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Welcome to part of my take. Today is Friday, October 20th.
And the Jaguars might be really good. Yeah, Super Bowl contenders.
They flirted with it. They let the Saints, the sad, sad Saints, which they are a bummer to watch with Derek Carr.
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. But the Jaguars, again, second half got away from them a little bit, but they look good.
It seemed like there's a scattering report on defense because their pass defense stunk coming into today. I think they were like 31st in the league, 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.
Pretty good strategy at the end there. Well, he did, to Derek Carr's credit, he did throw,

which should have been a touchdown pass to Foster Moreau.

It got dropped in the end zone.

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.

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.

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 they're like super boring 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. It doesn't 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.
The only open guy is Kamara. Yeah.
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.
He caught 12 passes. passes today.
He caught 12 passes today. His over-under was four and a half passes.
What was that stat line he had the other week? 11 catches for like 30 yards. It was 13 catches, 33 yards.
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, put the ball in Taysom Hill's hands when you really need four yards.
Yeah. And the Jaguars have won four in a row.
Jaguars have won four in a row. Five and two looks really good.
Looks really good. That's like, I would almost rather be five and two than five and one.
Five and two looks great on paper. Especially when they were one and two to start the season.
They go to the Steelers next. And, you know, they got the 49ers after that, which will be a big, you know, statement game of are they for real, for real.
I say measuring stick game. 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 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 ran into his own guy.
Jacked him up. Jacked him up.
They had another fumble at the 50-yard line. The Jaguars, it felt like at points, were trying to be the old Jaguars and give the game away.
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. Yeah.
It was bad. That phase of the game was bad for them.
They were up. 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 it felt huge. Significant.
They were fucking around with them a little bit in the first half, and it seemed seemed like this was easily the Jaguars night. And it became actually a decent game.
What are you looking for, Hank? I'm just looking at those shoes. Oh, yeah.
You like them? Yeah. Thank you.
Yeah. Nice shoes.
See? Those golf shoes? No. They're regular running around shoes.
I was just 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 a bad game that it became a good game. Yeah, it was really good in the fourth quarter.
Right. 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.
Yeah, although I just would rather not be able to, like focusing on one Saints game, it makes you want to punch yourself in the face. But it's a Thursday night game, so've got a standalone game.
There's football on during the week. That's fun, even if it is the Saints.
I feel like we got the hard part of our weekend out of the way early. Yeah, and the craziest part about the Saints team is like, they could definitely still win the NFC South.
They could. The Saints could be hosting a playoff game.
I don't want that. So isn't it crazy? Like crazy like it just dawned on me the saints have kind of continued to do the same thing after the drew breeze era that they did during the they never did a blow up they never did a blow up they're still in cap hell they're acting like drew breeze is still their quarterback like the good drew breeze right like five years ago and they're just replacing him with derrick car and be like we'll see if anybody can tell the difference.
Well, yeah, I can. That's not actual real coffee.
You replace it with Folgers crystals and it sucks ass. Yeah.
Yeah. The Saints played the Colts, the Bears, and the Vikings next three.
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 uh playoff baseball which we should talk about let's you know what I didn't catch the final score actually let's talk about the second game first because the Astros are back the Astros who who would have thought uh the team that just has been in every ALCS has won multiple world series uh a 2-0 lead or 2-0 deficit in a series doesn't really deter them.
Yeah, they were mashing tonight. They mashed last night, too.
They looked like the old Astros where their lineup's just too good. 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. And Scherzer on wednesday night was not i mean we we kind of expected that uh he's been very very bad in october the last two seasons yeah so the the astros are i mean they're gonna win this series right i don't i don't know because then we're gonna fall into the same trap and be like oh we wrote the texas rangers off yeah i guess it is true because the Rangers had not lost a game until Wednesday night.

Yeah, and now they've lost two.

And we were like, they'll never lose a game.

Then the second they lost one game, I was like, this team fucking stinks.

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.

Yeah, let's wait until all the facts come out, and then we'll make a prediction.

Yep.

The other game.

I didn't catch that score. It was 2-1 Diamondbacks.
Oh, no. Max saves up all that energy for the Phillies, and some are asking, can they win on the road? Yes, they can.
They won on the road in Atlanta. So the answer is yes.
Is a system. Are you okay?

The bank.

I'm okay.

I'm good.

I'm not.

I'm good.

Having it be a walk off, though.

Do you think the series tilted?

No, not at all.

No, the series is not till tomorrow night.

A must win.

What is going on with you, dude?

The milkshakes were bad.

No, the milkshakes were great. They were good bad.
Because I'm having the same problems as you. I'm not making the noises.
I don't know why the noises are coming out right now. Okay, wait.
Just be quiet for a sec. Okay.
Yeah, I'm good. You think so? Better than good.
Okay. Who do you blame tonight, Max? The bats didn't show up.
the bats didn't show up the bats didn't show up uh yeah i you know what i blame hank no no no no i i have an answer smile i have a nerd nugget welcome to the club go ahead hank billy 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 routes and a runner on third that didn't score. Yeah.
That's a bad base runner. But that was good for the Phillies.
Oh, no, Hank. You're a fucking idiot.
No, the Diamondbacks were the most. You were like, how did that guy not score? Yeah, the Diamondbacks were the most cowardly.
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. Yeah.
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. What was that play? He didn't advance the third.
There was runners on second and third, and they went home, and he didn't advance the third. Yeah, it was crazy.
Who was the guy that you guys put in and released? Hank, that's fucked. The seventh inning or the eighth inning? That's bad.
Hank, that's really bad. Ryan Kirk, he had pitched before.
It was his first time ever pitching. That's just incorrect.
Okay, he threw three innings this season. Chill out, chill out.
He's got a milkshake in you. Three innings.
Yeah, so you think that's a good strategy? Well, he's thrown like every other game in the playoffs, and he's looked really good. 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. I don't mind giving the kid a chance.
You gave him a chance. He didn't work out.
He didn't lose the game at the end of the inning. We were still tied 1-1 still had a chance to win the game just didn't do it we need to pause for a second and just really soak in the fact that hank really thought he was about to dunk yeah well it wasn't true nerd nugget because nerd nuggets aren't supposed to be negative towards anyone shut up yeah shut up uh that was that was so bad hank hank you really thought you had something.
Yeah, that's really bad. I got to do some reflection after this one.
You didn't watch the game. He was feeling himself after his stupid fucking Hagrid tweet.
That's a good tweet. I didn't see that one.
I got to look it up so I make sure not to retweet it. What went through your head there, Hank? I did not see all of the game.
So when I saw that tweet, I thought it was in reference to the Philadelphia part. I thought that meant the Phillies on base.
When you say that you did not watch all the game, how much of the game did you watch? Like four innings. Oh, you did? Okay.
I watched the last four innings. This might have been the fastest MLB game ever.
That was in the last four innings. That Every MLB playoff game ever.
Oh, when Dumbledore says you got to kill Buckbeak.

Oh, I don't even get it, but it's funny.

I accidentally retweeted it. I don't even think it's true.

What do you mean?

I don't think that's part of the plot.

Well, listen.

Hank has his own choose your own adventure with Harry Potter.

They have to kill Buckbeak.

And then Harry goes back and saves him.

I just watched it.

Yeah, they went back in time. Oh, you actually did? Yeah.
Max, back to the Phillies real quick. 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.
Oh, we've been here before. Not really.
We've been here before. Just win 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 gotta take one yeah but you got two more games in arizona who's on the bump tomorrow baseball goes two three two yeah i know but i'm saying like you would rather you want it's almost a must win for this one you don't want it to go back right if you get to a game five you're already in trouble like if you get a game five two two you're in you're in trouble No.
If you win game five, you're fine.

100%. you're already in trouble.
Like if you get a game five, two, two, you're in, you're in trouble. If you know,

if you,

you have to win.

If you win game five,

you're fine.

100%. What if you lose the next,

what if you lose game four?

And then you have,

then,

then game five is a must win.

Yeah.

Even,

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,

I, I'm going to say this to you really as clearly and succinctly as I can. No, you play this.
What? What? Go. Say what you have to say.
I am rooting for the Phillies. I hate when you say that because we had this conversation.
We had an offline conversation, which I'm fine sharing online. I'm rooting for the Phillies.
In totality. They have to get to the World Series.
But you want... Because if they get to the World Series, I will hedge out, and then I will root against you.
Max, here's the thing. Big Cat is rooting for the Phillies, but he's not rooting for you.
Right. He's rooting against you, but he's rooting for you.
Right. If you don't understand this, you need to understand need to understand this i'm actually amazed that you haven't picked up on this last year and a half this is this is what big cat's doing right he wants to see you miserable right also i want i need to win that he wants to make money i need to win that money so he's willing big cat's willing to go as far as right yes i'm gonna push it to the break big cat's playing chicken with his own money right correct.
That's what I want to see Max more miserable for like two more, two more losses. Right.
And then I'll be happy if they win in seven games. Actually, you know what? Cause PFT put it perfectly.
I actually think Friday and Saturday are must wins for the Phillies because I won't be around you. 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, I'm liable to switch back. No, but that is when you're rooting for the Phillies though.
Because you need the Phillies to win. Yeah, but this is where you still don't really totally get it.
You're missing it. If it was a game seven and Big Cat's watching it with you, Big Cat's brain at that point would turn into, I get to see Max miserable close up.
Correct. Yeah.
Okay. It's worth me losing my bet to see Max potentially cry.
But if you can win. You guys are sick.
I'm just explaining it to you, Max. I am so sick.
I'm demented. Okay? But I'm telling you right now, tomorrow afternoon, I'm going to say goodbye to you for the weekend.
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, there's a problem. I have a question.
It's a problem. I have a question.
Yes. Max.
You really think if I'm rooting for the Phillies, I just want to say if we're up 3-2 going home for two games that like that were in a bad spot. No, but if you go, if you're up not as good of a spot as 4-1, if you're up 3-2 going home and you somehow blow that.
Yeah, that would be that might be worth the bet also i was saying this max earlier imagine if they blow two at the bank game seven in this series on pmt new studio opening night what a way to open chapter oh that would be sick that's a great oh don't let him go seven don't let him go that would be iconic that'd be great max like as a producer of this show yeah max numbers no one wants no one wants to watch new background okay well either way uh go go you know go you are you even coming in tomorrow 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. Yeah.
You go and get two more wins. Okay.
I would love that. And then I'll see you on Sunday.
I'd love nothing more. You come back to me on Sunday with two wins and I'll give you a nice big hug.
Kiss on the lips. For the boys.
Great. I do want to win this bet.
I really love seeing you miserable. It's addicting.
Game seven from the new studio would be a delight. Oh, my God.
Would it be incredible? Yeah. So new studio, everyone who's watching.
Please subscribe to the YouTube. Sunday night will still be here.
And then Tuesday will be in the brand new part of my take studio, which I have a prediction. I think people are going to love it.
The setup is great. But I think there will be a little adjustment where people will be like, Oh, they're there.
They looked, it looks too clean. We will mess it up.
Just don't, don't worry about that. Cause I saw it.
I went the other day and it like, you know, like when you first are going to see it on YouTube, you definitely be like, Holy shit. It kind of looks like a TV studio or something.
Just wait. Yeah.
Don't worry. Listen, life finds a way.
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. I actually, I'll save it for my Firefest.
I have a story about this. Don't you worry.
Okay. Should we go to picks in preview? Oh, JMU 7-0.
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 um they've been fired by espn right before the game so they just spent the entire game ripping the ncaa for everything just like being openly hostile to the ncaa i like it raise awareness the dukesukes have an opportunity. Yeah.
Could possibly go undefeated. 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.
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. I think JMU's 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.

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-Marshal game was 3-2.

Yeah.

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

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I am so goddamn excited for this Sunday. And here's why.
Two things. One, the perfect 6-4 setup.
We have six early games, four late games four late games the second i don't know i looked at it last night 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 yeah it's like almost everyone is everyone is minus three, minus two and a half across the board. 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. I'm ready for it.
And you know what? The NFL owes us. 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.
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.
Don't clap, Jake. He will now.
Please clap, Jeb. 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.
And goddamn, as much as I hate him, he is the perfect person for this job. 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.
And he would much rather take shit from just a bunch of people out there that write mean things about him than he would have Jerry Jones calling him up at like 3 a.m. every night.
Yeah. 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.
And he does a very good job of that. But he is a soulless robot.
He's a shit. He's a human body shield.
Yeah. He just stands in front of the owners and takes bullets from the media and the fans.
And then he turns around, he takes bullets from the other guys, his owner, the owners, his bosses, and he gets paid like $40 million a year. He is the shield.
He is the shield that protects the shield of the NFL. It's actually a 360 shield.
Yeah. Because it's all sides.
He needs a shield. It's a bubble.
Yeah. No, and he's...
I also think his temperament is perfect that he is just smart enough to do the job but also dumb enough to not fully understand where he fucks up and how hated he is 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 well emotional intelligence is is if someone doesn't have emotional intelligence they could be considered dumb it's a type of intelligence yes sure yeah he does a very good job of just taking bullets for everybody being a punching, 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 what to say and then put it out there for the public.
He takes all the shit from it. The league keeps making money.
He's very good. You know what else he's good at? He's he talks like a lawyer.
Yeah. 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 be like, yeah, he's a lawyer.
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. But then he's like, oh, I'm not a lawyer.
So I can't get into the details about that. He knows when you're talking about a complex issue, the best way to win that is to be so boring that people just tune you out.
Yep. Like if keep talking and talking and no one and you're not saying anything be like all right i guess i guess what he said florio will break it down but no one else will um i would i as much as i don't like goodell uh because he's he does kind of fuck over the fans a lot and uh he goes he makes bad decisions i would absolutely for $40 million a year, have Jerry Jones' hand up my ass while I walk around and puppeteer for the NFL.
Literally. Literally have his hand up my ass.
No, it's up his ass. Urban Myers, too.
Yeah. Okay.
Let's get into some games. First game.
Best game of the early slate. Lions at Ravens.
Lions at Ravens. This is a who are both these teams game.
Because I know the Lions are very good. I think the Ravens are very good.
But I'm going to come away from the winner of this game being like, that might be the team. Because this is the best game that both these teams are playing.
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 last 20 years,

11,

21 in one.

So that's a pro lions stat right there. I'm excited.
I think Jared Goff has been playing. I know he's our friend, we're biased.
I think he's a top five quarterback in terms of this season. And I also think Lamar, like that offense is going to pop at some point.
It might be this week. Cause the Lions secondary is their weakness.
Their rush defense, their past, their, their past rush has been awesome. So it might be this this week we might get points in this game yeah i think we might and uh jared is playing i'm gonna say he's playing at mvp level right now agreed he's he's in the mvp discussion we just added him to the conversation right now so it's jared goff brock purdy and christian mccaffrey that's who we've included in the mvp conversation so far um huge news going to this game huge news I don't know if you saw this picture big cat do you know who the nvp was yeah i did i just tweeted it oh you did yeah okay yeah hank have you seen this dan campbell nvp slime dripping from his face holding the trophy his eyes closed looks miserable it's an it's an all-time visual from dan uh the lines if we're being honest i everyone, 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. And it's really, like, the reason why I'm excited for this game is because this is a game that you'll come out of being, like, they beat a good opponent.
Whoever wins. Because you could do the schedule game with the Lions.
I know they beat Mahomes in Kansas City week one. That was tremendous.
Since then, they haven't played like a total murderer's row. They lost to the Seahawks.
Same with the Ravens. The Ravens have played against quarterbacks.
Kenny Pickett, Gardner Minshew, C.J. 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 and outside of mahomes the best quarterback the lions play against so i'm i'm ready i'm ready for this game one of these teams is going to be for real actually both teams can be for it 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 oh for sure and uh the lions also have the revenge factor of the justin tucker kick which is a i mean everyone remembers that game yeah uh lions in the past have found new and interesting and enticing ways to lose games 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 goes in, you feel like you've checked off every single square of the bingo card.

The Seahawks would probably find a weirder way to lose a game.

That's the only team that I think has the sadder, weirder history.

Well, no, Chargers and Falcons both have just sad history.

But Seahawks and Lions find really strange ways to lose games.

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.

Oh, yeah. to lose games.
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.

And with the Ravens,

I think the Lions could blow out the Ravens.

I don't see the Ravens blowing the Lions out.

The only reason, like I said,

I think it's going to be a good test

for the Lions secondary.

I'm very excited to see that. Who do they have running scout team for Lamar like on the lines is there somebody they could put a quarterback I'm on Rob probably just does it all yeah because he's just like yeah I'll I'll stay late I'll do everything Jamison maybe put Jamison at scout team quarterback I'm trying to think who Hindenhooker he's not not as fast, though.
Yeah, his knee's 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.

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, the Lions' front of the defense has been lights out. Very, very good.
Okay, next up, a battle in the NFC South, Falcons at Bucs. I did a little deep dive into where everyone's at with Desmond Ritter in Atlanta.
They are very much still in on him. 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.

But if you look at it, macro or big picture, there are a lot of things that are expanding.

Could be talking about the universe or Desmond Ritter.

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.

Thank you. Um, I also, I feel bad for Desmond Ritter.
Desmond Ritter said, uh, he has trouble falling asleep on Sunday nights. If he doesn't watch the game back compiling notes for Monday's film session, that's got to suck after a game.
Like he played against commanders to have to watch that back. Like clockwork orange style.
You think he watches more of it if he, if he wins or if he loses, I don't know. It sounds like he's a film rat.
Yeah. All right.
So it's difficult to learn how to play quarterback in the NFL. If we look at the history of the league, players aren't that great usually in their first two seasons, even the good ones.
Peyton 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.
Desmond Ritter, he hasn't been awful, awful. Well, he was on Sunday.
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. If the rest of the team wasn't so good, then nobody would be talking about how he's not playing that well.
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.
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? 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 in football. 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? 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 the Bucs have not beaten anyone. Depending on what happens this weekend.
Well, yeah. So for me, it's mostly just that the three and two instead of three and three.

Right.

So it looks better.

Yeah. The Bucs wins are the Vikings, Bears, and Saints.

Those are not.

I mean, you could make an argument for the Saints.

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.

Yeah. Yeah, probably.
I think the Texans actually might be. Yeah, might be the best of the six.
They might be in. Yeah.
Yeah, right. The Texans might be the best, worst team in football.
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. But we can say definitively, whoever wins this game will be the best, worst team in football.
Or no, will be the worst, best team in football. Yes.
And whoever loses will be the worst, best team worst best team in football yes got it what i really want to see from the falcons just give me a bijon robinson game yeah stop splitting up the carries yeah why are you not giving the ball to him more i want to see like was it algier is that the name yeah tyler algier he's like the ringo star it's like the beatles just let ringo star sing all the songs yeah and had paul mccarty back and play bass. Let Bijan Robinson just take over a game.
Just feed that motherfucker. 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. And I think the Bucs are pretty good against the run.
So it might be a Desmond Ritter-Baker Mayfield shootout. Who can make the more plays? Yeah, we can't wait for that.
I also loved the one last thing. I'm like, I read enough that I'm backing on Desmond Ritter for now.
Just the fact that he, I think he knows he sucks 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.
He didn't know he sucked. So a reporter asked Desmond Ritter, what happened on, on, on interception and Ritter responded with which one.
Good. I like that.
Yeah. Like a little bit of, I think he knows that he has to play better and credit to the Arthurs.
UK. It's very easy in the, 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.
Because I think if you bench Desmond Ritter right now, you're done. You're done with him.
You now are officially in the quarterback. You're giving up.
And Taylor Haneke is good enough where he could get this team to the playoffs, maybe win a game in the playoffs. But is Taylor Haneke going to be the long-term answer for the Falcons? my guess is probably not yeah so the upside to benching ritter is essentially just getting a worse draft pick this year right that's what you're going for so yeah i i as much as i want to see taylor heineke taylor heineke play and as much as i think you give them a better chance to win if i'm running the falcons i probably stay with ritter just for that reason yeah it's like r'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.
Yeah, he's self-aware. He's trying.
I have a fun game to play because when I was – I've been doing those NFL squares, the ones where you try to figure out what players have played for multiple teams. It's just a picture of Jake.
It's usually just Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Yeah.

That's always the answer.

But 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.

I forgot about that.

Vic Beasley.

Vic Beasley.

Okay, yeah.

My question was going to be, can you name a defensive lineman or linebacker that has ever played for the Falcons? Dwight Freeney did play for the Falcons, right? I'm almost positive. I don't know.
Like at the end of his career? Yeah. I want to say he went there.
I think he might have even been. Yeah, 2016.
Yeah, he was in the Super Bowl. He played for four teams in four years.
Yeah. I forgot about that.
After the Colts. I remember it because I was like, oh, shit.
Yeah. Falcons are going to be for real with Dwight Freeney for real because to me it's always just john abraham yeah that's the only guy that's ever played defensive line for that team yeah um all right what's your nerd nugget this one's actually cool yeah sure yeah they're all cool jake don't don't tell yourself i'm shoving my chips to the table this better you're stamping this cool it better be very cool i'll be unbiased okay 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, that's very cool.
Falcons bucks. Okay.
Panthers. That is very cool.
There's one each week where I'm like, well, that's actually, yeah, no, that one was very cool. Thanks.
That one was very cool. Yeah.
If the, what was it? If the Phillies win the world series with the entire NL East will have won a World Series. Yeah.
In the 2000s? Yeah, except the Mets. Except the Mets.
Yeah, it's a Mets stat. But the Mets have won a World Series.
Yeah. Okay.
The next game up, Browns Colts. Browns Colts.
P.J. Walker again, but maybe Deshaun? Yeah, Deshaun.
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.

Fun fact about PJ Walker, because we lost the Desmond Ritter stat.

PJ Walker has never lost a home game as a pro.

That's very interesting.

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.
At home. Shout out P.J.
Walker. P.J.
Walker. 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. 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.
And the opponent's third down conversion rate against the Browns this year is 23.1%. Yeah, it's pretty good.
It's insane. You're going to win a lot of games like that.
They're also, this is a fun stat. The Browns since 2021 are 3 and 13 after a win so um i actually great i actually like commend that as like an organization because that's that's the embodiment of me as a person like if i win a bet i'm like i'll never lose again and then i'll get you know completely blindsided like even when we did the rider cup yeah like Likeder Cup.
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. Once you get up, you're like, I'll always be up.
Yeah, Jake, let me ask you this. What did you do on the next hole after you got your hole in one? Triple bogey.
Yeah, there you go. I accidentally teed up the ball but i hit in the middle of the fairway what like i like you i wanted to keep the ball and i did oh you hit your pulling one ball oh yeah okay i thought you made you teed up your ball in the middle of the fair no so if it went ob i would have lost the ball yeah but even like sandlot blasted into the woods I respect that.
Let the game have the ball. Thank God.
No, you don't need to donate that ball to the course. I have it hung up in my apartment.
Yeah. But yeah, it's very relatable.
You do something awesome and then you just coast. Yeah.
You're just like, I'm going to be good at this forever. Yeah.
So the Browns, if you're looking at the trends, this seems like a trap game. And the Browns tend to take their foot off the gas.
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. Oh, yeah.
No, he was pissed. He actually brought it up on advisors, and I was like, 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. I was like, Jerry, that wasn't a diss on TJ.
No. No.
So here, I'll read the text that I got yesterday from Jersey Jerry around noon. So he listened to the podcast, I guess, pretty early on in the day.
He said, never realized how big of a Miles Garrett fan you are. So 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 think TJ Watt is better overall. Miles Garrett is scarier.
And then he just replied with this picture right here of TJ Watt in a visor. The visor.
Looking scary. Yeah, bully mode.
So I did give it to Jerry. I said, TJ is a better football player overall.
I think Miles Garrett is more terrifying. Yeah.
Especially during spooky season,

because Myles Garrett loves to go all out for Halloween.

He's always got the most intricate...

I think last year 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.

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 Minschew i wish you could just clear those tickets out i wish there was a way to just like not have to look at it yeah yeah i agree i know i know i'm staring at some 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 won the super bowl yeah i mean i look at cubs 100 to 1 every day yeah that's cool this is also alternate helmet weekend for the Colts they're wearing their black helmets oh I don't Indiana Knights don't like these uniforms I've seen them they look like Duke football they do look a little bit like Duke football uniforms but I don't know we'll see if they win then they might yeah they might be cool and they should obviously start Sam Ellinger and then have Gardner Minshew come in.

Agreed.

We've talked about it, but that should be the way they go.

Jake, your nerd nugget.

The Browns have allowed just 1,002 yards so far this season,

which is the third fewest allowed by a team for their first five games since 1970.

I heard that nerd nugget, I think, on Monday.

And just a minute ago.

And a minute ago.

I just read it twice.

Two steps forward, one step back. The cool one was...
Read the cool one again. 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? But the Cardinals were 08. So by the time, it'll be 24.
So 16 years. Yeah.
Oh, but right now as it stands i guess today yeah but it's impossible for it to be beat so the great nerd nugget was wrong well it's impossible for it to be wrong but right now i guess unless the cardinals make the super bowl in 2023 yeah yeah but they can't oh okay gotcha yeah all right well they can no they can't because it'll be 2024 yeah it'll be the last i think they meant the last super bowl in ours. They also can't.
Okay. I got one other thing.
Oh, we should talk about the Colt season ticket giveaway. So we gave it to the saddest jerseys, the saddest Colt jerseys that we had.
Oh, yeah. And I think one dude had a Curtis Painter jersey that he bought.
Well, there was one guy. I think he's a super fan.
He had like eight of them. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. He had a Curtis Painter and a Derry.
Curtis Painter actually was good for the Colts because he got them Andrew Luck. Yeah.
He had a Hayward Bay Colts jersey. He also had another guy had an Austin Colley one, which is pretty sad.
Yeah, Austin Colley. A lot of concussions.
Have you guys ever had any sad jerseys that you really regret? I have a Javon Curse, but I think it rocks. Eagles Javon Curse.
Yeah, that is cool. He was sweet.
Hank, what were you going to say about Austin Colley? I thought he was pretty good. Yeah, but he just...
Oh, no, I was thinking of Anthony Gonzalez, who got all the concussions. Yeah.
Who's now running for like center. Austin Colley had a really bad injury.
Austin Colley also did. I think, but he was solid.
Paying man in hospital passes. He loved to do that to his slot receivers.
His slot receivers. Like Stokely had a few of those.
Yeah. I think his tight ends, too.
He used to lay Dallas Clark out all the time. Oh, yeah.
So congrats to Colts fan Cole and Marcus. Love it.
Okay. Next game up.
Yeah. He had 600, 500 yards.
And then he got hurt. Commanders of Giants.
Tie God, I think, again. Sam Howell's 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 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 uh leading history with 34 sacks And then the Giants have given up 33 sacks so Daniel Jones obviously was out to Rod 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 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 so maybe Sam sam howell 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 on the offensive line sam howell himself takes a lot of sacks yes he hangs on to the ball for a long time he does so it's not just like the offensive line is giving up you know free runners left and right i don't i don't know if that's a trait that quarterbacks can fix over the their careers is getting better at getting rid of the ball quicker i think it's i think it's unfortunately it just has to be an injury to then give them the fear yeah he has no fear he has no fear because he plays with no fear he's a tough motherfucker he's a really tough guy um and the giants are down another offensive lineman because shane lemieux tore his biceps during practice on Wednesday. So practice injuries are the worst.

We've talked about this, but like I want to see the injury.

Yeah.

So I can process it.

Yeah.

So it looks to me like this would favor the commander's defensive line

if I'm just looking at who's going to get sacked more this week.

And also Daniel Jones isn't playing who owns the commander's.

So that's good.

Yep.

The referees that called the Giants-Commanders game last year with a pass interference on the last play of the game that wasn't called, they're reffing this game. Oh, nice.
Redemption. So yeah.
Makeup call. Makeup game.
Yeah, because the Giants need a makeup call and a pass interference right now. Makeup game.
Okay. Nerd nugget.
Since entering the league in 2019, commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin leads all players in receiving yards against the NFC East. 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. So does the Eagle receivers, the Giants receivers, the Cowboys receivers.
Wait, since what year? 2019. So no A.J.
Brown. No A.J.
Brown. No Devontae Smith.
I don't want to break. I don't want to.
It's a good set, Jake. I like that.
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, we'll say it's really cool.
I think that was a very cool stat. Did you hear how many more yards he had than CeeDee Lamb? Yeah.
That's incredible. 600.
When did CeeDee Lamb get drafted? That's incredible, Jake. Really, 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.

He has more touchdowns than Jalen Hurts or Matt Stafford.

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.

Could be great.

Could be great.

Could be great.

I like it.

We're Sam Howell guys. All right.
Raiders at Bears. Oh boy.
Tyson Bajan versus Aiden O'Connell. Exactly what the people wanted.
Or is it Brian Hoyer? Do we know? I think it's Aiden O'Connell. I'm going to check the game time app.
This one's got to be low. Yeah.
I like Tyson Bajan. He looks.
First of all, his dad is a professional arm wrestler Travis the Beast Kind of cool I watched some tape on him And he is a shit talker 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 Yeah I did i did some research on some other stuff i did some research on the beast because his dad seems awesome yeah and also just having a dad named travis like you're already cool i didn't think that travis's were dads right in west virginia yeah the odds 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 um travis the beast badgent he is a 35 time national champion 35 time that doesn't really make too much sense because i think he's like 40 he's 44 so if he won 35 was he winning arm wrestling champions when when he was seven well he does arm wrestle right and left yeah that's true so he's won uh world championships with both his left and right arms and 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 VitaCell Biologics.
Did you go to his website too? Yeah, I went to his Instagram. Yeah, I did.
I went to his website. VitaCell Biologics.
You just basically mash together a bunch of words that would make people be like, oh, I got to get it on VitaCell Biologics. Are you taking Biologics, Big Cat? I uh i'm taking viticel biologics i feel like i need to start taking biologics um his dad also

owns an arm wrestling bar in charlestown west virginia called billy jacks yes which that's

got to be a very uh very dangerous place to wander into accidentally it's essentially the

plot of over the top sly stallone incredible movie except the sun is cool and played in the nfl and

not a little fucking wet blanket piece of shit yeah what type of music you think they got on

the the plot of over the top Sly Stallone. Incredible movie, except the sun is cool and played in the NFL and not a little fucking wet blanket piece of shit.

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.

Yeah, maybe some of that, too.

This is the 29th quarterback starting for the Chicago Bears since the year 2000.

That's a lot of quarterbacks.

Pretty impressive.

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

Who are your top three?

Cuddy.

McCown.

Kyle Orton.

Yeah.

Got you to the Super Bowl with Rex Grossman.

Rex Grossman.

Chris Chandler was in the mix there.

Henry Burris.

There's a lot of Mike Glennon.

Todd Collins.

Caleb Haney, Todd Collins.

There's Jason Miller.

There's a lot.

Jason Campbell was in there.

Matt Barkley.

There's a lot of quarterbacks in there.

Yeah.

The dynamic duo of Chad Hutchinson and Jonathan Quinn.

Who could forget?

That was the Thanksgiving game where they just got fucking obliterated. To me, this is going to be basically Max Crosby against the Bears.
Yeah. If Max Crosby has a good game, the Raiders win.
If he doesn't, I think the Bears win. I think Tyson Bajan, he might be good enough to win a game.
Yeah. There's no tape on there.
He's kind of got that. He's got that dog in him.
He said his quote in the press conference this week was, I pretty much beat every odds that there was for me, so I've got nothing to lose. 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.
He's in fuck it mode. That is exactly what you want to hear from your backup quarterback.
They should let his dad be the coach for this week. I mean, he would be better than Dweberflus.
Yeah, just shit talking against McDaniel. His dad probably is going to yell at Dweberflus from the stance.
Yeah, he should be directly behind. He should be on the 50-yard line first row with a megaphone in his hand.
Yes. And aiden o'connell i i have a take i think aiden o'connell might be a future starting quarterback in the nfl why's that i saw him against the chargers he looked good yeah i don't know he looked all right yeah i don't know they liked him a lot in the draft they've got a chance he's got a chance against a bad bears defense yeah the bears are also going for their first home win since September 25thth 2022 over a year so yeah jake what is the get-in price on this game the get-in price is 84 oh really 20 off though with code pmt i would 64 i would think it would be way lower than that yeah still still nice weather all protein bars generally taste the but not one bars.
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I should also mention Mark Davis cutting a rug after the aces won it was so good so good to see him happy just just dancing up a storm out there back to back champs life yeah yeah so is mark davis the best owner in sports i mean we knew that already we knew that already oh yeah stan kronky how's arsenal doing this year top of the table top of the table as always they must be um 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. Yeah, he was having a great time.
Okay, Nerd Nugget. The Raiders defense has only allowed 14 total plays of 20 plus yards this season tied with the Chiefs and 49ers for fewest in the NFL.
Yeah, they keep everyone in front of them. If the Bears are smart, it's a heavy run game because you can run on the Raiders.
But, yeah, they do a good job of making sure the big plays are not there. Okay.
Are we getting close to Devontae Adams' trade watch? I think so. Because they're not throwing the ball the last couple weeks.
And he said he was frustrated. Yeah, because they're throwing the ball to Josh Jacobs.
And he might maybe. And they're throwing the ball to – who's their other – oh, Jacoby Myers.
They're throwing the ball to Josh Jacobs. And you might maybe.
And they're throwing the ball to who's their other. 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. All right.
Last early game. Bills at Patriots.
Bills at Patriots. If 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 Bill Belichick since Tom Brady's first career start. I'm kind of sick of the Tom Brady stats.
Let's just... They're just fact-shank.
Oh, you're turning the page. Actually, I think they might have been...
It would be the second biggest because I think they also played the Rams and that was bigger. But you're sick of the stats.
Yeah, that's that's what do you mean? So you're never going to bring up any good Tom Brady stats? No, it just means that Hank is sick of reality. Hank doesn't like reality right now.
This is walk a mile in my shoes, brother. You don't like insult stats.
There's literally like I'm pretty 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 every month so we can get the engagement this is stats or stats yeah i don't like them yeah because you haven't experienced them before i know also this is another this is another life, Hank. Non Tom Brady stat.

Okay.

Josh Allen is six and one in his last seven games against the Patriots.

Kind of owns him.

That's interesting.

The only loss was that freezing game.

You guys went to Hank's last good memory.

Yeah.

Yeah.

In those games,

he has 260 yards per game,

18 touchdowns,

one interception.

It's great.

One Hank.

He has 18 touchdowns and one pick.

We haven't even done this on purpose.

He's good.

us just like

Thank you. one interception it's great one hank he has 18 touchdowns and one pick we haven't even done this on purpose he's good us just like drowning hank and stats because you can't argue with stats they're stats factor fiction stats are stats yeah but i think they're you know selected selected stats oh okay what um what are you expecting from this game henry i'm gonna be at a wedding i will not be watching this game convenient 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 10 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 the win that the Bills had, wins and win, don't apologize for winning, but the win that they had against the Giants on Sunday night, that was the worst win in the Super Bowl era by the stats.
And that's going to be a big time. That's the thing.
They're coming off of a win loss. Yeah.
A loss win. A loss win.

It might be a loss win.

They're practicing like they got beat by 40 this week. Oh, yeah.

That's a game that they technically won, and they'll be happy they won towards the playoffs.

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.

Win.

Well, here's something good for you, Hank. giants on sunday night against the bills they didn't score a lot of points 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 the giants are i wouldn't say the patriots the giants and Patriots are probably the same in terms of offensive talent.
So move the ball. Sure.
So by the stats. Okay, I'm trying to help.
Jesus Christ, this guy won't even take help. By the stats, according to OptiSports, 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 0 and 134 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 you just hiccuped again they they played to their opponent's level a little bit. But in this case, it feels like, it feels, Hank, like the Bills have an opportunity to kind of like bury Bill Belichick.
To just like twist the knife, put the knife in his heart because... Doctor Fiction.
Albert Breer reported, is he fake news? He's pretty well plugged in, right? Ish. Okay.
He's a bit of a sensationalist. Here's another fact is that Albert Breer reported this, that discussions about moving on from Bill Belichick have taken place.
I can tell you for sure, Robert hears the criticism. 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? Whoa. I don't think you can fire Bill.
Wait, so you're just reporting that Robert Kraft hears things. Robert Kraft, his ears.
No, he's also, he's also, no, his mouth too. He's discussing the fact he doesn't have Siciliano's ears, but he does have ears.
And he says that the discussions around Belichick have been underway for a while. I don't think that there's no chance you fire Bill Belichick, right? You can't.
No. And that's just like the discussions in the media.
No, in the building. No, you can't fire Bill Belichick.
Ever. Do you think Mac Jones makes it through this game? No.
Okay. I yeah i actually i don't eat and a half points a lot of points it's a vision game home underdog statement game for the lighthouse hold my nose uh i don't know if i can do that i mean have you watched the patriots play yeah they should have covered against know.
They should have covered against the Raiders, though. That was bullshit the way that game ended with the drop pass.
They should have. And then the penalty and then the safety.
That was a bad beat. They should have.
Nerd nugget. 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.
Hank just did a fist bump 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. Yeah, that would be funny.
If I were to be on the Bears, I would publish only negative stats. Because Pumptor is positive stats.
I want stat hole. Stat hole, if you're listening to this, I would just like for you to compile all the sad Patriots stats this weekend possible, especially if they lose.
I just want to spend 10 minutes reading to hank and watching him just reject reality whatever okay uh next game you just did it right there you can't i mean at the end of the day you can't it's it's we've had the conversation a million times you can't take away the superbowls no i will be able to block out all this negativity and bad you're not allowed to talk about patriot tom brady stats the superbowls are got you there he got you there no the Super Bowl is a team Max the Patriots did the the the the the the the the the the the the the the

the Negativity and bad stats. You're not allowed to talk about Tom Brady stats.
The Super Bowls are a Tom Brady stat. He got you there.
No, the Super Bowl is a team, Max. The Patriots won.
Did Tom Brady win a Super Bowl or the Patriots won a Super Bowl? Tom Brady won a Super Bowl. You're not allowed to do any stats related.
Not the first one. That's not a stat.
The defense won the first one. That's just a fact.
Hank, if you were to rank your favorite, like let's get you out of this negative mindset, just rank the best Super Bowls that you've won personally in order from greatest

to least important 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 uh against the Rams.

And then...

I would put that last.

Eagles. three then i would say uh against the rams and then i would put that last eagles okay yeah eagles panthers rams i was pretty young like i don't have a ton of memories from that game so that would probably be six okay yeah i would also imagine if you're on the patriots right now there's's just nothing like celebrating a Super Bowl with partying with the team.

With your boys.

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 a down game if your team is good.

So 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. That's fair.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's probably a bummer. All right.
Afternoon games. Steelers at Rams.
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 whatever uh i podcasted uh he also said i'm not going to miss a game my son knows better than to come during a game i think i'm going to predict that the baby's going to be born on sunday morning that'd be great wouldn't it yeah i this baby listen he will become a football guy because he's sean mcveigh's son but babies come when they want to come do you think sean mcveigh is going to watch the game if his wife is currently in labor like about to give birth yeah there's a tv in the game i i i went oh and four uh on wmba bets when my son my first son was born and then 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 how many centimeters dilated she is when they threw an interception? And that'll be ingrained in his memory? Yeah. I think it probably would be.
What do you have to have, Max? I'm just thinking about you just sitting in that room. WNBA, I know.
It was fucking brutal. Being so mad about losing.
Oh, it was brutal. And then my last, the last kid I think I had, it was the Warriors Lakers maybe.
And I think I had the Warriors and that was bad. That was, oh, it was the closeout game.
Yeah, that was bad. Just let those kids know you're a loser real quick.
Yeah, no, they all, they've, all three of my children were born on losing gambling days. That's great.
That's on them, not me. Because you can spin that out.
You're like, it was actually the greatest day of my life. No, I would have rather won the money.
If one of your kids, 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.
Your daughter would take a backseat at that point. Listen, if any of my kids, my goal for my children is I want them to obviously grow up happy, healthy, everything.
But more than anything, I want one of them to be smart enough to make me a system to win gambling. Like they need to learn math.
Math will be taught in my household. Not by me, but it will be taught.
And once one of them gets of the age where they can come and they say, daddy, I made you an algorithm's the spreadsheet that will be the happiest day of my life it'll be your favorite child oh my god oh my god you're going to college listen daddy i got i got it i got it for you 60 percent in college basketball just follow this spreadsheet bye that's it that's all i'm hoping for i got a spreadsheet and it tells me that mike tomlin as an underdog is 55 and 30 against the spread i also have a different spreadsheet that tells me that the Steelers are 12 and four in games after the team's bye week under Mike Tomlin. Wow.
So this feels like he's not only 55 and what was it? 55 and 30 against the spread. I think there's also like he's I think he's one game over 500 straight up as an underdog.
Like he just he wins outright. Yeah.
So everything's pointing like the baby coming mike tomlin's record after the spreadsheet it feels like the steelers yeah no this is a stealer spot you just have to take mike tomlin as an underdog and then fade him as soon as he becomes a favorite also jerry tj watt is the best defensive football player in football you hear that jerry you hear that uh 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 four and they'll be going against matthew stafford this week 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 in their history how many times have they actually done that that's a good question just like it's not as much it like something the Browns have done. Yeah.
The Bengals probably had a bunch of them, too, if we're being honest. 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 has got to be the happiest guy in the world.
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? And then the longer he stays out there, the more you realize, Oh, that's why that's the Colt McCoy effect. 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. 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. I think we're now getting a far enough distance away from the win against the Cowboys.
Like, wait, no, they do stink. 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.
I also think the Seahawks, that was a loss. Wait, no.
That was a loss. That was a lost loss.
But 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. I think Gino's going to slice and dice them.
So the first half spread on this is Cardinals plus 4.5. I'm going to take Cardinals plus 4.5.
I think they hang around in the first half, and then they do a great job of not making any adjustments whatsoever. It is also that weird.
The afternoon Seahawks games are always like, what's going on? This is my chaos game. Yeah.
This feels like a big-time chaos game. I feel that.
I feel that. Okay, nerd nugget for this one.
Since Lumen Field in Seattle opened in 2002, the Cardinals have more wins at the venue, nine, than any other visiting team. Oh.
Wait, say it again? They've won more games. Oh, Cardinals.
Yeah. Than any other visiting team.
Okay. Yeah.
Huh? Interesting. All right.
Packers at Broncos. Puke.
Is this the game that Russ gets benched? I don't know. So I've been thinking about it.
Sean Payton is very clearly tanking this season. You saw the clip too of, of Sean Payton talking with Coward when he was still in the media, being that Caleb Williams is the most can't-miss guy ever.
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, that doesn't begin to cover how stupid that timeout was. I think it's the worst timeout ever taken.
It was fourth down. They were punting.
I think there were like 23 seconds left on the clock. 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. It was a shitty punt.
They kick a 60-yarder at at the end of the half three points that would not exist in the history of the football universe and the man's taking if it wasn't for sean payton sean payton is 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 he's made a intentionally stupid clock management decisions. 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 i agree with everything you said we concur yeah uh 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.
So he shortened up his verbiage a little bit and then continued to burn more timeouts. Yes.
Yes. The Packers should win this game.
They're off a bye. They got a little healthy.
And 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.
Yeah. I like this uniform matchup.
All right, Nerd Nugget. History says this will be a blowout one way or the other.
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.
That's a good one. So these teams beat the crap out of each other, but not one-sided.
Got it. Okay.
Last afternoon game, Chargers at Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes, his record against the AFC West all-time, 28-3.
That's fucking stupid. 28-3.
That's insane. Three losses.
The Raiders. And the Chargers twice.
Chargers twice. So the Chargers have played them tight.
I think basically every Chargers-Chiefs game ends in a three-point loss for the Chiefs. That's every Chargers.
It's every Chargers game. Yeah, every Chargers game.
I kind of like the Chargers here because I just, I don't know. The Chiefs don't cover spreads.
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.
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. 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.
This would be a big-time win-loss for the Chargers this week. The Chiefs do have the fourth-best defense in the NFL.
They're good. It's crazy to think that, okay, now that team is elite defensively.
And the Chiefs last week against the Broncos, they were fucking around so much on offense. I think that they went into that game being like, well, we're going to beat the Broncos because we never, ever lose to the Broncos and their shitty team this year.
So we can afford to have a practice on Thursday. But this week, I feel like they're going to take the Chargers a little bit more seriously.
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.
They they are the new Patriots they've taken final form as the new Patriots by bringing Nicole Harbin back that's such a Patriots move because they're going to bring him back and he's going to be good again yeah they're going to bring him back he's going to get him for cheap that's such a Patriots move 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 a portland buying barstool back for a dollar yeah yeah yeah it's true that's what that's what the chiefs have done yeah they're 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 yeah he's still pretty quick and he knows like when to sit down in zone coverage great yeah sign him up the uh do you think taylor's gonna be at this game? Last chance before she goes back on tour. 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. I saw Travis Kelsey bought a new house.
Yeah. He wants more privacy.
It has a mini golf course. Six million dollars.
I don't know why we don't live in Kansas City. Yes.
It's insane. It's got a mini golf course.
What else does it have? I was looking at the list of features on there. It's got everything.
I always think about that just looking at different places in America and being like, well, we could just be ballers in Toledo, Ohio. Yeah.
Anchorage. Imagine what we could get in Reno right now.
Why are you making that face me? Do you don't want to live in Toledo? Yeah, no. No.
What the fuck? I got the fucking key to the city, dude. We can do whatever you want.
We can do whatever we want. Where do you think the worst place to live if you have $100 million in the bank would be? I think probably Long Island.
What's wrong with Long Island? It's just you don't get $100 million. You can get like a super nice house.
You're not that rich too. Yeah.
On Long Island. Yeah, but it's nice.
Yeah, it's nice. Exactly.
It's nice. Right.
Some parts of Long Island are a dump. Yeah.
Coral Gables. You could probably get a much sicker house down there.
Yeah. A hundred million dollars.
Yeah. I just saw the house and I was like, what? What the what the fuck this is like insane that's a house that was definitely built for a former kansas city athlete and they've been waiting to trade it around for another good six bed six bath 16 000 square feet 16 000 square tennis pickleball mini golf that's sick we should go to kansas city we should just buy one house in kansas city ball out every...
We'll go like once a year. They got a great zoo.
They got one of the best zoos in the country. Also our...
And they've upgraded their airport, which we got to review at some point. That's right.
That one guy was like, you got to go back to the Kansas City airport. They're like, no, we fixed it.
It's not that bad. Our colleague Kelly Keegs blogged about how Travis plans to join Taylor to kick off her international tour next month.

All right.

Oh, where?

I don't.

Buenos Aires?

I think Argentina.

Yeah.

I don't want to.

I want to be very supportive of the Taylor Swift, Travis Kelsey relationship.

Yeah, we are.

I like it.

I love it.

I love her.

I love it.

The Chiefs got to keep winning. Because they're going to blame her? Yeah.
Like, he's been everywhere. That's definitely a conversation.
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. 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 Saturday Night Live. Oh, you did this.
That's just a fact. 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. It's like no one cared when the Patriots are winning when Aaron Hernandez was killing people, but then they don't win a Super Bowl and you're like, wait, lock this guy up.
That sort of thing. PFC is just taking side shots.
Oh, I mean, they didn't know that wasn't directly killed people. That wasn't directly playing at Hank.
Also, Argentina, the Argentina portion of the tour is during the chiefs biweeks. You can't really shame that.
No, I, I get, I don't know. We can, I'll use this example.
Brandon Marshall, when he was on the bears, he started doing, uh, whatever it is, the, uh, inside the NFL. Yeah.
He would fly to New York every Tuesday. Oh yeah.
When it was, when the bears were doing okay, it was fine. When the bears started losing, everyone was like, why the fuck are you flying every week, dude? That's just reality.
Or in Baker Mayfield did all the commercials. Yeah.
And he had a good rookie year. It's not.
Oh, this guy's different. And then he took a step backwards.
And we're like, wait a second. Why is he so good at acting? Right.
I didn't think Brandon Marshall was like not putting the time in. It's just when you do something else and you're not winning, 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 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 so that would be commitment yeah she would she would she definitely went to Vegas yeah she probably will get the fucking Super Bowl move to Tokyo she's got a private jet Jake she travels everywhere she travels everywhere.
She goes to the store on a private jet. Yeah, but in terms of time, that's the day before.
I guess you get all the time back because they're ahead, right? Traveling east. It's basically a free time.
I don't like that. She'd be traveling east at the last minute.
Poor ozone layer. Yeah.
That's a real loser in this. Okay.
Did you give us a nerd nugget? Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen

needs 81 scrimmage yards

to reach 10,000

for his career.

He would be the second

fastest Charger ever

to reach that mark

behind LaDainian Tomlinson.

Okay.

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?

You should block more. I think she should probably start.
Yeah, I agree. Oh, someone just texted me Travis Bajan's number.
Should we call him? Oh, shout out Shane. Thank you.
Different Shane. Okay, last game.
Dolphins-Eagles. I'm so excited for this game.
So excited for this game. Who is Max more nervous about? Jake or Nicky Smokes? That is like the polar opposites of people that can piss you off while watching a game with them.
It really is. They are hitting you with a one-two punch that has never been seen before.
The answer is Nikki 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 you're going to take a backseat. I know what you do in that and i always think about we will street we will stream this uh for everyone who wants to watch it um i i so i agree with you nicky smokes will be the more 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 i have no idea what nicky smokes is gonna do i have not seen him in this it's like the enemy you know versus the enemy.
Like, Jake, you don't know what Jake will do. I disagree.
I know Jake. If the Dolphins win, it'll piss you off.
I'm with Max. I think you know Jake way more than Nicky Smokes.
Jake will do something that will piss me off. He'll do a little clap or a yeah that will be annoying.
But I've seen it before, and I can expect that. You game plan for it.
I have no idea. And I don't really know Nicky smokes that well.
He might prank you. You might get smoked.
He's also way... Every time he sees me, he keeps telling me something about it.
I'm like, I'm going to worry about that on Sunday. I'm trying to win baseball games.
Yeah, you don't have the capacity to do both. Well, hopefully the series is wrapped up by that.
You know what the worst would be if Jake beats you and then he takes a picture of the Scorigami and from the TV right in your face? Oh, my God. That would be the worst.
He's more excited about the numbers. He makes you take the picture? Oh, yeah.
Oh. No, no.
Yeah, no, Max. If he beats you with the Scorigami.
I mean, Max wasn't mad the Eagles lost last week. That's true.
That's true. That's not true.
Max, real quick. What's the Eagles injury situation? It's looking good.
What? They got more injured? Baldy said that Lane Johnson's looking good. That got picked up all over NFL Twitter or all over Eaglesus slay said that we're gonna be he's gonna be back sooner than expected than everyone thinks which is weird because everyone thought he was coming back this week did get picked up by like eagles twitter or by like the anonymous verified aggregator accounts you know the ones no yes no but it was like jpa i'm an nfl rookie watch i think they're all the same guy.
No, it was like Eagles Nation. 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. Yeah, that guy sucks.
Yeah, but like all the Eagles beat reporters were like according to that Lane Johnson's back. Lane Johnson's back.
I got some stats here for you, Jake. You like like these.
This is per Smart Football Chris Brown. Not that Chris Brown.
Good Chris Brown. He said the Dolphins are averaging 8 yards per play, 8.0 yards per play.
Next closest team in the NFL is the 49ers. They average 6 yards per play.
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 a Jesse Jakes stat.
He didn't even know. 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.
Love that. That's how good your offense is right now.
The only thing that concerns me with the Dolphins is schedule. You haven't beaten anybody.
They've beaten the worst worst five teams in the league well no the charges aren't the worst besides the chargers yeah but the week one on the road giants the patriots panthers and broncos and the broncos and the one good team that got smoked yeah i think the eagles are gonna win this game also we have to say i i've done the computer models everything that i've i've put into the numbers crunched them all i think the kelly green jerseys are worth seven points okay wow thank you seven points um i saw the helmets yeah well i mean that's seven points how much did the jets win that's probably what it was the jets wore kelly they did wear kelly green i'm also fully that 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. He's prime

Julio Jones. You got a busy schedule.

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.

It's done. It's already in the past.
I'm already back in.

Even the fact that you've taken this time to

think about Julio Jones means you haven't been thinking about

the Phillies. I haven't even said Penn State, Ohio State Saturday morning.
Oh, I forgot about that. Jesus.
Max, you have a massive weekend. Yeah, I know.
I'm a casual Penn State fan, but I'm still going to root for them to win, wake up early, get fired up. You just said prime Julio Jones, though.
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 I'm wrong, you are official stance. You're a Joe Pot didn't know guy.
Oh, geez. I didn't know.
That was a trick question, and you failed. 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? No, he knew.
That was a bad answer. No, he knew.
That was a bad um. He's thinking to himself he definitely knew, but how do I say that he didn't know? Yeah.
No, he knows. He knows.
Okay. But he's still a sport.
No, he knows. Yeah, okay.
Because that was suspect. Yeah.
Okay. I think the Eagles are going to win this game.
So I told Max when I came in, I think the Eagles are going to crush him. What was that? What did you just talk? Nothing.
Nothing. You can't talk to me.
We're doing a podcast. You just did.
You said something to memes off mic. We're doing a podcast.
No. What did you say? Yes, we are.
We are. Joe Pondu.
Mm-hmm. Yes.
That's it. Okay.
What do you say to you, memes? I'm bad. I'm in lips.
Oh, shit. But what, though? Nothing.
But Sandusky also had a charity. No.
They won a lot of football games. No, no, no.
Won a lot of football games. No.
What about the statue? Where are you at on the statue, Matt? Statues should stay down. Yes.
It's actually Jeff D. Lowe has taken it.
It's going to be the dozen season four trophy. Okay.
Jake.adelphia is tied for the third highest prime time winning percentage since 2017 trailing only the chiefs and the ravens the eagles have won six of their last seven prime time games they're two and oh this season i love that they love the lights i do think yeah the dolphins are a really good team but this is another step up in class especially off of loss for the eagles if lane johnson plays i think the eagles is often tending into their by the next three weeks they're at the eagles home against patriots and then neutral germany against the chiefs 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 fraudulent yeah we're going to have to put them on fraud alert this mother and then they have the raiders the jets the commanders the titans like have to put them on front alert. Yep.
The best. Actually, the Eagles.
None of those teams are good that you just said. Exactly.
That's what he's saying. I'm saying.
They just have a very easy schedule. They have to be a good team for us to fully believe in my opinion.
And they've only, in honesty, they've only lost to one really good team. Yeah.
And they've blown out all the other teams. So it's been good.
It's not their fault. Yeah.
But they do need to win one of these big games. I think they have to split with the Eagles and the Chiefs and all be comfortable.
Yeah. You've just said this to me before.
You were like, the Dolphins haven't beaten anyone. No, I'm asking you a genuine question.
The best team that they beat is the Rams? Yeah. No, they beat the Rams good.
Yeah, that was a good win. You licked him.
Yeah, you licked him.

And the Bucs, I guess.

But I think the Rams are better than the Bucs.

I was just trying to get you to say the Commanders was the best team.

Oh, and the Commanders.

My bad.

Sorry.

Thanks, Max.

Okay.

There was a great quote from Jordan Mailata.

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.

He goes, Nick Foles.

Definitely Nick Foles.

Love it. Love it.
Love it. Love it.
Okay. Let's do picks and then we'll do fantasy fuckboys.
Where are we at standings? Well, we got to address something from last week. Uh-oh.
Yeah, you messed up. We had an error.
We? Who's we? I'll take blame for it. Okay.
I don't think that you should take blame for it. Shut the fuck up, Max.
We have a rule where we're taking one side and one total, and PFT picked two sides and nobody, but mostly my fault. Acknowledge that on the spot.
However, he did lose that Patriots pick. Oh, you took the...
He took the Patriots, so it kind of worked out. That's safety.
So what happened was... You took the over, though, right? Jake told me in the group chat, or maybe it was Max that highlighted it.
I forget who was listening to the group chat. I think it was me.
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.
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.

Either way, it's a loss.

All right, so give us standings.

Okay, so in the warm-up category, I'm 8-3-1.

Max is 7-5, and Memes is 4-8.

So we're already seeing some separation.

8-3-1 is really good.

Yeah, I'm 8-3-1.

It's pretty sick.

In the main event, Big Cat, 7-3-2.

PFT, 7-5.

Hank, 5-6-1.

Hank.

It's been a bad year.

Yeah.

Bad.

Ice cold.

Also.

Bad.

Bad.

How many times are you going to say bad?

It's bad.

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, and Hank you said that though 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 so i'm in line to you 24 pancakes miserable eating pancakes

i did 19 dogs in eight hours yeah i feel like that's true i feel like it's not as bad this is

not as bad you have street cred and i tweeted at taylor decker because he's in awl i said you

got to start pancake and he replied oh did he yeah i didn't see it he's like yeah he's like i'm on it

let's go noted let's go yeah I might be back. Yeah.
Okay.

Whose goes first?

Oh, Hank.

And then who?

Then you, Big Cat.

Then me.

We go around.

Oh, yeah.

Noted and underlined twice.

Okay.

There you go.

All right.

Hank, go.

Hank.

Bill's minus eight and a half.

Ooh.

Against the Patriots.

What a jerk you are.

We'll not are watching.

It's going to be a blow.

Okay.

I will take the Chargers plus five and a half.

It's the chiefs.

Well,

you wanted that.

That's one or two.

Well,

you couldn't have picked that one.

No,

I know that was that.

I,

yeah, you were good. I know how it works.
So if I win and one? No, I know. That was PFT.
Yeah.

You were going.

I know how it works.

So if I win and you lose, you're going to be like, fuck. Yeah, those are the only two I wrote down for spreads.
You thought I was going to take the bills? No. No, I was choosing between the two.
He didn't go Chargers. All right, memes.
Eagles minus two and a half. Like it.
That's an offense. There's no other games besides the Eagles.
That was the only one that was in my head. Lions, Ravens over.
Okay. That was my total.
43 and a half. Okay.
Jake. I'm going to go with Chargers Chiefs over 48 and a half.
Okay. Okay.
So I get two. Yes.
I'm going to go Chargers Chiefs under 48 and a half. And then I'm going to go with the Niners on the road at the Vikings, Monday Night Football, Kirk Cousins in primetime.
I'm taking the Niners minus six and a half on the road in Minnesota. Okay.
All right. So you took a spread and a total.
Good job, PFT. Thank you.
I'm going to take the Steelers plus three on the road against the Rams. Mike Tomlin.
Like it. Okay, Max.
That means really fuck me here. I'll go Bucks minus two and a half against the Falcons.
How could he do that? He knows I'm an Eagles fan. You should have taken the Jets.
Raiders, Bears over 37 and a half. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
I will do. I'll do Monday Night Football over 43 and a half.
I like that too. Vikings, Niners.
I will do Steelers Rams Under

43 and a half

Ooh

Good pick

Defensive

Defensive struggle

Good pick

You're back

Probably not

Okay

Alright

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Jager Bombs

My name is Santino

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Santia Macchia

Don't be so salty

My stardom

Thank you. Yo, yo, yo, Jager Bombs.
My name is Santino Saltiamacchia. Hey, Santamacchia.
Don't be so salty. My stardom? Sketches.
Oh, it's the S. Sketches are no longer sketchy.
The signing big-name basketball players Julius Randle, Joel Embiid. They're trying to make a mark in the NBA footwear game.
Wow, those are two NBA champions. My sleeper.
Speaking of NBA champions, it's James Hotton. Oh, I had him on my stardom.
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. Dupid.
And my sleeper is Devontae Adams. Oh, okay.
He's been a diva. He's demanded the rock.
You can pick him up. He's probably on the wave of why in all your leagues.
Pick him up this week. He's going to go off.
Let him out of the cage to eat. Love it.
Hey, what's up, dick faces? It's me, Buzz Flaviano. 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.

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.

Sickening behavior. Great coach.

I'm sitting the Astros because they're a bunch of fucking cheaters.

People forget that. Yeah.
And then my sleeper is Hunter Renfro. We talked about Hunter Renfro earlier this week.
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. Oh, what's up, guys? It's Salvatore Bucademeepo.
Sally B. You 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.
He's got his dick in his buttholes. He's at the strip clubs.
Who cares about basketball? Get him on a team with John Moran. Let the boys cook.
Let him go. My sit-em 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 starting quarterbacks? They should never have gotten rid of Drew Locke. Drew Locke.
Something about that kid. I just can't put my finger on him, but I like him.
I like him. My sleeper is Bryant head coach Jared Grosso.
Oh, Grosso. Fuck boy.
The body cam came out, and he said to the cop, you want to shoot some jumpers? He literally said that. He said, want to shoot some jumpers? What's wrong with that? Oh, yeah.
I do happen to coach the basketball team. How about that? He said, you want to play ball? And the guy was like, yeah, you're the coach.
It was an all-time clip. All-time clip.
Oh, no, play it. Ready? Listen to this.
He's also, he is a fantasy fuckboy. There's other people who should be nervous, not you.
I'm not nervous. I'm not either.
You want some jumpers? No, no. You play ball? No.
Nope. You think I do? Yeah, clearly you do.
You're the coach. Yeah, so give me what you need to do.
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? All right.
Let's get to our interview with Will Compton. So we already taped it.
This interview sucks. Will just walked in the room.
We have not taped yet. Let's do a couple ads and then we'll get to Will.

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I was going to say, you know what I was going to say? What were you going to say? No, I'm not going to say it. Was it going to set a bad tone? I was going to say cover band.
I'm not going to say it. Will Compton.

He's our good friend.

I love Willie C.

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.

Yeah, you're part of history.

We're closing it out with you.

We just want to talk some ball.

We want to talk ball with the boy.

Let's talk ball. Okay.
By the way, 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 you're a good singer too well thank you i do try uh shout out to the dude in the front that was like trying to feed me lyrics the whole time how was uh knoxville knoxville is always great yeah it's one of my favorite hill is a good spot it is it was a shit show but yeah if you don't want to no no we can yeah i was just gonna say like you guys the uh with the with the jokes the cover band the the bus with the boys part of my take 2.0 there is no there's no recreating successful blueprints out there all the time like there's no like original thought 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 but subconsciously if something's like implanted in my brain like when it comes back around so it's like oh part of my take did this sometimes I'll just be oh, I mean, I didn't even know that they had done it in the past. parallel thought is very much thing.
And also I want to clear, uh, the only reason I joke about it is it doesn't like, I don't actually think. No, I know.
I know. 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. I see the AWS, but I but I do want to, like, I'm saying it in, like, a positive light.
Like, yeah, you guys are, like, the standard for, like, doing stuff. The way me and PFT met was we, people were, like, would accuse us of stealing each other's tweets.
It's parallel thought. Like, his blogs and my.
Oh, you and PFT? Yeah, yeah. His blogs and my blogs would have, like, similar jokes in them.
And, like, takes. And then people would tag us in each other's shit.
And then we were like, we, 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.
Right. Parallel thought it's the internet.
Oh yeah. It's the internet.
You never make jokes all day. Yeah.
Some jokes. Yeah.
Yeah. Like when Jake gets a right, well, he got arrested last week week for cocaine possession and what we did early on today's show was he started reading a statement and then he tore up the statement he said no i'm just gonna speak from my heart about my drug accusation and that was like a tip of the hat to taylor you know so we're we can we can steal from each other a little bit it's all good yeah you guys stay on it though like uh do you had the i remember when happened like when i saw that you were doing the taylor swift thing yeah i was joking i was like oh ours is gonna come out tomorrow why didn't you cover the whole wanting a sex tape that would have been nice i did i backed me up yeah yeah i saw that i did kind of keep my hands off that oh shit but i was telling bc by the time i saw it there's like 32 million views yeah like on that video and i was like oh oh no the boys are in the trenches

numbers are numbers baby 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

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They're like, you can't even look at these guys. Oh, you're friends with them still? Yeah.
The worst. With this? The worst.
But yeah, that was fun. So, would you watch the video or not? With the sex tape? Yeah.
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, I won't go.

Listen, we live on the internet.

Yeah, we live on the internet.

If a link comes across your face and names pop up that you're like, oh, let's see what's up here.

Yeah, exactly.

All right, so Will Compton officially would watch a sex tape without permission.

Got it.

All right, so Will, let's talk some ball.

We can start NFL and then maybe we'll talk some college. Okay.
You had a take to start the season. The Chiefs would start one and four.
I did. Where are we at with that take now? Bad take.
I like that. Sometimes you swing, sometimes you say, hey, bad take.
Yeah, it's a bad take. 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 some 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 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 I'm like hey this might yeah you were you were feeling yourself for that yeah you gotta 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. 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. If you had known that, you might have switched the whole thing.
You also probably didn't predict their defense being as good as it is this year. That's a fair point.
And you could just wait, and if they don't win the Super Bowl, you can just be like, told ya. Yeah, tried telling you guys.
Yeah, yeah. Because I do, I want to, next year I'll do it again.
They're not going to make the playoffs. Yeah.
In 2024, they're not making the playoffs. You fell for the trap that, like, 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. What's something I can say that's different? Chiefs don't win the West.
Yeah, Chiefs ain't winning it. 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.
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.
They probably are.

What's been your guys' worst take of the year?

We don't have any bad takes.

I think our takes have been pretty spot on.

This year, nothing.

I mean, I thought the Bears were going to be good.

I said Commanders Super Bowl.

I thought the Super Bowl was a possibility after, I think, week three.

I said last year in the playoffs, I said Asante Samuel Jr. sucks and then he had the three picks against the Jaguars.
Commanders, they're not like, I mean, they're not out of it. Yeah, well, no, they're not going to win a Super Bowl this year, though.
No, probably not. I let my thoughts just run a little bit too wide.
I know, and I let a couple guys on the inside get me way higher on Sam Howell than I... He's good, though.
Do you agree? Sam Howell's a good quarterback is good 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 uh some guys like give me some guys give me shit about it but in washington not really there's like so one person in particular i talked to and if i said anything about it everybody would know exactly who it is and uh do what a current player I can't tell you could be someone in the in the one that they got rid of um but player wise guys will like give me shit 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 but you're you're like if you me something, I'm thinking like, okay, this is something I definitely shouldn't share. Like I'm not going to share it.
Right, right. What about, do you miss it? I mean, not like the- Year 11? There are whispers.
People try to get me up off the seat. 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 like sometimes i'm just like yo how did this even happen um but i miss like uh i don't know i'll see coach rule speeches i'll get a little juiced up you get i see any type of football stuff and it's like a feel-good story 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

and you're just like,

man, that's just what it's about.

Right.

And you kind of miss those moments.

Right, right.

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.

You were the green dot?

I was a green dot guy.

Can you believe that?

How many people got hurt?

Will Compton was the smartest guy

on the football field.

Hey, enough people.

Enough people. You're talking to Captain Will Compton right now.
Eventually. I got there.
You're the ultimate locker room guy. That's a fact.
When you're wearing the green dot on defense, how long is a standard play call that you then have to relay? Because we always hear the transmission when it's like the offensive coordinator talking to the quarterback. Not defense.
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.
So you'll play six to the passing strength and like three away. Or over, you know, 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? Oh, I love that when they push guys over. 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 i would make sure the backer next to me knew to echo it 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 whoever is like the whoever's like the guy in the secondary is like right there in the huddle so he can carry the coverage and echo. 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.
So what do they do before the green dot? Fuck, hand signals. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Hand signals. Nebraska would be like if we're playing cover for Miami, it'd be Miami like waves.
Even double bracket. Even double bracket.

And then you would just know strong, strong storm roll.

Strong storm roll.

And you would just know it's strong storm roll two coverage.

Yeah.

I mean, that's a whole level to the game.

You don't pick up watching on TV unless you've actually been in that helmet

and you hear the play calls.

Did you see all the guys on the sidelines too?

Yeah, yeah.

Some are dummy calls.

The fake ones.

Yeah, the fake ones. I'd be really good at that one.
I would only see the dummy calls and be like, fuck, I don't remember which one. Just grab my dick.
You said gas in the tank. 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... Only one? If it's the first play, you're like, okay, reset, reset.
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.
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, as if it's like once it gets over eight plays, 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. Because a middle backer who's like going around to everybody, you just get worn out by it.
Are you ever in a situation where you had to let the other team score? I don't think so. Will did have three interceptions.
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? No You were actually trying? Who was the big white running back for the Packers? John Kuhn I don't Was he? Ripkowski Yeah Who? Aaron Ripkowski Yeah yeah Rip Was he like 22 or something like thatsomething? Probably, yeah. But anyway, when I first got to the Raiders and John Gruden was introducing me to the team, he pulled up my highlight tape.
And it was basically me making plays, but the lowlights of him, and Rip ran me the fuck over one play. Tackled him, but literally back on the ground runs me over for two-yard gain.
All right, so you did your job. Yeah, I did my job down do you average two yeah 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 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 yeah i was like hey good hit good hit that's still a stat that's still a stat in my stat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not you.
Because you got to win. Every chance you get, you know, you got to take those wins.
Yeah. Every win.
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 coach that you want to play for. I know we've talked about it on Pro Football Football Show, but the Lions.
Yeah. The Lions, I feel like Dan had a speech a couple weeks ago talking about if this is going to be a real contender team.
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. Against the Panthers.
Yeah. He's like, if they're going to be a real contender this year, these are the games you take care of.
Because to Taylor's point earlier, there are times where you're winning and you're feeling good, and then all of a sudden you play down to the level of competition that you play. And the Lions just taking care of business every week, keeping the Bucs out of the end zone last week.
I feel like the Lions are like – it's like the new Lions brand that everybody's talking about the new Lions. Yeah.
How bad do you wish you could have played for Dan Campbell? Bad. 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 ones with the Jets this year, and you see 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 like, oh, you're just like bummed because you saw how close everybody was getting during 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? Yes.
And then the farther you get away from it, you're like, man, that was awesome. Yes, bro.
I can show you videos after we get off here, but I still like the other week I was watching videos of training camp, like when guys were 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 playing his guitar and, like, singing music,

singing like Sam Smith and, like, doing really well.

And you're just like, man, yo, we were in, like, we were in some, like, really good times that you just miss.

You do a pretty good Vrabel impression, too, don't you?

I dabble in the Vrabel. Can you break it out like right now give hard bro give the titans a speech right now because they just they they refuse to admit the time zones exist so they went over to to england got their ass kicked and then they come back they got the um the texans next week i believe yeah or the falcons might be the falcon i think they're wearing their throwback oilers helmets next week when they get back so can you juice the boys up as variable variable man i tell you what mid-season the boys down two and four into the bye week is not a fun variable you want to necessarily be around all the time but if i had to think of the things he's saying it would be like i hope you guys are reading what's out in the media we suck jeff doesn't want to play uh derrick wants to get traded ryan tannerhill's quitting on the team we're black this weekend boys everybody thinks we're dying against the texans we're dead right now 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 you guys are all here and hey what round were you drafting you're like undrafted yeah nobody wanted you what round were you sixth round nobody wanted you 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 yeah i like that all right so in your career uh you can maybe speak to this because this is we're what we're mid-october week seven at what point 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 oh we two, we're one and three.
We can write this. At what point you're like, oh, no, we suck.
Honestly, maybe where the boys in Two-Tone Blue are at right now. Really? There's a lot of different dynamics, right? You could be two and four, but maybe the division's kind of like, you know, the teams that are ahead of you are three and three or four and two and they're not like a solid four and two similar like the bucks are three and two but if you're you know what are the saints right now saints are two two and three or three and three it's like you still have time there like i know the year we went to the playoffs that you like that year where we you know the whole stipulation was when we were down what was our record then when we won that tamp Bay game similar right it was similar to that yeah yeah it was like similar to that 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 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 i feel like it depends on how other teams in your division look okay that makes sense like if you're you know if you're like the jets that 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 yeah but the last two weeks they put together you can now build some momentum on even though you have the Bills and Miami in your division, it's kind of like, hey, just keep fucking playing.
Like keep, all we got to do is win one game at a time. Just all we have this week, who's the Jets play this week? Their bye.
Nobody. A bye.
But coming back from the bye, it's like, hey, let's just focus on this one game this week, win one game. That's all we have to do.
Win your division games. Yeah, like beat the Dolphins when you play them.
Because when you play a division game, it's, hey, this game's one and a half. Just focus on what's in front of us this weekend.
The good coaches who can kind of not brainwash, but kind of frame that type of thinking and if you have the right amount of vets in the room, you can always reignite a fire. I mean, the Titans were 2-4 before they went on that run to the SEC Championship.
Alright, so off that, what was the worst team you were on? Like, what was the record? Probably it had to have been the first year. It had to have been the first year.
Yeah, first year on Washington. I think we went 3-13, London Fletcher's last year.
All right, so 3-13 at the end of the season are, like, we always obviously believe, like, you can't tank in the NFL because everyone's playing for a contract. But is there, like, when you get to that point in the season, like December and you're 3-13, are you, like, are the guys, individual guys still, like, fired up? 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.
And not like a selfish, I don't give a shit if you fail type of mentality, but mentality but like a guy in my situation coming up before the captain and being a starter 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 so there's some guys who are thinking like they might pack it in and quit if they're like a star on on the team or a good player, they know they're going to be back next year.

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.

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 it.

And I'm just thinking like,

yo,

I'm trying to work my tail off to try and get back next year.

I always,

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, hey let's take it easy like if i have a job next year yeah don't come on it's like no that's not crazy no and that happens and it kind of depends on the head coach 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 you're like okay you know what's happening here like if we don't win we're all going to be gone. His messaging is, hey, let's enjoy these last couple weeks together.
You're like, okay, you know what's happening here.

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.

And a lot of you guys that I brought in are going to be gone as well

unless you do something late in the year.

Like when you're playing pickup basketball and you're like,

hey, just us having an agreement on the side,

I'm not going to try that hard on offense.

You don't try that hard to defend me.

I'm just going to shoot it if I get it. We're not here to impress anybody what about what about players only meetings did you ever take part of players only meeting yeah there's one that's actually sticking out during that 3 and 13 year because there's a lot of like internal like that's when shanahan and them got fired i believe yeah um 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 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 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 we're trying to coach and people got their phones out we We got coaches in the back that got their fucking phones out.
I don't give a shit what you're doing. He's saying, this is my last year.
I don't give a shit what you write on your notebook. Draw my fucking face if you have to.
And he's like, linebacker set the tone, linebacker set the tempo 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 linebacker, leader, captain, London Fletcher.
This is all of it. Kind of like probably, I would assume, if Ray Lewis was in your face yelling at you.
Right, right, right. But talking about, draw the motherfucker if you have to.
Fake it. I don't care if you're not doing anything and you're bored.
You pull your phone out again, basically he's going to fight you. I like that.
That was a time where you're just thinking, oh, get right. But some happen, but usually it's the night before a game.
Yeah. Like the guys will be like, I remember Deshaun Golston.
He's the best too. But Deshaun Golston, he's like low talking.
Hey, coach, coach, y'all get out of here. Y'all get out of here.
And coach is kind of looking at you, kind of like looking around smiling with the boys. Like, what's D Gold about to say? And then he just talk about like unity and like a man of a few words, but just 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.
But those players, only ones happen. I would say they hit about 35, 40% of the time.
Yeah. We were, we were busting Max's balls cause the eagles had one uh the other day and we're like you can't you can't burn these like you you can't just do it every week yeah you really can't and you need somebody who's like who's actually like kind of moving you were like when they're speaking like you're just thinking like it really means a lot to this motherfucker and he's actually speaking to it he's kind of calling some of our own bullshit out right and you're kind of like yeah this this dude's right 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 a bad best man's yeah

you're like man you're like all right bro just get like this is fucking soon this is forced coach

told you to do this right right right right but i think there's definitely some truth to that if

like the eagles are really fucking good they had an unfortunate loss that came down to the end of that game. Doing a players-only meeting that early on in the season feels like they're pressing the panic button.
Wait, they did? Yeah. Well, according to Max, it was a zero coaches meeting.
It was a little bit. It was after the game.
I think it was in the locker room. And instead of the coach, instead of Sirianni talking to the team, the players talked to the team.
Kind of a players only. Only the players talked.
That is tough. Just because I think ultimately Jalen threw three picks.
There was a bad game right there that they could have probably. They had some some mistakes and stuff like that but they're gonna to me they're gonna bounce back 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 uh parsons doing his thing 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 right they try and stay steady 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.
And I think that the way the Eagles are like a player-led team has been so beneficial. And I think it allows Jalen Hurst to kind of come into his own leadership role himself because he's got Lane.
He's got Jason who's been steady. Brandon Graham.
Is Fletcher Cox still there? Yeah. Yeah.
You've got all these guys who have been staples that they've been able to create this culture. And Sirianni, you can tell he's like a player-type coach.
And then they have a couple divas here and there that they all gel really well because they have such stable veteran leadership. So maybe somebody felt like, hey, there were some plays in this game that legitimately we should not have fucked up.
And the, hey, reset, this is not who we are. We're going to go home next week and take care of business.
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No doubt. I think you might have been that guy.
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. I felt like any time 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. And some guys are like, yo, will you like you have to say something type thing thing and you get like nervous to do it but yeah there's been a couple in more so meeting rooms not like out in a team environment usually like you know if you hit like a fart or something in the middle of a team meeting those usually land they're like a well placed fart 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's like, hey, all right, come on.

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, it's 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 certain words they're saying analogies they're always using or something just because you can only say so much all the time we would just like draw things or like write little quotes and make each other laugh to be hey what's so funny oh nothing yeah that would happen to me all the time would they break you you guys up like in school when you're like okay you two can't sit together i i can I can't trust you. Yeah, sometimes.
Would they make you guys sit on opposite sides? Yeah, me and Murphy, me and Trent Murphy, they would be like, hey, you guys just need to sit away from each other like Will. Like, you know, you got to focus up.
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.
So they were watching me and Coach Haslett, Jim Haslett was our D coordinator at the time. 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.
And I started like dozing off and I got my ass jumped for that one. Oh, man.
That was like you feel – they even joked on me and said, hey, this is going to be a $10,000 fine. And then I'm thinking like, yo, this is – they had to ultimately tell me it was a joke because i was so like 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 laughing and afterwards i'll be god why am i sitting next to him 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, yeah, like I think in baseball, I think you'd be a clubhouse guy. Yeah.
Yeah. 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. BC is 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 let's go hate our lives for the next couple hours but when you're losing it's kind of like hey bro we got to kind of because i find humor in like bad shit yeah i would just be like yeah we suck yeah like like you're gonna get cut you think you're gonna get cut while we're doing this walkthrough and it's like hey hey come on like let's just we were talking we were talking about the patriots earlier and how um like belichick has made his name off like motherfucking everybody in the meeting rooms right like he was the only one that could say shit to tom brady yeah but he would he would cuss out the starters just as much as anybody else and uh now they stink 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, he can motivate you to take that extra step. 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? Yeah, you don't want to come to work.
You're just like, just like fuck 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 we 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 in the hole, I get it. If bad football is being played, we've got to watch tape critically.
We've got to look at ourselves closely. We've got to change some things up.
But if you're an asshole at all parts of the day, you are the one influencing the entire team. I get it.
Everybody, I know for me, it's like I feel if I play bad, I'm feeling shitty that we can't get it done. Whether or not 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, it doesn't fucking matter.
We just got to put some winning tape out there. And then you got a head coach that's like being shitty to be around.
It's like you don't even want to come to work. You're like if you feel him bust balls and be like, hey, loosen up.
Let's have some juice. Let's have some energy.
You think like, okay, I can get myself out of this hole, and it's good that he's being this way because it's going to make for a productive practice. Right.
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 something as small as like, I'm not saying this happens in the NFL, but in college, it's like,'t your shirt tucked in if you're winning no one gives you shit if your shirt is tucked in but if you're losing all of a sudden literally everything you're doing matters right like if you got to go to the bathroom yeah 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 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 look you honestly you're 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 the 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 Superbowl and to achieve something special.
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, I kind of feel bad for Patriots players at this point. It's weird to say, but I do.
I've never, obviously, I haven't gotten to be in a Belichick meeting. But yeah, I wonder what that vibe is like.
It's like if you're Mac Jones right now. He'd be good.
He haven't thrown a touchdown all October. I wonder what it is like being in those guys' heads when that's happening.
But yeah, it's like Jay Gruden.ay gruden like a positive when if we'd be losing or we would down 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 you're 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 of 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 i I would like to just hang out in the locker room once. Just, you know.
Yeah. With the boys.
Yeah. I think you miss that.
Oh, I do. Yeah, yeah.
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.
It's like when Sirianni, 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. 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. Those are the times you miss it.
it um 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 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 i like when you tuck people in yeah that's the best yeah talk to him like a little child i do 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 i don't think i think you've hit gold with those two like i really do what are we down to like nine ten seconds on a beer on a beer i don't know you guys got beer? We got a beer somewhere. Is this yours? No, that's Hank's.
Yeah, it's Hank's. Shane, do we have a Coors Light in the fridge? What was it? It was a three-beer chug at the Olympics.
I know Taylor was talking about it earlier. That's why I'm looking at you like you know.
So, yeah, PFT and I are verbally sort of in for the Olympics. We're interested.
Yeah, we're So, remember when LeBron said he wanted to do the dunk contest that year? Yeah. That's what me and Big Cat are at right now.
Yeah, yeah, right. Like, it looks awesome.
Our name is being floated around. I do think that we need to figure out a way to possibly bring security for ourselves.
Because 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 we uh are pretty good at talking shit if we get drunk we'll talk more shit 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 fucked.

I could see

saying the wrong thing to Taylor.

Yeah. And then Taylor just slapping me.
Yeah, and also just... Taylor's somebody who will shit talk.
It just, it goes like, it's a hard like, hey. There's a line.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and when he...
Like, you don't got to look at my man and talk about how he rides the bench and, like, you were, you know – Like, relax. He's working hard for where he's at.
So, yeah, I think we're verbally in, though. 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, like, anything would happen. No, I don't think anything would happen.
Unless you wanted to play pool basketball. Right, that's the problem i i saw our guy shane

get just bullied in the 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 and then i'll just be like in a fucking sharpshooter

from michael chandler and be like how'd this happen so i know i watched shane's beer olympics

and i know every step that he took is the exact same step step i would take come in talk shit

also maybe kind of want to wrestle with the boys and then next thing you know you wake up with a shitload of bruises and injuries. What are the events? Walk me through the rundown.
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.
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.
Is it three-beer chug like between two people or between your teammates or just 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 four games.
The four games were flip cup, beer pong, beer ball. Maybe that was it.
Beer pong cup what's beer ball you had a great that's the one that will get us hurt beer ball they play like hardcore defense yeah that's one where i saw james neal like run across the table and like box someone out you might have done it yeah it was me yeah that was i was blacked out yeah but uh But 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.

But if, say, it hits the can, you get to open and start trying to chug.

And people have some gray area rules.

Like George plays in a way, like when we went to Kittle Fest,

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. 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.
Yeah, that's serious stuff. Yeah, beer die though has got to get at it.
Beer die is a fun game. It's the best game.
And then the two final teams, they do like this. We basically did like a big relay, but at that point it was dark, and it was like this was probably not the best.
I used to do, at Beer Olympics, we'd do Ring of Fire, where you stand around a keg, right, and you have 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 was a lot of puke that's pretty good that's pretty hard there was a lot of puke involved in that 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 your you put all over the entire table? Yeah, the entire table is cups. So it's like 50 on 50 cups.
The mistake we made was doing 10 cups for beer pong because it took such a long time. That might be the only problem with beer die.
But you could play short games. You played a five or something.
Yeah, because I brought a beer die, but I felt like I was, only one who had played it, so guys didn't really understand how fun it was. It is so much fun.
Especially if you can do it on grass, and you can dive for the dive. The best.
I would say do six cup pong. Is that the one down from ten? And get flip cup out.
Trade out flip cup for beer dive.. Go Beer Dive, Beer Ball, because I think Beer Ball's a great time.
I think we just got to be careful how we kind of- Get injured. Yeah, and just like people are drinking while they're playing drinking games, not realizing how fucked up we are going to be, because the energy's so high that we do this.
We did the anthem with the rookies, the rookie O-Lines there, singing the national anthem. The sun's out.
Everybody's just excited about how fun this could be. So everybody's getting pretty much drunk by the time you play the second game.
Yeah, you pregame for the beer Olympics. I love it.
Because you're like, this is going to be an awesome party. And then you have to compete.
Because Taylor will take me aside. 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? Chug it right there. chug it? Practice right now.
You should also get a medic next year. Just so everyone knows.
I have a medic show up. So for people who are watching on the YouTube, don't try this at home because Will's been chugging for a very long time.
Yeah, Jake's got the medicine. Professional.
And I don't want to see anyone get hurt chugging like Will. All right, ready? You timing? Three, two, one, go it skull it rushing this beast oh man you're a fucking monster there he goes oh shit let's go will slow down look at the boy you're gonna burp you're gonna burp you're going so fast look at the boy oh no oh no oh and oh what do we got 20 seconds let's go will yeah that's I can, too.
Oh, no. Oh.
And. Oh, we're done.
What do we got? 20 seconds. Let's go, Will.
That's tough. That's hard to do.
You crushed that, dude. Let's go, bro.
You have gotten better. I was trying to tell everybody that the respect has grown.
Because there's a lot of people talking shit. And I'm like, I don't think people get what it's like in real life compared to what you see on a screen.
Yeah. I mean, people watching at home, they're like,

oh, I can chuck.

No, you can't.

You can't.

No.

No.

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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 Nebraska? One full minute to talk about Nebraska. What am I doing here? You want me to hit you? It's already started.
No, wherever you think about the program right now, there's been a lot of... It's already started.
Because we're talking about Nebraska right now. Are you pulling up stats? No, I'm just pulling up the...
You haven't started it yet. I don't need the notes app.
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.
I'm not. Okay, wait.
Is this? Okay. You got me in.
Three, two, one, go. In my opinion, I know people think I'm delusional about it, but you have to have optimism when pulling for your program.
And number one, we're not the same Nebraska team that we were last year at the end of Scott Frost. Rule is like a new era.
And yeah, we're 3-3 in there, but it's like, oh, you got whooped by Colorado. The final score there doesn't tell the whole story.
Minnesota coming out first week, a Friday game. We had four turnovers in that game.
You removed turnovers. What are we, 3-3 right now? But we're sitting at, like, we got our ass whooped by Michigan.
But to think we cannot control the West, let me rattle you off the rest of our schedule. Northwestern, win.
Purdue, win. Michigan State, a win.
That's 6-3. I got 17 seconds.
That is 6-3. Maryland, I had chalked up as a loss, but Illinois just beat them.
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.
And then at the very end, you have Iowa, which they're beatable. We can win the Big Ten West and go to Indy.
Oh, I love it. He did it.
One minute. That was great.
Do you believe that? No, I really do. No, none of it.
None of it. Yes.
Because you were very convincing. Yeah, no, he's really good at convincing.
But if you actually believe everything you said, you are delusional. No, Will, if you listen to Will talk about Nebraska, they are like one play away from a championship.
Is that true? No. But he does a really good job of selling it.
If we get to the Big Ten, you've got to assume we're going to play, you lost 45-7 in Michigan. 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. But am I delusional to think we're winning this game? Now that I'm saying, yeah, guess so.
Yeah, because you won six in a row. Yeah, you look awesome.
You have momentum. What if you win the championship? What if you beat – who are you going to play? Probably Ohio State, Penn State.
Is Nebraska not out of the college football playoff? Yeah, that's something. We're going to pull up all of this tape.
Everybody who's laughing now. Yeah, Alabama might lose three games.
Georgia might lose three games. And then, yeah, I think you guys – We're not getting in the college football playoff.
Don't, don't. Hear me out.
You said it. You started your speech.
Optimism. If you go undefeated from this point out, I think you guys...
We're not getting in the console. You would be...
Ah, don't, don't. Hear me out, hear me out.
If you go... You said it, you started your speech.
Optimism. If you go undefeated from this point out, I think you would be the best three-loss team in the country if Georgia also had three losses.
Which would be incredible because they were the best three-win team a few years ago. That's of all time.
So three wins now, there's no... I don't think there's a world there.
Before the season started, said predicted nine and three oof i can i see the path like i know you're like saying be optimistic on national championship for me it's worrying about things we can control yeah and right now if you see the rest of our schedule we truly have an opportunity to control the west yeah if you guys start the West goes through Lincoln. We are holding the gun.
Yeah. Just get the boys back on the gear.
I love it. Just juice it up.
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, and Harburg, he's thrown 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. No, they're not but i know you're right but they beat maryland who is true who gave ohio state a half okay so here's somebody who also roots for a team in the in the big 10 just a thought i think maybe michigan penn state and ohio state are really really good and like literally every other team stinks.
I think what sucks, honestly. That's probably the truth.
If there was one team I thought would win the West was you guys. I know.
We got Iowa. Yeah, you got Iowa.
Iowa didn't want to play in the red zone. That weird loss against Iowa, man, is 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 truly. Yeah.
Now it's anyone's game. It's wide open for me.
I got a Michigan question. Have you seen the news about Harbaugh? Yeah, and I think 45-7 looks a lot different now coming out of Lincoln.
You think he got all your plays? I think he got some of them i don't do you have any idea what the surveillance

thing could be because he flying drones over practices i don't know dude i try and think

about that stuff and even even if i'm like like say they do get a bead on something

outside of format now college could be different because formations alignment like you know whether

the x is nasty or outside the numbers college tips you off a lot more than the NFL. 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.
Even if you knew shit before the game happened. It would be dumb of him to do this against shitty teams.
If you're going to do this, no disrespect to Nebraska. But that's 45-7 looks a lot different.
But it does look different. But maybe wait to do this later on in the season.
If he wasn't cheating, what do you think the score would have been like? 30-7? Listen. Listen.
They knew Nebraska was going to go fourth and one out of the shotgun. How do you know that?

So that example right there is like you still have to line up and play.

There's some situations where you might have the –

again, I don't know until it comes out and you kind of –

you can hear like if they actually cheated,

I'd be fascinated to know like what they were actually doing

because I'm not really sure what all you can do outside of like taking signals but you gotta you gotta adjust the who the dummy is and 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 yeah yeah so any plot that he cooked up in his head to steal shit you would not shock me with it So I, also, I don't really hate it. I don't hate it either.
If you're a high-level football coach like that, 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. Do whatever you have to do to be great.
Yeah. And it's like, do it.
You don't get caught. Do it.
Hey, what's funny is you said that. So the year we beat the Ravens in 2015, at the Ravens, it came down, I think we beat them like 17, 16.
I had a tip-off from somebody on the Ravens team that gave me a couple of their plays. A player.
A player. 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.
So there was like one play we had tipped off. There was another one we had tipped off on.
Why did he give you that? Just a boy? Yeah, I'll tell you after. Okay, it was just a boy being a boy.
Yeah, a boy being a boy. Did you make a tackle? That Ravens game was a solid game for your boy.
Outside of the first drive. First drive was bad.
Ravens went down and scored. But I got Yonda that game.
And the last play on Tampa 2 when I hit, who was the receiver? Over the middle that closed the game out. It was a juicy game for your boy in the fourth quarter.

There we go.

It was a juicy game for your boy in the fourth quarter.

All right, well, Will.

Love you guys, man.

Thank you, man.

You're the best.

We love you.

And yeah, you're the best.

Thanks, thanks.

You are.

You are.

Can't wait to hang out some more.

Yeah.

We should make this official and be friends.

Yeah.

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We got to do something every Thursday. Yes.
Whether it's a P day or something that's always lined up. Yep.
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Okay, Firefest of the Week.

Henry, was it the fact that you came armed with a stat

to make fun of Max and it didn't work?

Yeah, that's as bad as it gets.

That's going to hang over my head all weekend. When you found

it, were you like, I've got him. Yeah.

Oh, he had a... 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, yeah, this is great.

Yeah, no, that was really bad.

The stat game isn't for everybody, Hank.

No, yeah, I got duped by a fake tweet. It tough no no you you didn't the tweet was accurate you just misinterpreted it some call someone said say that's fake fake news it's fake news uh so that was my firefest my other firefest which i feel like is probably if you had a list of of my firefest over the years losing headphones probably i probably, I don't know, five or six.
Yeah. All time leader.
Definitely. And do you do AirPods? So I every time I lose AirPods.
Fuck. Huh? Huh? Yeah.
No, 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.
Not many times. Many times.
They don't fall out of pockets. And also the microphone is better.
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 pocket. That's not a coincidence.
Wired headphones are better. The part one of the fire fest is that also fuck Apple 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. And then it just like it always the connection always sucks.
Yeah. Half works, half doesn't, which is definitely 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.
I didn't check. I just thought the Apple store was open till nine.
That was just the time I made up in my head. So I walked there.
I walked there on Wednesday night. I was like nine.
That's pretty early. We're in a city.
And I walked there, got there at like 815, realized they closed.

And it was like a mile and a half walk.

And I was like, oh, yeah, I'll just walk, get some exercise.

I got plenty of time.

Yeah, it was like a 35, 40-minute walk.

If I just Ubered there, I would have been there in five minutes.

Walked there, no headphones.

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. Why don't you get wire? I probably will.
How did the silent walk go? The TikTok walk? Oh, yeah. You were Gen Zing it.
Yeah. Not great.
Walking with music is a lot better. I said that and I got shamed for that.
I was thinking about that the other day. Look at this.
With the TikTok. Yeah.
Take them. The silent one.
They're basically telling women, like, go on a walk without your phone. So you can't call anybody.
Yeah. You get in trouble.
And then it just seems very shady to me. See this? Everyone watching on the YouTube? I'm giving you a pair of wired headphones.
Wow, thanks, Bacchus. Yes.
I, the, for anyone who has this problem like Hank, all you gotta do is they're like 30 bucks. I buy like, I bought like six pairs of them for the same price as the AirPods.
I should have them everywhere. And I never, I never have a problem.
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. I'm on a two game losing streak and buying the wrong kind of headphones.
Get onto a plane. Wired headphones.
Go back to the past. They're wired.
They're not the right kind to hook up to an iPhone. 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't plug it in also another plus for wired headphones people don't bother you because they see that you have headphones in it's better i know that the technology is cool and all this shit and you feel cool i'm telling you i'm staying on the i'll stay on the soapbox wired headphones way to go microphones better don't lose them yeah they get but guess what? That's kind of fun. It's untangled.
The only plus to the wireless is you can charge your phone and then listen at the same time. Yeah, but who cares? Well, yeah, that can be a big deal sometimes.
It's fine. Just charge your phone and then just switch back and forth.
If you're trying to fall asleep. Yeah, I'm switching back and forth all the time.
I actually did that last night. I woke up with like 10% charge.
You switched back and forth? No time i actually did that last night i woke up with like 10 you switched back and forth no i woke up i woke up with 10 charge on my on my phone that's a bad feeling starting your day off 10 charge does you might as well just just die yeah just not start and just don't go outside you're calling sick yeah although my phone's low i have noticed that they finally have gotten this fast charger down. Like, the fast charger is insanely fast.
I'd say the fast charger's him. Yeah, it really is.
Because it's been the longest time where, like, why can't they just have a charger that 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 pads that you put your phone down on? No.
They don that fast that's the airpods yeah they try to make this technology hands-free bluetooth all this shit no dude give me the fucking old-fashioned i have one in my car and it's like it's it never works yeah very slow charger you lose you just slowly lose battery instead of like fastly losing everything else about the car is great though yeah shout out chevy um okay pft your fire fest uh my fire fest, we talked about a little bit on Wednesday. Hank brought it up when he put me on the hot seat for the tattoo thing, which is, was him probably deflecting something else that was going on inside his own brain.
But yeah, maybe probably the Phillies winning. Yeah.
And the Patriots, the Patriots stats are getting to Hank big time. I love them.
They're getting to you so hard that you're trying to create your own stats and you can't even do it i love stats yeah uh so so the uh the tattoo thing i have decided on a tattoo so i'm gonna get a tattoo uh 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 that's going to be 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. Love it.
Sound good? What's that? What's it saying? So it's going to be for my dad. So it's something that he designed on there.
I feel like the first tattoo that you get. So he used to design labyrinths, not like mazes, but like these.
I don't even know how to explain. 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 really fail safe too. No one can make fun of it.
Yeah. It would be like bad tattoo.
It's a good design too. So I like it.
Awesome. I'll be doing that.
But the fire fest is that it's going to probably hurt, but some people tell me it feels good. 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, get a quick one as well.
Yeah. Cause it's going to be right there.
He's going to be, he or she will be there. He or she, by the way, we should make sure that the part might take studio.
I'd assume we could go live on YouTube if there is a game seven, because we would definitely want to do a live stream from there. Yeah, I'm sure everything will be built and set up and perfect.
What about the lottery machine, Hank? Hank is guaranteed. Yeah, I know, but wasn't he being weird when we were asking about it? He was being so weird.
There's something that he's not telling us. There's something he's not telling us.
Oh, he put. Tell it now.
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 telling us? I'll throw that lottery.
I'll burn it. Pure shame.
Well, if you tried to do something. I'm just trying to help the program.
No, no. Did you put his numbers on there? Did you put two number sixes in there? I'll rip that thing down.
I'm going to count and put it down. I got it.
At the Oscars, they have the accounting firm. Did you show the ball to the...
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. There's only one way to find out, and that's Tuesday.
I'm telling you right now there's actually another way to find out if you just tell us i will throw that thing in the garbage i mean i haven't seen it in the flesh okay but it's our lottery ball machine it's not your lottery ball show me the mock-up hank 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 out that Hank's not doing anything to it. Yeah.
Thank you. I have an idea.
Get on the case. I have an idea.
All right. Get on the case.
Okay. So my Fyre Fest, we were talking about the studio earlier.
Looks incredible. Office is going to blow people's minds.
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 we got to get occupancy in half the office all that stuff um and it is going to look very clean very awesome people are probably going to be like what the fuck they've you know it's too clean no one's gonna i don't i don't we we've done this twice yeah we've junked up too like i know i know you in new york was also clean no this one's going to say.
I don't. We've done this twice.
Yeah. We've junked up too soon.
I know. Our studio in New York was also clean.
No, this one looks nicer to start. The one in New York looked nice.
No, but this one has lights and shit and looks cool. Sure.
All right. Either way.
Yes. I'm agreeing with you.
I just know 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 don't think people's names say that no i mean it's okay it's we look it's professional it's a professional podcast the beauty of our other studio was also a professional podcast no our old studio member was blank and then we junked it we also get away with all the stupid shit like when one of us says a completely uh incorrect stat we get away that because it looks unprofessional behind us I'm not worried Hank I'm just saying I'm letting people know it's gonna look awesome and don't worry because we're gonna junk it up and here's where the junk it up part happens this is a fire fest awesome all time no I don't want that because corporate Hank because it doesn't it looks awesome it doesn't actually look awesome yeah awesome, it doesn't actually look awesome.
Yeah. Got it.
It looks like every other podcast. Got it.
We want to look like ourselves. We should do the podcast in bed.
It does look awesome. The place looks incredible.
Lottery machine confirmed that it will be ready Tuesday. But no, I need you to have it.
I need to get it. Did you just take my report there? I need to make sure you get it so that he can't do anything to it.
We need the location. You need to be the person who makes sure it's there, not him.
He's going to do something. Any road you're going to go back is going to lead to me.
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.
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. What do you guys have to say? The next six days, just guarding that machine, making sure Hank doesn't screw with it.
That's not nice, Jake. Hank will weigh down balls.
He will. Okay.
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. All right.
All right. All right.
We're good. Not a thing.
All right. I got it.
Okay. To my Fyre Fest, the studio.
We were walking around the new office, taking a tour. And this is a F me and you pft viewing everything incredible walked around the corner into this big room it's just filled with our junk that we never threw yeah that they shipped to us from new york including the old little audio machine big time problem yeah i was like what is all this and then and then pete was like i think it's your stuff.
And I started looking closer. There was like a guitar.
Yeah. There's a bunch of like jerseys.
I think my golf clubs are there. I 100% when I was like, yeah, just because 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.
all being like that will never happen 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 don't have don't have object permanent so we haven't seen all the junk in like three months we just assumed it was gone dude hey hank saw me i was just like what the fuck is? 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. I don't think it's organizational.
No, the organization is not the problem. The only thing I care about if they better have sent all the Blake Bortles jerseys that we've accumulated because we have, I think, five of them.

We need to make a wall of Blake Bortles.

We need Marie Kondi or whatever her name is.

I can help Oregon 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.

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 look through it i was like oh shit i'm happy they saved this never will wear it that's the problem a lot yeah so we have pft we have an entire room full of shit yeah that's gonna they shipped my i thought that was no longer problem we would have to deal with they shipped my locked uh cabinet.
I don't even know what's in it. I was just like, I don't want to clean it.
I found some very old drugs in my cabinet. Oh, I definitely.
Some very old drugs. 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.
I thought you should have thrown that thing out. Of course 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 and i was like what in my head i was like what do you what could you possibly need from this i think it has old phones and computers that's what that's what you kept saying old phones and computers which is the easiest thing to throw out no i know? What if someone steals my data, dude? You might have pictures.
You might have pictures that you want. I'm going to tell you this right now, Max.
That cabinet is not going to be opened. This is going to be a time capsule.
We're going to open it in 10 years. That was a very important thing.
You were like, make sure that they send this to me in Chicago. I was like, okay.
It's like bank statements. I remember Billy was next to me in the room.
He was like, oh, Pete, definitely has so much money in there. I don't.
His first thought was like, how can I get the money? If I do, that would be sick, but I don't think I do. He's always scheming on something.
He's always got an angle. Hank, you saw it.
It's bad. Yeah, we got a plan.
What? I hate you right now. I hate you.
Max, what do you mean? Max knows. Memes knows.
What's the plan? You're doing so much. Oh, shit.
You're doing so much. I didn't know that.
I don't know about this. You guys have been plotting? I don't know anything.
Hank is up to some shit right now. Oh, I actually do know this.
I don't know. Tell us the plan.
What are you doing with her stuff? Don't worry. Oh, man.
Memes is looking at me weird now, too. Damn.
Why don't you guys trust me?

You guys are going to do something with our stuff. You are acting shady over there.

He's so shady.

I said the lottery ball machine would be set up for Tuesday, and it will be.

Fact or fiction?

But what we're asking is, what are you going to do with our stuff?

Get rid of the stuff you don't want and keep the stuff that we do.

And what did you do to our lottery ball machine?

Find out Tuesday.

I actually care about this new studio reveal tease. I'm trying to, you know.
It's going to be great. I keep saying it's going to be awesome.
Awesome. Awesome.
Yeah. It's going to be great.
The lottery ball machine is going to be awesome. It's going to look professional and cool.
And the clips are going to look awesome. And you shouldn't.
Everyone should be happy about it. No, everyone will be happy.
Everyone will be happy. Well, you're like prepping them to be mad.
No, I'm not prepping them to be mad. I just don't know what kind of monkey business Hank's been pulling.
I'm telling him that it's going to look clean and we're not clean guys. And then it will not look clean.
And the machine's going to look clean and awesome. Yeah.
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... It will be.

I don't...

You got to give it a couple weeks.

There's going to be some kinks you got to iron out.

Yeah, and we got to put our junk in there.

Yeah.

Yeah, we got to junk it up.

I feel like people should be able to smell the studio when they're watching it.

Yeah, exactly.

We're going to get lived in there.

We're going to really live in it. We have four TVs now, too.
That's great. Four in the studio when they're watching it exactly we're gonna get lived in there we're gonna really live in it we have four tvs now too that's great four in the studio yeah that's that's a perfect amount of tvs for a studio too yeah do we have any in the booth uh hank yes we have a booth now which will be sick have you thought about what max means 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 um he has a couch that is across from a directly across from where pft is that the guest couch too yeah yeah and pft have our usual spots like we look it looks kind of like we how we set it up before what's um what's the plan for the booth what are you guys gonna put in there i I don't know.
I have no idea. Are you guys going to make it cool and no podcasters allowed? No.
Okay. Hank, where's the lottery ball going to live? I mean, he's got an idea.
In the studio? Are there TVs in the booth? I think so. Maybe not.
We'll have to at some point. You'll be able to see one.
The booth will able to see the other teams. Yeah, you'll be able to see one from the booth easily.
Okay, that's fine then. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, Jake, your fire fest. I lost in the first round of the tennis playoff.
What? Oh, no, Jake. Weren't you the favorite? I was the favorite, and then they bumped me up since we last talked about this.
So this was my first match at the higher level.

And I was the sixth seed.

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.

Oh, Jake.

Was it close?

I won the first at 6-3.

I lost 6-3 in the second.

What?

What happened?

I was better than me in the second. And then we played a super tie break.
And he beat me 12-10. It was so close.
Well, that doesn't count for shit. Doesn't.
But yeah, I probably should have thrown a match or two. The forehand or backhand, that hurt you the most.
His spin was insane. Are you a choker? How could I choke? You choked.
We were going to go to the finals. If I stayed in the 3-5, I should have thrown a match or two.
Jake can't win the big one. Six love in the second set is tough.
That's an all-time choker. Yeah, I went home and registered for a winter indoor league.
You got no hit in the second set. Yeah.
Damn. Were you making all kinds of sounds and mad at yourself? Oh, yeah.
I was pissed. Now, I'm happy I didn't watch that because I would have rooted for the other.
But yeah. What was the handshake like after the match? Great match.
And then I turned around and was like. What? What you say? I was mad at myself.
But what was that?

You started a word.

You said, frick.

Yeah, exactly.

Oh, jeez. So it's tough.

Like, I don't know where I stand because if I'm going to get my butt.

No, no.

I know where you're standing.

You're a loser.

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 butt at the lower level.

Yeah.

What do I do?

Stay at the lower level.

It's pretty easy.

And just crush people.

Pretty easy. Flags fly forever.
So should I just like punt the next few matches and get demoted play right hand have me come and play for you and then I'll get back down and then I'll win again I'll wear your glasses and I'll just won't hit anything just get better or that that's the wrong advice he's telling you wrong things no no no don't push no. That's the wrong advice.
Don't listen to him. He's telling you wrong things.
It's a joke.

No, no, no.

Don't push yourself.

Just win at the easy level.

That's the way to do it.

And then have like a trophy room for yourself in your apartment.

Yeah.

Look how great I am.

Yeah.

Imagine.

I was in line to 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 the 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 the next season.
I don't think, I don't think I have it. Yeah, but I might not punt and still get my butt kicked and then i will we will get 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 we should well stand in the super tiebreaker how about 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 but i could schedule against the top guy what if god forbid something were to happen to you over the course the next he got hit by a bus well no it's like we could do something like we could sneak up and injure him and we give you like a minor heart attack what if somebody that you work with gave you a mild injury over the course the next couple months you tried to play through it be a shame and you stunk and then you get bumped down naturally but then i wouldn't win at the three five you get better yeah you not if i'm injured you would heal it wouldn't be a major injury you're like an achilles or something play with a hole in your racket yeah yeah we'll slice your achilles and then you'll get the aaron rogers surgery yeah you'll be back in three months better than ever yeah 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 it's bad really bad what seed was he 6-11 he oh he was the lower seed yeah oh my god that's a that's a pretty big upset.
Oh, my God. 6-11? That happens all the time.
Oh, my God. 6-11.
My bracket is busted. 5-12.
That's the one. That's the one.
Yeah, exactly. 6-11.
If you were a five and lost, that'd be better. Because it's more normal? More normal, yeah.
6-11. Come on, Jake.
You even make it out of the first round? No. Scheduled golf? I'm excited to play pickleball in the new office.
I'll be fine.

Yeah.

We might have to ban pickleball.

I don't know.

Put down the line.

You can do anything you want in the new office.

Literally anything.

Not pickleball.

Yeah. If I come in and there's like a big pickleball.

You're grunting.

I might just get on the first.

There's a little.

Yeah. You.
Yeah. A little bit.
Yeah, you grunt.

Yeah, I guess grunt. A little bit, yeah.
Okay. Good show, boys.
Let's wrap up. Numbers.
Last two. Three.
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. He's not gotten in the limbo phase.
He's not gotten in four. I can't wait.
Oh, my God.

On Tuesday, I might 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.

You did nine official drawings.

Yeah, we'll only do one. Hank, you should just take max's when i take yours yeah 69 what did you guess 20 come on 18 two three memes you've never gotten it one 36 sorry memes all right see everyone on mond Monday Max come back with two wins

Love you guys

I don't know what to say

I'd say it anyway

Today is an update

If I'm shying away

I've been coming for you.

Needless to say.

I ought to say it.

But I'll be the stone rolling away.

The stone will learn and the fight is okay.

Say after me.

It's no fair to say it's all. It's no better to be safe.
Sorry to be safe.

Sorry to be safe.

I'll be gone.

Take me.

Take me.

Oh, take me.

I'll be gone.

Take me. Take me.
Take me. Take me.
I'll be gone. I'll be gone.