, Bills of Patriots.

Speaker 1 Bills of Patriots.

Speaker 1 What's the current line in this game? Eight and a half. So if it gets to nine, it will be the biggest home dog for

Speaker 1 Bill Belichick since Tom Brady's first career start.

Speaker 4 I'm kind of sick of the Tom Brady stats. Let's just

Speaker 1 facts turning the page. Actually, I think they might have been the second biggest because I think they also played the Rams, and that was bigger.
But you're sick of the stats. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's.

Speaker 1 What do you mean? So you're never going to bring up any good Tom Brady stats?

Speaker 4 No, it just means that Hank is sick of reality. Hank doesn't like reality right now.

Speaker 1 This is walk a mile in my shoes, brother.

Speaker 1 You don't like insult stats?

Speaker 1 There's literally like, I'm pretty sure the CBS main account, like, they have a meeting, the social media team, and they're like, okay, we got to fill our quota for bad bear stats every month so we can get the engagement.

Speaker 1 This is stats or stats.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I don't like them. Yeah, because you haven't experienced them before.
I know.

Speaker 1 Also, this is another life, Hank. Non-Tom Brady stat.
Okay. Josh Allen is 6-1 in his last seven games against the Patriots.
Kind of owns them.

Speaker 4 That's interesting.

Speaker 1 The only loss was that freezing game you guys won, too. Yeah, Hank's last good memory.
Yeah,

Speaker 4 in those games, he has 260 yards per game, 18 touchdowns, one interception. It's great to see.
Hank, he has 18 touchdowns and one pick.

Speaker 1 We haven't even done this on purpose because

Speaker 1 us just like

Speaker 1 drowning Hank in stats because you can't argue with stats.

Speaker 4 They're stats. Fact or fiction, stats are stats.
Yeah, but I think they're

Speaker 4 selected stats. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 What are you expecting from this game, Henry?

Speaker 4 I'm going to be at a wedding. I will not be watching this game.

Speaker 4 and I'm expecting to you know check my phone check the score and the Patriots to be down you know probably maybe get three points maybe ten maybe get like a defensive you know interception return for a touchdown or punt return if they get more than 20 points I would be stunned okay so the the win that the bills had a win to win don't apologize for winning But the Bills that they had, the win that they had against the Giants on Sunday night, that was the worst win in the Super Bowl era by the stats.

Speaker 4 And that's going to be a big time. That's the thing.
They're coming off of a win-loss.

Speaker 1 Yeah. A loss win.

Speaker 4 A loss win.

Speaker 1 It might be a loss win.

Speaker 4 They're practicing like they got beat by 40 this week. Oh, yeah.
Like that's a game that they technically won, and they'll be happy they won towards the playoffs.

Speaker 4 But the film room, they were getting shit on. Practice, they were acting like they lost.
That was a big time. Like, wake up.
We're not as good as we think we are. We got to step it up.

Speaker 1 Win. Well, here's something good for you, Hank.
The Giants on Sunday night against the Bills, they didn't score a lot of points.

Speaker 1 They moved the ball pretty well because the Bills are like very decimated with injuries. They have injuries at every single level on their defense.

Speaker 1 The Giants are,

Speaker 1 I wouldn't say the Patriots and the Giants. The Giants and the Patriots are probably the same in terms of offensive talent.
So move the ball.

Speaker 4 Sure. So by the stats.

Speaker 1 Okay, I'm trying to help. Jesus Christ, this guy won't even take help.

Speaker 4 By the stats, according to Operation Sports, that was the worst win in the Super Bowl era the bills are the only team to win a game with fewer rushing yards passing yards more interceptions thrown more fumbles lost and more missed field goals than their opponent prior to the bills teams with these deficits were oh and 134.

Speaker 4 whoa wow so it was it was as big of a loss win as you can possibly have yep and um i guess you could make the argument that the bills tend to play to their opponent's experience

Speaker 4 he just hiccuped again they they they play to their opponent's level a little bit yeah um

Speaker 4 But in this case,

Speaker 4 it feels, Hank, like the Bills have an opportunity to kind of like bury Bill Belichick.

Speaker 4 To just twist the knife, put the knife in his heart.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 4 Albert Breer reported,

Speaker 4 is he fake news? He's pretty well plugged in, right?

Speaker 1 Ish.

Speaker 4 Okay, so he's a bit of a sensationalist.

Speaker 4 Here's another fact is that Albert Breer reported this,

Speaker 4 that discussions about moving on from Bill Belichick have taken place. I can tell you for sure, Robert hears the criticism.

Speaker 4 He hears the anger locally, and people in the building know for a fact that he's hearing the anger from the fan base. I think now we're at a point where, is this just going to be a flat-out firing?

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 4 I don't think you can fire Bill Belichick. Wait, so you're just reporting that Robert Kraft hears things.
Robert Kraft has ears. No, he's also reporting.

Speaker 1 No, he has a mouth, too.

Speaker 4 He's discussing the fact, he doesn't have Ceciliano's ears, but he does have ears. And he says that discussions around Belichick have been underway for a while.

Speaker 4 I don't think that there's no chance you fire Bill Belichick, right? You can't. No, and that's

Speaker 4 like the discussions in the media?

Speaker 1 No, in the building.

Speaker 4 No, you can't fire Bill Belichick.

Speaker 1 Ever. Do you think Mac Jones makes it through this game?

Speaker 4 No. Okay.

Speaker 1 I mean, this is... Yeah, I actually

Speaker 1 don't.

Speaker 1 Eight and a half points, a lot of points. It's a vision game.
Home underdog.

Speaker 4 Statement game for the Lightning.

Speaker 1 I might have to hold my nose.

Speaker 4 I don't know if I can do that. I mean, have you watched the Patriots play? Yeah, I know.
They should have covered against the Raiders, though.

Speaker 4 That was bullshit the way that game ended with a drop pass. They should have.
And then the penalty and then the safety.

Speaker 4 That was a bad beat. They should have.

Speaker 1 Nerd nugget.

Speaker 1 Bill's wide receiver Stefan Diggs is just the fifth player in the Super Bowl era with 100-plus receiving yards in five of his team's first six games.

Speaker 1 Hank just did a fist pump because it wasn't going to be. Well, remember, I get these from the teams.
The Patriots aren't going to publish any negative stats.

Speaker 1 that would be funny if i was to be that's

Speaker 1 a few weeks ago

Speaker 4 because punter's positive uh stats i want stat hole stat hole if you're listening to this i would just like for you to compile all the sad patriot stats this weekend possible especially if they lose i just want to spend 10 minutes reading stats to hank and watching him just reject reality

Speaker 1 whatever okay uh next game You just did it right there.

Speaker 4 You can't, I mean, at the end of the day, you can't.

Speaker 4 We've had the conversation a million times. You can't take away the Super Bowl.
It's like, I will be able to block out all this negativity and bad.

Speaker 1 You're not allowed to talk about Tom Brady stats. The Super Bowls are

Speaker 1 Tom Brady stats. You got you there.

Speaker 4 No, the Super Bowl is a team, Max.

Speaker 4 Did Tom Brady win Super Bowl or the Patriots win Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 Tom Brady won Super Bowl. You're not allowed to do any stats related to this.

Speaker 4 Not the first one. That's not a stats.
Defense won't be the first fact. Hank, if you were to rank your favorite, let's get you out of this negative mindset.
Just rank.

Speaker 4 The best Super Bowls that you've won personally in order from greatest to least important.

Speaker 4 I would say for me just the last three just because I was able to be there and party with the team after starting with the Seahawks that was that was the first one I was at that was the most fun and unexpected after party uh then I would say 28 to 3 then I would say

Speaker 4 against the Rams

Speaker 4 and then I would put that last

Speaker 1 Eagles partied with

Speaker 4 Eagles Panthers Rams I was pretty young like I don't have a ton of memories from that game so

Speaker 4 that would probably be six.

Speaker 4 Okay, yeah, I would also imagine if you're on the Patriots right now, there's just nothing like celebrating Super Bowl with you know, parting with your boys, getting your boys getting chewed out, getting your ass chewed out in the film room when your team sucks probably is way, way worse than getting your ass chewed out after like a down game if your team is good.

Speaker 4 So, like, when things are going bad for the Patriots, I don't know if Bill Belichick has a way to turn the entire thing around as much as he has the ability to take a good team and make them great after like one down week.

Speaker 4 That's fair.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
It's probably a bummer. All right.
Afternoon games. Steelers at Rams.

Speaker 1 Sean McVay's on Baby Watch. So Sean McVay has said that if his baby comes, it's due late October.
If his baby comes on game day, he will not coach.

Speaker 1 Whatever.

Speaker 4 I podcasted.

Speaker 1 He also said, I'm not going to miss a game my son knows better than to come during a game.

Speaker 1 I think I'm going to predict that the baby's going to be born on Sunday morning.

Speaker 4 That'd be great, wouldn't it? Yeah.

Speaker 1 This baby, listen, he will become a football guy because he's Sean McVay's son. But babies come when they want to come.

Speaker 4 Do you think Sean McVay is going to watch the game if his wife is currently in labor, like about to give birth?

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, there's the TV in the game.

Speaker 1 I went 0-4 on WNBA bets when my son, when my first son was born.

Speaker 4 And then do you think he's going to have, like, in that photographic memory that he stores of every single play, he'll know exactly like how many centimeters dilated she is when they threw an interception?

Speaker 4 And that'll be, that'll be like ingrained in his memory. Yeah.
I think it probably will.

Speaker 1 What are you laughing at, Max?

Speaker 1 Oh, I'm just thinking about you just sitting in that room betting on the ball. WNBA, I know.
It was fucking brutal. It was bad about losing.
Oh, it's brutal. And then

Speaker 1 the last kid, I think I had, it was the Warriors Lakers, maybe.

Speaker 1 And I think I had the Warriors, and that was bad. That was really.
Oh, it was the closeout game. Yeah, that was bad.
Just let those kids know you're a loser loser real quick. Yeah, no,

Speaker 1 all three of my children were born on losing gambling days. That's great.
So that's on them, not me.

Speaker 4 Because you can spend that out. You're like, it was actually the greatest day of my life.

Speaker 1 No, I would have rather won the money.

Speaker 4 If one of your, let's say your most recent son, if when he was being born, you had like, you won all your bets, would he be your favorite child over your daughter? Without a doubt.

Speaker 4 Your daughter would take a backseat.

Speaker 1 Oh, well, listen, if any of my kids, my goal for my children is I want them to obviously grow up happy, healthy, everything.

Speaker 1 But more than anything, I want one of them to be smart enough to make me a system to win gambling.

Speaker 1 Like, they need to learn math. Math will be taught in my household.
Not by me, but it will be taught.

Speaker 1 And once one of them gets of the age where they can come and they say, Daddy, I made you an algorithm and here's the spreadsheet. That will be the happiest day of my life.

Speaker 1 You'll be your favorite child. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. You're going to college.
Listen, Daddy,

Speaker 1 I got it for you. 60% in college basketball.
Just follow this spreadsheet.

Speaker 1 That's it. That's all I'm hoping for.

Speaker 4 I got a spreadsheet, and it tells me that Mike Tomlin as an underdog is 55-30 against the spread.

Speaker 4 I also have a different spreadsheet that tells me that the Steelers are 12-4 in games after the team's bye week under Mike Tomlin. Wow.
So this feels like...

Speaker 1 He's not only 55 and what was it?

Speaker 4 55-30 against the spread.

Speaker 1 I think there's also like he's, I think he's one game over 500 straight up as an underdog. Like he just wins, he wins outright as underdogs.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so everything's pointing like the baby coming, Mike Tomlin's record after the spreadsheet. It feels like the Steelers.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, this is a Steelers spot. You just have to take Mike Tomlin as an underdog and then fade him as soon as he becomes a favorite.

Speaker 4 Also, Jerry, TJ Watt is the best defensive football player in football.

Speaker 1 You hear that, Jerry? You hear that? Okay, nerd nugget. The Steelers have the best winning percentage in the NFL against starting QBs, drafted number one overall, 64%, a record of 66, 37, and 4.

Speaker 1 And they'll be going against Matthew Safford this week.

Speaker 4 Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that the Browns have taken a bunch of really shitty quarterbacks with the first overall pick in their history?

Speaker 1 How many times have they actually done that?

Speaker 4 That's a good question. I feel like it's not as much.
It just feels like the Browns have done. Yeah.

Speaker 4 The Bengals probably had a bunch of them, too, if we're being honest.

Speaker 1 Yes. All right.
Next game. Cardinals at Seahawks.
Kyler Murray officially off the pup list. He's coming back, which I think that Josh Dobbs got to be the happiest guy in the world.

Speaker 1 Because actually, Josh Dobbs is probably pissed that Kyler Murray didn't come back like two weeks ago because we had a good month of Josh Dobbs and everyone like, ooh, Josh Dobbs, why isn't he a starting quarterback?

Speaker 1 And then the longer he stays out there, the more you realize, oh, that's why.

Speaker 4 That's the Colt McCoy effect.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can't. He's been praying for this day for Kyler Murray to practice again.
So good for Kyler Murray. Hopefully we see him again this year.

Speaker 1 I do think the Seahawks are going to kill the Cardinals. I think the Cardinals, that was fun, what we did, where, you know, they were up on the Giants.
They beat the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 I think we're now getting a far enough distance away from the win against the Cowboys. Like, wait, no, they do stink.

Speaker 4 No, but remember, they're a great first-half team. Yeah.
They might be the best first-half team in football, and they're probably the worst second-half team in football.

Speaker 1 I also think the Seahawks,

Speaker 1 that was a

Speaker 1 loss. Wait, no, that was a loss.
That was a loss, loss. But they...

Speaker 1 They should have beaten the Bengals, and they're a very good team, and the Cardinals can't get pass rush. I think they're lowest in the NFL.
Gino's got a little gimpy knee.

Speaker 1 I think Geno's going to slice and dice him.

Speaker 4 So the first half spread on this is Cardinals plus four and a half. I'm going to take Cardinals plus four and a half.

Speaker 4 I think they hang around in the first half, and then they do a great job of not making any adjustments whatsoever.

Speaker 1 It is also that weird. The afternoon Seahawks games are always like, what's going on?

Speaker 4 This is my chaos game. Yeah.
This feels like a big-time chaos. I feel that.

Speaker 1 I feel that. Okay, nerd nugget for this one.
Since Lumen Field and Seattle opened in 2002, the Cardinals have more wins at the venue, nine, than any other visiting team. Huh.

Speaker 1 Wait, say it again? They've won more games. Oh, Cardinals, yeah, yeah, than any other visiting team.
Okay. Yeah.
Huh. Interesting.

Speaker 1 All right. Packers at Broncos.

Speaker 1 Puke. Is this the game that Russ gets benched? I don't know.

Speaker 4 So I've been thinking about it. Sean Payton is very clearly tanking this season.

Speaker 1 You saw the clip, too, of Sean Payton talking with Coward when he was still in the media being Cale Williams is the most can't miss guy ever.

Speaker 4 Yes, I want to revisit that timeout that he took at the end of the first half against the Chiefs because there's no other explanation in the world that would explain what Sean Payton was doing, and he called it a bonehead move, but the bonehead move doesn't, that doesn't begin to cover how stupid that timeout was.

Speaker 4 Yes, I think it's the worst timeout ever taken. It was fourth down.
They were punt. I think there were like 23 seconds left on the clock.

Speaker 4 He lets it run down a couple seconds and calls a timeout on fourth down before he punts to give Patrick Mahomes more time to come down the field. And then they get a defensive penalty.

Speaker 4 It was a shitty punt. They kick a 60-yarder at the end of the half, three points that would not exist in the history of the football universe

Speaker 4 if it wasn't for Sean Payton. Sean Payton has also burned, and when I say burned, I mean like not strategic timeouts.
He has burned 11 timeouts this year, which is way more than any other coach.

Speaker 4 He's made a lot of very, it seems like intentionally stupid clock management decisions.

Speaker 4 i don't think i don't think a guy like that would just forget how to coach and how to coach situational football yep i think that the broncos are intentionally tanking for caleb williams and it's maybe a smart move sean payton seems to like the guy and if you're tanking for caleb williams you would probably leave russell wilson in the game especially especially if you don't like russell wilson yeah and then you just put him out there and you're like i'd like let him die i'd like to torture this guy because i hate him so much for the next four months let's just force him to play football at a very low level and piss him off, and then we get a great quarterback.

Speaker 1 I agree with everything you said. We concur.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Also, Sean Payton, one of his explanations for why he's burning so many timeouts was that he has too many words in his play calls.

Speaker 4 So he shortened up his verbiage a little bit and then continued to burn more timeouts.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes.

Speaker 1 The Packers should win this game. They're off a buy.
They got a little healthy.

Speaker 1 You can run on the Broncos. If the Packers are smart, they just run the ball down their throat.
I feel like the Packers will win this game. Also, a good uniform matchup.
Yep.

Speaker 1 I like this uniform matchup. All right, Nerd Nugget.
History says this will be a blowout one way or the other.

Speaker 1 Five of the last six matchups between the Packers and Broncos have been decided by double digits, including four of those by 19 or more points. Whoa.

Speaker 1 That's a good one.

Speaker 1 Beat the crap out of each other, but not one-sided. Got it.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Last afternoon game, Chargers at Chiefs.

Speaker 1 Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 1 His record against against the ASC West all time,

Speaker 1 28-3.

Speaker 1 That's fucking stupid.

Speaker 1 28-3.

Speaker 1 That's insane.

Speaker 1 Three losses.

Speaker 4 The Raiders.

Speaker 1 And the Chargers twice.

Speaker 4 The Chargers twice.

Speaker 1 The Chargers have played them tight.

Speaker 1 I think basically every Chargers Chiefs game ends with a three-point loss for the Chiefs. That's every Chargers.

Speaker 4 That's every Chargers game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, every Chargers game.

Speaker 1 I kind of like the Chargers here because I just, I don't know. The Chiefs don't cover spreads.

Speaker 1 The Chiefs' defense has been really, really good. Yeah.
And I have no doubt they're going to win this game, but that's just enough.

Speaker 1 Five and a half is just enough for the Chargers to find a way in the back door and be like, oh, that was close.

Speaker 1 Chargers are right on the precipice, even though when you watch the game, you're like, no, no, no. Chiefs are so much better than the Chargers.

Speaker 4 This would be a big-time win-loss for the Chargers this week. The Chiefs do have the fourth best defense in the NFL.

Speaker 4 It's crazy to think that, okay, now that team is like elite defensively. And the Chiefs last week against the Broncos, they were fucking around so much on offense.

Speaker 4 I think that they went into that game being like, well, we're going to beat the Broncos because we'd never, ever lose to the Broncos.

Speaker 4 And they're a shitty team this year, so we can afford to have a practice on Thursday.

Speaker 4 But this week, I feel like they're going to take the Chargers a little bit more seriously.

Speaker 1 Yeah. The Chargers need to win.
And did you also see that the Chiefs have taken final form as, you know, they've obviously won two Super Bowls, been to every AFC championship game.

Speaker 1 They are the new Patriots. They've taken final form as the new Patriots by bringing Micole Hardman back.

Speaker 1 That's such a Patriots move because they're going to bring him back. He's going to be good again.

Speaker 4 Yeah, they're going to bring him back. He's going to get him for cheap.

Speaker 1 That's such a Patriots move.

Speaker 4 I was listening to the Pro Football Focus podcast, and they talked about JC Jackson coming back to the Patriots. And they're like, that's just Dave Portnoy buying Barstall back for a dollar.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 yeah. It's true.

Speaker 4 That's what the Chiefs have done.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're just doing the same thing. We're like, oh, that guy stunk when he left.
Okay, well, we'll bring him back and he'll be good again.

Speaker 4 Yeah, is he still pretty quick and he knows like when to sit down in his own coverage?

Speaker 1 Great.

Speaker 4 Yeah, sign him up.

Speaker 1 Do you think Taylor's going to be at this game? Last chance before she goes back on tour.

Speaker 4 I think the Chargers are too good. I think they're also, Travis Kelsey is probably like, Justin Herbert's kind of, he's kind of cute.
He's good looking. I don't want her at that game.

Speaker 1 I saw Travis Kelsey bought a new house. Yeah, he wants more privacy.

Speaker 1 It has a mini golf course.

Speaker 1 I don't know why we don't live in Kansas City. This house is insane.

Speaker 4 So it's got a mini golf course. What else does it have?

Speaker 1 I was looking at the gated community. It's got everything.
I always, I think about that, just looking at different places in America being like, well, we could just be ballers in

Speaker 1 Toledo, Ohio.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Anchorage. Imagine what we could get in Reno right now.

Speaker 1 Why are you making that face memes? You don't want to live in Toledo?

Speaker 1 Yeah, no. No.
The fuck?

Speaker 1 I got the fucking key to the city, dude. You can do whatever you want.
We can do whatever we want.

Speaker 4 Where do you think the worst place to live if you're like, if you have $100 million in the bank would be? I think probably Long Island.

Speaker 4 What's wrong with Long Island? It's just, yeah, you don't get 100 million. You can't get like a super nice house.
You're not that rich, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah. On Long Island.
Yeah, but it's nice.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's nice. Exactly.
It's nice.

Speaker 1 Right. Some parts of Long Island are a dump.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Coral Gables, you could probably get a much sicker house down there. Yeah.
$100 million.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I just looked, saw the house, and I was like, what, what the fuck? This is like insane.

Speaker 4 That's a house that was definitely built for a former Kansas City athlete. Correct.
And they've been waiting to show

Speaker 4 for another good athlete.

Speaker 1 Six bed, six bath, 16,000 square feet. 16,000 square feet.
Tennis, pickleball, mini golf. That's sick.
We should go to Kansas City.

Speaker 1 We should just buy one house in Kansas City and ball out every we'll go like once a year.

Speaker 4 They got a great zoo. They got one of the best zoos in the country.

Speaker 1 And they've upgraded their airport, which we've got to review at some point.

Speaker 4 That's right. That one guy was like, you got to go back to the Kansas City airport.

Speaker 1 They're like, no, we fixed it.

Speaker 4 It's not that bad.

Speaker 1 Our colleague Kelly Kiggs blogged about how Travis plans to join Taylor to kick off her international tour next month.

Speaker 1 All right. Where? I don't.
Buenos Ares. I think Argentina.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't want to.

Speaker 1 I want to be very supportive of the Taylor-Swift-Travis Kelsey relationship. Yeah, we are.
I like it.

Speaker 1 I love it. I love her.
I love it.

Speaker 1 The Chiefs got to keep winning.

Speaker 1 Because they're going to blame her?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, he's been everywhere. That's definitely a conversation.

Speaker 1 I don't think Travis Kelsey is so good at football, and he has got so many pelts on the wall that's like two-time Super Bowl champion, all this stuff, that I don't think anyone's like doubting Travis Kelsey's ability to play or desire to be involved, all that stuff.

Speaker 1 But it is a fact that if you win, you can do whatever you want. And if you lose, people will start being like, oh, you went to Saturday Night Live.
Oh, you did this. That's just a fact.

Speaker 1 I don't think it's right because, again, I think Travis Kelsey is so good, it doesn't matter, but it's a fact of how these things play out.

Speaker 4 It's like no one cared when the Patriots are winning when Aaron Hernandez was killing people, but then they don't win the Super Bowl, and you're like, Wait, lock this guy up.

Speaker 1 That sort of thing. PFC's just taking side shots.
Oh, and they didn't. That wasn't directly.

Speaker 1 That wasn't directly playing. And hey, also

Speaker 1 Mesco kind of knew Argentina.

Speaker 1 The Argentina portion of the tour is during the Chiefs bye week. So you can't really shame him for that.
No, I get, I don't know. No, we can.
We can't travel. All right,

Speaker 1 I'll use this example. Brandon Marshall, when he was on the Bears, he started doing

Speaker 1 whatever it is, the inside the NFL. He would fly to New York every Tuesday.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 When the Bears were doing okay, it was fine. When the Bears started losing, everyone's like, Why the fuck are you flying every week, dude? That's just reality.

Speaker 4 Or when Baker Mayfield did all the commercials and he had a good rookie year. And we're like, oh, this guy's different.
And then he took a step backwards.

Speaker 4 And we're like, wait a second, why is he so good at acting? Right.

Speaker 1 I didn't think Brandon Marshall was like not putting the time in. It just, when you do something else and you're not winning,

Speaker 1 the Chiefs are going to keep winning. So this is a moot point.
I'm just saying that if they do lose a game or two, it will be brought up.

Speaker 1 The real question is, will she come back to the United States if the Chiefs are in the Super Bowl? Because she's in Tokyo the day before the Super Bowl and then Australia the week after.

Speaker 1 So that would be commitment.

Speaker 4 Yeah, she would. She definitely would to Vegas.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she probably will get the fucking Super Bowl move to Tokyo. She's got a private jet, Jake.

Speaker 4 She travels everywhere. She goes to the store.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but in terms of time, that's that's the day before. I guess you get all the time back because they're ahead, right? Traveling east.
It's been

Speaker 1 free time.

Speaker 4 I don't like that. She'd be traveling east at the last minute.

Speaker 1 The poor ozone layer.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's a real loser in this.

Speaker 1 Okay. Did you give us a nerve nugget? Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen needs 81 scrimmage yards to reach 10,000 for his career.

Speaker 1 He'd be the second fastest Charger ever to reach that mark behind LaDani and Tomlinson.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 4 Do you think that when Travis Kelsey is watching film with Taylor, if she's like, who's that other tight end, Blake Bell? He blocks a lot harder than you do. Why don't you block that hard, babe?

Speaker 4 You should block more.

Speaker 4 I think she should probably start.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I agree. Ooh, someone just texted me Travis Pagent's number.

Speaker 1 Should we call him?

Speaker 1 Oh, shout out Shane. Thank you.
Different Shane.

Speaker 1 Okay, last game. Dolphins, Eagles.
I'm so excited for this game.

Speaker 4 So excited for this game.

Speaker 1 This is a.

Speaker 1 Who is Max more nervous about? Jake or Nikki Smokes?

Speaker 1 That is like the polar opposites of

Speaker 1 people that can piss you off while watching a game with them. It really is.

Speaker 1 They are hitting you with a one-two punch that has never been seen before.

Speaker 1 The answer is Nicki Smokes. Okay, I don't know.
It is. I don't know.
Because Jake will see that situation, and it's going to be two loud guys going at each other. And

Speaker 1 you're going to take a backseat. I know what you do in that.

Speaker 1 I always think about that.

Speaker 1 We will stream this for everyone who wants to watch it.

Speaker 1 So I agree with you. Nikki Smokes will be the more boisterous one, obviously.
But Jake has a way, man. If he does a clap at the end, if he tries to shake your hand.

Speaker 1 I have no idea what Nikki Smokes is going to do. We have not seen him in this.

Speaker 1 It's like the enemy you know versus the enemy. Like, Jake, you don't know what Jake will do.
I disagree. I know the Dolphins win to piss you off.

Speaker 4 I'm with Max. I think you know Jake way more than Nick.

Speaker 1 Jake will do something that will piss me off. Like, he'll do a little clap or a yeah that

Speaker 1 will be annoying, but I've seen it before, and I can expect that. I have a game plan for it.
I have no idea. And I, and I don't really know Nikki Smokes that way.
He might prank you.

Speaker 1 He's, I, I, uh, he might get smoked. He's also like way,

Speaker 1 he just, every time he sees me he keeps telling me something about it I'm like I'm I'm gonna worry about that on Sunday.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to win baseball I'm trying to win baseball Yeah, you don't have the capacity to do both I can't I can't well hopefully the series is wrapped up by then you know what the worst would be if Jake beats you and then he takes a picture of the score of me and

Speaker 1 right in your mind

Speaker 4 more excited about

Speaker 1 the picture oh yeah

Speaker 1 no no yeah no max if he beats you with the scoregami I mean Max wasn't mad the Eagles lost last week so it's true it's true it's camping

Speaker 1 That's not true. Max, real quick, what's the Eagles' injury situation?

Speaker 1 It's looking good.

Speaker 1 What, there got more injuries?

Speaker 1 Baldy said that Lane Johnson's looking good. That got picked up all over NFL Twitter or all over Eagles Twitter.

Speaker 1 Darius Slay said that he's going to be back sooner than expected than everyone thinks.

Speaker 1 Which is weird because everyone thought he was coming back this week.

Speaker 4 Did they get picked up by Eagles Twitter or by the anonymous verified aggregator accounts? You know the ones? No, yes. No, but it was like JPA football.

Speaker 4 And NFL Rookie Watch, I think they're all the same guy.

Speaker 1 No, it was like

Speaker 1 Eagles Nation,

Speaker 1 that crazy guy that said that it's easier to hit a home run than it is to score a goal in the NHL. I love that.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that guy sucks.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but like all the Eagles beat reporters were like, according to, yeah, that Lane Johnson's back. Lane Johnson's back.

Speaker 4 I got some stats here for you, Jake. You like these.
This is per smart football Chris Brown. Not that Chris Brown, good Chris Brown.

Speaker 4 He said the Dolphins are averaging eight yards per play, 8.0 yards per play. Next closest team in the NFL is the 49ers.
They average 6 yards per play.

Speaker 4 And then the last place team is the Giants with 4.1 yards per play. I thought you were coming after Hank again.
No, no, no. This is

Speaker 1 just a Jake's stat. He didn't even know.

Speaker 4 So that means that the gap between the Dolphins at number one and the 49ers at number two is bigger than the gap between the 49ers at number two and the worst team in the NFL.

Speaker 4 That's how good your offense is.

Speaker 1 The only thing that concerns me with the Dolphins is the schedule.

Speaker 4 You haven't beaten anybody.

Speaker 1 They've beaten the worst teams. The worst five teams in the league.
Well, no, the Chargers aren't the worst. Besides the Chargers.
Yeah, but the week one on the road.

Speaker 1 The Giants, the Patriots, Panthers, and the Broncos.

Speaker 1 And then the one good team that got smoked. Yeah, I think the Eagles are going to win this game.
Also, we have to say,

Speaker 1 I've done the computer models, everything that I've put into the numbers, crunched them all. I think the Kelly Green jerseys are worth seven points.
Okay. Wow.

Speaker 1 thank you seven points um i saw the helmets yeah well i mean that's seven points how much did the jets win that is probably what it was the jets wore kelly green they did wear kelly green i'm also fully was the seven points yeah true i'm also fully back on julio jones i i i downplayed it when we first the way he was talking are you sure you have he's prime he's prime julio jones you got a busy schedule

Speaker 1 No, I do. I have a busy schedule.
Right, but are you sure you have time to get back on Julio Jones? What? I'm saying you have a lot going on.

Speaker 1 It's done. It's already in the past.
I'm already back in. Like even the fact that you've taken this time to think about Julio Jones means you haven't been thinking about the Phillips.

Speaker 1 I haven't even said Penn State, Ohio State Saturday night. Oh, I forgot about that.
Jesus. Max, you have a massive weekend.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm a casual Penn State fan, but I'm still going to root for them to win, wake up early.

Speaker 4 You just said prime Julio Jones, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, that could have been an exaggeration, but he said he's going to dominate. And if he says he's going to dominate, then.
Match, and correct me if if I'm wrong, you are official stance.

Speaker 1 You're a Joe Pod didn't know guy.

Speaker 1 Oh, geez. I didn't know.
No.

Speaker 1 That was a trick question, and you failed.

Speaker 4 Are you trying to think of whether or not he did know? Are you trying to think of whether or not you need to come out against him knowing that?

Speaker 1 Max, that was a bad answer. He know, he knows.
That was a bad.

Speaker 4 He's thinking to himself, he definitely knew, but how do I say that he didn't know? Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, he know, he know. Okay.

Speaker 4 But he's still sport.

Speaker 1 No, he knew. Yeah, okay.
Because that um

Speaker 1 that was suspect.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay, I think the Eagles are going to win this game.

Speaker 4 So I told Max when I came in, I think the Eagles are going to crush him.

Speaker 1 What was that? What did you just talk to? Nothing, nothing. You can't talk to me.
We're doing a podcast.

Speaker 1 You said something to me off-bike. We're doing a podcast.
No. What did you say? Yes, we are.
We are.

Speaker 1 Joe Panew.

Speaker 1 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 that's it. Okay.
What did he say to you, memes? I'm battery lives. Oh, shit.
But what, though? Nothing.

Speaker 4 But Sandusky also had a

Speaker 1 charity? No. They won a lot of football games.
No, no. Won a lot of football games.
No.

Speaker 4 What about the statue? Where are you at in the statue match?

Speaker 1 Statue should stay down. Yes.
It's actually Jeff D. Lowe has taken it.
It's going to be the Dozen Season 4 trophy.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Jake. Philadelphia is tied for the third highest primetime winning percentage since 2017, trailing only the Chiefs and the Ravens.
The Eagles have won six of their last seven primetime games.

Speaker 1 They're 2-0 this season. I love that.
They love the the lights.

Speaker 1 I do think, yeah, the Dolphins are a really good team, but this is another step up in class, especially off a loss for the Eagles. If Lane Johnson plays, I think the Eagles will be.

Speaker 1 The Dolphins heading into their bye the next three weeks. They're at the Eagles, home against the Patriots, and then neutral Germany against the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 If they get crushed by the Eagles and the Chiefs and beat the Patriots, they're going to be seven and two, but they're. They're going to be fraud alert.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We're going to have to put them on fraud alert this month. And then they have the Raiders, the Jets, the Commanders, the Titans.
Like, their schedule.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, we might have to put them on fraud alert. Yep.

Speaker 4 The best. actually, the Eagles teams are good that you just said.

Speaker 1 Exactly. That's what he's saying.
I'm saying

Speaker 1 they just have a very easy schedule. They have to beat a good team for us to fully believe in my team.
And they've only,

Speaker 1 in honesty, they've only lost to one really good team. Yeah, and they've blown out all the other teams.
Yeah, we should say that's not their fault.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's, but they do need to win one of these big games. I think they have to split with their Eagles and the Chiefs and all be comfortable.
Yeah, you've just said this to me before.

Speaker 4 You were like, the Dolphins have no, I'm asking you a genuine question.

Speaker 1 The best team that they beat is the Rams. Yeah.
No, they beat the Rams good. Yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 that was a good win.

Speaker 4 You licked him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you licked him. And the Bucs, I guess.
But I think the Rams are better than the Bucs.

Speaker 4 I was just trying to get you to say the Commanders was the best team. Oh, I was.

Speaker 1 And the Commanders, my bad. That's what I say.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 4 There was a great quote from George Milata. They asked if you could do Freaky Friday and switch bodies with any Eagle, who it would be.
And he thought about it for a second, and he goes,

Speaker 4 Nick Foles. Definitely Nick Foles.

Speaker 1 Love it.

Speaker 1 Love it. I love it.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Let's do picks, and then we'll do Fantasy Fuckboys.

Speaker 1 Where are we at, standings? Well, we got to address something from last week.

Speaker 4 Uh-oh. Yeah, you messed up.

Speaker 1 We had an error.

Speaker 1 We? We. Who's we? I'll take blame for it.
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 1 I don't think that you should take blame for it.

Speaker 4 Shut the fuck up, Max.

Speaker 1 We have a rule where we're taking one side and one total, and PFT picked two sides, and nobody, but mostly my fault, acknowledged that on the spot. However, he did lose that Patriots pick.

Speaker 1 Oh, you took the Patriots, so it kind of worked out. That safety.

Speaker 4 So what happened was,

Speaker 1 though, right?

Speaker 4 Jake told me in the group chat, or maybe it was Max that highlighted it. I forget who sent it to the group chat.

Speaker 1 I think it was me.

Speaker 4 Hey, you're only supposed to take one side, and then you have to do one total. So I said, okay, let me take the Patriots Raiders over.
And then under.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah, I wanted the under. And then you guys replied with, no, you have to take the over because you didn't get the pick incorrectly, which is fair.
So, I'll wear that later.

Speaker 1 Either way, it's a loss. All right, so give us standing.
Okay, so uh, in the warm-up category, I'm eight, three, and one, max is seven and five, and memes is four and eight.

Speaker 1 Ooh, so we're already seeing some separation.

Speaker 1 Three and one is really good, yeah. I mean, three and one, it's pretty sick.
Um, in the main event, Big Cat 7-3-2, PFT 7-5, Hank, 5-6-1.

Speaker 1 It's been a bad year,

Speaker 1 yeah, bad, ice cold, also bad, bad. How many times are you going to say bad?

Speaker 1 It's bad.

Speaker 1 Well, Hank has not been bad in the pancakes only league. Oh, he has three of the top four guys in the league.
There you go. With 31 pancakes.
No ball. And Hank, you said that.

Speaker 1 You don't mind doing an hour stand-up set. You just don't want to eat pancakes.
Yeah, exactly. 31 for Hank.
22 for Max, 20 for Big Cat, 15 for Memes, 13 for PFT, and 10 for me.

Speaker 1 So I'm in line to eat 24.

Speaker 1 Miserable eating pancakes. I I did 19 dogs in eight hours.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 I feel like it's not as bad. This is not as bad.
You got street credit. And I tweeted out Taylor Decker because he's in AWL.
I said, you got to start pancakes. And he replied.
Oh, did he?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I didn't see it. He's like, yeah.

Speaker 1 He's like, I'm on it. Let's go.
Noted. Let's go.
Yeah. I might be back.
Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 Whose goes first? Oh,

Speaker 1 Hank. Okay, thanks.
And then who?

Speaker 4 Then you, Big Cat.

Speaker 1 Then me. Go around that.
Oh, yeah, noted and underlined twice. Okay.
Taylor Decker. There you go.
All right. Hank, go.

Speaker 1 Hank.

Speaker 4 Bills minus eight and a half.

Speaker 1 Against the Patriots. What a jerk you are.
You will not be watching.

Speaker 1 It's going to be a blowout.

Speaker 1 Okay, I will take

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 Chargers plus five and a half. Damn.
Against the Chiefs. Oh, you wanted that?

Speaker 4 That's one or two.

Speaker 1 Well, you couldn't have picked. That one.
No, I know.

Speaker 4 That was.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 1 I know how it works. So if I win and you lose, you're gonna be like, fuck.

Speaker 4 Yeah, those are the only two I wrote down for spreads.

Speaker 1 You thought I was gonna take the bills?

Speaker 4 No, no, I just was choosing between the two.

Speaker 1 He didn't go Chargers. All right, memes.
Eagles minus two and a half. Like it.

Speaker 1 There's no other memes besides the Eagles. That was the only one.
That was the only one that was in my head.

Speaker 1 Lions, Ravens, over.

Speaker 1 Okay. That was my total.
43 and a half. Okay.

Speaker 1 Jake. I'm going to go with Chargers, Chiefs over 48.5.
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 4 So I get two. Yes.
I'm going to go Chargers, Chiefs under 48.5.

Speaker 4 And then I'm going to go with the Niners on the road at the Vikings Monday Night Football. Yep.
Kirk Cousins in prime time. I'm taking the Niners minus six and a half on the road in Minnesota.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. So you took a spread and a total.
I did. Good job, PFT.

Speaker 4 Thank you.

Speaker 1 I'm going to take

Speaker 1 the Steelers plus three on the road against the Rams. Mike Tomlinson like it.

Speaker 1 Okay, Max.

Speaker 1 Means really, fuck me here.

Speaker 4 I'll go Bucks minus two and a half against him.

Speaker 1 How could he do that? He knows I'm an Eagles fan.

Speaker 1 You should have taken. I don't know the Jets are off.

Speaker 4 Raiders, Bears over 37.5.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. I will do.

Speaker 1 Monday Night Football over 43 and a half.

Speaker 4 I like that too. Vikings, Niners.
I will do Steelers Rams under 43.5. Ooh, good pick.

Speaker 1 Defensive struggle. Good pick.
You're back.

Speaker 1 Probably not. Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. Finish your fuck, boys.

Speaker 1 Yo, yo, yo, yo, hey, yo, hey, yo, Jaeger bombs.

Speaker 4 My name is Santino Satiamakia.

Speaker 1 Don't be so salty.

Speaker 4 I stad him. Sketches.
Oh, it's the sketches are no longer sketchy. The signing big name basketball players, Julius Randall, Joel End.

Speaker 4 They're trying to make a mock in the NBA footwear game. Wow, those are two NBA champions.
My sleeper.

Speaker 4 Speaking of NBA champions,

Speaker 1 it's James Hodge. Oh, I had him on my stadum.

Speaker 4 He's nowhere to be found. He's in strip clubs in Houston.
The team's in Philly. He doesn't give a fuck.
That franchise is a joke.

Speaker 1 The be.

Speaker 4 And my sleeper

Speaker 4 is Devontae Adams.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 4 He's been a diva. He's demanded the rock.
You can pick him up. He's probably on the wave away in all your leagues.
Pick him up this week. He's going to go off.

Speaker 1 Let him out of the cage to eat.

Speaker 1 Love it.

Speaker 4 Hey, what's up, dick faces? It's me, Buzz Flaviano.

Speaker 4 I'm starting this week. I'm starting Jim Harbaugh Jim Harbaugh and his surveillance network that he's got cooking up there at Michigan.
They got credible evidence.

Speaker 4 The Big Ten says that he's spying, stealing signs, stealing passwords, stealing everything, stealing your girl. He'll take whatever you give him and he's taking it.
He's a great coach.

Speaker 1 Sickening behavior. Great coach.

Speaker 4 I'm sitting the Astros because they're a bunch of fucking cheaters. People forget that.

Speaker 4 And then my sleeper is Hunter Renfro.

Speaker 1 We talked about Hunter Renfro earlier this week.

Speaker 4 They might have to trade him soon. He might get a few catches if they got a competent front office in Las Vegas.
Feed him the ball, up his trade value, or else you're fucked.

Speaker 1 Oh, what's up, guys? It's Salvatore Buka de Mepo. Sally B.
My love pasta. I love pasta.
My starter is James Harden. I'm actually starting him.
Let him live his best life. He's in there.
He's grinding.

Speaker 1 He's got his dick in his buttholes. He's at the strip clubs.
Who cares about basketball? Get him on.

Speaker 4 Team with John Morant. Let the boys cook.

Speaker 1 Let him go. My sit him is Russell Wilson.
We already talked about him, but did you know Russell Wilson and Drew Locke basically have the same exact numbers as Broncos started quarterbacks?

Speaker 1 They should never have gotten rid of Drew Locke.

Speaker 4 Drew Locke, something about that kid. I just, I can't put my finger on it, but I like him.

Speaker 1 I like him. My

Speaker 1 sleeper is Bryant head coach Jared Grosso.

Speaker 4 Oh, Grosso, fuck boy.

Speaker 1 The body cam came out and he said to the cop, you want to shoot some jumpers?

Speaker 1 He literally said that. He said, want to shoot some jumpers? What's wrong with that?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, I do happen to coach the basketball team.

Speaker 4 How about that?

Speaker 1 He said, you want to, if I play ball? And the guy was like, yeah, you're the coach.

Speaker 1 It was an all-time clip. All-time clip.
Hold on, I'll play it. Ready? Listen to this.
He's also, he is a fantasy fuck boy.

Speaker 1 All the people who should be nervous, not you. No, I'm not nervous.
I'm not either. Do you want to shoot jumpers? No, no.
You play ball? No. Nope.
You think I do?

Speaker 1 Yeah, clearly you do. You're the coach.
Yeah, so yeah, so give me what you need.

Speaker 1 That was such such a, do you know who I am? Do you think I play ball? Do you think I play ball? Look at me. You think I play ball? Do you think I play ball? Do I look like a baller?

Speaker 1 All right, let's get to our interview with Will Compton.

Speaker 6 Ew, this is. So we already taped it.

Speaker 4 This interview sucks.

Speaker 1 Will just walked in the room. We have not taped it yet.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on our good friend, colleague,

Speaker 1 friend.

Speaker 1 I was going to say, I was going to say, you know what I was going to say? I was going to say.

Speaker 1 No, I'm not going to say it. It wasn't going to like set the, said the

Speaker 1 set like a bad tone. I was going to say cover cover band.
I'm not going to say it. Will Compton, he's our good friend.
I love Willie C.

Speaker 1 He's here in the last, yeah, you'll be the last guest in the old, pardon my take, temporary office that we're in right now. Part of history.
You're part of history. We're closing it out with you.

Speaker 1 We just want to talk some ball. Want to talk ball? Let's talk ball.
Let's talk ball. Let's talk ball.
Okay. By the way.

Speaker 1 Can we talk about the cover band stuff? No, that was a joke. No, I know, no, but.
I'm in a cover band. Cover bands rock.
No, I know. You guys rip, by the way.
Yeah, you guys, yeah.

Speaker 4 You're a good singer, too, Will.

Speaker 1 Thank you. I do try.

Speaker 1 Shout out to the dude in the front that was like trying to feed me lyrics the whole time. How was Knoxville?

Speaker 4 Knoxville is always great. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's one of my favorites. The Hill is a good spot.

Speaker 4 It is. It was a shit show.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 if you don't want to... No, no, we can.
Yeah, I was just going to say, like...

Speaker 1 You guys,

Speaker 1 with the jokes, the cover band, the bus with the boys, part of my take 2.0,

Speaker 1 no, there's no recreating successful blueprints out there all the time. Like, there's no original thought.

Speaker 1 I very much give flowers to you guys for not like, they're not like, I don't, like, see something of yours and think, oh, we got to do this as an idea.

Speaker 1 But subconsciously, if something's like implanted in my brain, like when it comes back around, somebody's like, oh, part of my take did this.

Speaker 1 Sometimes I'll just be like, oh, I mean, I didn't even know that they had that. Oh, that's parallel thought is very much thing.
And also, I want to clear.

Speaker 1 The only reason I joke about it is it doesn't, like, I don't actually think.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't, if it was true, I would be like, motherfucking you behind the scenes. I wouldn't joke about it to your face.
But you guys got a strong fan base.

Speaker 1 I see the AWS, but I do want to, like, I'm saying it in like a, in like a positive light. Like, yeah, you guys are like the standard

Speaker 1 for like doing

Speaker 1 something.

Speaker 1 The PFT met was we, people were, like, would accuse us of stealing each other's tweets. It's parallel thought.

Speaker 4 Like, his blogs and my PFT. His blogs and my blogs would have like similar jokes in them.
And like takes. People would tag us in each other's shit.

Speaker 4 And then we were like, I don't think either one of us was like, fuck this guy. We're both like, well, this guy's probably got a good sense of humor.

Speaker 1 Right, right.

Speaker 1 I never got to do that. Yeah, parallel thought.
It's the internet. Oh, yeah, it's the internet.
You never make jokes all day. Yeah, some jokes have to say.

Speaker 4 Yeah, like when Jake gets arrested, well, he got arrested last week for cocaine possession.

Speaker 4 And what we did earlier on today's show was he started reading a statement, and then he tore up the statement. He said, no, I'm just going to speak from my heart about my drug accusation.

Speaker 4 And that was like a tip of the hat to Taylor, you know? So we're,

Speaker 4 we get, we can steal from each other a little bit. It's all good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you guys stay on it, though. Like, oh, you had the, I remember when it happened, like, when I saw that you were doing the Taylor Swift thing, I was like, yeah, I'm going to call a timeout.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was like, oh,

Speaker 1 I was joking. I was like, oh,

Speaker 1 why didn't you cover the whole wanting a sex tape? That would have been nice. I did.
You did back me up. Yeah, I saw that.
I did kind of keep my hands off that.

Speaker 1 Oh, shit. But I was telling telling BC by the time I saw it, there was like 32 million views

Speaker 1 on that video. And I was like, oh, oh, no, the boys are in the trenches.

Speaker 4 Numbers are numbers, baby.

Speaker 1 Like, no doubt. I'm like seeing people like, I was telling BC, like, somebody was like, I felt like sub-tweeting me saying, you know, any colleague or even athletes in the field.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I forget what the tweet exactly was, but I felt like it was directed solely at me. Yeah, they try to get it.

Speaker 1 But not speaking up, and I'm just thinking, like, they try to go for anyone who's friends with us. Right.
They're like, you can't even look at these guys. Oh, you're friends with them still?

Speaker 1 The worst.

Speaker 1 The worst. But yeah, that was fun.

Speaker 4 So, would you watch the video or not?

Speaker 1 With the sex tape? Would I watch the video? Yeah. I'd take a peek.
Yeah, you'd have to. If one was out there and it was like, this link happened, it's like...

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 listen, we live on the internet. Yeah, we live on the internet.
If a link comes across your face and then names pop up that you're like, oh, let's see what's up here. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 All right. So Will Compton officially would watch a sex tape without permission.

Speaker 1 Got it. All right.
So

Speaker 1 let's talk some some ball. We can start NFL and then maybe we'll talk some college.
Okay.

Speaker 1 You had a take to start the season.

Speaker 1 The Chiefs would start one and four. I did.
Where are we at with that take now? Bad take. I like that.
Sometimes you're making a mistake. Bad swing, sometimes you miss.
Hey, bad take.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a bad take.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I thought this was a year.
Listen, I do have a little bias with the Raiders. I thought this year they could do something.

Speaker 1 Chargers, they have like, they've spent the most money on defense of like any team. And I thought they could be actually a player this year.
Right. And I was I was wrong.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I thought based off their first five, I was like Jacksonville could sneak them. Like they could low-key get behind the eight-ball.
Lose to the Lions. They lost.

Speaker 1 I'm like, hey, this might yeah, you weren't going to be able to do that.

Speaker 4 You got to figure out a way to spin zone your way out of that, though. You can't admit that you're wrong about a take.

Speaker 4 You just have to be like, no, I was right, but there was a material change that happened. You didn't predict Taylor Swift dating Travis Kelsey.

Speaker 4 If you had known that, you might have switched a little bit left. You also probably didn't predict their defense being as good as it is this year.
That's a fair point.

Speaker 1 And you could just wait, and if they don't win the Super Bowl, you can just be like, told you. Yeah.
Tried telling you guys.

Speaker 1 Because I do.

Speaker 1 I want to. Next year, I'll do it again.
They're not going to make the playoffs.

Speaker 1 2024s are not going to play. They're going to go for the trap that half the media falls for in like August when it's like, we've talked about every preseason thing.
We just want the games to get here.

Speaker 1 What's something I can say that's different? Chiefs don't win the West.

Speaker 1 Chiefs ain't winning addition.

Speaker 1 Dude, we had to set ourselves a reminder. Jake told us in July to just say on the podcast, Chiefs are going to win the West.
Because we're like, we just got to say it and then just get it over with.

Speaker 4 I actually do think if they win this weekend, if they beat the Chargers, we should just declare the Chiefs AFC West champions. They are.

Speaker 1 They probably are. What's been your guys' worst take of the year?

Speaker 4 We don't have any bad takes.

Speaker 4 Our takes have been pretty spot on.

Speaker 1 This year, it's nothing.

Speaker 1 I mean, I thought the Bears were going to be good.

Speaker 4 I said Commanders Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 I thought the Super Bowl was a possibility after, I think, week three.

Speaker 1 I said

Speaker 1 last year in the playoffs, I said Asante Samuel Jr. sucks, and then he had the three picks against the

Speaker 1 Jaguars. Commanders, they're not like, I mean, they're not out of it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, well, no, they're not going to win a Super Bowl this year, though.

Speaker 1 No, probably not.

Speaker 4 I let my thoughts just run a little bit too wild.

Speaker 1 I know, and I let a couple of guys on the inside

Speaker 1 get me way higher on Sam Howe than I.

Speaker 4 He's good, though. Do you agree?

Speaker 1 No, he's a good quarterback. He is good.
Do you still talk to a bunch of guys you play with? And is it weird, like, them talking to you, knowing that you're in the media now?

Speaker 1 Some guys, like, give me, some guys give me shit about it, but in Washington, not really.

Speaker 1 There's like one person in particular I talked to, and if I said anything about it, everybody would know exactly who it is.

Speaker 1 A current player? Do what? A current player? I can't tell you.

Speaker 1 Could be someone in the, in the, well, no, they got rid of it.

Speaker 1 But player-wise, guys will, like, give me shit and poke at me, but it's like, what do you, like, fellas, if you, yes, I know I'm out on doing all the antics on social media all the time, so I do get it.

Speaker 1 But if you're, you're like, if you tell me something, I'm thinking, like, okay, this, uh, this is something I definitely shouldn't share. Like, I'm not going to share it.
Right, right.

Speaker 1 What about, uh, do you miss it?

Speaker 1 Uh, I mean, not like year 11.

Speaker 1 There are whispers. People try to get me up off the seat.

Speaker 1 But not like, I don't miss all the physical. Like, I watch the game and I'm like, I don't know how I could even wrap my mind around doing this right now.
Right.

Speaker 1 Like, sometimes I'm just like, yo, how did this even happen?

Speaker 1 But I miss like,

Speaker 1 I don't know, I'll see Coach Rule speeches. I'll get a little juiced up.

Speaker 1 I see any type of football stuff and that it's like a feel-good story.

Speaker 1 And it's like, those are the things where you just get like pumped for somebody's success when they've been like, whether it's an underdog or they overcame something.

Speaker 1 And you're just like, man, that's just what it's about. And you kind of miss those moments.
Right.

Speaker 4 I got a serious football question for you because you were the green dot, right? Yeah. You were a green dot guy.
Green dot guy.

Speaker 1 I wore the green dot. I was a green dot guy.
Can you believe that? Will Compton got hurt?

Speaker 4 Will Compton was the smartest guy?

Speaker 1 Enough people.

Speaker 4 You're talking to Captain Will Compton right now.

Speaker 1 Eventually. Eventually,

Speaker 1 the ultimate locker room guy.

Speaker 4 So, but when you're wearing the green dot on defense, what is like, how long is a standard play call that you then have to relay?

Speaker 4 Because we always hear the transmission when it's like the offensive coordinator talking to the quarterback. Not defense.

Speaker 1 Not defense. You might get a double call on defense, say, like you say the front, and then if it's a coverage, it's like, you know, to simplify, like over 63.

Speaker 1 So you'll play six to the passing strength and like three away or over

Speaker 1 you know

Speaker 1 you'll you'll double call based on formation so if it's like three by one you'll be in cover four if you're in two by two you could be in cover three but we don't have like long exotic calls like an offense does and if it's a blitz you're saying the front you're saying the blitz and you're saying the coverage on the back end yeah did you then after that have to like look around at everybody on defense and like grab people was that your responsibility

Speaker 1 yeah yeah yeah yeah but in practice, what we would do, because sometimes, especially if it's like a loud stadium and it's hard to communicate, like I would put it on a defensive lineman to hear the front call.

Speaker 1 I would make sure the backer next to me knew to echo to the DBs because the DBs are always the fucking slowest to listen and they never want to fully get in the huddle. And then

Speaker 1 whoever's like the guy in the secondary is like right there in the huddle so he can carry off the coverage and echo.

Speaker 1 And then to me, I'm thinking like you guys have to echo it because there's only so much gas in the tank at all times on the field.

Speaker 4 So what do they do before the green dot?

Speaker 1 Hand signals. Oh, yeah, yeah, hand signals.
Nebraska would be like, if we're playing cover four, Miami, it'd be Miami, like waves. Even double bracket, even double bracket.

Speaker 1 And then you would just know strong, strong storm roll,

Speaker 1 strong storm roll, and you would just know it's strong storm roll two coverage.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I mean, that's a whole level to the game that I don't think we, you don't pick up watching on TV unless you've actually been in that helmet and you hear the play.

Speaker 1 But you see all the guys on the sidelines, too. Some are dummy calls.
Fake ones. Yeah, the fake ones.
I'd be really good at that one. I would only see the dummy calls.

Speaker 1 I'd be like, fuck, I would remember which one. Just grabbing my dick.

Speaker 1 You said gas in the tank.

Speaker 1 I love asking this about guys who played. At what point in a drive are you like, fuck this? How many plays? If they convert a first down, I'm like,

Speaker 1 only one?

Speaker 1 If it's the first play, you're like, okay, reset, reset.

Speaker 1 Hey, a new three and out opportunity, your boys. But when they convert a third down, it's just, God, it bums you out.
Especially when it's like third or six plus. Right.

Speaker 1 If it's third or six plus and they convert it, it just takes the wind out of your sail. As far as gas tank goes, is if it's like once it gets over

Speaker 1 eight

Speaker 1 plays? Yeah, eight plays you're puffing. That's where it's like when they're relaying it.
It's like, hey, you guys have to be tight so that way we can echo.

Speaker 1 Because a middle backer who's like going around to everybody, you just get worn out by it.

Speaker 4 You ever in a situation where you had to let the other team score?

Speaker 1 I don't think so. Will did have three interceptions.

Speaker 4 So all the times you got ran over, that was on purpose, is what you're saying? Every time what? You got ran over? That was intentional?

Speaker 1 Or not intentional? You were actually trying?

Speaker 1 Who was the big white running back for the Packers?

Speaker 4 John Coon? I don't.

Speaker 1 Was he? Was it Ripkowski? Yeah. Ripkowski.
Who? Aaron Ripkowski. Yeah, yeah, Rip.

Speaker 1 Was he like 22 or something like that? Number 20-something? Probably, yeah.

Speaker 1 But anyway, when I first got to the Raiders and John Gruden was like introducing me to the team, he pulled up my highlight tape.

Speaker 1 and it was basically like me making plays, but the low lights of him and Rip like ran me the fuck over, yeah, one play, tackled him, but literally back on the ground, runs me over for like two-yard gains.

Speaker 1 So, all right, so you did your job, yeah, I did my job. You can't get a first down if you average two yards.

Speaker 4 You can't, yeah, if that happens, are you thinking like the second you're on the ground, like that's gonna look so bad on television?

Speaker 1 I think in my head, this is gonna look bad on television, but I make sure to let him know, like, hey, that's still a tackle.

Speaker 1 I was like, hey, good hit, good hit, that's still his tat, that's still a stat in in my book. Yeah, yeah, right.

Speaker 4 I got the stat.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got you.
Because you got to win. Every chance you get, you know, you got to take those wins.
Yeah. Every win.

Speaker 1 All right, so what team do you have right now that's surprising you? Surprising? Yeah. You're like, oh, shit, they look good.
Or maybe it's like douche that you want to play.

Speaker 1 I know we've talked about it on Pro Football Football Show, but the Lions. Yeah.
The Lions, I feel like

Speaker 1 Dan had a speech a couple weeks ago talking about if this is going to be a real contender team.

Speaker 1 Clearly, that's been a speech that stuck with me because I've brought it up probably any conversation Big Cat and I are in.

Speaker 1 Against the Panthers. Yeah.
He's like, if they're going to be a real contender this year, like these are the games you take care of.

Speaker 1 Because to Taylor's point earlier, there are times where you're like winning and you're feeling good, and then all of a sudden you play down to the level of competition that you play.

Speaker 1 And the Lions just taking care of business every week, keeping the Bucs out of the end zone.

Speaker 1 Last week, I feel like the Lions are like, it's like the new Lions brand that everybody's talking about, the new Lions.

Speaker 1 How bad do you wish you could have played for Dan Campbell?

Speaker 1 bad he's got he's got to be like the ultimate anyone who's retired like damn i'd die for that guy yeah because now like being on this side you watch the hard knocks like the the ones with the jets this year and you see uh coach sala and you see all of those speeches and listen to the camaraderie going on with those guys and you're like man and when you saw aaron go down and you're just like oh you're just like bummed because you saw how close everybody was getting during the hard knocks those are the times where you actually like miss and reminisce on like those dog days in the hotels that you're just in the suck with the boys in training camp is it one of those things where it sucks at the time?

Speaker 4 Yeah, and then the farther you get away from it, you're like, man, that was awesome when everything was broken.

Speaker 1 That was terrible.

Speaker 1 I can show you videos after we get off here, but I still, like, the other week I was watching old videos of training camp, like when guys are doing the talent show, and not even that, but sitting out when we're all having coffee before a special teams meeting, and one of the old linemen sitting there

Speaker 1 playing his guitar and like singing music, singing like Sam Smith and like doing really well.

Speaker 1 And you're just like, man, yo, we were in, like, we were in some like really good times that you just missed.

Speaker 4 You do a pretty good Vrabel impression, too, don't you?

Speaker 1 I dabble in the Vrabel. Can't you break it out?

Speaker 1 Like right now,

Speaker 4 give the Titans a speech right now because they just

Speaker 4 refuse to admit that time zones exist. So they went over to England, got their ass kicked, and then they come back.
They got the

Speaker 4 Texans next week, I believe. Yeah.
Or the Falcons. Might be the Falcons.
I think they're wearing their throwback Oilers helmets next week when they get back. So can you juice the boys up as Vrabel?

Speaker 1 Vrabel, man, I tell you what.

Speaker 1 mid-season, the boys down two and four into the bye week is not a fun Vrabel you want to necessarily be around all the time. But if I had to think of the things he's saying,

Speaker 1 it would be like, I hope you guys are reading what's out in the media. We suck.
Jeff doesn't want to play.

Speaker 1 Derek wants to get traded. Ryan Tannehill's quitting on the team.
We're black this weekend, boys. Everybody thinks we're dying against the Texans.
We're dead right now.

Speaker 1 We're black because it's a funeral game, and he's just giving you all the juice and the motivation to be like, literally, everybody's counting you out.

Speaker 1 You guys are all here, and hey, what round were you drafted? And you're like, undrafted. Yeah, nobody wanted you.
What round were you? Sixth round. Nobody wanted you.

Speaker 1 Second round, 32 teams passed up on you. Thankfully, we negotiated your contract and got you here.
We're the only ones that want you right now. It's stuff like that.
Yeah, I like that. All right, so.

Speaker 1 In your career, you can maybe speak to this because this is, we're, what, we're mid-October, week seven. At what point

Speaker 1 does the air come out of the room? What record where you're like, oh, because I would assume in September, you're still riding high from camp. You're like, all right, we can write this.

Speaker 1 Oh, we're one and two. We're one and three.
We can write this. At what point you're like, oh, no, we suck?

Speaker 1 Honestly, maybe where the boys in

Speaker 1 two-tone blue are at right now. Really? It just, there's a lot of different dynamics, right?

Speaker 1 Like, you could be two and four, but maybe the division's kind of like, you know, the teams are ahead of you are three and three or four and two, and they're not like a solid four and two.

Speaker 1 Similar, like the Bucs are three and two, but if you're, you know, what are the Saints right now? Saints are two, two and three, or two and three. Yeah, it's like you still have time there.

Speaker 1 Like, I know the year we went to the playoffs, that you liked that year where we, you know, the whole stipulation was when we were down. What was our record then when we won that Tampa Bay?

Speaker 1 The Bucks similar, right?

Speaker 4 It was similar to that, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was like similar to that.

Speaker 1 And then you start stacking, you start, you get one win, then you drop another, you get one win, you drop another, and then the media is like, you guys are playing, you know, you just know you play well one game and then make some mistakes in the second game.

Speaker 1 Like you just got to get two wins. Then when you finally get two wins, there's like a new life that comes about.
So it's like, it's like a long year.

Speaker 1 I feel like it depends on how other teams in your division look. Okay, that makes sense.
Like if you're,

Speaker 1 you know.

Speaker 1 If you're like the Jets,

Speaker 1 to me, that's another surprising team that's playing well. Yeah.
Based on how they started, you would think like they're dead, right?

Speaker 1 But the last two weeks they put together, you can now build some momentum that even though you have the Bills in Miami in your division, it's kind of like, hey, just keep fucking playing.

Speaker 1 All we got to do is win one game at a time. Just all we have this week, who does it just play this week? Their bi.
Nobody. A buy.

Speaker 1 But coming back from the buy, it's like, hey, let's just focus on this one game this week, win one game. That's all.
All your division games. Yeah, like beat the Dolphins when you play.

Speaker 1 When you play a division game, it's, hey, this game's one and a half. Like, just focus on what's in front of us this week.

Speaker 1 And the good coaches who can kind of like, not brainwash, but like kind of frame that type of thinking. And if you have the right amount of vets in the room,

Speaker 1 you can always like reignite a fire. I mean, the Titans were 2-4 before they went on that run to the NFC Championship.
All right, so off that, what was the worst team you were on?

Speaker 1 Like, what was the record?

Speaker 1 Probably

Speaker 1 it had to have been the first year.

Speaker 1 It had to have been the first year. Yeah, first year on Washington.
I think we went 3-13, London Fletcher's last year.

Speaker 1 All right, so 3-13 at the end of the season are, like, we always obviously believe you can't

Speaker 1 in the NFL because everyone's playing for a contract.

Speaker 1 But is there, like, when you get to that point in the season, like December, you're 3 and 13, are you like, are the guys, individual guys, still like fired up?

Speaker 1 Or is like, what does the locker room look like? It changes from playing on the front of your jersey to playing for the name on the back of your jersey.

Speaker 1 And not like a selfish, I don't give a shit if you fail type of mentality, but like a guy in my situation coming up before the captain and being a starter.

Speaker 1 But it would be, it doesn't matter what our record is. I'm literally thinking, like, I have to get better at all times, or these coaches are going to think like I'm replaceable.

Speaker 1 So, there's some guys who are thinking, like, they might pack it in and quit if they're like a star on the team or a good player. They know they're going to be back next year.

Speaker 1 They kind of don't give a shit because they just don't have, they're just not really worried about like losing their job.

Speaker 1 But then you got guys who are really like, they don't give a shit if the front office, like, hey, they think we're taking.

Speaker 1 And I'm just thinking, like, yo, I'm trying to work my tail off to try and get back next year.

Speaker 1 It always just like when we get to like week 17 and 18 and you're watching and you see like starters, you're like, I would just be like, yo, hey, let's take it easy. Like if I have a job next year,

Speaker 1 don't come on. It's like

Speaker 1 you're crazy. No, and that happens.
And it kind of depends on the head coach.

Speaker 1 Like if a head coach, you feel like he's on the hot seat and everything else and you kind of just know he's probably going to be gone, like his messaging is, hey, let's enjoy these last couple weeks together.

Speaker 1 You're like, okay, you know what's happening here. Like, if we don't win, we're all going to lose our jobs because they're going to bring in a new head coach.
They're going to bring in a new staff.

Speaker 1 And a lot of you guys that I brought in are going to be gone as well. Right.
Unless you do something late in the year.

Speaker 4 Like when you're playing pickup basketball and you're like, hey, just us have an agreement on the side. I'm not going to try that hard on offense.
You don't try that hard to defend me.

Speaker 4 I'm just going to shoot it if I can.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 We're not here to impress anybody.

Speaker 4 What about players-only meetings? Did you ever take part in a players-only meeting?

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's one that's actually sticking out during that 3-13 year because there's a lot of internal, like that's when Shanahan and them got fired, I believe.

Speaker 1 But there's a lot of that internal conflict that kind of happens. Like everybody starts covering their own ass, like coaches, they're coaching for themselves.

Speaker 1 Like everyone's trying to do the finger-pointing game. And I remember London Fletcher, like one of the coaches wanted him to give a speech and wake everybody up type of thing.

Speaker 1 And London went up there and started to go in on even the coaching staff for wanting it. Y'all wanted me to give a fucking speech? Like,

Speaker 1 we're trying to coach, and people got their phones out. We got coaches in the back that got their fucking phones out.
I don't give a shit what you're doing.

Speaker 1 Like, he's like, he's saying, like, this is my last year. I don't give a shit what you write on your notebook.

Speaker 1 draw my fucking face if you have to and he's like you know where he's like linebackers at the toe and linebackers at the temple and his eyes are just glaring he's like staring at each dude in the room to where you're like okay this is like a true

Speaker 1 you know like linebacker leader captain london fletcher this is all of it kind of like probably i would assume you know if ray lewis was in your face yelling at you right right right but talking about i don't you know draw the motherfucker if you have to fake it like i don't care if you're not doing anything and you're bored you pull your phone out again basically he's gonna fight you like i like that that was a time where you're just thinking oh get right but some happen but usually it's it's the night before a game yeah like the guys will be like you know i remember deshawn golston he's the best too but sean golston he's like low talking about hey coach and coach yo yo yo y'all get out of here y'all get out of here and coach kind of look at you kind of like looking around smiling with the boys like what's de gold about to say and then he'd just talk about like unity and like a man of a few words but you say enough to where you're like yeah we'll get behind each other some guys stand up and say something out of nowhere and you're like hey this is not the right moment for you to stand up and say something.

Speaker 1 But those players, the only ones happen. I would say they hit about

Speaker 1 35, 40% of the time. Yeah, except we were busting Max's balls because the Eagles had one the other day and we're like, you can't.
You can't burn these.

Speaker 1 You can't just do it every week. Yeah, you really can't.
And you need somebody who's like, who's actually kind of moving you when they're speaking?

Speaker 1 Like, you're just thinking, like, it really means a lot to this motherfucker. And he's actually speaking to it.
He's kind kind of calling some of our own bullshit out. Right.

Speaker 1 And you're kind of like, yeah, this, this dude's right.

Speaker 1 But if you get somebody who's kind of like, you know, kind of feeling their way through it, kind of talking, not really making a whole lot of eye contact, kind of just saying stuff, you're just like, like a bad best man speaking.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're like, man, you're like, all right, bro, just get, yeah, like, this is fucking suit. This is force.
Coach told you to do that. Right, right, right, right.

Speaker 4 But I think there's definitely some truth to that. Like, the Eagles are really fucking good.
They had an unfortunate loss that, you know, came down to the end of that game.

Speaker 4 Doing a players-only meeting that early on in the season feels like that's a they're pressing the panic button.

Speaker 1 Wait, they did?

Speaker 4 Yeah, well, according to Max, it was a zero player or zero coaches. Zero coaches meeting.

Speaker 1 It was a little bit, it was after the game, and it was in the locker room, and instead of the coach, instead of Sirianni talking to the team, the players talked to the team.

Speaker 1 Kind of a players-only.

Speaker 1 Only the players talked. That's yeah, that is like tough.
Just because I think, like, ultimately, Jalen threw three picks.

Speaker 1 Like, that's like, that's just, there was a bad game right there that they could have probably, you know, they had some mistakes and stuff like that, but they're going to, to me, they're going to bounce back.

Speaker 1 What I like about the Eagles is they're not like, like, when Dallas is up, right? Dallas, you hear them being up. Like, you got Parsons doing his thing.

Speaker 1 But when the Eagles are up, they talk about it, like, how long of a season it is, and they can never get too high. Like, they try and stay steady.

Speaker 1 So, I would assume that a vet felt some type of way, or some guys felt some type of way to just, hey, wake the fuck up.

Speaker 1 And I think that the way the Eagles are like a player-led team has been so beneficial.

Speaker 1 And I think it allows like Jalen Hurst to kind of come into his own like leadership role himself because he's got Lane, he's got Jason who's been steady, Brandon Graham, is Fletcher Cox still there?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. You got all these guys who have been staples that they've been able to create this culture.
And Siriani, he's like a, you can tell he's like a player type coach.

Speaker 1 And then they have enough, you know, a couple divas here and there that they all jail really well because they have such stable veteran leadership.

Speaker 1 So maybe somebody felt like, hey, there were some plays in this game that legitimately we should not have fucked up. Yeah.
And the hey, reset, like,

Speaker 1 this is not who we are. We're going to go home next week and take care of business.

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Speaker 1 I want to go back to something you said because I'm always curious to this.

Speaker 1 I think that if I were in a locker room, I would definitely fuck up and be the guy who like makes a joke when you're not supposed to. No doubt.
I think you might have been that guy.

Speaker 1 Were there moments where you made a joke or like tried to give a speech and you're like, whoops, that was a mistake. Not speeches.

Speaker 1 I felt like anytime I did the speech thing, I would, number one, I'd be in my own head, but it'd be a very planned out. It'd be a very planned out thing.

Speaker 1 And some guys would be like, yo, Will, you have to say something type thing. And you get like nervous to do it.
But,

Speaker 1 yeah, there's been a couple in more so meeting rooms, not like out in a team environment.

Speaker 1 Usually like, you know, if you hit like a fart or something in the middle of a team meeting, those usually land. You're right.
They're like a well-placed fart.

Speaker 1 But there'll be some in like, you know, whether it's a linebacker meeting or a defensive meeting to where I'm like doing a joke thing and the coordinator is like, hey, all right, come on.

Speaker 1 Like, we got to. Oh, that's got to feel so bad.
Yeah. Like, you're like back to like elementary school.
You're like, oh, shit. But, you know,

Speaker 1 because it's like, we would be, if we're like sitting in a row and me and Trent Murphy, we would always like, you know, whenever you get a beat on what somebody's, how they are daily, like whether it's certain words they're saying, analogies they're always using or something, just, because you can only say so much all the time.

Speaker 1 We would just like draw things or like write little quotes and make each other laugh to be like, hey, what's so funny? Oh, nothing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that would happen to me all the time.

Speaker 4 Would they break you guys up like in school when you're like, okay, you two can't sit together? I can't trust each other. Yeah, sometimes.

Speaker 1 We do opposite sides. Yeah,

Speaker 1 me and Murphy, me and Trent Murphy would, they would be like, hey, you guys need to like, you guys just need to sit away from each other like Will. Like, you know, you got to focus up.

Speaker 1 When I was young, though, I never did it. Like, I got caught dozing off one time and like, because I was on practice squad.

Speaker 1 So they were watching me and Coach Hazler, Jim Hazler, was our D coordinator at the time.

Speaker 1 And we're like watching tape where the linebackers need to be in there to see all the motions and everything going on. But again, I'm on P-Squad.
Like I'm just in there.

Speaker 1 And I started like dozing off and I got my ass jumped for that one. And that was like, oh, man.
That was like, you feel, they even joked on me and said, hey, this is going to be a $10,000 fine.

Speaker 1 And then I'm thinking like, yo, this is, they had to ultimately tell me it was a joke because I was so like.

Speaker 1 in a blender like felt I mean it just makes you feel so shitty right I you you agree though I would fuck that up yeah I would definitely but yeah I would be next to you and like like laughing.

Speaker 1 And afterwards, I'd be like, God, why am I sitting next to him?

Speaker 1 I just always think, like, I do actually think I'd be a good locker room guy, but I also would be like, fuck with like a guy who doesn't want to be fucked with. And then be like, pissed.

Speaker 4 I think in baseball, I think you'd be a great clubhouse guy. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But I'd like fuck with like the starter and they would be like, that's not funny. And I'd be like, oh, fuck.

Speaker 1 BC's a guy you want to go sit with in the cafeteria, be around during all of training camp because he's saying jokes about the suck that like makes it like, this is awesome.

Speaker 1 Let's go hate our lives for the next couple hours. But when you're losing, and he's not

Speaker 1 good, it's kind of like, hey, hey, bro, we got to kind of take it. Because I find humor in like bad shit.
Yeah, too. And I would just be like, yeah, we suck.
Yeah. Like, why are we worried about that?

Speaker 1 Like, you're going to get cut? You think you're going to get cut? Why are we doing this walkthrough? And it's like, hey, hey, hey, come on. Like, that's just.

Speaker 4 We were talking about the Patriots earlier and how

Speaker 4 Belichick has made his name off motherfucking everybody in the meeting rooms, right?

Speaker 4 Like, he was the only one that could say shit to Tom Brady, but he would cuss out the starters just as much as anybody else. And now they stink.

Speaker 4 And I feel like Belichick is probably still doing that same stuff. If you just have a coach that's being a super hard ass all the time, if you're good,

Speaker 4 he can motivate you to take that extra step.

Speaker 4 But then if you're just on a terrible, terrible team and you've just got like a shit talking head coach, is there a point where that just turns everybody off and people start tuning you out?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you don't want to come to work.

Speaker 1 Like you're like, you're just like, fuck, how how many more weeks do we got left and then you start thinking about you know what you start looking at the last game the date of it so that way you can make plans after because you're just you're literally like you're like checking out because the head coach if he's being like an asshole and you're like in the if you're in the hole i get it if bad football is being played like you got to watch tape critically you got we got to look at ourselves closely we got to change some things up but if you're an asshole like at all parts of the day, like you are the one influencing the entire team.

Speaker 1 Like, I get it. We all, everybody, like, I know for me, it's like, I feel if I play bad, I'm feeling shitty that we can't get it done.

Speaker 1 Whether or not you guys got, you have guys who bitch about the calls, you got this, but then there's guys where it's like, as long as we all execute, like, it doesn't fucking matter.

Speaker 1 We just gotta, we gotta put some winning tape out there. And then you got a head coach that's like

Speaker 1 being, he's shitty to be around. It's like, dog, you don't even want to like come to work.

Speaker 1 You're like, if you, if you feel him bust balls and be like, hey, loosen up, like, let's have some juice, let's have some energy. You think like, okay, I can I can get myself out of this hole.

Speaker 1 And it's good that he's being this way because it's going to make for a productive practice.

Speaker 1 But if he's being an asshole, you're just thinking like, man, it sucks to be around just because you feel like you can't do nothing right. It's like

Speaker 1 something as small as like, I'm not saying this happens in the NFL, but in college. It's like, why didn't your shirt tucked in? If you're winning, no one gives a shit if your shirt is tucked in.

Speaker 1 But if you're losing, all of a sudden, literally everything you're doing matters.

Speaker 1 Like, if you got to go to the bathroom, yeah, if you got to go to the bathroom during a meeting it's like you know we're not doing all the little things and it's just like dog now we're harping we're like micromanaging at this point and so it is it's like a it just sucks the spirit out of the building and you it gets dark later in the year it gets dark early at like five so you're just like you just low you honestly you like hate you like hate going to work that sounds miserable actually like being on the patriots right now would it would suck because at least in years of past where uh you might have like a little downturn in the middle of the season you at least know that if Belichick comes in and starts ripping you apart for film or he's just like overbearing, being an asshole, he's doing it because you have a chance to win a Super Bowl and to achieve something special.

Speaker 4 And now it's like they don't have that carrot that they're dangling. So it's like, why am I doing this? Like, this sucks.
I kind of feel bad for Patriots players at this point.

Speaker 4 It's weird to say, but I do.

Speaker 1 I've never, like, obviously I haven't gotten to be in like a Belichick meeting.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I wonder what that vibe is like. It's like if you're Mac Jones right now,

Speaker 1 he haven't thrown, you know, he haven't thrown a touchdown all October. It's like,

Speaker 1 I wonder what it is like being in those guys' heads when that's happening.

Speaker 1 But yeah, man, it's like Jay Gruden.

Speaker 1 positive when if we'd be losing or we would down it or we'd be down he would always keep like uh you know an optimistic energy about him to where you know it'd more so be you and your the position coaches and others that are kind of like being assholes and you're like all right you can deal with that but if your head coach is being that way you're just he moves the entirety because if his assholes tight all the coordinators assholes tight yeah which is going to trickle down to the assistant coaches there are they're over coaching you and being over analytical about every step you're taking towards like hey man i know i get i get it's probably bad in those coaching meetings right now but you don't gotta you don't have to bring all this bad energy to the to the meeting room yeah man

Speaker 1 i would like to just hang out in a locker room once just you know yeah boys yeah

Speaker 1 i think you miss that oh i do yes i miss those parts it's like being on the field unless it's like those big games where you're like, oh, man, this is the shit that you strive to try and play for.

Speaker 1 It's like when Siriani, when he was crying during the Super Bowl last year, and you're like, you're sitting there looking, and at some point you can kind of chuckle, but then there's like a massive party that's like, man, right when the season ends and you give yourself two weeks off and then you're at it.

Speaker 1 You're like every workout, every week, every day, training camp, OTAs, all of it tried leading you to get to this game. And it's like, those are the things.

Speaker 1 Those are the times you miss it.

Speaker 1 How's your chugging going these days? Good. I don't know if you guys saw Beer Olympics.
It makes me laugh every time. I was next to fast chuggers, but I do feel like I got a little bit more respect.

Speaker 1 The two things you do that make me laugh every time and you can keep doing is the chuggings and when you take people for a walk. When you take people for a walk, I laugh every single time.

Speaker 4 I like when you tuck people in.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's the best.

Speaker 1 Talk to them like a little child.

Speaker 1 Dude, I do. I get a lot of joy out of it.
Sometimes you got to try and figure out, am I doing this too much? Not enough? No, No, I don't think. I think you've hit gold with those two.

Speaker 1 Like, I really do.

Speaker 4 What are we down to, like, nine, ten seconds on a beer?

Speaker 1 On a beer. I don't know.
You guys got a beer?

Speaker 4 We got a beer somewhere. Is it yours? No.

Speaker 1 It's Hanks. Yeah, it's Hanks.

Speaker 4 Shane, do we have Coorge Lay in the fridge?

Speaker 1 What was it? It was... What was the chug? Was it a three-beer chug at the

Speaker 1 Olympics? I know Taylor was talking about it earlier. That's why I'm looking at you like that.
Yeah, PFT and I are verbally

Speaker 1 sort of in for the Olympics. We're interested.

Speaker 1 We're

Speaker 1 Remember

Speaker 4 when LeBron said he wanted to do the dunk contest that year? Yeah. That's what me and Big Kat are at right now.
Yeah, right. Like, it looks awesome.

Speaker 1 Our name is being floated around. I do think that we need to figure out a way to possibly bring security for ourselves.
Because

Speaker 1 I said this to Will and Taylor, PFD. I think you probably, I said it about both of us.
I think you probably agree. Like,

Speaker 1 we

Speaker 1 are pretty good at talking shit. If we get drunk, we'll talk more shit.

Speaker 1 And I think there might be a point where we're talking shit to a level that some of the other drunk guys who are a lot bigger than us are like, these guys think they're smarter than us and we're a fuck.

Speaker 4 I could

Speaker 4 see

Speaker 4 saying the wrong thing to Taylor. Yeah.
And then Taylor just slapping me.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And also just

Speaker 1 Taylor's somebody who will shit talk. It just, it goes like, it's a hard like, hey.

Speaker 1 There's a line. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And when he crossed.
You don't got to look at my man and talk about how he rides the bench and like you were, you know.

Speaker 1 like relax.

Speaker 1 He's working hard for where he's at. So, yeah, I think we're verbally in though.

Speaker 1 I think we're verbally in. I think it would be a very fun time.
You guys would be a great addition. I really don't think anything would happen.
No, I don't think anything would happen.

Speaker 1 Unless you wanted to play pool basketball, right? That's the problem.

Speaker 1 I saw our guy Shane get just bullied in the pool, and it's like, that would have been me because I would be like, yeah, like, oh, yeah, kiddo, I'll back you down.

Speaker 1 And then I'll just be like, you know, fucking sharpshooter from Michael Chandler and be like, how'd this happen?

Speaker 1 I know I watched Shane's beer Olympics, and I know every step that he took is the exact same step I would take. Come in, talk shit.
Also, maybe kind of want to wrestle with the boys.

Speaker 1 And then next thing you know, you wake up with a shitload of bruises and injuries.

Speaker 4 What are the events? Walk me through the rundown.

Speaker 1 So the ones we did this past year, which now it seems like we could be going somewhere else, but it was. They got to add beer die.

Speaker 1 You got a beer chug, like a three-beer chug to start, and that kind of seeds you based on the tournament. It's not worth as many points.

Speaker 1 Is it three beer chug like between two people or between your teammates or it's individual it's two on two okay and then you're part of like that heat to where you're all getting timed they take the average and then you get seeded going into the the four games the four games were flip cup beer pong beer ball

Speaker 1 then maybe that was it

Speaker 1 Beer Pong, Flip Cup. What's beer ball? He had a great.
That's the one that will get us hurt. Beer ball.
They play like hardcore defense.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's the one where I saw James Neal like run across the table and like box someone out. Now you might have done it.
Yeah, it was me. Yeah, I was blacked out.
Yeah. But

Speaker 1 beer ball is like where a can of beer is sitting on each corner and you take a ping-pong ball and you throw it at the beer can and wherever it bounces, the team defending has to grab it and touch the table.

Speaker 1 But if say it hits the can, yeah, there's a lot of people.

Speaker 4 They

Speaker 1 start trying to chug.

Speaker 1 And people have some gray area rules.

Speaker 1 Like George plays in a way, like when we went to Kittlefest, he plays, his rules are so dialed that not one drop can come out of the beer can for three seconds, which is like, you have to, as you're chugging, you have to like suck and blow, suck and blow.

Speaker 1 So that way, because if you do this and one drop comes off, you have to get a new beer, which is like, hey, that's a little too hard.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, that's serious stuff.

Speaker 1 Yeah, beer die, though, has got to get added to it. Beer die is a fun game.
It's the best game. And then the two, like, final, the two final teams, they do like this.

Speaker 1 We basically did like a big relay, but at that point, it was dark, and it was like, this was probably not the best.

Speaker 4 I used to do, at Beer Olympics, we'd do Ring of Fire, where you stand around a keg, right?

Speaker 4 And you have to to take a shot and chug a beer and then the next person has to take a shot chug a beer all while ring of fire the song is playing see how many times you can go around the circle before the song's over now that was a lot of puke

Speaker 1 that's pretty hard there was a lot of puke involved in that one you also should do for the finale for the final two teams which we used to do in college is just do uh beer pong but the whole cup is tables it takes a while but it's fun because you end up with like weird like you got like three over here and two over here and like it's you you put all of the like the entire

Speaker 1 entire table? Yeah, the entire table is cups. So it's like 50 on 50 cups.
The mistake we made was doing 10, like 10 cups for beer pong because it took such a long time.

Speaker 1 That might be the only problem with beer dye. But you could play short games.
You played a five or something.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because that was the only, because I brought a beard die, but I felt like I was when the room, when we were all trying to figure out the games, I felt like I was the only one who had played it, so guys didn't really understand like how fun it was.

Speaker 1 It is so much fun, dude. Especially if you can do it on grass and you can like dive for the for the die, the best.
I would say do six, what is it, six cup Pong? Yeah, is that the one down from ten?

Speaker 1 And get Flip Cup out. Trade out Flip Cup for Beer Die.
Yes. Go beer, die, beer, ball, because I think beer ball is a great time.
I think we just got to be careful how we kind of get injured.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and just like, you know, people are drinking while they're playing drinking games, not realizing how fucked up we are going to be because the energy is so high that we do this.

Speaker 1 We did the anthem with the rookies. The rookie O line's there singing the national anthem.
The sun's out. Everybody's just like excited about how fun this could be.

Speaker 1 So everybody's getting pretty much drunk by the time you play the second game. Yeah, you pre-game for the beer hole.
I love it.

Speaker 4 Because you're like, this is going to be an awesome party. And then you have to compete.
Because Taylor will take me inside.

Speaker 1 He's like, hey, practice, practice chugging. I'm like, bro, I'm going to have to really drink.
Like, why are you making me drink this beer right now? There's beer right there.

Speaker 1 Chug it.

Speaker 4 Practice right now.

Speaker 1 You should also get a medic. Just so everyone knows.

Speaker 1 So for people who are watching on the YouTube,

Speaker 1 don't try this at home because Will's been chugging for a very long time. Yeah, Jake's got the men.
Professional, and I don't want to see anyone get hurt chugging like Will. All right, ready?

Speaker 1 You timing? Three, two, one, go.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah. Chug it.
Chug it. Scull it.

Speaker 1 Rushing this. Beast.
Oh, man.

Speaker 4 You're a fucking monster. There you go.

Speaker 1 Oh, shit. Let's go, Will.
Slow down. Look at the boy.
You're going to burp. You're going to burp.
You're going so fast. Look at the boy.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
Oh.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 what do we got? 20 seconds. Let's go, Will.

Speaker 1 That's a can, too. That's tough.
That's hard to do. You crushed that, dude.
Let's go, bro. You have gotten better.

Speaker 1 I was trying to tell everybody that respect has grown because there's a lot of people talking shit. And I'm like,

Speaker 1 I don't think people get what it's like in real life compared to what you see on a screen. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 I mean, people watching home, they're like, oh, I can chuck. No, you can't.

Speaker 1 You can't. No, no.
All right. I have one last question.
Rowback question. This has been awesome, Will.
You're one of our favorite guys. We love working with you.

Speaker 1 We can't wait till you come to the new office office to mix it up with the boys.

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Speaker 1 Jake, take your stopwatch back out and give us a timer for a minute. And because we haven't done it yet, I'm going to give you one full minute.
To talk about Nebraska. One full minute to talk about.

Speaker 1 One full minute to talk about Nebraska. What am I doing here? You want me to talk about this?

Speaker 1 No, whatever you think about the program right now, there's been a lot of. It's already started.

Speaker 1 You guys were talking about Nebraska.

Speaker 1 Are you pulling up stats? No, I'm just pulling up the

Speaker 4 notes app.

Speaker 1 You haven't started it yet. I already started.
Okay. All right.
I don't need the notes app. Okay.

Speaker 1 This is because there's a lot of talk. Nebraska stinks.
Will's delusional. He's the only one who still thinks that they're good.

Speaker 1 I'm not. Okay, wait, is this? Oh,

Speaker 1 you got me in. Three, two, one, go.

Speaker 1 In my opinion, I know people think I'm delusional about it, but you have to have optimism when pulling for your program.

Speaker 1 And number one, we're not the same Nebraska team that like we were last year at the end of Scott Frost. Like, rule is like a new era.

Speaker 1 And yeah, we're three and three and everybody's like, oh, you got whooped by Colorado. The final score there doesn't tell

Speaker 1 the whole story. Minnesota coming out first week, a Friday game.
We had four turnovers in that game. You removed turnovers.

Speaker 1 I know, what are we, three and three right now, but we're sitting at like we we got our ass whooped by Michigan.

Speaker 1 But to think we cannot control the West, let me rattle you off the rest of our schedule.

Speaker 1 Northwestern, win. Purdue, win.
Michigan State, a win. That's six and three.
I got 17 seconds. That is six and three.
Maryland, I had chalked up as a loss, but Illinois just beat them.

Speaker 1 Like they're a beatable team. That's facts.
You win that. You're 7-3.
You're bowling, playing Wisconsin, who just lost to an Iowa team.

Speaker 1 And then at the very end, you have Iowa, which they are beatable. We can win the Big Ten West and go to Indy.
Oh, I love it. He did it.
One minute.

Speaker 4 That was great. Do you believe that?

Speaker 1 No, I don't believe that. None of it.
None of it. Yes.

Speaker 4 Because you were very convincing. Yeah, no, he's

Speaker 1 really good at convincing me.

Speaker 4 But if you actually believe everything you said,

Speaker 4 you are delusional.

Speaker 1 No, Will, if you listen to Will talk about Nebraska, they are like one play away from a championship.

Speaker 4 Is that true?

Speaker 1 No, but he does a really good job. Realistically, if we get to the Big Ten, you've got to assume we're going to play, you know, we lost 45 to 7 at Michigan.

Speaker 1 It's not like I think we go to the Big Ten championship. Now, do I think if we win the next six in a row, it's a different ball club going out to Indy, ready to get revenge? Yes.

Speaker 1 But am I delusional to think we're winning this game? Now that I'm saying it out loud, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes, because you won six in a row. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you look awesome.
You have a momentum.

Speaker 1 What if you win the championship? What if you beat... Who are you going to play? Probably Ohio State.

Speaker 1 It's Nebraska not out of the college football club.

Speaker 1 Alabama. All of this tape.

Speaker 1 Who's laughing now?

Speaker 4 Yeah, Alabama might lose three games. Georgia might lose three games.
And then, yeah, I think you guys.

Speaker 1 You're not getting in the game. You would be

Speaker 1 able to go. Hear me out.
Hear me out.

Speaker 1 Sandy, you started your speech, optimizing it.

Speaker 4 If you go undefeated from this point out,

Speaker 4 I think you would be the best three-loss team in the country if Georgia also had the team.

Speaker 1 Which would be incredible because

Speaker 1 we had a three-win team a few years ago.

Speaker 1 That's of all time. So three wins now, there's no, I don't think there's a world there.
Like before the season started, I said predicted nine and three. Oof, I can, I see the path.

Speaker 1 Like I know you're like saying, be optimistic on national championship. For me, it's worrying about things we can control.

Speaker 1 And right now, if you see the rest of our schedule, we truly have

Speaker 1 an opportunity to control the West. Yeah.

Speaker 4 If you guys strike

Speaker 1 steroids, like you used to do. The West goes through Lincoln.
We are holding the gun. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Just get the boys back on the gear.

Speaker 1 Think about it.

Speaker 1 Think about it. We got whooped by Michigan, and then we came out.
Everybody's like, oh, they're probably not going to beat Illinois. And we take care of business against Illinois.

Speaker 1 And Harburger, he's throwing all over the place. We tighten some stuff up.
We're running that team out of the building. Yeah.
And that's a good Illinois team. They beat Maryland.
They're not.

Speaker 1 They're not. But I know, you're right, but they beat Maryland, who

Speaker 1 gave Ohio State a half. Okay, so here's

Speaker 1 someone who also roots for a team in the Big Ten.

Speaker 1 Just a thought.

Speaker 1 I think maybe Michigan, Penn State, and Ohio State are really, really good, and like literally every other team stinks.

Speaker 1 I think what sucks, honestly, that's probably the truth. Is I, if there was one team I thought could win the West, it was you guys.
I know. And that we got Iowa.
Yeah, you guys. We got Iowa.

Speaker 1 Iowa didn't want to play in the red tail, man.

Speaker 1 It's just like, it blows my mind because I'm like, okay, Wisconsin, I'll find my optimism in this, but I do think Wisconsin probably wins the West. But since they dropped to Iowa, now it's true.

Speaker 1 True, now it's anyone's game. It's wide open for me.

Speaker 4 I get a Michigan question. Have you seen the news about Harbaugh?

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I think 45-7 looks a lot different now coming out of Lincoln.

Speaker 4 You think he got all your plays?

Speaker 1 I think he got some of them. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Do you have any idea what the surveillance thing could be? Is he flying drones over practices?

Speaker 1 I don't know, dude. I try and think about that stuff, and even if I'm like, say they do get a beat on something

Speaker 1 outside of formation. Now, college could be different because formations,

Speaker 1 alignment,

Speaker 1 whether the X is nasty or outside the numbers, college tips you off a lot more than the NFL.

Speaker 1 So if guys have an understanding or the coaching staff has an understanding, there could be some wrinkles within the game that could take place, but it would still be hard to pull shit off.

Speaker 1 Even if you knew shit before the game happened.

Speaker 4 It would be dumb of him to do this against shitty teams. Yeah.
If you're going to do this, like no disrespect to Nebraska.

Speaker 1 But that's 45-7 looks a lot better.

Speaker 4 But it does look different. But maybe wait to do this this later on in the season.
If he wasn't cheating, what do you think his score would have been like?

Speaker 4 30-7? Listen.

Speaker 1 Listen. They knew that.

Speaker 1 Nebraska was going to go fourth and one out of the shotgun.

Speaker 1 How do you know that? So stop.

Speaker 1 That example right there is like you still have to line up and play. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's some situations where you might have the advantage. Like, again, I don't know until it comes out and you kind of

Speaker 1 hear like if they actually cheated, I'd be fascinated to know like what they were actually doing because it's I'm not really sure what all you can do outside of like taking signals, but you gotta you got to adjust the who the dummy is and you know nothing would surprise me about harbaugh nothing absolutely like there's no level to which that he could have gone with this thing Yeah, like the dude approaches running a football team like he runs the CIA.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, so any plot that he cooked up in his head to steal shit You would not shock me with it.

Speaker 1 So I and also I don't really hate it. Yeah.
I don't hate it either.

Speaker 4 Like if you're if you're a high-level football coach like that, your your ass is going to be fired if you have two bad seasons back to back, right? So your job is predicated on you being excellent.

Speaker 4 Do whatever you have to do to be great.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And if you, yeah, it's like, do it.
You don't get caught. Do it.
Yeah. Hey, what's funny is you said that.
So the year we beat the Ravens in 2015

Speaker 1 at the Ravens, it came down. I think we beat them like 17, 16.

Speaker 1 I had a tip-off from somebody on the Ravens team that gave me a couple of their plays. A player.
A player.

Speaker 1 So when they were backed up, we knew that they were running some trick play to come out because they knew what defense we sat heavy in. Like when somebody's backed up.

Speaker 1 So there was like one play we had tipped off. There's another one we had tipped off on.

Speaker 4 Why'd he give you that?

Speaker 1 It's a boy. Yeah, I'll tell you after.

Speaker 4 Okay, it was just a boy being a boy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, a boy being a boy. Did you make a tackle?

Speaker 1 That Ravens game was a yeah, that was a solid game for your boy. Outside of the first drive, first drive was bad.
Ravens went down and scored,

Speaker 1 but I got Yonda that game, and the last play on Tampa II when I hit

Speaker 1 who was the receiver over the middle that closed the game out. It was a juicy game for your boy in the fourth quarter.
Here we go. It was a juicy game for your boy in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 All right, well, Will. Love you guys, man.
Thank you, man. You're the best.
We love you.

Speaker 1 And yeah, you're the best. Thanks.
Thanks. You are.
You are. We can't wait to hang out some more.
Yeah, we should make this official and be friends. Yeah.
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Yes.

Speaker 1 You're coming for Thursdays.

Speaker 1 We got to do something every Thursday. Yes.
Whether it's a PE Day or something that's always lined up. Yep.
Ready to go. Done.

Speaker 1 Give it up for Chicago.

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Speaker 1 Okay, Firefest the week.

Speaker 1 Henry, was it the fact that

Speaker 1 you came armed with a stat to

Speaker 1 make fun of Max and it didn't work?

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's as bad as it gets.

Speaker 4 That's going to hang over my head all weekend. When you found it, where you're like, I've got him.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh, he had a sweet.
I don't know if you looked over, but when we started talking about the Phillies, he had like a little Grinch smile that the smile just kept on curling, and he was just like,

Speaker 1 this is great.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, that was really good.

Speaker 4 The stat game isn't for everybody, Hank. No, yeah, I got duped by a fake tweet.
It's tough. No, no, you didn't.
The tweet was accurate. You just misinterpreted it.

Speaker 4 Someone said, say, that's fake. Fake news.

Speaker 1 That's fake news.

Speaker 4 So that was my Firefest, my other Firefest, which I feel like is probably, if you had a list of my Firefests over the years, losing headphones, probably, I don't know, five or six.

Speaker 4 Yeah, all-time leader.

Speaker 4 Definitely.

Speaker 1 Do you do AirPods?

Speaker 4 So I... Every time I lose AirPods, I'm like, fuck.

Speaker 1 Huh? Huh. Yeah, no,

Speaker 1 I know. This is interesting.
Hank has poor shamed me for using wired headphones. He has made fun of me many times for using wired headphones.
Not many times. Many times.

Speaker 4 They don't fall out of pockets.

Speaker 1 And also, the microphone is better.

Speaker 4 I actually think that when Apple sat down, they designed the AirPods, they put them in the smoothest case possible. That is the easiest to fall out of pockets.
That's not a coincidence.

Speaker 1 Wired headphones are better.

Speaker 4 The part one of the Firefest is that also, fuck Apple, because because at an airport, I got like a secondary, like it was still like expensive, like 60 bucks or 70 bucks or something for a Bluetooth pair.

Speaker 4 And then it just, like, it always, the connection always sucks.

Speaker 4 Half works, half doesn't, which definitely needs Apple just being like, if it's not AirPods, the product's not going to work as good. So fuck Apple for that.
Then, which is just my dumb brain.

Speaker 4 I didn't check. I just thought the Apple store was open till 9.
That was just the time I made up my head. So I walked there.

Speaker 1 I walked there

Speaker 4 on Wednesday night. I was like nine.
That's pretty early. We're in a city.
And I walked there, got there at like 8.15, realized they closed. And it was like a mile and a half walk.

Speaker 4 And I was like, oh, yeah, I'll just walk, get some exercise.

Speaker 1 I got plenty of time.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it was like a 35, 40 minute walk. If I just Ubered there, I would have been there in five minutes.

Speaker 4 Walked there,

Speaker 4 no headphones.

Speaker 4 And then I had to walk home. And now I'm traveling this week.
And I have a shitty pair of Bluetooth headphones with one like

Speaker 1 I probably will.

Speaker 1 How did the silent walk go? The TikTok walk.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. You were Gen Zing it.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Not great.

Speaker 1 Walking with music's a lot better. I said that and I got shamed for that.

Speaker 4 I was thinking about that the other day

Speaker 4 with the TikTok. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Take them.

Speaker 4 The silent one.

Speaker 4 No. They're basically telling women, like, go on a walk without your phone so you can't call anybody if you get in trouble.
And then that, it just seems very shady to me.

Speaker 1 See this? Everyone watching on the YouTube? I'm giving you a pair of wired headphones. Wow, thanks, Pikachu.
Yes.

Speaker 1 For anyone who has this problem, like Hank, all you got to do is, they're like 30 bucks.

Speaker 1 I bought like six pairs of them for the same price as AirPods. I should have them everywhere.
And I never have a problem.

Speaker 4 So my last flights that I've taken, I have not brought headphones by accident with me, so I've had to buy headphones. I'm 0 for 2.

Speaker 4 I'm on a two-game losing streak in buying the wrong kind of headphones, getting onto a plane.

Speaker 1 Wired headphones. Go back to the path.
They're wired.

Speaker 4 They're not the right kind to hook up to an iPhone.

Speaker 4 There's nothing worse than getting on a plane, opening up a brand new pair of headphones that you buy out of a vending machine in the airport, and then you can't plug it in.

Speaker 1 Also, another plus for wired headphones, people don't bother you.

Speaker 4 Because they see that you have headphones in.

Speaker 1 It's better. I know that the technology is cool and all this shit and you feel cool.
I'm telling you,

Speaker 1 I'll stay on the soapbox, wired headphones, way to go. Microphone's better.
Don't lose them. Yeah, they get a little tangled, but guess what? That's kind of fun.

Speaker 4 The only plus to the wireless is you can charge your phone and then listen at the same time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but who cares?

Speaker 4 Well, that's a, yeah, that can be a big deal. That's fine.

Speaker 1 Just charge your phone and then just switch back and forth.

Speaker 4 If you're trying to fall asleep.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm switching back and forth all the time.

Speaker 4 I actually did that last night. I woke up with like 10%.
You switched back and and forth?

Speaker 1 No, I woke up.

Speaker 4 I woke up with 10% charge on my phone. That's a bad feeling.
Starting your day off at 10% charge.

Speaker 1 You might as well just die. Yeah, just not start.
Just don't go outside.

Speaker 4 Are you calling sick? Yeah. Although

Speaker 1 I have noticed that they finally have gotten this fast charger down. Like, the fast charger is insanely fast.

Speaker 4 I'd say the fast charger is him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it really is. Because it's been the longest time.
We're like, why can't they just have a charger that

Speaker 1 charges your phone quickly? Now I feel like if I plug in my phone, I'm like 30% on a college football Saturday, maybe 20 minutes. Do you guys like the

Speaker 4 pads that you put your phone down on?

Speaker 1 No, they don't charge fast. That's the AirPods.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 They try to make this technology hands-free, Bluetooth, all this shit. No, dude.
Give me the fucking old-fashioned one.

Speaker 4 I have one in my car, and it's like, it's the never works.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Very slow charger.

Speaker 1 You just slowly lose battery instead of like fastly losing battery.

Speaker 4 Everything else about the car is great, though. Yeah.
Shout out, Chevy.

Speaker 1 Okay, PFT, your Firefest.

Speaker 4 So, my Fire Fest, we talked about it a little bit on Wednesday.

Speaker 4 Hank brought it up when he put me on the hot seat for the tattoo thing, which was him probably deflecting something else that was going on inside his own brain. But, yeah, maybe a little bit.

Speaker 1 Probably the Phillies winning.

Speaker 4 Yeah, and the Patriots, the Patriots' stats are getting to Hank big time. No, I love them.

Speaker 4 They're getting to you so hard that you're trying to create your own stats. And you can't even do it.

Speaker 1 I love stats. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 4 the tattoo thing, I have decided on a tattoo. So I'm going to get a tattoo.

Speaker 4 It's going to be on my arm, and it's not going to be the plaid half sleeve yet. I'm going to get that eventually, though.

Speaker 4 That's going to be my next one. But I'm going to get a tattoo, I think, on my forearm, my right forearm.
I like it. So it's going to be sick, and I will do it on the live stream.
How's that? Love it.

Speaker 1 Love it. Sound good? What's that?

Speaker 4 What's the same? So it's going to be for my dad. So

Speaker 4 it's something that he designed on there. Love that.
I feel like the first tattoo that you get. So he used to design labyrinths, not like like mazes, but like these,

Speaker 4 I don't even know how to explain it. They're like symbols almost.
And so he designed a bunch of them. So I'm going to get one of those on my forearm.
That's fails.

Speaker 1 No one can make fun of it. It'll be like bad tattoo.

Speaker 4 It's a good design, too. Yeah.
So I like it. Awesome.
So I'll be doing that. But the Fire Fest is that it's going to probably hurt.
No. Some people tell me it feels good.

Speaker 1 It might just feel good. I might also still get, if there's...
If we get it on the live stream, there's a good chance I just get a quick one as well. Yeah.
Because it's going to be right there.

Speaker 4 He's going to be, he or she will be there.

Speaker 1 He or she.

Speaker 1 By the way, we should make sure that the Pardon My Take Studio, I'd assume we could go live on YouTube if there is a Game 7 because we would definitely want to do a live stream from there.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I'm sure everything will be built and set up and preferred ready to go.

Speaker 1 What about the lottery,

Speaker 1 Hank? Hank is guaranteed it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I know, but

Speaker 1 wasn't he being weird when we were at you? He was being so weird.

Speaker 4 There's something that he's not telling us.

Speaker 1 There's something that's not telling us. Oh, he put.
Tell it now. Tell it.

Speaker 1 Oh, you put yourself on that lottery machine didn't you tell it hank did you wrap something for yourself tune in tuesday oh you motherfucker what are you not you better i'll i'll i'll throw that lottery i'll burn it be a shame well if you tried to do something

Speaker 1 i'm just trying to help the program no

Speaker 1 you put like

Speaker 1 i'll i'll i'll do you put two number sixes in there i'll rip that thing down i'm gonna count and put it yeah

Speaker 1 i got it at the oscars they have the uh the accounting firm you show the ball no i think what he did is he probably put something like a plaque or something, a memorial to him hitting the lottery ball on the lottery ball machine.

Speaker 4 There's only one way to find out, and that's Tuesday.

Speaker 1 I'm telling you right now.

Speaker 4 There's actually another way to find out. That's if you just tell us.

Speaker 1 I will throw that thing in the garbage.

Speaker 4 I mean, I haven't seen it in the flesh.

Speaker 1 Okay, but it's our lottery ball machine. It's not your lottery ball machine.

Speaker 4 Show me the mock-up, Hank.

Speaker 1 I'm well aware. Jake, can you please get on top of this? Find out where it is.
Find out that it's in safe hands. Find out that Hank's not doing anything to it.
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 It's time to get on the case. I have an idea.
All right, get on the case.

Speaker 1 Okay, so my Firefest, we were talking about the studio earlier. Looks incredible.
Office is going to blow people's minds.

Speaker 1 So, the office schedule, the official, official opening of the entire office is going to be probably the second week of November. We will be in our studio next week, but it's a slow.

Speaker 1 We got to get occupancy in half the office, all that stuff.

Speaker 1 And it is going to look very clean, very awesome. People are probably going to be like, what the fuck?

Speaker 4 It's too clean. No one's going to say, I don't, I don't, we've done this twice.
Yeah. We've junked up two seconds.

Speaker 1 The one thing in New York was also clean. No, this one looks nicer to start.

Speaker 1 The one in New York looks nice. No, but this one has like lights and shit and it looks cool.
Sure. All right.
Either way, yes.

Speaker 1 I'm agreeing with you. I just know like

Speaker 1 people will be like, oh, this is too professional for them. We will junk it up.
And here's where the junk it up happens. What?

Speaker 1 You don't think people's names say that? No, I mean, it's okay.

Speaker 4 It's professional. It's a professional podcast.

Speaker 1 The beauty of this. Our other studio was also a professional podcast.
No, our old studio member was blank, and then we junked it.

Speaker 4 We also get away with all the stupid shit. Like when one of us says a completely incorrect stat, we get away with that because it looks unprofessional to us.

Speaker 1 I'm not worried, Hank. I'm just saying I'm letting people know it's going to look awesome, and don't worry, because we're going to junk it up.
And here's where the junk it up up part happens.

Speaker 1 This is a firefight.

Speaker 4 This doesn't look awesome all the time. No, I don't want that.
See,

Speaker 1 because corporate hanging. Because it doesn't hang.

Speaker 4 It looks awesome. It doesn't actually look awesome.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Got it.

Speaker 1 It looks like every other podcast.

Speaker 4 Got it.

Speaker 1 We want to look like ourselves.

Speaker 4 We should do the podcast in bed.

Speaker 1 It does look awesome.

Speaker 1 The place looks incredible. Lottery machine confirmed that it will be ready Tuesday.
But no, I need you to keep it. I have it.
I need to

Speaker 1 just take my podcast.

Speaker 1 I need to make sure you get it so that he can't do anything to it. We need to locate it.
You need to be the person who makes sure it's there, not him. He's going to do something.

Speaker 4 Any road you're going to go by is going to lead to me.

Speaker 1 Jake, if I have to get involved, get me involved. You're involved right now.
Check your phone. Oh, this is probably a text thread that I never responded to.

Speaker 4 Jake, we need you to be like a guard in a video game, like an old video game that just walks, paces back and forth constantly.

Speaker 1 What are you guys going to send?

Speaker 4 For the next six days, just guarding that machine, making sure Hank doesn't screw with it. It's not nice, Jake.

Speaker 1 Hank will weigh down balls. He will.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. Now I'm getting some explanations.
Yeah. Listen to the episode.
I have no idea what Hank's talking about. Machine was delivered last week.
It's getting wrapped between tomorrow and Monday.

Speaker 1 All right. All right.
All right. We're good.
Not a thing. All right.
I got it.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 To my Fire Fest. The studio.

Speaker 1 We were walking around the new office, taking a tour, and this is a Firefest for me and you, PFT.

Speaker 1 Viewing everything incredible. Walked around the corner into this big room.

Speaker 1 It's just filled with our junk that we never threw away that they shipped to us from New York. Yeah, including the old little audio machine.
Big-time problem. Yeah.
I was like, what is all this?

Speaker 1 And then Pete was like, I think it's your stuff. And I started looking closer.
There's like a guitar. Yeah.
There's a bunch of like jerseys.

Speaker 4 I think my golf clubs are there.

Speaker 1 I 100%,

Speaker 1 when I was like, yeah, just because here's here's how stupid I am. When we moved out of New York, I didn't really want to pack.
So I said, just ship it all. Being like, that will never happen.

Speaker 1 Well, guess what? It's happened. They've shipped all of our junk, and now we have to figure out what to do with it.
We are like dogs that

Speaker 4 don't have object permanence. So we haven't seen all the junk in like three months.
We just assumed it was gone.

Speaker 1 Dude, Hank saw me. I was just like, what the fuck is this?

Speaker 1 And yeah, so we have an entire room of junk that we're going to have to deal with. I can help you guys.
Thank you guys, Jake.

Speaker 4 I don't think it's organizable.

Speaker 1 No, the organization is not the problem.

Speaker 4 The only thing I care about is they better have sent all the Blake Portals jerseys that we've accumulated because we have, I think, five of them. We need to make a wall of Blake Portals.

Speaker 1 We need Marie Condi or whatever.

Speaker 1 This week if you need it. No, the problem that we have, Jake, is you need to, like, I don't know how you can do it, but like subtly let us see things.

Speaker 1 And if we don't have a reaction to it, you can just throw it out. Because a lot of the stuff I thought was thrown out, but it's here.
And now I started to look through it.

Speaker 1 I was like, oh shit, I'm happy they saved this.

Speaker 4 Never will wear it. That's the problem.

Speaker 1 I've done that a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So we have PFT, we have an entire room full of shit.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's going to save too.

Speaker 1 They shipped my.

Speaker 4 I thought that was no longer a problem we would have to deal with.

Speaker 1 Dude, they shipped my locked

Speaker 1 cabinet drawer.

Speaker 1 I don't even know what's in it. I was just like, I don't want to clean it.

Speaker 4 I found some very old drugs in my cabinet.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 4 I found some very old drugs.

Speaker 1 Oh, what are you going to say, Max? To their defense, I... No, it's not their problem at all.
They did what we said. You.

Speaker 1 I

Speaker 1 thought you should have thrown that thing out. Of course.
You brought it into the studio one day and you were like, you need to make sure that this gets shipped out. I need this in Chicago.

Speaker 1 And I was like, what? In my head, I was like, what do you, what could you you possibly need from this? I think it has old phones and computers. That's what you kept saying.

Speaker 1 Old phones and computers, which is the easiest thing to throw out. No, I never.
What if someone steals my data, dude? You might have pictures.

Speaker 4 You might have pictures that you want.

Speaker 1 I'm going to tell you this right now, Max. That cabinet is not going to be opened for.
It's going to be a time capsule. We're going to open it in 10 years.
That was like a very important thing.

Speaker 1 You were like, make sure that they send this to me in Chicago. I was like, okay.
It's like bank statements.

Speaker 1 I remember Billy was next to me in the room and he was like, oh, Big Delphi has so much money in there. Like, no,

Speaker 1 his first thought was like, how can I get the money?

Speaker 1 If I do, that would be sick, but I think

Speaker 1 he's always scheming on something. He's always got an angle.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hank, you saw it. It's bad.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we got a plan.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 I hate you right now. I hate you.

Speaker 4 What do you mean? Max knows. Memes knows.
What's the point?

Speaker 1 You're doing

Speaker 1 that.

Speaker 1 Oh, you guys also know. I didn't know that.
I don't know about that one. You guys have been plotting.
I don't know how to do that.

Speaker 1 Hank is up to some shit right now. Oh, I actually do know that.
And I said,

Speaker 4 what are you doing with her stuff? Don't worry.

Speaker 1 Oh, Memes is looking at me weird now, too.

Speaker 1 Damn.

Speaker 4 Why don't you ask Truspy?

Speaker 1 You guys are going to

Speaker 1 be acting shady over there. He's so shady.

Speaker 4 I said the lottery ball machine would be set up for Tuesday, and it will be. Fact or fiction.

Speaker 4 But what we're asking is, what are you going to do with her stuff? Get rid of the stuff you don't want and keep the stuff that we do.

Speaker 1 And what did you do to our lottery ball machine?

Speaker 4 Find out Tuesday.

Speaker 4 I'm actually care about this new studio reveal tease. I'm trying to, you know.

Speaker 1 It's going to be great. I keep saying it's going to be great.
It's going to be awesome. Awesome.
Awesome. Yeah, it's going to be great.

Speaker 4 The lottery ball machine is going to be awesome.

Speaker 1 It's going to look professional and cool, and the clips are going to look awesome, and you shouldn't.

Speaker 1 Everyone should be happy about it. No, everyone will be happy.
Everyone will be happy. But you're like,

Speaker 1 prepping them to be mad. No, I'm not prepping them to be mad.

Speaker 4 I just don't know what kind of monkey business Hank's been pulling on.

Speaker 1 I'm telling him that it's going to look clean and we're not clean guys and that it will not look clean.

Speaker 4 The machine's going to look clean and awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's nothing bad about this new studio. It's like the perfect studio.
I was in it and it looks, it is. No, I know.
It will be.

Speaker 1 I don't.

Speaker 1 You got to give it a couple weeks.

Speaker 4 There's going to be some kinks you got to iron out.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And we got to put our junk in there.
Yeah. Yeah.
We got to junk in there.

Speaker 4 I feel like people should be able to smell the studio when they're watching it.

Speaker 1 Exactly. We're going to get lived in there.
We're going to really live in it. We have four TVs now, too.

Speaker 4 That's great. Four in the studio?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's a perfect amount of TVs for a studio, too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do we have any in the booth?

Speaker 1 Hank?

Speaker 1 Yes, we have a booth now, which would be sick.

Speaker 4 Have you thought about it?

Speaker 1 So Max, me and Jake will all be in the booth. Hank is not going to sit in between us anymore, which I think he's probably not enjoyed.
No.

Speaker 1 He has a couch that is across from, directly across from where PFT is. Is that the guest couch, too? Yeah.
Yeah. And PFT have our usual spots.

Speaker 1 Like, we look, it looks kind of like how we set it up before.

Speaker 4 What's the plan for the booth? What are you guys going to put in there? I don't know.

Speaker 1 I have no idea.

Speaker 1 Are you guys going to make it cool and

Speaker 1 no podcasters allowed?

Speaker 1 No. Okay.

Speaker 4 Hey, where's the lottery ball going to live? Me and you just got an idea. In the studio?

Speaker 7 Are there TVs in the booth?

Speaker 1 I think so. Maybe not.

Speaker 1 We'll have, I mean, we'll have to at some point get to the board. Do You'll be able to see one.
You'll be able to see the other team. Yeah, you'll be able to see one from the booth.
Easily.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's fine then. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, Jake, you're Firefest.

Speaker 1 I lost in the first round of the tennis playoff. What?

Speaker 4 Oh, no, Jake.

Speaker 1 Weren't you the favorite? I was the favorite, and then they bumped me up since we last talked about this. So this is my first match at the higher level, and I was the sixth seed.

Speaker 1 I would have been the one or two seed. I was in line.
Why did you bump up? I didn't. They moved me up because I was crushing people.
You should have thrown a game, dude. I should have, honestly.

Speaker 1 Oh, shake. Was it close? I won the first at 6-3.

Speaker 1 I lost 6-Love in the second. What?

Speaker 1 What happened?

Speaker 1 Guy was better than me in the second, and then we played a super tiebreak, and he beat me 12-10. It was so close.
Well, that doesn't count for shit. Doesn't.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I probably should have thrown him after spinning.

Speaker 4 Did you get a forehand or backhand that hurt you the most?

Speaker 1 His spin was insane. Are you a choker? How could I choke?

Speaker 1 I mean, you were.

Speaker 1 You choked. We were going to go to the finals.
If I stayed in the three,

Speaker 1 I should have thrown a game or a match or two. Jay can't win the big.
Six love in the second set. Six love in the second set is tough.

Speaker 1 That's an all-time choke. But yeah, I went home and registered for a winter indoor league.

Speaker 4 You got no hit in the second set. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Damn. Were you making all kinds of sounds mad at yourself? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm happy I didn't watch that because I would have rooted for the other one. But yeah.

Speaker 1 What was the handshake like after the match? Great match. And then I turned around.
I was like,

Speaker 1 what? What?

Speaker 1 I was just mad at myself. But what was that? You stopped.

Speaker 1 You said, frick. Yeah, exactly.
Oh, geez. So it's tough.
Like, I don't know where I stand because if I'm going to get my. Well, no, no, I know where you're saying.
You're a loser.

Speaker 1 Well, I know that, but I'm going to get my butt kicked at the higher level and I'm going to kick everyone's. But at the lower level, we're going to.
So dude, what do I stay at the lower level?

Speaker 1 It's pretty easy. And just crush people.
Pretty easy. Flags fly forever.

Speaker 1 Should I just like punt the next few matches and get demoted? Yeah. Yeah.
Play right-hand. Yeah.
Have me come and play for you.

Speaker 1 And then I'll go back down and then I'll win again. I'll wear your glasses and I'll just won't hit anything.
Yeah. Just get better.
Or that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That's the wrong interval.

Speaker 4 Don't listen to him. He's telling you wrong things.
He's a joke. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 Don't push yourself. Just win at the easy level.
That's the way to do it.

Speaker 4 And then have like a trophy room for yourself in your apartment. Yeah.
Look how great I am. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I was in line to be be the one or two because listen i'll be honest with you jake like i don't know i don't understand the levels i don't understand scoring i don't care about any of this the difference between you walking in here and saying i lost versus hey guys i won my championship that's all i care about okay so i you you could play against five-year-olds and win and i'd be like yes dude all right so maybe i'll punt in the beginning of next season i don't think i don't think i don't think i have

Speaker 1 to have it in them yeah but i might not punt and still get my butt kicked. And then

Speaker 1 we'll be right back in this spot, and I'll be like, loser. Yeah.
I want you to win. You're a winner.
I'm a winner. You're a winner at life.
Well, yeah, no, I know. You lost today badly.
Six of us.

Speaker 1 1210 in the super tie break.

Speaker 4 How about this? How about this? I think I have a solution. So you definitely are too honest to throw some games and get bumped down, right? What if.

Speaker 1 But I could schedule against the top guy.

Speaker 4 What if, God forbid, something were to happen to you over the course of the next month? You might hit three bus? Well, no, like we could do something like we could sneak up and injure him.

Speaker 4 And we give you like a minor heart attack. What if somebody that you work with gave you a mild injury over the course of the next couple months? You tried to play through it.
It'd be a shame.

Speaker 4 And you stunk, and then you get bumped out naturally.

Speaker 1 But then I wouldn't win at the 3-5. Oh, you get better.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 you would heal.

Speaker 4 It wouldn't be a major injury. You're like an Achilles or something.

Speaker 1 You'll play with a hole in your racket. Yeah,

Speaker 4 we'll slice your Achilles, and then you'll get the Aaron Rodgers surgery. Yeah.
You'll be back in three months better than ever.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Right now you're a loser. Right now I'm a loser.
And that sucks. And I hate to say that to you, but 6-0 is bad.
Really bad. What seed was he? 6-11.

Speaker 1 Oh, he was the lower seed? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Oh, my God. That's a pretty big upset.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. 6-11? That happens all the time.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 6-11. My bracket is busted.

Speaker 4 5'12.

Speaker 1 That's the one. That's the one.

Speaker 1 6'11.

Speaker 4 If you were five and lost, that'd be better.

Speaker 1 Because it's more normal. More normal, yeah.
6-11.

Speaker 4 Come on, Jake.

Speaker 1 Can you even make it out of the first round? No. Fuck.
Schedule. I'm excited to play pickleball in the new office.

Speaker 4 That'll be fun. Yeah, we might have to ban pickleball.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Put down the lines.

Speaker 1 Listen, you can do anything you want in the new office. Literally anything.
Except pickleball. Not pickleball.

Speaker 1 Yeah, if I come in and there's like a big pickleball being played and you're grunting, I might just get on the first round. There's no grunting in pickleball.
There's a little bit. Yeah, you

Speaker 1 grunt. A little bit, yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, good show, boys.

Speaker 1 Let's wrap up. Numbers, last two before we have the lottery ball machine.
18. Also, we're revamping that website.
We're going to have a clean slate next week. And memes has still not gotten it.

Speaker 1 He's not gotten in the limbo phase. He's not gotten in before.

Speaker 1 I can't wait. Oh, God.

Speaker 1 On Tuesday,

Speaker 1 I might

Speaker 1 hit like a higher level when we get the new lottery ball machine. and I can say to Hank, have you ever gotten this? It's going to be.
It's on opening day of the original machine.

Speaker 1 You did nine official drawings. Yeah, we'll only do one.

Speaker 4 Hank, you should just take Max's when I take yours.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 69. What did you guess? 20.
Come on. 18.
Two, three. Memes.
You've never gotten it. One,

Speaker 1 36.

Speaker 1 36.

Speaker 4 Sorry, memes. All right.
See everyone on Monday.

Speaker 1 Max, come back with two wins. Let's go in trouble.

Speaker 4 Love you guys.

Speaker 4 I

Speaker 4 shy away.

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Speaker 4 Take

Speaker 4 Needless to say,

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Speaker 4 Stone

Speaker 4 is okay

Speaker 4 Say after me

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Speaker 1 to consider.

Speaker 1 I'll be

Speaker 1 gone

Speaker 1 to

Speaker 1 the bank.